text:
Ok… Just talked with a few different folks out at the gather. Don't quote me on any of this yet because everything was said so fast and there was so much information – I haven't double checked anything yet. I usually don't even post anything without the double and triple check but I'll make an exception for this situation given the circumstances.
According to what I have been told so far this morning, there are no cattle on these lands currently, nor have there been cattle or any other livestock on these lands for quite some time. The reason is due to the lack of water on the range. Basically, the ranchers don't even want to see their livestock out there because there isn't enough water for them, let alone them plus the horses.
Additionally, there are no fences around the watering holes. The terrain simply does not allow for fences as it is very rocky and very uneven. And of course, if they're not going to graze their livestock on it, why would they waste their time, money and energy putting up fences.
According to the National Weather Service the area in which these horses reside has been in drought conditions for the past 10 years. Currently, it is under a "Red Flag Warning" and a "Hazardous Weather Outlook" statement has been issued. These warnings indicate that the chances for wildfires are extremely high given the drought conditions and the gusting winds across the area. The Elko, NV Regional Precipitation Table (both current and past) can be found here: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=lkn&pil=RTP&sid=LKN&version=5. Precipitation maps for the past month can be seen here: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcshare/precip_analysis_new.php.
And lastly (for the moment) – there were the campers out by the next nearest water source – the river. Apparently, in light of all of the criticism regarding land closures (not just from advocates but also from those who use the lands for recreation) the BLM utilized the "tightest and smallest land area closure as necessary in order to facilitate the gather process". They kept the length of times as small as they could, as well as the amount of acreage that would be closed as small as they could while still trying to make sure no one would be hurt by a herd of horses galloping their direction. These closures were all done by the Tuscarora Field Office. Idaho officials were not involved.
The contractor performed a fly-over of the area in order to locate other possible sources of water for the horses, i.e. which one would be closest to get water to the horses. Unfortunately, there were campers from the Idaho side that crossed into the area and had set up camp next to the river where the horses would normally receive their water when other sources were dry. Because of the camp, the horses would not approach the river, and therefore were becoming very dehydrated. The contractor promptly returned to base and informed the gather officials of the situation, who then in turn contacted the Ranger's office who of course went out and told the campers to vacate the area. No word yet on whether or not the horses moved towards the river or not.
Bottom Line: This area is a fire pit of rich-lighter-pine just waiting for a spark. (Rich-lighter-pine in the South is the equivalent of whatever the North has that burns good, hot, and fast LOL.) Talk has been spread around about whether or not an Emergency Gather should have taken place a month ago due to the range conditions. Whether advocates like it or not, BLM does have authority over the horses. Whether advocates choose to believe it or not, BLM does conduct some gathers that are really in the best interest of the horses and no one else. This gather has already had casualties and it's only a few days along, a high number of casualties when comparatively speaking. The area is dry. The horses have good body condition scores, but remember – BCS measures physical, objective ratings that are seen from the outside of the body. Yes, these are indicators of what is happening inside the body, but without further examination and tests the true nature of a physiological or pathophysiological condition cannot be known for certain. These are just a few resources regarding this subject:
- Assessing Health & Well-Being of Horses Colleen Brady, Ed Pajor, Janice Sojka, Nicole Buck, John Berends, Mark Russell Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University; Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Purdue University; and Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University
- Vitat Signs: Temperature, Pulse and Respiration in a Horse
- Importance of Water to Horses Dr. Jim and Lynda McCall
More details to come as I get them.


text:
Brand color: No
Width: 20 cm
MIRROR is a frame-less free standing mirror held by a lightweight metal wireform.
The contrasting properties of the two components - solid and permeable, light and heavy - are what give the design its character.
Wireform in solid brass
We offer FREE DELIVERY to the Benelux for all orders over € 50
For more shipping info and costs, click here
Most items can be simply returned within 14 days after receipt of the item. Please complete the return form included in the shipment and send us an e-mail to receive a package label. The item must be returned within 14 days after the day of reception, unused and in its original undamaged package if possible. Some items cannot be returned. Think of upholstered and furniture custom made for you. Contact us when in doubt. Read more

subset: commoncrawl


text:
This is just a quick rant about my recent experience with NYX cosmetics and their online shop.
This has nothing to do with the quality of their products.
Last Thursday I ordered some lipsticks from the NYX cosmetics website and I was pretty pleased with my order until I learned that their swatches were completely off! I ordered Penelope, Paris, and Scylla. Penelope is a black lipstick, Paris APPEARED to be a bright pink, and Scylla LOOKED like a slightly darker nude that would suit my skin tone perfectly! Well, at least NYX's swatch did….


text:
Daily Incidents for January 30, 2006/
Suspects Arrested in Downtown Crossing after Robbing Female in Beacon HillA 35-year-old female from Beacon Hill reported to Officers from District 1 that at about noon on Sunday, she was entering her apartment on Pinckney Street when a male approached her from behind, pointed a firearm at her and robbed her of United States Currency. The suspect fled on foot down Pinckney Street toward Joy Street. Later in the afternoon at about 3:18pm, officers on patrol in the Downtown Crossing area observed a male fitting the description of the suspect wanted for the armed robbery that occurred hours before on Pinckney Street. The officers approached the male to conduct a threshold inquiry. While patting the suspect down, the officer felt a hard object in the suspect's waist area that appeared to be a firearm. Officers removed an unloaded black pellet gun and a hypodermic needle from the suspect. Officers arrested Angel Vargas, 42, of Boston and charged him with possession of a hypodermic needle and armed robbery. He will be arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court this morning. Dorchester Market Robbed by Armed Suspect Officers assigned to District 3 responded to 322 Talbot Avenue yesterday afternoon at about 2:46pm on a report of an armed robbery. According to witnesses on scene, the suspect entered the store twice and on his second visit displayed a small black semi-automatic handgun and robbed the clerk. The suspect fled out the store on foot toward Aspinwall Street. He is described as a 25-30 year-old, white-hispanic male, about 5'5", 160lbs, wearing a white coat and blue jeans. Armed Robbery at Heath Street Launderette Last night at 8:33pm, officers from District 13 responded to 178 Heath Street on a report of an armed robbery. The victim states that the suspect requested change for a dollar and then pulled a firearm and ordered the suspect into an office. The suspect then took an undisclosed amount of United States currency and told the victim to count to twenty before calling the police. This incident remains under investigation and no arrests have been made. Two Juveniles Arrested for Violating the Alcohol Laws Members of the Youth Violence Strike Force patrolling the South End last night at about 6:20pm observed five individuals in the Castle Square area walking toward the officers. One of the individuals had a 750 ml bottle of Moet and Chandon protruding from the pocket of his sweatshirt. The suspect and the people with him did not appear to be 21-years of age. When the suspects observed the officers, they hid behind a concrete pillar. The officers stopped the individuals and found three of them to be in possession of the above liquor as well as 12 oz. bottle of Corona, a bottle of Grand Marnier, Grey Goose and Absolut. All three bottles had speed pourers in the tops as though they were from a bar. The liquor was seized and two 16-year-old males and a 15-year-old male from Roslindale, Roxbury and Boston were all placed under arrest. The will be arraigned in the Boston Juvenile Court this morning.


text:
Tamaqua Industrial Development Enterprises adopted a resolution recently supporting construction of a $120-million, culm-fired co-generation facility on Morea Road, near Frackville.
The Tamaqua Area Chamber of Commerce previously supported the Electrodyne Research Corp. and Ri-Corp Development plans for the facility.
Both Tamaqua organizations felt the creation of much-needed jobs in Schuylkill County and ridding the area of unsightly culm banks by burning the material to generate power for the state prison now under construction, and the purchase of surplus power by the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., would greatly outweigh the remote possibility of contaminating the air from the burning of culm.
Opinions of experts on pollution, including the Department of Environmental Resources, indicate the pollution danger would be minimal and not a reason to prevent the project from going ahead as planned, according to TIDE.


text:
talented Mr Evans at Clarity of Night has just opened his 7th short fiction contest. and i'm so looking forward to participating in it for the third time in a row. after achieving an honourable mention the last round, will i do better this time? allow me to sleep on it and dream, please. and if you are interested too, go over there now and see how you can get yourself involved in "Restless Dawn".
meanwhile, i've just passed my third exam in less than two weeks. three more to go.
and this blog will turn one in december. any idea how i can celebrate with you here?


text:
To Learn More About John McDonald
The date did manage to slip by without much fanfare, but if you're a history buff like me (even though I'm not sure exactly what a "history buff" is) I'm sure you know why Nov. 4, 1884, is such an important date here in Maine.
It was on that date that the election of 1884 was held, and it was also the day on which a Mainer - our own James G. Blaine - came closer than any Mainer before or since to being elected president of these United States.
On November 4, 1864, New York Gov. Grover Cleveland narrowly defeated our son, U.S. Sen. James G. Blaine, to become the first Democrat elected president since before the Civil War.
Little ol' New York decided that election, giving Gov. Cleveland the state's 36 electoral votes by a margin of just 1,047 of 1,167,003 votes cast, and no Mainer has come closer than that since. But it's the way Blaine lost New York that's the real story.
One advantage of being a history buff is knowing a little about historical events like the election of 1884 and the small comfort you get from knowing that the rascals we have running for office these days seem almost "decent" when compared to those nineteenth century political rascals.
Those who've studied it closely say the election of 1884 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history, filled with all kinds of good, wholesome all-American things like mudslinging and bitter acrimony.
Sound familiar?
Democrats that year nominated Grover Cleveland - known to some as "Grover the good" - because he was seen as a clean, honest reformer who was first elected reform mayor of Buffalo and then governor of New York. So imagine the shock when the Buffalo Evening Telegraph reported that Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock, and that the child had gone to an orphanage, and that the poor mother had been driven to an asylum.
Shocked by the news, the Cleveland campaign decided that maybe candor would be the best approach to the whole mess. They admitted that Cleveland had an "illicit connection" with the mother and, as a result, a child had been born and was given the Cleveland surname. But they also said that there was no proof that Cleveland was the daddy, though he took responsibility for the child and found it a home.
Voters seemed content with Cleveland's honest explanation and the presidential race against our own Sen. Blaine remained close. The mudslinging and acrimony continued unabated.
In the final weeks of this bitter campaign Blaine suffered a direct hit from the political equivalent of a torpedo to the waterline. At first he didn't even know he'd been hit.
What happened was a group of New York preachers visited a Blaine rally and made a bunch of fiery speeches saying all kinds of nasty things about his opponents. Their spokesman was a wild-eyed preacher named Rev. Samuel Burchard. At one point during his emotional rant, the Rev. Burchard referred to Blaine's opponents as being members of a party of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion."
Blaine just sat there nodding and smiling, having no idea that the Rev. Burchard had just used a string of anti-Catholic code words. But a sharp, attentive Democratic operative standing by listening did notice the slur and quickly passed it along to Cleveland's campaign managers who - just as quickly - made sure that it was widely publicized. And remember, this was long before YouTube or face book.
They say that single statement riled up the Catholic vote in New York City, and in a matter of days it seemed like everyone in New York was against Maine's Blaine.
It's said that one nasty remark cost Blaine New York State and by losing New York he lost the election by one of the narrowest margins in political history. And that is how Mainer James G. Blaine managed to not become president.
It's hard to imagine a statement like that throwing an election today but who knows? Maybe someone should try it again and see what happens.
John McDonald is a humorist and storyteller who performs regularly throughout
New England. Contact John at firstname.lastname@example.com or 899-1868.
Would you like to read past issues of Numb As A Pounded Thumb?
Click Here


text:
This page of OnlineJigsawPuzzles.net offers free Maine Coon cat jigsaw puzzles online. Ron Baltus, a professional animal photographer, offered us three of his most beautiful photos of kittens to generate the puzzles for our website.
We hope you enjoy these jigsaws of Maine Coon cats.
The Maine Coon cat is one of the oldest natural cat breeds in North America and generally thought to have originated from the state of Maine.
This cat was originally a working cat with a great intelligence, living mainly on farms where it was held in high esteem by farmers for its ability to catch vermin. The cat is a typical hunter. It has large eyes and ears, and a muscular body. Being a cold climate animal, it has a long silky shaggy coat, short over the head, becoming longer down the back, stomach and legs. It has a soft undercoat, covered by a weather proof topcoat.
This cat is a perfect domestic pet because of it's loving charactar and a lovely family companion and enjoys kids and dogs.
Ron Baltus is a professional photographer based in The Netherlands who is specialized in taking animal and pet photographs. His photos are famous and appear on lots of book covers, magazines and brochures.
Privacy and cookies - Links - Contact us


text:
The Leméac: authentic and magical
A bistro with Parisian fashion that serves traditional French cuisine.
Located in upscale Outremont and surrounded by shops and trendy restaurants, the Leméac has, in less than 15 years, become one of the pillars of the Montreal food scene.
Try the house specialty: smoked salmon or beef tartar with string fries. Unless you prefer the duck confit accompanied by roasted potatoes, the traditional mussels with fries, or mushroom ravioli, demi-glace, pine nuts, and arugula. For dessert, the Leméac offers a crême brûlée with Tahitian vanilla and toast with milk jam and maple sugar caramel.
With its elegant decor (tiled floor, mirrored walls, stylish bar stools), its subdued atmosphere, and its menu worthy of the best Parisian bistros, it attracts all of Montreal's gourmets.
1045, rue Laurier Ouest
Montréal, QC H2V 2L1
+1 514 270 0999
Menu: from 30 USD


text:
Use illuminated in a sentence
- Darkness surrounded him, yet a bright dazzling light issued from his soul and illuminated his whole being with the warm golden radiance of the sun. [10]
- His austere face was curiously illuminated, and she knew instinctively that in some way he shared her happiness. [9]
- We never know the extent of darkness until it is partially illuminated. [6]
- At length a silence followed, then the door swung open, and three figures came down the illuminated path. [9]
- One little chapter of Carlyle, illuminated by a teacher of understanding, were worth a million such text-books. [9]
- You mention the name of Henry Watterson, and your minds are at once illuminated with the splendid radiance of his fame and achievements. [5]
- The sun illuminated it, and threw a rainbow from it a hundred feet long, upon the white and green dome of chestnut-trees near. [4]
- The village was illuminated; nobody went to bed again; it was the greatest night the little town had ever seen. [5]
- Her life was illuminated. [11]
- The morning sunshine illuminated the angels in the Holt memorial window, and the inmates of the Holt Institution occupied all the back pews. [9]
- Higher up the hill, on the very horizon, our guns were visible through the wonderfully clear air, brightly illuminated by slanting morning sunbeams. [2]
- For every passerby Henderson had a quick word of characterization sufficiently amusing, and about many a story which illuminated the social life of the day. [4]
- There was a heavy fog over the crater and it was splendidly illuminated by the glare from the fires below. [5]
- It was illuminated by thousands of lamps; a hundred fires burnt on its Pylons, its battlemented walls and roofs. [10]
- Her lamp had burned out, and the starlight but dimly illuminated her chamber. [6]
- The royal barge, attended by its gorgeous fleet, took its stately way down the Thames through the wilderness of illuminated boats. [5]
- The lofty, spacious apartment was brilliantly illuminated, and the door was garlanded with flowers. [10]
- It was small, and but dimly illuminated by a hatchway, up the which I pushed after him, and then another. [9]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word illuminated in a sentence? How do you use illuminated in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word illuminated? It may also be related to private education educate, spelling secondary school, students, high school education, homeschool, teach, private schools, and homework.
Example sentences with the word illuminated, a sentence example for illuminated, and illuminated in sample sentence.


text:
Good day sweet friends. I wanted to share a pretty card I made using last weeks Deconstruction Sketch and this weeks Colour Throwdown challenges. I love this week's colour palette, it's beautiful.
I have used papers from the Stampin' Up! Sweet Sorbet collection along with some Basic Grey patterns and other cardstock colours. Both the flag die cuts and flower cuts are from MFT. I used a Heidi Swapp stencil and sponge for the background image.
Thanks for dropping! Please feel free to leave a comment. =)
If you have any questions regarding Stampin' Up! products, please visit my SU! 24/7 Online Store, or send me am email at firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
That Was a Lovely Sermon, Pastor
I've never minded the mowing of lawns on Sunday
afternoons in a well worn pair of pants,
line after line – this week vertical and the next opposite –
a summer checkered board of wandering
thoughts going in circles and yellow dandelion
smudges on boots, beer in hand to admire the green
lawn like the altar of Ordinary Time bathed in swaths of green
felt banners at the baptismal font this Sunday
as the pastor read the story of Daniel in the lion's
den and I dozed off dreaming of their hungry pants
and dripping teeth waiting to tear into the boy's lack of wandering
curiosity and fleshy figure at the opposite
end of the cave. I have a sideways, opposite,
uneasy sort of feeling when my wife elbows me and my green
eyes search the sanctuary, wandering
from face to face to face of faithful Sunday
people in their dresses, jackets, pressed pants,
toothy smiles and my laces yellowed by dandelions.
I've always thought that dandelions
were the loveliest of weeds like the opposite
of those nasty sticker weeds that pierce my pants
when I sit in the green
lawn to enjoy the afternoon sun. Days
like this were meant so your mind could wander
to whatever your mind will wander
to as you twist off the heads of dandelions
and try and remember what the pastor said Sunday
but only ever able to remember the opposite
of whatever he said, scratching at the green
stains on your pants.
"As the deer panteth
for the water" I sing as I wander
forward to the altar arrayed in greenery –
tulips, daisies, a thorny crown, but no dandelions –
I take the bread and juice and walk back to the opposite
end of the room where I sit every Sunday.
And pants worn well with life and my dandelion
soles wander in horizontal patterns opposite
of the green tracks from last Sunday.


text:
Zach Theatre: Plays, Musicals and Shows for YouthSee more than 500 annual performances, including plays, original works, musicals and shows for youth, when you visit Zach Theatre. The oldest continuously active theatre company in Texas, this popular entertainment venue serves over 100,000 patrons each year. Join the crowd and experience a range of entertaining shows, featuring some of the region's most talented singers and actors performing famous classics and original presentations.
Prices -Vary by show; visit http://tickets.zachtheatre.org/single/EventListing.aspx
Hours -Vary by show; visit http://www.zachtheatre.org/content/2015-16-season
- Z-Lounge
- The Wilde Party
- Mercedes-Benz Raffle
- Plays
- Musicals
- Theatre for Youth


text:
Ever Mindful
A different kind of relaxing piece with long but detailed harmonic complexity. I personally have a hard time with the drone-type of relaxing music. It doesn't work for me. This one gives your mind something to think about… very very slowly.
You can download the full uncompressed files here!


text:
Your cart is empty
Mfg Item #: TPODSL
The Mako T-PodSL combines a vertical forend grip a bipod and a tactical flashlight. The integrated design keeps the unit sleek when the bipod is not deployed. The flashlight features a 100 lumen LED with 1 hour of run time off of 1 CR-123 battery. The flashlight body is made of durable aircraft aluminum and mil-spec anodized. The quick deploy bipod has a wide stable stance and 4 positions of adjustment in each leg. The vertical grip body has two cut-outs for pressure pads for additional accessories. - Polymer vertical grip body - 4 position aluminum bipod legs - Integrated aluminum 100 lumen LED light powered by a CR-123 battery


text:
cpapXchange TONIGHT Newsletter
The cpapXchange Email Newsletter is Packed with Sleep News, Reviews and Information!
It's Not All News!
Sign Up Today for Exclusive Deals Too.
Sign Up & Shop Smarter!
cpapXchange is Rewarding!
As a cpapXchange Account Holder You'll Earn Rewards to Cash in on Any Item we Sell!
And There's More...
Whenever You Log In You'll Get Extra Savings Too.
Earn & Spend Rewards Today!
Free Shipping On All US Orders!
Best Price Guaranteed
Call 866-992-7279 Toll Free
Newsletter Signup
Account Log In
Full Face Cushion for AirFit F10™ & Quattro™ Air CPAP/BiLevel Masks
These Spring Air Full Face Cushions are designed for use with all Quattro Air & Quattro Air For Her and all AirFit F10 & AirFit F10 For Her CPAP/BiLevel Masks. They are available in four sizes -- ExtraSmall, Small, Medium & Large.
Nasal Cushion for AirFit™ N10 & AirFit™ N10 For Her CPAP/BiLevel Masks
These Spring Air Nasal Cushions are designed for use with all AirFit N10 & AirFit N10 For Her Nasal CPAP/BiLevel Masks. AirFit N10 Cushions have a lightly textured surface that feels more natural on the skin and improves overall seal. The dual-wall design gently inflates during therapy with the outer wall sealing gently on the face while the inner wall stabilizes the mask.
Headgear for Quattro™ Air & Quattro™ Air For Her Full Face CPAP/BiLevel Masks
This Seamless SoftEdge Headgear is designed for use with all Quattro Air & Quattro Air For Her CPAP/BiLevel masks. It features premium rolled-edge fabric with a unique texture that helps improve fit and feels more natural on the face.
Site Design & Content Copyright © 2004-2019 cpapXchange.com
cpapXchange offers online support through our website, toll free and live web chat support during normal business hours, and email support 24-hours a day. cpapXchange.com sells and ships products exclusively to end-users residing in the United States, we do not ship to other third parties or businesses. Respironics recommends that new patients purchase their devices, masks and initial accessories from a homecare company that can provide an individualized patient equipment set-up, clinical and after-sale support, and a program to assist patients with therapy success. All products and services advertised on this site are provided by cpapXchange.com or its designates, independently of the manufacturer. Due to manufacturer's advertising policies some ResMed, Respironics and HDM products may be excluded from some promotions. Proposition 65 Warning: Some products on this site may contain a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Selected product materials are used with the permission of the copyright holders. ResMed Product Materials © ResMed 2019, Used with Permission. Philips Respironics Materials © 2019 Philips Respironics, Used with Permission. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Materials © Fisher & Paykel Healthcare 2019, Used with Permission. CPAPXchange occasionally offers discounts via coupon code. Coupon codes cannot be combined and there is a limit of one coupon per order. DISCLAIMER: Information on this website is informational only and should not replace the advice of a physician. February 18, 2019


text:
Last week, I trouped down to bask in the florescent lights of Britomart Transport Centre with Anthonie Tonnon, band and the ever so photogenic Watercolours. We managed to capture this moment when no one was on the escalator.
These guys are going to be touring NZ very soon, check out the tour dates here.


text:
Travel writer Simon Calder came to the This Morning studio to outline a few holiday ideas going at a discount this summer.
From family vacations in the European sun, to luxurious couples' retreats along ideallic beaches, Simon has a holiday for everyone. And with the pound stronger than ever abroad, now is the perfect time to go on holiday and grab a bargain break.
These are some of Simon's recommendations:
Couple Lazy Luxury Holiday: Youphoria Villas, Crete from £744 per person flying from Bristol.
Couples bargain Budget Holiday: Grand Hotel Excelsoir, Malta, from £500 per person.
Families with young children short haul: Las Piramides Resort, Tenerife from £287 per person flying from Glasgow.


text:
VHDX is a new format of virtual hard disks that appeared in Windows Server 2012. Disks in VHDX format have a number of advantages and today I will describe several methods of converting a disk from VHD into VHDX.
[tab title="Contents of this article"]
Advantage of VHDX format
To begin with, there are a few words about the advantages of the new format:
- VHDX format allows to create disks up to 64TB whereas VHD can handle 2TB max.
- VHDX supports working with 4KB sectors. It allows to store VHDX files on large disks (over 2TB) using Advance Format (breaking into physical 4 KB sectors).
- VHDX uses logging. All changes in the metadata are written to the log before making changes in the metadata table. If a failure occurs while making changes to the table, the log keeps the unfinished transactions that allow to complete changes in the table and restore file integrity. It makes the VHDX format more fail tolerant and prevents possible data loss during power outages.
- Custom metadata are supported. VHDX has a special user section where you can store data on the contents of the virtual disk, e.g. information on the installed OS and apps. User section allows to store any descriptive metadata.
- VHDX format supports unmap operations and allows to free the unused space dynamically after removing data from the virtual disk. It allows to use disk space on a storage device more effectively.
If you want to get all these advantages, there is an opportunity to convert the existing virtual disks from VHD into VHDX. You can do it in the graphic snap-in Hyper-V Manager or in PowerShell console. But before you start, remember that:
- When converting, a new file of the same size as the source file is created, so you have to check if there is enough free space;
- A downtime is inevitable during convertation process. If the disk being converted is connected to a virtual machine, the machine has to be stopped.
How to Convert into VHDX Using Hyper-V Manager
Open the snap-in Hyper-V Manager and click Edit Disk option in the Actions list.
The Edit VHD Wizard is run. Specify the path to the VHD to be converted.
Check Convert.
Then choose the right disk format. As you can see, disks can be converted from VHD into VHDX and vice versa.
Select the disk type — fixed-sized or dynamically expanding.
Enter the name and the path to the new VHDX.
Then check the information you have specified and click Finish to start the conversion. The process can take some time depending on the disk type and data size.
After that we get a new disk that can be mounted to a virtual machine and used. Meanwhile, the old disk is not removed. You have to do it manually.
How to Convert into VHDX Using PowerShell
To convert a disk in PowerShell, use the following command:
Convert-VHD -Path ″E:\Hyper-V\winsrv2012r2.vhd″ -VHDType Fixed -DestinationPath ″E:\Hyper-V\new_winsrv2012r2.vhdx″ -DeleteSource
This command creates a new fixed-sized disk in the VHDX format and the -DeleteSource key deletes the source file.
You can convert in both directions. The backward conversion is possible using the following command:
Convert-VHD -Path ″E:\Hyper-V\winsrv2012r2.vhdx″ -VHDType Fixed -DestinationPath ″E:\Hyper-V\new_win2012.vhd″ -DeleteSource
To sum it up, I remind you that you can place any OS in the VHDX file, but this file can only be mounted in Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 or higher. The earlier OSs do not support VHDX.


text:
Thanksgiving is now less than a week away and cooks across the country are scrambling to prepare for next weeks' feast. If time is running out and you are looking for a quick and easy side dish, give this delicious recipe a try… it just might end up on your "every year" menu.—
While they are often used with turkey leftovers for a delicious "day-after" soup, beans can also be used in a variety of side dishes on Thanksgiving day. This Lentil and Wild Rice recipe features the earthy flavor of lentils and rice, combined with the sweet flavor of dried cranberry's, and the crunch of toasted walnuts. It only takes about 30 minutes to put together, and fits perfectly along side any traditional Thanksgiving dish.
What you need:
- 1 package Hurst's® Garlic and Herb Lentils
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 4 cups cooked wild rice
- 6 oz. dried cranberry's
- 8 oz. almond slivers
- 1/2 cup chopped green onion
- 1 tbs. olive oil
- Salt and Pepper to taste
1. Pour the lentils into a colander or sieve. Rinse and sort through the lentils, checking for any stones or debris and discard.
2. In a large pot over medium-high heat, sauté the onion with the olive oil. When the onion becomes translucent and starts to brown, add 4 cups of water and rinsed lentils. Bring to a rolling boil, then reduce the heat and simmer the lentils (covered) for 20 minutes.
3. After 20 minutes, remove the lid and add Hurst's Garlic and Herb seasoning. Stir to combine and remove from the heat.
4. While the lentils begin to cool, pour the almonds into a pan. Over medium-low heat, begin to toast the almonds. Pay close attention (burn easily!) and just when they begin to turn golden brown, remove from the heat and set aside.
5. Add all ingredients into a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Garnish with some of the chopped green onion and serve warm or cold.
*This is my recipe for MLLA #29, this month hosted at Lisa's Kitchen. As always, Hurst is sponsoring this great blog event so be sure to get your recipes in for your chance to win the great prizes!


text:
Through the fortune of geography and the opportunity to work as a volunteer, I was able to attend the ATD Conference in Denver this past summer. Usually I like to share my top takeaways, but because of the enormity of this conference I had to go the level of top 5 sessions, not just top 5 ideas. Here they are, in non-ranked order.
1. Storytelling is the Secret Sauce Doug Stevenson, author of "Story Theater Method" echoed Chip and Dan Heath when he opened with this idea: facts fade, data gets dumped, but stories stick. I was already a believer in the power of stories to teach and move people to action but Doug taught me some new things. First, don't tell a story just because someone told you stories are good. It has to be the right story, at the right time, for the right audience. Context is king. Secondly, as a presenter, you should pay attention to your role as an actor/performer when you step in front of an audience. Just where you stand on a stage imparts meaning.
2. Effective Virtual Training/Webinars led by David Smith, from Virtual Gurus. David recommends Adobe Connect as the best webinar tool and I found that reassuring, since I know the strength of that software and use it almost daily. He gave me some ideas of elements to add to my webinars such as an intro video (to be played as people enter the virtual room) that shows attendees how to use the interactive tools. Another recommendation was to avoid using yes/no true/false questions in polls, rather just have attendees respond using the agree/disagree buttons to save time. He strongly advises for using a producer to handle tech issues, and only using the webcam at the very beginning of a webinar to establish presence, then turning it off to avoid distractions.
3. Awesome Powerpoint Tricks by Wendy Gates Corbett & Richard Goring from BrightCarbon. This demo went at breakneck speed leaving we in the audience dazzled, yet yearning for slower paced step by step instructions. The main concept is to create visual sequences in Powerpoint that look like detailed animations focused on clearly communicating the most important messages. I could see how most of us could develop creative animations, given the time.
4. Using Social Media and Online Learning Communities by Daniel Jones. Daniel gave me some new ideas such as using social media before, during and after a course. This aligns well with the concept of ongoing learning that doesn't just start and stop within course deadlines. He touched on ingredients to create a successful online community: finding people who want to share, have something of value that makes them want to come back to the community area, and have a community manager who keeps the discussions on point, keeping it positive, and asking questions to spark discussions. Daniel also gave me a new idea for webinars-seeking out resident subject matter experts to share their knowledge, instead of waiting for people to approach me to host webinars, I approach them first.
5. Biology, Sociology of Learning and Leading, keynote address by Simon Sinek. If you'd like to see him talk on this topic, check out his TED Talk here. Simon showed how our biological chemicals-specifically endorphins, dopamines, seratonins and oxytocins-give us powerful motivators to act in certain ways. We must be aware of these to recognize what drives us and other to action. Another factor is the influence of others, especially leaders, on our ability to work well and persevere. Simon believes that leadership is a choice and involves personal sacrifice. By building trust people will follow you. Many of these ideas seem self-evident, but he added some more that serve as a personal challenge to me: Anyone can lead. It's a daily practice. We can lead by exercising selflessness, even when no one sees you. This sounds like a bold, strong ethical ethos that I'd like to strive toward. In closing, he said, "I urge you to take care of each other. If you take care of each other, I guarantee we will change the world." Let's do it!
Thanks for reading.
Let me know what you think.
Tags: ATD, Distance Learning, E-Learning, instructional design, Leadership, Powerpoint, social media, Storytelling, teaching, Videoconferencing, webinars


text:
It was just another day and I was happily walking up to my friends in school when one of them comes up to me with a morose look on her face and says, "We are mourning the death of Michael Jackson."
I stood frozen to the spot for five minutes trying to take it all in.
He. Is. Dead.
Music speaks to me. Music is the way I stay alive in the world. I keep a smile plastered on my face because music makes it O.K. Music has the power washing away feelings and letting your mind focus on the song and the song only. That is how powerful it is to me. I never leave my house without my iPod. It is almost like my source of oxygen, it cures my headaches and fades my problems into the music. I forget all about them and enter a whole new world.
As I stood there, frozen, songs were rushing through my head. The first Michael Jackson song that I had ever heard was 'Heal the World', back when I was in fourth grade. We had to sing it in school. I didn't even know it was a Michael Jackson song. As I sang the lyrics, I was introduced to a whole new dimension of music. The song moves people, it tells them to pick themselves up and make the world 'a better place'. It makes you want to do so. Michael Jackson took the world on a ride, I was lucky enough to be dragged along.
Whether it was his unnatural dance moves or his amazing voice... he made onlookers faint, he made people go crazy about him. He was the icon of all icons. He always had something new to him. He was a man who went through everything: fame, shame, riches, poor, happiness and sorrow. His voice was unique and it touched the heart of millions. He is said to be the most famous person ever, and he is the record holder of the most number of albums sold.
One of my other friends had bought five tickets to go see his comeback show in London and is now devastated and is purely convinced that karma is against him. "Well, at least you're not Michael!" was my reply. I envy him. He is the owner of five tickets to the last show planned of the King of Pop! That is just so crazy... Seriously.
This is my version of a eulogy. This is my version of saying goodbye for now. It shall never be a final goodbye because Michael Jackson lives in his music. That is how he is and how he should be. The man is an inspiration for anyone. Even villagers in this minuscule island of Sri Lanka, knows who he is! We'll miss you M.J! Rock in Peace!
"Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it — my music, I know I will live forever."
~Michael Jackson on his work, Ebony Magazine December 2007.


text:
[In another edition of "It Came from Denver," Seth Landman points us toward the writings of Richard Froude. In Seth's own words, "I'm sort of hazed on codeine because of strep throat and have been having a tough time thinking today, but I feel that I should say that Richard is one of my favorite people in the whole state of Colorado."
Richard is, most recently, the author of The History of Zero (Candle Aria, 2008). With Erik Anderson and Anne Waldman he co-edits the mail art magazine Thuggery & Grace.
In Richard's words, "This is an excerpt from a project called Fabric...I was interested in how things move between dream and waking life and back...you can read more excerpts from the project in recent issues of Bombay Gin, Tarpaulin Sky and Pageboy, or online at Parcel and Conjunctions.]
Oceanography #2 (from FABRIC)
_ _ _
From the road it could be a power station, a postmodern cathedral where they will feed us? But it is neither: the abattoir that serves villages all the way from the river to the edge of the woods. This, because we are so hungry, and as Jackie so likes to point out, is our lady fortune in disguise.
My job is to cart the disembodied heads of lambs from the refuse pile to the incinerator in a metal wheelbarrow. I wear a rubber apron and thick black gloves. Jackie says this proximity to death is just what we need but he doesn't say why we need it. I am more disturbed by our proximity to youth. How close to its birth does a lamb need to be slaughtered to still be considered a lamb?
_ _ _
In the house where we learnt music there was a green staircase where ghosts were. The door to the green staircase had no lock but we had been told by our teachers not to open it. At the top of the staircase was a green room with high set windows and old schooldesks. I didn't see a ghost in the room. I saw an open wardrobe and old clothes spilt out onto the desks. A black top hat, a cloak with red lining, white linens.
The next day a man came. He could recite the Gospel of John from memory so we sat in rows in the assembly hall. Sometimes he wore a shroud about his head and neck. Sometimes he pretended to weep. I don't remember much of the Gospel of John, just the man standing at the front of the stage shouting 'Lazarus! Come forward!' It was 12 years later, in the house where Alfred died that I learned how I could talk to ghosts.
_ _ _
In Page, Arizona, on a street of eight different churches, a car dealership rises where the town fades back into the desert. With the purchase of a new vehicle comes a free goat. But those aren't goats. They are lambs. They are in a small pen on the highway side of the property. There are balloons that mark them there and a banner. Free lambs. And they are alive. This morning I saw a fox running through traffic on 6th Avenue at Clarkson. Every evening we eat offal except Tuesdays when we walk through the snow to Giotto's house.
He fries whitebait in goose lard on his one-ring stove. Once he served us tiny black shrimp he'd caught at the docks with a syringe, a length of carpenter's twine and a net he claimed to have woven from hair. The next morning Jackie sat doubled in the corner of the slaughterhouse vomiting blood into a general issue blue bucket. Some of the others thought this was funny. The floor that we work on, the main floor, they call it the 'blood flats.'
They are driving to the city tonight. A man has come to talk about God and reptiles. I wonder if this is the city we saw from the road, months ago when we were hungry. Jackie tells me a dream he had as a child: I sell everything I own and walk into the woods. I build a house inside an oak tree. Life becomes acorns and silence.
_ _ _
Dear Gretl: I know that an American book is a book of movement. I know that movement is only seldom accompanied by silence. On her first night in the hospital, Marjorie heard a heart monitor flatline. It was the heart monitor of a woman two beds down on the opposite side of the ward. This is the ward to which I always return.
Marjorie had thought she was dying. But it was the woman opposite who was dying. What disturbed her most was that she could feel no seams as she passed between worlds. Dying felt exactly the same as being alive.
In the morning a man came to consecrate the space that the woman had left. He wore a black top hat and a cloak. He chanted prayers in a language that neither of us knew. Marjorie said that foreign languages could be our secret lives. The man shook ashes over the bed. When he left, I asked Marjorie if she wanted anything from the canteen. The menu was a blackboard and the prices were written with yellow chalk. I didn't eat anything. I just stared at the blackboard. Dear Gretl: This is the tariff that I know by heart.
_ _ _
Soon we will leave the slaughterhouse. Giotto told us of poppy fields that surround the city. Near the hospital, closer to the water, is the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea. In the park opposite is a miniature golf course that reproduces the various landmarks of the harbor. Here is the lifeboat. The guildhall. The helter skelter and lighthouse. It costs 25 pence to walk to the end of the pier but the helter skelter is free if you don't mind the queue. Before you climb the stairs a man will give you a mat woven from sackcloth. The causeway to the lighthouse is submerged at high tide. Check the times before you leave. Be careful. Check the tides.
Will we meet ghosts on our journey?
Should we call our journey a pilgrimage?
A ghost is an impossible literature.
Contained in each unsatisfactory moment is the promise of the next.
Whenever I try to transcribe this conversation, I end up rewriting our story.
A cloud, small as a man's hand, is rising from the sea.
1 comment:
nice piece
- June 21, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Friday, December 26, 2014
Make your house, your home
12 comments:
- ImSoVintage Laura Walker said...
Daniela, you have done such an amazing job with your home. You truly are a visionary. xo Laura
- December 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM
- Kelly said...
You've done a wonderful job renovating your home! I know you are proud to say yall did it yourselves too. Missed seeing yall this Christmas. Hope it was good'
- December 26, 2014 at 12:21 PM
- Charm Bracelet Diva {at Home} said...
Such great advice. It really is scary to take on a remodeling project. When we thought we were going to be moving I had all of these "dream home" ideas in my head. Now that it looks like we'll be staying here (where we've lived for 10 years) I see some areas where we might, over time, remodel. Once the kids are out of college, of course:)
- December 26, 2014 at 1:21 PM
- Lena said...
You are such an inspiration!
- December 26, 2014 at 2:32 PM
- Carla from The River said...
Thank you for all the inspiration during the year on so many projects.
Happy New Year
- December 26, 2014 at 4:07 PM
- Lois Field said...
It is nice to see a collection of your rooms in one place. You inspire me by how you find ways to keep the costs so low.
- December 26, 2014 at 5:56 PM
- Mariette VandenMunckhof-Vedder said...
Dearest Daniela,
Eight years are gone in a blink and yes, you get a lot done!
We too started only with the garden after we came home from Indonesia, to actually live here, be there to maintain things.
Building a greenhouse, than ripping out the carpet (cotton/wool) and getting solid oak planks instead. In 2004, Pieter started with the basement and that lasted years. The water projects got done end of last year and early this year. We had heave rains for five solid days and never a problem! So yes, it can be done and like you, with a very limited budget we spread it out as well. Living here now 24 years, looking back we also made the house our home. A cozy nest and also energy friendly.
Sending you hugs for a great Capodanno with great health and good things for 2015!
- December 26, 2014 at 9:58 PM
- Danni@SiloHillFarm said...
You have done some lovely renovating of your home and have inspired me more than once! Have a Happy New Year!
- December 27, 2014 at 4:30 AM
- Libby said...
Yes, you are a visionary. You have good dreams! Thank you for being such an inspiration to me. I'm learning that it's okay not to have a cookie cutter house or have the budget to decorate every single nook and crannie. I'm learning that my style takes time - and that's okay. Thanks for sharing such wonderful home improvement projects with us!
- December 27, 2014 at 4:32 PM
- Revi said...
I love your changes and your style. Happy New Year, Daniela!
- December 29, 2014 at 12:47 PM
- Mariette VandenMunckhof-Vedder said...
Dearest Daniela,
Happy belated Birthday...
Stay warm, we had frost till -8°C early morning hours! Brrrrrrrrrr
- January 8, 2015 at 8:39 AM
- Mindi Carwin said...
This was an inspiring post, you are amazing and I love your vision and ability to accomplish great things on a budget! Your home is beautiful! Thanks Daniela!
- January 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM


text:
The craziest part is that I am actually staying on the "club" level of the Ritz Carlton, Bahrain. UNBELIEVABLE! I feel like a princess. A very generous and thoughtful camp family are treating Andy and I to two days in the lap of luxury here at the Ritz. I'm so glad and thankful they are. I am being treated like a princess and I actually think I sort of deserve to be treated this way. (Is that bad that I just admitted that "out loud"?)
And I do miss my children, but right at this moment with jet lag setting in, after eating at a super nice Indian restaurant with Andy and no spills and sitting in my amazing suite at the Ritz overlooking Bahrain. . .I really don't wish they were here! I'll miss them later!
So, to friends and family back home: we made it! We are here and the trip was great. The flights were easy. A little hiccup in immigration (we were detained-ish for two hours) and Andy's suitcase didn't make it, but we did! We're loving just being Party of 2 for a little while!
I'm excited to see the city and the beach tomorrow in daylight, but for now I am off to deep jet lag slumber! (The shades close with the push of a button--total blackout!!!)
Les & GoGo, hug my kids for me--I really do miss them!
|Who knew that Kuwait was the land of friendship?!?
I don't have any pics from Bahrain yet. . .stay tuned!


text:
March 27 (Reuters) - Indonesian ride hailing and online payment company Go-Jek is set to announce its first expansion to another country in Southeast Asia in the "next few weeks", according to an internal company email reviewed by Reuters.
Go-Jek also plans to expand to three other Southeast Asian countries by the middle of this year, the email quoting Go-Jek Chief Executive Nadiem Makarim said.
News of the plans come after Uber Technologies Inc agreed this week to sell its Southeast Asian business to regional rival Grab. Go-Jek's Makarim described this deal as a "great opportunity" because "fewer players means a smoother path to continued and deepened market leadership. (Reporting by Ed Davies, editing by Louise Heavens)


text:
- Home
- Cleaners and Accessories
- Cleaners
We stock and ship Same Day a large selection of Cleaners. Free Shipping is available on all orders over $50.00 (within the U.S.)
Select a Category:
|Appliance and Kitchen Cleaners (3 products)
|Cleaning Tools (7 products)
|Cooktop and Smoothtop Cleaners (8 products)
|Degreasers (5 products)
|Dishwasher Cleaners (5 products)
|Gas Grate and Drip Pan Cleaners (2 products)
|Granite Cleaner and Polish (1 products)
|Ice Machine Cleaners (2 products)
|Odor Absorbers/Removers (4 products)
|Rust Removers (2 products)
|Stainless Steel Cleaners (8 products)
|Washer Cleaners (3 products)
Bell Parts Supply strives to provide a wide range of appliance parts for all major appliances, since 1964, to households across the North America. We offer the best names and prices for all types of Cleaners | bellparts.com


text:
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
So in a few days is the 3 year mark of when my husband was arrested. After finding things in the email on the iPad his dad gave us, I was ready to pull the trigger on filing for divorce. Thing is, there was criminal content in the emails. Seeing that made it crystal clear to me, things were definitely OVER. I know I haven't really talked about much of this in the past 3 years and honestly there is still a lot going on. Some things I am not ready to disclose.
The end of the year has been a time of change for me for the past several years. One of my good friends and I joke about this to keep things a bit light hearted in the face of adversity. Things tend to fall apart for her at the beginning of the year. With all that has happened, and all of the comments about how strong I am for what I have been thru, there is still so much, that so many of you still have no idea about.
Yes I am strong. I am stronger than many may realize. Many times I have surprised those around me. There are times I am stronger than I may not even realize myself. With the things that lie ahead- yes, my inner strength will be tested again and again. I have no doubt I will get thru it, because I am strong. I'm not afraid, but those against me should be, because as we all know-> Karma is a Royal Bitch. People get what they deserve. Karma never misses her mark on that.
Posted by Cut-N-Jump at 1:23 PM
2 comments:
I've heard it said that strength is what you find when you have no other choice - I've felt like that was true for me a number of times over the years.ReplyDelete
Having a friend that can find the humour in the horrible is invaluable; I'm glad you have at least one.
No one ever knows the whole story but that's ok. I am glad you were strong to make it through.ReplyDelete
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
The Politics Hour – February 22, 2019
We check in with the Chairman of the D.C. Council, hear about a poll that explored Marylanders' takes on national and state politics and meet Howard County's Executive.
As the days get shorter and the weather cools down, it's time to grab a sweater and a beer stein and head out to Oktoberfest. Kojo explores the seasonal beers on tap in our region, from pie-in-a-bottle pumpkin beer to the crisp, refreshing flavors of Oktoberfest-style beer.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIIt began as a wedding celebration in October of 1810 when the crown prince of Bavaria got married and invited the citizens of Munich to attend the festivities. They had so much they decided to celebrate every fall. 200 years later, the festival called Oktoberfest is still going strong, not only in Germany but here in the Washington region as well. and that means it's time to talk about fall beers, those made especially for Oktoberfest and those made with seasonal ingredients.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIFall beers come in several styles, from pumpkin beer that almost tastes like a pie in a bottle to harvest ales made with hops so fresh they don't have time to dry. With Oktoberfest kicking off across the area we'll explore the flavors and textures of fall beers and the places that you can go to sample them. joining us in studio is Greg Engert, he is beer director with the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, which owns some well known beer centric restaurants like Church Key and Rustico. Greg Engert, good to see you again.
MR. GREG ENGERTAlways a pleasure.
NNAMDIAlso in studio with us is Max Eggerl. He is owner of Blob's Park Bavarian Beer Garden in Jessup, Md. Max, thank you for joining us.
MR. MAX EGGERLThanks, Kojo. Good to see you again.
NNAMDIIf you want to talk beer, call us at 800-433-8850. What's your favorite seasonal beer? You can send email to email@example.com. Greg, seasonal fall beer goes back to the days before refrigeration when you couldn't brew beer year around because, well, it wouldn't stay fresh. Talk about the early brewing season and why it made people eager for autumn ales.
ENGERTWell, it really goes back to the fact that, you know, beginning in the Middle Ages under the feudal period they started to restrict when you could brew. If you brew in the summertime and you are naturally kind of leaving your beer out to cool after the boil, you're leaving it out for a lot of possible infection. And so a lot of the early, kind of, beer coercion laws to kind of restrict when you could brew left you brewing in the fall through the early spring and you couldn't brew in the summer.
ENGERTSo a number of communities would lay down beer in underground caves with ice picked from the rivers in the previous winter so that they insured to have some beer available throughout the summer. I mean, you know, this is a time before water was potable so they relied on beer and grain communities for hydration. And so that's where the Oktoberfest or Mariten style falls in.
ENGERTBeers brewed in March or März, in German, laid down in these caves to be consumed throughout the summer when brewing was really not going to happen as much. And then typically when you got to the fall people would start brewing fresh beer, which everyone would want to drink because no matter how well kept, by fall these beers would start to get really sour and unpalatable.
ENGERTAnd so it's not unlikely to think that they would kind of dump the remaining beers for these various harvest parties and we think that that's where the Oktoberfest kind of, beer connection began.
NNAMDIMax Eggerl, you're the third generation in your family to own and operate Blob's Park in Jessup and Blob's Park claims to have held the first Oktoberfest in the United States. Tell us about it.
EGGERLWell, in 1947 and this has been authenticated by the Smithsonian, my Uncle Max "Blob" was operating the facility then and a German immigrant who came over to do ornamental stonework on the Jefferson Memorial evidentially decided to have an Oktoberfest. He was a member of the Washington Sängerbund, which is like a German social club. And he contacted my Uncle Max and had the first Oktoberfest in America in, at Blob's Park at the Forum and Beer Hall in Jessup, Md.
NNAMDIAnd the rest, as they say...
EGGERLThe rest is history.
NNAMDI...is history. You import a lot of German beers for Oktoberfest. What are some of your favorites and what do you like about them?
EGGERLWell, I was telling Greg earlier my favorite beer that I've come across a few years ago is a Schniederwiesen, a Hopfen Weizen. The brewer, head brewer from the Brooklyn Brewery, I guess about five years ago went to Bavaria and collaborated with the Schnieder people who make a wonderful wheat beer and he infused hops into their wheat beer and they market it as a Hopfen Weizen. It's a big beer, it's an 8.2 percent and it has, runs the whole gamut in flavors.
EGGERLYou get the banana fruits and the wheat beer and then you get the hops and every sip is a delight. I've turned probably hundred people onto that beer in the last couple of years and I haven't had one complaint yet.
NNAMDIAnd you know if Max turns you on, it's got to be good because Blob's Park has 90 German beers year around, is that correct?
EGGERLWell, we have 90 beers, they're not all German, but the majority of them are and it's the place to go to sample some fine beers.
NNAMDI800-433-8850, what's your favorite spot to enjoy Oktoberfest? You can also go to our website, kojoshow.org, and join the conversation there. until recently or relatively recently, German law said beer could only be made with water, hops and malt. What are the rules now and how do German beers differ from those in other parts of the world, Greg?
ENGERTWell, I think, you know, back, Reinheitsgebot is the law that's probably the most famous of the regulatory beer laws to occur back in the old days. But there's one of many that happened. Back then they did declare in Bavaria that beer could only be made with hops, water and barley of course, yeast hadn't been discovered yet. So they weren't sure about that but now that was added in. So in Germany this purity law has persisted and it's certainly what German beer is known primarily, although things are beginning to change.
ENGERTThe rest of the world has not been, you know, privy to those laws so we have a lot more experimentation particularly in the American brewing scene.
NNAMDI800-433-8850, Greg you said there are three styles of autumn beers. Let's start with what people refer to as Oktoberfest beers. How are they made and how do they taste?
ENGERTSo Oktoberfest beers are, today, they are typically slightly stronger, lagers, so crisp and refreshing. They tend to have a good bit of an amber malt quality to them. Vienna malt that gives it a little bit of a melonadion quality, a toasty note, typically around six percent or so. Now, when you go to Munich, if you go to the real Oktoberfest that occurs in Munich yearly, those beers tend to be a little bit paler.
ENGERTThe only six beers available at Oktoberfest are of the six breweries within the city limits of Munich. They tend to be a little bit more blond in color, a little bit more refreshing and crisp. But, you know, we kind of think that, you know, American craft brewers have revived a somewhat more classic style that's a little bit mulchier , a little bit toastier.
ENGERTBut truth be told, if you go back to the early 19th century when Oktoberfest styles were kind of being dumped on these party goers in the fall from the previous March brewed beer, they probably were brown in color slightly smoky because the grains employed to make the beer have been malted or dried over open fires and by the time you drank in the fall they probably would've been sour. So in many ways what we drink today is uber contemporary compared to the traditional.
NNAMDIIf you have a favorite beer for crisp September and October afternoons, give us a call, 800-433-8850. Are you a fan of German brews? What sets a German beer from a lager or seasonal beer brewed here in the U.S.A.? What sets the German beer apart? You might want to share your view, 800-433-8850. Do you have a favorite beer yourself, Greg, for crisp September or October afternoons?
ENGERTThat's a question, unsurprisingly, I get asked a lot. I don't have a particular favorite, although another one of the three that we talked about, that we're going to talk about, these kind of tumble beers are the truly most seasonal. These harvest ales, these wet or fresh hop beers, I really love those and those are starting to coming out now. So something that's crisp, delicately floral and fragrant and quite hoppy, made with fresh hops.
NNAMDIWhat's separates a wet hops beer versus a dry hop beer?
ENGERTWell, that's interesting. They're completely different. Wet hops is referring to hops that are cultivated in August and early September, straight directly off of the hop vine. And before they're dried, within 24 hours, they are so moist they are added to the beer. Now, if you waited past 24 hours the hops would begin to rot so typically hops are dried and then, you know, packaged and stored and shipped out and things like that.
ENGERTSo wet hops come right off the vine and go directly into the brew and the more wet a hop, the more fresh and delicately bitter it is. So it gives this wonderful seasonally fresh quality. Now, fresh hop ales are similar to that except that they are dried and then they get about a week before they go into the brew.
ENGERTThey're still very fresh and floral and delicate whereas dry hopping is actually, refers to a method by which you add hops to a beer after the beer's done fermenting. And this is just to give you aromas and that can be done with wet hops, with fresh hops or with hops that have been dried throughout the season.
NNAMDIWe're talking with Greg Engert. He is beer director with the Neighborhood Restaurant Group that owns some of the better known beer centric restaurants in this area like Church Key and Rustico. And Max Eggerl is owner of Blob's Park Bavarian Beer Garden in Jessup, Md. They both join us in studio. You too can join the conversation by calling 800-433-8850. here is George in Washington D.C. George, you're on the air, go ahead please.
GEORGEHi, Kojo. I was recently in Pittsburgh and went to a German beer hall put together by Hofbrau House and I noticed that they also have facilities in Las Vegas and several other places and I was wondering if your guests might want to comment on that sort of movement happening in the United States?
NNAMDIThe German Beer Hall, are you familiar with this, Greg?
ENGERTYes, I mean, there's -- I mean, obviously Bob's Park is a great example of beer halls and then...
NNAMDII was about to get to Max.
ENGERTYeah, they've been big everywhere, but I think what the caller is probably referring to more specifically is the fact that Hofbrau, out of Munich, one of the six original, one of the six purveyors of beers at Oktoberfest annually, has this presence in America with kind of themed, you know, beer halls. Which is really cool, it's very interesting. But it's something that's going on across the industry. We actually, there's a Belgian brewery called St. Bernardis that recently opened its own Belgian Beer Bar in Tokyo of all places and has actually brewed a beer to honor that. It's called Tokyo by St. Bernardis. So I think it's something you're seeing for some of the larger, well known, international breweries.
NNAMDIYes, but Max, we're thinking of this as a very hip thing that a lot of young people are getting into now. Your family has been doing this for three generations. Tell us about how it's been changing?
EGGERLWell, yes, it started in 1933. Back to the caller, I've been at the Hofbrau House in Vegas and they do a pretty authentic job of replicating the Hofbrau House in Munich. They bring bands over from Germany for six or eight week periods and so they have authentic entertainment and Hofbrau is a very good brew and as a sidebar to that, Hofbrau's never been available, at least to my knowledge and my history, hasn't been available in Maryland, but it's two to four weeks away from becoming available and we're signed up to be one of the first purveyors of Hofbrau as soon as it hits the...
NNAMDIYou'll be able to get it at Blob's Park Bavarian Beer. On now to Nancy, in Silver Spring, Md. Nancy, you're on the air, go ahead, please.
NANCYHello, Kojo, I wanted to congratulate you first on really getting the right word on Oktoberfest in the Washington area. My husband and I, Frank Pearce, wrote a history of the Washington Saengerbund and that story is in it and I've waltzed many waltzes and I've polka out at Blob's, but aside from that, (word?) and Old Max did get together and they did start the first Oktoberfest and that's all I wanted to comment that it even makes your show more authentic to me. I listen to it every day.
NNAMDIThe Uncle Max Story. Thank you very much for...
NANCYThank you very, very much.
NNAMDIThank you very...
NANCYAnd that was (word?) with him. I'm sure that was the name, yeah.
EGGERLThat's correct.
NANCYOkay, thank you very much.
NNAMDIYou're more than welcome. Greg, pumpkin beer is popular at this time of year. Talk about its early American origins.
ENGERTSo when, you know, when settlers first started coming over to America what they encountered was terrain that really wasn't great for grain growing and there wasn't a tradition of grain growing going on there. And so if they wanted to produce beer, you know, as they did, because again water was potable, they would have to rely on beer shipped from overseas from England or get malts from overseas which would be heavily taxed.
ENGERTSo naturally they turned to other forms of fermentables and so, you know, this is why they were brewing with corn and making cider from apples but also utilizing gourds of any kind, squashes and yams and then pumpkins as well. So it was a big thing back in the day. It was utilized to make cocktails with rum. It was thought to be a sort of healthful tonic, and even back then in the 17th century and in beginning into the 18th, they were utilizing spices to kind of -- in fact, I think more to overwhelm the flavor of the pumpkin. That wasn't actually that sought after.
ENGERTSo that's really kind of how it started. In the 19th century, things waned. Moving westward, malt and grain were more available, and it -- pumpkin ale started to be kind of quaint and rustic. So it definitely fell off in the 19th century, but of course now it's back with a vengeance.
NNAMDIDoes it really have fresh pumpkin in it? Do you have to like sweet beer to enjoy it?
ENGERTWell, on the fresh pumpkin front, I would say that almost every pumpkin ale does not have fresh pumpkin in it, and that's particularly notable when you're talking about the fact that they come out in July and August now. So most pumpkins are still in the ground or just coming out. Some brewers are moving towards fresh pumpkin ale -- or fresh pumpkins in their ale. But when you consider the fact that the spices are such a huge component, the allspice, the nutmeg, the cinnamon, the clove, the freshness of the pumpkin isn't as important really when you're utilizing it just for a sugar source for the yeast to get the alcohol up.
ENGERTAnd while many pumpkin ales are somewhat sweet, I would say that they're more spiced in that they do in fact taste more like pumpkin pie than like pumpkins.
NNAMDIAnd what is this that you've brought for me that has the name Imperial PumKing, K-I-N-G?
ENGERTYeah. Well, that's an annual favorite of many people. It's called PumKing and it's from Southern Tier Brewing Company in the Finger Lakes region of New York state, and the definitely a very kind of American craft brewed version of the pumpkin style, because American craft brewers do still love to go big. And so, you know, it's over eight percent alcohol, and what I love about that beer is while yes, it does have the pumpkin pie flavors to it, it's super complex. It's like the ultimate dessert beer.
ENGERTYou get whiffs of whipped cream and sugar cookie, and even like a graham cracker crust. To me it's perhaps the most complete, you know, iteration of this pumpkin pie in a glass.
NNAMDIMax Eggerl, Blob's Park carries on the tradition of serving German food to go with the German beer. Talk about pairing food with beer.
EGGERLWell, we have -- we have four types of German sausages. We have the bratwurst, the knockwurst, a baronwurst, which is a farmer's sausage. It's a smoked beef sausage. And the third one, the knockwurst, is a beef sausage as well, with a little bit of garlic flavoring in it.
NNAMDIRed cabbage potato salad?
EGGERLRed cabbage potato salad, sauerkraut, yeah. I have to tell you, the potato salad that we make at Blob's Park is still made every Wednesday among by my 90-year-old aunt Anna who comes in at 6:30 in the morning faithfully, and we work together a half a day doing the dumplings and potato salad, and it's what keeps her alive. She's an amazing, amazing woman.
NNAMDIShe's in her tenth decade.
NNAMDIAnd still working.
EGGERLYes, she is. Yes, she is.
NNAMDIThat is amazing. Talk about how this food pairs with beer, Greg, because we've taking foods with a lot of acids in them.
ENGERTNo. Yeah. Exactly. And that's actually a key point. Now, one of the biggest Achilles heel for beer pairing is bitterness, and it's funny because most people love IPA is and pale ales, and those really hoppy craft beers, but they're not great for food pairing, because bitterness with overwhelm a lot of things on your palate, unless they're really, really rich in protein like aged cheeses or really hefty meats and things like that.
ENGERTBut also, bitterness and acid do not mix. So that's one of the beautiful things about Oktoberfest styles. They are crisp and refreshing. They can watch away intense flavors. They can open up the food to insist that the beer gets tasted in congress with the dish, but also they have that great toasted sweetness, so they're going to go with any method of grilling, any method of caramelization, and the sweetness is going to play a nice thing against the acidity you'd find in the red cabbage or the potato salad or things like that.
NNAMDIGot to take a short break. When we come back, we will continue this Oktoberfest and seasonal beer conversation. If you have already called, stay on the line. Looks like all the lines are tied up. You might want to send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or send us a tweet @kojoshow, or if you try the number again you might get through. 800-433-8850. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
NNAMDIWelcome back. Oktoberfest is on us, so we're talk being seasonal beers with Greg Engert, beer director with the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, and Max Eggerl, owner of Blob's Park Bavarian Beer Garden in Jessup, Md. We'll go directly to the phones and Will in Vienna, Va. Will, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
WILLWell, thank you Kojo, and thanks for taking my call. I've listened -- it keeps me -- your station, the interest that it generates keeps me -- I'm on the road a lot, and it's quite a companion. But getting down to the business of Oktoberfest, I've been going to Blob's Park in Jessup -- I'm 61 years old, and I can remember going with my parents when I was eight, nine, or ten years old. And so over the years I've been in and out, you know, you get around.
WILLThe last few years, Max has really made a difference down there. For a while it got a little sleepy, but he's really revived the place. It's vibrant. If you like to even try your step at dancing, there's always somebody there that will help you. There's no rowdiness, it's a good time.
NNAMDIWell, I've got some news for you, Will, because Max can tell you who will be there tonight for you to dance to. Max?
EGGERLYeah, Will. We've got a German -- a group of German musicians that have been touring the east coast for a week or two, and last weekend, they were in Philadelphia. They were in the (word?) parade, and they played the opening ceremonies at the stadium for the Philadelphia Phillies, and tonight they're going to be at Blob's Park at six o'clock. They're coming in and they're going to perform down there. So we're going to be open on a Wednesday night which is a little unusual for us, but we're hoping to get a good crowd out there to experience these great music these fellows are going to perform.
NNAMDIAs you say, Will, Max has been spicing it up. Any more comments, Will?
WILLYeah. And it's plenty of parking, you know. If you're used to this area, parking's always a problem. They can probably park 500 cars there.
WILLSo that's not an issue. One more thing.
WILLI got to Max this personally. Do you have (word?) on tap or in the box?
EGGERLNo. We're not going to have it on tap, but I was talking earlier with Kojo and Greg, Hofbrau, which has not been available in Maryland, is coming out in two or three weeks, and it's going to be distributed in Maryland, and we're going to be one of the first places to have it on tap as soon as it comes out.
NNAMDIWhy was it not available?
EGGERLNo distributor picked it up. I don't know what held it up, but I'm really looking forward to getting it on tap out there.
NNAMDIAnd Will, thank you very much for your call. We move on to Clay in Washington DC. Clay, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
CLAYThanks Kojo, and thanks for taking my call. I've been hosting Oktoberfest for over 20 years now in Washington. Started back in '91 at my row house on Capitol Hill, and was taught by a friend of mine who was from Milwaukee sort of how to put the event together. I've ordered a (word?) sausage from Milwaukee. They'll ship it overnight to you packed in dry ice. I'm up to about 60 pounds of that now. I go to the Heidelberg Bakery over in Arlington and get the potato salad, the sauerkraut, pretzels, and they have a delicious black forest cake over there, and set up a beer garden in my backyard, and invite about 200 people over to have a good time.
CLAYI'm wondering if your guests have any suggestions about how I can improve it, if there's anybody that knows of maybe a good oompa band in the area, and I'll take my call - take the answer off the air.
NNAMDIWait a minute. You can't take your answer off the air. I want to put you on hold and get your home address so I can drop by for your -- Max is holding up the same thing. He wants your address. Any suggestions at all that you could have?
ENGERTI mean, I'm not sure actually. I think -- Max do you know any good musicians you could recommend?
EGGERLYeah. Call me -- call me at the Park, and I'll give him a couple of names. It's really -- I get several calls a week this time of the year, people looking for German bands or, you know, someone to entertain at small parties. It's tough because this is their busiest time of the year as well. But if you give me a call, I'll hook you up with a couple of names you could reach out to, and hopefully they could get somebody for you.
NNAMDIClay, call Max Eggerl at Blob's Park Bavarian Beer Garden in Jessup and he might be able to help you. Thank you very much for your call. I have to ask you, Greg Engert, you have brought me something here called Original Hochzeitsbier, and it says Von 1810. Was this being drunk at the wedding celebration in 1810 for the Crown Prince of Bavaria?
ENGERTWell, that is the -- that's kind of what they're getting at on the label.
NNAMDIThat's the lore here, yes.
ENGERTYeah. That's from an Austrian brewery called Hoffstetner, and it's Hochzeitsbier, or wedding beer of 1810, which was the original wedding celebration that lead to Oktoberfest. But in fact research indicates that no beer was served, and really that the original Oktoberfest as we call it today was more of a -- just a folk festival, a celebration of the nuptials with lots of horse racing of all things, and it wasn't until 1814 that we know for sure that there was definitely a lot of beer being served, and being served actually in those half-liter kind of pewter-lidded steins that you see around today to keep the flies out.
ENGERTThey would have the lids on the steins. And then of course those dimpled glass mugs that -- half-liter mugs that we associate with German beer today, those didn't even come in until the end of the 19th century.
NNAMDIThank you. And here is Bobby in Washington D.C. Bobby, your turn.
BOBBYYes. Good day, Kojo. How's it -- show all the time. I haven't been a really heavy beer drinker, but as of late, I just wanted to tell my favorite German beer, Weyerbacher Heresy. It's a particular stout that has chocolate and coffee notes. I discovered at Brauhaus on South Street in Philadelphia around the time of Oktoberfest about two years ago. Sadly, they don't sell it anymore, but it is better than Guinness Stout.
BOBBYAnd it terms of German beer, the only other beer that I tend to drink is Blue Moon, but I just wanted to say, you know, if there's gonna be beers like that at the garden, like Weyerbacher Heresy, or do you know of any place in the area that sells that because ever since they stopped carrying it, they said it wasn't selling much, it's kind of hard to find.
ENGERTWell, I would say that, well, I mean, first off, that is -- it's an American craft beer brew actually from Pennsylvania, Weyerbacher, but it is of German heritage. Dan Weirback's brewery is called Weyerbacher, and while Heresy might not be available around as much anymore, it's a wonderful beer, and there's plenty of imperial stouts. Obviously (unintelligible) , we stock lots of those different imperial stouts for any season actually, because they're not just released today.
ENGERTAnd if you're looking for something kind of akin to that with some great roasted chocolaty notes, there is a pumpkin ale of sorts brewed by Epic Brewing Company from Utah with DC Brau, and it's a -- it's called Fermentation Without Representation Ale. It is an imperial pumpkin porter. So it's kind of a spice porter, and great for this fall season as well.
NNAMDIThank you very much for your call, Bobby. Max, what are some of your bigger sellers, the two or three biggest sellers at Blob's Park?
EGGERLOur biggest draft beer sellers are probably the Spaten Pils. It's a light, easy-to-drink beer, and then of course, this time of the year, people naturally tend to go to the Oktoberfests, and I have the Spaten Oktoberfest on draft. Spaten actually does export the Oktoberfest-style beer all year long, but the flavors really heat up this year and everybody jumps on the bandwagon to try the Oktoberfest.
NNAMDIAnn in Potomac, Md. Ann, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
ANNHi, Kojo. I love your show. I've recently been diagnosed as celiac, which really puts a dent into the beer drinking. There are some beers that are made with sorghum and other ingredients. I wonder if your guests have tried any of these out and have any recommendations.
NNAMDII guess the yeast in beer is what aggravates people with celiac, right?
ENGERTWell, no. It's more the -- it's the gluten content that you find in barley and wheat and things like that. So what's cool now is the scene is blowing up. There's lot more gluten-free, or largely gluten-free beers. Some of the better ones are called greens, and they're actual Belgian. Those are excellent. Widmer just came out with their Omission Pale Ale and Omission Lager which are pretty good as well. But also, I always advocate, you know, we carry lots of these at our restaurants, but I also carry huge cider lists because ciders are amazing this time of year, and they also are gluten free.
ANNThank you.
NNAMDIAnn, thank you very much for your call. Onto Raphael in Silver Spring, Md. Raphael, you're on the air. Go ahead please.
RAPHAELHi, Kojo. Hey, thanks for putting me on the air, and I love your show by the way.
NNAMDIThank you.
RAPHAELHey, quick thing I want to talk about. I guess it's more of a comment, and I also have a question too. I notice, I guess in the past five, 10 years, the American like microbrewing industry has really exploded a lot, and it seems to be taking away some competition from like the big three companies that are out there. Now, I guess in regards to your panelists, or your guests, do they see the American microbrew like -- I guess brewing companies or whatever, see a surge in that still? Like will there be -- do you think the government's going to do any kind of regulation on allowing people to brew beer and maybe sell beer and all that good stuff?
ENGERTI definitely hope there won't be any regulation on the expanse of this. We're -- craft beer is growing exponentially at this point, and taking market share away from the macro brewers. I continue to think this is going to continue for a very long time. You know, we have over 2,000 breweries in the U.S. now, the most since 1889, I think and also, you know, Neighborhood Restaurant Group, my group, is going to be jumping into the mix with Blue Jacket as a brewery restaurant and bar that we're opening down by the National Stadium in the spring of next year. So hopefully no regulation will get in the way of that.
NNAMDIAnd we got another email from someone who says, "Please ask your guest to comment on the quality of the new brewer starting up here in the DC area like Lost Rhino Brewing Company in Auburn, Va." Know anything about that?
ENGERTSo Lost Rhino makes phenomenal beers. You know, these are guys who brewed for a long time at Dominion Brewing Company before it closed and was relocated. So Lost Rhino makes great beers. Port City makes great beers. DC Brau makes great beers. We've got Three Stars Brewing Company just opening making great beers, and what's cool is that Lost Rhino and Port City both have Oktoberfest styles that are hyper fresh, and beers like this should be local and they should be fresh and refreshing and crisp, and so both those beers are wonderful.
NNAMDIRaphael, thank you very much for your call. A lot of local communities and area restaurants have Oktoberfest celebrations going on for the next couple of weeks. Of course, we've been talking to Max Eggerl for about what's happening at Blob's Park Bavarian Beer Garden, but in the 20 seconds or so we have left for people who are heading out to partake, what should they be sure not to miss?
ENGERTWell, I'd have to be a Homer on this one, but we have a giant beer festival coming to Yards Park near Navy Yard Metro. It's called Snallygaster. It's our Neighborhood Restaurant Group beer festival on October 13 beginning at noon and 1:00 p.m. going to 5:00 p.m. We're going to have over 150 different beers on hand. So definitely going to be great.
NNAMDIGreg Engert. He's beer director with the Neighborhood Restaurant Group which owns some well-known beercentric restaurants like Church Key and Rustico. Max Eggerl is owner of Blob's Park Bavarian Beer Garden in Jessup, Md. Gentlemen, thank you both for joining us, and thank you all for listening. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
We check in with the Chairman of the D.C. Council, hear about a poll that explored Marylanders' takes on national and state politics and meet Howard County's Executive.
Call in and share what's on your mind ––from yesterday's slushy snow day to the Covington Catholic teen's lawsuit against the Washington Post.
D.C.'s 311 system will soon consolidate requests for information and repairs. And its 911 system is now geolocating emergency calls from cell phones.
Recent investigations have called into question how local law enforcement handles sexual assault cases. We explore what's working, and what isn't, in police responses to sexual assault.


text:
Chaos, Anger As Trump Order Halts Some Muslim Immigrants
WASHINGTON Maryland grew to become the newest state to affix in authorized challenges against President Donald Trump's revised non permanent travel ban on Friday, with its lawyer general saying it would be part of a lawsuit introduced by Washington and different states. Travel agents can also advocate you to take language courses and different vital preparations for the journey while others will present a few hints about the destination of your travel to make sure you a more satisfying journey. Previous to traveling it will be a good idea to read in regards to the country of Kyrgyzstan to study concerning the traditions and culture of the country.
Obama, a Democrat, has loosened travel restrictions to the as soon as-forbidden land as well as some other commerce limitations. One travel expense that most individuals have no idea about is the travel bills for those who have two completely different employers. Kai Vorpahl has over 15 year travel business experience of which the final 10 years have been within the on-line travel trade.
There are three main organizations that certify a professional travel agent – together with a work from home travel agent – which certifications are thought an industry normal. By the way, there aren't an entire lot of companies … Travel More


text:
The Office of Public Affairs and Advocacy's Marketing unit is the steward of the University brand, responsible for strategic message development, marketing campaigns and collateral for the University. It also oversees the use of the Sacramento State logo, identity and style; and leads a University Marketing Council to foster synergy and consistency among the various marketing initiatives on campus.
The popular "Made at Sac State" marketing campaign, featuring notable alumni and successful students, is overseen by the Marketing unit. The unit also assists other departments with the creation of collateral materials and develops and manages the University's messaging on the Highway 50 digital billboard.
The Logo and Identity Review Process
To ensure that all materials are in full compliance with University policies, there is a process in place for approval of all communication that reaches an off-campus audience. If you are designing your own publications (such as brochures, fliers, invitations, booklets, ads etc.), you must obtain the approval of the Office of University Marketing before the material is printed or goes "live". This policy is important for the campus to establish and maintain the standards for the Sacramento State identity. The policy covers all communications for an external audience regardless of the source of funding for the material. The process for approval is best started early in the design process. Please allow no fewer than two working days for review of your project.
To begin the process or find out more about review procedures, send your materials to, or contact the Office of University Marketing at firstname.lastname@example.com or (916) 278-4381.
University Marketing regularly works with departments across campus to build greater awareness and understanding of Sac State through a variety of projects, which include printed materials, photography and web pages. If you need additional assistance, we suggest you consider the following departments:
Academic Technology and Creative Services (ATCS) can provide production and creative services for campus units. ATCS services include consultation, technical assistance, creative expertise and photography.
Public Affairs collects and distributes University news to the media, public and campus. Public Affairs manages media relations as well as University communication media.
Reprographics is the on-campus resource for printing. In addition to printing expertise and consulting, Reprographics can provide graphic design services.
UEI is a design and production resource for a full-color brochure, poster, monthly newsletter or magazine, presentation materials and more. The creative staff has print and web designers.
Web Services provides templates and assistance in order to build a webpage.


text:
For immediate assistance call: 1-800-771-6447
- Home
- |
- Sellers
- |
- Buyers
- |
- Investors
- |
- MLS Home Search
- |
- Commercial
- |
- Contact Me
- |
- About Me
For immediate assistance call: 1-800-771-6447
Interested in a property? Please fill out the form below with the property address and any questions/comments. I will be more than happy to help you.
How To Buy Distressed and Foreclosed Properties SUCCESSFULLY!
By: Erika M. Kay, Broker, Certified Foreclosure, Loan Modification, Short Sale & HUD Government Home Sale Professional.
As banks begin to process their housing backlog, experts are expecting a wave of foreclosures to rock the already shaky real-estate market this coming year. Coupled with low interest rates, this could be a great opportunity for homebuyers to pick up a home or an investment property at a great bargain.
According to RealtyTrac, 31% of sales nationwide are of homes in pre-foreclosure or already bank owned--giving buyers many purchasing options if they do their homework.
Buyers have opportunities to purchase a pre-foreclosure or foreclosed (real estate owned (REO) bank-owned) home during different parts of the process.
If a Loan Modification is denied, and prior to foreclosure, some homeowners choose to do a "short sale" which is when the lender agrees to accept a payoff of less than the balance due on the loan. Homeowners must list and advertise the sale as a short sale. If a buyer writes a contract, that contract is contingent on the bank accepting less than what they're owed. Don't let the name fool you: The "short sale" process can take three to six months because banks are overwhelmed. Since the time between bid and sale is lengthy, buyers are advised to protect themselves against downside risk from home prices that could decline during this period. To make sure that your offer price reflects possible changes in the market, a fully experienced and sharp REALTOR® will provide you with a Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) for the property of your choice.
With the market swinging from buyer to seller markets, "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" and you need to fully understand this market dynamic. A highly experienced professional REALTOR® can reasonably "predict" with some certainty what a buyer should pay and a seller should sell a home for.
Buying at Auction
When the homeowner voluntarily gives their keys to the bank in exchange for cancelling the mortgage, banks take possession of homes by a deed in lieu of the foreclosure process. When a bank takes a property from a homeowner involuntarily, the home can be sold at a public auction 90 days later. Bidders can't view these houses prior to the auction. Buyers won't know if there's no air conditioning, cut electrical wires or other vindictive damage that the homeowner did until after the sale. The winning bidder is usually required to put down a $10,000 deposit toward the purchase price and has one day to inspect the inside of the house and decide whether to complete the purchase or forfeit the deposit. A buyer needs enough cash to fund the entire purchase and to rehabilitate the house after close. Purchasing from an auction is the last avenue a buyer should use unless they are seasoned, experienced auction buyers. If the property doesn't sell at a public auction, the bank takes ownership of the home with the intent of reselling it on the market. Once a property is bank owned (REO), it's a standard timeframe purchase, and Purchase Offers are accepted or rejected within a few days, and the closing occurs in about 30 to 45 days."
You Must Know Your Market
A foreclosed property may be a great bargain, but a buyer has to do their homework before making an offer on a foreclosed property When looking for a home in a particular market, Erika Kay broker of Independent Broker Consultants, advises her buyers to research sales prices, the number of foreclosures in the area, school districts, amenities such as restaurants, shops, and the proximity to landmarks like a beach or mountains, all of which impact home values. Every market has some portion of bank-owned homes for sale. "You want to be careful if every house is in foreclosure," Erika Kay says and she advises borrowers to buy properties in as good a shape as possible that are located in good neighborhoods.
Set Realistic Expectations of What You Can Afford
Before the house-hunting process, buyers should know how much they can afford by getting an approval for a mortgage preferably from a direct lender. Without this letter, a purchase offer will not be considered and you will be wasting your time. If needed, your experienced agent will help and guide you from the beginning of your search to the successful close of escrow. The Department of Housing and Urban Development provides foreclosed-home buyers with options outside of a traditional mortgage. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA Section 203(k) program is great for foreclosed home buyers. Section 203(k) loans are funded by private lenders and insured by HUD, with borrowers able to use a portion of the loan to rehabilitate an owner-occupied house. The down payments for these loans are 3.5% of the purchase price instead of the traditional 20% down payment for a mortgage without insurance. When a house requires repairs, buyers can borrow up to an additional 10% of the house value, as determined by appraisals and estimates, to fund these costs, according to HUD guidelines. You need contractors to bid on the house, and these bids are given to the appraiser who provides a value of the house before and after its rehabilitated. If you found a great bargain but it needs repairs, the FHA loan gives you more money to help fix up the property.
Decide What You Can Handle
Foreclosures (REO's) aren't always listed for sale right after the Trustee Sale and can be neglected and empty for a long time. Buyers should start looking at those listed on the market by Realtors. Due to low inventory in some markets and low interest rates, these properties are receiving multiple offers, many exceed the asking price.
An Inspection is a MUST
"Short Sales" aside, buying a bank-owned home and a home owned by a "Standard" regular seller is not very different. The difference lies with the fact that banks aren't in the business of fixing things. Experts advise that buyers of foreclosed properties ask for a home inspection, however, most banks refuse and you are buying the property in an "As Is" condition. Getting a home inspection is not a requirement, but you should get one even if you have to pay for it yourself. No one wants surprises on the last day. In regards to termite inspections a lender requires a termite inspection to check for physical damage from termites and a flood certification that determines whether the buyer needs federal flood insurance when the house is in a floodplain, but these are different than a home inspection. When a vacant home's utilities are turned off, experts recommend asking that utilities be turned back on for the day of the home inspection so that inspectors can functionally test the heating, cooling and plumbing. Every day that a home is vacant and utilities are turned off, "the systems of the house begin to degrade," experts say. "You can't determine this until everything is turned back on" they say.
Since buying a home in this present market may have extra complications, experts advise buyers to be patient. In this market with increased foreclosures, "buyers will still have the upper hand," they say. You can afford to be patient and wait for a property and opportunity that's best for you and not settle for something "just to buy quickly".
I am here to help you and I will guide you and answer your questions during my upcoming important Buyers and Sellers Workshops. For more information please contact me at my office 951-734-6447 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. I will be looking forward to your important contact.
Erika M. Kay, Broker/Owner, Property Manager
Short Sale & Foreclosure Specialist (NARSFR)
SRES (Senior Real Estate Specialist)
Certified e-PRO
Independent Broker Consultants
1655 E 6th St. Ste A-1, Corona, CA, 92879
Office: 951-734-6447 - Direct: 951-545-3786
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com - Website: www.ErikaKay.com


text:
You're invited to Media Mix at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA! Media Mix will feature works of art that offer "distinctive imaginative imagery using 2 or more media". This show was juried by Gretchen Keyworth, Fuller Craft Museum's Director Emeritus & Chief Curator.
My largest bead-painting, Time Traveler Trilogy, has been selected for this exhibition! This painting features my beaded Einstein sheepdog traveling in a beaded DeLorean Time Machine.
Seed beads, acrylics. 16″ x 20″ x 2″.
Seed beads, acrylics. 16″ x 20″ 3″D.
Seed beads, acrylics, newspaper collage. 16″ x 20″ x 1″.
WHERE: South Shore Art Center
119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, MA.
EXHIBIT DATES: March 19 – May 2, 2010.
HOURS: Mon.- Sat.10am-4pm. Sun.- 12-4pm.
OPENING RECEPTION: March 19, 6-8pm.
Hope to see you there! 🙂