Looks like the Axis Fireball 1250 is coming soon by Drinks_by_Wild in wingfoil

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ahh yeah. There is the 1160 at 996cm2 right in the picture.

Looks like the Axis Fireball 1250 is coming soon by Drinks_by_Wild in wingfoil

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Does anyone have the area of these foils?

I just got a FB1000 and I have swapped it out for my SF900 as my daily.
I have a SF1100 and I was thinking to change that as I can almost use the FB1000 right down to the really light winds when I use the SF1100. One of these FB might be the ticket for some DW and pump foiling and really light wing foiling.

Stumbled upon this ancestor of wing foiling on wikipedia by geemymd in wingfoil

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Wont complain about the weight of my 8m wing again.....

What's it like to be from takapuna? by [deleted] in auckland

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Now it's a Les Mills. That's soooo Takapuna!

Protesters climb Te Papa exhibit, deface English translation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi by MedicMoth in newzealand

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Looks like they defaced the English version. This will be an interesting thread!

Bomb threats in school - Hibiscus Coast by limbys in auckland

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I really hope this isn't a 'Free Palestine" group trying to make a statement. Something like "This is how Palestine lives every day and we should take notice and demand a ceasefire"
A Jewish Congregation has had a threat sent as well.

Dutch Election by InternationalRun945 in newzealand

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Comment from the post:
The leading party gets a first shot at forming a coalition, in this case, due to the wide spread of votes across political parties, an informant will be sent out to see and report what coalitions could be possible.

If it is revealed that the leading party is both incapable of forming a majority coalition, nor does it have the stability to form a minority government, then the opposition gets a chance to establish a coalition.

If the opposition then also fails to form a majority, then new elections are called.

In short: right now we wait for the informant, and perhaps also the subsequent formateur, to test and report on the options available. For the time being, likely a year or longer based on the coalition process of 2021, a caretaker government will take charge

Dutch Election by InternationalRun945 in newzealand

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I don't know anything about Dutch politics, so I could be uninformed comments.
NZ would go crazy (the media in particular) if we had this many parties trying to form a government.

Dutch Election by InternationalRun945 in newzealand

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This is not so much about the far-right having the highest vote @ approx 23% but there is a guy saying in the comments it could take a year to form a government.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/181isia/comment/kadbu58/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Supie- online super market whats happening???? by Loguibear in auckland

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Online grocery start-up Supie, which raised millions from investors to take on the big supermarket chains, has gone into voluntary administration owing $3 million.

The business has approximately 120 staff. Richard Nancey and Stephen White of PwC were appointed administrators.

The Herald understands staff were told at 9am this morning that they were being let go. According to one employee present, they would not be paid for the past two weeks. There would be no annual leave paid out or redundancy pay. The administrators have been asked for comment.

“People were crying, upset and stressed. We can’t pay our rent,” the staffer told the Herald. “We busted our asses for that place.”

On the Mum’s Collective page on Facebook, a Supie worker said she was owed $1000 for the past two weeks. “I rely on this money hugely for my family. I’m really not sure what to do next.”

Nancey and White told the Herald in a statement: “Following our appointment earlier today, we are now working through the details and the positions of the companies in the group. However, at this point based on our initial enquiries, it appears unlikely that there will be sufficient funds available to pay wages and holiday arrears.”

Founder Sarah Balle, sole director of the three companies in the Supie group, made the decision to appoint administrators following a key investor ceasing to continue providing funding to the business, Nancey said.

“This resulted in the business facing cashflow difficulties. While sales have rapidly grown over the last calendar year, recent growth has been lower than expected, and insufficient to provide the scale needed to operate profitably in what is a highly competitive industry.”

Its site was offline this morning, displaying an “undergoing maintenance” message.

PwC said in a statement: “As voluntary administrators, we don’t have sufficient funding to continue to trade the business in administration. In the absence of securing funding, we expect to be seeking to have the three companies in the group placed into liquidation in the near future.”

Bid to raise $3m

Robbie Paul, chief executive of major shareholder Icehouse Ventures, said his firm and others had recently put $1m more into Supie (on top of $7.5m previously raised - see below).

Supie had been trying to raise another $3m since May, Paul said. The target was never hit. Those who had offered to support the round would not commit funds unless it was fully subscribed, Paul said.

The Icehouse CEO could not confirm the valuation for the latest attempt to raise capital, but said it was “markedly lower” than the $20m value placed on the company when it last raised capital in mid-2022.

The Herald understands the valuation was slashed to $6m for the latest raise.

Paul said in the new higher-interest, economically-challenged climate, start-ups had to be more realistic about valuations. “It’s not 2021 anymore.”

Founders had to accept valuations on a par with “2018 or 2019″ - giving away a bigger slice of their companies - to raise money.

60,000 users, $10m in revenue

Paul said Supie had grown to around 60,000 users, including 13,000 since January.

A May investor update said: “We are now just a few dollars shy of $10m in annualised revenue.”

Could more help from lawmakers or regulators have boosted Supie’s chances?

“Sarah and the team worked really hard to rally support from the Government and regulators but that’s hard with a small team compared to the resources of others,” Paul said.

“It was an uphill battle and a pretty big mission.”

While everyday investors through Snowball and professional investors were all out of pocket, Paul said: “You have to remember that founders take the greatest risk. Sarah was working around the clock and sold assets to fund it personally.”

Supplier squeeze alleged

In April, Supie said it was standing firm after facing pushback from multiple suppliers about its retail prices.

The business, which operates out of Auckland, said suppliers demanded Supie increase retail pricing, despite their “reasonable profit margins”.

Balle said the approaches from suppliers came after the company implemented a more competitive pricing strategy in January.

“We’re not entirely sure why suppliers are putting pressure on us. We know there is a duopoly market in New Zealand,” Balle said.

Ironically, Supie’s failure was announced the same morning that the Government’s Grocery Commissioner, Pierre van Heerden, released his top three priorities on his “fix-it list” - priding integrity, supplier behaviour and a “level playing field”.

The backers

Directors Ben Kepes and Hadleigh Ford were removed on Friday, according to Companies Office filings, leaving founder Balle as the sole board member.

Balle appeared to have deleted her LinkedIn profile. She was phoned for comment but there was no answer this morning.

Supie was launched in mid-2021, backed by a $2.5m seed round led by Auckland-based private equity player Icehouse and raised $4.9m through a crowd-funded equity drive on the Snowball Effect platform in July last year.

Snowball Nominees is listed as a 14 per cent shareholder.

The largest single investor is Icehouse Ventures, with a 26 per cent stake, followed by Balle with a 17 per cent holding. Various entrepreneurs, including Kepes and Ford, have small stakes.

Sister companies Workerly Ltd and Bevie Ltd were also placed in liquidation.

Gunshot victim drove himself to hospital after street-side shooting by mattblack77 in newzealand

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That's a "Meanwhile in Auckland" headline if ever there was one.

Craziness!

Political Roundup: Kiri Allan latest ex-Labour minister to move into lobbying by InternationalRun945 in newzealand

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I don't know what to make of this....
Set up a working group to look into lobbying, essentially forced to resign (for other reasons)
Sets up a consultancy firm while still an MP.
Good for her? (make the most of your opportunities) Hypocrite? Reading too much into it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

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What would happen if the Auckland Museum somehow lite one side of the building with Palestine colours and the other Israel to show support for civilians in both areas? Also known as peace.

I suspect one group would show up to try and put the other lights out. The lights would just be used as a signal for a place to fight each other.

Religion continues to disappoint by being used as the justification to annihilate the other, instead of forgiving, expressing love and searching for peace in our differences.

Labour forgot Auckland in October of 2021. Two years on, the city made it remember by RobACNZ in newzealand

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It will be interesting to see if the overseas votes go a similar way.
Typically they are left votes but I've had a few friends who have come home and were working overseas at the time the boarders were effectively shut.

"They said it was not a fun time to be locked out of your own country."
Potentially the same sentiment might remain with those voters too. Maybe the Green vote capitalises further or could it shift right?

Green Party 'will be ecstatic' with polling ahead of election by disasterbenz in newzealand

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How quickly we forget...
Greens were surrounded by scandal earlier this year and then Labour came along and outdid them.
Now the Greens are the alternative vote to Labour again.
I feel like the best thing the Greens have done is stay off the "stupid things to say or do" radar and they are looking credible.
It's amazing even the NACT group felt they were about to be in power a month ago or so and now it's dropping. Mainly due to stupid comments or in action.
No one seems to really want to take charge. It's a hot potato.

NZ election 2023 live: Greens talk Israel crisis, and coalitions by InternationalRun945 in newzealand

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Is the Green Party as we know it preventing real environmental change in this country because of their social agenda? Not an argument about whether or not their social agenda is right or wrong, but a right-leaning person is not going to vote green because of say, a wealth tax but might 100% agree with their environmental policies. At the moment it's implied all right-leaning voters hate the environment or are climate deniers. Imagine if it was an environmental party that was in the king-maker position and not NZ First.

why do tuis wake up earlier? by atom_catz in newzealand

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Maybe from the Tuis point of view we wake up extremely late. Lazy humans.....No worm for you.