Coders will build an Android Application for proposed language learning.To continue work on “The Celebrate Language Audio Project (CLAP)”, which has an aim to provide a platform for the rapid development of language lessons for any given culture. In collaboration with Volunteers in Ghana and Mali, the Peace Corps has implemented this project for 11 different languages.

We are inviting all the savvy Android developers in Ghana to take part on this. This is a first come first serve basis basis and 20 seats will be available.

Register at the following link

http://hack4civilgood.eventbrite.com/

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Amadou Daffe
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Cooked Food

Cook2Save is built on a simple idea – Providing a little magic through cooking to make ordinary lives better.

Concept Overview

Top Chefs from selected hotels in Ghana pair with ladies from Universities in a charity cooking competition in aid of the Teshie Orphanage.

This family oriented hands-on event will draw thousands together to eat, and enjoy savory dishes and vote for Ghana’s best top chefs and culinary cook teams! This one day entertainment packed event will pair top local culinary chefs with the best university commissioners from across the area to create mouth watering dishes for all to savor. Only the best will be selected to hold the annual titles of the best chefs! From main course dishes highlighted on a grand main stage attendees will also sip on sparkling beverages and more! This event will also offer a family fun zone for children and an entertaining musical “hot spot” for adults along with an on-site sponsor logo photo spot, VIP guest appearances and more!

The Event
The event, which is an initiative of Rite Multimedia, an integrated marketing company in Ghana is the first of its kind and will engage six tertiary institutions namely: University of Ghana, Zenith University College and University for Professional Studies, Jayee University College, Accra Polytechnic and Wisconsin University College.

The maiden Cook 2 Save competition comes off at Aviation Social Centre in Accra in the of June 2013 from 8.30am. Activities include 6-on-6 cooking competition, mystery basket hunt, a display by a top Chef on the art of cooking plus musical performances. It will be a day of Festive Family Fun and a scene of delicious dishes presented in a tasty environment all while supporting the needy in our society.

A cat with a gun

There are some pet care service providers who cater to many specific needs of pets. Some of the most important services offered by pet clinics are as follows:

1. Regular Health Check — Pet owners bring their pets to pet clinics for regular health checks. Vet experts perform a thorough inspection of every aspects of pet health and suggest medicine, treatments or preventive measures to address any health issues found. Periodic checkup of pets help reduce several major pet health risks.

2. Immunization — Pets (both dogs and cats) are prone to several communicable and long term diseases. Immunization helps protect pets from such issues such as Para influenza, bordetella (also known as kennel cough), parvovirus, canine distemper, and rabies.

This one is very difficult for me guys, very very difficult. I’m told I even look like him. Hmmmmm……….

Unfortunately i was not at the event and have never followed the story and interestingly enough I don’t plan to read the stories in the newspapers so I have nothing to say.

Buddy, Chris Brown, you are off again… lol

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintance for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde

Black out in Ghana

I guess what I’m saying is that, they should come up with better solutions and stop this four one nine solutions. They should take a good look at themselves and come out with well meaning and lasting solution to this crazy light off, light off, light off song they are singing.

Is anybody out there

There are a lot of women’s group around campaigning of women’s rights and so many things. In as much as it’s good I think our women are missing the point or better still they’re missing the big picture.

Today’s Woman

Women do not need legislation or laws to make them who they are, all they need is to be themselves and everything will fall in place.

Group Session

Getting there late was a bit sad on my part because I would’ve love to be part of the conversation from the beginning but as faith will have it, it wasn’t so.

I got to the meet-up forty five minutes late with my friend Sylvester Addo. He calls himself Sly, please don’t ask me why? I think it has everything to do with his height. His twitter handle is @silverscholar, you can follow him if you feel like it.

Group Session

When I got to the meeting they were discussing topics to blog about. They settled on three topics, Women, Electricity and rLG Chris brown Wee escapade.

People twittered, blogged and facebooked their views and it was quiet fan.

We later broke into sessions to discuss wether Blogging Ghana should collabarate with organisations who desire to use their skills to advance their various causes. It was an interesting and intense discussion. I really enjoyed it. Some of the organizations they talked about includes Ghana Youth Environment Moment, Blood Drive, Earth Hour and many more.

Finally, the organising committee for Blogcamp2013 told us what to expect during this year’s Blogcamp and the don’t and dos.

We all took a group photo for the archives and members departed to their various locations. MEST provided space for the meeting with free wifi and TIGO provided small chops. The next meeting in a month’s time.

Video Transcript

Whispers of the unthinkable are wafting throughout the Asian-Pacific Region: war between China and Japan over a small cluster of resource rich islands in the East China Sea claimed by China (Diaoyu) and Japan (Senkaku).

In September, the dispute quickly came to a boil. Fueled by nationalism and the memory of Japan’s brutal occupation of China during World War II, enraged Chinese crowds filled the streets. They targeted owners of Japanese cars and launched a massive boycott of Japanese products, sending a debilitating gut punch to Japan’s still struggling economy. In November, the Wall Street Journal Live reported that the boycott had cost Japanese companies “billions of dollars.”

Since then, both nations have flexed their military muscle. In December, Japan scrambled jet fighters to respond to a Chinese plane flying over the islands. Although no shots have been fired yet, such dangerous confrontations are likely to continue.

Should the crisis worsen from its current status to, say, missiles launched and a ship sunk or an airplane knocked out of the sky, the United States will be forced to choose between backing a longtime ally (Japan) and supporting a nation more central to our economic health (China).

In terms of economics, China has the clear bottom-line edge, serving as America’s biggest lender. As of September, China’s holdings in US securities ($1.73 trillion) topped the global list of creditors.

In terms of trade, the most significant US relationship in the Asia-Pacific Region is with China – by far. According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the export of US goods to China amounted to $104 billion in 2011, while exports to Japan over the same period were $66.2 billion.

Then there’s the extensive outsourcing by American companies, which ties the economies of China and the US even closer. A case in point is Apple, which designs its iPhone and other products in the US, but has them assembled at China’s massive Foxconn City facility.

All of this could be put at risk if the US sided with Japan in the current dispute – and the Chinese retaliated. A boycott would obviously harm American companies that ship agricultural products as well as cars and other finished goods to the Chinese market. Less clear is whether Chinese anger would extend to US firms such as Apple, which have deeper Chinese economic roots.

There’s also the possibility that China, to punish the US, could sell off its stash of US securities, a move that would devalue the dollar. It’s possible but not likely, at least according to a December report by the Congressional Research Service. Among other consequences, such a sale “could diminish the value of these securities” and “lead to large losses” for China.

In November, the US Senate unanimously approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act recognizing Japan’s administration of the Senkakus and opposing the use of force. The Japanese cheered, and the Chinese howled. But the provocative sentiment expressed in the amendment should be no surprise.

In 2011, President Obama announced a major foreign policy shift. He declared that the Asia-Pacific Region – which generates “approximately 55 percent of world GDP and about 44 percent of world trade” – would be a top US security priority. The declaration was couched in normal and nuanced diplomatic niceties.

It could also prompt the Japanese to scrap their antiwar constitution – adopted after the US However, China and the other nations of the region weren’t fooled.

For the United States, China is a classic “frenemy” – an economic partner, a rival, and a potential enemy that has upgraded its military capacity and used it to reinforce its claim to other disputed islands in the South China Sea.

More importantly, the US and Japan – which is home to ships of the powerful US Seventh Fleet – are bound together by a mutual defense treaty, which commits the US to defend its longtime ally. US failure to support Japan would undermine US credibility not just in Japan but throughout this strategically important region. Firebombing of Japanese cities and the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II – and commit their deep pool of technological skills and talent to a single goal: a massive rearmament program that could include nuclear weapons. No one doubts that the Japanese, have the capacity to become a world-class military power – an outcome no rational person wants to see.

Should a shooting war erupt, the US will side with Japan despite the nightmarish economic scenarios that could follow. The challenge facing US officials and diplomats in 2013 is to help China and Japan find a face-saving way to keep the dispute from getting that far.

Source : http://www.onlinemba.com/

I just found out that Goldie Harvey of the recent Big Brother Africa died of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). DVT means a blood clot in the large veins in the thighs or the lower legs which when break loose may travel to any part of the body such as the brain, lungs or heart.

DVT Clot illustration

Wouldn’t it be cool to have an andriod or iOS app that alerts you to stop work after a certain interval and suggest an exercise for you to do?

I think we would all be healthier, save more lives and live longer to enjoy our wealth and good life.

Share your views but don’t tell me its not worth trying because there are some apps like that out there… think innovative

Eliezer Ayertey