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Brisbane 2032 Bid Reaches Milestone 04/08/21 (ATR) In the week when Seoul announced a proposal to jointly host an Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032 with South and North Korea, Brisbane quietly delivered its latest 2032 submission to the IOC. Brisbane, Australia (Wikimedia Commons) This milestone in the IOC’s “targeted dialogue” phase with Queensland’s Capital City required the Australians to provide firmer detail on their plans to organize the Olympics and Paralympics. Brisbane and...

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FIBA.basketball Nauris Miezis named FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2020 MVP RIGA (Latvia) - Nauris Miezis was named MVP of the 9th edition of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour by his peers on December 30, 2020.    The jury of 108 players who competed at the World Tour in 2020 rewarded the 29-year-old Latvian after a stellar season, which saw him win 2 individual awards (Doha Masters and Jeddah Final MVP) and 3 team trophies with Team Riga (Hungary and Doha Masters, Jeddah Final).  Miezis elevated his game in the...

Columnist Nanci Bond of Williamsburg, Virginia, is an aficionado of figure skating. She can tell you when an axel jump was perfect, a Waltz jump not adequate, or a toe loop only so-so. Whenever an important international competition is taking place and is broadcast on TV, she brings it to my attention. After all, my wife, and I lived in Lake Placid, known as the winter sports capital of the United States, the site of two Winter Olympics and the training ground of many U.S. figure skaters who b...

>> john: so we raised the price of used cars. >> we reduce the cars given to charity. we barely affected the environment and we spent several billion dollars. >> why doesnt the government butt out? >> you cant create a program that is going to make everybody happy. the larger goal for cash for clunkers were hoonlable. >> he can leave with that but can taxpayers? on to promise number nine, congress must guarantee americans a living wage, only fair. protestors and politicians agree wages should be...

Sports. >> john: girls are more likely to work on the year book. boys want to smash into things, we are just different. >> maybe boys want to smash into each other but girls wanted to flip around the floors and girls wanted to swim. >> john: they had more than a hundred division one teams. today there are just 17. >> it will have a huge impact on the u.s.a. program. >> he says title nine will kill the u.s. olympic program. >> gymnastics can have 6.3 scholarships. how can any person look at that ...

You can see the people going in to buy cars because the government is subsidizing the purchase of cars. what you cant see what people would have bought if the government wasnt suction dies go the pir of cars. maybe they would added the room into their house, maybe they would have put it into a savings account to save for college. >> john: there were other unintended consequences. >> the cash for clunkers program could hurt you if you buy a used car. >> john: used cars went up $1800 because other...

>> they may need to suspend the program. >> john: instead congress appropriated more money and more cars were destroyed, more success. how far can i carry this principle? i know what to do. lets destroy this. economy is struggling. we need to stimulate the economy. this will do it. by destroying some things and theyll have to make new ones. that will create jobs. stimulate, stimulate! >> why is it good to destroy usable stuff? >> cars that were taken off the road were still d but at the same tim...

>> they may need to suspend the program. >> john: instead congress appropriated more money and more cars were destroyed, more success. how far can i carry this principle? i know what to do. lets destroy this. economy is struggling. we need to stimulate the economy. this will do it. by destroying some things and theyll have to make new ones. that will create jobs. stimulate, stimulate! >> why is it good to destroy usable stuff? >> cars that were taken off the road were still drivable, but at the ...

Economy. >> it was good for suppliers. it is good for workers. >> john: i should destroy more stuff! >> cash for clunkers may be the dumbest policy ever. >> david bose and jeremy anwill point out the increase in cars sold simply stole sales from months b after. >> what is missing most of the cars that were sold under the program would have been sold anyway. >> john: progressives pointed out that cash for clunkers did increase car sales. they steal sfrit future years? >> it does. that is what sti...