 been spent on mayors, councillors, chiefs, deputies and managers — rather than on the community.
Having more than 90 elected representatives serving the region from Sooke to North Sidney is absolutely insane. And each has their own stipends and perks.
I used to think small was good. But after seeing the success neighbourhoods such as Cook Street village, Fernwood and James Bay, I now see these village concepts are the better way to go.
One wonders why Colwood, largely a residential city, is falling over itself to build a downtown core when there is an active, vibrant one in Langford.
It’s nice to have business and offices to meet specific needs in specific areas but we do not need to duplicate entire downtowns just to keep up with the Jones.Richard Sennett shares how basically place is where we dwell, space is what we travel through. We need both.
Towards this, I’ve been sharing an idea I’ve had for sharing these things in a high-octane way: the gift of an undiluted hour of dreamwhispering. Drop me a line to find out more.
Coaches like Godin and others of the business world seem to be teaching life lessons as they relate to success in the business world. Success, suggesting happiness. In that way of thinking, happiness comes as a result of achievements — money, status, creative endeavors, etc., all of which require someone from the outside looking at us who will acknowledge our success. It requires us to ‘get somewhere’. Where is there to go? We’re here. Now. We have this life, this breath… and at any moment it could be our last.
I visit your posts because you tend to cross that Seth Godin line and venture into the realm of ‘higher consciousness’ … esoteric thought. I see this as a different sort of learning and subsequently a different way of living life.
Fully awake and aware… self-realization, or ‘god’ realization as some of us come to see it… and, just as you pose the question above: Who is my true-self? A business guru is likely to have a very different answer from that of Jiddu Krishnamurti or Alan Watts (both denounce the title ‘guru’ by the way).
Well, as I drone on, meaning fades. But, I felt to add a few words. I follow plenty of writers on WP and find very little interaction— it more soliloquy.
Again, I enjoy your illustrations, even when the topic may not draw me in. (No pun intended) lol.
I agree with you. My bit about Godin, above, doesn’t fairly represent him… or his work. He’s more than a business coach — most certainly!
Interesting (and a wee bit disquieting) to read my comments from not that long ago, but that seem “so very long ago”… I’d not say any of it now, in the way I’d said it then.
We’re moving towards a greater horizon.
geoffreybaines on Are we wise yet?
Q: Unable to downgrade java version from 1.8 to 1.7 in ubuntu I have an amazon EC2 Bitnami tomcat ubuntu instance running and it has default JDK as 1.8.
I have installed oracle-7 jdk via sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer 
Now, I tried to change the default version from 8 to 7.
I ran the commands mentioned here. 
They run succesfully. But when I do java -version, I still get : 
java version "1.8.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode)

Can someone please tell me how can I make the default java version to 1.7? 
Thank you.

A: Bitnami developer here. Please find below the steps required to install Java 7 JDK on your system and modify the Bitnami environment for changes to take effect. As an extra step before starting to modify your system, I recommend you to create a server backup.


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*Install Java 7 JDK on your system by running the commands below. It should be installed at /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk


*Create a backup of the files that you need to modify
cp /home/bitnami/.bashrc /home/bitnami/.bashrc.bck
sudo cp /opt/bitnami/scripts/setenv.sh /opt/bitnami/scripts/setenv.sh.bck
sudo cp /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh.bck
sudo cp /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/bin/setenv.sh /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/bin/setenv.sh.bck


*Set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables to point to the Java 7 installation directory adding the lines below at the end of the /opt/bitnami/scripts/setenv.sh file
# Set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Java 7
PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin:/opt/bitnami/sqlite/bin:/opt/bitnami/java/bin:/opt/bitnami/php/bin:/opt/bitnami/mysql/bin:/opt/bitnami/apache2/bin:/opt/bitnami/common/bin:$PATH"
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/lib:/opt/bitnami/sqlite/lib:/opt/bitnami/mysql/lib:/opt/bitnami/apache2/lib:/opt/bitnami/common/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH


*Modify the JRE_HOME variable from JRE_HOME=/opt/bitnami/java to JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 in file /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh

*Modify the JAVA_HOME variable from JAVA_HOME=/opt/bitnami/java to JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 in both /opt/bitnami/scripts/setenv.sh and /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/bin/setenv.sh files

*Restart all the Bitnami services using the ctlscript.sh script
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart


*Load the environment and check the Java version by running the commands below
. /opt/bitnami/scripts/setenv.sh
java -version


*Visit the Apache Tomcat manager application to check the Java version currently running. You should see a "Server Information" section similar to the one below

Additionally, you can modify the /home/bitnami/.bashrc file for the new environment to be automatically loaded every time that you connect to your server by adding the line below to the end of the file 
   . /opt/bitnami/scripts/setenv.sh

Best regards,
Gonzalo
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