Mess Meal Change Up

March 25, 2008 by · 2 Comments
Filed under: Food, History and Culture, Israeliness, Life 

In a bid to keep soldiers “close to home” at mealtime, Israel’s army recently upgraded menus and the result has been a doubled presence at mess hall meal gatherings.

According to the Hebrew press, menu adjustments were made at Tel Aviv’s Kirya army base and lunch attendance immediately soared from about 2,500 to 5,000 diners. Meal planners had originally predicted a mere 20% surge.

What’s the fuss? Upgrades and more choice.

A sample meal menu offers Arabic (diced cucumber, tomato and onion), carrot or coleslaw salads as starters, turkey strips, Kabob, hamburger or a vegetarian dish for entree choices and soup, rice or couscous with vegetables as side dishes.

A “fast food takeaway meal” of personal salad with roll, hot entree and French fries is also a new option allowing busy soldiers to take lunch back to the office or outdoors to dine in the fresh air or on a grassy patch in the sun.

“I’m saving NIS22 ($6) per day on restaurant takeaway,” one enthused soldier told press.

I never served in the army so the food thing is a mystery to me. But clearly it hasn’t been popular with the masses…

Bon Appetit.

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Secrets from Surgery

March 25, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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I’m not 100% sure whether knowing what really & truly goes on in the operating room between anesthetized i.e. unconscious patient and the medical staff is a good thing.

On the one hand, surgical gallery stories can be amusing and even shocking. Remember the one that hit the press earlier this year about med students performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without consent? That needed to go public but it was nary pleasant to read.

On the other hand, when glimpsing the inner workings of hospital goings-on via amusing tales, the sneak-peak can be a whole lotta fun.

Enter Israeli anesthesiologist The Sandman:

One night, after finishing the last of several urgent operations, I received a phone call from a very, very, very, very junior surgical resident (meaning: he started his residency that month). He was concerned about one of the patients who had undergone an emergency appendectomy earlier. He said, “The patient isn’t moving.” I then suggested, “Pronounce his death and let me get some rest for God’s sake.” “No,” he said, “it’s not that, he’s alive, he’s just not responding to me.” I thought to myself, “If I were your patient, and if I knew that you were the most inexperienced doctor in the hospital, I wouldn’t respond to you either.” No, I’m not that mean spirited, I didn’t actually say that to him, but I do get cranky at 3:30 AM when I haven’t gotten my beauty rest. “Oh, alright, I’ll be right up.

I had not been involved with that particular patient’s anesthetic, so I asked the doctor who had, to meet me on the surgical ward. I found the resident and asked him to show me to the gentleman in question. I found a young Bedouin man lying in bed staring at the ceiling with his mouth open. After noting his normal breathing and skin color, I just had to have some fun with the resident (after all, it was 3:30 in the blessed AM). “Are you sure he’s not dead? He looks dead to me, did you take a pulse, did you measure his blood pressure, and have you informed the next of kin?” The look of abject failure made me feel sorry for the kid. “Don’t get yourself in a fit. He’s alive, I’m pretty sure of that. Now watch and learn.”

Read the rest of this amusing and informative share here.

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Gay Pride

March 25, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Profiles 

It’s Gay Pride week in Israel judging by the amount of attention the country’s homosexual community is garnering this week.

The kicker was Out Magazine’s feature on the Tel Aviv “scene” – hot spots, architecture, eateries and pick up venues/come-ons.

Next up: DNA Magazine has ranked Israeli singer Yohanathan’s Hot Summer Nights among its top ten gay themed music videos. The singer shares the limelight with top billed notables Madonna, George Michael, Queen, Pet Shop Boys and Olivia Newton-John.

“I am really glad that this video is making a real impact on the international gay scene,” Yohanathan, who came out concomitantly with his video, told press.

Here’s the Hebrew version which includes some highly suggestive eroticism; If you don’t go for that type of thing avoid clicking “Play”.

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What’s that, Lassie?

March 24, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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Lassie WAS trying to warn Timmy. Don’t laugh! There WAS trouble at the mine.

But nowadays, instead of trying to guess what a Collie is indicating, Beer Sheba scientists are tapping into canine warnings with sharpened accuracy.

Bio-Sense Technologies recently raised half a mill in investment capital for its “Dog Bark Analyzer” – a system that analyzes a dog’s bark to determine if a real threat or emergency is present.

This interesting technology is successfully in operation at several governmental agencies including the Israeli Air Force and Prison Service, as well as at commercial sites and private residences in Israel, cites Israel Start-Up News.

Cool.

In the interim, check out this old classic. Whew! Growing Pains indeed.

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Tel Aviv Pick Up Lines

March 24, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: History and Culture, Holidays, Israeliness, Pop Culture 

Popular gay publication Out Magazine features Tel Aviv as a destination city in its current issue.

Unfortunately we can’t link to the article because the website doesn’t allow it.

However, this YNet News story provides a brief synopsis, informing that the Out article not only extols the spirited seaside city’s architectural and culinary virtues but also provides pickup cues for men on the prowl.

“Would you like to spin my dreidel?”; “Is that a mezuzah in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”; “Do you sleep on your stomach? No? Can I?” YNet quotes the magazine writer as advising.

Priceless.

Can we get some crackers over here to go with the cheez, pleez?

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