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The Gibson Sparrow With Sunburst Finish
Gibson Guitars And Bird Themed Instruments
Gibson guitars has a long history of making fine acoustic guitars. For most of Gibson's existence it has had exactly one competitor in the fine steel string guitar manufacturing game, and that would be C.F. Martin & Company, an older company. Gibson guitars also has a long history of making fine dreadnought guitars with bird themes. There is a much newer guitar in the tradition of bird themed dreadnoughts, and this is the Gibson Sparrow.
The bird themed Gibson dreadnoughts, debuted in the year 1960 with the mahogany body Gibson Hummingbird. This was and is a top notched instrument designed to be Gibson's answer to the Martin D-18. It was a smashing success, and is to this very day. In 1962 Gibson followed up with a more unique instrument, the Gibson Dove, and the Dove was more unique in that it wasn't designed with the idea in mind that it would compete directly against any Martin instrument. The Dove was a six string flat top unto its own, for the dove featured maple backs and sides, a tonewood C.F. Martin & Company wasn't using much.
The Gibson Sparrow has none of the years of appreciation the previous two instruments have. This guitar is so new few own it, and many desire it. It is build and designed to old school platinum specifications, however, and seems built to take on the new Martin D-28 Marquis.
The Gibson Sparrow With Natural Finish
Specifications, Musings, and Comparisons
Let's not pull punches here, let's not beat around bushes - this Gibson Sparrow guitar is built to go toe to toe with the high end D-28 Marquis. It is, of course, all solid wood, with East Indian rosewood back and sides, and also like the Marquis, it features a red Adirondack spruce top. Adirondack spruce is only used on the finest of instruments, and here is one right here, no doubt about it. This is also a rather square shouldered instrument, and if you look at it, yeah buddy, it's got herringbone trim. The guitar screams D-28 competitor, but the Sparrow is a bit more ornate than a D-28, isn't it? Yes it is. It's got the double parallelogram fret board positioning markers, and then the Sparrow etched pick guard.
This flat top beauty does have the classic dovetail neck joint, and also 1930's style Gibson bracing. The neck is mahogany, the bridge and fretboard are rosewood; and one thing many people find preferable to Martin's current standard is the width of the neck at the nut, which is 1.725", nice and wide, but still wonderfully comfortable. Of course this instrument is hand made by master luthiers in Gibson's Bozeman, Montana factory. The tuning machines on this instrument, are of course, Grover tuning machines, and these are gold plated ones at that.
All Gibson bird themed instruments are rather upscale. These guitars are built and designed to sound like several thousand dollars, and to look it too. This new Sparrow Gibson is no different, but there have been a few criticisms of the pick guard which is decidedly more subdued in appearance than were and are the Dove and the Hummingbird guitars. This guitar is also without a doubt a rosewood instrument, and that in and of itself adds to the price tag as rosewood is harder to shape into a guitar body, and costs more than mahogany on the market.
Most complaints concerning the Sparrow by Gibson revolve around the pick guard. Take away the pick guard, and what you've got is a guitar nearly identical to the Gibson Songwriter. The big difference between the Sparrow and the Songwriter is really not the pick guard at all, the difference is the Sparrow has the red Adirondack spruce top, and the songwriter the much more common sitka spruce top. Both guitars feature the exact same body dimensions, neck dimensions, and are the same guitar outside of that pick guard, the slight difference in species of spruce used for the top; and the gold plated tuners. One other slight difference is the slightly more Gibson looking mustache style bridge on the Songwriter as compared to the very traditional style bridge on the Sparrow.
The Gibson Sparrow is so new it isn't currently stocked by a few major retailers, and also the other major determining factor in it's rarity is that the initial offerings may have well been bought up rather quickly. Guitar lovers are often like that. God love them all. Thanks for reading.


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Spanish Borrowing Costs Continue to Rise
The Spanish Treasury sold more than the maximum €2 billion ($2.54 billion) worth of bonds it had planned to offer Thursday, but paid a steep price to do so. Joe Ortiz has the latest. Photo: AP
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text: The creation of Upper Allegheny Health System in 2009 enhanced the ability of both Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital to respond to the challenges of today's healthcare environment through increased scale and support. UAHS ensures that both hospitals are positioned to honor their missions of care and service to the residents of northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York. To further enhance its mission of service, in 2017, UAHS became a member of Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY, western New York state's largest health provider.


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April 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm
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Daniels Spectrum
Suubi Fusion Troupe Concert Series is an education performing arts events that will include dance, drama, presentations and the screening of a short story about the work we are doing in Uganda.
About the Tour
The Suubi Music Troupe is touring from Maryland to Ontario, Canada. Performances are only a part of our on-tour equation. The Suubi Music Troupe presents a range of dynamic programs, from student shows to corporate diversity events, panel discussions, mixers, classes and workshops, which result in deeper audience engagement and involvement. Cultural exchange and educational activities are hallmarks of the Suubi Music Troupe . Join us!
Running time for this event is approximately 4 hours.
There are multiple 15 minute intermissions.
Tickets are $40 and are available online here.
Purchases made online or by telephone are by credit card only.
At the door payments accepted by cash, debit, VISA and Mastercard.
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Suubi Fusion Troupe – "Suubi" means "hope" in the Luganda language. The Suubi Music and Dance Troupe at Cambridge Secondary School is the brain child of the school's founder, Mrs. Kevin Kalule, and it has grown into a passion and purpose for our young Ugandan performers. Learn More


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Check out the photo page!
Thanks everyone for what looked like a great Camporee. Let us know what you liked or didn't like, or something new for next year.
Theme ideas are welcomed at any time!
Be EXPLORERs in the great outdoors this summer.
Pre-Camp Meeting
The pre camp meeting will take place on Thursday May 16th.
At Roch Carrier School on Stonehaven Drive starting at 7:00 P.M.
Each section should attend and pick up t-shirts.
$20 is correct registration fee
Sorry folks, the Excel Section Registration file has the correct fee, whereas the MS Word and PDF files had last year's rate. They have been updated to the $20 (after the registration deadline). Sorry for the oversight.
The Theme
The Camporee Committee has selected a theme for this year's event based on feedback from the participants last year. We have selected "Explorers" to be this theme. With this you can come up with a number of ideas for games or your group like space exploration, any, one of a number great explorers, 400th anniversary of Champlain exploring the Ottawa River, underwater exploration and so on. Come up some great fun ideas. If you are looking for more ideas on the themes check out
the website http://events.1stkanatascouts.org/home/theme-ideas
The Planning is well underway!
A gathering of Scouters from Area and 1st & 4th Kanata are filling up the roster of positions necessary to pull off another great camping experience for the CA Camporee 2013. If you have desire to be part of the fun, please let us know.
The theme is TBD, however we have a great suggestion list to work from based on ideas gathered at the last Camporee.
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Prospective law students have 200 different law schools to choose from, and as our Law School Comparison tool demonstrates, where you go to school can have a substantial impact on your ability to find a successful placement after graduation. But employment statistics and salary data only tell a part of the story. Many schools, such as Tulane University Law School, are innovating their curriculum and offering their students unique experiences that are better preparing them for their future legal careers.
We recently featured Tulane University in our list of Most Innovative Law Schools, based on their practical career training. During the past year, Tulane has significantly broadened opportunities for service and skills training by expanding their externship program and launching a boldly innovative "boot camp." I had the opportunity to speak with the Dean of Tulane Law School, David Meyer: "The goal of these programs is to provide students broader exposure to law practice and have a fast start." Dean Meyer goes on to explain that Tulane's efforts are motivated by two critical trends in legal education:
- Response to trend for law schools to do more skills training
- Challenges in the legal job market
Tulane's programs were created to offer students a broad range of exposure to employers for networking and employment opportunities. Additionally, as Dean Meyer explains "we want to ensure our graduates are ready to practice law and provide value to their clients from Day 1."
Exposure Through Externship
Through Tulane's externship program, students are now able to work anywhere in the world in governmental or public-interest settings for academic credit. The program has expanded 5-fold in recent years, and now each summer between 100 and 200 students participate in field placements across the world. Students are matched to existing externships based on their interests, or can propose new placements that Tulane will then set up with the employer. Externships can range from protecting aboriginal land rights in the Australian Outback, to briefing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for the federal public defender in Pittsburgh. The externships not only supplement the classroom curriculum, they provide students with first-hand legal experience while making a positive difference in the community.
Trial By Fire at Legal Boot Camp
This past week, students completed the second ever boot camp offered at Tulane. This program, launched in January 2012, offers a first-of-its-kind "boot camp" to simulate life as a young lawyer. A voluntary one-week course offered prior to the spring semester, students are put through the paces of life as a new associate in one of three alternative practice settings: civil litigation, criminal, or transactional practice. Enrolled students interact with a client at the beginning of the course and spend the rest of the week solving legal issues, including a last-minute crisis."The program is exhausting but exhilarating to students," says Dean Meyer, "It provides real-world experience for the demanding and challenging life after graduation."
Stacey Folz, an Associate at Winston & Strawn and Class of 2012 graduate, participated in Tulane's first boot camp. On the final day of the program, Stacey found herself in front of a real judge in a real courtroom, for the first time. "It was terrifying, but realistic. The judge actually commented that we were better prepared than some young lawyers he has seen." Stacey observed several peers network and find jobs based on connections made during the boot camp. "It was intensive and challenging, but it is the best training I could have received for my career now."
Although only in its second year, the boot camp is already expanding and becoming a staple of the Tulane experience. Open to second and third year students, credit is earned on a pass/fail basis with only a modest fee to cover direct expenses. This January's session has been expanded to accommodate 200 students, but there is still a waiting list of 100. Dean Meyer is careful not to expand the program too fast: "We have to balance the faculty-to-student ratio to protect the program, but increased alumni support through endowments will help us continue to build the program."
The week-long boot camp is taught largely by trial and business lawyers, about 100 in total participating alongside faculty and student actors representing the client. Students interact and perform in front of these seasoned lawyers, providing potential employment opportunities in addition to skill building. Concludes Dean Meyer: "The program gives students the skills they'll need to impress employers and deliver value to clients from the start of their careers. It also gives them contact with a large number of alumni, all very successful lawyers from across the country and a variety of career paths. By putting them through the paces of law practice in a setting that closely simulates life as a young lawyer, students gain the skills and confidence essential to their future success." Based on success and reviews from students, Dean Meyer expects this program to continue growing and becoming a signature of the Tulane experience.


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In the 1980s, Geert Hofstede surveyed thousands of employees in over 40 countries, and determined that national culture explains over 50% of the differences in the behavior and attitudes of employees. Moreover, Hofstede proposed four value-oriented dimensions that differentiate national cultures: (1) power distance, (2) individualism, (3) uncertainty avoidance, and (4) masculinity. Each of these values can be considered as continuous variables; a culture can fall anywhere between the two descriptive poles of one of these variables.
When fostering working relationships with people from an unfamiliar culture, it is important that you do a bit of research before you begin your interaction with them. Many times your first impression is of critical importance and sets the stage for the relationship, so is beneficial to be as prepared as possible.
Generally, there are a few "rules of thumb" that can be implemented when working with partners from different cultures.
- Set a standard of formality
- Make sure that you are initially somewhat more formal than usual when working with your new colleagues. It is very easy to offend by being too candid and informal at first.
- Expect the relationship to take time to build.
- Don't expect to be trusted immediately, as people from several countries outside the US take more time to build bonds of trust. It takes even longer in a distributed environment where face-to-face conversation is not always a possibility at some point early on in the relationship. Just remember…"Rome wasn't built in a day."
- Minimize misunderstandings by avoiding slang words and idioms.
- This is sometimes difficult to do at first because these language adaptations have become such a part of our daily lives and rhetoric. Saying a product is 'Cool' doesn't necessarily mean the same thing to us as it does to a non-US native.
- Have the same definitions of industry specific words.
- If there is a word or phrase that is specific to your industry, make sure that everybody is in agreement about the definition and how the word is used.
- Speak fairly slowly and make sure to articulate.
- If you have an accent, try to minimize it as much as possible. Yes, this is not the easiest thing to do but can be done if you focus on it. For example, I moved to Texas from Minnesota and was an Air Traffic Controller. I learned quickly to hide my Minnesota accent so the pilots could actually understand what I was saying.
- Don't raise your voice if you are not understood.
- Yelling doesn't help them understand what you are to saying. Try rephrasing what you said using different words, as s/he may not be familiar with one of the words you chose initially. Simplicity is key, so do your best to keep your words as simple as possible.
As I previously mentioned, it is important make a habit of researching the culture you are interacting with before meeting, to minimize misunderstanding and increase productivity. For example, you could be speaking with someone in China and when they say "Yes", you think that they are agreeing with you, when in fact they are acknowledging that they heard what you said and may in fact not necessarily agree. When working with someone in India and they say that they understand your instructions, you need to make sure to ask them how they plan on executing on what you just told them. At first, they may not be upfront about any misunderstandings or questions they may have, because they could feel at risk of appearing insubordinate or incompetent. When asking them to outline their approach, you will force these questions to the surface so you are able clarify. You may also have a Ukrainian tell you that your idea is wrong and it won't work. But remember, they aren't being offensive in their view, just giving you their opinion of the situation. This is a prime example of something that could quite easily come across as rude to someone here in the US, if one didn't know better


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Forget the measles and chikungunya. If you've perused the Children's Medical Center website in the last few weeks, you know that there's another, more troubling outbreak threatening to undo us all: selfies.
The hospital has devoted itself of late to the psychology of selfies. Doctors there are worried about their effect on narcissism, social relationships, and poor body image that can be related to kids taking selfies.
"It's definitely something that is very widespread among the adolescents we see," says Dr. Celia Heppner, a psychologist in the craniofacial plastic surgery division at the Children's Medical Center. "In terms of my patients, there are specific concerns of body image, things like that."
Dr. Alexis Clyde, a psychologist at Children's who also worked on the series, says selfies can be a healthy form of communication. "The other day when I was on the news I definitely took a selfie," she says. "And when I'm on vacation with my husband I take selfies. Selfies can be fun."
Dr. Nicholar Wester offered some particularly wise parental advice in his selfie-steem article:
Parents should talk to their teens about these risks and agree upon what is OK to share. For example, is it OK for your son to post selfies shirtless or your daughter to post selfies in her bikini, in the bathroom or in the bedroom?
Validate and acknowledge how a good selfie might make them feel good, and reassure them that they are loved regardless of whether it is the world's best (or worst) selfie. After all, a selfie is just a snapshot, not a depiction of the whole person.
Let them know that when they need a quick pick-me-up that you are available to talk (be sure to follow through), and encourage them to chat with you before impulsively taking a selfie that could haunt them later.
If some parents wouldn't love their kid after they post the world's worst selfie, Dr. Celia Heppner says most parents just don't understand their kids desire for selfie-spression. "I think a lot times for parents it's something that's new to them or foreign. It's the first time that self expression is available through this medium, and so that's the thing that often throws parents for a loop."
Heppner helped author the series of selfie posts, but she admits the selfie series was also a PR move based on the popularity of the subject. (Sort of a selfie in blog form, if you will.) Despite this, Heppner says it's an important, under-researched issue to address.
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Some would say kids today take their selfie-confidence too far:
"Cried off all my makeup so ew". 85 likes y un megalike: el mío. pic.twitter.com/rgQErSGsJh
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"Based on what we know about adolescent development, taking selfies is an understandable behavior in terms of what's available in instant self promotion. Do I think this is something that's normal? Absolutely," says Heppner. "On the other hand even if developmentally it's normal, for parents it's scary to see kids posting pictures of themselves and not having a whole lot of control over that."


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Oh boy, this must be one of the most mesmerizing avenues I've ever seen! For three whole weeks each spring this tiny street in the old city of Bonn, Germany transforms into a romantic tunnel full of blooming cherry blossom trees. Just imagine taking a stroll through each morning or actually living in one of those flats above. Breathtaking, isn't it? xo
P.S: Love tunnel in Ukraine, Japanese flower garden and this butterfly tree that makes my heart skip a beat each time I look at it.
P.P.S: Also, if you fancy you can buy this as a print for your home.
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Kathy Smargiassi has many strengths as a children's librarian.
Until a few years ago though, robotics wasn't one of them.
Smargiassi was working at the Marysville Library, when she was put in charge of the LEGO® Club and challenged to expand the library offerings to include a robotics component using LEGO Mindstorms® kits.
"I was surprised because I had zero background in robotics," Smargiassi said.
Besides the familiar plastic blocks that middle-aged parents played with long ago, LEGO Mindstorms use a variety of sensors, gears, wheels, motors and a programmable controller that make small robots follow specific commands. Users can write the command codes on a tablet or laptop.
Smargiassi and assistant library manager Jill Wubbenhorst received a grant. Smargiassi learned how to build some robots and explored how various software coding commands control the LEGO hardware. She taught other librarians how Mindstorms worked.
Smargiassi started monthly LEGO Mindstorms meetings in addition to the regular Lego Club. Eventually, she led a three-week series to build a more-complex robot and challenged four teams to each build a robot that could sort items by color.
In 2016, she and Marysville teen librarian Marta Murvosh organized a Robot Rally that attracted more than 50 participants, including robotics teams from Cedarcrest Middle School and Lakewood High School, and engineering students from Washington State University.
Smargiassi, now in Snohomish, said Mindstorms programs make students think and analyze. "I would challenge them to make their robot stop on a color, or sense something in front of it and not crash," she said.
One of the kids Smargiassi got started is Minoru Madero, now 11.
"He's always loved building things," said Minoru's mom, Gaby Madero. "He loves figuring out how things work and how to put things back together. He asked and asked and asked for a Mindstorm of his own, but you know, they're very expensive."


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'Completely heartbroken': How Lebanese-Canadians are reacting to the Beirut blast
TORONTO -- In the aftermath of the devastating explosion that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more in Beirut, Lebanese-Canadians scrambled to contact loved ones still living there while they struggled to come to terms with what had just happened in their homeland.
With the largest Lebanese community in Canada, the city of Montreal has been particularly touched by the massive blast – ignited by a fire in a waterfront warehouse that was unsafely storing 2,750 tons of the highly explosive chemical ammonium nitrate.
Lamia Charlebois, who runs a Facebook page for Montreal's Lebanese community, said everyone knows someone overseas who was injured or killed in the tragedy. She herself had a friend who was killed and another who lost an eye.
"We all have someone who is wounded, who is still not found, who is dead," she told The Canadian Press on Wednesday. "The community is extremely sad. There's anguish and despair."
Another Montrealer, Rand Jamaleddine, said she was in disbelief when she first saw the images of the fiery explosion and plumes of smoke filling the air in the city she knows so well.
Jamaleddine and her parents fled Beirut during the civil war in the 1980s, but much of her extended family still lives there. Thankfully, she said her relatives survived the massive explosion.
"It's just completely devastating," she told CTV News Montreal on Wednesday. "I just feel helpless. It's a country that's already been through a lot. I'm completely heartbroken."
That feeling of helplessness was echoed by Jessica Halabi, a Lebanese-Canadian in Edmonton, who said she plans to donate part of the proceeds from her clothing business to the Red Cross in Lebanon.
"Everybody's asking how can I help? It's really hard being here. We all feel really helpless," she told CTV News Edmonton on Wednesday.
In the Toronto area, Mohamad Fakih, a well-known businessman and founder of the Paramount Fine Foods chain, said it's been difficult being so far away from his parents, sisters, and cousins who are all still living in Beirut.
He said he feels "helpless, almost useless" at a time when the people who raised him are in need. Fakih said, however, that his family has been relatively fortunate in that they all survived.
"My two sisters had to move out of their apartments as well because their places are all shattered, destroyed. But that's only property… we're blessed," he told CTV's Your Morning on Thursday.
Fakih said one of his cousins had a couple of fractures in his legs and another one was undergoing surgery for an eye injury "due to the strength of the blast and the pressure breaking so much glass at a very high speed that went into his eye."
The Canadian-Lebanese businessman said the people of Lebanon deserve better than this, especially after overcoming so many hardships over the past few decades, including civil war, periodic terrorist attacks, and a recent economic crisis.
While the cause of the explosion, which was so enormous it registered as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake, is still unknown, investigators are looking into whether negligence on the part of government and port officials may be to blame.
Fakih said it doesn't matter whether the blast was the result of negligence or something else. He said the bottom line is the Lebanese government needs to start putting citizens first.
"The Lebanese people are very resilient," he said. "They will rebuild as they've done it several times before, but they definitely deserve better."
In Beirut, public anger towards the ruling class has been mounting for years for its inability to provide adequate infrastructure and basic services, such as electricity.
Lebanese-Canadians, too, have directed their anger and frustrations towards the country's leadership decrying years of corruption and neglect.
Fakih said it's hard to know where to send money to help so that it reaches the Lebanese people because many of them haven't been able to access funds in their own bank accounts due to the financial crisis.
"You can't even wire money because the bank will hold it. You don't know through what organization you're going to send it because you don't know who's going to take the money, what is the percentage that they will receive," he explained.
This distrust is why Lebanese-Canadians are asking those who wish to help to donate to private aid organizations, such as the Lebanese Red Cross and the Canadian Red Cross.
Nick Kahwaji, the honorary consul of Lebanon in Vancouver, said he hopes provincial and federal health officials will team up with non-governmental organizations to support Beirut's hospitals.
"The hospitals are asking for help. They don't even have material to do sutures, to disinfect. They don't have enough gauze and peroxide — even the basic needs in hospitals is missing now," he told CTV News Vancouver on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the Canadian government announced it was committing up to $5 million in relief for the victims of the explosion.
Development Canada said the money includes an initial $1.5-million contribution to "trusted partners on the ground," including the Lebanese Red Cross and the Canadian Red Cross.
Kahwaji encouraged the large Lebanese diaspora in Canada to help in any way they can.
"I'd like [Canadians] to pray for Lebanon," he said. "It's not the first time Beirut is destroyed. Beirut will stand up again, will build itself again, but now there's a lot of suffering and Beirut really needs help."


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My running journey towards Northface 50
I realized I haven't updated my running in a while (besides race recaps), and seeing how I'm running my FIRST 50 Miler this weekend, this would be the perfect time to reflect and think back on my training. I ran my first 50K 2 weekends ago in the Santa Monica mountains and had a blast out there even though I was nearing 7 hours on the trails. The 50K was really a "training" run for me because I had the Northface 50 MILER in 2 weeks. Crazy how fast it's all coming. I remember when the thought of running a marathon crossed my mind. Could I really run 26.2 miles? My first marathon last Feburary, Surf City, around Mile 18 when I started to hit the wall (poor nutrition and fueling), I told myself that I would never ever run a marathon again, only the crazies and the mentally insane people do this kind of stuff. A year and a half later, I'm training for a 50 miler. Time sure goes by fast and I realized how much our bodies can do if we just put our mind to it and dedicate time to this sport/hobby/obsession. I'm not going to lie, it isn't easy. Many times I've wanted to throw in the towel. I more or less forced myself to 'bandit' the Nike Women's Marathon this year. I was signed up for the Half, but decided I needed the miles and jumped to the full. Nike was only 2 weeks after my St. George Marathon, but I want to go into this 50 miler as prepared as I can be. I don't want to wake up race day and wish I had trained better.
Thoughts on training
I really had no clue how to set up my training plan for this 50 miler. I was originally scheduled to run the 50 in January in Catalina, but later found out I had a wedding to attend to that weekend, so instead of finding another 50 after January (what normal people would do), I decided to move the race up a whole month and a half for the Northface Endurance Challenge. I said, why not end the year with something different? Secretly, I love the whole training aspect of ultra running. Sure you have to sacrifice many nights to be in bed early to wake up before the sun comes up to train or give up drinking for a little bit, but the payoff is so worth it. I love the feeling of completing a 20+ mile run and throwing myself down on the couch in pure exhaustion, but with the hugest grin on my face. Sure my legs are trashed and every part of my body hurts, but it's the kind of pain that I secretly enjoy. Sick, no? The night of my 50K, I couldn't sleep because my legs were so restless, so the next morning I went on the treadmill and banged out 6 miles. Honestly, this was the best thing for my legs. It sounds crazy, but moving your legs after a big race is the best thing you can do.
I started my official training plan after I came back from China in late August. I was off the 'training' wagon for pretty much this entire summer. Hence, the bad time in San Francisco in July. I needed this summer to take a break from training hard. I still ran and worked out to keep up my fitness level, but I wasn't particularly training for anything. Come Fall, I was more than ready for all the fall races. My first couple of weeks, I decided piling on the miles was the best way to approach this training plan. I wanted to hit 50-60 miles a week. 2 weeks in, my body was burned out on all the mileage and I was questioning whether or not I could even do this. My trainer stopped me and asked why I was running all these 'junk miles'. Junk miles? But I'm training for 50 miles! I came to realize that I didn't need to run 60 miles a week to feel prepared for this race. Instead, my training sessions involved a lot of hard interval training (i.e. lactic threshold training, metabolic interval training). We would get my heartrate up to working 90% then back it off for a few minutes, then repeat and repeat. We would do this on the spin bike or aerobic steps, coupled with weights and dynamic stretching. When you feel like you can't give anymore, you do another set until your muscles start to remember how to function when it is fatigued. That was the kind of training I needed. Every session was used to improve my performance and build upon what I had done the week before. There was a lot of muscle memory involved. So instead, I ran an average of 35 miles/week, with 2x training, 1-2 90 min yoga, 1 day of x-training and 1 day rest. My runs were all about quality over quantity. 1 tempo run. 1 trail run. 1 long run. 1 hill run. I stopped doing track workouts closer to this 50 because I would rather work on my endurance than speed. Although, some weeks I did sub out a hill workout for track just to give my legs a break from long hilly runs. I will go back to track once this 50 is over and I can focus on qualifying for the NY Marathon…but that's another story for another time.
Here are some tips that have helped me train:
- Mind over matter. So much of my training has been all about mind strength over physical strength. I know I am fit enough to run 50 miles, but the mind controls a lot of what we do. Our mind controls our pain levels and how much further we want to push ourselves. Of course my body is not going to feel it's best 5 hours in, so I'm counting on myself to push my body through the last 5 hours of the race. I'm going to prepare myself to be out there for 12 hours this weekend. I would love to come in at 10 hours, but I don't think it's realistic based on my 50K time and how tough the Northface course is. Really, my goal is just to finish.
- Get rid of junk miles-They lead to more injury. Take your workout somewhere else that doesn't put too much strain on the legs and joints. After a long run (20+ miles), I would hit up a 90 minute yoga session and an hour with my trainer. I would do the same after a marathon. It's all about teaching your body to function on tired legs. You end up building up a tolerance for how much your body can handle and every time you push it a little further. I wanted to add more hiking into my routine, but never got around to it. It would have been good to learn how to speed walk up hills during hikes, maybe for my next 50 (hah)
- Rest-It took me a while to accept the fact that I could rest even though I was training for such an endurance sport. My body needed a rest day every week, my muscles needed to rebuild itself and on the days before rest days, I would take an Epsom salt bath to get rid of any lactic buildup. I swear by these baths, just don't do it before a run. Your ankles will feel like weights, trust me.
- Weight train, x-train, yoga, etc.-All these are so crucial to a proper training plan. A training plan should not just rely on piling on the miles. You are more likely to get hurt and it doesn't efficiently work all parts of your body. Weight training is important to help build muscles in areas that might not get worked on as much when running. It is also important to build a strong core, when your legs are tired, your body tends to rely on other parts of your body to help you. Yoga helps for balance, core and strength. It is also a great way to meditate and reflect back on all your hard work.
"Pain is temporary, pride is forever"
Here's my complete race essentials that I am bringing with me. Prepared much?
L to R-CamelBak, 2 arm warmers, 2 hats, reflective vest, 2 headlamps, Aquaphor, Body Glide, gloves, iPod, Garmin, Tylenol, Band-Aid, IBU, 5 Powerades, 3 drops bags, Northface long sleeve, Salt tablets, 2 energy bars, beef jerky, Almonds, Chia seeds, 2 pairs of tights, sports bra, Nike pullover, Honey Stinger…, GUs, Shot Bloks, Sport Beans, Protein Powder (recovery), 2 pairs of shoes.. (still to add compression socks,windbreaker & directions!)
…And off to San Francisco I go!
December 3, 2010 11:21 am
50 miler?!?! Whoa – good luck!
Derrick permalinkDecember 3, 2010 4:54 pm
Good Luck tomorrow! You're going to do fantastic! I'll be out there but only doing the 50K 🙂


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Redbridge College selects Advanced Computer Software Group's cloud-based accounting software to reduce costs and streamline processes
Redbridge College (Redbridge) has appointed leading software and IT services supplier, Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced) to host its entire financial accounting system in the cloud. The College plans to migrate its finance system, which includes workflow engine, eBIS and document management technology, to the cloud by May 2014.
Redbridge College's finance team uses OpenAccounts for budget monitoring, online ordering, invoice approval and requests, expense payments, and general ledger. eBIS is used to facilitate the flow of information around the College and the document management technology (from V1) is used to store and circulate electronic documents, helping to save paper and increase efficiencies.
Advanced's systems will be maintained and monitored by a dedicated team who will also be providing on-going support and training. The applications and data will be securely hosted within Advanced's UK-based datacentre, and allow the College to move away from managing its existing server infrastructure.
Ashley Garner, Assistant Principal for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, Redbridge College explains: "Advanced's OpenAccounts finance system has already significantly improved our efficiency and financial decision making. However, migrating these business-critical applications to the cloud is a key aspect of our on-going strategy to safeguard data and ensure continuity in the event of disaster or power outage. The migration will also reduce time and expenses and enable the IT team to focus more on supporting and training students and staff."
Ashley added: "We recently carried out an internal audit of our physical IT infrastructure with a view to moving more applications to the cloud. As a public sector organisation, we are under pressure to reduce our expenditure whilst improving our services. We believe that cloud computing will help us on both levels.
"By appointing Advanced to manage and host the software they provide, we are ensuring it is expertly maintained to the highest possible level. A single support desk makes life easy for our employees who will now have a single port of call in terms of logging issues and support requests. The fact that the software applications and data can both be accessed remotely in the event of issues or power disruption provides us with complete peace of mind."
Simon Fowler, Managing Director, Advanced Business Solutions says: "By migrating to the cloud, Redbridge College will reduce the work and expense involved in maintaining their own infrastructure, enabling their IT team to concentrate on strategic development and supporting staff and students."
"We will be working with the College's IT team to ensure that the systems are regularly updated and maintained to the highest standard."
Redbridge College is a further education College based over two sites in north-east London. The College, which serves 3000 students, has campuses in Ilford and Romford and offers a range of courses including BTECs, Diplomas, ESOL programmes and Access courses.
Advanced was recently awarded a place on G-Cloud 4, the Government's latest cloud procurement framework. G-Cloud 4 is the fourth version of the UK Government framework, and is designed to promote the adoption of cloud computing in the public sector.
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About Advanced Computer Software Group plc www.advancedcomputersoftware.com
Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced) is a leading supplier of software and IT services to both public and private sectors which assist organisations to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
The Group operates as three divisions:
Advanced Health & Care sells a range of products to the NHS and private healthcare sector including patient workflow management for urgent and unplanned care providers; patient case management for social care providers; mobile applications for care in the community providers and rostering applications for social care settings.
Advanced Business Solutions provides accounting, payroll, HR, CRM and document management solutions to local authorities, healthcare organisations, law firms and private sector businesses including banks, manufacturers, retailers, charities and travel companies.
Advanced 365 delivers managed services to support Group products and to a wide range of customers including banks and financial institutions, membership bodies and healthcare organisations. Services can be delivered either on-premise or as cloud-based models depending on customers' requirements.
Advanced Computer Software Group plc ("Advanced or the "Group") is a leading supplier of software.
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If we are to find effective solutions to climate change, then we have to include all of those who can make a difference.
"If we are to find effective solutions to climate change, then we have to include all of those who can make a difference. Ignoring or undervaluing the contribution of women restricts the potential for innovation and our capacity to act. It is women who hold the key to tackling hunger and malnutrition." – Mary Robinson
Download our policy brief on the gender dimensions of food and nutrition security in the context of climate change.
The impacts of climate change on food security are exacerbating existing inequalities in access to resources, especially for women who are primarily responsible for food production and for feeding their families. This is contributing to an injustice whereby those who have done least to cause the climate change problem are already suffering disproportionately from its impact, which is undermining their right to food, their health and well-being.
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9:50am Shane and Joe go into the storage room. Joe says that he talked to Ian last night, and that Ian told him that he is safe but only if there isn't a replacement. Joe says make sure Dan would vote for me. I think he will put Frank and Jenn or Frank and Dan. He said that you are completely safe and Danielle is safe. If Frank goes up and it sticks, we have to get rid of him. Shane says yeah we will discuss that when it happens. Shane says that he was talking to Danielle and Dan before he went to sleep about what power of veto competitions. Joe says just make sure I have Danielle's vote.
The trumpets sound and Joe starts doing the hula hoop.
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Joe tells Frank that he (Joe) will be put up on the block if someone comes off the block. Joe says that he thinks Ian has a deal with Dan because he isn't even an option to go up. Joe says that he didn't say it I am just speculating because Ian told me I am the replacement and Dan wasn't even an option of going up. Joe says it will probably be you and Jenn going up on the block. Frank says that he talk to the little man last night too. Joe says that we will just need to win the veto. Joe and Frank leave the arcade room.
10am In the kitchen, Frank, Jenn, Shane and Joe are talking. Frank comments on how he finally gets to take off the carrot suit. Joe says that they said it was a busy day today ..so maybe Have-nots? (Maybe a luxury competition) Dan joins them in the kitchen and says that they told him they aren't allowed to go back to bed.
10:10am – 10:30am Frank comes out of the diary room and tells Joe to get out the roasting pan, we're having carrots for dinner tonight! This herbivore is no more! Joe tells his wife Sarah to not let his kids watch the HOH competition, he will not live that down. Frank says well they can watch the first 25 seconds. They all laugh. Shane asks if the diary room had a lot to say about that? Joe says oh yeah. Big Brother cuts the feeds. Shane asks Joe if he even got hit by the comet. Joe says no, that was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
10:35am – 10:55am Dan, Ian, Shane, Frank Jenn and Joe are in the kitchen making breakfast and talking. Dan talks about after he first met his wife he waited from Saturday till Wednesday to call her. He says that she had told her friends that if he didn't call that day he wasn't going to talk to him. Frank says that he calls girls right away some times and then won't call them for 3 weeks, so they have no idea what's going on. Ian says that he test the waters with a text and if he gets a "Heyy" back with two y's he knows he's in. They tell him he was lucky. The trumpet sounds again and Joe gets up to do his thing.
11am – 11:20am Joe tells his wife to tell the kids to stop laughing. They wonder if Ian will get a Pandora's Box. Ian says that he will open it if there is one. Joe, Frank and Jenn are cleaning up the kitchen. Big Brother then switches the live feeds to TRIVIA…
11:40am TRIVIA continues… Pandora's Box? Have-nots Competition? Luxury Competition?
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"According to a recent report in one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, the industrial chemical added to water supplies across much of the United States is actually a dangerous developmental neurotoxicant.
Echoing the recent findings of another Harvard study suggesting that fluoride is associated with drastic reductions in the IQ of children, The Lancet journal report classified the chemical as a harmful neurotoxin. That puts it right alongside lead, mercury, arsenic, and other dangerous substances, the authors said, warning of the potentially far-reaching consequences."
"March 2014- Epidemiological studies have documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants—manganese, FLUORIDE, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers. We postulate that even more neurotoxicants remain undiscovered. To control the pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity, we propose a global prevention strategy. Untested chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development, and chemicals in existing use and all new chemicals must therefore be tested for developmental neurotoxicity. To coordinate these efforts and to accelerate translation of science into prevention, we propose the urgent formation of a new international clearinghouse."
"Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain," explained Harvard's Dr. Grandjean. "The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us."
There is "strong evidence" that exposure to those chemicals, which are found in a broad array of products, is linked to increases in brain development disorders, the authors said. Already, such disorders affect an estimated one in six children. According to the review, it is time to take action, including testing existing industrial chemicals as well as new ones for potential problems. Billions of dollars could be saved, they added.
Read the studies mentioned above here:
- Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=10.1289/ehp.1104912
- Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2813%2970278-3/fulltext
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Stupidly indulgent apocafic, because everything is better with apocafic, including CrissColfer.
Character death because, well, apocalypse, but I'm not trying to focus on what they lost so much as what they rebuild together.
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Characters: Chris Colfer, Darren Criss
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The second round of the 2016 Engagement Roadshow is coming to a town near you! You are invited to be part of this annual event and have your say.
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Earlier in the year we held Roadshow meetings in the South Island and lower North Island. We will be holding the remainder of North Island meetings in September and October.
Please note the Roadshows will start at the times listed. We welcome people to join us for a hot drink and a bite to eat either before or after the meeting. For details please check the timetable below.
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2017 School Bus Rebate Program Application Deadline November 14 Over $7 Million Available | Up to $1 Million for Retrofits
11/05/17 by Juanita Teschner
EDITOR'S NOTE: This announcement was released November 2 by EPA Clean Diesel News.
Need help paying for that new school bus or upgrade? EPA is offering an opportunity to receive up to $20,000 per vehicle to replace your older school buses, and up to $6,000 per vehicle for retrofits. Older school buses without emission reduction retrofits emit significant amounts of harmful exhaust, so participating in this program will help improve the health of students and other members of your community.
The 2017 School Bus Rebate Program is now open and applications will be accepted until November 14, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. ET. Please visit www.epa.gov/cleandiesel/clean-diesel-rebates for the Program Guide with all the details as well as FAQs and the application form.
Eligible Entities
- · Regional, state, or tribal agencies including school districts and municipalities, or
- · Private entities that operate school buses under a contract with an entity listed above
Important Dates
September 28, 2017
Application period opens
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Just in. Insignia Towers announced they have reached 100 sales in the first 6 months of being on the market. Quite a milestone for the new project.


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I LOVE THESE! I intend to give as gifts to my customers. These ballpoint pens are wonderful, nice quality and the size is perfect as I want.
The best product I have bought from these guys! A little curve was a nice touch. I would say they are so 'prestigious" like the name says. They look like they cost 5 pounds each they do what they are supposed to do perfectly.
Color range is various and process of choosing the right color is simple with this color range. The pens worked perfectly and now I give these out to everyone when I go on my sales runs. Nice to leave a lasting impression after you leave their premises.
Go into a shop and these cost like a euro 50. Did not believe how low cost on the Internet. Will not take the easy option and buy from local again. They rip me off when you look at the cost that these people do. the pen was weighty which is good, I tried out many of them to see if they worked and the clicker did the job very well every time.
I used different people last year, but the same type of promo product. This year was much better. Much better price, same product, better logo imprint I think too
Prestige curvy transparent ball pen is a stylish and trendy looking writing material which can be used at home, workplace or any place, which has a ballpoint refill inserted into it for flawless writing. The product has a rubber grip enabling to write with ease and the silver trim makes it look classy. Inbuilt with such varied features, this ball point pen stand out to be the best promotional items to make the brand name reach its zenith.


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How to Be a More Productive Blogger
This is a guest post by Amey. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
At its core blogging is about sharing ideas and personal opinions. While bloggers may have ideas bouncing all over the place, a crucial choking point is trying to convey those ideas from our mind to paper.
Blogging typically requires generating loads of content, so if we can find a way to create that content at a more efficient pace it only makes our job that much easier.
Below are 5 action items we can follow to become more productive bloggers.
Create an idea list
Great ideas can spawn anytime, and we need to make sure we have a system to capture those eureka moments before they slip away. Whether you use a sophisticated application like Evernote or just pen and paper, come up with a set way to store blogging ideas and reference it when you are ready to create.
Focus on one article at a time
When it is time to actually write an article, focus on one at a time. While it may be tempting to flip back and forward as ideas pop into the head, it actually makes the final product take longer, while dropping the quality at the same time.
Outline your article
As useless as I thought creating outlines in English class were, I have never found them so important and useful as I do now.
Outlines allow us to visually see all pieces of an article and how we can best craft it together. In relation to blogging, an outline also makes it easier to see where we can link to other articles from our blog and insert any appropriate affiliate links.
Finally, an outline will let us know if the idea is actually meaty enough to be a full fledge article as sometimes the ideas in our head turn out not to be so grand or in-depth when we break it down onto paper.
Write all the way through the article before editing
When putting together an article you may be tempted to stop and go back earlier into the work to fix or add onto something, but that just ends of breaking the current concentration or flow of the article.
Write all the way through the article once, and then edit, remove, and add stuff as you see fit.
Create a checklist for post-article publication
Whether you submit your articles to social bookmarking sites, social networks, or email distribution lists, create a set checklist of tasks that should be done once an article is published.
Perhaps you could even pawn those tedious tasks out to somebody else, and by writing them out it makes it easier to share what needs to be done.
Wrapping it all together
Regardless of where we are trying to improve our productivity, creating a defined list of tasks or action items to follow is a great way to master that activity and achieve increased efficiency.
The less we make our brain focus on administrative tasks, the more free it is to be creative.
If you want to be a more productive blogger, stop thinking about quantity, focus on one article at a time, and rinse and repeat. Before you know it, you will be spitting out great content faster than ever before.
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19 Responses to "How to Be a More Productive Blogger"
I agreed with your views. You are awesome. This is a very important post to learn how to make a productive blog.
Thanks for sharing with all the blogging community.
Good luck.
Great list Amey!
These steps definitely helps when writing an article. My idea list is jotted down in my cellphone or in a piece of paper. Sometimes I bookmark a page if it will be a good reference to my future posts. But I oftentimes jump from one idea to another when it is time for writing and you are right that it will take more time to write the content. Also I am guilty of not outlining the articles that I am about to write:)
Btw, what do you mean by creating a checklist of post-article publication? Can you give us more details regarding this?
Peter Almeida
Regarding outlining, I always write the headers first.
Three or four h2 and h3 headers will define what the post will be about and reduces the writing time in about a half.
solomon kaveinazo
I have a problem on how i am going to write, i don't understand the whole process of blogging but i am interested please help me with some tips….Anyone from this crew….
Nagarasa Pandi
I really enjoyed to read about your topics which are very useful for us to know about to get more money from online. Thanks.
Ahmad Badyari
I am agree mostly with you . Ideas are so important to be a productive blogger
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K Dasaratha Rama Rao
Thanks a lot for the article.Greatly appreciate the tips.For me jotting down the ideas is very random,sometimes in my phone,sometimes i save it as draft in Email and sometimes just leave it ,thinking it would be remembered.But many a times it has failed me.So finally of late have started organizing my ideas and it has become a lot easier.TY once again for the tips.
Jamie Northrup
I use my BlackBerry to write down ideas, and usually I'll even make the outlines on there. thanks for sharing your tips.
I totally agree. An outline helps to focus my writing and it also helps finding links to other articles or missing information (sometimes even holes in my articles). Though I enjoy writing without an outline the most, I tend to use it writing longer articles.
I agree with most of these tips, but I find outlining useful only for longer pieces. Thanks!
Amrish SIngh
Ideas are so important for writing any good artical . Focus and concentration is also a required thing to be a productive blog writer
Notebook(The one with actual Paper!) works good for me! One Blog – One Notebook!
The problem with them is carrying them.
Once I started using Google Docs to have an organized idea list, it made things a lot easier. Trying to remember what to write about off the top of your head is much more work. Plus, you can add in little ideas or words as you come across them during the day. Those ideas might not mean much at first but eventually you find a way to grow or utilize them.
I definitely need to force myself to write the full draft first though. Sometimes I get stuck and then I go back to edit what I've written. By the time I've finished that, I lost my train of thought and have a harder time jumping back in. Got to remind myself to finish the whole piece first and then go over it. My writing flow more naturally that way too.
Matt Gio
I love the tip about writing a tasks list for what to do after a post is written and published. I always just randomly and blindly promote. I should be following a set of tasks. Thanks for the tip!
Great tips! I've been creating an idea list for my one blog; ideas flow fast and furious. I'm trying to do the same with my other blog. I'd like to do some 'market' research and find out what readers want — what do they need? What problem(s) do they have that need solving? It's a process.
Great Post. Let me add another idea I read about a long time ago. Some people use their A,B,C's to write their material meaning they will write out the alphabet and then put a post thought or title idea next to each letter. For example: A – Alter Egos and How They Influence thought. B – Being Bossy is Great. C – Creating Websites Step By Step, you get the idea. This can get your juices flowing about topics.
I, too use my mobile phone when I have ideas. I just jot them down and email them to me. When I get to my computer, I've got my email with all of my thoughts and sometimes an outline, it's great. Sometimes, I can do a search for "me" in my email and it will pull up all of my ideas…
I use a good old-fashioned notebook and I also have some of my ideas saved as a word-file.
When it comes to keeping track of my blog ideas, I use my mobile. I simply open up the notes function and jot down the keywords to remind me. Every now and then the idea will come fully formed and I will be typing out the whole outline on my phone.
These days we all have our phones close to us at all times, so this is a great option for me.
There is nothing more frustrating than going to sleep knowing what you will write about tomorrow and waking up with the idea having left your memory banks completely. Jot it down immediately and you can't go wrong.
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Race to the bottom
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The race to the bottom is a socio-economic phrase to describe government deregulation of the business environment, or reduction in tax rates, in order to attract or retain economic activity in their jurisdictions. An outcome of globalization and free trade, it may occur when competition increases between geographic areas over a particular sector of trade and production.[1] The effect and intent of these actions is to lower labor rates, cost of business, or other factors (pensions, environmental protection and other externalities), and thus the metaphor where the bottom is the lowest wage that can be paid.
History and usage[edit]
The concept of a regulatory "race to the bottom" emerged in the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, when there was charter competition among states to attract corporations to base in their jurisdiction. Some, such as Justice Louis Brandeis, described the concept as the "race to the bottom" and others, as the "race to efficiency". [2]
In the late 19th century, joint-stock company control was being liberalised in Europe, where countries were engaged in competitive liberal legislation to allow local companies to compete. This liberalization reached Spain in 1869, Germany in 1870, Belgium in 1873, and Italy in 1883.
In 1890, New Jersey enacted a liberal corporation charter, which charged low fees for company registration and lower franchise taxes than other states. Delaware attempted to copy the law to attract companies to its own state. This competition ended when Governor Woodrow Wilson tightened New Jersey's laws through a series of seven statutes.[3]
In academic literature, the phenomenon of regulatory competition reducing standards overall was argued for by A.A. Berle and G.C. Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932). The concept received formal recognition by the US Supreme Court in a decision of Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case Ligget Co. v. Lee (288 U.S. 517, 558–559).[2][4][5]
Brandeis's "race to the bottom" metaphor was updated in 1974 by William Cary, in an article in the Yale Law Journal, "Federalism and Corporate Law: Reflections Upon Delaware," in which Cary argued for the imposition of national standards for corporate governance.
Sanford F. Schram explained in 2000 that the term "race to the bottom":
...has for some time served as an important metaphor to illustrate that the United States federal system—and every federal system for that matter—is vulnerable to interstate competition. The "race to the bottom" implies that the states compete with each other as each tries to underbid the others in lowering taxes, spending, regulation...so as to make itself more attractive to outside financial interests or unattractive to unwanted outsiders. It can be opposed to the alternative metaphor of "Laboratories of Democracy". The laboratory metaphor implies a more sanguine federalism in which [states] use their authority and discretion to develop innovative and creative solutions to common problems which can be then adopted by other states.[5]
The term has been used to describe a similar type of competition between corporations.[6] In 2003, in response to reports that British supermarkets had cut the price of bananas, and by implication had squeezed revenues of banana-growing developing nations, Alistair Smith, international co-coordinator of Banana Link, said "The British supermarkets are leading a race to the bottom. Jobs are being lost and producers are having to pay less attention to social and environmental agreements."[7][full citation needed]
Another example is the cruise industry, which registers its ship with flags of convenience, evading wage requirements and other expenses required by developed countries, thus providing the business model for the industry.[8]
The term has also been used in the context of a trend for some European states to seize refugees' assets.[9]
International Political Economy scholars Daniel Drezner (of Tufts University) has described the "race to the bottom" as a myth.[10] He argues that the thesis incorrectly assumes that states exclusively responds to the preferences of capital (and not to other constituents, such as voters), state regulations are sufficiently costly for producers that they would be willing to re-locate elsewhere, and no state has an economy large enough to give it a bargaining power advantage over global capital.[11]
Environmental policy[edit]
The race to the bottom has been a tactic widely used among states within the United States of America. The race to the bottom in environmental policy involves both scaling back policies already in place and passing new policies that encourage less environmentally friendly behavior. Some states use this as an economic development strategy, especially in times of financial hardship. For example, in Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker decreased state environmental staff's capacity in order to accelerate the approval time for a proposed development.[12] Pursuing a race to the bottom philosophy in environmental politics allows states to foster economic growth, but has great consequences for the environment of that state. Conversely, some states have begun to pursue a race to the top strategy, which stresses innovative environmental policies at the state level, with the hopes that these policies will later be adopted by other states.[12] When a state pursues either a race to the bottom or a race to the top strategy, it speaks to its overall environmental agenda.
See also[edit]
- ^ C.W. (27 November 2013). "Racing to the bottom". The Economist. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
But the race to the bottom operates more subtly than most people suppose. The regressions suggest that while countries do compete with each other by instituting laws that are unfriendly to workers, such competition is not that pronounced. The real problem is that countries compete by enforcing labour laws less vigorously than they might—leading to increases in violations of labour rights prescribed in local laws. Competition between countries to attract investment is less in rules than in their practical application.
- ^ a b Meisel, Nicolas (2004). Governance Culture and Development: A Different Perspective on Corporate Governance. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ISBN 92-64-01727-5. p. 41
- ^ Robert E. Wright (8 June 2012). "How Delaware Became the King of U.S. Corporate Charters". Bloomberg View. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ Kelly, John E. (2002). Industrial Relations: critical perspectives on business and management. UK: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-22986-3. p. 192
- ^ a b Schram, Sanford F. (2000). After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy. NYU Press. ISBN 0-8147-9755-5. p. 91
- ^ Charles Fishman (November 27, 2013). "Walmart Creates A Race To The Bottom Throughout The Economy". Popular Resistance.
Alexis Kleinman (Jan 24, 2015). "How The Uber Economy Can Become A Race To The Bottom". Huffington Post.
- ^ "N/A". Business Section. The Times. 7 December 2003.
- ^ Elizabeth Becker (November 2013). "Destination Nowhere: The Dark Side of the Cruise Industry". The Saturday Evening Post. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ Josh Lowe (21 January 2016). "U.N. Slams 'Race To The Bottom' On Refugee Cash". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ Drezner, Daniel W. (2000). "Bottom Feeders". Foreign Policy (121): 64–70. doi:10.2307/1149620. ISSN 0015-7228. JSTOR 1149620.
- ^ Drezner, Daniel W. (2001). "Globalization and Policy Convergence". International Studies Review. 3 (1): 53–78. doi:10.1111/1521-9488.00225. ISSN 1521-9488. JSTOR 3186512.
- ^ a b Vig, Norman J.; Kraft, Michael E. (2019). Environmental policy : new directions for the twenty-first century (10th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN 9781506383460. OCLC 1005057455.
Further reading[edit]
- Grandy, C. (1989). "New Jersey Corporate Chartermongering, 1875–1929". The Journal of Economic History. 49 (3): 677–92. doi:10.1017/S0022050700008810. JSTOR 2122510.
- Kocaoglu, Kagan (March 2008). "A Comparative Bibliography: Regulatory Competition on Corporate Law". Georgetown University Law Center Working Paper. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1103644. SSRN 1103644.
- McLean, Bethany (2010). All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. Portfolio. ISBN 978-1-59184-363-4.
- Vogel, David. 1995. Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-90084-7
External links[edit]
|Look up race to the bottom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Racing to the bottom: Countries skimp enforcement of decent working conditions to get FDI in The Economist (November 27, 2013)
- Yablon, Charles M., "The Historical Race Competition for Corporate Charters and the Rise and Decline of New Jersey: 1880–1910", The Journal of Corporation Law (2007)


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Correspondence received
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1889-1893 : Humphrey)
Date: 1889-1893
Level of Description: Series
Material Type: Government record
Call Number: Unavailable
Unit ID: 193420
Abstract: Primarily letters received by Governor Humphrey, however there are also a few petitions, reports, copies of letters sent, and other types of documents. Correspondence received includes general letters, official response letters from & letters concerning State agencies, and subject files; some proclamations are also included. Subject files include material on cities & towns, claims, county affairs, crime & criminals, fairs & expositions, justices of the peace, legislative matters, military affairs, relief, prohibition, and other topics. Some proclamations may have also been interfiled with other items received relating to the subjects of the proclamations. Copies of letters sent are in the series Letter Press Books, 1865-1904 (no. 193397), http://www.kshs.org/archives/193397 .
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Title (Main title): Correspondence received
Titles (Other):
- Records of the Kansas Governor's Office : Lyman Underwood Humphrey administration, Jan. 14, 1889-Jan. 9, 1893.
- Correspondence files.
- Records of the Kansas Governor's Office : administration of Governor Lyman Underwood Humphrey (1889-1893).
- Records of the Office of the Governor of Kansas : Lyman U. Humphrey administration (1889-1893).
- Kansas Governor Lyman Underwood Humphrey correspondence received.
Part of: Records of the Kansas Governor's Office. Records of the Kansas Governor's Office : administration of Governor Lyman Underwood Humphrey (1889-1893).
Scope and Content
Scope and content:
Governor Humphrey's records consist of one series of Correspondence Files, 1889-1893 (no. 193420) in excess of 349 folders divided into four subseries: (1) the General File, (2) the State Departments and Agencies File, (3) Applications and Endorsements, and (4) the Subject File.
The General File, 1889-1893 (subseries 1), consists of one folder containing letters received that were filed by the initial letter of authors' surnames on a wide range of subjects. Contained therein are, generally, letters relating to budget, accounting and audits; State positions; labor statistics, recommendations and job vacancies; Governor Humphrey's addresses; State contracts; the State Militia, legislation; requests for information, publications, or action papers; politics; services and goods offered for sale; taxation; transportation; the Railroad Commission; public policy, especially the issue of Prohibition; private and public land issues; interstate co-operation; and disabled Civil War volunteer veterans' rehabilitation Letters may have been filed here because there was not an appropriate place for them in the State Departments (subseries 2) or Subject files (subseries 4).
Letters from or relating to State offices are in subseries 2, the State Departments and Agencies File. Some letters deal with State department personnel, vacancies, resignations and appointments, but most pertain to the operation of individual State agencies. The letters request the Governor to take specific actions, ask his approval, send him information, ask him questions, tell of events, provide legal opinions, forward other letters and petitions, confirm or acknowledge gubernatorial actions, and request the Governor's presence. Two folders relate to judicial districts. Box 2, Folder 21, for the Kansas State Penitentiary, has a corresponding oversize folder containing the warden's list of names for restored rights of citizenship. Box 3, Folder 1, has a corresponding oversize folder relating to the Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge that has in it personnel and inventory sheets.
Subseries 3, Applications and Endorsements, pertains to applicants for State positions. A complete list of jobs by title or State department is in the record for this subseries, http://www.kshs.org/archives/307604 . The largest numbers of files relate to vacancies in judicial districts and for United States senator.
Subseries 4, the Subject File, contains letters received on a variety of topics. Major topics relate to cities and towns, claims, county affairs, crime and criminals, fairs and expositions, justices of the peace, legislative matters including petitions for special sessions of the Legislature and legislation, military affairs, relief, and prohibition. Some proclamations may have also been interfiled with other items received relating to the subjects of the proclamations.
Contents: Contents: Sub-series 1. General file (box 1, folder 1), http://www.kshs.org/archives/307602 -- sub-series 2. State departments and agencies file (box 1, folder 2-box 3, folder 6), http://www.kshs.org/archives/307603 -- sub-series 3. Applications and endorsements file (box 3, folder 7-box 6, folder 3), http://www.kshs.org/archives/307604 -- sub-series 4. Subject file (box 6, folder 4-box 15, folder 15), http://www.kshs.org/archives/307648
Portions of Collection Separately Described:
|027-05-02-04 to 027-05-04-04
|Correspondence received, 1889-1893. 6 ft. (15 boxes). Consists of General file (1 folder), State department and agencies file (1 ft. [42 folders]), Applications and endorsements (1 ft. [44 folders]), and Subject file (4 ft. [263 folders])
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|Oversize box 70, Folder 2: Proclamations and messages; most pertain to rewards and Arbor Day & Thanksgiving.
Index Terms
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Kansas. Governor (1889-1893 : Humphrey) -- Archives
Kansas. Governor (1889-1893 : Humphrey) -- Records and correspondence
Government correspondence -- Kansas
Public records -- Kansas
Kansas -- Administrative and political divisions
Kansas -- Claims
Kansas -- Military policy
Kansas -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
State agencies
Humphrey, Lyman Underwood, 1844-1915
Governors -- Kansas -- Archives
Politicians -- Kansas
Agricultural exhibitions -- Kansas
Cities and towns -- Kansas
Civil-military relations -- Kansas
County government -- Kansas
Crime -- Kansas
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Kansas
Criminals -- Kansas
Exhibitions -- Kansas
Exhibitions -- United States
Judges -- Selection and appointment -- Kansas
Justices of the peace -- Kansas
Petitions -- Kansas
Prohibition -- Kansas
Public institutions -- Kansas
Public welfare -- Kansas
State-local relations -- Kansas
Statutes -- Kansas
Creators and Contributors
Agency Classification:
Kansas State Agencies. Governor's Office. Specific Administrations. Humphrey, Lyman Administration.