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Kafka, Rabbi Hillel and the Beit Furik checkpoint
November 1, 2008 November 1, 2008 Dan FleshlerComments(21)
"It's clear that there is no life without freedom of movement. And when there's no life, there is nothing to be lost. Despair and lack of hope can lead more and more Palestinians into terror — thus there will be no security for us either."
So said Hannah Barag, one of the leaders of Machsom Watch, a group of remarkable Israeli women who have taken it upon themselves to witness precisely what happens at checkpoints and other obstacles to Palestinian movement within the West Bank. She spoke to a rapt audience at an event sponsored by Meretz USA in New York City on Tuesday evening.
The most compelling and disturbing aspect of her presentation was that it did not focus on overt brutality. It was about the relentless accumulation of one petty humiliation after another in the memories of Palestinians. These women only document what they themselves witness, not what other people tell them. And what they witness is often Kafkaesque. There is usually a bureaucratic banality to the suffering and indignities experienced by people who are just trying to move from village to village, or from the West Bank into East Jerusalem for medical care or family events or work.
"The harassment and arbitrariness at the checkpoints," she said, "are characterized by an irrationality that is intentional and also typical of the whole system of procedures employed in the Occupied Territories….The system applies a never-ending creativity to tire out and aggravate those going through the checkpoints, crushing their patience and their honor to the bone."
Machsom Watch focuses only on the elaborate restrictions of movement from one part of the West Bank to the other. The vast majority of these internal controls have no purpose other than to protect Jewish settlers, including the extremists who don't recognize the authority of the Israeli govenment.
There is nothing new in any of the written accounts by Machsom Watch volunteers. One can find many other descriptions on the Web of what happens at the checkpoints. What makes them compelling is their matter-of-fact, laconic prose style, which reflects their determination to do nothing more than hold up a mirror and let Israelis see the high moral price of occupation.
Consider the following, lightly edited excerpts from the regular alerts posted on the Machsom Watch website. They are both accounts from the Beit Furik checkpoint, east of Nablus. It is at the junction of two roads, one of which leads to the Jewish settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh. Both of those settlements are home to some of the most fiery religious settlers, including those who constantly set up illegal outposts. Beit Furik is one of the three permanent checkpoints that serve to close off Nablus. Their ONLY function is to serve the residents of those Jewish settlements:
There was a young woman escorted by five girls that were of 12 years old or less and a small baby. They were all dressed nicely as they were making their way to a wedding. The woman was from Beit Dajan and…two of the little girls were hers and the other four belonged to her husband's other wife. They were all from Beit Dajan. The other woman [the "husband's other wife"] had already passed through Nablus and the husband was to come from Tulkarm. The roadblock commander wouldn't let the woman pass since [the names of] four of the girls weren't written under her ID and she didn't have their birth certificates (at the Nablus district, children can't pass without their escorting parents and they must have their birth certificates).
G' from the army's humanitarian center was able to give us, after making some inquiries, the names of all of the four girls that belonged to the other woman and confirmed that they were in fact from Beit Dajan. He asked that we wait for an answer.
After recurring calls to the humanitarian center on this case, we received an answer that "they got an order to let the woman pass". We waited for the order to reach the commander, the wedding was to begin at 17:00 and the girls were already sleepy. The woman was completely desperate and at 18:00 the commander got a phone call and told us that the woman and the girls couldn't pass. (Beit Furik, May 31, 2007)
What do the events just described have to do with security?
(Dan F, here): Next, the story of the cheese man. It is like some kind of unbearable parable, or the first draft of a black comedy by a college satirist that, at a certain point, gets out of control and becomes a bit too absurd. You may need a bit of patience to follow the twists and turns that this poor shepherd had to take in order to make his meager living [Note: "knafe" is a pastry]:
"What can I do with all this cheese in the sun? Come on soldier, let me pass [through with] the cheese. Look, it's getting ruined."
"You can't take your car into Nablus," said the soldier. "You don't have a permit for the car."
"I don't have a permit for the car? But, you can see for yourself, I have a permit from the office of seeding, how do you call it, the ministry of agriculture, I am allowed to pass [through with] my cheese, I have sheep, I make cheese from them and sell it in Ramallah where they use it for knafe. Every week I transfer the cheese in my car to Nablus, from Nablus I go to Huwwara checkpoint and then I head to Ramallah. And now you, a bunch of new soldiers, tell me that I need a permit to enter with my car into Nablus. If you would let me I would bypass it, I don't even want to enter Nablus, I just want to get to Ramallah. How do you want me to pass [through] with all this cheese? On my back?" asked the cheese man, and pointed at the buckets that were full of hard salty cheese.
"I don't care how you pass [through] with it, get into your car and drive away, I don't want to see you here again without a permit for your car."
The cheese man sighed in desperation and turned around to look for a car that had a permit to enter Nablus.
After half an hour, the cheese man found a car with a permit to enter Nablus. It took another thirty minutes to transfer the buckets from one car to the other, and another thirty minutes waiting in line. The soldier inspected the car for five minutes and sent [the man] back to Beit Furik.
"What's the matter?" we asked the soldier, "This car has a permit to enter Nablus."
"Yes it does," the solider said, "but the permit allows the car to enter empty; it hasn't got a permit to transfer merchandise."
After twenty minutes, he found a car with a permit to enter Nablus and to transfer merchandise. It took twenty minutes to move the buckets from one car to the other…and thank God the car passed the checkpoint and entered Nablus.
After an hour, we left to [go to] the Huwwara checkpoint [another one at the edge of Nablus]. We parked at the faraway parking lot and walked to the checkpoint. From afar, we saw buckets of cheese being moved from one car to the other.
"What is it with them and cheese today?" Inbal, my partner at the checkpoint, asked. Was everyone transferring cheese from one car to the other on that day?
We came closer. It was the same man that was at Beit Furik. He had passed the checkpoint into Nablus, but the car he was in didn't have a permit to exit Nablus through Huwwara and head to Ramallah.
So, at the exit from Nablus, he started moving the cheese to another car that had a permit to transfer merchandise from Nablus through Huwwara. He got out of Nablus, and then had to move the cheese again from one car to the other.
"What's the matter?" we asked, "doesn't this car have a permit to transfer merchandise?"
"Yes it has," said the cheese man, "it has a permit to transfer merchandise."
"So why are you moving the cheese from one car to the other all over again?" we asked.
"It doesn't have a permit to pass through Za'atara [another checkpoint]. I'm swapping it for a car that has a permit to pass through Za'atara, in the direction of Ramallah."
(Dan F, here): If Rabbi Hillel were still with us, he would say, "Do something about this. All the rest is commentary."
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Some wise words from Cecilie Surasky about this little experiment here: I personally find the whole Zionism/anti-Zionism litmus test both distasteful, often offensive, and certainly odd. It's odd and to me artificial because the definitions are so slippery, the understanding of Zionisms so superficial. In fact, I don't think I've ever had a discussion about […]
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Apologies for the recent lack of blogging activity. Too many work and family obligations, not enough hours in the day. Last week, there was a dyspeptic attack on Americans for Peace Now by my friend Philip Weiss on his blog, MondoWeiss. (Check it out at http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/11/foreign-affairs.html). It deserves a belated response. In taking on a […]
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More than 8,000 photographs from a private collection have been offered to the National Heritage Board (NHB) for digitisation.
The collection includes rare 1980s photographs of places long gone including Pulau Tekong's Malay kampungs, Lorong Fatimah in Woodlands and, Kampung Kayu and Kampung Arang near the mouth of Geylang River.
The contribution by Mr Quek Tiong Swee, 67, a retired civil servant, will help plug the gap in information on the settlements in rural areas of Singapore and other offshore islands, said the NHB.
"We hope that more individuals will follow Mr Quek's example so that we can grow our repository of heritage materials and make them available to the general public," said group director of policy at the board, Mr Alvin Tan.

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FISA praised in governance review
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Words & Photography Benedict Tufnell
According to World Rowing, this week the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) published its third review of International Federation Governance, an evaluation tool which was developed to guide International Sports Federations towards better governance.
FISA, as one of the smaller International Federations, has shown year on year improvements across the three governance reviews made so far despite its limited resources.
World Rowing say that gender equity on IF Executive Boards is one of the key areas highlighted by the ASOIF Governance Review: "FISA is recognised in this respect, with over 40% female representation on both the FISA Executive Committee and the FISA Council (43% and 41% female representation respectively)."
"Good governance has long been a top priority for the World Rowing Federation, FISA, and we are proud to have made valuable and concrete improvements in our key prioritised areas," said FISA President Jean-Christophe Rolland. "We have long considered gender equality at the Executive and Council level to be essential."
The report also states that the difference between the self-assessed and moderated scores of 4 is much lower than the average markdown for 2019-20 of 13 across all IFs and FISA has comfortably exceeded the target score of 120 set by the ASOIF Governance Taskforce.
Click here to read the full report
ASOIF has also published a list of best practice governance examples from IFs and FISA reportedly featured in five areas, including Gender Balance, Safeguarding Programmes and the publication of General Assembly documents.
ASOIF's Members Good Governance Practice Examples can be seen here.
World Rowing say that the next step is "the 2020 FISA Extraordinary Congress in October with amongst other proposals, the introduction of an Audit Committee consisting of majority independent membership."


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Cave In's Final Transmission is a tribute to late bassist Caleb Scofield, their heart and soul
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The winding story of Boston band Cave In is full of massive triumphs and heartbreaking pratfalls, and they've kept on trucking no matter what comes their way. Formed in 1995 as an extreme metalcore band, Cave In debuted in 1998 with Until Your Heart Stops, whose layers of corrosive vocals, dual guitar shredding, and unrelenting double kick drum essentially drew up a blueprint for generations of like-minded bands to follow. Cave In's crowning achievement was their second LP, 2000's Jupiter, on which they shed hardcore almost completely, opting instead for the shoegazy progressive space metal that became their signature sound, with front man Stephen Brodsky trading in his shrill growl for an operatic vibrato. The album is huge, weird, beautiful, and polarizing—you either loved it or you hated it, but even its biggest critics had to admit that nothing out there at the time sounded like it. Jupiter caught the attention of a lot of people, including major labels, and Cave In signed to RCA for their 2003 follow-up, Antenna, where they reined things in a bit while keeping the spacey vibes; a tour opening for the Foo Fighters followed. But Cave In proved too weird for the majors, and soon enough they were back to indie-heads-only territory. They broke up in 2006, reunited in 2009, and then released a full-length studio album, a live album, a rarities compilation, and two EPs. In early 2018 Cave In were demoing material for another new record when bassist Caleb Scofield was killed in a horrific car accident. Scofield was the band's heart and soul; his thunderous low end provided the driving melodic foundation for a sound with its head in the stars, and when the band started experimenting with metalcore again after their major-label stint, he covered the harsh vocals with his punishing growl. Cave In cleaned up those demos and in June released them as Final Transmission (on Hydra Head, which is essentially in retirement but pops up occasionally for special projects), a beautiful record that sounds like classic Jupiter-era Cave In from front to back. The band have also played a handful of shows in Scofield's memory with Nate Newton of Converge filling in on bass. This fall Cave In are on their first large-scale tour in years, which is also their first without Scofield. It's not to be missed—I saw their first show with Newton on bass last summer in Boston, and it was as crushing as it was emotionally draining. v
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What is trauma?
Common Responses to Trauma Among Children
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What can parents do to help children and adolescents?
What can rescue workers do to help?
What can community members do after a traumatic event?
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Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Disasters and Other Traumatic Events: What Parents, Rescue Workers, and the Community Can Do
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Each year, children and adolescents experience disasters and other traumatic events. Parents, rescue workers, and members of the larger community can help children start the process of recovery and overcome these experiences.
When people think of trauma, they often focus on physical injuries. However, people also can experience psychological trauma after witnessing or experiencing distressing events.
Trauma can be caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods. It also can be caused by acts of violence—such as terrorist attacks and mass shootings—as well as motor vehicle and other accidents.
Reactions to trauma can be immediate or delayed. Responses may differ in severity and can include a wide range of behaviors and responses, sometimes influenced by culture.
Factors that may make people more sensitive to trauma include:
Having direct involvement in the trauma, especially as a victim
Having severe or prolonged exposure to the event
Having a personal history of prior trauma
Having a family or personal history of mental illness or severe behavioral problems
Having limited social support or a lack of caring family and friends
Having ongoing life stressors such as moving to a new home or new school
Children age five and younger may:
Cling to parents or caregivers.
Cry and be tearful.
Have tantrums and be irritable.
Complain of physical problems such as stomachaches or headaches.
Suddenly return to behaviors such as bed-wetting and thumb-sucking.
Show increased fearfulness (for example, of the dark, monsters, or being alone).
Incorporate aspects of the traumatic event into imaginary play.
Children age six to 11 may:
Have problems in school.
Isolate themselves from family and friends.
Have nightmares, refuse to go to bed, or experience other sleep problems.
Become irritable, angry, or disruptive.
Be unable to concentrate.
Complain of physical problems such as stomachaches and headaches.
Develop unfounded fears.
Lose interest in fun activities.
Adolescents age 12 to 17 may:
Have nightmares or other sleep problems.
Avoid reminders of the event.
Use or abuse drugs, alcohol, or tobacco.
Be disruptive or disrespectful or behave destructively.
Become isolated from friends and family.
Be angry or resentful.
In addition, children and adolescents may feel guilty for not preventing injury or deaths. They also may have thoughts of revenge.
Many of these are normal and expected early responses, which for most people will lessen with time. If they last for more than a month, contact a licensed mental health professional.
Some symptoms require immediate emergency care. If you or someone you know is thinking about harming themselves or attempting suicide, seek help right away:
Call your doctor.
Call 911 for emergency services or go to the nearest emergency room.
Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a 24-hour toll-free hotline, at 800-273-TALK (8255). The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 800-799-4889. The Lifeline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a person's social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. For more information about how to contact social media outlets, visit the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Take any comments about suicide or wishing to die seriously—even those said by children and adolescents. Even if you do not believe your family member or friend will attempt suicide, the person is in distress and can benefit from your help in finding treatment. For more information about suicide prevention, visit www.nimh.nih.gov (search word: suicide prevention).
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Disaster Distress Helpline provides crisis counseling (24 hours a day, 365 days a year) for those experiencing emotional distress due to natural or human-made disasters. This service is provided in more than 100 languages and is confidential. To contact the helpline:
Spanish speakers can call 800-985-5990 and press 2.
The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Helpline via TTY at 800-846-8517.
Text "TalkWithUs" to 66746.
Spanish speakers in the continental United States can text "Hablanos" to 66746.
Spanish speakers in Puerto Rico can text "Hablanos" to 787-339-2663.
Visit Disaster Distress Helpline's website.
After a disaster or other traumatic event, there are steps people can take to help adult trauma survivors cope, making it easier for them to provide better care for children and adolescents. These include creating safe conditions, remaining calm, being friendly, and connecting with others. Being sensitive to people under stress and respecting their decisions is important.
When possible, help people:
Get food.
Find a safe place to live.
Get help from a doctor or nurse.
Connect with loved ones or friends.
Find information on where to get help.
Force people to tell their stories.
Probe for personal details.
Say things like "everything will be OK" or "at least you survived."
Say what you think people should feel or how people should have acted.
Say people suffered because they deserved it.
Be negative about available help.
Make promises that you can't keep, such as "you will go home soon."
After a traumatic event, parents and family members should identify and address their own feelings—this can allow them to help others. Explain to children what happened and let them know that:
You love them.
The event was not their fault.
You will do your best to take care of them.
It's okay for them to feel upset.
Allow children to be sad or cry.
Let children talk, write, or draw pictures about the event and their feelings.
Limit viewing of repetitive news reports about traumatic events. Young children may not understand that news coverage is about one event and not multiple similar events.
Give extra attention to children who have trouble sleeping. Let them sleep with a light on or let them sleep in your room (for a short time).
Try to keep your usual routines (or create new routines), such as reading bedtime stories, eating dinner together, or playing games.
Help children feel in control when possible by letting them make decisions for themselves, such as choosing meals or picking out clothes.
Contact a health professional if, after a month in a safe environment, children are not able to perform their usual routines.
Contact a health care provider if new behavioral or emotional problems develop, particularly if these symptoms occur for more than a few weeks:
Flashbacks (flashbacks are the mind reliving the event)
A racing heart and sweating
Being easily startled
Being emotionally numb
Being very sad or depressed
Expect children to be brave or tough.
Make children discuss the event before they are ready.
Get angry if children show strong emotions.
Get upset if they begin bed-wetting, acting out, or thumb-sucking.
Children's reactions to trauma are strongly influenced by adults' responses to trauma. Parents can help children by being supportive, by remaining as calm as possible, and by reducing other stressors, such as:
Frequent moves or changes in place of residence
Long periods away from family and friends
Pressures to perform well in school
Fighting within the family
When monitoring healing, remember:
Healing takes time.
Do not ignore severe reactions.
Pay attention to sudden changes in behaviors, speech, language use, or strong emotions.
During and after a traumatic experience, rescue workers can help by:
Identifying children, adolescents, and families in need of urgent and immediate medical or mental health services.
Staying with and helping to calm children and adolescents in acute distress. Signs of acute distress include trembling, rambling, becoming mute, or exhibiting erratic behavior.
Protecting children and adolescents from physical danger, exposure to additional traumatic sights and sounds, and onlookers and the media.
Kindly but firmly directing children and adolescents away from the event site.
Connecting—and keeping—children and adolescents with family and friends.
Rescue workers can reduce survivors' fear and anxiety by using compassionate communication. When communicating with survivors, rescue workers should:
Clearly identify themselves and their role in disaster response.
Communicate calmly, slowly, and with empathy.
Be factual, avoid answering questions outside their area of expertise, and avoid speculation.
Acknowledge and be tolerant of strong emotions and behaviors.
After a traumatic event, community members should identify and address their own feelings as this may allow them to help others more effectively.
Community members can help children and adolescents by:
Offering their buildings and institutions as gathering places to promote support
Helping families identify mental health professionals who can counsel children
Helping children develop coping skills, problem-solving skills, and ways to deal with fear
Holding parent meetings to discuss the event, their child's response, and how parents can help their child
Being sensitive to different cultural responses to trauma and stress
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Caring for Children in a Disaster
Disaster Assistance Improvement Program
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Ready—A national public service campaign
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Uniformed Services University: Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime: Help for Crime Victims
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: National Center for PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides this online resource for locating mental health treatment facilities and programs. Find a facility in your state at https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov. For additional resources, visit www.nimh.nih.gov/findhelp.
Asking questions and providing information to your doctorealth care provider can improve your care. Talking with your doctor builds trust and leads to better results, quality, safety, and satisfaction. Visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website for tips.
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Our mission: "Keeping Greene County history alive." Our motto: "With our programming, museum and special events, we not only preserve the history of our county in west central Iowa, we make that history come alive again!" Our inspiration: "If you're going to be presenting history, and you want people to pay any attention to it," said the late James H. Andrew, "you better make it fun!"
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Marilynn Hoskinson has always kept us moving!
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER
JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 21, 2018 — As all who know her will attest, Marilynn Hoskinson, even at 91 years old, is a dynamo. She always has been.
Student, cheerleader, wife, mother, grandmother, a 30-year banker with Home State Bank, singer, piano & organ player, painter, cross-stitcher, devoted reader, crossword puzzle addict, 4-time cancer survivor and outstanding volunteer leader for First Presbyterian Church, for the Jefferson B.P.O. DOES Drove #196, for the Greene County Iowa Historical Society and other groups.
"I have two words that are my key words for life," she said in a recent chat in her Jefferson home. "They are 'Keep moving!'
"You have to," she continued. "You can't just sit in a chair and piss & moan. I say this all the time: 'Thank you, God, for all the things I can do, and I'll keep doing them until I can't.' "
Marilynn Hoskinson
O.K., I said, since you're already fired up, will you please do that old favorite Grand Junction High School cheer of yours for me again? She reached back more than 80 years – "it actually came from cheerleaders one generation before me," she said – and whooped it:
Ta-hick, ta-minnie,
Ta-zolly-zock,
Ta-boom, ta-larrie –
Yoo-hoo!
"And we waved at the opponents' crowd when we yelled the 'Yoo-hoo!' " she said. "They didn't like us much."
We salute her now because of her tremendous service to the historical society the past 25 years or so. She served a dozen years on the board of directors, and a decade of that as treasurer. She's done programs for us on women's hats, Spring Lake Park, Grand Junction history and, of course, the one-room country schools of an earlier era.
"Country schools have always been a favorite subject for me, probably at first because I attended one and I remember it so well," she said.
That was out in the rural neighborhood around Spring Lake, from about 1931 to 1935, when her family moved into Grand Junction. That school, "Hardin No. 6," was one of more than 70 rural schools operating in Greene County then. Young teacher Miss Liberty Maye Mattson had 20 students together in one room, with all eight grades represented. Hoskinson looks back on it now and is amazed at the challenge the teachers had, but what an advantage it was for students.
"I swear, for me it was like a Head Start program," she reflected. "I learned so much by listening to the older kids recite their lessons."
In the 1990s, the Minnihan family donated to Greene County the old "Bristol No. 7" school that was on their farm. The historic schoolhouse was moved to the county fairgrounds, and the fair board asked the historical society to do something worthwhile with it. The society has maintained the building, opening it for visiting individuals and groups, and having it open for display during the fair each summer.
For a dozen years, Hoskinson has dressed as a country school teacher and served as a "docent," doing historical interpretations of what education was like when it was held in such one-room quarters.
"I decided that I'd bow out of that after this last summer's fair," she said. "It was time to turn it over to another generation."
Becki Cunningham, a historical society board member from Paton, has volunteered in the school house with Hoskinson the last couple years to learn the stories that we can share on into the future.
What are Hoskinson's views of history and the historical society, after all she's contributed?
"Well, first, I love history," she said. "If I'd have gone to college, I probably would've become a history teacher. And I love our historical society. I think it's done a tremendous job.
Marilynn and Leon Hoskinson.
"My first concern about it, looking to the future, is that we need to get younger people involved, and that's pretty doggoned tough to do today – in our organizations, our churches, in almost anything else. People are so busy!
"Some younger people probably don't give a rip about local history right now, but when they've lived longer in a place, they start wondering why things are like they are, and who did what in the past. We need to try to keep them interested, and I think we're doing that with new exhibits at the museum, new topics in our monthly programs, and doing more local history on TV.
"I've guided a lot of people through the museum over the years, and I notice that if you ask them what they're interested in, you can almost always connect them with something in the museum. And then you build on that."
Marilynn's husband Leon Hoskinson, a farmer, died in 1997. Their daughters are Becky, a retired teacher in Mason City; Kathy, who is retired from the phone system in Waterloo, and Tracy, a retired early-learning teacher and medical insurance worker in Ogden. Marilyn has four grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
The author of this story, Chuck Offenburger, of Cooper, is a member of the board of directors of the Greene County Iowa Historical Society. You can write him at chuck@Offenburger.com.
A trip back in time, to Christmas 1950, right here in Greene County
By MARY WEAVER
RIPPEY, Iowa, Dec. 15, 2018 – Let's make a trip back to Christmastime, 68 years ago. At that time, this writer knew that Santa Claus would be coming and delivering presents to our house on Christmas Eve.
I have vivid memories of visiting the Lauver Hardware store on Main Street of Rippey. It was a two-story building, but the second floor was actually a balcony with railing similar to a picket fence. The floor only extended about six feet from the walls. At Christmas, the balcony had toys, lots of toys, which could be easily viewed from the first floor.
I can recall scooters, pull wagons, tricycles, bicycles, large dolls with their eyes open as they were standing, along with huge soft furry teddy bears that peered down on me when I went in with my parents.
That year Santa Claus brought me a record player. A one-speed turntable housed in a dark green lizard skin cover. It could be closed like a suitcase with an ivory colored handle, and easily transported. It was just like one I had seen at Lauver's store.
For the adults, televisions were available, along with refrigerators, and automatic washers and dryers, and even a "deep freezer."
It was a time of prosperity and joy for the 15,000 residents living in Greene County. World War II had ended five years earlier and though we were in the Korean conflict, at that time it was of minimal impact on most of the population.
The Jefferson Herald published on December 14, 1950, had 18 pages. There were numerous published letters to Santa Claus.
Santa actually arrived in the area by airplane at the Jefferson Airport, and was transported to town in the police chief's car. He was available to meet children at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Christmas trees were available at Smith's Fruit Market, at a cost of 98 cents and up, according to their ad. The Greene County Treasurer listed 26 new car registrations, along with the name of the individual and the make of the automobile.
A 16-inch Westinghouse TV was available at Lyon Electric at a cost of $349.95, which in our 2018 dollars would be approximately $3,500.
Maybe one of the most unique listings was from C.H. Daubendiek, manager of the Jefferson Telephone Company. In an add, he listed 200 names and phone numbers that had been added or changed since April. He suggested the ad be clipped and placed in your current phone book.
Social life and charitable giving were in place 68 years ago, and exemplified by an ad from the Beta Tau Delta sorority, which was sponsoring a Dec. 20 ball with a live band. Tickets to the event were $1 per person.
Movie goers were able to see "Annie Get your Gun" at the Iowa Theater in a continuous showing on Sunday afternoon. A price was not printed in the ad, but a former attendee has told me movies were 10 cents.
Greene County residents had a joyous Christmas in 1950, and the Greene County Historical Society wishes another for all here in 2018.
You can comment on this story in the space below here, or write directly to the columnist by email at mweaver235@gmail.com. The author, who lives outside Rippey, is an active member of the Greene County Historical Society.
New president David John has Greene County roots as deep as you can get
JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 12, 2018 — David John, who was elected president of the Greene County Iowa Historical Society for 2019 at a meeting of the membership Dec. 7 , is about as deeply-rooted a Greene Countian as anyone around here today could be.
"My namesake and great-great-grandfather David John settled here with his family in 1856 and farmed west of Rippey," said the current David John, 78, a retired school guidance counselor who lives outside Jefferson.
"They were one of about 150 families of settlers who moved in here between 1854 and 1856, probably from Missouri, Kentucky and Illinois," John said. "I'm fairly sure my great-great-grandfather first stopped in Adel for a time, but then came on up here by river."
It's quite a heritage.
David John, newly-elected president of the Greene County Iowa Historical Society, shown here in the museum in Jefferson.
His great-grandfather John B. John was among the young men who were students at the early Brand School in our Washington Township. That's the school from where instructor Azor Mills and all 30 students, including John B. John, marched off together for Civil War service.
Besides John as president, the other newly-elected are Margaret Hamilton, of Jefferson, programs director; Joyce Ausberger, of Jefferson, secretary; Becki Cunningham, of Paton, returns as treasurer, and Dale Hanaman, of Rippey, past-president.
David John spent his early years in Bagley, where his father was a mechanic for the local farm implement dealer. By David's fourth grade year, the family moved to Osceola in south central Iowa where his father worked for a larger implement dealer. David graduated from high school there in 1958. He worked construction and hauled grain until 1963 when he was drafted into the Army. He was trained as a military truck driver, and served two years active duty in Missouri and Texas, then two more years in the Army Reserves in Ames.
Using the "GI Bill," he started his college work in January, 1966, at Boone Junior College. After three semesters, he transferred to the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, where he eventually graduated with a degree in social studies with an emphasis in political science.
It was at UNI that David met Carol Norgren, of Rippey, a 1965 graduate of East Greene High School, who was studying library science in college.
After graduating and marrying, they began their education careers in eastern Iowa, Carol as a school librarian and David teaching government and economics at the high school level. David also earned his master's degree from the University of Iowa in K-12 guidance counseling.
From '72 to '79, the Johns served a school district in Burlington, Ill.
But they maintained strong ties back in Iowa. Early participants in the adult bicycling boom of the 1970s, they rode three of the earliest RAGBRAIs. And even though they were living in Illinois, they subscribed to the Des Moines Register "so we could get the ads for teaching jobs," David said.
In 1979, when they read that the Jefferson Community Schools were advertising for a high school librarian and an elementary-level guidance counselor, they jumped at the opportunities. They got the jobs and finished their careers here, David retiring in 2001 and Carol in 2002. During their time in the schools here, David served as resident of the Jefferson Education Association for several terms.
The Johns have traveled extensively, visiting 49 of the United States, missing only Hawaii, and to all the provinces of Canada. They've continued bicycling, too, and have ridden their Bacchetta recumbents in Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin and Idaho besides Iowa.
"I've always loved history, and my favorite reading has been historical biographies," David said. "Even though my family has a lot of history around here, I wasn't as interested in local history until more recent years. We didn't get involved in the historical society organization, but we have been attending a lot of the programs and have been getting more interested all the time."
After being asked to consider the presidency of the historical society, he said he's been reading Tom Morain's acclaimed 1988 history of Greene County, "Prairie Grass Roots," and has been fascinated by it. That covers from white settlement of the area in the 1850s until the 1930s.
John said one think he wants to work on is "to tie Greene County history more into the high school history classes here." Another goal – "get more people involved in the historical society."
At Dec. 7 meeting, new officers, newsletter, 2019 programs & holiday music
JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 3, 2018 — The Greene County Iowa Historical Society will close its programming for 2018 with the annual holiday-themed lunch and meeting on Friday, Dec. 7, at the Greenewood Center in Jefferson.
The annual election of officers will be held, and a newsletter covering 2018 and 2019 activities will be distributed — and that will include the schedule of monthly and special programs to be held in '19.
Nominees for 2019 officers are David John, of Jefferson, as president; Margaret Hamilton, of Jefferson, programs director; Joyce Ausberger, of Jefferson, secretary; Becki Cunningham, of Paton, treasurer, and Dale Hanaman, of Rippey, past-president. Nominations will be accepted from the membership at the meeting, too.
A special feature will be musical entertainment by Greene County High School band members, led by director Wes Anderson.
The lunch requires RSVPs by midday on Wednesday, Dec. 5, with members calling their community contacts, while the public can make reservations with vice-president Nancy Hanaman at (515) 436-7684. Lunch is $8 for members and $10 for non-members.
Sorting out one family's history: The researcher, Jean Tucker, keeps surprising the descendent, her husband Doug Tucker!
Leading Iowa historian Tom Morain, a native of Greene County, will be memorialized in special state program online on Tuesday evening, Nov. 24
Historical museum is now closing again, and until further notice, out of concern over corona virus spread
Roger Aegerter's fun new artwork lets you walk the full length of the historic Lincoln Highway!
Greene County Historical Museum to re-open, on Saturdays in July
Museum will remain closed at least through June, and June 5 program canceled
His research stalled when he became absorbed in what Jefferson was like back in the year 1876
At the centennial of women receiving the right to vote, a look back at the battle in Greene County
Greene County Historical Society programs thru early May postponed due to corona virus
Come join live "Skype" chat with fascinating diplomat Michael S. Owen, a Lincoln Highway explorer & author
Iowa trivia expert brings "Iowa Trivia Challenge" to museum on Monday
Thinking of Greene County's old country churches, like St. Mary's, north of Jamaica
We're celebrating President Lincoln's 211th birthday at the museum, with free lunch, party and chat
Holiday promotional gifts from merchants sure have changed over the years!
All officers re-elected as our historical society closes out 2019 programming
Scranton's "Varceis Club" headlines our program on the many women's clubs
More "cover crops" being planted in Greene County now, and they're really as historic as they are futuristic
At Oct. 4 Rippey meeting, we'll hear the stories of three historic farms
A second "museum party" this Saturday welcomes another Lincoln Highway tour recalling 1919 convoy
Historical society hosting "museum party" Saturday Aug. 24 for re-enactment of 1919 military convoy
Grand Junction hosting two of our programs: Friday Aug. 2 on county's movie theatres, Sunday Aug. 4 on GJ's 150 years
History comes alive at the Greene County Fair, Friday & Saturday July 12-13
Stories of the Mason House from the Fosters when our society meets Friday June 7
Our historical society hosts "Iowa History 101" during Bell Tower Festival, plus the art show & spelling bee
Another inspiring service Memorial Day weekend at Pleasant Hill Church
Pleasant Hill Church, with new life & spirit, is ready for May 26 Homecoming
Churdan High '49 graduate "Gus" Gustafson's business career was the talk of the Twin Cities and Las Vegas – while it lasted
The traditions & adages that guided our pioneers on when it's planting time
Cooper Hubbell, meet your great-great-great-grandpa Isaac Cooper, this town's namesake!
Quick work & generous grants allow historical society to avert museum disaster
The places where generations of a family meet for bonding become almost magical, like the author's farm near Rippey
We've re-scheduled our program in Cooper, from April 5 to April 12
Historical Society meets in Cooper on Friday, April 12, with some special guests!
Our program March 10: Historic old buildings do not scare Nick Sorensen
Feb. 10 program explores sports photography thru the decades & into the future -- capturing the drama, fun & excitement
Mary Geisler, at 100, tells her life story (and favorite stories) in a video interview being televised this month
Ces Brunow's thoughts on the historical society as she steps down from seven years of leadership
"Our Wilsons & Lincoln" event Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. will salute courthouse statue's 100 years of inspiration
Recalling Greene County's political & elections history, when we meet in Scranton Nov. 2
We know from history and from life in recent days, that when it comes to hate and fear, we've "got to be carefully taught"
Our Oct. 5 meeting in Rippey: Remembering "Agri-rama" and national plowing matches
U of I Women's Archives doing 6-on-6 girls' basketball presentation Sept. 15 in Jefferson
Greene County's "pioneer cemeteries" and the people who are preserving them
Fire up! Fight songs, free sports movies and more will lead up to Smithsonian "HomeTown Teams" exhibit opening Aug. 11
History at the fair: Storytelling, "old iron," country school lessons – and ice cream!
Don Orris speaks Friday on unique heritage & impact of local archery program
Memorial homecoming tradition is growing at old Pleasant Hill Church -- service Sunday features speakers, brass band, 21-gun salute & a fried chicken potluck dinner like the pioneers had
Exploring a pre-cut barn built in 1933 on what's now the Tronchetti farm
Our museum has started its regular hours, opening Wednesday afternoons & Saturday mornings
Conservation director Dan Towers on Friday will share amazing history of wildlife in Greene County
Pondering the racism that was so common around him in childhood
A funeral of an 89-year-old stirred him to reflect on how we could all live better in a new life
Program this Sunday: Bicycling history of Greene County – and of RAGBRAI, too!
Michelle Fields speaks on Greene County's 100 years of drainage & tiling, which has enabled farming here
Smithsonian tour-related sports programs start with the fun of these collectors of memorabilia
A salute to Mary Lynch's long, spirited service to our historical society
Dale Hanaman re-elected for a third year as president of the historical society
Our final 2017 meeting is Friday, Dec. 1, with holiday music & elections
The day Jane Millard changed the reading lists of many Greene Countians
Our program in Scranton: How many authors have Greene County roots, ties?
Our Oct. 6 program: A personal look at the history of banking in Rippey
Reception is Saturday for Alma Shorey Young, 91, a grain business icon here
Railroads expert Wendel speaks here Sept. 24 on Greene County rail history
Sept. 1 program: There's a whole lot of warm history in quilting
How "kit homes" and buildings helped early residents settle here
Roger Aegerter will share his historical adventure on the Lincoln Highway
Local history comes alive at the Greene County Fair
Pat Schiltz' personal experience with the dreaded polio
Memorial Day weekend gathering at Pleasant Hill
Nate Teut coming home to Churdan to talk baseball, his career and life
Actor Tom Milligan plays artist & conservationist "Ding" Darling this Sunday
A personal telling of a whole lot of our history
Jefferson & Greene County had an amazing place in great solar eclipse of 1869
Our David Yepsen to speak on his amazing career covering politics
The pervasive impact of the Civil War on life in early Greene County
Our historical society needs members (and donations, too!)
Our 2017 election & holiday party Friday
Dramatic bank robbery in 1925 in our little Farlin
When country schools served Greene County's kids
Our Tom Morain given major Iowa history award
Program in Rippey shared town's baseball history
We'll learn little Rippey's rich baseball heritage
Amazing stories of the early settlers' lives here
Meet the latest historic plaque nominees
Sheilah Pound presents our music heritage
How drainage enabled farming here
Justice Harris' poem "Homecoming"
A treasury of local poetry
A showcase for the Lincoln Highway story
Rick Morain's favorite food "Growing up Greene"
What Denise O'Brien learned from her parents
The games Rick Morain played while "Growing up Greene"
Mahanays "return" for Bell Tower's 50th
Foods of the pioneers – like prairie chickens
The killer diseases of pioneer times
Fair's "Healthy Baby" winner – 90 years later!
The founding & organization of Jefferson
Traveling & celebrating the Lincoln Highway
One of Denise O'Brien's favorite things to do "Growing up Greene"
Help us grow! Donate, become a member, or renew your membership today!
Did you know there were so many historical sites in this county? See many of them on the map here!
See interviews with historical figures, events and programs we have recorded, and much more!
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How many courthouse structures have been built on the site of the current Greene County Courthouse?
Just the one there now
There have been three courthouses built where the Greene County Courthouse stands today. Ground was broken on the current courthouse in November of 1915, the cornerstone was set in May 1916 and the new building was dedicated in October of 1917. The centennial celebration of the courthouse is already underway, with events being planned by the "Courthouse 100" committee, with support from the Greene County Historical Society. You can learn more about the courthouse history and the celebration plans on the Facebook page "Courthouse 100: Greene County, Iowa."
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The United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC released an official statement Monday regarding recent comparisons between 'Concentration Camps' and immigration detention centers along the US-Mexico border.
"Museum statement on Holocaust comparisons," posted the organization's official Twitter account.
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— US Holocaust Museum (@HolocaustMuseum) June 24, 2019
"The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary. That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum's official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now," reads the statement.
"The Museum further reiterates that a statement ascribed to a Museum staff historian regarding recent attempts to analogize the situation on the United States southern border to concentration camps in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s does not reflect the position of the Museum," adds the press release.
"The Museum deeply regrets any offense to Holocaust survivors and others that may have been engendered by any statement ascribed to a Museum historian in a personal capacity," it concludes.
Embattled Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flat-out refused to apologize for her recent remarks regarding the President's immigration policy last week; doubling-down on her stunning comparison between detention centers and 'Concentration Camps.'
"As long as the @GOPLeader supports jailing children and families on the border, I will continue to hold him to account for it. That's why I'm calling on Rep. McCarthy to apologize for aiding and supporting the separation of children from their parents," posted Ocasio-Cortez on social media.
As long as the @GOPLeader supports jailing children and families on the border, I will continue to hold him to account for it.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 21, 2019
Yad Vashem, the official Israel Holocaust Center in Jerusalem responded this week to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' recent comments; urging the far-left lawmaker to "learn" about concentration camps.
"@AOC Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of 'extermination through labor.' Learn about concentration camps," posted Yad Vashem.
.@AOC Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of "extermination through labor."
Learn about concentration camps https://t.co/oBPQsjf6FC#Holocaust #History pic.twitter.com/nmc9As2nlO
— Yad Vashem (@yadvashem) June 19, 2019
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Nowadays, Jane's is regarded as the military hardware bible, and publishes over 40 titles, including the esteemed Jane's Defence Weekly and International Defence Review, which are read the world over by Generals, Defence Ministers, squaddies and Israeli Fundamentalists alike. In fact, because it's so detailed and researched Jane's even have an office in the Pentagon, and regularly advise governments on military tactics and hardware development.
If somehow you got a transfer from real life to a Bond movie and ended up back at Q,'s pad (a fiendish blackmail plot, perhaps), you would surely find that he has every issue of Jane's either piled under the bed or stacked up in the loo, and he'd read them every day. And thus, because he'd looked it all up in Jane's All The World's Aircraft, Q, would tell you that the AH64-D was armed with a McDonnell Douglas M230A-1 chain-driven 30mm cannon.
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But then so are the chaps at Origin. They've already proved themselves masters of the flight combat sim (there's the fabulous Wings Of Glory and Pacific Strike just for starters, and the spectacular Wing Commander series for which they developed the super fast 'RealSpace' engine) and now they want to take the whole thing to the next level by incorporating even more authentic and accurate data, realistic scenarios and true to life tactics - which means teaming up with Jane's. Oh, and it also means poaching some chap called Andy Hollis from MicroProse to work on the first in the Jane's Combat Simulations series. This is based on the AH64-D Longbow attack helicopter and, not surprisingly, called AH64-D Longbow.
But it's not the first time that the Apache range of helicopters has been the subject of a game; there's the recent Apache Longbow from Digital Integration, the not-so-recent Comanche: Maximum Overkill from Novalogic (which featured an experimental helicopter based on the Apache), and of course MicroProse's very own Gunship, which started the ball rolling a few years back.
So do we really need another Apache helicopter combat sim? Andy Hollis, game producer, certainly thinks so:'The thing that really made Gunship so exciting was all the new technology it used. The Apache was cool because it had great new things like tads (Target Acquisition and Designation Sight) and pnvs (Pilot Night Vision Sensor) which allowed it to track and scan targets and enabled the pilot to see in the dark. The Longbow is a new variant that uses even more sophisticated technology, so it's still all very exciting.'
Just in case you don't have a copy of Jane's handy, I'd better explain that the new Apache Longbow has a mast-mounted radar dome that sits above the rotor blades so the helicopter can stay low, popping up briefly (and thereby exposing itself) to scan for targets. It then dives back down into cover again, the data is analysed, the pilot accesses the threat and then pops up and takes out the targets. A bit sneaky, you might think, but very effective - and all's fair in love and war.
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Of course, none of all this fancy stuff would be of much use if the terrain was essentially flat (as it was in Gunship), so Origin have developed a unique meshlike terrain generating thingamy that can throw texture-mapped polygons around and look very realistic at the same time. Take a peek at the grabs to see what all the fuss is about.
At the moment, of course, it's the Chuggerama hillocks out there, but remember sports fans, 'it hasn't been optimised yet' and already looks a lot nicer than the bristle-like Voxel Space Technology utilised by Novalogic in Comanche and at the same time it's more accurate than the 'tiling' system used by di in Apache Longbow. Every texture map is completely different and based on actual data from the us Government Geological Survey, and the developers are confident that their system will look better and play smoother than anyone else's.
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While Origin are busy with AH64-D, Electronic Arts are beavering away on ATF (Advanced Tactical Fighters), yet another flight combat sim that will combine the gaming expertise of the people who brought you LHX, Chuck Yeager, US Navy Fighters and Marine Fighters with the knowledge and expertise of the boffs from Jane's.
ATF features six experimental planes, next-generation fighters that are currently being tested and won't see active service until well into the next century. Although it's still at avery early stage of development, the team have managed to produce an advanced version of the game engine used in US Navy Fighters that doubles the resolution of the terrain without any real loss of speed, and adds new effects such as planes that break up as well as explode. It's not as structured as AH64-D, concentrating instead on the simulation elements of flying six never-seen-before combat aircraft: finding out which plane is best for the job while assessing their strengths and weaknesses - a sort of experimental 'suck it and see' type experience.That said, there are three campaigns, each with over 30 different missions, ranging from bombing, escort, air-to-air combat, patrol and scramble scenarios, as well as the 'must have' mission builder which will allow you to plan out some pretty serious conflict storylines.
There's also a database that includes information on every aircraft featured in the game (this is where Jane's comes in again) and an eight-way network that should run quite happily on a 9600 baud modem, a feature that was lacking in both US Navy Fighters and Marine Fighters. Let's hope it's as good.
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guardian.co.uk, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Tuesday 8 February 2011 16.20 GMT
Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi addresses a June 2009 rally.
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Iran's opposition has called for renewed street protests next week on the back of the wave of demonstrations that have swept across the Middle East.
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the leaders of the green movement in Iran, have issued a call for what they have described as "a solidarity move to support the protests in two Muslim countries of Egypt and Tunisia" on Monday.
The green movement staged a series of mass demonstrations for several weeks in 2009, following a disputed presidential election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. Tehran and other major cities saw the biggest popular uprising in the history of the Islamic Republic.
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In a joint letter addressed to Iran's interior minister, Mustafa Mohammad Najjar, Mousavi and Karroubi have asked permission to stage a march from Imam Hossein Square to Azadi (or Freedom) Square in central Tehran.
On his official website, Mousavi has likened the protests in Egypt and Tunisia to those in Iran in 2009. "Undoubtedly, the starting point of what we are witnessing in the streets of Tunis, Sana'a, Cairo, Alexandria and Suez should be seen in the Iranian protests," he said.
"The Middle East is on the threshold of great events these days that could affect the fate of the region and the world." .
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has hailed the Egyptian uprising and said that it was inspired by the Islamic revolution in 1979.
"Today's events in the north of Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and certain other countries have another sense for the Iranian nation. They have special meaning. This is the same Islamic awakening which resulted in the victory of the big revolution of the Iranian nation," he was quoted by the IRNA state news agency as saying at his Friday prayer sermon last week.
It is unlikely that Ahmadinejad's government will give permission for the opposition protest, but the leaders of the green movement are using the request to reach out to the public. Iran's constitution allows for peaceful demonstrations.
The call has been welcomed by Iran's huge online community, which has already started to promote it via social networking websites and in blogs. Flyers and posters are being designed by anonymous supporters of the green movement who have distributed them among internet users.
On Friday Tehran will stage a pro-government demonstration to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
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Anti-government protests in Iran in 2009. (Photograph: Getty Images)
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