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Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 730925, 10 pages
Development of a Virtual Maintenance System for Complex Mechanical Product
1School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
2Sports School, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Received 20 June 2013; Accepted 19 August 2013
Academic Editor: Moran Wang
Copyright © 2013 Xin-hua Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In order to improve the maintenance training effect of complex mechanical product, a virtual maintenance system was developed. The system framework was proposed, and the main functional modules were elaborated. A multilevel information representation model for complex mechanical product was put forward, and the flowchart of model transformation technology was designed. Moreover, a collision detection method based on hierarchical bounding volume was proposed, and the maintainability analysis and evaluation solution based on maintenance knowledge was presented. Finally, a prototype system was developed, and the proposed system was proved to be efficient through an example of hydraulic winch.
1. Introduction
Nowadays, for the complex mechanical product with integration of mechanical, electronic and computer technology, and so forth, the disassembly/assembly process is more and more complicated in structure. It is hard to carry out the maintenance training tasks through a physical prototype not only due to the great limitation of work environment, but also due to the long maintenance time and high maintenance cost. In order to achieve the maintenance training effect through physical prototype, virtual maintenance system based on virtual reality technology (VR technology) is applied to the maintenance training tasks for complex mechanical product. Due to advantages such as no space limitation, short maintenance time, low maintenance cost, and risk [1–3], virtual maintenance system is widely applied in many engineer fields such as aerospace [4, 5], weapon equipments [6], and medical equipments [7, 8].
At present, many researchers have worked on the problem and proposed different solutions in order to realize high efficiency and visualization of product maintenance process. In [9–11], disassembly sequence planning approach was investigated to simulate machine assembly maintenance process. In [12], a framework capable of performing complex tasks depending on the user's order was proposed, and this framework enabled VR applications to animate from dozens of characters in real time for complex constraints. In [13], a framework for synthesizing new character motions from existing motion capture data based on a frame-based solver was presented, and this ensured animating hundreds of humanoids with different morphologies in real time. In [14], Xie et al. proposed a virtual maintenance training system (VMTS) based on multiagent system, and the system is composed of seven collaborative agents. VMTS can be transformed to the development of multi-agent system, thus the robustness, flexibility, and reusability of VMTS were improved. In [15], Liu et al. presented a virtual assembly oriented multilayer exact collision detection algorithm based on the analysis of the problem in the virtual assembly environment. In [16], a novel collision evaluation algorithm based on generalized penetration depth, approximation information, and tolerance information was proposed to solve the problem in which collisions between polygonal models may not reflect collisions between real objects in reality. In [17], a bounding volume hierarchy based on tetrahedron and spheres for collision detection between complex polyhedra was presented. The method drastically reduced the number of intersection tests between the features of both polyhedra. In [18], a new scene graph structure was presented to remove the limitations of traditional scene graph structure in the development of virtual maintenance training system (VMTS). In [19], Liu et al. presented a multilayer component information expression structure model in virtual assembly. This method solved the data transformation between CAD system and virtual assembly system very well. In [20], the therblig characteristics required by virtual maintenance simulation were analyzed, and the maintenance therbligs were classified and defined, respectively. The modeling method of virtual human was studied, such as fatigue model of virtual human upper limb [21], regulation of human locomotion [22], and modeling of skeletal muscles coupled with fatigue [23]. In [24], the implementation of basic body, retrieval body, and control body was studied, and the architecture and theory of multibody structure maintenance information modeling for multilayer representation were proposed. In [25], the information model and directed graph expression were studied, and the collaborative manufacturing task decomposition process covering the design of LMU and LMP was put forward. Moreover, the design methods for LMU and LMP were provided. In [26], the problem of how to build a virtual prototype (VP) used for virtual maintenance simulation was investigated, and a maintenance-task-oriented virtual maintenance prototype (VMP) modeling was addressed to represent geometry modeling and human-object interaction modeling. Moreover, other systems were established based on virtual reality [27–30].
Bearing the above observations in mind, we present a virtual maintenance system for complex mechanical product, and the rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the system framework and elaborates the main functional modules. Section 3 describes the key technologies such as model transformation technology, collision detection method, and a maintainability analysis and evaluation solution based on maintenance knowledge. Section 4 develops a prototype system based on the above-mentioned key technologies. Section 5 summarizes our conclusions and future work.
2. Framework of the Proposed System
According to the structure and maintenance training demand of complex mechanical product, a virtual maintenance system should meet the following requirements.(1)A virtual maintenance training scene with high credibility should be modeled.(2)The integration between CAD system and virtual maintenance system should be realized, and as much as possible CAD model information should be reserved.(3)Natural, simple input/output interfaces should be provided.(4)Various maintenance tools can be applied in the virtual maintenance system.(5)Maintenance knowledge management and maintainability analysis should be provided to improve the automation and intelligence of maintenance process.
According to the above requirements, a framework composed of several functional modules was proposed as shown in Figure 1.
There are several functional modules in the virtual maintenance system, and the functionalities of main functional modules are given as follows.(1)System modeling: it includes virtual maintenance scene modeling, virtual prototype modeling, and virtual human/virtual hand modeling. The virtual prototype models for complex mechanical product are modeled in CAD system and transformed into the virtual maintenance system with a multilevel information representation model.(2)Virtual maintenance simulation operation: it mainly includes interactive operation, collision detection, and disassembly sequence planning. User sends the maintenance operation orders through the data glove, and the virtual human carries out the maintenance tasks. Meanwhile, the virtual maintenance system executes the collision detection operation.(3)Maintainability analysis and evaluation solution: it includes the maintenance inspection, maintainability analysis, and maintenance data management. The virtual maintenance system judges the correctness of user operations timely and prompts users the right guidance based on the maintenance knowledge.
3. Key Technologies
3.1. Model Transformation Technology
A complete product model should contain the following aspects of information: geometrical information, topological information, hierarchical structure information, and assembly constraint information. Usually, the virtual prototype models are transformed from CAD models, and the geometry information of CAD models, are expressed by accurate mathematical form. Because of the large amounts of time to display CAD geometric model, it is very difficult to achieve the complex graphic's real-time display in virtual maintenance system. Generally, CAD models can be converted into triangular patch models which can be applied in virtual maintenance system. However, during the transformation process, virtual prototype models also lost the topology information and geometry information. In order to solve this problem, a multilevel information representation model for complex mechanical product is put forward. According to the product information of different levels of abstraction, product information can be divided into five layers which are product layer, component layer, part layer, geometric surface layer, and display layer as shown in Figure 2.
Product layer can be described as follows: where is product nodes. The information of product nodes includes name information, function information, quality information, fault information, materials information, and other management information.
Component layer can be described as follows: where are component nodes, is the hierarchical mapping relationship between component and product, and is the relationship of assembly constraints and relative position among the components.
Part layer can be described as following: where are part nodes. The part nodes mainly include part name information, physical properties information, technical information, and management attributes. is the hierarchical mapping relationship between part and component. is the relationship of assembly constraint and coupling among parts such as connection relationship of bolt and splines.
Geometric surface layer can be described as follows: where are geometric surface nodes, is the hierarchical mapping relationship between geometric surface layer and part layer, and is the constraint relationship of geometric surface.
Part is composed of the geometric surface which can be accurate to express the geometric shape and size of a part though keeping internal geometric constraint. The part position can be identified precisely based on the geometric constraint in a virtual maintenance system.
Display layer can be described as follows: where are triangular patch nodes. The triangular patch nodes mainly include geometric properties of triangular patch such as coordinates and color. is the hierarchical mapping relationship between display layer and geometric surface layer. It was applied in model visualization and collision detection in a virtual maintenance system.
The information of product layer, component layer, part layer, and geometric surface layer can be obtained through the second development of CAD system, and the information of display layer can be obtained through the neutral format files such as STEP and STL format which are output from the CAD system through the model transformation interface. The model transformation process can be shown in Figure 3.
3.2. Collision Detection Method
Collision detection is not only the basic elements of a virtual maintenance system but also the premise for virtual maintenance operation. Virtual maintenance system should possess the function of accurate real-time collision detection. For complex mechanical product, the model coupling degree is very high which would increase the amount of calculation for collision detection greatly. Thus, a quick and efficient collision detection method should be provided to realize the authenticity of a virtual maintenance system.
According to the requirements of collision detection in a virtual maintenance system, a collision detection method based on hierarchical bounding volume is proposed, and the overall process of the proposed method is shown as in Figure 4.
In virtual maintenance system, the part models are generally composed of triangles, and a collision can be recognized through judging whether the triangles have intersection points. The collision detection algorithm based on triangles can be elaborated as follows.
Suppose pair triangles exist.
Where, . , and are the vertexes of triangles , and , and are the vertexes of triangles . , are the planes of pair triangles. , are the normal vector of planes.
If , , and should be arranged clockwise, and if , , and should be arranged counterclockwise.
, , and are the vectors from the vertex to the three vertexes of triangle , respectively, and can be described as follows:
, , and are dot product of and , , and , respectively, and can be described as follows:
Judgment of the relative place for two triangles in the three-dimensional space can be described as follows.(a) If, , and have the same sign, triangles are disjoint.(b) If only one of , , and is zero and the other two have the same sign, only one vertex of the is in the plane . For this situation, the judgment of relative place for two triangles should refer to the situation . If the other two have different signs, the judgment of relative place for two triangles should refer to the situation .(c) If only two of, , and are zero, the judgment of relative place for two triangles should also refer to the situation .(d) If all of , , and are zero, and are in the same plane. The judgment of relative place for two triangles should also refer to the situation .(e) If , , and have different signs, the line segment which is one intersection of and to the other intersection of and is figured out, and the line segment which is one intersection of and to the other intersection of and is also figured out. Triangles have the same joint in the condition of the line segment and the line segment having overlap. Otherwise, triangles do not have joint.(f) Judgment of the relative place for point and triangle [31]. Set one point in the plane ; , , and are the vectors of three edges of triangle and can be described as follows: is the normal vector of vector . expresses the linear equation of vector , and is the value of plugging point into this equation and can be described as follows: If , is in the triangle in the case of , . If , is in the triangle in the case of , .(g) Judgment of the relative place for two triangles in the same plane [32]. Two triangles in the same plane are disjoint only if there is an edge of a triangle making the two triangle vertexes on the opposite side. In other words, two triangles are disjoint in two conditions, and one condition can be described as follows.
There is an edge of the triangle , and , . The two triangles are disjoint while , , or , , .
The other condition can be described as follows.
There is an edge of the triangle , and , . is the normal vector of vector . The two triangles are disjoint while , , , or , , .
Otherwise, they are intersection.
3.3. Maintainability Analysis and Evaluation Solution
For a complex mechanical product, maintenance tasks are complicated and difficult to be carried out by a common engineer. Usually, the task of maintainability analysis should be carried out, and the evaluation results and modification proposals including the factors of object accessibility, object visibility, maintenance time, and maintenance environment should be provided to guide the maintenance operations. In order to improve the intelligence and automation of maintenance process, a maintainability analysis and evaluation solution based on maintenance knowledge are proposed as shown in Figure 5.
The maintainability analysis and evaluation solution for complex mechanical product are composed of reachability analysis, maintenance time estimation, error analysis, maintenance safety analysis, disassembly sequence automatic planning, and dismantling path automatic detection. Maintenance knowledge can be acquired from product information, relative standard, and expert experience knowledge. According to product model information features, maintenance knowledge can be divided into three domains: structure domain, maintenance domain, and analysis domain.
Structure domain mainly expresses product structure information such as size, color, weight, and assembly relationship. For a more reality training effect, it is important to make the size and color of the model as far as possible as same as the reality object. Assembly relationship induces topological relationship, tolerance information, and spatial position among parts and is prepared for maintenance simulation.
Maintenance domain mainly includes maintenance process for product operation knowledge such as dismantling path planning, testing, therblig, and selection of maintenance tools. In order to realize maintenance simulation in nonimmersion virtual maintenance system, the virtual human movement must be decomposed. Maintenance activities are decomposed into therbligs based on motion analysis method for engineering, and common maintenance activity is composed of a series of therbligs. The therbligs are divided into three classes: moving class, static class, and operation class. The detail information of therblig classes can be described in Table 1.
Analysis domain mainly focuses on the maintenance analysis and evaluation such as maintenance fault analysis, maintenance time estimation, and maintenance reachability analysis. Maintenance fault analysis acquires test data in the maintenance process to judge failure reason, failure type, the failure effects, and so forth. The test data includes the collision detection, distance detection, and tool change frequency. Maintenance time estimation mainly determines spending the real time of a therblig in reality maintenance process which is based on the time of a therblig in the virtual maintenance process and the zoom factor based on the moving element maintenance difficulty level and the human posture. Maintenance reachability analysis mainly analyses maintenance personnel space, maintenance position, and visual range in the maintenance process.
4. An Example
Based on EON studio platform, a prototype of the virtual maintenance system for complex mechanical product was developed, and an application in the mechanical product of hydraulic winch was provided as shown in Figure 6.
The 3D models in this example were set up by the CAD software UG and were converted to the virtual maintenance system through the model transformation interface as shown in Figure 6(a). In the proposed system, the bill of material for hydraulic winch can be organized according to the assembly constraints and the multilevel information representation model as shown in Figure 6(b). The system carried out real-time detection of collision whether or not it occurred. If collision occurred between two parts, the color of two parts was changed to a different color, meanwhile, the system issued a warning in the form of sounds, as shown in Figure 6(c) and enlarged Figure 6(d). The maintenance activities were composed of therbligs, and the maintenance activities of gear-shaft installation that consist of therbligs were shown as in Table 2. The components put on the table, as that shown in Figure 6(e). Virtual human was adjusting the position of gear shaft as shown in Figure 6(f). The system can automatically analyze maintainability such as tool change frequencies, maintenance space, and maintenance visibility, as shown in Figure 6(g). Finally, the disassembly results and maintainability analysis report were output as shown in Figure 6(h).
5. Conclusions and Future Work
A virtual maintenance system for complex mechanical product was designed and implemented to improve the maintenance training effect. The framework and its key technologies of the proposed system were elaborated. Finally, an example was provided, and the proposed system was proved to be feasible and efficient.
Ongoing and future work will focus on the improvement and extension of the proposed system. Furthermore, the applications in other complex mechanical products are also an important research for the authors.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
The support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 51005231, 51209203), the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (no. BK2012131), and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions in carrying out this research is gratefully acknowledged.
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How to do reverse shaping for vests
I've never crocheted a vest before. Could anyone tell me what to do when the instructions give you the right side instructions for the vest then tell you to do the left side the reverse of the right side? I've studied the pattern instructions, do they mean I'm supposed to read and crochet from the last instructions for the row and do them first? Hope someone can help solve this problem so I can crochet this vintage vest.This pattern is from the vintage Gypsy Vest pattern. Margaret
I assume this is for the armholes. I don't know how your pattern is written but I'll take a stab at explaining. When you do the right side the armhole is on the right and the left side armhole is on the left.
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I hope you can understand what I mean
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A good week for John Howard's Australia
PUBLISHED: 18 Aug 2012 00:07:16 | UPDATED: 18 Aug 2012 02:50:08PUBLISHED: 18 Aug 2012 PRINT EDITION: 18 Aug 2012Geoff Kitney
It's been a good week for John Howard's Australia and for the conservative mainstream that is setting Australia's future directions.
Julia Gillard's decision to return to offshore processing of asylum seekers inflicted a devastating blow to the liberal-progressive lobby for more compassionate treatment of asylum seekers.
This was another bitter wake-up call for those who had hoped the defeat of Howard at the 2007 election had turned Australia back to the path towards a more enlightened, more liberal future.
Almost five years later, after two Labor prime ministers, Australia continues to develop in the conservative mould in which Howard began to shape the Liberal Party more than two decades ago.
The turn in the road that social and cultural liberals thought was beginning under Kevin Rudd's prime ministership has been straightened by Gillard.
Gillard is instinctively conservative but, more importantly, she is also deeply, pragmatically, conservative.
By her actions, it is clear she believes that Howard's social and cultural conservatism is where the Australian mainstream sits.
Her decision to return to the harsh Howard regime on border protection was ruthlessly pragmatic.
It was based on the view that she has more to fear from voters angry about her failure to do anything to stem the tide of queue jumpers than from voters outraged at such a harsh response to the plight of desperate, displaced people.
Her judgment was confirmed by the fact that the loudest voices raised against the Gillard solution were outside the political mainstream.
Malcolm Fraser, a former conservative hero now disowned by the party he led ruthlessly into power a generation ago, was a lonely and irrelevant dissenting voice on the fringe of the debate.
His intervention was ignored in Canberra by both sides of politics.
But then it should be remembered that Fraser's Liberal Party ceased to exist after Howard transformed it.
Howard reversed the Fraser model of conservative economics and social liberalism to liberal economics and social conservatism.
Fraser has changed over the years, but the Liberal Party and Canberra politics have changed more. Social and cultural issues that not much more than a decade ago would have – and did – have passionate advocates for and against in the major parties now go largely undebated.
From big issues such as the American alliance to faded issues such as an Australian republic, to irregular issues such as the plight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, it is only fringe voices that advocate the liberal-progressive view.
Gillard and Abbott even agree on the issue of gay marriage, a position adopted by Gillard which, to social progressive, defies comprehension. They should look at polling in blue-collar areas of key Labor seats to find an explanation.
A jolting reminder of the declining influence of liberalism in Australian politics came during the week in what is widely seen as the best speech for a long time in a parliamentary debate – Malcolm Turnbull's tribute to Robert Hughes in the condolence debate on Tuesday.
Turnbull is arguably the Parliament's best debater, yet he rarely speaks.
When he does, he is confined to the prosaic details of communications policy and the politics of the national broadband network.
If you want to know what Turnbull thinks about broader political matters, you have to go to Twitter and read his tweets.
They are a smorgasbord of issues and ideas that reflect a vastly more eclectic, open-minded and liberal agenda than are on Tony Abbott's conservative policy agenda.
What they reveal is an informal manifesto that is liberal across the board – on economic, social, strategic and cultural issues. Not since Paul Keating's prime ministership has anyone stood for such an across-the-board, liberal-progressive agenda.
But to all intents and purposes, in the present Parliament, Turnbull stands almost alone.
The few who sympathise with his agenda are mostly silent.
The price of speaking out is almost always to bring down the wrath of the conservative/right-wing commentators and critics who dominate the popular media.
The Australia that Keating imagined and that Turnbull had the chance to begin to shape when he became opposition leader – and was an election away from the prime ministership – now seems a distant prospect, if it ever was one.
Abbott has not won the hearts and minds of Australians as alternative prime minister but voters prefer the Coalition to Labor by a decisive margin.
Gillard is betting her slim chances of a political revival on appealing to what she judges to be an instinctively conservative constituency that might be persuaded to buy her brand of conservatism rather than Abbott's.
The left-of-centre political ground has been ceded to the Greens and to the crossbench independents.
Both Labor and the Coalition parties are further to the right than those who occupy the balance-of-power political space – to the intense frustration of the conservative forces.
That there appears to be no room for a mainstream liberal-progressive alternative in a contest dominated by two brands of conservatism suggests Turnbull has little chance of a comeback to the Liberal leadership.
For those who dream of a liberal-progressive future, it's been a nightmare week.
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COLUMBUS (AP) — With the hours dwindling until the deadline for Ohio State's response to NCAA allegations of improper benefits and a cover up in the football program, athletic director Gene Smith said Thursday that he's disappointed by "where we are" even as he's encouraged by the work of the school's compliance department. Ohio State is on track to submit its reply today to NCAA charges of major violations that led to coach Jim Tressel's forced resignation and the departure of star quarterback Terrelle Pryor.
MINSTER — The Wapakoneta ACME baseball team showed it could make things interesting late — in both the best and worst sense  — during the Auglaize County sectional tournament this week. But above all the Redskins revealed that they were the county's best summer baseball team. Wapakoneta held off a late Minster charge for a 6-5 win in the sectional title game on Wednesday night to finish the tournament unscathed with a 3-0 record with comebacks and close calls throughout.
MINSTER — A rough start to Tuesday night's game didn't deter the Minster ACME baseball team from assuring itself of a trip to the district tournament.
Minster pushed a run across in the bottom of the sixth inning and advanced to the title game of the Auglaize County sectional tournament with a 5-4 win over top-seeded St. Marys at Hanover Street Park.
Wapak, the No. 2 seed, and Minster will battle for the sectional crown tonight at 6. Since the tournament is double-elimination, if Minster wins that game the two teams will play again at 8:15.
MINSTER — Regardless of what happens Wednesday, the Wapakoneta ACME baseball team is headed to the district tournament.
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Wapak scored five runs in the top of the seventh inning to rally to a 6-4 win over St. Marys in a sectional semifinal Sunday at Hanover Park in Minster.
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MINSTER — The Minster ACME baseball team continued its winning ways Friday night as it defeated New Knoxville 23-0 in five innings in the second game of the sectional ACME Tournament held at Minster. Minster began the game with four runs in the first inning including a two-run home run to left field by Rob Wente. It scored four runs on four hits. Devon Poeppelman and Ryan Hoying also had doubles in the inning. In the second inning, Minster scored two runs on a wild pitch and a bases-loaded walk to Doug Huber.
The Indians' performance against the Giants in San Francisco didn't raise the optimism level among Tribe fans. It probably didn't do much to encourage the guys who play, either. After scoring four runs and being swept in the three-game series at AT&T Park, despite good pitching, it was important to demonstrate a pulse at Chase Field. And the Indians came through, winning two out of three before heading for Cincinnati to play the last three of this year's interleague games.
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Middlesex County Cricket Club and their principal sponsor Brooks Macdonald today announced that Australian overseas all-rounder Adam Voges has been selected to receive the club's Brooks Macdonald Player of the Month Award for July 2013.
Whilst Voges was initially signed by Middlesex to add all round quality and experience to the Panthers side in this year's Friends Life t20 campaign, Chris Rogers' call up to Australia's Ashes squad has since seen Voges registered to play for the club in all forms of the game.
Making his County Championship debut for the club at Uxbridge in early July against Warwickshire, he backed up a quite brilliant knock of 150 in Middlesex's first innings with a half century in the second innings to finish the game with an aggregate of 201 runs from the match.
When scoring his hundred at Uxbridge Voges became only the fourth person in Middlesex's illustrious history to record a century on his County Championship debut and only the second batsman in history to record a century and a half century in his two County Championship debut innings. With John Simpson, he also broke a long standing partnership record against Warwickshire, when the pair added 180 runs for the fifth wicket.
Whilst Voges has had a significant impact with the ball in Middlesex's Twenty20 campaign to date, taking seven wickets at a meagre average of just over eleven, he has also played a crucial role with the bat, using his experience to take Middlesex over the line against both Essex and Sussex with brilliant knocks to finish the games off.
Middlesex's Chief Executive, Vinny Codrington, commented…..
"The impact that Adam has had both on and off the field since his arrival with us here at Middlesex has been nothing short of magnificent.
With Chris Rogers away on international duty and Adam registering for us across all forms of the game, he couldn't possibly have made a bigger impact than he did at Uxbridge when making his Championship debut.
His debut performance against Warwickshire in the Championship was exceptional and quite rightly sees him being rewarded with this month's Player of the Month Award."
Adam Voges was presented with the Middlesex CCC Brooks Macdonald Player of the Month Award for July during the interval of the Middlesex Panthers Friends Life t20 match against Surrey this evening at Lord's in front of a packed crowd. He also received a cheque for £1,000 and a magnum of champagne, courtesy of Brooks Macdonald.
Adam Voges – Middlesex CCC stats for period 28th June – 20th July 2013
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First-Class record in Middlesex CCC fixtures
Vs Warwickshire @ Uxbridge (start 8th July) 1st Inns: 150 0-6
2nd Inns: 51 dnb
Vs Sussex @ Hove (start 17th July) 1st Inns: 20 dnb
2nd Inns: dnb dnb
First-Class figures for July: 221 runs at an average of 73.66
Twenty20 record in Middlesex CCC fixtures
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Vs Sussex @ Lord's (30th June) 5 1-25
Vs Essex @ Lord's (4th July) 17 2-21
Vs Surrey @ KIA Oval (5th July) 1 2-21
Vs Kent @ Uxbridge (7th July) dnb dnb
Vs Essex @ Chelmsford (12th July) 22* 1-8
Vs Hampshire @ Richmond (14th July) 28 dnb
Vs Sussex @ Hove (16th July) 14* 1-4
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Ahead of the Pack: the Pacemaker High-Availability Stack
This configuration protects against both resource and node failure. If one of the virtual domains crashes, Pacemaker recovers the KVM instance in place. If a whole node goes down, Pacemaker reshuffles the resources so the remaining nodes take over the services that the failed node hosted. In the screen dump below, charlie has failed and bob has duly taken over the virtual machine that charlie had hosted:
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Stack: openais
Current DC: bob - partition with quorum
Version: 1.1.6-4.el6-89678d4947c5bd466e2f31acd58ea4e1edb854d5
3 Nodes configured, 2 expected votes
9 Resources configured.
Online: [ alice bob ]
OFFLINE: [ charlie ]
Full list of resources:
Clone Set: cl_iscsi [p_iscsi]
Started: [ alice bob ]
Stopped: [ p_iscsi:2 ]
p_ipmi_alice (stonith:external/ipmi): Started bob
p_ipmi_bob (stonith:external/ipmi): Started alice
p_ipmi_charlie (stonith:external/ipmi): Started alice
p_xray (ocf::heartbeat:VirtualDomain): Started bob
p_yankee (ocf::heartbeat:VirtualDomain): Started bob
p_zulu (ocf::heartbeat:VirtualDomain): Started alice
Figure 1. Normal operation; virtual domains spread across all three cluster nodes.
Figure 2. Node charlie has failed; alice has automatically taken over virtual domain zulu.
Once the host charlie recovers, resources can optionally shift back to the recovered host automatically, or they can stay in place until an administrator reassigns them at the time of her choosing.
In this article, I barely scratched the surface of the Linux high-availability stack's capabilities. Pacemaker supports a diverse set of recovery policies, resource placement strategies and cluster constraints, making the stack enormously powerful.
Node: in cluster terminology, any system (typically a server) that participates in cluster communications and can potentially host cluster resources.
Fencing: a means of coordinating access to shared resources in the face of communications failure. Once a node stops responding to cluster messages unexpectedly (as opposed to gracefully signing off), other nodes shut it down to ensure it no longer has access to any shared resources. Usually enabled by making an out-of-band connection to the offending node and flipping the virtual power switch, IPMI-over-LAN being the most widely used implementation.
Resource: anything that a cluster typically manages. Resources can be very diverse, from simple IP addresses to complex database instances or dæmons.
Ring: in Totem protocol terminology, one of the (typically redundant) links over which cluster messaging communicates.
"The Totem Single-Ring Ordering and Membership Protocol" (research paper explaining the Totem protocol): http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yairamir/tocs.ps
"Clusters From Scratch" (hands-on documentation for Pacemaker novices): http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1/html/Clusters_from_Scratch
"Pacemaker Configuration Explained" (reference documentation of Pacemaker configuration internals, not for the faint at heart): http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1/html/Pacemaker_Explained
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HA Documentation
Where can we find a more detail documentation that easy to undertand about Linux HA beside the link that you have mention above, especially about Corosync and Pacemaker.
The two documentation "Cluster from Scratch" dan "Pacemaker Explained" was too short and directly jump start to the configuration without any explanation about how those two technology works and step by step configuration.
If there is any documentation like http://www.drbd.org/home/what-is-drbd/ that explained DRBD in an easy way it will be a great help to understand about PaceMaker and Corosync.
It seems that very few good documentation about Linux HA available everywhere.
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But I wanted it copied and renamed like this:
1Filename.txt 2Filename.txt 3Filename.txt
Etc. up to 1000.
It's pretty easy to make 1000 copies of the same file, but it messes up how it is named.
They end up looking like this: Copy 1 of Filename.txt, Copy 2 of Filename.txt, etc.
Does anyone know a way to do this?
I've downloaded a file re-namer utitlity, but it doesn't make copies of the file, just re-names files you already have.
C:\>for /L %f in (1,1,1000) do copy C:\Temp\1Filename.txt C:\Temp\%fFilename.txt
I am using windows, yes.
I actually just used what I said above as an example, but am wishing I said exactly what I need now, lol.
I'm actually only making 59 copies of 1 file.
It starts at 18502Filename.txt
And I need that same file copied and to go up to 18560Filename.txt.
I know it probably would only probably take me about 10 minutes to just make 59 copies of the file and manually re-name them, but we have to do this on a pretty regular basis and I'm just looking for an easier way.
With that said, could I still use a similar code to what you have there? Couldn't quite figure it out.
But I can't quite figure out how to make it start at 18502 and go up from there.
Just had to change the "1000" part to 59 and it made 59 copies.
But I want the copy numbers to go:
18502Filename.txt 18503Filename.txt 18504Filename.txt
Rather than:
for /L {%% ¦ %} variable in (start#,step#,end#) do command[CommandLineOptions]
Therefore ...
C:\>for /L %f in (18502,1,18560) do copy C:\Temp\18502Filename.txt C:\Temp\%fFilename.txt


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"Depressingly real"
A different reading style by the narrator.
It seemed insightful into the life of an aging revolutionary.
While his speaking voice was nice the breathiness he utilized at the end of phrases became very distracting from the book and ultimately "drove me crazy" couldn't wait for book to end.......
The story was depressing but when you travel in this part of the world you often feel this same heaviness the writer conveys.
The writer's work deserved a better reader. The publisher's summary of the book was so nicely written that I thought this book would have been oh so much better. Do not buy this in "audible" but read it in print.
"The sound mix has major issues!"
The narrator - has a nice voice making it easy to follow the characters
I have not finished the book yet.
I have not listened to other books narrated by Phillips - but here are some problems. Everytime he takes a breath - you hear it. A good audio person should have been able to fix that. Also they have speeded up the rate of his talking so that I had to slow it down to 1/2 rate in order to follow the book. Average rate of speech is 150 WPM. When you make it faster it is harder for me - and perhaps others - to follow the story. When you slow it on an iPhone there is a slight reverberation. Not the fault of the iPhone.
My main reaction to the book is the issue with the breath intake of the reader. I should be focusing on the plot of the book not the audio problems of the book.
I am really concerned about this problem with audible books as this is the second book that I have observed this issue. The other was Darkness at Noon. Audible needs to fix this problem - or they shall lose me as a customer.
The Panther, Split Second & One Amazing Things were done beautifully. What gives????? Are you selective about who gets the better treatment in order to hurry the book to the public?
"How to deal with immediate "disaster"!"
I enjoyed her voices and how the story came together.
The stories that people shared.
The discovery of the smoking in the restroom.
I liked them all.
I read it twice and may read it again. It's lovely.
"Making change easy!"
I like how he has divided the chapters so you can read one a week and implement the activities he has suggested during that week. Very doable tasks. Easy to follow.
The way it is organized.
His rate of speech.
Yes - until I began the book and decided to follow the author's advice.
I think everyone should read this. Good facts and relevant to everyone.
"Felt like I was in Yemen"
The different voices and style of performance was wonderful even with all the Arabic names I could easily follow the plot.
yes - I loved the comments from the story teller.
No idea on this one
It was a fabulous read.
"Hard to Follow1"
I think I would prefer the print version.
I'm gonna listen to it one more time before Book Club - it just wasn't that memorable for me.
"Submarine challenge"
Yes for both
Cannot answer
Cannot answer
It was a nice afternoon entertainment on our way to another state.
"So interesting we missed our turn more than once!"
It was compelling and engaging.
The computer password
The conclusion
Narrator was terrific. I would listen to any of his readings.
"Husband's choice on car trip!"
Husband did read another book on WWII by Beevor and liked it. Guidall was good but I thought the info dry.
No- didn't like the story.
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5 Ingredients or Less CHALLENGE: Chicken Fingers 2 Ways
by Healthy Eats in 5-Ingredient Recipes, October 1, 2010You're dying for some crisp-tender fried chicken fingers, but could do without all the fat and calories. Don't worry — we've got two delicious ways to slim them down. Our nutritionists Dana and Toby are going head to head, dishing up their lightened-up versions of this famous finger food. Weigh in on your favorite!
RECIPE #1: Toby's Honey Chicken
Toby says: "Chicken fingers are a fave among my kids and husband. Instead of serving up the fried version, I whip these crispy, honey ones with crisp panko-sesame breading instead. My son couldn't resist eating one this morning before school!"
Secret Ingredients:
- Panko breadcrumbs help give them that a light, airy crunch without extra fat. You can find panko in more mainstream markets though I typically buy mine at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's or my local Asian market.
- Honey contains loads of vitamins and minerals like iron, niacin, riboflavin, potassium and zinc. It adds a sweet flavor to the chicken that you can taste in every bite.
- Apricot preserves add an additional splash of flavor that isn't overpowering. Look for brands without high fructose corn syrup. I can usually find a homemade jar at my local farmers' market which is made from only apricots and sugar.
- Toasted sesame seeds add crunch and flavor to the crust. They contain healthy unsaturated fats and a slew of minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium and copper.
Toby's Honey Chicken (pictured above)
Yield: 24 pieces
2 1/2 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts cut into small strips
2 1/2 cups panko bread crumbs
1/2 cup honey
2 tablespoons apricot preserves or jam
4 tablespoons raw sesame seeds
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place sesame seeds in a frying pan over medium heat and toast for 3 to 5 minutes or until seeds are golden brown. In a small bowl, combine honey and apricot preserves. Stir to combine. Brush honey mixture on both sides of chicken strips, dredge in bread crumbs and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Line coated chicken on a baking sheet coated with nonstick cooking spray. Bake 20 minutes on each side until slightly browned.
Nutrition Info Per Piece
Calories: 132
Total Fat: 4.5 grams
Saturated Fat: 1 gram
Total Carbohydrate: 12 grams
Protein: 11 grams
Sodium: 45 milligrams
Cholesterol: 30 milligrams
Fiber: 0.5 grams
RECIPE # 2: Dana's Crispy Coconut Chicken
Dana says: "These chicken fingers have it all — they're crispy, salt and juicy, with a flavor boost from toasted coconut. The coating keeps lean chicken breasts moist. Serve them with your favorite dipping sauce, or on top of a salad with homemade dressing."
Secret Ingredients:
- Beaten egg whites give the crunchy coating something to stick to. With less than 20 calories each, they won't weigh down the chicken.
- Whole grain cereal isn't just for breakfast – get a crispy crust with extra vitamins, fiber and a nutty flavor. Experiment with different types to find your favorite.
- Shredded coconut sets these chicken fingers apart. Baking at high heat toasts it for extra flavor and crunch. Coconut does add a touch of fat, but it comes out to less than 1 gram per serving.
Dana's Crispy Coconut Chicken
Yield: 14 Pieces
2 egg whites
3 cups whole grain cereal (corn flakes or brown rice cereal recommended)
1/4 cup shredded sweetened coconut
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into strips
Nonstick cooking spray
Preheat oven to 400-degrees F. Coat a baking sheet with nonstick spray and set aside. Place egg whites in a bowl and beat until frothy. Place cereal and coconut in a resealable plastic bag; season with salt and pepper and crush well. Dredge chicken strips in egg white and place a couple at a time into the bag to coat with coconut mixture. Transfer to baking sheet. Bake for 6 to 7 minutes per side, until chicken is cooked through.
Nutrition Info Per Piece:
Calories: 60
Total Fat: 1 gram
Saturated Fat: 1 gram
Total Carbohydrate: 4 grams
Protein: 8 grams
Sodium: 112 milligrams
Cholesterol: 19 milligrams
Fiber: 1 gram
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The m4 Macro Package
When you installed Linux, you installed a lot of cool programs, many of which you use every day. At the same time hundreds of little utilities also got installed, simply because they were required by the bigger, more elaborate applications. However, many of these little utilities are extremely useful in their own right. This article describes one of these second-class utilities: m4.
m4 is a macro processor, meaning that it copies its input to the output, expanding macros along the way. In this regard it's similar to another macro processor you're probably already familiar with: cpp (C Pre-Processor). Like cpp, m4 originally was written as the pre-processor for a programming language (Rational FORTRAN); however, m4 is much more powerful and feature-rich than cpp, which makes it much more useful than just defining constants in programs.
Being a macro processor, m4 certainly provides the ability to define simple macros, but it goes much further. You also can define parameterized macros (macros with arguments), conditionally include text into the output stream, do looping via recursion, run a shell command and insert its output into the output stream, include a file, perform simple string operations (length, substring search, regexp search, etc.), perform simple integer arithmetic and much more.
The examples that follow illustrate many of the features of m4, but this article can't do justice to everything m4 can do for you. Take a look at the info page (see Resources) for a complete description. Also, the examples below are abbreviated versions of m4 macros that I actually use. You can find the full source at my web page listed in Resources.
A word of warning from the m4 info page:
Some people [find] m4 to be fairly addictive...learning how to write complex m4 sets of macros....Once really addicted, users pursue writing of sophisticated m4 applications even to solve simple problems....Beware that m4 may be dangerous for the health of compulsive programmers.
The basic tool of m4 is the macro. Macros are defined with the define command. For example, define(`hello', `Hello, World') defines a macro called hello. Notice the quote characters ` and '. These group words together to form phrases, and when they surround a single word they inhibit macro expansion. Usually, m4 will expand macros within both the macro name and the macro body unless you tell it not to by quoting.
Like cpp, you don't need any special commands or prefix characters to use macros. Everywhere the macro name appears in the input stream, m4 will substitute the macro body.
To run m4, simply give it the name of the file(s) to use as input. It reads through the input, expanding macros as it goes, and generates text on the standard output.
Assume we have the following file called sample.m4:
define(`hello', `Hello, World') hello, welcome to m4!
If we run this file through m4 with the command
m4 sample.m4 > sample.txtit produces the following output:
Hello, World, welcome to m4!
Four macros are defined: one to produce the HTML header, a second to create a banner at the top of the HTML page, a third to create banners within an HTML page (like section headers) and a final one to do some housekeeping at the end of the page. We put these macros into a file called html.m4 and use it as a macro package later.
First, the macro to start an HTML page:
define(`START_HTML', `  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="D. Robert Adams"> <title>$1</title>  <body text="#000000" ifdef(`BACKGROUND_IMAGE', `background="BACKGROUND_IMAGE"') bgcolor="#e5e5e5" link="#3333ff" vlink="#000099" alink="#ffffff"> ')
Line one defines a macro called START_HTML that expands to all the text that follows. Note the use of $1 on line seven. This expands to the first macro argument, which will become the page's title (see the next section for how these macros are used). Also note the use of m4's ifdef macro on line 11. ifdef checks if a macro has been defined. If it has, it includes the text given in the second argument. In this case, ifdef checks if BACKGROUND_IMAGE has been defined. If it has, we include the HTML code to use the image as the web page's background.
Next comes the page header macro:
define(`PAGE_HEADER', `

 $1	 $2

 Last Modified: esyscmd(`date')
 ')
Again, note the use of $1 and $2 on lines four and five that get expanded with macro arguments. Further, note the esyscmd() macro on line nine. esyscmd() tells m4 to run the given shell command and insert its output at the given location. In this case, we run "date" to produce a timestamp in our document.
Next, we create the macro to make a section banner within the page. This uses nothing you haven't seen before:
define(`HTML_BANNER', `

$1

 ')
The final piece necessary is the macro to close the HTML "body" and "html" tags:
define(`END_HTML', `')Given the above four macros, creating a web page is extraordinarily easy. Create a file (index.m4) that contains calls to our HTML macros. The only thing new is the include macro that inserts our HTML macros:
include(`html.m4') define(`BACKGROUND_IMAGE', `bg.jpg') START_HTML(`Sample Page') PAGE_HEADER(`computer.jpg', `Sample HTML Page') HTML_BANNER(`img1.jpg', `News') HTML_BANNER(`img2.jpg', `Downloads') END_HTMLOnce we've declared the macros and a file that uses them, the final step is to run m4 to create the HTML page. The command is:
m4 index.m4 > index.htmlThat's it! With just seven lines of code we create a fully functional HTML document. By using the macros to create other HTML pages, every page will have the same look and feel. Furthermore, we can change the look by simply changing the macro definitions and re-creating the HTML files.
Re: Take Command: The m4 Macro Package
Extolling the virtues of m4. In 2002.
Has anyone noticed that the whole using two different quote
markers is unpleasant, out of use, and hard to read? Not to
mention that nearly all scripting languages like python or perl
provide convenient means of text replacement already and
are generally better known, more well behaved quoting-wise
and end up being easier to read?
Let m4 die.
you can use the following to
you can use the following to redfine quotes:
There's some typo here. The m4 builtin function for this is actually "Changequote()".
Exhaustive documentation is available for m4 -- try running "info m4" on your system. If that doesn't work, then try visiting
m4 is amazingly configurable. If you don't like the way it works, chances are good that you re-configure to work in a way that you do like.
Re: Take Command: The m4 Macro Package
I disagree to "let m4 die". Look, i can define a macro within a multiline comment of a java file. Since it is comment, java compiler does not protest. This macro is used to generate an aspectj file, compiled together with the ajc compiler. Thus, using m4 i can have a variety of application versions, by only pointing the compilers to the list of automatically generated files. And for production code i can go without aspectj. Try to do it with perl :)
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