Advantages: makes nails look tidier, cheap
Disadvantages: Can only buy from Avon

...My fingernails always tend to look a bit ratty, but I don’t usually wear nail varnish, because it always tends to chip off and look worse. I bought ‘advanced mira-cuticle vanishing complex’ (now there’s a name that just rolls off the tongue), from the Avon website a few months ago, when I was having a little bit of a spending spree, and I absolutely love it. Let me tell you why…. ~ What is it? ~ This is a product designed to get rid of hard, dry cuticles (the skin around your nails), and soften them to give a neater look to your nails, while also moisturising. It contains Alpha Hydroxy Acid, which helps to gently dissolve the cuticles, as well as vitamin E and Aloe Vera, both of which have soothing and softening properties. ~ How to use it ~ The skin around the cuticles should be clean before using this. To use, simply apply... Read review

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Advantages: Requires only a cold water supply and electricty to produce a consistent shower.
Disadvantages: It isn't an invigorating shower when the temperature is turned up.

...to the wall over the bath or shower tray) and this is then heated and released through the shower head. The faster the water is fed through the unit the cooler the water will be, so if you want an invigorating shower it’s going to have to be a cooler one. If you want a hot shower then you should think in terms of it being soothing. So, my vision of a hot, invigorating shower trickled down the plug hole. “But” said the bathroom man, sensing his sale disappearing with it “if you have a more powerful shower it will be capable of heating more water per minute and you will get a more invigorating shower!” “Which”, I asked “is your most powerful electric shower?” Proudly he invited me to examine his Mira Advance. There, I got there in the end. At 9.8kW the Mira Advance was the most powerful electric shower available and whilst I didn’t quite... Read review

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Advantages: Punctual, Leather Seats, Friendly Staff
Disadvantages: None for me personally

...Back in October 2003 my girlfriend and I flew to Luxor,Eygpt with Excel Airways, I had only heard about this airline via a friend who said they were famed for their punctuality and comfort, this I found out to be was very accurate……… = About Excel Airways Excel Airways has only been flying since 1999, however don't be alarmed as it is one of many trading division's of the Excel Group and is fully bonded by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Air Transport Organisers License (ATOL) 1999. The Excel Group consists of the following divisions…… Excel Aviation: the commercial selling division of the Excel company and its main interests are the bulk sale of its seats to many major Tour Operators Excel24: which concerns itself with the arrangement of chartering not only its own aircraft but acting... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap. Easy to Install. Replacement parts readily available.
Disadvantages: Its not a power shower. Cannot be used with a combi boiler

...When we bought our new house about a year ago, we discovered to our dismay that the shower that was fitted had an aversion to hot water. As it was a cheap generic brand that was fitted all across the estate when it was built, we found that we couldn't find a replacement thermostat to repair it. However, now many months later we have gotten around to purchasing a new one, and the model we have gone for is the Mira Gem 88. Mira are one of the best-known suppliers of showers both here in the UK and abroad, and so any problems could be easily fixed, as replacement parts are plentiful. The Gem 88 is a simple mixer shower, as we didn't want the extra expense of having electricity supplied to either a power shower of electric one. We purchased it from B&Q for £220, although I am sure you can get one in most hardware stores. As we know... Read review

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Advantages: Great Spreadsheet, very helpful!
Disadvantages: Costs

...Excel is a program that just about every computer user will have experienced at some point in their life, but few home users actually use it's full power. Not that I do either, in fact I use only a small handful of the features that Excel offers, but I recently discovered that Excel is more useful than I once thought. For anyone who doesn't know, Excel is a spreadsheet. What a spreadsheet is, exactly, is quite hard to describe, but put simply Excel give you a blank table full of empty boxes. What you do with these boxes is up to you, you can simply enter data, then use excel to draw a bar graph for you - quite useful for kids homework. You may be doing a science experiment and need to work out some values from the results you got, using Excel you can quickly do calculations because once you've worked out the correct formula, you can... Read review

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Advantages: Bill and Ted, an excellent adventure, historical kidnapping, Rufus, what more do you want?
Disadvantages: 80's production values might put the CGI excessive blockbuster monkey lovers off...

...BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989) Bill S Preston. Esq (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) are flunking history. Convinced that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife and Caesar was a righteous salad dressing dude, they have little hope of passing their final history assignment in a most triumphant fashion. For the bodacious chums this is rather bogus. Flunking history means they flunk out of school, flunking out of school means Ted will be sent to Military Academy by his over-bearing police chief father and with the twosome split up, the aspirations for their band, the triumphantly named Wyld Stallions, hits a brick wall. And so does a future society featuring high bowling averages, low mini-golf scores and a planet full of excellent waterslides. For the inhabitants of San Dimas in 2688, the basis of this most excellent... Read review

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Advantages: Great Staff, Nice Meal, Good Inflight Entertainment
Disadvantages: None

...I know it's a bit of a crappy title but I couldn't think of anything. I have flew with excel airways only once and I think they deliver an excellent service. Excel airways have only been in existence for three month's since there first flight from Gatwick airport which was described as the most glamorous take-off ever seen. Inside the plane is very spacious, the legroom you get is much better than any plane I have travelled with before and they have a selection of magazines available under the seats ready for you to read. The staffs run you through every safety regulation before take-off and also give you complimentary sweets. I was flying to lefkas in Greece, which took around three hours to get there, and the flight was very pleasant. The entertainment was good on the flight out to Greece we saw spy kids, which was a very... Read review

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Advantages: Friendly staff, nice flight
Disadvantages: loosing my bagge, slow response from airline

...Well as I'm sure many of you know (and are probably fed up of hearing about now), we went on holiday in September to Tenerife. We were flying EXCEL airways. We have never flown with these before but my mum had on a couple of occasions and couldn't fault them. On arrival at Gatwick with tons of time to spare we thought we'd go and see where to book in thinking it was early and we'd be at the front of the que of people...how wrong! Excel had about four flights checking in on as many desks so the que was pretty massive. It moved steadily and soon we were at the front. We were asked all of the usual about packing our own bags etc. The check in staff were okay but not overly friendly. Oh well they couldn't dampen my spirits we were going on holiday! One thing I did find strange was they didn't ask to see our hand luggage (I... Read review

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Advantages: Highly evocative, technical, beautiful, and smart
Disadvantages: None

...In 1998, Chantal Passamonte, a.k.a Mira Calix, released a small 4-track Ep by the name of Pin Skeeling, which was to become the centre of attention in the Warp Records studios at the time. It was a promotional Ep in a way, mixed alongside the legendary Boards of Canada duo and Sylaphone. In 2000, Chantal would release her first full-blown album, One on One. One on One isn't Mira Calix at her best, yet is manages to illustrate her sheer understanding of the experimental and musique concrète genres. She would latter release Skimskitta (Warp, 2003) and most importantly, her 3 Commissions Ep (Warp, 2004), and thus, give birth to a composite and intelligent experimental / concrète genre, defining her as a master artist. One on One contains 16 tracks. The album has a running time of 56 minutes approx. Ms. Meteo (poolside mix... Read review

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Advantages: cheap, easy to use
Disadvantages: none

...Mira Gem 88 Shower Having moved from a flat where we only had a freestanding shower and no bath I am now loving the fact that our brand new flat has both a bath and an over bath shower. I have taken a few baths but being on the large pregnant size it is a bit of a tight squeeze and therefore I have stuck to mostly having showers. The shower fitting was of course already in place and the shower unit that was used was this Mira Gem 88 shower and I couldn’t be more pleased with it. The instruction booklet that comes with the shower has nothing of any real use inside it for me particularly as the information inside is that only of the fitting and instillation instructions. The booklet is quite comprehensive and does give a good detailed guide on how to install and to use the shower correctly. There are two booklets given... Read review

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