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[indizombie]

The cost of going to university in Wales is going up from September. Undergraduate university tuition fees are being raised to £9,250-a-year in line with the cost in England and the rest of the UK, the Welsh Government announced in February. Grants currently available to postgraduate Master’s students will also be replaced fully by repayable student loans. That change will apply to new students in 2024/25. University vice chancellors in Wales had long lobbied for higher tuition fees, saying £9,000 a year did not cover their costs and put them at a competitive disadvantage with institutions across the border who brought in more money for fees. But it seems even this will not be enough to stem mass job losses and cuts.

Abbie Wightwick, ‘Wales' biggest universities facing huge cost cutting as thousands of staff offered voluntary redundancy’, WalesOnline

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[neil-gaiman]

Dearest Neil,

Is Michael Sheen your co-writer for Season 3? He claimed to know the whole story already, in an article on WalesOnline. You can't be done writing it all already... so Michael must be a collaborator, for him to know all.

I've told him the whole story.

And he's definitely read the first script and the end, and has probably by now read the first three episodes and the last one.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Another relationship that Sheen has developed in recent years is with Doctor Who star David Tennant. The pair have been firm friends since appearing in both Staged and Good Omens with each other – both of which were hugely successful. Of his friendship with Tennant, Sheen jokes: “David and I will keep working together as long as we don't fall out!” While he ruled out more episodes of Staged, Sheen will reunite with Tennant when the third and final series of Good Omens enters production next year. When asked whether he knows what the future holds for his character, the actor said: “I know what's going to happen in the entire story but I'm not going to tell anyone.”

[doctorwho247]

Ncuti Gatwa and Bonnie Langford spotted in Cardiff city centre today, shooting scenes for the finale of the next series!

📸 WalesOnline

[beerok23]

He knows EVERYTHING 🤣

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen says 'it fills my heart' in passionate message about Wales that will give you goosebumps

Michael Sheen has been reflecting on what it is he loves about Wales ahead of his debut as Aneurin Bevan in new stage drama Nye - and his passionate message is enough to give you goosebumps.

Speaking to WalesOnline ahead of the play’s Cardiff run, Sheen opened up about why he keeps coming back to Wales and indeed now lives here again, even though his work takes him all over the world. “It’s my home,” he says. “It's where my family are, where my friends are, where I grew up. It's the country whose history is closest to my heart, whose people I care about the most, the communities that I care about the most. It is what shaped me, informed me, and what continues to shape and form me.

“Aside from anything to do with the natural beauty of the country, the warmth of the people, the history of the communities, how we grew up here, the challenges that we've had in the past and that we still face and that have shaped who we are now and why we are the way we are now and what our aspirations are, all of those things. [Wales is] what fills my head and fills my heart.”

The Newport-born, Port Talbot raised actor is recognised for his ability to transform into his characters, notably real life people like former Prime Minister Tony Blair, broadcaster David Frost, and controversial football manager Brian Clough.

Sheen, 55, who has more recently played Chris Tarrant in ITV drama Quiz and the angel Aziraphale in Good Omens opposite David Tennant, is now looking forward to starring in the title role of Nye, a co-production between the Wales Millennium Centre and the National Theatre, which sees the actor portray the founder of the National Health Service.

Interestingly, Nye will be the first time that Sheen performs on stage in his home country. Despite his groundbreaking performance as Jesus Christ in National Theatre Wales' The Passion which was staged on location across Port Talbot during Easter weekend in 2011, the actor revealed he's never actually fronted a show at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

“To be able to do this play and tell this story about this man on that stage is really exciting,” Sheen commented. “When we got there to start doing the tech and just stepped out onto the stage, it was really exciting. You could feel the whole company getting really excited and just looking out into that beautiful auditorium and just thinking about it being full of people coming to watch this play.

“The fact that we're telling this story, which is such a Welsh story about a Welsh legend, has been exciting from the very beginning. When we first started rehearsing, knowing that we'd be coming to Wales at the end of it, everyone was incredibly excited about that. To now actually be here and be just days away from starting the performance is quite thrilling.”

Sheen said that, perhaps for the first time in his career, he knew ‘everything’ about the man he was playing. A new play written by Tim Price, a synopsis for Nye reads: “Confronted with death, Nye's deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, parliament and fights with Churchill in an epic Welsh fantasia.”

Sheen said of playing Bevan: “In the last 10 years I've come to really appreciate who [Aneurin Bevan] was and what he did and what he achieved. This was an opportunity to be able to put everything I knew and felt about him into a piece on stage.

“It’s a very particular challenge playing a real person who is very well known by the audience. That brings all kinds of unique challenges that you wouldn't normally get if you're playing a fictional character, obviously, or a real life person that people don't really know that well. And with playing Nye as well, it feels like a huge responsibility. I mean, it's a privilege to play him and to tell his story, but it's also a massive responsibility because there have been very few things out there about him, and it's such an important story.

“I already had such a strong feeling about him, a strong relationship to him and what he achieved. I know people who feel incredibly passionate about him and what he did. That brings an even greater level of responsibility to it. It was a great relief to know that once we started performing the play, people were accepting of me playing the part and were enjoying it and felt that it portrayed Bevan in a way that did him justice.”

Sheen added that the NHS itself has ��always” been there for him throughout his life, citing moments in which he has lost family members and friends, as well as caring for his two children with Swedish actress partner Anna Lundberg, Lyra and Mabli. “It's not just one moment, it's a lifetime, lifelong relationship.”

Another relationship that Sheen has developed in recent years is with Doctor Who star David Tennant. The pair have been firm friends since appearing in both Staged and Good Omens with each other – both of which were hugely successful. Of his friendship with Tennant, Sheen jokes: “David and I will keep working together as long as we don't fall out!” While he ruled out more episodes of Staged, Sheen will reunite with Tennant when the third and final series of Good Omens enters production next year. When asked whether he knows what the future holds for his character, the actor said: “I know what's going to happen in the entire story but I'm not going to tell anyone.”

Before then Sheen will take on another real life role, playing Prince Andrew in a new series about the infamous Newsnight interview the royal did with Emily Maitlis. The story was adapted into Netflix film Scoop earlier this year: “I thought Rufus was fantastic,” Sheen said of Rufus Sewell’s performance as Prince Andrew in Scoop. “I thought he was brilliant as Andrew, he was much better than me. He was more a supporting character in that though. Our story is about Prince Andrew and Emily, it's much more they are the lead characters. It's a different focus and requires a different approach to the character. I was having to look at, as I'm sure Rufus did, the interview in particular. When we were working on it I was listening and watching the interview multiple times a day, every day for months.”

Reflecting on playing the divisive member of the Royal Family, Sheen said: “The level of controversy in that story brings an extra layer as well. The fact that for whatever all our personal opinions might be about what did or didn't happen, or what he did or didn't do, we don't know for definite. There's been no actual court case. We don't know exactly what happened.

"That requires a real level of sensitivity in how you deal with the story, apart from anything else because of legalities and that stuff, but when I read the script I thought that was handled really well. I thought it was a very clever way of allowing the audience to have a satisfying dramatic experience, but still keeping a level of ambiguity, which I thought was done very well on the script. Playing that character was challenging in all kinds of ways, as it is with every real-life character, but I also had to make certain choices and decisions about what was going on for him in my version.”

2024 has already been a busy year for Sheen as a few months ago, his directing debut The Way was released on BBC One – to mixed reviews. Reflecting on the project, which was shot in Wales, he said: “It was quite extraordinary to be attacked by Conservative ministers in the press on the day that it came out, and then to have right-wing newspapers having a concerted plan to try and smear it.

"We didn't expect that just before it came out the news would come out from the steelworks. It was a huge shock and obviously affected the way people perceive the story of the drama. It was never intended to be a socio-documentary about what was going on at the steelworks. It was my first time directing something and to be able to tell that story and film it around south Wales with an amazing Welsh cast was such a brilliant experience.”

[handyowlet]

Beautiful read.

[the-history-of-fighting]

The mystery of what killed kung fu legend Bruce Lee could finally be solved.

Experts say that the star who made famous the phrase "Be water, my friend," may have died from drinking too much water! Scientists, who recently looked at Lee's autopsy results have stated,

"We now propose, based on an analysis of publicly available information, that the cause of death was cerebral oedema due to hyponatraemia. In other words, we propose that the kidney’s inability to excrete excess water killed Bruce Lee."

Walesonline

[dertaglichedan]

James Howells, etched in the history books for accidentally discarding Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which is worth more than half a billion dollars today, took a major step in retrieving them.

What Happened: In a last-ditch effort, the Wales-based software engineer filed a lawsuit against Newport City Council for roughly 495.31 million British pounds, or about $647 million, in damages for repeatedly denying his request to excavate the landfill site housing the discarded hard drive, which contains around 8,000 units of Bitcoin, as reported by WalesOnline.

Howells explained that the lawsuit is a strategy to convince the council to allow an excavation of its landfill, not a reflection of the actual situation

[wintcrlake]

The Tortured Poets Department - The Tortured Poets Department (Taylor Swift)

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[my-chaos-radio]

Release: March 10, 2008

Lyrics:

You, watching me

Hanging by a string this time

Don't, easily

The climax of the perfect life

And you, watching me

Hanging by a string this time

Don't, easily

My smile's worth a hundred lies

And if there's lessons to be learned

I'd rather get my jamming words in first, so

I'll tell you something that I've found

That the world's a better place

When it's upside down, boy

And if there's lessons to be learned

I'd rather get my jamming words in first, so

Oh when you're playing with desire

Don't come running to my place

When it burns like fire, boy

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Sweet about me

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Sweet about me

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Sweet about me

Blue, blue, blue waves, they crash

As time goes by so hard to catch

Too, too smooth, ain't all that

Why don't you ride on my side of the tracks

And if there's lessons to be learned

I'd rather get my jamming words in first, so

I'll tell you something that I've found

That the world's a better place

When it's upside down, boy

And if there's lessons to be learned

I'd rather get my jamming words in first, though

When you're playing with desire

Don't come running to my place

When it burns like fire, boy

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Sweet about me

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Sweet about me

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Ooh, nothing sweet about me, yeah

Sweet about me

Songwriter:

Ooh, and I oh I ooh

Doo la da da da, la da da da da, la da da da ooh

Brian Higgins / Gabriella Cilmi / Miranda Cooper / Nick Coler / Tim Powell / Timothy Larcombe

SongFacts:

"Sweet About Me" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi from her debut album, 'Lessons to Be Learned' (2008). The song was released as the album's second single on 10 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and on 24 March 2008 in Australia. One month later, it topped the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and stayed there for five non-consecutive weeks.

"Sweet About Me" also became a hit in Europe, reaching number one in the Netherlands and Norway and becoming a top-five hit in eight other countries. In the UK, the song reached number six and was the most-played track of 2009 according to PRS for Music. The song won the Grand Prix during the 46th Sopot International Song Festival in 2009. A 2010 mix of "Sweet About Me" was included on Cilmi's second album, Ten, released in March 2010.

Recording of 'Lessons to Be Learned', the parent album of "Sweet About Me," began in Melbourne, Australia, when Gabriella Cilmi was thirteen years-old. Cilmi then re-located to London, England in 2007 to launch her musical career and complete the recording of "Sweet About Me". The song was co-written by Cilmi in collaboration with its producers Xenomania, who are critically acclaimed for their work with Girls Aloud, Sugababes and Kylie Minogue. "Sweet About Me" was written after Cilmi was pillaging a Parisian record store for inspiration. Cilmi was listening to early psychedelic music around the time when she wrote the song. Lyrically, Cilmi said that the song is saying, "We're all going to make mistakes, so we might as well have fun while we're making them." Cilmi explained "Sweet About Me" to Bob Henderson of Gay Times, "['Sweet About Me' is about] nothing being what it seems. This might sound cheesy as well, but just because I'm young doesn't mean I don't understand what's going on."

Described as a "soulful pop song" by contemporary critics, Cilmi revealed to Pete Lewis of Blues & Soul that the "fun" inspiration in "Sweet About Me" originated from her mother's love for 1970s British glam-rock bands, Sweet and T. Rex. During the recording of "Sweet About Me", Cilmi thought there was something "amazing" about the song. Speaking to WalesOnline she said, "I thought it was like a nursery rhyme, the way it got stuck in your head." Cilmi, who is influenced by rock bands Led Zeppelin and Kings of Leon, said she had to make a pop-sounding record to appeal to as many people as possible. Speaking to music website, The Digital Fix, Cilmi explained how she worked together with Brian Higgins on "Sweet About Me":

[dailyrugbytoday]

Who is your best Welsh rugby men's player of 2022?

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Who is your best Welsh rugby men's player of 2022?

The Welsh rugby player of 2022 candidates and who deserves your vote With the year drawing to a close it’s time for you to decide who has been the best men’s player in Wales this year.

As 2022 draws to a close it’s time to consider who has been the best Welsh rugby player in what has been a bitterly disappointing calendar year for the men’s national team. You can vote for your selection below, with the results being revealed before the year is out.

To help you on your way, two of WalesOnline’s rugby correspondents give their views on who should be crowned Wales men’s rugby player of the year from the six chosen candidates. The Wales women’s player of the year vote will launch later this week.

Steffan Thomas’ choice – Louis Rees-Zammit

It’s been a disastrous year for Wales, one which led to Wayne Pivac dropping his process as head instruct.

But despite the collective disasters of the crew, a few players did pull thru with their reputations intact. Nobody shone more brightly than Louis Rees-Zammit.

Who is your Wales men’s rugby   player of 2022?

Dan Biggar

Louis Rees-Zammit

Jac Morgan

Tommy Reffell

Will Rowlands

Taulupe Faletau

The 21-year-old is pure box workplace and is one of most effective Welsh players, the other being Taulupe Faletau, who might be extreme contenders for a World XV.

The Gloucester wing is one of the deadliest finishers in international rugby and has been terrorising defences at each membership and check level all year, however Rees-Zammit is extra than only a pace merchant and has an all-spherical game to rival any wing within the international.

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HSBC NZ Sevens Rugby Game | 21-22 January 2023

by Brenda Reed on December 21, 2022 at 5:44 pm

The HSBC NZ Sevens Rugby Series is played in Hamilton, from 21 January 2023 to 22 January 2023. The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series heads to Hamilton, New Zealand for the first event of the 2023 calendar year, with the 12 Women’s and 16 Men’s teams in action from 21-22 January. The organizers previously announced

Steve Borthwick will kick off the upcoming 2023 Guinness Six Nations

by Brenda Reed on December 20, 2022 at 3:53 pm

New England boss Steve Borthwick will kick off the upcoming 2023 Guinness Six Nations with New Zealander Paul Williams in charge of his team’s clash with Scotland at Twickenham. The appointment is a first for the Kiwi official in the tournament since he took charge of the Scots’ March 2020 home win over France. Williams’ fellow New Zealander

Moana Pasifika begin their 2023 Super Rugby Pacific on Saturday 25th February

by debrambuhl on December 20, 2022 at 12:05 pm

Moana Pasifika begin their 2023 Super Rugby Live Pacific Campaign on Saturday 25th February against the Fijian Drua in a match that has been dubbed the Battle of the Pacific. Aaron Mauger is excited about the prospect of seeing the best of the Pacific on the field. Moana Pasifika has named a squad with 38

He also showed outstanding maturity for any such younger participant bouncing lower back from getting dropped for the Six Nations check against England to regain his place within the side a fortnight later.

2022 isn’t a year anyone in Welsh rugby will look back on fondly, with all facets of the game struggling from the national team downwards. Expect him to get even better under the tutelage of Warren Gatland.

As the 12 months ended in Wales prevailing just three of their 12 matches, costing Wayne Pivac his activity, selecting the participant of the year does not come easy. Taulupe Faletau was superlative as ever, while Tommy Reffell shone in South Africa.

But perhaps the honor belongs to Jac Morgan. Brought into the beginning facet for his debut in Wales’ handiest Six Nations victory this yr, towards Scotland, he additionally helped turn the game in Wales’ favour late on at Twickenham – albeit in a losing cause – via challenging England on the breakdown after coming off the bench.

Overlooked for the excursion of South Africa for not being big sufficient, he answered in addition to all and sundry should – coming off the bench to shine towards Argentina in Welsh rugby’ 0.33 and very last victory of the season, before crossing for braces towards Georgia and Australia.

With three starts offevolved and 3 appearances off the bench, you can’t help but experience Morgan turned into underutilised in 2022 – but while he became referred to as upon, he looked each component the Test player.

Wales 23 New Zealand 55

How many times have we seen this game? The All Blacks were just irresistible. Wales were game and to come back swinging after going 17-0 down – scoring one superb try on the way – deserves big credit. Ten minutes into the second half, it was only 29-23.

But New Zealand’s 55-23 win at the Principality Stadium was one displaying their ruthlessness when the opposition allow them slivers of a chance.

Ardie Savea was a tornado out there, while Aaron Smith was zippy in a two-try display. Jordie Barrett scored one, catching a Richie Mo’unga kick high above his head, and got another team try near the death. But it was the go-forward they created, allied with slickness of hands, that stunned Welsh rugby.

[invisibleicewands]

[...] Speaking to WalesOnline ahead of the three-part series’ release, Callum said he was “incredibly proud” to be a part of telling the story of The Way. [...]

Callum added: “I think the role of the Driscoll family is to kind of mirror a real family because often the idea of the family in crisis is not a new one, but the heart of the show is this family and everything that happens around them. Making that as real and honest as possible was something that we all kind of set out to do.

“Michael was really passionate about doing that because the show lives and dies by the Driscoll family. One of the first things we did when we met was a series of improvisations about what it would have been like when Owen and Thea (Sophie Melville) were in school together, coming home from school, the dynamic between Owen and his mother – all these different scenes where things were fine. When we're going into those scenes when they’re not okay, it's a bit more complex and there's conflict there and a historical trauma to explore.”

The Way features a cast that is packed full of big Welsh names, including Steffan Rhodri (Steeltown Murders, Gavin and Stacey), Mali Harries (Keeping Faith, Hinterland), Sophie Melville (The Pact, Iphigenia In Splott) and Michael Sheen himself. Maja Laskowska (Trigonometry, Baptiste) plays a young woman caught up in the family’s escape. Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers, The Pembrokeshire Murders) stars as Hogwood, a mercenary in pursuit of the Driscolls, with Tom Cullen (The Gold, Weekend), Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, The Diplomat), Mark Lewis Jones (Outlander, The Crown), Paul Rhys (Discovery of Witches, Chaplin), Erin Richards (The Crown, Gotham), Aneurin Barnard (The Catch, 1899), Catherine Ayers (The Light in the Hall, Keeping Faith), Patrick Baladi (Breeders, Line of Duty), Georgia Tennant (Staged, Doctor Who), Jonathan Nefydd (Pobol y Cwm, Grav), and Matthew Aubrey (Keeping Faith, World on Fire) all playing key roles across the three-parter. [...]

or Callum, the chance to work with Michael Sheen – who is shifting from in front of to behind the camera for The Way – was a dream come true. He said: “I've grown up watching Michael and have been inspired by him for so many years. He's in some of my favourite pieces of TV and film so growing up watching him and then being directed by him, and even just meeting him for my audition was just something that was so cool. He's a monolith of Welsh acting, film, television, theatre – all of it.

“He kind of represents the best of us, and getting to work with him was something that I felt very lucky to be doing. To be directed by him and to get to see him work every day on a piece like this that is so full of power and passion and fight and anger and everything else was something that I just loved every minute of it.” [...]