While waiting for the egg timer or the microwave heating your oatmeal to go off, use the kitchen counter for support, and get going with 20 calf raises and 20 lunges and 20 counter push-ups.

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This primarily white ceramic toast cooker boasts a simplified design, a single-feed toaster, and a V-shaped rack to hold the toast for use on the kitchen table.

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The first half of the book focuses more on things you can make for everyday use, to keep around the kitchen, while the second half is more traditional recipes for entertaining, from starters to desserts.

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It can be in the living room wall as a media hub or use it in the kitchen for reference and it's still powerful enough to play the latest and greatest PC games.

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At the Rain Centre, Mr Sekhar, a physics professor, demonstrates that rain falling on a typical Chennai flat roof can be gathered for use by the household in the kitchen and bathroom, and the rest channelled into wells where it can be used or go to replenish the water table.

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If you've never heard of such a thing, Acer is hoping you'll use as a kitchen PC, or as an external monitor for keeping an eye on things like email.

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Warren wants to use the funds for her for-profit arm, which is currently in development, literally at the kitchen table.

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