December 2004 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Thanks and Compiled Responses to Political blogging
by Sarah Stein 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

Thanks to all who responded to my request for student help with political blogging sources. I know everyone posted to the AIR listserv but have gathered the responses here in one email in the hopes it will help everyone interested. Sarah >From: "Wainer Lusoli" <w.lusoli(a)lse.ac.uk> >To: <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:40:19 -0000 > >Hi Sarah - > >I've seen a few papers presented at APSA Conference 2004, try searching >for 'blog' at > >http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/apsa_index.php > >At least three-four papers should will come up (in case they don't I >have hard copies). > >There was a very, very thought provoking round-table as well, with >academics and bloggers, though I doubt it can be found online now. A >summary is found at http://136.142.121.233/doc/ITP-News-Vol-1-No-1.pdf. > >Finally, there is a report by the UK Hansard Society, concise but >useful. >http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/assets/Final_Blog_Report_.pdf > >I am drafting a short piece about pol blogs in the UK, I'd be interested >to see what else you come up with in the end. Can you please post back >to the list? > >Wainer Lusoli >Research Fellow @ ESRI > >http://www.lusoli.info >w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk ***************************************************** >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:10:45 -0500 >From: Rebecca Reynolds <rbreynol(a)mailbox.syr.edu> > >Sarah, >I recently completed a master's thesis in this area: a content analysis of the >top 11 political news blogs vs. newspaper coverage of nine Democratic >candidates in the 11 days leading up to the 2004 Iowa caucus. I pulled in some >candidate popularity data and considered the mass comm theory of >agenda-setting. A highlight: the amount of coverage candidates received in >both the top blogs and in newspapers was highly positively correlated to each >other, and to candidate popularity with the public. > >Here are some references, maybe these will be useful (to authors below who are >on the list, I hope you won't mind me mentioning your work!). > >McCombs, M., Llamas, J.P., Lopez-Escober, J., & Rey, F. (1998). Candidate >images in Spanish elections: Second-level agenda-setting effects. Journalism >and Mass Communication Quarterly, 74(4), 703-717. > >Herring, S., Scheidt, L., Bonus, S. Wright, E. (2004, Jan). Bridging the gap: >A genre analysis of weblogs. Proceedings of HICSS' 04, Big Island, Hawaii. > >Herring, S., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L., Wright, E. (2004). Women and children >last: The discursive construction of weblogs. Into the blogosphere. >http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ . > >Gallo, J. (2004). Weblog journalism: Between infiltration and integration. >Into the blogosphere. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/. > >Delwiche, A. (2004). Agenda-setting, opinion leadership, and the world of web >logs. Presented at ICA 2004, New Orleans, May 2004. > >Park, D. (2004). From many, a few: Intellectual authority and strategic >positioning in the coverage of, and self-descriptions of, the 'big four' >weblogs. Presented at ICA 2004, New Orleans, May 2004. > >Rebecca Reynolds >Ph.D. Candidate >Syracuse University rbreynol(a)syr.edu ************************************************ >Subject: Blog Research from AoIR List Serv >To: sstein(a)unity.ncsu.edu, bueffel(a)uni-trier.de >From: Kaye Trammell <trammell(a)lsu.edu> >Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:41:15 -0600 > >Dear Sarah & Steffen, > >I keep a list of blog research (scholarly) at >http://www.blogresearch.com/ref.htm . If you see something missing please >do drop me a note. My main area of interest is in political use of blogs, >so you may see a few articles on the list that peak your interest. > >Enjoy. >Kaye > >____________________________________ > Kaye Trammell, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Manship School of Mass Communication > 212 Hodges Hall > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803-7202 > trammell(a)lsu.edu > Office 225/578-7380 Fax 225/578-2125 ************************************************* >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:57:33 -0600 (CST) >From: "Eszter Hargittai" <lists04(a)eblogle.com> > >Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell (the co-author of that piece in Foreign >Policy) also have the draft of a related paper available online with a >summary and link here: >http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002223.html > >Also, with Jason Gallo and Sean Zehnder, I am working on a political >blogging paper from which we'll be presenting material at the Eastern >Sociological Society meetings in DC in March and at the Midwest Political >Science Assn meetings in Chicago in April. We are using social network >analysis to map the political blogosphere and look at the extent of >cross-ideological discussions. It's not quite ready for circulation, but >feel free to send me a note if you'd like us to keep you posted. > >Eszter > >--- http://www.eszter.northwestern.edu -- Sarah Stein, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Asst Head of IT, Dept of Communication Chair, Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable (TLTR) Box 8104, N.C. State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8104 Ph: 919-515-9740; Fax 919-515-9456

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Hyperlink analysis tools
by LEE JENG HOON 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

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Re poor spam scam targetting
by Derek McMillan 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Re poor spam scam targetting. If I had received an email which appeared to be from my bank and for security reasons asked me to reregister my password or have my account (reluctantly) frozen, I might have responded. As it was I received such an email from four banks, none of which I bank with. I became just a tad suspicious :) ----- Original Message ----- From: <air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> To: <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:10 PM Subject: Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2 > Send Air-l-aoir.org mailing list submissions to > air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-aoir.org-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-l-aoir.org digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: political blogging (Eszter Hargittai) > 2. Call for papers: Special issue on "Patriotic Information > Systems" (fwd) (Barry Wellman) > 3. fixed term teaching fellow in sociology at Lancaster UK > (Kathleen O'Riordan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:57:33 -0600 (CST) > From: "Eszter Hargittai" <lists04(a)eblogle.com> > Subject: [Air-l] Re: political blogging > To: air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <3555.129.105.33.156.1101934653.spork(a)webmail.eblogle.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell (the co-author of that piece in Foreign > Policy) also have the draft of a related paper available online with a > summary and link here: > http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002223.html > > Also, with Jason Gallo and Sean Zehnder, I am working on a political > blogging paper from which we'll be presenting material at the Eastern > Sociological Society meetings in DC in March and at the Midwest Political > Science Assn meetings in Chicago in April. We are using social network > analysis to map the political blogosphere and look at the extent of > cross-ideological discussions. It's not quite ready for circulation, but > feel free to send me a note if you'd like us to keep you posted. > > Eszter > > --- > http://www.eszter.northwestern.edu > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:40:32 +0800 > > From: "Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)" <TRKluver(a)ntu.edu.sg> > > Subject: [Air-l] political blogging > > To: <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > > Message-ID: > > > > Sarah, Daniel Drezner, a political scientist/blogger at the University of > > Chicago, has recently been doing a lot on blogging, and just published a > > piece in Foreign Policy, I think. > > http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/blogpaperfinal.pdf > > http://danieldrezner.com/policy/webofinfluence.htm > > > > Randolph Kluver > > Executive Director > > Singapore Internet Research Centre > > Nanyang Technological University > > Singapore 637718 > > phone (65) 6790-5770 > > URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ > > > > mapping from an online identity to a legal identity--these seem like Bad > > Ideas. But is there a strong case for protecting an open system from > > passive surveillance? > > > > A colleague is advising a senior capstone thesis in political > > blogging and its impact, and had the following questions after > > finding few academic publications. I'd appreciate any suggestions for > > her, off-list or on. > > > >>Are there major academic articles about political blogs? In what > >> journals? > >>Are there major theories that we should consider? > >>What criteria do you apply to blogs when analyzing them? > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:22:19 -0500 > From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > Subject: [Air-l] Call for papers: Special issue on "Patriotic > Information Systems" (fwd) > To: communication and information technology section asa > <citasa(a)mit.edu>, aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org>, David Lyon > <lyond(a)post.queensu.ca>, karl van meter <vanmeter(a)iresco.fr>, Steve > Mann <mann(a)eecg.toronto.edu> > Message-ID: > <Pine.SGI.4.40.0412011721420.57368141-100000(a)origin.chass.utoronto.ca> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > fyi > > Barry > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director > wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman > > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 > To network is to live; to live is to network > _____________________________________________________________________ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:50:06 -0500 > From: G. David Garson <Garson(a)social.chass.ncsu.edu> > Reply-To: David_Garson(a)ncsu.edu > To: Contributors.to.Dekker.Handbook.of.Public.Information.2e(a)Ag.arizona.edu, > Authors.contributing.to(a)chass.utoronto.ca, > "Digital Government"@Ag.arizona.edu, > "Social Science Computing Interest Lists"@Ag.arizona.edu, > > Past.Contributors/Correspondents.for.the.Social.Science.Computer.Review(a)Ag.a > rizona.edu > Subject: Call for papers: Special issue on "Patriotic Information Systems" > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > We at the "Social Science Computer Review" are putting together a > timely special issue on "Patriotic Information Systems," treating the > intersection of the Patriot Act and related legislation, > dataveillance and efforts to control information, and the effect on > journalism, law, and civil liberties. We are soliciting proposals > immediately and hope to receive manuscripts by May 10, in the range > of 12 to 40 double spaced pages. While we have lined up a number of > exciting contributions, we do wish additional participation. > > If you wish to view information about our journal, which is now in > its third decade of publication, the website is > http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=198. There is also an > auxiliary website, with an author's guide and other materials at > http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/sscore/sscore.htm. > > If you are interested in participating in this special issue, please > contact me at david_garson(a)ncsu.edu. Please put the term "Patriotic > Information Systems" in your subject: line. Please note we are not > soliciting general overview essays. > > G. David Garson > Editor, SSCORE > > > > > > = > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:25:44 +0000 > From: Kathleen O'Riordan <k.s.o-riordan(a)sussex.ac.uk> > Subject: [Air-l] fixed term teaching fellow in sociology at Lancaster > UK > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Message-ID: <1101983144.41aeeda878d38(a)webmail.sussex.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain > > May be of interest to list members: > > Teaching Fellow Post in Sociology at Lancaster in Jan 05 > > > > Please circulate as widely as possible: > > > > A six-month, full-time teaching fellow position at Lancaster > University in the Department of Sociology has become vacant from 1st > January - 1st July 2005. The main duties of the post will include the > delivery of a course \'Media in the Global Age\' (1 lecture and 3 > seminars a week - this course has already been devised and has been > taught in previous years and relevant teaching materials are available) > and the supervision of final year dissertation students in Sociology. > > > > We welcome applicants who have just completed (or have nearly > completed) a PhD and who have some undergraduate teaching experience in > the area. > > > > Given the tight schedule, applications should be sent ASAP directly > to the Head of Department by email (j.stacey(a)lancaster.ac.uk) An up > to date cv and one page letter outlining relevant experience and > interest in the post will suffice. > > > > Professor Jackie Stacey > > Head of Department > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://aoir.org/airjoin.html > > End of Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2 > ******************************************** > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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December 2004 on -empyre-
by Michael Arnold Mages 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

COLLISION/SENSES A conversation around the themes of synesthesia and other sense experiences relating to the convergence of vision, sound and pre-aware cognition. Perception, in the context of this discussion, need not be limited to the apprehension of external stimuli, instead extending to the highly subjective territories of the mind perceiving its own process. For the next few weeks we will be exchanging our ideas regarding work and research which explores the intersection of sensory motor modalities and the challenges and mysteries of motor control, perception and representation. Co-moderated by jackbackrack, Nancy Paterson and William Tremblay. GUESTS JACKBACKRACK jackbackrack is an artist and research scientist at the MIT AI Lab. His research is on robotics, sensor networks, and programming languages. He runs an art technology group, called the Collision Collective, and curates art technology shows, called Collisions, along with Dan Paluska and Brian Knep. NANCY PATERSON Nancy Paterson is a Toronto-based new media artist best known for mediaworks such as STOCK MARKET SKIRT. She is currently working on a research project titled MULTI, exploring the relationship between collaboration, creativity and synesthesia. This project also deals with symbol cryptography and next generation information processing. WILLIAM TREMBLAY William Tremblay is an artist and interactive media programmer living in Boston. He creates interactive sculpture guided by emotional and symbolic resonance, but suspects that physical objects posess very diminished relevance in today's world. -- -empyre- facilitates critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media by inviting guests -- key new media artists, curators, theorists, producers and others to participate in thematic discussions. To participate, subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ --

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HyperResearch Feedback?
by Mary Bryson 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hi All, If you have used HyperResearch to code text, audio, and/or video on a Mac (OS 10.3.8) and have feedback - what worked really well, what you hated, what features you really liked, whether you would recommend HR for coding and sorting (not so much, or at all actually, the notion of testing theories empirically within the data-base), I would really appreciate hearing from you, on or off-list. I have a huge collection of transcripts and video and audio files, a peppy Mac and a software decision to make. Many thanks, Mary <Bryson> http://www.queerville.ca http://www.shecan.com Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

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fixed term teaching fellow in sociology at Lancaster UK
by Kathleen O'Riordan 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

May be of interest to list members: Teaching Fellow Post in Sociology at Lancaster in Jan 05 > > Please circulate as widely as possible: > > A six-month, full-time teaching fellow position at Lancaster University in the Department of Sociology has become vacant from 1st January - 1st July 2005. The main duties of the post will include the delivery of a course \'Media in the Global Age\' (1 lecture and 3 seminars a week - this course has already been devised and has been taught in previous years and relevant teaching materials are available) and the supervision of final year dissertation students in Sociology. > > We welcome applicants who have just completed (or have nearly completed) a PhD and who have some undergraduate teaching experience in the area. > > Given the tight schedule, applications should be sent ASAP directly to the Head of Department by email (j.stacey(a)lancaster.ac.uk) An up to date cv and one page letter outlining relevant experience and interest in the post will suffice. > > Professor Jackie Stacey > Head of Department >

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Call for papers: Special issue on "Patriotic Information Systems" (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

fyi Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:50:06 -0500 From: G. David Garson <Garson(a)social.chass.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: David_Garson(a)ncsu.edu To: Contributors.to.Dekker.Handbook.of.Public.Information.2e(a)Ag.arizona.edu, Authors.contributing.to(a)chass.utoronto.ca, "Digital Government"@Ag.arizona.edu, "Social Science Computing Interest Lists"@Ag.arizona.edu, Past.Contributors/Correspondents.for.the.Social.Science.Computer.Review(a)Ag.a rizona.edu Subject: Call for papers: Special issue on "Patriotic Information Systems" CALL FOR PAPERS We at the "Social Science Computer Review" are putting together a timely special issue on "Patriotic Information Systems," treating the intersection of the Patriot Act and related legislation, dataveillance and efforts to control information, and the effect on journalism, law, and civil liberties. We are soliciting proposals immediately and hope to receive manuscripts by May 10, in the range of 12 to 40 double spaced pages. While we have lined up a number of exciting contributions, we do wish additional participation. If you wish to view information about our journal, which is now in its third decade of publication, the website is http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=198. There is also an auxiliary website, with an author's guide and other materials at http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/sscore/sscore.htm. If you are interested in participating in this special issue, please contact me at david_garson(a)ncsu.edu. Please put the term "Patriotic Information Systems" in your subject: line. Please note we are not soliciting general overview essays. G. David Garson Editor, SSCORE =

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Re: political blogging
by Eszter Hargittai 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell (the co-author of that piece in Foreign Policy) also have the draft of a related paper available online with a summary and link here: http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002223.html Also, with Jason Gallo and Sean Zehnder, I am working on a political blogging paper from which we'll be presenting material at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in DC in March and at the Midwest Political Science Assn meetings in Chicago in April. We are using social network analysis to map the political blogosphere and look at the extent of cross-ideological discussions. It's not quite ready for circulation, but feel free to send me a note if you'd like us to keep you posted. Eszter --- http://www.eszter.northwestern.edu > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:40:32 +0800 > From: "Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)" <TRKluver(a)ntu.edu.sg> > Subject: [Air-l] political blogging > To: <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Message-ID: > > Sarah, Daniel Drezner, a political scientist/blogger at the University of > Chicago, has recently been doing a lot on blogging, and just published a > piece in Foreign Policy, I think. > http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/blogpaperfinal.pdf > http://danieldrezner.com/policy/webofinfluence.htm > > Randolph Kluver > Executive Director > Singapore Internet Research Centre > Nanyang Technological University > Singapore 637718 > phone (65) 6790-5770 > URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ > > mapping from an online identity to a legal identity--these seem like Bad > Ideas. But is there a strong case for protecting an open system from > passive surveillance? > > A colleague is advising a senior capstone thesis in political > blogging and its impact, and had the following questions after > finding few academic publications. I'd appreciate any suggestions for > her, off-list or on. > >>Are there major academic articles about political blogs? In what >> journals? >>Are there major theories that we should consider? >>What criteria do you apply to blogs when analyzing them? > > Thanks, > Sarah

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (december 2004)
by david silver 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, 2004) Reviewed by: Steven Shaviro Review Essay: Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture; and Ben Malbon, Clubbing: Dancing, Ecstasy and Vitality (Routledge, 1999) Reviewed by: Adam Fish Enjoy. david silver

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Re: Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 4, Issue 20
by Peder Are Jensen 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hello, Jarek. Yes, hate is basically socially generated. However, it can also be strengthened or weakened in various ways. I am not sure whether I fully agree with you that "web sites only replicate the existing social divisions." I think they do more than that. I spend a lot of time researching websites related to Islam or anything Islamic. From all possible angles, both conservative ones, websites dealing with extremist militants calling for Jihad, reformist and secularist ones and even websites of people rejecting Islam. Now, if you take the extremes on both ends of this, the most violent Islamists and radical Islam-rejecters, these are groups that would have a hard time getting their message across in more traditional and conservative media. I do think the Internet itself is empowering such groups in a way that is significant, enabling them to spread their message to wider audiences. At the very least, the web is greatly facilitating social changes already underway. It may even be creating changes, even though I know many would reject such a view as technological determinism. This includes hate sites, such as those Islamic militant sites decsribed on the Internet Haganah. Just my 2 cents. Yous sincerely, Mr. Peder Jensen. Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:21:00 -0800 From: "J. J." <japeks(a)hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [Air-l] 1. Re: Virtual Ethnicities/Online Hate Speech To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <BAY23-F37A0D77B14B2C3695B4C4CC9B90(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi Peder, I think that "hate" is socially generated, cyberspace or not. The web sites only replicate the existing social divisions. I've checked the links you provided, and they don't help me understand the phenomenon of the “Islamic extremists” much. I am not sure if that can be understood without active participation of the other side either and those web sites don't seem to be inviting any such discussion. My point then is that cyberspace will provide answers only to the point already determined (and allowed) in the world outside of it. What do you think? Jarek >From: Peder Are Jensen <pajensen75(a)yahoo.no> >Reply-To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >To: air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org >Subject: [Air-l] 1. Re: Virtual Ethnicities/Online Hate Speech Date: Mon, >22 Nov 2004 17:27:26 +0100 (CET) > > >From Peder Jensen, Master Student at the University of Oslo, Norway. >Charles Ess mentioned searching for hate communities online. Have you tried >looking at websites by Islamic extremists? You can track some of them >through websites like these: > >http://www.jihadwatch.org/ > >http://internet-haganah.co.il/haganah/ > >Yours sincerely, Mr. Peder Jensen.

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