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|Fifty-two months' mean follow up of decellularized SynerGraft-treated pulmonary valve allografts.
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|BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY: It has been reported previously that the use of a decellularized pulmonary allograft (SynerGraft; CryoLife Inc.) for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction in adults is associated with reduced immunization. The implantation appeared to be safe, but was not associated with any detectable clinical or echocardiographic advantage. The study aim was to follow further the outcome of SynerGraft patients. METHODS: Twenty-three adult patients (19 males, four females) each received a SynerGraft-allograft during a Ross procedure. A further 49 patients (37 males, 12 females) who underwent a Ross procedure using a conventional pulmonary allograft during the same period served as controls. Follow up examinations using transthoracic echocardiography in standard views was performed on a regular basis. The latest follow up was performed after a mean of 52 months. RESULTS: Directly after implantation, there were no echocardiographic differences between the two groups, but with time the pressure gradients increased significantly (p <0.001) in both groups. At the latest follow up, pressure gradients were slightly higher across the SynerGraft-allograft valves than across conventional allografts (Pmax 18.2 +/- 9.0 versus 14.0 +/- 6.9 mmHg, respectively; p = 0.049). On regression analysis (considering pre- and intraoperative variables), 'SynerGraft-allograft' was the only variable predicting the increase in pressure gradient from its postoperative value to that at follow up. However, no clinical differences were observed between the groups. CONCLUSION: The present results relate to the longest follow up on decellularized pulmonary SynerGraft-allografts conducted to date. No reoperations were required after a mean follow up of 52 months, and the echocardiographic results were stable after the first postoperative year. Based on these data, the use of pulmonary SynerGraft-allograft valves in adults appears not to provide any advantage over conventional allografts, although further follow up is warranted before any final judgment is made regarding this new technology.
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|Title: The Journal of heart valve disease Volume: 17 ISSN: 0966-8519 ISO Abbreviation: J. Heart Valve Dis. Publication Date: 2008 Jan
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It sounds like an idea that my grandchild will have a chance to see come into fruition. Its potential is just so enormous that it boggles my mind, but since we are still at the beginning of the twenty first century and who knows what will happen in this century, I say 'go for it'
There are ever so many ideas that will help the world toward a carbon free energy plan. I am always happy to hear of another one.
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"Harnessing Space Solar Power is a huge challenge. While we support a national initiative for Space Solar Power, we do not support, nor can the taxpayers afford, another massively expensive 'White Elephant' government space program. Only real 'Change' in how we pursue national space objectives can make SSP competitive with other energy sources. We believe the private sector will eventually develop SSP-the only questions are how long it takes and which country will lead. The government cannot economically develop SSP on its own, but it can assist the U.S. private sector by funding basic R&D, creating the right investment incentives, and buying SSP for its own needs... Someday, well into this century, the SSP industry could even turn America into a net energy exporter."
It has been said that a journey of a thousand miles requires taking the first step. Let us take that first step.
Lets see... at around 1,500 watts per square meter max solar power available in our orbit. Assume 100% efficiency (5% is more realistic but hey I'm generous). For every megawatt you need about 660 square meters. That's just to produce one tiny little megawatt. Utter lunacy fostered by people that read too much sci- fi and can't add.
I've applied for the NASA administrator position...primarily as a mechanism to define a "feasible and realistic" strategic plan to get NASA back to contributing to the nation's economy and prestige. There is no doubt that the Constellation Program will not survive in the Obama administration. However there must be a plan to replace Constellation that keeps NASA's budget revenant...I've proposed that a technology development program is the direction NASA should take and have been seeking support from the aerospace community and congress for this plan.
I am concerned that we will again get an administrator that will not be able to make the technical and culture changes needed at NASA. I would like to see and would welcome a public debate on how best to direct NASA's future in
Using conventional launch systems of today, if we attempted this, the number of launches needed would rip the ozone apart. If we are serious about space, lets build a LEO Fuel Depot and a IN SPACE ship that can travel to GEO and work on satellites.
a LEO2GEO vehicle and a gas and go commercial space economy is the answer.
Makes sense. All of Obama's followers are space cadets anyway......
there is a simpler idea I saw in Discover magazine of having balloons of thin plastic film hover 30 feet or so above the desert to absorb solar power into a photovoltaic cell then funnel it down to the ground for transmission. Seems we should try a low tech idea like that to begin with.
Let's see: the biggest driver of the on-orbit life is the lifespan of the solar arrays that degrade quickly. The satellite power guys are laughing at this idea as power constraint is a huge factor in designing a satellite.
A note should be made for the global warming crowd. If we capture energy from space, that would otherwise speed past into the solar system, and beam it down here on earth, won't we be adding to the energy being used on the surface? Does more energy still mean more heat?
Seems like there are a lot of valid alt energy projects and concepts, and a lot of valid space exploration and research projects, but sometimes combining two good things together is not so good. Large independent solar arrays to support space based initiatives and possibly to act as an earth solar shield (if global warming is as threatening as often spoken), but I think beaming energy to earth is at best 40-50 years away and perhaps never advisable, whether feasible or not.
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Converting microwaves to direct-current electricity requires only that rectifying antennas or "rectennas" be used, according to one scientist (Shiner, Air & Space Smithsonian Journal, 1990). If that's all it takes, why haven't solar panels been attached to earth-based microwave towers to test the validity of this theory? Why spend trillions on a space-based pipe dream without first testing these concepts here on Planet Earth?
Sorry, but, the "Space Solar Power" is TOO expensive (HUNDREDS TIMES MORE than just deploy the same solar panels on Earth!) and VERY vulnerable (a few space weapons or an Earth based Laser could SHUT DOWN your country in minutes!) as explained (with detailed evaluations) in this ghostNASA article: http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/038sspdebunked.html
Go to change.gov and check out the discussion. Its really interesting and a whole lot more informative. This project is proposed for some future date after a base on the moon is set up. Much of the material is proposed to be lifted to orbit from the moon using some sort of catapult. Its recognized as being at least 50 years away. Right now it just is calling for International agreements.
This terrific idea needs a feasibility study. It just so happens that my minority owned firm, who are all generous Democrat contributors, ;) are perfectly positioned to do one. Why we're sitting on a bunch of rectennas right now. No need to put out bids, just send us a lucrative government contract and we'll get started. P.S. I just love Chicago style pizza and Chicago style politics.
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Julianne, the basic concepts HAVE been tested here on Earth. Just a couple months ago, researchers beamed power from one Hawaiian island to another, with hastily assembled equipment and on a shoestring budget, and it worked fine.
To "Global Warming is over?", the waste heat from the rectennas is MUCH smaller than the waste heat from any other form of power generation (including terrestrial solar). They have 90 to 90% efficiency. So, even if waste heat were a problem (which it is not), this would be reducing it, not increasing it.
There are certainly hurdles to overcome, but they're all pretty straightforward engineering problems -- if we put even a tiny fraction of the money we've spent on (say) fusion into SSP, we'd have them solved soon.
First build a space elevator, as described by Dr Arthur c Clark, then solar power by thin film arrays becomes feasible. It also gives us space for dollars a pound. Off site solar power IS the future, but non-degradable film and design will take time.
I would like to know if Dr. Peter Glaser had lunch with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke somewhere around 1967.
The essential limitation is weight. Lifting things into space is enormously expensive. Other than that, the rest is pretty standard stuff.
Lifting things from the Earth's surface is enormously expensive. Lifting things from the moon (and asteroids) by electromagnetic mass driver are orders of magnitude cheaper. Lunar regolith is rich in oxygen, silicon, metals, and glass, materials from which 99% of the satellites can be built. Working prototypes of mass drivers were built and successfully tested in Princeton by the late Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill.
Yes, the SSP "business case", right now, with costs to orbit of 20-40 Million dollars a ton, does not work. The crucial question is: what is the right thing for the government to do to (1) allow industry to develop cheap access to space that will make the business case work, and (2) also to do crucial engineering tests to prove the validity of the SSP concept. Any number of seeming reasonable actions by the government could actually hinder development of cheaper launches, such as the National Aerospace Plane program and the X33 program. Even favoring one company over another could unknowingly help or harm.
To the scoffers, figure out how much an airline ticket would cost if the entire airliner made only 1 flight and was thrown away as soon as it landed, just like rockets are now.
PG&E is building a 12.5 square mile (32.4 sq km) plant that produces 800 MW during optimal sun (3 hours a day). At best, it will deliver 3000 MWh. The SPS delivers energy 24 hours a day. A 125 MW SPS delivers 3000 MWh within a day, so 0.4125 square kilometers are required to match the terrestrial production.
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Just one other fact you should know: According to government scientists, it causes cancer.
The chemical industry is working frantically to suppress that scientific consensus — because it fears "public confusion." Big Chem apparently worries that you might be confused if you learned that formaldehyde caused cancer of the nose and throat and perhaps leukemia as well.
The industry's strategy is to lobby Congress to cut off money for the Report on Carcinogens, a 500-page consensus document published every two years by the National Institutes of Health, containing the best information about what agents cause cancer.
If that sounds like shooting the messenger, well, it is.
"The way the free market is supposed to work is that you have information," said Lynn Goldman, dean of the school of public health at George Washington University. "They're trying to squelch that information."
The larger issue is whether the federal government should be a watchdog for public health or a lap dog for industry. When Mitt Romney denounces President Barack Obama for excessive regulation, these are the kinds of issues at stake.
"Formaldehyde is known to be a human carcinogen," declared the most recent Report on Carcinogens, published in 2011. Previous editions had listed it only as a suspected carcinogen, but the newer report, citing many studies of human and animal exposure to formaldehyde, made the case that it was time to stop equivocating.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The man police believe fired the fatal shots that led to the victim crashing through several people's yards has turned himself in.
The shooting happened May 9 in an apartment complex parking lot on California Avenue on the Westside.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the victim, 34-year-old William Rene McFaline, then accelerated his car, which had been parked.
The car crashed through a fence and went through several yards before crashing into a tree.
By the time rescue personnel reached McFaline, he was dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Detectives determined that McFaline and 20-year-old Rasean Maurice Vann had planned to conduct a drug transaction, as they had done on previous occasions, according to JSO Lt. Rob Schoonover.
Schoonover said it appears Vann intended to rob McFaline at the time of the shooting.
With witness testimony and evidence, including several .40 caliber shell casings recovered at the scene, detectives determined Vann was the shooter and obtained an arrest warrant Tuesday.
Wednesday, Vann turned himself in, and he remains jailed with no bond on a murder charge.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are right where they expected to be heading into a vital three-week stretch that includes two games against the AFC North-leading Baltimore Ravens.
They're just not sure quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be along for the ride.
The Steelers survived a scare from lowly Kansas City on Monday night, winning 16-13 in overtime when Lawrence Timmons intercepted Matt Cassel on the second snap of the extra session and Shaun Suisham hit a 23-yard field goal one play later.
It took some of the sting out of watching Roethlisberger head to the locker room — and ultimately the hospital — with a busted right shoulder after getting slammed to the turf by a pair of Kansas City linebackers in the third quarter.
Coach Mike Tomlin declined to speculate on Roethlisberger's status, though backup Byron Leftwich sounds like he's planning to be pretty busy over the next few days.
"I don't know the situation with Ben, but I got to make sure I'm ready if he can't go," Leftwich said.
The Steelers (6-3) have won four straight and can move into first place next week if they can beat the Ravens (7-2). The showdown takes on a different hue with Roethlisberger's health in question.
"You obviously worry about it because that's your starting quarterback, you want to see him out there," Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison said. "But at the same point in time you've got a guy, two guys that are behind him can do the job just as well if not better."
Roethlisberger completed 9 of 18 passes for 84 yards and a touchdown before leaving. Leftwich, playing for the first time in the regular season in nearly two years, completed 7 of 14 passes for 73 yards and led the Steelers to a go-ahead field goal in the fourth quarter.
"After four or five plays, it was like riding a bike," Leftwich said. "I took a few hits. I hadn't hit the ground in a while. It was a whole lot of things I hadn't done in a while. It was good."


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DENVER - On a sun-soaked, occasionally windy Autumn Saturday in a month in which Americans gather together to give thanks, Coloradans opened their hearts and donated enough food and cash to provide 586,000 meals to help those in need this holiday season. More than 344,000 pounds of food, $121,776, and truckloads of clothing and toys were collected at the 31st annual 9Cares Colorado Shares winter food drive.
9NEWS President and General Manager Mark Cornetta said, "More than 30 years after the first 9Cares Colorado Shares, I am still overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from communities across our great state. With enthusiasm and generosity of spirit, volunteers and donors from all across Colorado came together to ensure the success of this inspirational event. We at 9NEWS extend our thanks to everyone who came out, and we hope to see them all again next year."
This year's drive raised 6,000 more pounds and $6,000 more in donations than the 2012 drive. Donations can still be made online or in person at King Soopers.
Since the first 9Cares in March 1983, the annual effort has grown from a modest food drive with a single collection site at the old 9NEWS building at Bannock and 11th to the largest single-day food, clothing, and toy drive in our region with more than 40 sites across the state. Below is a breakdown of the results we've received so far:
9NEWS - $8,308; 34,000 lbs.
American Furniture Warehouse - $5,687; 54,000 lbs.
Inverness - $8,445; 48,000 lbs.
Southwest Plaza - $15,194; 58,000 lbs.
Pima Medical Center - $5,383; 28,000 lbs.
9Cares Corporate Challenge - $12,683; 23,635 lbs.
Combined 36 Remote Sites - $14,811; 98,959 lbs.
King Soopers Customer Donations - $47,950
On-line and Mail-in Donations - $3,315
TOTALS - $121,776; 344,594 lbs.
9Cares believes that items donated in a community should stay in that community. Food collected in the Denver metro area is now being sorted by volunteers at Food Bank of the Rockies and will be distributed to the more than 120 food banks in the 9Cares network. Outside the metro area, 36 additional sites host the 9Cares drive, and then keep all the food they collect. Clothing was collected by Goodwill and ARC Thrift Stores while toys were collected by the Denver Santa Claus Shop for distribution to those in need.
We would also like to thank all of the companies that make 9Cares possible. The following is a list of our sponsors:
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Food Bank of the Rockies
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Waste Connections of Colorado
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Hundreds of people will lace up their walking shoes and take steps against heart disease and stroke on Saturday at the Fayette County Heart Walk again being held at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, in North Union.
"The 2013 American Heart Association Fayette County Heart Walk is in its 22nd year and it has been held at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus for all but two of those years — it is a perfect venue to hold a community event like the Heart Walk," said Tricia Desvarro, division director for the American Heart Association in Fayette County.
Registration will be held at 9 a.m. followed by opening ceremonies at 9:45 a.m. The Heart Walk begins at 10 a.m.
"This year we have over 68 teams raising funds to try and help us reach our goal of $65,000," said Desvarro.
The event is under the leadership of Ed Franczyk, market president of United Bank and his wife Judy Franczyk.
"Each year more than 300 participants come out in support of the life-saving work of the AHA. We honor our survivors and remember those who have passed away from heart disease and stroke. It is also the mission of the Heart Walk committee to raise awareness about the seriousness of heart disease and stroke in our community. Heart disease is the number one killer of all Americans and stroke is number four. These statistics hold true for our fellow Fayette County residents and underscores the importance of supporting the American Heart Association," said Desvarro.
As teams gear up to raise funds to fight heart disease and stroke, Tom Broadwater of Uniontown would like readers to be made aware of his story.
Broadwater was diagnosed with heart disease two weeks before his youngest son, Andrew, died of osteocarcoma (bone) cancer. Broadwater had gone to the emergency room due to a persistent cough. He was told he had an upper respiratory infection, had some tests, was given a prescription and was sent home. Two days later, after more tests, he was told he needed a pacemaker implanted immediately. He was taken by ambulance to Allegheny General Hospital where a team of surgeons told him that he not only needed a pacemaker, but he needed an aortic valve replacement and a mitral valve that needed to be repaired.
On Aug. 1, 2005, Broadwater had open heart surgery and spent the next 18 months recovering, including more surgeries.
Today, Broadwater feels blessed to have had the cardiac team at AGH as well as having the ongoing support and love of his family and friends.
"I call them our angels here on earth. I know they were sent by God to help us," said Broadwater who is paying forward that help by sharing his story and participating in this year's American Heart Association Fayette County Heart Walk.
"I'm not sure you ever completely overcome heart disease. It's for this reason the Heart Walk is held so that all people suffering from the effects of heart disease and stroke can look forward to a healthier future made possible by continued research and education with funds raised from the local Heart Walk," added Broadwater.
He will join company leaders, team captains, families, survivors and Heart Walk volunteers participating in the Heart Walk Saturday.
The Fayette County Heart Walk focuses attention on heart disease and stroke.
Heart Walk — one of the American Heart Association's premiere fundraisers — is an initiative to get Americans physically active. This year, more than 1 million walkers will participate in more than 350 events across America. Teams and individual walkers are welcome to participate. Registration and sponsorship information is available by contacting Desvarro, at the Fayette County division of the American Heart Association at www.heart.org/fayettewalk or 800-209-1151, extension 3471.
The American Heart Association Heart Walk is sponsored nationally by SUBWAY® and Jenny Craig. Local sponsors include United Bank, Shop'n Save, Save-A-Lot, Uniontown Hospital, Bill's Bit Service, Davies Ford and Davis & Davis Law Firm.
Nancy Henry is a contributing writer.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - An amendment to the law says a bathroom is not an adequate place for breastfeeding mothers and nearly two dozen U.S. companies have been cited for failing to follow the law.
An amendment The Fair Labor Standards Act forces businesses to provide a private space for nursing mothers to pump breast milk. It was added after President Obama's Affordable Care Act became law.
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There is this small annoyance i have and i hope its not a normal thing that everyone is experiencing. when im driving along about 45 to 50 mph it seems that the tranny shifts into 6th and it settles to a lil bit above the 1000rpm mark and when i lightly press the gas to maintain 45 mph or even 40 mph i get a pretty decent amount of vibration i dunno if the engine is lugging or somthing binding but if i am goin about 50 mph it doesnt do it cause im guessing higher rpm. It just seems the autos are a bit over agressive to find a lower gear for gas mileage purpose i dont wanna have to use manual mode just so i cant keep it at a certain speed. Any help and comments are welcome.
bump no one has a insight or opinion about this?
I will try to pay attention today and let you know if I find anything.
i have never noticed it but i'll run a test drive for you
Ok, I tried this on 04/05 and 04/06 and sorry to say I was not able to replicate the issue/problem. Sorry I could not be more help.
I will try it again today or tomorrow and report back. Good luck man.
thanks for trying though maybe it is just my car i might take it to the dealer sat. to see if they can do anything also need to get my hood lined up with the top of the front bumper its lower than the other side of the hood as well. I kinda wish i had a digital rpm display so i can tell everyone the exact rpm as the tac in our cars doesnt really have much numbering between 1000rpm and 1500rpm. I might try and get a video this weekend as it will be nice saturday
Silverlsinva, could you keep us up to date on your next experience with your dealership? Thank you.
Jeff Morris, Chevrolet Customer Service
any mods, AM intakes, etc..?
completly stock has about 650 miles on it now and it doesnt make a difference if its in d or S mode same thing happens. Ill be taking it to the dealer definate tomarrow and will update yall. I hope to find my camera that can take video as well so i can record what is is doing.
when i takes mine out this week ill try it
Ok i think i know what the problem is now. I did take it to the dealer but they couldnt replicate it after driving 10 miles fine by me cause they told they did drive it that much. But before i was driving to the dealer i noticed it didnt do it as much as when i first got the car and the first week of driving. It might have been bad gas or just cheap gas cause i filled it up with 89 after the first week prolly still had about 4 gallons of whatever the dealer put it. And this time i put in 93 and it seems to have solved the issue at 45 mph vibration. Im not sayin i should only run 93 just saying they prolly went to a cheape gas station to fill the car up like a wawa or sheets or whatever discount gas place. I fill up at Sunoco or shell or bp top teir only. The service was fine was in and out in about 30 mins shorter time that exspected the only quibble i had was whoever drove the car moved the seat and had left like white powder on the door panel and gear knob.
Hopefully the powder is from rubber gloves...
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Just took mine back out after winter does same thing plus the heater fan is squeaking trip to shop i guess
yellowlightning2009, could you also keep us up on your trip to your dealership? Thank you.
Jeff Morris, Chevrolet Customer Service
Very much so. Actually this forum generates most of my work. As my avatar information shows I've been here for almost a full year and I've learned a lot in my time here and hopefully I've helped as much. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about your vehicle and things of that nature. Hopefully I'll be able to assist everyone here in some way!
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glad to see i wasnt the only one with this vibration it still kinda does it time to time if it bothers me anymore ill have them check it out again. Btw ill be taking in my car for a hood alignment issue seems like its not flush against the front bumper cover its lower than it should be.
Jeff Thank you for your interest in the customer! I have not had a problem (knocking on wood) yet, but it makes me proud to be a Camaro owner when a CSR gets on and is generally interested in making sure everyones experience with their stealership is going smooth. I noticed you were being proactive in asking about experiences and not just lurking in the shadows and hiding. Again, KUDOS to you and hopefully I will never need to use your services.;)
Ok I will was gonna take her down but it started snowing agin so parked till weather clears up a little shop its 100km away and I need my driverw indow looked at the passenger ones goes up ino the weather stripping and the driver just stays a lil under it i could pry something behind it if i tried
I am having the exact same problem. My car was just picked up yesterday and has under 200 miles on it. The issue occurs between 1000 - 1200 RPM's and it doesnt matter which gear it is at during the time. I have an Automatic V6.
To replicate the issue it starts at around 43-46 MPH in 6th Gear....this is about the time the transmission is in 6th at the stated RPMs. If you let off of the gas it goes away....if you add more gas it goes away....when you maintain speed at this RPM is gets the vibration or hum. It almost sounds like the Tranny is in too high of a gear for that speed and should actually be in 5th.
I then tried to drop the car to a lower speed of 35-38MPH in 5th gear which would be the same 1000-1200 RPM range. The vibration and sound starts up at this speed and RPM as well.
To diagnose the problem I put the car into Sport mode and paddle shifted up or down depending on the speed to change the RPM's. The vibration and sound went away. I am no mechanic or claim to know anything about the inner workings of the vehicle....but by simple trial and error I can only assume that the reason this is happening is that the transmission is in a higher gear than it should be at that RPM.
What should I do about this problem? Can the dealer change the shift points? Is the transmission bad? Is this something I just need to deal with and get used to?:mad0259:
This also occurs to me on my 2011 V6 Camaro, manual trans. In my case, however, it is usually because I am in too high a gear and downshiftting corrects the issue. It does just appear that the automatics are, as stated, maybe a bit too aggressive with fuel economy and try to get into the highest gear possible too early.
Before my Camaro I owned a 2007 Cobalt (automatic) and I had the same issue as what you're seeing with your Camaro. Never seemed to cause any major problems besides being annoying.
I actually got an answer from one of our other departments on this type of vibration and it came back as this: it could be wheels / tires, Active Fuel Management mode or aftermarket accessories. All of these variables could plausibly contribute to this type of vibration.
If you don't think any of these could possibly be the reason why you would have this vibration you may want to have the vehicle checked just to make sure. I hope that helps to possibly answer your question on why this happens to you.
Jeff Morris, Chevrolet Customer Service
I don't know if I understand what your saying.. Why would you be in 6th gear going 45-50mph??
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Balamaci Serban
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Mar 16, 2005 10:07:00
Was wandering if anyone has any ideea how he would procede in doing this: You have an entity bean(more even), and when you want to persist it to storage, not only you would persist it in one database but in two. And the fun part is the second database is not on the same computer or a local network it's over the internet, actualy there are a multitude of databases(to give an example: information kiosks that are conected to a master database through internet and each with an aplication server that builds a web page by reading products in a local database that of course needs to be updated when the main database is updated with new products-the ideea is not to direct the read all maybe simultaneous requests to the main database as it would choke the connection(bandwidth)- but only write operations when say a client wants to register and the write goes to the main database so that we do not get any conflict updates).
Well a perfect candidate for database replication one would say, but the problem is that the main database site is Oracle and the satelites are MySql.
Worst problem- the satelites might go down sometimes- and when they comeback up again they need to resync.
Yeah i know it's a total bitch.
Balamaci Serban
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Mar 16, 2005 10:24:00
Well my first thoughts:
Actually i'm quite a novice in
and application servers, so i'm gonna take it slow although this is my grad project and have only one month left to hand it down so i'm not gonna sleep anymore.
First thing that popped into my mind was hey, this are components. When a client writes to the
, i will simply act in this storage method as a client that does the same but on the
on the other servers.
Yeah, that was easy and i quickly congratulated myself for this fast thinking. Well WRONG. After reading some more stuff on
it turns out that you can't spawn any threads inside an EJB. So my dreams of sending concurent requests to the other
so they would make the changes well, it kinda crumbled. Because: every EJB has to wait for the one in front of them to finish talking to it-and what if that one is much more slower than the rest? We delay too much. Not to talk about some of them not beeing online, then we maybe would register the change that it would have been made and would somehow rerun the invocations to that bean when it comes back online.
[ March 31, 2005: Message edited by: Balamaci Serban ]
Dave Clark
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Mar 16, 2005 12:59:00
One approach is that you could use JDO rather than Entity Beans, then you simply have 2 PersistenceManagerFactory's which are configured to talk to your 2 databases (it doesn't matter that one is on a LAN and the other over the 'net).
When you want to update the 2 databases, you simply ask both factories for an instance of a PersistenceManager, then ask each of the PersistenceManagers to store your object. You should do this within a transaction, which can be container managed if you do your persisting from within a Stateless Session Bean. The only other thing you need is XA-compliant database drivers for your 2 databases configured for your datasources used by JDO, and they'll work together for a 2-phase commit transaction.
It's not really possibly to do this with Entity Beans, since they don't use PersistenceManagers - you'd have to have 2 separate Entity Bean classes and 2 seperate mappings etc. Certainly not as clean a solution.
If you're really worried about network latency over the internet (I'd only worry if you measure the time and it's actually a problem), then you'll want to send a message to a JMS queue on one side and an MDB listener on the other side. That way you can write to the queue within the same transaction as your local DB update, but still guarantee that the remote DB will also get updated.
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Balamaci Serban
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Mar 16, 2005 13:10:00
Second thought:
Well after some digging for a golden solution, well in my search i stuble on something too good to be true, or at least something that i must have missunderstood cause there would be no reason not to be a whole lot more tutorials on the subject. Well the secret(and cover it up so none else could see it) is JMS. The good thing about JMS is that it guarantees a message to reach at some point in time once and only once to an address. Even if that address is not online, the message would be kept safe in the database till the receiver of the message comes back online. Not only that, but JMS says that you can write to a "Topic" and a message sent to that topic would reach all the clients registered to that topic. So it's a 1:N relantionship.
So when in ejbStore method, after writing to the database, we write to the topic. The message would then be automaticaly redirected to the subscribers and everyone is happy, me even more cause even if a client is down he will receive that message.
The joy last only for minutes cause not all clients could be in the same moment of replication:
I mean let's consider that we have installed a fresh new node. Well this node must first get all the data that the primary site already contains. This in database replication terms is called a SNAPSHOT.
Now say that we have a method called takeSnapshot() in the entity bean which it returns a vector of all the records. We have to call this method when the new node starts(that is a problem i did not solve yet but if nothing is found to work we would have to start a program outside of the aplication server and RMI call the takeSnapshot method from the primary server.
Now the problem is what should that method do? If it's like a getter it returns a coolection of all the records of the entity bean, well ok, after it returns all the records, we write them to this secondary database and afterwards we attach ourselvs to the JMS topic to listen for new changes to the data. Well, but what if there were changes to the primary database when we were transmiting the data to this new site, or say when we were writing the information to the database? I mean in the time we ran takeSnapshot() and ataching to the JMS topic-they would be lost-?
Second aproach it comes to mind, that we do not directly return the object in takeSnapshot(), but we create a JMS queue, which means that the message is sent only to one destination. So we write to that queue all the SQL messages that compose the database till that point. But at same time or imediatly after we call takeSnapshot() we attach ourselvs to the topic as well. When we begin to see messages alike that come from the queue and from the topic as well it means that the two are finally sincronised and we can let the primary know to drop the queue. A problem would be what will we do with the messages that come from the topic all this time and that we cannot yet commit to the database as we did not have yet obtained the state in wich the primary database was before the snapshot.
Well please let me know if u have a better solution or if u find any problems with this hole new ideea. Transactions at this time kinda are not an issue.
[ March 17, 2005: Message edited by: Balamaci Serban ]
Balamaci Serban
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Mar 16, 2005 13:44:00
Thanks Dave, i was writting the second post wich took of a long time to get the ideeas "on paper" when u posted, and that's why i did not reply to you in the 3rd post.
Well transactions and 2Phase Comit did get into my mind, but the problem would be that, if we have more that 2, and even if we have only 2 databases, the 2PC protocol says that they must all(both) agree or the transaction fails(and will fail if the second site would be down) and multiplied that N times, well it would not go very well. And the time it would take to all agree would be semnificant(i don't know at wich level the locking on the records is done-maybe table even?-) And I'm pretty sure that MySql is not XA compliant(although that would not be a problem since i can say that i use PostgreSql).
JDO to my shame i never heard of it, and I will have to look into, but i have confidence that i'd get up to speed on that(although i have to look more into JMS first
) my main concern till this grad project was linux, php, C++ and simple plain
. This
java stuff is really hard to swallow and i haven't even got into AOP
Well on the 2nd solution i'm glad that someone else had thought of JMS and that the solution almost converges.
How about for simplicity sake i build a queue, for every node to be replicated to. When the snapshot is requested, it fills up the queue and for every update it writes to all the queues. But for performance sake, i guess that would be a hit bellow the acceptable belt. Not say that the main database in case of the message queue having to be persisted, would grown Nth times.
[ March 17, 2005: Message edited by: Balamaci Serban ]
Dave Clark
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Mar 16, 2005 14:36:00
JDO = Java Data Objects - It's basically lightweight persistence for Plain Old Java Objects, rather than heavyweight components like Entity Beans that need to run inside an EJB container. A good starting point for learning about JDO is
If you want to use JMS (again, I wouldn't worry about network latency unless you measure it to be a problem - lots of web services for instance, run synchronously over the web), you may want to have a JMS server on your client, and another JMS server on your remote DB server, and cluster them, so that messages sent to your local JMS server will automatically be propogated to your remote JMS server, and both your client and remote database can talk to a local queue,
Balamaci Serban
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Mar 16, 2005 17:20:00
Well from the quick reading i've done through JDO, it seems they were an alternative to EJB beeing as u've said more lightweight, and that they are reunited in EJB3, wich from the specs i've seens are really nice to work with but i can't figure out if u could tap into the function in wich they actualy are persisted. Maybe i'll leave them for tomorrow.
Also for anyone interested in JMS, i put toghether what seems some nice resources to look into:
Yeah about the cluster, hmm not sure how many open project solutions go for that, maybe JBossMQ can do that, but why replicate the JMS, i mean we would replicate queues that we would have used to send messages to the others nodes, we would replicate them unnecesary on a node that would have no use for them and moreover we would just move the problem from database replication to JMS server replication and having to conform to only a single provider.
[ March 16, 2005: Message edited by: Balamaci Serban ]
Dave Clark
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Mar 16, 2005 20:30:00
not "they were an alternative to EJB", JDO **is** an alternative to EJB.
JDO is alive and well - the JDO 2.0 JSR was just accepted by the JCP a couple of weeks ago, and there are a couple of dozen commercial and open source implementations which work very well today, and will continue to work into the EJB 3 timeframe, which is still a year or more away.
A great JDO resource is
btw - Versant have a great JDO implementation also (I work for Versant) -
I agree. Here's the link:
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