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The film centres around a journalist from New York who is sent to Eastern Europe to cover a royal event.
Mr McVeagh is the product of the Yorkshire School of Acting, and has been the student of its principal Mr Zina since he was only 11.
Mr Zina, 33, said: “Joel has been working extremely hard. He’s had bits over the years, but it’s been building up to this one.
But then he netted an audition for the Netflix movie with Carolyn McLeod, who cast Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
He heard back weeks later after she sent his audition video off to the film’s makers.
“To take a punt on someone who’s relatively inexperienced for an actor, he must have really impressed them,” said Mr Zina.
Mr McVeagh said that his family were “super proud” of him, adding: “They were overwhelmed when I got it.
The ex-Guiseley School pupil also teaches acting and works at summer camps in the USA.
FIU coach Butch Davis, who turns 67 on Saturday, knows that if his Panthers can beat Charlotte and then come home and defeat Marshall in their regular-season finale, they will head to the C-USA title game for the first time in school history.
Still, Davis is wary of Charlotte (4-6, 3-3), especially since it will be an emotional Senior Day for the 49ers.
As for Shirreffs, he completed 8-of-18 passes for 74 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions last week in a 30-13 loss to Marshall. Backup Hasaan Klugh went 2-for-2 for minus-2 yards.
▪ 1: Mershawn Miracle: FIU offensive lineman Mershawn Miller, who injured his arm as the victim of a drive-by shooting on Sept. 6 in Opa-Locka, returned to action last week against Texas-San Antonio.
Miller played left guard in a reserve role, but just getting him back on the field was a huge lift for FIU.
Panthers running back Anthony Jones, injured in the same shooting, had returned to action the previous game.
“Just the thought that Anthony and Mershawn are back playing football after what they went through … I’m blown away with gratefulness,” Davis said.
Davis said Miller will play the rest of the season with a cast on his hand because of his injured thumb.
▪ 2: Trend Talk: FIU has beaten Charlotte in each of the past three years, but the past two wins were by one point.
FIU beat visiting Charlotte 30-29 last season. The Panthers rallied from a 19-point deficit and survived as Charlotte missed a 48-yard field-goal attempt in the final minute.
In 2016, FIU went to Charlotte and won 27-26, scoring 14 points in the final seven minutes. Charlotte missed a 49-yard field goal in the final minute.
▪ 3: What’s at Stake: If the Panthers win their remaining two scheduled games, they will set a school record for most victories in a season.
Conversely, a win over FIU would be a huge deal for Charlotte, which needs two victories to become bowl-eligible. The 49ers didn’t have a football program at all from 1949 until returning in 2013.
They joined C-USA in 2015.
▪ 4: Defending the Run: Charlotte’s Benny LeMay, a 5-9, 220-pound junior, ranks fourth in C-USA with 896 yards. He has six touchdowns and is averaging 5.0 per rush.
Since the start of last season, LeMay has rushed for 1,628 yards in 18 starts.
FIU’s run defense has been a weakness at times this season, most notably when FAU beat the Panthers with 439 ground yards.
▪ 5: Special Teams Alert: This will be the first time this season FIU faces a rugby-style punter. That could lead to turnovers as was the case for the Hurricanes against Georgia Tech last week.
▪ 6: Strength vs. Strength: Charlotte is 4-1 at home this season, including 3-0 against league opponents. FIU is 3-0 outside of South Florida, beating Old Dominion, Western Kentucky and UTSA.
▪ 7: Dynamic Defense: Charlotte leads the league in fewest rushing yards allowed (88.5 per game). The 49ers brought in a new coordinator, Glenn Spencer, and his 5-2-4 base defense has made an impact.
Left, to right, HITS performers Staci Merritt (of HSPVA as Emily Webb), James Hamrick (of Kinkaid as the Stage Manager) and Adam Rice (of St. Thomas as George Gibbs) rehearse scenes from Our Town.
The Heights’ own HITS Theatre will produce its summer production of the Thornton Wilder classic Our Town this weekend.
Directed by HITS Artistic Coordinator Eva De La Cruz and produced by young adults and children, like all HITS shows, the production will run Friday, July 16, and Saturday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 18, at 3 p.m. at the theatre, 311 West 18th.
Written in 1937 by Thornton Wilder, Our Town is a classic play that celebrates the simple pleasures of life. Set in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in the early 20th century, the playwright depicts the idyllic side of the community, a commonplace small-town filled with everyday people with their ordinary lives.
Over the 11 years portrayed through the play, the main character, Emily Webb, realizes how naive humans are about the world. From the grave, she sees the pain her friends and family have for death. But she is the true griever as she recognizes the life she has missed.
If you’ve never seen a HITS performance, here’s one to make the time for. The nonprofit theatre is a true neighborhood gem and I have seen first hand children who have awakened their talents as a result of working at HITS. Not only that, the productions are all top class and worth your while.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.hitstheatre.org or call the theatre at 713-861-7408.
FOX43 Finds Out: Do toy stores have a future?
MECHANICSBURG, Pa -- It appears Toys "R" Us kids did grow up and found somewhere else to shop.
"This is where my parents used to bring us at Christmas, we got to walk through the store and it was always just amazing as a kid. I feel sad that it's not going to be here anymore," said Trish Kisielnicki.
An assistant professor at Elizabethtown College, Dmitriy Krichevskiy, says nostalgia isn't enough to save the store.
"Their sentiment is not enough to actually go visit the store and buy things or else toys r us would not have been in trouble."
Krichevskiy believes Toys "R" Us made some bad financial decisions like owing billions of dollars in debt after a 2005 buyout.
He says the retailer never changed with the times and couldn't make that money back.
He doesn't think the days of the toy store aren't over just yet and instead believes those stores need to become more interactive.
"That`s a major problem right? What do you do with your kids when the weather is not cooperating and where they can play."
The Assistant professor says a toy store needs to have an extra layer to it to stay relevant - to make if different than online shopping.
"What seems to be doing well is the type of experience that you cannot have online, so that would be something you can touch, you can play with. Something you can experience, in my view, is the future of retail."
Krichevskiy says the big box stores already figured that out, having competitive pricing and something else besides toys.
"Certainly companies like Kmart, target and Walmart took big chunks out of toys r us market share."
And for shoppers like Noah Kunkle, the toys r us closure is just another retailer going under.
"20, 30 years ago, if you went to get a Toy, you went to Toys R Us or to a toy store. Now a lot of other stores are incorporating toys into their departments."
The Toys "R" Us sister chain will also be closing.
The company says it will maintain Babies "R" Us registries and the web stores for the time being, in hopes that someone will want to buy it.
The retail chain also plans to honor gift cards for the next few weeks.
There is still no exact timeline, as to when liquidation sales and closures will happen.
From the sister company of Seabreacher (check out my article on the Seabreacher here), comes a water sports accessory that will send you flying high above the water. The Jetovator attaches to a personal watercraft (PWC) and utilizes water thrust to propel above the water and maneuver in all directions.
Check out the video below to see the Jetovator in action.
The Jetovator is a version of the Flyboard (for Flyboarding information, check out this article). The main difference is that the Jetovator has a seat and handles, where the Flyboard is just a board. This makes the Jetovator slightly easier to learn than the Flyboard (but only slightly, because the Flyboard is pretty e...
To fly high with the Jetovator, you first have to have a PWC. As I mentioned, the Jetovator is an accessory, and can't function without the power provided by the PWC.
The PWC provides the water thrust, from its jet unit, that elevates the Jetovator above the water. There is a 40-foot hose that tethers the Jetovator to the PWC, and the PWC just follows behind when the Jetovator is in flight.
This design means that it takes two people to run the Jetovator--one person manning the PWC and one operating the Jetovator. Controlling the height and direction are pretty much the only things you have to learn with the Jetovator.
There is water thrust that shoots from the bottom of the Jetovator, and that propels you into the air. The PWC user will usually take the throttle up to about 80% to get the Jetovator rider above the water. The thrust that comes out of the Jetovator's handles allows you to maneuver the unit.
The Jetovator can reach forward speeds of up to 25mph with the PWC trailing behind. It can also travel about 25 feet into the air. Skilled Jetovator riders can perform stunts, like flips and underwater dives. Though it doesn't take long to learn to ride the Jetovator, learning tricks will take a while to master.
You can get a Jetovator kit for around $4,000 at most distributors, but keep in mind that you'll need a PWC capable of 130 horsepower to operate the Jetovator. Visit the Jetovator website for more information on this water sports accessory, including info on Jetovator distributors.
RAWALPINDI - The legal fraternity would observe complete strike today (Thursday) to denounce the bomb attack on the motor convoy of Sindh High Court (SHC) judge and other innocent people on Burns Road, Karachi. During the strike, no lawyer would appear before any judge whereas peaceful protest demonstrations would also...
He said that the lawyers would wear black ribbons to condemn the terror attack on the judge of SHC. He appealed to the government to unveil the hands involved behind the brutal attack in Karachi and punish the responsible.
At least seven security personnel were killed and 15 others injured when a bomb hit the convoy of Justice Maqbool Baqar Hussain.
CHICO — Getting production from the bottom half of its batting order in the sixth inning, the Pleasant Valley High baseball team went on a four-run rally to break the game open in what became a 7-1 victory over crosstown rival Chico on Tuesday at Doryland Field.
The win kept PV (11-2, 6-0 Eastern Athletic League North) unbeaten in league and in possession of the No. 1 spot in the EALN standings.
In order to stay in contention, Pleasant Valley also received strong pitching from senior Eli Stanley and freshman Ryan Dufort. Stanley started and went four innings, giving up one run and four hits, while Dufort held Chico (7-5, 3-3) scoreless through the final three innings.
Leading the Vikings at the plate was Clayton Eagleton, who went 2 for 4 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs. In the bottom of the first, he drove in the game”s first run with a double to left, plating Zeke Colby, who reached base earlier after being hit by a stray pitch.
The Panthers evened the score at 1 in the top of the third with a double steal that brought Pac Moxon home.
PV went back out in front in the bottom of the fifth, where the Vikings put up two runs on an Eagleton double and a Zach Galbraith sacrifice fly.
The bottom of the sixth sealed the PV win as Trenton Galbraith, Matt Henderson, Robbie Barker and Michael Sanderson all came up with hits as part of a four-run rally.
Souza was just as pleased with the Vikings” defensive showing, which included a key pickoff in the top of the fifth, and a runner thrown out at home in the sixth. The former came with runners at the corners, the tying run on first and two outs, as Dufort executed a pickoff at second base to end the inning.
The other significant defensive play occurred when Chico”s Zach Seibert singled to left with Nate Long on third. Long headed for home, but left fielder Colby hit his cutoff man Sanderson at third base, who then relayed to catcher Cory Louber for the out.
In the inning that followed, Dufort retired the first three batters to close out the win.
Meanwhile, Chico coach Chip Carton commended his team despite the unfavorable outcome.
Whilst most market commentators were fixated on the prospects for further Fed tightening, the so called unwinding of easy money quantitative easing in the United States. The Japanese arm of the central banking crime syndicate took the markets by storm Friday by effectively decreeing that inflation is just too low for t...
The primary reason why the Japanese government has gone negative on interest rates is to trigger PANIC consumption, to force bank customers to withdraw and SPEND their Yen or it will be stolen by the government and the rate at which it will be stolen will only worsen from -0.1% to -1%, to -5% to -10% all the way to -50...
Japan's move should not come as much of a shock for several European central banks have already been busy stealing bank deposits such as Switzerland's on -0.75% or ECB on -0.3%, so Japan given China's recent devaluations had no choice, and neither do the worlds other central banks for call it what you will i.e. the act...
This begs the question, how can the likes of U.S. Fed further raise interest rates when other central banks are not only cutting but going negative? As this will just force the U.S. Dollar higher still. So is likely to act to dampen future Fed rate hikes for this year.
In the following comprehensive video I covered the Bank of England's War on Cash following it's September 2015 announcement aimed towards phasing out cash.
The Bank of England has taken the refugee crisis as a cue to accelerate the time table for targeting abolishing cash and therefore this video in the 'Illusion of Democracy and Freedom' series focuses upon the 'War on Cash', what it is, what it means and what it is trending towards and what all people need to do to prot...
Do watch the video for it highlights several strategies to avoid the consequences of the war on cash.
This IS THE MASTER plan of all governments, who via their central banks WILL seek to trigger PANIC CONSUMPTION through the mechanism of outright theft of bank deposits for which a very necessary step is the WAR on CASH so as to prevent the withdrawal of bank deposits as cash to be stuffed under mattresses both in respo...
The consequences of the war on cash have remained consistent for several years now in that for savers to protect their wealth need to convert bank deposits into hard assets such as property, precious metals (opportune moment) and of course stock holdings (high volatility). Given my own portfolio breakdown which has rem...
Any opinions on gold mining stocks? They have been really trashed over the last couple of years and I think some of the P.M miners look a good punt.
I've viewed this stock market sell off as a buying opportunity and Gold stocks do stand out. So yes, the sector looks appealing, now to figure out which stocks or just play it safe with the ETFs and other funds.
Late last week the No. 1 overall player in the Class of 2013, Robert Nkemdiche, gave a verbal commitment to Clemson.
The Grayson High School (Loganville, Ga.) defensive end, who many thought would land at Alabama or even Ole Miss because his brother, Denzel, is already a Rebel, will play for Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney and new defensive coordinator Brent Venables.
Perhaps it worked in Clemson’s favor that Grayson head coach Mickey Conn and Swinney played football and roomed together at Alabama. It also didn’t hurt that Swinney offered scholarships to athlete Wayne Gallman and cornerback David Kamara, Nkemdiche’s high school teammates who committed to the Tigers. Grayson High, wh...
Robert Nkemdiche, the top player in the Class of 2013, gave his verbal to Clemson.
While some have compared Nkemdiche to explosive South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, the nation’s top player in 2011 coming out of high school, the two have different notable attributes that make them different types of players.
At 6-6 and 254 pounds, Clowney has more length than the 6-5, 265-pound Nkemdiche, and his longer arms make Clowney a bit more disruptive in the backfield. He’s also quicker getting into the backfield and has very good footwork that allows him to have great balance. Overall, Clowney’s a freak. We saw the impact that he ...
Meanwhile, Nkemdiche is stronger than Clowney was when he was in high school. And Nkemdiche could move inside and play defensive tackle fulltime hypothetically, while Clowney will move inside on obvious passing downs this year, much like former teammate Melvin Ingram.
There’s no question that both defenders have the athleticism to play linebacker, but they have more value at end. And while Nkemdiche may not be as freakish as Clowney, he could have a similar impact early in his career on Clemson that Clowney had on South Carolina in 2011. And not just on the field.
The commitment of Nkemdiche shows that Clemson is becoming a major force under Swinney, who not too long ago was considered to be on the hot seat. While players can always decommit considering we are a long ways away from National Signing Day next February, bringing in a player the caliber of Nkemdiche will only help S...
While Nkemdiche is expected to become a dominant defensive force at Clemson, the reigning National Junior of the Year starred on both sides of the ball for Grayson last season while leading the squad to a state title. He rushed for 17 touchdowns on offense, and his 26-yard burst below shows just how versatile of an ath...
Defensively, Nkemdiche racked up 78 tackles, including 36 tackles for loss, and 18 sacks in 2011. But numbers don’t do Nkemdiche justice. Just his physically imposing presence should be enough to make opposing ACC offensive linemen nervous once he hits the field on Saturday afternoons.
The Clemson program is certainly on the rise under Swinney, who has been able to reel in wide receiver Sammy Watkins, running back Mike Bellamy and linebackers Stephone Anthony and Tony Steward in recent seasons — players who could have easily landed with SEC programs but elected to play in Death Valley.

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