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South African Communist Party leader and ANC military commander made enormous contributions to national liberation
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
On April 10, 1993 the racist in South Africa struck killing Chris Hani, the-then General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and commander of Um Khonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation, MK) the military wing of the African National Congress. Hani was out for a morning run and was heading back home when a Polish immigrant Janusz Walus approached him saying wanted to ask the leader a question.
Soon Hani was shot dead right outside his front door. The people of South Africa were shocked and outraged and rightly felt that this was an attempt to derail the negotiation process between the ANC and the ruling Nationalist Party then headed by President F.W. DeKlerk.
It was later revealed that a Clive Derby-Lewis, a Conservative Party member of parliament under the apartheid government, had provided the weapon to the assassin. The reasoning behind the assassination was to ignite a race war and consequently prevent a national nonracial election and therefore preventing the ANC from coming to power which they did one year later.
Both Walus and Derby-Lewis were arrested and prosecuted by the Nationalist Party government. They were given the death sentence which was later commuted to life in prison after the ANC-dominated government in 1995 adopted a new constitution which outlawed the death penalty.
On the 20th anniversary of Hani?s assassination there was a commemorative program held at the Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park in Elspark, east of Johannesburg, where he is buried. His widow, Limpho Hani, was present along with South African President and ANC leader Jacob Zuma, Blade Nzimande, the current General Secretary of the SACP and Zwelinzima Vavi, the General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
The Life and Times of a Freedom Fighter
In a short autobiography written by Chris Hani in 1991 after returning to South Africa to pursue the transitional process, he noted that ?I was born in a small rural town in the Transkei called Cofimbvaba. I am the fifth child in a family of six. Only three of us are still surviving, the other three died in their infancy. My mother is completely illiterate and my father semi-literate. My father was a migrant worker in the mines in the Transvaal, but he subsequently became an unskilled worker in the building industry.? (sacp.org.za)
Hani went on to say that ?Life was quite harsh for us and we went through some hard times as our mother had to supplement the family budget through subsistence farming; had to bring us up with very little assistance from my father who was always away working for the white capitalists.?
Consequently his working class roots under the settler-colonial system of apartheid provided him with a political framework for becoming active in the struggle for national liberation and socialism. At the age of 15 Hani joined the ANC and during his college years at Fort Hare, he would be recruited by Govan Mbeki into the SACP.
In 1962 Hani became a combatant in MK leaving the country for military training. He joined the Luthuli Detachment, a joint ANC and Zimbabwe African People?s Union (ZAPU) unit that waged a military campaign in Rhodesia during 1967.
He was able to escape after the operation failed at the Wankie Game Reserve in Rhodesia. In 1968 he relocated in Botswana and later Zambia. By 1974, he was working to establish guerrilla bases in Lesotho where he remained until 1982.
Hani revealed that while he was in Lesotho they ?were actually building a number of units from Lesotho into South Africa?. We built a network of structures inside the country. We trained people in guerrilla affairs, in politics, in intelligence and everything else?.Those were exciting days for me because I was receiving these cadres coming from the Transvaal, from the Orange Free State, from the Cape and Natal.? (Hani: A Life to Short, Smith and Beauregard)
He went to point out that ?I was in touch with trade unions. I used to go in and out?.We began to build education groups inside Lesotho. We prepared them in terms of understanding the ANC and our struggle. We would select the best to send back into the country underground?all the theory that we had acquired in our training and our limited experience we began to apply creatively in a new situation. And for me that was a turning point in terms of our struggle.?
With the re-emergence of the mass struggle inside South Africa on June 16, 1976 when thousands of students struck in protest against the racist Bantu educational system, the people inside the country never looked back. The struggle soon spread to the working class centers of production in mining and heavy industry.
Many of the young people who fled South Africa joined the ranks of the ANC and the SACP. By 1983, the United Democratic Front had been formed and two years later, the COSATU was founded with hundreds of thousands of trade unionists organized in alliance with the ANC and the SACP.
Significance of Chris Hani Today
Nzimande in his address at the Hani memorial castigated the corporate media for its hypocrisy in relationship to honoring the life of this fallen leader. Nzimande said that ?some in the media, and a few in our ranks, are playing an old reactionary, and often anti-communist, card of ?praising? the dead in order to condemn the living. For instance some of the media that is praising Comrade Chris today had condemned him as a very dangerous ?hawk? whilst he was alive, and being accused of secretly training some imaginary army in Zimbabwe. Now that he is no more, he is being ?praised? by the same media, dishonestly of course, in order to attack the current leadership of our movement. We must expose this hypocrisy.? (sacp.org.za)
Jay Naidoo, formerly the General Secretary of COSATU, wrote in the Daily Maverick that ?Twenty years on and it is sometimes convenient, or simply too easy, to forget the abyss of civil war from which our leaders drew us back and to speculate on what might have been had the ANC taken a harder line in the negotiation process that led to South Africa?s first democratic elections. We sometimes need reminding that the liberation movement achieved a ?political miracle? and we need to remind ourselves of the values held dear by Chris Hani, who represented the best of our patriots a meaningful democratic outcome for our people.? (April 10)
In another tribute to Hani, Mbulelo Musi, the director of communications in the department of military veterans, stressed ?His dedication and commitment to the struggle for freedom, equality, justice, peace and democracy; his vision; his bold leadership and his compassion for the poorest and most vulnerable working masses of our country inspired many young people to defy death so that the people of South Africa could be free.? (Mail & Guardian, April 12)
Musi goes on to stress that ?Had he been alive today, he would have reminded us that we are free because of the immense sacrifices made by the people of the African continent?. As the nation reflects on the life and times of Chris Hani, the best way to honor him would be to emulate his commitment to freedom and democracy, his devotion, patriotism and love for South Africa, as well as his commitment to building a better country, a better Africa and a better world.?


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Alger, Algeria, August 7, 2014- Egypt Men's Volleyball team continued their winning rhythm with 3-0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-12) victory over Algeria in the Algerian Capital of Alger on Wednesday in the second camp of preparations for the 2014 FIVB Volleyball World Championship.
The Egyptian coach Ibrahim Fakhr Eddine tried to use most of his players in the camp to give all of them the chance to perform before the final selection of the squad for the World Championship in Poland from August 30 to September 21.
The match was attended by the Algerian Volleyball Federation President Okba Gougam who also signed a contract of cooperation between both federations in Algeria and Egypt with the Egyptian representative of the federation Adel El Sadawy.
This is the third match in the preparation programme for the Egyptian team after they defeated their rivals Tunisia twice 3-0 (25-16, 25-22, 25-15) and 3-1 (26-24, 25-15, 20-25, 27-25) in their first camp in the Tunisian capital.
Egypt will line up in the World Championship finals against Russia, Bulgaria, Croatia, China and Mexico in Pool C, while Algeria failed to qualify after the finished second to Cameroon in the final Qualification tournament Pool T held in Yaoundé.
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Title: Women's Experiences of Local Justice: community mediation in Sri Lanka
Authors: Ramani Jayasundere (The Asia Foundation) and Craig Valters (JSRP)
Date: January 2014
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This paper is part of the Theories in Practice series arising from the collaboration between JSRP and The Asia Foundation. This is the second paper on Sri Lanka's mediation boards and builds on the conclusion of the previous paper| that 'further research on how different forms of social injustice affect mediation boards would be an important conceptual and practical step'. There is a clear need to assess the effect of different forms of social injustice on the process of mediation. This is necessary because the mediation boards are rooted in the social, ethnic, gender and class structures of their environment. The current research focuses on one particular form of injustice: discrimination against women.
The paper presents a study of the nature of justice experienced by women at mediation boards given the character, context and function of this dispute resolution system in Sri Lanka. The mediation boards hold many similarities with alternative dispute resolution systems all over the world (often labelled 'hybrid' or 'informal' systems). This paper has sought to provide some nuance to a common generalisation: that such a system necessarily discriminates against women. In our research locations we observed a range of mediator attitudes and behaviour that did not promote women's equality. Yet we also often saw a genuine desire to facilitate outcomes that were perceived as beneficial for women in difficult situations. This seemed to be driven, in part, by the nature of the system itself. For example, the promotion (however unattainable) of neutrality and impartiality, linked to a basic understanding of gender equality.
However, our research also demonstrates the considerable social barriers for many women in bringing disputes to mediation, particularly where the dispute relates to sensitive issues of violence. Furthermore, power asymmetries between male and female disputants linked to broader social attitudes and gender insensitive structures inevitably influence women's treatment in mediation, as does their own perception of what is a fair outcome. The mediator has en essential role in how these power asymmetries are negotiated but the mediators' desire to 'settle' cases means that they may impose their own interpretations of gender equaliity and the position of women in society. Some of these interpretations have practical benefits to some womenbut may also discriminate against others.
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May 4, 2009
More than 50 glass and glazing companies exhibited at the AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition, April 30-May 2, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event is hosted by the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.
Many of those companies had the environment top of mind, and touted their green products. Oldcastle Glass, Santa Monica, Calif., showed its SunGlass Solar Control Glass, in addition to its building integrated photovoltaic systems. Guardian Industries, Auburn Hills, Mich., also showed its BIPV, the SunGuard BIPV.
Linetec, Wausau, Wis., introduced a line of eco-friendly anodize. The company moved from traditional caustic etch to a more environmentally friendly acid-etch process. Serious Materials, Sunnyvale, Calif., showed its super insulating windows that have R-values up to R-11, and are 400 times more energy efficient than Energy Star requirements, according to company officials. Edgetech I.G., Cambridge, Ohio, introduced its SustainaBlock Setting Blocks that offer durability, ultra violet resistance and compatibility with most sealants.
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A celebration of Northern Tanzania
February 2008
An 18 day safari celebration of Northern Tanzania and its uniqueness (Part 1 of 3)
In 1983 when I first toured Northern Tanzania I was awestruck by not only the splendour of the landscape but by the terrain's diversity as well. From the glaziers of Kilimanjaro to the shores of Lake Victoria, these few hundred miles seemed a celebration of altitudinal habitats, all bursting at the seams with natural history variety.
This safari with four returning guests and four new comers was designed by me, Jo Anderson and two of my regular guests. We were determined to make the safari as spectacular as possible by experiencing the varied landscape decked with wildlife, but also by experiencing different camping styles.
The first focus was the Mountain, as five of the group, along with Jo, would be attempting to reach the summit. One member of this group was turning 65 the day Jo had planned to get to the top. The others were no spring chickens either! All close to, or over, retirement age. Brits - they wanted a climbing challenge before going on to the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti.
As one guest would be joining us later, the five climbers, two non climbers and Jo and I enjoyed Ngare Sero Mountain Lodge for two days preparation. Jo had planned an eight day experience on Kili and was very aware of his responsibilities when setting off with five older but fit guests. Jo's job, as he quite rightly stated in his detailed briefing, is to get the group off the mountain and not to the top at any cost. At over 19,000 feet Kilimanjaro is not to be taken lightly. Many climbers that attempt Kili fail due to a lack of preparation, average food on the mountain, and a whole host of other things, but mainly the altitude takes its toll and a lack of preparation with controlled and experimental exposure to heights of over 16,000ft is the best way to assess the individuals before heading to the summit.
The shorter climbs of 5-6 days cannot adequately prepare or assess climbers for the push to the summit. We planned a night on Shira as a group before Jo led the five climbers on, so driving up to over 11,000ft and then hiking the few hours to Shira One camp at nearly 12,000ft was our start. Beautiful landscapes with a little rain then clear sunshine started our hike after lunch, and, decked out in flowers, the Shira seemed other worldly with its caldera sides coming in and out of cloud.
Approaching the Shira one camp
A view over Shira Plateau
Trail rock detail
The bird life on Kili over 12,000ft is reduced to only a few species and, as the trail gets regular visitors, these birds were tame. I set about trying to photograph them.
A streaky seed eater
An Alpine Chat
A Stone Chat
Our night was cold and we awoke with ice on the tents and around the sleeping bags where our breath had frozen. Slight headaches were the only complaint.
Jo said – …"that's just your body getting used to the altitude; it will go, but tell me if it doesn't, and I will ask!"
That first evening's meals
A brisk morning wash
A loo tent on Kili
That morning the sight of the peak, Kibo, seemed daunting for the climbers but the good cheer of all the porters, guides and staff, including a very important man, the cook, soon had everyone laughing. They were all cracking jokes and enjoying the morning. An important element to the expedition? You bet! Four climbers were men, with one woman, so the slogan "Four men, one woman, one mission" soon took hold. The porters seemed indestructible and so happy.
As two of the party and I were heading back down that day, we joined them all on the upward trail for a few hours before cutting back to descend. One day at a time; Enjoy the day; see the details; EAT, EAT, EAT AND DRINK, DRINK, DRINK! A Buddhist type philosophy takes over, but as our group split – a slight worry set in. "Good luck- you can do it - update us every day! We will be worried about you".
As we parted all eyes were on the peak. Hey, back to Buddhism, right! Enjoy the moment.
A Group photo before we split
I'll bet there's a Yeti out there some where
We non climbers headed back down, and were lucky enough to see a black serval cat run across the trail right in front of us. Good luck - right? We stayed that night at Ngare Sero before heading out to Tarangire for 4 nights, to Plantation lodge for 2 nights and then the plan was for us all to meet up on the Serengeti Plains at Piaya! One other member of the group had planned to fly out from the UK and join the climbers at Ngare Sero the night they came off Kili. All eight of them, and Jo and I, would see each other again on that vast Serengeti landscape- no doubt with many stories to tell.
Part two of this newsletter describes the Tarangire, Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater Sections of this wonderful safari.
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Michael Callahan shows of the Audeo speech digitizer at the Texas Instruments convention. The device creates speech from nerve signals to your vocal cords, without you having to make a sound; and it fits snuggly with a suitcoat.
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It's not psychic, it's science; tapping into the inner voice of the human mind may be getting a lot closer than some think
, and
NeuroSky all releasing "brain mice"
for consumer consumption, 2008 seems to be the
year of brain control
. Furthering the theme, new groundbreaking research has been carried out in which an electronic "nerve tapper" reads signals to vocal cords and digitally voices the user's thoughts without a single word uttered by the user.
Ambient Corporation, an electronics startup, developed the device called
the Audeo
, recently showcased at a Texas Instruments conference. The Audeo takes advantage of the fact that you can mentally picture voicing words, sending signals to your vocal cords, without physically voicing the word. With training, a person can send these signals with ease. These soundless signals are then picked up by Ambient's neckband which scans the vocal cord nerves. The device wirelessly transmits the results to a computer, which processes them and yields digitized speech.
The Audeo does not vocalize all your thoughts, which a relief to some people who might fear it would reveal their fantasies or sarcastic observations. It only vocalizes thoughts you concentrate on sending to your vocal cords. The Audeo was used at the conference to carry out a telephone conversation. It can also be used to control wheelchairs, through intuitively "voiced" directional commands. This ability, which could help disabled people, was demonstrated earlier.
Ambient co-founder, Michael Callahan, discusses how the device requires a "a level above thinking" to activate, explaining, "I can still talk verbally at the same time. We can differentiate between when you want to talk silently, and when you want to talk out loud."
Such a feature could be used to help people make private calls in public location. Callahan likens the device, which is still in a rather primitive state to early
speech recognition software
. The Audeo currently recognizes only 150 words and phrases. At the end of the year Ambient plans to release a new version, which recognizes phonemes, the components of words, allowing it to do away with the word limit. Input to the new version will be slow as users will have to mentally voice each phoneme, and it won't sound like natural speech.
Still it may be very helpful for people who can't speak due to muscle or neurological conditions such as ALS, also known as motor neurone disease. It could also be used for translation purposes -- imagine having a fluid soundless translation, without ever voicing your native tongue.
While the device in its current state offers up no threat of someone reading your thoughts against your will, the device does lead to the occasional paranoid pondering on how long it will take for full fledged mind-reading devices are employed by intelligence agencies worldwide. The future of mind controlled electronics is sure to lead to these and many other tough issues.
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Beach's legal team also notes that during the opening statements of Beach's trial, Marc Racicot, the prosecutor from the Montana Attorney General's Office, said that a forensic scientist from the State Crime Lab would present the jury with a pubic hair found at the crime scene. Racicot specifically told the jury that the scientist "will tell you ... that this hair located on the sweater of Kim Nees was in fact the defendant's."
That hair was never proven to be Beach's. Nor was it introduced in court, because Steve Greyhawk breached the evidence room. Beach's attorney, Peter Camiel, believes that Racicot's comments about the hair still influenced the verdict.
"You can't get that out of the jury's mind," he said.
McCloskey acknowledged that it may seem odd for Beach to confess to a crime he didn't commit. McCloskey once believed it was odd himself. But after years of working with the wrongly convicted, he knows better.
McCloskey said roughly 20 percent of the 51 exonerated Centurion clients admitted to a crime that they did not commit. Of the 300 DNA-based exonerations across the U.S. to date, roughly 25 percent of them made incriminating statements, pleaded guilty or falsely confessed.
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- Beach, pictured in 2006, served 29 years in prison before his release in 2011. The Montana Supreme Court's recent decision could put him back behind bars.
"I've come to understand that we human beings are a malleable species, we're not as strong as we think we are," McCloskey said. "Until you're faced with that situation—being alone in a room, being browbeaten by authoritative police officers one after the other, hour after hour after hour, they wear you down. They scare you to death. It's a very coercive environment. You will do anything to get out of that room ... They get psychologically and emotionally and physically worn to the nub."
In 2007, during Beach's three-day clemency hearing before the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole, the prosecutor, Racicot, conceded that the crime investigation was "a mess." Despite the mistakes, he also said that he remained convinced that Beach killed Nees.
The detectives that secured Beach's confession also continued to stand by their work. They testified during the clemency hearing that prior to his admission, Beach "was allowed snacks, drinks, cigarettes, and bathroom breaks."
Louisiana detective Alfred Calhoun denied threatening Beach with the electric chair, as Beach alleged. Calhoun said that Beach's confession came willingly and was bolstered by its emotional nature. Beach told detectives that he had a tendency to "fly off the handle" and dealt with frustration in a "physical way."
Law enforcement and prosecutors persuaded the parole board to discount Beach's claims. According to the board, "the facts simply did not unfurl as they were alleged and characterized in the Centurion Ministries claims. The multiple eyewitnesses, the allegations of physical evidence of the 'real killers' being ignored by law enforcement—either crooked or inept—did not materialize. We have great sympathy for those who read only the Centurion Ministries allegations and became alarmed, because that was our experience; but those allegations were not demonstrated as true even with the very wide latitude afforded Centurion Ministries—the facts simply have not been demonstrated to be as representatives for Mr. Beach have alleged. Mr. Beach's culpability has been contested vigorously and eloquently, but we have found that contest to be lacking in substance."
Despite the parole board's findings, Roosevelt County District Court Judge E. Wayne Phillips found Beach's arguments persuasive during the 2011 hearing to vet whether Beach's legal team had in fact discovered new evidence. The judge specifically noted in his opinion that Steffanie Eagle Boy was among the most compelling witnesses to testify. Eagle Boy wept on the stand in front of the crowded courtroom as she recalled being 10 years old and hearing the screams of enraged women early in the morning of June 16, 1979.
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- In the early days of Beach's imprisonment, he prayed that God would end his life. He contemplated suicide "because you just can't do another day of it," he said.
Eagle Boy lived on a bluff above the Poplar River that overlooks the area where Nees was killed. She testified that on the night that Nees died, she and a cousin were sitting on a rock on the edge of the bluff when they saw two vehicles enter the train bridge area. She told the court that she heard girls yelling, "'Get her,'" and, "'Get the bitch, kick the bitch.'"
Eagle Boy added that a police car with lights joined the two vehicles parked at the train bridge area. She said the police car shut off its lights and she heard digging sounds and the clinking of tools. Eagle Boy said in court that the girls' voices were, "High pitched, angry... It's something I'll never forget. I've had nightmares all my life about it. It's something I won't forget."
The state dismissed Eagle Boy's testimony, arguing that it was highly unlikely she could have heard the girls yelling from her perch on the bluff. But shortly after Beach's evidentiary hearing, Fort Peck Journal reporter Louis Montclair decided to conduct an experiment. He gathered several female friends at the train bridge and cued them to recreate the sounds that a group of angry women would have made. He asked them to yell, "Kill the bitch."
"We got the cops called on us twice," Montclair recalled.
That experiment proved to Montclair that Eagle Boy could have heard Nees' murder from the bluff.
The Montana Supreme Court's ruling, however, essentially discounted Eagle Boy's version and the others who testified at the 2011 evidentiary hearing.
Before Beach heard the news of the Supreme Court decision, he talked about being happy. His tidy home on a quiet, tree-lined street offered plenty of room to do woodworking in the garage. In the workshop, he built a squirrel feeder that hanged outside his house. A sickly squirrel that Beach called "Charlie" lived on his back porch. Beach fed it by hand. He referred to his four fish in a small tank in the living room as his "kids." A cottontail rabbit that Beach called "Baby Girl" sometimes accompanied him as he roasted s'mores under the moonlight in a backyard fire pit.
Beach admitted that he does get angry when he thinks about the resources the state has committed to preserving his conviction. But a few weeks ago, as he continued to wait for the Supreme Court's ruling, he said the emotion quickly passes.
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I am trying to find out if its time to do a automatic Tranny and filter change. I bought the X3 2005 at about 70,000 km pre owned. After a lot of highway travels I now have 140,000 km. Since buying the car I have not done any transmission fluid or filter changes. No real tranny problems other than the the fact that as with age most auto trannies get sluggish.. In any case, could ppl chime in here on their experience with changing the tranny fluid and filter and what I might expect in terms of performance improvements etc. Approximate costs would help as well. Thanks.
I have an 2004 X3 and have similar concerns. I spoke to a BMW dealer and two independent BMW shops and all three mechanics said do not change the tranny oil or filter unless something is amiss (poor shifting or leaking fluid).
I think that if changing fluid causes a worn tranny to stop working it was probably close anyway. If it were mine I would change it/have it changed. You're not getting all the old fluid out anyway unless you get it flushed through one of the cooler lines. The real benefit is getting the pan cleaned out, the ability to see whats on the magnets, and a new filter. My suggestion is to drain the fluid, drop and clean the pan, replace the filter, and top it off. I wouldn't bother flushing it. Any transmission shop can do this. If it were me, and I weren't having it done at a dealer, I would buy the filter from the dealer and take it with me.
As for the fluid... I like Redline and run their MTL in my 6 speed manual. If you have any questions you can contact them. They are usually pretty good about getting back with you.
Last edited by SWMc; 08-27-2010 at 02:50 PM.
Re ATF .What about just changing fluid every 40-50,000km.It seems like changing the filter is a lot of work for a DIY ??? I think this would be better than nothing ,afterall they say it is "LIFETIME"
It's been a source of discussion for years
First, I don't think you'll see any performance improvements from changing transmission fluid. It's common knowledge, BMW says their fluid is lifetime. Perhaps that's legitimate, perhaps is related to the fact that they have a maintenance free program for the first 50k miles and with fluid at $25 per liter, the cost would add up pretty fast.
I think the consensus is that you can't harm the car by changing the fluid. I would definitely change it at 75-100k miles but it's not something you have to do with the frequency of an oil change.
I just changed the fluid in my M5 this spring and will probably change the fluid in my X3 next year.
The next big discussion topic is always what to use for fluid. Many like Redline, Mobil1, and Royal Purple. Rather than losing any sleep over it, I chose to go back with the OEM fluid. I probably wouldn't go to the effort of trying to change the filter unless I were going into the tranny for maintenance reasons.
Last edited by bimmernut1; 09-05-2010 at 09:28 PM.
I also read a lot about frequency. I almost have 71k on my X3 now. I will try and change it this fall but worse case in the spring. I just did a quick look-over on the X3 in preparation for the Inspection II and the entire vehicle looks very tight as far as leaks and all the rubber boots and the drive belt look in excellent shape. Rotated my tires also and checked the brakes. They will probably go to 100k miles (they were changed under warranty which helped a lot)!
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I've enjoyed reading this thread in regards to BMW's B***S**T theory on their "lifetime" Fluid. About 10K miles back, around 80K Miles the 2006 330ZHP started getting a little funky on the shifting and was also making a "Growling Noise". The better half dropped by the dealer (we have probably the WORST RIP OFF DEALER in the country, here in Bend, Oregon!) and they drove it around the lot and told her it was time for a $7,300.00 transmission! AND they told her it was going to be an additional $2,300.00 for a new rack an pinion steering gear!
She called me and I told her to take it home and "park it".
Couple days later, I'm back in town and decide to service the transmission myself. Not much to lose I figured.....A few hundred bucks and if it's still FUBAR - then it's transmission time.
Lucky for me, I was able to procure a T-Tech Trans Flush Machine (BTW - I'm a total gearhead on this end - have to have my toys in my home shop)
Dropped the pan, cleaned it out, installed new filter, buttoned it up and topped off the trans with Red Line D4. Next, I loaded up the T-Tech with the 18 quarts of D4 and hooked up. The trans cooler lines are a snap! Just push then on a little further, then reach up and gently push the plastic clips up into the hose to release and pull the line off. "Voila" - you are unhooked. Very similar in design to ford Fuel Injection lines. Did the flush of the trans.
Next, I unhooked the return line to the Power steering reservoir and did a 7 quart flush there. Fluid exchanges QUICKLY, so be johnny on the spot to crank the wheel from stop to stop a couple times to flush all the old out. Again, Used Red Line for this.
Ever since this was done, all transmission issues have vanished, steering is perfect and quiet.
All in All, I spent the following:
T-Tech Trans Machine from Craigslist: $500.00
3 Cases of Red Line D4 ATF @ $120.00/case: $360.00
Trans Filter Kit from ECS Tuning: $24.00
Total Expendature for this project: $884.00
RESOLD the T-Tech on Craigslist for: $1,000.00.
FOUND 2 More T-Tech on Craigslist for: $250.00 each for a total of $500.00. Sold One for $500.00 and am keeping the last one for my home shop!
So with a little patience, perseverance and wheeling and dealing, I was able to service the vehicle (as well as several of my other vehicles) with little to no cost out of pocket.
Had I listened to the service vultures here at Carerra Motors here in Bend, I would have shelled out $9,600.00
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Just got a question about the 2004 X3 auto transmission on a 3.0i gasoline engine - does anyone know if it is a GM auto or ZF auto? Also, is the BMW OEM fluid the same for these two transmissions or are the fluids different?
Thanks in advance!
It's a GM (France) transmission.
The required fluid is indicated on a colored decal/plate attached to the casing.
You can't make any assumptions - not necessarily the same fluid as in other BMW A/T's,
and might vary year to year, or even within a model year.
I've had my 2005 X3 for three years and my extended warranty hs expired. I've serviced every car I've owned but this one is giving me a fit. I have a problem changing the tranny fluid. The check/add resevoir remains full after draining the fluid. How do I get it to empty allowing me to add the fluid? Sounds a little stupid, I know, but don't want to screw up.
Last edited by James Hamilton; 10-01-2011 at 09:12 AM.
I did the auto trans fluid change and the old fluid was black like used engine oil. So it was definitely a worthwhile exercise to get the fluid replaced.
My next task is the x-drive transfer case fluid.
Last edited by tempestv8; 10-05-2011 at 03:59 AM. Reason: Correction of facts
It also uses ATF.
You have to refill the tranny from underneath the car.There is a refill plug as well as the drain plugI think approx.6 qts.but check for sure.
Hi James,
Just out of curiosity, what was the condition/colour of the old trans fluid when you drained it? For me, the old fluid looked really bad - it was black like used engine oil.
I found the fill point very troublesome because the twin exhaust pipes ran past that general area. When I was doing up the fill plug, I managed to accidentally brush my hand against the hot exhaust pipe a few times. Ouch!! I'd be interested to know if you had the same challenges.
What fluid did you end up putting into your auto trans? My 2004 is the GM 5 speed auto, so I put in Dexron VI.
Thanks very much for the response.
I bought a 2004 BMW X3 without doing much research and had just assumed that it had the ZF 5 speed auto.
I will be getting the transmission fluid changed and filter replaced by a trusted auto trans specialist that I've used for all my vehicles. They have confirmed that they do work on GM gearboxes and have the appropriate fluid for the gearbox. Whilst it is shifting smoothly at 101,000 kms, I'd like to do some preventative maintenance so that it remains that way for a long long time!
Changed my lady friends X3 transfer case which by the way is WAY more important to change periodically than the transmission and also the transmission fluid and filter.
Transfer case had 63K and I wish I had done it at 50K but oh well. It was very black and holds only 0.6L of BMW fluid. Easy to change. Drained and dropped the pan, cleaned the magnets and replaced the filter and reinstalled, pumped ESSO Lt 71411 which is the same thing as Lifeguard5 spec'ed for this transmission. I believe around 5L. Transmission warm to temp added another 3/4L. Job done.
Only issue is using a inch pound torque wrench since the values are so low. By the way the Lifeguard5 I drained out was Coke colored and smelled bad however Esso smells bad anyway so I didn't think it was actually shot. I will do this in another 30-40K miles and for sure 30K miles for the transfer case since it is where all the power is sent from the engine and just too important and contains such a small amount of fluid to not change it often.
I didn't have guts enough to stray away from the OEM like using Redline or other fluids...
For extended engine drain intervals, they have the large oil capacity on their side.
Not so with the transfer case, which as you say, conducts proceedings in the final drive.
Either differential has an easier life in comparison.
I did my TC around 30K miles (48K km) and the fluid was quite dark
(pictures in a post in the DIY sticky).
Might have been a bit early - agree that 63K miles is getting near the must do point.
Other members who have waited to around 80K miles have seen metal flakes in the drained fluid.
Some variability in the reported capacity (allowing for minor spillage) - some even close to the full 1L.
Mine was 0.6L too, so 2 bottles from the dealer of the expensive stuff might be good for 5 or 6 years assuming average annual miles.
The need for A/T fluid changes can be debated at length, but for the TC - just do it.
Ordered gasket, filter, pan bolts and drain plug. $102 total at dealer. Trans supposedly takes 8 quarts of Dexron VI, so about $40 but I doubt I will get 8 out. May just get fluid from BAVAUTO which is more money, about $100 for 10 quarts. Have to buy 1 more pair of jack stands, so whole job should be around $200 to $250 which is worth me doing it.
I really think pan should be removed. That way you can replace filter, clean magnets and assess condition.
Anyone know torque values for GM6 bolts and drain plug? I saw some numbers for the ZF trans which were about 53 inch pounds, so I need a smaller torque wrench too which I can use. Looks like a trip to Sears tomorrow! I will ask service for the values if needed.
Need pump too, which I will get this week.
Job looks messy but not too bad.
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Last edited by madurodave; 10-08-2011 at 01:44 PM.
That price for the Dexron VI doesn't sound right - it sounds too cheap. Are you sure you didn't get the roman numerals switched around? VI = 6, and IV = 4.
In Australia, the BMW dealer sells 4 litres of BMW part number 83220397114 for around $70, so it's quite expensive, and the bottle supplied isn't even labelled as BMW fluid. I did a quick check and 1 US quart is nearly the same as 1 metric litre. (1 qt(US Liq) = 0.946352 L)
I managed to drain out nearly 6 litres of fluid when I drained the pan using the drain plug.
The quote that you got from your dealer actually sounds about right, if they do drop the pan and replace the filter inside.
Last edited by tempestv8; 10-08-2011 at 04:03 PM. Reason: Added more information
Bavarian Auto in Portsmouth NH does sell a synthetic fluid for the GM6 transmission that is 5 liters for $50, which may be more in line with correct pricing.
So as stated, under $250 for me to change.
If I find the same condition as others have stated, I will merely change the fluid in the X3 in the future and do the same for my wife's 530xi.
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I have read the same comments on my E39. I purchased the kit and sat on it somewhat fearful that if it is working, why mess it up.
Last year, I drained and filled the fluid. Last week I dropped the pan and finished the job. So far all is well. My 530i has 130,000 miles on a steptronic tranny.
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Hi Dale,
I did do the full pan removal on my e39 a couple of years ago. It had the expected amount of metallic reside at the bottom of the pan, and cut up the filter to have a look inside but it did not have anything in it. What was the condition of your transmission when you had the pan out?
I used the same Esso LT fluid as what BMW specifies for the ZF gearbox. Gearbox still feels very strong today and the car has 240,000 kms on the odometer which is roughly 150,000 miles. If I were to do another service to the gearbox again, I will just change the fluid and wouldn't bother with opening up the pan.
BMW could learn from Honda & Toyota and put the magnets on the end of the drain plug.
They should also go back to a dip stick for the Tranny
Tranny Fluid
Castrol has a tranny fluid called TRANSMAX.It says it is approved for BMW#71141LT.
Advance Auto sells it for $9.00 /ltr. Just wondered if anybody has tried it.
Since BMW suggests the use of Castrol oil for the engines,it makes sense that the tranny fluid would be ok.
After a little over two years, I decided to do another transmission fluid change on the same vehicle. The gearbox is now 111,940 kms (69,556 miles) on it's original gearbox.
Old fluid still looked pretty brown to me but not as bad as the first change. The vehicle hasn't travelled a lot since that time, but the gearbox has been problem free after the first fluid drain and refill.
So repeated the same steps that I took last time, and put in more Dexron VI fluid into the GM auto gearbox. Reused the same drain and fill plugs, but will have to replace them the next time I do this, because they have "built in" rubber O rings and I don't think they will last another change. And like the last time, I did not drop the sump pan to replace the filter.
For those with an E83 X3 3.0i with the GM built 5 speed automatic gearbox (2003-2006 X3 models), these are the part numbers for the plugs:
Fill plug part number 24117507787
Drain plug part number 24117533937
My dealer says that BMW Australia has never sold either one of these before in Australia and so if I wanted to buy these plugs, there would be a couple weeks' wait for them to come in from Germany. Wow!
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Yeah, that's a good question. I guess it would start with what's her name? Janis Joplin. She didn't take any crap, just a lot of drugs. And I guess Amy Winehouse. She also takes drugs and no crap. And then I'll take an occasional Salt-n-Pepa or TLC.
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Yeah, I'll take it. I like that. I like being a charm that is good luck. Believe me, I'll do anything he says. I just sit around waiting for him to make a movie so I can try to get in it.
In terms of past Phillips movies, who in the Dan Band is Frank "the Tank" from Old School? Let's be honest — someone has that role.
You know, there is one back-up singer who definitely could fit that description, and I'll let the audience try to figure that out at the show this Saturday.
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We came out with Ho: A Dan Band Christmas, and we are also working on a wedding album.
A wedding album? Do you play a lot of weddings?
No, we don't. I played one wedding even before we did Old School as a favor to a friend who does a lot of stuff at our shows. It was horrific. You know, those poor grandmas go get their hair done and pick out their dress a month before, and they sit at 8 in the morning with their purse in their lap waiting to go to their grandchild's wedding. Then a band like us starts jumping around and swearing and stuff.
The more horrified the grandma got at this particular wedding, the more nervous I got, and then whenever I get nervous I grab my crotch and swear. Then I was literally like a Tourette's self-groper who was causing her to choke on the chicken that she waited all day for. So now I just tell people to play the MP3 of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" when their friends are all drunk and the grandmas have gone home. It's to protect the grandmas.
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When I took my first gardening baby steps, one of things that confused me most was what plants looked like when they were babies, and emerging from the ground in spring. Whenever I would look up a plant online, it was usually flowering, and at the very least, it was full grown. I had no idea whether seedlings were weeds or plants, and it was frustrating. I'm starting a guide of baby plants in hopes that someone will have a little less frustrating journey as they begin to garden!
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"I love the contrast of this elegant blade with the hugger-mugger architecture of London"
A friend travelled up to London recently in a train carriage full of kids who went wild with excitement the moment the Shard hove into view. For them it is London's new landmark, fresher than Big Ben, more dramatic than the London Eye — a majestic emblem of all that is thrilling and different about the city.
I know how they feel. When I get up in the mornings the first thing I see out of the window is the Shard, its sword-point cleaving the skyline above the Victorian terraces opposite my house. It lifts the heart. I love the clean, untroubled lines of Renzo Piano's building, its bold simplicity.
Above all I love the contrast of this elegant blade of the skyscraper with the hugger-mugger architecture of London. This city is not ordered like New York or preserved in aspic like Paris: it evolves and mutates, wearing its history and its scars, its triumphs and mistakes, out in the open.
The Shard reflects that. It slips neatly in and out of the silhouette of St George the Martyr at Borough, and adds to the geometric riverside progression that includes St Paul's, the National Theatre, the Festival Hall and Tate Modern. It tames the nearby Brutalist tower of Guy's Hospital. I like the way it engages in dialogue with the shifting cluster of tall blocks just over London Bridge in the City, but stands, proud and singular, in south London.
Those who revile the Shard mostly live nowhere near it, and don't appreciate the way it defines and unifies an area where hospitals, train lines, Borough Market and Southwark Cathedral all jostle for space.
It's less imposing at street level than the slab-like Southwark Towers which it replaced, and which Shardophobes never seem to mention. The Shard does not ride roughshod over history, as developments at Spitalfields, and potentially at Smithfield, do. This silver citadel augments the skyline, and south Londoners are proud of it. (There are exceptions: Southwark resident Marc Almond, tirelessly radical as an artist, suddenly comes over all harumphy and Prince Charles-ish when it comes to the Shard.)
As Renzo Piano's former partner Richard Rogers told me recently, in a dense city it makes sense for office blocks to be tall, and the Shard is in the right place, on top of a major transport hub, close to the financial centre. It is emblematic of the shift in London's gravity towards the south and east. And if we are to have huge, speculative real estate developments funded by foreign wealth, let them be beautiful ones, and let them be accessible, at least partly, to the public.
I'm not overly fussed about going to the restaurants in the Shard, because I think high views are best given to bars. But the Shangri-La hotel's infinity pool on the 52nd floor will be amazing.
I've been to the viewing platforms at the top twice and relished the fact that you can see not only Canary Wharf and the Tower of London, but the council estates of the Old Kent Road. At the very top, open to the elements, there is a real sense of floating above the city.
Many buildings that were originally disliked, including St Paul's, the National Theatre and the BT Tower, are now cherished not just as architectural gems but as expressive of the city's spirit, its creativity, its quirkiness. The aspirational, soaring Shard has now joined them, and it symbolises the best advice you can give to anyone in London: look up.
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"The Shard has been trolling the London skyline for over a year now"
The Shard is such a stupid building. It doesn't even know that 2 + 2 = 4. It still wets the bed. It smells of poo. And its mum has syphilis.
I'm sorry if you were expecting a more sophisticated line of argument against the 309m-tall Qatari investment fund asset, which has been trolling the London skyline for over a year now. The least you deserve is a reasoned architectural critique, something to do with the fact that if you look beyond its slanting sides all you see is a generic piece of financial modernism that would be barely worth a second glance in Dubai or Hong Kong. Or how its one claim to greatness (it was supposed to be the tallest building in Europe) was obliterated a few months later with laughable ease (someone in Moscow built a taller one).
To say nothing of its eerie resemblance to the architecture in George Orwell's 1984: "The Ministry of Truth… was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred metres into the air."
There is more one could say on the specifics of Renzo Piano's design — more half-arsed the closer you get — and the precedent it sets for still more idiotic structures such as the Walkie-Talkie ("a Duplo building in a Lego city" — my dad) and the proposed South Bank towers that will cast the Thames in permanent shadow.
Or its more practical failures: its offices are empty as City firms don't want to work south of the river (DUH!), while the duck I had in the Oblix restaurant on the 34th floor was a bit dry.
However, the humiliating fact is that I find the Shard so literally belittling that I am reduced to hurling childish insults at its mirrored exoskeleton. the Shard is such a dick.
I suppose when it was commissioned in 2003 (by that thundering bozone John Prescott), there was a different mood in the air. That was the peak year of New Labour hubris and the Shard's cocksure slash captured the faith in financial capitalism as a great redeeming force — the idea that if we could sell London as a sort of sandpit for foreign billionaires, we need not worry about the rest of the economy.
However, the trouble with buildings is that they take a long time to realise. By the time its boom-and-bust graph of a spire was puncturing the sky over Bermondsey, the financial model that the Shard was supposed to celebrate has nearly destroyed British society.
Meanwhile, its owners escaped unpunished to their glass towers. They are there now, looking down and laughing, and charging us £25 to come and look at the view, the outrageous gits.
I cannot look at the Shard without seeing it as a trophy to this crass (and ongoing) period of human history. A gleaming "SCREW YOU!" to London. And since the Shard looms in every single view of London (falling out of a Dalston bar; walking on Hampstead Heath) I cannot but look at it.
Naturally I am aware that my raging makes me sound a little like Grandpa Simpson complaining about bees. It is there now. Nothing can be done. Paris used to hate the Eiffel Tower, you know. You too will love the Shard.
But no. JE REFUSE. As Mark Fisher writes in his influential essay, Capitalist Realism, the greatest triumph of financial capitalism is over the imagination. It persuades us there is no alternative. It may be hard to imagine London without the Shard now, but it is not impossible. With a little strain, you can see the cathedral that might have been.
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September 24, 1972
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first "Tomorrow Is Forever"
Set List:
Big Railroad Blues
Mexicali Blues
Black Throated Wind
Cumberland Blues
El Paso
Tennessee Jed
Beat it on Down the Line
Bird Song
Big River
Brown Eyed Women
Playing in the Band
Greatest Story Ever Told
Promised Land
Friend of the Devil
Jack Straw
Tomorrow Is Forever
Me and My Uncle
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China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Sugar Magnolia
One More Saturday Night
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