Foto Friday #43

February 29, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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Good morning, Mia Compadres.

Spring’s in the air. No doubt about it. Warmer weather, birds a’singing, greenery in abundance, flower carpets everywhere.

Stumbled upon this wonderful photographer’s work – Bachspics is his profile name. Quite the eye & technique, don’t you agree?

Happy weekend…your friends @ Israelity.

Washing before Prayer

Acco Fisherman

Prayer

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Spectating on Wine

February 28, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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If you’re a wine enthusiast i.e. the kind of person who actually notes the vanilla tones and earthy finishes and understands the pressing need to take a day off work & drive 30 miles to Healdsburg to purchase the boutique winery’s allotted one-case-per-customer Reserve Chardonnay your friends have been raving about, then I need not fill you in on the role of Wine Spectator within the world of oenology.

Wine Spectator writer Kim Marcus is currently touring Israel and tasting & writing it as he goes.

You can read his entries here, from his arrival to tours of Carmel, Rosh Pina and the Golan Heights. You’ll have to create a logon to get the full stories…

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Married? Single? How Old?

February 28, 2008 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Business, Immigrant Moments, Israeliness 

Blogger Jewneric, a self-proclaimed bi-culturalist, sometimes finds it necessary to “adjust” to acute differences between a North American versus Israeli mindset.

Particularly when it comes to the workplace…

A few days ago, I had someone who does some work for me at my office, who is currently seeking a new job. I printed out his CV (resume) for him, read it, and made some minor punctuation and grammatical changes (in Hebrew for an Israeli) on it. I mentioned that is still shocking for me to see that people place their marital status on their CV’s. (Parenthetically, I am also shocked when firms place that they are looking for someone between 25 and 32 on want ads. Ageism is illegal here, but it is widespread.)

As I conveyed my reaction, my friend looked at me quizzically. He was flabbergasted, and stated that it is very important to know if the applicant is married. When pushed, he was hard-pressed for a substantive answer.

Oh, don’t get me started! Go over to Jewneric. Read. Leave a comment. You need not specify marital status or age.

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Motherload Binge

February 28, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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Talk about the Binge to beat all Binges:

According to this story, thieves broke into a Haifa factory earlier in the week and made off with 100 tons (!!!) of chocolate spread.

Moshe Veidberg, one of the company’s owners, told the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot it would require five large trucks to transport the stolen chocolate, which he valued at roughly $415,000.

He said the company’s alarm system was deactivated and its surveillance footage stolen as well, leaving the fate of the creamy chocolate a mystery.

Wow…the uses for that much chocolate…wow.

Speculation is, however, that the heist was an inside job..

Ya think?

tia, froylein.

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New Solar System!

February 28, 2008 by · 2 Comments
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Yahoo! Just when it looked like we’d have to vacation in Greece…AGAIN. . .

A team of worldwide scientists and “amateur stargazers” have discovered a new solar system that looks a whole lot like ours.

The group includes Israeli scientists working out of Tel Aviv University, this JPost article sez.

Friday’s Science Journal carried the story and aside from the actual find, one cutting edge aspect seems to be the way in which the solar system was spotted.

The team of astronomers from 11 countries used a technique called microlensing to spot the planets.

“Microlensing works by using the gravity of the star and the planet to bend and focus light rays from a star behind it,” lead researcher Scott Gaudi of Ohio State University said. “If you are looking at one star and another passes in the foreground (gravity from the front star) will focus and bend light rays. That causes the background star to be magnified,” he added.

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