kiwi

A kiwi is a nocturnal flightless bird native to New Zealand. The Latin species name is Apteryx, which means wingless. Today the kiwi bird is endangered due to introduced predictors from European settlers.

The Kiwi is also a national symbol of New Zealand and a colloquialism referring to a citizen of New Zealand (uppercase K). The distinctive kiwi label is found on many products and services, including the blogosphere where the moniker Kiwi is used to define a New Zealand centric blog. Many Kiwis use blogs to opine on New Zealand life or when they live elsewhere to keep in close contact to their native homeland.

Kiwifruit is a highly editable vine berry made popular by New Zealand farmers though now produced throughout the world. Kiwifruit is often referred to colloquially as "kiwi" in many parts of the world.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “kiwi”

• Angel Association Summit 2009 summary

  
  NZ Angels — Authority: 113
  The NZ Angel Association held its annual conference in Queenstown last week.  It was a great chance to meet up with old friends, get the good goss on what’s going locally in other regions, and trade war stories hopefully learning to avoid painful mistakes others have made. There were a few recurring themes from ...
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• Kiwi on steroids.

  
  fxmadness.com — Authority: 469
  Currencies had an interesting opening to trading week. Kiwi moved sharply against all major currencies. It seems to be a beneficiary of the latest G-20 meeting, which covered more of in The Tobin tax post. While the representatives of participating governments were discussing “exit strategy” for emergency ...
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• When bananas brought down the Berlin Wall

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Ernest GillHamburg, Nov 8 (DPA) On Thursday evening, Nov 9, 1989, West German public TV stations signed off the air at about midnight, as usual. Residents of Hamburg, a mere 50 km from the East German border, went to bed, dreaming of little than the next workday and the following weekend. Little did they [...]
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• Kiwirail Mothball Provincial Line -More Closures Ahead?

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 440
  KiwiRail has decided to mothball the rail line between Taranaki and the Waikato. Which way now for rail to Hamilton? As a consequence of the closure, milk product sourced from Fonterra farms in Taranaki and bound for Tauranga will now travel hundreds of kilometres further, via Marton rather than directly from ...
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• end dan’s facist regime

  
  cricket with balls — Authority: 473
  Stage two how: I can control the man in charge. New Zealand cricket is now a fascist regime. One man is calling the shots, pulling the strings, making the coffee and wearing the glasses. There is no reason to name this person, Daniel Vettori, we all know who he is. In some countries that would be tolerated, ...
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• Boxer Underwear Guy: Dan Carter, Kiwi Hunk

  
  Famewatcher — Authority: 140
  Some of you want more underwear photos of Kiwi hunk Dan Carter. We understand why you like him so much. Why can we not? With his sexy muscles and all? Anyhoo, consider your wish fulfilled with these photos of this rugby player in his boxer shorts. Dan, as we noted in an earlier post, is [...]
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• Review: Simpson & Vail Kiwi Watermelon Black Tea

  
  Teaviews.com — Authority: 144
  The small leaves of this tea are not surprising since many flavoured blends use average teas for the base, letting the flavours take centre stage. Sometimes the practice works, and sometimes it doesn’t, and while the leaves of this blend are tiny, they smell like candy. And I love candy. Love it. At the time ...
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• Emerging To

  
  Leading & Learning — Authority: 421
  At Last Emerging Church in a Language I Can Understand! It was a great pleasure to have Steve Taylor (of Emergent Kiwi and Opawa Baptist fame) talk to us recently at an Officer’s Fellowship in Masterton. He said a lot and I took truck loads of to put up here.  BUT… what I’ll actually do is just take ...
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• What Would Rod Say?

  
  frogblog — Authority: 570
  This first anniversary of the National-led government is also the fourth anniversary of the death of former Green Party Co-Leader, Rod Donald. With the many retrospectives being written about the “new” government, my thoughts turn today to what Rod might have thought about the developments of the last year. ...
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• I Don’t Understand

  
  Squarehippies.com — Authority: 501
  I’m a little cunty today, so here’s some more bitchery — thanks to Jim and Jamie! You know what’s worse than having a shirt on a hot, hairy guy? Having him shirted HALFWAY. Why is this happening? I don’t understand? Simon London is a newcomer in the acting / skin baring business (I see you Googling right ...
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• Two Signal Failures In One Day & No Quick Help In Sight

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 440
  A shocking day for signals. Two signals failures in one day. Unbelievable. A morning rush hour one at Newmarket. An afternoon rush hour one at New Lynn on the Western line. Both triggered frustrating delays. Imagine if the ticket “leakage” survey had been conducted today, instead of yesterday at Newmarket when ...
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• Film Archive advertises blast from TV’s past

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 131
  FULL OF BEANS: Location shoot for 1972 Oak Baked Beans cinema advertisement. IMAGE: Kelvin Peach Collection, NZ Film Archive. REMEMBER Bata Bullets, Leggs pantyhose and Fanta sold in bottles? With the launch of a new online poll, nostalgic telly addicts are getting the chance to revisit some of New Zealand’s ...
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• Kiwi from Timeless Treasures

  
  Pipersgirls's Weblog — Authority: 118
  The fabric is flowing into the shop like crazy. There are a lot of fabulous new prints but I especially love this collection called “Kiwi” from Timeless Treasures. Usually I would not pink lime and pink as my favorite colors, but these fabrics change my mind! If you are Lecien lover, get excited! We have over 100 ...
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• you’re so money, prince brendon

  
  cricket with balls — Authority: 473
  The first reason why I should be coach is I am not scared of kicking the ass of the “stars”. The important moment in the film Swingers is when Mike’s friend Sue goes gangsta on a bunch of dudes, and then turns on Mike and gives him a spray about his life. He uses the phrase little whiney bitch repeatedly. ...
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• my cap is back in the ring

  
  cricket with balls — Authority: 473
  The New Zealand cricket community is feeling uneasy at the moment, it is a kiwi karmic cry for help, and I know it is me who they want to fix it. When Andy Moles was originally selected as the 5th option to coach the kiwis I was obviously the 6th. I understand why they went with Moles, and now I am sure they would ...
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• Organic Grace Christmas Card

  
  Kelly Stamps — Authority: 123
  Im lucky enough to have all the level one Hostess Sets from the current catalogue & although I love the look of the Organic Grace set I havent had much opportunity to use it...until the other day. I was thinking the fern is very Kiwi Christmas (ish), so I whipped up a Christmas card with it. I ...
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• Win Free Trips to New Zealand

  
  Kiwibloke — Authority: 103
  If you have a twitter account, you can win one of 30 free trips to New Zealand courtesy of Air New Zealand and Kitweets. Sign up here . Another great Post from: Kiwibloke Win Free Trips to New Zealand Related posts: Twitter For Restaurants In New Zealand (Video) A young Kiwi Entrepreneur has developed a ...
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• Kiwi teacher says she posted nude pics on the web to annoy beau

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Melbourne, November 03 (ANI): The teacher from New Zealand who has been surrounded with controversy after stripping for Australian penthouse has said that she did it to annoy her boyfriend.Rachel Whitwell revealed that she tried to check if her lover/porn photographer Steve Crow, was loyal to him by sending him ...
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• Foreshore and Seabed — indigenism, ‘One Nation’-ism, and internal division

  
  Kiwipolitico — Authority: 486
  In the first few days of July I began writing a post about the report of the Foreshore and Seabed Review Panel. Due to absurd busi-ness* I never got it finished. Since the government has this week responded to the review panel’s findings, two months after it undertook to do so, by kicking the issue [...]
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• Beauty Products that make you feel like you’re on Vacation

  
  Bravadora — Authority: 98
  When daily routine gets old and the cold weather begins…sometimes the only place you really want to be is on a warm, sandy tropical beach. Here are a few beauty products that can help you feel like you are on vacation instead of in your bathroom shower: Coconut Body Butter by The Body Shop: ...
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