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Introducing two new modules to make implementing Autopilot Pattern applications in Node.js even easier.
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Watch the screencast and learn how to install the Triton CLI tool and use CloudAPI to manage containers, VMs, networks, and storage in Triton data centers.
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It's been said that we don't really understand a system until we understand how it fails. Despite having written a (toy) TCP implementation in college and then working for several years in industry, I'm continuing to learn more deeply how TCP works — and how it fails. What's been most surprising is how basic some of these failures are. They're not at all obscure. I'm presenting them here as puzzlers, in the fashion of Car Talk and the old Java puzzlers. Like the best of those puzzlers, these are questions that are very simple to articulate, but the solutions are often surprising. And rather than focusing on arcane details, they hopefully elucidate some deep principles about how TCP works.
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Applications developed with the Autopilot Pattern have containers acting as autonomous actors using an external service catalog like Consul or etcd for coordination. Both services bring assumptions that bring challenges to serverless environments.
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Something that got a little lost in the excitement of Samsung's recent acquisition of Joyent was dtrace.conf(16), our quadrennial (!) unconference on DTrace. The videos are up, and in the spirit of Adam Leventhal's excellent wrap-ups from dtrace.conf(08) and dtrace.conf(12), I wanted to provide a survey of the one-day conference and its content.
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Persistent storage in Docker is a stumbling block for many production deployments, but the problem is easier to solve than you might imagine, and we can do it with the infrastructure and apps we already use and depend on.
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You may have seen that Samsung is acquiring Joyent. One of the quirks about acquisition announcements is that for any company with even a modest number of shareholders (be it private or public), there is a lag between when the acquisition is announced and when the acquisition actually closes — creating a peculiar time in which everything has changed and yet nothing has.
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Let me not bury the lede: Samsung is acquiring Joyent, and Scott's blog entry explains why we feel that this is such a good fit. As Joyent's CTO, I wanted to offer my perspective and couch this acquisition in its broader historical context: the world's largest consumer electronics company is acquiring a cloud computing pioneer; what's going on here?
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JEFFERSON CITY - A new agent has been named for the Thayer Motor Vehicle and License Office.
Mindy Lawrence will be the new agent for the office. Lawrence has a variety of business experience and briefly worked at the West Plains License Office in 2005.
The winning proposal was chosen as part of a competitive bidding process that is used for all of Missouri's 182 local license offices. Lawrence's winning bid was one of two submitted.
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NBC's newest tough-as-nails cop drama Prime Suspect appears to have been given an unceremonious farewell, as the network is shutting down production on the freshman series after leaving it off of their 2012 midseason schedule.
Prime Suspect, which is an adaptation of the popular British series starring Helen Mirren, has had trouble finding an audience since its September premiere. With an initial rating of just over 6 million viewers, Prime Suspect quickly dropped to an average of 4.5 million viewers per episode.
Despite Prime Suspect receiving favorable reviews, NBC isn't in any position to allow a new show to underperform – even if it is a competent series. That being said, NBC did attempt to help find an audience for the series. Following The Playboy Club's cancelation, NBC replayed the first three episodes of Prime Suspect in its time slot. Unfortunately, that didn't help.
Of course, Prime Suspect hasn't officially been canceled yet, and being left off of the mid-season schedule alone doesn't mean that it's not coming back – this is something that Community fans should take note of, following the announcement of Community being put on hiatus.
Unfortunately, whereas Community is continuing to film episodes, NBC is shutting down production on the Prime Suspect without any sign when it might start up again. While it's common for television production to shut down around the holidays, Deadline is reporting that the cast and crew have been notified that there isn't a date set for production to begin again. According to the network, they're still weighing their options.
For fans of Prime Suspect, this is certainly not the best news in the world. Fourtunatly, if you enjoy what Maria Bello did with the role, you still have the opportunity to also see what Helen Mirren did with it. Desptie NBC's Prime Suspect only producting 8 episodes, the original British series ended after just 14 episodes. Of course, the British version's 14-episode run stretched over the course of 15 years, from 1991 to 2006. Each episode was 3+ hours and followed Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison over the course of her career.
As NBC is still "looking over their options" with the series, we'll make sure to keep you up to date if anything changes. But as it stands now, it would be wise to bid farewell to Prime Suspect.
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Here is the first event to which I refer, as presented by the Sino-Soviet "news" agencies.
"Russian troops are getting aboard a Chinese train Wednesday to take part in joint anti-terrorist exercises Peace Mission 2009, that will be held on the Chinese territory," the Russian agency ITAR-TASS reported on July 8, 2009. In addition to a Russian motorized rifle battalion and an airborne company, the Chinese train also transported 150 Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers, and trucks. Some 20 Russian aircraft — bombers, fighter jets, transports, and helicopters — were flown to the exercise site in northeast China.
The headline of a July 12 story for Communist China's Xinhuanet news agency reported, "More Russian military forces arrive in China for joint anti-terror exercise." The massive five-day war games, held July 22-26 in the Shenyang Military Area Command, are a repeat of similar China-Russia joint military exercises in 2005 and 2007, which also took place under the name of "Peace Mission." A shorter two-day joint "anti-terror" drill took place in April of this year. The operation, dubbed Norak-Antiterror 2009, was conducted in Kazakhstan on April 17-18 with units from the armed forces of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): Russia, China, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
These military operations (which have gone virtually unreported in the United States) underscore the extensive and growing military, economic, technological, and political cooperation between Moscow and Beijing over the past decade and a half. They also demolish the supposed wisdom of the prevailing "experts" at the CIA and State Department, who contended that the "Sino-Soviet split" was "permanent," and that the United States should encourage this perceived split by wooing both communist regimes with diplomatic overtures, aid, and trade.
Four decades of this bipartisan wisdom by U.S. policymakers has resulted in the transfer, virtually, of America's entire manufacturing base to China and the transformation of Mao's "People's Republic" from a weak and hopelessly primitive Third World state into a global economic and military superpower.
The second event to which I referred above took place in Moscow about the same time as the Sino-Russian military operations were being set into motion in China: President Barack Obama and his entourage landed in Russia on July 6 for a three-day state visit. In addition to meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Obama met with former President Mikhail Gorbachev and Gennady Zyuganov, chairman of the Russian Communist Party, who said he complimented President Obama on his economic stimulus program. "I said that I had thoroughly studied [Obama's] anti-crisis program, that I liked it, as well as that it is socially oriented and primarily aimed at supporting poor people and enhancing the state's role," Zyuganov told Interfax, a Russian news agency. "I said all this to President Obama."
These two events illustrate two fatal fallacies that underlie our decades of suicidal policies vis-à-vis Russia and China, as implemented by both Democratic and Republican administrations.
"Splits" and Scissors
Belief in a strategically exploitable Sino-Soviet split became not only the foundation for U.S. policy toward Communist China, but also provided the rationale for our relations with all communist regimes. If the world communist monolith was fragmenting owing to internal fissiparous forces, the argument ran (and continues to run today), then why not speed the process? Thus we saw policies aimed at courting communist regimes in Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere, with the announced aim of wooing them from the Soviet orbit.
From the strategic "split" doctrine came a corollary: besides working to create cleavages between communist countries, why not also work to create cleavages within communist countries by supporting "liberal" and "democratic" political factions among the ruling communist elites?
Of course, that is what the bipartisan strategists such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski claim to have done. Communism has collapsed, they say; the former Soviet Union has fragmented, with the former Warsaw Pact nations joining the European Union and NATO, and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) no longer holds sway in Russia. Yes, China is still ruled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), but the "hardline" Marxists in Beijing have lost out to the regime's pragmatic capitalists, goes the argument.
Unfortunately, the delusional acceptance of these fatal fallacies has achieved the exact opposite of the benefits promised by the "wise men" of foreign affairs. The supposed permanence of the Sino-Soviet split — as noted above, and as could be demonstrated by hundreds more examples — has proven as evanescent as a popsicle in Hades. The new Sino-Soviet axis, thanks to our aid, is far more dangerous now than ever it was during the Cold War.
As far as Russia goes, even many of the erstwhile enthusiasts of the so-called sea-change events of 1989-1991 have been forced to admit in recent years that Vladimir Putin has, in many ways, reinstated the Soviet model of dictatorship. In fact, by 2006 much of the western media had finally awakened to the reality that KGB veteran Putin had stacked the top levels of the Russian government with comrades from the KGB (and its successor, renamed the FSB) to the tune of 80 percent — a higher percentage than had ever been seen in Soviet history. The iron fist is now showing through the velvet glove in ways that were predictable, and were indeed predicted.
When the delusions of the Sino-Soviet split and "democratization" were being sold to the American people and U.S. policymakers a generation ago, there were many who soundly warned against accepting such dangerous deceptions. The most cogent and authoritative analysis exposing the looming danger came from KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn. For the past nearly 50 years he seems to have been destined to experience the agony of Cassandra, who in vain warned her disbelieving countrymen against bringing the Greeks' gift horse inside Troy's impregnable walls. In a series of memoranda to the CIA, which were later published as two books — New Lies for Old (1984) and The Perestroika Deception (1995, U.S. edition) — Golitsyn provided a remarkably detailed exposé and penetrating analysis that is probably without parallel in human history.
Over the past 90 years, there have been many defectors (both genuine and false) from communist countries, some of whom have provided us with very valuable information and insights. What makes Golitsyn so unique? Golitsyn was a member of the super-secret "inner" KGB — Department D — which planned long-range, strategic disinformation. Other members of the "outer" KGB did not even know of Department D's existence. It was a crucial creation engineered during the 1959 reorganization of Soviet intelligence by KGB Chairman Alexander Shelepin. Shelepin and the top Soviet leaders determined to undo much of the damage caused by the recently deceased Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose paranoia and bloody purges had devastated not only the USSR but the entire global communist system. The KGB would be redirected away from Stalin's ham-fisted use of the agency primarily for espionage and brutal police-state oppression, into Lenin's conception of the "Cheka" (NKVD, predecessor of the KGB) as an instrument of strategic deception that would manipulate and control the Soviet Union's enemies (the United States and the West) by manipulating and controlling the enemy's perceptions of geo-strategic realities. Shelepin and the Kremlin strategists set out to recreate and test two of Lenin's most successful strategic deceptions of the 1920s: the New Economic Policy (NEP) and the "Trust."
Lenin's Models
Under Lenin's NEP, limited private enterprise was allowed. This was heresy to communists, of course, but Lenin the pragmatist explained that this was just a temporary step backwards in order to gain strength for the next steps forward in the socialist revolution. The NEP was necessary both to provide the Russian people with incentives to produce and to lure western capital to the Soviet Union. It worked: Ford Motor, DuPont, General Electric, U.S. Steel, and other western companies flocked to Russia, providing the essential wherewithal and technical assistance needed to reindustrialize the Bolshevik regime. When the Kremlin strategists determined that the NEP had finished its usefulness, they shut it down, renationalized all private enterprise and reinstituted the harsh Bolshevik program. The NEP deception would be repeated again (and again) to win further western concessions and aid under new labels: "peaceful co-existence," "détente," "glasnost," and "perestroika."
Lenin's "Trust" was the forerunner to the KGB's fake revolutions and dissident movements that would be unleashed later in the USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries. The Trust, supposedly, was a powerful, secret anti-communist group within Russia that had widespread support among the people and even among leading officials. The Trust carried out spectacular raids and guerrilla activities throughout the USSR and convinced western intelligence agencies to support it. But after several years of this elaborate charade, the Trust was revealed to have been purely an invention of the Cheka, and is the case study par excellence of what the KGB terms the "scissors strategy."
The term derives from the application of the Marxist-Leninist dialectic methodology, which allows communists to achieve victory by creating phony struggles in which they control both sides. The unwitting adversary is lured into making alliance with the ersatz "dissidents," "liberals," or "democrats," only to be trapped and cut in half by two sides he thinks are opposed to one another. Through its adroit use of the Trust, the Cheka manipulated western government policies regarding the Soviet Union and lured many true Russian anti-communists into the open, so they could be arrested, tortured, imprisoned, and executed.
According to Golitsyn, the Kremlin strategists used the newly reorganized KGB (of which he was a key "inner" member) to launch a succession of Trust and NEP deceptions that would be part of a decades-long process to implement "a strategy for 'restructuring' the whole world." In The Perestroika Deception, Golitsyn argues:
The Soviets are not striving for genuine, lasting accommodation with the Western democracies but for the final world victory of Communism.... They intend to exploit the same illusion to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict.
According to Golitsyn, Gorbachev (and his predecessors and successors) is pursuing an incredibly intricate "global strategy … to lure the United States into convergence and World Government."
The charge would be too fantastic even to contemplate except for two things: 1) Anatoliy Golitsyn has correctly called the shots — often years in advance — on some of the most astounding geo-political events of our age; and, 2) The verifiable facts on the ground more accurately fit his analysis than all the wishful thinking and deceit peddled by the acclaimed (but always colossally wrong) "experts" of the disinformation axis in Washington and Moscow.
Concerning the first point, we should note that author Mark Riebling (Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, Knopf, 1994) conducted a systematic analysis of Golitsyn's book New Lies for Old, and found that out of a total of 148 falsifiable predictions, 139 had been verified by 1993, giving Golitsyn an accuracy rating of 94 percent. And his predictions were not small matters; they included details of the forthcoming fake liberalizations throughout Eastern Europe, followed by similar developments in the Soviet Union. He predicted the removal of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, and the admittance of former communist Warsaw Pact nations into the European Union.
Facts on the Ground
Concerning the second point, the facts today argue more strongly than ever that Golitsyn's analysis was — and is — correct. Among the literally hundreds of examples that could be cited that have been barely mentioned, completely ignored, or misreported in the western media:
• Contrary to the claims of the "end of communism" school of thought, "former" KGB and Communist Party leaders continue to dominate the former USSR and Warsaw Pact countries, occupying the crucial centers of power: the military, the security services and police, the main political parties, the media, the financial institutions, the educational institutions, virtually all economic sectors, and all branches of government.
• This overwhelming dominance by unrepentant and unchastened communists accounts for the fact that "lustration" laws aimed at ferreting out those responsible for murder, torture, imprisonment, and oppression on a scale never previously seen in history have been almost completely thwarted. Nothing remotely comparable to the post-World War II de-nazification of Germany has occurred; only a handful of communists have been prosecuted.
• Russian Orthodox Christians continue to suffer horrible betrayal by their KGB-controlled clergy, who fully support Putin and the Kremlin leadership. The death in 2008 of Patriarch Alexy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church (and a dedicated KGB agent since 1958), showed the continuity of the Soviet state. All three replacement candidates were identified KGB operatives, including Archbishop Kirill I, who was chosen to be the new patriarch.
• In Russia, Putin has been able to use his KGB-FSB siloviki to harass, intimidate, kidnap, torture, imprison, and assassinate his opponents, whether journalists, politicians, businessmen, or activists.
• The European Union is being drawn ever tighter into Moscow's noose of energy dependency through the Russian state oil and gas mega-corporations — Rosneft, Gazprom, Nord Stream — run by Putin's "former" KGB-FSB comrades.
• The United States is traveling the same path, with the KGB-run LUKoil taking over more than 2,000 gas stations on our eastern seaboard that formerly were owned and operated by Mobil and Getty Oil.
• KGB operatives who have been exposed in top positions of the "post-Soviet" European countries include Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy; Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski; Lithuanian Prime Minister Antanas Valionis; Lithuania's head of State Security, Arvydas Pocius; Hungarian Finance Minister and Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy; Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn; and Bulgarian President Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov.
• Hungarian KGB agent Sandor Laborc was made head of Hungary's secret services and then intelligence chief for NATO, where he was put in charge of the West's most sensitive secrets. Estonian Defense Ministry official Herman Simm was recently exposed as an FSB asset who has passed many NATO secrets to Moscow.
• While pretending for decades to oppose the European Union, the KGB's most trusted moles played major roles in building the "Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic." Two key French KGB agents on the EU project were Alexandre Kojeve and Charles Hernu. Kojeve wrote that a world socialist state could be realized through the gradual expansion of European integration across the globe.
• Lifelong Marxist-Leninist Mikhail Gorbachev has approvingly described the EU as "the new European Soviet." Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has disapprovingly warned that "having just buried one monster, the Soviet Union, another remarkably similar one, the European Union, is being built.... The EU is the old Soviet model, presented in Western guise."
• Western politicians and intellectuals may insist that Beijing has abandoned Mao's communist ideology, but Hu Jintao, Chinese president and general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and other top CPC officials regularly affirm their commitment to Marxism-Leninism and point to market "reforms" as a temporary expedient along the lines of Lenin's NEP.
• Before he was murdered, former KGB-FSB Lt. Col. Alexander Litvinenko revealed that al-Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawihiri, was an operative of the FSB, as are many of the other so-called "Islamic" terrorists. "The bloodiest terrorists of the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB," he said.
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2011 (Junior): Second Team All-CAA...Selected to the 2011 Colonial Athletic Association Preseason Field Hockey Team...Named WomensFieldHockey.com National Player of the Week and CAA Player of the Week (Sept. 27) after scoring two goals against #20 Northeastern and dishing out a career-high three assists against Hofstra...Named to the WomensFieldHockey.com Weekly Honor Roll on September 12... Started in 24 games and scored nine goals with 10 assistas and 28 points on 42 shots for the season including three game-winning goals... Second on the team in goals, third on shots and fourth on assits... Netted the game-winning goal at Drexel (10-9) in the second half to lead ODU to a 2-1 victory... Named to NFHCA National Academic Squad.
2010 (Sophomore): First Team All-CAA...First Team All-State...Second on Old Dominion and third in the CAA with 16 goals...Third on ODU and sixth in the conference with 33 points...Saw action in all 24 games after transferring from Duke...Tallied three game-winning goals for the Lady Monarchs...Tallied two scores in the NCAA tournament, including the only goal scored in ODU's win over Michigan...Scored her first career goal as a Lady Monarch against #12 Ohio State (Sept. 12)...Tallied a pair of goals to lead ODU past Northeastern (Sept. 24)...Recorded a career-high three goals against #2 Maryland (Oct. 15)...Named CAA Co-Player of the Week on October 27 after scoring three goals in a pair of ODU conference wins...Selected to the womensfieldhockey.com weekly honor roll on October 27.
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On the morning of Manabasa Gurubar, Oriya women wake up early in the morning and clean the house to welcome Goddess Lakshmi. There is a popular belief that Goddess Lakshmi only visits clean houses. So all the dirt is removed and the houses are kept spick and span.
The entrance to the home is decorated with Alpana. Special pujas are offered to Lakshmi and Oriya scripture Mahalakshmi Purana is read on all Thursdays.
A regional pot used to measure paddy is filled with freshly harvested paddy and is kept in the puja area, which symbolizes prosperity.
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The effect on the U.S. economy and job market could be significant, according to a new Brookings Institution analysis.
"If legislation is passed to create an easier pathway for retaining foreign students that obtain advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees at U.S. universities, the impact could be large: about 96,200 incoming foreign students in 2010 could have become eligible for a green card upon graduation," writes Neil Ruiz, a senior policy analyst and associate fellow in Brookings' Metropolitan Policy Program. "Currently, only a fraction of these students attain a temporary skilled-worker visa after graduating. The H-1B visa program has been one of the main pathways for retaining American-trained foreign students."
Ruiz notes that the United States attracts 21 percent of all students who study abroad, a higher percentage than any other country. His definition of study abroad includes students in language and certification programs, K-12, associate, bachelor's, master's professional and doctoral degree programs.
But since there are so many native students enrolled in U.S. higher education programs, foreign students make up only about 3.5 percent of higher education enrollment. That figure has remained relatively constant for the past 60 years. Most foreign students are now from Asia -- about 64 percent -- while slightly more than 8 percent are from Latin America.
Even though fewer foreigners study in other countries, they often make up a much larger share of students studying in those countries and some have an easier time staying after graduation. Of the eight countries studied where data is available, only China ranks below the U.S. in terms of the number of foreign students as a total percentage of higher education students.
This is important because most foreign students currently come to the U.S. on F-1 visas, which are non-immigrant student visas that allow foreigners to enroll in academic or language training programs in the U.S. According to Brookings, smaller metro areas in the Midwest have the most incoming foreign students relative to their university student populations. If immigration reform allows these students to stay and work more easily after graduation, these metro areas could "experience the greatest impact in terms of access to a new labor pool."
Brookings also notes that in 2010, there were about 188,000 foreign students with F-1 visas enrolled in advanced degree programs. Of those, only about 26,500 transferred to an H-1B visa from F-1 status.
While some lawmakers have expressed concern that allowing students to stay will limit job opportunities for American students, the U.S. has been struggling to fill STEM jobs and there has been bipartisan agreement around the idea of allowing U.S.-educated foreigners with degrees in the STEM fields to stay and work.
"These students are considered particularly desirable because they, like their American counterparts, offer the types of skills critical to building a vibrant "knowledge" economy -- whether in the United States or elsewhere," Ruiz writes, "Around the world, many nations have adjusted their immigration policies in recent years to better attract highly-educated foreigners."
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AstroCC Coordinate Converter for Astronomy
AstroCC is available for download from http://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astrocc.
The current version of AstroCC ...
- Uses Java and runs on any Linux, Mac, and Windows system
- Accesses SIMBAD
- Provides ephemerides for the Moon and major planets
- Provides Julian and barycentric dates and times
- Has been extensively validated
AstroCC is a coordinate conversion utility for astronomy. It accepts an object designation or the coordinates of an object and calculates coordinates in alternative systems, and at different dates, times, and locations. It also provides lunar and bright planet coordinates to aid in planning observations.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Overview
- 3 Numbers, Bases, Formats, and Indicators
- 4 Preferences
- 5 Show coordinates in sexagesimal format
- 6 Use Harvard SIMBAD Server, deselect to use CDS Server
- 7 Use Ohio State BJD Server, deselect to calculate internally
- 8 Use computer time zone, deselect to manually enter offset from UTC
- 9 Use 12-hour local clock format, deselect to use 24 hour format
- 10 Show local twilight times, deselect for UTC format
- 11 Show tooltips
- 12 Include proper motion correction
- 13 Include precession correction
- 14 Include nutation correction
- 15 Include stellar aberration correction
- 16 Include atmospheric refraction correction to altitude
- 17 Customizing Observatory Data
- 18 About
You should download a copy of the most recent AstroCC.jar from http://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astrocc. Depending on your applications and location, you may prefer to change the defaults on first use. For example, by default the software opens to use the Simbad resolver in the US, but the one in France is better if you are in Europe. Select your location. When you exit and start AstroCC a second time, the defaults will be replaced by your new selections.
Run AstroCC from the command line with "java -jar AstroCC.jar". Alternatively, install it system wide:
- As root user, make a directory for the AstroCC source file with "mkdir /usr/local/astrocc"
- Copy the source into this directory with "cp AstroCC.jar /usr/local/astrocc"
- Create a script called "astrocc" in /usr/local/bin that contains "java -jar /usr/local/astrocc/AstroCC.jar" on one line.
- Make this script executable an any user with "chmod a+x astrocc"
- As a normal user enter "astrocc" on the command line to start the program, or create a graphical icon launcher.
From a terminal on a Mac, as in Linux, AstroCC can be started by typing "java -jar AstroCC.jar" or creating a link as described above. It can also be started with a double-click on the icon for the AstroCC.jar file
AstroCC can be started in Windows by double-clicking the AstroCC.jar file
The AstroCC coordinate converter user interface is shown below. The top row shows the current date and time in UT, local time, Julian Date, and local sidereal time (LST) formats. These and other items with a gray background cannot be modified by the user. Tooltips are provided for each item to describe its use and syntax. Tooltips can be disabled under the Preferences menu.
The desired Observatory ID should be selected on the second line, and the Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude fields will be updated automatically. Otherwise select "custom" as the observatory ID and enter the latitude and longitude entries directly. Press <Enter> after each entry is typed.
Enter a valid SIMBAD object ID and press enter. If the object ID and relevant data are found in SIMBAD, the Target Proper Motion Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) fields and the Standard Coordinates J2000 Equatorial RA and Dec fields will be updated automatically. A green border will be placed around those coordinate fields indicating that they are the active fields from which all other coordinates are calculated. Also, major solar system object names may be entered (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). The Epoch of Interest Equatorial RA and Dec fields will be updated automatically since these objects do not have a (relatively) fixed RA and Dec. While a solar system object name is entered in the Object ID field, the active coordinate fields cannot be changed. To do so, remove the solar system object name from the Object ID field.
Finally, the Epoch of Interest should be entered. Click the Now button to set the epoch of interest to your computer's current time. Select Lock to keep the epoch of interest locked to your computer's time every second. Otherwise, the epoch of interest can be entered as UT date and time, local date and time, Julian Day, Heliocentric Julian Day (HJD) or Barycentric Julian Day (BJD). All other date formats will be calculated from the entered format. The up/down arrows to the left of UTC time can be clicked to increment/decrement the date/time by one step. The time step can be set by right-clicking the up/down arrows or the UTC, Local, or JD time or date fields. The mouse wheel will also increment/decrement time if the pointer is located within one of those fields. Evening and morning nautical twilight start/end times are also shown for the epoch of interest. Click inside these fields or on the adjacent icons to set the current time to the corresponding twilight time. If the epoch of interest falls between evening and morning twilight, the twilight field backgrounds are changed to green.
For accurate dynamical time and coordinate calculations, leap second data must be kept current. To do so, simply press the Update button while connected to the internet and the data will be downloaded into AstroCC and stored along with other program preferences. New leap seconds may be introduced every six months at the end of the day on June 30 and December 31. New leap second announcements are made several months in advance. Simply click the Update button once every 3-6 months to check for an update. If Auto is selected, an appropriate leap second value is determined for the epoch of interest. A green Leap-secs background indicates that the displayed number of leap seconds is from the leap second table. The table is valid from 1/1/1961 though the current epoch. Outside this range, leap seconds must be estimated. To estimate leap seconds, AstroCC uses the formulae of Espenak and Meeus 2006, which cover the range from 1999 BCE to 3000 CE. If the epoch of interest is within this range, the Leap-secs background color is yellow, otherwise the background color is red. If Auto is not selected, the field background is white, and the user can enter a custom number of leap seconds.
Any coordinate pair can be used as the source to calculate all others. Simply type (or cut/paste) the desired coordinates into the appropriate pair of coordinate boxes and press <Enter>. The border for the entered coordinates will become green to remind the user which coordinates are being used as the source for the computation of the other coordinates. For convenience, both coordinates of a pair can be typed (or cut/pasted) into one of the boxes of a pair in sexagesimal format. When <Enter> is pressed, the coordinates will be automatically separated and placed into the appropriate boxes. While a solar system object name is entered in the Object ID field, the active coordinate fields cannot be changed. To do so, remove the solar system object name from the Object ID field.
The Phase-Altitude-Proximity section under Epoch of Interest shows the illuminated portion of the moon at the epoch of interest and the altitude of each solar system object (top number) and the distance from the current object coordinates (bottom number). A green background indicates that observations of the target of interest at the epoch of interest should be minimally affected by the solar system object. Yellow means the objects are near each other, and red means the objects are very near each other. A mouse click on the data field of a particular solar system body will make that object the current object of interest and its full coordinate conversions will be shown in AstroCC.
Numbers, Bases, Formats, and Indicators
Fields with a gray, green, yellow, or red background cannot be modified by the user. Fields with a white background can be directly modified by the user. The coordinate pair with green borders indicates the active coordinate pair. All other coordinates are calculated based on the active coordinates as the source. Coordinate conversion formulae are not exact, so pressing <Enter> in a new coordinate pair (using the existing values) may result in a slight change to the other computed coordinate pairs.
RA and UT time must be entered in hours. All other coordinate numbers must be entered in degrees. Observatory latitude is in degrees (north positive) and observatory longitude is in degrees (east positive). Proper motion is in SIMBAD milli-arcsec per year (mas/yr) format. UT Date is in YYYY MM DD.DD format. Hour Angle (HA) is reported in the range -12:00:00 to 00:00:00 indicating sidereal hours until the object crosses the meridian and 00:00:00 to 12:00:00 indicating sidereal hours since the meridian crossing. All numbers except UT date can be entered in decimal format (i.e. dd.dddd) or in sexagesimal format (i.e. dd mm ss.ss). To facilitate cut and paste of coordinates from other sources, sexagesimal parsing is very lenient and treats any contiguous set of nonnumeric characters as a delimiter. For convenience, both coordinates of a pair can be typed (or cut/pasted) into one of the boxes of a pair in sexagesimal format. When <Enter> is pressed, the first coordinate will be automatically placed in the left-most box of the pair and the second coordinate will be placed in the right-most box. A decimal format number must be entered directly into its corresponding box.
Several options are provided under the Preferences pull-down menu at the top of the user window. After closing the program for the first time, a new file named "AstroCC_Prefs.txt" will be created. On Microsoft Windows computers, the file is saved in the same directory as the AstroCC.jar file (AstroCC should be installed in a directory with user write access). On Linux systems, the preferences file will be saved at each users /home/username/astrocc/AsctroCC_Prefs.txt. On an Apple Mac computer, the file is saved at user/home/Library/Preferences/AstroCC_Prefs.txt. This file will automatically reload on startup and allows preferences, leap seconds, and other settings to be maintained across sessions.
Show coordinates in sexagesimal format
- deselected – all coordinates are displayed in decimal format (i.e. dd.dddd or hh.hhhh)
- selected - all coordinates are displayed in sexagesimal format (i.e. dd:mm:ss.ss or hh:mm:ss.ss)
Use Harvard SIMBAD Server, deselect to use CDS Server
- deselected – use the SIMBAD server at the Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France
- selected – use the SIMBAD server at Harvard
Use Ohio State BJD Server, deselect to calculate internally
- deselected – calculate BJD internally (slightly less accurate, but fast and requires no internet access)
- selected – use the Ohio State server to calculate BJD (more accurate, but slower and requires internet connectivity)
Use computer time zone, deselect to manually enter offset from UTC
- deselected – enter offset from UTC in the Time Zone field
- selected – use the time zone of the host computer's internal clock
Use 12-hour local clock format, deselect to use 24 hour format
- deselected – display Local time in 24-hour format
- selected – display Local time in 12-hour (AM/PM) format
Show local twilight times, deselect for UTC format
- deselected – display twilight times in Local format
- selected – display twilight times in UTC format
Show tooltips
Field-specific help displayed after hovering mouse over a field.
- deselected – deactivates tooltip field specific help
- selected – enables display of tooltips field specific help
Include proper motion correction
- deselected – do not include proper motion correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
- selected – include proper motion correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
Include precession correction
- deselected – do not include precession correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
- selected – include proper motion correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
Include nutation correction
- deselected – do not include nutation correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
- selected – include nutation correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
Include stellar aberration correction
- deselected – do not include nutation correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
- selected – include nutation correction to Epoch of Interest coordinates
Include atmospheric refraction correction to altitude
- deselected – do not include atmospheric refraction correction to Epoch of Interest altitude coordinate
- selected – include atmospheric refraction correction to Epoch of Interest altitude coordinate
Customizing Observatory Data
Observatory data is stored in a file named "observatories.txt" within the AstroCC.jar file structure. Using an unzip program, a copy of the file can be extracted and placed in the same directory as the AstroCC.jar file. If this file exists, it will be read with priority over the version in the jar file. The file is a simple tab-delimited file.
New entries should be added separated by tabs in the following sequence on one line:
- Observatory Name
- Observatory Latitude
- Observatory Longitude
- Altitude
All numeric entries should be entered as decimal numbers (not sexagesimal). Latitude is in degrees (positive north). Longitude is in degrees (positive east). Altitude is in meters above mean sea level.
Help: Report problems to karenacollins_at_outlook_com.
Availability: AstroCC is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is available from http://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astrocc.
Credits: Parts of AstroCC are based on XmTel, WCSTools, Nuvola icons, and ImageJ open source software packages. Solar system object coordinate calculations and internal HJD/BJD calculations are based on code adapted from JSkyCalc which was written by John Thorstensen of Dartmouth College. BJD values may also be retrieved from http://astroutils.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/time/utc2bjd.html which is based on Eastman et al. 2010. Coordinate data are obtained from SIMBAD. Leap second data is obtained from the U.S. Naval Observatory at http://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat. The observatory data were compiled from the ESO website at http://www.eso.org/~ndelmott/obs_sites.htm which credits the U.S. Naval Observatory and the H.M. Nautical Almanac Office. The lunar phase images are adapted from Lunar_libration_with_phase_Oct_2007.gif from Wikimedia Commons (submitted by Tom Ruen). We gratefully acknowledge contributions from Cheolha (Pedro) Lee of Ball Aerospace.


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torontofreddy Posts: 1NOt sure where u r from. In Canada, the '06 Murano tranny has an exended warantee good for 200,000 kilometeres. Should be close in miles.0
janco Posts: 1My family and I were driving from Georgia to Miami in our 2010 Murano when the transmission failed in the St. Augustine area. We had to be towed to the dealship. They gave us a rental car and said it would take about a week to repair the car. Then we will have to drive from our home in Miam to St. Augustine (300) each way to pick it up. our Murano only had 28K miles on it. Now I am not certain if I want it back.
DJ I am sorry to hear of your troubles with the Murano. I feel your pain. Just glad your family is safe and no one was injured. My tranny went on my 2003 at 42K and once it was fixed it was fine til 110K when everything else started acting up too. I can't say yours will last that long but if you can get out of it I would. don't get me wrong I loved the car but didnt love the problems that came with it. At 134K I finally got rid of it last month cause that sensor/transfer case went again after it was fixed in 2010. I am done with Nissan cause they are not doing anything about this problem that so many of us were having. :sick:
I am loving :blush: my 2010 Toyota 4runner. My dad has had his 2006 which now has 189K on it, still rolling strong and no major issues at all. I hope to get just as much longevity out of mine as he has his. Good Luck!!!!0
I totally concur. I also purchased a 4Runner (my 2nd one - I should have never sold the first) to replace my beleaguered Murano.
If you are having this kind of problem with a relatively new car you should minimize your risk exposure and move to something more reliable.
Best of luck!0
jayhawk70 Posts: 56mikesmurano continues to mislead about Murano drivetrain reliability.
JD Powers (you know, the folks that actually do statistically valid surveys!) say otherwise at
Please note that this JD Powers survey of 3 year old Muranos shows that:
1. Powertrain Quality Mechanical is "Better than most" (4 out of 5 stars)
2. Powertrain Quality Design is in the "Among the Best" range (4.5 out of 5 stars)
Are their folks with problems? Sure. But if you follow mikesmurano's advice to "move to something more reliable" you are probably going to find yourself in worse shape, according to the real data.
The vast majority of Murano owners have very reliable vehicles and don't complain here. They are out enjoying an advanced vehicle that is a great value when compared to other similar crossovers.0
After my cvt trans went out on my '03 Murano is was replaced by the dealer, I'am now experiencing a problem different from the the first one. Now when it accellerates it must reach 3000rpm before it starts moving, then as you go, the rpm's come down to normal. It was at the dealer for 10 days going under numerous testing and data being sent to Nissan. Each time Nissan claims there is nothing wrong with CVT. This started slowly happening after the CVT was replaced 3000 miles ago. It has progressed slowly to the point I beleive there will be more problems ahead. The dealer says they admit there is a problem, but can't figure it out. But they want to milk me more for more testing when the service rep. is there in 10 days. They already have $500+ from me and I don't want to give more! Is anybody had this type of issue? :confuse:0
Do these tranny's have a torque convertor like a conventional trans? I admit not knowing alot about these cvt's, just seems like a loose convertor to me.0
Does the JD Power survey, data or other have any information that would be helpful to larry666 in post #612?
Since returning to conventional transmission oriented vehicles I am actually experiencing nirvana.
How about you? How many miles does your Murano CVT have now?0
@Larry666 I did have the same problem with my '03 Murano :mad: in March 2010 with about 108K miles on it. Nissan Service dept changed the sensor ($1100) and some other things and it lasted about 12K miles and it began happening again :sick: as I was coming home from work one day in Feb. 2011. I got rid of it in May and purchased a toyota 4runner. I really liked the Murano but too many problems that Nissan claims they can't figure out. My money is not that long to keep putting my car in the shop for Nissan to say, "we can't seem to find the problem" . Good luck and if you read the entire thread you will see there are many Murano owners who had problems with the tranny (CVT).0
@jurni, It has 99,880 miles on it currently. As you, my wife and I like the vehicle but I'm waiting for something like the transfer case to go out and I really don't want that to happen. The warranty is good for a 120k for the engine and trans., but if something else fails I'm screwed. I don't know wether to get rid of it now or wait. :confuse:0
dumbasss Posts: 1Really... nissan is a decent vehicle for the money... cvt is new technology such I agree sucks and could have waited instead of jeopardizing their customers and testing them... I will not buy a cvt if any car was equipped with it. But their old conventional transmission is great I have owned nissan all my life and have had a great experience with them until cvt transmission came out but at least they are moving forward and trying new things and advancing to give a better smoother ride they just don't seem to be testing their equipment enough before selling it and providing a bad experience to the customer such will then push them away from purchasing another nissan like yourself, last time I checked there is no other car maker that is perfect even though I wish there was! Anyway give nissan another chance try their conventional auto trans its just that much better... what car do you own now? Im sure you never had a problem with it but if you start a forum stating that you have im sure you will get just as many as there are on this one??? Who knows maybe wont know until its tried.0
beyens Posts: 1I would get rid of the Murano , as I am going to get rid of our 03 Murano as soon as the drive train issues are repaired. I've already replace the Nissan now I just have to send it in for the repairs , then off it goes, problem solved.0
I bought a new 2007 murano. With only 9000miles the CVT failed. It was replaced at dealer's expense. At 3.5years, just at 60,000 It smelled like something was burning. It was diagnosed as a leaking transfer case. I paid to have it fixed since it was just out of warranty. Now not 2 months later, the transfer case is bad and needs to be replaced. Of course they will not acknowledge that it may have been bad along with the CVT or damaged the first time the CVT was changed or replaced incorrectly when the seals were changed.
I have not heard back from the manager...of course.
Would a laywer be helpful?0
I think a lawyer raises the bar too quickly - IMO. I would check the Nissan web site for contact information and ask for the area manager that covers service for your state / geographical area. They make rounds to the various dealerships and you can talk with them directly about your issue. A few simple words without temper may go a long way in getting $ back from Nissan. Mentioning your intention to the dealer may grease the skids as well since with 2 months past seems a feeble defense on their part versus the goodwill received.
I purchased my 2007 Nissan Murano used - but given the notes here I have the wrap around extra cost warranty that covers specifically transfer cases and seals. I hope I never need to use it, but I would rather lose the cash from non-use than cover the repairs (and hassle you describe) out of pocket. Best wishes and good luck in your repairs.0
After two calls to the manager, and explaining the situation, the disappointment, bad luck, etc., the dealership has agreed to replace the transfer case free of charge. Still am looking to dump the car. I just can't trust the drivetrain any longer, and I want out while the car still has significant resale value. Sad, but I really like the car.0
Hi - I understand completely and agree with your direction. I think it is a great car, but if the drivetrain on mine goes kaput (even under warranty) the day it is replaced is the day I trade it off. No percentage in "hoping" for the best. Life is too short to be sitting waiting in the service area for a fix.0
robwi Posts: 2Hesitation... I have a 2003 Murano. Mileage 98,000. After driving on the highway for at least an hour, the car hesitates after a stop. I hit stop and go traffic when traveling through a city. Every time I started, the car hesitated for 4 to 5 seconds while the engine revved. Then it jumped forward. Then, driving at highway speeds again, I could feel slippage in speed. my check engine light was on.
Brought it to the Nissan dealer from whom it was purchased. They WERE able to reproduce problem. Error code: Bank One and Bank two intake control solenoids. They checked this condition, and found them to be working properly. They are denying that it is the CVT, and instead saying that it looks like the engine. After reading this forum and Edmunds, I now believe that it is the CVT. Thanks everybody, I will post again with more info.0
Gosh lucky you.. I had to do my transfer case assembly "twice" within six months of each other... thousands of dollars.. silly me had a "friend" do it for me the first time to try and save money and it worked great for 6 months then literally blew up inside and then I went to my fabulous mechanics in Berkeley, Oceanworks, and paid the same amount anyway and got a replacement case and so far so good but boy I'm paranoid about it. I check that fluid level all the time.. the first time it went was because there was a leak that NO-ONE detected until too late and of course this all started about 2K after warranty ran out.. At least Nissan has extended the CVT warranty to 120K I think... I got a letter from them and an application to reimbursement but I am going to write to them anyway and so if there is any kind of warranty extension done because of these CVT, transfer case assembly etc. problems that seem rampant I may get some of my $$$ back PLUS unless you write to them how do they know the extent of problems. I don't use the Nissan dealer to fix my car although I use a reputable licensed repair shop so I am going to write a letter...0
mikev4 Posts: 11I took my car to Colonial Nissan with CVT problem (according to my mechanic oil was leaking from the inside of transmission). They came out with different version of problem that was not covered by warranty.0
pawlybauls Posts: 8Bank One and Two both went out? Sounds like a blown fuse. The intake control fuse isn't listed in your owner's manual. In fact, none of them are! I guess you have to go one by one.0
macs8953 Posts: 1Hi, i have an 05 Murano SL with 140K miles on it. Last week I learned that the engine was trashed after running with low/no oil - my teenage son drove it for several weeks and didn't pick up on the signs, but that's a different story.
The local Nissan dealer says they can replace the engine with a used (59K miles) engine for ~$5500. On the surface this seems OK because if I can get a couple more years it would be worth it compared to having to buy a new car.
The question is should I worry about the CVT transmission at this point? I know these have had bad press over the years but I have had it service regularly at the dealer every 30K miles with the last service having been done at 120K miles.
My other choice is to get rid of the car but I know I won't get anything for it.
Any opinions on the longevity of the transmission? Is there something I can do to find out what state it's in?0
I would think you are on borrowed time. That's alot of $$ to put into a car with that many miles and years. But it is cheaper than a newer car. How lucky do you feel
I had a 6yo pathfinder with 103K miles that blew an engine. 5k to repair. Transmission was starting to act funny at that time. I gave it to charity...got $3500 tax write off. beat trade in.
My murano needed a trans at 9K miles(covered) ; transfer case leak repair at 60K ($300) and 2 months later a new transfer case (covered under threat of lawyer). Also power steering need stuffed, another ($400). My car is not 4yo and has 69K miles. I was just offered 11K at trade-in. Similar cars were listing at 18-22K in used lots.
Funny, they offered me a used Honda CRV with similar miles and year for 18K. So way smaller car, less features... My murano +$8K = small used CRV. Insulting.
I believe the extended CVT coverage expired at 120K miles.
I don't think this helps much, but transfer case and trans are very expensive ($4k each) and may not even be covered with extended warranties. My vote would be to dump it, uness you can get a warranty.
Next car for me is a Honda or Toyota.
Best of luck.0
CVT coverage was extended my Nissan to 120K but your way passed that! They sent a letter out over a year ago and a form that you could fill out if you had to have yours repaired so you could get reimbursed. Unfortunately they haven't done a recall or extended warranty on the transfer case assembly; mine blew once because of an undetected oil leak and I got it repaired by a "friend" and that blew up 6 months later and I had my amazing mechanics fix it this time... long story but very expensive. Maybe get your transmission checked really well before putting engine in... Personally I love my Murano; I like the look, I like the comfort and except for the transfer assembly issue I haven't had too much trouble....0
nissanmurano1 Posts: 4Hi,
I have this loud clunking sound driving forward and back. I also have 140,000 miles on my '03 Nissan Murano. Nissan dealership said I need to replace my transfer case. Now that I saw this website it seems like this has been a problem with Muranos but unfortunately not on their recall list. I had 100,000 miles warranty..bought my car brand new. I've had so much issues with this car when I'm diligently doing all the maintenance as recommended. One thing that surprises me too is that the check engine light did not go off when the fluid is apparently low/now drained per Nissan. I'm really frustrated that Nissan is asking $4000.00 to get this transfer case fixed. I don't know what to do at this point since kelly blue book value is only $4500.00 now.
I need help! If Nissan will take care of repairs then I'll keep the car. I just don't have that money right now to pay $4000.00.
Any advise?0
I had to do mine twice... the first time there was a leak but it went "undetected" by everyone! Drive through oil change places didn't check the dip stick for the transfer case (there is a completely seperate dip stick to check by-the-way under the hood). I never saw any kind of fluid on the ground and didn't detect a problem myself until I got noise. I blamed myself for that one because I was using drive-through oil change places as I didn't like the local dealer repair shop. By the time I realized something was terribly wrong there was no fluid in there at all and there was so much play in the drive shaft that we knew parts were really messed up.
I took it to a very skilled mechanic friend of mine trying to save money and did all the buying of the parts myself and he fixed it but he dropped the whole engine to do it as he didnt' have the equipment the dealer does (they don't have to do that) and so I still paid out nearly $3K. 6 months later it literally blew apart and this time I did go to a shop recommended to me whom I still use to this day and they got a "refurbished" assembly from Nissan and installed it for under $3K. My transfer case wouldn't hold fluid at the end ... if you could get an independent shop to maybe see if yours will still hold fluid you may be able to drive for a bit while you try and deal with Nissan directly. I definitely think you should contact Nissan about it, as I did, and let them know. There are tons and tons of people complaining about this on this site and others and when I went to the dealer to get all my parts they were quite aware of this problem and also suggested I write to Nissan and complain. There must have been a lot of complaints about the transmission because they extended that warranty to 120K and sent out a letter and form telling people if they had replaced/fixed their transmission they could get a refund -- they should be doing the same thing with the transfer case assembly but unless we complain I don't think that is going to happen....0
sgtrock62 Posts: 7I have a 2010 Nissan Murano with 40'000 miles. The CVT just went out on it. Nissan is replacing it with a new one. It seems like everything I've read seems to indicate that once you replace the transmission, you will have problems from there on out. Has anyone had theirs replaced and had no more problems?0
kitten2001 Posts: 1I have become extremely frustrated with my 2003 murano. My transmission has failed 3 times. the first time was at 49,000 miles (failed transmissionhad it repaired and at 54,000 had the transmission replaced and now at 169, 000 (failed transmission) (currently siting at nissan dealership) . I refuse to pay $4,000, especially since I am now unemployed . Each time the car stopped in the middle of the highway or on a major street. Each time puting my young son and I in danger.
the last transmission did not even last 120,000 miles.
I need help desperately.
I purchased the car new, I am the only owner of this car. what a big mess.0
I really feel your frustration (@kitten2001). The only suggestion I have is try to get rid of it and buy something else. It is really sad that the murano can not last more than 120K. :mad:
I know it is easier said than done especially with the holidays coming around and the economy really sucks too but purchasing something else (toyota, lexus, honda) may be your best bet.0
elerator Posts: 7I have an '03 Murano with 158K miles on it. All of my "transmission problems" have been nothing more than a leak in the air flow system from the filter to the engine. In other words, nothing about the transmission has caused me any grief. You're right to be concerned. My tranny, per this blog, shouldn't still be working. I've defied the logic of "30k miles is too few to change the fluid in the transmission" and change it every 25k miles, even if the book states to change it at 30k. This may be one reason my 1985 Nissan Maxima wagon has 356.5k miles and still running strong!0
roadrunner70 Posts: 241Based on the terrible service experience at my local nissan dealer, I would hazard a guess that some customers who pay for cvt tranny fluid changes are not getting them. I draw this conclusion from what I read on this thread. Either do it yourself, or purchase the fluid and have a trusted friend or service station do it while you watch. RR700


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Their districts are conservative — but not so conservative that jumping off the fiscal cliff wouldn't potentially backfire in the next election. A general-election challenge from the left is a bigger threat than a primary from the right. And being able to tell most of their constituents they shielded them from a big tax hike was more important than being accused by a vocal few of selling out Republican principles.
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