IM 1 of TESDA Qualified Trainors/Assessors

last week I emailed  TESDA asking them to  included me on their list of  Qualified Trainors/Assessors.

On October 8th they reply on my emailed asking me to provide some details:

This is how they replied :

Dear Mr. Baya,

Thank you for contacting TESDA.

Kindly provide us the ff. details in order for us to validate your records and process your upload request:

1. Full name
2. Address
4. NC II Qualification and Certificate Number
5. TQ1/AQ1 Certificate Number
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World's oldest man marks 114th birthday

GREAT FALLS, Montana – A Montana resident believed to be the world's oldest man celebrated his 114th birthday Tuesday at a retirement home in Great Falls.

Walter Breuning was born on Sept. 21, 1896, in Melrose, Minnesota, and moved to Montana in 1918, where he worked as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway for 50 years.

His wife, Agnes, a railroad telegraph operator from Butte, died in 1957. The couple had no children.

Breuning inherited the distinction of being the world's oldest man in July 2009 when Briton Henry Allingham died at age 113. Allingham had joked that the secret to long life was "Cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women — and a good sense of humor," according to Guinness World Records.

The Guinness organization and the Gerontology Research Group each have verified Breuning as the world's oldest man and the fourth-oldest person. Three women were born earlier in the same year as Breuning.

Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records, presented Breuning with a copy of the book's 2011 edition that lists him as the record holder.

"Walter wasn't in last year's edition," Young joked. "He was too young."

The Great Falls Tribune reported that Breuning gave a speech before about 100 people at an invitation-only birthday party at the Rainbow Retirement Community, with a guest list that included Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and representatives from Guinness World Records.

Breuning was helped up to a lectern from his motorized cart, appearing somewhat frail but speaking with a strong voice.

He recalled "the dark ages," when his family moved to South Dakota in 1901 and lived for 11 years without electricity, water or plumbing.

"Carry the water in. Heat it on the stove. That's what you took your bath with. Wake up in the dark. Go to bed in the dark. That's not very pleasant," he said.

He said men and women may be able to enjoy life, but they can't be content without a belief or faith. His parting message to the crowd was one of tolerance.

"With all the hatred in this world, in this good world, let us be kind to one another," Breuning said.

Breuning has celebrity status at the retirement home, with visitors waiting in line to see him, Ray Milversted, 92, told the Tribune.

Tina Bundtrock, executive director of the Rainbow, said the home has adopted a policy of scheduling visits with Breuning by appointment, so he's not taxed by people dropping in to see him.

Before his birthday party, Breuning declined to name a favorite among the 114 years he has seen.

"Every year is the same," Breuning told the Great Falls newspaper.

But he criticized one modern invention — the computer.

"When the computer came out, that was one of the worst things," Breuning said. "They laid off all the clerks on the railroad."

But, he added, "Every change is good." — AP

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Jimmy the painting chimp draws hordes to Rio zoo

RIO DE JANEIRO – A retired circus chimpanzee is the Cezanne of simians, drawing crowds to a Brazilian zoo to watch him paint. The 26-year-old chimp called Jimmy has been producing surprisingly lovely paintings each day for three weeks at the Niteroi Zoo.

Trainer Roched Seba said Monday Jimmy doesn't like the toys and other diversions that other chimps enjoy. So three weeks ago, Seba introduced him to painting after reading about animals in zoos elsewhere that enjoyed a little canvas time.

Temperamental as great artists can be, Jimmy at times declines to paint if his cage is surrounded by too many gawkers.

But for at least 30 minutes a day, he carefully dips his brush into plastic paint containers and uses broad, bold strokes to create his art. - AP

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Knife removed from Brazil man's head after 3 years

SAO PAULO – A man in northeastern Brazil is recovering after surgeons removed a 4-inch (10-centimeter) blade that had been stuck in his head for three years following a bar fight.

Edeilson Nascimento, a 29-year-old tire repairman, tells reporters Friday he is feeling great after the three-hour surgery earlier this week.

He is expected to be released from a hospital in the city of Recife next week.

Nascimento says he got into a bar fight in 2007 and was attacked by assailants when he returned home. At the time, doctors only removed the knife handle, fearing that pulling the blade from his head would cause brain damage. But three years of intense headaches led Nascimento to take a chance on the surgery. - AP

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Kyocera Mita Honoured with Prestigious Five Star, Exceptional Ratings for TASKalfa MFDs and Pick of the Year for mono MFP

Submitted by Sara Johnson on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 21:03 Sydney, Australia – Wednesday 8 September, 2010 - Kyocera Mita, one of the world's leading document imaging companies, today announced that they have been recognized by BERTL, Inc. with Five Star, Exceptional ratings for their TASKalfa 300i, TASKalfa 420i and TASKalfa 520i black and white multifunctional devices (MFD) and selected as BLI’s 2010 Pick of the Year Winner – Outstanding Personal Monochrome Multifunction Printer for their FS-1128MFP. In addition Kyocera received BLI’s Recommended award for their FS-4020DN and FS-C5400DN printer models and awards from Beter Buys for Business.

BERTL’s Five Star, Exceptional rating is reserved exclusively for devices that deliver an outstanding range of business-critical features and functions, are innovative, easy to use, well-designed and represent exceptional value for the money for their target base.

The Business Equipment Research and Test Laboratories Inc. (BERTL) is an independent testing laboratory whose purpose is to provide objective, independent product evaluation reports and comparative analyses on imaging devices and software solutions. BERTL analysts evaluated several hundred copiers, printers, fax, multifunctional, colour and production devices to identify the select group of devices that stand apart from the others. Kyocera’s TASKalfa monochrome MFDs earned recognition from BERTL for their ability to offer high productivity speeds, class-leading preventive maintenance (PM) schedules (300,000 for the 300i, 500,000 for the 420i/520i), and industry-leading memory capacity of 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard disk drive. Kyocera’s TASKalfa series received high marks for print and copy productivity, high image resolution of 600dpi for optimum image quality, extensive paper supply for the 300i (2,200 sheets) and 420i/520i (4,200 sheets), as well as document finishing and security features.

“Kyocera has clearly proven its ability to offer MFPs that deliver an outstanding range of business-critical features and functions with the performance and durability that allow businesses to optimize their document imaging needs while controlling costs,” said Megan Cadematori, vice president at BERTL, Inc. “Kyocera’s TASKalfa monochrome MFPs have demonstrated what it means to achieve BERTL’s Five Star, Exceptional rating.”

BLI 2010 Pick of the Year Winner - FS-1128MFP - Outstanding Personal Monochrome Multifunction Printer
BLI is the recognized expert in the industry, with over four decades of leading the product testing field. With proven, controlled techniques and accurate reporting, their product evaluations are conducted by highly experienced employees who evaluate and report on hundreds of new copier, printer, fax and multifunction products each year.

Awarded BLI’s “Pick” in the personal monochrome MFP category, Kyocera Mita’s FS- 1128MFP has a robust design, includes standard print, copy, scan and fax functionality and a RADF (reverse automatic document feeder) for duplex scanning and copying. Users will appreciate the ability to print files directly from USB memory sticks—as well as per-page consumable costs that are among the lowest of competitive printers in this market sector.

Mark Vella, Marketing Manager, Kyocera Mita Australia and New Zealand said, “We are delighted with the acknowledgement from BLI in their recent “Pick” award. When designing the FS-1128MFP, Kyocera leveraged their proven success in both A3 multifunction and A4 single function technology to deliver a well packaged, out of the box solution in the A4 MFP category. With its outstanding total cost of ownership, reliability and productivity and now the acknowledgment of this award, we look forward to its ongoing success in the market place. We’ve always conveyed the outstanding reliability of this product and it’s great to now have this independently verified by BLI.”

Also under the BLI Lab Test report, the FS-1128MFP received an Excellent score for overall Reliability. David Sweetnam, BLI’s European Laboratory and Research Manager praised the FS-1128MFP’s ease of use, noting, “The unit is easy to manage using KMnet Viewer, which can assign specific alerts to different recipients, while the Kyocera Mita Command Center provides users with a very good level of detail about device status, paper size, approximate percentage of paper remaining and toner supplies.”

FS-4020DN – BLI Recommended Award – 125,000 impressions with zero misfeeds (paper jams) Awarded BLI‘s “Pick” in the mid-size workgroup monochrome printer category, Kyocera‘s FS-4020DN demonstrated outstanding reliability in BLI‘s thorough lab test, with not even a single jam throughout its 125,500-impression test.

FS-C5400DN – BLI recommended Award – 75,000 impressions with zero misfeeds (paper jams) This product received an Excellent score for overall Reliability.

Better Buys for Business (BBB)

Better Buys for Business is a leading independent authority on document imaging equipment (copiers, printers, faxes, and scanners).

The Kyocera TASKalfa 552ci won Editor’s Choice in the BBB iGuide, Colour Copier section. The entire Kyocera A4 single function colour laser printer range was also awarded the BBB Editor’s choice 2010. This range consists of the FS-C5400DN, FS-C5350DN, FS-C5300DN, FSC5200DN and the FS-C5100DN.

Selections were based on rigorous analysis of all current models. Each of Better Buys’ 10 product guides contains: Editor’s Choice recommendations in a product area; features and technology overviews; vendor profiles; a detailed verdict on most models from most vendors; full specifications; and pricing information.

For more information on Kyocera’s comprehensive range of awards, please visit our website http://www.kyoceramita.com.au/aboutus/awards

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Kyocera Mita Launches HyPAS™ Developer Partner Program

Submitted by Sara Johnson on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 21:13 01 September 2010- Kyocera Mita today launched the HyPAS Developer Partner Program for its HyPAS™ software platform. The program will support Kyocera Mita partners in developing bespoke software applications that optimize Kyocera’s TASKalfa devices to offer customers advanced functionality and enhanced document workflows.

HyPAS™ is Kyocera Mita’s powerful and scalable software platform that incorporates both Java and Web Services Software Development Kits (SDK). It enables the development of embedded and server applications that optimize the performance of Kyocera TASKalfa MFPs, making them fully customizable and easily integrated into business applications and processes. The availability of both Java and Web Services allows developers to select the most appropriate technology for the development of their application, or combine technologies if required.

The HyPAS™ Developer Partner Program provides comprehensive support and tools to assist developers in creating applications. On joining the program developers will gain full access to HyPAS™ Java and Web Services SDKs, the Scan SDK and operation panel Application Program Interfaces (API), as well as advanced development tools and detailed device information. These are delivered via the HyPAS™ Developer Portal which also includes a forum to facilitate the sharing of information and collaboration within the developer community. Development support is provided to programme members by Kyocera Mita’s in-house team of HyPAS™ technicians. Developer partners will also take part in an initial two-day familiarisation workshop which will introduce HyPAS™ programming in a hands-on environment.

Flexible partnership

Members of the HyPAS™ Developer Partner Program can choose the way in which they would prefer to work with Kyocera Mita. By becoming a HyPAS™ Alliance Partner, organizations can market and distribute their application jointly with Kyocera Mita via its local, European, or global distribution channels. Organisations wishing to distribute, market and support their HyPAS™ applications independently of Kyocera Mita can register to become an Independent HyPAS™ Developer, enjoying the same level of access to tools and support as Alliance Partners.

Reiko Owada, Product Manager at Kyocera Mita Europe commented: “The HyPAS™ Developer Partner Program will promote the development of wide-ranging and innovative applications for Kyocera TASKalfa MFPs, enabling advanced customization and integration into customer workflows and business processes. The program is flexibly designed to benefit developers, giving them the freedom to choose how they bring their HyPAS™ applications to market. The HyPAS™ Developer Partner Program will enable our partners to respond to client requests for highly specific and dynamic solutions, creating document systems that drive productivity and efficiency for our customers.”

Further details of the HyPAS™ Developer Partner Program are available at http://www.kyoceramita-europe.com.

This article was originally posted on Bertl.

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Colombian is world's shortest man at 27 inches

BOGOTA, Colombia — Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car — preferably a Mercedes— and wants to see the world.

Top on his list of people he would like to meet are Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

What sets Nino (pronounced NEE-nyoh) apart is his size.

He is slightly taller than a piece of carry-on luggage and weighs just 22 pounds (10 kilograms).

Nino has just been officially certified as the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records, measuring 27 inches (70 centimeters).

"He hasn't grown since he was 2 years old," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said of the oldest of her five living children.

The previous titleholder was He Pingping of China, who was 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) taller and died March 13. The Guinness people discovered Nino afterward.

They say Nino's reign is not likely to last long, however. Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is expected to take over after he turns 18 on Oct. 14. He measures about 22 inches (56 centimeters) and is currently recognized by Guinness as the shortest living teen.

Doctors never could explain why Nino is so small, his parents say.

"They never gave us a diagnosis," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said during an interview in the family's sparely furnished apartment in Bosa, a mostly poor district of southern Bogota.

Hernandez, 43, said Nino weighed just 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) at birth and was 15 inches (38 centimeters) long.

She said doctors at the National University studied him until he was 3, then lost interest. She and her husband, a security guard, lost a daughter who was similarly small in 1992 when she was about to complete a year of life.

The couple's youngest child, 11-year-old Miguel Angel, stands 37 inches (93 centimeters) tall and has facial features similar to Nino. The other three boys are of normal height and appearance.

"I feel happy because I'm unique," Nino said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press.

He does, however, have his problems: cataracts in both of his eyes that blur his vision and, says his mother, require urgent surgery that the family can't afford.

"He doesn't see well. He isn't able to read," she said.

During an interview, Nino's eyes water and he fidgets with the laces on his toddler-sized black dress shoes.

Other than his eyes, he has no medical complaints.

He's mentally sharp and laughs easily though it's sometimes hard to understand his high-pitched speech and his stubby fingers make writing difficult.

Nino had to repeat several years of school before dropping out in the eighth grade. But he's very sociable, loves to travel — though he hasn't been outside Colombia — and likes to play dominoes and checkers.

"He only gets depressed when he's shut in at home," his mother said.

Leafing through an advance copy of the Guinness World Records 2011 edition, which launches Sept. 15 in the United States and the next day internationally, Hernandez shows Nino a picture of the world's smallest woman, who is from India.

He's not interested in the least.

Nino says he already has a girlfriend. She's 18, is named Fanny and measures just under 5 feet (1.5 meters), he says.

Nino has earned some cash dancing at department stores and is now acting in a film in which he plays — What else? This is Colombia — a pint-sized drug thug.

In his big scene, Nino gets into a shootout.

He acts out the scene, mimicking a pistol with the index fingers of his entwined hands, then slumps over onto the chair's arm. His character doesn't survive the gunbattle.

Nino smiles broadly at the idea of more acting jobs and more life in the spotlight.

And he says he's gotten used to all the picture-taking.

But being the world's smallest man does have its drawbacks.

"It bothers me that people are (always) touching me and picking me up," he said. — AP

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Meeting for samar-leyte chapter

here are the list of SOM grads who attend the meeting last sunday John Jerald Miranda, Avery Salazar, Gwendareign Elizan, Warlito Baya, Jhobet Taganna, Herbert Regis, Ramskie Caubalejo tas an usa pa na 13th batch, hehehe.., Ma. Lessa Mansueto and her friend, Mary Jane Cabodoc, an nawara ha sto. nino Nilo Tejones, Richard Gayrama, ...Ivhez, Jeny Leal, Ailyn Lazarte, Kareen Ann Basas Closa, Zabala  Danilo hino pa an waray ka mention??
Thank you Alzarians!!

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