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Kilkenny (pop. 22,179.7), while strictly no longer a city, is entitled by law to described itself as such. Several towns have larger populations than some of these cities but are not recognised as cities because they lack historic charters or legal status.[from Wikipedia, duh!]
The prime criteria to qualify for city status is to have at least two members of the town council who can break dance - Those in the case of Kilkenny being Malcolm Noonan and Andrew McGuinness.
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- 2 Brewing
- 3 Dunne's Stores
- 4 Lady Desart
- 5 Kilkenny College
- 6 Stick Fighting
- 7 Kilkenny Nightlife
- 8 Castlecomer
- 9 Notable Historical Kilkenny Persons
Kilkenny Castle[edit]
The original castle was built in 1195 by Richard de Clare who married Aoife, daughter of Dermot MacMurrough - high king of Leinster.
Richard was better known by his moniker 'Strongbow' which he earned through his ability to chug a flagon of cider in one go, a feat only accomplished since by a legless degenerate in a wheelchair.
The castle is well known locally for its large park, featuring as well as what it often incorrectly assumed to be a large, ugly and stupid piece of 'modern art'.
Known colloquially as 'The Rocket Arse', this rare piece of astronomical heritage is a spaceship component and the sole physical remainder of Ireland's once prestigous space program, which was cancelled in the mid 1840's due to the increasing unavailability of potatoes (the main solid fuel for rocket booster engines).
The Smithwick's brewery was established way back in 1710 by Vladmir 'Droopy' Smithwick, and it is the oldest brewery in Kilkenny.
The fact that this is the ONLY brewery in Kilkenny means that it also holds the distinction of Kilkenny's newest brewery, having been established as recently as 1710.
The Smithwicks brewery is Ireland's only brewery to hold such a distinction, (the other being the Heineken Brewery based beside the Pfizer Viagra plant in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, established by Patsy 'Big Wand' O'Heineken in the mid 1800's).
The Smithwick's brewery is famous for not being open to the public, and nobody is ever seen to leave or enter (the identities of the staff are a complete mystery, though some say they have seen small dwarf-like figures through the giant brew-house window panes from across the river Nore).
However in 2010, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Smithwick's, five golden tickets were hidden in cans of Smithwicks around the country to allow people view personally the wonders of the inside of the Brewery.
The winners entered the brewery but were never seen again.
Droopy Smithwick went on to become a colourful and outspoken impotence awareness activist, spearheading such national campains as "It's not me it's you" and "Not tonight, I'm really tired.."
Dunne's Stores[edit]
A popular traditional pastime among Kilkennians is to go shopping in one of the many Dunne's Stores outlets. Kilkenny has an average of four Dunne's Stores outlets per street, more than any other town in Ireland.
This has been part of the Marble City culture for a great many years - the earliest known reference to this local penchant for Dunne's is cited in the Annals of the Four Masters (a historical Irish text dating back over 2,000 years) which states Tá baile in oirdheisceart le Dunnes Stores ar gach cúinne motherfucking which roughly translates as There is a town in the south east with a Dunne's Stores on every motherfucking corner.
Lady Desart[edit]
Although remembered today primarily for her philanthropy and funding of Aut Even hospital, Desart Hall and the archetecturial gem that is Talbot's Inch Village, Lady Desart was famed locally at the time moreso for her penchant for class-A narcotics and dance music.
The name Talbot's Inch is actually a misnomer, the original name was Tablets Inch, and it is thought locally to originate from the drug-fueled raves that used to take place there around the turn of the centruy, where patrons dropped handfulls of tablets and vacuumed up inch-wide lines of cocaine.
After the decline of the Georgian rave generation, Lady Desart went on to release several minimal techno tracks on the Ed Bangers label and later enjoyed moderate success as a reggae MC.
Kilkenny College[edit]
Kilkenny's oldest school, founded by George Berkley in 1465 has produced notable allumni such as Johnathan Swift (noted satirist who was named after the passenger ferry on the Dublin-Pembroke route), Oscar Wilde (noted writer who was named after the passenger ferry on the Rosslare-Normandy route) and 80's musician Brian 'Passenger' Ferry.
Stick Fighting[edit]
The majority of the population are so efficient with hurls that they've managed to incorporate them into their daily lives. If a person expresses no interest in hurling, they are exiled to the most desolate lands of Galway. This is one of the few times Kilkennians will leave Kilkenny. There are no women in the county, only very attractive looking hurlies. It is known that the men use their hurlies for hunting, eating, transport and other daily activities.
Kilkenny Nightlife[edit]
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The World's End (the name of the establishment in itself an Odyssean reference - the patrons are remarkably well grounded in the classics) is nestled in upper John Street Kilkenny in the town's lively cultural quarter, and has a delightful ambience which reflects the clientele to whom it caters; The upper echelons of the Kilkenny societal circuit rub shoulders with learned philosophers, scholars, wordsmiths and famous faces from the city enviorns as they bask in the opulence of the lilly-gilded surroundings and erudition and succinct wit of one other's company..
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Pop in for a spot of luncheon and a chat about the horses over a Pimms, or perhaps visit a little later on for Cognac and a Montecristo gran corona on the sun terrace, with Jazz standards as standard on piano and a certain elegance and je ne sais quoi which appeals to the most discerning socialite, The World's End is the glistening, yet strangely under-rated jewel in Kilkenny's recreational crown.
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Closing in 2010, Kilkenny's first and only gay bar was something of a flop. Hard in those times to stand proud and beat off stiff competition, there simply wasn't a sufficiently large hole in the market to justify the insertion of such an establishment.
Even Kytler's beer garden was cavernous in its emptiness around that time though Lanigans and Biddy's remained well stuffed and were a tight squeeze at the best of times.
Castlecomer is noted for having the most inbred isolated population in Western Europe. However this has not stopped a vast and varied populace from developing in this small townsland, leading to much marital violence and street brawls between young couples. In fact some observers have noted that the only thing Castlecomer marital partners have in common is their parents.
Notable Historical Kilkenny Persons[edit]
Andrew McGuinness[edit]
All Ireland Break Dancing Champion and part time politician
Vladmir 'Droopy' Smithwick[edit]
Brewer, impotence awareness activist
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WHO personnel in the isolation ward at Donka hospital in Conakry, Guinea. Photo courtesy of the WHO.
Two patients were released on the morning of April 3, 2014 from the Ebola isolation ward at Donka national teaching hospital, having spent seven days in the isolation ward after testing positive for Ebola virus. Having been free of symptoms for three days and testing negative, they were allowed to re-join their family and friends. There are still six patients who remain in isolation.
"Today's discharge of patients shows that Ebola is not always fatal. Good, early supportive care such as hydration, nutrition and appropriate medication can have a positive impact," says Dr. Tom Fletcher, an infectious disease physician with the WHO, who provides clinical care to Ebola patients in the Guinean capital Conakry.
The Guinean Ministry of Health is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and WHO at the Donka hospital, which will soon become the only isolation centre in the capital.
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In total 16 Ebola cases have been reported in Conakry including five deaths.
Preventing additional new infections – including among healthcare workers – is key.
"Healthcare workers are often among the victims in the early stage of the outbreak, as they are in direct contact with infected persons. Helping them to protect themselves and also ensuring appropriate treatment for patients are key to providing equity of access to life-saving interventions" says Fletcher.
Beside clinical management, WHO, the Ministry of Health and their partners continue to implement measures to respond to the outbreak, including contact tracing, disease surveillance, laboratory work, logistics, as well as information-sharing and communication are all essential elements of the response.
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So many of our scientific models of ecological reality need gross revisions. I am aware for instance that the model for the 'water cycle' is badly flawed, yet the scientific community has not done much to revise it.
Here is another facet of reality—climate change—where the existing models are found to be flawed. From East Asian scientists, notably Beijing, come the observation that the existing models 'ignore brown carbon'. It need not belabored that the models must be revised.
The news about the observations regarding the model is contained below. What is gladdening is that scientists were able to uncover the flaw, which will ensure revision of the model and the practical technologies coming out from the labs later.
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Current climate models 'ignoring brown carbon'
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[BEIJING] Scientists have found that air pollution from East Asia contains an abundance of 'brown carbon' particles and say that atmospheric models need updating to incorporate their effect.
Current climate models take into account two types of aerosol carbon — organic carbon and black carbon — that arise from the burning of fossil fuels or biomass.
Black carbon strongly warms the atmosphere by absorbing light, while organic carbon absorbs light at a negligible level and has no warming effect.
It has already been claimed black carbon plays a much larger role in global warming than estimates made by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (see Black carbon climate danger 'underestimated').
But this approximation is too simple, according to Peter Crozier, an associate professor at Arizona State University (ASU) in the United States, whose team published their research in Science last week (8 August).
According to the authors, the method that is currently used to measure the warming effect of different types of particle doesn't take into account the wide variations that can occur between types of carbon from different sources.
They instead used a technique based on a specialised type of electron microscope to directly determine the optical properties of individual carbon particles, and found that samples taken from above the Yellow Sea, east of China, have an abundance of brown carbon particles.
"Brown carbon has light absorbing properties that lie between strongly absorbing black carbon and materials that only scatter light and do not absorb," co-author James Anderson, a research scientist at ASU's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, told SciDev.Net.
He adds that brown carbon both cools the Earth's surface and warms the atmosphere, resulting in a complex role in global warming, hence the necessity to incorporate it into climate models.
Hu Guoquan, a senior scientist at the Beijing-based National Climate Centre, welcomes the study, saying it highlights the uncertainties of IPCC models.
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Motivated by the Adams spectral sequence for computing stable homotopy groups, Priddy defined a class of algebras called Koszul algebras with nice homological properties. Many important algebras arising naturally in mathematics are Koszul, and the Koszul property is often tied to important structure in the settings which produced the algebras. However, the strong defining conditions for a Koszul algebra imply that such algebras must be quadratic. A very natural generalization of Koszul algebras called K 2 algebras was recently introduced by Cassidy and Shelton. Unlike other generalizations of the Koszul property, the class of K 2 algebras is closed under many standard operations in ring theory. The class of K 2 algebras includes Artin-Schelter regular algebras of global dimension 4 on three linear generators as well as graded complete intersections. Our work comprises two distinct projects. Each project was motivated by an aspect of the theory of Koszul algebras which we regard as sufficiently powerful or fundamental to warrant an interpretation for K 2 algebras. A very useful theorem due to Backelin and Fröberg states that if A is a Koszul algebra and I is a quadratic ideal of A which is Koszul as a left A -module, then the factor algebra A/I is a Koszul algebra. We prove that if A is Koszul algebra and A I is a K 2 module, then A/I is a K 2 algebra provided A/I acts trivially on Ext A ( A/I,k ). As an application of our theorem, we show that the class of sequentially Cohen-Macaulay Stanley-Reisner rings are K 2 algebras and we give examples that suggest the class of K 2 Stanley-Reisner rings is actually much larger. Another important recent development in ring theory is the use of A ∞ -algebras. One can characterize Koszul algebras as those graded algebras whose Yoneda algebra admits only trivial A ∞ -structure. We show that, in contrast to the situation for Koszul algebras, vanishing of higher A ∞ -structure on the Yoneda algebra of a K 2 algebra need not be determined in any obvious way by the degrees of defining relations. We also demonstrate that obvious patterns of vanishing among higher multiplications cannot detect the K 2 property. This dissertation includes previously unpublished co-authored material.


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It is a fact that the workforce is aging out. That means that more and more people will be heading out of the work force in the next ten years.
Will there be enough good qualified workers to replace them? It doesn't look like it.
Many baby boomers are returning to the workplace after they retire. Are they crazy? Maybe. Are they wanted? Definitely.
The average person still works at least until they are fifty-five. That is still a good ten years earlier than the recognized retirement age. Those baby boomers that wait until sixty-five and retire often look forward to years of relaxation once they get the gold watch. Often retired people take up hobbies to fill the time void left by having no job to show up at. At least that's what we are told we should do when we retire.
If we look at the cliche: the men fish and the women learn to paint or tend to their garden.
Boring! And you know what? It sounds too boring to many retired people these days. Instead of living the next twenty or thirty years in the stream with a fly reel, they return to the world of work. But it is not like it was before. Work actually provides many benefits besides the paycheck; social interaction, a sense of accomplishment, goals and rewards.
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It is probably shocking to some people to realize, but it is the concept that we actually do enjoy working is becoming more popular. It's just having to work, being trapped in a job, and struggling to pay the bills that we don't like.
- Baby boomers have planned for their retirement.
- They have saved in the conventional and unconventional ways and have money to live on after they finish working.
- Now, work can take on a new role in their lives.
- They can have the job of their dreams.
Most people worked the jobs that were available to them. Depending on the geographical location, they worked in sawmills and other factories, or service industry positions. It was a job of convenience because they had families to feed and kids to put through college.
When the family obligation is said and done, they can decide what they want to do instead of what they have to do. Many seniors find working after retirement to be less stressful and more enjoyable. The second half of life can be a time for a second career – the one you dreamed of.
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Working after retirement is a fun proposition because the pressure is off. The possibilities are endless as companies mount campaigns to draw in seniors with the knowledge and experience they need. It used to be just the young who could write their own ticket; now the seniors are gaining on them. And remember, with your experience and knowledge there is never a better time to be entrepreneur.
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The blog has moved to the address above. The biggest differences are the new design and a more friendly blog for people who don't know much about (Japanese) MMA. There's a widget to the right where you can switch between categories, tags, recent comments, post archives, etc.
Anyway, no more posts here.
Dynamite!! 2009! The Ratings
The ratings for Dynamite!! 2009 are out and they weren't what Tanigawa had predicted before the event. The first portion of the card got a 11.8% rating, the second a 16.7%, and the third a 10.6% rating.
Not close to the red and white song contest which got 37.1% rating in it's first portion and a 40.8% rating in it's second. They did beat the other big program this NYE in comedy show Gaki no Tsukai on Nippon TV by 0.3% though (probably not in average rating though). Definitely not catastrophic.
What fights were on which portion:
The first part was Koshien + Izumi-Shibata + Takaya-Omigawa + Mach-Gono (only 2nd round) + KID-Kanehara + Tokoro-Kim (the last two fights might have been in the middle, not sure how they sorted them).
The middle was Ishii-Yoshida + Masato-Souwer (over an hour considering all the PVs and the anthem + fairwell speech).
The last part was about 20 minutes long with no PVs, Misaki-Manhoef, Overeem-Fujita, Aoki-Hirota and ending with a replay of the Yoshida-Ishii fight.
Kawajiri didn't even get on the broadcast and Aoki's fight was at a bad time. Reality check for people who think their fight will be "big".
Also, Kazuo Misaki and his people have appealed for his fight with Manhoef being overturned to a no contest. The refereeing group will answer in two weeks.
Explosion! Dynamite!! 2009
The biggest event of the year is over and it was very enjoyable.
I'm someone who has been impressed with Izumi since his debut fight. His toughness and stand-up skills for someone who has such a build and only trained MMA for a month or so was very impressive in his debut fight (think how Yoon Dong Sik turtled up against Sakuraba).
He had another good fight tonight and I was most impressed with how he handled himself when he knocked down Shibata, smoothly going to mount. He won't ever be a top ranker if he stays in the LHW division with his height, but I think he's a natural.
Very impressive by Omigawa. When the fight was announced I thought it was quite even but leaned towards Omigawa before the fight started. Takaya got dropped by Tokoro and with Omigawa's head movement and chin I thought Takaya would have a tough night. Very impressive by Gono as well, slick armbar.
The stoppages in the Super Hulk final and Misaki/Manhoef were really bad. I understand that it's on national TV on NYE but that's very unfair to fighters in such important fights. Great performances by Manhoef and Minowaman though.
Tokoro and Kim was one of the most entertaining fights of the night. Not surprising how it turned out. Before the fight I thought Kim could take Tokoro out if he landed, and he almost did in the third. Tokoro's stand-up was once again impressive though and he was the clear winner.
Kawajiri/Yokota went as I thought. Yokota won't be able to stop Kawajiri's takedowns, Kawajiri will look more tired the longer the fight goes but will take it clearly in a three rounder.
An impressive performance by Kanehara, I didn't think he would pull it off. I'm a little surprised at the commentators though, first round was either even or Kanehara's (he actually dropped KID in the round), second Kanehara's, and third KID's. Kanehara is tough and hard to finish. He also hits hard which I don't think people were very aware of before the fight.
Nothing surprising in the Overeem/Fujita fight, Overeem is really good right now as most know.
Impressive performance by Shinya Aoki. I'm not his biggest fan and didn't like how he handled himself after the fight but he keeps beating top LWs.
I thought the referee in the Ishii/Yoshida fight was horrible, separating the clinch so quickly. He's always horrible. Ishii looked very bad in the first, in the second he was successful in the clinch, and in the third it looked like his punches had more power behind them than earlier in the fight. He has a chin though and looked good the few seconds the fight was on the floor.
Masato went out in style. He didn't say anything about what his future activities will be after the fight though.
FEG's Tanigawa said after the event that he wants to go forward with a 60 kg K-1 tournament. DREAM EP Sasahara gave Aoki a stern warning after the event for his behavior. He thinks that it's OK to provoke before a fight but as a pro such things shouldn't happen when a fight is over. Kawajiri and Yokota also had some heated words before their fight but were very respectful afterward, with Kawajiri saying after the event that he is happy to have defeated a strong fighter like Yokota.
As for injuries, Hirota suffered a bone fracture in his right upper-arm, I believe Fujita suffered a strong concussion, and Kim Jong Man and Hiroyuki Takaya received some fracture on their right eyes. It doesn't look like Yokota got injured from Kawajiri's armbar.
The planned date for the first DREAM event in 2010 is the end of March. Look out for big-shot fighters at Featherweight and Welterweight. Sasahara said that they want to implement a title fight between Aoki and Kawajiri early this year. Minowaman asked Sasahara why there is no belt and prize money for the winner of the Super Hulk Tournament.
Kanehara said that there will probably be an SRC event in March and he wants to defend the belt against Omigawa there. We'll see if there will be any Yoshida Dojo fighters fighting in SRC in the future though.
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#31: Presser Videos
#30: Who Got Their Wish Through?
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6. Judges score per round (SRC)
7. 60 second interval between rounds (SRC) (In DREAM it's 90 seconds)
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#15: Fujita Has Returned
Kazuyuki Fujita returned (photo) to Japan from his 4 week long training camp at Marco Ruas's Gym in the U.S. on the 27th. When talking with the press he said that he doesn't think there is another Japanese fighter who can fight with Alistair. "If I don't do it, who will?!"
#14: Gono NYE Performance
Gono announced that if everything goes as planned, we will see a performance on NYE on the same level of the red & white song contest, which is the big TV program on NYE in Japan.
#13: Kazunori Yokota Shootboxing
#12: SENGOKU HQ Fight Videos
A few SENGOKU fights will be available on DREAM's YouTube channel for a limited period of time. They are high quality and with no commentary. Check them out.
Footage Of "The" Submission Out! PANCRASE Starting 2010 Strong
On the 21st PANCRASE announced some additional fights for the first big card of their 2010 Passion Tour on February 7th. Previously announced for the card was a Flyweight title fight.
As for the newly announced fights, Yuki Kondo will take on Sakuraba pupil and SENGOKU participant Takenori Sato for the interim Middleweight title, KEI Yamamiya will take on Yuji "The Pink Typhoon" Hisamatsu, who drew with Kondo in his last fight, and hard-hitting Seiya Kawahara will have a tough task in front of him against Tashiro Nishiuchi, who is 6-0-4 in his last 10 fights.
The Naoyuki Kotani vs. Daisuke Nakamura fight which took place at ZST is now out on YouTube:
Also check out the DEEP Cage Impact fights from a few days ago, especially Nobuhiro Obiya vs. ISE (very good) and Masakazu Imanari vs. Justin Cruz.
Road To Dynamite!! 2009! The Third Press Conference Part 2
The rules for the DREAM vs. SRC fights will be three five minute rounds and no stomps or soccerkicks (taking the bad from both). Referees will be mixed from both organizations. I don't think the judging is decided yet.
Kazushi Sakuraba is injured and will most likely not participate. 1-2 more fights will be added (probably one of them being Kazuo Misaki vs. Melvin Manhoef).
Kawajiri wasn't very motivated at the press conference: "I have no interest in this fight and I'm not motivated either."
Omigawa and Takaya sounded more hyped for their fight though. Omigawa said that he thinks they are the best two Japanese featherweights.
Yokota is motivated to fight Kawajiri since Kawajiri is quite a big name now. He thinks that he'd take Kawajiri in a K-1 fight (Yokota has fought in shootboxing, bare-knuckle muay thai, kickboxing, etc. before with good results).
Aoki interrupted Yokota as he talked about beating Kawajiri in K-1: "Enough already. Be quiet, you."
However, Yokota just continued and said that he thinks he would be able to do more against Masato (than Kawajiri did) and he wants to show that in this fight.
After this Kawajiri said that he wants to meet the new year in a good way, fight with all his might, kill Yokota, etc.
Hirota said that it doesn't seem like Aoki know about him (Aoki said at the first Dynamite!! press conference that he doesn't know who the SRC champion is): "Should I put a heavy strike on him?"
Takaya said that the audience should obey the rules (there was an incident at the Featherweight GP finals where Takaya's gang caused some trouble at the event): "I want you to be quiet and watch, and leave the fighting to me and Omigawa."
Omigawa said that Takaya will be his favorite food on NYE. Both are excited, Omigawa said that because Takaya is the opponent in the "Kusottare Theatre" everything worked out as he desired. He says that they'll have a violent and good fight on NYE. Takaya shares the same feelings.
When the fighters were going to have their pitcure taken together after after the press conference Kawajiri just left and Aoki was going to do the same but DREAM EP Sasahara grabbed him and showed him where to stand.


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The German generic drugmaker said on Monday it agreed with Canada's Apotex Inc., which developed a filgrastim version based on Amgen's original, to market the drug in nearly all European Union countries.
Out-of-patent filgrastim, a biologic drug branded as Neupogen by Amgen and as Grastofil by Apotex, is used to boost production of infection-fighting white blood cells in certain cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.
Stada, which declined to disclose financial terms, plans to start sales next year, hoping to win a slice of the 1 billion euro ($1.4 billion) European filgrastim market.
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"A Story Short" was the only episode of The StoryTeller that focused on the Storyteller as the main character. The Storyteller was to tell a king 365 different stories, one for each day of the year, or be boiled by a cook. On the final day, with no story, a mysterious beggar gives him a story he will never forget.
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But it's not all rainbows for the rave kingpin, who will be back in court in LA on July 29 to face a separate set of charges that he diverted $2.5 million in funds from the LA Coliseum into the pockets of city officials to stage Electric Daisy Carnival there before its move to Vegas in 2011. If convicted, Rotella faces nearly 14 years in prison.
What might happen to the company and events like EDC is anyone's guess, but with Live Nation's recent purchase of a 50 percent stake in Insomniac, to the tune of a rumored $50 million, the show will likely go on.
"Our contract is with Insomniac and Live Nation as a company, not Pasquale as an individual," says a Las Vegas Motor Speedway official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as LVMS does not comment on pending legal matters. "Who knows what happens with that company [if Rotella leaves], but there's no reason the event wouldn't go on, no matter what happens. Plans for 2014 are set to go forward either way."
Las Vegas Events, the event promoter and booker for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, declined to comment.
How, and what those plans might look like, however, remain separate questions. From EDC's colorful stages to its Night Owl Experience at June's event, much of the show's look and feel is shaped directly by Rotella's hands-on involvement. What might EDC look like without him? While Insomniac's team of creatives would likely continue to hone and execute Rotella's vision, the reins of the business could go to chief growth officer John Boyle, who assumed the newly-created post—which manages new business efforts and forays into new markets—on an interim basis last fall.
Still, Rotella, a part-time Las Vegan, maintains that his name will be cleared, just in time for his impending August wedding to Holly Madison.
"I don't plan on going anywhere. I have confidence everything is going to work out the way it should, and the truth will prevail," he told the Weekly's John Katsilometes in November. "I'm taking it seriously, but I'm not thinking it's going to take me away."
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Author Notes: This salad combines spicy radishes with sweet sungold tomatoes and strawberries and treats the herbs like salad greens. You can feel free to use actual greens (like baby arugula or spinach) for all or part of the herbs, but if you go that route, I would still garnish the salad with some minced dill. - WinnieAb —WinnieAb
Food52 Review: We loved WinnieAb's Radish and Herb Salad with Sungold Tomatoes and Strawberries! I used a mixture of baby lettuce and herbs from my garden (basil, oregano, mint, parsley), and since I couldn't find lemon verbena, I used about 2 teaspoons of lemon zest instead. The sweetness of the strawberries and tomatoes nicely balances the pungency of the radishes, and the different herbs make little surprise explosions in your mouth when you taste them. The salad has great texture; a good balance between the softness of lettuce and herbs and the crunchiness of radish. WinnieAb's dressing of yogurt and maple syrup worked really well. Strawberry and tomato season is just about over around here, but I could see making this salad with apples or pears (or both) cut into small pieces. This was a really great salad, and I highly recommend it as an editors' pick. – drbabs —The Editors
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cups sliced radishes (I used organic "common" red radishes)
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We like the profession and believe the time is not far distant when women will cease to be regarded by the masses as out of her sphere in the practice of dentistry.Clara Walworth MacNaughton, pictured left in her 1885 graduation photo. SMD 292.1885.
DDS 1885 University of Michigan
Like many educated women of her day, Clara MacNaughton's horizons extended beyond her profession to include the condition of women in society at large. While practicing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she became active in the women's suffrage movement. She was so committed to the cause, she moved her practice to Washington, D.C. where she could be directly involved on a national level. Once there, MacNaughton limited her dental practice to women and children, believing women dentists were especially suited to their care.
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Clara MacNaughton was married with a daughter in Grand Rapids, Michigan when her husband died in 1876. Determined to become a dentist to support her family, she graduated from the University of Michigan in 1885 and returned to Grand Rapids to practice. By 1889, she was vice president of the Michigan State Dental Society.
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In 1890, MacNaughton moved to Washington, D.C. where her practice centered on women and children, turning nurturing, a "female" quality, into a professional advantage. In an 1889 article in the Woman's Tribune, she said, "…a great many women prefer to come to us, and we are, we believe, peculiarly successful with children because we understand better how to manage them."
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MacNaughton traveled extensively, frequently in the service of dentistry. In 1889, she was a delegate to the International Dental Congress in Paris. In 1893, she participated in the World's Columbian Dental Congress in Chicago, Illinois.
19th Amendment Guarantees Women's Right to Vote
MacNaughton campaigned for more than 30 years until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. She pressed for women's rights in other ways, writing legislation to give married women civil liberties, equal parental rights, and the ability to own property separate from their husbands. She also lobbied for female physicians and staff in women's prisons, reform schools and police stations.
Accomplished Women
For much of their lives, MacNaughton lived with her daughter, Marie. Marie was fluent in French acquired during their sojourn in Paris and became a translator for the State Department from the McKinley through the Wilson administrations. When MacNaughton retired, she moved to Oakland, California to live with Marie and her husband.
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A methodology for SPICE-compatible modeling of nanoMOSFETs
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[2]K. Mistry, C. Allen, C. Auth., "A 45 nm logic technology with High-k metal gate transistors, strained silicon, 9 Cu interconnect layers, 193nm dry patterning and 100% free Pb packaging", IEDM, 2007.
[3]Intel, "Technology at Intel:January 2010 Archive". Available on http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2010/01/ retrieved on 11/17/10
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Nick Potter, originally from Buffalo, New York, joined the Blue Devil Athletic Medicine Staff in 2005 and is the Assistant Director of Athletic Rehabilitation at Duke University. Nick works directly with the Football and Men's Basketball teams during their respective seasons. In addition to providing rehabilitation for Duke athletes, Nick administers pre-season biomechanical screening exams to develop individualized corrective exercise programs.
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Aonang Mountain Paradise is a reasonably-priced Thai style bungalows situated just a stone's throw away to the pristine Ao Nang Beach. It takes approximately 20-25 minutes' drive to Krabi International Airport and Krabi Town. Along the way to the main beach, both sides are abounded with various shops, bars and restaurants for a wide range of delectable Thai and International dishes and refreshing beverages.
With an ideal location and warm Thai hospitality, every visit here is guaranteed to be a pleasant and memorable one. Countless recreation activities both on land and sea await your arrival such as rock climbing at the limestone cliffs nearby Railay Beach, elephant trekking, scuba diving, and taking a long tail boat trip to explore the islands.
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Hôtel agréable, situe non loin des commerces.... Mais accueil froid et glacial, jet d eau de la douche trop faible Lit en suppléant pas confortable du tout....on se casse le dos Le gérant n a pas voulu nous imprimer un doc car ca le saoulait ....pas top du tout
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we have previously visited mountain paradise twice before, with great success, unfortunately lived this stay is not up to previous standards. pool areas were very worn and showing signs of not being maintained for several years. Breakfast buffet was directly cold and dull, were it was not the first at 7.30. There war a very poor service and we often had the feeling that we were a bother. Well we asked for help for tours, or would order food, we were several times we are told we could come back in a few hours, or that they just had no more chicken or else we wanted to order No baby cot we are NEVER coming back....
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TV did not work the whole 8 days Security was non existent and the keys were left exposed behind an unmanned desk. The room was not made up for 3 days as someone was sick. Shower was faulty and the toilet system leaked brown liquid. The breakfast was prepared in a disgusting filthy area and fruit did not appear if they had not been to the market. The owner had extreme communication problem and requests went constantly unheeded...ignored. Most of the people that were there checked out for other accommodation because of the stated problems. We stayed because we had payed up front and we liked the position and the quiet pool....no guests left except a Russian couple with their child and he was incapacitated through an accident. It is an inexpensive place to stay but strongly advise that you consider the possibility of spending a little more and stay in a decent place for your holiday. Will we go there again.....probably not!
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We have booked with you several times without a problem so were surprised at the condition of the hotel and that the taxi transfer was late and we had started making alternative arrangements to get to the accommodation so it was a cock up from the start and we were out of pocket.
Mar 31, 2014
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patric monney
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Feb 05, 2014
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Ok rooms. Breakfast was ok.location was ok but a littel bit to walk to ao nang beach
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Feb 09, 2014
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Jan 29, 2014
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The room was musty. The shower didn t drain properly so the bathroom filled up with water. The towels and sheets weren t changed and they smelled moldy and disgusting. The electrical outlets couldn t be used, even with the proper adapters because they were so old that the adapters wouldn t stay in the outlet. Don t waste your money. There is plenty of reasonably priced accommodation in Ao Nang.
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I have used sawadee.com many times and have never had a problem.
Feb 05, 2014
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Jan 31, 2014
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Meinhard Schulze
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Sep 13, 2013
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It s very beautifull garden hotel.The biggest surprise is breakfast!!!
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The fee of paypal is too much!
Sep 23, 2013
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Hu Jungang
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Feb 12, 2012
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location was good for a quiet place to stay you pay for what you get . pool was very good staff friendly and helpful would go bach there again
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no problems with booking service
Feb 22, 2012
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neil fowler
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Jan 27, 2012
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Fairly quiet and nice hotel. Maybe a bit expensive, considering the range. An ok hotel.
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No problems.
Feb 26, 2012
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Krister Jonsson
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Jan 23, 2012
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A very nice and quiet place. Beautiful location with the mountain close nearby.Very friendly staf.The room is big and nice and more than enough for two people.
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Easy booking on the internet. But i think you can get a better price if you book in real life if you can, and if there is rooms avalible.
Jan 26, 2012
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Elisabeth Segerstedt
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Dec 10, 2011
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Resort is near to Krabi city, though once inside the resort, you are out of the crowd. Very nice place to be in afer a busy day of sightseeing. Staff is friendly & helpfull.
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seamless booking, very straightforward
Dec 13, 2011
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"A Private and peaceful location in the heart of Ao Nang"
Ao Nang Mountain Paradise
is set amongst the beautiful limestone casts for which the Krabi area is famous and offers luxury and budget bungalows. All of this only a one minute walk from the main strip of Ao Nang and the many catteries, bars and activities available there.
A short stroll down the hill you will find Ao Nang's main beach and from here you can take a long tail boat to explore the many islands situated as is rock climbing at nearby Railay or why not take a cooking class with one of the nearby school.
:: Standard Room - 16 Units ::
Double / twin, air condition, cable TV., fridge, patio and en-suite bathroom with hot water.
:: 2 Bed Rooms Villa - 4 Units ::
Spacious villa with traditional Thai style, double / twin, air condition, cable TV., fridge, balcony and en-suite bathroom with hot water.
In Room Facilities
Balcony / patio
Air condition / fan
Cable TV.
Safety deposit box
Hot water
Swimming pool
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Airport pick up
Car, boat & motorbike rental
Getting There:
The resort is located close to Ao Nang beach, just 17 km. from Krabi Town and 29 km. from Krabi International Airport.
From the airport or Krabi Town, buses and taxis are available to Ao Nang, taking 20 - 25 minutes.
Things to do:
The resort is located right in Ao Nang and as such provides an excellent base from which to explore the bay. Take a day tour on a long tail boat and take in some of the islands, including beautiful Poda Island or Hong Island. Snorkeling and scuba diving are popular activities and there are a number of dive schools located in the town. On land you can rock climb limestone cliffs at nearby Railay Beach, go elephant trekking, see a snake show or check out giant catfish. Ao Nang town offers western food and nightlife.
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Price system, a means of organizing economic activity. It does this primarily by coordinating the decisions of consumers, producers, and owners of productive resources. Millions of economic agents who have no direct communication with each other are led by the price system to supply each other's wants. In a modern economy the price system enables a consumer to buy a product he has never previously purchased, produced by a firm of whose existence he is unaware, which is operating with funds partially obtained from his own savings.
Prices are an expression of the consensus on the values of different things, and every society that permits exchanges between people has prices. Because prices are expressed in terms of a widely acceptable commodity, they permit a ready comparison of the comparative values of various commodities—if shoes are $15 per pair and bread 30 cents per loaf, a pair of shoes is worth 50 loaves of bread. The price of anything is its value in exchange for a commodity of wide acceptability: the price of an automobile may be some 50 ounces of gold or 25 pieces of paper currency. (See also money.)
A system of prices exists because individual prices are related to each other. If, for example, copper rods cost 40 cents a pound and the process of drawing a rod into wire costs 25 cents a pound, then it will be profitable to produce wire from a copper rod if its price exceeds 65 cents. Conversely, it will be unprofitable to produce wire if its price falls below 65 cents. Competition will hold the price of wire about 25 cents per pound above that of rods. A variety of such economic forces tie the entire structure of prices together.
The system of prices can be arranged to reward or penalize any kind of activity. Society discourages the production of electric shoestring-tying machines by the simple expedient of making such a machine's attainable selling price less than the prices of the resources necessary to produce it. Society stimulates people of great athletic promise to learn golf (rather than polo or cricket) by awarding significant prizes (= prices) to tournament winners. The air in many cities is dirty because no one is charged a price for polluting it and no one can pay a price for having it cleaned.
The basic functions of economic systems
Every economic system provides solutions to four questions: what goods and services will be produced; how they will be produced; for whom they will be produced; and how they will be allocated between consumption (for present use) and investment (for future use). In a decentralized (usually private enterprise) economic system, these questions are resolved, and economic coordination is achieved, through the price mechanism.
Product and quantity
Even the simpler economy of a traditional society must choose between food and shelter, weapons and tools, or priests and hunters. In a modern economy the potential variety of goods and services that may be produced is immense. Consider, for example, the thousands of new book titles that are published each year—or the hundreds of colours of paint or the thousands of styles of clothing that are brought to the market annually. Each of these actual collections is much smaller than the amount that could be produced.
A price system weighs the desires of consumers in terms of the prices they are willing to pay for various quantities of each commodity or service. The payment for the services of a skilled surgeon (a price much influenced by the number of surgeons) reflects the unique nature of those skills for the buyer-patient, whereas the price of an electric popcorn popper reflects the minor convenience it provides. Of course, the amount consumers agree to pay will be influenced by their wealth as well as their desires, but for any single consumer, relative desire is proportional to the price offered.
Universal laws are not common in social life. Economists nonetheless place immense confidence in the proposition that the consumer will buy less of any commodity when its price rises. This law of demand is by no means a necessary fact of life; rather it is an empirical rule to which there are no known, reliable exceptions. Bread, caviar, education, narcotics—interested buyers will purchase more of each when its price falls. These demand prices are the guides that in effect tell producers which items to produce and in what quantities. (See supply and demand.)
The second question an economy must answer involves deciding how the desired goods are to be produced. There is more than one way to grow wheat, train lawyers, refine petroleum, and transport baggage. The efficient production of goods and services requires that certain fundamental rules be followed: no resource should be used in producing one thing when it could be producing something more valuable elsewhere, and each product should be made with the smallest-possible amount of resources.
A functioning price system induces all participants in the economy to steer their resources toward activities that yield a reward. Jobs that pay a high price for labour will attract workers seeking the reward of a high salary. Crops that yield a greater profit will attract more farmers to cultivate them. Similarly, capital will be drawn from a faltering trade and redirected to an industry where it can earn higher returns.
This same price system seeks to achieve production efficiency through competition. If one firm, for instance, can design, produce, and distribute shoes while using fewer resources than its rivals, it will make larger profits; it is therefore motivated to discover more efficient combinations of inputs and plant locations, to devise wage systems to stimulate its workers, to use computers to manage inventories and streamline shipping, and so forth.
The third question an economy answers involves determining who gets the product. For example, if family A acquires $5,000 worth of goods this year and family B receives five times as much, how is this division to be decided? The incomes of individuals are determined by the quantities of resources (labour skills, capital in all its forms) they own and the prices they receive for the use of these resources. Workers are encouraged by the price system to acquire new skills and to exercise them diligently, and families are encouraged to save (capital accumulation) because of the rewards paid as interest or dividends. Inherited ability and wealth also contribute to the distribution of income.
If the price system is working reasonably well (some of the common failures will be noted later), it performs all of these economic functions with remarkable subtlety and precision. Society desires not only the correct amount of wheat but also that it be consumed more or less evenly over the crop year, with a surplus to carry over in case of a partial failure of the next year's crop. The price system provides a seasonal price pattern that encourages the holding of inventories rather than early splurging and richly rewards speculators who correctly anticipate a crop failure and hold grain that will alleviate it. In the same way, the desires of every sizable group of consumers (or resource owners) are registered through the price system; entrepreneurs are incited by price offers to provide opera and musical comedy, kosher food, and Persian delicacies. One might almost say that the price system is devoted to minority rule, since the only pressure toward uniformity is in the possibility of lowering costs of production by standardizing goods.
High prices in a properly functioning price system thus serve as incentives to produce more and consume less, and lower prices serve as corresponding deterrents. In addition the price system is a method of communicating information. The English philosopher Herbert Spencer once stated, rather ponderously, that only by constant iteration can alien truths be impressed upon reluctant minds: the price system, with its capacity for infinite repetition, is well suited to this sometimes unpleasant task. A higher price of steel scrap, for example, tells thousands of owners and collectors of scrap that more scrap is wanted and that a more exhaustive search for abandoned rails, boilers, radiators, and machines is worth undertaking. A higher price of gasoline tells thousands of automobile drivers that gasoline should be used more sparingly, and the message is repeated each time each driver purchases more gasoline.
The workings of the price system
The complexity and variety of tasks performed by the price system will be illuminated by an examination of three specific economic problems.
The choice of occupation
Individuals must be distributed among occupations in such a way as to serve two basic purposes. First, the labourer must be placed where he is most productive—making certain that Enrico Fermi becomes a physicist rather than a chef and that there are not too many plumbers and too few electricians. Second, the individual worker should be given an occupation that is congenial to him; since he will spend a large part of his life at work, it will be a better life if he can choose the type he prefers.
The price of labour is the instrument by which workers are distributed among occupations: wages in rapidly growing occupations and rapidly growing parts of the nation are higher than in corresponding employment in declining occupations and areas. The choice of occupation involves, however, much more than simply a comparison of wage rates. The following are a few of the complications: (1) The wages of an occupation must as a rule be sufficient to compensate the costs of training. (2) The wages of an occupation must be sufficient to compensate special disadvantages (such as a large chance of unemployment). (3) Wages must be higher in large cities than in small because living costs are higher in large cities. (4) Wages must compensate workers for their additional skill as they acquire experience (they usually reach a peak of earnings between ages 40 and 55) and thereafter decline as the worker's efficiency declines. (5) Wages will reflect differences in taxation, fringe benefits (pensions, vacations), etc. Accordingly, the wage structure even for a single occupation in a single city is elaborate. When a single wage (price) is imposed upon an occupation, labourers are no longer properly distributed by wages; for example, a city school system that pays all teachers of given experience the same wage finds it difficult to staff its less-attractive schools.
The preferences of the individual worker cannot be given full play, or each person would become president of the corporation at a sumptuous salary. Yet the labourer may choose to live in California rather than Maine; then the price system will incite employers to move their operations to California, where they can hire this labourer more cheaply. The labourer may prefer to work long hours or short hours, and employers are induced by wage offers to cater to the labourer's diverse preferences. In fact, it is equally appropriate to speak of the worker's buying conditions of work and of the employer's buying the services of the worker.
The conservation of resources
A society has some resources that can be replaced by investment; timber, for example, is now largely grown as a commercial crop. Farmland is a more ancient example: the fertility of soil can be increased by prudent cultivation. Other resources are not replaceable, such as coal and petroleum. How does the price system conserve these exhaustible resources?
The method of using a resource is independent of the pattern over time of income and expenditures that the owner of the resource desires. Suppose that a farm will have a value of $100,000 if it is maintained at a constant level of fertility and yields a yearly income of $10,000 forever but that it can be cultivated ("mined") intensively to yield $12,000 a year for five years at the cost of a much reduced yield thereafter, with a value of $90,000. Even if the farmer is in urgent need of immediate funds and does not expect to live more than five years, he will still cultivate the farm at the uniform rate. Only then is it worth its maximum value to him, and only then (by sale or mortgage) can he obtain the largest-possible funds even in the near future. In short, one need not adapt his expenditure pattern to his income pattern so long as he can borrow or lend.
If the growth of consumption or the decline of reserves threatens the exhaustion of supplies of a resource, then the price of that resource will rise and promise to rise more in the future, and this rise will serve to reduce current consumption and to reward the owner of the resource for holding back much of the supply for the future. This rise in price will therefore also stimulate buyers to find more economical ways of using the commodity (for example, burning the fuel more efficiently) and stimulate producers to find new supplies or substitute products. The price system will therefore ensure that the supply of the resource will be stretched out so that the resource will be available in both the present and the future.
Limitations and failures of the price system
The price system is an extraordinarily powerful instrument in organizing an economic system, but it is subject to three broad classes of limitations.
Private and public price control
Sometimes prices are not permitted to do their work. Monopolies are able to exert control over prices, and they use it, sensibly enough, to raise their profits above the level allowed by competition. The monopolist (or group of colluding enterprises) sets prices at a level such that prices are above costs or, to use words of identical significance, such that resources earn more in the monopolized industry than they can earn elsewhere. The basis of the monopoly is its ability to prevent outsiders from entering the industry to share in the unusual profits and, by the act of producing, actually serve to eliminate them.
The fixing of prices by monopolists reduces the income of society. This is, in fact, the only well-established criticism (on grounds of efficiency) to be levied against monopolies; there is no reason to assume that they will make products less-suited to consumer tastes or innovate more slowly or pay lower wages or otherwise misallocate resources. But the basic inefficiency led, first in the United States in 1890 and then increasingly in European nations, to governmental policies to maintain or restore competition.
Public price control has two aspects. A large part of public regulation is intended to correct monopolistic pricing (or other failures of the price system); this includes most public-utility regulation in the United States (transportation, electricity, gas, etc.). Whatever the success of these endeavours—and on the whole there has been a substantial decline in confidence in the regulatory bodies—they are usually instructed to achieve the goals of an efficient price system.
Other public price controls are designed to serve ends outside the reach of the price system. Prices of farm products are regulated (raised) in most nations with the intention of improving farmers' incomes, and the fixing of interest rates paid by banks is undertaken to improve bank earnings. Such policies are invariably defended on various economic and ethical grounds but reflect primarily the political strength of large and well-organized producer groups.
Externalities and the price system
Even when prices are freely established by competition, there is a class of economic relationships called "externalities" not efficiently controlled by prices. These may be illustrated by the air pollution caused by automobiles. Since no single automobile makes a significant contribution to air pollution, the owner has no incentive to bear the cost of installing antipollution devices even though all drivers would be better off if each did so. Yet if there are many automobiles in a region, it would be prohibitively expensive for drivers to contract with one another to have each install devices in his automobile to reduce pollution. The external effects of any one automobile's exhaust fumes are so diffuse and affect any one person so triflingly that they cannot be regulated by the price system.
The class of "externalities" is as broad as the class of actions that have effects upon people who are not parties to the contracts governing the actions. An attractive garden pleases passers-by, but they cannot be charged a portion of its cost. A new piece of scientific knowledge will prove useful to unknown persons. These two examples indicate that some externalities are economically trivial and some are highly important.
When the price system cannot deal with diffused effects, other social controls often take its place. The state invokes a whole arsenal of policies to deal with externalities, of which the following are only examples: (1) The state may subsidize activities that do not end in a product that can be sold. Thus, basic scientific research that does not lead to patentable processes is subsidized. (2) Individuals may be compelled to act uniformly in areas where contracts would be too expensive; traffic laws, zoning laws, and compulsory vaccination are examples. (3) The state may itself undertake an activity that cannot be financed by sale of services, the most obvious example being national defense.
An interesting type of externality is the problem of highway congestion. Any one person's presence on a highway at a time and place of peak density has only a negligible effect upon others, so that, except on toll roads, private contracts have not been feasible. The state itself has not been able to deal effectively with highway congestion. More highways can be built until no highway is ever crowded, but this would be intolerably expensive. The state has lacked a method of inducing drivers to shift to less-crowded hours and routes by charging fees to those drivers who impose high congestion costs by driving at peak times. Recent developments in technology may make it feasible to use the price system to reduce congestion. For example, cameras at appropriate points could photograph automobile licenses, and a computer could accumulate the charges on the basis of route and time for each automobile. Then only a person for whom travel at peak times was worth, for example, 25 cents per mile would impose (and pay for) the congestion he created.
Imperfect knowledge and tastes
Another limitation to which the price system is subject has to do with the control of knowledge and tastes. To the extent that an economic actor, whether a consumer, a labourer, or an investor, is poorly informed, he is likely to make decisions whose consequences are much different from those he desired and expected. What follows relates only to consumer decisions, but parallel issues arise in labour markets, securities markets, etc.
A consumer can satisfy his desires only if he makes intelligent purchases—that is, only if the goods he buys are what he believes them to be. How can the consumer know whether the meat is free of disease or whether the washing machine will function well and long or whether the fabric of the garment is one synthetic fibre or another? To ascertain these facts personally, the consumer would have to be a versatile scientist equipped with a superb laboratory, and then he would need to spend so much time testing goods that he would have little time to enjoy them.
In some measure the consumer does experiment in his buying: whenever he buys a thing repeatedly, experience tells him much concerning its properties. Direct experience is a sufficient guide in buying celery or hiring domestic servants, but usually the purchase of information takes a less-direct form. The city's premier department store can sell at prices somewhat higher than less-well-known retailers, and the difference represents the payment of a price for reliability, responsibility, and the guarantee of quality. In parallel fashion the consumer buys the washing machine of a company that made his excellent refrigerator. Occasionally, information is bought directly: the advice of a lawyer, the knowledge of an appraiser, the taste of an interior decorator.
The most important and controversial method of informing consumers is by advertising. Many critics are outraged by the self-serving statements of sellers, some of whom indubitably provide irrelevance and deception rather than information. Yet the informational content of advertising may not be as deficient as its critics believe; advertising itself meets two market tests. In the first place, the direct sale of information by consumer advisory services has never become important, although there are no obstacles to entering this business. In the second place, there has been a general, sustained improvement in the quality of consumer goods over time: the automobile tire goes many more miles than formerly; the airplane flies more safely.
Nevertheless, recent public policy has paid great attention to increasing the safety of products and to raising the accuracy of advertising claims.
Knowledge is sometimes difficult to distinguish from taste: does the consumer who persists in smoking cigarettes have inadequate knowledge or simply different comparative values for the pleasures and risks of smoking? Censorship, in any event, is fairly common in every economic system: no society allows young children or incompetents full freedom of action or allows the unlimited sale of narcotics. Since the price system never forbids an effective demand (a demand backed by a willingness to pay the supply price), some form of restriction of prices is therefore necessary if certain tastes are to be forbidden or restricted. Compulsory school attendance can be viewed as, in effect, a form of censorship, and so are the controls on sale of firearms and the taxes on tobacco and liquor.
Noncapitalist price systems
The foregoing discussion has been confined to the price system as it exists in capitalist economies. The communist countries have prices, but not autonomous price systems; in those countries the direction of economic activity is largely in the hands of the central authorities, and prices are used mainly as accounting devices. None of the three allocative functions of an economy—determination of what will be produced, of how it will be produced, and of who will get the product—is performed by the price mechanism in the socialist economies.
The relative scarcities that money prices measure exist, of course, in all countries and would exist in a world where no money or exchanges were allowed. Robinson Crusoe had a problem of allocating his time between sleep, garnering food, building shelter, etc.; and he confronted implicit costs of extending any one activity, for more food meant less of other things. The economist calls these implicit exchange ratios "shadow prices," and they appear in all areas of life in which deliberate choices are made.
Price systems are therefore the result of scarcity. The basic proposition of economics, that scarcities are essentially ubiquitous, is often phrased as "there is no such thing as a free lunch"; and it reminds one that the price of the lunch may be future patronage, a reciprocal lunch, or a boring monologue. The task of economic organization is the task of devising price systems that allow a society to achieve its basic goals.George J. Stigler The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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