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Entry-Level Education | Bachelor's degree |
Work Experience in a Related Occupation | None |
On-the-job Training | Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Number of Jobs, 2010 | 13,000 |
Job Outlook, 2010-20 | 19% (About as fast as average) |
Employment Change, 2010-20 | 2,400 |
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For the first time since record keeping began in the 1960s, per capita food production in sub-Saharan Africa is beginning to rise.
According to the World Bank's World Development Report 2007, "agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa has accelerated from 2.3 percent per year in the 1980s to 3.3 percent in the 1990s and to 3.8 percent per year between 2000 and 2005." As a result, the report stated, "rural poverty has also started to decline in 10 of 13 countries analyzed."
This is thanks largely to an African "green revolution"—a combination of better crop varieties and increased use of fertilizers—says soil scientist Pedro Sanchez, director of tropical agriculture at The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City and co-leader of the Millennium Villages Project, an effort to transform selected African villages with targeted aid and technology interventions.
"The green revolution called for by [former U.N. Secretary General] Kofi Annan in 2004 is really beginning to happen," Sanchez says. "Countries, like Malawi, have gone from net food importers to net food exporters."
"In past years, food production had not been keeping up with population growth," adds a spokesperson for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "In recent years, food production has been increasing more than population growth."
Countries, such as Malawi, have transformed their food production using relatively simple means: With the help of government subsidies, farmers can now obtain two bags of fertilizer and five kilograms of hybrid maize seed at just 25 percent of the actual price. And, whereas the World Bank and other donors have refrained from such agricultural subsidies over the past few decades due to concerns about corruption, they are now supporting them and refocusing on agriculture as a priority. "It's a 180-degree turn for the better," Sanchez says. "You can avoid corruption by keeping it on a small scale."
And thanks to high prices for crops such as corn, which can also be used to make fuel, farmers have been able to absorb the rise in fertilizer prices, which have spiked in response to buoyant oil prices (that are also driving demand for biofuels). "[Fertilizer] is expensive as hell," Sanchez admits. But "if you are able to use it, it pays."
A host of problems still face sub-Saharan Africa—from lack of access to agricultural markets in the developed world to a continued failure to produce enough food for the people living there. "Ethiopia is about to quadruple its food production from 1997 levels," Sanchez says. "It's still not enough for self-sufficiency."
And growing economic pressure globally to produce biofuels rather than food may mean that hunger will not be erased anytime soon. Augustine Mahiga, ambassador to the United Nations from Tanzania, notes that his office has been approached to partner with investors in massive plantations—as large as 600,000 acres (242,800 hectares)—to produce biofuels from palm oil, Jatropha or sugarcane. "Diverting food production to the production of biofuels…," Mahiga says, "is particularly dangerous to Africa at this point in time."


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Garrison Mandolins finally Garrison has updated their webpage to show off their line of mandolins and Octave mandolins.
Now if I could locate one around here to try out....
Garrison Mandolins finally Garrison has updated their webpage to show off their line of mandolins and Octave mandolins.
Now if I could locate one around here to try out....
Be yourself, everyone else is taken.
Favorite Mandolin of the week: 2013 Collings MF Gloss top.
Yes, I spotted that too! I wonder if it means they're going to step up the distribution to match the marketing? TAMCO has now started stocking Garrison, so they may be spreading a little further.
I'm also interested to note the launch of their new small bodied guitars - I want to try out one of those Grand Concerts.
Wasn't there one in the Cafe Classifieds recently?
I corresponded with the guy, but I don't remember if it was here or on that auction site... I think it was here.
Finally, they've decided to own up to 'em. <GG>
steve V. johnson
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I've not heard of them but think they look nice from the webpage. How do they compare to the Mid Mos in terms of tone, playability, price and customer service? That cedar top looked neat...
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Nice website. It didn't realize they offered several tonewood choices, very impressive. I have an Octave coming my way, just picked it up from the classifieds this week. Not sure which model it is, but it does feature sapele wood for the sides and back. Should arrive about Wed. I would love to play one of the Mandolins, if anyone out there has one, let us know how it plays and sounds.
Richard Russell
Steve, #Richard, I have a Garrison M-4 mandolin, which you can see on their website, it's the one with a sitka top and sapele back and sides. #I've had it for about six months now, and I love it. #
I'm not sure I can give an informed opinion on how it compares to some of the others such as Mid Mo. Martin Jonas has a Mid Mo and has played my Garrison so perhaps he'll offer his observations. #But I'll try and give my opinion for what it's worth. #
In terms of tone, I like it better than anything else I've tried, including several mandos that cost a lot more. #It's always difficult to describe sound, but to me it sounds rich, warm and responsive. #I have played one of the cedar top ones. When I bought mine I was choosing between the two different versions, and it was a very close choice. #
Price - probably similar to Mid Mo. Mine was around £550 (sterling) including the hard case, but the cedar version was something like £430.
Playability - is good, I would say. It has a wide nut width, same as the wider Mid-Mos. #
Customer service - the only contact I've had has been from e-mailing Garrison to ask for more info about the mandolins. Since I'd bought one I was interested, and there wasn't any info on their website at that time. #I e-mailed several times with various questions, and they always came back to me with an answer.
Other than that, I'd also say the finish is very good. #It feels well made. #One of the things I've noticed compared to other mandolins, even other flat tops such as Mid Mo, is that the strings are a lot lower compared to the top; the fingerboard is close to the top, and the bridge is very low compared to the high bridges which many other mandos have. #Subjectively, I like the low string position, but you may have different preferences. Also, I like the visual detailing in the rosette and the binding, it has enough decoration to be interesting and distinctive, whilst still having a look of simplicity.
I'll be interested to hear what you think of your Octave when you get it, Richard.
Edit: I've realised I can add some info from a more authoritative source, for those who want to know how a Garrison mandolin sounds. There was a feature in this month's "Acoustic" magazine in which Simon Mayor reviewed four mandolins, one of which was a Garrison M-20. #I won't try and write out everything he said, but his view of the sound was "my first impression was of good volume with a full and rounded bass response. #The mandolin sounded rich and fruity on slow tunes with lots of chords in them, but on faster single note playing I found myself having to work hard to get a sense of the music. #The sound was short and "quacky" rather than free flowing and bubbly. #I was a little disappointed but kept playing. #Fifteen minutes later and my opinion began to change, the mandolin was settling down and the top end was responding more freely." He also said that all four of the mandos boasted good playability, and he described the Garrison as "made for a serious player on a budget rather than someone who wants a bit of eye candy hung round their neck", but he wasn't being derogatory about its looks, he did also say it's handsome in its minimalist way.
I asked this about the guitars so I'd better ask it about the mandolins - has anyone tried to repair one? Drop it or tread on it there's a chance of repairing it if the bracing is wood but integrated "active bracing" - how does your luthier deal with that?
I played one Garrison mandolin, and I liked it a lot-- nice playability, good flattop sound. Not that different from a Mid-Mo, although perhaps a little more lively in tone. I would have bought the one I tried out were it not for the fact that I already have a couple of good flattops.
I was really interested in that octave listed in the classifieds, but an email glitch somehow stopped my emails before they got to the seller. I, too, would be interested in a report once Richard gets it.
The classified ad for that octave listed the scale length. Does anyone recall exactly what it was?
The scale length, if I remember correctly, was listed as approx. 20 3/4 inches. I could be off by a bit. The seller mentioned that it probably could be tuned as a mandola with the proper strings. I'll be completely new to the whole OM experience, so, I'll give the best review that I can once it arrives. One thing I love is the fact that it has a satin finish. I've really come to prefer instruments that feature this. I currently own a Mid-mo M-0, so I love the sound of flat-top, mahogany mandos (sapele is supposed to be similar to mahogany?). Hope the Garrison make a good companion to the Mid-mo.
Richard Russell
Well, I recieved the Octave and have had a couple of days to play it. It is the OM-4 model which features spruce top and sapele back and sides. Scale length is about 20 1/2 in. I am very impressed with the build quality. I really think garrison did a fine job designing this model. Mine happens to have TI strings on it, which are wonderful to play. It also has an allen style tailpiece, which was added by a previous owner. The tuners are inexpensive, similar to what Mid-mo uses on their mandos. The instrument is not heavy, seems to be average weight considering it's size. Satin finish is very nice. It came with 2 bridges, the 2nd one is shorter than the one in place now. It has an adjustable truss rod. For some reason, the adjusting nut at the headstock end protrudes out a bit so that the little cover will not seat flush w/the headstock. I don't know why that is or why they would not notice that at the factory. Strange!
Sound: It's my first OM, so, nothing much to compare to. I think the sound is very warm, lots of resonance, nice overall tone. Volume is decent, but my guess would be that it's not a "loud" OM compared to Petersons and other serious OMs. I just don't know. Also, perhaps the TIs are not going to give as much volume as other strings? Also, I'm used to mandolin, which seems louder with it's higher frequency range. All in all... very well done by Garrison and I plan to hang onto this one!
Richard Russell
Fliss, Richard,
Great info, good reports! Thanks very much!
I'm excited, in fact. I'm interested in 20" - 23" octave mandolins and the prospect of an alternative to the Mid-Mo, a quality mandolin at a super price, is exciting too.
Thanks again for the detailed reports!
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I have spent a considerable amount of time in the past week getting used to the Octave Mandolin as far as playing style, pick attack, chords and such. I have learned how to get better tone out of this beast and have found that one's playing style really must change in order to achieve optimal tone, as compared to playing style with the mandolin. At first I wasn't able to get good tone out of the G string. I had to pick closer to the bridge in order to get better bass response and better volume as well. With mandolin, I've never really had to do that. I listened to a cd with a player by the name of Danny Carnahan(dannycarnahan.com) on OM. The cd is titled DEEP STILL and is celtic hymns and praise songs. Excellent octave work. I noticed that the approach at times was not strumming full chords, but actually just two strings at a time. Nice effect. Lots of drone strings seem to be used,which of course gives nice resonance. In the songs where OM is used, it is a very distinctive voice. Like a guitar, but different enough to stand out.
The Garrison is really impressive. It really is one of the best purchases I've made, musically speaking!
Richard Russell
Glad you're still happy with it Richard. Let us know if you tune it up as a mandola. I'd be interested to see what I missed. Frank
FJ Russell
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Those interested in the Garrison mandos, if you haven't noticed yet, there are a couple beginning to show up on ebay. #
For ex:
demo Garrison
This seller is auctioning two, for $500 and $300 - although he uses the exact same two photos for each auction.
Prices in the U.K. for North-American made instruments always seem way too high to me, so I don't know if this is about where you would expect these to be discount-priced here.
Jeff Rohrbough
"Listen louder, play softer"
"Prices in the U.K. for North-American made instruments always seem way too high to me.."
That's because prices in the UK include shipping, VAT (17.5%), Duty (3.5%), customs clearance etc. All costs you would have to pay yourself if you import legaly, if you bypas these costs you risk confiscation and fines. Customs know how to use the internet, beware.
Also note that the prices on the ebay auction are starting prices and they are demo models.
The Acoustic Music Co (TAMCO) Brighton England
Over 150 mandolins in stock.
I had two Garrison octaves in, tuned one up as a mandola, CGDA, I am very impressed. I am getting more stock so I can keep one tuned each way. Let me know if you need string guages. Also expecting mandolins soon.
The Acoustic Music Co (TAMCO) Brighton England
Over 150 mandolins in stock.
No doubt about that. I only meant that I had little idea whether $300-$400 for an in-shop demo Garrison would be a good deal or not, based on the only mention of what these instruments cost new in pounds sterling.Originally Posted by
Jeff Rohrbough
"Listen louder, play softer"
Just visited "Divine Appointment Guitars" in Paso Robles (about 30 miles from my place, but I wanted to get out there to see what they had.)
They stock a Garrison Mandolin (maple) and an Octave Mandolin (rosewood, top model?).
I enjoyed playing them both. I did not spend a lot of time with them, but gave them a general taste test. The Octave has a shorter scale than my Darnton OM and also a wider fretboard. It was nice to play once my fingers got used to the wider spaces. It has some real clarity (for rosewood!) but is not "boomy" at all. Not loud, but very balanced sound. Sat in my lap very well, too. The size and shape are easier to handle than my larger instruments. The rosette is really simple and attractive. I thought it was worth the price and will consider going up there again to play around with it. My Darnton OM is a fine instrument with amazing volume and really boomy tones, but this Garrison would be an easier to handle and good all around instrument to play either for celtic stuff or even as a guitar substitute (it really could play mellow and have a nice broad tone, I think it would work well with a good singing voice.) Seemed like nice folks, too.
Clark Savage Turner
Los Osos, CA.
Aside from the occassional eBay or classified listing, has anyone located a US-based Brick-and-morter retailer, or an Internet storefront, who routinely carries Garrison Mandolins at a good price?
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I got to play an m41 today at a local shop. Good tone, great action and a wider nut width than my Epiphone, which was great for fingers so used to guitar.
I'd list some of the specs but their wes site won't let me into the m41 link, it just goes back to their guitars. Does anyone know how good their electronics are? The one I played didn't have any. The web site said eq is an option but I could find any description or specs on the site. If they're good maybe I've found my next mandolin. Now just to convince my wife to let me spend the cash.
The thing with the Garrison is the novel construction of the top. The bracing and binding are one piece molded plastic. The top is pressed down into this and glued in place. I saw the process on TV. I am not sure if heat is applied or not, nor do I know what type of glue is in use. This is certainly an innovative, radical departure from traditional construction.
When their guitars came out a few years ago a friend of mine gave the opinion that they may be difficult to repair if there is a top problem.
The company has enjoyed a lot of growth. I believe it would be easy for me to get one in Nova Scotia,( they are made in Newfoundland) but I am not presently in the market.
Found a couple of links for Garrison mandolins:
Garrison M20, at South Shore Music in Weymouth, Maine ($539US with HSC)
LA Music, a Canadian retailer with multiple store locations and an internet storefront (they carry more Garrison models than South Shore, and their US equivalent pricing after factoring in the exchange rate is comparable to South Shore -- do a search for "Garrison mandolin" for pricing on all of the models they carry)
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I played a cedar flattop Garrison at A&S Music in Nederland, Tx. yesterday. I was impressed with the whole build, mostly, but the top had already sunk in a bit. I think Garrison may have to arch the tops a bit more, or deal with returns.
I wonder if some guitar builders who get into Mandolins miss the fact that the top tension is far greater and fail to brace the top sufficiently.


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George Falconer (Colin Firth) feels lost. Not only is he still grieving the death of his longtime companion, Jim (Matthew Goode), but he's also a Brit teaching English at a California college. He's so distraught with heartbreak that he's decided to kill himself, and proceeds to get all his affairs in order while carrying on with what otherwise would be a normal day. He gives an unusually forceful lecture to his class, revealing enough that a perceptive student, Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), senses something is wrong with the professor; collects his important financial papers from his bank; buys bullets for a handgun he owns; and makes a visit to his best friend (Julianne Moore). But throughout these methodical preparations, George keeps running into people -- a colleague's daughter, a attractive gay hustler, and the sympathetic Kenny -- who offer him glimpses of why he should stay alive. A Single Man is the directorial debut of legendary fashion designer Tom Ford. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Writer/director Tom DiCillo's satire Delirious (2006) eviscerates Hollywood celebrity and celebrity types with a relentlessly dissecting gaze and take-no-prisoners humor. DiCillo mainstay Steve Buscemi stars as Les Galantine, a sleazy and merciless tabloid photographer from the Big Apple, whose most noteworthy accomplishments are an image of Goldie Hawn eating lunch and one of Elvis Costello sans any headwear. Les is hoping desperately for his ticket in -- which he perceives as a prize shot of pop sensation K'Harma Leeds (Alison Lohman) as she's departing from a local club. He finds that ticket -- sort-of -- in the form of Toby (Michael Pitt), a homeless young man with serious acting aspirations, who has a very brief exchange with K'Harma under his belt. Toby uses that exchange to finagle his way to an assistantship under Galantine, and the two team up for a stakeout, managing to swing 700 dollars for a photo of a celebrity who is recovering from penis surgery. While DiCillo cuts between the adventures of the two men and the vapid lifestyle of the untalented hack K'Harma, Toby begins his meteoric rise to the top of the Hollywood trash heap by attending a Soap Stars Against STD Convention, where he not only meets and impresses a big-shot casting director (Gina Gershon) but runs into K'Harma once again -- recently split from her beau -- and finds his way into her bed, setting the stage for his own ascent to superstardom. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban center, the film uses a nonlinear structure to piece together the intertwined lives of three very different people. Paul (Sean Penn) is a math teacher with a heart problem and a troubled marriage to British wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Christine (Naomi Watts) is a former drug addict who lives with her husband, Michael (Danny Huston), and her daughters. Jack (Benicio del Toro) is a born-again Christian with a wife (Melissa Leo) who has stood by him since his days as a criminal. Following a tragic accident, the three main characters are thrown into each other's lives. 21 Grams was shown in competition at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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text: Story and photo courtesy of Valdosta State Athletics MANKATO, Minn. – Valdosta State compiled 498 yards of offense as the Blazers defeated Minnesota State-Mankato at Blakeslee Stadium in the NCAA Division II National Semifinals Saturday afternoon. With the win, the Blazers improved to 11-2 and advances to next week's NCAA Division II National Championship game at Braly Stadium in Florence, Ala. Minnesota State-Mankato ends its season at 13-1. The 498 yards by VSU marked the most given up by MSU on the season, which entered the game as the No. 3 defense in the nation in total yardage as it allowed just 267.7 per game. The game comes just two weeks after Valdosta State tallied 525 yards in the second round of the Division II playoffs against West Alabama, which was the fifth-ranked defense in the nation at the time. The game marked Valdosta State's fourth trip to the national semifinals and the fourth time that the Blazers have advanced to the national championship game. Minnesota State-Mankato dominated the first quarter of play as it held the ball for a little over 11 out of the first 15 minutes of play. Valdosta State ran just seven plays during the frame and managed just 36 yards. Meanwhile, the Mavericks ran 22 plays for 118 yards while taking a 3-0 lead. Sam Brockshus scored the only points of the quarter as, on the second MSU possession of the game, he capped off a 14-play drive with a 29-yard field goal. Minnesota State-Mankato pushed its advantage to 10-0 less than three minutes into the second quarter when Adam Thielen caught a 17-yard pass, before Valdosta State got back in the game with a pair of long drives. After falling behind 10-0, Valdosta State marched 82 yards on 10 plays to score on an eight-yard catch by Gerald Ford. The big play on the drive came when Cayden Cochran found Seantavious Jones for a 39-yard gain to the MSU 12. Two plays later, Cochran, who completed four-of-six passes on the drive, found Ford across the middle to cut the VSU deficit to 10-7 with 8:20 to go in the second quarter. VSU forced a punt, which was downed on the VSU three, on the next Maverick drive and took over on marched 97 yards to take the lead. Austin Scott opened the drive with a 28-yard run while three plays later Cochran and Ford hooked up for a 22-yard gain. A Regginald Lewis 25-yard catch moved the ball to the MSU 12 before Cochran found Seantavious Jones in the right corner of the end zone to put VSU ahead 14-7. After having a ball go off the fingers of a leaping Ford in the end zone to end the first half, Valdosta State pushed its advantage to 21-10 on the first drive of the second half. The Blazers took the opening drive 75 yards on 13 plays. Lewis got the Blazers into scoring position when he caught a screen pass, used his hand to keep his balance while spinning out of a tackle and ran 34 yards to the MSU 5. On the next play, Cochran ran a quarterback keeper up the middle for the score. MSU marched 51 yards for a 39-yard Brockshus field goal on its ensuing drive, only to have the Blazers respond with Cochran's second rushing touchdown on the next drive to put VSU in front 28-13 with 14:40 to play in the game. The Mavericks quickly answered the score as Andy Pfeiffer scored on a one-yard run just over three minutes later. However, the extra point was missed, as was a field goal on the ensuing MSU drive to give the Blazers a 28-19 lead with just over three minutes to play. The Blazers closed out the scoring with 24 seconds remaining when Austin Scott took a hand-off around right end and raced 31 yards for a touchdown. Scott ran for 158 yards, leaving him eight yards shy of 1,000 on the year. Cochran added 40 yards rushing while completing 16-of-28 passes for 278 yards. Jones caught four passes for 122 yards while Ford had eight catches for 76 yards, giving him 1,020 yards on the season. Jeremy Grable led the Valdosta State defense with 12 tackles, including 10 in the first half, while Chris Pope had 10. Minnesota State-Mankato registered 436 yards of offense, much of which came from quarterback Jon Wolf, who ran for 127 yards while completing 11-of-24 passes for 195 more. The Mavericks tallied 241 rushing yards and 195 through the air. Tickets for next weekend's national championship game will be on sale in the Valdosta State Athletic Offices in The Complex beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday morning. All tickets to the event are for reserved seating and cost $25. Valdosta State has an allotment of 1,000 tickets behind its bench while additional tickets on the VSU side of the field can be purchased at www.d2championship.com or at www.ncaa.com.


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Happy Thanksgiving frontrowjoe and thanks for your posts!
Thank you. I think Martin is finally calling it quits after a long career.I do miss him driving them t-birds.I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving
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The "Crown Royal Gold Buckle Zone," located at the Central, MGM Grand's entertainment bar, will provide fans a free party nightly. Activities include free concerts, live music, dancing, Bailey Hats Burlesque performances, drink specials, fashion shows and giveaways including a nightly drawing to win a saddle by Cactus Saddlery saddle. WNFR contestants, including nine-time All-Around World Champion Trevor Brazile, also will make nightly appearances. Brazile will host his official World Championship After-Party Saturday, Dec. 15, starting at 9 p.m.
Country music duo LoCash Cowboys will perform Dec. 7 and 8 at 11 p.m. Lee Brice, known for hits including "A Woman Like You" and "Hard To Love," will close MGM Grand's WNFR festivities with a performance Dec. 15 at 11 p.m.
When: Friday, Dec. 7, 2012
Where: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard S., Las Vegas
Cost: Free
Age limit: 21+
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Before the
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Investigation of Terms and Conditions of Public Utility Market-Based Rate Authorization;
Order Establishing Refund Effective Date and Proposing to Revise Market-Based Rate Authorization
Docket No. EL01-118-000
Comment of the Staff of the
Bureau of Economics and the Office of the General Counsel
of the Federal Trade Commission(2)
January 7, 2002
I. Introduction and Summary
The staff of the Bureau of Economics and the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appreciates this opportunity to present its views concerning the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) proposal to revise market-based rate tariffs and authorizations. Under the proposal, authorization to charge market-based rates for electric energy and ancillary services at wholesale in interstate commerce would be conditioned on a seller not engaging in anticompetitive behavior or the exercise of market power. Violation of this provision would constitute a violation of the tariff or rate schedule on file. FERC proposes to address such violations through refunds or other remedies.
The FTC is an independent administrative agency responsible for maintaining competition and safeguarding the interests of consumers. Staff of the FTC often analyzes regulatory or legislative proposals for the electric industry that may affect competition or the efficiency of the economy in addition to its review of proposed mergers involving electric and gas utility companies. In the course of this work, as well as in antitrust research, investigation, and litigation, the staff applies established principles and recent developments in economic theory and empirical analysis to competition issues. The Commission has issued two Staff Reports (July 2000 and September 2001) on electric power market restructuring issues at the wholesale and retail levels. The July 2000 FTC Staff Report established a policy framework for increased competition in wholesale and retail electric power markets.(3) The September 2001 FTC Staff Report reviewed those features of state retail competition plans that have provided benefits to consumers and those that have not. It also provided recommendations as to whether states had sufficient authority to implement successful retail competition programs.(4)
In our view, before allowing public utilities the ability to sell electric energy and ancillary services at market-based prices, structural conditions should be in place to support effective competition in wholesale electric markets. A structural approach is preferable to the use of behavioral rules to guard against the exercise of market power. Structural remedies are often superior because they directly address the incentives and ability to exercise market power and because, once they are in place, they allow suppliers to gain more directly from meeting various customer preferences. Moreover, behavioral remedies, such as reverting to regulated rates, may distort investment decisions and create other inefficiencies.
Nonetheless, if behavioral rules are used to attempt to remedy exercises of market power, we agree that FERC should clarify the conditions under which a supplier exercises its market-based rate authority in a manner that produces unjust and unreasonable rates.(5) Clarification is likely to reduce regulatory risk in wholesale electric power markets, thereby increasing the ability of suppliers and customers to project wholesale prices and to make efficient consumption and investment decisions.
We concur with FERC's conceptual description of some practices (namely withholding of capacity, both physically and economically) that are likely to represent the exercise of market power. We caution, however, that the proposed behavioral standard retains significant ambiguities that may make its application unworkable or inconsistent with economic efficiency. These difficulties, even with a clarified behavioral standard, reinforce our view that establishing initial structural conditions (such as easing entry conditions, eliminating transmission grid bottlenecks, or restructuring the ownership of generation) that support effective competition is likely to be a better route before public utilities are authorized (or reauthorized) to price supplies at market-based rates.
II. Structural Conditions Conducive to Competition Are Likely to Be the Most Effective Assurance of Competitive Market-Based Rates
A fundamental problem in addressing existing or prospective market power through behavioral rules is that this approach does not change the underlying incentives to exercise market power. By addressing directly suppliers' incentives to withhold supply (and thereby increase prices), FERC may obtain greater certainty that suppliers will not have incentives to exercise any market power they may have. Further, a structural approach is less likely to result in suppliers exercising market power through some unanticipated form that will create new regulatory risk and require further revisions in the pricing rules. In our experience, structural remedies, such as easing entry conditions, eliminating transmission grid bottlenecks, or restructuring the ownership of generation, warrant careful consideration exactly because they directly reduce incentives to withhold capacity.(6) FERC's recent emphasis on seeking nondiscriminatory, open access transmission through a structural RTO approach is consistent with our emphasis on giving increased weight to structural remedies. Given this experience and the potential ambiguities in ascertaining the exercise of market power, FERC may wish to compare the cost/benefit relationships associated with its proposed behavioral and structural approaches to determine which will result in the greater increase of net benefits to consumers.
III. If FERC Decides to Move Forward With Behavioral Rules, Its Proposed Definition of the Exercise of Market Power Is Reasonable Conceptually, but, Ambiguities in Its Application May Make It Unworkable
FERC proposes to define anticompetitive behavior or the exercise of market power to include behavior that raises the market price through physical or economic withholding of supplies.(7) It defines physical withholding as failure of a supplier to offer its output to the market during periods when the market price exceeds the supplier's full incremental costs. Economic withholding is defined as offering output to the market at a price that is above both the supplier's full incremental costs and the market price. FERC also includes under the definition of withholding, efforts by a supplier to erect barriers to entry that limit or prevent others from offering supplies to the market or that raise the costs of other suppliers.(8)
We support clarification of the actions that FERC considers to be anticompetitive behavior or the exercise of market power. Clarification is beneficial because it reduces regulatory risk for both suppliers and customers. In a situation in which suppliers with market-based rate authority are found to be charging prices that are above just and reasonable levels (and, therefore, subject to potential refunds), unclear rules create regulatory risk for both suppliers and customers because both face less certainty about the level of final prices. Regulatory uncertainty about projected prices may distort the investment decisions of both suppliers and customers. Clarifying standards for granting market-based rates and the exercise of that authority is likely to improve market performance by reducing regulatory risk, thus providing increased certainty about investment incentives for suppliers and customers. To the extent that FERC continues to apply behavioral rules against the exercise of market power, we encourage FERC's efforts to clarify and increase the accuracy of the behavioral criteria it uses in granting market-based rate authority
In general, FERC has identified appropriate and reasonable definitions of the exercise of market power in the electric power context. The implementation of these definitions, however, raise potential issues that may be difficult to overcome from an antitrust enforcement perspective and an economic efficiency perspective. We discuss the antitrust issues first, followed by the economic efficiency issues, with the expectation that there may well be others.(9) Our main concern is that these ambiguities may be pervasive and difficult to clarify further in a manner consistent with efficiency and quick resolution at reasonable cost.(10) Indeed, antitrust has generally had difficulty defining costs and the appropriate cost-price relationship.(11) If the ambiguities in defining, identifying, and remedying behaviorally the exercise of market power through references to costs, as described below, become sufficiently great, the proposed rule may be unworkable.
FERC's definition of anticompetitive behavior and the exercise of market power embodies a "duty to deal" in that a supplier is required to offer supply under certain conditions. This is generally not the case under the antitrust laws. Courts have found that, under the Sherman Act, firms generally have the right to deal with -- and not to deal with -- whomever they choose,(12) although the right to refuse to deal with others has been qualified in the case of a monopolist in certain circumstances.(13) Courts generally have not found a duty to deal where the decision not to deal is made unilaterally by the seller to enhance its own profitability. Thus, when a supplier is charging a monopoly-based price, it may be exercising market power, but it is not engaging in anticompetitive behavior. Because antitrust will generally not impose a duty to deal on a supplier that is exercising market power, FERC may want to look beyond antitrust concepts to determine whether a supplier is charging unjust and unreasonable rates.(14)
From an economic efficiency perspective, the primary cause of ambiguities relates to the extent to which the proposed rules recognize a supplier's opportunity cost.(15) For two broad categories of generators, hydro facilities and generators operating under emission constraints, the opportunity cost concern about the rule is front and center. Both of these types of generators are likely to be unable to sell into the market in some later periods if they supply the market at present because either the water will have left the reservoir or the emissions cap has been reached for the time period. A regulatory rule that requires each of these generators to sell electricity into the market as soon as price exceeds incremental costs will deprive the market of this supply later when such supply could be more valuable. Application of the rule to these units is likely to be inefficient and to increase price volatility. In some markets, these two categories of generators represent a substantial portion of capacity and supply decisions about when to run these units may significantly affect prices.
In our view, the opportunity cost problem is unlikely to be limited to hydro plants and plants with emission constraints. Rather, the issue arises more generally. As an example, consider the task of determining whether a generator is experiencing "mechanical problems" that justify not supplying the market during a particular time period. One source of ambiguity in such a determination is the relationship between past and future operation of a generating unit. Typically, intensive use of equipment in one period of time reduces its prospective reliability in another period of time. From a customer perspective, optimal use of a generator might reasonably consist of highly likely operation in periods of extremely high demand made possible by reducing output during less extreme demand conditions. Acting in accord with this perspective, a generator might well withhold supply even during some peak demand periods to increase the certainty that it will not have a mechanical failure during some anticipated period of even higher demand. Under these circumstances, judging whether a plant is being anticompetitively withheld may rest on the reasonableness of the firm's projections of future demand spikes.(16) Basing penalties on the "accuracy" of a firm's projections of unknown circumstances may present substantial investigatory challenges, especially within abbreviated deadlines for discovery.
Another ambiguity in applying the proposed rules involves determining whether the price offered by a supplier is above the market price (assuming the offered price is also above the firm's full incremental costs). After the fact, such a determination is likely to be straightforward (if a mechanism for determining the market clearing price in each period exists), but a comparison between the offered price and the actual market clearing price may not distinguish between bids that constitute intentional withholding and bids that result in unintentional withholding. In a market context in which many small suppliers are all paid the market clearing price (which implies that differences in bids that exceed incremental costs, but are accepted, do not affect the revenues received by a generator), there is little incentive for suppliers to bid above incremental costs.(17) Markets that nominally provide a single price to all dispatched suppliers, however, may not function this way due to other market rules.(18) Where markets have a pay-as-bid aspect, suppliers have strong incentives to bid at a level just below the anticipated market clearing price. But the market clearing price is unknown ex ante -- therefore it is likely that some suppliers will unintentionally overestimate the market clearing price and bid accordingly.
Unless FERC can assure itself that there are no aspects of the market that function on a pay-as-bid basis, it may not be possible to separate intentional from unintentional withholding on the basis of a bid by a low-cost supplier that is above the actual market-clearing price without judging the reasonableness of the firm's projection of the market clearing price. And, the market-clearing price is inherently unknown before the fact, so that mistakes in estimating this price are inevitable.
We note that this example is described from the perspective of a supplier whose overestimate of the market-clearing price in a market with pay-as-bid aspects was not intentional. Alternatively, however, systematic overestimates of the market clearing price could be used intentionally by a supplier to mask its anticompetitive withholding. Separating systematic, intentional overestimation of the market clearing price from true errors in such estimates is likely to present a significant investigative challenge. Moreover, costs of evading behavioral rules also can add substantially to total costs for customers. In particular, exercising market power in this context could create incentives to evade detection up to a point that the costs of evading detection have completely eroded the profits from exercising market power.(19)
V. Conclusion
FERC proposes to clarify the conditions that it will require for granting and renewing authority to charge market-based rates. We recommend consideration of structural requirements in preference to behavioral rules in granting market-based rates. If FERC determines to continue application of behavioral rules against market power, we encourage clarification of the standards because it is likely to improve efficiency by reducing regulatory risk faced at present by both suppliers and customers. As it undertakes reevaluation of the basis for granting market-based rates, FERC may wish to recognize that ambiguities are likely to remain in the behavioral definition of what constitutes an exercise of market power. Because behavioral rules such as prohibitions against the exercise of market power do not directly alter incentives to exercise market power and may lead to costly efforts to evade the regulations or to exercise market power through other means, FERC may wish to give greater weight to structural remedies that directly reduce incentives to withhold capacity physically or economically even if it continues to apply behavioral rules.
Respectfully submitted,
David T. Scheffman, Director
John C. Hilke, Economist and Electricity Project Coordinator
Bureau of Economics
Susan S. DeSanti, Deputy General Counsel
Michael S. Wroblewski, Assistant General Counsel
Federal Trade Commission
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January 7, 2002
1. See endnote 2.
2. This comment represents the views of the staff of the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission and the staff of the General Counsel's Office of Policy Studies. They are not necessarily the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any individual Commissioner. The Commission has, however, voted to authorize the staff to submit these comments. Inquiries regarding this comment should be directed to John C. Hilke, Economist and Electricity Project Coordinator in the Bureau of Economics (801-524-4440 or email@example.com) or Michael Wroblewski, Assistant General Counsel for Policy Studies (202-326-2155 or firstname.lastname@example.com).
3. FTC Staff Report: Competition and Consumer Protection Perspectives on Electric Power Regulatory Reform (Jul. 2000) http://www.ftc.gov/be/v000009.htm [FTC July 2000 Staff Report]. This report compiles previous comments that FTC Staff had provided to various state and federal agencies. For example, FTC Staff has commented to FERC on electric power regulation in Docket No. RM99-2-000 (regional transmission organizations) (Aug. 16, 1999); Docket EL99-57-000 (Entergy transco proposal) (May 27, 1999); Docket RM98-4-000 (Sept. 11, 1998) (merger filing guidelines); Docket No. PL98-5-000 (May 1, 1998) (ISO Policy); Docket Nos. ER97-237-000 and ER97-1079-000 (New England ISO) (Feb. 6, 1998); Docket No. RM96-6-000 (merger policy) (May 7, 1996); Docket Nos. RM95-8-000 and RM94-7-001 (open access) (Aug. 7, 1995). The FTC staff comments are available at: http://www.ftc.gov/be/advofile.htm.
4. FTC Staff Report: Competition and Consumer Protection Perspectives on Electric Power Regulatory Reform, Focus on Retail Competition (Sep. 2001) http://www.ftc.gov/reports/index.htm [FTC September 2001 Staff Report].
5. The discussion occurs within the context of FERC's authority to regulate rates and its decision to seek some of the benefits of competition in wholesale electric power markets by granting authority to charge market based-rates within a zone of allowed price levels and practices. This contrasts with antitrust law enforcement which focuses on changes in market power associated with mergers and assesses existing market power primarily as part of evaluating whether certain activities (usually those of leading firms) are anticompetitive. The exercise of market power, outside the context of an anticompetitive merger or of potentially unfair acts and practices, is not illegal under the existing antitrust laws. See Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives (Jul. 28, 1999) http://www.ftc.gov/os/1999/07/electricityHR.htm.
6. For a further discussion of the importance of structural remedies in the electric industry, see FTC July 2000 Staff Report, supra n 2, Chaps. II and III. For example, the Staff Report recognizes that monitoring and enforcing compliance with behavioral rules that attempt to guard against discrimination may be particularly difficult when quality of service is time sensitive, as it is in the electric industry. Because electric power is sold on an hourly basis, market dynamics - and thus the incentive and ability to exploit market power - can shift over the course of each day, making it virtually impossible to intervene before conditions have changed. Id. at 16.
7. Presumably this action will be profitable because a supplier is unlikely to increase price if the reduction in sales of the product would be large enough to offset the expected gains from the increase in price. See Section 1, Market Definition, Measurement and Concentration, United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, Horizontal Merger Guidelines, issued Apr. 2, 1992, revised Apr. 8, 1997.
8. These generators may or may not own or control transmission. For the purposes of this discussion, the exercise of market power is restricted to horizontal market power of one or more generators. The discussion does not consider the exercise of market power that stems from anticompetitive discrimination by a transmission owner or operator that may favor its own affiliated generation capacity. The discussion also does not consider the potential interaction between the exercise of horizontal market power and anticompetitive discrimination in transmission access.
9. Another likely ambiguity involves defining full incremental costs on a real-time basis, through an administrative proceeding that is consistent with economic efficiency. Issues such as startup costs, minimum load levels, and variability in fuel supply contracts are among the significant issues. As reported in the September 2001 FTC Staff Report, the states have experienced difficulties in defining a supplier's full incremental costs and, thus, have adopted differing definitions. An additional, more general problem with the use of full incremental costs could occur if pricing at such cost fails to cover fixed costs. If FERC's definition of market power had the effect of preventing suppliers from covering fixed costs, entry incentives would be reduced and net exit would occur.
10. In antitrust law enforcement, determination that firms have exercised market power can be highly complex and involve lengthy investigations. See, e.g., the description of the FTC shared monopoly case against Kellogg et al, in F.M. Scherer and David Ross, Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 464-66 (1990).
11. See generally Phillip E. Areeda and Herbert Hovencamp, Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application § 720 (2d ed. 2000).
12. United States v. Colgate & Co., 250 U.S. 300, 307 (1919).
13. A partial list of cases in which the courts have circumscribed refusal to deal behavior include instances where a monopolist attempts to create or protect its monopoly in a single product or geographic market: a monopolist refuses to deal with customers or suppliers that deal with its competitors, Lorain Journal Co. v. United States, 342 U.S. 143 (1951); refuses to participate in a joint venture with a competitor, Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp., 472 U.S. 585 (1985); refuses to license technology to a competitor. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 96 F.T.C. 653 (1980); or the classic case in which there is a refusal to supply bottleneck facilities, Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States, 410 U.S. 366 (1973). All of these acts involve conduct that encompasses more than just charging a monopoly-based, profit-maximizing price. For a general discussion of the case law on refusals to deal, see Kenneth L. Glazer and Abbott B. Lipsky, Jr., "Unilateral Refusals to Deal Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act," 63 Antitrust L. J. 749 (Spring 1995).
14. In most market contexts, there is no legal prohibition against a supplier exiting the market by destroying a facility or abandoning it. In such circumstances, it may appear inconsistent to prohibit a temporary withdrawal of that same capacity, which is likely to exert less upward pressure on prices than would permanent withdrawal. Accordingly, to the extent that the proposed duty stems from a regulatory model in which utilities have an "obligation to serve" all demand at a regulated price, FERC may wish to evaluate the reasonableness of its application to independent generators who did not invest in capacity at the insistence of state regulators.
15. There is a more fundamental problem in much of the country because there is no mechanism that establishes a single market price. In these areas, application of any rule that relates a generator's price offers to a market-clearing price appears to be inoperable. In the remaining discussion, we assume that a spot market mechanism is in place that allows identification of a single market-clearing price in each period of time for a given location and that the rule does not apply to prices resulting from bilateral contract negotiations. Such prices are not publically verifiable or easily obtainable.
16. We assume in the example that the generator makes no effort to conceal the purpose of the withholding by falsely claiming a mechanical failure at present, but rather insists that it shut down now to reduce the likelihood of a future mechanical problem. We note that the process of evaluating claims of mechanical failures may be time consuming, costly, invasive, and disruptive. It could also give rise to incentives to create or allow real mechanical failures.
17. See Alfred E. Kahn, Peter C. Cramton, Robert H. Porter, Richard D. Tabors, "Blue Ribbon Panel Report: Pricing in the California Power Exchange Electricity Market: Should California Switch from Uniform Pricing to Pay-as-Bid Pricing?" (Jan. 23, 2001).
18. See, e.g., Scott Harvey, William W. Hogan, "Issues in the Analysis of Market Power in California," working paper of Oct. 27, 2000 http://www.whogan.com (describing the implications of the ISO's "rational buyer" approach to securing ancillary service and the means of selecting generators to provide real-time intra-zonal congestion management). See also Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator, Frank A. Wolak, Chairman, "Report on Redesign of California Real-Time Energy and Ancillary Services Markets (Oct. 18, 1999).
19. In providing estimates of the social costs of market power, some analysts include wealth transfers (as well as the dead weight loss), in part because firms have incentives to spend up to that value to defend the exercise of market power. (For discussion, see, e.g., F.M. Scherer and David Ross, Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance, Ch. 18 (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990).) Total effects of higher prices include two components, namely, wealth transfers from customers to the supplier(s) exercising market power, and dead weight loss, which stems from distortions of economic choices caused by the exercise of market power. Neither suppliers nor customers benefit from dead weight loss. From this perspective, regulatory evasion is a component of the costs of defending the exercise of market power.


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