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714,972 | theguardianuk--2019-11-19--Baillie Gifford prize won by Jack the Ripper study ‘reclaiming victims' voices’ | 2019-11-19T00:00:00 | theguardianuk | Baillie Gifford prize won by Jack the Ripper study ‘reclaiming victims' voices’ | Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for The Five, a book about the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper described by the judges as “a great moral act”. Dedicated to Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, the five “canonical” victims of Jack the Ripper, The Five sees Rubenhold untangle what she calls the “web of assumptions, rumour and unfounded speculation” that surrounds the women more than century after their deaths. Rubenhold’s argument – that there is no evidence that three of the women did sex work, despite the established narrative that the serial killer targeted prostitutes – has seen her become the target of online abuse, with some “Ripperologists” even comparing her to the Holocaust denier David Irving. With so many books focusing on the identity of Jack the Ripper, her intention in writing The Five was not to hunt and name the killer, she says. “I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to follow their paths through both the gloom and the light. They are worth more to us than the empty human shells we have taken them for … It is for them that I write this book. I do so in the hope that we may now hear their stories clearly and give back to them that which was so brutally taken away with their lives: their dignity.” Chair of judges and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Stig Abell said that despite the strength of the shortlist – which included from Casey Cep’s investigation into Harper Lee’s abandoned true-crime book, Furious Hours, and Azadeh Moaveni’s book on the women who joined Islamic State, Guest House for Young Widows – the panel was clear that The Five should win. “It’s brilliantly written and it’s brilliantly researched. It’s a great story and it’s a great moral act, reclaiming the voice of these women,” he said. “And it does speak to our times. I don’t think relevance should ever trump brilliance, but there is already brilliance. And it is so relevant now in terms of how crimes, particularly sex crimes and crimes against women, can be reported and considered and talked about.” Abell said he was particularly struck by the “utter tragedy” of the women’s stories. “These women … were trapped the circumstance of their gender and the circumstance of their birth; they were poor, neglected, they never really had a shot,” he said. “The arc of the tragedy is that you know the ending, you know it’s inevitable, but there are just these moments dotted through where you think, ‘Maybe if they could stick in that job, get a place, maybe if that relationship works out, if they can ditch the booze, everything will be all right.’ In the end, they are victims not just of this fetishised man, they’re ultimately victims because they were out on the streets, they were poor, they had no shot.” Rubenhold, who lives in London, becomes the seventh woman in 21 years to win the Baillie Gifford prize, which was formerly known as the Samuel Johnson award. She is the author of books including Lady Worsley’s Whim, which was dramatised by the BBC as The Scandalous Lady W, and Covent Garden Ladies, which inspired ITV’s Harlots. The Five has also been optioned for television. Speaking before she knew of her win, Rubenhold said of her subjects: “These were ordinary people, like you and I, who happened to fall on hard times. There’s so much in their stories that we can take away that tells us about how we live today: everything from homelessness to addiction to domestic violence. And people become victims because society doesn’t care about them.” Abell was joined on the judging panel by TV producer and journalist Dr Myriam François Oxford University professor of English literature Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, critic and biographer Frances Wilson, novelist Petina Gappah, and doctor and TV presenter Dr Xand van Tulleken. The remaining titles shortlisted for the prize were Laura Cumming’s On Chapel Sands, William Feaver’s The Lives of Lucian Freud and Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History, which won the Cundhill history prize last week. | Alison Flood | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/19/baillie-gifford-prize-won-jack-the-ripper-victims-hallie-rubenhold-the-five | Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:15:09 GMT | 1,574,219,709 | 1,574,209,581 | human interest | accomplishment |
772,796 | theindependent--2019-10-07--Nobel Prize for medicine won by British scientist Sir Peter Ratcliffe | 2019-10-07T00:00:00 | theindependent | Nobel Prize for medicine won by British scientist Sir Peter Ratcliffe | The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been won by William Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza. The three winners were awarded for their discoveries of “how cells sense and adapt to oxygen and availability”, which is one of the most vital processes for sustaining animal life. “The fundamental importance of oxygen has been understood for centuries, but how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen has long been unknown,” the Nobel Committee announced. “Thanks to the groundbreaking work of these Nobel Laureates, we know much more about how different oxygen levels regulate fundamental physiological processes.” Discoveries made by the trio of scientists have opened up new routes for researchers to understand and treat a huge range of diseases and conditions, ranging from altitude sickness to cancer. UK scientist Sir Peter Ratcliffe is the Director of Clinical Research at the Francis Crick Institute in London. His work with the two US scientists make them the 110th, 111th and 112th winners of the prestigious award since 1901. The announcement was made at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday morning. The prize is awarded each year to the person or group deemed to have made an outstanding discovery within the domains of life sciences and medicine. Recent winners have included James Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their work on cancer therapy, and Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of “mechanisms for autophagy” for cell regeneration. This year’s winners are awarded a gold medal, a diploma and a share of the nine million Swedish kroner (£740,000) prize money. It is the first Nobel Prize to be awarded in 2019, with prizes for physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economic sciences set to be announced over the next seven days. Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is widely tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize after gaining international recognition for campaigning to draw attention to climate change. The Swedish teen would become the youngest ever recipient of the award. | Anthony Cuthbertson | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nobel-prize-winner-medicine-peter-ratcliffe-william-kaelin-gregg-semenza-a9145721.html | Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:34:00 GMT | 1,570,451,640 | 1,570,465,138 | human interest | accomplishment |
777,810 | theindependent--2019-12-03--Turner Prize won by all four shortlisted artists as expression of solidarity amid 'political cr | 2019-12-03T00:00:00 | theindependent | Turner Prize won by all four shortlisted artists as expression of solidarity amid 'political crisis' | The Turner Prize 2019 has been awarded to all four of the shortlisted artists, in a shake-up similar to that of this year’s Booker Prize. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani made a joint request that the jury consider awarding them as a collective. A letter to the jury from the artists said: “At this time of political crisis in Britain and much of the world, when there is already so much that divides and isolates people and communities, we feel very strongly motivated to use the occasion of the Prize to make a collective statement in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity – in art as in society.” In recognition of the artists’ shared commitment to pressing social and political causes, the judges made the unanimous decision to honour the request and praised them for their commitment to “the collective power of art”. The jury’s statement said: “At our meeting today, we were presented with the letter from the artists and unanimously took the decision to agree to their request. We are honoured to be supporting this bold statement of solidarity and collaboration in these divided times. “Their symbolic act reflects the political and social poetics that we admire and value in their work.” The work of the four artists ranges from explorations of oppression to pieces that blur the line between fact and fiction. Beirut-based, British artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan describes himself as an “audio investigator” who gives performative lectures based on earwitness (as opposed to eyewitness) accounts from oppressed individuals. Helen Cammock, who also works with visual media and spoken-word performances, looks at how historic and past events can be perceived differently when recounted by different people reading a variety of texts. London-based artist Tai Shani organises performances and installations that offer a door into her gothic, surrealist worlds that blur truth and myth, with the intent of disrupting the white, western male perspective. Her largest work to date, Semiramis, is a city of women built by women. It was formed of 12 characters inspired by Christine de Pizan’s 1405 proto-feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies, in which an allegorical city is inhabited by real and mythical women who are not distinguished from one another. Colombian-British artist Oscar Murillo first caused a stir on the contemporary art scene six years ago, when one of his paintings fetched $401,000 at Phillips auction house in New York after being given an original estimate of $30,000. His work explores issues such as migration, community and exchange in a globalised world, drawing on his own personal history. His canvases are often made with recycled materials, and Murillo has often involved his family and friends in his performances. This year’s Turner Prize was presented by Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, at a ceremony at Dreamland in Margate. The exhibition of the shortlisted artists at the Turner Contemporary continues until 12 January 2020. Entry is free. | Roisin O'Connor | https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/turner-prize-winner-2019-lawrence-abu-hamdan-helen-cammock-oscar-murillo-tai-shani-a9231401.html | Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:33:00 GMT | 1,575,419,580 | 1,575,419,566 | human interest | accomplishment |
958,010 | thesun--2019-04-24--What is the London Marathon 2019 prize money what does the winner get and who has won the race in p | 2019-04-24T00:00:00 | thesun | What is the London Marathon 2019 prize money, what does the winner get and who has won the race in previous years? | ONCE again, thousands of runners will take to the streets to test their physical endurance and raise money for charity in the London Marathon. But for the professional athletes, there's a huge prize available for the first to cross the finish line of the gruelling 26 mile race. We reveal all... THE prize for finishing in first place of either the male or female race at this year’s marathon is £39,000. Second place receives £22,000 and third gets £16,000. Overall, there is £121,000 on offer for the elite runners. ANY runner in the men's race who runs a sub-2:05:00 time can get a share of £70,000. The same also goes for women who run sub 2:18:00. A further £17,600 is awarded to anyone who wins the race in a record time. And a total of £17,600 is awarded to first prize winners of the wheelchair races. There is also now £100,260 on offer to placing wheelchair competitors overall. THE London Marathon has been won by 20 runners representing the UK a total of 40 times. But a number of athletes from around the world have also claimed victory. | Holly Christodoulou | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/6118811/london-marathon-2019-prize-money-past-winners/ | 2019-04-24 13:40:01+00:00 | 1,556,127,601 | 1,567,541,919 | human interest | accomplishment |
976,653 | thesun--2019-08-13--Who won The Greatest Dancer series 1 what is the prize and is there still time to apply for next ye | 2019-08-13T00:00:00 | thesun | Who won The Greatest Dancer series 1, what is the prize and is there still time to apply for next year? | THE Greatest Dancer became an instant hit on BBC ONE when it premiered in January, providing a new form of Saturday entertainment for viewers across the nation. And with the news that the show is expecting to return for a second series, you’re probably curious to know more. Here’s all that we know. Ellie Ferguson is the 14-year-old contemporary dancer who was crowned the first winner of The Greatest Dancer. Winning the first series has given her the chance to appear on Strictly Come Dancing as part of her prize, according to the Daily Mail. And if that wasn’t enough, Ellie also won £50,000 for winning the series, but she reportedly planned on giving half of the amount to her dance teacher Jenni Inglis for helping her come so far. “I want to give half of it to my dance teacher and I want to use it to help me get to dance school”, Ellie gushed. Earlier in the series, Ellie had openly shared: “Dancing is everything to me. It takes up most of my life which I love because when I’m there I feel free and I enjoy it so much. “I love all my dancing friends and teachers, we are more like a family. Dancing is my future.” The winner of The Greatest Dancer is crowned with a trophy, £50,000 and a chance to perform on the forthcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing. It’s strongly believed that this could potentially even lead to a full-time position as a Strictly pro - depending on the winner’s age. Of course, that’s just a rumour, so we’ll see how far Ellie will go after she makes her Strictly debut. Ellie has already said she will give half of her prize money to her dance teacher for all her support and encouragement, which ultimately helped her to win the show. Unfortunately, if you planned to apply for the forthcoming series, you’re too late. Applications were open until August 4, 2019, according to Telly Mix, which saw thousands of fans send in their auditions in the form of a YouTube video clip. Soloists, groups and duos were all encouraged to apply as producers were on the hunt for even bigger and better talent for 2020. The second series has already started filming its first scenes, with Curtis Pritchard joining the show as its new receptionist. | Maurice Cassidy | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9716372/the-greatest-dancer-winner-prize-apply/ | 2019-08-13 20:11:40+00:00 | 1,565,741,500 | 1,567,534,282 | human interest | accomplishment |
982,277 | thesun--2019-10-10--Nobel Peace Prize winners – who won in 2018 and who else has taken the prize? | 2019-10-10T00:00:00 | thesun | Nobel Peace Prize winners – who won in 2018 and who else has taken the prize? | THE Nobel Peace Prize has been won by some of history's most famous and iconic figures like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Barack Obama. The award is one of five - including Chemistry, Literature, Physics and Medicine - set up by Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018? Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have won the 2018 Nobel peace prize. They were recognised for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon in war. The committee said Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege had been “the foremost, most unifying symbol both nationally and internationally of the struggle to end sexual violence in war and armed conflict”. Nadia Murad of the Yazidi minority in Iraq was captured by Isis, raped and subjected to other abuses. The committee said she showed “uncounted courage in recounting her own suffering”. The winners are receiving their award today, December 10 in Oslo, Norway. Who was in the running to win it? Trump was second favourite to win the award at 5-2 following his historic handshake with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Jong-un was fancied at 4/6 to take the prize, sharing it with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in. Others in the running for the prestigious peace prize included the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) at 16/1, Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont at 16/1, Angela Merkel at 9/4 and Pope Francis, also at 50/1. Vladimir Putin would have landed you with 50/1 with Ladbrokes. Ladbrokes odds for 2018 were as follows: What is the Nobel Peace Prize? According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". Nobel, who died in 1896, never said why he chose peace as a category, but it is believed he was trying to compensate for his arms manufacture past. The Nobel laureate receives a diploma, a medal, and about $1.5million. This year's winner will be presented with the award in Oslo, Norway, in December. It was given to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in 2017. Who has won the Nobel Peace Prize? The last 10 winners are: 2013: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 782 4368. You can WhatsApp us on 07810 791 502. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours. | Sam Webb | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4611731/nobel-peace-prize-2018-winner-past-winners/ | Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:30:04 +0000 | 1,570,725,004 | 1,570,713,487 | human interest | accomplishment |
1,017,478 | thetelegraph--2019-10-11--Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize with a 'bridge of love' and an unorthodox approach | 2019-10-11T00:00:00 | thetelegraph | Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize with a 'bridge of love' and an unorthodox approach | The Nobel Committee’s decision to award its Peace Prize to Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, marks a return to tradition. Mr Abiy is a peacemaker of the old school. For starters, he has actually signed a peace deal, agreeing a treaty last year to end Ethiopia’s long-running border conflict with its neighbour Eritrea. The war was a vicious one. Tens of thousands were killed, mostly in trench warfare, during the active phase of hostilities from 1998 to 2000. Although the war subsequently evolved into a frozen conflict, fighting along the border flared up periodically and the animosity between the two states spread instability across the Horn of Africa. | Adrian Blomfield | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/11/ethiopiasabiy-ahmed-won-nobel-peace-prize-bridge-love-unorthodox/ | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:28:08 GMT | 1,570,800,488 | 1,570,803,289 | human interest | accomplishment |
189,149 | eveningstandard--2019-11-13--Sexiest Man Alive winners: The 32 men who have won the People award from Mel Gibson to John Legend | 2019-11-13T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Sexiest Man Alive winners: The 32 men who have won the People award from Mel Gibson to John Legend | Congratulations are in order for Chrissy Teigen's husband, John Legend, who has been named People's Sexiest Man Alive. Teigen has already celebrated accordingly by changing her Twitter bio to "currently sleeping with People's sexiest man alive" and promptly tweeted, "the sexiest man alive just made me a ham sandwich." To celebrate Legend's legendary win (he's already an EGOT winner, so now his awards shelf truly is complete), we've rounded up some of the most memorable - sexy is for you to decide, dear reader - winners from over the years, from the first ever (spoiler alert: it was a real doozy) to Legend's fellow Voice coaches. Who could forget People's first ever Sexiest Man Alive? While the publication probably wishes they could, the cover lasts forever. In 1985, a 29-year-old Mel Gibson received the honor. Of course, this was many years before he was accused of going on anti-Semitic and misogynist rants. In fact, it was so long ago, he had yet to star in Braveheart, which came out a decade later. Back in the 80s, he was mostly known for Mad Max. JFK Jr. was possibly the most deserving winner of the award. Sorry to Blake Shelton. In the extremely 1980s article, which features plenty of thirst traps of the political progeny, a neighbor describes JFK Jr. by saying "He’s got an extremely good body." This was before the Mission Impossible star was most famous for jumping on couches. The Dirty Dancing star deserved the honor - I mean, have you seen him lift up Baby? While this might seem like a surprising choice now, it made sense back in the day, according to People at least. The magazine explained his charm by describing him as a "big-lug Adonis with the heart of gold." He won twice. Armie Hammer has never won at all. Anyone who has seen Channing Tatum dance to 'Pony' would certainly agree. Unsurprisingly, Magic Mike, his movie about a male stripper with a heart of gold who just wants to do woodworking, came out the same year he won. The Maroon 5 lead singer made the list back in 2013, proving that starring on The Voice is a surefire way to be deemed sexy by American women. Perhaps the show's host Carson Daley should win next year. When Legend's fellow Voice judge Blake Shelton was voted People Magazine‘s Sexiest Man Alive, he told the magazine, “Y’all must be running out of people." It is a suitable reaction from an Oklahoma fellow who finds it acceptable behavior to wear jeans on the red carpet alongside his real stunner of a GF, Gwen Stefani. In a well-deserved win, Elba took the award home last year. He described his journey to sexiness to the mag, saying, "I got picked on a little bit. But as soon as I could grow a mustache, I was the coolest kid on the block. Grew a mustache, had some muscles, bonkers.” Of course, the Cats trailer had yet to come out when this was announced... | Margaret Abrams | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/peoples-sexiest-man-alive-the-32-men-who-have-won-it-before-from-mel-gibson-to-john-legend-a4286406.html | Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:11:00 GMT | 1,573,686,660 | 1,573,691,815 | human interest | accomplishment |
715,657 | theguardianuk--2019-11-24--Writing is tough. My book went so unnoticed I won an award for it | Ilka Tampke | 2019-11-24T00:00:00 | theguardianuk | Writing is tough. My book went so unnoticed I won an award for it | Ilka Tampke | Only standing naked under floodlights in the middle of a football stadium would feel more exposing than publishing a novel. In those first crucial weeks after the release date, the author is poised in nail-biting suspense, waiting to see if their creative baby will sink or swim. With sales data notoriously slow to arrive, how can you tell that your novel is not quite setting the world on fire? The realisation usually comes slowly. First there is the conspicuous absence of reviews, publicity spots and invitations to literary festivals. Then there is the all-too-swift removal of your title from the glamorous New Release section of the bookstore, and its relegation to the densely packed Australian fiction shelves in the bowels of the shop. Lastly and most humiliatingly, you see that the single copy of your book has been turned perpendicular to the wall, now only visible by its spine. At this point you know your novel has lived its short, inglorious life and there will be only a few more spluttering sales before it passes into the annals of the entirely ignored. Fiction writers are a sensitive bunch, and the porousness of our imaginations is often close cousin to a fragile ego. When people ask how our books are going, those of us who are not Trent Dalton affect a casual insouciance, shrug our shoulders and say, “I’m not sure really,” or “haven’t seen any figures yet”. Anything to avoid the awkward truth, which is: “The book to which I gave three years of my life and a small chunk of my soul has become the literary equivalent of a bespectacled girl sitting longingly on the bench at the school dance.” So imagine my consternation when I was nominated for an award that broadcast to all the world (well, at least my modest number of followers on social media) that my book had been so unnoticed that it was worthy contender for the Most Underrated Book of 2019. How embarrassing. And not only for me. I avoided tweeting too loudly about it, in case my publicist felt bad, and thought she hadn’t done an awesome job (she had). The reactions of my family and friends did nothing to bolster my spirits when I told them I’d been shortlisted. Responses ranged from, “Wait, is that a joke?” to my mother’s hushed silence, followed by, “I’m so sorry, darling.” Witty quips followed like, “better than being overrated” or “don’t underrate being underrated”. Then the mental cogs would slowly turn and they would say, “hey, that’s actually a good thing!” And it is indeed a good thing. Because, jokes aside, this award is saying that my novel is worthy of more attention than it received. And that’s not embarrassing at all. In fact, it is one of the most heartening and galvanising things that a writer can hear. Very few writers are motivated solely by the desire for recognition. It is lovely if it happens, but it cannot be the reason we sit down every day to stare at a screen and be immersed for hours in the soup of our thoughts. Most of us are motivated by the power of an idea, an image, a character, a world, a moral conundrum. This engages our imagination so deeply that we are willing to stay with it for the years it may take to find its most artful expression. In my case, the idea was about the powerful, animistic tribes of ancient Britain and their passionate war against Roman invasion. The completion of a novel brings an end to the creative relationship we have with our idea, but publication gives it a chance to be sustained in the imagination of readers. This is what fuels a fiction writer: the ongoing life of the ideas we love. The saddest thing about a book failing to reach an audience is not the wound to the ego, but the ending of the conversation. The gift of the Most Underrated Book Award is that it gives my idea a second life. It says that the conversation begun by my book is worth continuing. It is a quietly handsome, yet sensitive man, walking over and finally asking my bespectacled girl to dance. I have read my fellow shortlistees and am delighted to have had their work brought to my attention. In an industry that is fiercely competitive, it is a reminder to practice mindfulness, to make the time to notice what has fallen through the cracks of publishing hype. To remind ourselves that listening to the quiet voices can be deeply rewarding. I’m not sure whether being officially underrated will mean my book gets turned cover-out on bookshelves. But it does mean that I sit down at my desk each day with renewed motivation and a willingness to don my taffeta ball dress all over again. Don’t underrate being underrated. • Ilka Tampke’s novel Songwoman came out last year through Text Publishing and won the Most Underrated Book Award at this year’s SPN Independent Publishing Conference | Ilka Tampke | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/writing-is-tough-my-book-went-so-unnoticed-i-won-an-award-for-it | Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:00:28 GMT | 1,574,632,828 | 1,574,643,334 | human interest | accomplishment |
744,358 | theindependent--2019-01-31--Diana Athill literary editor and novelist whose memoir won the Costa Award for biography aged 91 | 2019-01-31T00:00:00 | theindependent | Diana Athill: literary editor and novelist whose memoir won the Costa Award for biography aged 91 | The renowned literary editor Diana Athill worked with some of the finest writers of the 20th century, including Margaret Atwood and John Updike – before establishing herself as an award-winning memoirist of love, sex, childhood and ageing. Athill, who has died aged 101, was very much the grande dame of British letters. She spent much of her career as a literary midwife, working with writers to turn rough drafts into bound books. Raised in privilege on a Georgian estate in the Norfolk countryside, she worked at the BBC during the Second World War before helping her friend and former lover André Deutsch, a Hungarian emigrant, establish the independent publishing house that bore his name. Originally known as Allan Wingate, the firm came to prominence in 1949 publishing Norman Mailer’s expletive-filled novel The Naked and the Dead, which rendered a certain four-letter word as “fug” and was briefly held up by a court injunction. Re-christened André Deutsch Ltd, the publishing house went on to release works by Brian Moore, VS Naipaul and Mordecai Richler before anyone else, and was the first British publisher of Atwood, Philip Roth and Updike. Its editorial decisions were guided in large part by Athill, who was known for her deft touch with manuscripts and authors who also included Jack Kerouac, Molly Keane and Jean Rhys, who was struggling with alcoholism and debt when Athill helped her complete her 1966 masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But her disciplined approach to editing was matched by an unconventional personal life, in which Athill maintained a slew of romantic relationships with married men and some of her own writers. Being “the other woman”, she said, “was what I was best at” – a state of being that offered her “love with all the plums and none of the pudding”. Athill’s romantic life and celebrated editing career served as twin threads in her eight memoirs, works of unsentimental, crystalline prose that earned her a devoted audience in recent years, even as they shocked some readers who expected more demure material from a nonagenarian writer. Romance, she wrote, had been at the centre of her life since the age of four, when she spied the brown-eyed “gardener’s boy” from a bathroom window and, in a childish effort to draw his attention, spat on his head. “He felt it, looked up, those beautiful brown eyes met mine – and I shot out of the lavatory, scarlet and breathless with excitement,” Athill later wrote. “After which I was never, so far as I can remember, out of love.” Her first memoir, Instead of a Letter (1962), centred on her engagement to Tony Irvine, an Oxford student she met aged 15 when he was tutoring her younger brother. The two later became engaged, but after he was posted to Egypt as a pilot during the war, Tony – dubbed “Paul” in the book – went two years without answering her letters. Eventually he told her he was marrying someone else, and he died when his plane crashed in Greece. “My soul shrank to the size of a pea,” Athill wrote. For two decades, she said, she felt unworthy of love, devoid of joy even as her editing career took off. “If at any time during those 20 years someone had stopped me and said, ‘What is the truth about your life?,’ I would have said, ‘It’s a failure’,” she told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She bolstered her confidence by writing after work, following Rhys’s suggestion that writers had to be totally honest about their experiences. After a few short stories she completed Instead of a Letter in a rush that left her invigorated, even as it scandalised her button-down mother. “The reader feels that what he is reading is as true a portrait of the writer and her experience as any words on paper can achieve,” journalist and literary editor Ian Jack later wrote in The Guardian. Athill, he added, “opened up what could have been a narrow story of injury and self-absorption into a book that takes pleasure in the world.” Athill’s subsequent memoirs drew similar praise but generally attained only a cult following. That changed in her early nineties, when she received a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Costa Award for biography for 2009’s Somewhere Towards the End. A frank memoir of old age, it was a bestseller and made the elegant, white-haired Athill a literary star. The book was inspired by a realisation that memoirs, including several of her own, tended to focus on youth; there were few books, she said, about growing old. “There are no lessons to be learned, no discoveries to be made, no solutions to offer,” she concluded. “I find myself left with nothing but a few random thoughts. One of them is that from up here I can look back and see that although a human life is less than the blink of an eyelid in terms of the universe, within its own framework it is amazingly capacious so that it can contain many opposites. One life can contain serenity and tumult, heartbreak and happiness, coldness and warmth, grabbing and giving – and also more particular opposites such as a neurotic conviction that one is a flop and a consciousness of success amounting to smugness.” The oldest of five children, Diana Athill was born in London in 1917, during a Zeppelin raid. Her father served in the army, and her mother was a homemaker who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an affair, Athill said. Raised at Ditchingham Hall, her grandmother’s estate in Norfolk, she went on to read English at Oxford, graduating in 1939. She met Deutsch at a party after the war, and they worked together for nearly 50 years. The publishing company they built together is now an imprint of Carlton Publishing Group. Athill’s other books included a novel and story collection, as well as two memoirs: After a Funeral (1986), about her friendship and love affair with Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali, who committed suicide in her apartment in 1969; and Make Believe: A True Story (1993), about her relationship with African-American writer Hakim Jamal, a disciple of Malcolm X who was murdered in 1973. After retiring from editing, she wrote Stet: An Editor’s Life (2000), Yesterday Morning (2002), a recollection of her childhood, and Alive, Alive Oh! (2015), which described a miscarriage that nearly killed her when she was 43, as well as her painful decision to move into an old people’s home at 91. She never married, but spent four decades living with, and eventually caring for, Barry Reckord, a Jamaican playwright she often described as her lodger. He died in 2011. | Emily Langer | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/diana-athill-dead-obituary-literary-editor-costa-award-somewhere-towards-the-end-a8754671.html | 2019-01-31 09:49:00+00:00 | 1,548,946,140 | 1,567,550,097 | human interest | accomplishment |
1,032,211 | theverge--2019-01-08--A womens sex toy won an award from CES until they stole it back | 2019-01-08T00:00:00 | theverge | A women’s sex toy won an award from CES, until they stole it back | The sex toy company Lora DiCarlo had planned to present its debut product at CES this week alongside a plaque for winning one of the show’s Innovation Awards. But neither of those things happened — the organizers behind CES revoked the award and the company’s ability to exhibit at the show, then gave a bunch of ridiculous reasons for why it happened. Lora DiCarlo’s first product, the Osé Robotic Massager, won the “honoree” designation in the robotics and drones category of the CES Innovation Awards, according to the company’s founder, Lora Haddock. The awards are supposed to be determined by an independent panel that ranks a series of products, with any product that gets a high enough score becoming an honoree. Sex tech has been at CES for years But after ranking high enough and winning the designation, Lora DiCarlo was apparently told that its product didn’t comply with the rules. The show’s and award’s organizer, the Consumer Technology Association, allegedly cited rules saying products that are “immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with CTA’s image will be disqualified.” It then backtracked and said the product simply didn’t fit in the robotics and drones category. CES has long failed to include and represent women. While organizers have slowly come around to prohibiting companies from hiring “booth babes,” the show didn’t feature any women as keynote speakers during its past two years (two were later added in 2018 after criticism) and just one-fifth of 2018’s attendees were women. Mashable wrote last January that “CES still fuels the sexist narratives so many have worked to change over the last year.” Having Lora DiCarlo at the show would have helped. The company is founded by and almost exclusively run by women. Its massager is also designed for women. CTA spokesperson Sarah Brown said in an email that the award was revoked because “the product does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted for the Innovation Awards Program.” Brown also told TechCrunch that the company isn’t allowed to exhibit “because they don’t fit a product category.” We’ve asked for clarification on why other sex tech companies are allowed to exhibit, but haven’t received a response. This controversy is absurd for a handful of reasons. For one, sex toys and sex tech have regularly been featured at CES. One CES event in 2016 featured an oral sex simulating device, the company OhMiBod has shown its sex toys for years, and the film producer Naughty America has even been able to show private VR demoes. On top of that, CES’s Innovation Awards are borderline meaningless — walking around the show floor, it can seem like every exhibitor has one, and it’s surprising to hear that the CTA takes any real oversight whatsoever when distributing the awards. But most of all, it’s just a foolish move for an association that ought to be promoting inclusivity in tech. This morning, the Consumer Technology Association even opened a $10 million venture fund focused on “women, people of color, and other underrepresented startups and entrepreneurs” to help improve representation. The CTA ought to take a harder look at its flagship trade show, too. | Jacob Kastrenakes | https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/8/18173954/ces-lora-dicarlo-sex-toy-award-revoked | 2019-01-08 19:15:53+00:00 | 1,546,992,953 | 1,567,553,395 | human interest | accomplishment |
159,413 | eveningstandard--2019-01-14--TS Eliot Prize awarded to Hannah Sullivan for aposastonishing debutapos Three Poems | 2019-01-14T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | TS Eliot Prize awarded to Hannah Sullivan for 'astonishing debut' Three Poems | Hannah Sullivan has been named the winner of the 2018 TS Eliot Prize. She picked up the £25,000 prize for her debut collection, Three Poems, which was described by the judges as “astonishing”. Sinead Morrissey, who was this year’s Chair of the Judges, said that the collection “[challenges] the parameters of what poetry can do.” “Her collection stood out even amongst this year’s outstanding and diverse shortlist. Rarely has such a significant poet arrived so fully-formed,” she said. Morrissey, who won the TS Eliot Prize herself in 2013, announced the winner at a special ceremony at the Wallace Collection. It followed from a night of readings at the Southbank Centre, where all ten poets read from their work in the Royal Festival Hall. Sullivan’s collection consists of three long-form poems that manage to feel both epic and intimate, with youth, motherhood, death and philosophy among in its themes. She also works as a Professor of English at the University of Oxford, where she has won awards for her academic research into modernist approaches to literary style. Of the ten collections shortlisted for this year’s prize, five were for debuts; as well as Sullivan, these were Richard Scott’s Soho, Zaffar Kunial’s Us, Fiona Moore’s The Distal Point and Phoebe Power’s Shrines of Upper Austria. Also shortlisted were Nick Laird’s Feel Free, Sean O’Brien’s Europa, Tracy K Smith’s Wade in the Water, Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin and Ailbhe Darcy’s Insistence. Each shortlisted poet receives £1,500 in recognition for their achievement. This, as well as the winner’s prize money, is award by the TS Eliot Foundation. Sullivan’s win marks the second year in a row that a debut collection has won the prize; last year it went to Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong for his first collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds. | Jessie Thompson | https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/ts-eliot-prize-winner-2018-hannah-sullivan-three-poems-a4038626.html | 2019-01-14 17:05:35+00:00 | 1,547,503,535 | 1,567,552,514 | human interest | accomplishment |
88,376 | channel4uk--2019-04-09--D-Day switchboard operator to be awarded Legion dhonneur at 92 | 2019-04-09T00:00:00 | channel4uk | D-Day switchboard operator to be awarded Legion d’honneur at 92 | In June it will be 75 years since the D-Day landings. As part of the commemorations in Normandy, one 92-year-old Londoner will be given France’s highest military order of merit for her role in the communications HQ that co-ordinated the invasion to liberate western Europe from the Nazis. We went to meet her at her south London home, and started by asking what exactly her role was. | Jon Snow | https://www.channel4.com/news/d-day-switchboard-operator-to-be-awarded-legion-dhonneur-at-92 | 2019-04-09 19:05:11+00:00 | 1,554,851,111 | 1,567,543,468 | human interest | accomplishment |
139,733 | democracynow--2019-10-14--Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, Awarded Nobel Prize, Celebrated for "Remarkable Change" in Horn of Africa | 2019-10-14T00:00:00 | democracynow | Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, Awarded Nobel Prize, Celebrated for "Remarkable Change" in Horn of Africa | Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the 100th Nobel Peace Prize in an announcement Friday morning. The prime minister last year helped broker a historic peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea, where leaders of the neighboring countries signed a “Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship” and declared an end to nearly two decades of a “state of war” that lasted from 1998 to 2000 and killed 70,000 people. Soon after the peace declaration was signed, the first direct flights between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years took off from Addis Ababa, headed to Eritrea’s capital Asmara. Ahmed has also lifted the state of emergency, released thousands of political dissidents from prison and appointed women to a record 50% of cabinet positions. We speak with Awol Allo, an associate professor at the Keele University School of Law in the U.K. His recent article for Al Jazeera is titled “Why I nominated Abiy Ahmed for the Nobel Peace Prize.” | [email protected] (Democracy Now!) | http://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/14/awol_allo_abiy_ahmed_nobel_prize | Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:48:44 -0400 | 1,571,057,324 | 1,571,062,612 | human interest | accomplishment |
170,739 | eveningstandard--2019-04-06--Parsons Green Tube bomb Army hero awarded Queenaposs honour for bravery after rushing into afterm | 2019-04-06T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Parsons Green Tube bomb: Army hero awarded Queen's honour for bravery after rushing into aftermath of attack | An Army officer who rushed into the aftermath of the Parsons Green tube bombing has been awarded an honour for bravery. Lieutenant Colonel Craig Palmer, 50, ran towards the explosion on the District Line train in London on September 15 2017 and his bravery helped bring the terrorist attacker to justice. The married father-of-three, who was awarded a Queen's Commendation for Bravery, is among several soldiers to be handed honours, the Ministry of Defence has announced. Lt Col Palmer, originally from Fairfield, Stockton-on-Tees, was two carriages from the bomb planted by Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan, 18, who has since been jailed for life. He said: "As the train came in to Parson's Green there was a flash and a commotion and lots of screams and people came charging down the platform running for the exits, but my instinct was to stand-fast." The Royal Regiment of Artillery officer, who has been in the forces for more than 26 years, said previous terror attacks, including at Westminster Bridge, combined with his military experience, had "conditioned" him to act. He said: "I couldn't see a terrorist, but I could see what I thought was a burning bomb and realised the terrorist must be on the run. "I saw horrified people, school children, all running past me - and from my previous operational experience I knew that the first few moments after any incidents are crucial to gathering evidence. "So I went into the carriage, there was no one else there, and I could see that there was a bomb in a Lidl carrier bag on the floor, so I took three pictures of it on my phone and left the carriage straight away to let the police know what I'd seen. "It was still venting fumes and could have gone off at any moment. It was a calculated risk - army officers are in the business of taking such risks, and I thought there's a 50/50 chance that if it goes off I die." Lt Col Palmer, whose award is for non-operation gallantry, later gave evidence at the trial which led to Hassan's conviction. Others honoured include Acting Lance Corporal Jacob Francis Campbell Fisher, who was given a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service. He saved the lives of several Somali soldiers after an open-backed truck accident on February 25 2018, when he was part of an operation to train troops in the African country. The then "inexperienced" Combat Medical Technician, from the Royal Army Medical Corps, "took ownership" of the situation as nine Somali troops received life-saving treatment, and there were no fatalities. Lance Corporal Lewis Staton, 30, who also served in Somalia, was awarded an MBE for his work in a team training the Ethiopian National Defence Force and other soldiers from the African United Mission. The father-of-two, from Wirral, Merseyside, who is in the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, said receiving the honour "still hasn't sunk in". Staff Sergeant Patrick Robert Jean Lia, from the Corps of Royal Engineers, and Colonel Sion Duncan Walker, a Reservist, were both given a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service. | Ella Wills | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/parsons-green-tube-bomb-army-hero-awarded-queens-honour-for-bravery-after-rushing-into-aftermath-of-a4110946.html | 2019-04-06 07:48:00+00:00 | 1,554,551,280 | 1,567,543,750 | human interest | accomplishment |
192,274 | eveningstandard--2019-12-10--Richard Curtis and Sting to be awarded first Global Citizen Prizes at Royal Albert Hall | 2019-12-10T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Richard Curtis and Sting to be awarded first Global Citizen Prizes at Royal Albert Hall | Richard Curtis and Sting are to be awarded the first Global Citizen Prizes at a huge event featuring stars from Stormzy to John Legend at the Royal Albert Hall. Global Citizen is an international advocacy group on a mission to end world poverty by 2030. It supports sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. Love Actually director Richard Curtis will be named “Global Citizen of the Year”, in recognition of his “exceptional and sustained impact towards the goal of ending extreme poverty” through his work with charity Comic Relief and Live 8. Sting will be awarded the “Artist of the Year” prize for his long-term work championing saving the rainforest through his Rainforest Foundation, co-founded by the 17-time Grammy-award winner in 1989. They will be presented their awards - cash prizes of $150,000, which will be donated to charity - on Friday evening by a host of stars including Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, 12 Years A Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor, Yesterday actor Himesh Patel, Connie Britton, Leona Lewis, and Kal Penn. The evening, to be filmed and televised before Christmas, will feature headline performances from John Legend and Stormzy, and appearances from acts including Jorja Smith, Chris Martin and Jennifer Hudson. With these prizes Global Citizen, which was founded in New York in 2012, wants to recognise the world leaders, business leaders, artists and youth activists who have made a real impact on tackling worldwide poverty through their work. Director and producer Curtis, who lives in London, told the Standard young people today inspire him to believe Global Citizens’ aims can be achieved. He said: “Now the younger people are setting up movements, starting things… There are brilliant things going on all around.” The World Leader winner will be Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Amina J. Mohammed, and “Business Leader” Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO of Choban. The evening will be broadcast on SKY at 7pm on Saturday 21 December. | Naomi Ackerman | https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/richard-curtis-sting-global-citizen-prize-a4309526.html | Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:47:36 GMT | 1,575,992,856 | 1,575,981,105 | human interest | accomplishment |
359,640 | newsweek--2019-01-09--Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Awarded Jewish Nobel Prize Vows to Step up Fight Against Anti-Semitis | 2019-01-09T00:00:00 | newsweek | Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Awarded 'Jewish Nobel' Prize, Vows to Step up Fight Against Anti-Semitism | Robert Kraft has vowed to step up his fight against anti-Semitism after winning the Genesis Prize. The $1 million award, colloquially referred to as the "Jewish Nobel prize," was awarded to the New England Patriots owner for his charitable efforts and donations towards the Jewish community. “This award amplifies my ability to raise both awareness and additional funds to fight anti-Semitism, attempts to de-legitimize Israel and other forms of prejudices,” the 77-year-old said in an acceptance speech, as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Launched in 2013 by The Genesis Prize Foundation, the award is granted each year to a person recognized as an inspiration to the next generation of Jews “through their outstanding professional achievement along with their commitment to Jewish values and the Jewish people.” It has previously been awarded to artist Anish Kapoor, violinist Itzhak Perlman, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Hollywood star Michael Douglas. "I am honored to receive the Genesis Prize and thank the Genesis Prize Foundation for its recognition and willingness to direct my prize money to such worthy causes," said Kraft, as reported by The Boston Globe. "It is important that we continue to support organizations that focus on combating prejudices by building bridges and uniting people of different backgrounds." The 77-year-old, who will receive the award at a gala in Jerusalem in June, was described as “one of the world’s most generous philanthropists” by Genesis Prize chairman and co-founder Stan Polovets. The Patriots owner grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brookline, Massachusetts, before developing into one of the most successful businessmen in the world. Last year, Kraft ranked 79th on the Forbes list of the wealthiest men in America, with a fortune of approximately $6.6 billion. A long-time supporter of Israel, Kraft has donated to various causes in the country and is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is expected to personally hand him the award later this year. A Patriots season ticket holder since 1971, Kraft bought the franchise in 1994 for $172 million, six years after his first bid for the organization had been turned down. Under his ownership, the Patriots have developed into one of the most successful and recognizable teams in the world and are now worth $3.7 billion. On the field, the Patriots have built one of the most famous NFL dynasties, winning five Super Bowls since Bill Belichick was appointed head coach in 2000. Tom Brady was drafted in the same season and the duo have masterminded an era of almost unprecedented dominance. Last month, the Patriots won a 10th consecutive AFC East title. On Sunday they face the Los Angeles Chargers in the AFC Divisional Round looking to reach the AFC Championship game for the eight consecutive season. | null | https://www.newsweek.com/robert-kraft-genesis-prize-jewish-nobel-prize-new-england-patriots-nfl-1284832?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution | 2019-01-09 13:28:43+00:00 | 1,547,058,523 | 1,567,553,213 | human interest | accomplishment |
380,428 | newyorkpost--2019-10-10--Peter Handke, Olga Tokarczuk awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature | 2019-10-10T00:00:00 | newyorkpost | Peter Handke, Olga Tokarczuk awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature | The 2018 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” while the 2019 prize went to Austrian author Peter Handke. Mats Malm, the Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary, says Handke was honored “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.” The shortlist was made of eight names of which two were picked for the 2018 and 2019 awards, said Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. With the glory comes a 9-million kronor ($918,000) cash award to be shared a gold medal and a diploma. The laureates receive them at an elegant ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10 the anniversary of Nobel’s death in 1896 together with five other Nobel winners. The sixth one, the peace prize, is handed out in Oslo, Norway on the same day. | Associated Press | https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/peter-handke-awarded-2019-nobel-prize-in-literature/ | Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:01:03 -0400 | 1,570,708,863 | 1,570,711,055 | human interest | accomplishment |
380,447 | newyorkpost--2019-10-11--Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize | 2019-10-11T00:00:00 | newyorkpost | Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize | OSLO, Norway — The 2019 Nobel Peace has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Ahmed was cited for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea. Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chairwoman of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Institute that awards the Nobel Peace Prize said Ahmed was named for his moves to end his country’s conflict with next door Eritrea within months of coming to office in 2018. He signed a “Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship,” with Eritrean Prime Minister Isaias Afwerki. Within the Nobel Peace Prize there is a long history of prizes going to statesmen associated with ending conflicts, most recently Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos who was awarded the prize in 2016 for helping to bring his country’s 50-year civil war to an end. | Associated Press | https://nypost.com/2019/10/11/ethiopian-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-awarded-2019-nobel-peace-prize/ | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 05:34:00 -0400 | 1,570,786,440 | 1,570,797,700 | human interest | accomplishment |
382,614 | newyorkpost--2019-12-27--Sam Mendes will be awarded knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II | 2019-12-27T00:00:00 | newyorkpost | Sam Mendes will be awarded knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II | That’s “Sir Sam,” if you please. Director Sam Mendes, whose World War I film “1917” is causing serious Oscar buzz, is being awarded a knighthood in the latest round of honors handed out by Queen Elizabeth II. Mendes is being recognized for “services to drama” in the annual New Year’s Honors List. The knighthood means that Mendes should formally be addressed as “Sir Sam,” following the feudal protocol that still remains part of British pomp and pageantry. Mendes won an Academy Award in 2000 for his direction of “American Beauty.” More recently, he helmed the two recent James Bond outings “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” both of which were blockbusters at the global box office. His new film, “1917,” was inspired by stories told him of the Great War by his grandfather. In a piece of bravura filmmaking, the movie appears to follow its protagonists, two young soldiers in the trenches, in one continuous take. The film stars Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay. Mendes is also an accomplished theater director. “The Lehman Trilogy” and “The Ferryman” both transferred from London to New York. Another Oscar winner receiving a knighthood in the New Year’s Honors List, which was unveiled Friday, is playwright Christopher Hampton, best known for his theatrical adaptation of the novel “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” He also adapted it into the movie “Dangerous Liaisons,” starring Glenn Close, which garnered Hampton the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay in 1989. He was also nominated for best adapted screenplay in 2008 for “Atonement,” based on the novel by Ian McEwan. Singer Olivia Newton-John was awarded a damehood, the equivalent of a knighthood for women, for her services to charity. The “Grease” star has been active in campaigning for a cure for breast cancer. | Variety | https://nypost.com/2019/12/27/sam-mendes-will-be-awarded-knighthood-from-queen-elizabeth-ii/ | Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:11:54 -0500 | 1,577,488,314 | 1,577,492,024 | human interest | accomplishment |
425,499 | powerlineblog--2019-11-18--Claremont Awarded National Humanities Medal | 2019-11-18T00:00:00 | powerlineblog | Claremont Awarded National Humanities Medal | The White House announced today the forthcoming recipients of the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal, and one recipient stands out: The Claremont Institute for championing the Nation’s founding principles and enriching American minds. Its publications and public events have deepened our understanding and appreciation of American freedom, democracy, justice, and rule of law. The Claremont Institute is only the second think tank ever awarded the National Humanities Medal, and it is much deserved. The Institute issued a statement of appreciation this afternoon: “We are humbled by this honor and grateful to President Trump and NEH Chairman Peede,” said Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams. “The medal is more than anything a testament to 40 years of teaching and writing about the history and intellectual traditions of the American founding and their application to our politics today—and to our teachers, students, staff, and supporters whose dedication these past four decades has been essential to our work, success, and most importantly, to promoting and defending American greatness.” Congratulations to our friends out in Claremont. | Steven Hayward | https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/claremont-awarded-national-humanities-medal.php | Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:32:13 +0000 | 1,574,137,933 | 1,574,166,169 | human interest | accomplishment |
385,921 | npr--2019-06-25--Medal Of Honor Awarded To Iraq War Veteran | 2019-06-25T00:00:00 | npr | Medal Of Honor Awarded To Iraq War Veteran | President Donald Trump presents the Medal of Honor to retired Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. Bellavia received the award for conspicuous gallantry while serving in support of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. **Alex Brandon/AP** ****hide caption**** ****toggle caption**** Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump presents the Medal of Honor to retired Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. Bellavia received the award for conspicuous gallantry while serving in support of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. Alex Brandon/AP In 2004, on the day he turned 29, then-Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia charged into a darkened house in Fallujah, Iraq and fired his weapon at lurking insurgents as the squad he led scrambled outside. "Staff Sgt. Bellavia single-handedly saved an entire squad, risking his own life to allow his fellow soldiers to break contact and reorganize when trapped by overwhelming insurgent fire." So reads the U.S. Army [official narrative](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/bellavia/?oc) of the battle that first earned Bellavia a Silver Star medal, the military's third most distinguished decoration. On Tuesday, at a White House ceremony, that distinction was upgraded to the nation's highest military award for valor, the [Medal of Honor](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/). Before draping the medal around Bellavia's neck, President Trump praised him for defying almost certain death to free squad members trapped by enemy fire. "Alone in the dark, David killed four insurgents and seriously wounded the fifth," Trump declared, "saving his soldiers and facing down the enemies of civilization." The medal was a turn of events Bellavia says he had no role in bringing about. "Fifteen years goes by and you move on with your life, you put the war behind you," says the 43-year-old resident of western New York state. "You focus on your family, you focus on work, and, you know, my life was 100 percent perfect without a valor award of any type." "Honestly," he adds, "I always considered my award just being able to come home." Bellavia's company commander, Army Col. Doug Walter, says it was he who pushed since 2005 for the upgrade of Bellavia's Silver Star. "I'm not sure why or how or what the reasoning was that it was looked at again," Walter says of the decision to boost Bellavia's battle award to the Medal of Honor. "I'm glad that it was and I think it demonstrates, at least in this case, the system works." Bellavia's award upgrade to the Medal of Honor is the fifth of its kind to be made under a three-year [Pentagon review](https://www.ngaus.org/about- ngaus/newsroom/review-valor-awards-become-automatic) of valor awards involving post-9/11 conflicts. He is also the first living Iraq war veteran to receive the prestigious medal; [five others](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/citations29.html) who also fought there were awarded theirs posthumously. The battle in which Bellavia's actions won him the military's top decoration was part of [Operation Phantom Fury](https://www.army.mil/article/178601/november_2004_into_the_hot_zone_at_the_second_battle_of_fallujah), popularly known as the Second Battle of Fallujah. It was a second attempt by U.S., British and Iraqi forces to seize control of the city of 360,000 that was an insurgent stronghold. **The battle** Bellavia and his squad had been searching an abandoned block of houses for a half-dozen or more insurgents believed to be hiding out in the area. The first nine houses they entered produced only stashed weapons. Inside the tenth house, they were met by a blast of machine gun fire from two insurgents hiding under the stairwell. Bellavia's troops were trapped inside the house and in mortal peril. He heard their screams as they were hit by bullets and shattered glass. "A light switch went off," Bellavia said. "I wanted that revenge. I wanted to be that leader that I promised I would be." Because his own gun had been disabled by an enemy bullet, Bellavia grabbed a heavier weapon - an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon gun, which he fired at the insurgents, giving cover to his troops as they escaped to the street. "I just want to tell you that were it not for David Bellavia, I wouldn't be sitting here today," says now-retired Sgt. 1st Class Colin Fitts. "We couldn't get out. We couldn't do anything. We were stuck there and I had to ask David to help me out, and he did that - he put himself in the line of that fire and laid down a base of fire, overwhelmed the enemy long enough for me to get myself and the members of my squad out." Bellavia too left the house. But when he noticed an insurgent inside with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, he went back in to prevent it from being used. "To protect the platoon and members of his squad, David Bellavia had to go back in to a darkened nightmare of a house where he knew there was at least five or six jihadis waiting," says [Michael Ware](http://www.mickware.info/), an Australian journalist who embedded with Bellavia's squad in Fallujuah. "I had the privilege to actually witness a Medal of Honor moment," Ware adds. "To see a man perform such an act of valor that it was humbling to behold." Ware filmed that moment, which appears in _[Only the Dead](https://www.netflix.com/title/80075824)_ , his acclaimed 2015 documentary about reporting from war-torn Iraq. Bellavia says that episode changed his views on war journalists, whom he'd previously considered "100 percent a nuisance and without any purpose on the battlefield." "Without men and women who do this job, America will never know what we do. It will go unremarked," he says. "Our families would never know, our citizens would never know the sacrifice that goes on. I never saw that as a soldier and as a civilian I see it." After six years in the Army, Bellavia retired in 2005. In 2007, he published a book about the Fallujah battle, titled _[House to House](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-to-House/David- Bellavia/9781416546979)_. Bellavia now has his own daily talk show on [WBEN News Radio](https://www.facebook.com/WBEN930/) in Buffalo, N.Y., sharing its airwaves with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Sean Hannity. Bellavia speaks with pride and a touch of defiance about having fought in what was possibly the bloodiest battle of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. "We have nothing to apologize for. We serve our country. We do what our leaders tell us to do," he says. "The narrative on the Iraq War has long been written. I'm not here to change anyone's mind. I'm here to tell you that there are men and women who have served their country in Iraq, and...it is one of the honors of my life to be a part of that." | David Welna | https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735877430/medal-of-honor-awarded-to-iraq-war-veteran?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news | 2019-06-25 21:24:00+00:00 | 1,561,512,240 | 1,567,538,220 | human interest | accomplishment |
491,257 | slate--2019-10-11--Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister | 2019-10-11T00:00:00 | slate | Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister | The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. The 43-year-old former intelligence officer came to power in April 2018 and undertook ambitious democratic reforms, including lifting bans on opposition political parties and media outlets, releasing thousands of political prisoners, and bringing to an end the country’s state of emergency. Abiy is seen as having a unique ability to traverse the country’s ethnic and religious divides because of his mixed Christian and Muslim background and fluency in three of the country’s primary languages. The changes made under Abiy’s regime have set the stage for the country, Africa’s second most populous, to hold its first free, multiparty elections next year. The committee acknowledged the strides made domestically during Abiy’s short tenure, but stressed the importance of his leadership in ending a decades-long standoff with neighbor Eritrea following a bloody 1998-2000 border war. “When Abiy Ahmed became Prime Minister in April 2018, he made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks with Eritrea,” the committee said in a statement. “In close cooperation with Isaias Afwerki, the President of Eritrea, Abiy Ahmed quickly worked out the principles of a peace agreement to end the long ‘no peace, no war’ stalemate between the two countries… An important premise for the breakthrough was Abiy Ahmed’s unconditional willingness to accept the arbitration ruling of an international boundary commission in 2002.” The peace deal reestablished diplomatic ties between the two countries, as well as everyday bonds, like phone lines and flights between the two sides that share ethnic and cultural bonds. “In the days that followed this breakthrough, some Ethiopians called Eritrean numbers randomly, and vice versa, just to speak to someone on the other side, simply because they could. Others tracked down parents, siblings and friends,” the New York Times notes. “When the first commercial Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to the Eritrean capital, Asmara, landed on July 18 last year, passengers stepping off the plane fell to their knees and kissed the ground. Two sisters separated from their father in the war, stuck on opposite sides of the border, embraced him for the first time after 20 years of growing up without him.” Some other contenders for the 2019 prize were 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, the pro-Democracy activists in Hong Kong, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her response to the Christchurch shooting. | Elliot Hannon | https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/nobel-peace-prize-ethiopian-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-ali.html?via=rss | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:53:28 +0000 | 1,570,805,608 | 1,570,798,030 | human interest | accomplishment |
553,729 | sputnik--2019-12-20--First Black Hole Image Awarded ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ by Science Journal | 2019-12-20T00:00:00 | sputnik | First Black Hole Image Awarded ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ by Science Journal | The first image of a black hole, which astronomers captured earlier this year, was awarded the “Breakthrough of the Year” award by the prestigious Science journal. In order to capture the image, astronomers rigged the Event Horizon Telescope – a ‘virtual telescope,’ or a network of multiple satellites and the cooperation of some 200 scientists around the world, the Daily Mail said. The image of the black hole, located 55 million light-years from Earth, at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, was published on 10 April this year. While it is impossible to make a photo of a black hole itself - because light does not escape its gravity well - a black hole is surrounded by a disc of matter which emits very strong electromagnetic energy as it is consumed by black hole’s gravitational pull. This disc, known as an accretion disk, shines brightly in a radio telescopic spectrum, allowing us to ‘see’ the black hole. The amazing part about the image of a black hole and the accretion disk is that the massive object’s gravitational pull is so strong that it bends and distorts the space around it in wild ways, so that we see both the front and the back of the black hole and the accretion disk at the same time. Ahead of the photo’s publication, science- and technology-focused YouTube channel Veritasium provided a simple model of a black hole and explained how gravity bends the space around the black hole and why the image looks like it does: with lower part of the accretion disk significantly thicker and brighter than the upper. The scientific significance of the image lies in the fact that before this photo was taken, black holes remained a theoretical possibility predicted solely by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. What was discovered initially as a solution to equations has been captured as a real physical object for the first time. Roger Blandford, a Stanford University astrophysicist, said that while the image was indeed a major breakthrough, astronomers will push forward to procure more images with vastly increased resolution. | null | https://sputniknews.com/science/201912201077658366-first-black-hole-image-awarded-breakthrough-of-the-year-by-science-journal/ | Fri, 20 Dec 2019 03:18:39 +0300 | 1,576,829,919 | 1,576,816,633 | human interest | accomplishment |
560,555 | tass--2019-01-29--Suntech Awarded Top Brand PV Seal in Europe from EuPD Research | 2019-01-29T00:00:00 | tass | Suntech Awarded "Top Brand PV" Seal in Europe from EuPD Research | WUXI, China, Jan. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, EuPD Research announced that Suntech has been awarded the "Top Brand PV" honor in Europe. Since the expiry of the "MIP" in the EU, the competition of the PV industry in Europe has increased. Suntech was awarded the "Top Brand PV," which is not only the recognition of top market performance in 2018, but also the brand satisfaction and loyalty in Europe. EuPD Research plays an important role in the PV industry, and the company is known for providing authoritative market intelligence for the new-energy industry. Therefore, many new-energy enterprises regard its analysis as a weather vane for business development. The winner of the "Top Brand PV" honor is chosen through two steps: firstly, a multilevel process of surveys and scientific analysis among mainstream installers and intermediaries for PV power stations is conducted; and secondly, manufacturers with outstanding performance in multiple dimensions, including brand satisfaction, brand loyalty, product quality and distribution, are chosen. In recent years, Suntech was awarded "Top Brand PV" seals in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. At the beginning of 2019, Suntech was awarded the "Top Brand PV" seals again in Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, France and Australia. All of the survey respondents are installers and distributors from mature markets, a testament to Suntech's reliable product quality and strong market reputation. In 2018, Suntech had good performance in global markets including India, Australia, and Mexico. In Eastern Europe and Western Asia, implementing the "Global & Local" market-development strategy, Suntech also worked closely with local partners and gradually established local distribution systems and achieved good performance. Compared to 2017, Suntech's overseas shipments in 2018 grew by 100%. Based on the good performance in overseas markets in 2018, Suntech will further optimize overseas distribution and expand its overseas markets in 2019. The "Top Brand PV" honor means a lot to Suntech. It not only affirms Suntech's continuous efforts in overseas markets over 18 years, but also sets a foundation for Suntech's future development in overseas markets. CONTACT: Chen Tianheng, +86-135-8509-7646 | null | http://tass.com/press-releases/1042275 | 2019-01-29 12:35:00+00:00 | 1,548,783,300 | 1,567,550,366 | human interest | accomplishment |
565,587 | tass--2019-05-18--Five Russian defense industry companies awarded at MILEX 2019 arms show | 2019-05-18T00:00:00 | tass | Five Russian defense industry companies awarded at MILEX 2019 arms show | MINSK, May 18 /TASS/. Five Russian defense industrial companies led by Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport have received awards at the MILEX 2019 international arms show in Minsk, Belarus. The award ceremony took place on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the exhibition at the Minsk-Arena. "We award our partners from Rosoboronexport company, Russian Federation, for the uniqueness of their exhibits presented at the show," the event organizers announced. Alongside with Rosoboronexport diplomas and honorary marks were awarded to the High-Precision Systems (Vysokotochniye Komplesky), Almaz-Antey, Uralvagonzavod and Techmash companies. The MILEX 2019 international arms show was held in Minsk from May 15 to May 18. In other media | null | http://tass.com/defense/1058907 | 2019-05-18 12:17:21+00:00 | 1,558,196,241 | 1,567,540,507 | human interest | accomplishment |
566,836 | tass--2019-06-25--Infortrends EonStor GSc Hybrid Cloud Storage Is Awarded Product of the Year | 2019-06-25T00:00:00 | tass | Infortrend's EonStor GSc Hybrid Cloud Storage Is Awarded "Product of the Year" | NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan, June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Infortrend® Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495) is honored to announce that EonStor GSc hybrid cloud storage has been awarded with "Storage Product of the Year" and "Cloud Enabler of the Year" of 2019 by Storage Magazine in UK, beating off competition from other tier 1 suppliers. "We saw an unprecedented amount of support for the EonStor GSc in the build up to the event. Its unified approach and always-on features really resonated with our audience. I would like to congratulate all at Infortrend for their win," said Stuart Leigh, Director of Storage Awards. Held in London, UK, the Storage Awards is a premier ceremony that attracts over 300 storage industry professionals. This great win comes after being named as one of the"Top 10 Cloud Solution Providers" by CIO Applications Europe, proving Infortrend's cloud innovation are once again recognized by industry professionals. The winning product, EonStor GSc family, is an enterprise-level storage system designed to streamline cloud deployment and access by moving and managing data between local and cloud. EonStor GSc's superior performance and easy-to-deploy features have made it as the fastest growing product in the European market. Victor Chiang, General Manager of Infortrend Europe Ltd explains: "We are thrilled to receive not just one, but two prestigious awards, and we're privileged to be one of very few vendors to be given such recognition on the night. Both awards are proof of our potential in the storage industry and are a testament to the hard work that we have all been putting in over the last 12 months. Our team throughout the EU should be proud of themselves and we'll all continue to focus and thrive on becoming the go-to vendor for storage." Infortrend (TWSE: 2495) has been developing and manufacturing storage solutions since 1993. With a strong emphasis on in-house design, testing, and manufacturing, Infortrend storage delivers performance and scalability with the latest standards, user friendly data services, personal after-sales support, and unrivaled value. For more Information, please visit www.infortrend.com Infortrend® and EonStor® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infortrend Technology, Inc., other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. | null | https://tass.com/press-releases/1065411 | 2019-06-25 07:00:01+00:00 | 1,561,460,401 | 1,567,538,150 | human interest | accomplishment |
568,799 | tass--2019-08-08--Kindergarten staff to be awarded for saving preschoolers during Siberian arms depot blasts | 2019-08-08T00:00:00 | tass | Kindergarten staff to be awarded for saving preschoolers during Siberian arms depot blasts | KRASNOYARSK, August 8. /TASS/. Russia’s First Deputy Emergencies Minister Alexander Chupriyan will award a kindergarten director and a teacher who saved kids while explosions rocked a military storage facility near the Kamenka settlement in the Krasnoyarsk Region, a spokesperson for the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s regional branch told reporters on Thursday. "Russian First Deputy Emergencies Minister Alexander Chupriyan will present awards to two women, a kindergarten director and a teacher, who risked their lives to save kids from a kindergarten in Kamenka during the ammo depot explosions. The kindergarten is located close to the depot," the spokesperson said. A fire that caused numerous explosions broke out at an ammo depot on August 5. A state of emergency was declared in the Achinsky District. Roughly 16,500 people were evacuated from communities located within a 20-km radius of the facility. The calamity’s flames were finally extinguished on August 6 and people started returning to their homes. According to medical sources, the explosions killed one and left 13 injured. | null | https://tass.com/emergencies/1072560 | 2019-08-08 12:06:12+00:00 | 1,565,280,372 | 1,567,534,578 | human interest | accomplishment |
571,836 | tass--2019-10-07--Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for how cells adapt to oxygen availability | 2019-10-07T00:00:00 | tass | Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for how cells adapt to oxygen availability | STOCKHOLM, October 7. /TASS/. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr (US), Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe (UK) and Gregg L. Semenza (US) for their studies of how cells adapt to lack or absence of oxygen, the Nobel Assembly at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute on Monday. The prize was awarded "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability," secretary of the Nobel Assembly Thomas Perlmann said. | null | https://tass.com/society/1081799 | Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:21:56 +0300 | 1,570,472,516 | 1,570,493,039 | human interest | accomplishment |
571,912 | tass--2019-10-08--Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 awarded for contribution to study of the universe | 2019-10-08T00:00:00 | tass | Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 awarded for contribution to study of the universe | STOCKHOLM, October 8. /TASS/. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Canadian scientist James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" and Swiss researchers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star", the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed on Tuesday. "This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system," the press release informs. "This year’s Laureates have transformed our ideas about the cosmos." | null | https://tass.com/science/1081990 | Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:54:44 +0300 | 1,570,557,284 | 1,570,544,437 | human interest | accomplishment |
572,009 | tass--2019-10-09--Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for development of lithium-ion batteries | 2019-10-09T00:00:00 | tass | Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for development of lithium-ion batteries | STOCKHOLM, October 9. /TASS/. The 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, Stanley Whittingham from Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA, and Akira Yoshino from the Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery. This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. It can also store significant amounts of energy from solar and wind power, making possible a fossil fuel-free society," the Academy said in a statement. | null | https://tass.com/science/1082201 | Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:52:06 +0300 | 1,570,643,526 | 1,570,624,746 | human interest | accomplishment |
572,175 | tass--2019-10-11--Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed | 2019-10-11T00:00:00 | tass | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed | STOCKHOLM, October 11. /TASS/. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 was awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea." Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen said about it on Friday. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea," Reiss-Andersen said. "The prize is also meant to recognize all the stakeholders working for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia and in the East and Northeast African regions," she added. Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s Prime Minister in April 2018. He declared that he wants to renew peace talks with Eritrea. In close cooperation with Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki, Ahmed worked out principles of peace treaty to bring the two countries from the dead-end of "neither peace nor war," the Norwegian Nobel Committee explained. These principles are enshrined in the declarations that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki signed in July and September last year. "An important premise for the breakthrough was Abiy Ahmed’s unconditional willingness to accept the arbitration ruling of an international boundary commission in 2002," the committee’s decision reads. "Peace does not arise from the actions of one party alone. When Prime Minister Abiy reached out his hand, President Afwerki grasped it, and helped to formalize the peace process between the two countries. The Norwegian Nobel Committee hopes the peace agreement will help to bring about positive change for the entire populations of Ethiopia and Eritrea," the statement says. | null | https://tass.com/world/1082675 | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:56:37 +0300 | 1,570,816,597 | 1,570,798,871 | human interest | accomplishment |
572,330 | tass--2019-10-14--Prize in Economic Sciences awarded for research to alleviate global poverty | 2019-10-14T00:00:00 | tass | Prize in Economic Sciences awarded for research to alleviate global poverty | STOCKHOLM, October 14. /TASS/. The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 has been awarded to Indian American economist Abhijit Banerjee, French-American economist Esther Duflo and American economist Michael Kremer. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that they were awarded the prize "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." | null | https://tass.com/society/1083001 | Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:23:27 +0300 | 1,571,077,407 | 1,571,056,900 | human interest | accomplishment |
574,462 | tass--2019-12-03--Alisson Becker of Brazil awarded first-ever Lev Yashin trophy for best goalkeeper | 2019-12-03T00:00:00 | tass | Alisson Becker of Brazil awarded first-ever Lev Yashin trophy for best goalkeeper | PARIS, December 2. /TASS/. Alisson Becker of Brazil, who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Liverpool, has become the first to be awarded a trophy for the best goalkeeper of the year named after legendary Lev Yashin. The ceremony, part of 2019 Ballon d’Or, or the Golden Ball, was held at Paris’ Theatre du Chatelet on Monday. The Lev Yashin prize was established by the France Football magazine in September. Along with Becker, commonly known as Alisson, shortlist of the candidates included Kepa Arrizabalaga (Spain), Ederson Moraes (Brazil), Samir Handanovic (Slovenia), Hugo Lloris (France), Manuel Neuer (Germany), Jan Oblak (Slovenia), Andr· Onana (Cameroon), Wojciech Szczesny (Poland) and Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Germany), with Marc-Andre ter Stegen, playing for Spain’s Barcelona, and Ederson Moraes, playing for Manchester City, taking the second and third places, respectively. Lev Yashin (October 22, 1929 - March 20, 1990) was a goalkeeper for Dynamo Moscow FC and the Soviet national team. He is considered as the greatest goalkeeper in history of football and had an iconic status for revolutionizing the game of a goalkeeper. He remains the only goalkeeper in the history of football to win the Ballon d’Or. Throughout his career, he stopped a total of over 150 penalty kicks, by far more than any other goalkeeper in history and has a record of over 270 clean sheets, which means that he never conceded a goal in over 270 matches. He played in three World Cups in 1958, 1962 and 1966 and has a record of four clean sheets in an overall of 12 matches in World Cup finals. He also appeared at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, but in the capacity of the third-choice backup and assistant coach. He made an unforgettable impression on the world community, when he first appeared at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, which was the first to be broadcast internationally. Always dressed in black from head to toe he earned his international nicknames of the ‘Black Spider’ and ‘Black Panther.’. | null | https://tass.com/sport/1094933 | Tue, 03 Dec 2019 02:13:43 +0300 | 1,575,357,223 | 1,575,332,430 | human interest | accomplishment |
587,601 | thechaser--2019-12-19--Best Drama of 2019 awarded to Star Wars fanbase | 2019-12-19T00:00:00 | thechaser | Best Drama of 2019 awarded to Star Wars fanbase | The Academy Awards have this week pre-emptively announced the nominations for Best Drama after what they say is an almost unbeatable offering from the creators of Star Wars ‘Episode 9’. “Fans have spoken,” said the academy today, “and I think we can all agree that the meltdown currently happening in the Star Wars fanbase is probably the most entertaining drama we’ve seen all year. We haven’t been able to put the popcorn down.” “Admittedly there’s a lot of competition,” explained the head of the academy John Felch, “from the great drama House of Cards trying to complete the final series without mentioning the main character, to the amazing work of the Game of Thrones creators when they managed to piss off every fan by making Bran the king, there’s been some amazing drama from so many fanbases, but none have come even close to the level of hot mess served up by the creators of the latest Star Wars trilogy with their attempt to remake Episode Six and pass it off as a new movie to one of the most detail oriented fan-bases in the history of cinema, that is some master-level pot stirring.” “I can barely even put into words how expert the level of drama creation here is,” read one review from Time magazine. “We thought we were good at creating drama by naming Greta Thunberg person of the year, but not even we could top the genius of using two completely different writers with two completely different visions to tell a story over the span of three films, but to not have any pre-planned overarching story before you start actually shooting. I don’t think we’ve seen that kind of mastery at creating drama in a fanbase since Ghostbusters decided to cast three confident women in a movie franchise exclusively enjoyed by undersexed film nerds. Five stars.” Praise has also been heaped on director J.J. Abrams, who has consistently managed to churn out the same quality of film again and again, almost to the point where they can’t be distinguished from their predecessors. “It takes a lot of skill to be so predictable,” said one fan exiting the cinema today. “One or two movies we could put down to luck, but clearly this is a skill he’s had to work on very hard. Well, just hard enough to be passable at least.” Asked how they could ever hope to follow up such a successful dramatic masterpiece, Disney said they have no plans for any future Star Wars movies, and filming starts on the next movie tomorrow. | Cam Smith | https://chaser.com.au/entertainment/best-drama-of-2019-awarded-to-star-wars-fanbase/ | Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:38:35 +0000 | 1,576,762,715 | 1,576,814,862 | human interest | accomplishment |
702,570 | theguardianuk--2019-06-19--Ralph Lauren awarded honorary knighthood for services to fashion | 2019-06-19T00:00:00 | theguardianuk | Ralph Lauren awarded honorary knighthood for services to fashion | Ralph Lauren has received an honorary knighthood for services to fashion, becoming the first American designer to be awarded with the UK’s highest honour. Prince Charles presented the 79-year-old with the insignia in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday attended by Lauren’s family. The designer’s iconic brand – which often features clothes reminiscent of classic English styles – have been worn by a number of royals including Princess Diana and the duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex. Estimated to be worth more than £5.2bn according to Forbes, Lauren stepped down from his position as CEO of Ralph Lauren in 2015, almost 50 years after he started the business in a small office at the Empire State Building. “To have the honorary KBE conferred on me by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and presented to me personally by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is an honour I have humbly accepted,” Lauren, who remains chief creative officer and executive chairman of the company, said in a statement reported by People. “I have always been inspired by the history, traditions and culture of Great Britain and the historic relationship our two countries have shared. This is one of the most meaningful honours bestowed at this very special moment in my 50th anniversary.” In a statement when the award was announced in November last year, the British consul general to New York and Her Majesty’s trade commissioner for North America, Antony Phillipson, congratulated Lauren for a storied career that has seen him play a key role in forging transatlantic cultural and economic connections. “As creator and visionary of the Ralph Lauren brand worldwide, Mr. Lauren has been a vanguard for the global fashion industry and American style for nearly half a century,” he said. “In addition, monumental philanthropic efforts, especially in the realm of public health, cancer research and treatment in both the US and the UK, have led to benefits felt by citizens around the world.” Other Americans who have received honorary knighthoods or damehoods include presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George HW Bush, as well as Angelina Jolie, Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg. | Mattha Busby | https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/jun/20/ralph-lauren-awarded-honorary-knighthood-for-services-to-fashion | 2019-06-19 23:16:49+00:00 | 1,561,000,609 | 1,567,538,762 | human interest | accomplishment |
709,491 | theguardianuk--2019-09-05--Scientists behind first image of black hole awarded 3m prize | 2019-09-05T00:00:00 | theguardianuk | Scientists behind first image of black hole awarded $3m prize | An international collaboration that captured the first image of a black hole, a cosmic plughole from which nothing that enters can ever escape, has won the most lucrative prize in physics. Hundreds of researchers on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team will share the $3m Breakthrough prize in fundamental physics for their image of the monster black hole at the heart of Messier 87, a galaxy 55m light years from Earth. The remarkable shot of one of the most mysterious types of object in the universe required astronomers to coordinate observations from eight telescopes on four continents from Antarctica to Arizona to create an Earth-sized instrument sensitive enough to spot a bagel on the moon. The picture’s unveiling in April marked the moment that scientists saw what was once considered unseeable: the bottomless wells of gravity that Albert Einstein loathed even as his general theory of relativity predicted their existence. “We’ve known for a long time that this was an amazing scientific result, an amazing result for astronomy, but to get the recognition on the world stage with a prize like this is vindication of all the hard work, all the sacrifice by the team,” said Shep Doeleman, the director of the EHT project at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The 347 members of the team will each receive about $8,600 (£7,000). The prize is the latest in what has become an annual flurry of awards from the Breakthrough Foundation, an organisation sponsored by Silicon Valley billionaires including the investor Yuri Milner and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Last month, three theoretical physicists won the $3m Special Breakthrough prize in fundamental physics for marrying Einstein’s description of gravity with quantum mechanics in a speculative theory called supergravity. In an announcement on Thursday, six other researchers were named as Breakthrough prize winners for their work in the life sciences and mathematics. Among them are David Julius at the University of California, San Francisco, who discovered mechanisms of pain sensation; and Alex Eskin at the University of Chicago who proved a mathematical proposition called the “magic wand theorem” with Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal, who died aged 40 in 2017. The Messier 87 photograph gave scientists their first glimpse of the ring of dust and gas that hurtles at near the speed of light around a black hole before it plunges into the abyss. The ring encloses the round silhouette of the black hole’s event horizon – the point of no return, after which the gravitational pull is so intense that not even light can escape. “This is only the beginning,” said Doeleman. “We’re launching into a new era of precision imaging of black holes.” The EHT team is working on an image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Unlike Messier 87’s supermassive black hole, which is 6.5bn times more massive than the sun, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is a mere 4m times as massive. Matter and light lap the smaller black hole faster and its appearance in the sky changes minute by minute, making it a tougher beast to photograph. The next major goal is to record video of black holes, a feat that may require the use of orbiting telescopes that capture rapid sequences of images. Footage of black holes will help scientists uncover how they consume what falls inside, how intense fields around them propel jets of subatomic particles into space, and how black holes can shine brighter than all the stars in their galaxy combined. “Prizes like this acknowledge the deep, meaningful tradition of learning, of us wanting to understand our place in the cosmos,” said Doeleman. “It makes us stop for a moment, frankly. It gives us a moment to stop and appreciate that the universe is an amazing place.” | Ian Sample Science editor | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/05/first-image-black-hole-scientists-awarded-breakthrough-physics-prize | 2019-09-05 15:00:11+00:00 | 1,567,710,011 | 1,569,331,281 | human interest | accomplishment |
711,552 | theguardianuk--2019-10-08--Nobel prize in physics awarded to cosmology and exoplanet researchers | 2019-10-08T00:00:00 | theguardianuk | Nobel prize in physics awarded to cosmology and exoplanet researchers | Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel prize in physics for groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of the Universe and the Earth’s place within it. The Canadian scientist James Peebles has been awarded half of the 9m Swedish kronor (£740,000) prize for his theoretical discoveries about the evolution of the universe. A Swiss duo of astronomers, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, will share the other half of the prize for their discovery of the first planet beyond our solar system. James Peebles was rewarded for laying a foundation for modern cosmology, including his realisation that the faint microwave radiation that filled the cosmos just 400,000 years after the Big Bang contains crucial clues to what the universe looked like at this primitive stage and how it has evolved over the subsequent 13bn years. Mayor and Queloz have been recognised for their joint discovery in 1995 of the first exoplanet 50 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. The planet, 51 Pegasi b, is a gaseous ball about 150 times more massive than the Earth and with a scorching surface temperature of 1000C. The discovery heralded a new era of astronomy, with astronomers having since found more than 4,000 exoplanets, with an incredible range of sizes, forms and orbits. Learning about these strange and varied world’s beyond our solar system has transformed our understanding of how planets formed and given new focus to the question of whether there could be alien life is out there somewhere. Peebles is also credited with developing the theoretical tools that allowed scientists to perform a cosmic inventory of what the universe is made from, showing that ordinary matter makes up just 5% of its known contents, with the rest being dark matter and dark energy. “We still must admit that the dark matter and dark energy are mysterious,” Peebles told the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. “There are still many open questions...What in the world is this dark matter?” Looking back over his career spanning half a century, Peebles, who is Albert Einstein professor emeritus of science at Princeton University, said that he never set out with a grand plan. “I could think of one or two things to do in cosmology. I just did them and kept going,” he said. “The prizes and awards, they are charming, much appreciated, but that’s not part of your plans. You should enter science because you are fascinated by it.” Prof Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that chooses the laureates, said the three had made “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe, and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” Prof Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer Royal, described Peebles as the world’s “most influential and respected leader of empirical cosmology with a sustained record of achievement spanning half a century”. “The study of exoplanets is perhaps the most vibrant field of astronomy. We now know that most stars are orbited by retinues of planets; there may be a billion planets in our galaxy resembling the Earth (similar in size and at a distance from their parent star where liquid water can exist),” Rees added. “This takes us a step towards the fascinating question of detecting evidence for life on the nearest of these exoplanets.” On Monday, Americans William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza and Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe won the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for discovering details of how the body’s cells sense and react to low oxygen levels, providing a foothold for developing new treatments for anaemia, cancer and other diseases. The Nobel prize for chemistry will be announced on Wednesday, two literature prizes will be awarded on Thursday, and the peace prize comes on Friday. This year will see two literature prizes handed out because the one last year was suspended after a scandal rocked the Swedish Academy. | Hannah Devlin Science correspondent | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/08/nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-for-research-on-cosmology-and-exoplanets-2019 | Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:33:11 GMT | 1,570,545,191 | 1,570,536,370 | human interest | accomplishment |
721,030 | thehill--2019-03-19--American professor becomes first woman to be awarded top prize for math | 2019-03-19T00:00:00 | thehill | American professor becomes first woman to be awarded top prize for math | Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and professor at the University of Texas, has become the first woman in history to receive the Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious mathematics awards in the world. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced that Uhlenbeck was the award’s newest recipient on Tuesday. The body said it chose Uhlenbeck for the award because of “her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.” The King of Norway will present the award to Uhlenbeck at an award ceremony in Oslo on May 21. The Norwegian academy said Uhlenbeck has built a reputation developing tools and methods in global analysis, which it said are now "in the toolbox of every geometer and analyst.” Paul Goldbart, the dean of the University of Texas's College of Natural Sciences, said in a release that "Uhlenbeck's research has led to revolutionary advances at the intersection of mathematics and physics.” "Her pioneering insights have applications across a range of fascinating subjects, from string theory, which may help explain the nature of reality, to the geometry of space-time,” he added. The prize amount for the award is 6 million Norwegian kroner, approximately $700,000. | Aris Folley | https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/434770-american-professor-becomes-first-woman-to-ever-be-awarded-maths | 2019-03-19 19:03:28+00:00 | 1,553,036,608 | 1,567,545,726 | human interest | accomplishment |
772,948 | theindependent--2019-10-08--Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to trio for 'groundbreaking discoveries' about the universe | 2019-10-08T00:00:00 | theindependent | Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to trio for 'groundbreaking discoveries' about the universe | The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. The scientists won for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”, which the Nobel Committee described as “groundbreaking discoveries”. The announcement was made at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday morning, with the winners of the prestigious prize awarded a share of the nine million Swedish kroner (£750,000) prize money. “This year’s Laureates have contributed to answering fundamental questions about our existence,” the Nobel Committee stated. “This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system.” One half of the prize goes to Professor Peebles for “theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half is jointly awarded to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet. Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics include Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their discovery of the Higgs boson particle, and researchers at Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo) for detecting gravitational waves. Last year’s winner was Arthur Ashkin, who at 96 was the oldest Laureate since the awards began in 1901. Only three women have ever been awarded the physics prize, the equivalent of one every 60 years. It is the second Nobel Prize winner to be revealed this year, after British scientist Sir Peter Ratcliffe and US scientists William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The trio of scientists were awarded for their discoveries of “how cells sense and adapt to oxygen and availability”, which is one of the most fundamental processes for sustaining human life. Winners of the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences are set to be announced over the next seven days. Greta Thunberg is one of the favourites for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, which will be unveiled on Friday. The teen activist has gained international recognition for campaigning against climate change. | Anthony Cuthbertson | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nobel-prize-physics-james-peebles-michel-mayor-didier-queloz-winner-2019-announcement-a9147026.html | Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:56:00 GMT | 1,570,539,360 | 1,570,546,315 | human interest | accomplishment |
78,429 | businessinsider--2019-02-08--John Dingell became a Twitter celebrity in the last years of his life with witty remarks political | 2019-02-08T00:00:00 | businessinsider | John Dingell became a Twitter celebrity in the last years of his life with witty remarks, political commentary and humor until the end | Former Rep. John Dingell was a changemaker in his 59 years in Congress, but in the last years of his life, he also became a Twitter celebrity. Dingell, who died on Thursday, at 92, often used his Twitter feed to comment on politics, weigh in on Michigan sports teams, joke about his age, and take digs at celebrities. His openness on the social media platform came after he announced plans to retire from Congress at the end of 2014. Earlier that year, Dingell had made headlines after a somewhat viral exchange with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water about Kim Kardashian. In retirement, the Congressman embraced his dry humor. As of Friday morning, his Twitter account had 264,000 followers. Read more: Former Rep. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress, dies at 92 In recent years, he expressed outrage over the Trump administration and the Republican Party. He also voiced his joy and frustrations over the Detroit Lions and Michigan Wolverines, his favorite sports teams. Often he would joke about his old age. He also showed his deep knowledge of pop culture. Sometimes he would send his followers words of wisdom. Last August, Dingell told Detroit station WDIV that it was in fact him tweeting on the account. His wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, who was elected into his seat when he retired, confirmed the claim. "John Dingell can say, 'When you're 92 you can get away with saying a lot of things that the rest of us can't,'" she said. On Wednesday, Dingell posted a final tweet before dying from complications from prostate cancer. "The Lovely Deborah is insisting I rest and stay off here, but after long negotiations we've worked out a deal where she'll keep up with Twitter for me as I dictate the messages," he wrote, referencing his wife. "I want to thank you all for your incredibly kind words and prayers. You're not done with me just yet." | Kelly McLaughlin | https://www.businessinsider.com/john-dingell-best-tweets-about-politics-pop-culture-2019-2 | 2019-02-08 16:54:04+00:00 | 1,549,662,844 | 1,567,549,255 | human interest | people |
474,796 | rt--2019-03-06--Forbes names Kylie Jenner youngest-ever self-made billionaire Twitter laughs | 2019-03-06T00:00:00 | rt | Forbes names Kylie Jenner youngest-ever ‘self-made’ billionaire, Twitter laughs | Forbes magazine has named Kylie Jenner as the youngest ever “self-made” billionaire – and Twitter has some strong feelings about the title, given her wealthy background. As with everything Kardashian-Jenner related, it appears the world (or at least, Twitter) has nothing better to do than discuss the latest development. The news that 21-year-old makeup mogul and reality TV star Kylie Jenner has officially entered the exclusive billionaires club is big news in the celebrity-loving circle. The claim by Forbes that Jenner has taken the reign from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to become the youngest ever self-made billionaire, has proved such a controversial topic that everyone, the Dictionary included, appears to have weighed in. Critics argue that Jenner, who launched ‘Kylie Cosmetics’ at 18 off the back of her fame garnered from the reality show that she appeared in from age nine thanks to her sister Kim, cannot be deemed “self-made.” The definition of “self-made” is a broad one according to Forbes, while Dictonary.com claims it’s actually rather straightforward – someone who has succeeded in life unaided. READ MORE: Former teacher & mother of 4 becomes Russia’s 2nd female billionaire Dictionaries aside, Forbes argues that they choose to define “self-made” as someone who didn't inherit their wealth. Jenner says she has no trust fund and was “cut-off” from her parents at the age of 15 – though it’s worth noting that she was still living in their mansion and surviving off the royalties of the family reality show at the time. Forbes says their “scoring system,” developed in 2014, aims to determine just how self-made members are. It ranks wealthy Americans on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being “someone who not only grew up poor but also experienced substantial hardships – like Oprah Winfrey,” Jenner ranks as a 7. Like this story? Share it with a friend! | RT | https://www.rt.com/usa/453163-kylie-jenner-self-made-billionaire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS | 2019-03-06 14:32:00+00:00 | 1,551,900,720 | 1,567,546,848 | human interest | people |
552,923 | sputnik--2019-12-13--Ivanka Trumps Melania: First Daughter Makes it to Forbes’ ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ List | 2019-12-13T00:00:00 | sputnik | Ivanka Trumps Melania: First Daughter Makes it to Forbes’ ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ List | Ivanka Trump, a senior adviser to her father US President Donald Trump, has made it into Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2019 list at number 42, two below Queen Elizabeth II, thus beating stepmother Melania Trump. The First Lady was conspicuously absent from the list. For the 2019 roster, Forbes cited Ivanka Trump’s role in the White House when explaining her standing in the list, referencing the administration’s statements that she “helped push for the childcare tax credit passed in 2017 and the creation of a workforce apprentice program.” As netizens weighed in on the news, many commented that the ranking had less to do with Ivanka Trump’s achievement and more with her father’s role. Ivanka Trump debuted on the Forbes list in 2017 at number 19. Forbes wrote at the time that only one Trump had made the cut, and it was not the First Lady. Since its inception in 2004, it was the first time the annual directory of the women who “matter most on the global stage” failed to include the wife of the US president, while also the only time a First Daughter had made the ranking. As opposed to Ivanka Trump, the First Lady had appeared to have assumed a far quieter role. In 2018 the former real estate executive dropped five spots from #19 to #24, but still ranked near women such as Queen Elizabeth II, Lauren Powell Jobs, and Oprah Winfrey. The news comes as Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump’s relationship has been described as “cordial” but “not close” by CNN reporter Kate Bennett in her explosive new book, "Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography". The White House press corps journalist claims in her book that Melania Trump, 49, wields a lot more personal power than people assume, painting FLOTUS as “powerful and influential” in the White House, often weighing in on her husband’s decisions “both politically and in the way he manages his staff”. The new book also claims to shed light on the First Lady’s tense relationship with Trump’s 38-year-old daughter Ivanka, who works in the White House as a senior adviser to her father. According to New York Times, Bennett wrote: She added the infamous “I really don’t care, do you” jacket was a jab at Ivanka in Texas. There have been other reports of the two women tussling for power. Vicky Ward, author of “Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption”, opened up on the tensions between the two on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert. The former White House employee and author said the women argued over office space in the East Wing. Ward claimed Ivanka had a “Trump family office" drawn up for the East Wing. | null | https://sputniknews.com/us/201912131077561244-ivanka-trumps-melania-first-daughter-makes-it-to-forbes-words-most-powerful-women-list/ | Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:34:52 +0300 | 1,576,251,292 | 1,576,241,692 | human interest | people |
553,221 | sputnik--2019-12-16--'Where’s Melania?' Netizens Angry at Forbes For Not Including FLOTUS in Most Powerful Women List | 2019-12-16T00:00:00 | sputnik | 'Where’s Melania?' Netizens Angry at Forbes For Not Including FLOTUS in Most Powerful Women List | Social media users were left incensed after Forbes magazine did not include the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, in its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women. This year’s list featured women from six categories – business, technology, finance, philanthropy, media and entertainment, politics and policy – and according to Forbes’ Executive Vice President Moira Forbes, it is a “collection of innovators and instigators who are leading on the world stage to redefine traditional power structures and forge lasting impact in every industry and sphere of influence”. For some reason, Melania Trump, who is promoting her “Be Best” public awareness campaign that focuses on the well-being of young people and advocates against cyber-bullying and drug use among youths, was left out. Forbes has not commented on its decision. Netizens were furious at Forbes’ choice and accused the magazine of bias. Other netizens supported Forbes’ decision and noted that the first lady had not accomplished anything during her time in the White House. Others users blamed society’s false obsession with celebrities and socialites, who are unduly praised. However one member of the Trump family got into the list – Ivanka Trump, who works as a senior adviser to the president, was ranked 42nd. First place went to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made 14 appearances on the list in its 16 year history. Former head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde climbed one position and ranked second, while speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi came in third. | null | https://sputniknews.com/viral/201912161077589165-wheres-melania-netizens-angry-at-forbes-for-not-including-flotus-in-most-powerful-women-list/ | Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:08:25 +0300 | 1,576,534,105 | 1,576,543,394 | human interest | people |
561,938 | tass--2019-02-21--Wildberries owner becomes second female dollar billionaire in Russia says Forbes Magazine | 2019-02-21T00:00:00 | tass | Wildberries owner becomes second female dollar billionaire in Russia, says Forbes Magazine | ### Tatyana Bakalchuk © Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, February 21. / TASS / The owner of online retail store Wildberries, Tatyana Bakalchuk, has become the second woman dollar billionaire in Russia, according to Forbes, the magazine wrote on Thursday. The value of her retail giant is estimated at $1.2 bln. "The new company value allows us to calculate Bakalchuk's estate at over $1 billion. She is the second woman billionaire in Russia, after Elena Baturina," the publication notes. Since Wildberries is not a public company, its cost was estimated according to data on sales and profits, as well as on multipliers of similar projects and estimates of venture capitalists, Forbes explained. The Wildberries online store sells various product categories, including toys, cleaning products, baby food, electronics, books, and clothing. In 2018, the company's revenue amounted to $1.7 billion. According to the SPARK portal, Tatyana Bakalchuk is the sole owner of Wildberries ## Most Expensive Internet companies in Russia rating Wildberries took fourth place in the Forbes ranking of the most expensive Internet companies in Russia, published on February 21. A year earlier, the company was in the same position in the rating, but then its value was estimated at only $ 602 million. The first three leaders of the Runet company ranking compared to 2018 also did not change. IT giant Yandex remains in first place, its value is estimated at $10.72 billion, while Mail.ru Group is in second place ($5.36 billion), and Avito, the online reseller ($3.85 billion) is in third. In other media | null | http://tass.com/economy/1045814 | 2019-02-21 11:38:31+00:00 | 1,550,767,111 | 1,567,547,767 | human interest | people |
562,559 | tass--2019-03-12--Forbes calls Mikhail Fridman richest London resident | 2019-03-12T00:00:00 | tass | Forbes calls Mikhail Fridman richest London resident | ### Mikhail Friedman © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, March 12. / TASS /. The founder of Alfa Group and the largest shareholder of the Luxembourg LetterOne holding, Mikhail Friedman is the richest resident of London, Forbes American edition reports. Magazine's experts calculated based on the new global ranking of the richest people in the world, where the most number of billionaires resides, and named the richest residents of these cities. In London, there are 55 billionaires, with the total fortune of $226 bln, Russian Mikhail Friedman, the co-owner of Alfa Group is the richest of them all - his fortune is estimated at $15 bln. This is the first time that Fridman has been named the richest Londoner. Previously, that top spot was held by the owner of Access Industries Leonard Blavatnik, who was born in the Soviet Union. He now resides in New York City. Forbes Magazine also noted that Moscow is consistently among the top three cities in which live the largest number of billionaires. In 2019, Forbes located 71 billionaires in the Russian capital, the richest of whom is the chairperson of the board of Novatek, Leonid Mikhelson. In the 2019 ranking on this indicator, Moscow was ahead of only New York and Hong Kong. In an interview with Forbes in 2017, Fridman said that he predominantly works in London. "I am a UK tax resident. I also have Israeli citizenship, but I don't live there. I live in London," said he. In other media | null | http://tass.com/economy/1048280 | 2019-03-12 11:29:17+00:00 | 1,552,404,557 | 1,567,546,553 | human interest | people |
769,220 | theindependent--2019-08-22--Dwayne Johnson tops Forbes list of highest-paid actors in 2019 | 2019-08-22T00:00:00 | theindependent | Dwayne Johnson tops Forbes list of highest-paid actors in 2019 | Forbes's ranking of the world's highest-paid actors for 2019 is out, with Dwayne Johnson, Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr at the top of the ranking. According to the publication, Johnson, whose 2019 film credits include Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as well as the WWE-themed comedy-drama Fighting with My Family, made $89.4m (£73.7m) between 1 June, 2018 and 1 June, 2019. Hemsworth and Downey Jr are two of several actors who landed on the list thanks to their earnings from Avengers: Endgame and its $2.796bn (£2,305bn) at the world box office. Per Forbes, Hemsworth (who plays Thor in the MCU) earned $76.4 m (£63m) over the past year, while Downey Jr made $66m (£54m). Those earnings come from both the original deal established by each actor and the additional money they might receive from the "pool", an amount of money contingent on how well the film performs. Click through the gallery below to browse the 2019 ranking of the world's highest-paid actors: | Clémence Michallon | https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/highest-paid-actors-world-richest-net-worth-2019-a9073941.html | 2019-08-22 05:04:00+00:00 | 1,566,464,640 | 1,567,533,702 | human interest | people |
779,127 | theindependent--2019-12-12--Angela Merkel tops Forbes' list of the most powerful women in the world for 2019 | 2019-12-12T00:00:00 | theindependent | Angela Merkel tops Forbes' list of the most powerful women in the world for 2019 | German chancellor Angela Merkel has topped Forbes' annual ranking of the world's most powerful women for 2019. Every year, Forbes compiles a list of the most influential female leaders from across the globe, in sectors including politics, business and entertainment. Merkel has received top billing on the list for the ninth year running, with the publication praising her "steely reserve, from standing up to Donald Trump to allowing more than a million Syrian refugees into Germany". Coming in second place is Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, who previously served as managing director of the International Monetary Fund and placed 22nd on the most powerful people in the world list last year. Following Lagarde is Nancy Pelosi, who became the first woman to serve as speaker of the House in the US in 2007. In September, Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry against US President Donald Trump, after a whistleblower alleged that Trump may have abused his power as president. Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who was recently named Time magazine's person of the year, has been placed 100th on Forbes' list. Click through the gallery above to see the top 25 individuals from the publication's 100 most powerful women in the world list. Last year, following the announcement of Merkel as the most powerful woman of the year, Forbes outlined how the impact she has had as leader of the Christian Democratic Union and as chancellor of Germany was undeniable. Coming in second place in 2018 was then-Prime Minister Theresa May, with Melinda Gates coming in sixth, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki placing seventh and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty being named 10th. | Sabrina Barr | https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/forbes-worlds-most-powerful-women-list-angela-merkel-nancy-pelosi-greta-thunberg-2019-a9243541.html | Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:28:00 GMT | 1,576,168,080 | 1,576,154,083 | human interest | people |
993,211 | thesun--2019-12-26--Floyd Mayweather tops Forbes rich list of decade with £706MILLION fortune ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo | 2019-12-26T00:00:00 | thesun | Floyd Mayweather tops Forbes rich list of decade with £706MILLION fortune ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi | FLOYD MAYWEATHER has congratulated Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi after it was revealed they were the highest-paid athletes of the decade. American lifestyle magazine Forbes counted down the top ten richest athletes of the 2010s and the Money Man came WAY out on top. The boxing icon, 42, earned an eye-watering £706MILLION ($915m) from his boxing career in the last ten years. But Mayweather was also arguably the least active athlete on the list, fighting just ten times in the decade - the last of those coming more than two years ago. The American retired in August 2017 after his blockbuster match with MMA superstar Conor McGregor. That highly-anticipated match was the richest in boxing history, earning Mayweather an estimated $300million. His fight with Manny Pacquiao, which came in May 2015 after years of posturing, also netted Mayeweather close to $200m. Mayweather ended his career with a perfect 50-0 record, and in the 2010s also had memorable fights with 'Sugar' Shane Mosley, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Miguel Cotto. On social media, Mayweather wrote: "Congratulations to every athlete on this list!" Two of football's greatest ever players were second and third on the Forbes list. It was Ronaldo who edged in front of his great rival, Messi, earning an estimated £617m ($800m) over the decade, compared to £578.5m ($750m) for the Argentinian. Ronaldo's profile off the pitch is second to none, with the Portuguese commanding huge endorsement deals and gaining massive followings on social media. Indeed, he has the highest number of followers on Instagram and Facebook. Messi, meanwhile, is content to earn a huge wage for his stellar performance on the pitch - no salary is higher that what the Barcelona No10 picks up every week at the Nou Camp. In fourth place is basketball legend LeBron James with a salary over the decade of £524.5m ($680m). The Los Angeles Lakers star is another who earns more from endorsements than salary. Tennis legend Roger Federer is fifth, ahead of golfers Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson. Lewis Hamilton, in tenth with earnings of £308.5m ($400m), is the only racing driver and the only Brit in the top ten. Further down the list, Serena Williams is the only female athlete to break into the top 40. The 23-time Grand Slam winner earned £165.8m ($215m) over the decade. | Tom Sheen | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/10617226/forbes-highest-paid-athletes-decade-mayweather-ronaldo-messi/ | Thu, 26 Dec 2019 07:38:47 +0000 | 1,577,363,927 | 1,577,363,066 | human interest | people |
1,086,339 | vdare--2019-10-04--Brimelow In FORBES, 1993: Are Universities Necessary? | 2019-10-04T00:00:00 | vdare | Brimelow In FORBES, 1993: Are Universities Necessary? | See also College Bubble Bursting—Left Hardest Hit. Too Bad. by Lance Welton Peter Brimelow writes: From pre-internet darkness, we’ve retrieved my Forbes article (published April 26, 1993 under the headline “Are Universities Necessary") on Douglas Hague’s brilliant pamphlet, cited by Lance Welton here. It’s taken longer for the Higher Ed bubble to burst than he (and I) thought—rather like patriotic immigration reform. But it’s happening. Well, are they? It may seem an odd question to ask Professor Sir Douglas Hague [1926-2015] in the sleek contemporary surroundings of Templeton College, Oxford University's recent belated answer to American graduate business education, where he is now an associate fellow. But in fact Hague voiced grave doubts in his 1991 pamphlet "Beyond Universities: A New Republic of the Intellect," [PDF] published by London's Institute of Economic Affairs. However, he made clear he hoped to rescue them. "Now I'm sure universities are unrescuable," he says wry, describing the complacent reception his ideas received. "Eventually, businessmen will get fed up and organize their own [training centers]." This may sound strange to Americans brought up with the idea that a college education should be ever)' child's birthright. Nevertheless, Hague is serious. He even expects to hasten universities' demise: He's a director of CRT Group, a U.K. public company that has just entered the training business by purchasing Pitman, once a famous chain of shorthand schools. Winkled out from behind his efficient women assistants, Hague is a pink., gentle 66-year-old with a self-deprecating grin. World War II diverted him from the usual Oxford or Cambridge Ivy league-type route followed by most top British academics. Instead, he graduated from his hometown University of Birmingham with a bachelor of commerce degree—impossible at "Oxbridge" and, ironically, first developed for Japanese sent to study in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Later, Hague was involved in the founding of the Manchester Business School, which, along with the London Business School, was the first set up in the U.K. In the 1970s and 1980s he was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher, leading to a knighthood and the chairmanship of the Economic & Social Research Council, Britain's centralized government research funding agency. • Universities have lost their intellectual monopoly. The service sector "knowledge industries"—information technology, financial advice, design, research and development—have grown to the point where they now exceed the manufacturing sector in economic importance. "Increasingly," Hague argues, "people outside the universities will be working in similar ways and with similar talents to those within. And they will often do so more innovatively and with greater vigor, because they will come to what they do untrammeled by academic traditions, preconceptions and institutions." Or, as he rephrased it for FORBES: "For the first time in history, there are more clever people outside universities than inside. And they're doers." One symptom: Already the investment industry has driven academic economists out of the economic prognostication business. Many City of London research reports, Hague says, are up to any university standard. "More important," he adds with a grimness that reflects his experience as a former research-funder, "they are written on time." • Technology will revolutionize teaching. Crucially, it offers increasing economies of scale. But universities are institutionally committed to extensive, expensive "chalk and talk" classroom methods. "A cult literature now prized in Cambridge, England," Hague says, "is scribbled notes from Keynes' lectures and discussions. What would we give now (what would we have given then) to be able to look in on discussions between Keynes, Dennis Robertson, Richard Kahn, and Joan and Austin Robertson?" Or, he adds with transatlantic tolerance, "Milton Friedman and his associates." Videotaping makes this possible. A few academics should emerge as superstars. Many more will be what Hague calls "educational consultants," with the specialized support function of directing students to information sources . . . if required. Underlying Hague's analysis is a theory about education in a modern society derived from the Cambridge [England] anthropologist Ernest Gellner. Because of the economy's constant innovation, Gellner argues, the work force must constantly adapt and be retrained in new special skills. But the basic "generic" education that precedes that special training will be, Gellner suggests, "the least specialized, the most universally standardized." This "generic" education will be the function of high schools. "Three- or four-year bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, may be obsolete as we know them," Hague says. (The Ph.D. he regards as "one of the worst American inventions," partly because of its use to restrict entry into university-level teaching.) Hague envisages a dramatic unbundling of higher education, with individuals studying a range of subjects in varying amounts ("modules") as needed over their careers: "We may need less time devoted to higher education, but spread over a lifetime." Degree-course students should ultimately constitute only a part of a university's clientele, Hague expects. The rest will be just stopping by for pit stops to refuel and change their intellectual oil. Significantly, the bulk of Templeton College's revenues come from "executive courses." To talk to FORBES, a slightly stressed Hague snatched some time from a week-long breakfast-to-bedtime brainstorming seminar with key managers of a major British transport company. But most universities, Hague thinks, won't be able to make the transition. They are fatally in thrall to their historic origins—as trainers of clergymen, finishing schools for the elite and islands of gracious living. But aren't universities also about pure scholarship? Hague is not doctrinaire: He sees a role for public money to support subjects, like history, that can't meet a market test. ("Although I'm not sure about that," he adds, "look at Paul Kennedy"—the Yale historian and author of the bestselling Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.) Fundamentally, however, Hague is profoundly skeptical about the worth of much government-funded research in his own social sciences. And even in the hard sciences, where he suspects it has resulted in overspecialization and irrelevance. However, Hague is touchingly less skeptical about U.S. higher education. He praises its pluralism and greater flexibility in subject matter and in accommodating part-time and long-term students. And he likes the fact that colleges here occasionally go bankrupt. He thinks it encourages the others. "The change I'm talking about could happen in 10 years in the U.S.," he says. "It will take 25 years here—40 on the Continent." But the U.S. system may just look better to Hague because of its contrast with what he describes as the "neo-Stalinist" structure of higher education in Britain, centrally financed and managed by Westminster. Actually, U.S. higher education is a form of the "market socialism" briefly tried in Eastern Europe. It has both a neo-Stalinist, government-dominated sector and a more flexible, entrepreneurial sector. Working together, they extract from Americans nearly 3% of GNP for spending on colleges and universities, versus less than 1% in Britain, Germany or Japan. Hague acknowledges this. But as long as governments control higher education, he says, its share of GNP will be arbitrary. In his market-driven system, the share might well rise—"if people spent 5% of their careers on training, that's 5% of GNP." But it would be productively allocated. "All I want is people to have a choice," he says. | [email protected] (Peter Brimelow) | https://vdare.com/articles/brimelow-in-forbes-1993-are-universities-necessary | Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:11:45 -0400 | 1,570,241,505 | 1,570,465,332 | human interest | people |
2,974 | abcnews--2019-12-07--Tuskegee Airman celebrates 100th birthday with flight | 2019-12-07T00:00:00 | abcnews | Tuskegee Airman celebrates 100th birthday with flight | A member of the Tuskegee Airmen celebrated his 100th birthday by taking a flight. Retired Army Air Forces Col. Charles McGee flew a private jet Friday between Frederick, Maryland, and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, news outlets reported. The Tuskegee Airmen is the nickname of the first African American unit to fly combat airplanes in World War II. The Air Force recently honored the famed group of airmen with the naming of its new trainer jet. McGee is one of the Air Force's most celebrated pilots. He flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars. McGee, who turned 100 on Saturday, attributes positive thinking to his longevity. | null | https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tuskegee-airman-celebrates-100th-birthday-flight-67570544 | Sat, 07 Dec 2019 17:45:35 -0500 | 1,575,758,735 | 1,575,763,560 | human interest | people |
7,197 | ageofautism--2019-07-11--Happy 23rd Birthday to my Beautiful Daughter Vaccine Injured 8393 Days Ago | 2019-07-11T00:00:00 | ageofautism | Happy 23rd Birthday to my Beautiful Daughter Vaccine Injured 8,393 Days Ago | Born: July 11, 1996 Vaccinated: July 13, 1996 Diagnosed with autism: November 18, 1999 I adore this young woman, Miss G. She is bright, funny, bouncy, kind, curious, thoughtful, energetic. She is her mother - if her mother had autism. She was born in the blink of an eye. No drugs. None. I didn't want to put anything harmful into my precious child. Then I authorized a Hepatitis B vaccine, with 12.5 mcg of mercury. It radically changed her within days. At birth, she nursed like champ. Latched on. Suckled. Slept. Cooed. When I returned home 48 hours later, she had a keening, high pitched cry that shocked her father, my mother and me. It was jarring. "She's a noisy one!" We didn't know we were hearing the sound of vaccine injury. WE DID NOT KNOW. By day four at home, she could no longer nurse properly. Instead of latching on, she thrust her lower jaw forward and gnawed at the breast to produce milk. I had sores and scabs and pain for 6 months. I called the nursing specialists. Nothing. I called La Leche. Zero. No one could tell me why my infant, who nursed with ease at birth was suddenly struggling to eat. Three words: INFANT PRIMATE STUDY A research team led by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Thoughtful House reported today that exposure to a birth dose of a hepatitis B vaccine that included an ethyl mercury preservative caused significant delays in the development of several survival reflexes in male rhesus macaque monkeys. Three of nine reflexes showed significant delays in vaccinated macaques while two other reflexes were delayed and “approached significance.” As for the three significant reflexes, vaccinated macaques learned more slowly to: 1) turn their head in response to a brush on the cheek (the root reflex); 2) open their mouth in response to a brush on the forehead (the snout reflex); and 3) suck on a nipple placed in their mouth (the suck reflex). I've made my peace with what happened to Miss G. I can't change it. It does not affect my love for her. It deepens it. I am her mother. Today, I celebrate Miss G and all her quirky, kooky, wake up at 4:00am every single day self. | Age of Autism | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ageofautism/~3/0MZxnwNtdfc/happy-23rd-birthday-to-my-beautiful-daughter-vaccine-injured-8393-days-ago.html | 2019-07-11 10:01:00+00:00 | 1,562,853,660 | 1,567,536,524 | human interest | people |
74,856 | breitbart--2019-10-30--Firefighters Visit Girl on Her Birthday as Father Fights California Wildfires | 2019-10-30T00:00:00 | breitbart | Firefighters Visit Girl on Her Birthday as Father Fights California Wildfires | A group of firefighters went above and beyond their call of duty when they visited a little girl on her birthday while her father was battling the Getty Fire in southern California. The Ventura County Fire Department posted on Facebook Tuesday that their firefighters were “working extra shifts” to keep communities safe and that when they were not working, several firefighters visited a little girl on her birthday while her father was working to contain the Getty Fire: “The fire family is so amazing how we come together to support each other,” the department said in the post. Fire officials report the Getty Fire is 27 percent contained as of Wednesday and is one out of ten different wildfires burning throughout thousands of acres of land in California. The Getty Fire began when a falling tree branch struck power lines and ignited nearby brush, fire officials said. “The fire was likely caused by a tree branch that broke off during the high wind conditions and subsequently landed on nearby power lines, which resulted in sparking and arcing that ignited nearby brush,” the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement. In northern California, residents are dealing with wildfires coupled with power outages as Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the state’s largest utility, shut off power to many areas to prevent wildfires. PG&E expected 1.5 million customers in 30 counties to be affected by the blackouts. More than 150,000 people still remain under evacuation orders. | Katherine Rodriguez | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/WjB-Le3K45Y/ | Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:24:33 +0000 | 1,572,477,873 | 1,572,610,105 | human interest | people |
77,017 | breitbart--2019-12-07--Tuskegee Airman Celebrates 100th Birthday with a Return to the Skies | 2019-12-07T00:00:00 | breitbart | Tuskegee Airman Celebrates 100th Birthday with a Return to the Skies | A Tuskegee Airman celebrated his 100th birthday by flying a plane out of Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Maryland, as a copilot. The airman, Col. Charles McGee, survived three wars, including World War II, and completed 409 combat missions in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He earned his pilot wings on June 30, 1943. But as McGee reported for duty inside the airport’s Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) hangar, all eyes were on him as he celebrated his 100th birthday with a trip into the skies. “To get in air again, it’s a real thrill,” McGee said. AOPA and Vincent Mickens of Private Air Media Group, LLC teamed up to recognize the pilot with a series of events for his birthday weekend, including a flight to Dover Air Force Base. McGee and pilot Boni Caldeira performed their pre-flight check of a more modern version of the planes McGee flew back in World War II. “It’s an opportunity to share in where technology has taken us in the aviation realm and just to be a part of it,” McGee said of the flight. McGee, who is from Bethesda, Maryland, was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal from former President George W. Bush. He also has another honor waiting for him in the wings. In July, the Senate passed a bill that would give him an honorary promotion to brigadier general. The motion awaits a vote in the House and the president’s signature. McGee is the eldest of nine remaining Tuskegee Airmen and spends most of his time passing the legacy of the airmen on to future generations. | Katherine Rodriguez | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/E7hVgkXQdfg/ | Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:14:56 +0000 | 1,575,778,496 | 1,575,806,862 | human interest | people |
77,764 | breitbart--2019-12-20--Jane Fonda Celebrates 82nd Birthday by Protesting Climate Change with Gloria Steinem | 2019-12-20T00:00:00 | breitbart | Jane Fonda Celebrates 82nd Birthday by Protesting Climate Change with Gloria Steinem | Actress Jane Fonda celebrated her 82nd birthday by protesting climate change with fellow feminist activist Gloria Steinem. While Fonda stuck mostly to environmental talking points, Steinem used the occasion to attack President Donald Trump, calling him the “accidental occupant” of the White House and “orange man.” Speaking to a crowd gathered Friday morning outside the U.S. Capitol building, Fonda equated climate change to a burgeoning health crisis. “Climate change is a public health emergency,” she said. “But not enough people make the connection. We’re seeing increases in many old diseases… due to air and water pollution.” She added: “There’s the increases in mental health problems as people try to cope with loss of homes and crops and livestock, jobs and family. Health care systems the world over including in this country are increasingly unable to meet the challenges.” Fonda, who turns 82 on Saturday, was joined by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who gave a speech in which she repeatedly attacked President Trump. “You may think I’m here to talk about all the women the accidental occupant of the White House has harassed and assaulted,” Steinem said. “However, I am here to talk about only one of the women this Orange Man is disrespecting, assaulting, and endangering… her name is Mother Nature.” Steinem, 85, continued: “The truth is that environmental protection has huge majority support in this country and Trump does not have majority support. Far from it.” Fonda’s climate protest on Friday marked her 11th consecutive “Fire Drill Friday” event. Past participants include Rosanna Arquette, Diane Lane, Piper Perabo, Sam Waterston, and Ted Danson. On Tuesday, Fonda delivered a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., slamming Republicans, praising the Green New Deal, and denouncing the energy industry for destroying the earth. “You know, I lie in bed at night searching for the right words that will galvanize people to action around the climate emergency and show them why it’s too late for moderation,” Fonda said on Tuesday. “This is going to take an all-out war on drilling, and fracking, and de-regulation, and racism, and misogyny, and colonialism, and despair, all at the same time.” Follow David Ng on Twitter @HeyItsDavidNg. Have a tip? Contact me at [email protected] | David Ng | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/fGiwIh6cTr4/ | Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:32:59 +0000 | 1,576,884,779 | 1,576,886,857 | human interest | people |
102,334 | cnn--2019-02-07--McCain family matriarch Roberta McCain celebrates 107th birthday | 2019-02-07T00:00:00 | cnn | McCain family matriarch Roberta McCain celebrates 107th birthday | "Happy 107th Birthday to my grandmother Roberta McCain - you are the epitome of strength and grace, an American treasure and one of my life role models," Meghan McCain, a co-host of ABC's "The View" and daughter of Sen. McCain, wrote on Twitter. "Thank you for showing me and so many others how to truly live life on your own terms. I love you." Roberta mostly stayed away from her son's 2000 presidential bid, but was a frequent presence on the campaign trail when he ran for president in 2008. A spirited woman, she has traveled the world even in her advanced age, including taking a trip to Europe in her 90s. | Veronica Stracqualursi | http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/UrwGQXkYtPE/index.html | 2019-02-07 15:45:03+00:00 | 1,549,572,303 | 1,567,549,354 | human interest | people |
131,242 | dailykos--2019-03-15--Happy Birthday Albert Einstein the Socialist | 2019-03-15T00:00:00 | dailykos | Happy Birthday Albert Einstein, the Socialist | Today we celebrate the 140th birthday of Albert Einstein, born on March 14, 1879, perhaps the greatest Physicist to grace this planet. Much has been written about his contribution to Science and Physics, his demeanor, his personal life, his love of music, his views on politics, war, Zionism and socialism. Here we take a brief look at his writings on socialism, as expounded in his essay Why Socialism, written for the Monthly Review in 1949. We follow it up from some tributes from renowned organizations and individuals from the twitter world. Much of what Einstein wrote is as relevant today as it was 70 years ago. His dissection of capitalism, capitalists, politicians and individuals is as insightful as one modern thinker on the subject. His prescriptions were philosophical and he called upon others to craft specific solution to steer the world towards socialism. Here is a summary of the essay — the emphasis on certain quoted phrases is mine. According to Einstein, the essence of the crisis of his time concerns the relationship of the individual to society. He spends a few paragraphs explaining the evolution of humans from individuals to ones deeply connected with society. And then he writes - The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Einstein squarely lays the blame at the feet of Capitalism. The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor—not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. What the worker receives is determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists’ requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs. He next discusses the nexus between capitalists and politics — which rings so true today, esp. with the republican party - Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. He dissects the plight of the dispensable worker - Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before. Einstein has some keen insights on the education system and its effect on society’s members - I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. Was Einstein being too idealistic? Was his vision too close to Marxism? Are human beings doomed to compete and destroy rather than live in harmony with and for the benefit of their fellow beings? Or are these destructive attitudes inculcated by society’s power holders and can be reversed (Einstein thought so)? Einstein is very well aware of how a planned economy can lead to totalitarianism not socialism. He concludes with the words — “Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition”, hoping to inspire others to debate and craft solutions to the crisis of individual and humanity, which he laid out in the essay. Do take a look at the full essay. It is very-well written, easy to read and sounds eerily familiar. A Few Notable Tributes and Some Wonderful Pictures A few Tweets that will make you smile What are your memories of Einstein, from your school and college days? What do you remember his most by? Do his views on socialism line up with yours? How much progress have we made towards the goal of socialism, as we define it now? Can capitalism be tamed to be more socially responsible? Can capitalism and socialism co-exist? Is there something like Democratic capitalism or Capitalistic socialism or Socialist Capitalism? | [email protected] (AKALib) | https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/14/1842188/-Happy-Birthday-Albert-Einstein-the-Socialist | 2019-03-15 00:03:35+00:00 | 1,552,622,615 | 1,567,546,094 | human interest | people |
157,983 | eveningstandard--2019-01-07--Blue Ivyaposs birthday Best moments of Beyonce and Jay-Zaposs daughter as she turns 7 | 2019-01-07T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Blue Ivy's birthday: Best moments of Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter as she turns 7 | Happy birthday to Blue Ivy Carter, who turns seven today. Beyonce and Jay-Z's eldest daughter has had a pretty eventful life so far. Famous even before she was born, Blue's arrival was announced at the MTV Music Awards when Beyonce rubbed her baby bump mid-performance. Blue Ivy was then welcomed into the world on January 7, 2012, at Manhattan’s Lennox Hill Hospital. Beyoncé described the birth in an interview with Vogue the following year. "I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn’t think about my own pain" she said, "we were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication." Over the years, Blue Ivy has become a mini celebrity in her own right, frequently stealing the spotlight from her famous parents. Here's a few of her best moments. When Beyoncé and Blue Ivy are photographed together there's often some outfit coordination involved, like in 2016 when the two posed in front of the Eiffel Tower in matching mint floral dresses. The two wore matching dresses again for a sweet Mother’s Day photo shoot in 2017. Blue Ivy has joined her parents several times at the awards ceremony. During the 2018 Grammys, she showed Beyoncé and Jay-Z who’s boss when she appeared to shush their applause during Camila Cabello’s speech. She also gave us one of the best mom memes when she was pictured chowing down on snacks while Beyoncé held on to her cartoon of juice. And at the 2017 Grammys, Blue Ivy crashed James Corden’s live version of Carpool Karaoke in her pink ruffled Prince-inspired outfit. The performance featured Jennifer Lopez and John Legend. But, as one of Corden’s biggest fans, Blue Ivy outshone them all. As the daughter of two of the biggest music stars on the planet, there’s no telling what kind of natural talent Blue Ivy has inherited from her parents. She's already contributed vocals to Jay-Z’s 4:44 track “Legacy” and for the album’s bonus track “Blue’s Freestyle.” For Blue Ivy’s sixth birthday, Jay-Z released a music video for “Blue’s Freestyle” that features an animated version of Blue rapping and performing ballet at a talent show. She made music video cameos in Beyoncé’s “Formation” and sentimental tribute “Blue,” along with joining a star-studded cast for Jay-Z’s “Family Feud” video that envisions Blue Ivy as the future United States president. Blue Ivy delivered some serious summer goals when the Carters took a casual family trip to Italy, where Blue appeared completely nonplussed in a pair of cat-eyed sunglasses with a tropical drink. Just your typical bucket and spade family holiday then... From attending concerts as a toddler to watching Beyoncé at Coachella, Blue Ivy might be her parents’ most loyal fan. This was also evident when she taught a friend how to throw up “The Roc” (Jay-Z’s signature diamond-shape symbol) during her father’s performance of “On To The Next One” at a London show this past June. If there’s anyone who could outdo Beyoncé on the red carpet, it would be Blue Ivy herself. The young Carter turned heads at the 2016 VMAs with her glittering metallic dress designed by luxury children’s brand Mischka Aoki. It was reportedly priced at around $11,000. Blue Ivy clearly doesn't suffer fools gladly - she even apparently called out Jay-Z for an unfriendly tone he used with her in the car. She’s appears to be keeping her grandmother, Tina Knowles, in check too. During a trip to Paris this past May, Knowles attempted to sneak an Instagram video of a ballet theatre. Just as she was filming, Blue Ivy can be heard off-camera telling her video is not allowed. Don't even attempt to bend the rules on Blue's watch. | Lisa Brown | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/blue-ivy-birthday-best-moments-beyonce-jayzs-daughter-turns-7-a4031746.html | 2019-01-07 08:57:00+00:00 | 1,546,869,420 | 1,567,553,574 | human interest | people |
159,730 | eveningstandard--2019-01-16--Happy birthday Kate Moss The iconic supermodelaposs best party looks of all time | 2019-01-16T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Happy birthday, Kate Moss! The iconic supermodel's best party looks of all time | Kate Moss is undeniably one of the most photographed women on the planet. Rising to fame at the tender age of 14 after being discovered at JFK airport - Kate quickly soared to supermodel status in the '90s, working for brands such as Calvin Klein, Versace and Saint Laurent. Over the years, Kate has not only become a pro at campaigns and catwalks - but also, quite practised at partying. Whether it's simply a night out on the town with her fellow supermodel friends or attending a swanky gala, Kate's glamorous outfits have never faltered. So, to celebrate her 45th birthday, we are taking a trip down memory lane and looking back at her best (and most inspiring) party ensembles. From that '90s chainmail slip dress to androgynous tailored suits and more glitzy gowns that we can count - here are the looks that have become nearly as iconic as Kate's cheekbones. Click through our gallery above for the ultimate party dressing inspiration. | Sabrina Carder | https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/news/kate-moss-best-party-looks-of-all-time-a3741271.html | 2019-01-16 10:44:00+00:00 | 1,547,653,440 | 1,567,552,174 | human interest | people |
158,280 | eveningstandard--2019-01-08--David Bowie art in London Best paintings portraits murals and street art of the star for his birt | 2019-01-08T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | David Bowie art in London: Best paintings, portraits, murals and street art of the star for his birthday | Not only is it the star’s birthday on January 8, but it's also the month of his death, which occurred just days after on January 10. This year marks the three-year anniversary of his passing. This icon would have turned 72 in 2019 and to commemorate his birth and death, we’ve rounded up some of the best David Bowie art in London. From moving murals and street art to striking portraits, over the years many artists have captured the very essence of the legendary singer in their works. The National Portrait Gallery currently has one abstract oil painting on display by Stephen Finer, which depicts a mostly grey and white canvas with flashes of colour defining the icon's features. The gallery also has portraits by David Wedgbury and David Bebbington in its photographs collection. While these are not currently on display, they can be found online. Brixton's famous Ziggy Stardust mural became a shrine to the star after his death with many fans signing the wall and leaving flowers by it. Bowie street art can be found elsewhere in the capital, most notably the black and white piece by Artful Dodger in Elephant and Castle. A more recent addition lies on Ada Street in Hackney and is claimed by @Zabouartist on Instagram. Bowie released his final studio album Blackstar on January 8 2016, his 69th birthday. He died two days later having suffered with liver cancer for 18 months. | Lizzie Thomson | https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/david-bowie-art-london-best-paintings-portrait-gallery-mural-street-art-a4032546.html | 2019-01-08 09:20:00+00:00 | 1,546,957,200 | 1,567,553,411 | human interest | people |
158,520 | eveningstandard--2019-01-09--Kate Middleton style file as she celebrates her 37th birthday we chart the Duchess of Cambridgeap | 2019-01-09T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kate Middleton style file: as she celebrates her 37th birthday, we chart the Duchess of Cambridge's fashion history | Since first appearing on the arm of Prince William over a decade ago, Kate Middleton has found her sartorial decisions under close scrutiny. Having moved on from the preppy, country-girl sense of style that she favoured during her university years at St Andrews, the Duchess of Cambridge has stepped seamlessly into the position of a modern day fashion icon. From state banquets to official engagements, Kate always looks timeless and elegant. She continues to strike the balance between giving a nod to established, well-regarded global fashion brands - including Alexander McQueen, Jenny Packham and Temperley - and supporting slightly lesser-known British talents such as Matthew Williamson, Catherine Walker and Preen by Thornton Bregazzi. Kate, is also known for working high-street items into her wardrobe, however the majority of 2018 saw the Reiss coats and Zara dresses give way to more luxury brands and couture creations. In a year that saw Kate navigate a maternity wardrobe, juggle being a busy mum-of-three and carry out her royal duties, it's fair to say that she managed to pull it off with effortless grace and style. Undeniably the duchess's favourite designer continues to be the brand responsible for her wedding dress in 2011, Alexander McQueen. From creating a princess-perfect maternity gown for a royal tour of Oslo, to a chic cream coat for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal wedding and a trendy puff sleeve dress for Prince Louis' christening, the British designer has been responsible for many of Kate's most memorable ensembles over the past year. Nearly eight years since Kate was welcomed into the royal family, the latter half of 2018 also saw the then 36-year-old in the throes of a style revolution, from on-trend hair accessories to a masterclass in autumn/winter 2018 dressing and the addition of trousers to her royal wardrobe, we are sure the duchess's 37th year is going to be her most stylish to date. | Sabrina Carder, Chloe Street | https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/kate-middleton-style-file-as-she-celebrates-her-36th-birthday-we-chart-the-duchess-of-cambridges-a3735206.html | 2019-01-09 09:31:00+00:00 | 1,547,044,260 | 1,567,553,241 | human interest | people |
159,357 | eveningstandard--2019-01-14--Miley Cyrus shares heart-warming open letter to aposfavourite dudeapos Liam Hemsworth on his bir | 2019-01-14T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Miley Cyrus shares heart-warming open letter to 'favourite dude' Liam Hemsworth on his birthday | Miley Cyrus has shared a heart-warming tribute to new husband Liam Hemsworth to celebrate his 29th birthday. The 26-year-old singer marked the happy occasion with an open letter to Hemsworth, who she married in December, in which she listed all her “favourite things” about the actor. “HBD to my #1… When we met you were 19, today you are 29,” she wrote on Instagram and Twitter. “I thought I could share some of my favourite things about my favourite dude in honour of this very special day,” she said. “The way you look at me, the way you look at our dogs… our pigs, our horses, our cats, our fish. “The way you look at your family… your friends… at strangers… at life. “The look on your face when you receive good news and how you look at the bad news. “I love how you always try things your way, but are never to [sic] proud to ask for help. (Yes, I’ve noticed and taken note, I’m a work in progress).” After listening all these positives, Cyrus jokingly shared some of Hemsworth’s less than favourable habits, including his fondness for leaving “dirty socks on the floor,” and turned them on their head. “I even love when you shrink my favourite t-shirt in the dryer – because having a boyfriend (oh em gee I almost forgot you’re my friggen husband now) that does laundry is pretty much the best thing ever,” she wrote, before thanking the actor “for giving me the happiest days of my life.” Cyrus and Hemsworth tied the knot in front of friends and family in a low-key ceremony held in Tennessee on December 23. The singer confirmed the happy news with a series of black and white images shared on her Instagram account. The couple first met on the set of Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Last Song, and dated from 2010 to 2012 before calling it quits. However, after a three-year-hiatus, they rekindled the romance in 2015. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/miley-cyrus-shares-heartwarming-open-letter-to-favourite-dude-liam-hemsworth-on-his-birthday-a4038416.html | 2019-01-14 14:20:00+00:00 | 1,547,493,600 | 1,567,552,514 | human interest | people |
159,552 | eveningstandard--2019-01-15--Kim Kardashian shares adorable tribute to apospretty girlapos Chicago on her first birthday afte | 2019-01-15T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kim Kardashian shares adorable tribute to 'pretty girl' Chicago on her first birthday after confirming fourth baby plans | Kim Kardashian has shared a tribute to her "sweetest" daughter Chicago on her first birthday. The reality star posted an adorable black and white image of the famous tot laying in bed. She captioned the post: “Happy Birthday to my pretty girl Chi!!!! The sweetest baby in the whole world! Mommy and Daddy love you so much!” Fans of the star were quick to hail Chicago the “most gorgeous baby”, whilst others inundated the comments with birthday wishes. One user wrote: “She is so beautiful Kim.” A third added: “Omg stop it. How freaking cute!” The post comes after Kardashian confirmed she is expecting to welcome her fourth child with husband Kanye West. Kardashian broke the news during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, in which she revealed her fourth child will be a boy. Cohen asked: "Are you working on another child?" The reality TV star replied: "We are." The tot will be the couple’s second child via surrogate, Chicago being the first, after Kardashian “nearly died” during her second pregnancy after she struggled with a “stuck” placenta during childbirth. The couple are also parents to daughter North, five, and three-year-old son Saint. | Safeeyah Kazi | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/kim-kardashian-shares-adorable-tribute-to-pretty-girl-chicago-on-her-first-birthday-after-confirming-a4039856.html | 2019-01-15 19:17:37+00:00 | 1,547,597,857 | 1,567,552,348 | human interest | people |
159,749 | eveningstandard--2019-01-16--Kate Moss celebrates 45th birthday with celeb pals - and a cake covered in pictures of herself | 2019-01-16T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kate Moss celebrates 45th birthday with celeb pals - and a cake covered in pictures of herself | Kate Moss celebrated her 45th birthday in style with a dinner at one of London’s most exclusive restaurants, which was attended by her coterie of celebrity pals. The model hosted the celebratory meal at Mayfair restaurant China Tang, part of The Dorchester hotel, which offers private dining rooms for a £2,000 minimum spend. Her close friends Stella McCartney, Sadie Frost, Meg Mathews Liv Tyler and make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury were all in attendance, along with Vogue editor Edward Enninful. Instagram snaps shared by interior designer Mathews on the night showed the lavish dining room decked out with gold balloons that spelled out ‘Happy Birthday.’ The highlight of the night was perhaps the Moss-themed cake, which featured a rainbow-coloured sponge base, a meringue top and miniature replicas of the model’s many Vogue covers, held in place with cocktail sticks. The phrase ‘No fee no me’ was written in icing on the plate. In a video clip shared by Mathews, the model looked overjoyed as the cake was wheeled into the room, complete with two huge sparklers. Frost also gave Instagram followers a closer look at the birthday treat, writing: “Happy birthday Kate… what a lovely evening filled with so much love. It all just gets better.” Fashion designer McCartney posted a special birthday tribute to the model on Instagram as they posed in front of the balloon display, wishing a “happy happy birthday” to “one of my oldest finest funniest friends.” The model has become notorious for going all out to celebrate her birthday. She memorably invited friends to party for 34 hours straight to mark her 34th (thought it’s thought that guests only managed to stay out for 18 hours) and hosting a medieval banquet the following year. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/kate-moss-celebrates-45th-birthday-with-celeb-pals-and-a-cake-covered-in-pictures-of-herself-a4040566.html | 2019-01-16 12:58:00+00:00 | 1,547,661,480 | 1,567,552,175 | human interest | people |
159,750 | eveningstandard--2019-01-16--Kate Moss quotes to celebrate the supermodelaposs 45th birthday | 2019-01-16T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kate Moss quotes to celebrate the supermodel's 45th birthday | When you think of supermodels, there's a few names which reign supreme - and Kate Moss is always on the shortlist. The British model, who rose to prominence in the 90s - starting with her now iconic 1990 shoot for The Face - continues to influence the fashion world to this day, most recently becoming an agency boss and signing her own daughter Lila Moss. Moss borrowed the phrase "never complain, never explain" from her former boyfriend Johnny Depp, and in her three-decade career she's stuck pretty well to that rule, rarely giving in-depth interviews and preferring to let her work do the talking. But occasionally, she lets a few things slip. Here's a few of Kate Moss's funniest and best soundbites. “Going to the gym wouldn’t be on my list of favourite things to do.” - speaking to Interview Magazine, 2008 "I was lucky to be with Johnny. He taught me a lot about fame. He told me 'never complain, never explain'. That's why I don't use Twitter and things like that. I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery." - writing in Vanity Fair in 2012. “It’s a sin to be tired.” - speaking to Time Out London, 2001 “When you’re shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you’re playing, really.” - speaking to Interview Magazine, 2008 “It sounds really corny but I think that if you’re beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure. You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.” - speaking to WWD, 2009 Kate Moss, speaking to Vanity Fair in 2012 of her church marriage to ex-husband Jamie Hince: “I thought we might all burst into flames, all the crap we’ve done.” “I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.” - speaking to Harper's Bazaar, 2010 "I have met almost everyone I’ve wanted to meet." - speaking to Interview Magazine, 2008 “In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life. No, a stripper in my last life and in my next life, I’ll be a ballerina or a rock star, depending on how this one goes.” - speaking to Hello!, 2005 "In fashion, excess is not for creative purposes, whatever people may say. It is about escapism. You just have to get out of it to deal with it." - speaking to Time Out London, 2001 "I don't like selfies – my favourite picture of myself is the portrait that Mario Testino took of Lila and me for American Vogue. It's timeless. I have it hanging in my bathroom so I look at it every day." - speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, 2017 “I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’” - speaking to Image, 2001 “I am a woman now! It’s true. No, honestly, I’ve never worn a bra in my life. Ever!” - speaking to New York Magazine “With confidence, I think anyone can get a dress and make it their own. I don't think you should have it off the runway and wear it like they want you to wear it. You know, with their hair and makeup - their woman. I just think it's boring. You have to make it your own. That's what fashion is all about.” - speaking to Allure, 2013 “What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.” - speaking to Interview Magazine, 2014 “There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.” - speaking to WWD, 2009 ‘So, I’ve got a dog, and the dog’s making me (dress) more day. It’s a nightmare. You can’t do a dog in a heel.’ - speaking to Grazia, 2012 “I think because I still turn up for work wanting to get a picture that hasn’t been done. I still get excited, and I like being part of the process of creating an image. I mean, I’m still shocked when I get a campaign!” - speaking to The Guardian, 2018 “I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.” - speaking to Vogue, 2011 “I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.” - via TheTelegraph | Megan C. Hills | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/kate-moss-quotes-a4039746.html | 2019-01-16 09:23:00+00:00 | 1,547,648,580 | 1,567,552,175 | human interest | people |
159,810 | eveningstandard--2019-01-16--Rita Ora marks Kate Mossapos 45th birthday with saucy bed snap on Instagram | 2019-01-16T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Rita Ora marks Kate Moss' 45th birthday with saucy bed snap on Instagram | Rita Ora posted a saucy birthday tribute to Kate Moss as she shared a snap of the pair cosied up in bed. Ora, who signed to Moss’ modelling agency last year, paid homage to her pal on her 45th birthday with the ultimate throwback snap of Moss fast asleep. Alongside the posts, Ora wrote: “There’s only one KM. Happy birthday!! You do so much for so many here’s to your day! you deserve the world! “I love you always and forever and I’m so happy to call you my friend. Here’s to many more memories and laughs! #major @katemossagency.” Moss marked her landmark birthday on Wednesday, having enjoyed a night out at China Tang at The Dorchester on Tuesday night. Moss was joined by her boyfriend Count Nikolai Von Bismarck and pal Stella McCartney at the lavish venue. McCartney celebrated in style with her supermodel friend, uploading a video of the two at midnight wishing her “shlag wag” a happy birthday before giving her a kiss. She later posted a photo of the pair, writing: “To one of my oldest finest funniest friends... happy happy birthday. I love you xxx Shlag!!” Ora announced that she was officially making her first foray into modelling last summer when she signed to Moss’ star-studded agency. At the time, the Anywhere singer told The Sun: “Kate has always been a mentor and life-long friend. It's a real honour to be working with her. “I have watched her career and business grow, and establish itself as one of the most important and recognisable brands. She is a real inspiration, and when we discussed going in to business together, it seemed natural.” | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/rita-ora-marks-kate-moss-45th-birthday-with-saucy-bed-snap-on-instagram-a4040126.html | 2019-01-16 09:38:00+00:00 | 1,547,649,480 | 1,567,552,175 | human interest | people |
160,281 | eveningstandard--2019-01-19--Ariana Grande pays sweet tribute to late ex-boyfriend Mac Miller on his 27th birthday | 2019-01-19T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Ariana Grande pays sweet tribute to late ex-boyfriend Mac Miller on his 27th birthday | Ariana Grande has paid a sweet tribute to her late ex-boyfriend Mac Miller on what would have been his 27th birthday. The singer simply wrote “miss u” on Twitter on Saturday and later paid her respects by posting an image of herself with Miller. Although the message was not directed specifically at Miller, fans of the Thank U, Next signer were quick to offer their support to her. Miller died five months ago, in September, and Grande has shared numerous tributes to him since his death. The pair had dated for two years prior to his death. As well as Grande, many friends and artists from the music world paid tribute to the rapper on his birthday, on Saturday. Rapper Juicy J tweeted: “Happy bday to my brother Mac Miller, I miss my bro every day.” In honour of his birthday, MTV shared a video on Twitter from 2011, where Miller said: “the reason I am a musician is because I have a passion for making music.” | Olivia Tobin | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/ariana-grande-pays-tribute-to-late-mac-miller-on-his-27th-birthday-a4043721.html | 2019-01-19 19:52:00+00:00 | 1,547,945,520 | 1,567,551,717 | human interest | people |
161,806 | eveningstandard--2019-01-28--Olivia Colman reveals Wikipedia battle to change birthday after she was aged by eight years | 2019-01-28T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Olivia Colman reveals Wikipedia battle to change birthday after she was aged by eight years | Olivia Colman has revealed she has been locked in a battle with Wikipedia over her birthday after the website listed her as eight years older than she is. The Oscar-nominated star took on the online encyclopedia after googling herself and finding out that it had her down as 52. Not wanting to seem “vain”, Colman contacted the site and posed as a “friend” who just wanted to correct the honest mistake. “Once, on Wikipedia, they had my birthday as the wrong day, the wrong month, and eight years before I was born,” the actress explained on David Tennant’s podcast. She told her Broadchurch co-star: “I emailed them, pretending it wasn’t me. [I wrote,] ‘I was at school with her and that’s not her birthday.’ I didn’t want them to think I was being so vain. “I didn’t get a reply, and wrote again going, ‘Sorry guys, but I know it’s wrong.’ And they didn’t reply.” Exasperated at the lack of cooperation, Colman admitted that she was forced to come clean and tell the site that it was “really upsetting” that they had aged her almost a decade. The 44-year-old continued: “And they said, ‘We’d have to see a birth certificate to prove it,’ and I went, ‘Whose f****** birth certificate have you looked at in the first place to make me eight years older?” Wikipedia did eventually change Colman’s date of birth to the correct date, January 30, 1974, although the actress joked that she should have made herself younger. Despite roles in Broadchurch, Les Miserables and soon-to-be The Crown, Colman also revealed that her career is haunted by an advert she starred in for the AA back in 2004. The Norwich-born star admitted that she “lost some jobs” after playing the role of Bev in the iconic Kev and Bev adverts. Colman said: “AA! That has become the bane of my life. I thought they were going to run that for about a week but they ran it for what felt like four times a day for a year. “They ran it for a year having just given me a buy-out. It was really annoying. I lost some jobs.” Colman was last week nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite. The full podcast David Tennant Does A Podcast With is available to stream now. | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/olivia-colman-reveals-wikipedia-battle-to-change-birthday-after-she-was-aged-by-eight-years-a4050726.html | 2019-01-28 13:17:53+00:00 | 1,548,699,473 | 1,567,550,506 | human interest | people |
162,373 | eveningstandard--2019-01-31--Happy Birthday Stormi Webster Kylie Jenneraposs daughteraposs best moments as she turns one | 2019-01-31T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Happy Birthday Stormi Webster! Kylie Jenner's daughter's best moments as she turns one | Happy birthday to Stormi Webster - the smallest addition to the Kardashian clan who turns one today. As the daughter of Kylie Jenner and rapper Travis Scott, Stormi has spent the first twelve months of her life like any baby - decked out designer threads, jetting off on island holidays... Born into a family who share pretty much everything (even childbirth) with the world, Stormi's arrival was announced on Kylie's YouTube channel in a 'To Our Daughter' video that clocked up 80 million views. Shot like a mini documentary, the video included flashbacks to Kylie's mother Kris Jenner's own pregnancy and labour. Stormi joins an army of Kardashian children, including Khloe's daughter True Thompson and Kim's daughter Chicago. From cruising around in a Fendi-print ride to scoring her first LV bag, here's a highligh reel of Stormi's first year of life. Though Kylie Jenner was unsually private about her pregnancy, on 4th February she celebrated her daughter's arrival in a viral YouTube video. Stormi's aunt Kim Karadashian revealed on Instagram earlier this year that she had bought the smallest members of the Kardashian clan a designer purchase. Stormi Webster's designer bag is actually a vintage black and rainbow monogrammed LV purse valued at over £2k. The luxury purchases didn't stop there - the chair she's sitting on is actually a limited edition piece by Brazilian designer Campana and American artist KAWS, a gift from her father. Some people have limited edition Lamborghinis, others like Stormi have Fendi prams. Kylie naturally had a matching Fendi-print dress... Matty's smooth vocals struck the right note with Stormi, who bopped along to his track Butter. Note the tiny little butterfly clip - attention to detail Stormi joined her mum and honorary aunt Jordyn Woods, one of Kylie Jenner's best friends, for a beachy getaway. The three all arrived in lime green matching suits. According to Footwear News, she's wearing the Off-White x Air Jordan 1s. Not a single ugly Christmas jumper to be seen here. At Christmas she and her mum wore the sparkliest co-ord look - her mother went one up with a sparkly gown. While watching a video of her dad Travis Scott's concert, Stormi got into the spirit, dancing along to his music. Fan #1. She still needs a little help pronouncing 'Kylie Cosmetics'. Kylie regularly posts makeup tutorials to her YouTube channel. As Jenner walked her audience through a bold eyeshadow look, Stormi popped up for a cameo. Travis posted a picture of his daughter (a.k.a. his "little rager") to Instagram. Travis Scott's third album is called Astroworld - Stormi gave him some free advertising with this piece of merch. She also posed in front of her dad's poster. Initial necklaces might be a thing at the moment, but Stormi's doing her own thing with this gold bracelet. It's all about the colour palette... No Baby Bjorn for Stormi - Jenner's carrier of choice is by Gucci. Luckily for Stormi, she has a ton of cousins to have slumber parties with. She and her cousin Chicago 'Chi' West, Kim Kardashian's daughter, proved themselves diehard pink ladies at this cute sleepover. Attending her friend Jordyn Wood's birthday, Jenner posed with Stormi, who wore a metallic get-up and looked a little non-plussed about the room stuffed with heart balloons. The day after Halloween, Kylie Jenner revealed her and Stormi's matching costumes. Dressed in an all-gold get up, she was the lightning to her mother's storm cloud. Kylie captioned the post, "Stormi Weather". Get it? | Megan C. Hills | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/stormi-webster-kylie-jenner-daughter-best-moments-a4048096.html | 2019-01-31 16:45:55+00:00 | 1,548,971,155 | 1,567,550,085 | human interest | people |
163,476 | eveningstandard--2019-02-07--Holly Willoughby in TEARS as Phillip Schofield surprises her with puppies for her birthday | 2019-02-07T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Holly Willoughby in TEARS as Phillip Schofield surprises her with puppies for her birthday | Holly Willoughby was reduced to tears when her This Morning presenting partner Phillip Schofield presented her with a basket of puppies as an early birthday gift. The ITV star was ready to give viewers the usual rundown of what was in store for today’s show, until Schofield told her that he was planning to mark her birthday celebrations in style. “What’s Sunday?” he asked, before adding: “Shall we start the presents already?” As the This Morning team played a Happy Birthday fanfare, the 37-year-old admitted that they were “actually making [her] quite emotional, weirdly,” before Schofield surprised her with the Pomeranian puppies. “This is my present to you,” he declared, as the adorable bundles of fluff were wheeled into the studio on a trolley decked out in balloons, as Puppy Love played in the background. “They’re so cute! Can I pick one up?” Willoughby asked, before saying that the eight-week-old pups were “just the cutest thing [she’d] ever seen.” “Oh my god, you are just so sweet!” she added, wiping away tears of joy. Schofield even joked that he had asked Willoughby’s husband Dan Baldwin if she could take them home after the show had finished. “I can’t believe you made me cry over a puppy,” she said, adding: “This is the best thing ever… But then I have to give it back!” The presenter then wiped away yet more tears (with the help of her co-star) before beseeching her husband to let her keep one, telling the camera: “If my husband is watching, please, darling please! He just makes me cry, this dog.” The daytime presenter was also moved to tears last week when she met a sheepdog puppy named Missy, who was in need of a new home. Willoughby will celebrate her 38th birthday on Sunday February 10. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/holly-willoughby-in-tears-as-phillip-schofield-surprises-her-with-puppies-for-her-birthday-a4060481.html | 2019-02-07 13:10:13+00:00 | 1,549,563,013 | 1,567,549,295 | human interest | people |
163,654 | eveningstandard--2019-02-08--Gemma Atkinson claps back at pregnancy aposweight gainapos questions as she indulges in birthday | 2019-02-08T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Gemma Atkinson claps back at pregnancy 'weight gain' questions as she indulges in birthday cake | Gemma Atkinson has hit back at questions about pregnancy weight gain in an empowering Instagram post. The former soap star, who is expecting her first child with Strictly Come Dancing professional Gorka Marquez, said that putting on weight is the “last thing” she will be worrying about during her pregnancy. The 34-year-old shared a throwback bikini picture on her Instagram account from a holiday to the Dominican Republic, when she was “in [her] best shape and at [her] healthiest.” “I’m posting this because all I’ve been asked since people know I’m pregnant is ‘are you worried about putting on weight?’” she wrote, before adding: “Well, in a word, NO.” “I don’t see pregnancy as just someone gaining weight. I see it as my body shape & size changing because I’m lucky enough to be going through this incredible miracle which nature intended. “A miracle sadly denied to many women, so the last thing I’m going to be worrying about is that one of the side effects of my pregnancy is the fact that I WILL GAIN WEIGHT. I’m extremely lucky to be in this situation.” She went on to explain that changes such as increased cellulite, bloating and water retention are all “signs that [her] body is working correctly to house [a] baby.” “I can’t train to the extent I usually do right now because it’s not safe for my baby and that’s my only priority right now,” she wrote, adding that her boyfriend is “THE most supportive person.” To emphasise her point, she later re-shared an Instagram Story posted by her Hits Radio colleague Gethin Jones, in which she could be seen enjoying a slice of unicorn birthday cake. Atkinson shared a string of clips from a workout session on Instagram earlier this week, telling followers that she had switched up her usual routine following news of her pregnancy. The couple announced the happy news in an Instagram post, with the help of their pet dogs Norman and Ollie. Sharing an image of the pets posing with signs which read “Guess what… mum’s pregnant,” the actress told fans that she and Marquez were “beyond excited” at the news. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/gemma-atkinson-claps-back-at-pregnancy-weight-gain-questions-as-she-indulges-in-birthday-cake-a4061451.html | 2019-02-08 12:29:43+00:00 | 1,549,646,983 | 1,567,549,173 | human interest | people |
163,929 | eveningstandard--2019-02-10--Jennifer Aniston birthday Best quotes from Friends one-liners to life wisdom as the Hollywood sta | 2019-02-10T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Jennifer Aniston birthday: Best quotes, from Friends one-liners to life wisdom, as the Hollywood star turns 50 | In 1994, when she was 25 years old, Jennifer Aniston walked into a coffee shop in a wedding dress and made TV history. Her role as Rachel Green on Friends would catapult Aniston from jobbing LA actress to international superstar, and the character's witty one-liners, style, work ethic – the spoiled rich kid who started as a waitress and grafted her way up to buyer at Ralph Lauren – and a hairdo that made women go into salons asking for "The Rachel" would also influence a generation. Rachel won Aniston a Golden Globe, a Primetime Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild award. By the final season, Aniston and her co-stars Courtney Cox and Lisa Kudrow, had become the highest paid TV actress of all time. Then came movie success: The Break-Up, Marley and Me, Horrible Bosses. Her turn as the bereaved Claire Bennett in Cake earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and most recently, she has received critical acclaim for her role as a former beauty queen in Dumplin. Aniston's private life – so closely scrutinised by the media – has had its fair share of ups, but downs too. There was the highly-publicised estrangement from her mother, Nancy Dow. Her marriage to Brad Pitt, and their subsequent divorce. Her relationships with Vince Vaughn and John Mayer. Her second marriage, to Justin Theroux, and its break down last year. She might have experienced phenomenal success, but she's also proved she can handle the bumps in the road that have come her way too. As she turns 50 (her birthday party at the weekend looked like a blast) who better to look to for some solid life advice? Here, we look back at her best quotes, on life, love, womanhood... and some epic one-liners from Friends. “Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows. I've been a real student of this theme for the last 20 years.” "Here’s where I come out on this topic: we are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone. Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples. Let’s make that decision consciously, outside of the tabloid noise. We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own “happily ever after” for ourselves." Addressing speculation over her pregnancy in an essay written for The Huffington Post, 2016 “You know, a swimsuit body is a body in a swimsuit, no matter what that body is. It’s time to just stop thinking beauty is in the shape of a size 4 and the right butt size and the right waist size and the right measurements. It’s just old. We’ve done it. We’ve been there. Let’s move on.” “I fantasise about it. It really was the greatest job I ever had.” “Honestly that [haircut] was [on for] about a year, first season. Second season it was gone. So that baby had some legs!” “There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening. I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.” “This whole 'Poor lonely Jen' thing, this idea that I'm so unlucky in love? I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love. Just because at this stage my life doesn't have the traditional framework to it—the husband and the two kids and the house in Connecticut—it's mine. It's my experience. And if you don't like the way it looks, then stop looking at it! Because I feel good. I don't feel like I'm supposed to be any further along or somewhere that I'm not. I'm right where I'm supposed to be.” “Women are picked apart and pitted against one another based on looks and clothing and superficial stuff. When a couple breaks up in Hollywood, it’s the woman who is scorned. The woman is left sad and alone. She’s the failure. F that. When was the last time you read about a divorced, childless man referred to as a spinster?” “People forget who actors are. They say, 'You're too known to play that part. You can't disappear.' And we're like, 'Give us a chance. We'll disappear.'” “I never liked Sex and the City, the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find the man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love. Somebody once said, 'Everything you want in the world is just right outside your comfort zone. Everythingyoucouldpossiblywant!'” “People who avoid the brick walls — all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.” “I mean, isn't that just kick-you-in-the-crotch, spit-on-your-neck fantastic?” “Oh, I'm sorry. Did my back hurt your knife?” “I am – over – you. And that, my friend, is what they call 'closure'” “I know, the odds are against us, but somebody has to win, and it could be us! And then how you gonna feel? You know, we’re gonna be all like 'Oh everybody, let’s take our helicopters up to the cape' and you’re gonna be all like 'oh, I can’t guys, I’ll meet you guys up there, I gotta gas up the Hyundai'” “It's not that common, it doesn't happen to every guy, and it is a big deal.” “Oh that's ok, girls tend not to like me” “I got off the plane” | Edwina Langley | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/jennifer-aniston-turns-50-her-best-quotes-from-friends-one-liners-to-life-wisdom-a4059336.html | 2019-02-10 13:28:00+00:00 | 1,549,823,280 | 1,567,548,997 | human interest | people |
164,087 | eveningstandard--2019-02-11--Jennifer Anistonaposs 50th birthday Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow gush over aposray of sunshi | 2019-02-11T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Jennifer Aniston's 50th birthday: Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow gush over 'ray of sunshine' | Jennifer Aniston appeared to be in good spirits as she celebrated turning 50 surrounded by her famous friends. The Friends star, who actively avoids social media, cropped up online in full party mode, thanks to her Instagram-loving pals Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson. In the first set of snaps, shared on the Almost Famous star's Instagram, Aniston beamed as she cuddled up to Hudson and Paltrow. She captioned the post: "Love these ladies. Celebrated this beauty last night. Happy Bday JA! We all love you sooo!” The second photobooth clip, shared by Paltrow showed the star letting her hair down as she pulled silly faces alongside Derek Blasberg. Paltrow hailed Aniston an example of “perpetual goodness” adding that she made 50 look hot. She wrote: “Happy birthday (last night and tomorrow) to #jenniferaniston our ray of sunshine, example of perpetual goodness. We love you so much and you make 50 LOOK [flames].” Fans joined in on the praise with many claiming she makes ageing look “beautiful”. One user wrote: “50?? Omg she looks amazing happy birthday Jennifer Aniston.” Another commented: “How is she 50???” A third added: “You make ageing look beautiful and easy.” Fellow partygoer Katy Perry couldn’t help but mock Aniston’s social media-free rule as she commented on Hudson’s post with, “NO SOCIAL MEDIA.” Aniston's Friends co-star Courteney Cox and Perry's boyfriend Orlando Bloom were also in attendance. The comments come as reality star Gemma Collins gushed over Aniston, admitting she has given her the “courage” to embrace not having children by the age she had initially planned. Speaking on Loose Women, Collins said: “Jennifer Aniston has given me the courage to go, ‘Do you know what, if I don’t have a child until I’m 40-years-old, that’s OK’. If I look that good at 50 I’m not worried about a thing.” | Safeeyah Kazi | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/jennifer-anistons-50th-birthday-kate-hudson-and-gwyneth-paltrow-gush-over-ray-of-sunshine-a4063576.html | 2019-02-11 13:52:00+00:00 | 1,549,911,120 | 1,567,548,891 | human interest | people |
164,223 | eveningstandard--2019-02-12--Courteney Cox proves her and Jennifer Aniston are aposfriendship goalsapos as she marks 50th bir | 2019-02-12T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Courteney Cox proves her and Jennifer Aniston are 'friendship goals' as she marks 50th birthday | Courteney Cox proved her and Jennifer Aniston are friendship goals as they celebrated Aniston's 50th birthday. Cox paid tribute to her close friend as she marked her big birthday with a snap of the two actresses, who played Monica Geller and Rachel Green in the hit sitcom. Cox wrote: “The world definitely got brighter the day this girl was born. Happy birthday sweetheart! I Love you.” Fans rushed to comment on the snap, branding the pair “friendship goals” and declaring “Rachel and Monica forever”. One wrote: “This friendship is everything!” accompanied by a series of heart and smiley emojis. Another said: “2 inspiring beauties. Happy Birthday Jen. You both are wonderful.” “The one where Rachel turns 50. Happy birthday,” posted somebody else making reference to the comedy’s episode naming format. Others described the post as “too much” as they had the ultimate fangirl moment of the mini Friends reunion. Aniston’s ex-husband Justin Theroux was also among those to wish her a happy birthday, with the post coming more than a year after they split up . The 47-year-old actor posted a black and white photo of the Friends star carrying an animal horn above her head, and wrote: “Happy Birthday to this fierce woman.” “Fiercely loving, fiercely kind… and fiercely funny,” he continued, before concluding the post with: “[Love] you B.” Theroux’s Instagram followers went wild for the heartfelt post, describing it as “sweet” and “classy” and praising the stars for their “maturity” and “respect.” Aniston and Cox starred opposite Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer in the popular American comedy which spanned 10 seasons over its decade-long run. | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/courteney-cox-proves-her-and-jennifer-aniston-are-friendship-goals-as-she-marks-50th-birthday-a4064636.html | 2019-02-12 14:01:00+00:00 | 1,549,998,060 | 1,567,548,764 | human interest | people |
164,696 | eveningstandard--2019-02-14--Robbie Williams fights back tears as daughter Teddy melts his heart with adorable birthday speech | 2019-02-14T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Robbie Williams fights back tears as daughter Teddy melts his heart with adorable birthday speech | Robbie Williams' emotions got the better of him as daughter Teddy marked his 45th birthday with an adorable speech. Williams’ other half Ayda Field shared a clip of the six-year-old tot pouring her heart out on Wednesday in honour of the special occasion. Standing up at the table, Teddy announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, I like how you are dressed tonight and how you are dressed in a T-shirt. I hope you have a good day. I hope you are over there ordering lots of chocolates for Valentine's day or a handbag. “I really love daddy and mommy and nanny Gwen and everybody in this house. I love everyone. “Even Jojo Siwa and Hugh Jackman and the Spice Girls and I know your favourites, too. I love you everyone.” [sic] The sweet speech left the former Take That star near tears as he wiped his eyes. Field captioned the post: “Teddy's Birthday Speech to @robbiewilliams at dinner tonight Even @thehughjackman and @itsjojosiwa got an honorable mention:) Happy to birthday to my favorite first husband. “I love you so much and love growing older with you every day. You are my [love] #birthdayboy #happybirthday #birthdaylove AWxx” [sic] Fans were left in awe of the speech, with many hailing Teddy a “star in her own right." One user wrote: “Such a beautiful post Ayda. I don't think one could wish for more than that from their child on their birthday. Happy birthday Mr Williams!” Another commented: “She is sooooo cute! A star in her own right now x” A third added: “Oh my goodness my heart just melted .... what a little darling.” The post comes after Teddy bowled fans over with her rap skills after she was seen spitting bars whilst her famous father gave her a beat. Teddy first won over a legion of fans as bridesmaid at Princess Eugenie’s Windsor Castle wedding where she was seen waving to the crowds as she helped the young royal celebrate her big day. Field and Williams are also parents to son Charlton, four and five-month-old daughter Coco, who they welcomed five months ago via surrogate. | Safeeyah Kazi | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/robbie-williams-fights-back-tears-as-daughter-teddy-melts-his-heart-with-adorable-birthday-speech-a4066906.html | 2019-02-14 12:37:03+00:00 | 1,550,165,823 | 1,567,548,514 | human interest | people |
164,903 | eveningstandard--2019-02-15--Vogue Brazil fashion director resigns after aposslave colonyapos themed birthday party | 2019-02-15T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Vogue Brazil fashion director resigns after 'slave colony' themed birthday party | The fashion director of Vogue Brazil has resigned after she was accused of racism because her birthday party appeared to resemble depictions of colonial slavery. Pictures taken at Donata Meirelles’ 50th birthday show her sat on a throne, surrounded by black women in white dresses, at a party in Bahia, the state with the biggest black population. Ms Meirelles later posted a now-deleted apology before reposting Vogue Brazil’s statement and saying she wanted to learn from her mistakes. Critics claimed the party was inspired by Brazilian slave colonies, and used the black women as “photo props.” Author Ale Santos tweeted: “Donata Meirelles is a perverse woman who wished to revive one of the biggest torments of Black people to satisfy her sordid fantasy of white hegemony. “A despicable supremacist who is director of @VogueBRoficial.” Shelby Ivey Christie said: “Vogue Brazil’s Style Director Donata Meirelles had a very disgusting 50th birthday party theme last night “There appears to be a Brazilian slave + master theme. Mucamas (house slaves), who were very clearly darker complexioned, were posed as props alongside guests #DoShow50 “The uniform of the Mucamas, house slaves, was usually a white linen or cotton dress. “Sinhá” is a remnant from Brazilian slave language. Slaves couldn’t properly pronounce senorita so they shorted into “Sinhá” when addressing their female master. “The white dresses & headwraps are not coincidental. Here are images of female Brazilian slaves smh. “Brazil did not outlaw slavery until 1888, almost the 20th century. “Brazil, not America, has the largest population of people of African decent living outside of Africa - By 1888 Brazil had 40% of the total slave population in the Americas.” Julia Segarra added: “Donata Meirelles, director of @VogueBRoficial had a luxurious party with the theme Brazil Slave Colony. I have no words, I just want to vomit.” In a comment on Instagram, Ms Meirelles said: “At age 50, the hour is action. I've heard a lot, I need to hear more. “I want to act together with the women who have to teach me and with whom else is willing to be a link in a transformation that is necessary. “My commitment is to put me in (re)construction! In action!” A statement by Vogue Brazil added: “Vogue Brasil deeply regrets what happened and hopes that the debate generated will serve as a learning experience. “We believe in affirmative and purposeful actions and also that empathy is the best alternative for the construction of a more just society, in which the historical inequalities of the Country are debated and faced. “In pursuit of the constant evolution that has always guided us, we take the reflection generated to broaden the voices within the team and create, on a permanent basis, a forum formed by activists and scholars who will help define contents and images that combat these inequalities.” | Megan White | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/vogue-brazil-fashion-director-resigns-after-slave-colony-themed-birthday-party-a4068376.html | 2019-02-15 22:04:05+00:00 | 1,550,286,245 | 1,567,548,390 | human interest | people |
165,775 | eveningstandard--2019-02-21--Victoria Beckham and family celebrate Cruzaposs 14th birthday with guitar-shaped cake and sweet so | 2019-02-21T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Victoria Beckham and family celebrate Cruz's 14th birthday with guitar-shaped cake and sweet social media tributes | Victoria Beckham has shared a sweet video of Harper wishing her big brother Cruz a happy birthday as they celebrated his special day. The fashion designer showed off Cruz’s guitar-shaped cake for his 14th birthday while Harper, seven, read out the accompanying message. Victoria also wished her teenage son a happy birthday, telling fans she “couldn’t believe” he was growing up. The former Spice Girl posted a selfie with Cruz alongside the caption: “I can’t believe you are 14 today!!! I love you so so much xxx Happy Birthday Cruz xx.” David, who married Victoria in 1999, also paid tribute to his “amazing” youngest son, sharing a photo of the two on the water. The footballer wrote: “Happy birthday to my big boy... The most amazing character and smile.. I love you little man @cruzbeckham.” But it was Cruz’s eldest sibling Brooklyn, 19, who had the best birthday tribute as he dug out a throwback snap to share with fans. “Happy 14th birthday to my awesome brother Cruz. Love you very much,” Brooklyn wrote alongside a picture of Cruz in a Manchester United shirt and holding a football. Earlier in February, the superstar family – which also includes 16-year-old Romeo - celebrated Cruz’s then-upcoming birthday with an ice-skating themed bash. Harper surprised her brother with a giant cookie, iced with a birthday wish, before the family went skating in Queens to celebrate. The Beckham couple are celebrating 20 years of marriage this year, with Victoria recently opening up about their plans to keep it “low key” . “David is such a great husband, such a great dad and the most incredible business partner that anybody could ever want,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “He really supports me in what I do. “I don’t think [we’ll do anything big]. We’ll probably just celebrate with the kids.” | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/victoria-beckham-and-family-celebrate-cruzs-14th-birthday-with-guitarshaped-cake-and-sweet-social-a4072761.html | 2019-02-21 11:48:23+00:00 | 1,550,767,703 | 1,567,547,761 | human interest | people |
166,459 | eveningstandard--2019-02-27--Ian McKellen adds an extra London performance to his huge 80th birthday tour | 2019-02-27T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Ian McKellen adds an extra London performance to his huge 80th birthday tour | Ian McKellen had added an extra performance in London to his huge UK tour. Already due to appear at the Theatre Royal Stratford East on the evening of March 10, the Lord of the Rings actor will also perform a matinee on the same day at 2pm. The tour, which currently sees him playing a solo show to audiences across the country, runs until September 15 and honours McKellen’s 80th birthday. Of the show, the actor told the Standard: “It’s not a farewell tour. It’s more like ‘Oh, hello again!’” The performance will incorporate anecdotes and brief performances of some of his best known roles, including Gandalf and characters from Shakespeare’s plays. He has also hinted that he could be joined on the stage by acting fellows, should they turn up on the night. McKellen has said his entire fee and all the profits will be donated to each theatre’s charitable projects or restoration funds. Tickets for the next Theatre Royal Stratford East performance are on sale now for friends of Stratford East, while the general public can book from noon on Thursday February 28. Find out everything you need to know about the show here. Click here to buy London theatre tickets with GO London Tickets | Zoe Paskett | https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/ian-mckellen-new-date-birthday-tour-tickets-a4077971.html | 2019-02-27 12:02:00+00:00 | 1,551,286,920 | 1,567,547,111 | human interest | people |
166,475 | eveningstandard--2019-02-27--Katie Price reaches out to ex-husband Peter Andre with birthday message | 2019-02-27T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Katie Price reaches out to ex-husband Peter Andre with birthday message | Katie Price had reached out to her ex-husband Peter Andre on his 45th birthday, praising the singer and presenter as a “great dad.” The former glamour model, 40, shared a photo of Andre with their two children, Princess, 11, and Junior, 13, on her Instagram Story to mark the occasion. “Happy birthday to @peterandre. Thank you for always being a great dad to Princess and Junior,” she wrote. Andre and Price married in 2005 after meeting on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in 2004, but announced their separation in 2009. The model and reality star went on to tie the knot with MMA fighter Alex Reid in 2010 before splitting the following year; she then married Keiran Hayler in 2013, but the pair parted ways in 2018. Last month, Hayler claimed that Andre was “the love of [Price’s] live,” and said that he could never “compete” with the singer. “She always said if it wasn’t for her celeb lifestyle, the reality shows and stuff, her and Peter probably would’ve lasted,” he told New! magazine. “He was the love of her life and no one can compete with that.” In December, Price claimed that she thought that she “would’ve been with [Andre] forever” in the Christmas special of her reality show My Crazy Life, and claimed that the “magazine and TV-based” nature of their relationship made things difficult. “Mine and Pete’s relationship was very magazine and TV-based,” she said. “We weren’t really left alone to enjoy our relationship. Everything was documented. “But the best thing that come [sic] out of it was Junior and Princess. “I would say, in a nutshell, Pete was the perfect one, then. I actually thought I would’ve been with him forever.” The couple appeared in several ITV2 series throughout their marriage, including When Jordan Met Peter and Katie & Peter. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-price-reaches-out-to-exhusband-peter-andre-with-birthday-message-a4077986.html | 2019-02-27 12:50:48+00:00 | 1,551,289,848 | 1,567,547,111 | human interest | people |
167,886 | eveningstandard--2019-03-15--Kardashian kid photos The cutest throwbacks of Rob Kardashian and his sisters for his birthday | 2019-03-15T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kardashian kid photos: The cutest throwbacks of Rob Kardashian and his sisters for his birthday | Rob Kardashian has long been the most mysterious member of the Kardashian family. Today, Rob turns 32, so here at Insider we’re celebrating with the most memorable Kardashian moments from over the years - including peak throwback pictures. Rob, who’s named after his father, graduated from the University of Southern California’s business school back in 2009. Since then, he appeared on Keeping Up With the Kardashians with his siblings, partnered with Cheryl Burke on Dancing With the Stars, and launched sock brand Arthur George, which created saucy socks. Unfortunately, he ended up selling half of said company to his mother, momager Kris Jenner. The reality star has had a difficult past few years but he’s recently said to have turned his life around with a more active lifestyle and better relationship with his one-year-old daughter Dream’s mother, Instagram sensation Blac Chyna. Previously, he had a contentious relationship with Chyna. They memorably appeared on the short-lived show Rob & Chyna on E! where they were shown arguing constantly. They’ve since moved on from the reality show and real life drama and are working together to raise their daughter after a number of successful mediation sessions. Chyna confirmed the news, tweeting “Robert is a wonderful father to our Dreamy!” His sisters agree. "My brother Rob is like my father in so many ways—his sense of humor, silly nature, the way he loves and respects family. But, seeing him as a father has been beautiful!” Khloe Kardashian said on her app. In recent months, he’s been spending time with his daughter and his sisters. But before he was a dad to Dream, he was a cute kid himself. Celebrate Rob Kardashian’s 31st birthday with some of the best throwback photos from the Kardashian/Jenner family, in the days before the rest of the world was always keeping up with the Kardashians. | Margaret Abrams | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/kardashian-kid-throwback-photos-rob-kim-kourtney-khloe-children-a4093201.html | 2019-03-15 19:17:02+00:00 | 1,552,691,822 | 1,567,546,089 | human interest | people |
168,179 | eveningstandard--2019-03-18--Happy Birthday Lily Collins The Tolkien staraposs best outfits and upcoming films for the year | 2019-03-18T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Happy Birthday Lily Collins! The Tolkien star's best outfits and upcoming films for the year | Lily Collins looked positively ethereal as she hit the green carpet for the UK premiere of her new film, Tolkien. The actress, who turned 30 this year, stunned in a white floral gown, designed by Giambattista Valli, as she joined co-star Nicholas Hoult at Curzon Mayfair in London on Monday. At the premiere, Lily revealed that Tolkien’s work was what inspired her embark on an acting career. “I’ve always loved storytelling, I love fantasy and magic and ironically Tolkien’s work was kind of part of the reason I wanted to become an actress,” she said. “The world that I was taken into inside my own head from his writing was what I wanted to be able to take to more people by being on the screen and so to be a part of this storytelling of sorts about his life is really special.” The superstar daughter of Phil Collins has had a very busy year so far, starting with her hit BBC mini-series Les Miserables. Collins has had three additional films slated for release this year, the most talked-about being her upcoming picture Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile alongside Zac Efron. The film, which is due for release in May, has already sparked controversy due to Efron’s portrayal of serial killer Ted Bundy. In an interview with Variety, Collins admitted preparing for the role of the notorious serial killer’s life took its toll. “I woke up every single night at 3 or 4am for a month,” she said. “I was woken with visions of destruction around rooms. There was never anyone in the dreams, but every night at the exact same time I would have these flashes of visions.” Most recently, Lily starred in a music video for ARTY’s Save Me Tonight alongside To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before star Noah Centineo. In it, they play a couple who were friends that became lovers and the video was directed by Centineo. Also in post-production is Halo of Stars, set for release later this year. As well as showcasing her acting prowess, Lily is known for dressing impeccably. Like, all the time. From her Givenchy Haute Couture gown at the BAFTAs earlier this year to her gothic take on the Met Gala’s Catholic theme, Collins never gets it wrong. Scroll through our gallery above to see pictures of her best looks. | Megan C. Hills | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/lily-collins-birthday-movies-age-instagram-noah-centineo-a4094266.html | 2019-03-18 10:44:00+00:00 | 1,552,920,240 | 1,567,545,761 | human interest | people |
168,240 | eveningstandard--2019-03-18--Paris Hilton celebrated her birthday with Kim Kardashian at a nightclub built in her own home | 2019-03-18T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Paris Hilton celebrated her birthday with Kim Kardashian at a nightclub built in her own home | Though Paris Hilton’s birthday was technically a month ago, at the weekend the reality star hosted a big party to celebrate hitting the big... 38. Hilton, who had a nightclub aptly named Club Paris built in her own home, threw a party which saw the likes of Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, burlesque star Dita von Teese, music producer Diplo and her sister Nicky Hilton dancing the night away. Hilton dressed up in a glitzy silver jumpsuit for the occasion, posting a series of videos and pictures of the star-studded night on Instagram. She also shared a cinemagraph of herself spinning around on the Club Paris pole, while her friend Larsa Pippen shared a video of Paris twirling around on it to the beat of Lana del Rey’s Young and Beautiful. The party was held on Sunday night and even though it was Rob Kardashian’s birthday, Kourtney and Kim managed to squeeze in an appearance at Paris’ festivities. Years ago, before she became world famous, Kim was Paris’ assistant (her tasks included cleaning her closet) and the pair later fell out completely. It seems like it’s all water under the bridge, as the reality stars were also filmed together sledding down a hill at Kim's lavish Christmas party. Paris posted a video of herself with Kim on Instagram, in which Kim said, “Happy birthday Paris, even though your birthday was months ago. This is how she celebrates...but she deserves it.” She was also seen posing with Kourtney Kardashian for photographs, who recently launched her new lifestyle brand Poosh. Dita Von Teese was also spotted kissing a pillow with Paris’ face printed on it. Paris previously shared pictures of her in-home nightclub, revealing the dark and decadent space on Twitter in 2017. Featuring a gigantic portrait of Paris, a Chanel logo painting and various images Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe and her pole, she wrote, “I love the night club I had made in my house.” According to Wall Street Journal, her private club features a Bose sound system as well as laser lights and a smoke system. The cost of the space was apparently upwards of $500,000 (£376,800). It turns out that Club Paris isn’t the first of its kind, as previously two unaffiliated nightclubs in Orlando and Jacksonville were named after her. However after she reportedly failed to “make scheduled appearances”, the owner Fred Khalilian “fired” the star and said, “Club Paris will still go on, even without Paris Hilton.” The Orlando club later shut down. | Megan C. Hills | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/paris-hilton-birthday-party-nightclub-club-paris-a4094611.html | 2019-03-18 13:08:00+00:00 | 1,552,928,880 | 1,567,545,760 | human interest | people |
168,908 | eveningstandard--2019-03-21--Stacey Solomon pays emotional tribute to son Zachary on his birthday aposWeaposve been through | 2019-03-21T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Stacey Solomon pays emotional tribute to son Zachary on his birthday: 'We've been through it all together' | Stacey Solomon poured her heart out as she paid an emotional tribute to her eldest son Zachary on his 11th birthday. The Loose Women panellist said she “cannot remember a life without [him]” as she shared a slew of snaps of her son over the years, including an especially adorable post of herself cradling him minutes after giving birth. “Zachary, I cannot remember life without you,” she wrote. “I cannot believe you’ve been in my life for 11 years today. I remember and cherish every second of it. “We’ve been through it all together.” “Graduating college where you would come with me every day and be such a good little bubba in the college crèche while I studied, to the X Factor where you were the drive for every push I needed to give myself to go as far as I could.” Solomon also hailed him the “best big brother that ever lived”. She continued: “Kind, caring, loving, Leighton is a very lucky young man. To blossoming into the, incredibly thoughtful, compassionate, empathetic, strong, funny, happy, human you are today. "You have no idea what you’ve done for me and brought to my life and you probably never will. I hope I can raise and guide you the way that you deserve to be and you continue to be a shining light in the world beaming with happiness. Happy Birthday Zachary! Here’s to the next 11 years of memory making! I love you to the moon and stars and back again." The sweet post comes a month after Solomon announced she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Joe Swash, who she hinted she has no plans to marry. Announcing the news, Swash shared pictures of Solomon sleeping and joked that he had been worried she had become “bored” of him, but was relieved to find out she “still loves me very much [and] has just been growing a baby”. The pair are also parents to Solomon’s son Leighton, six and Swash's 11-year-old son Harry. | Safeeyah Kazi | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/stacey-solomon-pays-emotional-tribute-to-son-zachary-on-his-birthday-we-ve-been-through-it-all-a4097766.html | 2019-03-21 14:15:11+00:00 | 1,553,192,111 | 1,567,545,334 | human interest | people |
169,087 | eveningstandard--2019-03-22--Princess Eugenie Birthday Best dresses outfits and style moments to celebrate the royalaposs 30t | 2019-03-22T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Princess Eugenie Birthday: Best dresses, outfits and style moments to celebrate the royal's 30th | Congrats to Princess Eugenie, who hits the big 3-0 today. If her recent outfit choices (including her wedding dress) are anything to go by, the Princess will be celebrating in style. Despite a few headline grabbing looks in her early twenties, in recent years the 9th in line to the throne has refined her sense of style, incorporating unexpected details the closer you look. 2018 was a particularly big year for her, full of Royal Ascot highlights, dresses by Erdem and, of course, the Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos wedding dress that came with a social message - proudly displaying her scoliosis scars in solidarity with those fighting the condition. Here's eight of the Eugenie's best looks so far: On her wedding day in October the royal wore a sweeping gown by British designers Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos. The shape of the dress - which was worn without a veil - had a specific meaning. Eugenie has been open about her battle with scoliosis as a child, using her platform to raise funds for orthopaedic hospitals and charities which help those living with the condition. She specifically requested that the design of her wedding dress would incorporate a low back to display her scoliosis surgery scar. “I believe scars tell a story about your past and your future and it’s a way of getting rid of a taboo. For me it’s a way of communicating with people who are going through either similar situations with scoliosis or having a scar of their own they are trying to deal with.” The dress was a painstakingly crafted masterpiece, which was “developed layer by layer” to accommodate the vintage-inspired full pleated skirt and folded neckline. Given that Pilotto and De Vos are renowned for their fabrics, and the jacquard weave of her dress incorporated symbols which reflected Eugenie’s romantic and family history. These included a Scottish thistle to represent her and Jack’s love for Balmoral, an Irish shamrock as a nod to Sarah Ferguson’s family, the White Rose of York as well as ivy to symbolise her home with Jack at Kensington Palace’s Ivy Cottage. Eugenie's diamond and emerald tiara has also scored a spot on our best royal tiaras of all time list, officially named the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara. It was her something borrowed for the occasion as the Boucheron creation was on loan from Queen Elizabeth. It features a huge 93.7 carat centre emerald. The tiara was also rumoured to be Meghan Markle’s first choice for her own wedding, but the Queen reportedly vetoed the choice as she felt that its design linked it too closely to Russia. Photos taken by photographer Alex Bramall were released of the newly married Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, and her structured Zac Posen dress stole the show. More details about the dress were released on Royal Family website and revealed that Zac Posen was “inspired by the beauty of Windsor”, matching the delicate hue of the dress to the “blush of an English rose”. Posen also revealed on Instagram that the dress featured a low back, which like her wedding dress displayed her scoliosis scar. He also shared a number of videos and posts of the dress while it was being constructed. In contrast to the timelessness of her Pilotto gown, the Posen construction was fresh and modern. The dress also featured embroidery inspired by the White Rose of York and Eugenie's diamond and emerald earrings were gifted to her by Jack. Although you can’t see it, she also apparently wore a hair slide which was loaned to her by her granny, Queen Elizabeth. Perhaps as a nod to Meghan Markle’s American background, Princess Eugenie arrived dressed in an outfit she seemed to have pulled out of former First Lady Jackie O’s closet. Expertly channelling the best of 60s fashion, she stepped out in a pastel blue Gainsbourg dress and a white Stephen Jones pillbox hat. Her very modern accessories kept it grounded in the present day however, as she chose to wear a pair of rockstud Valentino heels and a geometric M2Malletier bag with an unusual gold handle. It appears that Meghan Markle was a fan of the look, as the Duchess stepped out recently wearing a similar pillbox hat to a Commonwealth Service earlier this month. Like other royal women Princess Eugenie tends to stick to formal wear - which made this striking outfit a break from the norm. For the Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Party, she chose a bold asymmetrical dress featuring electric blue and ultraviolet floral detailing. The stylish look was completed with a pair of black cigarette trousers and cut out black heels. Very chic. To announce the news of her engagement to Jack Brooksbank, Princess Eugenie wore a dress by one of her favourite designers, fashion house Erdem. With a high collar and ruffled hem detail, the dress, which the Princess wore previously in a photo shoot with Harper's Bazaar in 2016, was paired with a pair of sharp Jimmy Choos. Naturally, the most striking part of the outfit was Princess Eugenie's engagement ring. Featuring a rare pink padparadscha sapphire, the stone was ringed by additional white diamonds on a gold band - similar in style to Princess Diana and now Kate Middleton's deep blue sapphire ring. Princess Eugenie frequently wears red, and wore a cut-out Eponine dress in the shade as part of Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday celebrations in 2016. She let the bright shade speak for itself and paired it with simple black accessories, including pointed court heels, a clutch and bow headband. As Princess Eugenie isn’t technically a working royal, she’s one of the Royal Family members we’re less likely to see at high profile events throughout the year. However, she and her family do always make an appearance at Royal Ascot. On day three, Eugenie opted for a floral gown by one of her favourite designers, Erdem, who she also wore for her engagement photo shoot. Drawing on the fabric’s beautiful florals, she also chose to wear an unusual hat by Sally-Ann Provan which featured white blossoms. The hat also featured an usual cut out detail on the brim. Another Royal Ascot highlight from last year, Princess Eugenie stepped out for the races wearing a chic minimal outfit. In a nod to her upcoming wedding, she chose an all white outfit, which included a kimono-inspired Osman dress and tasselled hat by Emily London. She also chose to re-wear her M2Malletier bag. You didn’t think we could write about Eugenie’s outfits and not bring this one up, could you? While the hats that Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice wore to Kate and William’s wedding were criticised by some, Eugenie pushed the fashion envelope in bold Vivienne Westwood - and you've got to give her credit for that. | Megan C. Hills | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/royalssociety/princess-eugenie-wedding-dress-reception-royal-ascot-prince-harry-kate-middleton-a4098686.html | 2019-03-22 16:50:16+00:00 | 1,553,287,816 | 1,567,545,195 | human interest | people |
171,512 | eveningstandard--2019-04-11--Khloe Kardashian admits sheaposs feeling aposanxiousapos ahead of daughter Trueaposs first b | 2019-04-11T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Khloe Kardashian admits she's feeling 'anxious' ahead of daughter True's first birthday | Khloe Kardashian has revealed that she’s “having anxiety” ahead of daughter True Thompson’s first birthday. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star told Twitter followers that she felt “sad” that “time is flying as fast as it is.” “Is it weird that I think I’m having anxiety thinking True will be one on Friday?!?!” she wrote. “I’m sad Time is flying as fast as it is. “I’ll be happy, of course, I simply can’t understand where the time goes. Thank you Lord for every moment. Kardashian’s daughter, who she shares with ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson, will turn one on April 12. The 34-year-old then responded to fans as they quizzed her over how she will react to future milestones in her daughter’s life. When one follower suggested that she will be “an absolute mess at [True’s] kindergarten graduation,” Kardashian replied: “Graduation?! I’ll be a mess day one of preschool lol I can’t think about this.” In answer to another fan who told her that parenting “gets better,” she wrote: “Please! I pray. Since when did I become such a mush?” Yesterday, Kardashian revealed that her daughter will appear in the summer collection for her denim brand Good American. The reality star told People that True is already “really comfortable” in front of the camera. “We do Gymboree and art class, and she loves when everyone is staring at her,” she told the publication. “And I’m always clapping for her. What am I creating? “I want people to live a healthy and happy life, and that’s the message I want to project to my daughter,” she added. Kardashian parted ways from Tristan in February, after it was reported that he had kissed family friend Jordyn Woods at a party in Los Angeles. In a tell-all interview with Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk, Woods later confirmed that the basketball player did kiss her, but said that there was “no passion” and that she was “shocked” by his actions. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/khloe-kardashian-admits-shes-feeling-anxious-ahead-of-daughter-trues-first-birthday-a4115721.html | 2019-04-11 15:01:49+00:00 | 1,555,009,309 | 1,567,543,157 | human interest | people |
171,773 | eveningstandard--2019-04-15--Holly Willoughby shares rare snap of daughter Belle on her eighth birthday | 2019-04-15T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Holly Willoughby shares rare snap of daughter Belle on her eighth birthday | Holly Willoughby shared a rare photo of her daughter Belle as she marked her eighth birthday. The This Morning presenter gave her Instagram followers a sweet insight into her family’s birthday celebrations as she posted a photo of the youngster walking on a sandy beach, looking at a rainbow in the distance. “And then like that she was 8… happy birthday beautiful Belle… keep following that rainbow… love you so so much xxx,” she captioned the post. The TV star’s famous friends commented with birthday messages, with her close pal Emma Bunton writing: “Happy birthday lovely little lady!” Davina McCall wrote “Happy birthday belle!!!” while Willoughby’s This Morning colleague Rochelle Humes posted a string of heart emojis below the snap. The 38-year-old, who also shares Harry (nine) and Chester (four) with husband Dan Baldwin, seldom posts photos of her children. When she does, the presenter chooses to keep their faces hidden. Discussing her children’s interests in an interview with Hello! in 2017, Willoughby revealed that she will “encourage [the children] to go in whatever direction they want” in the future. “Harry’s football mad,” she told the magazine. “He’s as bad as his father and Belle wants to be a rainbow. She’s a mix of complete tomboy and real girl. She keeps up with her brothers like you wouldn’t believe but loves dressing up as a princess and thinks, ‘Why wear one hairclip when I could wear all the hairclips I own in my hair?’” Last year, the star opened up about the possibility of expanding her family, telling The Telegraph’s Stella magazine that she is “always broody." “Part of me wants another baby but part of me thinks that’s not a good enough reason,” she said. “Would it make the kids all have to grow up that bit more because there was a new baby in the house? I don’t want to put that on them. “I’ve almost decided not to – but not quite.” | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/holly-willoughby-shares-sweet-snap-of-daughter-belle-on-her-eighth-birthday-a4118166.html | 2019-04-15 10:48:24+00:00 | 1,555,339,704 | 1,567,542,923 | human interest | people |
172,218 | eveningstandard--2019-04-17--Victoria Beckham tucks into birthday cake as she celebrates special day with Maria Sharapova | 2019-04-17T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Victoria Beckham tucks into birthday cake as she celebrates special day with Maria Sharapova | Victoria Beckham tucked into a birthday cake at dinner with friends and tennis ace Maria Sharapova. The fashion designer started her birthday celebrations early as she dined with Sharapova and others on Wednesday evening. In a video posted to Sharapova’s Instagram stories, Beckham took a picture of her tiered birthday cake before getting ready to crack into it and tuck in with the caption “donuts and Victoria Beckham breaking into her birthday [cake emoji]”. Beckham, who turns 45 today, reposted the video and added: “Early birthday dinner with friends! Kisses @mariasharapova X.” In another video, the former Spice Girl held her hair away from her face as she blew out the candles on the huge slab of cake. Last weekend, Beckham celebrated Easter with her daughter Harper at a lavish event in Los Angeles, hosted by Eva Longoria. The seven-year-old playfully “egged” her famous mum in a hilarious video, covering her with confetti. In a slow-motion video, Victoria could be seen throwing her hands up as she was doused in colourful paper while Harper chuckled. Beckham also shared a sweet snap of her youngest cuddling a bunny rabbit at the luxurious get-together. She captioned the post: “Harper is getting ready for Easter. Kisses and thank you for a beautiful day @EvaLongoria.” Harper also enjoyed snuggles with Longoria’s nine-month-old son Santiago, planting a soft kiss on his cheek as the tot looked around. Beckham and her footballer husband David, 43, headed to LA for the Easter break with kids Brooklyn, 20, Romeo, 16, Cruz, 14, and Harper. | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/victoria-beckham-tucks-into-birthday-cake-as-she-celebrates-special-day-with-maria-sharapova-a4120226.html | 2019-04-17 10:13:37+00:00 | 1,555,510,417 | 1,567,542,667 | human interest | people |
172,283 | eveningstandard--2019-04-18--David Beckham mocks wife Victoria with early morning birthday snap of her looking disheveled | 2019-04-18T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | David Beckham mocks wife Victoria with early morning birthday snap of her looking disheveled | David Beckham couldn’t resist teasing his wife Victoria Beckham on her 45th birthday. The former football professional mocked his other half after she was woken up in the early hours of Wednesday morning by their children Brooklyn, 19, Romeo, 16, Cruz, 14 and Harper, seven, to kick off celebrations. He shared a snap of Victoria looking exhausted as she pouted for the camera. “When the kids wake you up at 6am on your birthday,” he wrote. He then jokingly added an animation of a woman falling asleep while holding a cup of tea, for good measure. David later shared a slew of clips of their children making cold rolled ice cream, with each writing personal birthday messages to their mum. One clip showed him quizzing Harper on her flavour of choice, mint chocolate chip, before he prompted her to write “I love you daddy” instead. After enjoying a day with the family David shared a sweet post in tribute to his wife, alongside a candid shot of her surrounded by candles. He wrote: “Happy Birthday Mama @victoriabeckham ... Have the most amazing day because you deserve to be spoilt by the little ones @brooklynbeckham @romeobeckham @cruzbeckham #HarperSeven & Me of course.” Victoria also shared a stunning image of the whole Beckham family and Brooklyn’s girlfriend Hana Cross as they dined out. Overwhelmed by the treats, Victoria wrote: “The most beautiful day with my favourite people in the world xxx I love you so so so much xxx Kisses from a very loved mummy and wife. X” The former songstress and her brood enjoyed an evening out as they dined with tennis ace Maria Sharapova, who shared a sweet video of her as she cracked into her layered birthday cake. Stars sent the fashion designer birthday wishes including her fellow Spice Girl Geri Horner, who marked the occasion with a throwback snap from the group’s 2007 tour. | Safeeyah Kazi | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/david-beckham-mocks-wife-victoria-with-early-morning-birthday-snap-of-her-looking-disheveled-a4120941.html | 2019-04-18 07:56:56+00:00 | 1,555,588,616 | 1,567,542,527 | human interest | people |
172,344 | eveningstandard--2019-04-18--Kate Hudsonaposs Birthday Best quotes from the actress and entrepreneur as she turns 40 | 2019-04-18T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kate Hudson's Birthday: Best quotes from the actress and entrepreneur as she turns 40 | Happy birthday to Kate Hudson, the star who went from Almost Famous to A-list entrepreneur, who turns 40 today. Kate intitially followed in the Hollywood footsteps of her actress mother Goldie Hawn and actor father Bill Hudson. She's since joined the growing band of A-list multi-hyphenates by branching out into more entrepreneurial activities, a rite of passage for popular early aughts actresses (see also Gwyeth Paltrow's Goop, Sarah Michelle Gellar's baking brand Foodstirs and Reese Witherspoon's Draper James) by embracing athleisure with her membership company Fabletics. The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star has also written two best-selling self help books (Pretty Happy and Pretty Fun) and launched a capsule collection to benefit the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up initiative. And while she’s nothing like her Almost Famous character Penny Lane in real life, she has had plenty of high-profile relationships with musicians. She was married to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson (the father of son Ryder), engaged to Muse musician Matt Bellamy (Bingham's dad) and was (extremely briefly) linked to Nick Jonas. She gave birth to a baby girl, Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa, in October of last year. She also has two sons from previous relationships, Ryder Robinson and Bingham Hawn Bellamy. Hudson has been dating Danny Fujikawa, the father of her daughter Rani, for about two years, though she's known him for more than a decade as he's her best friend's stepbrother - he's also a musician. He was formerly the frontman of the band Chief and he founded his own record label. His LinkedIn describes him as "Founder of Lightwave Records, Organizer of Energy, Musician of Honesty, Editor of Video." To celebrate the superstar's birthday we've rounded up some of our favourite Kate Hudson quotes, about wellness, love, friendship and her famous mother. On friendship: “No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.” On her love/hate relationship with working out: “You love to hate it. When I say I love it, it's because I hate it. For me, I can't stand doing squats and lunges, but for women especially, we have to just literally kill it on the squats and kill it on the lunges so you have to learn to love them." On partnering with Weight Watchers: "My struggle is not in weight loss. Mine is about staying healthy, trying to stay focused and balanced. On fashion: "People think we own all these dresses but we borrow them! I can't afford to buy that stuff. There are certain things I splurge on, but it's very rare, especially when you have two kids and school tuition. I'm not a big high-end fashion shopper. I wish I could but the truth is things are just so expensive. Before Isabel Marant was a million dollars and famous, I used to go to her store in Paris and go crazy, it was so affordable." On raising her daughter: “I think you just raise your kids individually regardless - like a genderless [approach]. We still don’t know what she’s going to identify as. I will say that, right now, she is incredibly feminine in her energy, her sounds and her way. It’s very different from the boys, and it’s really fun to actually want to buy kids’ clothes. With the boys it was just like onesies… actually, I did pretty good with the boys. But with her it’s a whole other ball game." On giving birth: “The best part was when mom called me when I was in labor and said, ‘I’m was about to take a swim and then I was going to have a massage. How long do you think you’re going to be laboring?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know, mom!’ I’m like calling the nurse going, ‘Do you know how long I’m going to be laboring? My mom wants to swim.’” On relationships: "The reason I don't talk about anything like that is because I have kids. People ask that question as if, 'Oh yeah, it's really healthy to publicly talk about who I am or am not dating when I've got a tween.' [Ryder] can read, and he can hear. I'm not going to indulge in that kind of thing until there's someone in my life who I am introducing to my kids." The best advice from her brother, actor Oliver Hudson: “Nobody cares! “There’s about 7 plus billion people in the world who don’t give a s**t" On her mom, Goldie Hawn: “My mom never had — obviously as a parent you have certain expectations — but my mother never had unreasonable expectations. Her expectations were very simple: it was your kindness, and being present, and acknowledgment, and gratitude. Things that are really, I think, important to be raised with. But in terms of life expectations — what you do, or who you're with, or what you chose to be — she really allowed us the freedom to experience our own lives," Kate said. "Which doesn't mean that it didn't come with parenting!” On co-parenting: "They all get along. It's funny, and we laugh about it. I never thought my life would look like that, but it is what it is. All I care about is happy kids, and we all make that the priority." On happiness: “Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.” On her company, Fabletics: “For me, if I was going to start a company, I wanted to feel good about why I was doing it. If I’m going to use the platform to sell people something, then I want it to be meaningful, and I want it to be authentic, and I want it to be real, and I want to be passionate about it.” Advice for becoming an entrepreneur: “Number one is authenticity. If you are doing something that is authentic to you and you are passionate about, then you are already successful. Then your drive will be there and no part of it will feel like grunt work. Authenticity is key so take your time with that and don’t get discouraged if something takes time.” | Margaret Abrams | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/kate-hudson-best-quotes-a4119491.html | 2019-04-18 11:48:47+00:00 | 1,555,602,527 | 1,567,542,531 | human interest | people |
172,346 | eveningstandard--2019-04-18--Khloe Kardashian gushes over aposincredible rare bondapos as she celebrates sister Kourtneyapos | 2019-04-18T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Khloé Kardashian gushes over 'incredible rare bond' as she celebrates sister Kourtney's 40th birthday | Khloé Kardashian shared a series of snaps with sister Kourtney to celebrate her 40th birthday on Thursday, including some throwbacks. Khloé posted a slew of images to her Instagram alongside a heartfelt caption about the “incredible rare bond” the duo share. “Happy birthday sweet @kourtneykardash!!! I am completely obsessed with each and every one of my siblings,” Khloé wrote. “Still blows my mind how blessed we are to call each other sisters. You and I have an incredible rare bond that no matter what, it can never be broken. “You’re my best friend, one of the rare few I can count on most in my life. I’m so thankful for that […] Honestly, without you my life would be boring and not as full.” Khloé also told her sister that she “prays her soul is awakened” and that she finds happiness and “magical things” for the rest of her life. Among the snaps were shots of the sister’s posing for photos and selfies as well as one of a teenage Kourtney next to a massive bouquet of balloons. Famous matriarch Kris Jenner also used Instagram to share a special birthday tribute to her eldest child on her big birthday. “Happy Birthday Kourtney!!! I can’t believe you are 40!! I love you more than you can ever imagine...you will always be my baby,” Jenner wrote. “I am so blessed beyond words to be your Mommy and have you by my side in this precious life. You are my heart and I am eternally grateful for all of the memories that we cherish. I love you. Mommy xoxo.” The head of the Kardashian-Jenner clan posted a variety of snaps of the pair laughing and joking, even sharing some throwback snaps to Kourtney’s childhood and one with her late father Robert Kardashian. Kourtney’s brand Poosh also paid tribute to its founder, creating a video of “hilarious and sentimental” stories involving the star. | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/khloe-kardashian-gushes-over-incredible-rare-bond-as-she-celebrates-sister-kourtneys-40th-birthday-a4121786.html | 2019-04-18 15:50:38+00:00 | 1,555,617,038 | 1,567,542,528 | human interest | people |
172,613 | eveningstandard--2019-04-21--Duke and Duchess of Sussex lead birthday messages to the Queen as she turns 93 | 2019-04-21T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Duke and Duchess of Sussex lead birthday messages to the Queen as she turns 93 | The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have led the Royal Family's birthday messages to the Queen as she turns 93. In a post on their Instagram account, Meghan and Harry, who are expecting their first child any day now, said: "Happy Birthday Your Majesty, Ma'am, Granny. Wishing you the most wonderful day! Harry & Meghan". The Kensington Palace Twitter account, which represents Kate and William, tweeted: "Wishing a very happy 93rd birthday to Her Majesty The Queen! #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty." This year, the monarch, who is Head of the Church of England, sees her birthday coincide with Easter Sunday, the most important day in the Christian calendar. Elizabeth II, who has a strong faith, usually celebrates Easter at Windsor Castle by joining members of her family at a service in St George's Chapel. At Buckingham Palace, the Band of the Irish Guards will perform a rendition of Happy Birthday in her honour on the forecourt as part of the Changing of the Guard ceremony. The Queen's great grandchild, Prince Louis, the son of Kate and William, will celebrate his first birthday on Tuesday and Meghan and Harry's first child is due any day now. April 21 - the day the Queen was born - is the first of the monarch's two birthdays. She also has an official one on the second Saturday in June each year, which is commemorated with the Trooping the Colour parade. Gun salutes are also fired as a mark of respect to the Queen on her special day - but never on a Sunday, so this year they will be delayed by one day. On Monday, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery will ride their horses and gun carriages past Buckingham Palace en route to Hyde Park to stage a 41 Gun Royal Salute at noon. A 62-gun salute will also be performed by the Honourable Artillery Company at the Tower of London at 1pm the same day. The Queen traditionally spends a month-long residence at Windsor Castle, known as Easter Court, each year. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born at 2.40am on April 21 1926, the first child of the then Duke and Duchess of York, at 17 Bruton Street, the Mayfair home of her mother's parents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore. She was never expected to be Queen when she was born, but the abdication of her uncle Edward VIII in 1936 put her father George VI on the throne, and changed her destiny. Elizabeth II, who has been monarch for more than 67 years, is Head of State, the Armed Forces and the Commonwealth, and has been married to the Duke of Edinburgh for more than 71 years. She became Britain's longest-reigning monarch, passing her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria's record, in September 2015. With the death of 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand in 2016, the Queen now holds the record for the world's longest reigning living monarch. | Hatty Collier | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-queen-celebrates-her-93rd-birthday-a4122661.html | 2019-04-21 06:34:00+00:00 | 1,555,842,840 | 1,567,542,229 | human interest | people |
172,738 | eveningstandard--2019-04-22--Prince Louis birthday pictures Adorable photos show royal playing in garden of Norfolk home | 2019-04-22T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Prince Louis birthday pictures: Adorable photos show royal playing in garden of Norfolk home | Adorable new photographs of Prince Louis taken by his mother Kate have been released ahead of his first birthday. The third child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is pictured playing in the garden of the family's Norfolk home in the photographs taken earlier this month. In two images, Louis' rosy cheeks match his red jumper, which is covered in bits of greenery as he plays in the garden. His broad smiles show off his two bottom front teeth. In the third, Louis looks more serious as he wears a blue jumper with a dog motif. In March, Kate revealed during a visit to a children's centre that Louis, then about 11 months old, was an active child who enjoyed "bombing around" on a walker. "He just wants to pull himself up all the time. He's got these little walkers and is bombing around on them," she told a fellow parent. Prince Louis Arthur Charles was born on St George's Day last year, April 23, at 11.01am, weighing 8lb 7oz. He bears a clear resemblance to both his older brother, George, and his father, William, when they were a similar age. Louis is fifth in line to the throne, a great-grandchild of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and a younger sibling of Prince George and Princess Charlotte. He made his debut in Kate's arms as his proud parents showed him off to the world on the steps of the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, just hours after he was born. The name Louis was already one of George's middle names and pays tribute to the Prince of Wales's great-uncle, Earl Mountbatten, who was murdered by the IRA. William and Kate released photos of their son soon after he was born - including one of him being cuddled by his big sister Charlotte on her third birthday when Louis was only about a week old. Louis was sleeping soundly, as Charlotte put a protective arm around her baby brother and planted a kiss on his forehead. The prince was next seen fast asleep at his christening in July, and alert and smiling in family photographs released to mark the occasion. Louis, who appears to have inherited the brown Middleton eyes from Kate's side of the family, was pictured with his wider family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall in photos released to mark Charles's 70th birthday in November. | Patrick Grafton-Green | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/prince-louis-birthday-pictures-adorable-photos-show-royal-playing-in-garden-of-norfolk-home-a4123161.html | 2019-04-22 20:29:18+00:00 | 1,555,979,358 | 1,567,542,125 | human interest | people |
172,822 | eveningstandard--2019-04-23--Gigi Hadidaposs 24th birthday party had an interesting dress code | 2019-04-23T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Gigi Hadid's 24th birthday party had an interesting dress code | How much denim is too much denim? At Gigi Hadid's twenty-fourth birthday party the vibe was very much 'more is more.' Shunning the usual party dress code, the model opted for a low-key dress code: all denim everything. Gigi aced a classic double denim look, pairing custom Levi jeans, which were subtly customised with '24' on the leg, with a frayed denim jacket, simple white crop top and Dr Martens. The casual look may have seemed like an odd choice for the usually uber-glam model, but it all made sense when Gigi's celebrity guests started to arrive. Younger sister Bella Hadid took a more nostalgic '90s approach to the theme, pairing blue jeans with a matching reconstructed corset and denim shirt. Very Britney Spears circa 2001. Their mother, Yolanda Hadid, also opted for triple denim, putting her own chic twist on the dress code by wearing flares, a waist coat and fitted blazer. Other denim-clad guests included models Ashley Graham and Olivia Culpo, who both wore oversized jackets as dresses and Hailee Steinfeld, who wore a two-tone tweed and denim co-ord. Like at every themed party, some guests chose to ignore the dress code. Taylor Swift clearly hadn't got the memo and arrived wearing a floral Zimmermann dress and bargain £59.99 Mango jacket. | Sabrina Carder | https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/gigi-hadid-double-denim-24-birthday-a4124091.html | 2019-04-23 14:16:29+00:00 | 1,556,043,389 | 1,567,542,006 | human interest | people |
173,558 | eveningstandard--2019-05-01--Happy Birthday Princess Charlotte The Cambridge daughteraposs sweetest royal waves as she turns 4 | 2019-05-01T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Happy Birthday Princess Charlotte! The Cambridge daughter's sweetest royal waves as she turns 4 | At four years old, Princess Charlotte is a true master of a tiny royal wave. The young royal, who was born on May 2, 2015 and is fourth in line for the British throne, is a natural with the crowds, even if behind the scenes her parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aim to keep her life as normal as possible. “As far as we are concerned,” Prince William told the BBC in 2016, “within our family unit, we are a normal family.” “Hugs are very important" Kate told a group of schoolchildren in 2017, "I keep saying that to my children. My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life. That is why William and I want to teach our little children, George and Charlotte, just how important these things are as they grow up. In my view, it is just as important as excelling at maths or sport.” When she was born Princess Charlotte made history as the first female royal to break the male-preference primogeniture – a rule which used to put all brothers ahead of sisters in line for the British throne. In 2011, the leaders of the Commonwealth made an agreement that birth order would determine the succession, rather than gender. Unless George decides to abdicate before having children, Princess Charlotte is unlikely to succeed to the throne - but she's getting some pretty good practise in, just in case... | Lauren Keary | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/royalssociety/princess-charlotte-royal-waves-prince-william-kate-middleton-a4131746.html | 2019-05-01 15:30:10+00:00 | 1,556,739,010 | 1,567,541,487 | human interest | people |
173,589 | eveningstandard--2019-05-01--Kylie Jenner throws aposhubbyapos Travis Scott an epic birthday party | 2019-05-01T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Kylie Jenner throws 'hubby' Travis Scott an epic birthday party | Kylie Jenner may have won herself girlfriend, or wife, of the year. The 21-year-old billionaire, pulled out all the stops for her partner Travis Scott’s 27th birthday bash. The dimly-lit party featured a running theme of rapper Scott’s Nike Air Jordan’s Cactus Jack range, with a number of the shoes even hanging from the ceiling. Fans entered an indoor forest by walking through a giant inflatable of Scott's face. Jenner, who shares one-year-old daughter Stormi with the rapper, also arranged for an on-site tattoo artist and “spinning” elevator to make the event that much more memorable. Jenner’s older sister Kim Kardashian attended the “trippy” event as well as sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kendall Jenner. The Lip Kit queen also marked the special occasion with a gushing post on social media in which she referred to Scott as her “hubby”. She shared a string of loved-up snaps of the couple looking every bit in awe of one another, including one of Scott nuzzling into Kylie’s neck mid-way through a mirror selfie. In a touching caption she asked her beau to “f*** around and have another baby”. “Watching you evolve into the partner, friend, son, and father you are today has been so fulfilling,” she wrote. “My real life bestie & hubby all wrapped into one. I love you and I’m so so proud of you. Happy happy birthday. Let’s f*** around and have another baby.” The lavish party marks the second celebration thrown for Scott as the couple previously hosted an Avengers-themed bash, with the pair dressing as Captain Marvel and Iron Man. The superhero celebration, which was held on the day Avengers: Endgame was released, saw Scott honoured with a Marvel-themed cake featuring figurines of him, Jenner and Stormi all as their superhero alter-egos. | Safeeyah Kazi | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/kylie-jenner-throws-hubby-travis-scott-an-epic-birthday-party-a4131051.html | 2019-05-01 08:41:03+00:00 | 1,556,714,463 | 1,567,541,484 | human interest | people |
173,728 | eveningstandard--2019-05-02--David Beckham shares aposamazingapos Game of Thrones birthday message from Brienne of Tarth | 2019-05-02T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | David Beckham shares 'amazing' Game of Thrones birthday message from Brienne of Tarth | David Beckham has shared an “amazing” birthday message from Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie in character as Brienne of Tarth. The ex-Manchester United ace rushed to share a special message from Christie with his Instagram followers, posting the video on his story on Thursday. In character, Christie boomed: “I will shield your back and keep your counsel and give me life for yours if need be. I swear it by the old gods and the new. “Happy birthday David from Brienne of Tarth,” she added as she beamed back at the camera. Sharing the clip, Beckham wrote: “I can’t believe this. Thank you @ gwendolineuniverse @gameofthrones. Amazing!!” Christie’s message was, of course, a reference to Brienne's solemn vow to Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) back in season six, three years ago. Having met a few episodes previous, Sansa remained unsure she could trust Brienne but was placated when the warrior lowered her sword and swore her promise. Beckham, who turns 44 today, has been showered with gifts for his special day – which were shown off by his wife Victoria on her Instagram story. Posting a video of silver-wrapped presents, the couple’s daughter Harper can be heard excitedly telling the camera how they have prepared celebrations for the sportsman. “It’s Daddy’s birthday!” she said. “Me and mummy have been wrapping these and putting these down. Happy birthday Daddy! Love you, bye.” Victoria spun around the room to show off the decorations, adding the caption “Happy birthday daddy!!! We love u so much.” Meanwhile, Beckham’s 16-year-old son Romeo chose to mark the special occasion by mocking his greying hair with a cheeky card. The insulting greeting – which Romeo shared on his Instagram page - read: “Dad I got you this card because it matches your hair.” Christie is currently on-screen in the final season on HBO hit Game of Thrones, which is just three episodes away from its finale. The show airs Mondays at 2am and 9pm on Sky Atlantic, also available on NOW TV. | Natasha Sporn | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/david-beckham-shares-amazing-birthday-message-from-game-of-thrones-star-gwendoline-christie-as-a4132621.html | 2019-05-02 11:22:00+00:00 | 1,556,810,520 | 1,567,541,372 | human interest | people |
173,816 | eveningstandard--2019-05-02--Victoria Beckham shares sweet birthday tribute to David with daughter Harper | 2019-05-02T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Victoria Beckham shares sweet birthday tribute to David with daughter Harper | The fashion designer posted a photo which showed her hand placed on top of the ex-sportsman’s at dinner, with the former Spice Girl’s square yellow diamond ring in clear view. “Happy birthday @davidbeckham,” she wrote. “You are our everything xxx We love u so much x Kisses.” The 45-year-old also shared an insight into the family’s celebrations, posting a short video which showed a pile of presents carefully wrapped in grey paper, with ‘Happy Birthday’ banners and silver balloons in the background. In the clip, the couple’s daughter Harper can be heard telling viewers about the birthday preparations. “It’s Daddy’s birthday!” she said. “Me and mummy have been wrapping these and putting these down. Happy birthday Daddy! Love you, bye.” “Happy birthday Daddy! We u you so much,” Victoria’s caption read. Romeo, 16, mocked his father with a cheeky card to mark the occasion, suggesting that the sports star is showing signs of ageing. The teen posted a photo of a grey card with silver lettering on his Instagram story, with a message which read: “Dad I got you this card because it matches your hair.” He later shared a heart-warming throwback snap of himself alongside David and Harper from their family trip to Bali last year. “Happy birthday dad I hope you have an amazing day love you so much,” he wrote. Cruz, 14, also joined in with an Instagram tribute of his own, sharing a photo of him and eldest sibling Brooklyn cooking on an outdoor grill with their father. | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/victoria-beckham-shares-sweet-birthday-tribute-to-david-with-daughter-harper-a4132406.html | 2019-05-02 10:17:16+00:00 | 1,556,806,636 | 1,567,541,371 | human interest | people |
174,888 | eveningstandard--2019-05-20--Future gives his and Ciaraaposs son Future a 28k Rolex for his fifth birthday | 2019-05-20T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Future gives his and Ciara's son Future a £28k Rolex for his fifth birthday | Most five-year-olds aspire to dress as their favourite superhero rather than in the latest designer threads. But rapper Future just bought his young son a serious designer investment piece for his fifth birthday: a golden Rolex. Future revealed the moment he gave his and singer Ciara’s son the timepiece on Instagram, posting a video on his Stories. As he popped open the box and stared at the arm candy, Future Jr. seemed nonplussed by the piece as he reached in, grabbed it and said a very neutral, “Thanks.” The clip and Future Jr’s reaction quickly went viral, with many commenting on the moment on Twitter. One wrote that Future Jr. would probably have been “more excited about the box it came [in] than the watch itself.” Another pointed out that Future Jr. might not even know how to tell the time on an analog clock yet, writing, “Couldn’t even hit young future with a digital clock face?? He gonna be learning analog clocks on some ‘Half-past Diamond’ sh*t.” And then others pointed out that Future Jr. probably wanted something very different for his fifth birthday, based on his underwhelmed reaction. The watch is estimated to be priced at $35,800 (£28.2k). In any case, the rapper shared a picture of his son rocking the Rolex on Instagram at his party. He captioned the post with a quote from Meek Mills which read, “‘It was somethin bout that rollie when it first touched my wrist’.” Future Jr. isn't the first celebrity child to receive an extravagant gift from his parents. One-year-old Stormi Webster already owns a £16,000 Hermes Kelly bag and her aunt Kim Kardashian recently gifted her a £2,000 vintage Louis Vuitton Speedy bag. Ahead of her first birthday, Buckingham Palace also released a full list of gifts given to Princess Charlotte ahead of her first birthday which included a £30,000 gold rattle set with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Future Jr. is the son of Future and singer Ciara, who began dating in 2013 and got engaged in 2014. They split in 2015 following rumours of Future’s infidelity and Ciara later began dating Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson in July 2015. The pair married the following year. Future and Ciara threw separate birthday parties for Future Jr., which were both superhero-themed bashes. At the party thrown by his father, Future Jr. was seen running around with some Flash-themed face paint and a gigantic pile of presents. Ciara also shared a number of social media posts from the party she and Wilson threw for Future Jr.. There was a triple-tier Avengers cake and even a custom Avengers logo, with the A swapped out for an F. She captioned a video of Future Jr. blowing out his candles, “Happy Birthday Sunshine! I can’t believe you’re 5 years old…Mommy’s so proud of you! I love you so much!” Wilson also shared a picture of himself sitting in a go-kart alongside Future Jr. on Twitter, writing, “From the moment we came into each other’s worlds to 5 yrs later, you changed my life & my heart for the better. You are the greatest gift I could've ever asked God for! I will always love you, guide you, teach you, & care for you. Happy 5th BDay Future! Papa Russ Loves you!” At the end of the party, Ciara shared a video on Instagram stories of Future Jr. heading home. He declared on camera, “Birthday boy come through!” | Megan C. Hills | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/future-watch-rolex-ciara-son-birthday-a4146641.html | 2019-05-20 10:48:00+00:00 | 1,558,363,680 | 1,567,540,400 | human interest | people |
175,221 | eveningstandard--2019-05-24--Happy birthday Lily-Rose Depp How Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Deppaposs daughter became a famous | 2019-05-24T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Happy birthday, Lily-Rose Depp! How Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp's daughter became a famous face in fashion | Lily-Rose Depp is quickly on her way to becoming a Hollywood superstar - of course, it helps that she already has a cool girl pedigree. Her parents are two famous faces and she splits her time between Paris and Los Angeles. She was born in 1999 to parents Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis. Even her godfather is famous, albeit unexpected. It's shock rocker Marilyn Manson. She and her mother are both multi-talented fashion muses. And like her father, she's embracing acting. "I also think the way that fashion ties into cinema is really interesting. To me, the hair and makeup and costume of a character are so crucial to me," she said about the way her two worlds converge. She became one of the hottest faces in fashion when she began working with Chanel at 15, who she's been loyal to ever since. Her first shoot with Chanel was at 15 but the brand has always been embraced by her family. "My first memories of Chanel are really actually quite family-orientated. Digging around in my mum’s closet. You know, Chanel is really the first thing that comes to mind when I think of fashion because I would try on all of her dresses and shoes - even though I was in diapers at the time! There’s actually a picture of me in a diaper wearing Chanel pumps...Working with Karl is amazing too. I met him for the first time when I was eight. He’s somebody that I not only admire and respect so much for his work and his insane creativity and genius, he’s also such a kind and intelligent person that I feel so lucky to know and to work with," she told Vogue about her time as a muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Now, the model is leaving her teen years behind as she turns 20 today. But don't expect her to hit the club to celebrate. "I’m such a homebody. I feel like this is the age that everyone is going out to clubs. I like to hang out with my friends and watch movies and cooking shows. I cook a lot," she said in an interview with CR Fashion Book. To celebrate her birthday, we've compiled some of her best looks (almost exclusively Chanel, of course). | Margaret Abrams | https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/style/how-lily-rose-depp-became-one-of-the-most-famous-faces-in-fashion-a4151306.html | 2019-05-24 18:01:47+00:00 | 1,558,735,307 | 1,567,540,192 | human interest | people |
175,778 | eveningstandard--2019-05-29--Spice Girls share birthday tributes to Mel B ahead of Manchester reunion gig | 2019-05-29T00:00:00 | eveningstandard | Spice Girls share birthday tributes to Mel B ahead of Manchester reunion gig | Geri Horner led birthday tributes to her Spice Girls bandmate Melanie Brown as the singer turned 44. The 46-year-old, who has repeatedly shut down reports of bad feeling between her and Brown following her claim that they had a fling in the 90s, shared a photo of the singer from a recent Spice Girls concert date on Instagram. The shot showed Brown dancing in a shimmering gold catsuit, with the words “Happy birthday Melanie” placed over the photo along with a Spiceworld logo. The pair’s other bandmates joined in with celebratory messages of their own ahead of their Manchester gig tonight, with Melanie Chisholm posting a photo of Brown headbanging on stage. “Happy birthday to this absolute power house @officialmelb,” she wrote, adding: “Love you Scary. So happy to be sharing the stage with you on this special day #spicingupmanchester #birthdaygal #northerners.” Emma Bunton also marked the occasion with a snap from the girl group’s recent Dublin tour date, in which she and Brown are holding hands on stage. “Happy birthday @officialmelb I love you so much,” she wrote. “I’ll be squeezing you a little tighter today. Can’t wait to celebrate with you! Xxx.” The Spice Girls reunion tour is set to continue with dates in Manchester, Coventry, Sunderland, Edinburgh and Bristol before culminating in three nights at London’s Wembley Arena. Some fans have been left disappointed by the sound quality at the reunion gigs in Dublin and Cardiff, claiming that they struggled to hear the band’s hits despite experiencing few problems during support act Jess Glynne’s set. Twitter users described the sound as “awful” and “atrocious,” claiming that they felt “disappointed” by the shows. The band have not yet commented officially on the alleged technical difficulties, although Brown addressed sound problems in an Instagram Story shared over the weekend, promising them: “We will see you in Cardiff and hopefully the vocals and the sound will be much, much better.” | Katie Rosseinsky | https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/spice-girls-share-birthday-tributes-to-mel-b-ahead-of-manchester-reunion-gig-a4154301.html | 2019-05-29 13:52:05+00:00 | 1,559,152,325 | 1,567,539,816 | human interest | people |
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