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Dexter is based on the compelling novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay. Orphaned at the age of four and harboring a traumatic secret, Dexter Morgan (Dexter Morgan (Emmy- and Golden Globe- nominated actor Michael C. Hall from "Six Feet Under") is adopted by a police officer who recognizes Dexter's homicidal tendencies and guides his son to channel his gruesome passion for human vivisection in a constructive way - by killing those heinous perpetrators that are above the law or who have slipped through the cracks of justice. A respected member of the police force, a perfect gentleman and a man with a soft spot for children, it's hard not to like Dexter. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he struggles to emulate normal emotions he doesn't feel, and to keep up his appearance as a caring, socially responsible human being.
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Feather River Door Company Complaint - Door does not seal within it's frame lets light and air through
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TACOMA,, WASHINGTON -- Door was not assembled flush within the frame it was attached to. This is a prehung door that is junk. It is nice looking but whatever I do I cannot get it to seal because it is so skewed withing the frame it was built. The company did send out a service person who could not figure out the problem but said it was installed properly which I already knew.
He contacted Feather River door and they sent me out a new wider seal to install where the original thinner seal was installed. Now it is so tight in areas that I have more light coming through the the door and its frame on the top and side of the door. You need to look at this door very well before installation. You can see a lot of light (air) when the sun is directly on the door. Do yourself a favor and look real good if you decide on a Feather River door.
The door was installed in September 2008. I have been talking to them since early 2009. My last response from the company customer service manager (March 2010) was to call the installer to fix the problem. I will need to buy another door before I go through another winter.
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Trinity Glass says the door was installed wrong. However their factory rep was out and said the install by the contractor is fine. When they (Trinity Glass) assembled the door within the frame it is not hinged flush with the frame it was built in. It is obvious that the door is skewed within it's frame. They sent me a wider seal to go inside the frame however the door is so skewed that it it still lets light through in areas along the doors perimeter.It is a defective door plain and simple.
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Genesee County Health Department is offering an anti-rabies immunization clinic on Thursday April 18, 2013 from 4pm til 7pm at the Pembroke Highway Garage located at 1145 Main Road; the NE corner of Route 77 and Route 5, in the Town of Pembroke. Vaccination will be offered to dogs, cats and ferrets. There is no charge for the residents of Genesee County, out of county pet owners will be asked for a $5.00 donation. Please bring your pets with the proper restraints; on leashes, in cages etc. Be prepared to supply pet owner information; name, address, telephone contact info, etc. There is no need to display any licensing information! Pets must be at least 3 months old to be effectively immunized. This is a free service offered by the Genesee County Health Department 344-2580.
Submitted by David Whitcroft on October 15, 2012 - 2:20pm
Genesee County Health Department is offering an anti-rabies immunization clinic on Thursday October 18, 2012 from 4pm til 7pm at the Le Roy Village Highway Garage located at 58 North Street in the Village of Le Roy. Vaccination will be offered to dogs, cats and ferrets. There is no charge for the residents of Genesee County, out of county pet owners will be asked for a $5.00 donation. Please bring your pets with the proper restraints; on leashes, in cages etc. Be prepared to supply pet owner information; name, address, telephone contact info, etc. There is no need to display any licensing information! Pets must be at least 3 months old to be effectively immunized. This is a free service offered by the Genesee County Health Department 344-2580.
Submitted by David Whitcroft on April 5, 2012 - 1:23pm
Genesee County Health Department is offering an anti-rabies immunization clinic on Thursday April 12, 2012 from 4pm til 7pm at the Pembroke Highway Department located at 1145 Main Road (Route 5) in the Town of Pembroke. Vaccination will be offered to dogs, cats and ferrets. There is no charge for the residents of Genesee County, out of county pet owners will be asked for a $5.00 donation. Please bring your pets with the proper restraints; on leashes, in cages etc. Be prepared to supply pet owner information; name, address, telephone contact info, etc. There is no need to display any licensing information! Pets must be at least 3 months old to be effectively immunized. This is a free service offered by the Genesee County Health Department 344-2580.
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Submitted by Billie Owens on September 23, 2011 - 12:36pm
The Genesee County Office for the Aging has announced two new transportation services for Genesee County residents, age 60 and over. The Community Action of Orleans & Genesee CATS Assisted Transportation service now includes weekly rural service for shopping trips to Batavia and medical trips to Buffalo and Rochester.
According to Coutney Iburi, specialist for Aging Services, "The purpose of the rural shopping service is to ensure that all seniors in Genesee County have access to transportation services for their grocery, pharmacy or other personal shopping needs."
The CATS service helps people who need assistance getting out of their homes and onto the bus or need help getting their groceries loaded onto the bus and into their home.
Iburi noted that seniors wishing to use the CATS medical transportation are urged to schedule their Buffalo area appointments on Tuesday afternoons and their Rochester area appointments on Friday mornings.
The Transportation Coordination Program assists seniors and their caregivers in understanding available transportation options. The program is made possible by the Rochester Area Community Foundation's Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging.
Prior registration for use of the CATS services is necessary. Contact the Office for the Aging to register or for more information at 343-1611.
Submitted by Gretel Kauffman on August 18, 2011 - 3:40pm
WHAT: Batavia Players Summer Youth Theater production of CATS
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18-20th at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Batavia High School auditorium, 260 State St., Batavia
For most musical theater productions, the actors prepare by learning their lines, listening to show tunes, and practicing choreography. However, this year's Batavia Players Summer Youth Theater production of CATS required some slightly unorthodox preparation: the 64 young people who make up the cast got into character by watching their pets.
"Since I have three cats at home, it was easy to observe their movements and their habits and to draw from that to create my character," said Maryssa Peirick, who has the role of Victoria. This is not Peirick's first time playing a feline on stage: "I played the Cat in the Hat in "Seussical the Musical," though he's a very different kind of cat, and the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland," who actually does have catlike mannerisms."
Those cast members who live in cat-less homes, such as Batavia High senior Melzie Case, were forced to draw their inspiration from "cat lessons" and multiple viewings of the 1998 movie.
"It was rather challenging at first to act like a cat," said Case, who portrays "motherly" cat Jellyrolum. "The arm and leg movements are obviously much more different than those of humans. You also have to crawl on the ground instead of simply walking, and it's also good to scratch your 'fleas' every now and then."
CATS, which opens tonight, is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that is based on T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." The show first opened in the West End in 1981 and then on Broadway in 1982. Its 18-year run made it the second-longest running show in Broadway history, and it has won numerous awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.
Peirick, a recent Batavia High grad who is headed to Fredonia in the fall to major in vocal performance, said she was not immediately thrilled when she heard CATS had been chosen as the summer show despite its popularity.
"Initially I was completely repelled by it, but as auditions neared and I watched more, I became slowly interested in the characters, who seem to have quite extensive back stories -- even if not all of them are known," she said. "Though it is seriously lacking in plot, it makes up for it in creativity and visual entertainment, so there really is no such thing as a boring moment."
Director Pat Burk said he chose the show because of its uniqueness.
"It is a dream show that needs to be done correctly in order to be effective on stage," he explained. "It also allows for a large cast and you can do a tremendous amount with dance and music because it is an all-dance, all-music show. It is more like a modern opera."
The extensive dancing could easily have been a problem, but the young actors handled it like pros.
"It's so different from conventional theater, and because we're a community theater youth production, we simply don't have professional dancers to fill up the stage," Peirick said. "However, long hours of intense dance rehearsals have caused everyone to really come together and make the choreography come to life. I'm constantly impressed with my fellow cast members' progress."
Burk says he has been very impressed with the young actors' hard work and character interpretations, and is confident that the production will be a success.
"Judging from pre-sale tickets, which are more than double of last year's show, it will be well-received. The dress rehearsal went extremely well and it is quite a magical show."
The only downside to the experience?
"Now that we've been acting like cats for so long, we're starting to act like cats in real life!" Case said.
Tickets for CATS can be purchased online at www.showtix4u.com or by calling 1-866-967-8167.
Submitted by Howard Owens on June 22, 2010 - 5:37pm
There are five cats that have the basement of the old Carr's building pretty much to themselves.
The cats wound up in the basement after owner Ken Mistler sold his pet store on East Main Street and the new owners wanted to get out of the cat sale business. Mistler's wife, Andrea, set up the cozy basement apartment and she ensures all of their needs are met.
They have plenty of places to climb and lounge. There's even a ramp to a cat gate that allows them outdoor time in a fenced-off area behind the Carr's building.
Andrea takes care of the cats and besides feeding them and keeping the litter boxes clean, she gives them plenty of affection.
For the cats, the living arrangement is probably more like a penthouse than a basement.
Submitted by Billie Owens on April 7, 2009 - 3:40pm
Milk and cats go together like dogs and bones. So it's no surprise that prison dairy farms, such as the one at Wyoming Correctional Facility in Attica, is a magnet for felines.
But Governor Paterson's cost-cutting decision to eliminate farm operations at correctional facilities has put prisoners' "pets" in peril.
A tipster at Attica let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. He said inmates were told to quit feeding the cats, some of which are "orphans" from Genesee County.
But starvation and neglect tactics would be unlawful, a misdemeanor for "failure to provide sustenance" under Agriculture and Markets regulations.
The correctional authorities claimed no knowlege of the situation when Sue Davila inquired about it last week. She's a state licensed animal cruelty investigator with the Wyoming County SPCA.
Up to 100 cats are believed to be living at the facility, which Davila got permission to visit last week. She and SPCA board member Janice Stenman, aided by guards and inmates managed to round up 14 cats and kittens. Live traps were put out Monday to catch more.
The animals confiscated Friday were tested for disease and given immunizations. They were treated as needed for fleas, worms, ear mites and given antiobiotics. One very pregnant female had a gaping abcess on her neck. One had a respiratory infection, one was brain damaged and a male was neutured and declawed.
"Part of the problem is local -- people show up at night and dump their cats at the prison," Stenman said. "It's not entirely the prison's fault that (the cats) are there."
The problem is not new.
Stenman said a guard told her that four years ago an order was given to get rid of the cats. They were corraled into a shed and a truck driver backed up to the shed and gassed the cats with exhaust fumes. They were purportedly then dumped into a mass grave and their killer got a bounty of $8 per cat. No one wants to talk about it publicly, Stenman said, because they fear reprisals.
The dairy farm cats are indoors only -- use to being fed and thus unsuited to suddenly fending for themselves. Perhaps some may become adoptable once they are quarantined and evaluated.
Speaking of which, the folks at the donation-dependant SBCA are feeling kind of desparate.
"This situation has put horrible pressure on us," Stenman said, adding that money for food and medication plus a barn to use as a temporary quarantine site are the most immediate needs.
Wyoming County SPCA is a no-kill facility which can accommodate 200 cats, not 300. It also accepts animals from facilities in several other counties.
Lollipop Farm in Monroe County is also a no-kill facility that works with SPCAs and volunteers to care for homeless pets.
In Genesee County, the government animal shelter in Batavia can handle caging for 25 to 35 cats at a time, but by law only those from Genesee County residents.
Local animal control officer Aggie Jaroszewski said 578 cats were adopted or found foster homes through the Genesee shelter last year.
Those were the lucky ones. Many cats are euthanized. If feral populations in particular are allowed to grow unfettered, the incidence of sickness and disease increases. Last year, a cat tested positive for rabies in the Village of Leroy, Jaroszewski said.
Feral or nearly feral cat populations are not uncommon in mobile home parks and apartments, places where property owners often ban pets, Jaroszewski said.
Submitted by Wendy Castleman on February 10, 2009 - 5:31pm
WE HAVE SOME ANIMALS WITH SOME SPECIAL NEEDS BUT DON'T BE SCARED. THEY JUST NEED SOME EXTRA LOVE AND CARE BUT MOST OF ALL THEY NEED A CHANCE. WE MADE SOME VIDEOS SO THAT EVERYONE CAN SEE JUST HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE - SO TAKE A MOMENT, SIT BACK AND ENJOY. YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE TO CONNECT TO YouTube FOR A PEEK AT THESE GREAT ANIMALS.
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Submitted by Philip Anselmo on June 17, 2008 - 1:20pm
Genesee County Animal Shelter put up another video exhibiting their cats up for adoption.
Here's the shelter's web site.
Submitted by Wendy Castleman on May 11, 2008 - 3:43pm
What a wonderful surprise to see the videos of our animals on The Batavian. And then to read what The Batavian is all about. Thanks for helping to promote the shelter animals available for adoption. We have some wonderful animals looking for good homes.
Submitted by Howard Owens on May 11, 2008 - 8:47am
The Genesee County Animal Shelter has posted another video to YouTube advertising its cats available for adoption.
Submitted by Howard Owens on April 24, 2008 - 10:55am
The Genesee County Animal Shelter is featuring on YouTube three cats in need of new homes.
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Posted Ian Shulman
Bel Kaufman is more than just another example of a writer who's success did not depend on a legendary relative. While her grandfather Sholem Aleichem dedicated his work to the life of poor Russian shtetl Jews at the turn of the twentieth century, Bel's main concern was the social situation in the American high schools of the 1960s. Still, family ties are not the only thing that unite a 101-year old best-selling author with classic Yiddish literature. We got a chance to talk with Bel Kaufman about Jewish humour, literary inheritance, Tevye the Milkman and many things more.
- In Eastern Europe and Russia, the places where Sholem Aleichem and his characters lived, a lot of people know you and know and love your books, but the first thing which comes to their minds when thinking about you is the fact that you are the granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem.
- I'm the only one in the whole world alive who knew him. I remember sitting and holding his hand, I remember his laugh. I was very little when he died. He died in 1916, and I was born in 1911. But he had an enormous influence on my childhood, my writing and my life.
- How exactly did he influence your writing? What are the things you can say you have inherited from him?
- I don't know if you could inherit a talent. But you could inherit the background, the desire, the wish. When my first book, 'Up The Down Staircase' came out, I was told that the critics were very kind. They wrote 'the same humour and compassion', 'she wears the mantel well'. In other words, they gave me the permission to be a writer. How can i write when my grandfather was a legend? How dare I? So the critics permitted me. I've heard the voice saying 'Allright, Bellochka, you can also write'.
First it was just notes, not a book. Finally, The Saturday Review published it. The editor asked me: 'Can you expand these three pages into a book?' I said: 'No, no, I'm not a novelist. I'm a teacher' - I said it with pride, - A teacher of English. I write short stories for the magazines, but not novels'. They gave me an advance and I spent it. What could I do? I had to write a book.
- But was the book still based on your notes? On the real stories which happened to you?
- Fiction. And the best compliment I get from critics was that they think I just copied everything.
- I noticed that you and your grandfather have a similar sense of humor. It often seems that this kind of humor is something from the past. Do you think it can also exist now, or is it exclusively connected with those Jewish people from Eastern Europe?
- It's hard to say. I gave a course last summer in Hunter College on Jewish humour, and we discovered that most of the comedians, humorist writers, stand up comics in this country are Jewish. Why? Well, from the ghetto Jews had so little. All they had was communication. They didn't have food, they didn't have health, they didn't have money. They communicated. My grandfather heard their communication and loved it. He loved the Yiddish language and he decided to write in it, although he wrote very well in Hebrew and in Russian. He corresponded with Chekhov and with Gorky in beautiful Russian, and we talked only in Russian in our family. Yiddish was the language of the kitchen, illiterate women. He raised it to the level of literature, and that's his great contribution.
- Do you know why Sholem Aleichem only spoke Russian at home?
- Because we lived in Russia!
- But Jews in Russia were primarily speaking Yiddish in those days…
- If you live in a country that has its own language, you should speak this language. When I spent a summer in France, I spoke French. So we spoke Russian. We understood Yiddish, my grandfather used to read his stories to us, and the children used to fight to sit near him. We understood his stories, we were his first audience.
- Sholem Aleichem wrote about Jews and Jewish life. Did you ever have an idea to write on such topics?
- I wasn't brought up in a shtetl, was not brought up in a Jewish town. I always lived in large cities. I was born in Berlin, lived in Odessa, in Kiev, in Moscow. Everywhere I spoke the language of the city.
- When I was reading 'Up The Down Staircase', I was keeping in mind that you were a teacher and the novel was based on the stories from your teacher life. The novel is all about problem children, which are extremely hard to teach and communicate with. Did you have such experience yourself?
- You raise an interesting point. Sholem Aleichem is considered a great humorist. What did he write about? The poverty, the need, the sickness of the Jewish people in the shtetl. But the stories were funny. He was able to see the tragedy with a humorous eye. I wrote 'Up The Down Staircase', my first book, and people think it's very funny. It is - they laugh. I described the terrible situation in public high schools, lack of communication, the ignorance of the directors, but I was making it funny. That what he did. I didn't realize until the book was published - that what he does! Interesting.
- I didn't think of that. That's actually the answer to my first question, about the inheritance. It's probably this humor, ability to view sad things from the humorous point of view.
- I don't know whether it's inherited or acquired. But the fact is that everybody in my family wrote. My father, although he was a doctor, was a poet, a translator, a writer, a painter, a sculptor. He made little sculptures out of Russian bread, and I had it for 90 years - I brought it from Russia. He turned it to the consistency of clay, he baked them, painted them - they are still here. His proud moment was when he needed to get a special permission from the Soviet government to export his 'works of art'.
- How do young American Jews perceive Shalom-Aleichem? Things and culture he wrote about are something they hardly know.
- We had an interesting weekend a few days ago in Washington D.C. I was invited to three days of the Sholem Aleichem festival. We talked about Sholem Aleichem and I gave a talk about my book. Young people loved him. Not the way I love Nabokov or Dostoevsky, but rather like a close member of a Jewish family. I once gave a talk about him in Montreal, Canada. At the end an old man was wheeled up to the stage by a nurse. He said: I live in an old people's home. I'm blind, I cannot see you. I'm deaf, I cannot hear you. But when I learned Sholem Aleichem's granddaughter was here, I insisted they bring me so that I could touch my hand. He touched my hand. I never forgot it. So you mention Sholem-Aleichem to a Jew and his face lights up. He was loved. He died young from tuberculosis, which was incurable in those days. Once in Baranovichi, a little town where he was giving a talk, he felt very sick. He was lying in a bed coughing with blood. A young man from that town spent hours covering a cobbled-stone street under his window so the passing horse carriage wouldn't disturb him. That's love.
- Can non-Jewish people perceive his books in the same way Jewish people do?
Not in the same way probably. But many people love his translations and certainly one of the most popular American musical, 'The Fiddler On The Roof' done by Sheldon Harnick. When we went to see the opening night, my mother was alive then, she kept saying to me: 'It's papa? It's not papa!' 'Mama, it's not papa, but it's a beautiful American musical show.'
But do you know there was a real Tevye? You see that painting? It's an interesting story. My husband and I were walking down the Madison Avenue, we saw this painting in the window. I said: 'You know, it smells like spring. Let's go and see what it is'. We walked in the gallery. The man said 'Oh, that's Tevye. Tevye The Milkman, by a Russian painter called Shenker'. So we bargained about the price and I bought it. He called the artist, and I've heard him talking on the phone to his mother in Brooklyn saying: 'Mama, guess who bought my Tevye!'
Tevye was a very short skinny man with a funny black beard, which he grew out of his neck, not his chin. He used to deliver milk, cheese and eggs to Sholem Aleichem's family in the countryside where they lived. Sholem Aleichem enjoyed talking with him, so he began writing in a local newspaper stories about Tevye The Milkman and his seven daughters. The 'Fiddler' had only five. Tevye The Milkman became a local celebrity. His customers used to say: 'Come in, Reb Tevye, have a glass of tea, Reb Tevye'. He had no daughters at all, but Sholem Aleichem invented them. I never met Tevye, but my family had. When 'Fiddler On The Roof' was played in Japan, a Japanese actor played Tevye. When he was interviewed, he said: 'Do you Americans actually understand this play? This is a Japanese play! It has all the things we value: tradition, family feeling…'
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Posted Linda Katz
The need for Jewish Literacy was discussed at a Plenary Session during AJC's ACCESS conference. Jewish literacy (likely) includes the need to understand Judaism and what it means to be Jewish. The speaker encouraged each of us to seek the path of self-education, implying the challenge as first learning enough to ask questions. And answers always raise more questions.
Different sessions at the conference all suggested the same thing:Jewish literacy is founded in knowledge, action, and willingness to dance to any and all music. It's a foundation that expands into world Jewry, something I discovered as I chatted with attendees from around the U.S. and Europe. Learning that Macedonia's Jewish population totals to 150, I revisited a personal and persistent question about Jewish identity—what does it mean to be Jewish?
World Jewry surely holds secrets about Jewish Literacy. I was lucky to attend the conference with the Jewrnalism delegation, a group of young Jews reporting on Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Discussing these issues with them uncovered thoughts – and – 'secrets'.
Some shared secrets:
Small and growing communities exist in Holocaust ravaged countries.
Eastern European Jewish history (and literacy) extends beyond the six years of the Holocaust;
Poland was the center of Jewish life for hundreds (?) of years, and, Polish Jews are NOT anti-Poland (unlike many Americans and Israeli's);
Jewish life extends beyond the shtetl, and, places like Vilna and Krakow are hip, modern cities;
Israeli's 'Birthright' experience of visiting concentration camps misses the mark on an important volume of Jewish Literacy by NOT visiting the living Jewish souls who live (here.)
Faced with assimilation and competition with time and energy in a secular world, defining and promoting Jewish Literacy seems increasingly important. Opportunities for self-education with AJC and groups like Jewrnalism can teach both where we have been as a people and where we are going.
May 14, 2012 | 1:21 pm
Posted Itamar Treves-Tchelet
The two brown horses gallop lightly on the famous Viennese Ringstrasse. They remain calm, even when cars drive by from left and right. "This part is called Karl-Lueger-Ring, after the former Mayor, who happened to be a big Anti-Semite. Last week I heard that the city is going to rename it – and justified", the carter explains, surprisingly in Hebrew! Well, not an academic Hebrew, "but good enough for the kitchen", he admits.
His name is Rupert Adensamer. He's 34, studied the history of the Middle East, originally Viennese. Most of his life, he has spent among his horses. For the last three years he was occupied with conveying the story of the Austrian Capital through the most authentic method: on the carriage. But one thing separates him from his other jealous comrades: Rupert has a connection to Israel; such as only the ones who rode across it on a horse's back could understand.
Love story:
Rupert Adensamer first came to Israel at the age of 22, for the purpose of a national service, instead of going to the Austrian military." I worked for the remedial community 'Kfar Rafael' in Beer Sheva. There I lived exactly like in a Kibbutz", he remembers, "as the time went by, I learned the language from the residents." The mission ended after 6 months, but Adensamer continued coming every few months during his vacation from the university. "It was the time of the second Intifada, and rockets started falling in southern Israel. Since there was a difficulty with recruiting more volunteers from Europe, they kept on calling me. I was always very happy to come."
Eventually, it was a relationship with an Israeli 'Kibbutz-Girl' that led to a new passion: Horse Breeding in Israel. "My girlfriend's dad sympathized Shagya Arabian horses, exactly the same type that my family has been breeding for the last 40 years. So I offered that we open up a stable in the Kibbutz. We started out with 3 horses that my family gave us. Today I have 11 horses together with other Israeli partners."
Sounds like a successful business.
"From the beginning I said that it won't turn into a business. It's about vision, family, about love to the horses that brings people together despite their differences. And in the middle-eastern reality – this is a very important asset. Although, we do specialize the horses to compete in 'Endurance' competitions for distances of 120km and more. These contests are very popular in the Arabian countries, like in Jordan where even Israeli groups take part in."
Is there a difference between owning horses in Israel and in Europe?
"The big difference is that in Europe, you could actually make a living out of it. In Israel there is a very young tradition in this field. Israelis tend to focus too much on the final goal, not on enjoying the road to it, and in the meanwhile they complain that the horses are not fast enough. Also historically, Jews had never the image of horsemen. Besides that, I'm always worried about thefts. Last week, somebody tried to steal my horses in Israel. You need to understand, that each time a horse gets stolen, there goes also his genetics. This genetics is crucial for the race's breeding. That is why I keep my horses in different stables. The positive side is that in the northern Israel you have the ideal conditions for the horses. I think that I would be happy to be a carter along the beach of Tel Aviv."
Urban Kibbutz
At a certain point, the carriage turns away from the Ringstrasse and enters the old city of Vienna. "This was the Emperor's residence during the winter", Adensamer says while maneuvering between hundreds of curious tourists, and then he asks: "do you see this balcony? It was installed by order of the Baron Wilsczeck so it will turn directly to Sissi's room window."
How do you adjust the content of your tours to the different tourists?
"Sometimes the people I take with me are not interested in history. In case they do, I try to put up a comedy show while adjusting the content to the nationality: the Argentineans are interested in Sigmond Freud's old house, the Japanese want to know everything about Mozart. The Arabs are more interested in Shopping. The Israelis are the noisiest, but they also have the best mood. They always think that I try to fool them, but once I start to talk in Hebrew, they already feel like at home and I become a part of the family."
So you're addicted to the Middle East.
"Look, everything that happened in my life regarding this region was a coincident. I wanted to study history, and if you keep your eyes open, there's no way that you miss this tensed topic. I think that Israel is, without its fault, too much in the focus of the international media. Like there aren't any other disasters in the world. I also noticed that we in Europe are much more stressed about the possible war with Iran than Israel. Because you have bunkers."
Do you see how the world politics also affect the world of horse breeding?
"Through horse breeding you can save entire races that almost disappeared due to the world wars. The Lipizzaner, which are so beloved by the Austrians, were almost extinct after WW1. The devotion of one man saved them. Or for instance: in the 18th century, the horses back then were considered to be too heavy for their role in the postal service and in the military. So Arabian horses were brought from the Middle East to Europe. The horses became then lighter and more human friendly. A real "Arabization". It came to the situation in which the Bedouins have sold their entire species. Only in 1994 they managed to save their horses from extinction. Thanks to the water distribution agreement during the peace treaty with Israel."
And there is probably a lot of politics in the world of carters.
"Everybody here are equal. If there is someone who has a wrong attitude, the things will be addressed directly. Women have it much easier in this job. Carters have also a bad image in the Austrian society: either we are gamblers and alcoholic, or we are technology deniers. Which is sometimes true. Each and any one of us has also a nickname. Mine is 'Herr Magister', after my academic degree. When they want to hurt me, they call me 'Judenschwein' (Pig-Jew). It started when I tried to help an Israeli lady during an argument she had with one of my colleagues. After I spoke to her in Hebrew, the other carter became angry since he thought that I tried to arrange something behind his back. Some of the carters here do not understand that the fact that I speak Hebrew and lived in Israel, does not make me Jewish. But they don't care. It made me understand how deep the Anti-Semitism is rooted in some Viennese. And they never even met a Jew in their live. Even as my friends in Israel told me how common the Anti-Semitism in Austria is, I couldn't believe it. Until I experienced it by myself. For this kind of people I'll be a Jew on purpose."
Why did you choose this job, even though you're academic?
"First, I earn here much more than in the academy. Second, after many years of travelling, I had to stabilize my life. I reached the conclusion that I prefer to be with my family and my horses, especially when they eat and I can relax with them. And indeed, I managed to build my own urban Kibbutz in the middle of Vienna: I don't need my phone because everybody know where I am, I don't have traffic problems, I don't need a parking lot. I have the perfect balance between city and nature. But still, this job takes over your life. When everybody are on vacation, I need to work. When they are at work, I need to take care of the horses. Either you are a carter for life, or none."
May 14, 2012 | 1:18 pm
Posted Ewa Popowska
When on July 24th,1944 the movie crew entered the area of the concentration camp in Majdanek, the blood was still running down the stairs, discarded by the Nazis, who in the last few hours of being stationed there before the escape, did everything within their means to destroy as much as they could. At that time, the camp at Auschwitz still had not been liberated. The material recorded by cameraman, Stanisław Wohl, used in the first documentary film about the Nazi camp, Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy (1944), is an authentic witness of history.
It was literally a matter of hours before the prisoners of this death camp were to be set free by the Polish and Russian Army, approaching from the East. Few survived those last moments of the camp activity. A large part of the camp was blown up by the escaping soldiers and hundreds of victims were shot in the very last minutes before the liberation.
Simple narration, emphatically commentated with voice over, shows the interiors of the camp, still in a state of ruin, with fresh signs of Nazis' crimes, when the information about German death camps was being spread around the world but still not in a concrete form. Bodies laying around the place in chaos are cruelly real. So are the tears of the people coming there to find their friends and relatives, just realizing what had been happening behind the wall. Those prisoners, from different parts of Europe, who survived the horror of Majdanek, are saying to the camera what they went through during the war. Their words answer the camp descriptions made by captured German soldiers. The documentary includes authentic statements from both sides. Of those beaten, and those who did the beating.
This is what one of the pioneers' of cinema theory, Bolesław Matuszewski, defined as a purpose of the cinema itself - to be a source of history. First of all, Majdanek… is a priceless testimony to the past. Nevertheless, it is necessary to know the context of its production, namely that the movie is not independent from the Soviet propaganda. Majdanek is being called 'a new Hitlerite Katyń', since it was made and censored by a group of filmmakers strongly connected with the Red Army. It was not enough to just expose the enemy's fault, but to manipulate the movie viewers into having a positive image of Soviet politics.
Although Majdanek… is signed by Aleksander Ford, a highly controversial character in the history of Polish cinema, he is said to not have even appeared on the movie set, which was the territory of the camp. Although he never admitted that in public, Ford was from Jewish descent, which was not a secret. As a Jew, he probably did not want to see something which so easily, could have happened to him, if at a certain point in his life he had found himself in different circumstances. In the end, his main input into the final effect was during the montage of the material.
Watching the documentary now, almost seventy years after it was made, is still thrilling and appalling. Footage which ruthlessly shows corpses, the blood and bones of victims, which were so close to being freed, stays in the mind forever. Drastically authentic material was being used so often in non-fiction about the Holocaust and World War II. Nevertheless, let's not forget the fact that using those recordings not only as evidence, but also as a subjective propaganda, is hard to forgive considering such a difficult and delicate case.
May 14, 2012 | 1:14 pm
Posted Linda Katz
Innovation is often born from necessity. Israel's environmental partnership began long before climate change became an 'issue', allowing the country to grow and thrive. Israel learned to produce food (in the desert) and conserve water, two resources needed for life, yet overshadowed in perceived value by oil and gemstones. Promoting Israel as a leader and teacher is vital as discussed in the Science and Environment session during AJC's Access conference.
The facts: Kibbutzniks, as early as 1910, turned arid (then) Palestine into a land of milk and honey to feed a growing populous. The irony being many of these early farmers coming from Eastern Europe were prohibited from owning land, prohibited from farming. Drip irrigation, 'Israeli-style', may feed expanding world populations on an increasingly dry planet. Israel is number one in water reclamation, recycling 75% of its sewage and wastewater. For perspective, Spain is second, reclaiming 25%. Draught is igniting wars in Africa.
It's not much of a stretch to say (most) wars and genocides are waged over resources such as oil, water, land, diamonds, and, of course power. Countries such as Cypress, Brazil, Argentina and Uganda are already learning about water management from Israel. A lesson most nations will need to master for survival, and, peace. Our AJC session declared the need to spread the word on campuses and beyond about Israel's ability to lead in water management. Two Canadian women created the brilliant slogan: Water ISaRAEL Issue. Our group, led by Ruth Renert of MEKOROT, Israel's National Water Company called for a day of action on March 22nd, International Water Day.
We can spread the word by taking actions large and small. Necessity: Building relationships, nations must work together to save life through water. Innovation: These same nations putting aside hate and anti-Israel/Semitism to survive. The need is real. We must help share Israel's strengths.
May 14, 2012 | 1:06 pm
Posted Mendelssohn X
Article taken from: http://www.jewdyssee.com
Yesterday I posted the Ynet-article about the extremist group "Lehava" who currently runs "Jewish Girls – Don´t date Non-Jews"-campaigns in Israel.
Interestingly, many decent people told me in private that those issues should be silenced because they could cause bad PR for Israel in these harsh times. The thing is just that as most Jews in the post-holocaust era, I have a good nose for Antisemitism, but additionally, as a German Jew I smell Nazism like a police dog smells drug particles.
And Nazism doesn´t start at the entrance door of Auschwitz, Nazism starts when someone like Hitler writes in 1923 about his anger of seeing blond German girls date Jewish men. It may be news to some people, but yes, "getting drunk" and "being drunk" are interrelated.
In the comments below the article some readers defended it by saying: Yes, this is important, because intermarriage is a silent holocaust.
I am serious, that is what they said.
I once wrote a text about this, which I didn't publish because of bad timing, but I think right here, right now, is the right place to publish it. But before I do, I want to make it clear that I am not like those people who made the "ad":
Everyone is free to choose his/her partner according to their own rules, and if observant religion is your top priority, you might wanna look for a similar partner, that´s fine. As we say: Find out what interests you and be as good as you can. But this is a highly confidential and personal decision. And if people make anti-Arab campaigns comparable to "Kauft nicht bei Juden", it is a declaration of war against everything which is good about the Judaism I grew up with.
The creation of Israel, the Jewish State is a true miracle. So many utopias of the 19th and 20th centuries have failed, even the Soviet Union ceased to exist – only Israel, only Zionism managed to maintain this tiny state based on an idea. And world Jewry needed it. We, who were born after all the big wars, what do we know about being Jewish after the holocaust but before the Six-Day-War? After all, the viciousness of the Nazis was so beyond anything imaginable, so it is understandable that people have fears when being in countries with non-Jewish majorities. To me it is obvious that the lesson from history is that we need both a strong Jewish state and strong cosmopolitan Judaism worldwide. Ministers from Netanyahu´s coalition have described intermarriage in the diaspora as a "silent holocaust". This is a very vicious way of holocaust denial. As if there is no difference between non-Jews trying to kill Jews, and non-Jews who are marrying Jews. So in official ads you hear slogans like "Intermarriage is Hitler´s victory". Anyone who didn´t learn history from Groupthink motivations, but is willing to understand what actually happened between 1933 and 1945, knows that it is exactly the other way around. If Jews had remained in the Shtetl, orthodox and only among themselves, Hitler would have probably given them minor importance. He didn't hate the Jew for keeping Jewish traditions. Don´t mix him up with the Greeks you know from Hanukkah. He hated them for entering and destroying his illusion of a racially pure Germanic tradition. He didn´t hate the Rebbe, he hated the cosmopolitan Jewish artists and activists, who gave young readers dreams about a better world, an international world, against the narrow-mindedness which Hitler thought to be the ideal. Hitler didn´t hate Jewish prayers as much as he hated articles like the one you are reading right now. And some Jewish leaders like Jabotinsky would have supported him in this, as also revisionist Zionism thought that the biggest problem of the Jewish nation is their prophetic dream of having the lamb sleep next to the wolf. Moral restraints were viewed as a sickness of the diaspora that rooted from political weakness. Hitler said the same thing with different words: The Jews have invented the conscience and moral guilt. Having the Likud Party, that comes from this revisionist Zionism, ruling in Israel, and me existing in Berlin, I guess you can tell what my answer would be to the question of who defeats Hitler more and who keeps his spirit alive not knowing the facts on the ground.
We need to free ourselves from the burden of defining our identity in a negative way. It cannot be that the only thing that keeps us together is that we were persecuted together. This seems like a strong answer, but it is a weakness as it is a self-impression based on the reactions of other people. Freedom, Jewish freedom, is what we gain when we make our agenda, because it comes from the innermost part of our hearts. And this needs to be defended against all threats from the outside as well as the inside. A people of 13 million with such a history and an amount of attention as if it were 500 million can only sustain if it has a special mission. If Hitler thinks that we invented morality we shouldn´t act like Jabotinsky who responds "Yes, you are right, sorry about that." Rather, we should be proud that we know what the next steps of humankind ought to be, even if this is too much for some Austrian idiot to understand. For this mission, we need our supreme ability to remember. Therefore we have to remember much darkness, such as the Holocaust. But the question remains, what do we do with the memories? Do we instrumentalize them or do we truly mourn? Every culture has something to offer to the world. The Hebrew prophets with their holy sermons against the oppressor but also for the widow and the orphan, is a gift to the world of such beauty—a world that should be a source of a self-conscious and humble pride. After seeing pogroms and mass murder it is understandable that some of us thought the solution is doing whatever it takes in order to become a normal nation just like other people. As Ben Gurion said: There should also be Jewish prostitutes.
But the only problem in this equation is that people don´t want to be LIKE other people. They simply are other people. So let our lesson from the Holocaust not be that we have to construct ourselves as separate from the world as Hitler and the Halachah want us to be. Let´s defeat Hitler by being proud of the fact that we stand for everything that he hated, and that we are still around, flourishing, with so many good people from NY to Berlin and Haifa to Eilat.
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RAHN: Immaturity in power
A sign of immaturity - most often found in children and certain politicians - is being in denial or even unaware of the consequences of one's actions. The global political class has always suffered from an excess of immaturity, but every generation or so, political immaturity explodes like a star in its death throes and vaporizes everything in its vicinity.
Current examples are all too numerous. Much of the present global financial crisis was caused by the issuance of too much debt by both governments and by private players. A mature thinker would understand that part of the solution must be a reduction in debt, and only an immature mind would advocate the creation of mountains of new and almost never-ending debt - yet this is precisely what the majority of the political class in the United States and many other countries is doing in issuing many trillions of dollars of new government debt.
Stanford University economics professor and former Treasury Undersecretary John B. Taylor has shown how the proposed additional U.S. government debt could cause 100 percent inflation over the next few years, which means most people will see their real standard of living fall as prices double. Long-term interest rates on U.S. government debt have jumped a colossal 81 percent (annualized) in just the last five months and seem slated to go higher as markets see the increased risk of future inflation.
To ameliorate some of the inflation, immature political minds (and even a few immature economists) argue for a massive tax increase to pay for all of the new debt. Mr. Taylor estimates the tax increase would have to be about 60 percent, which, of course, would kill incentives to work, save and invest and would result in a stagnant economy, or worse, massive unemployment.
For centuries in the United States, and even before under English common law, bond holders were secure in the knowledge that in a business failure they would be first in line to collect from the sale of the assets. Suddenly, the immature actors in the Obama administration have overturned well-established bankruptcy law and put a politically favored union ahead of the bond holders in the case of Chrysler and General Motors Corp.
The predictable result is that firms with strong unions already find they have to pay higher interest rates because lenders demand a substantial political risk premium. As a result, unionized firms will be even less competitive and, thus, there will be even fewer union jobs (unless the taxpayers are forced to subsidize the higher union costs).
Another sign of political immaturity in Washington, Paris and London is the attack on low-tax jurisdictions with the demand that they enforce the tax laws of high-tax countries. Just this past week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris - an organization originally founded to promote economic growth - said it would help coordinate the attack of the high taxers on the low taxers.
One result of this attack is that suddenly fewer and fewer banks will open accounts for Americans living or working in other countries. The banks find the new rules too costly to administer, and thus the safer and less costly course of action for them is to refuse to provide accounts for Americans. The reason given for the attack is to collect the purported $100 billion that Americans are evading in taxes.
The Internal Revenue Service commissioner was recently forced to admit that the $100 billion number was totally fabricated without any evidence. More mature minds (than those now found in much of the Congress, the Treasury and the IRS) would understand that trying to go after a fictitious $100 billion, while putting several trillion of needed foreign investment into the United States at risk, is a fool's game.
Without bank accounts, overseas Americans will not be able to write a check on a U.S. bank to pay U.S. bills or taxes, or to get a U.S.-issued credit card, or to transfer funds to American bank accounts, or to establish a credit rating in the United States, etc. To date, the IRS has refused to do a cost-benefit test on its proposed regulations, despite requests - probably because a legitimate cost-benefit analysis would show that millions of Americans would be harmed - and potentially hundreds of billions of dollars lost - in a futile attempt to catch a few tax evaders.
The good news is that there is still time to reverse the worst aspects of the destructive policies described above - to avoid ever-increasing inflation and interest rates. The bad news is those politicians responsible both for the current mess and these proposed harmful "cures" will probably continue to act like immature teenagers with too much access to money and power.
Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth.
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FOXBORO – Go ahead. Admit it. You're a Patriots fan and you're scared to death of the Giants defensive line.
Fully healthy, they appeared ready and primed to repeat their devastation of four years ago.
And every Patriots fan is wondering: Is there any hope at all of keeping one of the greatest defensive fronts of all time from wreaking havoc with Tom Brady's passing game and wrecking another Super Bowl dream?
In the last two games that mattered, Brady has been sacked seven times - five in Super Bowl XLII and twice on Nov. 4 in a 24-20 Giants win.
The Giants have an all-world front of Justin Tuck, Chris Canty, Osi Umenyiora and Jason Pierre-Paul.
Those four names are among the most feared in the eyes of any NFL quarterback.
"They can rush the passer," Brady said Thursday. "There's no doubt about that. In playing them before, you understand that they can – they stripped sacked us on our own 10-yard line or something like that when we played them last. They get a lot of turnovers. They put a lot of pressure on you with their front four. They have a big, physical group that plays really well together."
One way to beat any pass-rushing scheme is on the ground. And the Giants front four gave up 121 yards per game in the regular season, and have given up five yards a carry in three playoff games and an average of 120 yards a contest in wins over the Falcons, Packers and 49ers.
The question is: Will the Patriots be dedicated enough to run it down their throat with BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Danny Woodhead and Stevan Ridley?
The Giants came into Foxboro on Nov. 4 and the Patriots ran the ball just 24 times for 106 yards while passing 49 times. And it's not like the Patriots were desperately trying to catch up as Manning led his team down the field in the final minute.
Brady was sacked twice that day and intercepted twice while throwing a pair of touchdowns, one to Rob Gronkowski and the other to AaronHernandez.
Wonder if Bill Belichick will give old friend Mike Shanahan a call this week? He should.
It was Shanahan's Redskins who had the best and most-recent success against the vaunted Giants defensive line – the most feared weapon in Super Bowl XLVI.
Though truth be told, Belichick should be really asking Shanahan how he forced Eli Manning into three interceptions while holding him to a season-low 45.5 passer rating and keeping him out of the end zone in a 23-10 shocker at MetLife Stadium on Dec. 18, a week after the Patriots beat the Redskins in Washington in a shootout.
History reveals getting to Manning is probably the only shot the Patriots have a chance against one of the most fearsome defensive fronts in NFL history.
"You watch them play against the 49ers," Brady continued, "they played a great game defensively. They gave up two points against Atlanta, which was on a defensive score. They're a great football team and they have a great defense. Every time we play them, it's, you talk about their defense, their pass rush. It's going to be a good game –we have our work cut out for us."
Since the shocking loss to the Redskins – a loss that nearly kept them out of the playoffs - the Giants responded with a must-win over their rival Jets, 29-14, before dispatching of the Cowboys in a "win-and-in" game on Jan. 1.
It's a defensive line that rivals the Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" led by Deacon Jones, the Vikings' "Purple People-Eaters" led by Jim Marshall, Gary Larsen, Carl Eller and Alan Page in the 60s and 70s, and of course, Pittsburgh's "Steel Curtain" of the 70, led by "Mean" Joe Greene, Ernie Holmes, Dwight White and L.C. Greenwood.
Substitute Pierre-Paul for Michael Strahan and add Chris Canty and you have the same basic weapon the Giants used to beat up Brady in Super Bowl XLII.
Now, all that stands between the Patriots and a fourth Super Bowl title is one of the best defensive lines of all time.
The Patriots were sharply criticized for that lack of adjustments in Glendale in Feb. 2008. No draws, no quick screens and not enough quick slants and timing patterns to catch the Giants up field in their pursuit of No. 12.
The Patriots rushed for just 45 yards and didn't have a run for longer than nine yards that day. Brady was sacked five times. The Patriots offense - which averaged 411 yards per game in going 18-0 - gained just 274that day.
"We felt like we could [dominate them]," Strahan said after the game. "We've [did] that all year. I guess everyone thought that we'd done it all year. We led the league in sacks, we do it in the playoffs and supposedly, when we get against the Patriots, we're supposed to not be able to pass rush. That's what we do. We stopped the run, as well. There was nothing special. We felt like we could do it from the beginning and did not listen to anyone who said we couldn't."
Funny thing is, now four years later, everyone IS expecting them to do it.
And the Patriots will be more than ready for the onslaught.
And maybe that's the biggest reason to think the outcome will be different this time around.
The Patriots know that if they don't handle the front four, they're dead.
Now we introduce something that's been 20 weeks of regular season and postseason games in the making:
The first annual 'Traggies': Recognizing the truly great and memorable moments of the 2011 Patriots.
Most Valuable Patriot: Tom Brady
Really, is there any question about this? He had another epic regular season, setting a new high for single-season passing yardage with 5,235 yards, 39 touchdowns, just 12 interceptions and a season passer rating of 105.6. He set a new NFL playoff record with five first-half touchdown passes against the Broncos in the Divisional playoff, and tied an NFL record with six for the game. He is the unquestioned leader on and off the field of this team.
Runners-up: Vince Wilfork, Rob Gronkowski
Most Improved Patriot: Rob Ninkovich
Since we didn't want to just single out rookies who improved over their first year, this is a catch-all category. The Patriots defense was torched early on this season and looking for an identity. There were players that needed to step up their level of play to help Vince Wilfork on the defensive line and Jerod Mayo in the linebackers group. Ninkovich was a force late in the season, helping set an edge on the run game that wasn't there early in the season. Aside from a blip in the first quarter against the Broncos in Denver, the Patriots managed to handle the run game, allowing Belichick to go more with nickel and dime coverages to help his secondary in coverage. Ninkovich's play setting the edge was key to this.
Runners-up: Brandon Spikes, Kyle Arrington and Nate Solder.
Best offensive player: Rob Gronkowski
Again, this is a fairly obvious choice. The Gronk destroyed opposing linebackers who tried covering him in space and safeties who triedtackling him downfield. He set two NFL records for tight ends with 17 receiving touchdowns and 1,327 receiving yards.
Runners-up: Brady, Wes Welker, Aaron Hernandez
Best defensive player: Vince Wilfork
The heart and soul of the defense, Wilfork earned this honor on his play in the AFC championship win over the Ravens alone. Six tackles, one sack, three tackles for a loss and a quarterback hit. He played more snaps this season than at anytime in his previous seven seasons.
Runners-up: Jerod Mayo, Andre Carter, Mark Anderson
Best play: Gronk's catch-and-destroy against the Redskins
It was a catch that defined the Patriots season. Brady found Gronkowski in the right flat as a release as the Redskins were rushing. Gronkowski caught the ball and broke five tackles, tip-toeing 49 yards down the right sideline to the Redskins 11-yard line. Brady hit Gronkowski in the end zone on the next play. The Patriots won, 34-27.
Runners-up: Welker's 99-yard TD vs. Dolphins, Gronk's juggling TD vs. Broncos in playoffs.
Best game: AFC Championship
It had everything, including a miraculous ending that had owner Robert Kraft giving thanks to his late wife Myra, his "angel above," as the Patriots watched as Sterling Moore knocked the potential game-winning TD from Lee Evans' hands with 20 seconds remaining and Billy Cundiff hooked a 32-yard field goal with 11 seconds remaining to seal New England's seventh AFC championship.
Runner-up: Broncos playoff game, win over the Cowboys at Gillette, loss to Bills
Let's go to the Trags Bag where followers certainly didn't disappoint in offering up their opinions:
@0_LayDX: @Trags #TragsBag Best highlight has to be the game winning TD against the Cowboys.That drive was ice cold and machine like.
@HuskiesPats22: MVP=TB12, Improved=Solder, Off=Gronk, Def=Big 75, Game=Week 10 Jets, Highlight=Gronk flip Chiefs @Trags #TragsBag #Patriots
@amcda004 @Trags MVP Wilfork, improved Arrington, Offensive Gronk, Defense Wilfork, Best game @Redskins, best highlight: Gronk's diving catch vs skins
@aliweitz @Trags MVP=brady, improved=hernandez, offensive=gronk, def=wilfork, game=denver postseason, highlight=gronk TD in denver game #tragsbag
@Rich__Hill @Trags MVP: Brady, MIP: Nate Solder, BOP: Rob Gronkowski, BDP: Vince Wilfork, BG: WC Pats - Broncos, BP: Gronk's catch vs WAS (Hall watches)
@stacky88 @Trags #TragsBag mvp-Gronk,mip Arrington,off-Gronk,def-Wilfork, game playoff win against Den, highlight Gronks catch against Den in playoffs
From Jeff Leger on Google+:
MVP: Brady
Most Improved: Gronkowski
Best Offensive Player: Brady
Best Defensive Player: Wilfork
Best Game: Week 10, crushing the Jets on the road
Best Highlight: Welker's 99 yard touchdown
Super Bowl predictions next week in the Trags Bag. What's yours for Super Bowl XLVI?
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