Bruno Nordberg founded the Nordberg Manufacturing Co. in 1886, and he achieved his first recognition and success in steam engines. Born in Finland, Nordberg emigrated to the United States with little in his pockets around 1880, eventually settling in Milwaukee. He found work at age 22 as a draftsman concentrating on Corliss steam engines, but his career took off when he formulated the idea of a poppet valve engine and a cut-off governor.
But at a high speed, Pohjoismäki says, more efficiency is achieved if the flow of high-pressure steam is cut off and the high-pressure steam already in the cylinder is allowed to expand through the end of the stroke.
According to Pohjoismäki, cut-off governors helped to increase the efficiency and safety of the steam engine process. Steam engines were used to operate pumps, compressors, hoists and ore stamps, he adds, and Nordberg's design reduced downtime and increased safety for mines.
"Nordberg continuously improved his early designs and found new ways to utilize steam," Pohjoismäki says.
To market and sell cut-off governors, Nordberg persuaded a friend, Frederick Hornefer, to finance a patent application, and he partnered with an entrepreneur named Jacob Friend to launch the Bruno V. Nordberg Co.
Nordberg's company quickly established itself in the field of steam engines, and it grew mightily through the first third of the 20th century. But just as technologies change today, they changed then.
Steam power gave way to diesel, and although Nordberg never felt steam could be replaced, he completed a license agreement in 1914 to manufacture diesel engines.
"All leaders realize a constantly changing business environment will impact their ability for continued success," Pohjoismäki says. "Great leaders are the ones who anticipate these changes and have the willingness to accept them as something other than a passing fad.
By 1922, Nordberg had built 27 engines for Phelps-Dodge. And despite his death two years later, Nordberg had set the path for his company to venture into crushing, grinding and screening equipment for the aggregates and mining industries.
In the early 1920s, Nordberg's company was already manufacturing horizontal disc crushers for Symons Brothers Co. Nordberg's company later acquired the Symons cone crusher business.
In his time, Nordberg held 58 patents on various machines and devices to his name. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He authored several papers on engineering subjects.
Nordberg was active in his company throughout his life, and he was described as most happy when working at his drafting board.
"As an immigrant from Finland, Bruno Nordberg had little more than his engineering knowledge and willingness to work hard," Pohjoismäki says. "He might have easily been content with his first job as a draftsman at the E.P. Allis Co., but he had an idea to improve the efficiency of steam engines, and he had an entrepreneurial spirit.
Today, thousands of rock-processing products bearing Nordberg's name are still in operation at quarries around the world, and the Nordberg name remains a source of pride for the people at modern-day Metso.
"Nordberg's name is still synonymous with highly efficient, innovative crushing and screening solutions," Pohjoismäki says.


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Q: Plotly in PowerBI does not export plot after clicking camera icon I can successfully implement a Plotly visual as an Interactive Power BI Custom Visuals with R (thanks to https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-power-bi-custom-visuals-with-r-a6a4ac998710).
But when I click on the camera icon to export the visual via "download plot as a png", it says "Snapshop succeeded - newplot.png", but I cannot find that file anywhere on my computer.
It works neither in PowerBi Desktop nor Online, but it works without any problems in R Studio. In R studio the png is saved into my download folder by default and I can also specify the folder via config(fig, toImageButtonOptions = "folder/file.png"), cp. https://plotly.com/r/configuration-options/.
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Prehistoric "Hell Ant" Encased in Amber Seen Biting its Prey for Over 99 Million Years
A 99-million-year-old Hell Ant from the Cretaceous period is imprisoned in amber as it uses its scythe-like jaw and unusual headgear to bite its prey.
What are Hell Ants?
Ever since discovering the first 16 species of hell ants, paleontologists have suspected that the unique mandible operated vertically rather than today's ants that shut horizontally.
The recent discovery of Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri fortifies paleontologists' theories on how the Creteacean-era hell ants thrived.
According to an article by the Smithsonian, these ants have two distinct features that cannot be found in any living species today. The ant species had specialized scythe-like mandibles and various horns located on their forehead, says a paleontologist from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in an interview with CNN's Katie Hunt.
In a statement, Barden explains, "The only way for prey to be captured in such an arrangement is for the ant mouthparts to move up and downward in a direction unlike that of all living ants and nearly all insects."
He further says, "Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation especially so.
A paper published in the journal Current Biology talks about how the hell ants confirm the hell ants' mandible articulation and the integration of its head capsules and mandibles. It also explains how the integration drove morphospace in early ant lineages.
As per The Washington Post, The findings came from a hell ant encrusted in amber as its feasts on a Capatoraptor elegans, an extinct ancestor of cockroaches. The amber was discovered in Myanmar in 2017.
Barden tells Newsweek, "Once the prey was gripped in this way, the ant most probably moved on to an immobilizing sting--we know that the stings of hell ants were well developed."
Upon discovery, Barden and his team theorize that as the cockroach nymph was paralyzed due to the hell ants' sting, it was then fed to hell ant larvae that had unspecialized mouthparts and could chew the unlucky prey normally.
After the larvae have ingested the prey, adults might have made small incisions in the larvae's soft bodies to drink their blood (hemolymph). Simply put, adult hell ants used their offspring as a social digestive system.
Hell ants are known as one of the earliest forms of ants that died out about 65 million years after roaming the planet for 20 million years.
According to Barden, "More than 99% of all species that have ever lived have gone extinct."
Since the first hell ants' discoveries roughly 100 years ago, scientists remain baffled by the distinct features of the Creteacean-era ants compared to their modern-day counterparts.
Scientists and researchers are hopeful that with the discovery of the 99-million-year-old prehistoric hell ant trapped in amber, more knowledge on how forms of the species survived mass extinction events.
Source: www.sciencetimes.com/
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Pakistan's government tried to buy American politicians
ProPublica reports that:
In a move that could add to the tension between the U.S. and Pakistan, the FBI Tuesday accused a Pakistani-American of secretly funneling at least $4 million from Pakistan's top spy agency into American political activities, aiming to influence U.S. policy on Kashmir.
FBI Arrests Man Said to Be a Front for Donations – New York Times (news.google.com)
US charges two for illegal lobbying over Kashmir – BBC News (news.google.com)
Pakistan funded Washington lobby group, U.S. says (cnn.com)
You: F.B.I. Arrests Man Said to Be a Front for Donations (nytimes.com)
Pakistan denies illegal lobbying charges (cbsnews.com)
You: Ghulam Nabi Fai arrested in US (nation.com.pk)
Pakistani spies 'operating in Britain' (telegraph.co.uk)
My Meeting With an Alleged ISI Agent (globalspin.blogs.time.com)
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This one issued from Mike Whitney's keyboard:
What does the assassination of Osama Bin Laden have in common with Guantanamo Bay?
They're both intended to send a message that the United States has sunk deeper into savagery and abandoned any commitment to conventional norms of behavior. That's the message, and we hear it "loud and clear".
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Booyah. You go America! U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A.
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Shelburne: More heartbreak for Nash and Suns
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More heartbreak for Nash, Suns
Ramona ShelburneESPN Senior Writer
Senior writer for ESPN.com
Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News
LOS ANGELES -- He had to swallow hard on the question. Pausing, for a long second, to gulp on whatever well of positivity he could find in this ugly moment before answering.
Once again, Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns had come up the lovable losers. The guys looking on the bright side and drawing strength from how well they'd played before the other guys end up celebrating at midcourt after some crazy, ridiculous game-winning play.
"You know," Nash said, in a voice more gravelly than usual, "everything's OK. Maybe we deserved this game, maybe we didn't. But we lost. And they held home court. We'll go back and do the same and we'll come back here for Game 7."
This latest round of playoff heartbreak -- courtesy of an opportunistic putback from Ron Artest to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 103-101 win in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals at Staples Center -- came after Nash (29 points, 11 assists) had brilliantly led the Suns back from an 18-point, second-half deficit.
He was at his best down the stretch. In the final, frenetic 5:22 of the fourth quarter, Nash scored nine points. His 17-foot jumper with 51.5 seconds left pulled Phoenix to within 101-98, setting the stage for Jason Richardson's banked-in 3-pointer with 3.5 seconds remaining to tie the score at 101-101.
Steve Nash had 29 points and 11 assists to help the Suns rally from 18-point deficit only to lose. Jeff Gross/Getty Images
But as has happened for Nash too often in what undoubtedly will end as a Hall of Fame career, playoff glory was not to be, leaving him to swallow hard on the latest version of a question he has had to answer on too many sad nights at this time of year.
This time, the question came straight on:
Do you ever get tired of trying to find a positive after games like this?
"No," he said. But then again, what else could he say?
"I think you have to realize that we lost the game," he explained. "And it doesn't matter how we lost the game."
Oh, but it does. Because for some reason, Nash and his Suns have a way of getting their hearts ripped out in the playoffs, and it's starting to become rather cruel.
Whether it comes on a rare 3-pointer by Tim Duncan (Game 1, 2008 Western Conference first round), the hip of Robert Horry (Game 5, 2007 Western Conference semifinals), the chin of Tony Parker (Game 1, 2007 Western Conference semis) or the hand of Ron Artest (Game 5, 2010 Western Conference finals), somehow it's always the Suns finding a way to look on the bright side before the next game.
Nash has become good at it, so good in fact that his teammates left Staples Center sounding mostly upbeat as they boarded a charter flight back to Phoenix, where Game 6 will be played Saturday night.
"We're disappointed; we're not going to get discouraged, though," Suns coach Alvin Gentry said. "The first thing Steve said when we went in the locker room was, 'Just forget about this, there's time to concentrate on the next game.' And he's exactly right."
He's right, sure. This series is far from over. But there's got to be a part of him that wonders why it always comes to this.
Why, at age 36 with maybe his last shot at winning it all, must he be on the receiving end of another one of these games?
He's a good guy, he treats others well, is socially conscious and well-read, and among his peers, he's one of the most popular players in the NBA.
At age 36, he has managed to defy conventional wisdom on aging, playing about as spryly as he ever has despite playing the last half of his career with a chronic back problem, and most of this season with a hip problem, each of which he disguises well.
"He just never gets old," Gentry said, almost reverentially. "He never gets old."
If there's a part of him that shows any battle scars, it's his face, of course. This year's round of gashes (bloody eye, broken nose) are just the latest in a career full of knocks to the noggin.
At 178 pounds, he's light but not nearly fragile. A point guard with a rugby player's pain tolerance. But because of his importance to the Suns, his teammates generally pull back a little during scrimmages.
"It's kind of like an unwritten rule," Suns guard Jared Dudley said. "We usually do full-court pressure on the starters, but with Steve I don't really foul him hard, I don't really trap him. Usually, most games I might give someone a push if he's in the air. But you let him go. If it's a foul, everybody stops. You don't want any tweaks or injuries on him.
"He's the face of the franchise, you know. He gets the star treatment, and he should. We need to let him save all his energy for the game because he's got the ball in his hands 90 percent of the time. I don't know how he does it."
If you believe in such things, after all this playoff misery there should be some final, fabulous karmic retribution coming Nash's way at some point. This year, maybe next, or the year after that.
Still, getting this close, this late in his career, does raise the stakes a bit. It's a point he has had to consider but prefers not to.
"It might be," Nash said, when asked if he'd considered this season could be his last shot at a title. "But I always say, and I've felt this way before, and I'll feel this way next year: This is the only stand.
"It's now. You just go for it now and you worry about the future and the past later."
Ramona Shelburne is a reporter and columnist for ESPNLosAngeles.com.


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MacKenzie, Lewis Edward (2016) In vivo microvascular oximetry using multispectral imaging. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
This thesis describes the application of multispectral imaging to several novel oximetry applications. Chapter 1 motivates optical microvascular oximetry, outlines oxygen transport in the body, describes the theory of oximetry, and describes the challenges associated with in vivo oximetry, in particular imaging through tissue. Chapter 2 reviews various imaging techniques for quantitative in vivo oximetry of the microvasculature, including multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, photoacoustic imaging, optical coherence tomography, and laser speckle techniques.
Chapter 3 describes a two-wavelength oximetry study of two microvascular beds in the anterior segment of the eye: the bulbar conjunctival and episcleral microvasculature. This study reveals previously unseen oxygen diffusion from ambient air into the bulbar conjunctival microvasculature, altering the oxygen saturation of the bulbar conjunctiva. The response of the bulbar conjunctival and episcleral microvascular beds to acute mild hypoxia is quantified and the rate at which oxygen diffuses into bulbar conjunctival vessels is measured.
Chapter 4 describes the development and application of a highly novel non-invasive retinal angiography technique: Oximetric Ratio Contrast Angiography (ORCA). ORCA requires only multispectral imaging and a small perturbation of blood oxygen saturation to produce angiographic sequences. A pilot study of ORCA in human subjects was conducted. This study demonstrates that ORCA can produce angiographic sequences with features such as sequential vessel filling and laminar flow. The application and challenges of ORCA are discussed, with emphasis on comparison with other angiography techniques, such as fluorescein angiography.
Chapter 5 describes the development of a multispectral microscope for oximetry in the spinal cord dorsal vein of rats. Measurements of blood oxygen saturation are made in the dorsal vein of both healthy rats, and in rats with the Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) disease model of multiple sclerosis. The venous blood oxygen saturation of EAE disease model rats was found to be significantly lower than that of healthy controls, indicating increased oxygen uptake from blood in the EAE disease model of multiple sclerosis.
Chapter 6 describes the development of video-rate red eye oximetry; a technique which could enable stand-off oximetry of the blood-supply of the eye with high temporal resolution. The various challenges associated with video-rate red eye oximetry are investigated and their influence quantified. The eventual aim of this research is to track circulating deoxygenation perturbations as they arrive in both eyes, which could provide a screening method for carotid artery stenosis, which is major risk-factor for stroke. However, due to time constraints, it was not possible to thoroughly investigate if video-rate red eye can detect such perturbations. Directions and recommendations for future research are outlined.
Oximetry, multispectral imaging, hyperspectral imaging, blood, bulbar conjunctiva, retinal imaging, retinal angiography, ORCA, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, Multiple sclerosis, red eye reflection.


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The latest British Royal wedding has caught the attention of the whole world. Given these circumstances, we can't help but wonder what is the reason for the world's royal obsession. Well, the answer is quite simple. These events make us dream of the fairy tales that we heard when we were little. Women are particularly infatuated with the royal jewels. Despite the fact that the crown jewels have an immeasurable value, these objects are rarely displayed in public. However, the princesses' tiaras are definitely breathtaking. Today we are going to discuss about some of the most famous royal tiaras.
The Spencer tiara was perhaps the most popular princess crown worn by Diana. Despite the fact that the tiara actually belonged to her family, she wore it so often that most people assumed that is was a royal piece. Perhaps the reason why the late princess was wearing it so often was in order to prove that she was proud of who she was underneath the royal image. The crown is a combination of flowery pieces that have different ages. It has been worn by both her sisters during their wedding ceremonies as well as by her brother's wife. Although it didn't actually belong to Diana, she had a borrowing arrangement with her family which allowed her to wear it.
The Cambridge Lover's Knot is a more famous princess crown as it has a richer history. The tiara was created by modifying an older model which belonged to the Queen's grandmother. It features 19 diamond arches which have pearls swinging from them. The arches are capped with lover's knots. Despite the fact that the Queen borrowed this tiara to Diana, the princess found it heavy and uncomfortable and although she wore it a couple of times she preferred the Spencer Tiara. Queen Elisabeth II wore the tiara for quite a long time but as time went by, her tiara collection grew and this particular one was abandoned. However, the Queen did loan it to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall a couple of times. Whether or not it will be passed on to Kate is still up for debate.
When us simple women think about the simple handmade jewelry that we wear, and that was so cheap you don't even want to mention the price, it seems a bit pretentious that Princess Diana made such a fuss about the crowns she wore. But perhaps it was all just a matter of taste, something we are all slaves of; so if you had the possibility to choose, wouldn't you go for the piece that you like best or that represents you? So whether it's about simple handmade jewelry or heirloom diamond tiaras, women have to care about taste and style, and adopt whatever suits them best.
The British royal family has displayed numerous splendid tiaras throughout history. However, the most famous princess crown is by far the The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. This tiara was a gift that Queen Elisabeth received from her grandmother back when she was still a Princess. Despite the fact that she has acquired numerous tiaras since then, this one has remained her favorite one. Initially it was a two piece tiara and bandeau with 9 pearl finials. It suffered a lot of transformations over the years. The bandeau was removed, lost, found and reattached and the pearls were replaced with diamonds. It is a spectacular piece of jewelry that works great as a princess crown but it is also imposing enough to be fit for a queen.


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David De Gea Has Been Sent Home From Euro 2016
Daniel Blazer
Can't even begin to process the rumours flying around social media at the moment, with David De Gea reportedly sent home from Spain's Euro 2016 camp following allegations the Manchester United 'keeper is involved in a rape accusation along with Real Madrid's Isco and Athletic Bilbao's Iker Muniain.
The tweets below give you all the information you need, but it's not looking good for the Red Devils goalie…
De Gea and Muniain implicated in a rape case (story developing) https://t.co/XHTYVg3zAt
— 𝒞𝓇𝒾𝓈🇵🇷 (@serendipities) June 10, 2016
Going to try to summarize in English. There's an ongoing case against a porn producer who was trafficking and abusing women in Spain.
They're calling it "The Torbe Case". A protected witness testified that she was taken to a hotel where she was abused by 2 footballers.
Torbe forced her into the encounter, claiming she was going to be paid very well. Muniain and an unnamed footballer sexually assaulted her.
De Gea was apparently the one who called Torbe for her services. They kept in touch afterwards because they were trying to keep her quiet.
She says that later on, De Gea also tried to arrange another encounter with 5 Man Utd players but there's no proof this ever happened.
However, De Gea is mentioned in another Torbe related incident where a minor claims that she was raped by Torbe and…
That this was recorded so that it could be sent to De Gea and other Athletic Bilbao players.
In Spain, a porn actor and director has been investigated for numerous crimes, including pedofilia, sex trafficking and sexual abuse.
— Rafael Hernández (@RafaelH117) June 10, 2016
One of the protected witnesses in the case has testified that this man, nicknamed Torbe, forced her to have sex with two footballers.
These two footballers are Muniain and an unnamed player. De Gea is said to have set up this date with Torbe, but didn't assault her himself.
De Gea is also mentioned in another incident in which he supposedly tried to set up a meeting with her and five Manchester United players.
The unnamed player is supposed to be Isco, but that's speculation by the media as of now.
De Gea didn't sexually assault the witness that testified in the case, but helped set the meeting up. It's a crime with severe punishment.
Just to be clear, the accusations and investigation are based on a testimony by a protected witness. Innocent until proven guilty.
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Alastair Cook warmed up for the Test series against India with a first century of the season at New Road.
In a storyline that could have been written at almost any time over the last six years, Cook took his chance while other top-order contenders were not quite fully able to do so.
On the sort of benign pitch that could convince bowlers they should give it all up and retrain as a plumber, Cook - playing his first innings for almost three weeks - showed the temperament and technique to suggest his game is in decent order going into the Test series. With Essex not playing in the next round of Championship matches - they have a game against India instead - it is quite possible this will be Cook's only match before that series. It was also only his second match for England Lions (or the equivalent) since 2006; he played one in 2010.
It has recently been suggested that Cook lacks the hunger to sustain an international career that is now almost a dozen years old. But here, despite the subdued atmosphere - there were a few hundred spectators in the ground - he showed enough desire to bat all day against a decent India A attack and record his first century since the double made in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. It was a chanceless affair studded with the strokes - the cuts, the clips and the odd drive - which are so familiar.
"I spoke to Ed Smith [the National Selector] about playing in this game because we haven't much red-ball cricket at Essex," Cook said. "England would probably rather use these games to have a look at someone younger but I felt I needed the opportunity to play a bit of red-ball cricket so it worked really well.
"It is sometimes best when you are refreshed. Sometimes you play a lot and you can get into bad habits."
In partnership with Nick Gubbins, Cook added 155 for the second wicket in 45 overs. While there was just a little help for the spinners - this is a dry surface and was used for the T20 match here on Sunday - the pair kept the scoreboard ticking over with Gubbins sweeping and Cook cutting regularly. Both also skipped down the pitch to loft over the top on occasions.
But Gubbins, having endured one or two uncomfortable moments against the offspin of Jayant Yadav, failed to capitalise on the foundations he had built and edged to slip after he was drawn into what he later termed a "flashy drive".
A century here could have proved persuasive. Both Smith and James Taylor - two-thirds of the England selection panel - were here to watch and they could, perhaps, have been convinced to pick Gubbins in the Test squad to play India. While Keaton Jennings' position at the top of the order is assured, it was possible that a strong showing here could convince the selectors to pick a third opener - either Gubbins or Rory Burns - at No. 3, move Joe Root back to No. 4 and drop Dawid Malan.
That scenario looks less likely now. With Burns falling early - he, too, was drawn into a somewhat loose drive - and Malan making a patient half-century (it took him 118 balls to reach the milestone), it would be a surprise if there were any changes to England's top-order at Edgbaston. "It was an annoying way to get out," Gubbins admitted afterwards. But his time may well come: this was his first first-class innings for more than two months and while he didn't exactly seize the day, he didn't do himself any harm, either.
He could, at least, learn from the masterclass provided at the other end. And he may reflect that the key difference between his innings and Cook's, was that Cook was at no stage drawn into a loose drive. "He just keeps it very simple," Gubbins said. "He does everything repetitively in a chanceless way and he has his scoring areas. And everyone knows about his powers of concentration."
Malan seemed more determined to take this opportunity. The fact that he is playing in this match - rather than having been called up to the ODI squad - suggests the selectors were keen to take another look at him before committing to his place in the Test squad. So it was probably understandable he took a largely risk-free approach to his innings.
Some context is required. The attack, while respectable, largely lacked the weapons to make inroads on such a surface - at this stage of the match, at least - with hardly a delivery bouncing to shoulder height all day. The Lions bowlers may well also be in for some hard work in the coming days.
Navdeep Saini might warrant some consideration in a selection meeting ahead of the announcement of India's Test squad (an announcement that may well be made on Wednesday), while and Ankit Rajpoot have the build and pace to suggest they could be a handful on a more helpful surface. Yadav, too, is a fine bowler, but Cook will know life is going to get much tougher later in the summer.


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Part 49: Japan
I have Internet again at my house! Get comfy and grab the snack/drink of your choice folks, this is going to be a long one.
General Fedorov is in a bit of a bind. The LC has fortified themselves on the Japanese islands. Unless we eliminate those positions our holdings in China will be vulnerable. This mission is going to require expert planning and execution to a degree we've not seen.
And why is that? Because two of the three LC bases are inaccessible by a conventional ground attack. Yikes. At least we've got a good mineral field right by the LZ.
The game also gives you a Shipyard for free. Those of you who have been waiting to see naval units, this is your mission. We're going to be doing a lot of naval research and construction.
The Irkutsk is the base naval unit of the Eurasian Dynasty. Not all that impressive but it can mount lasers which should help us clear out any LC hovercraft.
We'll construct another tight base near the LZ. I tried a version of the Taiga trick here with my Mine/Refinery placement.
Upgrades to the Irkutsk will be our first focus. We don't want to send a weak navy against the bulk of the LC army. Remember, LC units can travel on land and sea.
Our scout has managed to find the one LC base that is accessible via land. We need to destroy this base extremely quickly or we'll be overrun. The LC here are still in the building stage, but once they can field a credible army taking the base out becomes much more difficult. For that reason I'll be blitzing the base as soon as I get all my units transferred from HQ.
The LC send a scout force of their own, but it's easy to drive off.
Just to make sure though I build a matrix of Large Towers with a Power Plant to the west to power the one tower that needs more juice.
The first Irkutsk upgrade done, let's do the second.
4 speed and 75 HP from a single upgrade. The Irkutsk is now just as fast as our Pamirs. It's still slower than every combat unit the LC has though.
Our army is ready, time to engage these Moon...ers? Moonies? What do you call someone from the Moon anyway?
I've got video of the attack against the LC army here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdGWl6I1Kgk
Our lasers wipe away the LC ground forces and sustained chaingun/rocket fire will neuter the Meteors as well.
The base lacks any Defender or Guardian turrets so there's nothing preventing a total sack of the base.
We need to get access to those resources. Charge at the Mines my peasants!
The Irkutsk is fully upgraded. Armor is doubled and speed now exceeds any unit in the ED army.
The Caspian is our next chassis. I'll talk more about it when we've finished researching it.
Things are going quite well in the LC base. You'll notice they've dropped in a Guardian, but with the power out it's utterly useless.
They do manage to wound the base a little. One Large Tower for an entire LC base seems fair though.
1 base down, 2 to go. That wasn't so bad.
Shame the rest of this mission is going to be a complete dick to you.
Since we'll need an armada to take on these bases I get to work building a fleet.
The Caspian is complete and it's going to form the backbone of our strategy in this mission. The Caspian (and another unit we've not seen yet) are the only land units in the game that are amphibious. It's one advantage the ED have over the UCS. If this mission was a UCS rather than ED mission it would, for all practical purposes, be impossible. Since the ED have the Caspian it's difficult but still doable if you plan right.
Just like the Irkutsk, we need to fully upgrade before we begin construction.
Aw isn't that cute? The LC are trying to destroy the naval base with a single Meteor.
Meanwhile, the army has found an LC strike squad trying to sneak onto the mainland. We can't allow that.
Good job army!
Um...okay this is a lot less cute. I managed to kill one of the Moons with my Irkutsk but they now can destroy the naval base with ease. This is bad.
Making matters worse, the LC have made note of my weak anti-air defenses and responded with an all-out aerial assault. Fortunately, nothing mission critical is lost but it forces me to re-align my defenses. It looks like the LC will focus on an aerial strike the cripple the base and then use a conventional Moon/Lunar army to wipe us out.
The Moons succeed in taking the Shipyard off line. God damn it.
And they get the Shipyard, right before I'm able to kill them off. This will set production back a great deal
The navy won't let themselves be humiliated like this. Attack the LC base now! I don't care that the fleet is one Irkutsk R against dozens of Moons, you're fighting Eurasian men, you can handle it.
Can't seem the handle Guardians though. On the upside, we have succeeded in finding the second LC base. If you recall from the UCS version of this mission, this base is where we found NEO's HQ. Obviously in this timeline the LC's presence have prevented NEO from setting up shop here. This base will be just as tough to crack as NEO's was.
One tactic you could use on this mission is helicopters + tunnels like I did back in the UCS campaign. That's probably easier than trying an amphibious approach, however I've already showed that off and we've not seen how navies work. So consider me a sailor this mission.
The Caspian upgrade is great. We get 150 HP and 4 speed.
One more upgrade left.
A Boyar scout has found the final LC base. It's on an island which makes it even more inaccessible than the one to the west of the LZ.
The Caspian is now fully upgraded. If you notice it has the exact same health as the Siberia now as well as the same mount options. Once you have the TK 111 Caspian you should build it rather than Siberias until you get shields.
And here's our first one, fresh off the assembly line.
No time to marvel though, the LC are coming from the north.
Fighting is fierce but we manage to run them off. Based on this, I'm going to say it's still too early for us to be rebuilding our Shipyard. I've got another idea though.
Alright we've already got 3 Caspians let's keep goin...
...oh. Units limit.
You guys will have to take on an entire LC base by your lonesome. You're cool with that right? If you can kill a few Meteors it should be a walk in the park.
See there isn't even anyone here. Dunno why you guys were so scare...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRc7-MqLrY
Oh. Nevermind then.
Based on that (and the fact we're at the units cap) my new strategy is "turtle until the LC run out of money."
It's a very boring strategy.
But it works. Imagine me fending off raids like in the last few screenshots this for the next 30 minutes and you've got the idea.
May as well get some research done while we wait.
The Caspians are rebuilt...sort of. We still probably need more but thrice as many Caspians is a good start.
Shields.
They have shields.
How the fuck do they have shields!? They should be out of money by now!
I forgot to build a mining base here after I took out the original LC base. Since the LC can just drop some mines down they... well, did and now I'm paying for it.
There. That looks better. Axeil you're a huge idiot I can't believe you forgot that...
With the LC now starved out, it's time to go over the walls and finish our siege.
This time I work on drawing units out instead of charging in. It works out a lot better.
I'm still pissed about those shields though
Kill the power, kill the base.
Our last upgrade for this mission (because it's literally the only thing left)
With the island base nearly annihilated it's finally time to rebuild our naval yards. Only took an hour.
And now we're going to have boats. We're going to have so many fucking boats.
Our Groznys now have upgraded rocket launchers. The citizens of the ED shrug.
Er I mean they rejoice wildly in the streets!
One base to go.
I have no idea why there is a laser wall literally in the middle of the LC base. That makes no goddamn sense. I guess it's an impediment if you use tunnels but then why bother putting your Aerial Supply Depot on the outside?
9 Caspians and 5 Irkutsks. Lets do this.
After we wait for the Caspians to get in the water of course.
Once again the LC airforce engages us at long range, and once again they are shot out of the sky because seriously why would you put your fragile fighters over all my anti-air units?
That's a lot of rockets. The laser units are focusing on the Moons that come into the sea. I've got mad micro skills folks, you better believe it. Targeting 2 separate units at once. Revolutionary stuff here.
The first tower is down. Sadly we're still being bombarded from the other one.
Not anymore though!
Looks like this LC commander learned how to make a compact base. We're under fire literally everywhere in the base but the northern corners.
If we can destroy the power we can win the mission right here. If we can't destroy the power, well then we'll have to rebuild and I'll be very annoyed because this mission has already gone on way too long.
Come on, why are half of you not shooting at anything!?
YES We did it! Good job Eurasians! Now to clean up.
Still it's a bit odd that only a single Caspian was shooting there at the end.
Oh. Always make sure you have supply helicopters unless you want to look foolish like I just did.
Cleanup is as exciting as it usually is.
Why thank you General Fedorov, I'm not much of a golfer but I'll take a villa. I think General Axeil has a dozen properties throughout the Dynasty now.
Sadly this brave little Irkutsk can't come with us. The unfortunate downside of building a navy: you can't take it back to HQ with you.
But we can take nearly 25,000 credits back with us!
These are not really the stats of a turtle-y match. 200 destroyed units and 47 lost units. This has probably been the bloodiest battle we've seen yet in the game.
Even now we are sending troops to investigate. They will not expect an attack so deep inside their territory.
This mission. This fucking mission. I've already played it and it makes what happened in Japan look easy. God damn this fucking mission


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..and you feel like apologising for it.
Seriously, I want to say sorry for the post I wrote last week. It isn't usually my thing to write posts like that on here (I usually reserve my bouts of inadequacy and self loathing for Tumblr), but I was having one of those moments and it showed.
I had thought about deleting the post, but I then decided that it would be better keeping it as a reminder of why I use this blog in the first place. For that I have to thank the people who commented on it. Reading back what they said pretty much highlighted to me just how I came across in it. In all the time I have blogged, here and elsewhere I have never really cared if I had people reading this or not. In a lot of cases, I have blogged hoping that nobody would ever read my rants and ramblings. Yet in my last post it sounded like it did matter to me how many readers I got. If this was someone else's post I was reading I would have regarded them as an idiot. Indeed, I regard myself as an idiot for writing such things in it.
What the comments on that post really did do for me was remind me why I blog and why many others do it. We use it as a place to sound off, to express our views, try out ideas and share things that interest us. We don't set a time to do it, or a target (however things like post a week/day are good for encouraging you to write more), we do it when we feel like it. If someone happens to stumble upon it, read it and like it, then that's good, but it isn't why we write blogs. If it was, then blogging would feel more like a job than the hobby it is. Ultimately we blog and write in general, for ourselves, and we do it because we enjoy it. And if it sounds like a pile of crap, so what? It is ours and we can write what we bloody well like in it.
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The sun rising at 06:32 am and setting at 05:46 pm.
The moon, being 96% full, rising at 03:10 pm and setting at 05:41 am. The previous full moon was on Jan 31, 2018 while the next full moon would come on Mar 02, 2018.
Mercury rising at 06:59 am and setting at 06:33 pm with a 92% of surface illuminated. Mercury would be orbiting the Sun at a distance of 0.33 astronomical units (AU) and would be found at a distance of 1.26 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. Given the planet elongation, the observer would see Mercury at an angle of 9° 55' 54.5" with the Sun. The brightness would be -1.21 this day, as measured by the planet magnitude.
You can also see the map of the stars on Tuesday February 27, 2018 based on your location and at a specific time.
Venus would rise at 07:07 am and set at 06:43 pm. 97% of Venus would be illuminated by the Sun. Venus distance from the Sun would be 0.73 astronomical units (AU) and its distance from the Earth 1.66 astronomical units (AU). The angular distance in the sky between Venus and the Sun would be 12° 16' 01.9".
Mars would look like 89% full, orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1.57 AU and be at 1.41 AU from Earth. The planet would be seen rising at 02:00 am and setting at 11:17 am. The angular separation of the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the reference point, would be -79° 57' 52.7". The brightness of Mars, that is its magnitude, would be 0.82.
Jupiter's distance from the Sun would be 5.42 AU and 5.05 AU from Planet Earth. Jupiter rising and setting times would be 11:47 pm and 09:46 am respectively. Jupiter would appear with a 99% illuminated fraction of its surface and a magnitude (brightness of the star) of -2.01. Its angular separation between the Sun would be -106° 51' 16.7".
Saturn would rise at 03:14 am and set at 12:33 pm, appearing 99% full. The angular separation of Saturn from the Sun, as seen by the observer, would be -62° 47' 10.5", its magnitude 0.57. Saturn would orbit the Sun at a distance of 10.07 astronomical units (AU) and would be located at a distance of 10.48 astronomical units (AU) from Earth.
Uranus would appear 99 full, its brightness being 5.88. It would be seen rising at 08:23 am and setting at 09:33 pm. Uranus would be 19.90 AU far from the Sun and 20.58 AU far from Planet Earth (average distance). The observer, looking up into the sky, would see Uranus with a 45° 28' 22.9" angle of separation from the Sun.
Neptune rising at 06:46 am, and setting at 06:00 pm, its magnitude (the degree of brightness of a star) being 7.96. The difference between the celestial longitude of the Sun and that of Neptune would be 3° 36' 30.4". At 29.94 AU distance from the Sun and at 30.93 AU from Earth, 99 % of Neptune would be illuminated by the Sun.
Pluto would be seen as 99% full and would have an elongation of -49° 30' 28.5". It would orbit the Sun at an average distance of 33.51 astronomical units (AU) and be located at an average distance of 34.15 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. The observer would see Pluto rising at 04:07 am and setting at 01:34 pm, its magnitude (brightness of the star) being 14.34.
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Q: Iterating over a text files in a subdirectory How do I iterate over text files only within a directory? What I have thus far is;
for file in glob.glob('*'):
    f = open(file)
    text = f.read()
    f.close()

This works, however I am having to store my .py file in the same directory (folder) to get it to run, and as a result the iteration is including the .py file itself. Ideally what I want to command is either;

*

*"Look in this subdirectory/folder, and iterate over all the files in there"

OR...

*"Look through all files in this directory and iterate over those with .txt extension"

I'm sure I'm asking for something fairly straight forward, but I do not know how to proceed. Its probably worth me highlighting that I got the glob module through trial and error, so if this is the wrong way to go around this particular method feel free to correct me! Thanks.

A: The glob.glob function actually takes a globbing pattern as its parameter.
For instance, "*.txt" while match the files whose name ends with .txt.
Here is how you can use it:
for file in glob.glob("*.txt"):
    f = open(file)
    text = f.read()
    f.close()

If however you want to exclude some specific files, say .py files, this is not directly supported by globbing's syntax, as explained here.
In that case, you'll need to get those files, and manually exclude them:
pythonFiles = glob.glob("*.py")
otherFiles = [f for f in glob.glob("*") if f not in pythonFiles]

A: glob.glob() uses the same wildcard pattern matching as your standard unix-like shell. The pattern can be used to filter on extensions of course:
# this will list all ".py" files in the current directory
# (
>>> glob.glob("*.py")
['__init__.py', 'manage.py', 'fabfile.py', 'fixmig.py']

but it can also be used to explore a given path, relative:
>>> glob.glob("../*")
['../etc', '../docs', '../setup.sh', '../tools', '../project', '../bin', '../pylint.html', '../sql']

or absolute:
>>> glob.glob("/home/bruno/Bureau/mailgun/*")
['/home/bruno/Bureau/mailgun/Domains_ Verify - Mailgun.html', '/home/bruno/Bureau/mailgun/Domains_ Verify - Mailgun_files']

And you can of course do both at once:
>>> glob.glob("/home/bruno/Bureau/*.pdf")
['/home/bruno/Bureau/marvin.pdf', '/home/bruno/Bureau/24-pages.pdf', '/home/bruno/Bureau/alice-in-wonderland.pdf']

A: The solution is very simple.
for file in glob.glob('*'):
    if not file.endswith('.txt'):
        continue
    f = open(file)
    text = f.read()
    f.close()


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