If a column in honor of heart health suggests a can of Coke as a snack, you might want to read the fine print.

The world's biggest beverage maker is working with fitness and nutrition experts who suggest its cola as a healthy treat. In February, for instance, several wrote online pieces for American Heart Month, with each including a mini-can of Coke or small soda as a snack idea.

The mentions — which appeared on nutrition blogs and other sites including those of major newspapers — show the many ways food companies work behind the scenes to cast their products in a positive light, often with the help of third parties who are seen as trusted authorities.

Ben Sheidler, a Coca-Cola spokesman, compared the February posts to product placement deals a company might have with TV shows.

"We have a network of dietitians we work with," said Sheidler, who declined to say how much the company pays experts. "Every big brand works with bloggers or has paid talent."

Other companies including Kellogg and General Mills have used strategies like providing continuing education classes for dietitians, funding studies that burnish the nutritional images of their products and offering newsletters for health experts. PepsiCo Inc. has also worked with dietitians who suggest its Frito-Lay and Tostito chips in local TV segments on healthy eating. Others use nutrition experts in sponsored content; the American Pistachio Growers has quoted a dietitian for the New England Patriots in a piece on healthy snacks and recipes and Nestle has quoted its own executive in a post about infant nutrition.

For Coca-Cola Co., the public relations strategy with health experts in February focused on the theme of "Heart Health & Black History Month." The effort yielded a radio segment and multiple online pieces.

One post refers to a "refreshing beverage option such as a mini can of Coca-Cola." Another suggests "portion-controlled versions of your favorites, like Coca-Cola mini cans, packs of almonds or pre-portioned desserts for a meal."

The focus on the smaller cans isn't surprising. Sugary drinks have come under fire for fueling obesity rates and related ills, and the last time Coke's annual U.S. soda volume rose was in 2002, according to the industry tracker Beverage Digest. More recently, the company is pushing its mini-cans as a guilt-free way to enjoy cola. The cans also fetch higher prices on a per ounce basis, so even if people are drinking less soda, Coke says it can grow sales.

In a statement, Coca-Cola said it wants to "help people make decisions that are right for them" and that like others in the industry, it works with health experts "to help bring context to the latest facts and science around our products and ingredients." It said any communications by the experts it works with contain the appropriate disclosures.

Most of the pieces suggesting mini-Cokes say in the bios that the author is a "consultant" for food companies, including Coca-Cola. Some add that the ideas expressed are their own. One column is marked at the bottom as a "sponsored article," which is an ad designed to look like a regular story. It ran on more than 1,000 sites, including those of major news outlets around the country. The other posts were not marked as sponsored content, but follow a similar format.

Kelly McBride, who teaches media ethics at The Poynter Institute, said the phrasing of the disclosure that the author is a "consultant" for food companies, including Coca-Cola, doesn't make it clear the author was specifically paid by Coke for the column.

"This is an example of opaque sponsored content," McBride said.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a professional group for dietitians, says in its code of ethics that practitioners promote and endorse products "only in a manner that is not false and misleading." A spokesman for the academy did not respond when asked if the posts on mini-Cokes meet those guidelines.

Meanwhile, a group called Dietitians for Professional Integrity has called for sharper lines to be drawn between dietitians and companies. Andy Bellatti, one of its founders, said companies court dietitians because they help validate corporate messages.

The message that Coke can be a healthy snack is debatable. Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University and a member of the nutrition committee at the American Heart Association, said a smaller can of soda might be a "move in the right direction" for someone who regularly drinks soda. Still, she wouldn't recommend soda as a snack.

The health experts who wrote the pieces mentioning Coke stand by their recommendations.

Robyn Flipse, the dietitian who wrote the sponsored article for Coke, said she would suggest mini-cans of Coke even if she wasn't being paid. Although she doesn't drink soda herself, she said the smaller cans are a way for people who like soda to enjoy it sensibly.

"I absolutely think that I provided valuable information," she said.

Flipse said the idea to mention mini-cans of Coke in the post was hers and came about after a public relations agency for Coke suggested a piece on heart health and asked what she might "work in."

Flipse has worked with Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association for years; her roles have included sending out messages on social media refuting the idea that sugary drinks are to blame for obesity and making herself available as an expert for news outlets. If a story says something negative about artificial sweeteners, Flipse said she might contact the PR agency and ask, "Do you want me to do something about that?"

Sylvia Melendez-Klinger, a dietitian who wrote another piece mentioning mini- cans of soda, said it's important that health professionals share their expertise with companies and that her work reflects her own views.

She said she could not recall if she was paid for her article mentioning mini-sodas.

British Prince Harry extends his Nepal stay

Visiting British Prince Harry has decided to extend his stay in Nepal for six more days. He was scheduled to leave Nepal on Thursday.

In his speech before wrapping up his official tour of Nepal, Prince Harry announced he'll be staying in the country for the next week to work on an earthquake relief project. "The people I have met and the beauty of this country make it very hard to leave. Thankfully however, I'm not leaving just yet," he said in his speech.

"I really hope that everyone who took an interest in the tour can see Nepal is a country you really have to come and visit," the British Prince said in a twitter post of Kensington Palace. "But most of all you have to come to meet the Nepali people. I've rarely in my life felt so welcomed as I have over the last few days."

"You have to come and see world heritage sites like Patan Durbar Square and be inspired by Nepal's history. You have to come to see beautiful Bardia National Park. The work there is an example of how the conservation battle can be won," said the British Prince during a programme at British Embassy in Kathmandu.

Prince Harry will be spending the next 6 days with Team Rubicon UK working with the community to rebuild a school damaged by the earthquake. He will camp with a group of volunteers in a remote village in Central Nepal.

Neither an inevitable death nor a bed-ridden physical state seems to able to keep a genuine politician from being active in politics until the last breath. Nepali Congress president and former prime minister Sushil Koirala, who died at his residence in Kathmandu at the age of 79 early Tuesday, watched the news on television and shared his political concerns about the world and Nepal with his aides as he fought with pneumonia and asthma in a losing battle. Koirala had demonstrated the will needed to beat his lung cancer. Now, sharing his last words with his personal assistant and private doctor, he gave up: "I got it." In the old and new media, the world remembered Koirala for his simple outlook and sheer political determination to work for the nation and people. The party halted its ongoing 13th convention programmes to elect its new leadership. The 12th convention had elected Koirala, who earlier served in the posts of party's general secretary and central leader, as the NC chief.

A downright politician, Sushil Koirala stood out among Nepal's prime ministers for making a promise and keeping it. Koirala's election plank during the Constituent Assembly (CA) election of 2013 was promulgating the post-monarchy Nepal's first constitution in a year. His promise earned him voters, and he was elected to the CA from a constituency each of Banke and Chitwan. As the chief of the largest party in the CA and parliament, Koirala then became the prime minister of a coalition government and helped the CA cobble together the new constitution and issue it before it would be too late. The first CA, elected in 2008 with the main mandate to give the peace process a logical conclusion by promulgating the new constitution of Nepal, had failed to fulfill its mandate despite extending its own tenure for four years.

In Koirala's death, the nation has lost a true democrat from the breed of Nepali politicians who had participated in the country's democratic movement to oust the Rana oligarchs, served jail terms and exiles for upholding contrary political views during the party-less monarchical system and chose to live a simple life without showing any craving as such for physical property, such as a house, land and car, or getting married to establish a family, for that matter. Starting from his childhood dream of becoming an actor, Sushil Koirala, who joined politics early on by drawing inspirations from the NC's ideals of nationality, democracy and socialism, lived a life full of twists and turns that eventually made him a hero, who led Nepal's peace process to a logical conclusion in the Federal Loktantrik Republic of Nepal, placing him somewhere down the Koirala-clan line linking late BP Koirala and GP Koirala. Until his demise, Sushil Koirala worked for a politics that aimed at making Nepal peaceful and prosperous. His absence will be conspicuous in the party as well as in the nation. As the nation and the world remember leader Sushil Koirala, the onus lies with his top brass party colleagues to take good care of the party and make it work towards fulfilling late Koirala's political dream.

Aditya is different than the normal child of his age. Media has named him Google Boy as he seems to know every answer. Some says , he is more than a Google boy. Something miraculous is going on within him which is able to explain by science until this time. For a kid that has never been to school, Aditya knows the answer for everything.
He acquired basic ABCD on his own but within a short period of time him and his parents realized that he had an extraordinary ability to store information in his brain. He remembers the name and occupation of everyone he meets , meaning of every words.

About Aditya Dahal (Nepali Google Boy)
According to news published on Sagarmatha Television & Image Television Nepal. Today Special show is focused on the four years old little boy Aditya Dahal from Chabahil, Kathmandu. He is also known as Nepali Google Boy. Aditya is different than the normal child of his age.
Video source : Sagarmatha/ Image Channel TV

Aditya was a normal baby till he was two and a half. Then, he lost his ability of normal speech and movement.

1. Due to his disability, his parents never thought of admitting him into school as he can neither talk nor even sit without help from others.

2. About two months back, the parents found that he could write though no one in the family had taught him how to read or write.

writes flawless Nepali but it does take him a lot of time to write a single word.

4. He answers almost all the questions a four year old boy would not be able to understand. (Examples are given below)

5. He has knowledge of other languages (Korean …).

6. Under the curiosity of interviewers from Nepali news channels, he’s predicted things. (Scripted below)

Here’s the video with English subtitles where he demonstrates his super-normal ability.

Biratnagar, Oct 7: UCPN (Maoist) Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has stressed on forming a national unity government, citing the situation where the country is reeling under the critical condition.

Speaking with the journalists at Biratnagar Airport today morning, Chairperson Prachanda argued that it would be unfortunate for the country if the three major political parties were not to forge a unity in line with the 16-point agreement.

Leader Prachanda, also former Prime Minister, pressed for the earliest resolution of the standoff surfaced among the disgruntled Madhesi, Tharu and various nationalities leaders who have been waging agitation in protest of the newly promulgated constitution.

Stating that the talks with them was moving ahead in a positive manner, he also expressed his confidence that the import of essential goods, including petrol from India would ease at the earliest as the talks, as he shared, at political level with Indian side were being held.

Asserting that the transit right to the landlocked country like Nepal was inalienable, the former prime minister furthermore informed that the government was effortful to import essential goods from other countries via air and land route for the time being.

Asked who would be the next Prime Minister in the consensus government, the chief of the third largest party remarked that the selection would be based on consensus.

He was of the opinion that the unannounced border blockade imposed by India on Nepal had further fostered the unity among the three major political parties.

News in Detail
Prime Minister and Former Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi cut short a television interview after he was repeatedly asked questions about the post-Godhra riots in 2002. Modi terminated the interview to CNN-IBN’s Devil’s Advocate program midway when questioner Karan Thapar asked if he had any regrets about the Gujarat riots and also about his image as an anti-Muslim. Modi first asked for water, then removed the microphone from his shirt and told Thapar that he cannot continue the interview. "The friendship should continue. You came here. I am happy and thankful to you. These are your ideas, you go on expressing these. I can’t do this interview. Three-four questions I have already enjoyed. No more please," he said, abruptly ending the interview. He seemed very nervous and he could not talk nicely. We could clearly see him uttering while talking. He was not even talk nicely and at last he quite the interview when he didn’t know how to answer in English.

A world first for ACCA and the University of London: MSc in Professional Accountancy
Category: Pakistan Published on Friday, 31 July 2015 08:45 Written by Aoun Muhammad
Accountancy students will be at the forefront of ground-breaking change by studying for the world’s first integrated Masters degree programme with the University of London at the same time as taking their professional qualification with the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

Taking both qualifications at the same time has been made possible through a unique partnership between the University of London and ACCA, which is the first truly integrated Masters programme with an accountancy body at professional level.  Both organisations subscribe to the access agenda and operate in 180 countries across the globe.
The design of the Masters degree in Professional Accountancy has been customised with two pathways for both ACCA students and its Members/Affiliates, wishing to get ahead in their career.

For current students, the first three essential ACCA professional papers will be credited by the University of London for its Masters degree and at this point they become eligible to register for the degree with the University.  In order to successfully pass the Masters degree, students will be required to complete two professional modules, which offer synergy between the University of London and the ACCA examination papers, as well as completing a strategic financial project.

ACCA Members and Affiliates, who will have already completed their ACCA professional qualification, will also be eligible to register for the Masters programme. They will be required to complete two modules, namely global issues for the finance professional and a strategic financial project, to complete the award.

The University of London Masters award will be delivered through the University of London International Programmes, with programme direction being provided by UCL’s world class faculty in the Department of Management Science and Innovation. 

For current ACCA students, the Masters programme will start during the first week in January 2016 and for Members/Affiliates the scheduled start date is July 2016.

Nepali Google Boy News Report With Photo