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Gerteis enters fourth decade of roller compactor excellence
Jona, Switzerland: – Gerteis Maschinen + Processengineering AG (Gerteis) has been celebrating its 30th year as roller compaction and dry granulation leaders.
The Swiss company is still based in the former municipality of Jona, near Lake Zürich, where Paul Gerteis founded his original premises in December 1986.
Looking back at the early years when the company was still a one-man-business, Paul Gerteis remembers the challenges of starting off in a field that already had long-established enterprises competing for a share in the market. His background in sales of pharmaceutical equipment provided Gerteis with in-depth knowledge of the needs of his future customers.
In what he calls 'a lucky coincidence', he found a way to make roller compaction a viable and advantageous option for processing most substances. The development of the patented Gerteis compaction technology was an important first step in establishing what would become a global name for dry granulates compaction excellence.
Winning customers
However, Gerteis still had to win customers over to the new technology, which he was able to do by demonstrating numerous unique benefits delivered by his Gerteis® roller compaction systems. It was in these early days that Paul Gerteis set the standards for excellent customer service that the company still prides itself on today. "It was my personal commitment to serving the customer to the best of my ability that opened the doors to many of the companies we still supply today," said Mr. Gerteis in a recent interview.
Favorable word of mouth helped Gerteis establish a business that has seen continuous growth since the late 1980s.
Gerteis enjoys long-term relationships with its roller compactor users almost by definition, with some machines recording service lives of 20 years or more. This durability is coupled with sustainability since the dry granulation process is very fast and energy-efficient method of achieving homogeneous powders. The patented roller technology at the heart of every Gerteis compactor ensures a more uniform density product and gentler handling in the compaction process.
Versatility and scalability
The optimized rim assembly of the rolls guarantees the consistency of the product. Adjustments for many varying parameters are available making Gerteis compactors perfect for handling a myriad of products found in pharmaceutical and other businesses such as food processing or fine chemicals. Since all of the Pactor® and Polygran® series are designed for continuous production, high output rates are possible. This is combined with a very high degree of scalability, with the Macro-Pactor®, for example, capable of throughputs ranging from 100g trial samples all the way up to 400kg per hour, allowing for seamless transition from R&D to production.
Making the machines even more ideal for the pharmaceutical market are the highly effective Clean in Place (CIP) and Wash in Place (WIP) systems available as part of most compactor series, reducing downtime needed for cleaning to a minimum. CIP in combination with Gerteis' bespoke containment systems ensure a high level of operator protection against toxic substances and highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPIs).
Future plans
Thus a range of factors has driven the success of Gerteis over three decades: not least the intrinsic values of reliability, quality and sustainability in its engineering on which its high reputation is founded. Gerteis® is committed to maintaining this level of machine excellence, combined with continued dedication to the excellent service and customer satisfaction on which it first made its name.
For the future of the company, Paul Gerteis has one wish: "Customers have to be cared for with the same dedication we have provided so far and the passion for our product has to remain a driving force in our team."
The company's future plans emphasize technological innovation and organic growth while maintaining focus on optimizing existing systems and accommodating individual customer needs. Having been a constant presence at pharmaceutical events and conventions, Gerteis aims to expand its Asian markets, to infuse existing markets with new products and to increase our global presence in the marketplace.
Tailored service
To ensure the best possible service, Gerteis is in constant exchange with engineers, scientists and suppliers to remain up-to-date with current trends, requirements and innovations. This translates into reliable expertise in finding optimal solutions for their customers' production issues and increasing outputs by optimizing processes. Their customized designs are tailored to the needs of each customer, while in-house training courses assure that operators are capable of handling and servicing the machines. Thanks to regional partners, Gerteis is able to resolve maintenance issues and problems quickly and efficiently.
Acquiring a Gerteis roller compactor not only equips the client with a reliable machine, but also guarantees service that is second to none.
About Gerteis
Gerteis Maschinen + Processengineering AG is a Swiss-based company that has rapidly established itself as a world leader in the field of premium roller compactors. The company's products and services cover all aspects of dry granulation processes, with unparalleled experience in this field built up since the company was founded in 1986.
Gerteis manufactures a wide range of high quality containment roller compactors that are versatile enough to process a vast range of powders, even notoriously problematic ones at both laboratory and production scales. The company's patented technologies are widely used by the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries.
Rapidly increasing demand recently forced the company to move from its original site in Jona on the shores of Lake Zurich to larger and purpose designed premises nearby, in a move completed at the end of 2013.
As well as manufacturing machinery, Gerteis offers complete solution packages that help customers increase productivity including support on identifying ideal formulations and in-house training courses on dry granulation processing. Gerteis constantly seeks to expand its knowledge on dry granulation, participating in numerous research collaborations with German universities.


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Sneaky Referral Spammers
Sneaky spammers are pretending to be Google.com and Lifehacker.com to steal clicks and infect your computer. Here's what to look out for.
Google Moving to a Mobile-First Index
They've been saying it for a while now; "Mobile will surpass desktop as the most frequently used device" and it's coming true. Well, for some it is. Google has this notorious habit of pushing things on everyone even when it doesn't really apply. As you can see from my post […]
The Importance of AMP
Does the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) standard really do anything, or is it just another carrot dangled in front of our noses by Google?
Google Does Not Want You to Leave
Google does a fantastic job of blurring the lines between what's good for them and what's good for the users. They're now offering their own little app to test internet speed. It's not as good as speedtest.net, but who cares about that anyway??
Dealing with RankBrain and Zombie Traffic
RANKBRAAIIIIIINNNNSSS!!!! Google's RankBrain can send the zombie horde to your website. What is RankBrian? What is zombie traffic? What can you do about it? My post helps you defend against the zombie apocalypse.
Does Google Allow Paid EXCLUSION??
Does a small city in the Kansas City metro area have enough clout with Google to have themselves excluded from geo-targeted ads? It sure looks like it.
It's quiet… too quiet.
It looks like Google has made a major change had moved to rolling updates. They've talked about it before, but I've never seen SERP flux so stable and predictable before. SEO just got harder.
Google Making Ads Less Obvious
Google seems to be playing with the idea of making Adwords ads a bit less obvious to users. In a 2013 push for "transparency" Google added a little yellow icon next to their ads to try to distinguish them from the non-paid organic results. Now Google is trying to make the […]
Mobile Hasn't Quite Taken Over Yet…
Google keeps reporting on the importance of mobile traffic. Yes, mobile search has surpassed desktop usage which is why Google's focusing so much attention on getting websites to be mobile friendly. That's great, but the reality is that a lot of niches just aren't dominated by mobile traffic. We did a little […]
More Big Changes to Mobile Results
In early May, Google will cut a lot more websites that are not mobile friendly from the results.

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Warning: This is peeve post. There, now, full steam ahead.
There's a new contender for Worst British Accent in Film, the award previously held over decades by Dick Van Dyke, that lovable pseudo-Cockney of Mary Poppins. Considering that everyone else in that film was actually British (including Julie Andrews, its star), and the book it was based on was set in London and written by an author living in that city (though she grew up in Australia), why the producers decided on an American chimney sweep is unfathomable. I'm not suggesting that they ought to have sought out Lawrence Olivier, but at least Sir Larry would have done justice to the Bow Bells accent.
The new mangler? Anne Hathaway.
Now, I like Anne Hathaway as much as any woman whose daughter adored The Princess Diaries. She's a very good actress with much natural grace, and she's made amazing choices in her films. She was wonderful opposite Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada – an intimidating turn, after all. Playing a much-rehabbed sister of the bride in Rachel Getting Married was a risky choice that paid off fabulously. I look forward to seeing her as Catwoman in The Dark Night Rises.
But as an English student? In One Day? When everyone – and I don't use that word loosely – everyone surrounding her is some kind of Brit?
It's not like the UK is devoid of female actors of the appropriate age. Emily Blunt, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, any one of them could have done a great job with One Day's Emma. But no, the producers needed greater wattage, so the job went to Hathaway. Who does terrific stuff with it, she really does, only . . . where the hell is the woman supposed to be from?
The accent doesn't have multiple layers. Instead, it lurches from one set of sounds to another. At times she's perfectly American, this supposedly English rose Emma. At times she does a decent, upperclass RP accent. Then there's the sudden left turn to Scots or Northumberland, as when she says "oot" for "out".
(I happen to live in a part of the country where oldtimers do this, too, only in a southern US accent. It's a hoot.)
Her R's are similarly wobbly, and at times she sound positively West Country. No sooner do you get used to one set of sounds than, oops, there it goes again, the amazing Technicolor accent.
I am all for Anne Hathaway or another actor, or any person, for all that, going after a role as a challenge. They should stretch. Try something completely different.
But if the producers are too cash-strapped to afford accent lessons before the shoot, actors need to reserve some funds for to invest in their own accent. They'll pay off, they really will.
In some future post, British actors assuming – and that word is used very loosely – American accents. With a reminder that Jimmy Cagney's been off the screen for a long, long time.


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Google launches local search for mobile
Want to find a local coffee shop? Maybe you need a new restaurant. As usual, Google can help. The big G has introduced local search for iPhone and Android phones.
Now when you're on Google's page on your mobile browser, just hit the "near me now" link to bring up search results that are near your location. Find coffee and ATMs easily at long last. Pretty soon we will get completely lost without our phones to the point where we will be zombies during service outages.


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Have you been eagerly awaiting new adventures with Rimuru and the gang? With the last episode airing on March 26, it's not hard to see why fans may be ready for some more slimy escapades. Well, wait no more! Crunchyroll has officially announced its plans to stream the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime OAD episode!
The new original episode will launch on July 9. The OAD episode is dropping as part of a bundle with the release of volume twelve of the light novel series. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime tells the story of Mikami Satoru, a businessman who is stabbed to death in the street. Satoru is reincarnated in a parallel world as a low-level slime. He names himself Rimuru and possesses a unique skill known as "predator." "Predator" allows Rimuru to absorb others' powers and become incredibly strong. Using these abilities, Rimuru establishes his own country where creatures of all races can live together.
The latest OAD episode promises to show off the beloved citizens of the Jura Tempest Federation enjoying a picnic by the lake. Shuna and Shion, two of the ogre members of the Federation, are fighting over Rimuru's slime form as usual. Rimuru decides to end the fighting by creating a cushion in the shape of his slime form. This way, both girls will have a slime to hold. Thus, Rimuru travels around Tempest searching for the best materials for this cushion. He soon learns of a special type of sand found along the shore in the forest perfect for this cushion. He sets out to retrieve it, only to encounter a formidable monster! To make matters worse, demon lord Milim has heard about his exploits and is coming down to join in the fun!
The OAD episode promises new never-before-seen scenes brought to you by the same cast and staff as the original TV series. So get ready to jump back into the fray with Rimuru and the gang! After all, Rimuru is "not a bad slime!"


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These little "pieces" you see here are tech laden hardware that literally smashes down the competition with what lies inside. As claimed on iFi's website, the iDSD is "the only DAC in the world (at any price) to play True Native Octa-DSD512/PCM768/Double DXD". Now how does that translate in simpler layman terms? It best out our resident sub-$1,000 DAC – PS Audio DLIII by a good margin. There was better resolution, details were more finely chiseled and a better airiness around the soundstage. The iDSD is a rechargeable unit which makes it handy when you want to use it with your headphones on the go. If not, you can do what the previous owner did and power it up with the iUSB power supply through its Gemini double USB cable. The Gemini is a double headed USB cable that splits power supply and music signals into two different cables to eradicate cross "contamination" of signals. This setup is more for the user who wants to stream music from his/her computer into their hifi system. You could do that with just the iDSD alone but with the added iUSB power supply, it brings it up a notch in signal purity. Check out its many positive reviews from around the World!
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They are brilliant for garnishing and transforming food; the double stalk design works particularly well with cherry tomatoes and fruits such as raspberries, grapes and blackberries. Click here to see them in action on the Eats Amazing blog!
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Edinburgh student organises Ceilidh with a Twist
Event on Friday 24 February 2017
7pm – 10.30pm, at Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh
An Edinburgh student who has lived with Type 1 diabetes for almost a decade is organising a Ceilidh with a Twist to raise money for Diabetes UK.
Lisa Garrett, 18, is part of a team of students from Edinburgh College hosting the special event on the evening of Friday 24 February at Lauriston Hall. The Scottish ceilidh will be given a country and western twist with traditional tartans paired with cowboy boots and Stetsons.
Live music will be provided by Edinburgh band Wild Geese.
Lisa said: "We're really looked forward to our Ceilidh with a Twist in aid of Diabetes UK. We have booked Wild Geese who are a fantastic band and have already sold a lot of tickets. It's going to be a great night and there will be plenty of opportunities to win some excellent prizes!
"I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when I was nine years old and most of the time I don't let it get in the way of me doing what I want to do. However, occasionally I don't have choice as there have been some times when my blood sugars were uncontrollable and I had to seek urgent medical attention which was quite scary.
"Living with the condition is not easy and you don't get a day off. That's why we're fundraising for Diabetes UK as the charity supports people living with a condition and also funds research towards better treatments and, eventually, a cure."
The Ceilidh with a Twist kicks off at 7pm with live music, dancing, and raffles until 10.30pm. Tickets cost £9.
Linda Hamilton, Diabetes UK regional fundraiser for central Scotland, said: "The Ceilidh with a Twist sounds like it will be a fantastic event and we're delighted that Lisa and the team has chosen to support Diabetes UK. We rely on donations and fundraising to support our vital work towards a world where diabetes can do no harm. We hope the people of Edinburgh don their cowboy hats and kilts and have a great time at the event!"
To find out more about the event and purchase tickets, please contact Jaclyn at Diabetes Scotland on 0141 245 6380 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information about diabetes, visit www.diabetes.org.uk


text: Peru approves new rules to improve entitlement to vacation leave Communication News Legislative developments Garrigues Op Ed Garrigues Digital Specials Guides Blogs Contacts Share Share in Facebook, Open in new window Share in Twitter, Open in new window Share in LinkedIn, Open in new window Copy link Peru approves new rules to improve entitlement to vacation leave Labor Peru Alert At the end of 2018, Peru approved a legal reform implementing new rules designed to allow vacation leave to be taken in a way that contributes to work/life balance in the private sector. And on the following February 5, Supreme Decree No 002-2019-TR, Regulations on Legislative Decree No 1405, was published, which adds to and clarifies the rules in force and enables companies to identify the main rules they must follow in relation to the taking of vacation entitlement among their workers. Highlighted below are the most important elements of the new vacation rules: The new provisions on vacation leave (i.e., those included in Legislative Decree No 1405 and its Regulations) are not applicable to special employment arrangements, meaning those governed by their own rules. Vacation leave is 30 calendar days, and includes the weekly rest days (Saturday and Sunday), public holidays (May 1, for example ), non-working days and other circumstances requiring time off work (sick leave, for example). The law does, however, allow companies to have in place more favorable vacation rules or systems through a unilateral decision by the employer, agreement, a collective labor agreement or customary usage. The right to advanced vacation may be negotiated through a prior written agreement between employer and worker. The advanced vacation may even include a greater number of days than the proportion earned on the agreement date. It is paid back as follows: If the worker holds a valid employment relationship, any vacation taken in advance is deducted from the vacation earned after the statutory vacation limit has been met. If the worker leaves before meeting the respective limit, the vacation taken in advance is deducted from the unspent vacation included in the respective final settlement of employee benefits. A point to note is that although the worker is not legally required to pay for or deduct days' leave taken in advance out of unspent vacation, worker and employer could sign an agreement for that purpose. If requested by the worker in writing, vacation may be split as follows: First block (15 days at least). The time may be taken uninterruptedly or in two periods: of -at least- 7 calendar days, and the other, 8 calendar days. We must underline that the law sets out minimum values, so the parties could include longer periods (which will generate a lower number of days with the benefits of splitting the second block). Second block (remaining vacation). The time may be taken uninterruptedly in periods of at least 1 calendar day. The parties can agree on how to use the splitting mechanisms; this means that the worker does not have to use up the vacation time in the first block to be able to use the mechanism for splitting vacation by days (second block). When a worker submits a request for split vacation (which must set out how the vacation is to be split and the timing for taking the split vacation leave), the employer may accept the request with the proposed terms or amend it by determining different timing. In this latter case (which could arise from operating needs, end of season, etc.), the employer may decide on the timing for taking the leave but not on the proposed way of splitting it. The final agreement determining the splitting mechanism must be defined in a written agreement between the parties, which must be signed before the vacation leave is taken, and include the start and end dates of the leave. A reduction to vacation leave (the sale of vacation, in other words) may only be made with respect to the vacation time in the second block (which must be split by day). This measure means that workers will -necessarily- have to take one consecutive 15-day period of vacation leave or two uninterrupted periods of 7 and 8 days, at least. From the above comments, our main recommendation is to suggest that employers revise their vacation policies in force and implement the necessary changes to the formats and procedures for advancing, splitting and selling vacation applicable to staff, to determine the right tools to ensure these types of procedures are viable and dynamic. 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The Secret Life of Toothpaste
Any gal with a diamond knows that a toothbrush and a little toothpaste will make that rock twinkle. But toothpaste has other more lowly pursuits than putting the spark in your bling.
Cast Iron Sinks
Toothpaste will remove pot marks from cast iron (and vitreous glass) sinks and it's a cheap alternative to more expensive cleaners. My Pepsodent (the lowest-priced I could find at the store) is a fraction of the cost of Kohler's fancy Cast Iron Kitchen...


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Fiber Optic Sensor Market is expected to grow over 11% CAGR during the period 2016 to 2022 with USD 3 billion market value in 2022.
Market Scenario
With growing technology advancements, fiber optic sensor has created its high demand in industries to effectively monitor rotation, vibration, temperature, acceleration, and pressure of the particular machine or devices. It has the ability to monitor extreme high temperature & pressure thereby has high market in electricity measurement & control sector as well as in oil & gas sector. Due to its property of sensing high tolerance it is also attracting automotive & transportation industry and propelling its market growth during forecast period 2016-2022.
This device has ability to capture, centers, and analyze end-face images and display the results within seconds. It is well suited for government & defense sector. This growing advancement in product categories and high involvement of small & large market players in developing Fiber Optic Sensor systems & services is creating high growth opportunity for fiber optic sensor market in the upcoming future.
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Industry News
The global key market players such as ABB Ltd., Yokogawa Electric Corporation, OmniSens S.A. and other industries are offering wide range of Fiber Optic Sensor solutions to their end-user. In April 2017, AFL Group, a leading end-to-end solution & service providers, has developed a new fiber connector inspection product named FOCIS Flex No Wireless.
Key Player
- ABB Ltd. (Switzerland)
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Japan)
- OmniSens S.A. (Switzerland)
- Deltex Medical Group PLC (UK)
- Finisar Corporation (U.S.)
- AP Sensing GmbH (Germany)
- Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Japan)
- AFL Group (U.S.)
- Luna Innovations Incorporated (U.S.)
- Ziebel As (Norway)
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Geographically, North America is expected to dominate the fiber optic sensor market during forecast period 2016-2022. The growing investment by organizations to increase their productivity and growing market of smart infrastructure in U.S. and Canada countries is driving the high market growth of fiber optic sensor in the region. Europe is also showing high growth opportunity in the fiber optic sensor market due to high demand of power efficient smartphones & tablets, and high-end medical imaging equipment devices. Also, increasing deployment of sensors in smart control system to ensure safety & performance of automotive sector. Furthermore, Asia-pacific is witnesses to be the fastest growing region for fiber optic sensor market during forecast period 2016-2022 due to growing developing economy such as India , China , Japan and growing need of fiber optic sensors in energy & power sector in the region.
Segmentation by Type: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fiber Optic Sensors.
Segmentation by Component: Transmitters, Receivers, Optical Amplifiers, Fiber Optic Cable and Others.
Segmentation by End-Users: Defense, Energy & Power, Medical, Transportation, Industrial and Others.
By Region: North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Row
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Volvo trucks synchronise in platooning challenge
Volvo participates in Dutch challenge to drive its trucks in a convoy separated by a one-second gap
Volvo Trucks has participated in the 'European Truck Platooning Challenge' initiated by the Dutch Presidency to drive a truck convoy separated by just a one-second gap in order to boost efficiency.
Drag accounts for up to 25% of a truck's total fuel consumption, and the closer the trucks drive to each other, the greater the fuel-saving potential.
The idea of platooning is to have truck fleets communicate wirelessly and automatically match each other's speed and braking – closing the gap between them and improving their fuel economy.
Although counterintuitive, having trucks match each other's speeds is also a safety-boosting feature.
"Essentially, this means that the reaction time for braking is reduced to zero, which in turn improves safety and minimises the 'accordion effect' in connection with traffic congestion," says Anders Kellström, Project Manager for Volvo's participation in the EU Truck Platooning Challenge.
It is currently not possible to utilise the advantages of platooning on Europe's roads, since legislation in the various countries governing the safe driving distance between trucks differs.
The Netherlands initiated the European Truck Platooning Challenge to highlight the changes required in European transportation legislation that would facilitate the introduction of platooning.
The Volvo Group is participating by driving three trucks in a platoon from Gothenburg to Rotterdam.
Kellström adds: "We believe that platooning offers major advantages for our customers, but also for society in fuel savings, reduced emissions and enhanced transportation efficiency. We need to tackle the harmonisation of legislation, and in so doing promote the introduction of platooning in Europe."


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How much do we need to see, before we realize that all Donald Trump really is, is a guy who just can't keep it in his pants, even when married. Why else would he want to run a beauty pageant? Hey look, great that he is a 'red-blooded American male' but but it has become way too clear that his obsession with women other than his wife is not helping him effectively govern the United States of America.
He is failing fast and his little fingers need to stay off his 'twitter' or he needs to quit if we want to keep America great.


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An International Brand business hotel will be coming soon to ng².
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More than a week after Newton voters voted against a ballot question that would have banned recreational marijuana shops from opening here — as well as a second ballot quesiton that would have capped the number of stores to between 2 to 4 — some ban advocates have been writing letters to elected leaders, The TAB and Patch, blaming Mayor Fuller and challenging what the numbers really mean.
Here's what Jennifer Adams wrote on Patch.
Let's look at the numbers — on Election Day last week, 39,967 votes were cast and 18,203 of those voted for the ban and 18,167 voted for the "2-4 store limit." This left a remainder of 3597 who voted "no" on both in order to have 8+ stores. Of course, the actual number of people who voted "no" on both ballot questions was higher than 3597 because an unknown portion of the "yes" vote for the "2-4 limit" was cast by supporters of the ban who voted for the "2-4 limit" as a backup. It is not known precisely how many of the votes were overlapping because the City of Newton did not count the votes that way. Even if Newton city officials never manage to provide the exact breakdown of the votes, it is safe to assume that "ban" supporters would have overwhelmingly preferred the "2-4 store limit" over "8+" stores. Combining those votes with "2-4" supporters, it is very clear that the vast majority of voters do not prefer "8+" stores. Yet that is the result from this flawed ballot structure. The marijuana companies who advertised heavily for this option will be happy, even if the voters are not.
Maybe it's just me but I've read this paragraph several times and I can't figure out how Adams' reached her conclusion. (The same is true for a letter in this week's TAB, which does not seem to be online.)
Rather then blaming the mayor, I believe the Adams should fault Opt Out's campaign strategy which adamantly opposed 2-4, blasting it as "sham," when really 2-4 was a compromise.
Yes it was a compromise they didn't like. It was also a compromise many ban opponents didn't like. But politics and elections are almost always about compromises. You have to play the cards you are dealt, not the cards you wish you were given. Once both 2-4 and the ban were on the ballot, supporters and opponents had to decide where to place their chips.
Opt-Out made a strategic decision to oppose 2-4 full throttle (even calling it a "sham" on their lawn signs). They placed all their bets on the hope that a ban would prevail.
It was a gamble Opt-Out lost. As result, recreational marijuana opponents lost out on a compromise that would have allowed for fewer stores in Newton. Instead we can have up to eight.
But how is Opt-Out's campaign strategy anyone's responsibility but their own?


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An Intrinsic Nearest-Neighbor Analysis of Neural Machine Translation Architectures
Author: Christof Monz.
Machine Translation has made great advances over the last few years, which is mostly due to novel architectures based on deep learning approaches. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architectures are extremely powerful and capable to encode many aspects of the foreign (or source) sentence and at the same time produce fluent sentences in the native (or target) language. While the representational power of NMT systems is beyond doubt, it is not well-understood what the hidden layers within an NMT system actually represent.
Earlier approaches indirectly studied the information captured by the hidden states of recurrent and non-recurrent neural machine translation models by feeding them into different classifiers.
To advance our understanding of what information is captured by the hidden layers of an NMT system, we look at the encoder hidden states of both transformer and recurrent machine translation models from the nearest neighbors perspective. We investigate to what extent the nearest neighbors share information with the underlying word embeddings as well as related WordNet entries. Additionally, we study the underlying syntactic structure of the nearest neighbors to shed light on the role of syntactic similarities in bringing the neighbors together. We compare transformer and recurrent models in a more intrinsic way in terms of capturing lexical semantics and syntactic structures, in contrast to extrinsic approaches used by previous works.
A Nearest-Neighbor Perspective
Following earlier work on word embeddings, we choose to look into the nearest neighbors of the hidden state representations to learn more about the information encoded in them. We treat each hidden state as the representation of the corresponding input token. This way, each occurrence of a word has its own representation. Based on this representation, we compute the list of n nearest neighbors of each word occurrence.
Figure 1 shows an example of 5 nearest neighbors for two different occurrences of the word 'deregulation'. Each item in this figure is a specific word occurrence, but we have removed occurrence information for the sake of simplicity. This example shows how the set of nearest neighbors changes depending on the occurrence of a word.
Nearest-Neighbors of Hidden States and Word Embeddings
Word embeddings tend to capture the dominant sense of a word, even in the presence of a significant support for other senses in the training corpus. Additionally, it is reasonable to assume that a hidden state corresponding to a word occurrence captures more of the current sense of the word. Comparing the lists could provide useful insights as to which hidden state-based neighbors are not strongly related to the corresponding word embedding. To quantify the extent to which hidden layer representations overlap with the word embedding at the corresponding position, we count how many of the words in the nearest neighbors lists of hidden states are covered by the nearest neighbors list based on the corresponding word embeddings. Just like the hidden states, the word embeddings used for computing the nearest neighbors are also from the same system and the same trained model for each experiment.
Table 1 shows the statistics of the coverage by the nearest neighbors based on embeddings in general and based on selected source POS tags for each of our models.
One can see that only between 18% and 37% of the information encoded in the hidden states is already covered by the corresponding word embeddings, showing that the information captured by the hidden layers differs substantially from the underlying word embeddings. This of course raises the question how the hidden layer representations differ from word embeddings.
Nearest-Neighbors of Hidden States and Word Senses
To shed light on the capability of hidden states in terms of learning the sense of the word in the current context, we compute the coverage of the list of the nearest neighbors of hidden states with the directly related words from WordNet.
Table 2 shows the general and the POS-based coverage for our English-German system. The transformer model clearly has the lead by a large margin. This basically means that more words from the WordNet relations of the word of interest are present in the hidden state nearest neighbors of the word. A simple result of this could be that the hidden states from transformer capture more word semantic information than the hidden states of the recurrent model. Or in other words, the hidden states from recurrent model capture some other information that brings different words than WordNet relations of the word of interest to its neighborhood. This again raises question what type of information is better captured by the hidden layers of a recurrent model.
Nearest-Neighbors of Hidden States and Syntactic Structures
Recent comparisons of recurrent and non-recurrent architectures show that they differ in the extent to which they are capable of modeling syntactic structure. To measure the degree to which the hidden layers of an NMT encoder capture syntactic information, we compute the nearest neighbors based on their structural distance. Here we use the PARSEVAL standard metric as similarity measure between the trees.
Figure 2a shows the corresponding word and subtree of a hidden state of interest and Figure 2b-c shows the corresponding words and subtrees of its three neighbors. The leafs are substituted with dummy 'XX' labels to show that they do not influence the computed tree similarities.
Table 3 shows the average similarity between the corresponding constituent subtree of hidden states and the corresponding trees of their nearest neighbors, computed using PARSEVAL. Interestingly, the recurrent model takes the lead in the average syntactic similarity. This confirms our hypothesis that the recurrent model dedicates more of its hidden states capacity, as compared to the transformer model, to capturing syntactic structures. It is also in agreement with the results reported on learning syntactic structures using extrinsic tasks.
In summary, our findings show that a nearest-neighbor analysis of hidden layers can result in a better understanding of which information is captured by the hidden layer representations of an NMT encoder. We show (1) that the information captured by hidden layers differs substantially from the information captured by word embeddings, (2) that transformer-based architectures are more capable in capturing lexical information, while (3) recurrent architectures are better at capturing structural information.
Want to know more?
Our approach and findings are described in more detail in our upcoming MT-Summit 2019 paper: Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz. An Intrinsic Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Neural Machine Translation Architectures.
Christof Monz is an associate professor within ILPS and PhD supervisor of Hamidreza.


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how to run standard capacity reports on top utilized farms in vmtubro?
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Today was one of those days where I got to practice what I preach. I'm a firm believer that what I say to my little lady, needs to be followed through. I don't want to throw out consequences and never follow through. What good is that? Just that she would never take mommy serious. For some reason, she likes putting her hair in her mouth and sucking on it. So, I simply told her that if she couldn't stop, I would have to cut her hair, but it was her choice. Well...(sigh)...she chose to continue. So, this afternoon, out came the scissors and snip, snip.
Little did she know as to what was coming!
Not so happy!
A little better now!


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After a one-week break, Shreyas is back with his 46th edition of Shreyas Recommends. This week - How much does Warren Buffet read? How much does a CEO earn? Why did a consulting firm buy a design firm? The story of the white rhino and why doing things alone may be recommended.
- All children are happy, until materialism catches up with them
- Why should you start doing more things alone
- The story of the last male white rhino
- Why did one of the largest management consulting firm buy a big design company
- Wind turbines, without the blades
- Warren Buffett reads, a lot
- Why irrelevant, unconnected things that may seem illogical are determinants of economic behaviour
- Patagonia: an anti-growth company that is successful
- India's INR 2000cr brands. Although, Maggi has taken a tonking in last couple of weeks
- View from the front seat of Google's self driving car. Related: what future holds for driverless cars
- Changes in Indian food consumption over five decades
- Rajputs, the historic bastions of bravery, were rather bad on the battlefield
- Police informants or "khabris" are losing their influence
- Museum of Shit. No, really.
- Tesla's Powerwall strategy = Edison's lightbulb strategy?
- Fifty years ago, a 31-year old statistician-economist predicted the Indian famine
- As a vegetarian/vegan, would you eat a beef burger that has been made without harming or killing an animal?
- Online tool that determines your salary after analysing your CV. Mine was below expectation.
- Meanwhile, the application form to join al-Qaeda
- The wars that inspired Game of Thrones
- Why can't you remember the names of the people you met at the party last week?
All previous Shreyas Recommends Editions are available here
Shreyas is a Delhi-based Consultant working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He blogs at shreyasp.wordpress.com. He is an alumnus of IIM Indore. Follow him on InsideIIM at shreyasp.insideiim.com


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by Jim Korkis | Release Date: December 16, 2017 | Availability: Print, Kindle
No one knows Disney history, or tells it better, than Jim Korkis, and he's back with a new set of 20 stories from his Vault of Walt. Whether it's Disney films, Disney theme parks, or Walt himself, Jim's stories will charm and delight Disney fans of all ages.
The best-selling Vault of Walt series has brought serious, but fun, Disney history to tens of thousands of readers. Now in its fifth volume, the series features former Disney cast member and master storyteller Jim Korkis' home-spun, entertaining tales, from the early years of Walt Disney to the present.
Step inside the vault with Jim to hear about:
Discover these and many other new tales of Disney history, as only Jim Korkis can tell them, in The Vault of Walt: Volume 6.
Then be sure to check out ALL the volumes in THE VAULT OF WALT!
Part One: Walt Disney Stories
The Charlie Chaplin Connection
The Abraham Lincoln Connection
Roy O. Disney Remembers Walt
Walt Never Said It
The Canadian Connection
Part Two: Disney Film Stories
Seal Island: The First True-Life Adventure
People and Places: The Forgotten Series
The Laugh-O-gram Story
The Love Bug Story
The Orange Bird Film
Part Three: Disney Park Stories
The Disney Hub
Disneyland 1957
Disneyland 1967
Theme Park Dinosaurs
Epcot Center Opening
Part Four: Other Disney Stories
The Bob Clampett Connection
The Disney Pigeons
The Snow White Lawsuit
Duffy the Bear
Remembering Roy E. Disney
I have something to get off my chest: despite having spent a disproportionate part of my life collecting and writing about all things Disney: my earliest encounter with the Mousetro's work proved deeply traumatic for me and acutely embarrassing for my parents.
What ended as a nightmare had begun as a treat for my fourth birthday: a visit to a now-long-gone British institution, the News Theatre on London's Waterloo Station. Open daily, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., the News Theatre screened a continuous program of newsreels, comedy one-reelers, and cartoons.
On this particular day, the bill featured the vintage 1938 Disney short, Brave Little Tailor, in which Mickey Mouse, in the title role, tackles an enormous giant in order to win the hand of the Princess Minnie.
At a crucial point in this drama, Mickey hides in a cart laden with pumpkins and, when the giant grabs a handful as a snack, Mickey finds himself being hurled into the giant's mouth. Dodging the pumpkins as they hurtle by him like bowling balls, he only avoids being swallowed by hanging onto the giant's uvular.
These antics were, naturally, greeted with hilarity by every other youngster in the cinema—but not, unfortunately, by me! Terrified at the mouse-threatening scenario unfolding before me in the dark, I screamed and screamed until my humiliated parents bundled me out of the theatre and rushed me off to the nearest café to pacify me with tea and buns.
I make this confession as it may help to explain the fixation with Disney that has obsessed me virtually ever since that harrowing day. Without that shock to my young system, that jolt to my nascent psyche, would I have co-authored several books on Disney topics (from Mickey Mouse and Snow White to Mary Poppins) or made several dozen hours of radio programmes for the BBC about Uncle Walt, his company and movies? Probably not.
One of the by-products of this career (of which I've only provided the sketchiest of detail since I'm taking up space in somebody else's book on Disney) is the occasional invitation to write a foreword such as the one I'm just about to get down to writing here.
Within the annals of cinema history there is a small but growing coterie of dedicated scribes who are dubbed Disney historians. There is an urgent imperative to chronicle the life and times of Walt Disney and the achievements of his studio because it is the story of many people, most of whose contributions have only begun to be recorded in the past 50 years since the death of the man whose internationally recognized signature came to represent the combined talents of an army of artists, writers, musicians, and technicians.
Some of us of a certain age can still recall when there were scarcely more than a handful of books about the art and industry of Disney. Today there are shelf-loads of such books—representing a wide range of approaches from the academic and authoritative via the critical to the anodyne and scurrilous.
Nevertheless, there are still first-hand recollections needing to be recorded and new chapters of the story waiting to be written—not to mention the tedious task of correcting inaccuracies and remedying misconceptions.
One of the most prolific of these Disney historians is the indefatigable Jim Korkis ("At last!" you say, "This foreword is finally getting to the point!") whose Disney vault you are about to enter.
I first met the vault keeper sixteen years ago, on December 5, 2001 (Walt's hundredth birthday). We were in the VIP lounge of the Norway pavilion in Epcot and, whilst I no longer recall the reason for that choice of venue, I mention it since the fact that Epcot has a Norway VIP lounge will be, for some, an irresistible piece of Disney park trivia eagerly learned.
After signing a book of mine for Jim (despite my protestations that the only valuable copies are the unsigned ones), he gave me a cracking interview for one of my radio shows as a result of which I immediately had the measure of Jim's talent: he was, like Shakespeare's clown Autolycus, "a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," by which I mean that he collected a wealth of information that others had overlooked or disregarded and stored it away in his vast memory bank—or, you could say, vault!
Korkis books are always filled with these discoveries, fashioned together so as to create a series of diverse narratives of varying—but satisfyingly appropriate—length where the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Jim is a born teller of tales, able to engage, excite, intrigue, and amuse us with stories that reveal not just his talent for research but also his gift of infectious enthusiasm. If something fascinates Korkis, he will make sure we share his fascination.
This is not surprising since he has met and talked with dozens of Disney animators and those theme park wizards known as "Imagineers" and has been writing about them and their genius boss for three-and-a-half decades.
Looking through the table of contents I can't quite decide where I'll start: maybe with the stories about Walt's enthrallment with Abe Lincoln and Charlie Chaplin; or, perhaps, with the appreciation of Disney park dinosaurs; or, possibly, with the articles on the Oscar-winning documentary Seal Island, and the zany comedy that introduced the world to Car 53—Herbie, the Love Bug. Wherever I start, I can guarantee to be riveted and end up knowing immeasurably more than when I started.
In view of the distressing recollection with which I began this foreword, I was wondering if an essay on Disney giants might be on offer; but it really doesn't matter because Jim can always add it to the possible contents list for his next foray into the Disney vault; meanwhile (since I've detained you far too long already), you can start enjoying this one.
Right, then! Off you go…
Where do the stories come from? That was the title of an episode of ABC's Disneyland weekly television show that originally aired on April 4,1956.
Walt said at the beginning of that show:
We have often been asked where do we get the ideas for our stories. Potential story ideas exist all around us and our story men have been trained to closely observe every day happenings with the thought of twisting a common occurrence into a story.
During the show, Walt explained how books, songs, personal experiences, and hobbies could springboard the development of an entertaining story.
I've often been asked a similar question about the stories that appear in The Vault of Walt series of books. Sometimes these books are the only place where a reader can find information about Walt Disney's involvement in the DeMolay organization or the educational films made featuring Figment or Walt's mother's recipe for apple pie.
How do I know all these things if they don't appear elsewhere? For nearly forty years I have been writing stories about Disney history that have been shared in a variety of media. At one point, I even worked for the Disney company and had access to people and material that others did not and wrote articles and did historical presentations for the company.
Growing up in the Los Angeles area near the Disney studio, I had the opportunity to personally interview animators, Imagineers, executives, theme park cast members, Disney family, and others who knew and worked with Walt. I also was able to attend countless events where people shared their Disney stories, and got to interact with them afterwards.
I spent time and money acquiring a personal library of documents, from vintage newspaper and magazine clippings to private letters, publicity material, and obscure books. All of this was my foundation to begin writing. However, just because someone says something or it appears in print does not make it true.
Sometimes people had faulty memories, only saw their part of the project, had a personal agenda they wanted to assert, wanted to promote something aggressively, simply repeated stories that "everyone knows" but no one ever really checked, or other things that obstruct the truth.
So, while having this rich foundation of information to begin work, it was only just the beginning. The hardest work was to try to verify it through several independent sources.
When more and more people began writing about Disney history, it quickly became apparent that they were concentrating on the same familiar stories and sometimes just repeating falsehoods that had previously appeared somewhere without doing any original research to confirm or debunk. Even today those falsehoods often crop up with alarming regularity.
No one seemed to be writing about the stories that I knew. I began to feel an obligation to share the stories that had been so generously shared with me, especially from people who were no longer around to share them with others.
When I wrote the first volume in this series, I fully believed there might be enough interest in these out-of-the-ordinary stories to sell a few copies. However, those stories proved so popular that right now I am writing this introduction to the sixth volume in the series and preparing a file folder of material for a possible seventh.
Some of the stories that follow are particular favorites of mine and have been greatly enhanced with new discoveries I and others have made over recent years. For now, there seems still to be some interesting stories left to share.
As always, I hope you enjoy these stories and will share them with others.
Jim Korkis is an internationally respected Disney historian who has written hundreds of articles and twenty books about all things Disney over the last forty years. The Vault of Walt series began in 2012 and continues with a new edition every year.
Jim grew up in Glendale, California, where he was able to meet and interview Walt's original team of animators and Imagineers. In 1995, he relocated to Orlando, Florida, where he worked for Walt Disney World in a variety of capacities, including Entertainment, Animation, Disney Institute, Disney University, College and International Programs, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Design Group, Marketing.
His original research on Disney history has been used often by the Disney company as well as other organizations such as the Walt Disney Family Museum.
Jim is not currently an employee of the Disney company.
Several websites currently regularly feature Jim's articles about Disney history, and he is a frequent guest on multiple podcasts.
Young Walt Disney idolized Charlie Chaplin, the "Little Tramp", and routinely won cash prizes at Chaplin look-alike contests. Later, Walt met Chaplin, and made no secret that aspects of Mickey Mouse were based on Chaplin's Tramp character.
When Walt arrived in Hollywood in 1923, he purposely made sure that when he walked to the employment office looking for work that he lingered for a while on LaBrea where the Chaplin movie studio was located in the hopes of catching a glimpse of his silent-screen hero. In an interview, Walt admitted that if he had seen his idol, he would have been too awestruck to say anything to him.
Chaplin had built the studio in 1917 to resemble an old English village with a Tudor mansion façade and trimmed landscaping. It still stands today, although half the size of its original five acres.
When Chaplin left the U.S. in 1952, the studio was taken over by a variety of owners including CBS, which filmed shows like The Adventures of Superman there, and it later became the headquarters for A&M Records under Herb Alpert. Finally, the studio was purchased by Jim Henson Productions and as a fitting tribute a statue was installed at the entrance of Kermit the Frog dressed as the Little Tramp.
Walt and Chaplin were formally introduced around 1930 when Mickey Mouse had became a success.
Walt told writer Pete Martin in June 1956:
Charlie was a great friend. He was an admirer and it was mutual admiration because way back in my life, I used to impersonate Charlie Chaplin. I won a lot of prizes in theaters. I did it when I was going to school. I did it in theaters on amateur night. I was movie struck. I was stage struck.
One of the things I did was Chaplin. I had all his tricks down. I never missed a Chaplin picture. A neighbor boy—he's over at the studio with me now—together we had a little act. He was the count. He was the straight man with me as Chaplin. Then we would go to these amateur things. We'd put on our little act.
We always got a little more applause than someone else imitating Chaplin because we were younger and there was a team of us. We won a lot of prizes. We'd get a couple of bucks or something. But it was more the fun of doing it, you see? Chaplin was my idol. His comedy, the subtleties of it and things like that I always admired.
Chaplin admired Walt and Mickey Mouse as well. On October 15, 1933, there was a Writers' Club dinner in Hollywood where Walt was the guest of honor. Chaplin attended and sat at the same table as Walt. To amuse the animator, Chaplin got up and did a little pantomime including his famous Little Tramp walk. American humorist Will Rogers, a friend of Walt's who also attended the event, wrote:
We were all down to a mighty fine dinner they gave to Walter Disney. He is the sire and dam of that gift to the world, Mickey Mouse. Now, if there wasent (sic) two geniuses at one table, Disney and Charley (sic) Chaplin. One took a derby hat and a pair of big shoes and captured the laughs of the world, and the other one took a lead pencil and a mouse, and he has the whole world crawling in a rat hole, if necessary, just to see the antics of those rodents.
But there was more than shoes and pencils and derby hats and drawing boards there. Both had a God-given gift of human nature. Well, of course, they base it all on psychology of some kind and breed, but it's something human inside these two ducks that even psychology hasent (sic) a name for.
In the January 20, 1934, issue of the New Yorker there is a cartoon by "Alain" where a phony sophisticate is venting to his entranced girlfriend: "All you hear is Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse! It's as though Chaplin had never lived."
At the 1932 Academy Award ceremonies, Walt received the second special award in the academy's five year history "for the creation of Mickey Mouse." The previous special award recipient in 1929, Charlie Chaplin, was supposed to present Disney's award, but elected at the last minute to stay home.
As Alva Johnston wrote in the July 1934 issue of Woman's Home Companion:
Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse are the only two universal characters that have ever existed. The greatest kings and conquerors, gods and devils have by comparison been local celebrities. Mickey's domain is today even more extensive than Chaplin's. Charlie's mustache, hat, pants, shoes, and cane belong to Western civilization and make him a foreigner in some regions. Mickey Mouse is not a foreigner in any part of the world.
By the mid-1930s, Mickey had indeed started to eclipse Chaplin's fame and popularity, yet during the early 1930s, writers delighted in connecting the two comedy legends because of several obvious similarities.
Both Mickey and Chaplin uniquely entertained a broad public audience as well as the intellectual elite and did so primarily through their actions and reactions rather than with dialog. Both spawned extensive merchandise empires as well, unmatched by other Hollywood stars.
Walt Disney himself loved to foster the impression that the two icons had a similar ancestry.
In The American Magazine for March 1931, he described Mickey's creation:
I can't say just how the idea came. We felt that the public—especially children—like animals that are "cute" and little. I think we were rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin ... a little fellow trying to do the best he could.
Continued in "The Vault of Walt: Volume 6"!
The dinosaurs in the Disney parks, with an exception or two, will not be devouring guests in the middle of Liberty Square. Theme park saurians tend toward the scientific, not the savage.
The real reason dinosaurs are in the Universe of Energy pavilion is not because of their tentative connection with oil but because of Walt Disney's fascination with making dinosaurs "live again" for modern audiences.
It began with the animated feature Fantasia (1940). Walt said he wanted the "Rite of Spring" segment focusing on the reign and extinction of the dinosaurs to look "as though the studio had sent an expedition back to earth sixty million years ago." The studio contacted museums and world-famous authorities like Roy Chapman Andrews, Julian Huxley, Barnum Brown, and Edwin P. Hubble with detailed requests for information.
Disney animators were confronted with the challenge of how to draw a dinosaur in movement. The director told the puzzled animators to "just draw a 12-story building in perspective, then convert it into a dinosaur and animate it."
Walt told the animators: "Don't make them cute animals. Make them real". To help achieve a sense of size, the camera level was kept low so audiences were always looking up at the massive animals.
Paleontologists had reconstructed skeletons of the extinct giants, but how does a Stegosaurus tail move and what was the skin texture and skin color like? Disney animators had to use their knowledge of balance, weight, and color, as well as their experience drawing real animals, and were able to create a reasonable approximation that garnered accolades in the scientific community.
Pterodactyls took flight while a herd of brontosauruses quietly grazed in a lake in the film, Those images were later translated into three dimension at the Disney theme parks.
Time magazine reported:
The New York Academy of Science asked for a private showing because they thought [Fantasia's] dinosaurs better science than whole museum loads of fossils and taxidermy.
As early as the 1950s, an edited version of just the dinosaur segment with narration was released to schools to be used in science classes and other organizations through Disney Educational Media under the title A World Is Born. Stephen Jay Gould, who went on to become one of the century's great evolutionary biologists, claimed that he became enthused with dinosaurs as a child thanks to seeing this film.
One of the most memorable scenes included a climactic battle between a stegosaurus and a vicious, red-eyed tyrannosaurus rex that could never have happened since those animals lived in different eras, but it was highly memorable and dramatic. It was such an iconic scene that it became an integral part of both Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Walt's next step into the prehistoric world was roughly two decades later: actual gigantic moving dinosaurs using Disney's then-new technology of audio-animatronics. The idea was to do a more authentic and impressive dinosaur show than Sinclair's Dinoland that proved so popular at the New York World's Fair that it went on as a traveling exhibit and spawned souvenir toys.
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The March 31st performance is free and open to the public.
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Barry Silbert: Most Cryptos Will Go To Zero, Bitcoin Will Replace Gold
The CEO and founder of Digital Currency Group, Barry Silbert, says that most cryptocurrencies will fail and become worthless. However, bitcoin will rise and potentially replace gold. Silbert is a well respected and widely followed crypto expert. He is the founder of Digital Currency Group and Greyscale Investments. He has earlier claimed that Bitcoin is a significant investment and that 99 per cent of the cryptocurrencies will go to zero. Their portfolio consists of Bitcoin, Ethereum Classic, ZCash, Decentraland and Zerncash. However, most of the other ones will go to zero according to Silbert.
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High Cost Slows Down Bitcoin ATM Growth in Africa
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Indian Blockchain Summit Draws Policy Makers to Speed up Crypto Regulation
An Indian government-supported blockchain summit is drawing many policy makers with the aim to speed up the development of cryptocurrency regulation in the country. Among expected participants are officials from the Indian Ministry of Finance and the panel currently tasked with drafting the regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.
Russia's Minister of Justice: Cryptocurrencies Don't Need to Be Legally Defined Yet
Russia's stance on cryptocurrency remains unclear after the Minister of Justice this week announced that there is still no need to formalize crypto-related legislation. This is because digital assets cannot be used as a means of payment; it asserts because the constitution forbids it.
ICO Investments Fall 95% in 10 Months
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