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Production Year: 2018 | Tv Show genre: Comedy | Series Size: 6.7 GB | IMDb: 8.6/10 (300920) | Release type: HDTV | Director: Aaron Korsh | Magnet | Duration: 44 minutes | Speech: English | Format: 720p
Episodes included: Episode 1, E1, S8E1, Episode 2, E2, S8E2, Episode 3, E3, S8E3, Episode 4, E4, S8E4, Episode 5, E5, S8E5, Episode 6, E6, S8E6, Episode 7, E7, S8E7, Episode 8, E8, S8E8, Episode 9, E9, S8E9, Episode 10, E10, S8E10, Episode 11, E11, S8E11, Episode 12, E12, S8E12, Episode 13, E13, S8E13, Episode 14, E14, S8E14, Episode 15, E15, S8E15, Episode 16, E16, S8E16
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His guide who contracted him, Harvey Specter knows his puzzle yet keeps him around because of his awe inspiring technique for managing cases. In the second season, Mike is full concealed in the law office, and Harvey needs to wriggle around a bit to keep his past from being introduced to substitute assistants in the firm. More noticeable associations are delivered, among Harvey and both Donna and senior assistant Jessica. Basically, Mike needs to keep his morals straight in savage corporate law while juggling two or three associations, particularly one with legitimate consultant sure Rachel. In the wake of watching the show, I can see any motivation behind why USA tried to cross-prepare this show with "White Collar. "
It exists in a comparable wheelhouse, simply the edge of the law being alluded to is the all inclusive community who work around it in a legitimate way. Mike is the pariah trying to work in the system for the headway of others, similar to how Neal in "White Collar" is the untouchable endeavoring to work in the FBI to get the horrible people. The second season runs 16 scenes, which is abundance adequately long. Any more, and "Suits" would fall into the unfortunate trap that USA's other insatiability designate "Distinguished Pains" does.
There's simply so much good Mike can do in the domain of corporate law when the aggregate of the business rides on money rather than right or off kilter. Mike is the hook through the show, yet when he vacillates mid-course through the season and faces a genuinely trite crisis of inward voice, he loses his inside and the show takes a tumble. All the genial from Rachel and Donna can't shield the avarice from surfacing and soaking the show. From a character perspective, "Suits" has an obliged run. There's only so far Mike can take the demonstration without being revealed, and those branches are being extended each other scene as of recently. It is definitely not a prelude that would hold for five more seasons.
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Earlier this week, War is Boring published an interview with Noam Leshem on the history of no-man's lands, their significance in the present and their constantly changing nature.
The interview was carried out days after the centenary of the First World War was widely covered in the international media. Though we expect the interest in the no-man's land of the Western Front to increase as we near next year's centenary of the Battle of the Somme (August 2015), the interview provides some reminders about the longer history of the term and some of the uses that expand its meaning beyond the killing zones of the Great War.
The interview prompted an infteresting connection on Geoff Manaugh's BLDGBLOG, between no-mans land research and "the notion of a buffer landscape: a marginal, otherwise unused land that is nonetheless deliberately maintained as a spatial intermediary between two very different zones." Geoff makes an unexpected, but important link between no-man's lands and acoustic buffer zones, like the one designed by artist Paul de Kort around Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
The sensory dimensions of no-man's lands are a pivotal element in our project, something we touched upon in a recent blog on the corporeal experience of space and the often violent enmeshment of body and earth in no-man's lands. More on this in the future.
Certainly, buffering is a key function of no-man's lands. But we wonder whether no-man's land entails more than limited utilitarian function? Geoff's emphasis on the deliberate maintenance of a state of "in between" is crucial, and enables us to think about the social, economic, ecological and geopolitical appearances of no-man's land as well. Noam points to some of these directions in the interview.


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Bill and Jen. If I were to see just those two names, I'd guess that we would be talking about the stars of TLC's reality show, "The Little Couple." Bill and Jen have their lives documented with the intention to show us, they are just like everyone else…with the exception that they are short statured.
As mentioned in their opening line, Bill is a business owner and Jen is a doctor. Both are very successful in their respective careers, in their marriage, and now…in their new role as parents. Recently adopting two children (Will and Zoey), we watch each week as they try to juggle their world we call life.
Reality television has definitely cemented its way into a form of entertainment...I admit, I'm a fan. Over the past couple of years, I've gravitated towards, "The Little Couple" because it is one of the shows that actually offers something of substance. While we enjoy the niceties of their lives, we also relate to their journey as Bill loves his wife, Jen battles cancer, and their children adapt in their new home as a family.
What I've found is that Bill and Jen are relatable, likable, genuine, and authentic. They live life freely and in the open for us to witness. Their story certainly has much more depth than their size or height. I really like the show!
Have you ever watched, The Little Couple? What do you think? Share your thoughts in a comment below.
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Whilst reading the excellent JISC Inform newsletter (I've not paid this enough attention in the past – I will from now on!) I read the article on 'social media for engagement'. Go read it now!
"The role of social media has the potential to extend beyond learning and teaching to support student engagement in the broadest sense. It offers a new way to develop relationships between the student or learner and their institution, as well as an alternative means to raise awareness of an institution's engagement efforts."
… and this excellent image from Fred Cavazza will help you realise how 'simple' it could be to bring these social tools into your teaching and learning.
Also available is this guide produced by Lis Parcell and JISC RSC Wales: Social media for student engagement: 20 good practice suggestions for higher education in Wales
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Olympic torch makes its way through ancient Muscat amid tight security in Oman
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — Thousands cheered and some danced with traditional daggers along the Olympic torch's path through Oman's capital Monday, a festive greeting that contrasted with disrupting protests elsewhere on the flame's global journey.
Under tight security, about 80 torchbearers ferried the flame down into the heart of this hilly Persian Gulf sultanate's capital, passing under historic stone arches and alongside the old souk, before winding along the edge of the Gulf coast against the backdrop of spectacular mountains.
The rare carnival-like atmosphere in tightly controlled Oman was a welcome respite for Olympic organizers seeking to avoid protests over China's human rights record that marked torch stops Paris, London and San Francisco.
Officials said they expected a smooth relay of the flame on the brief Middle Eastern leg of its 20-nation tour, adding that any attempt to disrupt the parade would be dealt with severely.
Oman, a Muslim country at the southern end of the Arabian peninsula with a booming tourism industry, has strong economic ties with China, a major importer of its oil.
The torch arrived from Tanzania and was received at Oman International Airport by Oman's sports minister early Monday. But officials waited for cooler evening weather before the festivities kicked off with the torch being lit by Muscat governor Sayyed Al Mutassim bin Hamoud Al Busaidy, and handed over to Sayyed Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, an adviser to Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
By early evening, thousands of Omanis and mostly Asian expatriates lined streets to watch athletes and other Omani celebrities carry the torch along Muscat's scenic waterfront. Torchbearers paused occasionally along the 12-mile relay route for performances by men in traditional Arab white robes, some with daggers tucked in their belts, dancing to the beat of drums.
Schoolchildren wearing white caps and T-shirts with the words "Beijing 2008" waved small red Chinese and Omani flags.
"I've never seen anything like it," said Naser Mustafa, an Omani who brought his 8-year-old son to watch the festivities. "I never expected so many people to come out, this is very rare in Oman."
Dozens of policemen were deployed along the torch route, where streets were closed off and parking was banned. An army helicopter hovered overhead.
"It's a great honor to have the torch in Oman," Habib Macki, vice chairman of the Oman Olympic Committee, said ahead of the opening ceremony.
He said Oman was chosen for the relay because of the "excellent relationship that goes back a long way between Oman and China and the strong economic ties that bind us."
Hours later, the festivities culminated with an elaborate show of fireworks and musical performances held at Muscat's Qurum National Park.
The Olympic flame, which began its worldwide six-continent trek from ancient Olympia in Greece on March 24, has been met with major chaos and disruptions. The recent relays in Argentina and Tanzania, however, were largely peaceful and without major incidents.
The turmoil over the torch relay and the growing international criticism of China's policies on Tibet and Darfur have turned the Beijing games — which begin Aug. 8 — into one of the most contentious in recent history.
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BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. -- Over 40 people attended Briarcliff Manor's first Downtown Streetscape Improvement public workshop on Oct. 5, according to Village Manager Philip E. Zegarelli.
The many thoughts, ideas and concerns that people expressed are being pulled together.
Volunteers are needed to join two advisory committees. One of these will focus on the revitalization efforts, and one will review and analyze the village's Comprehensive Plan.
The plan's focus is on the existing B zone districts for potential alternate uses for those properties. Call the village clerk or Zegarelli, if interested.
Law Park Pavilion Update
Competitive bids have been opened and awarded for the rebuild and expansion of the pavilion.
The village should be holding a contractor's mobilization session as a kickoff for work targeting construction completion and full operation for a spring opening.
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Tips on winterizing your lawn sprinkler system, from the Department of Public Works:
- Make sure that you or your plumber drains your lawn sprinkler system for the year.
- Compressed air should be used to "blow out" water that could be lying in the piping or sprinkler heads.
- Water lying in low areas or the "saddle" of the system, especially, could expand causing undetectable leaks.
- While we will remind you in the spring, when you re-energize your sprinkler, you should test the system again.
- Turn off all water use in the house; turn on the sprinkler service valve but do not activate the timer or moisture actuator.
- Thereafter, a quick check of your water meter head (especially the small triangular "spinner") may show that the water is actually running.
- If it does, your sprinkler system may have been damaged, potentially causing a huge leak and even bigger bill from the village.
Briarcliff Manor Fire Department
The annual Fire Department inspection will be held at the central headquarters Saturday, Oct. 22, beginning at 7 p.m.
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The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease is offered Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
This program provides basic information everyone needs to know about memory-loss issues and what they mean for all of us.
Topics include warning signs of dementia, differences between dementia and Alzheimer's disease, how Alzheimer's affects the brain, how to get a diagnosis, stages of the disease, treatment options, research and Alzheimer's Association services to help.
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Murray Bookchin and the Ecology of Freedom
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Tribute: Murray Bookchin and the ecology of freedom
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Here's a thinker, who in the 1960s, declared climate change as a defining problem of the age. Who accused his fellow environmentalists of advocating mere "technical fixes" of capitalism, instead of addressing root causes. But today, his ideas are enjoying an unexpected revival. Damian White pays tribute to Murray Bookchin, who died on this day in 2006.
Murray Bookchin's New Life
Damian White, Jacobin Magazine
Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the center of a new vision of socialism.
Here is a thinker, who in the early sixties, declared climate change as one of the defining problems of the age. Bookchin saw the environmental crisis as capitalism's gravedigger.
But he also insisted we must be continually alert to the postcapitalist potentialities that may surface within capitalism. "Liberatory technologies" from renewables to developments in "minituration" and automation combined with broader forms of social and political reorganization, could open up unprecedented possibilities for self-management and sustainable abundance.
In the seventies and eighties, Bookchin suggested an environmentalism obsessed with scarcity, austerity, and the defense of "pure nature" would get nowhere. The future lay with an urban social ecology that addressed people's concerns for a better life and could articulate this in the form of a new republican vision of politics and a new ecological vision of the city.
In the nineties, at the height of postmodernism, Bookchin argued a Left that reduced modernity and humanism to a caricature would become actively reactionary.
He died in 2006, politically isolated and resigned to his project's failure.
A decade later Bookchin seems to be everywhere, from the New York Times magazine to the Financial Times. Suddenly, name-dropping this revolutionary leftist is all the rage in the most mainstream of publications. Why is this?
Chaos in the Middle East, particularly the Kurdish fighters' defense of their autonomous zone in Bakur, Rojava, and the southeast regions of Turkey, is partially responsible for the current spate of mainstream media attention.
Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) broke with Marxist-Leninism in 2004 and declared himself a follower of Bookchin. Öcalan has subsequently argued that Bookchin's proposed system of confederated participatory democracies provides the base of a new model of democratic modernity beyond the nation-state: not just for the Kurds, but for the region in general.The uptick in Bookchin's popularity, though, predates Öcalan and the Kurds.It is "Bookchin the social ecologist" who has now reentered environmental discussions, particularly in light of debates about "the anthropocene."Bookchin anticipated much of this discussion thirty years ago. In a thankless debate he had with various "deep ecologists," he argued we must acknowledge how much social history and natural history have become profoundly intertwined.He also maintained that the widespread tendency to blame a generic "anthros" for an environmental crisis generated by capitalism was completely misleading. A social ecology must reject the misanthropic view that humans are inherent "environmental degraders" and assert our potential as creative stewards of the earth. VIEW/DOWNLOAD: Murray Bookchin's books at The Anarchist Library
Perhaps most surprising though has been the manner in which Bookchin has popped up as a key point of reference in the ongoing attempt to make sense of the post-Occupy political landscape.
Bookchin's view that urban democracy must be revitalized through the model of the popular assembly has led his anarchist supporters to claim that he almost anticipated the political forms that Occupy sought to champion.
In contrast, a growing band of Marxist devotees have argued it is "Bookchin the ex-anarchist," who gives a pretty good guide to why Occupy fizzled and faded. They have observed that his later writings are increasingly critical of consensus-oriented decision-making. Bookchin believed in building popular assemblies but, contra many Occupy anarchists, he also believed in political leadership and mobilizing the public through a clear set of demands.
So, what is the Bookchin that might be most useful to our political moment today? Are there any grounds for feeling that his writing might actually offer ways to think beyond the "the Red," "the Black," and "the Green"?
Ecology Or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, a new biography by Janet Biehl (Bookchin's collaborator, co-writer, editor, and partner of twenty years) provides a productive starting point for considering Bookchin's legacy.
Red, Black, and Green
In her meticulously researched and often moving book, Biehl demonstrates that one reason Bookchin attracted and lost so many different audiences across his long scholarly life is because his political history rose and fell with twentieth-century left politics: he participated in the "old left," the New Left, the green left, and the final impasse of twentieth-century socialism.
Murray Bookchin was born in 1921 to Russian Jewish immigrants, forced to emigrate to the Bronx in the aftermath of the failed 1905 revolution. His radical grandmother, who had been a member of the Social Revolutionaries in Russia, largely raised him.
Brought up in a household where portraits of Rosa Luxemburg and Tsar Alexander's assassins adorned the walls, Bookchin recalled knowing more as a young child about Russian revolutionaries than Robin Hood. He lost his beloved grandmother at the age of ten. His father left, and then it was just him and his mother, who, Biehl maintains, was rudderless at the best of times. Life got tough.
Biehl paints a vivid picture of Depression-era New York City. Bookchin and his mother were near-destitute for periods, reliant on the soup kitchen as they moved between rented apartments and the street. The richly articulated and deeply politicized immigrant neighborhoods of the Bronx, alongside the Communist Party, saved the young Bookchin.
The CPUSA's youth organizations gave him structure, focus, a political education, and sustenance in a chaotic world. As a teenager, he sold the Daily Worker on street corners in the Bronx, spoke at outdoor meetings in Crotona Park, and participated in rent strikes.
After high school, Bookchin found work as a foundryman and autoworker. He was also a trade union activist, participating in CIO organizing drives.
But the Popular Front, the Moscow trials, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, combined with what he perceived as a lack of revolutionary consciousness among American workers, disillusioned him. Like many on the intellectual left, Bookchin left the CPUSA for Trotskyism and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
It was there that Bookchin met German émigré and socialist intellectual Josef Weber. Weber had joined the German Communist Party while Rosa Luxemburg was still alive and worked for a Parisian newspaper that Trotsky praised. He turned up in New York City in the early forties with a suitcase of books on Marx, Hegel, critical theory, and German idealism and the belief that capitalism was in terminal decline.
Bookchin quickly became his student, his researcher, his understudy, and finally his protégé. Together they broke with the SWP in the late 1940s and formed the journal Contemporary Issues with other leftists.
Contemporary Issues was committed to rethinking the socialist project along "democratic lines." As a result, it was sharply critical of both the United States and the Soviet Union. The journal sought to map out an independent and humanist socialism. Bookchin wrote for the journal throughout the fifties on all manner of political subjects.
It is in "The Problems of Chemicals in Food," an article Bookchin published in 1952, where he first argued that environmental problems might now constitute the place where fundamental contradictions of capitalism are being played out.
Counterculture Ecology
The sixties saw Bookchin emerge as a full-throated advocate of a revolutionary social ecology. Our Synthetic Environment (which came out six months before Rachel Carson's groundbreaking Silent Spring in 1962) made the claim that postwar affluence was underpinned by widespread environmental degradation.
Crisis in Our Cities (1965) suggested that the crisis of the urban environment was intimately related to the crisis of the natural environment. Both books argued that without fundamental reorganization of society none of these problems would be resolved.
These projects didn't garner the public following or academic acclaim enjoyed by books like Marcuse's One Dimensional Man. But key essays — such as "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" (1964) and "Towards a Liberatory Technology" (1965) — circulated widely through the alternative press in the United States.
Elsewhere, such interventions were occasionally met with complete incomprehension; the Situationists mockingly referred to Bookchin as "Smokey the Bear" when they met in Europe. Yet he gradually found an audience on the more radical end of the counterculture.
New Left politics simmered down at the tail end of the 1960s. But Bookchin continued writing books and the articles, and his body of work attracted sufficient attention to land him an academic post. Indeed, as Biehl observes, he rose to full professor without having an undergraduate degree. This "day job" gave him the stability to pursue projects outside the academy.
Bookchin founded the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE) in the early seventies in Vermont with anthropologist Dan Chordokoff. As Biehl outlines, in probably the most optimistic and lively sections of the book, the ISE was run on a shoestring but became a central hub for all manner of charismatic teachers and utopian dreamers.
At its peak, roughly three hundred radical intellectuals, activists, artists, and technologists would come to study with Bookchin and participate in the school's three-month summer program.
The ISE offered some of the first courses in the country on urbanism and ecology, radical technology, ecology and feminism, activist art and community. There really was nothing like it. Students read critical theory, studied the history of popular assemblies and experimented with urban aquaculture or solar collectors.
The ISE also became the center of a wave of political activism that swept the country in the seventies and eighties: John and Nancy Todd experimented with living machines and closed-loop production systems at the New Alchemy Institute in Massachusetts (anticipating subsequent research programs in Industrial Ecology); Karl Hess and David Morris tested neighborhood democracy and self-management in DC; Ynestra King and Chiah Heller did much to instigate debate around the contours of a social ecofeminism.
All taught at the ISE at different points. Longstanding relations were also built between the ISE and Puerto Rican radicals in New York City. Chino Garcia and his CHARAS group were regular visitors to Vermont as they explored various strategies for bottom-up community development and socio-ecological retrofits of their neighborhood in the Lower East Side.
But while the political vistas are large and ebullient in the first three quarters of Ecology Or Catastrophe, it is striking how they contract in the final section of the book.
Bookchin and Biehl threw themselves into advocating for a confederal municipalist politics focused on the popular assembly in the late eighties and nineties. Pamphlets and books poured out of their small home in Burlington, Vermont that sought to convince the uninitiated and do battle with doubters.
Ecology Or Catastrophe details numerous critical moments when this political project appeared to gain some traction. The rise of urban movements such as the Montreal Citizens Movement in Canada; movements for neighborhood democracy in Spain, Greece, and Norway; and municipal socialism in Britain all seemed to have some potential at different points in time.
Biehl documents how Bookchin spent a good deal of time in the eighties in dialogue with the left sections of the German Greens. He unsuccessfully attempted to convince them that the parliamentary road was a dead end and that they were better off pursuing a confederal municipal alternative.
Back home in Burlington, he butted heads with Bernie Sanders. They both attempted to build some kind of political force that would have some staying power: the Left Green Network, the Burlington Greens, the Social Ecology project, The Communalist Project …
Each moment flickered and then faded. The times were out of sync. Biehl also acknowledges Bookchin was never easy to work with. He had a singular vision and could not compromise.
In his twilight years, illness, political defeats, endless polemics, and ongoing battles with an ever-expanding list of political enemies left Bookchin exhausted. Money was tight but more than anything else Bookchin was profoundly disappointed by the political regression that he saw around him.
The popularity of an irrational postmodernism in the academy was one thing but the explosion of completely irrational forms of ecology and anarchism was heartbreaking. He broke with anarchism in 2002 and increasingly referred to himself as either a communalist or a socialist.
Bookchin and Biehl in their final project together embarked on a four volume re-reading of the revolutionary tradition that aimed to return struggles for popular democracy to their central place in revolutionary history. It kept him alive, it gave them a common project to work on; but politically and personally they were drifting apart.
Bookchin maintained a militant commitment to the revolutionary tradition and confederal municipalism till the end. Biehl reveals that she, at least, gave up hope. She reverted back to being a "social democrat," the politics she had prior to meeting Bookchin.
A New Audience
What can a twenty-first-century left draw from Bookchin?
Bookchin got a lot of things right. His writing on capitalist crisis and ecology, the promise of liberatory eco-technologies, the new forms of pleasure and leisure that a socially and ecologically rational reorganization of society could make available were insightful and important.
Ecologically minded socialists can still learn from his call for a creative urban ecology that expands the realms of freedom, self-management, and socio-technical change.
We need forms of ecological urbanism and eco-technological restructuring that aim for more than technocratic low-carbon outcomes. As Bookchin argues, we should aspire to socio-technical forms which as far as possible restore a sense of "selfhood and competency" to an "active citizenry."
Biehl's Ecology Or Catastrophe is also important in that it highlights how the Institute for Social Ecology, at its best, practiced an experimental and creative ecological politics that stood as a direct challenge to the ideological presuppositions of Malthusian environmentalism.
Public art; collective experiments in eco-design and technology; attempts to cultivate participatory systems of social, urban, cultural and community innovation; an ecological politics of pleasure can all be scoffed at by purists.
But it is striking how removed the apocalyptic politics of the contemporary ecological left is from this project. The idea that we might not aspire to simply shrink our ecological footprint but create a better ecological footprint seems to have gone entirely missing.
But Biehl's biography also serves as a reminder that Bookchin's project also comes with many unresolved issues.
Social and Labor
Bookchin's desire to avoid class reductionism was important, as was his emphasis on a politics that reached people outside the workplace. But his desire to avoid vulgar workerism was too extreme — labor disappears from his social ecology.
We may or may not be heading towards a new wave of postindustrial automation in advanced economies. Nobody really knows. What we do know is that, in the here and now, the workplace remains a critical site of exploitation, surveillance, and enormous unfreedom.
As Fight for $15 has reminded us, it also remains a key site for mobilizing people for better terms and conditions which can then lead to further struggles for more autonomy and self-management within and outside the workplace.
The popular assembly model has a long and noble history on the Left. It continues to inspire political mobilizations from Argentina to Rojava. But critical questions remain regarding how much a neighborhood-assembly-focused strategy alone can accomplish and how such forms are going to relate to other sites and tiers of political activity.
The dilemma is fairly straightforward. If neighborhood assemblies do too little, they become powerless and pointless, but if they promise too much, it's a recipe for dysfunction and political gridlock.
Bookchin favored a maximalist vision and he felt a confederal structure of governance could iron out any wrinkles. There are reasons to believe that unless projects for rebuilding robust urban democracies are more differentiated, multi-scalar — and clearly connected to projects to build industrial democracy in the workplace, cultural democracy in everyday life, and ongoing political battles to defend, expand, and transform the administrative state — municipal politics could easily fail.
Without a complex politics that moves forward on many fronts, neighborhood assemblies could easily become polities that are occupied by the commitment-light and time-rich. Folks that are working fifty hours a week and have to juggle childcare and eldercare will have no voice.
The shift in social ecology from production to a focus on "community" also raises serious concerns. Attending to local social and environmental concerns has its value. Communitarian experiments to build different kinds of participatory local social ecologies can build civic solidarity and competencies.
But we also know that all these projects come with complicated class/gender and racial politics. It is also fair to point out that communitarian solutions to complex local and global issues – from food production to the manufacturing of goods – can quickly hit upper limits.
Once again, attending to labor as a critical site for understanding the metabolism between "society" and "nature" becomes critically important here. The production process is a site where local to global socio-ecological contradictions are played out and where capitalism's universalizing tendencies to connect people, materials, non-humans and multiple diverse ecologies in vast supply chains becomes most apparent.
Labor is also a critical site where alternative local to global labor-environmental alliances can be reconstructed that push for green jobs, worker-owned, sustainable co-ops, eco-industrial restructuring, and "just transitions" across the globe.
Indeed, it is through building such labor-environmental networks, coalitions, and solidarities that the spatial geography of a more multi-tiered and differentiated vision of a sustainable future might come more clearly into view.
Technology and Urban Ecology
Questions about the politics of scale also surround Bookchin's vision of the future of urbanism and technology.
The possibilities for constructing a politics of "liberatory technologies" that have the potential to contribute to popular self-management have clearly expanded well beyond the pallet of distributed renewables, mechanical minaturation, and automation that excited 1960s Bookchin.
Peer-to-peer production, open-source software, digital fabrication, proposals for platform co-operatives, circular economies, industrial ecologies and so on, could all contribute to a vision of an alternative sustainable techno-culture of the future.
However, many of these very same technologies that are heralded to increase autonomy and self-organizing possibilities at one spatial scale, may well be dependent on centralized infrastructures, research institutions, forms of expertise, and a complex division of labor at other spatial scales.
Moreover, the stuff to make solar PV and cellphones, turbines, and energy storage systems doesn't grow on trees. It's dug out of the ground in some places and dumped out of sight in other places.
In this regard Bookchin is right. We will have to ecologize and democratize our urban worlds. Strategies to build an equitable and participatory urbanist future marked by luxurious and sustainable public housing, exquisite public parks and gardens, new modes of sustainable mobility, and high-quality shared public goods and spaces will almost certainly have to combine "bottom-up" and "top-down" strategies. Bottom-up neighborhood assemblies can be vital but gaining public power over urban investment decisions and demands for regional or national popular investment banks is also critical.
Ensuring that what Mumford called "the art of city making" is a public art rather than a private secret may also require something more than calls for face-to face urban democracy or a return of "mother knows best" left technocracy.
We need to build diverse fora where "experts in city making" (planners, landscapers, architects, designers etc) are brought into constant dialogue with "experts in city living" (ie: knowledgeable publics prepared to tackle the hard task of envisioning alternative urban futures). This could provide much more fruitful ways to think about democratic design.
The broader liberatory scales of our future urbanscapes and ruralscapes are going to be messy, complicated, and poorly captured by the "decentralization = good," "centralization = bad" binary. In many cases, densification of our existing cities, suburbs and ex-urbs will be much more important for low-carbon futures than encouraging the kinds of decentralized landscapes envisaged by Bookchin.
Scaling Down, Scaling Up
It is climate change that presents the most politically pressing question regarding the forms of social ecology that might build a socially just and ecologically sane future.
Bookchin deserves enormous credit for being one of the first radical voices to insist that the Left must mobilize around climate change. Today we must cut greenhouse emissions by up to 90 percent in perhaps fifty years while ensuring that upwards of 9 billion people have access to a good life.
The task is gargantuan. The standard liberal technocratic response to this challenge has focused all attention on the importance of decarbonizing our energy supplies. But this isn't enough.
We must build a new, continental-scale, post-carbon energy infrastructure, electrify and diversify transportation, find new ways to travel and ship, and develop vastly more efficient building materials.
Coastal areas in many places will have to be made more resilient and robust, repositioned, perhaps moved or abandoned. Patterns of consumption premised on a cradle-to-grave model will have to be transcended by just and sustainable industrial ecologies that take us from more to better, from ownership to access, from built-in obsolescence to high-quality durable goods that can be easily dissembled and reused.
Now all of this is true but rarely does this reflection stray to consider how this project might also require demilitarization, the democratization of value creation and economic power, or the need to democratize our decrepit political institutions.
So, where does this leave Bookchin's legacy?
Kurdish forces currently attempting to sustain their democratic communalism against the ongoing military assaults of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ISIS have to be supported. What they have achieved to date in the brutal conditions they find themselves in is nothing short of remarkable.
In terms of gender politics, they seem to have already gone beyond Bookchin. We should learn from their extraordinary attempt to undermine patriarchy and institutionalize popular democracy and hope that it maintains a generally progressive path.
But we should be wary of over-generalizing the relevance of this experiment to other places and other problems.
In terms of climate issues, we now know that the greenhouse gases that have already been released into the atmosphere have "baked in" a certain level of warming and sea level rise into the system for centuries to come. This means that we are now dealing with a much more dynamic and non-linear system than anything imagined by sixties radicals, who — largely drawing from the community ecology of their day — focused on building a future marked by "natural balance" and holism.
The counterculture vision of a decentralized ecological society "neatly nested" into place will have to give way to a more dynamic vision of postcapitalist democratic urbanscapes and ruralscapes that are constantly adjusting to, and making and remaking, their surrounding social ecologies.
Rather than fetish a municipal route to social change, this will have to involve enrolling many partners at many spatial scales of politics to facilitate social, technological, and ecological transformations. Most critically, the state — where it exists and where it is still relatively open to influence by progressive forces — is going to play a central role in this transition.
The sensibility will have to be experimental and iterative rather than institutionally dogmatic and inflexible. The human scales of a democratic and ecological urban future are going to be multiple and varied.
Anything less fails to understand the amount of trouble we are in.
VIEW/DOWNLOAD: Murray Bookchin's books at The Anarchist Library
Remembering Murray Bookchin
Janet Biehl, Institute for Social Ecology
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was a left-libertarian social theorist who, in the early 1960s, introduced the concept of ecology into radical politics. A self-described utopian, he sought a decentralized, genuinely democratic society and placed ecology in a humanistic and social framework. He wrote more than two dozen books on ecology, history, politics, philosophy, and urban planning. At all times he upheld reason against the alternatives and sought to bring a lived revolutionary past forward into the future.
The Murray Bookchin Reader: Introduction
Institute for Social Ecology
In its range and depth, Bookchin's dialectical synthesis of anarchism and ecology, which he called social ecology, had no equal in the postwar international Left. The first major effort to fuse ecological awareness with the need for fundamental social change, and to link a philosophy of nature with a philosophy of social revolution, it remains the most important such effort to this day.
Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance
Joris Leverink, ROAR Magazine
Bookchin opposed the ideas and practices of the emerging environmentalist movements, accusing them of advocating mere "technical fixes" of capitalism, counter-posing it to an ecological approach that seeks to address the root causes of the systemic problem. In his view, capitalism's fatal flaw lay not in its exploitation of the working class, as Marxists believe, but rather in its conflict with the natural environment which, if allowed to develop unopposed, would inevitably lead to the dehumanization of people and the destruction of nature. Bookchin's municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy.
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Bookchin is pretty fascinating, his ideas make alot of sense and his focus on green issues was pretty focused. What makes me sad is that there were not 100 of him!Does anyone know what he thought of ecocide law?
Thanks Caragh. Ecocide law long after his time. He had radical and interesting critiques of 'deep ecology' and what he called 'lifestyle anarchism' though.
Thanks for the reply Peter :) Yes, its pretty interesting. Ecocide as a crime was going to be part of the Rome Statute til the last minute and so I am interested to see what he thought of law as a tool for earth sovreignty or whatever one wants to call it. His essay on deep ecology is fascinating and helped me stave off becoming too radically green for at least 5 years but unfortunately these days, while I can still sympathize with his sentiments on eco la-la I strongly believe that unless we can respect the health of the planet before people's 'needs'we will never be able to actually achieve equality. I have been tripping on the Hopi view of the world for a while now and am going to try get to grips with the Iroquois approach to government. I would be interested to hear what you think of that. I also have pegged onto the idea of ionian isonomia and am finding it fascinating!Blessings to you!
Re health of planet/needs dichotomy or antagonism, depends on how 'needs' are defined, no? Alternative framings: Gandhi: 'Planet has enough for each man's needs, but not for each man's greed'. Theodor Roszak: 'The needs of the planet and the needs of man are now one'.
Ionian isonomia: not sure what 'lack of rule and social divisions' could have meant in ancient Ionia. Athenian democracy still a beacon for participatory democracy despite all its limitations. Would be great to have ordinary people massively involved in citizens' juries (aka sortition), for example, discussing and deciding on all matters of intense public interest, advised by expert panels.
Iroquois: still have my cherished copy of the 1977 Hau de no sau nee (Iroquois) Address to the Western World, 'A Basic Call to Consciousness'.... ('Spiritualism is the highest form of Political Consciousness')
On the Iroquois approach to government you mentioned Carragh, here's a quote from the above mentioned 1977 Address to the Western World you might be interested in:
'Our is one of the most complex social/political structures still functioning in the world. The Hau de no sau nee council is also one of the most ancient continuously functioning governments anywhere on this planet. Our society is one of the most complex anywhere. From our social and political institutions has come inspiration for some of the most vital institutions and political philosophies of the modern world.
The Hau de no sau nee is governed by a constitution known among Europeans as the Constitution of the Six Nations and to the Hau de no sau nee as the Gayanashakgowah, or the Great Law of Peace. It is the oldest functioning document in the world which has contained a recognition of the freedoms the Western democracies recently claim as their own: the freedom of speech,freedom of religion, and the rights of women to participate in government. The concept of the separation of powers in government and of checks and balances of power within governments are traceable to our constitution. They are ideas learned by the colonists as the result of contact with North American Native people, specifically the Hau de no sau nee.
The philosophies of the Socialist World, too, are to some extent traceable to European contact with the Hau de no sau nee. Lewis Henry Morgan noted the economic structure of the Hau de no sau nee, which he termed both primitive and communistic. Karl Marx used Morgan's observations for the development of a model for classless, post-capitalist society. The modern world has been greatly influenced by the fact of our existence.'
I'm struck by the point that Bookchin died thinking he failed. That he moved from Marxist communist to Anarchist to social ecologist and to dumping the anarchist monicker. I'm struck by the fact that Beihl gave up revolution in favour of social democracy (George Lakey?) - is it true? I'm struck by the fact (read in the bio - haven't finished it yet) that several good friends of Bookchin also gave up the revolution post WW2. I was struck by the assertion, in the bio, that some of Bookchin's revolutionary mates felt, after a hundred years of Marxism, the proletariat seemed steadfastly reformist rather than revolutionary, so gave up. (I am still struck by the fact that it is 2017 and I am still seeing the phrase, what is to be done in essays and book titles.) I was struck that when I contacted Paul Street regarding a very good essay about racism in the Counterpunch mag, which I had to purchase for $7, and asked him about "what needs to be done" to get the revolutionary mass movement he says is needed, he responded with some short thoughts,
"I think we have 10-15 years to save chances for a decent future. [great]
We should call a national summit of all serious Leftists. [how? Who's the "we" and why are you waiting giving your connections?]
Probably need to cut our time online by about 75%, increase contact with real people. [probably need both in whatever proportions ate necessary but taking into serious consideration people's penchant for the screen]
A lot of the hard left "leadership" needs therapy or something to help them stand down from narcissistic ego, which feeds sectarianism." [sad really but "they" need to get over themselves]
I was struck by the idea that sectarianism, given the amount of literature surrounding the negative aspects of it, still gets in the way. I was struck that 10-15 yrs is not a long time and also that given I purchased his essay, thought it a good one and took the time to write to him asking for his thoughts, and examples of current positive movements, if he knew of any, on how to achieve what he said was needed, that he responded in such a rather flippant way that left me none the wiser and knowing that further correspondence was futile.
Reading the Bookchin bio I was struck by the observation that the old school left, trad left as Peter calls them, have done or did do pretty much what most today are still doing, organising actions, strikes, sit-ins, educational sessions and groups, recruitment etc., and they did it with far greater numbers/memberships and and well defined strategies, during a pretty socially disrupted period of much left radical agitation, pre WW2, yet could not mobilise the masses or revolutionise the proletariat to the extent they wanted to get the job done (it's as if WW2 put and subsequent 25-30 years of social democratic economic reform/prosperity killed off the revolutionary spirit) . The bio on Sam Dolgoff outlines something uncannily similar in a sense, regarding the Wobblies and anarchism
I think there is something in the idea of the importance leadership that Bookchin held, no doubt to do with those early days. I am constantly struck that the "hard left leadership" that Street mentions, neglecting to let me know what it is or who they are, are a disparate group unable to to get together and build what they all seem to say is needed. The p2pers get around the problem by asserting emergence and self organisation.
I guess we will have to wait and see. Hopefully not for too long, that is if Paul Street was being sincere and not just yanking my chain.
Cirrevtions (corrections)
...why are you waiting givEN your connections.
...need both in whatever proportions aRe necessary....
Its as if WW2 and subsequent...
...the importance of leadership that Bookchin....
Oh, and the worst one because its all over the essay posted!
Biehl, not Beihl. Jesus. I's and e's always get me...Schwieckart, Schweickart, Siefkes, Seifkes...
Think you've put your finger on the key wound of 'the left', Batjames. Rather than answers, maybe time to find good questions.
As possible questions:
Can we learn anything from the very ambiguous, sometimes disastrous (Bolshevism-Stalinism), history of 'the left' and from the reasoned disillusion with post-1914 and then post-1945 working class movements on the part of ex-revolutionaries and anarchists?
Wasn't the whole basis of anti-orthodox 'Western Marxism' (Lukacs, Korsch, Gramsci, Mattick, Ruehle, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Debord) the abject failure of the European working class movements after 1914, 1918 and 1933?
How does history and historical experience necessarily change the nature of critical-radical thought if it wants to stay critical and non-sectarian?
What do we still mean by 'revolution', or even 'THE Revolution' in the 21st century?
Do we still, like Marx and trad anarchism, believe in the 'working class'/'oppressed'/'proletariat' as THE 'historical subject', the 'agent' of 'the revolution'?
Do all such trad left notions perhaps block, hinder, weigh down the possibility of fresh, new, creative critical thinking about deep social change and its new complexities?
"Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. Ah, but it's a great time to be alive ladies and gentlemen. And that's the theme of our program for tonight, "It's so FUCKING GREAT to be alive"! Is what the theme of our show is tonight, boys and girls. And I'm wanna tell ya, if there is anybody here who DOESN'T believe that it is FUCKING GREAT to be alive, I wish that they go now, because this show will only bring them down so much... ]
God Bless America
Land that I love
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You've gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Oh, that the vegetable will respond to you
And if you are a consenting adult we want you to call today in Los Angeles, the number is Richmond9-6935 , in Downey it's 347-8932.
Call it direct,
Call it collect,
But call it today."
FZ - Call Any Vegetable from Just Another Band from LA.
I like the questions Peter.
Aw Bat , thanks for that :)
One of my favourite songs too. Rootabayee rootabayee...
And don't you eat that yellow snow coz it's where the huskies go...
Enjoying the Biehl bio. Kinda like the Dolgoff on Dolgoff bio. They both give good insight into American radical politics, groups and movements, albeit from different persectives. The little details are great.
I am struck by so much in Bookchin' s bio. The section on the German greens, the splits, the anarchists, basically all this nitty gritty bullshit tgat gets in the way if everything is educational. At one point, Bookchin thinks Europe is where it is at, more serious than the US, then they are too dogmatic, sectarian and stuck, and the US looks more open...
Then all of a sudden I began to wonder why Albert/Hahnel and Bookchin's ideas didn't come together. One can see that Bookchin's idea of citizen assemblies, libertarian municipalism was doomed if it rubbed up against an opposing set of economic institutions like market capitalism, much like Albert asserts in books when looking at society and four basic spheres and how they operate in concert and how if one is destabilised, changed, the others will operate to stabilise the situation, either by pulling the changed sphere back into line or changing themselves to accomodate the changes in the one. But usually the three against the one will win out.
I mean, if Albert/Hahnel came together with Bookchin, one would see a liberating polity and economy come together and Bookchin seemed, by this point in the eighties to be a little sick of labels in a similar way that Albert is...
Is this what stops a movement of movements comining together...the separation of compatible ideas? What keeps them apart when so many know of both? Small underlying beliefs and disagreements, nitty gritties that escalate into dogmas and sectarianism? Or just that they didn't know of each other...
In some ways the NSP panders to Parecon, but is fundamentally opposed to it...it prefers reformist (it would say practical in the same sense that the green faction that alligned itself with the SPD in German would say it was being), economic vision that embraces aspects of markets, capitalism, and hierarchy to varying degrees and ignores the insights that could be garnered from the only concrete, cogent coherent and complete (the four C's) revolutionary participatory economic system out there, Parecon. This is not because Parecon is shit but because Alperovitz believes it to be not feasible and most at the Democracy Collaborative and in the solidarity economics movement, more than likely, fundamentally disagree with it based on the bogus assessment that it is a blueprint developed by a couple of individuals to be implemented in some undemocratic fashion, which stands in contradiction to the principles upheld in the solidarity movement and by many anarchists, that a new system should be developed on the ground by all through practical actions and that there are many alternatives. The latter, in my opinion, is bogus, or at least misguided. There are not many alternatives but there may be many alternative economic textures dependent on culture and geographic/environmental space.
But if Bookchin and Albert/Hahnel had come together there would have been a coming together of at least two visions belonging to two different spheres and what appear to be similar, or at least, not incompatible mindsets of left 'leaders'.
Not to mention this,
"Bookchin was ready to go home. If municipalism was going to happen anywhere, it would be in the United States, specifically New England. He was finished trying to promote the town meeting to Europeans. Now he would get to work in Vermont."
And is not Boston part of New England? Mind you, Parecon would not have been complete at this stage of Bookchin's life but nevertheless...Social Ecology and Parecon are not incompatible at all and the debate between Albert and Staudenmaier, to me, showed this...but there did seem to be a reluctance from Staudemaier to embrace Parecon in much the same way the solidarity movement and Alperovitz are...which is wierd because Parecon IS a solidarity economy and as a truly revolutionary economic alternative, in that it is a complete institutional change, as practical as I have seen without being a hodge podge or vague in part.
In some sense this highlights my point...
"Capitalism is undoing the process of organic evolution, he thundered. It is wrecking human networks of mutual aid, reciprocity, complementarity. We must take charge of our own affairs, must "democratize the republic, and radicalize the democracy."
Bookchin starts out chastising an economic institution, the current core or foundation of the worlds economy, but then by the end of the statement is talking of the polity, the decision-making process, of democracy as the solution...the statement morphs from the economy being the problem to the polity being the answer...without any idea of what economic institutional reorganisation is required...mind you, it is only a short statement!
"Not only had the political spectrum shifted to the right, but alternative political culture itself had changed. Confrontation was no longer considered acceptable behavior. Back in his Trotskyist days, even when debates had been acerbic and vituperative, everyone had understood not to take it personally—the clashes were about clarifying ideas for the sake of the larger cause. But in the 1990s, people took clashes of opinion very personally—and sought to avoid them. Now, it seemed to Murray, political people were supposed to hold only polite, low-keyed conversations and seek out commonalities."
This is the same feeling I got from that frustrating dialogue essay thingy between Alperovitz The Pluralist and Albert The Pareconist. It was Albert the old left revolutionary agitator versus the more congenial liberal and well mannered approach of Alperovitz. Alperovitz The Pluralist came across patronising and paternalistic, like father chastising an unruly child for rocking the boat too much. "Go easy son, easy, the workers and poor people can't handle those crazy over the top ideas like balanced job complexes, remuneration for effort and sacrifice or participatory planning. Jesus, even I think they're just wild and out there and I'm pretty smart and learned. They need to be eased into change by port-side consultants and those who write working papers proposing alternative-vision-LITE."
Left this bit out.
"He was repeatedly reproached for his militancy and his sharp debating style—he was too aggressive, he was told."
Jesus, the guy was nine when he became a fucking hardcore activist, basically adopted by the young Marxist movement, a surrgate family, and he had the courage to move from label to label with an open mind and put up with so much shit, over decades of involvement, starting from when he was just a kid and HE'S being fucking educated and lectured to by those usually younger than him on "style", arrogantly in my opinion. This is when giving people the stiff middle finger of recalcitrance is warranted and those those self righteously berating and chastising him for his "style" can grow some and wear it...oh, and fucking apologise. Shits me no end.


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Parents and Students!
Let me tell you about Practicia. Practicia is a ground breaking app (currently only available for Apple products, though they are currently working on the Android version) that allows students to safely, securely and privately share their practice sessions with their teacher in between lessons. There are a number of benefits to an app like this:
- I can provide multimedia instruction on assignments, including pictures and videos for reference.
- I get alerted every time you practice – it's one of my favorite notifications!
- I can provide feedback throughout the week. Students can ask questions by sending me an audio or video recording.
- Automated rewards and rankings will motivate students to practice more.
- I can get insight into exactly what and exactly how long my students are practicing.
- We can communicate privately and securely – no one has access to the video, audio or text but you and me.
- Students can objectively listen to and watch their own performances – a very important skill to develop.
- In the event of a canceled lesson due to illness or weather, I will still be able to hear your child's playing – it does not replace a physical lesson, but it will help to bridge the gap until the next time I see them.
To start using Practicia, the parents of younger students, or older students themselves, must first go to their website at practicia.com to sign up. If you're creating a parent account, you can then create accounts for your child (or multiple!) which you will then be able to monitor. From the website you will also need to sign up with me. Search for me using my full name or my email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Next, you can download the app from the app store. You and your child will have separate logins. If you are using an iPod or iPad, you will have to specify that you are searching for an iPhone app. They did not create a separate iPad version, but the iPhone version of the app will work just fine.
Once I have accepted you as a student on my roster, I can set up assignments for you to start practicing. At our lesson, I will go over with your child how the app works (if you are the parent of a young child, feel free to sit in so you know how it works, too!).
I have been using this app with many of my students for a few months now to great success. I can't wait to continue using it with my whole studio. Only great things will happen!


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Tuesday, 1 August
8:30 - 10:15 am
Room 210
Session Chair: Daniel Maskit, Digital Domain
8:30 - 10:15 am
Room 210
Session Chair: Daniel Maskit, Digital Domain
World-Space Servoing for Character Animation Under Simulation
A new method for combining physics simulation with motion capture data in real time produces realistic dynamic movement of video game characters.
Pawel Wrotek
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Brown University
Morgan McGuire
Williams College
morgan (at) cs.brown.edu
Quick Transitions Using Multi-Way Blends
A method for responsive, high-quality synthesis of human animation that can generate a transition of user-specified length between any two frames of motion.
Leslie Ikemoto
University of California, Berkeley
lesliei (at) eecs.berkeley.edu
Okan Arikan
University of Texas Austin
David Forsyth
University of California, Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Automatic Splicing for Hand and Body Animations
A simple yet effective technique for aligning hand and full-body motion that exploits characteristics of human gestures.
Anna Majkowska
University of California, Los Angeles
annam (at) cs.ucla.edu
Victor Zordan
University of California, Riverside
Petros Faloutsos
University of California, Los Angeles
Anticipating Impacts
An approach for computing and achieving compelling protective poses for a character in anticipation of an impending collision.
Ronald Metoyer
Oregon State University
metoyer (at) cs.orst.edu
Victor Zordan
University of California, Riverside
Benjamin Hermens
Oregon State University
Chun-Chih Wu
Marc Soriano
University of California, Riverside


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Brent, I could write up log4j.xml and implement RepositorySelector as you suggested in the URL. But still my logs are going to the same log file for 2 web applications deployed on the same OC4J instance. I have OC4J Application server 10.1.3.5.0 where I have deployed 2 web applications on the same instance, and the logs for both applications are going to only one log file which got deployed first. log4j-1.2.16.jar is in use as a shared-lib for the instance. How can I separate them? Thanks Jasmin From: Brent Worden <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Date: 08/09/2010 09:56 AM Subject: Re: [Logging] : Can commons.logging be used without log4j On 8/9/2010 7:53 AM, Jasmin Mehta wrote: > The log4j has limitation that if its used as a shared library then it can > initiate only one configuration. So my all we applications which shares > the same instance are populating the logs into only one log file (the web > app which deployed first in order), rather than individual / separate log > files configured in the path of each of the application's > log4j.properties. > > This isn't true. Log4j allows for defining and using multiple log configurations in a single JVM. This is accomplished by using a RepositorySelector to manage the multiple log hierarchies. See http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Log4jrepositoryselector for a web container example. Thanks, Brent Worden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com ****************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or agency to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the Navy Exchange Service Command e-mail administrator. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Thank You! ******************************************************************************
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Sitting down at the internet cafe tonight, and still offline at the house for reasons more embarrassingly stupid than I care to list. It really couldn't have come at a worse time than slap-bang in the middle of the American election, which has careered wildly off the path of mild amusement and crashed into an insane asylum of hooting lunacy, leaving the streets filled with dazed, drooling wingnuts.
From what I can pick up off FOX News and CNN, the internet's a veritable shitstorm of rancid crazy, and here I am, reading mere books in my spare time! Proper ones, with no pictures!
There's no justice.
Still, being offline has given me a different perspective, i.e. the watch the news or read a paper one that people who aren't politics geeks have, and here's what I'm picking up...
Barack Obama is totally a socialist, and he wants to give rich people's money to poor people. The honest, hardworking poor people don't want rich people's money, because that's un-American, and Americans hate money, especially other people's money that's free.
I know that because the woman on FOX News said she'd read 1984 twice, and she can smell the echoes of fascism and communism. It's not clear in what way a fascist echo smells differently to a communist echo, but the reek of totalitarianism is tangible. Hence, an Obama victory means a future in which unlaced white, special edition Run DMC Reebok trainer stamps on a human face forever, except when the trainer takes time out from stamping on the face to pick America's pocket, and then it's back to the stamping.
Mind, Bill O'Reilly announced that Obama can't be a communist, because he buys things. You can always spot a commie, because he isn't interested in drugs or beer or rent boys like the rest of us - oh no. Your average commie would rather sit reading Camus in a cafeteria while stroking his beard, and you'd better believe that the Camus, the cafeteria and the beard will all have been stolen from the sweat of the working man's brow.
Also, John McCain was a Prisoner of War (note the capitals, peeps) and a long spell in a bamboo cage seems to have left him with too much skin on his neck, a cadaverous grin and a tendency to hug bald plumbers. Not that he got up to anything gay or anything in the camp, because he favours family values, but he could've done, having been a strapping lad who's up for action at the drop of a hat.
Not only that, but Barack Obama stands for Hope and Change, and he proves it every day by setting his jaw and staring determinedly into the middle distance. You might think he's gazing into an unknown future with solemn determination, but I can tell you what he sees there - he sees a photographer, and a load of egghead, elitist journalists shouting Ack-Ack-Ack! like the aliens in Mars Attacks! - but those journalists are symbolic, not literal.
They're saying that America is about to turn a corner, and that there's light at the end of the tunnel which is just round the corner, and that light at the end of the tunnel which is just round the corner is symbolic too - it symbolises a new dawn for America, or at least a good chance that the President can use the word Negotiation without being called a queer on national television.
Also, Sarah Palin is dangerously insane.
Right, that's your lot - I'm out of credit. Back as soon as possible.


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Valentine's Day is around the corner and I am thrilled! Not only am I a sucker for a day devoted to telling those close to you that you love them, but also my anniversary is a week later. February really is a month filled with love. One of our favorite designers, Tory Burch, teamed up with renowned artist Leanne Shapton to design an exclusive collection of items for Valentine's Day. The collection is made up of cosmetic cases, totes and pajama sets.
The collaboration resulted in two prints, the watercolor Tory logo and the lips prints. Both are done in hues of red, perfectly suited for Valentine's day. My pick goes to the lips print (I ordered the pajama set yesterday!) though the watercolor Tory print has a colorful whimsical touch.
The tote is perfect to use for multiple occasions. The body of the bag is canvas with leather trim. On the inside there are two interior pockets. The cosmetic case makes for a great gift as well! It is also canvas with leather trim and a cut out logo at the center.
Buy the totes via Tory Burch for $195 and cosmetic cases for $55.
The pajama sets I adore! I have always had an affinity to long arm and leg button up pj sets. All I want to do is wear my pajamas and sit in front of a fire with a mug of hot chocolate. AMAZING. The pajama sets are 100% cotton.
Buy via Tory Burch for $125.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
And now for some stamping!
I bought a Cuttlebug! I had been undecided for so long because I've got a Sizzix Sidekick but I wanted to be able to cut chipboard and fun foam for scrapbooking titles. Lincraft had the C'bug on special for a really good price but I was still not 100% sure and then I tested some thin chipboard and fun foam through the Sidekic and it worked so decided not to get one but then found some nice C'bug dies and embossing folders online so throughout the course of the day I was able to convince myself lol! Then I went in and they were back to their normal price!!! Arrgh but I went up to the desk to see if I could knock her down (in price not literally) and turns out the advertised price was wrong and they were still in sale for $40 off - yay! So glad I asked! Then I raced down to Scraptacular right on closing (sorry Julie *g* well there were still other customers in the shop)and bought some folders so I could have a play that night. I also bought a Clip It Up (my tax return came in *g*) which is still sitting untouched in it's box.
Anyway, last Saturday my son had a party to go to but not until 5pm. I had all day to make this card but yep, are you surprised to hear that I started it at 4.00pm?? Lucky we live near the bowling alley where the party was being held. The cardstock is called Core-dinations Black Magic. It's coloured card on one side and black on the other and when you distress the black top the coloured "core" shows through! Pretty neat huh? I bought the card at the Jeff Shed show, it was a scrapbooking stand right opposite us (waves to Sarah!). This cardstock was also why I "needed" the Cuttlebug.
The 2nd card is a shameless CASE from one of my downline, Karen. Hers is in different colours though and uses ribbon, I used a strip of c/stock with faux stitching. It hasn't photographed too well, the light wasn't very good. The stamp set is Always from the new Spring mini catalogue. If you'd like a copy of this, email me email@example.com (I've forgotton how to connect this) and I'll send one out to you!
6 comments:
- Chris said...
Hey! I was going to shamelessly CASE Karen's card as well ... it is such a pretty way to use that bird stamp.
- August 21, 2008 at 12:15 PM
- kazy2004 said...
Calm Down, calm down!! LOL. Not even I can keep up with this many posts. But I am very proud of you. Glad you are getting some use out of your cuttlebug, fun isn't he. Glad you liked my card. I love your faux stitching, you tricked me.
Cheers ( a very impressed) Karen
- August 21, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Gail Kirby said...
LOL! Knew it wouldn't take you long to see I'd updated. Gives me breathing space for another 6 weeks or so lol! I was really surprised how authentic the faux stitching looks, especially when it's dried properly.
- August 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM
- Chris said...
By the way, I will have to come over & play with your CBug now *g*
- August 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM
- Gail Kirby said...
Warning - you will get addicted! I'll bring it with me to Pauline's and the DGen and Music and Lyrics DVDs
- August 21, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Chris said...
Kewl! I don't have any new toys to bring for a play :-(
- August 21, 2008 at 5:03 PM


text: Bluetooth Stereo Pairing Network Posted on August 9, 2012 by Lief Storer Reply Creating an audio network for a short range use case Boombotix is working a new firmware that allows two speakers to be networked via Bluetooth for true stereo sound playback. The speakers can be used in this loft scenario to have synchronized music in the top and bottom floor of a studio loft. They also use the Boombot2 wireless speaker to be tethered to the home stereo system for amplified sound. If you're looking for portable speaker tech, look no further. In principal, what the speakers are doing with the audio source goes as follows; One bluetooth speaker pairs to an audio source (smartphone, laptop, tablet etc.) The source must be a bluetooth source. The audio data is sent to the speaker where it is re-encoded as a stereo audio signal. The first speaker will play the right channel while sending the audio data for the left channel to a second speaker. This works without any latency so the speakers are able to maintain synchronized playback wirelessly while also offering true stereo. This feature is not currently incorporated into our devices, but it is something we are developing for future models. We are addressing the firmware design to make this pairing process seamless and ultimately allow users to transport full wireless stereo configurations wherever they choose. If you have any questions about this technology or you may be interested in getting involved, just let us know. Posted in tech news | Tagged apple, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Speaker, gadgets, jambox, jawbone, laptop speaker, Macbook, Macbook Air, mobile audio, portable audio, smartphone smartphone speaker, speaker review, travel speaker | Leave a comment


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Anatomy class is DONE!
Oh man, 2 months of intense art cramming is over. This was Ron Lemen's Analytical Figure Drawing class, and I'd totally recommend it for getting your accurate human drawing skills up to snuff.
Every week had an assignment – you've seen the gesture drawing one. Here's a sample of the rest, for your judgement:
Wk 2: Skeletons
Wk 3: Head Structure
Wk 4: Torso Muscles
Wk 5: Back Muscles
Wk 7: Legs
And finally, Wk 8: Everything we learned plus a shaded drawing
Welp, there we go. I've never concentrated so hard and been so detailed in my approach to human figures – I feel it's done me good.
Oh, and if you're going to take this course, I heartily recommend getting those human anatomy posters – you know the ones in doctor's offices, with skeletons and muscle systems all laid out and labeled? SUPER HANDY, believe me. They're up on my studio wall now and they are not moving.
All the best folks, I"m going to binge on Archer now.


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Oven Roasted Mackerel
This fish dish reminds me of my trip at Dongdaemun Market's fish street in Seoul a couple of years ago. I can't recall how I ended up there. I do travel with a food list of the place in the native language, so it's not surprising that I ate amazing grilled fish. I'm a fish fan, and I'm glad that I live where I live as I have walking distance access to the Asian supermarkets that have really fresh fish, with vendors that can cut the fish the way I'd like it to be. See?
Recreating the dish was a NEED as I just got off a girlfriend getaway trip which was sponsored by Carnival Cruise lines. I immensely loved the food on board, but there's no taste like my own cooking. But wait! Who am I kidding? I gained 7 lbs in 7 days and I need to eliminate all that weight gain ASAP. I know, it should have been grilled – but making it in the oven is much easier, and there are more people with access to a regular oven instead of a grill.
- Mackerel (or your fish of choice/availability with heads on and bones in. Ask the fishmonger to cut it butterfly style.)
- Garlic, minced (use as much as you like)
- Onion, cut into rings (use as much as you like)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Cooking oil or olive oil (not butter, trying to shed some food baby weight!)
Special Equipment:
- Oven
- Baking Sheet
- Preheat oven to 300°F
- Cut onions into rings. Separate rings, toss into a bit of cooking oil, salt and pepper. Line the baking sheet with it. You may use parchment paper / aluminum to line the pan but I didn't have either available, so lining with onions it is!
- Mince garlic. In a small bowl, add minced garlic, a bit of cooking oil, salt and pepper. Mix well until dissolved.
- Lay the fish on top of the onion rings.
- Brush fish with minced garlic mix.
- Stick it in the oven for 25-30 mins, to make sure the insides are cooked
- If the onions are done to your liking, take them out of the pan, keep the fish in. Don't be like me – see below!
- Turn up heat to 400-450°F in increments of 5 minutes until garlic is "starting to turn brown". The fish will be done, but there will be residual cooking enough for the garlic to turn golden brown. (This one took about an additional 15 minutes with the size of the fish and my oven)
And, dinner is ready! Either serve it with a side of salad or rice.
I was thinking that my onions would "beautifully brown" with the garlic. Lo and behold, most of the onions burned – but not the ones under the fish and my dinner! Success!
One of my friends told me that he likes my recipes because it's a "use whatever you have" type of instructions. Not all of us have the access to the markets I have around me or the dedication to make a pilgrimage to the ethnic markets like immigrants do. My recipes are posted merely as an idea for you to use, and maybe try to make something out of your comfort zone. Go ahead and substitute! Happy cooking!


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According to several published reports on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, David Khan's numerous trips to Spain resulted in absolutely nothing for the T-Wolves (except, perhaps, a nice tan for the Minny boss.)
Ricky Rubio appears to be staying in his native land, for at least a couple more years.
This isn't really much of a surprise — since Draft night, it has never seemed likely that we'd see Rubio on an NBA floor in 2010, and certainly not in a Timberwolves uniform.
So, now what for the T-Wolves and their fans? Well, there's a lot of teeth-gnashing and suffering going on at the moment (and hope that Jonny Flynn turns into some kind of star.) The poor bastards.
The Minny media, meanwhile, isn't totally convinced that Rubio won't be playing in the U.S. next season, The Star Tribune has a rumor (last heard on the infamous Draft night) that the Wolves and Knicks are working on a possible trade. Said rumor was shot down completely by the NY media. Alas.
In the end, as always, it seems to have been about the money more than anything else. At the moment, Regal FC Barcelona can afford to pay Ricky significantly more than Minny is even allowed to offer.
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The rumour mill has gone into overdrive. What's up with Madonna and Idris Elba who have recently been spotted together at events? Are they now an item?
They two stars were spotted unable to keep their hands off each other at a kickboxing match which Elba won in London last weekend.
The kickboxing match, the first for Elba, 44 was part of a documentary series that he is making for the Discovery Channel – Idris Elba: Fighter.
It was rteported that Elba and Madonna were cuddling and kissing openly while celebrating his victory at a Halloween party at the London's M restaurant. However Elba who recently split from his secret wife Sonya Hamlin has flatly denied this.
He quickly took to to Twitter to where he wrote: 'Am I sleeping with Madonna? No motherfuckers… "Don't believe the Hype."
It was reported that Elba left Sonya Hamlin because he believes that being single will play well to his large female fan base. And consequently, admitting to a relationship may adversely affect his marketability with female fans.
Madonna filmed and uploaded a video of the The Wire actor's Bethnal Green fight to her Instagram page, with the title: 'Idris Elba Smashes it at York Hall!'
She also went on Snapchat and Instagram uploading more on the fight as well as a selfie of her and Elba lying together on the floor.
The two stars are said to have known each other The pair have known each other for a number of years and worked together on the German leg of Madonna's Rebel Hearts tour in 2015 when Elba who started out as DJ supported the singer.
The Discovery Channel documentary series involves Elba undertaking the physically and mentally demanding task of training to become a professional kickboxer, will be released in 2017.


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Kurt Angle may not fight again in WWE . We are within hours of revealing the great secret of the General Manager of Raw and one of the chances is that this will return to compete in the ring … However, this to the end would not be happening.
The information was released exclusively by Nick and Bill from the Podcast called "The Dirty Sheets" through its special section denoticias of last hour "DS Breaking News" , linked to the web page of the English sports news SportsKeeda . Here's the video with Nick's statements about the future in Kurt Angle's ring in WWE:
"Hello everyone, this is Nick from New York and this is another edition of 'DS Breaking News' on The Dirty Sheets Podcast. Today's exclusive news has to do with everyone's favorite Olympic, Kurt Angle, because we have news of his return to the ring with WWE.
"That's right, friends, WWE would repeat the same formula last year as they faced the Cover Character with the Downloadable Character (Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg in 'WWE 2K17′). 2K and WWE loved the result of that and all were happy, they wanted to repeat the same thing this year.
"But the only problem with that is that WWE has decided that they do not want Kurt Angle to fight again in WWE anymore. They have decided that Kurt is not a ring talent, which is only a television talent inside the screen, but not a fighter. There are currently no plans for Kurt Angle to make his return to the ring in WWE, I repeat, THERE ARE NO PLANS.
"Ni siquiera le han realizado exámenes médicos. No es elegible de ninguna manera. No hay planes para luchar en SummerSlam, no hay planes para Survivor Series, no hay planes para Royal Rumble y no hay planes para WrestleMania 34. No habrá ninguna lucha entre él y Seth Rollins. No habrá ninguna lucha entre él y Triple H. Cualquier otra cosa que escuches (o leas) que diga lo contario, no es verdad. WWE no tiene, repito, NO TIENE ningún plan para que Kurt Angle regrese al ring.
"Una vez más, esto es WWE y nunca digas nunca, quizá en dos años pueda volver a luchar con ellos. Pero de momento no hay planes en un futuro cercano para que Kurt Angle regrese al ring con WWE".
Esta información coincide con las recientes declaraciones de Jerry "The King" Lawler:
Surely tonight we will see partially or definitively whether this report is true or not, but, for now, do not forget to watch for the best coverage of WWE Monday Night Raw only here in SUPER STRUGGLES .
Connoisseurs, Kurt Angle may not fight again in WWE, let us know your opinion on this rumor.


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TEHRAN – Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told Iranians to resist feminist ideas because they are part of a "Zionist plot" aiming to corrupt the role of women.
Addressing a group of religious speakers last week, Khamenei said the life of the prophet's daughter Fatimah should be held up as the ideal for the country's women.
"Making women a commodity and an object of gratification in the Western world is most likely among Zionist plots aiming to destroy the society," the leader's website reported him as saying.
"Today, Western thinkers and those who pursue issues such as gender equality regret the corruption which it has brought about."
Khamenei did say that men and women were equal in the "ascendance of spiritual positions, the power of leadership, and the capability to lead humankind", but that some tasks for women "collapse and humiliate" their primary roles as housewives and mothers.
Khamenei has issued a fatwa-ban on women cycling – claiming it "attracts the attention of men and…contravenes women's chastity. Women are also restricted in all spheres of personal and public life with state-enforced codes, curbs on higher education, jobs and freedom of movement requiring a husband's signature.
In 2014, women launched the My Stealthy Freedom campaign, which calls on women to challenge the hijab ban by going in public without the veil, taking photos and posting them online. The movement has more than a million followers.
Men in Iran also joined the campaign and began wearing hijabs in solidarity with women, while some women also shaved their hair to go in public without the cover.
Women's rights took a blow following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, after which dress code was enforced.
Iranian religious officials regularly employ the 'Zionist plot' argument against calls for gender equality and other criticisms.
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The kids and I are far...far....away. I have so many "field trips" planned I can hardly stand it. Pretty sure I've made Billy nuts with my "let's see this and let's see that". HA. But really, except for the beach we've not taken our kids anywhere. This is a whole different type of away from home experience for them. Thus why I've decided to dub it the Ultimate Field Trip. Oh, and Billy's here too. But he's working. Thus why the field trip is affordable. It's called stow-away in some circles. He doesn't seem to mind.
When we get back I am sure I'll have stories to tell. I'm renting a car and driving.....laugh those that know me. I'm not blonde anymore so hoping that helps. Plus I've got Mailey and William to help navigate. See ya at the end of the week!!


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The fragFX Vs2 Controller
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The UNIQUE left hand re-programmable grip (nicknamed the "FragChuck" by G4TV) has the full range of 6-axis motion control for PlayStation 3 games - and can be programmed to trigger functions to reload a weapon or to rifle butt an opponent, by swinging the FragChuck.
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Some Of Us Did Not Watch Malgudi Days, We Lived Them
I certainly did. When I was all of ten, I received RK Narayan's fictitious world neatly wrapped as a birthday present. When I unpacked it, I was carted into Narayan's numinous world of everyday deeds. His words and imagination brought alive the fictitious southern town of Malgudi, and growing up, it was difficult comprehending the simple verity about this ethereal world; it didn't exist.
Malgudi Schooldays: The Adventures of Swami and His Friends was a journey I took eons ago, and won't hesitate taking again. A decade-and-a-half later, Swami lives, fresh in memory, as the odd, adventurous and rebellious schoolboy. Which is why, I, like most others would want to carry myself back in time, possibly even teleport to this peculiarly-real town of Malgudi so we I can relive the days again; Swaminathan would approve.
Malgudi Schooldays is the story of a 10-year-old boy, who lives with his (authoritarian) lawyer father, (gentle) homemaker mother and a frayed grandmother in Malgudi, a small town in pre-independent India. Grandma's stories give the initial wings to Swami's imaginations. He finds comfort in her when not pranking around.
Reluctant on most days and eternally lazy, Swami is not particularly fond of his school. His only consolation is his impishness, which his close circuit of friends are a part of. For this boy, school means Mani, Shankar, Samuel and Somu. Rajam, the son of the deputy superintendent of Malgudi comes along, and the boys forge a unique friendship of mutual awe and admiration. For Swami, appeasing Rajam while keeping Mani close becomes a life goal.
But things do not go as per the plan. A baby brother, some misapprehensions, low grades and change of school later, Swami finds himself rusticated on disciplinary grounds. Shuddering at the very thought of facing his strict father and more ramifications at home, Swami runs away, right before a much-awaited Malgudi Cricket Club match – for which he has been chosen as the team's bowler.
He breaks his best friend Rajam's heart promptly, loses his trust and finds himself facing his worst fears. Vulnerable, haunting, relatable and terribly-funny, Malgudi Schooldays is one book everybody should live and relive, just for the sheer joy of re-counting their own commonplace lives through a young boy's eyes.
RK Narayan wizardry with words is unparalleled, and some of us were lucky enough to have been a part of the leading light.
Prerna Mittra
The Viewspaper