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Crisis in Mexico: An Infrarrealista Revolution
By Francisco Goldman
The informal nationwide civic movement that has emerged in Mexico in response to the disappearance of forty-three students is propelled by people and groups with all kinds of agendas and ambitions.
Photograph by Alejandro Acosta / Reuters
This is the fourth part in Francisco Goldman's series on the recent upheaval in Mexico. He has also written "The Disappearance of the Forty Three," "Could Mexico's Missing Students Spark a Revolution?," and "The Protests for the Missing Forty Three."
In mid November, three caravans converged on Mexico City, led by family members of the forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School whose abduction, in late September, has led to nationwide protests. One caravan was coming directly from Guerrero State, where the students disappeared, another from the state of Chiapas, and another from the city of Atenco, in Mexico State, the site of the most notorious act of violent government repression committed by Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's current President, in 2006, when he was governor there. The plan was for the caravans to come together and for the travellers to lead a giant march on November 20th.
The kidnapping is now known to have been carried about by the municipal police of Iguala, Guerrero, on orders from the city's mayor. According to the government, the police handed the students over to a local narco gang, which murdered them and burned their remains in the Cocula municipal dump. This scenario is still awaiting forensic confirmation, and the families of the missing students, and many others, do not accept it. "They were taken alive, we want them back alive!' remains one of the most common chants at the marches. "It was the state!" and "Peña Out!" are also staple slogans.
As the caravans approached Mexico City, President Peña Nieto, along with members and supporters of his P.R.I. government, began issuing statements and warnings that seemed to signal an aggressive new strategy to counter the protests. On November seventeenth, Beatriz Pagés Rebollar, the P.R.I.'s Secretary of Culture, published an editorial on the P.R.I.'s official Web site.* "The chain of protests and acts of vandalism—perfectly well orchestrated—replicated in various parts of the country, demonstrate that the disappearances and probable extermination of the 43 normal-school students were part of a strategic trap aimed at Mexico," she wrote. "All these activists and propagandists have the same modus operandi." Pagés included opposition media on her list of these activists and propagandists, accusing them of fraudulently confusing Mexicans into believing that the students' disappearance "was a crime of state, as if the Mexican government gave the order to exterminate them."
Two days later, Carlos Alazraki, a veteran P.R.I. insider and an advertising executive who has worked on the election campaigns of several of the party's Presidential candidates, published an editorial entitled "Open Letter to All Normal Mexicans (Like You)" in the newspaper La Razón. "46 days ago, two bands, students and Iguala narcos, got into a brawl," he wrote. "There are varying versions of what happened. . . . That one [band] were guerrillas, the other narcos. One or the other wanted to run the whole region." Since the start of the "narco war," in 2006, equating victims' criminality with that of narcos has been a routine pro-government strategy. Such insinuations characterized many of P.R.I. supporters' early responses to the crime in Iguala. Alazraki closed, "Dear comemierdas. I curse the hour in which you were born. You're murderers. You hate Mexico. And to finish, let me remind you that violence generates violence. Don't be shocked if the federal government responds."
The day before, in Mexico State, President Peña Nieto said in a speech, "There are protests that are not clear in their objectives. They appear to respond to an interest in causing destabilization, generating social disorder and, above all, in attacking the national project that we've been constructing." Just a few days before that, he'd warned that the state is legitimately empowered to employ force to impose order.
Peña Nieto often speaks like an actor playing a stereotypical President on a television show: talking about the legitimate use of force as though phrases like that have a magical power to insulate him from the squalid realities of authoritarian power brutally and lawlessly wielded, and of a government hopelessly compromised. (Jon Lee Anderson recently wrote about Peña Nieto.) When a President like that speaks of the legitimate use of power and describes protesters as threats to a "national project," what people hear are threats to wield that power violently and arbitrarily.
In the late afternoon hours of November 20th, people began to gather at various spots in Mexico City to meet the three Ayotzinapa caravans for the march that would converge in the Zócalo, the main plaza of Mexico City. That night, I went to the march with some friends and neighbors. By the monument El Ángel, I saw an elderly woman holding a hand-drawn sign that read, "Yes, I'm afraid! I tremble, sweat, turn pale, but I march! For Ayotzi, for me, for you, for Mexico." As Ayotzinapa family members and students and other members of the Guerrero caravan were led to the front of the march, people chanted, "You're not alone." In the Ayotzinapa group was a young woman who held a swaddled baby and sobbing as she walked forward. There were machete-wielding peasant farmers from Atenco mounted on horseback. I saw many middle-class families, including children. Raucous contingents of university students joined too, of course. It seemed as if every imaginable group and sub-group, large and tiny, that exists in Mexico City was present. For a while, we marched between a contingent from a capoeira school and a marijuana-legalization group. I saw a nearly seven-foot-tall young man with long, blond hair, marching in the nude and holding up a sign that read "Sweden is Watching." Many protesters shouted counts up to forty-three, followed by "Justicia!" "#YaMeCansé" was scrawled on countless signs, followed by whatever that marcher had "had enough" of. For instance, "#YaMeCansé of the war against those of us raising our voices. The criminals are the politicians!" Many chants were inventive or cheerfully obscene or sexual. The larger contingents, from universities and secondary schools, used rope barriers to cordon themselves off from infiltrators. People shouted at marchers wearing masks to uncover their faces. The masked marchers were presumed to be possible members of anarchist groups, or even provocateurs who would provide the police with a justification for responding with violence.
Usually, the main significance of a march is simply that it took place: that people took the time to walk in protest or support of something, because it felt like the right outlet for their indignation or approval. But sometimes a march makes concrete a moment of collective cultural expression that can be harder to put into words. This march was an expression of Mexico City—of a way its residents like to think of themselves—in full flower. But it was also a manifestation of a discernible change that seems to be taking place throughout Mexico. When a friend said that he "could feel Mexico on the move" at the march, he didn't seem, to me, to be exaggerating. We didn't reach the Zócalo until about three hours after the first marchers. By then, the podium where the Ayotzinapa family members had addressed the rally was dark and empty, and I saw no sign of the giant effigy of Peña Nieto that had been set aflame, photos of which were featured, the next day, in media reports all around the world.
As had occurred at the end of the previous march, a small group of anarchists (or perhaps government provocateurs) clustered in front of one door of the National Palace, apparently battling a line of armored riot police. From the distant, opposite end of the vast plaza, we could hear and see explosions and flashes, presumably from Molotov cocktails, perhaps also from tear-gas canisters fired by police. A dark mass of thousands still mulled in the Zócalo, many slowly moving toward the streets exiting the plaza. The reporter in me wanted to get a closer look at the conflagration, but the people I was with didn't want to go any nearer. I left them waiting, and I'd walked perhaps fifty yards when I suddenly heard loud bangs and screams and sensed panic surging through the crowd. I turned around and walking back, as swiftly as I could, to where I'd left my group. When I reached them, Nayeli, a twelve-year-old girl who is our upstairs neighbor, grabbed my hand. All around us, people were now running out of the plaza, faster and with growing panic. The situation was rife with all the danger of becoming a stampede. We made our way through the darkened streets, navigating down the blocks that seemed emptiest, until we finally found a taxi.
It wasn't until the next morning that I began learning about what had happened that night in the Zócalo and the surrounding streets, including those we'd fled through. A large number of Mexico City police had suddenly emerged from the shadows on the Cathedral side of the Zócalo and charged the protesters. All around the plaza, they blocked off streets, trapping thousands inside a circle that, it turned out, we'd just escaped. Eventually, eleven protesters were arrested, but many more were beaten, clubbed, and kicked. It seems that none of the eleven who were arrested were among those who'd been attacking the palace, hurling Molotovs, or otherwise battling the police. Some were arrested while fleeing the plaza, and others in the streets around it. Witnesses used smart phones to film some of the arrests. Most of the arrested were university students. Most had begun to run from the Zócalo, like so many others in the crowd, swept up in the panic. A thirty-one-year-old named Liliana Garduño Ortega, who had been photographing the protest, fell down in the stampede. The next moment, police began clubbing her and kicking her in the head, and then arrested her. Hillary Analí González Olguín, a twenty-two-year-old university student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.), was also beaten and arrested after falling down. An art student named Atzín Andrade, twenty-nine, had become separated from his friends and was waiting for them by a flagpole when police grabbed him. Luis Carlos Pichardo, a fifty-five-year-old filmmaker, and Laurence Maxwell Ilaboca, forty-seven, a Chilean doing postgraduate studies in the Department of Philosophy and Letters at U.N.A.M., were among the arrested. None of the eleven had any previous record.
The Mexico City police turned them over to federal authorities, and they were formally accused of attempted homicide, criminal association, and rioting. They were then transferred to federal prisons in Veracruz and Nayarít. According to their lawyers and human-rights groups, the eleven were beaten, tortured, and denied due process. José Alberto, a twenty-one-year-old merchant, didn't even know that there were going to be protests in the Zócalo that night when he arranged to meet his wife, Tamara, there. They became caught in the crowd that was charged by police. Both were beaten (his beating was especially bad) by at least ten police; he was taken to a police bus, beaten some more, and received ten or fifteen shocks, he said, from an electric prod, after which he lost consciousness. He was found lying unconscious in Corregidora Street in the early morning hours, and was then taken to a hospital.
The day after the march, President Peña Nieto thanked Mexico City's mayor, Miguel Ánhel Mancera, and his police for their coöperation with federal authorities in upholding order in the Zócalo.
A few days later, an old friend of mine, Paloma Díaz, contacted me because one of the eleven, Atzín Andrade, is one of her students at La Esmeralda, the public national arts university. She drove me out to the campus, south of the city. Paloma and the school's director, Carla Rippey, whom I'd never met, were close to the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño during the years he spent in Mexico City in his youth; probably there is nobody now living in the city who knew him better. Bolaño wrote infatuated infrarrealista poems for a teen-aged Paloma; in "Savage Detectives," Rippey is the inspiration for the character Catalina O'Hara, a beautiful United States-born artist living in Mexico.
Bolaño was a leftist who disdained the established left, its orthodoxies, politicians, and political parties. In the early nineteen-seventies, he led a group of poets who believed that life in Mexico and in the rest of Latin America was so violent and absurd that poets needed to subvert reality and realism—as well as élitist literary hierarchies—even more than the surrealists had. That attitude has been very much in the air since the Ayotzinapa incident. Indeed, in Reforma earlier this week, the anthropologist and writer Roger Bartra, who is relatively conservative among Mexico's most prominent public intellectuals, christened "the heterogeneous and radical protest movement that has unleashed massive marches in Mexico City" as "the infrarrealista left." He chose that name, he writes, "not pejoratively," but "because this left seems to flow beneath political realities, carving tunnels to topple the government and undermining the cement of a system it considers corrupt and repressive," just as, he writes, Bolaño and his compatriots sought to "subvert a literary order they considered oppressive." Mexico's most lauded group of young journalist-writers—a group (nominally led by Diego Osorno) who have stripped away the reportorial clichés of the narco war and brought its previously hidden human realities to readers—also refer to themselves as _infrarrealista _journalists.
The protests over the missing Ayotzinapa students, Paloma told me, were the first in recent memory in which students of the highly selective Esmeralda had fully participated. In the past, she said, postmodern ironies and theorizing have engaged them far more than political involvement. She added that it was amusing to see art students who have devoted their nascent careers to conceptual performance and technological videos struggle to paint posters and banners, many of them reading "43 + 11." Rippey said that the arrest of the easy-going Atzín Andrade—who had been attending his first-ever protest march and who was being held in a federal prison on charges of "attempted homicide"—had driven home to the students that what had happened to him could happen to any of them. Rippey said that it was important, too, to temper her students' passions. "This is a free public university," she said, "and that was a great accomplishment. There are things in Mexico to be grateful for."
Frida Mendoza Chavez, a bright and energetic twenty-four-year-old student leader, told me, "As a student at this school, I belong to a structure that the government created and that allows me to believe in a sense of community inside of it. Allowing us to have that place in society also provides us with critical criteria to support institutional legality. From here we have a right to say that we can't permit any more societal injustice, any more injustice toward humanity. But real reforms have to come from the trenches, where we know where we stand as a country. How can they come from the corridors of power? How can [the President] clean up anything when he himself is a product of corruption and impunity?"
Mendoza's eloquent speech ("That came out sounding good!" she exclaimed happily) reflected what, to me at least, is one of the most important and overlooked aspects of this so-called "Mexican moment." The informal nationwide civic movement that has emerged is, undoubtedly, infrarrealista in many ways; it is propelled by people and groups with all kinds of agendas and ambitions, including the most intransigent or irrational ones. But, from what I've observed, it is incorrect to portray it—as the government's supporters, and some eminent intellectual observers, do—either as a movement for radical or violent Communist revolution or else as an unfocussed mass of rabble-rousers who think that merely marching constitutes a movement.
In recent days, a group of Mexican artists released a video called "What's Happening in Mexico. Why We Say #YaMeCansé," which powerfully condenses the causes and aims of the emerging movement. A written statement accompanying the video describes it as a response to "the critical situation in which the lives of so many Mexicans have fallen, who have to deal every day with the impunity, impotence and danger that comes with living in a country that doesn't provide security, governed by a state that, far from preoccupying itself with imparting justice, colludes closely with organized crime and, on top of everything else, is determined to hide the truth of these facts." The artists suggest the creation of a "Citizens Institute empowered to audit the state and begin creating the conditions that can bring justice to the citizens of Mexico."
Nearly a year ago, in February, after Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán, the drug lord at the head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was captured, Edgardo Buscaglia, a Mexican security expert and senior research scholar at Columbia Law School, commented, "El Chapo and his people in Sinaloa had hundreds of Mexican politicians in their pockets. Let's see if they arrest any of them now." Of course they haven't. Buscaglia said that as long as the chains of complicity between politicians and narco lords weren't interrupted, the narco war could be considered lost. The Ayotzinapa tragedy made those chains starkly clear.
Meanwhile, the clearest example of corruption in Mexico at the moment seems to be President Peña Nieto himself. He cannot credibly explain how a relatively young civil servant from a middle-class family has managed to accumulate as much wealth as he has. The most publicized (though not the only) evidence of this wealth is the seven-million-dollar mansion that the President says belongs to his wife, a soap-opera star who hasn't worked since 2007. (A Peña Nieto spokesman has claimed that the house was not as expensive as reported and that the President's wife earned enough to afford the house.)* The title on the house is owned by a construction corporation that has won contracts (some of them controversial) from Peña Nieto's administrations during both his governorship and his Presidency. Last week, when given an award by the Committee to Protect Journalists for his lifetime contribution to the freedom of the press, Jorge Ramos, the Univision broadcaster, spoke about Peña Nieto in a way that no broadcaster, and very few Mexican politicians, has dared. "Can you imagine what would happen here in the United States if a government contractor secretly financed the private home of Michelle Obama? Well . . . that is what's happening in Mexico and, believe it or not, there's not even one independent investigation being held to look into this matter," he said. "That's not saving Mexico. That's corruption."
On November 27th, Peña Nieto announced ten measures intended to pull Mexico out of its current crisis. He suggested disbanding the country's municipal forces and uniting them under the control of state police. He suggested a national emergency telephone number. He revived the idea of strengthening the anti-corruption prosecutor. The proposals, however fell flat, and were mostly derided in Mexico and abroad. If state police are corrupt, too—and so are the federal police—what good can it do to put them under the same command? As the popular radio host Sopitas commented, "If first you don't effectively clean up corruption, uniting the police is the equivalent of institutionalizing the narco police." Others said that a national emergency number, because of organized-crime corruption, would only serve to alert narco groups of actions being taken against them. Peña Nieto's measures admitted no culpability on his government's part, and no member of his cabinet was made to resign over the handling of the crisis. No concrete anti-corruption measures were taken against top-tier politicians. Then again, how can Peña Nieto take on government corruption and impunity when he has become the most obvious symbol of those ills?
On Saturday, November 29th, a federal judge freed the eleven people arrested on November 20th, saying that there was absolutely no evidence to support the charges against them. It was a sharp rebuke to the government, and a victory for all those who had protested and denounced the arrests. On December 1st, the second anniversary of his Presidency, Peña Nieto was greeted by a poll that showed his approval rating at thirty-nine per cent, the lowest for any Mexican President since 1995, following Mexico's disastrous peso devaluation. That night, there was another massive protest in the capital. To avoid the police trap provided by the geography of the Zócalo, the usual direction of the march was reversed, to proceed from the Zócalo to El Ángel. It seemed that it would be easier for crowds to disperse from the multi-spoked traffic rotary surrounding the monument, with streets leading into a busy commercial and tourist zone. Violent anarchists, about thirty in number, showed up again, providing police with pretexts to attack non-violent bystanders. A smart-phone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3t3-rfc9JI) shared on social media shows a police commander using violent language and ordering his men to grab anyone they see running. A number of people, including women, were beaten. Maps of the surrounding streets, marking in red areas that protestors heading home should avoid, circulated on Twitter. A crowd of about a hundred protesters was about to be engulfed by police when a group from the city's human-rights commission showed up and formed a human cordon to protect them. The protesters chanted against violence while the human-rights workers walked them to a subway station.
* A previous version of this post misstated Beatriz Pagés Rebollar's position. This post has also been updated to include the response from President Peña Nieto's spokesperson to allegations regarding the purchase of the President's home.
Francisco Goldman is the author of "The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle."
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The BEK stories are still flooding in including this one from a member of the armed forces ….. Just exactly how do small kids gain entry to a USAF base?
I'm in the USAF and I live on base. I had never encountered anything strange on base until this incident happened. I was on base one weekend. Almost everyone else was home, drinking, sleeping or on duty. I had only stayed on base that weekend because I'd spent all my money.
I was on my bunk watching a movie when I heard a knock at my door. I thought it was my roommate, I went and opened it. Instead of a roommate, I found two kids standing on the walkway – only these kids freaked the hell out of me. I don't know what it was about them, but we're always told to listen to what's inside, because it just might save your life. Right then that voice was screaming at me to shut the door and lock those kids out.
There was also the little telltale sign that these kids had pitch-black eyes. I mean there was absolutely no white or any other color to them whatsoever – just pure black. I asked them what they were doing here at this time of night. One of them told me that it was cold out, and that they wanted to come in and read. I had never met a kid that wanted to "come in and read," and I knew for a fact that they didn't belong on this base. They didn't mention any parents, any broken down cars or even how they had managed to get this far out to the base. There was nothing sincere about these kids. They were playing a game.
It was at this point when I noticed I could drag my eyes away from theres. I felt like I was being sucked it. It felt absolutely horrendous—as though my life were being dragged from my body screaming. They just stood there with their mouths closed, eyes staring into mine and no emotion at all.
I prayed for someone else to come by—but nobody did. I glanced around, the kids stepped forward, and I stepped back and slammed the door shut. I felt as though I were in grave danger. Every warning bell was going off in my head. I stepped back and fell on my bunk. Drained of energy.
I heard soft knocking against the door for a few minutes, shuffling feet and then nothing. The next morning, I went down and asked one of the officers on duty if he had seen the kids. He hadn't. Reading the accounts on your site, I believe I came face to face with these kids on a military base. How they got in? I have no idea? Where did they go? I have no idea—but if they can get onto a military campus—they can get anywhere.
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United Now Have Two Generational Talents After Agreeing A Deal To Sign City Striker
By Ashish Sreejith | September 12, 2020
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Man United are set to sign Charlie McNeil from rivals Man City amongst other prospects in the view of bolstering their academy.
The striker has recorded over 600 goals for his youth side. This drew interest from Juventus, RB Leipzig and Rangers, thus making this coup very significant.
United have been working to sign the Englishman for months now and will seal the deal for a fee rising over £1 million.
Already Mason Greenwood is someone that fans associate as the next big thing for the Red Devils. Adding another lethal striker of such prospect could be a way to make sure that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can have more than one potentially elite striker in the same age category.
The City youth product being added to the ranks next to the 18-year-old could prove to be an investment that gives birth to a lethal striking partnership. Whilst one is considered as one of the hottest prospects in European youth football, the other is making his name as an exciting talent at the top level. The Old Trafford faithful should definitely be excited for the day when the pair lead the line.
Moreover, Alvaro Fernandez Carreras, Marc Jurado and Isak Hansen-Aaoren from Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Tromso respectively are also set to join McNeil.
Carreras and Jurado are defensive-oriented signings. The pair will likely be used to lay the foundation to a potential backline in the future. Both have received international clearance to complete the move and have been undergoing self-isolation in Manchester with a host family.
Meanwhile, Hansen-Aaoren is yet to receive his clearance. The Tromso forward made his professional debut just back in July and now he might be at Old Trafford in a matter of time – a massive step up.
This rejuvenated focus on youngsters and building a competent youth side is definitely a great positive. The Mancunians had lost their touch with upcoming talents during their rebuild period following Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement. Surely, the growth in this department is a step in the right direction.
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Yomi Casual: Biography, Age, Movies, Family & Career
Yomi Casual is one of the foremost fashion designers in the country. He is the younger brother of the popular comedian, Ayo Makun otherwise known as AY.
The designer is known to create beautiful and charming attires for Nigerians. He is also known in different fashion circles all over the world because of his creativity.
In this post, we take a look at the life of this talented fashion designer.
Yomi Casual was born Olorunyomi Omoniyi Makun. He was born January 25, 1985 in the city of Lagos, Nigeria.
He is the last of seven children of the Makun family. He hails from Ifon in Ondo State, Nigeria
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He holds a degree in Fashion Design & Clothing Technology from Auchi Polytechnic in Edo State Nigeria.
He is the founder and CEO of Yomi Casual. The fashion outfit was launched in 2007 and shortly after he was able to break into the list of top fashion designers with his bold and contemporary designs became the favourite of Celebrities in Nigeria and Africa.
Some of his celebrity clients include Alibaba, 9ice, AY, Desmond Elliot, Majid Mitchell, JJ Okocha, Sammie Okposo, Timaya, Chidi Mokeme, Chioma Chukwuka, Seyi Law, Bovi, Uti, Alex Ekubo, Ramsey Nouah Jnr Zack Orji, Uti Nwachukwu, DJ Jimmy Jatt, Ebube Nwagbo, IK Ogbonna, Iyanya, Aki and Paw Paw and many others.
Yomi Casual
Yomi Casual is a fashion design company that specializes in African design, especially cut-to-fit African design.
The designs are intricately textured and designed to enable clients out in style. Also, these designs are uniquely sewn to a standard of perfection.
The remarkable comfort of Yomi Casual® Polish designs is also enjoyed by Captains of Industry, private Businessmen, Socialites as well as Politicians in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and some other parts of Africa.
Yomi Casual has featured in Fashion Exhibitions in Nigeria, and in the UK including Native Vogue International Fashion Week which was held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Also, the company's outfits were featured in the award-winning 30 Days in Atlanta a movie filmed in Atlanta, USA and Lagos Nigeria.
Yomi Casual is also the Official Clothing Partner of AY Live Comedy & Music Concerts, and Shift Celebrity Prayse – an annual Thanksgiving event for all Nigerian Celebrities.
Yomi Casual is an award-winning fashion brand in Africa. The brand has been featured in Fashion Exhibitions in Nigeria, and in the UK. Yomi Casual featured in the Native Vogue International Fashion Week which takes place in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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Some of the awards the brand has bagged include the:
Exclusive Impact Magazine Fashion Designer Of The Year, Peace Ambassador Nominee 2014,
Nigeria Models Achievers Award 2014,
Inspiration Excellent Awards In 2014,
Cynosure Magazine Recognition Award 2013,
Nigerian Youth Merit Awards Fashion Designer Of The Year 2012,
Dynamix All Youth Awards Designer Of The Year 2012,
Vconnect Award Of Excellence 2012,
City People Hottest Designer Of The Year 2011,
Effizzy Awards Newest Designer Of The Year.
Yomi Makun is married to Grace Makun nee Onuoha. She is the CEO of Fab Jewels. It would be recalled that Yomi got engaged to Grace on the 9th of July, 2017 at the Funnybone Untamed II comedy display in Eko Hotel & Suites. The designer got her a stunning ring with her name already engraved on it – Mrs Makun. The proposal began when the DJ began playing the Styl Plus hit track "Olufunmi" then Yomi's friend, Gbenro Ajibade handed him the ring as he got on one knee with the rest of the evening being history.
The couple got married in October of the same year and they currently have a child together. Her name is Kahley Makun and she was born in January 2018 in Atlanta, U.S.A. Yomi revealed in an interview that he met his wife at a friend's party. The designer revealed that she was the only reserved girl at the party and that attribute endeared her to him. Yomi also revealed that fatherhood has taken away his bad temper as he is now a calm person.
AY Makun
Apart from being siblings, Yomi Casual is the certified clothier for his brother, AY Makun. He is also the approved Outfit Partner of AY Live Comedy & Music Shows.
Just in case you're wondering who AY is. His full names are Ayodeji Richard Makun, also known as A.Y. He is a Nigerian actor, comedian, radio and TV presenter.
The comedian was born on August 19 and he hails from Ifon, Ose local government in Ondo State. He is the host of the A.Y live shows and A.Y comedy skits. He produced his first movie, 30 Days in Atlanta which was directed by Robert O. Peters. Also, he is the CEO of Corporate World Entertainment Nigeria.
A.Y attended Delta State University, Abraka where he graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts after spending nine years. While at DELSU, A.Y also won other awards such as the most fashionable student on campus (1999 and 2000); best show-biz promoter (2001); the most celebrated student on campus (2001) and the Jaycee Club socio-personality award (2003).
The comedian shot into the limelight after working as Alibaba Akporobome's personal assistant and event manager.
He is the oldest male child from a family of seven. He is married to Mabel and they have one daughter, Michelle.
A.Y is also the brain behind the popular sitcom, AY's crib with Alex Ekubo, Venita Akpofure, Buchi Franklin and Justice Nuagbe and he also hosts one of Africa's largest comedy shows, AY Live featuring comedians like Bovi, Helen Paul and many other comedians.
A few years ago, Yomi was embroiled in a baby mama drama. It was said that Yomi abandoned his ex-girlfriend when he became popular despite the fact that she was the one that stood by him during his early days as a designer.
It was also revealed that Yomi got her pregnant twice. She lost her first pregnancy and when she became pregnant again, he deceived her by buying her a car and promising her marriage when the child is born which he never did.
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He's the reason why I love fashion designing so much, I came to know there's fashion school in Auchi because of him which I just graduated from.
I really have a lot of respect for you,I admire you in all your work well done sir
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He's without doubt one of the biggest fashion designers we have around today.
He's my mento. Looking forward seeing him soon.
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This Yomi Casual guy is a very big and respectable guy reading on his biography you come to understand how far he has gone and the respect he commands
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There are several peaks above Reno, Nevada that offer excellent terrain for backcountry skiing. Here is a little video from this past Saturday that sums up the fun.
While I enjoy the convenience and comfort of a high-speed ski lift just as much as the next skier, there is something unique and special about scoring fresh turns under the power of my own devices. Backcountry skiing, or snowboarding, leads those adventurous enough to pursue it off of the beaten path to areas less skied by. The Lake Tahoe region possesses countless miles of exceptional terrain with breathtaking views only further enhanced with the back drop of that big, blue, beautiful lake that so many people travel whole continents to see.
The past couple of weeks have delivered stellar conditions with light fluffy powder falling upon the Sierras foot by fantastic foot. The resorts have been excellent and the backcountry exceptional. I still marvel at the ease at which I can wake up at my house in Reno and so quickly am in the midst of such awe-inspiring mountains filled with so many options; and deep turns.
This past weekend I chose to spend one day on the West Shore hiking Mount Tallac, and the next day hiking and skiing in the area adjacent to the Mount Rose Ski Resort. Both days were phenomenal. The climb up Tallac took approximately three hours, but it was definitely worth it. The views into Desolation Wilderness and out across Lake Tahoe would have been rewarding enough for the effort it took, but then the big payoff came when I actually got to ski the roughly 3,000 ft of vertical back down to the car.
Despite being quite exhausted from the day before, the next day proved to be equally impressive. The area around Mt Rose is filled with varying lines that offer many different levels of pitch and position. My friends and I skied a few different lines, and each run brought giant grins to our faces. What is especially cool about this area are the mixed views that you see. On one side you can look out over Reno, Washoe Valley, and beyond, and on the other you can see Lake Tahoe and the Sierra chain as it stretches south towards Yosemite.
If you choose to venture out into the backcountry, please remember to carry the essentials: water, extra clothing, a beacon, probe and shovel. While backcountry conditions in Lake Tahoe are generally safer than places such as Colorado and Utah, avalanche dangers are always still a factor. Be prepared! All of these items are available from such stores as Reno Mountain Sports and The Backcountry up in Lake Tahoe. Avalanche classes are often conducted at REI, Patagonia, Squaw Valley and Kirkwood. Additionally, places such as The Backcountry even offer guided tours.
Until the next hike, I am eagerly keeping an eye on the weather – looks like more snow is on the way!


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Defendant Appeals Guilty Verdict, Raises Self Defense…but what is an Appeal?
OK, so you've lost your criminal defense trial and now you want to appeal… What does that mean?
Recently, I was made aware of a criminal case in central Florida involving a young man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Essentially, the defendant's ex-girlfriend came to his home and, after a fight, hit him in the head with a hammer. She broke his skull and seriously injured him. According to the defendant, he managed to seize the hammer and defend himself, killing her. The defendant was charged with 2nd degree murder and went to trial. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in jail. He is now appealing the verdict against him. His family and friends are working to help him develop the case for appeal.
For many people, it would be the ultimate nightmare: something bad happens, the police come, an arrest occurs, and one is taken to jail. Later, perhaps, a bond is posted, but there is still the matter of the pending charges.
For many defendants, a pre-arranged punishment in the form of a plea agreement is the means of resolving the matter. The plea might involve merely a fine, or perhaps probation and community service, or in the case of a serious charge, an agreed jail sentence.
Others opt for a trial and fight the charges. Such people feel that that they are innocent, or at least the case cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. They elect to have a trial and let a jury decide the outcome. If they win the case (on all charges), then they go home. If they lose, a judge sentences them according to his discretion and/or statutory requirements.
When defendants lose a trial and are sentenced, many will consider whether an appeal would give them some relief.
However, there are many misconceptions about what an appeal really is. First of all, appealing a verdict, in most cases, does not mean that the entire trial will occur again. An appeal must be based on an error of law by the judge, improper behavior by the attorneys or the jury, or some problem with the legal procedures that occurred in the case. If the judge followed all the laws and used his discretion within permissible bounds, and if the prosecution, defense, and jury members acted appropriately, there is not much chance of an appeal prevailing.
Examples of cases overturned on appeal might include: whether evidence was admitted, when it shouldn't have been–perhaps causing improper bias within the jury, or where the evidence was collected by the police in violation of the US Constitution. Where a prosecutor trashes the defense attorney or makes improper personal attacks that have nothing to do with the case. Where a judge errs in ruling for or against objections to testimony. These are examples of issues raised in appeals.
Sometimes a trial is so riddled with errors that an appellate court will ask for the whole case to be retried. Often however, appellate courts rule that although an error occurred, it was not a material or substantive error to the extent that it would have affected the overall outcome in the case. Most appeals are denied.
Do you have questions about a criminal charges in Melbourne, Florida? Questions about a Palm Bay, FL trial? Is your family member facing a trial in Deltona, Florida, Orange City, Florida, or Deland, Florida? Please contact Morgan Law, P.A. at (321) 253-6223 or (386) 218-4973.
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Starting June 11, 2002, Air Kazakhstan will operate Almaty - Atyrau - Budapest twice a week on Mondays and Fridays on Boeing 737-200.
Starting June 7, 2002, the frequency of Almaty - Seoul - Almaty flights will be twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, meeting the requirements of fans wishing to travel to the World Cup 2002 in Korea. The route will be served by Airbus 310-300.
Starting June 11, 2002, the new flights on will be operated on the Almaty - Zhezkazgan - Almaty route on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays (Antonov 24). And, on June 17, we'll start regular flights on the Almaty - Uralsk - Almaty route , operating on Mondays and Fridays (Boeing 737-200).
New rates for flights to/from Moscow!!!
New regular line will commence on June 19, 2002, connecting Almaty, Chymkent and Moscow on Wednesdays and Sundays. Welcome on board of our Boeing 737-200!


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I push my boot against the gas pedal, and the needle on the speedometer surges past one hundred. The Ford's… - James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle, Texas Ranger.
Former Time Warner CEO Heads Amazon Publishing
May 22 – May 29, 2011 Edition Former Time Warner CEO Heads Amazon Publishing
NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/ May 23, 2011—Larry Kirshbaum, former Time Warner Book Group CEO and current agent, has been named v-p of publishing for Amazon Publishing's New York office, according to Publisher's Weekly. Kirshbaum will come on board July 5, though the appointment is immediately effective. Amazon has been conducting an extensive search for a new publishing veteran to head the New York office.
Amazon Publishing head Jeff Belle, Kirshbaum said in a memo to PW that Kirshbaum will "build out" Amazon's New York publishing team, launching new imprints under the Amazon Publishing umbrella, "with a focus on acquiring the highest quality books in literary and commercial fiction, business and general non-fiction."
Kirshbaum retired from TWBG at the end of 2005, the year he was named PW Person of the Year for overseeing a record year for the company. Since leaving TWBG he has been head of LJK Literary Management. During his career at TWBG Kirshbaum was regarded as an innovator and a top marketer, particularly of genre fiction. He launched one of the industry's first digital publishing divisions, iPublish, but closed the group after it failed to gain traction in a marketplace very different from today's digital market.


INSIGHTS > New Articles > Inside India > 2) It is said that one of the reasons for the poor performance of India's numerous laws, aside from design issues, capacity constraints and corruption, is the near-complete absence of post legislative scrutiny or review of the laws. Examine why instituting a culture of post-legislative reviews is good for India and how it can be done.
2) It is said that one of the reasons for the poor performance of India's numerous laws, aside from design issues, capacity constraints and corruption, is the near-complete absence of post legislative scrutiny or review of the laws. Examine why instituting a culture of post-legislative reviews is good for India and how it can be done.
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When you have effective employee communication, you are sure that everyone is on the same page. It is important to consider several things when choosing the ideal communication app for your organization. Below are some of the things that need to be considered when choosing the ideal employee app.
One of the factors that you need to consider when looking for the ideal employee communication platform is figuring out what you need. It is important to figure out if you need a platform to chat or if you need one where you can be able to track tasks. When you know what you need you are sure that it will be easy for you to use a platform that allows you to meet the communication needs of your organization.
It is also very important to ensure that you understand what your employees want as well so that you are able to get something that they will enjoy using. In most cases when employees like the communication platform you are sure that it will easily work for them and that they will be productive when using it. Make sure that before you choose the ideal app that you find out what employees are looking for in the app and if they are comfortable using it on a regular basis.
Another important consideration when you are investing in the app is considering the benefits that the app will be able to give you. Things like speed and accuracy need to be measured so that you are able to figure out if the app will serve the purpose for which it was intended. Having a platform where all employees are able to get news and events on time and are able to respond on availability will ensure that it is easy for them to follow any new messages highlighted.
It is important to make sure that when investing in the app you consider things like how it will be implemented once you invest in it. Communication apps that are complicated to install will in most cases take longer to implement and that is something that may delay or cause set up to be challenging. Consider if you need to start from scratch or if you can be able to integrate the new communication app with existing platforms.


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§ 62.4 - Natural landmark designation and recognition process.
§ 62.5 - Natural landmark criteria.
§ 62.6 - Natural landmark monitoring.
§ 62.7 - Natural landmark modifications.
§ 62.8 - Natural landmark designation removal.
§ 62.9 - General provisions.
source: 64 FR 25717, May 12, 1999, unless otherwise noted.


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My trip to Salzburg was a mixture between business and pleasure. As such, I needed to find a hotel that can offer a perfect combination of both. That's where the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Hotel comes into the picture. It's located not too far from the centre of Salzburg, right near the main Bus and Train station. It seemed like the perfect choice.
Upon welcoming, I was greeted by many smiles at the front office and the check-in was painless and quick even though there was a group of tourists right before me.
I was informed of the many hotel amenities and their working hours, as well as received my room key and the Wi-Fi code. To be completely honest, I was just waiting to get to the bed as I knew very well I'll explore the hotel further by myself once I'm completely rested.
The hotel has 262 rooms, and if they all even partially resemble the one that I got, you're in for a treat.
The room looked extremely comfy the minute I opened the door. The receptionist claimed it was redecorated 4 years ago, and it wasn't hard to see. The bathroom was nice and tidy. The twin beds could easily be mistaken for a big double beds.
There was a very big TV, and an area with a desk, sofa and a table. Everything seemed perfect for somebody that's on holiday but needs to get some work done at the same time.
I took one of the multiple elevators to get to breakfast in the morning. It was served in a very spacious restaurant that I don't think I've ever seen full during my stay, which is perfect. You can easily pick a table and have nobody sitting right next to you. There was plenty of food to choose from at breakfast. Ranging from the classics like bacon, eggs, beans to very specific fruits and seafood. A huge selection of juices and drinks is also worth mentioning and the staff are all very polite and always at your service.
The hotel is mostly meant for business guests, but it doesn't mean that it lacks anything in any department. The gym is well equipped and right next to a nice pool on their own floor. The whole area is kept very clean.
On the upmost floor is a lounge bar that serves a variety of drinks.
The hotel prides itself on its business and conference rooms and while I didn't get to sneak a peek into them, I have to admit that they look really amazing and have a whole floor all for themselves. It's not hard to imagine how many important business meetings and conferences the whole floor has seen.
And when you've done working, you're just a few bus stops (three to be exact) or 15-20 mins walking takes you to the very city centre of Salzburg. Also, if you need to do some shopping there's a shopping mall right outside the hotel. And don't forget the hotel has it own restaurant so you can have lunch or dinner without even exiting the hotel.
All of that makes the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference Centre Hotel one of the preferable choices for stay when visiting Salzburg.


Get replacement parts for your Thumler's A-R2 rotary tumbler on this page. If you need to purachase a complete tumbler visit our A-R2 tumbler page. An A-R2 parts diagram can be found at the bootom of this page to help you decide what part or parts you need. Check out our A-R2 questions, answers and tips learn the basics about operating your machine.
Replacing a broken or worn out A-R2 belt is easy and no tools are required for the job. It is a good idea to have an extra belt lying around in case a belt breaks in the middle of tumbling a batch of rough.
Thumler's A-R2 bearings are made of durable polyethylene. Bearings are simple to replace. Remove the retainer clip, slide the old bearing off, put the new one on and replace the retaining clip. We suggest purchasing some extra retainer rings just in case you damage some while taking it off or putting it on.
Thumler's A-R2 tumbler barrel guides are made of a durable nylon. You won't replace these often but when you do it is easy to do. Remove the retainer clip, remove the bearing and old guide, slide on a new guide and replace the bearing and retainer clip. Purchasing some extra retainer clips in case you damage one is a good idea.
A replacement drive shaft for the Thumlers A-R2 rotary tumbler. Easily replaced, just remove the belt, remove old shaft, snap the new one in and put the belt back on. Includes all parts: Shaft, pulley, bearings, rubber rollers and retainer rings.
A complete idler shaft for the Thumlers Model A-R2 rotary tumbler. This shaft has all of the necessary components and is fast and easy to replace.
This plastic barrel lid is for Thumler's A-R2 three-pound barrels. It also fits Models A-R1, MP-1 and Model T barrels.
A rubber retaining ring used to secure the lid on a Thumler's A-R2 three-pound barrels. Also fits Models A-R1, MP-1 and Model-T barrels.
This is a three pound capacity barrel designed to fit Thumler's Model A-R2 rock tumbler. It is also the same barrel used on the Model A-R1, and Model T rock tumblers. It is a complete barrel with retaining ring and plastic. TIP: Purchasing an extra barrel for the polish step will reduce the chance of contamination from the larger grit steps.
This pulley fits the motor on all A-R model Thumler's Tumbler. This Thumler's A-R2 pulley has a 1/4" bore diameter and 3/4" outside diameter.
This Thumler's A-R2 rock tumbler motor is overload protected. It will automatically shut off under too much load. This motor is very easy to attach and get back to tumbling.


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La notación de danza es la representación simbólica de los movimientos y formas de la danza humana, utilizando métodos tales como símbolos gráficos y figuras, dibujos de trayectorias, sistemas numerales, y notaciones con letras y palabras. Existen varios sistemas de notación, muchos de los cuales han sido diseñados para documentar tipos específicos de danza. Una notación de danza grabada que describe una danza es denominada registro de danza.

En la danza la notación es la traducción de movimientos en cuatro dimensiones (el espacio y el tiempo) con signos que se registran en un papel de dos dimensiones. Inclusive existe una quinta "dimensión" que se podría denominar dinámica que está relacionada con la calidad, textura, y desarrollo del movimiento, que debería ser también capturada por un sistema de notación completo, si bien muchos de los sistemas de notación existentes no la registran.

Las poses de la danza registradas mediante dibujos se remontan a pinturas en paredes de comienzos del período dinástico en Egipto, vasos de la antigua Grecia que representan figuras bailando, y ejemplos iconográficos as otras culturas. En India se han encontrado descripciones relatadas de las danzas, especialmente en un libro del siglo II a.C.. En Europa durante los siglos XV y XVII, se escribieron numerosos tratados sobre danza que contienen descripciones a menudo acompañadas de dibujos. Sin embargo, ninguno de ellos puede ser identificado con un sistema definido que permita capturar los movimientos de la danza (no solo posiciones) y permitir con posterioridad la reconstrucción fidedigna.

Uso

El uso primario de la notación de danza era preservar la danza a través de documentación, y permitir analizar o reconstruir coreografías, formas de danza, y ejercicios técnicos. En etnocoreologia, se utiliza la notación de danza para documentar la danza para su estudio. Los dos sistemas más utilizados en la cultura occidental son la notación Laban (también denominado Kinetografia Laban) y la notación de movimiento Benesh. Otros dos sistemas, la notación de movimiento Eshkol-Wachman y  DanceWriting, son usados pero en menor medida.

Varios sistemas de notación fueron utilizados solo para tipos específicos de danza. Ejemplos en este sentido son la notación de danza abreviada para danzas de Israel, la notación de danza Morris para la danza Morris, y la notación Beauchamp-Feuillet para la danza barroca. Numerosos sistemas de notación de danza son diseñados específicamente para danzas europeas y, por lo tanto, no permiten describir de manera efectiva las danzas de otras culturas. Ejemplos de danzas no europeas son las danzas policéntricas de muchas culturas africanas, donde los desplazamientos del cuerpo en el espacio desempeñan un rol menos importante que los movimientos de cambios de forma del cuerpo. Algunos investigadores de la danza han intentado desarrollar sistemas de notación para este tipo de danzas.

Historia

En la década de 1680, Pierre Beauchamp inventó un sistema de notación de danza para la danza barroca. Su sistema denominado notación Beauchamp-Feuillet, fue publicado en 1700 por Raoul-Auger Feuillet y se lo utilizó para guardar registros de las danzas durante el siglo XVIII.

Una importante colección de registros de danzas es la colección Serguéyev, que utiliza el sistema de notación de Vladímir Stepánov. Esta colección incluye los registros del repertorio del Ballet Imperial (en la actualidad ballet Kírov/Mariinski) de comienzos del siglo XX, incluidas los diseños de las coreografías originales de Marius Petipa de La Bella Durmiente, Giselle, Le Corsaire, y El Lago de los Cisnes, además de la coreografía de Coppélia y la versión original de El cascanueces. Fue utilizando esta colección que las obras antes mencionadas fueron presentadas por primera vez fuera de Rusia.

En 1948, Hanya Holm fue la primera coreógrafa de Broadway que consiguió registrar la propiedad intelectual de sus registros de danza por su obra Kiss Me Kate.

En 1975, Ann Hutchinson Guest reconstruyó el Pas de Six del ballet La Vivandière de 1844 obra del coreógrafo Arthur Saint-Léon, junto con la música original del compositor Cesare Pugni, para el Joffrey Ballet. La pieza fue reconstruida a partir del trabajo de Saint-Léon, quien había dejado sus registros utilizando su propio método de notación de danza denominado La Sténochorégraphie.

En 1982, Eddie Dombrower crea DOM el primer sistema computarizado de notación de danza, para la computadora personal Apple II. El sistema presenta una figura animada en la pantalla que realiza los movimientos de danza que especifica el coreógrafo.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Cage, J. and Knowles, A. (1973) Notations. Reprint Services Corp. ISBN 0-685-14864-5
 Drewes, Henner (2003) Transformationen - Bewegung in Notation und digitaler Verarbeitung in Fellsches, J (Ed) Folkwang-Texte Bd. 18. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen. ISBN 3-89924-057-X
 Hutchinson Guest, A. (1989) Choreographics: a comparison of dance notation systems from the fifteenth century to the present. Routledge ISBN 90-5700-003-2
 Neagle, R.J. and Ng, K.C. (2003) Machine-representation and visualisation of a dance notation in Proceedings of electronic imaging and the visual arts - London July 2003

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Owen and Avalon Brown
Directors of OMS NZ
Owen and Avalon are the Executive Directors for One Mission New Zealand. Owen & Avalon spent 4 years in Ecuador involved in church planting among the Saraguro people.
They are missionaries with OMS and serve in the following areas:
Promotion of all OMS Ministries
Recruiting, mobilizing and training of missionaries
Short term ministry teams overseas
Administration and financial oversight
Support for NZ missionaries
Rev. Chunillal Pema
Mission Mobiliser
Chunillal has been working in Asia planting churches, discipling and training leaders.
Currently Chunillal is based in New Zealand. He is building and equipping our Pacific partners, connecting with the local indigenous groups and Pasifika peoples to encourage more mission involvement.
He works in New Zealand, Philippines, Asia and Pacific region.
Brent and Colleen Weaver
Church Planting - Ukraine
Brent and Colleen are based in Kiev, Ukraine. Brent primarily works in making disciples among Ukrainian young adults with the aim of developing a network of multiplying churches. He also serves as a mentor for a church planting team in Estonia. Colleen facilitates disciple-making globally in her role as the TLEAD leadership and discipleship development coordinator.
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Professional Development of ESOL Teachers
After teaching at a Seminary in Russia for 13 ½ years, she is now based in Asia overseeing professional development of English teachers in East and Southeast Asia. She also trains future missionaries at Eastwest College of Intercultural Studies through:
Teaching ESOL to international students
Training students teach and use ESOL on the mission field
Teaching cross-cultural skills
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Leadership Training - Ecuador/Asia
M & A served in Ecuador, as South Island New Zealand Representatives for One Mission Society and in Asia. M & A will continue to serve in Ecuador and Asia for 3 months each consecutive year. This includes community and family initiatives in the area of agriculture, healthcare, family business training, marriage enrichment, discipleship and leadership training. They also mentor pastors and leaders in these countries.
Dr Graham and Carol Houghton
Theological Education - India
After serving for forty years in India, first as the Principal of Madras Bible College and then as the founding Principal of SAIACS, the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies; Graham & Carol returned to India in 2013. They are helping to set up a graduate level study programme in North India.
Graham and Carol have relocated to the USA. They still hope to return to India on short term trips.
Pastor Rely and Lalaine Samonte
Church Planting - Philippines
Pastor Rely and Lalaine Samonte planted a Church and Christian school in Malolos, Philippines. One Mission Society New Zealand is partnering with them in a new church plant with the Mangyan people on the Island of Mindoro in the Philippines.
Philip and Ruth Robinson
Ruth and Philip live in Malolos City, Philippines with their little daughter Jemimah. A Christian school is run from the church where they minister and many students and parents come to know and follow Jesus. Their current roles there for Philip is teaching the word of God through Bible stories and preaching in church, and Ruth is a full time teacher, preaches at church, is in the worship team and has other administration responsibilities. They have 2 local outreach areas where they encourage the needy with feeding programs, Bible studies, Bible stories and prayer.
Their main ministry is to the Mangyan people on the Island of Mindoro. Phil writes "Our Mangyan brothers and sisters live off borrowed land, they're a marginalized people, quite poor and many have not been educated so they cannot all read the Bible. Great changes have happened in this people group since people obedient to the Lord have worked with them and brought the full gospel of truth of our saving King Jesus. Our Mangyan brothers and sisters have been baptised, married in the sight of God and are now more confident. They have a church, they've toilets and running water, they have a little more food, Bibles in their own language, the government has put in electricity and built a kindergarten and they are praying to own the land they live on."
Orion and Sara Kenny
Missionaries in Training
Orion and Sara have recently been accepted as OMS Missionaries, living here in Hamilton, New Zealand. He's a Kiwi, she's an American. Sara will often be in the OMS office as our new teams co-ordinator, with Orion assisting the growth of OMS. Passionate about impacting young people's lives for Christ, they are also beginning a ministry at the University of Waikato.
Glyn and Naomi Johnston
Glyn and Naomi have also recently been accepted as OMS Missionaries, living here in Hamilton, New Zealand. Along with their daughter Minna, they will be heading to minister in Budapest, Hungary. They will be working with the OMS Hungary team, helping in the business and media areas.
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CALEB INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT AND LAW
The Caleb Institute has been set up as a trust in India, by Dr Graham and Carol Houghton (NZ missionaries). It is a response of the Evangelical Fellowship of India to the need of a Graduate Institution in North India to address several issues:
The Hindi of North India comprise 600 million and there is still no Post-Graduate Institution there.
There is a desperate need for studies that are Christian-centred and passionate about making Jesus Christ known in a way that they can understand Him and follow Him. Do you want to be involved in this new Institute by donating now?
MOSCOW EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SEMINARY
Begun in 1992, the Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary (MECS) offers theology, church ministry, youth ministry and camp ministry degrees at both the bachelors and masters levels. MECS is the only evangelical seminary registered with the government in the Moscow area.
With almost fifty students studying for the various degrees offered, MECS is looking to make an impact in Moscow and other parts of Russia.
As is the case with many of OMS' seminaries around the world, the students attending MECS cannot afford to pay the entire amount needed to cover their costs.
Is God calling you to help fund the costs of a student to attend this seminary? Would you make a monthly donation to allow more students to get this education?
PHILIPPINES MINISTRY TO THE MANGYAN
Pastor Rely and Lalaine Samonte planted a Church and Christian school in Malolos, Philippines. One Mission Society New Zealand in partnering with them in a new church plant with the Mangyan people on the Island of Mindoro in the Philippines. This community had no water, electricity, toilets or Christian witness. Volunteers from New Zealand have provided water and toilets and witnessed their faith in action. Many in the community now worship the Lord for themselves and meet together for prayer and teaching.
Is God talking to you about being involved by going, giving or praying? They still need funding to provide schooling and literacy for the adults. Pastor Rely visits every week with other church members. He needs funding to continue to teach these people. His vision is to start reaching out to other Mangyan communities also.
PRISON MINISTRY IN COLOMBIA
Jeannine Brabon, grew up in Colombia, South America. Following 16 years of ministry in Spain, she returned to Colombia in 1986 to teach biblical Hebrew and has pioneered an exciting prison ministry in Medellín.
Though few dared to visit Bellavista, Medellín's maximum-security prison noted for daily murders, Jeannine and a team of Colombian evangelists carried the Gospel inside. As a result, countless lives have been transformed, and the murders have dissipated. In 1992, Jeannine began the Bellavista Prison Bible Institute. Through this discipleship programme, more than 600 prisoners have graduated and now minister to other inmates in penitentiaries all across the nation. More than 40 men, once prisoners and now free, serve as pastors or evangelists all over Colombia. One is a missionary in Chile.
UKRAINE ENGLISH MINISTRIES
In a culture where nominal belief is the norm, English camps in Ukraine are a great way for Ukrainian university students to see the reality of Jesus.
Our summer English camps give Ukrainian students an opportunity to meet a Christian with a vibrant relationship with Jesus for the first time. During the 10-day camp, many begin to see that God is relevant and can make a daily difference.
Do you want to help a Ukrainian student attend and be transformed by this camp experience? If you give $50 today, you will help cover a portion of the cost for one student to attend camp. A gift of $500 covers partial costs for 10 students!
What Is HOPE61?
HOPE61, a ministry of One Mission Society, fights human trafficking through prevention.
Inspired by Isaiah 61:1, HOPE61 exists to train and mobilize the worldwide church; to address the issues of human trafficking and human vulnerabilities to become victims, traffickers, and buyers.
Four key trafficking areas:
Labour trafficking
Child Soldiering
HOPE61's method consists of two types of training: Engage and Multiply.
The one-day engage training equips pastors, lay leaders, and missionaries to create outreach programmes within their churches to prevent human trafficking in their communities.
This training focuses on five components:
Education and awareness — HOPE61 explains in detail the four types of trafficking.
Why the church should be involved – HOPE61 discusses holistic ministry and walks attendees through Scripture verses that address the church and community.
Asset and ability mapping – HOPE61 helps attendees determine what gifts and skills their church possesses to reduce vulnerability.
Assessment of vulnerability – HOPE61 examines with attendees what specific vulnerabilities those in their community may be facing.
Creating an action plan – Attendees determine their next steps to actively address vulnerabilities in their communities using their skills and resources.
In the multiply training, attendees dig deeper into the material learned in Engage and are equipped to teach the information to others. They can then conduct further HOPE61 trainings for pastors, lay leaders, and missionaries, multiplying HOPE61's reach through national coworkers.
Since the focus is on training, the HOPE61 approach is highly reproducible and sustainable.
The Need:
Human trafficking has become the second largest illegal business in the world—surpassed only by the illegal arms trade. Each year, there are millions of people who live in slavery across the globe. While rescue and restoration from trafficking are important, OMS believes the best long-term solution, and the only one that influences those trafficked as well as traffickers and buyers, is having churches worldwide address vulnerabilities within their communities.
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Laura Fabbri
Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"
Academic discipline: FIS/01 Experimental Physics
Researcher at the University of Bologna since 2010. Since 2001 I was associated with several national and international research centres, including the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and CERN in Geneva. In 2004 I was awarded the Italian Physical Society Prize for scientific industriousness, reserved for young graduates. I carry out my research in the field of high-energy physics, focusing in particular on the study of the interactions between the fundamental constituents of matter, in the context of the validity of the Standard Model. Since 2005 I have been a member of the ATLAS collaboration, within which I contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson and where I currently carry out most of my research. I am author of numerous publications and speaker at various national and international conferences. I am also involved in scientific dissemination and university guidance. Go to the Curriculum vitae
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Keywords: tree, planting trees, tree environments; Lesson Plan Grade Level: seventh through ninth grade; Total Time Required: one 45-minute period (does not have to be continuous); Setting: classroom, computer lab/library Keywords: pulpwood, board foot, cubic foot, cord, forest inventory; Lesson Plan Grade Level: seventh through twelfth grade; Total Time Required for Lesson: one class period (50 minutes); Setting: classroom for instruction, introduction of new terms, and discussion of how to use them, neighbor's yard to practice measuring amount of firewood Keywords: cultural impact on the environment, uses for wood, wood products, environment; Lesson Plan Grade Level: seventh through twelfth grade (could be used for elementary grades as well); Total Time Required for Lesson: one class period; Setting: classroom Keywords: timber harvesting, compromise, clear cutting, selective cutting, wildlife management, silviculture, diameter limits, select cutting, high grading, shelterwood cutting; Lesson Plan Grade Level: eighth grade; Total Time Required for Lesson: two 40-minute class periods; Setting: classroom Keywords: timber harvesting, compromise, clear cutting, selective cutting, wildlife management, silviculture, diameter limits, select cutting, high grading, shelterwood cutting; Lesson Plan Grade Level: eighth grade; Total Time Required for Lesson: two 40-minute class periods; Setting: classroom Keywords: consumerism, natural resources, renewable/non-renewable resources, energy web; Grade Levels: 8; Time: 1 hour, additional time may be given for art work; Setting: indoors or outdoors with writing surface Keywords: abiotic, biome, biotic, browse, community, conservation, cover, deciduous, decomposer, ecology, ecosystem, edge, environment, habitat, indigenous, natural resource, niche, organism, population, succession; Lesson Plan Grade Level: 6; Total Time Required for Lesson: 3-class periods and 2-nights of homework TOTAL TIME is 180-minutes; Setting: forest (Cameron County is 97% forested), classroom, school library, public library Keywords: conifers, deciduous, forest, forestland, forest products, forest stewardship, land ethic, overstory, regeneration, renewable resources, sapling, seedling, silviculture, trees need wildlife, understory, wetlands, wildlife use of trees; Lesson Plan Grade Level: 5-8; Total Time Required: 5 days; Setting: the lesson will require two meetings in the classroom and three meetings using the computer laboratory keywords: forest entomology, forest pathology, defoliators, skeletonize or mine, sapsucking, boring, vectors, fall makers, biological control, chemicals, sanitation, mechanical procedures, regulatory controls, quarantines, containment, silvicultural controls, integrated pest management, biotic disease, abiotic disease; Lesson Plan Grade Level: 5-8; Total Time Required: 5 days; Setting: the lesson will require three days in the classroom and two days in the computer room Keywords: Dendrology, tree identification; Grade Level: grades 5-6; Total Time Required: Five 35-minute class periods; Setting: Classroom and Outdoors (Yellow Creek State Park); Subjects Covered: Environmental Science; Topics Covered: Dendrology or Tree Identification Keywords: watershed, sustainable, rain garden, riparian buffers, wetland, carrying capacity; Grade Levels: 4 - 12; Time: 40 minutes plus allow 25 additional minutes to present Lorax book or DVD; Setting: indoors; Subject: Science; Topic: Develop an environmentally sustainable plan for a forest within the Lorax Watershed Keywords: Forestry, Forest History, Jim Nelson, Industries, Williamsport, Sawmills, Charcoal, Rivers, Streams, Booms, Logging Camps, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Great Depression; Lesson Plan Grade Level: grades 6-8; Total Time Required: Two 45-minute class periods, with additional time for extension projects if desired; Setting: Classroom with DVD player (with connections to our State Park field trip activities); Subject(s) Covered: Forestry, Environment and Ecology, Pennsylvania History, U. History (Great Depression), Economics Keywords: Observations, Questioning, Trees, Plants, Leaves, Bark, Animals, Forests, Photography; Lesson Grade Levels: 5 – 7; Total Time Required: Two – Three 45-minute class periods; Settings: Outdoor forested setting, then classroom with computers and projector; Subjects Covered: General Science, Forestry / Basic Biology (depending upon students' choice of subject to observe) Keywords: dendrology, simple, compound, alternate, opposite, entire, toothed, lobed, deciduous, coniferous; Lesson Plan Grade Level: ninth through twelfth grade; Total Time Required for Lesson: one class period; Setting: This lesson is meant to be a follow-up to a lesson on the basic terminology and concepts necessary for dendrology.
Background Trees contain some of nature's most accurate evidence of the past.I have given the unit outline, however, this lesson is for Day 1.The time for this lesson is 30-45 minutes; Setting: classroom instruction with a project to be completed at home Keywords: Leaf/Tree Identification, Terminology; Lesson Plan Grade Level: 3rd grade; Total Time Required: Assuming students had already completed Step 1 of the directions, Step 2 may take 30 minutes and then time to assemble books.Second, the leaves tend to be drier in the fall and will not be as likely to mold in the binders.First and last class periods may be inside or outside, remainder of the work will be done outside.
Dating fire scars found in the annual rings is a major application of tree-ring dating. This photo shows two scars.
Understand that thickness of a tree ring is. What Students Do in this Lesson Students are introduced to tree rings by. Climate Discovery Teacher's.


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Jersey City to Triple the Cost of Major Film Permits
Jared Kofsky
With the crew of "Joker" setting up shop and taping in Journal Square, film production in Jersey City is certainly in the spotlight. Now, filming a major motion picture in the state's second largest city is about to get a lot more costly.
An ordinance that was introduced to the Jersey City Municipal Council in August calls for making several amendments to the city's rules regarding film permits in order to "better offset the additional expenses incurred by the city to accommodate film projects." Although 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations that are producing films can have their permit costs waived, most for-profit filmmakers should see an increase in costs.
Currently, major film permits are required for films that involve at least 30 crew members or at least 10 production vehicles. They cost $500 per day for non-residents and $250 for those who live or run a business within Jersey City limits. Now, the ordinance calls for tripling the cost to $1,500 per day and charging a non-refundable application fee of $300. The definition of a major film will also be changed to account for all filming for movies, commercials, television shows, and shows on streaming services like Netflix or Hulu that either involve a crew of at least 20 people, a casting size of at least 15 people, and/or at least 10 vehicles on city-owned streets, according to the ordinance.
While permits for minor films with between four and nine people on staff will remain at $250 per day, an application fee of $100 has been added.
A new category of intermediate films for "commercial still photo shoots, web series, independent films [and] short films" has also been created. These kinds of permits, which are for productions involving 10 to 19 people on the crew, 10 to 14 people on the cast, and/or nine or fewer vehicles on city streets, will cost $1,000 per day and come with a $200 application fee.
A $1,000 fee will also be assessed for all permits that are requested three business days or less before the day that a film is expected to shoot.
The ordinance passed 8-0 on first reading in August and was heard again by the council on September 12 for second reading. It was signed by Mayor Steven Fulop on September 14, according to city records.
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Mandate of Committee examining issue of 2G-licenses and allocation of spectrum
Mandira Kala - December 21, 2010
A Committee has been set up to examine appropriateness of procedures followed by the Department of Telecommunications in issuance of licences and allocation of spectrum during the period 2001-2009. The Committee will be chaired by retired Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice (Retd.) Shri Shivraj V. Patil. According to news reports the Committee is scheduled to submit its report by the first week of January 2011. The Terms of Reference (TOR) of the Committee have been listed as: 1. To study the circumstances and developments in the Telecom sector that led to the formulation of the New Telecom Policy 1999 and subsequently, introduction of 4th Cellular Telecom Mobile Service (CMTS) licence in 2001. 2. To examine the internal (intra-departmental) procedures adopted by DoT during the period 2001-2009 for: a. Issue of telecom access service licences, and b. Allocation of spectrum to all telecom access services licencees during the above period. 3. To examine whether these procedures were in accordance with existing policies and directions of DoT/Government. 4. To examine whether these procedures were followed consistently and if not, identify specific instances of: a. Deviation from laid down procedures; b. Inappropriate application of laid down procedures; c. Violation of underlying principles of laid down procedures. 5. To examine whether the procedures adopted were fair and transparent and were in keeping with the principles of natural justice and if not, identify the specific instances of lack of fairness and transparency. 6. To identify the deficiencies, if any, in the procedures as formulated and identify the public officials responsible for such deficiencies. 7. To identify the shortcomings and lapses, if any, in the implementation of the laid down procedures and identify the public officials responsible for such lapses. 8. To suggest remedial measures to avoid in future: a. Deficiencies in formulation of procedures; and b. Lapses in implementation of laid-down procedures.


An insatiable curiosity has plagued me since early childhood. Much to "Santa's" chagrin, interest was soon lost in merely winding up his gift of a toy train and watch it roll around an oval track. Taking apart the locomotive proved to be more fun. The innards of wind-up alarm clocks also became a favorite target. How'd they work?
This curiosity never waned. But people rather than mechanical things became the focus later in life when joining the working world as a news reporter, a craft governed by the five Ws of Journalism 101: who, what, where, when, and why. It was an easy life. Go out, get the facts, write the story, and move on. There were times, however, when the five Ws of a story satisfied the city editor, but not my curiosity.
A typical story of the day might be: A local businessman, traveling alone near midnight on a winding country road south of the city, was fatally injured when his car left the road and smashed into a tree. There was no evidence of another vehicle involved, or that the man was intoxicated. The county sheriff's deputies who handled the accident concluded it was simply a matter of driving too fast on a narrow road and losing control.
After giving in to the persistent urging of family and friends to try my hand at creative writing, the first step back into that realm since college, the question became: how does one go about writing a novel?
What was known is that each individual existence is the sum of all that has been experienced, a list of things so numerous and varied it defies enumeration. In the aggregate, these experiences define each person as distinctly as do fingerprints. Some part of that experience becomes the why, the reason a person says or does something at a given moment in their lives.
After seventy plus years of traveling along life's road, a wealth of first-hand experience existed that spanned the spectrum from moments of happiness, joy, and contentment to encounters with unseen potholes; some small, of minor consequence, others jarringly deep, and life changing. They were viewed as explanations for the whys that followed.
So why not use that personal experience, at least in a fictional world, as a way to satisfy my curiosity about human nature? It would more than the creation a cast of characters to be plugged into a plot. The story would be built around events, good and bad, that can affect a life. They would become the explanations for why things happened. The characters and plot would be vehicles to tell the story.
This approach to creative writing now occupies much of my time; too much, if you ask my friends. Some say it's become an obsession. Others have called it a form of exorcism. Neither opinion has been rebutted. It's a slow process, one that would never support a book-a-year schedule.
It slow because finding the answer to the question, "Why'd he do that?" has proven to be far more difficult than assumed. It's a complicated puzzle with many more pieces than first envisioned. Looking for it, based on personal experience, is at times as difficult as looking for it in historical documents. The approach requires pulling memories and feelings off a back shelf of the mind and spending a lot of time thinking about another question.
Bo - Welcome! Always my pleasure having you here, and always a treat to read what you've written.
Thanks for the opportunity. I certainly hope you are having an easier time figuring out why your characters did what the they did. Best of everything to you. Thanks again for your consideration.
I suspect what Bo says about wanting to know more about the people in the stories explains why so many journalists eventually turn to writing fiction.
Bo had the good sense to wait until his journalism career was over. Maybe he can explain why today's journalists seem to be writing fiction in their reportage.
Isn't being "retired" when you can do things slowly and carefully and not get picked on? Tell those folks that your are retired and you write at your own pace!
I've always been drawn to mysteries for the same reason, I want to know who, what, where, when and why. Since I can't write I did the next best thing, I became a reference librarian!
About the time I was asked to stop taking things apart, I started to write. The pachinko machine is still in the basement, slightly dismantled.
I much enjoyed "The Providence of Death." It was as though one was immersed in the protagonist's life.
Whittles. That name brings back memories from my side of town, out near Fountain City. Often traveled on Whittle Springs Road to avoid the traffic on Broadway when headed for Tazewell Pike, the route to home. Learned to play the game at the Whittle Springs Golf Course.
I do as you say, Patty, but it's a good feeling to hear folks say they are eager to read one's next book. Reference Librarians earned a special place in my heart during the years of writing historical non-fiction. In my opinion, the Internet will never replace you guys.
Una, a pachinko machine is a good metaphor for writing. A bunch of words go into the top with the hope that enough land in the proper slot to create something acceptable. Beyond that, it's another batch of balls dumped into the top. As you know, it's called rewriting.
And to see the words "interesting" and "enjoyable" used by a reader are two of the reasons I keep scratching that itch.
Your curiosity and "digging" are what make your PROVIDENCE OF DEATH a book that lingers in my mind.
I agree that today's "journalists" are turning into wannabe columnists. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned reporters?
Sorry -- didn't mean to turn this into a rant. (-: Great post, Bo!
The story behind the story... always fascinating. And as writers, if we can't discover what it is in fact, we can make it up to suit ourselves!
Glad to hear that both of you, Pat and Vicki, understand the lure of the "why?" Maybe not being able to figure things out in the real world is why we turn to fiction. We can fill in the blanks so to speak. But it's not easy. Years ago, Bill Tapply told me to be ready to work harder than I ever had. He also quoted his father who said that not only was writing hard work, the more one learned about the process, the harder it got.