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In this series, NerdWallet interviews people who have triumphed over debt using a combination of commitment, budgeting and smart financial choices. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Sally
In this series, NerdWallet interviews people who have triumphed over debt using a combination of commitment, budgeting and smart financial choices. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
Sally and Adam Cleary have a good life now. They own a home in Boise, Idaho, and enjoy outdoor adventures with their kayaks and mountain bikes " fully paid for, Sally notes.
But the Clearys weren't always on their financial feet. A recession led to a job loss for Adam in 2009 and drastically reduced hours for Sally. Panicking, the couple decided to withdraw money from retirement accounts to pay their bills, thinking it was the 'honorable' thing to do. They also relied heavily on credit cards to help make ends meet.
When they could no longer make their mortgage payment, they moved into the windowless basement of Adam's mother's house in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sally and Adam found stable jobs, but still had �over $11,000 in credit card debt, plus student loan debt and ongoing medical expenses. They lost their home in Boise to foreclosure.
The worst thing? They had to give up their Labrador retrievers, Tater and O'Malley, because they wouldn't have a yard. That was heart-rending.
Looking for help, they turned to a credit counseling agency and enrolled in a debt management plan, which resulted in lower interest and a single monthly payment. They paid much more per month than they had before, when they �made credit card minimum payments, and were debt-free much sooner. On a combined $75,000 income, they paid off their credit card debt in May 2014.
Adam now works with Healthwise, a Boise nonprofit. Sally is in private practice as a mental health counselor.
Sally, 40, and Adam, 39, recently connected with NerdWallet to share their story, which may inspire your own debt-free journey.What was your debt when you started your repayment journey?
Adam: About $11,000 in credit card debt.
Sally: We still have student loans, and we have car loans and a mortgage, but our only credit card debt is medical debt we put on a 0% balance transfer card (which they were able to qualify for once they had dramatically improved their credit).How did you end up in debt?
Sally: Our lifestyle did not change when Adam lost his job. We felt like we could ride this out and be OK. I think we felt entitled to that lifestyle. And even when we knew it was bad, we used credit cards to make us feel better.
Like, when we moved in with Adam's mom, we bought new carpet. When you're that broke, you don't need to be buying new carpet. You deal with what's there.What triggered your decision to start getting out of debt?
Sally: After a couple of months, we were able to move out of the basement to a townhouse. Once we both had an income again, we wanted to get rid of the debt.
We went to a credit counselor in October 2011. She said, 'We can help you with this, but you can't use any credit. And, in fact, your payment's going to go up. Are you prepared for that?' I remember thinking if we decide to do this, we have to be all in; this is going to be hard. But we didn't want to be paying off that debt for 10 years.What steps did you take to reduce your debt?
Sally: We sold almost everything we could think of: �photography equipment, firearms " even a baseball signed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig that Adam's grandfather gave him.
Adam: Credit cards were closed with the debt management plan, so 'floating' where you spend $100 on groceries and figure you'll pay it later was not an option. That was what really forced the behavior to change. If you have $16.85 left for groceries, you look for ways to spend that much, not more.
Sally: There was a Starbucks near the jewelry store, and I made $9 an hour. I remember thinking when my co-workers asked me to go with them that if I go there, that's at least a half-hour's worth of work.
Adam: I had to think about things I don't normally think about, like gasoline. If we go here or there, what's the most efficient route, or can we carpool? We just did not have options. We were constricted.How did all this affect your credit?
Sally: When you are in a debt management plan, your credit report says your debt is being managed by DMP.
When we needed a car, we had to be honest and say we hit hard times, and some dealers did not want to deal with us. In all cases, we had to pay higher interest rates.
But our scores have gone up. We were able to buy a house in Boise in 2015. (They moved back to Idaho in 2012.) When a DMP is successfully completed, it is removed from a credit report.What would you do differently to pay off your debt?
Sally: We were so scared we just reacted but you have to slow down and take a breath and figure out what makes sense. You have to tell yourself, 'This isn't who I am. This is what's happening to me.' We internalized it all as, 'We have to act on this right now.'
Adam: Learn about options and learn about them quickly. We burned through hard-earned retirement funds trying to save a house that was always destined to disappear.How has the experience changed you?
Adam: I felt like I was losing my dignity. We had to learn to accept the generosity of others, and that was a little bit of a learning experience.
Sally: Some of it was about getting humble. I came home from the jewelry store with my feet hurting and had no money for shoes. There is no way we could have gotten through our tough times without the unconditional love and generosity of Adam's mom, Anita.How is being debt-free different?
Adam: We are a lot more appreciative of what we have now. There is a big sigh of relief and appreciation of normalcy. We have choices again. There's an enormous sense of freedom even if we don't act on it. We also volunteer. We've volunteered at the Idaho food bank and women's and children's clinics. We try and make it not all about us.
Sally: We consider ourselves money nerds now, but we are still making mistakes and still learning. We tweak our budget often, and Adam is now putting away 24% of his salary to help replenish our retirement savings.How to tackle your own debt
Inspired by the Clearys' debt-free journey? Here's what you can do to embark on your own:Breathe. Once you realize you are in over your head, take a moment to educate yourself before you start making decisions.Create a budget. Though the Clearys don't live on a tight budget now, they do have one, and they tweak it regularly.Save up an emergency fund. Knowing that you have enough money to stay afloat can help you avoid �panicking and making rash decisions.Know what your goals are. The Clearys wanted to get rid of their high-interest credit card debt �and weren't as troubled by their secured loans (those backed by collateral, such as a mortgage) and student loans.Consider whether your goals are realistic. If dischargeable debts " ones that can be erased in bankruptcy " are more than 40% of your income, or the debt seems impossible to pay in less than five years, it might be smart to see a bankruptcy attorney.Be willing to sacrifice. The money to pay off debt has to come from somewhere, and when money is scarce, thrift and creativity need to be abundant.
Photo courtesy of Sally Cleary.
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A few days before Christmas I dropped Asher and Rose off at my friend's house so that I could finish up my Christmas shopping. I took Abe with me and headed off to the store. I went into the store and it took me about 25 minutes to find what I needed and get back to the car. When I got back to the car I realized, to my utter horror, that I had left Abraham in the back of the car the whole time I was in the store. I had totally forgotten about him! Luckily he was bundled up really well and it wasn't very cold outside. I am so glad that he was still sleeping peacefully in his car seat. I think that if he had been crying I would have dug a hole right there and crawled in. Even as it was I felt so bad, I wanted to die. I am glad he has some good guardian angels.
I shared this experience on Facebook and my husband's aunt was kind enough to remind me that even Mary traveled three days with the caravan before she realized that Jesus was missing and had to go back to Jerusalem for him, where she found him teaching in the temple.
It makes me feel a little better to know that even the Mother of the son of God made the same sort of mistake. Granted, her son was 12 years-old instead of a month.
Yet having now forgotten about my own sucking child I better understand now the love that God has for us. We are His children and, unlike earthly parents, He will never ever forget about us.
I think one of my favorite parts of Christmas is having a tree in the house. I am sort of picky and always insist that we have a real tree every year. It is mostly because we never had a plastic tree when I was growing up (and I refuse to compromise on that tradition) and also because I think there is something incredibly beautiful about having a living, breathing tree in my house (because contrary to what my husband thinks, the tree isn't "dead" until it stops drinking the water).
As I basked in the glow and spirit of my Christmas tree I was reminded of an article by Daniel C. Peterson entitled "Nephi and His Asherah". In the article Peterson talks about the tree of life that Nephi sees in his vision and its connection to Christ, Mary and our Heavenly Parents. The symbolism behind trees is deep and powerful and I hope that after reading this article you will never look at your Christmas tree quite the same way again. Here is just a bit of what he says,
"Since Nephi wanted to know the meaning of the tree that his father had seen and that he himself now saw, we would expect "the Spirit" to answer Nephi's question. But the response to Nephi's question is surprising:
And it came to pass that he said unto me: Look! And I looked as if to look upon him, and I saw him not; for he had gone from before my presence.
And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the great city of Jerusalem, and also other cities. And I beheld the city of Nazareth; and in the city of Nazareth I beheld a virgin, and she was exceedingly fair and white.
And it came to pass that I saw the heavens open; and an angel came down and stood before me; and he said unto me: Nephi, what beholdest thou?
And I said unto him: A virgin, most beautiful and fair above all other virgins.
And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?
And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.
And he said unto me: Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh.
And it came to pass that I beheld that she was carried away in the Spirit; and after she had been carried away in the Spirit for the space of a time the angel spake unto me, saying: Look!
And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms.
And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father! (1 Nephi 11:12—21)
Then "the Spirit" asks Nephi the question that Nephi himself had posed only a few verses before:
Knowest thou the meaning of the tree which thy father saw? (1 Nephi 11:21)
Strikingly, though the vision of Mary seems irrelevant to Nephi's original question about the significance of the tree—for the tree is nowhere mentioned in the angelic guide's response—Nephi himself now replies that, yes, he knows the answer to his question.
And I answered him, saying: Yea, it is the love of God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men; wherefore it is the most desirable above all things.
And he spake unto me, saying: Yea, and the most joyous to the soul. (1 Nephi 11:22—23)
How has Nephi come to this understanding? Clearly, the answer to his question about the meaning of the tree lies in the virgin mother with her child. It seems, in fact, that the virgin is the tree in some sense. Even the language used to describe her echoes that used for the tree. Just as she was "exceedingly fair and white," "most beautiful and fair above all other virgins," so was the tree's beauty "far beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty; and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow." Significantly, though, it was only when she appeared with a baby and was identified as "the mother of the Son of God" that Nephi grasped the tree's meaning.
Why would Nephi see a connection between a tree and the virginal mother of a divine child? I believe that Nephi's vision reflects a meaning of the "sacred tree" that is unique to the ancient Near East, and that, indeed, can only be fully appreciated when the ancient Canaanite and Israelite associations of that tree are borne in mind. Read the full article
I am excited for New Year's Eve this weekend. We have invited some friends over to help us stay awake. My husband and I have discovered over the years that we have to either go to someone's house or invite people over for New Year's Eve or else we end up going to bed at 11:00 PM. Totally lame.
I am also looking forward to making new "New Year Miracles" and reflecting on how God has miraculously answered some of the miracles I asked for this year. It never ceases to amaze me how when I ask in faith for something God listens. God is truly a God of miracles.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend and a Happy New Year!
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Rugby players are thought to be some of the toughest athletes in team sports. Wearing minimal padding to protect against the maul, they're a scrum of toughness and athleticism.
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"The way people perceive the sport may be quite different just knowing the athlete has a disability," said Michael Cottingham, assistant professor in the department of health and human performance. "How do you react to the sport? How do you perceive the athleticism of the individuals? Do you perceive it as inspiration? Would you be likely to attend an event?"
Cottingham, whose research interests include promotional strategies in sport, is examining consumer behavior and perceptions about athletes with disabilities. He's trying to determine what steps disability sports can take to increase their support in resources and fans.
"There's a lower level of expectation of athletes with disabilities, and when they exceed that we often call that 'inspiration,'" he said. "How do we raise the expectation in order to perceive them more as athletes, rather than just inspirational stories?"
Cottingham is measuring perception by showing a series of videos to more than 400 students. Each short video contains the same information about a table-tennis athlete and his national and international successes. In one video, the champion's story includes information about his impoverished childhood. In another, it shows him in a wheelchair.
"Groups will see one of the videos then fill out a survey that examines their emotional response to the stories," he said. "They'll also be asked about their interest in seeing him play or in following his activities on social media."
The study also will include focus groups.
Cottingham says while there is theory about perceptions of athletes and persons with disabilities, there isn't any empirical data about the issue or about the influences that may lead to increased support.
"Sports has a means to social change and a lot of the research suggests that athletes are on the forefront of disability-culture movement because they're out there and want to be recognized in society," he said.
His research coincides with a summer camp he's directing along with the UH Adaptive Athletics student organization. The Wheelchair Rugby Camp is planned for June 13-16 at the UH Campus Recreation and Wellness Center. Athletes of all levels are invited to participate but must be 14-25 years old. For more information or to register, visit: http://www.uh.edu/class/hhp/hhp_adaptive_athletics/index.php
"It's important to create opportunities for young athletes with disabilities, especially because there aren't any true strictly college rugby programs out there," he said.
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Her attorney, William S. Waldo, said she talked to Seagal about the alleged abuse, but didn't report it to authorities. "She reported it to Steven Seagal," Waldo said. "In Jefferson Parish, Mr. Seagal is the police."
Nguyen filed a complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment&Housing and requested an immediate finding that she could sue Seagal. The agency granted that request and closed her case on April 1, court filings show.
Normand said he has informed A&E, the network that airs the show, and ITV Studios that it would be disruptive to continue making the show, in which cameras follow Seagal when he answers calls as a reserve deputy, with so much media interest in the Seagal case.
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A Jewish advocacy group has denounced the pro-life film "180," which juxtaposes the murders that took place during the Nazi-led Holocaust with abortions performed in the United States, as an outrageous abuse of the memory of the tragedy that occurred during World War II.
The Anti-Defamation League released a statement Wednesday that accused the film's producer, evangelist Ray Comfort, of manipulating "the young people interviewed to view the killing of innocent Jews during the Holocaust to be the same as the killing of fetuses."
In the 33-minute documentary, Comfort begins by giving viewers a history lesson on the Holocaust. There is archival WW II footage used in the video showing bodies piled up on top of each other, being transported, and being disposed.
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Comfort then transitions from talk about lives lost in the Holocaust to lives lost as the result of legal abortions in the United States, a number estimated to be 10 times the amount lost in the Holocaust. In the video it is quite apparent that those interviewed, who had a pro-abortion stance, change their opinion on abortion.
"The film is a perverse attempt to make a case against abortion in America through the cynical abuse of the memory of those killed in the Holocaust," said ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman, a Holocaust survivor. "Not only does the film try to assert a moral equivalency between the Holocaust and abortion, but it also brings Jews and Jewish history into the discussion and then calls on its viewers to repent and accept Jesus as their savior."
"It is, quite frankly, one of the most offensive and outrageous abuses of the memory of the Holocaust we have seen in years," he stated.
Comfort, who was born to a Jewish mother and father, released a statement of his own Thursday, countering the accusations.
"ADL's motto is to fight 'anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.' There's no hatred, prejudice or bigotry in '180,'" Comfort said. "It's an award-winning movie that opens with 14 people, mainly college students, who have no idea of the identity of Adolf Hitler. Clearly the American education system has failed these kids. This is a movie that educates young people about the horror of the Jewish Holocaust."
Foxman said Comfort and Living Waters, the makers of the film, "clearly don't get it."
"No Christian who understands Jewish suffering should resort to inappropriate comparisons to the Holocaust to send a message that abortion is wrong. This was one of the most painful chapters in human history," Foxman asserted. "Must the memory of the 6 million and millions of other victims be continually misused and abused by those with another agenda?"
Comfort replied to Foxman's assertions, stating: "No one but a Holocaust survivor can really understand the horror of what the Jews suffered. But the analogy stands. Hitler justified their murder by saying that Jews weren't human. Abortion advocates do the same by calling a baby a 'fetus' (as does ADF in their press release)."
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"With due respect to Mr. Foxman, he speaks of Christianity as if it were some sort of disease, when he should know that the majority of Christians love and support the nation of Israel. We are not the enemy," he added.
In his statement, Comfort went further into the film's correlation between the Holocaust and abortions in the U.S.
"Germany lawfully slaughtered six million Jews. America has lawfully slaughtered nearly ten times that amount. Also, every time Hitler killed a Jewish family he lined his pockets by seizing their assets – their paintings, jewelry, cars, homes, and bank account. He also seized the gold from their teeth and the hair from their heads, and it amounted to billions of dollars, financing a third of his war-machine with the blood of the Jews," Comfort said.
Likewise, he said the abortion industry in the U.S. puts "billions in the pockets of abortion providers."
"American abortion is not about 'choice,' it's about money … just like the Holocaust. The analogy is legitimate," Comfort concluded in his statement.
The documentary, which was released in late September, has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times at 180Movie.com and YouTube. On Oct. 25, about 200,000 DVD copies of the film were passed out to students at more than 100 universities throughout the U.S., Canada and New Zealand.
Comfort and volunteer members of his ministry went to three high schools in the Los Angeles and Hollywood area on Wednesday to begin a campaign of distributing the DVD to high school age students.


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WASHINGTON - You wouldn't know it from listening to the Republican National Convention, but the nation's economic picture seems to be slowly getting a little brighter.
Not a lot, and not very fast. Yet there are some glimmers.
But a steady drumbeat of gloom and doom is predictably being sounded at the GOP gathering in Tampa, Fla. - even by Republican governors who are quick to tout economic improvements in their own states.
Nationally, the recent gains are modest and won't do much to push the unemployment rate down much below its present 8.3 percent level before the Nov. 6 presidential election.
But economists cite some encouraging new data:
� The government reported Thursday that Americans spent at the fastest pace in five months in July, and personal income rose as well.
� Home prices rose in the first half of 2012 for the first time in nearly two years. Sales of both new and previously occupied homes also are up.
� Employers added 163,000 jobs in July, the most since February.
� U.S. exports, retail spending and factory production are all up.
Yet phrases such as "catastrophic debt," "stifling the American dream," "the tide of decline" and "an all-out assault on free enterprise" fill the air in the convention arena.
The rhetoric fits the GOP strategy of portraying President Barack Obama as out of touch and pursuing policies that have made the economy worse, not better, while Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is presented as the one with the business experience and savvy to turn things around.
Of course, Democrats get their turn for rebuttal next week at their own convention in Charlotte, N.C. But there are risks to sounding too optimistic on the economy.
Obama has been relatively cautious - welcoming recent positive reports but warning there's still a long road to a full recovery. To be more upbeat might play into GOP efforts to cast him as insensitive to the millions of Americans who remain jobless or are otherwise economically challenged.
Also, on Sept. 7, the morning after Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for a second term, the government releases unemployment figures for August. No one expects stellar figures.
Indeed, the economic recovery in the U.S. is the weakest of any since the Great Depression. Economic growth has never been feebler in a postwar recovery, consumer spending has never been so slack and only once before has job growth been slower, according to an Associated Press analysis this month.
A report released Tuesday showed the U.S. economy grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate from April to June - an upward revision from the initial 1.5 percent estimate but still signaling continued sluggishness.
Gasoline prices have been rising again toward $4 a gallon. Concerns remain over debt problems in Europe and a slowdown in China. And despite improving U.S. job and housing markets, consumer confidence is at its lowest level since November 2011.
Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight, said "housing is the area where you've got the most positives," and that's extremely important since housing weaknesses were a central cause of the downturn.
"We are at the start of a long prolonged recovery in the housing market. We're not bouncing along the bottom anymore," Gault said. "But there's still a long list of other reasons for businesses and consumers to be cautious."
"There's not much to gloat about," said Robert Shapiro, a former undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration who now advises Democrats and runs an economic consulting firm.
But things aren't as bad as Republicans portray, he said. "There is a recovery. We've been in a recovery in fact for over two years. It's an unusually slow recovery but it is a recovery."
Shapiro said Obama "can be justly proud of putting in place policies that stopped the slide into depression."
Some Republicans boast of improvements in their own states even as they recite a litany of national woes.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich touted a gain of 100,000 jobs in his state in the last year and an unemployment rate below the national average. Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell told fellow Republicans that over the last two years, "with Republicans and Democrats working together, our unemployment rate is down over 20 percent."
McDonnell, who is also chairman of the Republican Governors Association, asserted that Republican governors generally do a better job handling economic challenges than their Democratic counterparts.
But since 29 of the 50 states have Republican governors, you'd think this would show up on the national charts. It doesn't.
"Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy," said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the convention's keynote speaker. Unemployment in New Jersey is 9.8 percent - among the nation's highest.
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Campus Leonardo: Alessandro Lazzarin
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On Wednesday, police throughout the day told 14 protesters they could not hold up signs on the Capitol's first floor because they did not have a permit.The permitting is, we're told, designed to help the police keep track of how many people are in the building and how it ought to be staffed. If it's a neutral rule, applied neutrally, the question is basically whether it is reasonable. But note that the Capitol is a distinctive location that has historically been the site of protests against the government, and there is particular case law here in Wisconsin, applying the state constitution to protests at the Capitol.
The protests occurred near where the Red Cross, which did have a permit, was conducting a blood drive.
Six of the protesters agreed to go outside to continue their protests, but eight refused. Those eight were arrested and ticketed for unlawfully displaying signs, according to the Capitol Police.
Rep. Christine Sinicki (D-Milwaukee) said she saw one protester being arrested for holding a sign that said, "It's about freedom."
"If they're not being disruptive, if they're not causing trouble, they should be allowed here," Sinicki said. "These people aren't hurting anybody."
That said, why would protesters choose to stand their ground in the vicinity of a Red Cross blood drive? You have the right to be politically stupid, but it's still stupid.


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Scarlett Johansson will star opposite Liev Schreiber early next year in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge."
Producer Stuart Thompson says the production will open Jan. 24 at the Cort Theater. Previews begin Dec. 28.
Schreiber will portray a Brooklyn longshoreman who is obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, played by Johansson. The revival will be Johansson's Broadway debut.
Schreiber won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2005 revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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Wilson Barboza - Day Shift Manager
Can you tell us about your precise role for the Dakar Rally 2015?
I'm the Manager for the day shift, and ensure the process from production to the final delivery of the service, handling whatever comes up that day. I am coordinating a group of 60 people operating all aspects of service to fulfill our value promise to Amaury Sports Organization (ASO). I also coordinate the preparation of the Peruvian and Columbian teams coming to Dakar.
What is the main challenge for the Sodexo teams in this 2015 edition?
Our biggest challenge every year is going beyond the level service provided in previous editions. The 2014 Dakar was maybe the best so far, so we have our work cut out for us! Integrating menus within the production setup operated by Sodexo central kitchen has been a great challenge. And always fulfilling our principle of quality of daily life through the service.
How does Sodexo cope with the environmental challenge?
Through good use of resources in the production center, and through attention to details that make a difference: appropriate use of water, biodegradable packaging, waste separation, clear policies for using the spaces assigned to our operation, and appropriate disposal of organic and inorganic waste.
What do you think will be different in this new edition?
Our client has upped the ante for the environmental aspects of our operation, and we're responding with service ideas that help consolidate Sodexo as a leading provider of Quality of Life Services for world-class events. These include a new set up for the service line, self-service and a wider offer of value options for our clients.
How would you describe the atmosphere within the Sodexo teams during the rally?
Definitely a positive atmosphere of service, teamwork, coming together and feeling gratitude for being able to participate in this big adventure. It's a huge responsibility to represent the Sodexo experience, through our actions every day.
Do you have an anecdote to share with us from a previous edition?
Three years ago in Peru a lunch production truck was stolen, and it was thanks to the team's abilities and teamwork that we were able to reverse the situation. After it was over, the client acknowledged that we gave the best service in the event that year. It was definitely the best experience of teamwork I've ever had, and in such difficult circumstances. The feeling of belonging at the end of the day was a real source of pride for the entire team.
How do you improve the physical environment of the Rally participants?
Despite the tough environment and conditions, I think that with services like the laundry, the bar, and the VIP dining we will be able to improve the environment for them. And our service attitude and equipment make a difference too.


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I brought quite a big luggage because we had no time to do laundry as we scheduled ourselves to hop to a different country everyday. It was indeed a very ambitious plan and doing something out of my own comfort as I've been spoiled so much by my husband when he is around but traveling without him means I got to do everything by myself. Carrying the luggage up and down trains and station stair cases really took away my breath. So we decided to take a taxi this time from Gare du Nord train station to the hotel.
We stayed in Bloom Hotel Brussels which I rate as 5* - spacious & beautiful lobby nicely scented with their own created air fragrant, comfortable bed and the special thing about this hotel is you can choose your room deco theme and we chose floral for ours. This hotel is only 5min from the next metro station Botanique.
We did not plan for specific things to do in Brussels and thought will find out when we reach there. There was no tourist information from Botanique station except for metro map. So we gambled and decided to take a metro train to Gare Centrale (4 stations away from Botanique) to look for Grand Place. We took the wrong exit but we enjoyed walking through the city with beautiful architecture around us. Accidentally we saw a beautiful St Michel Cathedral after 15 minutes walk. The place was quite crowded with tourists.
We saw the crowds walked towards one direction and decided to follow which then took us to the Grand Place (Grote Markt) which is Brussels central square. It was a very impressive landmark surrounded by magnificient 10th century architecture. Later I learned that they display flower carpet every two years and certainly not happening during our visit but we had opportunity to snap some nice spring flowers sold in pots below. By the way, the temperature on the day was hot, I think more than 25C - not what we anticipated.
Grand Place is surrounded by lots of restaurants and there is one street which most restaurants serving almost the same menu with seafood specialties. I was attracted to try pot of mussels - it was huge so both of us shared and was surpised that we managed to finish it. It was served with fries and very delicious.
After whole day walking, my right lower carf was swollen and I was limping - not sure whether it was muscle or tendon problem but terribly painful. However, I got to go on (kesian kat Cik Liz if I stop and rest in he hotel) so limping slowly to tour Brussels at night to look for Mannekon Pis. After about 15 minutes walk from the metro station, we found it and to my disappointment the peeing boy statue was such a tiny size (smaller than a real human being) located at a corner of a shop. After taking photos, we went to look for dinner nearby (spaghetti served in huge wok but not that impressive taste) and later return to the same street (leading to Mannekon Pis) looking for hot chocolate and waffles. The waffles was very nice and a must have if anyone visiting Brussels.
We returned to the hotel about 11pm and repacking the luggage as we will be leaving Brussels for Germany in the next early morning train. So catch up the next story in Germany.


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Question from Lael Weinberger, attorney and history graduate student:
Answer from Lawrence:
An interesting point is the marked difference here between the US and the UK. I doubt this question would even have been raised in the UK.
Many UK legal historians will only have studied either law or history at undergraduate level (principally law, at least for more doctrinal legal history) and then gone straight into postgraduate study in the same Faculty. Very few have the possibility even to take courses in another Faculty at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. "Lawyer" legal historians can sometimes obtain permission to attend skills courses such as paleography, but not more general courses.
Not only does this seem to be normal in the UK, it's not even really remarked upon. People from both history and law backgrounds seem to produce good work nonetheless.


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Montero heating up at the plate
SEATTLE -- Jesus Montero wasn't in the starting lineup on Friday night as the Mariners continue to find sporadic rest days for regulars in the midst of a stretch of 30 games in 31 days, but the second-year catcher is doing a better job at the plate of late.
Montero hit in five consecutive games, going 7-for-19 (.368) with a double, a home run and four RBIs after an 0-for-13 streak and has lifted his season batting average to .208 after a frigid start.
"I'm getting more comfortable at the plate," Montero said. "I'm starting to feel better, trying to hit the ball hard. It's not easy to get out of a slump, but I'm working hard at it."
Montero spoke to a reporter while flashing fingernails on his right hand that he had freshly painted orange -- a trick he learned so pitchers can see his signs. It was a lesson learned the hard way.
"One time in Double-A I called for a curveball, but the pitcher couldn't see the signs and thought I called for a fastball, and I got crossed up and broke a finger," Montero said. "Never again."
Montero says it isn't always orange. Sometimes he'll color them white, sometimes green.
"Anything so they can see it," he said.


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The Daily Mail of London is reporting as many as eight professional tennis matches may have been fixed at the hallowed Wimbledon Tennis Championships. According to the newspaper, four of last year's mens singles matches at Wimbledon are suspected of being fixed by the Russian mob.
This week the governing bodies of tennis announced new rules banning everyone except coaches from the players dressing rooms. The rules are designed to limit contact between WTA players and gamblers and potential match fixers. Last year Belgian player Gilles Elseneer came forward to say he had been bribed to throw a match at Wimbledon in 2005.
British tennis player Andy Murray has already said,
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One of the best arguments for the existence of a higher education bubble is simply the massive increase in debt, accompanied by a run-up in prices. This is, of course, particularly worrying in a down market, when students are burdened by debt that has become a lot harder to pay. And especially so in this economy, when the students who entered graduate school in order to "ride out the recession" are emerging on the other side to find that unemployment is still over 8%. Garrett Jones, who as far as I know began his blogging career as a guest blogger at my old home, and is now newly ensconced in permanent digs at EconLog, writes that debt is a sticky price—very sticky:
Why bother explaining the root causes of gluts when so many think they can see a glut by just looking out the window? Because gluts conflict with one of the best ideas economists have ever had: That surpluses—of workers, of unsold homes, of cars rusting on the lot—push down prices and move the product out the door.
Surpluses set in motion a process that ends the glut: Just watch the last half hour of a garage sale.
Any force strong enough to fight against the power of prices should be a strong force indeed, strong enough for all to see. But when economists talk about the "frictions" that keep gluts alive, we usually talk about "sticky prices" and "sticky wages" and cultural norms and public sector unions and a few other forces. Strong forces, yes, and forces I believe in, but stronger than creative destruction and supply and demand? For years on end?
Here's my favorite friction, one that exists by force of contract, not because of worker sociology: Debt. Debt in the household, debt in the firm, and—for state and local governments at least—government debt. Irving Fisher beheld debt destroying a deflating economy, and he wrote an excellent paper about it in Econometrica v.1 back in 1933—a theory of depressions better than anything I've seen in Keynes's General Theory.
Formal debt obligations can, by their nature, only be adjusted after a lot of tedious wrangling. This makes the money cheaper to borrow, but when the economy is contracting, the expense becomes clear: you may get stuck in an obligation that you can neither renegotiate, nor pay.
Student loan debt is particularly sticky, because you can't even bankrupt the stuff—at least not unless you can convince a judge that you're basically permanently and totally disabled. That not only deprives you of a formal means of lowering the "price" of your past borrowing, but also means that you probably won't get much out of the informal negotiations that often take place between creditors and borrowers. Student loan companies have no incentive to settle for less than you owe, because they can keep hounding you for the money until you die.
Inflation eases the problem of any sticky price, and it does the same for debt: if inflation is high enough, you can pay off that $100k loan bill with a job at Starbucks. Hence the enthusiasm for more expansionary monetary policy.
However, a few cautious notes. The first is that the only thing which eases the debt burden is unexpected inflation; if it's inflected, the lenders will just charge you more for the benefit of borrowing. (My ex-boyfriend lived in the apartment underneath a nice retired teacher who had plowed her whole nut into treasuries at the exact moment that Paul Volcker was raising interest rates into the stratosphere in order to crack inflation. I made him go upstairs and explain to her what was going to happen to her finances when she had to roll those notes over. As I recall, the gist of her response was that hopefully she would die before it became an issue.)
Unexpected inflation, however, is hell on savers. When the economy shrinks and someone has to take a loss, you're deciding to transfer money from the folks who saved to the people who borrowed. And fair enough, you can argue that the savers are richer (it's true). But we should also recall that often the savers are pension funds—including public sector pension funds, whose losses (or lower-than-expected returns) get transferred to us. Or our parents, who now need an apartment in the basement because the return on their nest egg is so much smaller than they expected. I notice that the enthusiasm for much higher inflation seems to be highest among commentators whose parents are not yet facing retirement. It's quite easy to say that asset owners need to tighten their belt in order to prevent the tragedy of higher unemployment. It's somewhat more difficult to tell your mother that she needs to sell her house for the same reason.
Of course, this is the reality when growth is lower than expected: someone has to take the loss. Who should is a sort of… sticky question.


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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Did I say web"comic"? I meant web"reference to some stupid piece of programming language in place of any actual jokes"
327 - this one really pisses me off for some reason
the whole fucking leet series
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I just want you to know, that for people who know SQL or have worked with databases, #327 is hilarious. "Bobby Tables"... gets me every time...ReplyDelete
In any case, I think your one-size-fits-all approach to humor is ill-considered. Just because a joke is built off a reference you don't understand, doesn't mean there is no joke. Empty reference is a terrible problem in nerd culture (see #17), and you're drawing the line in the wrong place.
When a joke is in place (and I can't stress that enough), obscurity-of-reference makes a joke more unexpected, thus more absurd, thus more funny.
Curmudgeonly yours,
Clearly the databases I have worked with are not complicated enough...Perhaps I am wrong about 327. I will have to think about that.ReplyDelete
What do you mean by my "one size fits all approach"?
Hi Carl, I think you have some interesting points about xkcd on this blog, but in this case, I agree wholeheartedly with Pat's comments above. (Except for the 1337 series; that was just stupid.) Just because you don't get the joke doesn't mean it isn't there, or that it isn't funny.ReplyDelete
I think that when Pat talked about a "one-size-fits-all" approach to humor, he was referring to that phenomenon. It's frustrating to see something that's supposed to be funny, but not get the joke. However, xkcd's author isn't trying to offend people who aren't programmers--he's just thinking of jokes and putting them up on his site.
Since Pat used it, I'll explain "Bobby Tables" further: If the comic was "just a reference," it would have gone like this:
A: Oh man, my site got hacked!
B: What happened?
A: I don't know.
B: Let me see... oh! You fell victim to an SQL injection attack. You idiot!
A: Wow, it's so hilarious that I'm an idiot!
But, that isn't how it went. There's a really clever joke in that comic, and explaining it is beyond the scope of this comic, but I want to stress that none of the comics you link to above are jokeless.
Do I really seem offended? I'm not.ReplyDelete
I get the joke (if you want to call it that) with Bobby Tables. His parents gave him a name that, when entered into the school's database, erased everything. I think it's stupid. He's saying "HA HA, what if I made someone's names fuck stuff up, ha ha, like instead of a name he had a programming language."
I'm pretty sure I get all the jokes above (and if I'm missing something important in Bobby Tables, tell me, but I really feel like I understand all there is to know) I just think they suck and exist mainly to show off, as I've said, random bits of coding.
Seriously, look at 353. Excluding the mild humor of the "everything in the medicine cabinet" line, what's the joke?
I should note that it's been several dozen comics since I had to put anything on this list, which is an encouraging sign.
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM
You don't really have to know anything about programming to work out what some of the programming jokes are... for example, that Bobby Tables one is obvious, but still I don't find it funny.ReplyDelete
It's like people who make complicated maths or science jokes... Even when I completely understand them, I genuinely think most of them aren't very funny. They're just an excuse for people to show how intellectual they are by getting the obscure joke.
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM
I think that GOTO, the Ballmer Peak, Fight, and 1337: Part One manage to stand on their own. Enough explanation is provided for anyone who doesn't understand the topic matter to at least get the joke.ReplyDelete
Also, Compiler Complaint could stand simply on the strength of its alt text (although that possibly goes two words past the peak of funny).
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2008 at 4:51 AM
As a perl programmer, 353 (Python) is my least favourite xkcd comic and really marks the beginning of the end of xkcd funny. And python, really, it disturbs me that randall has drunk the koolaid on that one. I don't see how a language with significant whitespace, really messed up scoping rules and patchy module support is 'fun'. With perl, hello world is just print "Hello World!\n"; or (in 5.10) say 'Hello World!'; (perl's print is a lot like C's printf, though it does include a very c-like printf function). And as for antigravity we had that solved years ago, just 'use Physics::AntiGravity;'.ReplyDelete
It seems randall 'chose' python on its hype-score, not technical merits
I frequently read the XKCD comics and see jokes that I don't immediately get -- but instead of whining about how in-crowd humor is unfair, I just go on that ol' Internet and google it.ReplyDelete
i.e. I have yet to take my higher level math courses, so, for example, the title text on the most recent one (Wednesdays) where it says "I invoke Rule 34 on Wolfram's Rule 34" -- I spent about 15 minutes between first reminding myself what "invoking rule 34" meant, and then finding out who Wolfram was.
I agree with the person earlier who said that the Bobby Tables one was hilarious (heck it even gets used as a tag on slashdot when SQL injection is mentioned). We had that one hanging on our office door for a while.
I, for one, really enjoy esoteric humor -- obscure references, inside jokes, etc. So what if you don't get the joke -- you're obviously using the Internet, go look it up.
If you're too lazy to do your homework, then don't read it - no one is making you.
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 11:47 AM
But it's so much more fun to just get pissed off about it!
Aaron - I would say that the problem isn't that I don't get the joke, the problem is when there is no real joke at all, and instead there is just an obscure reference with the theory being that by sticking in a "punchline" that's so obscure only a few people get it, they will be so happy that they see the reference they will confuse that with actual humor. I do think that T-Rex summarized it best.ReplyDelete
I have no problem with obscure jokes - some of my favorite xkcds are the two Katamari comics, which I would say is pretty obscure - but that's because there is a joke and a reference, not just the latter.
Anon - damn straight.
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on your treatment of #323 (Ballmer Peak).ReplyDelete
This is quintessential xkcd, and contains no less than 4 nerdy references -- only one has to do with actual programming.
1) The pun between the [Steve] Ballmer peak and the Balmer series.
2) I think that any programmer who drinks has tried programming drunk -- it doesn't work very well. The idea that there is a special BAC range that confers "superhuman" programming skills is funny in a I-wish-that-were-true-but-it-could-never-happen sort of way.
3) The punchline about Windows ME -- that the programmers had to have been drunk, it was that bad.
4) The alt-text really has two jokes -- the apple schnapps pun, and the idea that Apple would go so far as to use an alcoholic IV drip as an explanation for their high quality software.
There is no way you can lump this comic into the category of non-funny "programming" references. The jokes just went over your head.
1) What does programming drunk have to do with the Balmer series? If they just have "bal(l)mer" in them it's a little lame.ReplyDelete
2) Not being a drunk programmer, I don't know if this idea is funny to drunk programmers. I suspect it's too random. Would people laugh at a joke about a certain BAC range that makes driving easier? No, because it's so clearly false.
3) Yes, the punchline is that Windows ME sucked. It's a) a joke we've all heard 1000 times, and b) it's just a programming reference, really. "ha ha, the programming of windows me was done in a subpar fashion ha ha!" the point is that that's all there is - a reference that I think falls short of a joke.
4) Alt-texts are often exceptions to what I say. They usually are much better than the comic.
Well, you can see how different people have different humour.ReplyDelete
I do like a lot of xkcd jokes ( I do not like all, obviously), you do not. Thats ok.
On the 'punchline' question: Not all humour must have a punchline. At least not for me. But I'm a person that likes monty python...
I just don't see how I should care enough about you not liking xkcd to read your blog.
Incidentally: I read all the comics you recommend in your FAQ - sucks hugely and like them very much, but I like QC as well. Or Indexed. Even though they are rarely LOL funny, they bring me in a good mood and make me laugh from time to time. I like them :-) Just like xkcd.
Mr B: Not sure if you are talking about the Ballmer Peak comic or just in general, but here is the deal: Not all comics have to have a punchline and they can still be funny (though on xkcd these days usually they are not) but in this case, it's quite obvious that Randall was trying to have a punchline. setup-setup-setup-JOKE and I just happen to think that the joke is pretty lame.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry you don't care about the blog BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO READ IT NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK.
Oh, sorry, I was mainly talking about the bobby tables Joke. But the thing is: I have never come across a joke that is funny when you explain it. Explain the joke and you kill the joke.ReplyDelete
But as I said: You do most certanly not have to like anything I like.
And as you proved in that comment: you can even be genuenly funny:-)
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- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2009 at 5:14 PM
I thought 340 was pretty funny. She wrote a love note, but screwed up his computer in the process. So now you're saying that anything remotely related to computers is unacceptable?ReplyDelete
Goodness, you seem very eager to assume that I am forbidding all jokes of any kind. Jokes about computers are ok. As I said, in this very post which I know you read carefully, these particular bad computer science jokes are "only a subset on the 'jokes about computer science' category, some of which don't even suck that hard." I think you're grossly misconstruing my words to make my critique look ridiculously petty.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2009 at 1:05 AM
I'm surprised that you missed 221.ReplyDelete
Hm - I'm not sure that counts. I think the joke is off of what it means to be random. People would use that code to generate lots of different random numbers, and the 4 was originally chosen randomly, but since it will always be the same random number the program is useless. I'm not sure it's what I am going for in this list - as it turns out, the kind of jokes I am going for in this list are pretty damn rare, so I guess I have high standards or something.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2009 at 5:12 AM
I think you're analyses are quite inconsistent.ReplyDelete
While the quality of a joke is a matter one's own opinion, I have a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea that 340 is just a "reference". The reference has very little to do with it. The prime point seems to be revenge exacted in some nerdy way. In fact, if you want to get really technical, the "reference" fails to hold weight to technical scrutiny. Overwriting a boot sector is generally not a catastrophic problem as a simple partition layout means reconstructing it is a simple task. Furthermore, I would argue that a "boot sector" isn't exactly an obscure reference as the graveness of its demise is commonly referred to in virus hoaxes forwarded around by morons.
On the otherhand, your dismissal of 221 as being more of a joke seems inconsistent with your constant denigration of references simply because they are "old" or beaten to death. In 221 I can't see any real comment other than an exact rehash of a common anecdote told in books like Applied Cryptography and Numerical Recipes (p 277 in the old online edition).
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 3:42 AM
I'm sorry I'm sure you've heard it all a thousand times - but number 327 made me laugh out loud. (like for realz). I don't actually 'get' the reference, but it's pretty obvious. So I guess I just like the supercool mum character teaching the school about computing. Isn't it a nice change from the quirky twentysomething nerds in every other comic?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2009 at 6:34 PM
The joke IS "everything in the medicine cabinet." And calling it stupid, and placing sarcastic HAHAs everywhere isn't gonna get anoyone to agree with you. Programming jokes is xkcd's style. They're aimed at the computer geek audience, and if you don't like them, then WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL READING THIS?!!ReplyDelete
the comic is NOT aimed at computer nerds and you can find no evidence of it.ReplyDelete
the joke is not the "medicine cabinet" line; if so, it would be the last line of the comic, and he wouldn't immediately say it was wrong. In other words, for the comic to be funny he has to have actually learned to fly because of eating crazy chemicals but he clearly says he is flying because of Python. So the chemicals are just so he can say "PS dudes i ate a bunch of crazy chemical! HA HA!"
that last ha ha was just for you, anon
- MichaelJanuary 29, 2010 at 12:05 PM
James wrote:ReplyDelete
>> 2) I think that any programmer who drinks has
>> tried programming drunk -- it doesn't work
>> very well. The idea that there is a special
>> BAC range that confers "superhuman"
>> programming skills is funny in a I-wish-that-
>> were-true-but-it-could-never-happen sort of
>> way.
This is not true: it certainly does work, although my peak is certainly lower than this, and I don't know that the valley prior to it is anywhere near that deep. It is more analogous to writer's block (worrying about things you shouldn't need to worry about, and not being able to write anything) than it is to driving. Driving is not (or should not) be a creative activity, so that's a silly comparison, Carl. Now I will say that *reading/understanding* a new piece of code is not made easier drunk...just writing new code. And I've written some mighty fine C code this way.
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