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Lesotho PM murder case could have canon law consequences
February 25, 2020 CNA Daily News News Briefs 0 Print
Cape Town, South Africa, Feb 25, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Prime Minister Thomas Thabane of Lesotho has been charged with the murder of his estranged former wife, police announced last week Thursday. The trial, and its verdict, could have an unforeseen canonical consequence for Thabane and his second wife, who has also been charged with the murder.
The murder took place in 2017, two days before Thabane took office as prime minister of the African nation, which is surrounded entirely by South Africa.
Lipolelo Thebane was shot multiple times at close range as she walked beside a road in a village outside of the capital city of Maseru. The couple was in the midst of an acrimonious divorce, and Thomas Thabane was living with another woman at the time.
The prime minister married his former paramour, Maesaiah, in a Catholic wedding two months after the murder. Maesaiah Thabane has already been charged in the murder, after she surrendered to police custody earlier this month.
Charges against the prime minister were filed on Friday.
The prime minister appeared in court on Monday, Feb. 24, sitting in the public gallery with his second wife, while his lawyers argued he should be given immunity from prosecution, and that filing criminal charges against a sitting prime minister raised constitutional questions which the country's high court would need to resolve before the case could proceed.
A spokesman for Thabane said that "the prime minister is protected by the constitution," though conceding he is not "above the law."
"This whole exercise is just meant to embarrass [Thabane] and nothing else," he said.
Paleka Mokete, Maseru's Deputy Commissioner of Police told CNN that there is a "strong case" against the prime minister for the murder of his wife.
Thabane, 80, had previously announced that he would step down in July, and indicated that he wished to retire from public life. A spokesman for the prime minister said these plans remained unchanged.
In addition to the political and criminal repercussions of the case, the Thabane murder charges could have canonical effects.
Thomas and Maesaiah Thabane married in the Catholic Church shortly after Lipolelo's murder. Lipolelo's death brought the ongoing divorce proceedings to a close and made the marriage possible. Before the killing, Thomas Thabane was attempting to obtain legal recognition for Maesaiah as first lady, despite being still legally married to his first wife, a move Lipolelo was blocking.
Canon 1090 of the Code of Canon Law provides that "Anyone who with a view to entering marriage with a certain person has brought about the death of that person's spouse or of one's own spouse invalidly attempts this marriage."
In fact, the canon continues that "those who have brought about the death of a spouse by mutual physical or moral cooperation also invalidly attempt a marriage together," even if the collaborators didn't intend to marry.
If either or both of the Thabanes are found to be responsible for the death of Lipolelo, it could result in a determination of invalidity by a canonical tribunal.
The ecclesiastical promoter of justice in the Archdiocese of Maseru can petition the archdiocesan tribunal to consider the validity of the marriage, if he believes it is in the public interest to do so. The promoter of justice could not be reached before publication.
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Abortion groups in South Africa can't find doctors willing to perform abortions
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Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 24, 2019 / 03:38 pm (CNA).- Despite efforts by abortion advocates to expand the number of abortion clinics in South Africa, doctors in the country are largely unwilling to perform the procedure.
Under the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996, abortions are legal in South Africa up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. In cases of rape, incest, and financial hardship, abortions are legal up to 20 weeks.
Kgaladi Mphahlele, manager of Doctors Without Borders' Choice of Termination of Pregnancy in Rustenburg, said it is hard to find clinics willing to perform abortions or doctors willing to give referrals.
Mphahlele said access to abortion clinics is necessary to prevent women from seeking unsafe abortion methods, according to Health-E News.
Guttmacher-Lancet Commission in Johannesburg issued a report last year finding that out of the 8000 medical clinics in South Africa, about 7% performed abortions, Health-E News reported.
Judiac Ranape, a nurse who trains doctors on abortions, argued that conscientious objection is a problem.
"You'll find an operations manager who says, 'We won't perform it [an abortion] because it's against my religious beliefs'," Ranape said, calling for restrictions on conscientious objection.
However, surveys show that the general population in the country is strongly opposed to abortion.
The South African Social Attitudes Survey, conducted 2003-2006, found that 9 of out 10 adults in South Africa believed abortion to be wrong in times of financial dilemma, and three-quarters said abortion was still immoral if the child was to be born with a disability.
Church leaders have called for efforts to provide women facing difficult pregnancies with alternatives to abortion. Catholic Mater Homes, a pro-life group in the Archdiocese of Cape Town, is one such organization. It works to provide shelter for women during a crisis pregnancy.
"The establishment of Mater Domini was was born out of the need that existed within Archdiocese of Cape Town to create an alternative to abortion for women who might have felt forced into making such a decision out of desperation," the organization's Facebook page reads.
"When we talk about the nameless, faceless and voiceless victims of abortion, we have to include the mothers, who so often find themselves in helpless circumstances, with little other alternative but to make the difficult choice to end the life of their unborn child."
Seek Christ and his humble love, Pope Francis exhorts Catholics in UAE
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb 5, 2019 / 02:32 am (CNA).- Preaching on the Beatitudes during his visit to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, Pope Francis called on those present to seek communion with Christ before all else.
"Let us together ask here today for the grace of rediscovering the attraction of following Jesus, of imitating him, of not seeking anyone else but him and his humble love," the pope said Feb. 5 during Mass at Zayed Sports City, a stadium in Abu Dhabi.
"For here is the meaning of our life: in communion with him and in our love for others," he added.
Pope Francis is in the Emirati capital Feb. 3-5 to promote interreligious dialogue and to give support to the country's Christian minority. During his visit he also attended an interreligious meeting and met privately with the Muslim Council of Elders.
Christ pronounced the Beatitudes to "fix in our hearts," the pope said, the "essential message" that "if you are with Jesus, if you love to listen to his word as the disciples of that time did, if you try to live out this word every day, then you are blessed."
"The Christian life, first and foremost, is not … simply a list of external prescriptions to fulfil or a set of teachings to know," but "rather, it is the knowledge that, in Jesus, we are the Father's beloved children."
"The Christian life means living out the joy of this blessedness, wanting to live life as a love story, the story of God's faithful love, he who never abandons us and wishes to be in communion with us always," Francis stated. "This is the reason for our joy, a joy that no one in the world and no circumstance in our lives can take from us. It is a joy that gives peace also in the midst of pain, a joy that already makes us participate in that eternal happiness which awaits us."
The Beatitudes are "an overturning of that popular thinking, according to which it is the rich and the powerful who are blessed, those who are successful and acclaimed by the crowds," he said.
"Let us look at how Jesus lived: poor in respect to things, but wealthy in love; he healed so many lives, but did not spare his own. He came to serve and not to be served; he taught us that greatness is not found in having but rather in giving. Just and meek, he did not offer resistance, but allowed himself to be condemned unjustly. In this way Jesus brought God's love into the world. Only in this way did he defeat death, sin, fear and even worldliness: only by the power of divine love."
Pope Francis thanked the Catholics living in the UAE for "the way in which you live the Gospel we heard."
He added that following Christ doesn't mean "always being cheerful," saying that one "who is afflicted, who suffers injustice, who does everything he can to be a peacemaker, knows what it means to suffer."
Many of the Catholics in Abu Dhabi are guest workers from Africa, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, though some are local Arabs.
The pope noted that many of the UAE's Catholics "live far from home, missing the affection of your loved ones, and perhaps also feeling uncertainty about the future."
"The Lord is faithful and does not abandon his people," Pope Francis said. He recalled the life of St. Anthony the Great, who was accompanied by Christ amid his torments, saying: "The Lord is close. It can happen that, when faced with fresh sorrow or a difficult period, we think we are alone, even after all the time we have spent with the Lord. But in those moments, where he might not intervene immediately, he walks at our side. And if we continue to go forward, he will open up a new way for us; for the Lord specializes in doing new things; he can even open paths in the desert."
Living the Beatitudes does not require "great works", Pope Francis said, but "the imitation of Jesus in our everyday life."
The Beatitudes "invite us to keep our hearts pure, to practice meekness and justice despite everything, to be merciful to all, to live affliction in union with God," and they are "for those who face up to the challenges and trials of each day."
"Those who live out the Beatitudes according to Jesus are able to cleanse the world. They are like a tree that even in the wasteland absorbs polluted air each day and gives back oxygen. It is my hope that you will be like this, rooted in Jesus and ready to do good to those around you. May your communities be oases of peace."
The pope singled out two of the Beatitudes: Blessed are the meek, and Blessed are the peacemakers.
Concerning meekness, he said: "Those who attack or overpower others are not blessed, but rather those that uphold Jesus' way of acting, he who saved us, and who was meek even towards his accusers."
The pope quoted from St. Francis of Assisi's Earlier Rule regarding approaches to "Saracens and non-Christians": "Let them not get into arguments or disagreements, but be subject to every human creature out of love for God, and let them profess that they are Christians".
"Neither arguments nor disagreements," the pope stressed. "At that time, as many people were setting out, heavily armed, Saint Francis pointed out that Christians set out armed only with their humble faith and concrete love. Meekness is important."
Turning to "Blessed are the peacemakers", Pope Francis said that a Christian "promotes peace, starting with the community where he or she lives."
"I ask for you the grace to preserve peace, unity, to take care of each other, with that beautiful fraternity in which there are no first or second class Christians," he told the Catholics living in the UAE.
Pope Francis concluded: "May Jesus, who calls you blessed, give you the grace to go forward without becoming discouraged, abounding in love 'to one another and to all'."
At the conclusion of Mass, Pope Francis was addressed by Bishop Paul Hinder, Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia, who thanked him for his visit.
Bishop Hinder said that the pope had "come to a Muslim country with the intention to do as Saint Francis did in the year 1219," when he met in "mutual respect" with Al-Kamil, Sultan of Egypt.
"We Christians try to implement the order Saint Francis gave at his time to his brothers and to 'live spiritually among the Muslims … not to engage in arguments and (simply) to acknowledge that (we) are Christians.'"
The bishop also thanked the Emirati authorities, especially Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, "who generously have made possible this visit and given us this space in order to have a public Mass with as many faithful as possible."
More than 600 Nigerian Christians killed in 2020, new report says
CNA Staff, May 18, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Christians in Nigeria faced escalating persecution and a mounting death toll in the first four months of 2020, a new report has said.
In a report issued on 15 May, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) said that 620 Nigerian Christians have been killed since the beginning of the year, and mapped a campaign of destruction and arson carried out against churches in the African nation.
The society, a non-profit founded in 2008 in Nigeria, works to promote civil liberties, the rule of law, criminal justice reform, and good governance. Its report said that "Nigeria's main Islamic Jihadists: Militant Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram/ISWAP have intensified their anti-Christian violence in the old Middle Belt and Northeast regions."
"The atrocities against Christians have gone unchecked," the report said, "with the country's security forces and concerned political actors looking the other way or colluding with the Jihadists."
Intersociety said that, despite making up nearly half of the country's population, some 32,000 Christians have been killed in Islamist attacks since 2009.
Christians in Nigeria have been the victims of an escalating series of attacks, including kidnappings for ransom, since the beginning of the year.
In January this year, four seminarians were abducted by gunman from Good Shepherd Seminary. Ten days after the abduction, one of the four seminarians was found on the side of a road, alive but seriously injured. On Jan. 31, an official at the seminary announced that another two seminarians had been released, but that the fourth, Michael Nnadi remained missing and was presumed still in captivity.
It was subsequently announced that Nnadi had been killed.
In an interview from prison earlier this month, the leader of the gang which abducted Nnadi took credit for his killing, telling local media that the 18-year-old seminarian "continued preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ," and "told [his killer] to his face to change his evil ways or perish."
In March, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to address the violence and kidnappings in a homily during Mass with the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria.
"We need to have access to our leaders; president, vice president. We need to work together to eradicate poverty, killings, bad governance and all sorts of challenges facing us as a nation," Kaigama said.
In an Ash Wednesday letter to Nigerian Catholics, Archbishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of Benin City called for Catholics to wear black in solidarity with victims and pray, in response to "repeated" executions of Christians by Boko Haram and "incessant" kidnappings "linked to the same groups."
Other Christian villages have been attacked, farms set ablaze, vehicles carrying Christians attacked, men and women have been killed and kidnapped, and women have been taken as sex slaves and tortured—a "pattern," he said, of targeting Christians.
On Feb. 27, U.S Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback told CNA that the situation in Nigeria was deteriorating.
"There's a lot of people getting killed in Nigeria, and we're afraid it is going to spread a great deal in that region," he told CNA. "It is one that's really popped up on my radar screens — in the last couple of years, but particularly this past year."
"I think we've got to prod the [Nigerian President Muhammadu] Buhari government more. They can do more," he said. "They're not bringing these people to justice that are killing religious adherents. They don't seem to have the sense of urgency to act."
Benedict XVI reflects on the truth and inspiration of the Bible
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The annual meeting of the Pontifical Biblical Commission this year was devoted to the topic of "the inspiration and truth of the Bible." The Holy Father gave a brief comment to the commission members on […]


It is estimated there are 1.6m lost pension pots, with a total value of almost £20bn, according to new industry research.
This research was carried out by the Association of British Insurers and Pensions Policy Institute, who surveyed firms representing 50 per cent of the DC market in the private sector.
The timing of this research appears to be designed to put pressure on government to move forward with the pension dashboard proposals.
A feasibility study on this initiative had been expected to be published this Autumn. This now appears to be delays with DWP officials unable to give a revised publication date.
The PPI identified 800,000 'lost' pensions worth £9.7bn. Scaled up, this indicates there is £19.4bn in unclaimed pension assets. The true figure is likely to be even higher as the research did not look at pensions held in the public sector, or trust-based schemes run by employers.
The ABI says that frequent job changes and home moves were the main causes of people losing track of older pensions.
It adds that the research highlights the need for a pensions dashboard to help consumer keep track of older pension savings.
The industry claims it makes "considerable effort" to track down people with lost pension assets. Last year it said steps taking by the insurance industry led to £1bn of pension assets being reclaimed.
But it points out that the average person will have around 11 different jobs over their lifetime, and move home 8 times. This ABI research shows nearly two-thirds of UK savers now have more than one pension.
The Government predict that there could be as many as 50 million dormant and lost pensions by 2050.
ABI director of long-term savings and protection Yvonne Braun, says: "These findings highlight the jaw-dropping scale of the lost pensions problem.
Aegon head of pensions Kate Smith adds: "The introduction of auto-enrolment has also led to nearly 10m more people saving into a pension. So the issue of lost and forgotten pension pots is only going to get worse as each job comes with a pension.
"Many of these pension pots are tiny and easy to forget. It's notoriously difficult for people to keep track of small pension pots, particularly at the beginning of their working life.


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Marcella Ezell
Marcella (Marcie) Ezell died on Jan. 17, 2007 at Golden Age Home, Lockhart, Texas. Marcie was predeceased by her husband, Jim Ezell, and a daughter, Marilynn. She is survived by daughter Cindy Kern and her husband, Al, of West Chester, Pa. and daughter Mary Carroll, of Lockhart. Her grandchildren are Sharon Haggard of West Chester, Pa., Alexis and Steven Cline of San Marcos
, Texas, Erik and Rebecca Carroll of Jacksonville, Fla., and Andrew and Laura Carroll of San Marcos, Texas. She also enjoyed two great grandchildren, Aidan and Gracyn Cline.
Born and raised on a farm in western Iowa in 1920, Marcie went to Sioux City for nursing training in 1938. After graduating as a Registered Nurse, she worked briefly as a civilian nurse prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Marcie quickly joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and was sent first to Kansas and then Oklahoma. She met Mississippian Jim Ezell in the Army and they married in May, 1943.
After years of raising her family in Mississippi, Marcie returned to her first love, nursing. She was a nurse at the old Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg until she went to work for Dr. William R. Raulston of Hattiesburg Clinic in 1963. She worked at the clinic until her retirement, continuing to do some part time work in outlying clinics for some years. Dr. Raulston and the physicians of the OBGYN department remained close to her heart until she became too ill to communicate with them.
Marcie moved to Lockhart ten years ago to be close to her family and was able to make many friends in that community while keeping in close contact with her friends in Hattiesburg. Marcie will be lovingly remembered for her boundless energy, warm smile, chocolate meringue pie, loyalty to and love for family, friends, and community.
She will be taken back to Hattiesburg for services and burial. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. in the Activities Room at the Golden Age Home Assisted Living.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the Scholarship Fund at Golden Age Home where the Marcie Ezell Nursing Scholarship has been established. Checks should be made to Golden Age Home, with Ezell Scholarship in the memo.
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In the public sphere, regular anti-Israel protests and demonstrations took place around the country. At one such protest in Wellington, Catholic priest Gerard Burn sprinkled red paint mixed with a drop of his own blood, on a memorial monument to Yitzhak Rabin.
Happily searching for a good merlot at the local supermarket, I sensed rather than heard the commotion in a distant part of the store. On listening more closely, I could hear a familiar voice saying something about Israel. Curiosity piqued, and clasping my bottle of wine, I headed towards the checkouts - where I found my partner engaged in a heated ?discussion? with a local political columnist.


So many emotions and experiences in just two weeks, Alex thinks it's really difficult sum up in just a few sentences; probably this expedition can't be described with words. Alex has gained a family: two sisters and two brothers…and more than ten friends. Because he was the fastest runner, this lead him to think that it would be easy, but this thought crushed on the wall of the reality. When faced with the first difficult moment on Day 3, his only intention was to drop out but thanks to an amazing and supportive team, he reached the end. Not as five individual guys and girls, but as a TEAM with tons of ups and downs, and ups again. Sometimes envying his companions for the mental strength or for their charisma, but in the end with the consciousness that everyone has their role: everyone has his or her peculiarities which makes that individual unique and at the same time only one fifth of the team. Being normal and weak doesn't mean being a loser, believing that you can do everything by yourself will lead you to failure.
Flo thoroughly enjoyed the entire running part of the expedition and was surprised that physically and mentally it was not as tough as she had expected - being around the amazing teammates and in the incredible environment helped her to stay super energized and positive. This state of mind made everything seem easier!! The biggest challenge is yet to come: applying the same frame of mind and lessons learned back home. The time to depart is fast approaching, which is sad, but also an opportunity for further adventures.
The Youth Ambassadors describe how they were able to achieve (and surpass) their goals and maintain resiliency in the Atacama.
The Youth Ambassadors were running serious distance in literally the driest place on Earth. They were grateful for the fuel and hydration provided by Carbo-Pro. As Ray says, it kept them from becoming vulture bait! Thanks for the support Carbo-Pro!
Flo and Jesús talk to some of the camp kitchen staff that keep everyone well fed and healthy everyday of the expedition. This is a very important job due to the number of people involved and nutritional requirements for running long distances every day.
The Youth Ambassadors learn about Cosmology, and discuss the beginning and potential end theories of the universe.
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The Youth Ambassadors discuss Galaxies.
The Youth Ambassadors completed their final run day, for a grand total of 219km over 6 days! It wasn't easy but they came together as a team and completed something amazing!
The Youth Ambassadors, Ray, and Bob give a special thank you to Digigone. Digigone produces the software used for the live video chats between the Team in the desert, and classrooms all over the world. Without the support of Digigone, the connection between the Team and the students couldn't happen. Thanks for the continued support.
The Youth Ambassadors discuss why they think Astronomy and Religion have historically had a tenuous relationship, going back to the original hypothesis that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe, and that the planets orbited around the Sun.


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Black Kids in Outer Space. Tamara Toles O'Laughlin. Episode 50.
Tamara is a native New Yorker and environmentalist focused on equity, access and community. She develops capacity building programs and creates multimedia campaigns to dismantle privilege and increase opportunities for vulnerable populations to access healthy air, clean energy, and a toxic free economy at the local, regional, and national level.
Tamara is the executive director of the Maryland Environmental Health Network (MdEHN) based in Baltimore, Maryland. MdEHN levels the playing field for vulnerable populations in service to its mission to promote the elimination of exposures to environmental threats to improve human health.
Tamara casts a wide net in service to the environmental community. Among other activities, she is the co- chair of the DC chapter of EcoWomen. DC EcoWomen is a community of approximately 6,000 professional women who inspire each other to create a healthy and equitable society. During her tenure on the Executive Board she has held several positions including vice president of Professional Development where she produced the organization's signature salon and monthly educational forum – EcoHour.
Tamara is the vice chair of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments: Air and Climate Public Advisory Committee, where she advocates for meaningful engagement and responsive public resources. She is a director on the Board of Directors for Women's Voices for the Earth, a mighty organization based in Missoula, Montana, where she supports science based advocacy that gives voice to women fighting to protect their health from toxic chemicals. She is also co-chair of the Green Leadership Trust.
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Implementing a distress screening intervention resulted in increased confidence in identifying, assessing, and managing patient distress.
Participants at smaller sites also identified more benefits from the distress screening intervention relative to those at the larger sites.
As many as 60% of patients with cancer report distress following a cancer diagnosis, and this stress can have a significant impact on patients' well-being, resulting in psychosocial problems, physical side effects, and dissatisfaction with their health care.
To examine the impact of distress on patients and health-care professionals, Linda Watson, PhD, RN, of CancerControl Alberta, Alberta Health Services, led the implementation of screening for distress as a new standard of care across 17 provincial cancer care sites. More than 250 health-care professionals across cancer care facilities in Alberta, Canada, participated in educational sessions and adopted this standard of practice. Dr. Watson and Rie Tamagawa, PhD, a senior researcher in provincial practices, found that health-care professionals who participated in this educational program and utilized screening for distress routinely reported improved confidence in detecting patient distress and increased awareness of the importance of a patient-centered approach to care.
The study is published in JNCCN – Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
"Distress can be caused by a variety of issues, concerns, or symptoms, but how distress is experienced and what underlies a person's distress is unique to each person and changes over time. [Screening for distress] helps clinicians identify distressed patients and their issues, concerns, or symptoms driving their distress. This project has demonstrated that through clinical review and targeted response to the patient priority issue, improved clinical outcomes and patient experiences can be achieved," said Dr. Watson.
For Dr. Watson's quality improvement project, the screening for distress intervention was implemented as a standard of care at all cancer care facilities in Alberta over a 10-month period. health-care professionals at all sites completed educational sessions prior to implementation of this new practice. Health-care professionals also completed surveys before and after implementation.
Results of the project illustrated a significant increase in participants' confidence in identifying, assessing, and managing distress, as well as their awareness of person-centered care principles following the implementation. Health-care professionals at smaller community cancer centers reported greater person-centered awareness as compared to those at larger tertiary sites throughout the study. Health-care professionals at those smaller sites identified more benefits from the distress screening intervention relative to health-care professionals at the larger sites.
This variance, Dr. Tamagawa reports, is likely because smaller, more remote cancer centers have patient navigation as part of their model of care and physicians are treating multiple tumor types. These are likely to contribute to personable patient-provider relationships. The benefits of the distress screening intervention was more salient for health-care professionals taking care of multiple tumor types, suggesting that such intervention is well adopted by physicians who practice as generalist model of care. On the other hand, physicians from larger centers tend to be single-tumor specialists at hospitals that do not employ patient navigation programs—these participants reported lower awareness in person-centeredness in general, and the distress screening intervention potentially posed an additional workload.
Prior to adequate distress screening training and with less time for patient relationship-building, physicians often lack confidence in their ability to identify and treat patient distress in a timely manner. The study highlighted that distress screening interventions can help build this confidence and awareness of person-centered care delivery regardless of the types of care facilities.
"Patient distress has received little attention from clinicians, but can have a large impact on patient quality of life. As such, screening for distress will become increasingly important in clinical practices, so information on its implementation is useful for practitioners," said Jimmie C. Holland, MD, Wayne R. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Chair of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) Panel for Distress Management.


Sourdough Banana Bread (refined sugar, dairy and egg free) by Mixing Adventures. A Thermomix ® recipe in the category Baking - sweet on www.recipecommunity.com.au, the Thermomix ® Community.
First, soak the chia seeds in the 3 tablespoons of water and leave to soak until they are thick and gluggy (this is your chia 'egg', and it takes about 15 minutes or so).
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C, and grease and line a loaf tin. I used the Thermomix bread tin, so there was no need to line it.
At this stage I also like to soak the dates in some boiling water to soften them. Drain through the steamer basket before using.
Put coconut oil, honey, dates, vanilla and chia seed mixture into the bowl and blend for 10 seconds on speed 9 to chop the dates, then cream for 1 minute on speed 4.
Add sourdough starter and banana and mix for 10 seconds speed 5.
Add flour, salt, cinnamon and bi-carb soda and knead for 30 seconds. Use your spatula to mix in any flour that is missed.
Pour into prepared tin and bake for 45 mins to 1 hour (check with a skewer to make sure it is cooked through). (I don't put the lid on the Thermomix bread tin, but you could slide it on towards the end if you find it is over browning).
Enjoy warm from the oven with butter (or whatever spread you like) or toasted.
This is refined sugar free and is not as sweet as the banana bread you buy from cafes. It was perfect for me, but you can increase the honey if you want it sweeter.
It's a good way to use up any excess sourdough starter too.
Suitable for a TM31 or TM5.
Submitted by colnvic on 19. May 2016 - 14:25.
Great recipe. Thanks for sharing. I'm always looking for different ways to use up my leftover sourdough starter. I also added dried figs. Tasted great - and I don't always like banana bread.


The concept of a Heart Gallery was first developed in New Mexico. Currently more than 120 Heart Galleries are placed in communities throughout the United States. A Heart Gallery heightens the visibility of children in foster care awaiting families-–the 'waiting children'—by featuring them in a traveling multi-media exhibit.
The project harnesses the power of photography to capture each child's unique spirit and story in a profile. The photo profiles are featured online and in exhibits in larger public forums like churches, airports and malls. With the aid and support of the media and the public, Heart Galleries all across America continue to assist child advocates with finding homes for hundreds of children in foster care each year.


I returned from Spring Quilt Market in Minneapolis today. I almost missed my third and final plane of the day due to delay with second flight! My thanks to the Air Canada personnel for getting me there and the nice gentleman who let me go ahead. My luggage made it too, first off the plane!
Not only did I come back inspired from the show but I got to visit Creative Homearts magazine and club headquarters and stay with club Executive Director and Editor Julie Stephani. Carol Zengraff and Vivian Peritts also stayed and we had a great time ending each night with something I have never played, Hollywood Dominoes. (I did win :) Getting out the door in the morning was a challenge with all the chatter and wardrobe consultation but it was very fun!
The show as always is filled with crisp color, a fresh vibe of retro and flowery prints. New interesting products, fountains of fabrics and wonderful books. Vivian has a new book out with Suzanne McNeil and Design Originals. Her new book incorporates the Accu Quilt Go machine in fabulous wearable designs.
C&T Publishing has a new imprint Stash, smaller books with fresh and whimsical titles, Little Birds is adorable! The Sock animal books is too cute and the City Quilts contemporary and fresh. More from the show this week! Holiday tomorrow so taking the day off. Follow the JOY! Debra, CEO!


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"I think we see that MRI scanning is increasingly important. In the old days, that means about 10 years ago, we used to say that "we don't treat MRI pictures, we treat patients". But now we know that we can do both. We know that all of these new MRI lesions (new gadolinium lesions and new T2 lesions) represent areas not only with demyelination but also with irreversible brain damage. I think MRI has revolutionised the way we follow up and treat patients."
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ATLANTA – Authorities say a former Georgia Tech graduate student was charged with stabbing a university researcher with a sword.
Georgia Tech spokesman Matt Nagel says the victim was taken to Grady Hospital in stable condition after the Thursday afternoon attack inside a building on campus. The victim's name was not released pending notification of family.
Police say Kshitij Shrotri is being held in the Fulton County Jail on an aggravated assault charge.
Nagel said Georgia Tech police officer Robert J. Turner of Griffin was injured slightly during the scuffle. He is in stable condition.
University officials say Shrotri received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech in 2008.


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Treasury 'must do better' on Whole of Government Accounts
Dominic Brady
The spending watchdog has called for "further progress" on the level of information given by departments for the Whole of Government Accounts.
Total government expenditure for 2017-18 reached £815bn for the year ending March 31 2018, according to the WGA released yesterday.
It also showed the UK government's income in 2017-18 was £760.9bn – compared to £720.8bn in 2016-17. Its expenditure was £814.8 billion – expenditure in 2016-17 was £760.7 billion.
But in response to the release, the National Audit Office said today: "While government is improving the financial information that forms the WGA, further progress is necessary."
It added: "The Treasury has responded to previous concerns from the Committee of Public Accounts about the time it takes to publish the accounts, doing so quicker and earlier this year.
"The Treasury is also making progress to encourage wider use of WGA in informing decisions, but more needs to be done to embed the WGA as part of government's routine financial management."
The comptroller and auditor general concluded the WGA gives a "true and fair view of the state of the WGA affairs and expenditure". Although, he has again qualified his opinion on specific areas in the accounts.
In the NAO report, it noted that the auditor general had given a qualified opinion for the Ministry of Defence and Department for Education, which suggests the information given may be limited in its scope.
"HM Treasury will need to carry out significant work with other government bodies to make further improvements, in particular the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Education," the NAO said.
The WGA analyses the accounts of over 8,000 public sector bodies and sets out what the government receives, pays and owes.
An NAO response to the WGA published today said the WGA "provides the most complete and accurate picture of the financial performance and position of the UK public sector".
The director general of public spending at the Treasury James Bowler previously told the PAC that the two biggest contributors to delays were accounts from academy schools and local government accounts.
The WGA shows that the value of government's long-term liabilities continues to rise and risks to their affordability "will need to be managed effectively", the NAO noted.
Net public sector pension liabilities are £1,865bn, the equivalent to over £68,000 per UK household and 92% of GDP.
The NAO concluded: "In continuing to improve the WGA, the NAO recommends the Treasury must: be more transparent about which elements of the production process it can control and which it cannot; provide more detail on government spending."
It also suggested the Treasury should consider using the WGA to report on government's management of significant financial risks.
The Treasury has been contacted for comment.
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Victoria Chiesa | September 15, 2022
To keep the U.S. Davis Cup perfect in Glasgow, Taylor Fritz turned around an imperfect head-to-head. The U.S. No. 1 outlasted Alexander Bublik 7-6(6), 1-6, 6-3 to clinch an eventual 2-1 overall victory against Kazakhstan, the Americans' second Group D victory in as many ties this week.
Fritz had lost his first three career matches against Bublik, all on hard courts, before scoring his first-ever win against him this summer on grass in Eastbourne in straight sets. Back-to-back wins against the mercurial Kazakh No. 1 didn't come easily: Fritz came from 5-3 down in the first set and saved four set points in all before winning it.
Three of Bublik's chances to take a one-set lead came on his serve at 5-4, and he also had a set point in the tiebreak at 6-5.
"Anytime I play Alex is really tough. I have a losing record with him and he's just awkward to play against," Fritz said after the match.
"I was really lucky to get through the first set and I rebounded back in the third. I changed my strategy a bit, adjusted and playd a good third set.
"Last night was a tough one, and after getting that win, it's even more important to just come out here, build on that and get another win."
Fritz's victory came after Tommy Paul opened proceedings with a routine 6-1, 6-4 win over 34-year-old Mikhail Kukushkin, the former No. 39 who's now ranked No. 221 in the world.
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After earning a three-set win over Great Britain's Dan Evans in the U.S.'s marathon 2-1 win over Great Britain on Thursday, Paul is now 2-0 this week in his first-ever "live" Davis Cup action, having earned his last two wins in "dead" rubbers when ties were already decided.
Playing the role of the opener is sitting just fine with the 25-year-old: He won eight of the first 10 games against Kukushkin, the second-winningest player in Kazakhstan's Davis Cup history.
"I felt pretty comfortable, even though the games were close," Paul said in victory. "The first set I felt like I was in full control. He wasn't putting too much pressure on me, so I felt like I could dictate everything in the first set. The second set got tricky."
Kazakhstan denied the U.S. a sweep with a doubles win in the third and final rubber; Bublik and Aleksandr Nedovyesov knocked off Rajeev Ram and Jack Sock 6-2, 7-6(6). Less than 24 hours after finishing off a comeback win against Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury that decided the tie against Great Britain, Ram and Sock were unable to match the feat against the Kazakhs; they had three set points in the second set to extend the match.
The U.S. will have a day off on Friday before returning to action against the Netherlands on Saturday. The No. 1 and No. 2-finishing teams in the group will advance to November's knockout rounds in Malaga, Spain with the chance to play for the Davis Cup. The Americans currently sit atop Group D and will qualify for Malaga if the Netherlands beats Great Britain on Friday. If Great Britain wins that tie, the U.S. will need to beat the Netherlands on Saturday to ensure its advancement.
Should Great Britain beat the Netherlands and Kazakhstan and the Netherlands then beat the U.S., there would be a three-way tie atop the group, and percentage of matches, sets and games won—not head-to-head—would determine the two nations advancing.
Interim captain Nainkin
USTA Player Development Lead National Coach David Nainkin will serve as interim captain of the U.S. Davis Cup Team for its 2023 Qualifying tie vs. Uzbekistan on Feb. 3-4 in Tashkent. Read More
2023 DC Qualifier team
Tommy Paul, Jenson Brooksby, Mackenzie McDonald, Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek will represent the U.S. for its Davis Cup by Rakuten Qualifying tie vs. Uzbekistan in Tashkent in February. Read More
U.S. to Uzbekistan in '23
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Now is the time to start thinking about your next seasons shows. It is also a time to start taking action to move away from what I call "random acts of buying" and start moving into a position that starts to reduce the random nature of your sales cycle.
Use the 80/20 rule– Find what part of your inventory accounted for 80% of your sales. Try to determine if it was price point or the character of the item. How can you develop other items in your inventory that can also fit into that category. What was the ratio of other sales to the 20%…what was their price point, what did they represent? Are the lower sales of your high end work supported by the 20% sales of your hottest selling items?
Identify the high points and the low points – Look at the details of the peaks and valleys, try to describe their characteristics. Use a checklist of predetermined factors such as item, price point, geography, demographics,weather, your impressions of the buyers (the crowd). Try to describe, in relative general terms, the buyers that accounted for both peaks and valleys. For example did you have returning customers, try to describe their characteristics.
What trends do you notice– Now is when you take the information from the last two points and step back to a broader perspective. Try to find patterns that can relate to specific shows and look for relationships between patterns. If patterns do show see if you can find what is behind the pattern.
Recent research into neuro-psychology is showing that indeed the degree to which we achieve our life vision is determined by where we put our attention. The Law of Attraction also says that where you put your focus, your energy, determines what you attract. So by having clarity around the elements that make up your business vision you will have an image in your mind each piece of your business puzzle and how well it fits into the whole of your vision. The more clarity you have around these elements the more focused your intentions can be and hence the easier it will be to navigate through the year.
If you place the descriptions and images of your perfect buyer, perfect show and perfect season side by side you will be able to have a better image of what you want to attract. Moreover, describing these three elements in physical here and now terms makes them real and slowly merging them into your consciousness. Many, I mean most, really successful people use this approach, they include: Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup For the Soul) Brian Tracy, Napoleon Hill ( Think and Grow Rich), Steven Covey and Andrew Carnegie.
Psychographics – look at the show as if it were a person ( it actually is a collection of people) List the motivations the promoters would have, do they match yours? Does the show appeal to a specific lifestyle or value that may be important to you like greenness or sustainability…. What are the attitudes, values and opinions of attending artists. What are the attitudes, values and opinions of the potential buyers attending the show.
Problems– think about the issues, challenges, needs you want the show to address for you to want to apply for .
Attitudes and treatment– how do you want to be treated at your ideal show, are there amenities, what factors would put the show as your absolute must.
Accessibility – what would the load in load out look like, think of availability of help, of traffic management, of parking etc.
Remember the shows that you left feeling like you had just been through WWIII. While great learning experiences they sap your energy and chop away at your confidence. Having an image of a show that would cause you to leave revved up and excited can help you recognize the ones to re-apply for.
Travel-How much do you want to travel? How far are you willing to travel? Do you want to travel groups of shows? Does your inventory allow it?
Building your list – How many buyers and potential buyers did you add? What approach did you use? What was their response to your request for their information?
Shows– How many shows were you juried into? What were your submissions? How did they fit into your ideal preferences?
Community– did you build any close relationships with buyer? With other artists?
Focus on your own power to succeed by keeping your intentions in your consciousness.
Trust in your ability to engage your buyers and your ability to build a following.
Maintain a mindset of abundance and keep that vision always by your side.
Do not hold out for perfection, doing so will all but guarantee that you will continue to stay where you are.


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Pierre Moreau
The Honourable
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Châteauguay
December 8, 2008 – August 29, 2018
Jean-Marc Fournier
Marie-Chantal Chassé
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Marguerite-D'Youville
April 14, 2003 – March 26, 2007
François Beaulne
Simon-Pierre Diamond
Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports
January 28, 2016 – February 22, 2016
François Blais
Sébastien Proulx
Hélène David
Minister of Municipal Affairs
and Land Occupancy
April 23, 2014 – January 28, 2016
Sylvain Gaudreault
Martin Coiteux
Minister responsible for
the Monteregian region
April 23, 2014 – February 22, 2016
Marie Malavoy
Lucie Charlebois
Verchères, Quebec
Quebec Liberal Party
Pierre Moreau (born December 12, 1957 in Vercheres, Quebec) is a lawyer and a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Pierre Moreau was the Liberal MNA for the riding of Marguerite-D'Youville in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2007. He ran again in 2008 in the nearby electorate of Châteauguay, and entered Cabinet.
Moreau ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party in 2013, coming second to Philippe Couillard. On April 7, 2014, Pierre Moreau was re-elected for a third consecutive term in Châteauguay in an election where the Liberals formed a majority government. On April 23, 2014, Philippe Couillard named him Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy and Minister responsible for the Montérégie region.
1.2 Professional Experience
1.3 Political, Parliamentary and Ministerial Offices
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2.1 Related Wikipedia Articles
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Born in Verchères on December 12, 1957, Pierre Moreau obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law from Laval University in 1980 and was admitted to the École du Barreau du Québec in 1981. He spent 22 years specializing in municipal and administrative law in a private practice in Montreal. He also shared his expertise by teaching at the École du Barreau du Québec from 1996 to 2002.
He first entered the political arena by running for the Liberal Party of Quebec in October 2002. Elected as MNA for Marguerite-d'Youville on April 14, 2003, he successively served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, as assistant Government House Leader, and as parliamentary assistant to the Chair of the Conseil du trésor and Minister responsible for Government Administration.
In 2007 and 2008, Pierre Moreau held the offices of Chief of staff for the Government House Leader, and as Chief of staff for the Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the Minister of Public Security.
Elected as MNA for Châteauguay in the general election held on December 8, 2008, he held the offices of Chief Government Whip from December 2008 up until February 2011. From February to September 2011, of Minister responsible for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs and the Canadian Francophonie, and of Minister responsible for the Reform of Democratic Institutions and Access to Information. He was then appointed as Minister of Transports from September 2011 to September 2012.
Pierre Moreau was, re-elected as MNA for Châteauguay in the general election held on September 4, 2012 and appointed as Official Opposition House Leader on April 9, 2013.
On April 7, 2014, Pierre Moreau was re-elected for the third consecutive time in Châteauguay. On April 23, 2014, Philippe Couillard, named him Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy and Minister responsible for the Montérégie region.
On January 28, 2016 he was appointed Minister of Education but was on an indefinite leave of absence since February 22 following a tumour diagnosis. Sébastien Proulx replaced Hélène David as Minister of Higher Education and Lucie Charlebois as responsible for Montérégie until his return to work on January 19, 2017.[1]
Moreau was said by some pundits to be the heir apparent to the PLQ leadership until he lost his Chateauguay seat in the Quebec general election, 2018.[2] Moreau earned second place in the 2013 party leadership race that elected Philippe Couillard.[3]
In December 2018, Moreau decided to not run for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party.[4]
Member of the Barreau du Québec (1981)
Law Degree, Université Laval (1980)
Professional Experience[edit]
Chief of staff for the Minister of Justice and for the Minister of Public Security (2007-2008)
Chief of staff, Government House Leader (2007)
Public and administrative law instructor, Professional Education School of the Barreau du Québec (1996-2003)
Partner, Bélanger Sauvé Law Firm, Montréal (1991-2003)
Partner, Hébert Denault Delisle Law Firm (1988-1991)
Partner, Delisle Moreau Law Firm (1981-1988)
Political, Parliamentary and Ministerial Offices[edit]
Reelected as Member for Châteauguay in the general election held on April 7, 2014
Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports from January 28, 2016 to February 22, 2016
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy from April 23, 2014 to January 28, 2016
Minister responsible for the Montérégie region from April 23, 2014 to February 22, 2016
Reelected as Member for Châteauguay in the general election held on September 4, 2012
Official Opposition critic for democratic institutions from February 4, 2014 to March 5, 2014
Member of the Committee on the National Assembly from April 9, 2013 to March 5, 2014
Member of the Subcommittee on Parliamentary Reform from April 9, 2013 to March 5, 2014
Official Opposition House Leader from April 9, 2013 to March 5, 2014
Member of the Québec Section, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) from December 6, 2012 to March 5, 2014
Member of the Québec Branch, Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA) from December 6, 2012 to March 5, 2014
Member of the National Assembly Delegation for Relations with Bavaria (DANRBA) from December 6, 2012 to March 5, 2014
Member of the Committee on Public Administration from November 6, 2012 to April 9, 2013
Official Opposition critic for the Secrétariat aux affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes from September 26, 2012 to February 3, 2014
Elected as Member for Châteauguay in the general election held on December 8, 2008
Member of Conseil du trésor from May 16, 2012 to September 19, 2012
Member of the Comité des priorités from September 14, 2011 to September 19, 2012
Member of the Comité des priorités économiques from September 14, 2011 to September 19, 2012
Member of the Comité ministériel de la prospérité économique et du développement durable from September 14, 2011 to September 19, 2012
Minister of Transport from September 7, 2011 to September 19, 2012
Minister responsible for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs and the Canadian Francophonie from February 3, 2011 to September 6, 2011
Minister responsible for the Reform of Democratic Institutions and Access to Information from February 3, 2011 to September 6, 2011
Vice-chair of the National Assembly Delegation for Relations with Catalonia (DANRC) from April 22, 2009 to February 2, 2011
Member of the Comité ministériel du développement des régions et de l'occupation du territoire from January 15, 2009 to August 11, 2010
Member of the Comité ministériel de la prospérité économique et du développement durable from January 15, 2009 to February 8, 2011
Member of the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel from January 15, 2009 to September 19, 2012
Member of the Comité de législation from January 15, 2009 to February 8, 2011
Substitute member of the Office of the National Assembly from January 14, 2009 to February 2, 2011
Chief Government Whip from December 18, 2008 to February 2, 2011
Member of the Committee on the National Assembly from December 18, 2008 to February 3, 2011
Member of the Subcommittee on Parliamentary Reform from December 18, 2008 to February 3, 2011
Elected as Member for Marguerite-D'Youville in the general election held on April 14, 2003
Deputy Government House Leader from October 19, 2005 to December 22, 2005
Member of the Committee on Public Finance from March 8, 2005 to February 21, 2007
Parliamentary assistant to the Chair of the Conseil du trésor and Minister responsible for Government Administration from March 2, 2005 to February 21, 2007
Member of the Committee on Culture from June 5, 2003 to February 21, 2007
Member of the Committee on Institutions from June 5, 2003 to March 8, 2005
Parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General from May 21, 2003 to March 2, 2005
Also Read[edit]
Related Wikipedia Articles[edit]
Member for Châteauguay
Philippe Couillard
^ "Philippe Couillard announces emergency cabinet shuffle". CBC. February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
^ read:http://www.thesuburban.com/blogs/cohen_confidential_with_mike_cohen/new-caq-government-in-quebec-who-will-lead-the-liberals/article_b3f9b27a-c5ed-11e8-aedc-2fea00e23a40.html
^ https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/manoeuvering-for-quebec-liberal-leadership-kicks-off-with-gusto
^ https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/pierre-moreau-announces-he-will-not-seek-the-liberal-leadership
www.pierremoreau.ca — Official website
Pierre Moreau — National Assembly of Quebec
Pierre Moreau — Quebec Liberal Party
Cabinet of Premier of Quebec Philippe Couillard (2014–2018)
Dominique Anglade
Gaétan Barrette
Stéphane Billette
Luc Blanchette
Yves Bolduc
Julie Boulet
Francine Charbonneau
Jean D'Amour
Jacques Daoust
Rita de Santis
André Fortin
Luc Fortin
Jean-Denis Girard
Sam Hamad
David Heurtel
Geoffrey Kelley
Carlos Leitão
Laurent Lessard
Isabelle Melançon
Nicole Ménard
Marie Montpetit
Pierre Paradis
Robert Poëti
Christine St-Pierre
Lise Thériault
Veronyque Tremblay
Stéphanie Vallée
Dominique Vien
Kathleen Weil
Cabinet of Premier of Quebec Jean Charest (2003–2012)
Jean Charest
Michel Audet
Raymond Bachand
Line Beauchamp
Claude Béchard
Raymond Bernier
Lawrence Bergman
Marguerite Blais
Jacques Chagnon
Michelle Courchesne
Margaret Delisle
Jacques Dupuis
Robert Dutil
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
Françoise Gauthier
Henri-François Gautrin
Clément Gignac
Yolande James
Monique Jérôme-Forget
Norman MacMillan
Yvon Marcoux
Tom Mulcair
Nathalie Normandeau
Alain Paquet
Benoît Pelletier
Pierre Reid
Yves Seguin
Serge Simard
Carole Théberge
Tony Tomassi
Yvon Vallières
David Whissell
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Five ways CEOs can help their business thrive post-COVID-19
Feature | 11 September 2020
With CEOs focused on helping their organisations navigate through and past COVID-19, four distinguished UNSW Business School alumni explore how to best accomplish this not inconsiderable challenge
Leading businesses through and out of the global pandemic is the critical challenge facing toady's CEOs. Carving out the path back to profitability will require more than just a business model realignment; it will require new skills to lead through whatever comes next.
Challenged by the economic impact of COVID-19, CEOs now have to change the way they lead companies to not only address the global pandemic's immediate economic effects, but they also must embrace and capitalise on the opportunities that COVID-19 has presented.
Widespread workforce changes and remote working have led to board decision-making becoming more agile and more collaborative, while some businesses have pivoted into other markets to meet new customer demands. However, there is a risk that virtual working arrangements could see leaders lose touch with employees in less visible ways.
Another significant change is the notion that a CEO's job is to make as much money as possible for the company. Against the backdrop of COVID-19, organisations and their leaders have had to take more responsibility for the wellbeing of their employees.
These were some of the recent business changes discussed by a panel of distinguished UNSW Business School alumni on the Business of Recovery webinar, hosted by the UNSW Business School and moderated by UNSW Business alumnus Glenda Korporaal OAM, Associate Editor of Business at The Australian.
Organisations and their leaders have had to take more responsibility for the wellbeing of their employees. Image: Shutterstock
Panellists included Guy Templeton, President and CEO of WSP Australia and NZ and member of the UNSW Business Advisory Council; Joanne Spillane, Executive Director and Global Head of Private Capital Markets at Macquarie Capital; and Peeyush Gupta AM, Chair of Charter Hall Long Wale REIT, Director of NAB, SBS and Link Market Services and also a member of the UNSW Business School Advisory Council.
They explored the critical and lasting ways the economic environment post-COVID is likely to differ from pre-COVID, and the key questions CEOs should be asking themselves in order to captialise on these changes and emerge more robust than before.
1. Does your business model reflect the new normal?
Periods of disruption are a time for businesses to reflect upon their business models, as long periods of change "often present headwinds for some, but tailwinds for others", Mr Gupta said.
For example, tourism, retail and airlines have suffered, but equally, other industry sectors like telecommunications, home renovation and alcohol sales have had a surge in demand. Such businesses are likely to experience lower growth and higher inflation, so growing revenues will likely be difficult.
As such, CEOs of these businesses need to innovate and think about offering new products and services while also scrutinising costs, which might be achievable through automation, digitisation, rightsizing, or offshoring any number of cost management measures, Mr Gupta added.
Businesses must continue to invest in capital in order to come out stronger on the other side of the pandemic. Image: Shutterstock
2. Does your workplace culture embrace change?
Many executives are proud of how quickly their entire organisations have been able to shift to working from home. Still, Mr Gupta observed there are related issues to deal with, such as monitoring and measuring productivity.
While a more positive outcome of COVID-19 has been more nimble decision making – firms have discovered they can now cut through issues and get to decisions faster – he warned that companies must also be mindful of compliance and controls in the rush to be more agile.
"I suspect several firms may have cut corners on compliance and controls. So it's [about] balance and resetting the skills-base; thinking about what skills in this new post-COVID-19 world might be needed," Mr Gupta said. "A strong culture, which people own, that affirms why you are in existence, can help in times like this."
Decentralisation will also play a key role, with customers having more influence on decision-making. "If you look at the leading firms who have increased enterprise value over the last couple of decades (the new tech firms etc.) you'll find that decision making is far more decentralised, far less hierarchical, and closer to the customer," he explained.
"It's a subset of culture, but that form of structure allows one to cope with uncertainty better."
Companies must be mindful of compliance and controls in the rush to be more agile in recovering from COVID-19. Image: Shutterstock
3. Are you continuing to invest?
Businesses must continue to invest in capital because "unless we invest and put some chips on the table, we'll never come out stronger," said Mr Templeton.
While businesses should always look to cover their bases first, such as costs and employee wellbeing, they should not lose sight of this unique opportunity for Australia to do a lot better, he said.
Ms Spillane echoed Mr Templeton and noted that key areas to invest in will include digitisation, the transition to sustainable energy, disruption of urbanisation, cybersecurity, financial and supply chain resilience – which have all been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Those issues are absolutely in front of investors' minds in terms of the way they're allocating capital and the companies they're investing in," she said. "Investors are [also] focusing on the quality of leadership... [ability] to adapt businesses in a post-COVID-19 environment."
There are also new opportunities to tap private capital and accelerate the collaboration between the private and public sectors. Indeed, Ms Spillane affirmed there is still plenty of capital being raised.
"Since March [in Australia] we've seen over 90 of our Australian listed corporates go to the market and raise capital, and the ASX has raised nearly $30 billion worth of equity for corporates," she added.
As businesses pivot in their model and strategy, they need to think about how to acquire new customers in the process. Image: Shutterstock
4. Do you have a vision?
Businesses need to have a vision of how they want to emerge from COVID-19. "We need businesses to say: 'When we get through this here's where we'll be positioned, this is where we're going to be competitive, this is the way we're going to work, and this is what it means for our people," explained Mr Templeton.
Otherwise, there may be a risk of "feeling every little bump on the road", he continued. But "if you're aiming at the horizon, the bumps are just bumps. If you focus on each one, it gets tough".
So CEOs need to invest with the future in mind – where they think they might be, without obsessing too much about the short-term. "If something doesn't work, then what's the backup plan? How do you pilot things before crawling into all those management practices around keeping businesses flexible? I think everybody's dusting off their [management] textbooks and trying to build these things back into their operations," he added.
Mr Templeton also said that as businesses twist and pivot, they need to think about how to acquire new customers: how do you get to know them and how do you build enough trust to be able to transact business with them? "So for us, in our marketing, for instance, we're just doubling down on our existing client base because of that," he added.
There are new opportunities to tap private capital and accelerate collaboration between private and public sectors. Image: Shutterstock
5. Is your organisation looking after employee wellbeing?
Finally, because COVID-19 has enhanced the notion that we're responsible for each other, organisations must realise that they're now accountable for the wellness of employees. This mainly falls on leaders and managers, who must take steps to listen to their employees, said Ms Spillane.
She added that the corporates that are going to survive and thrive post-COVID-19 will be those which are genuinely looking out for the wellbeing and safety of their staff – as well as financial resilience and solvency.
A replay of the webinar is available online. Upcoming UNSW Alumni events include Legal Hour | Modern Slavery, which will feature a panel of business and human rights leaders speaking on the topic of modern slavery, as well as Meet the CEO with Matt Comyn, Managing Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) who will present in a live webinar on Wednesday 23 September.
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Unionist attack on Sen. Ted Kennedy
In an extraordinary attack, a unionist politican says Sen. Edward Kennedy shouldn't have been awarded a knightho...
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A unionist politician from Northern Ireland has launched an extraordinary attack on Senator Ted Kennedy, telling the British parliament that awarding the Senator an honorary knighthood was in "extremely poor taste."
Sammy Wilson, a member of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Northern Ireland's Minister for the Environment, accused Kennedy of being an IRA sympathizer.
He said that "a cloud still hangs over" Kennedy, for having been expelled from Harvard and for having fled the scene of a crash at Chappaquiddick, in which a 29-year-old woman died.
Wilson said that Kennedy opposed the sale of U.S. arms to the old Northern Ireland police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and that he had called on Protestants to "go back to Britain."
"Senator Kennedy has consistently supported the political wing of the IRA which for many decades killed a great number of innocent civilians," Wilson said in a motion calling on the British Government to drop the knighthood plans.
"Senator Kennedy is being awarded a knighthood for services to the U.K-U.S. relationship and services to Northern Ireland despite the fact that he has for many years supported the break-up of the United Kingdom and has explicitly sought to deny the wishes of the majority of people in Northern Ireland by supporting calls for Northern Ireland to cease to exist and become part of the Republic of Ireland."
Wilson's motion was supported by his party colleagues.
A number of politicians from the Conservative Party have also questioned the decision to award Kennedy the knighthood. Members of Parliament, Ann and Nicholas Winterton, supported Wilson's motion.
Lord Tebbit, a former minister in Margaret Thatcher's government, whose wife was confined to a wheelchair after the IRA bombed a party conference in 1984, told the Daily Mail that the knighthood was "wholly inappropriate."
'Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the IRA but he certainly leaned towards extreme Republicanism," Lord Tebbit said. "He was certainly no friend of the U.K.
Conservative Member of Parliament Ann Widdecombe, said: 'It seems to me a bit of an odd choice, but diplomacy has no bounds.'
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced last month in a speech to Congress that the Queen had awarded Kennedy a knighthood.
Kennedy was one of the most "distinguished Senators" who had helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, improved health care for Americans, and education for children around the world, Brown said.
Senator Kennedy's involvement in Northern Ireland goes back many years. He set up the Congressional Friends of Ireland dedicated to pursuing peace. He was instrumental in bringing about the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, meeting the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, the then Irish Prime Minister, and Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams.
However, he refused to meet Adams on his U.S. trip in St. Patrick's Day in 2005, because of the IRA murder of Robert McCartney in a Belfast pub.


1-To learn Allah cannot be seen or imagined.
2-To compare the Islamic teaching on seeing God with the Judeo-Christian teachings.
3-To understand the request of Moses to see Allah.
4-To learn whether Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of Allah be upon him, saw Allah or not.
5-To consider 'visions of God' in spiritual experiences.
6-To learn about seeing Allah in the Afterlife.
Salah - the Arabic word to denote a direct connection between the believer and Allah. More specifically, in Islam it refers to the formal five daily prayers and is the most important form of worship.
SunnahSunnah has several meanings depending on the area of study however the meaning is generally accepted to be, whatever was reported that the Prophet said, did, or approved.
Hadith - (plural – ahadith) is a piece of information or a story. In Islam it is a narrative record of the sayings and actions of Prophet Muhammad and his companions.
In this life Allah can not be seen, but the believers will see Allah in the next life, this is stated clearly in the Quran and the Sunnah.
Seeing Allah will be a favor that is additional to Paradise on the Muslims who will dwell therein. As a matter of fact, the joy of seeing Allah for a believer will be greater than the joys of Paradise combined together. The unbelievers, on the other hand, will be deprived of seeing Allah and this will be greater punishment for them than all the pain and suffering of Hell combined together.
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One thing we know about the web is that it's very easy to index and store and retrieve text, and very very difficult to make ISAR systems for other sorts of media. We've seen an inkling of what's to come with Google Video which uses the nifty hack of indexing the closed captioning to give entry points into visual content. Of course, as we know, closed captioning isn't perfect.
Moving on…. there have been a few library bloggers podcasting lately, including Open Stacks' Greg Schwartz [welcome back!]. Matt Haughey has been talking about podcasting on his blog for a while now. It's an interesting idea, and a great way to push regular audio content, if you're already creating it. I'm personally very rarely plugged in to my 'pod for that long at a stretch, and I'm just not sure the usual format of "hey get this MP3 stream automagically in your feed" works for the way I currently consume media, but I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise. I'd love to see some good indexing/search features so you didn't just have a title/author to go by: where's all the spicy metadata?
On the other hand, visually disabled patrons who have been after us to get more information accessible via the voice mail system [new titles, possibly even book chapters] might find this really incredibly useful. This whole post was really just a way to get around to mentioning PennSound, a directory of poetry recordings. While the site has some interface design issues, it has a great vision and so far a pretty good execution. I feel like I could spend entire days digging around in poetry audio archives [a favorite], perhaps I should try podcasting that?


Monday was my birthday and I made a resolution for the day: "I will square off a time slot to paint and finish Fuegan's cape!" And that's what I did.
I had some idea in mind when I set about to paint it, but it evolved with each color added. I started with shades of green and imagined some blue on the back but was reluctant to try it. But as I mixed greens and blues and layered stuff (not intending to layer, just to find the right color that suited my mind's eye), I realized that I did indeed have to use that brilliant electric blue! And I really like how it came out. I then hit the edges with a lighter green and that really punched it up! Really happy with it.
I then hit the eyes again and watered down some green for the sword, mostly to tie all those greens together. If I had a green cloak on his back, I needed some other point of green at another angle somewhere to bring it full circle.


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China Eastern Airlines és la segona aerolínia de la Xina en nombre de passatgers. China Eastern i la seva filial Shanghai Airlines es convertiren en el 14è membre de SkyTeam el 21 de juny del 2011. L'empresa matriu de China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited és China Eastern Air Holding Company.

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Meet Lizzie Fane, specialist in international careers opportunities for graduates.
Lizzie Fane is founder and CEO of Global Graduates Ltd and Third Year Abroad Ltd, the UK's biggest support network for students who study or work abroad during their university degree. We spoke with her about the importance of languages in the world of work.
Do recruiters appreciate the experience of working abroad?
"Yes, they absolutely do. Imagine an interviewer is sitting with a pile of fantastic CVs - straight A students, graduates from fantastic universities - then suddenly they see someone who has done international placements before they've even graduated. The recruiter can see how driven they are, their interests beyond work, and possibly language skills which are hugely useful. I think that as soon as you get those graduates into an interview situation, the enthusiasm comes out when they're talking about that topic, and it's very inspiring."
What are the advantages of learning another language and, in your opinion, which are the most useful languages to learn?
"It's like having two brains: you'll always have your native language, and you speak and think like somebody from that country, but when you speak another language, you can actually think like somebody from that country. It's very useful in terms of bridging cultural differences, and you can facilitate business between two cultures unlike a huge number of people - you're in a unique situation. In terms of the best languages to learn, I think it should be a language where you're interested in the culture, society and/or industry. Language learning is tough, but if you've got a hook-in that you love (for me it was the ice cream, fashion, history of art in Italy) then those are the things that can keep you going and kept you interested."
Do you have any tips/advice on learning new languages?
"The language site that got me through university is wordreference.com. It's a database, based on a dictionary, but the wonder of it is that individuals can ask questions, you can see how the word is used in context and examples of the word in question which is invaluable for a linguist. If you're learning from scratch, there are two mobile phone/computer apps that I'd recommend. The first is DuoLingo, which is very useful and can teach you the basics very effectively. The other one is Memrise, which is more about your spoken language and your memory. The way they teach you is by showing you 'memes' – which encapsulate a word, attempting to create images in your mind to trigger the memory of a word."
Are language skills something employers form the United-Kingdom are looking for?
"I think the problem we have in the UK is that employers will often ask for minimum requirement, encapsulating as many people as possible. They won't include the fact that they require a degree in French or French level C2 for example, because it would exclude some great candidates who just don't have the language skills. As a result, there are many skilled linguists in jobs where they don't require the languages that they have, and their employer might not realise quite how well they speak these languages. I think that employers, who are actually looking for linguists, don't have anywhere specific to go to find these candidates. They might go to universities across the UK and find just one or two appropriate candidates – they spend a lot of money doing that – so I've been working on a jobs board where employers can post jobs for this exact target audience, attempting to solve this problem, called globalgraduates.co.uk. I think this will be a fantastic way for employers to not only reach these students, but also understand their language level as we'll be using the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). I think that the number of skilled UK-based linguists could be better used."
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France takes on Silicon Valley: Washington threatens tariffs over GAFA tax
It was one of the big demands of Yellow Vests protesters. Tax the new giants of e-commerce that are killing small businesses. But on the day that France's parliament is voting a so-called Gafa tax of 3-percent on revenue earned on French soil for big tech companies that hang their fiscal hat abroad, the Trump administration's paved the way for retaliatory tariffs. Legitimate gripe or another case of Washington weaponising trade?
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Trump threatens to retaliate against French tariffs on American wine
France 24 business editor Bryan Quinn comments on "the renewed threats from the US President Donald Trump to escalate America's trade conflics on a number of fronts," including revisions to existing trade policies with Mexico and China. Most notably, Trump has threatened to "retaliate for what he calls unfair taxes on American wine entering the EU, singling out French wine," despite the fact that as a member of the EU, France is not responsible for setting its own tariff policies.
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Trump's Tax Overhaul Takes A Serious Toll On The Real-estate Market
According to Business Insider, Trump's tax overhaul is taking a serious toll on the Hamptons real-estate market. The New York Times reports that home prices are plummeting in the Hamptons, the infamous vacation playground of New York City's wealthiest residents. The median sale price of a Hamptons home has fallen to a seven-year low of $860,000. This high-end real estate slump can be traced to Donald Trump's 2016 federal tax reform, which makes it more expensive to own luxury homes.
Tiger Takes Masters In Dramatic Fashion
Tiger Woods completed an improbable comeback. Business Insider reports that Woods has won the 2019 Masters. Woods trailed Francesco Molinari by two strokes entering the day and by three after six holes. Molinari fell apart on the back nine, hitting into the water on No. 12 and No. 15, leading to a pair of double-bogeys. Tiger birdied three of the final six holes to hold off several other golfers who made back-nine charges. This is his first Major since 2005.
Trump threatens tariffs on cars from Mexico, stays optimistic on China deal
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to put tariffs on cars coming from Mexico into the United States if Mexico does not continue to help Washington deal with the immigration situation along the southern U.S. border. Trump told reporters at the White House he would put tariffs on cars or close the border, but he said he may start with the tariffs.
Will France's GAFA tax be effective?
France is pushing for a new tax on tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook. But how effective will the unilateral move be? Also in the show - Brexit fears lead the OECD to slash its economic growth foreacsts, and America's trade deficit hits a ten-year high, despite the Trump administration's trade policies.


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Without the "idiots" memo, the Post's new Colorado Democracy Alliance exposé is ultra-wonky
Michael Roberts October 14, 2008 7:53AM
The "Idiots" stamp proves more important than Jon Caldara thinks.
"Where Democrats Dumb Enough to Write This 'Idiot' Memo," the October 9 Message, deals with documents related to the left-leaning Colorado Democracy Alliance, including one whose authenticity has been disputed: It features a notation about a so-called "Educate the Idiots" campaign. As pointed out in the column, both Channel 7 and the Rocky Mountain News decided not to report about any of the documents -- even ones the Alliance authenticated -- when their reporters couldn't confirm that the "Idiots" memo was genuine. Moreover, the Denver Post only published a piece touching on the topic after the conservative FaceTheState.com website had already done so. The mainstreamers' reticence puzzled the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara, who started shopping the documents to the media earlier this year. "If they couldn't authenticate the 'Educate the Idiots' memo, they didn't have to use it. That memo was just a few pages in a hundred pages of incredible stuff that the Colorado Democracy Alliance did authenticate," he said. In his view, the other documents told what he saw as "a huge frickin' story."
Maybe so -- but as demonstrated by today's "Cracking the CoDA: Liberal Web Effective," Post reporter Jessica Fender's latest Alliance salvo, it's not nearly as likely to entrance the average reader sans the "Idiots" material.
At the outset, Fender makes it clear that the Alliance's methods are technically on the up and up:
The web of liberal nonprofit and political groups operating under the umbrella of the Colorado Democracy Alliance may tiptoe around tax and campaign-finance rules, but the efforts are completely legal, its architects and an expert say.
From there, she adds more details about the Alliance's approach, complete with a graphic breakdown of its power structure, affiliated organizations and behind-the-scenes players -- among them Rutt Bridges, Tim Gill and Pat Stryker. But while this sort of stuff will no doubt fascinate political junkies on either side of the ideological divide, it qualifies as inside baseball in ways the "Idiots" memo doesn't. Perhaps that's why the Post gave the new article such modest play. Although other Fender reports on the Alliance have made the front page of the A-section, this one was relegated to a modest chunk of Denver & the West's cover, located below the fold.
Caldara believes that it's the media's job to report important stories even when they're not, in journalism parlance, sexy -- and he's right. Still, the wonkiness of the today's article makes the decision by Channel 7 and the Rocky Mountain News not to go forward without the "Idiots" memo that much easier to understand. -- Michael Roberts
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