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Laser vs InkJet Printers: How do you decided what’s best for you? If you're thinking of buying a printer, either for work or home, then you're probably wondering whether to get an inkjet printer or a laser printer. Your choice of printer will of course depend on what you want to do with the printer, how much printing you do, how many other people will also use the printer, and, of course, how much you can afford to spend for the printer itself and the replacement ink or toner. There are a…

I’m always looking to keep my money in my wallet and my savings accounts. But I also like to be comfortable, particularly in my own home during a heat wave. If you’re ready to get proactive and dedicate a little time, you’ll enjoy a much more pleasant summer, minimizing sweat and save energy at home at the same time. Even better, you’ll benefit from these changes in the winter as well. What home improvements have you made to lower the cost of keeping cool in the hot summer months? Add eco…

Warren Thatcher’s Build a container Home Unleashes the secrets of Building Container Homes Have you ever considered building a home using a shipping container? Or have you ever weighed the options available to you if you want to build an affordable home in record time? Well, you may want to learn about Warren Thatcher’s Build a container home. Warren Thatcher’s Build a Container Home, is a DIY comprehensive guide for building a container home from scratch. His guide touches on the cheapest and…

Where do you live and what do you do for living? Do you like your job? These all questions might sound interesting for those who live at their own apartment or house and work somewhere he/she gets minimum of $20-$30 an hour. But the questions I presented above might be a little bit of annoying or frustrating to the farmers in California whom I met in the article, “In the Strawberry Fields” by Eric Schlosser. The article describes the painful story of illegal farmers hidden behind the red…

statement of fact which is relied on by the receiving party. In this scenario, Percy relied on the statement given by the estate agent: ‘ that the garden amounts to 1.5 acres. In reality, as would be obvious to anyone with any experience in such matters, the garden is less than three- quarters of an acre in size.’ and was induced to enter into a contract. As such, the estate agent in including Percy to enter a contract for the purchase of the property has made certain statements which later…

Introduction There are numerous similarities between a wall air conditioner and a window air conditioner, but the main intention of the former is not to place it on a window. Wall air conditioners are placed directly within the wall of the building. Well, if you already have an air conditioning unit at your home, no worries! The only difference between the wall air conditioner and the central air conditioner is that the former can be mounted to the wall of the building. It also comes with a…

PROS OF RENTING The main reason why renting is better than buying is because you don't need a capital to do it. You need to have a few months rent as a deposit for the landlord, but they are not going to be as much money as the one needed to buy a house. The second reason why renting is good is because it leaves you free to leave the apartment whenever you want (or with a very short notice period). This is good if your work required you to travel a lot and you need to change where you live…

Two vendors, Ms. Bud and Ms. Weiser, operate on a beach. They are required to charge the same price, but they can choose where to locate themselves on the beach. Their customers, sunbathers, do not like to be near each other, so they are spread evenly along the beach. Sunbathers are also averse to walking, so they purchase one can of beer from the vendor closest to them. If one vendor, say, Ms. Bud, had already chosen her location, where should her rival, Ms. Weiser, place herself? Who are the…

Do you have a spare room and you are planning to create a laundry room? If so, then you must purchase the right household appliances, in order to ease your life and find the whole job more enjoyable. If you do not know what units to get, then here is how to choose the right appliances for your laundry room. What type of washing machine do you need? In case you don't know how to choose the right appliances for your laundry room, then what you must do is to start with choosing a good washing…

The topic of the discussion/ lecture was about gentrification in Pilsen, a lower West Side community area on the West Side of Chicago. In the discussion I learned that gentrification is the process of renovating a district or community so that it conforms to middle class state. It was commented how property values have increased, rents have increased, and the number of low income Latino families has decreased. Pilsen is losing Hispanics, particularly Hispanic families because rents are so high.…