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SADRiNE News (0001): SADRiNE Achieves ISO Certification

SADRiNE Achieves ISO Certification: A Milestone for Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment     We are proud to announce that, on 14th September 2023, SADRiNE achieved ISO certification (QMS, HSE and EMS)! This is a significant accomplishment for our company, and it demonstrates our commitment to quality management, health and safety management, environmental management, continuous …

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Wisdom Nuggets (003)_Workplace/Professional Titles

WORKPLACE/PROFESSIONAL TITLES   Why people introduce themselves with their workplace titles   Recently, I attended a parent’s meeting at my daughter’s school. Every time a parent stood up to say something, they introduced themselves with their workplace titles. It was as if their titles defined who they were and what they were saying. Mind you, …

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Wisdom Nuggets (002)_Interviewer

https://www.cv-library.co.uk/career-advice/interviews/interview-questions-answers/ Interview  According to Wikipedia “An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers.” Generally, you have the interviewer(s) on one side and the interviewee (candidate) on the other side. The main purpose of the interview is to evaluate the qualifications of the prospective candidate or employee. The …

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Wisdom Nuggets (001)_Excellence

https://familyradio316.com/pursuing-excellence-a-mindset-of-excellence/   Excellence According to the Oxford dictionary, Excellence is “the quality of being outstanding or extremely good”. Though, generally, we love works and people that are outstanding, excellence is a virtue that is hard to find in our generation. We have decided to be associated with mediocrity. People, of all kinds, really appreciate excellence …

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Geotechnical Engineering in Uganda Series (020)_Consistency vs Intensity

  Culture of SADRiNE As part of our culture at SADRiNE https://sadrineinfrastructureservices.com/blogs/, we always have aerobics in the evening to keep our body and mind healthy but also for team building. Over time we have observed some colleagues who are very active and efficient in the first fifteen (15) minutes of the one hour. Thereafter they …

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Geotechnical Engineering in Uganda Series (019)_Father and Son

Paul and Timothy From the Bible in the book of 2 Timothy 2:1; we come across Paul calling Timothy “my dear son”. You may think Timothy was a biological son of Paul. Please no! Timothy was from the Lycaonian city of Lystra or of Derbe in Asia Minor, born of a Jewish mother who had become …

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Geotechnical Engineering in Uganda Series (018)_Copy and Paste

Copy and Paste In the initial years of my academic journey at Makerere University http://www.mak.ac.ug, I completely utilized the notes and slides of my mentor Prof. Denis Kalumba at the University of Cape Town http://www.uct.ac.za. This was done under his permission and supervision. I had no idea where to start from in relation to coming …

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Geotechnical Engineering in Uganda Series (017)_Good vs Bad

https://www.pinerest.org/newsroom/articles/good-person-or-bad-person-blog/ Good vs Bad In my life time, so far, it has been a privilege to attend two great universities. That is Makerere University http://www.mak.ac.ug in Uganda and the University of Cape Town http://www.uct.ac.za in South Africa. In both universities I have observed the existence of at least one universally labelled ‘bad’ academician (lecturer/professor) by the …

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Geotechnical Engineering in Uganda Series (016)_Activity vs Productivity

  Once Upon a Time For a long time (probably eight years from 2010 to 2018), I was teaching in more than one university in Uganda. At one point, I was teaching in four universities. I found myself running from one class at a certain university to the next class in another university. One of …

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Geotechnical Engineering in Uganda Series (015)_Refresh, Restart, Reset

Frozen Many times I have encountered a web page freezing from nowhere. A frozen state is when the web page appears to have stopped. Nothing on the screen seems to move hence no response. This is a very frustrating situation especially if it happens in the middle of an important action. The situation tends to …

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