Create Reusable Supply Chains
Templating is built into the core of Cartographer - allowing the user to write Kubernetes resource definitions once and re-use them in any supply chain. Supply chains are also templated by default and can be re-used for many types of applications.
The end result is a minimum amount of YAML configuration necessary for platform teams and developers.
Defined Interface for Each Role
Supply chains are independent of workloads and define all and any of the steps that are necessary for an application to reach production - CI, integration & performance tests, Security (SAST & DAST), Compliance, etc.
Updating supply chains on a cluster makes Day 2 operations easy. Applying a new supply chain means that any team using it will get the updates as soon as they've been applied.
Workloads provide an abstraction layer allowing developers to focus on their application and the application configuration parameters that they care about.
Works with Existing Tools
Cartographer was designed to work with any Kubernetes object. As long as they are applied to a cluster they can be used in a supply chain. Cartographer allows you to wrap and template each of the objects that you would normally apply to a cluster and use them within a supply chain.
The choreography engine lets a Cartographer user define sharp tools for each part of a path to production and allows the tool to do what it was designed to do. When each tool completes, Cartographer passes any output from a previous tool to the next one in the supply chain.


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Each light configuration is separated by a "|". So for example if you are trying to control led lights you would put 5|3|2 and that will control light position 5, 3, 2. Light positions start a 0.


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Rescue mission to save ‘gin plant’ juniper in southern England bears fruit
A conservation effort started 10 years ago has led to young juniper trees thriving at 13 sites across six counties.
Juniper, a rare conifer which is used to flavour gin, is making a comeback in southern England with the help of a conservation rescue mission, Plantlife has said.
The “gin plant”, whose berries give the alcoholic drink its distinctive fragrance, has been in decline in the last few decades and experts have warned it could go extinct across much of lowland England within 50 years.
However, a project started by nature charity Plantlife 10 years ago to create nursery sites across southern England where wild juniper seeds could germinate and young plants thrive is now bearing fruit.
The species, which was one of the first trees to colonise Britain after the last Ice Age, has been completely lost in some counties.
It can be difficult to conserve as it needs sites with several years of very heavy grazing to create open ground for seeds to germinate, but then many years with little or no grazing to allow seedlings to grow to maturity.
To ensure the juniper’s survival in the nursery sites, seeds collected from the wild were thrown onto “scrapes” of bare ground where the top layers of turf and soil had been removed to create the right conditions for the plant.
At some trial sites, wire cages were also installed to protect young bushes from grazing by livestock and rabbits – and one such cage on Salisbury Plain covering just one square metre was found to have 17 young bushes inside.
Numerous healthy seedlings have grown into “teenagers”, which are 2ft-3ft high (60cm-90cm), and some are bursting with berries, the survey found.
Efforts to save the juniper can also benefit other wildlife, Plantlife said, with the scrapes providing a home for wildflowers including orchids, kidney vetch, horseshoe vetch, fairy flax, salad burnet, oxeye daisies and cowslips.
More than 50 insects have been recorded on juniper, including rare species such as the juniper shield bug and juniper moth which rely heavily on the plant as a food source.
He added: “No wonder our English ‘gin plant’ is under threat – the battle really begins at birth; juniper seeds require two winters before they even germinate and seedlings then require very specific conditions to grow.
“If they survive childhood, it takes another 10 years or more before these ‘teenagers’ mature and begin producing those lovely gin-flavoured berries.”
He added: “Juniper is one of our most charismatic species, steeped in history, myth and folklore.
“We’re passionate about doing all we can to help reverse the fortunes of this much beloved species, so it’s really exciting to see so many seedlings growing well.”


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Pre- and dynamic post-contrast evaluation of the abdomen was performed. The following sequences were obtained: axial T1-weighted in- and opposed-phase gradient recalled-echo, axial fat suppressed respiratory triggered T2-weighted fast (turbo) spin-echo, and axial dynamic fat-suppressed T1-weighted 3-D gradient recalled-echo before and after gadolinium contrast administration in the arterial, venous, and delayed phase of enhancement.
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Characterize adrenal mass.
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Signal intensity:
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Dropout of signal:
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turbo::Engine Class Referencefinal
Main engine class. More...
#include <Engine.hpp>
Collaboration diagram for turbo::Engine:
Public Member Functions | |
| Engine () | |
| Initialize a new engine. More... | |
| void | start_window (const char *win_name, unsigned short width, unsigned short height) |
| void | stop_window () |
| void | set_window_title (const char *title) |
| void | set_window_size (unsigned short width, unsigned short height) |
| void | loop () |
| Starts main loop. | |
| void | force_render () |
| Force the engine to render as soon as possible. | |
| void | force_logic () |
| Force the engine to tick as soon as possible. | |
| void | close () |
| Stops the main loop and close the window. | |
| void | on_update_tick () |
| void | on_render_tick () |
| ONLYIMGUI (debug::EngineDebug debug=debug::EngineDebug(this)) | |
Public Attributes | |
| SceneManager | scene_manager |
| Event | update_tick = Event<>() |
| Event | render_tick = Event<>() |
| Logger | logger = Logger("Turbo Engine") |
Static Public Attributes | |
| static const std::string | version = "0.2" |
| Engine version. More... | |
| static Engine * | engine = nullptr |
| static Input | input = Input() |
Detailed Description
Main engine class.
Constructor & Destructor Documentation
◆ Engine()
| turbo::Engine::Engine | ( | ) |
Initialize a new engine.
- Note
- Only one instance should be used at a time
- Parameters
-
win_name Name of the window width width of the window height height of the window
Member Data Documentation
◆ version
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inlinestatic |
Engine version.
- Note
- This string is hard writter read only
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
- include/turbo/Engine.hpp
- src/Engine.cpp


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Simple Annotated WebSocket
Simple Programmatic WebSocket
Echo sample
Echo async sample
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Here's another, in light of a recent event where one of the users had a stuck swap and uninstalled the app to solve the problem.
Request:
- Either a menu option where you can see uncompleted swaps, with the date/time shown when it is earliest possible ti unstuck / get refund for that swap in case it fails.
- Or in the current orders page, check against the blockchain, if the swap should have been already completed, but it's still not, inform the user to wait the minimum required time, t...


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An Alphabetic Jigsaw Crossword
Clues: A. Tickled Goddess with tail of bird (6) B. Some of guru's queries more terse (8) C. Ted disappeared (impregnated a traveling party worker) (10) D. Pesto salad for the boss (6) E. Small fish fellows start to face (10) F. A lung disorder due to mould (6) G. Ruled above Edward (8) H. Nervous grouping is dud scheme for getting fish (8) I. Ok to switch later, hence bang redirected (15) J. Ultimately you need to throw someone in this pursuit (4) K. The loon contrived gap in fence (8) L. Get finale composed, distributing notes (10) M. People in Himalayan district (4) N. Tan foal got beaten, but it will survive it (8) O. Reckoned tree had tail (6) P. Turner's ocean offering (4) Q. Well-meaning union, one with someone steering around "it" in return (8) R. For example, one working with metal representing the district (8) S. Shock, awe, tiny grand piano! (8) T. A feminine Italian fish (4) U. Sophisticated bar built by corner (6) V. Assail, if you're using insult (6) W. Stubbornly rejecting what's right: with greed, one's hand forced (15) X. Worried about visitors, one backs populist hero on borders, irritating country's leaders (10) Y. A knee injury to the American (6) Z. Phone using this essentially needed to be charged (6)
NB: The first letter of the answer is disregarded in the word play of each clue


Our Mission
Inventing the life we deserve through innovation and creativity
Inventing the life we deserve through innovation and creativity
We drive our mission through a culture of excellence, constantly improving and winning with integrity. Our approach and process is aimed at inventing the life we deserve through innovation and creativity coupled with radical truthfulness and radical transparency.
CharlyCareCla$ic is a single family office that thrives on the ideology of inventing the life we deserve through innovation and creativity. Its hard to be different in a world where most are conformist, indifferent and inconsistent. What if there could be a better way of living than the world currently know?, we are sure there are much better ways to live a fulfilled life than ever experienced. We do not conform to the status quo, even when status quo is working well.


David Chour
Project Portfolio
David is a third year Computer Science major at UC San Diego. He was part of the Coastkeeper team as part of UCSD's Global TIES program and helped to develop a mobile application used to collect data regarding marine areas in San Diego. Currently, he works as a tutor for CodeHS and will be spending his summer as an intern at Workday Inc. in the summer of 2016. In addition to his academic career, he was also an orientation leader for Thurgood Marshall college and is a founding father of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Projects
- Mobile web application used to collect data during beach cleanups for San Diego Coastkeeper
- Written using Javascript and HTML for front end
- Backend implemented using PHP and mySQL
- Mock telecomm company web application developed as part of CSE110
- Allowed for customers to add and remove services/view bill/buy bundles
- Written using Python and the Django framework in the Pycharm IDE
- Receipt parser program that can extract various types of data(names,addresses,credit cards) from text file
- Written using Python


In my previous article:
We got the following conclusions:
- Use Default(50%/50%) instead of 100% Power Up
- Use Market instead of Convert Function
- For liquid SBD, Operate as you please
But some of my friends don’t know how to use internal market of steemit.
So I wrote this simple guide for us and the new members of steemit, here it.
The Chinese version is being written, will come soon.
(中文版本正在编写，敬请期待)
Access the Wallet
First, go to wallet, you can reach it by one of the methods:
Click Wallet in the drop-down menu on your Avatar
Click the Wallet menu of your blog page
Or, Go the the link directly: https://steemit.com/@oflyhigh/transfers
Don’t forget replace ID with your own ID
Check your assets
Now, you need to check your wallet, to see how much money(assets) you have.
There are two type assets which can be traded in the internal market:
- STEEM
- SBD
You must have one of those assets, otherwise you can do nothing in internal market.
Access the Internal Market
- Click the
Inverted triangle
near the number of SBD or STEEM - Then click the Market link in drop-down menu, for example:
Or there is a simple way
- Open the following link directly after login.
https://steemit.com/market
Internal market interface
The interface is very concise and clear
I divide it into five parts logically:
Information area
Operation area
Orders list
Trade history
Open orders (Yours)
How to BUY STEEM (SELL SBD)
Filled out the three textboxes with your desired value
It can be automatic fill in by click the blue link below the textboxes, The system will calculate the appropriate values for you.Click the ‘BUY STEEM’ button, and will popup prompt window
Press OK and popup Login window
Signed In by provide your Active or Owner key or Master password.
Now, you already put your order in order list, and you can check it in Open orders
(It will disappear when finished)
How to SELL STEEM ( BUY SBD)
Basically, as same as the above steps
That’s all,
Thank you for reading.
Any upvote, resteem and follow me @oflyhigh are welcomed 😎
The Chinese version is being written, will come soon.
(中文版本正在编写，敬请期待)
近期文章
- To power up 100% or not, that is the question. / 发帖时是否应该选择 100% Power Up
- STEEMIT新人指南: 关于发帖 & 发帖收益/ 欢迎老鸟们也来批评指正
- [ 中文区] 让我们彼此了解，回复获得点赞 / #CN Let’s get to know each other，get upvote (about 0.2 SBD) for qualified reply
活动仍在继续，欢迎参与 - 🔓 [Security Alert] You may leak your steemit password (key) by accident / 安全警示，你可能不经意就泄露了你的steemit 密码
This page is synchronized from the post: 👉 Guide for newbie: How to use internal market / step by step / 新人指南：教你如何使用内部市场


15 killed, 20 missing after landslide in Kenya
by OSCAR KAKAIIn Summary
- Villagers use bare hands and sticks to reach those buried under the weight of the mud as President mobilises KDF, police to help in rescue efforts.
- West Pokot County Commissioner Apollo Okello said a search was ongoing for the missing even as the number of the dead seemed likely to rise last night.
More than 30 people are feared dead after massive landslides struck three villages in West Pokot County, northwestern Kenya, Saturday.
Most of those affected were sleeping when the ground beneath them began moving and the landslides buried them in their homes.
UNACCOUNTED
Some 15 bodies had been retrieved and others were still missing by the time of going to press last evening in an incident Governor John Lonyangapuo said was the worst natural disaster to ever hit the region.
The landslides left a trail of destruction and bereaved families trying to come to terms with the tragedy.
West Pokot County Commissioner Apollo Okello said a search was ongoing for the missing even as the number of the dead seemed likely to rise last night.
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“So far, 15 bodies have been found and more than 20 are missing. We suspect that they are dead,” Mr Okello told the Sunday Nation.
Mr Okello said seven members of the same family were buried alive in Nyarkulian village. The seven were among 17 people believed to have been swept away.
He added that more people might have been trapped in the avalanche, saying a better equipped rescue team was heading to the area.
“We are struggling to reach all places. All the roads to the villages have been cut off. The numbers might shoot up because some people cannot be accounted for,” he said.
FLASH FLOODS
Dozens of others were injured after the landslides hit Nyarkulian, Muino and Parua villages on Friday night following a huge downpour.
Most of those who died were sleeping when the ground beneath them began moving.
They were buried alive and it was not until yesterday morning that the true picture emerged.
Dozens of people were still waiting for news of their loved ones last evening as rescue efforts continued.
Rescue efforts were largely carried out using rudimentary tools because rescuers could not access the area after flash floods swept away a bridge at Sebit, near Ortum Centre. All roads heading to Nyarkulian and Muino were also rendered impassable.
SAFER GROUNDS
River Muruny also burst its banks. The destruction of the bridge cut off the Kitale-Lodwar road, making it impossible for senior government officials to reach the affected villages.
Residents used bare hands to search for and retrieve bodies and survivors from the mounds of soil.
Those who were critically injured were rushed to nearby health centres as efforts were made to fly them to Kapenguria Referral Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret.
Yesterday, President uhuru Kenyatta termed the landslide “devastating”, saying it had robbed the country of “over 30 dear Kenyans and led to massive destruction of property including key infrastructure such as roads and bridges.”
“My thoughts and prayers, and those of our entire nation are with families, friends and relatives. Please accept my heartfelt condolences,” he added.
He ordered the deployment of rescue personnel from the Kenya Defence Forces, the National Police Service and Special Programmes to the affected region.
The President further directed regional commissioners in flood and landslide-prone regions in the country to work very closely with security and humanitarian teams to ensure citizens in these areas are urgently moved to safer grounds.
SEARCHING
Deputy President William Ruto also expressed his sympathies to families of the dead and the injured and asked affected residents to be on the lookout for other landslides.
ODM leader Raila Odinga said: “My heartfelt condolences to the families of West Pokot where many people have unfortunately lost their lives in a landslide. We stand together in prayer and wish quick recovery to the injured and comfort to those searching for their loved ones who are still missing,” he said.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said the government had deployed the military and police choppers to help in the rescue efforts.
Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya said the loss of lives was a big blow to the country.
Prof Lonyangapuo, who was stranded at Sebit together with a huge county team that was heading to the villages, said rescue efforts might be hampered by the deteriorating weather.
“Most roads have been rendered impassable and bridges swept away. This incident is the worst in the county’s history. We are doing all we can to avert more deaths,” he said.
MOURNING
The governor called on the army and the Kenya Red Cross Society to help the affected families and erect tents to accommodate them: “We need help because the situation is now getting out of hand. The road linking Kitale to lodwar is cut off completely,” he said.
Area Chief Joel Bulali said dozens of people were still beneath the rubble left by the landslide.
Julius Kebisha, a teacher, said his son was still trapped in the rubble and was feared dead. His son had just received his KCPE exams results and was preparing to join Form One next year.
“My wife and my daughter have been rescued and taken to Kapenguria referral hospital. I am mourning my son who was going to save lives. He was swept away a few metres from our home,” he said.
Mr Chemuruto Yopokapel was desolate last evening after his three sons were killed by the landslide. He said they asleep when the tragedy struck.
Their bodies were recovered Saturday morning.
Mr Yopokapel however managed to rescue his wife and two daughters.
INJURED
“I scampered to save the lives of the rest of my family members but I couldn’t go back to the house to save the three boys aged 6, 8 and 10 years. I fell several times as stones rained on me and I gave up on the way. I wish I could have saved my children,” he mourned.
The 40-year-old man said some of those he rescued were critically injured.
“I am stranded. My house, my animals and everything we had were all swept way. This place is dangerous. We want to be relocated,” he said.
Mr Raphael Pkolowo said he was at Nyarkulian centre at 11pm when it started raining heavily. He had left his family members at home but returned to find it buried in mud.
ALTERNATIVE
“Four people were buried alive as I watched. A father, mother and their two children. One of the babies was rescued but it was so painful. I escaped death narrowly,” he said.
A resident of Muruny area, Mr Nicholas Kibet, said the downpour started at midnight and caused havoc in the area.
“It rained continuously for 12 hours and we were unable to get out of our houses. Some of the people are still missing,” he said.
The devastation in West Pokot is the latest in a series of mudslides that have hit various parts of the country in recent years, killing hundreds of people and leaving serious devastation.
The government’s response over the years has been to urge affected people to “to move to safer ground”.
But residents blame the government, saying it does not provide them with alternative areas to stay when they are asked to move.
Additional reporting by Abiud Ochieng


Local radiative flux changes due to contrails can be as high as 100 W m −2 (refs. 55, 56). In such rare cases their development may be affected by radiative heating 68 enhancing vertical mixing. Regional contrail RF can be close to or above 1 W m −2 (refs. 6, 52, 69– 71). Globally averaged, annual mean RF values and uncertainty ranges for persistent contrails alone (≈0.01 (0.005–0.03) W m −2) and together with contrail cirrus (≈0.05 (0.02–0.15) W m −2) are compiled in Fig. 7, with an emphasis on recent developments. Over time, early assessments of contrail RF have been basically confirmed and the large range of uncertainty has narrowed considerably.
Global annual mean radiative forcing due to aircraft-induced clouds. RF due to a persistent contrails alone and b together with contrail cirrus from selected studies and assessments sorted by publication date since 1999. Purely observational global estimates derive from extrapolating local aircraft and regional satellite data. Pure model estimates are based on or rely upon global model simulations. Uncertainty ranges evaluated across several methodologies are taken from comprehensive assessments. IPCC 1999 assessed persistent contrail RF to be 20 (5–60) mW m −2 for air traffic in the year 1992 (ref. 4), followed by two studies summarising knowledge in the subsequent decade 11, 73. A narrower range, 8–20 mW m −2, was provided for the year 2000 after correcting older estimates that include off-line radiative transfer simulations with prescribed contrail coverage and mean optical depth for undetectable contrails 67. Taken together, subsequent climate model simulations and extrapolation from in situ and satellite observations yielded 3–16 mW m −2 for air traffic in 2002–2006 (refs. 63, 69, 71, 142). Relying in part on extrapolation and scaling data from earlier years, the IPCC most recently assessed contrail RF to be 10 (5–30) mW m −2 (ref. 10) for 2011. Refs. 4, 11, 73 provided possible RF ranges due to AIC. Ref. 6 estimated for the first time global AIC RF to be 38 mW m −2 for air traffic in the year 2002 using a climate model that tracks AIC explicitly; an improved model version 70 estimated 56 mW m −2 for 2006. AIC RF values 50 mW m −2 and 60 mW m −2 were predicted for 2006 based on an off-line model that tracks contrail segments forming along flight tracks in combination with weather forecast and climate host models 52, 88. In a climate model that regards contrails as a source term for natural clouds, ref. 69 reported a global AIC RF of 13 mW m −2 for the same reference year. The IPCC best estimate of global net RF due to AIC for air traffic in the year 2011—associated with low confidence—is 50 mW m −2 (ref. 10), corresponding to more than half of the total aviation RF, with a 90% uncertainty range, 20–150 mW m −2. This most recent best estimate does not include indirect effects of aircraft particle emissions on natural clouds
Until 2011, a best central estimate of RF due to contrail cirrus including RF due to persistent contrails was not available. This caused large uncertainty in aviation RF as a whole. After IPCC 1999, AIC RF estimates have been based on associating air traffic with regional trends in cirrus coverage without proof of causality and by assuming equal radiative efficiencies of contrails and contrail cirrus 11, 15, 72, 73. The first RF estimate for persistent contrails and contrail cirrus was based on a global climate model that represents AIC as a separate cloud class 6, 70, 74. An offsetting feedback of AIC on natural clouds due to humidity and (to a lesser degree) temperature changes was estimated with large uncertainty to reduce the direct AIC RF by almost 20% (ref. 6). The RF values compiled in Fig. 7 have not been corrected for this feedback. One climate model 69 reports much lower AIC RF for 2006 aircraft operations than others, possibly because in the model contrails, while evolving consistently with the hydrological cycle, are undifferentiated from other clouds. The same model predicts an increase in AIC RF from 2006 to 2050 by a factor of seven due to a non-uniform regional increase in air traffic and different sensitivities for the forcing in different regions 75. While model-based central estimates of AIC RF converged over time, results for current traffic levels are not available and the level of scientific uncertainty remains large.


Creates a horizontally scrollable container that will snap on elements when scrolling. - Use `display: grid` and `grid-auto-flow: column` to create a horizontal layout. - Use `scroll-snap-type: x mandatory` and `overscroll-behavior-x: contain` to create a snap effect on horizontal scroll. - You can use `scroll-snap-align` with either `start`, `stop` or `center` to change the snap alignment.


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Today I want to play with Alexa and serverless framework. I’ve created a sample hello world skill. In fact this example is more or less the official hello-world sample.
const Alexa = require('ask-sdk-core')
const RequestInterceptor = require('./interceptors/RequestInterceptor')
const ResponseInterceptor = require('./interceptors/ResponseInterceptor')
const LaunchRequestHandler = require('./handlers/LaunchRequestHandler')
const HelloWorldIntentHandler = require('./handlers/HelloWorldIntentHandler')
const HelpIntentHandler = require('./handlers/HelpIntentHandler')
const CancelAndStopIntentHandler = require('./handlers/CancelAndStopIntentHandler')
const SessionEndedRequestHandler = require('./handlers/SessionEndedRequestHandler')
const FallbackHandler = require('./handlers/FallbackHandler')
const ErrorHandler = require('./handlers/ErrorHandler')
let skill
module.exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
if (!skill) {
skill = Alexa.SkillBuilders.custom().
addRequestInterceptors(RequestInterceptor).
addResponseInterceptors(ResponseInterceptor).
addRequestHandlers(
LaunchRequestHandler,
HelloWorldIntentHandler,
HelpIntentHandler,
CancelAndStopIntentHandler,
SessionEndedRequestHandler,
FallbackHandler).
addErrorHandlers(
ErrorHandler).
create()
}
return await skill.invoke(event, context)
}
It has one Intent that answers to hello command.
const HelloWorldIntentHandler = {
canHandle (handlerInput) {
return handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request.type === 'IntentRequest'
&& handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request.intent.name === 'HelloWorldIntent'
},
handle (handlerInput) {
const speechOutput = 'Hello World'
const cardTitle = 'Hello world'
return handlerInput.responseBuilder.
speak(speechOutput).
reprompt(speechOutput).
withSimpleCard(cardTitle, speechOutput).
getResponse()
}
}
module.exports = HelloWorldIntentHandler
I’m using Serverless framework to deploy the skill. I know that serverless frameworks has plugins for Alexa skills that help us to create the whole skill, but in this example I want to do it a little more manually (it’s the way that I learn new things).
First I create the skill in the Alexa developer console (or via ask cli). There’re a lot of tutorials about it. Then I take my alexaSkillId and I use this id within my serverless config file as the trigger event of my lambda function.
service: hello-world
provider:
name: aws
runtime: nodejs8.10
region: ${opt:region, self:custom.defaultRegion}
stage: ${opt:stage, self:custom.defaultStage}
custom:
defaultRegion: eu-west-1
defaultStage: prod
functions:
info:
handler: src/index.handler
events:
- alexaSkill: amzn1.ask.skill.my_skill
then I deploy the lambda function
npx serverless deploy –aws-s3-accelerate
And I take the ARN of the lambda function and I use this lambda as my endpoint in the Alexa developer console.
Also we can test our skill (at least the lambda function) using our favorite testing framework. I will use jest in this example. Testing is very important, at least for me, when I’m working with lambdas and serverless. I want to test my script locally, instead of deploying to AWS again and again (it’s slow).
const when = require('./steps/when')
const { init } = require('./steps/init')
describe('When we invoke the skill', () => {
beforeAll(() => {
init()
})
test('launch intent', async () => {
const res = await when.we_invoke_intent(require('./events/use_skill'))
const card = res.response.card
expect(card.title).toBe('Hello world')
expect(card.content).toBe('Welcome to Hello world, you can say Hello or Help. Which would you like to try?')
})
test('help handler', async () => {
const res = await when.we_invoke_intent(require('./events/help_handler'))
console.log(res.response.outputSpeech.ssml)
expect(res.response.outputSpeech.ssml).toBe('<speak>You can say hello to me! How can I help?</speak>')
})
test('Hello world handler', async () => {
const res = await when.we_invoke_intent(require('./events/hello_world_handler'))
const card = res.response.card
expect(card.title).toBe('Hello world')
expect(card.content).toBe('Hello World')
})
})
Full code in my github account.


Getting Started
This will teach you how to make additions to this website as SENG1050 PASS students
Required Applications
- VS Code - Preference for IDE with the following extensions: Prettier, W3Schools Validator, LiveShare for group editing
- Git-Bash - A lightweight, easy-to-use BASH terminal for all platforms
Recommended Knowledge
By this point in time I expect that students know some basic HTML and can research (from resources such as W3Schools) or ask for help to get set up.
Students will also need to have a GitHub account set up. If they do not already, they can follow the prompts to get started.
Step One - Creating your fork
First you will need to login to GitHub and press the fork button on this repository. See image below:
Step Two - Cloning your fork locally
Jump into a folder of your choice from GitBash (right click a folder and press GitBash here in Windows 10 or use cd .. and cd <folder-name> to navigate to the correct folder such as documents) then run:
git clone https://github.com/YourUsernameHere/SENG1050-PASS-DOCS.git
This will automatically copy your repository into a folder with a .git subfolder including the commit history, details for the remote repository for uploading to, branches, etc.
Step Three - Creating your branch
Run the following command to create and then switch to your branch in GitBash once you've used cd to get into the repository git branch your-last-name-all-lowercase/what-your-addition-does && git checkout your-last-name-all-lowercase/what-your-addition-does
Step Four - Making and committing changes
Make any edits, add files, images, sites, etc (check with Bryce for formatting of the pages) in your folder then run git add * && git commit -m "A comment describing your changes" && git push -u origin your-last-name-all-lowercase/what-your-addition-does
P.S Don't stress if you need to make changes again, just change the commit message and run the command again.
Step Five - Creating a Pull Request to get your changes on this website
Finally to the most important step. Please make sure this is done correctly before putting this through. The images below run you through creating a Pull Request back to my original main branch so that you can get your content live on the site. Email me through the contact I've provided on our private PASS page so I can get it live on the site for you or run you through which changes to make first...


Default styles for item Wrapper component
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Default props for ScrollMenu component
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align items after window resize
class for Arrow component
class for arrow when it's disabled
Arrows components
when drag item and mouse button mouseup choose menu item under cursor
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add disabled class to arrows
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class for ScrollMenu
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class for InnerWrapper
styles for InnerWrapper
class for MenuItem
class for selected MenuItem
styles for menuItem
styles for ScrollMenu
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how many items to scroll, 0 for all visible
automatically scroll to selected item on initialization
selected menu item
animation speed
position of elements
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scroll with mouse wheel
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This rule is deprecated, use {rule:squid:S1147} instead.


| package ti.sysbios.gates |
|
Contains modules that inherit from IGatePovider
The
xdc.runtime.Gate module is provided by XDCtools, and
is documented in the XDCtools help, but SYS/BIOS provides
additional implementations in the
ti.sysbios.gates package.
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more ... ]
package ti.sysbios.gates [2, 0, 0, 0] {
// Hwi, Swi & Task Gate
// Hardware Interrupt Gate
// Mutex Gate
// Mutex Gate with priority inheritance
// Software Interrupt Gate
// Task Gate
}
DETAILS
The
xdc.runtime.Gate module is provided by XDCtools, and
is documented in the XDCtools help, but SYS/BIOS provides
additional implementations in the
ti.sysbios.gates package.
A "Gate" is a module that implements the IGateProvider interface.
Gates are devices for preventing concurrent accesses to critical
regions of code. The various Gate implementations differ in how they
attempt to lock the critical regions.
Threads can be preempted by other threads of higher priority, and
some sections of code need to be completed by one thread before they
can be executed by another thread. Code that modifies a linked list
is a common example of a critical region that may need to be protected
by a Gate.
Gates generally work by either disabling some level of preemption such
as disabling task switching or even hardware interrupts, or by using a
binary semaphore.
All Gate implementations support nesting through the use of a "key".
For Gates that function by disabling preemption, it is possible that
multiple threads would call Gate_enter(), but preemption should not be
restored until all of the threads have called Gate_leave().
This functionality is provided through the use of a key. A call to
Gate_enter() returns a key that must then be passed back to Gate_leave().
Only the outermost call to Gate_enter() returns the correct key for
restoring preemption. (The actual module name for the implementation
is used instead of "Gate" in the function name.)
RUNTIME EXAMPLE
The following C code protects a critical region with
a Gate. This example uses a GateHwi, which disables and enables
interrupts as the locking mechanism.
UInt gateKey;
GateHwi_Handle gateHwi;
GateHwi_Params prms;
GateHwi_Params_init(&prms);
gateHwi = GateHwi_create(&prms, NULL);
// Simultaneous operations on a List by multiple threads could
// corrupt the List structure, so modifications to the List
// are protected with a Gate.
gateKey = GateHwi_enter(gateHwi);
List_get(myList);
GateHwi_leave(gateHwi, gateKey);
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LibDriver W25QXX
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w25qxx link driver modules More...
Macros | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_INIT(HANDLE, STRUCTURE) memset(HANDLE, 0, sizeof(STRUCTURE)) |
| initialize w25qxx_handle_t structure More... | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_SPI_QSPI_INIT(HANDLE, FUC) (HANDLE)->spi_qspi_init = FUC |
| link spi_qspi_init function More... | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_SPI_QSPI_DEINIT(HANDLE, FUC) (HANDLE)->spi_qspi_deinit = FUC |
| link spi_qspi_deinit function More... | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_SPI_QSPI_WRITE_READ(HANDLE, FUC) (HANDLE)->spi_qspi_write_read = FUC |
| link spi_qspi_write_read function More... | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_DELAY_MS(HANDLE, FUC) (HANDLE)->delay_ms = FUC |
| link delay_ms function More... | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_DELAY_US(HANDLE, FUC) (HANDLE)->delay_us = FUC |
| link delay_us function More... | |
| #define | DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_DEBUG_PRINT(HANDLE, FUC) (HANDLE)->debug_print = FUC |
| link debug_print function More... | |
w25qxx link driver modules
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_DEBUG_PRINT | ( | HANDLE, | |
| FUC | |||
| ) | (HANDLE)->debug_print = FUC |
link debug_print function
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | FUC | points to a debug_print function address |
Definition at line 313 of file driver_w25qxx.h.
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_DELAY_MS | ( | HANDLE, | |
| FUC | |||
| ) | (HANDLE)->delay_ms = FUC |
link delay_ms function
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | FUC | points to a delay_ms function address |
Definition at line 297 of file driver_w25qxx.h.
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_DELAY_US | ( | HANDLE, | |
| FUC | |||
| ) | (HANDLE)->delay_us = FUC |
link delay_us function
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | FUC | points to a delay_us function address |
Definition at line 305 of file driver_w25qxx.h.
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_INIT | ( | HANDLE, | |
| STRUCTURE | |||
| ) | memset(HANDLE, 0, sizeof(STRUCTURE)) |
initialize w25qxx_handle_t structure
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | STRUCTURE | is w25qxx_handle_t |
Definition at line 265 of file driver_w25qxx.h.
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_SPI_QSPI_DEINIT | ( | HANDLE, | |
| FUC | |||
| ) | (HANDLE)->spi_qspi_deinit = FUC |
link spi_qspi_deinit function
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | FUC | points to a spi_qspi_deinit function address |
Definition at line 281 of file driver_w25qxx.h.
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_SPI_QSPI_INIT | ( | HANDLE, | |
| FUC | |||
| ) | (HANDLE)->spi_qspi_init = FUC |
link spi_qspi_init function
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | FUC | points to a spi_qspi_init function address |
Definition at line 273 of file driver_w25qxx.h.
| #define DRIVER_W25QXX_LINK_SPI_QSPI_WRITE_READ | ( | HANDLE, | |
| FUC | |||
| ) | (HANDLE)->spi_qspi_write_read = FUC |
link spi_qspi_write_read function
| [in] | HANDLE | points to a w25qxx handle structure |
| [in] | FUC | points to a spi_qspi_write_read function address |
Definition at line 289 of file driver_w25qxx.h.


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Greg Hurrell
This is because the directory contents are cached for performance reasons (Command-T was written to work well on projects with 10s of thousands of files).
Given a sufficiently recent version of Command-T (eg. 1.4) you can hit
C-f
when the match listing is open to flush the cache and trigger a refresh of the match listing.On older versions of Command-T you can issue a
:CommandTFlush
command to clear out the cache. If you find yourself doing this a lot you might want to set up a mapping for it in your.vimrc
; something like:map <leader>f :CommandTFlush<CR>
Personally, I used to use a mapping like that, but I dropped it with the arrival of the
C-f
feature, as I don't need it any more. -
Greg Hurrell
There are a couple tickets in here related to making the cache-flushing happen automatically, eg. ticket #1626. There's also this pull request which adds auto-flushing but can't be merged as it is not cross-platform.
Going to mark this ticket as closed but feel free to comment if you have comments or observations.
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Greg Hurrell
Status changed:
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Smaller particles with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less are likely responsible for most of the adverse health effects because they can reach the lower regions of the respiratory tract. A micron is a very tiny unit of measurement that is not visible to the human eye.
For comparison, a human hair is about 30-100 microns in width.
Many scientific studies connect particle pollution exposure to a variety of health issues including:
People that are most sensitive to the effects are those with existing illnesses, the elderly and children.
Source: https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.particle
Normally, the atmosphere gets cooler as elevation increases. A temperature inversion occurs when cooler air is trapped under a layer of warmer air. Often, this occurs in valleys or plains surrounded by mountains. Temperature inversions often occur in the Grand Valley during winter.
Temperature inversions can have a strong negative impact on air quality. When a temperature inversion occurs, the warmer layer acts as a boundary, trapping particulates and gas emissions in the cooler air.
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TIME OF VIOLENCE A film review by Peter Reiher Copyright 1990 Peter Reiher
[This is another review from the rapidly receding AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival. The film in question is probably not playing at your local theaters, nor is it likely to any time soon.]
Most Americans are extremely parochial in their film viewing habits. British films are unusual to them, French films exotic, and Japanese films the furthest they might stretch, if that far. A whole world of cinema exists outside the attention of American viewers, a world filled with worthwhile, and often brilliant, films. When the films in question require tremendous stretching of the viewers' expectations of what a film is, a certain laziness is understandable. Lots of people go to movies strictly for low-thought entertainment, and they should not be expected to endure LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD or the latest enigma from Godard. But there is still a body of fine, entertaining film hidden away only because of language and cultural barriers. Americans will not read subtitles, for the most part, and don't care to learn about any other nation's history or culture. They barely care about their own nation's, as the relative failure of GLORY demonstrated.
This parochialism is particularly evident when one sees a film like TIME OF VIOLENCE. A Bulgarian film, TIME OF VIOLENCE uses precisely the same stylistic conventions as American films, the same form of storytelling, the same approach to character, the same values as to what makes a good story, and, moreover, it satisfies American criteria for being a "good movie." There is a basic story, with well-attached subplots, lots of action, villains and heros (with a bit more complexity, perhaps, than most American films), and a logical resolution. The production values are high, the performances excellent, the direction skillful. The film has done very well in many countries, including some as foreign to Bulgarian culture as Japan. So why can't the filmmakers get *any* distribution deal in the U.S.?
TIME OF VIOLENCE suffers only from its language and its setting. Few Americans know much about the Balkans during the 17th Century. But it was one of those proverbial "interesting" times during which it was a curse to live. Most of the Balkans were under the thumb of the Ottoman empire. Islamic empires have more of a reputation for tolerance than most, but the Ottoman empire was showing its ugliest face during this period in Bulgaria. Bulgaria was a strategically important area inhabited by unreliable Christian subjects. The sultan decided that they must all convert to Islam, or die.
TIME OF VIOLENCE focuses on the fate of one valley during this crisis.  Janissaries were special troops used by the Ottomans. Recruited (involuntarily) from Christian boys, they were separated from their families at an early age, indoctrinated in Islam, and turned into fiercely reliable troops with no allegiance to anyone but the sultan. The miller's son is now a highly trusted janissary, with the task of converting his entire home valley to Islam. But the people there take their religion very seriously, and will not submit. The janissary becomes more and more brutal in his attempts to convert the valley, for he must slaughter them all if they don't take the turban.
The film is painted on a large, sweeping canvas, with many characters and subplots, all cleverly woven into a single story. (This accomplishment is even more remarkable when you consider that the original Bulgarian version was nearly two hours longer, yet there is no sign at all that anything has been cut.) And, surprisingly, this isn't a "vile Turk" story. Director Ludmil Staikov has much more ambitious goals, including an examination of the power of religion and of the destructiveness of violence and fanaticism. Not all of the Christians are good, nor all of the Muslims bad. The Turkish governor of the valley is not loved by his subjects, yet does all he can to avert their doom. He is given a beautiful, tender moment as he leaves the valley forever, in disgrace. Crossing a bridge that leads out of his valley, he notices a stone that has worked out of place. He gets down from his horse, carefully puts the stone back into its place, and then proceeds on to his exile. Even the janissary has his complexities, as he truly wants to spare his people from unnecessary pain, despite having completely transferred his loyalties to the sultan. The screenplay, by Staikov, Georgi Danailov, Mihail Kirkov, and Radoslav Spassov, provides complex shadings of characters and motivations.
TIME OF VIOLENCE is a professionally made film, beautifully photographed, well edited, and with scrupulous care in costuming and set design. The period atmosphere feels perfectly authentic, at least to someone with only passing familiarity with the time and place. The technical aspects of the film are well up to the standard of moderate budget Hollywood movies.
There are some unpleasant moments of torture and brutality in TIME OF VIOLENCE, but they do not exist to excite or titillate. Rather, they are necessary to demonstrate the full scope of the tragedy. Still, some viewers may find themselves looking away during certain scenes. But, otherwise, TIME OF VIOLENCE is a film without flaws. There are no particularly weak points in the film, and many great virtues.
The problem with TIME OF VIOLENCE is really just that most Americans will never get the chance to see it, and, even if they had the chance, most Americans wouldn't take it. Dubbing the film might give it a slightly wider audience, but even then it would be unlikely to draw too many people. If MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON, a pretty good English-language African adventure film, can't bring in the audiences, how can a film about a small country's historical woes? At any rate, if you do get a chance to see it, I recommend TIME OF VIOLENCE highly.
Peter Reiher<EMAIL_ADDRESS>. . . cit-vax!elroy!jato!jade!reiher
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AMISTAD A film review by Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: Steven Spielberg's account of the slave mutiny of 1839 and its legal aftermath is certainly a good historical film, filled with facts and historical details. Occasionally it is actually powerful. But it lacks some of the emotional impact of THE COLOR PURPLE and SCHINDLER'S LIST and its pacing is off. Still, it is a useful and engaging source of historical perspective. Rating: 8 (0 to 10), high +2 (-4 to +4). A minor potential spoiler follows the main review.
In one of those delightful ironies of history the ship was called La Amistad--Spanish for "friendship" or "friendliness." In fact, the ship was anything but friendly. Its primary cargo was black people being brought in chains from Cuba to the United States, a country just sixty-three years old and whose current President, Martin Van Buren would be the last President to have been born owing allegiance to the Crown of England. In this summer of 1839 off the coast of Cuba some fifty-three slaves chained up in the hold of the ship would break from their bonds take control of the ship. Taking command was Sengbe Pieh whom the Spanish had renamed Cinque (played with surprising power by Djimon Hounsou). His plan was to force the crew of the ship to sail back to Africa, but they tricked him and instead sailed north up the coast of the United Stated. An American Navy man-of-war captured La Amistad off of Long Island, New York. The ship could have been hauled to a New York harbor or to Connecticut. It was taken to New Haven, Connecticut to increase the salvage value. New York law said that nobody could own anyone else and the blacks on board would be considered passengers. Connecticut still allowed slavery and the blacks were legally cargo that could be sold.
Steven Spielberg's new film tells the story of the legal battle that followed the ship Amistad arrival and the question of whether the blacks on board would be slaves or free men. It was an issue that made opponents of current President Van Buren (played in the film version by Nigel Hawthorne--with no small borrowing from his role in THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE) and former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins), now a doddering old man and member of the House of Representatives. Van Buren, already unpopular due to a recession resulting from Andrew Jacksons policies, is anxious to placate Southern voters who could make the difference in the elections the following year. Van Buren also wants to placate Spain's eleven-year- old Queen Isabella II (Anna Paquin) who believes that the slaves are Spanish property. Both sides in the controversy are aware that this could be a powder keg that would lead the country into a civil war over the issue of slavery. Coming to the aid of the blacks are two abolitionists, former slave Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and a Mr. Tappen (Stellan Skarsgard). They bring aboard a real estate lawyer named Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey). But Baldwin has his work cut out for him. He has no language in common with his clients and does not even know if they come from Africa or Cuba, an issue pivotal to the case. The screenplay for this film is based on the book BLACK MUTINY by William Owens and is adapted by David H. Franzoni. The latter's only previous screen writing was the story for the Whoopi Goldberg vehicle JUMPIN' JACK FLASH. It is rumored that for him to make a script of this quality he needed the help of perhaps the best current screenwriter, Steven Zaillian of SCHINDLER'S LIST and LOOKING FOR BOBBY FISCHER.
One weakness of this film is that apart from a few very powerful scenes, AMISTAD is very much a cold account of a court case. Because the blacks who are on trial are strong and for the most part silent we get only rare glimpses at emotions we can share with them. The viewer is angered that they are being denied justice but gets very little understanding for the characters. Their plight is more compelling than they themselves are. Cinque is never a fully three-dimensional person, though we do see a bit of his self-doubt. The only character who is anywhere near fully developed is Matthew McConaughey's. We seem to be seeing a lot of McConaughey these days, but he is not the most emotive actor. Anthony Hopkins plays John Quincy Adams as what old age has left of a once fascinating man, but who now colorful without being really interesting. He bores people with his flowers and plays small practical jokes in the House of Representatives. When he gives an eloquent speech it rates about a 7 where 10 is Lincoln at Gettysburg and 0 is Steven Seagal anywhere.
Spielberg had a difficult fight wanting to make SCHINDLER'S LIST (mostly) in black and white. Here he creates much of the same effect by subduing the color scheme in the set design and probably also by photographic filters. He then makes the only bright colors of the film the blood during the mutiny. In this way he can underscore the violence of his film in a year of so many bloody films. Be warned that in that same violent year perhaps the most jarring scene I remember is AMISTAD's depiction of a man being killed by a sword. The mutiny, lit only by lightning, is the first thing we see in AMISTAD but nonetheless is the centerpiece of the entire film. Spielberg does have a nice visual sense that comes out in this scene and elsewhere showing the blacks in impressive silhouette to make them look larger. Spielberg creates some additional tension by letting the viewer from the start of the film go a long, long time, perhaps fifteen minutes, without any English in the dialog or on the screen.
Others of the film's touches I question: the mutineers aboard the Amistad having fashioned for themselves turbans made from what appear to be American flags. It is not clear where they would find what would be three or four American flags on a Spanish ship. Also the Capitol building at this point had a ring of pillars at the top and ended there. The actual dome was not added until early in Lincoln's second term. We see it, however, fully domed. Just as the Capitol Building was incomplete, so was the Supreme Court. There were eight judges, not nine. The latter was pointed out by Gore Vidal in an article for THE NEW YORKER. Van Buren appears a dithering incompetent. This is perhaps unfair. He was merely a second-rate President having to clean up a mess left by our first second-rate President, Andrew Jackson.
The Jewish Steven Spielberg has now made two stirring films on Black History and one on Jewish History. If he can manage to reconcile tensions between those two communities he will be deserving of more than Oscars. I rate AMISTAD an 8 on the 0 to 10 scale and a high +2 on the -4 to +4 scale.
Generally when I review a history film I like to look up the incidents in multiple history books and add information to my review to broaden the context and correct misimpressions left by the film. In this instance my collection of history books have been nearly unanimous in omitting the Amistad Incident. Even Howard Zinn's A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES which concentrates on injustice and minorities appears to omit the incident. Of course, any historian writing a history is forced to choose the incidents he feels willing to cover, but it is surprising to see this particular incident so ignored and rescued from obscurity by Black History courses and by Steven Spielberg.
Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler
Another touch that is wearing: in general the film is deliberately paced and comes to a conclusion, then the viewer discovers the film runs its own stop sign and just keeps going. It was a pleasant surprise when Spielberg did that in POLTERGEIST, but here it goes just a bit too long with too little reward. It needed a more power behind the speech by Adams.
Mark R. Leeper<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Copyright 1997 Mark R. Leeper
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Dialog frames can be used to construct the vignettes of an interactive fiction.
- The system half of the dialog would be mostly scene descriptions.
- Instructions could be used to alter player properties
and initiate game environment actions.
- The user half of the dialog would be moves.
Task Frames and Role Frames can be used to program virtual robots.
- For this to work, there has to be a way to view the action.
- Can these programs be transferred to real robots?
(Certainly. But the real robot must have required capability.)
- Imagine a kind of "battle bot" game.
Fleet versus fleet seems do-able.
(This would require codifying a set of sensors.)
Action frames could be used to direct the turtle.
- The actions could be recorded, saved, re-played.
- Fractals could be created by recursion
with programmed variation of parameters.
Data frames, following a pre-defined protocol,
could be used to describe a series of walls, windows, and doors.
- This would not be interesting without immediate visual feedback.
- Manufacturers could enhance this
with self-drawing catalogs of their components.
Stage Plays could be scripted
and simulated using a small evolution of dialog frames.
- Dialog frames assume two "actors" ... user and system.
We could define a "Script Frame" to allow multiple actors,
some interactions with properties, and movement on the set.
The roles can be assigned to avatar agents
who would appear and move as the script directs.
A screen play is like a stage play - but it adds the complication of manipulating the camera.
This is like a stage play except that the actors' moves need to be coordinated with a score.
Again, data frames, following a pre-defined (elaborate VRML-like) protocol,
could be used to describe various solids.
- Again, this would not be interesting without immediate visual feedback.
The trick here might be to start with a basic car and then allow the designer to "morph" it by tinkering with parameters or modifying curves.


PostgreSQL / PostGIS
Driver short name
PostgreSQL
Build dependencies
PostgreSQL client library (libpq)
This driver implements support for access to spatial tables in PostgreSQL extended with the PostGIS spatial data support. Some support exists in the driver for use with PostgreSQL without PostGIS but with less functionalities.
This driver requires a connection to a Postgres database. If you want to prepare a SQL dump to inject it later into a Postgres database, you can instead use the PostgreSQL SQL Dump driver.
You can find additional information on the driver in the Advanced OGR PostgreSQL driver Information page.
Driver capabilities
Supports Create()
This driver supports the GDALDriver::Create()
operation
Supports Georeferencing
This driver supports georeferencing
Connecting to a database
PG:dbname=databasenameor
PG:"dbname='databasename' host='addr' port='5432' user='x' password='y'"In this syntax each parameter setting is in the form keyword = value. Spaces around the equal sign are optional. To write an empty value, or a value containing spaces, surround it with single quotes, e.g., keyword = ‘a value’. Single quotes and backslashes within the value must be escaped with a backslash, i.e., ' and \.
Starting with GDAL 3.1 also this syntax is supported:
PG:service=servicename
Geometry columns
If the geometry_columns table exists (i.e. PostGIS is enabled for the accessed database), then all tables and named views listed in the geometry_columns table will be treated as OGR layers. Otherwise (PostGIS disabled for the accessed database), all regular user tables and named views will be treated as layers.
The driver also supports the geography column type introduced in PostGIS 1.5.
The driver also supports reading and writing the following non-linear geometry types :CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE, CURVEPOLYGON, MULTICURVE and MULTISURFACE
SQL statements
The PostgreSQL driver passes SQL statements directly to PostgreSQL by default, rather than evaluating them internally when using the ExecuteSQL() call on the OGRDataSource, or the -sql command option to ogr2ogr. Attribute query expressions are also passed directly through to PostgreSQL. It’s also possible to request the ogr Pg driver to handle SQL commands with the OGR SQL engine, by passing “OGRSQL” string to the ExecuteSQL() method, as the name of the SQL dialect.
The PostgreSQL driver in OGR supports the OGRDataSource::StartTransaction(), OGRDataSource::CommitTransaction() and OGRDataSource::RollbackTransaction() calls in the normal SQL sense.
Creation Issues
The PostgreSQL driver does not support creation of new datasets (a database within PostgreSQL), but it does allow creation of new layers within an existing database.
As mentioned above the type system is impoverished, and many OGR types are not appropriately mapped into PostgreSQL.
If the database has PostGIS types loaded (i.e. the geometry type), newly created layers will be created with the PostGIS Geometry type. Otherwise they will use OID.
By default it is assumed that text being sent to Postgres is in the UTF-8 encoding. This is fine for plain ASCII, but can result in errors for extended characters (ASCII 155+, LATIN1, etc). While OGR provides no direct control over this, you can set the PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable to indicate the format being provided. For instance, if your text is LATIN1 you could set the environment variable to LATIN1 before using OGR and input would be assumed to be LATIN1 instead of UTF-8. An alternate way of setting the client encoding is to issue the following SQL command with ExecuteSQL() : “SET client_encoding TO encoding_name” where encoding_name is LATIN1, etc. Errors can be caught by enclosing this command with a CPLPushErrorHandler()/CPLPopErrorHandler() pair.
Dataset open options
DBNAME=string: Database name.
PORT=integer: Port.
USER=string: User name.
PASSWORD=string: Password.
HOST=string: Server hostname.
DBNAME=string: Database name.
SERVICE=string: Service name (GDAL >= 3.1)
ACTIVE_SCHEMA=string: Active schema.
SCHEMAS=string: Restricted sets of schemas to explore (comma separated).
TABLES=string: Restricted set of tables to list (comma separated).
LIST_ALL_TABLES=YES/NO: This may be “YES” to force all tables, including non-spatial ones, to be listed.
PRELUDE_STATEMENTS=string (GDAL >= 2.1). SQL statement(s) to send on the PostgreSQL client connection before any other ones. In case of several statements, they must be separated with the semi-column (;) sign. The driver will specifically recognize BEGIN as the first statement to avoid emitting BEGIN/COMMIT itself. This option may be useful when using the driver with pg_bouncer in transaction pooling, e.g. ‘BEGIN; SET LOCAL statement_timeout TO “1h”;’
CLOSING_STATEMENTS=string (GDAL >= 2.1). SQL statement(s) to send on the PostgreSQL client connection after any other ones. In case of several statements, they must be separated with the semi-column (;) sign. With the above example value for PRELUDE_STATEMENTS, the appropriate CLOSING_STATEMENTS would be “COMMIT”.
Dataset Creation Options
None
Layer Creation Options
GEOM_TYPE: The GEOM_TYPE layer creation option can be set to one of “geometry”, “geography” (PostGIS >= 1.5), “BYTEA” or “OID” to force the type of geometry used for a table. For a PostGIS database, “geometry” is the default value.
OVERWRITE: This may be “YES” to force an existing layer of the desired name to be destroyed before creating the requested layer.
LAUNDER: This may be “YES” to force new fields created on this layer to have their field names “laundered” into a form more compatible with PostgreSQL. This converts to lower case and converts some special characters like “-” and “#” to “_”. If “NO” exact names are preserved. The default value is “YES”. If enabled the table (layer) name will also be laundered.
PRECISION: This may be “YES” to force new fields created on this layer to try and represent the width and precision information, if available using NUMERIC(width,precision) or CHAR(width) types. If “NO” then the types FLOAT8, INTEGER and VARCHAR will be used instead. The default is “YES”.
DIM={2,3,XYM,XYZM}: Control the dimension of the layer. Important to set to 2 for 2D layers with PostGIS 1.0+ as it has constraints on the geometry dimension during loading.
GEOMETRY_NAME: Set name of geometry column in new table. If omitted it defaults to wkb_geometry for GEOM_TYPE=geometry, or the_geog for GEOM_TYPE=geography.
SCHEMA: Set name of schema for new table. Using the same layer name in different schemas is supported, but not in the public schema and others. Note that using the -overwrite option of ogr2ogr and -lco SCHEMA= option at the same time will not work, as the ogr2ogr utility will not understand that the existing layer must be destroyed in the specified schema. Use the -nln option of ogr2ogr instead, or better the active_schema connection string. See below example.
SPATIAL_INDEX=NONE/GIST/SPGIST/BRIN (starting with GDAL 2.4) or YES/NO for earlier versions and backward compatibility: Set to GIST (GDAL >=2.4, or YES for earlier versions) by default. Creates a spatial index (GiST) on the geometry column to speed up queries (Has effect only when PostGIS is available). Set to NONE (GDAL >= 2.4, or FALSE for earlier versions) to disable. BRIN is only available with PostgreSQL >= 9.4 and PostGIS >= 2.3. SPGIST is only available with PostgreSQL >= 11 and PostGIS >= 2.5
TEMPORARY: Set to OFF by default. Creates a temporary table instead of a permanent one.
UNLOGGED: Set to OFF by default. Whether to create the table as a unlogged one. Unlogged tables are only supported since PostgreSQL 9.1, and GiST indexes used for spatial indexing since PostgreSQL 9.3.
NONE_AS_UNKNOWN: Can bet set to TRUE to force non-spatial layers (wkbNone) to be created as spatial tables of type GEOMETRY (wkbUnknown). Defaults to NO, in which case a regular table is created and not recorded in the PostGIS geometry_columns table.
FID: Name of the FID column to create. Defaults to ‘ogc_fid’.
FID64: This may be “TRUE” to create a FID column that can support 64 bit identifiers. The default value is “FALSE”.
EXTRACT_SCHEMA_FROM_LAYER_NAME: Can be set to NO to avoid considering the dot character as the separator between the schema and the table name. Defaults to YES.
COLUMN_TYPES: A list of strings of format field_name=pg_field_type (separated by comma) that should be use when CreateField() is invoked on them. This will override the default choice that OGR would have made. This can for example be used to create a column of type HSTORE.
DESCRIPTION (From GDAL 2.1) Description string to put in the pg_description system table. On reading, if such a description is found, it is exposed in the DESCRIPTION metadata item. The description can also be written with SetMetadataItem(“DESCRIPTION”, description_string). Descriptions are preserved by default by ogr2ogr, unless the -nomd option is used.
Configuration Options
There are a variety of Configuration Options which help control the behavior of this driver.
PG_USE_COPY: This may be “YES” for using COPY for inserting data to Postgresql. COPY is significantly faster than INSERT. COPY is used by default when inserting from a table that has just been created.
PGSQL_OGR_FID: Set name of primary key instead of ‘ogc_fid’. Only used when opening a layer whose primary key cannot be autodetected. Ignored by CreateLayer() that uses the FID creation option.
PG_USE_BASE64: If set to “YES”, geometries will be fetched as BASE64 encoded EWKB instead of canonical HEX encoded EWKB. This reduces the amount of data to be transferred from 2 N to 1.333 N, where N is the size of EWKB data. However, it might be a bit slower than fetching in canonical form when the client and the server are on the same machine, so the default is NO.
OGR_TRUNCATE: If set to “YES”, the content of the table will be first erased with the SQL TRUNCATE command before inserting the first feature. This is an alternative to using the -overwrite flag of ogr2ogr, that avoids views based on the table to be destroyed. Typical use case:
ogr2ogr -append PG:dbname=foo abc.shp --config OGR_TRUNCATE YES
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Examples
Simple translation of a shapefile into PostgreSQL. The table ‘abc’ will be created with the features from abc.shp and attributes from abc.dbf. The database instance (warmerda) must already exist, and the table abc must not already exist.
ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:dbname=warmerda abc.shp
This second example loads a political boundaries layer from VPF (via the OGDI driver), and renames the layer from the cryptic OGDI layer name to something more sensible. If an existing table of the desired name exists it is overwritten.
ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:dbname=warmerda \ gltp:/vrf/usr4/mpp1/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia \ -lco OVERWRITE=yes -nln polbndl_bnd 'polbndl@bnd(*)_line'
Export a single Postgres table to GeoPackage:
ogr2ogr \ -f GPKG output.gpkg \ PG:"dbname='my_database'" "my_table"
Export many Postgres tables to GeoPackage:
ogr2ogr \ -f GPKG output.gpkg \ PG:"dbname='my_database' tables='table_1,table_3'"
Export a whole Postgres database to GeoPackage:
ogr2ogr \ -f GPKG output.gpkg \ PG:dbname=my_database
Load a single layer GeoPackage into Postgres:
ogr2ogr \ -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname='my_database'" \ input.gpkg \ -nln "name_of_new_table"
In this example we merge tiger line data from two different directories of tiger files into one table. Note that the second invocation uses -append and no OVERWRITE=yes.
ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:dbname=warmerda tiger_michigan \ -lco OVERWRITE=yes CompleteChain ogr2ogr -update -append -f PostgreSQL PG:dbname=warmerda tiger_ohio \ CompleteChain
This example shows using ogrinfo to evaluate an SQL query statement within PostgreSQL. More sophisticated PostGIS specific queries may also be used via the -sql commandline switch to ogrinfo.
ogrinfo -ro PG:dbname=warmerda -sql "SELECT pop_1994 from canada where province_name = 'Alberta'"
This example shows using ogrinfo to list PostgreSQL/PostGIS layers on a different host.
ogrinfo -ro PG:"host='myserver.velocet.ca' user='postgres' dbname='warmerda'"
This example shows use of PRELUDE_STATEMENTS and CLOSING_STATEMENTS as destination open options of ogr2ogr.
ogrinfo PG:"dbname='mydb'" poly -doo "PRELUDE_STATEMENTS=BEGIN; SET LOCAL statement_timeout TO '1h';" -doo CLOSING_STATEMENTS=COMMIT
FAQs
Why can’t I see my tables? PostGIS is installed and I have data You must have permissions on all tables you want to read and geometry_columns and spatial_ref_sys. Misleading behavior may follow without an error message if you do not have permissions to these tables. Permission issues on geometry_columns and/or spatial_ref_sys tables can be generally confirmed if you can see the tables by setting the configuration option PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES to YES. (e.g. ogrinfo –config PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES YES PG:xxxxx)


It was a hot day in July. It was ninety-five degrees! Jane was in the mood to go swimming, but she did not have a pool. Jane tried to think of how to cool off. As she sat there thinking, the phone rang. It was Penny. Penny had a pool and wanted to know if Jane could come and swim in her pool. Jane grabbed her swimsuit and zoomed on her bike to Penny's. Penny was swimming in the pool when Jane got there. Jane got ready to jump in, but Penny asked her to grab a ball first so they could play with it. It was a big ball that looked like a globe! Jane threw the ball to Penny and then jumped in the pool. Jane and Penny played with the ball and spent the rest of the day splashing around.
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