Thursday, April 28, 2011

Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Caught Kissing (Photo)

Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Caught Kissing (Photo)

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart share a kiss in the backseat of their car as they leave an after party following the New York premiere of Pattinson’s new movie, “Water For Elephants.”

Kate Middleton's wedding dress

Kate Middleton and Prince William attend the wedding of Harry Meade and Rosemarie Bradford – it's a safe bet that she won't be in this colour combination on Friday. Photograph: Tim Rooke/Rex Features

After months of secrecy and speculation surrounding the royal wedding dress, the Guardian can today exclusively reveal that Kate Middleton will be wearing a vintage-inspired, bias-cut ivory Libélula gown designed by Sophie Cranston when she marries Prince William on Friday.

Or at least that's the consensus among the more than 3,000 people who have taken part in our wedding dress crowdsourcing exercise. At the time of writing, some 33% plumped for Cranston, followed by Alice Temperley (20%), then Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen and Bruce Oldfield (17% each).

This tallies with the Huffington Post's "exclusive revelation" last week that Cranston is the chosen designer (and Middleton did wear a Libélula coat to a friend's wedding in January). Meanwhile the Daily Mail has told us both that three gowns have been ordered and that Kate has actually designed the dress herself. Obviously none of you really know, but the wisdom of the crowd can sometimes be an accurate indicator (we did pretty well on the Apple iPad ahead of its launch early last year).
A clear majority of you (57%) think the dress will be ivory, with only 20% thinking Catherine will plump for white (it turns out, incidentally, that the equation of white with virginity is a recent notion – before Queen Victoria popularised the white wedding dress brides wore any colour, and blue denoted purity).
Plus, 67% of you think she'll go for sleeves rather than something strappy or a bandeau style, with the pro-sleeve brigade fairly evenly divided between short and long sleeves. As for headgear, a veil is favoured by a hefty 74%; the choice of tiara is more tricky – joint favourites (at 34% each) are the Queen Mother's Strathmore Rose tiara and the Cambridge Lovers Knot (given by the Queen to Princess Diana as a wedding gift and returned after the divorce), with the George III fringe tiara trailing behind at 22%.

Source: Guardian

Prince William and Kate Middleton Brand-New Portrait

Prince William and Kate Middleton Brand-New Portrait

Just hours before their big day, a beautiful, new black and white portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton has been released.
Taken by famed photographer Mario Testino, the image shows the couple casually dressed in similar matching white shirts and grinning from ear-to-ear as they get ready to walk down the aisle.
The picture is featured in William and Kate’s wedding program, which was released on Thursday and includes the following message from the soon-to-be married duo.
“We are both so delighted that you are able to join us in celebrating what we hope will be one of the happiest days of our lives,” it reads. “The affection shown to us by so many people during our engagement has been incredibly moving, and has touched us deeply. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone most sincerely for their kindness.”
It’s signed “William and Catherine.”

Massive storms kill over 200 in 6 states

Massive storms kill over 200 in 6 states

Dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South, flattening homes and businesses and killing at least 248 people in six states in the deadliest outbreak in nearly 40 years.
As day broke Thursday, people in hard-hit Alabama surveyed flattened, debris-strewn neighborhoods and told of pulling bodies from rubble after the storms passed Wednesday afternoon and evening.
"It happened so fast it was unbelievable," said Jerry Stewart, a 63-year-old retired firefighter who was picking through the remains of his son's wrecked home in Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Birmingham. "They said the storm was in Tuscaloosa and it would be here in 15 minutes. And before I knew it, it was here."
He and his wife, along with their daughter and two grandchildren, survived by hiding under their front porch. Friends down the street who did the same weren't so lucky — Stewart said he pulled out the bodies of two neighbors whose home was ripped off its foundation.
Alabama's state emergency management agency said it had confirmed 162 deaths, while there were 32 in Mississippi, 32 in Tennessee, 13 in Georgia, eight in Virginia and one in Kentucky.
President Barack Obama said he would travel to Alabama on Friday to view storm damage and meet with the governor and affected families.
The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it received 137 tornado reports into Wednesday night.
Some of the worst damage was in Tuscaloosa, a city of more than 83,000 that is home to the University of Alabama. Neighborhoods there were leveled by a massive tornado caught on video by a tower-mounted news camera that barreled through late Wednesday afternoon.
"When I looked back, I just saw trees and stuff coming by," said Mike Whitt, a resident at DCH Regional Medical Center who ran from the hospital's parking deck when the wind started swirling and he heard a roar.
On Thursday morning, he walked through the neighborhood next to the hospital, home to a mix of students and townspeople, looking at dozens of homes without roofs. Household items were scattered on the ground — a drum, running shoes, insulation, towels, and a shampoo bottle. Streets were impassable, the pavement strewn with trees, pieces of houses and cars with their windows blown out.
Dr. David Hinson was working at the hospital when the tornado hit. He and his wife had to walk several blocks to get to their house, which was destroyed. Several houses down, he helped pull three students from the rubble. One was dead and two were badly injured. He and others used pieces of debris as makeshift stretchers to carry them to an ambulance.
"We just did the best we could to get them out and get them stabilized and get them to help," he said. "I don't know what happened to them."
Back from an aerial tour Thursday morning, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said the tornado tore a streak as many as 4 miles long and a half-mile wide of "utter destruction." There are at least 36 people dead in the city's police jurisdiction, and searches continue for the missing.
"We have neighborhoods that have been basically removed from the map," he said.
Because the city's emergency management building was destroyed, authorities are using Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama as a command post.
University officials said there didn't appear to be significant damage on campus, and dozens of students and locals were staying at a 125-bed shelter in the campus recreation center.
The storm system spread destruction from Texas to New York, where dozens of roads were flooded or washed out. The governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia issued emergency declarations for parts of their states.
Dave Imy, a meteorologist with the prediction service, said the deaths were the most since a tornado outbreak killed 315 people in 1974.
In Alabama, where as many as a million people were without power, Gov. Robert Bentley said 2,000 national guard troops had been activated and were helping to search devastated areas for people still missing. He said the National Weather Service and forecasters did a good job of alerting people, but there is only so much that can be done to deal with powerful tornadoes a mile wide.
Obama said he had spoken with Bentley and approved his request for emergency federal assistance.
"Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by this devastation, and we commend the heroic efforts of those who have been working tirelessly to respond to this disaster," Obama said in a statement.
The storms came on the heels of another system that killed 10 people in Arkansas and one in Mississippi earlier this week. Less than two weeks earlier, a smaller batch of twisters raced through Alabama, touching off warning sirens, damaging businesses and downing power lines in Tuscaloosa, but there were no deaths there then.

In Kemper County, Miss., in the east-central part of the state, sisters Florrie Green and Maxine McDonald, and their sister-in-law Johnnie Green, all died in a mobile home that was destroyed by a storm.
"They were thrown into those pines over there," Mary Green, Johnnie Green's daughter-in-law, said, pointing to a wooded area. "They had to go look for their bodies."
In Smithville in northeastern Mississippi, the police station, post office, city hall, an industrial park with several furniture manufacturing facilities and a grocery store were among dozens of buildings ripped apart. A church was cut in half, and pieces of tin were wrapped high around the legs of a blue water tower.
Jessica Monaghan, 24, walked through the wreckage with her 9-month-old son, Slade Scott, strapped to her back, and the baby's father, 23-year-old Tyler Scott, by her side.
Their house was still standing, though the home belonging to Tyler Scott's mother was flattened. He was at work — he's a firefighter in nearby Tupelo — and Monaghan was at home watching TV when broadcasters warned the town could be hit within 10 minutes. By then, she said, the storm was there about that time.
"The baby was already in the closet. I grabbed the cat and got in the closet, too," Monaghan said. "You could just feel the pressure. It really was like a freight train."
And in Pleasant Grove, Samantha Nail surveyed the damage in the blue-collar subdivision where hers was the only home still intact. The storm slammed heavy pickup trucks into ditches and obliterated tidy brick houses, leaving behind a mess of mattresses, electronics and children's toys scattered across a grassy plain where dozens used to live.
"We were in the bathroom holding on to each other and holding on to dear life," Nail said. "If it wasn't for our concrete walls, our home would be gone like the rest of them."

Source: Yahoo

Illuminati Royal Wedding – Kate Gets New Coat Of Arms Complete With Pyramid

Kate Middleton’s family has had a coat of arms designed, which will feature on a souvenir royal wedding programme.

Her father Michael commissioned the heraldic design to mark his daughter’s marriage to Prince William on 29 April.

It features three acorn sprigs, one for each of the Middletons’ children: an idea Miss Middleton suggested.
Royal experts say the coat of arms – which cost £4,400 to make – marks the increased social status of her parents and her potential as a future queen.
Thomas Woodcock, Garter Principal King of Arms, from the College of Arms in the City of London, helped the Middletons with the design.
He said the oak tree was a traditional symbol of England and a feature of west Berkshire, where the family have lived for 30 years.
Mr Woodcock said the gold chevron in the centre of the coat of arms signified Miss Middleton’s mother, Carole, whose maiden name was Goldsmith.

Illuminati Royal Wedding – Kate Gets New Coat Of Arms Complete With Pyramid!

Source: Oddepedia

Beyonce faces £60m diva grinch lawsuit

Beyonce faces £60m diva grinch lawsuit

Beyonce has been branded a 'diva grinch' who caused 70 people to lose their jobs the week before Christmas, after allegedly pulling out of a video game contract.

Game company Gate Five are suing the singer for breach of contract claiming that she reneged on making dance game 'Starpower: Beyonce' after demanding more money.

Papers filed in court by Gate Five, who are claiming she lost the company $100 million in profits, accuse her of a 'breach of contract so callous that... she destroyed Gate Five's business, and drove 70 people into unemployment, the week before Christmas'.

The company also alleges that she 'made an extortionate demand for entirely new compensation terms she suddenly decided she wanted'.

The documents go on to say: "Her actions were so unscrupulous that her then manager... [her father, Matthew Knowles] renounced them, while a senior executive of the company that had agreed to finance the project condemned her conduct as 'morally reprehensible'."

Gate Five are seeking $7 million in compensation plus $100 million in lost potential profits.

Beyonce has yet to comment on the claims.

Source: Yahoo