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java.lang.Object org.bushe.swing.event.EventServiceLocator
public class EventServiceLocator
A central registry of EventServices. Used by the EventBus
.
SERVICE_NAME_SWING_EVENT_SERVICE
and
returned by getSwingEventService()
. Also by default this same instance is returned by getEventBusService()
,
is mapped to SERVICE_NAME_EVENT_BUS
and wrapped by the EventBus.
Since the default EventService implementation is thread safe, and since it's not good to have lots of events on the
EventDispatchThread you may want multiple EventServices running on multiple threads, perhaps pulling events from a
server and coalescing them into one or more events that are pushed onto the EDT.
To change the default implementation class for the EventBus' EventService, use the API:
EventServiceLocator.setEventService(EventServiceLocator.SERVICE_NAME_EVENT_BUS, new SomeEventServiceImpl());Or use system properties by:
System.setProperty(EventServiceLocator.SERVICE_NAME_EVENT_BUS, YourEventServiceImpl.class.getName());Likewise, you can set this on the command line via -Dorg.bushe.swing.event.swingEventServiceClass=foo.YourEventServiceImpl To change the default implementation class for the SwingEventService, use the API:
EventServiceLocator.setEventService(EventServiceLocator.SERVICE_NAME_SWING_EVENT_SERVICE, new SomeSwingEventServiceImpl());Or use system properties by:
System.setProperty(EventServiceLocator.SWING_EVENT_SERVICE_CLASS, YourEventServiceImpl.class.getName());Likewise, you can set this on the command line via -Dorg.bushe.swing.event.swingEventServiceClass=foo.YourEventServiceImpl
| Field Summary | |
|---|---|
static java.lang.String |
EVENT_BUS_CLASS
Set this Java property to a Class that implements EventService to use an instance of that class instead of the instance returned by getSwingEventService() . |
static java.lang.String |
SERVICE_NAME_EVENT_BUS
The name "EventBus" is reserved for the service that the EventBus wraps and is returned by getEventBusService() . |
static java.lang.String |
SERVICE_NAME_SWING_EVENT_SERVICE
The name "SwingEventService" is reserved for the service that is returned by getSwingEventService() . |
static java.lang.String |
SWING_EVENT_SERVICE_CLASS
Set this Java property to a Class that implements EventService to use an instance of that class instead of SwingEventService as service returned by getSwingEventService() . |
| Constructor Summary | |
|---|---|
EventServiceLocator()
|
| Method Summary | |
|---|---|
static EventService |
getEventBusService()
|
static EventService |
getEventService(java.lang.String serviceName)
|
static EventService |
getSwingEventService()
|
static void |
setEventService(java.lang.String serviceName,
EventService es)
Registers a named EventService to the locator. |
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
|---|
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
| Field Detail |
|---|
public static final java.lang.String SERVICE_NAME_EVENT_BUS
getEventBusService()
.
public static final java.lang.String SERVICE_NAME_SWING_EVENT_SERVICE
getSwingEventService()
.
public static final java.lang.String EVENT_BUS_CLASS
getSwingEventService()
. Must be set before getEventBusService()
is called.
public static final java.lang.String SWING_EVENT_SERVICE_CLASS
SwingEventService
as service returned by getSwingEventService()
. Must be set on startup or
before the method getSwingEventService()
is called.
| Constructor Detail |
|---|
public EventServiceLocator()
| Method Detail |
|---|
public static EventService getEventBusService()
public static EventService getSwingEventService()
public static EventService getEventService(java.lang.String serviceName)
serviceName
- the service name of the EventService, as registered by #setEventService(String, EventService),
or SERVICE_NAME_EVENT_BUS
or SERVICE_NAME_SWING_EVENT_SERVICE
.
public static void setEventService(java.lang.String serviceName, EventService es) throws EventServiceExistsException
serviceName
- a named event service instancees
- the EventService to attach to the service name
EventServiceExistsException
- if a service by this name already exists and the new service is non-null
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I started this assignment by researching and trying out the software “Processing” (processing.org).
I then looked into how to properly hook up my Satshakit (Arduino Clone) to a servo motor at which I could program using the software application i create. I looked into an arduino webpage on syncing the arduino and processing IDEs so I was able to use the arduino clone in my application. Instructions link here: Arduino and Processing
Once I finished downloading the nessessary libraries in the specific locations, I was then able to use more language in Processing. I played around with the arduino example called “servo” to learn it’s manipulations. Once I was comfortable with the software, I learned to place image files into the program. Below shows my final program used for my assignment:
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import processing.serial.*;
import cc.arduino.*;
Arduino arduino;
PImage fab;
PImage oneCoolGuy;
int rect1X = 50, rect1Y = 150; // Position of 1st square button
int rect2X = 300, rect2Y = 150; // Position of 2nd square button
boolean rect1Over = false; //declare variables for over buttons
boolean rect2Over = false;
void setup() {
oneCoolGuy = loadImage("brandon.PNG");
fab = loadImage("fab.jpg");
size(500, 500); //set size of window
background(0, 0, 0); //sets up background color
println(Arduino.list()); //lists available serial ports
arduino = new Arduino (this, Arduino.list()[0], 57600);
//use above line to change the serial port of your arduino
arduino.pinMode(11, Arduino.SERVO); //Configure digital pins to control servo motors
arduino.servoWrite(11, 0);
}
void draw() {
update(mouseX, mouseY); //read where the mouse is
if (rect1Over == true) { //check to see if mouse is over rectangle
image(oneCoolGuy, 50, 150, 150, 150); //change image to brandon
}
else {
image(fab, rect1X, rect1Y, 150, 150); //keep image as logo
}
if (rect2Over == true) { //check to see if mouse is over rectangle
image(oneCoolGuy,300, 150, 150, 150); //change image to brandon
}
else {
image(fab, rect2X, rect2Y, 150, 150); //keep image as logo
}
}
void update(int x, int y) {
if ( overRect(rect1X, rect1Y, 150, 150) ) {
rect1Over = true;
} else {
rect1Over = false;
}
if ( overRect(rect2X, rect2Y, 150, 150) ) {
rect2Over = true;
} else {
rect2Over = false;
}
}
void mousePressed() {
if (rect1Over) {
arduino.servoWrite(11, 180);
}
if (rect2Over) {
arduino.servoWrite(11, 0);
}
}
boolean overRect(int x, int y, int width, int height) {
if (mouseX >= x && mouseX <= x+width &&
mouseY >= y && mouseY <= y+height) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
Next was to give a purpose to the servo motor. I decided to design and lasercut a head shape with multiple gears turning all made from 3mm plywood. I customly attached the servo to one gear for it to turn two more gears in sequence.
Below shows how I wired my Satshakit to the PC and servo motor. You will notice that I used a breadboard to better distribute power from my FDTI cable to both the arduino and the servo motor.
The goal was to spin the servo motor 90 degrees each way. Each of the two buttons determine the direction of the motor turning.
Problems That Occured
-Not having any (single) female jumper wires to connect more than one power line to the devices needed.
FIX: Using the breadboard itself as the female ends/ power needs
-The plastic gear on the servo continued to slip as it turned.
FIX: Customizing a slotted joint and using small screws/glue to hold it all together.


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The following examples are live: Basic, Many Records and Advanced.


World editor
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Lets find out about TatEngine World editor.
So we have some stuff here.
Basic concent : everything is node, node have links to other nodes (A) and data for other nodes (B). Basicly it's same as unity component system concept (pure aggregation scene graph).
Also node have data that not exposed to other nodes (not linkable).
There are a lot of node types.
Just put cursor to some free place, and click on transform node type, so you create node.
Select it, and press delete (Del), and it goes away.
Now select all nodes (Ctrl + A) and press fold (Shift + Space).
Select nodes one by one, and move it with right mouse button, press shift to align to grid, make it prettier.
Basicly node with type "sprite" is sprite instance, it has point where it should be rendered, and material with what it shoud rendered. It also has layer in which it should rendered.
Transform define world point with position, rotation (quaternion) and scale. Also it can have parent.
Materials are more complex. You will find out details in editor_notes.txt
Texture just define image (full or just part of it). Define size and origin of sprite (size and origin field, note - origin field used only when origin enabled is true). And some flags.
Just press Tools -> Update texture params and it will fill origin, size, imgSize, pixelA, pixelB from image file.
Just create texture, material, transform and sprite. Connect them. And set texture file name to chess.png and press Update texture params.
Than select sprite and change it layer to -1.
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This trail is an introduction to generics. You may be familiar with similar constructs from other languages, most notably C++ templates. If so, you'll see that there are both similarities and important differences. If you are unfamiliar with look-a-alike constructs from elsewhere, all the better; you can start fresh, without having to unlearn any misconceptions.
Generics allow you to abstract over types. The most common examples are container types, such as those in the Collections hierarchy.
Here is a typical usage of that sort:
List myIntList = new LinkedList(); // 1 myIntList.add(new Integer(0)); // 2 Integer x = (Integer) myIntList.iterator().next(); // 3
Object
will be returned by the
iterator. To ensure the assignment to a variable of type Integer
is
type safe, the cast is required.
Of course, the cast not only introduces clutter. It also introduces the possibility of a run time error, since the programmer may be mistaken.
What if programmers could actually express their intent, and mark a list as being restricted to contain a particular data type? This is the core idea behind generics. Here is a version of the program fragment given above using generics:
List<Integer> myIntList = new LinkedList<Integer>(); // 1' myIntList.add(new Integer(0)); // 2' Integer x = myIntList.iterator().next(); // 3'
myIntList
. It specifies
that this is not just an arbitrary List
, but a List
of
Integer
,
written List<Integer>
. We say that List
is a generic
interface that
takes a type parameter--in this case, Integer
. We also specify
a type parameter when creating the list object.
Note, too, that the cast on line 3' is gone.
Now, you might think that all we've accomplished is to move the clutter
around. Instead of a cast to Integer
on line 3, we have
Integer
as
a type parameter on line 1'. However, there is a very big difference
here. The compiler can now check the type correctness of the program
at compile-time. When we say that myIntList
is declared with
type List<Integer>
,
this tells us something about the variable myIntList
, which holds true
wherever and whenever it is used, and the compiler will guarantee it.
In contrast, the cast tells us something the programmer thinks is true
at a single point in the code.
The net effect, especially in large programs, is improved readability and robustness.


Chapter 9 Base and grid plots
With base plots we mean the plot
methods as offered by base R. Higher-level plots created with ggplot2
, which are built on top of the grid
package, are discussed in chapter 10.
9.1 Base plots
The nice thing about base plots is that they work relatively simply, and can be built incrementally: after plotting a first element, it is possible to add further elements — like titles, axes, legends, annotations — with additional function calls. Making more complex plots such as faceted plots is more of a challenge with base plot. They may also be faster than e.g. ggplot2
. This chapter focuses on the base plot
methods for sf
and stars
objects, and in particular where they deviate from what one expects from base
R plots: default colors, color key placement, and multiple maps.
9.1.1 plot.sf
defaults
When we plot an sf
object with multiple attributes, we get to see multiple attributes, as shown in figure 9.1; the warning indicates that the number of attributes plotted has been limited (by the argument max.plot
), that by default no key is shown when multiple attributes are plotted, and that factor
or character
columns are plotted with a categorical scale, and numeric
variables by a continuous color scale.
system.file("gpkg/nc.gpkg", package="sf") %>% read_sf -> nc
plot(nc)
#> Warning: plotting the first 9 out of 14 attributes; use max.plot = 14 to plot
#> all
When the attributes values have a common reference system it makes sense to plot a key, and this can be done by
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))
nc %>% select(SID74, SID79) %>% plot(key.pos = 4) # 1: below; 4: right
9.1.2 Controlling color, color breaks, key
The color of each feature geometry, be it a point, line or polygon, can be controlled by passing a single value to argument col
, or to pass a vector with colors of length equal to the number of features. In that case, one does not get an automatic key, since the mapping of values to the key is unclear.
One can get further control over the key by specifying either of
breaks
, to one of theclassInt::classIntervals
styles (“fixed”, “sd”, “equal”, “pretty”, “quantile”, “kmeans”, “hclust”, “bclust”, “fisher”, or “jenks”), or to the numeric vector of (increasing) class break values,nbreaks
to set the number of color breaks, andpal
, to pass a function that generates a palette, e.g.rainbow
orviridis::viridis
.logz
which causes legend values to be plotted as 10-powersat
which controls the values plotted along the keykey.pos
plots the key beneath (1), left (2), over (3) or to the right (4) of the map(s), and is omitted ifNULL
.
An example is shown in figure 9.3.
plot(nc["SID74"], logz = TRUE, pal = viridis::viridis,
breaks = c(0,.5,1,1.5,2,2.5), at = c(0,.5,1,1.5,2,2.5),
key.width = lcm(1.3), key.length = 1)
For factor variables, the key shows factor levels, and key.length
and/or key.width
may need to be further controlled to get them look good.
9.1.3 Incrementally adding plot elements
We can add elements to maps without keys by simply adding add = TRUE
. When a map has a key, the initial plot
command needs to have reset = FALSE
.
The reason for this is as follows. When plotting a map with a key on the side, in base plot one needs to cut up the plotting region in a region for the map, and a region for the key, similar to using par(mfrow = c(1,2))
. In order to not keep the plot region splitting active for subsequent, unrelated plots, it is removed before the plot function returns. This means that by default one cannot add elements to a plot.
In case we want to add elements to a plot, we need to instruct plot
not to reset, and then can add elements if we set add = TRUE
, as shown in figure 9.4.
plot(nc["SID74"], pal = viridis::viridis, reset = FALSE, graticule = TRUE, axes = TRUE)
plot(st_point(c(-81.498,36.434)), col = 'red', pch = 1, cex = 4, lwd = 3, add = TRUE)
layout(matrix(1)) # manually reset the plotting region split-up
9.1.4 plotting graticules and axes
A graticule (section 8.5) is added if graticule = TRUE
is set; figure 9.4 gives an example. Axes are by default omitted: they take space, and often other map elements, such as boundaries or coast lines, are sufficient for orientation. Axes can be added with axes = TRUE
. They are given in values of the coordinate reference system of the data, unless a graticule is added, in which case they correspond to the graticule values.
9.1.5 plot.stars
defaults
The base plot method for stars
objects follows a number of parameters that were also discussed above for plot.sf
. These are: key.pos
, logz
, axes
, reset
, key.width
, key.length
nbreaks
, and breaks
.
The default for breaks
is "quantile"
; along with the default join_zlim = TRUE
this results in quantile values taken from all of the images shown in a composite plot to yeild color breaks. The result of this is shown in figure 4.1, the default stars
plot for a multi-band raster. If join_zlim
is FALSE
, color breaks are computed separately for each subplot, and a joint legend is not possible, hence, no legend is drawn. For large datasets with more than 10000 pixels, a (regular) sample of size 10000 is taken to determine quantiles, rather than using the entire dataset. The col
argument provides the pallette used, and not a color vector for each pixel; by default a linear grey scale is used. box_col
is the color used for the boxes around subplots.
With the default of downsample = TRUE
, plot.stars
does not plot many more pixels than can be seen on the plotting device.
As shown in the left subfigure of 4.2, the rgb
parameter can be used to specify three bands for creating rgb colors. maxColorValue
, by default the maximum of all bands, can be used to specify the maximum pixel values for scaling pixel values into rgb components.
The effect of setting text_values
and interpolate
are shown in figure 9.5 showing a 10 x 10 cell raster. text_values
prints cell values as text, e.g. for numeric examples. interpolate
interpolates rgb
values, and seems to limit its extent to the raster cell centres, rather than corners.
tif = system.file("tif/L7_ETMs.tif", package = "stars")
library(stars)
x = read_stars(tif)
par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
plot(x[,1:10,1:10,1], text_values=TRUE, key.pos = NULL, col = viridis::viridis(10),
reset = FALSE)
plot(x[,1:10,1:10,1:3], rgb=1:3, interpolate = TRUE, reset = FALSE)
Some rasters cannot be plotted by R’s image
, but have to be plotted as features (polygons or points); examples are rotated, sheared and curvilinear grids. Figure 9.6 shows a sheared grid, and illustrates st_as_sf
for conversion to simple features, merge
for whether to merge polygons with identical values, and as_points
to plot raster cells as points.
par(mfrow = c(1, 3))
xs = adrop(x[,1:10,1:10,1])
attr(attr(xs, "dimensions"), "raster")$affine = c(1, 3)
plot(xs, col = viridis::viridis(10), key.pos = NULL, reset = FALSE)
plot(st_as_sf(xs, as_points = FALSE, merge = FALSE), pal = viridis::viridis,
key.pos = NULL, reset = FALSE)
plot(st_as_sf(xs, as_points = TRUE, merge = FALSE), key.pos = NULL,
pal = viridis::viridis, pch = 16, reset = FALSE)
9.2 Combining base plots
Figure 9.6 is an exmaple of multiple plots of stars
and sf
objects in one plot. They could be combined because they lack the automatic legend key.
The explanation about the need for parameter reset
and the examples above with multiple subplots setting it to FALSE
already show the limitations of this approach: if we want a key next to each map, we cannot easily combine maps in subplots, using sf
‘s or stars
’ plot
methods. If we can do without the automatic legend, all is fine.
A more flexible approach to combine maps and map elements into a composite is using package grid
as shown in the next section, or ggplot
facet plots (which also use grid
) as will be shown in chapter 10 about ggplot2
.
9.3 Grid plots and viewports
Package grid
, one of the R base packages, takes a more structured approach to building plots than base plot
does. It allows the creation of graphic objects (objects of class grob
, or grobs) that contain all the information for plotting, and the definition of viewports, plotting subregions within which coordinate systems can easily be redefined. Packages like ggplot2
(chapter 10) and lattice
are built upon the logic provided by grid
.
Package sf
contains st_as_grob
methods for all feature geometry classes. Figure 9.7 shows a simple plot of all the nc
counties drawn using grid functions.
library(grid)
system.file("gpkg/nc.gpkg", package="sf") %>% read_sf -> nc
st_viewport(nc) %>% pushViewport
st_geometry(nc) %>% lapply(st_as_grob) %>% lapply(grid.draw) -> x
The st_as_grob
methods are exported by sf
and used by ggplot2::geom_sf
to convert geometries into plot-able objects; this way, ggplot2
needs no knowledge on how geometries are stored in R objects.


Vital Signs**
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Vital Signs (a.k.a. “Welby’s” Vital Signs on Google) is a voice assistant app currently available on both the Alexa and Google platforms that assists users in collecting, analyzing, and sharing health metrics with caregivers. I was inspired to develop the app during my participation in the “PARTNERED” research project at Johns Hopkins, which just recently concluded. Vital Signs enables patients like myself to track our PGHD (Patient Generated Health Data), have the data analyzed by smart “bots”, and share results with caregivers.
Vital Signs is designed to be customizable, so that it can be easily adapted to different use cases. By default, Vital Signs records the four primary vital signs: body temperature, respiration rate, pulse, and blood pressure, but the app can be modified to collect any set of health metrics simply by emailing a new voice script that specifies what data to collect. In the same fashion, the app can be tailored with user-defined “webhooks” to integrate custom techniques for analyzing and plotting the data.
To get started with Vital Signs, do the following:
First, for Amazon devices, follow these instructions to enable the skill (there’s no need to do this on Google)
Second, grant the skill/action permission to access your first name and the email address associated with your Amazon/Google account. Vital Signs uses these to communicate with you during various dialogue interactions.
For Alexa devices, open the Alexa app – or login to alexa.amazon.com – then select: Skills > Your Skills > Vital Signs > Settings > Manage Permissions, and turn on the requested options.
For Google devices, the action will talk you through the steps to link your account.
Finally, ask Alexa/Google to “Talk to (Welby’s) Vital Signs”, and create your account.
Vital Signs understands the following commands:
“Create account” will set up your initial Vital Signs account.
“Enter data” will prompt you for your current vital signs. By default, these include your blood pressure (expressed as number “over” number), your pulse (in beats per minute), your respiration rate (in breaths per minute), and finally, your body temperature in degrees Fahrenheit (expressed as number “point” number).
“Analyze data” will provide stats on the data you've entered, one health metric at a time. Stats include the minimum and maximum values for the metric, the median, the average, and the standard deviation. Metrics are stored under separate columns within the history file. To get stats for just a particular metric, provide the column # for the metric as part of the utterance, e.g. “analyze data for column two”, or simply “analyze column two”.
“Send report” will email you a file (csv format) with your vital sign history, as well as a graph of the data. In addition to your own data, you’ll also receive the vital sign history file and graph for any user who has identified you as their proxy. See below for more information about proxies.
“Erase data” will clear out your entire vital sign history.
“Update proxies” will email you instructions for how to add or delete a proxy on your account.
“Delete account” will completely remove your Vital Signs account, any data stored under the account, and all of your proxy assignments.
We’ve all been in situations where we’d like to know how someone is doing, but we can’t be around to check on them. The Vital Signs proxy feature is designed to handle this. Let’s say Mary is currently a Vital Signs user, and John – Mary’s son – would like to access Mary’s data. Here’s how John (with Mary’s permission) can do this:
First, John needs to create his own Vital Signs account. John may not be interested in recording/tracking his own vital signs, but he still needs to have an account if he wants to read his mom’s data.
Next, Mary needs to give John permission to access her data, i.e. she must designate John as a proxy. To do this, Mary opens Vital Signs, and tells the assistant she wants to update her proxy info. The tool then sends Mary an email message that lists her current proxies, and gives instructions for sending a reply that adds (or deletes) a proxy on her account. Mary then submits a reply adding John as a proxy. Afterwards, Mary can ask Vital Signs to resend her proxy info, so she can confirm that John has been added to her proxy list.
Lastly, once John has been named as Mary’s proxy, then whenever he asks Vital Signs to send a report, the tool will send John both his own data, as well has his mom’s.
There is no limit on the number of proxies a user can associate with his/her account. Thus, for example, if Mary had other children she could make all of them proxies. Similarly, there is no restriction on the number of times a single user can be named as a proxy for someone else. So, for example, if John also wants to keep tabs on his dad, Jim, then Jim can also name John as a proxy on his (Jim’s) account.
When you enter data into Vital Signs, the tool follows a script to prompt for input. Here’s the default script:
What is your
"temperature", in degrees Fahrenheit?
What is your
"respiration rate", in breaths per minute?
What is
your "pulse", in beats per minute?
What is your "blood
pressure"?
#Temperature,Respiration,Pulse,Systolic,Diastolic
Vital Signs uses the words enclosed “in quotes” to build the confirmation message after you enter all of your data. Those words are also used as the column headings in your report.csv file, unless you supply a specific header line (beginning with “#”) at the end of the script.
In order to replace the default script with one of your own, simply send an email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with the word “script” somewhere in the subject line. For example, here’s an email that changes the script to one that tracks your current weight and how many calories you’ve eaten:
From:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>To:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Subject:
New vital signs script
What is your "weight",
in pounds?
How many “calories” have you consumed?
Data values can be numbers (with or without decimals), names, or yes/no responses. When appropriate, a data value can be left blank by responding “skip”, “blank”, “empty”, or “null” when prompted for input.
For users who want to customize how their data is plotted & analyzed, they can specify their own webhooks (URLs) for each of these functions. The “send report” command generates plots by submitting the user’s report.csv data to a webhook. The app passes the csv file as raw HTTP POST data (not a multipart form!), and expects an image/png in return. The default webhook for generating plots is posted on the Vital Signs github site. Users can replace the default webhook with one of their own simply by sending an email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with the word “plot” somewhere in the subject line, and then including the webhook URL in the body of the message. The “analyze data” command also employs a webhook to process the csv data. The default URL can be replaced in the same manner as indicated above for custom plots, i.e. by sending an email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with the word “analyze” somewhere the subject line, and entering the URL in the body of the message. The app passes the csv file as raw HTTP POST data (not a multipart form!), and expects English text in return. The text should be a description of the analysis in text/plain format that will be voiced by the assistant device. If the user invokes the analyze command with a column #, that # will be passed to the webhook as a “column” variable in the QUERY_STRING field. The default webhook for analyzing csv data is posted on the Vital Signs github site.
Lastly, in some cases a user might want to replace the csv file that’s stored under their system account with a different version. This can be done by sending an email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with the word “data” somewhere in the subject line, and the new csv contents in the body of the message.
This privacy notice applies to both the Vital Signs Alexa skill and Google action. In general it covers:
What personally identifiable information (PII) is collected while using the skill/action, how it is used, and with whom it is shared.
The security controls in place to protect your information.
How you can administer your information.
Vital Signs is intended for personal use. The information you share with the tool – your first name, email address, and vital sign data – is not sold or shared with any other public or private entity. Only you, your designated proxies, and myself (as system administrator) have access to the data.
A variety of security controls have been implemented to protect your data:
Your vital sign information is stored on a virtual private server (VPS) that is physically hosted and secured by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The Vital Signs account on the VPS is locked down so it is only accessible to the system administrator (me).
Your name and email address are stored as clear text on the server, but your vital sign history file is encrypted on disk using the Linux ccrypt utility. The encryption key is not stored locally, but is passed to the server by the skill/action.
Whenever your data is transmitted across a network (e.g. during HTTP and SMTP sessions), it is encrypted using TLS.
The tool uses gmail to send/receive email. All email folders associated with the administrator account are purged daily.
If at any time you’d like to remove your information from the system, simply ask the skill/action to erase your data, which removes just your history file, or to delete your account, which removes everything about you: your name, email address, and vital sign history.
It’s worth saying a word about HIPAA. HIPAA stands for the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”. It’s a law passed back in 1996 that mandates certain data privacy and security provisions to safeguard medical information. Does HIPAA apply to information that a patient submits to a health app like Vital Signs, and if so, how? Thankfully, the Department of Health and Human services has already considered this scenario, and published guidelines on their website to assist app developers. According to those guidelines, Vital Signs is not subject to HIPAA regulations. Here’s an excerpt from the guidelines:
Scenario:
Consumer downloads a health app to her smartphone. She populates it with her own information. For example, the consumer inputs blood glucose levels and blood pressure readings she obtained herself using home health equipment.
Based on the Facts Presented in the Scenario, Is App Developer a HIPAA Business Associate?
No. Developer is not creating, receiving, maintaining or transmitting protected health information (PHI) on behalf of a covered entity or another business associate. The consumer is using the developer’s app to help her manage and organize her information without any involvement of her health care providers.
I’d very much welcome feedback on the tool. Feel free to email me your comments at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>For additional details about how the tool is implemented, you can check out the software on my github site.


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Russia's Putin slams sanctions, says they impede global growth
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the global economy has been suffering from protectionism and sanctions.
“Without a doubt, the global economy has been influenced by the wider usage of unfair competition, unilateral sanctions, including those that are politically motivated,” Putin told the leaders of the BRICS countries in Brazil.


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Lidos Improvement Proposals (LIPs) describe standards for the Lidos platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, and contract standards.
Your first PR should be a first draft of the final LIP. It must meet the
formatting criteria enforced by the build (largely, correct metadata in the
header). An editor will manually review the first PR for a new LIP and assign
it a number before merging it. Make sure you include a
discussions-to
header with the URL to a discussion forum or open
GitHub issue where people can discuss the LIP as a whole.
If your LIP requires images, the image files should be included in a
subdirectory of the `assets` folder for that LIP as follow:
assets/lip-X
(for lip X). When linking to an image in the
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When you believe your LIP is mature and ready to progress past the WIP phase,
you should ask to have your issue added to the next governance call where it
can be discussed for inclusion in a future platform upgrade. If the community
agrees to include it, the LIP editors will update the state of your LIP to
Approved
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This page demonstrates playing music on the robot. Pass in an array of notes giving the midi not followed by the duration in 1/64 of seconds. Midi notes less than 32 or more than 127 are played as rests.


You might have noticed that almost all of our examples are somewhat badly behaved. They open communication channels to the rest of the world and then
just leave them open. Also they fork plenty of processes (#client
and #server
) and never wait for them.
This would have been extremely redundant in this tutorial. But here – for the sake of completeness – pseudo-code for cleaning up, things you should also worry about:
channels.each do |channel|
channel.close
end
Process.waitall
Cod is NOT thread-safe. This means that you simply need one communication channel per thread that wants to do communication. Which should be just a few, anyway.
The reason for this is plain when you look at the beanstalkd protocol – it is stateful. So even if cod was thread-safe, the connection it manages would still not be.
You’ve made it this far and read through my whole tutorial. Well, thanks, I guess. For all the fish.
Let me know what you think of all this. If I mistyped or miswrote something, let me know. Or better even, submit a pull request against the documentation.
Let us, together, create a new world of interconnected machines, talking day and night. And then go up in the mountains, and hide, and be quiet.


Class (Singleton) used to manage the time of our main application.
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#include <TimeManager.hpp>
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Class (Singleton) used to manage the time of our main application.
◆ calculateFrameRate()
| double engine::TimeManager::calculateFrameRate |
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bool |
writeToConsole | ) |
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Calculates our current scene's frames per second and displays it in the console.
- Parameters
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| writeToConsole | : A boolean to indicate whether we display the value in the console. |
- Returns
- The current scene's frames per second.
◆ getTime()
| double engine::TimeManager::getTime |
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| ) |
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Returns the current time in seconds.
- Returns
- The current time in seconds.
◆ sleep()
| void engine::TimeManager::sleep |
( |
int |
milliseconds | ) |
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Pauses the current thread for an amount of time in milliseconds.
- Parameters
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| milliseconds | : The duration of sleep in milliseconds. |
◆ currentTime
| double engine::TimeManager::currentTime = 0 |
The current time of the manager instance.
◆ deltaTime
| double engine::TimeManager::deltaTime = 0 |
The time slice that stores the total time in seconds that has elapsed since the last frame.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
- /home/vincent/Documents/Github/contemplative-game/engine/include/engine/TimeManager.hpp


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I
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Here's my resume.
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Software Engineer | 2011 - Present
Design, develop, and maintain web pages that use cURL, WebRTC, WebGL, ImageMagick, and SVG
Install, maintain, and manage a Learning Record Store that enables learner activity tracking in virtual worlds and web-based learning environments
Design and develop web-based learning environments that send learner data to the Learning Record Store via the Experience API
Write and review technical documents including Software Installation Instructions, Software Users Guides, Project Proposals, and White Papers
Assist with project demonstrations to customers and key leadership in interested organizations
Test and perform code reviews on various software components and projects
University of Mary Washington Summer Science Institute
Application Development Scholar | May 2010 - June 2010
Designed, implemented, and tested an iPhone application with guidance from a Computer Science professor
Prepared an abstract describing the application
Formally presented my work to fellow Scholars and professors
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 I don’t want it to be free. I want to pay for it. Tumblr is one of the few services on earth that refuses to take my money.
I feel exactly the same way. Money in exchange for reliability is a much better deal than free with downtime. I truly don’t understand the desire to give something away for free at any cost and when it’s at the cost of actually providing the thing you want to provide for free the whole situation is absurd.
This reminds me of something I wrote a year ago about This American Life begging the listeners of their free podcast to donate money to offset the huge cost of providing the podcast for free. It don’t make no damn sense.


To create an information model repository in the graphical user interface
1 Select File > Change Repository.
The Specify repository dialog box appears.
Note: If you already created a repository, the last opened repository appears in the Repository field.
2 Click New.
The Specify repository parameters dialog box appears.
3 Next to the Repository field, do one of the following:
• Type the path of an existing directory that you want to specify as your new repository.
• Click the browse button (...) to select or create a directory.
4 In the License file field, do one of the following:
• Type your license file information, for example, <PortNumber>@<LicenseServerHostname>.
• Click the browse button (...) to select the license file.
5 The Build Server Host field specifies the host name of the Submission Check server. By default, the Build Server Host field displays the name of the machine that the selected repository resides on. For more information on configuring Submission Check, see Submission Check.
To specify a different build server host, type the name of the machine.
6 To display additional repository information, click Advanced.
Two more fields appear in the Specify repository parameters dialog box.
By default, the Temporary Build Area and Temporary files area fields display the root path of the selected repository with an appended
/tmp directory.
7 The Temporary Build Area field specifies the writable directory where local builds are created during the model build process.
To choose a different temporary build area, do one of the following in the Temporary Build Area field:
• Type the path of an existing directory that you want to specify as your temporary build area.
• Click the browse button (...) to select or create a temporary build area directory.
8 The Temporary Files area field specifies the writable directory for the model browser’s temporary files.
To choose a different temporary files area, do one of the following in the Temporary files area field:
• Type the path of an existing directory that you want to specify as your temporary files area.
• Click the browse button (...) to select or create a temporary files area directory.
9 Click OK.
The new repository appears in the Navigator panel.