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    Health Centres / Gyms

    £40 a month for gym and squash court access here, and thats a local small privately run establishment. If you are looking at the larger chains such as Virgin Active then I know of people who happily pay over £80 a month for swankier surroundings and TVs to watch while they exercise. The other...
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    AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

    Blood letting was certainly common for a whole range of ailments, not sure hypertension was that well known in medieval times however :-k Steve
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    iPad connectivity USB

    Its the major limitation on me actually getting an iPad - the fact that it cannot be used as a workstation/laptop replacement. Holding files in the 'cloud' is fine if you are located in one place, but trying to do so on a train or when travelling is impossible due to signal drop out. The...
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    How Greek bailouts work!!!

    Unfortunately, the hotelier owes the butcher over 1000 Euros. He therefore needs further handouts from the wealthy German tourist. The German tourist will only provide these if the hotelier signs over the deeds to the hotel as security. The Greek hotelier must now decide whether to sign over...
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    Sabre toothed cat puzzle

    Now that I do like - was it cut from a pattern? Would also like to know if it was cut from two timbers or a single timber and then pieces alternately stained, its a little difficult to tell from the photo. Well done! Steve
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    Rutlands.

    Thats correct Mike - trouble is they state stuff is available without any clue as to whether the supplier actually has it or can get it. As evidenced by my 3 months fob off (sorry, wait for delivery) and eventual cancellation of a SIP table saw. Rubbish customer service but it does keep their...
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    Options for boarding garage ceiling and walls?

    OSB rules! If you want loads then check out e-bay. It can be a bugger to paint nicely however, so if a good finish is high on your list of priorities then go for ply Steve
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    Workshop insulation options (keeping costs down)

    Have a look at secondsandco.co.uk for seconds sheet insulation. I have used them and am happy to recommend them. Their stock varies depending on whats currently available as a second. Steve
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    5 years from now

    My only advice, not working in high end furniture manufacture, would be to ensure that whatever you borrow - make sure your house is not at risk if the company goes belly-up.
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    Public sector strikes

    I think you are missing a rather important point Jack - your contribution to your pension in a year does not equal 1/80th of your final salary. This is the way most final salary schemes used to work, with the employer contributing to the pot as well. For example, the scheme I was in took an...
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    Living with the Amish

    I found it quite interesting in some ways and depressing in others. I believe it was a follow-on programme from one last year in which some Amish teens experienced a Western lifestyle. It was at least not an exploitative programme, which it very easily could have been. Not entirely sure the...
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    Degree?

    Oh Dear, what a lot of mis-information and confusion! I work in a medical school as a Statistical Geneticist and Senior Lecturer and do indeed teach Darwinian theroy (and lots else besides) to medical students and biomedical science students. As to why this is useful, let me outline the course...
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    RIP Steve Jobs

    Downwards I fear Steve
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    Concrete Round Over - How to?

    I second the guttering idea - I made a threshold for our garden path using this method to round over the facing edge and it worked a treat. Just make sure to tamp properlyto get a nice face! Steve
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    Doctors appointment

    The benign view would be that as more people work, so 9-5 week day appointments become less desirable so doctors are accomodating the needs of their patient demographic. GP's are also taking clinical duties which once would have been the preserve of hopsital based services such as diabetic...
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    Beagle pup

    Picture works fine - good looking pup! What did you use to round over the edges? I have only ever done intarsia, not segmentation, and reckon your pup would make a great intarsia with some light and dark woods, was it a pattern local to the UK or from the US, where they seem to be mad for this...
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    how old are you and how many hours do you work

    Personally, I think you need to take a step back and decide what you want from life and how you are going to achieve it. You say you are clearing a monkey a day - by clear I assume you mean profit rather than turnover. With a monkey being £500 thats 3 grand a week, 12 grand a month and 156 grand...
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    Pizza

    Getting back to the question in the first post - I suspect its got more to do with the rigidity imparted to the central disc by the legs than anything else. The legs prevent the disc flexing, so legs 1 and 2 are easier to remove. For leg 3 there is no integral rigidity so the disc flexes and...
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    Health alert

    Or do they have a fast hearbeat BECAUSE they are small and lose heat rapidly with a large surface area to body weight ratio? Economies of scale mean a big ol' heart need not beat so fast, as it pushes a larger volume of blood for each beat. As for living longer - most animals in nature are...
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    The AV Debate

    But the problem there Pete is 'where do you site the MP enough people voted for'. AV can, as you say, redistribute the vote. But in safe seats this still makes very little difference if the votes cast count only for that seat. If the votes count on an England wide basis and you allocate MPs...
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