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There was a real interesting story in the Daily Mail, a British daily tabloid newspaper, about an Army girlfriend from the UK who blogs.
According to the reporter Martha De Lacey, Zoey Peace was struggling to cope with the heartache of being apart from boyfriend Cpl Sam Garwood, while he serves on the front line in Afghanistan, so she started a blog called Until February.
Peace describes her blog as, "The diary of an unconventional Army girlfriend: the first 6 month tour of Afghanistan. From attempting to become a domestic goddess, losing a stone, becoming a semi pro "athlete" hmmmmm ok or just being able to run a mile (either or…), DIY and yoga. This is me VS 6 months without you...... Spread the word on twitter #smilecampbastion"
Peace told Daily Mail the blog attracts thousands of daily followers and has become a huge hit among all the soldiers in Camp Bastion.
Here are some facts mentioned at the top of the story:
- Zoey Peace's blog, Until February, is getting thousands of hits a day
- Her boyfriend, Cpl Sam Garwood, 24, is on fifth tour, in Camp Bastion
- She charts quest to become 'domestic goddess' before Sam gets home
- Zoey, 26, is from Cambridgeshire, and Sam is from Norfolk
- Has received Twitter support from Lorraine Kelly and Chesney Hawkes
There is a lot more to the story, details that you can read on Daily Mail.
You can keep up with Zoey Peace here: http://untilfebruary.blogspot.co.uk/
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Videos appear to show Syrian rebels shooting down military helicopter. Three amateur videos have emerged that purport to show rebels shooting down a Syrian military helicopter outside Aleppo. The videos appear roughly consistent with a claim, posted to Facebook by the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a rebel umbrella group, that "The Free Syrian Army has downed an attack helicopter using anti-aircraft weapons in the Sheikh Salman area in the western countryside."
(Washington Post)
My POW story. George Coffin, the last known surviving World War II Prisoner of War from Crawford County, passed away Wednesday, November 21. Before his death, Coffin recorded his experiences as a POW for his granddaughter to present to sixth grade students at Ar-We-Va. In honor of his dedication to the country, the Denison Bulletin and Review will run his remarkable story as a three-part series...
Schmidt records war story for history. Gov. Terry Branstad thanked 29 Iowa veterans — including Gary Schmidt of Ankeny — for documenting their wartime memories at the fourth annual Veterans History Project earlier this month at AIB College of Business. Schmidt is an Army veteran of the Vietnam War...
(The Des Moines Register)
Some Twitter users hail Bradley Manning as a hero. U.S. Army soldier Bradley Manning leaked 750,000 documents to Wikileaks. Arrested in 2010, Manning is finally beginning pre-trial hearings this week. He's become a martyr to those who consider his conditions in jail to be abusive, and a hero to the hacker collective known as Anonymous...
2012 "If Not Me, Then Who…" Gala. The inaugural "If Not Me, Then Who…" Gala is a national event focused on honoring the men and women who serve us. On Dec. 6, 2012, at the Union League in Philadelphia, the Travis Manion Foundation will bring corporate, community, and military leaders together to honor fallen heroes, veterans, active duty troops, and military families. The special evening will culminate with the presentations of the first-ever "If Not Me, Then Who…" and Corporate Leadership Awards, as well as Character Does Matter scholarships; these will be given to those who have gone above and beyond in challenging themselves to honor our fallen...
(The Travis Manion Foundation)
Library of Congress pulls diaries, letters from those who experienced Civil War for exhibit. Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago and some of the festering debates that survive today. The Library of Congress, which holds the largest collection of Civil War documents, pulled 200 items from its holdings to reveal both private and public thoughts from dozens of famous and ordinary citizens who lived in the North and the South. Many are being shown for the first time...
(Daily Reporter)
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) social media division has been in the limelight recently because of the conflict with Hamas.
Now it's getting public attention once again, only this time, it's due to a posting of a picture to Facebook by its social media chief Lt. Sacha Dratwa.
The photo (displayed above) shows Dratwa at the beach with his face covered in mud.
Alongside the image the caption reads, "Obama Style".
According to Mail Online, Dratwa has come under a barrage of abuse for the picture.
Despite the nature of the photo and caption, Dratwa denies being a racist.
Via Mail Online:
He also took to Facebook to deny that he is racist and to criticise those who spread the picture.
'There have been attempts to make use of private photos from my Facebook profile in order to publicly misrepresent my opinions,' he wrote.
'I am, and have always been, completely candid about my beliefs and have nothing to hide – as reflected by my Facebook profile, which until recently was open to everyone.'
He added: 'The aforementioned photos do not reflect my beliefs and have no bearing whatsoever on my position in the IDF.'
Full story here.
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(CBC News)
Voices of Korean War Veterans" Oral History Project. High school students from throughout the United States, its territories, and Department of Defense (DoD) schools are now invited to submit their short videos to the DoD 60th Anniversary of Korean War Commemoration Committee (KW60) and the GI Film Festival (GIFF) to participate in a new educational outreach program, "Heroes Remembered: Voices of the Korean War." The Heroes Remembered program was created to encourage high school students to help preserve the stories of our Korean War Veterans...
Army CID warns of online romance scams. Officials with the Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) have issued a warning about Internet scams involving persons pretending to be soldiers. CID "continues to receive hundreds of reports from people worldwide, of various scams involving persons pretending to be U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan or somewhere else in the world," according to the release...
World War II submariners share stories that never grow old. The four men in yellow vests stand out in the Golden Corral restaurant, where about 30 U.S. military veterans are gathered on a recent Saturday to eat and talk about submarines. Their hair is a little grayer. They move slower. And the younger men there don't hesitate to remind anyone talking to the United States Submarine Veterans Inc. Cowtown Base to speak up so these fellows can hear. They are World War II veterans, a small but treasured generation of submariners now in their 80s and 90s...
Middle East foes deploy state-of-art social weaponry. You furnish the pictures, the US press baron Randolph Hearst reputedly boasted a century ago, as the story goes, and I'll furnish the war. The conflict in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, halted after a ceasefire agreed to on Wednesday, has certainly produced powerful images of death and suffering that have been immediately circulated through social networks, no newspaper baron needed...
(The Sydney Morning Herald)
Book tells how 18th-century newspapers covered war. A new book uses a collection of 18th-century newspapers to tell the story of how the Revolutionary War was reported by publications in America and Great Britain. Todd Andrlik (AN-der-lihk) is a Chicago-area marketing executive who began collecting newspapers from the 1700s five years ago. His collection now tops 400, including some that are the rarest surviving publications from the American Revolution...
Library of Congress to showcase rare Civil War documents. Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago and some of the festering debates that survive today. The Library of Congress, which holds the largest collection of Civil War documents, pulled 200 items from its holdings to reveal both private and public thoughts from dozens of famous and ordinary citizens who lived in the North and the South. Many are being shown for the first time...
(USA Today)
Pickering resident pens personal war story. When his mother died five years ago, Rick Pyves found 230 letters she and his father had written to one another and letters his father had written to his parents during the latter part of the Second World War, most when Ron Pyves was overseas. The Pickering resident says when he found the letters "a light bulb went on" in his head: his parents, Ron and Kay, were "eye-witnesses to history -- both in Europe and on the homefront."
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The Hill is reporting the conflict between Israel and Hamas has rekindled calls for Twitter to shutter the accounts of U.S.-labeled terror groups.
"Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter take down the accounts of U.S.-designated terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Somalia's al Shabaab. The letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller was spearheaded by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who said Wednesday that the recent events vindicated the request."
What's been particularly disturbing is the nature of the tweets by the Taliban that gloat over the death of NATO forces, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
If nothing else, this should be interesting to watch.
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Secret message found with carrier pigeon may never be deciphered. Before military forces had secure cell phones and satellite communications, they used carrier pigeons. The highly trained birds delivered sensitive information from one location to another during World War II. Often, the birds found the intended recipient. But not always. A dead pigeon was recently discovered inside a chimney in Surrey, England. There for roughly 70 years, the bird had a curious canister attached to its leg. Inside was a coded message that has stumped the experts...
(The Sideshow)
Smithsonian gathers best art of Civil War era. Paintings and photographs depicting the raw reality of the Civil War marked a major change in American art that tossed out romantic notions of war. Some of the finest artists of the day, including Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford, painted landscapes and scenes of everyday life to show how the war transformed the nation. Their best works, along with some of the first photographs of soldiers killed on the battlefield, have been gathered by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a major exhibition on how artists represented the war and how the war changed art...
Neighbors: Postcard mailed in 1943 finally delivered to Elmira. A postcard sent to two Elmira sisters nearly seven decades ago arrived last week at the intended address, but it ended up in the hands of two different sisters. The postcard, sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., was intended for Pauline and Theresa Leisenring, who once lived in the home along Bridgman Street in Elmira. It was sent by their parents, who were visiting their brother at the Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant...
Gaza conflict: the war games of the Israel Defence Force. On November 14, the drone assassination of Hamas military chief Ahmed Al-Jaabari appeared on the Israel Defence Force's YouTube page in a grainy ten-second clip. The black-and-white footage showed Jaabari's car explode in a flash of white surrounded by a superimposed yellow target. An image with the words "eliminated" in bold letters overlayed onto Jaabari's face emerged within minutes of the attack in a tweet from the IDF's official account. In the days that followed, "points" and "badges" appeared on the military's blog, rewarding online interaction and promotion by users and assigning them a cyber military rank based on the frequency of their visits...
Remarkable life story of 97-year-old Frampton war widow published in new book. IT'S a life story that spans a century, continents and two world wars, bringing history to life. Now 97-year-old Aine Branting has written her remarkable tales of living in wartime Berlin and then carving a new life in Australia. It is a vividly written tale of the author's childhood in Germany, of how she survived there during World War Two and bravely built a new life down under...
(This is Gloucestershire)
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Park Jeong-geun was found guilty of violating the National Security Law, which prohibits any glorification of North Korea, but was only given a suspended 10-month sentence.
And of course, Mr. Park stated he would no longer re-tweet messages from North Korean Twitter accounts.
The WSJ reports:
"The case is one of several over the past few years in which Twitter comments have tested the limits of South Korean laws covering political expression, defamation as well as the security law covering North Korean propaganda. In August, a South Korean army officer received a suspended jail term for insulting President Lee Myung-bak on Twitter.
Even before the rising use of Twitter, South Korea wrestled with conflicts between its highly-networked citizens, who enjoy some of the fastest Internet speeds and wireless services in the world, and a cultural tradition that values respect via age-based hierarchies."
Full story here.
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What would you expect to happen if you took a photo of yourself like the one above at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers?
That's a picture of Lindsey Stone.
The photo, which landed on Facebook, has created a furor.
Military blog This Ain't Hell first broke the story called Douche bag being douchie earlier this week and it has exploded online, not only on social media sites but across blogs and news sites.
Jonn Lilyea writes:
"Meet Lindsey Stone, a self-proclaimed douchebag. See that picture? She thinks it's hilarious because she's being her douche bag self. Of course, she's at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, and she thinks that doing what she's doing is like smoking under a "No Smoking" sign."
Now for some updates:
Lindsey Stone And Jamie Schuh Lost Their Jobs Over Infamous Facebook Photo
Lindsey Stone story on NBC
Lindsey Stone's father "appalled"
The internet saw what you did
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Participants in the campaign put their names on an email to Twitter that demands the company "observe both the United States law and your own Terms of Service by immediately banning Hamas, the Izzadeen Al-Qassam Brigades and any related entities from operating Twitter accounts (e.g. @AlqassamBrigade).
The email warns Twitter that the local office of the United States Attorney is receiving a copy of the email "so that they can weigh appropriate legal measures in the event that you continue to permit terrorists to use your services."
In case you're wondering, Hamas is still using Twitter with no problem.
Twitter tends to not get too involved in these types of things somehow, so it should be interesting to follow and see the outcome.
Full story here.
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Seven months ago, Barno returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.
A story he wrote this week called "Watching an American Soldier Die" was featured on TIME.com.
The post talks about exactly that- watching an American Soldier die who was brought into a clinic where he was working. It's a death that bothered him particularly more than the others.
Barno says he finds himself thinking less of Afghanistan.
He concludes his post,
"In the fast-paced, cushioned lifestyle we enjoy in our country it is easy to forget how many are still serving in Operation Enduring Freedom. As Thanksgiving approaches this week I will take a few extra moments to thank God for bringing me home safely and pray for those who are still downrange. And I will remember to ask God to bless the families of the fallen who celebrate the holidays this year for the first time without their loved one."
You can read the full story over at Army Dentistry.
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Here are some highlights of the interview:
FAST COMPANY: Can you run us through what the IDF's Spokesperson's Unit does, and how it operates on social media. Do you have a dedicated social media staff, and has your social media strategy changed during the Gaza conflict?
"We've been operating on a variety of platforms with a number of different Twitter accounts, on Facebook, on YouTube during the course of the operation. We opened up a Tumblr account, we have a Google+ account, Pinterest ... we're operating on almost every single account we can to make sure that we can get out our message as fast as possible to as many different audiences as possible."
FAST COMPANY: For your Twitter account, what does the IDF Spokespersons' Office try to do to take followers who are, in this conflict, pro-Hamas or at least anti-IDF, to try to win them over or at least to criticize less?
"We feel that as soon as you have the facts behind you, it's just a matter of reaching out and getting the right message to people. A lot of times this just means that we are tweeting out to the Internet and hoping people pick up on it and it will generate interest. Occasionally, we will see something that we feel is blatant misinformation and we'll act on it."
FAST COMPANY: What relationship does the IDF Spokesperson's Unit have with the actual companies of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube-Google? I understand that one of your videos, the targeted killing of Ahmed al-Jabari, was actually taken off YouTube for a brief period of time?
"We maintain a technical relationship, like most large businesses or organizations do, with these accounts."
For details on the full interview, go to FAST COMPANY.
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Terror case against four Inland men steeped in social media. The case against four men with Inland Southern California roots who are accused of plotting terror attacked against U.S. forces in Afghanistan appears to be a contemporary crime case steeped in social media. Federal authorities said the suspects shared radical, anti-American comments on various social sites, posted some details on Facebook and communicated plans via the streaming video site Skype...
(The Press-Enterprise)
You Have to See This: HBO's Witness and the Stories Behind War Photos. No matter what lies writers may tell ourselves, very often it's the pictures that truly bring us the story–particularly in war zones and strife-torn areas, where there are brutalities you have to see to believe. But the taking of the pictures is a story in itself; a story of why certain people seek out what most people close their eyes to, run close to danger and manage to distill scenes of chaos into single defining image...
"Call For Film Entries" Announced For 7th Annual GI Film Festival In Washington, D.C. During Armed Forces Appreciation Month In May 2013. The award-winning GI Film Festival, the nation's only military-themed film festival, announced today's its official "call for film entries" for its 7th Annual GI Film Festival to be held in Washington, D.C. in May 2013. The GI Film Festival is open to filmmakers of all levels of experience -- from first-timers to veteran directors and producers. Each submission must include at least one major armed forces character (real or fictitious) who is portrayed in a respectful manner...
(Cision Wire)
Israeli army, Hamas military tap power of social media. When the Israeli Defense Forces first announced it had killed top Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jabari last week, Twitter was its medium of choice. Using the Twitter handle @IDFspokesperson, the IDF communications tweeted a photo of Jabari with the word "Eliminated" stamped across his face, along with a list of his alleged offenses. The IDF also uploaded a video of the attack that killed him to YouTube...
The Tweets of War. The author Chuck Klosterman recently wrote, "Following any event on Twitter radically amplifies the illusion of its import. It makes you believe things matter far more than they do." New Yorker readers defined Twitter as "Logorrhea, in brief," which is to say, excessive and often incoherent wordiness in a hundred and forty characters or less. News outlets and the people employed by them use it to broadcast the fruits of their labor. But Twitter is rarely the place where one finds significant pronouncements...
(New Yorker)
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Truthfully, the flood of news about the Israel-Hamas war on Twitter has gone overboard.
There are a couple of new stories, but most in the last couple days talk about the exact same thing with one new detail.
Thanks to Forbes, there is a new angle.
The writer talks about how the IDF began its campaign against Hamas last week at the same time announcing the offensive on Twitter.
It mentions how the use of social media has gone from the groundbreaking to the strange.
"While the original tweet was groundbreaking, the ensuing social media battle, now active on both sides, has turned bizarre. Both Israel and Hamas have essentially live tweeted the confrontation from its beginning, mixing military updates with threats, YouTube videos, graphic images and made-for-Twitter graphics. The IDF has also been pushing its message on Tumblr and Instagram."
In particular, Forbes discusses the graphics that have been posted to Twitter by both sides.
"It may, of course, just come down to creative and tone. The graphics posted by both sides, for instance, have been especially strange. One posted by Israel's @IDFSpokesperson account portrayed rockets raining down on the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, and the Eiffel tower and asked "WHAT WOULD YOU DO?"
You can see the IDF image above.
Forbes also has a graphic posted by Hamas of the Israeli Prime Minister flying in mid air with his underwear snagged on a rocket.
What's probably one of the more important considerations pointed out by Forbes is that how people may disconnect what's really going on with the bombings and rockets, when a military at war asks its Twitter followers to "Please Retweet," or check out its Tumblr.
Full story here.
Image via Forbes
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Outrage over Jeep's 'sexist' Facebook picture of bikini girl in army gear. A PHOTO of a scantily clad woman on Jeep Australia's Facebook page has caused a social media storm, with outraged users decrying the company as sexist. Yesterday Jeep Australia published a picture on its Facebook page of a woman posing on an army jeep in bikini bottoms and a tight T-shirt reading "I love Marine Boys''. The caption on the photo, which has done the rounds of the internet since at least 2007, read "Defence force budget cuts may not be a bad thing. Surely this Jeep and uniform are less expensive than what is currently used?''
(The Australian)
Inland Empire men used social media in terror plot, FBI says. Two of the men charged in Southern California with plotting to join Al Qaeda and the Taliban allegedly posted terrorist videos on Facebook and communicated via Skype, federal authorities said Monday night. In all, four men with Southern California ties were charged in the international terrorist plot that authorities say stretched from the Inland Empire to Afghanistan.
(Los Angeles Times)
Eric Brazil: War reporter Ed Kennedy deserves Pulitzer. On May 7, 1945, Edward Kennedy, chief of the Associated Press bureau in Paris, filed what was then the most important news story of the 20th century, Germany's World War II surrender. It was an exclusive report, headlining the front page of every Western newspaper and dominating radio broadcasts. In bringing it to the public, Kennedy had defied and defeated political censorship.
(Monterey Herald)
Tattoos Telling The Story Of A Decade Of War. Soldiers are telling the stories of more than a decade of war and not in a way most people might expect. Like them or not, tattoos are a huge part of military culture, and some soldiers say they're only scratching at the surface of deep emotional scars. Some tattoo-wearers say they only want to be understood. Army PVT John Reyes is part of the long-standing military subculture of tattooing, but he says he often feels judged by the color of his skin.
WWII Veteran, POW Survivor to share his incredible story. The Pell City Library will welcome World War II veteran and prisoner of war survivor, Shorty Goodwin, on Wednesday, November 21st at noon in the library. He will tell his story, as the guest speaker for the library's ongoing Wild and Wonderful Wednesday series. A Pell City resident for over 22 years, Goodwin was born in Dora, Alabama and grew up in the Pinson area, attending Tarrant High School. He entered the military at Camp Walters, Texas, near Fort Worth in February of 1942.
(St. Clair News Aegis)
How social media is rewriting the rules of modern warfare. There's been a lot written about how the Israeli army has been using social media to broadcast the details of its latest military campaign against Hamas — live-tweeting rocket attacks, uploading YouTube videos of hits on specific victims, aggregating Instagram photos from the battlefield, and even posting infographics to a Tumblr blog.
Image source: Supplied
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I first wrote of Rob's journey in early September, as he started a fundraiser on indiegogo with a goal of raising $5,000 to help cover expenses that he is responsible for as part of his embed.
The former Marine met his $5,000 goal in October with the help of over 80 people.
While Rob has been busy with school and preparing for his upcoming embed, he hasn't written any new entries on his blog, but he has kept readers up to date on his Facebook page located at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/RB-Portraits
On November 10, Rob posted to Facebook:
My embed has been officially approved for Afghanistan in December! Looks like I will be with 3/9 out of Camp Lejeune! Happy Marine Corps birthday indeed!
Rob plans to blog once more before heading out of country and will be returning in late December.
If you haven't seen his artwork, you can check it out at rb-portraits.com.
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Will Twitter war become the new norm? War is not just about bombs and rockets. It's about words. That's been true for centuries, of course. But the public got a rude awakening this week about just how much those words can matter in the digital age when the Israel Defense Force live tweeted its strike that killed a Hamas leader. The military's live spin about the strike, and Hamas' response on a separate Twitter feed, have been called an unprecedented use of social media.
Turkish journalist missing for months in Syria freed. A Turkish journalist who went missing in Syria in August and was believed to have been held by government troops has been freed and handed to Turkish lawmakers touring the country on Saturday, the Anatolia news agency reported. "I am very happy, I am doing well," Cuneyt Unal was quoted by the agency as saying by telephone from Syria.
Wars, the Military and Social Media: A Sticky Wicket. In ancient China, soldiers along the Great Wall would use smoke signals conveyed from tower to tower to warn about a possible attack. The Roman Army established numerous forts and stations spread out along major road systems connecting the empire; relay points provided horses to dispatch soldiers and vehicles to quickly transmit messages. Those were rather rudimentary forms of social media but they successfully worked for centuries. Fast forward a few thousand years. The relationship between the military and social media today has developed light years beyond what the ancients envisioned. The most recent example is still playing out.
(iMediaConnection Blog)
Prisoner of War Museum opens after dark. ANDERSONVILLE, GA (WALB) - The National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville opened its gates this Saturday evening for folks to experience the harsh conditions of a prisoner in the winter nights during the Civil War. "It allows us to interpret, or talk about or teach about the prison conditions during the winter and during the night time," says park ranger Stephanie Steinhorst. The Andersonville National Historic site opened it's gates for folks to tour the prison camp grounds and listen to historians tell the stories of those union prisoners.
Pin-Ups For Vets in Playboy!. Dear Pin-Ups For Vets Supporters: Happy Thanksgiving! We wanted to share some exciting news with you! The December issue of Playboy (with Marilyn Monroe on the cover) features an entire page about our 2013 Pin-Ups For Vets Calendar! Shannon Tweed-Simmons, featured as our July calendar girl is a former "Playmate of the Year"! Shannon is wife of KISS bassist & huge troops supporter, Gene Simmons.
(Pin Up Calendars for Vets)
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There is a lot of talk among news sites about the Twitter war between Israel and Hamas.
The online war between these two groups isn't a first for social media.
One good example is the Kenya versus Al-shabaab Twitter war that started in 2011, when Kenyan military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir warned Somali civilians in several different towns of imminent attacks.
On November 1, 2011, Major Chirchir who tweets under the username @MajorEChirchir tweeted: "BAIDOA, BAADHEERE, BAYDHABO, DINSUR, AFGOOYE, BWALE, BARAWE, JILIB, KISMAYO and AFMADHOW will be under attack continuously."
That message was followed up by: "The Kenya Defence Forces urges anyone with relatives and friends in the 10 towns to advise them accordingly."
In September 2011, NATO's International Security Assistance Force exchanged messages online with Taliban's spokesman via Twitter.
These are just a few examples.
While the social media campaign between Israel and Hamas is more widespread than ever before by a military, it's certainly nothing new.
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(Fast Company)
Scammer Uses Facebook Information To Scam Grandmother Out Of $2,000. We have a consumer warning for you, after a senior citizen was scammed out of a lot of money by a mysterious phone caller. The caller claimed to be a loved one needing help. Zeldena Cooper is a sweet grandmother who already has her Christmas decorations up. She said she was excited to get a recent phone call. "He called on the phone and said hello, Grandma, this is Josh," Cooper said. She said she doesn't get to talk to her grandson much, let alone see him in person, because he is stationed with the Army in Germany...
New LA film festival highlights veterans in movies. The GI Film Festival Hollywood has chosen Veterans Day weekend to launch its first event in Los Angeles. Festival co-founder Brandon Millett said Sunday that films at the two-day festival highlight the successes and sacrifices of American military personnel and the worldwide struggle for democracy. Movies have at least one main character, real or fictitious, who play a military role with respect...
(San Jose Mercury News)
British neocon blog exposed as Israeli mouthpiece. In the past 24 hours the UK-based neo-conservative blog Harry's Place has exposed itself as an outright propaganda outlet of the Israeli armed forces. For months I have been posting comments on the blog, which in 2006 won the annual Islamophobia award given by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Although my comments have been generally tolerated, I receive constant verbal abuse for my beliefs as a Muslim from commentators on the blog...
(Redress Information & Analysis)
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Senator Tom A. Coburn, M.D., released a report called Department of Everything that examines five areas of the Pentagon budget, that he says, have little to do with national security where taxpayer dollars could be saved and deficits reduced without impacting our national security.
The five areas, pulled straight from the report, include:
1) Non-Military Research and Development: Research projects that have little or nothing to do with national defense or medical needs related to military service ($6 billion).
2) Education: The Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS) that educates children of military families here in the United States and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs that duplicate the work of the Department of Education and local school districts ($10.7 billion). The Department of Defense Tuition Assistance Program which provides college funding for military members on active duty and duplicates the Department of Veterans Affairs ($4.5 billion).
3) Alternative Energy: Duplicative and unnecessary alternative energy research by the Department of Defense ($700 million).
4) Grocery Stores. Pentagon-run grocery stores here in the United States ($9 billion).
5) Overhead, Support, and Supply Services. Over 300,000 military members performing civilian-type job functions and too many general officers. ($37 billion).
When it comes to social media, the report says the Pentagon's analysis on regional slang and dialects by Twitter users is a waste of money.
"While this may be interesting to linguists or even potentially federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI, it is difficult to see how spending limited resources to study the use of the slang and dialect by Twitters users in the United States advances the mission of either the Air Force or the Navy."
You can read the full report here.
Via: AOL
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(Al Jazeera English)
Israel, Hamas engage in Twitter war during real war. Ever since Israel killed a Hamas leader via air strike Tuesday, the two groups have delivered constant updates on attacks via Twitter, giving an eerie virtual image of a real war. The official Twitter account for the Israeli Defense Forces, in English, is @IDFspokesperson. It provides real-time claims about attacks launched on Gaza, missile fire from Hamas on Israel and links to pro-Israeli videos and articles...
What happens when the military becomes its own media? One question this raises is whether such videos and photos violate the terms of service of social networks. Most networks have rules that ban graphic violence or threats, and they will have to decide how stringently to apply those restrictions to national governments...
In UK, social media rants land some in jail. One teenager made offensive comments about a murdered child on Twitter. Another young man wrote on Facebook that British soldiers should "go to hell". A third posted a picture of a burning paper poppy, symbol of remembrance of war dead...
Back Story: Photos vividly brought Civil War home. If Vietnam was the nation's first televised war, then the Civil War was the country's first photographed war, dramatically and vividly bringing into American homes the horrors and carnage their husbands, brothers and sons faced on the battlefield. In his recently published book, "Maryland's Civil War Photographs The Sesquicentennial Collection," Ross J. Kelbaugh, a Pikesville collector of vintage Maryland images, has assembled more than 400 photographs of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 Americans between 1861 and 1865...
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Service Members Now Have Their Own Social Network. Whether individuals are current service members or veterans, they can certainly create an account on Facebook, LinkedIn or any other social media website and work toward making the types of connections that can give them a career advantage. While LinkedIn is designed for professionals, Facebook and Twitter users tend to be more casual...
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Karen Bartlett walked gingerly down the marble steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, guided on the arms of her lawyer. She is legally blind, the result of a serious reaction to a generic drug.
Her medical condition was debated before the justices, testing whether federal law prevents her multi-million-dollar "design-defect" judgment against the pharmaceutical company from standing up in state court.
A cautious bench revealed little about how it will rule in this closely watched case.
Generic drugs account for an estimated 80 percent of all prescriptions and patient-rights advocates say companies should be held accountable for unsafe, poorly made products regardless of whether they are brand name or generic.
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The blockbuster health care reform bill championed by President Barack Obama would also encourage greater use of generics. About a third of generic drugs have no brand name competitors.
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But Justice Elena Kagan suggested the company could be held responsible.
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Bartlett suffers from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a lifelong debilitating disease that requires constant application of drops in her damaged eyes.
After complaining of shoulder pain in 2004, the New Hampshire woman was given a generic form of Sulindac, a non-steroid anti-inflammatory.
A rare hypersensitivity side-effect soon developed, causing her outer skin to burn and leaving open wounds on more than 60 percent of her body.
She was placed in a medically-induced coma for 100 days and suffered lung and esophageal damage.
Nine years and 12 surgeries later, Bartlett looked weak and needed help standing on the high court plaza after arguments.
A state court jury awarded her more than $21 million in compensatory damages, finding the generic was "unreasonably dangerous." Mutual eventually took its case to the high court.
This appeal is the latest the Supreme Court justices have wrestled with in recent years over liability from defective drugs. Most have turned on the tricky legal line between state and federal discretion.
Generic drug makers are trying to dismiss these kinds of design-defect lawsuits. They cite a 1984 congressional law pre-empting state "failure-to-warn" claims.
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They argue that federal regulatory judgments trump state consumer safety laws, which are often tougher than Washington's standards.
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Mali's prime minister abruptly resigned Tuesday on state television, a day after he was arrested by a group of soldiers loyal to a former coup leader.
The development is another blow to the stability of a country once hailed as a model of democracy in Africa, but one derailed by a coup and an uprising of Islamist militants.
Cheick Modibo Diarra, a former NASA engineer, who holds U.S. citizenship, was set to fly to Paris for medical care Monday, when he received notice that his bags had been removed from the plane, said a close aide, who did not want to be named.
Diarra decided to stay home, where three pick-up trucks with armed soldiers pulled up at 11:00 p.m. and took him away to military headquarters in Kati, five miles north of the capital Bamako, the official said. There he met with former coup leader Capitaine Amadou Sanogo.
Armed soldiers brought the former prime minister to broadcaster ORTM around 1 a.m., said TV technician Adama Haidara. "Mr. Diarra looked tired, worn out," he said.
The soldiers gave him a statement to read.
"I cannot say if he was forced," Haidara said. "He looked unharmed."
In his televised appearance on the military controlled broadcaster, Diarra did not offer a reason for his resignation, except for a vague statement that he solemnly delivered.
"Our country Mali is going through the most difficult period in its history," he said. "During this time of crisis, the men and women of this country -- uncertain of what is going to happen to their country -- find themselves in an unfortunate situation.
"That's why I, Cheikh Modibo Diarra, have resigned with all my government, on this day, Tuesday, 11 of December of 2012."
Diarra's whereabouts are yet unknown, but his aide believes he is still in Bamako.
"He was not injured when the military arrested him last night," he said, "but he has not come into his office today."
"The arrest was made by a small force loyal to Sanogo," said army spokesperson Colonel Idrissa Traore. "The majority of the military officers in Bamako were not informed about the arrest of Mr. Diarra, and no one knows what will happen now," he said.
Mali held its first democratic elections in 1992 after decades of military rule, and had a strong democracy for the most part.
That was until March, when a group of soldiers toppled the government, which it accused of not providing adequate equipment to battle ethnic Tuareg rebels roaming the vast desert in the north.
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The Tuareg rebels took advantage of the power vacuum and seized parts of the north. They have always wanted independence, and have staged several rebellions since the 1960s.
After Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed and Libya plunged into chaos, Tuaregs, who had fought by his side, took weapons to Mali to ramp up their conquest.
A power struggle erupted between the Tuaregs and local al Qaeda-linked radicals -- including Ansar Dine -- who prevailed and seized control of two-thirds of northern Mali, an area the size of France.
The international community is also worried that al Qaeda's north African wing is expanding into Mali.
U.S. officials have said that the wing, the al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is linked to the deadly Benghazi attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others.
Tuareg rebels have retreated from the well-armed militants, but have vowed to fight back and establish their own country in the north, which they call Azawad.
And as the world seeks a solution, the Islamist militants are busy applying their strict interpretation of sharia law, including the banning of music, smoking, drinking and watching sports on television.
They also publicly stoned a couple to death in July for reportedly having an affair.
Public executions, amputations, floggings and other inhuman punishments are becoming common, the United Nations says.


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With the 2010 girls basketball season just days away, Manchester Academy first year head coach Russell Cruise said the girls are making progress even though they have had very little time to practice with so much going on.
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"From a city standpoint, this is one of our largest and most prominent conventions that we do. They will fill every hotel room in the city, and they will pump millions of dollars into our economy explains Kelly Schulz, Vice President of Communications and Public Relations with the New Orleans Convention and Visitor's Bureau. And she says this convention is utilizing using all three million square feet of the convention center, that's 48 acres, or about 53 football fields with end zones.
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When I first started bowhunting at 11 we used kisser buttons on our recurves but when we switched to compounds we got rid of the kisser button. I guess I dont understand the need for a kisser button. Most bows are equipped with draw stops. Even before the draw stop I always thaught if you were at full draw with the pin centered in the peep and released properly you would hit where you were aiming.
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Farming reports for Herefordshire
class two winners at Knighton prize sale. Right: The class three winner. read more
Brockhampton suffer as Wellington hold out in Birmingham League Premier Division
BROCKHAMPTON have continued their fine start to their Birmingham League Premier Division campaign although their latest outing was tinged with disappointment. read more
Hereford model on BBC Eggheads quiz
Hereford model Emily Jones proved she had the looks and the brains when she took part in television quiz Eggheads. read more
Evans stars as Weobley go second in GB Liners Marches League
IT was a case of 'good Evans' at Weobley where the home side moved into second place in the GB Liners Marches League Division One after a run-laden win over Bartestree and Lugwardine. read more
Skipper Chadhani delighted as Eastnor see off Harborne and Kiwi Test bowler Butler
Eastnor skipper Clive Chadhani was delighted with his side's progress after a comprehensive Birmingham League Division Two success against Harborne at Clenchers Mill Lane. read more
Sri Lanka Test all-rounder Fernando stars for Bromyard against Hagley
A CENTURY from former Sri Lanka Test all-rounder Dinusha Fernando eased Bromyard to a six-wicket home success against Hagley in Division One of the Worcestershire County Cricket League. read more
MSA British Hillclimb Championship leader Scott Moran looks forward to Shelsley Walsh
ORLETON'S Scott Moran admits Shelsley Walsh isn't his favourite track but he always gets excited by the racing buzz. read more
Bill Gunn of Woolhope, Herefordshire, tells about one-way ticket to confusion
I AM indebted to John Lippiatt (Readers Times, May 17) for his tip about "split ticketing" as a means of mitigating the exorbitant cost of rail travel. read more
Two boys seriously burnt in Bromyard
TWO boys were taken to hospital after being seriously burnt by a barbecue in Bromyard last night. read more
Luctonians star Burton picked for England Counties tour of East Africa
LUCTONIANS' Will Burton has been picked for the England Counties' three-match tour to Uganda and Kenya. read more
Westfields anticipating Blackburn Rovers pre-season friendly
FULL-back Joel Edwards missed just three matches last season to head the Westfields appearance charts. read more
Olympic torch on display during Ross-on-Wye fire open day
THE Olympic torch will once again be in Ross-on-Wye on Saturday as part of the fire service's open day. read more
The Paul Rogers Blog: Time to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
IN His blog this week, Hereford Times senior reporter Paul Rogers outlines why it's important to celebrate the Queen's 60 years on the throne. read more
Hereford set for Ludlow derby as Midlands Leagues announced for new season
HEREFORD'S position in Midlands One West has been confirmed following the annual re-shuffle of the Midlands Leagues. read more
Hereford swim ace Hugo set for Sheffield after national qualifying time achieved
CITY of Hereford swimmer Hugo Lemar has made it to the top level of British swimming after gaining his first British National qualifying time in the 200-metre backstroke. read more
Seven-year-old boy knocked over by car in Ledbury
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KERI Stinton had a double sucess to celebrate when Leominster Charity Winter Darts League held their finals night and presentation evening at the town's Royal British Legion club. read more
Withington jubilee weekend
JUBILEE WEEKEND - There will be a local history exhibition in St Peter's Church on Saturday from 10am-4pm, from 11.30am- 1pm on Sunday and from 10am-1pm on Monday. read more
Jubilee party "not welcome" in Leominster
CONTROVERSIAL plans to stage an alternative Jubilee bash in a Leominster street may have been scuppered by a housing association. read more
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Tarrington jubilee
JUBILEE - There will be a full programme of events in the village. Admission is free at all events, the only charges being for drinks. It will start on Saturday at 2pm, with entertainment, bouncy castles and a tea for the children on Jubilee Green. read more
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VILLAGE HALL - On Monday there will be a Diamond Jubilee tea party at 3pm. read more
Weobley bowling, raffle, ceilidh, open gardens, churches together, bluegrass concert, street party, heritage trail and jubilee beacon
BOWLING - Saturday is Weobley and District Bowling Club open day, 10.30am-4pm. Stalls with cakes, plants, books and tombola. Food and drinks will be available at small charge. read more
Stoke Lacy WI and coffee morning
WI - Much Cowarne WI will meet at Stoke Lacy village hall tomorrow (Friday), for a social evening and auction. The competition will be 'three roses' for the Mary Pearson Cup. On June 8, the branch will be hosting a group meeting for all the WI branches in the Bromyard area. read more
Silver for shooter Mathew Goodwin at ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy
DISABLED clay shooter Mathew 'Sidney' Goodwin has won a silver medal in the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Lonato, Italy. read more
Mordiford holiday fun and jubilee
HOLIDAY FUN - Summer holiday activities with qualified coaches at Mordiford School for children in years three to six. Choose from football or cheerleading/street jazz. read more
Madley classic vehicles and jubilee
CLASSIC VEHICLES - There will be a jubilee classic vehicle show on Saturday on the Glebe Field next to the church. Visitors are invited to bring vehicles for display between 10.30am-4.30pm. There are no entry fees, just a fun day out for owners. Bring a picnic and enjoy the rest of the events being put on by villagers. Call David or Joan Williamson on 01981 250436 or Colin Barratt on 250108. read more
Much Dewchurch jubilee beacon
JUBILEE BEACON - There is a barbecue at Home Farm on Monday from 7.30pm, with the beacon lighting at 10.15pm as part of the national beacon network. Everyone in the parish is welcome. Call 01981 540779 with numbers for barbecue. read more
Knighton van donated, walk, market, quiz, sale and more
VAN DONATED - The family of Peter Reynolds who died of mesothelioma in August 2010, have decided to donate his van to the Giveacar scheme. Giveacar is a non-profit enterprise that organises the donation of unwanted cars and other vehicles for charity. read more
Orcop Queen tribute band
QUEEN - Flash, "the ultimate Queen tribute band", is at Orcop Village Hall on Saturday at 8pm. Scott Maley is a top Freddie Mercury impersonator. Doors, outside bar and catering area from 6.30pm to midnight. Tickets £10 in advance (£12 on the door if there are any) from 01981 580651 or bookings@ garwaylive.com. read more
Pembridge whist, market, jubilee, WI, service and show
WHIST - Thursday whist drives in the village hall, which had been organised by Ted Vaughan for 30 years until his retirement, will start again on June 14 at 8pm. Old and new players will be made very welcome. read more
Preston-on-Wye jubilee, tennis, walk and brunch, cartridge recycling, fete and classic vehicles and village hall
JUBILEE - On Sunday there will be a jubilee lunch in Preston-on-Wye Village Hall with two courses for £10. Seating will be limited so book with Tracey or Dilys on 01981 500401. Everyone is invited to spend the evening at the village hall to enjoy the Jubilee celebrations. At 6pm there will be a barbecue using local sausages and burgers supplied by Emma's Pigs and the bar will be open. At 7.45pm, back by popular demand, Chris the Guitar Man will be entertaining. read more
Aymestrey and Leinthall Earls church, jubilee, and Debussy
JUBILEE - Aymestrey Parish Council celebrates the jubilee in style on Monday with a pig roast at Gatley Park Barns courtesy of Phillip and Domenica Dunne. The evening will start with a service at St Andrew's Church, Leinthall Earls, at 6pm. Following the service a tractor and trailer will be available for those who need a lift up to Gatley Park where the main event will commence at 7.30pm. Everyone attending is encouraged to make and wear a crown which will be judged by Phillip and Domenica. read more
Bridge Sollars bonus ball, and history society
BONUS BALL - This week Mrs A Evans won £25 with her number 45. read more
Bodenham gardening club, party, Romainia support group and flicks in the sticks
GARDENING CLUB - On Tuesday at 7.30pm there will be a meeting despite the bank holiday. read more
Bishopstone village lottery and tree planting
VILLAGE LOTTERY - Ian Astley won £25 with number 45. read more
Bishops Frome and Fromes Hill singing
SINGING - Singing for Fun will be back tomorrow (Friday) at 7.30pm in the village centre at Bishops Frome. All are welcome to come and have a good time. For details, call Richard on 01885 490628. read more
Almeley jubilee and Ferney Country Inn
JUBILEE - The village hall committee and parish council will be holding a bring-andshare street party outside the village hall on Saturday at 3pm, to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Previous street parties have been very successful with the whole community coming together, so everyone is asked to repeat this success. read more
Presteigne wartime, winners, kung fu, open gardens, library, street party, arts, dance and much more
WARTIME - The Royal British Legion Club has its second annual D Day afternoon, Sandbags and Sirens, on Saturday from 2.30pm. There will be a traditional tea served at 4pm. Other activities going on will include a number of Second World War military vehicles on display along with music of the era led by singalong stars Tony Sullivan and Lenny. Local soloist Lisa Beaumont will perform a number of songs throughout the afternoon. The bar will be open and period dress for the occasion is optional. Admission is free but donations will be welcome. read more
Gladestry jubilee
JUBILEE - Gladestry will be marking the Queen's jubilee with Colva, Newchurch and Michaelchurch-on-Arrow. Celebrations begin with a Diamond Jubilee songs of praise and thanksgiving service at St Mary's Church at 6pm on Sunday, followed by refreshments. read more
Ewyas Harold youth band, primary school, jubilee and choral evensong
YOUTH BAND - The band will lead the 10.30am worship at the Baptist Chapel on Sunday. There will be also be a Sunday Club for ages three to six and seven-14. read more
Harry Pell admits finances may place his Hereford United future in doubt
FANS' favourite Harry Pell says that he wants to stay at Edgar Street next season, but understands if he has to be sold to generate extra funds. read more
Cicely raises awareness of coeliac disease
A HEREFORDSHIRE woman is raising awareness of coeliac disease after suffering from its symptoms for the last 20 years. read more
Catharine Sadler of Little Birch, Hereford, says another route, a different fare still
WELL done John Lippiatt (Cutting the cost of your train ticket, Readers Times, May 17) for reducing his Hereford to London return rail fare from an expensive £93.05 to £55.90, by splitting his ticket purchases and using a Senior Rail Card. read more
NFU campaign: 'Farmers and growers are food heroes'
A SALUTE to farmers and growers as "food heroes" comes with a new NFU campaign to highlight farming's contribution to the country. read more
Improved period farmhouse in Marden
The Vauld House Farm, Marden, Herefordshire Agent: Brightwells Offer: £795,000 Call: 01432 343800 THE Vauld House Farm is a beautifully presented and improved five-bedroomed, detached period farmhouse. read more
Hyundai opens door to fun with the Veloster
THE point of the Veloster is to prove to potential customers that Hyundai can 'do' fun – hence the decision to add a single rear door to go with the two up front. read more
Eardisland in bloom, bowls, and big breakfast
BOWLS - Eardisland Bowling Club continued its third away victory of the season last Wednesday evening with a convincing win on all four rinks. Dave Bray's rink put in an amazing performance coming from 0-10 down to claim best winning rink 25-16, while there were also wins for Phil Sharp, Jonathan Farndon and Tony Stokes. Phil Sharp, Phil Milchard and Dave Bray advanced to the next round in the county triples with an excellent win at Eastnor on Friday evening on a tricky green. read more
Dilwyn church
CHURCH -There will be a Diamond Jubilee service at St Mary's on Sunday at 11am which will be preceded by a parade, starting at the Green and led by the Dilwyn branch of the Royal British Legion. read more
Eardisley whist, jubilee, library and plants
WHIST - On May 21 players met at the New Strand for the monthly whist drive. MC Phillp Jenkins and his wife Rona welcomed players who came from various destinations. Prizes were won by Beryl Lewis, Rose Howells, Peggy Lloyd, Sandra Payne – who scored a magnificent 196 – Phil Farmer and Gwen Farmer. Note that the next event will be on June 18, not the last Monday in the month. read more
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