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Q: How to stop jQuery slidetoggle yo-yo? I am new to jQuery but this seems like it should work just fine:
$(document).ready(
    function()
    {
        $("#btn_toggle_transcript").click(
            function()
            {
                $("#transcript_container").slideToggle(1000);
            }
        );
    }
);

...and it does work, but not correctly. ...at least, not as expected...
Am I correct in assuming that the above code would add a click handler to the element with an ID of "btn_toggle_transcript"?  This click handler, then, would respond to the click by either opening the targetted div (...with the id of "transcript_container") if it is closed, or closing it if it is open?
What is currently happening is this:  clicking the button does, indeed, make the div slide open.  BUT, when it is fully open, it IMMEDIATELY - and with no user input - slides closed again.
I have seen a few forum posts suggesting the possible cause is the handler getting added twice.  However, if I comment out the above code, no action is taken when the button is clicked.  So, the handler is not getting added anywhere else...
Can ANYONE please tell me why my div is yo-yoing closed by itself?
The HTML for the button:

The HTML for the sliding div (content is set dynamically):

And the CSS:
#transcript_container{
z-index:4;
position:absolute;
width:290px;
max-height:455px;
top:51px;
right:-2px;
background-color:#90B2D8;
padding:20px 10px 10px 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
border-left: 1px solid #000;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
display:none;
}

#transcript_contents{
max-height:375px;
overflow:auto;
margin:20px 0px 10px 0px;
background-color:#ffffff;
padding:0px 5px 0px 5px;
}

#btn_toggle_transcript {
background: url('images/transcript.png') no-repeat 0 0;
display:block;
}

#circle_btn_toggle_transcript:hover {
background-position: 0px -50px;
}

==========
EDIT:
I did three things that seem to have helped.  Why they worked, I do not know, but they do.
1) Drupal 6.x uses an old version of jQuery (1.2.2).  There is a module to update to 1.3.2.  I replaced the 1.3.2 update files with the 1.7.1 files and now my DOM reports using v1.7.1 of jQuery.
2) & 3) Despite the fact that I only bind to the click event ONCE (verified by removing the binding and having no action invoked on a button click), I decided to try adding a line to remove my "phantom" binding before I add my actual binding.  Based on my reading, I have decided to use the now recommended on() and off() methods to add/remove the bindings.  My ready() function now looks like this:
$(document).ready(
function(){
    $("body").off("click", "#btn_toggle_transcript");
    $("body").on("click", "#btn_toggle_transcript",
        function(){
            $("#transcript_container").slideToggle(1000);
        }
    );
}
);

Now, my sliding div opens and stays open until I toggle it closed again. Yay!
A big thank you to all who answered/commented.  Your suggestions and guidance helped me get to a solution.
Cheers!
UPDATE:
As I mentioned in one of the comments, this is running inside Drupal.  As also mentioned, if I commented out the single binding, no action was invoked.  My reasoning was that since the removal of ONE binding ceased to invoke the action, then there was no way it was being bound twice...
DUMB!
While I was correct that there was only one block of binding code, I completely forgot that my module was already adding my js file to the page.  Because I need to deploy my content in non-drupal environments as well, I was also manually adding the js file to my page.  ...two inclusions meant two bindings.  ...that's a few days I'll never get back!

A: Its case where click is binded two times. See for a possibility where you have done that. eg. in js file and as well as inside script tag in html document.
Also if container is dynamic, you should use live instead of click.
$("selector").live("click", function() { /*body*/ })

You can try this.
$(document).ready(
function(){
    $("body").click( "#btn_toggle_transcript",
        function(){
            if(!$("#transcript_container").hasClass('opened')) {
              $("#transcript_container").slideDown(1000).addClass('opened');
            } else {
              $("#transcript_container").slideUp(1000);
            }
        }
    );
}
);

A: There is a new solution near the end of my answer.
I've had this same problem numerous times and definitely only had one call to the function.
For some reason every little step of the way the tween.end variable would resort to 0. My workaround to this is as follows:
$('body').on('click', '.toggle', function() {
    var ul = $(this).next('ul');
    if (!$(ul).hasClass('open')) {
        $(ul).slideDown({
            step: function(now, tween) {
                if (tween.end == 0) {
                    stop();
                }
            },
            complete: function() {
                $(ul).addClass('open');
            }
        });
    } else {
        $(ul).slideUp('', '', function() {
            $(ul).removeClass('open');
        });
    }
});

Bit messy, but that's all I could come up with as I couldn't find another call to the function.
edit
An old question - with a new solution.
Simply adding stop() before your slideToggle fixes the recurring yo-yo effect.
$('#element').stop().slideToggle();

A: You wait for the end of the event to add the class.
$(document).ready(
    function(){
        $("body").click( "#btn_toggle_transcript",
            function(){
                if(!$("#transcript_container").hasClass('opened')) {
                    $("#transcript_container").slideDown(1000,function(){$(this).addClass('opened')});
                } else {
                    $("#transcript_container").slideUp(1000,function(){$(this).removeClass('opened')});
                }
            }
        );
    }
);


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War crimes, Sand Creek and the South – a talk at DU law school
The Native American Laws Students Association at DU invited me to give a talk on John Evans and Sand Creek last fall (h/t Aubrey Bertram). The tape is here (h/t to Ryan Goehrung).
In the question period, Professor David Akerson a former prosecutor for the United Nations – see here – asked whether Evans was guilty of war crimes (the DU committee as a whole had thought Evans was profoundly morally and politically culpable for uniquely creating the conditions for or instigating the Massacre but had not dealt directly with the issue of legality beyond noting that he was forced to resign).
On August 11, 1864, Governor Evans issued a Proclamation – also as superintendent of Indian Agents in Colorado, charged with making peace with indigenous people, and without any direct military appointment or authority – which calls all white residents to "kill and destroy" every Indian still on the Plains. This is an incitement to murder, including of women and children, by a public official. It is pretty much what was done at Sand Creek, to determinedly peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos who had every reason to think that they had made peace and were under the protection of the army (John Evans and John Chivington had deceived them at Camp Weld).
Inciting the murder of innocent people by those in authority is a criminal offense under the law of the time – not that officials were prosecuted for such things… – and given the facts, decent people at the time might have arrived at this verdict.
Professor Akerson later invited me to a class of law on war crimes trials to talk about facts of the case, The students had read our Committee's report here; they then offered arguments about which features of modern law might apply.
During the Civil War, the Federal government hanged 38 Santee Sioux for attacking settlers in Minnesota. President Lincoln risked his reelection in 1864 to have two attorneys review the 303 death sentences handed down in Minnesota, and reduced the number dramatically to those against whom there was some evidence.
This mass hanging, the largest in US military history, stands out in two ways. First, not one of the leaders of the Confederacy, who fought the Civil War to preserve bondage, a systemic form of murder and physical and sexual abuse of innocents, was hung.
Now both John Evans and John Chivington were Unionists and opposed slavery (Chivington was threatened as a minister in Missouri with being tarred and feathered, and went to preach that Sunday, a big man, with two revolvers next to his bible). When the Ku Klux Klan ran Colorado in 1924 (Mayor Ben Stapleton and Governor Morley), the two racisms merged. See here. In the brief opening of the Colorado History museum exhibit on Sand Creek grotesquely named "Collision," an older white man accosted me about how the facts about the Massacre were "the Indian's point of view." I looked at him and said, "no, it's the truth." He later proclaimed the secession for slavery "the war for Southern independence"…
Today in the South, there are still Jefferson Davis Highways (see below and here). Davis was responsible, even in the War, for the order to murder black soldiers captured as prisoners of war, as in the Fort Pillow Massacre. Murdering prisoners of war has been a great crime since the Greeks…
Yet in the twin genocides against slaves and indigenous people (the latter occurred from Coast to Coast from 1638 and the Pequot Massacre in Connecticut on – see here for a year by year map), no American official was ever indicted for even a single murder. That is perhaps the most remarkable fact about the American "legal" system. Despite the grandeur of the Bill of Rights, American history is "exceptional" largely for murderousness, and we have just – for instance, with Governor Hickenlooper's apology to indigenous people on the steps of the State Capital last December 3rd – begun to strike out on a new and more hopeful course. See here.
Second, Little Crow, the Sioux leader, had settled down and become a Christian as had others. But the starvation of the people, in violation of federal treaty obligations, and the catering of the military in Minnesota only to those who starved them, was angering and frightening. When two indigenous young men murdered a white family and took food, the Government would strike back, and the war was on…
But the character of the war was determined primarily by the American conquest of that territory in the first place – morally, the crime of aggression (see Michael Walzer, Just and Just Wars). Indigenous people had the right, under European/settler law, to defend their property and themselves against their conquerors – their lands were being held by illegitimate force. In addition, coerced starvation is a great crime.
What the young men who initiated the war did was also a crime against a small number of innocents (jus in bello), but what the United States Government did, both in the conquest and in breaking the treaties signed, through starving the Santee, was a series of mass war crimes (jus ad bellum). The Native Americans had a just cause.
Put differently, the Civil War in the South was a war against genocide (bondage) but the Civil War in the West was a war of genocide…
For a talk to the Northwestern students of Gary Fine, an Evans professor who has told the truth for years, listen here.
For a talk to the Unitarian Church on founding myths/amnesias in the US, Israel and Tibet, see here.
For a series of reflections on Evans and Sand Creek, see the left side of this page.
Lynching and Jeff Davis Highway
Exclusive: Many parts of the South, including Arlington, Virginia, just outside the U.S. capital, still honor Confederate President Jefferson Davis by attaching his name to important roadways. But a recent study on lynching puts the motive for honoring that white supremacist in a sickening new light, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
A new study of Southern lynching of blacks, sharply raising the total to nearly 4,000 victims, adds some context to the decision in 1920 to attach the name of Confederate President Jefferson Davis to parts of Route One, including stretches near and through African-American neighborhoods. That period was a time when the number of lynchings surged across the South and whites were reasserting their impunity.
According to the study by the Equal Justice Initiative, the use of lynching – mob killings and mutilations of blacks by hanging, burning alive, castration, torture and other means – was nearly as high around 1920 as it was in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century. There was a gradual decline in lynchings in the early Twentieth Century, but the pattern reversed and the use of lynching surged to about 500 during a five-year period heading into 1920.
A Civil War-era African-American soldier and his family. (Photo credit: Encyclopedia Virginia)
That period also marked a determination by many Southern whites to reaffirm the rightness of the Confederate cause and to reassert white supremacy. Thus, in 1920, to drive home the point of who was in charge, the Daughters of the Confederacy had Southern states name portions of Route One after Jefferson Davis, who was hailed as the "champion of a slave society" when he was chosen to lead the Confederacy in 1861.
Besides honoring a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist who favored keeping African-Americans in chains forever, the Daughters of the Confederacy saw these designations of Route One as a counterpoint to plans in the North for a Lincoln Highway in honor of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
But bestowing this honor on Jefferson Davis was also a political message of pro-Confederate defiance that was not limited to the brutal era of 1920. The Jefferson Davis designation was extended to parts of Route 110 near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, in 1964 as Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement were pressing for landmark civil rights legislation to end segregation and as white Virginian politicians were vowing to resist integration at all costs.
A year or so ago, I wrote to the five members of the Arlington County Board and urged them to seek an end to this grotesque honor bestowed on a notorious white racist. When my letter went public, it was treated with some amusement by the local paper, the Sun-Gazette, which described me as "rankled," and prompted some hate mail.
One letter from an Arlington resident declared that it was now her turn to be "RANKLED by outsiders like Mr. Parry who want to change history because it is not to his liking. … I am very proud of my Commonwealth's history, but not of the current times, as I'm sure many others are."
I was also confronted by a senior Democratic county official at a meeting about a different topic and urged to desist in my proposal to give the highway a new name because the idea would alienate state politicians in Richmond who would think that Arlington County was crazy.
But the new study on the terrorism of lynching reminds us that attaching Jefferson Davis's name to roadways wasn't just some romantic gesture to honor an historical figure beloved by Southern whites who in 1920 still pined for the ante-bellum days when they could own black people and do to them whatever they wished.
The years around 1920 marked a violent revival of the carnival-like scenes in which whites treated the lynching of blacks as a moment for community hilarity and celebration, often posing with their children for photographs next to the mutilated corpses. Stamping Jefferson Davis's name on a highway that passed near and through black neighborhoods was another way to send a chilling message to African-Americans.
In my 37 years living in Virginia, I have always been struck by the curious victimhood of many Southern whites. Because of the Civil War, which some still call "the War of Northern Aggression," and the Civil Rights Movement, which finally ended segregation, they have been nursing grievances, seeing themselves as the real victims here.
Not the African-Americans who were held in the unspeakable conditions of bondage until slavery was finally ended in the 1860s and who then suffered the cruelties of white terrorism and the humiliation of segregation for another century. No, the whites who lorded over them were the real "victims" because the federal government finally intervened to stop these practices.
Yet, while some white Virginians remain "very proud" of that history, there has been a studied neglect of other more honorable aspects of Arlington's history, including the role played by Columbia Pike as an African-American Freedom Trail where thousands of former slaves, freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, traveled north to escape slavery.
Many were given refuge in Freedman's Village, a semi-permanent refugee camp along Columbia Pike on land that now includes the Pentagon and the Air Force Memorial. Some of the men joined the U.S. Colored Troops training at nearby Camp Casey before returning to the South to fight for freedom, to end the scourge of slavery once and for all.
As blacks joined the Union Army, Confederate President Jefferson Davis ratified a policy that refused to treat black men as soldiers but rather as slaves in a state of insurrection, so they could be executed upon capture or sold into slavery.
In accordance with this Confederate policy, U.S. Colored Troops faced summary executions when captured in battle. For instance, when a Union garrison at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, was overrun by Confederate forces on April 12, 1864, black soldiers were shot down as they surrendered. Similar atrocities occurred at the Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas, in April 1864, and the Battle of the Crater in Virginia. Scores of black prisoners were executed in Saltville, Virginia, on Oct. 2, 1864.
Yet, while Jefferson Davis's name remains on roadways through Arlington — and as the Confederate president is effectively honored whenever people have to use his name — there is still no commemoration of Freedman's Village (though something is supposedly being planned) and no one apparently even knows the precise location of Camp Casey, arguably one of Arlington's most significant and noble historical sites. (Camp Casey is believed to have been located close to where today's Pentagon now is, an area that in the 1860s was called Alexandria County before being renamed Arlington County in the Twentieth Century.)
Apparently, recognizing the place where free African-Americans were trained and armed to defeat the Confederacy and end slavery might "rankle" some white Arlington residents.
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.

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#include "compiler.h"

#include <atomic>
#include <cstdint>

// A reusable spinning barrier.
class spin_barrier
{
  uint32_t init_ __mpalign__;
  // Bit 63 is 0 for enter phase, 1 for exit phase.  Remaining bits
  // are the reached count.
  std::atomic<uint64_t> entered_;
  __padout__;

  static constexpr uint64_t phase_mask = 1ull << 63;
  static constexpr uint64_t reached_mask = ~phase_mask;

public:
  spin_barrier() : init_(0), entered_(0) { }
  spin_barrier(unsigned val) : init_(val), entered_(0) { }
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  {
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  {
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  {
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};

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December 11, 2018 - General
New members of the Advisory Board
We are pleased to welcome two new members to our advisory board: Dr. Henning Borggräfe, Head of Research and Education at the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, and Stefan Wilbricht, KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, project "Documentation Center denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof".
April 13, 2018 - Obituary
Reinhard Rürup (1934-2018)
Reinhard Rürup passed away last Friday, April 6, 2018, at the age of 83. We are deeply saddened by this loss. Reinhard Rürup has critically accompanied and actively supported the project from the very beginning as a member ouf our advisory board . We thank him for his great commitment and hope that we can continue to live up to the confidence he has placed in our project. He will leave a big gap as a scholar and as a human being.
March 07, 2018 - Presentation
Poster session at the DHd 2018
Anna Menny and Daniel Burckhardt presented the key document edition with a poster at the annual conference of digital humanities in the German-speaking countries in Cologne.
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November 30, 2017 - General
New Section: Presentations and Publications
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October 19, 2017 - Obituary
Annette Haller (1958–2017)
Annette Haller died on September 16th far too early. Annette Haller has been an active member of the advisory board of our key documents edition from the first moment on, and has always been at our disposal for discussions. We would like to thank her for this important support. We will miss her qualified advice and kindness. We are deeply affected by her loss.
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Key Documents for Teachers
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Key Documents in the Archives Journal of the State Archive
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Key Documents at Historikertag
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August 07, 2016 - General
On the occasion of its 50th birthday: The IGDJ goes digital
Launch of the digital anniversary project and reception
Thursday, 22.09.2016 18:00 to 21:00
The Institute for the History of German Jews (IGDJ) turns 50! On this occasion, the institute presents itself and its digital jubilee project "Key Documents of German-Jewish History". The online edition virtually reunites the Jewish heritage of the city, which is scattered throughout the world due to migration and persecution, making it accessible to the whole world and preserving it for future generations. You are welcome to join this launch followed by a reception. At the same time, this is an opportunity to view an exhibition on research on Nazi looted books carried out by the IGDJ and the Stabi.
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A source edition in a balancing act between Public History and research infrastructures
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Interview with Thomas Fache and Dr. Anna Menny on L.I.S.A.
In its latest edition, the online periodical "Medaon – magazine for Jewish life in research and education" has dealt with the importance of digitization for Jewish history. On this occasion, L.I.S.A. interviewed the editors Thomas Fache and Dr. Anna Menny about "Medaon" as a whole and the issues raised in this focus issue on digitization. What specific possibilities does the digital age offer with regard to researching Jewish history? Which topics and approaches are made possible? How does networking work? And what role does the online magazine "Medaon" play?
Medaon issue on digital Jewish history
The latest issue of the online magazine Medaon was just released. Titled "Interim Promises and Challenges. Perspectives on the relationship between digitization and Jewish history", it focuses on the subject of digital Jewish history. This edition was developed in collaboration with the Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGDJ) in Hamburg and the Netzwerk Jüdische Geschichte digital.
New members of the Advisory Board (December 11, 2018)
Reinhard Rürup (1934-2018) (April 13, 2018)
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Annette Haller (1958–2017) (October 19, 2017)
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@keydocuments now on Twitter (June 19, 2017)
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Medaon issue on digital Jewish history (December 09, 2015)


asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the assistance available within the rural development areas as designated by the Development Commission.
The Development Commission has a wide range of schemes in rural development areas designed to promote new job opportunities and to help maintain or improve rural services. The budget of the Development Commission has been increased since 1983 by about 21 per cent. in real terms.
Bearing in mind the very high levels of unemployment in areas such as Northumberland, do the Government accept that rural development areas should have access to European regional development funds, as the mid Wales development area already has? Will the Government support an approach to try to secure that? Will they also look again at the funds available to the Development Commission for starter workshops for small businesses, a scheme with considerable potential, which is being held up in areas such as Northumberland due to lack of funds?
As the hon. Gentleman knows, the European Commission has made it clear that any further extension of assisted area status will cause it to review all regional development assistance to the United Kingdom, so the risk might not be worth it. I know that the hon. 559 Gentleman is a strong supporter of the Development Commission and has travelled around his constituency with the commissioners looking at schemes in which the commission is involved. The commission could use more resources and we are giving it more resources next year.
Is my hon. Friend aware that part of my constituency in the Forest of Dean is a rural development area and that the allocation of that status has made a fantastic difference to the morale of the district and the number of jobs created? Is he further aware of the considerable contribution to its success made by the chairman, Lord Vinson, a man of great ability for whom nothing is too much trouble?
I am certainly aware of that. Indeed, I met Lord Vinson this morning to discuss these issues. In the period of farming readjustment now taking place as surpluses are reined back, the Development Commission has, perhaps, an increasingly important role to play.


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Harmuthsachsen ist ein Stadtteil von Waldkappel im nordhessischen Werra-Meißner-Kreis.

Geografie
Der Ort liegt im Osthessischen Bergland unmittelbar nordöstlich des Stölzinger Gebirges am Werra-Zufluss Wehre 2,2 km nordwestlich der Waldkappeler Kernstadt, 1,9 km südsüdwestlich des Waldkappeler Ortsteils Rodebach und 2,2 km südöstlich des Waldkappeler Ortsteils Hasselbach. Harmuthsachsen liegt im Geo-Naturpark Frau-Holle-Land.

Südlich von Harmuthsachsen erhebt sich das Ziegenküppel () und wenige Kilometer nördlich der Hohe Meißner (). Im Dorf treffen die Landesstraße 3334 und die Kreisstraße 33 aufeinander, die beide Anschluss an die südwestlich die Ortschaft passierende Bundesstraße 7 (Deutsche Fachwerkstraße) haben.

Geschichte

Ortsgeschichte
Die älteste bekannte schriftliche Erwähnung von Harmuthsachsen erfolgte unter dem Namen Hermensasßen im Jahre 1195 in einer Urkunde des Klosters Germerode. Der damalige Ortsname Hermensassen leitet sich von der Gründung eines Hermann ab. Die Reste der südlich des Ortes gelegenen Burg wurden 1824 abgebrochen. Der Ort und das Kloster Marienheide gehörten bis 1821 zum hessischen Amt Lichtenau und danach zum Landkreis Witzenhausen. Während der französischen Besetzung gehörte der Ort zum Kanton Bischhausen im Königreich Westphalen (1807–1813).

Bereits 1324 wird eine jüdische Gemeinde erwähnt. 1833 wurde eine Synagoge erbaut. Sie besteht heute nicht mehr. Die evangelische Kirche wurde 1749 errichtet.

Hessische Gebietsreform (1970–1977)

Im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Hessen wurde auf freiwilliger Basis zum 1. Januar 1970 zunächst die kleine Gutsgemeinde Wollstein nach Harmuthsachsen eingemeindet. Die so vergrößerte Gemeinde Harmuthsachsen ließ sich zum 31. Dezember 1971 freiwillig in die Stadt Waldkappel eingliedern. Für Harmuthsachsen, sowie für alle ehemals eigenständigen Gemeinden von Waldkappel und die Kerngemeinde wurde ein Ortsbezirk mit Ortsbeirat und Ortsvorsteher nach der Hessischen Gemeindeordnung gebildet.

Verwaltungsgeschichte im Überblick
Die folgende Liste zeigt die Staaten bzw. Herrschaftsgebiete und deren untergeordnete Verwaltungseinheiten, in denen Harmuthsachsen lag:

 vor 1567: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen, Amt Lichtenau
 ab 1654: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel, Amt Lichtenau
 ab 1806: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel, Amt Lichtenau
 1807–1813: Königreich Westphalen, Departement der Werra, Distrikt Eschwege, Kanton Bischhausen
 ab 1815: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Amt Lichtenau
 ab 1821/22: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Provinz Niederhessen, Kreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1848: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Bezirk Eschwege
 ab 1851: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Provinz Niederhessen, Kreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1867: Norddeutscher Bund, Königreich Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Kreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1871: Deutsches Reich,  Königreich Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Kreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1918: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Kreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1944: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Kurhessen, Landkreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1945: Amerikanische Besatzungszone, Groß-Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1946: Amerikanische Besatzungszone, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1949: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Witzenhausen
 ab 1972: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Witzenhausen, Stadt Waldkappel
 ab 1974: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Werra-Meißner-Kreis

Bevölkerung

Einwohnerstruktur 2011
Nach den Erhebungen des Zensus 2011 lebten am Stichtag dem 9. Mai 2011 in Harmuthsachsen 411 Einwohner. Darunter waren 6 (1,5 %) Ausländer. Nach dem Lebensalter waren 78 Einwohner unter 18 Jahren, 168 zwischen 18 und 49, 87 zwischen 50 und 64 und 78 Einwohner waren älter. Die Einwohner lebten in 168 Haushalten. Davon waren 48 Singlehaushalte, 39 Paare ohne Kinder und 63 Paare mit Kindern, sowie 15 Alleinerziehende und 3 Wohngemeinschaften. In 27 Haushalten lebten ausschließlich Senioren und in 111 Haushaltungen lebten keine Senioren.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Historische Religionszugehörigkeit

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Kloster Marienheide

3,8 km südwestlich von Harmuthsachsen liegt am quellnahen Oberlauf des Hainebachs, einem südwestlichen Zufluss des zur Wehre fließenden Bach im Hohl, das ehemalige Rittergut Wollstein. Bis 2000 wurde es als Gutshof betrieben. Im Sommer 2000 wurde es an den Orden der Schwestern von Betlehem verkauft und seitdem ist es das Kloster Marienheide. Das Kloster wird seitdem mehr und mehr renoviert und ausgebaut. Eine aus einer ehemaligen Stallung entstandene neue Kirche wurde 2008 vom Bischof Heinz Josef Algermissen von Fulda geweiht.

Ortsbild
 Der Ortskern, der größtenteils aus Fachwerkhäusern besteht, ist sehr sehenswert.
 Die alte Kirche am Ortsrand ist ein kleiner, sehenswerter Fachwerkbau von 1821 mit Dachreiter.

Anmerkungen und Einzelnachweise
Anmerkungen

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Stadtteil Harmuthsachsen. In: Webauftritt der Stadt Waldkappel.

Ort im Werra-Meißner-Kreis
Geographie (Waldkappel)
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Werra-Meißner-Kreis)
Ersterwähnung 1195
Gemeindeauflösung 1971

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Catalonia, Spain, and Europe are Better Together
Nov 7, 2019 Pedro Sánchez
No state would ever allow the unilateral secession of a territory that forms part of its constitutional order. And no democrat should support the path taken by Catalonia's separatist leaders, who won less than 48% of the votes cast in regional elections.
MADRID – Above all, Europe is freedom, peace, and progress. We must move forward with these values and make Europe the leading model of integration and social justice that protects its citizens. The Europe we aspire to, the Europe we need, the Europe we are building is based on democratic stability within member states and cannot accept the unilateral breach of its integrity. The Europe we admire has been built on the principle of overlapping identities and equality for all citizens, and on the rejection of nationalist ideologies and extremism.
For this reason, the challenge of separatism in Catalonia, devised against and outside Spain's constitutional framework, and silencing the majority of Catalans who are against independence, is a challenge for Europe and Europeans. Preserving these values in Catalonia today means protecting the open and democratic Europe for which we stand.
Spain enshrined these values in 1978, when it created and ratified a fully democratic constitution. That historic document was endorsed by almost 88% of voters in a referendum. In Catalonia, support and turnout were even higher: some 90.5% of Catalans backed the new constitution.
Spain thus escaped the long and dark shadow of dictatorship and laid the foundations for a state based on the rule of law, comparable today with the long-established democracies of Western Europe. Individual freedoms, fought for and won by Spaniards of differing beliefs and backgrounds, including many Catalans, were restored. And the 1978 Constitution also provided an innovative and progressive answer to Spain's territorial diversity by treating it as an authentic asset worthy of recognition. Some 40 years later, the Democracy Index, published by The Economist, rates Spain as one of the world's 20 full democracies.
Contemporary Spain is Europe's second most decentralized country, and Catalonia enjoys some of the highest levels of regional self-governance on the continent, with wide-ranging devolved powers over crucial sectors such as media and public communication, health, education, and prisons.
Today, however, Catalonia is associated not only with the spirit of creativity and initiative, qualities that are broadly admired around the world, but also with a profound crisis, caused by the unilateral breach of Spain's constitutional order brought about by the region's separatist leaders in the autumn of 2017. Catalonia's leaders reneged on all the requirements and resolutions set out by the Constitutional Court, passed unconstitutional "disconnection" laws from the Spanish state, held an illegal referendum, and declared a purported Catalan Republic.
No state would ever allow the unilateral secession of a territory that forms part of its constitutional order. And no democrat should support the path taken by the separatist leaders, who won less than 48% of the votes cast in regional elections. Their fraudulent independence bid inflamed popular passions and, aided by the deliberate proliferation of fake news, encouraged a profound sense of injustice and confrontation with the rest of Spain. Where was the voice and the vote of those Catalans, the majority, who opposed independence? Where was the voice of those Spaniards who looked on, perplexed, at a direct breach of their Constitution's guarantees?
My government has distinguished itself by putting the expansion of rights and liberties first and foremost. International organizations have recognized the high standards we have set on issues such as gender equality. We would never, therefore, agree to even the smallest restriction of freedom of expression. The president of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalonia's regional government) is a radical separatist, but he is neither prevented from expressing his views freely, nor impeded from defending them publicly, despite the pain and damage they cause to peaceful coexistence in Catalonia.
The same is true for separatist local councils and governments, and for associations that support independence. They may express their opinions as they wish, provided that, they do not promote and encourage criminal acts. All Spaniards are equal before the law, and the Constitution and democracy are inseparable realities.
Under Spain's democratic rule of law, the judiciary is fully independent and allows for the review of rulings by national and international authorities. The government respects and complies with all judicial decisions. This includes the Supreme Court's ruling against nine separatist leaders charged for the illegal acts they carried out in the autumn of 2017. In that case, the Court acted with the greatest transparency: the entire proceedings were televised live.
Reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling have been extremely diverse: while some believe it was too lenient in handing down prison sentences of between nine and 13 years, others have organized demonstrations against the verdict. While some of these protests have been peaceful, others have descended into extreme violence.
The rights to protest and to strike are fundamental pillars of our democracy, and I fully respect those Catalan citizens who have peacefully exercised this right. But the organized and intentional acts of violence that have occurred across Catalonia in recent weeks is something else altogether and in no way represent the region's tolerance and welcoming spirit.
The illegal effort to bring about Catalonia's independence has followed a roadmap that is all too familiar in today's Europe. It leads through a web of lies, spun by fake news and viral messaging, and serves to energize right-wing extremists and enemies of European integration. It is the same route taken by those elsewhere who divide societies by exploiting the rhetoric of reaction to encourage polarization and confrontation.
Recently, leaders of this movement, such as the president of the main pro-separatist association, have stated that violence may be necessary for their cause to receive greater attention. But if we have learned anything from Europe's painful and bloody history, it is that no political ambition can ever justify resorting to violence, much less the normalization of violence as a political tool.
My government has responded to this challenge with proportion and control. I firmly believe that restraint is our strength. We reacted with speed to restore peace and stability to Catalonia's citizens, a majority of whom reject the current unstable impasse. We also acted with prudence to minimize the risk arising from moments of tension to the lowest possible level. And we must not forget the exemplary efforts and bravery of the Catalan police, with the support of the national police, in maintaining order at a time when their region's leaders were openly contemptuous of the law.
It is an absurd paradox to witness a president of the Generalitat making light of the violence while denouncing a police force, which acts on his orders, for performing its duty. It is also a grave error. I call on him to condemn the violence fully and clearly, and to launch a dialogue with the Catalan people who do not want independence, and with those parties that are not pro-separatist. He must begin to act as president of all Catalans, not only of those who share his political beliefs.
I will not allow another extreme nationalist outbreak, fueled by false narratives and replete with lies, to undermine the success of Spanish democracy, which our citizens and institutions have worked hard to achieve. In the discussion about the future of Catalonia, only the healing and coexistence of the Catalan people and society, not independence, is on the agenda. This is our main challenge: to ensure that all understand and accept that a unilateral path toward independence constitutes a direct affront to fundamental democratic principles.
At this moment, restraint and moderation are imperative. We will act with all the firmness needed to defend peaceful coexistence, but with the intelligence to recognize that we have an opportunity to start a new chapter before us. I have never turned away from dialogue if both parties are willing to act within the framework of the Constitution and the law. I do not want to be an us-against-them leader. My job is to serve all Spaniards equally.
There are different areas of dialogue to be explored if the separatist leaders abandon their unilateral path. We can speak and listen to each other without threats or belittlement. I know that there are open wounds, and that there is pain and frustration. But, despite this, there is an opportunity for hope, recognizing what we have achieved together and thinking about what we can do, together, to improve the wellbeing of all our citizens. For this to happen, however, the separatist leaders must return to the domain of the Constitution and respect for the rule of law.
My government has positioned Spain at the forefront of the project of European integration, and on the front line of the fight against our greatest global challenges. We are committed to the strengthening and expansion of rights and freedoms, and to the fight against inequality. These objectives transcend a nationalist vision, and we need Catalonia and Catalan society to help achieve them.
Pedro Sánchez is Prime Minister of Spain.
Ricard Crespo Baquero Dec 30, 2019
I am Catalan, I am also the son of Spanish parents living in Madrid.
For years I have felt ashamed of what is happening in Spain with respect to Catalonia. For years I have felt ashamed of what is happening in Spain regarding its own institutions.
Amazing how people who have appropriated the Spain concept have made fun of their own institutions and their most loyal territories.
What is happening now in Catalonia, what is happening in Spain, is nothing more than the consequence of the shameful acts that the political representatives and the supposed "representantes del Estado" have committed against their own homeland for decades.
Spaniards, be honest when you read your own recent story.
Of these moods these sludges. Now, let's find a way out among everyone.
Alejandro Millan Mon Dec 29, 2019
It is not only the secession of Catalonia, the question is the destruction of Spain in a similar way to what happened to Yogoslavia. Who would benefit from that? Not the common spaniards: catalonians, galicians, castilians, andalucians,... Maybe some corrupt catalonian politicians would. They would pass swiftly from prison to palace.
Samuel Milder Nov 12, 2019
"...separatism in Catalonia, devised against and outside Spain's constitutional framework..."?
What a short-sighted and skewed framing of the issue...
I lived in Catalonia back in 2006, and remember the autonomy statute that attempted to revise the relationship of powers between Madrid and Catalonia. It was passed within the constitutional framework, navigating both the regional and national democratic processes, and approved democratically, only to be struck down by the constitutional court. I also remember that many of the passages of that document that were found to be unconstitutional were in fact mirror images of passages in existing autonomy statutes in places like Andalucia and Galicia that did pass constitutional muster.
I also remember that the separatist movement (that had been polling below 30%) really took off following the failure of the statute. If anything, this is a story of the constitutional actors playing hardball to prevent a popular, democratically agreed policy from passing into law, and then sending in riot police to deal with public protests. If this is the response that the Spanish state takes to people working through the constitutional order, is it any surprise that Catalans would radicalize and seek other methods?
reachout andtouch Nov 12, 2019
This person shouldn't be given a platform here. He has denied the right of self-determination to the Catalan people, accommodated the brutal physical assault on people defending a free election and stood idly by while people were arrested for political actions.
Keep in mind that the Catalan issue has been growing since the 00s when the Spanish government refused discussion on reforming the Estatut which covers Spain-Catalunya relations, and the Spanish government has refused to talk to Catalan authorities ever since. The current crisis is the direct result of Spanish incompetence and disdain for acknowledging people's aspirations.
The author compounded his disgraceful actions by refusing to compromise and work with another party with similar goals to him, and as a result allowed a far-right misogynist party to increase its support and become the third largest party in parliament. He should be ashamed of himself. He should call a binding referendum on independence in Catalunya immediately and then resign in disgrace.
Xavier Castillo Nov 11, 2019
"Contemporary Spain is Europe's second most decentralized country". Not true. Spain could be a decetralized country if the Autounomous Regions had proper financing for the services they provide. This is one of the root causes of the catalan problem.
Eric Steinberg Nov 10, 2019
While I find separatism and nationalism of any sort to be idiotic, I think the stance of the Spanish state is dictatorial fear rather than a respect for law and belief in democracy. Catalans would have voted against separation exactly like the Scots and Québécois had they been given the chance to hold a proper referendum. Instead, the corrupt Spanish government chose to make a referendum illegal, to use force to attack their own population and to prosecute the political leaders opposing them.
No country or constitution is more important than its citizens. The people come first, the country and constitution derive all their power from the people not the other way around. I am surprised that Pedro Sanchez does not appear to understand this, no wonder he has had such a hard time forming a government. I wonder what he will write when the Spanish Supreme Court sedition rulings are overturned by the human rights court? How will he have any credibility then?
The best lesson in enlightened rule can be learned in Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupery. When the little prince responds to the king's orders to sit and to stand in the negative, the King finds enlightenment and orders the prince to sit or to stand as he wishes. By giving an order that gives power to his subject the king legitimises his rule. If only the national Spanish political parties and the king could suddenly become so wise.
Alexandre Blasi Nov 10, 2019
Did you hear any opinion from a Catalan? What are their grievences ? Depending on how you count you will have more thant 50% majority in favour of independence
Andrew Benington Nov 8, 2019
Isn't it time the EU was honest with the people of Scotland and Catalonia. Their independence movements are both relying on immediate EU entry. Yet Spain, France, Italy and Germany all have regions that would quickly head towards independence, breaking up those nations, if this happened. Hence both, and any that followed, would have to wait 2 or 3 decades, perhaps longer, as an independent state relying on WTO rules before negotiations started on EU membership.
One has to wonder at the EU commission's and memberstate's negotiations with various parties and factions in British politics, undermining the unity and democratic choice of the British people. Clearly support has been given, alternative negotiations conducted, with out the agreement of the British government or civil service. It seems a dangerous path to tread for a region dependent on British voters paying £60 billion pa to provide a British military whose pointed purpose is the protection of Europe.
Bernhard Kopp Nov 7, 2019
I do not claim any particular competency on the Catalonia/Spain issues. However, in a pluralistic, representative democracy it should be possible to work out compromises that work. Any break-up of historic countries seems to be nonsense. If Catalans cannot live and work with Madrid under the roof of a common state, and monarchy, how would they expect to become respected in Paris, Rome, Berlin and elsewhere ? They might be considered as " difficult " and may well be left to themselves. Coincidentally, the latter also applies to the Scots.
antin antin Nov 7, 2019
How on earth could anyone argue that a state could forbid a region to split from it? This is exactly the freedom of peoples, in Europe established at least since 1919 and the splitting of Empires as the Austrian Empire in Central Europe.
Luis BG Nov 7, 2019
It seems more a journalist's article rather than a President's article. All about rhetoric and empty words. What we (Spaniards) need to know as future voters is: which is the political position of our President (and his party) regarding to the way as we organize the territory and the way we integrate the different feelings into the same country. The Constitution is 40 years old. Maybe it would be obsolete and all together we can update it to XXI century needs. Modern democracy is also not to be afraid of changes.
stephan Edwards Nov 7, 2019
I note the EU considers secession a wonderful thing if the Scots or Northern Ireland or even Gibraltar do it. But it is EEEVVVVIIILLL and wrong if it happens in Spain. I wonder if the EU is always this Hypocritical or if this is a special occasion?
龚志诚 tardisGong Nov 11, 2019
The relationship between the police and the demonstrators in this article can be applied to Hong Kong, but Europe has a completely different attitude on Hong Kong issues.
.. .. Nov 7, 2019
Michael Public Nov 7, 2019
The oldest argument in the oppression book : it is against the law to seek freedom.
By that logic the US should belong to England, China should belong to Japan and Spain should belong Morocco.
Gerard Otin Nov 7, 2019
Pedro Sanchez do not understand the catalan problem. Or if he understands, he looks another way to gain votes.
Spain has a problem of judicial independence.
More than 70% of catalans wants a referendum.
There are civil leaders jail to organize a peaceful protest. Aigain: there are civil (and also political) leaders who are jailed because they did participate in a civil act.
In the condemn emitted by judge, it is not clear what responsabilities are attributed to any of them, even they attribute the responsibilities of one ministry to another person which nothing had to do with that.
That is level of the justice (and politics) in Spain. We have to see criminals going away in freedom, and civil liberties coactionated in the name of democracy.
Furthermore, in the recent debates about the new elections coming, we see everyone talking about Catalonia, except the catalans. To decide in Madrid what is good for Catalonia is not democracy.
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Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. to Raise Prices For Specialty Epoxy Resins in the Americas
February 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM EST
Columbus, Ohio (February 11, 2011) – Momentive Specialty Chemicals today announced that effective March 1, 2011, or as contracts allow, the company will increase prices of the following Specialty Epoxy Resins in the Americas. This increase is driven by the continued cost increases of key raw materials.
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Massive Swarms of Desert Locusts Invade Iran's Southern Provinces
By Maryam Sinaiee
The southern regions of Iran are among the hot spots of desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) outbreak. March 3, 2020.
Massive swarms of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) have been arriving in Iran's southern regions since late February. Government officials say the invasion is too huge to counter except with the use of pesticides.
Reza Mir, Spokesman of Plant Protection Organization, on Tuesday said the locusts have invaded the provinces of Hormozgan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Bushehr, Fars and Khuzestan.
"The density of locusts in the swarms is so high that a 10 to 15-centimeter layer of dead locusts forms on the ground after spraying pesticides," he said.
According to Mir biological methods such as using ducks or mechanical entrapment of locusts is ineffective due to the dimensions of the problem and time constraints. "Allowing the pests to [recreate] is much more damaging than the side-effects of using chemical pesticides.
Locust swarm in Lar, Fars Province, February 2020
More than one million hectares of agricultural lands may be sprayed this year, Mohammad-Reza Dargahi, Head of the Plant Protection Organization said on Tuesday.
On Friday Keykhosrow Changalvai, Head of Agricultural Jihad Organization of the south-western province of Khuzestan, said the number of locusts is predicted to be seven-fold compared with the attack last year.
Locusts swarms invaded the same provinces in the south of Iran in April 2019, infecting hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land.
"Last year the swarms were between one to one and a half kilometer long but this year they measure between seven to 10 kilometers".
Locust swarm in Hormozgan Province of Iran, February 2020
"The danger of these locusts is not less than coronavirus," Changalvai said and added that they will remain in the region at least for the next three months.
Unlike the attack last year, the swarms of locusts that have attacked Iranian regions are immature, officials say, and more damaging as they will eat everything on their way.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has placed Iran among the hot spots of the locust crisis along with Eritrea, Sudan Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia.
"Twenty-two immature swarms spread out along the southwest coast where they quickly matured within four days to lay eggs. Local breeding has continued in the southeast and control operations are in progress," the latest update by FAO said on March 2.
Locust swarm in Kish Island, Iran, February 2020
According to FAO, the situation remains extremely alarming in the Horn of Africa, specifically Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where widespread breeding is in progress and new swarms are starting to form.
The desert locust is potentially the most dangerous of locust pests because of the ability of swarms to fly rapidly across great distances at a speed of up to 150 kilometer in one day. Even a one square kilometer locust swarm can eat the same amount of food in one day as about 35,000 people and recreates one to five generations per year.
Plagues of desert locusts have threatened agricultural production in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia for centuries. The livelihood of at least one-tenth of the world's human population can be affected by this voracious insect.
Maryam Sinaiee
Maryam Sinaiee is a British-Iranian journalist, political analyst and former correspondent of The National, who contributes to Radio Farda.


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Senate confirmation may reopen old wounds for Sessions
Kevin Johnson, and Mary Troyan
WASHINGTON — They were an unlikely pair by any measure.
A black man from Georgia and a white man from Alabama, thrust together as federal prosecutors in the deep South where race and justice remain a combustible mix.
Larry Thompson, the former chief prosecutor in Atlanta, said he was first drawn to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, his colleague from Mobile, in the early 1980s as partners in an organized crime and drug enforcement task force across the southeast.
In a bid to make their modest government per diem go further, they shared hotel rooms on the road, a strategy that allowed them to both splurge for dinner at places like New Orleans' K-Paul's and cement a friendship now more than three decades old.
Thompson, who went on to serve as deputy U.S. attorney general, also was there at perhaps the lowest point in his friend's professional life when in 1986 the Senate not only rejected, but scathingly dismissed, Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship. Citing in part a series of racially charged remarks, including one in which Sessions referred to the Klu Klux Klan as "okay until I found out they smoked pot," Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., called him "a disgrace" before sending the chastened nominee back to Alabama.
Kennedy is gone, yet Thompson knows perhaps more than anyone the daunting challenge Sessions faces as he prepares for confirmation hearings next month as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to serve as the 84th attorney general of the United States.
"It will be grueling," Thompson said of Sessions' scheduled appearance next month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he ironically now serves as a senior member. "I don't see anything that would cause him not to be confirmed. But will he be dirtied up to the point where it could be hard to do his job? I guess we'll see soon."
Already, Democratic members of the Senate panel and Sessions' current colleagues are promising no senatorial deference on the old questions of racial tolerance, hisunstinting support of anti-immigration measures, opposition to gay rights and his embrace of harsh interrogation tactics, which Trump has suggested could be reinstated.
Since his nomination last month, Judiciary Democrats have vowed that any path toward confirmation, even in a Republican controlled Senate, will be laborious and contentious. Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has scheduled two days of hearings to begin Jan. 10, while Democrats have called for at least four days to fully examine Sessions' long pubic record as a federal prosecutor, Alabama attorney general and a Senate career of nearly two decades. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the current schedule does not allow sufficient time for the panel to review more than 150,000 pages of materials submitted so far detailing the nominee's public record. Still more documents —including transcripts of speeches to private groups — are needed to engage in a full vetting, she said.
"When our country is struggling with so many divisions, the committee and the entire Senate must ask whether Sen. Sessions is the right man to lead the agency charged with securing and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of all Americans," Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the panel's outgoing ranking member and other panel Democrats wrote to Grassley.
Leahy is one of just three members and the only Democrat left on the panel that considered Sessions' failed judicial nomination.
"The committee should hear from outside witnesses for, at a minimum, each of the following areas," Leahy wrote, before ticking off an all-inclusive list of potential flash-points, from immigration, violence against women and racial justice to voting rights and criminal justice.
Among those potential witnesses, former Justice Department civil rights lawyer J. Gerald Hebert, is someone who has made no secret about his disdain for the Alabama senator and whose testimony three decades ago helped sink Sessions' nomination. Hebert told the panel about conversations he had with then-U.S. Attorney Sessions in which the prosecutor referred to the NAACP and ACLU as "un-American.''
"Given his record, his nomination as the chief law enforcement officer for the country should send a shiver up the spine of every American," Hebert said, reciting the senator's support for restrictive voter identification laws, his vote against the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act and opposition to the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.
At the time of his 1986 testimony, Hebert stopped short of saying that Sessions' conduct amounted to racism. But Sessions' record then, coupled with his work since, has moved Hebert to form a darker assessment.
"He's just not a Republican conservative," Hebert said. "He's a racist."
Supporters rally around
Sessions has repeatedly, and strongly dismissed such claims, once issuing a fist-pumping declaration before the 1986 committee: "I am not a racist; I am not insensitive to blacks. I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all."
And since Sessions' nomination last month — among the first group of Cabinet posts announced by Trump — transition officials and Republicans have been busy building a rapid response team to include a roster of high-profile surrogates.
Among them: John Ashcroft and Michael Mukasey, former attorneys general in the George W. Bush administration; former FBI Director Louis Freeh, appointed by President Bill Clinton; and Thompson, who served as Ashcroft's top deputy at Justice for slightly more than two years.
All rejected any link between Sessions and racist conduct. Mukasey called such claims "outrageous;'' Freeh described him as "committed to civil rights;" while Ashcroft characterized the effort to portray the senator as a racist was akin to "drive-by political assassination."
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Jeff Sessions, a deficit hawk, may need to spend big on immigration
Ashcroft urged a closer inspection of the nominee's pursuit of Klu Klux Klan members as a federal prosecutor, specifically the 1981 murder of Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man from Mobile who was found brutally slain and his body hanging from a tree.
Barry Kowalski, then a young civil rights lawyer at Justice, said Sessions "could not have been more agreeable," moving to open a federal inquiry.
That inquiry led to the guilty plea of a local Klansman, and the state prosecution of another who was later executed for his role in the murder. The same case, ironically, served as the backdrop for Sessions' disputed comments about the Klan.
Kowalski said he regarded the comment as "clearly a joke," but fellow prosecutor Thomas Figures, an African-American, did not and testified against Sessions at his 1986 confirmation hearing. Figures, who also claimed that Sessions referred to him as "boy," died last year. Sessions denied that he used the term.
"There are some people trying to deflect this nomination, but I don't think they can prevent it," Ashcroft said.
Ashcroft knows something about the confirmation process.
Like Sessions, Ashcroft distinguished himself as a stridently conservative member of the Senate, who as attorney general nominee, raised hackles from Democrats about his handling of racially sensitive matters.
Ashcroft survived confirmation — on a 58-42 vote — though the process was unusually bruising and still stings the former attorney general, 15 years later.
"How did you like the deference they gave me?'' Ashcroft said of his former colleagues.
Old cases come back
Sessions' allies also are gearing up to defend his actions in a failed Perry County, Ala., voter fraud prosecution that became another focal point of the 1986 confirmation hearing. Some opponents alleged the acquittal of three black voting activists on charges of ballot tampering proved that Sessions' office was launching investigations designed to intimidate minority voters.
Sessions and others have denied the case was racially motivated, highlighting that local black officials were among those complaining about tampered ballots. Sessions has identified the case as one of his 10 most significant. A witness in the case, however, who was among a busload of black residents bused to Mobile to testify before the grand jury empaneled by Sessions' office, offered a much different interpretation at the time.
"It was the most degrading time of my life," Rev. O.C. Dobynes told the Los Angeles Times in 1985.
Richard Cohen, president of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center which closely tracks hate crimes and hate groups across the country, credited Sessions' efforts as "extremely helpful'' in the KKK murder case.
Yet the senator's staunch opposition to proposed immigration reform legislation and his association with extreme parts of the anti-immigration movement, Cohen said, are still areas of real concern. .
"I can understand him taking a position, but I don't think he should lend his credibility to groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and the Center for Security Policy,'' Cohen said. Both organizations are regarded as "hate groups" by the SPLC, which has specifically called out the center for fanning extreme anti-Muslim stands . Last year, Sessions was awarded the group's "Keeper of the Flame" honor.
"That is a bridge too far for us,'' Cohen said.


"Fundamentalism arises when any religious organization, or any person, attaches so intensely to some version of truth that it must be defended. In this space, the ego continually seeks security by playing out its drama of "attack and defend." This drama offers all sorts of teachers and practitioners an opportunity to commit to various forms of separation where an attitude of "we're right and they're wrong" not only rules, but begets more attachment. This space can sow seeds of terrible violence all in the name of the collective egoic version of what it deems sacred.
Fundamentalism, in any of us, destroys that which it seeks to protect. It's as if a hand, enticed by the elegant simplicity of a flower and wanting to possess its beauty, grasps its bloom and crushes what it wants most. Living from a place of true intimacy, where flowers could be experienced rather than possessed, would mean that ego would have to allow itself out of its own cage of security. Yet to do this the ego must surrender to that which it cannot control.
Excerpt From: McAlister, Michael. "Awake in This Life: A Guide for Those Climbing the Mountain of Spirit." BookSurge Publishing, 2008-05-03T07:00:00+00:00. iBooks.


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Q: Number of non repeating lines - unique count Here is my problem: Any number of lines of text is given from standard input.
Output: number of non repeating lines
INPUT:
She is wearing black shoes.
My name is Johny.
I hate mondays.
My name is Johny.
I don't understand you.
She is wearing black shoes.

OUTPUT:
2

A: Here's how I'd solve the problem:
... | awk '{n[$0]++} END {for (line in n) if (n[line]==1) num++; print num}'

But that's pretty opaque. Here's a (slightly) more legible way to look at it (requires bash version 4)
... | {
    declare -A count    # count is an associative array

    # iterate over each line of the input
    # accumulate the number of times we've seen this line
    #
    # the construct "IFS= read -r line" ensures we capture the line exactly

    while IFS= read -r line; do
        (( count["$line"]++ ))
    done

    # now add up the number of lines who's count is only 1
    num=0
    for c in "${count[@]}"; do
        if (( $c == 1 )); then
            (( num++ ))
        fi
    done

    echo $num
}

A: You could try using uniq man uniq and do the following
sort file | uniq -u | wc -l

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–Shane Battier, in a post game interview last Thursday after hitting six 3-pointers to help the Heat win game 7 over the Spurs to take their second straight NBA title. Battier used that tongue-in-cheek quote to respond to a question from Doris Burke on how he was able to turn around his performance. He was benched in numerous games during the post season in large part because of his poor performance. That changed in game 7.
I felt like Shane Battier on Thursday when I saw Ebix's stock drop over 40% in one day. It then dropped another 25% Friday morning as panic and forced selling took over after the announcement that a Goldman Sachs subsidiary was backing out of the deal to buy Ebix at $20.50 per share. I felt lucky because I was interested in invested in Ebix as a merger opportunity that I felt actually had potential for upside. I wrote this article on a few similarities between Dell and Ebix, but fortunately never got around to buying shares in Ebix as I was more interested in other ideas. So obviously I was lucky there. However, I most likely would still be holding shares and maybe adding if I owned Ebix. And I chose to initiate a small position Friday around $8.75 per share.
(Note: it's a small position. Why? Because I generally run a diversified basket approach to investing in these types of stocks. I choose to mitigate risk through diversification at the portfolio level. This allows me to own numerous undervalued securities with problems but also with asymmetric risk-return profiles. What this means is that on balance, I think there will be more winners than losers and the amount of the winners will exceed the amount of the losers. It's similar to the insurance underwriting business. Having said that, Ebix might be one of the losers. I have no idea. But I do believe the stock is dramatically mispriced in one direction or another).
So I think that at $20, the stock is (was) cheap. At $10, it's completely mispriced.
As Jamie Mai (of Cornwall Capital and Big Short fame) has pointed out with various investments, sometimes stocks are either worth $0 or worth $20, but not $10. I think that's the case here. The market doesn't know how to price Ebix at the moment, so it sits on the fence until uncertainty is resolved. I think this is an opportunity for value investors, as long as they understand the risk.
The risks are very real, and due to brevity, I'll simply link to the shorts' ideas which I found very detailed and thorough. As far as I know, they may be right. But I have a few reasons to think they may be wrong as well. But in a situation like this, it is very helpful to study the risks.
The Ebix debacle started with this article on seeking alpha from over two years ago. There were a few other articles on Seeking Alpha that shed light on the potential problems at Ebix. The thesis basically revolves around the accounting practices at the firm, which some feel are hiding certain liabilities and also evading certain corporate income taxes. Read all the posts for details. Then earlier this year, another short poster wrote this research piece on why he thinks Ebix is a fraud. The latter poster has also written follow up pieces. It also helps reading through the comments in each of the pieces. You have to sift through a lot of useless comments, but you'll find a few that are from very knowledgeable sources. For a counterpoint to the above theses, check out this post.
I have been following EBIX since coming across it a number of months ago in Greenblatt's Magic Formula screen. I won't go into too much detail here, but just wanted to describe some of my own thoughts on EBIX.
It's a company that sells software and e-commerce solutions to insurance companies. They provide back office solutions for these companies with the goal of improving the efficiency of their customer's operations. They also provide services to banks, financial advisors, and other corporate clients. They have a widely diversified customer base with (according to Ebix) a recurring revenue base of around 80%. This means many of the customers continue to buy the products and services on a repeat basis, providing steady and stable cash flow for Ebix.
At my Friday purchase price, you could buy a company that has averaged 27% revenue growth and 44% EBITDA growth over the last 10 years for 3.8 times EBITDA and more than a 20% free cash flow yield!
I got lucky again because shortly after I completed my purchase, the company announced that it approved a $100 million buyback. At the Friday valuation, this represented close to 30% of the outstanding shares. The announcement felt like a reaction to the negative headlines more than a thoughtful business decision, but nevertheless, I think a buyback makes tremendous sense at these valuations.
Think about this: the company generated around $70 million of free cash flow in the last 12 months. At that rate, it could buy back the entire value of the company in about 5 years.
One of the short theses is that the company will face serious tax consequences that may lead to significantly higher tax rates and/or significant tax penalties. Let's assume Ebix has to pay the $100 million penalty (I have no idea where the short poster got this number), it could pay back the penalty in 18 months using its own free cash flow. Let's further assume that Ebix is levied with a new tax rate that causes taxes to go up and reduce free cash flow by 30%. In that case, EBIX might make $50 million in free cash flow. So it will take maybe 24 months to pay off this hypothetical tax penalty.
Of course, these are wild guesses from both the short poster and myself. Penalties could go much higher, but they might also not be nearly as bad. The market is assuming they will be very bad. But my experience is that in many cases like this, the downside is already priced in. The business model has been very successful, and the company is producing real cash (as opposed to juiced earnings but negative free cash as was the case with many frauds of the past like Enron, Worldcom, etc…).
Another reason I don't think that Ebix is a complete fraud and going to $0 is that the company's CEO Robin Raina owns about 10% of the outstanding stock. Raina is an entrepreneur who transformed Ebix's business a decade ago. He has a large portion of his net worth tied to EBIX stock. With around $40 million personally riding on the fortune of the company, I doubt that we will see Ebix become worthless. Again, this is opposite of many frauds of the past where we saw many insiders selling in droves as their stock approached new highs on the back of record earnings (but large negative free cash flows).
Ebix is an interesting situation. I decided it warranted a small position. You might wonder why I decided to write 1300 words on a stock that represents such a small portion of my portfolio. One is that most stocks I own are hated for one reason or another and represent individually, very small portions of the portfolio, as I mentioned above. This style of investing is one of three main strategies I use in my portfolio.
The other reason I commented on this stock is simply because it's a widely scrutinized situation that I find interesting. I think the upside is significant for the stock, but the risks are real so you mitigate those by using a basket approach with other similarly undervalued stocks.
I am glad that I avoided the huge downdraft, and like Shane Battier said, "sometimes it's better to be timely than good." I also think that we might see a reversion to the mean in this stock, similar to Battier's reversion to the mean performance in game 7. It will be interesting to watch either way. Hopefully watching the EBIX outcome will be as much fun as the Spurs-Heat were in the NBA finals this year.
Full Disclosure: I own shares of DELL and EBIX.
Please remember that this post does not represent a recommendation to purchase shares of any of the securities mentioned. It is also not a comprehensive report on any of the stocks mentioned. Please do your own due diligence to reach your own conclusions. I have no idea of your personal financial situation. Investing has certain risks that may not be suitable for you.
Do you think a (long) straddle could make sense?
I think if you take the idea from Jamie Mai a step further, the lower risk investment would be to own cheapish longer term call options. The most you would lose if EBIX went to zero would be the premium vs. the 6-7bagger if it did reach $20. If the odds between 0 and 20 are 50/50, then I'll take asymmetric upside potential with the long calls.
I considered it MP, but there are no long term LEAPs on EBIX and the longest dated calls were only 6 months out, which doesn't leave enough time (in my opinion) for the thesis to play out. I think with 18-24 month LEAPs, this type of investment would be much more attractive. But with only 6 months, time is not on your side. I suppose you could buy deep in the money calls, but it doesn't improve your risk/reward much relative to the premium you have to pay.
But it's a good thought, and it could work on this type of investment. I continue to hold EBIX shares as I continue to think it is grossly mispriced. (Not sure if it's worth $0, or $20, but I'm pretty sure it's not worth $10). And I also think the odds of it being worth $20 (vs $0) are far greater than 50/50. I think it's probably 90/10. So I think there is a huge R/R available, but given the fact there is some risk of permanent capital loss, you have to keep the position small enough to account for the risk (at least that's what I've decided to do).
Good point. I do wish there were further out expiry dates available.


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It's a great day to be alive
[from Ventura County Reporter] It's hard to believe that it has been 25 years since country icon Travis Tritt released his debut album, Country Club, but it has. With seven platinum albums, two Grammy awards, three CMA awards and 20 Top 10 singles to his name, Tritt's story is the story of so many country artists. He started singing in church, got a guitar as a youngster, made his way to Nashville and landed a record deal. Pretty quickly out of the gate Tritt found success, hitting No. 1 with his second-ever single and getting inducted into the famed Grand Ole Opry only two years after his debut.
Unlike some of his contemporaries — namely Garth Brooks and Clint Black — Tritt eschewed cowboy hats and too-slick production. Instead, he crafted his own outlaw-tinged sound, drawing from influences as far and wide as Andraé Crouch, the Allman Brothers Band and Waylon Jennings. And even though that was then, it is also now, because Tritt still looks and sounds as if he stepped right out of 1992 and onto the stage. Neither his facial hair nor his soulful voice has changed a bit.
After decades spent on both major and independent labels, Tritt took a turn with Category 5 Records in 2006. Though the label issued The Storm in 2007, it was a tumultuous time that ended when the owner went to jail for using ill-gotten funding for the company. A lengthy legal battle ensued, after which Tritt recovered the album's masters and re-released them in 2013 asThe Calm After . . . on his own Post Oak Records.
With production by American Idol's Randy Jackson, The Calm After . . . finds Tritt's Crouch and Allman influences very much alive and well, though there's not a lot of Jennings to be found in the slick, bluesy set. Although Tritt has said that he feels he is singing better than ever, his vocal performances on the project feel more forced, more contrived even, than on records past. The redux album also features a reworking of the Patty Smyth/Don Henley duet "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," performed by Tritt and his 15-year-old daughter, Tyler Reese Tritt. The kid sure can sing, but it is strange to hear a love song performed by a father-daughter duo.
Even at 51, Tritt is just as much of a road dog as he ever was. Over the course of the past few years, he's done a lot of dates, some with one of his other go-to collaborators — country legend Marty Stuart. The other performances have alternated between full band and solo acoustic. For his current run, which ends on January 29 at the Fred Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks, Tritt is opting for the latter. That sparse setting should allow Tritt's guitar playing and song selections to really shine and, hopefully, give his true voice room to breathe.
Travis Tritt will perform at the Fred Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks on Jan. 29. For more information, visit www.civicartsplaza.com.


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SNES ROM
The Lion King (Prototype)
Console : Super Nintendo
Developer : Westwood Studios
Publisher : Virgin Interactive
By Tanuki78 : January 31, 2021
You think you want to be King? Get real. You're starting life as Simba, the cub. To survive and grow into a powerful adult lion, you must perfect your savage pounce, reckless roar and master fighting with all four paws. If you survive the challenge, you'll grow into a strong, ferocious adult lion.
So prepare to scrap with hyenas. Blast through an elephant graveyard. Battle an in-your-face stampede of trampling wildebeests. And you'd better quit hanging with slackers like Timon and Pumbaa, unless you want to be scarfing bugs the rest of your life!
Are you sure you want to be King? Then it's time to cut loose in the deadliest one-on-one brawl ever. Defeat your evil Uncle Scar. Recapture the Pridelands. And reclaim your rightful place in the Circle of Life.
Further information :
Prototypes pages:
V.48: https://hiddenpalace.org/The_Lion_King_(v.48_prototype)
Early: https://hiddenpalace.org/The_Lion_King_(Early_Prototype)
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If this is all a dream, don't wake me up.
Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII