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Job Category: Accounting/ Finance
Job Type: Full-Time
Deadline of this Job:  27 October 2021
Duty Station:  Dar es Salaam
Posted: 13-10-2021
Job Description

Vacancy title:
Financials and Controls Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Manufacturing , Category: Finance, Insurance & Real Estate ]

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Deadline of this Job:
27 October 2021

Duty Station:
Within Tanzania , Dar es Salaam , East Africa

Date Posted: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

To obtain maximum yield potential, consistent deliverance of crop volume with high quality standard while ensuring good agricultural practices are well implemented at all times.

Main Accountabilities.
• Do business partnering with Procurement department in purchasing saving, improvement on credit terms and effective sourcing of suppliers.
• Do financial reporting on monthly basis as per Unilever Guidelines and deadlines.
• Do business partnering with Customer service and operations manager.
• Update IAS4I (now IAS 16) valuation of biological assets quarterly in line with guidelines.
• Validate all suppliers and contractors’ invoices, check if approved as per authority limits & in the with contracts and ensure posted timely into the ledger.
• Validate all supporting documentation for payments eg GRNs and LPOs and ensure approval is as per authority limits
• Verify all payments are done as per credit terms for all suppliers and contractors.
• Compile and review weekly and monthly aged analysis report and submit to Finance Manager.
• Review a monthly supplier and contractor payment plan and provide weekly update against the plan
• Manage Tea Stocks, Sales, Debtors including sundry debtors and Creditors.
• Assist the Customer service and operations manager on managing Central stores stocks and the rest ofUTTL stores.
• Ensure receivables and stocks reconciliations are done on monthly, any variance is reported and re-solved.
• Ensure monthly reconciliations are done for all Main suppliers and contractors and a Quarterly reconciliation is done for all suppliers and contractors.
• Review provisions and accruals before posting into the ledger and ensure monthly reconciliations are done.
• Validate a monthly sales forecast number ensure forecasted numbers do make sense and achievable within the month.
• Project Appraisal and building the Business cases and ensure that all projects are being approved before spending.
• Taking lead in Capex forecasting and external capex reporting.
• Build capacity among all project teams and participate in regular project, meetings to track spend updatepartners.
• Ensure UTTL internal and group controls/polices are being adhered and followed all the time eg. Fuel management policy, travel policy, medical, staff advances etc.
• Conduct trainings on best practice accounting procedures to the finance team and accounts/store clerksat factories and estates. Do a spot audit on various items and ensure compliance of the procedures/controls.
• Ensure Assets tagging and stock counting exercise are being done twice a year and reports are signed andapproved.
• Ensure capitalization of assets are being done timely and a review of AR reconciliation is performed on monthly basis.
• Authorize and release online payments.
• Provide information and explanations for internal and external auditors.
• Set targets for direct reports.
• Perform any other duty assigned by the Finance Manager
• The Site Safety Operations supports the Site SHE Manager or Coordinator in managing Safety & Health improvement activities to achieve excellence at the site level. S/he works with site SHE teams to identify and implement improvement plans in order to achieve sustainable SHE excellence by reducing injuries and illnesses as measured in the core KPIs
• Drive safety risk assessment and assist in implementation of appropriate controls.
• Aid the Site SHE Manager or Coordinator in leading the SHE Pillar in accordance with ManEx.
• Attain a thorough understanding of the Unilever BBS Program and support deployment in the site.
• Attain a thorough understanding of the Unilever PSM Program and support deployment in the site and support the application of Unilever guidelines and procedures for Process Safety assessment (SIMAS)
• Influence line management and drive safety leadership.
• Monitor site legal compliance and ensure the site meets all local/national regulatory requirements and Unilever standards.
• Work closely with Occupational Health personnel to identify and mitigate risks which may lead to occupational ill health.
• Assist the Site SHE Manager or Coordinator to develop and lead the internal crisis committees and safety committee; support the site leader in leading serious incident investigation and analysis.
• Conduct trend analysis from incidents, near misses, safe behaviour observations and deep compliance audits.
• Assist in delivery of training programs.
• Direct Reports.
• Accountants Payable
• Fixed Asset Accountant.
• Tax and Treasury Accountant.
• Sales Operations Staff.
• Key Interfaces.

Key Skills.
• Experience in people management
• Better than average written and spoken communication skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal relationship building.
• Employee coaching and development skills.
• Relevant Experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in Accounting Professionals

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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gazette no 185

Europa Poets Gazette No 185 September 2019

Europa Poets,Tasmania

Annual Concert

Burnie Regional Art Gallery

Sunday, October 6, 2-4.30 pm

Tarkine Strings
with Michael Cannon, MC

Readings by the poets

Tea supplied by Friends of the Gallery

$10 entry (includes tea)

In Cohort With God
(Launceston earthquake 1893)

Is it right or is it wrong
When a man of the cloth asks his friend, God,
To punish wayward folk
To redeem their ways?

In Launceston in 1892,
A reverend asked God
To bring on an earthquake
To shake these wayward folk into submission.

This reverend man was granted his request
With not only one earthquake but two.
Then, to the reverend's surprise, he was issued with
A writ for scaring the good people of Launceston.

King O’Malley, an insurance Yank,
Later our Commonwealth Bank creator
And Labor leader, was helped by his lawyer friend
To bring legal redress
Against the reverend for the damage caused
And scaring the elderly and children nearly to death
As solid buildings cracked.
A chimney at the hospital fell
And the doctor fled the town in fear.

Is it right or is it wrong
When a man of the cloth
Gets favouritism from God?

Judy Brumby-Lake
From gazette No 65

Wild And Free

There was a violent storm today
And on my way home I passed by the sea -
Seething, savage and spellbinding
In its fury.
Enormous waves exploded
Against the stark grey headland,
Sending spray high into the air -
Like a white volcano erupting from the deep.
Unlike the sea, I must contain my turbulence -
I must bottle it up and act with restraint -
Society dictates it, society expects it.
I just want to be as wild and free as nature,
And called beautiful -
In all my moods.

June Maureen Hitchcock,
From gazette No 39

Little Bird Sky

I was just walking
A little bird landed
               On the ground near my feet
The little bird looked at me
               And said
Why are you sad?
I said
I don’t know why, I just am
The little bird said
Look up at he sky
               And you will feel better
So I did and I did
When I looked down
               The little bird had gone
But I continued to look up at the sky

Catherine Burton

Jazz Band

The saxophone leads this jazzmical helm
commanding the song with its tone.
The bass player slaps in his musical realm
and makes this journey his own.
               The drummer is chuffed by his cymbalic choice,
as he clocks on the rim of his snare.
The drumhead reverbs with a resonant voice
of flams, paradiddles and flare.
               The singer slides in, absorbing the scene,
fondling the microphone lead.
She waits for the offbeat to join in the theme
and sings it like smooth honey mead.
               Piano man plays a riff on the keys
unlacing the melody line
He substitutes chords as he beats with his knees,
then ends with a piano slide fine.
               The music now fills the room with its scent,
as the jazz fans cuddle their booze.
The air radiates, as though Heaven sent,
of wine and smoky-note blues.

 Kathryn Conlin

In The Rain

Smiles die in the rain,
Washed away, as with incessant tears,
In waterfall cascade of sorrow,
In the torrent where all is misshapen,
When sparkle eyes dissolve,
As with lips that don’t belong,
Fluid in this silent surrender,
An image in departure,
Under weight of weeping clouds.
And the rivers run without end,
Cruel, this crying sky
when smile vanishes in raging deluge.

Michael Garrad July 2019

Scream Her Name

Scream her name,
Resonating in valley green,
On wall of trees,
Birds flock high, messengers,
Carry to the blue,
They sing in sky orchestration,
Wheeling and soaring,
Precious the cargo,
The name, above verdant pasture,
Her name,
To her belonging place.

Scream dies on the echo,
She whispers, consoling,
in gentle rustle of leaves,
Close now, on the cusp,
This majestic deliverance.

Michael Garrad July 2019

Think, Think, Think

What has become of this supreme race?
Wired up to apps, iphones
More electronic devices than
A patient in an intensive care ward
Where even flowers are banned, yet
Still people tear them from the ground
And force them into containers,
               flowers crying and dying
Never able to complete their earthly cycle
And because of our shameful ignorance,
Neither will you and neither will I.

 Lorettta Gaul

Band, bang, bang. What’s going on?
It was about seven o’clock in the morning.
I thought it might have been a leaking roof.
I turned on the wireless
To try to drown out the noise
But all I heard was politics.
Malcolm Turnbull is no longer prime minister.
I made a cup of tea
And the noise stopped.
I haven’t had a chance to talk to my neighbours
But it’s all right.

Yvonne Matheson

The girl when drawn into the computer’s face
Is hypnotised by its alluring smile
To signal noughts and ones within its trance.
It spits its binaries with eager guile.

Expostulating all that’s real and true
Into a dancing and confusing fog.
It reaches out, pretending to be new
In this seductive and confusing blog.

Yet I sit here, at this electric trap,
Believing that it’s God who Googles me,
A net that may entwine me in this rap
Where I now live, much too afraid to flee.

I have a home that is secure and warm
And that may never try to do me harm.

Joe Lake

So Deep

Anger so deep
The journey so far
The pain so real
Pain so real it makes time stand still
I am overwhelmed by my demons
I am forced to question the person I am
I question why, just why, I seemed to be far removed
               From this place
Dark cold and lonely pain is my new place

Oscar Harding

The Fagus

The fagus is turning!
When autumn days begin to chill
The beech leaves turn from green
To rust, then gold.
The forest floor looks like a carpet
Of autumnal hues
What a sight to behold.

Robbie Taylor

painting by Robbie Taylor

Selfie, Joe Lake 30/40, acrylic on canvas

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Steamed mussels with aromatics

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  • 15m cook
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Steamed mussels with aromatics
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Recipe may contain milk, shellfish and lactose.

If you have a steamer oven, this mussel recipe is ideal for a light dinner. Serve with crusty bread to soak up the aromatic juices.

Valli Little

10 Ingredients

  • 2kg black mussels, scrubbed,debearded
  • 1/2 leek (white and pale green part only), cut into matchsticks
  • 1 carrot, cut into matchsticks
  • 2 celery stalks, cut into matchsticks
  • 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 thyme sprigs
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) dry white wine
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) thickened cream
  • 1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves
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2 Method Steps

  • Heat the steamer oven to 100°C. Place the vegetables, garlic, bay leaves and thyme in a metal pan large enough to hold all the mussels. Place in the oven for 2 minutes. Turn oven to 85°C, then add mussels and wine to pan and toss with vegetables. Cook for 12 minutes until mussels open (discard any that haven't opened after this time).
  • Using a slotted spoon, transfer mussels to a large serving bowl and set aside. Stir cream into the cooking juices, season to taste with salt and pepper, and return to the steamer for a further minute to heat through. Discard bay leaves and thyme. Pour the cream mixture over mussels, sprinkle with the parsley and serve.

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    1023 kj

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Georgia is a country rich in its history, culture, and cuisine.

There is so much to do around Tblisi with the variety of restaurants, pubs, and clubs. Most restaurants have entertainment in the form of traditional Georgian folklore dancing and singing and can go through the night. Wine is a favorite drink and the industry is one of the oldest in the world going back 8,000 years.

Around every corner you will find pastry shops making “Khachapuri” which is a delicious bread filled with cheese, beans, or rice and veggies. You can also find the famous Acharuli Khachapuri which consists of cheese and a slightly cooked egg cracked on top. So rich and delicious.

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Wonderful 2 nights/3 days hiking on Bruny.

Incredibly we were there on a weekend with record high temperatures (38 degrees !!) so our hikes included plenty of beach swims in pristine bays. Our guides were super human. brilliant chefs and a wealth of local knowledge shared at every opportunity.

Our campsite was beyond gorgeous, comfy beds with doonas and private balconies. The bush shower was a highlight an experience I will never forget.

Highly recommended.

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Adrian Wiszniewski (born 1958) is a Scottish artist and one of the members of the New Glasgow Boys a group of artists who emerged from Glasgow School of Art and led the resurgence of scottish figurative painting in the late 20th century. Other members of this group included the late Steven Campbell, who was a close friend of Adrian, Peter Howson and Ken Currie. Under the tutelage of artists like Alexander Moffat in the 1980s the four later went on the attain national and international status.

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25 Apr 2013: New knitting group begins at the library

knittingA knitting group is starting up at the library, run by Pauline Edole, the library service manager at Tate South Lambeth Library. Everyone interested is invited to join.

The first session will be on Thursday, 25th April 2013 from 10.30 -12.30. Viv Moriarty who gave a talk at our craft show last November will be helping provide knitting classes to the group.

If you have any wool and needles to donate to the group, suggestions or would like to join, please drop off a note at the library desk or send an email to Pauline  at PEdole@lambeth.gov.uk

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A knitter speaks – Knitting Group International!

Knit 2Carrying my ball of wool and knitting needles I came along to the TSL fortnightly knitting and crochet group one Thursday morning.

If truth be told I had seen photos of some rather dashing knits earlier in the year and I was hoping to snap one up before the craft show on the 7th December. What I wasn’t expecting was to encounter a wonderfully diverse vibrant group of women brightening up the far corner of the library. By the way, where are you chaps! The best knitter I knew was a man (now a GP) and wasn’t there a wonderful Bishop who knitted?*

I sat beside Renee who has been a TSL library reader for 60 years. In earlier days she knitted for her family including school sweaters and scarves.

Striking in herself knitted canary yellow tunic this was Nicola’s first day. She had looked as far afield as Ally Pally before finding this local group.

Amongst the scarves and special tree decorations (Daphne wouldn’t let me buy one yet, I have to wait until the fair- gggrh) Annaline and Shirley were making those cosy slippers that relax you as soon as you feel them on your tootsies.

Since the group was started in April by Pauline, our intrepid librarian, the ambitions of the knitters have expanded, thanks also to the group’s original volunteer teacher Viv. There was excited discussion over a new book of patterns being perused at the table. Norma the group’s expert knitter will certainly take up any challenge.

Icilda’s grandchild Ayanna, who accompanies her to the library, had a teddy bear in her hand and glancing down the table I realised there was what can only be described as a cuddle of bears, Oh joy! Then I learned that Marie who has learned how to knit them will be returning to her native Liberia and will teach people there to knit teddy bears.
So Pauline your vision of a knitting and crochet group for the TSL is already having an International ripple effect, all the way to Africa. Three cheers for the Global knitting movement!

I had very soon given up my posturing with my ball of wool and offered it to the table at large..”Make a good beanie” was the general opinion.
Whatever scrap of wool is to be had is used and I don’t exaggerate as Mary crochets in multi colours with every little bit of wool that is ‘left over’. So Please, if you have half or full balls of wool lurking at the back of a cupboard bring them in to the library where the TSL knitters will transform them into something soft, warm and beautiful which you may, if you are quick enough, buy back transformed at the craft show on the 7th December.

Did I already mention that date? I am only giving you fair warning as you may have to beat me to it in the queue.

I did snaffle up a lovely hot water bottle cover (complete with bottle) knitted by the versatile Luky but my only big mistake was leaving it behind when I visited a rather chilly house the following weekend.

My short visit to the TSL knitting and crochet group leads me to declare: Bring wool, knit wool, buy wool, wear wool – all good Winter resolutions, wherever you are in the world!

*Richard Rutt the former Bishop of Leicester

Kate Kelly-Tanguay visited the Knitting and Crochet group TSL on 10th October 2013

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2021 Tata Tigor Electric Review : 10 Pros & 10 Cons

Tata has been proudly selling India's most affordable "proper" electric car, the Tata Nexon EV for a while. Now they've introduced the even more affordable Tigor EV.

Tata Tigor EV Pros

  • A competent EV package at an affordable starting price
  • Zero tailpipe emissions & green image will appeal to the environmentally-conscious
  • Real-world range of ~200 km is adequate for city commutes & urban dwellers
  • Stupendously cheap fuel cost of 1 rupee / km (if you charge at home)
  • Peppy behaviour in "S" mode! "D" mode is rather tame though
  • Sorted road manners due to the lower center-of-gravity & firmer suspension
  • Smooth drive, no gears, light controls & compact size make it an ideal city car
  • Well-designed interiors are likeable & user-friendly
  • Features like the 8-speaker Harman audio system, projector headlamps, connected car tech & more
  • Solid build & construction. 4-star GNCAP safety rating is commendable

Tata Tigor EV Cons

  • A stiff 5-lakh rupees more expensive than the Tigor Petrol AMT
  • Nexon EV is superior & not that far away in terms of pricing (or EMIs)
  • ~200 km range means this is strictly a city car. No long highway runs
  • Stiffer suspension than the regular Tigor means you feel more of the road. Bad roads are felt
  • Power tapers off after 100 km/h; top speed of just 120 km/h
  • Smaller 316L boot (regular Tigor = 419L) due to the intrusive spare tyre
  • Some misses such as "P" mode on the shifter, adjustable regen braking & alloy wheels
  • A rare Tata car that cannot seat 5 (best for 4 adults)
  • Tata's after-sales service quality is a hit or miss. Remains a gamble
  • It's a brand-new technology, so there will be issues & niggles

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The Illinois Dept. of Public Health (IDPH) announced today 1,772 new COVID-19 cases (the highest daily number since May 24) and 18 deaths. The total number of cases in the state is 176,896 in 102 counties, with a total of 7,478 deaths. IDPH says that in the past 24 hours, 41,134 test specimens have been processed, with a positivity rate of 4.3%. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity rate from July 23 to July 29 is 3.8%. Statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past 24 hours decreased from 1,491 patients to 1,452 patients. Of that figure, 353 patients were in the ICU, with 149 patients on ventilators.

At a news conference in Peoria this morning, Governor J.B. Pritzker warned that the state is at a “danger point” and could be headed for a reversal of its reopening if the COVID-19 case numbers continue to go up.

Today’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures show more than 4.4 million confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., with 150,283 deaths.

Today’s WHO Coronavirus Disease Dashboard shows more than 16.8 million COVID-19 cases globally, with more than 662,000 deaths. The Region of the Americas (includes the U.S.) continues to lead the world with nearly 9 million cases and more than 346,000 deaths.


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Relief to Cricket Followers as Roanuz Software Pvt. Ltd builds API

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In the sports industry is usually challenging to locate the past events. Information like the number of matches a player has played in his entire life, the number of scores made by an individual and the number of matches the team has played at home and away can be so challenging to track. Unless one assembles those who took part during the specific period then one can give wrong information. We’ve seen sports journalists giving wrong information then withdrawing them later on. But Application Program Interface (API) has come in to offer the right and reliable information.
API was developed by Roanuz Software Pvt. Ltd startup based in Chennai. Anto Binish Kaspar is the founder of Roanuz Company.

API is an artificial chart box that is in a position to answer any sport related questions.  It brings together a group of different tools. The tools can be integrated into apps, website or online platforms. The chat box is in a position to retrieve answers from previous sources of data. The data can be on the current and past matches, team and player statistics. Moreover, it is able to retrieve match results all the way from 2012.

It covers different league matches. This includes state T20 leagues and Indian Premier Leagues. The app can also cover similar games in Pakistan, the Caribbean, Kenya, Australia, and Bangladesh. According to the founder, the chatbot can communicate through voice or text. Moreover, it can give almost an immediate feedback. API has almost 5 million records with 1.2 million bowled balls. The bowled balls were processed by the company’s staff.

The company has also developed a Cricket Fantasy API. This is aimed at bringing fantasy tournaments. The tournaments will access database that is readily available. Furthermore, the database allows integration. The fantasy tournament stands a chance of becoming a sporting event of its own. This is only if the right tools and algorithms are put in place.

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News | December 11 2017

TechnipFMC opens 18,000m² facility to support Middle East market

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Facility opening is seen to be a major step in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for TechnipFMC to assist ADNOC to enhance their operations in Abu Dhabi. TechnipFMC has been a long-term investor in the UAE, being present for more than 30 years, and sees continuous investments in the region as critical for the Company’s success.

December 11, 2017 – TechnipFMC officially opened its fully capable Surface International(1) Facility in ICAD II today as part of its continued investment in the UAE to reinforce TechnipFMC’s leading position in delivering local solutions that extend asset life and improve returns for ADNOC.

The opening of the 18,000 m2 facility, located in Abu Dhabi’s Industrial City 2, was officiated by Doug Pferdehirt, Chief Executive Officer of TechnipFMC. It is the largest and most complete facility in the Middle East, consolidating an existing facility in Abu Dhabi and complementing an engineering office in Abu Dhabi and a strategic distribution hub in the Jebel Ali free zone.

The new plant, valued at an excess of USD 25 million, is part of a program to strengthen TechnipFMC capabilities in the Surface International business, but also provides a very solid platform for TechnipFMC to be able to grow its integrated offerings into the Middle East, including multiple product lines and aftermarket services that are key to the strategy.

“This investment will enable us to increase our support of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and other customers taking on logistical services and in fully refurbishing used equipment in-country, managing all critical processes in-house. The launch of this ICAD Facility is not only an important milestone in enhancing our scope, but it also positions us to respond to the expected increase in ADNOC activity in 2018 and beyond,” said Richard Alabaster, TechnipFMC’s President Surface.

The new facility will offer a broader range of capabilities in-country, supporting the full TechnipFMC portfolio with its high technology equipment in the Drilling, Completion, Production and Pressure Control segments. The facility includes a fully developed training centre, high-pressure hydraulic and gas testing capabilities, state of the art cladding and machining technology and one-stop shop for customer equipment storage, preservation, preparation and make-up for mobilization to the field.

“The facility will provide employment for 140 employees and is also designed to allow for extensions to further expand capabilities in the future. Currently we have built out 40 percent of the site,” added Richard Alabaster.

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Chapter 9 Discrete process measurement

The word “discrete” means individual or distinct. In engineering, a “discrete” variable or measurement refers to a true-or-false condition. Thus, a discrete sensor is one that is only able to indicate whether the measured variable is above or below a specified setpoint.

Discrete sensors typically take the form of switches, built to “trip” when the measured quantity either exceeds or falls below a specified value. These devices are less sophisticated than so-called continuous sensors capable of reporting an analog value, but they are quite useful in industry.

Many different types of discrete sensors exist, detecting variables such as position, fluid pressure, material level, temperature, and fluid flow rate. The output of a discrete sensor is typically electrical in nature, whether it be an active voltage signal or just resistive continuity between two terminals on the device.

9.1 “Normal” status of a switch

Perhaps the most confusing aspect of discrete sensors is the definition of a sensor’s normal status. Electrical switch contacts are typically classified as either normally-open or normally-closed, referring to the open or closed status of the contacts under “normal” conditions. But what exactly defines “normal” for a switch? The answer is not complex, but is often misunderstood due to the ambiguous nature of the word normal.

The “normal” status for a switch is the status its electrical contacts are in during a condition of no physical stimulation. Another way to think of the “normal” status is to think in terms of the switch being at rest. For a momentary-contact pushbutton switch, this would be the status of the switch contact when it is not being pressed. Electrical switches are always drawn in schematic diagrams in their “normal” statuses, regardless of their application. For instance, the following diagram shows a normally-open pushbutton switch controlling a lamp on a 120 volt AC circuit (the “hot” and “neutral” poles of the AC power source labeled L1 and L2, respectively):

We can tell this switch is a normally-open (NO) switch because it is drawn in an open position. The lamp will energize only if someone presses the switch, holding its normally-open contacts in the “closed” position. Normally-open switch contacts are sometimes referred to in the electrical industry as form-A contacts.

If we had used a normally-closed pushbutton switch instead, the behavior would be exactly opposite. The lamp would energize if the switch was left alone, but it would turn off if anyone pressed the switch. Normally-closed switch contacts are sometimes referred to in the electrical industry as form-B contacts:

This seems rather simple, don’t you think? What could possibly be confusing about the “normal” status of a switch? The confusion becomes evident, though, when you begin to consider process switches (i.e. switches actuated by process measurements such as pressure, flow, level, etc.). In order to better understand this concept, we will consider a simple application of a flow switch: a switch built to actuate when a sufficient rate of fluid flows through a pipe.

A flow switch is built to detect fluid flow through a pipe. In a schematic diagram, the switch symbol appears to be a toggle switch with a “flag” hanging below. The schematic diagram, of course, only shows the circuitry and not the pipe where the switch is physically mounted:

This particular flow switch is used to trigger an alarm light if coolant flow through the pipe ever falls to a dangerously low level, and the contacts are normally-closed as evidenced by the closed status in the diagram. Here is where things get confusing: even though this switch is designated as “normally-closed,” it will spend most of its lifetime being held in the open status by the presence of adequate coolant flow through the pipe. Only when the flow through the pipe slows down enough will this switch return to its “normal” status and conduct electrical power to the lamp. In other words, the “normal” status for this switch (closed) is actually an abnormal status for the process it operates within (low flow), for the simple reason that the switch should be stimulated and not at rest while the process is operating as it should.

Students often wonder why process switch contacts are labeled according to this convention of “no stimulation” instead of according to the typical status of the process in which the switch is used. The answer to this question is that the manufacturer of the switch has no idea whatsoever as to your intended use. A flow switch manufacturer does not know or care whether their product gets used as a low-flow detector or as a high-flow detector. In other words, the manufacturer cannot predict what the typical status of your process will be, and so the definition of “normal” status for the switch must be founded on some common criterion unrelated to your particular application. That common criterion is the resting status: when the sensor is exposed to the least (or no) amount of stimulation from the process it senses.

Here is a listing of “normal” definitions for various process switch types:

  • Limit switch: target not contacting the switch
  • Proximity switch: target far away
  • Pressure switch: low pressure (or even a vacuum)
  • Level switch: low level (empty)
  • Temperature switch: low temperature (cold)
  • Flow switch: low flow rate (fluid stopped)

These are the conditions represented by the switch statuses shown in a schematic diagram. These may very well not be the statuses of the switches when they are exposed to typical operating conditions in the process.

A helpful tip to remember about process switches and their respective schematic diagram symbols is that the symbols are conventionally drawn in such a way that an upward motion of the movable switch element represents increasing stimulus. Here are some examples of this, showing various process switch types and NO/NC contact configurations, comparing their states with no stimulus versus when the stimulus exceeds the each switch’s threshold or “trip” setting. The normal status of each switch as defined by the manufacturer is labeled in green text:

It is imperative1 to remember that the way a switch is drawn in a schematic diagram merely represents its “normal” status as defined by the manufacturer. This may or may not be the switch’s status during “typical” operation of the process, and it may or may not be the status of that switch at the time of concern when you are examining the schematic! The “normal” status of a switch means just one thing: what that switch will do when subjected to minimum stimulus – that is to say, what it will do when its stimulus is less than the actuation threshold of the switch.

For example, the LED in this circuit will turn on if the liquid level rises above 14 inches and the pressure falls below 22 PSI and either the flow is less than 3 gallons per minute or the temperature is greater than 125 degrees Fahrenheit:

Since we know we need a switch to be closed in order to conduct electricity and provide a path for current in this circuit, we are looking for the necessary conditions to close each switch. For any normally-closed (NC) switch, this means a stimulus value less than the actuation threshold. For any normally-open (NO) switch, this means a stimulus value great enough to exceed the threshold and “hold” the switch in its actuated state. Since the flow and pressure switches in this circuit are both NC, we are looking for flow and pressure values less than the respective settings. Since the level and temperature switches are both NO, we are looking for level and temperature values in excess of their respective settings.

The present status of a switch may be determined by comparing its stimulating quantity against its trip (threshold) setting. A switch will be in its “normal” (resting) state when the stimulus value is less than the threshold value. Conversely, a switch will be in its “actuated” state when the stimulus value exceeds the threshold value. Determination of a switch’s status, therefore, is a matter of comparing the stimulus quantity to the threshold “trip” setting. One cannot simply look at the schematic diagram to tell what the switch is doing – one must compare the switch’s setting versus against a known stimulus value in order to tell whether it will be in its resting state or not.

Likewise, if we happen to know the switch’s present status in a system, we may qualitatively determine the stimulating quantity by comparing the present status against the “normal” (resting) status. If a switch is in its resting state, then the stimulating quantity must be less than the trip threshold. If a switch is in its actuated (non-normal) state, then the stimulating quantity must be greater than the trip threshold2 . The next example showcases these determinations.

In this next example, we see a pictorial representation of multiple switches wired to the discrete input channels of a programmable logic controller (PLC), with red LED indicators denoting the real-time status of each input on the PLC:

We may determine a switch’s degree of stimulation by comparing its present status with its “normal” status. If a switch happens to be in the same state as its normal state (i.e. resting), we know its stimulus must be less than the threshold (trip) value. If a switch happens to be in the opposite state as its normal state (i.e. actuated), we know its stimulus has exceeded the threshold (trip) value. The states of these four switches may be shown in a table:

|---Pressure---|-Normally-closed (NC-)-|-----Closed------|---12-PSI----|-P-<-12-PSI--|
|-Temperature-|--Normally- open-(NO)---|-----Closed------|---235-oF----|-T->-235-oF--|
|----Level----|-Normally-closed (NC-)-|-----Closed------|---4 inches--|-L-<-4 inches|
-----Limit-------Normally- open-(NO)---------Open-------------n/a--------no contact--

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Alachua County Library District Provides Free At-Home Internet Access with WiFi2Go

At home, Stephanie Karolus doesn’t have Wi-Fi.

Instead, Karolus, 31, would rely on her mobile phone’s hotspot to upload work, stream and call her family.

“When I discovered that the library system had the WiFi2Go, I was pretty excited,” Karolus, the director of Christian education at First Lutheran Church, said.

The Alachua County Library District launched WiFi2Go, a program allowing Alachua County residents to borrow mobile hotspots for seven days, in April. The hotspots have been checked out 1,417 times since its beginning through Sept. 9, Rachel Cook, ACLD’s public relations and marketing manager, wrote in an email.

Each hotspot connects up to five devices and does not have data limits, according to the WiFi2Go website. (Juliana Ferrie/WUFT News)

The program started with 100 devices, but the demand prompted ACLD to double the number of hotspots to 200, Cook said. The second set became available on Aug. 23.

Karolus tries to borrow a device on a weekly basis. In the past, she said she’d wait up to four days to receive a replacement hotspot. However, since the number has increased, she’s been able to renew her current one.

“It makes when I FaceTime or talk with family a little bit easier,” she said.

Each hotspot connects up to five devices and does not have data limits, according to the WiFi2Go website. Alachua County residents can check out one hotspot per library card and are eligible as long as they are in good standing, meaning they have no more than $50 in charges or five overdue items.

WiFi2Go devices can be found at all 12 district branches. If a hotspot isn’t available, Cook said residents can put one on hold and will be notified when it’s ready for pick up.

The program launched with the support of the Alachua County Library District Foundation, a nonprofit that supports library projects and provides supplemental funding, Cook said. The foundation donated the money for both hotspot sets, which cost $36,000 each.

In total, the foundation contributed $72,000, Hunt Davis, a board member of the ACLD Foundation, said. Because WiFi2Go fits its overall objectives and mission of enriching lives, the foundation supported the program.

“These WiFi2Go kits should be around for quite a long time,” he said. “Each individual kit can be loaned to many, many people.”

Davis sees the service as both desired and needed.

“It doesn’t solve the digital divide problem, but it addresses it,” he said.

Shaney T. Livingston, ACLD’s library director, said the library district wants every Alachua County resident to have access to the internet. The mobile hotspots provide this from the comfort of their homes.

Vinay Desai, Upal Bose and Ravin Mahesh explore the teen section at Alachua County Headquarters library. The district now also offers mobile hotspots for rental. (Aurora Martínez/WUFT News)

“We look at the quality internet service as a necessity and not a luxury,” Livingston said.

Increasing the number of hotspots gives the community greater access, she said. Depending on the data and demand, she said ACLD might add more devices going forward.

“We want to be part of the team that’s helping to connect people and close the digital divide,” Livingston said.

Bridging the digital divide, which is the gap between those who have access to technology and those who don’t, continues to be a priority of the library district, Cook said. ACLD also offers free Wi-Fi and public computer access at all of its locations.

“This is taking it kind of to that next level where it’s going beyond our buildings, too, which is really exciting for us,” she said.

WiFi2Go benefits a variety of people, Cook said, including those who don’t have internet at home or lack sufficient service.

“I’ve heard from everyone: from someone who worked at UF to a local busy mom to a college student, who are all using them,” Cook said. “So, I think that there is a big demand for this service, and it appeals to a lot of different patrons.”

Going forward, the library district will continue to look at the needs of the community and the popularity of the additional hotspots, Cook said. As of now, they are still getting the word out about the program.

“Libraries have offered books forever, but we’ve really only offered this new service since April,” she said. “I think that as more people find out about it, it will become more and more popular.”

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“I want my order now!” How to deal with irate customers?

E-Commerce and digital sales have increased their prominence due to the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the high demand for dispatches and management has been saturated and with it, the number of claims. Just as it affects companies that sell products online, so do we, and it is from that position and experience that we want to leave you tips and recommendations to lead an empathic conversation, totally from honesty.

The scenario is the following: your customers buy a product “blindly” without having it in their hands, they leave their money and trust in the management, that generates sensitivity regarding any error along the way that can light a spark that is difficult to extinguish if not handled properly.

“The customer is always right”

109 years of history has this phrase that we have all ever heard. There is no doubt that no business can survive without customers, but they are not always right. This is where you must be clear about the following points to know how to have a good, healthy, and effective conversation with them.

Relief Factor

Allow the client to express his frustration and anger: giving him space so that he can do it is essential to start solving his problem (clearly he must have a reason). Research the facts, review, and follow up to engage in the dialogue.

Empathize and understand

It is important to remain calm as a deterrent method, being empathetic with the problem will allow us to turn the conversation to find solutions, to reach agreements, we do not want to argue with them, we want to be effective in the solution. Reassure your client and honestly tell him that your intentions are in search of resolutions and that you want to help him.

Tune in with your customer

If you managed to advance with the previous point, and you were able to reach it with a good attitude and disposition, you are already tuned in to your problem, you will be able to work on resolutions, achieving a positive change compared to the initial one in communication with your client. It is important to be real and to be transparent that you can make mistakes, but that you are waiting to deliver solutions.

It’s time to take action!

The spirits have already calmed down, it’s time to take action to give your customers effective responses. But first remember: maintain fluid communication with your suppliers so that the client does not have a range of different responses.

  • The real solution: Be honest, tell him the source of the problem and how you are solving it. If you don’t have a concrete answer, acknowledge it and tell him that you are going to work on it. Of course, it cannot be left in a “blah”, because a patch can cause another communication crisis.
  • Offers and discounts: While you are working upside down to fix the underlying problem, offer a special compensation or discount to enjoy your products. Remember that the most effective Marketing is “word of mouth”, and we do not want it to be negative. This technique could buffer in the meantime to improve the user experience.From our logistics provider window, we always seek to take care of our clients’ clients, managing solutions, and trying not to leave them to see in their messages on our channels. This circle of communication is important because ultimately the recipient does not have to pay the price for mistakes. Did your shipment have a problem? While you manage, prepare a new office, reply to his messages and tell him how you are going to help him. From that point, we know that many times for SMEs it can be difficult to apply these practices due to the resource factor, but you can give them away with details such as free shipping, a 5% discount, or a gift product.
  • Stay in touch: Nothing worse than making you feel forgotten, communicate proactively with your clients, tell them what status of the claim you are working on, and if there is anything else you can help them with, make it clear that your communication channels will always be at your disposal.
  • Deliver on your promises: If we are to establish a relationship of trust with customers, we must ensure that we deliver what we promise. Be careful, do not promise the impossible, if you already had a bad experience, the expectation is now much higher, so make sure you can fulfill your promises of dates, compensation, and resolutions.

The high demand for requests and claims due to contingency is hard and critical, that is why honesty is important in the face of problems that may arise. Having a kind, respectful, and conciliatory attitude will help you establish a much more powerful and lasting relationships over time.

We know that automatic responses are fundamental support to manage requests, but many times they can also turn into a bad user experience. Humanize your brand, empathize and treat your customers as you would like them to treat you if you have a problem.

This is not a magic formula, try, test, and check what works best for your company.

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That same day Jesus went out to sit by the sea and bunches and bunches of people came to Him and He told them many things to them in stories. He said, A man went out to sow seeds in his field and some fell along the way and the birds came and ate them up.

Some of the seed fell where there were rocks under the dirt and they grew up quick and died when the sun came on them because their roots didn’t go down deep into the ground. Some of the seeds fell where there were lots of stickers and the stickers grew around them and choked them. And some of the seeds fell on good dirt where they grew up strong and made good fruit, a hundred times as much as the one seed, or some 60 times as much and some 30 times as much. Whoever wants to hear, let him hear and get what it means.

Then the special followers came and asked Jesus, Why do you tell them just stories? Jesus told them, It is given to you to know the special secrets about My Father’s kingdom, but to them it is not given. Whoever has learned about Me and wants Me, more secrets will be showed to him; but the ones who don’t want to know Me, even the stuff he knows will be taken away from him.

So they will see, but they don’t see and they will hear but they don’t hear the special secrets. This is the thing that Isaiah told you long time ago that, Hearing they will hear and not know what it mean, and seeing they won’t know what they are seeing, because they let their hearts get fat with wrong stuff and their ears don’t hear good and they closed there eyes. If they would see and hear, I would heal them.

Happy are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear. I am telling you something that is true: Many of My people who were doing what is right and saying what is true over all the past years wanted to see what you are seeing and hear what you are hearing.

This is the secret about the story of the man sowing his seeds in the ground. The true words about My kingdom are the seeds that are being planted in man’s hearts. When someone hears the word about my kingdom and doesn’t know what it means the bad ones comes and takes the seeds away. That is the one where the seeds fell along the way.

The ones on the rocky ground are people who hear what I tell them and are really happy about it, but have no root inside them. When trouble comes they get upset and turn away from Me. The seed in the thorns is when a man hears My words and the stuff of this world and the trickiness of money choke My words in the man’s heart and it makes no fruit.

But the seeds that fall on the good ground are the ones that hear My words and understand them and are happy in God with all their hearts or with 60 parts of their hearts or with 30 parts of their heart.

Jesus told another story saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seeds in his field and while the man was sleeping the bad one came and sowed poison seeds in beside the good seeds. When they grew up, they both look the same, but one is good for food and one is poison. So the servants of the master asked, Shall we go out there and pull out the poison ones? But the man said, No, just let them both grow together so we don’t hurt the good ones. Then when it is time we will pick up the good ones and put them in the barn and tie up the bad ones and burn them.

And another story Jesus told them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a single tiny mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field. The tiniest of seeds grew into the tallest tree and the birds came and lived in its branches.

Then Jesus told the people another story. He said, The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a lady took and hid in three cups of flour until it filled up the whole bread.

Jesus told everything in stories to the big bunches of people and didn’t tell them anything without a story. He did it this way to do what Isaiah told many years before that said the coming promised One would tell things that had been secret since the world was made.

Then Jesus sent away all the big bunches of people and went into the house. His special followers came to him and said, Tell us what the story means about the poison plants sowed in the field. So Jesus told them, The man who plants the good seeds is the promised One from heaven. The field is the world and the good seeds are the children of the kingdom of heaven, but the poison plants are the children of the bad one. The enemy that plants the bad seeds is the devil and the gathering of the crops is the end of the age. The gatherers are the angels.

Just like the poison plants are burned up, that’s what will happen at the end of the world, the promised One from heaven will send out His angels and they will gather out all the bad stuff from the kingdom and throw them into a furnace of fire where they will cry and grind their teeth together. Then the ones who did right will shine bright like the stars in the kingdom of their Father. If you have ears, hear this.

And again Jesus told another story to show what the kingdom of heaven is like. He said, The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure that is hid in a field and when a man finds it he hides it and is jumping for joy because he is so happy and he goes and sells everything he has so he can buy that field and have that treasure to keep for his own.

In another story Jesus said, The kingdom of heaven is like a storekeeper who went out to buy the best pearls to sell at his store. And when he found one pearl that was better than all the rest, he went and sold everything he had to buy that pearl.

And the kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the ocean that caught all kinds of fish. And when the net was full the fishermen pulled it to the beach and put the good fish into baskets and threw away the bad ones. That’s how it will be at the end of the world. The angels will come and split apart the bad ones from the good ones and will throw the bad ones into the fire where they will cry and grind their teeth. Jesus asked them, Do you know what all these things mean? His followers said, Yes Lord.

Then Jesus said, Every writer who learns about the kingdom of heaven is like a man that brings out of his treasure chests, new treasures and old treasures. Then Jesus went into his own country where he grew up and went into their church and taught them true stuff.

And the people were amazed and said, Where did this man learn all this good stuff? And how can he do all these amazing things? Isn’t this the carpenters son and isn’t his mother Mary and aren’t James and Joseph and Simon and Judas his brothers? And aren’t all of his sisters right here? Where did this man get all these things? And the people didn’t like it and didn’t listen to him.

But Jesus said, Most people hold high one who tells them the words from God, but not people from where he lived and his own family. Jesus couldn’t do many amazing things there because the people didn’t believe in Him.

Then Herod the ruler heard about all the stuff Jesus was doing and he said, This is John that I killed who came back from being dead. Herod had killed John because John told him that he wasn’t supposed to get married to his brothers wife.

When Jesus saw the many, many bunches of people following him His heart went out to them and He made well all of them that were sick. When it was getting late, Jesus helpers came and said to him, It’s getting late, send the people away to go get food in town. Jesus told his helpers, They don’t need to go away, You give them some food.

The helpers said, We only have five loafs of bread and two fish. That’s not enough for all these people. But Jesus said, Bring the food here to Me. So they gave Jesus the bread and fish and had the people sit down on the grass. Then Jesus prayed a blessing on the food and broke it into pieces and gave it to His helpers to give the people. And Jesus made the little bit of food into lots of food to feed everyone, 5,000 men and their wives and children, and they had 12 baskets of food left over after everyone’s tummy was full.

Then Jesus put His disciples in a boat to go across the sea and He stayed and sent the people back to their homes. Jesus was there all by Himself and He went up the mountain to talk to God in heaven, and when the sun was gone down, the ship was in the middle of the sea and the waves were tall and tossing the ship around because the wind was blowing them back.

Late in the night Jesus came to His helpers walking on the water of the sea. When His helpers saw Him they were scared and yelled, It is a spirit. But Jesus said, Don’t be scared, It’s Me. Then Peter said, Lord, if it’s really You, have me walk out to You on the water. Jesus said, Come on. So Peter got out of the ship and started walking to Jesus on the water. But the wind got strong and Peter got scared and looked at the water instead of Jesus and started to sink. He yelled, Lord, save me!

Jesus reached out His hand and caught Peter and said, O you tiny faith, why did you get scared? And when they got into the ship the wind stopped. Jesus helpers came and bowed down to him and their hearts were full of love for Him. They said, You really are the Son of God.

When they got to the other side of the sea, all the people there sent to all the country around to bring all the sick people to Jesus to be made well. Everyone who touched Him was made all well.

Then the leaders of the people at Jerusalem came to Jesus and asked Him, Why don’t your helpers do what they are supposed to do? They don’t wash their hands before they eat their food. But Jesus asked them, Why do you break God’s rules and don’t hold your parents high. You cross out God’s rules by the rules that you made.

Isaiah told the right thing when he said, You go close to God with your words, but your hearts are far away from Him. You teach men’s rules and say it is holding God high. That is nothing and makes nothing.

Then Jesus called the big bunch of people to him and said, Hear what I say and know what it means. It isn’t what you put in your mouth to eat that makes you dirty to God but what comes out of your mouth that makes you dirty. Every plant that wasn’t planted by My Father in heaven will be pulled out from the roots. Let these rulers alone. They are blind ones leading blind ones and both will fall into the hole beside the road.

Then Peter asked Jesus, What does this story mean? Jesus asked him, You still don’t know what it means? The things that you say out of your mouth come from your inside your heart and that is what makes a man dirty because bad stuff comes out of your heart and hurting people and taking their wives and stealing and telling lies and saying bad stuff about the Lord God. This is the stuff that makes you dirty, not forgetting to wash your hands. That doesn’t make you dirty.

Then Jesus went up the coast to another town and a woman came and cried out to Him, saying, Help me, be very kind to me, Son of David, because my daughter has a bad one living inside her who hurts her a lot. But Jesus didn’t say anything back. His helpers said to Jesus, send her away from us her loud crying is bothering us. Jesus said, I am sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But the woman came and bowed down and said, Lord, help me.

Jesus told her, It isn’t right to take the little children’s food and give it to puppies. But the woman said, That is true, Lord, but the puppies do eat the crumbs that fall down under the children’s table. Jesus told the woman, Your faith is great big. What you asked will happen. And the bad one was thrown out of her little girl right then.

Then Jesus left that town and went to the sea of Galilee and went up and sat down on a mountain. Lots and lots of bunches of people came to Him there who were crippled and blind and couldn’t talk and had many kinds of sicknesses and Jesus healed them.

He healed so many people and made them all better so that all the people were amazed when they saw crippled people leaping and running and people who couldn’t talk, shouting, and blind people were seeing everything and they all gave big love in their hearts to the God of Israel.

Then Jesus called His helpers and said, I have a soft heart for these people because they have been here with Me for 3 days and don’t have anything left to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry or they will fall down by the road. Jesus’ helpers ask Him, Where can we get enough food to feed so many people? Jesus asked, How much food do you have? They said, Seven loaves of bread and a few little fish.

So Jesus commanded the people to all sit down and He thanked His Father in heaven for the food and broke it and gave it to His helpers and they gave it to the people and they all ate and their tummies were filled up and there were seven baskets of food left over after the 4,000 men and their wives and children all ate.  Then Jesus sent the people away and got into a ship to go somewhere else.


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Favorite Quote:
We never really grow up. We only learn how to act in public.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet." – William Shakespeare

And sweet it is as sweet could be,
For under lovely petals pink,
You discover hearts of ink.
For thorns protrude from long green stems
Clawing and grabbing at your hem.
As tiny scratch and skin open
And let your blood flow free again.
You may not think that this could be
(Such a lovely flower thee)
But do not cease to recognize
The evil burning in some eyes.
For just as roses can smell so sweet
Their thorny fingers be so discrete,
That until you touch and see yourself bleed
Only then can you recede
And see that beauty can be linked
To thorns under lovely petals pink.

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I was scratched by a beautiful rose, and it got me thinking.

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TEHRAN -- Incubator centers for biotechnology will be launched in the cities of Tabriz, Karaj and Isfahan in the near future, Mehr reported on Saturday.

The Agriculture Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII) plans to develop innovation and incubator centers, the ABRII deputy director Pejman Azadi announced.

An incubator center has been already established at the ABRII North Branch in Rasht for animal biotechnology, he said.

“We plan to establish innovation centers in Karaj, Tabriz and Isfahan in the near future,” he explained.

The ABRII expanded regional research centers in Gilan, East Azarbaijan, Isfahan and Khorasan Razavi provinces, he said.

The institute aims to guarantee food safety and sustainable agricultural development by overcoming environmental challenges and coping with production costs and environmental pollutants, he said.

It also aims to boost both quality and quantity of products by implementing research projects, he added.

The technological infrastructure for carrying out feasibility studies, as well as transferring of experiences are provided at the ABRII, Azadi said.

He said that ABRII has signed four agreements with the private sector during the past Iranian calendar year (March 2018-March 2019).

“We plan to sign eight agreements in the current year and also plan to have 200 articles in Q1 journals, 40 commercialized products, 15 world patents, 47 technical knowledge licenses, 15 promotion guidelines, and 40 production lines until the [Iranian calendar] year 1400 (March 2021-March 2022)”, he said.

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‘My ex is using my address to defraud his sister. Am I wrong to ignore it?’

Moral Money: should our reader confront her troublesome ex, warn his sister or stay out of it altogether?

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Leaving an ex behind is easier said than done when their family debt comes knocking Credit: Thomas Broom

I left my partner at the start of the year and I knew it would be difficult but I never realised how messy it would get. He moved out in March and has been coming back frequently to cause more arguments. He always leaves all of a sudden, like he’s got what he was coming for and I think I’ve finally figured out why.

Last month I started getting letters for his sister through my letterbox and I thought it must have been some kind of mistake. My eight-year-old has a habit of opening all our letters and leaving them on the floor. One day I saw he had opened one of the letters for my ex’s sister. The letter confirmed a new credit card had been set up in her name and a first loan had been approved but the address listed was mine. I really wanted to believe it was a mix up, the problem is that she hasn’t got my address.

She was such a kind person and he always took advantage of that. He would borrow money with no intention of ever paying it back and guilt trip her for more. She cut him off at the end of last year when he pushed it too far so I know she wouldn’t lend him any more money.

I’m sure he is taking on debt in her name and using my address so she never sees. I think he’s been coming over to try and intercept the letters. Should I get in touch with her on social media to warn her? Last I heard she was saving up to buy a house, I’m worried it could ruin her chances.

I’m tired of dealing with him so I don’t really want to get involved. Does it make me a bad person if I ignore it and hope it all goes away?

Anon, Derby, via email

Splitting finances after a break-up is always tricky but your former partner has made it even more complicated.

You said he repeatedly borrowed money from his sister and never paid it back. It’s clear that he has been irresponsible in the past and had trouble managing his finances. It is understandable that you do not trust him when it comes to money.

But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt for a moment. You have no proof that he took on this loan and signed up for a credit card in his sister’s name. It is a very serious allegation and you have suggested he has committed identity theft.

If you were still on friendly terms then you could have put it to him straight. But something tells me he would deny it even if it were true.

Whether this is the work of an unknown fraudster or your ex, has no bearing on the end result for his sister. She stands to lose either way. You are right to worry about her credit score. Identity fraud can damage a person’s credit history. If this person applied for new credit or missed payments that were due, it would leave a mark on her credit report and could block her from taking out a mortgage in future. She may not notice until she tries to buy her new home.

While she should be made aware of the fact she is the possible victim of a crime, potentially at the hands of her brother, you should remember that you have no personal responsibility to intervene. You are no longer part of his life and therefore you have every right to distance yourself from his family issues.

That doesn’t make you a bad person, you have not done anything after all. You should not be opening letters addressed to her anyway so you could argue that you never knew.

But while keeping out of the situation may seem like the easy way out, it could also come back to bite you. It is not a good idea to keep debt against your address and you may soon have to deal with debt collectors. Even if you are not liable, it would still be unpleasant.

You asked for advice but you may not like it. You should contact her privately to warn her about these letters and tell her that you would like your address removed. That way she can choose to either deal with the issue privately or report it to the authorities. It would be out of your hands from that point on and you would not need to confront your ex about the matter.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below and by emailing moralmoney@telegraph.co.uk.

You can also put any question to us (anonymously if you want) using the email address above.

Last week’s Moral Money: ‘A female colleague earns less for no reason. Should I tell her even if it scuppers my pay rise?’

My colleagues were complaining about their salaries and the only woman in the team let it slip she’s on £31,000 a year. The conversation changed quite quickly as we all realised we earn quite a bit more than her. I’m on £40,000 and I know my teammates earn around the same. We all do a very similar job, in fact she has more experience.

I can’t see any reason for her to be paid that much less than us and she should definitely demand more. However, I was about to ask for a small raise as we are expecting our first child and the boss has always said the budget is tight. So if I did tell her, and she received a pay rise, then I might not get one. What should I do?

MB, London

Poll results - Should our reader tell his colleague she is earning less than the men?

Yes, it is only fair that he warn her: 61pc

No, what his colleagues earn is none of his business: 27pc

No, always put yourself first at work, focus on that raise: 9pc

Other: 3pc


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Channel Surfing: CW to Spin Off "Gossip Girl" for 2009-10 Season; Fiennes and Cho Look to "Flash Forward at ABC," "Lost," and More

Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. I'm now seriously behind on my telly-viewing as I was out last night at the West 3rd Street Holiday Walk, where I bumped into Anne Hathaway and Alan Rickman, but I did manage to watch The Office and 30 Rock, naturally.

Today's biggest headline is that CW has announced that it will pursue developing a spin-off of teen-centric drama Gossip Girl. Rather than shoot a pilot, however, the CW will use an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl to function as a backdoor pilot in order to save costs and test the concept before committing to a series order. One caveat: the untitled spin-off will not be an adaptation of novel series "The It Girl" and will not focus on Jenny Humphrey.

So who could be the focus of said spin-off? It's likely that producers would select one of Gossip Girl's main cast members to spin-off but it's difficult to figure out who the most likely candidate would be. Or producers could introduce a new character altogether later this season. Hmmm...

Of course, with the kids of Constance Billard heading off to college next season, it's possible that one of them won't attend the same school (let's be honest, most of them will be staying put in Manhattan and attending NYU or Columbia rather than Yale), thus providing the CW with an instant new focus for a new series, set somewhere other than Manhattan. Thoughts? (Variety)

Joseph Fiennes--who recently starred in FX's drama pilot Pretty/Handsome--and John Cho (Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay) will star in ABC drama pilot Flash Forward, opposite previously announced cast members Jack Davenport and Courtney B. Vance. Project, from Brandon Braga, David S. Goyer, and ABC Studios, recounts the chaos that ensues after the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds and awakens with a terrifying vision of the future.

Fiennes will star as FBI Agent Mark Banford who is "patching up his life and his marriage after winning a long struggle with the bottle. Disturbed by the harrowing premonition during his blackout, he races to unravel the mystery, fearful of the murky future that might spell disaster for himself and his loved ones." Cho will play Dominic Witten, Mark's FBI partner and friend who believes he might be murdered as he did not receive a vision of the future. (Hollywood Reporter)

Expect big changes for Lost in its upcoming fifth season, according to executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. Just don't accuse of them of jumping the shark. "We actually try and jump the shark all the time," joked Cuse. "The last thing we want to do is feel like the show is falling into a tired paradigm. In fact, this season we start out with a new narrative approach. Not the now traditional flashbacks or flash-forwards. We always are trying to keep the storytelling surprising." (Sci Fi Wire)

Florence Henderson (The Brady Bunch) will guest star on a January episode of ABC's Samantha Who, where she will play Sam's grandmother in the episode that will also feature Christine Ebersole as Samantha's aunt. (Entertainment Weekly's Ausiello Files)

TBS has ordered a half-hour late-night vaudeville pilot to be hosted by Harland Williams that is tentatively entitled The TBS Comedy Roadshow. Series, from executive producers Paige Hurwitz and Javier Winnik and TBS Prods., would travel around the country to showcase regional talent, "including a mix of stand-up comedy, novelty acts, musical acts, short films and animated shorts," and shoot in historically significant vaudeville theatres. (Hollywood Reporter)

Stay tuned.

Old Darth said…
Cool on Flash Forward. Series is based on local, to me, Toronto SF writer Robert J. Sawyer. Great guy and very generous with his fans.

So John Cho goes from Sulu in ST XI to this. Niiiice.
Jace Lacob said…
Hi Lou,

Yep, this could be a good one for a change. I'll be reading the pilot script this weekend so will have to report back next week!
Anonymous said…
I'm actually glad that the GG spinoff won't be featuring Jenny "raccoon eyes" Humphrey. After that whole dreadful storyline I think I've had enough of Little J for now.
Hmm...Cuse's comments about the new narrative approach for Lost sound very cryptic. Of course, with a show like Lost I would expect nothing less. Whatever the writers have in store, I'm sure it will be an interesting ride!

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Tesla FSD Beta 10.1 would be capable of reversing maneuvers

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk now announced an upcoming FSD Beta capability to make the driver-assist system operate even more humanlike.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta is designed to be an eventual replacement for a competent human driver. And while the current iteration of the advanced driver-assist system still has a lot of room for improvement, there is little doubt that FSD Beta 10 is far more confident and runs smoother than its previous iterations.

In a recent post on Twitter, Elon Musk stated that FSD Beta 10.1 would be able to creep forward with more confidence and quickly reverse back a little if needed. The CEO added that FSD Beta 10.1 would initiate the quick reverse maneuver if the vehicle senses danger.

While it may be a minor update, FSD Beta 10.1’s capability to reverse could improve its performance in intersections. It could also improve the maneuvers of vehicles during unprotected left turns. As noted by Musk, the reversing maneuver is modeled after how human drivers typically behave when faced with similar situations.

Tesla would have to exercise extreme caution when implementing FSD Beta 10.1’s reversing capability. Any sudden reverse maneuvers would likely incite strong reactions from other vehicles on the road, especially from cars directly following a Tesla. However, given Tesla’s focus on safety, FSD Beta 10.1 would likely calculate the distance between itself and the vehicle behind it and move only within a safe space.

Tesla FSD Beta 10 was released recently. And true to CEO Elon Musk’s predictions on Twitter, the new iteration of the advanced driver-assist suite is a significant step up from its previous iterations. The update’s improvements were demonstrated clearly in how FSD Beta 10 seamlessly completed a drive down San Fransisco’s Lombard Street–one of the most crooked streets in the United States. Unlike previous FSD Beta versions challenged by the twisty road, FSD Beta 10 navigated the street like a human driver, completing the drive smoothly and without disengagements.

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Tesla has broken ground on its first Megafactory in Lathrop, California. The facility will produce Tesla’s Megapack, a large-scale energy storage product utilized by sizeable sustainable energy products to store excessive amounts of energy produced from solar panels.

Images of the Megafactory were first shared by Tesla Club of San Joaquin Valley via Facebook user 209 times. The facility is located in Lathrop, a city located in Northern California and just a short drive from Fremont, where Tesla’s main U.S. manufacturing facility for its electric vehicles is located. It is also the site of Tesla’s distribution center, but it is located in a separate facility.

Rumors of a Megapack production plant swirled through the Tesla community several weeks ago, when well-known insider Sawyer Merritt stated that the automaker might have been ramping up plans to erect a new facility to produce Megapacks using CATL prismatic LFP batteries. It seems that the rumors were true, especially as proof of the facility has been confirmed in the photographs that were initially shared by 209 Times.

Interestingly, the construction of a dedicated facility for Megapack production may have been expected. Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated that Megapacks were sold out “through the end of next year,” as the energy storage product continues to secure high demand for sustainable energy projects. Recently, Tesla added the Megapack to its website so that entities could order it easily. The price is around $1 million each.

Tesla Megapack batteries sold out “through the end of 2022”

With the new facility being constructed, Megapack demand can continue to increase while Tesla battles it through increased production rates. Of course, the factory will likely take several months or up to a year to build and will likely begin to supplement Megapack production at the company’s Gigafactory Nevada plant.

Megapacks have been the product utilized by most of the notable energy projects on Earth, including in Victoria, Australia, Moss Landing, and a new project in Contego, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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