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Serena Williams' comeback was ended by Marion Bartoli as the defending champion was beaten in straight sets in the fourth round at Wimbledon.
French ninth seed Marion Bartoli downed the American 6-3, 7-6 to set up a quarter-final with Germany's Sabine Lisicki.
Serena, seeded seventh after serious health problems, struggled throughout against the ninth-seeded Frenchwoman, making a succession of unforced errors on Court One.
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The 2004 champion had to save two break points as the opening two games took nearly 15 minutes and her forehand and serve were both a little hit-or-miss.
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The Florida-based 24-year-old, still to drop a set at the championships this year, will face Dominika Cibulkova in the last eight.
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This post certainly struck a nerve, particularly among atheist readers. One writes:
Sharing Kevin's sense of never having felt the need to believe in God, perhaps my answer will be of interest.
I have always felt that when I die, I am dead and gone, my conscious life will end, my interactions with others will end, and I will be simply GONE. I don't know what causes consciousness (call it spirit, call it soul, I don't mean to pick sides with my words), but I expect that it will end. My afterlife will be in the memories of those I knew, those who loved me, those who carry me on in their hearts. I, myself, cease to exist.
This gives me a beautiful, shockingly beautiful sense of the Now. Being in the present, the here and now, is the ultimate reward of life. I am constantly gobsmacked by the minutiae of life; I stand in awe of the things around me right fucking now. There's no reward, no judgment, no heaven, no hell. I live right fucking now.
Another writes:
I think that when I die I'll cease to exist, and in some ways I'm happy about that. Life is hard work. Life is good, worthy work that I'm proud of and that makes me feel good, for the most part, but even though I'll probably be sad to die (and I'd hate to think I was about to die any time soon), I'm still glad, in principle, that some day life will cease, and my burdens will dissolve with my joys. I don't want to live forever.
Speaking as someone who shares Kevin's view on this topic, what we think happens when we die is that we die, only our contributions to the world we are departing will live on, and that's all there is to it. We're not going to be around to experience it afterwards. Would it be nice not to die? Maybe, certainly sounds interesting (although I could see myself wishing fervently for death to put me out of my boredom when I turned a million, and considering it an inhuman and sadistic torment to deny that to me...). But if we wish to live in a reality based world we need to acknowledge that there is no rational reason to believe this to be true and it is a monumental case of group wishful thinking to put it politely. People are afraid of dying, they don't want to deal with it, and believing they'll never have to *really* deal with it because they're not going to *really* die is just easier.
How do I feel about it? Meh. I accepted my mortality (and that of everyone else I know) a long time ago, I dealt with it, and now I rarely give it much thought unless circumstances call it to my attention. I have better things to do with my life than obsessing over a time when it's going to be over. And no, that is not me declaring how incredibly brave and stoic in the face of death that makes atheists, I don't imagine I'd be any less scared facing the imminent ending of my life when the time comes than your average person... it is simply not a concern of mine now. Wringing my hands over it would be about as pointless as wailing over the gravitational constant of the universe not having a different value more to my liking. Reality is what it is. And reality is that people aren't immortal.
Yet another:
"I wonder what Kevin thinks happens to him when he dies?"
I think the fact that you have to ask this question at all says a lot about how the fear of death is inextricably tied to a belief in higher powers in the minds of theists. To one such as I, who shares Kevin's views, the answer is rather obvious and intuitive. Nothing is going to happen to him when he dies, because there won't be a 'him' for anything to happen to.
As for your follow up question- "And how does he feel about that - not just emotionally but existentially?"- I can only speak for myself, but again, the fact that you feel the need to ask this question says a lot about the source of your faith. Forgive me if this sounds overly judgmental, but to me terms like "faith" and "spirituality" are just shorthand for an individual's inability to cope with the concept of oblivion. Why must one feel anything particular about it in the first place? I am. One day, I will not be. This doesn't bother me and I don't understand the need to waste the precious gift of sentience agonizing about such things.
I recognize that some people can't shrug off the idea of not existing in some form. Take my husband for instance. He has an overdeveloped fear of oblivion but can't bring himself to believe in fairy tales. He takes comfort in philosophy. In the words of (probably) Marcus Aurelius:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.'
As an atheist who has just recently had two friends die, I can say that not all atheists are as lucky as Kevin. For me, the fear of death is far and away the most immediate and challenging aspect of my atheism. Death affects me in a profound way, because I know it's not a matter of belief at this point, for me that this life is all we get. As much as I would like to believe platitudes like "He's in a better place now" and "I know he's smiling down on us," I see them for what they are, and what they represent: attempts to avoid facing the reality of death.
So if you truly believe that "Facing [death] is our life's task," may I suggest you try atheism? Religion is how people AVOID facing it. It's the common thread in all religions, from the most ancient to the most modern: "When we die, it's not really the end. So don't worry so much." But for most religions it doesn't stop there. Most of them teach that life after death will not only exist, but it'll be way more awesome than stupid ol' life with all its trials and tribulations. A choir of angels! Forty virgins! Nirvana! All your old friends, your family, even Mittens and Fido will be there to give you a big hug and welcome you to eternity!
Eternity. Living forever. Whatever philosophical contortions you want to twist yourself through, if you believe in eternity, you are not facing death. Atheists face death. We have to come to grips with the finality of our end without the aid of any comforting fairy tales. It's not easy, but neither is life. Atheists and theists can agree on that, at least. We just don't think death is going to be any different.
A reader asks:
When atheists claim that religion is just a fanciful way to deal with the unpleasant inevitability of death, the faithful often decry such a reduction as unfair. And yet your main response to Kevin Drum's unapologetic description of his lack of religious impulse is to ask "Then what do you think happens when we die?" As another of those "untragic" atheists, I can only scratch my head as to why my answer to that question would seem to be revelatory to you... unless, that is, the avoidance of death offered by religion is its key selling point. So which is it? And how does soothing my fears (be they rational or irrational) make something like religion more likely to be True?
A final thought:
I believe we have a "soul," but not in the sense of a spiritual being apart from our bodies, but in the sense of a consciousness that transcends our physical limitations. It is, first, the essence of our beings, the thing that connects the person we are today to the person we have been at all the stages of our lives. The boy I once was is in some sense the man I am today and the old man I will be, and I think this persistence of being - this connective line, this inner self - is part of what I mean by "soul." In addition, by "soul" I also mean our ability to contemplate time and space and perhaps a sense of harmony far outside our own physicality. And finally I mean a higher morality - the part of our beings that makes us not only human, and thus animal, but also humane, and in that sense spiritual beings with a higher morality than self-interest and even survival. This feeling no doubt has a physical cause as well, but at some level our higher-processing brains and our experiences and learning give us feelings that seem unconnected to physical sensation. And it is here where the best of humankind resides and expresses itself.
When I worry about my own death, it is not death that I really worry about, but the manner of death, and the lead up to it of decline, decrepitude, helplessness, pain. (If I knew I would be fairly healthy until the end, and then die peacefully in my sleep, much of my anxiety would be gone.) Death itself does not scare me. I remember undergoing general surgery for some minor problem, and was given some anesthetic drip before being wheeled into the operating room. At one moment I was talking to the surgeon, and the very next moment - a nanosecond later - I was in the recovery room. I had no awareness of a dimming of consciousness. One instant I was there, an instant later I was gone. This, it seems to me, is what death is like, only there's no reawakening. Consciousness ends, and along with it any awareness and sensation. There is not even a feeling of absence.
Another way I look at it is that life after I am dead will be just like life before I was born. I don't regret not being here sooner than I was, and I had no sensation of existence before my birth. So it will be after my death.
The only death that really scares me is the death of those I love, far more than my own. This is not to say that I don't want to live as long as possible, so long as I can function in some way and not be an excessive burden. And this desire, it seems to me, is itself strong proof that there is no afterlife. Freud's thanatos notwithstanding, even our souls hunger for a concrete existence. We may long for transcendence, but it is a transcendence in our lives, not in some desire to be totally spiritual beings, removed forever from connection to the real. At least not for long - that way lies madness. Sooner or later, we want to reconnect to the world. And we constantly hunger for the visible world, the streams of sensations that feed our consciousness and being. It is the very opposite of an afterlife idealized by major religions. And that leads me to my final point (probably a startling one, from your point of view): I think life after death would be stupid.
By this I absolutely do not mean that it is stupid to believe in an afterlife or to desire it (though such a desire may be a result of naivete, irrationality, or great pain). I mean that such an existence would itself be stupid. It would be devoid of anything that gives our intelligence any significance, and our current lives any meaning. It would not in any sense be human. I remember telling my brother that if I died and there was a God and he told me that he indeed created the world in six days, I would be extremely disappointed, for I find the world as it is far more miraculous and awe-inspiring than its biblical description. Similarly, a life after death devoid of physicality would mean very little to me, and I don't desire it. Perhaps it would matter to whatever essence or spirit survived me, but to the living human being I am, this world - you and me and everyone else - is all that really matters.
Again, Andrew, what do you think happens when you die? Your body and individuality recreated in some recognizable way, with friends long gone again available to you? Andrew Sullivan as a disembodied spirit, glowing because you - or it - are in the presence of Jesus? You must have some view. Share it. And tell us if you really prefer that afterlife, to all the pain and glory of this real one.
One of the starkest things I remember from my one afternoon spent conversing with the subject of my doctoral dissertation, Michael Oakeshott, was his response to a question I posed him about the notion of salvation and the after-life (he died the following year). It was "who would want to be saved"? Oakeshott's last unwritten essay (I suspect he had been writing it in his head much of his life) was going to be about a conception of salvation which had nothing whatsoever with the future.
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Ok, Maybe I'm over reacting, I probably am, but my MIL, who calls everyday now to check on me and to make sure I'm not in labor called yesterday saying that her friend said that my baby is going to be born on monday for sure because it's a full moon (eye roll), and that I should be doing a lot of walking and getting my legs massaged.... mmmm ok..... That was unwanted obvious advice of course.
And today, this same lady came to chat with me on facebook asking about the baby and when I said: she is good, still cooking. she said: MONDAY! Get a pedicure on Saturday..... (really lady? no, but really?)
Now, I know that the moon might have some influence in pregnancy and birth, BUT I will be 39 weeks pregnant by then and it wont be a big surprise if my baby is born, nor will I blame it on the full moon.
And the worse part is that now I really hope she is not born on Monday so I don't give her the taste of saying she predicted my baby's birth.
Am I being irrational? She was probably just trying to be nice, but it got on my nerves that a random person would have the nerve to predict my baby's birthday like that.... That probably wouldn't bother me if I wasn't so pregnant lol
My MIL has been driving me insane lately as well!! She calls at least once a day to see if she should head to the hospital. Um...you can if you want, but I'm not...? Through this constant questioning, I realized that DH actually hasn't explained to her that it will be just the 2 of us, at least before and during...then we will decide on visitors after depending on how we're feeling. And I do plan on telling the nurses this.
I've stopped answering her calls, and pretty soon, I'm going to snap and tell her everytime she does call is going to be 1 more day we don't call her to share the news. I know she's excited but she's completely overwhelming and the kid isnt even here yet....what's it going to be like afterwards...?
Yes, it's annoying! My mother says that I will give birth on the 25th because of the full moon...but my due date is the 25th, so if it happens then, I'm sure ill never hear the end of how it was the full moon that caused it.
strangers keep telling me that I'm having a boy since I'm carrying high, or round, or whatever. But it's a girl.
perhaps the oddest one was that my sister told me that the baby's hiccups meant that she was allergic to whatever food I had just ate, which means its going to be a tough diet for her since she gets hiccups 1-4 times daily, so she must be allergic to everything.
perhaps the oddest one was that my sister told me that the baby's hiccups meant that she was allergic to whatever food I had just ate, which means its going to be a tough diet for her since she gets hiccups 1-4 times daily, so she must be allergic to everything.
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sweats of the week
I had a really rough week emotionally and I let it affect my workout schedule. My to-do list got a little overwhelming, work got crazy, and I'm still reeling from the death of Dan Wheldon (it is hard to explain what IndyCar means to my family). Plus, on top of that, it rained for days and days, and my emotions are definitely connected to the weather. Obviously, these all explain why I skipped out on the gym, but they certainly don't excuse it. I really need to learn to lean on exercise as a coping mechanism instead of letting it fall by the wayside as soon as I'm feeling down or stressed.
Here's hoping that this upcoming week will have less tears and a lot more sweaty workouts. Anywho, onto what I did do.
Sunday (10/16)
- 2 mile walk
Did a nice walk around the neighborhood with the Puppyface. I'm loving the RunKeeper app for my iPhone. It seems to be remarkably accurate and I like trying to push myself to walk just a little bit faster, even when I'm just out for a stroll with the PF.
Monday (10/17)
- 2-1/4 mile walk
Another walk around the neighborhood. I was really feeling the walking. Gave me a chance to clear my head and enjoy the nice weather. And then. And then….the rain started. For days and days.
Saturday (10/22)
Gym (60 minutes, 422 calories)
- 30 minutes strength training
- 10 minutes elliptical
- 20 minutes stationary bike
I definitely burst into tears in the cardio room. I'm such a freak. There are three TVs. At one point, all three of them were playing tributes to Dan Wheldon (his death is still a big local news story). I started thinking about his wife and kids and that's when I totally lost it. Thankfully, I was the only one in the cardio room. It feels weird to be so emotional over the death of someone I've never met. Hard to explain. Of note: if you ever want to get something out of me, I am apparently really emotionally vulnerable about 45 minutes into a tough workout.
- 2 mile walk
Again, with the Puppyface. The sun finally made an appearance just in time for the weekend. Walking can be so nice! Although I wish parents would teach their kids not to run up to a strange dog and try to pet it. Was I the only one that got taught that you ask before you pet a stranger's dog? Cuz Puppyface about ate a few small children yesterday afternoon.
I have 32 days to go in my All About the Numbers challenge. Missed the challenge introduction? Go read what it's all about. The blue numbers represent where I am currently in my quest to tackle my goals.
- Complete 2000 fitness minutes (298/2000)
- Do a 2 minute plank (1 minute 30 seconds)
- Do a 1 minute chair sit (35 seconds)
- Run or walk a total of 100 miles (9.13/100)
- Stationary bike a total of 100 miles (8.3/100)
- Drink 4000 ounces of water (736/4000)
- Track my food for 30 days (8/30)
- Eat 200 servings of fruits and veggies (37/200)
- Go 40 days without stepping on a scale (8/40)
- Write and post 30 Operation Beautiful notes (4/30)
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I've found the best way to begin relying on exercise as a form of therapy is just to do things you like in those times of stress (like a yoga video or walking with your pup!) instead of trying to mentally prepare for a sweaty gym session. I know you've said how much you like SparkPeople in the past, is that what you've been using to track your food on this new challenge? I'm always curious about what tracking sites people find helpful.
We are complete opposites on the chair sit and plank! I can chair sit for 2+ minutes, but planking is so hard to me!
I can relate. I've been an emotional wreck for much of the week, keep thinking about Dan and his family. I had the privilege of spending a short amount of time with him, away from the spotlight, just recently. I'll never forget it. I still can't believe he had that much of an impact on me that I spent much of the week grieving. Exercise was definitely therapeutic, and kicked butt in my Thursday morning spin class.
This right here is the #1 thing I need to work on: "I really need to learn to lean on exercise as a coping mechanism instead of letting it fall by the wayside as soon as I'm feeling down or stressed."
have a great week!!!
If I ever figure it out, I'll let you know


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A Special Supplement: The Trouble with Black Power
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
Black Power and Urban Unrest
Black Power/White Resistance: Notes on the New Civil War
White Reflections on Black Power
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
"In the place of a matured social vision there will always be those who will gladly substitute the catastrophic and glorious act of martyrdom and self-immolation for a cause."
—Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Whatever else "Black Power" means, the slogan itself indicates that the movement for racial equality has entered a new phase. Even those who argue that the change is largely rhetorical or that Black Power merely complements the struggle for "civil rights" would presumably not deny that "Black Power" articulates, at the very least, a new sense of urgency, if not a sense of impending crisis. Together with last summer's riots, it challenges the belief, until recently widespread, that the United States is making substantial progress toward racial justice and that it is only a matter of time and further effort before the color line is effectively obliterated.
Now even the opponents of Black Power issue warnings of apocalypse. "We shall overcome" no longer expresses the spirit of the struggle. Race war seems a more likely prospect. The Negro movement itself is splitting along racial lines. In the form in which it existed until 1963 or 1964, the civil rights movement is dead: this is not a conjecture but a historical fact. Whether the movement can be revived in some other form, or whether it will give way to something completely different, remains to be seen. Meanwhile time seems to be working on the side of an imminent disaster.
What has changed? Why did the civil rights movement, which seemed so confident and successful at the time of the Washington march in 1963, falter until now it seems to have reached the point of collapse? Why has "Black Power" displaced "freedom" as the rallying- point of Negro militancy?
There are several reasons for this change. The most obvious is that the apparent victories of the civil rights coalition have not brought about any discernible changes in the lives of most Negroes, at least not in the North. Virtually all the recent books and articles on Black Power acknowledge this failure or insist on it, depending on the point of view. Charles E. Fager's White Reflections on Black Power, for example, analyzes in detail the Civil Rights Act of 1964—the major legislative achievement of the civil rights coalition—and shows how the act has been systematically subverted in the South, title by title, and how, in the North, many of its provisions (such as voting safeguards and desegregation of public accommodations) were irrelevant to begin with. The inadequacy of civil rights legislation is not difficult to grasp. Even the most superficial accounts of the summer's riots see the connection between hopes raised by civil rights agitation and the Negroes' disappointing realization that this agitation, whatever its apparent successes, has nevertheless failed to relieve the tangible miseries of ghetto life.
NOT ONLY HAVE the civil rights laws proved to be intrinsically weaker and more limited in their application than they seemed at the time they were passed, but the unexpectedly bitter resistance to civil rights, particularly in the North, has made it difficult to implement even these limited gains, let alone to win new struggles for open housing, an end to de facto segregation, and equal employment. Northern segregationists may not be strong enough to elect Mrs. Hicks mayor of Boston, but they can delay open housing indefinitely, it would seem, in Milwaukee as well as in every other Northern city—even those which have nominally adopted open housing. Everywhere in the North civil rights agitation, instead of breaking down barriers as expected, has met a wall of resistance. If anything, Negroes have made more gains in the South than in the North. The strategy of the civil rights movement, resting implicitly on the premise that the North was more enlightened than the South, was unprepared for the resistance it has encountered in the North.
The shifting focus of the struggle from the South to the North thus has contributed both to the weakening of the civil rights movement and to the emergence of Black Power. The implications of this change of scene go beyond what is immediately evident—that federal troops, for instance, appear on the side of the Negroes in Little Rock, whereas in Detroit they are the enemy. The civil rights movement in the South was the product of a set of conditions which is not likely to be repeated in the North: federal efforts to "reconstruct" the South; the tendency of Northern liberals to express their distaste for American society vicariously by attacking racism in the South, rather than by confronting racism at home; the revival of Southern liberalism. Moreover, the civil rights movement, in its Southern phase, rested on the indigenous Negro subculture which has grown up since the Civil War under the peculiar conditions of Southern segregation—a culture separate and unequal but semi-autonomous and therefore capable of giving its own distinctive character to the movement for legal and political equality.
E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER once wrote that the Negro's "primary struggle" in America "has been to acquire a culture"—customs, values, and forms of expression which, transmitted from generation to generation, provide a people with a sense of its own integrity and collective identity. Under slavery, African forms of social organization, family life, religion, language, and even art disintegrated, leaving the slave neither an African nor an American but a man suspended, as Kenneth Stampp has said, "between two cultures," unable to participate in either. After the Civil War, Southern Negroes gradually developed institutions of their own, derived from American sources but adapted to their own needs, and therefore capable of giving the Negro community the beginnings at least of cohesiveness and collective self-discipline. The Negro church managed to impose strict standards of sexual morality, thereby making possible the emergence of stable families over which the father—not the mother, as under slavery—presided.
Stable families, in turn, furnished the continuity between generations without which Negroes could not even have begun their slow and painful self-advancement—the accumulation of talent, skills, and leadership which by the 1950s had progressed to the point where Southern Negroes, together with their liberal allies, could launch an attack against segregation. The prominence of the Negro church in their struggle showed the degree to which the civil rights movement was rooted in the peculiar conditions of Negro life in the South—conditions which had made the church the central institution of the Negro subculture. Even radicals like Charles M. Sherrod of SNCC who condemned the passivity of the Negro church realized that "no one working in the South can expect to 'beat the box' if he assumes…that one does not need the church as it exists."
The breakdown of the Southern Negro subculture in the North has recreated one of the conditions that existed under slavery, that of dangling between two cultures. Unlike other rural people who have migrated over the last hundred and forty years to the cities of the North, Southern Negroes have not been able to transplant their rural way of life even with modifications. The church decays; the family reverts to the matricentric pattern. The schools, which are segregated but at the same time controlled by white people, hold up middle-class norms to which black children are expected to conform; if they fail they are written off as "unteachable." Meanwhile the mass media flood the ghetto with images of affluence, which Negroes absorb without absorbing the ethic of disciplined self-denial and postponement of gratification that has traditionally been a central component of the materialist ethic.
In the South, the Negro church implanted an ethic of patience, suffering, and endurance. As in many peasant or precapitalist societies, this kind of religion proved surprisingly conducive—once endurance was divorced from passive resignation—to effective political action. But the ethic of endurance, which is generally found among oppressed peoples in backward societies, cannot survive exposure to modern materialism. It gives way to an ethic of accumulation. Or, if real opportunities for accumulation do not exist, it gives way to hedonism, opportunism, cynicism, violence, and self-hatred—the characteristics of what Oscar Lewis calls the culture of poverty.
Lewis writes:
The culture of poverty is a relatively thin culture…. It does not provide much support or long-range satisfaction and its encouragement of mistrust tends to magnify helplessness and isolation. Indeed, the poverty of culture is one of the crucial aspects of the culture of poverty.
These observations rest on Lewis's studies of the ghettos of Mexico City and of the Puerto Rican ghettos of San Juan and New York, where the breakdown of traditional peasant cultures has created a distinctive type of culture which comes close to being no culture at all. Something of the same thing has happened to the Negro in the North; and this helps to explain what Frazier meant when he said that the Negro's primary struggle in America had been "to acquire a culture."
This analysis in turn makes it possible to see why nationalist sects like the Nation of Islam, which have never made much headway in the South, find the Northern ghetto a fertile soil; while the civil rights movement, on the other hand, has become progressively weaker as the focus of the Negroes' struggle shifts from the South to the North. The civil rights movement does not address itself to the question of how Negroes are to acquire a culture, or to the consequences of their failure to do so. It addresses itself to legal inequalities. In so far as it implies a cultural program of any kind, the civil rights strategy proposes to integrate Negroes into the culture which already surrounds them.
Now the real objection to this is not the one so often given by the advocates of Black Power—that Negroes have nothing to gain from integrating into a culture dominated by materialist values. Since most Negroes have already absorbed those values, this is a frivolous argument—especially so since it seems to imply that there is something virtuous and ennobling about poverty. What the assimilationist argument does overlook is that the civil rights movement owes its own existence, in part, to the rise of a Negro subculture in the South, and that the absence of a comparable culture in the ghetto changes the whole character of the Negro problem in the North. American history seems to show that a group cannot achieve "'integration"—that is, equality—without first developing institutions which express and create a sense of its own distinctiveness. That is why black nationalism, which attempts to fill the cultural vacuum of the ghetto, has had a continuing attraction for Negroes, and why, even during the period of its eclipse in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, nationalism won converts among the most despised and degraded elements of the Negro community in spite of the low repute in which it was held by Negro leaders.


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Tom Leppert, President And COO, Kaplan, Inc. (Photo: Business Wire)
Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational services and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO), today announced the appointment of Thomas C. Leppert as president and chief operating officer.
Tom Leppert, President and COO, Kaplan, Inc. (Photo: Business Wire)
A former mayor of Dallas, chairman and CEO of The Turner Corporation, the largest commercial builder in the United States, and McKinsey & Co. principal, Leppert brings deep and extensive business and public sector experience to Kaplan. As president and COO, Leppert will assume day-to-day oversight of the company's operating divisions: Kaplan Test Prep and Kaplan Higher Education in the United States, and Kaplan International based in London, UK and with operations across Europe, Asia, and Australia. He will report to Kaplan Chairman and CEO Andrew S. Rosen.
Rosen said: "Tom's exceptional track record of accomplishments in both private business and the public sector makes him an ideal choice to help position Kaplan for sustained growth in a period of dynamic change and opportunity in the educational marketplace. He has been enormously successful in multiple industries and roles, always based on integrity and quality."
Leppert said: "Over the years, as a leader in both the public and private sector, as well as in my personal life, I have developed a deep commitment to education. I understand its importance to the future of our country and the world, and I have seen how education has the power to transform lives. This opportunity to be personally involved in influencing education, to improve individual lives, and to help lead a company that is changing the educational landscape at a time when our country and the world needs educational innovation, is unique and compelling."Tom Leppert was the mayor of Dallas, TX, the ninth largest city in the United States, from 2007-2011. In that role, Leppert aggressively pursued policies that dramatically improved the quality of life in Dallas. In the areas of public safety, economic development, education, and the environment, Dallas emerged as one of the focal points in the nation. He was actively involved in education, pioneering a number of innovative educational programs.
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Talk Slides and Older Essays
A few posted slide decks:
- OpenVisConf (Boston, June 2013): Bones of a Bestseller: Visualizing Fiction. Lots of simple machine learning and d3.js visual tools to interpret my results.
- PyData Silicon Valley (Feb 2013): Talk on using Nodebox to visualize data in Python. Nodebox is a python-alternative to Processing.
- Strata and Hadoop World (NYC, Oct 2012): Talk on visualizing networks ("Beyond the Hairball"): a Slideshare deck. (Lots of favs and shares!)
- A short talk for Boston's Predictive Analytics Lightning Talks (Oct, 2012) on Interactive Visualization with D3.js.
- Talk for Boston's Predictive Analytics Meetup on doing network analysis with Python's NetworkX and D3.js linked on my blog.
- Boston MiniUPA (Usability Professionals Assoc chapter conference) talk, "Mining Your Data: An Easy Intro to a Tough Topic (pdf slides)."
- Slides from an invited talk at UIUC, HCI Program, June 2010: The Evolution of Fan Video Editors.
- BostonCHI Panel Notes: User Experience Organizations (from Symantec, Fidelity, Oracle, EMC). September 2007.
- Design for Online Community: Past the Hype (ppt), a talk from the local Boston UXNetwork kickoff meeting. Simpler version without as many pics available on Slideshare.
- Twenty Things I Believe About Product Design (Originally April 2005, revised a third time Dec 2006)
- A PPT presentation: "The Hiring Problem: Academic HCI vs. the Real World of Practice." Aka, "What I Wish I'd Been Taught in School" about the practice of UI design (and the difficulty of hiring good people from school). Given at UW in 2004.
See also my published papers and books.
Travel Essays
- Twitchers and Tweeters of Fair Isle (2002, posted January 2006). About a trip to a remote Scottish island and the bird watching fanatics there.
- The Haunting of Windhouse on Yell (2002, posted January 2006, updated 2007). About a haunted house and local folklore in Shetland, north of the Scottish mainland.
- My Summer Vacation in Siberia (2003, May 2005). An ill-fated trip to Siberia with a friend.
- A Visit to a Turkish Hammam (France, 2001). Disorientation in French, while naked.


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On this week's show, we begin with your Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. In this week's report we discuss the addition of Mermaids to Pirates of the Caribbean, huge changes at the original Country Bear Jamboree, and the new Disney Parks marketing campaign for 2013 that may actually have you picking your vacation dates a little differently this time around. Following that, we tackle the huge news from earlier this week that the Walt Disney Company has purchased Lucasfilm Ltd, making the Star Wars universe officially part of the Disney family.
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St Bathans Blue Lake St Bathans was established in 1863 to service gold mines duirng the gold rush and is brimming with history. There is much to see and do including a walk around the scenic Blue Lake or admiring the historic buildings.
St Bathans is a popular side trip from the Otago Central Rail Trail.
St Bathans HallSt Bathans township historic buildings include the well known Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans Hall, Post Office and Gold Office.
The St Bathans Hall built in 1892/93 is typical of community halls built during the gold mining years, though rare in its large size. An original mural at the back of the stage adds a distinctive air of the past to the interior.
The St Bathans Post Office is another important landmark in St Bathans. Built in 1909, it was the third post office built on this site.
St Bathans is located 60km north east of Alexandra off State Highway 85 (Alexandra to Ranfurly).
St Bathans is signposted from State Highway 85.
Enjoy one of the walks around historic, man-made Blue Lake in St Bathans and view sluicings and gold mining relics.
This is a basic campsite in Central Otago. Camp in a remote and historic area. Explore St Bathans township or mountain bike the Otago Central Rail Trail.
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Knit Your Own Royal Wedding: Prince William and bride-to-be Kate Middleton in all their yarn glory
I'm not a royal watcher and can live without reading the latest details about the upcoming nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, but when you tie it all to crafting I'm suddenly very interested.
A review copy of "Knit Your Own Royal Wedding" (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $17.99, 64 pages) by Fiona Goble arrived in today's mail and it's both clever and amusing.
Knitted versions of the queen and her grandsons more closely resemble the real-life royals, than the knitted versions of Kate and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. But it's challenging to capture a person's essence with a knitted likeness and Goble did a nice job of creating knitting patterns for crafty fans of royalty.
From Prince Williams toothy, chain-stitched smile to Queen Elizabeth II's pearls and flipped up hair, Goble's attention to detail is impressive and fun. She even includes a pattern to knit the Queen's Pembroke Welsch corgis.
The patterns in the book are geared for experienced knitters, but Goble includes basic illustrated instructions for casting on and completing basic purl and knit stitches to help rookies make their royal replicas, too.
While it would be challenging to knit the whole royal family on size 2 or 3 needles before the April 29 wedding, the book includes a fold out balcony illustration for those who want to properly set the scene for their knitted creations on the big day.
This book, which includes snippets of Kate and William's courtship, has value even if you don't want to knit the royal family. Goble includes patterns to create men's suits, dresses, shawls and hats to outfit "wedding guests."
Experienced knitters can follow Goble's knitted doll patterns to create a likeness of themselves or their crafty friends. And whether you're knitting a princess or a commoner, the results are sure to amuse your knitting group pals.
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Time: March 19, 2011, 10:42 pm
Oh my god! This is so fantastic. It made me smile, and laugh and just enjoy the creativity of the author and creator. The royal family is so cute!
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How amazing! And hilarious!! Thank you for brightening my days with crafty inspiration. I found your podcast a few months ago and am enjoying all the amazing artists and crafters you've interviewed. I've listened to most episodes more than once because they are all so interesting and inspirational!!
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Thanks for commenting, ladies. This book made me laugh and captivated me right away, so I wanted to spread the word. And the royal family does look super cute in yarn form. So fun!
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Time: March 22, 2011, 3:03 pm
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too bad I`m no much of a knitter, but I would love to buy such souvenir if Iwas in UK :)
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Question 1: Asked to give the current rate of inflation, respondents gave a median answer of 4.4%, compared with 3.9% in November.
Question 2a: Median expectations of the rate of inflation over the coming year were 4.0%, compared with 3.9% in November.
Question 2b: Asked about expected inflation in the twelve months after that, respondents gave a median answer of 3.4%, compared with 3.2% in November.
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Question 4: 49% of respondents thought the inflation target was 'about right', compared with 52% in November, while the proportions saying the target was 'too high' or 'too low' were 23% and 18% respectively.
Question 5: 19% of respondents thought that interest rates had fallen over the past 12 months, compared with 24% in November, while 30% of respondents said that interest rates had risen over the past 12 months, compared with 27% in November.
Question 6: When asked about the future path of interest rates, 62% of respondents expected rates to rise over the next 12 months, compared with 52% in November. 5% of respondents expected interest rates to fall over the next 12 months, compared with 4% in November.
Question 7: Asked what would be 'best for the economy' - higher interest rates, lower rates or no change - 25% thought rates should 'go up', compared with 20% in November. 18% of respondents thought that interest rates should 'go down', compared with 17% in November. 34% thought interest rates should 'stay where they are', compared with 38% in November.
Question 8: When asked what would be 'best for you personally', 25% of respondents said interest rates should 'go up', the same proportion as in November. 28% of respondents said it would be better for them if interest rates were to 'go down', also the same proportion as in November.
Question 9*: When asked how strongly respondents agreed or disagreed that a rise in interest rates would make prices rise more slowly in the short term, the net response was +11% in February 2011, compared with +15% in February 2010. When asked how strongly respondents agreed or disagreed that a rise in interest rates would make prices rise more slowly in the medium term, the net response was +24%, the same proportion as in February 2010.
Question 10*:When asked in February if a choice had to be made either to raise interest rates to try and keep inflation down, or to keep interest rates lower and allow prices to rise faster, 66% of respondents said interest rates should rise, while 16% said prices should be allowed to rise faster. These compare with 66% and 17% in February 2010.
Questions 11-13*: The responses to these questions - which ask respondents about which organisation is responsible for setting interest rates - are broadly similar to the responses given in February 2010.
Question 14: Respondents were asked to assess the way the Bank of England is 'doing its job to set interest rates to control inflation'. The net satisfaction balance - the proportion satisfied minus the proportion dissatisfied - was +17%, compared with +22% in November.
Question 15**: Asked how they were likely to react to changes in their expectations of inflation over the next twelve months: 65% of respondents said they would shop around for better value goods and services; 55% said they would cut back on spending and save more; 23% said they would look for a different or second job, or work more hours; 13% said they would move savings out of banks and building societies and into other assets; 9% said they would push for increased pay in their current jobs; and 7% said they would bring forward major purchases.
Notes to Editors
GfK NOP interviewed a quota sample of 3,929 people aged 16 and over in 175 randomly selected output areas throughout the United Kingdom between 10 and 22 February 2011. The raw data were weighted to match the demographic profile of the UK as a whole.
* Although the main survey is conducted quarterly, the February survey each year includes five extra questions, the answers to which have been shown to change slowly over time, and is double the sample size of the other surveys.
** This question was added to the February 2011 survey.


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Hamam + Yoga Overnight
Check in for a one night stay at the historic Fort Garry Hotel for some well
Check in for a one night stay at the historic Fort Garry Hotel for some well
Call the Tundra Inn home while you explore all that Churchill has to offer -
Call the Tundra Inn home while you explore all that Churchill has to offer -
It's hard to imagine a more perfect setting for paddling a kayak or canoe.
Slip into the clear water and enjoy the spectacular view as beaches stretch back to a ragged border of black spruce, balsam fir and rocky Precambrian Shield.
Spread over more than 2,500 square kilometres of evergreens, placid lakes and rolling rivers, waterfalls and dramatic outcroppings, Whiteshell Provincial Park is ideal for everything from mild beach and golf trips to rugged adventures on the wild side.
Suit up to go swimming, scuba diving and water-skiing. Take a horseback ride or hit the scenic hiking trails - they range from an easy three-kilometre walk in the park to a challenging 60-kilometre trek on the Mantario Trail.
Drop a line off the shore or a boat to hook perch, pickerel, trout or walleye, then cook your catch of the day over a toasty campfire.
In winter, venture out on snowshoes or slip quietly through the trees on groomed cross-country ski trails. Try your hand at ice-fishing and take a scenic cruise along a network of snowmobile trails.
Use your geocaching skills to explore the sights, play tennis and soak up aboriginal and natural history at the Bannock Point Petroforms, the Whiteshell Trappers Museum and the Whiteshell Natural History Museum - and be sure to honk if you love geese at the Alfred Hole Goose Sanctuary.
Choose from resort accommodations, a rustic cabin or full-service campsites close to beaches and playgrounds.
From Winnipeg, head east on the Trans-Canada Highway to entry points at Falcon Lake or West Hawk Lake.