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Yulimar Rojas and Mondo Duplantis (© Dan Vernon) As this extraordinary year draws to a close, we look back at the key moments of 2020 in each area of the sport. The series continues today with a review of the jumping disciplines.   Men’s high jump While Covid-19 seems to have impacted this event in a big way, performance levels were already down before the pandemic struck. Five athletes shared an indoor world lead of 2.33m earlier in the year, the lowest world indoor lead in 37 years. Outdo...

Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER Singles or couples can pay as little as $200,000 to secure assisted home ownership in a new Queenstown apartment building. Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust owns 50 of the 78 units in the first building of the Toru complex below Frankton’s Remarkables Park Town entre, which was completed this week. The trust’s putting 25 one- and two-bedroom apartments into its ‘secure home’ programme, which this year attracted a government intere...

Friday, 18 December, 2020 - 13:25 PÅ«kaha National Wildlife Centre has published a children’s story based on the real-life adventures of three juvenile north island brown kiwi. The picture book is aimed at young readers and the wildlife centre will put the proceeds from sales towards its two-fold conservation initiatives; restoring native forest and breeding rare native species for release into the wild. Three Little Kiwi has been written by PÅ«kaha ranger Tara Swan who has worked a...

Pēpi steps: Two mothers on creating taonga with te reo Māori Essays Celebrating a new series of the beloved Reo Pēpi bilingual board books, we have essays from Kitty Brown (Ngāi Tahu) who creates the books with her cousin Kirsten Parkinson, and Helen Steemson, a Pākehā mum determined to share te reo with her Māori son.  Kitty Brown Recently, my two-year-old spoke her first words in te reo Māori. I was elated. However, not long afterward her cognitive development surpassed my reo skills...

What is the crime, exactly, that president trump is alleged toru have committed? if you dont have a crime, then what is this impeachment really all about? i mean, if we really want to find out what happened in ukraine, then let the impeachment call every politician republican and democrat who is fed at the trough. i want to know every lobbyist, every relative of politician or lobbyist who has gotten money from ukraine. let it all hang out. republican and democrat. lets see. >> sean: release the ...

Discussion on what it means to be a republican today. you know, on the democratic side folks are having a robust discussion about what it means to be a democrat, hopes, dreams and values. were not and its my hunch and i suspect the hunch of bill weld and joe walsh that we need to have a robust conversation on that side. if we dont, youre going to set up with more versions, which is what you hear on the democratic side. >> you said you were going toru. its now been more than a month, are you runn...

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The persian gulf. thats why kerry will be going around the region and explaining this to our partners, perhaps our israeli partners, why he is propping up a shiite government that until now has been read by nuri al maliki. >> and you just got to the point, the president saying we are not going to do air strikes that] another,e sect oru and yes were going to go in and train the iraqi military. but who is the iraqi military? as you aptly pointed out, if ranl is in there, theyre there to help the s...

Exposed to sea level rise, to take one example of, you know, a result of climate change. so if in fact some of these projections are going to come true, were at the point where we have to start figuring out, do we really want to build houses in this particular place, how high should the road be. i mean, youre at the point where you have to start spending money based on the assumption that things are changing around us. >> all right. lori montgomery, well keep an eye on it. thank you so much for ...

hey there, everybody. its noon in the east, 11:00 a.m. in memphis, 9:00 out west. were glad youre right here. i am t.j. holmes in today for alex. we have two new reports to tell you about what life was like for sergeant bowe bergdahl during five years in captivity by the taliban. bergdahl is currently at a military hospital in germany. the associated press now said he told officials there was torture involved. he was tortured and beaten by his captors. "the new york times" said bergd...