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Durbo's Double Delight - Luke Durbridge Claims Australian Road Crown

Western Australia's Luke Durbridge has pulled off a herculean in the Elite Men's road race at the Mars Cycling Australia Road National Championships to claim his second green and gold jersey in five days, becoming the first male in the professional era to win the time trial and the road race.

Overexposed to the Curse of Once-Off Economic Growth

The good thing about digging holes is that you can fill them back up again. You get two bursts of economic activity from the one project. Heck, you could employ two people to do the job instead of just one. A hole digger and a hole filler.

China’s GDP: Still Making Up the Numbers

Well here we go. Let the countdown begin. China's fourth quarter GDP numbers come out on Friday. We reckon most of the run up in the All Ords to 4751 has been in anticipation of good news. If form holds, stocks will trade down once the news is in.

6 Provocative Financial Predictions for 2013 and Beyond

Someday, someone will fund an academic study identifying the crevice in the human brain that craves year-end predictions for the coming 12 months. Wherever it resides, it is undeniably strong and far more prevalent among the populace than the craving for news about, say, the 'fiscal cliff' or the New York Jets' quarterback saga.

A Sing in the Top of the Aussie Dollar

Jacob Lew has been nominated to be the next Treasury Secretary of the United States. Mr Lew is an Obama Administration loyalist and insider, and is committed to the President's strategy of taxing his way out of America's $16.4 trillion deficit.

Let the Iron Ore Wars Begin!

The iron ore price is quickly becoming a focal point in the dispute between resource bulls and bears. It's kind of like a Rorschach blot test for investors. What you see in the price may tell you more about yourself than it tells you about iron ore.

Vitamin D Builds Stronger Muscles

Working out and want to build stronger muscles without dangerous steroids? Getting older and worried you are losing muscle strength? New research just published in the January edition of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, concludes there could well be an all-natural answer. An association between vitamin D and significantly stronger muscles was found that could not be explained away by other factors.

System D: An Economy that Actually Works

It's been around longer than any official, state sanctioned economy. Call it, if you like, the 'original' economy. It is resilient. It is adaptive. And it will continue to exist and thrive regardless of whatever financial crisis slams the rest of the world in the future.

MGM China’s Plan of New Casino in Macau Approved

MGM China Holdings Ltd, a venture between Pansy Ho and MGM Resorts International, received an approval from the Macau authorities to build a second casino in the world's No. 1 gambling hub, according to a statement released on the 9th January.

Hand Signals for the Blind

I wrote the following article almost 40 years ago in my third year of medical school. It was published in The Tupper Times, Dalhousie Medical School, December 1976. I think the only reason I wasn't kicked out of med school was because nobody was around for the Christmas holidays when it was published!

California Fitness Insanity: City Demands 15 Percent of Fitness Instructors' Revenues for Training People in Public Parks

It is a burgeoning trend all across the country, especially as increasing amounts of people couple their personal fitness goals with local community-building efforts. But fitness groups that meet and train with paid instructors at public parks throughout the city of Santa Monica in California could soon face increased costs as a result of new user fees being considered by local officials.

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