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Top ten male tennis players with the most Australian Open titles
The famous Melbourne Park in Australia arranges the Australian Open event every year in the closing weeks of January. Since 1988, the Australian Open has been played on hard courts. One of the most prominent features of Australian Open is the retractable roof in the two main courts of the Hisense Arena and Rod Laver Arena. The Australian open has been a stage to greatest tennis players who have set records in this grand slam. Not every tennis player enjoys success on hard court, especially players who are masters of the clay surface. Sampras, famous for numerous records, wasn't able to show his convincing skills on the hard court of Australian Open which definitely showed his limitation. However American Agassi and Swiss Federer with their 4 Australian Open titles depicted their excellent grip on hard court as well.
The top ten best male tennis players with the most Australian Open titles are as follows:
1) Kenneth Robert Rosewall
2) Roy Stanley Emerson
3) Mats Wilander
4) Andre Agassi
5) Roger Federer
6) Rafael Nadal
7) Rod Laver
8) Stefan Edberg
9) Jim Courier
10) Ivan Lendl
These best tennis players have been successful in winning the most titles in the Australian Open. Among these stars, Roy Emerson is leading with his record of six Australian Open titles, which is still to be conquered by second-leading tennis star Roger Federer with four Australian Open titles. Stefan Edberg and Jim Courier were famous for their hard court performances and managed to win the Australian grand slam too. However, Roy is the only name that has been successfully ruled the Australian Open championship.
Top ten countries to win the most male Australian Open Tennis titles
Almost all sports are ruled by a particular player or team for a brief period. Football was ruled by Brazil for a long time, cricket by the West Indies, golf by Tiger Woods, squash by Jansher Khan of Pakistan, etc. All these players or teams not only represent themselves, but also their countries. In the same stance, tennis has been ruled by greatest tennis players from one nation for a long time. By and large, players from the United States have been successful in winning the most tennis Grand Slam titles. The Australian Open for males has also been ruled by the American players so far. The United States of America has always produced the best tennis players of all time. They have dominated all the courts including the Australian Open, hence winning the leading number of titles. In the past decade and more, Roger Federer, a Swiss tennis player however has been able to win the Australian Open titles.
Most of the Australian Grand Slam titles have been won by Americans up to now. Including the United States, here is a list of the top ten countries who won the most male Australian Open titles:
1) United States (15 titles)
2) Australia (7 titles)
3) Sweden (6 titles)
4) Switzerland (4 titles)
5) Czech (3 titles)
6) Argentina (2 titles)
7) Germany (2 titles)
8) Russia (2 titles)
9) Serbia (1 title)
10) Spain (1 title)
The top ten countries to win the most male Australian Open titles clearly indicates that the United States and Australia have been dominating this Grand Slam for ages. And now we see a difference in trend as Nadal and Djokovic are the new emerging players, claiming the Australian Open titles.
Top ten countries to win the most female Australian Open Tennis titles
Greatest female tennis player Margaret Smith Court has ruled the female Australian Open world, winning 11 titles for her native country, Australia. Even then, the United States of America is leading the title run of female Australian Open titles. One strange fact about this Grand Slam is that famous female tennis player Martina Navratilova of the USA, who was known to rule the tennis world, won only 3 titles in the Australian Open. However, many tennis players from the USA have been able to make names for themselves in the Australian Open event. The present winner of the Australian Open women's title is Serena Williams, who also won the doubles tournament in the Australian Open 2010, hence making America's rule inevitable. Here is the list of top ten countries to win the most female Australian Open titles:
1) United States (15 titles)
2) Australia (10 titles)
3) Germany (4 titles)
4) Yugoslavia (3 titles)
5) Czech (2 titles)
6) Switzerland (3 titles)
7) Russia (1 title)
8) Belgium (1 title)
9) Britain (1 title)
10) France (2 titles)
Famous female tennis player Serena Williams of the USA is in her full swing and performance which indicates bright chances of America ruling the female Australian Open title for many years to come. William sisters have shown tremendous potential at the hard court and have owned the Australian Open with their exclusive play. America is known for producing the best of tennis players. Every era had a leading American tennis player which now includes Serena and Venus Williams. Although Serena is having a rough time with her fitness and injuries but she is still managing to be extremely competitive and challenging the opponents with her aggressive play.
Youngest and Oldest tennis champions
by MairaS on July 4, 2010
in Record Holders
Tennis is an old sport with increasing number of new players. It has produced both young and old champions throughout its history. Many players after a gap of sometime, made through to the tennis world again and set records by winning the championships. Here are some of the youngest and oldest tennis champions in singles and doubles format of the tennis championships:
Youngest male/female winners in Singles/Doubles/Mix tennis championship:
In 1985, the youngest player to have become champion in men's singles was 17 year old German player Boris F. Becker. Among the ladies singles was Britain's 15 year old Miss C. Dod who became the youngest champion in 1887. In men's doubles, USA's 18 year old R. D. Ralston became the world champion in 1960. The youngest women's doubles champion was 15 year old Martina Hinguis of Switzerland. She became champion in 1996. In mixed doubles was Australia's 21 year old R. G. Laver and USA's 16 year old Serena Williams who became champions in 1959 and 1998 respectively.
Oldest male/female winners in Singles/Doubles/Mix tennis championship:
Britain's 41 years old A. W. Gore and 37 year old A. Sterry were the oldest champions in tennis history among men and women in 1909 and 1908 respectively. USA's 43 year old G. P. Mulloy and 42 year old E. M. Ryan were the oldest champions in men's doubles and women's doubles respectively. They won these championships in the years 1957 and 1934 respectively. In mixed doubles, the oldest champions were USA's 46 year old M. Navratilova and 42 year old S. E. Stewart. They became world champions in 2003 and 1988 respectively.
Records are meant to be broken. So let's see who else will make his/her way in these records!
Most tennis titles Won by Country
by MairaS on July 3, 2010
in Record Holders
Tennis has been a game that has welcomed every player with several different origin background. However few of the countries have ruled the game of tennis by producing absolutely brilliant tennis players over the time. USA is the top ranked country in Wimbledon history with the highest number of titles in both men and women singles. The country has a total of 86 titles. In men's singles, USA has won 33 titles so far, whereas in women's singles, the country claimed 53 titles. USA's Pete Sampras has won seven titles. He won them in the years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Among women, Martina Navratilova won 9 titles in 1978, 1979, 1982-1987 and 1990.
In the second position are the British Isles with a total of 61 titles among which 32 were claimed by men and 29 by women. Australia is number three with 26 titles of which 21 were claimed by men and 5 by women. France is the fourth with 14 titles, 7 each being claimed by men and women. Germany is number fifth with 12 titles. Women claimed 8, whereas men did only four.
At number six is Great Britain with 10 titles, seven claimed by women and only 3 by men. Sweden and Switzerland have claimed 7 titles so far. Sweden's titles are all claimed by men where as one of the Swiss title was claimed by a woman. New Zealand's men have claimed 4 titles for their country so far. Spain has won 3 titles: 2 by men and one by a woman. Slovakia, Netherlands, Croatia and Egypt have one title each that were all claimed by men. Czech Republic and Russia have won one title each by their women.
In all, men have claimed 123 titles for their countries and women did 116.
Indoor Tennis Courts – The New Thing to Look Out for
by MairaS on April 8, 2009
in General Information
Indoor tennis courts are very much the new thing to expect at all major tennis championships because players, officials and the fans never want to see a match getting disrupted by the likes of rain or excessive heat. The first indoor tennis courts to be used in professional tennis were the two stadiums at Australia. These two stadiums were used in the Australian Open to prevent matches from getting hampered by rain, heat and excessive sun light. Basically, these stadiums have a retractable roof which can be used in times of need. The roof can be closed which will prevent the forces of nature playing havoc with the match. But the process of using indoor tennis courts is not as simple as it seems. The entire surface has to be different as the indoor tennis courts need to have a different surface than the courts which are played in the open. There are a lot of factors which would affect the outdoor courts but which would not play any role in indoor tennis stadiums. Accordingly, the surface has to be modified so that the players do not face any difficulty.
No other court especially the Grand Slam court have the indoor tennis courts. The rain or excessive heat has always been one of the hindering factor at all other courts except for Australian Open courts.
The Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals, or the ATP as it is more commonly known, came into existence in the 1972. It was basically formed to protect the rights of male professional tennis players'. This association was responsible for the inspiration which helped in the organization of the principal worldwide tour for male players since 1990. This is called the ATP Tour and was renamed in January of 2009 as the ATP World Tour. This is an improvement on the previous championships known as the World Championship Tennis.
The executive office of the ATP are based in London and has got its offices in every continent such as ATP Americas, ATP Europe and the ATP International which is responsible for overlooking the tennis in Asia, Africa and Australia. The ATP Tour is inclusive of a lot of tournaments which span the entire year. Some of them can be enlisted as the Grand Slams, ATP World Tour 500 Series, ATP World Tour 250 Series and the like.
There have been a few changes which took place in 2009 such as the Master's Cup which has been renamed as the 1000 Cup while the gold events have been renamed as the 500 and 250 Cups. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) updates the male professional tennis players rankings every month with a detailed review.


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There has been a lot of hype around this album as everyone, weather they are a fan or not has been curious how it would sound. Because of this, and the fact Justin is releasing hit after hit at the moment, meant that there was a lot of pressure for this album to be good, and I think it's fair to say expectations were very high, mine included.
It turns out there was nothing to be worried about as Purpose has been a huge success all over the world. He may not have got the No.1 in the UK, but missing out by 3,000 copies, and selling 90,000 is by no means a fail, especially considering how this time last year he was public enemy number 1.
The album is very good, with a really cool R&B sound to it. It's obvious that this new, grown up sound is the kind of music he loves to make, and should be making.
I think we are all going to have that one moment when we became a Justin Bieber fan. For me it was when the Never Say Never film came out! I really think this could be that moment for a lot of people - it's about time everybody became a Belieber. Even though I have no doubt the hardcore fans are going to love this album, it's also creating a whole new generation of Beliebers.
There are however, a few tracks on the album that really don't do anything for me. Also, if I'm being honest, I don't find myself thinking about the album, or reaching for it when I put my headphones in. However saying that, when I do listen to it, I really love it, it just hasn't left a lasting impression on me.
There is nobody else in the music industry who I can compare him to either, which is so difficult these days. When people would describe him as a young Justin Timberlake everybody would laugh. Now I don't think it sounds so daft after all.
Justin has also announced that he is going to be doing a world tour which is super exciting. Tickets for Europe go on sale this Thursday, and I can promise you I will be doing my very best Thursday morning to try and get tickets.
Overall, I am really impressed with this album. It's got a really cool, chilled feeling to it. Also, people have mocked his talent in the past, but actually I really love his voice and think this album proves just how much of a great singer and songwriter he really is. I just wish I got the deluxe version of the album!
My favourite tracks off the album:
I'll Show You
Life Is Worth Living
Love Yourself
The Feeling
What Do You Mean
Mark My Words
Buy the album here.


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Maybe it's time for Microsoft's Internet Explorer team to reconsider that whole Windows XP thing?
Firefox 4 clocked about 5 million downloads on its first day and is fast approaching has already topped 7 million this morning, as the new browser from Mozilla attracts huge interest from around the world.
That doesn't match the record-breaking performance of Firefox 3, but it trounces the 2.35 million downloads that Microsoft reported in the first 24 hours after the Internet Explorer 9 release.
But keep in mind that Microsoft is voluntarily limiting its market, not only by making Internet Explorer exclusive to Windows but also by declining to make the new browser work on Windows XP. Even though Windows XP is nearly 10 years old at this point, more than 40 percent of Internet users are still clinging to it, putting IE9 at a disadvantage in the numbers game by not supporting XP.
Firefox, in contrast, continues to support Windows XP. Mozilla knew coming in that it would have a built-in advantage, based on Microsoft's choice to support only the newer Windows Vista and 7.
"That's a decision that they get to make, but it sure did surprise us, because the best metrics that we've got say 40 to 50 percent of the web is still on XP. That's too big for us to just leave them behind," said Johnathan Nightingale, the Firefox engineering director, in a recent interview.
[Related Post: Firefox 4 Do Not Track: How it works, what it really means]
Why no IE9 on XP? Microsoft's reasoning is that browsers "should require the modern graphics and security infrastructure that have come along since 2001." The company says in a statement that "Internet Explorer 9 is intended to be run on a modern operating system in order to build on the latest hardware and operating system innovations."
Of course, it's also in Microsoft's business interest to get people to buy a new Windows version.
The latest browser market-share stats, from just before the release of the new browsers, put Internet Explorer at 56.8 percent, down from 68 percent two years ago. Firefox has held relatively steady over that period, but the big gainer has been Google Chrome, which rose up from practically nothing to now boast nearly 11 percent of the worldwide market.
And Google this morning looked to build on that momentum, releasing a beta of its Chrome 11 browser with advanced speech-recognition capabilities and other new features.
And yes, for the record, Chrome 11 does work on Windows XP (and Macs).
Todd Bishop of GeekWire can be found on Twitter and Facebook when he's not installing browser betas.


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I recently had the opportunity to try out curling for the first time, the sport where teams of players attempt to slide and position 42 pound granite stones in a certain way over ice. Going into it I had some misgivings, but it ended up being a lot of fun and there is quite a bit of strategy and skill involved. Wikipedia has a good overview of how the game is played.
A view of the rinks inside the Granite Curling Club in Seattle, the only dedicated curling club on the entire west coast.
Reading up on it later, it turns out that the game originated in medieval Scotland (and here I thought that the Canadians came up with it). From wikipedia again:
Curling is thought to have been invented in late medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541. Two paintings (both dated 1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling—Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.
Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 (uncovered along with another bearing the date 1551) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland. Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716; it is still in existence today. Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 × 250 metres in size, though this is now very seldom in condition for curling because of warmer winters.
Spotted hanging over the piers this weekend in Seattle – the stars and stripes. Turns out that the big General Construction Company was celebrating their centennial, and even put on a nice fireworks display last night. I like their style.
For the local folks, the Seattle Art Museum will be hosting a series of some classic British Film Noir movies starting in April. More info.
In 1977 SAM presented Seattle's first American film noir series. This spring, in our town's premiere British film noir voyage, we visit the "Empire of Night," where thrilling tales of love and betrayal, greed and obsession swirl in the midnight fog.
And at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, there will be a showing of some very important pieces of woodblock prints from Japan. More info.
This exhibition brings together prints from the most renowned ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries—including Harunobu, Utamaro, Eishi and Hiroshige—along with Hokusai's most beloved prints, Great Wave off Kanagawa and Red Fuji. These Japanese woodblock prints demonstrate an evocative play between delicate ink lines and rich blocks of color in portraits of beautiful women and kabuki actors, jewel-like landscapes of famous places, and more. Drawn from the Mary and Allan Kollar Collection, a promised gift to the Seattle Art Museum on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary, this installation introduces the region to a remarkable collection of prints, all taken from early impressions and in excellent condition.
I will be celebrating with Guinness Chocolate Mousse Cake.
This interesting photo came up on one of the blogs for the Seattle Times today.
Taken in 1979, it supposedly shows the first espresso cart in the U.S.
A couple of weeks ago, Boeing invited journalists aboard one of the test flights for the new 787 and the Seattle PI has some pictures and a short video from the event. I can't wait until the airlines start using these.


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Police have reissued their appeal for video footage of the tragic accident that happened in Glasgow's George Square on Monday.
Detective Superintendent Andy Gunn, Senior Investigating Officer, said: "The events in Glasgow on Monday were devastating - for the families and friends of the victims who lost their lives, for those who were injured, the local community and beyond.
"I would like to reiterate that there is nothing to suggest this was a deliberate or malicious act. However, there is a significant police investigation ongoing into the circumstances which led up to the crash, which claimed the lives of six people.
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text: On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:19 AM, blue sky wrote: > My interpretation of the relation between 1-way ANOVA and Wilcoxon's > test (wilcox.test() in R) is the following. > > 1-way ANOVA is to test if two or multiple distributions are the same, > assuming all the distributions are normal and have equal variances. > Wilcoxon's test is to test two distributions are the same without > assuming what their distributions are. > > In this sense, I'm wondering what is the generalization of Wilcoxon's > test to more than two distributions. And, more general, what is the > generalization of Wilcoxon's test to multi-way ANOVA with arbitrary > complex model formula? What are the equivalent F statistics and t > statistics in the generalization of Wilcoxon's test? > > Note that I'm not interested in looking for a specific nonparametric > test for a particular dataset right now, although this is important in > practice. What I'm interested the general nonparametric statistical > framework that parallels ANOVA. Could somebody give some hints on what > references I should look for? I have google searched this topic, but > don't find a page that exactly answered my question. This is your first of three postings in the last hour and they are all in a category that could well be described as requests for tutoring in basic statistical topics. I am of the impression you have been requested not to engage in such behavior on this list. For this question for instance there is an entire CRAN Task View available and you have been in particular asked to sue such resource before posting. It's not the described role of the r-help list to remediate your lack of statistical background, but rather to deal with difficulties in applying the R-language to particular, discrete and exemplified problems. -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT


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Today we (some of the office staff) had a potluck at work. I would say that I escaped the potluck without any failures. I had one plate full and about a half a cup of soup (homemade, yum!). I small scoops of the things I wanted to try - Crockpot spaghetti, grape and apple salad, a salad that I made (spinach, strawberries, mandarin oranges, toasted almonds, poppy seed dressing), three small meatballs, a few crackers, and some spinach dip. Over the years I've become good about eye-balling measurements of things. I just envision my measuring cups and about how much would fill them (I often end up overestimating, which is fine by me). I ate quarter or half cups of the things that I tried, except the spinach dip which was less than two tablespoons. I got to sample things, was content after eating - not hungry or too full. I drank my water and enjoyed talking with others. Lunch? Was good.
I plan on having a large helping of my leftover salad for dinner tonight.
I'm pretty happy with my eating today. I'm especially happy because yesterday was a bit of a fail. Not huge, but definitely not a good day. I'm sure it had something to do with not feeling well, but I ended up tapping into a bag m&ms I have for making some holiday treats. I ate some, without measuring. I counted them, but in all honesty this is a case where I may have underestimated what I ate. Or maybe not... Hard to tell when you grab a few out of a bag at a time. At any rate, I was disappointed with myself, but I know that I cannot dwell on it.
Although I didn't feel so hot, I did workout. I ended up doing the TF that was on my schedule for the day as well as a RB workout. I stopped after that. I was definitely feeling exhausted by the time I was done and didn't want to push too hard. Oddly, after I rested for a bit, I was feeling better than I had all day! I'm glad I stopped when I did because had I kept going, I know I would've felt worse.
I still have a bit of a cold, but I am pretty sure it's getting better. Today I have run on the agenda and I'm honestly not feeling like I want to do it. I'm going to at least try though. I feel better than I did on Saturday and I managed to run then, so I'm sure I can complete thirty minutes. I may run slower than normal again, but that's okay... As long as I'm moving and accomplishing something, I'm okay with it. I also have a TF 45 minute workout and a BBL workout (30 minutes) on the schedule. I'm not sure I'll do all of it, but plan to at least do the run and the TF workout. If I feel okay after that, I'll do BBL. If I'm feeling a bit run down, then I'll stop. My original plan was to run this morning and do the others this evening, but I decided to get a little more rest and slept a little longer this morning.
So... Christmas will be here... In a week? Oh boy! I'm not ready. I still have shopping to do, but luckily not a lot (thanks to online shopping last night). I should be able to wrap that up this weekend.... I hope!! It looks like a storm is headed this way, so hopefully the weather isn't too nasty. I also have a couple social obligations this weekend and totally do not want to miss those!! I've finished some wrapping, and will do some more tonight.... After I get Christmas cards written out and ready to go in the mail. I have been receiving cards for a couple weeks and just realized that I really need to get mine sent out! I have baking to do, but will wait until Thursday evening to do some of that. I will likely do some for the Christmas party on Saturday, and then finish things for Christmas on Sunday. I have more Christmas stuff going on in a couple weeks, so I'll probably do some more baking then (but I'm not worrying about that right now!).
I don't think that I'll have time to think about my goals for next year until after Christmas. I just have so much to get done this week! Other than another 12,000 fitness minutes (minimum) for the year and reaching my goal weight, I haven't got much else. I really need to sit down and write out a plan for how I will reach these goals. I also know that my schedule for working out for January needs to be updated. I'd like to do that right away (I have a new planner and can't wait to write in it - I LOVE planners!). However, I should probably take care of Christmas things first.
I suppose, it's time to run and do some turbofire so that I can get to work filling out Christmas cards. My goal is to finish them tonight so that I can drop them in the mail tomorrow. Hopefully that means that people will receive them by Christmas!
Hope you're having a wonderful week!!


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A house is built with hands, but a home is built with hearts – so the old saying goes. However, too much choice in the form of floor plans can be confusing sometimes. Therefore, an understanding of the different styles and how they suit the individual's needs and tastes is an essential step in the process of building a home.
The bungalow floor plan, for example, suits a laid-back and comfortable lifestyle. It is a popular floor plan throughout America. They are smaller than other modern floor plans. However, they are extremely livable because the living area is open and planned for ease of access. The roof hangs low, the rafters and ridge beams are uncovered, and porches are large, with narrowed quadrangular columns.
Colonial floor plans are elegant without being ostentatious. Moreover, they have an element of history attached to them. These floor plans come from the early American settlements of the East Coast. Colonial architecture ranged from New England to Georgia and, therefore, there are regional variations in style.
Colonial floor plans introduce symmetry, with doors that are centered along with a sensible array of windows. The second story is very similar to the main floor in terms of size. They have brick-facing exteriors or clapboard siding, typically. The contemporary colonial house will have modern facilities.
Country style floor plans represent the quintessential farmhouses that we have so often seen in the movies. Country homes are planned in such a way as to feel comfortable. The floor plan of a country home delivers a rustic and relaxing atmosphere – it doesn't matter where it is built. They are characterized by roomy porches and large kitchens which are situated right next to the family room. Some country houses have steep roofs and irregular layouts. Still others have a front face that is not symmetrical, a pitched roof and a spacious front porch.


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The Mountain West Conference will see major changes to the team roster next year, losing longtime contenders BYU and Utah, and adding Fresno State, Boise State and Nevada. Utah will be a member of the Pac-10, and BYU recently announced that it is going independent beginning in June 2011, a move that didn't sit well with the other members of the Mountain West.
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San Bernardino Killers Were Rare 'Hybrid' Terrorists
Perpretrators appear to have blended Islamist extremism with personal grievances common to mass shooters
Uncategorized December 4, 2015 Robert Beckhusen 34
The terrorist attack that killed 14 people at a San Bernardino holiday party had vexed federal investigators. In the days following the killings, the FBI wasn't sure whether it was a terror assault or a workplace killing.
It now looks like a combination of both. Married couple Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, appear to have associated themselves with radical Islamism. Malik pledged loyalty to militant leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi shortly after the attack.
The couple stockpiled weapons, ammunition and explosives — indicating that they planned the assault far in advance. But Farook previously worked as an environmental health inspector for the San Bernardino County Health Department, and the couple targeted a holiday party held by the department.
Nor is there any evidence that the couple had any direct ties to the Islamic State, at least for now.
Which is an odd case — and relatively rare for attacks of this sort. The attack was different from what we'd come to expect from the Islamic State, and it has elements that set it apart from other workplace killings in the United States. And that should influence how we try to prevent such killings in the future.
But first, we need to define what we're talking about. For that, psychologists have coined the term "pseudocommando" to describe mass shooters who typically strike during daylight and whose sense of personal grievance and desire for revenge "transforms … into a perverse sense of honor, which allows him to justify [their] actions," editor James Knoll of Psychiatric Times noted in a 2012 article.
Unlike the San Bernardino killers, pseudocommandos often do not define their killings in ideological or political terms. In many cases, workplace killers and school shooters who "go postal" kill people whom they simply felt wronged them. It's hard to call that terrorism.
On the other end of the spectrum, terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State have explicit political justifications for their atrocities, but the assailants often have little — if any — personal connection to their targets. They commonly choose crowded areas simply because that's where the people are, though there also may be some symbolic importance.
Above — police training. COD Newsroom/Flickr photo. At top — hostage rescue exercise at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. U.S. Army photo
Then there's a third category — a hybrid. This is someone or a small group which blends grievances at those close to them with an ideological justification for their actions. More often than not, they have no direct relationship with any organized terrorist group. According to the Washington Post:
Investigators said the couple had managed to stay off the FBI radar and apparently didn't take any overt steps to make contact with Islamic State operatives living overseas.
"This is not Jihad 101," the senior law enforcement said, saying that the attackers had not taken the usual steps commonly seen in previous terrorist attacks. Other attackers or people accused of trying to travel overseas seeking training have made contact with terrorists through social media. In some cases, supporters of the Islamic State have shared the group's propaganda.
Under the couple's own terms, the killing spree was an act of terrorism. But the lack of an organizational connection — that we know about — to the Islamic State and the choice of target has more in common with apolitical mass shooters. Farook also personally knew some of his victims had an argued with them in the past.
There's a precedent for this. In May 2014, 22-year-old college student Elliot Rodger stabbed his three roommates to death and drove around the college town of Isla Vista, California shooting at pedestrians. In his manifesto, Rodger singled out women and blamed them for his loneliness, and "beta" males — which included his roommates — for their success with relationships.
Rodger also considered himself part of a small group of oppressed "alpha" males whom he believed should organize and strike back. He rendered his personal anger in ideological terms. An ongoing debate is whether an ideology — in this case men's rights activism which he encountered online — drove him to kill, or whether his own personal problems found a ready-set mythology that allowed him to justify his murderous actions to himself.
I don't think anyone ever came up with a convincing answer. For Farooq and Malik, was Islamic extremism a justification for actions they had already planned? Or did they stumble across the ideology, which set them down a path to violence? Or perhaps it was some combination, with personal grievances sucking them into an ideology which further drove a wedge between them and those close to them.
We don't know, but the answers — whether we find any — should raise more questions about how to prevent other killing sprees. Counter-terrorism efforts focused on detecting extremist networks can prevent attacks before they occur, as one of the biggest signs that someone is radicalizing is who they know, such as a person communicating with members of a terrorist organization.
But if Farooq and Malik didn't do that, then how would you stop them? Like the hybrid nature of the attack, preventing future ones may require a combination of lessons learned from counter-terrorism and methods to prevent workplace violence and school shootings. Thinking of the attack in terms exclusive to one category or the other will come up short.


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Deities of madness and genius, rare results from an insanity spell, or just simply the result of a supernatural creature's mind breaking, regardless of the origin mad harlequins are damnable foes. Their temperament changes like the wind, from simple psychopaths with sadistic senses of humor to goofy pranksters. They tend to pick out dark grim would-be-heroes as their "arch-nemesis", some avoid killing their "arch-nemesis" instead harming or maiming those closest to them. The loss of their arch-nemesis often sends them on mad kill sprees or into catatonia. Mad harlequin's when not in disguise wear supernatural garnish vestments and always possess frozen grins and a face maimed to look clownish.
Creating a Mad Harlequin Creature
"Mad Harlequin" is an acquired template that can be added to any creature with an Intelligence of 3 or greater.
A mad harlequin uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.
Alignment: Changes to chaotic evil.
Defensive Abilities: fast healing 1, damage reduction 5/bludgeoning and good (if the mad harlequin's CR is 6 or higher, increase to DR 10/ bludgeoning, magic and good; if 12 or higher, increase to 15/bludgeoning, magic, lawful, and good); Immune mind-affecting (see absurd thoughts)
Special Abilities: A mad harlequin creature retains all the special abilities of the base creature, plus the special abilities as described below:
Absurd Thoughts (Su)
A mad harlequin's madness is like a virus, using any mind-affecting spell or effect on it causes it to fail. In addition, the user must succeed on a Will save (DC 10 +1/2 the mad harlequin's HD + its Charisma modifier) or become subject to a random form of madness affliction, with an immediate onset time.
Acid Squirt (Su)
Some part of the mad harlequin's outfit can shoot a stream of extremely corrosive acid once per day as a swift action, this requires making a ranged touch attack against any one target within 5 feet. This deals 1d6 points of acid damage + the mad harlequin's Constitution modifier, plus an additional 1d6 points of acid damage for every 2 HD beyond 1st the base creature possesses, with no splash damage (to a maximum of 10d6 at 18 HD). In addition, the subject is blinded and sickened. The subject gets a Fortitude save (DC 10 +1/2 the mad harlequin's HD + its Constitution modifier) to negate the blind and sickened conditions. For every 3 HD the mad harlequin possesses, the acid and the conditions, unless neutralized, lasts for another round (to a maximum of 6 additional rounds at 18 HD). At 6 HD the blind condition's duration becomes permanent.
Aura of Confusion (Su)
If the mad harlequin is at least 8 HD, it emits a 30-foot aura. Creatures within this aura are affected by confusion, a successful Will save (DC 10 +1/2 the mad harlequin's HD + its Charisma modifier) negates. The mad harlequin can activate or suppress this aura as an immediate action.
Breath Weapon (Su)
The mad harlequin can breathe a cone of laughing gas as a swift action once every 1d4 rounds. Creatures within the cone must succeed on a Will save (DC 10 +1/2 the mad harlequin's HD + its Constitution modifier) or be subject to hideous laughter for 1 round per HD the base creature possesses. The range of the cone is based on the base creature's HD.
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Change Shape (Su)
as the universal monster ability (shapechange).
Rejuvenation (Su)
In most cases, it's difficult to destroy a mad harlequin through simple combat: the "destroyed" or "slain" mad harlequin restores itself in 1 day. Even the most powerful spells are usually only temporary solutions. The only way to permanently destroy a mad harlequin is for the creature chosen as its arch-nemesis (chosen by the GM when the template is applied) to also be slain or destroyed; if that creature is later returned to life (or existence as say an undead creature), the mad harlequin also returns. So most often, this results in self-sacrifice by the chosen arch-nemesis or imprisonment for the mad harlequin.
Vulnerability to Sanity (Su)
Remove curse does not remove insanity and hence cannot cure a mad harlequin. However greater restoration, heal, limited wish, miracle, or wish can restore the creature's sanity and remove this template if it is alive. It suffers a -4 penalty to its save against these spells.
Abilities: Increase from the base creature as follows: Con +6 (+3 hp per HD, +3 to Fort saves, +3 to any of the base creature's Constitution-based DCs) Cha +8 (+4 to Bluff, Diplomacy, Disguise, Handle Animal, Intimidate, Perform, and Use Magic Device; attempts to influence others, and Channel Energy DCs, +4 to any of the base creature's Charisma-based DCs).
Skills: Mad harlequin creatures gain bonus skill ranks and a +8 racial bonus on Disguise; this is always a class skill for the base creature.
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text: Bookstore shelves overflow and online searches return pages of results as more and more books about wine are published. This portion of Worden on Wine will focus on what I view to be essential books as well as reviewing others I have read. Opinions will be freely shared both as an interested reader and as a wine professional. These should help you find books that you will enjoy and that are good reference guides. You my also find some to avoid or at least understand how to debunk.


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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration tried Saturday to marshal new evidence in defense of its collection of private Internet and telephone data, arguing that a secret program called Prism is simply an "internal government computer system" designed to sort through court-supervised collection of data, and that Congress has been briefed 13 times on the programs since 2009.
After rushing to declassify some carefully selected descriptions of the programs, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, conceded for the first time that the Prism program existed. But in a statement, after denouncing the leak of the data to The Guardian and The Washington Post, Mr. Clapper insisted it was "not an undisclosed collection or data mining program." Instead, he said it was a computer system to "facilitate" the collection of foreign intelligence that had been authorized by Congress.
Mr. Clapper also insisted that the government "does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers" of telephone and Internet providers, saying that information is turned over only under court order, when there is a "documented, foreign intelligence purpose for acquisition" of the data.
He appeared to be attempting to push back against early reports that the government had direct access to the huge computer servers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook and similar companies. Those firms have denied they give the government a "back door" to their systems.
But they acknowledge handing over material when ordered to do so by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, though they have not described the mechanism for complying with those orders. It appears the companies use some kind of electronic drop box, in which they place the material, so that the government can then harvest the information.
The national intelligence director's rare Saturday statement was notable for what it omitted: any description of other means the government may use to intercept Internet information directly from fiber optic cables or satellite systems even before or after it reaches those Internet companies.
A new report in The Guardian, published online on Saturday, cited another document that showed that in March 2013 there were 97 billion pieces of data collected from networks worldwide; about 14 percent of it was from Iran, much was from Pakistan and about 3 percent came from inside the United States, though some of that may have been foreign data traffic routed through American-based servers.
Meanwhile, senior Obama administration officials, including the directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and of national intelligence, have held 13 classified hearings and briefings for members of Congress since 2009 to explain the broad authority they say they have to sweep up electronic records for national security purposes, a senior administration official said Saturday.
The administration, by disclosing the briefings, sought to push back on claims by Democrats and Republicans in Congress that they were either not aware of programs to mine vast amounts of Internet data and business telephone records or were insufficiently briefed on the details.
Lawmakers said that what they knew was vague and broad — and that strict rules of classification prevented them from truly debating the programs or conducting proper oversight.
In separate but identical letters sent on Oct. 19, 2011, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich told two of Congress's most outspoken critics of the efforts, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, both Democrats, that in December 2009 and February 2011 the Justice Department and intelligence agencies provided a classified document to Congress describing the surveillance efforts in detail.
The letter said the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had been briefed "on these operations multiple times and have had access to copies of the classified" orders and opinions of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Members of the committee were invited to share the information with other lawmakers.
Broader briefings were held in 2011 before the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, the post-Sept. 11 law that authorized much of the surveillance.
"Against this backdrop, we do not believe the executive branch is operating pursuant to 'secret law' or 'secret opinions of the Department of Justice,' " Mr. Weich wrote. "Rather, the intelligence community is conducting court-authorized intelligence activities pursuant to a public statute, with the knowledge and oversight of Congress and the Intelligence Committees of both houses."
On Friday, Mr. Udall and Mr. Wyden released a joint statement repeating that they had "long been concerned about the degree to which this collection has relied on 'secret law.' "
"Senior administration officials have stated on multiple occasions that the Patriot Act's 'business records' authority is 'analogous to a grand jury subpoena,' " they said. They added that "multiple senior officials have stated that U.S. intelligence agencies do not collect information or dossiers on 'millions of Americans,' " assertions that they believe have been contradicted by revelations of Internet data mining and a court order asking a Verizon subsidiary to turn over logs of telephone calls.
"Now that the fact of bulk collection has been declassified, we believe that more information about the scale of the collection, and specifically whether it involves the records of 'millions of Americans,' should be declassified as well," they said.
The list of briefings begins on May 12, 2009, with a classified hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee involving Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the United States Cyber Command, and David S. Kris, assistant attorney general for national security.
On Feb. 14, 2011, all senators were offered the opportunity to discuss the broad authority under the Patriot Act with the director of national intelligence, Mr. Clapper; the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III; and General Alexander. Mr. Mueller spoke to the House Republican Conference on May 13, 2011, and to the House Democratic Caucus on May 24, 2011.
On Feb. 8, 2011, Senators Dianne Feinstein of California, the chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the ranking Republican on the panel, invited every senator to a briefing with Mr. Clapper and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to discuss expiring provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
The provisions — "one on roving authority for electronic surveillance and the other on the acquisition of business records that are relevant to investigations to protect against international terrorism or espionage" — were added to the 1978 law by the Patriot Act.
But Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, draws a distinction between the holding of such briefings and the informed consent of Congress. Very few lawmakers avail themselves of such briefings, he suggested, and only the most senior leaders are kept fully abreast of intelligence activities.
"You can count on two hands the number of people in Congress who really know," he said in an interview on Friday.


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As the people in Iceland are graced with visits by the relics of Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, and soon the great Doctor of the Church Therese herself, it brings to mind the importance of keeping the holy souls of the Communion of Saints tangibly present among us. Far from being talismans or tokens, relics are traces of the very humanity of great, living examples of virtue contained within the bones of our ordinary earthly lives. As cemeteries preserve and celebrate bodily memory, reliquaries preserve an additional glimpse of the holiness possible among those who sincerely strive toward knowing God in the beautiful and intimate gestures for which we remember them.
Iceland's Patron Saint Thorlak once had reliquaries of his bodily remains, preserved in arks adorned with gold and silver and jewels which dazzled the eye and recalled the honor of his achievements as priest, abbot and bishop. These holy relics were both venerated by the faithful and associated with powerful, supernatural miracles of healing and reconciliation. Many perils befell St. Thorlak's reliquary, including devastating fires in the early centuries of the Church. The greatest assault, however, occurred at the time of the Reformation, when zeal clouded reason to the point of ruthless destruction of any tangible reminder of that which had become symbolic of the moral drift, corruption and failings of church leaders, clergy and stewards throughout Europe. Thorlak's relics were decimated along with everything else associated with the Catholic Church, and his sacred remains were scattered across the countryside of Skálholt.
To this day, there are no known relics of St. Thorlak, save for a fragment of bone said to be embedded in the wall of the St. Magnus Cathedral in the Faroe Islands. This relic is verifiably present even today, but is regarded as a preserved historical artifact and not specifically venerated. This precious, tiny fraction of the remains of St. Thorlak is reduced to the level of museum-curiosity, but we can take some consolation in knowing it is at minimum purposely preserved.
No, there are no relics of Iceland's Patron Saint to be venerated as Sts. Therese, Louis and Zelie Martin are celebrated. There is no ark of St. Thorlak to be toured through the monasteries and churches of Iceland to great jubilation and devotion. One might just as well collect a vial of soil from Skálholt, for this is where it is most likely that some microscopic trace of St. Thorlak could be found, if at all; and that simple vial of soil would warrant all the majesty and reverence being shown the bejeweled reliquaries of the other mighty saints who stand with Thorlak and intercede for Iceland before the Heavenly Throne.
Then again, if we focus our reflection on the vessel in which relics are contained, we find to our surprise that St. Thorlak's remains DO have a defined place in which they rest: Iceland. The birth and death of this saint took place on Icelandic soil, which itself is its own island vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean. Thorlak's remains were scattered back to the soil from which he sprang, and thus this vessel, Iceland itself, has been crowned his reliquary. Without the physical ark to contain him, Thorlak rests now in physical Iceland… carried at times by the wind across the plain, or buried under turf, or cascading through the cliffs on waterfall's wings… but never lost, and never far from his people.
Yes, St. Thorlak has his reliquary – his beloved homeland. Iceland is Thorlak's living reliquary, and Icelanders are his living guard. May we remember this with the same reverence and celebration as we approach his feast day in December.
I don't recognize myself, so I can't imagine that you recognize me, either. Oh, I'm sure you do, but I just can't comprehend how. I marvel at how you pick me out of a crowd. I am amazed that you remember what I like, that you know my birthday, that you still want to be my friend even if we haven't seen each other in a long time.
My prayers have been: Show me, Holy Spirit, why I feel so invisible. Show me why my feelings tell me such irrational things, like how I don't matter to groups or why my value goes down based on the number of friends my friends have. Show me why I get angry when I compare myself to others, no matter how much I love them. Show me why I feel paralyzed if I fundamentally disagree with anyone I love. Show me why I never feel like myself around anyone!!!
It is because I don't recognize myself.
I don't know what my persona looks like to you. I don't know what I look like to me, either. I don't know what you see in me because I can't see it in myself. No matter how hard I try to be the best person I can, I don't know if I ever get there, because I don't comprehend myself. I can only use the feedback of people around me.
I can see myself in a mirror, and I can describe my face to you. I can tell you my likes and dislikes. I can tell you what I believe in and what I reject. I can report them all truthfully. By myself, I *am* myself, and that never causes any confusion.
Around others, however, I forget. I see you and think me. I assume that I am supposed to be doing what you are doing, talking the way you talk, liking the things you like. If you exist, then I can only exist by being exactly like you. That seems to be my automatic setting... the faulty switch that kicks me into echolalia. The faulty switch that causes kids with "classic" autism to confuse their pronouns. If everyone is talking about a television show I never watch, I feel obligated to act like I watch it too. I automatically feel like I will be doing something wrong if I stop and say that I don't watch that show. It would feel like dividing by zero. *squint* Am I you, or me?
The closer I feel toward you, the stronger the confusion.
The more I like you, the more it would hurt if you forget me... the more I want to make a lot of noise to make sure you remember me. The more possessive I feel. The more I dread other people coming along who could take my place. Not because I think I'm so important... but because I am so scared of being forgotten.
I am a person with great self-control, so I am good at holding back. And when it comes to relationships, boy, do I hold back. Why? Because I despise all those traits I just described. I would die before I act that way toward anyone. I am a nice person, a true friend, a loving friend who would never consciously be jealous or possessive. So how do I reconcile these feelings? Again, it's like dividing by zero. I love my friends enough not to put them through emotional hoops of reassuring me that I will not be forgotten. If I wait long enough, they usually call me again, or act like they like me. If I have just enough patience, I can see that my worst fears never come true.
I exist strongly in my mind. I am introspective. I daydream. I imagine things all the time. I imagine solutions, or stories, or visual scenes, or analogies that help explain the mysteries of God. But is this real, or just my imagination? Will speaking about my ideas to other people cause them -- or me -- to dissipate into the air? How do I trust that my thoughts remain? Or that I remain? Do I exist only in my imagination?
If I put my entire self into what I do, and it is met with disapproval, will I be obliterated? Or, in everyday terms... if someone disagrees with me, does that always mean I am wrong? Does it disprove my self? It does, if I rigidly define myself based only on the feedback of others.
I depend on social feedback the way people use a mirror to check their physical appearance. If I do something and then get no response, I feel invisible. Or, if I get criticism, I feel like I just put myself at risk for being written off forever. On the other hand, if I have your approval, I know I am still here, and I am safe.
-- It makes me angry sometimes when I do not match you. But: I don't want to be you! I want to be me! And sometimes, I can't do what you do, because I am NOT you. But... if I break off on my own, how will I know if I am doing it right? I can't sense myself, so I have no internal check point. Sometimes it is easier just to copy you, because then I can see tangibly that I am doing okay. But that is ripe soil for resentment.
Once I started recognizing these thought patterns, I saw their irrationality and my Aspie logic kicked in. These fears are just fears, not actual outcomes! With the help of my friends, and good spiritual direction, I have been able to notice more often when these irrational fears act up, and I have addressed them plainly with regular logic. All the evidence over my lifetime has shown that friends have never forgotten me before, so I need to trust that they won't forget me this time, either.
For all the excellent work being done with autistic children in helping them blend in, I pray that there is equal work being done to teach them to recognize themselves. This comes well before self-esteem. We can't LIKE who we are before we KNOW who we are. And, like all other things relating to autism, I mean that very literally.
I often feel unable to express the contents of my mind. I can almost always come close when I write... but rarely when I speak. It feels like there are two distinctly divided modes of my existence: one, which is entirely in my mind, and one which interacts with the world. I think non-autistic people are able to experience their internal and external selves without any conscious effort, whereas my wiring renders my self-concept into compartments. The majority of people in the world experience themselves, fully integrated, unconsciously. My healing and growth depends on how well I can learn to consciously integrate all aspects of my existence... interior and exterior.
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Cast your minds back to November last year and you might recall reading about Silicon Knights being ordered to recall and destroy every game they'd ever made that was built on Unreal Engine 3. This was the result of some lengthy litigation between Silicon and Epic, and in a reversal of fate, it was plaintiff Silicon Knights who came out of court proceedings all battered and bruised.
The development team lost millions thanks to Xbox 360 exclusive Too Human. The game was also one of the casualties of the court ruling. Now, however, it seems as if the "recall and destroy" order extended to digital copies of their games: Too Human has been wiped from Xbox LIVE Games on Demand. In addition to the game being removed from Microsoft's digital store, Gamer Pictures, Dashboard themes and trailers have also been axed.
Microsoft issued the following statement when pushed for clarification by Eurogamer: "Microsoft received a Recall Notice from Silicon Knights for Too Human, and we have removed the game from the Xbox Live Marketplace accordingly. We have no comment regarding, nor involvement with the case between Silicon Knights and Epic." Honestly, after all of this, I'm amazed that Silicon Knights is still standing.
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Vintage Beer Ad: Blatz Beer & Newborn CareWith today's standards of newborn care, this ad certainly straddles the absurd side of advertising. There are hundreds of books dedicated to different strategies and techniques of keeping a newborn happy and healthy. There is even more literature concerning nursing and best practices. When my wife was nursing, she not only stayed away from alcohol, but also excluded high fructose corn syrup, caffeine, and anything that wasn't organic. I am sure beer would not have made it to the I-can-drink-this list.
How stupid do the advertisers of this beer think we are anyway? I love how they simply state, "…obviously baby participates in its benefits." Then they list the two "benefits" as malt and hops. I would think that anyone in their right mind seeing this vintage beer ad would know that beer isn't okay to drink while nursing. I also wonder what benefits malt and hops actually bring; none that I am aware of. Furthermore, if malt and hops were that beneficial, I would think that the two ingredients would be available individually and without the addition of alcohol.
While I'll be the first to tout the benefits of beer, I'll also be the first to question the disadvantages of it. There is a lot of talk about how beer can help produce milk for mothers who have issues with production. However, The Subcommittee on Nutrition During Lactation (1991) found "there is no scientific evidence that consumption of alcoholic beverages has a beneficial impact on any aspect of lactation performance." With this said, at the time of the ads debut, I am sure no studies were done. Still though, I would think that most mother's intuition would be to stay away from beer while nursing regardless of absurdly false advertising.


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In the older SharePoint Days, we were mostly using Server Side Object Model to customize SharePoint. Since the code ran within the main W3WP thread, deployments resulted in brief downtime and increased the risk that came along with untested code. Moreover, Server Side code was not feasible with Office 365 based SharePoint Online implementations. To overcome the sharing of the SharePoint thread by the code, Sand boxed solutions were introduced that executed in its own SPUCWorkerProcess. However, they had their own limitations and are in a deprecated stage now.
Later, SharePoint Add-ins were introduced which leveraged the client side development approach and helped developers deploy solutions to Office 365 SharePoint Online as well as On Premise. In addition to it, the Add-ins were installed in the app web which was separate from the main SharePoint Host web creating the required isolation
SharePoint provides two types of add-ins (Previously Apps)
SharePoint Hosted Add-ins
Used to deploy SharePoint resources like pages, lists, workflows, custom content types, list templates, Web Parts and so on. It cannot contain custom server side object model code but supports REST and JSOM.
Provider Hosted Add-ins
Used to deploy components outside the SharePoint Farm. It can include a web application, web service or database that is deployed outside SharePoint.
In this article we will see how to configure the Add-In environment in a multi-server farm environment so as to get started with SharePoint 2016 Add-In development . We have the below topology in the farm :
The reason why we have the AD Server in the above picture is because we need to create a separate domain as AddIns reside in their own domain knows as AppWeb. A normal HostWeb URL will look like below
However once we have deployed the AddIn, its URL will be of the below format :
Decomposition of the AddIn URL is given below :
One of the benefits of SharePoint add-ins is that they run in their own
isolated domain, unlike the farm solutions that shares the process thread,
resulting in performance risks. So, one of the prerequisites of SharePoint
add-ins is that a domain has to be configured in the DNS. We can add the domain
by going to the DNS configuration tool.
As part of security,
while creating the domain for the app, it should not be a sub-domain of an
existing domain. Say, if we have a domain of the name SharePoint2016.com,
instead of creating Apps.SharePoint2016.com, we should be creating a domain of
the format SharePoint2016Apps.com.
When an add-in is provisioned, it creates a unique domain name, like 23131123asas.SharePoint2016Apps.com, where 23131123asas is the unique identifier for the app. In order for the DNS domain to support these kinds of unique name, we will also have to set up a wildcard Canonical Name (CNAME).The process of setting up the domain and configuring the Add-In Environment can be summed up as,
As the first step, let's create a Forward Lookup Zone. In order to do this, one has to be a domain administrator.
From the DNS Manager, right click 'Forward Lookup Zones' and click on 'New Zone'.
This will start the New Zone Wizard. Click on Next.
Select the zone type as 'Primary' and click on Next.
In the Active Directory Zone Replication Scope page, select the appropriate replication method. By default, it is set as : 'To all DNS servers running on domain controllers in this domain'.
This is the main stage where we get to specify the App Domain Name. Specify the name and click on Next.
Select the required dynamic update option. For Active Directory integrated zones, select 'Allow only secure dynamic updates'.
Thus, we have completed the creation of the Forward
Lookup Zone.
The new zone has come up in the available list of zones.
Now, we can add a wildcard CNAME for the newly
created domain. Right click the newly created zone and select 'New
Specify '*' as the wildcard alias and this will automatically add '*.NewlyCreatedDomainName' as the fully qualified domain name.
we have to specify the FQDN for the target host. In case of a single server environment, Select "Browse" and
go to the Forward Lookup Zone and double click it. Double click the domain that
hosts the SharePoint sites. From there, select the record "same as parent
folder" and click OK. This will work okay in case of a single server environment
However, in case of a multi-server farm like ours, ensure that you point to the DNS Record of the SharePoint server as shown below:
In our case the AD is configured in VM01-AzureAD and the SharePoint Server has the host name SharePoint2016.
So we will navigate to the SharePoin2016 record and select it.
Click on OK.
This completes the setting up of DNS entry. In order to ensure that the newly created domain name is working, we can try pinging it. If it returns an IP with successful delivery of data packets, we can be sure that the wildcard for the domain name was set up successfully.
Ping SharePoint2016.AzureAD.Contoso.com
Before creating the service applications required for starting Add-in development, we will create the managed account that will be assigned to the App Management Service Application. Head over to Security->Configure Managed Accounts
Specify the managed account and password for the account and click on OK. This will provision the managed account.
Once we have set up the DNS entry, we have to set
up the Subscription Settings Service application and the App Management
Service Application. App Management Service Application can be created from the
Central Admin UI which is pretty straight forward.
In order to create the app management service
application, select "Manage service applications" from Application
Management and Select "App Management Service".
It will open up the window where we can specify the Service Application name and database name.
Specify the app pool name and service account that will be used for the service application and click on OK.
This will start provisioning the App Management Service Application.
After some time, you will see the Service
Application created and listed out.
Unlike App Management Service Application. Subscription Settings Service Application cannot be created from UI. Instead we will create it using PowerShell cmdlets as shown below;
Thus, the subscription settings service application has been created.
Now, let's configure the app URL. In order to do
that, go to the Apps section in the Central Administration.
Click on Configure App URLs.
This will open up the page where we can add the app domain and app prefix.
SPjourney.com was the app domain that was created. Specify the app prefix which will come up prepended in the app URL in the browser.In case you face the below error while saving the page, it is an indication that the Subscription Settings Service Application has some configuration issue. Try restarting it.
We can verify the services is running by going to Services on Server page.
Thus we have completed the Add-In Environment configuration. From this point we should be able to create SharePoint Hosted Add-in. However if we have to create High TrustProvider Hosted Add-in, we will have to complete the below two sections as well:
When we are developing highly-trusted Provider Hosted Add-ins, we will be using a self-signed certificate for Add-in authentication. However, in production, we will have to use a third-party provided trust certificate and self-signed certificate is not really an option. Let's see how to generate the self-signed certificate for use with Provider Hosted add-in development.
Spin up IIS Manager and select 'Server Certificates'.
Click on "Create Self-Signed Certificate" from the right window pane.
Specify a name for the certificate.
Click on OK. It will create the certificate which
will be listed in the Server Certificates.
Right click the certificate and click on Export.
Specify the export location and the password. This
will export a '.pfx' file in the specified location.Ensure to safely store the certificate password as it will be needed during Provider Hosted AddIn development.
Now, we have to generate the '.cer' file. Double
click the recently created certificate.
From the details section, click on 'Copy to File'.
This will open up the Certificate Export Wizard.
Choose not to export the Private key and click on Next.
Select DER Encoded Binary X.509 format and proceed.
Specify the export location and click on Next.
This will generate a .cer file in the export location.
Once we have the certificates, Copy the certificate to SharePoint Server.
As the final step, we will have to create SPTrustedSecurityTokenIssuer using the copied certificates. The token issuer is responsible for creating authentication tokens using the High Trust Certificate.
Run Get-SPTrustedSecurityTokenIssuer to get the id of the Token Issuer and keep it safe as we will be re using the same ID while creating any Provider Hosted Add Ins. Here the Issuer ID is e66d3aab-f5dc-44a4-85ac-d707d02f6d79. It is the first part that precedes the @ sign in the RegisteredIssuerName value
To ensure that the Add-In environment configuration was completed successfully, we can create a dummy empty SharePoint Hosted Add-In. If it is successfully added to the SharePoint Site, we can be sure that the configuration was successful. Lets see some of the common issues :
One of the causes for this error is insufficient permission to the Central Admin and Configuraiton database. So provide dbowner rights to both the databases.
The user should have SPDataAccess role membership in the App Management service application. Else we might get the below error message while deploying the app.
We can get more details of the error from the ULS logs.
In case of authentication issues, identify the database and grant the required permissions.
This occurs because the sideloading feature is not enabled in the site. This is a default behavior to prevent unintended app deployment in the production servers.
We can enable the side loading feature by running the below commands :
$site = Get-SPSite "http://sharepoint2016:50001"
$sideLoadingId = new-object System.Guid "ae3a1339-61f5-4f8f-81a7-abd2da956a7d"
Thus we saw how to configure the environment for SharePoint/Provider Hosted Add-in development in SharePoint Server 2016. In the upcoming article we will see how to create Provider Hosted Add-in and Remote Event Receivers.
About Author
Priyaranjan is a SharePoint Consultant and Microsoft MVP with 10 years experience in developing and deploying SharePoint Applications.He has worked on various SharePoint iterations starting from MOSS 2007 through SharePoint 2016 and Office 365. He is a frequent contributor at Microsoft TechNet and has won 33 Gold Medals in various TechNet Wiki Guru Monthly Competitions.As a token of appreciation for the TechNet community activities, he was interviewed by Microsoft Program Manager,Ed Price. He has also published 300 Articles and 4 SharePoint Ebooks in different technical communities.You can find his Microsoft TechNet contributions here


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Erik Janssen (1966) studied at the conservatory of Amsterdam, trumpet with Peter Masseurs principal trumpet player of the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra and conducting with Danny Oosterman.
He started as freelance trumpet player, and played with the Dutch Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, Royal Ballet Orchestra, Amsterdam Wind Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra and many more. Erik conducted wind bands, fanfare bands, big bands, musicals, symphony orchestras, and teached at several music schools.
He was invited to give conducting master classes at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Groningen At the moment he is Musical Director, Brassband "De Spijkerpakkenband" , Koninklijke Harmoniekapel Delft and "Het Noord Nederland Jeugd Orkest" , (North Netherlands Youth Wind Orchestra) and his local town Fanfare Band OG Krommenie. Besides his conducting career he is managing director of the FEMU. Erik is professional conductor of the Carlton Main Frickly Colliery band in Yorkshire GB from May 2016 . Their first cooperation led to the victory in the Grand Shield competition in blackpool 2016. He was the first European conductor to win this trophy and the conductors award in the 96 years of history From 2006 – 2016 Erik was conductor of the professional military band of the Koninklijke Marechaussee. The period 2008- 2015 Erik was very successful with Brassband Schoonhoven winning all contest in Holland and Belgium in the period 2010-2013. A unique series of 8 wins in 8 competitions.
Erik conducted 5 times at the European Brassband Championship, and always had a top 6 finish. At the European Championship 2012 the winning own choice performance of Audivi Media Nocte of Oliver Waespi awarded with 99 points was a absolute highlight.
Erik Janssen is a Yamaha artist. From June 2016 Erik is managing director of the FEMU. From 1986 Erik works as Artistic Director at Molenaar Edition Music Publishers. In the past years he produced over 50 cd's with windband, fanfare band and brass band music. Erik was invited to performed in a lot of countries such as England, Scotland, Belgium, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, France, Switzerland, Finland, Portugal, Sweden, Norway and Austria. 2013-2016 was a good year period for the first division band "de Spijkerpakkenband". They ended runner up in the Dutch 1st division Brassband Championship 2013 and 2015, won this competition in2014 , they won the world music contest in Kerkrade 1st division brass band section in 2013. In 2015 the band won the Survento brass festival, and in 2016 they where the winners of the Flemish open 1st division. Erik visited several wind and brass -bands as guest conductor.
Last years he worked with Banda Amizade in Aveiro Portugal, Whitburn Brassband in Scotland, Woodfalls Brassband, the Paris Brassband, Manger Musikklag, the Swiss National youth band. Erik will lead several bands in the UK in 2016 and he will be on stage at the Grand Shield competition, The National Brassband Championships in the Royal Albert Hall and the Open English Brassband Championships in the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. In 2016 Erik was conductor of the European Youth Brassband in Lille, France. As adjudicator Erik was invited in Norway, Switzerland, France.
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The Librarian of Congress ruled in October of 2012 that certain actions involving mobile phones were illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The rules were revised to state that while it is legal to jailbreak smartphones, it is illegal to jailbreak tablets and illegal to unlock phones without permission from your wireless provider. A 90-day window was put in place that allowed consumers to purchase a phone and unlock it, however that window closes on January 26th. Note that jailbreaking is different from unlocking. Jailbreaking opens the phone up to run additional software. That will still be legal for smartphones after January 26th. Unlocking removes the restriction tying a phone to a particular carrier freeing the user to use a carrier of their choice.
However, the deadline is meaningless to some. For example, both Apple and Verizon sell unlocked iPhone 5s for a hefty unsubsidized price while AT&T will unlock a phone once it is out of contract. In any case, if you want to legally unlock your smart phone, now is the time to do it legally.