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Office 365 with Exchange on-premises Hybrid Deployment and Migration - A COMPLETE HOW-TO GUIDE
- Sign in to the Microsoft Online Services Portal with your Office 365 Administrator Credentials
- On the Admin page, under Management, click Domains
- Click Add a domain
- Type the name of the domain you would like to add (e.g. itguy.gr)
- Click Next
- Click Verify domain
- Add a TXT record on your public DNS system
Destination Host: autodiscover.outlook.com
Preference: 10
Mail server: contoso-com.mail.eo.outlook.com
- Two Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 hosts joined to your domain. One will server as the primary server (the one you will install ADFS first) and the other as backup.
- One IP address that will serve as your NLB cluster IP Address
- One DNS A record (in your internal DNS servers) in the form: sts.yourdomain.com
- One trusted third-party SSL certificate
- Install the Network Load Balancing Feature on both servers and set up an NLB cluster. Make sure you define a port rule just for HTTPS (TCP port 443)
- Go to the primary ADFS server (i.e. the one you will install ADFS first), go to IIS Manager and create a certificate request. Tho points to pay attention to:
- As a certificate common name use: sts.yourdomain.com
- As a bit length use: 2048
- Now use the certificate request you created to obtain an SSL certificate from a third-party provider. (hint: if you're creating a lab or you just don't care too much about security give www.startssl.com a go... one year SSL certificate 100% free!!!)
- Install the certificate in the primary ADFS server's IIS manager. Also go to bindings, and select the newly-imported certificate for HTTPS
- Now extract the certificate with its private key (.pfx) and repeat step 4 on the secondary ADFS server's IIS
- Create an ADFS service account
- Create it as a user in Active Directory Users and Computers
- Make sure "User cannot change password" and "Password never expires" is selected
- Set the SPN of the service account as described here
- Install ADFS 2.0 on both servers
- Obtain installation package here
- On the Server Role page of the ADFS 2.0 setup wizard, make sure you select "Federation Server"
- Install the ADFS Update Rollup 1
- Install Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant
- Install Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell
- Configure First Federation Server in Federation Server Farm
- Add Secondary Federation Server to Federation Server Farm
- Start Windows PowerShell as an administrator. To do this, right-click the Windows PowerShell shortcut, and then click Run As Administrator.
- To configure Windows PowerShell for remoting (this will enable Remote PowerShell on the ADFS server. Skipping this step will result in an authentication error), type the following command, and then press ENTER: Enable-PSRemoting -force
- Open Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell as an administrator.
- Type cd\ and press Enter.
- Type $cred=Get-Credential and press Enter.
- Enter your Office 365 administrator name and password and click OK.
- Type Connect-MsolService –Credential $cred and press Enter.
- Type Set-MsolAdfscontext -Computer <AD FS 2.0 primary server> and press Enter
- Type New-MsolFederatedDomain -DomainName yourdomain.com and press Enter
- Now type Get-MsolFederationProperty -DomainName yourdomain.com and press Enter (this should bring up a bunch of data regarding certificates and sign in URLs)
- Download and run the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool
- Go to Admin
- Click on Management, then Users
- Click on "Single sign-on: set up"
- On step 6 "Activate Active Directory Synchronization" click on "Activate"
- On step 7, download the Directory Synchronization Tool.
- Choose a machine to install the Directory Synchronization Tool on. The constraints are:
- This machine must be a domain joined computer
- It must be a highly-trusted PC or server that only trusted administrators have physical or remote access to.
- It must not be a domain controller
- It must not be one the of the ADFS servers
- If you run the Directory Synchronization Tool straight away it will fail! You'll need to do this first:
- Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Manage.
- Under Computer Management, expand Local Users and Groups, and then expand Groups.
- Make sure that the MIISAdmins group exists. If the group is missing, create a group that is named MIISAdmins.
- Add yourself to the group.
- Log off from the computer, and then log on to establish the new group membership in the access token.
- You will need to type your Microsoft Online Services Admin Credentials as well as an on-premises Enterprise Admin Credentials
- On the Exchange hybrid deployment, check the box and click on Finish to Synchronize Directories
- On the computer that is running the Directory Synchronization tool, navigate to the directory synchronization installation folder. By default, it is located here: %programfiles%\Microsoft Online Directory Sync.
- Double-click DirSyncConfigShell.psc1 to open a Windows PowerShell window with the cmdlets loaded.
- In the Windows PowerShell window, type Start-OnlineCoexistenceSync, and then press ENTER.
So, now that the integration with the on-premises Active Directory and Office 365 is complete, it's time to configure the ADFS Proxy. What Microsoft recommends, and you should take this recommendation seriously, is that you utilize 2 load-balanced proxy servers. For the purposes of this article we will use only one ADFS Proxy server, but all you need to do to get your load-balanced pair is essentially to configure a second ADFS Proxy and set up NLB on both as described previously in this article.
- One Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 server
- Access to modify your external DNS records
- The certificate you used on your internal ADFS servers
- A working DMZ Topology
- Appropriate rules on your corporate firewall
- First of all, configure your Windows server, position it on the DMZ and make sure there is connectivity both to the Internet and your internal network
- Install the IIS Role with the default options, import the certificate you installed to the internal ADFS servers, and configure the bindings for port 443
- Add the respective Host Name and IP address of the ADFS NLB Cluster you created earlier to the ADFS Proxy server's Hosts file
- Create a new A record on your public DNS server with the name sts.yourdomain.com (exactly like the one you created on you internal DNS servers) and point it to the public IP address you will use for your ADFS Proxy
- Configure your firewall so that HTTPS requests on this IP will be forwarded to your ADFS Proxy
- Make sure you can:
- ping the load-balanced internal ADFS server farm (sts.yourdomain.com)
- browse to this link: https://sts.yourdomain.com/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
- On IE 9, hit the 'Compatibility View' button, then you should be able to browse the XML contents
- On the "Specify Federation Service Name" type: sts.yourdomain.com, i.e. the exact same name of the internal load-balanced ADFS server farm we configured earlier
- The "Use an HTTP proxy server when sending requests to this federation service" IS STUPID!!! Why on earth would we need yet another proxy, to proxy our proxy's requests!!!! Make sure this check box remains unselected and hit "Test Connection". If network connectivity is working you will get a "The specified Federation Service was contacted successfully" message.
- Hit Next, and you're prompted for the logon credentials for the internal ADFS server farm. Remember the ADFS service account you created? That's the one. You're supposed to enter the credentials in the form
But first go to Server Manager's Main Page, click on "Configure IE ESC" and turn it off for both users and administrators. Don't, and you'll get "unable to establish a trust between the federation server proxy and the federation service" errors
- On "Ready to Apply Settings, click on Next and watch the magic happen!
- Open Event Viewer
- In the details pane, double-click Applications and Services Logs, expand AD FS 2.0, then click on Admin
- On the Event ID column, look for event ID 198
- Log on to a computer that sits outside your corporate network (so that it will be directed to your ADFS Proxy server
- In an Internet Explorer window, type https://portal.microsoftonline.com
- In the User ID field, type your corporate username (e.g. firstname.lastname@example.com)
- The web page should update with the "You are now required to sign in at yourdomain.com" message
- Click the sign-in link and in the sign-in page and enter your domain credentials
- If this takes you to the Microsoft Online Services Portal home screen, then you can pat yourself to the back; the ADFS system you just configured works
- If not, re-check what we've done so far and that you haven't skipped a step. You can also check Adam Conkle's great post on this TechNet thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Geneva/thread/bd815b4e-70be-4f1c-ac7f-a5e9ac5aea02?prof=required
- On your Hybrid Exchange server install Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant (the one you installed on your ADFS Farm servers) AND Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell
- Open the Exchange Management Console and click the Microsoft Exchange node (the top-most node in the tree)
- In the action pane, click Add Exchange Forest.
- In the friendly name type "Office 365". This name will display in the console tree.
- In the FQDN field just select "Exchange Online" from the drop-down list
- DO NOT check the "Logon with default credential" box
- Click OK and a credentials dialog box appears. Type the Office365 Admin account and corresponding password. For example:firstname.lastname@example.com
- Watch in awe as your Office 365 organization appears on the EMC console!!
- On EMC, go to Organization Configuration and on the Actions pane, click on New Federation Trust
- Click on New and then on finish and you're done
- Right click under Organization Configuration and choose New Hybrid Configuration
- Go through the 2 steps of the wizard and click on finishThis was too easy, now comes the tricky part
- Right-click on the Hybrid Configuration and choose Manage. The Manage Hybrid Configuration opens
- On the credentials screen, type in the appropriate usernames and passwords. What I suggest you do is (since we've already synchronized Active Directory) to enable an Active Directory user that is member of the on-premises Organization Management role group, as a Global Administrator in Office 365. This way, you can use the same account for both fields
- Under Domains, choose your hybrid domain
- On the next step you will be asked to create a TXT record on your public DNS servers with a Record Value that is a lengthy string of alphanumeric characters. Check the box to confirm that the TXT record has been created
- Next up, choose your hybrid on-premises CAS and HUB servers
- Under Mail Flow Settings type the Public IP address of your on-premises Exchange server (i.e. the one on the public MX record), then type the FQDN of the HUB server you chose in the previous step
- Mail Flow Security is pretty much straightforward, the third-party certificate is already there, and for the Mail Flow Path choose the first option (as discussed in the beginning of this article).
- Click next but don't go any further just yet! If you continue you will most likely get an error and the wizard will fail with something like:
Execution of the Get-FederationInformation cmdlet had thrown an exception. Federation information could not be received from the external organization.
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
What on earth is wrong? Well, either the MRSProxy is disabled, or WSSecurity is disabled, or the MRSProxy is unreachable from the Internet.
Regardless of where exactly the fault lies, do all of the following:
- On your Hybrid Server's Exchange PowerShell, enter this command:Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory -Identity 'autodiscover (Default Web Site)' –WSSecurityAuthentication $trueto enable WSSecurity authentication for autodiscover on your hybrid server, and...
- On your Hybrid Server's Exchange PowerShell, enter this command:Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity "EWS (Default Web Site)" -MRSProxyEnabled $true -MRSProxyMaxConnections 100The rule of thumb is that the larger number you use for the MRSProxyMaxConnections parameter, the less chances there are that a timeout will occur for large simultaneous mailbox moves.
- Create a new publishing rule for Autodiscover in your TMG server.To get your hybrid scenario working, you will need to set up an additional ISA/TMG rule pointing to the hybrid server, using the proper public names (don't forget autodiscover), bound to the OWA listener. You need to allow All Users (as opposed to Authenticated Users), set authentication to "No Authentication, but users can authenticate directly" and configure the following paths:
- /EWS/mrsproxy.svc/WSSecurity
- /EWS/Exchange.asmx/WSSecurity
- /Autodiscover/Autodiscover.svc
- /Autodiscover/Autodiscover.svc/WSSecurity
After configuring the rule, you need to put it above all the other Exchange rules, making it the first matching rule when federation traffic hits ISA/TMG.
Now you're ready to go through with the wizard and bask in the glory of your success!!!
- We've configured our SSO domain with Office 365
- set up public DNS records
- installed an internal ADFS server farm
- enabled Single Sign-On
- configured Active Directory Synchronization
- installed our ADFS proxy on the DMZ
- verified the ADFS bit is all interoperable
- configured our on-premises Exchange 2010 hybrid server for Office 365
- On the EMC console, go to the on-premises node --> Recipient Configuration --> Mailbox
- Right-click the mailbox you want to move and choose New Remote Move Request
- On the Connection Configurations windows, under "FQDN of the Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service proxy" type the Internet FQDN of your hybrid server. Definitely consider typing in a domain admin credentials for this test.
- Under Move Settings, for the Target Delivery Domain browse for "yourdomain.mail.onmicrosoft.com"
- If you followed this article to the letter, the move should go without a hitch.
- On the EMC console, go to the Office 365 node --> Recipient Configuration --> Mailbox
- Observe that the mailbox you just moved appears with a green arrow. This means that a move request exists for this mailbox (albeit a completed one). You will need to go to "Move Request" underneath select the move request and click on "Clear Move Request". This will enable you to move the mailbox back to the on-premises organization.
- Now right-click the test mailbox and click New Remote Move Request
- On the Connection Configurations windows, under "FQDN of the Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service proxy" type the Internet FQDN of your hybrid server. Definitely type in a domain admin credentials for this test, then consider using delegated permissions
- Under Move Settings, for the Target Delivery Domain browse for "yourdomain.com". For Remote Target Database, type the on-premises database you want to move the mailbox to. Contrary to what other guides might say, just type in the database name without the server name.
- This should be enough to get the test mailbox moving back to your on-premises exchange organization.
- From Office 365 users to Internet (external) recipients
- From Office 365 users to on-premises recipients
- From on-premises users to Office 365 recipients
- From Internet (external) email users to Office 365 recipients
- On the TMG Management Console, to to Troubleshooting and on the Tasks pane click on "Control E-mail configuration Integration"
- Set the status to "Disabled" and enforce the policy.
- Go to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Administration center and make a note of the IP addresses listed under "IP addresses to configure on your firewall".
- Login to https://portal.microsoftonline.com/ with a Global Administrator account
- Click on Outlook
- On the upper right-hand side of the Outlook page click on Options and then "See All Options"
- On the upper left-hand side click on the drop-down list arrow right from "Manage Myself" and under "Select What to Manage" click on "My Organization"
- Go to Mail Control and on the right-hand side of the page, under Forefront Online Protection for Exchange click on "Configure IP safelisting, perimeter message tracing and email policies"
- This takes you to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange for your organization. Under Information, click on Configuration.
- Copy-paste the IP addresses and subnet ranges to a text document, then arrange them in a comma-separated way, like so:18.104.22.168/24, 220.127.116.11/26, 126.96.36.199
- Now open the Exchange PowerShell on the TMG/Exchange Edge server and type the following command:New-ReceiveConnector -Name "From Cloud" -Usage Internet -RemoteIPRanges <FOPE Outbound IP Addresses> -Bindings 0.0.0.0:25 -FQDN mailserverexternalFQDN.yourdomain.com -TlsDomainCapabilities mail.messaging.microsoft.com:AcceptOorgProtocolwhere <FOPE Outbound IP Addresses>, copy-paste the comma-separated list from the text document
19 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 9, 2012 at 6:01 AM
Excellent post, I actually found it once I was done with my deployment and re checked several things.ReplyDelete
Have you had issues with single sign-on? such as "Your organization could not sign you in to this service"
After numerous installations, no, SSO has worked without a hitch!ReplyDelete
Are you using an ADFS Proxy? If so, have you tried my troubleshooting steps under
"Configuring the ADFS Proxy". It sounds like authentication issues
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 at 6:45 PM
Very interesting tutorial. But I've got a problem. I create the rule on my TMG and I check it. And I've got an error to "/EWS/mrsproxy.svc/WSSecurity" it can't be verified. But for the others paths, no problem.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2012 at 2:53 PM
one question !! on the hybrid emc the tarnsport hubReplyDelete
fields are grayed out with a yellow lock.is this by design or i have failed to install the hybrid correctly.
If you mean for example, in Office365 --> Organization Configuration --> Hub Transport --> Transport Settings General Properties, fields like 'Maximum Receive Size' etc.ReplyDelete
...then yes, it's by design. Some of the grayed-out options are configurable from the Office365 administrative portal, and others are not meant to be tampered with.
- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2012 at 10:07 AM
thank you for your answer , one last question the only way to change maximum receive size is by using power shell commands (set-recieveconnector). i could not find any other way.from office 365 is there any other option?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 6, 2012 at 10:34 PM
Hi, Tanks for the awesome article.ReplyDelete
When clients with mailboxes in the cloud connect via Outlook Anywhere, is the data transferred via the on premise server internet connection or directly via the Microsoft datacentre?
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Awesome post. Just loved it.
However have few questions for which help is much appreciated.
1. How do i make ADFS proxy requests forwarded to ADFS server? Should i do a port forwarding kind of thing for my ADFS Proxy?
2. I have already given firewall excemptions for Exchange Online IP address ranges. However, my ADFS confign was failing at Connect-Msolservice with the message "there was no endpoint listening at https://proviosioningapi.microsoftonline.com/..svc." Later the only way i could complete the activity was by having direct internet connectivity for my ADFS server. What could be the possible reason? Also should i retain this direct internet connnectivity forever/is there any work around?
Hello all, first of all apologies for the late replies, I've just been swamped with work over the past few months.ReplyDelete
So here goes:
Regarging the 06/11/2012 Anonymous user comment:
OA works over HTTPS directly to the Microsoft datacenter for cloud mailboxes. This is true in all routing scenarios/topologies including the Hybrid Model we're discussing here.
What changes is the email flow which in the case of the Hybrid model, all email has to go through the on-premises server.
Regarding the 21/11/2012 coment:ReplyDelete
1. Simple port forwarding to the 443 tcp port of the ADFS proxy IP will do. If you've followed the full ADFS topology/configuration. Ideally you shoulf use Microsoft TMG to publish the public IP address of your ADFS proxy
2. There are a lot of suggestions that come to mind... ADFS works over HTTPS (tcp port 443). It requires its own public IP address for which, at the very least, you should have a port forwarding rule on your firewall. Direct connectivity should be avoided at all costs, I cannot overemphasise this!
If you like you can give me your email address and look over your issue in more depth
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2012 at 1:54 AM
hi there. i keep getting the error upon logging into the sts site, any insight?ReplyDelete
There was a problem accessing the site. Try to browse to the site again.
If the problem persists, contact the administrator of this site and provide the reference number to identify the problem.
Reference number: 56e84ec1-a00e-459f-b3c0-65b691dd6a03
Does this happen internally, or on the ADFS Proxy? Are you using an LNB cluster for the internal ADFS server? Are you able to telnet to port 443?ReplyDelete
- Shridhar ErandeApril 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Thanks for great post!!ReplyDelete
I am getting the following error on Hybrid wizard.
>>Execution of the Get-FederationInformation cmdlet had thrown an exception. Federation information could not be received from the external organization.<<
I dont TMG/ISA in my network, I just have fortigate firewall and port 25,443 is allowed from external network.
My question is how can i add web publishing rule on fortigate firewall? is it require as I don't have ISA/TMG?
- AnonymousJune 6, 2013 at 6:25 PM
FWIW, I just spent a lot of time & effort troubleshooting a failed ADFS install in a lab environment. Each time I tried to configure my ADFS Proxy the 'Test Connection' succeeded, but the next step failed with an error stating the FS endpoints couldn't be contacted.ReplyDelete
The account I was using was valid, and connectivity to the ADFS server was fine. The ADFS service was running.
I saw in event viewer on the ADFS server that the endpoints were not being created because the ADFS service couldn't access the Private Key for the certs. Eventually I figured out I'd imported the wrong private key into the certificate store on the ADFS, so the key didn't match the cert. Just an fyi in case this helps anyone.
Well done! Thanks for the inputReplyDelete
Your feedback at http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/158/t/46764.aspx was the closest material that matched what I'm currently experiencing; I'm hoping your wisdom can shine on my issue.
We had some SSL certificates renewed on our Exchange on the same day that our Exchange server had its monthly MS patches installed, so not sure what's behind this issue, but all worked ok before that night.
I can't move mailboxes from on-premise to O365, getting error The call to 'https://mail.niagaraparks.com/EWS/mrsproxy.svc' failed.'
I've spoken with MS support, and we redid the connectors in O365 and hybrid setup in Exchange, among other smaller tasks.
Any wisdom around what could be behind this?
Thanks so much.
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2013 at 11:59 PM
If I change my TMG listener to no authentication and the rule to All Users my activesync breaks.ReplyDelete
I cant use a different listener and I cant get activesync to work without basic authentication so im stuck with the hybrid wizard. Any ideas?
Ahmed, it sounds like federation issues... have you change certificates on you federation server(s) as well? Have you updated your TMG listeners with the new certificates?ReplyDelete
Any updates for this?ReplyDelete
I am stuck With 2010 SP3 hybrid config while trying to migrate mbx from onprem to O365 (cannot contact to mrsproxy)
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When you tell a story over and over, fine details tend to fall out of the telling. It becomes shortened, efficient, boiled to its main points.
Here is an example of just such a story: I learned to ride a bike when I was a kid. The learning was one of the transcendent moments of my childhood and begat a lifelong love affair with the bike. The end.
Here is the (only slightly) more detailed version of that story: I learned to ride a bike when I was seven-years-old. Immediately I loved it and became one of the BMX terrors of the neighborhood. Approaching adolescence, I let the bike go a bit, too cool for a dirt bike, not yet even really aware of the exotic pursuit of road cycling.
As time wore on and hormones churned through my system like a chili dog on an empty stomach, I discovered my older brother's abandoned road bike and used it to visit girls when their parents were away. The success of this strategy propagated a nearly Pavlovian response in my mind at the sight of a bicycle.
Then, when I was in college, the vogue for mountain biking reached fever pitch, and again cycling presented the perfect solution to a persistent problem, that of transporting myself around the city on a schedule not ruled by the capricious whim of bus drivers. Given previous history, I was already very open to the idea that the bike could be an integral part of my life, and the resulting adventures cemented a love for cycling that very nearly kept me rolling through my twenties.
See, the neat and tidy version of this tale has me wedded to a bike for the rest of my bike, til death (but preferably not) do us part. But this is the detailed edition, and after college I again gave in to external pressure to abandon cycling. In other words, I got a job, and not just a job, but a succession of increasingly good jobs, jobs that required ties, jobs that put me in meetings with important clients, jobs that were decidedly unsympathetic to the cycling lifestyle, or so I thought. For a brief time I confined my pedaling to occasional weekends. It was a sad and dark time. No more detail necessary.
But you know how this thing goes, this love of cycling. If it's in you, it comes bubbling up again and again. It pushes other things, like the conventions of office life, aside. In the end, I reverted to form. I even left the world of ties and conference rooms for a bike job.
This week's Group Ride asks: How did you become an adult cyclist? Did you tread an uninterrupted path from first childhood ride to this morning's commute, or has the bike come and gone from your life? If the latter, what was the catalyst for your grown up self taking to the wheel again?
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Ted Culotta
1977. Greatest birthday gift ever: Fuji Sports 10, medium blue, 23″ frame with Suntour gears, and rack on the bike for my school books. Rode it to and from school religiously. Rode it a little in high school, but not much. Stopped riding once I started driving. After college I started running religiously and ran a few marathons. By my mid-30s my knees were toast and I had kids. Became overweight. About 5-1/2 years ago I began going to the gym six days a week, starting cold turkey. I started seeing the same faces there (the 5:00 AM crew.) I was getting badgered by this nice woman about coming to her spinning class. Fast forward several months and I finally went. I really enjoyed it. Several people in the class started telling me I should get a bike. I finally did in March, 2010. How had I gone so long without doing this? Went from about 240 lbs. when I started at the gym to about 172-175 during last summer. Have been racing, charity riding and just plain riding a lot and LOVE it. It's been an epiphany.
Paul I.
Cycling comes and goes in my life. Grew up cycling as a kid. Got a road like at a fairly young age, as that's what was cool then. Didn't stop me from using it offroad, though. Did not have a bike through college, but then bought a cheap 2nd hand road bike when I lived in London, as it was easier to get around places that were not well served by the tube.
When I moved to NYC I didn't have a bike for many years. Even after moving to the 'burbs, my main sport was tennis. It was only when I had injuries that I started riding to stay fit while recovering from things like tendinitis. Eventually, I had to quit tennis due to ongoing knee and elbow issues, by which time I'd kind of fallen in love with the bike again, and it's been my only sport for the last five years or so.
Chris Jennings
Come and gone a few times. Time riding is more than time not riding so I've got that going for me. I still mostly tell people I've been riding for 35 years though. It dawned on me recently that when I saw things like BMX bikes in ET or the movie Rad I was excited not because of the special effects or stunts but because someone was riding a bike.
I actually started riding again when I was 20. My dad decided to pick up mountain biking when he was 53, and wanted someone to ride with. So, he bought me a bike and took me riding. We both still ride.
I loved cycling so much as a kid I refused to stop the first day I learned to ride. Eventually started racing as a junior. Gave up that when my asthma was too much and back in 80s, the asthma drugs sucked. But did keep riding into college as a commute and way to have fun in Boulder.
Eventually grad school did me in though, in cold Wisconsin winters and long long hours in the lab. Then bike-unfriendly NYC.
But I came back to Colorado, and had little kids learning to ride. And I re-learned that love.
A Christmas present, The Complete Book of Bicycling by Eugene A. Sloane, First Edition 1970. I owned a Schwinn Sting-Ray. After that read I was saving for a full bore road bike. Already hooked on the bicycle, the book opened the door on adult cycling, bikes and racing. While not perfect by any means it set the course. I saved for that next bike purchase until the Summer of 1972. That is when adult bike riding began. Still kept the Sting-Ray for a bit but sold it off in 1973 for funds to buy a used pair of Campagnolo pedals and a Phil Wood bottom bracket. It was almost all about the bike.
Ah Robot, you bring tears to my eyes. The nostalgia for those days… just coming home from school and leaving for 2-3 hours to just ride and explore another set of roads. Thanks so much for sharing!
Those early days… I remember waking up one morning at the ripe age of 13 and telling my parents, I want a bike, a good bike, not a second hand one. I bought Bicycle Guide, Bicycling, and Winning! back in the day. I could tell my parents where every road went and where it connected. What brought me back was my former brother in law who was getting into MTBing, and then my subsequent divorce. I'll say it here… a blessing in disguise.
Since day 1, the bike became freedom, became identity, became my counselor, the bike never betrayed. Like you and many who will post up, it never left me, always there ready for the next ride, a faithful companion that never judged.
Michael Schlitzer
I remember riding through the Veteran's Administration on the way to UCLA every day and seeing the UCLA cycling team. I thought "That looks like fun". Then I got married and my wife and I were riding when a roadie went past us on the Mt. Vernon Trail in Alexandria, VA and I thought "That looks like fun". I talked her in to letting me spend $400 for a used Giant Cadex 7 speed with down tube shifters and I literally rode that bike into the ground (OK I ran a stop sign and got hit by a car, but there wasn't much left of the bike afterwards). That was 20 years ago and apart from the year off recovering from said crash, I have been addicted to riding. I was right, it IS fun.
Patrick O'Brien
My start as an adult cyclist was when I taught my wife to ride on her 37th birthday. Since I bought her a new bike for the occasion, I had to get one too. She grew up on a farm in a very rural area. She never learned to ride a bike and commented once when we once passed kids riding that "I wish I could do that." Who could resist. Could you?
I remember my first bike at 7. It was a gold banana seat number, with tassles in the hand grips. I rolled it over to the curb to get a little more balance upon maiden takeoff, and my brother laughed. My mom quieted him with "just two years ago you too were starting at the curb". Thanks Mom. I remember just pedaling away … and thus starting what is now a 33 year continuous love affair. I stopped riding a bike to school when I got my moped, but brought a bike to the city for college and kept the flame going. We rode regular 10-speed road bikes and cruisers in the trails when we discovered MTB, until we could afford the proper rig, that is. My budget has still not caught up to my desires although last season I finally got a carbon road bike. I actually regret not riding more over the years, at 44 years age, even though I ride as much as my schedule will allow.
I've never had a driver's license, so biking has always been transportation at the very least. For reasons I have yet to understand, only even numbered years get me out of the city and into the forest to log big miles.
I rode as a kid, a lot. I rode the MS 150 in Minnesota when I was 10 with my 13 year older brother. I was the youngest kid in that ride and no parents with us. Kind of crazy to think about that. In the high school years on warm summer nights I loved going for night rides through the city (Minneapolis) by myself or with my brother. We'd ride the parkway trails which are very extensive in the city and through the deserted streets of downtown. After an hour or three of riding we'd be back home and feast on cereal and watch late night tv.
After that, I drifted away from cycling that until I tore up my knee playing soccer. For nearly two years after that injury the only exercise I could do that didn't cause my knee to swell up was cycling and swimming. Eventually I was able to run again and got really into triathlons. I don't race any more but still swim, ride and run and look for ways to go on "endurance adventures" all on my own. Ever since the knee injury I've been hooked.
The "off" times are associated with, mostly inner, turmoil. Disconnected. Unsure. Narrowed thought and vision.
The "on" times are most decidedly the opposite. And despite some momentary setbacks, it's been a pretty good "on" run.
Off – to be without the means, physical or mental, of riding of any kind, from late night cruise through the city or the early morn club sojourn.
On – Having the wheeled freedom.
Walt S
Riding as a kid, it was a way to get around. I got my first 10 speed, a way too big 26 inch yellow 42 pound Schwinn Varsity, my last year in college. No one told me I couldn't stop in the rain with steel rims and no one told me I couldn't ride 50 miles. I tried both and succeeded at one. It was the bike reviews in the old Bicycling Magazine that permanently infused me with bike lust. I have raced. I have toured across the country. And I still get that sense of wonder when I get up early and go for a bike ride in the cool of the morning. I have been riding for forty-five years and love it as much today as I did back when.
Used to plan trips on my 20″ with banana seat, in, I don't know, 3rd grade maybe. Basically haven't "grown up" since. I've always had a bike.epic trip for me in college: rode to pick up a pressure plate and other clutch parts for my FIAT in snow and single-digest temps.
It started when I was 10. I could already ride, of course, but 10 was when my father bought me my first 10 speed and a wool cycling jersey and wool cycling shorts.
From then, a couple of years of hacking around on a bmx which got stolen.
Followed by years of road riding with my father. The best memories of my teen years center around road riding with my father.
Sadly, the car bug bit and I got out of cycling for a few years until a friend of mine got me hopelessly hooked on mountain biking. Did that for years until I was sidelined (mentally) by a bad crash.
Enter a spell of running followed by a spell of lazy.
Cycling kept rearing its head off and on for about eight or so years.
And then, a rebirth of sorts. All it took was a cyclocross bicycle and a persistent friend.
Now? The obsession is back in force and seems unlikely to ever die.
Spring cannot get here soon enough…
I quit medical school to race the damn thing, in the days before I knew the game was rigged. I never went back. I would like to blame the bike, but it would have been something else, I'm sure, if the bike were out of the equation. Stupidest thing I ever did.
My early years with cycling were not good ones. My dad is a big, powerful guy. I'm built like my mom, reedy thin, slight. (Like a climber, actually.) My dad bought me bikes he would have liked as a kid during the depression and the war—big, fat-tired, gaspipe cruisers. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned bikes were supposed to weigh less than the rider.
There was always too much bike and not enough boy. Having to push the darned thing everywhere gets old fast. Even the jet-black Schwinn "English racer" with a 24" wheels and a Sturmey-Archer three-speed was too much bike for not enough boy. And when all the rest of the neighborhood was whizzing around of Stingrays, my big bike was definitely uncool.
It's no surprise that when at age 14 when I could afford to buy the first bike for myself, I bought a 100cc Kawasaki. It was still too much bike for not enough boy—I fell off a lot, an awful lot—but at least I didn't have to push the damned thing everywhere.
By the time I could get a driver's license, I'd quite had my fill of two wheels, thanks so much.
My forties found me after a series of setbacks—mainly self-inflicted—using the bus and shoe leather for transport. At age 49, three things happened. A close friend only 54 dropped dead of a heart attack. Second, with two part-time jobs I was spending too much time on the bus. Third, the bus company did away with transfers, effectively doubling my daily costs.
I budgeted a year's worth of bus fare (at the old rate) and walked to the nearest LBS. I rode out on a hybrid that—flashback—weighed about the same as an anvil. That bike ignited a fire within, even if within a couple of weeks I realized it wasn't the right bike for me. I put 4,000 miles on it in a year before I got my first roadie.
These days there are three bikes in the stable—a CX/touring-based commuter with disc brakes and studded snow tires, an audax/rando-based commuter, and a classic parallel 73s Ti roadie with full D-A.
Turns out, that despite being a lifelong flatlander, not having cycled until AARP age, and 35 years worth of Marlboro damage, I'm actually a pretty damned good climber. Thanks, Mom.
Bicycling has come and gone from my life. The last time I let my bike collect dust, I was tired of idiot motor vehicle operators. I'm back on the bike now because I would rather die dong something I love to do (if it comes to that) than as a couch potato. Nobody's interested in the long version, especially myself.
John in Miami
Like most in my weekend riding group. I took up road cycling again in my 40s when I had the disposable income and no need to watch my kids every second of every day. I got into running with buddies at work. 5k/10k's, occasionally a half-marathon, one full marathon and then my coworker got me to try sprint triathlons. I pulled out my Toys-R-Us mountain bike and suffered thru 10 miles of torture. I decided then to get a road bike to attempt a few more trio's because running alone got to be boring. I pretty much sucked at running and tri's however, I always met my goal (never end up last in your age group). My group nickname was "Next to Last". The running and swimming part alone sucked and I just found the Sunday ride group from the shop I bought the bike from and the rest is history. I got into going to annual bike fest in Central Florida so the group made it a road trip weekend and even that wasn't enough for me. Now I'm into the week-long camping bike tours. Hey, I got back into camping again. Cycling leads to more than just road fun.
Joe B
It was Lance. In 2009 the Tour was somehow on my radar where it hadn't been before. The comeback, and happening upon a cable channel that broadcast the Tour. So I watched it, enjoyed it. Afterward I thought "that looks fun", and "I'd like to ride like that". So I bought a used MTB off craigslist to test the waters, and I started riding. Hadn't ridden for 30 years, when my purple Takara 10 speed was stolen the summer before college. Back then, I rode to get somewhere. This time, I rode just to ride. This time, I found the joy. I also found the need for N+1 🙂
Jay Fromkin
I really became an adult cyclist in 1990 when I moved to Laramie, Wyoming. I was 38 and public relations director at the University of Wyoming. While working there, I met a young reporter who covered the university for the Casper Star-Tribune – RKP's very own Charles Pelkey. We became good friends. He helped me buy my first good bike, showed me by example how to be a better rider, and this autumn gave me some good advice on adapting my Davidson to electronic shifting after a crash badly damaged my right thumb. In a sense, cycling and Charles helped me get to the age of 63. Three-and-a-half years ago, I had an eight-hour operation that resulted in removal of my pancreas, spleen, and two-thirds of my stomach. According to my surgeon, my strong heart and lungs, a result of some 20 years of cycling, kept me alive on the operating table. Thanks, Charles. Thanks, bike.
I guess I have been riding pretty steadily since I got my hand-me-down paper-boy bike from my sister when I was four years old. it was a small blue-grey bike. At 7, I got a green Schwinn stingray and gave the tother bike to my younger sister. At 12, I had saved enough money for a ten-speed, and that became freedom for me, riding the roads for up to 30 miles away from home. At 16, I bought a car for $100. My cycling then became long rides for recreation only. At nearly 18, I sold it and went to college. That year and a half was the only time I did not use a bike as my main form of transportation. Thirty-five years later, I still see driving my car as a small failure. I ride for transportation and recreation, mountain, cross, road, touring, anything. It just feels right. I have never been bored on a bike, and have never been excited in a car.
As a kid, I always used the bike for adventure. Loved it so much that, even after my first bike was stolen, I then rode my dad's 26″ three speed – until that was stolen too! Still, I loved it so much that I rode my MOM'S 26″ three speed until, finally, at 14, they bought me a Columbia 10 speed. I rode that through until I got my license. Then, one summer, after returning from college, I started riding this LONG 12 mile ride after dinner. (Oh. Greg LeMond was finishing second in the TdF to a rodent.) In grad school, I bought a bike for fun and exercise and rode it until it got wrecked in an accident. I took it as a sign to get my act together and finish grad school. With my first pay check, I bought a microwave and a CD player – they were new tech then! With my second paycheck I bought a 12 speed Schwinn, which still lives with me though, it doesn't see the light of day any more. I was alone in a new city and my bike was my best friend for a while. I've never quit since then – 1989. I've been road biking in Napa Valley. Mountain biking in Moab, Tahoe, Western Oregon, Vermont, NY, Colorado, and even France. Lately, thanks to family life, mileage soared and dived and is finally climbing again.
I learned on my sister's Schwinn when I was about 6 and got my own Schwinn when I was 7. I had the bike for about 6 months. Maybe 7. I still see that bike when I close my eyes. Brown paint. Shifter right there on the top tube. Bright yellow banana seat. I thought I'd lost something when it was stolen. But, that bike started something that was unstoppable.
thanks for the stroll down memory's lane, Robot!
Got a bike for my sixth birthday, German (don't remember the brand), narrow 20″ tires, lighter and faster than my friends' bikes. That and a Raleigh three-speed got me to my first car, then came the job & college, kids, more work, start a business, more work. In 1995 one of my daughter's boyfriends took me mountain biking. He waited for me a lot – good guy, not the right guy , but good none the less. We're still friends. I stay on the road (or in the basement) now, more due to convenience than anything. I'm really glad to be back.
Full Monte
Short story: I lost the two most important people in my life by the time I was 24, my father, who was my spiritual guidepost, and my new wife, my lover and best friend. I sank into debilitating depression. Went into a hospital. Was put on medications. Lost sight of who I was, sunk deeper into darkness. A new friend re-introduced me to cycling. I threw away the pills, stopped my visits to the shrink. Turned emotional pain into ever longer and more excruciating physical sufferfests on the bike. My body morphed into a lean machine, all the negativity, anger and despair was smashed upon ever-turning pedals. Mile after mile. Day after day. Week after week. The bike brought me back to the living. It saved my life.
being a poor college student, and having blown my ACL, it reacquainted me with my first love of childhood. The ortho doc called it rehab for the non-operative option, and 25 years later, its still working.
Jeff T
I rode a lot as a kid. Alone and with buddies. One time I found out about a comic book store that had some old Sgt. Fury comic books that I had been looking for to complete a collection. Rode 54 miles round trip through South LA on my 3-speed Stingray clone. Never told my parents about that one. Fast forward to college and 1973, and I began riding to keep up my cardio fitness during my frequent track-related injuries. First few rides were with 2 guys that had qualified for the Olympic trials in 1972. I recall puking almost every ride. But a love of riding fast and long was born and I've been riding ever since.
I don't really remember learning to ride a bike as a kid, except that it involved a long gravel driveway & falling off a lot.
That was it.
Bikes were my means of escaping from the world & escaping into the world.
Pedalling makes me happy.
My older sisters taught me how to ride a bike at age 6. Still remember going fast downhill on a street from our house. The rush of speed and being free was what did it for me. Once I had a taste of that I never really left riding bikes. Went from BMX bike to skateboard at 14 then to a road bike at age 15. My older sisters got into road cycling in college in the early '70's. At age 9 I was tall enough to ride my sister's Bob Jackson. The sisters took us younger brothers to local bike races. We developed a distant interest in road cycling though I didn't really get into riding a road bike until I was 15. My mom took me to get a road bike and had the sales guy size me on a bike that was one inch too big because my mom told him I was still growing. I rode that Univega Sportour all over the place after school. I would even wake up at 5 in the morning and ride in the dark with my friend on his moped before school. I've been riding ever since.
TDF. Two years ago when I was 56, my wife and two daughters, then 10 and 9, all wanted cruisers. We went to a local bike shop for the Fourth of July sale they were having. I was planning on getting a new hybrid to ride along with them. The shop was showing the Tour de France. I watched it in the shop that day and we all watched it each night for the next two weeks. I didn't know what a peloton was or who Cadel Evans and Andy Schleck were. My kids liked the people roadside in the funny outfits. But something about the beauty of the countryside and the beauty of the competition drew me in. I said "I want a road bike." I did some research, rode a few bikes and bought a Cannondale CAAD 8. I was hooked and still am. Thanks TDF


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Hook, Line and Glass
A book by Darryl Trezise of Sandford, Victoria, Australia
Hook, Line and Glass, is a book presenting thirteen original Stained Glass designs.
Some of these designs will be a challenge. Keep in mind though, that creating stained glass takes time and patience. You will be able to enjoy a beautifully finished product with an added bonus of the sense of accomplishment. My Angler designs are intended to make Stained Glass fun and enjoyable to produce. My Fish designs are an endeavour to capture the natural movement and environment in which they dwell.
I hope you will enjoy making your own renditions of these patterns as much as I enjoyed designing, creating and framing each of them!
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A couple of years ago I attended a funeral of a friend of mine's father, who passed away after a long battle with cancer. The attendees were mostly of Italian backgrounds, and mostly Roman Catholic, and I stood at the back, a lone atheist in a sea of belief, mostly there in support of my friend during a difficult and sad time in his life. A larger than life-sized Jesus hung next to the altar, seemingly magically suspended about a...Read More


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My Candy Love is a free online virtual worlds game published by Beemoov. It's one of the free browser games directly targeted at teenage girls. My Candy Love is a game about flirting. As one can imagine, character customization is very important in My Candy Love. Young girls can choose various visual features for their avatar. There are lots of hair styles available with a multitude of colors. Outfits can be personalized too. You can even chose a horoscope sign. Rooms in My Candy Love can be decorated to match every player's personality. Jewelry plays an important part too. Rings can be used to alter certain situations.
The goal in My Candy Love virtual world is to meet and charm boys. In each episode of My Candy Love, your avatar will be faced with different situations. You will make your own choices based on dialogue options or other actions. An episode can have various endings. You can replay episodes to explore all the possible endings. The game world has shops, cafes and schools. An avatar will get in touch with various NPCs. They will offer you quests and missions. Each completed tasks comes with a reward. The reward can be a new cool outfit, decorations for your room and much more. A My Candy Love avatar has 10 action points per day. Getting from one place to another or certain actions consume action points. If you are out of action points you have two options: wait until next day or buy some more.
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Video Camera for Those on the Go
The GoPro Camera is this tiny versatile camera that you can strap to yourself, your helmet or a metal pole to shoot underwater or while you are actively moving. It has a gyroscope so that the video shot is stable and focused even if you are in motion upside down (as in the skiing video below). It's very cool and it turns out that my Mom Friend Shelby's brother-in-law invented it with his friend to capture themselves in action while surfing. My husband is not an extreme sport participant but he still wants it.
When we were skiing last weekend, we saw it in action. The college-y boys on our shuttle had them strapped to a metal pole or on a helmet. I was also riveted watching a video at the ski shot that had gorgeous footage of people in action doing all kinds of extreme sports from hang gliding to helicopter-in skiing to surfing.
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Let Us Leave Our Musical Islands
In the spirit of our powwow, I've put some sound samples on my blog: Sibelius' Fifth Symphony, Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Bernstein's "New York, New York," all playing around with the same set of intervals.
Whenever I go to a jazz club, I tend to fall into a happy state of mind, no matter who's playing, because I feel I've entered listening paradise. A jazz club finds the perfect middle ground between the aren't-we-serious atmosphere of some concert halls and the aren't-we-having-fun-now vibe of your more poseur-ridden pop venues. There is a lack of pretense. People are listening closely, and yet there's a looseness about the whole thing: applause after solos, some chatter in the back, a general absence of solemnity. Am I idealizing? No doubt—but I like it better than the alternatives. These days, some classical musicians are trying to move away from the formal concert ritual and toward something more relaxed. Many no longer believe, for example, that the audience should refrain from applauding after each movement of a symphony or concerto. Educated, highly musical audiences in 19th-century Europe applauded whenever they felt like it; why shouldn't we? Emanuel Ax says he finds it positively bizarre when everyone remains deadly quiet after, say, the first movement of Beethoven's "Emperor Concerto," whose slam-bang finish practically cries out for applause.
There's something ideal, too, about your vision of jazz performance as something always unfinished, a continual evolution. Here's a problem classical music and mainstream pop/rock share: lack of spontaneity. What's more micromanaged down to the second than a Madonna or Rolling Stones show? Some lead vocalists and guitarists may inject night-to-night variety into their work, but I imagine the differences from night to night are not as striking as people assume. Likewise, you're not going to find huge differences in how a very well-trained orchestra such as the New York Philharmonic treats Beethoven's Fifth on successive nights of a subscription series—or, for that matter, in successive seasons. Conductors have to work hard to shake orchestras out of their practiced way of doing a piece. Often their interventions take the form of a few distracting interpretive "gestures" that concertgoers single out and discuss at intermission. Beyond that, it's the same-old. (Which is not to say that Beethoven still doesn't pack a punch.) On both sides of the divide, performance is too well-drilled, too controlled. This is the curse of the electronic age: Recordings have done so much to expand (or create) audiences for music, but they've led people to expect re-enactments of favorite records in live performance, whether it's '60s-era Bob Dylan or Beethoven by Karajan.
Change is in the air in the classical field. I keep hearing young musicians talking about, yes, improvisation. For most of the 20th century, performers were inculcated with the spirit of Werktreue: Stay true to the composer's intention in every detail. Toscanini's motto was "come scritto"—as written. Now the concept of "original intent" has been challenged, particularly in pre-1800 music, and performers are seeing themselves as more active, creative participants. Robert Levin, the Harvard-based pianist and musicologist, urges performers to write out or improvise their own material for cadenzas in concertos. He also improvises on themes suggested by the audience. He wisely says: "I think the most important thing in performing a piece of music, and likewise, even more so in the listener's apprehension of what's going on, is a sense that anything that's happening could have been something else." Spontaneity, in other words. In the early-music world, players add filigree to their parts and singers add ornaments. Jordi Savall's legendary Hespèrion XXI ensemble practices a kind of Renaissance/Baroque jazz. And in the new-music world, a not inconsiderable fraction of post-1945 music requires invention on the part of the performers. Since the minimalist revolution of the 1960s, when Philip Glass and Steve Reich led their own ensembles, composer-performers have come to the fore: Lisa Bielawa sings her own music; Derek Bermel plays his pieces on the clarinet. The sharp division of labor between composer and performer is breaking down.
I like your advice about what to listen for in jazz—where to listen. Someone coming new to an orchestra concert is confronted by a half hour or more of continuously flowing music. How do you get your bearings? Where does the music change? What do the individual instruments contribute? When I'm evaluating an orchestra, I often focus on the double-bass players, who are incredibly important. A well-tuned bass section adds three-dimensionality to the sound picture: It generates an illusion of bottomless depths. (Listening to Led Zeppelin, people usually focus on the vocals, the guitar solos, and the drums. But I think it's John Paul Jones who really makes that band gigantic: His bass lines drill down beneath the music, make it tall, and give you a vertiginous shiver.) In this way you end up listening vertically as well as horizontally. A seemingly linear art, where time is marked out one-two-three-four, opens above and below, in front and behind. Who summed up the wonder of music better than Richard Wagner, speaking through the character of Gurnemanz in Parsifal? "Here time becomes space."
Thanks so much, Ben! Because of your book, I've been on a Coltrane kick for weeks now.


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It looks as though we have another tool available through GPL (free) that will allow for everyone to make GUIs and other prototyping without the CS3 expense.
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After a devastating atomic war, the world population was nearly annihilated, and the survivors had to hide deep underground. In the meantime, a peaceful race of human-like creatures, the boozooks, populated the Earth. After the humans ascended to the surface again, they started a bloody war against this race. The boozooks were mercilessly destroyed, their culture demolished, and in the end of the war the boozooks became the slaves of the humans.
You play the role of Woodruff, a boy whose foster father, professor Azimuth, was kidnapped by government officials. Apparently, the professor was developing a strange device called "schnibble", which had something to do with the liberation of the boozooks. Woodruff must find his father, dethrone the evil Bigwig and his corrupt government, and save the boozookian people.
This is an adventure game with a lot of tricky puzzles, similar in style and design to the famous Gobliiins games by the same creators. Unlike Gobliins, this is a full-fledged adventure where you can move around freely and interact with many characters.
Coktel ended its line of puzzle games on a mildly disappointing note, with a game that is too confusing, too open-ended, with puzzles so wacky (i.e. illogical) that they would require an unusual brain or an inordinate amount of time to solve. Even the plot itself is hard to summarize: You are an alien named Woodruff who is tasked with finding the mysterious gadget the Schnibble of Azimuth.
Despite vibrant SVGA graphics and some very funny sight gags, the puzzles are so confusing and illogical that I doubt anyone could finish this game without any hints. Recommended, but only to puzzle experts. And even then, be prepared to take some Advil while you're at it ;)
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The Gryphon, Sportsbar and Gastropub, Opens Tonight in Dupont Circle, Have a Look Inside and at the Menu
1337 Connecticut Ave, NW
From a press release:
The Gryphon will open to the public for dinner service on Wednesday, March 13 at 9 p.m. Executive Chef Joseph Evans of brother restaurant Lost Society will serve modern takes on classic bar bites such pimento-cheese-stuffed pepperdews and cajun crawfish mac-n-cheese, as well as hearty entrees like cocoa and chipotle rubbed sirloin and crispy Scottish salmon with smoked tomato beurre blanc. Sweet finishes such as peanut butter and chocolate bread pudding with strawberry jam round out the dessert menu.
Photo credit: Travis Vaughn
More photos of the interior and a look at the full menu after the jump.
Photo credit: Travis Vaughn
Photo credit: Travis Vaughn
Photo credit: Travis Vaughn
Photo credit: Travis Vaughn
Pimento-Cheese-Stuffed Pepperdews $8
Pickled sweet piquante pepper, similar to a sweet cherry pepper
(mayo, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, jack cheese, pimentos, parsley, cayenne, paprika), panko bread crumbs, egg, flour. Peppercorn ranch sauce (sour cream, mayo, white vinegar, buttermilk, granulated garlic, onion powder, salt and black pepper)
Crispy Calamari with General Tso sauce $12
(soy sauce, sugar, rice wine, rice wine vinegar, chili paste, ginger, chicken stock, hoisin sauce, black soy sauce) rice flour breading, buttermilk, Julienned vegetables (zucchini, carrots, bean sprouts, green onions and pea shoots)
Korean Braised Short Rib Taco $12
(braising liquid: sugar, soy sauce, rice wine, garlic, onion, scallions, sesame seed, sesame oil, pear, carrots) kimchi (garlic, ginger, green onions, soy sauce, Korean chili flakes, salted shrimp, carrots, sugar, sesame oil and fish sauce), Sriracha mayo, queso cotija, and cilantro.
Gryphon Wings $9
tossed in Chilli Soy Sauce (soy sauce, rice vinegar, rice wine, honey, mustard seeds, cornstarch, chili flake, green onions)
Gator Bites $12
Sriracha mayo, pickled radish, cilantro oil
Mussels with Lamb Sausage $10
Blue moon, oregano, parsley, butter and garlic
Gryphon Fries $7
Fresh herbs and parmasan
Sauces: house-made ketchup, spicy mustard and mayo
Barbacoa Tater Tots con Queso $11
Barbacoa smoked brisket, jack cheese, cotija, green onions, radishes, crema (spanish style sour cream) and pickled jalapeños.
Cajun Crawfish Mac-n-Cheese $10
Cream, butter, flour, roasted garlic, salt, white pepper, cheddar, fontina and mozzarella
Crispy Fried Oysters $10
Dressed arugula (champagne vinegar and oil), Worcestershire burre blanc (reduced Worcestershire shallots, thyme and butter), smoked maple hot sauce (smoked maple syrup, white vinaigrette, ketchup, Fresno chilies) cilantro oil.
Grilled Cheese with Tomato Soup Dipping Sauce $8
Soup: roasted tomatoes carrots, onions, celery, chicken stock, bay leaves, cream, garlic; grilled cheese: gruyere, cheddar
Smoked French Onion Soup $8
Smoked veal stock, onions, celery, garlic, sourdough and gruyere
Cup of Tom Soup $6
Carrots, onions, celery, garlic, chicken stock, toasted sourdough, cream, tomatoes
Quinoa and Frisee Salad $8
Frisee, quinoa, arugula, sherry vinaigrette, cherry tomatoes and grilled maitake mushrooms
Kale Salad $8
Curly kale, balsamic vinaigrette (white and regular balsamic, shallots and vegetable oil), pine nuts, dried pineapple, currants and aged Gouda
Grilled Romaine Salad $8
Charred romaine-lemon vinaigrette (shallot, charred lemon, champagne vinegar vegetable oil), bosc pear, goat cheese, cherry tomatoes, crispy country ham
Steak salad $16
Mixed greens, pickled radishes and onions, fried green tomato croutons, smoked shallot vinaigrette (smoked shallot, sherry vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, salt and black pepper)
Caesar salad $10
(add chicken +$3 )
Romaine lettuce, Caesar dressing (garlic, anchovies, Dijon mustard, parmesan, champagne vinegar, vegetable oil, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, egg yolk, salt and pepper) shredded parmesan, parmesan crisp and crouton
Calamari salad $14
Chopped romaine, peanuts, bean sprouts, carrots, pea shoots and red miso and red and sesame vinaigrette (red miso, tahini, sesame oil, white vinegar, green onions, sambal (garlic chili paste) and vegetable oil)
Chicken al a Plancha $13
Marinated chicken breast (salt, sugar, water, cinnamon), arugula, tomatoes, honey garlic aioli and havarti (a la planch) prepared on the griddle
Croque Monsieur $12
Texas toast, country ham, béchamel (cream, flour, salt, white pepper, nutmeg), gruyere, gherkins
Root Beer Marinated Steak Sandwich $14
Caramelized onions, arugula, aged Gouda, dijonnaise and fontina
Cuban $14
Roasted pork-country ham, gruyere, dijonaise (mayo and Dijon mustard), pickles
Gryphon Burger $14
Pickled jalapeños, smoked bacon, jack cheese, Bibb lettuce, tomato
Prime Burger $14
Bibb lettuce, tomato, horseradish sour cream and served with au jus (beef broth, carrots onions, celery, garlic and Worcestershire)
Falafel Veggie Burger $12
Ground chickpea, roasted eggplant, hint of red beet juice, roasted cremini mushrooms, topped with curry aioli
Blackened Bison Burger $14
LTO, house sauce
Barbacoa $9
Marinated and smoked beef cheeks (dried guajillo and chili de arbol, cinnamon, clove, garlic, cumin and oregano) queso cotija, pickled jalapeño
Crawfish Cake $11
Cake: mayo, red bell pepper, onions, celery, jalapeño, eggs Cajun seasoning and corn flakes; remoulade, tomato
Tomato Mozz $10
Tomato, burrata (fresh mozzarella with a soft center) topped with chimichurri
Gryphon Sliders $9
Pickled jalapeños, smoked bacon and jack cheese
Braised Short Rib with Creamy Grits $21
Braised short rib (carrots, onions, celery, garlic, beef stock, tomatoes, salt and pepper), stone-ground grits (vegetable stock, crème fraiche, butter, salt and pepper), fried cherry tomatoes, Marchand de vin (reduced braising liquid, red wine and finished with butter)
8 oz filet Au poivre $28
with mashed potatoes & roasted mushrooms
Filet (salt and heavy cracked black pepper) pepper corn sauce (veal demi glace, shallots, thyme, black peppercorn, Dijon mustard, cream, red wine, butter and bourbon)
Roasted mushrooms (garlic, shallots, butter and parsley)
*Au poivre: pepper fillet. A French dish that consists of a steak (traditionally a filet mignon) coated with loosely-cracked peppercorns and then cooked
Coco and Chipotle Rubbed Sirloin $27
with Brussels Sprouts and Sunchoke Hash
Creekstone farms 14 oz boneless strip (ground cacao nibs, ground chipotle, salt and pepper), hash (fried Brussels sprouts, roasted sunchokes, garlic) and béarnaise sauce (clarified butter, shallots, tarragon, lemon juice, Worcestershire, cayenne pepper, salt and white pepper)
Crispy Scottish Salmon $23
Roasted maitake mushrooms (garlic, butter shallots salt and pepper), smoked tomato beurre blanc (white wine, shallots, thyme, butter and smoked tomatoes), corn, edamame
Ravioli $15
House-made ricotta (milk, buttermilk, cream, lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil and sea salt) roasted cremini mushrooms (butter, garlic, shallots, parsley, salt and black pepper), roasted eggplant (extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper) pomodoro sauce(onions, garlic, san marzano tomatoes, basil, salt and pepper)
Rockfish $24
Pan-seared on the skin side of local rockfish, roasted fennel (garlic, shallots, champagne vinegar, veg oil) roasted fingerling potatoes (vegetable oil, garlic, salt and pepper) demi glace (reduced veal stock, red wine, shallots, red wine vinegar, star anise and juniper berries)
Half Chicken, Fried $17
with Mashed Potatoes and Crispy Kale
Fried Brussels sprouts $7
Deep fried sprouts, salt, pepper and béarnaise sauce (clarified butter, shallots, tarragon, lemon juice, Worcestershire, cayenne pepper, salt and white pepper)
Grilled Asparagus $8
Extra virgin olive oil, aged balsamic, garlic, shallots, salt and black pepper
Wasabi Mashed Potatoes $7
Pear tarte tatin $7
Tart dough (butter, flour, sugar, shortening and water), pear filling (bosc pear, sugar, cream, cinnamon, nutmeg) pistachio gelato
Chocolate Tort $7
Bittersweet chocolate, butter, eggs, amaretto, sugar and salt
Blueberry Fried Pie $7
Pie dough (butter, flour, salt, sugar) blueberry filling (bourbon, vanilla beans, sugar and cornstarch), vanilla gelato
White chocolate bread pudding – brioche bread, currants, white chocolate, milk, cream, eggs, cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg and bourbon sauce (cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla bean and bourbon)
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Bread Pudding $7
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Easy riders go for a swim to Dunham
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Easy riders go for a swim to Dunham
8 Easy riders went for a bit of a swim this morning to Dunham. Everyone opted to set off on the longer, faster route with Cheryl and Griff. There was a bit of a split to start with, but we all met back up again at Ashley crossroads. I opted to take the shorter route after Bucklow Hill and managed to find enough seats at the cafe for all of us, mainly because Congleton CC were kind enough to take themselves into the children's party room. After some calorie loading with beans and cheese on toast, and cakes, we wrung our gloves out and decided on our route options. Cheryl dealt well with the rebellion when she offered a longer route, and we all took the shortest possible route back to Wilmslow. Judith, Pat, Cheryl, Helena, Phillip, Nick and Griff and myself were today's wet cyclists. Many thanks to Cheryl for winning the battle with her garmin and leading the ride out.
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Tree Cathedral (Newlands)
Contrary to what many believe, Milton Keynes does have its own cathedral. But like the city itself, this cathedral is unique - made from bark and leaves rather than bricks and mortar.
What to see and do
Don't miss
The Tree Cathedral's outline is based on Norwich Cathedral and was designed in 1986 by landscape architect Neil Higson. He chose different species of trees to represent the character of the Cathedral's sections: hornbeam and tall-growing lime for the Nave, evergreens to represent the central tower and spires, flowering cherry and apple as a focus in the chapels. You can also find out about the artworks in our other parks here.
In springtime colourful bulbs represent the sun shining through stained glass windows onto the ground.
The Tree Cathedral is now available as a natural setting for the scattering or interment of ashes. You can find out more information here.
It's sometimes possible to use the Tree Cathedral for private ceremonies and celebrations. Contact the events team to discuss this. For the last few years the Cathedral has hosted a pet blessing service. Keep an eye on the what's on pages on this site for details of any future events.
Need to know
Getting there
The Cathedral of Trees can be found opposite Willen Lake at Newlands, just off the junctions of V10 Brickhill Street and H5 Portway.
Opening times
The park is open at all times, unless a private event is taking place.
Car parking
The closest public car park is located on Livingstone Drive, off the V10 - please note that this is a pay and display car park. There are also public car parks on the opposite side of the V10 Brickhill St serving Willen Lake. Please note the Peace Pagoda car park and the car parks at south Willen Lake are pay parking; please take care crossing this busy road. These car parks are managed by Napier Parking. Annual permits are available from Napier Parking at £150 for all Willen Lake car parks and £80 for the Peace Pagoda and Tree Cathedral car parks only. You can download permits from Napier here.
Disabled parking concessions at Willen Lake
If you are a blue badge holder and are exempt from paying vehicle tax you are eligible to claim a free annual parking permit for Willen Lake (worth £150). You can download an application form from www.napierparking.co.uk. Together with your completed application form you will need to provide a copy of your blue badge and of your nil value tax disc. Please note that an administration charge of £10 will apply.
For more information please telephone Napier Parking Ltd on 01730 828103 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
There are no public toilets at Newlands. The closest facilities are at south Willen Lake, adjacent to the cafeteria and children's playground.
There are no refreshment facilities at Newlands. A cafe and pub restaurant can be found at nearby south Willen Lake.
Disabled access
There is a path to the Tree Cathedral from the Livingstone Drive car park. Other access to the Tree Cathedral is via unmade tracks which may be difficult in bad weather.
Make a day of it
Newlands lies due east of Campbell Park which can be reached via a leisure route that crossed the canal. Directly opposite the Tree Cathedral is Willen Lake, which is in turn part of the Ouzel Valley Park, offering a wide range of options for extending your outing.


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|Me before my first wheeled 5k
Needless to say, it was frustrating but really got me thinking about what a fitness center based on Universal Design principles might look like.
This dream involves a space that is welcoming to all sorts of bodies, even from looking at the outer structure of the building. Wide walkways with places to park bikes, trikes, handbikes, mopeds, scooters. Adequate parking with spaces designed for the various ways people get out of their vehicles. A nearby bus stop that is close to the gym.
The building itself would have automated doors with wide doorways. The check-in desk wouldn't have a turnstile, but would have some other method of traffic control that is accessible to folks with large gym bags, folks using wheels or scooters, and folks who are fat. The building would either have no carpet or very thin carpet that is easy to maneuver for folks moving around in various ways. Both the elevator and stairs (if it's multiple floors) would be easy to find and navigate, and wide enough to allow for easy movement.
There would be cardio equipment that allows for a variety of people, including recumbent bikes that allow for the seat arms to be pushed away so a wider person could use it, treadmills that a wheelchair user could roll on, and machines that allow a visually impaired person to set their workout. The water fountains wouldn't be blocked by mats or rugs. Group fitness rooms would be set up with wide doors, equipment that can be reached from a variety of heights, and with sound systems that are clear and allow the instructor to be heard.
Staff would be readily available and trained to assist in a variety of ways. There would be someone in the free weights who can help move dumbbells and barbell plates, who can spot lifts if a person doesn't have a workout partner, and who can make sure benches and other equipment are maintained in a way to allow for free movement of people throughout the space. The weight machines would be spaced far enough to allow for bodies of a variety of sizes to be able to get in and out, and allow for safe transfer from wheels to machine and back. There would be child care that patrons could use as a part of their membership that would accept all children and give them fun physical activity.
There would be indoor courts for basketball, volleyball, tennis with appropriate flooring for both seated and standing sports. Studios for dance, yoga, Pilates, martial arts. Ideally pools with lap swimming, a heated therapy pool, and a hot tub, all with ramps and lifts to allow a variety of bodies to get in and out safely. Maybe even a climbing wall.
There would be no messages about fat loss, calorie burn, or other body-hating messages. It would be about fun, challenge, strength, joy, and community.
What am I missing? What would you see in this space?


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I was thinking what fun Addy will have with Natalie this weekend. I remember Grandpa Fred saying to us once "the next person who spills the sugar will leave the table" guess who spilled the sugar, yep grandpa.
- March 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM
- J & M Squared said...
Love his poem:) calamari!!!
- March 19, 2013 at 7:04 PM
- Lindsey said...
I love this post. Jansen is a genius. Of course he would be with the brains of you and Nate. And how ironic that you would spill milk after Jansen's disaster. (Your toes all curled up in the pic are hilarious.)
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KIRKWOOD (WBNG) — Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell, New York State Police, SIU and Johnson City Police Chief Brent Dodge on Wednesday announced details of a major weapons bust in Broome County, resulting in the arrest of one man and the seizure of numerous weapons.
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Pre-Gamin': Braves v. Cubs (1:20 CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, etc.
Although the midway point of the 2014 season actually passed a little while ago, today marks the day we colloquially think of as the end of the first half. Teams break for the All-Star festivities this week, and the Cubs won't have another game until Friday.
Today, Travis Wood will try not only to give the Cubs a series win to button things up, but also to give himself a solid end to what was an up-and-down first half.
Game Info
Atlanta Braves (51-43) at Chicago Cubs (40-53), 1:20 CT on CSN.
Game Thread and Series Preview
Game threads now live here in the comments – and with Disqus, they should be even more enjoyable.
The Series Preview lives here.
Starting Pitchers
Julio Teheran (2.57 ERA, 3.35 FIP, 3.71 xFIP; 3.93 K/BB)
Travis Wood (4.64 ERA, 4.21 FIP, 4.61 xFIP; 1.89 K/BB)
Atlanta Braves Lineup
1. B.J Upton, CF
2. Andrelton Simmons, SS
3. Freddie Freeman, 1B
4. Justin Upton, LF
5. Jason Heyward, RF
6. Chris Johnson, 3B
7. Tommy La Stella, 2B
8. Gerald Laird, C
9. Julio Teheran, P
Chicago Cubs Lineup
1. Chris Coghlan, LF
2. Arismendy Alcantara, 2B
3. Anthony Rizzo, 1B
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5. Luis Valbuena, 3B
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A nuclear research facility in eastern Idaho has added equipment that will allow it to test next-generation batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles.
The Post Register reported Monday that the Idaho National Laboratory now has a pair of fireproof chemical storage units. The units enable researchers to test fast-charging lithium-ion batteries in extreme temperature conditions.
The laboratory's Kev Adjemian says today's fastest 480-volt electric car battery chargers take about 30 minutes to charge batteries. Automotive manufacturers have been working to design batteries that can complete a charge in less than 10 minutes.
Batteries capable of the faster charge speeds are more fire-prone, which is why the laboratory's new equipment is necessary for testing.
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- Student winner receives a $5000 cash prize


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Oscar de la Renta's collections are filled with timeless pieces and the structure of each garment is simply unparalleled by most high fashion designers'. When you wear his creations, from his sunglasses and accessories to his ball gowns and outerwear, de la Renta allows his clients, followers, and admirers to feel powerful and luxurious. With that said, when I heard that Oscar was partnering with Lee Jofa to launch Oscar de la Renta Home, my heart rate must have jumped to dangerous levels. On top of that exciting news came something truly thrilling! The skirts, which were designed exclusively for Lee Jofa's announcement regarding the release of the new Home collection, are going to be auctioned off for charity until November 30, 2010. The proceeds from the auction will go to Casa del Nino, a wonderful charity completely benefiting children of the Dominican Republic.The skirts are all handmade by Oscar, himself, and the make- up of each designer size 4 skirt is a combination of linen and silk fabrics, accented with intricate beading and embroidery, accompanied by velvet and linen stripes. Extraordinary creations complimented by a philanthropic twist. What could be more beautiful?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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