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Will it ever be safe to speak up in Rwanda?
August 27, 2012 March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg aid cuts, congo, FDU, Frank habineza, Frank Ntwali, Green Party, M23, Nyamwasa, Oppression, Paul Kagame, RNC, RPF, rudasingwa, Rwanda
By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW
It has been another interesting week in the confusion and danger that is Rwandan politics. Frank Habineza, President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has announced his return to Rwanda to register his party and run for parliament. This move has sparked many online discussions as to his motives, timing and speculations of him being "bought" by the current ruling regime. Mr. Habineza has defended his decision with his desire to be a part of the country he loves and desires to serve. He has stated in many conversations that he wants to serve the people of Rwanda in the best way he knows how.
The most discussed and controversial Rwandan opposition group would be the Rwanda National Congress which is headed by four senior officials from the current President Paul Kagame's regime who have all fled the country and live in exile from fear of unlawful persecution. All four were sentenced in absentia for alleged crimes committed inside and outside the country. Many speculate that their sentences were decided upon out of bitterness from their former boss. Just last week one of the major outspoken leaders and brother-in-law to General Kayumba Nyamwasa, Frank Ntwali survived an attempt on his life after he was stabbed eight times by men posing as undercover police officers.
If you follow Rwandan politics then you know that Victorie Ingabire Umuhoza continues to languish in a high security prison under charges of "genocide ideology," a criminal charge that the Rwanda regime uses on anyone who criticizes or challenges the government on any issue. President Kagame has charged many opposition leaders with this vague law and gained his desired outcome of no open democratic space in Rwanda. He ran for office unchallenged by any party in 2010 because no other parties were allowed to register and actually run in an election. Many speculate that had Mrs. Ingabire run for office she would have won the election. Instead she was imprisoned and Paul Kagame won with a staggering 93% of the votes. Although, not only Mrs. Ingabire remains imprisoned but many more political prisoners remain in overcrowded jails in Rwanda without the hope of freedom or democracy.
In the last three months Rwanda has seen tens of millions of dollars being cut from their foreign aid donors who have been backing Paul Kagame since 1994 to the amount of 50% of their national budget. This is a huge deficit to a small country that remains in the process of rebuilding after a devastating war.
But, Paul Kagame's Rwanda is not the Singapore that the random Rwanda observer may think it has become. In a six page statement made last week by Deo Lukyamuzi, Commissioner for External Relations, FDU-Inkingi he stated that President Kagme has a history of violence inside Rwanda as well as ethnic exclusion in government. In part Mr. Lukyamuzi stated:
"In the past ten years, Rwanda by which they often mean Kigali has been praised, and glorified as a shining example in Africa, a success story in the middle of hopelessness. Rwanda has been nicknamed the African Singapore. President Kagame is a constant feature on American CNN, economic conferences and business round tables, people appear anxious to know how he did it.
To an unconcerned observer, all the above is believable, and this is how non Rwandans have been convinced that Rwanda is an actual miracle, both socially and economically transformed in such a short period. In this information age, it is easy to be misinformed when you rely on the same source of information and not cross check its validity."
He further states that:
"Referring to an eleven million people country as a success story, with all its diversities and complexities is rather over generalising and lazy. It is reducing a people with centuries of history to a simple project. A success story is case-specific. It is measured by how much progress is made towards achieving the objective.
After the 1994 genocide, the country surely had intractable challenges. These were among others; healing the soul of the nation that was still bleeding from the mortal wounds inflicted by genocide, reconciling the population along the Hutu-Tutsi ethnic divide, reconstituting the state whose institutions had been decimated by the civil war and genocide, rebuilding the economy that had suffered a four year civil war, re-establishing peace and stability, pacify the whole country from security threats caused by the defeated forces either within the country or in neighbouring countries and embark on a democratisation process lack of which had been the root cause of the conflict in the first place."
In part he discusses what it is like to leave President Kagame's regime:
"It is unheard of, as a Rwandan politician to disagree with Kagame's policies and be free after parting ways. Whether they leave at their own free will or they are forced out, all former members or associates of RPF in party or in government, they never live a free life after parting ways. It is like a mafia life –you stay in forever or you die. A few are lucky to flee at night into exile but even this exile better be far away beyond the rich of Kagame's henchmen. Kagame's killing machine has gone as far as South Africa, United Kingdom and far flung places like Sweden. "
In regards to his observations on the ongoing violence within Rwanda Mr. Lukyamuzi made the following observation:
"During these last 18years, there were also mass massacres that occurred on several occasions. There are witnesses to these crimes both local and international. There are documented evidence attesting to these crimes, hidden away in UN archives or individual countries like Zambia and Australia whose peacekeeping contingents and UN employees were present when all this happened. There are several other countries whose advanced technologies enable them to capture these events in real time. Under international law, President Kagame and many of his lieutenants would be found guilty of war crimes of the highest category."
In regards to reports on economic development in Rwanda Mr. Lukyamuzi clearly stated that:
"Similarly, there is too much talk about the Rwanda booming economy. Often, analysts especially self-serving ones, exaggerate phenomena and misuse adjectives. There is nothing booming in Rwanda let alone the economy. 60% of the people cannot afford a single pair of shoes, millions cannot afford more than one meal a day and health services appear more miraculous in fictive statistics than in actual reality. Kagame's regime is more interested in impressing outsiders than serve Rwandans and as such, their politics is to concentrate energy and resources to Kigali as a gate-way to Rwanda. Having paved roads, high-rise building and floral displays in Kigali does not in any way portray the right picture of the rest of the country. About 70% of Rwandan population still lives in village and subsist on rudimentary agricultural practices."
Deo Lukyamuzi of the FDU-Inkingi finishes his statement by saying:
"We cannot refer to RPF and Kagame's performance as a success story. In the view of Rwandans, Kagame failed miserably and if he left power today, there is no semblance of guarantees that the country would not slide back in anarchy similar to post RPF and as they say, a regime's success is as good as how much it outlasts its architect."
His full statement can be found on Page three at www.FDU-rwanda.org
While President Kagame continues to hold tight his grip on power in Rwanda reports have surfaced that just over this last weekend another opposition group inside of Rwanda that is continuously harassed by the local RDF (Rwanda Defense Forces). In a press statement the other part of the FDU-Inkingi (yes, there are two groups by the same name with a very complicated recent history of a split in the group) has the following to say about the events of the weekend:
Kigali, 26 August 2012
RWANDA: FDU-Inkingi Secretary General, Sylvain Sibomana, assaulted before detention.
Mr. Sylvain Sibomana, FDU-Inkingi interim Secretary-General, was under police detainment at Remera station (Kigali city) today until 14:30. Visiting opposition colleagues noticed traces of blood spurting out of his mouth after being beaten by police officers. The opposition leader was assaulted when he rushed to inquire the situation of Mr. Shyirambere Dominique, a leader of Parti Social Imberakuri in Gasabo District (Kigali city), who spent the night under siege after he refused to open to armed strangers in the night."
FDU-Inkingi
Boniface Twagirimana
Interim Vice President."
This is not the first time Mr. Sibomana has been arrested or beaten for his political activities.
With such a dangerous level of violence toward political opponents one has to wonder what President Paul Kagame is afraid of. His wrath is felt all over the world for anyone who dares to criticize him but now the world is waking up and paying attention in the form of foreign aid cuts or freezing of disbursements based on his continued support of a rebel group inside DR Congo called the M23 which he has vehemently denied any dealings with.
Will the reality of peace ever be felt in Rwanda? With the passing of new legislation that allows the government to spy on any individual, except the President, inside the country how can anyone feel safe? With every communication being closely monitored will there ever be freedom of speech?
The answer is no, not under President Paul Kagame's death grip on the country.
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Surviving another polar vortex, and the polar brain freeze
Charles City Press, 1-31-19
If you are reading this, congratulations!
You've survived the recent "polar vortex," whatever that is.
Your eyeballs have come unfrozen, and your brain has warmed up enough that you're able to comprehend written language. I'm very proud of you.
If you're like me, you became tired of people telling you how cold it is. I know it's cold. I'm right here with you.
All over social media, people posted photos and videos and "memes" about how cold it was. I'll admit I posted some, too. I'm not immune to jumping on the icy bandwagon.
I think I saw the video of the guy blowing soap bubbles in the freezing temperatures about a kazillion times. It was kind of cool the first time — the bubbles would freeze as they were floating through the air, then they would become kind of squishy, like gum drops. Then they'd burst with a visible puff of vapor. Other people tried it and failed.
Like I said, neat to watch the first time, highly annoying the 10th or 11th time and beyond.
Not nearly as annoying, however, as the viral videos that made the rounds the last time we had a polar vortex, a few years ago.
Remember? People started throwing boiling water into the air like a pack of morons. It was embarrassing to watch.
It all started with one person, who claimed that it was so cold where he lived (I think it was Wisconsin, go figure) that he could throw a pot of boiling water into the air and it would freeze before it came back down.
The theory was that water, when exposed to extremely cold temperatures, turns from liquid to solid. Seems I've heard that before, like maybe in third grade.
The guy had someone shoot video as he threw the boiling water into the air, and what seemed to be snow and ice crystals and mist came back down to Earth. At the time, I found the whole thing a mildly amusing way to spend about 35 seconds of my life.
But there is a good percentage of Americans who aren't content to just sit idly by and watch an idiot do idiotic things. They have to join in. It's the polar brain freeze.
Once that initial video was up, thousands of others decided they had to go to the trouble to boil a large pot of water, bundle up under layers of clothing so they could stay warm, lug the pot of dangerously hot water somewhere outside into dangerously frigid temperatures, and throw the water into the air, all the while filming it.
The results? Yeah, you guessed it. At least a hundred people burned the heck out of themselves.
It got so bad that meteorologists were following their weather reports with warnings to viewers and listeners.
"Please," they said, "please don't boil water and then take it outside and throw it into the air. You'll probably just end up burning the flesh off your Uncle Charlie's face."
One local media publication where I lived at the time even tried the experiment themselves, and reported on themselves, as if they were breaking news. They published the story on the front page.
That was some top-notch investigative reporting — they uncovered the stunning facts. I had always suspected that whole section in my third grade science book about water freezing when it gets cold was some kind of fabricated liberal conspiracy, but sure enough, those scientists were telling the truth.
I'm still waiting for that newspaper to publish the headline, "Area Fishermen Magically Walk Around On Lake Without Drowning."
It's not fair to single out that one publication, however. Hundreds of local and national news organizations also attempted the boiling water trick, as a part of their coverage of the polar vortex, with varying results.
And all over YouTube, as recently as yesterday, you could find new videos of people doing things with hot water in cold weather. One guy filled one of those super-duper water guns with boiling water and shot it out into the cold. I have to admit, this was kind of cool to watch, and I wish I would have thought of it.
Then there was the guy who wanted to show what happened when you urinate in 50-below wind chills. I have to admit, this was excruciating to watch, and I wish I had never seen it. It was disturbing.
However, it's always disturbing to me when I realize that I live in a world where people have to tell other people that throwing boiling water into the air is a bad idea.
Anyway, keep warm. And congratulations for surviving another polar vortex.
Take heart. Spring is just around the corner.
Expressing 'outrage' over razors and burgers
People are outraged.
Or so they tell us.
Yesterday, I saw an advertisement that purported to be about razor blades, although it didn't seem to have anything to do with razor blades to me.
It was about 45 seconds long and addressed issues like bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault. It deftly worked in images of men and boys displaying what was obviously bad behavior, integrating images of other men and boys displaying good behavior.
"We believe in the best in men," said the voice-over. "To say the right thing. To act the right way."
The intent, it seems to me, is to encourage men to not behave like jerks — and to lead by example and show other men, and our children, how not to behave like jerks. Don't excuse bad behavior by brushing it off and repeating the unimaginative "boys will be boys" cliche.
I still haven't figured out where razor blades fit in, but it seemed like a decent, thoughtful message to me.
However, the essential directive, "don't be an awful person," was apparently too much to ask of some folks. The commercial sparked a wave of "outrage." Many decried the commercial as "offensive to men." Some even called for a mass boycott of the company.
Outraged? Over a little razor blade commercial? OK, sure.
The NCAA Champion Clemson football team visited the White House earlier this week, which is traditional. With the U.S. Government under partial shutdown, there were not enough people available to prepare and serve the team a dinner. So the President decided to buy huge piles of fast-food burgers and pizza, paid for out of his own pocket, and told the players to help themselves.
That's not traditional, and it seems silly. Most of the players didn't seem to mind, a few grumbled about it. The food sat there for quite some time and got cold before anyone had a bite. Cold fast food isn't a culinary delight. The whole episode was good fodder for jokes from late-night comedians.
A whole lot of people said they were outraged about it, though. The editorial pages of major publications, cable news hosts and internet postings all expressed unhinged anger over the situation.
To me, it doesn't seem to be the kind of thing to get that worked up about. The NCAA champs got served a lousy meal. A prime rib dinner would have been nice, for sure, but they're still the NCAA champs, they still got to visit the White House, and now they'll have a cool story to tell for the rest of their lives, about how the billionaire President bought them burgers.
Meanwhile, a freshman congresswoman called the billionaire President a dirty word earlier this month. There has been a plenty of outrage directed toward her, and although I honestly wish people in the public eye would conduct themselves with better manners, and raise the level of discourse, I don't find myself becoming outraged. Perhaps that has something to with the fact that I've heard the man who is now President publicly use dirty words and call people childish names time and time again over the last 30 years — all the way up to this past week. There aren't many people more responsible than he is for the coarsening of our culture. I know, two wrongs don't make a right — but turnabout is fair play — so when someone uses a potty mouth to insult the king of potty mouths, it doesn't ruffle my feathers all that much.
Meanwhile, our own congressman, Steve King, essentially told a major publication this month that he didn't understand why being known as a white nationalist or a white supremacist is a bad thing. This would probably be outrageous to me, if it weren't for the fact that the congressman has said things far dumber than that over and over again for the last 16 years or so, and our friends and neighbors keep electing the guy, over and over again. It seems a little late to be outraged now.
I tend to get annoyed about things, but not outraged, so it's hard for me to believe people who claim they are outraged. I sometimes think they're faking it — or maybe they're a little unstable and need help.
I have a friend, who I grew up with, who now works for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He defends our borders. He doesn't work on the Mexican border, he works on the Canadian border.
When everyone talks about border security, they talk about the southern border — but the northern border is just as important.
My friend's primary job is to protect our country from terrorists, illegal aliens, illegal weapons and illegal drugs. It's just as much a priority in Minnesota as it is in Texas. He trained hard and he works hard.
Because of the government shutdown, he hasn't been paid for his work since before Christmas, but he still goes in, every day, and does it. He has a wife and kids and a home. He has all the same bills you and I have, and has to figure out how to pay them.
He is not a politically outspoken person, and is not in any way responsible for the shutdown. He loves his country and doesn't bad mouth its leaders — essentially his bosses — even when he disagrees with them. He's too responsible. He doesn't complain about the situation he's in — at least not to me. In fact, he's very optimistic, and quick to tell me not to worry, there are a lot of folks worse off than he is.
He knows that when the shutdown ends, he is supposed to receive back pay, but that's not a certainty — and there's no telling when the shutdown will end. I don't know how he's making ends meet in the meantime.
I love my old friend, and there's nothing I can do to help him right now.
But if I were the kind of person who got outraged, I think that might be the kind of thing I'd get outraged about.


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Jonah Rankin (MBA 2018) grew up in Austin, Texas, not far from the University of Texas campus, though he chose the University of Washington for his higher education.
In the UW Foster School's MBA Program, he has an engineered a similarly diverse experience. Rankin is a member of the Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Club, Foster Tech, Global Business Association, Story Corps and Foster Foodies. "My favorite club activity was learning how to make sushi from a Japanese student and his wife in the Foster Foodies club," he says.
His perspective broadened immensely from a winter quarter studying at the University of Cape Town Business School in South Africa.
The most impactful experience I've had so far in business school has to be pitching and developing an Alexa skill that allowed Airbnb hosts to improve the guest experience for my Software Entrepreneurship class. In ten short weeks we learned what it takes to develop an idea that will attract investment, assemble a well-rounded team, and build a ready-to-go minimum viable product.
My stretch goal is to work for a company that is applying technology to the built environment in a way that is a real game-changer. There are several startups in the Seattle area working on freight forwarding, LED lighting, and affordable housing—all categories where they can make a difference and everyone comes out ahead.
How are you leveraging your Foster experience to achieve this potential future?
I chose electives and real-world experiences that will help me understand the upcoming revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). AI and ML are based in part on regressions and statistics, so I am taking the Tools for Big Data Analysis class to understand the fundamentals of how it works. I am working for a startup, Magic AI, that is working on computer vision for a very specific industry: the equine (horse) market. I recently started working on a project making earth imaging cheap and accessible, part of the democratization of information. These have broad implications for society and huge business opportunities to leverage low-cost information and AI integration. My experiences in an out of the classroom at Foster are equipping me with valuable insight.
The ability to connect with industry and apply skills to current challenges being faced by Seattle-area companies is a huge learning advantage. For example, my mentorships with local executives in the tech and maritime industries gave me concrete examples on the importance of diversity on company boards and collaborative decision-making on teams with diverse backgrounds. Foster exposes me to what I will face in a changing Seattle, a city with organizations of all sizes and structures and a hotbed for cross-pollination of ideas across industries. Foster has gone out of its way to provide experience making me equally comfortable at a two-person startup or a large multinational company.
Do you have a favorite professor or class?
For me, the Software Entrepreneurship course is the pinnacle example of how Foster gives its students an advantage. The class brings together MBA and computer science students on teams to work together; it's taught by former managing director of Madrona Venture Group, Greg Gottesman, and computer science professor and Gates Chair Ed Lazowska. Our student teams pitch our idea every single week and have a panel of local businesspeople critique us in order to improve on it throughout the quarter. I know of several startups that were formed directly out of that class. I'd add that Thomas Gilbert makes his finance class incredibly engaging and the knowledge from that class was crucial in subsequent electives and my summer internship.
I am a big sailor and went in with two partners to buy a sailboat—it is definitely not an NPV positive project. We love sailing around Puget Sound and up into Canada with our friends and family.
Jonah Rankin with his MBA classmates and climbing partners on Mount Rainier.
What aspirations do you have beyond work?
Climbing Mt. Rainier with the Foster group this spring. Each year a group of Foster students starts with a local hike and trains on successively larger mountains (Mount Si, Mount St. Helens, Mount Baker, Mount Rainier). Foster students with mountaineering experience volunteer their time to teach others the skills necessary to summit the glaciated peaks of the Pacific Northwest. It was a blast last year and there is truly no better way to bond than being roped together on top of a volcano.
I was part of the team that built the floating concrete pontoons for the 520 Floating Bridge across Lake Washington, which is the longest and largest floating bridge in the world.


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FFS interview: Emily & the Woods
by Lynn Roberts • 7 November 2010 • 2 Comments
Emily & the Woods is a family affair. When FFS caught the band at the Folkroom at The Queen's Head pub in London, frontwoman and songwriter Emily Wood was joined by her father and brother. Unamplified, Emily is not afraid singing quietly and the audience is spellbound by her songs with their lively lyrics and melodies that are both catchy and delicate. After the show FFS spoke to Emily about working with Laura Marling, philosophy (FFS: beginners, Ms Wood: advanced) and how excruciating it is to reread your teenage diary.
FFS: You've just come back from university, did you play a lot of gigs there?
Yes I went to university in Exeter – I played a lot and it was really great. I worked at the student union bar and they were really encouraging so it was really really helpful to be there. I got to do lots of things and everyone was really supportive.
How long have you been writing for?
Emily: I've been writing songs for ages before I started writing them on the guitar I was just writing, I had a little tape – it's lost somewhere in the house somewhere I need to find it – when I was 12 and I was just writing about whatever I was writing about and thinking 'I need to put this to music but I don't know how to play'.
Are the songs we're hearing today new?
They're a real mixture – the oldest songs are a couple of years old. An interesting point about the songs at the moment is whenever you hear an artists first album it's always a collection of everything they've gathered together which is quite nice. So at the moment there are a couple of older ones and some really really new ones.
You've got an EP out, are the songs on it different from the ones on your MySpace?
I think I've combined them so that they're different now. We've got Never Play on the MySpace but that's the demo version – we rerecorded it for the EP and Old House is on MySpace too, we did that for Folk Radio. There are a couple of other demo tracks but I've taken them off and replaced them.
It sounds like you have quite a lot of material.
Yes there is, but there's always room for more! The ones that have stuck are done and I feel really pleased with them and I feel that a lot more work has gone into them.
You said on stage that you used to write when you were revising at uni, do songs always come from the same sort of place?
It's really funny it's a real mixture, I think I'm just learning… I'm working out what the ideal conditions are. I think part of me thinks what I need to do is give it loads of space and loads of time – direct your thoughts and organise yourself and get on with writing a song. Another part of me thinks 'oh it'll come' and I don't know which one's best. Part of it is circumstance, so when I was at uni I used to come home after being out or whatever and end up playing my guitar and writing. That's something that I don't think will ever change. So I suppose giving myself loads of time I might well actually lose that. A lot of its about working out what you're thinking about trying to make it clear to yourself.
Do you write a diary or poems as well as songs?
Diaries! Oh my goodness I kept a diary from when I was 12 until last summer. I just have a kind of strange… I think it's a slightly depressing selection of things!
Have you gone back and read your earlier ones?
I have and it's so awful – especially the ones from when I was about 16 or 17 because I thought I was so sorted but actually I was so weird! I don't know what I was thinking about. So yes, I used to keep a diary and I only just stopped about a year ago because it became a bit of a chore and actually I felt a bit bound to keeping it – like I needed a record. It became something a bit morbid, writing down everything that I was thinking just in case someone would read it and find it and know that that was what I was doing in 2009 or whatever… And then Poems – I had a phase. I did a poem a day
Really?!
Yeah it was really good I really recommend it. It was after a thing happened and I suddenly realised loads of stuff about life but also about poems. How that in a poem – and this is the same as in a song – when you write something you can use language in any way you want so you can just arrange the words and make sense of something in a way that's so particular to the fact it's a poem or the fact it's a song I think discovering that is really exciting because when you learn that about art it's quite sort of freeing because you think I can make anything happen. Does that make sense?
You can do anything you want within the form.
And that's really exciting. It's just quite interesting.
I like forms of anything, I like the format of a sonnet but I also like that about albums, they're all the same size and shape and around the same length, but the music and artwork is really different within that.
The thing is that that's actually what people are like and it's weird because you don't think about but actually a CD or a painting – the idea of a canvas – you've got all of these canvases they're all really different but actually they're all kind of the same. And they're all essentially the same because that's what people are like – it's really interesting. It's quite an exciting philosophical thought, I quite like it.
You obviously come from a musical family [Emily plays with her dad and brother] is your mum musical too?
She's just over there, you can ask her! She's not as such, she's an art therapist, which certainly added to my whole attitude towards creativity but the family is musical I suppose that's what we're like. My dad, as you've seen tonight, but also that's his job. I've grown up thinking of it as something that I would never ever do. 'Why would you be a musician?' But I'm not sure I really had a chance to get away.
You've grown up thinking it's a job…
It's a really interesting point, because I think that's a really important part about how I feel about my situation because being creative has never been something that was bad, It's always been an important part of life, not in a wishy washy sense but just like there are certain ways of thinking about things and certain ways of expressing things and they're really valuable which means you can commit yourself to that without feeling too bad. And I know that not every musician is in that position at all.
How did you end up working with Laura Marling?
Well we are friends, we're just really good friends. We've known each other for ages we met each other in London about a year before she moved up.
Did you play here before you went off to Exeter?
No I didn't I played just to myself and to my friends. It was all in the very early stages at that time. The first thing we ever did hanging out was have a jam and it did not go well I'd been playing the guitar for about six weeks. But we just knew each other and I was at her house and we were talking about music and demos and stuff and I played some songs and she was like 'do you want to record them' and I was like 'yeah, lets do that tomorrow.' and it's been lovely because she encouraged me to set up the MySpace and we did that in a couple of days.
Are you going on tour with Laura?
I wondered, I thought she mentioned it on the radio. But it seems to be The Pins according to the internet.
No! I don't know where that came from. I did go on tour with her last November we went to Scotland with Pete Roe and her. I wasn't playing I was just hanging. It was dreamy because we're both obsessed with Scotland because it's wonderful. So we had a really really nice time. It was really gorgeous and lovely.
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Zsidó László (Brassó, 1946. február 22. –) erdélyi származású magyar matematikus, egyetemi tanár.

Életpályája
Wildt József tanítványa volt. Az 1963-as nemzetközi matematikai diákolimpián aranyérmet szerzett.
1968-ban matematika szakot végzett a bukaresti tudományegyetemen.  1973-ban ugyanott doktorált. 1968–1979 között különböző bukaresti intézetekben kutató matematikus,  1979–1980 között kutató Németországban a münsteri egyetemen, 1980–1990 között Stuttgartban egyetemi tanár, 1990-től a római Tor Vergata egyetem professzora. 2010-től az MTA külső tagja.

Munkássága
Fő kutatási területe a funkcionálanalízis, azon belül operátoralgebra, lineáris operátorok spektrális elmélete. Ezen kívül foglalkozott még harmonikus analízissel, ergodikus elmélettel, általánosított függvényekkel. Több mint 70 szakdolgozatot és két monográfiát publikált.

Könyvei
 Șerban Strătilă, László Zsidó: Lecții de algebre von Neumann, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1975.
 László Zsidó: Spectral properties of the analytic generator and singular integrals, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1983.
 Șerban Strătilă, László Zsidó: Operator algebras, Tipografia Universităţii din Timișoara, 1995.

Válogatott cikkei
 D'Antoni, Claudio; Zsidó, László: Abelian strict approximation in AW * -algebras and Weyl–von Neumann type theorems. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 360, No. 9, 4705–4738 (2008).
 Zsidó, László: Weak mixing properties of vector sequences.  in: Dritschel, Michael A. (ed.), The extended field of operator theory. Containing lectures of the 15th international workshop on operator theory and its applications, IWOTA 2004, Newcastle, Uk, July 12–16, 2004. Basel: Birkhäuser (/hbk; 978-3-7643-7980-3/e-book). Operator Theory: Advances and Applications 171, 361–388 (2006).
 Araki, Huzihiro; Zsidó, László: Extension of the structure theorem of Borchers and its application to half-sided modular inclusions. Rev. Math. Phys. 17, No. 5, 491–543 (2005).
 Takemoto, Hideo; Uchiyama, Atsushi; Zsidó, László: The σ-convexity of all bounded convex sets in ℝn  and ℂn. Nihonkai Math. J. 14, No. 1, 61–64 (2003)
 Niculescu, Constantin P.; Ströh, Anton; Zsidó, László: Noncommutative extensions of classical and multiple recurrence theorems. J. Oper. Theory 50, No. 1, 3–52 (2003).
 D'Antoni, Claudio; Zsidó, László: Abelian strict approximation in multiplier C*-algebras and related questions. J. Oper. Theory 49, No.1, 99-113 (2003).
 Doplicher, S.; Longo, R.; Roberts, J.E.; Zsidó, L.: A remark on quantum group actions and nuclearity. Rev. Math. Phys.  14, No.7-8, 787–796 (2002).
 D'Antoni, Claudio; Zsidó, László: Groups of linear isometries on multiplier C*-algebras. Pac. J. Math. 193, No. 2, 279–306 (2000).

Jegyzetek

Források
  Saját honlap
 Zentralblatt MATH adatbázis

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
 Erdélyi magyar matematikusok és informatikusok listája

További információk
 Bukaresti Tudományegyetem
 Római Tor Vergata Egyetem

Romániai magyar matematikusok
Magyar egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók
1946-ban született személyek
Brassó díszpolgárai
MTA-tagok
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Developing relationships with occupational medical providers and obtaining baseline assessments of employee fitness are key strategies to managing workplace injuries, return-to-work transitions and case management.
A panel of safety leaders and employment law attorneys at the 2012 America's Safest Companies (ASC) Conference in Chicago discussed strategies to manage employee injuries, including building relationships with occupational medical providers and obtaining a baseline assessment of employees' fitness for duty.
Pete Gillespie, counsel with Fisher & Phillips LLP; Troy Allen, regional HSE manager at Jacobs; Jeff Romine, corporate safety director at Shaw Industries Inc.; and panel moderator Dan O'Brien, a partner at Fisher & Phillips, discussed the complexity of employee fitness for duty and managing injuries in a Sept. 11 ASC Conference session.
Allen stressed the importance of conducting a baseline functional assessment of an employee's fitness for duty immediately after hiring. If, for example, an employee starts a job with only 60 percent range of motion in his shoulder and then injures his shoulder on the job, his employer may be responsible for bringing the shoulder back to 100 percent – which would be impossible since the employee had compromised range of motion in the first place.
With a functional assessment in hand, however, the employer only is responsible for bringing the employee back to his original baseline. As long as these assessments are given to all employees after a hiring offer has been made, and assuming the worker is not truly disabled or unable to perform the central functions of the job, it is not a discriminatory action.
"As long as it's done uniformly, if it's done post-offer and consistent with the business needs, EEOC won't have a problem with that," Gillespie said.
Ideally, employers should build relationships with occupational physicians now, not just after an injury occurs. The doctor must understand the work your employees will perform and what is required of them physically. If physicians have this understanding, "they will typically work with you," Romine explained.
But if an employee visits a family doctor instead of the occupational physician, the employer has lost control of care and the medical costs of that claim. Keep in mind that different jurisdictions will have different legal requirements for how much influence an employer may have in the employee's choice of doctor.
In some jurisdictions, O'Brien explained, it's not legal to tell employees they must see a certain doctor – but if you tell employees, "You should go see this doctor," the majority of workers likely will follow your direction.
Encouraging a relationship between employees and occupational physicians can pay off not only for employers, but for workers and their health, too. Allen explained that having a local occupational medical provider visit the company periodically for preventative care (which some providers may offer free of charge), can provide employees who might not usually go to a doctor with necessary medical care. This builds relationships and trust.


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Dubai, UAE, February 15, 2021- Wilo Middle East (WME), an international premium manufacturer of pumps and systems and a world-leading driver of innovation, announces the acquisition of PumpsPro, a well-reputed pump solution service provider under Direct Trade House International LLC (DTHI). The acquisition entails the creation of a new business unit that will maintain the name of PumpsPro but will be managed and operated as a Wilo company.
The signing of the agreement took place at the WME office in Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA) in the presence of Jens Dallendoerfer, Senior Vice President – Sales Region Emerging Markets, Wilo Group; Yasser Nagi, Managing Director, Wilo Middle East & Group Sales Director MENA Region and Bijan Sheibani, Chairman, Direct Trade House International LLC.
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PumpsPro has been working with Wilo Middle East as service partner for its overhauling and repairing business since 2018. The signing of the new agreement is expected to reinforce Wilo's capabilities–equipping the company to bring repairing and overhauling activities in house, especially catering to the large number of building service, water management and industrial customers that require the right servicing that leads to strong reliability and asset uptime. Wilo's offshore customers in the region will also benefit from the acquisition, where demand for servicing offshore pumps has seen a big uptake–providing oil and gas customers the just in time reliable servicing they require.
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End Of Slavery
B.C. proclaims Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day to mark official end of slavery in Canada
When the Abolition of Slavery Act came into force in 1834, it freed an estimated 800,000 slaves of African descent across British-controlled territories.
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