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Q: Arcpy.addTable() error I am having a little trouble debugging an ex-coworkers code.
I am receiving this error:
RuntimeError: FieldMappings: Error in adding table to field mappings

The code:
CIP_FDFC_Tuple =  [('Cadastre', 'Installation', 'Cadastre\\Installation'),
              ('Cadastre', 'LandParcel', 'Cadastre\\LandParcel'),
              ('General', 'Wall', 'General\\Wall')]

env.workspace =r"C:\\Users\\1468394150E\\AppData\\Roaming\\ESRI\\Desktop10.1\\ArcCatalog\\CIP-GIO FUSED.sde" #sys.argv[1]
inputgdb = env.workspace

#Loop through CIP datasets and feature classes
#env.workspace = inputgdb
for (a,b,c) in CIP_FDFC_Tuple:
    inFeature = inputgdb + "\\" + c
    arcpy.AddMessage( "inFeature: "+ inFeature)

    #Remove GlobalID within SDE feature tables
    fieldmappings = arcpy.FieldMappings()
    fieldmappings.addTable(c)
    fieldmappings.removeFieldMap(fieldmappings.findFieldMapIndex("GLOBALID"))
    #Copying Feature class as a layer into fused gdb
    arcpy.AddMessage("Copying " + c + " feature layer records")
    arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion( inFeature, tempWorkspace, c,  whereClauseAll)

A: The error occurs on the line
   fieldmappings.addTable(c)

Because you are trying to add a table c which is Cadastre\\Installation. arcpy doesn't know in which geodatabase feature class is located, so you need to either specify the full path to the feature class or the env.workspace.
If you add a line in the beginning of the script:
arcpy.env.workspace = inputgdb
the script will run OK.
Another thing is that when running FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion you need to supply the field_mapping parameter which represents updated field mapping. In your code, it's the fieldmappings variable.
Suggestion:
Use os.path.join for joining geodatabase path, feature dataset name and feature class name such as
inFeature = os.path.join(inputgdb,a,b)
which would give you correct path. You wouldn't need to use a c because you have the feature dataset name and the feature class name already in a and b.


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Phnom Penh Post - First hybrid corn set to be released
First hybrid corn set to be released
Thou Vireak | Publication date 05 January 2021 | 09:27 ICT
Farmers transport bags of corn after harvesting from their farms. Heng Chivoan
Tue, 5 January 2021
Thou Vireak
Cambodia's first hybrid corn CHM01 will be released to the domestic market later this month in a bid to reduce dependence on imported varieties for animal feed, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon.
The move follows more than 200 performance trials in 2014-2020 and a December 29 memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the ministry and the Korean Project for International Agriculture Centre (KOPIA) in Cambodia, he said.
The MoU on technical cooperation on producing and promoting the CHM01 seeds in the Kingdom aims to strengthen the capacity of researchers and the development of additional hybrid corn varieties, he added.
The deal was penned by KOPIA in Cambodia director Kim Yong-hwan and Ngin Chhay, director-general of the ministry's General Directorate of Agriculture.
Under the MoU, the two sides will devise a model for the production and distribution of the seeds to farmers as well as public presentations and outreach in major provinces to boost understanding and acceptance.
Corn is classified as the third most important crop after rice and cassava, with the potential for export and domestic supply for animal feed, human food and other products.
The ministry registered CHM01 for public use in May last year.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Chhay said the MoU seeks to shore up the use and trade of the hybrid cultivar on the domestic market and curtail imports, noting that the deal's underlying project will run from January 2021 to December 2023.
"We will continue to experiment with new hybrid corn varieties to meet market demand and will expand seed production as much as possible to distribute to farmers, leading them to do business – selling them [the hybrids] to other farmers instead of imported seeds," Chhay said.
Under the MoU, he said, a directorate working group will prepare large-scale presentations on CHM01 across target key provinces and engage farmers through sundry activities to gain acceptance for public use.
He said the directorate's research has found that CHM01 is resistant to climate change and downy mildew (DM) and yields 8.60 tonnes per hectare, which is higher than imported hybrid varieties.
Ouk Makara, former director of the Cambodia Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), told The Post that CHM01 would provide a boon for the Kingdom's animal feed processing industry.
"KOPIA's project will help promote the commercial use of this variety of corn in our country," he said.
Phen Noeun, a red corn farmer in Battambang province's northwesternmost Sampov Loun district on nearly half a hectare, welcomed the new cultivar, which he expects will cost him less than the 1,000 baht ($33.50) he said he spends for 10kg of corn seed imported from Thailand each season.
"We will use our corn seeds when they sell here. I hope our corn seeds will be cheaper than imported ones," he said.
There are currently 18 domestic animal feed processing mills operating in Cambodia, with a total production capacity of more than 1.2 million tonnes per year, accounting for 56 per cent of the country's total supply, according to the director-general of the ministry's General Directorate of Animal Health and Production Tan Pannara.
And as of December 29, corn harvest area stood at 154,598ha with a total annual yield of 735,551 tonnes, according to a report from the directorate.
Contact author: Thou Vireak
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▪ John Lennon: Known as one of the founders of the influential rock 'n' roll group The Beatles, the musician and activist was shot to death in 1980. He was 40.
▪ Sally Ride: The physicist and astronaut was the first American woman in space in 1983. She died in 2012 at the age of 61.
▪ Fred Rogers: Known for the "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" children's television show, Rogers was also a puppeteer, producer and Presbyterian minister. He was 74 when he died in 2003.
Other notable designs pay tribute to the Year of the Dog in the Lunar New Year series and the 200th anniversary of Illinois' statehood.
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Day One: Best Supporting Actor, 1961
Why 1961? A few reasons: With all the talk of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake, I wanted to revisit the original. There were a number of classics I needed to catch up with, such as Judgment at Nuremberg and The Hustler. And it marked the release of Road to Eternity, the second chapter of Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition, so, you know, why not?
We start with the nominees for Best Supporting Actor, after the jump...
George Chakiris as Bernardo
first and only nomination; Golden Globe Winner for Best Supporting Actor
He gives you the leader, the lover, the brother, the fighter, raw masculinity through lithe choreography. The confusion on his face at the rumble, when their teen hoodlum antics draw real blood and consequences...oh, it's heartbreaking. Fresh no matter how many viewings.
Montgomery Clift as Rudolph Petersen
Judgment at Nuremberg
fourth and final nomination; BAFTA Award Nominee for Best Foreign Actor, Golden Globe Nominee for Best Supporting Actor
Clift's exhausting performance gets across the shame felt by this victim of sterilization, testifying in fits and starts - it's painful to watch, effective.
Peter Falk as Joy Boy
Pocketful of Miracles
second and final nomination
Walks off with the movie, a perfectly-calibrated comedic performance fitting perfectly into the sweet, screwball antics of the story without entirely sanding the gangster edges. We feel his absence whenever he's not on screen.
Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats
first and only nomination; Golden Globe Nominee for Best Supporting Actor; NBR Winner for Best Supporting Actor
Barely a word said - really, more a glorified cameo - but a presence. Light on his feet, elegant with a pool cue, and all the time with set, tired eyes, Gleason gives you the man's full resume just through his comportment.
George C. Scott as Bert Gordon
second of four nominations; Golden Globe Nominee for Best Supporting Actor
"You owe me MONEY!" His greatest accomplishment is capturing the clash between the practiced sophistication and the grasping desperation of the professional gambler - Gordon's a grubby little man who happens to wear a suit. Scott knows who the real loser is.
Also in the conversation:
Tony Randall, Lover Come Back (Golden Globe Nominee for Supporting Actor) - the best flavor in a shit sandwich. **
The Academy gave the award to George Chakiris - it was only the fourth award of the night, following the Documentary categories and Costume Design, but already West Side Story's second Oscar:
And you know what? I'm inclined to agree. My vote goes to:
GEORGE CHAKIRIS
Tomorrow, an international affair with the nominees for Best Original Screenplay: Russia's Ballad of a Soldier, Italy's La Dolce Vita and General della Rovere, and the USA's Lover Come Back and Splendor in the Grass.
Labels: 1961, Academy Awards, George C. Scott, George Chakiris, Jackie Gleason, Judgment at Nuremberg, Montgomery Clift, Oscars, Peter Falk, Pocketful of Miracles, The Hustler, West Side Story
Fritz said...
Quite surprised. :) I love WSS to death but I always considered Chakiris's win a big WTF...glad to see someone who supports this win though.
The 1961 Retro Hollmann Awards, Part One
Too-Early Oscar Predictions, 2019 Edition
1961: The Movies
Day Eleven: The Rest of the Nominees, 1961
Day Ten: Best Picture, 1961
Day Nine: Best Actress, 1961
Day Eight: Best Original Song, 1961
Day Seven: Best Adapted Screenplay, 1961
Day Six: Best Supporting Actress, 1961
Day Five: Best Director, 1961
Day Four: Best Actor, 1961
Day Three: Best Scores, 1961
Day Two: Best Original Screenplay, 1961


Polaroid Cube+ | Nerd Much?
Taking great video with any video camera is easy, sure, but posting your videos instantly to social networks can be a chore if you're not using the right camera. That's just one of reasons that you should check out the new Polaroid Cube+, the ultra-small lifestyle action video camera that allows you to instantly share your video footage (and photos) to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all of the other social media apps you're using. Of course, there are other aspects that make this action camera a great option.
It comes in at just 35 x 35 x 35mm, meaning it's great for travel, since it won't fill up your bags with unnecessary bulk. Most notably, you're able to stream your footage in real time with iOS and Android compatible WiFi capabilities. The Cube+ can record in Quad HD 1440p at 30 frames per second, providing impressive video capturing abilities without a hefty price tag. Thanks to its image stabilization, you can be on the move while recording and the resulting footage isn't shaky or blurry. There's also an optional waterproof case so that this little guy can be taken underwater. The Cube+ is available in black, blue or red for nearly $100 less than the GoPro HERO4 Session, making it our number one choice for action cameras this year.
For more cool nerd stuff to buy, stay tuned to Nerd Much for daily updates.


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The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Nafi' through a different chain of narrators. This version says Ibn 'Umar divorced a wife of his while she was menstruating pronouncing one divorce. He then narrated the rest of the tradition similar to the one narrated by Malik.


The 4-day trip will give you anunforgettable experience with interesting tourist sites in the central area of Vietnam. This trip route encompasses no less than three UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sitesand unforgetable wonderful destinations:The sixteenth century silk route trading port of Hoi An; My Son Valley, the sacred remains of the ancient Cham civilization, and the intact ancient imperial city of Hue; theblooming Danang city, recognized in 2016 by Smart Travel Asia as the most attractive festival destination of Asia and the world's top 10 destinations of relaxation. The area is also rich in natural history and culture and as such has tremendous long-term potential for the development of road tourism throughout the Indochina region. Join us for a lifetime experience.
Warmly welcome at Da Nang airport after you take a flight. Have lunch in a local sea food restaurant on one of the top 7 beautiful beaches in the world and then start to enjoy sightseeing of the beauty of East Vietnam Seabefore heading to the ancient town of Hoi An. Check in hotel.
Discover the historic town which used to be a prosperous seaport city during the 16th to 18th centuries. Hoi An is known as an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.Its sizeable community of foreign merchants resulted in a unique architectural style with Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese influences. Walking tour in alive mosoleum of Hoi An to visitChinese Assembly Hall & Temples, Old houses & Japanese Covered Pagoda Bridge, Old house of Tan Ki (Or Phung Hung); Fukian Assembly Hall; Sahuynh Cultural Museum (or Museum of Folk Cultures).., an unforgetable memory,will lure you into the life of seventeen century in reality.
After dinnner at local restaurant, free at leisure and over night in Hoi An.
· After Breakfast and Check out. Beginning the day with an excursion to My Son, Vietnam's most evocative Cham site recently recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.
· Have lunch with famous specialties in local restaurant.
· Then visitCamthanh village, a fisherman at Cam Thanh water coconut village Tour you will enjoy experiences from learning traditional fishing techniques and how to row unique Vietnamesebamboo basket boat, fishing and catch the crabs, coconut mussel while exploring the now tranquil coconut-palm flanked waterways of a past war.
Leaving Hoi An for Hue Imperial City, through Hai Van tunnel, en route, stop-over for photos at the top of Cloud - Ocean pass, overlooking the scenic Lang Co fishing village. Have dinner in a local restaurant.
Check in hotel . Overnight in Hue.
Breakfast and checkout, visit the intact Imperial Citadel - The grand palace of the last dynasty of Nguyen - a vast complex built in the early 19th century under the Nguyen Dynasty which was the last feudal regime in Vietnam during 1802 – 1945.
Shopping at Dong Ba market, we take a short time for local market, great fun here.
Afternoonvisit the beautiful Pagoda of Thien Mu with its impressive "Heavenly Lady" seven-story tower, one of the oldest ancient architectural structures for religious worship in Hue.
Then leave the UNESCO-designated World Heritage Hue to return to Da Nang city.
Dinner at a local restaurant. Free to explore Danang at night.


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Bill Would Allow Weapons In "Gun-Free Zones"
State lawmakers are considering a bill allowing people to carry concealed weapons into gun-free zones without being criminally liable. Ohio Public Radio' Andy Chow reports.
The Republican-sponsored bill would let concealed carry license holders take their guns into gun-free zones including restaurants, schools and courthouses as long as they're not caught. If they are caught and if they leave immediately they won't face criminal charges.
Luke Entelis, with Everytown for Gun Safety, says this would put the burden on business owners and school employees to confront the gun owner.
Entelis: "That may be a confrontational situation that someone would like to avoid so in that way it's absolutely a radical encroachment on private property rights of Ohioans."
Supporters say this taps into the public safety attributes of having a trained gun owner around.
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At Intersolar Europe 2017, Huawei took its first steps in the residential PV sector, introducing its FusionHome Smart Energy solution, with inverter capacities from 2 to 5 kW. After ramping up production of this solution in the second half of 2017, Huawei is now targeting the biggest residential solar markets, and aiming to be a key player in integrating the whole energy system.
Huawei's FusionHome residential inverter installed in a family home.
Since entering the PV inverter market in 2013, Huawei has more than proven its ability to grow quickly into a major presence, pushing prices down and driving the adoption of new technologies. Already the leader in global inverter shipments for the utility-scale segment by most analyst estimations, Huawei also offers products for the rapidly growing commercial and industrial space, and is now beefing up its presence in the residential sector.
The residential offering from Huawei also aims to focus on the customer, beginning with housing the product in a sleek, smoothly edged white box that would not look out of place in any modern home. The inverter is also 'storage ready' for those homeowners who want to add a battery; or want to have this functionality available for the future.
Like all of Huawei's PV solutions, the residential inverter communicates with users via the FusionHome-NetEco 1000S PV management system, allowing homeowners to quickly and simply monitor their PV system's performance and their energy production. This system allows for easy access via smartphone, with detailed energy yield reports, up to 20 years of data storage, and the option to receive fault alarms via email.
"Managing solar PV, storage, and consumption at home is a different challenge for us. This is why the new inverter is presented as part of our FusionHome Smart Energy Management System," the Huawei spokesperson adds. "Huawei's residential solutions focus more on what people feel and think, to provide the best experience of a home energy system.
Huawei is also rolling out optimizers as part of its residential package, which can help to counter the effects of shading by isolating the effects to just one module, rather than the whole system. They also allow for modules to be installed facing in different directions. Huawei's smart PV optimizer can be mounted to the frame in the warehouse for easy installation, is waterproof (IP68) for outdoor installation, and allows for rapid module voltage shutdown – an important feature given safety regulations for residential PV systems in leading markets including the U.S.
After the launch of residential products last year, Huawei initially maintained its focus on China and European markets. This year, however, launches are planned for other major residential markets, beginning with the U.S.: Huawei has announced a partnership in the U.S. with monitoring and data analytics firm Locus Energy – which will allow it to leverage data centers and other infrastructure within the country.


ArvinMeritor Inc. plans to cut the base salaries of its executives by 10 percent beginning Jan. 16 in response to a worsening economy.
CEO Charles "Chip" McClure, CFO Jeffrey Craig, President of Light Vehicle Systems Phil Martens as well as three other top executives at the suburban Detroit auto supplier will see their base salaries cut, according to a company form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
Trimming the executive salaries is part of a broader cost-cutting effort, the company said.
are intended by ArvinMeritor to be temporary, although there can be no assurances as to when the original salary rates will be reinstated," the company said in the filing.
Auto suppliers have been under increasing financial pressure as auto sales and parts orders have sunk to their lowest levels in decades.
ArvinMeritor said in late October it planned to cut about 450 salaried and about 800 hourly positions.
The automotive and commercial vehicle parts supplier posted a net loss of $153 million on revenue of $1.7 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter ending Sept. 28, more than doubling its net loss of $62 million on revenue of $1.6 billion during the same period a year ago.
ArvinMeritor ranks No. 26 on the Automotive News list of the top 100 global suppliers with worldwide sales to automakers of $6.40 billion in 2007.


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Isabela Island | Galapagos
The largest island in the Archipelago de Colon
At just over 100 kilometers long and 4,640 square kilometers in area, Isabela Island is the largest of all the Galapagos. In fact, it's over four times larger than second biggest Santa Cruz and bigger than all the other islands combined. However, it's not just the size of Isabela that makes it stand out, it's also renowned for its extraordinary beauty.
Named after the Queen of Spain, the island is home to no less than six volcanoes. A number of them are still active, which means that the island is still growing both in terms of its physical size as well as its reputation for being a nature lover's paradise. Situated right on the Equator, this is one of the most actively volcanic places on the planet. Making this a truly unique place to experience.
The island is often divided into two sections, with the northern half of the island famed for its wild and remote environment characterized by shallow waters. The southern part of the island casts a shadow over the north, with it's towering volcanoes and spewing fumaroles. To observe either part of the island from the other is to experience a strange and ethereal beauty.
The island feels very different from the others in the archipelago in terms of vegetation, largely thanks to the high amounts of volcanic activity. However, this dearth of vegetation is more than compensated for by the incredible volume and variety of animal life on Isabela. Discover an abundance of boobies, pelicans, flightless cormorants, as well as countless other bird species, making this a true bird-watching utopia.
The marine life is also special too. Look out for whales and dolphins just off the coast. Sharks, marine iguanas and the infamous turtles all call the waters around Isabela home too.
With so much wildlife, spectacular scenery and a range of activities to enjoy, Isabela Galapagos Island is a truly unique destination. Isabela Island has 11 visitor sites that can be visited on a Galapagos cruise or Island hopping tour
Isabela Island Tourist Information
Reaching the Island: You can reach Isabela Island by ferry, inter-island flight or on a liveaboard tour, there are also day tour options are available. Ferrys and flights arrive at Puerto Villamil. The western side of the island and the more remote visitor sites are only accesible on a liveaboard cruise
Landing: Both Dry and Wet Landing depending on visitor sites
Wildlife Highlights: Giant tortoises, Galapagos hawks, Galapagos penguins, land and marine iguanas, sea lions, flightless cormorant
Activity Highlights: Camping, Hiking, birdwatching, snorkeling and scuba diving.
Conditions: Isabela is the largest island in the Galapagos archipelago and has a variety of ecosystems ranging from lava fields, mangrove forests, beaches and dry and cloud forest.
Notes: Perhaps the best place to spot tropical penguins, it is possible to meet them face to face when snorkeling.
It is the largest island in the Galapagos cluster, made up of 5 volcanoes and a variety of marine and land visitor sites. It is one of the inhabited islands and has good hotel infrastructure. Hotel based visitors can enjoy many land based attractions close to Puerto Villamil including hikes to the caldera of the Sierra Negra volcano (second largest crater in the world). Cruise based passengers can reach the remoter areas of Tagus Cove, Punta Vicente Roca and other locations where wildlife is fearless and abundant.
Expedition Cruise itineraries that visit Isabela Island:
8 day Galapagos Islands cruise on board the Seaman Journey - West Isles route
7 day Isabela II yacht vacation to the west islands of the Galapagos archipelago
6 day Galapagos Islands luxury cruise to the west of the archipelago including Isabela island - Petrel Catamaran
5 day Expedition cruise ship vacation visiting the west side of Isabela island - M/V Galapagos Legend
4 day Galapagos liveaboard trip including Isabela and Rabida islands - Fragata yacht
Land based tours that visit Isabela Island:
9 day Galapagos land based tour including a stay on Isabela island
7 day Island hopping tour with hotel stays on Santa Cruz and Isabela island
6 day Galapagos hiking and snorkeling vacation - hotel based
5 day Galapagos tour including a hike to Sierra Negra volcano
Visitor Sites
- Punta Moreno
Blue-footed boobies, flightless cormorants, and marine iguanas found here
It is on the southwestern side of Isabela. From here there is a spectacular view of the Alcedo, Sierra Negra, and Cerro Azul volcanoes. Here there are a number of lagoons with different kinds of birds such as frigate birds, flamingos, and pelicans.
Punta Moreno has a desolate and pristine landscape of very impressive black lava flows with a unique system of brackish lagoons that are a magnet for wildlife. This newly opened visitors site offers Darwin's finches, Galapagos doves, penguins, blue-footed boobies, mockingbirds and flightless cormorants. There is extraordinary and unusual vegetation here.
- Tagus Cove
Hiking visit to explore Darwins lake and 19th-century pirate graffiti
Named after a British warship which anchored here in 1814, this cove is located to the west of the island and it is usual to take a panga trip below the high cliffs. Here there is an opportunity to see penguins as well as marine iguanas, Sally Lightfoot crabs, and sea lions. As with many sites, blue-footed boobies are in abundance.
After a dry landing, one can climb up the trail to oversee Darwin 's Lake. This is below the slopes of Darwin Volcano and is, surprisingly, a saltwater lake above sea level. It is said that the salt water is drawn up from below by adsorption through the porous volcanic rock of which this part of the island is formed.
The trail also has a monument to a sailor who was lost at sea and there is a large amount of graffiti carved into the rock sides of the cove. Originally the names of ships that called at the island it has, in later years, degenerated into painted graffiti which, despite attempts to stop it, is still occasionally inflicted upon the rocks.
- Tortuga Point
Visitor site named after the marine tortoises of Galapagos
Just north of Tagus Cove on the western side of Isabela Island is Punta Tortuga, a bathing beach surrounded by mangroves. Here the black sand beach and mangrove swamp were tectonically uplifted in 1975.
Galapagos Islands visitors who venture into the swamp have the opportunity to see the tool-using Mangrove Finch, endemic to Isabela and Fernandina. The Galapagos Islands Mangrove Finch holds twigs or spines in its beak and uses the tool to hunt for grubs. If the tool is a particularly useful one for the finch it will save it for future use.
Punta Tortuga offers a spectacular view of Fernandina's volcano. In 1825 the American ship Tabor anchored here at Galapagos Islands Banks Bay to watch an eruption. The close proximity to the eruption and the heat generated caused the boat's rigging to melt.
- Urbina Bay
Small bay where visitors can find several species of birds and reptiles
South from Tagus Cove and still on the Galapagos West coast is Urvina Bay. It is an easy wet landing on a gently sloping beach. This area is very interesting in that it is a perfect example of the geological activity of the islands. The waters of the bay are a good place to see turtles and rays and ashore is a short trail leading to a coral reef, which is evidence of an uplift from the sea which occurred in 1954.
From here it is easy to reach the Alcedo and Darwin volcanoes. You can see large colored land iguanas here and the possibility of seeing giant Galapagos turtles, flightless cormorants, blue-footed boobies, Galapagos penguins, pelicans, and marine iguanas is excellent.
- Villamil Port
Port town located on Isabela Island
Located on the southeastern coast of Isabela in the Galapagos Islands. Puerto Villamil is the main settlement areas on Isabela Island. A small peaceful town with a laid-back atmosphere offers quite a different experience than the tourist shops on Puerto Ayora.
Puerto Villamil and the neighboring settlement of Santo Tomas were founded in 1897 by Antonio Gil. Villamil began as the center of a lime production operation. The lime produced by burning coral found off Isabela. Santo Tomas served as a sulfur mine and coffee plantation. The ventures were only somewhat profitable due to water limitations in the Galapagos Islands.
Together with Sierra Negra volcano, Villamil and Santo Tomas now have a population of approximately 1000 people.
There are a variety of rooms available for visitors and equipment and supplies available for those climbing the nearby Sierra Negra Volcano.
Villamil is often considered to be the most beautiful site in the Galapagos with its long white sand, palm-lined beaches. Behind Villamil are several brackish water lagoons where Pink Flamingoes, Common Stilts, Whimbrels, White-Cheeked Pintails, Gallinules are usually seen. The lagoons are nesting areas between November – April. The beaches and lagoons near Villamil are home to the best migratory bird viewing in the Galapagos Islands.
- Sierra Negra Volcano
Galapagos Islands cruises visitor site
Sierra Negra is on the west side of the Galapagos Islands archipelago. Located in the southern part of Isabela Island between the volcanoes Alcedo and Cerro Azul. Sierra Negra's caldera at 6 miles x 5 miles is the largest in the Galapagos Islands and the second largest in the world after Ngoro Ngoro.
The journey up to the crater begins at Puerto Villamil. From town, you follow the road to the small town of Santo Tomas where it is possible to rent a horse. Whether on foot or by horse the trip takes between 3 – 5 hours. The landscape along the way is quite lovely. Once on top, there are a series of fumaroles inside small craters. The view during the "rainy season" is quite spectacular.
This trip is normally done as an overnight camping trip, allowing visitors to camp at the crater rim.
- Alcedo Vocano
Tortoise protection area at Alcedo volcano in the Galapagos
Since early explorers first encountered them on these remote and isolated islands, the Galapagos Tortoise has been the unofficial mascot of the islands.
"Alcedo volcano and its over 4000 Tortoises"
In fact, it was the nickname galápago given to the tortoises by the first Spanish explorers that gave the islands their name.
Able to live for over 100 years in the wild and around 170 years in captivity, these magnificent creatures seem to personify the wonder and unique nature of the islands.
This long association between the islands and the eponymous tortoise, mean that no trip to the Galapagos complete without a visit to see some of these age-defying reptiles, and the best place to observe them is around the Alcedo Volcano on Isabela Island, home to approximately 4000 tortoises.
The volcano, one of the youngest in the archipelago at around 313,000 years old, rises to a height of about 1100m. Its Caldera (the cauldron-like feature formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption) is around 7km and 6km wide and is lined with fumaroles.
Most of the fumaroles are gathered in a 1.2 km zone along the caldera wall. Pumping out steam, heat and natural gasses, these natural chimneys are a good indicator of the hydrothermal activity that lies beneath which, at the Alcedo Volcano is slowly moving east. As the only volcano in the Galapagos that has erupted rhyolite and basalt lava, the environment surrounding the volcano is fairly unique and provides are great habitat for the Galapagos Tortoise.
And although the population has suffered in the past from volcanic eruptions and hungry feral goats, the Alcedo Volcano remains one of the best places in the world to observe the Galapagos Tortoise, and to appreciate the impact that these colossal creatures have had on our understanding of evolution, biology and monumental longevity.
- Punta Albermarle
Shore excursion Galapagos cruise visitor site Punta Albermarle
The human history left its traces somewhere inside a small corner of the largest island in the Galapagos archipelago. A significant North American radar station during the times of the World War II, at what is today the Point Albemarle Visitor Site, situated at the northernmost point in the Isabela Island. The site was used to avert the Japanese vessels that arrived to capture or destroy the Panama Canal. Nowadays, what remains is a small and deteriorated structure of the historical past. The throbbing surf and the rough seas make it hard for you to do anything else apart from having a glimpse of the water barrels that were left behind.
A sheer magical place, this site sometimes gives you a feeling that time has stood by here for millions of year. It is also a must-visit site for anyone, who is yearning for a shore excursion in Galapagos in order to have a close encounter with endemic wildlife
The wildlife on this island offers the finest examples of the 'survival of the fittest' theory by Charles Darwin. There is also a mangrove zone between the Pahoehoe lava flows for creating channels and creeks. It acts as an ideal nesting site for some of the most exclusive species of the world like the flightless cormorant, and also some of the largest marine iguanas of the archipelago. The wildlife in this seldom-visited site appears completely indifferent to the presence of any visitor. However, you can still spot the view of cormorants building nests with all types of seaweeds, strands of marine algae and other materials nearby the shore. The marine iguanas climb down the rocks to swim, which shows how well they have adapted to the surroundings.
It is also home to Galapagos penguins, seabirds, and various other marine species. It is a marine visitor site for Galapagos naturalist cruises, although there is no landing site in this area it is perfect for traveling through by zodiac. It is really exciting to view the marine iguanas feeding on seaweed.
With a maximum depth of 100m, the Punta Albemarle is perfectly suitable for the advanced divers. The average visibility is around 10-20 meters and divers can access the waters by boat. The rocks are quick slippery and you have to exercise extreme caution while walking here. It is recommended to keep a distance of 10m from species like the flightless cormorants.
- Elizabeth Bay
Galapagos Iguana heaven at Elizabeth Bay on Isabela Island
Regarded as an ideal marine site, the Elizabeth Bay lies on the western-most coast of the Perry Isthmus. Situated at Isabela Island, this cruise visitor site boasts of vibrant mangroves that give a wonderful contrasting effect along with the lava. The site is created with the combination of two volcanoes, Alcedo and Sierra Negra, which is considered as the second largest and also one of the most active volcanos on the planet.
Galapagos Islands cruises visitor site – Elizabeth Bay
The Elizabeth Bay comprises of numerous species on land as well as underwater. As you enter, you can savor the sight of the Galapagos hawks soaring overhead while schools of dorados and pompanos can be seen swimming underwater.
The place is also home to Galapagos Iguana, flightless cormorants, gulls, masked boobies, and blue-footed boobies. It also brags about the biggest contingent of the Galapagos penguins inhabiting these islands. There are also brown noddies, frigates, and pelicans amongst other seabirds. You can also see and hear from several yellow warblers, finches, and mockingbirds in this paradise. Spotted eagle rays, mangrove snappers, and golden rays can also be viewed in the clear waters and low tides.
You will also enjoy the sight of the red mangrove cove moving past the green leaf and the red root breeding ground for fish. You can reach here by taking a Galapagos nature cruise and landing off your ship or yacht on a panga ride or a dingy on this site with no landing site available. The panga easily slides through a thin channel with lovely red and white mangroves on each side of it. The presence of the largest red mangrove or the Rhizophora Mangle along with other magnificent trees clearly shows that you are in the midst of the tropical Equatorial zone. This is probably the only site where ancient tropical trees co-exist with penguins.
The wonderful marine life and its clear waters make this site ideal for water activities like snorkeling and for spotting schools of sea lions, colorful fishes, and sharks.
Located on Isabela Island`s west shore, this is extremely interesting for observing marine life. You can motor or kayak past a few islands where you usually see Galapagos penguins. One of the best areas to take their photos. A colony of these magnificent birds inhabits a rocky islet at the entrance to Elizabeth Bay.
Let your boat or kayak drift through a small passage lined with mangroves you emerge into an enclosed cove. Turn your motor off and look in the sheltered waters for marine turtles, rays, flightless cormorants, sea lions, and, circling overhead, Galapagos hawks.
- Punta Garcia
Visitor site available to nature cruises in Galapagos
Located on the eastern coast, across the Isabela Channel from James Island. Previously the site was only accessible by panga, the Galapagos Islands park service now permits land visits.
Arriving at Punta Garcia begins with a dry landing in some rough current causing the panga and passengers to get wet. This is the only visitor site on Isabela Island reachable Galapagos Lava flow without sailing around the west coast.
Darwin Volcano looms above this barren landscape covered with Galapagos Islands Aa Lava. Just above the shoreline, Flightless Cormorants used to be seen breeding between March and September. The birds now seem to have deserted the site leaving an occasional Brown Pelican behind.
- Point Vicente Roca
Point Vicente Roca off Isabela: shore excursion in Galapagos
The sub-island Point Vicente Roca is located at the northern mouth of Isabela Island in the Galapagos archipelago. The Island looks like a giant sea-horse when looked from the sky and the Point Vicente Roca seems like situated on the nose of this giant seahorse. Hovering between the enchanting ocean currents, the Galapagos Islands are the most wonderful scenic landscapes that can be explored on earth. The Point Vicente Roca is situated in the western part of the Galapagos. The site brings surprises to its visitors by revealing some of the most amazing wildlife creatures. The sea, as well as the surrounding lands, features abundant flora and fauna. Some of the species are also believed to be endemic.
Galapagos Islands cruises visitor site – Point Vicente Roca
The Point Vicente Roca is a beautiful formation on Isabela island, which has been formed due to a massive volcanic eruption. The surface of the Island has a double-layered turquoise rock, which gives the information about the age of this bewitching place. One of the most interesting spots amongst all of the Galapagos cruise destinations is its provocative partially submerged cave. The cave becomes a center of interest for most of the visitors.
The marine life of the island is very diverse and abundant, because of the cold water currents that flow through the island. These currents bring along copious amounts of nutrients to nourish the magnificent sea creatures of that lurk in these waters. The beautiful and precarious cliffs catch the fancy of the seekers. There are various species of birds that can be found hanging on those cliffs.
The species of living creatures that can be spotted at this brilliant place are the Galapagos penguins, blue-footed boobies, terns, Nazca boobies, sea lions, sea turtles, rays and the pufferfish. Some of them are considered endemic. Voyagers really enjoy the sight of these millions of birds flying and performing other activities. At times, the explorers really get surprised when they discover such amazing and unique creatures. It is hard to believe your eyes when you have so many exquisite species to explore up close.
The Vicente Roca Point also makes a fine destination for all voyagers who have a thing for water sports. The location is stated as one of the fine destinations for water sports like snorkeling, diving and dinghy riding. The abundant species of the marine life makes this place a perfect fit for diving and snorkeling. Divers and snorkelers enjoy the view of thousands of fishes swimming in huge swarms and the marine plantations are just breathtaking. The landscape created by the cliffs has an endless charm and the magnificent marine life is just impossible to miss.
Since the place is a bunch of huge and vast cliffs, there is no space for landing. Although itineraries do not provide landing facilities here, they provide some of the best zodiac ride opportunities.
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WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE
The propaganda films that saved Walt Disney's cartoon empire
The Second World War offered Disney a lifeline.
Image: Reuters/Mike Blake
Darren Garrett
In 1941, Walt Disney's problems were piling up. His third animated film, Fantasia, was meant to "change the history of motion pictures"—but ended up nearly bankrupting the studio. The film came with a revolutionary surround-sound system—"Fantasound"—that needed to be installed in every theater it played in. But the film didn't make it to many theaters: the outbreak of war in Europe prevented its release in territories that ordinarily would have provided half its income.
The studio's previous film, Pinocchio, had also lost money, and growing discontent among animators added to Disney's woes. His lack of empathy didn't help: "If you're not progressing as you should," he told them, "instead of grumbling and growling, do something about it." The resulting animators' strike lasted five weeks.
But the war would also offer Disney a lifeline. The US government, recognizing the value of the studio's emotive visual storytelling techniques, contracted Disney to produce 32 animated shorts. The commissioned films were a mix of education and propaganda, and it was the latter to which the full weight of the creative studio of animators, artists, directors, and writers would be employed. They took animation beyond pure entertainment, using it as a medium to influence and persuade.
"The House of Tomorrow."
Image: Disney
Walt Disney was a pioneer throughout his career, looking to the future in both his medium and through the visions his artists created. But it was this wartime opportunity that brought Disney's role as a futurist into the public eye, using animation to show concepts like long-range bombers, journeys to Mars, and autonomous vehicles. These films were popular entertainment, but they also worked to sell Disney's vision of the future to the American public.
Disney wasn't the first to animate the future. Decades before The Jetsons premiered in 1962, speculation about our future lives was a fertile source for visual gags. Hollywood animators followed in the footsteps of 19th-century satirical cartoonists, lampooning contemporary obsessions with gadgets and technology.
Tex Avery, the animation director who helped found Looney Tunes, created a series of films satirizing technology, with titles like The House of Tomorrow and The Farm of Tomorrow. Running from 1949 to 1954, they mixed quick-fire visual gags with screwball voiceovers playing up to attitudes of the time. The three-screened television in The TV of Tomorrow has one for each family member: a cowboy show for the "kiddies," models in bathing suits for the "tired businessman" father, and a baking show for "the housewife." Add a few female driver and mother-in-law jokes, and you get a feel for the level of acceptable sexism at the time.
The inspiration for the original iPod? From "The TV of Tomorrow."
Among the spoofs you can see a few interesting futuristic concepts: a self-building prefabricated home, a live telecast from Mars, genetic modification, and virtual fishing on a TV set (a rare prediction that comes close to anticipating video games). There's even a user interface joke we'd find relatable today: "Remember those umpteen billion control knobs? Tomorrow's set, one simple knob"—and then the reveal, a spinning dial with hundreds of settings.
While Tex Avery's future was played for laughs, Chuck Jones, the director of many classic Bugs Bunny and Road Runner shorts, used animation to show Americans a better future for healthcare. In 1948, Britain had introduced the National Health Service, but in the US, the American Medical Association was fighting President Truman's attempt to push through a national health insurance program.
To educate Americans about the benefits of the proposed system, the government commissioned Warner Bros. and Chuck Jones to make So Much for So Little in 1949. The possibilities shown in the 10-minute short weren't as flashy as robotic tele-doctors or bloodless surgery with atomic lasers. It was a more complex sell—the creation of a new system, with potential benefits for society as a whole.
So Much for So Little follows the life of a baby, John E Jones, as he grows up, eventually rewinding back to infancy to remind the viewer that if baby John is to survive, he'll need proper healthcare. The film won an Academy Award in 1950 for Best Documentary Short Subject.
In 1946, Disney made their own public-health film, The Story of Menstruation. It was famous for its pioneering onscreen use of the word "vagina." But it was during the war that they honed disseminating complex information to the general public through animated entertainment.
As part of their government contract, Disney produced patriotic propaganda films aimed at getting Americans behind the war effort. Der Fuehrer's Face pushed war bonds; in The New Spirit, Donald Duck encouraged tax-paying. Education for Death took a more serious tone, depicting a young boy indoctrinated into Nazi ideology, with "no seed of laughter, hope, tolerance, or mercy."
"Der Fuehrer's Face."
In 1942, Walt Disney read Alexander P de Seversky's Victory Through Air Power, which made a case for the use of long-range bombers by American forces. Until this point, US war preparations had focused on things like battleship production over manufacturing aircraft. Convinced by the core message of the book, Disney funded the production of a film version himself, rushing it into production with Percival Pierce, the story director of Bambi.
The film mixes a history of flight with thrilling animated dog fights, as Seversky himself explains his theory. The message is hammered home—without much subtlety—with an image of an American eagle destroying an Axis octopus and the dark shadow it had spread across the globe. Victory Through Air Power was given a theatrical release by United Artists. But it was also seen by Winston Churchill, who then organized a screening for Franklin D Roosevelt, who in turn organized a screening for his Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Victory Through Air Power" from 1943.
After the war, Disney would continue to bring the creative weight of his animation studio to introduce, educate, and sell complex ideas to the public. And soon, he would be able to get his ideas about the future directly into American living rooms.
Most film studios saw the rise of television as a threat—but Walt Disney saw it as an opportunity. In 1954, Disney was trying to build his first theme park, Disneyland, and he needed a large amount of capital. Television was the answer: the ABC network offered a partnership in which they'd pay for the park while Disney provided a weekly hour-long anthology TV program. ABC got the coveted Disney brand; Disney got access to a new medium to promote his ideas.
Themed around the four areas of Disneyland, the program mixed history, nature, fairy tales, and stories about science and the near future, known as Tomorrowland. The first season featured Man in Space, a "science factual" pitch from ex-Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, two years before the launch of Sputnik. It was followed later that year by Man and the Moon, a detailed explanation of how cargo rockets would supply an orbiting space station, the launch pad for the 10-day journey to the moon.
"Man in Space," directed by Ward Kimball for Walt Disney's Disneyland, 1955.
Man in Space was watched by an estimated 42 million people, including members of the American and Soviet governments. A prominent Soviet space official wrote to the president of the International Astronautical Federation to request a copy of the film. "If the Disney Studios supplies us with one copy of this film on whatever terms it may put," he wrote, "it will make considerably for the cause of promoting our contact."
Further seasons reached deeper into the solar system. Mars and Beyond offered a look at how to get to Mars via atomic spaceship. Our Friend the Atom delivered a layman's guide to the atom, exploring the idea of atomic energy while acknowledging the potential destructive force of unleashing the atomic "genie."
A 1958 episode of Walt Disney's Disneyland, Magic Highway USA, covered the broad evolution and history of American motoring. But it was the last nine minutes, an animated segment called The Road Ahead, where Disney's Imagineers were let loose, creating "a realistic look at the road ahead and what tomorrow's motorist can expect in years to come."
President Eisenhower was advocating for stronger transport links across the US, especially to move troops and supplies in the event of an attack, a tangible fear in the developing Cold War. In 1956, he signed the Federal Aid Highway Act into law: 41,000 miles of new roads would be built, the largest public works project in American history at that point.
Partly funded by the Portland Cement Association, Magic Highway USA was Disney's attempt to try to shape the vision of these future roads. To bring his ideas to life, Disney used some of his animation studio's finest talent. It was directed by Ward Kimball, a Disney veteran and member of the core group of animators known affectionately as "Disney's Nine Old Men."
Kimball had previously worked on Snow White, Dumbo, and designed Jiminy Cricket for Pinocchio. His animation team included Charlie Downs and Jacques Rupp, who worked on the spaghetti sequence from Lady and the Tramp. The narrator of the sequence was Marvin Miller, no stranger to the future, as the voice of Robbie the Robot in 1956's Forbidden Planet.
The film itself uses the full might of the studio's storytelling skills: perfectly balanced compositions, stylistic design, and finely-tuned color. Multi-colored highway lanes help steer traffic, and heated roads keep them clear of treacherous ice and snow. Windshields double as radar screens to enable driving through dense fog, while dashboard displays show travel conditions and suggest safe speeds. When accidents do occur, airborne emergency vehicles fly in to save lives—and clear the roads quickly to ensure traffic starts moving again.
Tomorrow's roads are to be built with giant devices that lay out pavement like a red carpet; bridge-building machines cross valleys and rivers. Obstacles like mountains are easily navigated using our old friend atomic power to melt through the rock. Arthur Radebaugh depicted similar ideas in Closer Than We Think, including a version of "the new jungle-smashing LeTourneau 'tree crusher"' and an atomic reactor that would "fuse the earth into a rock-hard, glass-smoothed surface."
As the highways of the future make transport easier, the shape of cities change as well. Commuters travel into the city from their Monsanto Houses of the Future along suspended roads; self-driving vehicles separate in two, taking Father to work and parking directly by his office on the 30th floor, while Mother and Son go shopping along moving pedestrian walkways.
The Monsanto House of the Future.
Automation leaves more room for leisure time in your amphibious home on wheels. You use punch cards to program a destination, and if mountains are in your way (presumably the atomic tunneling machine hasn't made it to your area), vehicle-carrying elevators will take you straight up the cliff-face to continue your journey.
The complex logistics of distribution are reinvented as truck trains transport goods. Individual trucks separate at junctions to fill ships, deliver goods straight to the consumer, and even to load up cargo rockets on their launch pads.
A self-driving amphibious pleasure home from "Magic Highway USA."
Projecting further ahead, the car evolves, running on jet fuel and then atomic power; eventually, our floating cars will be powered by the sun. Air-conditioned tubes flow across the desert and connect domed undersea cities. Eventually the highway is superseded by vehicles traveling in new dimensions: sideways up buildings, or using gyroscopes to travel on top of or underneath elevated tubular roads.
The Road Ahead presented a dizzying array of concepts. But all that speculation tied into a core message: as Disney himself put it, the segment was a "Magic carpet to new hopes, new dreams, and a better way of life for the future."
A truck train flows into the city on elevated tracks, delivering produce straight to consumers in "Magic Highway USA."
Disney's enthusiasm and resources meant that some of these "new hopes and new dreams" could manifest themselves in reality. The "Monsanto House of the Future"—as seen in Magic Highway USA—was a real fiberglass and plastic structure in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, a collaboration between Monsanto's plastics division and architects and engineers from MIT.
The visions of the future in Disney's first television show feel less like whimsical speculation and more like part of a millionaire industrialist's grand plan for the world. As an expert visual storyteller, Disney was perfectly poised to use the medium to achieve maximum impact. He was moving towards his ultimate dream: to build the city of the future, the "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow," or EPCOT, a utopian example of a better way to live for the rest of the world.
Was Disney's futurism as high-minded as this—or just the playful sandbox of a man with near-bottomless funds? It's difficult to measure the influence of Disney's futuristic visions beyond pure entertainment value. Perhaps Victory Through Air Power influenced the course of the war; perhaps Man in Space helped to sell space exploration to the public.
It did inspire at least one member of its 42-million-person audience. In 1955, 13-year-old Stephen Bales sat down to watch Man and the Moon in his small rural farming community of Fremont, Iowa. "This show, probably more than anything else, influenced me to study aerospace engineering," he would later say. In July of 1969, Bales was sitting in mission control in Houston as the guidance officer for the Apollo 11 moon landing. He said of the experience, "It was the Walt Disney cartoon come to life."
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There are many things that need to be considered when rating and reviewing a book. The first and most important point is that the person who wrote the book you are about to dissect is a real person. This may be a person that you might meet someday, so choosing your words carefully might be in your best interest. Also, you have to remember that these authors put their hearts and souls into their work, so finding something positive to say is simply common courtesy. Here are a few tips when reviewing someone's novel.
· Start with something positive- It is always best to start with something optimistic, so that the author isn't caught off guard. Even if the book is terrible, there is always something kind you can find to say.
· The critique should be in the middle- Much like a sandwich, the critique is the meat of the review. Here is where you write what your true feelings are. Of course, it is always best to be polite, but even if you are not feeling especially courteous, this is where the criticism goes.
· End with something encouraging. Try to end with something constructive. If you don't recommend the book, it goes at the end, but there is always a way to leave the subject on a positive note.
1. Not recommended- One star should be for books you really did not like. This is a terrible read, one that you would not recommend to anyone.
2. Poor- Two stars are for books that did not catch the attention of the reader. The author of this book may not be skilled or perhaps the content just did not reach the reviewer.
3. Good- Three stars mean the book was good. The reviewer enjoyed it but there are still portions of the book that need improvement. This book may catch the attention of other readers even if it did not stimulate the reviewer.
4. Very good- Four stars mean that this was a very good book. This was a great read and satisfied the reviewer's thirst. There is something in a four star that kept the reader from thinking this book was outstanding, but four stars is an awesome read.
5. Outstanding!- Five stars means that this was a page turner. Not only will you recommend this book to everyone you talk to, but you loved it! Some reviewers are very stingy with their five stars and some give them away like candy. It is important, however, that the reviewer exercises consistency.
So, take some advice from an author who is also a reviewer, and use caution when reviewing someone's work. Always remember that behind the pen is a person.


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Canucks Hockey - Pass it to Bulis
The 2020 playoffs need to leave a lasting legacy for the Canucks both on and off the ice
What the Canucks learned on the ice will make them better players; what they learned off the ice should make them better people.
Daniel Wagner
Sep 9, 2020 10:33 AM
The Vancouver Canucks celebrate a shutout win by Thatcher Demko over the Vegas Golden Knights during the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. photo: Jason Franson, CP
In the midst of all the disappointment after their Game 7 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights, there was something else from the Vancouver Canucks: determination.
"We all said it in the room already," said captain Bo Horvat not long after the final horn. "We can't wait to get back next year."
The Canucks' young core got their first taste of playoff hockey this year and it turned bitter in their mouths in the final game. With a young team, there's always talk about needing to learn how to win in the playoffs, but the opposite might be even more important: learning what it feels like to lose in the playoffs.
As much as hockey players love to win, the best hockey players seem to hate to lose even more. Perhaps it's a cliche, but it appears to be a true one: great players are driven to get better because they hate the feeling of losing.
Getting to a Game 7 and losing in such heartbreaking fashion might be the best thing for the young Canucks, then, as that's a feeling they'll never want to repeat.
"Getting to Game 7, almost making the semi-finals, was an accomplishment," said head coach Travis Green, "but it's also a learning experience and should drive the hunger and the compete level, preparation, and gearing up for the years to come."
The Canucks' success was driven by their youth, from their 25-year-old captain to their superstar 20-year-old defenceman, Quinn Hughes. When their veteran goaltender that had carried them so far went down with an injury, their 24-year-old backup, Thatcher Demko, stepped in and played the best hockey of his life, making 123 saves on 125 shots over three starts to force Game 7.
"Playing a good team like that, playing in elimination games, high-pressure games, those are experiences that are invaluable for young guys like me," said Demko. "I'm really excited to get back and make a push next year."
The hope is that the team's youth will take that experience and come back even better in the future. There may be setbacks along the way, but the experience gained in these playoffs should help them deal with those setbacks.
"What our team has gone through, the mental part, the physical part, it'll help our group," said Green. "It'll help us next year, it'll help us in five years. There's not many times you go into a playoffs with 10 guys playing their first playoff game and you win a Stanley Cup."
The biggest hope, of course, is that the team's two youngest players, Hughes and Elias Pettersson, are at the beginning of an incredible upward trajectory.
"They were unbelievable for us all playoffs," said Horvat. "Those are the type of guys you win with, those are the type of guys you want on your team if you want to go far in the playoffs. And this is just their first playoff taste. The best is yet to come."
On the ice, the experience and the lessons learned should serve the Canucks well in the future as they look to build around their young core. The lessons the Canucks learned off the ice, however, are even more important.
What they learned on the ice will make them better players; what they learned off the ice should make them better people.
Midway through the second round of the playoffs, the Canucks and their opponents, the Vegas Golden Knights, came together with the rest of the players in the NHL to make a clear statement: Black lives matter and they stand in solidarity with Black athletes within hockey and other sports against racism and police brutality.
Head coach Travis Green stated it clearly when the protest occurred: the end goal isn't talk, but action.
"It's a message that will initiate awareness, a lot of positive discussions, hopefully the start to educating people in discussing racism, and ultimately, moving forward, to take action," said Green at the time. "Hopefully it's not just in sport either, but in society."
With some time to reflect, Green still wasn't sure what form that action would take, which is a question that needs to be asked again and again so that the protest within the playoff bubble doesn't end in a moment, but leads to a movement.
"I know our team has a desire and they will push forward to be better," said Green on Tuesday in his end-of-season media availability. "I think the first process is educating, having awareness, and then taking action, and I'm confident within our group and our organization that that will happen."
"As a coach," he added," you're going to support your players on actions that they take when it comes to racism."
Perhaps that's a sign that any movement towards ending systemic racism in hockey will have to start with the players — a grassroots movement rather than something top-down from the NHL. This summer's protests and two-day strike in the midst of the playoffs shows, at the very least, that the players now have a greater awareness of the issues and a greater willingness to listen to the struggles of BIPOC athletes within their sport.
Just like the experience of playing in the playoffs, that experience of solidarity with their fellow athletes is invaluable. If it doesn't lead to action and change, however, that experience is meaningless.
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"I have been dealing professionally with Cathy Holt for the last 12 months with both sales and purchases.Despite these recessionary times, I have been more than happy with my sales receipts upon disposal of properties via Cathy and her team. Additionally, in that time, Sutton Kersh Auctions liaised with my solicitors and also negotiated an acquisition that I was able to purchase for a very realistic price. Furthermore, only recently, I have given Cathy a further instruction for another disposal. She listens to you and your requirements, following your instructions totally with the additional virtues of integrity, punctuality and reliability thus making the whole process as simple,straightforward and expeditious as possible. If you want someone "on board", particularly in these tough times, don't hesitate to contact Cathy and her team. Professional from start to finish. Long may it continue."
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"The entire process of the sale of the house was made incredibly simple, from our first meeting when the property was valued to the actual Auction whereupon the property realised an excellent result. Being my first auction experience, and therefore being totally ignorant of such a process, I contacted and visited the office on several occasions and was always dealt with in a most courteous, friendly and efficient manner. I was unable to attend the sale but was kept fully informed throughout. It was altogether a pleasure to deal both with Mr Kersh and his staff. I would have no hesitation in recommending the services of Sutton Kersh."
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In my experience Sutton Kersh stand head and shoulders above their competitor Liverpool agents. The staff in the auction department are highly pro-active in managing the sale of a property, so that as a seller, you can let them get on with finding a buyer for your property without needing to worry about chasing them to check progress. With their market reputation and the number of commercial contacts they have across the Liverpool area and beyond, a seller can be confident that any property sold through them will be widely marketed to the best audience in order to ensure that the best possible price is achieved. The staff are a pleasure to deal with and the level of service is exceptionally high, and good value in comparison with other agents. Most importantly, Sutton Kersh provide their clients with sound advice and accurate marketing strategies which work.
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I have just had news that the sale of my property has now completed. I want to thank you for all your help and advice on this matter, for the excellent service and dedication that you showed, you really made everything run so smoothly and easily for me.
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Excellent service - Cathy really looked after me as did everybody in the office. You were always available to answer any questions I had and I'm very pleased with the service I received from start to finish.
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The service I received was very good and I am very happy with Sutton Kersh. I have no complaints at all and the customer service actually exceeded my expectations.
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Q: Google Speech API Returning Blank Json Response I want to use the google speech API V1 with Python.
So far I have got it to work using a google uri example and received content back. When I tried to modify the code to use a custom recorded audio file I get a response from google but it doesn't have any translated content.
I set up the request by:
"""Transcribe the given raw audio file asynchronously.
Args:
    audio_file: the raw audio file.
"""
audio_file = 'audioFiles/test.raw'

with open(audio_file, 'rb') as speech:
    speech_content = base64.b64encode(speech.read())

service = get_speech_service()
service_request = service.speech().asyncrecognize(
    body={
        'config': {
            'encoding': 'LINEAR16',
            'sampleRate': 16000,
            'languageCode': 'en-US',
        },
        'audio': {
            'content': speech_content.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
            }
        })
response = service_request.execute()

print(json.dumps(response))

name = response['name']

service = get_speech_service()
service_request = service.operations().get(name=name)

while True:
    # Get the long running operation with response.
    response = service_request.execute()

    if 'done' in response and response['done']:
        break
    else:
        # Give the server a few seconds to process.
        print('%s, waiting for results from job, %s' % (datetime.now().replace(second=0, microsecond=0), name))
        time.sleep(60)

print(json.dumps(response))

which gives me a response of:
kayl@kayl-Surface-Pro-3:~/audioConversion$ python speechToText.py
{"name": "527788331906219767"} 2017-03-30 20:10:00, waiting for results from job, 527788331906219767
{"response": {"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.speech.v1beta1.AsyncRecognizeResponse"},"done": true, "name": "527788331906219767", "metadata": {"lastUpdateTime": "2017-03-31T03:11:16.391628Z", "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.speech.v1beta1.AsyncRecognizeMetadata", "startTime": "2017-03-31T03:10:52.351004Z", "progressPercent": 100}}

Where I should be getting a response that is in the form of:
{"response": {"@type":"type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.speech.v1beta1.AsyncRecognizeResponse", "results":{...}}...

Using a raw audio file that is:

*

*16000hz sample rate, tried 41000hz as well

*16 bit Little Endian

*Signed

*65 seconds long

To record this audio I run:
arecord -f cd -d 65 -r 16000 -t raw test.raw

Any advice that could point me in the right direction would be very appreciated.

A: Your example is basically the same as this sample which is working for me with the test audio files.
Does your code work for you with the test sample, audio.raw? If so, it's most likely an encoding issue. I've had the most success with flac files and recording audio as recommended in the best practices. I have also used Audacity in the past to take some of the guesswork out of recording.
From Mac OSX, the following shell script worked for getting 65 seconds of audio:
  rec --channels=1 --bits=16 --rate=44100 audio.wav trim 0 65

I'm then using the following code to transcribe the audio:
from google.cloud import speech
speech_client = speech.Client()

with io.open(speech_file, 'rb') as audio_file:
    content = audio_file.read()
    audio_sample = speech_client.sample(
        content,
        source_uri=None,
        encoding='LINEAR16',
        sample_rate=44100)

operation = speech_client.speech_api.async_recognize(audio_sample)

retry_count = 100
while retry_count > 0 and not operation.complete:
    retry_count -= 1
    time.sleep(2)
    operation.poll()

if not operation.complete:
    print('Operation not complete and retry limit reached.')
    return

alternatives = operation.results
for alternative in alternatives:
    print('Transcript: {}'.format(alternative.transcript))

Note that in my example, I'm using the new client library that makes it easier to access the API.  This sample code is the starting point where I got my example from.

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Association Between Adiposity Indices and Blood Pressure is Stronger in Sarcopenic Obese Women
[ Vol. 15 , Issue. 2 ]
Maurilio Tiradentes Dutra*, Karla Gonçalves Martins, Diego Batista Vieira dos Reis, Alessandro de Oliveira Silva and Márcio Rabelo Mota Pages 161 - 166 ( 6 )
Background: Anthropometric indices are useful to identify excess weight and poor health outcomes. Previous research showed that some indices are correlated to blood pressure (BP) among adults. Yet, these associations are poorly characterized in women with sarcopenic obesity (SO). SO is characterized as the combination of sarcopenia and obesity and has been examined as an emerging cause of disorders and frailty.
Objective: The study aims to examine the association between anthropometric indices and BP in community-dwelling women with and without SO.
Method: 118 women (46.3 ± 15.6 years; 1.56 ± .07m; 66.9 ± 12.5kg) underwent BP and anthropometric assessments. Body weight, height, as well as waist (WC) and hip circumference were measured. Body mass index (BMI), body adiposity index (BAI), waist-to-hip (WHR) and waist-toheight (WHtR) ratio were calculated. SO was identified based on median values of percent body fat and muscle mass. Partial correlation was used to assess the association between adiposity indices and BP adopting age, presence of hypertension and use of antihypertensive medication as controlling variables. The significance level was set at P ≤ .05.
Results: systolic BP was significantly higher in subjects with SO (126.4 ± 14.1 vs 121.0 ± 11.6mmHg, P = .01). Correlations between anthropometric indices and systolic BP were generally higher in women with SO, reaching statistical significance for WC (r = .39, P < .05) and WHtR (r = .30, P < .05) when age was the controlling variable.
Conclusion: The association of adiposity indices and BP is stronger in subjects with SO when compared to those without SO.
Blood pressure, sarcopenia, obesity, hypertension, adiposity indices, sarcopenic obesity.
Campus Recanto das Emas, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brasilia, State Department of Education of the Federal District, Technical School of Health of Planaltina, Brasilia, State Department of Education of the Federal District, Technical School of Health of Planaltina, Brasilia, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences and CEUB Institute of Research and Development, University Center of Brasilia, Brasilia, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences and CEUB Institute of Research and Development, University Center of Brasilia, Brasilia


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Q: body-parser and multer reading multipart + json In my nodejs express app I am using body-parser to read json requests and multer for file upload. I always send some info along in a json as well, because based on that, I need to know if the user is allowed to upload or not. For testing I use this httpie command.
http -vf POST localhost:9090/upload file@test.txt id=638381

The request passes through several middlewares, but only the middlewares after multer have access to req.body.id before multer I get an empty json for req.body.
In the minimal example below, currently only gridfsUpload can see the id, but if I move multer up or down this changes.
var http = require('http');
var express = require('express')
var bodyParser  = require('body-parser');
var argv = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(2),{default:{port:8081}});
var multer  = require('multer');

var storage = multer.diskStorage({
  destination: function (req, file, cb) {
    dir = __dirname+ '/tmp/'

    cb(null, dir)
  },
})

var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true,limit:'10mb' }));
app.use(bodyParser.json({limit: '10mb'}));

app.use((req,res,next) => {

    console.log("body 1",req.body)
    console.log("head 1",req.header)
    next()

    })

var gridfsUpload = function(options){
    return function (req, res, next) {
    console.log("body 2",req.body)
    console.log("head 2",req.header)
        res.end()

    }
}

var checkrole_measurement = (options) => {
    return function (req, res, next) {

    console.log("body 3",req.body)
    console.log("head 3",req.header)
    next()

    }
}

app.post('/upload',

                checkrole_measurement(),
                multer({ storage: storage }).any(),
                gridfsUpload(),
        function(req,res,next){
                            ;
                }
);

var httpServer = http.createServer(app);
httpServer.listen(argv['port']);

I would really like to check on the id before multer because this way an otherwise unauthorized person can upload the file and later, when I can check that this should not have happened I need to delete it. It would be easier if I just didn't pass the request to multer in the first place.

A: There are two ways to do this:
1: Instead of passing ID in body pass them into the header. So by this way, you can easily parse id using req.headers
2: Instead of using multer as middleware you can use it as normal function.
   In this method body will parsed by body-parser and files will be uploaded by multer.
app.post('/upload',checkrole_measurement(),
               gridfsUpload(),
               function(req,res,next){
         multer({ storage: storage }).any() ;
});