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Strangely enough, there is no option --lines=[negative] with tail, like the head's one, so we have to use sed, which is very short and clear, you see.
Strangely more enough, skipping lines at the bottom with sed is not short nor clear. From Sed one liner :
# delete the last 10 lines of a file
$ sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,10ba' -e 'P;D' # method 1
$ sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba' # method 2
I'm pretty sure everyone has curl and sed, but not everyone has lynx.
Limited, but useful construct to extract text embedded in XML tags. This will only work if bar is all on one line.
If nobody posts an alternative for the multiline sed version, I'll figure it out later...
the f is for file and - stdout, This way little shorter.
I Like copy-directory function It does the job but looks like SH**, and this doesn't understand folders with whitespaces and can only handle full path, but otherwise fine,
function copy-directory () { ; FrDir="$(echo $1 | sed 's:/: :g' | awk '/ / {print $NF}')" ; SiZe="$(du -sb $1 | awk '{print $1}')" ; (cd $1 ; cd .. ; tar c $FrDir/ )|pv -s $SiZe|(cd $2 ; tar x ) ; }
Save the script as: sort_file
Usage: sort_file < sort_me.csv > out_file.csv
This script was originally posted by Admiral Beotch in LinuxQuestions.org on the Linux-Software forum.
I modified this script to make it more portable.
Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').
GNU Sed can 'address' between two regex, but it continues parsing through to the end of the file. This slight alteration causes it to terminate reading the input file once the STOP match is made.
In my example I have included an extra '/START/d' as my 'start' marker line contains the 'stop' string (I'm extracting data between 'resets' and using the time stamp as the 'start').
My previous coding using grep is slightly faster near the end of the file, but overall (extracting all the reset cycles in turn) the new SED method is quicker and a lot neater.
will show:
installed linux headers, image, or modules: /^ii/!d
avoiding current kernel: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d
only application names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/
avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d
will purge:
only installed apps: /^ii/!d
avoiding current kernel stuff: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d
using app names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/
avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d
curl doesn't provide url-encoding for 'GET' data, it have an option '--data-urlencode', but its only for 'POST' data. Thats why I need to write down this commandline. With 'perl', 'php' and 'python', this is one liner, but just I wrote it for fun. Works in Ubuntu, will work in all linux varients(I hope it will work in unix varients also).
I've been auto-generating some complex GnuPlots; with multiplots the first plot of each group needs to be a 'plot' whereas the others need to be 'replots' to allow overplotting/autoscaling/etc to work properly.
This is used to replace only the first instance of 'replot'.
echo "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com" | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e
Works under bash on linux. just alter the '-e' option to its corresponding equivalence in your system to execute escape characters correctly.
With this command you can use shell variables inside sed scripts.
This is useful if the script MUST remain in an external file, otherwise you can simply use an inline -e argument to sed.
This is a working version, though probably clumsy, of the script submitted by felix001. This works on ubuntu and CygWin. This would be great as a bash function, defined in .bashrc. Additionally it would work as a script put in the path.
This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line.
Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination.
This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version.
Ok so it's rellay useless line and I sorry for that, furthermore that's nothing optimized at all...
At the beginning I didn't managed by using netstat -p to print out which process was handling that open port 4444, I realize at the end I was not root and security restrictions applied ;p
It's nevertheless a (good ?) way to see how ps(tree) works, as it acts exactly the same way by reading in /proc
So for a specific port, this line returns the calling command line of every thread that handle the associated socket
A powerfull way to rename file using sed groups.
& stand for the matched expression.
\1 referes to the first group between parenthesis. \2 to the second.
If you're like me and want to keep all your music rated, and you use xmms2, you might like this command.
I takes 10 random songs from your xmms2 library that don't have any rating, and adds them to your current playlist. You can then rate them in another xmms2 client that supports rating (I like kuechenstation).
I'm pretty sure there's a better way to do the grep ... | sed ... part, probably with awk, but I don't know awk, so I'd welcome any suggestions.
If you need to print some portion of a huge file, let's say you want to print from line 200 to 300, you can use this command to print the line from LINE1 to LINE2 of file FILE.


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Results will be announced at the end of next month.
The Star Wars actress admits she's thrilled to be leading the race for the World's Sexiest Vegetarian.
She says, "I am a very strict vegetarian. I just really, really love animals and I act on my values."
Portman has a narrow lead over other contenders, according to PETA--officials expect Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan, Tobey Maguire and Joaquin Phoenix to feature high on the polls.
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As faculty of the University of Colorado, we share in the sadness and anger occasioned by Ward Churchill's article about September11th. We are also heartened to see so much speech that honors those who were killed and that condemns those who were responsible for the attacks. This sort of counter-speech is often the gift of the speech that we abhor.
Knowing the frailties of human beings all too well, the framers of our Constitution denied the government the right to limit freedom of speech and trusted citizens to think for themselves. As professors, we also trust CU students to respond to ideas on their own merits. Over time, academic freedom has come to join freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion as an essential component of constitutional liberty. As the Supreme Court noted in Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967), "Our Nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us and not merely to the teachers concerned. That freedom is therefore a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom."
While a law abridging speech is not at issue with respect to Professor Churchill, academic freedom and freedom of political speech more generally certainly are at stake. In particular, the proposal made to review all departments and curricula at CU is one that must be rejected as incompatible with academic freedom, as are all efforts to terminate Churchill's employment on the basis of the political content of his remarks. While we feel deeply offended by Professor. Churchill's comments and regret the pain they have caused, as a matter of principle we must stand by his right to make them.
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I removed a folder from the Bookmarks bar, thinking this would only remove it from the bar but not delete it entirely.
Now I lost ten's of sub-folders
Is there a way to recover the delete folder?
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Step off, Chicagoland. Oak Lawn owns this corner. And that corner over there? That's Blue Island's.
Only two municipalities competing as public agencies in June's Commuter Challenge broke double digits percentage-wise in the number of employees who rode their bicycles to work during Bike to Work Week.
The City of Blue Island tallied 29 of 250 municipal employees biking to work for 11.6 percent. That trounces Lincolnwood (8 percent), Oak Park (6 percent), Orland Park (7.7 percent), Lombard (5 percent), Wheeling (3.2 percent), Itasca (8.5 percent)...
...and is almost half as good as the Village of Oak Lawn, which scored over 23 percent of employees riding to work (114 out of 484).
That's nearly three times as many employees riding to work as Public Agency category winner Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning which 1) is in Chicago; 2) ain't a town; and 3) has only one-third the employees, which pushed their percentage of participants higher. Also, most of them are known to be Cub fans.
Lots of little departments in other suburban towns had higher percentages. But that's like saying that Chris Bosh had some great performances against the Mavericks.
Hey, suburbia: There's always next year. Oak Lawn and Blue Island will step up again. Will you?
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We've had some record-breaking warm weather this Spring – darn near hit 90 degrees before the first week of April was done! After an unusually warm winter, that means everything is coming into season early…including berries.
While we've pretty much been garden slaves over the last couple of months…tilling, raking, planning, calculating, and of course, planting, we have managed to steal away a few free moments here & there. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, we took the time to kind of wander the property around the house a bit…just looking around for no real reason. Lo and behold, the side property (about 4-5 acres) is full of wild blackberry bushes! We're talking hundreds, if not thousands of square feet of wild blackberries!
Along the back property line behind the house, we even found (what we thought) were some ripening blackberries. Little red berries dotted the overgrown grass, punctuated by the occasional beady little black colored berry. Over the course of a couple of days, we managed to pick a couple of quarts of these lovely little black berries – tossing a few into pancakes, eating some right off the vine, and digging up recipes for fresh wild berries.
I noticed that we seemed to have two different types of blackberries – and even pointed out the differences between the two plants to my favorite partner in crime. Not knowing much about foraging for wild berries myself, and having no pocket reference something or other conveniently stuck in a hip pocket, we concluded that perhaps we simply had two different types of wild blackberries. At least, that is, until I had some free time to hit up Google and do some digging.
After researching wild berries and looking at hundreds of pictures – I found the answer. Sure enough…they're two different plants. We have dewberries, which are, in fact, very close relatives to blackberries. These lovely little delights grown on vines, close to the ground. That's what we've been picking the last few days.
They're nearly indistinguishable from blackberries, except for the actual characteristics of the plant itself. Same white flowers, same green to red to black berries, even the same sweet-tart flavor. The difference is, these have red hairy vines and like to stick really, really close to the ground. (Watch those hairy vines…they're really hair-like stickers you don't notice until you brush your hand on something else and feel the sting of all those hairs stuck in your skin!)
We also have true wild blackberries – they grow upright on canes. Ours are somewhere between a foot and 3 feet tall. Some are just single "stalks" covered in green leaves and berries. Others (I assume more mature plants) are more bush-like.
Dewberries normally ripen in Georgia around late May or early June. Blackberries take another month or so. With our unusually warm winter and very warm spring, the dewberries seem to be coming in a few weeks early. They're everywhere – both the dewberries and the blackberries.
Our dewberries seem to prefer the edges of the woods and small clearings between trees. They also seem to like the same kind of spots as honeysuckle, as the two seem to be frequent neighbors on our property. The blackberries, on the other hand, seem to like the wide open space of our side property. They do, however, seem to like the dips in the property, rather than the higher spots.
What I'm most excited about is taking these wonderful berries to market in a few days! We've made jams, fruit leathers, purple pancakes, muffins and all sorts of wonderful yummies for the house. Now, however, it's time to share them with the rest of the world. We're going to our first public market this coming weekend. Yippee!
For those of you in the CSRA, we'll be at the Benderdinker in Evans on Saturday the 28th. The following Saturday, we'll be Diggin' the River at the Augusta Market on Riverwalk. If you can't come see us in person, be sure to check out Augusta Locally Grown…we'll be offering our farm wares there over the coming weeks. Pick ups are every Tuesday – your choice of Evans or downtown.
Hope to see lots of you there!
Oh…and stay tuned to the blog…we have exciting changes coming here, too! Wait 'til you see the new farm logo I threw together.


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I was going to post this in nigger rape but I don't think it quite fits. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/cr...rm-270211.html
I was going to post this in nigger rape but I don't think it quite fits. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/cr...rm-270211.html
It's always about MUH-DIKK!!!!
In April 1941, during a meeting of the General Board of the Navy a body roughly comparable to the War Department General Staff the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Major General Thomas Holcomb, declared that blacks had no place in the organization he headed.
"If it were a question of having a Marine Corps of 5,000 whites or 250,000 Negroes," he said, "I would rather have the whites."
Seems the General knew more than they gave him credit for. Semper Fi MajGen Holcomb!!
don't know enough, if the "kids" were niggers as well then no harm done. and three of the "kids" were boys so of course he's a faggot
Did the teenapers actually say that or did the media just make that up?and then made them do things to each other they didn't want to do.
I'm having trouble believing that part of the story. Maybe this is a little more accurate.
It's a sort of "freebie" in a way isn't it? "The man with the gun made me rape the girl and be downlow. I didn't have a choice." The story is so convoluted, I can't tell who did what to whom. This story could be condensed to "abandoned house is sight of gay rape, forced sex, robbery, gunfire, and theft."and then made them do things to each other that they would have done eventually that night anyway.
The oddest thing to me about this story is that three times, random niggers just pop up out of nowhere. This really scares me imagining that there are places where that happens.
*gay libtard voice*
This is an outrage! The police are not respecting African culture. This was simply an impromptu community-organized school for young African Americans. Those teens were misbehaving and needed to be corrected. They started out right with breaking and entering but it went downhill when they started playing a game peacefully. That is not their culture! It is a vestige of their white patriarchal education system. This lack of violence, theft, muh-dicking, and gunfire had to be corrected. After all, it takes a village to raise a child.
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This was a valuable lesson for these children and they got off rather easy losing a few dollars, gum, and bling and the nigger version of "spin the bottle". LMAO Don't let an older nigger you don't know in on your card game or near you in an abandoned building.
I am a little amused at the fact that they put good samaritan as" Good Samaritan". Gee, I wonder what that could mean? lol
I'm wondering if the teens were niggers or white? If they were niggers there probably wasn't a whole lot of force involved. By the time they reach 16 most nigger girls have had more black dick in them than a urinal at the Apollo Theater.
Did you catch the part where he said "I knows where you stays". Typical nigger; when I worked in EMS if we asked a white person for their address they'd reply "I live at 123 Jones Street". Ask a nigger (and without fail) they'd always say "I stays at 321 Smith Street". I guess it's genetic; goes back to their jungle days when they knew their hut wouldn't be in the same place for very long.
Black on white crime: Watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg38r...eature=related
You can take the nigger out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the nigger.


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A "dark site" is a website which "sleeps" offline but can be activated in a matter of seconds by a communications professional when a crisis strikes. It can then serve as the central location for regular situation updates during the crisis.
While a "dark site" doesn't necessarily need to be based on a blogging platform, it does hold a couple of very important advantages:
- A blog is content focused and can be managed by non-technical professionals - no need for the IT crew to update a webpage, the communicator can completely control the crisis site.
- Updates are written using a standard word processing interface with "what you see is what you get" features.
- A blogging platform makes the best use of RSS feeds in publishing mode, allowing for easy and automatic content syndication to other social media platforms like a Twitter channel or a Facebook page.
- A blog can contain text, but easily integrates video, audio, files or a combination of these.
Many "dark sites" are pre-defined in the way that they can be created to cater to each scenario which has been defined in the crisis planning phase.
Organizations can have a "dark site" for a fire incident, a flooding scenario or anything else defined in the plan.
Typically a "dark site" would be used as a direct communications and updating vehicle, but can also contain;
- pre-determined frequently asked questions lists,
- facts and figures related to the company or incident,
- video files or infographics
...and many more pieces of information which can easily be prepared in advance according to the crisis scenario.
Once the crisis strikes, the blog or "dark site" is put online, advertised as the place to be for crisis updates, linked to other channels and then managed by the communications professional who is part of the crisis management team.
Article originally published in Communication Magazine - Author: Philippe Borremans - Date: July 1, 2010
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EKF/FIK gradings etc.
Chairman's update on matters arising from the ex-President's report re EKF/FIK gradings etc. 22 September 09 The EKF has no problem in recognising the BKA Chairman as the equivalent of President. There are no impediments to BKA members taking foreign gradings, referee panels, Renshi-shogo applications etc.
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under General.
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Chairman's note on possible EKF/FIK issues following the Sao Paolo meeting
Summary:Â There were no problems with foreign gradings or Renshi-shogo or other matters that I am aware of, prior to the publication of the outgoing President's report of discussions/decisions at the EKF and FIK meetings in Sao Paolo. The latter gives rise to concerns over terminology and I shall debate this with the EKF. Full […]
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Over the government's objections, all the material was eventually returned. In an unusual move, Judge Moreno allowed the U.S. Attorney's Office to construct a "Chinese wall." The prosecutor who saw the confidential memos would be prohibited from disclosing their contents to his colleagues prosecuting Falc centsn and Magluta. Defense attorneys groaned. The Chinese wall, they charged, was a sham and would constitute more grounds for appeal if any of their clients were found guilty.
The intense jousting between prosecutors and defense attorneys continued unabated into July, when Prison Life magazine -- distributed to state and federal institutions across the nation -- ran a large advertisement listing the names of nearly 30 people expected to testify as witnesses against Falc centsn and Magluta. The ad, placed by the defense attorneys, was similar to one they had placed earlier in The Champion, a national magazine for criminal defense attorneys. The defense team justified the Champion ad by saying they were interested in talking to attorneys who may have represented those witnesses in other cases.
They offered a similar justification for the ad in Prison Life, contending they hoped to hear from inmates who may have information about potential witnesses, many of whom are in prison. But prosecutors viewed the Prison Life ad as a "hit list" or a "rats list." Prisoners who recognized the names of fellow inmates were now aware that these men were cooperating with federal prosecutors. "This has resulted in the harassment and intimidation of those inmates appearing on the list by other federal prisoners," wrote lead prosecutor Christopher Clark.
Federal officials began to find other reasons to level charges of misconduct against the defense team. Private investigators working for the defendants, they claimed, have tapped into the state's motor vehicle records in an effort to trace vehicles used by the U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for transporting prisoners. Furthermore, prosecutors stated in court papers, "United States Probation Officers who are currently assigned the supervision of persons considered to be potential government witnesses in this case have also reported being followed by strangers. In addition, the government has learned that during the week of July 26, 1993, private investigators surveilled and photographed the federal courthouse in Miami. These same individuals also photographed the vehicles used by the United States Marshals to transfer prisoners from MCC to the courthouse."
The following day, July 27, a group of marshals confronted a woman videotaping the federal courthouse. The woman identified herself as a private investigator and said she was hired by Miami attorney Neil Taylor to photograph the way the marshals move prisoners from the courthouse. "It should be noted that Mr. Taylor was previously retained by Magluta in relation to this case," prosecutors added.
Taylor claims prosecutors are deliberately misleading the court. He says he withdrew from representing Magluta more than a year ago. The investigator he hired was working on another case, and her videotaping was done with the permission of prosecutors. "The government knew that what I was doing didn't have a goddamn thing to do with the Falc centsn and Magluta case, but they put it in [court papers] anyway," Taylor says angrily. "It's wrong and somebody should call them on it. It's getting crazy."
Defense attorneys cite another example of what they believe has been prosecutorial paranoia: the big crane theory. For a time federal prison officials told the court that Falc centsn and Magluta should not be housed in the prison at Atlanta because they represented an extreme escape risk. The specific basis for their concern? A large crane temporarily at the prison for a construction project. Officials feared Falc centsn and Magluta might somehow use it to hoist themselves over the prison wall.
Prosecutors and federal investigators insist their overall concerns are legitimate. In addition to the overt acts of violence, for example, they say at least two federal agents and their families were moved out of South Florida this summer following very specific threats on their lives in connection with the Falc centsn-Magluta case.
Also, on several occasions this year, Colombian nationals, claiming to be private investigators, have been discovered sitting on bus benches across the street from the DEA's West Dade headquarters, monitoring traffic in and out of the building. In each instance, when federal agents realized they were being watched, they summoned Metro-Dade police to question the Colombians, who have refused to name their employers or reveal the purpose of their surveillance.
Another example: Witnesses have received harassing phone calls from Falc centsn's and Magluta's families. In July, prosecutors claim, Falc centsn's mother telephoned a member of witness Luis Mendez's family with instructions that he was to call Falc centsn-Magluta attorney Mark Dachs. When the family member refused, prosecutors say Falc centsn's mother ended the call by saying, "May God protect him." Mendez's wife also reported to law enforcement officials that she was verbally assaulted by friends of Falc centsn while sitting outside the courtroom.
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Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 590957, 7 pages
Conceptual Design of Deployment Structure of Morphing Nose Cone
1State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Received 20 October 2012; Revised 2 February 2013; Accepted 15 March 2013
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For a reusable space vehicle or a missile, the shape of the nose cone has a significant effect on the drag of the vehicle. In this paper, the concept of morphing nose cone is proposed to reduce the drag when the reentry vehicle flies back into the atmosphere. The conceptual design of the structure of morphing nose cone is conducted. Mechanical design and optimization approach are developed by employing genetic algorithm to find the optimal geometric parameters of the morphing structure. An example is analyzed by using the proposed method. The results show that optimal solution supplies the minimum position error. The concept of morphing nose cone will provide a novel way for the drag reduction of reentry vehicle. The proposed method could be practically used for the design and optimization of the deployable structure of morphing nose cone.
1. Introduction
For a reusable space vehicle or a missile, the nose cone is ejected in the upper parts of the atmosphere. The shape of the nose cone has a significant effect on the drag of the vehicle [1]. Moreover, the temperature of the nose cone caused by aerodynamic heating is about 2000 to 3000 centigrade for reentry vehicles [2] and tactical missiles [3, 4]. Therefore, among a number of design requirements, the reduction of both drag and aerodynamic heating is the major challenge in the design of these supersonic and hypersonic vehicles [5]. So the shape optimization plays an important role in the design of nose cone.
Numerous studies on the design and optimization of the shape of nose cone have been carried out. Ledu and Pollak [6] gave an extensive series of flight tests of a blunt-nosed flare-stabilized re-entry nose cone and deduced drag and stability coefficients. Ericsson et al. [7, 8] discussed combined effects of nose bluntness and cone angle on dynamic stability of the nose cone and provided some useful suggestions on missile design. Deepak et al. [1] described a unique process of shape optimization for drag reduction for the nose cone of hypersonic flight experiments. Lin et al. [9] provided an investigation to determine the optimum nose shape and frustum configuration in an effort to improve reentry vehicle performance. The literature mentioned perviously provided valuable reference for the studies to reduce the drag and aerodynamic heating.
After that, there have been a variety of papers devoted to reducing both the drag and the aeroheating by modifying the flow field ahead of the vehicle's nose [5]. Of these techniques, using spikes is the simplest and the most reliable technique. Gauer and Paull [10] numerically investigated the drag and the heat-transfer reduction of a forward-facing spike with varying length and shape in comparison to the unspiked nose cone. Ahmed and Qin [11] compared the spike and aerodisk with the unspiked nose cone and researched a mechanism to explain the drag reduction and the cause of flow instability based on the shape of an effective body. Marley and Riggins [12] investigated methods for increasing the stability of forward mass injection and presented drag reduction technologies including annular (ring) and swirled injection both with and without upstream energy deposition.
Besides, much research on new techniques for drag reduction has been developed. The breathing blunt nose [13] is proposed to reduce the pressure drag of blunt-nosed body by passive control at a supersonic Mach number. The side force of a slender body flight vehicle with chine nose at high angles of attack has been studied by Lim et al. [14], and the chine nose shape with chine edge on its both sides is considered for the method to reduce side force.
Although lots of efforts have been made in reducing the drag and the aerodynamic heating of the nose cone, there are still some limitations for re-entry vehicles, of which the drag and aerodynamic heating is varied with the flight phase.
Morphing technology on aircraft and spacecraft has found increased interest over the past 30 years because it is likely to enhance performance and efficiency over a wider range of flight conditions [15, 16]. NASA had started the Aircraft Morphing Program to develop and mature smart component technologies for advanced airframe systems that can be embedded in aircraft structures and provide cost effective system benefits [17]. During these years, a hot issue of morphing technology is morphing wing for which numerous studies have been carried out. Lampani et al. [15, 16] proposed a concept of smart thermal protection system for morphing leading edge. Inoyama et al. [18, 19] present a topology optimization methodology for determining multiple configuration for morphing wing structure. Courchesne et al. [20] studied the configurations of morphing wing by use of shape memory alloys actuators. However, the literature survey indicates that morphing nose cone has not been noticed and reported until now.
The term conceptual design is a type of work which gives precedence to hypothetical function. Many approaches are researched for realizing conceptual design. For example, Cao et al. [21, 22] presented a port-based ontology modeling method to support product conceptualization. Taking the conceptual design of aircraft as an example, the goal is to generate one or more aircraft concepts which will meet the design specifications. And the aircraft concept includes the aircraft configuration and its primary dimensions. Raymer [23] expatiated the entire process of aircraft conceptual design and Rentema [24] presented the issues that should be distinguished, such as the configuration layout, the lift curves, and drag polars, accompanied with some necessary demonstration quantitively ensuring the feasibility of accessories.
In this paper, the conceptual design of morphing nose cone is proposed. The morphing nose cone has deformable shape in different flight phases. It is blunt when the re-entry flies out of the atmosphere, whereas it deforms into a sharper cone to reduce the drag when it flies back into the atmosphere. Furthermore, the conceptual design and optimization method will be developed according to the morphing process and the design procedure of the morphing nose cone will be expatiated.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the shape representation of the nose cone is given. In Section 3, the conceptual design of morphing nose cone is presented. The optimization method based on genetic algorithm and the optimal result are proposed in Section 4. A numerical example is presented to explain how the optimization method works. Finally, the method for design and optimization of the morphing nose cone is summarized in the last section.
2. Shape Representation of the Nose Cone
The shape of nose cones can be described as conical, biconic, power series, ogival, elliptical, and Parabolic [9, 25]. The equations describing the various nose cone shapes are expatiated in [3]. In this paper, the ogival nose cone with spherically blunted forebody is considered because it is most commonly used on space vehicle.
The 2D shape of spherically blunted ogival nose cone is shown in Figure 1, where is the overall length of the nose cone, is the radius of the base of the nose cone, and is the radius at any point , as varies from the principle tip of the nose cone () to the base (). The principle tip is blunted by capping it with a segment of a sphere, whose radius is . Thus, the real tip becomes . The arc is a segment of a circle, of which the radius is , such that the curve of the nose cone is tangent to the rocket body at its base at and the spherical cap at .
For the ogival nose cone, the coordinates of tangency point are where the radius can be calculated by
The center of the spherical cap is located at
Thus, the profile of the nose cone can be expressed as
3. Conceptual Design of Morphing Nose Cone
For the morphing nose cone, the spherical cap is nondeformable, whereas the curvature of the deformable ogive is varied with the changes of aerodynamic load. For a re-entry vehicle, the morphing principle of the nose cone is shown in Figure 2. To reduce the drag, the total length of the nose cone is increased by 20% or more () so that the cone angle gets smaller, whereas the curvature radius of the ogive is enlarged after morphing.
As far as it is concerned, the design of morphing nose cone is made via three main processes in general, the conceptual design, integrated design, and detailed design, as shown in Figure 3. In conceptual design, the most adaptive mechanism to complete the task of morphing is proposed to make sure it could be used without motion interference and satisfy the requirement of kinematic accuracy.
Considering the morphing principle of nose cone, the mechanism composed of several slider-crank units each of which has 2 links and a slider is selected as the inner deployable structure. Figure 4 represents the deformable mechanism of the morphing nose cone graphically, where the notations , , and represent the points on the mechanism which holds the blunt nose cone and , , and belong to the sharp nose cone mechanism; and are directly connected to the key points on the original and final surface of the morphing nose cone, respectively; is the origin of coordinates ; and are located in the -axis. As the slider translates from to , the key points move to so that the profile of the nose cone changes from the blunt one to the sharp one.
4. Optimal Design of the Structure Using Genetic Algorithm
4.1. Overall Process of Optimal Design
With respect to the morphing principle of morphing nose cone, the general structure can be preliminary designed. Considering the coordination of deformation mechanism, the movement of key points on the skin should be appropriate, which means that the units of the deployable mechanism should be distributed uniformly.
On the one hand, the solution of the first slider-crank elements can be calculated according to the theory of mechanism. But, if the same method is applied to calculate the other elements, the configuration of the whole mechanism may lead to an infeasible solution with unreasonable links and pressure angles. Therefore, optimization of the mechanism is needed. On the other hand, the optimal design of morphing nose cone is an optimization problem with a single objective and multiparameters which has complex relations between the input and output. The optimal solution can be rapidly obtained with good initial parameters. Consequently, the solution of the first slider-crank elements is used as initial parameters and the other elements are calculated through optimization.
Genetic algorithm (GA) is selected in this paper as the tool to get the optimal solution for the reasons listed as follows. Firstly, it should be noted that this is probably an optimization problem with a single objective and multiparameters which has complex relations between the input and output, so GA can be employed to get the optimal solution. Secondly, GA can rapidly locate good solutions, even for large search spaces. The same is of course also true for evolution strategies and evolutionary programming. The amount of calculation is related to the initial parameters. The optimal solution can be easily obtained by GA if adaptive initial parameters are precalculated. With respect to our problem, the range of some initial parameters, which will produce a global optimization solution very rapidly, can be determined by the engineering requirements and empirical information. Thirdly, solving the equations is the main topic of optimization which consumes large computing resources. Fortunately, GA will not join in the equation solving, so it saves a lot of time. Moreover, GA has more concise mathematical descriptions which can be easily applied in our research. Therefore, GA is applied in this paper to get the optimal solution.
To sum up, the overall process of optimization is conducted in two procedures: calculation of the first slider-crank unit and optimization of other units of the mechanism using GA.
4.2. Calculation of the First Slider-Crank Unit
As shown in Figure 4, considering the first unit , is the origin of the coordinate , is on the slider which moves along the axis, and and are key points on the original and final profiles.
For the original mechanism, the equations of the first slider-crank unit are where , and .
For the morphed mechanism, the origin of the first slider-crank unit moves from to ; thus the equations are where , and .
Because the points and belong to the profiles, the coordinates and can be selected according to the profiles. Combining the equations of original and final units, , , giving the position of and , and can be solved (see Figure 5).
The calculation method for the first slider-crank unit of the morphing nose cone mechanism can be recapitulated in three steps as follows.(1)Select a point on the original profile and compute . Find a point on the final profile which satisfies .(2)Given the position of and , and are solved by (5) and (6). Calculate and .(3)Changing on the profile, several solutions can be obtained. The optimal solution is selected based on the constraint condition; namely, is near the middle of the link to improve its stability.
4.3. Optimization of Other Units
After the first slider-crank unit is solved, the optimization of other units of the mechanism can be conducted using GA [26]. The flowchart of the optimization process by GA is illustrated in Figure 6. The input is the original and final curve functions of morphing nose cone, and the output is the best sample of morphing mechanism with minimum position error, corresponding to the optimal length of the links. The objective function minimizes the position error of the key points between the kinematic and final profile of configuration. The GA program firstly sets the total generation and the population scale determines the iteration times and the scale of samples respectively. Then the samples are generated by the random function via uniform distribution. The output position error can be calculated by solving the kinematic equations. After genetic selection, cross, and metamorphosis, one can get the best sample in one generation. Repeating the genetic selection, cross, and metamorphosis for generations, the minimum position error can be obtained as the best sample shown at the bottom of Figure 6.
The output of GA program is the scales of the mechanism units, where is the number of the units. The proportional indexes are defined as
Suppose the elongation contributed by the mechanism is proportional to the indexes . As a result, the length of all the links can be derived from the first slider-crank unit and proportionally. Then the geometric analysis provides key points ( and ) on the linkage and the final profile.
Therefore, the objective function of optimization can be expressed as where and are the coordinates of key points and .
5. Numerical Example
A numerical example is studied to discuss the effect and feasibility of the optimization method. Refer to Figure 1; suppose that m and m before morphing, whereas the real length of the nose cone increases from to 1.2. The curvature radius of the egive and the other key parameters are calculated by (1)–(3). The parameters of initial and morphing profiles are listed in Table 1.
The functions of the original and final profiles are
Figure 7 sketches the position errors of different generations in optimization process by GA and the best sample of is shown in Table 2. It can be concluded from Figure 7 that the error decreases and converges to an optimal solution which supplies the minimum value after 500 generations. The position error may get to 28.4369 mm in the first generation and after 500 generations the error is confined to a lower stage about 28.1150 mm.
The optimal solution of the links is listed in Table 2. According to the optimization results, The 3D model of the morphing nose cone before and after morphing is present in Figures 8(a) and 8(b), respectively. The mechanism morphs from Figure 8(a) to Figure 8(b) under the drive, whereas the shape of the nose cone changes from blunt body to a sharper one.
6. Conclusions
This paper proposed the concept of morphing nose cone to reduce the drag when the re-entry vehicle flies back into the atmosphere. The range of conceptual design is defined and the optimization method of morphing nose cone is conducted. Mechanical design is conducted to obtain the initial mechanism that can be used in the further optimization. The optimization approach for the mechanism of morphing nose cone is developed to find the optimal geometric parameters of the morphing structure by employing genetic algorithm into the calculation. An example is provided by using the proposed method to verify the effect of the design and optimization method. The results show that optimal solution supplies the minimum error. The concept of morphing nose cone will provide a novel way for the drag reduction of re-entry vehicle. The proposed method could be practically used for the design and optimization of the morphing nose cone of the re-entry vehicles in the future.
Future work will be focused on the aerodynamic analysis and the wind tunnel test of the morphing nose cone to study its aerodynamic performance.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Contract no. 11072123, the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program), and the Project sponsored by SRF for ROCS, SEM.
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Mocha Marble Swirl Cheesecake
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Nutritional Information
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Calories | 205 |
Total Fat | 8g |
Saturated Fat | 5g |
Cholesterol | 26mg |
Sodium | 308mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 24g |
Dietary Fiber | 0 |
Sugars | n/a |
Protein | 10g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 16
Total Time: 2 hr 30 min
Prep Time: 35 min
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- 1 (24 oz) container fat-free cottage cheese
- 3/4 cup(s) cake flour (not self-rising)
- 2 tablespoon(s) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) grated lemon zest
- 2.5 tablespoon(s) cold light butter, cut into bits
- 1 tablespoon(s) fat-free egg substitute
- 2 (8 oz each) bricks 1⁄3-less-fat cream cheese (Neufchâtel), softened
- 3⁄4 cup(s) sugar
- 2 tablespoon(s) sugar
- 1/4 cup(s) cake flour (not self-rising)
- 1/2 cup(s) fat-free sour cream, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon(s) grated lemon zest
- 3/4 cup(s) fat-free egg substitute, at room temperature
- 1.5 tablespoon(s) unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch process
- 2 teaspoon(s) instant espresso powder
- Place cottage cheese in a fine-mesh sieve set over a bowl; let stand 1 hour at room temperature to drain out excess liquid. Discard liquid.
- Heat oven to 400°F. You'll need an 8-in. springform pan coated with nonstick spray; tightly cover outside of springform pan with double thickness of foil. You'll also need a large baking pan.
- Pulse flour, sugar and zest in food processor to combine. Add butter; pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Spoon egg substitute over crumbs; pulse until dough starts to clump. With floured hands, gather dough into a ball; press into even layer over bottom of springform pan. Bake 8 minutes or until set. Cool on wire rack. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
- Clean food processor; process cottage cheese until smooth. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, 3⁄4 cup sugar and the flour with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in cottage cheese, sour cream, vanilla and lemon zest. With mixer on low, beat in egg substitute just until blended. Remove 1⁄2 cup filling to a small bowl; pour remaining filling over crust.
- In a small cup, mix remaining 2 Tbsp sugar, the cocoa, espresso powder and 2 Tbsp hot water until blended and smooth; whisk into the reserved 1⁄2 cup filling. Spoon into a small ziptop bag, cut off a tip and pipe small puddles of the chocolate filling into white batter. Drag a skewer or knife through filling in spiral motions to create marbled effect.
- Place cheesecake pan in larger baking pan and place on oven rack. Carefully pour enough hot water into larger pan to reach 1 in. up sides of springform pan. Bake 55 minutes or until cake jiggles slightly in the center.
- Remove cake to a wire rack; carefully remove foil from pan. Using a thin-bladed knife, gently cut around top edge of cake where it meets pan. Place in refrigerator, uncovered; let chill at least 8 hours or overnight.
- To serve, run a sharp knife around edge of pan to loosen cake; remove sides of pan. Let cheesecake stand at room temperature 1 hour before serving.
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Host: Dr. Linda Austin – Psychiatrist
Dr. Linda Austin: I am Dr. Linda Austin. I am talking with Dr. Rob Stuart, who is Professor of Medicine, Hematologist/Oncologist at the Hollings Cancer Center here in Charleston, South Carolina, but Dr. Stuart, right now, I want to talk about a more personal side which is your own experience yourself and in your family with cancer. Can you share that with us?
Dr. Robert K. Stuart: Yes, of course, I am a cancer specialist and finished my training in about 1978. I joined the faculty originally with Johns Hopkins University at their cancer center and moved to MUSC in 1985 and of course like any physician, my own health and susceptibility was never really high on my mind but in 1991, I had a what I thought was a stomach ache but my internist thought it might be appendicitis and he recommended an x-ray of the abdomen. Well, that turned out be a red herring, but the x- ray actually showed an abnormality on my right kidney and that lead to further tests that showed a fairly large tumor at the bottom of my right kidney and finally, I underwent surgery here at MUSC. I was really one of the first patients to have what's called a partial nephrectomy or removal of only half the kidney rather than the whole kidney which was the standard practice at that time in 1991. It turned out that this was a malignant tumor of the kidney and it was successfully removed, and I have now been survivor for about 16 years. When I first returned to work, some of my patients would say to me, Oh! Dr. Stuart, we heard about your diagnosis and by the way, are you going to have chemotherapy? Because the course of that time that's mainly what I do is give people chemotherapy, and I told them, ?Well, the good news is I am not going to have chemotherapy. The bad news is there is no chemotherapy for this type of cancer, and so I have to hope that the surgeon got it all.? Well, I look back now 16 years later and now there is treatment for that type of cancers. So, that's really an indication of success in treatment, but I have been fortunate to be disease free from 16 years now.
Dr. Linda Austin: It's a great story, and I think it's so important to share survivor stories. Six years ago when your wife, Charlene Stuart, whom I know from working here at MUSC. She was CEO, I believe with MUSC, developed cancer as well. What happened there?
Dr. Robert K. Stuart: Well, that's an even more compelling story. At that time, we were at Saudi Arabia, we had decided to do some overseas experience and I was Chairman of the Oncology Department at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Charlene was a senior administrator at the hospital and she developed acute myeloid leukemia and again, it was very subtle. She developed a pain in her aside that turned out to be a pneumonia, and we were in the emergency room looking at the x-ray when the emergency room physician came up to me. He knew I was the Chairman of Hematology and Oncology and said, ?I don't know what this means. I think you better look at it and of course, it was a blood test result.? It was very abnormal and two days later, we did a bone marrow test and Charlene had acute myeloid leukemia, which is a disease that I have been struggling against my whole career. So, her initial treatment had to be carried out immediately and re-add and it was quite successful. She went into remission. She had some more treatment and then had a type of bone marrow transplant that I helped to develop when I was at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where we use the patient's own stem cells to try to kill the disease marrow and then re-seeded with good stem cells, but ironically only 90 days later, she had relapsed and knowing -- of course, I know a lot about the disease and I knew that her survival from that point was about what it would take to plan a good funeral, but we did have a backup plan. We knew at that point, one of Charlene's brothers back in South Carolina was a so-called perfect match and could serve as a bone marrow donor. So, we flew back to Charleston and Charlene had a second bone marrow transplant at MUSC, this time using stem cells from her normal brother and that transplant was apparently successful, and she has been free of disease for over six years now.
Dr. Linda Austin: Another wonderful story, and you recently, I understand, participated in the Lance Armstrong Bike Ride Cross-Country, but I don't know the official title of that.
Dr. Robert K. Stuart: Yeah, I?ll be glad to talk about that. It's called a Tour of Hope and it was a program sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb and also by all of the sponsors of Lance Armstrong like Nike and Trek Bicycles and so forth and so on. So, the idea was they selected a team of 20 individuals who had a connection with cancer and of course, my credentials were that I was a cancer specialist; I had participated in cancer clinical trial; I had had cancer; my wife had had cancer, so I had a pretty strong portfolio. The only trouble for me was the bicycling part. So, we divided the 20 riders into four teams of five. We left Los Angeles at midnight in October 2004, and we had eight days to make it to Washington, DC. So, each team rode stages in rotation and each team had 11 stages and we rode from Los Angeles to Washington, DC in eight days by way of Madison, Wisconsin, which is not the most direct route I should add. It was physically very challenging, mentally very challenging because some of my stages were during the day in bright bragging sunshine in Colorado. Another stages, were in the dead of night in the Iowa with the wind blowing and the wind chill at about 30 degrees. So, it was very tough and along the way, we had planned rallies -- each of the teams had planned rallies, where we talked about cancer clinical trials and I was able to point out that my wife had been treated in two clinical trials, and I really think it saved her life. So, anyway, we made it to Washington, DC and had a big rally on the mall behind the White House and it was quite an event.
Dr. Linda Austin: Somebody listening to your very remarkable story is someone who may have just gotten cancer diagnosis themselves perhaps the person they loved most in the world may be a mother, a spouse, a child. Speak to that person, what you want them to know?I think what I would advice is first of all to get us much information as you can. The idea of educating yourself about cancer and cancer treatments including, especially clinical trials is a very important step. The patient is not always in the best position to do that. So, family, friends, caregivers, people who love the affected individuals are in good position to do that and probably the web is a good place to start, can certainly start with the MUSChealth.com. Lance Armstrong Foundation has a site called HYPERLINK "http://www.livestrong.org" www.livestrong.org and educate yourself. When the physician finally gets down to making a recommendation, a good question to ask is, is there are clinical trial that I might be eligible for. Don't be afraid to ask for a second opinion. If it offends your doctor, you got the wrong doctor and avail yourself of the expertise that's available in places like the Hollings Cancer Center.
Dr. Linda Austin: You have mentioned several times, you have been an oncologist for 30 years and what an incredible ride that must have been. We have comes so far in 30 years.
Dr. Robert K. Stuart: It is quite dramatic. Thirty years ago, every patient that I saw was with acute leukemia, died and it was very frustrating to me. Now, we have measurable survivor, particularly in people under 60 years of age. The survival is now approaching 40% with the most dangerous forms of acute leukemia.
Dr. Linda Austin: And is that five-year survival?
Dr. Robert K. Stuart: That's five-year but five-year survival in that diseases is tend to not to cure. When I started in Oncology, we were only treating patients that really at the end stage of their disease, and I used to get discouraged that it seemed like every patient that I was treating died of the disease I was treating. Well, that's no longer the case believe me. We have ten million survivors in United States alone, living today. This is cancer survivors and that's a remarkable accomplishment. So, yeah, it has been dramatic turn around in fulfilling career for me.
Dr. Linda Austin: What a thrilling story. Thank you so much for talking with us today.
Dr. Robert K. Stuart: You're welcome.
Speaker: If you have any questions about the services or programs offered at the Medical University of South Carolina or if you would like to schedule an appointment with one of our physicians, please call MUSC Health Connection at (1-843) 792-1414.


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