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The Sysadmin's Daily Grind: Nmap 4
Many tools keep growing with each new version, but Nmap 4.00 has lost weight thanks to the Diet-Nmap project. The latest incarnation of Nmap is not only quicker, it is also more frugal with memory.
The Network Mapper tool, or Nmap [1], is my constant companion. Just recently, Nmap inventor Fyodor celebrated his brainchild's eighth birhtday, and the birthday present was a new diet of code with many useful new functions. One of the most exciting introductions is the addition of ARP scanning. The operating system uses ARP requests to query MAC addresses on the target network. Nmap simply takes over this chore for the operating system, and as a result, the Nmap scanner generates a useful collection of reliable data on the number and type of active hosts on the network.
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SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
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FRANKFURT (AP) - Bayern Munich president Uli Hoennes says coach Jupp Heynckes would have liked to stay another year but cleared the way for Pep Guardiola to be hired for next season.
Hoeness tells ZDF television "I think he would have liked to stay another year" and that Bayern was grateful "that he made it possible (to hire Guardiola)" and "did not make a scene".
Bayern announced a three-year deal with Guardiola on Wednesday and said at the time Heynckes had decided to retire at the end of the season.
Hoeness says Heynckes could have been persuaded to stay another season but that Bayern had to make the move for Guardiola when the opportunity presented itself.
Heynckes' contract expires at the end of the season. Bayern is chasing three titles.

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Babble: Summer Hacks For More Fun In The SunThe pool noodle sprinkler is just one of the ideas to help your kids have a blast this summer.
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5 Interesting Facts About The Santa Clarita ValleyWhether you're looking for individual fun, things to do for couples, or even taking the entire family, there is likely something that will wet your appetite.
Best Tips For Special Needs Families In Los AngelesIn a city like Los Angeles, we are blessed with many places that offer facilities that cater to the physical challenges of special needs families.
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Best Rock Climbing Facilities for Kids Around Orange CountyIf you are looking for a great place to let your kids climb the walls without tearing the house down, then indoor rock climbing is the sport to choose.
Inland Empire Little League Caught In Big Struggle Between 2 CitiesThe city of Ontario owns the field and rents it for $1 a year. But the lease is up and the league is out.
Hollywood's Best Fun For KidsHollywood doesn't have to be Holly-Weird. In fact, Hollywood offers a wide variety of fun options that will keep families watching, learning, exploring and playing together.
Best Holiday Volunteer Opportunities For The Family In Orange CountyEvery day, in every community, your family can make a difference. Orange County is certainly no exception. This holiday season you and your family may engage in anything from toy drives to family counseling and support to landscaping projects. Take your pick, and lend a hand at the best holiday volunteer opportunities for the family in Orange County.


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England skittled out Australia for just 128 before establishing a lead of 264 runs on day two of the second Ashes Test at Lord's as spinner Graeme Swann took five wickets to give Alastair Cook's side the upper hand.
Swann became the first spinner to take five wickets in an Ashes innings for England at Lord's since Hedley Verity back in 1934 as he finished with figures of 5-44, but the hosts faltered with the bat in the final session to end a bizarre day on 31-3 with Cook, Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen all dismissed by Peter Siddle.
After bowling England out for 361 in the morning session, it was a hapless showing with the bat from Michael Clarke's side as Shane Watson topscored with 30 and Swann caused havoc in good conditions for batting, but Siddle still managed to haul his side back into the contest with 3-4 from his five overs late on.
England will go into day three with a commanding lead of 264 runs with seven second-innings wickets remaining, but Cook's side will have to apply themselves considerably better with the bat if they are to assume total control of the Test having opted to not enforce the follow on.
Despite the late flurry of wickets, the day belonged to Swann with the Nottinghamshire spinner rampant in claiming his 16th five-wicket haul in 54 Tests, while Tim Bresnan – brought into the team to replace Steven Finn for this Test – made the key opening breakthrough on the stroke of lunch as the dangerous Watson was trapped lbw.
Clarke was trapped lbw by Stuart Broad for 28, while opener Chris Rogers - who was out in bizarre fashion - and Usman Khawaja were the only other batsmen to reach double figures in a hapless display from the tourists which saw a catalogue of disasters in using the DRS.
Indeed, Australia have only been successful with two of 11 DRS reviews so far in this series.
Rogers's dismissal was frankly absurd: the batsman missed a horrible full-toss from Swann and was given out lbw, compounding his mistake by not reviewing a decision that was clearly incorrect with the ball dipping down the leg side.
While Rogers should have used a review to overturn his dismissal, Phil Hughes (one) and Watson wasted Australia's two referrals for the innings as England capitalised on a chaotic period of play with the tourists again showing an alarming lack of clarity in using the system.
There were numerous nightmare dismissals for Australia in an inauspicious showing as Ashton Agar - the hero for his side with 98 in the first Test at Trent Bridge - was run-out for two in farcical fashion after a mix-up with partner Brad Haddin with his side unable to avoid their follow on target.
Earlier in the day, Ryan Harris finished with figures of 5-72 to get his name on the Lord's honours board, but not until Broad, Swann and day one nightwatchman James Anderson resisted Australia by cobbling together an extra 72 runs for the final two wickets.
Harris stunned the Lord's crowd by taking the wicket of Bresnan with the first ball of the day after England had resumed on 289-7 as the delivery took the edge and was caught behind.
But Anderson and Broad frustrated the tourists with a doughty partnership before Swann joined the latter for a last-wicket stand of 48 to take England to 361 in their first innings. It would prove more than sufficient after Australia responded with such a calamitous effort.
Having assumed complete control with a first-innings lead of 233 runs, England contrived to hand some of the momentum back to Clarke's side as Siddle bowled both Cook and Trott for eight and a duck respectively, before Pietersen carelessly drove straight to Rogers at point to hand the fast bowler his third wicket.
England surprisingly employed Bresnan as an upgrade on usual nightwatchman James Anderson at number five to protect the prolific Ian Bell, and he was left unbeaten alongside Joe Root (18) at the end of a pulsating and ultimately confusing day.
"Losing a wicket first ball wasn't ideal but I think we bounced back and bowling Australia out for 130, or whatever it was, we'd have bitten anyone's hand off if offered that," Swann told Sky television at stumps.
"I felt I bowled well last week, I didn't feel I bowled as well here but I'm pragmatic enough to know I'll take a five-for whenever they come. The plans for us will be to score as many as possible tomorrow and then have two days bowling on a dry pitch."
Cook's side remain in a strong position in the second Test after having won the first in thrilling fashion at Trent Bridge, but they will need to bat with considerably improved concentration and purpose as they look to build an insurmountable lead on day three. Swann will be waiting to make his mark again second time around.
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The Los Angeles Police Department knows of no specific threats to local theaters in the wake of the Aurora, Colo. shootings that took 12 lives and injured at least 70 people, reports the Los Angeles Times. However, the LAPD will increase police patrols around some cinemas as a precaution, and an unnamed source tells the Times that there is concern about a potential copycat crime.
"There's nothing that suggests that there's anything sinister planned beyond what happened in Colorado," Sgt. Enrique Mendoza said to the Times. "What happened in Colorado appears to be an anomaly, an isolated incident."
On the studio side, Warner Bros. canceled the Paris premiere of the film and is wondering if they should cancel screenings nationwide in the wake of the massacre. The Wrap reports that the studio gathered executives to their Burbank offices as soon as the shootings happened to wrestle with the issue, and that decisions will be made Friday and throughout the weekend after monitoring the news and conferring with theater chains.
For now, the only thing that Warner Bros. has pulled is a trailer for "Gangster Squad" that preceded screenings of "The Dark Knight Rises." The trailer, which contains a scene in which a gangster shoots up a movie theater audience, is being replaced with another commercial nationwide, reports Deadline.
In response to HuffPost's Twitter query about whether the shooting will change anyone's weekend plans to see "Dark Knight," some Angelenos responded that fear wouldn't factor into any personal decisions about the movie.
@HuffPostLA If you don't go, you let terror win.
— Yoni Riemer (@YoniRiemer) July 20, 2012
@HuffPostLA No second thoughts! I will still go watch "Dark Knight" tonight. We can not let fear take over b/c of what happened in Aurora.
— ivette c (@icee_stang) July 20, 2012
But one person thought Friday's screenings should be cancelled in a show of respect for the victims in Colorado. "I think out of respect for the fans that were killed, tonight's show should be cancelled," tweeted Jane Hartrick.
UPDATE: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa released a statement Friday expressing sympathy for the Aurora, Colo. victims and their families. He also called for the need for a federal ban on assault weapons and announced that all flags at LA facilities will be lowered to half-mast until July 25 in remembrance of the 12 lives lost.
Here's his statement in full:
In the wake of the senseless and terrible tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, on behalf of the residents of Los Angeles, I offer my thoughts, prayers and deepest condolences to the victims and the families affected by this horrific crime. It is truly a sad day in America.
Though we don't have all the details yet, we know that 70 innocents were shot by a gunman with access to a high-powered assault rifle and other weapons that wrought havoc and death on a crowd full of people simply hoping to enjoy a night at the movies.
Now more than ever we need to address issues surrounding the proliferation of assault weapons in American society. It's beyond time for the political leaders of this nation, in a bipartisan fashion, to make it wholly more difficult to own assault weapons—guns that have no rational place in our communities.
It's time for the federal government to again ban these weapons, just like California enacted the nation's toughest law against assault weapons nearly two decades ago. It's time for nationwide background checks and waiting periods so guns don't fall into the wrong hands—criminal hands—only to be used against innocent victims in everyday crimes as well as mass murders. Our lawmakers need to come together and do more than just talk about the pain and sorrow in the aftermath of these gun violence tragedies. They need to act. They need to take a stand.
As we mourn the loss of life and the pain and tragedy that is now a presence in so many lives, I have ordered all flags at Los Angeles City facilities to be flown at half-staff until July 25 in honor and remembrance of the lives so senselessly lost today.
For Friday's screenings, the LAPD will provide both high-visibility patrols and undercover surveillance at theaters and other crowded venues across Los Angeles.
"I am outraged by the cowardly attack on innocent movie patrons in Colorado last night" said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those innocent victims."
Beck also pleaded for all Angelenos to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary.
"Since Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world, it is important that we all remain vigilant and do everything we can to prevent incidents like this from occurring in our communities," said Beck. "Remember, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING."
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Syncrude Rises to Strongest Against WTI This Year
Syncrude strengthened to a premium versus West Texas Intermediate for the first time in almost four months after a Canadian producer trimmed its annual production forecast.
Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., the largest owner of the Syncrude Canada Ltd. joint venture, cut its 2012 Syncrude production estimate to 110 million barrels. The revised projection includes a maintenance turnaround on the Coker 8-3 in the second quarter of the year, actual first-quarter production and "an allowance for unplanned outages," the company said.
Syncrude strengthened $2.75 a barrel to a $1.50 premium over WTI at 4:01 p.m. in New York, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's the grade's highest premium since Dec. 30.
Western Canada Select's discount to WTI narrowed $1 to $14.85. Bakken oil's discount widened 25 cents to $6.75.
U.S. Gulf Coast crudes weakened as Exxon Mobil Corp. shut its 22-inch North Line pipeline in Louisiana after a spill of about 1,900 barrels of oil. The pipeline carries crude from the Louisiana coast to refineries with a combined capacity of more than 700,000 barrels a day, according to Exxon's website.
Mars Blend's premium to West Texas Intermediate narrowed 10 cents to $10.50 a barrel. Poseidon's premium weakened 40 cents to $9.60, while Southern Green Canyon's was steady at $9.50. The three grades are used in the Argus Sour Crude Index.
Thunder Horse, a sour crude with lower sulfur content than the other three grades, added 70 cents against WTI to a premium of $14.20.
Light Louisiana Sweet's premium to WTI was unchanged at $16.50 a barrel. Heavy Louisiana Sweet's premium decreased 60 cents to $16.15 a barrel.


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There is Nothing More Difficult
Posted by AAPIP / BRIDGE staff in AAPI nonprofits, AAPI philanthropy, capacity building, movement building on October 14, 2011
By Barbara Phillips
"There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things."
And so, courageous social justice warriors convened as the Organizational Fellowship Program September 16 – 17, 2011 in the Bay Area to reflect upon their collective journey to initiate a new order of things within themselves, their organizations, their communities, the broader social justice movement – across the U.S. and beyond. The weekend was about sharing the stories of that journey and, more importantly, learning from those experiences – lifting up struggles with terminology, theory and practice and appreciating that context matters. As one participant said so eloquently, the weekend marked not the end and not the beginning, but "The end of the beginning."
It was so appropriate that the convening of September 16th was at the site in Oakland where the first convening took place almost three years ago. My hope for those who were returning is that they were flooded with raw, unfiltered memories of that first experience – not just their thoughts, but their feelings about jumping into the unknown. One participant spoke with particular openness and honesty about the panic that swept through him as he pondered, "What do we do now???" – after being a part of the OFP.
My hope is that these social justice warriors embrace the reality of the unending repetitiveness of that query, "What do we do now?"
The answer will come to them as they continue their collective struggle. And if they are lucky, the answer will never be definitive. They will never know for sure that a particular course of action is "right." They do not need the false certainty of being "right"; all they need to move forward is the intention to struggle honestly and with compassion and to continue reflecting, thinking critically, learning as they go, and sharing all of that with the community.
There will be many times when the way is not certain. That is the nature of initiating a new order of things. The civil rights movement embraced the reality of those recurring moments with a song, "Do What the Spirit Say Do." The community sang that song over-and-over until there was a collective decision. These courageous social justice warriors will create their own unique response to these moments because they are initiating a new order of things. And for that we should all stand in grateful solidarity.
OFP cohort member news: SAN's 20th Anniversary on October 23rd, 2010
Posted by Gladys Malibiran @AAPIPNGEC in AAPI communities, AAPI nonprofits, other events / trainings on September 17, 2010
Congratulations to our friends at the South Asian Network on your 20th Anniversary!
The Journey to Justice Continues…
Come celebrate with South Asian Network on October 23rd and continue the journey with us to justice! Join us with invited speaker Kiran Ahuja, a performance by Shyamala Moorty, and special presentations journeying through SAN's past years and the years to come.
Event info > http://san20thanniversary.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount
President Obama Celebrates Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Posted by Gladys Malibiran @AAPIPNGEC in AAPI communities, AAPI nonprofits, community organizing, other events / trainings on May 26, 2010
Earlier this year, NGEC's 12 OFP cohort organizations convened in New Orleans and met community leaders from VAYLA-NO, Father Vien from Mary Queen of Vietnam Church, and S. Leo Chiang (the director of A Village Called Versailles).
Check out the great post below via 8Asians.com about Monday's AAPI Heritage Month celebration at the White House which featured Father Vien.
This past Monday, President Obama hosted a reception at the White House celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Amongst the honored guests was Father Vien of the Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in New Orleans, who was profiled in an excellent documentary which I saw earlier this year at a film festival called A Village Called Versailles. The film, which is part of PBS's Independent Lens series, will be airing this Tuesday, May 25th on PBS and follows the Vietnamese American community awakening politically in the aftermaths of Hurricane Katrina. Now, Father Vien and others are fighting another crisis in New Orleans. The BP oil spill has hugely impacted the Southeast Asian/Vietnamese American fishermen who make up 35-45% of the fishing industry along the Gulf Coast.
Read more about our OFP Convening in New Orleans.


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• This state forest is located in the Superior National Forest and surrounds Lake Jeanette in St. Louis County, making it subject to U.S. Forest Service management rules.
• Camping is available at Lake Jeanette Campground in the Superior National Forest. This campground offers camping beside a glacier carved Lake Jeanette. Every site has a view of the lake. The campground is only lightly wooded with spruce and has an open, spacious feeling. This is a sweet, picturesque, little campground, well worth the long drive. The two walk-in tent sites in a stand of jack pines are perhaps the prettiest in the forest. For more information go to recreation.gov or call 1-877-444-6777.
Lake Jeanette State Forest at a glance...
•Portions of this state forest is located within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) are closed to all motor vehicle use.
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The city of San Fernando City Council passed an impeachment resolution for President Bush with a unanimous vote on August 20, 2007. San Fernando Valley became the 87th city or township in the nation to pass a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush. The city of San Fernando became the second city in Los Angeles County, West Hollywood being the first, to adopt an impeachment resolution.
At the Monday night San Fernando Valley City Council meeting eleven members of the LANIC-SFV group presented to the City Council evidence of impeachable offenses committed by President Bush. The Los Angeles National Impeachment Center – SFV Chapter is actively working with the Studio City Council to pass an impeachment resolution.
After the Council had heard the impeachable offenses committed by President Bush, Councilman Jose Hernandez, whom was the first elected officials to speak quipped, "Why stop at Bush? We should impeach Congress too." Mayor Julie Ruelas piped up, "What about Cheney?" Councilman Steve Veres said the Iraqi war hits home in San Fernando because the first casualty of the war was a San Fernando High School graduate. Veres said the public comment was, "Right On."
The city of San Fernando City Council plans on delivering the city's impeachment resolution to Congressman Brad Sherman. Congressman Sherman (Dem 27th District) is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee in Congress that would investigate the impeachment charges. The City Council is hopeful that Congressman Sherman will take the presentation of San Fernando City's impeachment resolution as an indicator of the drumbeat in his district for impeachment proceedings to start in Congress.
The impeachment resolution was introduced to San Fernando Valley officials by Eugene Hernandez, a member of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center – SFV Chapter (LANIC-SFV Chapter). Mr. Hernandez said the San Fernando Valley impeachment resolution signals a victory for his group. On August 17th 45 concerned Angelenos went to speak to the Los Angeles City Council to persuade LA City Council to adopt an impeachment resolution.
About the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC) – a 100% volunteer and non-partisan organized group solely committed to the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The LANIC website is www.BCIMPEACH.
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Monday's headlines predicted a gloomy earnings season, Cramer says. What were they thinking?
Shares of VEREIT are up 30%, outpacing the 11.5% return of the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF.
It's a pretty broad spectrum, but they've definitely arrived.
Jim Cramer is fond of Walmart shares even as Amazon tries to go head-to-head with the retail giant.
They need to do something that makes them stand out as stocks you want to own, not avoid.
These stocks have both long-term growth potential and short-term gain catalysts.
It is one of the few brick-and-mortar retailers that can withstand mounting competition from e-commerce and specifically Amazon.
Jim Cramer talks about how Brexit didn't impact the Chinese and how it's the right time to look at some re-ratings of a few stocks.
BMO Capital's John Morris joined CNBC's 'Fast Money Halftime Report' to explain why TJX Cos. (TJX) stock is doing well in a period of uncertainty.
These stocks have both short-term gain catalysts and longer-term growth potential.
Despite the market selloff, there are buying opportunities in these three domestic consumer stocks, says Stifel analyst Richard Jaffe.
Miller Tabak also set a $91 price target on shares of TJX.
Here are Friday's top research calls, including downgrades for Accenture, Office Depot, T-Mobile and Univar.
Will shale producers cut production? Will Williams-Sonoma buy Restoration Hardware? Neither may happen but they are possibilities, says Cramer.
TheStreet highlights 3 stocks pushing the services sector lower today.
Jim Cramer is keeping an eye on Tuesday's retail sales results, but says Amazon continues to gain traction as traditional retailers slip.
The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TJX) today announced the declaration of a quarterly dividend on its common stock of $.
Big changes are coming to luxury retailer Polo Ralph Lauren as it seeks to evolve in a changing retail backdrop.
TheStreet highlights 3 stocks pushing the services sector lower today.
Stocks with insider trader activity include TJX, FELE and TWOU
Cramer gives the edge to TJX over Ross Stores and is a fan of NuVasive.
When investors get complacent, they miss out on great opportunities to buy, Cramer says.
Jim Cramer shares his views on retailers who are doing fabulously and also tells you to own this rally. Costco, Amazon and Citibank are among the stocks discussed here.
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Back in february 2012 we wrote about Phillip Stearns and his methodology of using short circuited cameras to create glitch like blanket patterns. Since then, Phillip's work has not only been covered extensively in media but also exhibited around the world. Phillip now also runs an online store where these blankets can now be purchased.
One of the later pieces, titled Fragmented Memory, is a triptych of large woven tapestries completed in May 2013 in Tilburg, NL at the Audax Textielmuseum's Textiellab. The project uses digital practices and processes to blur the lines between photography, data visualization, textile design, and computer science. The result are works that serve not only to render visible the invisible processes mediating everyday experience, but also to operate as distinctly tactile and lo-fi digital storage media—the process becomes a means to capture, record, and transmit data.
Fragmented Memory pieces, as shown in the video below edited for Wired, they are portraits of raw binary data sourced from him computer's physical memory. The process begins with extraction of data, 0s and 1s then using Processing, the raw data is rendered as an image. The images are then imported into NetGraphics, software environment used by textile designers to create weaving patterns. The created colour palettes are then applied to an image to create a card file which computerised looms use to weave the design.
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2011 'State of the Borough' Address Spotlights Capstone Program
2011 'State of the Borough' Address Spotlights Capstone Program
The Capstone Program at NYU Wagner came in for high praise in the State of the Borough address delivered February 24, 2011, by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.
"In October," he stated, "New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service chose the Kingsbridge Armory for a study through its highly competitive Capstone Program. The Capstone Program is very well-respected, so much so that multiple city agencies have used its services to design and plan major projects. For several months, Capstone has been providing our task force with valuable support as we move forward on developing a new plan for the Armory.
"The report of this task force must be the cornerstone of a new RFP, and I invite the Mayor to join with me to responsibly develop the K ingsbridge Armory. Responsible development means that whatever plan we choose has a direct positive impact on all citizens...." said Diaz.
The Capstone Program is learning in action. Part of the core curriculum of the MPA and MUP programs at Wagner, it provides students with both a critical learning experience and an opportunity to perform a public service. Over the course of an academic year, students work in teams, either to address challenges and identify opportunities for a client organization or to conduct research on a pressing social question. Ultimately, Capstone contributes not only to the students' education, but also to the public good.
A Capstone Grows - and is Presented - in Brooklyn
A Capstone Grows - and is Presented - in Brooklyn
A team of Wagner students that worked over the past year with the Borough President's Office of Brooklyn, N.Y., to reimagine the future of the Bedford-Union Armory delivered the final presentation of its Capstone project on April 25.
Borough President Marty Markowitz promptly proclaimed April 25, 2012 as the official "NYU Wagner School of Public Service Bedford-Union Armory Capstone Presentation Celebration Day" in Brooklyn, New York.
Quite a mouthful - and quite an honor!
The presentation went very well, and the Capstone team is soon to share the high-profile Capstone project with the American Planning Association (APA).
The 2012 Capstone Expo of NYU Wagner will be held Tuesday, May 8 at the NYU Kimmel Center for Univerity Life. Don't miss it!
All hands on deck to fix N.Y.: Offer scholarships to help talented people enter public service (op-ed)
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geez depression only starting but they want everyone to think something is over.WONDER WHY
Its really a wonder...Way too many saying pile in now...usually when to get out.
You are correct! It's all about ratings. Who in the FK watches CNBC anymore?
Same people taht were calling for a 20,000 DOw last fall. DIck Bove was one of them!


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The Water Club At Borgata
The Water Club At Borgata
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.1/10
1 Renaissance Way
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Welcome to the The Water Club At Borgata
Gorgeous decor, self-indulgent spa treatments, high-octane cocktails and tapas by the infinity-edge pool are a few of the treats in store for guests at The Water Club at Borgata in Atlantic City.
Hotel Features
The Water Club at Borgata, a sleek, 43-story tower adjacent to the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, provides access to its older sibling's gaming, dining and entertainment options while maintaining its own more serene and private ambiance. The hotel features a two-story spa with floor-to-ceiling water views, five heated indoor and outdoor pools with private cabanas, a state-of-the-art fitness center and a spa menu designed by renowned Chef Geoffrey Zakarian. The hotel's 800 rooms and suites are decorated in a warm color palette of stone, exotic woods and natural fabrics. They feature sumptuous amenities, such as water views, 400-thread-count sateen sheets and goose down pillows, 40-inch flat-panel LCD TVs, luxury bath products and fully stocked minibars. Non-smoking accommodations are available, and Wi-Fi is available for an additional fee. The hotel charges a nominal nightly resort fee.
Hotel Location
The Water Club is a three-minute drive from the Borgata Casino. The hotel is less than two miles from the Atlantic City Convention Center and two and one-half miles from the Boardwalk. The Water Club at Borgata is 12 miles from Atlantic City International Airport.
Guest Favorites
If a luxurious, spa-like escape is in the cards, the Water Club at Borgata delivers the winning hand.
The Water Club At Borgata Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- 24-hour security
- Accessible facilities
- Accessible parking
- Air conditioning
- Catering services
- Elevators
- Full service housekeeping
- Housekeeping - daily
- Indoor parking
- Indoor pool
- Interior corridors
- Jacuzzi
- Lounges/bars
- On-Site parking
- Outdoor pool
- Parking
- Parking fee managed by hotel
- Pool
- Public address system
- Safe deposit box
- Security
- Spa
- Sundry/Convenience store
- Valet parking
Hotel Guest Reviews of the The Water Club At BorgataOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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David from Washington, DC
April 19, 2016
April 19, 2016
The woman who was in bed with me.
I had to my lady friend to get on a bus to go home for work. I hate the bus.
Verified Hotel Guest from Lansdale, PA
January 7, 2016
January 7, 2016
Great Access to the Casino, Great Places to eat, Great Entertainment. Good place to ring in the New Year !
Verified Hotel Guest from Berwyn, PA
August 11, 2015
August 11, 2015
The hotel pools and access to all of the Borgata's amenities were great.
The walls are SO thin in these rooms. We could here everything from the neighboring room.
Verified Hotel Guest from Passaic, NJ
July 19, 2015
July 19, 2015
I loved the valet parking.it was the best service
Verified Hotel Guest from Ridgewood, NJ
July 10, 2015
July 10, 2015
The hotel is located in a nice, quiet section of Atlantic City. For those interested in the beach, a good bet is hopping in your car and driving a few minutes north into Brigantine. If relaxing by the pool is your thing, the Water Club is ideal.
I wish the pool and pool bar were open in the evening.
Verified Hotel Guest from Lakewood, NJ
April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015
the lobby is really nice...and it stops about there. This is a five star hotel and the lobby defiantly is five star.
The room was very dirty and the furniture is very outdated. If the only thing five star about a hotel is the lobby., then it does not deserve a five star rating. The bathroom was ok. There were stains on the carpet and chairs. There is no 5 star service.
Leonard from Verona, NJ
April 9, 2015
April 9, 2015
The food
Waiting 15 minutes for valet to get my car
Nouf from Indiana, PA
February 3, 2015
February 3, 2015
The hotel itself was amazing .. The workers are super nice and helpful
The room didn't meet the star level expectations ! I thought I'd be having a luxurious room or suite but it was a STANDARD room !
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December 2, 2014
December 2, 2014
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Ashley from Conowingo, MD
August 22, 2014
August 22, 2014
It was well-kept and had a touch of sophistication. Usually go to Ceasars but the Water Club is definitely higher class and worth the extra money.
Just wished the prices for food and retail weren't so high. Can't believe it was $12 for a PB&J from room service.
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Lecture 1: Our Only Home
In dictionaries, definitions of home are various. It is both 'a place of origin, a starting position' and 'a goal or destination.' It may also be 'an environment offering security and happiness' or 'the place where something is discovered, founded, developed or promoted. A source.'
In these lectures, I will examine each of these definitions. I will revisit my 'place of origin' - an ordinary Australian suburban childhood of the sixties. I will ponder the way it led to a 'goal or destination': a career as a foreign correspondent and then as a novelist.
Tonight I want to discuss how my home in Australia was a place of discovery and a source of conviction about our responsibility to our only home, this fragile and beleaguered planet.
I began to write these words on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where I now live. It was a warm day in early July. Sunlight dappled the page, filtered through the leaves of an apple tree that was old before I was born.
Not far away, but unaware of me, a muskrat browsed in the grasses by the brook. Red winged blackbirds swooped across the water and a goldfinch, like a drop of distilled sunshine, darted through the glossy branches of an ilex.
The muskrat, the birds and the holly tree are natives here. I am not. Only my dog, a liver-and-tan Kelpie, is a fellow exotic. Ten years ago, I plucked him from a paddock in New South Wales and set him down in another hemisphere. He is insouciant about this, as befits his kind. He is the quintessential Aussie canine whose legendary toughness begat the expression, 'That'd kill a brown dog.'
So while his warm flanks twitch in a doggie doze, it falls to me to reflect on what it means to live so far from our homeplace, so far, indeed, that the cold winds of July have been replaced by this soft and buttery summer air. I cannot explain to my Kelpie that the Indo-European root of that word, 'home' is 'haunt'. Nor can I explain to him how and why it is that I am haunted by absence and distance, by dissonance and difference, even if the alien corn that we will eat for dinner tonight is a sweeter variety than the starchy cobs of my Aussie childhood.
Nothing is as sweet in the end as country and parents, ever,
Even if, far away, you live in a fertile place.
Odysseus said that. Or rather, Homer did. I know next to nothing about Homer—who he was, how he lived—yet I feel he knows my heart. Separated by three thousand years, by gender and culture and geographic space, this ancient shadow is able to put words to the feelings that I have on a sunny day on a little island, as I think of the larger island that is my native home; that sits, like Ithaca, 'low and away, the farthest out to sea', where the ribs of warm sandstone push up through thin, eucalyptus-scented soils.
Home. Haunt. I sit in my garden and look across to the house I have now; a house whose first beams were cut and shaped a century before the white history of Australia even began. When I run my hand over that rough-textured oak, I imagine the hand that planed it—the hand of a grist miller, himself an exotic transplant, the second or third in a line of English settlers who had come to this place drawn by the power of rushing water.
If any home is haunted, this one should be. In 1665, the very first miller, Benjamin Church, bought this land from the native people of the place, the Wampanoag. He dammed the wild brook they called the Tiasquam, and set his grindstones turning. In so doing, he destroyed the herring run that had fed the Wampanoag each spring, when the fish known as 'the silver of the ocean' poured upstream to spawn.
Benjamin Church dammed the brook.
It is just one sentence in a long story. The story of human alteration in the natural world. It happened on the Tiasquam Brook in Martha's Vineyard, as it happened in uncountable places. As it happens now, in the Amazon, in Africa, in Western Australia, Tasmania, the Alaskan Arctic and innumerable corners of the world. A choice, a change, and the planet that is our only home reels and buckles under the accumulated strain.
Often, this story has also compassed stories of dispossession, in which the needs of the newcomers and their industry disrupted the imperatives of the native people. As Benjamin Church built his mill in 1665, an English neighbour fenced pasture for his imported livestock, and the Wampanoag were no longer free to hunt the deer and waterfowl that sustained them. Another settler set his hard hooved beasts loose to trample the clam beds, and a band of Wampanoag went hungry that night.
War followed, as war always has followed such acts of dispossession. In 1675, the Wampanoag on the mainland rose up against the English colonists. Benjamin Church, grist miller no longer, became a captain in the English army.His principal foe was the Wampanoag leader, Metacom. For six months, Metacom had the English on the run, destroying a dozen settlements. The colonial enterprise in New England teetered. It was Church, the former miller, who devised a way to turn the tide of battle. He enlisted Indians at odds with Metacom to teach the English their guerrilla tactics. On a humid summer day in 1676, Church led the force that trapped Metacom and shot him dead. He regarded Metacom's dead body and declared him 'a doleful, great, naked, dirty beast.' He ordered the corpse drawn and quartered and had the quarters hung from four trees. Church kept the head, which he sold in Plymouth, at a day of Thanksgiving, for thirty shillings. It was placed on a tall pole to overlook the feast.
Everyone knows the story of the first Plymouth Thanksgiving, in 1621. Metacom's father, Massasoit, attended that one, offering help and friendship to the hapless, half starved English Puritans. Few know the story of the Plymouth Thanksgiving of 1676, presided over by Massaoit's son's decapitated, rotting head. We like that earlier story much better. Let's not do black armband history. Pass the turkey. Lets we forget.
But I can't forget. Though Benjamin Church's mill was torn down, this land bears his imprint. The Tiasquam brook remains dammed, the herring absent. And the grindstone is still here, set as a doorstep at the entrance to my house. Two metres in diameter, almost half a metre thick. When my foot lands on its notched ridges, words from Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem echo in my head:
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell...
Benjamin Church's mill was built a hundred years before the Industrial Revolution that dismayed Hopkins. But it industrialised this landscape. And now I live where he lived, in an American home on Indian land, haunted by ghosts who lived and died unaware that my land, my homeplace, even existed.
I did not mean to become part of this story, to know, so intimately, all this history so very far removed, and yet so sadly similar, to our own. Metacom has much in common, after all, with Pemulwuy in Sydney or Yagan in Perth, guerrilla resisters whose heads also ended up on display—Pemulwuy's pickled in spirits and Yagan's shrunken and smoked. But that's black armband history, too, and as a schoolgirl in 1960s Sydney, I did not learn it. In those days, I could not have told you that the home I lived in stood upon Eora land, as does this hall in which we meet tonight. And I acknowledge the traditional owners of this place, and the continuing contribution of their descendants to the culture from which I am an accidental exile, a reluctant expatriate.
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980s, when I left home, our culture had grown deep and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions. I meant to leave Australia for just a year—a standard student adventure. But way leads on to way. Like Odysseus, I went to war—although as a writer, not a warrior—and then found my homeward journey diverted by quests and siren songs. What was to have been my brief foreign fling has become, by unplanned stages, my life.
In dictionaries, definitions of home are various. It is both 'a place of origin, a starting position' and 'a goal or destination'. It may also be 'an environment offering security and happiness' or 'the place where something is discovered, founded, developed or promoted. A source.' In these lectures, I will examine each of these definitions. I will revisit my 'place of origin'—an ordinary Australian suburban childhood of the sixties. I will ponder the way it led to a 'goal or destination': a career as a foreign correspondent and then as a novelist. Tonight I want to discuss how my home in Australia was a place of discovery and a source of conviction about our responsibility to our only home, this fragile and beleaguered planet.
I have said that I live now on the banks of a little river that was dammed in 1665. When I first left Australia in 1982, a greater river, a larger dam, was very much on my mind. That river was the Franklin, in south-west Tasmania. A river wild from source to mouth, already a precious rarity in the smeared, bleared post-industrial world. Yet a river whose wildness was in clear and present danger. Works were already proceeding for a dam that would flood a pristine wilderness to yield just 180 megawatts of power. The last thing I did before I left the country was to hole up in Bob Brown's cottage in Liffey. Typewriter on knee, I helped him edit mounds of handwritten notes and shape them into the text for his book Wild Rivers. We had little time: Bob was needed everywhere then, as the spearhead for a movement that encompassed political lobbying, legal manoeuvering, advertising campaigns and the largest non-violent direct action Australia had ever seen. So we worked late, by candlelight and firelight, in that little off-the-grid cottage. Bob had decided that he couldn't stay hooked up to electricity provided by the drowning of that already-lost gem, Lake Pedder.
I had started covering the Franklin controversy as a journalist in 1980. Somewhere along the line, not too far along the line, I must confess, I did the thing that journalists are not supposed to do. I became an activist. The river itself had turned me into one. In February of 1981 I rafted part of its length, on assignment for the Sydney Morning Herald, following Don Chipp, leader of the Australian Democrats. That river journey was, at the time, the hardest and scariest thing I had ever done. I was not what you would call an outdoorsy type. To paraphrase Woody Allen: I was two with nature.
Until I started covering environmental issues for the Herald, I'd never gone bushwalking or slept one night in a tent, much less steered my own small rubber raft over heaving white water. That first night on the river, having carried gear all day up and down a sheer, slippery, rain-lashed mountainside, I lay wet, aching and apprehensive, wondering what mad ambition had led me to sign up for this. The rains came down as only rains born by the Roaring 40s seem to know how to fall. Sometime in the middle of that long night, a plaintive male voice emanated from the nearby tent which Senator Chipp shared with his wife, Idun. 'Jesus Christ, darling. Don't wake me up to tell me you're uncomfortable!' My misery, it seemed, had some distinguished company.
But that Franklin trip changed me, profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. The place that shaped our psyches, and made us who we are. The place where nature is big, and we are small. We have reversed this ratio only in the last couple of hundred years. An evolutionary nanosecond. The pace of our headlong rush from a wilderness existence through an agrarian life to urbanisation is staggering and exponential. In the USA, in just two hundred years, the percentage of people living in cities has jumped from less than four per cent to 80 per cent. By 2006, half the world's population lived in cities. Every week, a million more individuals move to join them. The bodies and the minds we inhabit were designed for a very different world from the one we now occupy. As far as we know, no organism has ever been part of the experiment in evolutionary biology which we as a species are now undertaking, adapted for one life yet living another. We are, in a way, already space travellers. We have left our home behind and ventured into an alien world. And we don't yet know what effects this sudden hurtle into strangeness will ultimately have on the human body, the human psyche.
As the American writer and activist Bill McKibben has observed, we have ended nature. There is no longer any true wilderness left on Earth. The carbon we have pumped into the atmosphere has ensured that the hand of humanity now reaches into even the most pristine alpine crevice or remnant virgin forest. In his 1989 book The End of Nature, McKibben argued that Earth's altered climate gave the experience of being beside a river a different, lesser meaning. He wrote: 'Instead of a world where rain had an independent and mysterious existence, the rain had become a subset of human activity. The rain bore a brand; it was a steer, not a deer.'
Today, 22 years later, one of the easiest-to-grasp facts of climate change concerns its effect on rain. Warmer air simply holds more water vapour than cold. In dry places, like much of Australia, this means increasing evaporation and drought. In moist places, like New England, it means increasing downpours, more flooding. It means the tropics are expanding, pushing the dry subtropics further south, further north. As this happens, our rain-bearing westerlies are going to drop their water over open ocean rather than on our thirsty cities and farms. The Australian Water Services Association now tries to avoid the term 'drought' which signifies a temporary condition. What used to be drought, it seems, is our new normal. Meanwhile, in New England, flooding on a new scale, an increasing frequency, gouges away roads, gashes up trees. Small, unprosperous communities ponder how they will find money to renew bridges and armour embankments against the next wild storm. And between us, between the suddenly wetter, suddenly drier lands, the great oceans creep higher, ever more corrosive because of the burden of acidifying carbon. Our great reefs dissolve, shellfish weaken, the links of a food chain strain to breaking point.
And who among us is making ready in any meaningful way for the disasters that are coming? The defence departments of Britain and the United States, which are already gaming scenarios for the resource wars they expect to break out over scarce materials. It will be Metacom and Benjamin Church, once again, on a global scale. The dispossessors this time will be defined by wealth, not ethnicity. If you doubt the extent of scarcity, consider this. Municipal parks have begun removing public sculptures cast in metal and replacing them with plastic replicas, because of increasing theft to feed the appetite for commodities in China and India.
Beside the military, who else is making ready? The Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group. In 2009 it raised, by several metres, the height of its massive new coal loader at the mouth of the Hunter River, after the CSIRO issued a report about predicted sea level rises. You'd laugh if you didn't need to weep. I honestly don't know what's worse, BHP and its associates' hard-headed pragmatism, or Rick Perry, the Texas governor and presidential candidate who denies climate change and advocates massively expanding the carbon economy even as he prays for rain to end the epic Texas drought. Perry and his prayer remind me of the man in the old joke who constantly prays to God to let him win the lottery. After years of this, God, frustrated, finally replies: 'Mate, help me out here. Buy a ticket.'
But few of us are buying tickets. Three years ago, I thought we had done so, when President Obama took office. He made a speech that promised his inauguration would mark the day 'the rise of the oceans starts to slow and the planet begins to heal.' If only. Of all the disappointments of the past three years, highest on my personal list is Barack Obama's silence—his failure to use his gifts of eloquence to explain our predicament and the necessity for urgent action. Instead, Obama greenlights Shell's drilling in the Arctic, even as the toxins from BP's blown-out well swirl in the Gulf of Mexico. He fails to act against a tar sands pipeline that would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and that has been described as the fuse on a carbon bomb. The US president cites the present condition of the economy as the reason for these terrible decisions. But if 'It's the economy, stupid,' then how stupid is it to ignore a looming crisis that threatens the shape and, ultimately, the survival, of every economic activity we have. If we don't stop burning down our only home to provide a few hours' more light to party by, there will not be an economy as we know it. Wall Street will be under several meters of water and we will be at war with each other for the scant fruits of our heat-blasted, storm-lashed harvests.
When I was very young, I read John Wyndham's post-apocalypse novel, The Chrysalids. In it, one of the characters keens for her devastated planet: 'What did they do here? What can they have done to create such a frightful place? ... There was the power of gods in the hands of children, we know: but were they mad children, all of them quite mad?'
In my own mind, I create a character like Wyndham's, in the aftermath of the climate wars, eking out a mean existence in a harsh landscape, and trying to explain to her kids the mass insanity that led them there. 'And you know, they flushed their toilets with drinking water. They made durable things, like plastic plates and cups, and they would use them only once and then throw them away. They thought it was normal for one person to drive around in a huge thing called an SUV. They used air conditioning, when it wasn't even really that hot outside...' I imagine her kids rolling their eyes and thinking to themselves, 'Mum. Always exaggerates. Nobody could ever have been that crazy.'
But how do you convince people, here and now, that these common behaviours are indeed crazy? Machiavelli observed that '[T]here is nothing more difficult nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to conduct than to make oneself a leader in introducing a new order of things. For the man who introduces it has for enemies all who do well out of the old order and has lukewarm supporters in all who will do well out of the new order ... who do not put their trust in changes if they do not see them in actual practice.' Or, as Yeats put it more succinctly:
The best lack all conviction, the worst are full of passionate intensity.
This is the current political predicament, most especially in the United States. There is no nationally effective Green movement there. There is no energy policy. Barely even a breath of serious discussion. Climate change is an issue in the national political conversation only among Fox News bloviators who use climate scientists as piñatas.
In the US, without leadership, the potential for any kind of concerted national action is bleak. So in the land of rugged individuals, it falls to individuals to act. In a funny little life irony, having fought against a hydro scheme on the Franklin, I have just completed an engineering study on how to use Benjamin Church's 1665 dam for mini-hydro on the Tiasquam. We are designing a fish ladder at the dam, so that the herring can return after their long absence. We're revegetating some wetlands with native shrubs for wildlife habitat, planting fruit trees and buying our meat and vegetables from local farms to lower the carbon footprint of our consumption.
I know it's not much. And I know, that small as these actions are, I am uncommonly fortunate to be able to afford to take them. And yes, I am well aware that I just undid a big piece of it by flying here to give this lecture. But even if I can't do everything, that's no excuse for doing nothing. I will do what I can. And at this inflection point in human existence, I believe that what we can do, we must do. Perhaps an answer to Yeats's despair lies in the words of the 18th century Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. He said: 'If you believe it is possible to destroy, then believe it is possible to repair.' The Jewish idea of Tikkun Olam, of each individual working to gather up and repair the shards of a fractured creation, is a metaphor that I think speaks eloquently to our present circumstance.
Here in Australia, while the need for individuals to act is great, the potential for concerted national action is greater. The Australian Greens have puts these issues at the front and centre of the national policy debate. We have a government willing to enact carbon price legislation and an opposition that at least accepts the broad outlines of the crisis and its causes. But is it the best we can do? Not by a long way. Australia can punch above its weight on this issue, and not only because we are the largest per capita carbon emitter. Our continent covers a vast land mass and our territorial waters represent a significant and critical share of the world's oceans. Time and chance have made us custodians of a huge and significant piece of the planet. Our national temperament has created a peaceful and prosperous society here.
We are, by any world yardstick, a rich society and a decent people. Right now, by some metrics, we are the richest people on the planet. Rich enough to expend some of that capital and decent enough to know it is the right thing to do, the right time to act. What we do here matters. What we do here could be a model for the world. It is depressing to hear politicians say that our sacrifices should be 'in line' with what the US does. That's a mighty low bar. Why should we align our ambitions with a nation that harbours justifiable fears of its own decline, that has created a national atmosphere increasingly hostile to science and reason, and that is locked in an arid political stasis? Please, let's not line up there. What's wrong with leading the way? Shouldn't we aspire to set the line, to inspire, to become an example to the world, a byword for what a visionary country can be and do? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot—the Australian ballot, as it was called—that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successfully multicultural society in a world where, for too many countries, that seemingly modest ambition remains painfully out of reach.
We did these great things because we know that we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians. And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of corals and the majesty of forests. We are in it together, on this blue, spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.
- Presenter
- Geraldine Brooks
- Producer
- Kate Pearcy
Comments (23)
20 Nov 2011 5:47:22pm
Great talk. Thanks so much for this!
Bapti5t :
20 Nov 2011 7:48:36pm
Ms Brookes:
I hear in your conversation with Geraldine Dooge that you travel by car with your family.
Tim Flannery in his book The Weather Makers writes "The institutions at the forefront of climate change research are situated half a world away from my home in Adelaide, so for a time I flew frequently across the globe". Tim might give some consideration to teleconferencing because I know he cares about air pollution.
I myself own a petrol guzzling car.
Our planet is going to hell in a hand basket and people like us are going with it. Quite rightly so.
stephany panhuysen :
20 Nov 2011 11:32:07pm
Thank you Geraldine Brooks and thank you the ABC for this inspiring 1st 0f 4 Boyer lectures. So good, so motivating, so inspiring, so brave! I hope Julia Gillard and all the people who have the power to shape our policies and steer our country hear this and take on board what Geraldine says.
Judith Muir :
21 Nov 2011 12:37:15pm
Your beautifully modulated voice delivered a thoughtfully composed lecture as a piercing scream for awareness, understanding and action. All who listened could not but be moved by the need to do something and do it now!
I work as a conservationist with a focus on the marine environment as it is where I work. Humans need the exquisitely beautiful and rich, diverse yet fragile marine ecosystems to provide for our existence. Now the oceans need us if it they are to survive.
Your mention of National Parks as places for exploitation by businesses is matched by an emerging trend here in Australia, too.
Today, as reported in the New York Times, Coca Cola successfully over-turned a soon to be implemented ban on plastic bottles in The Grand Canyon for a mere $13m donation.
Yesterday your voice gave me hope. Today I feel stricken by that turn-around.
Can anyone hear?????????????????
jill keogh :
21 Nov 2011 12:46:54pm
Thanks Geraldine, this did my eco-feminist heart good, a lingo I know and understand.
John Pratt :
21 Nov 2011 2:50:00pm
Wonderful lecture, music to my ears, had me in tears. I am sure it will inspire all who hear it.
beth saunders :
21 Nov 2011 3:09:05pm
A classic example of how keenly we need poets (like Yeats) to stir authors (like Brooks) thence miserably guilty RN Sunday listeners like us. Fitzgerald's contribution to the Boyer was painful, beautiful,discomfitingly detailed and put paid to a relaxed Sunday.
Kiri :
21 Nov 2011 9:18:04pm
What a wonderful, impassioned transcript! I love your point - why should we aspire to match the Americans? We are better than that. Now if some politician was brave enough to make that point, I think that would resonate with Australians.
Thankyou Geraldine! (And thanks for all your books, which I love :) )
Brian Millett :
21 Nov 2011 11:21:34pm
A great lecture from a most erudite teller of stories. I'm a Geraldine Brooks fan from way back starting with "Year of Wonders" set in Eyam in Derbyshire which I'd visited even before Geraldine published her book. I thought that her plea for us to care for the planet was right on as was her disappointment with Barack Obama - a disappointment which I share. Good on you, Mate!
George Papacotis :
22 Nov 2011 3:55:36am
Thank you, and sadly your beautiful philosophy cannot be heard over the roar of inanity and denial.
Sigrid von Senger :
22 Nov 2011 3:30:11pm
I was deeply moved by Geraldine Brooks' Boyer lecture on Our Only Home. It was a wonderful stroke to talk about the fragility of this home.
I have read and enjoyed March and Caleb's Crossing, in which I have particularly admired her perceptive and empathetic approach towards women's plight in history.
Thank you very much.
Gabrielle Edmonds :
22 Nov 2011 3:44:13pm
I bought Caleb's Crossing for my daughter's birthday this year, which she greatly appreciated. Thank you.
My admiration for Geraldine Brooks has been greatly enhanced by her amazing Boyer Lecture on Our Only Home. Her creative approach to the subject of home: its significance and our responsibility towards it, is insightful.
Looking forward to the coming Boyers.
Monsieur Toff :
22 Nov 2011 6:20:00pm
What an absolute pleasure it was to read and at the same time listen as Geraldine Brooks eloquently expressed her feelings for Our Only Home. I too am a little homesick for I yearn for a world in which people exhibit greater respect and sensitivity for our natural environment.
fellowhypocrite :
22 Nov 2011 6:48:47pm
Great talk Geraldine, especially your measured delivery. Speeches that are read are usually a turnoff for me.
To paraphrase (not) Francois Voltaire 'I agree with everything you say but please God don't let it happen to me'. Do as I say not as I do is everywhere. The trouble with Democracy I heard is that it rhymes with Hypocrisy. Vance Packard in "The Waste Makers" predicted all this stuff years ago. Planned obsolescence is vital for success in business. The economy, jobs etc depend on waste generation. Mining by definition is finite and unsustainable, well I think most if not all human activity has been a mining operation. Can you think of any human activity that has genuinely benefited the Biosphere. Maybe rats, cockroaches, crops like wheat, viruses that depend on humans as their only host etc.
Will mother nature embrace Big Brain as the next big evolutionary leap forward like photosynthesis (oxygen polution) and sexual reproduction were or relegate it to the dustbin of evolutionary history.
I think some hybridisation of human and artificial intelligence may be our only hope if an explosion in the creation of new diverse life forms based on big brains is to happen. A little knowledge is dangerous and there will be much pain for most of us I think so 'Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die'.
Graham Nicholson :
23 Nov 2011 5:34:22pm
I believe that the time for concerted national action is largely passed. The most serious problems facing the planet are all global and scale. Only concerted global action can really be effective to deal with them. Individual nations can take a lead, but in the end it has to be global action to which all the nations and peoples subscribe and uphold. This requires new international institutions, new global laws, a new global consciousness, a new global order. "Home" is now the planet. Everyone is our neighbour. Barriers between nations and peoples have to be removed, prejudices must be forgotten, outmoded institutions reformed or removed, universal minimum standards of human rights upheld. A global federal system must be the goal. This is an emormous task but one that will be forced upon humanity if it does not freely choose real progress to this end.
Shirley Shackleton :
24 Nov 2011 10:41:47am
Good on you Geraldine. You have done me proud and I doing so, you have gained respect from all Australians, especially those who contributed to the scholarship that sent you to Columbia Univdersity New York in Greg Shackleton's name.
Richard ang Maria Maguire :
24 Nov 2011 8:20:20pm
What a deeply moving experience to listen to you Geraldine. You brought tears to our eyes more than once, for feeling understood. "Our only home." We love it and we are so glad that you evoke our feelings with your quiet and very definite voice.
Richard is American and Marie is German. Now we are enthusiastic Australians, both for its gifts as well as our enormous challenges and possibilities. We are as well so grateful for those in Australia and our home countries and others who care for our planet as we do. We did not know of you when we arrived, and are so glad for the chance.
We also appreciated the calm clear way you responded to the surprisingly obtuse questions, opinions and responses from such intelligent people as Geraldine Dooge and Robin Williams to this first talk. Congratulations to you, pity for them, but maybe if they listen well, we hope they learn something of great value from their old colleague.
We are looking forward so much to the further lectures.
And a big THANK YOU to the ABC for inviting you to speak and to to put the transcript on line.
Alis Jacob :
25 Nov 2011 12:00:21am
...at a time when I thought all reason was spent I have found yours to be most eloquent....long has it been to hear and see such word strings published ...albeit not a pro carbon tax am compelled by your very empassionate words to contribute in a shared vision.... one Earth, one home.
Thank you.
lolligobbleblissbomb :
26 Nov 2011 5:42:35pm
A wonderful piece of writing, Geraldine.
Yet it would seem to be Machiavelli rather than Yeats who captures precisely the right note for your polemic:
"(T)here is nothing more difficult nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to conduct than to make oneself a leader in introducing a new order of things. For the man who introduces it has for enemies all who do well out of the old order and has lukewarm supporters in all who will do well out of the new order...who do not put their trust in changes if they do not see them in actual practice."
An early (and better in my view) translation goes for "lukewarm friends" and "bitter enemies."
And the "bitter enemies" of our planet are, sadly, likely to fight very hard for their right to destroy it - just as "Benjamin Church dammed the brook."
What a truly beautiful sentence for such a sad event.
Brian Polkinghorne :
27 Nov 2011 2:15:39pm
Thank you - thank you. I TOTALLY agree that Australia has the opportunity to, and should be leaders not followers in this whole 'caring for the earth' philosophy. O.K. - we only contribute 1.5% of the world's carbon dioxide - BUT - we are only 0.38% of the world's population ! So - is this fair? Absolutely no way.
But one request. You used the word "owners" about native peoples. I strongly disagreee. They and we are custodians. Claiming we are owners is surely a primary source of the Israel / Palestine conflict, and a vast majority of conflicts. As soon as we use the word owner, it implies we have the right to do what ever we like with no accountability, and this is surely one of the root causes of our environmental crisis
Rachael Wallbank :
27 Nov 2011 6:12:20pm
Congratulations on your first two Boyer Lectures Gerladine. Inciteful, courageous and inspiring work!
It made me feels good to hear such thoughts as yours said so loud and so clear.
I hope your talks might inspire others to stand taller together here and speak out for the kind of compassionate Australian truths that Gloria knew and shared.
I wonder if your message could be heard here if you were to return and be part of Australian political life? I wonder whether you might inspire journalists and politicians alike to be as direct as you? I wonder if your example might inspire us to better demand that of them.
I am really looking forward to your next two lectures.
Leo Loomans :
06 Jun 2012 8:01:45pm
Thank you, Geraldine Brookes, for your comment that we need to look on the collective lifestyle changes that must come as an opportunity, as something to be embraced rather looked on with fear.
Maintaining such a fear simply thrusts our head deeper into the sand and grips our hand ever more tightly onto the railings of those human practices it is becoming increasingly clear are disfunctional with respect to the longer-term welfare and thriving of the human species.
Such fear makes us selfish, short-term thinkers. We become in effect blind folded looters of the very time we have left to engender, generally into our community, an informed and thoughtful grace in our very capacity for a creative and harmonious response to those climate change problems we are increasingly having to face.
The consequences of doing nothing, of failing to thoughtfully address the climate change problems that we are doing much to bring about, of failing to come to our senses and to exercise real concerted intelligence on this point will only serve to unravel the very quality of the lifestyle we seek to protect.
Yolanda :
28 Jul 2012 12:34:32pm
I admire your eloquence and passion but we need action and who amongst us is going to take that first step? Why do we relinquish the power to someone else - all of us possess the ability to act even if only in a small way but we don't. Count me amongst the guilty.


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what the f is going on with college fresh girls? There is some new Facebook fad where only (at least for me) freshmen college girls post how they like to do it and where....What?
I really want to know what is going on, but am really scared to ask them personally (I don't want my perceptions shattered!).....is this the newest way to be crazy and promiscuous?.....Maybe I'm too old fashioned....
Also, has anyone seen how frickin hot Amanda Bynes is? That girl is grown! She wasent working with anything a few years ago, but now......I don't even know what to say!
Good Lord!