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This something I did on Roadfly, I know everyone has lots of questions about the E90. I tried to compile as much rumored info as possible about what's been heard to happen and likely will happen. Hope you guys enjoy!
This is a collection of most of the info out there on the E90, please remember these are rumors and speculations given BMWs patterns with new models and ONLY SPECULATION, NOT 100% ACCURATE INFORMATION FOR THE E90. Hope this answers questions, enjoy!
The E90 will come in Sedan, Touring, Coupe, and Convertible body styles. The E90 will come first as a sedan and likely touring in mid 2005. with the touring, coupe, and convertible coming in late 2005 early 2006. Expect styling cues from the X3 and the flame surfacing of the Z4 to cross over to the E90, though this will be the most subdued of any of the Chris Bangle designs. The interior is rumored to have styling cues of the Z4's dash with a mix of the interior of the new E60 5er.
The engine rumors are still rumors. Rumors range from for the first year or two of production keeping valvetronic versions of the 2.5L and 3.0L engines. Other rumors state that the E90 will have brand new engines at release as the Z4 is due for new I6 engines at the same point in 2005. It's said that a light weight aluminum V8 is in the works, likely the 4.5L Valvetronic V8 in the 745i and 545i. Horsepower is expected to get a good boost to keep BMW in line with its competition with the lower range E90 having 200HP to 230HP while the V8 will come in around 300HP. Other inline 6's are expected to fall between the V8 and smaller I6, likely around 250HP to 280HP. Turbos are apparently being considered though go against BMW's NA engine policy of recent years, so this is the most questioned engine as it was rumored to be coming to the E60 5er a few years back.
BMW will almost definitely make adaptive bi-xenons a low cost options if not standard. Interior-wise expect a Nav system with a possible optional IDrive. It seems BMW might leave Idrive as optional given its mixed reviews from the 7 and 5 and the fact that the 3er is more driver oriented than the higher echelon models. Tranmissions will come as a six speed manual, six speed steptronic and six speed SMG( or some next gen. iteration of the current SSG). Expect of course the sports, premium and cold weather packages to be available. My guess is the wheel size on the optional sports package will likely increase to 19 inch rims or some sort of 18inch M designed rim with a lip to add sportiness.
Expect the highest E90 engine model to likely run a 0 to 60 time in the mid to high 5 second range with the lower I6 models coming in at likely the mid 6 to 7 second range. Theres a very good chance that with the Inline 6's at least, BMW will keep 50:50 weight distribution.
It seems that we'll see an M version of almost every E90 bodystyle: Coupe, Convertible, and the reintroduction of the Sedan(a la E36 M3 Sedan). Power is believed to be from a all aluminum V8 with around 400HP but no word on a stable or likely 0 to 60 time.
Prices, like most cars and BMW's current path, will increase by around 5%. This can be a reliable bet because the highest E81 1er will come in loaded right around the base price of the current E46 325i. No word on specific model prices, especially with what seems to be a greater number of engines in the line up.
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ONTARIO - At 8-years-old Annelise Pimentel is a bit soft-spoken -- at times it's hard to hear her.
But a couple of weeks ago the Fontana native's actions spoke louder than words, she cut off 14 inches of her hair, which was down to her waist and took about three years to grow.
"I wanted to help the children and I wanted to do that with my hair," said Annelise who was sporting her new bob pulled back with a bow headband.
On Thursday evening, Annelise and 40 people who participated in a special cut-a-thon held on Dec. 4 at the Carlton Hair salon in Victoria Gardens were treated to a special event at Citizens Business Bank Arena.
Hair collected from the Rancho Cucamonga salon was donated to the nonprofit Wigs for Kids which creates hair pieces and wigs for children suffering from medical hair loss at no cost to their families.
Those who donated more than 12 inches of hair were invited to the presentation which included a Princess meet and greet with Rapunzel.
The event was in celebration of Disney On Ice presents Dare to Dream which is playing at the arena until Sunday.
"To see themselves with hair is an incredible feeling for them. To look just like everybody else so they can lead a normal healthy life," said Randy Auve, founder and CEO of Ultimate Hair Dynamics in San Diego.
Auve told people it takes about 20 to 30 ponytails to make one hair piece to fit a child, adding that an individual has anywhere between 100,000 to 125,000 hair strands. Normally, a hair piece made to fit the cranium could cost $1,800. His company provides the wigs to the nonprofit, Auve said.
"These hair systems fit their head perfectly, unlike a wig that puckers or is big and bulky. These can be attached in a way that the kids can sleep, shower or shampoo their hair," he said.
The piece is made one hair strand at a time and takes six to eight weeks to complete.
More than 40 people came to cut their hair on Dec. 4. Participants received the "royal" treatment - a style consultation and new hair style. A cut at the salon ranges normally from $52 to $75, but the fee was waived because of the their hair donation.
In addition, salon staff - two who came to work on their day off - donated their time as well, said Renee Davis, manager at the Victoria Gardens Carlton Hair salon.
"It was great to see it in person," she said. "There was so many little girls, some with their hair down to the waist, willing to cut it off. As young as they were, they understood that their hair was going to go to kids that needed it and they could do something to help."
It took Davis' staff of 10 all day to cut hair which also included a man and mothers who were doing it for their children.
From the moment Davis was approached by Wigs for Kids to hold a special cut-a-thon, she was in.
Davis and her staff had actually been looking for an organization where they could help donate hair. The salon worked to spread the word about their event through its Facebook page as well as on the mall's page.
The request from 8-year-old Annelise initially caught her family off guard, said her sister, Patty Pimentel.
"How did she even think of that? She's just eight-years- old," she explained.
Annelise told her family she had seen on TV where a child who loss their hair to illness could get wigs from donated hair.
And then her sister came across a promotional flier about the event being held at the Carlton Hair salon at Victoria Gardens.
On that morning, the girls showed up at 9 a.m., even though it didn't open up for another two hours, Pimentel said.
"We were really proud she was doing something so impactful," her sister said.
It had been eight years since Thea Montgomery had cut her hair and the last time she did, she had donated it. A couple of weeks ago, she noticed an ad in the paper about the event at the Victoria Gardens salon. She decided to participate, in part because her hair had become too unmanageable, but also because she knew it would go toward a good cause.
Stylists cut a 24 inches off Montgomery's hair. The Ontario resident said she had no reservations about her new short hairdo.
"Some people can give money at Christmas, some people can give their service, I had my hair," she said.
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Mushandike Sanctuary is a conservation area whose purpose is to provide a multiplicity of activities that include game farming, game viewing and recreation. The Sanctuary also shares premises with the Mushandike Natural Resources College.
Occupying about 13 360 ha, the area is dominated by Brachystegia (miombo) woodland, open grassland and rocky outcrops. The Mushandike Dam occupies an area of 417 ha.
Mushandike Sanctuary boasts a wide array of predominantly plains game species. Animal species one can look forward to seeing include; kudu, common duiker, sable, waterbuck, klipspringer, steenbok, Sharpe's grysbok, tsessebe, blue wildebeest, impala and warthog. The area is also very rich in birdlife.
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Noon Recital
When Thursday March 27, 2014 @ 12:10 PM (1219 days ago)
Where Lehman Auditorium-Recital Hall
Duration 50 minutes
The noon music recital series at EMU provides an informal opportunity for music students to showcase their studies and accomplishments. The recital sessions are open to anyone. Length of the presentations vary, depending on the number of students who sign up to participate and the pieces they choose to perform.
Today's performers are:
- Joan Griffing, Heather Tieszen, Jacinda Stahly, violins; Anne Waltner, piano
- Katie Miller, piano
- Heather Evans and Anne Marie Baer, sopranos; James Richardson, baritone; Lauren Sauder, piano
- Sarah Sutter, mezzo soprano with Chloe Raber, piano
- Katie Miller, mezzo soprano with Anne Waltner, piano
- Charlie Good, tuba with Anne Waltner, piano
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text: Last week, I asked Priscilla Pope-Levison, author of Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era (NYU Press, 2014) to contribute a post for Women's History Month. Here is her second post, a riveting account of the entrepreneurial spirit of Florence Crawford, whose evangelistic association is alive and well today. ________________ I thought I'd seen it all: Maria Woodworth-Etter, who fell into forty-five minute trances with her right arm raised above her head, swa … [Read more...]


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Gov. Bobby Jindal congratulated President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his re-election victory.
Obama won a close race Tuesday against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Jindal, a Republican, helped Romney on the campaign trail.
"The long campaign season is now over. I know there are folks who want to analyze the campaign tactics and play Monday morning quarterback about the future of the political parties," the governor said in a prepared statement issued Wednesday afternoon.
"Here in Louisiana, we will continue to do what we have always done, and that means standing up for our people and doing what we think is right no matter who is president," Jindal said.
Jindal declined an interview request to talk about the future of the national Republican Party.


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Dear All,
In slight anticipation/daydreaming about the ski season, I was just out trimming some bowls and using my metal rib to compress or clean-up the final surface. It dawned on me that one well known Toronto potter uses an old tool he had from his cross country ski days--some type of metal straight edge to clean the surface of wax.
Has anyone else used this instrument. It appears to really compress the clay. I have one of his mugs.
Right now, as I said, I use metal ribs and credit cards to clean-up my pots. Just thought I would maybe think about this as my next tool selection.
Anyone used a similar tool as a rib? I think it is likely best for straight up and down forms. I do not anticipate it would be useful for rounded forms.
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I suppose this was inevitable. The left generally makes up some kind of nonsense to avoid the facts, and here is today's nonsense...
Actress/mental patient Janeane Garofalo graced the Keith Olbermann show with more of her inestimable brilliance. The subject is Herman Cain and the Tea Party. This is classic:
According to the latest Zogby poll, Herman Cain is leading the field of Republican presidential nominees. Cain also won the recent Florida P5 straw poll by a wide margin.
I have a few observations:
Divider-in-Chief: Obama tells Congressional Black Caucus to stop complaining and start marching !
I keep hearing the Republicans are "The Party Of No", but it's the Democrats who keep rejecting legislation passed by the Republican-led House. Earlier this year, the Democrat-led Senate rejected the House budget proposal. In August, the Senate rejected the House's Cut, Cap, And Balance plan to raise the debt limit and balance the budget. Now, the real Party Of No is at it again. It has rejected a House Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government and provide relief for victims of Hurricane Irene and other disasters. Thus, we face ANOTHER possible government shutdown, because the real Party Of No, the Democrats, can never seem to agree on a budget. They haven't passed one in 2 1/2 years. They didn't even agree to pass Obama's budget. They rejected it unanimously.
The reason the Party Of No gave for its rejection this time is it's usual reason - Democrats don't want to cut spending, even though federal spending is far higher than usual and our deficit is astronomical.
"Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. "That's pretty straightforward. It's hard to argue against that." - Barack Obama, on monday.
Yes, it would be hard to argue against that...if it was the truth. But it's not the truth. Our President is a big fat liar. Here's AP Factcheck:
When you ask liberals if they believe in corporate welfare, they will overwhelmingly say 'no'. They are outraged over corporate welfare !!! I'm down with that...but then ask those same liberals if Uncle Sam should subsidize renewable energy initiatives, and the answer magically changes to 'yes'. Therefore, liberals are against corporate welfare, except when they are for it.
The country's head liberal, President Obama, is one of those who rails against corporate welfare while he pushes corporate welfare at the same time. As the Prez has told us countless times, he thinks green jobs are the future. That may be true, but Obama omits the part about American green jobs not being so much the NOW. Obama is all about subsidizing green companies at taxpayer risk. As we have seen from the collapse of Obama's favorite green-tech company, Solyndra, along with the collapse of other green companies that were funded by Obama's Stimulus plan, the President's wishes don't make things so. Obama can engage in all the hope and change dreams he wants, but somewhere along the line, reality must be taken into account.
My PC crashed the day before Obama's "jobs" speech, where we discovered that our spendthrift President wants to fork over another $450 billion in hard-earned taxpayer cash for Stimulus II, the American Jobs Act. Because the federal government doesn't actually pay for anything anymore, the bill for Obama's latest spend-o-rama will come due on some future date, to be paid by some future put-upon taxpaying schlub, assuming there are any taxpayers left by then. Oh wait. I nearly forgot. Obama said every penny of Stimulus II is paid for. It's easy to forget that, mainly because Obama didn't say how it will be paid for. He just waved his magic future spending cut wand and commanded the congressional Super Committee to add another $450 billion to the $1.5 trillion in spending cuts the bipartisan committee will never agree upon. No problem. Heck, I don't know why Obama didn't just order that committee to cut $14.6 trillion from future spending and payoff the entire national debt. That would really solve our problems...but only if you believe in magic like Obama does. Using Obama's "it's all paid for because I told them to pay for it later" (ill) logic, everything the federal government has ever done is paid for, because it all will be paid by someone, somehow, someday. The two trillion dollar question is HOW, but our President can't be bothered with such trivialities, not when there's an election to win.
While I was off the grid, our feckless President urged Congress to pass his jobs bill immediately. He took to the campaign trail, leading his shrinking base in choruses of "pass the bill", even though the bill hadn't even been presented to Congress yet. The Prez ain't much of a details guy. We are seeing more evidence of that as we learn the White House pressured the OMB to approve the Solyndra deal in time for VP Biden's photo op, despite the OMB's objections, and despite a credit agency's estimate that Solyndra would run out of money in September 2011, which is exactly what did happen. That cost the put-upon taxpaying schlubs another half billion bucks, but it almost seems like we're talking about Monopoly money these days, the numbers are so large. I remember a time when a half billion dollars seemed like a lot of money, but that was before the Great Fiscal Insanity descended on America like a plague of locusts. Nowadays, a half billion dollars sounds almost like spare change. I'm sure all you put-upon taxpaying schlubs out there can cough up that much dough, can't you ? After all, you are the backstop for every collosal waste of money that any politician in Washington D.C. can dream up.
There's nothing that irks me more than left-wing demands for enormous new federal spending stimulus programs to boost the economy, after we've already spent trillions on those types of stimulus. Such calls seem to be all the rage these days in left-wing circles. I can't turn on a political television program without hearing this insanity being offerred as a solution to our economic woes. Lefties generally accompany their stimulus spending demands with fond reminiscences of the New Deal, along with references to our "manufactured debt crisis", as if those evil right-wingers are making the whole thing up. The favored left-wing conspiracy theories have the GOP "manufacturing" a debt crisis because right-wingers A) Hate black people, and/or B) Want Goldman Sachs to make bigger profits. And lets not forget the ever popular, C) War for oil.
What the leftos can NEVER bring themselves to accept is D) Reality.
Actress Daryl Hannah, co-star of the 1990 movie Crazy People, was arrested in a protest outside the White House on tuesday. Hannah and other environ-mental-ists conducted a sit-in to protest against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Of Mexico. The actress told reporters she wants to be free from fossil fuels. She's a fan of biodiesel.
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Tugboat Capt. Killed In Accident On Industrial Canal
A tugboat captain, pushing a crane on the Industrial Canal, was killed in a freak accident late Wednesday night.
As his boat was moving under the Florida Avenue Bridge, the crane struck the bridge and then crashed into the wheelhouse.
The accident occurred around midnight as the tugboat Corey Michael was pushing a barge carrying the crane southbound on the canal.


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Shaheed—The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto
Theater review by Raven Snook. Culture Project (see Off Broadway). Written and performed by Anna Khaja. Dir. Heather de Michele. 1hr 30mins. No intermission.
Martyr, mother, politician, pawn, hero, heretic. Late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was wildly different things to different people. Pakistani-American writer-performer Anna Khaja explores her complicated life and legacy, as well as her homeland's complex history, through a series of meticulously crafted, interconnected monologues set on the eve of Bhutto's 2007 assassination.
Some of the characters Khaja portrays are famous, such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But she fares best when playing commoners, like an impoverished Pakistani cabdriver who believes Bhutto can bring democracy to his beloved country, or his Muslim extremist teen daughter, who calls for her death. Khaja is particularly affecting as Quasim, a Boston University professor and former Bhutto political ally, who reluctantly reveals how he was forced to betray her and their cause.
Khaja, best known from her stint as a vengeful Iraqi ghost on True Blood last season, is a wonder, effortlessly slipping in and out of different personalities, genders, costumes and viewpoints. (Since this solo piece has been knocking around various fringe festivals since 2010, the actor has certainly had time to get comfortable with her quick character changes.) Khaja only stumbles when playing Bhutto herself. There was no way the stateswoman could measure up to everyone's expectations during her lifetime. In death she remains inscrutable, more powerful as a fantasy than as flesh and blood.—Raven Snook
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RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinians have erupted in wild cheers, hugging each other and honking car horns after the United Nations voted to grant them, at least formally, what they have long yearned for — a state of their own.
In the central celebration in the West Bank city of Ramallah, hundreds crowding into the main square waved Palestinian flags and chanted "God is great" after the U.N. General Assembly vote.
It accepted "Palestine" as a non-member observer state with a vote of 138 in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions.
The decision won't immediately change lives here, since much of what the world body is defining as the territory of that state — the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — remains under Israeli control. Yet many Palestinians savored the global recognition.


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Unified Amateur Title Bouts:
Dez Parker vs. Kris Leeson: (77kg Title)
Kris Leeson defeats Dez Parker via unanimous decision.
Martin Chester vs. Wayne Tierney: (70kg Title)
Martin Chester defeats Wayne Tierney via submission (guillotine) at 2:09 of round one.
Joe Lemberger vs. Joe Naz: (66kg Title)
Joe Naz defeats Joe Lemberger via submission (triangle choke) at 1:42 of round four.
Unified Amateur Bouts:
Dave Irvine vs. Damian Harwood:
Dave Irvine defeats Damian Harwood via submission (Von Flue choke) at 1:35 of round one.
Ray Kenny vs. Leigh ODonnell
Ray Kenny defeats Leigh ODonnell via submission (strikes) at 1:28 of round one.
Martin Little vs. Michael Oliver:
Martin Little defeats Michael Oliver via submission (guillotine) at 1:40 of round one.
Amateur C Class Title Bouts:
Jordan Chester vs. Naeem Teni: (61kg Title)
Naeem Teni defeats Jordan Chester via unanimous decision.
Roman Price vs. Joe McCann: (57kg Title)
Roman Price defeats Joe McCann via submission (triangle choke) at 0:38 of round one.
Amateur C Class Bouts:
Jason Forbes vs. Nick Hepple:
Jason Forbes defeats Nick Hepple via submission (armbar) via 2:27 of round two.
Anthony McSally vs. Chris Price:
Anthony McSally defeats Chris Price via TKO (injury) at 0:05 of round one.
Conner Hitchens vs. Jordan Fisher:
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Live vicariously through the world's fiercest athletes who will reawaken the slumbering contender in you. Get all that pent-up aggression out of your body as you cheer on your favorite team. There's no shortage of options when it comes to watching the competitions. Check out gymnastics in July, road cycling, track and the canoe slalom; August boasts diving, volleyball, the modern pentathalon and more. Fly your flag with pride!
Relaxation and sensual pleasure should be your primary vacation goals, Taurus. Take a leisurely drive through California wine country. With its expansive stretch of vineyards and charming B&Bs, Sonoma is sure to steal your heart. Sip those California cabernets, sharpen your tasting skills (is that a note of coffee…or is it fruit?), and bring a few special bottles back for your personal wine cellar.
This culinary hotspot is sure to sate your "epicurious" nature too, leaving you with a bounty of fresh recipes to try back in your own kitchen. After all, you are the zodiac's quintessential host. Spend a couple nights in one of Sonoma's spa resorts. From deep tissue massages to rejuvenating facials, pamper yourself like only a Venus-ruled sign knows how to do.


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Hi Everyone,
I have a BMW X3 2008 60000 miles and I too have same problem. The other day I heard a snapping pop from the drivers side when I accelerate. Than on next acceleration same popping sound and than the car started vibrating only when on idle. When is stopped, brakes pressed and idles on D(drive) vibration is worst. Very low frequency annoying vibration. When is on N(neutral) vibration is almost not there. When is on R(reverse), brakes pressed vibration is gone. I suspect it's the mounts????
I am pretty handy. Have tools and have done some car repairs. Is this something I can DIY?
Where are the engine mounts? Are they accessible from top or bottom of the car? Any drawing or diagram?
Thanks a lot for your help,
the bolts that go from the mount brackets to the engine block are the suspects. If they have already broken they will need to be extracted from the engine block (i.e. support the motor from above and remove both mounts and all things in the way to get a drill in there)
not a fun job for sure
Thank you Dominic49 for your prompt reply. I think I was able to see the mount on the passenger side. Looking from top of the engine I saw it and it looks OK. I can not locate or see the mount on the drivers side. How I can get access to that?
the mount isn't what breaks. its the bolts that go into the block. the passenger side would probably be seen from below.
Hadn't really read through this thread before, now I'm concerned.
I'll be bringing my 2007 into my indie Mechanic in January for routine maintenance. Since my CPO warranty expires in May, I'd like to have them inspect for this. Does that make sense, i.e. is a visual inspection possible or do I have to wait for symptoms?
If you google this topic it is happening on not just the X3 but other series as well. What a bunch of BS! BMW should be stepping up to the plate and covering this.
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Thank you Usaret. I'll try it today.
2004 X3 with Driver's Side Broken Motor Mount
Guess what.... I have a 2004 X3 with broken motor mounts, so this problem is pre-2007 also. This all started approximately 5 to 6 months ago when i noticed while accelerating quickly and turning to the left the engine sounded like it lifted. Upon an actual attempt to make this happen, it sounded again. Since this was the only time made this sound I figured that I would watch this action and all should be fine. So 2 months ago I started to notice a slight grinding sound while breaking from highway speeds; figured it was the breaks. Pads were a original and warn, so I replaced calipers, rotors and pads only to have the same sound. As time passed when I hit bumps it sounds like the whole front end was falling out from under the car. After much thought and self diagnosing I pinned it down to the driver side CV axle. Today I finally had a couple hours to wrench on it with my step dad, he owns a mechanic's shop with a lift. We tore the old out and installed the new. While back checking our work he discovered the new CV boot retainer had already broke. After a further look, the new CV was sitting on the engine cradle; this shouldn't happen at anytime! That lead us directly to the motor mount. Upon a look-see, we found that the rubber was completely gone and the upper aluminum portion of the motor mount was loose, allowing the engine to sit lower than designed. UGH! We temporarily put a band-aid on it that should make it for a week or so till the new parts come in. After reading the post here I am 100% sure that my bolts have sheared as well.
Here's some signs that lead me to this issue... Again, while accelerating quickly and making a sharp left hand turn it sounded like the engine lifted and sat back down (And it did). The driver's side CV axle made a horrible grinding sound while applying the breaks that started just at highway speeds and eventually did it all the way down to about 30 mph and breaking, this only occurred in drive, not reverse. Hit a bump/pot hole and the front end sounds like it was about to fall out.
Upon visually acknowledging what happen it's all clear. Because of the broken motor mount the CV axle was in contact with the engine cradle. This caused CV boot to come off of the axle and allowed dirt and debris to enter where the bearing are, this caused the CV joint to fail. The grinding was due to the pitch of the suspension changing while breaking, this caused the housing of the CV joints to come in contact, while spinning at high RPM's, with the engine cradle. The noise that sounded like the front end falling out was caused from hitting a bump, causing the suspension to compress, and then causing the housing of the CV joints to come in contact with the engine cradle.
The parts, including new aluminum mounting bolts (Thanks), are 150$ plus shipping on realoem.com. As it was getting late we didn't really look into what it's going to take to change the driver's side motor mount, but guessing 2 to 3 hours. I think after complete removal of the inspection plate on the engine cradle it won't be to bad of a job. Or at least I hope!
More to come....
pics when you get a chance? I have been considering replace the bolts on my vehicle before it sells.
Yeah, I'll post pics. Doesn't seem to be that much DIY info on the web on replacing these. I've only searched for a bit this evening, so if anyone knows any out there please let me know.
Overall it seems to be pretty straight forward, well that is until I run into issues. The biggest I foresee is possibility of the bolts being broke off in the block and little to no room to drill and tap. Then let the swearing begin.
Overall my X3 has been ok, but does seems to be prone to maintenance issues. I've replaced a ton of parts all my self saving money on labor, shop fees and mark-ups. I owe a lot of credit to this site and YouTube for DIY's that's helped along the way! Not sure how long me and my X3 are going to be in this relationship; the honeymoon is over.
I had the same issue with my 2008 328i. Took it to dealership today for idle/vibration problem when stopped. They found two broken motor mount bolts on the right passenger side which caused additional damage to car. I am the sole driver and car has never had any issues or unusual road conditions. I will be contacting BMW NA as well as National Hwy Safety Board. After reading many different forums/blogs there are multiple 2008 vehicles with this same problem as well as other model years.
I may just replace these bolts as preventive maint. on my wifes 2008 X3 next time I do a oil change. Sounds like they can break at anytime & do some major damage to other parts.
My 09 has 110k and I have not had issues with motor mounts...yet. I am not sure if PM change is in order...still isn't a super common complaint. However there are enough complaints that I do drop my stiffening plate at every inspection to double check when I replace my diff fluid and coolant. Yes I'm an over maintainer.
Never posted on this forum but wanted to chime in to report that my girlfriends 2008 X3 just had the same issue repaired by the dealer. She was getting weird rattling when going over bumps and a lot of vibration when decelerating (in gear but not braking). She's got around 55k on the car.
I am not happy with the dealership. They made it seem like this problem is a rarity which is clearly not true after reading this thread. Has anyone heard word on a recall for this issue? It's pretty obvious the design of these engine mounts is flawed. It's absolutely unacceptable that something this critical would fail on a car with less than 60k miles!
No Recall Yet
After this happened to my 2008 325i I just sent letters to BMW North America and BMW Germany with all the documentation that I have collected on the motor mount bolt issue the cost of my repairs, National Transportation and Safety Board Complaint etc. I have not heard from BMW yet but I am hopeful BMW will do the right thing or compensate owners for the cost of repair or issue a recall. In my research, 2007 and 2008 models seem to be the vehicles having this issue. My dealership gave me the same story that they have NEVER seen this issue before and it must have been my fault for driving the car too hard.
It's only worth going to the dealer to buy the bolts. They are around $20. Buy and replace all of them. Mine I replaced at a indie and I am very happy and I saved money and aggravation dealing with the dealer. It seems BMW will not take action on this issue, so it's on us owners.
Just when it happen drive gently and don't accelerate fast so you won't damage other parts.
Bolts can be accessed only from the bottom and you have to lift the car high enough to be able to stand underneath. Some signs about the problem will be:
I personally heard a snapping noise, than another one(obviously when the first and second bolts broke) when I was accelerating fast. Than the car started rattling on idle at very low annoying frequency. I have 2008 X3.
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78,000 miles on my 2008 X3, and last week I started noticing a rumbling vibration when putting it in gear. Had no idea what it was, the indy checked it today and said engine mounts had failed.
Estimated $750 for the repair due to 5 hours of labor.
Make sure is it the mounts, or the bolts that hold the mounts? If it's the bolts - the whole kit 4 bolts are around $20 from the dealer. Mounts are cheap too. Check online.
Labor is no more than an hour!!!!! $750 is a rip off.
If anyone's interested
I'm new to this BMW thing and so far with about 66.9k on my used X3 I'm not seeing any major issues. I may be able to lend a hand with the breaking of the motor mount bolts issue, I'm a mechanical engineer who works in the cold forging of aluminum parts for air bags and cartridge cases for munitions, and we also heat treat aluminum. Also I've worked in the cold heading industry for caliper bolts, so I'm familiar with looking at threads for flaws in their manufacture. If anyone could send me some of these broken bolts I would be able to take a look at them for manufacturing flaws that under vibration from running would cause them to crack. Also I have worked with a very good metallurgical engineering firm in Milwaukee, WI that may be able to give a detailed analysis of the aluminum and its hardness and to identify if there are/were any flaws in the metal that caused them to crack. Let me know and I'll PM you my address.
Not sure if it's been posted here before, but to elevate any complaints to the national level that would then push a recall all complaints need to be registered at https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/.
As a reference for other cars generally at about 100k the motor mounts are suspect. My wifes Honda Odyssey had 1 broken at 105k and our friends odyssey had 2 broken at 100k.
metallurgical engineering firm cost
I forgot to mention going to the metallurgical firm in WI would cost some cash, in the past my company has paid them anywhere from $250-$1000 for part analysis. But they are one of the only engineering firms I've spoken with that can give honest relatively straight forward answers.
Sheared Engine Bolts
2007 X3. 75k miles. 3 of 4 bolts sheared. Engine dropped 2 inches and took out the thermostat and a hose. $1,300. Guess I'm lucky it didn't drop completely going 70 on the highway...
It was driving like total crap recently with the instability, now I know why. What's strange is now the automatic transmission shifting almost feels like any other car. Much more consistent.
Aloha all! About a week ago the orange coolant fluid level light on the dash board cluster began flashing. I filled the reservoir tank and within two days the light was back on. Filled it again and again for three more days until I though, "something is wrong here." Began the forum searches and noticed a flaw in the BMW cooling system, this forced me to start taking out parts in search of the leak. I ordered a new OEM water pump (electric will run $350-450) and screws. I figured the hoses I could find locally, but that's not the case so order all the hoses and such when you order your pump. I was able to remove the five bolts holding the water pump to the motor but was unable to remove the pump. As I traced the hoses and leaks to the bottom of the motor, I noticed some bolt holes out if place. HUHHHH WTF!!! How can four bolts shear off at the motor bracket?!?! Now more forum searching until I got to this one! What I understand is that the motor mount screws sheared and shifted the motor to the passenger side which then put heavy stress on the water pump causing the coolant issues. Now I'm in the process of removing the bolts from engine, replacing the three bolts on the drivers side, raising the motor back to original height to set the motor back onto the motor brackets. Thankfully the motor mounts and braces are unharmed so hopefully once I un-tap the sheared screws and replace with new factory ones, my water pump will last. I will keep you'all updated and if anything else goes as planned.
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text: You do realize, the only ones jumping to conclusions are the ones saying he's out for a long time/season? The rest of us are just saying, this report is OPINION, not fact. We are waiting for the report tomorrow before declaring him out for the season. He could be out for the season, but no report has said that yet.


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root@bt:~# gcc -g -o resultprog -fno-stack-protector -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 sourceprog.c
Currently trying to smash the stack under backtrack 5.
I set va_randomize_space to 0
I compile the vulnurable source with gcc and use the flags -fno-stack-protector as well as -z execstack
I'm still unable to smash due to some other stack protection. What else could I be missing?
root@bt:~# gcc -g -o resultprog -fno-stack-protector -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 sourceprog.c
Following those exact steps produces the following results within the image attached.
The very last 4 byte section on the stack is the return address.
Following that, the EBP was pushed onto the stack.
Then an 80 byte buffer was pushed onto the stack.
The problem is that the 80 byte buffer was not that last item pushed onto the stack. 0xb7f77d19 and 0xb7ea22a5 are pushed onto the stack after the 80 byte buffer. No idea what they are.
Either way I am able to overwrite 0xb7e89bd6 with the top of the stack, but then the program receives signal SIGILL.
I've also adjusted my exploit to overwrite the return address with location 0xbffff412, but still the same results occur.
Thanks for the suggestion tho. Any other help would be greatly appreciated.


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One thing Friday's Pac-12 media day did was fire up a whole lot of people for college football, regardless of where their team finished a season ago or where their team is predicted to finish this time around. By the last week of July, yesterday's losses had faded and tomorrow's wins were vibrant.
Part of this optimism was provided by the league's coaches, so eager to move forward, the big winners toward continued success, the middle-of-the-packers toward increased success, the losers toward any success.
Utah's Kyle Whittingham was one of the more efficient presenters, doling out information to reporters as though they were players in his team room. Concise. Direct. Honest. He said last year's 5-7 season, 3-6 in league, "ticks you off. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth. It's motivation."
He added that the Utes being picked by the media to finish fifth in the Pac-12 South was of little significance to him and his team. "It means nothing," he said. "It's something we don't pay any attention to. The players glance at it and put it aside."
More from Whittingham in a minute. First, a few observations from and about other Pac-12 coaches:
Stanford's David Shaw was articulate and smooth, half answering questions, half selling the merits of his program. When asked, off subject a bit, whether athletes should be given additional money for playing college football, he showed empathy for the needs of student-athletes, but reminded everybody that, at Stanford, those student-athletes already were getting a $58,000-a-year education.
Mike Leach reacted to questions about his old statements regarding last year's Wazzu team being a bunch of zombies and corpses. He said those zombies and corpses had a great offseason. He also talked about his upcoming book and said that everybody should buy it.
Sonny Dykes, the new coach at Cal, said the pomp and circumstance surrounding the Pac-12 was a lot different than what he experienced at La. Tech in the WAC. He said the Bears would take their offense up-tempo, that doing so was not unsafe for players, and that Cal, coming off a woeful 3-9 season, 2-7 in league, was going to "surprise some people."
Washington's Steve Sarkisian, also known as Seven-Win Steve, said his team is looking forward to better performances, better fortune and, at last, more wins. He's gone 7-6 the past three seasons, which is an improvement over his first year (5-7).
Mark Helfrich sounded and looked like a man comfortable enough to have been stretching out on his Barcalounger. Despite being a new head coach at Oregon, he knows he's got the fastest car on the track, a car he helped build and tune as the Ducks' offensive crew chief the past four seasons. "It's an honor to follow in Chip Kelly's footsteps," he said. It's even more of an honor when you've got De'Anthony Thomas, who rolled for 1,757 all-purpose yards in 2012 and Marcus Mariota, an All-Pac-12 quarterback who broke the league's freshman record for touchdown passes with 32.
Lane Kiffin's Q-and-A session lasted longer than anyone else's. No big surprise. USC underachieved badly last season with a 7-6 record, 5-4 in the South, and, despite Trojan AD Pat Haden saying Kiffin's job is safe, nobody believes that. The coach has to come up with a new starting quarterback and overall consistency that last year's team lacked. Kiffin talked about the bevy of four-star recruits SC is bringing in this season and he admitted his team needs them.
Of all the coaches, though, Whttingham burned from Point A to Point Z with the most candor and clarity. He said Utah's top three biggest failings from a year ago were "the throw game, red-zone defense and lack of takeaways." He talked about Travis Wilson and how desperate the Utes are for continuity at quarterback, something they haven't had over the past four seasons. He also addressed how much quality recruiting has picked up since Utah joined the Pac-12, saying that many up to three-fourths of the athletes the program has recently attracted wouldn't have come otherwise.
Utah's in deep need, having lost so many players from last year's team.
"[We] can't wait to get back at it after the obvious disappointment of last season, not getting to a bowl game," Whittingham said. "It gave us a lot of time to reflect in the offseason. … Offensively, we didn't throw the ball near well enough. That's the primary reason we brought Dennis [Erickson] in to jump-start the offense, the throw game in particular.
"Defensively, we've got some things to correct. Red-zone defense was awful compared to what we're used to. Didn't take the ball away nearly enough. Those are the two biggest areas that led to a very average year on defense. … We've got some things to work on, without a doubt."
Two bits of buoyancy for the Utes, Whittingham said, are found where the rough stuff happens: "We feel we are much improved on the offensive line, and we will once again be one of the best defensive lines in the conference."
Take, then, what you will from Pac-12 media day optimism, pessimism or realism. In the final week of July, winning or even losing sounds better than no football at all.
Gordon Monson hosts "The Big Show" with Spence Checketts weekdays from 3-7 p.m. on 97.5 FM/1280 and 960 AM The Zone. Twitter: @GordonMonson.


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AT&T recently announced AT&T Next, which is a comprehensive smartphone and tablet upgrade program that allows customers to purchase a new device every 12 months with no down payment and no activation or upgrade fees. The news comes in after rumors of a smartphone upgrade program from Verizon and on the heels of T-Mobiles Jump initiative. AT&T said it will also be launching its own hardware upgrade plan in AT&T Next.
Starting July 26, AT&T customers can purchase a smartphone or tablet with no down payment, paying a monthly fee for 20 months as part of their wireless bill, with the option of trading in the device after one year to upgrade to new hardware. Upon trading in their device, the installment cycle for that unit ends and a new 20 month starts based on the price of the new smartphone or tablet. Alternatively, customers can opt out of upgrading and choose to pay out the full 20 months of fees, which vary from $15 to $50, depending on the make and model. According to the Ralph de la Vega, the President and CEO of AT&T Mobility:
With AT&T Next, customers can get the newest smartphone or tablet every year with no down payment. Thats hard to beat, and its an incredible value for customers who want the latest and greatest every year.
Do any of you think youll be taking advantage of the program when it becomes available?
Source: AT&T


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What we can expect from Carly Rae Jepsen's new album
Listen to Carly Rae Jepsen on iHeartRadio
Carly Rae Jepsen may be busy playing Cinderella on Broadway right now, but she's still managed to find time to work on her follow up to 2012′s underrated Kiss.
According to Carly, the new album will be a mixture of folk and '90s pop, and collaborations include top forty hitmaker Benny Blanco and the legendary Cyndi Lauper.
"I've been writing folk songs, so I think you can expect the unexpected for this next record," she told MTV.
"If anything, my last record was '80s and what I've been working on lately is very '90s, so I'm kind of just growing up slowly through the ages," Jepsen revealed. "But I was really inspired at the time by things like that and lately I'm all about ['90s television series] 'Blossom'.
Hmm, folk music, Cyndi Lauper, and Blossom. What an interesting mix…
We just hope that Carly hasn't joined the '90s nostalgia wave too late in the game. She already released the totally '80s-inspired Kiss when everybody else was busy reliving the '90s, which may have been a reason why it flopped. What if by the time Carly's new '90s LP drops, everybody has moved on to the early 2000s?
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Memorial Day, 2007Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Weather: Cloudy, with threats of rain that never materialized.
Road Conditions: Dry, with light traffic. Lots of motorcycles on the Wisconsin side.
The Field of Honor in Zumbrota, Minnesota.
Memorial Day is always a tough one for me. On the plus-side, it is a three-day weekend, of which we have far too few in this country. But on the minus side, it is not a celebration, but rather the opposite: a collective mourning for those we have lost.
So, the poor working stiff gets Monday off, but they are compelled to go to the local cemetary or parade in order to pay homage to those who have fought and died in order to protect their "freedom". At least, that's the official line.
Of course, most of us don't bother with all that sentiment. We are too busy going fishing or golfing or whatever else we use to distract ourselves from the fact that we no longer live in a "free country". For the vast majority of Americans, this is just another Monday off.
On Tuesday, wage-slavery resumes, and nobody mentions our "fallen heroes" again until next year. I know, that sounds harsh, and I could go on for many paragraphs, but that's not what this blog is about.
My new Vespa "Rose" and I avoided parades and ceremonies on Monday, in order to ramble the countryside, enjoying the freedom that those we honor have bought us with their lives. After living with Marines for a decade, I know that this is the way they would prefer we salute them:
Celebrate, dammit! Don't mourn! We did this so you could be happy! Gather together, have a party, toast our bravery and our sacrifice. Make us proud…
Semper Fi, Brothers. I shed no tears for you. (Yeah, right…)


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January 21, 2008 at 22:11:07 Jan 21, 2008 @ 22:11
Any news on the Wolverine movie? Or The Iron man movie?
Wolverine is shooting right now...Iron Man should be out in May or June or something like that
Any news on the Wolverine movie? Or The Iron man movie?
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Originally posted by Inactive UserWolverine is shooting right now...Iron Man should be out in May or June or something like that
What's it about? I didn't really read the Wolverine comics when I was young, I just read Xmen. Is the movie going more into how he was made or whatever?
And I hate Iron Man's costume in the previews. It's not red & yellow like the original.
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Originally posted by Inactive UserEdward Norton talked to Total Film magazine (via The Sun) and said there is no connection between upcoming The Incredible Hulk and 2003's Hulk.
"First off it's utterly unrelated to that film," he told the magazine. "This is in no way a response to it or picking up from it. I think like Chris Nolan and those guys did with Batman, we just said: 'We're going to start completely with our own version of this myth or saga.'"
While he said "no" to the role a couple of times until he was able to rewrite the screenplay, Norton now says the story will likely span more than one film.
"To me the whole thing was to envision it in multiple parts," he said. "We left a lot out on purpose. It's definitely intended as chapter one."
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Originally posted by Inactive UserGuillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Few filmmakers have the cachet that del Toro has, as well as a deep love for the source material, an assured grasp of fantasy filmmaking and an understanding and command of geek culture as well as its respect. Del Toro has built that goodwill through such films as the Oscar-nominated Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Blade 2 (which was made by New Line) and The Devil's Backbone.
Because of other commitments that included The Lovely Bones and Tintin, "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy director Peter Jackson could not take on writing and directing roles, opting instead to become an executive producer with approval over creative elements of the pair of films.
Because of the strike, no writer has been hired to adapt Tolkien's children's classic, though that process will be fast-tracked once it's resolved. Del Toro and Jackson will oversee the two films' writing.
Principal photography for the films, which will be shot simultaneously, is tentatively set for 2009. The production budget is estimated at $150 million per film. The release of the first film is slated for 2010 and the second in 2011.
The Hobbit is centered on Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf who go on a quest to find the treasure of a dragon named Smaug. Tolkien went on to write "The Lord of the Rings" 17 years later.
Originally posted by Inactive UserQuantum of Solace is the title of the next installment of the James Bond film franchise
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Originally posted by Inactive UserMatt Reeves is in early talks with Paramount to direct a Cloverfield sequel, and, as was previously announced, he has also made a deal with GreeneStreet Films to direct The Invisible Woman.
Variety says the timing of the projects will depend on how quickly Paramount can complete discussions with Reeves, producer J.J. Abrams and writer Drew Goddard to come up with another monster story for the Cloverfield sequel. There's a good chance the sequel will be Reeves' next film, in which case he will direct The Invisible Woman afterward.
"Woman" is a Hitchcock-style thriller that probes the mind of a former beauty queen who turns to a life of crime to protect her family.
Reeves wrote the script and will produce with Abrams and GreeneStreet's John Penotti, Fisher Stevens and Tim Williams.
Originally posted by Inactive UserChristopher Plummer, Heath Ledger's co-star in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, has said that the late actor may be digitally re-created for his un-filmed scenes in the project.
The veteran Canadian thesp told People magazine: "Terry [Gilliam] is throwing himself into the job of trying to salvage the picture."
He said the director was trying to work out how to continue on: "Fortunately, because the film deals with magic, there is a way, perhaps, of turning Heath into other people and then, using stills and I think they call it CGI."
Plummer added: "Terry was a very good friend [of Heath's]. He wants to go on with the movie, and I can very much understand why. Because he wants to dedicate it to Heath, of course."
He described Ledger, who he last saw while filming scenes in London two weeks ago, as "in very high spirits. He was just enjoying himself tremendously. It's a rather fanciful script, and he was wonderful in this role."
The actor also said that Ledger was complaining that he was having trouble sleeping and "was taking all these pills to help him."
CGI has been used to posthumously complete actor's performances before, most famously when Oliver Reed was digitally recreated in Gladiator after he died midway through the shoot.
Should Gilliam use CGI to finish Ledgers scenes in the Imaginairum of Doctor Parnassus, or even release the film at all? Your thoughts please.
Originally posted by Inactive UserVin Diesel has now officially confirmed to MTV News that he will reprise his role as Dominic Toretto in a fourth "The Fast and the Furious".
Diesel has refrained from giving a public statement for a while, but now says that "I think doing the cameo in 'Tokyo Drift' confirmed a lot of things for me. It confirmed that if you create a role that the world kind of identifies with, or the world adopts, sometimes you have that responsibility to revisit that role".
Why'd it take him so long to come back to the franchise? "I'm a little bit slower than the average actor that just jumps into the sequel, but I think the time has come to revisit Dom Toretto."
Vin also confirmed that Paul Walker has signed to reprise his role as well - "Gotta have Paul Walker" he says.
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Originally posted by Inactive UserThe rumor mill kicked into overdrive earlier this week after director Mark Romanek exited Universal's remake of The Wolf Man. First, the studio was said to be considering either Breck Eisner or Matt Reeves to replace Romanek. Reeves, however, has just opted to make Cloverfield 2 instead so scratch him off the list.
Now comes word that Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour series) might be coming aboard to helm The Wolf Man. Ain't It Cool News claims it's heard that Ratner's in the running, while ProductionCharts.com also lists him as the project's new director.
Universal would neither confirm nor deny the Ratner rumors, but they did inform us that the job was still open.
Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt will star in The Wolf Man, which is slated to film this March in London. Ratner previously worked with Hopkins on Red Dragon, the remake of Manhunter.
If Ratner does indeed end up directing The Wolf Man then it won't be the first time he's stepped in to replace a director on a big project. Ratner subbed for Matthew Vaughn on X-Men: The Last Stand, and last year he was reportedly Len Wiseman's replacement on New Line's Escape From New York remake, but that didn't work out.
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Originally posted by Inactive UserSpider-Man 3 villain Venom may be getting his own spin-off film, according to IESB.net.
The site reports that Marvel is moving ahead with a new standalone movie based around the dastardly alien symbiote, and has recently met with several "A-list writers" to pen a script.
There has been no official word from Marvel yet, although the studio are in a position to develop new projects after they signed an interim deal with the WGA last week allowing scribes to write for them until the strike resolves.
Apparently the rights to the character have recently moved back to Marvel from New Line, although it is unclear what control - if any - Sony have over Venom, since his character appears in Spider-Man 3, which they own.
If a Venom spin-off does go ahead, would you want Topher Grace to reprise his role, and what evil shenanigans would like to see him get up to?
Originally posted by Inactive UserThe resurrection of Sylvester Stallone's career in recent years is almost as astonishing as the titular Philadelphia slugger's surprise victory over Clubber Lang in Rocky III.
In the past two years, Sly has emerged from the wilderness to direct and star in two box-office hits, 2005's Rocky Balboa and Rambo, released in the US last week.
Indeed the action star has rebuilt his reputation enough to be given a new deal by his Rambo producers Nu Image/ Millennium films, which will see him write and direct two new action films.
According The Hollywood Reporter, these films may well be further sequels to the Rocky or Rambo franchises, with Stallone already considering several new scripts.
Nu Image producer Avi Lerner told the trade mag: "Sly is a great filmmaker and a great writer. This is a perfect match."
Sly meanwhile said: "The past year and a half working with [the producers] has been nothing but a high point in my career and an extremely rewarding experience."
In related news, Stallone is claiming that Rambo is inspiring real-life action against Myanmar's ruling military junta. "Either live for something, die for nothing - it's your choice," Stallone said in a recent interview with the Associated Press. "Students have now used this film as a rallying point and are using the quote, thinking maybe the American military will intervene and save them."
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Originally posted by Inactive UserIn a new interview with The Two-One-Three, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins director McG hinted that No Country for Old Men star Josh Brolin might play the new Terminator opposite Christian Bale's John Connor.
"We're prepping the picture right now. The script is largely done, whether or not we're able to prep off of it, obviously we want to continue to work on it, punch it up and we're hoping for an expedient finish to the writer's strike. But I've got my fingers crossed that in a week or two it will be over," McG said.
He added that the fourth film will take place "post Judgment day. So there really is no continuation, you know what I mean? Its sort of a different animal, whereas the first two pictures on this thing are Terminators from the future, this picture takes place in 2019."
There's been rumors that John Connor will only be a small part in the film. Not so, says McG. "John Connor's a major player in it - Christian Bale's playing that part."
Asked who his "dream Terminator" would be? McG revealed, "...And there's guys out there like Russell Crowe and Eric Bana, bring a good physicality, they do what they do, but I don't know if they're exactly right at the end of the day. (Smiles) Josh Brolin is a very exciting actor - we'll see."
Originally posted by Inactive UserAlthough there has been no definitive word yet on if or when Walt Disney Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer might set sail on a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie -- indeed, both the cast and the filmmakers said while promoting last summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End that the franchise would be taking a well-deserved break -- rumors have now surfaced about the plot to Pirates 4.
The end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End saw Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow setting off in search of the fabled Fountain of Youth -- and his on-again, off-again enemy/ally, Captain Barbossa (played by Geoffrey Rush).
According to JimHillMedia.com, Pirates 4 "would toss the Elizabeth & Will characters [portrayed by Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, respectively] over the side in favor of doing a bawdy buddy picture which would star Jack Sparrow & Barbossa. Where both captains of the Black Pearl would initially be competing for the exact same prize."
Originally posted by Inactive UserUnsurprisingly, Walt Disney Pictures wants to make a National Treasure 3 now that the second installment, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, has outgrossed its predecessor at the box office. The studio is reportedly looking to produce two more films in the Nicolas Cage-starring franchise.
JimHillMedia.com reports that Disney has registered the domain names NationalTreasure3DVD.com and NationalTreasure4DVD.com, clear indications that the studio sees more box office gold to be mined from this Treasure trove.
So what might National Treasure 3 be about? Well, if the rumors below are true then we'd best issue a SPOILER WARNING.
According to JimHillMedia.com, the story for the third National Treasure would "send the Gates family off to Easter Island and beyond in search of Atlantis. More importantly, the pure, clean power source that was supposedly lost forever when this ancient civilization sank beneath the sea. Which -- were it to be harnessed today -- would immediately put an end to global warming. Not to mention making gas & oil obsolete."
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ehhh naw i think the Pirates series is done , i really didnt like the last one too much Hype slapped on it..if they're not gonna do that than there bound to make a corny TV series ...
Originally posted by Inactive UserVariety has confirmed what we hinted at in early December, 2007, the first trailer for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be hitting theaters and online next week:
Par will attach the first teaser for "Crystal Skull" to fantasy pic "The Spiderwick Chronicles" on Feb. 14, with the spot to hit the Web shortly thereafter.
Reason for the delay is that the film only recently wrapped, so much of the material that would go into a memorable trailer just wasn't ready until now.
Awareness and anticipation also is already high for the pic, so producers didn't feel the need to show too much too soon.
"In the case of Indiana Jones, he's such a well-known character that it's not like you have to get out there and introduce something new," said Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy. "You tailor the campaign to the material. We also want to keep a lot of the surprises. That's part of the fun."
We'll let you know as soon as the trailer is online, stay tuned!
Originally posted by Inactive UserRob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's a title that recently made a legit production listing that floated our way and it's got a release date of August 28, 2009 (a late-summer bow reminiscent of Halloween).
But what is it? We're trying to figure that out now.
It can't be a title change for his animated flick The Haunted World of El Superbeasto... We presume it's the moniker for his next feature set up at Dimension Films (he has a two-pic deal with the Weinsteins). The digging for more info begins now - we'll hit up the man himself for more details.
Originally posted by Inactive UserIf the writers' strike ends next week as industry pundits suggest it might, what does that mean for the future of a number of high profile movies that were either shelved or stalled in the last few months by the strike?
The projects that, if the strike ends, could end up going before cameras later this year include Justice League of America, Angels & Demons, and Transformers 2.
As Variety reminds us, Angels and JLA were both halted by their studios -- Sony and Warner Bros., respectively -- because they needed more script work, which obviously couldn't happen due to the ongoing strike. Both pictures remain slated for a 2009 release.
Another project that could start up in time for release next year is Nottingham, the Ridley Scott-directed re-imagining of the Robin Hood legend with Russell Crowe attached to star. Likewise, Warners could put their planned tentpole Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins into production in time for a 2009 release.
There are also three MGM projects that are on hold until the strike is resolved: Thomas Crown Affair 2, and remakes of Death Wish and Fame.
Originally posted by Inactive UserMoviehole caught up with director mink (Into the Sun) and asked about his plans for the next Mortal Kombat movie:
The status of the film, as of today, is that "...the Producers are working out their deals with the studio and arranging their financing", says the director.
mink says the project isn't so much a sequel as it is a "re-envisioning (if that is a word) of the Mortal Kombat franchise from top to bottom. Todays audience is a savvy involved group so the film must be A plus plus in every area in order to capture the magic of the first film. It is taking the entire concept to the next level across the board in every area visual design, story, cast, FX, photography and most importantly the fighting scenes. The original Mortal Kombat game was born a child of many visual loves by the creators at midway so this latest version borrows heavily from that pioneering spirit and must be thought out and executed at the highest level in order for it succeed in today's market place. This is no overnight task."
Though the IMDB has Christopher Lambert returning as Rayden, mink says casting hasn't begun yet.
"First things first, is the way these larger projects need to be done. It is still in the business stages but once that is squared away all casting options will be explored along with the continued development of the best story line."
The last we heard the film was supposed to be shot in Louisiana.
"At one point Louisiana was on the table for various reasons. It still maybe in the future if that is appropriate place to work for the picture".
whats up with that speed racer live action
its still coming out
and is sin city 2 still coming out?
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yeah Speed Racer is coming out in May i think May 2nd ? looks cool to me but it might be corny but at least i get entertained by the nice speical FX
i didnt know anything about Sin City 2 , but i do know the creator of that and 300 is suppose to make another flim off of his comic series


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Sterling: Clippers sale is off
(NEWSER) – Looks like Donald Sterling has decided he wants a fight after all. The $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers he agreed to last week is off and his $1 billion lawsuit against the NBA is back on, Sterling's lawyer tells ESPN. "I have decided that I must fight to protect my rights," Sterling said in a letter yesterday. "While my position may not be popular, I believe that my rights to privacy and the preservation of my rights to due process should not be trampled." His lawyer declined to comment on whether the U-turn was the result of the NBA refusing to drop the lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine it levied over racist remarks made by the owner.
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A reader asks our advice columnist what she thinks about PJ Library's decision to make The Purim Superhero an "opt-in" book as opposed to sending it to all subscribers because it features a family with two dads.
Dear Miriam,
I just heard about PJ Library's decision to make The Purim Superhero an "opt-in" book for families as opposed to sending it to all subscribers because the book features a family with two dads. What do you think about this decision?
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Dear Opt-in,
First, a little background: PJ Library is an amazing program that provides free Jewish-themed books and music to children once a month in many communities, including Philadelphia. Typically, once families sign up for PJ Library, they receive a book (or CD) each month that has been pre-selected by a committee based on the quality of its content and the age of the children in the family. This month, in addition to the already-scheduled PJ Library selection, The Purim Superhero was available to families for free, just like the rest of the PJ Library books, but only if the family filled out a form online and requested it. That way, if parents didn't want their children to have a book about a kid having trouble deciding what to be for Purim, they didn't have to have it in their homes. Oh, wait, you mean the plot isn't the issue?
Obviously, I am not so naive as to think that homophobia is absent in the Jewish community, but I am actually so naive as to think that our institutions have an obligation to rise above these misguided opinions. The Purim Superhero is an adorable book about a little boy named Nate deciding what he wants to dress up as for Purim. It's about a kid struggling with normal kid things. and his parents and his sister celebrating Purim. This is, simply, an awesome book, and one that should be in the canon of Jewish children's literature.
Two dads, one dad, no dads…these are just some of the variety of family configurations present all around us. I'm unimpressed by the argument that keeping a book out of your family's library can shield your children from the reality of a constantly changing social climate where people of all stripes are increasingly able to be open about who they are.
I do sympathize with the predicament of an institution trying to be all things to all people with Jewish kids, and I don't mean to diminish the complexity of the issue. This blog post on PJ Library's website does a really good job of articulating the difficulties the staff has in choosing books that will be well-received by a wide swath of the community.
I find it very telling that the demand for the book was unexpectedly high. I heard that PJ Library "sold out" in 36 hours. I don't know how many copies the organization started with, but I think this means that there were a lot of wildly supportive families who couldn't wait to get their hands on this book. By making parents decide whether or not this book was "appropriate," PJ Library made an issue out of something that probably would have barely registered for most kids reading it.
We just got our copy, and here is the conversation I had with my 2-year-old while reading it:
Daughter: Who is that?
Me: Nate's Abba.
Daughter: Who is that?
Me: Nate's Daddy.
Daughter: Who is that?
Me: Nate.
Daughter: Who is that?
Me: Nate's sister, Miri.
Daughter: Miri! That's like your name! Who's that?
Me: Nate's Abba.
Daughter: Who is that?
Me: Nate's Daddy.
Daughter: Where's his mommy?
Me: This family has a Daddy and an Abba and not a Mommy.
Daughter: Who's that?
Me: Nate.
And so on…
By comparison, here is the conversation we had about our other most recent PJ Library book, The Matzah that Papa Brought Home:
Daughter: Who's that?
Me: The girl telling the story.
Daughter: Who's that?
Me: Her Papa who brought home the matzah.
Daughter: Why are her arms out?
Me: She's giving him a hug.
Daughter: Who's that?
Me: Her Papa.
And so on…
So you see, 2-year-olds will be 2-year-olds. Frankly, I found the question that followed the above conversation, "Who is Elijah and why is she opening the door for him and where is he?" much harder to answer than the question about Nate's dads. It even crossed my mind that maybe parents should be able to preview and opt in or out of all the books crossing our doorsteps under someone else's selection criteria so that I wouldn't be faced with discussing a pretty complex theological question with my 2-year-old when, really, I just needed her to go to sleep already.
But I've accepted PJ Library as, according to their website, "a gift for Jewish children and their families," and not all gift-giving goes according to our individual preferences. Sometimes we'd rather our families gave fewer toys or quieter toys or more indestructible books. Sometimes we return or regift things that aren't right for our kids. Usually, hopefully, we smile and say thank you regardless.
Finally, sometimes we hope that the gift-givers' values will catch up to our values and the values of 21st Century standards of equality and that, just maybe, by next Purim, all PJ Library kids will have the chance to read about Nate and his Purim costume dilemma.
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Hurricane Irene came and went without as much damage as the main stream media and the government hyped it up to be. The storm which has been on the radar for well over a week while it made it's way across the Atlantic ocean hit into the eastern seaboard of the United States over the weekend.
During the entire week we heard the news reports stated that this is going to hit Florida, then it said it was going to hit the Carolinas. It was estimated that it would be a CAT3 when it made land fall. Irene was over thousand miles from hit land, moving at 15 miles per hour, but the media along with the Obama Administration were issuing statement to batten down the hatches and prepare for the worse storm to hit the area in over fifty years. The estimates being reported in regards to the damages Irene will cause was over $8 billion and as high as $20 billion.
As of Sunday morning we can see that the damages from the storm was minimal, mostly due to flooding. Yes New York City did get hit with a lot of rain, but being a kid from Brooklyn, it wasn't the first time nor the last.
It's gotten to the point where people who listen to the newscast, watch the weather reports and pay attention to possible disasters are starting to think that the "power-that-be" have no idea what they are doing when it comes to notifying the public of important information. The truth of the matter is that they do know what they're doing and it all surrounds ratings.
Even as the storm was downgraded to a CAT1 Friday night, the news channels didn't push the point too much. Instead they sent reporters out to areas that the town or city are just a few feet above sea level and made it seem that this is what the entire city was dealing with.
Yes there were many areas in the tri-state area that flooded, but if you look at the landscape of the region, you'll see that most of the area is only feet above the sea level. Have any decent storm move in on the city and the same thing will happen.
So why didn't the government do the right thing and properly warn citizens about the truth instead of causing the entire east coast to shut down operations? Because after the mishap of this past winter when New York, New Jersey and Washington were buried under feet of snow, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Christie and President Obama din't want to show how incompetent they are when it comes to handling issues that need immediate action. So over the past week, the beaches were closed, subway systems shut down and government agencies had a few extra days off.
How are the American people going to take these warnings serious if every single issue is going to be handled like it's the next Armageddon. News broadcast, newspapers, and the government (all levels) must be honest and precise with the information they release to the public if they expect the public to take them serious. If not, one day there will be a major warning and many people will just shake it off and go about their business. Then what are we to do when there are hundreds of people injured, trapped or even dead because the media and the government cried wolf once too many times.


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MELROSE PARK, IL -- Stern Pinball Inc. has hired former Topps Trading Cards vice-president John Buscaglia as chief revenue officer.
"John is a perfect addition to our company," said Gary Stern, founder, chief executive and chairman of Stern Pinball. "His experience with consumer sales and collectibles will help us reach our goal of creating a whole new generation of pinball players."
Stern Pinball is a manufacturer of full-size, arcade-grade flipper games.


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"Frozen Lakes"
Organized by Artists Space director Stefan Kalm‡r and gallery curator Richard Birkett, "Frozen Lakes" updates "Pictures," the seminal 1977 exhibition organized for the alternative space by Douglas Crimp. "Pictures" introduced a group of artists—including Jack Goldstein and Sherrie Levine—whose borrowing of images from magazines, television and film highlighted the role of mass media in constructing identity and desire. "Frozen Lakes" showcases ten rising stars in a new crop of appropriation artists, most born around the time of the "Pictures" show.
Central to the exhibition's thesis is the idea that examining circulation has become as important as examining production. This widening of inquiry is immediately apparent in the show's preponderance of moving, rather than still, images, and its inclusion of printed texts, sound recordings, flow charts and merchandise.
All of the artists here address in some fashion the ways that content is shared, suppressed, fragmented and repurposed. Charlotte Prodger's sound pieces wrest elegant poetry from chanted lists of Internet search terms and spoken descriptions of YouTube videos. Tobias Kaspar captions photographs of the Peggy Guggenheim collection with extracts from Guggenheim's diary; out of context, such snippets as "I knew it was the best one in the show, and I finally got over my fear and now I own it" begin to look a lot like ad copy. The Dutch design firm Metahaven is selling scarves and T-shirts printed with a WikiLeaks logo in order to benefit the whistle-blowing website, even as it simultaneously "leaks" a visual map of WikiLeaks' network.
A tight show of chilly work, "Frozen Lakes" finds the concerns of the Pictures Generation more pertinent than ever, as data becomes increasingly dispersed and mutable, and power is increasingly measured in terms of access to and control of information.—Anne Doran
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No number of home-away back-to-backs or other scheduling quirks will match the frenzy and frustrations of last year's lockout, with three games in three nights in three cities, but the Utah Jazz's schedule has left coach Tyrone Corbin scratching his head.
"I looked at the schedule when we first got it," Corbin said. "Some things have changed, and I don't know what made those changes.
Friday's game against Sacramento is a prime example: After hosting the Kings, the Jazz will catch a flight to Sacramento for a game at Sleep Train Arena on Saturday.
"I don't mind playing the same team back-to-back, but [it's better to have] a day or so to get into the city and watch film and fix the things you didn't like the night before," he said. "But we've played back-to-back games before and you get that, but a team here and then going to play the same team the next night in their building, it's a little different."
The last time the Jazz played consecutive games against the same team in a full-length regular season was January 2010, when they beat Memphis at home on a Wednesday, then lost on the road on a Friday.
This year, however, the Jazz play two back-to-back games against the same team, home and away. They play the Portland Trail Blazers on Feb. 1 at EnergySolutions Arena and the next night at the Rose Garden.
Watson to play?
All signs are pointing to Earl Watson making his season debut Friday against the Kings. Corbin smiled when asked Thursday about the trusty veteran guard.
"If he can go and everything's well," Corbin said, "he'll be in uniform tomorrow."
Watson last played on Easter and subsequently had surgery to repair a torn medial meniscus in his right knee.
Corbin said he was still working on a plan to integrate Watson with a rotation that has seen veteran backup Jamaal Tinsley play well through a dozen games.
"Jamaal's been really good for us," Corbin said, "and we'd like to make sure we're OK with Earl and Jamaal and Mo [Williams]. It will work itself out. It's difficult to play three guys in the rotation, given the minutes they need to feel a good rhythm, but we'll figure it out."
Holiday with Cousins
With the Kings, the Jazz will need to contend once again with forward DeMarcus Cousins. The third-year Sacramento big man is averaging 16.6 points and 10 rebounds per game.
But that's nothing compared with what he usually does to the Jazz.
In eight games against Utah, Cousins averages 20.4 points and 10.9 rebounds per game. Statistically, he plays better only against Phoenix.
"He's a talented big man," Corbin said. "He's a big body we have to do a good job of getting him off his spot, making sure he don't get the ball close to the basket. He's a load when he gets it next to the paint.
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Congressman threatens to throw reporter off balcony
(NEWSER) – After President Obama's State of the Union address last night, a reporter attempted to question New York Rep. Michael Grimm on 2010 campaign finance allegations—and faced a threat in return. NY1 reporter Michael Scotto interviewed the Republican in the Capitol Rotunda about the speech, the New York Daily Newsreports; at the end of the chat, which was pre-arranged, Scotto began to ask an unrelated question. That prompted Grimm to walk away, leaving Scotto to tell viewers, "So Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances … he, as you saw, refused to talk about that." That's when Grimm returned.
- "Let me be clear to you—you ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this f-----g balcony," he said to Scotto in a whisper that was still caught by the mic. "Why, why, I just wanted to ask you…" Scotto responded. "It's a valid question." Grimm went on to tell Scotto, "You're not man enough. I'll break you in half. Like a boy," reports NY1, which has video.


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Cedar Valley's Youth Read
Cedar Valley's Youth Read, our annual author-visit program, is pleased to welcome author Delia Ray to the Cedar Falls Public Library and the Waterloo Public Library from April 21-25, 2014. Her featured book for the event is Here Lies Linc.
Schedule of Events
Daytime workshops are for fifth grade students from schools in the Cedar Valley, but the Thursday evening event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 24, 6:30-8:00 p.m.--Waterloo Public Library meeting rooms--Delia Ray's evening presentation, free and open to the public
For more information, contact Kelly Stern, Youth Services Librarian, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About Delia Ray
[Speaking of her childhood home and experiences...] "With so many sparks to set my imagination on fire, maybe I was bound to become a writer. In elementary school my best friend and I wrote for fun, churning out co-authored booklets of poetry, a novel about a witch named Agatha that filled up an entire spiral notebook, and our own version of Greek myths with made-up gods and goddesses. Creative writing and literature continued to be my favorite courses throughout high school, then college at the University of Virginia.
...Now I live in Iowa City, Iowa with my husband and three daughters. The office where I write looks down on a bend in a river. Although my house isn't very old, we have eight acres to explore and plenty of woods for fort-building. I've also spotted a few places in the woods that look as if a metal detector might turn up a treasure or two." (From the author's web site)


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Tibet Rough Guides Snapshot China
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Tibet is the ultimate travel guide to this fascinating region. It guides you through Tibet with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the Jokhang, the holiest temple of Tibetan Buddhism, to the beautiful Namtso Lake and from the Friendship Highway to the walled town of Samye. Includes detailed maps and up-to-date listings plus all the information you need on arranging tours, entry permits and getting around. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to China, with all the practical information you need for travelling in China, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and personal safety.
Also published as part of The Rough Guide to China.
Full coverage: Lhasa, Samye, Tsetang, Tsurphu, Namtso, Gyantse, Shigatse, the Friendship Highway, Sakya, Mount Everest Base Camp, Mount Kailash
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Swedish House Mafia announce film screening in N.Y., L.A. after SXSW premiere
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Swedish House Mafia fans in the U.S. will have a few more opportunities to see the now-defunct EDM trio next month.
The upcoming film "Leave the World Behind," which documents the group's farewell tour, is set to premiere at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 12th. And now they've announced plans to hold screenings in Los Angeles and New York City the day after, with a trio of European screenings set for March 14th.
Tickets go on sale February 25th at LeaveTheWorldBehind.com.
Meanwhile, the guys have been sharing clips from their highly anticipated documentary. Check out the latest ones!
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A little over a month ago, the Bengals made the surprising move of replacing longtime Bengals radio play-by-play voice Brad Johansen with longtime University of Cincinnati Bearcats and Pawtucket Red Sox broadcaster Dan Hoard. The announcement was made along with
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Salvatore Ferragamo Resort 2013
What a varied phenomenon this resort season has turned out to be as it unfolds in New York, London, and Paris. Some designers chat through a rack of clothes one on one, others have mini-presentations with models in studios, and some take it as a summertime opportunity to throw parties on a scale the audience isn't likely to forget. The Salvatore Ferragamo resort presentation falls into the latter category and, as a show held at the Louvre in Paris with 700 guests, it was a gesture outranked in magnificence only by Chanel's commandeering of the gardens surrounding the palace of Versailles for one evening of entertainment last month.
In one way, this was Ferragamo's grand announcement of its policy of underwriting cultural events; the Italian company has sponsored the Louvre's current exhibition "Saint Anne, Leonardo Da Vinci's Ultimate Masterpiece," an in-depth examination of the iconography of the recently restored Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. And at the fashion level, it was the storied company's opportunity to launch its 40-year-old designer Massimiliano Giornetti into the consciousness of a global audience, all of whom had been flown in for the night. He's no recent hire grafted onto company culture, however: Giornetti has been at Ferragamo for twelve years. He started as a backroom menswear designer, and gradually moved up to the position of Creative Director, taking full responsibility for all collections starting in 2010. That's given the Ferragamo family more than a decade to develop his talent and technical know-how—it's a long time to marinate in the unique skills and disciplines inherent to a family leather goods company founded on the pre-World War II shoe-design genius of Salvatore Ferragamo.
That was the message—the superb quality of Made-in-Italy craftsmanship—Giornetti showcased on about a 150-yard runway that stretched into what looked like the far distance along the honey-colored stone colonnade of the Denon peristyle, and this was first time the Louvre has permitted its use for a fashion show inside. Apparently nerveless, Giornetti said he felt undaunted by the thought of showing in the midst of the very temple of French art and culture: "It was an honor and a joy."
Rather than attempting to outdo French fashion on its own turf, the collection was, if anything, more of a tribute to American styling or, rather, to the subgenre of luxe Western that perennially pops up on runways in Milan. Fringing, cross-laced stitching, suede crochet, and all kinds of intricate forms of hand-knotting and basket-weaving were deployed in the seams and surface textures of soft biker jackets, tiny long-sleeved dresses, and pants that were constructed from multiple strips of leather.
Giornetti's concession to the setting was in his choice of color—it was a dusty palette calculated to blend harmoniously with the ancient stonework. If it didn't break any new ground in fashion terms, perhaps that's deliberate. Giornetti talks more in terms of appealing to customers who acquire clothes as daily pleasures and long-term investments in personal style. The far bigger and longer-lasting statement of the evening was, of course, on a different level: It places Salvatore Ferragamo as a brand with global pulling power.


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I was sparring today, we both had big boxing gloves on, and I got a tap (it really was a very low powered connection) in my left eye with the thumb section of my opponent's glove. Straight away my eye went watery and blurry. I finished out the round and sat down thinking it would clear it up, but it didn't.
Here we are six hours later and it's still the same. The eye ball and socket both don't hurt at all to the touch in any way, and there's no other pain, but if I close my left I and look out of my right I have completely clear vision, whereas if I close my right I and look out my left it's blurred all over the place, sort of like I'm look through a teary eye.
Has anybody had anything like this before, and is it a "it will clear up in a day or two" or a "get down to the doctor ASAP" job?


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Soka University of America is seeking a Counselor. The Counselor will be responsible for providing counseling services to enrolled students during the academic school year which runs from August through May.
The Counselor will provide counseling on issues such as handling personal crises, coping with anxiety and depression, establishing and maintaining relationships, working on changing relationships with parents and other family members, dealing with losses and handling new academic demands. The Counselor is expected to provide on-going support for students with psychological disorders in consultation with the student's physician and/or psychiatrist and the university's health services. In addition, the counselor is expected to support international students in their adjustment to life in the U.S. and advise students in the areas of cross-cultural and diversity issues. The Counselor is expected to collaborate with faculty and other university personnel when necessary.
● Master's Degree in a related field (counseling, social work, psychology).
● Licensed as a professional counselor, psychologist, psychotherapist..
● Minimum of two years of counseling experience in higher education.
● Experience working with students from different social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
● Demonstrated understanding and sensitivity regarding cultural traditions, language barriers, and differential experiences.
● Foreign language ability a plus.
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WATCH: New footage shows plane crash that killed woman who released Obama's birth certificate
Ferdinand Puentes is still filled with raw emotion, almost one month after surviving a plane crash.
"As sirens and bells of airplane were going, it was quiet. Everyone knew what was going on," Puentes said.
Puentes turned on his GoPro camera moments after the engine of the Makani Kai Air Cessna he was on quit, just offshore of Kalaupapa, Molokai.