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With BlackBerry 10 offering developers many ways to bring their apps over from other platforms, there is of course a chance of nefarious activities. Reportedly some Android developers have been noticing that their apps are showing up in AppWorld without their knowledge. Now ideally RIM would catch every single app that is not being published by the developing developer, but some times things fall through the cracks.
The Google Play Store, and even the Apple App Store have had occasions where illegal apps have made it through the strict checking of apps. Now this is not to say that RIM should be forgiven for these infractions, but rather that they should learn from any mistakes and ensure that all due diligence is taken from here on out. The developer that found his non-authorized apps in AppWorld has this to say,
"Sure enough, someone had downloaded my app from Google Play, converted the APK and published it for BB using his account, along with half a dozen other Android apps that were obviously not his own. Most of them have since been taken down, but his account remains active, and he still has three apps published that look like they might be from Google Play."
The ease in which you can convert an .apk file to a .BAR file has made porting of apps to BlackBerry 10 extremely easy, but at the same time it has opened up the door for people to try to cheat the system. In response to this issue RIM's senior public relations and social media manager, Alex Kinsella, sent the following statement to BGR,
"If a developer believes that their copyright or trademark rights are being infringed by third-party content on the BlackBerry App World storefront, the developer can submit a complaint to our IP team and the issue will be reviewed. In the case of copyright or trademark violations, the offending content will be removed immediately."
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WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' time in Iowa paid off. Sort of.
Edwards placed second in the results of the Jan. 3 presidential caucuses — barely. The final tally was Barack Obama 38%, Edwards 30%, Hillary Clinton 29%, Bill Richardson 2%, Joe Biden 1% and Chris Dodd 1%.
This is the latest story in a Register series on the candidates in the 2008 race for the U.S. presidency.
Edwards campaigned steadily in the state, using religious language to bolster his platform, citing firm religious convictions and his intention to change America.
He repeatedly says that poverty and failure to provide universal health care are among the greatest moral issues facing America. He is promoting a health care plan that would use taxpayer money to provide free abortions.
"The fact that we have 37 million people who live every day worrying about taking care of themselves and their family living in poverty, I think is a huge moral issue," said Edwards, in an interview with Beliefnet.com, "I would say the same thing about the 47 million people who don't have health care coverage."
Edwards reiterated his message earlier in December at the Heartland Presidential Forum in Iowa.
"It is not just an election and politics," he stated, "It is the great moral test for our generation."
Edwards was born, baptized and reared as a Southern Baptist by religious parents in South Carolina. His father was also a notable deacon within the church. Edwards shares his personal faith story on the campaign trail, telling voters that it was the death of his 16-year-old son that brought both him and his wife back to their faith; he also cites his faith as helping them cope with his wife's breast cancer.
"My faith, my belief in Christ, plays an enormous role in the way I view the world," he said during a CNN Democratic debate in June.
Edwards' campaign did not return phone calls from the Register.In spite of Edwards' focus on moral issues, his presidential platform remains staunchly pro-abortion, which remains a focal issue for many religious voters.
"There is no doubt that both he and his wife are very pro-abortion," said Barbara Holt, president of North Carolina Right to Life, "They have made no bones about it, from what I have heard on the issue."
"John Edwards is pro-choice — not pro-choice reluctantly, not pro-choice usually; he is simply pro-choice," said his wife Elizabeth during a Planned Parenthood Action forum in July. The forum also included speeches from Clinton and Obama; each candidate received $1,837 in campaign donations from the PPA fund.
Edwards' speech highlighted her husband's government health-care plan, promising to cover all abortions. "Only a truly universal health-care plan guarantees that every woman will have her health-care needs met," Elizabeth Edwards said. "And those needs, of course, include reproductive health services. All reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination, will be available components of his plan."
Last year, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the partial-birth abortion ban that was passed by Congress and signed by President Bush, Edwards joined prominent Democrats denouncing the decision.
"This hard right turn is a stark reminder of why Democrats cannot afford to lose the 2008 election," said Edwards. "Too much is at stake — starting with, as the court made all too clear today, a woman's right to choose."
Holt noted that any attempts to diminish his record on abortion in Iowa would be false.
"They know that they have to appeal to the whole American electorate," she said, "but they have to appease their base. They're going to try to have it both ways."
Holt noted that as a North Carolina senator, Edwards consistently voted a pro-abortion position on important legislation.
Edwards was widely criticized for his response to a controversy last year surrounding two of his campaign bloggers, for making anti-Catholic statements on their personal blogs. The controversial statements called Pope Benedict XVI a "dictator" and referred to Christian voters as Bush's "wingnut Christofascist base."
Another post criticized the Catholic teachings on the sanctity of human life, sexual morality and contraception as "a way to disrupt people's lives so the Church can get more control."
Other material suggested that if the Virgin Mary had taken the "Plan B" contraceptive pill, then Catholics would "have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology."
The statements were widely denounced by Catholic activists who demanded that both of the bloggers be fired from his staff.
Edwards further infuriated Catholics when he chose to keep them on his staff, claiming that the controversial statements were not intended to disparage or offend people of faith.
As the controversy continued, the two bloggers resigned from the campaign.
Edwards has never denounced the bloggers.
"I came away with a feeling that, No. 1, they did not intend to demean anyone's faith," said Edwards in a March interview with beliefnet.com concerning his response, and added, "I decided to forgive them and stand by them, knowing there would be potential political consequences for that."
"I'm satisfied that they were forced out but I don't think he handled it very well," said William Donohue, president of Catholic League, who was at the forefront of religious critics. Donohue noted that Edwards showed "faulty judgment."
"It showed clumsiness in the way he handled things."
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Mark September 19th in your plan book – it is International Talk Like A Pirate Day (duh – obviously) and it sounds like so much fun!
If you are in (or are able to visit) Auckland then The Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum extends the holiday to Sunday, Sept. 23, with special pirate sailings aboard the heritage vessel Ted Ashby at 10.30am, 12.00noon & 2.00pm. Children can create story telling, sword fighting lessons, create a Pirate Ship and of course the Pirate Hat.
We've come up with a list of cool children's books about Pirates (so you can totally immerse yourself in all things Piratey)
How I Became a Pirate: Melinda Long
Do Pirate's take Baths?: Nadine Bernard Westcott
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pirate Meets the Queen: Matt Faulkner
Peter Pan: J M Barrie


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Turns out you can make a good-enough tablet for $150
Amazon's still the king of basic tech.
Here's how the HP Pavilion x360 fits into four very different lifestyles — as it will surely fit into yours.
Alexa makes Amazon's tablet even better.
The Samsung Galaxy Book is the perfect companion for the creative professional.
A keyboard that fits in your beach bag.
Get ready for so many more bins.
"It's only education that can bring us out of the dark."
Seven years of iPad evolution have led to this.
Windows 10 laptops are hot fire once again.
Big improvements to the existing technology.
It's a Surface Pro clone, and a damn good one.
It's basically a free upgrade.
Parenting made a bit more simple.
The new iPad is a steal... unless you've already gone Pro.
How easy is it for officials to access your devices if they're in a checked bag?
But what about the children?
Yes, they throw in the pen.
Tablets just got interesting, again.
And it might be coming very soon.
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A four-story building collapsed onto a next-door thrift store on Wednesday in Philadelphia. Thirteen people were injured and one woman died in the incident. Authorities are investigating the cause of the collapse, which witnesses describe as 'ground-shaking.'
In exchange for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales' guilty plea in the killing of 16 Afghan civilians last year, prosecutors have agreed not to seek the death penalty. Bales did not offer any explanation for his crimes at Wednesday's hearing where he entered his plea.
Susan Rice will become President Barack Obama's national security adviser, he announced on Wednesday. He will nominate Samantha Power to take Rice's spot as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. These leadership changes take place as the country faces a variety of foreign policy challenges.
Philadelphia building collapse: A four-story building in the Pennsylvania city, in the process of being demolished, collapsed on Wednesday morning.
Youngest Manson follower: A prosecutor plans to oppose her release as he has before, citing the heinous nature of the murders that shocked the world in the summer of 1969 and continue to occupy a unique place in the annals of American crime.
FBI raid in Sacramento: The FBI searched the offices of California state senator Ron Calderon, a Democrat. FBI agents also searched the the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus. No reason was given.
Tom Donilon, President Obama's top national security adviser, is resigning and Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, is seen as the likely candidate to replace him. A planned announcement by the president is expected this afternoon.
Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the coast of the Big Island, causing no serious damage or injuries. But are more earthquakes coming as a new island forms?
Minnesota cheerleader faces felony charges of sex trafficking and promoting prostitution. The Minnesota cheerleader is accused of prostituting a younger student with online ads.
Bradley Manning has admitted turning over classified documents. His lawyer calls him 'naive but good-intentioned,' but prosecutors say he gave secrets to Osama bin Laden.
Obama secret email: Presidential cabinet secretaries and other federal government employees are using secret email accounts, according to the Associated Press. Obama appointees using secret email runs counter to the President's pledge for an open government.
NAACP protest: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been holding weekly protests in Raleigh since mid-April, and what started with 17 arrests and tens of supporters back then has grown every week, bringing the total number of arrests to nearly 300 after five weeks of protests.
Deacon Jones was one of the L.A. Rams 'Fearsome Foursome.' Deacon Jones coined the term 'sack' and created a foundation to help inner-city kids.
Her lawsuit alleged she was fired simply because she was pregnant and unmarried, but the archdiocese and Catholic schools argued artificial insemination violated her contract.
Jason Kidd won an NBA title and two Olympic gold medals, is second on the career list in assists and steals, and was a 10-time All-Star. His retirement comes two days after Grant Hill, with whom Jason Kidd shared Rookie of the Year honors in 1995, announced his retirement.
Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Southern California because of raging wildfires. Many of the evacuated 3,000 were allowed to return home today.
Storm chasers killed: Three storm chasers lost their lives on Friday as powerful twisters touched down in central Oklahoma.
The senior US senator and Democrat from New Jersey made his name on gun control and tobacco issues.
Bradley Manning, the US Army private, goes before a military judge, charged with leaking classified documents to an Internet website. Bradly Manning faces 21 charges.
Storm chasers killed: Three storm chasers were among 13 killed in Oklahoma by tornadoes that hit the area at rush hour Friday. Several vehicles were swept off roads — including one from The Weather Channel that was tossed 200 yards and flipped without causing serious injuries.


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Jimenez provides spark on mound
Right-hander strikes out nine in six scoreless innings
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
But rookie right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez didn't see that as a reason to worry.
"That's the thing that makes you do better," he said. "You know they need you."
Jimenez, called up last month, delivered nine strikeouts and six scoreless innings, and another recent callup, Ian Stewart, drove in the winning runs in a 3-0 victory over the Padres at PETCO Park in front of 36,864.
Because the rookies showed that they could keep up, the Rockies gained ground.
They're still five games behind the National League West-leading Diamondbacks. But Colorado closed to two games behind the Wild Card-leading Padres going into Thursday night's deciding game of three between the clubs.
On Thursday, recent pickup Elmer Dessens replaces Cook, who goes on the 15-day disabled list to join Rodrigo Lopez (torn elbow ligament) and Jason Hirsh (cracked fibula). At 23, Jimenez (2-2) is old compared to 21-year-old lefty Franklin Morales, who could make his Major League debut Saturday on the road against the Dodgers.
But manager Clint Hurdle will worry about that later, and for now celebrate Jimenez overcoming two starts in which he yielded a combined 11 earned runs and 15 hits in 6 2/3 innings.
"I've got to believe I'm one of the people in here that hasn't done a lot of worrying," Hurdle said. "This will be a challenging week with the pitching situation. But, hey, we've got guys that are gonna get opportunities, and they're gonna go out there and get things done."
Jimenez, displaying the best fastball he's shown at the Major League level, didn't let a runner past second base. He held the Padres to one hit -- Geoff Blum's first-inning single -- two walks and a hit batter as he battled Padres starter Chris Young, who gave up three hits and struck out six against two walks in six scoreless innings.
Jimenez's nine strikeouts matched then-rookie Jason Jennings' performance against the Marlins on May 15, 2002. The club rookie strikeout record is 13, by Shawn Chacon on June 7, 2001, against the Astros.
"He throws hard," the Padres' Termmel Sledge said. "We hit some balls hard that didn't fall. It's just one of those games you can't explain. We were seeing him good, but, hey, tip our hat to him."
Wednesday had its rough patch. With two down in the fifth, Jimenez inexplicably walked Young on four pitches and wild pitched him to second. Brian Giles stung a ball, but it was right into the glove of shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.
"I talked to myself, like, 'Come on, relax,'" Jimenez said. "I walked the pitcher, but so what?"
Stewart ended the scoreless duel with a two-out, two-run, two-strike pinch-hit single off Cla Meredith (4-6) in the seventh. Since being called up on Saturday, both of Stewart's hits have been pinch-hits -- a double off the Cubs' Kerry Wood as part of a game-turning rally Sunday and the game-winner Wednesday night.
"Now it's just baseball again," said Stewart, the Rockies' top Draft pick in 2003. "I try to tell myself that before each at-bat to help calm myself. Just go out there and play."
Jamey Carroll added a pinch-hit single and scored on a Kazuo Matsui single, both off Doug Brocail, in the ninth.
Rockies reliever LaTroy Hawkins gave up a two-out hit -- to end a streak of 18 batters retired -- in a scoreless seventh.
Jorge Julio pitched a perfect eighth to run his scoreless-inning streak to 9 2/3.
Manny Corpas overcame a hit and a walk with one out in the ninth by forcing a Sledge line drive to center and a Kevin Kouzmanoff infield bouncer to improve to 10-for-10 on save chances.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. MLB.com reporter Corey Brock contributed. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If our starlings looked like this I don't think I'd mind them so much. The ones around here are drab brown with speckles, fly in enormous flocks and poop on everything.


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Rae Lewis-Thornton: "Each Day Renders A Right Now"
Well, here I go again!! I started IV medication last Tuesday and this week makes round two. I know for sure that I least have one more round. What a way to spend Thanksgiving week! Things had been going great until now. Other than recovering from the liposuction, I really can't complain. BTW, the heeling from the liposuction is going well to! The swelling is going down daily. The doctor said it will take about 3-4 months to fully recover. I have more to say about this another blog coming soon.
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It's seems that this life style change I have under gone with my diet and exercise is rendering some great results. My Irritable Bowl Syndrome (IBS) was under control and I was feeling better overall. I wasn't blogging much, not sure why because I have lots to say, but I was pressing my way in other ways.
Then BAM, here I go again. So my life is turned upside down again. I'm sick as shit from the side-effects of the IV medication. Nausea and fatigue is the order of the day. Yesterday, I was so sick the smell of food made me sicker. I'm to weak to work-out and cook and juicing went to hell in a hand basket. So this week I realized that my IBS is flaring up yet again. Yep, I'm constipated yet again. So for sure I know now that juicing and working out was actually the thing to get my bowels moving and was the thing that was making me feel better overall.


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Cube World - Alpha Build Available
Cube World now has an alpha version that you can pay money to play. but the site has ran into DoS attacks on a regular basis. Someone tell Joxer to stop it.
In the meantime you can try this mini demo.
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Q: I can't login in with the launcher.
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Q: The game isn't working anymore. It exits on the starting screen.
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A:Some computers have an Intel/on-board video card and a dedicated video card. To make sure your computer can run Cube World smoothly, right-click the Demo/Game and hover over "Run with graphics processor" if it is there to make sure you run it off a dedicated GPU if you have one.Try fullscreen mode, disable antialiasing and lower render distance in the options menu.
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HAITI UPDATE: In our continued commitment to the people of Haiti, RNRN supported volunteer work by local Habitat for Humanity volunteers, and also donated supplies to support the work of Hope House Haiti with children and families decimated by the 2010 earthquake and ongoing economic challenges. Thanks to the generous support of our RNRN and NNU members, a shipment including food, tents and other necessities was sent and gratefully received by the Hope House community.
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[JURIST] The German Bundestag [official website, in German] approved a bill [text, PDF, in German] Tuesday that will allow Germany to ratify the EU reform treaty, known as the Lisbon Treaty [EU materials; text]. Although both houses of Germany's parliament had previously approved the treaty [JURIST report], the German Constitutional Court [official website] ruled [judgment; JURIST report] in June that the treaty could not be ratified without certain parliamentary reforms ensuring Germany's sovereignty. The Bundestag passed the bill [DW report], which was drafted [JURIST report] in August, by a vote of 494-46 with two abstentions. The bill must still be approved by the Bundesrat [official website], Germany's upper house of parliament, which will cast its vote September 18, and then signed into law by President Horst Koehler [official profile, in German].
Efforts to ratify [JURIST news archive] the treaty in all of the 27 member countries required for approval have met some obstacles. Although the treaty has been approved in 23 countries, Irish voters rejected [JURIST report] the treaty last June, leading Czech President Vaclav Klaus [official website] to refuse to sign the measure, despite approval [JURIST report] by the Czech Senate [official website]. Last July, Polish President Lech Kaczynski [official website] refused to sign [JURIST report] the treaty despite parliamentary approval, calling it "pointless" in light of the Irish rejection. Ireland agreed in June to hold a second referendum [JURIST report] after EU leaders agreed to certain concessions [presidency conclusions, PDF].


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Visualise ice cream eating sensations on screenPublished On: Thu, Jun 5th, 2014 | Food & Nutrition | By BioNews
What if you can visualise sensations your mouth experiences as you gulp down your favourite ice cream?
According to scientists, changes in coldness, creaminess or texture of the ice cream that we experience in the mouth while we are eating it can be visualised on a screen using coloured curves.
Using the technique known as Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS), researchers at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (CSIC) at University of Valencia in Spain have visualised the perceptions experienced while eating an ice cream.
"As well as how it looks before being served, the texture on our tongue and palate is key to it being accepted and considered as a quality product," said Susana Fiszman from CSIC.
To assess this aspect, scientists organised a tasting session with 85 people who described the sensations they felt while eating a vanilla ice cream.
The participants pointed out on a screen the most dominant characteristic present in each moment – from the cold they felt to the ice cream's creaminess, lack of smoothness, gumminess and mouth coating – how much of the product remained in the mouth after swallowing.
The results were processed with a software and shown in graphs displaying coloured lines, one for each characteristic.
"In an ice cream made only with milk and sugar, the curves that dominate are those representing coldness and lack of smoothness. But adding cream, egg and hydrocolloids significantly increases and prolongs creaminess and mouth coating," Fiszman explained.
This technique can help manufacturers improve ice cream quality, the authors noted in a study published in the journal Food Hydrocolloids.


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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved
Priority: Blocker
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 1.3.3
Fix Version/s: 1.3.5
Component/s: BPEL Runtime
Environment:ODE 1.3.4 JBI, Fuse 220.127.116.11, ODE database in memory
We've recently migrated from ODE 1.2 JBI to ODE 1.3.4 JBI.
We were unable to migrate earlier due to criticial bugs in JBI packages in 1.3.3 and 1.3.2..
We ran the same performance test against new ODE 1.3.4 and previous ODE 1.2
The same configuration, the same environment, the same test case, only different ODE zip...
For example:
A service which has about 7 invokes bpel activities with ODE 1.3.4 spends on processing 5500 ms
with ODE 1.2 600ms.. The timings spend on these 7 services doesn't change. JBI bus time doesn;t change. Nothing has changed except ODE version.
It happens the same for our all orchestrated services.
The only thing which was changed is ODE version.
I can't provide the test itself (prioprietary) but I can provide configuration.
Our services are only in memory.
ODE database is JBI external and it is Derby in memory.
However the results are shocking. We of course abandon ODE 1.3.4 ans stay with ODE 1.2, but if it is not fixed, we may abandon ODE completely.
Issue Links
- is broken by
ODE-759 Unintended modifications of dateTime values while doing copy
- Resolved
- All
- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
Please provide sample process and soapui load test, so we can check it out.
As I said I can't provide the test or process, because it is JBI based, so I would have to provide all JBI endpoints as well.
Is there any example of any load test (process and soapui test) in ODE JBI distibution?
It is so visible, so any load test should prove that.
I know you can't provide. However I don't think there's other way than you to prepare test case, which is slow and then we can work on it. You can use ping pong example (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ode/trunk/distro/src/examples-jbi/maven2/ping-pong/).
I did performance comparison for ODE 1.2 and 1.3.4 JBI for 18 invokes (communication between ping and pong is over EIP - Seda Queue).
Test was run on 10 threads.
Please note that test case needs to be run twice, because JVM optimizes some functions and TPS grows.
Results are:
So performance drop is around 5%.
That's why I need a particular test case.
The PingPong is a nice startup point to provide the example. So I'll try but it may take some time.
The main difference between PingPong and my services is that my services invokes a XSL2 transformations before and after invoke. The payloads are bigger than in PingPong, for example 20 KB.
What is more each invoke takes about 50-100ms to process so it may have impact on thread scheduling.
GC parameters are fixed (for young and old gen) however it may change during the test but not significantly, because gc full scans are rare.
I do not have Saxon on global SMX classpath so ODE uses own Saxon from own service engine. Saxon version has changed, so it may be this.
I'll repeat the test with old Saxon and let you know.
We have finally some time and resources to work on that. (limited of course)
First of all we did two thinks:
1) retest it in different environment, with small amount of required TPS to check how big traffic is required to make it visible;
Test plan and results attached.
It is seen even with 5TPS.
For 10 TPS the response time is 8-10 times bigger for ODE 1.3.4. So it doesn't require big traffic.
CPU utilization is bigger 5-10 %
Memory utilization 2-3 time bigger (measured as the amount of FullGCs)
2) Fallback Saxon,
It is not easy as expected, after fallback the processes don't work.
Our plan is to:
1) run some Java profilers
2) static code analysis.. it can be tough
3) write some project from scratch under Fuse/SMX3 and give you as an example.
We've found what was the issue.
We did Java profiling and found that JaxpVariableResolver.getSimpleContent(...) run exponentialy longer than the previous version.
See attached ODEProfiling.pdf
ODE-759 which was applied in 1.3.4 introduced a change in org.apache.ode.bpel.elang.xpath20.runtime.JaxpVariableResolver
that SaxonConfiguration is created each time JaxpVariableResolver.getSimpleContent(...) is invoked, it was the cause of all evil.
We've applied simple patch (in ODEProfiling.pdf) and the results are even better than ODE 1.2.
Now I have two requests:
- Include the fix and release 1.3.5.RC which is exactly 1.3.4 + only this fix.
Give us two weeks to bless 1.3.5.RC and release 1.3.5.
We've lost several months (and money) due to this issue and we can't wait another months to some new release which can contains another bugs.
We would like to have it done ASAP.
- Introduce real word examples and real world performance tests.
Thanks a lot for this profiling.
But if you want to have 1.3.5 release = 1.3.4 + this fix, IMHO I believe you can check out the 1.3.4 branch code at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ode/branches/APACHE_ODE_1.3.4.X/ or http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ode/tags/APACHE_ODE_1.3.4/, and then apply this fix into it, and then do the build and release by your own, this will be the quickest way to meet your demand.
What we will do is that we will include your fix into our ODE upstream versions, like 1.3.5.
That's what I did, but we would like to have new release as fast as possible.
We can't work on homemade ODE, but on official release.
So when can we expect 1.3.5?
Hi Mateusz,
thanks for your detailed bug report and the patch. Your work is much appreciated. I also think this issue is reason enough for a 1.3.5 release, also given the fact that our current trunk is more going towards a 1.4 release (especially if we include the JPA refactoring). Are there other issues that have been fixed in trunk that should go into 1.3.5?
Oh, and another question: Mateusz, during profiling, did you experience other performance bottlenecks that we should be aware of or that should be taken care of?
>Are there other issues that have been fixed in trunk that should go into 1.3.5?
To be honest, we didn't search other bottlenecks. We've found it, fixed it and tested. The results are similar to ODE 1.2, even slightly better than 1.2, so we stopped further testing, because the results are acceptable for us.
>Are there other issues that have been fixed in trunk that should go into 1.3.5?
To be honest, we spent some time to make sure that 1.3.4 is compatible with 1.2 for functional point of view for our existing processes.
Now we are almost sure that from performance point of view it works similarly, so we don't want revolutionary changes in 1.3.5.
The previous three releases of JBI ODE didn't work for us (for example JIRAS:
ODE-603, ODE-604, ODE-605, ODE-651, ODE-806, ODE-840 and now ODE-876), so we are still on ODE 1.2 and now we are extremely cautious.
When you are ready to release 1.3.5, please release it as RC, freeze the code, so that we will have about 2 weeks to verify that it works for us.
We need to perform some bigger, "official" tests and we have to find "free" slots for that.
Hi Mateusz,
I have reviewed your patch. The constructor actually overrides the static field each time it gets called, so IMO this is a potential race condition. Also the XQuery expression runtime needs a customized Configuration object. I slightly changed the patch, could you please review and test it briefly? The bottleneck should be removed anyways, instead of creating a new Configuration object each time, I'm using the one that is passed in by the runtime.
We've applied the patch and the results are attached (ODE1.3.4WithODEPath.pdf).
The results are slightly worse from timing perspective and there are twice more FullGC during the same timeframe.
I'm wondering how many Saxon configurations are used during processing one transaction?
I don't know the architecture of the ODE, but I think that there should be only one Configratuon object per BPEL service.
PS. the line
__log.debug("getSimpleContent for " + DOMUtils.domToString(simpleNode) + " " + type + " returned " + o);
in JaxpVariableResolver
should be covered by isDebugEnabled as well
and its method
private Object evaluate(OExpression cexp, EvaluationContext ctx, QName type) throws FaultException, EvaluationException {
creates each time
XPathFactory xpf = new XPathFactoryImpl();
which creates each time Saxon Configuration inside.
Shouldn't xpf be created only once and the resolvers were added after xpe is created?
The line:
Document doc = (simpleNode instanceof Document) ? ((Document) simpleNode) : simpleNode.getOwnerDocument();
is useless.
The doc is never read.
Hi Mateusz,
I've created a new patch with your suggestions. The XPathFactory is now a field so that the configuration object is created only once per process model. Also I've added a couple of isDebugEnabled() checks.
Could you please test it again? I think we're coming closer.
Attached ode188.8.131.52Perf.pdf which is a comparison between ODE 1.2, our fix and 18.104.22.168 which is the latest patch.
The results are satisfying, it is better than ODE 1.2 but still slightly worse than the "static" configuration patch (to be honest I don't know why it is still better).
In conclusion the latest patch is ok, but there are plenty of places that code can be improved.
Please start focusing on performance.
For example there are still places where: (examples come from XPath20ExpressionRuntime)
result = (List) someRes;
__log.debug("Returned list of size " + result.size());
Node contextNode = ctx.getRootNode() == null ? DOMUtils.newDocument() : ctx.getRootNode();
it can be replaced by:
Node contextNode = ctx.getRootNode(); if (contextNode == null){ contextNode = DOMUtils.newDocument(); }
static String generateMessageExchangeIdentifier(String partnerlinkName, String operationName) { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(partnerlinkName); sb.append('.'); sb.append(operationName); return sb.toString(); }
StringBuffer can be replaced by StringBuilder
Integrated in ODE-trunk-jdk6 #382 (See https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/ODE-trunk-jdk6/382/)
ODE-876: performance improvements, thanks to Mateusz Nowakowski!
Integrated in ODE-trunk #393 (See https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/ODE-trunk/393/)
ODE-876: performance improvements, thanks to Mateusz Nowakowski!
We did more certified tests with ODE 1.3.4 + the latest patch and results are satisfying as well.
When can we expect ODE 1.3.5.RC ?
Tammo, you were asking for patches that should be included in Ode 1.3.5. Please include https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-787 because its blocking for PostgreSQL users.
I agree with Mateusz., when can we expect a RC? We are setting up a new test and production environment and want to upgrade to a new Ode version as well.
Hi Mateusz, René,
I'm almost done with the work on 1.3.5 - I still need some polishing and some checks on the build system and need to review
ODE-901 and ODE-787 to see if it is possible to include them.
I plan to cut a RC as soon as possible, will upload it so a nexus staging repository and will then share a link with you so that you can download it and run your tests. Your help in this process is much appreciated.


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This is what's left of The White Cottage, my childhood ice cream stand. It was whacked on the forehead by Irene this past Sunday. When I was little I'd go there with my family and after devouring a vanilla soft serve cone, I'd run down the hillside so I could throw rocks in the lazy river that gurgled along behind it. That lazy river seems to have gotten the last laugh.
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Cayman Islands Governor, Peter J. Smith, is to sign an agreement today with Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, and British Ambassador to the U.S., Christopher Meyer, which will open the vaults of secrecy on Cayman Islands bank accounts.
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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, compounded by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record. Strong leadership at every level of government and a coordinated international effort are required to avoid the failures of the 2011 Horn of Africa drought, when the international system was slow to respond and widespread suffering ensued. Urgent humanitarian response is required in places already in crisis such as parts of Ethiopia.
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Throughout the modern history of http://www.gay.comhomo dating and mating, there has always been an undeniable, resilient link between sex and shame. The gay movement has made many strides in relinquishing much of the guilt associated with our innate attraction to the same sex, but shame still lingers. Sure, we now can be seen holding hands in Texas and kissing in Georgia, but there are still a healthy amount of guilty thoughts among gay men when it comes to sex. Why is that? Frankly, it's because there is still an unsettling fear associated with gay sex and HIV/AIDS. And when shame is involved, it is inevitably accompanied by a healthy dose of blame.
Naturally, it is easiest to pinpoint those who outwardly identify themselves as HIV-positive as the ones to blame for the continuation of this black stain on our community. It is easy to forget that these individuals were also HIV-negative at one point in time and, most likely, consumed with the same fears of transmission as the rest of the HIV-negative demographic. Now they must assimilate to the HIV-positive ranks and be constantly berated with stereotypes of behavior and health fallacies, which plague a population that should know better. It can be a difficult road for some, depending on how privileged they were before discovering their new identity. Turns out, those who dish the most shame aren't very good at taking it.
Of course, the shaming of those with HIV doesn't occur in a blatantly obtuse fashion. We have come a long way since the AIDS virus was discovered nearly 30 years ago. Then the viral divide was like a gaping crevasse within the gay community that had people plummeting to their death left and right. Now depths of the crevasse are much more shallow. People who are diagnosed with HIV are no longer plummeting but rather cast down into a lower rung in the community, where they are expected to stay. How do we keep them in their place? Through shame in the form of stigmatization.
Just like any prejudice born out of fear, we must eliminate the ominous stereotypes and prerequisite judgments that perpetuate HIV stigma among gay people. But where do we start? The answer is simple. We assess the language of the HIV culture and remove the words that inherently cast shades of shame.
Coming from a community that just recently removed the f word from America's common vernacular, we know that words (whether intentional or not) are sometimes all it takes to keep a second class firmly in its place. Whether it is the way we address HIV education or the terminology we assign to our status, the HIV language is littered with dirty little innuendos that HIV-negative people would never notice and HIV-positive people can't seem to forget.
Speaking of dirty, what could be dirtier than the opposite of clean?
Any single gay man navigating the gay social media apps is bombarded by the stigmatizing sentiment of associating a person's HIV-negative status with being "clean."
When asked what he thought about the use of the word "clean" in regard to a person being HIV-negative, HIV activist and acclaimed blogger Mark S. King said he didn't mind people wanting to disclose their status and know his.
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After all, what could be more shameful than being inadvertently labeled as "dirty"?
Who knows whether anyone has ever consciously made the outright connection between an HIV-positive person being dirty, but you can only imagine the impact this word can have on the positive community.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44% of gay men who are HIV-positive are unaware of their status. Unfortunately, the people who may be perpetuating the shame game may soon find that it is they who need the bath. This is where the real danger lies. Allowing language like this to permeate our culture only serves to promote the continuation of the HIV epidemic and enforce a second viral class among gay people.
Of course, the burden of change rests on the shoulders of those affected the most by the shame game. It may seem easier for HIV-positive men to retreat into the shadows when friends and strangers alike unknowingly use language that make them feel like a pariah in dignitary's clothing. However, many of these accidental offenders are victim of the same phenomenon that was the basis of so much prejudice against gay men and women. They simply don't have a personal connection to the disease. HIV-positive men owe it to themselves to speak out against language that demeans their worth. They also owe it to their HIV-negative friends to educate them on the reality so that they don't continue to proliferate stigma or believe that they are removed from risk.
HIV-positive men aren't victims, vampires, zombies or martyrs. The social and psychological factors surrounding infection are complex, difficult, and impossible to simplify into one category.
Of course, the language we use and terminology we've chosen to isolate one another is just the one element of the shaming that goes one within the gay community. Combating HIV stigma is a multifarious problem that will require numerous endeavors and will take time before we start seeing measurable change.
Until then, we must remain prudent in our efforts to erasing the divide that only serves to hinder our community and proliferate HIV infection. The next chapter in the fight against HIV begins with learning from our own history and removing words that place shame on some and keep others in the risk pool.
Like I said before, it starts with those who are HIV-positive speaking out against hurtful terminology and naive generalizations that pervade their surroundings.
So I'll start.
My name is Tyler Curry. I am HIV-positive, and there ain't no shame in my game.
TYLER CURRY created the Needle Prick Project as an editorial and visual campaign to elicit a candid and open conversation on what it means to be HIV-positive today. To learn more about the Needle Prick Project, visit Facebook.com/getpricked or follow Tyler Curry on Facebook or Twitter at @iamtylercurry.


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The first line on the bio page of filmmaker Jacqueline Goss' personal website reads, "I like stories about people who set out to objectively measure or chart something and then fail in interesting ways when they get tangled up in the natural color and noise of the world."
Yes, she does. The quote is a mouthful, but it sums up what The Observers, Goss' almost feature length narrative, is attempting to capture. Such a simple goal coupled with such attention to detail and such impressive eyes and ears for color and noise make for a lovely, if not exactly revelatory, meditation on the pleasures of solitude in the high mountains.
The film has two parts, each given more or less equal screen time. First, we meet Woman A (so named by me, since I have to call her something; she's played by New York video artist Dani Leventhal), who is manning a meteorology lab at the top of New Hampshire's Mt. Washington. It's the dead of winter; just suiting up to venture out into the wind (the strongest recorded gusts in the country) requires a ritualistic attention to detail that seems to turn Woman A into a kind of mountaintop stoic. She seems dutiful, taking objective weather readings and logging them onto a computer. In her downtime, she drifts through the lab's cafeteria playing tunes for herself on the recorder. At times, she seems melancholy; at others, happy immersed in her quiet work. There's no real way to tell how she feels about mountaintop isolation because Leventhal plays her, probably intentionally, as a workaday blank.
Then there is Woman B (Katya Gorker), who takes over Woman A's job when the weather turns nicer. It turns out that the station isn't just a meteorology lab; when the elements lighten up, the lab expands into a tourist attraction, and in addition to taking weather readings, Woman B is in charge of the grounds. This gives her much more to do than Woman A, though she carries out tasks like cleaning the grounds, fixing the nearby railway tracks, and taking her weather measurements with the same detached, seemingly thoughtful devotion. Both, you might say, are occasionally distracted from their work by the color and noise of some very windy peaks, though not nearly enough to fail to log their weather data.
Also, there's a mysterious box found glinting in the snow by Woman A. She and Woman B are linked both by their job and then again by the box. It's small and silver with a combination lock that Woman A can't open because she doesn't have the time to go through each possible combination, though she does try. She locks it up in the deep freeze for Woman B to discover in the summer when she can carry on the combination quest. In film language, the box might be known as a MacGuffin: an object with no intrinsic worth meant only to keep the plot rolling. But this isn't a movie about plot; the box is clearly intended to have greater meaning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's very short story, "The Great Carbuncle" — on which Goss has loosely based The Observers — begins with eight people sitting around a fire high up in the mountains of the Northeast. They're all dreaming of the ways that they will become happy or rich or famous once they finally lay hands on the radiant, mythical gem — the titular carbuncle — that they all seek. Hawthorne warns of the myopic avarice that overtakes such seemingly pure tasks as scientific research and poetic creation when rewards become their goal. Through his impeccable, wry, mid-19th-century prose, Hawthorne instructs readers on the twisted ways people view life's most hollow treasures, sometimes through long exchanges between characters.
There's no talk between anyone in The Observers. In fact, the only speaking we hear at all comes in two short bursts of voice-over consisting of Woman A and then Woman B delivering detailed weather reports. Women A and B don't appear to have any of the greed and lust that Hawthorne wrote about — their peaceful high-altitude refuge seems actively comforting most of the time, which must be a product of the film's slow and lovely visual grace. Whatever the box's relationship to Hawthorne's Carbuncle means, Goss keeps it to herself, an example of her rare ability to leave much that's in her movie up to interpretation.
A great deal of care has been put into the film's photography. It doesn't look like a team of lighting technicians, camera loaders, and focus pullers sweated for hours over each camera setup. Rather, it looks like someone with a love for photography was paying attention to film's potential for movement. Goss achieves what Steven Soderbergh calls the "snap" of digital cinematography — the ability to shoot on the fly and still come up with crisp, stark results — but with the added bonus of the natural, realistic saturation of 16mm film.
At heart — a frigid, frigid heart — The Observers is what happens when a collection of high-minded avant-gardists (Goss, Leventhal, and Gorker are all video/web artists) borrows lightly from a 19th-century cautionary tale — not to mention from the best shots of Tarkovsky, Kubrick, and Brakhage — in service to an oblique love letter to mountaintop solitude. It's something like The Dharma Bums for the spiritually neutral: meditative, cohesive, and often completely gorgeous.


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Baby ... One More Time, Since U Been Gone, Umbrella: They're the sort of bonafide pop behemoths that only come along once in an artist's career.
Remarkably, each of these three massive hits was rejected — sometimes by more than one artist — before we got to hear the versions that went on to sell millions.
Here are a few of the biggest hits of all time that one poor artist or another heard and said, "Hmm ... not for me, thanks":
Baby ... One More Time — Britney Spears
This 90s pop classic was rejected by R&B icons TLC and boy band Backstreet Boys before Britney Spears pounced on it. British group Five were eager to record it too, but missed out. Lucky Britney — it's the song that launched her career and has since become one of the highest-selling singles of all time.
Umbrella — Rihanna
Britney didn't always hit the jackpot when it came to song selection. The writers of this song, production team Tricky and The Dream, wrote it with Brit in mind, inspired by the troubles she'd been going through in her life. Spears never even got a chance to hear it — her label rejected it outright, saying they had enough songs for her latest album already. The song went to Rihanna instead, and became a global number one.
Physical — Olivia Newton-John
This 1981 hit, with its suggestive, gym-themed video, gave our Livvy the biggest song of her career. It almost wasn't to be though: the songwriters originally intended it for Rod Stewart. Let's be thankful that never happened — we'd hate to imagine the video he'd have come up with.
Burn — Ellie Goulding
British folk-pop singer Ellie Goulding usually writes her own songs, but she couldn't resist the lure of this massive track, written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder. It paid off, landing Goulding her first UK number one single. But spare a thought for poor old X Factor Leona Lewis, who recorded the song originally but passed on it.
Rock Your Body — Justin Timberlake
If you thought Justin Timberlake's first solo album Justified sounded a lot like Michael Jackson, you wouldn't be wrong: around half the songs on it, including this smash single, were written by Pharrell Williams and his production partner Chad Hugo for use by Jackson. When the King of Pop rejected them, they went to JT.
Pharrell hasn't had much luck with the Jackson family: At around the same time he sent the R&B jam I'm A Slave 4 U to Janet Jackson, who wasn't interested. The song went on to become one of Britney Spears' best-loved hits.
Since U Been Gone — Kelly Clarkson
This very Pink-esque pop-rocker was indeed first offered to Pink, who turned it down. Once that happened, the songwriters reached out to Hilary Duff — yes, the weak-voiced star of Lizzie McGuire. Perhaps sensing Duff wouldn't have the vocal chops to carry the song, record company honcho Clive Davis poached it for Kelly Clarkson. The rest is history — the worldwide smash helped to cement Clarkson as a proper pop star, not just another TV talent show winner.
Don't Cha — Pussycat Dolls
We really dodged a bullet here. Back when Paris Hilton had a music career (life was simpler then), she was offered the chance to record an early version of this undeniably great skank-pop banger. "I think I did hear the song, but not in the format that we all came to know and love. If I'd heard that, of course I'd have jumped at the chance," she's since said. Mercifully, it was instead given to the Pussycat Dolls, led by powerhouse vocalist Nicole Scherzinger.