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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• Laid off

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 478
  Andrew Jones was laid off by Church Mission Society today which is a difficult blow at anytime but especially during this time of global economic duress. Anyway. Its a hard thing to receive a redundancy letter, despite how nice your employer has been about it. Its like getting dumped by a girlfriend. Its a ...
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• Insensitive and hypersensitive

  
  Kiwipolitico — Authority: 483
  In the Insensitivity and hypersensitivity paper I referred to previously, Raymond Nairn and Timothy McCreanor studied submissions to the Human Rights Commission in response to the Haka Party Incident in which He Taua, including one Hone Harawira, broke up an offensive Auckland University engineering school mock-haka ...
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• Kiwi Silhouette Round Stickers by silhouette_emporium

  
  Annalee's Shopping Blog — Authority: 122
  Black and white silhouette shapes of the New Zealand kiwi bird. Kiwi Silhouette by silhouette_emporium Make stickers on Zazzle
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• Alam not worried by Saqlain’s presence in Kiwi camp

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Lahore, Nov.24 (ANI): Pakistan cricket coach Intikhab Alam is not bothered about former off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq’s presence in the Kiwi camp.Alam said Saqlain, who has been appointed as New Zealand’s bowling consultant, would not give hosts any advantage in the Dunedin Test beginning Tuesday (today).“Cricket ...
  3 days ago

• When Prince William bumped into naked Kiwi rugby players

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 24 (ANI): Prince William came face-to-face with a rather embarrassing situation when he bumped into naked All Blacks rugby team players during his New Zealand visit.The 27-year-old British royal had arranged to meet the players, but strolled in as they were still in the showers.“The Prince did a bit of a ...
  3 days ago

• The season to protest

  
  Signposts - a blog about Te Ara the Encyclopedia of New Zealand — Authority: 112
  The 1975 Māori land march or hīkoi – a defining moment in New Zealand history Mid-November is the beginning of the festive season, marked by spectacular Santa parades through city streets. This year Santa is facing competition from a series of street protests. Last Tuesday some 6,000 motorcyclists rumbled ...
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• World snooker: On Yee to take on Parashis in woman’s finals

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Anand PhilarHyderabad, Nov 23 (IANS) Ng On Yee, the 19-year old from Hong Kong-China scripted a brilliant 4-3 win against Ramona Belmont of New Zealand to enter the final of the women’s World Snooker Championship here Monday.In Tuesday’s final, On Yee, who for two years running won the Hong Kong Under-21 ...
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• Playing With XPath Expressions in The xmllint Shell

  
  openSUSE Lizards — Authority: 127
  When XML is transformed into something else, in most cases XSLT comes to play. One of the challenges of XSLT is to select just the nodes you are interested in. This task is done by XPath , “a query language for selecting nodes from a XML document.” However, it can be tedious to create a XPath expression, run ...
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• We don’t want kiwi thugs: Australian police

  
  Apartheid New Zealand — Authority: 429
  Aussies are up to their eyebrows with kiwi crimesA teenage New Zealand thug has won an appeal against an Australian deportation order, however an Australian police union says he shouldn’t have been allowed to stay there.“We were happy to take Phar Lap and Russell Crowe [from New Zealand,] but we’re not happy to ...
  4 days ago

• Kiwi Sorbet

  
  Always Order Dessert — Authority: 468
  The desserts on my fake-Thanksgiving table were a bit more colorful than the usual shades of orange and um ...pecan that usually fill the holiday table. But as someone who has little interest in pumpkin pie or corn syrup pie (which, lets face it, is actually what pecan pie is), I decided to try a few new things for ...
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• How to Peel a Kiwi (A Video Tutorial)

  
  Always Order Dessert — Authority: 468
  One of my many plans for the upcoming year, is to incorporate video tutorials and podcasts here on the blog. Im starting this today with my very first video tutorial. Its a quick, two-minute video where I show you my favorite technique for peeling a kiwi fruit. You dont need any special equipment and its a great way ...
  4 days ago

• Southern Encounter Kiwi

  
  Family Times — Authority: 127
  See live kiwi in the centre of Christchurch at Southern Encounter Aquarium & Kiwi House. www.southernencounter.co.nz. Tags: Aquarium, Christchurch animals, Kiwi, kiwi house, Southern Encounter
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• Asif targeting Kiwi series to announce his Test comeback

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Karachi, Nov.22 (ANI): Tainted Pakistani fast bowler Mohammed Asif is aiming to utilise the three match Test series against New Zealand to announce his come back on the international cricketing scene.Asif, who was banned from international cricket for a year on doping charges, said the break proved to be a blessing in ...
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• Working with the Ministry

  
  WebWeaver's World — Authority: 100
  Earlier on in the year we were given the opportunity to pitch for a re-design job on the Ministry for the Environments website , which we won. Sue and I were completely thrilled - its the first Government client that WebWeaver Productions has pitched for (although Ive worked on over 50 government websites as a ...
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• PCB undecided on sending Misbah to New Zealand

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Karachi, Nov.21 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is undecided on sending middle order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq to New Zealand as a replacement for Younis Khan.PCB insiders said the selectors have decided to send Misbah to New Zealand for the three match Test series, but not before the first Test, which will get ...
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• MORE FALLING LEAVES / TESC #91 & CQC#7...

  
  Snappy Stampin' w/ Arielle — Authority: 129
  Maybe this is the last of the Thanksgiving cards...... who knows? Taylors sketch was the last thing I looked at last night before I went to bed... and one of the first things I thought of when I got up... so I hurried around getting ready so I could play along before the deadline this morning! I ...
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• AUD and NZD Decline on Reduced Risk Appetite

  
  Forex Trading Education : Forex Trading Blog by FOREXYARD — Authority: 142
  The Australian and New Zealand Dollars headed for their first weekly loss against the USD this month as well as their first weekly decline versus the Yen in three weeks as Asian equities extended a global slump, reducing demand for higher yielding assets. Putting further pressure on the South Pacific currencies was ...
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• The Word on the Street

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 129
  I originally blogged this back in April of 2008, when this blog was hosted at e4God.com, but after speaking with someone today about Rob Lacey’s Street Bible and The Liberator, I thought I’d take one more run at this topic while you can still buy copies of both in remainder bins at Christian bookstores. ...
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• Opinion: Kiwi$ world’s worst performing currency overnight as global growth fears re-emerge

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 560
  By Mike Jones The NZD/USD has been the worst performing currency over the past 24 hours. From around 0.7450 this time yesterday, NZD/USD has slipped around 1.5 cents to 0.7300. Cracks in the NZD’s armour first appeared yesterday afternoon after strong Japanese NZD selling at the Tokyo fix. NZD/JPY slipped from ...
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• Electorate Projections

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 627
  Kiwi Poll Guy applies his maths to the current poll ratings, to project how many electorate seats each party could expect – based on overall poll ratings. Currently National has 41 seats, Labour 21, Maori 5 and one each to ACT, United and Progressive. KPG projects: National 50 Labour 12 ACT 1 Maori 5 – 6 ...
  1 week ago

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