The officials in charge of handling the British royal family‘s Twitter account made a royal mistake on Thursday.
Twitter users were amused to learn Queen Elizabeth‘s Twitter account misfired a tweet.
The tweet was live for just six minutes before being taken down, but the Gert’s Royals blog managed to capture a screenshot of the strange post during the short time it was posted for its millions of followers to see.
The tweet was short and simple, according to the screenshot. It read, “Thanks”.
According to the blog, the tweet received over 1,200 likes and close to 600 retweets in the short time that it was live.
One fan was grateful for the update considering it initially left them wondering what on Earth Queen Elizabeth was thanking the Twitterverse for.
“I saw that and went on site to see what it meant. Then it was gone. Glitches happen everywhere,” one user tweeted.
Another jokingly replied to the accidental tweet, writing to the 94-year-old reigning monarch, “Your welcome Liz, and I’ve kept the receipt in case you want to change it kid ok?”
“Well it’s about time I got some recognition!” a third person cracked.
“No, thank you @RoyalFamily,” wrote another.
Another said they were “concerned” for the person behind the mistake. “Did they faint, answer the door…or worse,” the twitter user joked.
The British royal family’s Twitter account is used to share updates, photos and videos about the queen and other senior royal family members’ charity work, event appearances and activities.
On Wednesday, the Twitter account shared a photo of Sophie, Countess of Wessex volunteering at a children’s hospice center for charity. The countess is married to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth.
🎄The Countess of Wessex, Patron, also gave a helping hand to staff preparing for Christmas at the @SSChospices Hampton Hill charity shop today. @SSChospices cares for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions across London and Surrey. pic.twitter.com/Pc0kiAbl14
And on Thursday, the account also retweeted a post from the Kensington Palace official Twitter account about Prince William‘s and Kate Middleton‘s recent train tour around the U.K.
“From the organisations, people, and initiatives we visited to pass on the nation’s thanks, to those who stopped to wave as the #RoyalTrainTour passed by, thank you to everyone we met along the way!” Kensington Palace’s tweet reads, accompanied with aerial footage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in and out of trains and greeting Britons during their stops.
William’s and Kate’s three-day tour included visits to Wales and Scotland, where the couple greeted and thanked medical staff and other front-line employees for their hard, dangerous work during the pandemic. However, the duke and duchess were hit with criticism from some Welsh and Scottish officials, who claimed it was unncessary for the royals to travel throughout the country during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez will exchange vows “when the time is right.”
During an appearance Wednesday on “Access Hollywood,” the 51-year-old crooner revealed she and fiancé Rodriguez, 47, had to postpone their wedding twice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve talked about so many different things ’cause we had to cancel the wedding … because of COVID, because of the quarantine. And we actually did it twice, which people don’t know,” Lopez said.
Lopez, who has been engaged to Rodriguez since March 2019, added that having a lavish wedding isn’t a top priority for the couple right now.
“We kind of have let it go for a second, and I don’t know what we’re going to do, we talk about small, big,” Lopez said.
“And I think we just feel like, ‘Let’s just wait it out.’ There’s no rush, we’re good, everything’s cool and it’ll happen when the time is right. I feel like it’s not a huge priority to go and have a big wedding right now, that’s not what life is about,” she continued.
Lopez, who has 12-year-old twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony, said what she and Rodriguez, a dad of daughters Natasha, 16, and Ella, 12, with ex Cynthia Scurtis, are focused on is “spending time” together and “being grateful for all of the things that [they] have.”
In April, Rodriguez joked about a drive-thru wedding because of the pandemic.
Things seem to be getting messy in Kelly Clarkson‘s divorce from Brandon Blackstock.
The 38-year-old singer has filed court documents with the California Labor Commission that allege Blackstock, her husband since 2013, and his company has defrauded her out of a large sum of cash by charging her excessive fees, according to TMZ and Us Weekly.
Additionally, Clarkson is reportedly looking to get the money back from Blackstock’s company.
The “American Idol” champ claimed that Blackstock, who also worked as her manager, and Blackstock’s father Narvel Blackstock, who runs Starstruck, never obtained the proper licensure to operate as a talent agent, according to Us Weekly.
The outlets report that Clarkson was with Blackstock’s company, Starstruck Entertainment, for 13 years.
Starstruck attorney Bryan Freedman told Fox News that Clarkson’s petition did not mention that she “had her own licensed talent agency CAA at all times” and that the company operated as her talent management “at all times that CAA was her agency of record.”
He added: “It is unfortunate that Kelly is again attempting to avoid paying commissions that are due and owing to Starstruck to try and achieve some perceived advantage in her ongoing custody and divorce proceedings.”
Reps for Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Variety reported that the complaint filed against the singer claimed that she had not paid this year’s full commission for her work on “The Voice” and “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
The divorce came as a surprise to many when they split back in June, and since then, the following legal battle has become intense.
Koliko je Ramadanovski bio voljen jasno pokazuju i njegove kolege svojim gestovima.
Džej Ramadanovski biće sahranjen danas u Aleji zaslužnih građana, na Novom groblju. Pored velikog broja poštovalaca Džejeve muzike, stigle su i kolege koje se u suzama opraštaju od pokojnog pevača.
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Džej je ostavio dubok trag na muzičkoj sceni, a koliko je bio voljen pokazao je mladi pevač Stefan Anđelković koji je na sahranu došao sa vencem na kojem je napisana potresna poruka: “Uz tebe je jedan klinac imao dva oca”.
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Podsetimo, Džeju je pozlilo u njegovom stanu na Dorćolu, gde je bio u strogoj izolaciji zbog korona virusa, te je ekipa Hitne pomoći ubrzo stigla na lice mesta i započela reanimaciju, međutim, uprkos svim naporima lekara, on je preminuo.
Inače, Džej je pre tri godine operisao srčane zaliske u Beču i tada su mu doktori rekli da mora strogo da vodi računa o ishrani i zdravom životu.Iza njega ostale su neutešne ćerka Ana i Marija, kao i bivša supruga Nada.
There’s more where folklorecame from. After the surprise release of her eighth studio album in July, Taylor Swift again announced a new record on short notice – in this case, evermore, on the eve of its Dec. 11 midnight release.
Stream ‘evermore’ on Spotify
On social media, Swift referred to the album as folklore‘s sister record. “To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs,” she wrote. And though fans have long referred to each of the star’s album cycles as eras, Swift says not so fast this time around.
“There was something different with folklore,” she explained. “In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning.”
The production choices of folklore – the skittering programming and intricately textured instrumentation commonly found in Dessner’s work – carry over on evermore. And the records are clearly in lyrical dialogue: On album opener “willow,” over intricate acoustic guitars, Swift sings, “Show me the places where the others gave you scars.” As on folklore, evermore evokes sweeping scenes with specific details: a tented tennis court; ladies lunching.
There’s a continuity in the stories told – for instance, the mud-covered truck tires of “’tis the damn season” – that harken back to Swift’s earliest settings. On “marjorie,” she draws on her own familial lore, paying tribute to her maternal grandmother Marjorie Finlay, herself a singer. And on “no body, no crime,” HAIM steps in to help spin a saga of suspected infidelity, avenging an adulterer thanks to a boating license and a little elbow grease (perhaps an homage to The Chicks‘ “Goodbye Earl”?)
Tommy Lister attends the Mike Tyson Celebrity Golf Tournament In Support Of Standing United held at Monarch Beach Resort on August 02, 2019 in Dana Point, California, United States. (Photo by Art Garcia/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Tommy “Tiny” Lister, who appeared in “Friday” and “The Fifth Element” and was also a professional wrestler, died Thursday, his manager Cindy Cowan confirmed.
Cowan said he was found unresponsive in his apartment in Marina del Rey, Calif. after displaying symptoms of COVID-19 in recent days. He had been working on a film and had to cancel shooting after falling ill, Cowan said.
“He was a wonderful guy with a heart of gold. Everyone loved him. A real gentle giant,” she said, “We’re all devastated.”
Lister wrestled Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation after appearing as Zeus in 1989’s “No Holds Barred.” He later spent time in World Championship Wrestling, where he was billed as Z-Gangsta.
The actor, who was blind in his right eye, played the neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 “Friday” and appeared in the sequel “Next Friday.”
His other appearances include playing a prisoner in “The Dark Knight,” and the bail agent in “Jackie Brown,” as well as roles in “The Players Club,” Ice Cube’s directing debut and Mario Van Peeble’s “Posse.” He had a supporting role in “Zootopia” as the voice of the fennec fox, in Adam Sandler’s “Little Nicky” as Nicky’s brother Cassius, and in “Austin Powers in Goldmember.” In “The Fifth Element,” he played the Galactic President.
In the pilot of “Star Trek: Enterprise,” he played Klaang, the first Klingon to make contact with humans. Also on television, he appeared as Mr. Matlock’s bodyguard in “Matlock” and on “In the Heat of the Night.”
Lister appeared in music videos for French Montana, 50 Cent, Sublime, Ice Cube, Chamillionaire and Young Bleed.
The 6 foot 5 inch Lister grew up in Compton, Calif. and won the national shot put title in college, briefly playing football before deciding to become an actor.
Brandon Bernard was executed late on Thursday night despite a frantic lobbying effort from celebrities, Trump-friendly lawyers and the prosecutor who jailed him.
Federal inmate Brandon Bernard was executed at 9:27 p.m. on Thursday, despite a last-ditch effort by advocates, celebrities, the prosecutor who jailed him, and at least one Trumpworld luminary to convince the president to spare his life.
Bernard spoke his last words to the families of his victims, according to the Associated Press: “I’m sorry. That’s the only words that I can say that completely capture how I feel now and how I felt that day.”
In a statement released after Bernard’s death, both victims’ families thanked Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, and the Justice Department for pushing the execution forward.
“Without this process, my family and I would not have had the closure needed to move on in life,” wrote Georgia Bagley. She told reporters at the scene, “I can very much say: I forgive them.”
The execution of the 40-year-old by lethal injection at a federal facility in Indiana was the ninth federal execution under President Donald Trump’s watch. But it was notable, in part, because of how it pitted him against a cadre of allies he had nurtured during his time in office.
Attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr—both veterans of Trump’s legal defense during the impeachment trial this year—had joined Bernard’s legal team in the last few days, petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the execution. Kim Kardashian, the socialite entrepreneur who had worked with Trump on clemency issues before, was one of the most outspoken advocates arguing for a reprieve. The court denied a stay of execution hours before Bernard was put to death.
“Tonight, we who love Brandon Bernard—and we are many—are full of righteous anger and deep sadness at the actions of the federal government in taking his life. Brandon’s life mattered,” Bernard’s attorney Robert Owens said in a statement to The Daily Beast.
#BrandonBernard should not be executed: 1. He was 18 at the time. 2. He was not the shooter. 3. The prosecutor and 5 of the jurors now support clemency. 4. He’s spent decades in prison w/out a write up, helping at risk youth. 5. There’s bipartisan support for his commutation. pic.twitter.com/18GugdtuOs
That Trump wasn’t persuaded by those pleas not only showed the limitations of those prior relationships but also the firmness of the president’s determination to execute a number of federal inmates before his term ends in January.
This past summer, the Supreme Court allowed the Justice Department to restart federal executions after a 17-year hiatus. In subsequent months, Attorney General William Barr and the DOJ press office publicized Bernard’s impending execution, describing the “especially heinous” crime and the inmate’s involvement in “brutally murder[ing] two youth ministers, Todd and Stacie Bagley, on a military reservation in 1999.”
Bernard, who was 18 at the time, and four teenage friends kidnapped the Bagleys with the intent to rob them—but one of the teens, Christopher Vialva, shot them in the head instead. Bernard then lit the couple’s car on fire with them in the trunk. A medical examiner testified that Stacie Bagley was still alive after she was shot but died from smoke inhalation, a finding that Bernard’s allies dispute. (Vialva was put to death earlier this year.)
“Brandon made one terrible mistake at age 18,” Owens said. “He spent the rest of his life trying to show, as he put it, that he ‘was not that person.’”
As Bernard’s execution date neared, his allies ramped up a public and behind-the-scenes campaign to appeal to Trump, as well as to the White House counsel’s office and other top officials, to intervene. While it was unclear for a while if Trump was even aware of the case, by the day of the scheduled execution, knowledgeable sources said he’d become familiar with the Bernard situation with multiple conversations on the details of the case and the murders.
Within just hours of the planned execution, multiple individuals in and out of the broader Trump orbit who were sympathetic to Bernard told The Daily Beast that it appeared the president had arrived at his final decision, and that it would not be to their liking.
In the end, Trump found the push for clemency unpersuasive. According to two people with knowledge of the situation, Trump seemed particularly horrified by descriptions of the robbery and brutal killings of the two youth ministers, and that by that point, there was “no changing his mind,” one of the people said.
As the execution was underway, President Trump was tweeting about “the Fake News Media, the FBI and the DOJ,” and the Biden family and falsely claiming that he won the 2020 election that he clearly lost.
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.
The president’s decision to dismiss calls for clemency fits into a broader worldview he holds about the moral merits of capital punishment. Several criminal-justice reform advocates have described the push to conduct federal executions before President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to halt them as Barr and Trump’s final “killing spree.”
His appetite for it is more profound, it appears, than his desire to earn plaudits of some key figures in and around his orbit.
Among the senior staff in the West Wing who’ve been aware of the case and of advocates’ entreaties in recent days is the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump, though it’s unclear the extent to which she discussed it with the president, if at all, the sources said.
Bernard’s allies, among them Kardashian, argued that the prisoner was a reformed man, with an unblemished 20-year record in prison, who had tried to counsel young and troubled people not to go down the same path he did as a teenager.
“The tragedy is that they are executing a very different man than the young man who committed these crimes 22 years ago,” Dershowitz said in a brief interview on Thursday afternoon.
Five of nine surviving jurors from Bernard’s trial came forward to say that they didn’t think the punishment fit the crime. And Angela Moore, a former federal prosecutor who defended Bernard’s death sentence on appeal, wrote an op-ed last month titled, “I helped put Brandon Bernard on federal death row. I now think he should live.” Advocates and Bernard’s legal team said prosecutors withheld evidence of his low rank in the local gang involved in slayings, likely proving he had to follow orders to burn the car—evidence that could have spared him a death sentence.
His family had also pleaded for clemency, stating that a life sentence would be better than death.
“I have never been able to hug my dad, but mentally and emotionally he is there for me as much as possible,” Taneah Scott, his daughter, said in a statement. “It might not seem like much of a relationship, but it is the best one I have and it is important to me.”
U.S. District Court Judge James Sweeney rejected a request to halt the execution, ruling that evidence presented to jurors suggesting there was no gang hierarchy wasn’t compelling enough to challenge the jurors’ conviction.
“Rather than taking into consideration hierarchy in general, the sentence reflects the actual conduct in this case,” Sweeney wrote.
Following Vialva’s execution in September, Todd Bagley’s mother, Georgia, released a statement which read, “I believe when someone deliberately takes the life of another, they suffer the consequences for their actions.”
Just before the execution on Thursday night, Moore, the former prosecutor, told The Daily Beast: “I want to say that the system has failed Brandon. I failed. The rule of law and the judiciary has failed. Our government is committing legal murder in retribution of murder.”
A planetary conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest to Earth since medieval times.
Just in time for the holidays, December 2020 is set to be a particularly bright dark night as two planets move closer together for the first time in hundreds of years.
NBC News notes that the cosmic occurrence, known as The Great Conjunction of 2020, will light up the darkest day of the year when Jupiter and Saturn appear close together on the winter solstice.
Astronomers have referred to the occurrence as the “Christmas Star,” a term that stems from the Christian Bible’s Star of Bethlehem. Some believe that the Star of Bethlehem could have been a planetary conjunction between Venus and Jupiter about 2,000 years ago.
While Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions occur every two decades, the last one happened close to the sun, making it difficult to see. The forthcoming 2020 conjunction will be the closest to Earth since 1623, and closest observable since 1226.
This conjunction won’t occur this visibly again until March 15, 2080.
Jupiter is brighter than any star in our solar system, and Saturn is about as bright as the brightest stars.
Their orbits are distinctly different; Jupiter takes nearly 12 years to rotate around the sun, and Saturn takes an even longer 30 years. The conjunction occurs when these two planets overlap.
To get the best spot to view the planetary event might be difficult for some locations. Astrophysicist Pat Hartigan noted that seeking out a good spot along the horizon will be a viewer’s best bet to see the conjunction.
Džej Ramadanovski sahranjen je danas u Aleji zaslužnih građana na Novom groblju u Beogradu po islamskim običajima.
Iako je slavio Svetu Petku, slavu koju je preuzeo od bivše supruge Nade, i redovno odlazio u crkvu na Kalemegdanu, on veru nije promenio, iako je to želeo. O tome je pričao pre deset godina za Skandal:
– Rođen sam u mešovitoj porodici. Pošto mi je otac musliman, a majka je bila hrišcanka, ja sam nasledio očevu veru. Rastao sam na ulici i nisam bio u mogućnosti da razmišljam o tome da li ću nekom reći da sam katolik, pravoslavac ili musliman. Jednostavno, to mi nije bilo tako važno, ali kako su godine prolazile, postajao sam sve više pobožan.
Džej je tada istakao da mu je žao što zbog vere nije mogao da kumuje prijateljima:
– Često su me moji dragi prijatelji zvali da im budem kum, kako na venčanjima, tako i na krštenjima, a ja sam morao da ih odbijem jer nisam kršten. To bi me svaki put veoma ražalostilo, jer neke od njih volim kao da su mi rođena braća. Inače, veoma sam pobožan i redovno odlazim u crkvu Svete Petke, gde palim sveće za svoje najbliže. Jedno vreme čak sam u nju išao svaki dan, dok sam u džamiji bio svega nekoliko puta.
Pevaču se upravo zbog prijatelja javila želja da postane pravoslavac.
– Voleo bih da stvari postavim tako da kada me neko sledeći put pozove da mu kumujem, to mogu da prihvatim bez ikakvih problema. U suštini, još pre nekoliko godina rešio sam da ništa ne menjam pod stare dane, ali ću po pitanju vere verovatno napraviti izuzetak. Ponekad u šali kažem kako to ponavljam već godinama, pa se može desiti i da umrem ovako kako sam rođen. Nije važno kom se Bogu moliš ako u njega i u ono što radiš iskreno veruješ, ako su ti srce i duša čisti kao suza – pričao je Ramadanovski.
Acko Nezirović otkriva: Želeo je da ga hodža okupa
Džejev prijatelj Acko Nezirović kaže da će se sve želje njegovog prijatelja ispuniti:
– Njegovi otac i deda su sahranjeni po islamu. Govorio je: “Želim da me hodža okupa i da sve bude kako nalaže islam.” Našim prijateljima je to govorio. Tražio je da mu sviraju violina i tamburica, da bude muzike. Pričao je i da obavezno popijemo rakiju za njegovu dušu, jer je obožavao da pije. A opet, sa druge strane, slavio je Svetu Petku, jer je tu slavu preuzeo od svoje bivše supruge Nade.
