LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) – From traditional dresses to statement headdresses, royals and guests donned colorful outfits for the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III on Saturday, filling London’s Westminster Abbey with a mix of hues and designs.

The monarch wore the same crimson velvet robe of state worn by her grandfather King George VI during her coronation in 1937.

He changed into the ceremonial regalia worn by his predecessors for their coronations: a gold-silk full-length supertunica coat and coronation sword belt, and above it, a gold cloth imperial mantle, originally made for George IV’s coronation in 1821 and dated. Dress in service.

An embroidered white leather glove was placed on his right hand.

Charles was crowned with the historic St. Edward’s Crown, which has been used since the coronation of King Charles II in 1661.

Queen Camilla arrived in an ivory gown embellished with silver and gold floral embroidery by British couturier Bruce Oldfield over a robe of state made for the late Queen Elizabeth in 1953.

The two left the Abbey in purple robes of estate – Charles’, previously worn by George VI and Camilla, were designed by the Royal School of Needlework and featured nature-themed embroidery.

“For the first time, insects including bees, butterflies, a beetle and a caterpillar have been featured on the coronation robes, drawing on themes of nature and the environment, reflecting Their Majesties’ affection for the natural world,” Buckingham Palace said.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine, accompanied the heir to the throne and his wife in the ceremonial dress of the Guards of Wales, wearing silver and crystal leaf headdresses. turban

She and her daughter Charlotte wore ivory silk crepe frocks adorned with embroidered rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock motifs – a nod to the four nations of the United Kingdom designed by Alexander McQueen, the same label Kate chose for her wedding dress in 2011.

She paid tribute to the late Princess Diana, wearing pearl and diamond earrings that once belonged to her, and for Queen Elizabeth, a necklace commissioned by George VI in 1950.

Charles’ siblings wore traditional attire, while his nieces Princesses Beatrice, Eugenie, Zara and Lady Louise wore dresses or coats in fuchsia, blue and floral prints respectively.

Her son Prince Harry, no longer a working royal, wore morning clothes.

Celebrity guests included actress Emma Thompson in a red coat with rose motifs and American singer Katy Perry at Sunday’s coronation concert in Windsor, wearing a pink short-sleeved skirt with opera gloves and a hat.

Legendary actresses Maggie Smith and Judi Dench opted for different shades of blue. Singers Nick Cave and Lionel Richie wore three-piece black suits to Sunday’s concert, while actor Stephen Fry added some color with a yellow waistcoat.

There were traditional costumes from across the Commonwealth and the peers were dressed in red.

Black dresses were also popular with American and French first ladies Jill Biden and Brigitte Macron, who wore powder blue and pale pink respectively, while Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska opted for a sage dress and coat.

The abbey had colorful hats and charms in fuchsia, orange and red.

Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian Editing by Alexandra Hudson

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PHILADELPHIA — Later James Harden had a second straight terrible shooting night — the Philadelphia 76ers lost to the Boston Celtics for the second straight game in the Eastern Conference semifinals — and Joel Embiid sent a message to his point guard heading into Game 4.

Instead, the jury heard “Let’s Get It On,” a computerized version based on the original sheet music. It was a cold and disembodied performance, complete with a robotic voice that sounded like it was coming from a Speak & Spell doll – an eerie interpretation of one of the most sensual songs of all time.

4. Ed Sheeran showed two different sides.

Sheeran testified every day at the trial, and on the stand he was shown writing his songs with a guitar. He describes his determination as a 17-year-old aspiring musician to play every open-mic night in London, and says he writes eight or nine songs a day.

But Sheeran, 32, was belligerent and angry at times. He attacked the testimony of musician Alexander Stewart, who was testifying for the plaintiffs, as “incriminating”. Under cross-examination, plaintiffs’ attorney Patrick R. Frank was interrupted and questioned about his playing of Sheeran’s confession. you Would you believe this?”

5. Musicians can be mean to each other.

A key part of any music copyright trial is the testimony of musicologists hired as expert witnesses for each side, who present dry, concise analyzes of the music.

At the Sheeran trial, the two experts took every opportunity to bring each other down. Stewart, a professor at the University of Vermont, portrayed Lawrence Ferrara of New York University as persuasively struggling to find “prior art”—citations from music history.

Ferrara fired back. He dismissed Stewart’s estimate that 70 percent of “Thinking Out Loud” was taken from “Let’s Get It On” as “ridiculous” and “outlandish”. Stewart’s hypothesis that Sheeran mirrored some of Kay’s melodies, Ferrara said, “is, to be perfectly honest, ridiculous.” Ferrara said Stewart’s other decisions were “ridiculous” and “ridiculous.” For musicians, these are fireworks.

LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives faced local election results on Friday as voters punished his party after a year of political scandals, inflation and stagnant economic growth.

While ruling parties often struggle in mid-term elections, the UK’s council results will be the biggest, and last, test of voter sentiment before the next general election next year.

Only a quarter of the 8,000 council seats in the local bodies were counted, which are responsible for the day-to-day provision of public services such as bins and schools.

Early results, which did not affect the government’s majority in parliament, saw the Conservatives suffer a net loss of 218 seats, the main opposition Labor party gaining 118 seats and the Liberal Democrats gaining 57 seats.

Labor said in a statement that based on these local election results, it is on track to win the next general election with an eight-point lead over the Conservatives.

Sunak’s party lost to Labor in key target seats in the north and south of England, while the Liberal Democrats were making inroads in wealthier parts of the south.

The Prime Minister told reporters that the results so far show that the people want his ruling party to deliver on their priorities, but that it is still too early in the process of announcing the results to make firm decisions.

John Curtis, Britain’s most popular pollster, said based on the results so far, the Conservatives were in “significant electoral trouble” and could suffer a net loss of around 1,000 seats, in line with the party’s most pessimistic forecast.

The full picture of the parties’ position will not be clear until Friday, when most assemblies announce their results.

Battlefield areas

Sunak has sought to restore the Conservatives’ credibility since becoming prime minister in October following months of economic turmoil and strikes.

The Conservatives have changed prime ministers three times in the past year after Boris Johnson was partially ousted at parties held in government buildings during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and Liz Truss was ousted following a gamble on tax cuts that tarnished Britain’s reputation for fiscal stability.

Labor has made gains in some areas that supported leaving the European Union in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

In the early hours of Friday, Labor won control of Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent and Medway councils, three key battleground areas seen as vital to the party’s hopes of winning the next general election.

Sunak’s party lost control of at least eight councils.

Plymouth MP Jonny Mercer said it was a “terrible” night for the Conservatives.

The Conservatives lost over 1,300 seats when most of these local elections were last contested in 2019, which was expected to help reduce losses in these elections.

Gavin Barwell, a former Conservative minister and member of the Upper House, said the results reflected the political and economic turmoil of the past year.

Sunak “is improving but he started miles behind and he has a hell of a job to try to close the gap,” he told the BBC.

Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Michael Perry

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“With a murderer off the street, our families will sleep easier tonight,” said Mayor Will Arnold. “Now the work, passionately, begins to heal as a community, reclaiming our shared spaces and moving forward together.”

Mr. Dominguez lived in a house in Davis with several roommates and had lived there for a few years, the city’s police chief, Darren Baidell, said at a news conference Thursday. He was a third-year, biological sciences student at UC Davis who was “separated for academic reasons” on April 25, the university said.

Mr. any of the three victims. Chief Baidell said it was unclear whether Dominguez knew.

The first victim was David Henry Brooks, 50, a Stanford University graduate who slept outside and had been known to locals for years, including collecting and administering definitions of mercy. He was found dead around 11:20 a.m. on April 27 in a park just east of the UC Davis campus, where he regularly spoke to residents at the city’s farmers market. Commonly known as “the compassionate boy”, Mr. Brooks was stabbed “many, many times,” Chief Bydel said at a City Council meeting this week.

Two days after that first attack, Karim Abo Najm, 20, a computer science student at UC Davis, was killed on a bike path after an argument in a nearby park at 9:14 p.m. Saturday. A witness who lives near the track said he heard a disturbance and rushed to the scene to find the student bleeding from multiple stab wounds. A young, curly-haired man was seen scrambling to escape on the victim’s bike.

The next morning, Mr. Police arrested a 30-year-old “person of interest” within five blocks of where Abu-Najm was attacked, on suspicion of illegally carrying a concealed knife. Adjacent county for public intoxication and resisting arrest. But as authorities expedited DNA analysis of evidence found at two crime scenes, a woman in a homeless encampment east of the city’s downtown reported a third attack late Monday, saying she was stabbed multiple times against the wall of her tent.

E-commerce company Shopify (shop) topped analyst estimates on revenue and earnings for the March quarter early Thursday. Shop shares rose after the company announced the sale of its delivery and logistics business to Flexport.

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Increasing investments in the fulfillment/logistics business put pressure on Shopify’s stock. Analysts said Shopify may never catch up Amazon.com (AMZN)

“Shopify’s logistics efforts have been a point of contention with investors since the company announced it would enter the market in 2019,” William Blair analyst Matthew Pfau said in a note to clients. “Investors are concerned about the capital requirements of building a logistics network and the potential impact to margins.”

He added: “To add to the problem, Shopify has changed its logistics strategy several times, initially going with an asset-light model, then moving to a mixed first-party and third-party model, and then getting delivered. Accordingly, the sales logistics business is going to be well-received by investors because it Making Shopify’s story easier and more profitable in the short and long term.”

For the first quarter ended March 31, Canada-based Shopify earned one cent per share on an adjusted basis, down one penny from a year ago. Also, Shopify’s earnings per share rose 25% to $1.5 billion, the company said. Announced before the Shopify marketplace opens.

Analysts had expected Shopify to report a loss of 4 cents on revenue of $1.435 billion. A year ago, Shopify earned 2 cents a share on revenue of $1.20 billion.

Meanwhile, the sale price of the Shopify-Flexport deal was not disclosed. Flexport will provide logistics services to Shopify. Shopify owns a minority stake in the logistics business.

SHOP shares rose 21.1% to close at 56 in early trade on the stock market today. This indicates a breakout from the 49.96 cup-with-handle buy point.

Shopify Role: Downsizing Fees

Shopify said total merchandise volume rose 15% to $49.6 billion. Analysts forecast the figure to be $47.746 billion.

For the June 2023 quarter, the company expects “revenue to grow at a rate similar to the first quarter growth rate on a year-over-year basis.”

In addition, Shopify said: “We also estimate that we will take a severance charge of $140 million to $150 million in the second quarter of 2023 in connection with the reduction in personnel and the sale of the logistics business.

After collapsing in 2022, Shopify stock has advanced 34% this year.

Shopify builds e-commerce websites for small businesses, and partners with others to handle digital payments and shipping. Also, the company is building a US distribution network to store and ship products to its business customers.

According to Shopify’s earnings report, the company had a relative strength rating of 87 out of a possible 99. IBD Stock Checkout.

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Two days into the Writers Guild of America’s first strike in 15 years, union leadership gathered members for a “rowdy” and “boisterous” meeting. Wednesday night at LA’s Arena Auditorium.

The venue, which previously hosted events like the Academy Awards and the Grammys, drew 1,800 WGA members who gathered to hear from leaders about what led to a breakdown in negotiations between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. With representatives from six different entertainment unions in attendance, the rally turned into an inter-union solidarity rally. (The temple has a capacity of 6,300.)

“I’ve been around for 25 years and I’ve never seen all the unions united or on the same page,” said one organizer who attended. THR After hearing the leaders of each club speak. “They’re all so screwed by these companies that they know the only way to win is to stick together. It’s a million percent different than last time.

The LA event, which took place earlier at New York’s Cooper Union, opened with a standing ovation for the WGA’s lead negotiator, Ellen Stutzman, after the union’s executive director, David Young, of the western branch. On medical leave at the end of February.

“The only way we can beat these mother f–kers is if we do it together,” said Lindsey Dougherty, president of Teamsters Local 399. He was one of several industrial labor figures who joined the writers in the auditorium on Wednesday: In addition to the Teamsters, The Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA also sent executives to the meeting, while representatives from the International Labor Union of the North. USA, Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association and IADSE also emerged. The DGA and SAG-AFTRA’s contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expire June 30, which some industry insiders worry could lead to more strikes from one or both. “You told me to give up the profit on subscriptions?” DGA Negotiations Chair John Avnett said from the podium.

Dougherty added as he left the venue Wednesday night The Hollywood Reporter As the industry’s unions have faced the Covid pandemic and various bitter conflicts with entertainment companies in the last few years, “we all realized recently that the only way to beat them is [entertainment companies], speaking is being together. Because they do the same thing over and over again: they merge into AMPTP. We must unite as unions and guilds in Hollywood.

Showrunner Mike Schiff (relative) The gathering of labor leaders from across the unions marks a change since the guild’s last strike in 2007-2008. “In 2007, I thought there might have been some resentment.” While he says he never feels personal from colleagues, “Sure I’m like, wait, we want to work, what are you doing?” This year, “Having all those unions there, knowing that our fight is their fight, showing their support, and vice versa, that was really heartwarming.”

WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chairman Chris Keyser was the evening’s keynote speaker. While he shared that AMPTP doesn’t want to avoid using artificial intelligence, he doesn’t want to take new technology off the table that studios “want to use in the future.” . The guild has proposed regulating the use of AI, banning its use for writing or rewriting scripts, and ensuring that material from writers cannot be used to train AI. The AMPTP rejected the proposal and, according to the WGA, countered only by offering annual meetings to discuss advances in technology.

Keyser noted that AMPTP’s lead negotiator referred to free rewrites by screenwriters as “collaboration,” which seemed alienating to members. AMPTP’s agreement to provide script payment for employees drew strong support from the chamber. Staff writers currently only receive their weekly salary and are not compensated for their scripts.

The meeting, which began at 7:40 p.m., lasted several hours and included a question-and-answer session with WGA leaders, intended to explain to members the events of the negotiations that abruptly broke off on May 1, as well as to paint a picture. Writers have been waiting weeks for picketing and answering questions from members. Participants were given a prepackaged meal from Wolfgang Puck. “There’s always food,” said one, adding that another gave them extra food on their way out.

Sources inside the temple described the atmosphere as one of solidarity, with many members vowing to fight and remain committed to the guild. demands. “it is a Amazing An expression of unity and determination. I have never seen anything like this and I have been in this union for almost 25 years,” said another organizer THR From inside the arena. Several additional writers stood and remarked on the volume of applause: “I’ve lost count,” said one film and television writer on his way out. “The place was on its feet, roaring.” Jeff Roth, who recently wrote a film for Amazon, said, “The mood was rowdy, it was rough. People were getting shot.”

A staff writer experiencing his first strike as a member of the WGA added: “It’s wild. Great unity. All are hopeful and optimistic. All other unions rallied behind us. Picket lines cannot be crossed. They all stand by the WGA.

Corey Dashan and Isaac Gomes, who joined the guild in the past few years, became more enthusiastic about the WGA’s focus on alleviating the increasing pressures brought to bear on what became known as “mini rooms.” Recently worked with Amazon. They see the adoption of such reforms as linked to achieving a living wage. “The goalposts are being moved as reserved voices finally get access to this business, which is really fun,” notes Dashan.

After leaving the shrine, they felt that the responsibility was now in the studio to revive the talks. (Participants weren’t told when either side could return to the table.) “The big misconception of a strike is that the walkers are responsible,” Gomez said. “No, it’s the ones who don’t come to the table.”

Peter Hancoff, a WGA member since 1978, left the auditorium satisfied, noting that he was now on his fifth strike and that “this is the best union membership meeting I’ve ever been to — I’ve ever been to. A lot Among them. I’m not nearly as pessimistic. He added, “This is the tightest negotiating team I have ever seen. It feels cohesive. There is a feeling of victory. I haven’t felt that way every time.”

The picketing resumes Thursday at 9 a.m. PT in Los Angeles and at Broadway Stages in Brooklyn at 11 a.m. ET in front of several production locations.

His most successful on-air persona at Fox since the departure of Bill O’Reilly is a volatile mix of Earth’s upper crust and salt. Whiteness was the glue that held the package together, and even as Carlson tries to work through some inherent contradictions in this text, we can see it coming through seamlessly.

At stake is not the life or safety of the anonymous “antifa kid,” but Carlson’s own perception of himself. “It’s not good for me,” he thinks. That phrase, a syntactic echo of “that’s not how white men fight,” establishes the stakes, which are Carlson’s ethical virtue and not his racial superiority. Watching the beatings, he learns what Kipling called “the white man’s burden”—the duty to subjugate the supposedly inferior races without rising to their level.

The race of the beaten man is not mentioned in the text, but his otherness – his inferiority compared to both his attackers and Carlson – is repeatedly emphasized. “The Antifa creep is human,” he writes. It’s not exactly a surge of compassion, as Carlson is quick to qualify. “I hate what he says and does, I’m sure I hate him, and if I knew him personally, I shouldn’t rejoice at his suffering. I should worry about it.” Carlson doesn’t really care — and is actually happy — but he knows this reaction poses a problem.

This is a problem because he imagines that the joy he feels in the man’s suffering is in harmony with the man himself, not with those who make him suffer. If he’s happy to see Antifa creep, that makes him worse than Antifa creeps. Because that guy reduces “people to their politics”.

How can Carlson be sure of this? Isn’t that just a guess? Yes, but another way is to insist that your side shouldn’t behave this way, even if you prove otherwise. Reducing people to their politics is what the enemy – the other, the barbaric, the disrespectful – do. Even if it’s obvious what you’re doing, it’s not doing it that sets you above them.

“How am I better than him?” That question isn’t rhetorical, it’s existential, and it presents Carlson as both hero and victim in this story. To borrow a phrase Elvis Costello, this is someone who “likes to know the names of everyone better than him.” Not because of personal insecurity, but as a matter of racial and ideological policy. This is how white people fight.

(CNN) For the first time in the world, scientists have observed the moment of death Star Consumed a planet – a fate that awaits at the end Earth.

Although astronomers have previously seen planets just before and after they are engulfed by a star, this is the first time, according to a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. Technology.

“One of the first things I learned about in high school was that solar system planets would sink into the Sun in the future, so I realized that we might have found the first example of capturing a similar event in real time!” Kishaley T, a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told CNN.

This process causes a star to run out of fuel a million times its original size, engulfing any material in its wake. Astronomers observed this as a white-hot flash, followed by a long-lasting cooling signal, which they then concluded was caused by the star engulfing a planet.

“One night, out of nowhere, I noticed a star that had brightened by a factor of 100 in a week,” Dee said in a press release. “It was unlike any starburst I’ve ever seen in my life.”

The planetary extinction occurred in the constellation Aquila, about 12,000 light-years away. the planet The size of Jupiter, the researchers said.

They observed activity in May 2020, but it took a year to implement what they saw.

“One of the main sources we’re trying to understand is what creates the dust before and after the explosion,” Dee said. “However, it takes time for the gas to cool and begin to condense dust molecules.”

This meant the team had to wait to understand the properties of the dust, Di explained.

The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

‘Seeing Earth’s Future’

First, the signal showed up in data from the Palomar Observatory in California, then D searched for data on the same star from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, before using the infrared camera at the Palomar Observatory to gather more information.

“That infrared data made me fall off my chair,” Dee said, adding that the readings suggest the star may have merged with another star.

However, further analysis using measurements from NEOWISE, NASA’s infrared space telescope, revealed that the star had indeed consumed a planet.

“Historically, it’s been very difficult to have this kind of infrared data, because infrared detectors are expensive and it’s difficult to build large cameras. to take again and again Pictures of the sky,” Dee told CNN.

“However, we are on the brink of a revolution in infrared astronomy, and as many new instruments come online over the next decade, we hope to allow similar phenomena to be detected again and again.”

As a result, T believes that our knowledge can be further expanded.

“One of the key signatures we identified was the long-lasting infrared glow that followed the optical burst,” Di said.

“With larger infrared probes expected to become available in the future, we hope to be able to use the infrared emission as a way to identify every planet as it is embedded in our galaxy,” he told CNN.

Researchers say that our own planet will meet the same fate, but not for 5 billion years.

“We’re looking at the future of Earth,” Dee said in a press release. “If some other civilization were watching us from 10,000 light-years away as the Sun engulfed the Earth, they would see the Sun suddenly brighten, throw out some material, and see dust settle around it, then settle back down.”