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Tim Lincecum Fil-Am Pitcher Salary for SF Giants

Tim Lincecum is a Filipino-American pitcher who secured a huge amount in a 2-year-deal worth $40.5 Million. The two-time Cy Young awardee is one of the most popular pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Tim Lincecum is just few of the Filipino-American who have made a name for themselves in the United States.

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Pinoyachievers, the owner of this blog site would like to inform our avid readers that some of our news especially regarding sports and information will be transfer to a self-hosted site at www.esportsinfo.com

For a longer period of time I was not able to update this blog for the reasons that it takes a lot of time and efforts to maintain a blog. We need sponsors for a site in order for it to prosper and for maintenance purposes.

I have collaborated with a former friend and came up with three different sites wherein we monetize to compensate our expenses.

Right now we are concentrating on three different sites, www.quotednews.com for latest news and information. www.pinoystarblog.com for latest celebrity gossips and www.esportsinfo.com for the latest happenings in sports from around the world.

If the three sites would be successful and will provide us with enough income I will rewrite this blog and make more updates. I would always love to share to you the things I’ve learned and compiled them to provide information for all of us.

Thank you and more power to my avid readers.

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For the past few months I haven’t updated this blog for the reasons that in order to keep this blog afloat i have to give more time and research about the topic that I’m going to post. The validity of my posting needs careful research and I have spent a lot of time in doing so. Although I try my best to keep this site well updated I cannot do it continously. For the reason that I need also to monetise my site so I try to focus on my other site Filipino Christian Achievers

I am so excited when I saw my earnings that a few cents have been added from day to day but not enough so I took advice from a friend of mine who have successfully managed a blog to collaborate with him and with experience he pursued me to become partner in his new venture website. The site keeps on getting attention everyday, although we haven’t monetise it yet. I know it will be earning soon.
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To my fellow Filipinos and reader of this blog I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you for visiting my site. Due to some inevitable circumstances I was not able to update this blog for it needs thorough research before I can post something worthy to become a Pinoy Achiever. Temporarily I moved my blog from wordpress to blogger for some reasons. As a Christian I now focused mainly on the achievement of my fellow Filipino Christian Achievers. If you have time just feel free to visit my site…

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Rebecca C. Tubongbanua: Woman Farmer-Scientist

From a measly P7,000 starting capital in 2003, she was able to enhance and develop her agriculture-based endeavor into a multi-million business today.

Not only that Rebecca C. Tubongbanua, a 39-year old entrepreneur of San Isidro, Buenavista, Guimaras, was selected as a Magsasakang Siyentista (Farmer Scientist) in 2007 and became the national secretary general of the Farmer Scientists Association and included in the book written by former Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap as among the 200 agri-entrepreneurs in the country.

A national nominee for Gawad Saka Award and president of the Guimaras Producers and Processors Association, Tubongbanua toiled for several years in experimenting and is finally able to perfect her processed products made of indigenous fruits of Guimaras, especially mango, calamansi, casuy nuts and pineapple.

She put up her firm, McNester, and soon became the byword of processed commodities fit not only for the local table but for national and international markets.

Guimaras mangoes are known as the sweetest mango in the world and command a better price in the markets.

Her processed commodities include mango jam, mango calamansi concentrate, dried mango, mango chutney, calamansi juice, mango calamansi juice, flavored polvoron, mango sauce, mango ketchup-regular, pineapple ketchup-hot and spicy, Indian mango pickles and pineapple marmalade.

Tubongbanua focused on high value commercial crop processing technology and her dried mangos are known for low sugar content and sulfite-free by using science and technology based farm experience.

Her S&T based farm village level processing in mango in San Isidro, Buenavista, is starting to become a tourist attraction in the municipality as many visitors come to see and want to know her secret in processing.

Trainings for her and her 10 employees are provided by the Philippine Center for Agriculture Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture, National Mango Research and Development Center and the Farmer Information and Technology Service (FITS), WESVARRDEC and the provincial agriculture office of Guimaras. (PNA)
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Source: Philippine News Agency

Cristeta Comerford: Pinay Whitehouse Chef

Born in Manila, Philippines, Cristeta “Cris” Comerford now works in the most famous house in the United States of America. Mrs. Comerford became the first woman to become the executive chef at the White House since the Kennedys appointed the position to a high- profile statement of personal style. She is also the first minority, a Filipino-American to hold the position. Serving as an assistant chef during the Clinton Administration, her consummate passion and talents proved worthy. Mrs. Laura Bush appointed her in August, 2005 and she has since showcased the best of American cuisines.

Mrs. Michelle Obama reappointed Cris Comerford because of her passion and emphasis for healthy eating. Her many responsibilities include designing and executing menus for official dinners, social events, and family entertaining. Some of her memorable events include the Governor’s Dinner because of the inclusion of culinary students. Mentorship and leadership has been a key to the success of the White House Kitchen.

Chef Comerford attended the University of the Philippines to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Food Technology. Her 26 years of culinary experience include fine dining restaurants in Washington DC, Chicago, Austria, Napa Valley and France. As a member of the Club Chefs du Chef, an association of chefs of heads of states,
she had continually pursued her growth in techniques, abilities and food trends.

Because of her strong belief in family and community, she had faithfully served as a church deacon and currently leading a home study group with her husband, John. They have both volunteered on humanitarian trips to an impoverished town in Brazil. Recently, she was a keynote speaker at an International Women’s Leadership Conference hosted by the Governor of Hawaii, Gov. Linda Lingle. Mentorship to younger culinarians lead her to speak to students at the Kapiolani Community College in Honolulu.

Her seven year old daughter Danielle had shown her culinary interest by writing their New Year’s Eve dinner celebration. They live in Columbia, Maryland in between visiting families in Seattle and Chicago.

Reese Fernandez: 2010 Rolex Awardee

The co-founder of the Rags2Riches social enterprise, which assists women who recycle scrap materials to make rugs for sale in Payatas, was chosen by the Rolex Awards for Enterprise-Young Laureates Programme as one of its five awardees for 2010.

Reese Fernandez was proclaimed winner under the Environment category “in strong recognition of her social involvement that is transforming the lives of many impoverished women in the Philippines.”

The project started in the Payatas dumpsite and is currently helping women convert trash into “eco-ethical, elegant” products and sell these products directly to retailers.

Fernandez and her team of young professionals sought advice from designers, who demonstrated how the rugs could be transformed into fashion handbags, eyeglass cases and wine bottle, holders, all for sale in top-end shops. About 300 women now work for Rags2Riches.

It not only provides decent wages to these women, but also provides them with training in personal finance, health, and nutrition.

The Rolex Awards provides financial support in the amount of US$50,000 over two years to advance each person’s project.

Rolex will also promote the winners through international media coverage.

The Young Laureates will become active members in the Rolex community of innovators, taking advice from former Laureates and Associate Laureates, and, in turn, passing on their knowledge to other young people.

The Rolex Awards for Enterprise-Young Laureates Programme was launched in 2009. It aims to foster innovation in the next generation.

It supports visionary young men and women in implementing their inventive ideas that tackle pressing concerns and issues in five areas: science and health, applied technology, exploration, the environment and cultural preservation.

The four other awardees are from America, Nigeria, Ethiopia and India. They were chosen from among the 189 applicants from 60 countries around the world.

Joey Concepcion: GoNegosyo

Joey Concepcion III is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RFM Corporation, the Presidential Consultant on Entrepreneurship and one of the founders of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship.
Joey Concepcion came from a middle-class family who did not have all the luxuries in life. He was taught to achieve things in life with patience. He grew up in Pasay City where there was always flood and fire. However, he has grandparents who are known for being great entrepreneurs: Jose Concepcion Sr., was the founder of Concepcion Industries; and his grandmother (from the mother side), Victoria Lopez- Araneta, is the founder of many businesses (FEATI University, Araneta University, RFM Corporation, etc.). The environment he grew up with and his grandparents were what he considers his inspirations to venture in business and be successful in it.

Joey as an entrepreneur is self-confident. At the age of 28, he is already the Chief-Executive-Officer of RFM Corporation, the second largest food and beverage conglomerate in the Philippines generating P10 billion in net sales for the year 2001. He bought the brands Selecta and Cosmos and challenged its two giant competitors: Coke and Magnolia. In 13 years, he made Cosmos a market leader with Pop Cola.

He considers business not only as a way of making money but as well as a way to show love for the country. He wants to help others, already-entrepreneurs and budding entrepreneurs alike, that, together with other eight colleagues, they founded Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship. They aim to encourage and mentor entrepreneurs. They form a movement to achieve their goal of making Filipinos optimistic rather than pessimistic, named it “Go Negosyo”, a brand they hope would create Philippines as a country of millionaires.

Jose Rizal: Pride of Malayan Race

JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families.
His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called “a model of fathers,” came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a highly cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called “loving and prudent mother,” was born in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the age of 3, he learned the alphabet from his mother; at 5, while learning to read and write, he already showed inclinations to be an artist. He astounded his family and relatives by his pencil drawings and sketches and by his moldings of clay. At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, “Sa Aking Mga Kabata,” the theme of which revolves on the love of one’s language. In 1877, at the age of 16, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with an average of “excellent” from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. In the same year, he enrolled in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas, while at the same time took courses leading to the degree of surveyor and expert assessor at the Ateneo. He finished the latter course on March 21, 1877 and passed the Surveyor’s examination on May 21, 1878; but because of his age, 17, he was not granted license to practice the profession until December 30, 1881. In 1878, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop in his studies when he felt that the Filipino students were being discriminated upon by their Dominican tutors. On May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain where he continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the age of 23, he was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine and on June 19,1885, at the age of 24, he finished his course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of “excellent.”

Having traveled extensively in Europe, America and Asia, he mastered 22 languages. These include Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayan, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog, and other native dialects. A versatile genius, he was an architect, artists, businessman, cartoonist, educator, economist, ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian, inventor, journalist, linguist, musician, mythologist, nationalist, naturalist, novelist, opthalmic surgeon, poet, propagandist, psychologist, scientist, sculptor, sociologist, and theologian.

He was an expert swordsman and a good shot. In the hope of securing political and social reforms for his country and at the same time educate his countrymen, Rizal, the greatest apostle of Filipino nationalism, published, while in Europe, several works with highly nationalistic and revolutionary tendencies. In March 1887, his daring book, NOLI ME TANGERE, a satirical novel exposing the arrogance and despotism of the Spanish clergy, was published in Berlin; in 1890 he reprinted in Paris, Morga’s SUCCESSOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS with his annotations to prove that the Filipinos had a civilization worthy to be proud of even long before the Spaniards set foot on Philippine soil; on September 18, 1891, EL FILIBUSTERISMO, his second novel and a sequel to the NOLI and more revolutionary and tragic than the latter, was printed in Ghent. Because of his fearless exposures of the injustices committed by the civil and clerical officials, Rizal provoked the animosity of those in power. This led himself, his relatives and countrymen into trouble with the Spanish officials of the country. As a consequence, he and those who had contacts with him, were shadowed; the authorities were not only finding faults but even fabricating charges to pin him down. Thus, he was imprisoned in Fort Santiago from July 6, 1892 to July 15, 1892 on a charge that anti-friar pamphlets were found in the luggage of his sister Lucia who arrive with him from Hong Kong. While a political exile in Dapitan, he engaged in agriculture, fishing and business; he maintained and operated a hospital; he conducted classes- taught his pupils the English and Spanish languages, the arts.

The sciences, vocational courses including agriculture, surveying, sculpturing, and painting, as well as the art of self defense; he did some researches and collected specimens; he entered into correspondence with renowned men of letters and sciences abroad; and with the help of his pupils, he constructed water dam and a relief map of Mindanao – both considered remarkable engineering feats. His sincerity and friendliness won for him the trust and confidence of even those assigned to guard him; his good manners and warm personality were found irresistible by women of all races with whom he had personal contacts; his intelligence and humility gained for him the respect and admiration of prominent men of other nations; while his undaunted courage and determination to uplift the welfare of his people were feared by his enemies.

When the Philippine Revolution started on August 26, 1896, his enemies lost no time in pressing him down. They were able to enlist witnesses that linked him with the revolt and these were never allowed to be confronted by him. Thus, from November 3, 1986, to the date of his execution, he was again committed to Fort Santiago. In his prison cell, he wrote an untitled poem, now known as “Ultimo Adios” which is considered a masterpiece and a living document expressing not only the hero’s great love of country but also that of all Filipinos. After a mock trial, he was convicted of rebellion, sedition and of forming illegal association. In the cold morning of December 30, 1896, Rizal, a man whose 35 years of life had been packed with varied activities which proved that the Filipino has capacity to equal if not excel even those who treat him as a slave, was shot at Bagumbayan Field.

Alfredo Yao:Ready to Drink Zest

CEO Zest o Corp.

Alfredo Macam Yao, 64, also known as “Mr. Zest-O”, established a record of excellence in diversified fields of business. He began in the printing business before moving on to packaging, food and beverage manufacturing, chemicals, toiletries, real-estate development and banking.

He created and produced the “Zest-O” fruit juice brand and introduced a packaging technology known as doy pack, now widely used in beverages and liquid seasonings. His canned dalandan and calamsi sodas are often served in parties and receptions. The ensuing demand for the fruits has helped revitalize the local dalandan and calamansi citrus-growing country.

Other product lines Yao has developed are Beam toothpaste and Quickchow noodles. He holds the local franchise for the RC Cola softdrink, which will soon be exported to China.

In 1997, he went into banking, opening two Manila-based banks almost simultaneously: Philippine Business Bank Bank, a thrift bank of which he is the chairman and president; and Export & Industry Bank, a commercial bank where he sits as a director. PBB has 18 branches; Exportbank has 31 branches after its recent merger with Urban Bank. In 2003, he established the AMY Foundation to provide scholarships to students from poor families.