The moves, in the wake of a mass shooting that killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., follow decisions this week by rental vehicle companies Hertz , Enterprise and Avis Budget to end their NRA discounts . HotelPlanner.com, unmoved by the controversy, said it would stick by the NRA. And the gun lobbying group, which is funded largely by its own members, is unlikely to be moved by snubs from companies with which it had only loose and peripheral ties.
Wales almost benefited from a rare off day for Ireland's Jonathan Sexton, as the usually reliable kicker missed two penalties and a pair of conversion attempts. They earned another penalty and this time Sexton nailed it, his first of four kicks, to make the score 13-8. Leavy was another who popped up all over the pitch, offering himself as a carrier and making telling tackles - he topped Ireland's tackle charts with 12 while Farrell was second with eight.
Nearby residents Lizzie Varda, 16, and her mother Kathy Varda take part in a vigil led by the Junior Newtown Action Alliance to mourn students and teachers lost in a mass shooting in Florida's Stoneman Douglas High School in Newtown, CT, US February 23, FLORIDA, Feb 24 ― In the week since 17 of David Hogg's classmates and teachers were gunned down in Florida, he and his fellow high schoolers have launched a movement that reshaped the gun control debate nearly overnight and may influence the ...
Duterte spokesman Harry Roque said in a statement that Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea summoned Mr Kim over the report, which has drawn sharp criticism from the President's camp. On the Philippine leader, it cited Duterte's pronouncement that "he could suspend the Constitution, declare a "revolutionary government", and impose nationwide martial law".
Capital Analysts LLC now owns 17,189 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $1,170,000 after buying an additional 15,695 shares during the period. The Quebec - Canada-based Presima Inc. has invested 10.76% in the stock. The 16 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Brixmor Property Group Inc have a median target of 19.75, with a high estimate of 23.00 and a low estimate of 17.00.
The Munich-based group is in "advanced discussions" aimed at "a new joint venture in China", it said in a statement , adding that the two firms had signed a so-called letter of intent about the project. BMW Group als announced that it will further expand its joint venture in China with Brilliance. A key element of the brand's continued strategic development will be local production of future battery-electric MINI vehicles in the world's largest market for electromobility.
Quarterly operating profit for the Omaha , Nebraska-based conglomerate fell 24 percent to $3.34 billion from $4.38 billion. So Berkshire held almost $116 billion in cash and short-term bonds at year end. "Each has been with Berkshire for decades, and Berkshire's blood flows through their veins". Warren Buffett on Saturday said he needs to make "one or more huge acquisitions" to increase Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKa.N earnings, but admitted that finding a deal at "a sensible purchase ...
In the case of Ferrari, the team's engineers lengthened the wheelbase of the vehicle and tweaked the side dimensions to work with a new cooling system. Since November, the 33-year-old has been surfing in California and snowboarding in Japan as well as hanging out with friends and family on both sides of the Atlantic.
Business Insider reported , though, that Wyndham ended its discount program for NRA members late previous year. A partnership between the NRA and Hertz and advertised on the association's website has been removed. On Tuesday, ThinkProgress, a liberal-leaning think tank, published a list of some two dozen "corporate partners" that offer incentives to NRA members.
Earlier this month, the Commerce Department recommended imposing heavy tariffs or quotas on foreign producers of steel and aluminum in the interest of national security, following a trade investigation of imports. "As with every decision he makes, the security of the American people and the American economy will be the president's primary concerns while he considers his potential options", he said.
Synovus Financial Corp now owns 1,281 shares of the restaurant operator's stock valued at $241,000 after buying an additional 246 shares during the last quarter. Oregon Employees Retirement Fund holds 0.08% or 23,456 shares in its portfolio. Wellington Shields Cap Management holds 286,252 shares or 0.92% of its portfolio.
When we secure her future, we secure future of the entire home", he further added. He said, "When there was a Congress-led Government at the Centre, Tamil Nadu had received Rs 81,000 crore under the 13th Finance Commission. At the event, Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami urged the prime minister to set up the Cauvery Management Board. He said this scheme too would be the forerunner for other state governments, like other previous initiatives.
He alleges the attacker shouted the abuse at him before grabbing his head covering, despite the fact he is a Sikh and therefore not a Muslim. Notably, Rajwant Singh is spearheading the National Sikh Campaign in the United States to bring awareness among fellow Americans about the distinct identity of Sikhs and their turbans.
Choksi, in a communication to over 3,500 employees, said it would be "very tough" to clear dues of his employees or pay future salaries, as investigative agencies had seized his bank accounts and other properties, adding that the manner of investigation was starting to create havoc, and were hell bent on stopping the operations.
It has underperformed by 5.52% the S&P500. Permit Capital Llc increased its stake in Viacom Inc New (VIAB) by 137.63% based on its latest 2017Q3 regulatory filing with the SEC. Macquarie Infrastructure has a 1 year low of $37.03 and a 1 year high of $81.74. Therefore 78% are positive. Finally, Brookstone Capital Management raised its position in Macquarie Infrastructure by 22.8% during the third quarter.
The company earned $76.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $68.55 million. The stock decreased 0.10% or $0.02 during the last trading session, reaching $19.88. The rating was upgraded by HSBC to "Hold" on Wednesday, November 2. Among 14 analysts covering Ritchie Bros. ValuEngine lowered shares of Rice Midstream Partners from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Sunday, December 31st.
Staley Capital Advisers Inc who had been investing in Coca Cola Co for a number of months, seems to be less bullish one the $186.92 billion market cap company. RBC Capital Markets has "Sector Perform" rating and $49 target. Keefe Bruyette & Woods has "Market Perform" rating and $37 target. Canaccord Genuity maintained the shares of NFLX in report on Thursday, June 15 with "Buy" rating .
Lastly, Rubio showed up for the CNN town hall knowing there would be a heated debate on guns and he'd likely get booed often. Incredibly, Rubio's insistence on clinging to the gun lobby came even as he expressed cautious support for legislation that would limit the availability of large-capacity magazines and raise the legal age to buy a rifle, which are policies that the NRA would sooner secede from these United States and establish the Affiliated Territories of Gunlandia than ...
The ruling, which could affect the resale value of as many as 15 million cars in what is Europe's biggest vehicle market, is now set for 27 February. On Thursday, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig will assess earlier verdicts from courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf which favored removing older diesel vehicles on the ground of the risk their nitrogen oxide emissions pose to citizens' health.
Accenture Plc Ireland now has $98.86 billion valuation. The closing price represents the final price that a stock is traded for on a trading day. KKR & Co. Therefore 100% are positive. Healthcare Realty Trust had 46 analyst reports since August 6, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Investors of record on Monday, February 12th were paid a $0.05 dividend.
The counter witnessed a trading volume of 4.86 million shares versus an average volume of 2.32 million shares during last trading session. Looking at the stock's movement on the chart, Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (NASDAQ:FOX) for 332,041 shares. 12,529 are owned by Veritable Limited Partnership. Emory University has 59,251 shares. Private Advisor Group LLC grew its holdings in Twenty-First Century Fox by 19.0% during the third quarter.
BP (NYSE:BP) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February 6th. It has underperformed by 15.45% the S&P500. Samuel Isaly decreased its stake in Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc (ALXN) by 5.84% based on its latest 2017Q3 regulatory filing with the SEC.
There are nine Cinemark theaters in Colorado: Aurora, Boulder, two in Colorado Springs, two in Fort Collins, Greeley, Lakewood and Pueblo. The chain has announced that bags or packages larger than 12x12x6 inches will not be permitted inside theaters, beginning February 22.
The same blog post announces a whole bunch of new donors from differing fields, including Valve's Gabe Newell, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn and Olympians Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton. In 2014, Musk also said that artificial intelligence his the biggest existential threat to humanity. He has also been vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence-even describing AI as "the greatest risk we face as a civilization" while engaging in a war of words with Facebook CEO ...
Want to see what other hedge funds are holding RY? Cypress Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Royal Bank of Canada in the fourth quarter valued at $204,000. The stock has "Sector Perform" rating by RBC Capital Markets on Friday, May 26. The company has market cap of $148.07 billion. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 0.90 and a quick ratio of 0.90.
The deal was funded "largely" by two anonymous donors and includes Gothamist's archives, domain name and social media assets. "That resonates with us at WNYC, where we are committed to telling stories rooted in NY and that matter to New Yorkers".
Trillium Asset Management Llc who had been investing in Nxp Semiconductors N V for a number of months, seems to be less bullish one the $43.19 billion market cap company. The company was maintained on Monday, January 25 by Credit Suisse. On Thursday, August 3 the stock rating was maintained by Drexel Hamilton with "Hold".
THE BACKDROP From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Netanyahu, while prime minister, also personally managed the communications ministry. Police have recommended indicting Netanyahu over accepting almost $300,000 in gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer.
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The rupee on Wednesday had claimed some of its lost ground to end higher by 3 paise at 64.76 against the U.S. dollar. Global currency and financial markets heaved a sigh of relief after a Fed official said in an interview that raising interest rates too quickly could slow the economy too much.
Encompass Capital Advisors Llc who had been investing in Gulfport Energy Corp for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $1.82 billion market cap company. The rating was maintained by SunTrust on Monday, February 5 with "Hold". RBC Capital Markets has "Outperform" rating and $34 target. (NYSE:PFE) on Wednesday, November 2 to "Market Perform" rating.
It has a market cap of $252.64 Million. The hedge fund run by Robert Jaffe held 1.89M shares of the department and specialty retail stores company at the end of 2017Q3, valued at $13.77 million, up from 1.56M at the end of the previous reported quarter.
The refugees had been there since Tuesday after traveling around 15 km (10 miles) from the refugee camp in Kiziba to the United Nations office in Karongi, western Rwanda , to demonstrate against the 25 percent cut in food provided by the United Nations refugee agency.
The Nebraska-based Ameritas Invest Prtn Incorporated has invested 0% in Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:PEI). Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ARE? The stock increased 3.36% or $0.34 during the last trading session, reaching $10.47.
The data from the past twelve months tells a similar story: insiders executed 2 buys, and ownership increased by a net of 13550 shares. Farmer Bros. Co. After $0.84 actual earnings per share reported by BB&T Corporation for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts 8.33% EPS growth. The firm earned "Buy" rating on Wednesday, September 9 by SunTrust.
Southwest spokeswoman Melissa Ford said the dog was in the plane's first row of seats with its owner, who said he warned the girl not to approach his dog. Several airlines, including Delta and United, recently announced more stringent rules on support animals after an increasing number of incidents and complaints, including a dog attack on a Delta flight past year.
The Nasdaq surged up by 1.4%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow rose by 0.6% and 0.4%, respectively. USA stocks closed mixed on Thursday. While the Nasdaq dipped 8.14 points or 0.1 percent to 7,210.09, the Dow climbed 164.70 points or 0.7 percent to 24,962.48 and the S&P 500 inched up 2.63 points or 0.1 percent at 2,703.96.
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has risen 19.47% since February 22, 2017 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 88.01% the S&P500. FIELD JOHN DOUGLAS sold $330,056 worth of Tesla, Inc . On Thursday, October 19 the stock rating was maintained by UBS with "Neutral". $777,887 worth of stock was sold by Musk Kimbal on Friday, September 1.
As part of this, BT has to make its telegraph poles and underground tunnels (ducts) open to rival providers. It says this will fundamentally change the business of broadband networks in the United Kingdom and could cut the upfront costs of laying fibre cables by around 50 per cent, from £500 per home to £250.
Last September , pub chain Wetherspoon announced that it would stop using plastic straws in its 900 sites across the United Kingdom and Ireland. He had told The Guardian: "If children knew what the effects are of using single-use plastic straws for drinking sodas, or whatever, they might reconsider and use paper straws or no straws at all".
There's no official recall for the cooker but the company says if your Instant Pot has one of the following numbers on the bottom it should be returned. Anyone with questions can contact the company's Customer Care team at 1-800-828-7280 ext. 2. The pressure cookers have enjoyed enormous success, including 215,000 7-in-1 units sold during last year's Amazon Prime Day.
In the wake of the Florida shooting, over a dozen New Mexico schools have received threats. "All in four days.", the network said via Facebook. In Massachussets, another student warned of a "Florida pt 2." on social media. "The students realized that they we can't not take these threats seriously and you know they definitely did the right thing in letting our school resource officer know and subsequently the suspect was quickly arrested", Lt.
Midcaps and small cap indexes rose 239 points and 272 points, respectively. Big gainers that lifted both the key indices are Tata Steel, Sun Pharma , Yes Bank, Bharti Airtel, ONGC, Dr Reddy's, NTPC, SBI, Axis Bank, TCS, Power Grid, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank, RIL, ICICI Bank, Kotak Bank, L&T, Bajaj Auto, ITC Ltd, Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp, Adani Ports and HDFC Ltd, surging up to 6.26 per cent.
The 1-year high was reported on Feb, 23 by Barchart.com . The company, which had focused on pet stores, has pushed into more mainstream retailers including Target and Kroger. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the stock. General Mills' scale and decades of experience will support greater effectiveness and efficiency for Blue Buffalo across key business areas, including sales, marketing, ...
The 53-year-old said he had also taken note of the timing of the copyright complaint, which was filed earlier this week - just over a week before the Oscars ceremony on 4 March in LA, where the film is up for 13 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director .
A case was launched in a NY court after Bouchard said she fell due to a "slippery, foreign and risky substance" on the tiled floor of a physiotherapy room. Bouchard slipped on a cleaning substance that had been applied to the room's tile floor and sustained a concussion that forced her to withdraw from the tournament .
The airline group said it expects to add seats this year to take advantage of strong travel demand while keeping costs under control. IAG is to pay a final dividend of 14.50 euro cents per share, bringing its total payout to 27.00 cents, up 15% year-on-year.
It's also a hatchback now, too, as opposed to the old model's saloon boot. The Peugeot 508 will launch in Europe in late 2018 and follow in Australia. Jean-Phillipe Imparato, CEO of Peugeot, said: "The all-new Peugeot 508 is finally here". Pricing has yet to be revealed, but expect the entry-level model to start at about £26,000 - a fraction more than the outgoing model.
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It has by 0.00% the S&P500. Finally, Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of Cisco Systems by 2.2% in the second quarter. (NASDAQ: CSCO ) on Tuesday, August 15 with "Hold" rating. (NASDAQ:CSCO) on Monday, September 11. At a certain point in the past four quarters, the shares traded as low as $1.93 but made a 115.54% recovery since then.


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Offering heart patients, who need to monitor their rapid or irregular heartbeat, an easier solution, researchers have found promise in a palpitation tracking smartphone app that provides comparable performance to the 14-day event monitors that are the current standard of care.
In this study, the researchers evaluated the efficacy of AliveCor Heart Monitor smartphone app.
“We showed that we can do as well with the app as with the event monitors,” said senior study author Anne Curtis, professor at University at Buffalo in New York, US.
“The app is easier for patients to use and much more acceptable to them,” Curtis noted.
One of the drawbacks of event monitors is that cardiac patients have to wear them for anywhere from two to four weeks.
“The event monitors require electrocardiographic electrodes to be attached to the patient’s skin, which can be irritating,” she said.
“Then the patient has to wear the device that is attached to the electrodes, which is somewhat cumbersome, and most patients do not like to wear it in public. Hence, compliance is often poor,” Curtis explained.
“The point of the study was to determine whether any smartphone app could be good enough to replace what we normally use now, which is a 14-30 day event monitor,” Curtis noted.
Throughout the two-week study, 32 patients who had had some symptoms of cardiac arrhythmias, were required to use both methods to record when they were having palpitations.
The researchers found that the AliveCor Heart Monitor smartphone app correctly recorded 91 percent of total arrhythmic events experienced by patients versus 87.5 percent recorded by the event monitors.
Patients were far more likely to be compliant with the smartphone app, the study found, with 94 percent of patients complying with the smartphone app versus just 58 percent with the event monitor.


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This pattern is suitable for the beginning knitter who likes to learn about various increases. This pattern uses M1L and M1R increases on both RS and WS as well as kfb. For the intermediate and advanced knitter this pattern would make a nice break from more complicated knits and a quick last minute gift for that special friend.
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DK weight: 100 g for a kerchief, 200 g for a shawlette, 300 g for a shawl.
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What you should know before hiring a car in Cordoba
|Cordoba city centre|
|Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport (COR): 9 km from city centre|
Where to rent a car in Cordoba?
The Argentinian city of Cordoba is located in its eponymous province, in central Argentina. The city boasts attractions such as the Manzana Jesuítica and the Paseo del Buen Pastor. Cordoba is served by Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport. From the airport, travelers wishing to reach the city center can choose from transport options such as bus, taxi and shuttle bus. However, for those wanting to travel around the city and beyond on their own timetable, car rental services are available and make fo a great way to explore Cordoba and Argentina. Car rental companies operating in Cordoba include Keddy, Europcar, Localiza and Hertz.
Driving in Cordoba: parking and other tips
When driving in Cordoba, pay attention to the speed limit and drive according to Argentian road rules. The speed limit in urban areas in Argentina is usually between 40 - 60km/h, however look out for road signs indicating the speed limit while driving in Cordoba. The drink drive limit in Argentina is 0.05%, while cell phones may only be used if in hands-free mode.
When it comes to parking in Cordoba, look out for road signs indicating no-parking areas. Parking lots can be found throughout the city; while there is on-street parking available, it is often time restricted. Therefore, travelers wishing to leave their rental car and explore Cordoba without worrying about getting a parking ticket should look for paid parking lots. Alternatively, a number of hotels offer parking to guests while another option is to explore Cordoba by foot and public transport, before renting a car to drive around the surrounding areas.
Road trips from Cordoba
From the Argentinian capital to a popular wine-growing region, there's plenty to explore by rental car around Cordoba. These are three great destinations which can be reached by road from Cordoba and make for a memorable Argentinian road trip.
The Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires is located around 430 miles from Cordoba by road, making for a drive of over six hours. However, the destination is more than worth the journey! Buenos Aires is home to popular attractions such as the bustling La Boca neighborhood; the Plaza de Mayo, overlooked by the presidential palace of Casa Rosada; and the impressive Obelisco de Buenos Aires. After exploring the city, relax in the Parque Tres de Febrero urban park.
Located in the region of Santa Fe, the city of Rosario is around 250 miles by road from Cordoba. Found on the Paraná River, the city is home to a number of attractions commemorating the War of Independence. These include the National Flag Memorial and the Parque de la Independencia (Independence Park); meanwhile, Plaza 25 de Mayo commemorates the May Revolution of 1810. Also in Rosario, don't miss a trip to the Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum and the Dr. Julio Marc Provincial Historical Museum.
The city of Mendoza is known for its wine; it is located in Argentina's wine growing region, and a road trip here will allow visitors to check out vineyards and taste local wines. Mendoza is located around 425 miles from Cordoba, and boasts a number of attractions. These include the Plaza de Independencia, the Cerro de Gloria, and the Parque San Martín. Having explored the city itself, be sure to take a trip to some of the vineyards to be found outside of the city, enjoying spectacular views of the Andes as you drive through the Argentinian countryside.


How To Pay Off Mortgage Early
At the outset, your dream when growing up in that neighborhood possible was to purchase a big and nice home. You’ve finally come across the home of your dreams since you were still a teenager, and you’ve taken out a finances to well-known lenders to help you back it. You’ve at all times had clear and practical financial aims, but recently, you’ve appreciated that the length of your mortgage will possibly make it much more of a problem for you to get them. Without getting yourself into financial problems, you’re interested in gaining knowledge of what you could do to shell out the mortgage early. This writing, or let’s say the article is here to help. When you’re ready to find out how to pay off the mortgage quicker, and how to do so the perfect way, continue reading.
It may give the impression of being counterintuitive when it comes to accepting how to pay off your apartment loan faster, but time and again, it’s smart to make your house credit debt the very last kind of arrears you pay off. The common citizenry currently has not less than thirty-eight thousand dollars in liability, furthermore that number keeps out home mortgages. It’s hard-hitting to pay far above the ground amounts if you still have to be anxious about things like your student loans, credit card debt, and whichever other personal loans you’ve taken out in the earlier period. In addition, a good number of mortgages doesn’t have nearly as towering of an interest rate as other forms of debt. Then again, you also necessitate to be sure that you’re setting aside some income for your retirement and other life goals. If paying off your mortgage untimely is both realistic and the smartest monetary resolution for you right now, the start the process by determining that. Thus, you should prioritize your debt.
In particular, at the commencement of your new dedication to pay off mortgage near the beginning, we distinguish it’s tempting to make additional payments whenever you might. So that you could adapt to how losing fairly more of your disposable earnings will fit into your total budget, you have to ease yourself into these additional payments. Start by means of committing to making one extra disbursement for the primary year. It will help you to boost your home’s evenhandedness, lower your general loan term, and evidently, reduced that principal balance. Test out with your paying back plan and exploit this amortization calculator. It will support you to realize how even making that one additional fee will impact your mortgage plan and shelling out. Keep in mind that refinancing is always an alternative if you’re trying to pay off a standard mortgage or you’ve applied for loans for mixed use developments. Last but certainly not least, deem on a lump sum approach and your budget as talked about here.


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Some time ago, a bank commercial on TV showed a couple enjoying a romantic boat trip. Suddenly, the boat sprang a leak. Alarmed, the man tried to plug the hole, but his efforts were in vain. Soon, the boat was taking in water everywhere.
This advertisement reflects the Greek economy. While we were busy stopping the deficit leak, the National Statistics Service bore another hole into the proverbial boat by reporting that oil is sending inflation sky-high. It will reach 3.8-4 percent in July.
Every economy faces problems caused by high oil prices. But some economies have room to maneuver in the new environment while others do not. Some learned their lesson from earlier oil crises and reduced their dependence on oil while others didn't bother. The public finances of some countries allowed some room for corrective intervention, but that wasn't the case with everyone.
The Greek economy falls in the latter category. It is vulnerable because it operates close to the edge, with little leeway to react to international economic changes. And it is not just the economy. Greece has lived on the edge for years in many aspects. For instance, life is only tolerable if it doesn't rain or snow and isn't hot or damp. The temperature comfort zone for most Greeks is between 20-27 degrees Celsius. Anything outside that means a crisis.
That is what is happening with the economy. We have been going in the wrong direction for decades. As we try to patch up the leaks in the boat, problems continue to fester and grow, causing more leaks.
The problems will just get worse as long as the government conceals them under half-measures out of fear of the political cost. The longer structural changes are delayed, the greater and the more pressing the challenges of the international environment will become. And, meanwhile, our responses will become less effective.
KATHIMERINI English Edition,28/07/2006


ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/16 March) – Combined 4th Special Forces troops and militiamen thwarted an attempt by gunmen to kidnap a businessman in Basilan province on Sunday night.
Rescued was Ramon Sanson Jr., 56, a copra dealer and a resident of Barangay Sta. Barbara, Malamawi Island, Isabela City, Basilan.
Lt. Col. Eliglen Villaflor, Army 4th Special Forces commander, said that seven gunmen clad in camouflage uniforms seized Sanson at his residence around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
Villaflor said Sanson’s rescue came after his neighbors, who heard the call for help by the victim and his family, immediately informed the troops at a nearby militia patrol base “of the ongoing crime.”
Villaflor said troops from the patrol base led by a certain Cpl. Hingosa responded and intercepted the gunmen who were dragging Sanson into a waiting motorized banca.
He said the team of Hingosa engaged the abductors in a firefight by delivering deliberate and selective fires to avoid hitting civilians.
He said the kidnappers left Sanson behind and fled aboard the waiting banca.
He said the kidnappers beat Sansom black and blue as he persistently resisted the abduction. (MindaNews)


The dress I’m wearing is one of my favorite from my sister Mary Ann Kaikai’s clothing brand, Madam Wokie. It was part of her runway collection at Africa Fashion Week New York in 2011. The fabric, which is our traditional Mende Country Cloth, was locally produced by local artisans in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Country Cloth is usually made from locally grown cotton, carded and spun into thread, and woven into strips on traditional looms. The strips are then sewn together to form the finished product.


In conjunction with Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done, join us for Music Video Night, with choreographer Tanisha Scott, Gregg Kaysen of Mass Appeal, and Thomas Lax, associate curator in MoMA’s Department of Media and Performance Art. Through a mix of video screenings and conversation, the event will explore connections between contemporary music videos, the choreographic work of Tanisha Scott, and themes from Judson Dance Theater. A reception follows.
This event is now fully booked. There will be a standby line starting at 6:00 p.m. on the day of the event.
Tanisha Scott is a creative director, choreographer, and performance/movement director. Named by Billboard magazine and Italian Vogue as one of the top 30-under-30 artists in the entertainment industry, her work has garnered multiple MTV Awards and nominations for best choreographer. She has worked with a number of artists, including Rihanna, Drake, Cardi B., Bryson Tiller, SZA, H.E.R., and Khalid.
Gregg Kaysen is a creative director, writer, and recording artist. As a contributor to Mass Appeal, he launched Music Video Night, a monthly pop-up showcase featuring the industry’s most important directors, producers, choreographers, and stylists.
Thomas J. Lax is an associate curator of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art. Since joining MoMA, Lax has curated projects including Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018, with Ana Janevski and Martha Joseph) and Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection (2017, co-organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Lucy Gallun, Christian Rattemeyer, and Yasmil Raymond). In 2015, Lax was awarded the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, and in 2017 he was a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.
Tickets ($15; $10 members and Corporate members; $5 students, seniors, and staff of other museums) can be purchased online.
Education at MoMA is made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.
Major support for Adult and Academic Programs is provided by the Estate of Susan Sabel.
Generous funding is provided by endowments established by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, Walter and Jeanne Thayer, and by the gifts of Alan Kanzer. Additional support is provided by the Annual Education Fund.


California Dream Act
California Dream Act
The California Dream Act allows undocumented students to receive scholarships administered by public institutions (AB-130) and state funded grants including Cal Grants, California College Promise Grant (AB-131). Assembly Bills 130 & 131, known as the California DREAM Act of 2011, are laws that increase access to financial aid for undocumented students who attend a public university, community college or private college in California. To qualify, students must meet the requirements for AB 540 and not be eligible to apply for the FAFSA.
A student may qualify for exemption from nonresident tuition
- Attended a California high school for at least three years, or
- Attainment of credits earned in California from a California high school equivalent to 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework and attended a combination of elementary, middle and/or High school in California for a total of 3 or more years.
- Graduated from a California high school, and receive a GED or passed the California High proficiency exam.
- Must register or is currently enrolled at an accredited institution of higher education in California
- Must not hold a valid non-immigrant Visa (F,J,H,L, etc.)
- Must file or will file an affidavit as required by the college.
**If you have a Temporary Protected Status or hold a U Visa you may be eligible for the California Dream Act. (Please come by our office for more information.)
How to apply for the California Dream Act Application (CADAA)
The California Dream Act Application is used by undocumented students who meet the non-resident exemption requirements under AB 540. The application can be found at https://dream.csac.ca.gov. The California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) processes the application and any aid received can only be used at eligible California public or private institutions.
To be considered for a Cal Grant award, a completed financial aid application and a certified Grade Point Average (GPA) must be submitted by the March 2 deadline.
Note: For additional information on learning what the California Dream Act is, please click on the videos below:
- What is the CA Dream Act?
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Top 10 Chinese B2B Marketing Tactics for 2020
Now more than ever Chinese businesses are looking for something to improve their results. The Chinese economy is trending towards higher technology and greater operational efficiency. Chinese CEOs and other professionals are now accustomed to researching their problems online, and they’ll consider doing business with any business that can give them an edge.
If your company wants to make high-value sales to businesses in China, you won’t need “guanxi” to get started. But you will need a strong offering, a way to get your potential clients to notice you, and the ability to educate them.
In this article, we’re going to share the Chinese B2B marketing tactics that we use most often. Like all our content, it’s thoroughly researched. We write based on our experience driving results for global businesses in China.
If you’re a marketing manager in a global company, you can use this as a starting point for understanding the Chinese digital ecosystem as it applies to B2B marketing in particular. From here, you can dig further into any of the tactics listed.
Before moving on, we should clearly define “Chinese B2B marketing”, because it can sometimes refer to different things. We are talking about:
- Driving leads for businesses that are selling to other businesses. Most of our experience is with tech, services, and SaaS companies. So, this post is by no means restricted to manufacturing or wholesale business.
- Supporting sales teams in nurturing leads. B2B marketing should be aligned with sales efforts to increase sales revenue.
- We’re focused on mainland China. However, almost everything here is also relevant to marketing to Chinese-reading professionals anywhere else in the world.
Here are the top 10 tactics we’re using in 2020, listed in an order that should be easy to understand.
Email for B2B Communications
Email is useful for marketing in China, but it’s not as useful as it is elsewhere. In general, you can expect Chinese professionals to check their email when they’re at work. The (in)frequency in which they check their email might mean that you need to send them a WeChat message or give them a phone call to say: “Hey, check your email.”
Most companies we work with use email as the login ID for their users, whether that is a user of their product or just a person that filled in a contact form. It’s generally a lot more convenient for them to do this since their global systems are configured this way.
However, Chinese websites and apps might use email or (more likely) a phone number as their login ID. Also, many Chinese companies will not require potential customers to enter an email address in a lead generation form. This isn’t to say that email isn’t used at all; it’s just not the essential staple of Chinese sales funnels as it is in the West.
Where’s the right balance? We recommend that most companies use email to send key communications and documents to potential Chinese clients, but don’t rely on email alone. Give Chinese customers additional contact options such as WeChat, QQ and/or live chat on your website.
What about using email for marketing communications such as email newsletters or drip campaigns to your potential Chinese clients? It can be done, but only in addition to using WeChat.
WeChat for B2B Marketing
WeChat is the single most important social media platform in China, and we use it extensively. WeChat could be compared to WhatsApp or Facebook or PayPal or many other things, but none of those comparisons does it justice, because it effectively replaces all of those in China, and more.
From the perspective of B2B marketing, WeChat can be helpful in a few key ways.
First, it is a great place for you to share long-form content with your followers. Think of an email newsletter or blog. While the content we share on WeChat isn’t just like the content for a blog, it is somewhat similar. WeChat should usually be the first place that you post key content. Here’s an example WeChat article about Customer Loyalty, so you can get an idea of the basic format.
Next, WeChat will function like a mini-website of its own. You can create custom menus that allow your followers to find key information conveniently. (Check this 5-minute video tour of WeChat menus.)
Third, WeChat is a great tool for you to communicate directly with your potential clients. Instead of requiring them to contact you via email, at least give them the option of reaching out via WeChat too. This will increase your conversion rates.
It’s also important to note what WeChat is not. WeChat is not a fully open social platform like Twitter or Facebook. Compared with other options, it’s usually not the best way for B2B-oriented businesses to reach new potential clients. WeChat articles are also not easily findable from outside of WeChat. For example, Baidu search results do not include WeChat articles.
Baidu Search Advertising
Baidu is the most popular search engine in China by a large margin. Google is blocked in China, but there are also 3 other significant search engines that function similar to Baidu.
One of the most common playbooks for B2B marketers can be described as “Google ads + landing page + contact form”. Luckily, this playbook can be replicated in Chinese, although we would recommend some adjustments.
These are the most common changes we recommend:
- Build the account from the ground up. Due to differences in language and the technical aspects of Baidu SEM, we avoid simply translating English-language Google campaigns. It’s better to build the campaign from the ground up. This starts with a basic marketing plan and ends in a fully-formed Baidu account structure.
- Get started a month ahead of your launch date. It will take a week or two to set up an account with Baidu (you can do it through us). Plus, it will take some time to plan out the campaign.
- Offer additional content methods (as mentioned above in the email section).
- Localize the website, landing page and any content assets specifically for China. More on that in the next section.
Localizing Your Website for China
Chinese people read Chinese. Even if they’re English-speaking professionals that work with global colleagues, they will still show a strong preference for Chinese-language content.
For this reason, we always recommend creating Chinese-language versions of key pages including a landing page, homepage, ‘About Us’ page, key service pages, etc. Polished, persuasive Chinese pages will greatly outperform English-language pages as well as machine-translated content.
As for language, Mandarin is the primary spoken dialect in China, while Simplified Chinese script is used across all regions of mainland China. In the Chinese business environment, it’s possible that many of your potential clients will speak local dialects as well; nevertheless, almost all of them will speak Mandarin, as well as read and write Simplified Chinese.
As for the website, it should ideally be a separate website that is hosted in China, which will require an ICP license. But there are trade-offs between cost, efficiency and marketing effectiveness, so it’s important to strike the right balance for your situation. In general, we’ll simply check whether a company’s current website loads well in China or not. If it doesn’t, we look into options like hosting in China or making optimizations to the website.
To get the best return on investment, we like to do our content creation work in batches. When we create content for the website, we’ll also create it for the WeChat account. The content style will be just a little bit different. We’ll build on this idea in the following sections.
Baidu SEO for B2B
Chinese SEO is not likely to be the golden ticket to your success on its own. That being said, it’s possible to get organic search traffic without applying a great deal more effort than you would anyway.
Since you should already be offering localized Chinese content on your website, ensuring that your website is also accessible for search engines is usually relatively easy. Your Chinese keywords should be used in the title, meta description and throughout your pages in a natural, unobtrusive way. Our guide to on-site technical SEO teaches you how to do it yourself.
As you build up your brand online, you should naturally start picking up some links and building search authority. But, do not expect it to be as easy as it would be on Google. Chinese websites are often very wary about giving out links, even to high-quality websites.
Baidu tends to place a lot of search ads at the top of search results—up to seven! Plus, it will rank many of its own resources high up on the results pages, such as their wiki Baidu Baike.
The image below shows a Baidu search results page for “project management software”. Ads are in red, and Zhihu and Baidu Baike results are in purple. More on Zhihu below.
Instead of viewing Baidu as a way of driving organic traffic to your website, it’s better to view it as a way of driving organic traffic to your brand. Remember that your website isn’t your brand. Your brand can be anywhere. You can post content on wikis, other websites, social platforms, video sites and more. Baidu will index those and your potential buyers will find them.
Zhihu for B2B Marketing
Zhihu is a Q&A platform similar to Quora. Users can ask or answer questions, then the answers are voted up or down. This means that the more popular answers tend to rise to the top.
Zhihu’s user base contains a lot of white-collar professionals and other well-educated users. It’s by no means limited to these groups, but we find that many professionals tend to check Zhihu at various points in their purchase journey. Some of them go to Zhihu directly, while others search on Baidu and see the Zhihu posts near the top of the search results page.
We mainly use Zhihu to answer questions from users. We share positive and accurate information about the brands we represent. But, more than that, we educate people. It’s a win-win for brands and Zhihu users.
We also post articles and sometimes videos. Yep, Zhihu is not only about answers. It’s possible to build a following: like what businesses do on LinkedIn.
Check out the much longer post on how to use Zhihu for B2B marketing here.
Social Prospecting With LinkedIn and Maimai
LinkedIn is one of the only truly global social platforms. It works in both China and the rest of the world. But there’s also another platform that is somewhat equivalent to LinkedIn—Maimai. We’re using both for marketing campaigns now.
One of the things we do on those two business social platforms is hunt for potential buyers directly. We reach out to them to start a conversation or offer educational content, which in turn brings new clients into the sales funnel.
Besides doing this via Maimai and LinkedIn, we also make use of whichever methods we can find—Baidu, external databases and communities. This way we can be sure to find a cost-effective way to start getting leads very quickly, perhaps even quicker than search engine marketing.
This should be rounded out by creating a profile on each platform, sharing updates and interacting with connections. For LinkedIn, we would use a company and personal account. On Maimai, we’d use only a personal account.
Sharing Long Videos on Bilibili or Youku
There are several video platforms in China that allow the posting of long (over one minute) videos. Bilibili is the one that we most commonly turn to for distribution, with Youku a close second.
At the bare minimum, we grab some existing video resources for a business, then add subtitles and share. This is the low-cost method of gaining some exposure.
Based on the marketing goals and budget, we can go further by creating new videos specifically for the Chinese market.
Bilibili and Youku videos can also be used on a website and are visible within China, unlike YouTube videos. The videos might include comment overlays or ads, but those can be removed by using a paid plan or making some adjustments to the embedded player. For more information, check this post on how to host videos in China.
About Effective Content Distribution
Marketing is a game of leverage. It’s important to increase revenues while keeping costs reasonable.
One way we do this is by creating content in batches. We research and write about one topic, then we create all the text, image and video content at once. In other words, we repurpose it for the different places we share it.
Let’s imagine a silly but useful example topic: How to Choose an Electrified Widget Operating System (EWOS). It’s a complex topic to understand, let alone explain eloquently to others. After we do the research, we can create the content for many different media at once:
- A web page
- A WeChat article
- Several answers on Zhihu, Tieba, Zhidao
- Several informative posts on LinkedIn or Maimai
- A video on Youku
- Brief posts on other social networks, such as Weibo.
Additionally, we can share that content on websites or social accounts that are industry authorities. In China, they often refer to this as Key Opinion Leader (KOL) marketing. I find that wording to be a bit restrictive. We like to be flexible, so we won’t only reach out to KOLs on social platforms, but we’ll also reach out to websites or legacy media publishers.
The key is to get in front of the right target market and educate them on the solutions available to them. Using the example of an EWOS, we might be able to post an article about Electrified Widget Factory Efficiency Losses on five websites, and/or we might let three social influencers review the system themselves and create video reviews.
Webinars and Meetups
Although webinars are a staple of English-language B2B marketing, I don’t see webinars mentioned as often on Chinese B2B marketing campaigns. I suspect this is an underused tactic in China, especially since Chinese Internet users are so used to live streaming in the C2C arena.
Due to their live nature, webinars can be trickier to pull off. You would need to have an expert available to make the presentation and answer questions live in Chinese. This burden can be lessened by assigning a community manager to answer any questions in the live text chat.
It’s not uncommon for businesses in China to hold offline events and stream them online live simultaneously. It might seem limiting to have to hold events physically because fewer people can attend, but keep in mind that some Chinese cities have ten, twenty, thirty million people.


It was a few months after the 2016 election that Florie Hutchinson had what she calls her "emoji moment."
She had gone into labor with her third daughter on election night expecting to celebrate the first female president, then emerged the next morning to a different reality. Though she didn't participate in the women's marches sweeping across the country a couple of months later, she watched them with interest, and something began to percolate inside her.
Suddenly, it seemed that everywhere she looked, she saw sexism. A book her preschool daughters liked, "Polite as a Princess," didn't have a "Polite as a Prince" companion volume. Of the 20 or so baby carriers available at her local store, all but one (from Norway) pictured a woman, not a man, toting the baby.
A museum and gallery publicist who lives in Palo Alto, California, 37-year-old Hutchinson is not, as she puts it, "the marching, bra-burning, take-to-the-streets of the 1970s feminist." But there were other ways to protest. She started posting images of inequality on Instagram, with comments such as "apparently only Norwegian dads carry babies." Then one night, as she typed the word "shoe-in" into her phone, an emoji of a shoe automatically popped up.
It was a red stiletto.
"I just kind of stared at it in total disbelief," she said. Not a big emoji user, she tapped onto the other icons to see what kinds of footwear existed, and her heart sank. "I realized that all three women's shoes had high heels."
It felt wrong to let that stand. She decided two myths needed bashing - "One: that here in the crucible of technology that technology is totally immune to gender bias," she said. "There's a sense that binary numbers and coding is bias-free, but coders are human, and their biases go into technology." The other myth was that all women wear high heels.
It turns out that adding an emoji to the list of those available is a pretty democratic process. Hutchinson contacted Jennifer 8. Lee, a former New York Times reporter who is now a vice chair of a group that makes emoji recommendations to a committee of the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that approves new emoji once a year for companies such as Apple or Google to add to the lexicon of characters.
Lee (who is also known for proposing the dumpling emoji adopted last year) advised Hutchinson that the deadline was coming up, so Hutchinson wrote a proposal presenting a case as to why a ballet flat would be a good addition to the 2,600-odd emoji already in use.
Along with the shoe's 500-year history, she emphasized its ubiquity. "Unlike the high-heeled SHOE (which was introduced by royalty and used as an external sign of class and wealth, 'well-heeled') or the stiletto SHOE (an opulent and thin heeled version most often associated with fetishism and seduction and made popular in the 50s during the era of Mad Men, and most recently by Sex in the City), the dolly SHOE is perennial, democratic, inclusionary and non-ageist," she wrote in her proposal.
Working with graphic artist Aphee Messer, who has designed other emoji (including hijab, mosquito, lotus position, cupcake and receipt), Hutchinson came up with a blue ballet flat with a small bow near the toe. She submitted it in July and mentioned it to no one, not even her husband.
In August, she learned that her proposal had been shortlisted. In the fall, the #MeToo movement hit, and suddenly the flat shoe seemed like a good idea to everyone. National magazines, radio commentators, fashion critics and Ellen DeGeneres were talking about Hutchinson's crusade. "It just got the wind of all these women behind it," she said.
Even in the absence of the #MeToo movement, Hutchinson's idea would have had merit, said Greg Welch, vice president of the Unicode Consortium. "It was a well-structured, thoughtfully presented proposal supported by good data."
That said, he couldn't rule out that those voting on the proposal had been swayed by the zeitgeist. "These are people . . . who are generally well-read, participating members of society, so to what degree that colored their thinking, I can't imagine that it didn't." In the past, he said, "we never took a look at how limited the representation of shoes is."
Hutchinson, too, could have easily let it go. "It's so easy to just notice things and just move on with your life, especially as a working mom," she said. But she thought of her girls, 6, 4 and 1, and how saturated their world is with emoji - whether it be kids' clothes, birthday party themes, children's literature or billboards along the highway to San Francisco. "I'm so desperate to raise girls who advocate for themselves and effect change and don't wait around for someone else to come fix it. So it was a very achievable and tiny battle."
Hutchinson continues to document sexist imagery on Instagram. Recently at a golf store, she noticed the male mannequins were striking athletic poses while the female ones were standing with their hands on their hips; she posted a picture and comment. She also does so whenever she spots a high heel being depicted in a way she thinks refers too broadly to all women.
"I can't really let those things slip anymore," she said. "Now when I see it, I have to just call it out."
The flat shoe emoji, along with other new ones such as curly hair, peacock and saltshaker, will be available on platforms later this year. In the meantime, Hutchinson has her eyes on the future. She is not thrilled with the array of women's apparel emoji, which include a '50s-style dress, a pink shirt with a plunging neckline and a polka-dot bikini.
"There isn't a one-piece swimsuit, which I'm going to try to fix," she said.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)


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Connecticut lawmakers eye law to crack down on school threats
Lawmakers are eyeing a measure that would hike the prison sentence faced by anyone caught making a threat against a school in Connecticut.
The proposal, which is subject to a public hearing in Stamford Wednesday, would make threats made against a school a class C felony that carries up to 10 years in prison. A similar bill last year secured the unanimous backing of the Senate but never came up for a vote in the House.
“We had true, bipartisan buy-in,” said Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield, but the measure “just got stuck” in the crush of last-minute legislation the last time around.
Maureen Reidy, a mother from Sandy Hook, said that her children — a fifth and seventh grader — experienced the fear that threats can cause during a 2014 lockdown at St. Rose of Lima School in Newtown.
Teachers and students saw police swarm their school, weapons drawn, yelling for everyone to stay down, she said, bringing to mind the massacre two years earlier at a town elementary school. It led children to experience nightmares, fear, and “flashbacks of that horrific day,” she said during a press conference Thursday.


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You can certainly learn a lot about Michelle Obama in the latest April issue of Vogue. With just one glance at the cover, it's clear that this national leader knows how to accessorize. The first lady looks beautiful in a midnight-blue Reed Krakoff dress, with stunning statement earrings that add just the right amount of sparkle. Her look is timeless, tasteful and comfortable, which is something she strives for in her own sense of style. She, and President Barack Obama, sat down with Jonathan Van Meter for the Vogue interview and talked about family, work and style, among other things.
"If you're comfortable in your clothes it's easy to connect with people and make them feel comfortable as well," the First Lady told Van Meter.
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God cannot fill what's already filled with itself.
Are you struggling to hear God? Is it hard to find time in your busy day for more than a few minutes of prayer? Maybe it's time for a different approach.
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These men and women of God were called Abbas and Ammas—mothers and fathers of the faith—and were looked up to as spiritual guides, mentors, healers and deliverers in their time. So, what can we learn from them?
You may not have the time or desire to live in the desert, but you can learn how to cultivate a quiet place in your soul. A place where your faith will be grounded, and your mind can finally rest.
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Daily Devotional for July 19
I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know I have done all this with good motives, and I have watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously. —1 Chronicles 29:17
Giving is based on motives, and in 1 Chronicles 29 David listed the right reasons for giving to God. First, he spoke about his own giving (vv. 2-3). Leaders have no business instructing others to give if they themselves have not given! Second, David challenged the leaders under him to give, and they responded willingly. Joyfully they provided an abundance of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and precious stones for the construction of the temple (vv. 7-8). Because they had given freely and generously from their hearts, King David was filled with joy (v. 9). Third, David motivated the congregation to give. David reminded them in his prayer before them that everything comes from God (v. 14) and that they were only giving back to Him what He had given them in the first place. He then recalled the fact that they were only aliens passing through this world, using their earthly resources for a limited time called life (v. 15). Finally, David revealed that he had given with pure motives in the integrity of his heart, with no desire to impress or manipulate others (v. 17). That made his giving acceptable to God. Why should we greedily grasp for the passing things of this life when they will only slip through our fingers on the day we enter eternity? If our giving follows the guidelines David laid out, the Kingdom of God will be financed properly, sacrificially, and abundantly!
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"To eat or not to eat, that is the question"
So your kids (and adolescents) don't like what's for dinner. They'd prefer frozen waffles, syrup and ice cream. Here are guidelines for what you should be feeding yours.
We all know the easy route is to give in and prepare meals "my kids will eat". But how do you get them to eat what they need to be eating? For every family, the answer may be different. In this article, I won't be addressing HOW you get them to eat, but I would like to point out WHAT they should be eating and what you should avoid.
And what to avoid is as important as what to eat.
Cadence of Eating
As kids grow, they need constant nutrition. Their portions tend to be smaller, but their metabolism tends to be faster (than adults). On top of that, their activity level sores above that of their adult parents. It should be no surprise that many are constantly in the kitchen looking for snacks. The key is, what you have for them to snack on.
Kids and adolescents need to eat about every 3 hours. Though that seems extreme perhaps, it is a combination of meals and healthy snacks. A good cadence would be an early morning meal. Get them in the habit of starting the day by fueling their bodies well.
A mid-morning snack may be necessary to keep them feeling full, but it shouldn't be a meal. A nutritious snack of 80-140 calories is what you are after.
Lunch is the time for the second meal and a fill up on nutrients. Make sure you are including proteins, carbs and fats in all of their meals.
Again, mid afternoon, they will likely be looking for another snack. Hopefully, this is right after getting home from school. And just as hopefully, there are only healthy options to choose from. A pantry full of snack cakes and cookies will be too tempting to pass up.
Finally, a nutritious dinner will fill them for the evening. A light dinner likely means increased snacking before bed, and they need to avoid multiple trips to the kitchen in the evening, so ensure that they say they are full before they leave dinner.
An evening snack isn't a bad thing, but the choices we tend to make in the evening are generally poor. We will discuss some good choices later in the article.
What Adolescent Children should be eating
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, there are several things to always remember when grocery shopping and cooking for kids:
Increase Fibre and Decrease Salt
Drink Water as much as possible avoiding sugary drinks and sugar free drinks
Bake and Broil as often as possible vs. frying foods
Monitor and limit sugar intake
Eat fresh fruits vs. having fruit drinks
Eat more chicken and fish than red meat
There are 5 basic areas that need to be addressed in the adolescent diet, and some get way more attention than others. Two factors play into how our kids eat and they are tough to overcome:
Kids prefer things with lots of taste, and usually that taste is sweet
The foods that are best for our kids are usually the most pricey, forcing us to substitute with less nutritious alternatives for financial reasons
The 5 areas that you should try and ensure are in your kids' daily plan are: Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Dairy, and Proteins.
Snacks should be nutritious
Kids love sweets. At least, the vast majority love sweets, some prefer salty items. For those that love sweets, do your best to get them to eat berries for a snack. Fit Life Covered has a great article on Four Berries with Awesome Health Benefits. Start there. My big 3 reasons to like berries are simple: they are high in fibre, they are artery-opening superfoods, and they are sweet. I can convince my kids to have some berries when they crave sweets.
Protein snacks are available from companies like Clif Bar and RX Bar. These bars are low calorie products, typically packed with 15-24 grams of protein each. Protein is the building block of muscle and important to good muscular health. How much should your kids have each day? Most experts recommend 1 gram for ever 1 KG of body weight?
In the US, that translates to approximately 1-1.5 grams of protein for every 2 pounds of body weight. A 110 lb adolescent boy then, should be getting roughly 60-80 grams of protein in his daily dietary intake.
Unfortunately, what kids naturally eat is typically light on protein, so you will need to make some of your snack choices count by ensuring the snacks are packed with a bit of protein in them. Most are not.
Things to avoid feeding your adolescent child
According to the Mother Nature Network, there are several foods you should avoid feeding your kids. Here are a few of them.
Processed Meats - generally high in fat, sodium and preservatives
Sports Drinks - sold for their electrolytes, the sugar content typically overpowers any value received from the electrolytes. Straight water is a preferred alternative.
Kid's Yogurts - kid's yogurt is usually artificially colored and has added sugar. Yogurt isn't bad, but stick with adult Greek varieties that are typically solid nutritional choices.
Sugary Cereals - it doesn't matter if it looks sugary or not, most are. Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, LIfe and Kix were the only cereals Consumer Reports recommends (based on fiber and sugar content).
It's much simpler than we often think. Here's the key to healthy snacking.
Don't take your kids to the grocery store with you if you can avoid it. They will ask for Pop Tarts, Potato Chips, and Snack Cakes, and face it, you'll likely give in.
Shop the perimeter of the grocery store. On the perimeter, you will find your vegetables, meats and dairy. About the only thing you will need to venture into the aisles for are your grains, and they should be purchased sparingly (for meals, not for snacks).
Buy fruits and protein rich products for snacks. These items are generally lighter on sugar, and have multiple "redeeming qualities" that you just won't find in chips, candies, cakes, popcorns and cookies.


Former Pakistani ace cricketer Shahid Afridi is often in the headlines but not always for the right reasons. Afridi is quite active on social media and even runs his own YouTube channel.
Although he is a sporting icon and is admired by thousands of people, it cannot be denied that some of his views are downright problematic.
Afridi has been at the receiving end of a lot of criticism for his statements on Indian army and government. Recently, during his visit to POK, Afridi said, “I am in your beautiful village, I am very delighted. I was planning to visit you all for a long time. The world is currently infected by such a big disease. But the bigger disease is in Modi’s mind.”
Indian cricketers and fans also took to social media to express their displeasure over Afridi’s comments. Unfortunately, this is not the only incident where Afridi’s problematic views ended up upsetting people.
Here are 3 instances where Shahid Afridi stirred controversies with his comments.
1. His problematic views on women playing cricket
Back in 2014, during an interview with a news channel, Shahid was asked about his views on encouraging Pakistani women to play cricket. His reply was rather narrow-minded.
He said, “Our women have great taste in their hands and they cook very tasty food.”
While Afridi has the power to encourage the youth with his words, he did not think twice before blurting out this extremely sexist comment.
2. His absurd reaction when Afridi’s daughter performed ‘Arti’
Last year, veteran Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar revealed that his former teammate Danish Kaneria had to face discrimination while he was a part of the national squad owing to his religion.
While Akhtar was speaking about the malpractices in the Pakistani cricket team, a video of Afridi started doing the rounds on social media. In the video Afridi could be seen making fun of Hindu traditions.
During a chat show, Afridi revealed that he once smashed a TV set in rage after he saw his daughter playfully performing ‘Aarti.’
“I smashed my TV once, because of my wife. These daily soaps on Star Plus were quite popular back then. I had asked my wife to watch them alone and not with the kids. One day, I saw one of my daughters performing arti while watching a show on Star Plus. I, then, lost my cool and smashed the TV inside the wall,” he said.
3. Afridi is against his daughters playing cricket
Last year, Shahid Afridi released his memoir titled Game Changer. Among other unknown details about his personal and professional life, the memoir also reveals Shahid’s views on encouraging his daughters to play cricket.
The former Pakistani captain says that he will never allow his daughters to play outdoor games including cricket. He does not want them to compete in public sports owing to social and religious reasons.
Afridi writes, “They have my permission to play any sport as long as they’re indoors. Cricket? No, not for my girls. They have permission to play all the indoor games they want but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities. I’ve made this decision and their mother agrees with me. The feminists can say what they want.”
Looks like Afridi needs to mend his ways before he lands up in more trouble!


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