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The world's youngest round the world yachtsman
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Mike Perham became the youngest person ever to sail round the world on Thursday 27th of August 2009 as he crossed the line between Lizard Point and Ushant in France at 09:47:30
Mike returned to a hero's welcome at Gunwharf quays, Portsmouth, the starting point of his adventure. Thousands lined the dockside and Mike's return and record was covered by press from all round the world.
This record of Mike's adventure will remain live on the web for the foreseeable future.
Mike announced his next Adventure on the 8th of September: An attempt to recreate the incredible voyage of the bounty boat crew. This is a 4,000-mile re-enactment 221 years after Capt William Bligh and his supporting crew were forced into an open-boat by the mutineering crew on HMS Bounty and successfully sailed from Tonga to Timor in the Pacific.
To keep up with Mike's current activites and plans, please visit his website www.challangemike.com
Highlights of Mike's round the world record voyage
On 18th November 2008, 16-year-old Mike Perham set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world single-handed in his yacht, TotallyMoney.com.
Mike battled on as TotallyMoney.com was knocked over, battered and damaged. His planned four month, non-stop circumnavigation became a 9 month odyssey full of technical and navigational challenges.
Repeated autopilot failures put Mike's record attempt at risk, forcing him to stop for repairs in Portugal, Gran Canaria and Cape Town. After finally overcoming those problems, Mike crossed the Southern Indian Ocean in March, celebrating his 17th birthday enroute, but was forced to stop again in Tasmania and then Aukland after serious rudder problems emerged.
Horrendous weather in the Southern Ocean saw Mike surfing down 50 foot waves in 50 knot winds at speeds up to 28 knots. TotallyMoney.com was knocked down and damaged forcing Mike to make emergency repairs up the mast and pushing him much farther North than he originally intended.
Opponents of the attempt questioned whether anyone with so little experience, let alone a minor, should be allowed to make such an attempt. Much less, thanks to the delays, at a time of year when the weather is so inhospitable, but Mike pushed on and proved his critics wrong.
Mike recorded the voyage in his blog and with video diaries which have become an inspiration to thousands – just a few of the many highlights are below
|Date / Title
|Timeline to Mike Perham's solo circumnavigation
|03.01.07 - Antigua
|Mike Perham becomes the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean - aged 14
|09.09.08 - Southampton
|Mike's Open 50 sailing yacht officially named TotallyMoney.com at the Southampton Boat Show
|15.11.08 - Portsmouth
|Set out on solo circumnavigation from Gunwharf Quay, Portsmouth
|18.11.08 - Falmouth
|Mike Perham crosses line between Ushant, Northern France, and Lizard Point, Southern England, the traditional start and finish line for circumnavigations.
|21.11.08 - First problems with auto-pilot
|The Auto-pilot keeps resetting itself. Twice today. I've been lucky in that I've been wide awake and ready to jump straight to the helm before she goes into a nasty gybe.
|24.11.08 - Divert to Casais, Portugal
|Repairs to autopilot expected to take less than a day.
|25.11.08 departs Portugal
|Mike departs after making repairs to the autopilot equipment aboard his boat, Totallymoney.com.
|27.11.08 - Doldrums
|Problems with autopilot continue. Mike raging, as were the guys ashore who felt just as helpless. Disconnected everything and reconnected it, and spent ages reconfiguring the rudder alignment – all for nothing. 'I've set myself the challenge to complete this journey and I will. No matter what problems I face, I will see it through.' Mike writes in log
|01,12.08 - Las Palmas, Canaries
|10:45 UTC: Mike arrived in Las Palmas to make a second attempt at repairing the autopilot.
|28.12.08 - Las Palmas
|Left Las Palmas after 27 days of repairs and testing autopilot. Will it work now?
|09.01.09 - Equator
|01.30 UTC: Mike cracks open a bottle of champagne to celebrate first major goal! '...Bring on the Cape of Good Hope!'
|23.1.09 - South Atlantic
|A horrible groaning noise coming from one of the rudder shafts. They are moving around in the top bearing, only very slightly with about 2mm of movement. Decision made to call in to Cape Town to make repairs.
|01.02.09 - Cape Town
|Mike reaches Cape Town to be greet by Dad and Zac Sunderland who is also bidding to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe.
|14.02.09 - Oldest Meets Youngest
|Cape Town sees the arrival of another circumnavigator . Seventy-five-year-old Minoru Saito is the oldest man to have sailed round the world; he's currently on his eighth solo circumnavigation, and this time he's going the "wrong way round". He's sailed almsot half a millon km, almost the distance from the earth to the moon! Zac has lunch with the legendary Japanese yachtsman - a real honour.
|02.03.09 - Leave Cape Town
|08:00 UTC: Mike heads out into the Southern Ocean after replacing rudder bearings
|16.03.09 T - South Indian Ocean
|Mike celebrates his 17th birthday
|18.03.09 - South Indian Ocean
|I've had a brilliant 24hours on board with some of the best sailing conditions this trip so far rocketing northeast. I've come up this way to dodge a high-pressure ridge coming off the tail of the front that rushed through earlier today. This fast and explosive low pressure has now swept under me at the pretty spectacular speed of about 50-60knots, giving me winds up to 35knots which makes for very good boat speeds.
|22.03.09 Seal Sighting
|Half way to Australia. Mike spots a seal just ten metres from boat
|25.03.09 - Cape Leeuwin
|Mike passes south of Cape Leeuwin, W, Australia - 'an important milestone as it ticks off another one of the five capes which he must pass on his route around the world'.
|27.03.09 - Knockdown!
|Totalmoney.com suffers knockdown in 50 knots and the 10m seas. Mike braced himself by putting his foot on the deck head (ceiling). TotallyMoney.com came back upright in a couple of seconds. This all happened close to mid-night local time. He was plunged into darkness but quickly located one of his emergency torches. A bit shaken, Mike reported that the bilge water was now everywhere and had knocked out the electrics.
|28.03.09 - 90 degree knock-down
|Toughest conditions yet. Totalmoney.com knocked us down past 90degrees! In the main cabin a few bits and bobs had been thrown about off the shelves, it was a bit of a bombshell. One of my 20l diesel tanks had sprung a leak and oil covered the floor turning it into an ice rink. So much for my nice and tidy cabin!
|29.03.09 - Southern Ocean
|Mike forced to climb the mast to fix the lazy jackstays that had snapped during the last knock down.
|03.04.09 - Hobart, Tasmania
|1.30am Local time: Pull in to Hobart to repair rudders.
|09.04.09 - Leave Hobart
|Leave Tasmania, but leak in rudder bearings force Mike to turn back. 'Psychologically, this was a pretty hard thing to do; I never thought I'd be sailing back up this river again.'
|19.04.09 - Unexpected Flight
|Mike flies to Mooloolab near Brisbane to meet Jessica Watson, who is setting off later in the year to also sail around the world solo. Check out her website www.youngestround.com.
|09.05.09: Depart Hobart
|After waiting a month for new rudder bearings to arrive, Mike sets sail to go above New Zealand.
|11.05.09 - Pacific Ocean.
|20knots+ - 'I was sitting in the cuddy, watching the world go by, when a strong gust of 38knots picked us up and we shot off down a wave at over 20knots. The bow started to dig in, we lost a bit of speed and next thing I know I'm watching the water rushing up the deck towards the cockpit and it filled it right up! I lifted my boots in the air to keep them dry, as I was sitting on the bean-bag and two seconds later the cockpit was empty once more. Our surfing resumed as if nothing had happened.'
|16.05.09 - Auckland, New Zealand
|Further problems with the autopilot, force another stop to make repairs
|27.05.09 - Leave Auckland
|Autopilot now repaired once more
|01.06.09 - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!
|Mike reports: '24knots! This is what happens... The surf begins, Totallymoney.com edges forward at 14knots as we begin our descent down a wave. I feel the boat accelerateon the face of this huge, roaring wave of pure power.. I feel Totallymoney.com lift up onto an incredible plane with only the back third of the boat in the water. Speed increases, 15,16,17knots. It's dark and I wonder what's going to happen when we hit the bottom of the wave travelling so fast. The speed climbs faster and faster, 19, 21, 24knots! I see the wave ahead approaching and brace myself for the deceleration. But Totallymoney.com just ploughs straight into this wall of water, sending waves and spray cascading across the deck and over the coach-roof 20ft in the air. I grab on to the handholds to prevent myself being washed backwards and…then this whole excilarating experience starts again!' It's hard to believe just how fast I'm actually going and have to remind myself sometimes that I'm sailing the equivalent of a surfboard down some rather large waves.
|02.06.09 - Crossing the Int. Dateline
|I've now passed over the dateline so goodbye tomorrow and hello today! It doesn't make much difference here but from from now on, the time difference is going to get easier and easier to cope with. It's often a pain being twelve hours away from those back home!
|09.06.09 - Capsize in Southern Ocean
|Mike reports: I was asleep. When I woke the boat was leaning right over on it's side, pinned right down to the water. My first thought was that this really is an odd angle, one I've never quite experienced before - not for more than a few seconds anyway. The boat was, quite literally right over on her side with the first set of spreaders about 1ft off the water.
|13.06.09 - Cape Horn or Panama Canal?
|MIke reports: 'I've decided to go for Panama Canal instead of Cape Horn. There's quite a few reasons why I've made this decision. First of all, it is now winter in the Southern Ocean and with the reduced daylight hours and fiercer storms it doesn't look sensible. Yes, the weather is more predictable but I've been watching the weather around the area and there's been a good few depressions which I'm glad I haven't had to sail through. Secondly, I've come much further north than I originally expected to avoid a large depression after leaving New Zealand – So it now makes sense to continue on North and not drop all the way back down into the South.' So long as MIke continues to sail across every meridian of longitude, crosses the equator and returns to his starting point, he should become the youngest person to sail around the world single-handed (assisted - because he has stopped and accepted help) and therefore, also the youngest circumnavigator.
|15.06.09 - An unexpected swim!
|The spinnaker sheet (control line) became jammed between the skeg and rudder, forcing Mike to swim down and cut it free. He wrote: 'I could see it was being pinched by the rudder and so I wasn't surprised that my earlier attempts had been useless. I took a few deep breaths before diving underneath Totallymoney.com and spent thirty seconds at a time trying to cut the rope away. Finally the lines were free. My lovely nice sheet with it's special anti chafe cover was now in pieces and totally useless, but hey, at last I had the steering back!'
|20.06.09 - Sails rip apart!
|Mike wrote: 'I was furling the genoa when I noticed this tiny 2inch hole 2feet from the foot of the sail. I immediately bore away to get the genoa as sheltered as possible behind the mainsail. But then I heard a ripping noise - in just two seconds, a rip had run from the foot almost all the way up to the head. My heart was in my mouth. I could barely utter the words "Oh bummer," seeing this once beautiful sail, that had taken me so far, now in shreds.'
|25.06.09 - Across the Equator
|Mike wrote: 'I toasted Neptune with a bottle of champagne. My gift to him was my day's ration of chocolate. I also gave him some champagne provided by Pick & Pay in Cape Town. The next bottle is set aside for my arrival home!'
|27.06.09 - Sighting of a ship since New Zealand
|Mike wrote: 'I haven't seen a single boat since leaving Auckland. I haven't even had one up on my AIS since then and that's got a serious range, picking up ships 100miles away before.'
|07.07.09 - Rubbish
|Mike observed: 'I've just sailed passed a few lumps of wood with lone birds sitting on them, watching the world go by. The amount of debris and junk has steadily increased as I near Panama. It's really disappointing to see loads of plastic rubbish floating about. The ocean really is full of junk in places. Apart from several mooring buoys I've also had a close encounter with a huge 10inch towing rope stretching further than I could see, in the middle of the Southern Ocean, thousands of miles from anywhere. I've seen countless random plastic bottles and small bits of rubbish just floating about in all sorts of places around the world.'
|08.07.09 - Panama
|14:30 UTC: Totalmoney.com reaches Panama and is escorted in by members of the Panama Sailing School.
|16.07.09 - Congratulations Zac!
|Zac Sutherland completes his solo circumnavigation. Mike Perham sends his congratulations.
|24.07.09 - traverse Panama Canal
|Disaster - After waiting a week for a tow through the Canal, Totalmoney.com became caught up in the bows of a tug ripping off guard wire and some of the stanchions. Another delay for more repair work!
|28.07.09 - Cristobal, Panama
|Mike sets sail on final Atlantic leg home to UK! Mike wrote: 'I'm finally on the last leg and it feels just great. I only have about 5,000 miles to go, so I am hoping to be home inside four weeks. I really can't wait, but I won't push the boat too hard, as I would not want anything to happen that might have been preventable.'
|27.08.09 - Finish Line
|Mike Perham crosses the finish line to become the youngest person to sail around the world.
|30.08.09 - Hero's welcome
|Mike returns to a hero's welcome, Portsmouth, UK
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A LANL research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. The effort could aid in treatment of peptic ulcers or acid reflux disease or allow for more efficient conversion of woody waste into transportation fuels.
Los Alamos researchers worked with an international team to understand the role played by the elusive hydronium ion in the transfer of protons during enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
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Neutrons unveil molecule's secrets
Neutrons from the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center provided a possible tool for unveiling the secret agent at the heart of the chemistry.
Hydronium ions had not been seen before by researchers who attempted to use X-rays to understand the chemical mechanism of enzymes. This is because tiny hydrogen atoms are essentially invisible under X-rays. To help make things visible, the researchers substituted hydrogen in their enzyme samples with deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen that behaves chemically identical to its nonisotopic counterpart.
Deuterium yields a clear signal when bombarded with neutrons. Therefore, neutrons provided a perfect method for uncloaking the elusive hydronium ions, which appeared as a pyramid-shaped mass in the enzyme's active site where the chemical reaction occurs.
Hydronium plays key role in certain biochemical systems
The researchers discovered a crucial change as the system they were studying fell into the acidic range of the pH scale (below 6). The hydronium ion that could be seen facilitating the binding of a metal ion cofactor crucial to the conversion of the sugar molecule into its fermentable form suddenly became dehydrated—think of water, H2O, being removed from hydronium, H3O+. The space occupied by the relatively large hydronium ion collapsed into a tiny volume occupied by the remaining proton (a positively charged hydrogen ion, H+). This spatial change in the molecular structure prevented the sugar from being attacked by the enzyme.
The observed phenomenon provided an answer about why pH plays such an important role in the process and renders the enzyme inactive under acidic conditions. More important, it definitively illustrated that the hydronium ion plays a key role in the transport of protons in these types of biochemical systems.
"This is something that has never been seen before," said Los Alamos researcher Andrey Kovalevsky, principal author of the paper. "This proves that hydronium is the active chemical agent in our studies of the catalytic mechanism of enzymes."
The research has broad implications for the possible role of hydronium ions in other biological systems. In addition to acid reflux disease, the research may help provide a better understanding of metabolic transfer of energy in living cells or living organisms.
More about biofuels at Los Alamos Lab
Algae science for biofuel production and other applications is a growing field for Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Is the Pressure Easing? The 2010 Philanthropy Agenda
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The economic downturn took its toll in the U.S. corporate philanthropy arena but the negative impact seen in 2009 may have reached its peak. The pressure appears to be easing with fewer companies planning cuts in budgets, staff, number of grants, and grant size in 2010.


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I like tinkering and learning about different espresso machines, so I agreed to have a look to see if I could fix it.
I must say, I heard good things about this Le'Lit. Folks on forums tend to recommend it a lot over other "single boiler- dual use" darlings of the past (like Rancilio Silvia which is about $300 more expensive). My feeling having used and stripped both these machines is: you get what you pay for. The Silvia is definitely a better made machine, no doubt. Thicker gauge steel, more robust components, less plastic bits, etc. Defintely worth the extra cash. But if your on a tight budget, the little Le'lit is not a bad choice.
Well, back to the problem at hand....
A swing in pressure makes me suspect 2 things: pressure source, or pressure oulet. In other words; pump or OPV (didn't seem electrical to me so I ruled that out) . While the suspect part could be either, the source of the problem is almost always the same: scale. So my fist step was do a good chemical backflush followed by a descaling with citric acid.
The descale seemed to change the rythm of the pressure swings. In fact, I even got one shot that didn't have the pressure swing. Still, it always came back.
After a few days trying with e-mails, I realized that the store where it was purchased (Idrinkcoffee), is not much into replying to e-mail. So after a few phone attempts, I finally got hold of the tech. He listened to my story, asked if I descaled, and told me it was either the pump or OPV, but he had no parts available to replace either. Hmmmm. Not much help.
So since I was pretty much on my own, I decided to just dive in:
Here's a view with the top off looking down on the boiler:
I was quite surprised to see the layout. The wiring and plumbing was a lot more complicated than I imagined after having worked on my Silvia (installing a PID). The water seems to go through quite a complicated flow path to get to the group head as you can see in the photo below:
The water starts at the Ulka vibe pump (1) then goes all the way around the boiler to the opposite side where it hits the tiny, non-adustale OPV (2). The water then enter the boiler, only to exit again out the other side, past a solenoid (3), it then gets routed BACK through the center of the boiler into a "mini HX-like" brass tube (4), which passes straight down to the group head. Phew!
The boiler is rather small but with a powerful heater, and it sits directly over the grouphead. This means it gets up to temp VERY quickly and the groupheads stays nicely warm and stable. The problem is in the water path. There are sections in the water path where the water is cold (like just after the solenoid) and areas where it is super hot (like in the brass tube in the boiler). I noticed this when I did my first shot where the water first came out almost as steam, then after about 3 seconds, cooled right down to a proper temperature. Funny thing, I find myself doing 1 oz "cooling" shots with the Le'Lit and 1 oz warming shots of the "cold nose" on my Vivaldi. I just can't win!
Anyway, back to the problem at hand:
As you can see in the photo, the OPV is covered with a mess of wires, so I figured I'd start by removing the easier to access pump, disassemble it, and make sure everything looked normal. It strips down pretty easy (it's a brilliantly simple piece of engineering actually). The tiny plastic check ball and springs looked unworn and clean, so I quickly reassembled it and started work on the OPV.
I had heard the OPV was "Loctited" so that it could not be adjusted, so I was a bit worried to start. But in fact, the Loctite they use is very weak, so the screw turned easily. I rcarefullly removed the tiny spring and valve seat from tube with tweezers.
As soon as I saw the OPV valve seat, I suspected I had found my problem. The soft, green valve seat is stuck into a copper nut, but the nut sides where rusted and scaled up, likely restricting free upward movement in the brass valve body:
A quick soak in citric acid:
Then some food grade lube, and they looked as good as new:
I used my "neuro-surgeon skills" to wrap some teflon tape wround the adjustment screw so that it would not back out under vibration with the Loctite now removed. That's a pin next to the screw that I used to clean scale from the hole in the center of the screw (see what I mean by small!) The adjustable OPV in the Silvia is huge in comparison.
I reassembled the OPV and checked the pressure on the gauge with a blind basket in place. No more pressure swing! The pressure was high at first, but after a bit of tweaking (it is rather sensitive which is why I suspect they lock it), I got it right at 10 bar in the middle of the green zone (it was at 12 bar before).
This is a much better pressure for this machine, in my opinion. In fact, having now disassembled the OPV and seeing how easy it is to to make adjustable, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this on any machine as an improvement.


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In our book, 'No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace Into a Great One,' we address one of the most common - time. While we sympathize with working managers who are held accountable for an individual contributor's workload in additionto people-management responsibilities, we know from our interviews and first-hand experiences with great workplace managers that time is simply not an excuse.
在《别找借口:怎样营造绝佳职场氛围》(No Excuses: How You can Turn Any Workplace Into a Great One)一书中,我们探讨了最常见的问题之一──时间。我们理解,身兼工作和管理双重使命的管理者既要承担人事管理职责,又要负责自己的分内工作,确实很不容易,但我们也通过对善于营造绝佳职场氛围的管理者的采访和直接接触了解到,时间是不能作为借口的。
Rather, these managers understand that building a great workplace environment is not about what they do - the initiatives, the projects, the decisions. Rather, strong workplace cultures are the result of consistently choosing a means to those ends that attends to three fundamental relationships. Those are trust (the relationship with one's manager), pride (the relationship with one's job), and camaraderie (the relationship between employees).
Great workplace managers are no less busy than you, but their investment in relationships pays dividends when employees are more receptive to change, willing to extend the benefit of the doubt, and ready to give extra when needed to get the job done. How much time can you spare if that time investments result in such positive outcomes?
If you have one minute:
Craft a meaningful note of thanks to a team member, outlining not only an aspect of their performance for which you are grateful, but also why it is a result of their unique strengths and talents. That builds a sense of respect. In 30 additional seconds, you can build pride by telling them why their good work matters for their fellow employees, clients, the community, and maybe even the world.
If you have 10 minutes:
Bring your new employees on board before they arrive. Call them the day before their report date to make sure they know where to park, what to wear, and who will meet them at the door. That warm welcome builds camaraderie. If you have an extra five minutes, be sure to tell your team about their new co-worker, which magnifies the welcome while building your credibility for making such a good hire.
If you have one hour:
Invite someone from another department to visit one of your staff meetings in order to tell your work group about his role in the organization and how your work group's efforts help him do his job better. You'll not only help your work group see how their contributions make a difference and build pride, but you model fairness by sending the implicit message that everyone's role matters in accomplishing organizational goals.
If you have one day:
Put your employees face-to-face with the beneficiaries of your organization's work, even if those beneficiaries are not the people who pay you for goods and services. Visit sites constructed using equipment that your company manufactures, schools that use your broadband services, or a playground that your employees funded. If getting out is difficult, open your doors. Bring patients to the hospital to talk about the care they received, loyal customers to the store for a celebration, or clients to the office for a tour. Doing so builds employees' pride, and also increases camaraderie in the conversations that happen as a result.
Challenge yourself to think of ways you can creatively use small bits of time to build your workplace relationships. Sometimes that time is already scheduled, like your staff meeting. How you use that time makes all the difference. Other times, think of your choices as investments. A 10-minute phone call might pay off several times over when it comes to that employee's commitment and loyalty to the organization.
Last but not least, ban 'I don't have time' from your vocabulary, especially when it comes to creating a great workplace. Every manager has the same amount of time as you. Great managers use it to build trust, pride, and camaraderie every step of the way.


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Jerusalem is a big place, and can be divided up into a few districts.
Located in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, Jerusalem is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is the holiest city in Judaism and the spiritual center of the Jewish people since the 10th century BCE, the third-holiest in Islam and is also home to a number of significant and ancient Christian landmarks. It is also a city with a very violent past, as it was fiercely contested between Christianity and Islam during the brutal Crusade era. While the city has had a large Jewish majority since 1967, a wide range of national, religious, and socioeconomic groups are represented here. The walled area of Jerusalem, which until the late nineteenth century formed the entire city, is now called the Old City and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. It consists of four ethnic and religious sections — the Armenian, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Quarters. Barely one square kilometer, the Old City is home to several of Jerusalem's most important and contested religious sites including the Western Wall and Temple Mount for Jews, the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque for Muslims, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians.
Surrounding the Old City are more modern areas of Jerusalem. The civic and cultural center of modern Israel extends from western Jerusalem toward the country's other urban areas to the west, while areas populated mostly by Arabs can be found in the northern, eastern and southern districts. Jerusalem became Israel's capital upon its independence and Jerusalem was united after the 1967 War when Israel captured East Jerusalem.
Archaeological findings prove the existence of development within present-day Jerusalem as far back as the 4th millennium BCE, but the earliest written records of the city come in the Execration Texts (c. 19th century BCE) and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE). According to Biblical accounts, the Jebusites, a Canaanite tribe, inhabited the area around the present-day city (under the name Jebus) until the late 11th century BCE. At that point (c. 1000s BCE), the Israelites, led by King David, invaded and conquered the city, expanding it southwards and establishing it as the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah (the United Monarchy). It was renamed at this time as Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), a name by which it is still referred to today.
King David's reign over Jerusalem ended around 970 BCE when his son Solomon became the new king. Biblical sources state that within a decade Solomon started to build the first of two Holy Temples within city limits — Solomon's Temple (or the First Temple), a significant site in Jewish and Christian history as the last known location of the Ark of the Covenant. The period of the First Temple was marked by the division of the United Monarchy at the time of Solomon's death (c. 930 BCE) when the ten northern tribes, originally part of the Monarchy, split off to form the Kingdom of Israel. Under the leadership of the bloodline of David and Solomon, Jerusalem continued to act as the capital of the southern par of the split, the Kingdom of Judah. Later, with the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, Jerusalem became the center of a Judah strengthened by the great number of Israeli refugees. In approximately 586 BCE, the Babylonians conquered the Kingdom of Judah including the city of Jerusalem, and the First Temple Period came to an end.
In 538 BCE, after fifty years of Babylonian captivity, the Jews were given permission from Persian King Cyrus the Great to return to Judah so they could rebuild Jerusalem and construct the Second Temple. The construction was completed in the year 516 BCE, seventy years after the destruction of the First Temple. Jerusalem regained its status as capital of Judah and center of Jewish worship for another four centuries, with a considerable portion of that period under Hasmonean rule. By 19 BCE, the Temple Mount was elevated and construction began on an expansion of the Second Temple under Herod the Great, a Jewish client king under Roman rule. In 6 CE, the city, as well as much of the surrounding Palestine, came under direct Roman rule as the Iudaea Province. Still unchallenged, the Roman rule over Jerusalem and the region came to an end with the first Jewish-Roman war, the Great Jewish Revolt, which resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Jerusalem once again served as the national capital for the people of the region during the three-year rebellion known as Bar Kokhba's revolt. The Romans succeeded in sacking and recapturing the city in 135 CE and as a punitive measure, the Jews were banned from Jerusalem.
In the five centuries following Bar Kokhba's revolt, the city remained under Roman and Byzantine rule. With the city controlled by Roman Emperor Constantine I during the 4th century, Jerusalem was transformed into a center for Christianity, with the construction of sites such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. For most of the time between Constantine's rule and the arrival of the Muslim forces in 638, Jews were banned from Jerusalem. From that point, the rights of the non-Muslims under Islamic territory were governed by the Pact of Umar, and Christians and Jews living in the city were granted autonomy in exchange for a required poll tax (jizya). When Caliph Umar first came to the city, he requested that Sophronius, the reigning Patriarch of Jerusalem, guide him and his associates to the site of the Jewish Holy Temple, whereupon he later decided to build a mosque. By the end of the 7th century, a subsequent caliph, Abd al-Malik, had commissioned and completed the construction of the Dome of the Rock over the Foundation Stone. In the four hundred years that followed, Jerusalem's prominence diminished as Arab powers in the region jockeyed for control.
In 1099, Jerusalem was besieged by the First Crusaders, most of the city's then 30,000 Muslim and Jewish inhabitants, were slaughtered. That would be the first of several conquests to take place over the next five hundred years. In 1187, the city was taken from the Crusaders by Saladin. Between 1228 and 1244, it was given by Saladin's descendant al-Kamil to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Jerusalem fell again in 1244 to the Khawarizmi Turks, who were later, in 1260, replaced by the Mamelukes. In 1517, Jerusalem and its environs fell to the Ottoman Turks, who would maintain control of after the First World War.
In 1917 after the Battle of Jerusalem, the British Army, led by General Edmund Allenby, captured the city. The League of Nations, through its 1922 ratification of the Balfour Declaration, entrusted the United Kingdom to administer the Mandate of Palestine and help establish a Jewish state in the region. The period of the Mandate saw the construction of new garden suburbs in the western and northern parts of the city and the establishment of institutions of higher learning such as the Hebrew University, founded in 1925.
As the British Mandate of Palestine was expiring, the 1947 UN Partition Plan (Part III) recommended "the creation of a special international regime in the City of Jerusalem, constituting it as a corpus separatum under the administration of the United Nations." However, this plan was rejected by the Arabs, and at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jerusalem found itself divided between Israel and Jordan (then known as Transjordan). The ceasefire line established through the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Jordan cut through the center of the city from 1949 until 1967, during which time western Jerusalem was part of Israel and eastern Jerusalem was controlled by Jordan. In 1949, west Jerusalem became Israel's capital. After the 1967 war, all of Jerusalem was claimed by Israel as its capital.
In addition to many secular Israelis and foreigners, Jerusalem is considered home by large numbers of adherents to three of the four Middle Eastern monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Adherents of these faiths have tended historically to congregate in various neighborhoods of the city, with considerable overlap.
The main languages spoken in Jerusalem are Hebrew in West Jerusalem and Arabic in East Jerusalem. Most people throughout the city speak sufficient English for communication. In particular, English is widely spoken in areas most visited by tourists, especially the Old City. Typically, even if you do not find an English speaker on first attempt, one will be nearby. Both Palestinians and Israelis are always ready to help out tourists with the language as with other needs.
Additionally, many Charedi (strictly Orthodox) Jews speak Yiddish, and there is a significant number of French-speaking Jews. Smaller groups of Jews speak Dutch and Spanish. There is a large number of Russian immigrants of Jewish background, so it is not uncommon to see signs in Russian or hear Russian language radio.
Located on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, Jerusalem has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.
Summers are hot and dry as a bone with virtually no rainfall between the months of May and September. Temperatures will generally approach around 30°C (88°F) during the day and cool to around 15°C (59°F) at night. Being near the desert, there is often a big difference between the day and night temperatures, and even the hottest days can turn into chilly nights. Spring and fall are mild, with minimal rainfall and pleasant temperatures.
Get in
By plane
Israel's main entry point for the international traveller, the newly built Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) [38], named after Israel's first Prime Minister, is situated near Lod and next to the highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (highway no. 1). The airport, referred to by locals as Natbag - its initials in Hebrew - comprises all the usual amenities expected from a first class airport and contains one of the world's largest duty-free shopping malls for an airport of its size. Ben Gurion Airport acts as the base for El Al [39], Israel's national airline, and is also served by over 50 international air carriers. Travel from the airport to the centre of Jerusalem takes 40-50 minutes and depending on traffic conditions often more. It is advisable to budget at least an additional 2 hours on top of your pre-flight check-in time to ensure timely arrival and completion of security procedures.
Security is extremely stringent at Ben-Gurion Airport, and is especially suspicious of travelers with Muslim names or visas from Islamic countries in their passports. Expect to be stopped and questioned for several hours if this is the case, both on the way in and on the way out. It would be wise to have some phone numbers of local contacts for security officials to call to verify your reasons for visiting. The airport prides itself in being one of the most secure in the world. It achieves this through a number of means. The most evident for travelers will be the pre-check-in security check. (optional, should you go through it, you will be escorted to skip regular security check). On joining the queue for this security check, a security official will ask you several questions. Based on these (and what appears to be racial profiling) and a brief inspection of your passport, you will be assigned a number from 1 to 6. 1 signifies the lowest security concern and 6 the highest. Foreigners will typically get between a 3 and a 6. Age, appearance, stamps from Arab countries, evidence of visits to the Palestinian territory and other vague factors will be taken into account. Depending on the number you get (stuck on your passport and luggage), the security check is more or less thorough. Travelers who have visited the Palestinian territory and state as much will almost certainly receive a 5 or 6 (but there is no need for this; you can get 5 if you have never been to Israel before, and are of European descent). With a 5 or a 6, you can expect every single item of luggage to be taken from you bag and inspected in detail. Security officials have been known to check individual bank-notes. With a 6 (but sometimes even 5 if they have time), you can also expect to be taken to a cubicle and asked to remove your belt, shoes and have a personal inspection. If your clothes contain any metal that would set off a detector (such as studs in your jeans or a zip) even if plainly visible on the outside, you will be asked to remove the item of clothing. Travelers are regularly prevented from taking mobile phones, laptops and even shoes in their hand-luggage, although there is no consistency with reports of one policy one week and another the next week. Arguing about such invasive checks is almost always fruitless and security reasons are the only ones that are ever cited. Though encouraging tourism, Israeli authorities would answer to criticism by angry travelers that Israel is not a usual destination, and that people who are looking for sun with no security checks should rather head to Canary Islands. This summary is based on personal experiences.
Getting to and from Jerusalem. The 'Nesher' shared taxi service (02 623 1231 - Hebrew and English) is a 14-seater minibus that runs approximately hourly services to the airport - 55 NIS one way per person. You must reserve your seat in advance by phone and you will be picked up from your hotel or a chosen location (they have been known to refuse to pick up from some East Jerusalem neighborhoods, so check with your hotel or take a taxi to the Jerusalem hotel where they normally pick up without a problem). Be on time - they don't wait. You will be dropped at Terminal 3 in the airport. For the journey to Jerusalem, you will find them waiting outside the arrivals hall (they are signed from inside). Tell the driver where you want to be dropped. Again they should drop you at your hotel, but have been known to avoid parts of East Jerusalem. The rate is fixed, but it is worth double-checking as it has recently increased.
A private taxi to/from Jerusalem will cost around 150-200 NIS (tourist map in Jerusalem quotes oficial flat price 197 NIS, however this is hard to reach, we was asked for about 300 to get the airport, and finally paid 250. Expect to go through Israeli check-point on the way (via Ramallah).
Always check what terminal your flight goes from! It looks like T1 is domestic and T3 is international - this is not as it looks like! EasyJet has checkin at T1 for flight to Europe (however then you will be taken to T3 anyway - February 2011). So - check it before you take the cab (cab driver will be no help in this). There is free shutle going between T1 and T3 several times an hour.
Expect your taxi to be stopped on the way to the airport - have your passports, tickets, and answers for some questions (how long have you been to Israel, where are you going...) ready.
The Egged bus service does not go directly from Jerusalem to the Terminal. You should take bus #947 to Airport City (Kiryat Sde Hateufa) and take a suttle bus to the terminal (free in conjunction with a bus ticket).
The train does not run from Jerusalem to the airport.
By train
Jerusalem is connected to Israel Railway network, but the service, which follows the route of the 1892 Jaffa-Jerusalem line, is noted for its scenery rather than speed.
From Tel Aviv, you should take the train to Jerusalem, with stops en-route at Lod (where you can make connections to Beer Sheva, Ashkelon and Rishon LeZion), Ramla, Bet Shemesh, and arrive at Jerusalem's Malkha train station, which is inconveniently located at the south of the city. The old train station in the city center is currently out of service. A few trains also stop at the Biblical Zoo station, but it is within walking distance from Malkha station.
Journey time from Tel Aviv Merkaz/Savidor station to Malkha station is about 1.30 hour. There's one train per hour from 5.54 to 19.54 on weekdays, 5.25 to 14.25 (15.25 in summer) on Friday, 20.10 (22.10 in summer) on Saturday. Trains from Malkha depart on weekdays from 5.44 to 21.41 (the last one only as far as Lod), on Friday from 6.00 to 13.56 (14.56 in summer), on Saturday at 19.47 (21.47 in summer).
From the train station there are several buses to destinations in and around Jerusalem. To downtown take bus #4 or #18, and ask for "MerKaz Ha-ir" or for "Kikar Tzion" (Zion Square). To the central bus station, #5 is the fastest, though the #6 and #32 are alternatives. Taxis are also available.
A high-speed rail link connecting Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in half an hour and Ben Gurion Airport in 20 minutes is under construction and is scheduled to open in 2011. Its terminus will be an underground station (80m below surface) near the central bus station and Binyaney Ha'uma (convention center). Until then, use the train if you have plenty of time and want to see nice mountain scenery, but not if you are in a hurry.
By bus
Bus services to Jerusalem from Ben Gurion International Airport and most Israeli cities are frequent, cheap, and efficient. Egged is almost the only operator of intercity buses to/from Jerusalem, as well as the entire urban network. To check on these services look at its website [40] or dial *2800 from any phone. Most intercity buses arrive at the so-called Central Bus Station (CBS) at the western edge of Jaffa street, the city's main road. From there it's a long but enjoyable walk (or short local bus trip) along Jaffa Road to the centre of West Jerusalem and further on to the Old City. Inter-city buses arrive and depart inside the station building. City buses outside of it, both in front of the building and on Sederot Shazar. When exiting the CBS, turn left to walk towards the city, or turn right to find the city buses. (Finding your way when you leave the CBS for the first time can be a confusing experience, since there are almost no city maps around. There is a city map on the large square opposite the CBS, on the right side, towards Sederot Shazar.). Note that busses do not run on Shabat - from half hour before sunset on Friday till after sunset Saturday. Hours vary by the time of year - In December (winter solstice) Shabat start as early as 3.55PM and end at 5.15, while in June (summer solstice) Shabat start as late as 7.10 and end on 8.30.
Public buses do not run during Shabbat (between sunset on Friday and sunset on Saturday, roughly speaking), during which your only option is a sherut (shared taxi). These depart from Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station and Ben Gurion Airport, and charge a small surcharge on top of the normal bus fare. As of mid-2006 a sherut costs 20 NIS (25 NIS at night) and drops you off downtown, not far from Zion Square. A sherut from the airport to anywhere in the city costs about 50 NIS. The company offering the sherut service is called "Nesher".
Shared taxis are also the best option if travelling from Jerusalem to Palestinian cities, especially Ramallah and Bethlehem. The main bus station (On Sultan Suleiman street, next to the Rockfeler Museum) serves the surrounding Palestinian towns and villages, including Abu-Dis (Line 36), and Bethlehem (Line 124), those buses are colored mostly in blue strips . Another bus terminal, on Nablus road (Straight on from the Damascus gate) serves Ramallah, other main Palestinian cities, and there is a shared taxi direct to the Allenby bridge (The border crossing with Jordan), costing 30 NIS and 3 NIS for luggage (sited in Al-Souq Al-Tijaree "The commercial souq" not far away from the main bus station). All Palestinian shared taxis are very cheap, 5.00 NIS for the surrounding villages, 5.50 NIS for Abu-Dis and 6.50 NIS for Ramallah.
There are no Israeli sherut lines within Jerusalem (unlike most Israeli cities). But there are sherut lines to Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh as well as the airport.
The bus operator in the eastern Jerusalem is called Al-Safariat Al-Mowahadda "The united traveling service". Note that the taxi is called "Moneet" in Hebrew, and called taxi in the Palestinian side. Both differ from the shared taxi, which runs fixed routes for many people like a bus. Moneet or Taxi is a private taxi.
Get around
By taxi
Cabs are plentiful in the city of gold, but be warned as the drivers may try to rip you off by "taking the scenic route" or charging a fixed price instead of on the meter. Insist that the driver turns on the meter (Mon-eh) and you should have no problems.
By bus
NB: The description here refers solely to West Jerusalem (the jewish part). The Arab system of buses is based on two bus stations near Damascus Gate.
The most effective public transportation option is currently in the form of buses. Take into consideration that the intercity bus system is quite confusing, especially for a tourist. Even people living in Jerusalem their whole lives won't be able to help you, if they aren't familiar with the bus route you're interested in using. This is caused by the lack of any official bus route maps, and to the fact that bus routes and numbers tend to change rapidly. Buses are run by "Egged" Company. Most buses are dark green, but you'll see the older red and white buses too.
To use the bus, you pay the driver as you board the bus. All bus rides are at a fixed price of NIS 6.40- about $1.80 (January 2011), no matter how many stops you stay on for. You may pay in change or bills. Entrance to the bus is from the front door only, and exit is usually from the back. If you're planning to use the bus a few times, it is wise to ask to driver for a "Cartisiya", which is a 10 ride punch ticket for the price of 8 rides. This option is useful when traveling more the one person, or if you think you'll use the bus a few times.
Once you pay the driver, a ticket will come out of the gray calculator next to the driver. You must take and keep the ticket, for proof to the conductor, which tends to come and check.
Notice, that the ticket you receive can be used 75 minutes from the moment its produced. You may transfer with it to any intercity bus, as long as you board the bus before the 75th minute, which is printed on the ticket.
If you'd wish to transfer with the "Cartisiya", make sure to ask the driver (as he's punching it) for a "Cartis Ma'avar". Without it you won't be able to transfer to other buses without another punch in your "Cartisiya".
The Jerusalem City Tour [41] (Bus #99), intended for tourists, does a loop of pretty much the whole city and costs NIS 45 adults and NIS 36 children for a one-day pass.
Below is a summarized overview of which bus to take to get from certain places to other places. Printing this list, and the map, will be very helpful.
Note Buses in Jerusalem (Egged) do not run on Shabbat (30 minutes before sunset on Friday until at least 30 minutes after sunset on Saturday), nor on other religious holidays. That doesn't apply for Al-Safariiat Al-Moahaddih. This list is incomplete
By light rail
A light rail line is currently under construction and will be operational in summer 2011. It will link the north-eastern neighborhoods to the south-western neighborhoods through the city center. Additional lines are planned to be constructed later. The streets on which the construction works are going on may be hard to travel, especially by car - in particular, Yaffo street, which will be exclusively used by the light railway.
By foot
Much of Jerusalem is walkable (check before going) and is pleasant to walk. The Old City has to be toured by foot, not only because it is more impressive this way, but also because many of the lanes and alleyways are inaccessable to cars.
Jerusalem has an amazing array of attractions for the traveller to see. The following are some of the must-sees. For more attractions see individual district articles.
Excellent tours are provided every week by the Al-Quds University Center for Jerusalem Studies [44]. Including tours of the Old City settlements, Ramparts and the tunnels. Tour guides are academics and historians who focus on the Palestinian perspective.
Most hotels will provide tours. Bus # 99 provides an orientation to the whole city and can provide a perspective of the city. It cost 40 Shekels and starts at the Egged Central Bus Station. You can get on and off all day and is run and looks like the double-decker tour buses in London.
The Western Wailing Wall/underground is a tour that is well worth your time. The female guide there was well versed in the history of the wall and the explanation of the first two temples and the subsequent construction of the Dome of the Rock will create a great picture of the conflict between relevant cultures. A reservation should be made through your hotel. But individual walk-ins can sometimes be squeezed in.
Jerusalem is an amazing city for kids and kids events. Each museum runs special kids programs during the summer including Recycle workshops at the Israel Museum, Costumed tours of the Bible Lands Museum and the Museum of the Underground Prisoner. The Jerusalem Theater has a full schedule of kids theater and even opera. For a full list of kids events and attractions see www.funinjerusalem.com
For teens there is mini golf, segway tours, bowling, go karting, extreme sports, carpentry workshop and Kad V'Chomer (paint your own ceramics). Fun In Jerusalem also has a full list of swimming pools open to the public which come in handy during the hot summer months.
Jerusalem offers a wide range of educational programmes, which include:
Jerusalem is big on t-shirts of all shapes, colors and designs, often with good evidence of Jewish humour being present! If shopping in the Old City's markets, where almost anything can be found, be prepared to haggle. You will get all sorts of beautiful and unique gifts here ranging from jewellary, bed covers, statues to spices. Judaica is also a popular choice of purchase. The Old City's Jewish Quarter is particularly good for this, as is Mea Shearim, however, dress modestly. Outside the old city a very good shopping destination is the pedestrian mall at the Ben Yehuda street, the Mamilla pedestrian mall outside the old city and the Malcha mall. These malls are also good places to eat!
Jerusalem, being the multicultural city that it is, has food from all countries, cultures, and tastes. Besides the ubiquitous falafel stands, there is European, Ethiopian, Medditeranean, and Middle Eastern foods. There is also a large ranges in prices from the ritzy and exotic Emek Refaim to falafel stands centered around Machaneh Yehuda and the Central Bus Station. A good rule of thumb is to look for restaurants filled with Hebrew or Arabic speaking locals.
If you keep kosher Jerusalem will be a wonderful place to visit. In the Jewish sections of the city almost everything is kosher. However you should still check for the paper on the wall. The Jerusalem rabbinute issues Kashrut certificates that are good for 3 months at a time, and color coded. If you don't see it displayed do not hesitate to ask the staff. If they don't show you one its a good sign to move along. The certificate should be stamped "Basari" (meat) or "halavi" (Dairy) in Hebrew. The current certificates are cream colored with red print for dairy and pinkish-red for meat restaurants. These will be good until Sept 22 (Rosh Hashana) after that the rabbinute will put up new certifications. Note it is not unusual for it to take a few days to get the new certificate up. It is usually the policy of the Jerusalem rabbinute to not certify a chain store as kosher unless all the branches in the city of Jerusalem are kosher. For this reason McDonalds and some branches of Aroma in Jerusalem are not certified kosher.
Ethio-Israel experience, Turn left on Havatzelet St. when going on Yafo St. towards the Old City. Then turn right on Elyashar street and follow it to the left. In the little cul-de-sac is an incredible little restaurant. You won't be able to stop eating.
There is plenty of nightlife in Jerusalem. For clubs, the best way is to have a "proteksya", or connection with someone. This way of knowing someone who works at the door or a friend is the easiest and best way to have a great time in Jerusalem.
If you are looking for alcohol stores, there is one right by the Jaffa gate and several on Jaffa Rd. One of the stores by the Generali building (located on the right side on Jaffa when you're facing the building) stocks a wide variety of different beers and also has great prices, lower than that of other stores, check it out!
West Jerusalem has a blend of B&Bs, guesthouses, small hotels and large hotels - all the way up to 5-star accommodation, including the famous King David Hotel.
While Jerusalem's Old Town may boast the cheapest accommodation, it is by no means the friendliest. Be forewarned.
On Eastern side:
The area code prefix for Jerusalem is: 02. Israel's country code is: 972.
Public telephones take prepaid phone cards which can be purchased at post offices, shops and lottery kiosks. They are available in the following denominations: 20 units (13 NIS), 50 units (29 NIS), or 120 units (60 NIS). Calls made on Saturdays and Friday evenings are 25% cheaper than the standard rate.
Coin-phones (usually 1 NIS) are also available. Those are private "public phones", owned and operated by shop owners.
For international calls prepaid cards can be bought from post offices, including the new VOIP calling card "x-phone".
Israeli Post offices are available for service from 8 AM–12 PM and 2 PM–6 PM, Sunday through Thursday.
Israel uses the red British "pillar" mail boxes in some areas of Jerusalem, a reminder of the previous British Mandate.
Internet cafes
The most common price for internet cafes in Jerusalem is 15 NIS per hour.
Note however that most hostels should offer free Wi-Fi.
Wireless Internet
There is now a wireless internet connection in some of the streets in Jerusalem. The service is free of charge and can be accessed in the center of the city (Nov. 2004). The streets are: Ben-Yehuda, Nahalat Shiva, Shlomzion Hamalka. There is also wireless internet in the food court of the central bus station and in most chain coffee shops. Free access is also available at the airport.
Stay safe
There are, however, a few areas in the city where it is important to be mindful of one's dress, religion, and time period visiting. Here are some guidelines:
Security checks can be frequent, especially when entering hotels, cinemas/theaters and shopping areas. It is wise to carry some identification.
On the whole, theft is not a large-scale problem. To minimize risk, however, normal precautions apply. Do not leave valuable objects inside a car or in full view in your hotel room. There are many ATMs throughout the city and credit cards are widely accepted, so there is no need to carry large amounts of cash.
Visitors may notice a large amount of military personnel on the streets of Jerusalem, especially around certain sites. Every citizen must perform military service in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) as soon as they reach the age of 18. Many servicemen and civilians carry firearms (handguns) in public. It was, in fact, an off-duty soldier who stopped the Palestinian terrorist driver of the tractor in the incident in July, 2008. There are always large concentrations of soldiers around bus stations, as they are usually on their way to or from their bases. when going to the Western Wall it is quite common to see soldiers praying. Sometimes you might see an Israel Defense Forces "swearing in ceremony" near the Western Wall. This is quite common because of the historical and religious importance the Western Wall has to the Jewish People.
As of 2007, bombings and other terror attacks have virtually ceased in Jerusalem. Israeli strikes and Palestinian attacks are not major worries. Tourists have never been the target of attacks and most have occurred well away from tourist sites. Naturally it is important to remain vigilant and alert.
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A new supervisory framework will be developed by the SFC in the coming months. The new law is in line with international best practice and follows other financial regulatory reforms that have passed in recent years, including new rules to move toward Basel III standards. In general, Fitch believes that these changes to Colombian bank regulation are positive for reducing systemic risk and improving system sustainability over time. Capital regulation, including the authority of the regulator to require financial groups to maintain sufficient levels of capital to cover balance sheet risks and foreign currency exposure, will be particularly relevant for Colombian banks. Local regulatory capital ratios diverge materially from globally accepted capital metrics. Banks' core capital ratios, on a consolidated basis, began to improve in late 2016. This follows a material decline in recent years resulting from local currency depreciation (primarily in 2015) and changes in accounting standards. 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Back to the land of snow and ice after a wonderful month of February in Australia. Recently I have made a couple of attempts to KAP the Wakefield bridge without any success so a couple of weeks have elapsed without succeeding with any kite aerial photography. Finally a nice day arrived to do some work with the Parliament buildings and the still frozen landscape. Here are some of the shots from this session.
These photographs were taken using a remote-controlled camera suspended below a kite line (Kite Aerial Photography - KAP). Visit my website gallery Parliament Hill and Downtown Ottawa from Victoria Island - KAP 2013-8 - March 23, 2013 to see more images from this session. Images from this session are available for licensing through Latitude Image, a stock photography agency specializing in aerial stock images. Click the website gallery link above for more information.
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Playing Bach pieces with Robin Andrews of #buzz for our upcoming gigs (16th February and 3rd March). Some of his pieces work surprisingly well on the gurdy, against a drone!
Playing Bach pieces with Robin Andrews of #buzz for our upcoming gigs (16th February and 3rd March). Some of his pieces work surprisingly well on the gurdy, against a drone!
Learning new trompette patterns with Gregory Jolivet, and decided to try to evolve a micro syntax for representing them in notes, so I can add some SVG or Audio-API magic afterwards.
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Really looking forward to meeting up with all the #gurdy–playing friends I haven't seen for a while this weekend at Halsway Manor!
Several #buzz gigs upcoming in the next couple of months! The first is on the , St. Mary's Church, Totnes @ 11:00 - , £5 on the door. The second is in early March in Kingskerswell, I'll keep you posted for details! Or email me at email@example.com to join the Buzz mailing list (we will never spam you).
Checked in to St. Mary's Church, Totnes for a #buzz rehearsal. Lots of nice tunes in our upcoming gig!
Authentically Traditional by Robin Andrews is an interesting and welcome take on exactly what it means to be "authentic" in the context of #music /cc sophiedennis #bookmark #link
@briansuda @adactio turns out cgcardona already had the musical font idea, and started implementing it! https://audiofile.cc/#about
Checked into the Steam Packet Inn for the session/#buzz rehearsal
joelestewart yeah, I found him quite irritating, and the Gurdy was completely misrepresented! But must be great for those less musically inclined.
Hurdy #gurdy sighting on BBC2, in the promo for The Story of Music, BBC2 .
The audio from the #buzz concert last December is up on soundcloud!
My favourite is the shortest — Parson's Farewell:
"As a musician, everyone can hear all your sketches" Robin Andrews
Hurdy #gurdy people: Buried on hurdygurdy.com is a full English translation of Broecker's Die Drehlier!
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Woah, pinocc.io looks like a dream come true. I can't wait to start linking musical instruments up to the IoT.
Checked into the Steam Packet Inn, Totnes for the neo folk session
In the evening () I'm off to a neo-folk session at the Steam Packet Inn, Totnes, with Robin from #buzz and some other musicians. Come along if you're interested in playing trad/new trad/new medieval tunes!
Just getting the latest #buzz rehearsal started! We're practising for our next gig at St. Mary's church


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Cops refuse to stand down and honor oath
Steve Watson
November 8, 2011
Protesters at a public park in Fresno were harassed and arrested by police for a third consecutive evening Monday as officers told them that local penal code allowed them to ignore First Amendment rights and break up protests.
The protest group, calling itself "Occupy Fresno", has refused to move out of the park and onto a sidewalk, asserting that it is their constitutional right to remain where they are.
Over the weekend, more than 20 of the protesters were arrested and led away by police citing a county ordinance that defines the protesters as trespassers.
Officers in riot gear approached the remaining protesters Monday night, once again asking them to comply with police orders to leave or face arrest.
Fresno County Sheriffs Lt. Andriatti and Officer Neil Dadian were filmed informing protesters that local penal code outstrips the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
"Does the penal code here and ordinances that you've said that we're violating, trump the constitutional First Amendment to peaceably assemble and protest the government?" a protester asked the officers.
"In this instance here, that is what we are enforcing. That penal code…" Andriatti replied.
When asked to explain the law further, the officers refused.
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In another fascinating exchange captured on camera, protester Joseph Hunter calmly engaged an officer in conversation, asking that he refrain from carrying out unlawful orders and instead honor the oath he has taken to uphold the Constitution.
"The answer is no, we are not going to stand down." the officer is heard replying.
Hunter added that should the police department attempt to discipline the officer for refusing to carry out orders, the group would help the officer seek legal representation.
The officer would still have none of it, however, and again ordered the protesters to disperse, prompting an impassioned reaction from Hunter.
"Amazing, right? Isn't that amazing?" he said. "No Constitution in America. No protection for your First Amendment, constitutional right to peaceably assemble. We're radicals because we stand here defending our constitutional right to peaceably assemble."
"Well, guess what? This country was founded by radicals who fought against the oppression of the country … I'm proud to be a radical, and I stand here with my brothers and my sisters at Occupy Fresno as an American. I'm a citizen of the Untied States of America and I have a First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and air my grievances against my government!" Hunter asserted.
Just minutes later, police began physically confronting the protesters and arresting them to chants of "Hell no, we won't go! Occupy Fresno!"
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Fresno ABC affiliate KSFN-TV filed the following report on the incident:
According to the Occupy Fresno website, nine protesters were arrested Monday, with a further nine arrested this morning, bringing the total number of arrests to 33.
The group contends that at least one protester was arrested for "holding a sign in a public park".
The group had obtained an "area use permit" from county officials, but were informed that it would expire on October 31, with a two day grace period. Since that time protesters have remained in the park.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.


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ROCK HILL, S.C. – Coker College men's soccer player Daniel Jackson has been selected as the South Atlantic Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Week, the league office announced today. Jackson is the first men's soccer player to earn a SAC award and second Coker athlete to be named conference player of the week.
Jackson, a forward, had a huge offensive week for the Cobras. He had a goal and assist in Coker's 3-0 victory over No. 1 regionally ranked Flagler College. Jackson continued his offensive assault with four more goals in a 6-1 rout of SAC foe Brevard College.
During the regular season, Jackson tallied 14 goals and two assists for 30 points. The 30 points were good for third in the conference, while the 14 goals are second best in the SAC and set a new Coker single-season record for goals scored.
A senior from Silver Springs, Md., Jackson is a computer science major. He is the son of Toni Moore and Clinton Davis.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Baby Steps: First Heroic
So, tonight is going to be the first time she will set foot into a Heroic Instance. I bought her some decent gear to go along with the Argent Tournament Dagger we purchased for her with 25 seals.
To get her ready, it of course took a bit of a bribe. I will be giving her a vanity pet. To me, it is worth it. She was not comfortable with her DPS rotation, so I took her to the target dummies in Stormwind. I taught her how to use Starfire until eclipse procced and then switch to Wrath. I taught her where to look for the Eclipse proc that that she could switch back to Starfire after it ended. One of the other main things I showed her was that you can queue your spells in WoW. She would wait for the cast to completly end then press the button again about a half a second later. I had her press it before the end of the spell to tighten up the rotation a bit.
To make it even simpler, she just spams the button through the entire cast. She actually did very well, doing about 1600 dps on a level 80 test dummy. I also had her practice her AOE by Hurricaning three at once.
By the end of 20 or so minutes, she was much more comfortable. Now she can know that she will not be a noob when she sets foot into that first Heroic. She will do just fine.
I think part of her motivation is to replace the hideos chest piece I got her. She wants a pretty dress....and is wearing an ugly ass brown shirt with purple pants lol.
So, to get her to run instances...it took beautification and bribery of vanity (pet).
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Hi there, I'm just starting a moonkin (currently lvl 73). I see you suggested doing starfire until the wrath eclipse, but I read somewhere...can't remember where though...that you should do wrath until the starfire eclipse. Is there any advantage to doing one over the other? I imagine there might be a gear level that would change which version to use being that one is a +crit buff and the other a +spdmg buff.
- September 4, 2009 at 3:14 PM
- Occeleta said...
If I'm awake I'll try and be there and give her one less to worry about upsetting. I can even bring my DK or Huntard and possibly make her feel better bout her performance with those two toons sucky gear.
- September 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Ruhtra said...
It is nice to see another couple going through the paces. I remember when I took my wife into her first heroic instance back in BC. She too was nervous about doing a good job and by the end of it she felt pretty comfortable. Best of luck with it!
- September 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM
lol, the ladies always want to be beautified :) that is a riot, and running heroics will get her better gear that will make her feel better about her DPS or Healing or whatever she does, so ya gotta do it babe, we all die! lol, just laugh it off! (all this from a WoW Mom of three)
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