Vancouver — A silent tectonic event, so powerful it has shifted southern Vancouver Island out to sea, but so subtle nobody has felt a thing, is slowly unfolding on the West Coast.
Scientists who are tracking the event with sensitive seismographs and earth orbiting satellites warn it could be a trigger for a massive earthquake -- some time, maybe soon.

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The blue background behind these white letters is taken from a photograph of the actual me'il techelet - blue robe - of the High Priest, (cohein gadol), which is now nearing completion. Employing the Navajo "two-sided" weaving technique, master weaver Yehudit Avraham has been steadily working on the me'il for over a year. Both the front and the back panels of the me'il are ready, as are the golden bells. Yehudit is presently connecting the two panels and embellishing them with deep blue, (techelet), embroidery.
The 72 golden bells that line the hem of the garment have been prepared and will soon be stitched onto the me'il, alternately with the 72 pomegranates, these being woven from techelet, (blue), argaman, (purple), and tola'at shani, (scarlet), threads.
The High Priest was robed in eight separate garments: the ephod, breastplate (choshen), robe (me'il), tunic (ketonet), crown (tzitz), pants (michnasayim), turban (mitznefet), and belt (avnate). The Temple Institute has completed work on the ephod and the choshen. The tzitz of the High Priest is currently being reworked by the artisans of The Temple Institute.
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