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The youngsters’s TV presenter, from Prestwich, who was recognized with Parkinson’s illness in 2019, died on Thursday, December 5.

In an announcement to the PA information company, her daughter, the radio presenter and podcast host Rachel New, mentioned: “Julie Stevens shall be remembered for her joyful spirit, her capacity to make each youngster really feel seen, and her lasting legacy on the earth of youngsters’s tv.”

Born on December 20, 1936, in Prestwich, Stevens profitable a expertise contest aged 20 led to a contract with the previous broadcaster ABC Tv Restricted.

She joined the forged of spy sequence The Avengers in 1962 as nightclub singer Venus Smith, who would assist Patrick Macnee’s character John Steed in his missions, earlier than picked to play Gloria in Sixties comedy movie Carry On Cleo.

In 1964, her daughter mentioned she was closely pregnant together with her first youngster Daniel when she auditioned for kids’s programme Play Faculty.

The favored youngsters’s programme made its debut on BBC Two’s launch on April 21, 1964, and ran for twenty-four years, till March 1988.

It formed the childhood of thousands and thousands and catapulted lots of its presenters to fame, together with Rick Jones, Brian Cant, Johnny Ball, Toni Arthur, Floella Benjamin, a presenter, actress and author and now a Liberal Democrat peer.

Stevens was additionally identified for comedy exhibits Ladies About City and Cabbages And Kings in addition to Play Away, a sequence for older youngsters, and appeared on Holby Metropolis.

She labored for a spell as Welsh comic and Oliver! actor Sir Harry Secombe’s private assistant after which supervisor, and lived between Provence, France and London for a time.

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She was married to presenter John White, whom she divorced in 1974, and actor and theatre director Michael Hucks, who she was married to from 1980 till 2001.

In 2016, she moved again to the UK to be close to her daughter, who mentioned “the previous couple of years had been troublesome for Julie, however she confronted it as she did all challenges, with good humour and nice appeal”.

Ms New added: “She leaves behind her two youngsters, 4 grandchildren, three nice grandchildren.”

Born on 20 December 1936, in Prestwich, Higher Manchester, it was Stevens profitable a expertise contest aged 20 that led to a contract with the previous broadcaster ABC Tv Restricted.

She joined the solid of spy collection The Avengers in 1962 as nightclub singer Venus Smith, who would assist Patrick Macnee’s character John Steed in his missions, earlier than she was picked to play Gloria in Nineteen Sixties comedy movie Carry On Cleo.

In 1964, her daughter mentioned she was closely pregnant together with her first youngster Daniel when she auditioned for youngsters’s programme Play College.

The favored present made its debut throughout BBC Two’s launch in April 1964, and ran till March 1988.

It formed the childhood of tens of millions and catapulted a lot of its presenters to fame, together with Rick Jones, Brian Cant, Johnny Ball, Toni Arthur and Floella Benjamin, a presenter, actress and author and now a Liberal Democrat peer.

Stevens was additionally identified for comedy exhibits Women About City and and kids’s comedy present Cabbages And Kings in addition to Play Away, a collection for older youngsters, and appeared on Holby Metropolis.

She was additionally a private assistant and later the supervisor of former Goon Present comic and Oliver! actor Sir Harry Secombe’s.

Stevens, who lived between Provence, France and London, was married to presenter John White, whom she divorced in 1974, earlier than marrying actor and theatre director Michael Hucks, in 1980 till 2001.

She moved again to the UK in 2016 to be close to her daughter, who mentioned the previous few years have been troublesome “however she confronted it as she did all challenges, with good humour and nice attraction”.

Jamie Foxx followers may want a tissue for this particular and never simply to wipe away tears from laughing so exhausting.

In his new Netflix particular What Had Occurred Was, the Academy Award winner lastly explains the “medical emergency” that landed him within the hospital.

The backstory: In April 2023, whereas filming the film Again In Motion in Atlanta, Foxx collapsed after which spent 20 days within the hospital. “I went to hell and again,” he defined in a heartfelt Instagram video after being launched.

However Foxx, his household and associates had been mum on the main points as a result of he “did not need his followers to see him like that.”

‘Atlanta saved my life, however the Web tried to kill me’

What occurred: Within the Netflix particular, Foxx says that on April 11, 2023, he had a “dangerous headache,” after which he was “out” and would not keep in mind something in regards to the subsequent 20 days. He says it was his sister who took him to Piedmont Hospital, the place a health care provider informed her Foxx had a “mind bleed that led to a stroke” and that “If I do not go into his head, we’re gonna lose him.”

“You possibly can go in his head however you ain’t gonna discover nothin’,” Foxx jokes, quoting his sister’s response.

Foxx weaves in some hilarious jokes and asides all through the telling of his trauma. Whereas he is recognized for motion pictures similar to Ray, Collateral and Django Unchained, his roots are in arise and sketch comedy.

“I noticed the tunnel. I did not see the sunshine,” he says. Then he deadpans, “I assumed I noticed the satan. Or was it Puffy?” A reference to Sean “Diddy” Combs. The web was stuffed with rumors that Foxx would blame Combs for his hospitalization. However Foxx does give the jailed music mogul a great ribbing.

All through the particular, Foxx repeatedly will get choked up fascinated by the influence his hospitalization had on his household and mates.

Denial, gratitude, religion, music, impressions and an Web takedown

Foxx says that on Might 4, he awakened in a wheelchair and could not stroll. When a good friend informed him he’d suffered a stroke, Foxx balked, “That is previous man stuff.”

He went to Chicago for rehab, the place he says he had bouts of star energy vanity. His therapist was having none of it. “That stroke would not give a f*** about Jamie Foxx,” she informed him, “There are individuals who will not get out of right here.”

A few of the most poignant moments within the particular come when Foxx talks about his household and every thing they did to guard and look after him. He says it was his then-14 12 months previous daughter Anelise who saved his very important indicators down when she got here to the hospital and performed guitar for him. He calls her enjoying “my religious defibrillator.” She joins Foxx on stage for a duet. It is fairly a second.

The Web was rampant with hypothesis about what occurred to Foxx whereas he was within the hospital, a few of it fairly absurd. Foxx goes to city on individuals who claimed he was “cloned.”

Foxx talks so much about his religion and displays that he thinks the stroke might have been an indication that he wasn’t taking God and his blessings critically sufficient. Sitting on the piano, he leads the viewers in a singalong with the saying, “God is nice. On a regular basis.”

Wanda, Mike Tyson, Ray Charles and Django. The viewers goes wild when Foxx brings again a few of his legendary characters and impersonations. “It is superb how we’re all related,” he tells them. Greater than as soon as, the comic thanks Atlanta. It is the place he first did arise and it is a spot he now says saved him alive.

‘Operation Christmas Magic’, the Reds’ neighborhood Christmas marketing campaign, shall be working for the fifth consecutive 12 months all through this month, with a give attention to baby and meals poverty throughout the Liverpool Metropolis Area.

Actions will happen all through the month, delivered by LFC Basis, and Hits Radio shall be internet hosting its breakfast present stay from the LFC retail retailer at Anfield on Friday December 13. Supporters are welcome to go to between 7am and 11am, the place there shall be free breakfast sandwiches and refreshments, leisure and an opportunity to fulfill Mighty Crimson and particular LFC friends.

LFC’s festive actions kick off this week with free Christmas lunches at Anfield, offering 800 native folks with a Christmas dinner and festive leisure, whereas the membership and LFC Basis will as soon as once more be teaming up with membership companions to donate and ship 2,000 meals hampers to native residents, individuals and their households.

LFC continues to work with and assist St Andrew’s Group Community, dwelling of the North Liverpool Foodbank, on the continuing challenge of meals poverty, and followers can present their assist by making a meals donation on the Anfield conflict with Fulham earlier than Christmas.

Gadgets will be dropped off from three hours earlier than kick-off on the official LFC retail retailer at Anfield, Homebaked bakery or the Followers Supporting Foodbanks unit on Walton Breck Street.

Followers may also assist the toy donation marketing campaign by means of Hits Radio’s Money for Children Mission Christmas marketing campaign, by donating new and unwrapped presents at assortment factors in any official LFC retailer in Liverpool, Chester or Belfast. Alternatively, donations will be made by merely texting MERSEY to 70910 to provide £10 or to 70920 to donate £20.

Operation Christmas Magic occasions additionally embody the membership’s well-liked Christmas carol service at Anfield, with friends from the area people, in addition to Christmas events with LFC Basis throughout its programmes.

The membership can even proceed its assist of Alder Hey Kids’s Hospital with the annual go to from members of each the lads’s and girls’s groups.

The Killer Miller Present

David Miller has made a fame for being a middle- and late-overs bludgeoner. However after Shaheen and Abrar struck early, Miller got here in at No. 4 in an inexperienced aspect. And for the following hour or so, he demonstrated how his timing and approach have been each bit equal to his energy. Benefiting from starting his innings within the powerplay, he whipped Shaheen off the pads to get going, earlier than punching him by way of the covers for one more boundary.

Miller had simply bought began, and was brutal towards spin, slapping Abrar for 3 straight sixes within the tenth over. He reduce throughout the innings like a scythe for Pakistan; between the time he got here on and when Shaheen lastly had him gap out, he added 82 of South Africa’s 125.

Linde punishes Rizwan’s gamble

Techniques are invariably judged by outcomes quite than thought processes, and Linde ensured Rizwan’s aggressive death-overs gambit value Pakistan closely. After Miller fell and Pakistan adopted up with two extra fast blows to scale back South Africa to 141 for 8, the Pakistan captain noticed a possibility to bowl South Africa out. Shaheen, Abbas Afridi and Haris Rauf have been bowled out by the nineteenth over; Pakistan had maybe hoped South Africa’s innings could be wrapped up by then.

However that did not occur, with Linde managing the strike and Maphaka’s odd boundary taking the strain off them. It left Muqeem to bowl the ultimate over, and when Linde refused a single off the primary ball, his intentions have been apparent. Muqeem missed his size on virtually each one of many final 5 deliveries; three went for sixes earlier than Linde lastly miscued the final ball to cow nook. However South Africa had surged to 183, and Pakistan’s hopes of cleansing them out beneath par have been lifeless and buried.

Rizbar now, Rizbar perpetually?

The obituary of the Mohammad Rizwan-Babar Azam opening has been written far too many occasions to aim one other one. It appeared Pakistan’s days of opening with their two trusty anchors have been lastly achieved, however in a steep chase, it was these two who walked out whereas Saim Ayub sat within the dugout. Each regarded rusty and properly off the tempo required. Babar may have fallen to Maphaka first ball, and in the end did off the fourth with out scoring.

Ayub got here in and demonstrated why he’s so potent within the first six, his full repertoire of energy, panache and audacity on show as he blitzed by way of the remaining powerplay, hanging seven boundaries in his first 13 balls to race to 31. He’s much less efficient when the sector spreads out, and holed out to sweeper cowl off the second ball he confronted post-powerplay. He had bought Pakistan off to a flyer, although, and left one questioning how a lot he may have added had he been round from the very begin. On the loss of life, it grew to become obvious how each run would have mattered.

Danyal Rasool is ESPNcricinfo’s Pakistan correspondent. @Danny61000

Bosses on the cinema, which additionally just lately introduced it was going to shut its different Dorset department in Weymouth on December 31, mentioned it’s a “essential step” to avoid wasting the enterprise. 

Poole Cineworld’s final day of buying and selling might be January 19, 2025.

Cineworld has mentioned closing the Poole department, together with 5 others, addresses “unsustainable working prices”. 

Cineworld has praised itself for “bolstering its monetary place” by closing down the cinemas, leading to further funding, together with £40 million in liquidity.  

Alongside this, the corporate is about to speculate as much as £35 million in capital expenditures, specializing in the refurbishment and enhancement of present cinemas. 

Javier Sotomayor, president of Cineworld Worldwide, mentioned: “The profitable completion of our restructuring plan, achieved with the essential help of our landlords, protects 1000’s of jobs throughout the UK and gives us with the monetary stability to proceed investing in delivering extraordinary experiences for our valued clients.  

“This milestone units the stage for a brighter future, enabling Cineworld to proceed sharing pleasure in communities throughout the UK for a few years to come back.” 

In 2016, the 16-screen multiplex at Tower Park was rebranded as a Cineworld after the announcement that it was one in all 5 acquired nationwide in a £94million deal.

The troubled cinema staved off the specter of administration in September when a Excessive Courtroom choose accepted the restructuring plans. 

The enterprise, which is a part of the world’s second-largest cinema chain, has struggled because the Covid pandemic as audiences have didn’t return to earlier ranges. 

Cineworld, which additionally owns Picturehouse, entered administration in July 2023 – scuffling with debt estimated to be nearly £4 billion. 

The corporate had been looking for a purchaser for some or all of its websites however, after failing to take action, introduced plans to shut the six websites it deemed “commercially unviable”. 

Cineworld’s announcement will come as a significant blow to Tower Park, which is presently present process a £2.5m refurbishment. 

Initiatives embrace improved pavements and walkways for guests, high-level adorning and landscaping which can see rather more greenery, LED lighting and additional seating.  

Bosses for Tower Park have mentioned the eight-month phased mission is anticipated be accomplished in spring 2025. 

Representatives of Tower Park have been approached for remark. 

Google (GOOG) inventory jumped greater than 5% Tuesday after the corporate unveiled a brand new chip the day earlier than that it says is a breakthrough in quantum computing, an rising expertise thought to someday exchange its typical counterpart.

Google mentioned Monday in a weblog put up {that a} mathematical equation that will take a classical supercomputer longer than the entire historical past of the universe — 10 septillion years — to unravel takes solely 5 minutes utilizing a quantum laptop powered by its new chip, Willow.

In accordance with Google, the chip has eradicated a significant bottleneck within the quantum computing house. Not like conventional computer systems that use bits or collection of 1s and 0s, quantum machines use qubits. Qubits are a operate of quantum mechanics and, moderately than being expressed as a 1 or 0, can exist as each on the similar time, permitting for much extra processing capabilities.

However qubits are fragile and vulnerable to producing errors. Worse, the extra qubits utilized in an equation, the extra errors they introduce. Google, nonetheless, says it is managed to chop down these errors whereas growing the quantity of qubits utilized in testing, a significant step towards making quantum computer systems correct sufficient for sensible use.

Google isn’t the one main tech firm working to make leaps within the quantum computing house. IBM (IBM) researchers have been conducting comparable analysis because the Nineteen Eighties. Intel (INTC), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Honeywell (HON) are additionally gamers within the rising market.

Google mentioned that quantum computing has “promising functions in lots of fields,” from discovering new medication and accelerating progress on new power alternate options to cybersecurity.

Whereas these sensible functions stay to be seen, the US authorities is ramping up help for quantum computing analysis. President Donald Trump in 2018 signed into regulation the Nationwide Quantum Initiative Act, pledging $1.2 billion in federal funding for such tasks. Beneath Biden, the CHIPS and Science Act approved funding for a handful of federal quantum computing packages. Most not too long ago, on Dec. 3, a bunch of bipartisan US senators launched a invoice that will reauthorize the 2018 regulation and pledged a further $2.7 billion for quantum computing analysis to develop sensible functions.

In the meantime, the Chinese language authorities is spending greater than $15 billion on quantum computing analysis, the New York Occasions reported.

In a 2024 McKinsey survey, the vast majority of tech executives, buyers, and executives polled (72%) mentioned quantum computer systems which can be “totally fault tolerant” — in different phrases, these prepared for sensible use — received’t see the sunshine of day till after 2035.

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