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Rob and Kristen : Shiny Happy People in Tokyo
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it's a little odd that kristen wore a t-shirt while the guys were still in suits, isnt' it? do you think that she spilled some dr. pepper on the front of her white gown?
letterstotwilight.com - February 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM
i think it was bong juice...
- February 28, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Sue Wilkey said...
Judging by her smiles,he is so nailing her this movie (off-set I mean)
- February 28, 2009 at 6:50 PM
last picture...there is SOMETHING there. It's really quite sweet:)
- February 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- Crazy Lady said...
Yeah,pictures like those do not help the few who are obsessed for Rob and Stew to do the horizontal mambo(I know corny).
Do it already!! So "I" can get over it! Or have they already??!! It will explain all the giddiness in the first few interviews(when Twilight first started) together and the way they used to nervously comb their hair with their hands! Hmmm??
Thanks for the pics! Now to daydream about them going buck wild with each other...instead of the skank ho' Hilton.: )~ LOL - February 28, 2009 at 7:12 PM
There is amazing electricity between those two. Am I the only one who thinks they look like they can't keep their hands off each other? Despite all the bad press about Kristen, she looks genuinely happy to be with Rob and he looks completely smitten. What the #@*! is going on???
- February 28, 2009 at 7:22 PM
This is the first time I have posted here but have been a lurker for ages. Love this site, it's the BEST! I love a place where we can discuss our obsession for this hot sexy man. :-)
I totally agree that there is SOMETHING going on b/w Rob and Kristen, I don't care what anyone says or how much she denies it. Look at the way he is looking at her in that last one...gahhh!! And she is radiant with him around. Yep, he's going to be nailing her this time around! If it didn't already happen last year... - February 28, 2009 at 7:51 PM
- Tess said...
Am I the only one who thought Kristen had horns coming out of her head in the top photo? I did a double take :).
- February 28, 2009 at 7:52 PM
I agree, there IS something there. They're always giving each other these looks...thinking that no one else will catch them in the act.
- February 28, 2009 at 7:59 PM
I want Kristen to hold out until "Breaking Dawn" if it will ever be made. Nothing makes you explode better than delayed gratification. And I do want Rob to have an explosive rapture if it will ever happen between him and Kristen. LMAO!
- February 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Is she doesn't nail him she is the bloodiest stupidest lamb on the freaking planet..... DO IT, you will never get THISCLOSE to perfection again! DO IT! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY!
- February 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM
LMAO! You guys are so funny!
Torture him Kristen! LOL! They last longer when they're tortured! LOL! Waaaay longer! - February 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Hi Elizabeth ~ glad you've decided to join us!
Yep, "radiant", that's how she looks around Rob and I'm so glad to finally see it. And he's taken that smoulder to a whole new level with her. Enchanting :)
Geez, he looks HOT in Prada! - February 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I know, I can't believe Kristen hasn't done him`already(maybe she has, we'll never know, lol.) She is with that hot stud all the time, I would be jumping his hot ass every night, no question. Most of the girls on his imdb board think they have an innocent friendship cuz she is so "devoted"to her fugly boyfriend.
My ass. If they are like this in a crowd, what are they like in private? - February 28, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Crazy Lady said...
d6sense--LOL on your hold out for gratification...hmmm...I like that idea much better. So, hold out for it, Kristen! Torture him! LOL
Tess, I just saw that *devil horns*...she is a little devil isn't she?! Good catch! LOL
Good to know I'm not alone on my weird, crazy thoughts of Rob&KStew! - February 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM
You are sooooooo right ... what ARE they like in private???
She needs to ditch that boyfriend of hers and "do" Rob for all of us ;) That boy needs her all over him every night!
Tess, you are too funny ... horns (giggle) - February 28, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Dont see it happening... dont like them together.. he could doooo soooo much better.. anyone but her. They do have a sweet gaze at one another... they have "grown" up together in the twilight craze. He is better than a one night stand!!
- February 28, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Who's talking one-night-stand? For good or bad I think he's always loved her.
- February 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM
She's younger than he is... she has more growing up than he does.I just dont see it... nor do I want to. I want him to be happy as the next gal. But not with her. He's too good for her.
- February 28, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- Marilyn said...
I'm still holding out for Cedric and Hermione....
Forget Kristen and go get Emma. Now that he's dressing a bit better, maybe he has a chance.
Marilyn - February 28, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I think she has already done enough torturing for Rob! Poor guy is probably so frustrated, no wonder he has to play his trumpet, lol. If she said yes to him, he would be all over her in a minute, no doubt. I wonder if he is waiting for her to get rid of her boyfriend? I don't think he would care if she has one. lol I think he has been carrying a torch for her all along and is just waiting to pounce. Rob...pouncing...yikes. What the hell is she waiting for? Stupid girl, has Mr Sex on Legs making love to her with his eyes, I'd get the real thing!
- February 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM
- TwiHartRK said...
These two have some heat. I'm not a KStew fan but on one hand, I have to give her credit if she is trying to do the right thing in the long run by not hooking up with every hot piece she works with. On the other hand it's a waste cuz the odds of her lasting w/Oregano are slim - and come one, it's Rob.
- February 28, 2009 at 11:17 PM
He's too good for her? LOL! Yeah right...because any other 17-year-old actress (17!) would have stuck to her guns and tell Catherine Hardwicke and the Summit bosses that, "You have to cast this guy. He's your Edward...I can't do this movie without Robert Pattinson."
I can't think of any other 17-year old actress who would be able to do that. Everyone's older. Let's see...Ellen Page? Olivia Thirlby? The gossip girls? The Disney girls? Who would dare?
All of 17 telling bosses that they would have to be joking to cast someone else. Summit bosses were like, "Robert who?"
She was like, "Robert Pattinson" with a straight face.
On the topic of banging just for the sake of -- I'm not for them going at it either. For one thing, Kristen probably would not do it, like everyone here have said.
And even if it ever happens, I agree with d6sense and Crazy Lady -- HOLD OUT for as long as possible. I go for TORTURE too! LOL! Torture him Kristen! LMAO! - February 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM
I love this interview. Rob is asked if he has a crush on Kristen ... awwww, he's so adorable :)
Hope this link works! - March 1, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Sorry, I forgot to add that the question is at 2:08
Enjoy! - March 1, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Well, heck! There's a reason why I don't have a website. I'm no good at stuff like this ~ sorry :(
When the page opens try this video:
Robert Pattinson Movie & "Fiancee" Kristen..Hilarious "Extra"
Aww, fewmits! - March 1, 2009 at 12:56 AM
On that note, I've tied up enough space on this blog and I'm going to my happy place with "Mr. Sex on Legs making love to her with his eyes" ...
Whew! - March 1, 2009 at 1:00 AM
- Veronika said...
Wow, I'm impressed :) When did Kristen learn how to smile??
- March 1, 2009 at 5:07 AM
- bimbambom said...
Crush is in the air, it's for sure!
But I don't know if I'm right - Mr. Oregano was on the Twilight's set?
It occurs to me that someone said smth like that, but maybe I'm wrong... Do you remember it or it's only in my mind?
Anyway I remember that Oregano was near Kristen all the time, so maybe it's true that nothing happened... - March 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM
It's true there is electricity b/w them, but I'm not sure if something really happened (but who knows the future?).
When I was 17 I used to have a friend (boy) and between us was something I can't define. I was always sooo happy with him.
He had a girlfriend and nothing ever happened, but I was looking at him like Kristen look at Rob. We used to tell people 'we're best friends' and I must say - in those days I really belived in it. Because of his girlfriend I decided to end up our friendship and that day I realized I loved him all the time...
Memories... - March 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Kristen finger in Rob's mouth can be a trace of their sex I think...
Kristen seems to be naughty girl and Rob isn't saint too!
What do you think?
-AM - March 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Do you think they REALLY had sex?
- March 1, 2009 at 9:08 PM
There was a girl on MTV Blog when they were discussing Kristens Nylon interview that swears to know that Kris and Rob were hitting it while promoting twilight in Europe.
- March 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM
how she can know? I don't think she can know it. Because of Rob's shyness and what is more because of Oregano it would be a secret.
OOOh, I'm so jealous! - March 2, 2009 at 6:37 AM
Don't forget both of them are pretty good actors, so all these glances might be part of the show (who knows what Summit wrote in their contracts but we do know by now that Summit is trying to cash in on everything. Moreover KStew complained in an interview that Summit refuses an official statement about the nature of the relationship betwenn Rob an her. Summit, according to KStew, insists on saying "no comment", instead).
Obviously both of them enjoy each others company, having fun - but that doesn't mean they have to be lovers. - March 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM
- Divinesally said...
I'm with all of you in wanting to think that something has been deeply brewing for Kris and Rob and will probably bring them closer together in the next 3 movies. But it could just be part of the hoopla written into their contracts, like Phosphorus said. Maybe they are supposed to make it look like they have something secretly going on. It keeps the interest there for us fans. And that's what will bring them the big $$$. However, all the little glances, and big toothy grins they give each other cannot be all acting. Their smoking hot chemistry is so obvious even when they aren't even trying. The way Rob looks at Kris when she's talking is not that of a "close friend" it's more of a man looking at the love of his life. He has the chance to hook up with anyone he wants, and he holds out....hmmm, I wonder why.
Damn it, they need to hook up at around Eclipse or Breaking Dawn. so what if she's young, she's mature and has way more experience in the biz than Rob does. i'm sure she can teach him a thing or two if she hasn't already. And plus it's only 4 years. That's nothing! Besides when she's 21 he'll be 25, big deal...
alright enough rambling, now back to watching Kris and Rob have eye sex. peace. - March 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I hope he doesn't sell his soul to Summit and declines "Breaking Dawn". The story is crap, sorry to say that. Can't see him liking it, after all, he wasn't too comfortable reading the first book, remember?
Besides, there is the danger that this role sticks to him, ruining his chances to move on to other, more interesting projects in his future career. Look at Daniel Radcliffe ... he went on stage naked - it is said he perforemd well in "Equus" - but still remains the Harry-Potter-guy to the rest of the world.
(You should have seen the way my best friend and I were when we were 18. Everybody believed we were having an affair, even his own mother and his girl-friend. That was often quite difficult, especially since he told his girl-friend he wouldn't give me up. Years after they split up and me and my best friend had lost touch she finally believed me that I never even kissed him. [He only warmed my cold hands quite often.]) - March 2, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- Gozde said...
There is NO WAY Kristen or Rob COULD act in the interviews just because they were told to or paid to. Kristen would do the opposite if Summit told her to do it :))
- March 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Gozde said...
Oh and I LOVE Breaking Dawn :)
- March 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Rob thinks Twilight is ridiculous. LOL! According to him, he got the script for "Twilight" and sat on it for months, which means that it was long before Kristen was even cast. When Kristen was cast (which was after Adventureland wrapped in Nov 2007), his agent called him again and told him that he has to come to LA to audition. I guess by then, he knew Kristen was on board and that's why he agreed to audition. He said he had seen her in "Into the Wild" and liked her there. He was cast early Dec 2007. The announcement came Dec 11 to be exact. In his own admission, he only did "Twilight" because of Kristen. I won't be surprised if he goes all the way to "Breaking Dawn" if only to stick around longer to stretch his "chances".
If Rob doesn't get Kristen by "Breaking Dawn" I will break his neck! LMAO! - March 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Without doubt they like each other very much. I'm only saying the way they look each other doesn't necessarily mean they are in love or screwing their heads off (even if they were, it's not our business anyway).
If I had to face hords of screaming fans in places I don't know or care much about I would look at my friend and colleague most of the time, too. Even more so if he or she was as nice to look at as they are.
Yeah, I guess most female readers like "Breaking Dawn". - March 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Divinesally said...
I enjoyed Breaking Dawn very much. It just annoyed me that Rene wasn't in it as much as she should have been. It's her mom for god's sake. Also, the whole Renesmee issue on who should play her, or if she should be CGI is really gonna be tricky. a lot of people didn't like the fact that at the end there was no fight, but I liked it, a lot. Why does anyone have to get killed??? Bella was the savior, for once! I also loved the first hunting trip, that's gonna be awesome. Renesmee's birth is gonna be interesting. And I cant wait to see Bella as a vamp.
I agree, with you all, if he doesn't get her by Isle Esme or the cottage (where they screw their vampire asses off), well I'll just have to throw him down a flight of stairs...then nurse him back to health, with all of your help, of course. lol
I really hope they make Breaking Dawn R-rated. X-rated even, lmao. jk jk. Team Bella!
Hope you guys are having a lovely Monday so far. We're knee deep in snow here!!! xoxo - March 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Why on earth are most of you so keen on them becoming lovers? Is it because you don't like Oregano? Perhaps he's the man of her dreams, fulfilling all her sexual desires. Perhaps Rob wants someone else or even is secretly happy with someone else. Perhaps his and Kristen's erotic preferences aren't compatible. A crush on someone is no guarantee that you get along fine in bed. After all it's not only a question of (verbal and non-verbal) communication but also of personal erotic preferences, rhythm and, yes, even anatomy. Some couples just won't match.
- March 2, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Why do you so insist on Rob and Kris couldn't be a couple? Everybody can have a different point of view
Of course we don't even know whether they are couple or not..but it doesn't mean that we don't have a right to think it could be...you say that "Perhaps he's the man of her dreams"..so we can say that "Rob's the man of her dreams" as well.. so how can we be so sure that which is true,maybe she broke up with this Oregano guy :)..you obviously want to see Kris and Oregano as a couple,we obviously want to see Rob and Kris as a couple...I feel that you are so biased against Rob and Kristen..are you a Michael Angarano fan?
Is there an obligation that prevent us thinking Rob/Kris as a couple.?? Do we have to like Oregano guy?? is there a rule for it?
C'mon...these are just our ideas,theories and wishes that we want to come true about Rob and Kris..we don't say they are "facts" - March 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM
I'm reading your posts and I really understand why Kristen is so angry... She said so many times that Rob was her good friend, only friend. It's crazy that people don't get it. They look good together - it's true, they like one another - it's true, they spent a lot of time together - it's true, but it don't mean they had sex.
Yes, they seem to be happy in Japan, but look...they had holidays, so in Japan they were relaxed and they just met themselves. It's quite normal that they were smiled. They have a great fun together and that's it!
Where should Rob look for a girlfriend? Paps follow him all the time, even when he went to the party with his friends in London. So he stays at home or go to Oscars. Moreover how he should estimate if girl is in love with him / with edward / with fame? - March 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM
proust I agree with you some of us wants Rob&Kristen, some Kristen&Oregano but writing that Rob is looking at Kristen as a man looking at the love of his life is exaggeration. They're happy together, but I've met many people I'm happy with.
phosphorus wrote 'Without doubt they like each other very much' and I understand it, it's true. But writing that they had sex can be insulting and really embarassing for them.
Anyway, playing Edward can be really bad for Robert's career. It's no good to be leading vampire in the world.
-AM - March 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM
@ Anonymous: I agree with you. I think they should be left in peace when it comes to their love-life. They deserve some privacy, there isn't much left anyway.
@ proust: I find it quite boring by now that the rumours about their romantic involvement are rehashed again and again (that could be a perfect reason for Kristen not to start a love-affair with him, by the way). She's got a boyfriend, and hopefully he also doesn't have to sleep alone every night. - March 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM
yeas, he doesn't have to sleep alone. I'm here and I'm waiting for invitation, Rob ;)
- March 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM
"But writing that they had sex can be insulting and really embarassing for them."
First of all,I never talked about the sex issue..this is not my business...I've just taken the emotional side of R/K relationship..I just wanted to emphasize that everyone can think and say what they want about them..as I said before I'm not eager to defense Orengano/Kris relationship since I don't believe that this relationship goes on..this is just my feeling..when I see some pics of Kris with Orengano,she definitely looks unhappy with him..
I'm not a gossip girl but for example when I look at this picture
I never say she is happy with him...not only this pic,this is just a one example but there are also many pics of Kris who looks unhappy when she is with him..however when she is with Rob,she's at least smiling! really smiling,not a forced one! but of course different strokes for different folks :)different people like different things
Actually I don't care whom Rob sleeps with,this is not my issue..but I care one thing-->Kris and Rob..and I don't take these gossips with a grain of salt..I think there are some thruths in them..As far as I understand,you're complaining about these gossips..so I can say only one thing "don't believe them" if you think that they are bullshit and if you are a supporter of Orengano/Kris,don't care :) eventually we'll learn what's really going on ;) - March 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I think the most important value of the Entertainment industry is "Escapism"...among other things. Someone here ('smitten' I think) calls it "going to our happy place".
If your "happy place" is that region in your brain where Rob and Kris are banging the daylights out of each other, then go and knock yourself silly with that. If your happy place is Kris and Oregano (it's Michael Angarano by the way, and no, I have nothing for them) together, then LOLZ! Go ahead! Those two have as much chemistry as a bat and a turtle together. LMAO!
Like proust is saying, it's not like anyone of them (Robert, Kris, or even Micheal) gives a rat's ass what we think. Obviously, the comment section of any blog is not the place for "facts". LOL! It's more like an opinion section and can certainly be a "happy place" for all.
Obviously, I'm Team Rob. Team Rob gets me wet. Period. Team Michael reminds me I have to drop my laundry at the washer before buying pet food and picking-up some industrial strength cleaning supplies to unclog the drain before I have to go to work again and deal with the pile of shit on my desk and argue with co-workers why Taylor Lautner should join the Jonas Brothers instead of Twilight and the babarism behind circumcision.
In short -- Kris with Michael doesn't do anything to my uterus. Kris with Rob gives it the summersaults it needs to deal with all the crap of the day. So yeah, while my boss is giving us mouthfuls for failing to hit targets, I'm looking at her straight in the eye and thinking of Kris and Rob...in heated fusion...vigorously mating...and hitting targets in spellbinding unspeakable rapture. So that after my boss finishes with her tirade, I can go to her and be like, "You got it boss. Consider it done." LMAO! - March 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM
To be honest, to me it makes no difference with whom Kristen is, whether with Michael Angarano (don't care for him, never even saw him in a film) or with some other bloke. Or Nikki Reid. ;-) I just have the impression, Kristen is quite sick of all the talk and being watched and analyzed like that all the time.
But if it means that much for so many of you, well ... - March 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Gozde said...
You guys are quite passionate about this huh? :) I like Kristen and I hope for her sake that she gets to hit it at least once :) But I like Oregano as well. Phosphorous: watch Speak! That's where Kristen and Oregano met and he is SO cool in that movie. Plus it's a really really good movie. One of Kristen's best acting :)
- March 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Thanks for the tip, Gozde. Never heard of the film before but now I'll be looking for it.
Off topic: It's a pity one can't see the last 15 comments on the main page of this blog. Would make it easier to follow a discussion. As far as I know it's a feature blogger.com doesn't offer. - March 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Wow! This is the reason why I love this site! The discussions are so fertile and prolific. Okay, that's enough adjective for the day. LOL!
Okay, just for the sake of argument and not to unclog some drain pipe or anything, may I ask you guys why you're not feeling Michael Angarano so much? And let's not talk about looks. Let's talk about essence. Why don't we feel for Michael? (I "WE-ed" us, coz that includes me. LOL!)
Court is convened...
1) If anyone can show me a picture or video of Michael Angarano with Kristen Stewart BEFORE November 2007, I will give you a pat on the back. I went around blog sites and almost all of Michael's pics with Kris came only after she got cast in Twilight in Nov 2007. More importantly, almost all are timelined after Robert Pattinson's sizzling audition with Kristen Stewart in Catherine Hardwicke's bed in late November, thereafter confirming Pattinson in the role of Edward in early Dec 2007. Did Angarano only start hovering when Pattinson came into the picture?
2) If you have known a guy for 4 years, since you were 13 to be exact, and have been close to him with almost tunnel vision focus as to eventually fall in love with him, you would know WHEN his BIRTHDAY is, right? I don't give a shit about Angarano and yet I know his birthday. It's December 3, 1987, which makes him 21 now. Well, Kristen says in her Nylon interview that her boyfriend is "older" than her. "He's 20 now..." she says. She's short by a year and yet she was so animated by their age difference in the interview. This got me thinking. Weren't she in Micheal in Europe for Twilight promotions when Michael turned 21? What distracted her from remembering his birthday? The Eiffel Tower? I bet your answer is as good as mine. LOL!
3) Speaking of BIRTHDAYS, when Kristen was interviewed in France (I think. And it's on video) if she got anything for her 18th birthday, she was taken aback before saying, "This is gonna...(pauses before emphatically saying)...Rob gave me a guitar." Then she fell into, "What else did I get on my birthday?...I don't remember...(pause)...I don't remember..." Uh, none from Angarano?
Okay, I get it. They don't celebrate birthdays as a couple. LOL! Especially in France. LOL! Yeah, just the most romantic city in the world.
4) They say Michael Angarano visited Kristen on the set during filming of Twilight, and yet Robert Pattinson said in many interviews that he and Kristen spent many long nights together discussing the script and "rehearsing their lines for their roles". Kristen said that they weren't getting enough sleep. I would take long nights to mean beyond the call of duty. Coz the producers were reportedly worried that they were "laboring over their characters" too much. And this is not just by the account of producers who can play this up for hype. This is by the account of Cahterine Hardwicke herself and even Stephanie Meyer.
Passionate much? For the role of course! LOL! And the art!
But the point is...was Michael really around that much?
Anyways, just some stuff to think about.
By the way Gozde, thanks for all the updates in the last few days especially the stuff in Japan. I love all of them. Thank you.
I have to concede though that Robert Pattinson was staring at Kristen Stewart waaay too much in the videos. There was one point when he was just openly staring at her without a care. This was especially true when Kris was in that leather mini dress that hiked up even higher when they were seated. God, this girl has some gorgeous stems! HER LEGS ARE SOOOO UTTERLY PERFECT! And Rob was staring at her stems all the time! Actually he was switching his long gazes between her stems and her face. Just those two spots. LOL! Wonder what he was thinking?
Anyway...hi to everyone! - March 2, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Have you guys seen the "What the Buck" video in youtube? I love that gay guy! He's so f@cking funny. He made a comment about the Nylon interview of Kristen Stewart and made a very good point. Watch it here. LOLZ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdlrTePbbcE - March 2, 2009 at 7:12 PM
By the way, just to follow through on Pho's comment about Kristen with some other bloke. If they want to sex up "Harry Potter" which is as sexy as frozen tofu right now, they should find a way to make a short feature between Kristen Stewart and Rupert Grint. Or Kristen Stewart and Daniel Radcliffe.
I'll be blunt -- NO ONE CAN MAKE ANY MAN SEXIER THAN HE REALLY IS BETTER THAN KRISTEN STEWART.
She's THAT HOT!
Look what she did to Jesse Eisenberg in "Adventureland". He's suddenly so adorable and delish in a gentle kind of way. He's like the guy you can have your way with any which way you want. He's sweet rehab for bad girls.
Even Robert De Niro looked hot playing her father in "What just Happened?" The scene where they were in the car didn't have a father-and-daughter feel. Without dialogue, they would look like may-december illicit lovers.
Now if only she can do something about Angarano.
Okay, I know. That's just mean. We don't know him personally and she calls him "awesome" so maybe he really is.
Let's call him Awe-garano. LOL! Okay, I'll shut the f@ck up now. LOL!
Aaaah! I'm still watching the Japan videos where Kristen is in that leather mini dress. I need to point out that Robert was biting his thumb while he was staring at her and her stems! - March 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM
And Hi to lil red riding hood! I repeat -- Rob does unclog a lot of drain pipe around in here. Thanks for pointing out the Japan vidoes of Rob staring at Kristen's "stems". I'm enjoying it and hitting some targets. LMAO!
- March 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM
wow, when i start to read this threads, i think no, i don't want to start any clue with this hot couple, i mean just week ago kristen is flame as fires about it and i just didn't like to read her horrible words..
but then, OMG, we should know that from their staring and everything when they were close they still have it, the caring and the love and for this matter, i just laughing, why kristen so mad about people scrutinize her moves, i am wonder why she seem soo pissed out, she will knew eventually that this chemistry is not to be taught and learn, it happened to the person that you really really feels comfort too much,...so, it's not fans mistakes, it's the chemistry that catherine has admitted while back in rome that was amazing, and i think it still, taylor lautner can't beat that....
anyway, reading lil red comments make me remember about myself to searching michael name with kristen around 2006,2007 and it's nothing. michael came around to the public late 2007, if i am not mistakes or when twilight is start and kristen admitted that she has been dating michael at magazine just after twilight starting to big, middle of 2008. so, just get me wonder about this young stars or perhaps there is something strange about the quick confirmation from kristen and michael to avoid any crazy fan girls ??
all i can say, kristen and robert, first of all robert is really happy to teasing her to smile and i think he like that. they were hot couple and i hope they understand about stupid answer from fans regarding their chemistry, as i said before they have really strong chemistry, the 2nd best from note book.
and if they were dating, it's not like they will said to public, kristen is really private and sensitive person... - March 2, 2009 at 9:05 PM
d6sense -- you forgot Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild". It was Kristen Stewart's "Tracy" character that upped his sex appeal in the movie. When Emile and Kristen were put in the same frame together, Emile suddenly had some heat going.
There's something about Kristen...I don't know...wild flower appeal I guess...strong and reckless at the same time, yet there's some innocent sensitivity.
Yeah, I want to see her in some independent film with Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint. It will certainly improve the sex appeal of those two boys. LOL!
Maybe that's the reason why the Robert+Kristen pairing is so combustible. Because each has its own independent hotness that if you put them together, it's like nuclear fusion! LOL! - March 3, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Taylor Lautner is rather lucky then, he'll have so many scenes with Kristen in New Moon it should put him on the list of sexiest men. ;-)
And I can't blame Rob for staring at her legs, everybody does, obviously we do, too.
@ lil red riding hood: She didn't mention any presents from her parents either but that doesn't mean she didn't get any.
And didn't they both say those long nights of discussion and rehearsal were pre-production?
(Her picking his teeth reminds me of mothers who spit on hankies to clean their children's faces.) - March 3, 2009 at 5:05 AM
Hey PHOS!
Yeah, I hope they give Taylor and Kristen a lot of screen time together. The intensity of the love triangle in the story rests on "New Moon" and on the Taylor+Kristen chemistry, which I don't think is hard to achieve because it was already there in the first installment.
...Which brings me to Kristen Stewart's divine stems. Rob was looking at them. We're ogling at them right now. But Taylor wasn't! WTF! LOL! Taylor must understand that for on-screen chemistry to stick, he has to follow-through with off-screen chemistry. Ogle at her man! Where the heck were you looking? LOL!
As for the presents, I'm sure she got plenty of them on her birthday. What struck me most is the fact that she couldn't REMEMBER any of them other than Rob's guitar.
Yeah, I remember they said pre-production. But then...who knows really? Did you see the video from Access Hollywood that Godze posted? It turns out that Rob DID BITE her finger! But back in Comic Con she said he didn't.
But I guess all's good. They're both professionals. Besides, Chemistry is 99% anticipation and 1% consumption. The more you hold out, the more intense the chemistry is. The reason why everyone's so heated about these two is because of Kristen's categorical and outright denials that anything ever happened. I believe her too because I can see the fire burning even hotter this time. It will only get more and more intense. And yes, I think Summit will make sure Michael Angarano has free access to the film set because obstacles will heighten the chemistry even more. In "New Moon" that's called the "Jacob factor". LOL! - March 3, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Yeah, I did see it and couldn't help laughing - what a tease she is! :-)
Looks like her memory isn't very good, huh? Someone should send her some ginseng. I wasn't surprised that his present came to her mind first, though. I guess it touched her deeply since she plays guitar herself. Funny, how often she doesn't know what to answer in interviews. Quite an easy prey for journalists, just throw in some questions she doesn't expect or wasn't asked a hundred times before, and she'll either stutter or babble, saying things she'd better keep to herself. - March 3, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Yes, anon wrote that Kristen is really private person - maybe that's why we don't have photos of her an Oregano? And maybe that's why she didn't say about present from him (maybe it was lingerie or something more personal).
You know Kristen&Rob thing is public (partly) if she wants it or not, whereas Kristen&Origami is more private - we know only that they're together.
Why Oregano showed up so late?
Maybe it's because Kristen wanted to keep her privacy. But Oregano saw how handsome Rob is and this amazing chemistry b/w him and Kristen. So he started to be jealous and he insisted on telling people about his and Kristen's relationship. I think he watches her and Rob all the time and that's why kristen is so annoyed.
I don't think that relationship b/w Kristen and Oreganoguy can be fake. Kristen is so strong, she wouldn't agree to it as she wouldn't agree to play chemistry with Rob.
I envy chemistry b/w Kristen and Rob, but I also feel sorry for her - she has a longterm relationship and she get used to Oregano, she doesn't want to hurt him, maybe she even don't want this chemistry with Rob. But there IS chemistry. Amazing chemistry. What should she do? She denied it, but there comes finger in Robert's mouth...poor Kristen, poor Oregano and poor Rob. - March 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Of course her relationship with Oregano isn't fake Anon. You can't fake all that unhappiness everytime she's photogrpahed with him. LMAO! 'Just kidding. LOL!
And I think the reason why there weren't many pictures of them together is because no one's interested.
I just love that Kristen has so much strength to keep it together with Angarano. I mean, she has undeniable chemistry with Robert which she enjoyed exploring while filming Twilight...man, all that biting and panting...LOL! But off filming, she denies herself of anything Pattinson. LOL! She's got a good head on her shoulders. I think it's good that she can do that. Not many women will choose to do that. I think in fact, she's the ONLY ONE. - March 3, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Some crazy good sex will be had on the set of New Moon. The looks on their faces, the chemistry, the body language...oh yea. Crazy good nailing will be happening indeed.
- March 4, 2009 at 2:36 AM
we always talk about this and we always rehearsed about this kind of chemistry and believe it or not, the strong chemistry more spread out between this 2, the more pissed out kristen stewart..lol but she can not denying that i mean she is like cover her own ass to not get caught over rob hotness...lol
why they were not dating...
i am sorry is this too horrible to said, but they were really cares each other and look like they feel really close, why they don't stop the chemistry, obviously they can't, it's too good to be true... i am sorry again, i think my words to rude for anybody but i didn't see any answer for this one and i just keep said myself that it's not my business but they need dating..... i am sorry again if i offend anyone...
i know, i know, i shouldn't said this but she look really happy with him and i know i think i am carried away, but it's just my thoughts, i am sorry once again........ - March 4, 2009 at 2:53 AM
I don't want them to hook up while filming the Twilight Saga. So that means all the way to "Breaking Dawn". Why? Because I agree with the small tribe of torture seekers here. Torture is sweet. It's the one that makes you ache...drive you nuts...and rip it off. LOL!
Torture him Kristen! LOL!
Yeah! Because nobody has the best faculties to torture Robert Pattinson than Kristen Stewart. LOL! God, her stems are to die for! I think I'm turning butch on her! LOL! - March 4, 2009 at 3:32 AM
- milan zico said...
yeah,,menurut saya robert memiliki pandangan mata yg brbeda untuk kristen,begitu jg kristen pd robert,, apakah mereka sudah jadian? tp,bagaimana dgn michael angarano,,
- April 20, 2009 at 1:18 AM
- milan zico said...
yeah,,menurut saya robert memiliki pandangan mata yg brbeda untuk kristen,begitu jg kristen pd robert,, apakah mereka sudah jadian? tp,bagaimana dgn michael angarano,,
- April 20, 2009 at 1:19 AM


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A Critic's Passage to India
TRAVELING STOMACH In this land of startling contrasts, Asia's number one tourist destination of the year, New York magazine's "Insatiable Critic," Gael Greene, takes refuge in a luxurious Oberoi retreat.
Six weeks leapfrogging about India. My emotions are always churning, whipped by a cascade of color and beauty, the amazing hospitality everywhere, the haunting pain and poverty, filth and frustration.
Next stop Rajvilas, touted as India's ultimate spa experience, in Jaipur. I'm wondering if two days there will unjangle our nerves and leave us oozing oil from every pour as our mini cure at Coconut Lagoon in Kerala did a month earlier in the South. By the time the two of us -- me and my guy, photographer Steven Richter -- wheeled into the vast, manicured estate of Rajvilas, I was nurturing serious doubts.
Not for me this Disneyland of exaggerated luxury, I was grumping, as various emissaries from Reception gathered our belongings and escorted us past gushing fountains, mirror pools, sandstone follies, and architectural prologues worthy of Versailles to the check-in desk. I wanted to be in India, I thought, not in some rich and driven hotelier's fantasy of an earlier India. The brochure said it all: P.R.S. "Biki" Oberoi himself had fussed over every turret and tile of the $20 million construction -- three years in the building and all brand-new except for an innocuous old house turned into a 7,000-square-foot spa complex and a 250-year-old temple on a small island where a priest still leads twice-daily prayers.
The horse-drawn carriage was out for repairs (to horse, driver, or buggy I'm not sure.) And there were many apologies as we folded up into a golf cart that scooted over pink sandstone pavement past pool and umbrella lunchers, landscaped bungalows, and VIP villas banked with flowering greenery into the beige of the back 40, Rajvilas' tent city, a faux desert of cactus and boulder. I was in such a rush to get back to the roiling streets of Jaipur, I barely caught the orientation lecture on the riches of patrician tent-life.
I remembered Jaipur as a pristine magical place, its palaces and mansions daubed in pink with white piped curlicues. But now, 14 years later, the population had doubled, the pink had turned coral, orange, shocking, rust, sometimes shabby, sometimes brashly fresh. The February sun blazed. I hungered for rubies and emeralds but was too cowardly to make a deal without a mentor. The bazaars were full of teasing smells from frying foods the International Health Center Service warned us not to touch. Relentless street vendors taunted. I dared not caress a length of silk or casually inquire about the price of a miniature without being followed and yammered at for half a block.
What a blessing to crawl into our hired air-conditioned Ambassador and be whisked the dusty eight kilometers back to never-never land. Now I understood the lure of that cocoon of perfection. What serenity. A freckled Englishman slept under his hat beside the pool where Indian newlyweds played. We hiked to our "desert" lair and escaped into a blast of cool air. Now this excessive luxury is my fantasy, too. Teak floors and furniture, Roman-shaded windows, embroidered canopy roof, claw-foot tub, steam shower, air conditioning, and French doors that open to a private deck. A seriously comfortable mattress and down pillows. Tiny roses tucked into baskets of high-fluff towels.
En route to the front desk to reserve a movie on laser disc for a lazy night at home after dinner, I pass bougainvillea and jasmine-draped suites clustered around deep lapis and turquoise tiled pools and fountains. Everyone I pass -- gardeners, maids, porters, waiters -- greets me, "Good afternoon, madam." I tire of responding. Eventually I develop a sort of Prince Charles-like nod. One determined fellow carries a long staff with a flag at the end. His sole assignment: chasing pigeons away. But for me the ultimate dedicated service is provided by the Oberoi dauphin, Biki's son Vikram, manager here, not trusting anyone but himself to collect my e-mail on his leather-fitted notebook computer.
Though Oberoi's marketing mavens make noise about Rajvilas as the world's next luxury spa, I can't see a mass movement of Canyon Ranch and Golden Door addicts rushing here to slim down. Rather, I suspect Rajvilas will quickly make its name as an imperative for honeymooners and local voluptuaries as well as travel-bashed tourists longing for an unadulterated comfort zone. Still, it goes without saying the spa is immaculate and discreet, with a lap pool, a Persian waterwheel, the brilliant azure and cobalt tiles of Jaipur, and treatments both contemporary and traditional. There were actually a few Western tourists using the workout machines when Steven reluctantly reported for his massage.
Poor Steven. He had agreed to sample Indian massage. And he was understandably wary after his Ayurvedic rubdown at Coconut Lagoon, a rustic southern resort arranged like a small village in the backwaters of Kerala that attracts affluent Indians for its two and three-week holistic cures. We basked in the sensuousness off the al fresco shower outside our wooden Tharawad -- a rustic cottage brought from a nearby village and reconstructed "following the ancient rites of carpentry." We had drifted into a state of nirvana after floating all day in an old rice boat, with its winged wooden shades, observing (and photographing) the water life of the people settled on its narrow spits of land, while a Coconut Lagoon chef cooked our three-course lunch on a single fire.
Frankly, the last thing Steven needed was a lube job at the spa. But we were definitely interested in the various cures claimed by Ayurveda, an ancient holistic tradition that relies on appropriate diet and the application of herbs and oils to restore the balance of body and spirit. Since we had no time to linger for a series of medicated rice packs to cure aching knees, or for the prescribed 14-day regimen of buttermilk poured on the forehead to cure insomnia, my mate signed up for a simple massage. That turned out to be two men slathering him with oils, seemingly not at all concerned with stressed muscles and joints but only with keeping him from sliding off the table. It took three showers to get the oil out of his hair.
So he was not exactly eager to risk massage again, even though Rajvilas spa offered Western rites as well as Ayurvedic voodoo. I bribed him with a gift of expensive amber prayer beads. Happily, the woman assigned to Steven's case has been trained in Swedish massage. Hypnotic strains of desert sounds put him to sleep, but she woke him in time for a shower before dinner. He was more mellow than usual as we joined the dinner crowd on the terrace overlooking a courtyard lit by flaming torches, with dancers stamping away in the distance. Lulled by the isolation and hyper security, I decided to believe the waitress when she told me the ice cubes were made from bottled water and ordered a top-notch Margarita.
En route to Rajasthan we'd sipped an occasional glass of Indian wine -- red and white, barely drinkable -- so this was a pure jolt of alcohol. Still, I'm sure I was clearheaded enough to appreciate what Australian-born chef Edwin Rosenkranz and his Indian staff have done to lighten Indian food without sacrificing a smart palette of flavor. I was especially impressed by the mixed kebab platter with its green chile pepper like a banner flying above -- moist and flavorful lamb cubes, chicken, ground lamb, vegetables, and paneer (firm cottage cheese) -- served with lentil dal, raita, Indian bread, and chutneys. And he showed off his European skills in the intensity of wonderfully green pea and coriander soup and in the tandoori marinated lamb loin on olive-mashed potatoes with tomato jus. I defied the doctor's edict against eating any vegetable that has not been cooked or peeled twice for his Caesar -- crisp Romaine with savory croutons and big chunks of tandoori-grilled paneer.
We might have liked strolling through a night market or braving a shopping street to walk off a few calories en route to bed, but reality was far away, outside the Rajvilas gates. Se we set off for our desert camp, cutting through a garden, past a burbling fountain, running our hands through the cascading water. Then we slipped gratefully into a freshly remade bed -- not too soft, not too hard -- to watch the movie Ganghi with icy bottled water from the fridge and a chocolate bar. Seduced by luxury after all.
Food Arts December 1999.

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To burn or not to burn? Good question.
Dear Word Detective: I have often wondered why the word "inflammable" exists when we use the word to indicate that something is actually "flammable," not "in"-flammable or "not flammable," as I would typically consider the prefix "in" to work. — Andrew Workum.
Gee, time flies when you're having fun. I knew I had addressed the "flammable/inflammable" puzzle a few years ago, but on checking my files I discovered that I'm going to have to expand my personal definition of "a few" into double digits. Let's just say that if a person was, say, ten years old when I wrote that column, it's entirely possible that the same adorable tot is on his or her second marriage at this point. I, on the other hand, have aged not a day. It's truly amazing, and I owe it all to you folks for wrinkling in my stead, like the audience of Dorian Grey. Awesome.
Although I haven't directly dealt with the "flammable/inflammable" question lately, I have frequently referred to it while exploring a recurring theme here at Word Detective World Headquarters, namely the unreliability of certain English prefixes. Simply put, a couple of them don't always mean what you think. We all learn that certain bits, particularly "in" and "dis," when glued onto the front of a word, mean "not," as in "dishonest" or "inhospitable." But every so often, "dis" and "in" play a little trick and hit the gas instead of the brake, adding the meaning "very," "and how" or "you betcha." For instance, the eternal quest to find a "gruntled" former employee to balance the "disgruntled" ones is doomed, because "dis" in "disgruntled" means "very," not "not." ("Gruntled" is an adjective meaning, roughly, "so angry as to be reduced to making grunting sounds." Even "ungruntled" wouldn't really mean "happy.") If "dis" and "in" were cars, a recall would definitely be in order. That may seem like stretching the metaphor a bit, but there actually was something similar to a recall order issued in the case of "flammable" and "inflammable."
It all began, in the 16th century, with "inflammable" meaning "capable of burning," based on the Latin "inflammare," meaning "to set on fire," from "in" (here meaning simply "in") plus "flammare" (to burn). In the 19th century, however, "flammable" cropped up, also from the Latin "flammare," and also meaning "burnable." But since we already had "inflammable," the new "flammable" seemed unnecessary and faded away fairly quickly.
In the wake of World War II, however, public safety officials became concerned about the "in" of "inflammable," worrying that many people assumed that "in" meant "not" and that the word therefore meant "fireproof" when it actually meant just the opposite. There was also the problem that the opposite of "inflammable" pretty much had to be "non-inflammable," which was inherently confusing and thus dangerous in its own right. So safety agencies solved the problem by bringing back the extinct word "flammable" and encouraging manufacturers, etc., to use "flammable" and "non-flammable" instead of "inflammable." The campaign seems to have worked, making "inflammable" safely obsolete.


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How Did I Get Here? Browser Upgrade Campaign
How did I get here?
The folks who built the site you were trying to visit have directed you to this page because your browser does not support accepted web standards. Or you may have followed a link to this page in order to learn more about upgrading your browser.
Note to spam recipients: If you are visiting this page as a result of an unsolicited email message we apologize. We have never sent any unsolicited bulk mail, and in fact only rarely do we use any email address in the webstandards.org domain. More commonly, our members reply to mail sent to webstandards.org email addresses using their own, private, email accounts. If you receive unsolicited mail claiming to be from this domain, the sender is almost certainly forged. Read more about why The WaSP Hates Spam and Viruses.
Note to site builders: The WaSP Browser Upgrade Campaign has come to a close. As such we ask that you discontinue your use of this upgrade message and visit the Beyond the Browser Upgrade Campaign page to learn about what to do instead.
Note to visitors redirected from other sites: if you are not where you think you should be, please contact the webmaster of the site you just tried to reach, and let them know your opinions on the matter. Please also ask them to cease the use of the Browser Upgrade Campaign redirect, as it will no longer serve the intended purpose.
What "web standards?"
The ones created by the World Wide Web
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Your choice of software may be out of your hands. However, if you do
have control over what software you are using you should consider
upgrading your browser. Doing so will improve your web experience,
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The following browsers support numerous web standards including CSS,
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Our Work Here is Done
By Aaron Gustafson | March 1st, 2013
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality.
When The Web Standards Project (WaSP) formed in 1998, the web was the battleground in an ever-escalating war between two browser makers—Netscape and Microsoft—who were each taking turns "advancing" HTML to the point of collapse. You see, in an effort to one-up each other, the two browsers introduced new elements and new ways of manipulating web documents; this escalated to the point where their respective 4.0 versions were largely incompatible.
Realizing that this fragmentation would inevitably drive up the cost of building websites and ran the risk of denying users access to content and services they needed, Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded WaSP and rallied an amazing group of web designers and developers to help them push back. The WaSP's primary goal was getting browser makers to support the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
In 2001, with the browser wars largely over, WaSP began to shift its focus. While some members continued to work with browser vendors on improving their standards support, others began working closely with software makers like Macromedia to improve the quality of code being authored in tools such as Dreamweaver. And others began the hard slog of educating web designers and developers about the importance of using web standards, culminating in the creation of WaSP InterAct, a web curriculum framework which is now overseen by the W3C.
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality. While there is still work to be done, the sting of the WaSP is no longer necessary. And so it is time for us to close down The Web Standards Project.
Many (if not all) of us are continuing to work in the world of web standards, but our work is now largely outside the umbrella of WaSP. If you are interested in continuing to work on web standards-related projects along with us, we humbly suggest you follow these projects:
- A List Apart – The magazine "for people who make websites" is run by WaSP founder Jeffrey Zeldman and is a consistent source of forward-thinking articles and tutorials.
- HTML5 Doctor – A solid resource and discussion forum on all things HTML5, brought to you by Bruce Lawson and his team.
- W3C Community Groups – If you have a passion for a specific web technology, you can help make it better by participating in one (or more) community groups. In particular, you might be interested in one of these: Core Mobile Web Platform, Responsive Images, Web Education, and Web Media Text Tracks.
- WebPlatform.org – A fantastic web standards resource, providing up-to-date documentation, Q&As, tutorials & more. Chris Mills, Doug Schepers, and a number of other standards advocates are involved in this project.
- Web Standards Sherpa – An educational resource founded by WaSP which continues to operate under the leadership of Chris Casciano, Virginia DeBolt, Aaron Gustafson, and Emily Lewis.
- Web Standards + Small Business – An outreach project started by WaSP that educates small businesses about why they should care about web standards. This project is overseen by Aaron Gustafson.
The job's not over, but instead of being the work of a small activist group, it's a job for tens of thousands of developers who care about ensuring that the web remains a free, open, interoperable, and accessible competitor to native apps and closed eco-systems. It's your job now, and we look forward to working with you, and wish you much success.
Nota bene: In the near future, we will be making a permanent, static archive of webstandards.org and some of our other resources like WaSP Interact to preserve them as a resource and to provide a record of our 15-year mission to improve the web.
Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth contributed to this post.
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Release Date: 11/23/2016
Running Time: 126 minutes
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An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty) for whom they work. It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen, songwriter, and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist.
Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
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Home sales and prices continued to climb in May, raising the prospect of a new housing bubble unless there is a significant increase in home building. "The home price growth is too fast, and only additional supply from new homebuilding can moderate future price growth," said Lawrence Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. He said there needs to be a 50% increase in home building. The median home price jumped 8% from the previous month to $208,000, according to NAR. While month-to-month price swings are not unusual, the year-over-year rise is now 15%, and prices are at levels last seen in the summer of 2008, just before the bursting of the housing bubble. May marked the 15th straight month of annual price increases, the first time that happened since May 2006. Related:Home prices post biggest gain in 7 years Home prices have been driven higher partly by a drop in foreclosures. Only 18% of home sales in the month were so-called distressed sales, which typically sell at a discount to market prices. A year ago 25% of sales were distressed sales. Overall sales rose 4% from April and 13% from a year earlier to an annual rate of 5.18 million homes in the month. Related:Venezuela money fuels Miami housing boom There are differences between this run-up in prices and the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis, said Gary Thomas, the Realtors' president. "The boom period was marked by easy credit and overbuilding, but today we have tight mortgage credit and widespread shortages of homes for sale," he said. The improved housing market and mortgage rates still near record lows, despite a recent rise in rates, is pulling buyers back in the market faster than it's prompting sellers to put homes on the market. Buyer traffic 29% above a year ago, but the supply of homes for sale is actually down 10%. That's caused homes to sell much more quickly -- only 41 days on the market on average in May, about a month faster than a year ago, with nearly half the homes being sold in less than a month. The warnings about prices rising too fast were a stark change from the Realtors' position during the heyday of the housing bubble, when the statement from officials generally cheered the steady rise in prices. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE:http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/20/news/economy/home-prices-sales-bubble/index.html?section=money_realestate READ THE POST ON LINKEDIN:https://www.linkedin.com/today/article?articleId=5753493299616837699&loadAction=share&trk=eml-ced-b-share-N-3&fromEmail&ut=1bCA9CVhgkZRM1 Best Regards, Las Vegas Real Estate Help © 2017 LVrealestateHELP.com All Rights Reserved.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
There's a Hole in My Head, But The Rain ISN'T Coming In... Yet.
This trouble stemmed from an accident I had on campus on Tuesday the 3rd. I recently moved into a new office in a quirky old building that used to be a carriage house. The corridors are narrow, there are several flights of stairs to be negotiated in order to get to the faculty offices and computer labs in the building, and, most significantly of all, there are low, vaulted ceilings in certain places. I walked smack dab into one of these ceilings while returning to my office from the copier room. I didn't lose consciousness but, as it turned out, the impact resulted in my brain literally being shifted several centimeters inside my cranium and blood and cerebrospinal fluid leaking into the space between the skull and the membranes protecting the brain.
I was still able to teach and drive the rest of the week, but Nicky and I began to notice some strange symptoms over the weekend. I began to have persistent headaches and seemed to be having trouble keeping my balance. When Nicky and I went out walking around our neighborhood, I tired more quickly and started dragging my left foot a bit behind my right. It almost felt as if the top and bottom halves of my body were moving at different speeds. I still wasn't overly alarmed. I attributed the headaches and general air of lassitude to the stress of starting a new academic year and having to get up early every morning. Once I got into the swing of the new schedule, I thought, all would be well.
On Tuesday afternoon the 10th, I had just started my Basic Statistics class and was going over a quiz with the students, perched on the edge of the desk in a half-sitting, half-standing position. I suddenly lost my balance and fell to the floor. Several students had to help me up, while another student went to get help from security. I had already been examined by a security guard on the 3rd, so the security personnel were aware of what had recently happened. They insisted that EMTs come and take me to the ER of nearby Sinai Hospital for evaluation. There, a CT scan confirmed the existence of the hematoma and a large quantity of fluid in my head. I was operated on the next morning and a suction drain was inserted into a small hole in my head to pull out the fluid and help my brain ooze (is that the right term?) back to its normal position. In the process, my hairline was shot to hell.
I felt OK after surgery, but I was still under the influence of pain medication. Once that wore off, the ordeal began in earnest. I was unable to keep food or drink down and began to experience a constant migraine-level headache. My blood pressure also spiked, leading us to believe that my kidney function had somehow been affected. In truth, my kidneys behaved well throughout. All of the pain and difficulty was caused by the negative pressure exerted by the head drain, leading to what's called a low CSF pressure headache. Even doses of morphine helped only a little. I endured for 36 hours before the neurosurgeon's assistant came on Friday afternoon and removed the drain, fixing the cranial battlefield up with staples and stitches after the fact.
Once the sucker (sorry) was gone from my dome, everything headed north with a vengeance. I could eat and drink again and my headache quickly subsided to the more typical "I haven't slept well or had caffeine in X days" version. Nicky was with me virtually the whole time, and my mother and three siblings were also on hand at various times to lend support and advocacy to my cause. Nicky did a wonderful job of keeping as many people as possible informed of my condition, both at Stevenson and elsewhere.
I'm now at home with instructions to stay out of work and avoid driving for two weeks while my head recovers from the surgery. I'm hoping to get back to teaching by October 1 if all goes well in my follow-up appointment with the neurosurgeon on the 24th. I should be able to resume "normal blogging activities" in another day or so. Thanks to all who were able to send good wishes during my hospital stay.
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- GeoX, one of the GeoX boys. said...
Gads--that's no joke. All the best wishes from me.
- September 18, 2013 at 2:02 AM
- Pete Fernbaugh said...
Glad to hear you're on the mend, Chris. It's amazing how a seemingly "little" accident could have such major repercussions.
Here's to a successful recovery!
P.S. I wonder if Scotty had similar after-effects following this bit of tomfoolery from STAR TREK V:
- September 18, 2013 at 10:30 PM
Hello, Chris:
I guess your experience shows how wrong all those stories and movies are, where the hero gets clouted on the noggin, goes down, then gets to his feet in thirty seconds and has no aftereffects at all, right?
Those pictures of your head after surgery would have fascinated my late father; he watched anything and everything on TV about operations, surgery, and so on. Each time he had a clinical, matter-of-fact air about the whole thing. However, I'm different. On viewing the pictures you posted my reaction was: "I didn't want to see that!"
Seriously, I'm sorry you had this trouble, but glad to hear that you are on the mend. And when staying home and doing nothing until the doctors let you go back to normal living, why not express yourself with that phrase created by Walt Kelly: Rowerbazzle!
Get well soon!
Richard Smyers - September 19, 2013 at 7:13 PM
- Chris Barat said...
God, don't remind me of Scotty's bumbling mishap! It crossed my mind at least once while I was in the hospital!!
Chris - September 19, 2013 at 8:45 PM
- Chris Barat said...
I did think a few times about whether or not to post those images. I ultimately decided that they weren't ALL that grotesque, but others' mileage, like yours, may vary...
Chris - September 19, 2013 at 8:46 PM
- Jim said...
Hi Chris--was just catching up on your blog a little bit and saw this post. Hadn't heard about your ordeal--hope you are now feeling 100% better. Thanks for all the interesting material you post on your blog.---JIM
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When deciding on to make an electric powered bicycle using a conversion kit, it is very crucial to take into account the start line; that is what form of bicycle are you going to transform? While most kits will match on any motorcycle, some bikes make better electric powered bikes than others. In this newsletter I will provide a few simple tips to help make this an easy selection and to prevent some primary mistakes.
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If you've decided to learn HTML 5 and are looking for a good introduction, I can't think of a better starting point than Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML 5. If Mark's name rings a bell, it's probably because you've heard of his books Dive Into Python and Dive Into Accessibility. As you can see, he's taken a theme and he's running with it.
Dive Into HTML 5 covers a number of topics, including:
- A quite biased history of HTML 5. Not necessary for HTML 5 development, but if you're the sort of person that likes to know the "back story", Mark covers it quite nicely.
- Detecting HTML 5 features. Your web apps will need to know if the browser they're running in supports specific HTML 5 features, and this chapter covers that.
- What the various tags (especially the new ones) mean.
- Drawing on the <canvas>. Now supported in IE9!
- The <video> element. Also supported in IE9!
- Geolocation.
- Local storage. Native client apps have had this as an advantage over web apps, but not anymore!
- Forms.
- Microdata.
- and coming soon: chapters on threads and web sockets.
Mark has a knack for explaining things, so I'm always happy to point people to his books. I consider Dive Into HTML 5 to be pretty comprehensive; you could create a course based solely on the material in this book, and thanks to the licensing, you can!
Dive Into HTML 5 is available for free online and is a work in progress. It seems to be largely complete with only a couple of missing chapters, and when it's done, it'll be available in a couple of forms:
- For free, online
- For money, in the form of an O'Reilly book
As with Dive Into Python and Dive Into Accessibility, Dive Into HTML 5 is published under a Creative Commons "By" 3.0 license. You can freely share the contents of the book and even take it and adapt it any way you please: into your presentations, into a lecture or blog article series, or even your own book on HTML 5 – as long as you give Mark credit for creating the original work.
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Fads in psychiatric diagnosis come and go and have been with us as long as there has been psychiatry. The fads meet a deeply felt need to explain, or at least to label, what would otherwise be unexplainable human suffering and deviance.
Fads in psychiatric diagnosis come and go and have been with us as long as there has been psychiatry. The fads meet a deeply felt need to explain, or at least to label, what would otherwise be unexplainable human suffering and deviance. In recent years the pace has picked up and false "epidemics" have come in bunches involving an ever-increasing proportion of the population. We are now in the midst of at least 3 such epidemics-of autism, attention deficit, and childhood bipolar disorder. And unless it comes to its senses, DSM-5 threatens to provoke several more (hypersexuality, binge eating, mixed anxiety depression, minor neurocognitive, and others).
Fads punctuate what has become a basic background of overdiagnosis. Normality is an endangered species. The NIMH estimates that, in any given year, 25 percent of the population (that's almost 60 million people) has a diagnosable mental disorder. A prospective study found that, by age thirty-two, 50 percent of the general population had qualified for an anxiety disorder, 40 percent for depression, and 30 percent for alcohol abuse or dependence. Imagine what the rates will be like by the time these people hit fifty, or sixty-five, or eighty. In this brave new world of psychiatric overdiagnosis, will anyone get through life without a mental disorder?
What accounts for the recent upsurge in diagnosis? I feel quite confident we can't blame it on our brains. Human physiology and human nature change slowly if at all. Could it be that the surge in mental disorders is caused by our stressful society? I think not. There is no particular reason to believe that life is any harder now than it has always been-more likely we are the most pampered and protected generation ever to face its inevitable challenges. It is also tempting to find environmental (eg toxins) or iatrogenic causes (eg vaccinations), but there is no credible evidence supporting either of these. There is really only one viable environmental candidate to explain the growth of mental disorder-the widespread recreational use of psychotropic substances. But this cannot account for the extent of the "epidemics," particularly since most have centered on children.
No. The "epidemics" in psychiatry are caused by changing diagnostic fashions-the people don't change, the labels do. There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder. What is diagnosed as mental disorder is very sensitive to professional and social contextual forces. Rates of disorder rise easily because mental disorder has such fluid boundaries with normality.
What are the most important contextual forces?
1. DSM-III made psychiatric diagnosis interesting and accessible to the general public. More than a million copies of each edition have been sold-more to ordinary people than to mental health professionals. The widespread appeal of the DSM is in its clear definitions that allow people to diagnose themselves and family members. For the most part, this has been a useful contributor to self-knowledge and to early identification and treatment. But it can also be overdone and inevitably leads to overdiagnosis in the hands of non-clinicians.
2. This interacts with the fact that it is fairly easy to meet criteria for one or another DSM diagnosis. The definitional thresholds may be set too low and the DSM system has included many new diagnoses that are very common in the general population. The experts who establish the DSM criteria always worry more about missing cases than about casting too wide a net and capturing people who do not require a diagnosis or a treatment.
3. The pharmaceutical industry has proven to be fairly unsuccessful in developing new and improved medications. But it is wonderfully effective at marketing existing wares and is an important engine in overdiagnosis and the spread of psychiatric epidemics. The drug companies are skilled at mounting a full-court press that includes "educating" doctors, "supporting" advocacy groups and professional associations, controlling research, and direct-to-consumer advertising.
4. Patient and family advocacy groups have played an important role in calling attention to neglected needs; in lobbying for clinical, school, and research programs; and in reducing stigma and promoting group and community support. There are times, however, when advocating for those with a disorder can spill over and promote the spread of the disorder to others who are mislabeled. The mental disorders all have unclear boundaries among themselves and with normality. Clinical experience and caution are necessary in distinguishing at the boundary who does and who does not meet the criteria for the diagnosis. Well-informed self-diagnosis or family diagnosis can play a screening role and is part of being a wise consumer. But self-diagnosis is usually far too inclusive and needs trimming and validation by a cautious clinician.
5. It is no accident that the recent "epidemics" have all occurred in the childhood disorders. There are two contributing factors. The first is the push by drug companies into this new market. The second is that the provision of special educational services often requires that there be a DSM diagnosis.
6. The internet is a wonderful communication tool that provides a wealth of information and creates a social network of informed consumers. But it can also contribute to the spread of "epidemics". Disorder-focused Web sites (often run by patients and families) provide a powerfully attractive forum and support system that draws people who may inaccurately self–overdiagnose in order to be part of the internet community.
7. The media feeds off and feeds the public interest in mental disorders. This happens in two ways. Periodically, the media becomes obsessed with one or another celebrity whose public meltdown seems related to a real or imagined mental disorder. The mental disorder is then endlessly commented on and dissected by the media. The latest example is the Tiger Woods media frenzy which will likely lead to an "epidemic" of "sexual addiction." Popular movies can also be contagious. Sybil helped cause a fad in multiple-personality disorder.
8. We live in a society that is perfectionistic in its expectations and intolerant of what were previously considered to be normal and expectable distress and individual difference. What was once accepted as the aches and pains of everyday life is now frequently labeled a mental disorder and treated with a pill. Eccentrics who would have been accepted on their own terms are now labeled as sick (with Asperger's) and in need of therapeutic intervention. Mental disorder labels can provide cover for societal problems. Criminal behavior has been medicalized (eg, rape as a psychiatric disorder) because prison sentences are too short and such labeling allows for indefinite psychiatric commitment.
All the above factors interact to produce follow-the-leader diagnostic fads that punctuate a general pattern of overdiagnosis. The definition of fad is "a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct especially one followed enthusiastically by a group." What makes something a psychiatric fad is that a psychiatric label seems to explain some common, nonspecific, problematic symptom or behavior, and that label is suddenly given to everyone. The fact that everyone is doing it reduces the stigma of the diagnosis and leads to more people getting the diagnosis. Then, like the old adage that if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, the new label gets twisted to fit cases which really don't fit it simply because the label itself is popular and accepted.
There is no objective way to determine what should be the proper rate of mental disorder in the general population. My view is that DSM-IV is almost certainly overinclusive, but I would not recommend tightening the criteria until we have clear evidence this would do more good than harm. The DSM-5 bias to thrust open the diagnostic floodgates is supported only by flimsy evidence that does not come close to warranting its great risks of harmful unintended consequences. It is too bad that there is no advocacy group for normality that could effectively push back against all the forces aligned to expand the reach of mental disorders.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 17 seconds There's now a wealth of digital technology available to support people with autism and intellectual or learning disability. But as a practitioner or parent of a child with autism and intellectual disability, how do you choose which are the best and most well suited of these technologies to support your child? What capabilities will your child need to get the best out of them? And what benefits can you expect to see? In this short, free online course, an international team of experts in autism, intellectual disability and technology assembled from Universities of Valencia, Necmettin Erbakan and Bath, will help you answer these questions. We've developed a wide variety of accessible resources, including films, articles, apps and activities designed to meet your particular needs.
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1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 2 LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5 "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you. 6 For, behold, I raise up the Kasdim, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. 7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour. 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand. 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it. 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."
12 Aren't you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?


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The statement, signed by 29 religious leaders from 19 European countries, was one of the outcomes of the Muslim-Jewish Leadership Council's General Assembly in Matera, Italy, which took place on 16 September and was co-organised by KAICIID and the City of Peace for Children Foundation.
On behalf of their religious communities, the signatories praised the European commitment to safeguard diversity but urged institutions and authorities to be vigilant and to "take steps to stop divisive and discriminatory discourse and hate speech, including Islamophobia and Antisemitism, designed to isolate our communities, make them appear foreign to Europe and its values or to set our communities against one another for political gain."
Based on the principles of European law, they called for equal treatment of all citizens, including Jewish and Muslim minority faith groups. MJLC members expressed deep concern at an "increasingly polarized political discourse and spread of misinformation in Europe which is endangering fundamental rights, provoking mistrust, and encouraging rising levels of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia with attendant hatred and discrimination on a political, social, legal and personal level."
The statement mentioned in particular the need to protect religious freedom by "refraining from setting limitations upon, or seeking to determine the practice of Muslim and Jewish faith through limitations to choice of clothing, preparation of food and the raising of children".
To avoid misrepresentations or misinterpretations of their faiths and to counteract discriminatory policies, MJLC members agreed to create two commissions that will work on issues of shared interest currently under scrutiny in different countries: one being kosher and halal food and the other, the wider practice of religious freedom. Commission members with technical expertise in each field will offer advice, gather data and provide communication material wherever challenges arise.
"We need to reduce prejudice by framing our perspective in the terms used by European institutions" Imam Yahya Pallavicini, President of Comunita Religiosa Islamica Italiana and Vice Chair of the Council explained. "On the other hand, these institutions should not compromise our identities by prescribing how faith is to be expressed if this can be regulated internally," he added.
The MJLC will also produce background documents on the links between Muslim and Jewish faiths on matters of common concern which should provide the basis for joint advocacy. "When we demonstrate that Muslims and Jews are cooperating deeply and systematically, and that we are and will continue to be Europeans, government institutions are far more willing to listen to us" noted Rabbi Fiszon, Chief Rabbi of Metz and Moselle, and Advisor to the Chief Rabbi of France.
The MJLC assembly took place in the context of the Pax Matera celebrations, organised during the lead up to United Nations International Peace Day and highlighting the city's status as a European Capital of Culture 2019. Following a meeting of an MJLC/KAICIID delegation with the Mayor of Matera, Mr. Rafaello de Ruggieri and the Catholic Archbishop of Matera-Irsina, the Most Reverend Antonio Giuseppe Caiazzo, the city announced it will be receiving European Jewish and Muslim religious leaders every year from now on, as a sign of solidarity and a commitment to peace.
Following last year's general assembly in Amsterdam, this encounter welcomed new and high level members, including the Council's first Italian Rabbi. Representatives of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom also participated in the meeting.


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Vermont has received $50 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) dollars to begin construction to improve 190 miles of track between St. Albans and Vernon on Amtrak's Vermonter line. The improvements will result in increased speeds, reduced travel time and greater reliability.
"President Obama's bold vision for high-speed rail will transform transportation in Vermont and the United States," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in a written statement. "This undertaking will not only create good jobs and help reinvigorate our manufacturing base, it's also going to relieve congestion on our roadways and reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
The $50 million ARRA grant awarded under the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) Program, will be used to install continuously welded rail and other track improvements, new crossties, highway-rail grade crossing safety improvements on track owned by the New England Central Railroad, a RailAmerica Inc. property. The improvements will also set the stage for more frequent service along this corridor and for extending the Vermonter service to Montreal, Quebec in the future.
"This cooperation between Vermont and the New England Central Railroad will immediately put people to work and means long-term infrastructure improvements," said Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo. "Achieving faster travel times, greater speed and increased reliability are the primary goals of our program, which this project will accomplish."
Amtrak's Vermonter service is an integral transportation link between Washington, D.C., New York City, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. Within the limits of this project approximately 80,000 people traveled on the Vermonter in 2009, and more than 80,000 thus far in 2010 with the service showing an average 16.2% increase in ridership.
"The number of passengers riding the Vermonter has been growing steadily," said Vermont Governor Jim Douglas. "This project will put people to work constructing the improvements necessary to shorten the length of time it takes the train to travel through the state, which in turn will make our Amtrak service an even more attractive option for busy travelers."
FRA has released more than $648 million of the $8 billion down payment provided in the Recovery Act for the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program