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Although the ACT elections are nine months away, these months represent the gestation of the decisions we will make in October. There will be more than the usual electoral fuss during the coming year, and themes will start to stand out. One of them will certainly be the wisdom of the Labor government's having taken up so enthusiastically and forcefully the provision of light rail as a new form of mass transit for our city.
Jeremy Hanson and the Liberal Opposition are certain that this is and was the wrong decision, and they will campaign on that theme. Andrew Barr and his government, having committed themselves, will tell us, confidently and repeatedly, that light rail is our future.
I have been asked several times what my own opinion is. I don't really have one, but I do have the somewhat simple-minded view that the government is there to govern. I do not know whether or not the ACT government is correct in planning for light rail within the city. But it is unquestionably its job to make that kind of decision. If it gets it badly wrong, and the issue is important to enough people, then it may lose office.
If a reasonable elector looks at the arguments, she would probably accept that we are unlikely to be able to rely on private cars in a 2050 Canberra of half a million and more people. The reason is not that petrol is going to be too expensive. The current evidence is that there will be oil in abundance for a long time. Nor is it that cars themselves will become too expensive. They are getting cheaper and cheaper. It won't be long before we see the first new car for sale under $10,000. Perhaps I've already missed the announcement.
The principal reason is that while we can add cars almost indefinitely, we cannot do the same to our roads and parking spaces. Parking is going to grow steadily more expensive, and that will push drivers to consider whether or not they might as well go by public transport. An additional reason will be the decreasing average speed on our roads. Sydney is at gridlock now in some parts of that large city and any crash on the urban motorways means long delays for the drivers there. We will experience our own tamer version of that crisis before long.
A focus on the provision of more public transport seems sensible enough. Why light rail and not more buses? One obvious reason is that the buses will have some of the same problems as cars unless they have completely dedicated lanes. Why not widen more roads to provide them, as is happening slowly? That is very expensive, and it simply changes the place where the bottlenecks occur.
In fact, anything to do with the problem of getting people to and from work in a large city is expensive. Light rail is in no way the cheapest solution, but it is probably faster and able to move more people. It all depends on which experts you listen to. We have to assume that the ACT government has listened to them all, at least in the early stages. It must have considered the O-bahn bus system in Adelaide, where the buses have their own permanent way, and rejected that in favour of light rail. We need to remember that the O-bahn way (12km only) is a small part of the Adelaide bus system, which relies on public roads for the buses, as in Canberra.
If she also accepts all that, the next question the reasonable elector might ask is why the first light-rail corridor is from Gungahlin to the City. Capital Metro says that Gungahlin is growing five times faster than the rest of Canberra and that light rail is part of a larger plan to improve the Northbourne Avenue precinct. I guess that another reason is that the land acquisition there is relatively cheap.
When I was at the University of Canberra we had discussions with a much earlier ACT government about our losing some campus land in the interest of improved rapid transit to the city from Belconnen. A later notion was a Belconnen-UC-ANU- Civic-CIT-Russell- Airport corridor, which had the advantage of a lot of tertiary staff and student customers throughout the day, rather than just at peak times. The obvious disadvantage is expense, especially in the vicinity of the CBD.
I'll pass on the cost of crossing the lake and servicing the Parliamentary Triangle. There will be solutions, all of them expensive. But the reasonable elector can see that this is a major planning matter, and she will hope that the ACT government has got it right. I am with her. We won't know the answer for years, so it's not a matter that might cause the reasonable elector to cast her vote one way or the other.
But if light rail's a success, then there will be cries that it should have been done years before. That's the great advantage of hindsight.
Professor Don Aitkin, novelist, historian and political scientist, was vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra, and chairman of the National Capital Authority. He blogs at www.donaitkin.com


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Short-time visitors can find most anything they want in the Night Bazaar as well as the ultra modern shopping centers in the city such as the Suriwong Plaza and the Kad Suan Kaew Shopping Park, while visitors who more interested in viewing the production of crafts can take a half-day craft tour to various of the handicraft factories. Dealers will spend time in outlying villages seeking unique pieces for export. Visitors to Sankampaeng will have an opportunity to appreciate the skills necessary to produce these beautiful crafts while watching the craftsmen at work.
A silk weaving factory is one of the first stops on a craft tour. One must marvel at the fact that when the thread encompassing a silk worm cocoon is unraveled it measures 300 meters. Visitors can see silk worms in various stages of growth, the spinning and dyeing of the thread, and laborious hand weaving on traditional looms. The visitor is then taken to the show room to be confronted by silk fabric in every hue, patterned silks combining contemporary colors and designs, and small gift items such as picture frames, scarves, cushion covers, and purses.
Local cotton has recently become almost as popular as silk with visitors. Colors and patterns differ between districts surrounding Chiangmai and in many cases the resulting cloth has become as unique and identifiable as the distinctive costumes of the different hill tribes.
Silverware is also a popular attraction. The traditional center for silver production was Wualai Rd. in Chiangmai, but silverware factories have been established along the Sankampaeng highway. A wide range of wares is available, the most famous being silver vessels stamped with characters from the Thai version of the Ramayana. The silver used is of high purity, sometimes 100 percent.
The hill tribes also prize silver and hill tribe earrings, necklaces and bracelets can be found for sale in and around Chiangmai. These items are cheaper, as the workmanship is not as high as that of the city silversmiths.
An intrinsically Thai craft to take home is lightweight lacquer ware. Some designs display a Burmese influence which reflects the intermingling of these two cultures in Lanna history.
The lacquer ware making process if very time-consuming and requires great patience. The artisan makes a framework of bamboo strips and begins to apply layers of lacquer. A typical piece requires about seven layers of lacquer, each of which must be dried for a week, the best lacquer being applied last. The piece is then polished with a mixture of ash and clay and decorated.
Ceramics production in Chiangmai dates back to when the city's founder, King Mengrai, imported expert potters from China to produce celadon at the city of Sawankhalok. The heritage of producing this pale green ceramic with the characteristic crackled glaze lives on in Sankampaeng.
Celadon production is time-consuming and laborious. Clay is collected, impurities removed, mixed with water, and passed several times through a pug mill to improve blending. It is then left to age by bacterial action. When 'mature', the clay is then kneader and the vessel then thrown on the potter's wheel. When 'leather hard', the vessel is carved with designs and left to dry naturally.
The vessel is then bisque fired to prepare the surface for the application of the wood ash glaze. The glaze ash comes from the wood of the overcus belutina tree, found in Northern Thai forests, but deforestation has made this increasingly scarce which may necessitate the use of a chemical glaze in the future. The ash of this wood is preferred as the resultant glaze is jade green, the most auspicious stone to the Chinese. The addition of cobalt or iron results in blue or dark green glazes.
The entire celadon process from clay mixing to the final firing takes a month and a half. Popular items in the show room include dinner sets, vases, plant pots, and cast figurines.
The Sankampaeng Highway also leads to Bor Sarng, known as the 'Umbrella Village' as all of the inhabitants are engaged in making mulberry bark paper, called sa, umbrellas and fans. The umbrellas may also be covered in silk and range in size from toys to some five meters in diameter.
Like most local handicrafts, only natural materials are used to produce the umbrellas. A bamboo handle with spokes to take the paper covering is produced. The bark is pounded, virtually dissolved in a tank, and collected on fine mesh and left to dry into sa paper. After being applied to the umbrella frame, Bor Sang artists decorate the parasol with colorful birds and flowers.
Wood carving is another ancient craft which has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity with souvenir hunters despite the weight and bulkiness of items to take home. The wood carving center is in Baan Tawai, about 15 kilometers on the Hang dong Road to the south of Chiangmai, and carvings are available elsewhere.
A carver needs only a set of chisels, hammer or mallet, and limitless skill. After sketching the design on the wood, the carver ships away, using progressively smaller chisels. After sanding, the work is either 'aged' by smoking or dirtying the wood, or it is painted or lacquered, depending upon whether the work is to become an imitation antique or modern carving. Teak, with its beautiful grain and durability, is the referred wood. Mulberry and jack fruit wood is used items to be painted or lacquered.
The production of authentic looking imitation antiques is a developed technology so the antique hunter needs intimate knowledge of the genuine article being sought to avoid being taken. Northern Thailand can still lay claim to being a treasure trove of genuine antiques if the hunter knows where to look. Chinese porcelain, Lanna fabrics, hill tribe jewelry, and Burmese carvings and lacquer ware are among the items available in antique shops.
Besides the already mentioned crafts, Lanna artisans are also famous for furniture, leather work, hilltribe costumes, gems and jewellery, and beautiful paintings. The range is daunting but with a little work most visitors will come away with the special keepsake to remind them of their days in the kingdom of a million rice fields. Despite modern development, craftsmen are keeping the traditional wisdom alive in the hills of North Thailand.
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The Scotland coach, is taking heart from the way his men overcame last November's 49-3 thrashing at Murrayfield against New Zealand by defeating World Cup holders South Africa 21-17 a week later.
Now, Robinson has challenged his players to produce another major comeback victory and said: "Just look what happened after we played the All Blacks last year when we were pretty heavily beaten and the following week we defeated South Africa with a comprehensive performance from everyone. I have total trust in the whole squad that they are mentally and physically able to rise to the challenge.
"We had 24 hours to get rid of our frustrations and emotions with guys doing it in different ways.
"It was disappointing to lose the game, particularly in the manner that we did."
Robinson has been studying tapes of Ireland's 24-8 victory over England in Dublin which denied Martin Johnson's men a Grand Slam and has also taken note of Wales's 19-9 victory in the warm up matches along with highlighting how close the Scots came to winning at Twickenham in the Six Nations before losing 22-16.
He is keenly aware of the need to win by eight points but insists this will not cloud judgement on the pitch.
He added: "This is a one off game and that is how we must treat it."
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Step into any bar and it won't take you long to spot her. You know who I am talking about, she is the woman with the addictive laugh, the eye-catching clothes, and the magnetic appeal that has drawn a circle of admirers around her. If the room were a solar system, she would be the sun.
What is it about this woman that attracts all of the attention? Psychologists and dating experts would propose a host of explanations: It's her social personality, her come-hither look, her approachable persona, etc. But an evolutionary psychologist is observing the scene surprisingly different by positing that, it's her "real" time of the month. In other words, the belle of the bar is likely reaching peak fertility.
You see, while ovulating, once per month the female brain kicks into competition mode. It is at this time of the month that women are at peak fertility and are subconsciously driven to attract the best quality sexual partners. Additionally, it is during this time that women's preferences for potential partners shift.
For example, we may think that each woman has an unchanging "type"—but it turns out that women prefer quite different kinds of men depending on whether they are fertile. In the two days or so of the ovulatory phase—the time when women are most likely to become pregnant—they gravitate toward men with more "masculine" traits. This means that a man who has a leaner, V-shaped body, and a face with a squarer chin, heavier eyebrows, and thinner lips; one who speaks in a lower-pitched voice, and displays more dominant behavior is more appealing to an ovulating woman than to all other women. However, during the other 26 days of the month, women prefer men with softer features, less-defined bodies, higher voices, and a gentler manner.
These differing preferences emerge out of two competing reproductive goals. (1) When women want to get the highest-quality genetic material for their children (aka: when a woman is fertile) a woman will prefer masculine men, because high genetic quality in a man is indicated by his level of testosterone. (2) During the rest of her cycle, however, a woman wants to secure the most generous and stable source of goods for herself and her children. Now the nice-guy provider starts to look appealing.
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What if Cloud hadn't wanted to waste time looking, chasing skeletons of the past, having enough to deal with his own? What if Tifa had been the one to find him, to give him a life back he didn't really know if he wanted anymore?
This has been revised due to some errors.
1. Skeletons
They'd found Nibelheim. In place of the charred ruins from her memories, or even perhaps a new settlement in her imagination, Tifa found no change from the town she remembered- it was as though it had never burned down at all. There were the tall, whitewashed buildings with slate tiled rooves. There was the well, the town's old truck that had been rusty all of her childhood. But she'd been there; felt the searing heat of the flames on her skin, evaporating the sweat pouring from her body, as she helped to find survivors. She'd inhaled the heady scent of smoke, felt the dry heat singe her airways, choke her. And she'd watched the houses buckle, collapse into clouds of noxious dust and debris. She'd watched the fires burn until the rain poured down, a little too late, dousing the remnants of the fire, washing away her childhood, her memories, her friends. Her home.
The only thing left was the mansion; she knew it had survived the fire, being out of the way of the houses of the main square. Its brickwork appeared more weathered, its roof more dilapidated, and almost no glass remained in the window panes. The garden was so overgrown, she could barely make it out from the street. Tifa had insisted on going inside, just for nostalgic reasons; despite its dangers, as a child she had explored it well. Perhaps it was the only thing of Nibel that remained that wasn't a fake, orchestrated by ShinRa. In their last journey through here, she had been too grief-stricken to even consider venturing within the shadows and cobwebs that lingered there.
This time, though, she felt braver.
It was darker than she remembered; ivy had grown in from outside, through the cracks in the glass windows, and had spread over the once beautiful wood panelling of the walls, and even the ceiling. Some tendrils had snaked around the magnificent crystal chandelier, and were dangling from it. The carpets had pretty much disintegrated, and the doors barely opened, for the rust at the hinges.
"C'mon, Tif, I don't like it." Cloud scratched the back of his head, looking around uneasily. "We should rest up, we're heading into the mountains tomorrow."
"Look!" She exclaimed, ignoring him. In her hands she held a note. The paper was yellowing, though it didn't seem to be that old.
"What is it?" His interest seemed piqued.
"It's a… there's a man trapped in the basement!- and its signed by Hojo." If you're interested, I've trapped the interfering Turk in the basement. A little game, if you'll amuse yourself for an hour or so.
"Tifa, Hojo hasn't worked here since before we were born. I doubt that, if there were anyone trapped here, they'd still be alive."
"You can't know that for sure!" She huffed, carefully reading through the note again. If you enjoy a little music...
"Tifa, we need to find out what's going on in Nibel. What with all these strange men shuffling around. It's a little more important than chasing skeletons."
"I guess so." She followed him back outside, squinting in the sunlight, though the shadow of doubt still plagued her for the rest of the afternoon. They were to stay in the replica of her old family home; unlike the other houses, it was not inhabited by actors, who denied that there had ever been a fire.
She lay on her bed, (but it wasn't really hers), staring at her ceiling. Well, not really her ceiling; ShinRa's ceiling, ShinRa's lie. Why would they do this? What good would recreating the bedroom of a sixteen year old girl do? Hm. She couldn't even begin to understand the evil that ShinRa condoned, carried out every day.
Chasing skeletons, Cloud had called it: Indeed. But if there were a skeleton, it would have once had flesh, and skin, and a beating heart; And a name. Perhaps he was married, or had been. Perhaps he still had living children, who lived in grief, never knowing what had happened to the father; Or maybe he was alive…
She sat up, turning her mind away from sleep for good. The moon was high, and her shadow was long as she crossed the deserted village square. She was wearing a white nightdress that reached her knees, and clung to her skin comfortably, found in one of the dressers in her house, alone on a silk hanger; Very much in the style of her mother's- But it wasn't her mother's. It was a fake; It was all fake. She had slipped her feet into her boots.
No-one else needed to know she was gone. She wouldn't take long…
The heavy door creaked loudly, opening just wide enough for her to slip through. When they had gone inside earlier that day, Cloud had caught his shoulder on a sharp protruding bit of metal. The hall was ethereal, beautifully frightening in the silver moonlight. A gentle breeze rustled through the ivy.
She unfolded the note in her hand, scanning the untidy scrawl in search of the first clue.
You will find the first clue where it is warm, and the sunlight gives life. She seemed to remember a greenhouse of some sort… what was it, an orangery?- Yes, up the stairs, on the left. The scent of soil, and rotting plant matter reached her before the moist, humid air did, and she found herself gagging a little. Once well tamed plants had either died, or grown wild. The air was sweating, and heavy. The glass in this room was intact and reinforced, though it was coated in a thick layer of grime.
she picked her way over tendrils and roots, searching for something, anything. The note had referred to a combination of some sort. She consulted it again. Where it is warm, and the sunlight gives life. Look to the source. The source- Of the sun? She craned her neck, trying to see past the creeping plants that had taken over. Ah!- There; written in black. Right 36.
She wrote it on the edge of the note.
If you enjoy a little music, the piano downstairs is no good. what to doe. Doe? She chuckled a little. Such a silly pun, and yet so inappropriate.
As it happened, she loved music. Before the fire, she'd had a piano in her room (not including the replica, no), and she loved to play. As she grew older, though, it took a back seat. Her training had become her only love, her primary obsession.
She located the dining room easily; it was on the west side of the building, and was perhaps the most beautiful. The once-ivory tablecloth still adorned the table, though instead of plates, silver and crystal, it was scattered with shattered fragments of coloured glass from the windows, glinting in the moonlight, and to her surprise, an owl sat perched on the back of one of the dining chairs. She took one look at Tifa with her wide, amber eyes before giving an indignant hoot and fluttering up to her perch in the rafters. Tifa smiled faintly, crossing the room toward the black piano.
Its surface was scratched, dented, and it was missing a few keys in the lower octaves. Seating herself upon the rickety stool, she began to play one of the only pieces she'd practiced to perfection. It had been her father's favourite, though its name eluded her; A beautiful, haunting song, almost a dirge, though it was uplifting as well as being mournful.
Her audience hooted softly in appreciation from her roost. After giving the owl a polite bow of the head, she stooped over the keys. Doe, Rae, mi, fa, so, la, ti, doe… until she reached one C that wouldn't budge- It was stuck, something wedged underneath it. Frowning, she then noticed the next clue to the combination; barely visible, but still there, scratched into the base of the key. L10.
What a sick man was Hojo, making a game out of another man's peril.
She hurried through the next few clues, her excitement growing despite the possibility of a morbid reward for her efforts.
R59, R97 were the next two numbers, and both were not too difficult find. She couldn't have been looking for much longer than an hour. She scoffed at Cloud's excuse for not looking; we haven't got the time. But of course, he'd had time to sit around, looking gloomy all day. Not that she didn't share in his grief. She had been rather fond of the flower girl, who had just so happened to be the world's only surviving ancient; A walking marvel, a living myth, and not to mention extremely beautiful, utterly captivating… she knew why Cloud had fallen for her.
And who was she? Just plain old Tifa- she had always been there, a steady, comfortable, and familiar presence. Stable, reliable, but nothing else; Just a friend, a link to his hazy past. She had been preparing herself for a long time to simply accept things the way they were, and she was learning to hide her hurt feelings and pained smiles. It would only serve to confuse Cloud, and increase his heavy burden of guilt. She didn't want that.
The safe was located upstairs, she knew, as she'd spotted it on her way to the orangery; a hulking black thing, with an old fashioned dial, and golden handle. It was solid, though, she thought, giving the handle a testing tug. She'd just have to enter the code and see what her reward would be. Her palm sweat as she leaned close, squinting trying to make out the tiny numbers, which were slightly faded. With each click she felt a swell of excitement. R59, R97…. CLICK!
The locking mechanisms gave a heavy creak as she turned the handle with some force. The heavy door swung open slowly, taking some pulling to encourage it open. She gazed inside the safe; upon stacks of musty looking files, the odd book and for some peculiar reason, a spoon, she located what she must be looking for; a golden key.
She took it between her quaking fingers, the metal cool to the touch. It was a beautiful, ornate key, with an elaborate swirling pattern etched around the barrel. Set into it was a red gem stone. She frowned, touching it gently with the pad of her finger; it was smaller than she would have thought, but it looked like materia. She'd have to wait for that part though, because right now, she was itching to find the door the key would inevitably open.
She remembered Cloud talking about the basement and its secret entrance, though she pertained a sudden reluctance to venture down there. She had grown up hearing shocking accounts and horror stories about the atrocious experiments that had gone on down there. Not to mention the tales of ghosts, and… She shook herself. She was not a child, and she wasn't afraid of monsters; because she knew they were real. Zanghan, her trainer, seemed to pop up before her. We only fear what we do not understand. If it is real, then you can hurt it.
She checked the remainder of the house regardless, finding only a few closets holding plates and pans, folded linen, and sometimes objects she couldn't or wouldn't identify, though nothing conclusive.
Only then did she resign herself to the obvious; The basement it was, then.
She tried a few of the upstairs rooms en-route, all of them bedrooms, the mattresses coated in leaf litter and dust from disuse and neglect, though she imagined that once, they would have been rather luxurious. In the eastern bedroom overlooking the square (or at least it would have, were there not a wild plant obscuring most of the window), she felt colder, as if there were a breeze coming from somewhere. She ruled out that it was coming from outside, as the leaves of the trees were still for the moment.
Feeling around, she came across the apparent source; a stone wall that seemed to be part of a chimney breast, or a bricked-up doorway. A few prods and pokes around the area revealed a loose stone, which then allowed her to move some of the larger ones out of the way, making a hole large enough for her to get through.
The air coming up out of the dark space beyond was cool, and smelled strongly of musty paper and stagnant water. Lucky she'd thought to bring a torch, she thought, turning it on with a click. Sweeping her torch light around in through the gap, she found stone steps, winding around a central column. She could hear the incessant drip, drip of water. Taking a deep breath, she scrambled through.
Her footsteps sounded wet, with the slight crunch of grit and dirt underfoot. She found she was breathing quietly, deliberately, as if she feared disturbing something. The key was still clutched in her sweaty palm. She reached the bottom.
She was standing in a long tunnel-like chamber, will earthen walls reinforced, though rather poorly, with wooden planks and stone. The stagnant water she had smelt before seemed to be permeating through the walls, dripping to form shallow pools in the recessions either side of the walkway, indicated by duckboards.
She made her way down slowly, her torch beam revealing two doors at the end of the tunnel. One of them was locked when she tested the rusty iron handle, and the other creaked open slowly at a push from her hesitant fingertips. Should she check this room, to clear her mind, and rule out any wild conjurations she was currently harbouring?
She stepped into what appeared to be a library- so that explained the musty paper smell- and there also seemed to be a lingering, bitter chemical odour. A little poking around revealed a large collection of bottles marked with inscriptions she couldn't understand, let alone read, and the large table in the centre of the room wasn't a workbench as she had initially thought; her torch light had revealed bloodstains, well established into the pores of the wood, and leather bindings.
She shivered, though this library-turned-torture chamber didn't seem to be the source of the cold she'd been experiencing; It must be coming from the space beyond the other door, it had to be.
She returned to the earth tunnel, The continuous drip-drop seeming suddenly louder in the cavernous space. The key didn't seem to fit at first, and she feared disappointment was imminent; that was until a dull click rewarded her persistence. The key turned reluctantly, so she resorted to using the bottom of her night dress to grip it better, as her sweating palms were no help.
The handle was rough and cool in her hand as she tugged at it, the heavy wooden door creaking typically. Her anticipation was now fit to burst, her heart thudding twice its normal rate in her chest.
The cold air hit her in full force as she gingerly entered into the dark room, though there seemed to be a dull red glow coming from somewhere. She found the source of the light, sweeping the room with her torch beam. it seemed to be a switch of some kind, obviously linked to the long black shape that was humming distinctively. A machine of some sort perhaps? Holding her breath, she pushed it. The light turned to green.
A sudden hissing sound nearby almost made her bolt for the door, but she realised that it was coming from the long black box she was standing beside. Her torch revealed a handle at the edge.
Thud-thud-thud went her heart. Oh, this was too strange and scary, perhaps she should call Cloud, or Barret and have them come with her, it was stupid to come alone to this place-
Then, cold vapour began to surge from beneath the lid. Wait a minute-vapour? Was this some kind of tank?
She reached out a shaking hand, closing her trembling finger around the handle and then pulling, holding her breath in her ready-to-burst lungs…
Then she dared to look inside.
A man, naked from the waist up, lay within, apparently sleeping. He was breathing; sudden, unsteady breaths, mist forming in the cold air of the chamber. He looked near death, though; So pale, his lips and eyelids tinged blue around the edges, midnight black hair framing his face. He had sharp cheek bones, sensitive, full lips, a straight and delicate nose…
She stepped tentatively closer to the open tank, placing her still-trembling fingertips at the pulse point at his throat, pleased that it thudded duly against her finger. He seemed to be waking; his eyelids twitching, a tremor in his lips, a sudden gentle convulsion of his fingers.
"C…can you hear me?" She almost whispered, her throat sore from her heart pounding against it for so long. He didn't wake or move, though his eyebrows twitched ever so slightly. "Please, listen to me. I'm here to help you."
His eyes opened slowly, revealed startling red irises. He took in the ceiling, the walls, and then he looked straight at her, her heart near-stopping in her chest. He took in her ivory skin, framed by long strands of chocolate hair, amber eyes almost emanating a glowing warmth from her gaze.
"To wake me from a nightmare…" He said slowly, his voice deep and smooth. "Are you…an angel?"
She chuckled, flushing a little. "Tifa. My name is Tifa. and I can assure you, I am no angel. Are you… I mean, what is this? Are you alright?" After testing his muscles, he slowly sat upright, his eyes never leaving hers. She placed a hand on his shoulder, almost withdrawing it immediately. His skin was freezing.
"I am… alive." He replied after a moment, surveying his pale hands, and gazing down at his body.
"We should get you out of here, somewhere warm."
"Where am I, exactly?" He seemed more alert, apparently strong enough to swing his legs over the side of his tank. She hovered indecisively, unsure of whether to offer her assistance.
"Nibelheim. Or at least, where it once was. This isn't the Nibelheim I knew." She shook her head sadly.
"Was? What happened?"
"It burned down seven years ago. A man named Sephiroth did it."
His startling red eyes found hers, confusion and anger emanating from within them. "Sephiroth? Tell me, how old would you say he was?"
She thought carefully. "It's difficult to say." She shook her head again. "Perhaps thirty."
He was on his feet, though at her words, he seemed to become unsteady. She reached out to grasp his upper arm, gripping only until he regained his balance.
"Thirty years…" He said softly, gazing at his feet absently. "I have been propelled into a future that I must set right."
"Set right?" She let go of his arm. "Future? How long have you been here?"
"I was… imprisoned whilst the baby was still inside it's mother's womb. So if what you say is true, then a minimum of thirty years."
"And this… tank, thing- it's kept you… the same age?"
"It would seem so."
"How terrible…"
"I need clothes."
"Oh, of course! I think there are some here," She had begun opening some of the random crates stacked up against the walls, and had found a black shirt, a pair of boots, and a travelling cloak. "Though they look a little old. Until we can get you some more, I guess they'll do."
"We?" He reached out a hand for the shirt, his movements slow, and a little disjointed.
"I'm here with my friends. We are an anti-ShinRa group, trying to stop Sephiroth."
"Anti-ShinRa…." He seemed to see the things she had presented him with for the first time, his eyes filled with sadness and a kind of bitter amusement. "These clothes were my father's. Ha. Funny Hojo."
"Hojo put you here, right? He mentioned in the note he left that you were a Turk."
"No. Not anymore." He said stiffly, buttoning up the black shirt. "I am done with ShinRa."
"Well, good. I kind of hate the Turks. Especially that stupid redhead…" She grumbled.
"Excuse me?" He raised an eyebrow, though he seemed amused.
"They seem to be following us. It's rather irritating."
"Hm. I see." He stepped into the boots, and after a moment's thought, threw the cloak over his arm. "Well, Miss Tifa… I would like to ask your permission to join you."
"I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. Sephiroth is partly my responsibility. I wish to help you and your… friends stop him."
"Yes… Well, I'm sure Cloud won't mind. But first, you should tell me your name at least." She interlaced her hands behind her back, tapping one foot. He gave her a gentle, whimsical smile.
"My name, is Vincent Valentine." He stopped himself adding 'reporting for duty'. Old habits die hard.
"Well, Vincent… We should get out of here."
"After you." He let her pass him, out into the earth chamber. She smiled at his gentility. Now that you didn't see these days.
She could already tell she was going to like Vincent.
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The truth of this was brought into higher relief for me this past week, when I had occasion to hear from two different amateur linguists regarding the use of Latin by the Western Church. One of them, a professor of Old Testament at the Pontifical College Josephinum and something of an all-around genius, told me that he thinks there is no future for the Latin language in the Church's liturgy and that, at least since the time of St. John Paul II, it has been declining as the de facto language in other official Church circles as well. His opinion was that this is a good thing, and he is frustrated that there are still some young students at the Josephinum who continue to cling to hopes that it will enjoy a renaissance along with the Extraordinary Form.
The other is a professor of canon law at Sacred Heart Major Seminar in Detroit, who recently wrote the following in connection with Pope Francis' recent Motu proprio, Mitis iudex:
I can't help noticing, with regret, that both sides [in the discussion of the import of Mitis iudex] are debating points being made (or not?) in an English translation (accurately rendered?) of an Italian original (is it 'the original'?). And I wonder, since when has Italian become the international language of Catholic doctrine?
It is one thing to accept the practical necessity of Italian for running the Vatican bureaucracy (or not running it, as the case may be). But it is quite another to have Italian serve as the vehicle for proposals officially expressing Catholic doctrine, doctrines that are, by their very nature, not national or ethnic but Catholic and therefore, to recall the etymology of the very word "Catholic", universal. If the relationship between conscience and moral norms really ranks near the top of topics to be taught correctly in and by and to the Church, then should debates about the written expressions of such a topic turn on appreciating the Italian way of phrasing such teachings? I trust the answer to that question is self-evident.
Without getting into whether Latin is the "official language" of the Church..., Latin is unquestionably the primary language of the Catholic Church and, for well over a millennium, it has been the international language of formal Church teaching. The doctrinal clarity and ecclesiastical stability that comes with the use of Latin must never be surrendered. Fundamental assertions about fundamental aspects of Church teaching should be made solely in the one language that is fundamental to the Catholic Church, Latin, on which assertions, I say, let vernacular debates blossom with fruitful abandon.I think both of these amateur linguists are wrong, but each for different reasons. The Old Testament scholar has confused an aesthetic preference for a normative one, while the canonist has confused, well, a lot of things, but mostly he is confused about the Latin language's ability to do the job he wants it to do. So here are my thoughts on these issues and, even though I am actually a professional and not an amateur, I'm not going to pretend that my opinions on matters of language have any real normative force beyond the confines of my own Weltanschauung.
To start with the Old Testament scholar: I agree with him that the demand for Latin in the liturgy has been on the decline among the faithful, and I also agree with him that affection for the Extraordinary Form is also in the decline. I suspect, though we did not discuss this, that he and I would also agree that such affection is misplaced. However, there are some parishes (St. Agnes in St. Paul MN comes to mind) where very effective use of Latin in the Ordinary Form makes for some magnificently beautiful liturgical experiences. My own view is that this is a great thing, but mainly for those who happen to have aesthetic preferences leaning in that direction. I don't really see any compelling reason to make it the norm for all parishes everywhere, since it is simply a fact (sadly) that Latin is not understood by very many people--including many priests--and if the proponents of the Extraordinary Form did not like it when the Ordinary Form was imposed on them everywhere then they should have no reason to think that they ought to impose anything on anyone either. So my own view is, and has long been, that making Latin liturgies available is better than making them mandatory, whether in the Extraordinary or the Ordinary Form. They should at least be available where sufficient numbers of people desire them, because this is an aesthetic preference just like the desire for hymnody at Mass (something not mandated by the GIRM).
That issue, then, is a strictly aesthetic one, as far as I'm concerned. But the issue of Latin as the language of canon law or doctrinal teaching is not a strictly aesthetic one, and there is more philosophical bite to this problem.
I agree that the Church has no "official language" in the contemporary sense of that expression, but having said that there is no mistaking the fact that Latin has long been, and will continue to be, the most important of the languages in which the Church chooses to express herself, if only for reasons of historical continuity, a methodological principle that clearly guides many of the Church's policy-making decisions. Canon law is almost always promulgated in Latin, but not because Latin is the official language of the church nor because Latin has any special claim to superiority in the expression of legal norms. Our canonist suggests that there are two principle reasons why Latin should, nevertheless, continue to be used "to make fundamental assertions about fundamental aspects of church teaching": (1) Latin [preserves] "doctrinal clarity"; (2) Latin [preserves] "ecclesiastical stability". I put "preserves" in square brackets because our canonist does not use that term, instead he says that "with Latin comes" these things, which is ambiguous between the idea that Latin brings these things along with it (where they might not have existed) and the slightly different idea that Latin keeps these things in place (where they have always been). I think "preserves" will work well enough for both, though it is also somewhat unclear.
With regard to "doctrinal clarity", one must immediately point out the paucity of the Latin vocabulary when it comes to matters of doctrine. It was, for example, the lack of a well-worked out vocabulary of procession in Latin that caused the controversy over the Filioque. The Greeks had at least four different words conveying different shades of meaning that Latin tried to compress into the single verb procedere. The resulting schism was undoubtedly grounded in many other issues, mostly political, but there is no denying that the theological differences between East and West that had been accumulating over the centuries were at least in part due to the inability of Latin to provide the "doctrinal clarity" that was already present in Greek. As a matter of fact, what most admirers of the Latin language seem to be most drawn to is not its clarity, but its ambiguity--this is what makes Vergil the greatest poet in the Western canon, according to many of his interpreters: his ability to express a wide variety of ideas in a very small number of words.
The Filioque is only the tip of the iceberg in this regard, but the notorious ambiguity of Latin, combined with its meagre philosophical and theological vocabulary, is only half the problem with our canonist's (1). The flip-side of this question is the simple fact that, if what one wants is "doctrinal clarity" there is no reason why Latin in particular ought to be the default language, because once you decide that there is to be a "default language" then any language will do, especially a language like English, which continues to evolve in a natural way via the use of native speakers who are able to deliver whatever clarity is required simply by explaining, in their native tongue, what they mean by a given expression. There are no native speakers of Latin, so there is no one who has the sort of linguistic authority to say "this is how I am using the term because this is how it is used in the course of natural usage"--all that can be said is "this is how I think previous users of the term meant to use it, and so that is how I am going to use it." But that does not deliver any kind of special "doctrinal clarity" that is proprietary to the Latin language per se. There remains, however, the idea that keeping things in Latin will mean that, at the very least, we're all still talking about the same terms that were being used in the previous centuries and, hopefully, the same concepts as well, concepts that we don't want to mess up by trying to translated them into our modes of expression.
This may be what our canonist was hoping to get at with his (2). This issue of "ecclesiastical stability" is rather interesting, because it can be taken in either an aesthetic or a doctrinal sense. Certainly the use of Latin throughout the Latin rite would make for some stability with respect to liturgical practice, but that is an aesthetic issue and not one that our canonist is trying to address. Rather I think he has in mind the sort of doctrinal stability that is alleged to come along with clarity and the continuity that I was just discussing. There are a number of objections that could be raised to this point. On the one hand, if we are talking about church polity, it is not clear that either clarity of language or continuity of use will be guaranteed by Latin any more than by any other language, since I have already suggested that Latin is not sui generis in the clarity department and even when there is great clarity of meaning people in general still find ways to get into disputes about normative matters. This disagreement will not be eliminated by continuing the use of Latin, since our canonist himself has already complained about the fact that discussing issues at two or three removes from the original is a dangerous way to proceed, and all discussions about the meaning of Latin terms are by their very nature already at a remove from the original, since there are no native Latin speakers. Everyone, even the fluent Latin scholar, has a different language template in place through which his understanding of Latin is filtered.
Our canonist softens his view, somewhat, at the end, by suggesting that his proposal is really only that, since Latin is the historically most important language of the Latin church, it should remain so, and debates can be in any language you like. This reduces Latin to a kind of antiquarian curiosity, and seems to me to vitiate any claims about its inherent clarity and ability to create stability, but I'm happy to agree that it's nice to still be able to buy books written in Latin, if that's what one likes to read, and I do. So if our canonist is admitting that, after all, it's really an aesthetic question, then perhaps we aren't so far apart after all, and de gustibus non disputandum est.


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I too would like to know the source for this information. I have heard this in the past but no one has presented documentation for this statement-- that the Madrid name comes from the Jewish/Israel descendants.
I do have a coat of arms( It has a beautiful Coat of Arms emblem)!that my Brother got while he lived in Spain. On it are these words written: CASTELLANO, UNA RAMA PASO A ANDALUCIA. PROBO SU NOBLESA EN LAS ORDENES DE SANTIAGO CALATRAVA, ALCANTARA, MONTESA,CARLOS III Y SAN JUAN DE JERUSLAEN, Y EN LAS REALES CHANCILLERIAS DE VALLSDOLIO Y GRANADAS.
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So what's the childhood of an Olympic speed skater like? Well, it's probably a little different for everyone. Usually skaters grow up surrounded by their sport. Think of American speed skaters and you think of places like Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota places where lakes and rivers can freeze for six months out of the year.
One of the last places you'd think a champion speed skater would grow up would be Seattle. It's rainy, not too cold, and right by the ocean. There's not much snow and hardly ever any ice. Seattle just isn't a place where people spend a lot of time skating. All the same, this mild, wet city by the sea is the hometown of the most famous speed skater in the U.S.: a nineteen-year-old kid with an earring and long hair, named Apolo Ohno.
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Apolo Anton Ohno was born in Seattle on May 22, 1982. Back then no one was counting on an Olympic future for this kid. Things were pretty tough on him right off the bat. His mother, Jerrie Lee, abandoned him in 1983 before he was even one year old. After she took off, he never heard from her again.
Apolo's father, Yuki Ohno, was left to raise Apolo as a single dad. It wasn't easy, but he managed as well as he could. Mr. Ohno, was a hairstylist in Seattle and worked like crazy to keep up with the bills. He owned his own hair salon called Yuki's Diffusions, which took up a lot of his time. And he sometimes took on extra jobs at other salons just to make ends meet. He often worked twelve-hour days. juggling his time before his son wasborn had been hard enough. After Apolo arrived and his wife left, things got even crazier.
"It was a turning point in my fife," Mr. Ohno, says, describing the early years, after his wife left. "I was the type of hairdresser that goes to parties and all those shows wearing very flamboyant European label suits from head to toe. Everything changed. At the beginning I felt I had no confidence. I thought, I'm the only male caring for a one-year-old baby, facing all the other mothers and day care. I was very depressed. But you just develop. You build up confidence."
Another thing that made things difficult was Apolo's personality. No one had any idea that Apolo would be skating in the Olympics. But as soon as he could walk, Apolo definitely demonstrated that he had the soul of an athlete and a competitor. He would jump the fence at day care, climb to the top of the jungle gym and refuse to come down, and even swallow dirt and rocks on dares. Basically, he had a rambunctious and uncontrollable kind of energy the kind of energy that makes Olympic champions but that also makes for hard-to-manage kids. Chasing after Apolo was a full-time job, and it was almost impossible for Mr. Ohno just to make dinner or take Apolo shopping at the grocery store. It was exhausting and often sent Mr. Ohno into fits of panic and worry.
But even when Apolo was young, his wild spirit was no mystery to Mr. Ohno. He knew exactly where it came from. He'd been something of a rebel himself.
Mr. Ohno, was born in Japan and was the son of a vice-president of a Japanese university. At eighteen, Mr. Ohno, decided to leave his academic family and his unexciting life in Japan to try his luck in the U.S. He moved to Seattle, where he enrolled at Seattle City College. He wanted to be an accountant. But after a few courses in accounting, he decided that wasn't for him either-too many numbers, not enough socializing. Instead, he decided to check out another career.
Mr. Ohno studied hairstyling and traveled all over the world to learn his craft. He went to London to study at the famous Vidal Sassoon salon and spent time in New York City practicing his trade. He partied with artists, hung around with players in the fashion industry, and cut the hair of famous models. Not a bad fife. It was actually kind of a wild life. It made sense that his son was a little wild, too.
Eventually Mr. Ohno made his way back to Seattle. There he opened his salon, Yuki's Diffusions. It was 1980 and he was putting down some roots. But while the traveling was slowing down, the fun was not.
Mr. Ohno continued to live a wild life, staying out late, partying with his friends, and occasionally flying off to London to cut a model's hair. Then he met Apolo's mother, Jerrie, and Mr. Ohno's life looked like it was finally going to settle down.
Unfortunately, a peaceful family life was not in the cards. Apolo was born and Jerrie left. Mr. Ohno had gone from rebellious partier to family man to single dad, all in a few short years. Things definitely changed, but probably not the way Mr. Ohno had imagined they would.
But he didn't shy away from his responsibilities. He was thirty-seven, a hard worker, and he did everything he could for his son. He describes himself as half mom and half dad. Every Mother's Day Mr. Ohno would ask Apolo's teacher to convince Apolo to make him a card.
"I didn't want him to feel left out," Mr. Ohno says.
Apolo also got to hang out with other adults who took an interest in him. Whenever he'd get a break from school, he'd spend time at his dad's salon, sitting in the back and chatting with the customers. Mr. Ohno's regular clients still talk about their time with Apolo especially these days, since almost everyone in Seattle is talking about the speed skating phenomenon...
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