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UPSC Notification Online Recruit Application Form 2018:
The Union Public Service Commission, Online Submission of the Applications by the candidates closes soon. The Deadline for printing of the Online Recruitment Applications by the Candidates closes very shortly.
UPSC Assistant Director Online Registration Form 2018
The Union Public Service Commission notified Dates Recruitment Test (if any) for e-Admission Letters / Hall Tickets. The Candidates shall also get the Update on the Commission released Date of Interview Schedule along with issuance of the e-Admit Cards / Hall Exam Tickets.
The Union Public Service Commission, based on the information / details furnished by Applicants, shall shortlist the candidates for Personal Interviews, Dates for which shall be displayed on our Website for the ready reference of the candidates.
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), through its Advertisement No. shall be invited the Online Recruitment Applications from the bona fide Indian nationals for recruitment of the Assistant Directors as detailed hereunder:
Eligibility Condition As on 29.10.2018:
|Name of the Department
|Name of the Post
|No. of Posts
|Age Limits
|Educational Qualifications
|Ministry of Labor and Employment,
General of Mines Safety
|Assistant Directors of Mines Safety
(Occupational Health) Grade-I
|40 Yrs
|The Candidate (He / She) must have in possession
i) A recognized Medical Qualification included in the First or the Second Schedule or Part II of the Third Schedule (Other than the Licentiate Qualifications) to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956
ii) A recognized Post Graduate Degree in Community Medicine with two years' experience in the field of Occupational Health, preferably in factories or mines
A Recognized Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Health or Occupational Health or Public Health with three years' experience in the field of Occupational Health preferably in factories or Mines
|Office of the Development Commissioner, MSME
Assistant Directors (Grade-II) (Chemical),
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME),
|30 Yrs
|The Candidate (He / She) must have in possession
Master's Degree in Chemistry or Industrial Chemistry/Degree in Chemical Technology or Chemical Engineering from a recognized University/Institute or Equivalent
|Office of the Development
Commissioner, MSME
Assistant Directors (Grade-II) (Metallurgy),
Ministry of
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,
|30 Yrs
The Candidate (He / She) must have in possession
Degree in Metallurgy Engineering from a recognized University / Institute or Equivalent
The Candidates belonging to the Reserved Categories seeking Relaxations in the Upper Age Limits are advised to carefully read the Advertisement published by the Commission.
Application Fee:
For General and Other Backward Classes Candidates, Payment of Rs. 25/- (Rupees Twenty Five only) either in cash or through Remittance at any branch of the SBI by cash or by using Net Banking Facility of the State Bank of India or by using Visa / Master Credit / Debit Card. The Candidates belonging to Reserved Categories remain exempted from the Application Fee Payment.
Selection Criteria:
Excepting or Including the Recruitment Test (if so) Category wise Minimum Level of Suitability in the Personality Test / Personal Interviews irrespective of whether the selection is made only by interview or by Recruitment Test followed by the Interview, the Union Public Service Commission has determined Category wise Minimum Cut-Off Marks as i) UR: 50 Marks, OBC:45 Marks, SC/ST/PH: 40 Marks, out of the Total Marks of Interview being 100.
In case where selection is made by Recruitment Test (RT) followed by Interview, the Candidate will have to achieve minimum level of suitability in their respective category at both stages, i.e., 'Recruitment Test' as well as 'Interview'.
The Union Public Service Commission would determine the minimum level of suitability in case of RT on case to case basis.
NB: The Candidate shortlisted by the Commission are are required to carry along with (him / her the Printout of their respective Online Recruitment Application along with other Testimonials, Documents, as prescribed by the Union Public Service Commission at the time of Interview Schedule.
In case of further assistance / clarifications, the candidates are advised to log in to www.upsconline.nic.in/.
Download here the Detailed Notification
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According to a new report from the Los Angeles Times, the California Department of Parks and Recreation stashed some $54 million in the bank even as it cut services and tried to shut down parks. Now, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) is doing his best to tap into that cash, reportedly asking the state attorney general to start "an investigation into the hidden surplus, which officials believe the department concealed from state bookkeepers, the governor and the Legislature for at least a dozen years." Essentially, Gov. Brown is calling dibs on the dough.
That money may have been either hidden or misplaced, according to the Times. One of the funds in which the money had been stashed was designed to maintain off-road vehicle recreation areas, and the other was to be used for general maintenance. The Parks Department has been cleaned out in terms of personnel. Now, the governor is launching a "review of all dedicated funds across state government."
This month, the state was slated to shut down some 70 parks.
The question here isn't why fraud or mismanagement of government money took place. It's why the people of California would continue to raise their own taxes to pay for that fraud or mismanagement. How does a government simply lose track of $54 million? Apparently, it's an everyday occurrence – says State Sen. Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa), "If one department can hoard $54 million for 12 years, who else is playing the same tricks of deceit and thievery?" The government is. It's that simple.

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Amazon Walkin Interview For Freshers/Exp Candidates For Customer Service Associates Positions Pune Locations. Interested and Eligible Candidates attend walk-in interview on Given Dates. Further Details Like Total no of Vacancies, Education Qualification,Experience Details, Location of Job and Detailed Description of Job is Given Below…
Amazon Walkin Interview For Freshers/Exp
Company Name : Amazon
Designation : Customer Service Associates
No Of Positions : Multiple Posts
Qualification : Any Graduates
Experience : 0 – 5 Years
Location : Pune
Latest Jobs :
Salary : Rs: 1.58 LPA to 2.26 LPA
Job Description :
Communication Skills :
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to communicate correctly and clearly with all customers.
- willing to work in 24*7 shifts.
- Good comprehension skills ability to clearly understand and state the issues customers present.
- Ability to concentrate follow customers issues without distraction to resolution.
- Good composition skills ability to compose a grammatically correct, concise, and accurate written response.
- Work successfully in a team environment as well as independently.
Computer Knowledge/Skills :
- Ability to use a desktop computer system.
- Familiarity with Windows XP, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer.
- Excellent typing skills.
- Demonstrates understanding of the Internet, Amazon.com website, and competitor websites.
- Demonstrates an ability to successfully navigate websites.
- Demonstrates a proficient knowledge of email applications.
- Demonstrates an ability to learn in various media.
- Ability to successfully adapt to changes in the work environment.
Customer Focus :
- Excellent customer service skills, including maintaining focus on the customer issue in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to empathize with and prioritize customer needs.
- Demonstrates interpersonal skills with a diverse customer base.
- Demonstrates conflict resolution, negotiation, and de-escalation skills.
- Demonstrates ownership to resolve challenging customer issues, escalating when necessary.
- Ability to determine customer needs and provide appropriate solutions.
- Maintain regular and reliable attendance, including the daily schedule as assigned.
- Flexible with the working schedule; may be expected to work weekends, holidays and events.
Problem Solving Skills :
- Effective problem solving skills including decision making, time management and immediate prioritization of tasks as assigned.
- Ability to approach problems logically and rationally.
- Action oriented and self-disciplined.
- Organized and detail-oriented.
- Ability to quickly and effectively prioritize work time in various departments to meet business need.
- Ability to maintain composure in highly escalated situations.
- Qualified candidates will be comfortable in a multi-tasking, high-energy environment.
- They will be creative and analytical problem solvers with a passion for excellent customer service.
Company Profile :
Amazon.com , commonly known as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.
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7 Ahmednagar Road, Village Vadgoan Sheri,
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text: Down Under natives Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman star in the historical epic Australia (2008), directed by their fellow countryman Baz Luhrmann. Kidman plays a British noblewoman who inherits a massive ranch, and, in order to keep possession of it, she teams with roughneck Jackman to drive thousands of cattle over brutal terrain. Their adventures along the way include being bombed by the Japanese at the dawn of World War II and Nicole unveiling her right knocker as the unlikely partners...Join Mr. Skin for the full review >>


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Scattered on either side of Shafter Avenue just north of the town center here, new oil pump jacks, some bobbing and others thrusting, tower above this corner of California's prime farmland.
Driven by advances in drilling technology and high oil prices, oil companies are increasingly moving into traditionally agricultural areas like Shafter that make up one of the world's most fertile regions but also lie above a huge untapped oil reserve called the Monterey Shale. Even as California's total oil production has declined slightly since 2010, the output of the North Shafter oil field and the number of wells have risen by more than 50 percent.
By all accounts, oilmen and farmers — often shortened to "oil and ag" here — have coexisted peacefully for decades in this conservative, business friendly part of California about 110 miles northwest of Los Angeles. But oil's push into new areas and its increasing reliance on fracking, which uses vast amounts of water and chemicals that critics say could contaminate groundwater, are testing that relationship and complicating the continuing debate over how to regulate fracking in California.
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Friendfeed had a little revamp this week and it has generated quite a lot of buzz around the net. mostly from the early adopters that form the active crowd using it. when friendfeed launched it was not really anything exciting to me because it was no more than a aggregator with interaction. the updates that have gone through from then to now summed up with this recent mini-revamping finally shape Friendfeed into something worthwhile of attention. i am not entirely convinced it could go mainstream in the short term. but i do see it as good fit for going mainstream in the long term. maybe by late 2009 or early 2010. right now it is more than likely to remain something that only a 10% may be able to use effectively. if anyone doubt such argument. i then must remind everyone that Twitter. the main utility friendfeed feeds from and that is at least three times more popular is not close to break into the mainstream yet
Even then. the new changes look to be just the push i needed to make me use Friendfeed and i will be paying more attention to it more closely.
Along with a new look at tweaks. the latest friendfeed update al brought Friendfeed Widgets with it:
FriendFeed Badge
The Friendfeed badge is basically a Friendfeed User ID Card. but depending how you use it. you can also make it a unbranded ID card or Social Card if you want to. that is because you have the options to customize your widget and decide how you want it to look by removing elements from it and choosing the size you want it too. as a example i made mine more minimalistic.
It is a JavaScript widget badge so that means is best suited for blogs and it also carries a option for further customization via CSS.
One final interesting note is that Friendfeed is giving out special support to Blogger. i would not be surprised at all if Friendfeed happened to offer Google Connect support later too. the ties of the FriendFeed team with Google continue to be quite strong. something to pay special attention too in my opinion.
Share on FriendFeed Link Button and Bookmarklet
A Friendfeed share link button or bookmarklet for Blogs that come in HTML or in JavaScript flavor. the first one is a quick sharing loader and the second one is a bookmarklet so it allows you to edit before sharing.
The Share Link Button comes with direct support for Blogger and WordPress blogs only.this don`t means it cannot work elsewhere. just that you cannot blame them if it don`t works properly.
FriendFeed Feed Widget
The main offering from FriendFeed is its Feed Widget. it carries around a river of notes from your your friendfeed account and it can show up as many as 10 at a time. you can also filter the services in the case you want it to just display updates from one service only.it can also load the notes from the FriendFeed Room you own or are subscribed to. this makes it a useful widget for the services supported by FriendFeed or for following the notes in your favorite FriendFeed room. just like with the Badge. you can also remove whatever you don`t want to show up in the widget design and if you want to make your own customization to it. you can choose to do so by using the advanced CSS option for it. this is the widget that was previously offered unsupported before and the changes it presents is that it now can offer you size customization, it sports the new friendfeed look and it comes with the promo footer so people can easily view your friendfeed page or subscribe to you in a click if the are logged into the service. it is a good widget but the selection to be only able to check up to 10 items makes it limited if you happen to be very active. for a up to 30 items version just like in your FriendFeed page you will have to use the Embeddable FriendFeed Lifestream widget instead.
Given this is Friendfeed main offering i would have liked a Flash version that would allow you to reply directly to the items. or if they offered a special iframe widget version of friendfeed that could make friendfeed a portable experience.
FriendFeed Chiclet Button
A chiclet, not the one i was expecting but one nonetheless. this is only a HTML link button so you can promote yourself wherever you want. i would have liked a Followers Friendfeed Chiclet option too. maybe later or maybe sooner from a third party. we will see.
Friendfeed Status Widget Badge
The Friendfeed Status Badge is no more than a restricted version of the Friendfedd Feed Widget. it only loads updates from your Friendfeed Account and it only show one of them at a time. recommended only for the more casual users or to use it for a specific Friendfeed Supported service.
There you have it. these are the official widgets from Friendfeed and lets hope they are not the last and that they add more robust versions or more of them as they update the service.


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Herb Formulas Notebook
Gui Zhi Jia Gui Tang
(Cinnamon Twig Decoction plus Cinnamon)<< Close Window
Source: Discussion of Cold Damage (c. 220)
Author: Zhang Ji / Zhong-Jing
Category: Formulas that Release the Exterior
Pattern: Taiyang stage Wind-Cold or Wind attack with Exterior deficiency and damage to Heart Yang leading to upsurging of Yang (Running Piglet)
Key Symptoms: Recurring intermittend surging sensation rushing from the abdomen to the chest and Heart making the patient uncomfortable standing up or lying down, aversion to drafts (including intolerance of open windows and needing to wear a scarf or protective clothing), sweating at any time of day or night (may be spontaneous or triggered by activity, stress or wind), fever or other heat symptoms
Secondary Symptoms: Headache, stiff neck, nasal obstruction, aching and pain in the extremities (especially arms and shoulders), dry heaves, flushing, constipation
Tongue: May have white coating but not always
Pulse: Floating and either lax or frail
Abdomen: Tension in rectus abdominis
|Gui Zhi
|Bai Shao
|Zhi Gan Cao
|Sheng Jiang
|Da Zao
Preparation: Decoction.
Actions: Releases pathogens from the muscle layer, regulates Ying and Wei
Contraindications: Exterior Cold and interior Heat, or internal Dampness
This is variation of Gui Zhi Tang intended for when a Taiyang stage disorder has been improperly treated with the fire needle or excessive sweating has been induced.
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Most formulas are found in Scheid, Bensky, Ellis & Barolet (2009): Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies and Chen & Chen (2015) Chinese Herbal Formulas and Applications. Others are from translations of primary sources. It is recommended that the original material is cross-referenced for mistakes and additional information.
Substitutions have been taken from Ken Lloyd & Prof. Leung (2004): Mayway UK Substitution List or the above publications and are intended as suggestions to help navigate the tight restrictions in the UK quickly. More applicable substitutions may be appropriate in specific situations.
Individual herb information has initially been sourced from TCM Wiki and American Dragon for basic data and then updated manually with my own notes.
These pages are intended to assist clinicians and are not intended for self-diagnosis or treatment for which a qualified professional should be consulted.


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LeAnn Rimes: I Couldn't Have Made A Better Record!
LeAnn Rimes heads into LAX Airport to catch a departing flight on Tuesday (January 24) in Los Angeles.
"SO, headed off to Nashville to a HUGE meeting with my label to play them the whole new record LIVE. SUPER excited cause it ROCKS. #proud," the 29-year-old singer tweeted earlier in the day.
"I could not have made a better record at this time in my life. It's like making a film. I'm proud," LeAnn wrote in another tweet.
Over the weekend, LeAnn ran some errands, stopping by her local farmer market before heading to Williams-Sonoma to pick up a gift basket.


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Thousands of Kosovo Albanians protested in Pristina against a United Nations plan, which, they say, would split the country along ethnic lines.
Protesters Wednesday took to the streets of the Kosovo capital, backing the country's leadership in opposing the plan, which sets out conditions for the deployment of a new European Union peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
The plan, backed by Belgrade and the United Nations, would create separate chains of command for Serbian and Albanian police forces operating in Kosovo. Police forces in ethnic Albanian areas would report to the new EU mission, while police in Serb-majority areas would report to U.N. officials.
Ethnic Albanians say the plan amounts to creating two, parallel chains of administration within Kosovo. They also worry it would give Serbia too much influence over Kosovo's internal affairs.
But Serbs say they will not accept the new EU force unless the six-point plan goes through.
Last week, EU officials agreed to Serbian demands that the mission remain neutral regarding Kosovo's status and have its personnel endorsed by the United Nations Security Council.
The mission is to replace U.N. security forces that have administered the former Serbian province since 1999.
Kosovo's leaders are on their way to London, where they will meet Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia in February. Serbia, its ally Russia, and ethnic Serb leaders in Kosovo reject Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence as a violation of Serbian territorial integrity.
More than 50 countries, including the United States and many EU states, have recognized Kosovo's independence.Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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Adele Will Stop Reminding You How Young She Is and How Old You Are After 25
Sadly, we won't be getting a<em> 30</em>.
Minutes before Adele debuted her heart-wrenching first new song in three years, she phoned in to Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show for a quick chat about her big return. But she was also there to break some news about her next album: 25 will likely be the final chapter in a trilogy of albums named after her age at the time she wrote them. (Fun fact: Adele is actually 27 now.) And, as she tells Lowe, she doesn't see herself doing any more age-titled albums after 25. "I feel like there's been a massive change in me in the last couple of years — having become a parent and me and all of my friends suddenly living grown-up lives. [I think] how I feel about myself is gonna be how I feel forever. Of course I'm always gonna change my opinions on things and feelings, but calling the albums after my age has always shown a photograph of what was going on in my life then and there. I feel like not that much is gonna change profoundly in me from now in terms of how important eras of my life are. I think the next one is probably gonna be called Adele, the real me [laughs]." Just wait until you hit 30, Adele.


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January Question and Answer
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This month we conquer the question of the breakroom… how do you handle stinky foods and pungent leftovers?
Q: We've had some complaints about pungent leftovers. Can we tell employees not to heat up stinky foods in the office breakroom microwave?
A: Great question! There are no legal guidelines you have to follow, but I would recommend sensitivity when addressing this issue. You definitely want to avoid making comments about certain types of food that could be interpreted as being directed at any ethnic populations in your workplace. Here are a few ideas you might consider:
- Ask employees to refrain from microwaving pungent foods—in policies of this sort, we typically see mention of foods like fish and microwave popcorn.
- Place the microwave in a space away from the break room and working areas.
- Create an alternative break area for those who are sensitive to smell.
Ultimately, employees should be cognizant of the fact that they share a workspace with others who may have different food preferences. Not all food aromas can be eliminated, but some common courtesy from all parties can go a long way. It's not unheard of for employers to remove the microwave from their workplace because of the issue you've described, but I would not recommend this step unless you have exhausted other alternatives.


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Marijn van der Straaten (BSc.) was born and raised on Curaçao and after finishing his secondary school, he went to the Netherlands to study Information Technology. After successfully completing his studies in 2009, he started working for an international information technology consulting company. His clients included many Dutch multinationals such as TomTom, ABN AMBRO, KPN. On January 1st 2015 he returned to Curaçao to become part of our test team.
English, Dutch, Papiamento
BSc. Bachelor Information Technology, Haagse Hogeschool
Testing: Tmap NEXT certified, ISTQB CERTIFIED test foundation level , Python.
Business process management: Prince2 , Agile , Scrum , ITIL Test management approach (TMap).
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MANATEE - The mercury hit 85 degrees at 2:19 p.m. today at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport, setting an all-time record for high temperature for a Jan. 10.
The previous record high for Jan. 10 was 83 degrees in 1989, said Tom Dougherty, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ruskin.
Dougherty thought the mercury could even climb higher before the day was over, given the lack of wind or cloud cover."We have a few more hours of heating, so it could change," Dougherty said at 3 p.m.
The high reading is part of a winter heat spell which will continue for a few more days, said Brian McClure, a meteorologist with Bay News 9.
"I think we will sustain this warm, tranquil weather," McClure said. "It's a normal situation. We have these warm periods in the winter. It's based on where the jet stream is aligning itself. We saw this was going to happen a week and a half ago. It's not just a Florida thing, it's all across the Southeast."
McClure doesn't expect a change in the mid-80 afternoons unless a wind or cloud cover moves in.
"But it doesn't look like much will change for awhile," McClure said. "The next best chance for rain is next week. This is a good time for the beach. The water temperatures are in the 60s, but there will be warmth and a nice breeze."


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A lot of people describe big realizations about money in almost religious terms. For some, it's an "awakening" or an epiphany. A light goes on, they realize the images on the cave wall are just shadows, and they wake up from the Matrix. All this imagery could lead you to believe that it takes a money epiphany, some big event or change that propels us into reexamining how we live our lives.
When I look at my own life I see a lot of interests that, in hindsight, have led me straight to this point. It's almost like a lifelong project, and I don't know if this blog is the culmination or just another step (at the moment it seems like the latter). Looking back it seems obvious that eventually I would run into things like Financial Independence and Alternative Lifestyles, even though at the time it felt a lot like one of those light switch moments described above. So I thought it would be interesting to run through some of what has led me to this point and we're I see it taking me.
How The Other Half Lives
I think I can go back as far as almost a decade ago, in college. I had to read Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives for a class. If you're not familiar with the book it's a study done on people living in Tenement housing (slums, basically) in New York in the late 19th Century. The book is short and sometimes difficult to read but combines three powerful mediums – interviews and personal stories, data and figures, and photographs into an insightful and relevant document. Needless to say late teens me (who was much more interested in the artistic qualities of photography and indifferent to the documentary power it possessed) I enjoyed the book but that's about as far as it went. Now, almost a decade later, I seem to be thinking about this book several times a week.
The Suburbs
Fast forward a couple years and I'm out of college and living at home for a while, trying to decide if I wanted to pursue graduate school and working in the meantime. I'm working on a documentary project about my home state and starting some other, smaller projects on the side – one of which is a visual study of property lines. You know how in the suburbs people's yards meet in a line and the way the grass looks can tell you whether or not they take care of their yard?
These divides usually extend in between the houses. I was fascinated by the idea that here was a property line that was pretty well defined and represented ownership of separate pieces of land while at the same time referenced how these two private structures had this "shared' space in between them. In the suburbs you might have a few feet in between houses – that land seems to be governed by a shared respect or understanding for one's neighbor, even if the properties are obviously divided.
So I'm driving around working on these projects and really focusing on doing documentary photography and I'm listening to The Suburbs by Arcade Fire pretty much on repeat as I drive around, well, the suburbs. There's a lot to The Suburbs, but for me it's always been a reflection on things like getting older and missing your childhood, finding what your American Dream is and building it, and confronting the reality that while we all share these connections, the world can be an empty and lonely place if you let it. At the age where I'm really considering what my life is going to be like for the next 40 years and what I want to accomplish and leave behind, these ideas hit me hard.
A Taste Of Freedom
The next part is pretty familiar and I detailed a lot of it in some of the early posts on the blog. Basically I left my job to move to another state to "start over" with my girlfriend of 2 years. I didn't have a job lined up and planned to spend the summer job hunting and living off what savings I'd built up, while enjoying my new city and being excited about having the time to finally get back into some of those earlier projects I'd been working on, which had fallen by the waist side as I'd earned more promotions and responsibilities at work.
At this point I'd been working 50-60 hours a week for a couple years and found I didn't really have the time or the energy to get into my "real work". This compounds after a while because not only do you have to motivate yourself to work on anything, you have to motivate yourself to dive in to a huge project that you left off months ago and by the time you get re acclimated and refreshed on it you're going to have to put it aside and go back to work.
So despite difficulties in finding a job and the reality that my savings were falling fast, I embraced my new freedom and did the most "real work" I'd done since college. I came away from it knowing that this was work I really wanted to do with my life as well as the reassurance that my passion for the subject I'd spent 4 years of my life and $60,000 still burned despite being subdued for a couple years.
A Constructed Life
While going through some of that old work I stumbled upon some of those property line photographs, most of which I'd forgotten about. At the same time I was doing a lot of exploring my new city (one of the benefits of not working is you can do a lot of exploring on a Tuesday morning while everyone else is at work) and I stumbled upon a nearby city called Franklin.
There's a lot of money in Franklin. And a lot of new construction. It's like a group of planners (or SimCity experts) were given a huge amount of money and told to build a city. Almost all of it seems new – new office parks with pristine landscaping, new housing communities (suburbs!), and shopping centers. All structured in a way that echoed the American Dream – your house in the suburbs, close enough to amenities that it's convenient but still far enough away to let you escape.
As you near your office you'll pass restaurants where you might want to eat lunch and car dealerships that remind you that there's always something more to strive for. The business parks have beautiful landscaping and fountains and walkways through wooded areas, the buildings are concrete and glass but in this space they don't seem as threatening and constricting.
Everything is divided but closely knit. Housing developments bow around the mall and the stores and the restaurants, which line the main roads leading into the business parks. Everywhere you need to go is within reach, laid out with painstaking detail.
And so a general interest in the suburbs (and in case you're wondering, yes I broke out the Arcade Fire CD while doing this exploring) exploded into a fascination with how structured it all felt. It was like someone tried to build the American Dream out of concrete and landscaping.
Returning To Work
After a few months and with next to no savings left I eventually went back to my first employer (who had locations in my new city). I was sad to end my sabbatical – it was a creative, productive, invigorating period of freedom and exploration – but refreshed to be able to regain my financial stability.
My time off wasn't like a vacation, where you know it's only one week and even on the vacation you're on now you're already looking ahead to the next one. Instead it was a fully immersive retreat – a real existence living a life I wanted, growing and exploring and learning and producing. My return to work is I guess where you could say I had my "epiphany" – all I knew is that the first time around I had saved up a decent amount of money and just bought myself four amazing months of personal freedom, and this is without really setting goals or doing a lot of planning or very much knowledge of personal finance.
With the goal of getting that freedom again, I dove into learning more about personal finance – budgeting, saving, investing, paying off debt. Nothing complicated. I just knew that I was making money again and that I wanted to be more thoughtful of what I did with it since I was going to have to go back to 50-60 hour workweeks and put a lot of that creative energy on hold.
I guess it's pure luck that I stumbled upon the idea of Financial Independence – it was through a link to Mr. Money Mustache on the YNAB forums. Who knows, maybe my exploration into topics like consumerism and work and the American Dream would have led me there eventually. And I'd like to think that the events leading up to that moment are what allowed me to fully embrace the idea. Lots of people hear about FI and early retirement and they shake their heads – it's not worth the "trade-off", or they're content enough to not need another way of doing things.
All I know is that while I haven't done a lot more work on that suburbs project, a progression has continued. I've spent my time learning about subjects like economics, statistics, history, and, of course, finance. And it's all starting to connect.
There's an idea out there that your life is made up of 7 year increments (I learned about this from Brave New Life's post here). The concept is based on it taking 7 years of your life to master something – like your job or a skill or whatever – and that after around 7-8 years you'll get bored of what you're currently doing and feel a need to replace it with something. If your first "adult life" starts when you're 21 or 22, it comes to an end shortly before you hit 30. Part of me thinks this enhances the social stigma around turning 30 years old, even though in the grand scheme of things 30 is amazingly young.
But maybe it's not necessarily the age, it's that you're nearing the end of one life – a life that you feel confident in, that you've honed and worked at and mastered – and you're wondering if that's all there is. If the rest is just boredom.
So the key seems to be starting a new life on top of the old one. You don't throw away the last 7 years – you just build something new on top of them.
I'm at a place where I feel a lot of the last several years coming together into a cohesive mindset, and I believe this mindset will directly inform my next 7 years. It'd be interesting to look into whether these epiphanies people have (about money, religion, themselves, life) line up with the 7-year model. I certainly think there's still a lot that's left up to chance, but taking the time to reflect on your progress you might get a sneak peek into what your next life is going to be like.
For me, I've got a note to go dig out my copy of How The Other Half Lives. Yes, it's one of the books I've kept despite trying to drastically reduce my physical footprint. For some reason I always figured I'd probably want to look at it again.


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Ashok K. Are; Sanjana Reddy. P ; Manohar Rao. D ; Venkata Subba Reddy. B ; Jayakumar Jagannadhan; Anil Gaddameedi; Anil Kunapareddy; Sunita Gorthy; Mahender T ; Narsimulu. M ; Prabhakar. N , 2018, "Phenotypic evaluation data of A1, A2 , A3 , A4(M), A4(G) and A4(VZM) cytoplasm's based iso-nuclear sorghum hybrids for grain mold resistance during rainy season 2007", doi:10.21421/D2/LP4XUO, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:QwjqXGLABwl7R68CsSLMug==A total of 84 entries including 72 hybrids, six B-lines (ICSB 11, ICSB 37, ICSB 38, ICSB 42, ICSB 88001 and ICSB 88004), two R-lines (IS 33844-5 and M 35-1-19) and four checks (296B-high yielding B-line susceptible to grain mold, RS 29-high yielding Rline, CSH16-high yielding hyb...
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Elias Khan Patan; Uttam Deb ; Bantilan MCS, 2018, "Data on rural non farm economy in SAT India", doi:10.21421/D2/WNAYE6, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ky+Ix1G9BPCddRKBrC1Axw==The study is based on household level panel data collected by ICRISAT under the Village Dynamics in South Asia (VDSA) project. A total of 864 panel households covering 18 villages across six states in India are studied for four years (2009-10 to 2012-13). These 18 study villages...
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Santisree Parankusam; Pooja B Mathur; Kiran K Sharma, 2018, "Quantitative proteomic data of chickpea leaves primed with nitric oxide donor for stress tolerance", doi:10.21421/D2/UY20HC, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:EwZr0DmQGqXI4PT1On1+Xw==Nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as a central regulator of various growth and developmental events in plants, such as seed germination, root growth, floral transition, senescence and stress defenses. However, the molecular mechanisms and targets of nitric oxide (NO) aren't fully kno...
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Ashok K. Are ; Santosh P. Deshpande ; Sunita Gorthy ; Jayakumar Jagannadhan ; Anil Gaddameedi ; Anil Kunapareddy ; Anuradha Kotla; Lakshmi Narasu ; Hari C. Sharma ; Mahender T; Narasimhulu M, 2018, "Phenotypic data of shoot fly introgression lines in sorghum for the year 2014 post-rainy season", doi:10.21421/D2/RAMEUC, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:BfBS9O186gpVhL+1SlxzPA==Sorghum is a major cereal crop cultivated mainly for food, feed and fodder purpose. But the major constraint in its production is shoot fly, which effects the plant at very early stage resulting in lower yield. Hence, this study was focused to develop shoot fly resistant varietie...
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The 3rd East Africa Microfinance Summit 2017 was successfully held at Hotel Africana, Kampala Uganda. It brought together over 300 microfinance stakeholders to deliberate on Digital Financial Inclusion.
The theme "Digital Financial Inclusion: a Reflection on the Perspectives, Pros and Challenges for Various Stakeholders" was selected in consideration of the fact that both financial are offering digital financial services to the public, but is it really a simple binary choice between technology and tradition? The keynote address was made by Bram Peters; Country Technical Specialist, Digital Finance, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). The Keynote address centered on analyzing how traditional microfinance has evolved, advantages and challenges that digital finance presents and whether technology has fulfilled the expectation of enhancing financial inclusion considering the key aspects of product development, regulation/risk management, digital infrastructure and consumer attitudes.
Other presentations were on "Infrastructural considerations for digital finance, status quo and recommendations" by David Cracknell, Global Technical Director, MicroSave. it also included panel discussions on mitigating digital risk through regulation and service providers by Mobile Networks and regulators from central banks of Uganda, Tanzania and SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA), Kenya
In addition there were présentations on market conduct and consumer attitudes by Boubacar Diallo, Senior Advisor,Africa Region, Smart Campaign , Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, Consumer Attitudes by Luke Gormley, Country Manager, JUMO Uganda and Industry code of conduct by Jean Pierre UWIZEYE, Executive Director, Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda (AMIR).
The summit was graced by Hon. Matia Kasaija, Minister of Finance Planning Economic Development, State minister for Microfinance and the Minister of East African Affairs. This was the 3rd event being organized in East Africa following summits hosted in Kenya and Tanzania in 2015 and 2016 respectively. It was organised the Association of Microfinance institutions of Uganda (AMFIU), and Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development.
The Association Of Microfinance Institutions Of Uganda (AMFIU) in collaboration with Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA) have organised the 1st Microfinance Institutions & SME Expo to be held in Kampala – Uganda from 16th - 19th August 2018 at UMA show grounds.
The Expo will bring together a broad spectrum of people from Microfinance Institutions & SME sectors. The Expo has been organised to demonstrate the intertwining approach in service delivery among the two sectors. The Expo will also be open to Service Providers to the Microfinance and SME Sector, entire Banking Industry, and Insurance.
The Microfinance CEO Working Group (MCWG), the Smart Campaign, and AMFIU sucessfully held a conference on 17 and 18, January 2017 under the theme Committing to Action: Accelerating Financial Inclusion through Partnership in Uganda. It took place at the City Royal Resort Hotel in Kampala, Uganda.
This conference served as a unique opportunity to convene Uganda's top financial inclusion stakeholders and experts and discuss ways in which we can commit to accelerating financial inclusion and consumer protection in the country.
Today, global emphasis has shifted to the systematic reporting on the progress microfinance institutions are making towards achieving their social goals. AMFIU has continued to build the capacity of member MFIs to track their social impact through using the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) tool. The PPI is a poverty measurement tool that enables organizations with a mission to serve the poor to manage their social performance with as much purpose and structure as they manage other aspects of their performance. The PPI enables organizations working with the poor to measure and analyze clients' poverty levels in real-time. It contains 10 questions about a household's characteristics and asset ownership which are scored to compute the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line. The PPI for Uganda was created in June 2015 with indicators based on data from the 2012/13 National Household Survey (UNHS) conducted by Uganda Bureau of Statistics. The tool helps in identifying the clients, customers, or employees who are most likely to be poor or vulnerable to poverty, integrating objective poverty data into their assessments for strategic decision-making.
Research is a vital activity of AMFIU and the organization tries to generate relevant, up-to-date and meaningful information to support sector growth. Recently, AMFIU published a report on a study on client over-indebtedness among microfinance institutions that are not regulated. The topic was the major study area demanded by members of AMFIU during the member satisfaction survey. The problem has been viewed as escalating in the sector.
AMFIU in collaboration with GIZ recently organized a refresher training workshop for HIV peer educators. This follows a survey conducted among AMFIU members regarding the implementation of HIV-related activities in their institutions. The workshop brought together focal persons for HIV-related questions and the people, who could fill that position in the future.
AMFIU hosted the Minister of State for Microfinance, Hon. Kyeyune Haruna Kasolo, at AMFIU office. During the visit the minister met AMFIU members to sensitize them about the Tier 4 Microfinance Institutions and Money Lenders Act 2016 that was signed by the President. In his address he cautioned microfinance institutions and SACCOs from over charging their clients. "Some of you have opted to cheat your own clients by charging high interest rates and other charges that are not declared at the time of borrowing"
The second quarter's Industry Information Exchange (IIE) meeting was held on Thursday 16th June 2016 Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala beginning at 2:00PM and will focus on Financial and Energy Diaries.
The Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU), Financial Sector Deepening Project Uganda (FSDU), and the United Nations Capital Development Fund are supporting a research on Financial and Energy Diaries to provide in-depth information about consumers' financial and energy behavior.
AMFIU together with FSD Uganda, organized the Quarterly Microfinance Industry Information Exchange (IIE) Meeting on Friday 12th February 2016.
The meeting is jointly sponsored by AMFIU and FSD Uganda, focused on using information technology to improve efficiency and FACTS Uganda (Financial Access Commerce & Trade Services) on a €750 million development finance initiative aimed to provide loans to under-served small businesses (SMEs), primarily in the agricultural sector.
The microfinance industry information exchange meeting for 3rd quarter was held on 7th August 2015 at Metropole Hotel in Kampala and it attracted 120 participants.There were 3 presentations focusing on taxation and Tier 4 regulation.
The first presentation was on taxation of MFI/SACCOs and was made by Chillanyang Cyprian, Assistant Commissioner Uganda Revenue Authority. He represented Mr. Moses Kaggwa, the Commissioner Tax policy in the Ministry of Finance. The presentation focused mainly on the taxes that are collected from MFI/SACCOs namely VAT, domestic taxes, income tax, stamp duty & excise duty and the tips for being tax complaint.
The second presentation focused on the Impact of Taxation on SACCOs and implications of the President's pronouncement of exception of SACCOs. It was made by Patrick Sserubula, Manager, Institute Of Cooperatives – UCA.
Lastly, there was a presentation on the progress of tier 4 regulation. The presentation was made by Mr. Nelson Mutatina, Financial Services Department-Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development.
The participants had discussion regarding the topics and agreed on issues for follow up. Taxation is one of the issues that has greatly crippled the performance of SACCOs and in some cases institutions have closed business. Similarly, the Tier 4 bill is soon going to be enacted but the sector still faces the challenge of understanding how the proposed regulation is going to affect their operations.
The presentations can be downloaded below
The meeting was sponsored by FSDU
We welcome suggestions for the next meeting on 26th October 2015.
For further information please contact AMFIU
The National Microfinance Conference 2015 was successfully held on 29th – 30th January 2015 at Hotel Africana, Kampala. In 2012, AMFIU and the Government of Uganda, through the Microfinance department of the Ministry of finance, Planning and Economic Development agreed to jointly host the annual conference every two years, in effect taking it beyond targeting AMFIU members to focusing on all the sector shareholders. This has given the conference a national character and provides an opportunity for all stakeholders to participate in deliberating the national focus. The themes and sub-themes over the last 4 years demonstrate a big commitment, share important topics and events that shape the microfinance industry in Uganda and beyond.
In effect the Ministry of finance, Planning and Economic Development, Financial Services department and AMFIU organised a National Microfinance Conference slated for 29th – 30th January 2015 at Hotel Africana, Kampala. The theme for this year is 'Financial Inclusion in a Regulated East African Community Environment '.
Deliberations revolved around the following objectives;
The presentations for the 2 days will soon be available here.
Download the Provisional Conference Programme
The Association of microfinance institutions of Uganda in collaboration with citibank is receiving applications for clients or members of SACCOs and microfinance institutions to compete for this year's best Microentrepreneur Awards. Over 70 million Uganda shillings will be awarded to a number of successful Microentrepreneurs to be selected through a competitive process of a panel of High Profile people.
Download the detailed information about the awards here
Applications can be downloaded here and then submitted through the Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)/ SACCO to AMFIU by 10th April 2015.The awards are organised by AMFIU to promote the effective role that microfinance plays in poverty alleviation and the extraordinary contributions that individual microentrepreneurs have made to the economic stability of their families as well as their communities in Uganda.
AMFIU has organized a microfinance Industry Information Exchange meeting to focus on the recently passed regulation principles for Tier 4 institutions and the opportunities and challenges of transformation. This meeting will take place on 30th August 2013 at Fairway Hotel. During the last AMFIU conference, the Minister of Finance Hon. Maria Kiwanuka announced during that cabinet had passed the regulation principles for Tier 4 institutions. What does this mean to the microfinance sector? Secondly since the MDI act 2003 was enacted, there are few institutions that have transformed. What are the opportunities and challenges of transformation? As microfinance stakeholders, these are pertinent issues that need to be discussed broadly.It is against this background that AMFIU has organized a microfinance industry Information exchange meeting on Friday 30th August 2013 at Fairway Hotel to further discuss the above issues. This letter therefore serves to invite you to participate in this half day meeting on Friday 30th August 2013 at Fairway Hotel starting at 2:00PM. There will be a networking cocktail after the meeting.Participation is through registeration on email:
The programme can be downloaded here
The presentations for the AMFIU annual conference 2013 can be downloaded here
aBi Trust's Presentation to AMFIU
AMFIU RISK PRESENTATION 2013-President.pdf
Industry Report
Integrated risk management framework
Managing Governance Risk in MFIs
Overview of Risk Management
Overview of Agriculture Finance risks
AMFIU has again organized an Informal Information Exchange meeting to focus on Housing Microfinance on 5th April 2013 at 2pm at the Lion Centre, Sheraton Kampala Hotel. The demand for housing microfinance is increasing yet many microfinance institutions are grappling with developing such a product. In view of this, the Centre for Innovation in Shelter and Finance, Habitat for Humanity International, Africa and the Middle East Area Office will be launching a programme in Uganda to facilitate financial services providers to develop housing microfinance products. The IIE meeting has therefore been organized to get an insight about this upcoming project and share experience on the performance of microfinance housing products.
There wil be a networking cocktail after the meeting.Participation is free of charge but through registeration.Call Telephone (256) 414 259176 or (256) 312 265540. You can write to
AMFIU has organised a half day Microfinance Informal Information Exchange meeting to be held on Tuesday, 26th February 2013 Fairway Hotel starting at 2.00PM. The meeting will focus mainly on new mobile phone technologies that are transforming banking and microfinance in the East African Region and beyond. There will be a presentation on ELMA, an e-commerce platform that can used by Banks, MDIs, MFIs and SACCOs. As you are already aware Centenary Bank has just launched its Centemobile, which is powered by ELMA.
Participation is through registeration on email:
Citi awards application: Click here to download
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Today the Minister of State Microfinance, Caroline Okao Amali, launched the 2012 Citi Microentrepreneurship awards 2012 at the Citi Bank Office. The programme aims at promoting the effective role that microfinance plays in poverty alleviation and is organized in collaboration with AMFIU. The programme that started in 2006 in Uganda has seen over 129 entrepreneurs take home awards.
According to Chinedu Ikwudinma, Citibank MD, Citi Foundation is committing $75,000 towards the micro entrepreneurship awards in Uganda. He further said that the 2012 awards are taking place in 28 countries including Uganda.
The goal of the program is to promote micro entrepreneurs and increase awareness of their financial services needs, in what is broadly known as microfinance. More importantly the aim of this initiative is to put the spotlight on local micro entrepreneurs who are helping to lift the economic fortunes of their communities, generating greater opportunities to bring capital into their developing economies.
AMFIU will hold a half day microfinance informal information exchange meeting for stakeholders on Thursday, 15th November 2012 at Fairway Hotel starting at 2.00pm. This will be followed by a networking cocktail.The meeting will mainly focus on 2 issues namely;
All stakeholders are invited to participate by registering with
. Participation is free of charge.
Agri-Finance Marketplace, Mayor's Garden, Lira, On 1st November 2012On 1st November 2012 there will be an Agri-Finance Marketplace that will be held in Mayor's Garden, Lira. The Marketplace aims to bring together Farmers and Finance Service Providers from the Northern Region of Uganda for better information sharing, dialogue and interaction. Farmers will have the opportunity to know better the existing financial services for farming. They will have face to face inquiries and discussions with the financial institutions that have presence in the Northern Region to share questions and demands and give evidence of their capacities for accessing financial services.Finance service providers will have the opportunity to exhibit in an attractive way their products to facilitate information sharing and match making with interested clients. Other providers like traders and input dealers will share their own financial services to farmers and their relationships with the finance institutions.During the discussion forum, finance service providers will share their challenges and opportunities with farmers and look for appropriate products for mutual benefit. Additionally, the government bodies that are committed to support Agri-business will bring in their own experiences on finance for farming and discover new opportunities for their farmers in their sub-counties, districts and region at large.You can book space by 25th October 2012For further informationMs. Sharon Againe, APF Uganda Network Assistant Facilitator, Kampala
Mr. Aroma Patrick, Event Coordinator, Lira
APF, GIZ, AMFIU and partners of APF have organised the first joint Agricultural Finance workshop that will be held in Lira at Hotel Pan Afric on 31st of October 2012. The workshop will precede the Agri-Profocus Market Place/ Exhibition that will take place on 1st November. The workshop aims to bring together Farmers, Finance Service Providers and other actors of the financial sector from the Northern Region of Uganda to share and discuss important developments and innovations in the agricultural finance sub sector in Uganda.
The 2012 Annual Conference and the 1st African SPM Conference from 27/09/2012 to 02/10/2012, Kampala (Uganda)The Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) will organize its 11th Annual Conference and the 1st African SPM Conference in Kampala, Uganda, from September 27th to 02 October, 2012
For details and registration click here
The Citigroup Foundation will once again support the 2011 Microentrepreneur Awards that is organised by AMFIU to promote the effective role that microfinance plays in poverty alleviation and the extraordinary contributions that individual microentrepreneurs have made to the economic stability of their families as well as their communities in Uganda.
The theme for this year is Entrepreneur Creativity & self sustainability. This is the 5th Citi Microentrepreneurs Award since 2006.
Microfinance institutions can send in applications for their two best clients who may also include a Woman or a person with disability taking into consideration the selection criteria that can be downloaded here.
Clearly provide a history or tracking of the client's borrowing/saving, business growth, employment creation, sustainability, financial discipline, family impact and innovation/ creativity. Attach pictures/ photos for the entrepreneur's business activity.
Forms can be downloaded from here
Meet Mr. Lukuta Simon Peter, Platinum winner 2010
The Association of microfinance Association of Uganda has been trying to bring MFIs back to the drawing board by encouraging them to become socially accountable and relevant to their clients through social performance management (SPM). SPM is about making an organization's social mission a reality. It involves taking the steps to deliberately manage and achieve desired social results.AMFIU has been creating awareness and promoting social performance management among its members and the microfinance industry in Uganda and has had a positive response from the practitioners on this issue.It is in this regard that AMFIU organized an award ceremony to recognize microfinance institutions that have made an effort in introducing and implementing SPM in their organizations. The award ceremony took take place on 27th September 2011 at Serena Hotel and BRAC Uganda emerged the overall Gold Winner.The award was received by Khondoker Ariful Islam, the Country Representative of BRAC Uganda. In his remarks, he retaliated BRAC's achievements as based upon their role as a learning organization and the coordinated program management system, monitoring, auditing and research departments that strives to learn everything about microfinance programs - including what works, as well as what doesn't. He further said that each branch has a review committee that visits and talks to their members to see their progress. He emphasized that this kind of operation has given them confidence to serve their clients.
The following presentations were made during the Annual Micro-Finance conference:
Key note addressMicro Finance policy and regulation in Uganda, enhancing or hampering growth?Interactive session by Alexander ForbesInteractive session by Crystal ClearInteractive session by Micro-JusticeImplementation of poverty scorecard, Experience from Brac UgandaSocial Perfomance for MFIs, Social Performance Task Force
AMFIU Annual Microfinance Conference & AGM
6th and 8th May 2010- Imperial Botanical .Hotel, Entebbe , Uganda
"Building Sustainable Microfinance
Institutions in a Competitive Environment"
Draft Program of the AMFIU Annual Microfinance Conference (AAMC)
6th – 7th May 2010
Theme: Building Sustainable Microfinance Institutions in a Competitive Environment
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After every 2 months, AMFIU sends out an electronic newsletter (The e-Bulletin) to members and partners. The aim is to keep them updated on the network activities and any new developments in the industry. Below are the latest issues.


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Oh, to have been on this Lower East Side train last Tuesday, when straphangers were treated to Stay Human Band's rousing rendition of "Empire State of Mind."
The group -- who've boisterously busked on trains before-- were on their way to a gig at Rockwood Music Hall, where they played a mix of pop songs and jazz standards.
This subway performance truly looks like one of those beautiful only-in-New-York moments for everyone involved, and reminds us of last week's spontaneous "Bohemian Rhapsody" sing-along aboard the L train.
New York, of course, has some of the world's best buskers. Remember Damon Scott's soulful performance of Adele's "Someone Like You"? Check out some of our favorite subway performances below:
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WASHINGTON — In a dramatic shift of sentiment, the House voted Wednesday to end a nine-year ban on military aid to rebels fighting the Cuban-backed Marxist government of Angola.
The 236-185 vote reversed a 1976 measure barring military assistance to the pro-Western guerrillas in the southwest African nation. The decision does not actually provide funding to the guerrillas.


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Instead of teaching the conventional business silos, so common in management education, the program uses an integrated, multidisciplinary vision of management and focuses on the actual practice of management. It is structured around managerial mindsets, which draws on the research and acclaimed international leadership programs of Henry Mintzberg, McGill University's best-selling author and renowned management thinker. The McGill – HEC Montréal EMBA program is predicated on the following principles and philosophies:
- Participants are practicing managers with a wealth of experience and knowledge. Learning will be drawn from their own experience as well as that of their co-participants. As such, the program is highly participatory and encourages interaction and collaboration among participants.
- Program content is rooted in reality and is issue-driven, focusing on current business matters, concerns and events that have an impact on decision making and management practices.
- Like all MBA programs, analytical management tools and techniques will be presented, but in the McGill – HEC Montréal EMBA they are examined from a strategic angle.
- The program incorporates the "Five Minds of a Manager" theory. As described in the Harvard Business Review article, by Jonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg, managing effectively relies on employing five managerial mindsets – The Reflective Mindset: Managing Yourself, The Analytical Mindset: Managing Organizations, The Worldly Mindset: Managing Context, The Collaborative Mindset: Managing Relationships and The Catalytic Mindset: Managing Change.
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The De-Industrializing City: Urban, Architectural, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives. German Historical Institute London, 12.12.2017–13.12.2017.
Reviewed by Pia Eiringhaus
Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (April, 2017)
The De-Industrializing City: Urban, Architectural, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
In the late twentieth century, complex developments of de-industrialization and transformation, migration and multiculturalism, conflict and resilience, farewells and new beginnings re-shaped urban environments. In order to gain more insight in the many facets of the processes transforming former industrial cities and societies, Jörg Arnold (Nottingham), Tobias Becker (London), Simon Gunn (Leicester), and Otto Saumarez Smith (Oxford) organized the joint international workshop "The De-Industrializing City: Urban, Architectural, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives", held at the GHIL, 12-13 December 2016. Experts from different disciplines were brought together to explore and debate late twentieth-century European cities as key sites of cultural and societal transformation from a comparative Anglo-German perspective.
Tobias Becker chaired the first panel, 'Concepts of De-Industrialization and Multi-Culturalism: A New Master Narrative of Urban History?', which aimed to investigate ways of conceptualizing theoretical approaches and bringing together the various social, cultural, societal, and economic aspects. Focusing on employment change, JIM TOMLINSON (Glasgow) approached de-industrialization processes by pointing out strengths and weaknesses, since neo-liberalism and the formation of information and knowledge-based societies went hand in hand with inequality, insecurities, and precarious job situations. In his paper, 'De-Industrialization: Strengths and Weaknesses as a Key Concept for Understanding Post-1945 Britain', he emphasized that de-industrialization had to be embedded in the larger processes that had already started in the 1950s. In their contribution, 'From Fordist to Neo-Liberal Urban Spaces in Times of De-Industrialization: A Conceptual Frame for a Complex Relationship', ARNDT NEUMANN and LUTZ RAPHAEL (both Trier) advocated an integrative theoretical approach that brings together various perspectives determining the complex process of de-industrialization, including different social, cultural, architectural, and demographic trends. Using the example of Hamburg, they showed that the city's transformation was shaped by a variety of processes, from production to creativity, rationalization to digitalization, social security to precariousness, and suburbanism to the renaissance of the 'inner city'. These trends could provide starting points for considering the temporal and spatial specificities of the prevailing cities. The relationship between de-industrialization and multi-culturalism was explored by ELIZABETH BUETTNER (Amsterdam) in her paper 'Multi-Cultural Cities: Problems or Possibilities?' by looking at changing perceptions of Indian restaurants. Multi-ethnic areas used to have a bad reputation as red-light districts with social problems and crime, but in the 1980s, the perception of Indian restaurants in particular changed. Since then, they have become popular objects of 'white consumption', as the example of London's Brick Lane demonstrates, and Buettner emphasized the significant impact of de-industrialization on the perception of multi-culturalism in urban spaces. The following discussion made two main points. First, there is no 'general concept' to explain the transformation of 'the former industrial city', since every city follows individual temporalities. Secondly, there is no single working class as a societal point of reference. It is no longer the main centre of attention, but one among others.
Jörg Arnold chaired the second panel, 'Social Perspectives. Community, Conflict and Cohesion: The Urban Crisis Revisited', which focused on the interconnections between politics, economic change, and cultural means of expression. Looking at the connection between teenagers' expectations and attitudes towards work and the formation of a specific youth culture, FELIX FUHG (Berlin) investigated the interplay between economic change and work/leisure relationships as expressed in the formation of a specific youth culture. In his presentation, 'Teenagers' Future: London's Labour Market, the Youth Employment Service and British Youth Cultures in the 1960s', he concluded that teenagers' frustration was one of the most visible reactions to urban transformation. Emphasizing the importance of language for the process of constituting meaning, CHRISTIANE REINECKE (Leipzig) investigated changes in the political use of the term 'ghetto' from a comparative Franco-German perspective. In her paper, 'Of Ghettos, Marginality, and Gentrification: Global Terms and local Imaginaries in West Germany and France', she argued that the 'ghetto', formerly constructed as instrument for designating social and economic urban problems, has become a means to negotiate the chances and limits of integration. Starting from the significant question of how changes in urban cities are structured temporally, OTTO SAUMAREZ SMITH provided a critical approach to the Thatcher period, arguing that broader societal, economic, and political transformation processes since 1945 must be considered. In his paper, 'The End of Urban Modernism', he showed how Thatcher made political use of a predominantly negative image of Britain's urban spaces as a spatial-material locus for what had gone wrong. The general tendency was to identify the dualism between metropolitan city centre and periphery as the essential problem, as it created power struggles between 'the core and the rest' that were negotiated in urban transformation politics.
The third panel, 'City-Planning Perspectives. Urban Blight and Regeneration: The Case of Port Cities', was chaired by Sebastian Haumann (Darmstadt) and focused on the multi-faceted processes by which maritime urban spaces were transformed. Based on specific examples drawn from the port city of Hamburg as it developed from the 'poor house of Germany' to an economic success story, CHRISTOPH STRUPP's (Hamburg) paper emphasized the significant impact of broader geo-political events on the process of deindustrializing cities. In his paper, 'Urban Economic and Planning Policies in an Age of Uncertainty: Hamburg in the 1970s and 1980s', he reflected on the interplay between macro-historical developments and social, political, and economic processes at local level. Struggles between hope and reality shaped the processes of urban transformation. Using the example of the German city of Wilhelmshaven, JÖRN EIBEN (Hamburg) demonstrated the fatal consequences of politicians strongly promoting a utopian narrative of progress while ignoring both the critical voices of local actors and real economic trends. In the case of Wilhelmshaven, the discrepancy between hope and reality resulted in the city being publicly declared a 'successfully industrialized city'—without attracting any companies. Both visuality and imaginary determine the perception of urban spaces. In his presentation, '"Behind the Imposing Facade of the Boule vards": De-Industrialization, Society, and the Built Environment in Liverpool, 1968–1982', AARON ANDREWS (Leicester) reflected on the impact of political and public discourses on Liverpool's problematic areas. These were mainly shaped by the parallelism of images of urban and economic decline, and local improvement activities as reflections of hope. Gentrification is not only a radical side effect of the de-industrialization of urban spaces, but is also determined by a multiplicity of trends, as ARNDT NEUMANN argued in his paper, 'De-Industrialization and Gentrification: The Inner City of Hamburg, 1956–2010'. He analysed the complex interplay between population change, migration, the decline of industrial areas and job losses, new social movements and the increasing influence of students, the collapse of modernist urban planning, and the rise of a new generation of architects. In the following discussion, it was suggested that the process of de-industrialization has to be embedded in a longer continuity, opening up the perspective instead of limiting discussions to the Thatcher period. Further, the significance of versatile approaches was highlighted. Since urban transformation stands at the intersection between global developments and local/regional specificities, a differentiated investigation requires both the typical and the specific aspects to be integrated while considering the prevailing historical, economic, and social development of the particular city. This goes hand in hand with the claim that the investigation of de-industrializing cities requires a remodelling of the classic approaches of urban history.
Moritz Föllmer (Amsterdam) chaired the fourth panel, 'Cultural Perspectives "Ghost Town": The Late Twentieth-Century City in the Cultural Imagination', which focused on the intersection between cultural and political factors. LUCY ROBINSON (Sussex) used the example of the British reggae singer Smiley Culture to emphasize the problematics of London as an urban space in the 1980s, including multi-culturalism, the emergence of new identities, and friction between race and class. 'Smiley Culture: London's Hybrid Voice' showed not only the significance of language as a powerful instrument for criticizing racism, but also the dichotomy between state control and consumer society, which was negotiated behind the backs of ethnic minorities. Using the popular buzzword of 'glocalization', MALTE THIEßEN (Oldenburg) spoke about town twinning from a (national and EU) political, cultural, and social perspective. In his paper, 'Coming to Terms with Glocalization: British Town Twinning in the Twentieth Century', he identified town twinning as both a reflection of various social problems and developments, and a strategy for finding solutions. Seeing town twinning as a means to improve global understanding distracts from the fact that it also reproduces former colonial power structures in a decolonized world. A more detailed insight into specific actors, interests, and power constellations would have been desirable, especially in the context of 'global town twinning' with formerly colonized countries. Jörg Arnold emphasized the change in visual and narrative representations of industrial city landscapes in the process of de-industrialization, from the former imagery of 'anti-organic' landscapes of the 1980s to contemporary representations of a romanticized 'cultural industrial landscape'. In this context, Arnold pointed out the problems of the construction and reproduction of a specific narrative of the industrial past, which combines mining areas with romantic rural imagery, and thus creates a clear contrast with the 'rather sinful city of London'. In the following discussion, the ambivalence of town twinning was emphasized, alternating between elitist social practice and a means of socio-cultural exchange, which highlighted the need for a critical look. The question of whether Smiley Culture must be regarded as a London-specific phenomenon or whether his agency could be transferred to other spaces emphasized the complex tension between typical and specific aspects.
The round-table discussion, 'The Late Twentieth-Century City in the Continuum of the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries' was chaired by by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (London). Moritz Föllmer, Simon Gunn, Florian Urban (Glasgow), and Natasha Vall (Teesside) explored future issues in this field of research. Natasha Vall's call to integrate gender into discussions of de-industrialization was very timely, as the pluralization of dominantly masculine discourses is overdue. The power of 'male perspectives' was also mirrored in the conference, which emphasizes the need to consider female experiences of de-industrialization. Florian Urban argued for a stronger focus on continuities and fractures in the formation of present-day urban spaces, considering that these cities arose out of the specific urban structures of industrial cities. Calling for dominant 'master narratives', Simon Gunn argued for the need to deconstruct the dual explanation of neo-liberalism and de-industrialization, as complex and pluralist developments shaped the transformation process and neo-liberalism is only one aspect.
Conference Overview:
Welcome and Introduction
Panel one: Concepts
De-industrialisation and Multiculturalism: a new master narrative of urban history?
Chair: TOBIAS BECKER (London)
JIM TOMLINSON (Glasgow), De-industrialization: strengths and weaknesses as a key concept for understanding post-1945 Britain
ARNDT NEUMANN and LUTZ RAPHAEL (Trier), From Fordist to Neo-liberal Urban Spaces in times of De-industrialization: A conceptual frame for a complex relationship
ELIZABETH BUETTNER (Amsterdam), Multicultural Cities: Problems or Possibilities?
Panel two: Social perspectives
Community, Conflict and cohesion: the urban crisis revisited
Chair: JÖRG ARNOLD (Nottingham)
FELIX FUHG (Berlin), Teenagers Future. London's Labour Market, the Youth Employment Service and British Youth Cultures in the 1960s
CHRISTIANE REINECKE (Leipzig), Of Ghettos, Marginality and Gentrification: Global terms and local imaginaries in West Germany and France
OTTO SAUMAREZ SMITH (Oxford), The End of Urban Modernism
Panel three: City-planning perspectives
Urban blight and regeneration: the case of port cities
Chair: SEBASTIAN HAUMANN (Darmstadt)
CHRISTOPH STRUPP (Hamburg), Urban economic and planning policies in an age of uncertainty: Hamburg in the 1970s and 1980s
JÖRN EIBEN (Hamburg), City of Crises? Wilhelmshaven and the 1970
AARON ANDREWS (Leicester), 'Behind the imposing façade of the boulevards': Deindustrialisation, Society, and the Built Environment in Liverpool, 1968-82
ARNDT NEUMANN (Trier), De-industrialisation and Gentrification: The inner city of Hamburg, 1956-2010
Panel four: Cultural perspectives
'Ghost town': The late twentieth-century city in the cultural imagination
Chair: DEAN BLACKBURN (Nottingham)
TOM ALLBESON (Swansea), The Visual Imagination of 'no-go areas': High-rise housing, urban decay and photojournalism in Britain (c.1973–89)
LUCY ROBINSON (Sussex), Smiley Culture: London's hybrid voice
MALTE THIEßEN (Oldenburg), Coming to terms with Glocalization: British Town Twinning in the 20th Century
Round-table: The late twentieth-century city in the continuum of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
Chair: FLORENCE SUTCLIFFE-BRAITHWAITE (UCL)
MORITZ FÖLLMER (Amsterdam), SIMON GUNN (Leicester), FLORIAN URBAN (Glasgow), NATASHA VALL (Teesside)
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/.
Pia Eiringhaus. Review of , The De-Industrializing City: Urban, Architectural, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives.
H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews.
April, 2017.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=49715
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March 10, 2011
Fla. medics accused of neglecting patient who died
By Molly Moorehead
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Ernest Soltwisch, 75 and frail, went in for treatment at a wound care center and ended up with a fractured hip. After 16 days in the hospital, he developed a bacteria infection and died.
The question now before a jury is what caused his death?
His widow, in a lawsuit, says it was the negligence of the Pasco County paramedics who transported Soltwisch from the wound care center, where he displayed no symptoms of a broken hip, to the hospital, where he was crying out in pain.
Attorneys for Pasco County say Soltwisch's seizure caused his hip fracture. He had osteoporosis and was on medication that could make it worse.
At the end of testimony in the 2008 trial, Circuit Judge Lowell Bray granted a directed verdict to the county, deciding the case before the jury ever deliberated. An appeals court found fault with that ruling, and now a new jury is hearing the case.
On May 20, 2004, Soltwisch went to Bayonet Point Wound Care Center for treatment of an ulcer on his foot that wouldn't heal. He was put in a pressurized oxygen chamber, but sometime during the two-hour treatment, he began having a seizure and the staff called 911.
J. Steele Olmstead, who represents Michele Soltwisch, said paramedics documented Soltwisch's vital signs and loaded him onto a stretcher.
"He was responsive," Olmstead said, adding that Soltwisch responded to the pain of a needle stick.
"They did not document a single sign of a fracture," Olmstead said.
By the time he arrived at the emergency room of Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point, which was just across the parking lot, a nurse there said he was complaining loudly of severe pain in his hip, Olmstead said.
Therefore the injury must have occurred in the ambulance, he said.
But Devon Ombres, an attorney for Pasco, said Soltwisch possessed an array of medical conditions that made him more susceptible than most to a seizure and a bone break.
He had osteoporosis and osteopenia. At 6-feet-4, he weighed only 136 pounds. He was diabetic and had a history of seizures and was taking a drug to prevent more of them.
After Soltwisch suffered the seizure, Ombres said, he wasn't completely responsive and couldn't let the people treating him know that he was in pain.
"At the ER there was no evidence of trauma other than the seizure, which was strong enough to cause the fracture," Ombres said.
Several staff members from the wound care center took the stand Wednesday. A therapist at the wound care center said she saw Soltwisch showing no signs of pain before he was taken in the ambulance.
The center's former director said the same. She also said the paramedics treated Soltwisch "professionally."
The trial is expected to last into next week.
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