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Q: Upgrade ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 I have a bunch of old machines in production all running uBuntu 9.10. I want to now upgrade this to 10.04 distributions but I am getting the following error (because the repositories have expired I guess)
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  update-manager-core: Depends: python-apt (>= 0.7.5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

All my apt-get update / apt-get upgrade commands are failing with error
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
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Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages
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Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
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Err http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
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Err http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages
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Err http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources
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Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages
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Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
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Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages
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Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages
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Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Sources
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W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/restricted/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/restricted/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/universe/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/universe/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Can anyone help me with next steps and how I can fix this. If there is any PPA or any other repository maintaining update-manager-core with all dependencies, then I am happy to use that.
Thanks
Sparsh Gupta

A: In case LucidUpgrades is not working anymore, go straight from Jaunty to Lucid and skip Karmic. make a backup of valuable data first,

As root run:
cd /etc/apt
perl -i.bak -pe 's/jaunty/lucid/' sources.list
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade


Since the Lagrange crashed and burned, I poked at a few other things.
Even the slapstick feels more like the girls lovingly teasing Kyolo than actual abuse, and comes across simply endearing.
So, the story of Ichizon repeated itself. I remember how someone called it "humane", whereas in reality it was inhumane. Granted, GJ-bu offers softer, pastel bigotry, so it helped. I feel like I could drag it along to the season's end, if it was worth it. But even leaving the value judgements aside, it just wasn't inspired.
I just can't enjoy the glamorization of these hopeless girl-shaped caricatures, even if they do have flaxen hair.
Fafner turned out horrible junk show like Pretear, only with mecha, and baiting fujoshis instead of girls in general. Good grief. Even its amusing corniness is not working. Seen 2.
The only remaining screencap is of some random character who didn't have a large role in the beginning.
Unlike the other cancellations, I cannot say anything bad about Tamako Market. The only reason I dropped it was that nothing in it was in any way interesting. It was like Tari Tari that way. There were some thematic concerns sounded on blogs, but I didn't reach far enough even to verify them. Seen 4.
In addition the three cancellations above, I also scored 3 postponements. All three were generally good shows that overstayed their welcome, undeshoot their potential, or were batched up on purpose, this sort of thing.
Polar Bear Cafe overcame a rocky start when the main characters made me rage by being insufferable jerkfaces (okay, primarily Panda did). Glad I didn't ragequit it. However, like Sunred, it started running out of steam in season 2. Seen 42, eventually.
Fairy Tail (via Chizumatic) turned out to be Dog Days rather than Naruto. It stole from Naruto mercilessly (Dragon Breath LOL), but it was entirely different in tone: lots of pretty magic and hijinks. Sure, people die when they're killed there, but there's no oppressively brutal setting. In the same time, there's no over-arching plot either (again, much like Dog Days). People may find themselves, but that's about it. At least Naruto wants to become a Hokage. Lucy just floats with the flow. They also hit fillers by ep.20, good job.
AKB0048 S2 is not sagging, unlike PBC. It's just as unashamed, energetic, and crazy as always. Even Evirus grudgedly admitted its merits. I have no reason not to love it. But blasted Initial D and Katanagatari completely ruined everything by moving the plank too high. I just don't feel like wasting my time on this kind of thing, no matter how bouncy.
UPDATE: Steven comments to compare Fairy Tail with DBZ. I suppose he may know better, being through 155+ episodes. To me, DBZ seems like having more story content. I remember how some fanfic authors proclaimed that DBZ was actually a story of Vegeta. But perhaps FT moves into that direction too, with time. For example, right when I quit in ep.20, we got an intriguing glimpse of Natsu's "wife".
I am not fan enough to know what's going on with it, but apparently Initial D Fifth Stage ceased its run after ep.10 at a major cliffhanger, the likes of which we didn't see since Pioneer releasing Tenchi on VHS. Except that apparently this is not an OVA and it's happening in anime's original market. Are rankings this bad? ANN says DVDs sell very well.
P.S. Apparently it's on a monthly schedule, analogous to initial broadcast of Katanagatari, only not on NoitaminA, but on a PPV channel. Sounds like an excellent way to drive the whole thing into the ground, congratulations to rights owners. Works even better than Takumi getting over Natsuki and jumping at that golfer chick in a space of two episodes.
Russian Bash has a feature of "holding tank" ("Бездна"), where submitted but not yet approved quotes are kept in public view, in case anyone is interested. It offers a steady stream of anime-related quotes. They never make it to the main page.
What's odd, the quotes have IDs, but not permalinks. Sorry, Russian webmasters are this silly.
– Шикарное окончание игры. Но что-то я летсплеи поклацала, но так и не поняла, в чём суть.
– Как это, и мир не надо спасать?!
– Ты помогаешь персонажу умереть, Аня…какой мир?
– Awesome ending. But I just clicked through letsplay, didn't get the meaning.
– What meaning, Anya? It's a depressionist game about dreams of a hikki girl for deviants. Your innocence won't let you enjoy it.
– Wait, am I not supposed to save the world?
– You are helping the protag to die, Anya, what world?
All you ever wanted to know about Yume Nikki, neatly packaged.
One thing bothers me in Initial D slightly: when the characters unpark to get moving, they always take the car off the parking brake first.
But isn't it backwards? One uses parking brake when there's a possibility of a rollaway to begin with. But if so, why defeat the safety before the gear is engaged? Drop the brake when you engage the clutch was the common sense where I learned to drive. In an anime with this attention to detail, surely creators portrayed the deparking this way on purpose, but why?
Apparently , there's a new CD for Cinderella Girls coming out soon, "Onegai Cinderella". No legacy cast, Rin is in . I look at all this and just ask, when is this going to end? Obviously it ends when people stop buying all this, but when is that? CDjapan has 24 first press slots still unallocated less than a month before release, so maybe it's now.
 It's in Japanese, I cannot be sure that I understand it right. The news item itself deals with seiyuu putting up a promo appearance for the CD.
 For some reason I haven't yet warmed up to Ayaka Fukuhara's work, but undoubtedly Rin is the most popular of Cinderella Girls.
One, HanaKana apparently confirmed new Infinite Stratos, which is going to join the illustrous ranks of anime that went down the drain the 2nd season, such as Sekirei. Although, truthfuly, it went there in the 1st season, when HanaKana's character joined the idiot party and thus ruined everything.
Two, the rebroadcast of Katanagatari is going to sport new OP and ED. The OP is by Supercell…. I sort of want to make a joke about Hero's Shiranai Monogatari or whatever, but let's have a little faith. Also, is that a typo in the title?
I recall the title being on air, or rather floating by on IRC bots, but it was so long ago that I do not remember any details. Anyway, thanks to easy availability, I had a look… And it's not very good.
Ryo-Ohki is in OVA continuity, but basically it spends its time dumping new women onto the household (no less than 4). What's more, one of them is absolutely overpowering and puts everyone into their place, even Sasami. Way to demonstrate the suckage.
What's strange, I liked the visit of Funaho in the OVA. But she merely was regal and did not overstay her welcome.
When Perkins says, "koko ni pro ga futari iru. sore de juubun janaika?", isn't it the coolest line ever?
Although I have the rotating media, I rewatch the download (I've got the one that had all the blood edited out). It's still as pretty as ever.
Also VLC deals with interlacing poorly by default.
Well, it looks like JManga is closing down and after the end of the month any manga will no longer be usable. This is the second reason why I don't like "view online only". "I can't access it during my two one-hour work commutes each day where I have no Internet connection available to me" would be the first reason.
There is only one solution to the lack of legal DRM-free DTO: yarr, yarr, yarr those rars. Sure, support the industry all you want, but be prepared too.
I meant to entitle this post "Massive spoilers about Katanagatari", but on second thought, it may be oblique enough. Or maybe not. Unfortunately, although I maintain that good anime cannot be spoiled, I think Katanagatari may. In particular, despite Don wrote that ending was "somber", I just did not expect that it would go down like it did, and it hit pretty hard. So yeah. Reveal, not spoil.
Although the plot, setting, and detail all worked in concert, one particular thing I took away was how much I became fond of Togame as the story unfolded. Not in the "waifu" way. Just like To Heart's Shiho, Togame is not one I'd like to marry. But she's immensely likeable. I agree with the critique of our resident hater of all things good in anime that Togame's debut was not very impressive. However, she comes into her own.
I liked Shichika, too. But it's also remarkable how functional the relationship of the main duo is. Being the subservent pole, Shichika is being worked hard. He has to shoulder some of Togame juvenile tantrums good-naturely, too. But she does not really go into tsundere stereotype fully, and does not become primarily abusive (like Louise and Haruhi do; and it does not matter if Kyon likes it).
Just about everyone else in the show has redeeming qualities, too. I do not mean "good-by-design" characters like Zakki, primarily, but basically everyone with any kind of expanded characterization. For example, Princess Hitei is sort of like Kurumi to Togame's Sawako, I think. Or in an interesting meta move, Shichika even had to touch upon Meisai's personality in-show, and with a good reason.
There's a specific exception to it: I was not a fan of Nanami. My local purveyor of nasty, Sage, was, and that probably explains it all.
On, and one last thing: I suddenly saw a lot of common theme in the inheritance, that was brought forth by AKB0048. Shichika is the 7th Kyotouryuu. Issou is the 12th, and she's not blood related to the lineage. That is more of general zero-zero model: become the essense of the name you inherit and there you get the name. Some of sword owners address Shichika as "Kyotouryuu", which is not his family name. So many animebloggers were creeped out by this mechanism in AKB0048, but if you realize the traditional underpinnings, it becomes much more manageable and even interesting.
 The top rated wife material in anime is generally rare. I can probably only name Mitsuki II of Dual and Kyoko of Sunred S1.


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Martin Scorsese's 'Sinatra' Nabs a Writer
Martin Scorsese's 'Sinatra' project has been kicking around for years now, but the director has a new writer for the project: 'Hunger Games' and 'Breach' writer Billy Ray. Will the script finally make it to screen this time around?
As the Playlist reports, Scorsese's 'Sinatra' project got a kick in the head last year when producer Scott Rudin ('The Social Network') got involved. The original script was written by Phil Alden Robinson, writer of 'Field of Dreams' and 'Sneakers.' And just a few months back in April Scorsese announced he would once again be taking meetings regarding 'Sinatra' while working on his upcoming drama 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
A new script is forthcoming from writer Billy Ray, who most recently wrote 'The Hunger Games.' Also on his resume: 'Color of Night' (or, 'The Bruce Willis' Butt Movie'), 'Flightplan,' 'Breach,' 'Volcano,' and 'State of Play.' That's not a very consistent resume, but we trust Scorsese to make the right call with a project this close to his heart. We were all a little worried about 'Hugo,' and that film turned out to be sort of magnificent.
But who will fill the shoes of Old Blue Eyes? Logic (and history) tells us it might be Leonardo DiCaprio. Scorsese had this to say when asked about it previously:
"We could go for an unknown. Maybe the person who plays him isn't important. Maybe it's distracting to have a star in that role. Yet, you can't have someone else sing! It's got to be Sinatra's voice. It's tricky. It's filled with problems – and whatever you do, there's always going to be people who don't like it, so you have to find something special. And I think I've found it. Now's the time to execute it on the page."
These decisions seem like a long way off, considering a final script hasn't even been produced yet, but we're excited for Scorsese to finally make this film, regardless of the particulars.
Filed Under: Billy Ray, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese, Sinatra

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Hawaii's $205M health exchange has security holes, newspaper involvement; gay marriage battle burns; safety check changes blasted at public hearing; National parks still closed; Honolulu loses $1.8M in taxes; Maui seeks film commissioner; more news from all the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii Health Connector website
Even though it's not yet selling health plans, the Hawaii Health Connector is collecting personal information from people who fill out forms online. KHON2 asked computer experts to look over the site with us, and what we found was surprising -- a Wordpress website platform the industry considers entry-level, along with what they call some "amateur" mistakes that could have opened the site to real hacker risks.
Ten days after the Hawaii Health Connector was scheduled to be up and running, the Obamacare virtual exchange is still unable to provide users any pricing or other health care plan details. Hawaii Reporter.
Hawaii's health insurance marketplace is hoping to turn around a stalled start by providing plans and pricing to consumers by Tuesday - but there are no guarantees, its executive director said Wednesday. Associated Press.
The U.S. Department of Interior announced Thursday it will consider letting states reopen national parks if they put up the funds. All national parks have been closed as a result of the government shutdown. So far, Hawaii has not joined Utah, South Dakota, Arizona, and Colorado in asking permission to reopen national parks under state jurisdiction. KHON2.
Under pressure from governors, the Obama administration said Thursday it will allow some shuttered national parks to reopen — as long as states use their own money to pay for operations. While at least four governors have asked for authority to reopen national parks within their borders because of the economic impact of keeping them closed, Hawaii so far is not one of them. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii Delegates Frustrated by Federal Shutdown Gridlock. Civil Beat.
State Rep. Marcus Oshiro, who wants to slow the drive toward marriage equality, is reminding lawmakers they do not have to take any action when they meet in special session this month. Gov. Neil Abercrombie has called a special session starting Oct. 28 to consider a gay marriage bill. But neither the House nor the Senate is obligated to hear or vote on legislation, and could simply meet and adjourn. Oshiro's message, which has been privately likened by some to a Hail Mary pass, is meant to unsettle House leaders who are trying to steer a wobbly majority in favor of gay marriage toward a final vote. The Senate overwhelmingly supports marriage equality. Star-Advertiser.
Hawai'i News Now was the first to report on an anonymous flyer targeting lawmakers and urging recipients to ask them to vote no on same-sex marriage. We have learned the First Assembly of God is behind the mysterious mailers, which has grown to focus on another legislator, and now the Hawai'i State Ethics Commission is getting involved.
Testifiers at a statewide public hearing Thursday generally took a dim view of the Department of Transportation's plan to hike fees and create an electronic system for annual vehicle safety checks. West Hawaii Today.
Hawaii officials are celebrating the opening of state-funded immigrant resource centers. The Office of Community Services on Thursday announced opening celebrations that will take place at four centers on Oahu, Kauai and the Big Island. The office's Executive Director Mila Kaahanui says restoration of state-funded, comprehensive services for Hawaii's immigrant communities comes after two decades of gaps in services. Associated Press.
Hawaii is a natural American business and security bridge to Asia and the state would benefit from a possible trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union, the EU's ambassador to Washington says. Civil Beat.
Attorneys representing two churches being sued over renting Hawaii public school buildings for services say the churches aren't doing anything wrong and the state knows how the facilities are being used. A lawsuit filed in March by Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of Church and State founder Mitchell Kahle and public advocate Holly Huber claims the churches owe more than $5.6 million in unpaid or underpaid fees. Associated Press.
The state Department of Health has ordered stores to pull a dietary supplement from shelves while it investigates a growing number of cases of liver damage. As of Thursday the Health Department is investigating 32 cases of acute hepatitis or sudden liver failure (up from 30 reported Wednesday): 21 cases on Oahu, seven on Hawaii island, two on Kauai, one on Maui and another in which the location has yet to be identified. Of the 32 cases, 24 reported using OxyELITE Pro before their illnesses. Star-Advertiser.
The city of Honolulu could have collected more than $1.8 million had it done a better job of following tax procedures, such as keeping assessments updated and accurate and toughening enforcement of historic-property dedication requirements, a report this week from city Auditor Edwin Young concluded. Star-Advertiser.
Habitual no-show riders of the city's Handi-Van para transit service will be temporarily banned from getting rides under a policy set to begin November 1. Hawaii News Now.
A tower of up to 350 feet on Atkinson Drive across from Ala Moana Center and the expansion of the Kapaa Industrial Park next to Kawainui Marsh were given final approvals by the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday. Each project faced opposition but also had its share of supporters. Star-Advertiser.
City prosecutors are opposing a request by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and other news organizations asking the Hawaii Supreme Court to unseal transcripts of closed proceedings in federal agent Christopher Deedy's murder case. The newspaper and Hawaii News Now also asked the high court to prohibit Circuit Judge Karen Ahn from closing future court proceedings in the case without first giving the public a chance to object. Star-Advertiser.
New Age Toilet Paper Clogging Honolulu's Sewer Pipes, Causing Headaches. Civil Beat.
The wonder and promise of the 21st century has landed big time on the tradition-rich campus of 'Iolani School. It's called the Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership, a modern 40,000-square-foot building dedicated to high-tech innovation and hands-on learning using state-of-the-art technology and experts in cutting-edge fields as teachers. Star-Advertiser.
The ongoing partial federal shutdown is providing helicopter operators, and some tourists, with nowhere to go but up. While other tourist-oriented businesses are being hit, the closure of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park during the shutdown is causing visitors hoping to get a view of the park and the lava flowing from Pu'u 'O'o to flock to helicopter tours. Tribune-Herald.
The state has released $1.8 million to train more primary care physicians in an attempt to alleviate a shortage of more than 30 percent on the Big Island. The funds go toward the Hilo Medical Center's primary care training program that will prepare a dozen new residents over three years to enter the field. Star-Advertiser.
Monk seal captured
Big Island photographer Doug Perrine captured people getting too close to a monk seal pup on Sunday-- one day before it bit two Kona Ironman Triathletes. Hawaii News Now.
As Maui County continues the search for its next film commissioner, Hawaii State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson stressed the importance of finding someone who will be able to "bridge the gap" for industry producers while still respecting the sensitivities of Hawaiian culture. Maui News.
The non-profit Hale Makua Health Services on Maui will benefit from fuel sales at participating ʻOhana Fuels gas stations through the end of the year, under a partnership announced today. Maui Now.
Participants in Wednesday evening's candlelight vigil against domestic violence listen as 101 names of fatal victims of domestic abuse in Hawaii are read aloud in front of the Kalana O Maui building. Maui News.
Although nothing short of spectacular, the Na Pali Coast State Park — home of the Kalalau — is also a persistent headache for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. Garden Island.
Several human remains were uncovered at the Kauai Sands Hotel in Waipouli while workers were digging to install utility lines near the resort's swimming pool. An archeologist on site Thursday afternoon, who asked to remain anonymous, said the discoveries included "human burials — less than 10, (but) more than four." Garden Island.
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NJ 'equal pay' compromise faces last stand for 2017
Michael Symons Published: June 11, 2017
Sen. Diane Allen speaks with Gov. Chris Christie, right, and Sen. Dawn Marie Addiego. left, looking on in 2011. (Office of the Governor)
Gov. Chris Christie has been vetoing various versions of equal-pay bills sent to him by the Legislature since 2012, and lawmakers haven't been able to defeat those vetoes.
He's willing to enact the latest proposal, negotiated with him by Sen. Diane Allen, R-Burlington, but it's not clear Democrats want to advance it.
The bill would enable women who successfully sue for pay discrimination to get double damages, allow repayment in some cases to go back decades and require businesses to retain certain information. The data wouldn't be reported to the state, but Labor Department investigators would have access to it.
"It puts together a lot of pieces that I think will make it a lot better for women," Allen said.
"And while it surely isn't the perfect bill – I guess there are no such things, really – it will move things forward for women," she said.
Equal Pay Day: How long it takes for NJ women to make what men earn
Allen, who is retiring from the Senate in January after 22 years in the Legislature, has been working for months to find a path forward for an equal-pay bill. She met three times with Christie, on top of many talks with his chief counsel, and negotiated with the idea's chief Democratic sponsor, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen.
Christie said he would sign Allen's bill, if it were to pass the Legislature.
"You know I normally don't answer those questions, but because it was the product of specific conversations not with my staff, but with me, I'm willing to say that I would sign it if Sen. Allen's legislation passed," Christie said.
Weinberg isn't on board with the current bill, however. She told Politico New Jersey her main concern has to do with the standards under which a woman could file a pay-discrimination claim.
Allen says they're very close and hasn't given up on reaching a deal.
"Loretta and I had gotten to the point where we had agreed between ourselves to everything except for one line, and it was a line that the governor had given in on a lot of things, but that was one line that he was not willing to give in on," Allen said.
Trenton's year-end blitz: 100 new laws, Christie veto override on agenda
Allen is scheduled to meet Monday with Senate President Steve Sweeney, then a few days later with Weinberg.
She said Democrats shouldn't wait until 2018 in hopes that Phil Murphy gets elected governor and enacts the version of the plan Christie conditionally vetoed, last year's S992, which among other differences allows women who prove wage discrimination to receive triple damages.
"I fear that what people are thinking is, 'Well, my goodness, if this fellow Murphy becomes governor, he's going to give us anything and everything that we want.' And that's certainly what he's promising. But guess what? He may not become governor," Allen said.
"Let's move forward," Allen said. "I think Kim Guadagno could be happy with my bill. Let's get it through. Let's do it now."
New Jersey: Decoded cuts through the cruft and gets to what matters in New Jersey news and politics. Follow on Facebook and Twitter.
Michael Symons is State House bureau chief for New Jersey 101.5 and the editor of New Jersey: Decoded. Follow @NJDecoded on Twitter and Facebook. Contact him at michael.symons@townsquaremedia.com
Filed Under: Chris Christie, diane allen, equal pay, Loretta Weinberg, Newsletter
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Das Naturschutzgebiet Werther Heide Napoleonsweg umfasst eine Naturschutzfläche von 17 ha in der Städteregion Aachen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Es setzt sich aus zwei räumlich getrennten Gebieten zusammen. Der kleinere Bereich Napoleonsweg umfasst eine Fläche von ca. 3,5 ha, der größere, die Werther Heide, ist deutlich größer und befindet sich am Weißenberg. Beide Gebiete liegen nördlich der Stadt Stolberg (Rhld.) und grenzen an den Stolberger Ortsteil Werth.

Werther Heide Napoleonsweg ist eines von derzeit 37 Naturschutzgebieten der Stadt Stolberg (Rhld.).

Geologie

Vor ca. 350 Millionen Jahren lagerte sich aus Sedimenten maritimen Ursprungs in der Region Stolberg ein Kalksteinrücken ab. Hierdurch unterscheidet sich diese Region beispielsweise vom Naturschutzgebiet Schlangenberg, dessen Existenz devonischem Kalk zugrunde liegt. Im Laufe der folgenden Jahrmillionen kam es zu geologischen Verschiebungen, die dieses Gestein an die Erdoberfläche schoben. Ein Großteil des Materials fiel dabei der Erosion zum Opfer und wurde abgetragen. Vor ca. 200 Millionen änderte sich die Situation, als wässrige Metallsalzlösungen in das poröse Material eindrangen. Es bildeten sich Primärerze wie beispielsweise Zinkblende Sphalerit α-ZnS, Bleiglanz Galenit PbS oder Markasit Schwefelkies FeS2. Zum überwiegenden Teil fielen diese als Schalenblenden an.

Das an der Oberfläche lagernde Erz verwitterte. Durch den Einfluss sauerstoffreicher Oberflächengewässer entstand hierbei das Sekundärerz Galmei, eine sulfidfreie Verbindung, die zum überwiegenden Teil aus Zinkcarbonat Zinkspat ZnCO3 und ca. 0,5 % Eisen(III)-oxid (Fe2O3) besteht. Bei diesem Prozess, der Metasomatose erfolgt eine Umwandlung des Ausgangsminerals durch Austausch von zu- und weggeführten Substanzen, wobei als Ergebnis ein Mineral durch ein anderes ausgetauscht wird.

Geschichte
Das Naturschutzgebiet hat seinen Ursprung in der Ausbeutung der Galmeivorkommen zur Zeit der Kupfermeister, die ab dem 16. Jahrhundert in Aachen bzw. ab Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts in Stolberg ihren Höhepunkt erreichte. Das oberflächennahe Erz wurde im großen Maßstab abgebaut, Stollen wurden gegraben bzw. das Erz in Pingen abgebaut. Als die Erzvorkommen gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts erschöpft waren, wurde das Gebiet aufgegeben. Eine Renaturierung erfolgte nicht. Da der Abbau in Pingen jedoch nicht so intensiv erfolgte wie beispielsweise in den Gebieten Schlangenberg oder Brockenberg, ist die jetzt noch erkennbare Veränderung der Landschaft nicht so deutlich spürbar wie in diesen Gebieten.

Flora

Eine Studie dieses Gebietes aus dem Jahre 1999 ermittelte folgende Gebietszusammensetzung für das Naturschutzgebiet Werther Heide Napoleonsweg: 25 % werden als Trockenrasen oder Steppen klassifiziert, 49 % als Laubwaldregion, 25 % als Kunstforst z. B. aus Pappelbeständen oder exotische Gehölzen. 1 % des Gebietes stellen feuchtes und mesophiles Grünland dar.

Entsprechend der Vegetationstypen existieren unterschiedliche Pflanzenfamilien.

Das Naturschutzgebiet stellt ein Refugialbiotop für die endemische Galmeiflora dar. In ihm gelingt es zinkresistenten Pflanzen, sich einen Lebensraum zu erschließen, der für die üblichen Pflanzen aufgrund der Toxizität des Gesteins verschlossen bleibt.

Zu den typischen Pflanzen dieses Biotops gehören das Gelbe Galmeiveilchen (Viola lutea ssp. calaminaria), die Galmei-Grasnelke (Armeria species "calaminaria"), die Galmei-Frühlings-Miere (Minuartia verna ssp. hercynica) oder das Galmei-Täschelkraut (Thlaspi calaminare).

Im Bereich des Laubwaldes findet man verschiedene Orchideenarten. Die umfassen unter anderem die Bienen-Ragwurz (Ophrys apifera) und die Weiße Waldhyazinthe (Platanthera bifolia).

Fauna
Das Gebiet fällt durch seinen Reichtum an Schmetterlingen auf. Hierzu gehört der Grüne Zipfelfalter Callophrys rubi oder der Zwerg-Bläuling Cupido minimus. Aber auch den Lilagold-Feuerfalter Lycaena hippothoe sowie die Rostbinde Hipparchia semele findet man unter den hier noch zahlreich vorkommenden Arten.

Das Naturschutzgebiet ist ebenfalls reich an Schrecken. Zu ihnen gehört der Warzenbeißer Decticus verrucivorus sowie die Kurzflügelige Beißschrecke Metrioptera Brachyptera. Hinzu kommt der Heidegrashüpfer Stenobothrus lineatus.

Bedrohung des Naturschutzgebietes
Die größte Gefahr für das Naturschutzgebiet resultiert aus seiner Größe. Speziell das Gebiet Napoleonsweg ist sehr klein und dadurch leicht durch Umwelteinflüsse zu schädigen. Obstplantagen mit potentiellem Insektizideinsatz befinden sich in direkter Nähe. Hinzu kommt ein benachbarter Sportplatz, dessen Besucher das Naturschutzgebiet als Naherholungsgebiet nutzen.

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Bette Midler rocked a bright pink headpiece with a black & white striped Christopher John Rogers dress at the NYC premiere of 'Hocus Pocus 2' on Sept. 27. (Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)
Bette's outfit was perfect for the premiere considering it's a Halloween movie and she looked spooky in her striped Christopher John Rogers dress. The long-sleeve dress featured a V-neckline with a tight bodice that had stripes in a V-shape. Meanwhile, the waist of the dress flowed out in a pleated skirt with horizontal stripes while her long sleeves featured colorful stripes. She accessorized her look with a pink headpiece, dangling earrings, and metallic purple peep-toe, platform pumps.
Bette Middler plays an evil witch, Winifred Sanderson (center), alongside her evil witch sisters, Sarah Sanderson played by Sarah Jessica Parker (right) & Mary Sanderson played by Kathy Najimy (left). (Matt Kennedy)
Everyone has been waiting with bated breath for the release of the film which is a sequel to the original film that was released in 1993. Bette stars as Winifred Sanderson, an evil witch, alongside her two Sanderson sisters, Sarah, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, and Mary, played by Kathy Najimy. The iconic film was such a hit, that the sequel has been highly anticipated.
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The True Clavicles of Solomon. Dans la seconde Partie. In the first part is contained various arrangements of characters, by which are invoked the powers, the spirits, or more appropriately, the devils, to send for them when it will please you, each according to their power, and to constrain them to bring whatever you will require from them, without causing you any worry of any sort, provided also that they are placated on their part, because these sorts of creatures do not give anything for nothing. You will also find in the first part the means of sending these spirits back, aerial, earthly, watery, or infernal, as you will see and will be able to perceive by the means that will be taught. In the second part. Here is taught the very natural and supernatural secrets, which operate by the power of demons.
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Nephilim linking to the Zohar. Grimoire was the person in the era of Lost Jerusalem who deciphered Lemegeton , which had been left behind as an ancient document by Jesus Christ and chaos , and wrote the Lemegeton program. Masuda , in the era of Lost Jerusalem was performed using his own daughter, Nephilim Verum , as a test subject. As a result, a matter shift was generated, and mankind had no choice but to escape from Lost Jerusalem. Afterwards, Program Lemegeton ended up being scattered all throughout the U.
Edit Although Grimoire became an existence of the imaginary number domain, he had not been swallowed into the Collective Unconscious. Grimoire continued to wander the U. He was searching for Nephilim. He lurked for thousands of years in Ars Nova, a place that was sealed in the deepest part of S-Division, the highest security level within the U. The first test subject of the link experiments with the Original Zohar using Program Lemegeton in the era of Lost Jerusalem was Nephilim.
While wishing for the return of his daughter who had vanished into the imaginary number domain, Grimoire endured in loneliness at the innermost depths of the U. Time of Xenosaga Edit Grimoire and Nephilim. To resurrect Nephilim, he caused Gnosis Terrorism , sending Gnosis under his control to attack the capital cities of various planets. In order to capture Almadel, Grimoire used the power of the fragments of Lemegeton, and manipulated the Gnosis.
As a result, because the appearances of Gnosis were concentrated on city areas, and many ordinary citizens became sacrificed, the incidents came to be called "Gnosis Terrorism". Vector has denied any and all connection to Grimoire or the Gnosis terrorism, and to this day refuses to comment on the events. However, Almadel rejected these memories and sacrificed herself to stop the Song of Nephilim created by Lemegeton; Almadel Gnosified and turned into salt. Grimoire Verum bears a strong physical resemblance to Shigeyoshi Inoue , the captain of the Eldridge in Xenogears.
Both of them were also central figures in a catastrophe that took place thousands of years before the beginning of their respective stories which ultimately served as the genesis for each story.
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Fifty years later comparatively few Westerners are as knowledgeable concerning the mythology of the ancient world, and this leads more or less neatly to an important question. To what extent were the grimoires the province of a highly literate elite, and how far do they represent popular traditions of various periods? In considering a literature extending from at least the 12th to the 19th century, with origins, influence and development both sides of that period, this is a complex question which naturally cannot be finally settled here. It is necessary to ask it however, as there are powerful factors in the development of New World magical traditions which cannot be understood without doing so, as well as many issues relating to the whole sphere embraced by this book.
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Only Guild books offer this type of Initiation. As with all ancient grimoires it is critical to start with the best original copy available, as usual these are the French editions that have been changed and altered the least. Secondly, it is critical to have a translator that knows what the words mean beyond the crude word itself. To know the hidden occult meaning, hear the voice of the creator and manifest that into modern understanding. There are a lot of translations floating around the occult world, mostly taken from the original IGOS translations of 30 years ago. Sadly these have been added to, changed and terribly altered by uneducated ego driven occultists.
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Jump to navigation Jump to search The Grimorium Verum Latin for True Grimoire is an 18th-century grimoire attributed to one "Alibeck the Egyptian" of Memphis , who purportedly wrote in Like many grimoires, it claims a tradition originating with King Solomon. The grimoire is not a translation of an earlier work as purported, its original appearing in French or Italian in the midth century, as noted already by A. Waite who discussed the work in his The Book of Ceremonial Magic , stating: The date specified in the title of the Grimorium Verum is undeniably fraudulent; the work belongs to the middle of the eighteenth century, and Memphis is Rome. MacGregor Mathers incorporated in his version of the Key of Solomon , but it was omitted from the Key with the following explanation: [1] At the end there are some short extracts from the Grimorium Verum with the Seals of evil spirits, which, as they do not belong to the Key of Solomon proper, I have not given. For the evident classification of the Key is in two books and no more.
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Signing up for Spirogyra is easy. You provide basic information, and Spirogyra sends you a link and password to access the site. There Spirogyra inspects your computer to determine if your system meets its requirements. If you use a Mac, find a PC! Which is contrary to the music industry in general!Spirogyra is available only for PC's running Windows XP or Vista and the browsers Internet Explorer and Firebox. You also will need to have Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11 installed as the Spirogyra files are packed full of DRY. Once all is in order, you can start browsing, downloading, and most importantly to Spirogyra viewing ads. The first thing you notice about Spirogyra is the advertising.
There's a slender manner ad at the top, a larger display ad along the right side, and when you are browsing for songs, ads for artists like Sonic Youth and Beck appear. The ads are more for the labels than they are for the artists.Even with the ads, Spirogyra site is relatively clean and has many community and recommendation features found in tunes. There are tabs for Genres, Artists, New Releases, Top Downloads, Videos, News, Help, and Your Profile. Prominently featured are listings for New This Week! , Video, Buzz of the Day, What We're Listening To, Breakout Bands, Top Downloads This Week, Featured Artist, We Recommend, and Music News. But "Spirogyra doesn't feel like a digital record store like tunes but rather like a music database that returns bland results in the linked 1-9, A-Z format".Searching for bands and artists is very slow.
Spirogyra has a $3. 2 million dollar deal with the largest music label in the world, the Universal Music Group, and a few Indies labels. When you finally find the song you want to listen to, you can play it in Windows Media Player but not in tunes! Spirogyra is a nice alternative to tunes and the pay-to-own-your-music model and Rhapsody subscriber alternative. Despite the Aria's efforts, people still trade music ND download from sites such as tunes or from peer-to-peer networks.Many of these people have pods, and Spirogyra music will not play on Apple devices! The Pay what you want model: Arrowhead's model: Similar to "free", the "pay what you want" model came into the play most recently when Radioed released their new album, In Rainbows, with a voluntary price tag. Only a band such as Radioed can do this, this is out of the question for Mandarin. So an alternative to this would be to make a very similar offer to fans with the difference that they can choose what they like to pay, after they've already unloaded and listened to the album first.
Magnate is an online music service which has built much of its business around the "pay what you want" model. Albums carry a low minimum price, with fans able to decide how much more to pay after that. But their contract is not interesting at all as we have seen but they are part of the new business models in the industry "Mainstream" which is a Pay by popularity model: Mainstream, of which Amazon is a recent investor, is a social market place for artists to connect with fans and promote and sell their music.The site has pioneered a "pay y popularity' model, whereby transparent market forces dictate the price of music. All tracks on Mainstream start off free, then the more the track gets downloaded, the more the price increases in increments, all the way up to the industry standard of accents. This is in complete contrast to tunes, whereby all tracks are priced the same, irrespective of how popular or obscure they are. The Subscription model: Legendary music producer, Rick Rubin, recently told the New York Times that subscription services are the way forward.
Mound pay, say, $19. 5 a month, and the music will come anywhere you'd like. In this new world, there will be a virtual library that will be accessible from your car, from your cell phone, from your computer, from your television. Anywhere. The pod will b obsolete, but there would be a Walkway-like device you could plug into speakers at home. You'll say, 'Today I want to listen to Simon and Garfield,' and there they are The service can have demos, bootlegs, concerts, whatever context the artist wants to put out. And once that model is put into place, the industry will grow 10 times the size it is now.
However, despite what Rubin says, services such as Rhapsody haven't reached mass adoption yet, as it is definitely not clear that people are ready to "rent" their music. A music tax Model: It's an old idea and one that MUG was rumored to be pushing quite recently: some sort of music tax, possibly collected via an Internet Service Provider. The idea is to charge the customers of Sips and cell-phone carriers a flat-rate fee as part of their data service plan, in exchange for the right to download and share the major record labels' music over an Sips network.That way, file sharing is decentralized and the recording industry is guaranteed revenue. Some countries tax blank CDC, or direct taxation through government. All three variations would require the different parties -? including all four major labels and government -? to agree to work together, something which is very unlikely to happen. Through my readings I found a possible interesting idea that I have changed a little.
As fans DO want to be closer to the artist, the label could create a kind of "fan club", but that has connotations.So calling it Just a "subscription" to the band seems better. When the band is still young and small, the subscription should remain pretty cheap and flexible. People would pay E/year (less than the cost of a current CD), and hey would of course get benefits such as the following non exhaustive list: direct contact with band members, early access to recordings, ability to request songs at shows or even the possibility to intervene in the creation/recording of a new album as a lyric contest for example where the best lyrics would be made into a song by the band to go on the next album.The label should give the fans their own special IRS news feed so they can be alerted every time the band has a new song for them to hear or whatever kind of news. The subscribers would also get discounts on tangible odds such as T-shirts with a 25% discount. Actual CDC (with bonus features – movies even games) maybe at a small higher price.
Easy access to recorded concerts right after the show they have Just seen, that they can download could be an interesting idea. En the band grows even more, and hopefully expands the fan club; they will be playing larger venues, so they could reserve the best seats for their members.The subscribers could get backstage passes. The membership prices would then be able to rise as the band gets larger. A tour for the subscribers only could be done with 6 venues in the UK for example, reading exclusive gigs only for the "true fan". ere label and band are now making money from (a) concerts (b) fans who are 'subscribed" to their service and (c) still from selling tangible merchandise. Fans get to directly support the bands they like.
Based on all of this, there is a variety of different business models.What is important is that they are based on (1) using the music as a promotional good to get a lot more attention in a crowded market (2) offering customers what they want, and offering them plenty of different ways to get it and (3) building tremendous loyalty from pappy customers who feel much closer to the musicians and are much more willing to spend money on secondary products (merchandise, concerts, access). Nowadays a label or an artist must Just think about selling the music but have to think about selling the entire experience of the music.When you look at things that way, it means [o don't worry if some of the music is heard for free, because that Just encourages ere first and foremost important act to do on the artist's side is to gig as much as possible! What will we do as the label to enhance the awareness that can be generated through these live gigs? Before even thinking of selling merchandise as it costs money, we would put out a "limited" 7, 10 or 12 inch vinyl off good live recording. There would be no artwork on the cover so the cost would be very low.It Mould amount to about 1 I.E.
for 500 12 inch vinyl. This would be done by Totality Inch is a UK based company. Five hundred to start off is enough as it would be difficult to say how many exactly we will be giving away but as the band is going to be gigging quite a lot to create awareness, hopefully we should have giving them all away in a month on the basis of about three gigs a week which amounts to twelve a onto, hopefully collecting around fifty emails per gig. We will be giving this out for free. Why?Of course to create awareness and give out rich content but we are going to ask something from the people who want this exclusive vinyl, we are going to ask them for their e-mails. Can this be done without giving out something free at a "loss" cost on the label's side? Well yes, I have looked at both possibilities, why do I choose to put some money into a vinyl? Well I had a look at unsigned bands because they are JNI-known like Mandarin, who only left a mailing list somewhere in the venue for people to sign and there were some emails on the list but to me, not enough.I want for my band that over 50% of the people attending the gig to sign my mailing list.
Is this feasible, from my predictions, and what I have seen yes it is! First of all, everybody likes to receive a free gift, it will also make them remember the gig. Instead of Just a piece of paper lying there, I will ask the band to do this after their gig, fans or general attendees will be able to interact with the band and this is the model to follow nowadays. Fans want to feel much closer to the band/artist than ever before, why now?I personally think that it is for the simple reason that it is possible through the internet. What happens if there aren't enough vinyl to give away, the fans will be able to sign another mailing list, but they will want something free too, so as I will not want to send a vinyl to them as the postage will be more expensive than the manufacturing of the vinyl itself, they will receive another exclusive gift, this can be anything from the possibility of downloading the same live track or an exclusive 'died of the song.I will possibly go for the first idea, as here again I will save money UT I must say I like the idea of giving away different gifts to different fans, it creates a kind of "collectors" model right from the start though the band still hasn't released an album. Nat is to be done with this mailing list? Will have of course set up my own website for the label, registering my own domain name, and I will of course register with a company that allows me to capture email addresses from email lists to promote further shows, to send a monthly newsletter and different information that will be useful for my marketing.As a gift for my "subscribers", a week before the release of the album I will be selling exclusively to them one track for 59 pence instead of the usual 79 to 99 pence.
This exclusive one coming out a week before the release, it will remind everybody that the album is coming out in a nicer way than Just a brief reminder email and it will hopefully generate a sense of awareness not only around the artist but around the label itself as one that "takes care" of its subscribers and fans.Viral marketing over the net would be the easiest and cheapest way of doing the marketing, developing different social network tools such as Namespace, Verb, Faceable, like, Hi for example. Once has of course to monitor as much as possible all the date coming from these tools through Agglutinations for example. As a label, using Last. Fm too is very important, being on as many blobs as possible. Another very interesting "tool" in the UK is Sub. Tv.
For this of course, a video will be needed which costs' vary.So for the release of our video, we organized a contest that we advertised in different "Film Schools" in partnership with the Film schools so that they would provide the necessary equipment for the video to be recorded. The school will have a link on our Infinite for a full year and will get recognition on the video for their partnership. The student which will have won the contest will of course have the chance to record his first professional video and get his name on the video of course and an article on him on our website.We have gone to different schools such as Care International in Paris :http://www. Care-international. Com/), SOAP in London (http://www.
Soap. Org/) and The London film School (http://www. Life. Org. UK/). This will be at no particular financial cost for us and will show that we are forward thinking and helping not only Eng music artists but also the other arts! This Video will be used on our waste, social network tools, as the official video for the release. Coming back to Sub.
TV, we Nail set a page up for our artist over the net to begin this experience. Sub. TV is an interactive entertainment channel that has created a unique connection with 18-24 Hear olds and is an integral part of today's youth culture. Sub. TV connects with students throughout the day through its screens, website, mobile messaging and events, allowing students to interact and broadcast music, sport and other entertainment content across university campuses. The interactive channel began broadcasting in Students' Unions in 2003 and now reaches 1. 5 million students Meekly- that's 32% of all 18-24 year olds.
This is at no cost for us either as they are financed by advertisement. So the video will also be on this support. Why is it so important? For the simple fact that this is the age group we are looking at, as the one listening to most of the music and which is in line with the musical genre of Mandarin. En will help Mandarin get some gigs in the UK as they are from France. The venues En will be selecting will range from the Electrostatic club playing at TheSlaughtered Lamb to the Water Rat to The George Tavern to The Borderline and The Ship maybe even the Luminance and the Filthy Mainstay. En will be pitching all the radios from the national ones to the regional ones and of course not forgetting the weaverbirds too specialized and more mainstream. For instance: Brickwork Radio, NAME Radio, CFML.
En will get some press coverage, calling music magazines such as The Stool Pigeon, MAJOR. Mandarin's music will also be available to purchase on the internet through our website and online stores such as Amazon. Com, Cicada, Coded and of course tunes.
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Is Vaping Really Safer Than Smoking?
At the moment we have a few well-known studies including; One Air Quality Study was done by the U.S Government which found most vape shops air pollution levels at all times were well below workspace air quality limits and that there may be second-hand exposure to nicotine but, there are MUCH fewer toxins or combustion byproducts in second-hand or first-hand vapour!
Why are E-Cigs being regulated the same way as Traditional Cigarettes? It's this writer's personal opinion that Big Tobacco and the acting Government bodies are afraid of changing and if they do, it's not in the public's best interest of health but profit. Just take a gander at their Advertising Expenditure. Look at this sheet from the NSRA.
There are also other studies showing that E-Cigs usually deliver less nicotine than traditional cigarettes, even in very high nicotine MG concentrations because the nicotine in vaporizers are perhaps taken slower due to the lack of reconstituted tobacco and the other chemicals used to make it that are in traditional cigarettes that give the user extra "Zip." That allows the nicotine to cross the blood-brain barrier in ways natural recurring nicotine could never do.
Vaporizing doesn't produce even in comparison the combustive substances a cigarette does and mostly produces large water particles much like steam and produces little to no tar with PROPER COIL CHANGING AND REBUILDING!
And the E-Juice that is used usually only contains FOUR things: Vegetable Glycerin (VG), Propylene Glycol (PG), Food Grade Flavouring and Regular Liquid Nicotine/or/Salt Nicotine.
VG or Vegetable Glycerin: Has been used for a very, very long time. When vaporized it turns to simple sugars and produces much of the water vapour and is the ingredient that gives the "Cloud" to the vapour, its thick and sticky, VG is used in all kinds of Cosmetic Products and many Food Products, it's just Vegetable Fats in a nutshell. You've eaten and drank it thousands of times in your life.
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This nicotine is taken slower into the body (Even Salt Nicotine crosses your brain slower.) and in some research has shown may only be as constricting on blood vessels as Caffeine. There is another form in Salt Nicotine and this is much the same thing but it has a quicker absorbing rate than Liquid and is for low-power / Cigarette like Vaporizers.
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We aren't here to condemn people for smoking. We're all ex-smokers. I myself the writer used to smoke 2 – 3 packs of 100 size a day and couldn't run up a hill if i tried to.
Adults may choose to do whatever they wish to and what they put in their bodies. We just want you to know there might be a better alternative. And vaporizers are perhaps the best harm-reduction method that is similar to smoking, so perhaps it's the best alternative!
Vaping ENTIRE BOTTLES contains many hundreds of times less Diacetyl than even a single cigarette.
And the only cases of Popcorn Lung are completely unrelated to Vaping AND EVEN SMOKING!
But that Chemical Plant workers and people who worked in Popcorn Facilities with low health standards where the facility exposed their workers to quite literally trillions if not more times of exposure to Diacetyl over a span of MONTHS AND YEARS.
There has not been one scientifically or medically proven case, or even correlative case of Vaping causing popcorn lung, and Diacetyl is a NATURAL BYPRODUCT of FERMENTATION! It's the thing that makes Butter taste like Butter and is put in ALL KINDS of food and drink you enjoy on a daily basis… And if you drink Alcohol? Fermentation = Diacetyl!!!
You can find hundreds of people who have reviewed the studies, and you will not find a single study even proving that the TINY amount of Diacetyl EVEN IN CIGARETTES causes popcorn lung… at 750+ Times more exposure over vaping.
We're here to help you make an informed decision into what and how you ingest nicotine and use a likely healthier alternative.
We are concerned for the public that there is disinformation out there being spread. This post inspired the "Advanced Customer Questions" section of the FAQ that will be a place for such questions. Thanks to Don Arscott!
So, Does E-Juice Contain Diacetyl? Yes, but mostly only dessert flavours. 750 if not more times less than convention cigarettes in the day to day use and there hasn't been a single proper case of even convention cigarettes causing Popcorn Lung. You probably had butter, cheese or an alcoholic beverage some point this week, a drink at the store with it in it.
Any candy you ever ate… It likely has THOUSANDS of times more Diacetyl you ingest, inhale and etc when eating or drinking it.


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.5: The Gray Chapter es el quinto álbum de estudio de la banda estadounidense de heavy metal, Slipknot. lanzado en Australia y los Países Bajos el 17 de octubre de 2014 y el 21 de octubre de 2014 en los EE.UU, es el primer álbum de la banda en seis años y el primero que no cuentan con el bajista Paul Gray (que falleció en 2010 y el álbum es una referencia de su nombre) ni el baterista Joey Jordison (que falleció en 2021). También es el último álbum de estudio de la banda que presenta a su percusionista Chris Fehn desde hace mucho tiempo antes de su despido de la banda debido a una demanda en marzo de 2019.

Antecedentes
El proceso de escritura del disco comenzó a finales de 2013, al querer dedicar más tiempo al álbum, el guitarrista Jim Root decidió no hacer una gira con Stone Sour en enero de 2014 De acuerdo con el vocalista Corey Taylor, el sonido del álbum es un poco de una mezcla entre Iowa de 2001 y Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). Taylor dijo a Pop Culture Madness que el material contiene "magníficas melodías" y la dirección artística como Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), pero aún conserva parte de su "brutalidad" de la era de Iowa.

Un nuevo bajista y el baterista se han añadido a la alineación durante el proceso de grabación. Taylor dijo a Loudwire que dos máscaras similares fueron creadas por sus apariciones en videos musicales y funcionamientos los cuales están luciendo máscaras únicas. Ambos miembros (el baterista Jay Weinberg y el bajista Alessandro Venturella),se muestran brevemente en el video musical de The Devil In I. El guitarrista Jim Root reveló en una entrevista que Donnie Steele estaba involucrado en algunas de las sesiones de estudio para el álbum y que había probado muchos otros bajistas hasta que se establecieron.

El álbum fue producido por Greg Fidelman, conocido por su trabajo con Metallica, System of a Down, Audioslave entre otros. Fidelman había trabajado con la banda anteriormente realizando las mezclas de su tercer álbum, Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) 10 años antes.

Promoción
El 15 de julio, la banda comenzó a lanzar pequeños anuncios para el nuevo álbum durante más de un periodo de dos semanas que resultó ser clips del video oficial, junto con muestras de una canción titulada "The Negative One". La canción fue lanzada el 1 de agosto de 2014 y un video que lo acompaña fue lanzado el 5 de agosto de 2014 fue dirigida por Shawn Crahan; sin embargo, no figura ninguno de los miembros de la banda. El 13 de agosto de 2014, la banda reveló la portada de su sencillo oficial de radio titulado "The Devil In I". y el sencillo se estrenó el 24 de agosto de 2014 El video oficial para el sencillo fue presentado el 12 de septiembre con los miembros con nuevas variaciones de sus máscaras, con la excepción de Taylor, que debutó una nueva máscara y las nuevas máscaras del bajista y baterista, que eran muy similares. Slipknot comenzará su gira mundial en la segunda iteración de Knotfest como cabeza de cartel el 25 de octubre y el 26 con Anthrax, Five Finger Death Punch, Otep y Black Label Society entre otros en California. Un co-titular de gira por Norteamérica con Korn apodado "Prepare For Hell Tour" que comenzará después con King 810 en apoyo. El álbum apareció en Spotify el 17 de octubre, antes de su lanzamiento oficial.

Recepción crítica

El sencillo "The Negative One" del Álbum fue nominado en el 2014 por el Premio Grammy a la mejor interpretación de metal a la 57° Entrega de los Grammy.

Comercial
.5: The Gray Chapter ha obtenido el puesto N° 1 en La Lista de Álbumes de Australia vendiendo 14.188 copias en la primera semana de ventas. Fue el segundo álbum de Slipknot en debutar en el número uno en US Billboard 200 vendiendo 132.000 copias en su primera semana. El álbum también debutó en el número uno en Japón, Rusia y Suiza. También debuta en el top 5 en Reino Unido, Canadá, Alemania, Irlanda, Austria, Nueva Zelanda, México, Dinamarca y Finlandia.

Lista de canciones

Videoclips
El álbum cuenta con 2 videoclips oficiales que fueron revelados antes del lanzamiento del álbum: The Negative One y The Devil In I. El día 7 de junio de 2015 se lanzó su nuevo videoclip, Killpop y el 5 de octubre de 2015 , XIX.

Posición en listas

Personal
Slipknot

 (#0) Sid Wilson – Turntables
 Jay Weinberg - Batería
 Alessandro Venturella - Bajo
 (#3) Chris Fehn – Percusión, Coros
 (#4) Jim Root – Guitarra líder, Bajo
 (#5) Craig Jones - Teclado, Sampler
 (#6) Shawn Crahan - Percusión, Coros
 (#7) Mick Thomson - Guitarra rítmica
 (#8) Corey Taylor - Voz

Técnico y Personal
 Greg Fidelman - Producción
 Joe Barresi - Mezcla
 Vlado Meller - Masterización

Véase también
 Anexo:Discografía de Slipknot

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial de Slipknot
 Sitio web oficial de Roadrunner

Álbumes de Slipknot
Álbumes de Roadrunner Records
Álbumes de 2014
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de nu metal
Álbumes de metal alternativo
Álbumes de hard rock
Álbumes de heavy metal