Supplied/StuffWhich rock video by Guns N’ Roses has become the first rock song to hit two billion views on YouTube?

Chiefs beat Crusaders 34-24 to continue winning streakChiefs beat Crusaders 34-24 to continue winning streakPhoto:Stuff.co.nzThe Chiefs continued its winning run at the 2023 Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific competition after beating the Crusaders 34-24 in Hamilton last night. Fly-half Damien McKenzie showed his class scoring 19 points off his boots as the Chiefs shrugged off a tough challenge from the Crusaders. The much-anticipated match lived up to the expectations of the fans with the Chiefs heading into half-time leading 12-7. Emoni Narawa started for the Chiefs and played an instrumental role with some outstanding runs and great defence. In other matches last night, the Rebels survived a scare from Moana Pasifika winning 43-33 while the Reds beat the Western Force 31-17.

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has partnered with Sankari Studios, an international gaming-for-good company, to promote fundraising for the environmental cause. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has partnered with Sankari Studios, an international gaming-for-good company, to promote fundraising for the environmental cause. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Sankari Studios, a for-good international gaming company, have partnered up to launch a new video game that will raise funds for the real-world conservation efforts of the tourist hot spot. In the case of The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, the funding will support work to regenerate over 610 acres of seagrass meadows that are crucial to helping the reef survive and endure the effects of climate change. They’re not mutually exclusive.”The video game company is working with other beneficial non-governmental organisations such as Sustainable Ocean Alliance and The African Penguin Nest Project.

A West Auckland man has lost fingers after a homemade firework he was building exploded. He was manufacturing homemade fireworks and the explosion caused him to lose part of his hand and likely three fingers. James Halpin/Stuff A man has lost his fingers after one of the homemade fireworks he was making exploded. Contact the Auckland newsroom on aucklandnewsroom@stuff.co.nzA neighbour said he saw the man shortly after the explosion sitting on the footpath with his hand bandaged. “All I know is something blew up and he’s missing fingers,” the neighbour said.

As Cyclone Gabrielle struck Tairāwhiti, Z Energy’s (Z) communications in the area went out. Contractors and emergency services needed access to fuel to clear roads and conduct patrols for people in danger. “You need power on at the terminal to be able to get fuel off a ship, or to load fuel on to trucks. To get the communication towers up and running, you either need power, or you need fuel for the generators.”As a key lifeline utility, Z operates under the National Fuel Plan which sets out the emergency response and readiness framework for the government and fuel supply industry. Sustained road closures from Cyclone Gabrielle have created ongoing issues.

Alex Casey talks to the local crew on Evil Dead Rise about filming the most blood-soaked elevator ride in horror history in a dusty warehouse near Sylvia Park. The following story contains spoilers for Evil Dead Rise. Very quickly we realised we just needed to create it ourselves.”But there was, of course, one set piece which was even more integral to Evil Dead Rise: the elevator. But what he knows better than anyone is blood, supplying the red stuff to gory local productions including Spartacus and Evil Dead spin-off series Ash vs Evil Dead. But to make it on the scale required for Evil Dead Rise was “a difficult affair” he says.

To mark King Charles’ looming coronation New Zealand’s gift is to donate $1 million to Trees That Count - a plan for community groups to plant more than 100,000 native trees in his honour. But back in 1911- to mark the ascension of Charles’ great-grandfather King George V - our gift was worth its weight in gold. What became known as the ‘Roddy Nugget’ was officially unearthed on September 10, 1909 in Ross, a small goldmining town about 27km south of Hokitika. Sometime between 1911 and today the Roddy Nugget disappeared from Buckingham Palace. The accepted fate of New Zealand’s golden coronation gift is that it was melted down and turned into a tea set.

On a new episode of NZ media podcast The Fold, Duncan Greive speaks with Jo Norris, architect of the regional-first paywall sites launched by Stuff today. Given the challenges facing journalism – particularly regional journalism – in this era, I think you have to admire anyone who’s taking such a bold and differentiated swing. The Waikato Times outperforms the Herald and the Waikato market, because it produces content that’s relevant to Waikato people. How much consideration was given to putting a paywall around Stuff itself? And we continue to – we’ve been quite clear, we never say never around a paywall for Stuff, but it’s certainly not within our consideration at this point.

NZ Capitalism is a rigged so the rich effectively pay 9% tax while the rest of us pay 20%. Look beyond the rich and their rigged capitalism, look at the Landlord debate right now! You should be angry, NZ Capitalism is a rigged trick for the rich and powerful. Unfortunately woke middle class identity politics is too busy cancelling people for misusing pronouns to offer a challenge up to neoliberal hegemony. Put aside their alienating bullshit and a united front of citizens demanding the mega rich pay their fair share to the very society that built them their wealth is not socialism, it’s basic regulated capitalism!

Earth Day: Here are 5 ways we can scale up climate solutions, according to IPCCA chronological listing of news articles posted on theduring the past week: Sun, Apr 16, 2023 thru Sat, Apr 22, 2023. Story of the Week...

After woke washing The Dominion Post, Stuff’s next move is to create woke paywalls for their woke social engineering journalism. Woke paywalls mean the rest of us can ignore them and allow the idea to die behind a paywall the way opinion does behind the NZ Herald paywall. I say let’s get all of those wokies at Stuff behind a paywall! I applaud Stuff going behind a paywall and beg then to put all their columnists behind it so Stuff can become as irrelevant as the NZ Herald’s Paywall opinion section. If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media

In a way it will be a battle between premium (NZ Herald) and sub-premium (Stuff) content. Its digital subscriptions bring in 25-30 percent of the revenue of all its print newspaper subscriptions combined. And Stuff's press release on the new paywalls did not specify if people who are currently part of Stuff's membership donations scheme will get access to the gated content. His graphic above shows that March, in fact, saw the business' advertising revenue fall behind March 2022 by about 5 percent. That didn't stop the Herald headlining its coverage of the annual meeting with "NZME upbeat on advertising market".

Bloomberg Quicktake published this video item, entitled “Singapore Hikes Property Tax, Doubling Rate on Foreigners to 60%” – below is their description. If you want to be a homeowner in Singapore, it may cost you more after the latest property tax hike. Bloomberg’s Michelle Jamrisko tells us who’s hit the hardest by the new measures. #housing #property #singapore ——– Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/BloombergTV Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktakeNow Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake Bloomberg Quicktake YouTube ChannelGot a comment?

nzherald.co.nz published this video item, entitled “Tropical storm to bear down on North Island | nzherald.co.nz” – below is their description. An atmospheric river is set to unpack a torrid week of wet weather on Auckland and surrounding regions. Full story: https://bit.ly/3VdiYUZ Subscribe and be notified of breaking news: https://goo.gl/LP45jX Check out our playlists: https://goo.gl/Swd249 Like NZ Herald on Facebook: https://goo.gl/tUC4oq Follow NZ Herald on Instagram: https://goo.gl/oLicXe Follow NZ Herald on Twitter: https://goo.gl/Wi6mbv nzherald.co.nz YouTube ChannelGot a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Please note comments are moderated before publication.

ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “NZ pilot hostage-release talks breakdown after abrupt change of negotiator | The World” – below is their description. It’s now been nearly three months since New Zealand pilotPhilip Mehrtens was taken hostage in Indonesia’s remote Papua region. The New Zealand government has been attempting to secure his release from the separatists, so far without success. Up until this week, Professor Damien Kingsbury had been brokering talks between the two groups, but he told Yvonne Yong Wellington has now decided to negotiate with the West Papuan separatists through a different channel. ABC News (Australia) YouTube Channel