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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Federal investigators say scammers have been targeting families on the brink of losing their homes.
As prosecutors put it, we're talking about a tidal wave of crime against vulnerable homeowners. In our area alone, the cases involve thousands of alleged victims and losses exceeding $9 million.
"The sheer impact of foreclosures and the fraud it's generated in our communities is simply devastating," FBI Special Agent Herb Brown said.
Prosecutors say foreclosure fraud could be more prevalent in Northern California than anywhere else.
"More defendants were charged with federal mortgage fraud crimes in this district than any other district in the country," said Benjamin Wagner, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District.
That's saying something when you see the staggering numbers released Tuesday from the year-long "distressed homeowner initiative." Multiple federal agencies combined efforts.
Nationwide, 530 defendants are charged for alleged schemes involving 73,000 victims defrauded out of more than $1 billion.
"Behind the numbers there are true stories and true victims. They can be your neighbors, they can be your family members, they can be your co-workers," Brown said.
Locally, one scheme promised to reduce home loans by 75 percent. A Roseville duo is accused of targeting Spanish speakers with TV and radio ads. A statewide scam promised to find investors to buy mortgages at discounts.
The common theme: all demanded money up front but never delivered. Prosecutors promise their crackdown is far from over.
"More investigations are under way and we expect that more prosecutions will arise as a result of the initiative that was started in the past year," Wagner said.
Unfortunately, as is the case in most fraud cases, even after conviction prosecutors say the chance of victims getting their money back is very small.


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Fans of Trenna Keating's work on "Defiance", as the character Doc Yewll, were able to learn more about the enigmatic Indogene during episode 17, which aired on Thursday night.
Keating, a former Weyburn local, has appeared in 15 episodes as a recurring character. "Defiance" is at the halfway point of its second season, and is aired on Showcase in Canada and Syfy in the United States.
There is only one more recurring character who has appeared in more episodes, as Dewshane Williams has appeared as Tommy LaSalle in 17 episodes. Out of the main cast, Grant Bowler as Joshua Nolan, Julie Benz as Amanda Rosewater and Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nyira all have appeared in 17 episodes. Both Tony Curran as Datak Tarr and Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr have both appeared in 15 episodes as main cast.
During the seventh annual Constellation awards, presented on July 5, "Defiance" was the voted second in the Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2013 category, and in Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Sci-Fi Film or Television in 2013. Keating herself was nominated for Best Female Performance in a 2013 Science Fiction Television Episode, and received eight per cent of the vote. The winner in that category was Tatiana Maslany from "Orphan Black".
While not revealing too much about the plot of the episode, it was the first time that two Indogene characters spoke to each other in their native tongue. Their language was crafted to be pragmatic and economical.
Trenna spoke about some of her experiences from filming the second season, including having her character imprisoned.
"I loved Camp Reverie! But it was August and unbearably hot. Temperature is always a concern for me and I was essentially wearing a sweat suit with not a single inch of my body exposed. I was even locked into prosthetic hands in those episodes so claustrophobia was fully kicking in, but in a way, I guess its added to the feeling of being in hell!"
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A few new characters were introduced for season two, and they are definitely making things interesting. Keating said, "It feels like they have been there all along. They have just jumped in and stole our hearts."
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We have been blogging about the same problems and problem patterns we see while working with our customers over the past few of years. There have always been the classic application performance landmines in the areas of inefficient database access, misconfigured frameworks, excessive memory usage, bloated web pages and not following common web performance best practices among others.
More than two years ago we posted summary blogs of the Top Server-Side Performance Problems and the Top 10 Client-Side Performance Problems to give operations, architects, testers and developers easy-to-consume best practices. We feel that it is time to provide an update to these best practices as new problem patterns have since come into play. We also want to cover more than just problems that happen within your application by broadening the scope across the entire Application Delivery Chain. This includes all components between your end user and your back-end systems, databases and third-party services. The following illustrates which components are involved and what the typical errors are along the delivery chain.
Delivering an application to the end user has become more complex as it involves more components than ever before. This also leaves a lot of room for mistakes that impact end-user experience.
Let's now dig a little deeper in some of the highlighted problem areas. The following lists our Top Performance Landmines that have been reported by our customers such as BonTon and Swarovski. Other companies include those in the financial services industry, manufacturing industry and energy industry among others. To make it easier for you to decide which landmines to read we also added the target audience for each problem area.
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Often companies focus on optimizing the performance of the applications they deliver by tuning the code, reducing SQL overhead, implementing application caching, and other items that are, for the most part, invisible to the customer using the application. However, all of this effort and activity can go completely unnoticed if the content being delivered to customers is bloated and inefficient.
Sources we track show that the average page delivered to customers has been steadily increasing in size and complexity over the last 3-4 years as well as customers' expectations of performance. This continuous conflict of business vs customer expectations needs to be understood in order to be effectively managed. What companies need to realize is that what they consider to be fast and efficient doesn't really matter. If the customers using the site believe that the site is slow and hard to use, they won't use it and they will tell their friends about their poor experience.
Comparing your performance to top competitors in your industry as well as Internet leaders helps you set performance goals that can be achieved over time. Additionally, understanding why your customers leave your site can help you resolve customer experience issues: Is it a particular subset of customers who leave? Which page caused them to leave? Is there an application function on that page that is bloated and slow?
Comparing your site against peers in the same industry will help you understand where you rank.
Using caching, compression, CDNs, and a critical eye that asks questions about every new image, function, and feature you add, you can trim the weight of your site and deliver a better customer experience.
We discuss the performance degradation that can be traced to bloated front ends and how this affects site performance in Performance Improvement is not Performance Optimization and Super Bowl Sunday 2013 - Winners, Losers, and Casualties.
Slow Third-Party Content and CDNs
Audience: Operations, Architects, Testers
Focusing on your own content can leave you exposed to performance issues that originate outside your organization. With companies adding more content from third-party sources to their site, managing application performance becomes increasingly complex, even when these services are designed to improve performance.
During peak performance events over the last 12 months - holiday shopping season and the Super Bowl - two primary trends were seen: third-party services were overwhelmed when more than one of their customers reached peak traffic simultaneously and CDNs buckled under flash loads that were far larger than even the busiest days their customers typically experience.
Third-party services are here to stay. It is far easier to sign a contract with an advertising firm to help you optimize the display of ads on your site than to try and design such a system yourself. Items such as analytics, social media, web fonts, and popular JavaScript libraries are often drawn from services you don't directly control, but rely on to work efficiently and reliably at all times. When these external services have an issue, it's your brand that takes the customer experience hit, not the third party.
Monitoring and managing third parties means treating them as unique applications, with their own baselines and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). It sometimes means asking tough questions of these services, such as:
- Have you load tested your systems to see what happens when three of your largest customers experience peak traffic simultaneously?
- What is the escalation path we should follow with your team when we discover a performance issue that is affecting our customers?
- How well did your system perform during the eight busiest hours over the last 12 months, not just the average performance?
Monitor the impact of slow third-party and CDN content on your page load time.
Finally, your team needs to be prepared for the scenario where a third-party service or CDN suffers a severe outage or begins to seriously degrade your site performance. Always have a Plan B, C, etc. that gives you the ability to mitigate the issue. These plans could include removing third-party tags, images, and content from your site entirely during peak traffic, load balancing between multiple CDNs, moving content to a secondary cloud provider, all the way to switching to a simple bare bones site that removes all rich media until traffic returns to a normal level.
Unless you know how third parties affect your performance, there is no way for you to manage them effectively. Once you manage your third parties, you can take control of all aspects of your site performance.
More on third-party services and their effects on application performance is covered in: You only control 1/3 of your Page Load Performance!, Third Party Content Management applied: Four steps to gain control of your Page Load Performance!, The Ripple Effect of Facebook's Outage, Third-Party Issues and the Performance Ripple Effect, and Website's Vulnerability to Third-Party Services Exposed.
We also discuss third parties, most notably CDN performance in: Super Bowl Sunday 2013 - Winners, Losers, and Casualties, and Why Bon Ton needs real-time visibility into 85% of its content delivered by Akamai.
Wrong Usage of Frameworks
Audience: Architects, Developers
The following screenshot shows that Hibernate executes the same SQL query multiple times instead of caching the result from the first query. This happens in case Hibernate has not been configured correctly to perform optimally for your specific needs:
Loading a person two times in a row, but no session cache involved
Finally, frameworks get constantly updated to improve functionality but also improve performance and stability. You want to watch out for these updates and also update your implemented framework version to benefit from the improvements. We have seen cases where, e.g., jQuery was never updated leaving websites with bad performance on older browsers and sometimes even on newer browsers when older versions of jQuery didn't leverage the capabilities of the latest IE, FF, Chrome or Safari browsers.
Long-running CSS Class Name Lookups contribute about 80% to the Client-Side Load Time.
If you want to read more about common problems when using these types of frameworks check out our blogs series on Hibernate (The Session Cache, The Query Cache, Second Level Cache), the Top SharePoint Performance Mistakes or the 101 on jQuery Selector Performance.
Network Infrastructure Problems
Audience: Operations, Architects, Testers
Network infrastructure is an important component of every successful business operation. Performance problems experienced by end users can have various origins. The operation teams need Application Performance Monitoring solutions that will enable them to isolate fault domains effortlessly and quickly.
Sometimes the answer is not obvious and performance problems can end up in a "war room" between infrastructure and application providers. The team needs to analyze whether the problem is present at all locations where the application is executed. In certain cases, the performance problems might be caused by external infrastructure used by some users.
Performance problems can be pretty costly. According to the report by the Aberdeen Group they can reduce revenue by 9% and productivity by 64%. When our services are based on the SAP infrastructure the costs can rise to even $15,000 per every minute of a service downtime. Even though SAP provides tools to monitor its components, the proper APM solution should deliver a holistic view over the entire infrastructure. Only then can the Operations team tell whether it is a problem with SAP components that were quite an investment to deploy or it's an infrastructure problem that's not related to the SAP or any application.
Overview of SAP tier with top most under-performing modules and most affected users
The most obvious hints on whether this is a network or an application problem can be seen by checking for the Network and Server time outliers compared to the values of the baseline traffic. But eyeballing the reports is not enough to avoid problems. The first step toward proactive application performance management is to learn to respond promptly to alerts triggered by the APM tool when key measures go outside of the usual range.
Cloud Gotchas
Audience: Operations, Architects
"The Cloud" comes with a great promise: endless resources for endless scalability and performance when I need it. This eliminates the need to buy a lot of hardware that sits idle most of the time but is only used during peak traffic periods. It also allows me to scale and perform far beyond what is expected without needing to wait for additional hardware to ship.
But there are some gotchas: throwing hardware at an application that is not designed to scale in a cloud environment won't leverage the possibilities that the cloud provides. In fact, it often ends up being a very costly endeavor. One must also understand that The Cloud - unless we talk about a private cloud setting - is an environment that is not owned by you. Direct access to the underlying hardware is not as easy as if the hardware is located in the next room, which makes troubleshooting or monitoring much harder. The cloud is also not just an endless resource pool of CPU, Memory or Disk On-Demand. It provides lots of other services such as storage, messaging and more which one must understand and monitor for performance, as these services are key components of your application.
It is recommended to live monitor cloud instance usage and cost in order to not fall into a cost trap
Relating to these problem areas you want to read the following blog posts: Managing Hybrid Cloud Environments, Analyzing Performance of Windows Azure Storage, Why Performance Monitoring is easier in Public than onPremise Clouds and Monitoring your Clouds.
Too Many Database Calls
Audience: Architects, Testers, Developers
Database Access is the problem we see the most within the application. It is nothing new - but - as we still see it on almost every application we work with, it is critical enough to mention it again. The first lesson learned is that the blame is often not on the database side but on the access patterns of the application to the database. All too often we see a single web request that queries thousands of database statements. There are multiple reasons for it: fetching too much data beyond just the data that is needed or inefficient fetching of data that then gets aggregated and computed in the application rather than in a stored procedure. What is really interesting is that we see this problem pattern not only in distributed applications running on modern application servers. We also see it on "legacy" applications such as VB6 or even the mainframe. The following screenshot highlights the transaction flow of an enterprise application that calls the mainframe. The mainframe transaction makes 225 SQL executions per transaction. A closer look typically reveals that the same statements are called hundreds of times due to the reasons mentioned above:
The Transaction Flow highlights how services interact with each other including the number of interactions to DB2 which indicate a potential architectural and performance problem.
Besides these access pattern problems we also see individual statements that take a long time to execute. In this case, it is important to not only focus on the database to optimize statements by tweaking indices or the like, it's also important to analyze whether these queries can be optimized from within the application. We often see that too much data is retrieved from the database, which first gets parsed by the application (using extra memory) and is then thrown away (more GC activity). Another landmine is misconfigured connection pools or application code that holds on to connections too long and ends up blocking other threads from accessing the database.
The following screenshot shows the database queries executed by a single transaction, most of them taking very long to execute. The fix to this problem was to optimize these statements in both the application and in the database:
The architects in this case started by optimizing SQL statements that took a long time to execute and those that got executed several times within the same transaction.
For further reading check out our blogs with more detailed background on these problem patterns such as Don't let your load balancers ruin your holiday business or Saving MIPS and Money. For connection pool problems we also have one interesting blog named The reason I don't monitor connection pool usage.
Big Data Not Optimized
Audience: Operations, Architects, Testers, Developers
The amount of data that we and our applications have to process is constantly growing. Big Data solutions (NoSQL, MapReduce...) provide new approaches to storing and processing large amount of data. But as with every technology it needs to be used in an optimized way to fit your specific needs. It is a misconception that you can simply process more data by adding additional resources to, e.g., a MapReduce cluster in order to speed up data processing. This only works if you have implemented your jobs in a way that allows them to scale. The same is true for accessing data from a NoSQL database. The same problems we see with relational databases also apply to accessing data in Big Data solutions. If you make inefficient queries or more queries than necessary, you are going to impact performance.
The following screenshot highlights a transaction that spends most of its time in MongoDB. A closer look into this revealed that the framework used to access MongoDB made a call to a size method of the cursor that then executed an additional query to MongoDB, which was totally unnecessary. In this example, eliminating that call reduced roundtrips to MongoDB and improved overall transaction performance by 15x:
Transactions that call JourneyCollection.getCount spend nearly half their time in MongoDB.
If you are using Big Data technologies such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, or the like I suggest following up with the following blog posts that explain some of the problem patterns and highlight best practices: MongoDB Anti-Pattern, NoSQL vs Traditional Databases, Inside Cassandra Write Performance and What we can Learn from Cassandra Pagination. Also check out 15x Performance Improvements for Pig+HBase.
Undetected Memory Leaks
Audience: Architects, Testers, Developers
Memory and Garbage Collection problems are still very prominent issues in any enterprise application. One of the reasons is that the very nature of Garbage Collection is often misunderstood. Besides the traditional memory-related problems such as high memory usage, wrong cache usage strategies, we also see memory issues related to class loading, large classes or native memory. The following screenshot shows the problem of having single objects consuming a lot of memory. Not that this is a bad idea if necessary - but too often this happens because information is kept in memory for no apparent reason and with that consuming memory that is not available for others.
Single Object that is responsible for a big portion of the memory being leaked
Traditional memory leaks often lead to out of memory exceptions and typically to crashes of the virtual machines. This has a negative impact on the end user as the current context of user sessions and active transactions might be lost.
High memory usage on the other hand can result in high garbage collection, which has a direct impact on end user response time. Transactions that are suspended because of long running garbage collection processing can be optimized by tweaking garbage collection settings as well as being less "wasteful" with memory.
Even problems related to wrong implementations of equals/hashcode can lead to memory problems. To address this problem we wrote a full chapter on Memory Management in our Java Enterprise Performance book that explains concepts like How Garbage Collection works, Difference between JVMs, GC Tuning, High Memory Usage and the Root Cause, Class Load Related Problems and more. We have also blogged about specific memory scenarios - check out the following blogs: Memory Monitoring in WebSphere Environments, GC Bottlenecks in Heterogeneous Environments, Leak Detection in Production Environments, Top Memory Problems - Part I and Part II.
More to Come...
These landmines are some highlights with links to more detailed blog posts. As we continue to blog about these problem patterns, we plan to compile a second list of problems later this year. Keep watching our blog for more information and check out our online book on Java Enterprise Performance.
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Ask Colin James how he feels about being inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame on March 21 and his answer is like the man himself: straight to the point.
"I guess that after 25 years of touring this country and playing my music, I must have made some sort of impression on the folks who were listening."
His latest album, Twenty Five Live, being released March 19, was recorded at the legendary Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver and it shows a man at the top of his game.
James's longevity is the exception in a business where burnouts are the rule.
Some call him a bluesman with a gift for rock, others classify him as a roots musician who likes to dip into swing. James doesn't feel the need for any such labels.
"Swing, blues, rock, they're all me," says the relaxed 48 year-old from his home in Vancouver. "It's all my own personal taste. I listen to a lot of stuff and then I want to play it as well."
James came by his eclectic tastes honestly. He was born Colin James Munn in Regina in 1964, to parents he describes as "really musical. One of my very first memories is sitting on the floor of a local pizza place listening to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee when I was 8. There I was, not five feet in front of them, listening to a pair of classic Delta blues musicians. Any wonder I grew up lovin' the blues?"
But when it's suggested that Regina was a strange place to encounter such a hip duo, James rises to his hometown's defence.
"Regina was a really cool place back then. It was a centre of counterculture, full of writers, musicians, potters, artists. Quite a flourishing scene. I was only 13 when this group of musicians in their 30s took me on and I toured all over the place with them, playing my mandolin."
With wisdom beyond his years, the young James reckoned that the itinerant prairie music scene offered him more than a conventional education.
"What's high school, anyway? Just a bunch of kids being mean to each other. I hung out with people who were playing music and I fit right in. You're young and you've got all this energy and you're soaking it all in because, hell, at that age, you've got nothing else in your life."
But James admits, "I finally got to a point in my life when I thought I was missing out on something by not hanging with kids my own age. So at 16, I tried it and after one week I ended up in a car accident with doctors picking glass out of my back.
"Three years on the road with musicians twice my age without a scratch. One week with my peers and I almost bought it. Go figure."
James broke out in a totally different direction, striking out on his own for one last side trip before finding his real musical groove.
"I went to Winnipeg for a while, then spent a year and a half in Montreal. So broke, feeling out of sorts, playing the subways, playing the street corners, wondering what I'd do next.
"Then I got a call from Saskatoon. They needed a musician for a play they were doing called The Smiling Jack Rivers Show at 25th Street House Theatre. I got on a plane, flew back to the prairies and became an actor."
Much to his surprise, James liked it and stayed on for a few more shows.
"You have to understand, those were the first regular paycheques I'd ever had in my life: $700 a week! And I got to work for the most amazing director, Janet Wright."
Wright has been a veteran Canadian stage performer for more than 40 years, but she only achieved stardom in the last decade as the ornery Emma Leroy on Corner Gas, where James made a guest appearance in gratitude for her helping him out at the start of his career.
"If you're going to have a first director, it had better be Janet. She was so strong and funny and she always had a flask in her purse," he recalls. "I learned the big difference between acting and music is that actors always have a script, but when you're a musician, man, you've got to make something out of nothing."
And that was the path James decided to take.
He formed a group called The Hoodoo Men and lightning struck when they opened for the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan, who took a shine to them, to James in particular.
It was Vaughan who encouraged James to drop his last name, Munn, because he said it sounded like "mud" coming over the loudspeakers. After a few years of playing in the big leagues, James felt ready to strike out on his own, which he did with his self-titled album Colin James in 1988, which made a huge impact and gave him several chart-topping singles.
But never one to stick to his last, James founded the Little Big Band in 1993, which launched him on nearly a decade of swing material. Recent years have found him venturing back into rock and he says, "I think it's time to hit the blues again" when asked what's around the bend.
James is not one for tabloid headlines or celebrity hijinks, having been happily married for 22 years with a son and daughter he dotes on.
"I'm just lucky I met someone who had similar values to mine," is how he explains it. "I think the thing I'm proudest of is that I've put out 16 albums in 25 years and raised a family as well.
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And as for the future, James sees more of the same and that prospect makes him happy.
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"To this day, I remain impressed by how physically present his talent always was."
"I appreciate the fact that he's allowed himself to follow his own direction, good or bad, right or wrong."
"To rise above adversity the way he did and still play with such genius took real courage."
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say Tuesday whether he thinks it's appropriate to try self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York civilian court, not far from the site of the attack.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say Tuesday whether he thinks it's appropriate to try self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York civilian court, not far from the site of the attack.
Prodded by Sen. John McCain to say if he agreed with Attorney General Eric Holder's choice on prosecution strategy, Gates replied that he thought Holder was better suited than he to make that decision.
The Arizona Republican also pressed Gates at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to say whether he agreed with the Obama administration's decision to question the suspect in an attempted U.S. airliner bombing for only 50 minutes, with civilian interrogators, before reading the man his Miranda right to remain silent.
Gates said "I think we did not have the high-level interrogators there that we now have protocols in place" to assure their presence. But he added: "I believe that a team of highly experienced FBI and other interrogators could be as effective in interrogating the prisoner as anyone operating under the (Army) field manual."
McCain asked Gates if he agreed with an assertion by Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, that better, more complete or more useful information might have been gleaned from the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, if he had been subjected to a more intense style of interrogation.
"I'm just not in a position to know the answer to that, senator," Gates replied. But he did reply, "Yes," when asked if he thought a special group of more qualified interrogators, members of the High Value Interrogation Group, should have been present.
McCain said that Holder "has obviously botched this thing very, very badly," and said he would continue to question how the man's interrogation was handled.
Asked by Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., why the United States restricted questioning of the suspect in the attempted airliner bombing of Dec. 25 when it typically places no such limit on interrogation of terrorism suspects taken off the battlefield, Gates said, "That's a question better addressed to the attorney general, sir."
"My view," he added, "is that the issue of whether someone is put into the American judicial system or into the military commissions is a judgment best made by the chief law enforcement officer of the United States."
Gates did say that authority currently exists in the law to provide "delays in Mirandizing" suspects if cases where a person "is deemed to be a threat to national security."
"I just think that we are in a good place when you have the ability to use both the civilian court system and the military commissions and to be able to make decisions about how to prosecute an individual on a case by case basis," the secretary said.
Gates also said that Holder had consulted him on Abdulmutallab and that he had told Holder that "I would defer to him on that."
On the issue of putting Mohammed on trial in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he has been in continuing talks with the administration about it.
"I was in Washington all day Saturday and in the middle of the day spent some time with very senior officials in the White House," he said. Bloomberg said he told federal officials that "if called on, we will provide security. We'd like them to pay for it, but we will do that. That's our obligation."
He also said such a trial likely would "be disruptive and expensive" and said that "personally we would - or, I'm speaking on most people here - we'd prefer if it were elsewhere."
"But it's up to the federal government what kind of trial and where and we will do whatever is required," Bloomberg said.
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