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I was a bit more expecting in this chapter.
But im freaking relieved, that Katsuragi feels down! I mean, on, how many times did he do something cruel and right after, he continued playing his games.
He feels, like he should feel. Horrible.
When i saw the small spoiler, raw picture, it first looked like, as if Katsuragi tries to jump on Ayumi. Now, seeing the connection, it was totaly different.
I feel so sad for Chihiro. In this chapter, a heart broke into pices. You could heart it everywhere.
|2011-11-21, 18:36
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The look on Chihiro's face when she was leaving was really difficult to discern, but I suppose there's a whole jumble of negative emotions going through her mind after what just happened. Sadness, anger, shock and regret mostly I'd assume. It's a good chance she won't ever have the same feelings for him ever again.
Man, I'm rather glad to see Keima so angry and disappointed with himself, he's really come quite a way from who he used to be at the start of the series.
And as angry as Ayumi must be at Keima for crushing Chihiro like that, I bet there's just a very small twinge of relief she feels as well. All that blushing does indeed prove she doesn't totally hate him right now.
And Diana finally came out full-force with her confession. Not that noone didn't see this coming already sooner or later.
That swimsuit did seem to come out of nowhere, as it seems Diana doesn't even seem to be sure why she's wearing it. Maybe Tenri planned ahead for this situation?
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Did Keima felt guilty all of a sudden for "playing" around with girls' feelings? I think he did or maybe he's just not used to dealing with the sudden feelings around him? Regardless, I think he harshly rejected Chihiro on purpose to save him and herself from any further hurt in future....or so I want to say. Oh, and Diana/Tenri strikes back. Gimme wings!
|2011-11-21, 18:45
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The conclusion to the heartbreak was a bit underwhelming, probably because we don't see Chihiro anymore after Katsuragi's rejection. The chapter might have benefited more if they have continued the drama a bit longer, but Wakaki decided to stop it right away and unsatisfyingly ended the built up tensions and emotions the readers have been investing the past couple of chapters. It was anti-climatic and the pacing could do with some more self-reflection to give readers a break on what has been developing, especially to develop Keima's character and feelings in all of this. Seriously, Keima has been having it rough dealing with all this and he little to no emotional support from Elsie or Haqua. The time when he's alone in the bath had me feeling sympathetic for Keima even after what he did to Chihiro and was trying to do with Ayumi.
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Obviously Keima feels guilty about it, that was to be expected. He's not a robot even if he pretends to be. But did we really need the Diana/Tenri melodrama at this point? All it's gonna do is be some kind of eye-opener for Keima regarding how to resolve the Ayumi/Chihiro situation.
|2011-11-21, 19:29
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I want to know what happens next. But Wakaki should spend more time on depressed Keima. Diana's appearance should only be in the last page of this chapter. Tenri/Diana atm is simply too distracted. But anyway, why school swimsuit? Diana is simply clueless at sex, or simply don't want them to be in any sexual relationship yet?
Back to Chihiro and Keima. God damn it, Keima. Your master plan recovered the situation, but eat away every involved party from the inside, include you. Isn't that basically his Plan B back when he nearly kissed Chihiro. I thought it sounds ridiculous back then, and it's definitely ridiculous now. If that's what he chose, he should just 'attack' Ayumi at full force until the Goddess coming out. Now he put everyone into a difficult spot, and they have to go through the night with it. You lost this game Keima. Your ending will recover some of the affection somehow, but at what we are standing, you lost the game.
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The Diana bit felt horribly misplaced. Honestly as much as I didn't think I would say this, I want a Chihiro end so Keima could make it up to her (assuming the other girls are going to forget everything after the goddesses leave).
Well, it also doesn't help that I finally watched the Chihiro arc in the anime and it was FANTASTIC. I felt nothing for it when I read it in the manga.
|2011-11-21, 19:42
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God just found in a glitch in his reallife game, nthn too serious. Dun be worried guys, the next 1-2 chapters should deliver pretty hardcore imo, i'm expecting some epic win Ayumi back arc up next And obv. we'll get a sort of resolution with Chihiro aswell (she might really be the end girl ;_
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To be honest I felt absolutely nothing with her at the end, Chihiro had too strong of a hold on me for me to care about the rest of the story.
Hell, it bothers me that she become somewhat of a plot device to develop Keima's character, I really hope they bounce back together somehow.
|2011-11-21, 20:33
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Well it is too early to tell anything. I did find Chihiro to shine bright so wonderfully for some reason for me to consider her recent arc to be the top 5 in the series.
Diana/Tenri part was kind of a relief from it being too depressing. I found my self cringing in the last two chapters so the mood whiplash was actually a relief.
The Diana/Tenri thing might seem out of place to some but considering that things are happening in a hurry and something is going to happen within the next week (though it might be months before we readers see it through) there really is not many points in which Diana/Tenri enter the picture.
And remember, this whole chaotic series of events that started from Apollo/Kanon has not even been a month in the series 'real-time'.
|2011-11-21, 20:33
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And whats up with Diana jumping on Keima while he is in the bath... Totally out of character.
|2011-11-21, 21:09
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omg... Keima must be frustated... but how can he still can say the conquer is going well??!! I can't find any way to reconcile back with Ayumi and Chihiro
I was trolled by Diana.... damn.... why swimsuit?? lol
I don't know why should Diana-Tenri appear in this time... maybe they will have more impact in the story later... it just feels so random
|2011-11-21, 23:50
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Haqua is away, Elsie is away, it seems like only one person can give Keima the comfort he needs and I'm glad its Tenri, I've been wanting to see more of Tenri ever since Diana took more of the spot light. I still hope this manga does not go into the true love route it just leads to too much disappointment in many readers if the character they are support is not the end girl. So reset ending please....
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|2011-11-22, 00:46
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Heh, good thing I wasn't affect at all by Chihiro's charm unlike so many people here so I'm not freaking out and pulling hairs But I suppose if we REALLY had to sacrifice one girl to heartbreak... I'm okay with the choice... That's all I'm saying... >.>
It's a regular tough guy act.
Actually, I thought Diana had her wings earlier already... Guess not...
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|2011-11-22, 06:19
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So Kami dodged the Nice Boat with Chihiro/Ayumi, but fall into it again with a split personnality? Sucks to be God.
Well, not that much, since I wouldn't mind some bath night with Tenri and/or Diana.
Quite surprising to see Diana pulls such a bold move :"If you love me, f*ck my best friend!!". She still stays herself in some ways. Like hell she would let Keima see Tenri naked before marriage.
I was expecting a lot more drama in this chapter. But hey, let's Wakaki get away with this. It isn't like he failed us before.
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Yeh, shame really as I'm sure there's >>
quite a few UK regulars on other boards who would find this one better than their current ones!
Ahh well...
update from me..
The Volvo V40 Diesel is going to be sold as of tonight, 1st choice is to go for a V70 Diesel, or I 'want' a 530D ..
others on the shortlist are an Audi A6 1.9 or 2.5 diesel, a saab 9-5 diesel..
Ahh well, we'll see how it goes..
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Very true Dennis!
Diesel looks to be the way to go these days, looking at your choices of course the 530d is a great car (any 5 is!) however I've always had a soft spot for the Saab 9-5, though never driven a diesel engined one.
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A proper mission on fri nite! >>>>
left home (Slough) at 8pm, the M40 is kinda clear, few idiot drivers and rain slowing us down - then onto the M6 Toll, nice and clear and I put my foot down in the WRX. Arrive Stockport at 1115pm. Car Dealer is cool and I look at .. the 530 SE Diesel Auto . Here's the deal, an ex West Yorkshire Constabulary car, 150K miles, fully stamped up service book from the Police internal servicing dept. A 2003 on a 52 plate. Initial impressions look good.
After a look around, doing the dreaded 'look at bodywork under petrol station lighting' thing (has the usual dings and stone chips and a light lower part of car blow over respray), taking a 15 minute test drive, having a good poke around the car, only 3 small holes on top of the dash, no external holes etc..
I close the deal at ... £7350! bargain ! A trade contact showed us a 2003 530d with 60K to the trade should be up at £12000 so with the mileage I thought it'd be worth around £9000 at worst. So my deal price really seems good!
The drive back - I really enjoyed feeling it's driveability - it's been too long since I've had a BMW ! phenomenal performance! I got my mate to drive the WRX and we found a stretch of the M56 (i think) and we called on our mobiles. The WRX in 5th gear at around 70MPH me in the 530, both said 'go' floored the throttle and the 530d just pulled away from him until about 95MPH where he started gaining quite quickly! (although to pull away the BMW did downshift to 3rd I think it was)
We then swapped cars a few miles later so we could test out a bit further. Did the rolling test a few more times, but as I know thw WRX a bit, I dropped it to 3rd this time and I'm still impressed by the BMW's admirable turn of acceleration! - I quickly passed by though, up to 4th and then 5th and 120 mph when it's 'holyyyyy sheeeet' i see the yellow stripes - slow down and its a copper at 55mph in the inside lane!! Stomp on the sports brakes and no worries, 75mph past him, and I pull in front of him and continue - I knew he ran a plate check! the WRX has a slang/swear word (fully legal and conforming) number plate! but all good, he didnt pull me over!
We swapped at Birmingham again and the rest of the drive back was smooth and relaxed at 85-90 - till we got home at just before 4am!
It's a 'little' rough round the edges, we'll give it to a bodywork guy we know to get him to 'tidy' up a bit although as it is it's perfectly acceptable. We'll pass it to our excellent BMW servicing mechanic (he has 5 E30 M3's, a couple M5's an Alpina B10 bi turbo, a few maserati's, a couple classic E32 745i Turbo's etc in his garden!) to give it a mechanical checkover.
And then of course it's fun time! a set of 18 or 19 inch wheels and tyres, an inch or so lowering kit, some white M lights, and dark smoke tint all round and of course a set of leathers!
I'm just 'slightly' worried it'll turn out to be a lemon - but hey, I hope that passes soon !
Just wanted to share!
I'm BACK in a BMW after a 2 year gap! Feels good !
Dennis! West London & Slough UK - E39 530d! Oh and a WRX, and a 06 Smart Car, and a 2003 Ford F150 Harley Davidson Anniversary Edition truck (for sale!!)
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_ "I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business." _ Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
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_ Huntsman, when asked if he favored Cain's 9-9-9 flat tax program, replied: "I think it's a catchy phrase. In fact, I thought it was a price of a pizza when I first heard about it, Herman." Cain, the former chairman and chief executive of Godfather's Pizza, later fought back: "It didn't come off a pizza box, no. It was well-studied and well-developed."
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My new story on psychology's problem with replications
I have a new feature out in Nature looking at two big problems within the field of psychology. First, the field is almost entirely dominated by positive results, while negative ones languish unpublished in personal file drawers. Second, there are few incentives to replicate old results and negative replication attempts face a lengthy gauntlet of obstacles. In the story, I look at why these problems exist and why some psychologists are starting to take them very seriously.
The piece has its origins in an incident that regular readers will already know. In January, Stephane Doyen and colleagues had unsuccessfully tried to repeat a classic experiment where people walk more slowly down a corridor after being unconsciously primed with age-related words. I wrote about their research. Two months later, the man behind the original study – John Bargh of Yale University – wrote a scathing attack on Doyen's team, me, and the journal that published the study. I responded.
The ensuing discussion opened my eyes to an undercurrent of unrest. Many psychologists came out of the woodwork to mention experiments that were hard to replicate, common practices that they deemed to be dodgy, and a growing willingness to turn a critical eye upon their own field. For every comment that appeared on the blog and Twitter, I've got another that was sent confidentially to me via email. This was clearly something worth writing about.
From the outset, I was very clear that this was not going to be a hit piece, against any individual researcher, or psychology as a field, and I'd like to think that the result is a fair assessment. I look at issues such as: conceptual replication (where different but thematically similar experiments are said to replicate each other); the difficulties of repeating studies of abstract concepts; the role of almost magical 'knacks'; and how tiny, innocuously-made choices that pull statistically significant results from the ether. I also look at the extent to which these problems are unique to psychology, compared to other sciences.
And perhaps most importantly, I look at the triggers that have provoked many psychologists into recognising and discussing these problems, from controversial papers about psychic abilities to high-profile frauds like Diederik Stapel. It is not my contention that such misconduct is common but I think that the field's cultural norms have created an environment where Stapels could go unnoticed.
But enough background. Do read the piece, and let me know what you think. I might post a bit more about it, depending on reactions.
And finally, many thanks to Brendan Maher for seeing the potential in the story and editing it into shape, and Helen Pearson for taking it over the finishing line.
I'm going to collect some other good resources on this issue:
- An entire special issue on the topic from The Psychologist
- Psychology's bold initiative – great piece from Siri Carpenter about Brian Nosek and his Reproducibility Project
- Navel gazing on steroids in social and personality science – Brent Roberts summarises some of the recent events, including some I didn't touch on in the piece
- Bias in psychology – Razib Khan riffs off my piece.
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A thoughtful piece, Ed. Got me thinking about replicability – if it is so hard to replicate all the parameters (down to the colour of the room) of a psychology experiment of this kind, maybe we do have to do B in order to show A is true (or not).
I mean, rather than trying to repeat A (in the knowledge that a negative finding proves nothing outright anyway), perhaps other groups should build a new hypothesis: "If A is true, we would expect to observe X, so let's do B to test that". This approach, rather than being limited to supporting or not supporting some suspiciously convenient or attention-grabbing results, would have the potential to further the field if A is true and might lead others to new, non-A-dependent hypotheses should X turn out not to be observed. Feels more constructive than straight replication, which carries all the problems you identify in your piece….
thanks so much for your insight on this topic. great work, indeed.
Good stuff. I found this interesting and encouraging paper: http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Zoltan_Dienes/Dienes%202011%20Bayes.pdf recently while looking for signs that someone in psychology might understand why psi retrocausality experiments are actually irremediable "cargo cult science" rather than merely in need of a bigger N and a Bayesian t-test (per Wagenmakers et al).
If the dodgy psychologists had been working on the SETI project the existence of alien life would be irrefutable from the "Wow!" signal and anybody not finding their own Wow! signal designed their experiment wrong.
A lovely piece.
To be honest, I almost feel uncomfortable calling psychology a science right now. And the weirdest thing is that the tools to change that are right there. Papers should be pre-registered for publishing (including experimental design etc.), as Wagenmakers says, and studies should be considered unreliable unless replicated. It's a disgrace that journals won't accept replications, and it should be standard practice to regard publishing a paper as the starting point rather than all there is to say on a particular subject.
This is an obvious generalization, specially Iota's comment. The problem that the author describes is real, if and where it exists, but I'd bet it's not limited to Psychology and doesn't extend to all classical problems and clearly not to all Psychology.
Though I also agree that negative replication results have a really hard time getting published, I wouldn't say they that they "languish unpublished in personal file drawers", some do get published and that's obvious from doing a literature review in almost any field of Scientific Psychology. I also must add that most replications are not replications per se as they generally introduce changes in the conditions either accidently or in order to test something else. What it means is: keep replicating.
In the end, I'd ask the author to do some real research on the case that could show how big the problem is (specially sending it to APA and Experimental Psychology Associations). As I'm sure you know, the author's statements don't have much to back them out other than that they ring true to most scientists' ears. The fact that you've heard about the experience of many Psychologists who can't get published is of course a question of sampling: how do you know how many Psychologists in general can't get published? How many have non-replications and do get published? Well, as I hope everyone reading this knows, you need the full table to be able to draw the conclusions the author is defending: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency_table
Interesting stuff Ed, and nicely written! Bit of a step into controversy, hope it generates discussion rather than heat.
I find the proportion of significant publications in psychology a bit of a smoking gun; you'd have to twist a long way to argue that the results reflect reality. Maybe psychologists are so damned good they never test an untrue hypothesis 😉 Depressingly, my field (genetics) also has high rates of 'positive' publications – I suspect for different reasons though.
I did groan aloud at the paragraph about psychology experiments being like theatre direction, that there is a knack to getting positive results and the suggestion that there is 'secret knowledge' in these experiments that can be difficult to impart. If these suggestions hadn't been from quotes, I'd have sugested this was a most crude and cruel mischacterisation of the field (NB. not for one moment do I think all psychologists think this way).
"the field is almost entirely dominated by positive results, while negative ones languish unpublished in personal file drawers".
Not just psychology, surely?
It sure isn't just psychology. "The statistical practice of most physicists, not to mention other scientists, is crude and often seriously flawed." [ http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/html/Inferential.html ] All of science has been harmed by the early 20th c. replacement of its rational inferential foundations with the "irrational on a key intuitive notion of rationality" orthodox inference. Unfortunately, as I think this: http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=25&editionID=213&ArticleID=2059 article clearly illustrates, the half-baked 'Bayesian' (as opposed to 'Jaynesian') approach isn't an effective remedy.
I blogged about your article on my own blog [The Problem with Psychology] and noted that you didn't even mention evolutionary psychology!
I think there really is a problem with the entire discipline. Why can't the "good" psychologists prevent rubbish from being published?
Hello Ed,
first, thanks so much for all your efforts in creating this site.
In the area of medical clinical trials there is now a requirement to document all results positive, negative or even nil.
Eg down here "Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry", and in the US the govt "Clinical Trials".
Are some pysch eperiments akin to these trials?
Then when publishing papers you include a reference to this type of database.
This might avoid the scenario of airlines employing psychics to predict crashes instead of engineers working to avoid them?
We're addressing some of these problems in the study of Human-Computer Interaction too – see http://repliCHI.org – we're trying to push our conference (main publication venue in our field) to focus more on this topic. im going to read your paper/links in ernest.
@Ed Young: I'm sorry I got lost on the sensationalist words that were used. Otherwise, I think your point is valid and that it should be pushed further, as I stated already, good luck!
@Larry Moran: this is a result of how scientific (and pseudo-scientific) information dissiminates (or not). You wouldn't see much bad Psychology mixed in with the good one in those few amazing Psychology Journals that keep their standards. Some bad stuff gets published from time to time and sometimes good one is withheld, but I still must reeinforce the idea that this is not a systemic error of Psychology and it has no a priori reason to be bigger than in any other field.
As far as Evolutionary Psychology is concerned, if people who are interested enough in it to read they probably can realize by themselves that their articles are actually damned stupid. Though I agree with you, at least some shouldn't be published in the first place. Did you read an Evolutionary Psychology theory on homosexuality?
What I am missing from the hype surrounding replication at the moment is a clear argument for its special status in science.
After all, we are not testing tens or even hundreds of people for fun. We don't run statistical analyses (classical, Bayesian or other) because we don't know what else to do.
I do believe replication is special, because it is the only approach which can overcome the human factor, i.e. the subjective side of science. One can argue for a long time about whether Daryl Bem analysed his data correctly or not. But one cannot argue about the value of a straight replication.
To put it shortly:
If science is to be objective, it must be replicable.
So, I don't see you piece as a story about Psychology (Being a Psychologist, I am biased of course), the value of alternative data analyses or personal failures (à la good Psychologists vs. bad ones). I think it is just a case study of a field which is rediscovering some fundamental approach in science.
A considered and considerate piece on Nature. Thank-you. Extra kudos for Grace Park here!
"If science is to be objective, it must be replicable."
But of course the reverse implication doesn't hold: it's necessary that an experiment be replicable, yes, but replication isn't sufficient to overcome "the human factor" [cf. Millikan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan.27s_experiment_as_an_example_of_psychological_effects_in_scientific_methodology ] I don't think replication is of itself the fundamental approach which characterises good, objective science. Having a Feynmannian integrity motivating the replication is what really matters.
Bem's analysis was "not even incorrect". The 'Bayesian' critiques also conspicuously failed to identify, and point out the consequences of, what was by far the most serious error: the fatal flaw that makes such experiments /in principle/ incapable of generating results interpretable as evidence for retrocausal phenomena (even if retrocausal phenomena exist)¹. As Sean Carroll has written in a post somewhere in his Cosmic Variance blog here:
"If parapsychologists followed the methodology of scientific inquiry, they would look [at] what we know about the laws of physics, realize that their purported subject of study had already been ruled out, and within thirty seconds would declare themselves finished. Anything else is pseudoscience, just as surely as contemporary investigation into astrology, phrenology, or Ptolemaic cosmology. Science is defined by its methods, but it also gets results; and to ignore those results is to violate those methods."
Psi retrocausality pseudo-experiments are spectacular violations. Medical science has its clinical trials of homeopathy and 'energy medicines'. Such things are futile cargo cult science – grotesque parodies of genuine science. The motivation of those attempting replications of Bem is good but replication isn't the appropriate tool in the science toolbox for dealing with that sort of stuff.


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CHAMPAIGN � Illinois freshman guard Malcolm Hill has been through a losing stretch like this before.
He remembers losing eight in a row during his freshman year of high school at Belleville East and how miserable it was. The fact that it was a team full of seniors made him feel even worse.
There was one difference that stuck out to him between that team and this Illinois basketball team.
�This one we�re going through now when we�re losing a lot it�s been much better than my freshman year because my high school year our team wasn�t really together,� Hill said. �But this losing streak it�s not really fazing us. We�re still sticking together.�
Moments later, coach John Groce walked onto the court and grabbed a rebound before putting it back one-handed. Then he embraced guard Tracy Abrams.
Even though Illinois has lost nine of its last 10 games, the team insists its problems are easily fixable. However, these Illini are not talented and experienced enough to afford nearly any mistakes when playing teams near the top of the Big Ten, as they will when they face Ohio State at State Farm Center tonight (7 p.m. BTN).
Groce says it�s the little things that are preventing the Illini from winning games. A majority of the Illini�s film and practice time is spent going over a couple plays that Groce believes are the difference between winning or losing.
�It�s a thin line here or there,� forward Jon Ekey said.
At his press conference Friday, Groce assured everyone the state of Illinois basketball is still in good shape.
�Obviously when you�re going through it sometimes and you�re struggling from a win-loss prospective that can force you to continue to evaluate, which is good,� Groce said. �� but that vision hasn�t changed.�
The program has seemingly lost some of the momentum it gained during Groce�s first year here, when the team stormed back from a losing skid to make the NCAA tournament. It began when four-star recruit Quentin Snider backed out of his oral commitment to Illinois on the same day as Cliff Alexander�s infamous hat-fake and commitment to Kansas.
This was supposed to be a transitional year for the Illini, but a fast start and earning an appearance in the AP Top 25 poll in January raised expectations too high for this team.
Ohio State has had its struggles this year and has been mostly inconsistent. The Buckeyes enter as winners of three of their last four games and beat the Illini 62-55 last month in Columbus.
But Illinois has not changed the way it does things. If an observer did not know the team was scuffling through this stretch, it would be impossible to tell by the way they carry themselves.
�That motivates me,� Groce said. �The way they�ve handled themselves. The way they continue to play really hard. I think that probably inspires or motivates me more than anything.�


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Mass Effect 3 to include cut ME2 Citadel mission
BioWare lead writer Mac Walters says that one Citadel mission in Mass Effect 3 was cut from Mass Effect 2.
Mass Effect 3 is giving BioWare another chance to include content that was originally planned for Mass Effect 2, according to lead writer Mac Walters. The cut mission took place on the Citadel, which played a major role in the ending of the first game.
"That's the nice thing about trilogies," Walters said. "Sometimes you get a second chance."
"There was a Mass Effect 2 plot that was a kind of callback to the first Mass Effect that was going to be on the Citadel, and we cut it," Walters told OXM. "But now it's made a resurrection in Mass Effect 3, so I'm happy, but I can't say what it is."
He also joked about the challenges that came with the branching paths of Mass Effect 2. "Sometimes they're hurdles that we've given ourselves, so we kind of smack ourselves in the head and say 'What the hell were we thinking? Why did we do that?' The classic example is, 'Hey, let's make the ending of Mass Effect 2 a suicide mission where all your henchmen can possibly die, and Shepard can even die!' Oh right... and then we're gonna do another game after that. What the hell are we gonna do with all those guys?"
He raises an excellent question, but we'll have to wait until the game launches on March 6, 2012 to find out the answer.
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BioWare lead writer Mac Walters says that one Citadel mission in Mass Effect 3 was cut from Mass Effect 2.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Argentina's economy minister emerged from daylong negotiations aimed at preventing a default Tuesday to say both sides had finally spoken for the first time, a development that raised hopes that a deal might be reached to avert a financial crisis.
Minister Axel Kicillof made the revelation shortly before midnight as he left talks he had joined several hours earlier.
Shortly afterward, court-appointed mediator Daniel A. Pollack issued a statement saying Kicillof had led a delegation that met lawyers for U.S. bondholders trying to collect about $1.5 billion they are owed by Argentina.
He said the two sides met several hours in his office and in his presence.
"These were the first face-to-face talks between the parties. There was a frank exchange of views and concerns. The issues that divide the parties remain unresolved," he said.
Although Kicillof said the negotiations would resume Wednesday, Pollack mentioned the deadline day with more caution.
"Whether and when the parties will meet tomorrow (July 30) remains to be determined overnight," he said in the statement issued just before midnight.
Argentina faces a deadline midnight Wednesday when it must either meet its bond obligations or plunge into a default for the second time in 13 years.
A federal judge last week had ordered around-the-clock negotiations, but sporadic talks did not seem to take on a sense of urgency until a team of negotiators from Argentina showed up Tuesday morning.
Kicillof arrived seven hours later to meet with lawyers for U.S. hedge funds that bought Argentina's bonds on the cheap and are now demanding payment.
U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Griesa had ordered Argentina to pay the U.S. bondholders if the South American nation also pays the other 92 percent of bondholders who swapped their bonds for less valuable ones in the last decade.
Kicillof entry into the talks came after the earlier arrival of Argentina's Finance Secretary Pablo Lopez, treasury official Javier Pargament and two lawyers who said nothing as they entered Pollack's building.
Argentina has blamed the judge for the crisis, saying his orders are forcing it into insolvency. Argentina last went into default in 2001.
The judge has twice rejected Argentina's request to suspend the effect of his orders to give Argentina more time to negotiate a settlement with all bondholders.
President Cristina Fernandez has long refused to negotiate with the U.S. hedge funds, led by New York billionaire Paul Singer's NML Capital Ltd., which spent more than a decade litigating for payment in full rather than agreeing to provide Argentina with debt relief.
Argentina has labeled the U.S. funds "vultures" for picking up bonds on the cheap. The government has said paying the U.S. funds would likely trigger lawsuits from other bondholders demanding payment on similar terms. Argentina says that would cost more than $20 billion.
Late Tuesday, lawyers for a group of London-based bondholders who exchanged their bonds in the last decade said the financial firms that hold the bonds might be willing to drop a clause in their contracts that allows them to match deals reached with other bondholders.
The lawyers said the stance by the bondholders was a "clear signal that the republic may be able to obtain a waiver ... opening up a path to settlement."
At a court hearing last week, attorney Jonathan Blackman told the judge that the clause was a "huge issue" that made a settlement by the end of the month impossible without some easement of his orders.


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Expressions of Faith
There's a wealth of sacred manuscripts in the British Library – many of them rare, ancient and beautiful. We invited a group of well-known people from different faiths and walks of life to choose their favourites.
Buddhism: Sue Arnold
Sue Arnold is a journalist and author, known for her sharp social observations. She has a Burmese mother and two grandparents. In her search for her Anglo-Burmese roots she gained a fascination and respect for her family's Buddhist culture and beliefs.
Christianity: Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood
Pamela Tudor-Craig is an art historian and committed Christian. Her schooling by nuns provided a familiarity with Christian thought that led her to a ready understanding and personal affection for medieval art, upon which she has written extensively
Hinduism: Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar introduced Indian music to the West during the 1960s, after many years of study under his illustrious Hindu guru, Baba Alluadin Khan. His music led a whole generation to an awareness and admiration of Eastern thought.
Islam: Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey is one of our most famous Indian actors. Educated in both Islamic and Christian schools, he studied history at the University of Allahabad before taking to the stage and film to charm audiences with his dapper style.
Jainism: Bharat Shah
Bharat Shah was born in Kenya to a strict Jain family. After coming to study in England, he set up his own pharmaceuticals business. Although now one of the country's wealthiest businessmen, he still embraces the modest Jain lifestyle.
Judaism: Lord Robert Winston
Lord Robert Winston is a leading fertility expert and a Labour peer. Best known to many as the writer and presenter of several major television science series, Lord Winston says his work is guided by his religious belief.
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cookies and hatsFriday, January 18, 2008
The cookie of the week was chosen by Libby. And since the kids had a half day of school yesterday, she also helped make them. I bought the dark chocolate with raspberry creme baking pieces at my local grocery. Not sure if you would be able to find them at your local grocery, but like the york pieces, maybe you can locate them here. We just used our chocolate chip cookie recipe and used these for the chips. Only two of the kids liked them, and my husband thought they were "different". I totally agreed. The next time I would probably bake them in brownies. The box brownie mix.
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i have never heard of those little chocolates. love that colorgree you used for the hat too. i may have to try this. i have a ton of debbie bliss yarn in navy blue. I thought it would be cute to make the boys matching hats and sweater vests! I am done with my throw, just sewing it up now....I will be showing pictures this weekend and giving you some link love!ReplyDelete
Brrr, it is going to be a cold one! Lucky Jack will be covered!:) I have searched for those patties since your original post on them, thanks for the link - that may just lead me to the right place! I have the goods to mkae your Ginger cookies from last week - that's my plan for tomorow - thank you!ReplyDelete
ok, first off, do you think -29 degrees counts as cold? I am soooo glad I don't need to go out anywhere til sunday for chuch. brrr. and did i say brrrRrRRR?ReplyDelete
that hat really is fab. I love it. your wrapping is great.
The comics wrapper looks so good! Have a happy weekend,ReplyDelete
Love that wrapping paper, Leslie! And that Thorpe is a winner.ReplyDelete
Hey! I made your Orange Ginger cookies last week and they were so yummy - thank you for the recipe - I will make them again!ReplyDelete
This recipe sounds yummy too. Love these hats that you are making. Wrapping gifts with the Comics - reminds me of my family :)
It is, indeed, cold where I am. I am wrapped and bundled! Thanks for the tip on the Hershey's product locater. I used to chop up Andes mints for cookies and I bet the York Peppermint Patties would be most excellent, too! I'm on the hunt! :) It's cold enough to merit baking some cookies. And then I'll have an excuse to invite people over for a knitting party! Yippee!ReplyDelete
my kids have the long weekend too....hope you all are staying warm! the hat is super cute (and i adore the wrapping.)ReplyDelete
I REALLY want those choco/raspberry chips! I don't even have that big of a sweet tooth but these...I would love it!ReplyDelete
Cute gift/wrap!
Very special gift! And I need to explore the baking isle more. I bet the cookies were delicious and love the idea of adding the 'chips' to brownies too! Oh Leslie, where would we be without your blog...it make my day.ReplyDelete


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Glenn's home run gives Fisher Cats an extra-inning win in Trenton
July 19. 2013 10:43PM
Brad Glenn homered in the 10th inning and reliever Randy Boone worked a quiet bottom of the frame to lead the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to a 4-3 win at Trenton on Friday.
Boone got the win to improve to 2-0. Marcus Stroman worked seven strong innings, allowing just two runs, but did not figure in the decision. New Hampshire (50-47) led 3-0 after four innings, but Trenton (49-49) came back with single runs in the fifth, seventh and eighth. Kevin Nolan went 4-for-4 for New Hampshire and Ryan Schimpf was 3-for-4 with a triple.
The teams meet again Saturday night at 7:05 p.m.
Winning streak snapped
The Trenton Thunder snapped the New Hampshire Fisher Cats' eight-game winning streak with a 9-2 victory Thursday night at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton, N.J..Trenton received home runs from Yeral Sanchez and Slade Heathcott in the win.
The Fisher Cats were trying to set a franchise record with their ninth straight win.Trenton jumped on New Hampshire starting pitcher Deck McGuire (5-8) in the first inning, with a three-run Sanchez home run.Leading 3-2 in the seventh, Trenton made it 5-2 with a Heathcott two-run homer off New Hampshire reliever Dustin Antolin before adding four more runs in the eighth off Fisher Cats pitcher Matt Wright.New Hampshire scored one run in the first inning on a Brad Glenn RBI single and added another run in the fourth when Jack Murphy's double drove in Nashua native Kevin Nolan.. The Fisher Cats pulled to within a run of Trenton, 3-2, in the fourth inning when Jack Murphy doubled home Nashua native Kevin Nolan.New Hampshire stranded 12 runners in the loss. Glenn had three hits for the Fisher Cats.


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Christmas tree is lit outside U.S. Capitol amid hymns
WASHINGTON (AP) — An 88-foot-tall spruce that was transported from Washington state to Washington D.C. has been illuminated in a ceremony on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
House Speaker John Boehner flipped the switch that lit the Capitol Christmas Tree, helped by the six-year-old son of an Iraq war veteran.
Washington Congressman Jim McDermott said Christmas is about a "child that came into the world and changed the world." He added, "I hope this tree will remind us of Jesus' call to feed the hungry, to welcome the stranger, to clothe the naked and to take care of the sick."
The U.S. Marine Band played "O Come all ye Faithful," ''Joy to the World," ''O Holy Night" and other Christmas hymns.
On Friday, the National Christmas Tree will be lit on the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument.
Nativity scene on display at Florida Capitol
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Christmastime manger scenes in public spaces have often been the subject of legal fights in the U.S.
But the American Civil Liberties Union says the creche (krehsh) installed by the Florida Nativity Scene Committee at the Capitol in Tallahassee is legal — because it is privately funded, not government sponsored.
Still, the ACLU says that by allowing the exhibit, which depicts the birth of Jesus, the state will now have to allow anyone to use the premises of the Capitol to express messages.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation plans to put up a banner at Florida's Capitol stating opposition to religion in government.
Notre Dame sues over birth control mandate
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The University of Notre Dame is suing the Obama administration over a federal mandate that its health insurance plans for students and employees cover birth control.
The university filed its lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in South Bend. It claims the mandate violates Notre Dame's freedom to practice religion without government interference. The Roman Catholic university says the birth control mandate violates the church's teaching prohibiting contraception.
The Obama administration promotes the law's provision of a range of preventive care, free of charge, as a key benefit of the health care overhaul. Contraception is included in the package of cost-free benefits. The administration also attempted to create a buffer for religiously affiliated hospitals, universities and social service groups that oppose birth control.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to consider two cases in which business owners have objected to covering birth control for employees on religious grounds.
High court ends Liberty U. lawsuit over health law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away a Christian university's attempt to overturn a key part of the Obama administration's health care law.
The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling dismissing Liberty University's lawsuit.
Liberty made several arguments in challenging the portion of the health care law that requires most employers to provide health insurance to their workers or pay a fine. The 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Richmond, Va., rejected those claims.
The Supreme Court separately is considering whether for-profit corporations can mount religious objections to the law's requirement to include birth control among preventive health benefits.
Netanyahu gives pope book by father on Inquisition
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given Pope Francis a book about the Inquisition in Spain that was written by the Israeli leader's late father.
Netanyahu presented a Spanish translation of the 1995 book, "The Origins of the Inquisition," to Francis during their 25-minute private audience Monday.
Netanyahu's father was an Israeli historian who died last year. A Zionist activist who opposed partitioning Palestine between Arabs and Jews, he was best known in academic circles for his research into the Catholic Church's medieval inquisition against the Jews of Spain.
Francis thanked Netanyahu and presented him with a small bronze plaque of St. Paul.
A Vatican statement said discussions between the Israeli and Vatican delegations focused on restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and Francis' upcoming pilgrimage to the Holy Land. While no dates have been set, the trip is expected sometime in May.


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Blake Lively: Million Dollar Maker
Blake Lively dons the Suzanna Dai "Antwerp" necklace as she starts a glamorous new day shooting scenes for Gossip Girl in New York City on Tuesday (August 11).
On-screen love interests Chace Crawford and Joanna Garcia were also spotted filming flirty scenes together. (Jo is toting around the George Gina & Lucy "Emosion Oceanica" handbag.)
TV Guide recently released their list of top earners on TV, and only two actors under 30 made the cut — Chace and Blake. Each of them make $50,000 per episode, which adds up to $1.2 million each annually.
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Berlin updated on Superfund siteBy DEBRA THORNBLAD
Special to the Union Leader
June 01. 2014 8:44PM
BERLIN — A plan for cleaning up a Superfund site on the east side of the Androscoggin River is still about a year away.
Darryl Luce, an Environmental Protection Agency project manager, told a small group of residents at an information session last Thursday that data-gathering will continue this summer and fall at the former Chlor-Alkali facility.
Possible cleanup plans for the site will be presented at a public hearing early next year, Luce said.
In response to a question from the audience, Luce said there is some money available, but the project will depend on available funding.
The following description of the site's history is from a Dartmouth Superfund Research Program on the Berlin site: "From 1898 to the 1960s, at the former Chlor-Alkali facility just downstream of the Sawmill Dam on the Androscoggin River, various industrial chemicals, including chlorine, caustic soda, hydrogen, and chloroform, were made using electrolytic cell houses ... Along with the production of the desired chemical, excess salt compounds containing graphite and mercury were disposed of improperly — either by being dumped on the land surrounding the river or in the Androscoggin itself."
The company went out of business in 1962; the last building was torn down in 1999. A 4.6-acre site was added to the Superfund list in 2005.
The cell house cleanup site is located on the east side of the river, just south of the Saw Mill Dam, which is the dam at the Northern Forest Heritage Park. It is at the far north of the 60-acre former paper mill property, part of which is now being used at a bio-mass facility.
Luce told the two dozen or so residents at Thursday's meeting that three sites are being studied, including a cell house parcel. He said the largest problems are on the cell house site. The other two have what environmental officials describe as "hot spots," where there were high contaminations that could pose a threat to bird and mammals.
On the cell house site some of the EPA work done included a number of bedrock wells 200 feet deep, soil bores and six test pits, which showed mercury, dioxins and furans present. The goal of these tests was to determine not only what was on the site, but how the ground water was passing from the property to the river, Luce said.
Regarding the river itself, 27 miles were looked at, which were divided into nine regions from which samples were taken. The Shelburne Reservoir was the last area sampled, Luce said.
Bugs, birds and fish were tested, along with sediment at the bottom of the river.
As researchers had expected, because of the flow of the river and the condition of the mercury, the farther down the river, the greater the accumulated contamination. At the Shelburne site, the mercury reading was six times that found elsewhere, Luce said.
Although the fish are not safe to eat in the tested area, "despite the continual discharge of elemental mercury into the Androscoggin River, EPA found no significant decrease in the survival of aquatic and animal life," an EPA news release states.


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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Penske Racing swept the front row in qualifying for the first race of the Chase, with Joey Logano winning the pole hours after NASCAR placed his team on probation for allegedly cutting a deal with another organization to help him make the championship field.
Logano turned a lap at 189.414 mph around Chicagoland Speedway on Friday to bump teammate and defending NASCAR champion Brad Keselowski. Keselowski did not qualify for the Chase but Logano did make it in at Richmond, where he was aided by at least three other drivers last Saturday night.
It all came out in two separate investigations into the closing laps and carried over into Chicago, where NASCAR summoned Penske Racing and Front Row Motorsports in for a Friday morning meeting to discuss an alleged deal made for David Gilliland to give Logano pivotal track position to make the Chase.
The Penske team denied wrongdoing — radio transmissions couldn't prove they had any involvement in Front Row's bargaining — but NASCAR spent most of the day reviewing the incident.
After booting Martin Truex Jr. from the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field earlier in the week for Ryan Newman because of Michael Waltrip Racing's manipulations at Richmond, there was a chance Logano could be kicked out, too.
Instead, NASCAR took the unprecedented step of adding Jeff Gordon as a 13th driver to the field and placed Penske and Front Row on probation through the end of the year.
Logano, who beat Jimmie Johnson's 2005 track record of 188.146 mph, said he never thought he'd be kicked out of the Chase despite the vitriol he was seeing on social media.
"There wasn't any worry in my mind that we weren't going to be in the Chase. I felt like we deserved to be here," Logano said. "I realize there are a lot of people on Twitter that are really mean. I've read enough of it, and I thought, 'Wow, this Joey Logano guy's a real jerk.' Then I realized, 'You know, maybe I'm not.'
"Hopefully this helps prove them all wrong, that we deserve to be here, because this team has got what it takes and we've proven that all year long. I guess we have to do that for 10 more races and prove them wrong a little bit more."
The Chase begins Sunday at Chicagoland, where NASCAR will have a 13-driver championship field for the first time since the title-deciding format began in 2004.
Juan Pablo Montoya, who qualified third, made light of the controversy.
"The question I asked when coming in here is maybe qualifying third I could make the Chase, too," he said.
Chase driver Kasey Kahne was fourth and followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Next was Gordon, who had an emotional week watching the fallout from Richmond unfold. He thought he missed the Chase on performance, then learned the spin with seven laps to go by Clint Bowyer was a deliberate attempt to manipulate the outcome for Truex's benefit.
Things just got worse from there as Gordon learned of another plot by MWR's drivers to help Logano push Gordon out of the Chase, and then of the Penske and Front Row potential bargaining. He came to Chicago aware NASCAR was still reviewing the situation but not hopeful it would change his situation.
He learned he'd been added to the field watching NASCAR chairman Brian France make the announcement on television before qualifying.
"It was hard to not hear rumblings about what may occur, what may not occur. We just tried not to get our hopes up," he said. "I'll admit, it's been a rough week. It was a lot of ups and downs of emotions for this entire team. I'm very thankful to be in, and I know it's under the most unbelievable circumstances I've ever been a part of in my racing career, and I wish that all of this hadn't happened. Now here we are as a 13th car and in, now we just try to take that opportunity and make the most of it."
Chase drivers made up the next four spots as Greg Biffle was seventh and followed by Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and points leader Matt Kenseth.
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For those of us working in the cloud, the most exciting feature of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is undoubtedly the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW). Prior to SP2, the process for configuring the necessary connections to enable interoperability between an on-premises Exchange environment and Microsoft Office 365 was a daunting task. Even with the help of the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (aka ExDeploy), you needed 65 pages of detailed instructions and guidance that included somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 steps (depending on your configuration) to complete an on-premises infrastructure for a successful hybrid deployment -- or just to make on-premises servers communicate properly with Exchange Online.
Enter Exchange 2010 SP2, which includes the masterfully designed HCW, among other changes and features. The HCW simplifies the configuration process to fewer than 10 clicks of a mouse. (The exact number of steps varies depending on whether you plan to use centralized or direct mail flow, whether you'll use full hybrid mode or online archiving, and the amount of free/busy sharing.) Many of us in the community were ecstatic when Microsoft released the wizard, and we anxiously downloaded and installed it on our systems. To date, the wizard has come through on its promise to simplify and automate hybrid deployments, with little input required from the systems administrator.
Although I applaud Microsoft's accomplishment, I worry about future administrators who will never have the chance to trudge through a manual hybrid deployment. For administrators who haven't lived in a pre-SP2 world, the complexities of what the wizard does in the background will be lost over time. Ultimately, problems could result for organizations if something within the Exchange federation or organization relationship (e.g., free/busy lookups, centralized mail flow) breaks. How will administrators know how to troubleshoot problems if they don't understand the multitude of configuration changes that the hybrid wizard is executing while they sit in blissful ignorance, happily clicking Next?
In this article, I'll explain what's under the hood of the HCW as well as which changes are made (from an architectural standpoint) to simplify the deployment scenario and increase the success rate of hybrid deployments. (This article assumes that you've previously deployed Active Directory Federation Services -- ADFS -- and the Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool but doesn't go into detail about those configurations, which are beyond the scope of the article.) I'll also provide some guidance for administrators to overcome problems that they might encounter during the process. Let's dive in!
Some Background on the Architectural Changes
The first thing to look at is the use of DNS namespaces for mail routing and federated delegation. Prior to SP2, Microsoft required that to facilitate the relationship between your on-premises and Office 365 environments, you had to implement two additional namespaces:
- exchangedelegation.domain.com
- service.domain.com
The exchangedelegation namespace was used to create an Exchange federation between the on-premises Exchange environment and Office 365. The term federation is widely used and can often confuse administrators. In this context, we're talking about Exchange federation, which is used to help Exchange and Office 365 share information. This type of federation uses the Microsoft Federation Gateway and federation trusts to share information, such as calendar free/busy data and MailTips. The service namespace was used as a secondary accepted domain, to route mail from the on-premises environment to Office 365.
One of the most common questions that Exchange administrators asked when this solution first came out was simply, Why are two additional namespaces required when Office 365 uses a domain.onmicrosoft.com namespace for each tenant domain? There really was no good answer. Microsoft developed this method, which seemed to work but proved to be inefficient and fragile in production. Microsoft addressed the issue in SP2 by no longer requiring these namespaces. Instead, SP2 uses the onmicrosoft.com namespace, which Office 365 assigns and manages, for mail routing. In addition, Exchange federation is now established at the root domain.com. You can forget about both of the aforementioned namespaces. Although this domain consolidation isn't exactly part of the HCW, it's worth noting before you launch the wizard.
Now that we've covered the DNS improvements, let's explore the HCW itself, examining each step.
Launching the Wizard
Before running the HCW, you must add the Office 365 tenant to the on-premises Exchange Management Console (EMC). HCW executes several Windows PowerShell cmdlets and requires an established remote PowerShell session, which EMC generates when you add your cloud tenant. After the cloud tenant has been added, you can find the wizard under Organization Configuration in the On-Premises section of the EMC.
After you add the Office 365 tenant, the next step is to create an HCW object by clicking New Hybrid Configuration in the Actions pane, as Figure 1 shows. This first step might appear to simply create an unconfigured object, but it actually executes several PowerShell commands that generate a new self-signed certificate and a new federated trust between the on-premises Exchange environment and the Microsoft Federation Gateway.
Figure 1: Adding the Hybrid Wizard Object
The final step in creating the new HCW object creates the environment to allow the full HCW to run later. From a PowerShell perspective, the following commands are executed during this first phase:
New-ExchangeCertificate -DomainName 'Federation' -FriendlyName 'Exchange Delegation Federation' -KeySize '2048' -Services 'Federation' -SubjectKeyIdentifier '
' -PrivateKeyExportable $true New-FederationTrust -Name 'Microsoft Federation Gateway' -Thumbprint ' ' -SuppressDnsWarning New-HybridConfiguration
After these commands execute successfully, you'll see the Hybrid Configuration object in the Organizational Configuration section of the EMC.
As you step through the wizard, several pages gather administrator input and are then used to execute the configuration commands in the background. The first page gathers on-premises and cloud credentials. These credentials must have the appropriate administrative rights on each side. The on-premises account must be a member of the Organizational Admins security group, and the Office 365 credentials must be a member of the Global Admins group within your Office 365 tenant, as Figure 2 shows.
Figure 2: Providing Credentials
The next page compares the list of on-premises accepted domains to the domains that are listed in the Office 365 tenant. If a domain name matches, then it can be added as the namespace that's being configured. For organizations with more than one accepted domain, you can select all the domains you want to add that will be part of your hybrid configuration, as Figure 3 shows. Note that the domain must be validated in Office 365 before it shows up in this list.
Figure 3: Selecting Domains to Add to the Configuration
The next page provides a text file, which you'll use to prove ownership of the domain (i.e., domain proof), as Figure 4 shows. Copy this text to the clipboard and create a DNS TXT record within your public DNS zone file. Be sure to select the box to confirm that the TXT record has been created in the public DNS. Microsoft uses this TXT record to verify that you own the public DNS namespace. Only authorized administrators have the right to change public DNS records for your zone, so adding this record proves to Microsoft that you're authoritative for your domain namespace.
Figure 4: Proving Domain Ownership
On the Manage Hybrid Configuration Servers page, which Figure 5 shows, you can select the Client Access and Hub Transport servers that will be used for mailbox moves, sharing, and hybrid mail flow. Depending on the existing on-premises environment, the selection of servers might vary. If your environment already has Exchange 2010 in place, select the Client Access and Hub Transport servers that are in your primary site and have the most available resources. As a matter of best practice, your servers should have the appropriate amount of memory, CPU, and disk space. In my experience, a dual-core 3GHz processor and 8GB of RAM is generally more than enough processing power. Also, depending on the length of time you plan to be in coexistence, you might consider running multiple Client Access and Hub Transport servers in an array, for fault tolerance. Doing so will ensure business continuity if a server fails.
At a recent engagement, I had a customer that insisted fault tolerance wasn't necessary. Halfway through the migration, the hybrid server -- onto which we'd centralized mail flow -- failed, effectively shutting down all mail flow for the organization. So do yourself a favor and double up on those Client Access and Hub Transport servers. They don't need to be physical servers, so leverage your virtual infrastructure if you have one.
Your hybrid server or servers should be located in the same Active Directory (AD) site as your existing Exchange farm and can't reside in a demilitarized zone (DMZ). In addition, if you have Exchange Server 2003 in your environment, then you'll want to add the Mailbox role to one of your hybrid servers. This server will host the free/busy replica and allow for free/busy lookups between your Exchange 2003 users and Office 365 users. Exchange 2003 uses the legacy public folder hierarchy to provide users with free/busy lookup services. Exchange 2010 (and Exchange Server 2007) changed the way free/busy lookups are handled, introducing the Availability service, which provides a more robust method for providing these lookups. For free/busy lookups to work in a hybrid environment after the Mailbox role has been installed on the Exchange 2010 hybrid server, create a public folder database and move the free/busy calendar to the Exchange 2010 server. The hybrid server will then act as the intermediary lookup between the legacy Exchange 2003 environment and the Office 365 environment.
The Manage Hybrid Configuration Mail Flow Settings page, which Figure 6 shows, requires the public IP address and Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the on-premises hybrid server. The assumption is that the FQDN is assigned to the IP address that's listed on this page. Later, you'll see how these settings are used to configure inbound and outbound Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) connectors.
Figure 6: Mail Flow Settings Page
The Manage Hybrid Configuration Mail Flow Security page, which Figure 7 shows, queries Exchange 2010 Hub Transport servers for any installed certificates and allows you to select which server you want to use for the hybrid configuration.
Figure 7: Mail Flow Security Page
This certificate should be a publicly signed certificate from a source such as VeriSign or GoDaddy. The certificate is used for Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication between FOPE and the on-premises server. This is also the page on which you can set the mail flow options:
- · Route all mail originating from Office 365 back through your on-premises server (centralized mail flow).
- · Route all mail directly from Office 365, using DNS.
The default selection is to use DNS rather than centralized mail flow, but be sure to update the setting according to your strategy. By centralizing mail flow, you allow your administrators to track messages more easily, because all messages come through the hybrid server.
An important and often overlooked item when selecting the mail flow option is the Sender ID Framework (SPF) record. The Sender ID Framework is an authentication technology protocol that helps protect mail servers from spoofing and phishing, by verifying the domain name from the message sender. The framework validates the origin of email messages by verifying the IP address of the sender against the alleged owner of the sending domain. If your organization uses SPF records, it's important to note a few points. First, if centralized mail flow is configured, all mail appears to come from the on-premises server; no updates to SPF records need to be made. However, if you intend for your Office 365 users to send messages directly to the Internet, then you must add the Office 365 SPF values. Microsoft has published a Sender ID Framework SPF Record wizard to help you craft your record. As an example, this is what an SPF record might look like if you choose to route mail from your on-premises environment and Office 365, assuming that your mail server's public DNS name is mail.domain.com:
v=spf1 a mx:mail.domain.com include:outlook.com ~all
The final page, which Figure 8 shows, is a summary that details the selected features, based on your input in the wizard. Click Manage to execute the wizard, and wait for the magic to happen!
Under the Hood
As you can see, the wizard makes creating a hybrid deployment very simple. It requires minimal input from the administrator and converts that input into a series of PowerShell commands that builds your configuration without further administrative input. You can imagine how administrators might take the wizard for granted. So what really happens after you click Manage? Let's take a look. This example uses my demo tenant office365support.com. The specific values in your environment will vary, depending on your domain and DNS records. (For those of you who've deployed the wizard, you can follow the process by reviewing the log in \%ExchangeInstallPath%\Logging\Update-HybridConfiguration.)
First, the wizard establishes remote PowerShell sessions by authenticating with both the on-premises and cloud tenants. After the sessions have been established, a series of Get commands grab information from the on-premises server and Office 365. (Note that most of these commands run twice: once in the local environment and once on the Office 365 tenant.) These commands run against each of the servers that you selected in the wizard, gathering all the necessary information to begin creating the hybrid relationship.
The next set of commands attempts to configure legacy Exchange support by digging into the servers to determine where the free/busy calendar folder resides. If you look through the logs in this section, you might see an error like this one: ERROR:System.Management.Automation.RemoteException: 'Server2' does not have the right Exchange Server version or role required to support this operation. You don't need to worry about this error; the hybrid wizard is simply trying to determine which server is the appropriate one to host the free/busy replica.
In environments that include Exchange 2003, the wizard continues to iteratively review each server to determine whether it hosts the free/busy replica. This step is important because of the inherent difference in free/busy lookups between Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010. The free/busy replica must reside on the Exchange 2010 server that acts as the intermediary between the legacy Exchange 2003 mailboxes and the cloud-based mailboxes. Without the free/busy public folder, users on Exchange 2003 can't see the free/busy information for cloud users, and vice versa.
After the wizard fetches the email address policy and version, it upgrades that information and adds the necessary email aliases for mail flow -- specifically, adding @domain.mail.onmicrosoft.com as an alias to all users. This step is extremely important for mail routing. During the migration process, after a user has been migrated to the cloud, @domain.mail.onmicrosoft.com is set as the routing address. From that point forward, when an attempt is made to deliver a message to the mail user on premises, Exchange uses the Route To address to forward the message to the cloud-based account by using a scoped routing connector that's created in a subsequent step.
Next, the wizard checks prerequisites within your organization and inside your Office 365 tenant, before creating organizational relationships. This step enables organization customization, which allows the wizard to build the organizational relationships. As you walk through the wizard log, you'll see multiple lines for this process. This extremely important step creates a relationship object on both sides of the federated trust, allowing these important hybrid functions:
- free/busy lookups
- MailTips
- archive access
- Outlook Web App (OWA) redirection
- delivery reports
- autodiscovery of URLs
The final phases of the process include the configuration of the Send and Receive connectors in Exchange. This phase also configures the inbound and outbound server settings within the FOPE service. Before configuring the connectors, the HCW gets the set of datacenter IP addresses that are used for the tenant and the Exchange certificate that's being used:
Get-HybridMailflowDatacenterIPs Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint 'EC0E8A739282093930AF8930E93076428CA129' -Server 'Server1'
The next step, which Listing 1 shows, grabs the existing connector information and creates new connectors to allow mail flow to and from Office 365. As you can see in this relatively simple example, the wizard executes 53 commands to implement the hybrid configuration that you, as an administrator, defined in less than 10 pages. Although the wizard is an amazing step forward for hybrid environments, it's inherently dangerous for inexperienced administrators who don't understand the changes being made or their purpose.
Common Issues and Recommendations for Getting Past Them
In my experience, the HCW runs flawlessly -- most of the time. However, I've encountered an issue in which the Get-FederationInformation command times out. As a workaround, open a separate PowerShell instance and connect to your Office 365 tenant, using the same Global Admin credentials that you specified in the wizard. When the new session is established, the wizard resumes.
The problem might also be related to the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF); repairing the WCF and WF components by running the following command in the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation directory might solve the problem:
ServiceModelReg.exe -r
Other common reasons for the HCW to fail are generally related to
- firewall restrictions
- WCF errors
- incorrect Exchange 2010 configuration:
o invalid Send and Receive connectors
o incorrect certificates
o missing security patches
- invalid or incorrect DNS records
- missing or incorrect permissions
Firewall restrictions are often the root cause of many mail-flow issues. As I mentioned in the beginning of the article, preplanning and testing are the keys to success. You should make a solid plan before you connect to your first server. (Speaking of plans, check out the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant. This tool helps you plan out your deployment, based on your specific environment and requirements.) A solid plan should include planning out all the IP addresses that are to be used in the hybrid deployment. After you've identified those IP addresses, you can configure the firewall to allow the appropriate traffic flow to and from those addresses. One common problem that I hear from customers and other IT professionals is that the list of IP addresses can be difficult to find, as well as confusing. I've found the most comprehensive list of IP addressesin the Microsoft article " Office 365 URLs and IP Address Ranges."
DNS records are also a source of great pain for many engineers who are trying to deploy the hybrid solution. One of my fellow MVPs, Loryan Strant, developed an excellent Office 365 testing site to determine whether all DNS records are configured properly. Note that this site assumes that you want mail to flow from Office 365. If you use the site to test your IP addresses and want mail to flow from your on-premises mail system, you can ignore the DNS record for the cloud-based Autodiscover.
Many other common problems are related to misconfigurations within the existing Exchange environment. Several tools can help identify such issues. The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is an excellent tool to start with. This tool reviews all your crucial components to ensure that they're configured according to best practices and provides links for items that are out of compliance.
In addition to some of the tips that I've provided here, the following resources can provide invaluable information as you plan and execute your hybrid deployment:
- Office 365 URLs and IP Address Ranges
- Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
- Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Guide for Enterprises
- Office 365 Community
Insight for Admins
Hopefully, this article sheds some light on the hybrid configuration process and how crucial it is to understand what's going on under the hood in the HCW. As I stated at the beginning of the article, I applaud Microsoft for making this process easy, but I hope that all administrators will go beyond the shiny GUI and dig deep into what happens behind the scenes.
Listing 1: Creating New Connectors
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity 'Server1\Inbound from Office 365' -Name 'Inbound from Office 365' -RequireTLS 'True' -PermissionGroups 'AnonymousUsers' -Fqdn 'mail.montgomerycountymd.gov' -TLSDomainCapabilities 'outlook.com:AcceptOorgProtocol' -Bindings 'Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty` 1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.IPBinding]' -RemoteIPRanges 'System.Collections.Generic.List` 1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.IPRange]' -AuthMechanism 'Tls' Set-HybridMailflow -SecureMailEnabled 'True' -CentralizedTransportEnabled 'True' -OnPremisesFQDN 'mail.o365support.com' -CertificateSubject 'mail.o365support.com' -InboundIPs 'Microsoft.Exchange.Data.IPRange[]' -OutboundDomains 'Microsoft.Exchange.Data.SmtpDomainWithSubdomains[]'


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It's a gorgeous day in NC, but I'll be spending my time inside working on Shadow Self. Yesterday I managed to get almost half of the clipping completed, but it's still far from being finished.
The exciting thing about this stage is as soon as it's finished clipping, it will be time to quilt! While the quilting on this quilt is sure to take awhile, it's still very exciting to be getting it to this stage.
I really want to have this quilt at least partially quilted in time for my next lecture with the Piecemakers Quilt Guild in Lincolnton, NC.
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