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Optical Network Alliance Established to Promote Industry Prosperity Through Cross-Domain Cooperation
[Beijing, China, October 22, 2019] The All-Optical Campus Industry Summit in Beijing focusing on the theme "World of Optical Connectivity, Future of Smart Convergence" has announced the launch of the Optical Network Alliance (ONA).
Founding members of the organization include: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, Digital China Group Co., Ltd., and China Overseas Property Holdings Limited. The summit officially announced the Alliance's constitution and organizational structure, appointed the director-general, deputy-director, expert committee, and secretary-general of the Alliance, and determined the objectives and work plans of the Alliance. Huawei was appointed the first director-general unit of the Alliance.
The need for the new alliance was driven by emerging technologies and new applications such as 5G, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Big Data, enterprises' digital transformation is accelerating. Compared with traditional networks, the next-generation all-optical network has the following advantages: multi-service integrated transport, energy conservation, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, security, and reliability. It can meet the requirements for the high bandwidth and low latency of emerging services such as ultra-HD video, i-VR/AR, cloud service, mobile office, and 5G collaboration in the Internet of Everything (IoE) cloud era.
The next-generation all-optical network is widely used in scenarios such as education, safe city, office, hotel, and transportation. To popularize optical fiber networks in enterprises and meet the requirements of enterprises in different scenarios, the all-optical network construction faces huge challenges. The ONA's aims to help meet those growing demands. As an international communication and cooperation platform, the Alliance aims to gather all the parties in the industry, establish and promote industry standards, explore new models and mechanisms, promote in-depth collaboration between technologies and industry development, build an ecosystem, cultivate industry talents, and achieve long-term and healthy development of the all-optical network industry.
The conference announced the Alliance's constitution, organizational structure, responsibilities, work objectives, and short-term plans. In addition to Huawei being named as the Alliance's first director-general unit, Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, Digital China Group Co., Ltd., and China Overseas Property Holdings Limited were appointed the deputy-director units. Mr. Chen Zeyu, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise Transmission & Access domain, was appointed the Director-General of the ONA. The Alliance established a Commission of Experts and a Secretariat to provide consultant support and operation management. In addition, it set up four work groups: a requirement technology team, an engineering technology standards team, a marketing cooperation team, and an industry promotion team. They are individually responsible for promoting industry standards and technology cooperation, expanding Alliance partners, and building a talent cultivation and certification platform.
Experts from the CEESTA and Alliance founding members, including Huawei, Nokia, YOFC, Digital China, and China Overseas Property Holdings, discussed the trends and development prospects of the all-optical network industry, shared the all-optical campus solution, key industry cases, engineering technology implementation standards, industry expansion experience, and practices in scenarios such as smart buildings. The group also explored how to solve industry's weaknesses in key technologies, standards, business, and ecosystem during the application and promotion of all-optical networks in the industry to accelerate large-scale development of the industry.
Mr. Jin Zhiguo, President of Huawei Enterprise Transmission & Access domain, said: "With the popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the commercial deployment of 5G around the world, green all-optical networks will develop rapidly as transport networks. Everyone will have a role in the development of the all-optical industry. Huawei is glad to join hands with the Alliance members to share new ideas during exchanges, to exhibit Huawei's experience in the optical field, seize historic opportunities, and lead the prosperity and development of the all-optical network industry."
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Commercial fishing vessels are seen on the Kenai River on July 10, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
Borough to ask feds for fishery disaster declaration
The year saw fewer and smaller fish, as well as lower-priced fish
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:32pm
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to ask the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to declare a sockeye salmon fisheries failure and economic disaster in the Upper Subdistrict of the Central District of Cook Inlet in response to a year that saw fewer and smaller fish, as well as lower-priced fish.
According to a memo to the assembly from Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce, the borough has not received a response from the state regarding a request from the assembly last month for Gov. Mike Dunleavy to declare an economic disaster in the Upper Cook Inlet fisheries region.
The same memo says that a provision in the Magnuson-Stevens Act authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to determine whether or not there is a commercial fishery failure "due to a fishery resource disaster as a result of natural causes" or "man-made causes beyond the control of fishery managers to mitigate," among others.
Such requests can be made by a state governor or from representatives of an "affected fishing community," which the borough asserts it is.
"This would be based on the considerably low returns, harvests, and reduced size of Sockeye salmon in the commercial drift and set net gillnet commercial salmon fishing industry as a result of the devastating 2020 UCI sockeye salmon fishery and to implement a recovery plan to benefit the commercial drift and set gillnet fishery industry in the borough," the memo reads.
According to the resolution, 959,802 fish were commercially harvested in the 2020 commercial salmon fishery for the Upper Subdivision of the Central District of Cook Inlet, which is the lowest harvest for the region since 1971. Additionally, it is about 67% less than the 10-year average of over 2.9 million fish.
Additionally, the weight at age of the 2020 individual sockeye salmon, the most valuable of the five species of Pacific salmon in Upper Cook Inlet, was one pound less, on average, than 10 years ago. The combined drift and set net commercial sockeye harvest of 579,068 fish were also worth about 45% less than the previous 10-year average ex-vessel value.
"These fisherman were getting hammered in three ways right there: one, they didn't catch very many of the primary target species, sockeye; of those sockeye that they did catch they were smaller than they normally are; and then the price went to pot," said assembly member Brent Johnson, who sponsored the legislation along with Pierce.
Assembly member Jesse Bjorkman put some of the blame on how the fishery is managed, specifically citing the siphoning of fish away from the peninsula, which he said has harmed the local economy.
"Commercial fisheries had the worst year they've had in decades … and that's not OK," Bjorkman said. "The Upper Cook Inlet sockeye salmon fishery, as well as the mixed stock fishery in general can support multiple user groups if we choose to support them."
Copies of the resolution were sent to U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, U.S. Rep. Don Young and Dunleavy in addition to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
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Farmers in these counties now have the opportunity to revise their ARC/Price Loss Coverage (PLC) selection for all the farms in the affected counties. If a producer does not contact the FSA office prior to the May 29, 2015, deadline, their original program selection will remain in effect. However, farmers in this instance should understand the yields used in the program may be different than when they originally signed up. If a farmer is unclear of these yield changes, they should be in contact with their county FSA office prior to the deadline. For more details check the Texas Corn Producers website.


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Sturetevant falls is located in the San Gabriel mountain range in Los Angeles County. This place is known for it's seasonal waterfall, terrific feel of being away from the city, and being able to immerse yourself into nature. It is a great spot for families, friends, and dogs to get their hike on!
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Hosemann: Give, but give wisely
Bill Moak
A few weeks back, national charity watchdog groups warned donors to think carefully when choosing charities to support with their hard-earned dollars. And now that the holiday giving season is upon us, Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is taking the message directly to donors: Be careful.
"Mississippians are some of the most generous givers in the nation," Hosemann noted in a news release on Monday. "Over 1,300 Mississippi charities raised over $1 Billion in our state last year. That number does not include contributions to religious institutions. We want everyone donating this holiday season to feel certain their money is going to a good cause."
The Magnolia State's reputation for being generous is well-documented, and isn't a new phenomenon. It was recently reinforced: in October, the highly-respected Chronicle of Philanthropy published its annual index of states' giving habits, noting that Mississippi is second only to Utah in per-capita giving to charity (followed closely by our nearby states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina). To get their numbers, the organization analyzed data from tax returns, weighing adjusted gross income against reported donations.
Those numbers are impressive, especially considering that Mississippians live in the state with the smallest amounts to give. It says a lot about the people here, and what they consider important. And as a Mississippian, it's something to be proud of when most nationwide rankings only bring bad news.
You and I know it's true. Just look at how communities will rally to the cause when a firefighter or police officer is injured, or word gets out that a family's finances have been consumed by their child's life-threatening illness, or a soldier's family gets the devastating news that they'll have to continue on without a dad. People want to help.
Unfortunately, Mississippians' reputation for generosity is also known to people looking to cash in, or those who don't know what they're doing. Every year, people give untold millions that ultimately go to line the pockets of scammers, or to poorly-run charities. Many well-meaning people jump into charity management without realizing that it's a big and complicated job. Every time you see one of those collection jars with a picture of a sick child or the name of some cause,someone is collecting that money and spending it. Donors, who give from the heart, usually have no way of knowing what the money is actually being used for; it could go toward feeding the homeless on the streets of Jackson or buying a vacation home in Fiji.
And donors are confused, too. The famous "overhead" rule (generally, it states that no less than 65 percent of donated dollars should go to the actual cause) is one factor to consider. But many experts now warn that over-reliance on that one number can actually mislead donors into thinking the charity is doing a good job, when they're actually doing very little to move the needle on their particular cause.
Fortunately, Mississippi law requires charities to register with Hosemann if they want to solicit funds in Mississippi. Each year, Hosemann's office publishes a Report on Charitable Organizations in Mississippi.
The report outlines the financial information of charities registered in the State, in addition to the percentage of charitable funds actually spent by a charity for its charitable purpose.
"Mississippians work hard for the money they earn. It is imperative you Check your Charity before you give this holiday season," Hosemann noted.
Even armed with the facts, though, it's hard to know whether you're making a good decision when you give; there's got to be faith involved. I remember a lesson I learned many years ago which helps to illustrate that point: I was talking one evening in the parking lot of our church with the Rev. Steve Stone, one of the pastors from our church. A wreck of car pulled up, filling the air with exhaust fumes. A haggard man got out. "Mister, I've run out of money and need some money for gas," he said to Steve. Without hesitation, Steve reached into his pocket and pulled out several bills, handing it to the man. "This is all I've got on me now, but hope it will help." With a smile and a nod, the man pocketed the money and drove away. "How do you know he wasn't just looking for money to buy a drink?" asked the much-younger and more cynical me. "I don't," Steve replied with calm wisdom. "But that's not up to me. I just have to obey and let God handle the rest."
Perhaps that's why Mississippians are near the top of the charity index every year; they're giving from the heart, and from deeper motivations, and it's one of the reasons I love this place so much.


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Also, I hope you're properly recycling those "corkscrew lightbulbs," but I bet you're not. So thanks for the extra mercury in the environment.
It's everywhere now. I love pizza, but I don't buy it because the box is made from recycled materials. I don't need to know that. Just make the box and sell me the pizza.
Wow. You are complaining — literally sitting down and writing a statement meant to be published under the title of your office — because a pizza box says it is made from recycled materials? That bothers you in some way? Honestly??!
Here's a picture of a Papa John's pizza box. Nowhere on the part of the box that you'll actually look at does it mention recycled content. Same for Domino's. And the same for the boxes that come from your house o' pies. So hardly ever seeing the recycled content logo on a pizza box is your example for how "go green" is "everywhere." Well argued, Melvin B. Tolson.
When all of these people selling us on solar panels start putting them on their own houses, I might start taking them seriously.
"When all of these people who think the Earth is round start sailing over the horizon and coming back, I might start taking them seriously." –Random Idiot in Greece, 200 B.C.
(Also, how do you know that they don't use them on their own homes, provided they live in an area where solar power is practical for them? Cite your source, please.)
The movement to dictate new standards to everyone is not about "saving the earth". I'm all for environmental responsibility but a polar bear is not going to die because I drive an SUV. Let's get real.
The intellectual dishonesty (or, if you're less charitable, abject stupidity) if this statement is staggering. No, if ONLY YOU are driving an SUV (or a tank or a Hummer that runs only on the livers of Leopard Seals), there will not be an appreciable impact on the environment. But when MANY PEOPLE are doing it, it becomes an issue. I don't feel like I should even have to explain that.
This movement is about making money and more and more it's about intruding in our lives and telling us what to do. That has to stop.
To briefly recap the logic of the GOP: telling women what they can do with their bodies is a-ok; having some ads and billboards tell you about recycled cardboard content and CLFs is overbearing fascism of the highest order.
It's killing jobs and restricting people's freedom.
No, it's not. You're lying because hyperbolic bullshit is better than reality when facts and logic aren't on your side.
We've been told we should turn corn (necessary for our food supply) into fuel. Now corn prices are leading to inflation in other commodities, driving up prices for consumers who are already stretched thin by poor economic conditions.
Ignoring how detrimental the rise in the importance of corn in modern food has been for American health, especially in terms of feeding corn to animals that didn't previously eat corn, this is still absurd in the context of Darr's rant for one simple reason: the rise in the use of ethanol in gas happened under George W. Bush. This includes the Energy Independence & Security Act, signed by Bush in 2007, that mandated the use of 15 billion gallons of ethanol by 2015.
Backing up a bit, the legal changes that led to the use of ethanol came about in the early 1990s under George H.W. Bush. In changes to the Clean Air Act in 1990, oxygenated gasoline was now required to help the fuel burn more completely in combustion. One of the favored oxygenates was methyl tert-butyl ether, or MTBE. Problem was, MTBE started showing up in drinking water and other run-off, and ethanol was viewed as a safer alternative to MTBE, since it had been a common auto-fuel additive from the late 1800s to the 1940s, and had only fallen out of favor because the price of regular gas was so ridiculously low until the 1970s.
Subsidized green ventures have been tried in other countries and have failed, yet we keep being told that we need to go all in and spend taxpayer dollars on an industry that can't possibly pay for itself.
You're not even trying now. You're just throwing out absurd, nearly meaningless statements that have no basis in fact. The number of "subsidized green ventures" that have failed in other countries is dwarfed by the number that have succeeded. As this Economist article explains in details that Mark Darr likely will never comprehend, the problem internationally is not subsidies for green ventures; it's subsidies for environmentally and economically harmful activities that serve to either preclude innovation and investment in green technologies or lower the cost of the harmful technologies to the point that green ventures cannot compete.
Implicit in the Economist article: Mark Darr's entire premise is absurd, meritless, and marks him as an idiot or a liar. He can choose which label he prefers.
New standards are being imposed for the construction of "green buildings" and they are having an adverse effect on the market availability of Arkansas forest products. Energy efficiency is smart when it's done cost effectively and using natural materials is great, but not when it restricts the use of Arkansas lumber in favor of imported wood from Russia, China, and Brazil, which is what is happening. Of course, it's not the first time we've seen a government regulation that lags behind market realities and defies common sense. Mandates that discriminate against US forestry producers and landowners and threaten American jobs should be called into question and ultimately overturned.
I'm curious as to what "new standards" Darr is referring. My guess is that he's referencing the recent changes promulgated by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which still do not recognize the two largest forest certification standards in North America, the American Tree Farm System and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, for purposes of accumulating LEED points for tax credits. While that's regrettable, and probably does hamper the use of wood relative to other materials, it's hardly a "new standard;" it has been that way for years. In addition, to the extent Darr actually knows what the knew standards are and is really complaining about them, USGBC delayed a vote on them until June of 2013. So, in the meantime, builders and tree farmers operate under the old standards, and Darr's argument is irrelevant.
We have a $500,000 solar panel at a state building in Little Rock that was paid for with "stimulus" money.
Protip: Using ironic quotation marks around "stimulus," as if you're disputing that it was stimulative for the economy, immediate brands you as a partisan hack (or worse). Any arguments that the stimulus didn't work that do not include "as well as it could have, because it was too small" are absolutely, unquestionably incorrect.
No energy has been saved with this as it has never even been turned on, yet we have been told that it was "100% worth the money."
And why hasn't it been turned on? Not because the panels wouldn't provide the 3% of Arkansas Tech's electrical needs, as was expected when the panels were purchased, but because of a legal pissing match between Ark. Tech and Entergy involving indemnification of Entergy in all contracts with Ark. Tech, which is unconstitutional. It has nothing — literally not one damned thing — to do with whether the solar panel works, whether it was worth the cost, or whether it would provide the requisite electricity. Not that facts have stopped Darr thus far in his screed.
We are told that electric cars are the future, yet they still need coal-powered plants to give them electricity and no extension cord is possibly long enough to recharge you if your car dies in the middle of nowhere. What then?
The stupidity of this statement is mind-boggling. They don't "still need coal-powered plants to give them electricity;" they need electricity. It doesn't have to come from coal-powered plants; it can come from any kind of plant. Just because the majority of those plants are coal right now — a separate issue that needs to be addressed — doesn't mean that electric cars are somehow a bad idea. Additionally, simply because electric cars can't go non-stop across the vast open nothingness of, say, Montana, does not mean that they are not a good idea; your gas-powered car can't go non-stop without fuel either. Not to mention, the majority of electric cars are actually hybrids, combining gas and electric for maximum range. Plus high-tech companies like Fisker are combining solar panels and super-efficient energy recapture technologies in the brakes and engines to charge the batteries almost continually. But, hey, if those cars can't drive 5000 miles without any gas right this very second, we should totally abandon them for SUVs. Makes total sense. (Note: it does not make total sense.)
Global warming advocates act as if they can control the weather if we just pass the type of legislation they want.
No, they don't. But, hey, nice to see you brought your strawman to the party.
Does this make sense to anyone? It makes them sound like some cartoon villain with a secret weather machine.
It doesn't make sense in the same way that it wouldn't make sense for me to say "global warming deniers act like passing environmental legislation will turn everyone gay." Attributing absurd positions to the other side in a debate is intellectual hackery at its finest!
President Obama said if we elected him the oceans would stop rising. It is the height of audacity for a politician to think he can control the oceans.
No, he didn't. Upon accepting the nomination in 2008, he said (paraphrasing), that if we are willing to work for it and fight for it, people will look back generations from now and see 2008 as the point where "the rise of the oceans began to slow." So, no, he didn't say "stop rising," nor did he pretend like he would instantly make the rise slow; he said that, if we elected him over Sen. John McCain, one of the very long-term results of having a Democrat as President would be a slowing in climate change. Funny how different that is from the lie that you and Mitt Romney continue to spread.
My point is that we have been sold a lot of misinformation and messaging that is not based in reality.
Irony, thy name is Mark Darr.
The reality of it is that it is costing us way too much money and causing way too many people to lose their jobs. The government is paying for "green projects" that aren't economical and companies are now cutting back or going out of business and real Arkansans are hurting as a result.
Nowhere in this statement have you established that it is "costing us way too much money," nor have you shown that it is costing people their jobs. You've simply made a number of ridiculous, misleading, or incorrect assertions, then tacked on the conclusion that you want people to parrot. "OMG, it's costin' us money and takin' our jobs!"
Here's a little tip, however, in cause you want to take a second crack at making your argument: bitching about compact light bulbs and labels on pizza boxes does not establish that there's anything wrong with encouraging environmentalism among Americans; it just marks you as a run-of-the-mill Republican idiot who cares more about pleasing oil/gas industries than about what happens to Earth in the coming years and decades.
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Detectives investigating an arson attack on a six-storey block of flats in Barne Barton which put dozens of lives at risk have admitted they have closed the case with no arrests.
On the morning of September 5 the block at Savage Road was evacuated as four fire crews from Camels Head, Greenbank and Crownhill tackled the blaze.
Smoke could be seen billowing from the building from the naval base in Devonport. A senior police officer described the fire as "a major incident" after five residents were rescued by firefighters and treated by paramedics. Two people suffered minor smoke inhalation and had to be taken to Derriford Hospital.
The fire caused extensive damage to the communal central stairwell as well as smoke damage to the 12 flats within the Sanctuary Housing-maintained block. As a result, eleven families, around 30 residents, had to be placed in temporary accommodation. It is understood none of them have been able to return to their homes.
Initial investigations suggested there were two seats of fire, set sometime between 10.30am and 11am. Witnesses later claimed mattresses left on the ground floor of the communal stairwell may even have been used to fuel the fire.
Investigators scoured the area for clues and CCTV , at one stage seizing footage take from hundreds of yards away in the hope that it would assist with the hunt for the culprits, but to no avail.
Despite numerous appeals for information from the public, along with door-to-door inquiries, forensic examination of the scene and interviews with potential suspects, the case ran into a brick wall.
A police spokesman said detectives: "conducted a lengthy and thorough investigation, following up all leads".
They added: "This investigation included numerous hours of CCTV analysis, dozens of witness enquiries, suspect interviews, as well as scenes of crime investigation and liaison with Devon Fire and Rescue Service.
" Unfortunately due to a lack of evidence at the current time the investigation will be filed and no prosecutions will result.
"Our Local Policing team will continue to make themselves available to the Barne Barton Community and are well aware of the massive impact that this incident had on the people of the area, and to the city of Plymouth as a whole.
"Even though our investigation has come to a natural conclusion at this time, we will continue to investigate any significant information or intelligence that is reported to us in relation to this incident."
A spokesperson for Sanctuary Housing said: "All 11 households affected by this sickening criminal act remain in other accommodation while specialist contractors repair their building.
If anyone does have information about the arson incident, contact police via 101@dc.police.uk or by phone on 101, quoting crime reference CR/81664/18.
Information can still be given to Crimestoppers anonymously via 0800 555111 or www.crimestoppers-uk.org.


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Q: Typescript force generic type to be an object I am trying to create a generic function with generic types that must be of a particular object type, not just any object. Specifically, I am trying to create a wrapper around the AWS Lambda handler function with well defined types for the request and response headers bodies.
Here is the best solution I have been able to find so far:
import { APIGatewayProxyEvent, APIGatewayProxyResult, Context } from 'aws-lambda';

export type AsyncHandler = (event: APIGatewayProxyEvent, context: Context) => Promise<APIGatewayProxyResult>;

interface EmptyInterface {
    _?: string;
}

export type RequestQueryParameters = EmptyInterface;
export type RequestHeaders = EmptyInterface;
export type RequestBody = EmptyInterface;

export interface Request<Q extends RequestQueryParameters, H extends RequestHeaders, B extends RequestBody> {
    queryParameters: Q;
    headers: H;
    body?: B;
}

export type ResponseHeaders = EmptyInterface;
export type ResponseBody = EmptyInterface;

export interface Response<H extends ResponseHeaders, B extends ResponseBody> {
    statusCode: number;
    headers?: H;
    body: B;
}

export function createHandler<Q, H, B, RH, RB>(main: (request: Request<Q, H, B>) => Promise<Response<RH, RB>>): AsyncHandler {
    return async (event: APIGatewayProxyEvent, context: Context): Promise<APIGatewayProxyResult> => {
        const response = await main({
            queryParameters: (event.queryStringParameters as unknown) as Q,
            headers: (event.headers as unknown) as H,
            body: event.body ? (JSON.parse(event.body) as B) : undefined,
        });
        return {
            statusCode: response.statusCode,
            headers: response.headers as Record<string, string> | undefined,
            body: JSON.stringify(response.body),
        };
    };
}

And here would be an example usage:
interface TestRequestQueryParameters extends RequestQueryParameters {
    a: string;
}

interface TestRequestHeaders extends RequestHeaders {
    b: string;
}

interface TestRequestBody extends RequestBody {
    c: string;
    d?: string;
    e: number;
}

interface TestResponseHeaders extends ResponseHeaders {
    f: string;
}

interface TestResponseBody extends ResponseBody {
    g: string;
    h?: string;
    i: number;
}

const main = async (
    request: Request<TestRequestQueryParameters, TestRequestHeaders, TestRequestBody>,
): Promise<Response<TestResponseHeaders, TestResponseBody>> => {
    console.log(request.queryParameters.a);
    console.log(request.headers.b);
    console.log(request.body.c);
    console.log(request.body.d);
    console.log(request.body.e);
    return {
        statusCode: 200,
        headers: {
            f: 'test',
        },
        body: {
            g: 'test',
            h: 'test',
            i: 100,
        },
    };
};

export const handler = createHandler(main);

The problems with this approach are:

*

*I can't enforce that the query parameters and headers are strings.

*All of the methods have a dangling _ prop.

Any suggestions on how to improve this? Is there an existing library for wrapping AWS Lambda handlers?

Edit: With the help of @jcalz, I have improved the code by using Q extends Record<keyof Q, string | undefined>. But there are still two things I would like to improve:

*

*The type definition for createHandler has become very verbose. Is there a way to simplify it?

*I can't have optional fields (e.g. b?: string) in the input/output interfaces. I can get around this by doing b: string | undefined. But is there a way I can do b?: string?

Here is the updated example code: https://tsplay.dev/WkvlDm

A: For types where you want to allow anything whatsoever as long as it is an object and not a primitive, you can use the object type.  This should be the case for your B-like type parameters, whose values you have (in your tsplay link at the bottom) only constrained to any | undefined (which is just any, by the way).
For types where you want to make sure that the values are constrained to string or undefined, and you want to support optional properties, I'd create a type alias like this:
type OptStrDict<T> = { [K in keyof T]?: string }

You will use it to recursively constrain your type parameters like T extends OptStrDict<T>.

So your Request interface becomes, for example:
export interface Request<
    Q extends OptStrDict<Q>,
    H extends OptStrDict<H>,
    B extends object
    > {
    queryParameters: Q;
    headers: H;
    body?: B;
}

I will dispense with writing out the full version of your code with these changes, but you can verify that this works via the Playground link below.

Note that re-use of the OptStrDict type alias will reduce verbosity of your code, especially if you shorten it to OSD or something.  If you think that createHandler()'s type signature is still too wordy after this, I'm not sure how best to proceed; pragmatically speaking, having five constrained generic type parameters is going to take up some space no matter what you do.  ♂

Playground link to code

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Tag: doom metal
Various Artists – Album Roundup
'Let it be known', begins the declamation with which Damon Locks opens the first of these two live sets: the immense complexity of the knowing we are invited to share soon becomes apparent. I come across a huge variety of music, much of it extremely creative, inventive, accomplished and unconventional, but rarely do I encounter anything on the sheer scale of Galactic Parables: Volume 1, or anything remotely as ambitious. The performing forces at each of the concerts from which the album was recorded are large but not vast, at ten and eight players respectively, but the creative scope of the music …
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Earthmass – Collapse (doom)
When you pull music apart and start to think about it, it often appears to be built up in several 'dimensions'. These are our modes of perception, rather than qualities with the same independent existence as the the different materials that go into making a house for example, or the elements that compose the Earth's lithosphere, but much of the time we (and especially musicians) treat them as tangibles. It is much easier to separate such ideas as 'texture', 'timbre', 'volume', 'tempo', 'intensity', 'mode', or 'time signature', and to treat them as more or less stable, given quantities, rather than continually to question …
doom, doom metal, doom rock, drone, drone metal, drone rock, metal, post rock, post-metal, rock
Review Of The Year 2014: 20 Albums
My views on end-of-year roundups in general are quite aggressive, and can be read at greater length in the introduction to last year's selection, here. Suffice it to say that I think anyone claiming to know which are the best few albums released in any given year is seriously delusional; my selection is simply some of the records I liked the most out of those I happened to come across. These records are all seriously good, but there were over a hundred other albums that could equally well have made it onto my list; my advice is, yes, investigate these records, but more importantly, go hunting for …
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Various Artists – Singles and EPs
Wayne Myers, singer, songwriter and principal instrumental culprit, sent me this mini-album in early February according to my records, but it somehow slipped through the net and never got reviewed. Well, better late than never. Sleeping Beauty is pure poetry. I intend that as a value judgement, but also a literal description; Myers is a poet who works in the medium of song. Now I'd think of it as a species of insult to say that this was an EP of poems set to music, but that's not what I mean: these are songs, written as such, and the musical materials they incorporate are neither a commentary …
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This music is the brainchild of Michael Woodman, guitarist and vocalist in Thumpermonkey, written using the immersion composition techniques described in The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook. The method seems to work. I have no idea what method he employs when writing for Thumpermonkey, but that seems to work too, and for several reasons Eat Your Robot sound a lot like his other band. One reason is the lyrical style; another is the way the melodies are phrased; another is Woodman's singing, which is highly distinctive; and equally important are his guitar playing and riff writing, which are a …
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Skåglörds – Korea (doom/ electronica)
I don't know what this has to do with Korea; no more do I know why doom metal (or sabbathcore as it was amusingly described by the label when Korea was submitted for review) represents the north, and electronica the south. I like some enigma in my music, so it's not keeping me awake at night, and I'm reluctant to ascribe any definitively programmatic meanings to the music. What I think is really interesting about this album is that it juxtaposes two quite distinct creative approaches, and presents them as a single artistic utterance. Whatever meanings the listener might conclude are central to the work must …
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Peacemaker – Cult .45 (doom)
This album comes from a band that situates itself in the tradition of doom metal quite deliberately, and with some self-awareness. By this I mean that they've thought about the meanings of the music they love, and precisely how they are produced in that music, and set out intentionally to share more meanings from the same emotional neck of the woods. In other words, although Peacemaker are operating within the bounds of an established set of musical practices, they are doing so in order engender the experiences to which those practices are specifically adapted; they are using the right…
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Luminous Monsters/ Guanoman – We Go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire (drone/ math)
We Go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire is a split release, split in the same sense as the protagonist of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club's personality. Both of the projects contributing to this release are the sole work of one musician, although they possess quite distinctive characters; Guanoman is described as a 'purveyor of doom-prog and math-noise' (also as 'avantelectrodeathspazzmathcore', which is more amusing, but less illuminating), while Luminous Monsters is summed up as a 'majestic creature, appalling and bewildering to human senses, its golden scales ablaze in the sunshine, its coils tumescent with sublime strength, its countless claws and horns crackling with crimson energies formed from the transmuted migrant souls
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at one with the machine is the sophomore release and point of exit for Jason Norwood's studio powernoise project code 000. Two albums have evidently been enough to scratch that creative itch for him, but he has made good use of his time in the world of electronic distortion and jackhammer beats. Powernoise is a genre that demands its practitioners take a position on issues around humanity and creative agency; its basic materials are both mechanistic and aurally abrasive, admitting neither conventional aesthetic valuations nor traditional notions of expressive craft. Some notable proponents of the style embrace these features wholeheartedly, presenting desolate soundworlds of post-human indifference, whose entire audience appeal …
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Review Of The Year 2012, Part 2: 12 EPs
In previous years I've assembled my annual review solely from album length releases; it's interesting to note that the vast majority of music I come across, whether I actively discover it or somebody sends it to me for review, is in something resembling album format (notwithstanding that most of it reaches me as a sequence of ones and zeros). However, I do receive EPs and singles, and some of the very best music I've heard this year has come my way in shorter releases. It's clearly time I reflected this in my end of year review, and as it would seem strange to compare two track singles with seventy minute albums, I've decided to assemble my favourites in two parts …
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Review Of The Year 2012, Part 1: 12 Albums
It's that time of year again, the nights drawing in, the pointless over-consumption going into overdrive, and the music bloggers arranging releases into spurious hierarchies of how hip they think they make them look. Well, let me issue the same caveats I always do: I don't claim that these are the best albums of the year, simply that they are the ones I like the most out of the ones I happen to have heard. There are lots of famous records I happen not to have heard, some of which I might think were fantastic if I did hear them, but quite honestly I haven't had time in the past year to hear any more music than I have, and I consider it infinitely preferable to stumble across music organically than to be guided to it just because it's famous …
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Why do I write reviews? Largely so that I can blag free music instead of buying it like everyone else, and so I can kid my conscience that my inane ramblings are an adequate substitute for paying musicians their due. Of course I can (and will, given half a chance) list any number of more high-minded motivations, but I always feel that the transaction is balanced in my favour; so when this CD was pressed on me by guitarist Simon Rollo, and a review requested with the circumspection of a man asking me to clean the diarrhoea off his sofa, I was amused, embarrassed and confirmed in my impression of Three Thrones, which is that whatever they're full of, it's not themselves.
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As far as I know Dialect are no longer an active collective, although its members continue to release razor sharp and uncompromisingly independent hip-hop on their own account; they have released a lot of great music, and are clearly a mainstay of hip-hop in the Northeast, and this is the second album of unreleased tracks to appear on emcee Joe Eden's Killamari Records imprint. You don't expect a bunch of disparate tracks like this, recorded at different times for different reasons, to sound like an album as such when they're bundled together for release, but there is a certain coherence to this music, a consistent aesthetic that makes it clear it's a Dialect album, not a bunch of tracks by the crew's various members. The rhymes speak …
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Goya – Demo (stoner metal)
Drugs. Weed, hash, blow, smoke, tea, skunk, green, charas, gear, pollen, bud, sensemilla, kif, oil, dope, black, pot, marijuana, cannabis. I don't wish to imply that Goya's music is one-dimensional, but this is very clearly the central inspiration for their creative activities. So much so, that their Bandcamp page is simply addressed with the name 'marijuana'; I imagine that there are a fair few musicians with similar enthusiasms spitting blood that Goya beat them to it. I wonder if there's a band called Marijuana whose main inspiration is the last painter to be classed an Old Master? I must remember to form one, if my enthusiasm for making music gets rekindled at any point. Cannabis is a term we'll return to; let's turn now to another one. Demo.
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"That's what we expect from us" – Jurgen Klopp pleased with "professional" Liverpool
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was happy with a professional performance which saw Derby disposed of 3-0 as the Reds eased into the last 16 of the EFL Cup.
Ragnar Klavan's first goal for the club was followed after the break by strikes from Philippe Coutinho and Divock Origi as the Sky Bet Championship team proved no match for Klopp's free-scoring side.
"We were better tonight and we deserved to win, we created plenty of chances. Could we have done better? Yes, but is that important? No," Klopp said.
"You need to be 100 percent professional in games like this, which could be difficult, but we were ready for every opportunity.
"We could've been better in the first half with the last pass and in the second with our counter attack but we will take 3-0 all day.
"The pleasing thing is it's not we are surprised by it. I have always thought the difference between home and away shouldn't be that big when you're a good side, which we are.
"That's what we expect from us. Tonight was very professional from us.
"This is a very important tournament for us, for the players, and we have to show it from the first second. Let's go for it."
Klopp became embroiled in a heated discussion with the fourth official after seeing Coutinho be on the end of a number of hefty challenges, but the German played down the confrontation.
"It is so close when someone flies in three or four times like they did, and I said to the fourth official 'Please tell him'," said Klopp.
"He didn't hit the player, I saw that, but it was so close. But that's my problem how I reacted and nothing happened."
Derby manager Nigel Pearson, whose side are struggling for goals and are 20th in the Championship, admits they could not cope with the quality of their Premier League visitors.
"I would be first to accept there is a gulf in class tonight, and where we are and where we aspire to be is a considerable difference," he said.
"For us to progress as a club we need to build a squad which can compete anywhere.
"All of the goals had an element of we could have done better, so that is frustrating. Mistakes cost you dearly against sides like this.
"After that it is damage limitation to make sure it is not an embarrassment."
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Canvas Coffee House: Elevating java to art in a cup
May 21, 2021 Kelli Caplan Features 0
Alex Hoyes mans the counter at Coffee House. (Photo by Kelli Caplan)
A blank canvas is often turned into something artful and creative.
That's the premise behind Canvas Coffee House in Port Warwick. Opened in February 2019 by Daniel Haskett and Alex Hoyes, the shop has created its own art on its "canvas." The masterpiece Haskett and Hoyes have composed is drinkable.
"We are both visionaries and dreamers," says Hoyes, 26. "We both love to think about what could be."
When customers walk into Canvas, they find a shop that is mostly decorated in black and white, and very hip. Haskett and Hoyes wanted it to be modern, yet appealing to all age groups. There are ducks on the walls, symbolizing taking off and flying high. In the past, canvas was often made from duck cloth, which was yet another reason the name Canvas fit.
"We had to come up with a name and were trying to be creative and most simplistic," Hoyes says. "It is minimalistic. I wouldn't say it targets one type of person. It's a universal aesthetic. You can come in and see a child sitting in a chair or a business meeting taking place."
Before Canvas moved into this spot, the location housed Hip Innovative Studio Boutique, another creative gathering spot that also served coffee. Haskett and Hoyes, both from Yorktown, decided to take it to another level, focusing heavily on the quality of coffee.
"We thought, 'how can we reenergize this space?'" Hoyes says.
They not only decorated differently; they decided to put everything into their coffee, so that when customers came in, they experienced coffee at a whole new level. Haskett, 28, and Hoyes are coffee aficionados, extremely knowledgeable about coffee beans and the best process by which to derive the ultimate cup of coffee. They are well schooled on coffee science, and use terms like "third-wave and fourth-wave coffee," both movements in which coffee is much more than a means to pump caffeine into one's body. Hoyes says that they are both artists and scientists behind the bar.
"Because of that, every drink is going to exceed expectations," he says. "So much happens behind the scenes. We are the very last step of the coffee bean's journey. In a nutshell, specific coffee is viewed a lot like wine. That's an umbrella way of looking at coffee," Hoyes jokes, saying that they are "coffee snobs." They put great effort and time into their roasting process and are very picky about the final product.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, Hoyes and Haskett had to regroup and figure out a creative way to keep the business running. They opted to sell roasted beans to clients. Word got out, and the idea grew, and the duo, who both graduated from Christopher Newport University, found their product in great demand to people who were stuck at home. They now sell the beans online (canvascoffee.net) to local clients and others all over the country.
"That's the kind of people we are. We are problem solvers. We like to take on challenges," Hoyes says. "I feel we're an inspiration. If a coffee bean is so simple and we transform it into liquid gold, I hope we can inspire someone."
With the doors open again, the business is steady both at the coffee house and with the bean business. Hoyes says they are thrilled with the progress and the transformation. The clientele is growing all the time, and the quality of coffee is keeping up.
"We love our customers. We have a lot of regulars," Hoyes says. "I love teaching and educating people, and seeing them get excited about something that's cool. Coffee is a journey, a process. If they are here, they are one step ahead."
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Canvas Coffee House
Address: 2170 William Styron Square South, Newport News, VA 23606
Owners: Daniel Haskett and Alex Hoyes
Website: Canvascoffee.net
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