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Mark de Castrique
Author Mark de Castrique at library on Monday
Published 12:00 am Thursday, July 11, 2019
SALISBURY – Readers are people who have a curiosity about life, says author Mark de Castrique. "They appreciate how stories have the power to raise questions, demonstrate the good in humanity, and teach us how to be better people."
The author of 18 books and a current resident of Charlotte, de Castrique will headline a Rowan Public Library Book Talk on Monday, July 15, at 6:30 p.m. The event will be in Stanback Auditorium at RPL Headquarters, 201 W. Fisher St. All ages are welcome.
The RPL Book Talk is part of summer reading programming, which this year is themed around "Universe of Stories." "I reached out to de Castrique because his stories are so popular with our patrons. I have to keep replacing his books in our collection because they get read to tatters and fall apart! His books hit a sweet spot for mystery fans that is layered and intricately-plotted, but also have humor and the familiarity of places and characters we recognize. These books cross age, gender and racial lines with our readers," said Abigail Hardison, RPL adult services supervisor.
For de Castrique, interactions with his readers are extremely valuable. "I also like hearing what they read into my books that I hadn't intended, but were valid observations or criticisms. That's the beauty of book clubs – everyone reads the same physical book but each reader recreates the story in a personal way."
He tends to write stories set in places he's lived, including Western N.C., Charlotte, and Washington, D.C. The Sam Blackman and Barry Clayton series, both popular with RPL readers, take advantage of the Blue Ridge mountain setting, and "A Conspiracy of Genes" is a middle grade book set in a children's hospital in Charlotte. While the nation's capital is featured in "The 13th Target," a political thriller about a former secret service agent framed for murder. "[I] would certainly consider any setting that supported a good story. Murder in the Rowan County Library," de Castrique joked.
"I think we'd have quite a few readers lined up for that one," Hardison assured.
Readers will soon have another of de Castrique's titles to enjoy, too. "Murder in Rat Alley," a Sam Blackman mystery, will be released at the end of the year. "The case uncovers a murder at an Apollo Space Program tracking facility tucked away in Pisgah National Forest. Such a site existed and has an interesting history that I use for my story," he explained.
A reader himself, he also has favorite writers who he appreciates, like Ian Rankin's "complex and compelling mysteries" and Simon Van Booy's non-linear narratives: "Van Booy used the technique not as a gimmick but as a finely regimented tool in service to the story," de Castrique explained.
Fans of de Castrique will have the opportunity on July 15 to learn more about the author's inspirations. The RPL Book Talk will include a question and answer period after de Castrique's presentation.
"I'm looking forward to the July 15 program and honored to be invited as part of a Universe of Stories (the 2019 summer reading theme). Thanks to the Rowan County Library for keeping that universe ever expanding," said de Castrique.
For more information about this program, contact Hardison at Abigail.Hardison@rowancountync.gov or 704-216-8248.
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Words from Founder
Mark Wang
As the founder of United World College Changshu China, as the college's first Chair and as a UWC alumnus, I'd like to welcome you to our website.
UWC Changshu China opened in 2015, the latest chapter of the United World Colleges story that started more than 50 years ago.
When UWC Atlantic College welcomed its first students in 1962, the world was facing many challenges. 1962 was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the point at which many people believed the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States would escalate from Cold War to real, nuclear war. In 1962, the US was also becoming further embroiled in the Vietnam War. On the home, a group of white segregationists in the USA started rioting, protesting against the enrollment of black student James Meredith into the University of Mississippi.
However, the world also saw hope for a better future in 1962. The Russian-American composer Igor Stravinsky, regardless of the tension between his home and his adopted countries, returned to Leningrad forty-eight years after he left the Soviet Union, and conducted two concerts. Elderly and physically frail, Igor still chose to raise a baton in peace instead of a weapon in hostility.
Atlantic College was founded in a similar spirit. Dr Kurt Hahn, a German educationalist, was also deeply troubled by the Cold War, witnessing the suffering Germany was facing through its divisions. At a NATO defence college he had seen men who had formerly been at war with one another now working together and from that observation grew his idea that peace could come from young people in their most formative years living and studying together. This was the idea behind Atlantic College and each subsequent UWC college. The mission and values that have been passed down from one generation to another have stood the test of time: to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.
I believe that this mission is even more relevant today. Peace and sustainability are without doubt the biggest challenges facing us. Increased inequality; the rise of nationalism; climate change; the exacerbation of conflict between and within countries and the tides of refugees that result. UWC's role in educating young people to become change makers for a better future – and the need for a community that works towards a more peaceful and sustainable future – are greater than ever before.
On September 30, 2015, UWC Changshu China became the fifteenth UWC college. We welcomed founding students from 54 different countries and regions. When the next students arrived a year later, there were 99 countries and regions in our college community
UWC Changshu China was established after 15 years of relentless effort by many determined men and women – most of us ourselves UWC alumni. We worked together to realise a vision that I had formed many years before.
When I was 12, I narrowly escaped death in an air crash. My lower limbs were paralysed. In the long and painful process of treatment and rehabilitation, I went through ups with hope and downs with disillusion. It was my mother's willpower that encouraged me not to give up – she taught me to be resilient and strong. Five years later, I could stand without the aid of crutches, and I successfully graduated from middle and high school.
In 1998, I was offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to attend UWC Red Cross Nordic in Norway after HM Queen Sonja's state visit to China. My two years in UWC totally changed my life. I learned to be independent, generous and respectful; I learned to be brave and to have a strong sense of social responsibility. More importantly, I learned to pursue my dreams. Although I had to walk on crutches, I was encouraged by my teachers not only to study hard, but also to engage in activities such as kayaking, swimming and skiing. That experiential education in a diverse community has been unforgettable and it has been of benefit throughout my life so far. Even before I graduated from UWC, I had a dream of bringing a UWC college to China. It was my determination and my UWC experience that helped me to make it happen.
So much passion and dedication went into the founding of this school. At times, we grew frustrated with setbacks, but we never gave up. Some words of Kurt Hahn inspired us all to keep going: "There is more in you than you think." Ultimately, we found an outstanding partner in the government of the City of Changshu and the result is the school that we see today on the shores of Lake Kuncheng.
For those of us who worked to make the school a reality, it was never just about the construction of a college. Far more important was the mission, values and educational principles that have guided UWC since its inception and that we knew would be as vital to China in the twenty-first century as they are in all parts of the world. Our achievement is therefore not in building the school, but in seeing each new generation of students joining us and experiencing an education like no other.
I hope you enjoy finding out more about our fantastic school through this website and look forward to meeting some of you in person in the near future.
Mark Jiapeng Wang
Founder and Chairman of UWC Changshu China

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Q: Image processing: smart solution for converting superixel (128x128 pixel) coordinates needed A cancer CT picture is stored inside a unsigned short array (1-dimensional).
I have the location information of the cancer region inside the picture, but the coordinates (x,y) are in superpixel (128x128 unsigned short). My task is to highlight this region.
I already solved this one by converting superpixel coordinates into a offset a can use for the unsigned short array. It works fine but i wonder if there is a smarter way to solve this problem, since my solution needs 3 nested for-loops.
Is it possible to access the ushort array "superpixelwise", so i can navigate the ushort array in superpixels.
I know this does not work. To give you an idea what I was thinking of:
typedef struct
{
   unsigned short[128x128]
}
spix;

spix *spixptr;

unsigned short * bufptr = img->getBuf();

spixptr = bufptr;

Update 1:
Yep its vague, let me try again with a picture:
[0][1][2] ... [127]| ... [x] |
[1]                |         |
[2]                |         |
.                  |         |
.                  | <-- this is a superpixel
.                  |         |
[127]              |         |
--------------------         |
.                            |
.                            |
.                            |
[y]                          |<--whole picture stored in a ushort* buf = new ushort[x*y]
------------------------------

I like to access the 128x128 ushorts at once with a pointer, so I can memcpy data into the 128x128 field.
Update 2:
The bitblit transfer hint helped a lot.

A: This is difficult to answer, since it's rather vague.
If you only mean "how do I access a pixel at (x,y) given this definition of an image", the answer shouldn't be very surprising:
typedef struct
{
    unsigned short data[128 * 128]; // This was broken in the question.
} spix;

void spix_set_pixel(spix *s, unsigned int x, unsigned int y, unsigned short value)
{
  s->data[y * 128 + x] = value;
}

Not sure at all if this answers your question, but it sounds ... plausible, at least.

A: From what I understand you have:

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*A large image that is a CT scan

*A rectangular area within that image that is a cancer

Then it gets a bit harder to understand. I believe you want to create some sort of class so that you can effectively access 128x128 blocks of the image as if they were a single pixel.
So if the image was 1024x1024 pixels you'd want to be able to access it as a 8x8 grid of 128x128 pixel blocks. Now if this is the case what you need is to create a class that represents one of these 128x128 blocks. This class should reference the image, so that you don't copy the image data, and should contain all of the operations that you'd want to do on that "superpixel".
However if all you want to do is to be able to extract out a particular 128x128 block from the larger image then what you need is the bit blit algorithm. The bit block transfer (usually called just blit) will allow you to copy the selected bit of data from the larger image to a smaller one. The algorithm can also be adapted to do almost anything you want to a particular area in the larger image.
If a blit is all you need then every relatively modern graphics API should have blit function(s).

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Q: fail2ban - have more than one regex in same filter file I have the following in my fail2ban/filter.d/apache-scripts.conf file:
[INCLUDES] before = botsearch-common.conf

[Definition]

failregex = (<HOST>).*(GET|HEAD|POST|PUT)\ \/(site\/|blog\/|old\/|new\/|web\/|dev\/).*
            (<HOST>).*GET\ \/(phpmyadmin|phpmanager|[pP][hH][pP][mM][yY][aA][dD][mM][iI][nN]).*
            (<HOST>).*\"GoScraper\"$

ignoreregex = 192\.168\.3\.[0-9]{1,2}\ (myhostname\.com|192.168.1.1)

So - can I have multiple failregex in the same filter.d file? I can't find anything online if I can have multiple regex and if this is the correct format..

A: https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/MANUAL_0_8#Configuration
The documentation URL is for v0.8, but the syntax has not significantly changed. The short answer is 'yes', you can place more than one regex per line and the software will try to match them one at a time to the logs.


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How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World
The Founder of Taco Bell Quarterly Tells All
By MM Carrigan
Taco Bell Quarterly is the literary magazine for Taco Bell-inspired literature. When I started it, I had heard the jokes about the looming cease and desist that Taco Bell would eventually banhammer down upon me. Rebellious and having no working knowledge of copyright laws, my motto was RIDE OR DIE UNTIL THE CEASE AND DESIST. But the truth is, I knew it wouldn't happen. Taco Bell was my best friend. We grew up together. They wouldn't do me like that. This is the story of how I started an indie Taco Bell lit mag out of my basement, encouraged writers to dream más, and hustled free tacos out of Daddy Taco for the literary world.
Brands have been my friends since I was a kid. They raised me, babysat me, fed me, and loved me. It was the Reagan era. There was the AIDS crisis, the looming threat of nuclear war, everybody's parents getting divorced. I was part of a lonely, latchkey generation. I watched a lot of television. I daydreamed Ronald McDonald was my father, Vanna White my mother. I wanted Ed McMahon to be my grandfather, and some mutant conglomeration of the Golden Girls for my grandmother. Or, fine, just Rose. It was like the 1980s version of wanting to grow up in the Brady Bunch house.
My actual family loved me, too, and on Friday nights, we went to Taco Bell, the special occasion dinner out, growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore. We had a brief affair with Chi Chi's, too, until the whole Hep A and bankruptcy thing, and that's what happens when you cheat on your restaurant marriage. Taco Bell took us back and remained loyal through my teenage years and college, through the broke-assness and bills of adulthood, through breakups, and the girl I once loved with the pixie haircut, who ordered from the menu ironically. She tilted her head when she spoke, that haircut sharp and severe as an axe, ordering with a tee-hee in her voice, as though she knew something the rest of us peasants weren't in on. But she didn't know this: my love was pure, my pain was pure, and my Taco Bell was pure.
It's the last place I had lunch with my mother, before she passed. She ordered two crunchy tacos and the nachos with the single cup of neon cheese. Same as usual. I ordered the Mexican pizza and a Nachos Supreme. Same as usual. It became an order etched in the permanent record of memory, grief, life. A fast food order, transfigured.
I found Taco Bell to be an exciting shapeshifting metaphor. We could be literature, transfigured. Our writing, pure. The images could be as deep as vats of ground beef, alluring as the buzzing lights on the beaconing sign, and as jaded as the drive-thru employees. It could be a great collective writing prompt. Or not. I could be the asshole who tried to start a Taco Bell literary magazine and failed. I had failed at everything else.
All the lit agents said nah? Ain't a right fit? They gave it careful consideration but sike? Then dream más with me. Let's eat these rejections.
I started Taco Bell Quarterly out of frustration with rejection. I had racked up over 100 rejections from literary agents, who had shown zero response to the essay collection I was peddling. I self-rejected, too. The literary magazines seemed as daunting as cliques in the school cafeteria. I felt alone. I was fresh off two years' worth of depression, writer's block, giving up—whatever you want to call it. I had not published a single thing of note, too trapped within my perfectionism to send anything out. The isolation, the depression, the rejection, the perfection: call it the writing life. Same as usual.
Write what you know. I had worked in fast food. I loved the comradery, the Us versus the World mentality. The future looked like everything and nothing from our view of the drive-thru window. Inside the honey brown tiles were slick like a Slip 'n Slide with grease. Old men with gummy dentures told me to smile more. I smuggled chicken nuggets and Beanie Baby Happy Meal toys in my starch-stiff uniform pants, an underground network of teenage sustenance and stealing for the fun of it.
The first issue of TBQ came out in August 2019, and the second issue in February 2020. The third issue is forthcoming in September 2020. I encourage writers to find "the white-hot center of their Taco Bell pain." Writers are a magical type of human who intuitively understand exactly whatever the fuck that means. But we also like poop jokes. Sometimes, that's simply what the pain is, and that's the whole story. It's shit. And you know, and I know.
The second issue garnered some national press. I was interviewed by the New York Post in the middle of a pandemic. I was on live television via Skype, on WGN Chicago Morning news. I was awkward and nervous, and I called Taco Bell "our writing overlords" while I was trying to casually ad-lib like a normal person—except I say things like that.
Indeed, the overlords had been watching since issue one. A few days after the second issue went live, I received an email from Taco Bell's advertising agency. They wanted to collaborate. I have asked them for the Taco Bell Endowment Fund for Literature. I imagine running a Taco Bell inspired literary non-profit that pays writers, funds Reaper Ranch fellowships, and publishes its decadent Annual Golden Omnibus of Taco Bell Literature. They haven't agreed, but they also haven't said no. In the meantime, I got in touch with Taco Bell's PR guy, Matt Prince, and asked him for some free food for writers. He obliged. This is how I managed to hustle out a few hundred tacos to hand out to writers.
The Taco Bell Literature Movement is upon us.
I decided to eat rejection. Get rejected, get a taco. All the lit agents said nah? Ain't a right fit? They gave it careful consideration but sike? Then dream más with me. Let's eat these rejections. Let's get fat and feast. Digest it deeply, let it roil in your guts. It cramps. It hurts. It burns. You know and I know what that means. But you keep hustling because you gotta eat. And we're not even talking money. It's just breathing. You do this because you gotta breathe. I see you. Let's eat.
Dream más with me. Throw out perfection. Create the ultimate low stakes, lowbrow art, like say, a Taco Bell lit mag. Compare it to Granta. Ploughshares. What up, New Yorker? Get writing. Just take it one layer at a time in that seven-layer burrito. Anne Lamott, bless, she gave us Bird by Bird. We do it Burrito by Burrito over here.
Dream más with me. Join us. Baseboards need scrubbing. Drive-thru's got a line out the ass. Lobby needs napkins. You've got a community now. The future looks like everything and nothing from our view. Grab your nametag and visor.
Even though I had given up, I still kept pitching my book. You know and I know how it goes. I was on query one hundred and a million. I decided to stop pitching a straight-forward book. Hell, I'm a queer person running a Taco Bell lit mag out of my basement. They were never going to want me in the straight pretty people club. Man, I've been having those weird dreams at night about trudging through sour cream in the dressing room at TJ Maxx: essays and other sample nightmares. Want it? Sign me. Let's go. Let's reach the top on a "wave of fire sauce." I actually said that. There I go again, trying to casually ad-lib. I got the agent.
Dream más with me. Write your dreams down. The ones you had as a child, longing for game show hosts in some abstract way, trudging through globs of dairy. Journey to the white-hot center, scold the roof of your mouth with that neon cheese, find your mother, your father, your loneliness, your dreams. The world needs your writing. Come get your rejection tacos.
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HARBINGER DOWN: Film Review
Posted on: August 8th, 2015
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly.
Before embarking on this review a certain amount of light needs shining on the sequence of events that prompted Alec Gillis and his Amalgamated Dynamics partner Tom Woodruff, Jr. to put their heads together and produce Harbinger Down. Universal Studios hired them for the practical special effects required for 2011's The Thing but ultimately most of their blood and sweat ended up being replaced by CGI effects during post production. The Dynamics duo went through a phase of post-Thingum depression until, in response to fans' questions as to what happened to their effects they uploaded a video on YouTube to showcase all the hard work they had put in. Said video caused such a stir amongst fans that it prompted Gillis and Woodruff, Jr. to get the ball rolling and fulfill their dream of producing their own feature. Both having been protégées of none other than Stan Winston, the special effects wizard responsible for the likes of Terminator and Aliens, Gillis promised fans on the Harbinger Down Kickstarter crowdfunding page "a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical animatronic and makeup effects."
So with Harbinger Down all set to release, did Gillis ultimately make good on his promise?
This question has a two-sided answer but, being a patsy for these kinds of films, the pros far outweigh the cons. Creature-feature fans will have an absolute field day with this I'm sure although those looking for a sui generis sci-fi film with a bit more to chew on might feel a little short-changed. With Gillis at the helm there was never a doubt that the effects team on board the Harbinger would deliver the goods in the creature department but unfortunately the script doesn't manage to ride the wave quite as capably as the special effects.
Harbinger Down certainly owes a lot to classic horror movies in terms of plot and pacing and whilst a few deviceful twists and turns are to be found, the film tends to trip over itself with over-excessive genuflection to cult creature classics like The Thing and Alien. Nonetheless, this is a film that was clearly made to nourish fans' pangs for practical creature-features and that it does in leaps and bounds.
The two leads, Lance Henriksen and Camille Balsamo, obviously have fun with their roles and positively flatter Gillis' script, regardless of all the homage galore to cult classics. Whilst Henriksen's stalwart Captain Graff character and Balsamo, as his seemingly docile granddaughter Sadie are both profound and appealing, the supporting cast put in legit performances yet never quite measure up to the protagonists which results in a somewhat inconsistent, lopsided affair. None of the supporting cast was bad by any means but I found myself constantly anticipating scenes featuring more of Henriksen and Balsamo.
Grumbles aside, this crabbing boat thrill-ride still manages to shake the audience up with plenty of shocks and eye-opening creature effects thanks to Gillis' keen eye for detail. So talented is this man and his effects team that the jolts keep coming even when we get up amazingly close and personal with the effects in all their monstrous magnificence. The only niggle I found to this regard was that Gillis' mastery of putting the fear of God into us was hampered by Benjamin L. Brown's almost found-footage style cinematography that oftentimes came into play. This may have been a conscious decision to keep the audience feeling as frantic as the cast or as a strategy to help "distort" or "conceal" the look of the creatures somewhat but I would have much preferred less full frontal shots of the creatures in exchange for steadier camerawork.
One enormously redeeming factor though is how the film perfectly replicates the desolate, icy tundra thanks to the miniature photography magic of Oscar-nominated model builders Pat McClung and Robert and Dennis Skotak. Their recreation of the sheer fear of being all alone on this ship really immerses the viewer even though it was shot entirely in a studio. This feeling is enhanced all the more by the talented Christopher Drake (Tusk, Tales of Halloween) whose score rivals the best of his film and videogame music to date, perfectly ramping up the feeling of isolation, claustrophobia and fear in each moment of the film.
So whilst Harbinger Down might not be a game-changer it unquestionably reaffirms the fact that the use of practical creature effects isn't dead by a long shot and is so much more capable of inducing spine-chilling fear than pretty much any CGI effects used today. Gillis has a few more scripts up his sleeve and he recently assured me that his next endeavor will be a whole different kettle of fish. Armed with the right script and ironing out a few creases that are sadly a little too apparent in Harbinger Down, I'll be first in line to see where he goes from here.
Words: Howard Gorman (@HowardGorman)


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If you're looking to take the family out to a nearby farm this fall, consider Hilger's Family Farm. Hilger's Family Farm is a great place to spend an autumn afternoon, and it's just a short drive away. With activities for all ages, the whole family can enjoy their time here. You can even buy fresh and locally-grown produce. Here's a quick run-down of what you will find at Hilger's Family Farm.
Upon arrival, you will see a nice play area near the Hilger barn. Your kids can pick out their own pumpkin in the pumpkin patch, or even go on a pony ride.
Inside the barn, there are bales of hay lining the floor of another play area. On the other side of the barn, there is another swing set, and even a small maze made out of straw that they can enjoy. Small children will have fun playing outdoors in the fresh, country air while you relax with a cup of apple cider.
The apple section inside the barn fills the area with the delicious scent of the fruit. There are a variety of different apples you can purchase, as well as caramel-covered apple treats.
Other produce available for purchase include peppers, potatoes, onions, garlic, and jars of fruit spreads. In addition to the pumpkins, they have a beautiful array of fall decorations you can take home, too.
While the farm is more geared towards small children and those shopping for locally-grown produce, there are a couple of activities that the whole family can enjoy. You can welcome the fall by exploring the corn-maze. If you don't feel like walking, they also have hay-rides, which the whole family can enjoy.
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LOL: Ken Cuccinelli Tells Annoying Leftist on CNN to "Shut Up!"
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What happened in Charlottesville over the weekend was horrific and condemned by all sides. Despite the right's condemnation of racism, the left still seems to believe all white conservatives have a thing for Hitler other than disgust. Tis not so. Alas, SJWs continue to lob these accusations every time they come across someone they disagree with. Such is the case below.
Former Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, appeared on CNN to discuss Charlottesville with Symone Sanders, Bernie Sander's former press secretary. Things got zesty.
"Can I finish, Symone?" asked Cuccinelli at one point during the "New Day" debate. "Will you just shut up for a minute and let me finish?"
Anchor Chris Cuomo was quick to jump in, saying, "Ken, you don't want to use language like that when you're talking to Symone. You can disagree, but you don't talk like that on this show. You know better."
You might mistake the lesbian feminist for a middle schooler having a fight over nail polish. She's actually frantically demanding Cuccinelli address what went down in Charlottesville. But did you notice what Cuccinelli was saying? I know it was hard to hear over the atomic mouth breathing going on, courtesy of Symone. He condemned the protest organizer, the protest, and the racist neo-nazis who bused to Charlottesville from all over the nation. Cuccinelli was making her point for her. But she didn't shut her whale sized orifice long enough to hear it.
Yes, this GIF and Cuccinelli's "expletive" were totally called for. Leftists can feel free to disagree with me, and I'll feel free to not care.
By the way, is it just me or does it seem like today's "reporting" is just a nausea inducing loop of people yelling stuff? Not that we'd expect much different from CNN anyway.


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Q: Is it possible with Electron to load a TypeScript file directly? Is it possible with Electron to load a TypeScript file directly without having to use tsc separately? Similar to how ts-node allows us to run ts code directly without having to do tsc + node individually.
It could work like this:
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<script type="text/typescript">
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In fact, while looking around, I found this: https://github.com/basarat/typescript-script
However, I couldn't make this work in Electron so far. Perhaps because I need to tweak the Content Security Policy somehow? And if yes, how? Or change something else?
And yes, I know it might be inefficient for larger projects to do this, but for my usecase, compiling on the fly is okay because the project is small and I just want to do fast prototyping without the complication of an added compilation step.

A: There is precedent like electron-compile https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-compile and you'll notice it is non trivial job: there are lot of edge case you need to handle and even after that there'll be unexpected side effect occurs. Though you can technically try, I would not recommend.


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Ranging from updates to Fair Housing Laws, to handling smoking tobacco or marijuana, to pest control issues, these new developments could impact the way you run your investment properties in California. At the very least, please consider these updates to review your responsibilities as a property owner in California.
One of the arguably largest impacts to property ownership is the movement to repeal Contra-Hawkins. The Costa Hawkins Rental Act protects single-family homes and new construction residential units by exempting them from local rent control ordinances. If your investment property is located within one of these localities, then you may be well acquainted with the impact that rent control can have on your investment. Many of our clients are concerned about the impact it would have upon their property ownership. We can identify whether your property is within a rent control locality, and help develop strategies for managing your property if it is required.
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A dad with serious health problems was left with no money over the Christmas period after a cash machine fault.
John Waterfield tried to draw out £210 at a cash machine at L&M stores on North Road West on December 23 and due to a machine fault, no money was dispensed.
When he tried to withdraw the money a second time, it came up with 'insufficient funds' and had deducted the amount from his account.
The 42-year-old said: "It was the money I had saved to do my Christmas shopping.
"The machine made loads of funny noises and then it gave me my card back and didn't give out the money. Once I realised what happened I went into the shop and the man in there said it was nothing to do with them."
Mr Waterfield then called the number on the front of the machine who informed him that an error had occurred and that it would take between 10 and 15 days for his money to be refunded into his account.
He added: "The man I spoke to on the phone said 'well according to our records you've got £9 in your account so we suggest you spend that'.
"What am I supposed to do with £9? I saved this money up.
"I don't know how they can treat people like this that's my money how dare they take my money."
Mr Waterfield said that despite the machine error, a shop worker, Miss Anderson, gifted him with some items to tide him over for the Christmas period.
He said: "She went around the shop and picked up items for me and paid for it on her own card. She said 'here that's my Christmas present for you.
"I don't think I would have got through Christmas without her."
Miss Anderson has worked in the shop for nine years and said that the incident was a "one off glitch".
The machine is run by a separate company and is just situated at the Premier shop in Stonehouse.
She added: "He was just unlucky the poor guy, I have been on the phone to the company who run the cash point to make sure it doesn't happen again.
"My heart does go out to them. If I could have helped them out more I would have done.
"I said you guys are having a bad enough time I'll pay for your items, you're not putting everything back."
Miss Anderson said that every year Mr Waterfield and his brother bring her a Christmas gift and last year they gifted her with a beanie teddy bear.
Mr Waterfield has a 14-year-old daughter who lives in Bodmin and said because he has had no money it has stopped him from seeing her.
He said: "Luckily enough I had bought her presents already, but being not well it's just added to my ill health, I struggle to breathe and the stress of this has added to it.
"I used to own my own car valeting business but I stopped working when I was diagnosed with COPD three years ago. I'm a dying man.
"I think it's absolutely disgusting."
In response to the incident, a spokesperson for Cashzone said: "We'd like to apologise for this, especially as it has happened so close to the Christmas holidays.
"Unfortunately, we cannot go into any more detail when it comes to individual users of our machines.


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Re-release of the W.A.S.P. milestone "Dominator" in a jewelcase.
W.A.S.P. demonstrate how to create a high-speed quality album by using traditional tools: cool guitar riffs, vocals full of melody and passion and songs ranging between Hardrock and Metal. W.A.S.P.'s thirteenth studio album "Dominator" originally appeared in 2007 and represents a razor-sharp comment on America's foreign policy at that time. Blackie Lawless delivers one of his strongest performances which is accompanied by finest guitar solo parts and a highly catchy songwriting: a diversified, heavy work that had been considered as a return to the quality of "The Crimson Idol" by many fans at that time and deservedly took the Charts by storm!
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thedudeabidesinsouthflorida	in Fantasy, New Releases	 December 26, 2017 July 27, 2019 957 Words
You Can't Please Everyone: The Last Jedi
I'd just like to take this moment to say I liked The Force Awakens.
Look, I understand why some people don't. Does it follow all the beats of A New Hope? Yes. Is A New Hope based on the archetypal Hero's Journey? Yes. Were people going to be mad if the new Star Wars trilogy was wildly different from the original trilogy, like, say, the hated prequels? Yes. And do I have a bunch of nostalgia and fierce opinions about a movie made twenty two years before I was born? Actually, no.
This is a spoiler review, because you've probably already seen The Last Jedi and/or been on the internet.
One of the best things about this new trilogy are the characters, who have certain characteristics of the classic characters, but also have their differences. This movie defines these differences even more.
Rey is closest to Luke, but doesn't have a royal legacy to live up to. She's a nobody, and she has to grapple with that and what it means for The Force to have chosen her as the response to Kylo Ren.
Kylo Ren wants to be like Darth Vader, but for wildly different reasons. And he's not going to get the redemption arc many thought he was. He has to pay for his actions.
Poe is a blend of Han Solo and Leia, and Finn is not Lando Calrissian. I think The Force Awakens needed to be like A New Hope in order to establish these characters so they could work in this film.
The problem is that new characters are added, and as interesting as they are, they are spread too thin, making it so no one gets a fair shake, and people disappear for large chunks of the film. With three somewhat equal plots and a handful of mini-ones, The Last Jedi takes pains to expand the world of Star Wars. It is clear director Rian Johnson was bursting with ideas. However, I think there are also some weak parts. He tries to take on three plots, along with small mini-ones, and I think all he needed was an editor with a strong pen saying, "This is great, Rian, but let's leave some of this for the next movie or the deleted scenes. This film is two and a half hours, and we really don't need to see Luke milk a beached loch-ness monster just for a blue-milk callback."
As for the plots, though, I like the messages of Rose and Finn's Canto Bright casino adventure. Star Wars is clearly making a small effort to say something nuanced about politics- people profiteering off both sides of the war and animal cruelty is wrong- but I don't know if taking away so much time from the rest of the characters was worth it. Rose and Finn are legitimate characters (not tokenism) but their plot could be eliminated. Same for Holdo and Poe. I love that Holdo is such an antithesis to what we would expect, middle-aged woman in a ballgown as a military leader, who gets an amazing payoff, but again, not sure if it was worth taking away attention from the film at large. Some consolidating could be made to keep the film from spreading itself so thin and having multiple endings.
The most interesting plot to me was the Kylo and Rey plot. Not only is The Force-head-texting thing new, but it seemed like Johnson read all the fan theories online about the characters and said, Nope! Yet it doesn't feel like he's checking boxes. It seems like he's trying to set the characters on course for a continuation of their arcs, and with the characters literally struggling against each other, gives a visual metaphor to the thematic struggle presented here.
Things people have disliked about the film that I didn't mind- I was fine with changes to Luke's character, and I think the parallels to the original trilogy are needed to remind you it's the same series, and the Star Wars movies have always been based in archetypes. These aren't new.
For all that is packed into The Last Jedi, the film doesn't actually end very far from where it started. The resistance fighters are still scrappy and in bad shape, Rey is still figuring out her powers, and another mentor figure is gone. This shows how the Star Wars movies are never going to die, though- if they can do so much while moving forward so little, they will live on for eternity.
You're always going to have people who are unhappy with change, want complete change, or are unhappy with the particular way you brought change. That isn't to say criticism isn't good (that's kind of my whole thing). But personally, I'm not a Star Wars baby. I have no nostalgia for the original or prequels. I'm just here for the ride and the cultural conversation. I like the new Stars Wars. I like how it has made an effort towards diversity and representation, giving women a bigger role in sci-fi then they've ever been allowed, changed franchise filmmaking, and the themes and ideas that are being presented. I also respect the original foundations, but I don't think that means they are the golden standard.
I think the best path for Star Wars is to do the same. You can't please everyone, so do what you want. The Last Jedi does what it wants, and I think with a little fine tuning, this is what makes it a strong film and a steady path for the future.
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ShiftEd launch with (from L-R): Debbie Obias, VP, Segment Marketing Head, Globe myBusiness; Michelle Tapia, Head for Strategy, Innovation and Transformation, Globe myBusiness; Richard Jugar, University of San Carlos; Jonathan De Luzuriaga, President, Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) and CEO, Spring Valley; Ritchie Ramos, Segment head for Education, Globe myBusiness; and Dr. Marilyn Balagtas, Philippine Normal University.
Globe myBusiness has launched a campaign that will enable academic institutions in their journey towards digital transformation and empower Filipinos with world-class learning through technology.
Called ShiftED, the initiative was created by Globe myBusiness to assist the government and schools in developing globally-competitive students and teachers.
"We now have a generation who is in a world that is always online. They are living in micro moments influenced by technology so we need to keep up to ensure that we communicate better and more effectively with them. We need to adjust or we won't connect with them. We need to innovate or we won't be able to influence," said Derrick Heng, Globe Senior Advisor for Globe myBusiness, Globe Telecom's arm which caters to micro, small, and medium enterprises.
ShiftED carries education-related activities of Globe such as the Digital Thumbprint Program which promotes responsible digital citizenship and cyber wellness for students; and PRISM, a three-week digital literacy improvement program aimed at advancing the digital literacy skills of Filipino educators.
Aside from these programs, Globe myBusiness provides connectivity and solutions that can aid schools to be digitally-ready and help learners and educators stay ahead of the curve.
For instance, Globe myBusiness learning management solutions encourage students to go beyond memorization and boost their learning through interaction, critical thinking, and a readily available source of knowledge. A school management system, on the other hand, streamlines all the tasks involved in running an institution such as administrative activities and student performance monitoring to save time, money, and energy, leading to better performance of the staff and students.
Globe myBusiness also provides relevant solutions to local entrepreneurs and assists the country in its digital transformation by partnering with Spring Valley, the largest integrated technology and innovation hub in the Philippines, to bridge the academe-industry gap by helping connect college students with the right companies for on-the-job training and prepare the workforce for the demands of the industry.
Under the partnership, Globe myBusiness will power up Spring Valley's online platform OJTPH.com, an on-the-job training matching site that allows students, companies and future employers, schools and other institutions to work together for a more efficient and meaningful student internship.
ShiftEd was introduced during Edutech 2018, a two-day conference and exhibit that aims to deliver ways on making education continuously relevant in the 21st century.
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Spectrum subscribers: Don't miss the deadline for your rebate
By Samantha Christmann
Published Mon, Mar 11, 2019 |Updated Mon, Mar 11, 2019
If you were one of the hundreds of thousands of Spectrum subscribers who received slower internet speeds than you were promised, and qualify for a free cable channel because of it, you've got until May 31 to order it.
Affected customers are being notified in their March bills whether they are eligible to choose three free months of HBO or six free months of Showtime. To order it, they must call 833-422-8795 by the deadline. Those who receive the free cable channel will not have to take action to remove it when the free months expire.
Some customers also qualify for rebates of $75 or $150 dollars, which have started showing up on customers' March statements. The rebates are only available to current customers who do not have past-due bills with the company.
Legacy subscribers to Time Warner Cable internet plans with speeds of 100 Mbps or higher are eligible for the $75 refund. They are eligible for another $75 if they had deficient modems provided by the company for two years or longer. Those customers don't have to do anything to receive their rebates.
It's part of a record settlement secured by the State Attorney General's Office, which says Spectrum failed to deliver on the "blazing fast" internet speeds it advertised. Instead, they received speeds 80 percent lower than promised, because of deficient modems, according to the lawsuit.
In all, customers are expected to receive $62.5 million in refunds and $100 million in streaming services and premium cable channels.
Spectrum, a brand of Charter Communications, said the problem stems from Time Warner Cable practices, which Charter bought in 2016.
As Buffalo's internet speeds rank among slowest in U.S., consumers can't do much
This latest development is not associated with the Public Service Commission ordering Spectrum to vacate the state. The commission has been in settlement talks with the company and repeatedly extended Spectrum's deadline. The two sides have said they are close to an agreement.
At issue there is Spectrum's failure to meet Public Service Commission deadlines in building out its broadband cable network to rural areas in New York.
Samantha Christmann– Samantha Christmann covers retail for The Buffalo News and writes the Discount Diva column.


Students may be interested in Saylor's U.S. History 1 and U.S. History 2 courses, free equivalents to college-level American history classes.
Download the PASS textbooks. Design a study schedule that includes reading from the PASS books and the online textbook. (Be sure to complete the exercises in the PASS books.) Watch the videos and explore the accompanying resources at the Biography of America website. Follow the lessons at the HippoCampus site. The additional resources are provided for extra study and help. Finish the course by taking the sample tests and End-of-Course exams.


Roy Oswalt's cup doth runneth over. Snow Day Boredom Bump. If anyone can download it and upload it to Rapidshare or somwhere like that, I'd be grateful. I imagine Chris Bulge, I mean Pine, should be added to that list. Also, he has an incredible body. Would love to see his bod unclothed.


The state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would make correctional officers in juvenile prisons mandatory reporters for child abuse and neglect.
The legislation was prompted by a lengthy investigation into allegations of systemic problems at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools, youth prisons for boys and girls, respectively, run by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
Under the bill, introduced by 10 Democratic state senators, juvenile correctional officers would be responsible for directly disclosing instances of abuse to state authorities. The purpose of designating certain officials as mandatory reporters is to require them to go to the police rather than simply telling their bosses about abuse or neglect.
If the mandated reporters fail to report instances of abuse, they can face criminal penalties.
The facilities are located outside of Irma, in northern Wisconsin, and have been subject to an investigation from the state Department of Justice, which was later joined by the FBI. Claims of wide-ranging problems, including improperly trained staff, failure to document incidents of abuse or neglect and use of solitary confinement have been leveled against the prisons for years.
Despite the ongoing probes into practices at Lincoln Hills, the situation does not appear to have improved. Two federal lawsuits have been brought against the Department of Corrections, one alleging guards did not heed warning signs of an inmate who later attempted suicide, and another brought by the ACLU accusing guards of routinely pepper spraying inmates for minor rules violations.
While the need to address the problems in Wisconsin's juvenile prisons has received wide bipartisan support in both the Senate and Assembly, some legislators, such as Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, feel the recent bill does not go far enough.
"We must stop the abuse before it begins. We need to stop the over-incarceration of our juveniles, and we must stop placing our children in solitary confinement and adding trauma upon trauma," Sen. Taylor said in a press release.
The bill is now under consideration by the Assembly, and is expected to be passed and later signed by Gov. Scott Walker.


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Shri Rajeev Singh
Member Finance, Prasar Bharati
Off. Tel.:+91-11-23118807/ 23118808
mfin[at]prasarbharati[dot]gov[dot]in
Follow @raj3eev
Mr Rajeev Singh is whole time Member (Finance) of Prasar Bharati Board (India's Public Service Broadcaster). An Engineer & MBA by qualification, Mr Singh is a technocrat with high business acumen and strong financial skills.
His experience spans across entire spectrum of activities constituting the core of functional bureaucracy and civil services set up. He has a proven and well established reputation of being a change leader. He has played pivotal role in process improvements and transformation of management practices in the domain of general administration including personnel management and financial control.
He started his career at the age of 21 in the private sector as a civil engineer in construction industry, before joining the elite civil services in 1994. As a young civil servant he worked in India Post and handled formulation of Finance Policy of the whole India Post and Personnel Administration having a workforce of more than 70000 employees. He was an active proponent of transformation of Department of Posts from a legacy department of government, to an agile, efficient and relevant organization which carved out a niche for itself in the modern set up of ever evolving challenges riding on evolution of new technology in communications sector.
He switched career from civil services to corporate sector, by joining Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a company of Government of India which provides telecom services across the country. He headed several functional units as a General Manager at Corporate Headquarters during his more than a decade long stint with BSNL, which included Revenue, Tariff & Costing, Budget, Finance Control, Investments & Corporate Finance. He distinguished himself as head of Resource generation wing for capital infusion & network expansion.
He worked in Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited (MTNL), a decorated Public Sector undertaking of Government of India which provides telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai. He gained the first hand experience of Customer Relations in the commercial entity in services sector, while working with MTNL.
With his vast repertoire of experience encompassing the entire spread of finance domain, he joined the India's Public Service Broadcaster under Government of India as Member (Finance) of the Prasar Bharati Board in April, 2015. He also served as CEO and Member(Personnel) of Prasar Bharati for a brief period from February to June 2017 apart from holding the charge of Member(Finance). He has served on the boards of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) & Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). He is also representing Prasar Bharati in the Board of Media Research Users Council of India (MRUCI).
He is representing India as President of General Conference of Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD).
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Trent Reznor curates soothing playlist 'intended for listening in solitude'
Lisa Bowman Feb 17, 2018 12:08 pm GMT
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor Credit: Getty
Listen to 'Better Alone' right here.
Trent Reznor has curated a soothing playlist called 'Better Alone', which is a selection of tracks "intended for listening in solitude".
The Nine Inch Nails frontman recently uploaded the 20 track atmospheric playlist, featuring instrumental sounds from NIN, as well as his scoring work with Atticus Ross.
"Darkness optional but recommended", the playlist's description advises, making it the perfect soundtrack to your bedtime.
Listen on Spotify below or head to Apple Music to listen there.
Better Alone
Trent Reznor curates a playlist of music from his catalog intended for listening in solitude. Darkness optional but recommended.
Nine Inch Nails most recently released the EP 'Add Violence' back in July (the second part of a trilogy of releases).
They've been confirmed to play Spain's Mad Cool Festival this summer, which will take place in Madrid from July 12-14, 2018.
The band join an already impressive-looking line-up, which features Queens of the Stone Age, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, and recent addition, Arctic Monkeys.
Last month, Trent Reznor had to file a restraining order against his neighbour, after he was told that Satan was coming for him.


Sarah Grosso of Webster Geneva presented at the 3rd International Conference of the Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on the theme of Law, Gender and Sexuality. ... School of Communications Associate Dean Elza Ibroscheva published an essay on European media and #MeToo in Media Ethics Magazine. ... Geneva's Viktor Polic presented on corporate use of the cloud and security at the Annual CISO Summit Europe in Montreux.
President Stroble and Provost Schuster were featured in Ghana Nation for their joint lecture, "The importance of Global Education in the 21st Century," delivered at the Ghana campus. Their visit was also the lead story in the American Chamber of Commerce Ghana. ... Julie Smith's lecture "What is Fake News" was featured by Gatehouse Media. ... The Webster University Film Series was noted among "Best Things to Do" by the Riverfront Times.
Chris Parr, department chair of Religious Studies, was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on the grand jury report of sexual abuse in Catholic parishes in Pennsylvania. ... Walker School faculty member Rosalind "Roz" Norman was on St. Louis Public Radio for the 30th anniversary of landmark hip hop albums by NWA and Public Enemy. ... School of Communications faculty member Julie Smith was quoted in the Huffington Post on ownership of news media Twitter accounts.
Two students were featured with Dean Simone Cummings in a TV segment on what graduates should be doing to find a job. ... New photography graduate Beatrice Gibson is featured as a Schnucks Folds of Honor scholarship recipient. ... Julie Smith was featured by Experts Finder for her ability to translate her expertise on media literacy and social media to reporters. ... Remy Cross was quoted in a story in the Webster-Kirkwood Times about police advisory boards.
Provost Julian Schuster's appearance Monday on ninePBS's "Living St. Louis" about the regional job market is now online. ... Vienna professor Jozef Bátora was interviewed on Austrian TV during protests in Bratislava. ... Webster's recognition as a top cybersecurity program was featured in the St. Louis Business Journal. ... Julie Smith was quoted in USA Today on social media's role in spreading a white supremacist fabrication into news media. She also appears on Radio 63119 today at 1 p.m. to discuss the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data privacy story.
HEC TV created a five-minute video featuring the sand mandala created at the Webster Groves campus this fall. ... Jessica Brown was quoted in the West End Word on the effects of media consolidation and the latest Sinclair Media acquisition. ... Mary Preuss represented Webster University at an event commemorating local Nobel Prize winning scientists Gerty and Carl Cori, covered in the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
Webster University welcomes Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and documentary filmmaker Eric Stange to the Webster Groves campus for a talk and reception on March 8. Stange's address, "Echoes of History in a New Media Landscape," is part of the President's Contemporary Conversations for a Connected World speaker series.
Most people who live outside of Africa fail to truly understand this rich, complex, and diverse continent. Globally, it is perceived as a land plagued by poverty, war, diseases, etc. Webster's Ghana campus hosted a public lecture with faculty discussing how these perception of Africa are shaped largely by how it is portrayed by the media.


Summer and Winter School are suitable for PhD students, master students, and researchers interested in dealing with the empirical study of social and political networks.
Interested Students of the University of Konstanz can register for these courses as usual with the ILIAS System .
Due to a limited number of places external participants will be asked to submit a short motivation letter and a CV.
The participation fee for external students is 200,- € (including teaching materials). There will be reduced participation fees for POLNET Alumni.
For more informations please contact the secretary of the chair.


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import six
import sys
import time

from nailgun import consts
from nailgun.db import db
from nailgun.logger import logger
from nailgun.objects import ClusterCollection
from nailgun.objects import MasterNodeSettings
from nailgun.objects import OpenStackWorkloadStatsCollection
from nailgun.settings import settings
from nailgun.statistics import errors
from nailgun.statistics.oswl import helpers
from nailgun.statistics.oswl.saver import oswl_statistics_save
from nailgun.statistics import utils

def collect(resource_type):
    try:
        operational_clusters = ClusterCollection.filter_by(
            iterable=None, status=consts.CLUSTER_STATUSES.operational).all()
        error_clusters = ClusterCollection.filter_by(
            iterable=None, status=consts.CLUSTER_STATUSES.error).all()

        all_envs_last_recs = \
            OpenStackWorkloadStatsCollection.get_last_by_resource_type(
                resource_type)
        ready_or_error_ids = set([c.id for c in operational_clusters] +
                                 [c.id for c in error_clusters])
        envs_ids_to_clear = set(r.cluster_id for r in all_envs_last_recs) - \
            ready_or_error_ids
        # Clear current resource data for unavailable clusters.
        # Current OSWL data is cleared for those clusters which status is not
        # 'operational' nor 'error' or when cluster was removed. Data is
        # cleared for cluster only if it was updated recently (today or
        # yesterday). While this collector is running with interval much
        # smaller than one day it should not miss any unavailable cluster.
        for id in envs_ids_to_clear:
            oswl_statistics_save(id, resource_type, [])

        # Collect current OSWL data and update data in DB
        for cluster in operational_clusters:
            try:
                client_provider = helpers.ClientProvider(cluster)
                proxy_for_os_api = utils.get_proxy_for_cluster(cluster)

                with utils.set_proxy(proxy_for_os_api):
                    data = helpers.get_info_from_os_resource_manager(
                        client_provider, resource_type)
                    oswl_statistics_save(cluster.id, resource_type, data)

            except errors.StatsException as e:
                logger.error("Cannot collect OSWL resource {0} for cluster "
                             "with id {1}. Details: {2}."
                             .format(resource_type,
                                     cluster.id,
                                     six.text_type(e))
                             )

        db.commit()

    except Exception as e:
        logger.exception("Exception while collecting OS workloads "
                         "for resource name {0}. Details: {1}"
                         .format(resource_type, six.text_type(e)))
    finally:
        db.remove()

def run():
    resource_type = sys.argv[1]
    poll_interval = settings.OSWL_COLLECTORS_POLLING_INTERVAL[resource_type]
    logger.info("Starting OSWL collector for {0} resource"
                .format(resource_type))
    try:
        while True:
            if MasterNodeSettings.must_send_stats():
                collect(resource_type)

            time.sleep(poll_interval)

    except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
        logger.info("Stopping OSWL collector for {0} resource"
                    .format(resource_type))