Juliet returns with cohost Callie Curry to discuss all the happenings on both The Golden Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise Episode 4. First up, Golden Bachelor—the ladies discuss Gary and Leslie’s adventurous date (5:24), who the ladies are liking and disliking, the drama, and of course their pickle ball MVP (24:54). They also discuss the Never Have I Ever game (27:58) and who they think will be the next Golden Bachelorette (31:28). On the Paradise side, the ladies talk about Rachel’s not-so-great Bachelor experience and her drama with Mr. Double Denim Ken, Sean (35:56), John Henry impressions (42:23), Eliza’s date with John (45:23), Kat’s outburst (47:43), and more.
A police spokesperson said staff received four reports in which people had been assaulted in the Auckland CBD on Saturday morning. Photo / Dean Purcell
Two people have been arrested following four aggravated robberies in Auckland this morning.
A police spokesperson said staff received four reports in which people had been assaulted in the Auckland CBD on Saturday morning. No one suffered serious injuries, the spokesperson said.
The incidents were between 1.30am and 1.50am in the Wellesley St and Federal St area.
“In the final incident, a vehicle was unlawfully taken. The vehicle was observed by police soon after on Mount Albert Rd and tracked by Police Eagle helicopter as it fled. Police deployed road spikes on Stoddart Rd, Mount Roskill, and the vehicle came to a stop. Two men ran but were quickly arrested”.
A proposal to reduce the speed limit in the Hāwera CBD to 30km/h is part of the South Taranaki District Council’s Speed Management Plan. Photo / Bevan Conley
Reducing the speed limit in the Hāwera CBD to 30km/h and reducing 70km/h roads to 60km/h are among the key proposals in South Taranaki District Council’s 2024-2034 Speed Management Plan.
South Taranaki Mayor Phil Nixon said Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency required councils to develop 10-year speed management plans every three years.
“Over the last 12 months, we reduced speed limits outside our schools,” Nixon said.
“Over the next three years, we’d like to focus on delivering safe and appropriate speed limits around marae, the Hāwera CBD, beach communities and on some of our 70km/h roads.”
The key proposals for the next three years were to reduce the speed limit in the Hāwera CBD and in beach communities such as Ōhawe and Waiinu, reduce 70km/h roads to 60km/h and introduce a 60km/h speed limit outside all marae.
Nixon said speed management was about achieving safe and appropriate speeds to reflect the road’s function, design, safety and use.
“As a road controlling authority, we want everyone to be able to get home safely every time and to feel comfortable choosing from a range of travel options, be it driving, walking, biking or scootering.”
The council encouraged residents and road users to have their say on the speed on rural roads and in townships.
A 13-year-old girl was beaten at a Rotorua bus stop outside the library. Photo / Supplied
National will give police ‘’permission’’ to clean up Rotorua after two attacks on teenage girls – but Labour says it is not possible to “arrest our way out of this’’ and believes the causes of crime need to be addressed.
Rotorua MP Todd McClay and Labour rival Ben Sandford spoke out after the two attacks in the CBD in the past two weeks.
ACT Rotorua electorate candidate Marten Rozeboom believed a greater police presence would help reduce crime. Meanwhile, Te Pāti Māori Party candidate Merepeka Raukawa-Tait believed the community must do more than “express horror” and instead take action.
Police have referred three young people to Youth Aid and say they are maintaining an increased presence in the area where the attacks happened, near the Rotorua Library.
Mayor Tania Tapsell said the council was “determined to turn this around” and an inner city community safety hub would be established in about two months.
National’s MP for Rotorua, Todd McClay. Photo / Andrew Warner
McClay told the Rotorua Daily Post Weekend it was “horrifying” and “extremely sad for Rotorua” for violent crime to be happening in the CBD.
French rapier with Spanish blade Made around 1600. Steel handle, cut, drilled and engraved in the shape of a chain, blued and inlaid with gold. The blade itself is imported from Spain, Valencia, as evidenced by the inscription “VALENCIA ME FECIT” (“Made in Valencia”). In those days, Spain produced bladed weapons of the highest quality, the possession of which emphasized the status of the owner
When the euro banknotes were 1st designed in 2002, they featured fictional bridges, so as not to cause a row amongst EU member countries. Ten years later an architect for the Dutch town of Spijkenisse claimed them all for the Netherlands by building them ALL on a single waterway
In April the city of San Francisco created an app asking for the publics help locating the “rare instances” of human feces found in public spaces (streets, parks, etc.) Tag it for “immediate” clean up. This map shows day 3 of the project, which was canceled 11 days later.
“David Fielding” was only paid $150 to play Zordon in 1993’s Power Rangers. He shared that he only showed up to work one day at the Power Rangers recording set, and he was never called back, Zordon was in every episode of Power Rangers in 1993.
I just learned that the original voice for Crash Bandicoot passed away earlier this year back in March. Dude didn’t just voice crash either he pretty much voice most of the original cast from N. Brio, N. Gin, Cortex(just crash 1) and tiny. RIP
An artist who strives to redefine and reshape the music world, Antonio McCloud hopes to move and captivate audiences with his stunning craft
WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES, July 2, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — A dynamic singer-songwriter who remains fueled by a passion to excite and inspire audiences, Hotep is solidifying his presence in the realm of hip-hop. Named Antonio McCloud at birth, the artist took onto the identity of Hotep and invokes a riveting, creative, and electric style which shines through each record.
With his brilliant new record, “Godfather of Hip-Hop,” the talented artist presents a musical blend that displays his testament to staying true to his craft. With a driven mindset and a passion to present an unadulterated, honest, and raw picture of Hip Hop, the seasoned artist continues to make strides in the music world.
Having released for listeners in June 2022, Hotep’s newest album takes listeners through a whirlwind of emotions. “Godfather of Hip Hop” is an album which encompasses listeners with a distinct nostalgia that is reminiscent of the glory days of the 90s.
“Godfather of Hip-Hop” delivers an ethereal blend of rhythms and tunes that are representative of the breadth which Hotep brings with his talent. Encapsulating the essence of a time where art forms were a channel of flair, thought-provoking conversations, and unique soundscapes, the new album is his best work…
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with U.S. and Indian technology executives in Washington on Friday, the final day of a state visit where he agreed new defense and technology cooperation and addressed challenges posed by China.
U.S. President Joe Biden rolled out the red carpet for Modi on Thursday, declaring after about 2-1/2 hours of talks that their countries’ economic relationship was “booming.” Trade has more than doubled over the past decade.
Biden and Modi gathered with CEOs including Apple’s (AAPL.O) Tim Cook, Google’s (GOOGL.O) Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Satya Nadella.
Also present were Sam Altman of OpenAI, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, and Indian tech leaders including Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group, and Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, the White House said.
“Our partnership between India and the United States will go a long way, in my view, to define what the 21st century looks like,” Biden told the group, adding that technological cooperation would be a big part of that partnership.
Observing that there were a variety of tech companies represented at the meeting from startups to well established firms, Modi said: “Both of them are working together to create a new world.”
Modi, who has appealed to global companies to “Make in India,” will also address business leaders at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
The CEOs of top American companies, including FedEx (FDX.N), MasterCard (MA.N) and Adobe (ADBE.O), are expected to be among the 1,200 participants.
NOT ‘ABOUT CHINA’
The backdrop to Modi’s visit is the Biden administration’s attempts to draw India, the world’s most populous country at 1.4 billion and its fifth-largest economy, closer amid its growing geopolitical rivalry with Beijing.
Modi did not address China directly during the visit, and Biden only mentioned China in response to a reporter’s question, but a joint statement included a pointed reference to the East and South China Seas, where China has territorial disputes with its neighbors.
Farwa Aamer, director for South Asia at the Asia Society Policy Institute, in an analysis note described that as “a clear signal of unity and determination to preserve stability and peace in the region.”
Alongside agreements to sell weapons to India and share with it sensitive military technology, announcements this week included several investments from U.S.-firms aimed at spurring semiconductor manufacturing in India and lowering its dependence on China for electronics.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said the challenges presented by China to both Washington and New Delhi were on the agenda, but insisted the visit “wasn’t about China.”
“This wasn’t about leveraging India to be some sort of counterweight. India is a sovereign, independent state,” Kirby said at a news briefing, adding that Washington welcomes India becoming “an increasing exporter of security” in the Indo-Pacific.
“There’s a lot we can do in the security front together. And that’s really what we’re focused on,” Kirby said.
Some political analysts question India’s willingness to stand up to Beijing over Taiwan and other issues, however. Washington has also been frustrated by India’s close ties with Russia while Moscow wages war in Ukraine.
DIASPORA TIES
Modi attended a lunch on Friday at the State Department with Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Asian American to hold the No. 2 position in the White House, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In a toast, Harris spoke of her Indian-born late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who came to the United States at age 19 and became a leading breast cancer researcher.
“I think about it in the context of the millions of Indian students who have come to the United States since, to collaborate with American researchers to solve the challenges of our time and to reach new frontiers,” Harris said.
Modi praised Gopalan for keeping India “close to her heart” despite the distance to her new home, and called Harris “really inspiring.”
On Friday evening, Modi will address members of the Indian diaspora, many of whom have turned out at events during the visit to enthusiastically fete him, at times chanting “Modi! Modi! Modi!” despite protests from others.
Activists said Biden had failed to strongly call out what they describe as India’s deteriorating human rights record under Modi, citing allegations of abuse of Indian dissidents and minorities, especially Muslims. Modi leads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has held power since 2014.
Biden said he had a “straightforward” discussion with Modi about issues including human rights, but U.S. officials emphasize that it is vital for Washington’s national security and economic prosperity to engage with a rising India.
Asked on Thursday what he would do to improve the rights of minorities including Muslims, Modi insisted “there is no space for any discrimination” in his government.
“There is no end to data that shows Modi is lying about minority abuse in India, and much of it can be found in the State Department’s own India country reports, which are scathing on human rights,” said Sunita Viswanath, co-founder Hindus for Human Rights, an advocacy group.
Reporting by Steve Holland, Simon Lewis and Jeff Mason; additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Doina Chiacu, David Brunnstrom and Kanishka Singh; Editing by Don Durfee and Grant McCool
Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2016-2017, leading the press corps in advocating for press freedom in the early days of the Trump administration. His and the WHCA’s work was recognized with Deutsche Welle’s “Freedom of Speech Award.” Jeff has asked pointed questions of domestic and foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. He is a winner of the WHCA’s “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure” award and co-winner of the Association for Business Journalists’ “Breaking News” award. Jeff began his career in Frankfurt, Germany as a business reporter before being posted to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. Jeff appears regularly on television and radio and teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar.
The Red Pill events are a great way to help entrepreneurs free themselves from the harmful belief systems that permeate their lives and keep them from their greatest achievements.”
— Jon Block
SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES, June 19, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — HealthPreneur Jon Block recently hosted his Red Pill XP Retreat in San Diego. This three day event occurred May 19th-May 21st, 2023. The event is a health & business retreat designed to empower HealthPreneurs liberating others from the matrices of our planet. The HeathPreneurs are the Jedi of our galaxy. The ones who spread light across the 5 dimensions of health: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social.
Jon brings togethers leaders and empowers them to enter industries and communities to spread far greater health, wealth, and sovereignty through the power of leading their OWN retreats and communities. His events are a mixture of activities designed to awaken & unify attendees.. They experience sound healing, Reiki, yoga, Qigong meditation and movements, and more. Jon loves working with “Disruptor-preneurs” that do not accept the status quo and are looking to gain enlightenment through alternative teachings. The event was held in an upscale home in San Diego to create greater intimacy and connection than would be found in hotel ballroom seminars. Jon personally chooses each location to be conducive to human connection and warmth in order to encourage…
Yup. Lego’s own company “OCTAN” as featured in their set since I was a kid. Plan on ironing on these mirrored decals onto a t shirt (they’ll be “un mirrored” once applied) and see if anyone catches the humor at the car show. I have the VIP Lego hat to match.
June 3 (Reuters) – Iran’s navy commander said his country and Saudi Arabia, as well as three other Gulf states, plan to form a naval alliance that will also include India and Pakistan, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
“The countries of the region have today realized that only cooperation with each other brings security to the area,” Iran’s navy commander Shahram Irani was quoted as saying.
He did not elaborate on the shape of the alliance that he said would be formed soon.
Iran has recently been trying to mend its strained ties with several Gulf Arab states.
In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran ended seven years of hostility under a China-mediated deal, stressing the need for regional stability and economic cooperation.
Naval commander Irani said the states that will take part in the alliance also include the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Pakistan, and India.
Saudi Arabia’s rapprochement with Iran has frustrated Israel’s efforts to isolate Iran diplomatically.
The UAE, which was the first Gulf Arab country to sign a normalization agreement with Israel in 2020, resumed formal relations with Iran last year.
Bahrain and Morocco later joined the UAE in establishing ties with Israel.
Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Toby Chopra
Experts say focus on safety has not kept pace with expansion
Government says data shows no major accident for years
NEW DELHI, June 3 (Reuters) – India’s vast rail network is undergoing a $30 billion transformation with gleaming new trains and modern stations but Friday’s deadly train accident shows more attention should be paid to safety, industry analysts said.
At least 288 people were killed in the country’s worst rail accident in over two decades after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another in the eastern state of Odisha.
State monopoly Indian Railways runs the fourth largest train network in the world. It transports 13 million people every day and moved nearly 1.5 billion tonnes of freight in 2022.
Long considered the lifeline of the world’s most populous country, the 170-year-old system has seen rapid expansion and modernisation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to boost infrastructure and connectivity in the fast-growing economy.
This year, the government made a record 2.4-trillion-rupee ($30 billion) capital outlay for the railways, a 50% increase over the previous fiscal year, to upgrade tracks, ease congestion and add new trains.
A new, semi-high-speed train built in India and called the “Vande Bharat Express”, or “Salute to India Express”, is showcased as evidence of this modernisation, with Modi himself flagging off the first journeys of many of the trains around the country.
But Friday’s crash has come as a jolt to this makeover, experts said.
“The safety record has been improving over the years but there is more work to do,” said Prakash Kumar Sen, head of the department of mechanical engineering at Kirodimal Institute of Technology in central India and lead author of a 2020 study on “Causes of Rail Derailment in India and Corrective Measures”.
“Human error or poor track maintenance are generally to blame in such crashes,” Sen said.
The railways have been introducing more and more trains to cope with soaring demand but the workforce to maintain them has not kept pace, he said.
Workers are not trained adequately or their workload is too high, and they don’t get enough rest, Sen said.
The east coast route on which Friday’s crash occurred, is one of the country’s oldest and busiest, as it also carries much of India’s coal and oil freight, he said.
“These tracks are very old … the load on them is very high, if maintenance is not good, failures will happen,” Sen said.
‘GOOD SAFETY RECORD’
Indian Railways maintains that safety has always been a key focus, and points to its low accident rate over the years.
“This question (on safety) is arising because there has been one incident now. But if you see the data, you will see that there have been no major accidents for years,” a railways ministry spokesperson said.
The number of accidents per million train kilometres, a gauge of safety, had fallen to 0.03 in fiscal 2021-22 from 0.10 in 2013-14, the spokesperson said.
A 1-trillion-rupee, five-year safety fund created in 2017-18 has been extended for another five years from 2022-23, with a further 450 billion rupees of funding, after the first plan led to an “overall improvement in safety indicators”, he added.
“Some malfunction has happened and that the inquiry will reveal,” he said, referring to Friday’s crash. “We will find out why it happened and how it happened.”
Srinand Jha, an independent transport expert and author at the International Railway Journal, said the railways have been working on safety mechanisms such as anti-collision devices and emergency warning systems but have been slow to install them across the network.
“They will always tell you that accidents are at a very manageable level because they talk about them in terms of percentages,” Jha said, adding that in recent years the focus has been more on new trains and modern stations and not as much on tracks, signalling systems and asset management.
“This accident brings out the need to focus more on these aspects,” he said.
BAHANAGA, India, June 3 (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure.
One train in Friday’s accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha state in the east of the country, leaving a tangled mess of smashed rail cars and injuring 803.
The death toll has reached 288, said K. S. Anand, chief public relations officer of the South Eastern Railway.
Dead bodies are still trapped in the mangled coaches and the rescue operation is continuing, a Reuters witness said, while the death toll is expected to rise.
A preliminary report indicates that the accident was the result of signal failure, Anand said.
“The Coromandel Express was supposed to travel on the main line, but a signal was given for the loop line instead, and the train rammed into a goods train already parked over there. Its coaches then fell onto the tracks on either side, also derailing the Howrah Superfast Express,” he said.
Surviving passenger Anubha Das said he would never forget the scene. “Families crushed away, limbless bodies and a bloodbath on the tracks,” he said.
Video footage showed derailed train coaches and damaged tracks, with rescue teams searching the mangled carriages to pull the survivors out and rush them to hospital.
Dead bodies were lying on the bloodstained floor of a school used as a makeshift morgue, and police helped relatives identify the bodies, covered with white cloths and placed inside chained bags.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the scene, talked to rescue workers and inspected the wreckage. He also met the survivors at hospitals.
“(I) took stock of the situation at the site of the tragedy in Odisha. Words can’t capture my deep sorrow. We stand committed to providing all possible assistance to those affected,” Modi said.
A witness involved in rescue operations said the screams and cries of the injured and the relatives of those killed were chilling. “It was horrific and heart-wrenching,” he said.
Families of the dead will receive 1 million rupees ($12,000), while the seriously injured will get 200,000 rupees, with 50,000 rupees for minor injuries, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Some state governments have also announced compensation.
[1/20] Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a train collision after the accident in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, June 3, 2023. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
“It’s a big, tragic accident,” Vaishnaw told reporters after inspecting the accident site. “Our complete focus is on the rescue and relief operation, and we are trying to ensure that those injured get the best possible treatment.”
At least 261 people died in an accident involving two long-distance passenger trains in eastern Indian state of Odisha on June 2.
DISMEMBERED BODIES
“I was asleep,” an unidentified male survivor told NDTV news. “I was woken up by the noise of the train derailing. Suddenly I saw 10-15 people dead. I managed to come out of the coach, and then I saw a lot of dismembered bodies.”
Video footage from Friday showed rescuers climbing on one of the mangled trains to find survivors, while passengers called for help and sobbed next to the wreckage.
“We rescued at least 30 people, and some of them managed to survive, but three or four of them died,” said Sanjeev Rout, an electrician. A few metres away, rescue workers tried to cut their way into a damaged red-coloured coach.
The collision occurred at around 7 p.m. (1330 GMT) on Friday when the Howrah Superfast Express from Bengaluru to Howrah in West Bengal collided with the Coromandel Express from Kolkata to Chennai.
Indian Railways says it transports more than 13 million people every day. But the state-run monopoly has had a patchy safety record because of ageing infrastructure.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik described the crash as “extremely tragic”.
Opposition Congress party leader Jairam Ramesh said the accident reinforced why safety should always be the foremost priority of the rail network.
Modi’s administration has launched high-speed trains as part of plans to modernise the network, but critics say it has not focused enough on safety and upgrading ageing infrastructure.
Experts said Friday’s train accident came as a blow to Modi’s makeover plans for railways.
India’s deadliest railway accident was in 1981 when a train plunged off a bridge into a river in Bihar state, killing an estimated 800 people.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed condolences over the accident.
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Additional reporting by Akriti Sharma, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Mayank Bhardwaj, Sakshi Dayal, Anirudh Saligrama, Baranjot Kaur, Nandini S, Adnan Abidi and Sunil Kataria; Editing by Edwina Gibbs, William Mallard, Mark Potter and Giles Elgood
I always was hard of hearing. From birth i couldn’t hear out of one ear and wore a hearing aid in the other. It never bothered me or impacted my life as my hearing sounded “normal volume” as i dont know what better hearing is like. Suddenly this year back in February my good ear plummeted down to near 0. And was very quickly in March told that my only option is cochlear implant. Which I got end of April. My activation isn’t until early June, and I’m at complete 0 hearing. The deafness isn’t bad at all, what sucks is that since my hearing took such a plummet I got some heavy tinnitus which is very difficult day in day out. I’m told the cochlear implant will suppress if not completely erase it. Been a very hard half year, basically had my life flipped upside down.
Is there anything more simultaneously terrifying and hot than being balls deep in your woman and she wraps her legs around your back and begs for you to be the father of her children? Thank God for birth control because I have not got the strength to pull out of a vixen.
A 44-YEAR-OLD farmer was arrested for allegedly maintaining a marijuana plantation in Sitio Quo, Barangay Gaas, Balamban town, midwest Cebu at 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 14, 2023.
The suspect, Victor Abadenas Paran, a high-value individual from Sitio Hunop, was not able to escape when the police arrived.
Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Hife, chief of Balamban Police Station, told SunStar Cebu they conducted the raid together with operatives of Naval Forces Central (Navforcen), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and other police units after receiving reports that Paran was still growing marijuana.
The 3,610 marijuana plants were burned by the raiding team, and the two remaining plants were set aside to be used as evidence. (GPL/TPT)
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I’ve had worse withdrawals, but God damn getting sober has taken away all will to live. I feel like **** in a new and different way that’s somehow almost worse. It’s almost like drastically altering your brain chemistry will effect your emotions or something.
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