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Harmonic (HLIT) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
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In the last trading session, Harmonic (HLIT) closed at $11.34, recording a move of 1.25% from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's loss rate of 0.14% today. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones lost 0.45%, and the heavy Nasdaq lost 0.01%.
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Ahead of today's trading, shares of the video service provider are up 3.61% over the past month. This outpaced the computer and technology sector's loss of 5.82% and the S&P 500's loss of 0.13% in that time.
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Dance, drama and music students from Kingston University wowed audiences when they took centre stage at Kingston's Rose Theatre to showcase their talents in performances ranging from flamenco dancing and Indonesian gamelan to cabaret and physical theatre. Kingston Onstage was a day filled with innovation and creativity, including musical performances from singer-songwriters as well as appearances from swing dancers, comedy actors and musical theatre.
The one-day annual festival gave the local community and industry experts an opportunity to get a flavour of the array of dance, drama and music Kingston University students have been developing throughout the year. Luis Echeverria, who is studying a Masters in Production of Popular Music, was one of the students to step into the spotlight. He performed three sets featuring covers of rock, folk, rhythm and blues and funk. "The reception we received from the audience was very warm and encouraging," he said
Music BMus(Hons) student Matthew Little was also flying the flag for the music department, performing twice in the Rose Theatre's studio space – once as the drummer in a blues-infused rock band and also as a solo act. "I was honoured to have been asked to play at Kingston Onstage and think the event really showed off the variety of talent we have as a University" he said.
Other highlights included an emotion-triggering play focused on the story of a soldier blinded on the frontline. It was written by aspiring director and BA(Hons) Drama and International Relations student Josh Whatsize. "Kingston Onstage provided an exciting opportunity to perform in a major London theatre and was also a great chance to show family and friends what we have been doing throughout the year," Josh said.
Jamie Barrell, who is coming to the end of his second year of BA(Hons) in Dance, performed a complex piece on relationships as part of a duet with fellow student Rebecca Staple, which had been created for their module in performing theories. The contemporary dance piece had been intended to draw attention to the role sound played in distinguishing emotions, he said. "We decided to highlight this by using different types of sound – including elephant calls and salsa music – to distort things and confuse the audience."
Jamie's dance partner, Rebecca, was involved in five pieces during the course of the day, which included contemporary dance, Bollywood and Odissi – a form of classical Indian dance. She explained how she had pushed herself outside her comfort zone to experience new styles of dance. "During my time here at Kingston University we've been encouraged to be diverse and versatile – that's why I am in so many contrasting pieces. It's something I really enjoy," she said.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Professor Simon Morgan Wortham commended the event for being the ideal platform for students to showcase their talents to their peers, families and potential employers. "Our students bring an exciting range of skills to a variety of industries and employers are increasingly interested in their ability to perform under pressure, to find new and imaginative solutions to problems and to work as an effective team," he said. "This is a great opportunity to see them do what they do best."
Head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies Associate Professor Jason Piper praised the student performers for the dedication they had demonstrated leading up to and during Kingston Onstage. "Performing in public is a vulnerable act and conquering those fears is one of our most treasured educational outcomes," he said. "I'm always immensely proud to see students from our school performing and working so hard to support each other. They are fantastic ambassadors for our school and I have no doubt they will go on to make their mark in the industry."
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America Must Fight For Global Industry Leadership Again
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Wells King Contributor
June 22, 2020 8:49 PM ET
After decades of looking away as America's supply chains migrated overseas, policymakers are finally facing the reality that dependence on foreign producers has weakened America's resilience, security, and economy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a harsh spotlight on this failure, leaving the nation unacceptably exposed, our capacity depleted, and our essential workers turning to China for equipment. "This pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of keeping vital supply chains at home," President Donald Trump explained at an April press briefing. "We cannot outsource our independence. We cannot be reliant on foreign nations."
But the effects of offshoring extend well beyond medical shortages during a public health crisis. When factories leave our shores, not only the jobs but also the suppliers, the customers, the expertise, and the innovation go with them. When productivity growth and innovation are needed, they are nowhere to be found. When we lose ground to rival nations, we lack the capacities required to regain the lead.
Our contest with China is perhaps the clearest example of how the United States has suffered from offshoring our industrial capacity. America invented the core technologies of the digital revolution—semiconductors, LCDs, LEDs, and more—but today we produce only 7% of the world's share of high-tech exports; China produces nearly 4 times as much. An analysis of 36 indicators of national innovation has shown that China is catching up to the U.S., and in some areas like 5G, mobile payments, and drones, it is already ahead. (RELATED: The Fight To Reshore US Pharmaceuticals)
As David P. Goldman observes in his foreword to "Moving the Chains," the recent American Compass symposium on reshoring supply chains, the loss of industrial leadership has been a national disaster:
American manufacturing employment fell to about 11.4 million from almost 20 million in 1980. We also have a chronic trade deficit in manufactured goods, an accumulating foreign debt, a chronically low savings rate, an excessively consumption-based economy, and stagnant labor productivity. To paraphrase Leon Trotsky, you may not be interested in supply chains, but supply chains are interested in you.
The concept of reshoring supply chains provides a strong guiding principle for strengthening the American economy's foundations, reviving innovation and productivity growth, and delivering widespread prosperity for American workers, their families, and their communities. But accomplishing it is not just a matter of "winning a trade war" with China—supply chains can run through Vietnam instead—or cajoling a high-profile manufacturer to open a new plant. In an ideal world, conservatives could count on the market to drive the needed the progress, but in this case it as no interest in doing so. To the contrary, the market has shown clearly that, left to its own devices, it will eagerly push supply chains abroad. Regaining the advantages that we so causally cast aside will require a clear national strategy and focused attention across many areas of public policy.
Three priorities should guide policymakers' efforts to retake the lead in industry and innovation. First, we must invest in the basics by committing public funding to the building blocks of our innovation-based economy. Second, we should make America the best place to build by creating incentives and opportunities for private investment. Third, we must defend against foreign distortions by addressing the harmful policies of our economic rivals and reclaiming the full benefits of free trade.
Investing in the Basics
The United States must invest in itself, beginning with its basic infrastructure. In 2017, even before passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, manufacturing and supply-chain professionals ranked "investment in U.S. infrastructure" as their top policy priority, choosing it by almost two-to-one over "tax reform." That same year, the American Society of Civil Engineers graded our systems a D+. State and local governments have historically provided two-thirds of the nation's infrastructure spending, but the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled their finances and created a funding gap that could be impossible to bridge without private-sector support. BlackRock's Terrence Keeley argues that the United States should create a national development bank to attract private capital into infrastructure projects, closing the funding gap and improving project outcomes. Such banks, already standard features in most national and regional economies, can operate with little to no taxpayer capital, while using the guarantee of public backing to attract enormous private-sector commitments.
Alongside infrastructure, the nation also needs to expand its investment in research and development. We already spend massive sums on "basic research" in university and government laboratories, but vital to our manufacturing prowess is the intermediate step that brings breakthroughs from the lab into the marketplace. One of the most effective ways to do this, and one that the United States has used in the past to great effect, is called a "pre-competitive partnership." As Harvard Business School's Willy Shih explains, pre-competitive partnerships allow private-sector firms to collaborate in the development of platform technologies that they can all then build from and compete with. Such a partnership helped to establish American leadership in airplane engines and semiconductors.
The United States has lost not only its supply chains, but also the skilled workforce and embedded industry expertise to support them. Our lack of active labor market policies compounds this problem; workers cast out of disrupted jobs get little support in connecting to new ones. The U.S. spends about 0.10% of GDP on programs that actively encourage labor force participation, the lowest of any OECD country after Mexico. The Niskanen Center's Samuel Hammond argues that policymakers should begin by reforming Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), America's largest employment and training program. It is woefully outdated and under-inclusive, failing to support even most trade-displaced workers. TAA should instead provide training to people unemployed for any reason and help them navigate the path back to productive work. "Reshoring strategies … will only go so far," Hammond notes, "if at the end of the day, our shiny new factories have 'help wanted' signs on the door." (RELATED: Coronavirus Shows Why America Needs An Industrial Policy)
Making America the Best Place to Build
The most straightforward way to encourage domestic investment is to make it cheaper, by providing a tax credit. The U.S. tax code once encouraged and supported American companies to invest in productivity-enhancing projects like R&D, but today we are a laggard in such tax incentives. The U.S. abolished its investment tax credit in 1986 and since then has fallen behind 25 other OECD nations in R&D tax incentives. American policymakers should revisit our anemic R&D tax credit and consider further reducing the effective tax rate for companies that invest in R&D, capital equipment, and workforce training. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation's Rob Atkinson proposes an American Innovation and Competitiveness Tax Credit that would reduce a firm's tax liability by 30% of spending in those areas, rewarding investment and catching up with our rivals that offer more generous incentives.
Sometimes the obstacles to investment are the rules and procedures placed in its way. Environmental laws, for instance, have ratcheted continually tighter since they were enacted 50 years ago, and they specifically target efforts at expanding domestic industrial capacity. The result has been clean air and reduced pollution at the expense of American businesses. Environmental regulation has depressed new plant construction by 26–45%, with the greatest impacts on the largest firms. A 2017 survey by the Department of Commerce found that these regulations occupied the top nine spots on a list of the 20 most frequently cited regulatory issues that impact manufacturing. American Renewal's Oren Cass proposes that policymakers remove the excessive hurdles to construction and expansion imposed by existing environmental regulation. Congress could amend the Clean Air Act and National Environmental Protection Act to allow the construction of new facilities on the same terms as existing ones as well as create more streamlined permitting processes.
In other places, however, the challenge stems from a failure to enforce existing laws strongly enough. Excessive concentration and market power have arguably discouraged domestic production, suppressed price signals, and helped state-backed Chinese firms dominate supply chains over the last few decades. This has caused national shortages in critical areas, such as the generic medicines, where the FDA has warned that shortages undermine doctors' ability to deliver high standards of care. Matt Stoller recommends sector-specific analyses to identify anticompetitive practices that have undermined domestic production capacity. Surgical application of antitrust enforcement to these sectors could recreate both horizontal and vertical fragmentation within specific markets and allow domestic producers back into the game.
Defending Against Foreign Distortions
The promise of international trade was that countries would produce more for each other, but this has only half worked. While many domestic supply chains have migrated overseas, few have moved from elsewhere onto our shores. This is no accident, but rather a result of a total failure by policymakers to ensure that trading relationships are reciprocal. The WTO's rules and procedures have failed to uphold this principle, but reform of the WTO itself now requires unanimity of its more than 160 members, which effectively blocks any attempt to create new rules for the modern economy or effectively punish countries that cheat. Last month, Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley argued that the U.S. should abandon the WTO entirely. But at the very least, argues Thomas Duesterberg of the Hudson Institute, we should insist upon institutional reform of the WTO in a way that creates a pathway to revising its rules, or else move beyond the WTO's structure to reassert its own interests. (RELATED: Sen. Josh Hawley Says It's Time To Abolish The World Trade Organization)
In some cases, it may make sense simply to mandate reshoring. Local content requirements (LCRs), for instance, require some or all of a final good's inputs to be manufactured domestically. These are blunter measures than the technocratic reforms to cajole or incent but, as Michael Lind argues, LCRs directly and reliably achieve their stated purpose and allow policymakers to target particular supply chains of economic or strategic importance.
Finally, if the federal government is to design and executive a supply-chain strategy, it will need the capacity to do so. Right now, there is no single department or agency within the federal government whose core mission is to develop a comprehensive reshoring strategy and facilitate its execution. Instead, responsibility and authority are dispersed across a byzantine tangle of agencies. Vanderbilt Law School's Ganesh Sitaraman argues for consolidating the Department of Commerce, U.S. Trade Representative, Small Business Administration, export promotion agencies, and economic sanctions authority into a new cabinet-level agency: the Department of Economic Resilience, which would feature divisions for trade, export promotion, economic security, industrial policy, and statistics. With a dedicated department, the United States could more effectively develop a national strategy, much like the State Department, and execute on the long-term priorities that reshoring will require
The Reshoring Imperative
The imperative to reshore our supply chains and rebuild our industrial capacity will not end when the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. It will take center stage in our generation-defining contest with China, and it will be integral to any effort to build a vibrant economy that supports all Americans and leads the world in the next wave of innovation. Meeting it will require policymakers to reexamine some of the basic assumptions of American economic policy of the last 40 years.
The policy proposals outlined here typify nine different strategic approaches to addressing the challenge of reshoring, greatly expanding upon the traditional "tax cuts and deregulation" formula that has characterized the conventional right-of-center policy playbook for decades. Free-market fundamentalism is incapable of retaking global leadership in industry and innovation.
It took a once-in-a-century pandemic to lay bare America's vulnerable supply chains. Let's hope it doesn't take a similar cataclysm to realize that conventional policies won't bring them back. It is time to move the chains.
Wells King is the research director at American Compass. This piece was adapted from "Moving the Chains: Nine Strategies for Retaking Global Leadership in Industry and Innovation," a policy symposium organized by American Compass.
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Thanks to everyone that came down last night, much fun was had all round. To shake off those hangovers under these miserable February skies, have a gander at this Essential Mix from Portishead's tour DJ Andy Smith in 1995. This is exactly the sort of stuff that I was bang into when I was 18 and going up to Bristol every weekend to funk & soul clubs, and has been on repeat in the Pac household for a few weeks now. Smile, summers on it's way!
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So Monsieur Spinney has finally given me the keys to the ferarri blog, which I don't know is a good thing or a bad thing (for you guys anyway), so be expecting some (possibly) incomprehensible posts from myself. Anywhos, I thought I'd kick off my new life here with a new vinyl mix I've sorted out for the Big In Japan family.
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First Nipah virus victim may have passed infection to 17 who died: report
Published Jul 15, 2018, 8:44 pm IST
Updated Jul 15, 2018, 8:44 pm IST
Mohammed Sabith died on May 5 and was among 17 others who lost their lives after they contracted the virus. Two people had recovered.
The government had declared Kozhikode and Malappuram districts as free of Nipah on June 30 after no new cases were reported since May 31. (Photo: PTI | File)
Thiruvananthapuram: A detailed study by the Kerala government in the recent outbreak of Nipah virus has suggested that 17 of the 19 infected people might have contracted the Nipah virus from the first victim, 26-year-old Mohammed Sabith.
As per available records, it has been found that Mohammed Sabith contracted the Nipah virus from fruit bats and 17 others -- including three from his family i.e. father, younger brother and a paternal aunt -- got infected from him, government sources said.
Besides, the virus from him is also suspected to have infected four other people at the Peramabra Taluk Hospital, Kohzikode, where he was first brought, the sources in the state surveillance department of the Kerala Health Services said, adding that 10 others in the Kozhikode medical college hospital, where he was taken for a CT scan in the radiology department, also picked the virus from him.
One patient was infected by another man at the Perambra hospital, they said.
It is suspected that Mohammed Sabith, an electrician, had contracted the virus from fruit bats, however, it is not clear the circumstances under which he got infected. He had returned from the gulf eight months before he died.
Mohammed Sabith first took treatment as an 'out patient' at the Perambra hospital for high fever and body pain on May 2.
On May 3, he was admitted at the hospital, and it is suspected that four people on night duty including sister Lini Puthussery, who attended to him, picked the virus from him.
As his condition worsened on May 4, Mohammed Sabith was shifted to the Medical College hospital for a CT scan, where he died on May 5. Ten people got infected at the medical college on the single day he was there, the sources said.
Though Mohammed Sabith's blood samples were not tested for Nipah, as per records, it has been concluded that he had contracted Nipah virus, the sources said.
His younger brother was admitted to the hospital with similar symptoms and tests revealed that he was Nipah positive. He died shortly after, followed by their 60-year-old father and a paternal aunt who had come to help them.
It was suspected that the brothers might have contracted the virus when they got into a bat-infested well in their newly bought property. However, the bats in the well were found to be insect-eating ones, the sources said.
As a precautionary measure, a contact list of nearly 3,000 people with whom the infected persons had been in touch was prepared and they were put under quarantine. Nipah test was also conducted on them, the sources said.
The exhaustive report on the Nipah outbreak has been sent to the central surveillance department, the sources said.
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Two of the infected patients made a miraculous recovery.
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Methods for generating and identifying (3,6) sparse graphs
Pratistha Bhattarai, Smith College
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Graph theory, Sparse matrices, Graph algorithms, Rigidity (Geometry), Sparse graphs, Sparsity, (3, 6) sparse graphs, Pebble games
A skeletal framework is an embedding of a nite graph into d-sapce. A nite graph can be represented as G = (V;E), where V is a set of vertices and E a set of edges. The rigidity of a framework in d-dimensions can be analyzed by studying a combinatorial property of its graphical representation, namely its sparsity. A class of sparse graphs { (3; 6)-sparse graphs { describes the rigidity of frameworks in three dimensions. All frameworks in three-dimensions have a necessary condition for rigidity { their graphs must be maximally (3; 6)-sparse. However, this is not a su cient condition and not all maximally (3; 6)-sparse graphs represent a framework that is rigid in three-dimensions. The aim of this paper is to study the fundamental problems in (3; 6)-sparsity in relation to matroidal sparse graphs, a class of sparse graphs for which much work already exists in the literature. We propose a variant of the Pebble Game algorithm to answer the (3; 6) decision problem{ decide if a given graph is (3; 6)-sparse or not { and demonstrate why the Pebble Game algorithm cannot address the other problems in (3; 6)-sparsity. We also describe inductive methods for generating di erent classes of sparse graphs.
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DOP&T issued an OFFICE MEMORANDUM dated 26th May 2010, Granting Rs.300/- as Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) to the Central Government Pensioners residing in areas not covered under CGHS. This issue has been raised in the National Council Meeting and the staff side demanded that Fixed Medical Allowance to be enhanced up to Rs.600/-.Sources told that the Chairman, National Council on his response to this issue informed the Staff Side that Ministry of Finance considered to grant Rs.300/-. But the Staff side National Council not agreed with this.
Two weeks after the meeting, now the order has been issued, in which it has been stated that "the demand for enhancement of FMA has been under consideration of the Government for some time past. Sanction of the President is hereby conveyed for enhancement of the amount of FMA from Rs.100/- to Rs.300/- per month. The other conditions for grant of FMA shall continue to be in force." These orders will take effect from 01.09.2008.
I am drawing pension through DPDO Hoshiarpur. On inquiry regarding Fixed Medical Allowance it has been informed that the enhanced rate of FMA is not applicable to Ex Servicemen, whereas the Banks are paying the same at the enhanced rate of Rs 300/- and have also paid the arrears also. Please clarify.
I have sought clarification vide my comment dated Nov 14. But no one has come forward to clarify and to clear the position. I once again request tom clarify the position, to all concerned.
Defence pensioners are also entitled to FMA at enhanced rate. You must search for the required websites of exservicemen like IESM, IESL, etc.
Thanks for information. I am also now getting FMA @ Rs 300.00 per month. But if you see the wording of the circular, the FMA is only for day to day medical requirement expenses which does not involve Hospitalization, plus OPD Expenses but not for or in lieu of hospitalization. The persons drawing FMA should be entitled for getting treatment at the Hospitals be it a Military Hospital or a private authorized hospital for Ex Servicemen. Now a days, the doctors recommending cases to the private hospitals are being paid handsomely by such hospitals and bills are floated to Govt many times more than the actual charges and expenses and the payments are being made to them on these inflated bills. They have their men at every seat of power to get the payment. Some times the said hospitals charge money from the patients with the promise to refund the same at a later date which is not refunded. Why not the ex-servicemen allowed yo be treated at the Military Hospitals which does not cost much to the Govt and all unfair practices will come to an end. Just to give job to some people a lot of money is being unnecessarily wasted which should be stopped at once. Please bring this notice to the Hon able Defense Minister.
My mother is going through medical treatment t Appolo hospital.My father is ex serviceman and retire before 2003 and not a member of ECHS. could you please let me know that are we eligible for medical expenses.


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Проблемы сегментации потребительского рынка в цифровой среде
Маркетинг Менеджмент в цифровой экономике. 2016. № 2. С. 48-64.
Григорьева В. Н., Салихова Я. Ю.
The article is about problems of developing a segmented approach to the theory of competition in the digital environment. It shows that application of this approach in the traditional markets was promising and allowed us to offer a lot of solutions to develop the theory of competition and appropriate methods of assessment the objects of its study. It reveals the changes of structural features in the digital markets. It suggests an application of the segmented approach in the digital environment and the ways of it's further development.
Research target: Economics and Management (including Public Administration)
Priority areas: management
Keywords: the segmented methodthe digital environmentcompetition
Selected Papers of the13th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo 13)
Edited by: D. A. Hensher. Prt. 3: Institutional and Operational Reforms within Different Socio-economic and Cultural Contexts. 2013.
Despite over 30 years of worldwide reforms in many directions to increase efficiency, public transport markets present a variety of arrangements regarding operations, control and ownership that are amenable to improvement. This workshop will examine the contextual economic, political, cultural and social factors behind these many different cases that can be observed around the world. Through a better understanding of such factors it will examine the competition and ownership options for regulated public transport markets, taking full account of local contextual factors. This will include examination of methods for improving performance without major competition and ownership changes, for example by improved institutional design (both top-down and bottom-up), the development of trusting partnerships, the promotion of negotiated contracts and the introduction of optimal operating rules.
The Problem of "Responsible" Leadership by China in Global Politics. Relations with World Major Powers
Kanaev E., Amirov V., Mikheev V. et al. In bk.: Russia in a Polycentric World. M.: VES MIR, 2012. P. 245-256.
Маркетинг конкурентов и связи с конкурентами: сотрудничество как путь к рыночному успеху
Котляров И. Д. Вестник Российской таможенной академии. 2011. № 3. С. 37-43.
The article considers the issues of business competition and cooperation. There presented the market type matrix based on «cooperation-competition» criteria. The concepts of competition marketing and relations with competitors are defined. The concept of marketing communications is specified. The analysis of the main methods of cooperation is carried out.
Consumer Search Markets with Costly Second Visits
Parakhonyak A. N., Janssen M. C. Vienna Economics Papers. D11. University of Vienna, 2011. No. 1102.
This is the first paper on consumer search where the cost of going back to stores already searched is explicitly taken into account. We show that the optimal sequential search rule under costly second visits is very different from the traditional reservation price rule in that it is nonstationary and not independent of previously sampled prices. We explore the implications of costly second visits on market equilibrium in two celebrated search models. In the Wolinsky model some consumers search beyond the first firm and in this class of models costly second visits do make a substantive difference: equilibrium prices under costly second visits can both be higher and lower than their perfect recall analogues. In the oligopoly search model of Stahl where consumers do not search beyond the first firm, there remains a unique symmetric equilibrium that has firms use pricing strategies that are identical to the perfect recall case.
Added: Sep 9, 2012
Bank competition in Russia: From aggregation to geographical segments
Anisimova A. I., Muradyan P. A., Vernikov A. V. In bk.: XIII Международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества. В 4 кн. Кн. 2.. Bk. 2. M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2012. P. 24-32.
This empirical paper adds to competition and industrial organization literature by exploring the interplay between industry structure and competitiveness on local, rather than nation-wide, markets. We use micro-level statistical data for banks in two Russian regions (Bashkortostan and Tatarstan) to estimate Herfindahl-Hirschman index, Lerner index, and Panzar-Rosse model. We estimate Panzar-Rosse model in two ways: via the widely used price-equation that accounts for scale effects and then via a revenue-equation that disregards scale effects as suggested by Bikker, Shaffer and Spierdijk (2009). We find both regional markets to be ruled by monopolistic competition, although estimation by revenue-equation does not reject monopoly hypothesis for Tatarstan. Existence of sizeable locally-owned and operated institutions does not necessarily lead to higher competitiveness of the given regional market. Non-structural methods of estimation suggest that bank competition in Bashkortostan is stronger than in Tatarstan.
Управление стратегической конкурентоспособностью
Ветрова Е. Н. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013.
Added: Nov 3, 2013
Предпосылки, тенденции и пределы систематизации антимонопольного законодательства
Тотьев К. Ю. В кн.: Правовые исследования: новые подходы. М.: Юридическая фирма «КОНТРАКТ», 2012. С. 197-209.
The article deals with the problems of systematization of rules concerning the protection of competition. It analyzes two directions of this systematization (logic and valuable ordering), its background and trends. The author considers that neither logic, nor valuable systematization of the antimonopoly legislation has been realized by the Russian legislator.
Causes of Corruption in Russia: A Disaggregated Analysis
Korhonen I., Goel R. K., Belousova V. BOFIT Discussion Papers. DP. Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, 2011. No. 31.
This paper examines determinants of corruption across Russian regions. Key contributions include: (i) a formal study of economic corruption determinants across Russian regions; (ii) comparisons of determinants of perceived corruption versus those of actual corruption; and (iii) studying the influence of market competition and other factors on corruption. The re-sults show that economic prosperity, population, market competition and urbanization are significant determinants of Russian corruption. The use of alternative corruption measures reveals that economic prosperity and population have a largely similar impact on corrup-tion perceptions and corruption incidence. However, there are significant differences in the effects of competition and urbanization.
«Этот путь России предстоит пройти еще раз…»
Ясин Е. Г. ЭКО. 2010. № 10. С. 30-38.
The author, who is one of the architectures of the «500 Days Reform», finds that no results expected from our institutional transformations made over the 2000th could be observed. He also thinks that Russia is to experience the slow evolutionary transformations which would be accompanied with conflicts of opposites, and compromises with oppositions would be inevitable.
Structural embeddedness and contractual relationships of chain stores and their suppliers in Russian emerging markets
Kotelnikova Z. Sociology. SOC. Высшая школа экономики, 2013. No. 22.
The core idea of the paper is to put social embeddedness of economic phenomena as a key economic sociology's concept at the heart of empirical research. The author stresses the importance of taking into account the temporal dimension of the market exchange. It is shown that continuation of exchange relationships can be considered as a proxy for social embeddedness. The paper focuses on contractual relationships of retail chains and their suppliers which have been changed dramatically since the emergence of modern chain stores in Russia. The aim is to reveal to what extent contractual relationships between retailers and suppliers are structurally embedded and which factors are conducive to the greater degree of the structural embeddedness of retailer-supplier relationships in Russian emerging markets. Based on the Baker, Faulkner and Fisher's theory of continuation of markets ties, the presented paper focuses the influence of power, institutional forces and competition. The paper is based on a survey of retailers and their suppliers in five Russian cities: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, and Tyumen. In 2010 questionnaires were collected from 257 managers of supplying companies and 255 retail managers from the above cities. Quantitative data was enriched with 30 in-depth interviews with suppliers and retailers in 2008. It is shown that both retailers and suppliers tend to maintain long-lasting relationships with majority of partners. However, retailers and suppliers are prone to follow different models. Power turns out to be meaningful for retailers while institutional forces appear to be much of special importance for suppliers. Retailers exercise organizational power to destabilize market ties with counterparts. Suppliers use relational selection criteria and specific investments to attach relationships with exchange partners. The significant factors conducive to the prevalence of the embedded ties in the market are organizational power, relational criteria of business partner selection, specific investments, length of service in retailing, tenure length of managers in a given company, sector, and geographic location.
Международная торговля и развитие конкуренции на национальных товарных рынках
Голованова С. В. М.: ТЕИС, 2014.
This study analyzes the effects of reducing trade barriers in the context of the objectives of competition policy. Separate chapters are devoted to the assessment of the height of Russian trade barriers, the analysis of the impact of international trade on domestic prices and concentration of production.
Концептуальное моделирование динамической системы управления конкурентоспособностью фармацевтических промышленных предприятий
Шилова Е. В., Третьякова Е. А. Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Экономика. 2012. № 2(13). С. 42-51.
Барбер М. Приказано добиться результата. Как была обеспечена реализация реформ в сфере государственных услуг Великобритании / пер. с англ. под науч. ред. Я.И. Кузьминова, А.В. Клименко. М.: НИУ ВШЭ, 2011. 394 с. (рецензия)
Жулин А. Б., Кнутов А. В., Синятуллина Л. Х. Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления. 2012. № 1. С. 185-190.
Формирование и развитие инновационной экономики: материалы международной научно-практической конференции
Edited by: Г. В. Жданкин, Л. Н. Ирхина, А. Чиликов Н. Новгород: Нижегородская государственная сельскохозяйственная академия, 2010.
Социально-экономические преобразования и проблемы
Edited by: З. М. Саралиева, А. А. Иудин Вып. 1. Н. Новгород: Издательство НИСОЦ, 2011.
The impact of state-controlled banks on the Russian banking sector
Vernikov A. V. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 2012. Vol. 53. No. 2. P. 250-266.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.
Социальные преобразования и социальные проблемы: сборник научных трудов
Edited by: А. А. Иудин, З. М. Саралиева Вып. 13. Н. Новгород: Издательство НИСОЦ, 2010.
Институт минимальной заработной платы в странах ОЭСР
Вишневская Н. Т. Проблемы рынка труда. WP3. Высшая школа экономики, 2005. № 03.
The paper examines the institute of minimum wage in developed and transition economies and in a number of the developing countries. First of all the institutional mechanism of minimum wage fixing is considered. One of the sections explores the dynamics of absolute and relative levels of minimum wage. The special attention is paid to the impact of the institute of minimum wage on the labour market. The author considers the mechanism of transmission of the minimum wage increases on the employment and unemployment dynamics. The paper also contains the result of the empirical research. The experience of many countries witnesses that large increases in minimum wage levels lead to the stagnation of the employ-ment, especially of the disadvantaged groups. The negative effect is larger for the companies with higher share of labour costs and more active use of unqualified labour, that is small businesses and agricultural enterprises. One of the main conclusions is that the minimum wage is not an effective tool of the poverty reduction as the majority of the recipients live in households of average and upper average income.
Анализ предложений по надзору за деятельностью финансовых конгломератов
Пеникас Г. И., Малков Е. С. Банковское дело. 2012. № 5. С. 30-32.
The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.
Is Education a Signal on the Russian Labour Market?
Aistov A. Education. EDU. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 5.
This research focuses on estimating the signalling role of education on the Russian labour market. Two well-known screening hypotheses are initially considered. According to first of these, education is an ideal filter of persons with low productivity: education does not increase the productivity of a person, but it does give him the possibility to signal about his innate productivity via an educational certicate. The second of these hypotheses admits that productivity actually does increase during the period of study, but nevertheless the main objective of getting an education is to acquire a signal about one's productivity. Information theory suggests that employees use education signals during the hiring processes whereby employers screen potential employees. Employers and other categories of self-employed workers are usually not screened by the labour market via their educational attainments. Comparison of the returns to education of employees vs. self-employed workers could show the difference between the returns to signals and the returns to human capital. Yet another way to understand the signals is to consider the time dynamics of the returns to education for employees staying in the same firm. This helps us to answer the question about whether the signals are valuable only during the hiring process, or whether they remain valuable during the whole experience with the firm. This research is based on the Mincerian-type earnings functions, estimated on RLMS-HSE and NOBUS data. On the basis of the available information, we cannot say that the returns to signals and human capital differ significantly in Russia. Nevertheless we can say that, for the majority of men, the return to educational signals decreases with time spent in the same firm, while we observe the opposite for women.
Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievements in TIMSS. Findings gained from applying the "first-difference" method to TIMSS-2007 data
Khavenson T., Tyumeneva Y. A. Education. EDU. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 06.
The advantage of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study is that not only does it perform a direct cognitive assessment of students concerning these students' teachers, but also their education, work experience and the instructional strategies used in their classes. In order to estimate teachers' characteristics effects on a student's achievements and overcome the limits of the TIMSS' correlational design, we have employed the first-difference method. Teachers' characteristics effects have also been measured with the usual regression method. The effects discovered varied from one subject field to another, and there has been a difference between the results gained by using the firstdifference method and OLS regression analysis model. The first-difference method has revealed a negative effect of reproductive tasks and group work in math class, whereas comprehension tasks and tasks for developing meta-cognitive skills have shown a positive effect. On the contrary, reproductive tasks for science classes have had a positive effect while comprehension tasks and tasks for developing meta-cognitive skills have had either none or negative effects. Apart from this, a teacher's experience has had a significant effect on natural science subjects as opposed to mathematics. The possible interpretations of these results are discussed in this paper
Теория менеджмента
Жичкин А. М., Гурьянова С. Ю. М.: Московский государственный институт электроники и математики, 2011.
Анализ показателей портовой деятельности
Федоренко А. И., Зеленов Н. Н. Логистика сегодня. 2010. № 5. С. 296-311.
портовый менеджмент, показатели деятельности, анализ эффективности, система учета, распределение издержек, методы анализа деятельности портовой системы
Актуальность и особенности внедрения модуля "управление персоналом" Для предприятий нефтегазового сектора
Дуненко Т., Таратухин В. В. Автоматизация, телемеханизация и связь в нефтяной промышленности. 2010. № 10. С. 7-13.
At present many industries reveal tendency for setting up of vertically integrated companies (VIC) the structure of which unites all technological processes. This tendency proved its efficiency in oil industry where coordination of all successive stages of technological process, namely, oil prospecting and production -oil transportation - oil processing - oil chemistry - oil products and oil chemicals marketing, is necessary. The article considers specific features of introduction of "personnel management" module at enterprises of oil and gas industry.
vertically integrated companies; personnel management
Подходы к определению стратегии
Назарова В. В. Дискуссия теоретиков и практиков. 2010. № 3. С. 33-38.
Исследование систем управления: Управление инновациями и инвестициями
Мешков Н. А., Крупнов Ю. А. М.: Московский государственный институт электроники и математики, 2011.
Political Geography and Foreign Direct Investment
Betschinger M. Исследования по экономике и финансам. WP9. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 2,4.


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« JAIMIE VERNON – MY LIFE WAS SAVED BY ROCK AND ROLL
Frank Gutch Jr: Down By the Old Graveyard— Reviews of Albums I Thought For Sure Could Not Miss….. »
Roxanne Tellier: Every Day I Write The Book
Since very young, I've been a reader. Not just casually, as in checking out the latest Stephen King novel, or flipping through the pages of a tabloid, but a hard core, genuinely addicted, unable to live without books, reader. I'm helpless in the face of the printed word. My books surround me, on shelves reaching to the ceiling, in every room, on every subject. If I were a literary Scrooge McDuck, I'd be diving into a vault full of books, and rolling in vellum.
For a while I sold rare or hard to find books, which gave me license (as though I needed one) to seek out and buy books every day. I spent hours discovering strange little book shops, where I would prowl the aisles like a jungle cat, ready to pounce on any literary tidbit that I could conceivably sell to some other rabid reader or collector. After I'd first read the book myself, that is.
But it's really difficult to part with books, I have found. Sure, I may never need to know how to deep sea dive, but in the event that I do, wouldn't it be a disaster if I had sold or given away this guide written by PADI, the scuba experts organization?
And that's also how I came to own a very fine collection of erotica. Although I may not currently be into S & M, one just never knows. There's so much to learn, if one can keep an open mind.
I have books about the occult, health care, computers, bicycle repair, guns, true crime, marketing, travel, philosophy, religion, and home repair and renovation. And that's just in my office. Other rooms hold other collections that I cannot seem to abandon.
Pride of place, of course, goes to my collection of books about music and the entertainment industry. I have hundreds of books; biographies, autobiographies, compendiums of facts and trivia, sheet music, lyrics, how-to guides, and historical references, not to mention a selection of very old reference guides to understanding the nuances of classical music.
I've also exhausted the resources of the Toronto Public Library system, ordering and devouring hard to find, out of print, novels and histories of the famous and not so famous characters who've caught the public's attention through the years.
I'll never lose my curiosity about the people who have been in and around musical or entertainment history, even though it seems that 95% of the males I know who picked up a microphone or a guitar, claim that they originally did so to impress the ladies. I can't help it; I want to know what magic occurred to make a performer and his or her work important to the world.
There's a mystique about those who can bring music into life. Even fetuses in the womb hear and respond to sound … the love of music is indeed in our DNA. In every civilization, throughout history, the entertainer has held a special place in our hearts, bringing joy, light and dreams to those who listen.
Whether it's the simplest beating on a drum, or a full orchestra, it seems we need and crave music. Without music, life is dull and grey.
Meet Me On The Corner – Lindisfarne
Even those who know how to play and perform want to study the lives and works of other performers. What made that player choose that note, or write that lyric? How did they cope, living with an artistic temperament and flights of fancy, bleak periods of famine and eventual feast, amongst their family and friends? Did they too suffer times when making music was difficult, and other times when the mere act of playing turned the worst of times into the best of times?
A Song for You – Leon Russell
Beyond the personal, we also want to know the technical. Scores of books have been written about the Beatles, and the wizardry of George Martin's productions. Together they created works of art that changed how we all listened to music. Al Kooper's wonderful memoir is a terrific read. He shares the secrets of how classic sounds were created, and bands came together and fell apart, both in and out of the studio.
And then of course, there's the prurient; tell us about the debauchery, the groupies, the crazy antics of nights after a performance, when, still high from the excitement of appearing before a large and enthusiastic audience, the only way to come down is to find some experience never felt before.
Can talent survive the treachery and outright theft that some record companies routinely practiced in the bad old days when music moguls weaseled every penny out of an artist, and then cast them adrift? Can a performer retain a sense of humour and dignity when even their name is co-opted and owned by a label?
For all those one hit wonder artists, was the aftermath worth the soaring momentary thrill? Can your pride survive having tasted fame or notoriety, and then being shunned by an audience who has moved on to some other flash in the pan?
Why are some artists able to handle fame with grace, while others grow increasingly full of their own importance? What demon drives some to take their own lives, accidentally or with purpose?
We also want to know about those who toiled in obscurity, how they handled the pain and shame of having a talent that never quite got the respect it deserved. What insanity drives a performer to work crazy hours for very little money, despite societal disdain, for years on end?
If there are answers to be found, they're hidden in the pages of these, and so many other, fine books. We read, we learn, and we peek behind the scenes of a world most of us can only imagine. There's magic in the music, it can set you free. Read all about it!
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Roxanne's column appears here every Sunday
Roxanne Tellier has been singing since she was 10 months old … no, really. Not like she's telling anyone else how to live their lives, because she's not judgmental, and most 10 month olds need a little more time to figure out how to hold a microphone. After years of doing things she didn't want to do, she's found herself working with a bunch of crazy people who are as batshit crazy and devoted to music as she is, and so she can be found every Monday at Cherry Cola's, completely unable to think of anything funny to say, as the co-host of Bob Segarini's The Bobcast. Come and mock her. She's good with that. And she laughs. A lot. But not at you.
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Brahim Djioua, Jorge Garcia-Flores, Antoine Blais, Jean-Pierre Desclés, Gaell Guibert, Agata Jackiewicz, Florence Le Priol, Leila Nait-Baha, Benoit Sauzay.
In this position paper we describe the actual state of the development of an integrated set of tools (called EXCOM) for automatic semantic annotation. Annotation is generally used as an operation for marking textual segments to express some morphological and syntactic information. Establishing the semantic web on a large scale implies the widespread annotation of web documents with ontology-based knowledge markup. For this purpose, tools have been developed that allow for semi-automatic annotation of web documents with ontology-based metadata. This paper describes an automatic engine for semantic annotations based on linguistic knowledge and making use of XML technologies. We are persuaded that using linguistic information (especially the semantic organization of texts) can help retrieving information faster and better in the web. The basis aim of this engine is to construct automatically semantic metadata for texts that would allow us to search and extract data from texts annotated in that.


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\section{Introduction}

In a recent work Kuwata \cite{KUW}  points out that the existence of a
maximal acceleration (MA), conjectured on different grounds by several authors
\cite{981}, \cite{CROSS},\cite{STAR}
would set an upper limit on the mass of the Higgs
boson. Kuwata argues that the onset of MA would transform the
Higgs--fermion interaction potential,
assumed to be of the Yukawa type, into a low order polynomial
in $r$ at distances less than a critical value $r_c$
. By restricting the polynomial to third order, which requires the MA
to occur at $r=0$, and by demanding the continuity of the two potentials at
$r=r_c$ up to second order derivatives, the short range potential can be
fully determined. The Higgs Lagrangian is then modified to accomodate
the new potential. Standard model relations lead to the upper limit
$\mu=M_W\sqrt{1.77 k \sin^2\theta_W/\alpha}$, where $M_W$ is the mass of the
$W$-boson, $\theta_W$ is the Weinberg angle and $\alpha$ the fine structure
constant. $k\simeq 1$ is a factor that appears in the definition of the
maximal acceleration ${\cal A}=km_r$ $(\hbar=c=1)$ adopted
by Kuwata and $m_r$ is the reduced fermion mass.

The expression for ${\cal A}_m$ used by Kuwata was originally derived by Caianiello
\cite{981}, \cite{984}, and subsequently re-derived by other authors \cite{GP}, by using quantum
mechanics and Landau's theory
of fluctuations. It does not require additional assumptions and is, as such, a concept in search of a deeper interpretation. In related work, in fact, Caianiello and collaborators provided a geometrical
framework in which the MA of a particle directly affects the spacetime experienced
by the particle itself \cite{CCROSS}, \cite{IMM}. According to this model, a particle of mass $m$
accelerating along its worldline experiences a spacetime of metric
\begin{equation}\label{eq1}
d\tilde{s}^2=ds^2\left(1+\frac{\eta_{\mu\nu}\ddot{x^{\mu}}
\ddot{x^{\nu}}}{{\cal A}_m^2}
\right)=\sigma^2(x)ds^2\, {,}
\end{equation}
where $ds^2$ refers to Minkowski space whose metric $\eta_{\mu\nu}$ has
signature $-2$ and $\ddot{x}^{\mu}\equiv d^2x^{\mu}/ds^2$ is
the four--acceleration of the particle \cite{981}.
Unless explicitly stated, we choose $k=2$ \cite{GP}.

Generalizations to include background gravitational fields can be obtained by
replacing $\eta_{\mu\nu}$ with the corresponding metric tensors.
Several important implications of Eq.(\ref{eq1}) have already been discussed
in the literature \cite{LAM}, \cite{LET},\cite{NS}, \cite{REL}.
The purpose of this paper is to show that Eq.(\ref{eq1})
also places limits on the mass of the Higgs boson. These limits do not require additional changes to the Higgs Lagrangian, are consistent with those  of
Ref.\cite{KUW}, when allowance is made for the different values of $k$,
and with the experimental limits $50$GeV$\leq\mu\leq1000$GeV obtained
 by using radiative corrections \cite{EXC}. They are derived and discussed
in Section 2. Section 3 contains a brief derivation of the Dirac equation
for the metric (\ref{eq1})
and a discussion of its most noticeable consequences. Eq. (\ref{eq1})
also allows the derivation of a formula relating the masses of the
standard model fermions and bosons to that of the Higgs boson.
The relation between MA and standard model is further discussed
in Section 5 where a mass generating mechanism is also introduced.
The conclusions are presented in Section 6.

\section{Limits to the Higgs mass}

It is possible to establish an upper limit to $\mu$
starting from Eq. (\ref{eq1}) directly. An explicit expression for
$\sigma(x)$ can be obtained classically by assuming, as in Ref.\cite{KUW}, that
the fermion--fermion interaction can be represented by a Yukawa potential
$$
V(r)=\frac{g_H^2}{4\pi}\,\frac{e^{-\mu r}}{r}\,{.}
$$
One immediately finds
\begin{equation}\label{eq2}
\sigma(r)=\sqrt{1-\left(\frac{1}{\pi v^2}\right)^2\frac{e^{-2\mu r}(1+
\mu r)^2}{k^2r^4}}\, {,}
\end{equation}
where $v=\sqrt{2}<0\vert\phi\vert0>=246.2185$GeV is the usual
standard model parameter.

Since $d\tilde{s}$ is real, $\sigma(r)$ must remain real for all values of
$\mu$ and $r$. When $\vert\ddot{x}\vert={\cal A}_m$, $\sigma(r)$ vanishes.
On the other hand $\sigma(r)\sim 1$ for $r>>1/\mu$. At these distances
the fermions do not
interact appreciably with the Higgs boson. A function $r_c(\mu)$ must therefore
exist such that $\sigma(r)\geq 0$ for $r\geq r_c(\mu)$. An expression for
$r_c(\mu)$ can be  obtained by expanding $\sigma(r)$ to third order in
the neighborhood of $1/\mu$, where the
acceleration presumably reaches its highest values, and by
equating the result to zero. The expansion is given by
\begin{equation}\label{eq3}
\sigma(r)\sim B + \frac{9.32758\cdot 10^{-12}\mu^5}{B}(r-\frac{1}{\mu})+
\end{equation}
$$
\frac{1}{2}\left(-\frac{8.70037\cdot 10^{-23}\mu^{10}}{B^3}-
\frac{5.31672\cdot 10^{-11}\mu^6}{B^7}\right)\left(r-\frac{1}{\mu}\right)^2+
$$
$$
+\frac{1}{3}\left[\frac{1.7256\cdot 10^{-17}\mu^7}{B}+
  \right.
$$
$$
\left.
+\frac{1.39914\cdot 10^{-11}\mu^5}{B}\left(\frac{8.70037\cdot 10^{-23}\mu^{10}}{B^4}
+\frac{5.31672\cdot 10^{-11}\mu^6}{B^2}\right)\right]
\left(r-\frac{1}{\mu}\right)^3\,{,}
$$
where $B=(1-3.73103\cdot 10^{-12}\mu^4)^{1/2}$. Expression (\ref{eq3})
is real if $B$ is real, which yields $\mu\le 719.52$GeV. Of the three solutions
for $r$ obtained by equating (\ref{eq3}) to zero, only one is real.

It  also follows that
$r\ge 0$ for $316.1$ GeV$\leq\mu\leq719.5$ GeV. These are the limits of validity
of the solution. They are not affected greatly by adding additional terms to the
expansion for $\sigma(r)$. At order $(r-1/\mu)^5$ one finds in fact $225.4$ GeV
$\leq\mu\leq 719.53$ GeV for $k=2$.

In this model it seems therefore possible to establish a lower
limit in addition to an upper one. However the lower limit is only a construct
of the approximation, devoid of physical meaning. Eq (\ref{eq2})
does in fact diverge at $r=0$.
For each value of $\mu$ there is a value
of $r$ for which $\sigma=0$. For the choice $k=1$ of Kuwata, the corresponding
limits at $O((r-1/\mu)^3)$ are $223.5$ GeV$\leq\mu\leq 508.8$ GeV.
In both instances the upper limits are well above
the energy ranges of recent searches \cite{ALE}.
Contrary to Kuwata's results, the MA is reached for $r=0$ only for $\mu$ at the
lower limit, where the solution becomes inaccurate.
Eq. (\ref{eq1}) also affects the fermion--fermion interaction.
This is shown in the next section.

\section{The covariant Dirac equation}

With the introduction of the metric tensor
$\tilde{g}_{\mu\nu}=\sigma^2(x){\eta}_{\mu\nu}$, the Dirac equation must be
generalized to curved space--time and connected to a local Minkowski frame
by means of the vierbein field $e_{\mu}^a(x)$, where Latin indices refer to
the local frame and Greek indices to a generic non--inertial frame. The
vierbeins follow from (\ref{eq1}) and are given by $e_{\mu}^a(x)=\sigma(x)
\delta_{\mu}^a$. The covariant Dirac equation has the form
\begin{equation}\label{eq3.1}
[i\gamma^{\mu}(x){\cal D}_{\mu}-V(r)-m]\psi(x)=0\,{.}
\end{equation}
The matrices $\gamma^{\mu}(x)$ satisfy the anticommutation relations
$\{\gamma^{\mu}(x),\gamma^{\nu}(x)\}=2\tilde{g}^{\mu\nu}(x)$. The covariant
derivative ${\cal D}_{\mu}\equiv \partial_{\mu}+\omega_{\mu}(x)$
contains the total connection $\omega_{\mu}=\sigma^{ab}\omega_{\mu ab}$,
where $\sigma^{ab}=[\gamma^a, \gamma^b]/4$,
$\omega_{\mu\,\,\,\,b}^{\,\,\,\,a}=
(\Gamma^{\lambda}_{\mu\nu}e_{\lambda}^{\,\,\,\,a}-
\partial_{\mu}e_{\nu}^{\,\,\,\,a})e^{\nu}_{\,\,\,\,b}$ and
$\Gamma^{\lambda}_{\mu\nu}$ represent the usual Christoffel symbols.
For conformally flat metrics $\omega_{\mu}=\sigma^{ab}\eta_{a\mu}
(\ln\sigma)_{,b}$. By using the transformations $\gamma^{\mu}(x)=e^{\mu}_a
\gamma^a=\sigma^{-1}(x)\gamma^{\mu}$, where $\gamma^{\mu}$ are the
usual position--independent Dirac matrices, Eq. (\ref{eq3.1}) becomes
\begin{equation}\label{eq3.2}
\left[i\gamma^{\mu}\partial_{\mu}+i\frac{3}{2}\gamma^{\mu}(\ln\sigma)_{,\mu}
-m\sigma-V(r)\sigma\right]\psi(x)=0\,{.}
\end{equation}
\noindent From Eq. (\ref{eq3.2}) one finds the Hamiltonian
\begin{equation}\label{eq3.3}
H=\vec{\alpha}\cdot\vec{p}+\gamma^0V(r)\sigma(r)-
i\frac{3}{2}\gamma^0\gamma^{\mu}(\ln\sigma)_{,\mu}+m\sigma(r)\gamma^0\,{.}
\end{equation}
The line element (\ref{eq1}) therefore induces additional potential terms in
the Hamiltonian. They are represented by the last two terms in Eq.
(\ref{eq3.3}) and give rise to a combined potential which is in general
spin--dependent and highly repulsive for $\sigma(r)< 1$.

In the present calculation $\sigma(r)$, given by Eq. (\ref{eq2}), is
time--independent, hence all potential terms are conservative \cite{PAR}. Classically
the fermions will therefore accelerate toward the centre of mass while
adjusting their speeds to the height of the potential barrier they move over.
Once they reach the barrier, they must bounce back.
Numerical studies of these terms indicate that when $\mu\simeq 700$ GeV and
the total fermion energy is also close to $700$ GeV, the bounce back occurs at
$r\simeq 0.00184$ GeV$^{-1}$, while $\sigma$ vanishes at
$r\simeq 0.0013975$ GeV$^{-1}$. The highest value of the acceleration reached
by the fermions at $r\simeq 0.00184$ GeV$^{-1}$ is $\sim 0.49 {\cal A}_m$. For
$\mu\sim 500$ GeV and a total fermion energy also of $500$ GeV the barrier is
hit at $r\simeq 0.002037$ GeV$^{-1}$ where the acceleration is
$\sim 0.46 {\cal A}_m$.
Only at the lower limit $\mu=316.1$ GeV$^{-1}$ is $\vert\ddot{x}\vert={\cal A}_m$
at $r=0$.
With the exception of this limiting case, a consequence of the approximations made,
Kuwata's assumption that the MA is
reached at $r=0$ during the interaction cannot be made in the present model. It also follows that the limits determined in Sect. 2,
corresponding to accelerations undamped by the repulsive barrier, represent
indeed the extreme upper limits derivable from this geometrical
model.

Qualitatively one may also conclude that as the two fermions approach
the limiting value of the potential and their relative speed becomes non
relativistic, the term $\gamma^0\gamma^{\mu}(\ln\sigma)_{,\mu}$, that
connects the small spinor components, is switched off. The residual potential
then becomes slightly negative allowing the fermions to weakly bind to
each other already for $\mu\sim 400$ GeV. No quantitative analysis of the effect of the repulsive
barrier has so far been
carried out for the quantum scattering problem.
The barrier effect on the energy spectrum has however been
analyzed in detail in the case of hydrogenic atoms \cite{LAM}.

A study of the curvature invariant
\begin{equation}\label{eq3.4}
R=-\frac{6}{r}\frac{1}{\sigma^3(r)}[2\sigma^{\prime}(r)+
r\sigma^{\prime\prime}(r)]
\end{equation}
indicates that R is always positive or null and grows rapidly in the neighborhood
of those
values of $r$ and $\mu$ for which $\sigma =0$, as expected.

\section{Scale changes}

It is interesting to observe that for values of $g_H$ given by the standard
model, $\sigma(r)$, represented by (\ref{eq2}), is independent of the mass of the
accelerated fermions and depends only on the mass of the Higgs boson.
The same applies to the accelerated $W$ and $Z$ bosons in the Yukawa potential
approximation of Sect. 2.
It now follows from Eq. (\ref{eq1}) that if the
characteristic length of an accelerated particle is
$ds\approx m^{-1}$, $ds$ will contract to a length
$\tilde{ds}\approx \mu^{-1}$ when the particles are
accelerated. The contraction is due to the conformal factor $\sigma$ which provides an immediate, approximate relationship between $m$ and $\mu$.
From Eq. (\ref{eq1}) and (\ref{eq2}) one obtains the formula

\begin{equation}\label{eq8}
m=\mu\sqrt{1-\frac{4\mu^4}{(\pi ev^2)^2k^2}}\, {,}
\end{equation}
where $(\pi ev^2)^{-2}\sim 3.73103\cdot 10^{-12}$GeV$^{-4}$ and $e$ is
Neper's number. Given $\mu$, one may in principle derive the values of $m$ from Eq. (\ref{eq8}). In fact this equation has always the real and positive solution
$$
\mu\simeq m\quad\quad \mbox{for} \quad\quad
\frac{4m^4}{(\pi ev^2)^2k^2}\ll1\,{,}
$$
corresponding to the uncontracted length, and the solution
$$
\mu\simeq \sqrt{\frac{\pi ev^2 k}{2}}\quad\quad \mbox{for}
\quad\quad m^2\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi ev^2 k}}\ll 1\,{.}
$$
 The latter solution gives the value of $\mu$ at which a change in scale occurs. On applying (\ref{eq8}) to scattering processes involving the
fermions and bosons of the standard model
one obtains the solutions given in Table I.
The results for the lower fermion masses are very sensitive to the value of
$\mu$. On using the formula \cite{UNK}
$$
m_t=180\pm7+13\ln\frac{\mu}{300\mbox{GeV}}\,{,}
$$
and the values of $\mu$ determined from Eq. (\ref{eq8}) one finds for $k=2$
$$
 m_t=180\pm7+11.372=\left\{ \begin{array}{c}
                                 198.372\mbox{GeV} \\
                                 184.372\mbox{GeV}
                              \end{array}
                       \right.
$$
and for $k=1$
$$
 m_t=180\pm7+6.867=\left\{ \begin{array}{c}
                                 193.867\mbox{GeV} \\
                                 178.867\mbox{GeV.}
                              \end{array}
                       \right.
$$
All these values are consistent with the global fit to all data given in
Ref.\cite{UNK}
$$
m_t=180\pm 7^{+12}_{-13}\mbox{GeV}
$$
and with the values of $m_t$ obtained from (\ref{eq8}).
Finally, the solution $\mu\simeq \sqrt{\pi e v^2 k/2}$ may be written as
\begin{equation}\label{eq8b}
\mu=M_W\frac{2}{g}\sqrt{\frac{\pi ek}{2}}=
M_W\sqrt{\frac{1.36k\sin^2\theta_W}{\alpha}}
\end{equation}
in good agreement with Kuwata's formula given in Sect. 1 and the limit of Sect. 2.

\section{\bf MA and the Standard Model}

The
behaviour of the Dirac equation at $\sigma=0$ is pathological.
The particle's behaviour is however well defined for increasing acceleration up
to, but excluding, the MA. For decreasing $\sigma(r)$ the particle's effective mass,
$m\sigma(r)$, decreases and so does the term $V(r)\sigma(r)$.
These features aptly embody the notion of asymptotic freedom in the
model. On the other hand, the repulsive barrier grows logarithmically, which
indicates that the MA is classically unattainable.

Eq. (\ref{eq3.2}) remains invariant in form under the
transformation $\sigma\to
i\vert\sigma\vert $. Fermions with acceleration higher than the MA
may therefore be thought of as particles obeying the Dirac equation,
but in regions of space--time where the roles of space and time
are interchanged relative to the usual ones.

The two regions, $\sigma$ imaginary (I) and $\sigma$ real (II) are
disconnected.
The detailed behaviour in the neighborhood of $\sigma =0$ will in general
depend on $g_{\mu\nu}$ in the metric $\tilde{g}_{\mu\nu}=
\sigma^2g_{\mu\nu}$.
In I the light cone is rotated by $\pi/2$ relative to II. Fermions may possibly travel
from I to II and II to I but only as far as $r_c$ ($\sigma=0$).
The fermions are confined
to their world tubes and that of the Higgs boson by the action of $V(r)\sigma(r)$ but are prevented from
reaching the MA by the combined action of $m\sigma(r)$ and the logarithmic
potential.

The space--time experienced by the accelerating particle has, however, nonvanishing
curvature inside the world tube. This leads to interesting consequences.
A Lagrangian term $(\xi/2)R(x)\sigma^2(x)\vert\phi(x)\vert^2$,
where $\xi$ is a
parameter, usually accompanies any field capable of interacting with
gravity. Though $R$ is really experienced only by the accelerating particle,
its dynamics in the field that produces acceleration must be
effectively consistent with the presence of
this interaction term. For Higgs fields one must have $\xi\leq 0$ or
$\xi\geq 1/6$ \cite{HOS}. The Higgs potential then becomes
\begin{equation}\label{Hpot}
{\it V}(\phi)=\left(\bar{\mu}^2\vert\phi\vert^2 + \frac{1}{2}\xi
R\vert\phi\vert^2 + \lambda\vert\phi\vert^4\right)
\sigma^2\,{,}
\end{equation}
where $\bar{\mu}$ is the usual mass parameter that appears in the Higgs mechanism
and $\lambda >0$. Formally, the vacuum has minima at
\begin{equation}\label{min}
\vert\phi\vert=\pm\sqrt{-\frac{\bar{\mu}^2+
(\xi/2)R}{2\lambda}}\equiv \frac{v}{\sqrt{2}}
\end{equation}
and the mass of the Higgs boson becomes
\begin{equation}\label{Hmass}
\mu^2=-2\left(\bar{\mu}^2+\frac{\xi}{2}R\right)\sigma^2=2\lambda v^2\sigma^2\,{,}
\end{equation}
where, as usual, $\mu^2$=2$\lambda v^2$ for $\sigma^2= 1$.
It follows from (\ref{min}) and (\ref{Hmass}) that the MA provides an additional
independent symmetry breaking mechanism which is present even when $\bar{\mu}=0$.

Several possibilities now exist: \\
i) $\xi>0$. If in addition $\bar{\mu}^2>0$,
then $\vert\phi\vert$ in Eq. (\ref{min}) becomes imaginary, the only minimum
of ${\it V}(\phi)$ is at $\vert\phi\vert=0$ and the symmetry is not broken.
If, on the contrary, $\bar{\mu}^2<0$ as required by the usual Higgs mechanism, then
one can have either $\vert\bar{\mu}\vert^2>(\xi/2)R$, which leads to spontaneous
symmetry breaking and minima at
$$
\vert\phi\vert =\pm\sqrt{\frac{\vert\bar{\mu}\vert^2-(\xi/2)R}{2\lambda}}\,{,}
$$
or $\vert\bar{\mu}\vert^2<(\xi/2)R$ with the minimum at $\vert\phi\vert =0$
as before. The particular value $\vert\bar{\mu}\vert^2=(\xi/2)R$ restores the
original unbroken symmetry and implies $\mu =0$. \\
ii) $\xi<0$. If one also has $\bar{\mu}^2>0$, two additional cases are possible:
a) $\bar{\mu}^2>(\vert\xi\vert/2)R$ . The only minimum of Eq. (\ref{Hpot})
is again at $\vert\phi\vert =0$; b) $\bar{\mu}^2<(\vert\xi\vert/2)R$. The
new minima occur at
$$
\vert\phi\vert=\pm\sqrt{\frac{\vert\bar{\mu}^2-(\vert\xi\vert/2)R\vert}{2\lambda}}
$$
and the symmetry is broken.  Finally, if $\bar{\mu}^2<0$, the symmetry is again
broken and the vacuum minima are at
$$
\vert\phi\vert=\pm\sqrt{\frac{\vert\bar{\mu}^2\vert+(\vert\xi\vert/2)R}{2\lambda}}
\,{.}
$$
The particular value $\bar{\mu}^2=(\vert\xi\vert/2)R$ also restores the original
vacuum value $\vert\phi\vert =0$. In all instances the corresponding values of
$\mu$ can be easily derived from Eq. (\ref{Hmass}).

All possibilities require some sort of mass generating mechanism to be associated
with $\xi R\sigma^2$. In order to show that this mechanism is present, the
choice $\bar{\mu}=0$ in Eq. (\ref{min}) is particularly appropriate. On averaging
$\sigma^2 R$ over three dimensional space
\begin{equation}\label{aver}
<\sigma^2 R>=\frac{\int_0^{1/\mu}\sigma^6(r)R(r)r^2dr}{\int_0^{1/\mu}
\sigma^4(r)r^2dr}
\end{equation}
and expanding the integrands to order $(r-1/\mu)^5$, one finds that
the equation
\begin{equation}\label{avereq}
\vert\xi\vert<\sigma^2 R> - \mu^2 = 0
\end{equation}
has solutions for $\vert\xi\vert\geq 0$. For $(1/100)\leq\vert\xi\vert\leq 100$ one
gets $420$ GeV$\leq\mu\leq 635$ GeV. The value $\mu\sim 555$ GeV occurs at
$\vert\xi\vert =1/6$. For $\vert\xi\vert =1$ one finds $\mu\sim 615$ GeV and
$\mu$ does not increase beyond $635$ GeV for $\vert\xi\vert\geq 100$.
In fact no value of $\vert\xi\vert$ exists that can move $\mu$ to the
upper limit of Sect. 2. The case $k=1$ is entirely similar.
For $(1/100)\leq\xi\leq 100$ one finds $296$ GeV $\leq \mu\leq 450$ GeV with
$\mu \sim 392$ GeV at $\vert\xi\vert =1/6$ and increasing from
$435$ GeV at $\vert\xi\vert =1$ to $450$ GeV for higher value of
$\vert\xi\vert$. Here too no value of $\vert\xi\vert$ yields
$\mu\sim 508$ GeV, the upper limit discussed in Sect. 2.

\section{Conclusions}

Kuwata's derivation of an upper limit for the value of the Higgs boson mass is based
on the maximal value that non--relativistic quantum mechanics places on the acceleration
of a particle. It is, as such, perfectly legitimate.

Caianiello's geometrical model, on the other hand, is more complete. It incorporates
the notion of MA, but also contains detailed dynamical prescriptions for the
behaviour of an accelerating particle. These are essentially contained in Eq.
(\ref{eq1}) and its effect on the actual form of the Dirac equation. The reality of
$\sigma(r)$ already is sufficient to place an upper limit on the mass of the Higgs
boson. For the sake of comparison with Kuwata's results estimates have been given
for both $k=2$ and $k=1$ (Kuwata's choice), though present measurements of the Lamb
shift in hydrogenic  atoms agree with $k=2$, but not with $k=1$.

The result, $\mu\leq 719.5$ GeV, must indeed be considered as an upper limit
because the actual value of the MA is not reached by the particle,
as derived in Sect. 3 from the covariant Dirac equation.
In a non-geometrical approach the Dirac equation takes its usual Minkowski space form and no information is available about the additional potential terms present in Eq. (\ref{eq3.3}).
Using Eq. (\ref{eq1}) one can also derive Eq. (\ref{eq8}) which links the
masses of all particles in the standard model to the mass of the Higgs boson.
This equation reproduces all values of fermions and bosons well (Table I): they correspond to their original uncontracted scales. A change in scale occurs however for the solution Eq. (\ref{eq8b}) that agrees well, for $k=1$, with  Kuwata's result and the limit of Sect. 2. Section
5 discusses a number of implications that (\ref{eq1}) has for the standard model.
In general one may conclude that (\ref{eq1}) provides an additional
independent symmetry breaking mechanism that may affect the vacuum minima
in a variety of ways. A mass generating mechanism can be associated
with the average curvature experienced by an accelerating particle.
When the mass parameter $\bar{\mu}$ of the standard model vanishes,
Eq. (\ref{Hmass}) for the Higgs boson mass has solutions
$420$ GeV $\leq \mu\leq 635$ GeV over a wide range of values of the
parameter $\xi$. The additional restriction introduced by the mass generation
mechanism is perfectly compatible with the upper limit $\mu\leq 719.52$ GeV
imposed by the reality of the conformal factor $\sigma (r)$.

\bigskip
\begin{centerline}
{\bf Acknowledgments}
\end{centerline}

Research supported by NATO Collaborative Research Grant No. 970150,
Ministero dell'Universit\`a e della Ricerca Scientifica of Italy
and the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada.

G.P. gladly acknowledges the continued research support
of Dr. K. Denford, Dean of Science, University of Regina.

G.L. and G.S. wish to thank Dean Denford for his kind hospitality
during stays at the University of Regina.

\newpage

\begin{center}
Table I
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c||c|c}\hline
            &   $k=2$         &   $k=2$            &  $k=1$          &  $k=1$ \\
Interaction & $m(\mbox{GeV})$ &  $\mu(\mbox{GeV})$ & $m(\mbox{GeV})$ &
                                                             $\mu(\mbox{GeV})$\\
                                                                       \hline
$Hee$  & $0.511\cdot 10^{-3}$ & 719.52  & $0.511\cdot 10^{-3}$ & 508.8 \\
$Huu$  & $5\cdot 10^{-3}$ & 719.52  & $5\cdot 10^{-3}$ & 508.8 \\
$Hdd$  & $10^{-2}$ & 719.52  & $10^{-2}$ & 508.8 \\
$Hbb$  & 4.3       & 719.51  & 4.3       & 508.8 \\
$Htt$  & 180.716   & 707.54   & 181.8    & 490.7 \\
$Hss$  & 0.34      & 719.52   & 0.34     & 508.8 \\
$Hcc$  & 1.3       & 719.52   & 1.3      & 508.8 \\
$HWW$ & 80.33    & 717.25   & 80.4     & 505.5  \\
$HZZ$ & 91.2     & 716.6    & 91.2     & 504.6   \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

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The Old Rochester Regional High School's girls' basketball team bounced back from its first loss of the season on December 28 when they defeated Wareham, 56-4, in a dominant performance. Maddie Wright led the Bulldogs scoring 16 points with 4 steals. Sydnee Pires contributed 6 points and 5 rebounds. Maggie Brogioli added an additional 4 points with 4 steals.
The ORR defense proved to be too big of a hurdle for Wareham to overcome, holding the Vikings to a single three-point field goal. The one-sided contest contrasted greatly from the Lady Bulldogs' prior game, a 60-41 loss against Dartmouth on December 21. Their first game of the New Year will come at home against Dighton-Rehoboth on Friday, January 7, at 6:30 pm.
The boys' team also faced Wareham on December 28 but had a much different result. After defeating the Vikings in their first game of the season, the Bulldogs found themselves on the wrong end of a 67-52 result. Wareham was firmly in control for the entirety of the game, with the Vikings' lead getting as big as 21 points at one point. The Bulldogs were able to close the gap at some points, getting as close as 9 points away in the third quarter, only for the Vikings to come back strong.
Braden Yeomans scored 16 points for ORR, Steve Morrell scored 12, and Sawyer Fox added 9 points. The Bulldogs hosted Fairhaven on Tuesday and will visit Dighton-Rehoboth on Friday, January 7, at 6:30 pm.
Girls Hockey
The ORR girls' hockey team played two games last week, first losing 7-1 against Bishop Stang on December 27 at Hetland Memorial Arena. ORR's lone goal was scored by Heather Lapworth in the first period. The Bulldogs then took an 8-2 loss against the Plymouth North/South coop team at Armstrong Arena. They faced Nantucket on Wednesday and will visit Stoughton on Saturday, January 8, at Canton Ice House.
ORR's boys' hockey team competed in the Dartmouth Holiday tournament at Hetland Memorial Arena, missing a shot at the championship game by a goal. The Bulldogs fell 5-4 to Foxboro on December 28 and lost a 6-1 game for third place against the host Indians. ORR's next game comes on Saturday, January 8, against Bourne at 8:15 pm at Gallo Ice Arena.
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By Matthew Curry


There is $600,000 worth of water features, play conga drums, new restrooms and park benches in Sheppard Park that weren't there last summer.
If Lexa Harley, 27, had to fill out a form or pay a fee for her four children to run through the spray ground at Sheppard Park, they probably wouldn't have gone there.
Finding a place for her kids to play without having to register for something or open her wallet is about as easy as filling out a form in the middle of those water spouts.
There may be things for kids to do in Louisville, but it's not always affordable and it doesn't always fall near a bus route, she said.
That leaves a lot of low income families searching for things to do, she said, but the new spray ground is a good step toward fixing that.
She and her children had taken a walk to Sheppard Park, 1601 Magazine St., on Wednesday afternoon right around the time dignitaries with Vision Russell, a Louisville Metro Housing Authority project designed to advance the neighborhood, were celebrating the launch of the Sheppard Park improvements.
Now there is $600,000 worth of water features, play conga drums, new restrooms, picnic tables and park benches in Sheppard Park that weren't there last summer.
That theme of growth and change has really taken hold in Russell lately.
The park improvements were one of four action activities designed to boost further investment to the Russell neighborhood. The community recently got five new art-focused bus shelters, and new large scale murals for railway overpasses are on the way. The program is also working on new creative uses for four vacant lots in the neighborhood.
But this is just the beginning, Manfred Reid, a longtime Russell resident and chair of the Louisville Metro Housing Authority's board of commissioners, told the small crowd at the park on Wednesday. The community is bracing for the razing and redevelopment of the Beecher Terrace Housing complex into a mixed-income facility with updated amenities.
Louisville Metro received a $29.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative to fund that project and the replacement housing and services needed for it. That money along with another $200 million worth of additional funding sources will give new life to the West End neighborhood.
It's a project that Reid expects will serve as a model for replacing dated, inadequate housing. When its finished, he believes that communities will look to Beecher Terrace, its pocket parks and the vibrancy of the Russell community as something to emulate.
The spray gorund is really just the first splash.
And even though it's a small one in the grand scheme of things, it's a big one for parents like Harley.
"This, this alone I think you'll see a very big change for a lot of the youth in this area," she said. "You don't have to go all the way to down to the waterfront.