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Kate shares adorable unseen photo from Middleton family Christmas in 1983 – as royal fans gush Prince Louis is – Daily Mail

  1. Kate shares adorable unseen photo from Middleton family Christmas in 1983 – as royal fans gush Prince Louis is Daily Mail
  2. Kate Middleton Shares Never Before Seen Image from Childhood Christmas — and She Looks Just Like Prince Louis! PEOPLE
  3. Unseen picture of Kate, Princess of Wales, as a child released by Kensington Palace Sky News
  4. Kate Middleton stresses preciousness in ‘arrival of every baby’ in Christmas Eve carol service broadcast intro Fox News
  5. Princess Kate Looks Just Like Prince Louis in Never-Before-Seen Photo as a Child Harper’s BAZAAR

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343 Releases Previously Unseen Images From Halo 2 Development

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In Halo, “the sandbox” often refers to the weapons and vehicles on a map at any given time: all the toys you have to play with. But for a whole other set of Halo fans, that sandbox is the game itself. Be it through Forge or ambitious modding projects like SPV3, playing with the very core of the game itself is part of the legacy of the franchise. Now, Microsoft has made that even easier after publishing a thorough collection of modding resources for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. And as a surprise, some of these resources contain some never-before-seen images from Halo 2’s development way back in the early 2000s.

Today, Microsoft released official documentation for Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s mod tools, specifically Halo 2 and Halo 3 (other entries in the series are expected to receive documentation at a later date). As spotted by Halo modder Kiera on Twitter, some of the documentation for Halo 2 contains material directly from Bungie circa the early 2000s. With it are a few development images that few have seen until now.

Screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku

What’s cool about these images is that they show off the inner workings of Halo 2’s engine. One of these images illustrates the “screenshot_cubemap” command. I’m not going to entirely pretend to know what this does, but based on the documentation, it’s for use in generating reflective surfaces, like we see in the old documentation photo provided.

Image: Microsoft / Kotaku

Another neat pair of images shows off debugging information, listing data for when a model is using specific weapons or playing out various animations.

Screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku

Screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku

Like many behind-the-scenes shots, these are hardly glamorous. But they are cool nonetheless. The development of Halo 2 is a tale of high ambition at the cost of abusive crunch, much of which has been talked about openly. Various materials from the game’s development have been seen before, while others remain out of reach, like the legendary 2003 E3 demo (which 343 has recently pondered finally making playable). Today, a little more has seen the light of day.



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Ghost Particles Crashing Into Antarctica Reveal Unseen Heart of Nearby Galaxy

About 47 million light-years from where you’re sitting, the center of a black-hole-laden galaxy named NGC 1068 is spitting out streams of enigmatic particles. These “neutrinos,” otherwise known as the notoriously elusive “ghost particles,” haunt our universe but leave little trace of their existence.

Immediately after coming into being, bundles of these invisible bits plunge across the cosmic expanse. They whisk by bright stars we can see and zip past pockets of space teeming with marvels we’re yet to discover. They fly and fly and fly until, occasionally, they crash into a detector deep below the surface of the Earth. 

The neutrinos’ journey is seamless. But scientists patiently wait for them to arrive. 

Nestled into about 1 billion tons of ice, more than 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) beneath Antarctica, lies the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. A neutrino hunter, you might call it. When any neutrinos transfer their party to the frigid continent, IceCube stands ready. 

In a paper published Friday in the journal Science, the international team behind this ambitious experiment confirmed it has found evidence of 79 “high-energy neutrino emissions” coming from around where NGC 1068 is located, opening the door for novel — and endlessly fascinating — types of physics. “Neutrino astronomy,” scientists call it. 

It’d be a branch of astronomy that can do what existing branches simply cannot.

Front view of the IceCube Lab at twilight, with a starry sky showing a glimpse of the Milky Way overhead and sunlight lingering on the horizon.


Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF

Before today, physicists had only shown neutrinos coming from either the sun; our planet’s atmosphere; a chemical mechanism called radioactive decay; supernovas; and — thanks to IceCube’s first breakthrough in 2017 — a blazar, or voracious supermassive black hole pointed directly toward Earth. A void dubbed TXS 0506+056.

With this newfound neutrino source, we’re entering a new era of the particle’s story. In fact, according to the research team, it’s likely neutrinos stemming from NGC 1068 have up to millions, billions, maybe even trillions the amount of energy held by neutrinos rooted in the sun or supernovas. Those are jaw-dropping figures because, in general, such ghostly bits are so powerful, yet evasive, that every second, trillions upon trillions of neutrinos move right through your body. You just can’t tell. 

And if you wanted to stop a neutrino in its tracks, you’d need to fight it with a block of lead one light-year-wide — though even then, there’d be a fractional chance of success. Thus, harnessing these particles, NCG 1068’s version or not, could allow us to penetrate areas of the cosmos that’d usually lie out of reach. 

Now what?

Not only is this moment massive because it gives us more proof of a strange particle that wasn’t even announced to exist until 1956, but also because neutrinos are like keys to our universe’s backstage. 

They hold the capacity to reveal phenomena and solve puzzles we’re unable to address by any other means, which is the primary reason scientists are trying to develop neutrino astronomy in the first place.

“The universe has multiple ways of communicating with us,” Denise Caldwell of the National Science Foundation and a member of the IceCube team, told reporters on Thursday. “Electromagnetic radiation, which we see as light from stars, gravitational waves that shake the fabric of space — and elementary particles, such as protons, neutrons and electrons spewed out by localized sources.

“One of these elementary particles has been neutrinos that permeate the universe, but unfortunately, neutrinos are very difficult to detect.”

In fact, even the galaxy NGC 1068 and its gargantuan black hole are typically obscured by a thick veil of dust and gas, making them hard to parse with standard optical telescopes and equipment — despite years of scientists trying to pierce its curtain. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could have a leg up in this case due to its infrared eyes, but neutrinos may be an even better way in.

Expected to be generated behind such opaque screens filtering our universe, these particles can carry cosmic information from behind those screens, zoom across great distances while interacting with essentially no other matter, and deliver pristine, untouched information to humanity about elusive corners of outer space.

“We are very lucky, in a sense, because we can access an amazing understanding of this object,” Elisa Resconi, of the Technical University of Munich and IceCube team member, said of NGC 1068. 

In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called DOMs.


IceCube/NSF

It’s also notable that there are many (many) more galaxies similar to NGC 1068 — categorized as Seyfert galaxies — than there are blazars similar to TXS 0506+056. This means IceCube’s latest discovery is, arguably, a larger step forward for neutrino astronomers than the observatory’s seminal one. 

Perhaps the bulk of neutrinos diffusing throughout the universe are rooted in NGC 1068 doppelgangers. But in the grand scheme of things, there’s far more to the merit of neutrinos than just their sources. 

These ghosts, as Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an IceCube team member put it, are fit to solve two major mysteries in astronomy. 

First off, a wealth of galaxies in our universe boast gravitationally monstrous voids at their centers, black holes reaching masses millions to billions of times greater than our sun’s. And these black holes, when active, blast jets of light from their guts — emitting enough illumination to outshine every single star in the galaxy itself. “We don’t understand how that happens,” Vandenbrouke said simply. Neutrinos could provide a way to study the regions around black holes.

Second is the general, yet persistent, conundrum of cosmic rays.

We don’t really know where cosmic rays come from either, but these strings of particles reach energies to and beyond millions of times higher than we can reach here on Earth with human-constructed particle accelerators like the one at CERN. 

“We think neutrinos have some role to play,” Vandenbroucke said. “Something that can help us answer these two mysteries of black holes powering very bright galaxies and of the origins of cosmic rays.”

A decade to catch a handful

To be clear, IceCube doesn’t exactly trap neutrinos.

Basically, this observatory tells us every time a neutrino happens to interact with the ice shrouding it. “Neutrinos hardly interact with matter,” Vandenbrouke emphasized. “But they do interact sometimes.”

As millions of neutrinos shoot into the icy region where IceCube is set up, at least one tends to bump into an atom of ice, which then shatters and produces a flash of light. IceCube sensors capture that flash and send the signal up to the surface, notifications that are then analyzed by hundreds of scientists. 

A rendering of the IceCube detector shows the interaction of a neutrino with a molecule of ice. 


IceCube Collaboration/NSF

Ten years of light-flash-data allowed the team to pretty much map out where every neutrino seems to be coming from in the sky. It soon became clear there was a dense region of neutrino emissions located right where galaxy NGC 1068 is stationed. 

But even with such evidence, Resconi said the team knew “it’s not the time to open the champagne, because we still have one fundamental question to answer. How many times did this alignment happen just by chance? How can we be sure neutrinos are actually coming from such an object?”

A sky map of the scan for point sources in the Northern Hemisphere, showing where neutrinos seem to be coming from across the universe. The circle of NGC 1068 also coincides with the overall hottest spot in the northern sky.


IceCube Collaboration

So, to make matters as concrete as possible, and really, truly prove this galaxy is spitting out ghosts, “we generated 500 million times the same experiment,” Resconi said. 

Upon which, I can only imagine, a bottle of Veuve was popped at last. Though the hunt isn’t over.

“We are only beginning to scratch the surface as far as finding new sources of neutrinos,” Ignacio Taboada of the Georgia Institute of Technology and IceCube team member said. “There must be many other sources far deeper than NGC 1068, hiding somewhere to be found.”

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Ghostly Unseen “Mirror World” Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy With Hubble Constant

An unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity may be key to solving the Hubble constant problem, according to new research.

According to new research, an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today – the Hubble constant problem.

The Hubble constant is the current rate of expansion of the universe. Predictions for this rate — from cosmology’s standard model — are significantly slower than the rate found by our most precise local measurements. This discrepancy is one that many cosmologists have been attempting to solve by changing our current cosmological model. The challenge is to do so without ruining the agreement between standard model predictions and many other cosmological phenomena, such as the cosmic microwave background. Determining whether such a cosmological scenario exists is the question that researchers, including Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, Fei Ge, and Lloyd Knox at the University of California, Davis have been working to answer.

Cosmology is the scientific study of the large scale properties of the universe as a whole. It seeks to use the scientific method to understand the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the entire Universe. Like any field of science, cosmology involves the formation of theories or hypotheses about the universe which make specific predictions for phenomena that can be tested with observations. Depending on the outcome of the observations, the theories will need to be abandoned, revised or extended to accommodate the data. The so-called Big Bang theory is the dominant theory concerning the origin and evolution of our Universe.

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The research, titled “Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, a Mirror World Dark Sector, and the Hubble Constant,” was published recently in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The COBE satellite was developed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe to the limits set by our astrophysical environment. Credit: NASA

This result opens a new approach to reconciling cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure observations with high values of the Hubble constant H0: Find a cosmological model in which the scaling transformation can be realized without violating any measurements of quantities not protected by the symmetry. This work has opened a new path toward resolving what has proved to be a challenging problem. Further model building might bring consistency with the two constraints not yet satisfied: the inferred primordial abundances of deuterium and helium.

If the universe is somehow exploiting this symmetry researchers are led to an extremely interesting conclusion: that there exists a mirror universe very similar to ours but invisible to us except through gravitational impact on our world. Such “mirror world” dark sector would allow for an effective scaling of the gravitational free-fall rates while respecting the precisely measured mean photon density today.

“In practice, this scaling symmetry could only be realized by including a mirror world in the model — a parallel universe with new particles that are all copies of known particles,” said Cyr-Racine. “The mirror world idea first arose in the 1990s but has not previously been recognized as a potential solution to the Hubble constant problem.

“This might seem crazy at face value, but such mirror worlds have a large physics literature in a completely different context since they can help solve important problem in particle physics,” explains Cyr-Racine. “Our work allows us to link, for the first time, this large literature to an important problem in cosmology.”

An artist’s rendition of the COBE Satellite. Credit: Matthew Verdolivo, UC, Davis

In addition to searching for missing ingredients in our current cosmological model, researchers are also wondering whether this Hubble constant discrepancy could be caused in part by measurement errors. While it remains a possibility, it is important to note that the discrepancy has become more and more significant as higher quality data have been included in the analyses, suggesting that the data might not be at fault.

“It went from two and a half Sigma, to three, and three and a half to four Sigma. By now, we are pretty much at the five-Sigma level,” said Cyr-Racine. “That’s the key number which makes this a real problem because you have two measurements of the same thing, which if you have a consistent picture of the universe should just be completely consistent with each other, but they differ by a very statistically significant amount.”

“That’s the premise here and we’ve been thinking about what could be causing that and why are these measurements discrepant? So that’s a big problem for cosmology. We just don’t seem to understand what the universe is doing today.”

Reference: “Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, a Mirror World Dark Sector, and the Hubble Constant” by Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Fei Ge and Lloyd Knox, 18 May 2022, Physical Review Letters.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.201301



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DaBaby’s Fatal 2018 Walmart Shooting – Unseen Video Surfaces

Unseen video of DaBaby’s deadly 2018 shooting at a North Carolina Walmart has surfaced.

Tonight (April 24), Rolling Stone posted previously unreleased security footage of DaBaby’s 2018 altercation that left 19-year-old Jaylin Craig dead. The “Rockstar” rapper, born Jonathan Kirk, reportedly faced a charge of carrying a concealed weapon following the shooting, but was never prosecuted for Craig’s death.

The new video, which contains no sound, begins with DaBaby appearing to be confronted by two individuals: Jaylin Craig and Henry Douglas. A physical altercation breaks out between DaBaby and Douglas after Baby punches Douglas. Craig can be seen appearing to brandish a weapon in the background, but then tucks it away.

DaBaby and Douglas’ brawl leads to another camera angle, which shows them both struggling upright against each other. Craig then walks over to them, appearing to reach for a weapon a second time before attempting to break the rappper and Craig apart. DaBaby’s then-girlfriend Mariah Osbourne confronts Craig, appearing at one point to raise her right hand up to his face as Baby and Douglas continue to struggle.

The footage then breaks to the previous angle and shows DaBaby sliding on the ground into frame with a firearm in his right hand. He then adjusts the hood of his hoodie that was on his head and appears to fire the gun. The footage does not show Craig being hit, only DaBaby appearing to shoot the firearm. You can watch the video in full at the bottom of this post.

As previously mentioned, the Kirk rapper has continually maintained his self-defense claim in the years since the shooting.

“If them gunshots ain’t go off, nigga, my fuckin’ daughter could’ve got hit, son could’ve got hit, me,” he said in a video on social media just days after the incident. “Fuckin’ lawyers telling me not to say something and shit, fuck all that. Two niggas walk down on you and your whole muthafuckin’ family, threaten y’all, whip out on y’all, nigga, let me see what y’all gon’ too.”

Craig’s family, on the other hand, has a very different perception of their son’s death.

“We never hid from nobody,” Craig’s mother, Horsley, told Rolling Stone. “We never [heard] from nobody. Y’all knew our names from a news clip. But nobody ever asked us what was Jaylin like. Nobody.”

“This is stressing me out right now because every time you turn on the radio, you hear [DaBaby],” Craig’s father, Curtis, said. “You can’t even listen to the radio. I think about my son constantly. We all are going through the same stuff. Every time we talk about it, we think we are getting somewhere, and nobody is trying to help us. Every lawyer we talked to, they look into this case [and say] ‘Okay, we are going to get back with you.’ We don’t hear nothing [back].”

While DaBaby was never prosecuted for the death of Craig, he was charged with a carrying a concealed weapon. DaBaby did not have a permit for the weapon. In March of 2019, the charge was suddenly dropped after, “a key civilian witness was unavailable,” according to Rolling Stone via a county representative.

However, the charge was later brought back on DaBaby by the state and he was sentenced to 12 months of unsupervised probation, along with a suspended 30-day jail sentence.

Rolling Stone received the following response from the District Attorney’s office in response to the question of why Kirk didn’t receive any harsher charges: “[We] reviewed the police investigative file and agreed with the Huntersville Police Department’s decision not to charge Mr. Kirk further, as prosecutors could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense.”

According to a local Fox46 station in North Carolina, a report they ran in March of 2019 after speaking with Craig’s parents claims that the security footage was not shown in court.

DaBaby has already appeared to respond to the footage surfacing. “The niggas preying on me can’t fuck wit the people praying for me!” he wrote in a tweet.

XXL has reached out to DaBaby’s team and Walmart corporate for comment.

The video surfacing comes on the heels of DaBaby reportedly being involved in a shooting at his North Carolina home earlier this month. The rapper reportedly shot a man in the thigh who trespassed on his property.

See recently surfaced security video of DaBaby’s 2018 shooting incident below.

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Wild New Paper Suggests Earth’s Tectonic Activity Has an Unseen Source

Earth is far from a solid mass of rock. The outer layer of our planet – known as the lithosphere – is made up of more than 20 tectonic plates; as these gargantuan slates glide about the face of the planet, we get the movement of continents, and interaction at the boundaries, not least of which is the rise and fall of entire mountain ranges and oceanic trenches.

 

Yet there’s some debate over what causes these giant slabs of rock to move around in the first place.

Amongst the many hypotheses put forward over the centuries, convection currents generated by the planet’s hot core have been discussed as an explanation, but it’s doubtful whether this effect would produce enough energy.

A newly published study looks to the skies for an explanation. Noting that force rather than heat is most commonly used to move large objects, the authors suggest that the interplay of gravitational forces from the Sun, Moon, and Earth could be responsible for the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates.

Key to the hypothesis is the barycenter – the center of mass of an orbiting system of bodies, in this case that of Earth and the Moon. This is the point around which our Moon actually orbits, and it’s not directly in the center of mass of our planet, which we call the geocenter.

Instead, the location of the barycenter within Earth changes over the course of the month by as much as 600 kilometers (373 miles) because the Moon’s orbit around Earth is elliptical due to our Sun’s gravitational pull.

 

“Because the oscillating barycenter lies around 4,600 kilometers [2,858 miles] from the geocenter, Earth’s tangential orbital acceleration and solar pull are imbalanced except at the barycenter,” says geophysicist Anne Hofmeister, from Washington University in St. Louis.

“The planet’s warm, thick and strong interior layers can withstand these stresses, but its thin, cold, brittle lithosphere responds by fracturing.”

Further strain is added as Earth spins on its axis, flattening out slightly from a perfect spherical shape – and these three stresses from the Moon, Sun, and Earth itself combine to cause the shifting and the splitting of tectonic plates.

“Differences in the alignment and magnitude of the centrifugal force accompanying the solar pull as Earth undulates in its complex orbit about the Sun superimpose highly asymmetric, temporally variable forces on Earth, which is already stressed by spin,” the researchers write.

What’s happening underneath the surface is that the solid lithosphere and the solid upper mantle are being spun at different speeds because of these stresses and strains, the researchers report – all due to our particular Earth-Moon-Sun configuration.

“Our uniquely large Moon and particular distance from the Sun are essential,” says Hofmeister.

 

Without the Moon, and the shifts it causes between the barycenter and the geocenter, we wouldn’t see the tectonic plate activity we get on Earth’s surface, the researchers argue. As the Sun’s gravitational pull on the Moon is 2.2 times greater than Earth’s pull, it will get drawn away from our planet over the next billion years or so.

That said, the gravitational forces at play still need Earth’s hot interior for all this to work, the researchers argue.

“We propose that plate tectonics result from two different, but interacting, gravitational processes,” they write. “We emphasize that Earth’s interior heat is essential to creating the thermal and physical boundary layer known as the lithosphere, its basal melt, and the underlying low-velocity zone.”

To further validate the hypothesis outlined in their study, the researchers apply their analysis to several rocky planets and moons in the Solar System, none of which have had confirmed tectonic activity to date. 

Their comparison between Earth and the other major celestial bodies in the Solar System reveals a potential explanation for why we haven’t detected tectonic activity on any of the major moons or rocky planets so far. The one closest to Earth in all the necessary parameters, however, is Pluto.

“One test would be a detailed examination of the tectonics of Pluto, which is too small and cold to convect, but has a giant moon and a surprisingly young surface,” says Hofmeister.

The research has been published in GSA Special Papers.

 

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Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif can’t stop smiling as both celebrate their first Christmas together after their wedding; check out these UNSEEN pictures | Hindi Movie News

Newlyweds Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif celebrated their first Christmas as husband and wife at their new abode and shared a happy picture on social media that quickly went viral. Now new pictures from their Christmas party are surfacing on the internet that speaks volumes about their happiness.

Going by the pictures, the lovebirds hosted a private Christmas party at their new house where they shifted after tying the knot earlier this month. Attended by only their close friends, the couple had a blast as they happily posed for the camera. While Katrina opted for a multicoloured dress with a minimal look, Vicky kept it casual with a shirt and pants.

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Previously, Vicky had put up a happy picture where he can be sharing a sweet hug with Katrina as they posed for a picture beside a X-Mas tree. Well, not just that, Vicky had an adorable caption for the post which read, “Meri Christmas! 🎄❤️”.

Katrina had also added some glimpses of Christmas decorations at her house

Meanwhile, on the work front, Katrina returned to the shoot sets for her upcoming film ‘Merry Christmas’ directed by Vijay Sethupathi.

Vicky, on the other hand, has kick-started production work for Meghna Gulzar’s ‘Sam Bahadur’, a biopic on Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw that also stars ‘Dangal’ girls, Sanya Malhotra and Fatima Sana Shaikh.

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Ananya Panday’s cousin Ahaan shares unseen throwback pictures of Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Merchant after their bail verdict | Hindi Movie News

Bombay High court granted bail to Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha on October 28 after they were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a cruise drug bust case.

No sooner did the court grant bail to Aryan and Arbaaz, their friends took to their social media handles to share their pictures as they celebrated their victory. Ananya Panday’s cousin Ahaan shared some unseen throwback pictures of the duo.

Check out the pictures here:

In the pictures, we can see three stages of Aryan and Arbaaz’s friendship, right from their childhood days to school days to the more recent ones. While in one picture, Aryan is seen dressed in a school uniform with a bag on his back, in another, Arbaaz was seated in the passenger seat of the car with Ahaan. The last one appears to be a recent one featuring Ahaan and Arbaaz posing for the camera.

Ahaan is often seen hanging out and partying with Aryan, Suhana, Ananya and other star kids.

Aryan, along with Arbaaz and Munmun, was arrested on October 3 by the NCB after they busted an alleged rave party in a Goa-bound luxury cruise. After initial few days in the NCB custody, Aryan was sent to Arthur Road Jail.

Ever since his arrest, fans of Shah Rukh Khan have been gathering outside his residence Mannat in solidarity. Celebrities like Hrithik Roshan, Hansal Mehta, Sanjay Gupta and others openly supported the superstar during this phase.

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Kim Kardashian shares unseen photos of her in wedding dress at Kanye’s ‘Donda’ listening event amid divorce

Kim Kardashian shared a handful of photos from Kanye West’s fourth “Donda” listening event on social media Saturday morning.

The 40-year-old reality TV star shared multiple photos from moments throughout Thursday night including one of her walking down the “aisle” in a dress from Balenciaga’s Fall 2021 Haute Couture collection.

Other photos shared by the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star included one of West’s recreated childhood home, the couple’s eight-year-old daughter North on stage with West and another of West, Kardashian and their five-year-old son Saint.

Kardashian appeared to “re-marry” West on stage during the listening event, despite having filed for divorce from the rapper in February.

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Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kanye West in February after nearly seven years of marriage. The divorce comes nearly two months after rumors emerged of troubles within the marriage. Sources close to the situation, however, report that the divorce is amicable and that Kardashian is seeking joint custody of the couple’s four kids.
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The fake wedding to West was supposed to demonstrate “this more holistic sense of love as a healing force” instead of the couple reuniting, a source told People magazine in a report published Friday.

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Kardashian filed for divorce from the rapper in February after reports surfaced claiming the two had separated.

Kardashian addressed the divorce during a “Keeping up with the Kardashians” reunion in June.

“I honestly don’t think I would even say it here on TV but it was not one specific thing that happened on either part. I think it was just a general difference of opinions on a few things that led to this decision,” Kardashian told host Andy Cohen at the time.

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Kardashian and West have been spotted together since the reality star filed for divorce. Recently the two were seen grabbing lunch together and before that Kardashian attended one of West’s listening events for his upcoming album “Donda.”

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Paul McCartney to reveal unseen Beatles lyrics in new book | Books

Paul McCartney will include the previously unseen lyrics to an unrecorded Beatles song in his forthcoming book The Lyrics.

On Monday, the former Beatle revealed the 154 songs to feature in the book, which will be based on conversations McCartney had with the poet Paul Muldoon. Described as a “self-portrait in 154 songs”, The Lyrics will feature songs from throughout McCartney’s career, including Blackbird, Live and Let Die, Hey Jude, Band on the Run and Yesterday.

Publisher Allen Lane said the book would also feature the lyrics to the unrecorded song Tell Me Who He Is. The handwritten and never-before-seen lyrics were found in one of McCartney’s notebooks – believed to date back to the early 1960s – while preparing the book.

The book will be released on 2 November and will also include “many further treasures” from McCartney’s archives, said Allen Lane, from handwritten lyric sheets, to previously unseen personal photographs, drafts and drawings. Each song – from All My Loving to Yellow Submarine – will come with commentary from McCartney about its creation.

“More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right,” writes McCartney in a foreword to the book. “The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life.”

Muldoon, the Pulitzer prize-winning Northern Irish poet, previously told the Guardian that the book was based on a series of meetings he had had with McCartney over five years, during which they discussed the background to his songs “in a very intensive way”.

“In a strange way, our process mimicked the afternoon sessions he had with John Lennon when they wrote for the Beatles. We were determined never to leave the room without something interesting,” said Muldoon. “He looks long and hard into every aspect of life and I believe readers, old and new, will be struck by a book that will show that side of him. He’s going to come out of this book as a major literary figure.”

Beatles biographer Bob Spitz said he was “keener than keen” to see the lyrics to Tell Me Who He Is. “Discovering a new Beatles song would be like unearthing the sarcophagus of Cleopatra on an archeological dig,” said Spitz. “John’s and Paul’s notebooks were full of half-started lyrics, even finished songs that they discarded. During the early years, the songs were coming so fast and furiously that several were either overlooked or stashed in the back of a drawer. One can only imagine how many Beatles-worthy lyrics were relegated to the bin.

“None of the discarded lyrics have previously been published. The Beatles and their heirs are strong protectors of their brand and I doubt we’ll see any lyrics other than those sanctioned by the surviving members of the band. But Beatles fans will dissect Tell Me Who He Is word-for-word for any clue to this amazing band’s past.”

Guardian music writer Richard Williams said: “Tell Me Who He Is seems an enigmatic title – is the ‘he’ a love rival, or perhaps the messiah? – but until we’ve seen it, we won’t know whether this lyric was written by the Paul of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Silly Love Songs or the McCartney of Eleanor Rigby and Penny Lane.”

The book’s release will also be accompanied by a new display from the British Library, featuring a range of material from the book, including the unseen lyrics to Tell Me Who He Is. The exhibition, in the British Library’s entrance hall, will run from 5 November to 13 March 2022.

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