Ariel Y. Abadilla is a Filipino lawyer and a retired career diplomat. He was the first and last resident ambassador of the Philippines to Ireland from 2009 to 2012.
Career
On 30 May 2009 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo swore in Ariel Abadilla, as the Philippine's first full-time resident ambassador to Ireland taking over diplomatic jurisdiction from the Philippine Embassy in London. The swearing in took place at the VIP Lounge of the NAIA International Passenger Terminal 3, shortly before the President departed for a visit to Korea. Abadilla is a career service officer and passed the Foreign Service exams in 1978. Since 1994 he has held postings in New York City, Houston, Seattle, Beijing, Sydney, Washington D.C. and Hawaii. In line with his retirement in 2012, the closure of the Philippine Embassy in Dublin resulted to the Philippine Embassy in London re-assuming diplomatic jurisdiction over the Ireland and the reopening of a Philippine Honorary Consulate in Dublin.
At the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, he held director positions for Treaties Division, Passport division
and deputy chief of protocol and later chief of protocol.
A member of the Philippine Bar, Abadilla took his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws degrees at
the Ateneo de Manila University. He is also an alumnus of the Academy of American and International Law in Dallas,
Texas. He also took seminar courses in the International Peace Academy in Vienna, Austria.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090923140838/http://www.ops.gov.ph/archives2009/may30.htm#PGMA%20swears]
He has two daughters, Katharine and Marienette, son Alvin, and wife Nerissa.
Further reading
* Filipino Forum (The Filipino Voice in Ireland), Vol. 08, No. 25, 2009 (including pictures)
Career
On 30 May 2009 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo swore in Ariel Abadilla, as the Philippine's first full-time resident ambassador to Ireland taking over diplomatic jurisdiction from the Philippine Embassy in London. The swearing in took place at the VIP Lounge of the NAIA International Passenger Terminal 3, shortly before the President departed for a visit to Korea. Abadilla is a career service officer and passed the Foreign Service exams in 1978. Since 1994 he has held postings in New York City, Houston, Seattle, Beijing, Sydney, Washington D.C. and Hawaii. In line with his retirement in 2012, the closure of the Philippine Embassy in Dublin resulted to the Philippine Embassy in London re-assuming diplomatic jurisdiction over the Ireland and the reopening of a Philippine Honorary Consulate in Dublin.
At the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, he held director positions for Treaties Division, Passport division
and deputy chief of protocol and later chief of protocol.
A member of the Philippine Bar, Abadilla took his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws degrees at
the Ateneo de Manila University. He is also an alumnus of the Academy of American and International Law in Dallas,
Texas. He also took seminar courses in the International Peace Academy in Vienna, Austria.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090923140838/http://www.ops.gov.ph/archives2009/may30.htm#PGMA%20swears]
He has two daughters, Katharine and Marienette, son Alvin, and wife Nerissa.
Further reading
* Filipino Forum (The Filipino Voice in Ireland), Vol. 08, No. 25, 2009 (including pictures)
Kalaparva aims to celebrate Indian performing arts and artistes through an exclusive online media space. It will aim to serve online content to Indian arts.
Kalaparva at present is an online magazine exclusively dedicated to Indian arts and artists - both performing and visual arts. It is a non-profit initiative aimed to promote the understanding and appreciation of the country’s arts among a larger audience worldwide. As a platform for Indian artists, art connoisseurs and the uninitiated, it intends to serve news and listings in the realm of arts, bring to light the richness of classical and folk art forms Showcase artistes and their ideas, creative thoughts, works and contributions, initiate critical discourse and intellectual discussions on the past, present and future of the art forms, facilitate knowledge exchange on the theory and practice of the art forms and provide information and access to resources useful to the art community.
Kalaparva at present is an online magazine exclusively dedicated to Indian arts and artists - both performing and visual arts. It is a non-profit initiative aimed to promote the understanding and appreciation of the country’s arts among a larger audience worldwide. As a platform for Indian artists, art connoisseurs and the uninitiated, it intends to serve news and listings in the realm of arts, bring to light the richness of classical and folk art forms Showcase artistes and their ideas, creative thoughts, works and contributions, initiate critical discourse and intellectual discussions on the past, present and future of the art forms, facilitate knowledge exchange on the theory and practice of the art forms and provide information and access to resources useful to the art community.
Nigel Botterill (born January 1966) is a British entrepreneur, marketer, author, speaker and business mentor. He is founder and chief executive of a number of businesses including the UK's fastest growing franchise, thebestof and most notably, the Entrepreneurs Circle.
Nigel Botterill left a successful corporate career to self-employment in 2003. Since then he has founded nine separate businesses in both the B2C and B2B markets.
In 2010 Nigel Botterill launched the Entrepreneurs Circle the UK's largest membership organisation dedicated to helping businesses to grow and in February 2011, he published his first business book The Botty Rules, which reached number two in the Sunday Telegraph best-sellers list.
Early Life
Nigel Botterill was born in January 1966 in Leeds, United Kingdom. His father was a police officer and his mother worked as a switchboard operator.
Corporate Career
Nigel Botterill began his working life at Barclays Bank in 1982 at the age of 16. His Barclays career lasted for 18 years and saw Botterill responsible for building UK call centres and setting up Internet Banking Services.
In 2000 NIgel Botterill took the role of Marketing Director at Singlepoint (part of the Phones4U empire) working alongside John Caudwell. He began working with another entrepreneur, Hamish Ogston in late 2001 as Managing Director of Card Protection Plan.
Business Ventures
N5 Ltd.
In 2003 Nigel Botterill left the corporate world. Later in the same year, he set up his own marketing consultancy, N5 Ltd.
MyMag
At the same time as he was launching N5 Ltd, Nigel Botterill’s wife Sue set up a local community magazine with paid-for ads from local businesses and was soon generating a sizeable income each month whilst looking after the couple’s children. The success of Mrs Botterill's magazine business led to Nigel Botterill firing all his consultancy clients and shifting his focus on to a new business called MyMag helping other people accomplish what his wife had done. The 'business in a box' was launched from Nigel's spare bedroom in June 2004.
thebestof
In 2005, with the growing success of MyMag, Nigel Botterill set up thebestof which was one of the very first online business directories and became the fastest UK franchise ever to get to 200 franchisees. This transition was recognised by the award for Innovative Company of the Year which was awarded to Nigel at the Fast Growth Business Awards in 2008. thebestof also ranked No. 3 in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 in 2007 and won the award for Best e-company of the Year at the Sharp Edge Awards presented by Duncan Bannatyne.
Raring2Go
Nigel Botterill launched Raring2Go in April 2006. A local magazine which was a guide on what to do and where to go with your children. They printed over 4 million magazines a year and sold the business in December 2008.
MyLittleWrapper
My Little Wrapper was a personalized chocolate wrapper business launched in February 2008. It generated over a million pounds of turnover in its first year.
Explosive Marketing
Explosive Marketing was launched in January 2009 as a marketing service for restaurants. It was sold a few years later.
MySMB
Nigel Botterill and his team launched MySMB in June 2009. It was a package which taught people how to become social media managers for other businesses.
Agency
In 2017 Nigel Botterill and his team recognised the clear and substantial desire of members of the Entrepreneurs Circle to have their marketing 'done-for-them' and so Botterill launched his own marketing agency; LUDIFY (Let Us Do It For You).
Books
In February 2011, Nigel Botterill published his first business book The Botty Rules which became a Sunday Telegraph best-seller.
Awards
In addition to the awards his business’ have won, Botterill has also picked up several accolades for his contributions to the business world. He won the BT Essence of the Entrepreneur Award and was also Highly Commended at the National Business Awards in the Entrepreneur of the Year category in 2007 and again a finalist in 2012. Botterill was also the first ever non-American (and two time winner) to pick up the GKIC Marketer of the Year award.
Personal Life
Botterill lives in Solihull, United Kingdom with his wife and four children.
He is an avid Leeds United fan, amateur golfer and has seen the musical production of Les Misérables 37 times.
Nigel Botterill left a successful corporate career to self-employment in 2003. Since then he has founded nine separate businesses in both the B2C and B2B markets.
In 2010 Nigel Botterill launched the Entrepreneurs Circle the UK's largest membership organisation dedicated to helping businesses to grow and in February 2011, he published his first business book The Botty Rules, which reached number two in the Sunday Telegraph best-sellers list.
Early Life
Nigel Botterill was born in January 1966 in Leeds, United Kingdom. His father was a police officer and his mother worked as a switchboard operator.
Corporate Career
Nigel Botterill began his working life at Barclays Bank in 1982 at the age of 16. His Barclays career lasted for 18 years and saw Botterill responsible for building UK call centres and setting up Internet Banking Services.
In 2000 NIgel Botterill took the role of Marketing Director at Singlepoint (part of the Phones4U empire) working alongside John Caudwell. He began working with another entrepreneur, Hamish Ogston in late 2001 as Managing Director of Card Protection Plan.
Business Ventures
N5 Ltd.
In 2003 Nigel Botterill left the corporate world. Later in the same year, he set up his own marketing consultancy, N5 Ltd.
MyMag
At the same time as he was launching N5 Ltd, Nigel Botterill’s wife Sue set up a local community magazine with paid-for ads from local businesses and was soon generating a sizeable income each month whilst looking after the couple’s children. The success of Mrs Botterill's magazine business led to Nigel Botterill firing all his consultancy clients and shifting his focus on to a new business called MyMag helping other people accomplish what his wife had done. The 'business in a box' was launched from Nigel's spare bedroom in June 2004.
thebestof
In 2005, with the growing success of MyMag, Nigel Botterill set up thebestof which was one of the very first online business directories and became the fastest UK franchise ever to get to 200 franchisees. This transition was recognised by the award for Innovative Company of the Year which was awarded to Nigel at the Fast Growth Business Awards in 2008. thebestof also ranked No. 3 in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 in 2007 and won the award for Best e-company of the Year at the Sharp Edge Awards presented by Duncan Bannatyne.
Raring2Go
Nigel Botterill launched Raring2Go in April 2006. A local magazine which was a guide on what to do and where to go with your children. They printed over 4 million magazines a year and sold the business in December 2008.
MyLittleWrapper
My Little Wrapper was a personalized chocolate wrapper business launched in February 2008. It generated over a million pounds of turnover in its first year.
Explosive Marketing
Explosive Marketing was launched in January 2009 as a marketing service for restaurants. It was sold a few years later.
MySMB
Nigel Botterill and his team launched MySMB in June 2009. It was a package which taught people how to become social media managers for other businesses.
Agency
In 2017 Nigel Botterill and his team recognised the clear and substantial desire of members of the Entrepreneurs Circle to have their marketing 'done-for-them' and so Botterill launched his own marketing agency; LUDIFY (Let Us Do It For You).
Books
In February 2011, Nigel Botterill published his first business book The Botty Rules which became a Sunday Telegraph best-seller.
Awards
In addition to the awards his business’ have won, Botterill has also picked up several accolades for his contributions to the business world. He won the BT Essence of the Entrepreneur Award and was also Highly Commended at the National Business Awards in the Entrepreneur of the Year category in 2007 and again a finalist in 2012. Botterill was also the first ever non-American (and two time winner) to pick up the GKIC Marketer of the Year award.
Personal Life
Botterill lives in Solihull, United Kingdom with his wife and four children.
He is an avid Leeds United fan, amateur golfer and has seen the musical production of Les Misérables 37 times.
Native American creation stories refer to metaphorical and allegorical stories, held among various Native American cultures and Native American religions that explain how human beings, the world, and sometimes the animals and other features of the world came to be.
Most modern people see these stories as metaphors, though some also believe that the stories contain hints about migration stories and other real aspects of their people's history. Some are more literal in their understanding, and reject some aspects of both the theory of evolution or the Bering strait theory, arguing that Native American people originated in North America.
Oral traditions
Oglala Lakota author, theologian and historian, Vine Deloria Jr., writing for Indian Country Today, stated
Deloria's book Red Earth, White Lies challenges scientific fact and claims that the findings of research on human evolution are myth, a "hilarious farce" (p. 182). Deloria alleges that Native American creation stories and oral tradition actually contradict some aspects of scientific research.
Criticism
Deloria's rejection of some of the scientific evidence on human evolution, early migration and the first settlement of the Americas sparked opposition. One of his main critics, H David Brumble, an English Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, has openly expressed his criticisms toward this belief in some of his works, including his article, Vine Deloria, Creationism, and Ethnic Pseudoscience.
Creation myths by tribe
Most modern people see these stories as metaphors, though some also believe that the stories contain hints about migration stories and other real aspects of their people's history. Some are more literal in their understanding, and reject some aspects of both the theory of evolution or the Bering strait theory, arguing that Native American people originated in North America.
Oral traditions
Oglala Lakota author, theologian and historian, Vine Deloria Jr., writing for Indian Country Today, stated
Deloria's book Red Earth, White Lies challenges scientific fact and claims that the findings of research on human evolution are myth, a "hilarious farce" (p. 182). Deloria alleges that Native American creation stories and oral tradition actually contradict some aspects of scientific research.
Criticism
Deloria's rejection of some of the scientific evidence on human evolution, early migration and the first settlement of the Americas sparked opposition. One of his main critics, H David Brumble, an English Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, has openly expressed his criticisms toward this belief in some of his works, including his article, Vine Deloria, Creationism, and Ethnic Pseudoscience.
Creation myths by tribe