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This week, travel startups announced more than $24 million in funding.
Sherpa, a travel tech startup, raised $8.5 million in venture equity funding.
Narrative Fund and True Ventures led the round. Relay Ventures, TSVC, Globalive Capital, N49P, Plug and Play Ventures, Golden Ventures, Stuart MacDonald (founder of Expedia.ca), and LP Maurice (founder and CEO of Busbud) also invested.
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Billie Eilish used to dress in a way that could best be described as a cross between a burlap sack and the ‘Think Big’ video from 90s Nicktoon
Doug. It was definitely a look, but she ditched it the second she turned 18, choosing instead to dress like a normal human being.
Vogue, she didn’t really care for her belly being the symbol of body positivity.
“It made me really offended when people were like, ‘Good for her for feeling comfortable in her bigger skin,’” she says, curling her lips in mockery. “Jesus Christ?! Good for me? F k off!” She splutters with frustration. “The more the internet and the world care about somebody that’s doing something they’re not used to, they put it on such a high pedestal that then it’s even worse.”
Te Radar: The Insider s Guide to Ohinewai, Waikato
2 May, 2021 02:00 AM
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Te Radar is appearing at the NZ International Comedy Festival. Photo / Supplied
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Nothing much happens in Ohinewai, but that s the beauty. One travel site suggests: Depending on your budget, these more prominent places might be interesting for you . . . and lists locales further afield. How very dare they.
This is the place I grew up.
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At primary school there, some 40 years ago, we celebrated the school centenary with a
version of ragtime ditty Down by the Riverside , because that is literally where we were. Back then there was a supermarket, a garage and a nursery - of course, that was before the expressway. None of those is there now but there s so much still to enjoy.