have a low emittance (0.1 or less) and high reflectance (0.9 or more). Using strips and excluders to draught proof gaps around door and window frames can save you around £30 a year on heating bills. With gaps filled‚ less cold air can enter your home. Several types of materials are used for draught proofing‚ including brushes‚ foams‚ sealants‚ strips and shaped rubber or plastic. Draught proofing is an easy and cost-effective way for owners and tenants to reduce heat loss‚ with most materials
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passed on from generation to generation to understand what happened before them. Sometimes these stories can be true‚ other times they are false. This is what happened to the people of many Indian tribes. As stated in Paul Chaat Smith’s article‚ Home of the Brave‚ several false books were written about the Indian people’s history. These false writings are just one of many issues and struggles Indians have had to live with their entire lives. Paul Chaat Smith focuses on several different aspects
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Libby Hathorn’s book Way Home focuses on Shane‚ a street kid who stumbles upon a cat that he adopts and cares for like a real person. The little amount of words in the book gives you the main storyline‚ but it is Gregory Roger’s pictures that steal the show. The pictures show exactly what the author is trying to portray‚ allowing for many themes and motifs to be introduced through the pictures‚ giving the story a second dimension. The first page of the story is a particularly good example of pictures
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Spiritual Growth in Ben There are times when Christians all fall short in our walk with Christ and go through a tough struggle to regain those steps back. Ben Fielding is a magnificent example of this point. Randy Alcorn‚ author of Safely Home‚ expressed the spiritual growth in Ben Fielding’s life during the numerous weeks he spent with Li Quan. After college‚ Ben fell into a large amount of mistakes and dramatic experiences such as his adultery‚ divorce‚ job‚ death‚ and his visit
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smart home is an application of computing to the home environment and it is monitored by ambient intelligence to provide services and facilitate remote home control. This paper presents an overview of previous research on smart home as well as the related technologies. A brief discussion about smart homes and their interrelationships is presented here. It describes combined information about sensors‚ communication protocols‚ multimedia devices‚ and systems‚ which are widely used in smart home implementation
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As I lay on my bed I started to reminisce about how the farm used to look. The farm was distant from all the noise almost as if deserted from society. It was not a fancy house but everything that surrounded it contributes to that special feeling of home. Every summer when I would visit I remembered that it had a tall burgundy fence around it and a very long path to get to the main house. When I would arrive at the farm‚ I knew that it was special the smell was something unexplainable and unordinary
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Lately‚ home schooling has become a very popular option so it is important that we know all the details about home schooling‚ including the disadvantages. It is important for parents to understand the disadvantages of home schooling before making such a life changing decision. Home schooling removes the opportunity for a child to interact with other children that can be provided in a classroom setting. Also‚ parents often find they are lacking in knowledge and the willingness for sacrifice that
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A Home in Fiction – Geraldine Brooks Boyer Lectures 2011: ‘The Idea of Home’ Audience: Immediate audience were those listening to the Boyer Lectures Lectures broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National on Sydney afternoons The audience is intelligent and well-informed audience with an interest in the areas of science‚ books‚ religion‚ social history‚ the arts and current affairs. Brookes’ lecture: those who are lovers of fiction and those who seek to be familiar with recent intellectual/ academic ideas
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BROKEN HOME Good afternoon to my esteemed teacher and to all of my friends. This afternoon‚ I want to thank God for giving us a sunny day today‚ and also to ma’am Sinur who has given me the opportunity to give a speech about the broken home. First of all‚ I want to tell what exactly is the meaning of broken home. Broken home is a situation where there is chaos in the family‚ and result in psychological pressure on the victim. Parents no longer care for their children‚ both problems at home‚ school
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Business Finance Final project paper 03-14/14 The Home depot financial report Table of contents Company introduction..............2 Executive summary...................2 Company financial position.......3 Questions from assignments.......3-4 Graph with weekly analysis..........6 Weekly analysis of the change in the price of your stock...7 A weekly analysis of the change in the S&P 500....7 Major competitors....7
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