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I'd like to thank Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Payne for the invitation to testify today, and I'd like to commend both of you for your leadership in our fight against modern slavery. As we approach the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, I look forward to working with you and your colleagues on crafting an effective bill that will sustain the United States' anti-trafficking efforts.
More than 10 years ago, a group of women who had been enslaved in the commercial sex trade testified before this committee. As a federal prosecutor, I had the honor of speaking as these women's voice in court, and we succeeded in putting their abuser behind bars. But before Congress, the women spoke for themselves and told us all that we could do more. We needed to seek out the victims of modern-day slavery, offer them stronger protections, and bring traffickers to justice. Their voices and their courage helped lead the way to the path-breaking legislation that updated our century-and-a-half old anti-slavery laws and renewed the United States' commitment to the fight against emerging, modern forms of slavery.
A decade later, we find ourselves at a point to ask, "What lies ahead?" In the last 10 years, we have seen more than 130 countries enact modern anti-trafficking laws consistent with the 3P Paradigm of prevention, protection and prosecution originally enshrined in the UN Palermo Protocol. More victims are being identified, more prosecutions are taking place, and we have begun to forge effective partnerships among governments, the private sector, and civil society that will improve our ability to prevent and respond to this crime.
Across our country, states from Washington and Hawaii to Vermont and Tennessee are among the most recent to pass anti-trafficking legislation that tracks with the TVPA. We hope in the next year to see universal adoption of modern anti-trafficking statutes by all states and territories.
I am personally proud of the progress we have made in combating modern slavery. Having worked on the original TVPA and subsequent reauthorizations, I know all too well that while nobody favors human trafficking, good people who care deeply sometimes disagree about how best to fight this crime. Mr. Chairman, you have worked to bring together those diverse voices and ensure that the United States continues to innovate and drive meaningful change to combat trafficking. Indeed, the careful compromises that you helped shepherd in 2008 ensured that both the TVPA's definition of trafficking in persons and the application of minimum standards tracked international norms. They have enabled us to credibly advance the fight against contemporary forms of slavery both overseas and here at home. There is no doubt that more can and should be done, but the challenges before us may not be as much issues of authorization so much as the often more difficult activities of implementation. As Congress considers reauthorization this year, the vision of the TVPA and the carefully crafted compromises of the 2008 bill deserve the continued support of this body.
Today I hope to outline a range of promising practices and forward-looking innovations that will help governments live up to the commitments they have made and shape the next 10 years as a decade of delivery.
As has been the case throughout the early years of this movement, strong and effective government action will continue to be central to this fight. Our best tool for assessing those efforts is the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report. This report currently ranks more than 180 countries, including the United States, according to a set of minimum standards set forth by Congress in the TVPA and consistent with the 3P Paradigm. In the report every country is ranked against itself in terms of its progress, and against its capacity to deal with this crime. A particularly relevant example for this subcommittee is the case of Nigeria. Though that country lacks the capacity of many countries in the developed world, its government has nonetheless developed innovative structures and partnerships for dealing with this crime. For the last 2 years, Nigeria has merited placement on Tier 1in our report. I was happy to learn that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has asked a Nigerian delegation to demonstrate their innovative practices at a conference in Singapore next month.
Leaders around the world have credited the Report as a motivating factor for government action. As Congress considers reauthorization, it is important that we maintain and strengthen this diagnostic and diplomatic tool.
To determine rankings, the Report looks to government action as opposed to the successes of civil society or NGOs in a particular country, because governments must not outsource their responsibility for combating trafficking. The first steps a government must take in the fight against modern slavery are to acknowledge that the problem exists and to pass laws that criminalize all forms of human trafficking and prescribe sentences commensurate with the severity of the crime. Again, much of the international community has laid this groundwork, but now it is incumbent upon governments around the world to go farther. Moving forward, our measure of success—whether we are assessing foreign governments or our own—can no longer be just whether a governmental enactment of a law that looks good on paper, but whether that law is implemented broadly and effectively.
All governments can and must do more. Even if a country has a well established rule of law and sufficient economic resources, that does not mean its government can stand by and presume that the mere existence of an anti-trafficking law will be adequate to meet this challenge. In such cases where general legal and social systems function well, we must ask whether those systems are serving the victims of this crime, or excluding them. Victims are often unwilling or unable to self-identify, and because of cultural expectations or unfamiliarity with their rights, many do not even know they are victims of trafficking. That's why it is incumbent upon such governments not only to aggressively prosecute traffickers, but to couple effective law enforcement with robust victim identification and protection efforts, and proactive attempts to prevent this crime.
Effective implementation of a legal framework also means refining and strengthening available tools to adapt to a growing and changing understanding of modern slavery. For instance, in recent years we have learned about the particular vulnerability to trafficking among migrant populations, and the practices of unscrupulous labor recruiters who may move their victims across borders. We have recognized the widespread sexual abuse experienced by women in labor trafficking. While governments in the receiving countries must prosecute traffickers, engage in careful screening of potential victims, and protect survivors, it is also necessary for governments in sending countries to crack down on fraudulent recruitment practices. The future of this struggle must be informed by our evolving knowledge of this crime and the different ways to fight it.
Of course, we know that prosecution alone will never be enough to provide justice to the victims of trafficking; that requires a comprehensive system of victim services that ensures survivors are able to return to society. Around the world, governments struggle to identify victims, and fewer victims have access to the programs necessary to deliver the support and resources they need after being liberated from enslavement. In the United States, Federal Government agencies partner with nongovernmental organizations throughout the nation, including the territories, to help ensure that victims of trafficking receive the benefits and services they need to restore their lives and achieve self-sufficiency. In addition to these successful efforts, we—like all countries—can and must do more. And so, pursuant to Congress's mandate in the TVPA to "measure and evaluate progress of the United States and other countries in the areas of trafficking prevention, protection, and assistance to victims of trafficking," Secretary Clinton asked the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to pay particular attention to this critical issue over the coming year.
Beyond traditional approaches to the 3Ps, in the years ahead, private-public partnerships will give us new ways of looking at this crime and new, sophisticated ways of fighting it. Recent innovations and commitments from the private sector have given us renewed hope of making inroads when it comes to prevention.
Prevention has long been the afterthought of the 3Ps in comparison to its seemingly more tangible counterparts of prosecution and protection. Prevention has either been relegated to the realm of poster campaigns in airports and train stations, or regarded as an abstract goal tied to massive structural problems such as gender inequality and poverty. That thinking is quickly changing, and that change must begin by considering the way those of us in the United States interact with trafficking on a day-to-day basis, which we all do. Forced labor is prevalent in the production of a wide range of raw materials, from cotton and chocolate and coffee to steel and rubber and tin. All of us come in contact with products tainted by labor trafficking, and even reputable and responsible corporate citizens can profit from abuse. It is this knowledge that has enabled us in recent years to focus on the importance of supply chain monitoring and to call for increased leadership from the private sector.
Consumer spending and corporate investment in business are significant motivators that can turn around a system that has allowed traffickers and economies to operate with impunity. There is an increasing push for consumer transparency, certification, and more rigorous regulation. Research suggests companies investing in fair labor practices and labeling their products accordingly improve conditions on the ground and drive up the demand for their products.
A new push for corporate accountability is emerging, which demands companies focus their attentions beyond the places where their products are manufactured or processed, and look additionally at the sources of their human capital and the methods of recruitment tied to their supply chains, as well as the places where the raw materials are collected, harvested, or mined. Effective supply chain monitoring must go all the way down to raw materials. Such research will lead to an understanding of supply and demand factors that affect the workers whose labor contributes to downstream profits. The aim of supply chain monitoring is to find trafficking wherever it occurs, whether in manufacturing, harvesting of raw materials, or the commercial sexual activity aimed at business travelers. This knowledge will allow companies to staff and source their supply chains in a manner that diminishes the demand traffickers satisfy through violence and exploitation.
We have already seen private-sector actors take the first steps by embracing the notion of supply chain monitoring. A conference last winter produced the Luxor Implementation Guidelines to the Athens Ethical Principles. The Athens Ethical Principles are the product of a 2006 meeting of NGOs, governments, businesses, international organizations, and individuals, and they express a set of values opposed to trafficking in persons. But it was the Luxor conference that put in place standards for implementing those principles. According to the guidelines, they seek "to help move beyond aspirational statements to the development of standard operating procedures – a way to move beyond principles to practice and implementation." To date nearly 600 companies have adopted the guidelines.
The Luxor Guidelines represent the future of the way we look at demand for forced labor. If there were no demand for the cheap goods tied to forced labor, then suddenly the profit motive for traffickers would no longer be worth the risk of engaging in a criminal enterprise. And though the success of this approach requires motivated and willing private-sector actors, the government side of partnerships is critical as well.
California recently enacted a law that serves as a good example of legislation encouraging the private sector to look at their supply chains and consider their impacts on labor trafficking. California now requires its largest retailers and manufacturers to make public whatever efforts, or lack thereof, they have made to eliminate human trafficking from their supply chains. This is not a burdensome piece of legislation; it does not require corporations to adopt sweeping new policies for monitoring their supply chains. It just requires transparency.
Beyond legislating, governments can use their leverage as consumers to curb the demand for forced labor. We have already taken steps in the U.S. Government's procurement and contracting policies to protect against both sex and labor trafficking. The Department of Homeland Security and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission co-chaired a temporary working group on implementation of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to combat modern slavery and its contributing factors like the demand for commercial sex. The group is developing a training program for the federal acquisition workforce to be considered for adoption by all agencies and deployment at the Federal Acquisition Institute.
Additionally, if government at all levels made commitments to reduce their slavery footprint—to support private-sector partners that had adopted anti-trafficking practices—the ripple effect could be tremendous. Forging partnerships to raise awareness about slavery footprint issues holds great potential. The State Department Trafficking in Persons Office is currently working with civil society and private sector partners to develop a tool that will allow individuals to determine not only their slavery footprint in their purchasing habits, but the steps they can take to reduce it.
This idea—how an individual can reduce his or her slavery footprint—may guide the next 10 years of this struggle more than anything else. Because at the end of the day, ambassadors and lawmakers telling people, governments, or corporations what they should be doing isn't going to be enough to make meaningful progress against human trafficking. Of course, governments must remain diligent. But the solutions we seek will emerge as more and more of us ask, "How are we going to hold ourselves accountable for the way we contribute to modern slavery?" Part of this will happen through innovations such as our Slavery Footprint tool, which will make the reality of modern slavery much more identifiable and personal to the public.
Last week, an attorney for those trafficking survivors who testified here a decade ago joined me at a Presidential working group. It strikes me that the lessons and examples of the Cadena case years ago continue to measure how we fight this crime today. The strength of those women— and their success, having been reintegrated into society as survivors—must continue to serve as a call to action. We must continue to be a strong voice for them, for other survivors, and for the millions of victims who remain lost in the shadows, unable to break free or speak out. In that way, we can deliver on the unique American promise of freedom.
In the coming months, I look forward to working with Congress as you craft legislation to reauthorize the TVPA, and take us into the next 10 years of this struggle. I hope that we can all embody the leadership necessary to deliver on our promise to combat this horrific crime.
Thank you again for the invitation to testify, and I'm happy to answer your questions.


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In any event, I made the reservation. My mom has season tickets to the Opera and I like to take her out to a nice restaurant before the show. (Let's just say this production of Carmen, not all that.) I thought Ford's would be different and a quick place to catch a bite on a Sunday morning.
The service was...slow. You know it's slow if I have to physically get up, hunt down the waitress and say ME WANT FOOD. I didn't exactly use those words, but that's how I felt. Perturbed and hungry. The menus sounded great, but when the food finally did arrive...eh. Mine was REALLY bland, almost flavorless. My mom seemed ok with hers, but not wowed. I am always looking for a wow factor. The appetizer was by far the best dish, but really, can you go wrong with Burrata? I think not.
WTF is up with this chicken? It's like it's staring at me...I was VERY disappointed in this meal, which ticked me off, only because I want my mom to have the best dining experience if we are going out at all. My Aunt and Uncle recently tried the place and had great things to say, so who knows, maybe I need to go back and give it another shot. Still, there's no way you're going to get me to eat a boiled baby pig. No way, no how.
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Xbox One vs. PS4: The Ultimate Buyer's Guide
No longer content to just capture the input of your fingers, both consoles tout motion control peripherals that engage the rest of you as well. Well, more of you, anyway. The new Kinect 2.0 and the PlayStation Camera are updates to two technologies we already know. Here's what they've got to offer.
PlayStation Camera
This replaces the PlayStation Eye of old. Much like the Kinect, it now features two camera sensors for stereoscopic, depth-sensing vision. Each sensor has 1200×800 resolution, f/2.0 aperture, 30 centimeter capture distance, and an 85-degree field of view. Integrated into the Playstation Camera is a four-channel microphone array, though no word yet on its utility for voice commands.
Also no word on if the Playstation Camera can be used as an audio input for chat and recording, but we do know it will work with the PlayStation Move controllers and will not be included with the console. The Playstation Camera will retail separately for $59.99.
Xbox One Kinect 2.0
The new Kinect is another bump up with a 1080p wide-angle time-of-flight camera, a technology that uses the speed of light to determine distances with light pulses. With three times greater fidelity than its predecessor and 2 gigabits of data per second, the new Kinect can detect objects as small as 2.5 centimeters with a reduced latency of 20 milliseconds and also includes an infrared sensor. Demos have showcased the ability to detect heart rates, facial expressions, and body weight displacement.
The biggest news is that the biggest dudes can now get the Kinect to cooperate more easily. With a 70-degree field of view and a range of 0.8 meters to 4.2 meters, the Kinect 2.0 can track up to six people within a space. Compare that to the 1.8 meters minimum distance and four users of the original Kinect. As of now, Kinect 2.0 will come bundled with every Xbox One; though Microsoft originally said a connected Kinect was required for the Xbox One to actually work at all, it now has stated that the camera can be shut down or even unplugged without affecting the Xbox One's other, unrelated functions.
Changing Policies
Coming out of E3, Sony walked away with just a bit more mustard on their hot dog as Microsoft's stringent Xbox One DRM and online policies seemed almost Orwellian by comparison. But things have changed since then, and the plot has thickened.
Microsoft's Stumbles
At its unveiling in May, it was revealed that the Xbox One would have a litany of requirements to run, which made folks quite grumpy. The console required a near-constant Internet connection, only permitting 24 hours of offline at a time before synchronization. All games, physical and digital, would be tied to a single Xbox Live account, only allowing for a one-time transfer from console to console, and limiting potential trade-ins to unspecified partner retailers.
Just days after E3, a statement was released saying that almost everything that players had vocally opposed would be fixed with a day-one patch. Region restrictions, online requirements, and disc authentication were all dropped. But along with them, family sharing, digital lending, and other features were also left behind. Later, Microsoft also dropped the previously stated requirement that the Kinect 2.0 sensor always be connected and in a standby state.
Microsoft Studios CEO Phil Spencer has called the Xbox One a "two-way conversation we have with our customers," but many speculate that former President of the Interactive Entertainment Business Don Mattrick's move to Zynga might have been precipitated, at least partially, by this grand reversal.
Sony's Potshots
Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, was smiling at E3 as he announced that the PlayStation 4 would have no used game restrictions, and reiterated that it has no always-online requirements. Afterward, the video with Yoshida and Boyes came out, a self-aware showing of this difference between Sony and Microsoft. The Internet went mildly wild.
During Sony's Gamescom 2013 presentation, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House took another jab at Microsoft, saying "While others have shifted their message and changed their story, we were consistent in maintaining a message that is fair and in tune with consumer desires." Then he dropped the launch date and the Internet went wild again.
Though Sony has taken the chance to criticize Microsoft, its draconian policies have all been abandoned, placing the two consoles on much more even footing going forward. Still, how both companies handle the consoles in the next generation remains to be seen, and it's possible policies on both Microsoft and Sony's side of the fight could change over time.
Launch Day Availability
Perhaps as important as anything else is when and where you can put down money to get these new consoles into your hands. In Sony's case, we know everything we need to know. In Microsoft's case, there's just one thing missing.
PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 will launch on Nov. 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe, Australia, and Central and South America for $399, €399, or £349, depending on what's in your wallet.
As of right now, all bundles are sold out online at Best Buy, GameStop and Amazon. You can still pre-order online at Walmart, but that retailer only guarantee a delivery date of "on or just after 12/31/2013," which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. The Walmart bundle does, however, come with either a second controller or a PlayStation Camera and a game for $517.96. That's a savings of a whopping $2.01.
Xbox One
The Xbox One will launch sometime in November in North America, Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The rest of the world will have to wait until 2014. We don't know the actual date of release, but recent rumors put it at Nov. 8, a full week before the PlayStation 4. Other rumors place the release date at "late November" past the PS4′s No. 15 release. Either way, you can get it for $499, €499, or £429.
Amazon's Day One bundle includes a commemorative controller and the Day One achievement, or you can get the Standard Edition and save three cents. Walmart, though, will let you reserve for pick-up a Day One edition with a three-cent savings as well, though it also offers a bundle with an extra controller and a game for $617.96 (another $2.01 in savings). Best Buy will slash a whole zero dollars off a bundle consisting of a second controller, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and 12 months of Xbox Live Gold for $679.96.
Launch Day Costs
Both consoles will actually be more expensive than their retail asking prices in order to unlock full functionality, and we're still not sure what other features Sony might require a Playstation Plus subscription to utilize. This is as complete a breakdown as is available of what you'll be spending on each console at launch.
Playstation 4
- Console: $399.99
- One-year Playstation Plus subscription (required for online multiplayer): $49.99
- Retail game: $59.99
Total essential Day One cost before tax: $509.97
Optional Peripherals:
- Playstation Camera: $59.99
- Controller: $59.99 (x3: $179.97)
Total potential Day One cost before tax: $748.94
Xbox One
- Console: $499.99
- One-year Xbox Live subscription (required for online multiplayer, entertainment capabilities, streaming video): $59.99
- Retail game: $59.99
Total essential Day One cost before tax: $619.97
Optional Peripherals:
- Controller: $59.99 (x3: $179.97)
Total potential Day One cost before tax $799.94
Because the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 are bundled with different equipment — namely, XB1 includes a camera that is an optional peripheral for the PS4 — the following is what a true 1-to-1 comparison of Day One costs, to achieve comparable functionality for both consoles.
- Xbox One total cost before tax (including Xbox Live, one game): $619.97
- PS4 total cost before tax (including Playstation Network, one game, Camera): $569.96
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Jewish sources don't deal extensively with the question of an afterlife, but Jews believe that in some form a soul lives on.
Q: Is there life after death?
A question that often recurs is whether Jews believe in an afterlife. It is a question of much fascination to people today, though the Bible says little about what happens after a person dies, and Jewish tradition does not provide many clear-cut answers either.
In caves all over Europe and Africa are remains of our ancient ancestors, with disintegrated tools and clothes their only company. The earliest human rituals are burial rituals, and they prepare the corpse for another world.
Belief in life after death is as old as humanity. But does Judaism believe in it? And if so, what kind of world do we expect?
The Bible is discreet on the matter. (Yet biblical Jews knew about the idea of life after death. How do we know that? Answer at the bottom of the column.)
There are some hints at life after death. At least two biblical characters--Enoch and Elijah--do not die. At the end of his life, Enoch "walks with God," and Elijah is carried off into the sky. In the book of Samuel, Saul, with the help of a witch, brings Samuel back from his place insheol,
a shadowy underworld where Samuel seems to be resting. But on the whole, the Bible does not spend much time on the next life. This life, it seems to be saying, is complex enough.
The Bible has a point. When people begin to dabble in mysteries, they sound confused.
Mark Twain writes in "Letters From Earth" that people imagine that after they die they will lie forever on green fields and listen to harp music; they would not want to do that for five minutes while alive, writes Twain, yet they imagine they will be happy doing it for eternity!
But the human spirit will not so easily give up wondering. Judaism evolved two ideas about what happens to us after we die.
The first involves physical, bodily resurrection. This idea can be traced biblically to the Book of Daniel, Chapter 12. Resurrection implies we will one day awake not as disembodied spirits but with actual bodies.
Bodies rising from the grave might conjure visions of a horror movie. Yet defenders of resurrection project a hopeful renewal of life. The Talmud argues that if God can fashion human beings from nothing, God ought to be able to re-fashion them from dust. Moreover, part of who we truly are includes our bodies. We are not ghost-like creatures rattling around in cages of flesh; our bodies are integral parts of ourselves. When our bodies change, so do we: Just ask any adolescent. So when we are in perfect form, should we not be reunited with our bodies?
What age we will be when resurrected, or how an injured body will be healed, are open questions. The difficulty of this and related issues lead many to prefer a less "embodied" afterlife, a belief in the immortality of the soul, not the body.
This idea also exists in Judaism. Souls are the durable part of us, and it is the soul that lives on.
Some have argued that it lives on in repeated incarnations (gilgul neshamot
--which means the circle, or cycle, of souls). But most have contended that there is another world--Olam Haba,
the World to Come--where souls dwell in peace with their Maker.
In the words of Rav, a Talmudic sage: "The world to come is not at all like this world. In the world to come, there is no eating, no drinking, no procreation, no commerce, no envy, no hatred, no rivalry; the righteous sit with crowns on their heads and enjoy the radiance of the Divine Presence."
There are sources in Judaism that contradict this, seeming instead to argue that death is an end. Arguing for life, the Psalmist sings to God, "The dead do not praise you" (Psalm 115:17). And in the Talmud, one opinion is that talking about one who is dead is like talking about a stone--that is, the dead cannot hear us (Berachot 19a).
But it is only in modern times that Jews have largely lost faith in life after death. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, a jumble of beliefs in the afterlife prevailed: The World to Come, the advent of the Messiah, the reward and punishment of people after death.
Today, immortality is often recast. Some people argue that immortality is having one's influence endure. Being remembered is itself all the immortality we can hope for in this world. Still for others, memory is a less satisfactory result than immortality in its purest form. As Woody Allen once wrote: "I do not want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
The problem of how we live on will not go away. It is a central preoccupation of art and literature, East and West. The specter of death is behind Western literature from the beginning. Western literature opens with the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian hero who searches for immortality. The theme runs through Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, all the way to today's novelists and poets.
It may be true, as Confucius said, "We do not know anything about life; what can we know about death?" But so much of our sense of the meaning of life is bound up with our beliefs about the meaning of death that we cannot stop searching.
An old folktale asks us to imagine twins lying together in the womb. Everything they need is provided. One of them believes, "irrationally," that there is a world beyond the womb. The other is convinced such beliefs are nonsense. The first admits he cannot imagine what such a world might be, but he nonetheless holds fast to the belief that it exists. The other can barely contain his contempt for such foolish ideas.
Suddenly, "the believer" is forced through the birth canal. All the fetus knew is gone. Imagine how the fetus left behind must view this--that a great catastrophe has just happened to his companion. Outside the womb, however, the parents are rejoicing. For what the sibling still in the womb has just witnessed is not death but birth. This is a classic view of the afterlife--it is a birth into a world that we on earth cannot begin to imagine.
The Jewish tradition teaches that human beings do not ultimately perish. We contain within us sparks of the Divine. In some form we cannot know, and cannot understand, the Divine endures.
(Answer to the question of how biblical Jews knew about the idea of life after death: Because the Jews emerged from Egypt, where the cult of the afterlife--mummification, pyramids, cities of the dead--was very strong.)
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It is always wonderful when i see pics of people just enjoying the little things as you are so rightly doing. I myself am enjoying watching my nearly 3 year old daughter sleep and the knowledge that another baby is slowly growing inside me day by day. Have agreat week Alisa and family.ReplyDelete
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In his bestselling memoir,ĀLook Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger's syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn't exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact.
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Not A Problem
Affects Version/s: Release Branch 12.04, Trunk
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: specialpurpose/ecommerce
Ubuntu and others.
NOTE: The following post contains UTF8 characters.
After rebuilding keywords in a UTF8 database (postgres) and searching a UTF8 browser (chrome), the Russian phrase is correctly present in the database, as follows:
ofbiz=# select * from product_keyword where keyword = 'игроков';
product_id | keyword | relevancy_weight (trimmed)
------- ----------------
DVDMV-ADVANGYM | игроков | 1
However, when pasting 'игроков' into ecommerce Search, the following is returned "Not Found"
Keywords: "Ð¸Ð³Ñ Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð²", where any word matches, which distorts the search.
This may affect other languages, which I haven't tested.
I also tried the same search in 12.04 (demo) and trunk and it produces the same issue. This means that multi-language product search is broken in OFBiz. 11.04 is unaffected.
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OFBIZ-5312 Proposal: URL-Generation Changes (mostly for SEO reasons but not only)
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OFBIZ-5035 Special characters (latin, accent ...) are in error from an input (search, contact us ...)
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We can close this issue now that I commited a change in the SEO branch to differentiate the upper and lower case. I have still to handle the non ASCII character in products names (like çà, whic does not exist in French ). This is reported in
OFBIZ-5312 anyway
Hi Sebastian,
that is indeed less than ideal. It probably derives from the fact that only the productId/categoryId is evaluated in the url structure, and not the rest of the string. It probably isn't "too dangerous" if the generated URL is kept the same, but it is risky and not ideal to say the least. If we do not want to implement a url database on an entity level, i would propose to build a simple filter that:
1. Looks up request URL
2. Identifies productid/categoryid/catalogid/contentid in the string
3. Uses the generator to generate a new request url
4. matches both, the generated string and the request url and does a request redirect if they don't match...
HI Sebastian,
Indeed this question has already been asked by Parimal in
OFBIZ-5312, and I answered at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312?focusedCommentId=13808947. More in OFBIZ-5312 itself, after your question there.
Hi Jacques,
I tested the new seo-branch, and as expected there are no issues with the processing of special characters in the search or in the other input fields for customer data, while ALTERNATIVE URL still seems to work.
@paul: Maybe I should place this question on OFBIZ-5312, but then again it's possible that you already answered it in your comment from 15 October (the not-100%-spot-on-not-yet-fully-integrated bit) in this here thread, so there we go:
While testing the seo-branch I noticed that now many different variants for the URL of a product page do work,
e.g. for ecommerce/product/Tiny-Gizmo-gz-1000.html
- ecommerce/product/Tiny-Gizmo-GZ-1000.html
- ecommerce/product/tiny-gizmo-gz-1000.html (and all conceivable combinations of upper/lower case)
- ecommerce/SomeArbitraryCharacters/Tiny-Gizmo-gz-1000.html
- ecommerce/product/tiny-gismo-gz-1000.html (and upper case variants, the gismo may work because of the intended coexistence with ALTERNATIVE_URL you mentioned on OFBIZ-5312)
So upper and lower case do not matter, and the product bit can be used or not or be replaced at will. Now I'm wondering if this is a bug or a feature, and whether this has any relevance SEO-wise (can you call this duplicate entries) ?
Hi Sebastian,
Could you try to make searches with special characters using the new branch https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/OFBIZ-5312-ofbiz-ecommerce-seo-2013-10-23 ?
Thanks for comment Sebastian,
I made the issues currently "related" to OFBIZ-5312 also "depended upon by". So that we will check and hopefully close them when we will (hopefully) commit
OFBIZ-5312. Note that there is also OFBIZ-5030.
Hi Paul,
Could you elaborate on
Even the patch we provided isn't 100% spot on, since we tried to introduce changes without reworking all of the original URL generation code.
Does it mean that there are the code to do it but it was not used, or this code is still missing in the patch (I did not have the time to review all yet)
The presence of CatalogUrlFilter somehow manages to scramble the input of all the forms in the ecommerce app, i.e. customer name and addresses, EFT account details, search etc.; since I partially bypassed CatalogUrlFilter with the quick and dirty hack in my last comment, all those forms do work again for the whole UTF-8 encoded Unicode character set. So if keywordsearch.groovy is the culprit, it might not be the only one.
@paul: Thanks a lot for the input on the patch in OFBIZ-5312, it's highly appreciated! I noticed that over there things start to happen now, so this definitely is an idea whose time has come!
Once we have this in OFBiz, the issue of this here thread and others related to it will be gone.
I am not entirely convinced that this is related to the Filter, though I could be wrong. The underlying issue looks like an encoding issue to me, switching from UTF-8 to an ISO based format or vice versa. I am not sure that this is actually happening within the CatalogUrlFilter, but I will have to look into it myself... On a first guess, i would look into the keywordsearch.groovy file where a char conversion is more likely to be found.
@sebastian: the drawbacks are mainly related to some hefty changes in a future OFBiz version. Even the patch we provided isn't 100% spot on, since we tried to introduce changes without reworking all of the original URL generation code. Though it can be used, ideally it should be fully integrated into OFBiz at some point.
You see, the underlying issue with OFBiz URL generation is that there is an assumption of pages being rendered through other means than /control. Though this is never the case, it remains the reason why we misuse the index.jsp file to do redirects to /control and handle it with a controlservlet in there. To be fair, this is common practice among web application development, but a practice that leads to undesired effects from a URL or even customer point of view. The ootb version of OFBiz unfortunately only works around the issue, which is why a lot of redirects take place and yes, also make the same content available under 2 different urls. Both are dangerous when it comes to SEO. The fix would be to map the controlservlet to / and introduce proper filters to handle the auto-generated URLS (product, catalog).
As pointed out by mz4wheeler, just taking out the CatalogUrlFilter does not solve the problem, specially when you are already using it in the shop.
After I did not succeed in manipulating web.xml accordingly (i.e. performing some url-pattern and allowedPaths wizardry), I inserted those four lines into CatalogUrlFilter.java which solved this problem for me, along with the bug described in OFBIZ-2837:
--- applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/category/CatalogUrlFilter.java (revision 1529578) +++ applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/category/CatalogUrlFilter.java (working copy) @@ -80,7 +80,12 @@ if (UtilValidate.isNotEmpty(pathInfo)) { List<String> pathElements = StringUtil.split(pathInfo, "/"); String alternativeUrl = pathElements.get(0); + if (alternativeUrl.startsWith("control")) { + chain.doFilter(request, response); // Just continue chain. + return; + } + String productId = null; String productCategoryId = null; String urlContentId = null;
While this works for now, somehow it does not deal with the underlying cause, so I would be interested in hearing what the expert's opinion here might be!
After all having customers' names and addresses encoded correctly is a must when targeting a global audience.
On a related issue, I would like to know if there are any drawbacks in the solution Paul proposed in Proposal-URL-Generation-Changes (as quoted in OFBIZ-5312), compared to the current implementation of CatalogUrlFilter.
Though I'm glad that CatalogUrlFilter exists and happily use it, Paul points at some important issues there.
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For SEO-Friendly URLs, I think we should revert what we have currently (introduced with r1127449 and sequel/related) and rather use
Hey Saroj. Thanks for looking at this. I don't think it's as simple as just taking out those lines. It does make the UTF8 search work, but it probably breaks the SEO-friendly catalog URLs (just a guess), which was the original purpose of r1127449.
If you take these out of:
+ <filter-name>CatalogUrlFilter</filter-name>
+ <display-name>CatalogUrlFilter</display-name>
+ <filter-class>org.ofbiz.product.category.CatalogUrlFilter</filter-class>
+ <init-param><param-name>defaultLocaleString</param-name><param-value>en_US</param-value></init-param>
+ <init-param><param-name>redirectUrl</param-name><param-value>/control/main</param-value></init-param>
+ </filter>
+ <filter-name>CatalogUrlFilter</filter-name>
+ <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
+ </filter-mapping>
The search returns normal.
when we can find some time, we will have a look at it......
OK: I managed to track this down. The problem first showed up in r1127449, committed by Hans:
r1127449 | hansbak | 2011-05-25 02:25:16 -0700 (Wed, 25 May 2011) | 1
Changed paths:
M /ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/cart/minicart.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/catalog/breadcrumbs.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/catalog/categorydetail.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/catalog/compareproducts.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/catalog/productsummary.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/category/CatalogUrlFilter.java
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoConfigurator.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoFinAccount.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoPopularCategoriesData.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoProduct.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/data/DemoPurchasing.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecomclone/WEB-INF/web.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/WEB-INF/web.xml
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/cart/showcart.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/catalog/ShowBestSellingCategory.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/catalog/minilastviewedcategories.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/catalog/miniproductsummary.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/catalog/productdetail.ftl
M /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/catalog/sidedeepcategory.ftl
this change will introduce seo friendly urls for products and categories which are generated from the description. It also allows to convert url's from previous systems to point to the product in the current system. In the ecommerce demo records have been added to show this feature.
svn switch -r1127449 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release12.04 (produces ERROR)
svn switch -r1127394 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release12.04 (GOOD)
All versions of 11.04 are good.
I looked over the diff (attached file) and it isn't obvious to me how this is affects searching with a UTF8 word. The same issue is present in both the standard/advanced ecommerce search, 12.04/trunk, but the back-end search is not affected. Maybe Hans can look it over.
This shows the commit diff in detail.
Hi Uwe,
Thanks for your help. From description it seems only Release 09.04.01 and trunk are touched. This could help to track the issue. Because it works on 09.04 and the culprit commit must be between (also 11.04 work(s/d) this could foster tracking). For now it's not a priority for me, sorry...
Yes, it occurs on trunk and demos as well. And not only in the search, but also e.g. when creating an address in the ecommerce application with german umlaut characters. It seems to me there is a general problem with encoding/decoding, even if the parameters are transported in the body of a POST request.
I checked all known means of fixing this: setting the SetCharacterEncodingFilter in the web.xml of my application (to UTF-8); the web page is UTF-8 encoded, the tomcat connector is set to UTF-8, the request is marked as UTF-8 and also the response comes as UTF-8.
Perhaps somewhere a double encoding is done; but I wasn't able to find it nor changing the behaviour of OFBiz in this regard in any way... :o(
Hey Jacques. Try posting 'игроков' into the ecommerce search of the current trunk. It returns 'Ð¸Ð³Ñ Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð²' not found. If you post it to the 9.04 search, or branch 11.04, it returns 'игроков' not found.
Do you reproduce this on trunk and stable demos?
I loaded the stock 11.04 branch, and this problem does NOT occur.
OK: I discovered that this used to work with the original 9.04. During the recent updates, this UTF8 search broke.
Happens in other languages as well.


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