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Love the idea, but have a few health issues that I am attending to at the moment. However, I will be happy to share any local knowledge I have if you feel that you need any. Landrover Defender and Toyota Hilux (both diesel) are both hardy and dependable 4X4 vehicles and there will be local...

Certainly doable, from past experience I believe that you would need 2 couples in two separate vehicles, approx 1-2 months and a rigged out 4X4 vehicle with a rooftop tent, a camper fridge, dual vehicle batteries, basic cooking equipment, a GPS, good maps, 2 jerry tanks for extra fuel, if...

Mmm! "Aerobic exercise.... chronically raises cortisol........results in persistent inflammation - weird combination of claims since cortisol is a potent inhibitor of inflammation. An article in - Inflammation 2012, December 19 says " (Abstract). Physical activity has been shown to lower...

Unthinkable with Samuel Jackson and the film asks the question as to whether torture is ever acceptable and uses the "Ticking bomb scenario" as a baseline plot. One cannot avoid being pulled in and making a judgement call.

Semantics, I know, can be irritating. However, when discussing medical symptoms or signs, clarity can be important. I take it that you have looked up Achlorhydria/Hypochlorhydria?

There may be confusion about the mechanism of heartburn - heartburn implies acid in the oesophagus which burns the alkaline mucosa (hence the term heartburn) and the problem is not excessive acid but an incompetent LES (lower esophageal sphincter). PPI's do not stop you from refluxing but reduce...

I was on Ramipril for 2 months for systolic hypertension and developed this irritating dry cough which I ignored until I started becoming short of breath. I was aware that Ramipril (an ACE inhibitor) could cause a dry cough in about 3% of patients on it, but the shortness of breath was alarming...

I found the strange silence of winter surprising and unexpected - no dogs barking, no bird sounds, and no insect sounds and snow seems to act as a natural sound absorber. In the middle of winter at -20 C or lower, water vapor from car exhausts does not evaporate and the excess of water vapor...

Cold? My biggest fear is that (having just retired) getting out of a vehicle at Walmart (in winter the parking areas are always covered with a thin film of ice), slipping, falling and breaking a hip, getting pulmonary thrombolism after surgery and dying - more common than you think. I used to...

Is the 250-300k before or after tax income, if it is before tax income, using a basic Aussie tax calculator on the internet, the tax on that would be about 108k on 300k which would mean that you are projecting living expenses @ 42k PA and saving the rest ??

17 days to go, I have just finished a week on call and it has been brutal. The first farewell will be on Friday and I have yet to work on my farewell speech, I would have been happy to walk off in the sunset but I feel strongly about thanking the people who made my work so much more enjoyable...

Good and valid points, but that doesn't entirely explain the difference between the childless couples and those with children. Looking at the mean net worth (which probably reflects the higher income earners) rather than the median, there is still a difference but it is not as pronounced. We...

It is an eye opener to see how much higher the median networth is for families without children when compared to families with children - raising children seems even more expensive than I had believed. 2010 figures $205,700 vs $86,700 (median).

We live in a communal property country, so everything belongs to both of us, we have a joint and separate accounts. I have children from a previous marriage, which may complicate things in the future. We have been married for >30 years and I have never had any reason not to trust her...

Not as far I have searched, withholding tax is determined in my experience by the country in which company is domiciled, and not by the country in which the ADR's/ADS's are quoted (provided that there is a taxation agreement to avoid double taxation). There are several similar dual class...