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Universal Studios Hollywood Review :12 must do activities
Have you been to Universal Studios Hollywood?
The theme park was high on our list during our self drive holidays in the USA . If this is the first time you are visiting, don't miss these 10 must-do activities in Universal Studios Hollywood.
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1 Visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Having visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Osaka, we had to check out the original Wizarding World in Universal Studios Hollywood. The footprints of The Wizarding World is uncannily similar to that of Osaka. A bonus was that the crowds were relatively light and you need not wait hours to queue for rides compared to Osaka!
Get your Magic Wand
Get your own magic wand and start to create magic in Hogsmeade. There are plenty of spots where you can cast spells and see magic coming to life here.
Sit on the Harry Potter and Forbidden Journey Ride
This is one ride you should not miss. Soar above Hogwarts in this thrilling motion simulation adventure. When you are done, head over to the Flight of the Hippogriff, a child-friendly roller coaster ride.
Drink Butterbeer
The beer that even kids can enjoy. The Butterbeer has a distinctive taste that one could savour all day. Grab the Butterbeer cup as a souvenir to remember your experience.
Take a photo with Hogwarts Express
Choo choo, take a photo with the replica of Hogwarts Express. Bonus points if you can grab a photo with the conductor.
Watch Performances
Catch a performance by the students of Hogwarts while you are there. Performance may change accordingly to the season.
2 Experience all the rides
Universal Studios Hollywood has lesser rides compared to Universal Studios Japan or Universal Studios Singapore. The good thing is that queues are a whole lot shorter too. We managed to catch all the rides there in one day!
Notable rides are Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, Transformers The Ride, Simpson Ride and the upcoming Jurassic World ride.
Transformers The Ride
3 Take the Studio Tour
There are a lot of Studio Tour in Hollywood but nothing beats the Universal Studio Tour.
This one hour tour brings you around a working Universal Set. Here, you get to catch a glimpse of cars that starred in movies and special effect earthquake and flood setting. Have a battle with Jaws and be immerse in two superb 3D movies - King Kong 360 and Fast and Furious.
Bring your cameras along because you would not want to miss the lifelike props from War of the Worlds.
Hang on to your seat as you pass Bates Hotel. Beware of Norman Bates while you are there. He might be lurking around to take a stab at you!
Norman Bates @ Bates Hotel
4 Play Carnival Games
A mainstay at Universal Studios Hollywood is the carnival games. Play old school carnival games at Krustyland or Despicable me Carnival games. The prizes are official Universal theme. Games start from $5 per play.
Worth a shot trying your luck there!
5 Watch the live shows
Animal actors
Catch live shows as such Animal Actors and Waterworld at Universal Studios Hollywood. See how the movie comes alive on stage.
6 Take photos with Movie Characters
Bring your camera along. Universal Characters roam the park throughout the day. Catch them when you can!
7 Eat A Giant Donut
Lard Lad Doughnut
Get the Lard Lad Donut that is bigger than your face... It's delicious!
If the doughnut is not your cup of tea, there are over 20 eateries at USH for you to choose from.
8 Take Selfie around the park
The Park is picture-perfect for Selfies. Remember to bring the camera along!
9 Get discounted tickets from Klook
We got our tickets from Klook. Ticket price starts from USD 90 at Klook vs USD109 if you purchase directly from USH. For a family of 4, that is a whopping saving of USD 116, enough for a meal for 4 at USH.
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If you are heading to Universal Studios Hollywood during the peak period, we highly recommend you to get the Universal Studios Express and VIP Tickets. You would get to skip the queues for rides and have access to special VIP areas at Universal Studios Hollywood. It's worth the extra especially during peak period.
You can check the crowd calendar to see if you would be there during Peak Period.
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10 Grab Universal Studios Hollywood Merchandise
Do drop in at the main Universal Store to check out the merchandise. You might find a Universal Studios Hollywood exclusive that you fancy to bring it home.
11 Head to Universal Walk after the visit
Universal Studio Hollywood tends to close earlier than other theme parks. Nonetheless, you could continue the fun by visiting Universal Walk thereafter. It's a charming destination to shop and dine after the theme park.
12 Stay at Sheraton Universal Hotel
Sheraton Universal
If you can choose a hotel near Universal Studios Hollywood for your accommodation. Given LA notorious traffic condition, it would be best to choose a hotel where driving is unnecessary. Sheraton Universal Hotel has rooms that can cater to a family of 4. In addition, it provides shuttle service to Universal Studios Hollywood, so you can just leave your car at the hotel. Given that parking can be as high as $50 per car, you would save a pretty penny.
You can book your hotel here from booking.com
There you have it, 12 must-do activities when you are heading to Universal Studios Hollywood.
Universal Studios Fan 13 May 2019 at 06:16
Thank you for your great post, i highly recommend to do JURASSIC PARK... I loved it!
The Wacky Duo 19 May 2019 at 10:29
Too bad it was not opened when we were there!
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If there is snow outside, the children would still want to play on green fields, like in summer, and then Puzzle Carpet is the solution. Or maybe you prefer the beach-feeling on cold days – the sand ground invites to imaginary sun evenings.
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Q: Getting the reward points of a validator by account I am trying to find the reward points belonging to a validator. I started with this:
const activeEra = await api.query.staking.activeEra()

const rewardPoints = await api.query.staking.erasRewardPoints(activeEra.unwrap().index)
const individualRewardPoints = activeEraRewardPoints.individual

Now, it looks like the individualRewardPoints is some kind of map keyed by validator accounts, however I couldn't find how to get the specific item (I don't want to iterate over the map). Having a string, I tried these:
const alice = '5GrwvaEF5zXb26Fz9rcQpDWS57CtERHpNehXCPcNoHGKutQY'

individualRewardPoints.get(alice)
individualRewardPoints.get(Buffer.from(alice))

This looked promising but still doesn't work:
{ decodeAddress } = require ('@polkadot/keyring')
individualRewardPoints.get(decodeAddress(alice))

All of them return undefined. What's the way to get the reward points of a validator?

A: I bumped into this same challenge and unfortunately I did not find away around iterating through.
eraRewardPoints.individual is a BTreeMap<AccountId, RewardPoint>, so the key should be an AccountId. Under the hood this BTreeMap is represented by a JS Map and in TS we see that it has AccountId as its key type. To create that type we could do api.createType('AccountId', alice). However, for me creating the type and using it to key in did not work. My guess is that it creates a new object that JS does not recognize as the same AccountId object as in the map.
So my solution was:
for (const [id, points] of eraRewardPoints.individual.entries()) {
  if (id.toString() === validatorId) {
    return points;
  }
}

You can find the exact code in substrate-api-sidecar, which has an endpoint (accounts/{accountId}/staking-payouts) that gives the payout for an address using arithmetic done in Rust: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-api-sidecar/blob/ee0a0488bf8100a42e713fc287f08d72394677b9/src/services/accounts/AccountsStakingPayoutsService.ts#L301

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Let me give a bit of background here, the dog is a confident male staffie that has reactiveness towards other dogs. His original fosters had started a program with us to reintroduce dogs in a controlled, non-threatening and calm way and had come very far with his progress. He went from lunging at other dogs to showing avoidance on walks, he went from not allowing a dog near his back end to ignoring a greet from other dogs, and he had been showing such a relaxed state that he would lie down during our reactive class. Sounds awesome right? A dog that was finally realizing he did not have to protect himself, protect his handler and that other dogs were ok to be around.
That is where it stopped. Why? During this process, he had been invited to do a free training session with another trainer. Apparently the new fad out there is to muzzle the reactive dog and put them in a pen with a couple of others. Now not only does this make me sick for all the dogs, but it makes me sick to think the "let the dogs to work it out" state of mind is still out there. I mean, really?
First of all when you muzzle a dog, you immediately put them into a defense state of mind, then to put that defenseless dog into an open pen with free roaming dogs-off leash? What are you thinking? This dog that they attempted this with is very confident that he can protect himself and that he has to handle situations himself; which is why he has such an issue. He lacks the confidence in humans to be able to control and protect him in these situations. So by doing this method, my dear fur friend was once again shown that humans will not protect him, will not control the dogs around him, and those humans will put him in a situation that may harm him.
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