|Publication number||US6976503 B2|
|Application number||US 10/972,581|
|Publication date||Dec 20, 2005|
|Filing date||Oct 26, 2004|
|Priority date||Apr 26, 2002|
|Also published as||CN1662764A, CN100353112C, DE10218830C1, DE50311217D1, EP1499825A1, EP1499825B1, US20050126639, WO2003091614A1|
|Publication number||10972581, 972581, US 6976503 B2, US 6976503B2, US-B2-6976503, US6976503 B2, US6976503B2|
|Inventors||Wolfgang Ens, Alf Puettmer|
|Original Assignee||Siemens Aktiengesellschaft|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (14), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (29), Classifications (9), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This is a Continuation of International Application PCT/DE03/01312, with an international filing date of Apr. 22, 2003, which was published under PCT Article 21(2) in German, and the disclosure of which is incorporated into this application by reference.
The invention relates to a diagnostic system for a valve that can be actuated by a drive by way of a positioner and that has a sensor for detecting structure borne noise, wherein the diagnostic system determines whether diagnosis is possible and, if so, whether the valve leaks. The invention also relates to a diagnostic method, wherein the diagnostic method determines whether diagnosis of the valve is possible and, if so, whether the valve leaks.
In many areas of process engineering and power engineering, the trouble-free operation of a plant depends on the flawless functioning of the control and check valves used. To avoid costly irregular operational interruptions, any valve damage should, if at all possible, be detected early, i.e., before a valve failure can cause the plant to be shut down. Defective valve seats, for example, cause leakage flows that emit broadband noise. Detecting and evaluating the noise emission of a valve can thus be used for early detection of valve damage. Since valve faults can lead to damage and expensive follow-up costs, a diagnosis, possibly with automatic detection and programmable evaluation of the faults, is highly useful. Statistical evaluations of the diagnostic data can be used to optimize the maintenance processes to ensure a timely replacement of a faulty valve, and to qualitatively evaluate and classify the valve manufacturers, or to evaluate the suitability of specific valves for different process types.
German Laid Open Publication DE 199 24 377 A1 discloses a diagnostic system for a valve that can be actuated by a positioner using a drive. This system has a device for recording, storing and evaluating structure-borne noise spectra measured on the valve. To enable a particularly reliable valve diagnosis, the structure-borne noise spectra measured for a slightly open intact valve can be stored in the recording, storing and evaluating device. For the diagnosis, a structure-borne noise spectrum measured for the closed valve is compared with the stored spectrum, and the similarity of the spectra is used to determine whether the valve leaks.
A further diagnostic system for a valve is known from German Laid Open Publication DE 199 47 129 A1.
An object of the invention is to provide a diagnostic system and a diagnostic method, which have an improved reliability of the diagnostic result.
To attain the above and other objects, the novel diagnostic system is applied to a valve that can be actuated by a positioner by way of a drive, wherein the valve has a sensor for detecting structure-borne noise, the diagnostic system includes:
a measurement signal evaluating device that receives from the sensor a measurement signal of the structure-borne noise, wherein the measurement signal evaluating device comprises an arithmetic logic unit that:
determines a first value of a characteristic during a calibration process, wherein the first value is determined based on a first progression of the measurement signal recorded when the valve is in its closed position;
determines at least one second value of the characteristic during operation of the valve, wherein the second value is determined based on at least one second progression of the measurement signal recorded when the valve is in an almost-closed position; and
compares the second value with the first value; and
generates a status signal to indicate that no leakage diagnosis is possible if the deviation of the second value from the first value does not exceed a predefined first threshold value.
Further, a diagnostic method for a valve that can be actuated by a positioner by way of a drive, wherein the valve has a sensor for detecting structure-borne noise and a device that receives from the sensor a measurement signal of the structure-borne noise, the method including:
determining a first value of a characteristic during a calibration process, wherein the first value is based on a first progression of the measurement signal recorded when the valve is in its closed position;
determining at least one second value of the characteristic during operation of the valve, wherein the second value is based on at least one second progression of the measurement signal recorded when the valve is in an almost-closed position;
comparing the first value with the second value; and
generating a status signal indicating that no leakage diagnosis is possible if the deviation of the second value from the first value does not exceed a predefined first threshold value.
For reliably detecting leakage flows by measuring the acoustic emission, it is desirable to obtain a measurement signal corresponding to the basic noise of the valve in its closed position, and a measurement signal corresponding to the noise emission when the valve is open slightly. The basic noise is measured by closing the intact valve during a calibration process, so that no flow noise at all can occur. The causes for the basic noise are essentially the operating noise of the valve drive and the structure-borne noise of neighboring pumps in the process plant, which is transmitted over the pipes. A measurement signal that closely correlates with the structure-borne noise for a small leak in the valve is recorded by simulating the leak with a small valve gap. The invention is based on the recognition that a valve might be incorrectly evaluated as good, i.e., as free from leaks, if no suspicious noise occurs when the valve is in its closed position because the pressure drop over the valve, for example, is not sufficiently high. In this case, the diagnostic result that could at most be indicated, however, is that no diagnostic statement regarding leakage detection is currently possible on the basis of the structure-borne noise. To improve the reliability of diagnostic statements, the following boundary conditions should be included:
In addition, as described above, a diagnosis requires the basic noise of the closed valve under normal operating conditions, a leakage noise simulated by a small valve gap and the current noise for the closed position of the valve as in an installation under operating conditions. The basic noise is measured by closing the new intact valve in the process plant, such that no flow noise at all can occur. The leakage noise, like the simulated leakage noise, strongly depends on the boundary conditions 2) to 4). In principal, it would be possible to install pressure sensors in front of and behind the valve to measure the actual pressure in order to determine the boundary conditions 2) and 3). The dependence of the leakage noise on the boundary conditions 2) to 4) could be identified in a calibration process using a series of measurements under respectively different settings of the boundary conditions 2) to 4) for the individual measurements. Then, the measurements could be stored. However, to conduct the series of measurements, and install the pressure measuring devices to detect the corresponding operating conditions, would entail a significant amount of effort and cost.
The boundary condition 1) can be detected by a positioner, which is typically available. Alternatively, it is assumed that the boundary condition 1) is satisfied once a predefined time has elapsed after the closing of the valve.
The invention has an advantage in that during a calibration process only the basic noise for the closed position of the valve needs to be recorded and evaluated. A simulated leakage noise is not recorded during calibration but, instead, is recorded during operation, i.e., close to the time when the noise signal for the closed valve is recorded, which is evaluated to detect a leak. Due to the small time interval between the recording of the simulated leakage noise and the recording of the noise signal for the closed valve, it is possible to assume that the boundary conditions 2) to 4) are comparable during the two measurements. This increases the reliability of a diagnostic statement. In addition, the invention is advantageous because of its low complexity of the calibration process that is due to the fact that only the basic noise needs to be measured, and no measuring devices for detecting the boundary conditions are required.
The reliability of the diagnostic statement is further increased by the fact that a good/bad statement is output only if the simulated leakage noise is sufficiently different from the basic noise recorded during the calibration process. If there is not a sufficient difference, a status signal is generated to indicate that no leakage diagnosis is currently possible. A cause for the insufficient difference in noise values can be, for example, that the pressure drop across the valve is not sufficient to produce a clearly detectable flow noise when there is a leak. Thus, a diagnostic statement is made only if such a statement is possible in the corresponding operating phase based on appropriate boundary conditions. Further, a fault message signal is generated—to indicate a detected leakage flow—only if the measurement signal of the structure-borne noise recorded during operation of the installation with the valve in its closed position clearly differs from the noise recorded during calibration and tends toward the simulated-leakage noise. On the other hand, if the progression of the measurement signal recorded for the closed valve differs only slightly from the noise recorded during calibration, the system does not signal an error, or it indicates that there is no leakage through the valve.
The reliability of the diagnostic statement is advantageously further increased if, to record the simulated leakage noise, additional progressions of the measurement signal are recorded during a closing process and/or an opening process in different valve positions over a range near the closed position of the valve and are evaluated for the diagnosis. Traditionally, due to the tolerances of the valve and the drive and due to any soft seal that may be present in the valve, it is extremely difficult to produce a gap small enough to correspond to a small leak of the valve. This problem advantageously reduced by the measure described above. The valve positions over a range can be distinguished, for example, by subsequently dividing a measurement signal—recorded continuously during a closing or opening process—by time domains in an evaluation device. Alternatively, it is possible at predefined intervals to record a plurality of progressions of the measurement signal with short intervals each during a closing or opening process, at least some of which then represent measurement signal progressions that were recorded in different valve positions over a range near the closed position of the valve. These progressions then represent the simulated progressions for different leakage rates.
The reliability of the error statement can advantageously be further increased if among a plurality of characteristics that can be used to characterize the progression of the measurement signal, there is selected the characteristic in which the first value differs most clearly from the second value. Examples of such characteristics are the amplitude, the peak value, the effective value or the peak factor of the corresponding time characteristic. Additional examples are the amplitude in one or more frequency bands of the spectrum or the spectral power density. The peak factor is calculated as the ratio of the peak value to the effective value. The characteristic can of course also be determined by means of linking the above-described quantities or other suitable quantities, e.g., using fuzzy logic or a neural network.
The diagnostic system is preferably configured as an integral component of the positioner, such that the valve diagnosis can be initiated via the interface of the positioner and the result of the diagnosis can be output as a fault message signal in the form of a good/bad statement via this data interface. It is of course also possible to use indicator lamps, e.g., green for “no leak detected,” yellow for “no leakage diagnosis possible” and red for “leakage flow detected” to indicate the result directly on the positioner.
The invention and embodiments and advantages thereof will now be described in greater detail, by way of example, with reference to an embodiment depicted in the drawings, in which:
As an alternative to the exemplary embodiment shown, individual evaluation functions may be shifted from the device 14 to a personal computer connected to the field bus. In this situation, data describing a digitized measurement signal or characteristics of the measurement signal may be transmitted to the personal computer via the data interface 11.
During a calibration process, the valve 2 is closed by the positioner 9. Once the valve is fully closed, a progression of the measurement signal 13 is recorded and is used to determine a first value w1 in the manner explained below with reference to
In the diagram depicted in
As an alternative to the above-described determination of the second value of the characteristic by using a plurality of additional values, the second value can be determined directly from a progression of the measurement signal, which was recorded directly for a valve position with a gap small enough to correspond to a small leak of the valve.
To define the point at which it should be concluded that a leak is present in the closed position of the valve, a second threshold value is determined as a function of the first value w1 and the second value w2. The valve is closed—during operation of the process plant—either because the process requires it or solely for diagnostic purposes. A third progression of the measurement signal with a spectral progression s3 of the power density is then recorded. A third value w3 of the characteristic is determined therefrom. If the deviation of the third value w3 from the first value w1 exceeds the second threshold value by, e.g., 0.2 times the first value w1, the presence of a leak is deduced in the example explained with reference to
As an alternative to the above-described exemplary embodiment, the device 14 can also be configured in such a way that the characteristic whose first value differs most clearly from at least one of the additional values is selected for diagnosis from among a predefined number of characteristics. Examples of characteristics are the amplitude, the peak value, the effective value or the peak factor of the progression of the measurement signal. Other examples are the power density, but in different frequency bands, or the amplitude of spectral signal components.
Another alternative is to record, during the calibration process, the progressions of the measurement signal in different sections of the valve position range during an opening process or during a combined closing and opening process. The sequence in which the second and third progression, and the additional progressions of the measurement signal, are recorded can be selected at will. The above-noted ordinals are simply used for the purposes of identification.
The above description of the preferred embodiments has been given by way of example. From the disclosure given, those skilled in the art will not only understand the present invention and its attendant advantages, but will also find apparent various changes and modifications to the structures and methods disclosed. It is sought, therefore, to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the spirit and scope of the invention, as defined by the appended claims, and equivalents thereof.
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| Ernie Graham - Ernie Graham |
Ernie Graham's 1971 solo album often gets saddled with the 'pub rock' genre, which to be honest never really gets all that much respect and isn't always a good fit here. With the exception of closer, "Belfast", the album sounds much further from its Irish roots
| and much closer to the American roots of The Band, Dylan or Fred Neil. The album's backed by members of Brinsley Schwartz, another overlooked pub rock band that included Nick Lowe in their ranks. Graham's solo excursions came together after the collapse of his band Eire Apparent, known for their extensive touring with Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd & Soft Machine and a debut LP produced by Hendrix himself. This is a far cry from Eire Apparent's psychedelic jams, but what it lacks in flash it makes up for in a cohesion and soul that they never had. 4 Men With Beards have now put this one back into the vinyl ranks where it belongs; a generational oversight long looking for a good home.
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You were the first pet I adopted into my new home in New Bern. I'd been fostering other dogs for Pals for Paws but had my eye on you for weeks. You were being boarded at Animal Care Center because Pals for Paws didn't have enough foster homes.
True to your name, you have a heart as big as Texas. From the time I brought you home, you have displayed a gentle and loving nature to the humans that you've met, are tolerant with other dogs, have a certain fondness for cat cuddling, and have kept me feeling safe in my home. You are a wonderful addition to my fur family and a great ambassador for the rescue world.

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What could be more luxurious than staying on a super-yacht in the worlds best city? The Sunborn Yacht is a hotel like no other; permanently moored close to the ExCel exhibition centre, you get the luxury of a cruise with the convenience of London's many facilities. This is the only Yacht Hotel in London
This 4 star apartment style hotel is one of the best value hotels in London. You'll stay in a beautiful apartment within one of London's most affluent neighbourhoods. Harrods is a 20 minute walk away and a nearby tube station will take you directly to Heathrow airport.
This quintessentially British establishment is one of London's best selling hotels. Rooms are styled in an old English fashion with double king size beds. Located near to trendy Shoreditch and walking distance to transport links, you are right in the centre of London's most exciting district.
This 5 STAR hotel is one of the highest rated hotels in the area. Walking distance to the Tower of London and City of London. Exclusive facilities including spa and fitness centre, onsite restaurant and bar.

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A change in the law to prevent annual allowance charges on mergers where benefits will remain unchanged
In the July 2013 edition of pensions pieces we explained how HMRC's approach on transfers of DB benefits from one scheme to another means that annual allowance charges can arise for members, even where their pension entitlements pre- and post- transfer do not differ. New regulations to resolve this issue are expected to come into force in the near future.
Broadly, the issue stems from HMRC's current practice of assessing (i) the value of the assets transferred from the transferring scheme, compared with (ii) the value of the benefits to be provided for the member in the receiving scheme. If the benefits are greater than the assets (which will clearly be the case in a merger where the transferring scheme has an ongoing deficit), then the difference is deemed to be a pension input for individual member's tax purposes, which may give rise to an annual allowance charge for the transferring individuals.
HMRC has been seeking to amend the law to resolve this situation for many months now. Previous draft regulations published in November 2012 were shelved due to issues identified with them in consultation, in particular by the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA). Finally, after a long delay, new draft regulations have now been published to deal with this problem, which will have retrospective effect from the tax year 2011-12 onwards. As yet the date these will come into force is undecided, but so long as there are no serious objections to the drafting, the regulations should be in force by the end of the year.
Under these draft regulations, a merger will not give rise to pension inputs for the purpose of the annual allowance where the value of the members' benefits in the receiving scheme is "equal (or virtually equal)" to the value of the benefits given up in the transferring scheme. It remains to be seen what is meant by "virtually equal", but this is sufficient where exactly the same benefits are being provided.
It is now clearly proposed that this amendment will be made to apply retrospectively, removing the annual allowance risk where mergers are carried out with mirror-image benefits being provided post-merger. Nevertheless, employers and trustees wishing to avoid any risk of members being subject to annual allowance charges as a result of a transfer from an underfunded scheme may wish to wait until the amending legislation comes into force before proceeding with a scheme merger.

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This service is designed to assist with immigration applications where applicants need to prove that there is suitable housing available.
To request a visit, complete the application form and return it to the Town Hall or email it to the Environmental Health team.
There is a charge for providing this service. You can pay by credit or debit card at the Town Hall or over the phone: 01923 226400.
If you pay by cheque then it will have to clear before the inspection will be booked.
An inspection will be carried out within 10 working days of receiving your form and payment.
If you need an urgent inspection, this will be carried out within three working days.
What you can expect from us
We will arrange to visit the property and will need to look around the whole property during the inspection. If we are not able to access the whole property then we will not be able to give a detailed report on the inspection.
Once the inspection is finished, we will supply you with a letter confirming whether the housing is suitable. This is for you to submit with your application for entry.
- An inspection costs £162
- An urgent inspection costs £263
If you are not happy with the outcome of the inspection, you should speak to the officer who carried out your inspection.


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Charlie Austin has been found alive and well, much to the relief of well-wishing fantasy football players worldwide.
The striker’s whereabouts had been cause for concern but he was discovered scoring for Southampton against Sparta Prague in the Europa league.
In a display of evident health, he was even spotted wresting a penalty from the despairing arms of Dušan Tadić.
Speaking exclusively to Football Burp, Austin’s brother described his family’s elation upon learning of his safety.
He said: “When we saw him on TV scoring for Southampton, we just collapsed tearfully into each others’ arms.
“It’s been an anxious time, what with Charlie going completely off the radar and all.
“I’ll always think fondly of him ever since I captained him for his hat-trick against West Brom just before Christmas 2014.
“And because he’s my brother as well.”
UPDATE: Jay Rodriguez has also now been found alive and well.

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An SNP MEP has called on the EU to “leave a light on for Scotland” as he made what could be his last ever speech in the European Parliament.
Alyn Smith insisted that Scotland was a “European nation” – and added that independence would offer the country a “route back”.
In a plea to other European politicians he said: “Cher colleagues, I’m not asking you to solve our domestic discussions. I am asking you to leave a light on so we can find our way home.”
Almost two thirds of Scots voted to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and others complaining that the Brexit vote means the country now faces having to leave the trading bloc against the wishes of its people.
The First Minister is due to set out her thinking on a second Scottish independence referendum in the near future, but said recently that another vote on the issue was “as inevitable as it’s possible to be”.
Mr Smith, one of eight Scottish MEPs, used his speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to brand Brexit a “tragedy” and a “self-inflicted disaster”.
He said: “Every single party in Scotland except the Conservatives are united around the view that the best Brexit is no Brexit.
“So colleagues, please, don’t close the door on us now. There are a lot of us in Scotland and across the UK, working hard to turn this round, to serve our citizens, to remain within this family of nations.
“In what might be my last speech in this place after 15 years serving our European people, we don’t know what’s in the UK’s future. We don’t know what’s in any of our future and the forces of populism are gathering in all our nations.
“We don’t know what’s in the UK’s future but I do know Scotland is a European nation.
“We celebrate international solidarity. We celebrate freedom of movement.
“If the European Union didn’t exist, we would have to invent something like it, and Scotland would want to be part of it.”
He added: “If Scotland is removed from our family of nations against our will, against our clearly democratically-expressed view, if we are removed against our will, independence will be our only route back.”


An organisation set up to improve Cray Valley is to celebrate its work at an inaugural meeting tomorrow (Friday April 4).
Cray Valley Initiative Panel (CVIP) was formed to “drive forward a strategic vision” for the area, said Councillor Peter Fortune, a key member behind the collective.
Tomorrow he will sit down to discuss plans with Orpington MP Jo Johnson, as well as members from a number of local residents’ associations and action groups - all playing a part.
Coun Fortune explained the CVIP will be responsible for helping local projects to improve local ameneties - including the distribution of community funds, with the likes of a festival, an allotment and a football team all in the pipeline.
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- Limited edition Marvel Avengers artwork goes on display at Bluewater


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Have a safe and happy Halloween everyone!
Congrats to the spotlight artist and the runners up for the SPOOKY theme. Go check out their pages by clicking through their links and showing some love when you have the chance.
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”--
Merely this and nothing more."
'The Raven' - Edgar Allen Poe
weeks 10.14 through 10.28
Congrats Thank you to the lovely and inspiring artist that is Kate Densmore for guest judging this month, we loved having you Kate! She is one of our favorite rule breakers and not afraid to show it. I knew that she would be creative in choosing a great theme and she didn't let us down, coming up with this quote has been one of my favorites to date. Congrats to our five winners!
“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's
always the children who have the fine adventures.
The mothers have to stay at home
and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
― Audrey Niffenegger
week 9.30 through 10.13
Theme: Fine Adventures
The most recent theme 'Stay Gold' was in honor of 'The Gold Hope Project' started by Cynthia Dawson after losing her sweet daughter, Ava, to brain cancer. Participating Photographers can apply here to support fighting families.
Taken for the Gold Hope Project's site:
The Gold Hope Project is a group of international photographers that have come together to photograph families completely free, with the hopes of bringing about awareness of and to raise funds for Pediatric Oncology Research and treatment. More precious than the gold that represents them, children are our future. This year alone, approximately 13,500 parents will have to listen to a doctor tell them, “Your child has cancer.” Can you imagine?
Biweekly Theme: Stay Gold
9.15 through 9.30
"Steal away into that way back when
You thought that all would last forever
But like the weather
Nothing can ever...and be in time
Join us in our facebook group to share your own vision and photography with us and be inspired by others. Also feel free to continue to share your weekly faves on our facebook page for a chance to be featured.


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By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11
Security agents in Aba, the industrial city of Abia State, have arrested three youths in the state for vandalizing public electric supply equipment which recently plunged parts of the state into darkness for days.
Air Commodore Nicholas Orjiude (retired), the Chief Security Officer of Geometric Power Ltd, the owner of Aba Power Ltd which provides electricity to nine out of the 17 local government areas in Abia State, gave the names of the apprehended youths as Nnamdi Nwobilor and Desmond Nkangnobi as well as Chinemerem Okechi.
Nwobilor and Okechi are from Osisioma on the outskirts of Aba where both the Aba Power Ltd and Geometric Power Ltd are located, while Nkangnobi hails from Ikom in Cross River State.
“Nnamdi Nwobilor was caught by young people from the area while vandalizing electricity distribution infrastructure in the industrial layout”, explained Geometric Power’s chief security officer who also stated that “Nkangnobi was caught in action by the eagle-eyed vigilante group in Umuahala village in Obehe, Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State when he was stealing the armoured cable of a distribution transformer in the place”.
Okechi was arrested by the youths in the Osisioma who got intelligence that he was planning to vandalize a distribution transformer in the area and began to watch him closely.
“There were attacks on 14 distribution transformers in June alone”, disclosed Regius Amaechi, the Geometric Power Deputy Chief Security Officer who is also a retired Deputy Commandant of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
“Each attack caused tremendous hardship to businesses and individuals in the state, to say nothing about the fact that it cost Aba Power Limited millions of naira to fix”.
The vandals seem to target, in particular, the armoured cable and copper wire, among other critical components of a distribution transformer. They sell the armoured cable, which is very expensive, to traders who deal in electricity parts as well as to communities, businesses and individuals in need of the part and to trinket makers who use it to produce things like earrings and spoons.
According to Air Commodore Orjiude, the vandals dispose off the stolen materials at ridiculously low prices.
“They can sell these critical components and materials for even five thousand naira when they are in desperate need of drugs like marijuana and crystal methamphetamine popularly known in the Southeast as 'mkpuru mmiri'.
“They do not consider the acute hardship they inflict on our people, especially manufacturers who are forced to purchase diesel oil at almost N1000 per litre in order to run power generating sets in their.factories”, Commodore Orjiude stated. NNL.


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Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster
A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be “the first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments,” a sentence to put any system administrator on edge.
Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant’s latest discovery – made during his day job at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 security arm – looks to punch holes in Kubernetes clusters, and has apparently succeeded in doing so across at least 23 known targets.
“Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers,” Prizmant wrote of the malware, which he first discovered in the wild in March. “Its main purpose is to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order to run malicious containers.”
A hidden danger
Siloscape does its best to stay hidden, Prizmant discovered, using the Tor Project network and an anonymous .onion domain to connect to a command-and-control server. During his analysis, Prizmant found 313 individual systems connecting to this server – though could verify only 23 active Siloscape victims, suggesting the malware represents only part of a broader attack.
“Compromising an entire cluster is much more severe than compromising an individual container,” Prizmant explained in his report, “as a cluster could run multiple cloud applications whereas an individual container usually runs a single cloud application. For example, the attacker might be able to steal critical information such as usernames and passwords, an organization’s confidential and internal files or even entire databases hosted in the cluster.
“Such an attack could even be leveraged as a ransomware attack by taking the organization’s files hostage. Even worse, with organizations moving to the cloud, many use Kubernetes clusters as their development and testing environments, and a breach of such an environment can lead to devastating software supply chain attacks.”
“This particular malware is extremely impressive,” ESET UK cybersecurity specialist Jake Moore told The Register, “and something even infosec professionals were not expecting. However, this is exactly what we should be doing and expecting the unexpected in all walks of cyber crime. This type of attack can be leveraged into multi-layered attacks causing all levels of disruption and grief to any targeted organisation.”
“While it may seem surprising that we now have malware targeting containers, in reality it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise,” added security specialist Sean Wright. “The way organisations run their services has changed, with more and more organisations deploying their services and applications into containers, most notably Kubernetes. Criminals will adapt as well, and time and time again they have shown if anything they are incredibly resourceful and adaptive when it comes to trying to stay a step ahead.
“Additionally,” said Wright, “since organisations will likely run multiple services within a single Kubernetes cluster, gaining access to this could effectively give attackers an enormous level of access and control. It’s no wonder that attackers have their eyes on this. Combine this with the fact the Kubernetes is still a relatively new technology, many companies likely don’t have the sufficient knowledge to ensure that their instances are configured entirely correctly and most importantly securely.”
Microsoft caught napping
Prizmant had previously reported the ability to break out of Windows container boundaries in July 2020, but to his surprise Microsoft was initially unconcerned. “Microsoft originally didn’t consider this issue a vulnerability, based on the reasoning that Windows Server containers are not a security boundary, and therefore each application that is being run inside a container should be treated as if it is executed directly on the host,” Prizmant recalled.
“A few weeks after that discussion, I reported the issue to Google because Kubernetes is vulnerable to those issues. Google contacted Microsoft, and after some back and forth, it was determined by Microsoft that an escape from a Windows container to the host, when executed without administrator permissions inside the container, will in fact be considered a vulnerability.”
It was shortly after this reclassification that Prizmant discovered Siloscape, which he believes has been actively exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in containerised applications, and using Windows-specific container escape techniques to gain access to the underlying node and from there the cluster for over a year.
“Users should follow Microsoft’s guidance recommending not to use Windows containers as a security feature,” Prizmant concluded. “Furthermore, administrators should make sure their Kubernetes cluster is securely configured. In particular, a secured Kubernetes cluster won’t be as vulnerable to this specific malware as the nodes’ privileges won’t suffice to create new deployments. In this case, Siloscape will exit.”


ZOTAC Announces GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition Graphics Card
ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and the world's largest channel manufacturer, today introduces the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition - its fastest single-GPU graphics card. The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition is designed to amplify cooling performance and gaming at extreme high-definition resolutions.
A custom high-performance heat-pipe heatsink enables the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition to stay cool and whisper-quiet while dual orange 92mm fans add a stylish ZOTAC touch to create an enthusiast-grade graphics card that combines performance and style in a single 2.5-slot graphics card.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition boosts gaming performance by doubling the video memory of standard ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 graphics card for a total of 3GB of video memory. The 3GB of video memory ensures the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition is able to render the latest Microsoft DirectX 11-enabled games and applications with maximum details and performance at resolutions up to 2560x1600.
"Enthusiast gamers demand the absolute best performance available. With the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition, we are able to boost high-resolution gaming performance while reducing noise levels and temperatures," said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International.
To let users take advantage of the graphics processing power available from the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition, a copy of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is bundled with the card. Brotherhood takes gamers on an epic action-packed journey through a beautifully rendered replication of ancient Rome, Italy as Ezio, the master assassin.
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medium octopus (1 ½ - 2kg)
fennel bulb, cut in half
celery stalks, cut roughly
medium waxed potatoes, peeled
garlic clove, finely chopped
Flaky sea salt and black pepper
extra virgin olive oil
First you need to soften up your octopus. You do this simply by freezing it and then thawing; this breaks down the toughness in the cellular structure of the flesh.
In a very large pan, simmer the octopus in unsalted water on a medium/low heat with the fennel, onion, celery and parsley stalks until tender enough to push a fork easily through the flesh. This should take no more than one hour.
Remove the octopus from the cooking water and allow it to cool. Cut the cooked and cooled octopus into bite-sized pieces, discarding the eyes, beak and mush inside the head. Remove the skin. Rinse the cut pieces in clean water.
Cut the peeled potatoes into bite-sized pieces, put into a pan of water, bring to the boil and then simmer until cooked. Be careful not to overcook they should not disintegrate. Drain and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, gently combine the octopus and potatoes with the garlic, parsley and chilli flakes. Season with salt and pepper and dress with olive oil and lemon juice.
Transfer the dressed octopus to a large serving plate and cover with clingfilm. When you are ready to serve, put the dish in the microwave on full for 30 seconds so that the potatoes and octopus gain a little warmth.Polpo A Venetian Cookbook


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Makeup Artist Vetoes Idaho's First Lady After Governor Vetoed Cosmetology Licensing Reforms
Post Date: 2017-06-11 18:08:08 by cranky
What goes around, comes around, governor.Photo courtesy Sherry JaphetWhen the governor called, Sherry Japhet answered. Japhet is a freelance makeup artist from Boise, Idaho. She's worked in the business for more than 20 years, but without a license. That's never been a problem for her. She's landed gigs from coast-to-coast, working on television sets and for fashion magazines. Some of those calls came from Idaho Gov. Butch Otter. Japhet has helped Otter and his wife, Lori, look their best for televised public service announcements and political ads. No more, she says. Japhet, a 41-year old who works as a stand-up comedian, laughed at a request this week that she work her magic ...
Trump is a profoundly incompetent president
Post Date: 2017-06-11 18:00:41 by Willie Green
What do the directors of the Transportation Security Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI have in common?Easy question, you may think: They are all important law enforcement officials with roles in combating terrorism. But at the moment, they have nothing in common. Why? Because they don't exist. The jobs, you see, are vacant. Each has to be filled by presidential appointment, and Donald Trump has felt no urgency in filling them. Only this week did he even offer names for the TSA and FBI.That is not his only lapse when it comes to protecting Americans from danger. In January, 47 U.S. attorneys resigned, ...
Joe Biden’s niece dodges jail after $100K credit card scam
Post Date: 2017-06-11 15:38:59 by cranky
The wild-child niece of former Veep Joe Biden stole more than $100,000 in a credit card scam and quietly cut a plea deal in Manhattan court that spares her any jail time, The Post has learned. Caroline Biden, Joe Bidens niece, leaving court after pleading guilty to larceny charges.Using a borrowed credit card, the blonde Caroline Biden set up an unauthorized customer account at Bigelow Pharmacy on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, and racked up the six-figure bill over the course of a year, according to a criminal complaint that does not name the victim card owner. As part of a plea deal before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Kevin McGrath, Biden, 29, pleaded guilty to one ...
Fighting jihad? No, they’d rather arrest a man with a pencil
Post Date: 2017-06-11 11:33:12 by HomerBohn
Police across Britain are ever vigilant when it comes to preventing an Islamophobic backlash after terror attacks. Officers in Grimsby rushed to a mosque, where it was reported a suspect was threatening to stab someone. They arrested a homeless man, Jake Jones, and charged him with possessing an offensive weapon. The charge, which was subsequently dropped when it came to court this week, read: At Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, you had with you in a public place, namely Legsby Avenue, an offensive weapon, namely a sharply pointed pencil. Deputy district judge Philip Houlden said that the whole purpose of having a ...
Clashes Erupt Nationwide as Leftists Crash ‘March Against Sharia’
Post Date: 2017-06-11 11:09:54 by HomerBohn
(Zero Hedge) Clashes have broken out between members of purportedly anti-fascist leftist groups and conservatives gathering to protest genital mutilation, honor killings and other practices associated with Sharia law, as part of the a nationwide March Against Sharia. Seattle police were forced to use pepper spray on leftists gathering to protest the march after a group of protesters confronted the marchers. The intermittent scuffles eventually forced officers to use bikes to push people back in an effort to keep the two groups separated, the Seattle Times reported. SPD bike cops created a barricade on north side of protest, separating march Against ...
Trump's tantrum: President says he WON'T go ahead with state visit to UK unless he is guaranteed a rapturous welcome from the British people
Post Date: 2017-06-11 09:56:38 by cranky
Trump gave UK leader Theresa May the news in a call in the past few weeksHe doesn't want to visit while British public are likely to protest his presidencyThe remark came as a shock to May, said a source close to her who was presentPresident Donald Trump has called off state visits to the UK until the British people are prepared to meet him with open arms.The commander-in-chief told UK prime minister Theresa May in a phone call that he didn't want to visit the UK if there were going to be large-scale protests against him - likely meaning his visit will be indefinitely postponed. The call was made at some point in recent weeks, shocking the British leader an insider close to her ...
U.S. joins battle as Philippines takes losses in besieged city
Post Date: 2017-06-10 18:45:17 by Willie Green
>MARAWI CITY, Philippines U.S. special forces have joined the battle to crush Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town, officials said on Saturday, as government forces struggled to make headway and 13 marines were killed in intense urban fighting.The Philippines military said the United States was providing technical assistance to end the siege of Marawi City by fighters allied to Islamic State, which is now in its third week, but it had no boots on the ground."They are not fighting. They are just providing technical support," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera told a news conference in Marawi City.The Pentagon, which has no permanent ...
Breitbart losing most of its advertisers
Post Date: 2017-06-10 18:27:31 by Willie Green
The number of advertisers on the alt-right site Breitbart.com has dropped 90 percent in recent months, from 242 in March to 26 in May, according to data from MediaRadar, a New York firm that tracks online advertising. Among the businesses that continue to advertise on the site include a gentleman's club in Northern Virginia, a golf resort near the coast of Spain and the conservative foundation Judicial Watch. "Liberal activists want to destroy Breitbart, but we won't be cowed," the foundation's president Tom Fitton said in an interview. "We advertise widely on the internet, and we're proud of the relationship and the partnerships we have." Fitton said ...
Saudi Arabia Used U.S. Veterans to Lobby Against 9/11 Bill
Post Date: 2017-06-10 14:46:35 by Anthem
Elements of the charm offensive include the launch of a pro-Saudi Arabia media portal operated by high-profile Republican campaign consultants; a special English-language website devoted to putting a positive spin on the latest developments in the Yemen war; glitzy dinners with American political and business elites; and a non-stop push to sway reporters and policymakers. That has been accompanied by a spending spree on American lobbyists with ties to the Washington establishment. The Saudi Arabian Embassy, as weve reported, now retains the brother of Hillary Clintons campaign chairman, the leader of one of the largest Republican Super PACs in the country, ...
VIDEO: Suspect Draws Gun, Gets Shot Multiple Times in Store Where Everyone Was Armed
Post Date: 2017-06-10 09:17:17 by cranky
A robbery suspect in Brazil entered a convenience store and drew his gun, only to be shot multiple times in a situation in which everyone was armed. Concealed Nation reports that the patrons were all off-duty police who were in the store shopping. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) from LiveLeak shows four individuals in plain clothes standing in line to check out when a door opens and the would-be robber enters the business with his gun drawn. The robber is shot immediately by one of the off-duty officers who is off-camera at first, then comes into the picture when the robber goes down. The other men all draw their guns as well, some pointing at the robber and others walking toward the door ...
Moments After Questioning Trump's Mental Health, Pelosi Has Senior Moment(s)
Post Date: 2017-06-10 09:12:57 by HomerBohn
Pelosis aide came to her assistance, passing her a note alerting her to the slip-up shes made many times before Shortly after calling into question President Trumps mental health on MSNBCs Morning Joe, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosis own mental health came under scrutiny, as the 77-year-old California congresswoman referred to President Trump as President Bush and forgot what day of the week it is. A reporter quickly helped her correct the gaffe, interjecting Trump, but Pelosi appeared oblivious she slipped up. An aide then emerged from the sidelines, passing Pelosi a note, notifying her she got the two presidents ...
After finding his doppelganger, Kansas City man is freed from prison
Post Date: 2017-06-10 07:07:38 by cranky
Ricky on the left; Richard Jones on the right. In prison for a crime he adamantly denied committing, Richard Anthony Jones repeatedly heard from others that there was another prisoner who looked just like him.Not only were they doppelgangers, but Jones was told that he and the other man shared the same first name.Jones never ran across the man, but the lawyers he passed the information on to began digging into his case and came to the conclusion that Jones was indeed an innocent man.On Wednesday, they made their case to a Johnson County judge, and on Thursday Jones walked free after serving nearly 17 years in prison for a 1999 robbery in Roeland Park.Not only did he bear an ...
US-Backed Forces Enter Raqqa as Coalition Drops White Phosphorus Bombs
Post Date: 2017-06-09 20:39:50 by Anthem
Update: Footage published on Al-Masdar News moments ago appears to show white phosphorus or cluster bombs falling over Raqqa, which are both banned internationally if used on residential areas. (MPN) In what some speculate may be the beginning of the end for Daesh (ISIS), the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) entered Raqqa Daeshs Syrian stronghold for the first time on Tuesday. SDF commander Rojda Felat told the AFP news agency that the group is fighting street battles inside Raqqa now, and we have experience in urban warfare. The advance came after heavy airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition, which killed more than 20 civilians trying to ...
Questions Rage Over Connecticut Boy Competing in High School Sports as a Girl [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-06-09 17:39:44 by cranky
Andraya Yearwood has become a girls team track star for Cromwell High School in New Britain, Connecticut. It is no surprise, since the runner is a tall, strong, powerful biological boy who is posing as a girl despite not yet making any move to transition as a girl. The mustachioed Yearwood, who competed as a boy in middle school, now claims to be a transgender girl and has been allowed to join the girls track team despite his imposing size and muscle mass that far exceeds that of his teammates andmore importantlyall his opponents on other school teams. School officials, parents, and girls on opposing teams have bent themselves into pretzels to appear ...
EXCLUSIVE: More than a bromance - the intimate relationship between John F. Kennedy and his gay friend - from prep school to the White House - where pal had his own room, much to Jackie's chagrin
Post Date: 2017-06-09 17:07:18 by cranky
Born 100 years ago, John F. Kennedy was revered as the 35th president president but quietly chided for his womanizingOne of his closest relationships was with his gay best friend and prep school roommate Lem BillingsBillings told JFK about his romantic intentions toward him in a love note written on a piece of toilet paper at their elite Connecticut boarding schoolThe future president wrote back 'I'm not that kind of boy' But one point Billings confided that his friendship with the future president 'included oral sex, with Jack always on the receiving end'They remained close even after the election, despite warnings from JFK's advisers who thought Russian agents ...
Chelsea Handler: Gun Owners Need More Restrictions on Their Little “Hobby”
Post Date: 2017-06-09 11:24:15 by HomerBohn
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter this week, the only female comedian more vulgar and self-obsessed than Kathy Griffin said that gun hobbyists and Second Amendment activists were to blame for the mass murders in America. Taking specific aim at the Trump administration for being in league with the NRA, Chelsea Handler said the president cared for no one other than himself. Obviously, gun control in this country is totally unacceptable, and the gun lobby is so strong and so powerful that anytime a celebrity can bring attention to this cause you know its an easy thing for anyone to do, she said. Were way behind the times in terms of gun control ...
Cowardly Britain commits suicide
Post Date: 2017-06-09 08:22:05 by Justified
Theres really not much to say is there? Britain has voted for its own destruction: Last year Britain had the courage to defy the globalist elites by voting for independence. That courage has now evaporated. Yesterday Britain voted for: * more immigration * no control over our borders * staying in the undemocratic corrupt, wasteful EUSSR * more diversity * more social unrest * censorship of anyone daring to criticise the cult of mayhem and murder * the end of Britain Apparently a large part of the success of Corbyns Labour was due to young people registering and voting for him. So, dear young people, when you get blown up at concerts, stabbed in pubs and ...
Betrayal! Trump grants amnesty to 125,000 illegals in 3 months
Post Date: 2017-06-09 02:14:59 by hondo68
Shutterstock We will immediately terminate President Obamas two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants, five million. And how about all the millions that are waiting on line, going through the process legally? So unfair. ~ Donald Trump, August 31, 2016 Today, we have unveiled a real scandal in the Trump administration. And no, it has nothing to do with James Comey. While much of the conservative media is consumed with Comey and Russia, they are missing the irony of defending an administration without even securing some key policy outcomes. The latest betrayal to the Right is the ...
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“We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters” Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Green Ocean Farming has the largest single macroalgae farm in the UK, we are also involved in macroalgae projects and farming in Canada, the Middle East, Africa, the South Atlantic, the East Indian Ocean as well as other parts of the UK.
We specialise in farming nutritious Seaweed (Sea Vegetables) on ropes and nets, Kelp forest restoration to help the environment, promoting seaweed and alternative aquaculture in the UK and around the world.
We aim to bring home grown seaweed into the spot light and to encourage it's consumption by mankind, as an alternative and healthier food option to animal and intense arable farming, at the same time helping the oceans thrive as the seaweeds grow. We are keen to establish and promote independent seaweed and alternative aquaculture farms around the coast to help increase awareness of seaweed and all its benefits to humans, the environment and animal health. Apart from a food source seaweed is a realistic alternative to man made nitrogen fertiliser, it makes a great bio stimulant and a soil improver in the form of seaweed biochar.
Seaweed is a tasty "vegetable" in it's own right but it can also be incorporated into the food chain either as a nutritious frozen vegetable to be used in the same way as say, cabbage, spinach or other greens, or it can be blanched and chipped, then added to foods such as bread, pies, pastas, potato cakes, curries and other ready meals or dishes. It is rich in minerals and iodine and is one of the healthiest foods on the planet.
You probably already use it every day, it's in your tooth paste, shampoo and even ice cream but now it's time to eat it as a daily staple.
The World Bank in 2016 stated “To maintain current consumption trends, the world will also need to produce 50–70 percent more food by 2050, increasingly under drought conditions and on poor soils.”
Seaweed farms can produce seventeen times the protein of a livestock farm with no fuel, no fertilizer, no freshwater and no land. Seaweed sequesters nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon, meaning seaweed farms are carbon negative. They improve the environment.
Apart from providing a healthy food source, by growing Seaweeds on lines we are creating habitat for other marine life, which in turn helps balance the marine Eco structure around our shores.
By growing Seaweeds for use as a food Green Ocean Farms seek to promote the health benefits of our Seaweeds, particularly it's anti cancer properties it benefits to diabetics and the iodine in the mineral rich green leaf.
The overwhelming benefits of seaweed are starting to gather pace amongst well-informed consumers. There is a heightened demand for seaweed in all its forms, with Global Market Insights predicting that the commercial seaweed market will exceed $87 billion by 2024.
Other interests: We are often asked about various seaweeds and uses and how to re introduce seaweeds to areas where it has stopped growing or disappeared or been destroyed by bad fishing practices. Because of this, we have started making artificial seaweed reefs to offer a food source and cover to marine life.
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We are committed to reducing carbon and acidity in the oceans and one of our larger projects is to bring nutrient rich colder waters from 100m - 200m to the surface through compressed air bubbles. to kick start the food chain in the ocean and in doing so, eventually reduce ocean temperature and acidity. If you are interested in helping us or funding us, we would love to hear from you.
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In most parts of Dodola district, you can see slow-moving oxen ploughing open stretches of farmland. But in one field, a red tractor is speedily tilling the soil ahead of the rainy season.
Dodola district is 300 kilometres south of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, and the tractor driver is Kamso Bame, a widowed mother of 12 and owner of two-and-a-half acres of land. The tractor saves her days of gruelling labour.
Mrs. Bame is among the more than 2,000 small-scale women farmers involved in a UN program to boost sustainable agricultural production and economically empower rural women through training and co-operatives.
After Mrs. Bame joined a women’s co-operative in her village of Wabi Burkitu, she received a loan of 7,000 Birr ($243 US), which she used to start a cart transport service. She uses her daily average income of 400 Birr ($14 US) to support her children, four of whom live independently. Her co-op membership also enables her to cultivate her land with a tractor owned by the co-operative.
She recalls: “Before the death of my husband, whenever the rainy season came, I remember him spending three to four days ploughing the family’s land with the pair of oxen we owned. Each day, he and the oxen used to come back home exhausted. Today, it is different, as I am privileged to farm the same land with a tractor and it takes a maximum of three hours.”
The co-operative uses the tractor to till their collectively-owned land as a team, as well as each member’s own land. The co-op also rents the tractor out to farmers in 26 villages across the district. Charging up to 1,500 Birr ($52 US) per hectare, the co-operative currently earns an average of more than 6,000 Birr ($208 US) per day from tractor rentals.
Tulule Knife is a 38-year-old member of a co-operative in the Adami Tullu district of Oromia region. She says that the training sessions she received have improved her yields and provided a livelihood for her family of nine.
She says, “My village is known for growing maize in traditional ways, which involves scattering seeds by hand all over the prepared land.” Last year, equipped with new sustainable farming techniques, she sowed wheat seeds, a rarity since wheat doesn’t yield enough with traditional planting methods.
She explains: “During last year’s planting season, I sowed 50 kg of improved wheat seeds using a better way of planting I learned from the training known as line sowing. I harvested 15 quintals [1,500 kg] of wheat and sold that to the community for 15,000 Birr ($520 US). With traditional planting, for the same amount of seeds and other inputs, there are times when the yield is not even a quarter of that.”
She says that some members of her community found it so unbelievable that they accused her of witchcraft. But the village administration acknowledged her publicly, awarding her a modern grain storage facility. Mrs. Knife now trains men and women farmers in these new agricultural techniques and has organized a self-help savings group with 20 members.
Letty Chiwara is the UN Women representative to Ethiopia. She says agricultural co-operatives—especially those established by women in rural areas—play a key role in enhancing productivity through sustainable farming practices.
She says: “Injecting basic labour- and time-saving technologies, along with the relevant knowledge, to smallholder women farmers’ co-operatives are critical elements in the sustainable escalation of the value chain in agriculture. This, in turn, results in quality of life improvements for women farmers and communities at large.”
Alima Bakuye chairs the co-operative in Adami Tullu district and says the impact of the program has been profound. She explains: “The support is a turning point in effectively empowering the women and in making it a norm that women are benefiting and owning assets equal to men. For example, children and youth in the community used to refer to assets owned by the family, such as livestock, as ‘my father’s sheep’ and ‘my father’s goats.’ Today, they are saying ‘my mother’s sheep,’ ‘my mother’s goats.’ This leads to a long-term change as it is impacting future generations.”
This story was adapted from an article titled, “Success stories from Africa – Women’s cooperatives in rural Ethiopia,” written by UN Women and published by City Press. To read the original article, go to: https://city-press.news24.com/News/success-stories-from-africa-womens-cooperatives-in-rural-ethiopia-20180809
First from right, Alima Bakuye with some of the members inside the women cooperatives newly established modern cattle-fattening facility through the support of the joint programme.Picture: UN Women/Fikerte Abebe


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Mako Vunipola thinks England's injury crisis gives younger players a great opportunity to prove themselves at the Six Nations.
Mako Vunipola says England’s injury crisis will offer a “great opportunity” for the younger players to prove themselves during the Six Nations.
England face missing up to 20 players due to injury for the opening game of their Six Nations defence against Italy on February 4, including Mike Brown, Henry Slade and Billy Vunipola.
But Vunipola insists the squad are unfazed by the lengthy list of absentees and thinks it could be a chance for those who would not normally be involved to show their worth to Eddie Jones.
“There’s a few new faces, but for us our focus is solely on Italy next week and, if anything, it’s a great opportunity for the people that come in to put their hand up,” Vunipola told Sky Sports News, when asked about the youthful look of the squad.
“It’s obviously tough losing players that’ve been involved and key players, but it’s part of the game and that’s how as a squad we grow.
“Hopefully we can challenge for the Six Nations but our main aim is to do as well as we can against Italy and hopefully go out their and show an improvement from the autumn series.”
Vunipola says his brother, Billy, who is out of the Six Nations with a fractured forearm, is hungry to get back to full fitness after being ruled out for 12 weeks.
“He’s eager to get back and work, he knows it’s part of the game,” Mako Vunipola added, when asked about his brother’s injury.
“He’s got good people around him and he’s recovering well. When you miss so much rugby you just want to get back out there and to do that he has to recover well and properly – he knows that now having learnt a few lessons from when he was younger.
“Like I said he’s got good people around him so when he needs a kick they’ll be there.”