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The story in most novels takes place over a period of time. Some are condensed to a few hours while many epic tales span generations and perhaps hundreds of years. But no matter what the timeframe is in your story, you control the pacing. You can construct a scene that contains a great amount of detail with time broken down into each minute or even second. The next scene might be used to move the story forward days, weeks or months in a single pass. If you choose to change-up your pacing for a particular scene, make sure you're doing it for a solid reason such as to slow the story down or speed it up. Remember that as the author, you're in charge of the pacing. And the way to do it is in a transparent fashion that maintains the reader's interest. Here are a couple of methods and reasons for changing the pace of your story.
Slow things down when you want to place emphasis on a particular event. In doing so, the reader naturally senses that the slower pace means there's a great deal of importance in the information being imparted. And in many respects, the character(s) should sense it, too.
Another reason to slow the pacing is to give your readers a chance to catch their breath after an action or dramatic chapter or scene. Even on a real rollercoaster ride, there are moments when the car must climb to a higher level in order to take the thrill seeker back down the next exciting portion of the attraction. You may want to slow the pacing after a dramatic event so the reader has a break and the plot can start the process of building to the next peak of excitement or emotion. After all, an amusement ride that only goes up or down, or worse, stays level, would be either boring or frantic. The same goes for your story.
Another reason to slow the pace is to deal with emotions. Perhaps it's a romantic love scene or one of deep internal reflection. Neither one would be appropriate if written with the same rapid-fire pacing of a car chase or shootout.
You might also want to slow the pacing during scenes of extreme drama. In real life, we often hear of a witness or victim of an accident describing it as if time slowed to a crawl and everything seemed to move in slow motion. The same technique can be used to describe a dramatic event in your book. Slow down and concentrate on each detail to enhance the drama.
What you want to avoid is to slow the scene beyond reason. One mistake new writers make is to slow the pacing of a dramatic scene, then somewhere in the middle throw in a flashback or a recalling of a previous event in the character's life. In the middle of a head-on collision, no one stops to ponder a memory from childhood. Slow things down for a reason. The best reason is to enhance the drama.
A big element in controlling pacing is narration. Narrative always slows things down. It can be used quite effectively to do so or it can become boring and cumbersome. The former is always the choice.
When you intentionally slow the pace of your story, it doesn't mean that you want to stretch out every action in every scene. It means that you want to take the time to embrace each detail and make it move the story forward. This involves skill, instinct and craft. Leave in the important stuff and delete the rest.
There will always be stretches of long, desolate road in every story. By that I figuratively mean mundane stretches of time or distance where nothing really happens. Control your pacing by transitioning past these quickly. If there's nothing there to build character or forward the plot, get past it with some sort of transition. Never bore the reader or cause them to skip over portions of the story. Remember that every word must mean something to the tale. The reader assumes that every word in your book must be important or you wouldn't have written it.
We've talked about slowing the pacing. How about when to speed it up?
Unlike narration, dialog can be used to speed things up. It gives the feeling that the pace is moving quickly. And the leaner the dialog is written, the quicker the pacing appears.
Action scenes usually call for a quicker pace. Short sentences and paragraphs with crisp clean prose will make the reader's eyes fly across the page. That equates to fast pacing in the reader's mind. Action verbs that have a hard edge help move the pace along. Also using sentence fragments will accelerate pacing.
Short chapters give the feeling of fast pacing whereas chapters filled with lengthy blocks of prose will slow the eye and the pace. Make sure you write it that way for a reason.
Just like the pace car at the Indianapolis 500 sets the pace for the start of the race and dramatic changes during the event such as yellow and red flags, you control the pace of your story. Tools such as dialog versus narration, short staccato sentences versus thick, wordy paragraphs, and the treatment of action versus emotion puts you in control of how fast or slow the reader moves through your story. And just like the colors on a painter's pallet, you should make use of all your pacing pallet tools to transparently control how fast or slow the reader moves through your story.
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Like clockwork, just over a year after rolling out its "social design experience" called Corpsify, Brooklyn's Big Spaceship has exhumed the beast, which this time now stalks the virtual world in HMTL 5 form. Yeah, yeah, before you yell at us about consecutive days of said agency's coverage, our horror movie bias prevails when you launch a project called "Corpsify."
Anyhow, the basic premise remains the same: three different "Corpsifiers" will create a digital portrait in sequence without knowing what the previous person came up with. It takes three to tango in this little game from Big Spaceship, and approved work will be featured in the Corpsify gallery. Have at it, digital doodlers.


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When most people think about beach trash, they envision the rare plastic bag, glass bottle, cigarette butt or leftover beach supply. It's something locals shake their heads about and (sometimes) throw away on their way off the beach. The trash is considered a bit rude, a bit lazy, but by no means extraordinary.
In places like Indonesia, Hawaii, India, China and the Philippines, however, plastic pollution on beaches has choked out wildlife and caused health concerns for residents. So much so that Haina Beach, in the Dominican Republic, is commonly referred to as the "Dominican Chernobyl" for having the highest incidents of lead poisoning in the world. Garbage consisting of everything imaginable, including paint buckets, diapers, toothbrushes, syringes and fishing nets can be found, originating from around the globe. A large chunk of this trash, however, is something people might actually wear to the beach – flip flops.
As far as the eye can see, in those places, flip flops lay on beaches like fallen soldiers in the war on plastic.
Ponte Vedra Beach resident Erin Smith said she is well aware of those dirty beaches. During a trip to Kenya, she met a tribe of women who were actually using some beach trash to make toys for their children. The women were motivated by the loss of habitat for sea turtles, which could not long make it up the littered embankment to lay their eggs. As the main footwear of the country, cheap flip flops made up a large portion of the seaside debris. Today, Smith is the CEO of Ocean Sole Africa, a social enterprise company that uses washed up flip flops to make colorful works of art. The company recently opened their headquarters off Palm Valley Road.
"I came back to see my parents and I really noticed a change in Jacksonville," Smith said. "It's become very art-y. I felt like instead of going to Miami or Charleston, why not Ponte Vedra? We have a community here that really embraces art, conservation and charity work."
The business model is what is considered a "B-company," meaning a benefit company. A benefit company is a type of for-profit corporate entity that includes positive impact on society, workers, the community and the environment. While many companies see the "bottom line" as profit margins, benefits use the model to try to make the most impact across their values.
In the case of Ocean Sole Africa, the company prioritizes ocean cleanup and the Kenyan workers who make the business thrive. For an area with 40% unemployment, Ocean Sole keeps many families with a regular paycheck they wouldn't otherwise have.
"We provide hot lunches for employees, fair wages and we ensure their kids have a school," Smith said. "Nobody is driving a range rover. We are concerned with getting kids into university."
Part of the allure of the pieces are their color, detail and sheer size. Manatees, elephants, giraffes and lions line the walls of the Palm Valley location. Shipped directly from Kenya, the flip flops are collected, cleaned, glued in layers, then finally the animals are carved out.
As amazing as the art is, the enormity behind the sculpture creates the value. It's a project that takes a journey from the bottom of someone's foot, to the trash, to the ocean, making its way eventually to the beaches of Kenya, where, finally, it becomes a sculptured masterpiece. It is a journey of art that currently resides in places like the children's wing of hospitals and on the pool patios of bighearted Floridians.
For a cheap flip flop, it's quite a voyage.
For more information about Sole Ocean Africa, got to oceansoleafrica.com or visit the gallery at 5150 Palm Valley Drive #406, Ponte Vedra.


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No. 1 Michigan Wolverines at No. 3 Indiana Hoosiers
Saturday, 2/2/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV: ESPN
Opening Point Spread: Indiana -4.5
Current Betting Line: Indiana -4
Opening Total: 145
Current Total: 143
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Michigan has won four games in a row since suffering its only setback of the season, as it comes off a convincing 68-46 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats as 15-point home favorites, while going UNDER the total in five of its last six contests. The Wolverines are led by guard Trey Burke on the offensive end, who is averaging 17.9 points and 7.1 assists per game. "I know guys are ready," stated Burke this week about this particular matchup. The team's 20-1 start is the best in program history, which can't be ignored when making your college basketball picks against the spread. Michigan is 22-11 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.
The Wolverines have gone 23-19 away from Ann Arbor over the last three seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college basketball betting lines Saturday night. Michigan is averaging 78.0 points per game, which currently ranks as the highest per-game average under coach John Beilein since he arrived on campus, The team has won its 20 games this year by an average margin of 19.4 points per game, which is the third-best point differential in the country.
Indiana has also won four consecutive games entering the first-ever matchup between two teams ranked in the top three in the history of Assembly Hall, as it comes off a 97-60 blowout victory over the Purdue Boilermakers as 7.5-point road favorites. The Hoosiers have compiled a dominating 31-2 record at this venue over the last two years, which includes a 2-1 ATS mark as favorites of 3.5 to 6 points. Indiana is 2-6 ATS versus Big Ten Conference foes during the 2012-13 campaign.
The Hoosiers have been led by Victor Oladipo recently, as he averaged 20.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in two games last week, which earned him conference honors for that period. Indiana leads the nation in outscoring opponents by 23.5 points per game, as its offense enters averaging 84.0 points per game. Sophomore center Cody Zeller is another key player to watch, averaging 16.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game.
Sports bettors will likely back the Hoosiers due to the home team covering the spread in five of the last seven meetings in this series.
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[QUESTION] I dont know what you believe, but from your posts, id assume that you believe that thre is a heavenly place (spirtiually) that we go to when we "die" physcially? I was taught that tradionally.... so if you have input, nows a good time for my "sake"
[ANSWER] Yes, (I) take the approach that we are in our physical bodies right now and living in a physical realm. Our souls/spirits have been regenerated by Christ and given immortality so that when we die (like the seed analogy in 1 Cor. 15:36-38) our souls/spirits rise into our new immortal bodies fitted for our heavenly existence with God in the heavenly realm forever.My response to this answer is this: the problem I see here is that this idea promotes two resurrections. Notice the statement says that the souls were regenerated. Is this not the quickening or giving life to the soul?
Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)But the objector promotes:quickened: 4806. suzoopoieo, sood-zo-op-oy-eh'-o; from G4862 and G2227; to reanimate conjointly with (fig.):--quicken together with.Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:raised: 4891. sunegeiro, soon-eg-i'-ro; from G4862 and G1453; to rouse (from death) in company with, i.e. (fig.) to revivify (spiritually) in resemblance to:--raise up together, rise with.
"when we die (like the seed analogy in 1 Cor. 15:36-38) our souls/spirits rise into our new immortal bodies fitted for our heavenly existence with God in the heavenly realm forever. "So then at physical death this idea is promoting a second "rising" as he states. I cannot see two risings of the soul.
He goes on to say:
"So, we do not have our immortal bodies yet, but we do have immortality in the inner man which enables us to receive or "put on" our immortal bodies immediately at death. We are not "in heaven now" in a physical sense, but only in a "positional" (in Christ), "spiritual", "covenantal" or "relational" sense."My response:
Question: You say we are not in heaven in a physical sense, with which I would agree. Are you saying that you do believe we *will* be in heaven in a physical sense at physical death?
He ironically states:
"If we are "in Christ" (positionally or spiritually or relationally) we are symbolically or covenantally where He is, but not physically in that location where He is."My response:
Again, the same question: First, is there any other way than positionally, spiritually, covenantally and relationally being in heaven? If so, what is that way? In other words, you have pretty much covered all the bases. If we are there in all the ways you have described, what other way is there and what Scriptures would you use to support the first ways we are there now and the other way you say we *will* be there?
This next statement he makes seems very good:
"Our souls/spirits are certainly in covenant with Christ and relationally "with Him" and "in Him" but we are not physically in His presence (visibly, audibly, tangibly) right now."My response:
Again, the same question: are you saying one day we will be there physically? When you say "visibly" and "audibly" and "tangibly" do you mean physically? If not, what other way do you mean and what kind of vision is this?
What kind of audio is this? What kind of video is this? Physical? Spiritual? If it is spiritual, then as you have said, we already have it. If physical, then you would have to identify the Scripture that supports that. If not either one, then what other way would we have this audio/visual/tangible relationship to Christ and what Scripture supports your view that we have the spiritual now and the physical later (provided of course you are meaning audio/visual/tangible means physical)?
Notice the phraseology and the use of the terms "real sense" in this next statement he makes:
"We will not be in His presence in the real sense of the term (visibly, audibly, tangibly) until after we die and shed the physical body."My response:
Which Scripture do you use to support being in His presence now in one sense and being in His presence later at physical death? How are we in His presence now? Spiritually? You seem to believe we are there spiritually? Is that spiritually in a "real sense" or in a fake sense? How will we be in His presence then? Physically? If we are in His presence now spiritually and yet you explain that the other way at physical death is not physical, then which way is that in His presence if we already have spiritual presence with Him now, but the presence we get at physical death is not physical presence? What other presence would it be and what Scriptures support that? It seems to me you are now turning a two-realm creation into a three-realm creation. But the Bible says nothing of this third creation.
Without a stable knowledge of Pauls intent of the seed analogy, he writes:
"We don't have two bodies at the same time. The seed analogy (1 Corinthians 15:36-38) shows that the seed doesn't get its new "plant body" until the outer shell dies and the inner man sprouts forth into its new body (at death). The folks on the SGP list seem to be totally oblivious to the significance of the seed analogy."My response:
No, actually those on the SGP list are not oblivious to it. We are well aware of it and remain unconvinced by the arguments set forth by those who affirm what you believe both logically and biblically.
First, we all hold to a seed analogy. The problem is that your view of the seed analogy doesn't understand how a seed works:
A seed falls to the ground. Unless it falls to the ground and dies it will never bring forth fruit. The seed analogy was only given for the first century believers because Christ was the Seed who first fell to the ground and He was the Head of the Body.
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.The corn of wheath is the seed. It never immediately sprouts. It always grows gradually into a tree. That is precisely what was happening in the first century. They were all connected to the tree. Of course there were individuals. They all were a part of the huge tree that was blossoming and growing into a complete man. But the way you have it is that we are seeds and suddenly at physical death we get the immortal body. That reduces the logical natural/supernatural function of the seed. No seed ever just immediately sprouted during that first century period. It was growing into fullness or completion:
Matthew 13:31-32 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: {32} Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.We have to understand the first century application of the seed analogy. It does not apply to us. We are simply grafted into what was completed and joined with that body as those alive from the dead upon faith in Jesus Christ (The just shall *live* by faith).
He continues:
"I recommend you read Dan Harden's, John Noe's and my Gentry Response books again before you buy into the shallow reasoning of the "heaven now" and "Immortal Body Now" views being thrown around on the SGP list."My response:
I find it interesting that you refer to it as shallow. Quite amazing actually considering the fact that the same questions posed on the RPG and SGP list were never Scripturally addressed. The only attempt was to isolate 1 Corinthians 15 apart from the rest of Scripture. The arguments against your view have been more than adequately addressed by Karen Boydston (and that very adeptly and biblically). I also have offered these arguments against your view:
In those articles I not only address the dilemmas of resurrection at physical death, I also show the inconsistencies of the view that we have presence with God in a sense, or hear Him in a sense or see Him in a sense now, but it will be real later. Scripturally you divide those blessings into having them, as you said,
"We are not "in heaven now" in a physical sense, but only in a "positional" (in Christ), "spiritual", "covenantal" or "relational" sense."but not in a "real sense." Again, do we have them in a fake or unreal sense now? If it is not fake and it is not real, then in what sense is it?
You see, the Bible supports no other sense. So really, you have said it all in the above statement. But where is lacks scriptural support is when you preface the statement by saying "we are not in heaven now."
Again, you will be hard pressed to show how we have all those "spiritual, covenantal, relational, positional" blessings now, but find some other "sense" in which we will have them at physical death. I can only see you having to resort to the physical sense, even as you said "tangible." Is that tangible spiritually? Is that tangible physically? Does everyone understand the questions I am asking?
Not understanding the spiritual nature of the kingdom, he writes:
"All of this language is "spatial" implying an actual place is involved. We will be like the angels in our new glorified bodies. We don't have those kinds of bodies yet. Nor are we dwelling in the realm where the angels are active. We may be "positionally" or "spiritually" there in a "relational/covenantal" sense, but we are not actually there in the spiritual realm where the angels are with our "angel-like" bodies yet. Hope this helps. Feel free to share this with others who are confused about it."My response:
First, you say that we are not dwelling in the place where angels are active. But the Bible says:
Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,The whole context is showing the blessings of being in the New Covenant. If we are not in the presence of the angels, then we are not in the blessings of the New Covenant. But the writer of Hebrews makes no two-fold sense of the passage. He simply declares that in Christ, in the New Covenant, we are there-with angels, with the spirits of just men made perfect, in Mount Zion, In the heavenly Jerusalem.
There is no confusion about our understanding of your view. The confusion is in the view itself, to which you hold. It doesn't figure logically or biblically. I do not think our view or your view is "shallow." I think both view require thinking. So I would hope you might rethink your view of our view as shallow when as yet our questions have not been answered. Even at the preterist conference the questions were not answered. But in the above articles I have written I think it will show that the thinking that accompanies the resurrection at death view is a thinking that is based upon the five senses, especially considering the fact that you have said we already have the other things fulfilled now, i.e. (spiritual, covenantal, relational, positional)--what else could there be?
Paul said they would "see face to face." I say that is spiritual. You might say we have this spiritually, but you definitely are saying that we will "visually" see Him later. Again, what kind of "eyes" will those be if we already have it spiritually now?
Where does the Scripture support a third set of eyes. Christ dealt with people in one of two planes-spiritual or physical. I see nothing in Scripture that supports anything of a third realm.
If any of you are still confused, feel free to really read those articles
above. Read them slowly and carefully, and I hope you will find they are
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"…During that regime, people died, they just died without an idea of what caused their death." – Major Debo Bashorun, former Press Secretary to General Ibrahim Babangida
He is one man who can be said to have devoted his entire adult life to the cause of fighting injustice. To start with, even his foray into the Nigerian Army was borne out of the need to fight injustice. It all started from a most unexpected event. As a young man, struggling to make ends meet in Lagos, Debo Bashorun had just been promoted to what he described as an enviable position of a receiving clerk in a factory where he was working. To celebrate his new status that would see him being able to dress in a suit to work, Bashorun decided to host his friends to a party in a nearby hotel. Then the unexpected but life-changing event happened. A young soldier decided to gatecrash into the party. If he had stopped at that, he probably would not have made a life-changing impression on Bashorun. The young soldier, after having his fill, decided to forcefully leave the party with Bashorun's girlfriend.
Expectedly, the celebrant resisted such brazen act of ingratitude. And it soon led to a struggle between Bashorun and the soldier. Sensing defeat, the soldier retreated and minutes after returned with a truckload of his colleagues. They went on to attack anyone within the vicinity while the celebrant and his friends could only scamper for safety in the face of the rampaging soldiers. That experience and the need to put a stop to such acts of impunity propelled Bashorun, whose studies had been truncated midway through secondary school due to his father's demise, to join the military.
As fate would have it, he joined the army during the Nigerian civil war and went on to serve eagerly in combatant positions convinced that this was a way to rise through the ranks and get to a level where he could sufficiently influence the type of change he wanted within the army.
But he was soon confronted with the same factor that motivated him to join the army in the first place: Injustice. After sustaining injuries on the war front, Bashorun was sent to the Armed Forces Rehabilitation Centre, AFRC, Oshodi, Lagos, to recuperate. There, he observed that wounded soldiers from a particular section of the country were being forcefully sent back to the war fronts while their fully recuperated colleagues from some other sections of the country were left behind and allowed to roam the streets of Lagos terrorising civilians.
Again, this was unacceptable to Bashorun who took it upon himself to challenge such acts of discrimination and injustice. "Unknown to the Nigerian public however was that the Army which was being touted as the catalyst for national unity was actually the culprit for condoning and aiding such abominable practices," he said. Soon, he talked himself into trouble as he was redeployed to the war front even while still recuperating. As it turned out, the return to the trenches proved both risky and rewarding, leading to his promotions and eventual emergence at the Army headquarters in Lagos.
His foray into the Army public relations later saw him emerging as the first and only public relations officer, PRO, to serve two consecutive Nigerian chiefs of army staff – Generals Muhammed Inuwa Wushishi and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB. While serving IBB as PRO to the chief of army staff, Bashorun's quest for justice and equity also showed up, bringing him into a direct confrontation with the powers that be. "I knew there was no plausible excuse to justify the Arabic inscriptions which adorned virtually all Army paraphernalia twenty-one years after becoming a republic, especially when the official national language was English," he wrote in his yet to be released book titled, Honour for Sale: An Insider Account of the Murder of Dele Giwa. Although he was born to Muslim parents, Bashorun thought it was only proper that he raise a memo on the need to change the Arabic inscriptions on Army paraphernalia, which he sent to IBB who was then the chief of army staff. As it turned out, that suggestion never saw the light of the day but only earned him the reprimand of Lieutenant Colonel Haliru Akilu, then director of military intelligence, DMI.
Although he was constantly courting trouble by seeking to fight injustice, Bashorun was still able to reach the enviable height of the spokesperson for the country's number one citizen when he was appointed press and public affairs officer (military press secretary) to Babangida, who adopted the title of Military President in 1985. Bashorun was later to enjoy his newfound role in the Presidency until the dastardly murder of Dele Giwa, founding editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, on October 19, 1986 with a parcel bomb.
In an interview he granted a TELL team of Ademola Oyinlola, executive editor; Adejuwon Soyinka, associate editor; and Eunice Nze-Peters, staff writer, Bashorun said his dogged resolve to see justice done in the case of the assassination of Giwa was one thing that eventually strained his relationship with IBB. "It was my nosiness about Dele Giwa's issue. It got to a point whereby the Nigerian people were assailing us from all angles. I had the courage to ask him (IBB) in the presence of everybody to bring back the issue because it was an issue that would not go away," he said.
As far as Bashorun is concerned, the administration he served had questions to answer in the murder of Giwa and what he described as the destruction of the Nigerian economy. His conviction in this regard and the troubles it brought him soon led to his decision to call it quits from the military. His resignation from the Army and government in 1988 caused quite a stir and brought him into a direct collision course with the military government. At a point, he had to flee into exile in the United States where he resided for 18 years before returning to Nigeria.
In spite of all the troubles he has gone through in the pursuit of justice, Bashorun says he is not afraid of further courting trouble as he attempts through the book, Honour for Sale, to examine the lurid circumstances of the controversial murder of Giwa while unearthing the web of intrigues and treachery, clannishness and base humanity of some of the country's military leaders. The interview will sure whet your appetite for a copy of the book which is certain to open fresh can of worms. Excerpts:
What led to your resignation from the Nigerian Army, which caught people unawares at that time?
In a nutshell, my life was on the line, the government of General Ibrahim Babangida wanted to get rid of me because of certain privileged information I had about the murder of Dele Giwa.
Were you first detained?
I was detained; before that, I was sent to the US to do a dirty job, laundering the (image of the) military administration then, being an aftermath of the killing of Dele Giwa. Me being who I am, I was not willing to be part of the group of people with blood on their hands.
What exactly is the nature of this job you were given?
I was supposed to meet a group of people who are eggheads in the public relations industry and they were to supposedly prepare a programme to launder the image of Nigeria.
Who sent you on this assignment?
It was IBB. He called me and briefed me that I was going to represent the government at the investiture of Ray Ekpu who had succeeded Dele Giwa as editor-in-chief of Newswatch then in May 1988. It was an assignment that had several undertones.
In other words, the fact that you were going to represent the government was a decoy, right?
Yes and I know I wasn't safe myself, because of several incidents that happened before then. I was also instructed to keep tabs on some other Nigerians who were at the ceremony too. I was given a name and a phone number to contact a man who was to link me with these people. They did not even tell me their name. So I couldn't afford to take that chance of calling the man. Knowing the US for what it is, people like to mind their own businesses. I could just call on the man and someone might just appear with arms and God knows what they could do to you. In a nutshell, I felt it was a plan to get me off the radar.
You already had your suspicion that you were not safe?
There were incidents that led me to believe that. Our relationship had degenerated and I felt they were trying to get rid of me when they were asking me to do things that were not part of my job. IBB swore to me that he didn't have a hand in Dele Giwa's death, and I went to the press with it. He was supposed to constitute a panel to unravel the death of Dele Giwa but that was not the case.
Were you in the military intelligence as at that time?
No, I was a PR guy, after I joined the military; I had been trained and I went for several courses on public relations. When you are given an assignment to do a dirty job, I can perceive it. So when they started giving me an assignment that was outside my professional calling as a PR person, I smelt a rat. Meeting PR people was understandable, but keeping tabs on people was out of it.
Had you ever been sent on such [keep tabs] assignment before?
Before then, I had never undertaken such assignment.
So what exactly are these pieces of privileged information that you said you had on Dele Giwa's murder?
I was supposed to meet some PR people to launder the tarnished image of the country, which happened as a result of Giwa's death in the first place. I was given gadgets to wear and tapes to record the conversation of some Nigerians without their knowledge. The Nigerians I was supposed to keep tabs on were Wole Soyinka, Biodun Shobanjo, Yemi Ogunbiyi, Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Mohammed, Dan Agbese and one or two others who went with them during the celebration of Ray Ekpu's installation as international editor of the year. For those who are very conversant with Dele Giwa's death, they would notice that I was the only military officer with a black band present at all the activities after his death. I was there because after Giwa's death, I went to meet IBB and he virtually swore to me that he had nothing to do with it and I believed him because that was the IBB I knew then. So I took it as the gospel truth and went to press with it. He constituted a panel that would look into the arbitrary killing of Dele Giwa. The panel comprised Alhaji Gambo and the suspects themselves – (Halilu) Akilu and Kunle Togun. After constituting that panel, I believed that we were on the right track and that we were going to unravel that mystery, but that was not to be the case.
So, the same government that felicitated with Ray (Ekpu) on his investiture as the International Editor of the Year sent you to keep tabs on these people?
Yes. Akilu told me that they wanted to take over the company and that was why they killed Dele Giwa, their colleague. I could remember that before their departure for the event, IBB asked me to call them and ask for a way we could help. So I thought to myself if they had done this, why should we help them by making funds available to them? Then I suggested that we apprehend them, since Nigerians are on the government's throat about the death of Giwa, why can't we arrest and try them? But they said they were waiting for the right time and that what I was expected to do was to gather enough evidence against them during prosecution.
Why, and at what point did your relationship with IBB turn sour?
It was my nosiness about Dele Giwa's issue. It got to a point whereby the Nigerian people were assailing us from all angles. I had the courage to ask him in the presence of everybody to bring back the issue because it was an issue that would not go away. Out of impulse – I am sure he did not think it through – he told me to go and meet Muhammadu Gambo (the then inspector general of police) for the report of the committee so that I would be able to brief the public about it. I am sure he did not think it through.
I went to see Gambo in his house, and I even ate dinner there. I was told that the preliminary report of the committee had been sent to IBB. I became confused. By the time I got to the office the following morning, it was a fuming Babangida I met and it was unlike him. He asked me who ordered me to go to Gambo's house and I had to remind him that he was the one that asked me to see the man. That was why I said it was a spontaneous statement he made out of annoyance. Since then, I knew I was in trouble. After that time, at a staff meeting, I suggested that we send a congratulatory message to Ray Ekpu, having it in mind that in the history of journalism in Nigeria, nobody had won that award before and it was a war between me and some establishment personnel in the presidency. Eventually, I won and the president instructed Tunji Olagunju, an adviser, to write the letter which he did.
But between IBB's office and the State House press centre, the letter disappeared. It is one of those things that used to happen then in the presidency. The whole presidency was filled with yes-men who were not there when the IBB coup was being hatched or implemented. What did they have to offer? They were there because of their tribe, where they came from. They came in through government patronage and they made them our bosses and so they were loyal to them. I did not get in through that passage, I was always the underdog, but I was unfazed. I knew what I was doing and I was somebody you would consider to be highly intelligent and so I asked a lot of questions.
After much investigation, I was told that the letter was handed to pressmen so that they could use it in their reports but an embargo was placed on it not to publish it. The order must be from either the office of the CGS, or the President himself. Further investigation to know who placed the embargo was futile. I met with IBB again to do something about it and he asked me to go and wait, that they would do something about it but nothing came out of it. In fact, one of the reasons the trio of Ray, Dan and Yakubu initially refused the President's offer to assist them when they were going to the US for Ekpu's investiture was because the letter of congratulations that was supposed to come to them never came out.
Did they have prior knowledge that the letter was coming?
Yes, they knew because I told them.
When you got to America, you did not contact the persons you were supposed to make contact with, but did you keep a tab on the Nigerians you were asked to keep tabs on?
No. I never did. What astonished me was that I was paid all my entitlements as an army officer right before I left the country. When I got to the US, I was chauffer driven to one of the best hotels in Western Manhattan, a hotel I cannot even afford as a senior officer in the military, and it was fully paid for. I was on edge on what could happen to me. As soon as I settled, I realised the place was too cozy for even a civilian and that further raised my suspicion. I checked and sniffed everywhere for bugs but nothing seemed to be unusual. I became very uneasy but pretended to be normal. Then I got in touch with the duo of Yakubu and Yemi Ogunbiyi, because they told me where they would be before their departure. When I told them I wanted to leave the hotel to join them, they thought I was crazy. They didn't understand what was happening. I told Yemi to reserve a room next to him and I left to be with him where people could see me.
What was the consequence of not keeping the said tab?
It was a hullaballoo. After the ceremony, I called IBB and briefed him that the guy he asked me to meet was not reachable. I told him that I couldn't reach the person I was asked to call. IBB then asked me to talk to Akilu, the director of military intelligence, but Akilu said he had information that I did not even try the person's number. Then he argued and he banged the phone on me. When I tried his number again on three occasions, he would cut me off. Another thing is that, even though there was a policy that we should all fly by Nigerian Airways, I was given a ticket of Air Afrique that would take me to Francophone countries before arriving in New York. All these things summed up together fuelled my suspicion that they were after me.
What then gave you the confidence to come back to Nigeria?
Well, I had nowhere to go, I couldn't have stayed longer because my visa would eventually expire, and I was a serving military officer in Nigeria, I had to come home. I knew what I was coming to face but I was thinking that I could defend my decision. I didn't know that they would take it to the level they did.
So what did they do to you?
I was thrown in jail and subjected to mental torture for four days and was accused of trying to topple the government. I was interrogated by different kinds of people and the crux of it was that I should give them the names of the people I contacted and those who are financing my plan to topple the government during my stay in the US. None of them was asking me about the assignment I was asked to do.
Who bailed you out of that problem?
I am always grateful to God and to the Nigerian press that brought me out of it because I managed to pass information out to the Nigerian press and it came out the next day. When the press would not stop reporting it, they became jittery and then released me. I decided to meet with the President who told me not to worry that things would be sorted out and that was a promise he never kept.
Was it specifically stated in your brief that the bad image the country was receiving was a result of Dele Giwa's murder, because it is in the nature of governments to launder their image from time to time?
Not in this wise. This is a different case. It was specifically because of Dele Giwa's death that I was given this assignment to go and meet some people in the US to carve out an image for Nigeria.
Few days to Dele Giwa's death, he was interrogated and accused of collaborating with some other people to topple the government, and you were asked to keep tabs on some people who were also accused of planning to topple the government as well as allegedly killing their colleague. As a military person, do you think that there was an iota of truth in what you were told at that time?
Well, I can only speak for myself; I wasn't involved in anything. I never even dreamt of toppling the government; that was the government that I was a part of from inception. I was very loyal to General IBB, to the government and to the army. It was a charge they wanted to hang around my neck, knowing too well that I would be spilling the beans and so they wanted to prevent me from doing that.
What gave you the idea that they were trying to kill you?
Few days to Dele Giwa's death, he delivered a lecture in a university and so was interrogated and accused of trying to topple the government and gunrunning. I was told that the Newswatch people killed their colleague and when I came back from the US, I was accused of also planning to topple the government too. My suspicion was that I might go exactly the way Dele Giwa went if I was not careful. You know during that regime, people died; they just died without an idea of what caused their death and that would be it.
Can you give instances?
There was this colonel, he was an engineer. I don't know how Akilu got to know that the man made a deal with some expatriates in foreign exchange and he was asked to hand over the money he made from it or be court-martialled. The man refused and threatened to spill the beans if he was court-martialled. So what they did was to post him to an engineering training school in Makurdi. The normal procedure is that even if you are married, the first few months you will be single. In that process, after work hours, the man would just go and relax somewhere. It was the same place that they killed him. These military intelligence people arranged a truckload of cement driven by the military intelligence people that rammed into his car and killed him outright. The police tried to intervene but an order came from above and they stepped down, and that was it. To the public, it was an accident; but to those of us who knew what was happening, it was a deliberate incident.
At what point did you decide to write a book?
As soon as I was released, Akilu announced to us that the life of the President was no longer secure and that there would be need for some changes. As soon as he said that, I knew where the smoke was coming from and that I was the target. By the next staff meeting, U. K. Bello (then ADC to the President) announced that sequel to the threat on the life of the President, my office was being moved from inside the compound to the perimeter near the clinic and I was the only person whose office was moved; and myself and all my staff were banned from going to the presidency and no files were sent to me. Initially, I kept my cool and was watching. I just kept to myself, (and) then I got wind of plans to phase me out. So when I was posted to a brigade in Makurdi, I refused to go on that posting because of the particular place I was posted to.
At that time that I was persona non grata to the presidency, I met Major Inyang, a Christian, a very straightforward person, the only person, apart from me, who used to tell the story the way it was. Every other person in the presidency was just yes sir people. He was the one that advised me to meet late (Vice Admiral Augustus) Aikhomu, and tell him about the incident and that he should tell me what he wanted to do about it. I didn't have much confidence in Aikhomu because he too was a yes sir officer. I make bold to say that and those of us who served with him will tell you that. He was unlike Commodore Ukiwe who was disciplined and would tell you things as they were. These are the reasons he was removed.
I went to Aikhomu and he listened to me, and he was in a similar situation. These intelligence people were hounding him like an ordinary person. So he arranged a meeting with IBB and me and I was even surprised that on the appointed day, nobody stopped me from going to the gymnasium where the President was "engrossed" in the game of tennis. He did not attend to me until U. K. Bello appeared, charging at me that I was not supposed to be there. I resisted and there was a fight and that was when IBB intervened. Everybody blamed me for fighting a superior and I was not ready to hear it because my life was on the line. The instruction was that I should not be seen anywhere near his office but that was the gym and not his office and that was why I engaged him. When I got the attention of the President for the first time, I told him to his face that I was going to leave no matter what happened. And then he started to placate me, that he would resolve the matter and he would make sure that I wasn't killed. We agreed that I shouldn't leave unceremoniously, not with all the years I had put into serving the nation. Knowing him for who he is, he can sweet-talk you to death.
About three days later, he called me that he had arranged a course for me at ASCON (Administrative Staff College of Nigeria) and that I should go there and after that I would retire. When I got there, I realised that it was Akilu that invoked the name of the President to get me there. At the end of the course, I went to the State House to report back and discuss my retirement as agreed, only to discover that I couldn't go in when the intelligence people told me that I was not allowed to see him. I stayed in the anteroom, hoping that the President would escort someone out and see me but he stayed put. Few minutes later, Akilu stormed in and asked me why I was there and I told him that the C-in-C asked me to come and his order overrides his own. I was ready for him, so he backed off and passed instruction to the guys in Hausa language not to let me in. After about 30 minutes and he wouldn't come out, I had to go home.
I decided to take it the other way round and I went to Alao Aka-Basorun, a lawyer and former NBA president, who was initially hesitant because he too had been a victim of our over-zealousness. But I eventually convinced him and he took up my case. They didn't believe I could take them that far. They thought it would be a weak thing but I proved them wrong. They offered me N30,000 through Colonel Inyang; I took it and still went on with the case. It is a pity that the man is dead now but people knew that we were close.
What was the money meant for?
It was meant for me to stop the case. Remember I was the first serving officer to take them to court.
So what was your prayer during the case?
My prayer was that they should allow me to get out of the army with my entitlements so that I would not be subject to military laws again. If they did not have an ulterior motive, why won't they retire me or even dismiss me like I suggested earlier.
What is your reaction to Dan Agbese's book on IBB?
I have not read the book, I have been looking for it and I don't know what the contents are.
So, in this book that you are about to launch, are there things about Dele Giwa's murder that have not been put in the public domain?
It's about how a cabal was running the country and how the economy was being bastardised, and how the people were being deceived and then how we were running a repressive government. These are the things you are going to find in the book.
How did you come about the title of your book, Honour for Sale?
In Yoruba folklore, honour is everything. Here you have a president that would do anything to bastardise honour. Corruption, the killing of Dele Giwa and others are deaths to honour. Military service is about honour before everything and that is why they call them honourables because they must have been patriots, been gallant and courageous and must have served the country. However, all these attributes were lost in the government when we were serving.
How did you manage to keep your family during your travails?
My family was disorganised. My wife and children were smuggled to me in the United States with the help of some good people and foreigners but when my children attained marriageable age, I asked them to come home.
Are you not afraid for your life?
If I say I'm not afraid for my life, then I'm lying. But I am not afraid to get killed. All I want is that you guys will be alive to carry on from where I stopped and get those who killed me.
How tedious was it putting this book together?
When I was about to flee the country, I knew I needed to write a book, so I fled with all the materials I could gather with me. You know that Wole Soyinka would not just write for anybody but he wrote the prologue. The book had over 1,000 typewritten pages initially before the professionals reduced it to 345 pages.


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Doha, Qatar – Marking the start of an exciting new banking journey, Barwa Bank, Qatar's leading banking player, announced its rebranding into Dukhan Bank, effective October 2020. The announcement that was made on October 07, 2020, featured the presence of H.E Sheikh Abdulla Bin Saoud Al-Thani, Governor of Qatar Central Bank, H.E Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin
Qasim Al Thani, Deputy Governor of Qatar Central Bank, H.E Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, Chairman and Managing Director of Dukhan Bank, and a number of members of the Bank's Board of Directors. The event was broadcasted to the public through the bank's social media channels.
Under its vision to cement its position as "Qatar's Bank of Choice", the bank's rebranding comes at a time of massive transformation for the group. The bank is eyeing a fully digital infrastructure that delivers on operational efficiency and profitability, as well as on secure, simplified and seamless banking experience for its customers.
The rebranding also reflects a shift in the bank's mindset toward product and service innovation; guided by the mission to empower people in solving their everyday problems and planning for their financial present, rather than for their distant future.
The bank's new name takes after the Dukhan city, West Qatar, the site of the first substantial oil reserve to have been discovered in the country; a milestone discovery that has laid the foundations for Qatar's economic and social growth for over eight decades. Today, as Qatar ushers in yet another economic transformation toward knowledge-based and digital industries, Dukhan has
transcended its physical significance to its symbolic power. It remains a beacon of change that transforms a nation, that crosses geographies and that moves societies forward.
On this occasion, His Excellency Sheikh Abdulla Bin Saoud Al-Thani, Governor of Qatar Central Bank, said:
"We're glad to witness the birth of this new emblem and journey. Best wishes to our brothers in the Board of Directors, the Executive Management as well as the depositors and shareholders. We wish for the bank prosperity and progress at these particular times that are filled with challenges in the banking and economical fields."
From his part, His Excellency Sheikh Mohammad Bin Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani, Chairman and Managing Director at Dukhan Bank, said:
"Today, we celebrate the unveiling of our new brand which goes beyond a mere change in name but, rather, acts as the turning point of a new beginning which stems from a firm belief in continuous innovation despite all challenges. It means to have a new mindset that keeps pace with the folds of our present and fulfills our commitment to meet our customers and stakeholders' aspirations in the future".
"It has taken us a lot of time, effort and contemplation to define our new vision, mission and culture which embrace all of our shared experiences. At the same time, we have studied our organisation, implemented major improvements, and enhanced our central operations when finalising Dukhan Bank as a financial services provider which not only gives our customers a banking experience that meets their needs but one that goes beyond their expectations. We vow to continue our relentless pursuit of leadership and excellence in banking, while adopting an ambitious approach anchored in sustainability, growth, and development at its core; whilst taking bolder steps and observing intelligent risk
management policy to support this approach".
On the strategic direction of the rebranding, Mr. Khalid Al-Subeai, Group Chief Executive Officer at Dukhan Bank, commented:
"At Dukhan Bank, we provide real-life and innovative solutions in Qatar to contribute to reinforcing the banking sector, providing banking products and services that meet the needs and interests of customers. We aim at developing services with the most advanced banking technologies, and doubling our efforts to meet the strategic goals in order to reinforce the bank's position in the banking sector and grow its market share. We eager to develop its role in the market and play a key role in achieving the goals of Qatar Vision 2030, while developing our human capital, expanding the engagement of skilled and
qualified Qatari youth and developing their skills to contribute to revival of the State of Qatar".
Dukhan city's story, legacy and heritage are mirrored in the identity of the new bank. Dukhan Bank is a powerful alliance between those who built Qatar's banking industry and those who positively challenged it; the complementary forces shaping the present and future of banking, as told by the new logo.
Mr. Talal Al-Khaja, Group Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Dukhan
"Bank Dukhan is yet another proof of the rise of a new dawn for major financial and dynamic institutions in Qatar. Dukhan's is deeply-rooted in Qatar's heritage and to the first oilfield discovered in Qatar which was the first and major booster for our country's economy for over 8 decades. The choice of Dukhan's name is a commemoration to a heritage that sets the foundations of the future, where our expertise takes a modern swift to provide innovative banking solutions keep pace with modern life and capable of meeting people daily needs. Hence, we look forward to encouraging individuals to take good banking decisions and to provide services and products that meet our customers' expectations."
Commenting on the new logo, he added:
"Confident and bold in nature, the sky-blue color of our first initial embodies our 'Sky is the limit' attitude. The green shade depicts the universality, trust and constant growth of our bank. The intersection of both forming our oceanic blue arch symbolizes open grounds for our product and service innovation. We trust that with this new journey kicking off, our efforts will make sure we stand by our community as a bank of the future deep-rooted in heritage, built on solid foundations of transparency and fertile green grounds for limitless
Mr. Al Khaja proceeded to reveal Dukhan Bank's name and logo through an inspirational video showcase, taking the audience through the story and journey behind the bank's new brand.
The rebranding announcement comes nearly a year after the official completion of the legal merger between Barwa Bank and ibq. The merger, the first-ever in Qatar's history, brought two of the nation's leading and most dynamic financial players under one roof, establishing a powerhouse Shari'ah compliant financial institution backed by robust liquidity and solvency levels. Prior to its rebranding as Dukhan Bank, the consolidated entity continued to operate under the name of Barwa Bank following the completion of the operational merger.
For more details, please visit: https://www.dukhanbank.com/ or call 800 8555


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Goal-scoring midfielder 'really interested' in Arsenal transfer – journalist
One of Arsenal's transfer targets is interested in moving to the Emirates stadium according to a claim by a journalist.
The Gunners have been linked with a move for several players once again as they look to revive their title challenge by strengthening through new signing during this month.
One of the host of stars who appears to be on Arsenal's radar at the moment is highly-rated Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanic.
A report from last week suggested that Arsene Wenger had even chosen to personally contact the 26-year-old over a potential move to north London.
And according to journalist Emanuele Giulianelli, Pjanic, who joined Juventus from AS Roma in a $34 million deal only six months ago, is actually interested in a transfer to Arsenal even though it could take until the summer to happen.
"I don't think something will happen in January." Giulianelli was quoted as saying by the Daily Star
"He is really interested in going to Arsenal to test himself in the Premier League.
"But I think this could be a move about which they will talk again in June.
"If Arsene Wenger remains at Arsenal, he could become the replacement for Santi Cazorla at some point."


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David Goldblatt - Johannesburg 1948 - 2018
Goodman Gallery presents Johannesburg 1948 - 2018, the acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt's first major solo exhibition in London since 1986. Renowned for a lifetime of photography exploring his home country, Goldblatt produced an unparalleled body of work within the city of Johannesburg, where he lived for 50 years. The exhibition maps Goldblatt's evolution of work in a city divided by structural racism and subject to waves of trauma and resistance. Goldblatt was engaged in the conditions of society - the values by which people lived - rather than the climactic outcomes of those conditions. He intended to discover and probe these values through the medium of photography. "Johannesburg", Goldblatt wrote, "is not an easy city to love. From its beginnings as a mining camp in 1886, whites did not want brown and black people living among or near them and over the years pushed them further and further from the city and its white suburbs. Like the city itself, my thoughts and feelings about Joburg are fragmented. I can't easily bring a vision or a coherent bundle of ideas to mind and say, "That's Joburg for me. " Over the years I have photographed a wide range of subjects, each was almost self-contained, a fragment of a whole that I've never quite grasped."


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Here Ibtissem is dancing on egyptian baladi improvisation with the Baladi Blues Ensemble Orchestra.
A creation of Ibtissem with the veil in 2016 on the introduction of Andah Alik composed by Mohamed Abdelwahab.
Entry on stage with a magnificent Lebanese composition, Joumana. Veil, floorwork and cane !
Tarab improvisation, the soul of egyptian music, with the Brahim Dhour orchestra.
Belly dance videos with Ibtissem dance school
Extracts from the last Ibtissem students show, Ya Salam! in 2017.
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Nota Bene: I have combined the reviews of two closely related novels by the same author into one. If you've read the one review, then you've read the other.
Efstratios Stamatopoulos (1890-1969) - Stratis Myrivilis was his nom de plume - has been described by some Greek critics as the first modern (i.e. since the War of Independence of the 1820's) Greek novelist who could stand beside any other European novelist without fear of embarrassment. After reading all three of his novels, Life in the Tomb (1923-24/30), The School Mistress with Golden Eyes (1933) and Mermaid Madonna (1949), it is clear that Myrivilis did not have the scope of an author like Thomas Mann(*) and, since he wrote canonical realist novels, did not introduce innovations of style and form like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce did. But I am indeed impressed with his insight into his characters (and his readers), with his poetic sensibility and excellent prose, with his clear grasp of both the beauty and the horror of life, with his ability to see through, very early, the illusions spun by the various political currents of his time. Nor is his scope at all negligible, for each of the three novels, though clearly sharing a common sensibility, is quite different from the others, and together they encompass a great deal of human experience.
I have set certain aspects of the context of Stamatopoulos' life in my review of Life in the Tomb. So suffice it to say here that he not only fought in the First Balkan War and in World War I, but he served in the subsequent Asia Minor campaign of 1919-1922 which was so disastrous for the Greeks (see my review of Michael Llewelly Smith's Ionian Vision for background on this campaign). Both The School Mistress with Golden Eyes and The Mermaid Madonna deal with some of the many consequences of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, as the Greeks call it.
The protagonist, Leonis, of The School Mistress with Golden Eyes is clearly Stamatopoulos' alter ego, a native of Lesbos and a sensitive and disillusioned junior officer who served in WWI and in Asia Minor and was seriously wounded in the leg. He returns to Lesbos traumatized by his experiences on the front and in the military hospital where he shared a room with another junior officer who was slowly and excruciatingly dying of gangrene poisoning. Leonis bonds with his fellow sufferer and tries to ease his suffering. In extremis the dying man commissions Leonis with the task of conveying his most private and valuable possessions to his young wife. Stunned by the widow's beauty and poise - and by other matters I won't disclose - Leonis tries everything he can think of not to fall in love with her. He also must deal with his ghosts from the wars, which have left him embittered and hollowed out. On the side, the reader is treated to a very amusing portrait of provincial Lesbian society, as well as detailed evocation of Lesbos' many beauties. Life in the Tomb, as befits what is supposed to be a war journal, is episodic and meandering, but The School Mistress with Golden Eyes is a very tightly constructed, multi-faceted novel.(**)
Though written much later, The Mermaid Madonna is also set on Lesbos directly after the Catastrophe, but this time Stamatopoulos' focus is on the Greek refugees forced out of Anatolia in 1922 - hundreds of thousands of them, most with nothing but the clothes on their backs, all badly traumatized - who must now find a place for themselves among people who speak another dialect of Greek, have different customs, and with whom tensions inevitably rise. The ones who settle in provincial Lesbos (instead of in the capital Mytilini) are simple, proud and religious fishermen whose stubbornness, nay pigheadedness would try the patience of the saints.
Unlike the characters in The School Mistress with Golden Eyes, who were finely drawn, distinct and very credible, the vast cast of characters in The Mermaid Madonna is hugely colorful and a bit larger than life, and the tone of the prose hints of that of folk tales told around village tables (that is, if the storyteller were unusually sensitive and sophisticated). Presenting a twenty year pageant of life in a fishing village with a soupçon of early magical realism, Myrivilis is unsparing in his portrayal of its expected narrowness - the superstition, ignorance, and envy of the villagers - but also generous in his portrait of the better side of the villagers - their homespun wisdom (particularly in the persons of old Aunt Permahoula and the doctor), their steadfastness and endurance.
The centerpiece of the story is a remarkable baby, girl, then young woman, Smaragthi - named after the unusual tint of her eyes - about whom stories of the supernatural are spun and for whom many of the the men of the village develop an obsessive love-hate. With this character Myrivilis probes the rigidity of gender roles in such a society and illustrates the maxim "the nail that sticks out must be hammered down." But Myrivilis did not write sociology nor, explicitly, societal criticism. He gave us a wide panorama view of a narrow setting which opens up through the underground channels of our common human weaknesses and strengths to a panorama of the most basic aspects of human life.
After the necessarily lugubrious and bitter Life in the Tomb and the quite understandable bitterness and self-torment of The Schoolmistress With Golden Eyes, this beautifully written, colorful and very human story of life re-establishing itself after disaster is most welcome. Some books one re-reads in order to unfold their secrets, others just for the sheer pleasure of it. The Mermaid Madonna will be one of the latter.(***)
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(**) Kudos to Philip Sherrard, the translator.
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Mash-ups dont always work. Luckily for fans of Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright, this one does. Read Kidzworlds game review of Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, right here.
The Nintendo 3DS finally welcomes the North American release of Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. While some may yell "Objection!" at the time it's taken to arrive on our shores. Rest assured fans, this mash-up is a success.
Which Witch is Wich?
In the opening moments of Professor Layton's latest adventure, a young girl named Espella is running through London seeking his help but the dark entity which is chasing her captures Espella first. Catching wind of this, Professor Layton and his trusty side kick Luke, seek Espella out. Though not before being transported by an enchanted book to a mysterious medieval town called Labyrinthia.
Labyrinthia also just so happens to be overrun by witches. The latest person to be accused of one? Espella! But she insists on her innocence!
Luckily for Espella, fellow seeker of justice, Phoenix Wright, is visiting London at this time. Before you can say "cross-over", Wright comes across the enchanted book and is quickly transported to Labyrinthia as well. Espella, much to her delight, now has an ace attorney to represent her in the court room and a keen sleuthing mind to hunt for clues in the field.
The way in which the narrative worlds of Professor Layton and his fellow good guy Phoenix Wright are entwined did bring smiles to my face. With sharp writing and Wright's trade marked style to spare. While I might not paint the story in the most interesting light. It certainly does entertain, at least up until the ending which may have you scratching your head.
Two Not Quite Becoming One
The game is split into clear and separate levels, bouncing back and forth between classic Professor Layton gameplay and Phoenix Wright's more stylized court room battles. As in past Layton games, like The Azran Legacy, I would talk to townsfolk and gather clues to a puzzle before finding its solution. Hint Coins make a return here as well, thus making it near impossible (for me) to leave a scene without searching every nook and cranny.
Then the next level, I would be playing as the great Phoenix Wright, using what info Layton had found to bolster my case in hopes of proving Espella's innocence. Cross examining witness in court is a blast thanks to incredible animations splashed over eccentric characters. A highlight known by Phoenix Wright fans already.
Where Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright stumbles slightly is the actual melding of the different gameplay styles. Or lack of melding. The gameplay mechanics are so different in each series that it often feels like two games stapled together...because it is. It's not necessarily a bad thing as both series have great gameplay. But I can't help but wish the developers got a little more creative with this mash-up and somewhere blended the to gameplay styles instead of us bouncing back and forth essentially between to different games (that share a story).
That said, there is great fan service through and through. While not as strong as their individual outings. Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney is another solid game for fans of both high spirited characters.
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The effect is of a zoom into a close up in a crowd scene. This bright, brave tone draws the audience's attention to Aida at times when nobody else onstage knows what is gouing on. Ms. Guleghina's vivid singing does not exert command but rather sympathy. Her prayer is that an individual's feelings should be felt to matter above the noise of politics and war, and it is a prayer that is answered."
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