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Israeli bartender wins int'l cocktail contest
Guy Gisser
Published: 24.12.10, 09:51
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1. EXCELLENT ACHIEVEMENT
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (12.24.10)
Total respect to Amit Gilad on his win .Bartending is an art which deserves respect .And we need jewish Bartenders ,Soldiers and Farmers not just bloody Doctors and boring Lawyers.
2. Alcohol hinders the Ruach HaKodesh and opens
Rivkah   (12.24.10)
windows in the soul for demons to come in and cause havoc in a person's life since the person is responsible for what he or she does when intoxicated if that is criminal behaviour.
3. #2 rivkah
blash ,   Jerusalem   (12.25.10)
Alcohol to excess does exactly what you describe. But bartending is not about drinking to excess. If you want to drink to excess, you go out and buy a bottle of vodka. Bartending is the exact same thing as a professional chef, but with drinks instead of with food. Bartenders mix different ingredients in order to create complex flavors, just like chefs do. There are jobs for "mixologists" not just in bars but also in restaurants where drinks are mixed. The pay is good. The art of mixology in and of itself does not encourage excessive drinking so it's not an unKosher profession. Saying that it's not a Kosher profession is like saying people who work in the defense industries making guns don't work Kosher professions because people take the guns and murder people with them. It is high time this profession was respected in Israel.
4. Grapefruit juice can MESS up anyone on medications...
Eddie Shephard ,   Allentown, USA   (12.25.10)
Be careful! Read contra-indications before mixing grapefruit juice and/or ANY alcoholic beverage with medications!
5. #4 Is correct! Especially with statins for
jason white ,   afula,israel   (12.25.10)
high cholesterol.
6. 4,5 Eddie and Jason: Dr. Al Sears' email medical newsletter
Rivkah   (12.25.10)
says it is better to give up the presciption medicines that grapefruit interferes with than to give up grapefruit which is so good for you. Statins and some antibiotics are medicines that substitutes are better to take since grapefruit juice interferes with absorption of them. What should be substituted for statins? Nothing. Don't take them. Statins cause cancer and heart attacks and a host of diseases by depleting the heart and body of Coenzyme-Q-10. Dr. William Campbell Douglass II said cholesterol levels of 200 to 300 are safer than cholesterol levels less than 200 because cholesterol is the band-aid for blood vessels. If you don't have enough cholesterol when blood vessels crack from a lack of full spectrum bioflavinoid vitamin C, you bleed to death. High cholesterol levels are not the cause of heart attacks, anyway. Inflammation is. What is good for inhibiting inflammation? Take two teaspoonsful daily of Silver Solution nanoparticlized, one olive leaf extract capsule, one or two cayenne pepper capsules, a tablespoonful DHA fish oil, 2cc Cellfood stabilized liquid oxygen with deuterons and aerobic amino acids, 100mg Co-Q-10 ubiquinol form that is better absorbed, 2000mg L-carnitine (another building block of the heart besides Co-Q-10), and taurine. Then give up vacations because you won't be able to afford them in addition to giving up entertainments and restaurants.
7. 3 Blash, Jerusalem: Drink a little wine for your stomach's
Rivkah   (12.25.10)
sake and your often infirmities, King Solomon in Proverbs advised. Scriptures does not prohibit drinking alcohol entirely. But it hinders the Holy Spirit. It is a trade off. Which do people want? Until my Uncle Charles died earlier this year and God let me experience the glory of his soul entering God's Kingdom, the beauty of the singing and elation and cheering for a life well lived for God, I had no idea how rewarding giving up alcohol was from God's perspective. You see, Uncle Charles gave up alcohol early in life and was mocked for choosing to always be sober along with his wife who also made that choice. But God appreciated the sacrifice and greatly rewarded him after his death. King Solomon said princes should not drink alcohol because it can pervert judgment. There are many professions that are not approved of by God so don't think bartending is the only one. Male midwives such as obstetricians and gynecologists (OB/GYN) are an abomination to God. Finding a profession that is not objectionable to God is difficult. Even teachers now have to teach homosexuality to keep their jobs in a lot of schools in America. A US Army Colonel has just asked to be relieved of his command because he does not wish to tell recruits to accept homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle. Lawyers lie in court all the time to convict innocent people to keep their jobs. It's a dirty world. Cutesy cocktails does not make it a better world but that is preferable to a lot of professions that are more offensive to God.
8. What's it called?
Toby ,   Israel   (12.25.10)
I want one but I wouldn't know what to order..... Anybofy know?
9. (burp) bring it on, and bottoms up and merry x-mass
ghostq   (12.26.10)
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