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Get to know some of Markham Stouffville Hospital's supporters and what inspires them to give to our hospital.
Beverley and Barry leave a lasting legacy to Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation
Beverley and her husband Barry are healthy today thanks to Mr. Arthur Latcham's visionary donation and other Markham Stouffville Hospital (MSH) donors.
MSH's Dr. Hui discovered Beverley had arthritis in her neck pressing against her spinal column. Luckily for her, it was found quickly and surgery was performed, avoiding the possibility of a detrimental outcome.
Over the years they have both had successful surgeries at the hospital. And they are so grateful for the care they have received — care that is much more than the medical procedures. The care has been the attitudes of the doctors and nurses, always kind, generous and compassionate.
Back in 2002, Barry's dad passed away from cancer, despite the hospital's best efforts to save him. Barry recalls how Debbie, the nurse looking after his dad, did everything imaginable for him in his last few days, including arranging for a state-of-the-art bed and television so they could watch one final NHL game, together.
"It's a wonderful final memory of time with my father. And a wonderful memory of the care he received from Debbie and other hospital staff," said Barry.
Mr. Latcham's vision and generosity inspired them to leave a legacy in their will to MSH Foundation. It's their way of giving back, of paying it forward. To help our hospital remain at the leading edge of innovation to deliver progressive care for the next generation.
Learn how you can leave a legacy in your will.
Builder's transformational gift names Markham Stouffville Hospital's Cancer Clinic
Shakir Rehmatullah, President and Founder of Flato Developments, is a builder and land developer in Southern Ontario. Shakir was inspired by his father, Rehmatullah Habib, who was also a leader in the industry in Pakistan. Following in his father's footsteps, Shakir has placed a strong emphasis on being a community builder and philanthropist, making significant contributions to Markham and many charitable initiatives benefiting youth, seniors, sports & recreation, arts & culture and health care. Shakir is a very passionate supporter of the City of Markham and Markham Stouffville Hospital.
Shakir believes that building strong and healthy communities is much more than building homes. In honour of Shakir's commitment to Markham Stouffville Hospital, we are proud to name The Shakir Rehmatullah Cancer Clinic in recognition of his exceptional support. Our sincere thanks to Shakir Rehmatullah & Family for sharing our vision to provide the extraordinary care our families need and deserve.
Markham is home to Flato Developments head office and Shakir takes great pride in living in this community with his wife, Mariam, and their four children — Eshal, Usman, Ayana and Daniyal.
Thank you for believing in our hospital. Your generosity is inspiring.
Brian and Louise discover the many rewards of legacy giving
Brian Monti and Louise Ferri believe there is no more important cause than healthcare. "To me, it's obvious. Why wouldn't you support your local hospital?" says Brian. "You need water and food to sustain yourself, but if you don't have good health it limits your quality of life. It really puts it all into perspective. The quality of our health is important. We need good healthcare, and we need more of it."
So when it came time to plan for the future, they looked no further than their special connection to Markham Stouffville Hospital.
"This is our hospital," says Louise. "We've had many experiences here. We've benefitted from the hospital and contributed in various forms before, but we wanted to get more involved. We wanted to invest in something as fundamental as healthcare for our community."
As residents of Unionville since 1987, Brian and Louise have donated to the hospital over the years and decided to make a future longer-term contribution.
"It's important for us to think of what will happen with our estate. It made so much sense to set aside part it for Markham Stouffville Hospital," says Brian.
When they learned of the benefits of making such a gift, the decision was an easy one. "Why wait for someone else to make decisions on your estate? Why pay more taxes when you can contribute to your community and pay less tax? Why not take charge of your future and your estate?" Brian asks.
For Brian and Louise, a legacy gift is both a chance to give back as well as an opportunity to look well into the future. "We're proactive when it comes to our lifestyle. We know the value of long-term planning. We don't like to leave things to chance."
"But we plan to be around for a long time!" says Brian, laughing. "Yes, we're planning for way down the road!" Louise says with a smile.
Anne Forsythe Moore says 'thank you' each and every month
For Anne, a retired professor and mother of three grown sons, joining Markham Stouffville Hospital's 'Family of Monthly Supporters' is a fitting way to communicate her deep appreciation for her hospital.
As a loyal monthly donor, she shows her gratitude to the skilled health care team at MSH that worked quickly and efficiently in an emergency situation to relieve severe health complications caused by her husband Roger's enlarged prostate.
Expert care followed with an accelerated surgery schedule and excellent post-operative care.
"I wanted to make a statement about how I feel about Markham Stouffville Hospital," Anne said. "It's my way of thanking the doctors and health care professionals who helped my husband.
It makes me feel good to give back for the care he got when he needed it."
Alex Chiu Golf Tournament raises funds for hospital expansion
Councillor Alex Chiu hosted the inaugural Alex Chiu Golf Tournament fourteen years ago. The proceeds have benefited many charitable causes over the years, both international and local. Through his annual tournament, $250,000 has been raised to support Markham Stouffville Hospital's much-needed expansion. And in recognition of this contribution, a Patient Exam Suite in the hospital's new Emergency Department has been dedicated in honour of the Alex Chiu Golf Tournament.
"Newcomers to Canada, like Alex Chiu, come to build a better future for themselves and their children. With his long-standing dedication to public service, Alex is doing just that. This contribution to Markham Stouffville Hospital's Expansion Campaign is a further testament to his strong commitment to our community. Thank you, Alex, and the Alex Chiu Golf Committee for helping create better lives for our future" – Mayor Frank Scarpitti, Co-Chair, Expansion Campaign.
Stouffville Homebuilder gives funds to Markham Stouffville Hospital
For Fairgate Homes, it all comes down to quality. This Stouffville-based family-operated homebuilder prides itself on its tradition of personal attention and commitment to customer service. Fairgate Homes' founders, the Mauro and Ronco families have experienced first-hand Markham Stouffville Hospital's first-class care and commitment to excellence. As a testament to this shared belief in never compromising quality, Fairgate Homes has given $250,000 to support Markham Stouffville Hospital's much-needed expansion. In recognition of this contribution, one of the hospital's operative delivery rooms has been dedicated in honour of The Fairgate Family.
"Markham Stouffville Hospital and Fairgate Homes are both deeply rooted in the Stouffville community. We also share a commitment to excellence and a passion for making our neighbourhoods better. For these reasons, making this donation to Markham Stouffville Hospital – our community hospital – made perfect sense." – Tony Mauro & Emilio Ronco, Fairgate Homes
Grade 3 student gives back with 'Mike's Love Lemonade'
At 8, Michael James is already a seasoned event planner and budding philanthropist. This spring, the Grade 3 student at Franklin Street Public School hosted a fourth annual fundraising event in his Markham neighbourhood. He refers to it as his lemonade stand, but that's a bit of a humble misnomer. He does offer lemonade—but also a selection of home-baked sweets, pizza, snow cones and flowers and vegetable plants.
Last year, he raised and donated $800 to the Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation. His goal this year was $1,000—a number he was thrilled to report he more than doubled, by raising $2,036.
Charity is important to the James family. They support children in need across the globe through World Vision and causes in their own community through work at their church and other initiatives. When their son was five, Andrew and Shameeza James encouraged Michael to find his own way to give back—and the lemonade stand was launched.
Organizing the stand begins several weeks before the big day, held the Saturday of the May long weekend. Michael starts saving his allowance (he receives $20 a week for helping around the house) to buy supplies and working on a flyer he distributes door-to-door in his neighbourhood. This year's reads: Michael's Love Lemonade. Please help us raise money. The days leading up to the sale are spent shopping and preparing the items to be sold. Michael, an accomplished cook who prepares weekly meals for his family, spends hours in the kitchen with his mom, who is a chef.
On Saturday morning, Michael, as well as any family members and friends who have volunteered to help, don aprons and name tags and open the stand to their community. "It becomes more like a gathering of neighbours," Mrs. James says. "We put out chairs and people sit and hang out. Even if they don't buy anything, they still donate."
Food, she says, has a way of bringing people together. The impassioned pitch of a hard-working young man doesn't hurt either. "When you help somebody, people will help you," Michael says of the support he gets from his neighbours, adding he is sometimes surprised by their generosity. If everyone contributed in some way "the world would get better," he says. "When you work hard, you can go more places," he continues. 'You're happy when you've done something good. When you set a goal and you finish it, you're so happy."
Michael has a connection to Markham Stouffville Hospital: It's where he was born. And he understands the money he raises helps sick people get better. Mrs. James says foundation staff are enthusiastic in their support of the lemonade stand. They hosted a small event last year— with a giant cheque, photographs and a present for Michael of a T-shirt designed to look like scrubs—to honour his donation. "He was so proud," she says.
When asked about his long-term plans, Michael says fundraising will be a lifelong endeavour. His mom looks surprised when he also replies he wants to be a chef or a doctor—it's not the same thing he would have answered a week or two before, but considering the topic at hand, it seems appropriate.


After being restored to the budget that was passed by the Legislature last week, funding for the Department of Transportation's Transit Village program was removed from the FY 2012 spending plan signed by Governor Chris Christie on June 30.
The governor used his line-item veto power to eliminate funding for the program, along with a host of other items that had been included in the budget approved by the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
The Democrats' proposal would not have increased spending to pay for the Transit Village program; rather, it included language that directed DOT Commissioner Jim Simpson to dedicate $1 million to the program from already allocated funds. The governor's line-item veto struck this language from the budget.
Hey Jay. Hoping u r well sir. What type of impact do u and Pete think this has on development efforts around our Trenton Transit Village?
The Transit Village in Trenton is stilled stalled in terms of development around the station; wish we could some movement here from the city in terms of moving forward with developers.


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Mühle, J., J. Huang, R. F. Weiss, R. G. Prinn, B. R. Miller, P. K. Salameh, C. M. Harth, P. J. Fraser, L. W. Porter, B. R. Greally et al. "Sulfuryl fluoride in the global atmosphere." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 114, no. D5 (2009): D05306.
Rigby, M., R. G. Prinn, P. J. Fraser, P. G. Simmonds, R. L. Langenfelds, J. Huang, D. M. Cunnold, P. L. Steele, P. B. Krummel, R. F. Weiss et al. "Renewed growth of atmospheric methane." Geophysical Research Letters 35, no. 22 (2008): L22805.
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What is the Intermediate Punishment - Non DUI Program?
The Philadelphia Diversion Court Unit is managed by the District Attorney's Office. The criminal courts in Philadelphia have continued their development of diversionary initiatives and programs involving alternative sentencing. They now maintain a host of these programs including Domestic Violence Diversion, Mental Health Court, Future Forward, and more. These provide opportunities for defendants to move forward without a criminal record and avoid the often difficult "collateral consequences" that result.
Requirements for Entry
The Philadelphia Intermediate Punishment (IP) Non-DUI Program is divided into two distinct parts. The County Intermediate Punishment Program is designed for those with no past or current offenses that are violent. The State Intermediate Punishment Program is designed for those with no past or current offenses that are violent; however, they may have some prior criminal convictions. In both cases, the offenders are drug and/or alcohol dependent.
The defendants in these actions will enter a guilty plea to the charges. The offenders will begin with an evaluation called Forensic Intensive Recovery (FIR). This assessment is used to decide on the course of treatment that is best suited for the individual. The three options for treatment are as follows:
Intensive Outpatient: This requires one year of Intermediate Punishment that includes six months of house arrest. The offender will perform community service for 40 hours and be subject to two years of probation.
Short-Term Inpatient: This requires one year of Intermediate Punishment that includes three months of house arrest. The offender will complete community service for 40 hours and be subject to two years of probation.
Long-Term Inpatient: This requires one year of Intermediate Punishment that includes performing community service for 40 hours and serving two years on probation.
Two Tiers of County Intermediate Punishment
Tier 1: Offenders that are on Level 3 of the Sentencing Matrix are placed here. It does not involve house arrest. Defendants must complete their treatment plan that was established in FIR. The total process involves two years of probationary supervision, with one year being intensive. A probation officer may visit the offender's home or the offender will visit the probation office regularly.
Tier 2: Offenders that are on Level 4 of the Sentencing Matrix are placed here. The length of probation and house arrest are determined at the discretion of the probation staff.
State Intermediate Punishment
The State IP program is typically an alternative to serving a prison sentence. Drug evaluation is conducted by the Department of Corrections. They generate a report for the court within 60-days. The defendant may be sentenced to Intermediate Punishment for 24 months. There will be an initial sentence at a state institution and the following:
At least seven months in a correctional facility and at least two months in drug and alcohol treatment
At least two months of inpatient drug and alcohol treatment at a community facility
At least six months of outpatient drug and alcohol treatment
Offenders are "reintegrated" into the community
Those who are not appropriate for drug and alcohol treatment are eligible for an alternative offered by the prosecutor. The District Attorney's Office will use its discretion in the conditions of alternative sentencing. Minor violations of the conditions may result in sanctions being imposed. There is no eligibility for expungement in these options.
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Attorney
Are you facing accusations of committing a criminal offense? Joseph D. Lento has represented clients for many years in criminal matters. He will analyze the evidence, facts, and circumstances to craft an effective strategy of defense. For a complimentary case evaluation, contact the office at (215) 535-5353 today.
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Santa Fe Softball Feature: "Just Do It"
Sasha Stein March 19, 2019	College Softball, Santa Fe, Softball 530 Views
Karina Ortiz-Munoz
Imagine moving to a new country and not knowing anyone or how to speak the language.
That is exactly what Karina Ortiz-Munoz did. Ortiz-Munoz is a freshman on the Santa Fe softball team and moved to the United States this past year to fulfill her dreams of studying and playing softball in the United States.
The outfielder is from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico and said that the transition was difficult due to a language barrier. "It has been a little bit difficult because when I first came in I didn't know almost anything in English," Ortiz-Munoz said.
Ortiz-Munoz credits reading and asking questions to her being able to learn English.
"It was hard to communicate and understand teachers, but I just kept reading. Reading really helped me a lot to understand English," Ortiz- Munoz said.
Soon after, her goals later turned into reality."I always dreamed of studying in the United States and playing softball here. It was something that I always looked forward to and it was my goal," Ortiz-Munoz said.
"I just decided to do it."
Ortiz-Munoz said she worked hard to be able to play in America because she thought she would have a better future here. " I thought I would have a better future here, so I kept training and working out, and I got a scholarship."
One of Ortiz-Munoz's coaches in Puerto Rico helped her to get a scholarship, allowing her to come to Santa Fe to play. She also credits this coach for helping her adapt to the new experience of moving.
Ortiz-Munoz came to the US by herself, leaving family and friends behind to chase her dream.
"I came to the United States alone. I don't have any family here. I just went for it because it was my dream. I just really wanted to play softball here and I just did it," Ortiz-Munoz said.
Saints softball head coach Lindsay Fico has high praise for Ortiz-Munoz. "She is flourishing in the classroom and on the field. I think she is a great success story," Fico said.
The freshman has played in all 32 games this season, hitting one home run and having 15 RBI.
"I really enjoy the level of competition here, I love how they work hard every single day, and how we have to balance between school and softball."
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About Sasha Stein
Sasha Stein is a current UF student aspiring to become a sports reporter/broadcaster.
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Manchester United interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was a pleased man after his side earned a hard-fought victory at Leicester City in a crucial Premier League encounter. The Mancunian club won the tie 1-0 after Marcus Rashford fed on Paul Pogba's delightful assist to drill in a goal.
What was good to see was the team earning a clean sheet with a central pairing of Eric Bailly and Victor Lindelof, who have appeared together as a central partnership three times under Ole.
The centre-backs kept out the Foxes on another edgy afternoon for United. The two players had come together to see out Arsenal in the FA Cup fourth round, as well in the 4-1 victory over Bournemouth.
The Old Trafford club conceded two goals at home against Burnley in the Premier League this midweek, and that prompted Solskjaer to recall Bailly for Phil Jones.
The United manager was pleased with Bailly and Lindelof's performance against Leicester. In his post-match conference, Ole said: "Fantastic to have a clean sheet. And they played well against Arsenal together.
Bailly and Lindelof were expected to be the main central pairing after they arrived over two seasons under former manager Jose Mourinho.
The Swedish international has looked strong this season and has become a natural choice. Bailly's time at United hasn't been a smooth one. Injuries, rashness, and inconsistency has seen his progression stall.
But performances as such will bring in confidence for the manager and the players. Bailly will hope that he can keep both Phil Jones and Chris Smalling at bay and be a prominent feature under Ole.


The Nintendo Switch has a dedicated button to take screenshots. It can now even record videos in some games, too. These screenshots and videos are saved to your Switch's internal storage or a microSD card, and you can view them, move them around, and post them to Facebook or Twitter right from your Switch.
Or, of course, you can remove the microSD card and pop it into a PC, the way you would with a normal camera. Always be sure to shut down the Nintendo Switch before removing the microSD card. To do so, long-press the Power button located next to the volume controls and select Power Options > Power Off.
The Nintendo Switch's controllers have a dedicated "Capture" button that works in any game or system menu.
On the Joy-Con controllers, look at the bottom of the left Joy-Con. You'll see a square button with a circle inside it. Press the button to take a screenshot. You'll hear a sound and you'll see a "Capture Taken" notification on your screen.
On the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, look at the middle of the controller. You'll see the same square button with a circle inside it to the left of the Home button. Press this button to take a screenshot. You'll hear the same sound and see the same "Capture Taken" notification.
With the Nintendo Switch OS 4.0 update, Nintendo added the ability to record gameplay to the Nintendo Switch. At launch, this only works with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, ARMS, and Splatoon 2. More games will add support for this feature in the future.
To record gameplay, you use the same Capture button you use to record screenshots. Just press the button and hold it down instead of pressing it normally. Your Nintendo Switch will automatically capture and save a video of the last 30 seconds of your gameplay You'll see a "Saving" notification while it's saving the clip.
To view all your screenshots and videos, head to your Nintendo Switch's home screen, select the "Album" icon, and press the A button on your controller to open it.
The Album view shows all your screenshots and videos, whether they're stored on your console's internal memory or on a microSD card. Select a screenshot or video and press A to view it.
If you like, you can select "Filter" or press Y and filter the Library to show only screenshots, only videos, content from a specific game, media stored on the internal system memory, or media stored on the microSD card.
You can share a screenshot directly on Facebook or Twitter from your Nintendo Switch.
To do this, head to Home > Album and select a picture or video. Press the A button to view it and then press the A button again to access the Editing and Posting screen.
If it's a screenshot, you can select "Add Text" to add text directly to the picture. The text tool allows you to choose a size, color, and position for the text.
Select the "Post" option to post your screenshot or video to a social media account.
You'll be prompted to choose a user account on the Switch and then choose either Facebook or Twitter. If you haven't previously linked a Facebook or Twitter account to your Switch, you can do it from this screen.
You'll be prompted to enter a comment that will appear on your social media post. After you do, select "OK" and your Switch will post the screenshot or video to Facebook or Twitter.
You can trim a video clip down if you don't want to share all 30 seconds of it. To do so, head to Home > Album, choose the video you want to edit, and select "Editing and Posting" or press A. If it's a video clip, you can select the "Trim" option here use the slider bar to choose which part of the video you want to keep. Select "Save" or press A when you're done to save your changes.
Your Nintendo Switch can save your screenshots and videos to either its internal storage or a microSD card. The microSD card can be removed and taken to a computer where you can access the screenshots and videos, if you like. By default, the Switch will save your screenshots and videos to the microSD card if you've inserted one. Otherwise, it will save them to its internal system storage.
Note that the Nintendo Switch doesn't come with a microSD card, so you can only do this if you've purchased a microSD card for your Nintendo Switch or have one lying around.
To do this, open your home screen and select "System Settings".
Head to Data Management > Manage Save Data/Screenshots and Videos > Manage Screenshots and Videos > Save Location and choose either "microSD Card" or "System Memory" as your preferred save location.
You can copy any screenshot or video to a microSD card, which can be removed from your Nintendo Switch and taken to a computer where you can copy the screenshots or videos from it. You can also copy screenshots and videos from the microSD card to the system storage, if you want to remove the microSD card from the console.
To copy an individual screenshot or video, open the Album view from your home screen, select the screenshot or video you want to copy, and press the A button to view it. Press A again to enter the Editing and Posting menu.
From the Editing and Posting menu, select "Copy". Your Nintendo Switch will copy it from the internal storage to the microSD card or vice versa.
To delete a screenshot or video, head to the Album view from your home screen. Find the screenshot or video you want to remove from your switch and press the X button. Select all the media you want to delete and then select the "Delete" button.
Your Nintendo Switch allows you to manage your screenshots and videos all at once. For example, you can copy all the screenshots and videos between your Switch's internal storage and microSD card, or delete all screenshots and videos from your internal storage or microSD card.
For example, this would allow you to copy all the screenshots and videos from your Nintendo Switch's system memory to a microSD card so you could take them to a computer.
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ROY ORBISON was the man with the jet black quiff, oversized sunglasses and searing vocals. A brand new stage show takes a look at the career of the Big O - who would have been 80 this year. Seasoned Orbison impersonator Barry Steele takes to the stage in The Roy Orbison Story, which will run for one night only in Motherwell on May 21.
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Wow, Roguish. You expressed more of what I was trying to say. Thank you.
Most religions use for their liturgy, scripture, and all "weighty" writings an archaic language that is no longer used (or was never used) as a means of everyday communication. The Roman Catholics have Latin, the Eastern Orthodox have Slavonic, the muslims have classical Arabic, the Hindus have Sanskrit, the Buddhists have Pali and classical Tibetan, etc. etc.
Why? Because such a language affords a certain mental (and therefore practical) insulation and buffering from the prosaic thought that vernacular language is associated with. You see, a language corresponds to a certain way of thinking, as anyone who speaks multiple very different languages can confirm. (English and Spanish isn't a strong example, because they're still too similar. English and Japanese would be a good example.) When you switch to a (very) different language, you become a slightly different person, because the other language simply works differently.
Good thoughts. It depends on the situation. Depends on the country, the parish, the needs of the locals.
There is also a good case to be made for effective and simple communication, and this need for effective communication is intensified by the huge array of information we are bombarded with. In a time when people are deluged with words and images, the Church is wise to communicate the liturgy to it's people, with language that is straightforward.
In English, it's usually rendered as Blessed be the Lord, my God. But if you translate it literally, it's Blessed Lord, my God.
Latin in the Church started out as a common vernacular. So indeed there is nothing inherently "special" about it.
IMHO, what makes it special now is that because of the above, the Church has accumulated a large corpus of sacred music in Latin, as well as having redacted a huge number of official documents in Latin. Ya gotta start somewhere, and Latin as a base language for Church documents, edicts, etc., makes sense because it is a language that is largely unchanging. It's the starting point from which all official translations flow. If we didn't have it as a base language, translations would wind up being a huge mess and a Mass in French might take on a different meaning than one in, say, German. We'd end up with translations of translations of translations as the Church spread out around the globe. Realistically though, Italian is now the working language of the Vatican.
For me, as a Gregorian chorister and student of Gregorian chant, the sacred music patrimony of the Church is, for better or for worse, in Latin. That seals the deal for me. However I also recognize that few today know now to read or understand it, and that's why I like the approach of the abbey I'm affiliated with: Latin is used for the propers and ordinary of the Mass (along with a tiny bit of Greek), and French plainchant (the local vernacular) for the rest.
For my own recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, I chant it in Latin, but silently re-read the psalm in French (my mother tongue) after having chanted it. It makes my liturgy very beautiful, slow-paced enough to be meditative, and yet still understandable. It takes me about 25 minutes to chant Lauds and Vespers in this manner.
Cool. That's another reason I like to pray in Latin and memorize Bible verses in Latin. It makes me slow down and meditate and what I'm saying and studying. God bless you, OraLabora for your consecrated life in the Church.
God bless you, OraLabora for your consecrated life in the Church.
By my understanding, @OraLabora is a Benedictine Oblate: while he's a part of the Benedictine family and associated with one of their monasteries, he is still a layman and not a consecrated religious.
@OraLabora, I've just started using the 1962 breviary, and I can tell that a lot of this was meant to be chanted. But I don't know the chants and my sheet reading is poor, Gregorian chant or otherwise. Would you have any advice for strengthening one's Gregorian muscles?
Good conversation and good insight. My concern was definitely that some appear to worship the language as an idol, that the language itself is somehow more holy than English or other local language. I find this with my Jewish friends and family with Hebrew as well, and our local Rabbi has warned against it at Friday night Shabbat services.
Do most priests understand latin these days? Is it still part of their seminary training? Can you 'get by' in hte priesthood without a deep knowledge of latin? Just curious.
All I know is I took four years of Latin in high school and wish I'd spent that time doing something useful.
Although we did get to see a lot of cool movies.
It is my understanding that for a long time Latin was widespread among Europeans, even common people. If people in the next county spoke a dialect you could not understand, Latin was the only means of communication. It was the "English" of its day. Nowadays almost everybody in Europe (and plenty of other places) can converse in English.
As to the Mass, anybody who pays attention can come to understand it in Latin. I sometimes attend a Spanish Mass and if it had not been for my exposure to Latin years ago, I wouldn't understand it.
Not as well or as many as there ought to be. I remember hearing a story about the late Bishop Morlino. The night before priests become bishops, they recite basically an oath of office. He apparently didn't understand a single word if it, since it was all in Latin, and wasn't taught that in seminary. What sense does it make that priests of the Latin rite do not understand the language of the Church?
When Jerusalem was destroyed on Hadrian's orders at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135, whatever Jewish Christians may still have been living there were dispersed and Jewish Christianity effectively died out within a period of a generation or so. After that, there was no longer a Hebrew- or Aramaic-speaking church, only the Latin-speaking church in the western half of the Roman Empire and the Greek-speaking church in the eastern half.
As @Dovekin points out, Latin and Greek were the vernacular languages spoken in the early Church.
If you can pick up a Liber Usualis, usually there's a section on the basics in front.
If you ask me starting with the '62 breviary will be too much to bite off at once. I use Les Heures Grégoriennes, which is the current 4-week LOTH with Latin on one side, French on the other. Certainly it's more manageable.
Another good start is Antiphonale Romanum II which is Vespers of Sundays, Feasts and Solemnities for the current LOTH, all in Latin. The Offices are relatively short.
Mode 3 (modern): median and finale both with two accents.
Mode VI: median of one preparation syllable and one accent, finale of two preparation syllables and one accent.
Mode VIII: median of one accent, finale of two preparation syllables and one accent.
C (in directum): median 1 accent, 2 preparation syllables, finale c: maintain recitation cord; finale c2, one accent, two prep. syllables.
E (irregular): median of 1 accent, finale with two accents.
Tonus peregrinus: median of three preparation syllables and one accent, finale of 1 preparation syllable, 1 accent.
A good way to get this is put an antiphon to a psalm and point all the notes in the psalm, where italics are preparation syllables, and bolds are accents. You will need accented psalm texts to do this.
If two notes are directly superposed on each other, you go up. A bit of solfège helps. There are other nuances in the notes, but to start concentrate on getting the pitch of each note right. Les Heures Grégoriennes also came with a set of CDs where the antiphon and the first verse are chanted, it really helped.
Otherwise Google is your friend, there are tons of resources out there, especially on YouTube.
Ah, not to worry! I've prayed the current breviary for a couple years now, and the wonderful people at Baronius press have theirs with the English and Latin side by side. It's truly a wonderful set of books! But I wish the ribbons weren't so flimsy. I think I'll have to buy some clear nail polish.
Sounds like I'll be consulting YouTube for some time! I've heard of the eight modes, so that's a good starting point! Thank you very much!
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What I do to my ribbons: I burn candles during Lauds and Vespers of Sundays, feasts and solemnities in my small oratory. When I blow out the candle and there's still some liquid wax below the wick, I simply dip the end of the ribbon in the wax. It solidifies quickly, and prevents fraying!
I think it might be helpful if chants are transposed into "regular" musical notation, so the average choir member with some piano lessons in their past can read.
I know that takes some of the authenticity away.
We already do this in our choir with a couple of chants. The chant is simply notes on the staff.
Latin was the vernacular language of the western roman empire, and for over a thousand years it continued to be used as a common language throughout western Europe even after the vernaculars drifted apart. The use of Latin is part of an ancient tradition (small T) of the Church, and there's something to be said of the connection of people all over the world and across centuries praying together in the same language.
It's not God's own holy language or anything, but east or west (whether it's Latin or Greek or Syriac or something else), the participation in millenia old liturgies and traditions is appreciated.
I think for the same reason that, in the East, they have a healthy respect for Syriac and Greek. I think the last supper was probably in Aramaic, not Hebrew, although I do believe it's possible it was in Hebrew. The apostles were Jewish, they would have understood liturgical Hebrew. I don't think Latin is necessarily Superior to vernacular languages, because the reason Latin is used, is because in the West for a very long time it was the vernacular, then it became the lingua Franca. I think with some people, it's just what they're used to, and some other people they just like drawing themselves to that ancient tradition. I can't complain about that, because I like Byzantine liturgy for the same reason. The Melkite Greek Catholic church's official language is Arabic, but in the United States they mainly use English, but when they started putting more Arabic in the liturgy at the local Melkite church, I was ecstatic, I thought that was awesome because that is the Melkite church's official language. My own preference for the western church, is mainly English with some Latin. Again, there's nothing wrong with either one though. If you want to go to Mass in Latin, by all means go to Mass in Latin, if you want to go in the vernacular go in the vernacular. I think what matters more, is that you're going.
That is correct. Even today we use "INRI" (Latin acronym) on the top of most crucifixes we pray with.


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Sponsors of this event include: Alliance Francaise d'Omaha, American Friends of Blérancourt, La Renaissance Française (USA), the Frances Gould Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Réunion des Musées nationaux, UNO's Goldstein Center for Human Rights, and the KANEKO-UNO Library. UNO Exhibit Sponsors include: Departments of Foreign Languages and Literature, History, Political Science, and Women's and Gender Studies; School of Communication; Grace Abbot School of Social Work; UNO Women and Public Policy Week; and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy.
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But Mrs. Uzoma's faux pas is particularly worrisome because it plays right into Nigeria's tricky and testy primordial fissures. If the reports I read in Daily Trust are credible, the north appears to be disadvantaged in the recruitment that the Interior Ministry just invalidated. Since "terrorist" is now the insult of choice some (certainly not all) southerners throw at northerners in moments of aggravation, Mrs. Uzoma's statement is now being interpreted by northerners to mean a whole host of things.
First, many northerners have taken the interpretive liberty to say that by "terrorist" Mrs. Uzoma was using a "dog-whistle" rhetorical tactic to refer to northerners, especially because northerners appear to have the least representation in the now voided recruitment. Second, she is understood as implying that because "terrorists" and "northerners" are now indistinguishable, she wanted to save the immigration service from being infected with the virus of terrorism by recruiting as few northerners into the service as she possibly could.
All this would have seemed like wildly improbable conjectures but for the absolute low watermark to which Nigeria has descended in inter-ethnic relations lately. Last week, I wrote about the bigotry and impropriety of the insinuation in some wacky, ethnocentric circles that the plane crash that took the lives of Governor Patrick Yakowa, General Owoye Azazi, two pilots, and two aides occurred because the plane was piloted by a "Hausa man" who couldn't possibly be smart enough to handle the complexity of air navigation.
Many people have called my attention to a more callous, insidious insinuation that says that the pilot was a "terrorist" who was on a suicide mission to kill Christians! No less a person than Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of Nigeria, propagates this insensitive conspiracy theory on his Facebook timeline.
So this has gone from being the scorn-worthy whispers of the vulgar herd to the discursive staple of some members of "polite" society. And an invidious narrative is taking hold in our national discourse, and that narrative is the notion that northern Muslims can no longer be trusted in the military and paramilitary forces. Their every move is now monitored and their motives scrutinized. It appears that the sins of the crazed, homicidal, and misguided terrorist Boko Haram is now being visited on every Muslim. This has deepened the persecution complex that many northern Muslims already grapple with.
That was the context in which Mrs. Uzoma's statement has been understood. In other words, she has been understood as saying that she marginalized the north in her recruitment because she thinks every northerner is a potential terrorist. The only northerner worthy of being recruited, she is interpreted as implying, is the one that has been recommended by a top government official. Advertising the immigration officer posts, as the law requires, she is also understood as saying, would attract a swarm of "northern terrorists."
Her case is not helped by the revelation that Kano, which our latest census figures say is Nigeria's most populous state, has only 350 officers in the immigration service out of the Service's current staff strength of 25,000. Sokoto State has the fewest number of officers with only 200. Imo, where Mrs. Uzoma's husband comes from, has 1,190 officers.
Now, I'm the first to admit that this may well be selective, self-serving statistics. It is entirely possible that if we see the complete list of states and the distribution of officers from every state this narrative would crumble. It may also very well be that when Mrs. Uzoma said she didn't advertise the positions in the Immigration Service because she wanted to keep terrorists out of the service she didn't mean what she has been interpreted to mean. She was probably just fishing for an excuse, any excuse, to explain away her violation of public service recruitment protocols.
I hear that Mrs. Uzom is a thoughtful and level-headed person. I don't imagine that she would knowingly say and mean something that crude, hurtful and stupid. But in this season when suspicions and distrust have hit the nadir of hoplessness, it won't hurt for public officials to guard what they say in public.
If I seem to be less concerned about her alleged nepotism than I am about her use of "terrorists," it is because as a communication scholar I am sensitive to the implications of (in)advertent perpetuation of stereotypes through language.
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Q: In Final Fantasy XIII, why are some fal'Cie's mobile such as Barthandelus, while fal'Cie like Orphan remains in his chamber in the Cocoon? fal'Cie are godlike beings possess the power to curse humans, transforming them into 'l'Cie.

A: Each Fal'cie was created for a purpose (by one of the Fabula Nova Crysalis mythos's gods - usually either Pulse (Gran Pulse Fal'Cie) or Lindzei (Cocoon Fal'Cie), but note that Lindzei, Pulse, and Etro are themselves referred to as Fal'Cie created by Bhunivelze), and beyond the capacity to transform humans into l'Cie they each have precisely and only the capabilities they need to fulfil that purpose.
In this respect, Fal'Cie are the ultimate expression of "form follows function".
One of Orphan's lines suggests that the function in question is the Fal'Cie version of a Focus - but unlike a human-made-l'Cie, they do not have consequences for defying or failing their Focus, but rather are literally incapable of doing so. A Fal'Cie simply cannot take any action that doesn't at least indirectly further its Focus, but its power to act towards that Focus is vast almost beyond comprehension. The problem comes when, like Orphan, "two irreconcilable Focuses [it bears]".
That, despite all the Fal'Cie's manipulation and coercion, humans and l'Cie are far freer than Fal'Cie are is a major underlying theme of the story.
Barthandelus's Focus was to rule Cocoon and orchestrate the attempt to open Etro's Gate - and to do that, he needed  to be able to move around and appear human, so he was able to do those things, but he wasn't able to act directly to achieve the second, because it conflicted with the first - hence his need for Anima. Atomos's Focus was excavation as part of terraforming, with a suspected additional agenda of seeking the Gate beneath the earth, both of which again required mobility. Carbuncle's was food production, which doesn't need the ability to move, so all Carbuncle could do was float where it was and manage the hydroponic gardens. Likewise Kujata, with a Focus of generating power for use by Cocoon's populace, was immobile.
Orphan, by the nature of its mode of  existence before the end of FFXIII, is a slightly special case, but the same principles apply.

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Q: How can I teach a model using single class in machine learning using Keras? I am new to machine learning and currently got a good start in binary and multi-class model development using Keras.
Now I would like to learn how I could teach a model for outlier image detection.
I used the binary classification method to teach the outlier class by separating the outlier class from other image class. This method does not work as soon as I give an image that was not during teaching and the outcome is totally unpredictable.

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*Where should I start this ?

*Is there any online tutorial(s) I could follow ?

A: There isn't such a thing as single-class classification. Your problem is binary since you are differentiating between two classes (normal, outlier).
Having said that, your problem might be too little data for the outliers. Unbalanced classes might not produce good results so you should try that first. The second problem might be the model's parameters not having the right values, this requires some experimentation on your part.
I can't say much since the problem is so vague. If you want to post some code and some results I could tell more.


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Thank U, Next ( für 'Danke, nächster') ist ein Lied der US-amerikanischen Sängerin Ariana Grande. Es erschien am 3. November 2018 als erste Singleauskopplung aus ihrem gleichnamigen fünften Studioalbum über Republic Records.

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Komposition
Thank U, Next ist ein R&B-Pop-Song mit Elementen aus dem Synthpop. Die Tonart ist Des-Dur und das Tempo liegt bei 108 Schlägen pro Minute. Der Stimmumfang von Grande reicht in Thank U, Next von As3 bis C5.

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Der Text zu Thank U, Next ist in englischer Sprache verfasst. Grande bezieht sich im Text auf ihre vergangenen Beziehungen zu Big Sean, Ricky Alvarez, Pete Davidson und Mac Miller (Malcolm).

Im Refrain singt sie

und stellt damit dar, dass sie dankbar für ihre gescheiterten Beziehungen ist.

Musikvideo
Zum Release der Single erschien ein einfaches Video auf YouTube, in dem lediglich das Cover der Single zu sehen ist. Dieses zählt bis Ende März 2021 über 160 Millionen Aufrufe auf dem Videoportal. Am 6. November 2018 folgte ein Lyrics Video, das bis Ende März 2021 über 130 Millionen Aufrufe zählt.

Am 30. November erschien dann das offizielle Musikvideo, welches unter der Regie von Hannah Lux Davis gedreht wurde. In dem Video spielen neben Grande auch noch Kris Jenner, Jennifer Coolidge, Colleen Ballinger, Jonathan Bennett und Troye Sivan mit. Das Musikvideo wurde in den ersten 24 Stunden nach Release über 55 Millionen Mal aufgerufen und damit zu dem YouTube-Video mit den meisten Aufrufen innerhalb des ersten Tages nach Release. Bis Ende März 2021 wurde es über 625 Millionen Mal aufgerufen.

Rezeption

Kritik
Thank U, Next erhielt überwiegend positive Kritiken und wurde von zahlreichen Fachmagazinen als eines der besten Lieder 2018 gelistet. Billboard listete den Song darüber hinaus auch auf ihrer Liste der "100 Songs, die das Jahrzehnt definiert haben."

Jahresbestenlisten

Auszeichnungen

Kommerzieller Erfolg

Chartplatzierungen
Thank U, Next stieg unter anderem in Großbritannien und den Vereinigten Staaten auf Rang eins in die Singlecharts ein. Das Lied wurde damit für Grande zum ersten Nummer-eins-Hit in den Vereinigten Staaten und gleichzeitig zu dem 32. Lied, das je auf Rang eins der Hot 100 debütieren konnte.

In den Spotify-Charts erreichte das Lied in der Woche Rang eins mit 47.098.337 Streams. In der darauffolgenden Woche hielt sich das Lied mit 59.975.503 Streams auf Rang eins, womit es sich auf Platz sechs der Lieder mit den meisten Streams innerhalb einer Woche befindet.

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Veröffentlichung
Thank U, Next erschien am 3. November 2018 ohne vorherige Ankündigung zum Streaming und als Download über das US-amerikanische Musiklabel Republic Records.

Am 3. Januar 2019 kündigte Grande an, dass eine 7-Zoll-Vinylschallplatte mit Thank U, Next auf der A-Seite und Imagine auf der B-Seite erscheinen wird und ab sofort vorstellbar ist. Die Auslieferung folgte acht bis zehn Wochen später.

Mitwirkende
 Ariana Grande: Gesang, Liedtexter
 Victoria Monét: Hintergrundgesang, Liedtexter
 Tayla Parx: Hintergrundgesang
 Njomza Vitia: Liedtexter
 Kimberly Krysiuk: Liedtexter
 Tommy Brown: Liedtexter, Produzent
 Michael Foster: Liedtexter, Produzent
 Charles Anderson: Liedtexter, Produzent
 Billy Hickey: Toningenieur
 Brendan Morawski: Toningenieur-Assistenz
 Sean Klein: Toningenieur-Assistenz
 Serban Ghenea: Abmischung
 John Hanes: Abmischung-Assistenz
 Randy Merrill: Mastering

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Ariana-Grande-Lied
Lied von Ariana Grande
Nummer-eins-Hit
Mehrfach-Platin-Lied (Vereinigte Staaten)
Mehrfach-Platin-Lied (Vereinigtes Königreich)

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Netflix 2021 Release Date & What To Expect: Cobra Kai Season 3
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Netflix's newest series, Cobra Kai, is piloting the world by storm. A sequel to the original Karate Kid series, Cobra Kai brings back the legendary Karate Studio, this time led by Johnny Lawrence. Not solely that, but Daniel Larusso is also behind with his rivalry with Johnny.
With a new generation of students signing up to learn karate with these two former fighters, things collide between the past and the present for everyone. With two seasons previously, fans are questioning if there is a third on the horizon for Cobra Kai. So will you be back for more fun?
Is Cobra Kai Season 3 Happening?
Yes, as part of the deal, Netflix will also bring the show back for season three. Fortunately, this means that fans won't have to worry about a pending renovation and can look forward to seeing their favorite characters.
When Cobra Kai season 3 Premiere?
Fortunately, Cobra Kai finished filming earlier this year and series co-producer Josh Hurwitz already knows what fans will do next. I can't wait to see the finale of Cobra Kai season 3. But I can't wait to see you, especially in the last 90 seconds. People go crazy. I know I always do, he inscribed on Twitter.
Cobra Kai Season 3? Expected Release Date
Although the season has already been filmed, Netflix revealed that the third season will not premiere until 2021. Although the official release date has not yet been revealed, fans will have to wait a little longer to find out what happens next.


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Q: C++ 11 std::binomial_distribution is unstable When using std::binomial_distribution implemented by clang++, I am seeing some very unhappy behaviour:
default_random_engine rng;

vector<double> p{0.2500000000000000000000000000000000000000,
                 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929395,
                 0.5999999999999999777955395074968691915274,
                 1.0000000000000002220446049250313080847263};

for (auto &i : p) {
  binomial_distribution<int> binom(1000, i);
  cout << binom(rng) << " ≈ " << 1000 * i << endl;
}

Here is the result:
254 ≈ 250
340 ≈ 333.333
598 ≈ 600
628 ≈ 1000 # WAT? - should be around 1000

Quite curiously, if you try to call binomial_distribution<int>(100, p[3]), it hangs forever. This latter behaviour later is undesirable, but expected - the probability of success should not exceed 1.
In case you are wondering, the above values of p come from generating multinomial variates using conditional binomial method in adapting gsl_ran_multinomial.
My compiler is clang++ under El Capitan 10.11.4
Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.4.0

Thanks!

A: As you already stated, p (the probability of success) must be less than or equal to 1.  It seems that passing an invalid value as you are doing, with the current implementation in Clang, makes it re-use the previous value (0.5999 in your case).
In short, you seem to be invoking undefined behavior.  Anything could happen.  Boost's implementation is documented as throwing an exception when p is out of bounds.


We needed to ship some very expensive artwork and various other office items from North Carolina to France so I looked on the internet and looked for a moving company that had experience in international moving. Well - I sure picked the right company! They had to crate the artwork and box all other items and it was done in a very timely and professional manner!! I highly recommend this company!! Thank you!!


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Sinister Beings (2021)
Other name: 逆天奇案
Ruco is a stellar detective in the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB). He is brave, competent, highly regarded by his superiors and admired by his colleagues, but his ultimate dream is to join the Special Duties Unit. Another elite OCTB detective, Ben Wong, has a shrewd mind and lots of experience. Although Ruco and Ben handle things differently, they appreciate each other's talent and complement one another's weaknesses. The police get ambushed by criminals and suffer heavy losses. To find the mastermind behind the plot, Ruco gives up his dream and stays at OCTB. Aside from that, Ruco and Ben face a series of complicated and unpredictable unnatural cases! The two of them use reverse thinking, psychological game theory and careful analysis to deconstruct a criminal's thinking and motives! Nothing can escape from the nets of heaven!
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Genre: Crime; Detective; Drama; Friendship; Investigation; Mystery;
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In 2011, the Harvard Business School founded the U.S. Competitiveness Project, which reports on the state of the U.S. economy, its competitiveness, and what steps could be undertaken to make improvements. The 2016 report, titled "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided" by Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Mihir A. Desai, and Manjari Raman, is a startling look at how the U.S. economy arrived at its present position and the challenges it faces going forward. The authors make a case that although the U.S. economy is growing faster than in many other developed countries, our present growth, job creation, and income gains lag behind our historical economic growth.
The authors review how the U.S. was a pioneer in the world to strengthen universal public education, public infrastructure such as the federal highway system, and the funding of research. After WWII, the public and private sectors closely collaborated on these objectives. At the same time, regulations hampering business were low and labor markets could make quick adjustments. However, over time, investment and focus on these key elements started slowing down. At the same time, the report states, new technology, a changed geopolitical system, and a shift in governance allowed business to be conducted from "anywhere to anywhere." It was during a time period in which large firms became mobile across the globe. Technology spurred the creation of more automated processes, thus allowing companies to operate with fewer, albeit more highly skilled, workers.
While these shifts brought on positive changes, the report states several unforeseen consequences occurred. The connectivity between businesses and their communities weakened, thus reducing the participation of companies in local education and infrastructure. Second, the American working class found itself struggling to keep up with new technology advances and foreign competition that threatened their traditional livelihood. Finally, those with higher skills such as engineers, managers, and innovative entrepreneurs saw their opportunities in the global market expand, and inequality along the employment spectrum greatly increased. On the governance side, U.S. regulations increased, the tax code became more complicated, and costs in areas such as healthcare soared, all serving to decrease the competitive advantage of the U.S.
According to the authors, rather than refocusing on infrastructure and educating the middle class to compete, the U.S. made promises to "maintain the illusion of shared prosperity," such as the over-extension of credit to people who could not pay back the debt, increased entitlements, the cutting of taxes across the board, and increased public-sector employment/benefits. These moves left governments at all levels overextended and the focus shifted to paying for the past instead of investing in the future. A political fight ensued over who was to blame for the deepening crisis, and the ability to address these complex challenges was stifled by party politics.
The results of these changes have severely undermined U.S. competitiveness. Although small businesses in the U.S. have traditionally played a major role in creating jobs, for the past 17 years, larger businesses with more than 1,000 employees have assumed the lead in creating new jobs. Smaller businesses have not bounced back from the recession as fast as larger businesses, and companies with fewer than 10 employees have the slowest job creation pace. Since 2008, the total number of companies with fewer than 500 employees has decreased by five percent. Currently, the demand for low-skilled labor in the U.S. is stagnant, which is exacerbated even further by the high incarceration rates of male workers in this sector. According to the report, this has caused a 3.4 percent decline in the workforce participation of men ages 25 to 54 years old since 2000. Particularly affected are African-American men, and also women, who have seen their workforce participation gains erode.
Entrepreneurship, a cornerstone of the U.S. economy also has suffered. Start-ups of new companies as a percentage of all U.S. firms has fallen from more than 12 percent in 1980 to eight percent in 2015. The report highlights the disparity between the continued success of thriving high-tech centers such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York with other struggling centers across the U.S. Incredibly, approximately half of the country's new business establishments between 2010 and 2014 were accounted for by only 20 U.S. counties.
While the authors paint a bleak picture of how the U.S. economy has arrived at this point, they do provide solutions proposed by colleagues and businesspeople that the U.S. can take in the future to improve its competitiveness and to create jobs.
In my last column, I wrote about the Harvard Business School report, titled "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided" by Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Mihir A. Desai, and Manjari Raman, which is part of the school's U.S. Competitiveness Project. The report examines how the U.S. economy has arrived at its present position and the competitiveness challenges it faces in the future against other countries. The authors state that the factors which made the U.S. competitive in the post-WWII period — universal public education, public infrastructure such as the federal highway system, and the funding of research – have succumbed to disconnectivity between businesses and their communities, reduced private sector participation in education, misdirected government debt, and a blame game between political parties that has resulted in a Washington, D.C. quagmire.
Although the U.S. has perceived strengths such as world-class research universities, strong entrepreneurship, innovation, quality management, and vibrant capital markets, these are offset by a decline in the country's workforce skills, flexibility in the labor market, questionable macroeconomic policy, a complicated tax code, aging infrastructure, an elementary to high school education, and health care system.
Two areas of the report strike me as being the most critical. The first is U.S. investment in the infrastructure needed to grow and attract businesses. In the 1960s, the U.S. invested approximately 2.2 percent of its GDP in transportation infrastructure, which has declined to just 1.6 percent today. This is less than what Europe and China are investing, which the report says is evidenced by the modern airports in these regions compared to aging U.S. airports such as JFK Airport in New York. The decline in infrastructure investment has the greatest impact on the "everyday American," who heavily relies on public infrastructure to commute to work and to conduct business.
The second, and perhaps most disconcerting factor as I read the report, was the examination of the K-12 education system in the U.S., which traditionally has been the ticket for the working and poorer classes of society to create future opportunity in order to better their economic status. The report states that, "Younger cohorts of U.S. workers have higher literacy scores than older cohorts in absolute terms, reflecting U.S. skills improvement over time. But workers elsewhere have improved even faster. American workers from earlier generations are more literate than their international peers of the same age, but younger U.S. workers are less literate than their peers." In other words, while there have been gains in the U.S. education system, they are being outpaced by stronger gains in other countries. Future U.S. competitiveness will be affected if educational gains are not increased.
Last, but not least, the report focuses on the broken political system by emphasizing while these challenges accrue, "What has Washington done?" The authors argue "little to none." They strongly accuse the U.S. government of failure in areas for which it is responsible: tax code, health care, regulations, and focusing on new infrastructure. While there is general bipartisanship in the business community about changes that need to take place, the two major political parties have failed by infighting and the blame game being played.
The authors use a couple of examples to highlight Washington's failures. The first is free trade, which the report states has been a major advantage and a reason why the U.S. economy became strong and a leader in the global economy. Rather than exploring how existing and new trade agreements can make the U.S. more prosperous and competitive, Washington politicians adhere to political factions that serve to demonize free trade. Second is the inability of policymakers to address the U.S. corporate tax code, which at 39 percent, is only behind the United Arab Emirates (55 percent) and Chad (40 percent), and is the highest combined tax rate of any advanced country. This is forcing companies to locate operations in foreign countries, while both parties agree that something needs to be done but sink further into political squabbles. Depressingly, the report is clear in its position that no candidate running for the presidency has adequately put forth a plan to address any of these issues.
As I finished reading the report's suggestions, it occurred to me how strikingly obvious and not necessarily groundbreaking they are. I think most Americans would agree with the suggestions, but what becomes frustrating for me is how does this translate into bipartisan political action in Washington, when we are seeing mudslinging from both sides of the aisle with no real bold plans of incorporating what obviously needs to be accomplished by people at the cusp of being elected?


The body of a badly burned child was found in a shallow ditch near a busy Houston toll road. Officials say they couldn't immediately determine the child's age or gender. The child was about 3 feet tall.
Investigator Leslie Martinez told reporters a passerby discovered the body Tuesday morning along a roadway between two large buildings near the Hardy Toll Road.
Police say no link has been established between the discovery of the burned body and the Christmas Eve disappearance of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster, for whom a statewide Amber Alert has been issued.
"We cannot say that the two cases are connected," Houston PD spokesman Kese Smith said.


The Caribbean arm of the Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) group, LIME, will modernise its mobile network in 12 different territories in the Caribbean.
The company said that Ericsson will facilitate the modernisation by deploying its latest core network and multi-standard radio base stations RBS 6000.
The CWC group provides mobile services on all of the Caribbean islands.
The improved mobile broadband services will be provided for users in Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Turks and Caicos, said the company.
The contract, which includes network design, rollout and professional services, will pave the way for LIME to migrate its network to an all-IP architecture; improve coverage, capacity and quality; and prepare for a smooth introduction of HSPA Evolution and LTE.
LIME said that HSPA Evolution technology providing 21 Mbps will be introduced in the Cayman Islands in the first phase of the modernisation process, with the rollout to additional markets planned for later this year.
All islanders across the region who are LIME customers will benefit from the network modernisation, enjoying fast and seamless connections on their smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, said the company.
Furthermore, tousrists traveling to the islands will have the latest mobile broadband services and fast internet access they would expect from any metropolitan network, claims LIME.
"Ericsson will vastly improve our mobile network and give our customers the exceptional experience they deserve. The new Ericsson technology will also reduce our energy consumption, which will have a positive impact on the environment," Shaw added.
Head of Ericsson in the Caribbean Martin Roos said, "We are pleased to become LIME's main supplier for mobile broadband in the Caribbean. With the latest technology from Ericsson, LIME will be able to roll out new advanced services and join the smartphone global boom. With IP-centric network architecture, LIME will have the ability to respond to the fast-changing business models we see today."