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I just got this and have to agree. This is a winner.

This is the OneJerusalem.com Year in Review - just a partial list, things that caught the eye..
Some Pics from the year and our associated posts. Happy New Year everyone!
To the families of the missing soldiers we hope to see them all back home soon.

January:
Hamas Wins ElectionsMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Amir PeretzArik Sharon in Hospital
Arkady Gaidamak
Feburary:
Muslim Cartoon FiascoBibi’s Election Hype
Kadima Wins Elections

March:
Miss IsraelShelly & Amir
Google Israel

April:
Prime Minister Ismail HaniyehIsrael Top Model Niral Karantinji
Paradise Now Wins

May:
Farewell To Yossi BanaiMeir Ariel Passes Away
Qassams Rain on Sderot

June:
Al Zarqawi is ToastMichael Moves to Dubai

July:
NasrallahPresident Katzav Boinking Everybody
War

August:
Bye Bye KofiLynching Dan Halutz
Mel Shits Where He Eats

September:
Pope Pisses Off MuslimsIran Chasing the Bomb
Our Missing Soldiers

October:
Idiots on the Streets Hit New LowIsrael Trains Still A Disaster
Spawn of the Devil is in the MakingAvigdor Joins the Government
Kim Has the Bomb!

November:
Benny Gives Police An EnemaGemayel Killed by Syria
Putin The DictatorBorat

December:
Saddam SwingsJames Brown Passes
Tnuva Sold

This is going out to the people stuck in the snow in Colorado, have a Happy New Year

I found this version of the old Hangman game with a new twist. While you guess the letters Saddam will taunt you. I guess in light of the recent letter and the looming execution this is just a first in a line of “new ideas”..

This is great video by Lesse, a 22 year old animation student. He can’t play any instruments but that’s not stopping him from making some really cool music. (Hat tip: Ozrox)

This is a nice edition to the blog world. The Israeli consulate in New York has a blog called Isrealli. They are already asking for help from writers but seem to have a fresh approach and not the typical government feel. Hope they keep it going…Welcome Guys!

Brother James Joseph Brown, the self-proclaimed “God Father of Soul” left this world on Christmas Day, 2006, age 73. Brown expired from a complication of pneumonia in Emory Hospital Atlanta, long considered his ‘home town’. Considered an Icon in the realm of soul and rhythm & blue music, Brown’s career spanned more than 50 years, in which he won several Grammy awards for hit recordings such as Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Out of Sight, and Black and Proud. Brown often billed himself as “the hardest working man in show business”, and anyone who had the opportunity to see in a live performance, will most likely agree to this.

I had the pleasure to see “Brother James” in at least 6 performances during a 25 year period, beginning in 1964. He never failed to both entertain and amaze me in his dancing, and other antics on the stage. James got his big boost when he performed several gigs in the Apollo Theater in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. After that, there was no looking back, and he afterwards deserved the acclaim of being the star of stage, screen and television.

James Brown literally put Soul Music on the map, making this combination of gospel and rhythm & blue music immensely popular with all ages and ethnic backgrounds. His show antics, included wearing a collection of capes and other items, which he often threw into his delighted audience, as well as collapsing onto the floor; only to be helped up and ‘revived’ by his show staff, and throwing even more items to his fans.

Though his personal life was a bit ‘problematic’, including serving a two and a half year prison sentence for assault, he bounced back and received a special Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards in 1992. Brown’s concert appearances took him all over the world, including Israel. He had bit parts in numerous movies and even starred in some dealing with his career.

James’s musical achievements inspired many performers who imitated either his music or dancing style. Some of these included Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. One performer, the late Otis Redding, once said that “if I was a dance floor, I would like to have James Brown ‘mash potato’ all over me”. And ‘mash potato’ he did, as well as the ‘funky boogaloo’ and a number of other dance numbers, many of them not only nameless but impossible to duplicate as well.

James Brown had the wonderful ability to adapt and diversify his music to fit the times, which made him perennially popular to generations of audiences, from R & B to Hip-Hop. He frequently made appearances on T.V. talk and variety shows, including Oprah Winfrey, and Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. At nearly every live performance, James included an old R & B song “Night Train”, in which he ‘traveled’ the country with his music. He has now taken that final Night Train, and though gone, will never be forgotten.

Olmert and Peretz are not very good friends lately. A while ago when Peretz was talking directly to some PA leaders on his cell, Olmert was pissed and basically forbid any such initiatives without his permission and approval. Now with the recent Abu Mazen visit and the concessions Olmert is promoting it all makes sense.

This Moshik! caricature makes more sense then ever….

Translation of the text: “We will stop the attacks, we will dismantle the settlements, we will retreat from the territories, we will give you a country….Just don’t speak to Peretz”

The end of year Google Zeitgeist is out and the results are very telling I think.
The top searches in 2006 were:

1. bebo ( a new social network)
2. myspace (an old social network)
3. world cup (sports)
4. metacafe (video sharing/social network)
5. radioblog (user generate content search)
6. Wikipedia (community managed encyclopedia)
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki (user based content platfrom)

So you get the idea that we are very much into ourselves. I guess the TIME magazine cover was right then - You (me) are it!

Now, in terms of News searchs for 2006;

1. paris hilton
2. orlando bloom
3. cancer
4. podcasting
5. hurricane katrina
6. bankruptcy
7. martina hingis
8. autism
9. 2006 nfl draft
10. celebrity big brother 2006

Paris Hilton !!!
Come on shit!
NEWS PEOPLE !!!!
that is just so sad…

Just heard about this. During the Hezbollah war many dogs up North were left behind and picked up by the shelters in Israel. With some of the pets getting reunited with their human families there were quite a few that were left homeless. During November 40 of the puppies rescued arrived in Washington, D.C. for a chance at a new home in the US. The puppies made appearances at adoption days in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. The good news is that they were ALL adopted.

“We reunited many puppies with their original families, and we placed more with new families in Israel as a result of numerous, well-publicized adoption days. But adoptions go slowly in Israel, and we are concerned that they will be adults, and therefore more difficult to place, before they are all adopted,” says Nina Natelson, CHAI’s Director. “We want to give them the best opportunity we can to find homes, and so we are bringing them here.”