Yummy Filipino Recipes free lite app for iPad

Yummy on the iPad

Unleash your inner chef with the lite version of Yummy Filipino Recipes for the Ipad, now available to download for FREE! at the App Store.

Yummy Filipino Recipes Lite introduces users to some of the local favorites and interactive features that can be found in the app starting with 12 easy-to-follow recipes spread out over six categories including Salads and Vegetables, Noodles and Rice, Fish and Seafood, Meat, Poultry, as well as Desserts and Sweet Snacks.
The app also has an interactive ingredient checklist, step-by-step instructions, and quick tips for an even better dish.

“With sumptuous meal ideas, interactive features and beautiful design, we’ve seen a great response from users and are excited to launch the lite version for everyone,” adds Paolo Manzano, Associate Publisher for Interactive Editions.

To get a taste of Yummy Filipino Recipes Lite, download Yummy Magazine on the App Store and find the lite version inside, both are free to download >> http://bit.ly/QwtHjX.

Presently, the full version contains 101 Filipino recipes and is available in the App Store for $3.99. Over the next few months, Summit Media will introduce updated versions of the full version and will rollout additional Yummy apps slated to come out later within the year. For more information about Yummy’s upcoming series of apps, visit www.summitmedia.com.ph/apps/yummy.

September classes at Maya Kitchen

The Lifestyle Courses for September are: Baking Made Easier (with Maya), September 1, 1-5pm; Cake in Their Cups, September 15, 10am-3pm; European Breads, September 15, 10am-3pm; Bread Making Workshop, September 22, 10am-3pm and Bartending, September 22, 1-6pm.

Certificate Courses with hands-on include: Basic Culinary, September 4-7 and 18-21, 9am-3pm; Fundamentals of Bakery Production, September 11-14 and 25-28, 10am-3pm and Cake Decorating (Basics and Advanced) September 20-22, 10am-4pm.

Also on September 29, The Peninsula Manila Executive Chef Patrick Boucher shows everyone how to get ready for Christmas by demonstrating how to make Turkey with Traditional Stuffing, Giblet Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Orange Cumin Glazed Carrots and Roasted Pumpkin. He will share old fashion holiday food tips and tricks as well as give suggestions on other holiday dishes and ingredients.

Chef Patrick Boucher

Chef Boucher (above) has had stints with The Four Seasons Hotel properties in Miami, Dubai and Bali. At The Peninsula Manila, he oversees Old Manila, Escolta, Spices and The Lobby.

For more information, log on to www.themayakitchen.com or email contactus@themayakitchen.com   or visit The Maya Kitchen Culinary Center every Tuesday to Saturday at 8F  Liberty Building, 835 A. Arnaiz Avenue (Pasay Road), Makati City or call 8921185 / 892-5011 local 108.

Enrollment open for Bradford MBA Manila

The Bradford MBA in Manila

The University of Bradford School of Management (BSOM) has announced the opening of fall registration for its MBA programme in Manila.

Bradford’s programme is also the only MBA in Manila ranked in the Financial Times Top 100 MBA programmes in the world for the year 2011. The programme’s flexible schedule has been designed for working professionals where students are given the option to complete the 14 modules in between 2 and 6 years.

Subjects being offered for fall classes which will commence on October 2012 are Strategic Management, Business Accounting, Business Economics, Corporate Finance, and Corporate Marketing.

The only school in Manila with AMBA and EQUIS accreditation, Bradford’s Executive MBA programme flies in international faculty to facilitate classes in person. Local tutors assist to bring relevance and application to various topics and issues.

Just recently, it hosted Dr. Hugh Lee who talked about Business Ethics. He also conducted a free Masters Class entitled ‘Relatively Ethical, International Business Ethics in the 21st Century.

The modules include lecture and tutorial sessions, study books, textbooks and academic journal papers, video clips, podcasts and formative online multiple choice questions.

BSOM is one of UK’s oldest university-based business schools, with an international reputation in management education, training and research. Its local partner is the Australian International School (AIS) Manila, a pioneer in transnational education in the Philippines.

Interested applicants may register online at www.bradfordmanila.com or personally submit or mail accomplished application forms. Bradford Manila’s campus is located at the ground floor of the Makati Stock Exchange Building, Ayala Avenue, Makati City.

For more information on the Executive MBA programme, visit Bradford Manila’s website or call +632-5019347 or email contact@bradfordmanila.com.

Mar Roxas is new DILG chief


ABS-CBNnews.com

President Aquino on Friday appointed Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas as the new chief of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Roxas, 55, an economist and president of the Liberal Party (LP), will take over the position vacated by the late DILG chief Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash last August 18.

Speaking to reporters, Aquino said Roxas was on top of a short list of candidates as Robredo’s replacement even before they had confirmed that he had died in the crash.

“When Secretary Robredo was missing, we had to entertain the possibility [of a replacement]. I told Mar that he was first on my shortlist in case we had to replace Jesse,” the President said.

“Hindi naman pwedeng patagalin ang pagtakbo ng gobyerno. Kailangan siguraduhin natin yung functions na hindi nagawa ng naitalaga ay ipasa na kaagad sa isang tao na magpapatuloy sa magandang naumpisahan ni Jesse,” he added.

Asked if Roxas’ appointment was a political move in preparation for the 2013 and 2016 elections, Aquino said he appointed Roxas because he knows that he can do the job.

“If I appoint an alter ego that can’t do the work, then I will have to do the work myself. I will have to appoint someone because I have full trust in him and it will lessen the number of things that i must pay attention to every day,” he said.

Aquino also appointed Liberal Party colleague Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya as the new secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC). Abaya is the secretary-general of the LP.

A Philippine Star report earlier quoted sources as saying the President wants Roxas to take over Robredo’s post because the DOTC chief has the capability and integrity to continue the reforms in the DILG.

Like Robredo, Roxas has never been involved in anomalies, sources told the newspaper.

“It’s easy to make money in DOTC,” one of the sources said.

They said Abaya was “like-minded” and could be trusted to carry out reforms.

“We need someone with integrity. Jun (Abaya) has the credentials, even on the technical aspect. Honest people who will push for reforms, (we need people) on the same page,” one of the sources said. Abaya is an engineer.

‘It’s the LP show now’

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, meanwhile, blasted Roxas’ appointment as another display of partisan politics meant to favor the Liberal Party of President Aquino.

Bayan secretary-general Renato M. Reyes, Jr. said Roxas’ appointment gives the impression that the LP will be given undue advantage in the 2013 polls. He said Roxas should take a leave as LP president until after the elections.

“It seems the Liberal Party has gotten the upper hand on this one. It wants control of a department that has strategic value for the upcoming 2013 elections and eventually the 2016 elections. The partisan political motivation of Roxas’ appointment is too obvious to ignore,” he said in a statement.

He added: “The so-called daang matuwid has been trumped anew by narrow, partisan politics. It’s the LP show now.”

The DILG chief would have influence over the police and local government units, which could be a crucial advantage in swinging the votes for 2013.

It is the second Cabinet posting for Roxas under the Aquino administration and the third since he joined the executive branch under the Estrada administration as its trade and industry secretary in 2000.

Roxas gave up his presidential bid in 2009 and ran instead as running mate of then-Senator Noynoy Aquino. Aquino won but Roxas lost to former Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay in a close vice-presidential race. Roxas has a pending electoral protest against Binay.

Roxas is married to ABS-CBN TV Patrol co-anchor Korina Sanchez.

Rico Puno out of DILG

By Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN

Newly appointed Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas said Undersecretary Rico Puno will be given another assignment outside the DILG.

Roxas said the President has given him the free hand to bring his own people into the agency.

He said all co-terminus positions in the agency are to be vacated.

“[The President] gave me a free mandate to choose my team. I would expect that lahat ng mga co-terminus would be vacated by the time na pumasok tayo. Ayon sa Pangulo, may ibang assignment siya na naiisip para kay Usec. Puno,” he said.

Puno’s appointment at the DILG became controversial after it was learned that he was given control of the Philippine National Police, instead of then acting DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo, before the August 2010 Manila hostage crisis.

He also drew flak after confirming that he had received feelers from emissaries of jueteng operators.

Meanwhile, Roxas said he will have full control of the police. “’Yan ang sinabi sa akin. In any event, sinabi na ng Pangulo sa kanyang remarks. Hindi naman dapat na ako pa ang mag-interpret. Ang Pangulo na ang nagsabi,” he said.

Roxas vowed to clamp down on all forms of crime, including jueteng.

“On jueteng, on drugs, on kidnapping, illegal logging, malinaw na malinaw naman ang posisyon ng Pangulo dito sa krimen na ito. At gagampanan ko ang aking tugkulin para matigil at mahuli lahat itong mga gumagawa ng masama na ito,” he told reporters.

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