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Another bathroom project done! So exciting! Only three more to go, but we can ignore those for now. I've been planning this project for a while now, and just finally got around to making it. It's actually quite simple, but life happens. Now our bathroom has some rustic artwork which I adore.
Materials needed:
- 3 plywood pieces, 5"x14"
- sand paper, course and fine grit
- stain, Rust-oleum kona stain in my case
- white acrylic paint
- sponge applicator
- image printouts
- removable vinyl
- pencil
- Xacto knife
- polyurethane
- eyehooks
- twine
First things first, cut out the plywood to desired dimensions, or have your husband do it because he doesn't want you using the miter saw while pregnant. Sand all sides with a course grit sandpaper followed by a finer grit one. I used a 100 followed by a 220.
Fill in any gaps or imperfections in the wood with wood filer. Squeeze some in the holes, smooth it out with your finger or a spatula and let dry. Repeat if necessary.
Next, stain the pieces of wood in a well ventilated area. Use a rag to clean off excess stain.
If needed, do a couple of coats and let dry completely.
Get your stencils ready. I just found some images I liked online and scaled them to size. I also added a border to guide be in the placement of the stencils.
Once the images have been printed, it's time to transfer the graphic to the removable vinyl. To do this, simply rub the back of the image with a charcoal pencil. Place the image, charcoal side down, on the vinyl and trace the graphic. Make sure to also mark some of the edge marks.
Also, mark any of the loose pieces you'll have to keep for the stencil. For example, the inner pieces of the wheel.
With an Xacto knife or scissor, cut out the image to create the stencil. Remember, you're removing the parts to be painted and keeping everything else.
Carefully align and transfer the stencil to each piece of wood. Press down firmly, a rolling pin might be helpful.
With a sponge applicator, press white acrylic paint onto the stencil. You do not want to use too much acrylic at a time, so it doesn't smear or pool under the stencil.
A few light coats are better than a single thick coat.
Before the paint completely dries, carefully remove the stencils.
The edges turned out a little bit rough, but I have no problem with this. For sharper edges, you can go over them with a fine tip brush.
Seal the items with a coat or two of polyurethane.
Once dry, attach an eyehook on either side of the wood pieces.
Next, tie a 12" piece of twine to the eyehooks for hanging.
Finally, hang the pieces and marvel at their beauty.
Love how seamlessly they match the bathroom vanity!


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Quickly: Talented veteran safety... Enters senior season No. 2 on USU's career interception return yards list with 186 yards on six career interceptions, needing four to crack top-10 list.
2008 (Jr.): Started 10 games while playing in all 12... Snared three interceptions, which led USU and was tied for eighth in the WAC along with tied for 96th in NCAA... The 90 return yards was was second in the WAC and No. 10 on USU single-season list... Also made 75 tackles (44 solo, 31 assists), which was third for USU and tops for an Aggie defensive back, ranking 14th in the WAC statistics... Had season-high 10 tackles in a game twice, in season-opener at UNLV and vs. Fresno State, which was tied for fifth among USU's single-game bests... Also had 3.5 tackles for loss as well as two pass break-ups... Had interception in Idaho, Boise State and New Mexico State games.
2007 (So.): Played in all 12 games, starting 11... Third on team overall and led defensive backs with 84 tackles (45 solo, 39 assists) including 1.5 tackles for loss... Shared team lead of three interceptions, but led squad with 96 INT return yards, a total that ranked fourth in the WAC and No. 9 on USU single-season list... Had a 64-yard INT return at Utah to set up a TD... Registered double-digit tackle outings in five of last seven games of year with a season-best 15 stops in season-finale at Idaho as well as 14 against Boise State... Ranked tied for fourth in the WAC with two fumble recoveries.
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Genotype: aa.aa , cac.cac
Eyes: Pink with a pink/red pupil
History: The first Butter (Caramel x Amelanistic) cornsnake was bred by Rich Z in 1991. Whilst on vacation with his wife in Southwest Florida in 1985 they visited a pet store in Cape Coral. In the store was a tank with some wild caught cornsnakes in it, one of these corns immediately caught Rich's attention. A female with an unusual straw coloured ground colour and reddish brown blotches. This snake was purchased and was first bred with a Snow Corn male, as expected all the hatchlings were wild-type, several of these were kept back and raised for future breeding projects. The next season she was bred to an Amelanistic male and again some of the babies were held back for future breeding.
When the first group was old enough they were bred back to one another and several Amelanistic hatchlings were produced, which appeared to have more yellow pigment in them as they matured. The same results were obtained when the second group was bred. Rich kept 3 males and 5 females that were Amelanistic and also one female from each of the two clutches from the original female
1991 saw the first Butter Corns being produced by breeding the Amelanistic males to there sibling sisters and to the females he had kept back from the first clutch. The Butter babies looked like Snow corns when they hatched but there backgrounds weren't white as you might expect with a Snow. As these 'Snow' looking corns grew they deveolped more and more yellow, hence the marketing name of Butter.
Appearance: Adult Butter Corns are shades of yellow and white, they can be quite variable in appearance with some being nearly uniformily yellow. As mentioned above the hatchlings can be almost Snow looking.
Combinations: Butter Stripe, Butter Motley, Sulphur
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When I listened through the entire album for the first time a couple weeks ago, my first impression was that it's much more playful than the rest of their output. There's freedom in the way the songs are put together. I also noted that it's an extremely rhythmically complex album. Daniel's opening riffs in several of the songs leave you wondering where the downbeat is until the drums come in and announce the meter.
I've started graphing the structure of the songs, and my impression of rhythmic complexity and freedom in song form seems to be correct: "All the Rage" starts off structurally predictable (though the guitar riff is very metrically unpredictable) at 4 bars/measures of 4 beats each, repeated 4 times. The verse shares the 4 bar structure, but is only repeated 3 times, which is unusual for Interpol. Even more unusual is that the chorus is 3 bars of 4 beats, and again repeated only 3 times—>the COOLEST part being that the last bar of the chorus elides with the first bar of the next verse: The ending of one and the beginning of the other happen simultaneously. Elision is so cool in music.
What's also cool is that we got a foreshadowing of this freedom in metrical and formal structure in the last album, with "Lights" (see my post on that song).
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New Residential Housing Starts in March Below Expectations
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for March new residential housing starts.
The latest reading of 1.215M was below the Investing.com forecast of 1.250M. Revisions were made to the previous two months.
Here is the opening of this morning's monthly report:
Building Permits
Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,260,000. This is 3.6 percent (±2.8 percent) above the revised February rate of 1,216,000 and is 17.0 percent (±1.2 percent) above the March 2016 rate of 1,077,000. Single-family authorizations in March were at a rate of 823,000; this is 1.1 percent (±1.9 percent)* below the revised February figure of 832,000. Authorizations of units in buildings with five units or more were at a rate of 401,000 in March.
Housing Starts
Privately-owned housing starts in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,215,000. This is 6.8 percent (±12.5 percent)* below the revised February estimate of 1,303,000, but is 9.2 percent (±9.1 percent) above the March 2016 rate of 1,113,000. Single-family housing starts in March were at a rate of 821,000; this is 6.2 percent (±10.0 percent)* below the revised February figure of 875,000. The March rate for units in buildings with five units or more was 385,000. [link to report]
Here is the historical series for total privately-owned housing starts, which dates from 1959. Because of the extreme volatility of the monthly data points, a 6-month moving average has been included.
The Population-Adjusted Reality
Here is the data with a simple population adjustment. The Census Bureau's mid-month population estimates show substantial growth in the US population since 1959. Here is a chart of housing starts as a percent of the population. We've added a linear regression through the monthly data to highlight the trend.
A Footnote on Volatility
The extreme volatility of this monthly indicator is the rationale for paying more attention to its 6-month moving average than to its noisy monthly change. Over the complete data series, the absolute MoM average percent change is 6.3%. The MoM range minimum is -26.4% and the maximum is 29.3%.
For visual confirmation of the volatility, here is a snapshot of the monthly percent change since 1990.


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Jaypee Group officials have been booked for holding a priest captive and demolishing a temple in Nangla Nangli village, police said on Sunday.
"I had asked Jaypee officials to show me records of the land, if it belongs to them," Pawan Malik, the investigating officer said.
On Saturday, a complaint was lodged by Vijay Chauhan, resident of Nangla Nangli, against Jaypee group officials, alleging that they uprooted trees and some structures of a temple on Friday night.
The complainant also said the developers' representative held the priest captive. The temple is five decades old.


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As I often do, I put my foot in my mouth when I told my children if they got straight A's they could have $100. I may have underestimated their ability or motivation, but after seeing their mid quarter report card, I honestly didn't think they could pull it off. There were too many B's. Well, I thought there were too many. In retrospect, I basically double dog dared them to get straight A's. They triple dog dared me right back, I deserve their revenge.
This won't be happening again. The paying for good grades and underestimating my children. I am very happy that they all agreed to $50 cash and $50 in their bank account. They were enthusiastic about saving it for college, I couldn't be prouder.
Now I know why my dad didn't sign me up for sports when I was young. It is expensive. I mean "whoa, that's what is cost?" expensive. My daughters started softball a couple weeks ago. With buying almost two of everything and all the gear attached, it was close to $150. That was with thrift store shopping and some ebaying. I am just hoping we can recoup some cost next year and resale some of the equipment. I just remembered soccer registration is next month. Dang! Kids are expensive and it only gets worse, right?
The raised bed garden that I am building is almost done. The initial cost of these materials is a little frightening, but the end result will justify the money spent. (I hope) So far I have spent right around $100. This is for the supplies for the garden bed, the soil mixture and lots of seeds. Too many seeds actually, so I am looking into selling some extra vegetable plants at the local farmers' market. Our farmers' market is humorously small only a few vendors, there might be room for me and a side hustle. Wait, is it still a hustle if I don't have a full time job?
April is turning out to be a money sucking pit of a month, but it has gone by in a flash. I didn't even mention our Easter related costs. Most of these costs were budgeted for, but it's still a bit unnerving to spend so much money.
How is your April going? Are you ready for May?
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The subject matter of the present Application was at least partially funded under Contract No. MDA972-99-C-0009 from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a method and system for patterning of thin films, and more particularly to a method and system for patterning magnetic thin films using gaseous transformation.
2. Description of the Related Art
Patterning of thin magnetic films for application in various sensors and devices, such as thin-film disk drive read heads and magnetic memory elements, has relied on removal (e.g., physical removal) of material by reactive ion etching (RIE), ion milling and other subtractive techniques.
Hence, these methods use physical removal of material in order to delineate a region both magnetically and electrically. Typically, the region to be patterned is of micron or submicron dimension, and often sensitivity to edge roughness, profile and redeposited material determines the quality of the final product.
Recently, experiments (e.g., see W. H. Bruenger et al., "Ion Projection Lithography for Resistless Patterning of Thin Magnetic Films", 25th International Conference on Micro and Nano Engineering, Rome, Italy, 21-23 Sep. 1999 and Microelectronics Engineering (Netherlands) Vol. 53, No. 1-4, June 2000, pp. 605-608; and B. D. Terris et al., "Patterning Magnetic Films by Ion Beam Irradiation", Journal of Applied Physics (USA), Volume 87, No. 9 pt. 1-3, 1 May 2000, pp. 7004-7006) have used ion beams to pattern (e.g., by damage and by implantation) without physical removal of material. Specifically, such a method has used an oxygen implantation technique. However, prior to the invention, such a technique has not been applied to magnetic memory devices.
In the case of magnetic memory (MRAM) structures, patterning of the tunneling junction device as discussed above is of utmost importance in achieving final success and a high-performance product.
Mainly, the failure of the final product is due to non-uniformity of magnetic switching properties in the potentially millions of junctions on a memory chip. This variability is traced to many different factors, but one of the most important is in the patterning process. Gross differences in shape lead to a variation in the magnetic switching field. Also, edge roughness is known to cause variation due to edge pinning of magnetization.
Finally, magnetic hardening of the edges due to oxidation, edge thinning, and magnetic effects due to redeposited material each influence magnetic performance. In all of the patterning methods in which removal of material is used (e.g., ion milling, reactive ion etching (RIE), etc.), the edges of the patterned area are compromised in at least one of these ways.
Thus, ion-beam patterning (as opposed to ion milling) offers significant promise for improved performance but remains unproven.
However, as mentioned above, while the conventional methods may have attempted oxygen implantation for oxidation patterning, such has not been attempted with MRAM devices, nor has there been any patterning of MRAM devices by exposure to a reactive plasma, let alone by using fluorination.
In view of the foregoing and other exemplary problems, drawbacks, and disadvantages of the conventional methods and structures, an exemplary feature of the present invention is to provide a method (and resulting structure) in which patterning of thin magnetic films is performed without physical removal of the thin magnetic film material of interest.
Another exemplary feature of the present invention is to provide a method (and structure) for patterning thin magnetic films by converting (e.g., chemically) selective portions of the magnetic thin film material to a non-magnetic and/or insulating state.
Yet another feature of the present invention is to provide a method (and structure) which uses fluorination in the conversion of the magnetic film.
In a first exemplary aspect of the present invention, a method (and resulting structure) of patterning a magnetic thin film, includes using a chemical transformation of a portion of the magnetic thin film to transform the portion to be non-magnetic and electrically insulating.
In a second exemplary aspect, a magnetic thin film, includes a patterned magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), and a fluorinated, non-magnetic, electrically insulating member formed on first and second sides of the patterned MTJ.
In a third exemplary aspect, a magnetic device includes the above-described magnetic thin film of the second aspect, and a conductive member (e.g., metal such as copper or the like) coupled to the patterned MTJ.
With the unique and unobvious features of the invention, selective low power plasma conversion can be performed for patterning magnetic thin films of MRAM devices, by exposing selective portions of the magnetic thin films to a reactive plasma.
Additionally, with the invention, there will be no fencing or redeposition material required. Thus, no shorting will be required for the top and bottom layers of the tunnel junction. Further, there will be little or no topography issues.
The foregoing and other exemplary purposes, aspects and advantages will be better understood from the following detailed description of an exemplary embodiment of the invention with reference to the drawings, in which:
Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to
Turning now to
On a surface (e.g., the top surface) of the substrate 110, a magnetic film 120 (e.g., Permalloy™, alloys of nickel, iron, and cobalt, and any of a number of other magnetic alloy materials) is formed. Preferably, the thin film 120 has a thickness in a range of about 10 Å to about 50 Å, but of course the invention is not limited to such thicknesses and has scalability, as would be known by one of ordinary skill in the art taking the present application as a whole.
After the magnetic film 120 is formed, a mask 130 is placed over a selective portion of the magnetic film 120. Thereafter, the magnetic film is exposed to a reactive plasma 140. The exposure to the plasma can be advantageously performed at a relatively low temperature (e.g., at or near room temperature). That is, even though there may be some natural heating by virtue of the plasma, the inventive method need not heat the substrate or any other materials in the structure. Of course, heating may also provide advantages in the conversion process.
It is noted that fluorine is used in the exemplary embodiment in the reactive plasma, but other gases and materials also can be used advantageously.
For example, a variety of fluorocarbon plasmas with, for example, other gases present such as argon can be used, as well as sulfur hexafluoride, etc.
Additionally, a predetermined small amount (e.g., 5-10%) of bromide containing gases may be added to the flourine-based gas (e.g., NF3, CF4, SF6, CHF3, or the like, etc.). A main consideration for the plasma is that it converts the underlying thin magnetic film, as discussed above, while preserving film adhesion.
Thus, a preferred realization of the inventive technique would be to first use photolithographic techniques to provide the mask 130 on top of the magnetic thin film sample 120 in a conventional manner. This mask 130 is formed on the top of the magnetic thin film region to be preserved, and would be made in the usual fashion either relying on a photoresist as a mask material 120 and/or a hard mask patterned layer including diamond-like carbon (DLC), TiN, TaN, or similar materials. In this case, hard mask opening and conversion could be combined or be performed sequentially.
Regardless of the materials for the mask 130 selected, it is important that the mask be impervious to the plasma used in a subsequent plasma exposure step.
Conversion of the exposed portions of the magnetic film 120 is achieved by a low power plasma of, for example, CF4, etc. For purposes of the present application, "low power" means that, at the power used, no significant removal of the material is expected to occur. At pressures and power selectively employed, the magnetic thin film material (e.g., Permalloy™, NiFe, etc.) will not be removed, but instead the magnetic thin film will be converted to a fluorine-containing film.
Some of the properties of the fluorinated layer of interest include that it is magnetically inactive (i.e., non-ferromagnetic), and electrically insulating. Additionally, the fluorinated layer is strongly adhering to the substrate below. That is, it does not peel upon stress experienced during the fabrication process. Thus, the risk of the fluorinated layer peeling-off, flaking-off or blowing-off of the substrate is minimal.
Subsequent processing can proceed in a known manner (e.g., as typically performed) to produce a functioning magnetic device. An example of such a structure is shown in
That is,
Specifically, a patterned tunnel junction 220 is shown with a mask thereover 230. The magnetic thin film having been exposed to the reactive plasma (fluorine) is shown as a fluorinated Permalloy™ (Py) 250 on either side of the patterned tunnel junction 220. Preferably, the low power plasma exposure is performed at a pressure within a range of about 5 mT to about 100 mT, and more preferably about 10 mT to about 30 mT, and most preferably at about 20 mTorr. It is noted that optimum power is tool-specific, but a maximum power may be about 200 W.
Regarding a preferred thickness of the layers above, the mask preferably has a thickness of about 200 Å to 1500 Å for the mask, and the metal preferably has a thickness of about 1000 Å to about 4000 Å.
Specifically, in step 310, a substrate is provided with a magnetic thin film formed thereon.
In step 320, a mask is formed over a selective portion of the magnetic thin film.
In step 330, the magnetic film is exposed to a reactive plasma e.g., a fluorine or the like), thereby to convert the exposed portions of the magnetic film (e.g., a NiFe film or the like) exposed to the reactive plasma to a fluorine-containing film. The fluorine-containing film is magnetically inactive and electrically insulating.
In step 340, a functioning magnetic device can be formed (e.g., such as forming the contact on top of the structure formed in step 330).
With the present invention, a method (and resulting structure) are provided in which a 100% reduction of the moment is achieved. Thus, the invention can reduce the moment to 0.
Thus, with the invention, the material exhibits a magnetic hysteresis loop as shown in
Looking closer at
Additionally, atomic force microscope (AFM) images have shown that the surface (e.g., aside from the remaining hard mask material) is flat, so that patterning does not involve actual removal of material, but rather conversion from the pristine Permalloy™ to an insulating and non-magnetic material.
Thus, with the unique and unobvious features of the present invention, a significant improvement in current processing methods is provided due to the following considerations. That is, with the present invention, there is no exposure of the edges of the magnetic tunnel junction to oxygen.
Additionally, the edge is more sharply delineated with the present invention than in the case of either RIE or ion milling. The edge smoothness is most importantly determined by the photoresist line edge roughness, and not by the process itself.
Further, there is little topography following patterning so that subsequent fabrication is simplified.
While the invention has been described in terms of several preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
Further, it is noted that, Applicant's intent is to encompass equivalents of all claim elements, even if amended later during prosecution.
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Japan : Edward Suzuki , 1987. paperback. very good. Text in English and Japanese. 55 pages, slim 4to, glossy white self-wrappers (bumped on upper wrappers and head of spine). Japan: Edward Suzuki, 1987. A very good copy. A scare catalog (Inventory #: 266328)


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Yes, the good old Edinburgh Festival is with us once again. Once upon a time, this was a carefully selected parade of upmarket events. Well, that's still there but it's surrounded by a positively bewildering array of everything else you can think of. The book festival is alive with author signings; the film and TV festival is a dead cert for outrageous assertions and media bun-fights at the industry's annual conference; and then there's the International Festival itself, celebrating its 50th birthday year.
Peter Stein brings in another landmark staging of Chekhov (this year it's his wildly acclaimed The Cherry Orchard from the '95 and '96 Salzburg festivals). World-class singers like Bryn Terfel and Jane Eaglen make rare appearances, and anyone with any mind at all offers to sleep with the box-office staff in order to lay their hands on a ticket for Twyla Tharp's new company or for anything with the name Mark Morris attached. (More opportunities then usual this year as not only is the great man presenting his dancers in his production of Rameau's opera Plate, but the San Francisco ballet are over with a mixed bill including his piece Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes).
Yet for thousands of visitors, the sole excitement is the Fringe. In the course of almost four weeks you can throw caution to the winds and race to get into the 200 venues presenting over 1,000 productions, ranging from A A Milne's Winnie The Pooh to Zero via Kissing The Goldfish, The Man In The Welsh Lunatic Asylum and the superbly performed It's Uncanny by The Weird Sisters.
Added to which is the totally serious business of hanging out. Students tend to get legless in the Fringe Club; the Assembly Rooms, once the temple of cool, now resembles a mobile-phone warehouse and has been put firmly in its place by the Traverse. Not only does the latter have a cracking theatre programme, with Caryl Churchill's new play and Philip Howard's revival of David Harrower's marvellous Knives in Hens, but its vast, relaxed, friendly bar is The Place to Be.Reuse content


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The Holy Spirit helps each of us transform the world
It's really amazing how appropriate these readings are for what we're celebrating today. The account in the Gospel, as you know, is the first Easter Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead. If you remember last Sunday's Gospel, the day of Easter, John is the same Gospel writer who told us how early in the morning, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and was worried about the stone being moved away. It was gone, and she discovered that the tomb was empty. She was terrified.


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What Are Your Best Options to Generate Profit?
Investing in the real estate market is a financially rewarding venture. However, it is important to have a clear understanding of the real estate market and everything that goes with this type of investment venture. If you are ready to begin making property investments, then it is important that you understand the methods available for generating profit. In fact, several real estate investment options exist, so it is important that you are educated enough to make the best decision on which investment option is best for your current situation.
The most important factor to getting started as an investor in the real estate market is the establishment of your goals and objectives. Your potential benefits as a property investor should be in agreement with your goals and objectives.
Types of Real Estate Investments
You may be interested in becoming a developer. Your main focus would be on purchasing land and building structures. Some developers invest in land with existing structures so they can knock down the old structure and replace it with a new one. If an existing structure is in decent condition, you may decide to improve or expand the structure as opposed to tearing it down to rebuild. If you are interested in this is the type of real estate investing, you will need a solid background in engineering and development. It is also important to be knowledgeable on all construction laws.
Another specialty that many investors in the real estate pursue is distressed properties. You may choose to invest in properties that are in danger of foreclosure, or properties that are already foreclosed. Distressed properties provide an opportunity to acquire investment properties for well below market value.
Several investors in the real estate market prefer to invest in homes that need a few repairs for a bargain price, and then fixing the property up and selling for a substantial profit. Others prefer to buy properties and rent them out to tenants.
You have quite a few options available when it comes to investing in the real estate market. It is important to educate yourself thoroughly in the industry before you invest.
Educate Yourself
Yes, checking your local listings is a good way to kill time, but you would be better off to subscribe to a number of websites that are set up for investors. It is also a good idea to take a few local classes on the subject of real estate and related issues.
When you subscribe to websites designed for real estate investors, you are able to gain access to up-to-date market news and information, the hottest trends, the latest techniques and stories from other real estate investors who have made it to the top with great success. In addition, you will also gain access to a number of different newsletters, articles, forums, eBooks and webinars.
The list of information that is available to someone looking to educate him or herself on the real estate market is practically endless. When you take local classes in real estate, you are able to expand your knowledge of the market and meet other likeminded investors. The connections you make are very important to your success as an investor in the real estate market.
The more knowledge you have regarding real estate and the current market, the easier it will be for you to establish yourself as an authority in the market. Once you have established yourself as an authority in the market, you will be able to make several valuable connections with buyers, sellers and other investors.
These connections will save you time and money over and over again. For example, if you come across a really great deal on a property, but your funds are tied up at the moment, you can refer to your list of contacts to either earn a commission or take on a partner. Remember, knowledge is power, especially in real estate.
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Make sure that you get connected to professionals who can help you. A reliable independent mortgage broker and a good conveyancing solicitor can be essential in helping you to secure the property that you want and to make certain that you have found yourself a good deal


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The first images from the Grand Finale have been sent back to NASA, and they're stunning. They're also just the start — Cassini has 21 more close orbits planned.
This claim is based on a reexamination of purported stone tools and broken mastodon bones that were uncovered in the early 1990s. However, not all researchers who have seen the research agree with the findings.
We found a peptide on frog skin that destroys the influenza virus with extreme prejudice.
From flexible impact armor to folding solar sails to treads on rover wheels, this unique hybrid space fabric is capable of a lot.
Doctors in the Netherlands are now testing a new type of prosthetic "click-on" arm that is connected to the patient's existing nerves. It needs a little help from Bluetooth, but the end result is a prosthetic controlled with the mind.
48-volt electric turbochargers and motor generators can yield big savings. A $2,000 investment might increase fuel economy 20 percent.
Waymo, which was spun-off from Google X's self-driving car project, has started offering regular folks a lift in its driverless vehicles.
Amazon is studying self-driving vehicles. The goal (probably): Amazon's own fleet of self-driving vehicles to speed delivery. Pretty soon, no more need for UPS or FedEx.
Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did.
Google announced a new and improved VR video rig called the Yi Halo. It can film multiple 4K video streams simultaneously, then feed it all into Google's special video processor to create a VR experience.
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Christopher Bowen's 'An Australian War Requiem' Premiered
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Perhaps there are other restaurants in the world that also have television screens at eye level above the urinals, but this was my first experience of it. One can see a marketing mind at work: why not lay down a few images in the brains of consumers as they stare at the wall? After all, they are the ultimate captive audience.
The operators of the Country Star Hollywood restaurant would probably argue that they aren't selling anything, but merely satisfying the needs of music-lovers who prefer not to be separated from their idols, even for a few minutes. For we - the other gentlemen and I - were not watching advertisements as we stood silently in our stalls, gazing into the small colour monitors. It was a video of Garth Brooks, the country music millionaire, prancing around in a black hat, singing about hard-working, truck-driving, love-lorn Americans.
There are 104 video screens at the Country Star, next door to the Universal Studio complex, north of Hollywood. As we wandered in, through the giant multi-coloured jukebox-shaped entrance, we walked over three television screens set into the floor, as Lorianne Crook and Charlie Chase - doyennes of country cable television in America - burbled on beneath our shoes.
Inside, the place was full of screens, interactive terminals, and CD- players with headphones for listening to the likes of Boy Howdy and Vince Gill. For the country fans - a mixture of tourists and Angelenos munching on their plateloads of ribs, or Old Hickory Lake Pig sandwiches - it must amount to an experience second only to heaven itself. Even the barman was singing along, as he pulled my glass of Pete's Wicked Ale.
When country music first surfaced among impoverished southern whites in the Twenties, Hollywood's reaction was epitomised by Abel Green, a writer for Variety magazine. It was, he chortled happily to his big-city readers, a favourite with the "illiterate and ignorant, with the intelligence of morons", the rude utterances of hillbilly "mountaineer types" from North Carolina or Tennessee.
Seventy years on, he could not be further from the truth. Country is the fastest-growing music in the United States, with a following which embraces metropolitan, grunge-weary, baby-boomers, middle Americans, the elderly, and rap-hating young whites. What was once the exclusive preserve of the white working-class, a form of music born of the trauma of a rural people migrating to industrial cities, is now a multi-billion dollar business controlled by a handful of vast corporations: MCA, Sony, Time-Warner.
Not everyone views this with approval. Not long ago the country star Willie Nelson said he no longer listens to country music on the radio because most of the nation's 2,500 stations are answerable to programmers in New York. It is not the same any more, he grumbled. Certainly the musicians have changed; many of the performers of the 1920s were railroaders, miners or mill workers; today's groomed millionaire stars include college graduates who have as much in common with the average farm worker as Joan Collins.
But perhaps all this is more important than a simple matter of the shifting sands of musical taste. Country ditties about love, trucks, women, families, and urban despair bear many resemblances to the agenda of the white conservative- leaning male, the section of the American electorate that is increasingly driving politics.
As Time magazine pointed out several years ago, modern country is the "musical equivalent of the urban escapism known as white flight". The millions of Americans who tap their toes to Garth Brooks singing about the excessive welfare paid by the "hardhat, gunrack, achin'-back, over- taxed, flag-wavin', fun-lovin' crowd" ("American Honky-Tonk Bar Association") have entered a world that is largely free of racial strife, affirmative action, gays or even liberals.
Is this too far-fetched? You're probably right, although one couldn't help reading some significance into the menus of the Country Star, which boasts of being "a family cafe dedicated to the American values of yesterday - a time of integrity, honour and morals''. Bill Clinton could do worse than start tuning his guitar (saxophones have no place in country music).
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South Africa: 259/9 decl, 250
Australia: 383, 127/3 (40.5 Ovs)
Man of the match:Usman Khawaja
Man of the series:Vernon Philander
Steve Smith ushered his new-look Australia lineup to the brink of victory, then entrusted a pair of freshmen to finish off the seven-wicket win over South Africa on Sunday that ended a demoralizing streak of five defeats.
In a transfer that could be viewed either daring or desperate, Australia selectors spoke back to massive losses to South Africa in Perth and Hobart by using making 5 changes to the XI for the day-night test in Adelaide, together with three uncapped batsmen within the top six.
Two of them — 20-year old opener Matt Renshaw and 25-year old No. 5 Peter Handscomb — were there when Australia reached the target of 127 for the loss of three wickets, sealing the suit with more than a day to spare.
Handscomb hit the winning single and Renshaw completed unbeaten on 34 after sharing partnerships of sixty four with vice-captain David Warner (forty seven) and sixty one with his skipper, Smith (40).
South Africa won its 3rd straight series in Australia, clinching it with wins through 177 runs and by means of an innings and 80 runs despite the absence of captain A.B. De Villiers and the injury-enforced lack of pace spearhead Dale Steyn.
However Australia gained some redemption.
After the loss in Hobart, Smith mentioned he was once humiliated and embarrassed by means of Australia's batting collapses.
Chief selector Rod Marsh retired, and five players were discarded. Youthful batsmen Renshaw, and Nic Maddinson had been rushed into the team, wicketkeeper Matt Wade changed Peter Nevill and seamer Jackson hen was once introduced in to support the new ball pair of Mitch Starc and Josh Hazlewood.
"i'm really proud and joyful with the way in which the boys stood up on this recreation," Smith stated. "They confirmed slightly of fight, character and resilience."
Renshaw confirmed he could occupy the crease, surviving 12 overs under lights towards the red ball on the hole night after Faf du Plessis's tactical statement at 259-9. It was once the begin Australia needed to get to 383. He anchored the 2nd innings, dealing with 139 balls for his 34.
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The Australians had been coasting unless Warner was run out and Usman Khawaja, who scored a hundred forty five in a first innings that spanned three days — was trapped lbw with the total on 64.
The relaxation of the fourth day, though, went wholly Australia's way. South Africa resumed at 194-6 and was once all out for 250, with Starc returning four-80 and spinner Nathan Lyon taking 3-60. Stephen cook's 104 — his best possible score seeing that a century on debut towards England in January — used to be the spotlight of the South African innings.
"Mission positive," du Plessis stated, reflecting on the three-match series. "tremendous series to beat Australia 2-1, and to do it thrice in a row — it can be extremely good."
Du Plessis praised his bowlers, led with the aid of Man of the series Vernon Philander, for the way they rattled the Australians in Steyn's absence.
He said he'd take day trip to chill out earlier than the home test series in opposition to Sri Lanka. Australia will host New Zealand in a limited-overs series earlier than kicking off a three-test series towards Pakistan on Dec. 15 with a day-night suit in Brisbane.


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