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At 1:43 p.m. Sunday, the 1997 World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee died from complications of a stroke suffered Aug. 2. He was 90.
Hostak, the fourth of six children, was born in Minneapolis to Czech immigrants who moved to Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. He dropped out of Cleveland High School to pursue the boxing career he began as a 16-year-old in 1932.
Hostak stuttered as a teen and vented his frustration through boxing, which he said gave him self-respect and a purpose, his daughter-in-law, Leslie Hostak, recalled.
He was 22 when he signed the contract to fight for the world middleweight title, and entered the ring with a 43-1-7 record and 14 straight knockouts.
His opponent was Tacoma native Steele, who had won the middleweight title from Babe Risko in 1936. Steele, with "one of the finest left hands in the game," according to then-P-I sportswriter Dick Sharp, had an 83-4-5 record when he faced the smaller Hostak.
On July 26, 1938, more than 35,000 spectators filled Civic Stadium -- where Memorial Stadium stands today. Stick-wielding National Guard soldiers had the place surrounded, trying to limit freeloaders coming over the fence without a ticket for the 10 p.m. fight.
The 158-pound Hostak knocked down Steele four times before referee Jack Dempsey mercifully counted him out. It was the first time Steele, who died in 1984 at the age of 71, had been counted out.
"I think ring historians will agree that Al Hostak punched as hard as any middleweight that ever lived," boxing historian John Oaks told KOMO-TV earlier this year.
Hostak defended his title in 1939 by knocking out Solly Krieger in four rounds.
He retired after defeating Jack Snapp on Jan. 7, 1949, with a record of 62-9-12 (42 KOs), according to his son, Phil Hostak.
Before his death Sunday, Hostak was the oldest living world champion.
In 1999, the P-I ranked Hostak No. 17 on the list of Seattle's top 100 athletes of the century, ahead of Sonics legend Lenny Wilkens and NFL Hall of Famer Warren Moon.
Hostak joined the Army during World War II and was one of the first paratroopers to land in Nagasaki, Japan, after an atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945, his son said.
He later become a King County sheriff's deputy, and later worked as a security guard at Longacres racetrack.
Hostak gave his grandson, Eastside Catholic High School sophomore A.J. Hostak, boxing lessons in his Maple Valley home -- giving pointers on how to shift his weight and move his feet.
A.J. Hostak became a wrestler last season, won his first 35 matches as a freshman, and though he competed in the postseason with a broken thumb, captured the Class 3A Region II title and placed fourth at the state tournament at 103 pounds.
"I believe the genes come right from his grandfather into him," Eastside Catholic coach Ron Cole said earlier this year.
Hostak spent his last days at Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland and died with family members at his side, Phil Hostak said.
"He didn't talk much," said his son. "But he did a lot both inside and outside the ring."
Hostak is survived by his sons Terry and Phil, daughters-in-law Gloria and Leslie, and five grandchildren -- Ashley, Chad, A.J., Natalie and Katrina Hostak. He was preceded in death by his wife, Rose, who died in 1981.
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Keep in mind that the Royal Charter was no ordinary ship. It was its own modern-day miracle. Cutting edge of the time. It was a hybrid of sorts. Instead of relying solely on sails which were at the mercy of the winds (or lack thereof), this ship could engage it's engine when winds were lacking. It would have been highly desirable to travel on such a ship.
Regardless of the ship traveled on, such a long journey was dangerous, but the sheer loss of life was, and is, incredible. No woman or child survived this shipwreck. I often wonder how my 3rd great grandmother got news of the wreck and how she was sure that her husband was one of the lost. Did she write a letter? Did she have a relative send one? Did she assume when she heard nothing that he was dead? To be widowed in 1859 with 2 young children and living in a coal patch town had to have been scary. It had to have added to the misery. Would she be turned out of the house that her husband built on company property? How would she live and care for her children? I do have some of these answers, but for now enjoy the gripping drama that unfolds (why doesn't Hollywood make this into a movie?):
"The Wreck of the Royal Charter.
[From the Home News.]
On the morning of the 27th October the Times published a brief telegram announcing the 'loss, on her way from Queenstown to Liverpool, of the Royal Charter, with over 400 passengers on board, of which number only about 20 were saved.' It was not till about noon on the same day that this startling announcement was confirmed; and even then hopes were still cherished that it contained some element of exaggeration. That so famous a ship, which had been telegraphed two days before as being off Queenstown after a most prosperous voyage from Melbourne, should have been utterly lost within two or three hours' sail from Liverpool, with an enormous freight of life and treasure, appeared a catastrophe so appalling in its magnitude and suddenness as to be all but incredible. People ventured to hope that at least a large number of the passengers might have been safely landed at some point of the coast which did not possess the means of rapid communication; and that in a few hours more we should receive tidings of their rescue. The hope was vain. A mournful accumulation of authentic intelligence from the scene of the wreck proved ere long beyond the possibility of a doubt that the first announcement, instead of being an exaggeration, was actually an under statement of the disaster. In another day, by putting together the various particulars supplied by the survivors, the newspapers were enabled to publish the following compendious narrative of one of the most astounding tragedies on record: -
After a splendid passage from Melbourne, accomplished in 58 days, and after having landed 13 passengers at Queenstown, and telegraphed her safe arrival to the owners, the Royal Charter made for Liverpool on the 25th of October. She had sailed from Melbourne with 388 passengers on board, and a crew, including officers, of 112 persons. After leaving Queenstown she took on board from a steam-tug 11 riggers who had been assisting in working a ship to Cardiff. Thus she had now on board 498 persons. Her cargo was small, consisting mainly of wool and skins. A more important item of her freight was gold and specie, which at the lowest estimate is here put at L500,000. On the evening of October 25, there was blowing from the E.N.E. a violent gale, which fell with full force on the ill-fated ship. She arrived off Point Lynas at 6 o'clock that evening, and for several hours Captain Taylor continued throwing up signal rockets, in the hope of attracting the attention of a pilot. None made his appearance. The gale increased in violence; the ship was making leeway, and drifting gradually towards the beach. It was pitch dark; no help was at hand. The captain let go both anchors, but the gale had now increased to a hurricane, and had lashed the sea up to madness. The chains parted, and not withstanding that the engines were worked at their full power, the Royal Charter continued to drift towards the shore. At 3 a.m. she struck the rocks in four fathoms of water. The passengers, a large portion of whom were women and children, had till this moment no idea of the imminence of their peril. The most perfect discipline and order prevailed. The masts and riggings were cut adrift, but caused no relief, as the ship began to thump on the sharp-pointed rocks with fearful rapidity. Shortly after she struck, the ship was thrown broadside on, perfectly upright upon the shelving stony beach, the head and stern lying due east and west, the former not being more than 20 yards from a projecting rock. At this juncture one of the crew, a Maltese, named Joseph Rogers, nobly volunteered to struggle through the heavy surf and convey a rope on shore. Though it was not believed by any one that danger was imminent, the captain gave the order, and Rogers ably fulfilled his duty. A strong hawser was then passed and secured on shore, and to this was rigged a boatswain's chair. While this was going on a fearful scene was being enacted in the saloon. An attempt had been made by a Mr. Hodge, a clergyman, to perform a service; but the violent thumping of the vessel on the rocks, and the sea which poured into the cabin, rendered this impossible. The passengers were collected here, and Captain Withers and Captain Taylor were endeavouring to allay their fears by the assurance that there was at any rate no immediate danger, when a succession of tremendous waves struck the vessel and absolutely broke her in half amidships. Shortly afterwards the foremost portion was again torn in half, and the ship began to break up rapidly. Several of the crew saved themselves by means of the hawser, while the remainder were hurled upon the rocks by the waves; all the officers perished. Captain Taylor was the last man seen alive on board. He had lashed his body to a spar and was drowned. The whole number saved out of the 498 persons on board was 39.
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Western origins of Valentine's Day
There are varying opinions as to the origin of Valentine's Day. Some experts state that it originated from
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Q I am a 49er season ticket holder. I paid $60,000 for two seat licenses, $7,000 for two season tickets, and now they want $500 for a season parking pass in the Green lot. I was debt-free two Januarys ago and took out a loan on my house to be a 49er fan.
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Coming from San Mateo County, hop on Caltrain and switch to light rail at the downtown Mountain View station. VTA will run 80 light-rail cars on game days instead of the usual 20 on the weekend. And 78 extra buses will be available as backups, with 10 articulated buses positioned in Mountain View to carry extra passengers. For Levi's Stadium, just get off at the Great America station and cross the street.
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Wendy Garcia of the Obiní Batá orchestra of women percussionists plays the drums in Old Havana, Cuba. Photo Credit: AP/Franklin Reyes
HAVANA — It wasn't that long ago that Cuba's rich percussion scene was essentially a boys' club, dominated by men due to macho attitudes and religious tradition.
Perceived as too weak for the physical demands of drumming, and unsuitable for an instrument considered a means of communicating with the gods, women were shut out of rehearsal spaces and barred from using "bata" drums belonging to the National Folkloric Ensemble. Instructors were warned that if they taught women, it could cost them a place in a traveling tour or a major performance.
Over the years, doors slowly began opening for female drummers — just as women gradually took on greater roles in politics, academics and other areas of Cuban society. Today, experts say, the island is seeing a boom in women percussionists as the generation that first started playing in the 1990s comes into its own and inspires younger talent to follow.
"I threw myself into the unknown," said Eva Despaigne, the 60-year-old director of Obini Bata, Cuba's first all-female bata orchestra, which takes its name from the Yoruban word for woman. "I have suffered many headaches."
Under Afro-Cuban beliefs, the two-sided bata (pronounced ba-TAH') are sacred, used for connecting with Santeria spirits. Tradition dictates the drums be made only from the hides of male goats. Players must undergo a lengthy consecration ritual. And, above all, the sacred bata are to be played only by men.
Despaigne, however, was determined to fight convention. As an Afro-Cuban folkloric dancer, Despaigne saw the drum as a means to experience her art at a deeper level.
"It is the fundamental instrument of the genre. I figured by playing it, I could broaden my development as an artist and have greater expressiveness," she said.
Despaigne patiently worked to persuade male batistas that her desire to play was not for religion, but for art. Little by little, she began to win them over.
After breaking off from the National Folkloric Ensemble in 1994, Obini Bata spent years on the margins of acceptance. With time, however, more women took up the hourglass-shaped drum and also became percussionists in other genres such as jazz and big band.
"From the 1990s to today, the girls have begun studying percussion (more) and the number of those who have graduated is great," said Mercedes Lay, a percussionist and musicologist who works with the governmental Center for Research of Cuban Music.
At a recent show in Havana, the six women who make up Obini Bata pounded infectious beats on leather-skinned drums with their carefully manicured hands and danced in colorful blouses and headscarves. The performance was part of the government-organized musical festival Cubadisco, underscoring Obini Bata's firm arrival in the musical mainstream.
Female batistas are still banned by traditional Afro-Cuban priests, who see their drumming as sacrilegious.
But women drummers' growing acceptance is evidenced by their inclusion in rumba and rock groups, as teachers and in bands touring overseas.
Acclaimed players include Yissy Garcia, a jazz percussionist who comes from an accomplished musical family, and Naile Sosa, an energetic rock 'n' roll drummer who has collaborated with local stars such as David Blanco.
Yaimi Karell, a 33-year-old who plays with the popular island Afro-pop fusion group "Sintesis" and also teaches percussion, said women drummers have proven themselves and gained the respect of their male peers.
"There has been a very big opening for women," she said.
Part of breaking down the barriers has entailed overcoming the perception that women were physically unsuited for the drums.
"In percussion it's not, as people sometimes think, all about strength and speed. It's a matter of technique and taste," said Raul Fernandez, a social scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who researches Cuban music. "Even among male percussionists, often one who plays with lots of vigor and speed doesn't play as well as one with better technique and taste."


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Here Are 6 Times the City and Riverwalk Planners Said Biking Would Be Allowed – Streetsblog Chicago
I don't want to go overboard beating the drum against Womens Vagabond Amina Leather Winter Flat Work Closed Toe Ankle Boots UK 3.5-8 on the Chicago Riverwalk, as well as the current situation, in which signs and security guards are inaccurately telling cyclists that it's illegal to ride there. But I feel the need to debunk the common misconception that the path was never intended for biking. For example, here's a tweet from this morning by AARP Illinois state director Bob Gallo.
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In reality, city officials and riverwalk planners have stated on many occasions that bicycling would be or is permitted. In some cases they specifically promised that the riverwalk would include bike facilities. Here are some examples.
1. The city's pitch to the federal government for a $98.66 million in Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan for the westward riverwalk expansion stated that the facility would include "bicycle and pedestrian facilities" and would "enhance safety… with bicycle paths and pedestrian trails along the continuous promenade." Note that the path was promoted and funded as a transportation amenity, not just a place to stroll aimlessly and sip wine, which raises the question of whether the project would have received the loan if it had not been described as a cycling route.
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3. Bicycle rental companies were part of the riverwalk's 2015 vendor lineup. When the new sections of the riverwalk debuted in 2015, the city announced that vendors would include WanderBikes, offering guided electric bike tours and rentals, and Bike and Roll New Sam Edelman Penny 2 Wide Calf Leather Riding Boot Size US 5M, offering bike rentals, guided walking, bike, and Segway tours.
4. Gina Ford, a landscape architect at Sasaki Associates, which helped plan the riverwalk, told me in a June 2015 interview that the promenade was designed to facilitate cycling. "As a design response, we did a couple of really subtle things. Rather than making most of the turns exactly ninety degrees, most of them are slightly more obtuse of an angle," she said. "If you look at the inside corners of the Cove [section], and the inside and outside corners of the Marina [section], both of those have slightly bigger angles than ninety degrees."
5. CDOT acknowledged the riverwalk is a bike route as late as December 2018, when construction started on the reconfiguration of the eastern portion of the path. The news release announcing the work noted that this section of the promenade would be closed to all users, and it provided a construction detour route specifically for cyclists.
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St. Louis, Mo., September 28, 2013 – Washington University's offense broke out of a slump by scoring four touchdowns in a 31-14 win over Centre College Saturday at Francis Field in St. Louis. The 31 points scored by Washington U. was a season-high and surpasses the season total of 17 scored in the first three games.
Washington University head coach Larry Kindbom picked up the 150th win of his Washington University career Saturday against Centre. Kindbom, the winningest coach in school history, is 150-94 (.615) in 25 seasons on the Danforth Campus.
Washington U. had 316 yards of total offense in the win, highlighted by 165 yards on 48 carries on the ground. Senior quarterback Eric Daginella was 17-of-31 for 151 yards, a TD and three interceptions, and also picked up 31 yards rushing and a TD. Junior Zach Lonneman (75 yards, TD) and sophomore Alex Graham (46 yards, TD) led the rushing attack for Washington U., while freshman wide receiver Hank Childs led the receiving corps with five catches for 37 yards.
Junior quarterback Heath Haden got Centre on the scoreboard first with 6:41 left in the first quarter after he faked a handoff and scampered 13 yards into the end zone. The Washington U. offense answered right back with a 14-play, 49-yard drive as sophomore kicker Alex Hallwachs connected on a 39-yard field goal to make it 7-3.
The Bears took advantage of great field position midway through the second quarter after senior defensive lineman Nelson Nwumeh tipped a pass that junior linebacker Fade Oluokun picked off and ran to the Centre 10-yard line. Three plays later, Daginella escaped three Centre defenders on a play-action pass and scampered five yards for the touchdown. The extra point by Hallwachs made it 10-7 with 9:55 left before half.
Senior Andrew Skalman picked off Haden on the ensuing possession in the end zone to give the Bears one more chance on offense. The Bears took advantage of the turnover and Daginella ignited a 12-play, 80-yard drive to push the lead to 17-7 after he found junior tight end Chris Levine across the middle for a 19-yard touchdown pass. The touchdown reception for Levine was the first of his career.
Washington U.'s defense allowed 184 yards of offense in the first half, but forced a turnover on each of Centre's final three possessions. The Bears had a 21:29-8:31 advantage in time of possession and gained 103 yards on the ground.
Graham capped a six-play, 61-yard drive with a five-yard run on the Bears' opening drive of the third quarter to push the advantage to 24-7. After the teams traded punts, Centre cut the lead to 24-14 with 6:53 left in the third quarter after Amoh Kumengisa scored from four-yards out. Washington U. put the game out of reach with 3:52 remaining when Lonneman scored from a yard out to make it 31-14.
Skalman had a career-high 11 tackles, a tackle for loss and an interception in the win. The interception for Skalman was the ninth of his career. Sophomore defensive back Quincy Marting added a career-high nine tackles, while Nwumeh had seven tackles, five pass break-ups and a half tackle for loss. Junior defensive back Patrick Cantwell added his first career interception in the win.
Special teams also played a huge role in the win, led by sophomore punter Alec Stanke and freshman kick returner Dylan Newcomb. Stanke averaged 43.2 yards on six punts with two landing inside the 20-yard line, while Newcomb had three kickoff returns for 84 yards (28.0 average) with a long of 36.
Haden finished the day 28-of-53 for 298 yards and three interceptions. He entered the day third in NCAA Division III in passing yards and 12th in total offense. Ricky Adams was his favorite target hauling in 103 yards on five receptions. The Colonels were limited to 92 rushing yards on 29 carries and had four turnovers. Ben Leahy led the defensive unit with 17 tackles.
Washington U. (2-2) concludes a two-game home stand against Berry College Saturday, Oct. 5, at 1 p.m. The Vikings have a 0-3 record and lost at Rhodes College 36-24 Saturday.
Bear Notebook: Washington U. and Centre met for the 18th time in school history – but for the first time since 1984 … Washington U. leads the all-time series with Centre, 10-7-1 … The Bears honored 11-year NFL veteran and 1974 graduate Shelby Jordan at halftime for his recent induction into the College Football Hall of Fame … Washington U. has won 21-straight games dating back to the 2007 season when scoring 21 or more points … Centre was the fourth-straight undefeated opponent for the Bears … The Bears were 5-of-5 in the red zone and had a 40:05-19:55 advantage in time of possession.


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- CATA TALENTS: the talent tree for resto is still confusing me, with its tendency towards dps talents. The feral tree is nicely straight-forward and I can put a build together without issue, but the resto tree is not nearly so cut-and-dry in terms of talents. I think much of this stems from not knowing exactly what to expect with mana management and spell use, as well as time available for DPS (regardless of free wraths).
- CATA GUILD RECRUITENT: I've noticed a lot of people apping specifically to join a guild for the expansion, rather than for current raiding. I have a bit of advice: if you're going to play as a different character for Cataclysm (or are willing to level and play a different character as a main), make sure you SAY that in your application so that the guild can plan around that class and role, rather than your current main. Linking to your current main is only useful in terms of showing off the care you give to your gear, spec, and reputation-grinding.
- SAWMILL: I went to a sawmill late last week. Live, operational, industrial sawmill. I watched as trees were methodically turned to lumber. The resto druid in me was screaming... but I couldn't hear her over the earplugs necessary to protect my ears from the screech of metal on wood. I did have a philosophic moment as I watched a tree be quickly decimated into boards, scrap, and sawdust that this was much like what Blizzard was doing with current resto druids: cutting it down, slicing it apart, making it something that looks visually nothing like the treeform it once was.
- BIRTHDAYS: It was my birthday over the weekend... went to dinner on Saturday with Kitarha to one of those hibachi grill places. The grill table we sat at had not one but two other birthdays, and we heard at least 4 other birthday song-and-cakes go out (not all birthdays buy this special treatment, either). In addition, I shared my own birthday cake on Friday night with 2 other birthdays. It makes me empathize a bit with twins and kids who have their birthdays over the winter holidays. It steals the specialness of your birthday. You're just another one littering the weekend, unremarkable, overdone, "lol what was in the water 9 months ago."
- PUPPY: River had her first dog-to-dog socialization over the weekend, and did well. She also met a bunch of "the college kids" whose common exclamation over her was "FLUFFY!" I left the camera at home because I didn't want to risk it getting lost or damaged in the rush of dogs (and wanted my full attention on her rather than taking photos), but I'll try to remember to bring it to her next playdate.
- OLD MOVIES: Last Dragon and Gymkata are more bearable than Zardoz. One word: mankini.
- NEW MOVIES: Legend of the Guardians was cute and decently done. As a "kid's movie," it couldn't really delve too deeply on topics it skirted around... an adult/teen version would actually do well. As an adaptation from the books, it did well in cutting out a lot of the slow parts that I thought unnecessary, but it took some liberties and shortcuts I was upset with given how short the film itself was. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW:
- It took two completely different, rival factions and merged them into one conglomeration (St. Aggies and the Pure Ones were mashed together). While it worked, more or less, it was a surprise and forced several of the plot changes.
- It made Kludd out to be nicer than he was supposed to be. He PUSHED SOREN (and later, Eglantine) out of the tree AS A SACRIFICE to the Pure Ones... he didn't fall with him and it wasn't an accident. Kludd was never kidnapped. He also tried to kill Mrs. Plithiver when she refused to stay silent about him pushing his siblings out of the nest. He also WAS Metalbeak. Kludd was evil from the start.
- Otulissa was underdeveloped, as was the training at Ga'Hoole which was completely understated; they could easily have added that time to what was a short movie.
- What happened to the entire Collier chaw? That whole firestorm thing was something Ezylryb trained Soren and Otulissa to do, among others: they collected coals for the Blacksmiths.
- Ummmmmmm wtf was up with the magnetism? It's just MAGNETISM. It's not visible. It attracts metal and messes with the owls' navigation and makes them woozy/disoriented. It's. Not. Visible. In addition, the vampire bats were just around to drain the St. Aggies owls to make them weak and unwilling to try to fly: they were not warriors with their own metal weapons (they also just ignored the whole plot point about metal and magnetism when it came to the movie-bats' weapons).
- If I'm remembering right, Soren's parents "vanished" (aka killed). IIRC, it was hinted that they were killed by Kludd himself. They certainly did not magically show up at the Ga'Hoole tree after months of their childrens' disappearance and say "oh we were so worried about you!"
- I was disappointed that they didn't include Madame Plonk; I was looking forward to hearing their adaptation of the Taps song she sings at the Ga'Hoole tree, with the harp the nestmaid snakes play. It was, possibly, the part I was looking forward to the most. I think it was also what was supposed to help cure Eglantine's moonblinking.
- WTH did they do to Twilight? In the books, he was harsh, he was strong, he was violent, and he certainly did not have a lute. He was a warrior who happened to sing war songs in combat out of ego and as a tactic to confuse and inflame his enemies. At least, that was always my impression of him: a world-hardened young owl, not a showy (and bad) bard.
- ....echidna? Hello, puffin-replacing movie plot device that makes me /facepalm. The crow mob got nuetered from the true danger it was supposed to be, and they certainly didn't know any nuerotic echidna-sages.
- It took two completely different, rival factions and merged them into one conglomeration (St. Aggies and the Pure Ones were mashed together). While it worked, more or less, it was a surprise and forced several of the plot changes.
Okay, I think that's everything for now :)
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DRHOOK- Off-putting: Why '08 really was year of the rat
2008 was the Chinese Year of the Rat, the first of the 12 calendar animals. If I were to make my own interpretation of the year, it would be the Year of the Dirty Rat (said like James Cagney– although I just learned he never actually said that. Go figure!)
Someone explain this to me like I'm a five-year-old. How could gasoline get up to $4 a gallon and then drop to $1.50 a gallon all within a year, while gasoline companies made record-breaking windfall profits? Millions of people have become unemployed, and yet Wall Street gets hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars (and the CEOs still get hundreds of millions in bonuses).
With the struggling economy and increasing health insurance premiums and deductibles, the way people seek medical attention has been changing.
Are people putting their medical care to the side because of money?
Yes, I do think many people put at least some of their medical priorities aside because of costs. I've always known patients to not take medicines because of money. I know, I know– some people buy cigarettes, booze, and expensive cars in lieu of medicines, but there are plenty of people who struggle to put food on the table and keep the roof over their head.
I've seen a steady decline in the way people take care of themselves. For example, if you don't have health insurance, a colonoscopy costs as much as a David Yurman bracelet. For those with a Health Savings Account for high deductibles (which are becoming the trend since health insurance premiums cost as much as the Space Shuttle), the out-of-pocket expense is considerable. The problem is: what's the price of colon cancer?
Thomas Dolby sang, "She Blinded Me with Science," but actually eye exams are very important to prevent vision loss, especially for people with diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and uncontrolled hypertension. However, many people won't see their eye doctors because of ka-ching! Glaucoma often doesn't have symptoms, so it slowly steals away vision. Unfortunately, most people without vision plans won't get their glaucoma screen and may eventually go blind.
I know some women are putting off mammograms and PAP smears because of finances. We know early detection saves lives, so delaying diagnosis can be potentially fatal.
I've known of plenty of people who have put off seeing the cardiologist for angina. You might think it's due to denial, but many times it's because of an empty wallet. I hear quite often, "I'll wait until later this year when I reach my deductible," or "Wait until I get my tax rebate." Hello! You might have a heart attack before that.
Many good medicines have become generic, which is helping keep medical costs down. Even so, some people won't take their blood pressure or cholesterol medicines because the here and now of a bad economy makes it tempting to spend money elsewhere. But an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The longer we wait to treat a medical problem, the more expensive it's going to become– expensive to the pocket book and costly to the body– like losing a foot, having a huge scar from removing a large skin cancer, being short of breath for life from a weak heart, or developing dementia from small strokes.
I don't know what lies ahead for our health care. No one wants to see their loved ones fall ill. Unfortunately, I anticipate things are only going to get worse.
Happy Holidays, everybody! Hmmm...
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That's 2004, then
Christmas is a deeply sacred holiday in Australia, because its arrival signals that it's time to put aside daily trivialities and focus on what Aussies really care about: sun, sport, and lying around not doing much. I am partaking in this by making a pilgrimage to Perth, and since Western Australia doesn't have electricity, this will be my last blog of the year.
Thanks to everyone who's visited my site in 2004—this blogging thing has been very cool. I wasn't sure what the hell I was doing in the beginning, or whether posting regular updates to my site would quickly get boring. I don't know about you, but I'm still having fun, so I'll be back in 2005.
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Home automation is expensive and complicated, but universal remotes are easy. The IR-Remote Control Power Strip lets you use universal remotes on any electronics, blinking lamps and speakers on and off with lazy precision.
No price on this since it's straight from an OEM in China, but it's supposedly controlled by any IR remote, provided you can program the universal remote at all. Plus it can "avoid energy waste of standby status." Which is good, because "if equipments keep standby status, it may be attacked by thunder, the inside high temperature may cause self-ignite or fire."
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The Secretary of State has been undergoing treatment for a blood clot just below her ear that was reportedly caused by the concussion she suffered in mid-December. She is expected to make a complete recovery. NBC News chief science correspondent Robert Bazell reports.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remained hospitalized Tuesday for a blood clot in her head, but her doctors say she has no brain damage and is expected to recover completely.
Clinton, who fainted and suffered a concussion earlier this month, is being treated with blood thinners to help shrink the clot, which is in one of the veins between the brain and her skull.
"In the course of a routine follow-up MRI on Sunday, the scan revealed that a right transverse sinus venous thrombosis had formed," Dr. Lisa Bardack of Mt. Kisco Medical Group in New York and Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi of George Washington University said in a joint statement.
"This is a clot in the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. It did not result in a stroke, or neurological damage. To help dissolve this clot, her medical team began treating the secretary with blood thinners. She will be released once the medication dose has been established."
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was supposed to return to work later this week until doctors discovered a blood clot had formed in a vein between her brain and skull. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
The statement helps answer questions about Clinton's condition, outside experts said. "This is different than a lot of assumptions that people made, which is that it was a deep vein thrombosis in her leg," said Dr. Alex Valadka, a spokesman for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and a practicing neurologist in Austin, Texas.
The statement from Clinton's doctors suggested she would recover fully.
"In all other aspects of her recovery, the Secretary is making excellent progress and we are confident she will make a full recovery. She is in good spirits, engaging with her doctors, her family, and her staff," they said.
Valadka said such a clot can be very dangerous.
"This could potentially be very serious because so much blood goes through your brain," Valadka told NBC news. "If you block one of the major draining pathways, you can get a stroke."
Valadka said standard treatment would be to infuse a bloodthinner such as heparin right away, and to then put a patient onto blood thinner pills for a fews weeks or months.
"The interesting question is how is this related to her concussion, if at all?" Valadka asked.
Clinton, 65, is known for hitting the road hard and she's logged close to a million miles in travel, having visited 112 countries while in office. She had planned to step down in 2013 and was widely considered a potential front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president, if she chose to run again in 2016.
The extensive travel and dehydration could predispose someone to such a blood clot, Valadka said.
"These dural venous sinus thromboses, they can happen spontaneously on their own without any trauma, without any blow to the head," Valadka said. "Is it just a coincidence?"
But a blow to the back of the head could have damaged the vein, causing the clot, he added.
Dr. Jack Ansell of the New York University School of Medicine agreed.
"This condition is certainly not common but it's not rare, either, and certain patients are prone to it," Ansell said. "They include those who have head trauma, as she did, and people who have other underlying tendencies to have blood clots. It's a serious problem but it is certainly one that is eminently treatable. I would expect her get better."
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The time is coming when all that we hate will be all that can save us. No, not mutants. Foodie trendsters. By always seeking out novelty, they may pursue the only real model for long term food sustainability.
Mass produced, homogenous food is not, necessarily, a bad thing. One product, usually corn, being mass produced and processed into a lot of outwardly different foods isn't picturesque, and isn't a very healthy diet, but is a lot better than going hungry. The problem is, we're not the only ones that we're mass-producing food for. In the first years of a new crop, when mass production is getting on its feet and ironing out the kinks, the crop is preyed upon by its normal range of predators. Once mass production is up and running, the food it's processing stays exactly the same. New predators stumble upon it, and old ones expand their populations to fit the new food supply. The predators change, the new food does not, and now the food supply is under attack.
The most famous example of such an attack is the Irish potato famine. The potato had been touted as the solution to widespread hunger in Europe in the 1700s, and disseminated everywhere; usually by cutting up old potatoes, cloning the same plant over and over again. Through the late 1700s and into the early 1830s failures of crops became more and more frequent. In the mid-1840s, however, one particularly effective disease took out a half to three quarters of harvests over a period of years. While many factors contributed to the widespread hardship of The Great Famine, the failure of a staple food after years of expanded use lead to the death of over a million people.
Lest anyone think that the 1840s were too long ago, the same thing happened in the 1960s, with bananas - also grown by taking cuttings of successful plants. This lead to hardship across the world and slightly less delicious bananas in developed countries. And if you think we learned our lesson then, a current fungus is again threatening banana crops and forcing scientists to look for yet another strain of bananas, which will undoubtedly meet the same fate in another thirty years. In America, a pressing concern is the Hessian fly, which threatens our amber waves of grain and has scientists proposing doubling up resistance genes in today's wheat fields in hopes of staving off the invader.
There's no way around it. Anything we eat becomes a banquet for anything that can get to it before we do. The more efficient we get, the more we're serving up. That's where snobbery, trendsetting and a devotion to obscurity comes in. We ruin what we love, and so trendy foodies are a godsend - they never love anything for too long.
What results is a sort of consumer-driven system of crop rotation. Agriculture can be forced onwards, away from too much mass production and reliance on only a few crops. Pushing for different kinds of food, different strains of old favorites, going vegan, switching over to only goats milk, trying to find only locally sourced food; this is the kind of tiresome, detail-oriented, and never-ending work that food-oriented trendsters do for only a sense of their own superiority. Once it goes mainstream, they're on to the next, while the general population reaps the benefits of biodiversity. It has to be worth it to be lectured on food safety by a guy in a fedora.
Via Agrobiodiversity Platform, Sustainable Table, Crop Life, and Westley Johnson.


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Hokkaido University, in Sapporo, Japan welcomes applications from PSU students to study abroad for the fall/winter term. The program runs from mid-September 2014 - mid-February 2015 (fall AND winter term at PSU).
Hokkaido University offers courses to international students, taught in English, which focus on Sustainability, the Environment, Engineering, and the like. The course list for fall can be found here. There is no Japanese language requirement to join this program. Students must have a 3.0 GPA in order to qualify for the program.
The application deadline for PSU students has been extended until Monday, March 31st.
Scholarships of approximately $800 USD per month will be awarded to 4 qualified PSU students. Additionally, students can also utilize their PSU financial aid to help cover the costs associated with study abroad. This is a very affordable study abroad opportunity for PSU students.
Program details can be found online here. Interested students can schedule an advising appointment with here.
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Perform a staged migration of email to Office 365
You can migrate the contents of user mailboxes from an Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 email to Office 365 over time by using a staged migration.
This article walks you through the tasks involved with for a staged email migration. What you need to know about a staged email migration to Office 365 gives you an overview of the migration process. When you're comfortable with the contents of that article, use this one to begin migrating mailboxes from one email system to another.
For Windows PowerShell steps, see Use PowerShell to perform a staged migration to Office 365.
Migration Tasks
Here are the tasks to do when you're ready to get started with your staged migration.
Convert on-premises mailboxes to mail-enabled users so that migrated users can get to their email
Prepare for a staged migration
Before you migrate mailboxes to Office 365 by using a staged migration, there are a few changes you must make first to your Exchange Server environment.
To prepare for a staged migration:
Configure Outlook Anywhere on your on-premises Exchange Server: The email migration service uses Outlook Anywhere (also known as RPC over HTTP), to connect to your on-premises Exchange Server. For information about how to set up Outlook Anywhere for Exchange 2007, and Exchange 2003, see the following:
You must use a certificate issued by a trusted certification authority (CA) with your Outlook Anywhere configuration. Outlook Anywhere can't be configured with a self-signed certificate. For more information, see How to configure SSL for Outlook Anywhere.
(Optional) Verify that you can connect to your Exchange organization using Outlook Anywhere: Try one of the following methods to test your connection settings.
Use Outlook from outside your corporate network to connect to your on-premises Exchange mailbox.
Use the Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer to test your connection settings. Use the Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP) or Outlook Autodiscover tests.
Wait for the connection to automatically be tested when you Connect Office 365 to your email system later in this procedure.
Set permissions: The on-premises user account that you use to connect to your on-premises Exchange organization (also called the migration administrator) must have the necessary permissions to access the on-premises mailboxes that you want to migrate to Office 365. This user account is used when you Connect Office 365 to your email system later in this procedure.
To migrate the mailboxes, the admin must have one of the following permission sets:
- Be assigned the FullAccess permission for each on-premises mailbox and be assigned the WriteProperty permission to modify the TargetAddress property on the on-premises user accounts.
- Be assigned the Receive As permission on the on-premises mailbox database that stores user mailboxes, and the WriteProperty permission to modify the TargetAddress property on the on-premises user accounts.
For instructions about how to set these permissions, see Assign Exchange permissions to migrate mailboxes to Office 365.
Disable Unified Messaging (UM): If UM is turned on for the on-premises mailboxes you're migrating, turn off UM before migration. Turn on UM for the mailboxes after migration is complete. For how-to steps, see disable unified messaging.
Verify you own the domain
During the migration, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) address of each on-premises mailbox is used to create the email address for a new Office 365 mailbox. To run a staged migration, the on-premises domain must be verified as a domain you own in your Office 365 organization.
Use the domains wizard to verify you own the on-premises domain:
Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account.
You must be a global admin in Office 365 to complete these steps.
Choose Setup > Domains.
On the Manage domains page, click Add domain to start the domain wizard.
On the Add a domain to Office 365 page, choose Specify a domain name and confirm ownership.
Type the domain name (for example, Contoso.com) you use for your on-premises Exchange organization, and then choose Next.
On the confirm that you own <your domain name> page, select your Domain Name System (DNS) hosting provider from the list or select General Instructions, if applicable.
Follow the instructions provided for your DNS hosting provider. The TXT record usually is chosen to verify domain ownership.
You can also find the TXT or MX value specific to your Office 365 tenant by following instructions in Gather the information you need to create Office 365 DNS records.
After you add your TXT or MX record, wait about 15 minutes before proceeding to the next step.
In the Office 365 domain wizard choose done, verify now, and you should see a verification page. Choose Finish.
If you do not see the verification page, wait awhile, and try again.
Do not continue to the next step in the domain wizard. You now have verified that you own the on-premises Exchange organization domain, and are ready to continue with an email migration.
Use directory synchronization to create users in Office 365
You use directory synchronization to create all the on-premises users in your Office 365 organization.
You will need to license the users after they're created. You have 30 days to add licenses after the users are created. For steps to add licenses, see the Complete post migration tasks section later in this topic.
To create new users:
You can use either the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Synchronization Tool or the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync Services (AAD Sync) to synchronize and create your on-premises users in Office 365. After mailboxes are migrated to Office 365, you'll manage user accounts in your on-premises organization and they're synchronized with your Office 365 organization. For more information, see Directory Integration .
Create a list of mailboxes to migrate
After you identify the users whose on-premises mailboxes you want to migrate to Office 365, you'll use a comma separated value (CSV ) file to create a migration batch. Each row in the CSV file (used by Office 365 to run the migration) contains information about an on-premises mailbox.
There isn't a limit for the number of mailboxes that you can migrate to Office 365 using a staged migration. The CSV file for a migration batch can contain a maximum of 2,000 rows. To migrate more than 2,000 mailboxes, create additional CSV files and use each file to create a new migration batch.
Supported attributes
The CSV file for a staged migration supports the following three attributes. Each row in the CSV file corresponds to a mailbox and must contain a value for each of these attributes.
|Specifies the primary SMTP email address, for example, email@example.com, for on-premises mailboxes.
Use the primary SMTP address for on-premises mailboxes and not user IDs from the Office 365. For example, if the on-premises domain is named contoso.com but the Office 365 email domain is named service.contoso.com, you would use the contoso.com domain name for email addresses in the CSV file.
|The password to be set for the new Office 365 mailbox. Any password restrictions that are applied to your Office 365 organization also apply to the passwords included in the CSV file.
|Specifies whether a user must change the password the first time they sign in to their new Office 365 mailbox. Use True or False for the value of this parameter. Note that if you've implemented a single sign-on solution by deploying Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 (AD FS 2.0) or greater in your on-premises organization, you must use False for the value of the ForceChangePassword attribute.
CSV file format
Here's an example of the format for the CSV file. In this example, three on-premises mailboxes are migrated to Office 365.
The first row, or header row, of the CSV file lists the names of the attributes, or fields, specified in the rows that follow. Each attribute name is separated by a comma.
Each row under the header row represents one user and supplies the information that will be used to migrate the user's mailbox. The attribute values in each row must be in the same order as the attribute names in the header row.
Use any text editor, or an application like Excel, to create the CSV file. Save the file as a .csv or .txt file.
If the CSV file contains non-ASCII or special characters, save the CSV file with UTF-8 or other Unicode encoding. Depending on the application, saving the CSV file with UTF-8 or other Unicode encoding may be easier when the system locale of the computer matches the language used in the CSV file.
Connect Office 365 to your email system
A migration endpoint contains the settings and credentials needed to connect the on-premises server that hosts the mailboxes you're migrating with Office 365. For a staged migration, you create an Outlook Anywhere migration endpoint. One migration endpoint is created to use for all of your migration batches.
To create a migration endpoint:
Go to the Exchange admin center.
In the Exchange admin center, go to Recipients > Migration.
Choose More > Migration endpoints.
On the Migration endpoints page, choose New .
On the Select the migration endpoint type page, choose Outlook Anywhere > Next.
On the Enter on-premises account credentials page, enter the following information:
Email address: Type the email address of any user in the on-premises Exchange organization that will be migrated. Office 365 will test the connectivity to this user's mailbox.
Account with privileges: Type the username (domain\username format or an email address) for an account that has the necessary administrative permissions in the on-premises organization. Office 365 will use this account to detect the migration endpoint and to test the permissions assigned to this account by attempting to access the mailbox with the specified email address.
Password of account with privileges: Type the password for the account with privileges that is the administrator account.
Choose Next and then do one of the following:
- If Office 365 successfully connects to the source server, the connection settings are displayed. Choose Next.
If the test connection to the source server isn't successful, provide the following information:
Exchange server: Type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the on-premises Exchange Server. This is the host name for your Mailbox server; for example, EXCH-SRV-01.corp.contoso.com.
RPC proxy server: Type the FQDN for the RPC proxy server for Outlook Anywhere. Typically, the proxy server is the same as your Outlook on the web (formerly known as Outlook Web App) URL. For example, mail.contoso.com, which is also the URL for the proxy server that Outlook uses to connect to an Exchange Server
On the Enter general information page, type a Migration endpoint name, for example, Test5-endpoint. Leave the other two boxes blank to use the default values.
Choose New to create the migration endpoint.
To validate your Exchange Online is connected to the on-premises server, you can run the command in Example 4 of Test-MigrationServerAvailability.
Migrate your mailboxes
You create and then run a migration batch to migrate mailboxes to Office 365.
Create a staged migration batch
For a staged migration, you migrate mailboxes in batches: one batch for each CSV file you created.
To create a staged migration batch:
In the Exchange admin center, navigate to Recipients > Migration.
Choose New > Migrate to Exchange Online.
On the Select a migration type page, choose Staged migration > next.
On the Select the users page, choose Browse and select the CSV file to use for this migration batch.
After you select a CSV file, Office 365 checks the CSV file to make sure that:
It isn't empty.
It uses comma-separated formatting.
It doesn't contain more than 2,000 rows.
It includes the required EmailAddress column in the header row.
All rows have the same number of columns as the header row.
If any one of these checks fails, you'll get an error that describes the reason for the failure. At this point, you must fix any errors in the CSV file and resubmit it to create a migration batch. After the CSV file is validated, the number of users listed in the CSV file is displayed as the number of mailboxes to migrate.
Choose next.
On the Confirm the migration endpoint page, verify the migration endpoint information that is listed and then choose next.
On the Move configuration page, type the name (no spaces or special characters) of the migration batch, and then choose next. This name is displayed in the list of migration batches on the Migration page after you create the migration batch.
On the Start the batch page, choose one of the following:
Automatically start the batch: The migration batch is started as soon as you save the new migration batch. The batch starts with a status of Syncing.
Manually start the batch later: The migration batch is created but not started. The status of the batch is set to Created. To start a migration batch, select it on the migration dashboard and then choose Start.
Choose new to create the migration batch.
The new migration batch is displayed on the migration dashboard.
Start the staged migration batch
If you created a migration batch and configured it to be manually started, you can start it by using the Exchange Admin center.
To start a staged migration batch:
In the Exchange admin center, go to Recipients> Migration.
On the migration dashboard, select the batch, and then choose Start.
If a migration batch starts successfully, its status on the migration dashboard changes to Syncing.
Verify the migration step worked:
You'll be able to follow the sync status in the migration dashboard. If there is an issue, you can view a log file that gives you more information about the errors.
You can also verify that the users get created in the Microsoft 365 admin center as the migration proceeds.
Convert on-premises mailboxes to mail-enabled users so that migrated users can get to their email
After you have successfully migrated a batch of mailboxes, you need some way to let users get to their mail. A user whose mailbox has been migrated now has both a mailbox on-premises and one in Office 365. Users who have a mailbox in Office 365 will stop receiving new mail in their on-premises mailbox.
Because you are not done with your migrations, you are not yet ready to direct all users to Office 365 for their email. So what do you do for those people who have both? What you can do is change the on-premises mailboxes that you've already migrated to mail-enabled users. When you change from a mailbox to a mail-enabled user, you can direct the user to Office 365 for their email instead of going to their on-premises mailbox.
Another important reason to convert on-premises mailboxes to mail-enabled users is to retain proxy addresses from the Exchange Online mailboxes by copying proxy addresses to the mail-enabled users. This lets you manage cloud-based users from your on-premises organization by using Active Directory. Also, if you decide to decommission your on-premises Exchange organization after all mailboxes are migrated to Exchange Online, the proxy addresses you've copied to the mail-enabled users will remain in your on-premises Active Directory.
For more information and to download scripts that you can run to convert mailboxes to mail-enabled users, see the following:
Optional: Repeat migration steps
You can run batches simultaneously or one by one. Do what is convenient for your schedule and ability to help people as they complete their migration. Remember, each migration batch has a limit of 2,000 mailboxes.
When you're done migrating everyone to Office 365, you'll be ready to start sending email directly to Office 365 and decommissioning your old email system.
Optional: Reduce email delays
You don't need to do this task, but if you skip it, it might take longer for email to start showing up in the new Office 365 mailboxes.
When people outside of your organization send you email, their email systems don't double-check where to send that email every time. Instead, their systems save the location of your email system based on a setting in your DNS server known as a time-to-live (TTL). If you change the location of your email system before the TTL expires, they'll try to send you email at the old location first before figuring out that the location changed. This can result in a mail delivery delay. One way to avoid this is to lower the TTL that your DNS server gives to servers outside of your organization. This will make the other organizations refresh the location of your email system more often.
Using a short interval, such as 3,600 seconds (one hour) or less, means that most email systems will ask for an updated location every hour. We recommend that you set the interval at least this low before you start the email migration. This allows all the systems that send you email enough time to process the change. Then, when you make the final switch over to Office 365, you can change the TTL back to a longer interval.
The place to change the TTL setting is on your email system's mail exchanger record, also called an MX record. This lives on your public facing DNS system. If you have more than one MX record, you need to change the value on each record to 3,600 or less.
If you need some help configuring your DNS settings, go to our Create DNS records at any DNS hosting provider for Office 365.
Route your email directly to Office 365
Email systems use a DNS record called an MX record to figure out where to deliver emails. During the email migration process, your MX record was pointing to your on-premises email system. Now that the email migration to Office 365 is complete for all of your users, it's time to point your MX record to Office 365. This helps ensure that incoming email is delivered to your Office 365mailboxes. Moving the MX record also let you turn off your old email system when you are ready.
For many DNS providers, we have Create DNS records at any DNS hosting provider for Office 365. If your DNS provider isn't included, or you want to get a sense of the general directions, we've provided general MX record instructions as well.
It can take up to 72 hours for the email systems of your customers and partners to recognize the changed MX record. Wait at least 72 hours before you proceed to the next task.
Delete the staged migration batch
After you change the MX record and verify that all email is being routed to Office 365 mailboxes, you can delete the staged migration batches. Verify the following before you delete a migration batch:
All users in the batch are using their Office 365 mailboxes. After the batch is deleted, mail sent to mailboxes on the on-premises Exchange Server isn't copied to the corresponding Office 365 mailboxes.
Office 365 mailboxes were synchronized at least once after mail began being sent directly to them. To do this, make sure that the value in the Last Synced Time box for the migration batch is more recent than when mail started being routed directly to Office 365 mailboxes.
When you delete a staged migration batch, the migration service cleans up any records related to the migration batch and then deletes the migration batch. The batch is removed from the list of migration batches on the migration dashboard.
To delete the staged migration batch:
In the Exchange admin center, go to Recipients > Migration.
On the migration dashboard, select the batch, and then choose Delete.
It might take a few minutes for the batch to get deleted.
In the Exchange admin center, go to Recipients > Migration.
Verify that the migration batch is no longer listed on the migration dashboard.
Complete post migration tasks
After migrating mailboxes to Office 365, there are post-migration tasks that must be completed.
To complete post-migration tasks:
Activate Office 365 user accounts for the migrated accounts by assigning licenses: If you don't assign a license, the mailbox is disabled when the grace period (30 days) ends. To assign a license in the Microsoft 365 admin center, see Assign licenses to users in Office 365 for business.
Create an Autodiscover DNS record so users can easily get to their mailboxes: After all on-premises mailboxes are migrated to Office 365, you can configure an Autodiscover DNS record for your Office 365 organization to enable users to easily connect to their new Office 365 mailboxes with Outlook and mobile clients. This new Autodiscover DNS record has to use the same namespace that you're using for your Office 365 organization. For example, if your cloud-based namespace is cloud.contoso.com, the Autodiscover DNS record you need to create is autodiscover.cloud.contoso.com.
Office 365 uses a CNAME record to implement the Autodiscover service for Outlook and mobile clients. The Autodiscover CNAME record must contain the following information:
For more information, see Create DNS records for Office 365 when you manage your DNS records.
Decommission on-premises Exchange servers: After you've verified that all email is being routed directly to the Office 365 mailboxes, have completed the migration, and no longer need to maintain your on-premises email organization, you can uninstall Exchange.
For more information, see the following:
Decommissioning Exchange can have unintended consequences. Before decommissioning your on-premises Exchange organization, we recommend that you contact Microsoft Support.
See also
What you need to know about a staged email migration to Office 365
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