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The Historyscoper's Islam Watch Blog International. Set up from May 11-30, 2014 when Google decided to take this blog down then flopped and put it back online. Who's going to write the final story on this sad chapter of censorship from the corporation that was supposedly devoted to fighting it?
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Who are you going to arrest next, assholes?
Answer: EVERYBODY :) How will you find the room to imprison half of your population on your overcrowded island, sicko leftist overlords? Proposed British laws criminalizing all free speech except when Muslims are involved.
Candidate Paul Weston Arrested by UK Police for Quoting Churchill
Paul Weston is a great hero in Britain, and by all rights should be their prime minister for about 20 years so that he can close the gates to mass Muslim immigration and help lead the non-Muslim world to preach the Great Muslim Apostasy that will dissolve the horrible violent backward Muslim World and bring peace via my Winslow Plan. http://tinyurl.com/winslowplan
The British Government Stinks!
Don't Let That Racist Thang Throw You
From the start, Churchill was a Naziphobe, and despite all the flak he took he turned out to be right. Despite both terms sucking eggplant, I'm proud to be called an Islamophobe, but the real Islamophobes are the leftist PC Islam appeasers, because it takes real fear to pretend that a religion whose believers slaughter each other daily is bringing the world peace. Islam the religion isn't intellectually respectable. Political Islam should be a world crime, including Sharia and even the shouting of Allah Akbar. The Muslim World is in its last days, and knows it, but won't go quietly. This is the place to keep up on its day-by-day dying shenanigans.
If I hear that term Islamophobia again I'll puke. It's a pure con game playing off the current leftist fashion of scaring white people by calling them racist. A hundred years ago white people were proud of their race and assumed it would rule the world, so they didn't even think of it. Instead, they knew that Western civilization had left the Muslim World in the rearview mirror and were intent on playing wolf in sheep's clothing in the hopes that they'd forget the 1000+ year Great Jihad and leave them alone until they got well. Well, we did, only to see them show signs of reviving the jihad the moment they got any military power. Why? Islam means nothing if it doesn't mean global domination, and the rest is intellectual sheep dip.
Sorry, Islam isn't a race, so the word Islamophobia is an intellectual non-starter. A race is something that's fixed at birth. Islam is an ideology you learn after birth. True, like a race once you become a Muslim you can't quit or they will kill you, but if criticising Islam is "wrong", so must be rejecting conversion, so obviously those pushing the term Islamophobia are wolves in sheep's clothing. If Islam is a race, the other kind, then I hope us infidels win it not the Muslims :) They're playing on our tolerance, when they are totally intolerant when they get the upper hand, what a recipe for horror if we don't wake up and keep pushing our Western superiority on the Muslim World to make it disintegrate forever.
What's really insulting to my intelligence is how they use Islamophobia to mean irrational hatred of Muslims a la racism, when the word only means fear of Islam, the religion which commands our deaths. What a giveaway of their true intentions, n'est ce pas? :) Of course Islam holds out its hand and promises that if you convert you will be spared, so there will be no more reason to fear it. :) But yes, I hate Islam and always will, and am proud of it, how about you? Why don't I just submit and quit sticking my neck out for the Muslim executioners, if they can get me? Because I know from my great knowledge and wisdom that we Islam haters are on the winner's team, and that Islam will pass and be left in the dustbin of history one day, let's hope soon.
Back to the white race. A hundred years ago white people were proud of their race and agreed that it should dominate the world. Two world wars later, they got so guilt-tripped that to call them a racist puts a brain freeze on them, permitting the rest of the world to invade and take over without a fight. Surely there must be some happy medium. White people aren't required to hate themselves. The Muslim takeover doomsday scenario can be prevented by a grassroots movement to force the politicians to stop and reverse Muslim immigration.
Speaking of dying shenanigans, it's time for Israel to end the #1 threat to its existence by NUKING IRAN, at least the nuclear facilities in the mountain recesses, and tell the rest of the world to leave it alone or else. What are Iran's weak sick wannabe friends including Pres. Obama going to do? They're into dooming themselves to repeat history like with Neville Chamberlain and the Nazis, with Israel as the new Poland, and have thus made themselves irrelevant. They have no right to gamble with Israeli blood. Is there something about Never Again they don't understand? Or Death to Israel? Each centrifuge in Iran is the potential killer of a thousand Jews. There must be a policy of Zero Tolerance for Centrifuges. Allah could never make a single nuke for all his faithful in a thousand years, so why surrender so helplessly? Whirring centrifuges in Iran are a declaration of war. They're negotiating and making promises? Ever hear of Taqiyya? It's past time for diplomacy, and screw the world, it's not their existence at stake. Iran is SICK. Until it gives up its Islamic Republic it should be treated as a disease. Death to the Islamic Republic of Iran. So what if Iran has suicide fighters ready to nuke Israel and a mighty army way bigger just waiting to pave a road through Iraq and Syria. Did they ever hear of David and Goliath? David won not Goliath. Poor outnumbered surrounded Israel has long had nukes, and was a model of patience, and I know it once promised it wouldn't be the first to use them in the Middle East, but if they use them now, they can limit the damage to govt. installations, whereas if Iran gets nukes, civilian pops. will be open targets. Israel has a right to defend its existence, and I back its right to do what's necessary, even if the U.S. and U.N. don't like it. I'm sorry I'm not the president and have so little powah, but I do have great knowledge and wisdom, and hereby give Israel my blessing. GO ISRAEL!
As to the Muslim World, we only need to defeat the hardcore Muslims militarily. The rest can and will be defeated by doing what we do best, showing how our modern civilization makes Muhammad, Allah, and the Quran irrelevant. It takes but a single special moment to break the spell, and the weapons will fall out of their hands as they dance in joy. I just got back from the future, and have good news. There will be a Great Muslim Apostasy in our lifetime, and the Muslim World will disintegrate, drop Muhammad's jihad and Sharia forever, and ask Israel's help in rejoining the human race with a clean record, party hearty ex-Muslim dudes. Even so, to make sure it doesn't happen again, it should be made a world crime to give a Quran to a minor. It's worse than child porno, and should only be read by the mature and educated, who alone can ward off its sick evil voodoo awesome blossom of endless lies before laughing it into the trash can.
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Islam declared war on us, face it or lose
Quick Review of Islam's History and Why It is Ultimately Doomed
Muslims will be majorities in some Euro cities within 25 years
Scientists prove that it only takes a determined 10% minority to tip a country to its beliefs
How Western academics have betrayed us with moose hockey whitewashing of the word jihad
Why jihad means holy war, and the rest is Muslim disinfo. and B.S.
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Islam is a fraudulent Frankenstein religion
Why you should fear your 'peaceful' Muslim neighbors
The Palestinian People Don't Exist
The Illegal Palestine U.N. Push
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Sunni Muslims Committed 70% of 2011 Terrorist Murders
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Nearly a year after breaking with the Westboro Baptist Church, two of Pastor Fred Phelps' granddaughters are enjoying a new freedom. But as they tell a Canadian newspaper, they also want to extend empathy to those they hurt in the name of a cause championed by the man they call "Gramps."
Those are among the details that emerge in an interview in The Globe and Mailconducted in Montreal, where Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper are spending a month at the invitation of a Jewish community.
In a turnaround from their years in a church known for its fierce protests at the funerals of American soldiers and others in the name of denouncing homosexuality, the women often speak to community and educational groups about tolerance and religion.
That means Megan, 27, and Grace, 20, are living much of their life on the road. "We don't have a set home," Megan says.
Discussing her future goals, Megan tells the newspaper, "I'm at a complete loss. But I do know that I want to do good, to have empathy. Even though we intended to do good [with the picketing], we hurt a lot of people."
Like many Westboro Church members, they had been living just down the road from the church in Topeka, Kan. And they say they understand the certainty its members show in stating their beliefs — even though they no longer agree with them.
"The way the church presents it is, there's the WBC and the rest of the world. And the rest of the world is evil. The WBC is the only place in the world in our generation that is telling the truth of God," Megan says. Over time, those little things built up, and there were so many of them. Once you step out of it for a second, and you're out of that vacuum, things change."
The sisters also say that it was very hard to leave their parents and siblings. Before their departure, it was made clear to them that leaving the church would be the same as leaving the family.
"We were both terrified after leaving," Megan says. "I was afraid we were going to hell. Many times when we were driving, I thought God was going to kill us."
"I won't get to hear my brothers playing piano again or see my parents' hair go gray," Grace says.
A driving factor in their departure was a series of email and Twitter exchanges between Megan, who ran the church's social media efforts, and David Abitbol, the editor of the Jewlicious blog, who repeatedly challenged the church's stance on Jews. They eventually met in person.
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Abitbol was speaking as the two sisters attended a Jewlicious festival in California; he helped facilitate their current trip to Canada, as well.
Their story details how two young church members who had once spoken out against other religions eventually came to visit a different church — with a gay man and his husband.
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"Megan was really one of the strongest voices in the third generation of the Phelps family," Chu tells The Globe and Mail. "They were both junior, but key members of the WBC. They visited and my husband and I went to church with them — something I never thought would happen."
As for their long-range plans, the sisters say they've been offered chances to capitalize on their background — including a pitch for a reality TV show.
"We do not want to use our past as a way to make money. We abhor the idea," Megan says.
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< EclipseLink | DesignDocs
- 1 EclipseLink Application Management, Analytics, Diagnostics and Performance
- 1.1 Document History
- 1.2 Problem Statement
- 1.3 Scope
- 1.4 Requirements
- 1.5 Analysis
- 1.5.1 Current EclipseLink PerformanceProfiler
- 1.5.2 Current EclipseLink Runtime MBean
- 1.5.3 Current JRockit JRMC Integration Points
- 184.108.40.206 Environment
- 126.96.36.199 JRockit Real Time
- 188.8.131.52 JRMC EclipseLink MBean method and attribute usage
- 126.96.36.199 JRMC EclipseLink MBean Trigger Rules
- 18.104.22.168 JRMC Live Method Profiler for EclipseLink User and API classes
- 184.108.40.206 JRMC Live Exception Count for EclipseLink API and JPA Spec Exceptions
- 188.8.131.52 JRMC Diagnostic Commands for running EclipseLink user or System Threads
- 220.127.116.11 JRMC Processor Usage Tracking for EclipseLink MBean Attributes
- 126.96.36.199 JRMC Live System Statistics tracking for EclipseLink MBean Attributes
- 126.96.36.199 JRMC Garbage Collection Visualization
- 184.108.40.206 JRMC Runtime Analyzer
- 18.104.22.168 JRMC Memory Leak Detector
- 220.127.116.11 JRMCD.exe
- 1.5.4 IBM J9 Integration
- 1.6 Third Party Tools
- 1.7 Design
- 1.8 Implementation
- 1.9 Work Items
- 1.10 Testing
- 1.11 References
- 1.12 Competitive Intelligence
EclipseLink Application Management, Analytics, Diagnostics and Performance
Document History
Date | Author | Version Description & Notes |
20110214 | Michael O'Brien | 1.0 Initial draft started |
20151004 | Lukas Jungmann | 1.1 Revisited initial draft |
Problem Statement
- This enhancement details work that will be done to enhance our basic JMX management API and add additional support for diagnostics and analytics reporting. We will also look at adding features that will enable developers to more accurately capture runtime performance and diagnostics information, as well as tools to interpret that data.
- There are two issues to this enhancement that separately deal with management and diagnostics reporting.
Management API
- Our existing runtime JMX management API that is exposed through the services MBean in any of the JConsole, Java Mission Control (JMC), Oracle JRF Enterprise Manager or JBoss web based console is sufficient but needs to be enhanced.
Diagnostics API
- Our existing runtime performance monitoring API could be enhanced with more JVM reporting - ideally that would not itself add overhead. This type of monitoring is currently done with Java Mission Control - however it does not specifically target the JPA runtime API.
- The scope of this issue is limited to the primary EE application servers that we currently support via JMX. These are WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish and JBoss. We may also extend support to SE applications and EJB 3.1 Lite containers running exclusively in the web container.
Session Management
Unified Metadata
- Metadata mappings from Annotations and ORM XML
- JPA 2.0 Metamodel
Session Cache
Query Cache
Dependency Injection Reference
- Spring, Session, Message-Driven and Singleton beans that reference or have injections of EMFs or EMs
L1 Cache
L2 Cache
JDBC Database Configuration
Extensibility and Multi-Tenancy
- Management of shared schemas at design-time and runtime including DDL generation support for modified schemas.
- We need to integrate with work done for Multi-Tenancy - which is a specific implementation of the Extensibility API
- We need to integrate with work done for Extensibility - which is a general API for extending a schema at static (design-time) or dynamic(run-time). Multi-Tenancy is one implementation of this API.
- Before we can decide on how and where we will enhance our management, analytics and diagnostics support we need to answer the following questions.
- Q1) What do we currently provide
- Q2) What are we going to with existing enhancment requests and how will we merge these with new requirements.
- Q3) What new features can we provide to leverage new or existing management, performance and analytics tools that ship with the latest application server releases
- Q4) What new features can we provide on top of Q1-Q3 that are specific to EclipseLink that go beyond what is currently available.
Existing Enhancement Requests
- 238412: JMX: Add J2SE MBean JUnit client test suite
- 252786: WLS: Add extended metrics functionality to WebLogic specific JMX MBeans
- 253017: JMX: Refactor: MBean impl/interface naming conventions change
- 253019: JMX: Refactor: Additional Human readable time format for TimeConnectionEstablished
- 253020: JMX: Refactor: getCacheTypeFor() for NoIdentityMap should return "NoIdentity" instead "None"
- 256943: JMX: Remove the development MBean from EclipseLink (keep RuntimeServices)
- 256945: JMX: Append JPA persistence unit name to MBean session name
- 261038: JMX: values of ProfilingType attr should correspond to types in org.eclipse.persistence.config.ProfilerType
- 263271: JMX: A new attribute for persistenceUnit name
- 263274: JMX: An attribute returning dataSource name.
- 265540: JMX: Add runtime services MBean monitoring to Java SE clients
- 266016: JMX: MBeans: Add session and metadata runtime modification capability to runtime services mbeans
- 317991: JMX: initializeIdentityMap(className) requires unset EMPTY_STRING input validation handler to avoid ClassNotFoundException
- 320431: JMX: Merge Core and SDO support for the JMX MBean API
- 320684: JMX: Add reflective API as backup for module/application name derivation via classloader toString parsing
- 321229: JMX: Add documentation for new MBean jmx.moduleName/jmx.applicationName persistence unit property override
- 322288: JPA: GlassFish V3 tutorial requires completion for Eclipse 3.6 and NetBeans 6.9 IDEs
- 325893: JMX: no descriptions for TopLink MBean attributes & operations
- 325901: JMX:java.rmi.UnmarshalException when invoking "getObjectsInIdentityMap" and "getObjectsInIdentityMapSubCacheAsMap"
- 326004: JMX: invalidateIdentityMaps() and InitializeIdentityMaps() are grayed out on WebLogic for SUN JRE (jconsole) only - JRockit is OK
- 330095: JMX: Add MBean support for new [eclipselink.logging.parameters parameter binding log/exception hiding security feature ]
- 333160: JMX: ModuleName string extraction code does not handle -1 not found index in 3 of 5 cases
- 333161: JMX: Automated server testing of MBean attributes specifically application and module name
- 333197: Container testing requires multiple DI/Bootstrap application/container-managed EAR(EJB/WAR with SSB)/EAR(WAR only) test applications
- 334468: WebLogic Server 10.3.4: Update all JTA container managed JPA 2.0 wiki/bug/newsgroup-question content
- 333368: Server Test: container managed apps require Security Manager enabled testing for GlassFish,WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss
- 337029: Provide interface to Performance Monitor API
- 337030: Provide interface to Data Partitioning API
- 337031: Provide interface to Extensibility API
- 337032: Provide interface to Extensibility API
- 337033: Provide interface to Metamodel API
Requirements Details
- Official high level requirements
- R1: Address critical open issues general to all application servers
- R2: Expand platforms that we support JMX management on
- R2.1: Expand support for JMX management of JPA based applications to SE clients
- R2.2: Expand support for JMX management of JPA based applications to JEE6 EJB3.1 container managed deployments
- R2.2: (WebLogic) Integration points for weblogic.management.runtime WLSRuntimeMBeans
- R2.3: Expand support for JMX management of JPA based applications to JEE7
- R3: Manageability Requirements
- R3.1: Make MBeans change session aware - may not be an issue unless we are classified as configuration MBeans
- R3.2: (WebLogic EM) Provide discovery MBean with EM target types
- R3.3: Identify Key metrics?
- R4: Performance Tracking Requirements
- R4.1: Java Mission Control Integration
- R4.2: JMC Flight Recorder integration
- R4.3: (WebLogic) Oracle Diagnostics Logging (ODL) usage/integration
- R4.4: Expose Runtime monitoring through a new MBean or the new generic PerformanceProfiler MBean
- This MBean would be exposed in EM?
- R4.5: Multicore utilization or thread parallelism API
- R5: Performance Analytics Requirements
- R5.1: (WebLogic) JRMC Runtime Analyser integration - to interpret JRMC-FR results
- R5.2: EclipseLink Performance Profiler analysis tool?
- R6: Scripting Requirements
- R6.1: (WebLogic) WLST jython scripting required?
- R6.2: WSADMIN (python) and OJBST scripting required?
- R7: Security Requirements
- R7.1: Verify security manager support for MBeans in WebSphere and JBoss
- R7.2: Determine how JConsole local access can be secured (remote access is via password or port control)
- R8: Localization
- R8.1: Command labels and messages must be I18N enabled.
- R9: Cache Integration (EclipseLink, Coherence, ehCache, Terracotta)
- R9.1: Expose MBean spanning multiple servers (no L2 cache)?
- R9.2: Expose multiple MBeans from multiple L1 EclipseLink caches
- R9.2: Expose MBean spanning multiple L2 caches
- R10: Third Party Integration
- R10.1: Spring Hyperic integration
- R10.2: Spring Insight integration
- R20: Extensibility Management (20110321)
- R20.1: Integrate with work for Multi-Tenancy - a specific implementation of the Extensibility API
- R20.2: Integrate with work for Extensibility - a generic API for Descriptor and Schema changes at design-time or run-time
- R21: Performance Monitor Integration
- Add API to work with the new 321763 Performance Monitor introduced in EclipseLink 2.2
- Introduce Admin Role MBeans
- Investigate Scripting support for configuration changes (WLS for WebLogic, Python for WebSphere, ? for JBoss, ? for GlassFish)
- R22: Data Partitioning Integration
- Provide interface for the 328937: Data Partitioning API in EclipseLink 2.2
- R23: Expose Metamodel API via JMX
- See 337033
WebLogic Specific Requirements
- WebLogic Server has several monitoring API join points that we can use either at the WebLogic MBean level or through events exposed to JRMC for servers running on the JRockit JVM. We will need to work closely with the WLS team to finalize the interfaces between EclipseLink and WLS.
GlassFish Specific Requirements
WebSphere Specific Requirements
JBoss Specific Requirements
Spring TC Specific Requirements
Tomcat Specific Requirements
Generic Server Requirements
- Ideally, any new API should be available to all supported EE servers (not just WebLogic) and optionally SE clients.
- R: Expose PerformanceProfiler/PerformanceMonitor events through a new MBean generic to all EE servers
- R: Expose PerformanceProfiler/PerformanceMonitor events through a Java Flight Recorder API/Events
- non-WebLogic EE servers may not benefit from performance tracking provided by JRockit out of the box. These servers (WebSphere, JBoss and GlassFish) can however use the JRockit JVM with minimal configuration changes.
- Our analysis will take two phases.
- 1) What do we currently provide?
- Specifically from EclipseLink (like our PerformanceProfiler)
- Via our JMX MBean.
- Or generically via the SUN JVM bin tools
- Or specifically via the JRockit JVM and JRMC (JRockit Mission Control and Flight Recorder).
- 2) What can we enhance or expose through API?
- What runtime properties can be added to our JMX MBean.
- What runtime properties can be tracked via existing or new WLSRuntimeBeans.
- What other 3rd party performance tracking and analytic tools can be integrated with.
- 1) What do we currently provide?
Current EclipseLink PerformanceProfiler
Current EclipseLink Runtime MBean
Current JRockit JRMC Integration Points
- WebLogic 10.3.4.0 20110115 version
- Running JRockit (32-bit on 64-bit)
- Oracle JRockit(R) (build R28.1.1-14-139783-1.6.0_22-20101206-0241-windows-ia32, compiled mode)
- Running EclipseLink 2.3 trunk replaces 2.1.2 shipped with WebLogic 10.3.4
- EE application is the Collatz distributed EE application with 6 external JVM's running various IA64, IA32 and UltraSparc implementations.
JRockit Real Time
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/overview/index.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/downloads/index.html
- [JRockit Profiling and Tuning http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15289_01/doc.40/e15060/toc.htm]
JRMC EclipseLink MBean method and attribute usage
JRMC EclipseLink MBean Trigger Rules
- An example would be a trigger on Number of Objects In All Identity Maps. In my [distributed case study] after running the server for 24 hours we reach around 26000 objects in the identity map before the map is reset back to 6000. Therefore if we put a trigger at say 26000 we should see an event once a day on a load of 1 transaction per second.
JRMC Live Method Profiler for EclipseLink User and API classes
JRMC Live Exception Count for EclipseLink API and JPA Spec Exceptions
JRMC Diagnostic Commands for running EclipseLink user or System Threads
JRMC Processor Usage Tracking for EclipseLink MBean Attributes
JRMC Live System Statistics tracking for EclipseLink MBean Attributes
JRMC Garbage Collection Visualization
JRMC Runtime Analyzer
JRMC Memory Leak Detector
IBM J9 Integration
- For users of WebSphere 6,7 and 8
Third Party Tools
Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool (MAT)
Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool for Java Heap Analysis.
Performance Optimization
- Available options:
- Batch Reading
- Batch Writing
- Partial Attribute Query
- Parameterized SQL
- Bulk Update Query
- Transformation Mappings
- Order of SQL
- Avoiding instanceof checks
- Projections
- Statement caches
- Leverage CallableStatement
- Cache Coordination (coordination)
- Lazy Loading - via proxy instrumentation
- Change Tracking - via proxy instrumentation
- Optimizing Joins
- L1 Cache parameters
- L2 Cache integration
- Sequence allocation (size)
- In memory database
- When to use Pessimistic Locking over Optimistic
- Patterns for 2-phase commit - XA
Asymmetric Data Access
- Most applications perform more reading that writing to the database. We therefore need to provide performance analysis tools that help to optimize the cache for the customer scenario.
Cache Performance
- What exactly is the magic number of virtual machines that are needed for a particular application in order that a performance gain will happen if we switch to an L2 cache.
- Does warming of the cache improve read performance.
Performance Monitor
- Provide interface for the 321763 performance monitor changes in EclipseLink 2.2
Data Partitioning
- Provide interface for the 328937: Data Partitioning API in EclipseLink 2.2
Multi-Tenancy Support
- R20.1: Integrate with work for Multi-Tenancy - which is a specific implementation of the Extensibility API
Extensibility Support
- R20.2: Integrate with work for Extensibility - which is a general API for extending a schema at static (design-time) or dynamic(run-time). Multi-Tenancy is one implementation of this API.
- For example see the section in the Use case where the user of the Extensibility API makes changes at runtime to the existing schema by adding a relationship via to be determined set of new attributes or functions in the JMX management interface.
- Currently the Add action is supported. Delete and Update are not supported yet without an application shutdown.
Extensibility via Flex Columns
- Any new JMX API introduced into EclipseLink will follow the API exposed by the ExtensionManager in the 340192 design document.
JMX API function | Extensibility API function | Notes |
addExtension(seqId, owningEntity, name, type ) | addExtension(ExtensionProperty) | - |
addExtension(seqId, owningEntity, name) | addExtension(ExtensionProperty) | Let EclipseLink auto choose the approprate data type |
getExtension(id) | ?(?) | - this function lists an extension added via addExtension, propagated from another client or added automatically at session creation time (possibly from persisted extensions in a previously passivated session or via @FlexExtension and @FlexColumn annotations at design time) |
getExtensions() | getExtensionFields() | - this function lists extensions added via addExtension, propagated from another client or added automatically at session creation time (possibly from persisted extensions in a previously passivated session) |
getAvailableExtensionFields() | getAvailableExtensionFields() | - return remaining available ext fields |
removeExtension(name) | removeExtension(name) | no effect until a redeploy |
updateExtension(name) | - | no effect until a redeploy |
- Q) It is stated that remove and update are not supported at runtime without a redeploy. Do we mean they are supported but do not take effect until a redeploy?
R23: JPA 2.0 Metamodel Exposure via JMX
- 20110321: After a quick discussion with Peter on exposing the Extensibility API via JMX - it may be a better solution to expose the entire Metamodel which would include any Extensible relationships added dynamically to the schema.
- See Design Issue # 108 of the JPA 2.0 Metamodel API
- See tracking bug# 337033
Analysis R23
- The Metamodel is generated during the predeploy of the EntityManagerFactory for the persistence unit at runtime. There currently is internal API that can be used to regenerate the Metamodel in the case where dynamic relationships have been added to the model post-design-time. We will need to refactor this code to support viewing new mappings that were added via th Extensibility and Multi-Tenancy API's.
// EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java /** * INTERNAL: Convenience function to allow us to reset the Metamodel in the * possible case that we want to regenerate it. This function is outside of * the JPA 2.0 specification. * * @param aMetamodel * @since Java Persistence 2.0 */ public void setMetamodel(Metamodel aMetamodel) { if (!this.isOpen()) { throw new IllegalStateException(ExceptionLocalization.buildMessage("operation_on_closed_entity_manager_factory")); } this.setupImpl.setMetamodel(aMetamodel); } // User code emf.setMetamodel(null); // clear Metamodel emf.getMetamodel(); // regenerate Metamodel
JPA dependency in Core
- If we are going to store the actual Metamodel JPA 2.0 specification object in core/foundation on the session then we will need to introduce new dependency API. We may just need to copy out the types into our own proprietary native collection of types stored on the session.
- We will instead recreate the Metamodel maps for Entities, MappedSuperclasses and Embeddables as separate Maps on the session.
Work Items
- Get MBean integration points that exist with JRockit
- Get new MBean integration poinsts possible with JRockit
- Get new MBean integration points possible with SpringSource
- 337029: Provide interface to Performance Monitor API
- 337030: Provide interface to Data Partitioning API
- 337031: Provide interface to Extensibility API
- 337032: Provide interface to Multi-Tenant API
- 321763 Performance Monitor - EclipseLink 2.2
- 328937: Data Partitioning
- 335601: Extensibility
- 340192: Extensibility through Flex Columns
- 337323: Multi-Tenancy
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Consultation announced for Ladywell traveller site [UPDATED]
Lewisham Council are to hold a public consultation on their plans to create a camp for travellers on the site of the former Watergate School, near Ladywell Station. The previous site, on Thurston Road, has been closed and the land earmarked for development.
A consultation on the new site had been expected and tonight the South London Press' John Hugill tweeted:
At a mayor and cabinet meeting. Church Grove residents in ladywell aren't happy. Consultation will be held on using street as traveller site.
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Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
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To help gear up for studio recordings at De Lane Lea Studios, The Experience head to The Speakeasy to rehearse some of the songs scheduled for recording soon.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience are photographed by Gered Mankowitz at his London studio located at 9 Mason's Yard. Photos from this session would later appear on a host of book and magazine covers around the world, and were also part of the early 1990s remastered collection of Jimi Hendrix CDs released by MCA Records.
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Years ago, I was somewhat hurt by it, being as I never wanted Elminster to be anything more than the "old storyteller" figure, the mouthpiece in a DRAGON article that let me say "There's talk around the village of trolls being seen in yon ruins" as opposed to the omniscient author style that in those days would have forced me to say: "There are two trolls in Room A and one lurking behind the coffin in Room B, and their hit points are . . ."
In play, he did much the same thing; he was the mind-wandering, irritatingly whimsical old man who could OCCASIONALLY be of help to PCs, or who would come wandering along to save their behinds almost by accident in a dungeon when they'd gotten near death and knew no way out - - but who would become VERY irritating, very fast, if they started to rely on him to do anything for them.
It was TSR who wanted me to portray Elminster at GenCon (after an early seminar in which I'd demonstrated how I played quite a few Realms NPCs, voices and mannerisms and all), and it was TSR who wanted me to write novels about him (left to my own devices, I would NEVER have used him as a main character, only as a sort of briefly-seen, often-absent Tom Bombadil-like supporting character). Instead, he's become the "signature character" that my book editors always demand I write about (just as Bob Salvatore is always asked for more Drizzt books), presumably because there's a silent majority of book-buyers who LIKE to read more about him.
The gamers who say he always gets the girl and therefore must be my Mary Sue/Bobby Sue character are entirely missing the point; I created almost ALL of the major Realms NPCs, of all ages and races and genders, and when I did so was a skinny young nerd without a beard. :}
Left to my druthers, I would never have had Elminster at center stage, so the accusation that he upstages Player Characters would not have arisen (and never has, in my "home" campaign). He was certainly over-exposed in Realms products, for a long time more or less by company directive (I poked fun at that in one of my books, in a narrative where El doesn't appear at all, EXCEPT when a character grumbles that he always shows up to save the day or at least take all the credit for doing so, and on cue, I had a portrait on the wall change its face to Elminster's and wink at the reader, unnoticed by any of the characters in the story).
I think a lot of the anti-Elminster stuff started (long ago) because Greyhawk fans and Dragonlance fans saw the Realms as "replacing" their worlds, and wanted to attack its main characters. As a greedy gamer who wanted ALL the settings supported (I was a fan of both those settings) and who saw far more of what went on inside the company than most "just plain gamers" out there, I never saw the Realms that way at all, and understood far more about sales and how THEY influenced what got published than the fans who wanted to fight setting-versus-setting wars.
These days, I often encounter very young gamers who sneer at Elminster without ever having read a word of one of my novels about him - - which means their dislike of him is an opinion they've picked up from older gamers and adopted so as to be "one of the gang" or "cool."
I would quite cheerfully never write another word about Elminster, if I could still go on writing about the Realms. On the other hand, ELMINSTER IN HELL is the one Realms novel (of them ALL, not just mine) where senior sf writers I respect greatly have made a point of telling me how much they liked it; one of them even said, "You almost committed literature, there!"), and in my recent novels - - the new one that'll appear in 2010, in particular, entitled ELMINSTER MUST DIE! - - I've been using him to explore what it means to get old and feeble and nigh-powerless, and face death or falling from prominence or both.
On the other hand, I've had Realms writing assignments I liked less than writing about Elminster - - like writing about Volo!
11. As a setting, the Realms has a reputation for being "epic," with world-shattering events and grandiose plots. Yet, based on your old articles and the anecdotes I've heard in various places, your home campaign seemed very "localized." Is that an accurate description?
Yes, my home campaign is always focused on the PCs, and was always very down-to-earth. After twenty real-time years of play, the most powerful of the Knights of Myth Drannor (the main band of PC adventurers) reached (gasp!) 9th level. However, they really LIVED and earned their levels, and had great fun doing it, and I made sure the Realms always seemed "alive" around them by having lots of news and rumors of events going on several kingdoms away, in the background. There were plots atop subplots atop conspiracies, but nothing "Realms-shaking." No gods slaughtering gods, nothing like that - - that's a function of the published Realms, and decades of "arms race" one-upmanship amongst authors and game designers (some of the former and all of the latter on staff at the publisher, at the time), all trying to have a bigger and better epic. The first two editions of the game "played best" when PCs were 3rd to 12th level, and that's the "sweet spot" that my players never left. They weren't interested in character stats, but they WERE interested in their characters achieving fortune, influence, and success (NOT fame) within the game world, on a local level ("No thrones for us, but we can by gum govern a dale better than anyone else!") . . . and luckily, that's what I was interested on, too.
However, hand me a novel writing assignment, and sure enough, I was supposed to write NOT about a stable boy or minor courtier, but about the royal family, and not about Joe Lackspell, but about Elminster. There's no blame to be assigned here; because everyone making the decisions was striving for what would be most popular and therefore sell best; I just disagree about how quickly one should scale the heights of power (I'm more about forty years of slow "power creep," heh heh).
12. Are there any Realms-related topics you've never had the chance to discuss in your published work that you wish you had?
Sure, lots of them. Trade routes, major commodities traded and the entire system (warehouses, who ships stuff and how, who hoards or attempts to control local prices, how much guilds and nobles profit thereby, are dragons and other powerful, long-lived, intelligent monsters influencing or taking part in trade, and so on). Where are certain goods produced (and are therefore plentiful and cheap) and where are they most scarce and in demand (therefore both expensive and in short supply).
Too much detail to some gamers, sure, but if a DM's job is to entertain his or her players, and my players LOVED having "day jobs" outside adventuring, and making investments, and going shopping, and playing local politics, and manipulating guilds and local traders for their own profit, than that's information that sure needed exploring for my own game; why not share it?
I once tried to get a Sword Coast merchant shipping game (sail your ship or fleet up and down the coast from port to port, moving around these little cards that are cargoes; even if you don't want to play it, you can use it in a D&D campaign to keep track of voyage times, available ships in port, where someone you're chasing who bought passage aboard a ship is, and so on) into DRAGON as a special inclusion, but it got nixed on cost grounds.
Also, what are the daily lives of non-humans like elves, gnomes, halflings, kobolds, et al like? The furnishings in their homes? Their cuisine, how they store food and treat wastes, their stories (books? ballads?); all of that.
And the big one: what's it like to be a priest in the major faiths of the Realms? Creed, taboos, what you wear, how you live, church aims and directives, what those in power high in the church are REALLY up to, where your daily living comes from, ALL the religious rituals, both daily and special festivals/special rites; all of that. A cleric/priest should be a LOT more than a "fighter who can heal."
13. What projects are you working on nowadays?
I mainly can't say, due to NDAs (contracts forbidding me to talk), but it's no secret that I'm working on a new Elminster novel (working title ELMINSTER MUST DIE!) for publication next year. Or that I'm co-writing a series of rules-neutral roleplaying game supplements from Goodman Games, ED GREENWOOD'S FANTASTIC WORLDS. The first volume, covering castles, keeps, and fortifications, should be out next spring, and future books are planned on world-building, city design, mythology, and more.
My novel "Falconfar" (the third and concluding book in the FALCONFAR trilogy) should be released in March 2010 from Solaris (just purchased from Black Library by Rebellion, and published in the United States by Simon & Shuster).
I'm writing a new column of short "usable in your campaign" Realms pieces in DRAGON (in the D&D Insider part of the Wizards of the Coast website), and have a short story, "The Many Murders of Manshoon," in the forthcoming (January 2010) Wizards of the Coast anthology "Realms of the Dead."
I also have an essay in the forthcoming "Family Games: The 100 Best" (edited by James Lowder and published by Green Ronin Publishing). My short story "A Good Night To Watch Detroit Burn" was JUST published in the post-apocalyptic sf anthology "Grants Pass" from Morrigan Books, and I wrote a eulogy for Gary Gygax (creator of the Dungeons & Dragons® roleplaying game) and a short story, "Saving The Elf Princess Again," for the recent DAW anthology "Gamer Fantastic," edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes.
I'm just finishing editorial work on ED GREENWOOD PRESENTS WATERDEEP, a series of mass market paperback original novels by other authors (some of them novices), set in the city of Waterdeep in the "new" (4e, post-Spellplague) Realms. All of the books (including titles from rising stars Steven Schend, Jaleigh Johnson, Erik Scott de Bie, and Rosemary Jones) have impressed me, thus far.
I'm also having fun contributing creatively to KOBOLD QUARTERLY, to a new sf combat card game called HEROBITS, and to the "Pathfinder" game rules and associated Golarion fantasy world setting from Paizo, Inc.
There's a lot more, but I can't talk about it yet. By the way, as a Canadian, I wince at all the "Ed Greenwood" this, and "Ed Greenwood" that; to those disgusted ay my hubris, please remember that PUBLISHERS choose titles, not writers (I think the only Realms title of mine that has yet gone straight into print unchanged was "Spellfire," and it got swiped immediately by the publisher for use for a card game!).
14. Do you still get the chance to roleplay?
I do, though I'm so busy juggling a day job (I have worked in public libraries for thirty-five years now) and a busy writing career (usually I manage to publish two or three novels, half a dozen short stories, a dozen or more game columns or articles, and a few gaming sourcebooks, every year) that I have less and less time to sit down and really enjoy long play sessions. At conventions, I often run one-shot Realms adventures, and of course participate in various hush-hush playtests of forthcoming game scenarios or rules.


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Mixed Berries Sorbet with Vanilla Shortbread Cookies
When I called my mother yesterday I had a burning question to ask her. As soon as we started talking, I completely forgot. I was outside on the deck and heard a plane over my head. Felt a cool breeze through the pecan tree and just sat there. It took me back to our chalet in the Alps on a hot summer day. Gliders brushing the mountain sides, kids biking furiously to the pool. I got pensive. Mostly I had a smile on my face.
I got quiet for a little while and she asked if I was getting sad as we talked about summers, the cousins growing up, their travel plans, etc… I mumbled "I'm fine! I am testing the mixed berries sorbet I just made!" She asked if I could focus on the conversation to which I replied "no can't do. Do you still have your T-Fal sorbet maker?" I had remembered my, well at least to me, burning question.
Her turn to get quiet for a while "I have no idea. Why do you ask?". I knew I had piqued her curiosity. "No reason. Everytime I make sorbet I think about that darn sorbetiere and how much we'd crank it up in the summers. It was cool. It was special." It was special indeed. I'll always remember the day my mother brought that sorbet make home. Homemade sorbet anytime we wanted? As kids it was like Christmas in July!
See, in France, desserts eaten at home during the week are not buttery flaky pastries bought at the corner bakery on the way home from work. Those are for Sundays. No, desserts often consist of a dairy product and a fruit. I grew up on homemade yogurt and fruit for dessert. Ice creams and sorbets were not only specials, they were a once a year kind of thing. They spelled Summer.
It was a special thing indeed to have sorbet or ice cream or pastries back home. I do the exact same thing here. The weekends and dinner with friends are meant for special treats. And for good reasons. Time on slower motion is something to be celebrated (I'm always on even when I'm off. Can't help it). Time spent with friends is celebrated. The generosity of their sharing our table, their time and stories with us. I want to acknowledge that by making them something special.
Enter sorbets, ice cream, tarts, mousses, and all sorts of goodies I enjoy making. I enjoy seeing their shoulders drop and their pupils scintillate as they dig in the first bites. I enjoy that pause as the flavors wraps around their taste buds, the scents and aromas arousing their senses. I am at my happiest when I gather people I love and respect around food. I know that'd make my grandmother smile.
There were so many luscious berry baskets at the farmers market this past week that I got a lot of everything. Blueberries, blackberries (twice), strawberries (again), raspberries (always). Stone fruits and rhubarb also ended up in our basket but that's for another get together later this week. It's summer! The house is open to anyone with a good story and a smile.
This sorbet is my go-to recipe as I can change the fruit according to the season and always get the same delicious result. Tart and sweet flavors. You can really taste them all separately and together with every bite. Paired with a simple vanilla shortbread cookies and you have one of our favorite summer treats.
Now…I need to fly home and find that sorbetiere my mom bough when we were kids…!
Mixed Berries Sorbet, adapted from Richard Leach in Sweet Seasons:
Makes 4 cups
3 cups fresh or frozen mixed berries of your choice
1 cup sugar
2 cups water
zest and juice of one lemon
In a medium saucepan set over medium high heat, place the berries and the rest of the ingredients and bring to a quick boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Puree until smooth in a blender or food processor and then strain through a fine mesh chinois (strainer). Process in your ice cream machine according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Vanilla Shortbread Cookies:
Makes about twenty 2-inch round cookies.
1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 vanilla bean
2 egg yolks
1 cup millet flour
1/2 cup sweet rice flour
2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup milk (optional)
In the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip the butter and egg yolks together on medium speed until creamy looking. Split the vanilla bean in half and scrape the seeds with the back of a knife and add to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix for 10 seconds. Add the millet and sweet rice flour with the mixer still on low speed. If the mixture feels too crumbly add a little bit of milk to obtain a smooth but not too wet dough. Start with one tablespoon at a time.
Gather the dough into a bowl and refrigerate for about 2 hours.
When ready to bake, turn the oven to 350F and position a rack in the middle.
Roll the dough in between 2 sheets of parchment paper and roll to about 1/4 to 1/8-inch thick. Cut cookies out in the dough and place them on a parchment lined baing sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
Serve with the sorbet.


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A risk factor is something that increases your chances of developing cancer. Some risk factors cannot be changed, such as age and genetics. Fortunately, some risk factors can be modified.
Avoid Toxins From Smoking
Smoking tobacco introduces a variety of harmful chemicals into your body. The chemicals enter the bloodstream and are processed through the body. Since kidneys filter toxins out of the blood, the kidneys are regularly exposed to concentrated amounts of these harmful chemicals.
Quitting smoking is an important step in preventing kidney and other cancers. The sooner smoking is stopped, the sooner the body can start to heal. Talk to your doctor about the options available to help you successfully quit.
Manage Occupational Exposures
Chemical exposure can occur in many different jobs. If possible, try to find work in a different environment. If it is unavoidable, take steps to protect yourself from exposure. Check with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health or the Environmental Protection Agency about any available protective guidelines.
Lose Excess Weight
Obesity may alter hormone levels that are associated with kidney cancer. Weight loss takes time and there is no quick fix. Give yourself time to make adjustments to your diet. Portion control, combined with healthy food choices, will get you started on the right track. You can also increase your calorie loss by increasing your physical activity level. Regular exercise will help you meet your weight loss goals. If you need to lose weight, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian who can help you do so slowly and safely.
Eat a Healthful Diet
Good nutrition in general supports your body's immune system which can help decrease your risk of any cancer. Nutrition guidelines specific to kidney cancer include:
- Eat a high-fiber diet—Fiber is found in all plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.
- Decrease consumption of red meat—Consider choosing fish, chicken, or pork instead.
- Onions, garlic, and cruciferous vegetables like kale, cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and radishes may decrease the risk of kidney cancer.
Manage Health Conditions
If you have high blood pressure, follow your treatment plan. High blood pressure can cause damage to structures in the kidneys. Maintaining blood pressure within a normal range will keep your kidneys healthier. It is important to keep taking medications, even when you feel well. If you have unpleasant side effects from medications, talk to your doctor about alternatives that may be available. Consider getting a blood pressure monitor for the home so you can take regular measurements.
Kidney cancer. National Kidney Foundation website. Available at: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/what-kidney-cancer. Accessed February 28, 2020.
Kidney cancer (adult)—renal cell carcinoma. American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003107-pdf.pdf. Accessed February 28, 2020.
Renal cell carcinoma. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114704/Renal-cell-carcinoma . Updated October 10, 2018. Accessed February 28, 2020.
Revision Information
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- Update Date: 02/28/2020


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"Right now I'm just trying to get better everywhere, and I plan on being dominant in every position." - Dennis Bermudez
Act like you've been there before.
It's a saying you hear a lot in sports. On the football field, it's often attributed to the way legendary running back Barry Sanders, like the late Walter Payton before him, would simply hand the ball to the official whenever he scored a touchdown. With Sanders – as with Payton – there were no elaborate celebrations; no Sharpies removed from socks, no cell phones hidden under goal posts, and no "Future Hall of Famer" blazers created to wear after putting six points on the board.
It was simply score, hand the ball to the official, and get back to going about your business. It's an approach Dennis Bermudez is employing when it comes to his career in the UFC.
Preparing to compete on the first pay-per-view event of his career, the finalist from Season 14 of The Ultimate Fighter isn't allowing the larger scale production and heightened expectations that come from excelling on the show and earning a dominant win in his post-TUF debut change the way he prepares or carries himself.
"I treat everyday like the day before or the next one, and just try and get better in every aspect," says the humble Long Island-based wrestler, who takes on Tommy Hayden in preliminary action this weekend as the UFC returns to Denver, Colorado for UFC 150. "I don't try to hype myself up about it being a big pay-per-view or anything like that. I act like I've been there before; I act professional and just do what I'm trained to do."
"Barry Sanders is my man!" interjects the 25-year-old Long Island native when I mention the former Detroit Lions running back as someone who exemplified the "Act like you've been there before" mantra on the field. "He was one of my idols growing up. I remember four years after he retired, I still felt like he was coming back."
Though Sanders never made a triumphant return to the gridiron, Bermudez did return to the cage in impressive fashion after coming up short against Diego Brandao in the finals of the featherweight competition on The Ultimate Fighter two seasons ago. "The Menace" collected his first UFC win back in May, scoring a unanimous decision victory over Pablo Garza on the undercard of the third UFC on FOX event.
It was a solid overall performance – one that showcased the wrestling skills Bermudez honed at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, and the conditioning that helped him get into the Ultimate Fighter house in the first place. While fans and critics came away impressed, Bermudez exited the cage feeling a little unsatisfied.
The resilient wrestler doesn't want to be just another fighter who spends his UFC career earning opportunities based on the time he spent on The Ultimate Fighter. He aspires to be much more than that, and uses everything he encounters as a chance to continue developing as a fighter, identifying the positives from his loss to Brandao and working to improve upon the things he wasn't initially pleased with from the bout with Garza.
"A loss is a loss, and it's not part of what I'm about, you know?" Bermudez asks rhetorically, referencing his loss to Brandao on the Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale. "I wasn't going to try and be very negative about it. I looked back at the fight, and I did a lot better than I remember doing in the fight, watching it from the outside, and I just improved on it. I just used it as fuel.
"It took a lot of pressure off," he says of getting a victory in the Octagon under his belt. "I like to entertain – have a fast-paced fight with a lot of action – and a part of me felt like I kind of laid on him. I was looking for the opportunity to really punish him, but there were very few, so in my head, actually fighting, it wasn't as exciting as it was from the outside.
"During the fight, it seemed a lot more boring, but if you watch the fight, there were a lot of big slams," laughs Bermudez. "I didn't realize I had him that high. I just like to put on fast-paced performances, and I didn't feel like I delivered the best fight I could have overall. I reached one of my goals – to get a UFC win. I've got bigger and better goals, but I knocked off one of the small, short-term goals."
With his first official UFC victory out of the way, the first pick of Team Mayhem looks to make it two-in-a-row when he returns to action against Tommy Hayden at UFC 150 this weekend in Denver, Colorado. While the thin air and altitude of "The Mile High City" got the better of a number of competitors the last time the Octagon was built inside the Pepsi Center for UFC 135, Bermudez doesn't foresee having any problems with his conditioning come Saturday night.
"I'm not very worried about it; I actually think it plays to my advantage," he admits. "I've got a great gas tank, and I like to try and get to the bottom of it, but it never happens."
Hayden dropped his short-notice debut to Fabricio Camoes back in January, the first career loss for the Jorge Gurgel student who has only been beyond the first round three times in his nine career fights. And while the pairing might confuse fans and media, Bermudez isn't bothering to get caught up in questioning the matchup.
"The UFC knows what they're doing. They've got a plan for everybody they match up, and that's why they're the best organization out there. I have faith in them and what they're trying to do, so I'm just going to go out there and do my job."
The fact that fighting is now his sole occupation pushes Bermudez, who scraped by like many fighters stuck on the regional circuit prior to earning his opportunity to compete on The Ultimate Fighter. Now that he no longer has to schedule training around trying to make ends meet, Bermudez is ready to take his career to the next level, and start crossing off some of those bigger goals on his "To Do" list, as well as whatever other random tasks he needs to accomplish from day-to-day.
"One of the biggest benefits that came from being on The Ultimate Fighter was not having to work a job while training," he admits. "That's a big struggle and problem for up-and-coming pro fighters – they don't make enough money fighting to be able to just fight, so they have to get a side job or a full-time job. They have to find other revenue outside of what they're getting from fighting because it's just not enough. I've been there, done that, and got the t-shirt, and now I don't. We're not shipping packages at UPS anymore.
"I train people on the side because I enjoy doing that, but that's a huge positive. My day is based around training, and then doing anything else that has to get done – whether that's grocery shopping, washing the car, getting an oil change, whatever. Training comes first, and then I do the other little things."
Next up on his list of things to do is collecting a second consecutive win Saturday night against Hayden. Just as he keeps his approach bare bones and blue collar, Bermudez keeps his thoughts on how he achieves that goal simplistic and straightforward too.
"It's a fight, so I'm going to go out there and fight. We're going to throw leather at each other. If he tries to take me down, that'll be a mistake, but right now I'm just trying to get better everywhere, and I plan on being dominant in every position."
Once he's victorious, He won't call anybody out, talk trash about others in the featherweight division, or break out a celebratory post-fight dance routine. Instead, Bermudez will put on his sponsor's shirt, have his hand raised by the referee, politely answer Joe Rogan's questions, and start thinking about when he can get back in the gym to continue improving.
After all, he's already been here once before, and he plans on being here many more times in the future too.


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Q: You said that everybody in the room is willing to do what they have to do, wants to get something done by August 2nd. But isn't the problem the people who aren't in the room, and in particular Republican presidential candidates and Republican Tea Partiers on the Hill, and the American public? The latest CBS News poll showed that only 24 percent of Americans said you should raise the debt limit to avoid an economic catastrophe. There are still 69 percent who oppose raising the debt limit. So isn't the problem that you and others have failed to convince the American people that we have a crisis here, and how are you going to change that?So... the the American people are misinformed if not incapable of absorbing matters beyond the narrow, personal sphere. It's the "What's the Matter with Kansas?" answer. You don't know what is good for you. If you knew, you'd agree with me. It's also what David Plouffe was talking about the other day when he said: "people won't vote based on the unemployment rate. They're gonna vote based on, 'How do I feel about my own situation? Do I believe the president makes decisions based on me and my family?'"
THE PRESIDENT: Well, let me distinguish between professional politicians and the public at large. The public is not paying close attention to the ins and outs of how a Treasury option goes. They shouldn't. They're worrying about their family; they're worrying about their jobs; they're worrying about their neighborhood. They've got a lot of other things on their plate. We're paid to worry about it. I think, depending on how you phrase the question, if you said to the American people, is it a good idea for the United States not to pay its bills and potentially create another recession that could throw millions of more people out of work, I feel pretty confident I can get a majority on my side on that one.
And notice that Obama said: "They've got a lot of other things on their plate." I hope they have room for peas!''
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