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If you haven't been to Toronto in a while, you might not recognize the place. The skyline is starting to look a lot like Manhattan. And it's not just the new buildings that resemble New York. So do the housing prices.
Real Estate agent Kevin McCarthy showed me around "Museum House," one of Toronto's many new luxury towers. A 2000-square foot, two-bedroom and den suite is listed at $2.1 million CAD.
"The finishes are of the highest quality. Features such as every suite has direct elevator access, and you step out your front door, and there are world class dining, and shopping, and theater, there's everything here," said McCarthy, showing me around.
Good living... if you can afford it. The penthouse goes for a cool $12 million CAD. (The place is pretty awesome.) And McCarthy says apartments like this haven't been staying on the market long.
Amy and Chris Poole are looking for something a bit more modest. They've been on the home hunt since October and are currently living in a small rental with their two-year-old daughter. Most of their possessions are in storage.
"I mean, this is not our furniture; this is a furnished executive rental," said Amy. "We want our stuff, we want to unpack our belongings. We want our home, we want to plant our feet."
Amy and Chris have lost out on four offers and backed out of three others. They say competition at open houses is so intense that they've seen things get physical. Chris described a recent open house they attended.
"The listing agent is backed into the corner by the fireplace, and somebody is standing there being quite loud saying, 'I'm going to work with you, I'm to make sure we get this property, whatever it takes, 120, 130 percent over asking, I'll do it,' just to try and intimidate everyone else."
Amy added, "That was actually the last open house we went to because you just walk through and everyone is sizing each other up, giving each other bad looks."
Toronto prices are being driven by a perfect mix–record-low interest rates, lack of inventory, and a stable Canadian economy.
Chris says he's just not willing to pay above a certain amount for a three-bedroom place. He and Amy got uncomfortable when I asked how high they're willing to go. But Chris said, "It's over a million, but it's not too much over."
That's a lot of money. And Chris is worried that he's potentially investing in a bubble, a bubble that could go pop.
Home prices in Toronto have appreciated about 85 percent over the past decade. The market took a short, moderate dip in 2008, but has marched steadily northward since then.
Ask economists and housing experts where they see home prices heading in the next few years... there's no consensus.
"My forecast is, this year, probably price growth of 2 or 3 percent. 2013, probably a price decline of about 4 percent decline," said Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank.
"We've penciled in around 25 percent price decline," said David Madani with Capital Economics. (Madani emphasizes, that's a rough estimate over several years.)
"We just don't know," said Phil Soper, president and CEO of Royal LePage Services, a real estate company.
The big fear in Toronto, and even more so in high-flying Vancouver, is this: Is Canadian real estate at risk of an American-style collapse?
Phil Soper says no. He says Toronto today is not like the US a few years ago.
"The rate of price appreciation is much less than you see in the United States, or in countries, such as Ireland that had real busts. The Irish situation, for example, from trough to peak, (was) four times as great a price appreciation as we see in Canada today."
Soper says the rise in home prices in big Canadian cities like Toronto has been slow and steady–Toronto is the tortoise that's moved ahead of the hare. And now, real estate in greater Toronto is suddenly more expensive than metro San Francisco or the New York area. (It's hard to say that with absolute certainty though, as Toronto calculates home prices by average, whereas American real estate figures use median. Remember, this is also metro areas, so New York City, for example, is not limited to pricey Manhattan.)
Craig Alexander with TD Bank doesn't see an American-style meltdown here either. He says the US housing collapse largely happened because of problems within the American banking system.
"At the peak of the US housing bubble about 40 percent of all mortgages being originated were sub-prime loans, in other words, high-risk, high-leveraged loans. Well, in the Canadian context, the mortgages are all income tested, the sub-prime market is probably about 3 percent of the total market. We aren't seeing a lot of high-risk lending going on."
I suggested to Alexander that this was shaping up into a far less sexy story than I envisioned.
"Sorry, in Canada it's boring," said Alexander.
But David Madani with Capital Economics wasn't so sure that Canada and Toronto's housing market is a boring story.
"We use the word bubble. We're not afraid to use that word."
Madani sees a lot of common factors between what happened in the US in the 2000's and Canada today.
"We see the run-up in household debt, which is now almost as high as it was in the United States. We see the same run-up in the homeownership rate, just like what we saw in the United States. And then finally, of course, we're also seeing the over-building and the new home construction, and this is particularly true in the condo market in cities like Toronto."
Toronto is putting up the most high-rise buildings–that's anything from 12 to 39 floors–of any city in North America: 132. By way of comparison, the top US city is New York. It's building 86 high-rise towers.
Amy and Chris Poole, the young couple looking to buy a place, are well aware of all of the construction in Toronto.
"Standing from our balcony there, we can see 14 cranes," said Chris.
Chris has heard the warnings that Toronto is building too much too fast. But he said he knows the other side of the argument, "where I'm like maybe we are behind what London, New York, what San Francisco is all about. Maybe this is sustainable, maybe this is the way things are going to be for a while. It's hard to tell."
Most economists and real estate insiders do agree that real estate values in Toronto will almost certainly be higher in 20 years. So for a young couple looking to invest for the long-term, there's really no bad time to buy. That is, if there's something they can afford to buy.
A version of this story also appeared at BBC News.


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Here's a Late Entry for Year's Most Embarrassing On-Air Freudian Slip
News 9 weatherman Ashton Altieri must have practiced congratulating his colleague Corey Rose on a major victory by her beloved Indiana team a dozen times: Great job by the Hoosiers, Corey. Be specific Congratulations on the big win by the Hoosiers, Corey. Make it more personal. Congratulations to your Hoosiers, Corey. I got this. Congratulations on your big win, Corey. Hoosiers. Congratulations on your big Hoosiers win, Corey. I'm gonna do great. Hoosiers. I'm a star. Let's roll camera.
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Easter Bank Holiday starts in a few hours 🙂 And I am all excited as we are off to Wales! We have a 4 day holiday here! Can I see jealous faces? Well, it used to be a much awaited holiday when I was working!
So, we are off to Swansea, Wales, for the next four days, we are desperately praying for good weather – but weather god does not look very obliging 😦 The worst case scenario is that we get stuck in the hotel rooms and play egg hunt 🙂 hopefully the children will love it (we are meeting two other families there ).
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PER vol.16 n.5 Potchefstroom May. 2013
The last issue of 2013 consists of fourteen contributions dealing with a potpourri of topics. The first two articles are both by the same author. In the first one, André Louw addresses the recent, sometimes deplorable conduct of intellectual property (or IP) lawyers, and in the second one, André Louw explores the proper role and meaning of good faith (or bona fides) in contract law, and the approach of our courts to the application of this principle in individual cases involving claims of unfairness and the like. The third article, by Rufaro Mavunga, critically assesses the Minimum Age Convention 138 of 1973 and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 182 of 1999. Nicholas Orago, in the fourth article, discusses socio-economic rights in Kenya and proposes that if the entrenched socio-economic rights are to achieve their transformative objectives, Kenyan courts must adopt a proportionality approach in the judicial adjudication of socio-economic rights disputes. The fifth article, by Oliver Fuo, explores and critically investigates the relevance and potential of integrated development planning in contributing towards the achievement of social justice in South Africa. Next, Michaela Young discusses the fate of informal fishers in the context of the Policy for the Small-Scale Fisheries Sector in South Africa. The second-last article, by Hermanus van der Merwe, provides a historical and teleological overview of the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide under international law, as well as the definitional elements thereof as interpreted and applied by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, before he continues to examine it in contemporary South African law. The last article, by Chuma Himonga, Max Taylor and Anne Pope, explores the scope and content of the ever elusive concept of ubuntu, as pronounced on by the judiciary in various cases, and demonstrates that its fundamental elements of respect, communalism, conciliation and inclusiveness enhance the constitutional interpretation landscape.
The first note in this issue, co-authored by Amos Saurombe and Happy Nkabinde, focuses on the future of global economic governance in the light of the current state of multilateral trade negotiations. The authors provide recommendations on how reform of the multilateral decision-making structures should focus on promoting the interests of developing countries that have historically been marginalised, especially those making up BRICS. In the second note, Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel discusses the effect of the decision, Roseveare v Katmer Roseveare v Katmer, Katmer v Roseveare 2013 ZAGPJHC 18, which has opened the door for courts to create servitudes in instances where encroachments are left intact based on policy reasons. Thirdly, Louis Harms, a judge emeritus of the Supreme Court of Appeal, gives his views on the meaning of the concepts "originality" and "reproduction" in copyright law with special reference to photographs. Philip Stoop and Crizell Chuir, in the fourth note, discuss the scope and application of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, which came into effect on 1 April 2011. Loretta Feris considers in the firth note the potential conflicts that may arise between customary rights and environmental rights in the face of dwindling marine resources in the context of the unreported judgment of S v Gongqose Case No. E382/10. The last note, by Joel Modiri, draws on critical race theory and critical legal theory in order to read and critique the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment of Erasmus AJA in BoE Trust Limited 2013 3 SA 236 (SCA). The author argues that certain aspects of the Court stand in tension with the project of transformative constitutionalism, which prevents the coming into being of a more critical race jurisprudence for postapartheid South Africa.
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Partying all night long (after about 4 am)
You can party all night long in Spain, even once the sun has come up. Here are a few ideas to guide you when you set out to enjoy a night out on the town in some of the top Spanish cities for nightlife.
Although any time in Madrid is a good time for dancing and meeting people, you'll find the best atmosphere from Thursdays to Saturdays, starting around midnight. And then you can always head for an after-hours club to carry on partying. If you're somebody who feels a little peckish after a night out on the town, why not try the Spanish custom of enjoying a delicious cup of hot chocolate with "churros" (hot fritters) sprinkled with sugar while you watch the sun come up? You'll love it!
A good way to enjoy the nightlife on offer in Barcelona is by dancing to all hours of the night to the latest techno sounds. The nightclubs in Barcelona are famous all over the world for their electronic music. Many of the top names on the music scene come to deejay in the city's discos. In areas such as Eixample and Sant Gervasi – Santaló there are numerous venues where techno sounds can be heard all night long.
Endless nights, unlimited fun, an anything-goes atmosphere which is famous all over the world... Ibiza has everything you need to guarantee you have the best holiday ever, surrounded by people like you, making new friends and dancing all through the night until the sun comes up. Ibiza nights are unforgettable, which is why thousands of people flock to the island every year. You'll have a great time in some of the best clubs on earth, with music from famous DJs to dance the night away. The party lasts all night long, but it still won't seem long enough. After just one night, you'll understand why Ibiza's nightlife is so famous and you'll want to experience it again. You'll meet loads of people looking for a fun time, and you might even bump into some of the celebrities who come to Ibiza to enjoy the atmosphere of its outdoor terraces and discos. Gay scene: The island's "gay route" includes numerous venues and terraces located in Ibiza's harbour, along the Ses Figueretes seafront promenade and in Calle Ramón Muntaner. You'll find several restaurants and the Ánfora disco, with an exclusively gay vibe, in the old part of the town of Dalt Vila. And of course there are also special sessions in the big discos like Amnesia, Bora Bora, Pacha, Privilege or Ushuaïa .
In the province of Valencia you'll find some of the most famous discos in Spain, especially on the route from Valencia to Cullera, in beachfront locations where the music plays all night long.
As the night advances into the early hours in Benidorm, the party moves to the big discos on the outskirts of the town, on the Altea road. Penélope, Ku, Km and Privilege are just some of Benidorm's hottest nightspots.
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Carly Pope didn't exactly go out of her way to speak up during the panel for her new series, "Outlaw," but, then again, nor did the journalists who were asking questions single her out very often. One did, however, asking what brought her to the series in the first place and wondering if it might've had anything to do with her father working in the legal field.
"Well, I think that having a father who has been involved with law since, you know, before I was born definitely gives me an opportunity to learn more about the law and service the part that way," Pope admitted. "But, truly, it was just…I felt like it was a really refreshing take on a legal drama. And the writing is phenomenal. The cast they've assembled is great. And to me, that is a formula that I'd like to be a part of."
Executive producer John Eisendrath subsequently admitted that Pope never mentioned her father's background to him, then mused, "Because her character is the most lawless character on the show, maybe she hasn't even mentioned it to her father."
"We've spoken briefly about it," Pope replied, smiling.
Later that evening, during NBC's all-star party on the rooftop of the Beverly Hilton, I spotted Pope – looking just as gorgeous in person as her photos make her out to be – and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to chat with her for a few minutes.
Carly Pope: Hi, I'm Carly! (Looks at the nametag hanging from my lanyard) And you're Will from Bullz-Eye.
Bullz-Eye: (Laughs) I am. Good to meet you!
CP: You, too!
BE: Well, before we launch into talking about "Outlaw," I've got to ask you about the previous project you did for NBC, one that I got really excited about but which vanished into oblivion: "Day One."
CP: I would love to know what happened to "Day One" as well. You and me, both! It's, like, we just ceased to exist.
BE: I talked to Adam Campbell last year, and he was all excited about it, and then…nothing.
CP: I know! We were all so excited. We were set to start…I mean, we had an official start date and everything…but then it kept getting pushed back, and finally it just fizzled. It's very unfortunate, too, because I think that Jesse Alexander had such a world in his brain that he wanted to create. It's unfortunate that he wasn't given the opportunity to give that to an audience. It would've been fun to be a part of it.
BE: At least you stepped right into "Outlaw."
CP: Yeah, exactly! I mean, I can't complain. I'm working with a phenomenal cast and a great group of producers and writers. It's tried and true dramatic television, and there's a lot of different insights into the legal drama, I think, and hopefully it'll be a refreshing kind of angle.
BE: Earlier today, someone commented on the fact that Jimmy Smits is one of those actors that people will watch in anything, and he's definitely pretty entertaining in this, but one thing I noticed about the pilot is that it set up the premise for the show so darned fast. Did it feel that way to you?
CP: Well, I feel like, by the end of the first act, you know that he's quitting the bench and starting a new life. That's kind of the three-act structure, anyway. Yeah, it has a fast-paced feel to it. I like that, though. It's, like, putting us on the front lines a little bit more. We're part of the fire. If we don't have that kind of energy behind us, what are we doing? Having that unique angle of him being a Supreme Court justice that's going to have the power, the ability, and the impetus to move things forward, it's inevitably going to be fast-paced. It has to be. So, yeah, there's an energy to it, and I hope that's going to continue.
BE: So how far into filming are you at this point?
CP: We just finished Episode 2, and we're starting Episode 3 on Monday.
BE: Do they have the same fast-paced feel?
CP: Well, we're covering a lot of ground in each episode. For the most part, we're taking on a case each episode, so that's where the episodic nature comes in, but there are going to be serialized elements in terms of the character development and what happens in the structure, the dynamic of the "family" that's been created. But, yeah, for the most part, it is pretty fast-paced. Like, we just finished the table read for Episode 3, and by the end of it, you're, like… (Exhales loudly) "Okay, I can take a breath now!" There's a lot of gravity, especially because there are headlines that we're currently dealing with in the country. There's a depth and a weight to the issues that we're tackling. Hopefully, we can infuse a little bit of levity, too. Lucinda, my character, is kind of a tool to create a little bit of levity. Hopefully, that's the case…but we'll do as we do, I guess! (Laughs)
BE: Is it fun getting to play so ridiculously flirtatious?
CP: Yeah! The thing I love about Lucinda is that she's very playful, but beyond that, too, she's not going to play with anyone that she knows can't take it. So she cares. For her, she's looking at the people she's working with as people who are incredibly bright, incredibly hard working, she has tons of respect for them. It's a defense mechanism, and as time goes on, we'll find out why she has those defense mechanisms in place. Right now, we're kind of getting more of the surface version, but as time goes on, we'll get to see why she is the way she is. But it's a really fun character to play, because a lot isn't known about her, and I feel like having a character that you have to build upon is really intriguing and enticing.
BE: Do you maintain the whole biker-meets-goth look beyond the pilot episode?
CP: The whole thing about Lucinda is that she was built by the street. Lucinda is street-smart. That's her thing. Her code is…she has never formally been educated. She's just a survivalist. She's done whatever she's had to do to get where she is, and there's an element of that in her fashion sense. She's real. She's not going to put a suit on because she should. She's going to be nonconformist that way. She's going to wear what she wants to wear, she's going to be who she is, without having to adhere to the social norms or whatever.
BE: To step away from "Outlaw" to close, what's your favorite project that you've worked on that didn't get the love you thought it deserved?CP: Oh, wow, that's a good question. (Long pause) Well, for better or worse, I'd say that "Day One" was so enjoyable to work on for many reasons. For one, Alex Graves was a phenomenal director. Jesse Alexander wrote a really interesting story that we only knew a fraction of. And, thirdly, we had a cast that all got along really well. We all bonded very quickly as a team, so I felt like it would've been really cool to see how that would've transpired. But with that being said, the industry is really fickle, and it's like a wave: it changes all the time, so you have to just kind of roll with it and work with what's going on today. I'm happy with where I'm at now, but, yeah, it would've been nice to see the genesis of something like "Day One," given the dynamic that we were given to work with in the first place.
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Taylor Swift has revealed plans for a live streaming event that will take place Aug. 18, but fans are still in the dark about exactly what she's planning.
Last week Swift started teasing followers of her social media accounts, leaving clues like an Instagram video of her in an elevator repeatedly pressing the button for the 18th floor. After that she posted a screen grab of her phone taken at exactly 5 p.m. And finally on Thursday (Aug. 7) she tweeted out a shot of the Yahoo! website that said simply "this is clue #3."
Then photos of Swift and some music industry colleagues started appearing, using a grainy filter and the hashtag #polaroid . A Polaroid camera is clearly visible in her second clue to fans.
All of this teasing has culminated in Monday's (Aug. 11) official confirmation of Swift's upcoming live stream event on Yahoo! beginning at 5 p.m. ET on Aug. 18.
Speculation now has it that the superstar singer-songwriter will reveal plans for her upcoming fifth studio album, and it could be called Polaroid.
In the past, Swift has used similar events to share details about an upcoming album — like she did in 2010 to announce the release of Speak Now , her third album.
For Red, which came out in 2012, Swift set up a live stream of her album release party. In addition, she took questions from fans and performed a short concert.
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WikiFur:This week's featured article/Week 29, 2007
Califur is a convention that succeeded the long-running ConFurence as the annual furry event of Southern California. Califur is organized by FENEC Adventures. Related events include Califur Train, and Califur Diego. Attendance has grown from 328 in 2004 to 496 as of 2007.
FENEC ("Furries Enjoying the Natural Environments of California") was conceived by Alohawolf, Dawn Britt, and Dennis Carr with the initial idea of having a furry-themed campout. While riding home from the southern California FurBQ, Dawn commented to Dennis and his wife, Karmin, about the lack of other camping events such as Feral! in Southern California. Dennis pointed this out while chatting on the Furnet IRC Network, and Robert took charge from there.
As the campout was being planned, additional staffers including Glen Wooten, Zsanene "Zee" Stevens, Tank "Trapa" Winters, "Drew kitty" along with ConFurence co-founders Mark Merlino and Rod O'Riley were brought on board. With the demise of ConFurence in 2003, Mark and Robert expressed a desire to see a regional convention maintained in Southern California. The decision was made in early autumn of 2003 to plan a traditional hotel-based convention to succeed ConFurence 2003 with Califur 0 the following year. (more...)


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I visited Montevallo for the first time in 1982. I was an English major at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and made an impromptu, late-night road trip there with two girls, Xan and Annette, who were in my Spanish class.
We went to a girl's apartment — one of Annette's friends, I think. Memory fails me. We drank beer and partied — I'm not sure how long — then drove home.
I saw a bit of the beautiful University of Montevallo (UM) campus, part of Main Street and some of the town's relatively undeveloped perimeter. The little town of Montevallo put a hook into me, and I've never shaken the idea that I had stumbled into a hidden bohemian oasis, a place apart from the rest of the Birmingham metro that many people in the area never visit and of which they are only dimly aware.
I wanted to make another visit but never did, not until late June, when I went to Montevallo again to find my way to the green heart of the dream. What's the feel or character of the town, I wondered? What about all the sustainability projects I heard about in Montevallo? Is it really an overlooked progressive hideaway?
I met B-Metro photographer Edward Badham at Eclipse Coffee & Books, which serves as a prime Montevallo gathering spot, on a hot, sunny Friday morning. Serving as our guides for a day tour of Montevallo's "green" projects, both on and off campus, are Aaron Traywick and Courtney Bennett. Traywick is a current UM student and Bennett a recent graduate. Both have been active in the UM Environmental Club and helped start ValloCycle, a bike-share program that was initiated by students and attracted support from the city and the university.
How would Bennett describe Montevallo? "I don't really know, but after you live here you can't really live anywhere else," she says. "It just has a certain pull to it. I think it draws a certain sort of person. It's very hard to leave. It's hard to go other places." She describes how glad she was to get back to Montevallo after spending a couple of days in Birmingham. "Just having to drive everywhere [was] really alien, because here you just walk everywhere, and it's not a big deal."
Originally from Anniston, Ala., Bennett graduated from the UM last December with majors in English and sociology. She stays busy, doing PR for ValloCycle, the new Montevallo Artwalk and other groups. Traywick is from Elmore, Ala., and is the first UM student to design his own degree in the new Interdisciplinary Studies program. He says that while he, Bennett and their associates have to work hard to get sustainability projects going, the town is receptive.
"One thing I've always been fond of when it comes to Montevallo is that there is not a lot of negative [opposition to] good ideas and good work," he says. "We've had to work really hard, but it's no harder than we would have had to work anywhere else."
An awareness of the need for smart development in Montevallo got a boost a few years ago, according to Traywick, when citizens stopped the construction of a huge apartment complex, at least in part because they found that the city's water-treatment facility couldn't handle the impact.
Eclipse co-owner Cheryl Patton opened the coffee house and restaurant in 2001 with her husband, Michael Patton, who teaches philosophy at the UM.
In 2007, Michael taught the school's first sustainability class, in which students were charged with preparing and serving a large banquet at the end of the term — a banquet prepared using food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius of Montevallo. His class, still offered on occasion, helped inspire some of the students who later became active in the Environmental Club.
The Eclipse, located in an old house with sculptures in the yard, hosts lots of events, everything from rock bands to comedy troupes to fire eaters. "It's something different all the time," Cheryl says, laughing. "I've learned to just say yes."
Bennett, Traywick, Badham and I headed next to the nearby Parnell Memorial Library (PML), a community mainstay that, among other things, serves as the home venue of the popular theater troupe, the Montevallo Main Street Players.
We meet Libbie Rodgers, treasurer of the PML Foundation, who shows us the plans for a new organic garden being built at the library. The garden will help stop erosion that damages the Cahaba River, beautify the area near the library and educate the public, including kids, about storm-water management and rainwater harvesting.
"We have schools all around," Rodgers says. "We have the elementary school right across the street, high school nearby, middle school nearby. And all of these will be able to come and learn from the garden."
We next wander through Orr Park, a large green-space that runs along a lovely stretch of Shoal Creek, and look at the many sculptures — including animal faces and serpents — carved by hand in dead cedar trees in the park by coal miner and local artist, Tim Tingle. We leave Orr Park and pick up the Parks Trail, walking in the direction of Stephens Park. We follow Traywick, a sort of intrepid expedition leader who walks barefoot, even in the underbrush in a sort of wild, unkempt area. As we walk, we see pieces of graffiti and chalk art on retaining walls, and see fruit trees planted along the path by a family that lives nearby.
Traywick tells me that Montevallo is a place where all the good stuff is not right on the surface. "There's a lot of really beautiful and obscure treasures," he says.
After a long, though enjoyable, walk, made bearable on a hot day by water we drink from Traywick's glass jar, we reach the UM Organic Garden on County Road 10. The garden gives UM environmental studies students hands-on credit and supplies food to Shelby Emergency Assistance. When we arrive — at about noon — manager Holly Pless Wadleigh, a master gardener, has been working for hours, watering and tying up tomatoes.
"I spend a lot of hours out here," says Wadleigh, a UM biology major, who grew up on a farm in Tennessee. "I love gardening. "
She adds, "I just wanted to teach other people how to grow stuff, and when I found out that we were feeding the needy, that was a plus."
After a walk to the UM campus, we visit the art department, where students are making bike racks, but not just ordinary bike racks. These racks will be used by ValloCycle and will conform to specifications, but will also be attractive pieces of sculpture. Collin Williams, an associate art professor and director of new media, tells us that this class was part of the popular UM service learning program that allows students to earn class credit while doing community projects. Student Rachel Hall is making a bike rack meant to lie flat, using metal rings cut from recycled pipe. It will be used at the science building, so Hall says, "I wanted to do something that mimicked cell structure and growth."
Hall gets the Montevallo vibe. "It's just a small community where people are really connected and really aware and just want to do what they can to change things, and just have a nice community," she says.
After a stroll across campus, and badly in need of food and hydration, we stop at Main Streeet Tavern, a popular gathering spot on the town's traditional commercial strip, where I have an overflowing shrimp po' boy and, more important, about two pitchers of water. After a quick stop at the House of Serendipity, a book, antique and collectibles shop run by Bruce and Jane McClanahan that has been a fixture on the street since 1977, we drive to see one of the most impressive achievements of the Montevallo green and academic communities, the James Wylie Shepherd Observatory (JWSO), located about 2.5 miles from town on the former site of a former UM construction landfill.
Opened in 2008, the JWSO — housed in a shiny, metal dome — rises from the grass in a clearing in an undeveloped area like the domed-shaped house in Woody Allen's futuristic comedy Sleepers. As we arrive, work is underway on the JWSO's new pavilion, or command center, which is being built with cast-off cedar logs, self-composting toilets, solar path lighting, a rain-water collection system and solar panels connected to the Alabama Power electrical grid.
Heading the construction is Montevallo artist Andy Cummings of Tree Play. "We are going to be able to show people what cool stuff you can make from trash," he tells me.
The directors of the JWSO are on hand that day — Michael Sterner, a mathematics professor, and Michael Powell, the same philosophy professor who taught the sustainability class. Sterner and Powell both have a deep interest in astronomy. "I have been an amateur astronomer my whole life," Powell says. They sponsored an astronomy club on campus and then worked to clear numerous administrative and funding hurdles and build a permanent facility. "This was sort of a dream for a long time," according to Sterner.
The day ends for me — as well as for Badham, Bennett, Traywick, Cummings and the Pattons — on the front porch at Eclipse. I sip a Good People IPA and listen to Michael Patton describe the origins of a popular series of events, called The Life Raft Debates, that he stages each October for the philosophy department. Teachers assume the persona of their favorite philosopher, Patton says, and compete to be chosen by the audience as the philosopher they would take on a life raft to start a new society. (For more, go to www.liferaftdebate.com).
As I listen and drink my IPA, it is not hard to for me to feel that, given the easy atmosphere I feel among this crew of people, I could be very comfortable living in Montevallo.
But is the town too small? I wonder. Would it drive me crazy?
At any rate, I know I will visit again, and not 30 years later this time.
After the trip, I asked some local luminaries in emails and phone calls what they thought makes Montevallo special.
Mary Lou Williams, executive director of Montevallo Chamber of Commerce, says, "We have a comfortable, small-town environment with big-city attractions." She adds, "I think Montevallo is a microcosm of our region— a fine university and a diverse population, our interest in the arts."
Hollie Cost agrees. The busy Cost — a UM professor of special education, coordinator of the service learning program, city council member and now a mayoral candidate — thinks her adopted town is special.
"I would venture to say that the diversity of the people in a population this size coupled with the cultural, natural and athletic opportunities offered locally are unmatched by any other Alabama community," Cost argues. "I don't know of any other communities of our size that can boast a public liberal arts university, a historical village civic education center, a sister city in Japan, a nationally recognized trail system, a city-wide bike share, a historic downtown and a prolific arts community."
Bennett and Traywick told me that Montevallo seems to have another distinction you wouldn't expect — a surprising level of acceptance of gay people. Kelly Wacker is an art historian and member of the UM faculty who moved to Montevallo in 2002 with her partner, artist Amy Feger. She agrees that Montevallo treats the GLBTQ community pretty well, and her speculations as to why that is true may also include clues to the mystery of Montevallo's seemingly progressive nature, despite its location in the Bible Belt.
"It's tolerant, to sum it up in one word," Wacker say. "I don't know specifically what is is about the University or the town that encourages that. I think some of it may have to do with the history of the University, because it's a liberal arts college and has been through its history. About Montevallo, I think that people are interested in people as individuals and [in their] personal character, and that seems to come first more than anything else."
The town's relative isolation may have something to do with the fact that people feel safe to express themselves there, Wacker suggests. "We're a little outside the Birmingham metro area, and it has been in a sort of bubble that is a little protective, and characters are embraced in Montevallo. it is kind of a special place in that sense."
Badham has been lucky enough to return to Montevallo since our visit. He went back a week or two later to shoot a couple of other locations. One of those locations was the magnificent Ebenezer Swamp, a nature preserve that UM biology professor Michael Hardig and others helped save from the development of a proposed limestone quarry nearby. The site preserves 80 acres of endangered upland hardwood swamp.
I emailed Badham and asked if he had any thoughts, impressions or memories of Montevallo to share.
"As I drove into Montevallo it seemed pretty much like every other time I have been there, a sleepy little country side village," Badham wrote. "But upon the arrival of my barefoot bohemian guide, Aaron, it was as if he let us through a portal, and we entered into a strange and wonderful land of enchantment — a place where wild animals, wizards and serpents frolic merrily in the park, a place where you can peer into other galaxies, and where giant steam-punk creatures lurk in the swamp. It is a hidden mecca of sustainability and magic."
A hidden mecca? Maybe so. A mecca that more people from Birmingham should probably check out.
Montevallo: It's not that far away
A visitor's guide
Main St. Tavern. 529 Main St. On Montevallo's downtown commercial strip, the Tavern dishes out fresh, scratch-made cuisine during the day and hard-rock bands at night. Open Tues.-Sat. (205) 665-0336. www.mainsttavern.com
El Agave. 628 Main St.. This Mexican restaurant offers big helpings, vegetarian options and a nice view of downtown. It's "Margarita Night" on Tues. & Thurs. (205) 665-0035.
Eclipse. 1032 Main St. This gathering spot, in addition to hosting a wide variety of events, offers healthy salads and sandwiches, organic coffee, award-winning milkshakes and high-gravity beers. Spend an afternoon hanging out on the porch. Open Mon.-Sat. (205) 665-4232. www.eclipsecoffee.com
House of Serendipity. 645 Main St. Stumble across treasures at this unique gift and full-service book shop, open since the 1970s. Serendipity offers china, antiques, and vintage greeting cards, books and toys. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m-4 p.m. (205) 665-7996.
Blue Phrog Gallery. 955 Main St. The gallery's unique architecture reflects the diversity of the art inside. Over 40 local and regional artists showcase everything from chainsaw carvings to hand-crafted jewelry to re-purposed metal sculptures. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. by appointment. (205) 665.3766. www.bluephroggallery.com
Aree's Attic. 720 and 730 Middle St.. There's no telling what you'll find behind the gated entrance to this jam-packed antique shop – VHS tapes, records, video games, musical instruments, even tools, birdcages and movie posters. (205) 417-0095.
Getting outside
Ebenezer Swamp Ecological Preserve. County Road 24 and Stage Coach Road. The University of Montevallo has preserved 80 acres of the South's most endangered wetland, the upland hardwood swamp. With a boardwalk that extends into the swamp, visitors can observe indigenous plants and wildlife without disturbing them. Open dawn until dusk.
Orr Park. Park Road. Montevallo's largest park offers rolling hills, trails for biking and jogging, and swimming and fishing in Shoal Creek, plus gazebos and playgrounds. And you can check out amazing sculptures carved from dead cedars by artist Tim Tingle.
Stephens Park. 154 Vine St. A pond and habitat for local plants and wildlife is a feature, as well as biking and jogging trails and athletic fields.
Montevallo Parks Trail. This 2.5-mile greenway connects Orr and Stephens parks. It winds through downtown and alongside Shoal Creek and provides wildlife habitat. At University Lake, the trail connects with an exercise trail.
Shoal Creek Canoe Trail. An excellent put-in point for canoes, kayaks or tubes, this one-mile river trail carries you through Montevallo to Orr Park.
Local bounty
jDarby Farm. 13650 Highway 17. This farm specializes in organic herbs and vegetables. Drop by on Farm Day (first Saturdays) for a tour, including a solar-powered barn with a menagerie of llamas, alpacas, horses and goats. Open Mon. 3-6 p.m. and by appointment. (205) 908-9518.
Moore's Crossroads. 4700 Highway 119, from sunup to sundown. Most days, you'll find vendors in the Pit Stop parking lot with produce from area growers. One vendor offers Amish goods, including ciders.
Lucky's Foodland Plus. 4000 Highway 25. This market offers lots of local produce. The store's produce manager, Ronnie Burnette, is active in the movement to promote area farmers. Mon.—Sun., 6 a.m.- 10 p.m. (205) 665-5124.
Local produce is also available at Piggy Wiggly, 4563 Highway 25. Mon.–Sun., 7 a.m.-9 p.m. (205) 665-2712.
Stars Fall on Montevallo
James Wylie Shepherd Observatory. 1093 Pebble Road, off County Road 206. Built on the site of the former University of Montevallo landfill, the JWSO is powered by solar panels and has a system to convert rainwater into purified drinking water. This observatory is one of only two in the entire country to be completely accessible to disabled persons. With landscaping by Petals from the Past farms, the site also preserves over 150 acres of Pea Ridge wilderness. To set up an appointment for a viewing, contact: Dr. Michael Sterner at (205) 665-6493 or Dr. Michael Patton at (205) 706-2450.
Other attractions
American Village. 3727 Highway 119. This civic education center and historical village is a nationally recognized resource for students and citizens of all ages. American Village's primary goal is to strengthen and renew the tenets of American liberty and self-government. Mon.—Fri,. 10 a.m-4 p.m. (205) 665-3535. Admission $8.
Aldrich Coal Mine Museum. 137 County Road 203. Alabama's only monument dedicated to coal miners everywhere. Exhibits include information about African-Americans arrested on petty or trumped-up charges and forced to work in Alabama coal mines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Open Thurs.-Sun. and by appointment. (205) 665-2886. Admission: adults $5; children $3.
Ramsay Conference Center and Lodge. University Campus. Inexpensive and conveniently located. (205) 665-6280.
McKibbon House Bed and Breakfast. 611 East Boundary St. Built in 1900, this Victorian home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (205) 665-1275. www.mckibbonhouse.com
Fox and Pheasant Bed and Breakfast Inn. 540 Shelby St. Built by W.B. Reynolds in 1905, this reservations-only inn features an English manor setting, gardens and verandas and gardens. (205) 665-3080.
Local reads
Two UM professors, Clark Hultquist and Carey Heatherley, have published a pictorial history of the city, titled Montevallo. For information, visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.
For more about Montevallo's parks, trails and other attractions, call (205) 665-2555 or go to www.cityofmontevallo.com.
Thanks to ValloCycle for supplying some of the information for this directory. Their ValloCycle Town Map is a great guide for a Montevallo bike or walking tour. Go to http://vallocycle.com.
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A New Jersey woman arrested after police said she brought her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth said Wednesday that she was innocent of the charges but admits to excessive tanning herself.
Patricia Krentcil, 44, pleaded not guilty to second-degree child endangerment and said outside court that she is a "wonderful mother."
Asked whether she admits to excessive tanning, Krentcil said "yes," but insisted she would never subject her red-haired, fair-skinned daughter to the heat of a tanning bed.
The girl, who authorities said suffered a sunburn from the tanning booth, was allowed to stay in the home but is now being monitored by state child welfare workers.
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Krentcil insists her daughter was never exposed to the tanning booth's UV rays and instead got slightly sunburned while playing outside on a warm day.
The girl's father told NBC 4 New York that his daughter told classmates at school that she "went tanning with Mommy." He thinks a teacher overheard, inaccurately connected the girl's sunburn to the tanning salon trip and contacted police.
"This whole big thing happened, and everyone got involved," said Rich Krentcil. "It was 85 degrees outside, she got sunburned. That's it. That's all that happened."
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Patricia Krentcil, left, stands with her lawyer, John Caruso, during a court appearance on charges of child endangerment at the Essex County Superior Court, Wednesday, May 2.
Patricia Krentcil said she treats her tanning salon trips as an errand in which she brings along her daughter, but insists the booth lights were never exposed to the girl.
"It's like taking your daughter to go food shopping," she told NBC 4 New York at her Nutley, N.J. home on Tuesday after being released on $25,000 bail. "There's tons of moms that bring their children in."
"I tan, she doesn't tan," she continued. "I'm in the booth, she's in the room. That's all there is to it."
The incident happened over a week ago, but there did not appear to be any burns on the little girl Tuesday.
Patricia Krentcil said she's been visiting her local salon for more than 10 years, and doesn't know why her visits there with her daughter have suddenly been called into question.
In New Jersey, children under 14 are not allowed to tan at indoor salons, while those 14 to 17 years old may do so with signed parental consent.
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We all know the wonderful thing that can be done — and will be able to be done — with 3D printers. You can make yourself a great coat hanger, a killer companion cube, or even the parts for another 3D printer. That said, today there are still limitations on what one can do with extruded plastic.
One brilliant project that immediately grabbed my attention was an attempt to print a record that works with the Fisher Price toy record player. If you've never seen one of these, it's a children's wind-up toy that plays music off plastic discs. The clever part is that the records have these tabs in the tracks that push the "needle" and make sounds. It's not entirely different then how a real record player works, but obviously it's greatly simplified and there are limited number of tones can be made. The end result is something like the cross between a player piano and a sanza… but for kids.
In the video above you can see a Fisher Price record player in action, except that it's playing custom-pressed (well, printed) record. And the music? It's Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive", of Portal fame. Don't feel bad if you can't pick out the track — the record player doesn't exactly pull it off, but after the arm is pressed down you can hear it more clearly.
The record was designed in Processing, although attempts were also made in Blender, Autodesk 123D, and Solidworks design programs. The designer has a full explanation of just how difficult this all was on Shapeways, where he is selling copies for $41.87. In his post Christopher Lynas doesn't admit defeat, though it's clear that the Fisher Price player has its problems and he is clearly working with some outdated hardware. For example it needs a quarter (or maybe a stack of quarters) on top of the needle and the player can only handle 16 different notes. Also the timing seems a bit off, which could either be an issue with the player or the record design. Either way, it's a valiant effort and one of the cooler 3D printed things I've seen lately.
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Signs In The Heavens - Now!
Written by: Strom, Andrew Posted on: 06/12/2004
Category: Prophecy
by Andrew Strom.
How many Christians know that there have already been BLOOD-RED AND 'SACK-CLOTH' MOONS over Jerusalem in 1996 and 1997, precisely on the Passover Sabbath and other important Feast days? What does this mean? And how many know of the other heavenly signs that are occurring at the moment - obviously pointing to significant end-time events?
Some Christians seem to view the concept of 'signs in the heavens' as being somehow akin to godless astrology or pagan superstition. However, the Bible makes it very clear that God Himself very often employs such celestial signs, to prepare and warn His people of imminent earth-shaking events. We are told in Genesis that God created the sun and the moon "for SIGNS and for seasons" (Gen 1:14). "And I shall show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath..." (Acts 2:19). The Bible declares that this will be particularly true of the Last Days. Jesus Himself warned of this 'End-time' period: "And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and GREAT SIGNS shall there be from heaven... And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars" (Mt 21:11,25). The Bible even talks of the moon being "turned to blood" as a sign that we are nearing the very end of the age. (Joel 2:31, Rev 6:12).
Significantly, there have already been BLOOD-RED and SACK-CLOTH MOONS (caused by lunar eclipses) over Jerusalem in 1996 and 1997, falling precisely on major feast-days of the Jewish calendar. The first of them came on the evening of 3 April 1996, which was the beginning of the Feast of Passover. The second came on the evening of 26-27 September 1996, which was 'Erev Hag HaSuccoth' (the Eve of the Feast of Tabernacles). And there were also two such eclipses in 1997, falling precisely on the feast-day of 'Purim' (23 March 1997 - a 90% eclipse) and also in the middle of the 'Days of Teshuva (Repentance)' on 16 September 1997. There will not be any further total lunar eclipses over Jerusalem until 21 January 2000. The chances of such a string of eclipses occurring over Jerusalem precisely on these significant dates surely has to be far more than coincidence. It is also worth noting that if we take the Jewish month of Nisan as being the first month of the year, as the Jews were commanded in Exodus 12, then the first three of these eclipses all occurred within the space of just ONE BIBLICAL YEAR. (April 1996 to March 1997).
But what causes some eclipses to turn the moon blood-red? Well, the answer is as follows: A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is full, and the earth passes between the moon and the sun, thus blocking the sun's light and casting a shadow on the moon for a time. However, often during a total lunar eclipse, the moon is not completely dark, but is faintly illuminated with a red light refracted by the earth's atmosphere which filters out the blue rays. Occasionally a lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is covered with a heavy layer of cloud, which prevents light refraction, making the surface of the moon completely dark (like sack-cloth). However, the first lunar eclipse this year certainly turned the moon blood-red. As one Jerusalem resident commented of the Passover eclipse: "Did you see that beautiful 3-D Red Moon? It was awesome; The most beautiful sight I've ever seen in the sky..."
The words of the prophet Joel regarding blood-red moons are somewhat more ominous however: "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come" (Joel 2:30-31). These words are found in the same passage that speaks of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon "all flesh" in the Last Days. In other words, the prophesied great End-times Revival and harvest occur in the same immediate time-frame.
It is also interesting to note what the Jewish Talmud (book of tradition) has to say about blood-red moons: "When the moon is in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel... If it's face is as red as blood, [it is a sign that] the sword is coming to the world..." Interestingly enough, on the very day of the 'Erev Hag HaSuccoth' Sack-cloth moon this year (26 September 1996), renewed violence broke out between the Palestinians and the Israelis (due to the opening of a tourist tunnel near the Dome on the Rock), after many months of comparitive peace. Who knows where all this renewed bloodshed might lead?
It seems very clear that the signs mentioned above are obviously designed by God to point us to the significance of the JEWISH FEAST-DAYS AND FESTIVALS at this time. And indeed, the significance of these Feasts for the Last Days is well worth looking into. The three most important Feasts that God instituted for the Jewish people were, of course, Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles. Significantly, Jesus the Messiah was killed exactly on the Passover some 2000 years ago, with the details of His death corresponding precisely to symbolic Passover rituals (the slaying of the sacrificial lamb, etc). And fifty days later, precisely on the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was outpoured upon His disciples for the first time, thus beginning the Christian Church. Many Christians today believe that the last great move of God before the end - the last great 'harvest' - will somehow be tied directly to the coming of the third one - the Feast of Tabernacles (which is a festival celebrating the 'first fruits' of harvest). It was actually during the Feast of Tabernacles that Solomon dedicated the Temple, and while the musicians 'lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD', suddenly the cloud of God's glory filled the Temple (2 Chron 5:3-14... Might it not be the same in our day also?) These are some of the reasons why I feel it is so significant that these blood-red and sack-cloth moons are pointing to particular Jewish Feasts.
(I also want to make an additional point about the Passover here. During the Passover meal, it has been Jewish tradition from time immemorial, to set a place at the table for Elijah the prophet, symbolizing the fact that they expect Elijah to come, "preparing the way" for the Messiah. As Greg Killian wrote, "Pesach [Passover] is when we expect Elijah to begin turning hearts and preparing the way for the King". As the Scriptures declare: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers..." (Mal 4:5-6). Many Christians today also believe that 'Elijah' is about to arise again during the Revival/harvest period that will precede the final JUDGEMENT and the return of Christ. The reason I mention all this is that it gives an 'End-time' aspect to the Passover which may be one reason why God is again pointing to this particular Feast at this time. Perhaps 'Elijah' really is about to emerge again, just as John the Baptist did almost two millenia ago).
Some people today scoff at the idea that we are nearing the end of the age, and the final Judgement of all the earth. When they are reminded of the unprecedented bloodshed, and the terrible droughts, earthquakes, famines and plagues that have scourged the planet in recent years, they say that such natural disasters have occurred right down through history. (Yes, but on such an epic scale?) Perhaps even now they will continue to scoff, even with blood-red and sack-cloth moons hanging ominously in the Jerusalem sky. But are we not witnesses today to the exact signs prophesied in Scripture, pointing to the 'time of the end'?
These blood-red and sack-cloth moons are by no means the only spectacular "signs in the heavens" that have occurred in recent times, however. In July 1995, the comet Hale-Bopp was discovered by two amateur astronomers from America. What fascinated astronomers at the time was that while it was still far beyond the orbit of Jupiter, the comet could actually be seen with small telescopes. Leading astronomers admitted to being astonished at the discovery. "It is unheard of for a comet to be visible by small telescopes while so far away," said Dr Brian Marsden of Harvard University, an expert on comets. This giant comet has now been estimated to be about as large as a mountain (between 25 and 100 miles across), making it probably the biggest comet ever discovered. The last time it visited the inner solar system was probably about 4000 years ago. And amazingly, the day that it made it's closest pass to earth was 23 March 1997 - the very Feast Day ('Purim') when there was to be another blood-red (or sack-cloth) moon over Jerusalem. (More on the meaning of this particular Feast in a moment). In fact, the comet was visible on the very night that the eclipse itself occurred.
It is interesting to note that when it was first discovered, this comet was located right inside the drawn "bow" of the archer in Sagittarius. Those Christians who are familiar with the 'Divine witness of the stars' will be aware that Sagittarius is known to signify the Redeemer's triumph. The figure is that of a mighty warrior with a bow and arrow, riding forth majestically. Most importantly, the barbed arrow in his bow is aimed at the heart of the Scorpion. In the Apocalypse, the apostle John sees the same mighty conqueror going forth: "And I saw, and behold a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer" (Rev 6:2). Of course, there is nothing new in God using such "signs in the heavens" to alert mankind to spiritually significant events. As everybody knows, it was just such a sign that enabled the wise men to locate the newborn Messiah, Jesus, almost exactly 2000 years ago.
According to the traditions of the Jewish Talmud, it is especially alarming to have a comet pass through the constellation of Orion (which is exactly what Hale-Bopp is doing): "There is a tradition that it never passes through the constellation of Orion, for if it did, the world would be destroyed..." However, the Jewish Feast of 'Purim', which is clearly being drawn to our attention in the most obvious way by the above signs, actually celebrates a very significant DELIVERANCE in the history of Israel. If you read the book of Esther, you will see that this was the day that the king's right-hand man Haman had purposed for the exiled Jews to all be put to death. The holiday is called Purim after the selection process which Haman used to select the date of the Jews destruction: a lottery (or a "Pur"), using astronomical forecasting . This method was supposed to result in the date that the Jews were most vulnerable to attack. In fact, this was astronomically true - the Jews WERE most vulnerable on the 13th of Adar. One of the miracles of Purim was that Esther - godly Bride of the king - was given the ability to totally reverse the astronomical implications of the day so that the Jews would instead be victorious. Because of this miracle which came about through the lottery - the "Pur," the holiday is called Purim. Interesting that God is so clearly pointing to this particular Feast-day at this time, isn't it?
Another significant 'sign in the heavens' that is occurring at present very possibly equates with the 'Woman crowned with twelve stars' found in Revelation 12: "And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery... And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to His throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for 1260 days" (Rev 12:1-5).
Over the four years 1996 to 1999, precisely at the time of the Feast of Trumpets in Israel (Tishrei 1), there will be a sign in the heavens that has never occurred before and will never occur again. The new moon will be 'born' in the constellation of Bethulah (the Virgin) on this date during each of these four years, and will then move directly to the feet of the Virgin within 24 hours. The Sun is just below the horizon, so that Bethulah is 'clothed' with the Sun. Positioned over the Virgin's head is the constellation known as "Bernice's Hair",- this is the crown of twelve stars! And higher, above her legs, we find Draco, the Dragon, poised to devour her child when it is born.
Greg Killian believes that the three-year period of this sign may represent the "birth pangs" of the woman. In 1996 and also in 1999, this sign occurs on the Sabbath. His thought is that these birth pangs may have begun in 1996, with the actual birth taking place in 1999?
Please remember that this particular positioning of the constellation Bethulah (the Virgin) - about to give 'birth' to Lavanah (the moon), has never occurred before, and will never occur again, due to the procession of the equinoxes. The new moon is a very significant factor to all those who follow the Jewish Talmudic tradition, and is the basis of the whole Jewish calendar system. (It is believed to be symbolic of the Messiah).
There are a number of other interesting factors which also point to this grouping of years as being important ones in God's End-time calendar. As is well-known by many Christians, 1996 saw the celebration of exactly 3000 years since the founding of Jerusalem as David's capital for Israel. Many also believe that 1996 brought up exactly 2000 years since the birth of Christ (most likely on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles), though some believe that the correct year was actually 1997. The idea that God has a specific timetable that He is working through, with certain 'signs' indicating important seasons of spiritual activity, should not be foreign to those who study the Bible. Many prophecies (notably those of Daniel and Revelation) have times, years and dates specified in great detail, and it is obvious that God is ordering events and spiritual seasons on the earth to coincide precisely with His long term plan. And this applies even more to the 'Last Days', which is the period that we have now very much entered into.
Just as an aside here, a number of Revival-oriented readers might also be interested to note the thrust of a prophecy reportedly given at the tail-end of the great "Healing Revival" of the 1950's by the man who is universally regarded as the key leader of that move of God. (The Healing Revival essentially lasted from 1947 through 1955, and was the last true 'Revival' as such to hit the Western world. We have had Charismatic renewal and the "Jesus Movement" of the '70's since then, but nothing this powerful). This prophecy which was given in Chicago on the 16th of January 1956, stated that the church was about to go into a "wilderness" period for forty years (obviously implying that on the other side of this wilderness lay further Revival). And of course, forty years on from 1956 brings us to the year 1996. Perhaps true Revival really is just around the corner?
The year 1997 was obviously also being pin-pointed by God, with blood-red moons and unprecedented celestial signs, but also with patterns of spiritual activity involving YEARS AND DATES as well. Many Christians recognize that as this age draws to a close, the spiritual impact of the church on Israel, and Israel on the church, becomes more and more significant. A number of Christian leaders have noted that significant events affecting Israel over recent decades have often mirrored or foreshadowed trends that were occurring in the church also. And I believe that this will become increasingly true as we near the very 'time of the end'.
There is an interesting pattern of significant dates involving Israel over this past century or so, which it would be good for us to look at with this in mind. The following is a very significant set of dates that have been crucial to the successful formation and survival of modern Israel: (a) 1897. The first Zionist Conference in Europe, led by Theodore Hertzl. (Two-thirds of the delegates were Messianic Jews). Crucial to the eventual formation of Israel.
TWENTY YEARS LATER: (b) 1917. The British Generals Gordon and Allenby (a Christian) and their armies take Jerusalem without firing a shot. When camped outside, after praying about the situation and getting a Scripture about a "flock of birds", they decided to send biplanes over the city and drop clay tablets bearing the words: "Leave the city now, signed Allenby." The Turks thought the word 'Allenby' resembled 'Allah', and they fled the city, surrendering Jerusalem entirely without a fight!
THIRTY YEARS LATER: (c) 1947 (- November). The United Nations officially declares Israel to be a recognized state. (It took the Israelis another nine months to defeat the Arabs who were occupying the land).
TWENTY YEARS LATER: (d) 1967. The Six-day War. Against all odds, the vastly outnumbered Israels are completely victorious, and now occupy the whole of Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank and the Sinai, etc.
THIRTY YEARS LATER: (e) 1997. Blood-red moons over Jerusalem, land tensions and "rumours of war" - possibly the build-up to a eventual huge conflagration in the Middle East?
It is interesting to note the Revivals and significant trends that began in the church at around the same time that things were happening in Israel. And this "foreshadowing" has become even more pronounced in recent years, I believe. After a relatively quiet (and in the church, 'stagnant') 1980's, the 1990's are again proving to be a tumultuous and eventful period for both Israel and the church. Like Israel, in the last couple of years it seems to me that through spiritual compromise, the church has literally been 'giving away' huge sections of it's own territory to the enemy, who have no doubt been rubbing their hands with glee. However, when true Reformation and Revival come (with the corresponding godly leadership), this whole "Laodicean" scenario will be completely reversed, and it will be Satan who will be on the back foot. (Surely this mighty move of cleansing and repentance is not too far away now. And like Israel, it will begin with a complete change of leadership - the kingdom being taken from one group and given to another). The prophesied mighty move of God is surely on the way.
I have been amazed at what has been occurring in the political scene in Israel over the last few years or so. I believe that it was quite significant symbolically that the Jewish Prime Minister Rabin (who was really the first to buy peace by giving away Israeli land to the Arabs) was killed at a peace rally in 'Kings of Israel Square' in Jerusalem in late 1995, and was replaced by Mr Peres, whose name is literally part of the "writing on the wall" where it says: 'Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians' (Dan 5:28). The very man who was continuing Rabin's policy of giving away Israeli land had a name that Biblically carried the sense of a kingdom being taken away and divided!
Like the more recent Netanyahu change in the leadership of Israel, I believe that the church is also about to go through a complete 'Reformation' of it's leadership, which will lead to a tremendous Revival, though this may come at quite a price. I am convinced that, as always, only a comparitive "remnant" from today's church will make it through into the coming move of God. What God has been showing many praying people in my own country about the coming move is that it is to be a "street-revival" - a street-based outpouring of the Spirit of God, bringing tremendous conviction of sin and deep repentance. But after this mighty 'harvest' comes an equally mighty JUDGEMENT, which will fall upon all the earth.
To conclude this article, I would just like to return again to the fact that AT THIS VERY TIME - IN OUR DAY - there are awesome Scriptural prophecies being fulfilled, which have implications that are almost too vast to take in all at one time. Is it possible that WE ARE LIVING IN THE VERY LAST DAYS - the very 'time of the end' that the Bible speaks of? God is sending His "signs in the heavens" to warn us of what is about to come. The question is, what will you, what will I, do about it? Will we allow apathy to continue to dominate our lives? Will the church "laugh and party" it's way into the next millenium? Or will we allow God to bring true Reformation - beginning with us? To me, one of the most frightening Scriptures in the entire Bible is the one that speaks of people in the End-times, "eating, drinking, partying, marrying", etc, blithely ignorant of what is coming upon the earth. But isn't much of Christendom in our day largely in the same 'bless-me, bless-me', inward-looking state? Church awake! Clothe yourself with righteousness and Truth. The "happiness club" days are gone. It is surely time now to get serious with God. Surely only those who are seeking Him with all their heart can expect to make it through the momentous events that lie ahead.
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(Special acknowledgements to Greg Killian for much of the information presented here. Acknowledgements also to Jim Denby, George Curle and Michael A. Clark).
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He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. He helped lead the fight to turn back the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress.
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Alan Porter, Santa Barbara, Calif., may not have graduated from Kansas State University, but it still holds a special place with his family and in his heart.
His father, Clare R. Porter, one of the six children in his family who attended the university, graduated in 1937 from the K-State College of Agriculture. Clare's brother Kenneth Porter received his doctorate from the university in 1940. Alan's mother, Georgiana Avery Porter, graduated in 1938 from the College of Human Ecology, and his uncle -- Georgiana's brother -- Thomas B. Avery, was the head of the poultry department at K-State. Thomas' son Thomas Jr. was a professor of veterinary medicine at the university.
And now to honor his parents and the generations of K-Staters from their families, Porter has made a $1 million bequest to the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University to establish the Porter and Avery Family Agriculture Scholarship.
Porter, who earned his bachelor of science from the University of Nebraska in 1964 and his juris doctorate from the University of Denver in 1967, has lived in Santa Barbara for the last 25 years and is an independent real estate investor. He is a member of the KSU Foundation Presidents Club, a philanthropic leadership group of alumni and friends who support K-State.
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Addressing the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. on 19 April, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova stated that "the key question we need to ask is how education can contribute to mitigate inequality."
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The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency charged Iran Monday with using delaying tactics to put off inspection of a key military research site — just hours after Saudi Arabia's foreign minister told Secretary of State John Kerry that Iran's only interest in nuclear talks is "further negotiation" to give its nuclear program more time.
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The world powers want Iran to suspend operation of its underground enrichment site in Fardow and to give up most of its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium — a more highly processed material than power-generation-grade uranium. which can be quickly transformed into weapons-grade fuel. In exchange, Iran would receive some relief from the biting sanctions the international community has imposed on Iran's economy.
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