According to reportd,the girl pictured below is a 10-year-old girl who lives with her uncle in Gonigora, Kaduna. She is out of school, malnourished, battered and last Sunday, her uncle's wife Mrs Remi Joseph allegedly burnt her buttocks with fire and abandoned her without treatment.
She was left unattended to until a spirited neighbor reported the case to the presenter of Oga landlord on Capital Sounds 90.9fm.The woman has been arrested and charged to court. We are appealing to d general public to come to her aid. She can't walk or sit.
On Thursday, President Donald J. Trump awarded the Public Safety Medal of Valor to David Bailey, Crystal Griner, Nicole Battaglia, Kevin Jobe, and Alexander Jensen at the Public Safety Medal of Valor Ceremony. These U.S. Capitol Police Agents and Alexandria Police Officers exhibited extraordinary courage above and beyond the call of duty, as the first responders to the Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field shooting on June 14, 2017.
While practicing for the annual congressional baseball game, a gunman opened fire on members of the Republican Congressional baseball team. Among the injured were Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise, U.S. Capitol Police Special Agents David Bailey and Crystal Griner, former Congressman Matt Mika, and Congressional aide Zachary Barth.
The Medal of Valor ceremony was held in the East Room of the White House. In addition to the Medal of Valor recipients, other guests included Congressman Scalise’s wife, Jennifer Scalise, MedStar Washington Hospital Center Director of Trauma Surgery, Dr. Jack Sava, and MedStar Washington Hospital Center Director of Orthopedic Trauma, Dr. Robert Golden. The President expressed deep gratitude for the impressive work of the first responders as well as prayers for the victims.
“The assault on June 14th reminded us that evil exists in this world. But it also reminded us that heroes walk in our midst, that love triumphs over tragedy, and that our resolve is stronger than ever,” President Trump stated.
The Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor is awarded to a public safety officer who has exhibited exceptional courage, extraordinary decisiveness, presence of mind, and unusual swiftness of action, regardless of his or her own personal safety, in the attempt to save or protect human life. President Trump is proud to honor the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to protect Americans.
Learn in Simple Steps, How To Easily Add The New Google AdSense In-Feed Ad Unit On Your Blogger BlogSpot Blog& Increase Your Earnings. Both beginners and advanced bloggers can get this setup done in few minutes.
Google has announced a new ad unit style which is the In-Feed ads unit. The new Ad unit is expected to bring Increase in publishers' earnings due to improved Ads functionality for the AdSense users.
The new ad unit should give you better clicks and improved revenue because it is optimized to show just like posts article with snippet and Call to Action word on your homepage and archive pages.
Above is an example of the AdSense In-Feed ad unit. As an update to Blogspot bloggers, I will be showing you how to enable the in-feed Google AdSense ad unit in blogger.
You are using the same code, which I used in "Add AdSense Ads Before,Between And After Posts In Blogger Blog," this gives you room to decide where you want the in-feed ad code to show.
Types of In-Feed Ads
Google AdSense also added type/structure of In-Feed ad units. This will bring in more similarity between your blog post layout & the ad code shown.
Image Above
This ad unit is specifically for those bloggers, whose post layout is of the grid style.
Image on the side
This is the post layout most blogs use. Free Naijaloaded blogger template is a good example.
Title Above
This is quite similar to Image on the side but this introduces a title at the top. A good example is Free OgbongeBlog blogger template
Test Only
Displays only test and no image. Use this if your post structure is of the list format.
In-Feed Ads Theme Selection.
Google also added this feature to increase the functionality of the new ads unit. Many bloggers today prefer to use the white background, while others prefer dark.
Light Background
If your blog has white or any other colour similar to white as the background colour, then you should select this option.
Dark background
If you use black or any other dark colour as the background colour of your blog, you should choose this ad.
P.S it all depends on you, you could have a dark background and decide to use a light background ads.
Advantages of In-Feed Ad Unit
The new Google Ad unit comes with advantages for its publishers. This unit might just be one of the best thus far with its ability to blend to the layout of your existing template.
Many bloggers have enabled it and I guess this is because of the advantages listed below.
Increased ad unit click
Better AdSense earnings
Ad units are properly optimized
Provides an alternative to banner ads
There are other advantages of this new ad unit. Hopefully, bloggers should be getting a decent amount of money monthly.
How to create In-feed ad unit in Adsense dashboard
Go to Ad Units >> New Ad Unit.
Under the "What type of would you like to create", select "In-Feed ads".
Next is to choose the style at which your posts are being displayed on your homepage - Image above, Image on the side, Title above, Test only. This is to make sure the ad unit looks similar to your post layout. So choose the one similar to your post style.
Select the colour form of the Ad unit. If your site uses a dark colour as background choose the dark background and if you use white or anything similar, choose LightBackground.
Save (I'm done) your In-Feed Ad Code and Copy Code snippet.
How to add In-feed ad unit to Blogger Blogspot
Go to blogger.com >> Theme >> Back Up your theme >> Edit HTML.
Search for <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>(you will see this code more than once, you are to replace only the one under <b:includable id='main' var='top'>) replace this code with <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post' index='x'>.
Search for <div class='post-outer'> (still under <b:includable id='main' var='top'>) and replace with the long code below.
Replace YOUR IN-FEED ADSENSE CODE with the In-Feed AdSense code you copied earlier. If it gives you an error, parse your code here.
Rounding Up
Making money using Google AdSense is getting easier day by day. Though they implement harsh policies on their publishers, they still stand out to be the best Affiliate program for bloggers.
If you have not been approved by Google AdSense you could give it's top alternative media.net a try. A little advice for publishers is not to use too many of this ad unit.
Having at most 2 In-Feed ad units should boost up your revenue without you unnecessarily spamming your audience with too many ads.
* [Psalm 137] A singer refuses to sing the people's sacred songs in an alien land despite demands from Babylonian captors (Ps 137:1–4). The singer swears an oath by what is most dear to a musician—hands and tongue—to exalt Jerusalem always (Ps 137:5–6). The Psalm ends with a prayer that the old enemies of Jerusalem, Edom and Babylon, be destroyed (Ps 137:7–9).
Security researchers at Google have discovered a new family of deceptive Android spyware that can steal a whole lot of information on users, including text messages, emails, voice calls, photos, location data, and other files, and spy on them.
Dubbed Lipizzan, the Android spyware appears to be developed by Equus Technologies, an Israeli startup that Google referred to as a 'cyber arms' seller in a blog post published Wednesday.
With the help of Google Play Protect, the Android security team has found Lipizzan spyware on at least 20 apps in Play Store, which infected fewer than 100 Android smartphones in total.
Google has quickly blocked and removed all of those Lipizzan apps and the developers from its Android ecosystem, and Google Play Protect has notified all affected victims.
For those unaware, Google Play Protect is part of the Google Play Store app and uses machine learning and app usage analysis to weed out the dangerous and malicious apps.
Lipizzan: Sophisticated Multi-Stage Spyware
According to the Google, Lipizzan is a sophisticated multi-stage spyware tool that gains full access to a target Android device in two steps.
In the first stage, attackers distribute Lipizzan by typically impersonating it as an innocuous-looking legitimate app such as "Backup" or "Cleaner" through various Android app stores, including the official Play store.
Once installed, Lipizzan automatically downloads the second stage, which is a "license verification" to survey the infected device to ensure the device is unable to detect the second stage.
After completing the verification, the second stage malware would root the infected device with known Android exploits. Once rooted, the spyware starts exfiltrating device data and sending it back to a remote Command and Control server controlled by the attackers.
Lipizzan Also Gathers Data from Other Popular Apps
The spyware has the ability to monitor and steal victim's email, SMS messages, screenshots, photos, voice calls, contacts, application-specific data, location and device information.
Lipizzan can also gather data from specific apps, undermining their encryption, which includes WhatsApp, Snapchat, Viber, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn, Gmail, Skype, Hangouts, and KakaoTalk.
There's very few information about Equus Technologies (which is believed to have been behind Lipizzan) available on the Internet. The description of the company's LinkedIn account reads:
"Equus Technologies is a privately held company specialising in the development of tailor made innovative solutions for law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and national security organisations."
Earlier this year, Google found and blocked a dangerous Android spyware, called Chrysaor, allegedly developed by NSO Group, which was being used in targeted attacks against activists and journalists in Israel, Georgia, Turkey, Mexico, the UAE and other countries.
NSO Group Technologies is the same Israeli surveillance firm that built the Pegasus iOS spyware initially detected in targeted attacks against human rights activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last year.
How to Protect your Android device from Hackers?
Android users are strongly recommended to follow these simple steps in order to protect themselves:
Ensure that you have already opted into Google Play Protect.
Download and install apps only from the official Play Store.
Enable 'verify apps' feature from settings.
Protect their devices with pin or password lock.
Keep "unknown sources" disabled while not using it.
Keep your device always up-to-date with the latest security patches.
By Swati Khandelwal
Technical Writer, Security Blogger and IT Analyst. She is a Technology Enthusiast with a keen eye on the Cyberspace and other tech related developments.
A computerized maintenance management system or CMMS as it is shortly called will be able to reduce maintenance costs which include labor and parts. CMMS makes use of predictive maintenance in order to minimize capital expenditures on important equipment due to wear and tear. If the CMMS solutions aren’t integrated properly, they become an added burden to the maintenance personnel. Let’s look at how we can successfully integrate CMMS in an organization.
The Selection process
Price shouldn’t be the only selection criteria for your CMMS system. Your selection criteria should look at required functionality like, runtime based predictive maintenance, industry standard reporting systems, and basic document management.
Select a CMMS systems (this is an example for a good CMMS system) based on existing resources and not over reach as it may end up hurting you more than you can imagine. You should think about the maintenance factor of the CMMS system itself. Do you need special personnel for it or will your CMMS vendor take care of it? Is the CMMS tool platform agnostic? Will the maintenance schedule of other software affect it? If you are using SAP or other similar ERP or MRP systems, will your CMMS vendor keep up with those changes so that the links between your CMMS and other business systems aren’t broken?
Planning
You’ve to Plan the implementation of the CMMS system ahead to reduce the burden on your maintenance team. Plan ahead so that the implementation process doesn’t affect operations. If you are bringing in resource personnel or providing overtime so that your maintenance team can learn how to use the CMMS tool without compromising ongoing production schedules.
Make sure that CMMS works as required in different use case scenarios. For example, a CMMS that asks to order a “table fan” or “fan serial number 4321” can lead to varied results when your purchasing department is confused. The problem will be multiplied when the CMMS system doesn’t give clear information on part numbers, serial numbers, cage codes and vendor names to your purchasing department. Make sure that the information in the CMMS system and your ERP/MRP system matches. Assign a person for taking care of this process.
One person will have to do routine data entry into the CMMS. Plan the workflow effectively to eliminate confusion. Do you want each personnel to enter their own completed work orders, or will someone else in dispatch take care of the data entry? Who will run reports for management? Who will review breakdown history from time to time and decide replacement schedules?
Integrate It Into Your Workflow
Using a CMMS system should be seamless. For example, it should be standard procedure to check CMMS before assigning work and logging of parts used in a task. CMMS shouldn’t be a standalone component but a part of the existing workflow, otherwise the CMMS system will be a drag on the produxtivity and reduce efficiency.
Slowly take paper based systems out of the equation and use only CMMS systems for labor scheduling process as well. Think about how new user manuals and repair guides will be uploaded to the CMMS system as and when new equipment are bought..
Training Procedure
Softwares are supposed to make your work easy and not the other way around. Your staff needs to learn the basic transactions with a CMMS like logging when they start and complete repairs and parts used. They should learn to report abnormalities, input user notes and creates repair requests. Learning how to bring up reference documents and old notes can be useful as well.
Staff should be able to re-assign work when they don’t complete tasks on time. Make use of industry standard failure codes and use them for record keeping. This will lead to diligent record keeping and proper documentation. Training for managers is as crucial as training for industry personnel.
Integration with existing MRP/ERP Software
For optimum benefits, a CMMS system should be integrated into your existing material requirements planning (MRP) / enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This will make sure that your CMMS system processes a planned maintenance schedule and make sure that the parts and supplies required for the maintenance are available in the inventory and produce a purchase request for additional supplies in order for them to arrive in time.This kind of seamless connect will reduce the burden on your maintenance staff.
Conclusion
Choosing a CMMS solution that fulfills all your requirements from day one and syncs well with your existing infrastructure is crucial. Think about how you can implement the software, its integration as well as its lifecycle. Make sure you provide necessary training to the concerned individuals. Do drop in comments if you have any doubts and we’ll be happy to clarify it for you
There have been many strange and unexpected weeks since Donald Trump became president in January, but none has matched the past seven days for human drama, political dysfunction and sheer pinch-yourself-is-this-really-happening news bombshells.
What last week demonstrated was that American politics has become a giant cauldron of froth and fury, with a government that is struggling to function and a political system in disarray.
As Washington flounders, the distance between the White House and the Republican Party establishment grows wider by the day.
By the time chief of staff Reince Priebus was apparently fired via tweet on Friday afternoon, to be replaced with the former Marine Corps general John Kelly, Americans felt they were binge-watching a box set of history, skipping through months of plot twists in a matter of hours.
Every political writer in America is searching for the right historical or pop culture reference to describe the current moment. The new season of Game of Thrones seems too tame. When Donald Trump Jr takes the stage, it is The Godfather that is raised, with the gormless son resembling Fredo Corleone’s hapless attempts to please his mafia don father and take on the family business
Historical events such as the Watergate scandal and even the fall of the Roman empire seem to be echoed at every step.
But in truth none of these analogies quite holds up. Washington last week was its very own reality TV show, a febrile combination of The Apprentice, The Hunger Games and the political satire Veep.
On Monday Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, testified to the Senate intelligence committee, denying collusion with Russia. Trump Jr, his eldest son, and Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager, met the Senate judiciary committee behind closed doors.
Meanwhile, Congress managed to pass a bill, infuriating Vladimir Putin by slapping new sanctions on Russia and restricting the president’s ability to weaken them. Despite his professed opposition, Trump has signed this bill, backed into a corner over Russia because of suspicions about collusion during the US election campaign.
But for once Russia, the running sore of this administration, was not the main story. Instead the psychodrama inside the West Wing took centre stage.
The entry of Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director set an already smouldering arena fully alight. “The Mooch”, who has been compared to Mini Me from the Austin Powers films because of his uncanny ability to channel Trump, declared open war on Priebus from day one.
He came at the new job hard, as if to make up for the six months he was delayed by his original appointment being blocked.
“Reince is a f****** paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci declared in a bizarre and foul-mouthed magazine interview with The New Yorker. He has reportedly drawn up a list of White House leakers - which if comprehensive would surely include the entire senior staff - and warned that “the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks”.
The sharp-talking New York hedge funder proved himself capable of biblical foresight when he declared that he and Priebus were “like Cain and Abel”. Priebus was whacked a few days later, with Kelly being brought into the job from his role as secretary of homeland security, further satisfying Trump’s penchant for highly decorated generals.
Along the way Kelly said he “won’t suffer idiots and fools” and Scaramucci lost his wife, Deirdre Ball, who filed for divorce last week. According to the New York Post she finds Washington “insane” and is tired of his naked ambition.
Priebus now has the unwanted accolade of having the shortest tenure as chief of staff. His exit follows that of press secretary Sean Spicer and severs another key link between the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.
Trump is less and less constrained by the ideology and aspirations of the party that he still nominally leads. He also spent much of last week publicly humiliating his attorney-general, Jeff Sessions, one of his earliest and most prominent Republican supporters, whom he described as “beleaguered” and “weak”.
Trump should be cautious, though; it is the Republican Party that stands between him and impeachment proceedings. Yet as well as embarrassing party figures, he is also failing to help them with the one thing they really want: passing some meaningful legislation.
For last week also saw the collapse of the party’s seven-year attempt to repeal Obamacare. In a dramatic late-night session on Thursday, Republicans tried to ram through a “skinny repeal” of the controversial healthcare bill, giving Democrats just two hours to see it before the vote, a ploy that the Democratic senator Chris Murphy described as “nuclear-grade bonkers”.
Outside the Senate a crowd of angry protesters gathered. Inside, beds were wheeled in for senators to rest between negotiations and cheeseburgers were ordered.
The Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell pulled out every procedural trick and arm-twist in his vast arsenal, but three Republican senators defied their party to kill the bill. Most notably John McCain, reeling from a diagnosis of brain cancer and newly arrived from his hospital bed in Phoenix, Arizona, made a late entry.
“Watch the show,” the maverick war hero said tantalisingly to a colleague as he made his way into the chamber. He proceeded to deliver a fatal thumbs-down to the bill, causing gasps and applause from Democrats across the aisle.
The Republicans will have to start again on their pet project, but many feel that passing complex legislation is near-impossible amid the flurry of distractions and rancour emanating from the Oval Office.
Alongside all this, Trump still found the time to declare that he was banning transgender servicemen and women from the military, without gaining full Pentagon agreement. He also encouraged police to use violence while arresting criminals and thanked a large crowd of underage Boy Scouts in West Virginia for their vote while regaling them with tales of “hot” New York cocktail parties.
With Congress having begun its summer recess on Friday, Trump and the Republicans have now failed to achieve anything on healthcare, infrastructure, the debt ceiling or tax reform.
Congressional Republicans now face a choice: whether to try again on healthcare or move on to tax reform. But with a divided party increasingly alienated from and frustrated with the White House, passing any key laws is likely to prove challenging.
This week the White House’s agenda is expected to shift its focus back onto North Korea, which on Friday again tested a ballistic missile.
The president’s strategy in this area is not entirely clear, but his willingness to engage could make for more hair-raising headlines. For in the field of foreign policy and sabre-rattling, Trump finds himself far less restricted.
If all this really were the plot of a television show, critics would say it was unfeasible. Perhaps only Shakespeare could have described Washington over the past week. “Hell is empty,” he wrote in The Tempest. “And all the devils are here.”
