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Fresh off adding nine draft picks last week, the Bucs continued their dramatic makeover Monday, re-evaluating their roster and releasing six players, among them starting nose tackle Chris Hovan and former starting left guard Arron Sears — the latter of whom had a setback in his comeback effort.
Also released: Fullback B.J. Askew, guard Shawn Murphy, punter Sam Paulescu and cornerback Stoney Woodson.
Hovan, entering his 11th NFL season, spent the past five with the Buccaneers. The addition of tackles Gerald McCoy and Brian Price with the team's first two picks in the draft made him expendable. The $4 million base salary he was scheduled to earn also did him in, deemed too much for an aging, backup defensive tackle.
The 31-year-old was touted as a key free-agent addition in 2005. Hovan had a career-high 95 tackles in 2007, but his production fell to 69 stops in 2008. In 2009, he had 59 tackles, his fewest since joining the Bucs. He also was creating less push up the middle, which is essential in the Buccaneers' scheme. The Bucs ranked last in the NFL against the run last season.
Hovan's release leaves a leadership void on the defensive line. He took personal responsibility for leading young players such as the late Gaines Adams and Roy Miller.
The Bucs found no interest in a trade for Hovan.
Sears missed all of 2009 after spending it on the non-football illness list because of undisclosed personal problems that at one time left him uncommunicative. He returned to the team late in the season after spending most of it sequestered at his mother's Alabama home, but he was not activated.
Sears was a second-round pick in 2007 and was immediately installed as the starting left guard. He played 31 games, all starts.
Last month, general manager Mark Dominik said with confidence the club thought Sears could help in 2010 as Sears was working out and making an attempt at a comeback. But Sears appeared to have had a setback and now his football future is unclear. He might not play again.
At the NFL owners meetings in March, Dominik said, "He wouldn't be with the organization if we didn't feel like he had the opportunity to come back and help this football team."
The following day, coach Raheem Morris said, "Arron's working and we'll have to see what Arron is when he comes back and we start our offseason. The situation was a private situation and we tried to keep it that way. … I look forward and I'm hopeful to see where he is and to see how he's going to react when he has an opportunity."
The Bucs had hoped Sears could add depth because they're a bit thin on the interior of the offensive line. But second-year man Xavier Fulton, who spent 2009 on injured reserve, Marc Dile and others will be given a chance to contribute.
Askew was also a starter before being placed on the non-football injury list after hurting his neck last season in a car accident.
He joined the Bucs in 2007 as a free agent and was given a contract extension a year later. The addition of Chris Pressley, formerly of the Bengals, coupled with the ability of Earnest Graham to play fullback, made Askew less vital to the offense. Askew had three years remaining on his contract.
Murphy and Woodson were projects that the club chose not to continue to develop.
Paulescu was the team's lone punter by the end of last season after Josh Bidwell and Dirk Johnson sustained season-ending injuries. The Bucs expect sixth-round pick Brent Bowden from Virginia Tech to be their punter this fall, though they could add another before training camp to increase competition at the position.
bucs sign 12: The Bucs signed 12 college free agents who went undrafted.
DE Brandon Gilbeaux (Delaware), OT Derek Hardman (Eastern Kentucky), K Hunter Lawrence (Texas), TE Jeron Mastrud (Kansas State), LB Rico McCoy (Tennessee), WR Preston Parker (North Alabama, formerly Florida State), G Sergio Render (Virginia Tech), G Vladimir Richard (Tennessee), DB Dennis Rogan (Tennessee), DE James Ruffin (Northern Iowa), QB Jevan Snead (Mississippi) and OT James Williams (Harvard) agreed to deals.
Each is expected to participate in this weekend's rookie minicamp along with a number of players on a tryout basis, including former USF quarterback Matt Grothe, who hopes to land a free-agent contract.
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AU Fills Investigative Journalism Gap
American University is one of at least eight U.S. universities that have launched projects to produce investigative journalism content for the mainstream media. Of those eight projects, five were established in 2008 or 2009, including AU's Investigative Reporting Workshop (launched June 2008).
Charles (Chuck) Lewis, the executive founding editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, says more such projects are in the works at universities in the Carolinas, Chicago, Florida, Oregon, and Minnesota, as well as those in other nations including Japan, England, and Australia.
"I get a phone call just about every day asking how to start projects like the Investigative Reporting Workshop," says Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity and a member of the advisory board or board of directors of three university-affiliated projects launched shortly after the Workshop: Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting, University of Wisconsin–Madison's Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, and San Diego State University's Watchdog Institute.
"Universities are a magnificent incubator for investigative journalism," explains Lewis. "They are a safe haven for the free exchange of ideas and inquiries—both central to investigative journalism; they have the extensive infrastructure—such as libraries, broadcast facilities and equipment—to support it; and have a population of students eager to learn the field."
Success in a Short Time
The Workshop's success under the leadership of Lewis and founding senior editor Wendell Cochran is impressive. It recently netted a $600,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation and became only the second university-based project to partner with PBS's investigative series FRONTLINE. "Flying Cheap," the first Workshop/FRONTLINE production, explored the origins of and safety concerns surrounding the regional airline industry. It drew ratings 20 percent higher than the FRONTLINE national average when it aired Tuesday, February 9.
Other Workshop accomplishments include partnering with news media outlets like msnbc.com, Financial Times, the Huffington Post, and McClatchy Newspapers on national investigative reports and being one of four nonprofit news organizations nationwide selected to have content published by the Associated Press. The Workshop's BankTracker project—a joint project with msnbc.com—recently won the award for Creative Use of Online (media) from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Best in Business Journalism competition.
"Chuck Lewis and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop are providing a new model for investigative journalism at a time when the news industry is plagued by staff cuts and a lack of resources needed to conduct substantive in-depth analytical reporting," says Larry Kirkman, dean of AU's School of Communication. "Lewis and the Workshop are focusing on issues of national and international significance as well as new methods of delivering information. The news consumer is the ultimate winner in this groundbreaking collaboration."
A Unique Position
"The Workshop is the only university-based project of its kind in Washington, D.C., where investigative journalism is acutely needed to hold powerful individuals and organizations accountable," says Lewis. "It is also the only such project in the world looking at new models for investigative journalism."
Other university-affiliated investigative journalism projects are Brandeis University's Schuster Institute (launched 2004), Columbia University's Stabile Center (launched 2006), Northeastern University's Advanced Reporting and Investigative Reporting Seminar (launched 2008), and University of California–Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program (began in 1991; formalized in 2006).
Lewis attributes much of the Workshop's success to its expert fundraiser: Barbara W. Schecter. During the Workshop's first full year of operation, it drew $1.1 million in funding. Lewis says they hope to increase that amount by 50 to 80 percent during the coming year. Schecter worked with Lewis at the Center for Public Integrity.
Lewis, a renowned investigative journalist, best-selling author, and former producer for ABC News and CBS's 60 Minutes, was recently granted tenure at AU's School of Communication, the school that houses the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

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KYLIE MINOGUE has ridden a bull for it and it features in Kate Moss's darkest fantasies. Now the British lingerie brand Agent Provocateur has arrived in Sydney.
Australia is the brand's fourth largest market for online sales, and it is this digital appetite that has driven its bricks-and-mortar entry.
Founded in 1994 by Joseph Corre (son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren) and his then wife, Serena Rees, Agent Provocateur is known for its fetishist campaign imagery, famous fans, very high prices and elaborate boutiques.
''We have been looking into expanding into Australia for several years and didn't find the right stand-alone property,'' the company's chief executive, Garry Hogarth, said. ''Australia is a key market for Agent Provocateur and we are very excited to be opening our first boutique here. David Jones is the perfect partner and we look forward to a successful collaboration.''
The brand announced its arrival in a typically provocative fashion, with a live model installation in David Jones's Elizabeth Street windows on Friday.
Tiah Eckhardt, who has modelled for both Agent Provocateur and David Jones, and now runs the lingerie blog The Daily Knicker, said lingerie shopping in Australia had traditionally been lacklustre. ''I've always been amazed that AP wasn't stocked here,'' she said.
Eckhardt believes that Agent Provocateur's image is a departure from Australia's typical notion of sexy. ''We're more about wearing flip-flops and a bikini rather than pom-pom mules with a riding crop in hand.''
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Plaid & Boots Formula
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This is definitely one of my favourite combo's as well. You can't go wrong with boots, plaid and a cardi!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing.
I agree, you can't go wrong with this combo! Comfortable, classic and cute - the three C's :)ReplyDelete
- ChandraWednesday, January 23, 2013
I'm all about ways to wear sweaters over shirts and I like the layering that you've shown here. Do you have a blog post that discusses ways to layer?ReplyDelete
- Trina | BeginnerBeans.comWednesday, January 23, 2013
Found this post through WIWW. What a fun blog! Love your photos and tips and what you're doing with your wardrobe.ReplyDelete
- ladiesinnavyWednesday, January 23, 2013
so cute! loving your look!ReplyDelete
kw, Ladies in Navy
You always look SO cute in your button-ups with cardigans! I love the look but can't seem to get the sleeves right - they're always so bunchy! How do you get your sleeves so smooth and seamless??ReplyDelete
- Kacie EllisWednesday, January 23, 2013
You just can't go wrong with plaid and boots!ReplyDelete
i love this combo! and love all your combinations!! forlaurenandlauren.blogspot.comReplyDelete
This made me laugh because I am wearing this combo today!ReplyDelete
- SweetSymphonyWednesday, January 23, 2013
This is such a great staple look, my favorite for running errands, playdates, and weekends! You do such a great job throwing some veriety into the mix too!ReplyDelete
- Heather
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LOVE this combo! A girl can never go wrong with plaid and tall boots. :)ReplyDelete
How have I not found you before? You've got great style and your hair is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Looks great! I only recently tried this trend and loved it : ) So simple, but classy!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Brynn! Well, that sweater happens to be a 3/4 sleeve so I lucked out. But otherwise, I pull the sweater sleeve above my shirt sleeve and fold it up once, with like a 2 inch hem. It takes away some of the bulging. I might have to take pics of it because a few people have been asking the same thing and I don't really know how to explain it.ReplyDelete
Haha! That is awesome.ReplyDelete
I love the orange and blue plaid! I didn't realize you rocked the plaid shirt so much, but you do it well!ReplyDelete
Its strange how one person's staples differ to another's. I own one plaid shirt-dress that I sometimes wear as a shirt. But it is summer here in the southern hemisphere so I might also end up rocking the plaid look when winter arrives. You do it so cleverly!!ReplyDelete
- becauseshannasaidsoThursday, January 24, 2013
You are so right!!! Riding boots and plaid are a def go to in my book too! You always look so stinkin' cute!!ReplyDelete


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The Bavarian provincial legislature today unanimously adopted a motion introduced by the Social Democratic Party calling on the government to introduce a law punishing the desecration of cemeteries. At the same time, the Free Democratic Party asked the government to appeal to the various dities to take over responsibility for synagogues which were abandoned because Jewish communities no longer exist to care for them.
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DENVER, February 24, 1999 -- Qwest Communications International Inc., a leading multimedia communications company, is launching a nationwide advertising campaign to build awareness of the brand and to strengthen Qwest?s position as a major force in communications among U.S. consumers and businesses. Qwest has selected J. Walter Thompson New York to handle the integrated communications effort, including general advertising, direct marketing and digital communications.
In the fiercely competitive communications arena, Qwest has emerged as a leader in driving the adoption of Internet-based data, image and voice communications services with its technologically advanced fiber-optic network.
?J. Walter Thompson has a deep understanding of the strategic issues and complexities of the multimedia communications market,? said Joseph P. Nacchio, Qwest?s chairman and CEO. ?They possess a thorough understanding of where Qwest is, where it?s going and how to use fully integrated communications to help us maximize our exposure to businesses and consumers around the world. We?ll look to them for the marketing expertise and creative ideas we need to meet our aggressive growth targets.?
As the agency of record for Sprint for 18 years until November of last year, JWT has been a major participant in the growth of the communications industry in the United States. ?Qwest is a very exciting company with a bright future,? said Chris Jones, chief executive officer of JWT. ?We look forward to using our expertise to help Qwest dramatically redefine both the industry and how customers think about communications services.?
J. Walter Thompson ranks fifth largest among agency networks worldwide. A unit of the WPP Group, plc., the agency has billings of $8.1 billion with 248 offices in 81 countries.
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Qwest Communications International Inc. (Nasdaq: QWST) is a leader in reliable and secure broadband Internet-based data, voice and image communications for businesses and consumers. Headquartered in Denver, Qwest has more than 8,000 employees and 80 sales offices in North America, Europe and Mexico. The Qwest Macro Capacity (SM) Fiber Network, designed with the newest optical networking, will span more than 18,500 route miles in the United States when it is completed by mid-1999, and an additional 315 miles by the end of the year. In addition, Qwest and KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company, are forming a venture to build and operate a high-capacity European fiber optic, Internet Protocol-based network that has 2,100 miles and will span 9,100 miles when it is completed in 2001. Qwest also has nearly completed a 1,400formation, please visit the Qwest web site at www.qwest.com.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Qwest with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including potential fluctuations in quarterly results, dependence on new product development, rapid technological and market change, failure to complete the network on schedule and on budget, financial risk management and future growth subject to risks, Qwest?s ability to achieve Year 2000 compliance, adverse changes in the regulatory or legislative environment, and satisfactory negotiation and execution of definitive documentation. Qwest undertakes no obligation to review or confirm analysts? expectations or estimates or to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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|Melinda Cowan and Jim Walton in the high-energy ''Show Boat,'' at the North Shore Music Theatre. (Carolle Photography)
Gamblers, show people, working folks, and young lovers all tumble out of Edna Ferber's epic "Show Boat," transformed into the glorious 1927 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical now playing at the North Shore Music Theatre. Filled with a lush score that includes "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Show Boat" plays like the best of Cap'n Andy's enchanting melodramas on his own showboat, the Cotton Blossom.
As part of a season celebrating the work of Tony award-winner Susan Stroman, North Shore is reviving Harold Prince's 1994 version of this gem, for which Stroman created the choreography. But Prince's vision was vast, with a huge cast that spilled all over the stage. Restaging that grand vision within the confines of North Shore's playing area isn't always a good fit, and scenes occasionally look too crowded and cramped.
Fortunately, the cast includes a terrific group of principals, and director Glenn Casale makes sure nothing gets in the way of their songs.
Among the standouts is Ron Bohmer as the gambler Gaylord Ravenal, whose glorious tenor in "Where's the Mate for Me?" and "Make Believe" creates a stunning contrast with Phillip Boykin's impossibly rich bass in "Ol' Man River." Kern's score demands operatic skill from the singers, which can be off-putting if it isn't grounded in strong acting chops. But Bohmer, as the charming rake, and Boykin, as the stalwart representative of all African-Americans stuck doing the dirty work, give the characters much-needed depth.
Terry Burrell, as Julie, creates a wonderful arc for her character, the showboat star who loses everything after her mixed race is revealed. Years later, when we discover Julie in a Chicago nightclub, Burrell's delivery of "Bill" is wrenching in its simplicity. At one moment she turns and sees the look on the club manager's face and pulls herself together with a strength that is breathtaking.
Teri Dale Hansen makes a perfectly innocent young Magnolia, the daughter of the riverboat captain who falls for Ravenal, and their duet "You Are Love" never gets bogged down in saccharine sentiment. Sharon Wilkins is a feisty Queenie and Gordon Stanley's Cap'n Andy adds levity and common sense.
Besides her clever combinations in production numbers, Stroman's biggest contribution to the 1994 revival was two dance montages in the second act, which show the passage of time through dance styles - and Florence Klotz's vivid costumes. Although North Shore's dancers do a great job with the steps, without the space to spread out and allow other images to feed into the theme, the sequences feel a little lost.
Choreographer Ron Gibbs does manage to pull off a high-energy ending with "Kim's Charleston," which adds a positive note to a musical that leaves us feeling more wistful than hopeful.


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Cold weather? Never heard that contributed to additioal oils consumption.
i know... it's really a stretch, but he said he checked everything and didn't see any leaks anywhere.
i'll switch to the heavier oil and then if it's still an issue, go look for a second opinion.
i'll switch to the heavier oil and then if it's still an issue, go look for a second opinion
I don't think that the switch to 0W-40 will make a bit of difference. There are only so many places the oil can go, and the mechanic has failed to find the culprit. His suggestion that 0W-40 is the answer tells me he doesn't have a shred of a clue.
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cdnpinhead Forest Lakes, AZPosts: 4,039". . .a shred of a clue."
This is what is lacking, nearly always, when I want my vehicle fixed. I can f*** (let's say foul) it up myself for free. If I pay the man, I expect him (or her) to know more than I do & to fix the thing more quickly. For this, I pay them.
Well. . .
I have any number of things that aren't right on my daily driver (and in my house) that I'd dearly love to let a competent (that's C O M P E T E N T) technician deal with. My car is rare (that's in, they discontinued it), so not many technicians will have ever seen one before. My bad. I won't do it again.
The fact remains that a competent mechanic is worth his/her weight in gold. A $793 repair diagnosed (yeah, right) by the Nissan dealership becomes an $87 fix at the (trusted) shop.
Works for me. If I end up with a BMW, it won't be before I determine which independent shops nearby are deemed worthy. Since BMW has been around awhile, such databases actually exist.
okay, i'm actually not trying to defend this mechanic (they've treated me fairly in the past)... the heavier wt oil was my idea.
for better or worse, I did a lot of searching on other forums and only found the following possible culprits for excessive oil consumption: valve cover gasket, valve seals, and oil separator.
I also found that some people (with higher mileage cars) have switched to this heavier oil and it has slowed the consumption.
So, based on this and the suggestion for the leak-down test, I asked my mechanic to do this test and check all of these things as well as anything else he could think of.
When he came back with nothing, I asked him to go with the heavier oil. I figure at the least, it may work (it may not... but, you know what they say about what you read on the internet!).
I'll keep you informed. (for the record, I'm at 85,020 miles and dipstick is reading at the full mark).
Mr_Shiftright CaliforniaPosts: 57,319So the oil separator (a $75 German PCV valve) was replaced and the engine was checked for excessive crankcase pressure?
This cranky (no pun intended) oil separator is a known BMW issue.
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idoc2 Posts: 78I drive a 2007 328xi and recently noticed a buzzing or whirring sound similar to that of a small electric motor coming from the passenger side rear quarter. It is only audible outside the car and after the ignition has been turned off. It lasts for about 2 or 3 minutes. Does anyone have any idea as to what this may be?
ehernandez Posts: 1I purchased my car back in June 07, since then it has probably been in the shop at least once a month.
My biggest problem which has yet to be solved by BMW is my clutch. Everytime I release the clutch, it makes a squeaking noise. If I have the radio off or low, this sound drives me nuts. I have come to realize that this noise is the pedal not the clutch itself.
Another interesting problem arose a few days ago. After I washed my car: everytime I released my clutch my air conditioner would turn on from its off mode.
Has this or anything similar happen to anyone else?
- Sunroof Colapsed, was not able to close, looked sunken in for days.
- Passenger seat, had 3 huge bumps on the bottom part of seat. Very unattractive
- Random display of messages on the cars on-board computer display.
Does anyone have any idea as to what this may be?
I think it is a function of the emissions system; my wife's 2004 X3 2.5 does the same thing.
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I have a 2006 325i with adaptive head lamps. Today the OBC flashed a warning that the swiveling feature is not working. The car has less than 20000 miles on it. I love the car but I am dreading the thought of warranty expiration.
Have any of you experienced this particular failure?
Yes, I had this (and many other) problems with my 2006 330i. Actually, I had this particular problem in the very first month. Fixed under warranty. After a few days in the service center of trying this that and the other thing, it turned out to be something as simple as a loose wire.
I'm leasing mine and it goes back at the end of the summer. It will fortunately never be out of warranty during my time with it.
Thank you. I am scheduled for a visit next week and will update the group when I find out the root cause (?).
I have never owned or leased a BMW before this one. I am quite surprised by the emotions that this car evokes in me. So I would expect irrational thinking on my part as far as this car is concerned and I keep this well past the warranty period.
My car is also my first BMW. I have a love/hate relationship with it. Love the way it drives, the way it looks, and that maintenance is included. Hate having problems (such as adaptive headlight failure) which necessitate periodic visits to the service center for things other than routine maintenance. There are 3 cars in my family now. The other 2 are Hondas. We have had no problems whatsoever with either Honda. My BMW is by far the worst car I have ever had when it comes to things going wrong with it. So I'm thinking long and hard whether or not I will get another BMW when my lease ends this summer.
Took our '05 330Cic in for Inpection I (30K mile checkup).. They did the normal stuff, plus flushed the brake fluid.. Total cost: $ZERO
Didn't realize it.. but, that is the first trip to the dealer since the 15K oil service.. Just over one year...
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thomberman Posts: 5My anti freeze light went on so I filled it with regular anti freeze but the BMW dealer said I need to put BMW anti freeze in. Is this ture and did I ruin the car by putting in regular anti freeze. Thanks
shipo Posts: 9,152Is it true that you need BMW anti-freeze? Yes, it's true.
Did you ruin your car by putting regular anti-freeze in there? No, that would be unlikely, especially if it has only been in there for a short period of time. That said, you would be best off if you had the cooling system flushed and the proper coolant re-added to your car.
FWIW, if you are on a budget, you can also use the Zerex G-05 HOAT coolant (I've found it to be available at most NAPA stores). http://www.valvoline.com/zerex/pdf/Zerex_CoolantChart.pdf?coaid=1B5D1AEA1AFC
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I brought my car in for routine service and soon received a call that the rear shocks have leaks and also one of the cv joints. The caller told me they only have one shock in stock, so he proposed to put it on now and ordered the other one to have it put on when it arrives. I was surprised to hear this proposal as I thinkshocks should always be replaced by pairs. This is the first time I come to this dealership for service. Is this a normal practice to do it one at a time. It seems he can always ask me to come back when he has the parts rather to do it piecemeal.
The car is a '02 325ixT with 45,000 miles
I didn't authorize the repair, but did raise the question to the service advisor as I thought shocks should be replaced by the pair (later confirmed by board members here). His explanation was that it would save me time to get one done now since the car is in the shop for maintenance anyway, and then bring the car over for the other one when the order is in. Totally bogus statement.
While I am not technically oriented, being a member of CCA for many years and reading Mike Miller's column does me good, and of course I also benefit from reading many postings here by those very knowledgeable people.
Only in pairs. Do not do it separately.
He probably doesn't want to give you time to shop the deal...
If he replaces one.. then, you'll go back for the other one... If he quotes you a price for both of them, you might find another place to get it done cheaper..
Either way, I agree... wait for the other one..
I was having front struts done once... The left and right were two different struts.. They sent two left struts, and the repair shop put the left one on, and told me they'd call when they got the proper right hand strut.. Every strut that the distributor shipped was the wrong one.. It turned out they only had left struts.. I never did get a matching strut... :surprise:
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Thanks, kyfdx and OW, you have confirmed my understanding of the replacement for pairs only. When this dealer starts to do so, I don't have a good feeling as to their honesty. Is there any visual ways to realize the shocks indeed need replacement. After all, it has only 45,000 miles. Can one see the cv boot to determine it is leaking?
Again thanks for the advice.
I'd get a second opinion from a good independent. I've NEVER replaced the OEM shocks on a Bimmer prior to 100K. If you plan to keep the car a long time I'd go with Bilstein HDs- though you should really replace all four if you want to go that route. If you want a decent less expensive shock I'd consider Monroe; they offer a shock that's made in Europe and it has received good reviews from several E46 owners.
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Any shop replacing only one shock is not to be trusted. Roadburner's suggestion to get a good independent shop is the best approach. Imagine one shock with 80K miles and one new one. Perfectly balanced suspension it is not. Doing it twice almost doubles the labor cost let alone your time.
These are the type of establishments who bring you in twice and really do not replace anything (because it ain't broke) and charge you anyway. Wouldn't be surprised if he oiled up the shock housing and showed you it leaked!
Need a new mechanic.
cristialex Posts: 1I need to replace the front control arms and bushings and the BMW dealer gave me an estimate of 1100$. I looked up the parts at various web sites and they go around 30-50$ per pair. It seems like a huuuuge difference...Any idea how much should it really cost?
Any idea how much should it really cost?
I checked some sites that sell OEM quality parts; assuming you own an E46, the control arms will run $130-$180 per side. The bushings will $82-$150 per pair. If you are a BMW CCA member many dealers and independent shops will offer 10%-20% discounts on parts and/or labor. Find a good independent BMW tech and you should be able to get the parts installed for under $600.
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cct3 Posts: 1Antifreeze reservoir is empty. Car ran hot briefly. I pour antifreeze mixture into reservoir and it seems to pour out the bottom. I cannot see the bottom of the tank. Does this seem to be a hose issue or the reservoir? I know nothing about this. Car has 100,000 miles
I pour antifreeze mixture into reservoir and it seems to pour out the bottom. I cannot see the bottom of the tank. Does this seem to be a hose issue or the reservoir?
I'd put my money on the expansion tank-AKA resevoir-being cracked. It's a common problem on sixes with 100K or more on the clock. It's a relatively cheap and easy fix. Just don't overheat the engine again- unless you want to R&R the head gasket(and possibly the cylinder head as well).
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I have a 2007 335i sedan. Yesterday I got an (alarming!) message along the lines of "Electric steering wheel lock. Do not turn off engine. Engine may not restart." In fact, though, when I did turn off the engine, it did restart (at least then). Anyone know what's going on with this?
kirkr Posts: 17I had the same thing happen on my 2006 325xi. It was a faulty sensor. I was always able to start the car until it was fixed. However, I did hold my breath each time.
Thanks. In light of the car being able to start, that makes sense. I've gotten it to my dealer this AM and should know for sure later today.


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Exploit:Win32/CVE-2010-3333 [Microsoft]; Exploit.MSWord.CVE-2010-3333.b [Kaspersky]; Trojan.Mdropper [Symantec]
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Once a malware successfully exploits the said vulnerability, it causes certain actions to be done on the system.
This Trojan drops the following non-malicious file:
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(Note: %User Temp% is the current user's Temp folder, which is usually C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Local Settings\Temp on Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003.)
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For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users, before doing any scans, please make sure you disable System Restore to allow full scanning of your computer.
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Remove malware files dropped/downloaded by TROJ_ARTIEF.KER
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What Would Witches and Vampires Do For a Living?
In her debut novel "A Discovery of Witches," Deborah Harkness' protagonist, Diana Bishop, accidentally stumbles upon an enchanted manuscript that has been lost. Although the rest of the book, the first in a planned trilogy, is fictional, Harkness based part of her tale on a real experience. While researching her dissertation in the 1990s, Harkness happened upon a manuscript owned by Queen Elizabeth's astrologer that had been missing since the 1600s.
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Rahm Says "I Told You So" to Zeke on Health Care
There was a time when Rahm Emanuel thought it was smarter to move forward with small health care steps, but he was overruled by President Obama and his brother Zeke Emanuel. Now that the Affordable Care Act helped cost Democrats the House in 2010 and is sinking Obama's favorable ratings, Rahm is having his "I told you so" moment. From USA Today:
"He thought we should have done something more incremental, that doing something comprehensive is not in the nature of the American health care system, and I thought doing something more comprehensive was absolutely essential to actually fixing the health care system," Zeke Emanuel said in an interview on USA TODAY's Capital Download. President Obama backed a comprehensive overhaul, but when the roll-out of the healthcare.gov exchanges went badly this fall, Rahm Emanuel wasn't shy about saying I-told-you-so.
"Ever call me? How about every day," Zeke Emanuel told the weekly video newsmaker series. He imitated the razzing query posed by his brother, now the mayor of Chicago: "How we doing, Zeke?"
At the time Firedoglake shared a similar position with Rahm, albeit for slightly different reasons. It was always possible to use reconciliation to quickly move forward the best and most popular parts of the ACA (like the Medicaid expansion) without the unpopular provisions such as the individual mandate. Medicaid expansion alone is responsible for half the new coverage and going much smoother than the exchanges in the states that chose to take part.
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Seniors Honored at PCSC Time Trials
Ally Bernard, Mae Corbin, Stephanie Ertl, Kelsey Maguire and Priyanka Shah compete for final time at the Raleigh-Runnels Memorial Pool.
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MALIBU, Calif. - The Pepperdine women's swimming and diving team competed in its final home meet of the season today, the PCSC Time Trials. Senior Day was celebrated, honoring the collegiate careers of Ally Bernard, Mae Corbin, Stephanie Ertl, Kelsey Maguire and Priyanka Shah.
The meet served as the final competition before the Waves battle in the 2014 PCSC Championship in two weeks' time.
"Today was a dress rehearsal for the conference championship and I think we did very well with that. Everyone accomplished what they set out to accomplish," said head coach Nick Rodionoff after the meet. "Performances again were very solid. Nothing red hot, but that's not what we are looking for at this point. With two weeks to go it's just about perfect. I think they are swimming confidently. They're in a pretty good place and they're pretty relaxed, but I think they feel that they've got their best swim coming."
The day opened with diving, where freshman Sydney Newman (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Oak Ridge HS) won both the 1-meter and the 3-meter.
Both senior divers, Ertl (Carmel, Ind./Carmel HS) and Shah (Fremont, Calif./Irvington HS), produced career-high scores in both events. The pair finished two-three in both the 1-meter and 3-meter behind Newman.
Ertl is wrapping up a four-year career with the Waves. She came to Malibu as a swimmer, but joined the diving ranks last season.
"We've become a family," said Ertl of her team.
She had this advice for her younger teammates: "Stick with it and have fun. It's about having fun. These are probably the last years we'll be competitively swimming and diving, so just out with a bang. Be the best you can be."
Allison Naasz (Lodi, Calif./Tokay HS) delivered one of the more impressive performances of the day in the 100 breaststroke. Known more for her achievements in the freestyle and backstroke, Naasz earned the right to be considered a formidable threat in the breaststroke as well after winning the race in a time of 1:11.52 - over 10 seconds faster than her previous all-time best.
Maguire (New Rochelle, N.Y./Pelham Memorial HS) heeded Ertl's words and "went out with a bang" today, lowering her season-best times in both the 50 and 100 freestyle.
"Everyone brings something to the table. Everyone is important. You always feel like you're meant to be here," reflected Maguire.
Bernard (Porterville, Calif./Monache HS/Cuesta College) posted top-five finishes in all three of her events today, including runner-up performances in both the 50 and 200 freestyle.
Kristine Pataray (West Jordan, Utah/Copper Hills HS), Jessica Mosbaugh (Los Alamitos, Calif./Los Alamitos HS), Emma Fitzsimmons (Southport, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe HS), Nicolette Barreiro (Valencia, Calif./Hart HS), Laura Graziano (Tucson, Ariz./Salpointe Catholic HS), Cailey Stuebner (Los Altos, Calif./Mountain View HS) and Naasz all snagged at least one first-place finish on Saturday.
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Embark on our vehicle, where we will visit some of Cape Town's iconic land marks of a by-gone era.
We then depart Cape Town as lords and ladies, on the legendary route through to Rawsonville.
We depart from Worcester's train station and go forth on an epic train journey with hip flask in hand through the unique Klein Karoo.
The 2 1\2 hour journey is filled with stunning scenery and classic board games to keep you entertained!
We visit the unique Kirabo wine farm, meeting the wine maker and tasting the local wine and culture.
Arrive in the desert-oasis town of Matjiesfontein! Join on a guided walk of this majestic town that is frozen in time, discovering tales of legends and early settlers. We then take part in Matjiesfontein's own bizarre 'city' bus tour. Fun, quirky...a real treat!
Traditional Karoo lamb braai (BBQ) under the stars followed by an odd night stroll of the weird and wonderful, and guided stargazing! Sing the night away with the local muso's around that old piano!
We sleep the night in original farm cottages situated on Rietfontein nature reserve, 5 min walk from the hotel.
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We indulge in a pairing of farmhouse treats with local "juice", whereafter the family prepare a traditional Potjie Kos lunch for us!
With our bellies filled, we drive through to Montague, stopping over at a local brandy distillery for some quality brandy tasting (subject to availability). Fittingly to The Forgotten Route's legends, we round the tour off with a visit to an old iconic Anglo-Boer war fort.
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Lečo (pronounced leh-cho) is a Slovak style vegetable stew with kielbasa sausage. It tastes great with crusted bread and sour cream. Here's how to make this delicious dish!
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 white onions, chopped coarsely
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed and minced
- 2 yellow bell peppers, halved and sliced
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1In a large skillet, preheat the oil on medium high and sauté the onions for about 7 minutes.
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Absolute Power (novel)
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|978-0-446-60358-4 (first edition, hardback)
Absolute Power is a 1996 book by David Baldacci, which was made into a 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood.
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An experienced burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a billionaire's house with the intent of robbing it. While there, he witnesses the President of the United States and the billionaire's wife having sex. However, their lovemaking turns violent and Secret Service agents burst in and kill the woman, which Whitney also sees. The reason Whitney was able to witness the murder was because he was behind a large one-way mirror that was a secret door into a large closet where the billionaire would sit and watch when his wife had sex with another man. Whitney escapes, but not before the Secret Service learns of his presence; they blame the wife's murder on Whitney. Whitney goes on the run from the President's agents while a detective tries to piece together the crime.
Luther Whitney[edit]
Whitney is a professional burglar who got caught three times. He personally witnessed the incident mentioned in the Plot Summary and ran for his life but later came back and endeavored to bring the real criminal to justice.
Kate Whitney[edit]
Kate is Luther's only daughter. Luther had been in jail during Kate's childhood which led to Kate being harsh on criminals, especially thieves and burglars. The police later used Kate to get to Luther which changed her outlook on her father and her own life.
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes: > Am Mittwoch, 30. August 2006 18:01 schrieb Tom Lane: >> This is the first time I've actually looked at this patch, and I am >> dismayed. viewUpdate.c looks like nothing so much as a large program >> with a small program struggling to get out. > But later SQL versions allow some of that, so at least it shouldn't hurt to > have some parts of the code to be more general in preparation of that. If it bloats the code to unreadability, it's bad. >> I'm unclear as to why you've got DO INSTEAD NOTHING rules in there --- > You need to have one unconditional rule if you have a bunch of conditional > ones. The system does not see through the fact that the conditional ones > cover all cases. AFAICS, for the cases we are able to implement within the existing rule mechanism, there should be exactly one unconditional rule. If you propose more, then you are going to have insurmountable problems with the usual sorts of multiple-evaluation risks. The proposed WITH CHECK OPTION implementation is unworkable for exactly this reason --- it will give the wrong answers in the presence of volatile functions such as nextval(). I believe that we cannot implement WITH CHECK OPTION as a rule. It's a constraint, instead, and will have to be checked the way the executor presently checks constraints, ie after forming the finished new tuple(s). (Someday we're going to have to look into redesigning the rule system so that it can cope better with the kinds of situations that give rise to multiple-evaluation problems. But today is not that day.) It's possible that if we strip the patch down to SQL92-equivalent functionality (no multiple base rels) without WITH CHECK OPTION, we would have something that would work reliably atop the existing rule mechanism. It's getting mighty late in the 8.2 cycle to be doing major rework though. regards, tom lane
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Pretoria - A mother and her three-month-old daughter burnt to death when their shack in Siyahlala, on the outskirts of Atteridgeville, went up in flames.
It is not clear what caused the fire, and why the mother and child could not escape.
Naledi Thungela, 24, and her daughter, Thato, died when their shack caught alight. The dead woman's brother, Elliot Thungela, said they were still in shock and finding it hard to come to terms with the deaths.
"We are not sure what caused the fire because it happened in the afternoon.
"We could have blamed it on a candle or a neglected paraffin stove if it happened at night, but it is hard to pinpoint the cause at this stage," said Thungela.
The fire broke out at about 11am on Monday. A neighbour, who refused to be named, said he saw the flames when he was on his way to the shops and ran to try and rescue the mother and infant. "Everything happened quite fast. There was a lot of confusion because everyone was trying to get buckets to help put out the fire," he said.
Tshwane Emergency Services spokesman Johan Pieterse advised residents in Pretoria to be careful throughout this week as temperatures dropped. "People need to be careful when they use heaters," he said.
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Paul Levine is one of the lucky ones. Fifteen years ago, Levine made a life decision to forfeit all financial and job security. Friends and co-workers thought him a fool. But Levine thought himself a victim of what he refers to as "writing illness"—the only cure was to quit the big time to concentrate on his storytelling. His dream, essentially, was to write a novel and smoothly morph from top attorney to full-time writer. Levine's audacity paid off—while juggling writing and legal work, Bantam Publishing, a division of Random House, bought his first novel, To Speak for the Dead (1990). Following that, he opted to go open his own practice, to keep the workload down and allow himself more time to write. He made use of that time, further impressed his publishers, quit the solo practice, and achieved his goal.
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The Deep Blue Alibi: A Solomon Vs. Lord Novel
by Paul Levine
January 2006
Solomon Vs. Lord
by Paul Levine
September 2005
"When you're a writer," Levine recently told PopMatters, "there is something that burns within you, that forces you to write. I left the high-pressure firm to work as a solo practitioner, and also try and write that first novel. It was a two-step process. That's how I wrote To Speak for the Dead. I was trying a case in a little courthouse in the Florida Keys when I got a call from my agent that Bantam bought the book and [a follow-up]. I was almost too excited to finish the case. My co-counsel, the great Florida trial lawyer, Stuart Grossman, made a big show of telling the judge about my book sale. Even the opposing lawyer congratulated me."
It was a life-affirming moment, one that suddenly makes real those "follow your dream" slogans we all want to believe in, but so rarely tackle head on. After publication of his second book, Levine quit his solo practice and started writing full-time. He notes that in terms of relinquishing the "security blanket of a firm partnership and the lifetime tenure it holds", he dared that without a book deal and is better for it.
Levine points out that, strange as it may seem, the transition from trial lawyer to novelist was surprisingly uncomplicated. "Trial lawyers are natural storytellers," he says. "There is an in-bred, natural aptitude." If any transitional element proved tough, however, it was letting go of a firm financial base. "[I went from] from a place of security into a life of no guarantees," he says. "It's not for the faint of heart."
Levine's tenth novel, The Deep Blue Alibi (out this month), is the second in the Solomon Vs. Lord series. (The author is under contract with Bantam to write at least two more to round out the collection.) The Solomon books center on Steve Solomon, a graduate of Key West School of Law, and Victoria Lord, the brash newcomer assisting her local DA. They're a partnership of the Mulder-and-Scully variety, oil and water friends with opposing legal views and contradicting job techniques—he makes his own rules; she follows the law to the letter. Their underlying respect for each other, however, sees them battling crooks and winning cases with equal amounts of energy and shrewdness. The Deep Blue Alibi finds the winsome duo struggling with their own motivations and judgments as Lord fights to clear the name of an ex-partner suspected of slaughtering an EPA official, and Solomon must dig deeper than he knows he should to discover the impetus for his father's suspension from the Florida judicial bench. Despite its serious tone, the book is laced with humor—the constant banter between the main characters is crisp and entertaining—and Levine does his utmost to create authentic situations in which to let his characters stew.
Levine, too, succeeds in bolstering his genre-stories by throwing in some curveballs. Solomon vs. Lord, for instance, opens with Steve and Victoria tossed in jail for contempt. The two demonstrate their differences immediately, but, like any wayward partnership, they eventually put aside their difference to defend a glamorous widow in a high-profile murder case.
Clearly, Levine's legal role has influenced his storytelling. But, which authors does he most admire—surely a telling side effect of writing illness is a compulsion to read? "My influences change over time because my tastes change," he says. "John D. MacDonald has had a strong influence on me. I now really admire writers who are really different from me. I read their work and I think, 'Wow, how do they do that?' If you go back far enough, the writers I read as a teenager, such as Steinbeck, had a strong influence on me as well."
Levine quotes MacDonald when referring to various responses he's received from readers about the Solomon/Lord relationship. "[MacDonald said] 'writing is like dropping a feather down a well—any echo is appreciated'. I'm getting a lot of echoes about the relationship between Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord because it really reflects a lot of what's going on in the workplace. People become [romantically] involved with their co-workers and then they have to figure out how to keep it professional during the day. It's that oil and water relationship."
The Solomon/Lord partnership may soon be made flesh if Levine's TV pitch to CBS for a series based on the books is green lit. Levine is no stranger to television writing having penned 60 episodes of CBS's JAG. While his JAG experience took him on some strange rides—like placing him behind the wheel of a sub for a particularly fun episode of the show—television work, he says, is incomparable to novel writing. "Working for TV is very different from writing a novel. If you write a book, it's just you. But if you're writing for TV, there's so many people involved, producers, directors, people who work for the network, sometimes even actors if they have enough clout, so about 200 sometimes. You have to continue rewriting based on what all of these other people want." Levine's book, 9 Scorpions served as the inspiration for a First Monday, short-lived CBS series in 2002, and his To Speak of the Dead became a miniseries for NBC in 1996 called Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou. Levine will know after Christmas if Solomon Vs. Lord will take him back to TV writing.
Until then, Levine is enjoying the novelist-life. He remains prolific—Kill All the Lawyers, the third Solomon/Lord book, hits shelves in August. His efficiency, he says, has much to do with making his own hours and writing when the fever hits without worrying about other job obligations. "I love being able to go to work without getting dressed or shaving. I can go to work in my underwear." Still, he says, the work is hard, but satisfying. Levine's LA lifestyle is a happy one. He enjoys traveling up and down the California coast with his wife, frequenting Farmer's Markets and visiting LA's old theatres.
The traveler in him, seeking and discovering wherever he goes, is as much a part of his social life as his professional one. With a boisterous laugh, Levine quotes screenwriter William Goldman: "Goldman had it right when he said about Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything.' He meant studio executives and producers. But it applies to writers, too. We have no idea where our careers are going."
So far, though, so good. Levine is far from regretting his decision to quit law, but the oft-unstructured writer's life occasionally gives him pause. "There are still times when I wake up in the morning or before I go to sleep at night when I wonder if I've made a mistake," he says, noting that he has kept in very close touch with his former co-workers at his old firm, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius. "They have a pretty good life," he says, a little bit wistfully, as he relates tales of expensive business lunches at clubs with waiters in white gloves and stone crabs "when they're in season". "But, it's also a very shallow life for someone who has the writing illness—I'm happy."
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Are you having problems getting your name out there? Do you feel like you have great designs but, for some reason, aren't getting the positive feedback you thought you'd have by now? Don't worry; your skills as a graphic designer may not be the problem. You just might not be promoting yourself right.
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Delaney Collins doesn't believe in fairy tales. And why should she? Her mom is dead, her best friend is across the country, and she's stuck in California with "Dr. Hank," her famous life-coach father—a man she barely knows. Happily ever after? Yeah, right.
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Future Perfect: the transhumanist quest to defeat death
Transhumanists would like to cheat death and redesign genes. But Anita Silvers is not sure that would be wise
Imagine a world with no disease, no ageing, no pain – a world where you might even live forever. That is the vision of transhumanism, a relatively new movement inspired by the belief that science can be harnessed to alter the human condition and allow us to transcend our biological limits.
Advances in medicine and bioengineering, argue the transhumanists, will be able to do more than assist patients to function normally. Some may have the potential to catapult us into a new kind of being.
Though the term was coined by biologist Julian Huxley back in the late 50s, transhumanism as an organised movement is just a quarter-century old, conceived by a group of Californian academics, inventors, entrepreneurs and artists committed to the idea of engineering an improved human race. In opposition to those who are cautious about the rapid advance in science, fearing unforeseen consequences of unfettered innovation, they are all in favour of effecting radical changes in humankind, or, in the words of the WTA, the World Transhumanist Association, "redesigning the human condition".
The WTA, founded less than a decade ago, is led from the UK and US, with strong affiliations in Canada, continental Europe, Latin America and Asia. There is even a Mormon Transhumanist Association whose members believe that transhumanism provides the means of realising "diverse prophetic visions of transfiguration, immortality, resurrection, renewal of this world, and the discovery and creation of worlds without end".
Transhumanists are not the only ones to speculate along these lines. Four years ago, for instance, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a thick report, 'Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance', proposing vigorous application of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science to enhance individual sensory and cognitive capabilities, revolutionise healthcare and disabled people's lives, improve individual and group creativity, perfect human-machine interfaces, provide for brain-to-brain communication, and ameliorate "the physical and cognitive decline that is common to the aging mind".
The report also explored the new technology's potential to "improve work and learning efficiency" and "enhance human capabilities for defense purposes". But while this NSF report focused on the practicalities of achieving the best results, transhumanism is devoted to the more evangelical task of convincing people of the benefits of pursuing such results. Their method is more often to assert than to argue.
The Transhumanist Declaration, produced by the WTA in 2002, for example, asserts that we are on the brink of radical change of human life through technology, and forecasts "changes in the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth".
Of course, the allure of the kind of future transhumanists invoke has always been strong. Humans are easily led to speculate about how technology might enhance human potential. In the 2nd century AD the Roman satirist Lucian of Samosata imagined people who sprouted wings and flew to the Moon and for centures other novelists and fantasists have spun seductive futuristic tales about how might transcend human performance levels by applying biological science, or by manufacturing prosthetic aids. We humans aspire to better ourselves. Enhancing bodies and minds with the help of technology, challenging as this might be, somehow strikes us as less arduous than improving our characters.
But from ancient times humans have also understood that such human-enhancing technology can be a double-edged sword. Use it to fly too high – to try to become what we should not be – and nature may slam us back to the ground. Good characters are the necessary protection against such hubris: if only Icarus had practised self-discipline, he might have stayed aloft.
Transhumanism does not deny there are possible dangers, but asserts that "by being generally open and embracing of new technology we have a better chance of turning it to our advantage than if we try to ban or prohibit it." On balance, transhumanists think it's both fairer to individuals and a better bet for humanity generally to realise the benefits technology can bring rather than to suppress science because discoveries may have the capacity to harm.
This, though, glosses over some important questions. If, for example, we agree that our ethical behaviour is dependent on our biological vulnerability to each other, would the 'perfecting' of humanity weaken necessary social bonds? And would the end-products of enhancement technologies be marketed as luxury goods, thereby creating a market in biological superiority?
Certain versions of transhumanism do have something to say in this last regard. The WTA's Executive Director James Hughes argues that the fairest approach is to reform the allocation of health and other beneficial technologies, so that priority is given to the poorest, sickest and most disabled. He would make available only intrinsically valuable improvements and would not tolerate biological interventions that might risk shrinking human powers. But transhumanism as a movement does not assign priority to Hughes' concern about remedying inequality. Its strategy is to represent humanity's intellectual and physical potential as virtually boundless and to talk up the benefits to all if technology is given its head.
A good example of this approach appers in the foreword to Simon Young's Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto, in which Aubrey de Grey argues that we should reclaim faith in science by crafting proclamations that resonate with large numbers of people. De Grey heads the Methuselah Foundation, which recently received a multi-million-dollar start-up grant from California entrepreneur Peter A Thiel to support research aimed at radically postponing ageing, offering the promise of indefinite human lifespan.
This view is echoed by the philosopher Nick Bostrum, director of the Oxford-based Institute for the Future of Humanity. In the near future, Bostrum promises, increased control over our own biochemical processes can give us power to eliminate ageing and disease, greatly elongating our life span and enriching the cultural outputs of creative people. It's not that Beethoven or Goethe might have produced a greater number of works had they lived longer, he suggests, but that, with many more decades to evolve their art, they might have made music or writing of a totally different kind and profoundly new quality.
So how will such post-human productivity come about? To achieve the results transhumanism so easily promises requires correlating changes in many biological properties at the same time, an enormously difficult and perhaps impossible technological feat. Rather than seeking radically to extend the human lifespan, a more feasible ambition would be to aim for a rise in life expectancy. Therapeutic interventions could address some of the causes of premature death, just as improving sanitation and nutrition increased life expectancy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
However, reshaping natural processes in even this minimal way entails hard choices. Gene management, for example, may enable some people to run faster, or eyes to read faster. But whether such enhanced performances ultimately count as benefit or harm depends on context. We cannot, should not, preemptively either court or condemn them.
Here is a specific example: the gene which helps regulate cell-division raises its production as individuals age, increasing about ten-fold from age 20 to age 70. Because of this gene, as we grow older, the process whereby adult stem cells renew tissues slows down radically. But while this halting produces the symptoms of ageing it can also be beneficial because it helps to inhibit the growth of cancer.
The gene offsets the increasing risk of tumours spreading by gradually reducing the ability of cells to proliferate. In teleological terms, we might say that nature makes our body choose why we will die, trading increased vulnerability to deterioration from old age for an increased defence against death from the cumulative cell damage that ends up with cancer. The same biological process responsible for wrinkles, grey hair and weak bones is the one that fights cancer.
So if we interfere in the ageing process we might, in some people, accelerate a different form of dying. This raises acute ethical questions. Should we encourage scientists to master this kind of intervention? If they succeed, should applying the resulting technology be left to the individual, to choose whether to risk early death in order to enjoy an extended youth? Or should public policy decide how much of an increase in early cancer deaths is acceptable in order to provide a better quality of life for others? Transhumanism has so far offered little guidance in this debate.
Such difficult choices are commonplace in the development of technology. But transhumanists fail to confront the question of whether it is acceptable to provide technologies that can benefit those with certain biological possibilities while harming others. And whether or not we buy the transhumanist line, it's obvious that we are already on the path of technological enhancement.
Vaccination is an example. The ability to fight off infection is generally regarded as being unequivocally beneficial. But even here the multiple effects of magnifying a biological process demand decisions balancing benefit against risk.
When vaccination was first developed in the 18th century it was condemned as against God's plan. And even now that it has achieved high levels of immunity and unprecedented levels of population healthiness, it is not without its hazards. Stimulating immunity may have unintended effects, which is why there has been such a fierce debate in the UK about the possible connection betwwen the MMR vaccine and autism. We do know about autoimmune disease, where a natural immune reaction can turn a person's body against itself.
The highest mortality in the 1918 influenza epidemic was suffered by young adults (between 15 to 34) because their bodies could not survive the vehemence of their immune systems' response to the virus. The self-same immune process that helped them overcome other infections fatal to weaker individuals completely shut down their respiratory systems with a biological effect known as a cytokine storm.
Seeming not to acknowledge the nature of this dilemma, transhumanists usually invoke either laissez-faire individualism or social democratic utopianism in response to legitimate worries. Almost all of them agree that enhancement technologies should be widely available.
To some this means free market development and distribution of the technology. Others call for some scheme of government-financed egalitarian distribution. Either way, the question remains: how can we become wise enough to create ourselves anew?
Faith rather than reason seems to make transhumanists suppose that post-human preferences will be suffused with reason. They hypothesise that humanity's emotional capability is still in its infancy, which is the cause of social ills. Astute applications of pharmaceuticals, electronic implants or gene therapies could push rational happiness to unprecedented height and duration. But new species differ in kind rather than just in degree from their predecessors. To imagine post-humans will just be humans without the bad bits is implausible.
In Designer Evolution Simon Young sees the new technologies as potentially 'curing' timidity, anxiety, depression, aggression and low intelligence. This, in his view, would be a good in itself, as well as a way to remove the root causes of social stratification. But blaming inequality on timidity and stupidity, rather than, say, unequal access to opportunity, seems highly questionable. Moreover, timidity, anxiety, and even depression and aggression can be useful, even rational, responses. Timidity is a good thing in a forest full of tigers.It becomes debilitating only when excessively out of step with objective circumstance.
Equally Young doesn't say where tigers and other dangers will go so humans can safely do without timidity; or give the details of how enhancing boldness, nonchalance and elation will do away with inequality, short of imposing biological homogeneity so that everyone thinks and feels alike.
Transhumanists usually insist they are not calling for this kind of brave new world, but without adequately explaining why their programme won't lead to enhancing everyone to be alike.
And how should the ideals of transhumanism be framed to win public support, when the promise of human transformation needs to be balanced by the possible dangers? One drawback of the movement's enthusiasm for unfettered advance is that the technologies being so eagerly advocated are still in their infancy. They are relatively untried, so there is not yet sufficiently extensive knowledge of their efficacy or their effects. By circulating seductive scenarios of our possible future, transhumanism is rushing too fast, bypassing the opportunity for deep understanding of the processes in a rush to reap the alleged benefits.
James Hughes, like Young, thinks he has identified what is wrong with us: compromised cognitive functions, psychopathologies and selfishness, all of which can be expunged, he thinks, by genetic, pharmaceutical and cybernetic technology. The same technologies can tweak positive counter-tendencies such as empathy and sociability, enlarging these to connect us to all sentient beings. And cybernetic prompts can advance everybody to the sophisticated moral stage of acting on principle.
But that each of the virtues Hughes mentions falters under challenging conditions is well-known, and a world in which at least some humans are evolving extraordinary powers would be fraught with unprecedented political as well as ethical challenges.
For all it's references to robotics and genetics, transhumanism has an old-fashioned feel, reminiscent of a remodelled Victorian scientific evangelicalism, like the movement known as Meliorism.
Whether transhumanism's melioristic message inspires or alarms may in the end be determined by personal and political temperament. Progressives are likely to be more hopeful about our trustworthiness to make such choices, and also about unforeseen outcomes of biological change, while conservatives are likely to be less optimistic about escaping its risks.
But without more detailed analysis of scientific possibilities, a fresh approach to politics and ethics, and the difficult conversation about what biological types should prevail, the utility of transhumanism to a proper solution of the social dilemmas that scientific and technological advancement poses for human identity is deeply problematic. ■
Professor Anita Silvers is Chair of the Philosophy Department at San Francisco State University


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