Jacob Abbott was a prolific American author best known for his makers of history series, a collection of biographies on some of the most important figures in history such as Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, and many others.
This is Abbott's biography on King Henry IV of England.A table of contents is included.
HISTORY IS OUR HEAVEN-APPOINTED INSTRUCTOR. It is the guide for the future. The calamities of yesterday are the protectors of to-day.
The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not an unknown sea. It has been traversed for ages, and there is not a sunken rock or a treacherous sand-bar which is not marked by the wreck of those who have preceded us.
There is no portion of history fraught with more valuable instruction than the period of those terrible religious wars which desolated the sixteenth century. There is no romance so wild as the veritable history of those times. The majestic outgoings of the Almighty, as developed in the onward progress of our race, infinitely transcend, in all the elements of profoundness, mystery, and grandeur, all that man's fancy can create.
The cartoons of Raphael are beautiful, but what are they when compared with the heaving ocean, the clouds of sunset, and the pinnacles of the Alps? The dome of St. Peter's is man's noblest architecture, but what is it when compared with the magnificent rotunda of the skies?
CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.
About four hundred years ago there was a small kingdom, spreading over the cliffs and ravines of the eastern extremity of the Pyrenees, called Navarre. Its population, of about five hundred thousand, consisted of a very simple, frugal, and industrious people. Those who lived upon the shore washed by the stormy waves of the Bay of Biscay gratified their love of excitement and of adventure by braving the perils of the sea. Those who lived in the solitude of the interior, on the sunny slopes of the mountains, or by the streams which meandered through the verdant valleys, fed their flocks, and harvested their grain, and pressed rich wine from the grapes of their vineyards, in the enjoyment of the most pleasant duties of rural life. Proud of their independence, they were ever ready to grasp arms to repel foreign aggression. The throne of this kingdom was, at the time of which we speak, occupied by Catharine de Foix. She was a widow, and all her hopes and affections were centred in her son Henry, an ardent and impetuous boy six or seven years of age, who was to receive the crown when it should fall from her brow, and transmit to posterity their ancestral honors.
Ferdinand of Aragon had just married Isabella of Castile, and had thus united those two populous and wealthy kingdoms; and now, in the arrogance of power, seized with the pride of annexation, he began to look with a wistful eye upon the picturesque kingdom of Navarre. Its comparative feebleness, under the reign of a bereaved woman weary of the world, invited to the enterprise. Should he grasp at the whole territory of the little realm, France might interpose her powerful remonstrance. Should he take but the half which was spread out upon the southern declivity of the Pyrenees, it would be virtually saying to the French monarch, The rest I courteously leave for you. The armies of Spain were soon sweeping resistlessly through these sunny valleys, and one half of her empire was ruthlessly torn from the Queen of Navarre, and transferred to the dominion of imperious Castile and Aragon.
Catharine retired with her child to the colder and more uncongenial regions of the northern declivity of the mountains. Her bosom glowed with mortification and rage in view of her hopeless defeat. As she sat down gloomily in the small portion which remained to her of her dismembered empire, she endeavored to foster in the heart of her son the spirit of revenge, and to inspire him with the resolution to regain those lost leagues of territory which had been wrested from the inheritance of his fathers. Henry imbibed his mother's spirit, and chafed and fretted under wrongs for which he could obtain no redress. Ferdinand and Isabella could not be annoyed even by any force which feeble Navarre could raise. Queen Catharine, however, brooded deeply over her wrongs, and laid plans for retributions of revenge, the execution of which she knew must be deferred till long after her body should have mouldered to dust in the grave. She courted the most intimate alliance with Francis I., King of France. She contemplated the merging of her own little kingdom into that powerful monarchy, that the infant Navarre, having grown into the giant France, might crush the Spanish tyrants into humiliation. Nerved by this determined spirit of revenge, and inspired by a mother's ambition, she intrigued to wed her son to the heiress of the French throne, that even in the world of spirits she might be cheered by seeing Henry heading the armies of France, the terrible avenger of her wrongs. These hopes invigorated her until the fitful dream of her joyless life was terminated, and her restless spirit sank into the repose of the grave. She lived, however, to see her plans apparently in progress toward their most successful fulfillment.
Marriage of Henry and Margaret.
Henry, her son, was married to Margaret, the favorite sister of the King of France. Their nuptials were blessed with but one child, Jeanne d'Albret. This child, in whose destiny such ambitious hopes were centred, bloomed into most marvelous beauty, and became also as conspicuous for her mental endowments as for her personal charms. She had hardly emerged from the period of childhood when she was married to Antony of Bourbon, a near relative of the royal family of France. Immediately after her marriage she left Navarre with her husband, to take up her residence in the French metropolis.
One hope still lived, with undying vigor, in the bosom of Henry. It was the hope, the intense passion, with which his departed mother had inspired him, that a grandson would arise from this union, who would, with the spirit of Hannibal, avenge the family wrongs upon Spain. Twice Henry took a grandson into his arms with the feeling that the great desire of his life was about to be realized; and twice, with almost a broken heart, he saw these hopes blighted as he committed the little ones to the grave.
Summers and winters had now lingered wearily away, and Henry had become an old man. Disappointment and care had worn down his frame. World-weary and joyless, he still clung to hope. The tidings that Jeanne was again to become a mother rekindled the lustre of his fading eye. The aged king sent importunately for his daughter to return without delay to the paternal castle, that the child might be born in the kingdom of Navarre, whose wrongs it was to be his peculiar destiny to avenge. It was mid-winter. The journey was long and the roads rough. But the dutiful and energetic Jeanne promptly obeyed the wishes of her father, and hastened to his court.
Henry could hardly restrain his impatience as he waited, week after week, for the advent of the long-looked-for avenger. With the characteristic superstition of the times, he constrained his daughter to promise that, at the period of birth, during the most painful moments of her trial, she would sing a mirthful and triumphant song, that her child might possess a sanguine, joyous, and energetic spirit.
Henry entertained not a doubt that the child would prove a boy, commissioned by Providence as the avenger of Navarre. The old king received the child, at the moment of its birth, into his own arms, totally regardless of a mother's rights, and exultingly enveloping it in soft folds, bore it off, as his own property, to his private apartment. He rubbed the lips of the plump little boy with garlic, and then taking a golden goblet of generous wine, the rough and royal nurse forced the beverage he loved so well down the untainted throat of his new-born heir.
A little good old wine, said the doting grandfather, will make the boy vigorous, and brave.
We may remark, in passing, that it was wine, rich and pure: not that mixture of all abominations, whose only vintage is in cellars, sunless, damp, and fetid, where guilty men fabricate poison for a nation.
Name chosen for the young prince.
This little stranger received the ancestral name of Henry. By his subsequent exploits he filled the world with his renown. He was the first of the Bourbon line who ascended the throne of France, and he swayed the sceptre of energetic rule over that wide-spread realm with a degree of power and grandeur which none of his descendants have ever rivaled. The name of Henry IV. is one of the most illustrious in the annals of France. The story of his struggles for the attainment of the throne of Charlemagne is full of interest. His birth, to which we have just alluded, occurred at Parr, in the kingdom of Navarre, in the year 1553.
His grandfather immediately assumed the direction of every thing relating to the child, apparently without the slightest consciousness that either the father or the mother of Henry had any prior claims. The king possessed, among the wild and romantic fastnesses of the mountains, a strong old castle, as rugged and frowning as the eternal granite upon which its foundations were laid. Gloomy evergreens clung to the hill-sides. A mountain stream, often swollen to an impetuous torrent by the autumnal rains and the spring thaws, swept through the little verdant lawn, which smiled amid the stern sublimities surrounding this venerable and moss-covered fortress. Around the solitary towers the eagles wheeled and screamed in harmony with the gales and storms which often swept through these wild regions. The expanse around was sparsely settled by a few hardy peasants, who, by feeding their herds, and cultivating little patches of soil among the crags, obtained a humble living, and by exercise and the pure mountain air acquired a vigor and an athletic-hardihood of frame which had given them much celebrity.
To the storm-battered castle of Courasse, thus lowering in congenial gloom among these rocks, the old king sent the infant Henry to be nurtured as a peasant-boy, that, by frugal fare and exposure to hardship, he might acquire a peasant's robust frame. He resolved that no French delicacies should enfeeble the constitution of this noble child. Bareheaded and barefooted, the young prince, as yet hardly emerging from infancy, rolled upon the grass, played with the poultry, and the dogs, and the sturdy young mountaineers, and plunged into the brook or paddled in the pools of water with which the mountain showers often filled the court-yard. His hair was bleached and his cheeks bronzed by the sun and the wind. Few would have imagined that the unattractive child, with his unshorn locks and in his studiously neglected garb, was the descendant of a long line of kings, and was destined to eclipse them all by the grandeur of his name.
As years glided along he advanced to energetic boyhood, the constant companion, and, in all his sports and modes of life, the equal of the peasant-boys by whom he was surrounded. He hardly wore a better dress than they; he was nourished with the same coarse fare. With them he climbed the mountains, and leaped the streams, and swung upon the trees. He struggled with his youthful competitors in all their athletic games, running, wrestling, pitching the quoit, and tossing the bar. This active out-door exercise gave a relish to the coarse food of the peasants, consisting of brown bread, beef, cheese, and garlic. His grandfather had decided that this regimen was essential for the education of a prince who was to humble the proud monarchy of Spain, and regain the territory which had been so unjustly wrested from his ancestors.
Death of the King of Navarre.
Jeanne d'Albret ascends the throne.
When Henry was about six years of age, his grandfather, by gradual decay, sank sorrowingly into his grave. Consequently, his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, ascended the throne of Navarre. Her husband, Antony of Bourbon, was a rough, fearless old soldier, with nothing to distinguish him from the multitude who do but live, fight, and die. Jeanne and her husband were in Paris at the time of the death of her father. They immediately hastened to Bearn, the capital of Navarre, to take possession of the dominions which had thus descended to them. The little Henry was then brought from his wild mountain home to reside with his mother in the royal palace. Though Navarre was but a feeble kingdom, the grandeur of its court was said to have been unsurpassed, at that time, by that of any other in Europe. The intellectual education of Henry had been almost entirely neglected; but the hardihood of his body had given such vigor and energy to his mind, that he was now prepared to distance in intellectual pursuits, with perfect ease, those whose infantile brains had been overtasked with study.
Henry remained in Bearn with his parents two years, and in that time ingrafted many courtly graces upon the free and fetterless carriage he had acquired among the mountains. His mind expanded with remarkable rapidity, and he became one of the most beautiful and engaging of children.
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Will you be my son?
No, sire, no! that is my father, replied the ardent boy, pointing to the King of Navarre.
Well, then, will you be my son-in-law? demanded Henry.
Oh yes, most willingly, the prince replied.
Henry II. had a daughter Marguerite, a year or two younger than the Prince of Navarre, and it was immediately resolved between the two parents that the young princes should be considered as betrothed.
Soon after this the King and Queen of Navarre, with their son, returned to the mountainous domain which Jeanne so ardently loved. The queen devoted herself assiduously to the education of the young prince, providing for him the ablest teachers whom that age could afford. A gentleman of very distinguished attainments, named La Gaucherie, undertook the general superintendence of his studies. The young prince was at this time an exceedingly energetic, active, ambitious boy, very inquisitive respecting all matters of information, and passionately fond of study.
It is impossible to get Latin into a boy unless you flog it into him.
The experience of La Gaucherie, however, did not confirm this sentiment. Henry always went with alacrity to his Latin and his Greek. His judicious teacher did not disgust his mind with long and laborious rules, but introduced him at once to words and phrases, while gradually he developed the grammatical structure of the language. The vigorous mind of Henry, grasping eagerly at intellectual culture, made rapid progress, and he was soon able to read and write both Latin and Greek with fluency, and ever retained the power of quoting, with great facility and appositeness, from the classical writers of Athens and of Rome. Even in these early days he seized upon the Greek phrase ἡ νικãν ἡ ἁποθαεἱν, to conquer or to die, and adopted it for his motto.
La Gaucherie's method of instruction.
But God, more mighty, governs kings themselves."
Soon after the return of the King and Queen of Navarre to their own kingdom, Henry II. of France died, leaving the crown to his son Charles, a feeble boy both in body and in mind. As Charles was but ten or twelve years of age, his mother, Catharine de Medicis, was appointed regent during his minority. Catharine was a woman of great strength of mind, but of the utmost depravity of heart. There was no crime ambition could instigate her to commit from which, in the slightest degree, she would recoil. Perhaps the history of the world retains not another instance in which a mother could so far forget the yearnings of nature as to endeavor, studiously and perseveringly, to deprave the morals, and by vice to enfeeble the constitution of her son, that she might retain the power which belonged to him. This proud and dissolute woman looked with great solicitude upon the enterprising and energetic spirits of the young Prince of Navarre. There were many providential indications that ere long Henry would be a prominent candidate for the throne of France.


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Flashback: Warren Blasted Trump For Saying The Election Was 'Rigged'
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November 03, 2017 10:15 AM ET
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts attacked President Donald Trump in October of 2016 for saying the election was rigged, but now agreed Thursday night the election was rigged.
Warren told CNN's Jake Tapper that she believes the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rigged the 2016 presidential primary in an attempt to sway the votes towards former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling it "a real problem" Thursday and saying that Democrats must hold members of their party accountable. Warren did not hold back on attacking Trump in October 2016 for Trump thinking the election was rigged.
"It's not rigged, @realDonaldTrump. You're losing fair & square. Put on your big-boy pants because this is what accountability looks like," Warren tweeted in 2016 before Clinton lost the election in November.
It's not rigged, @realDonaldTrump. You're losing fair & square. Put on your big-boy pants because this is what accountability looks like.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) October 19, 2016
Warren's comments come as former interim DNC chair Donna Brazile placed blame for the party's financial problems on former President Barack Obama and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, Brazile wrote in a Thursday column on Politico.
Brazile blamed the pair for handing over complete control of the party to the Clinton campaign almost a year before Clinton secured the nomination.
"If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead," Brazile wrote Thursday. "This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party's integrity."
Soon after taking over as interim chair, Brazile set out to determine whether the DNC had improperly assisted Clinton in securing the party's nomination, as leaked internal emails suggested. (RELATED: Donna Brazile SLAMS Debbie, Obama For Running The Party Into The Ground, Giving Hillary Control)
She quickly determined the DNC was in serious financial peril and the former chair, Wasserman Schultz, had relinquished control of the party to the Clinton campaign in exchange for a monthly allowance that would cover the operation's day-to-day costs.
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National Review Board Reports On 10 Years After Charter
Children safer now than decade ago
Those making allegations need 'compassionate care'
No time for complacency despite significant advances
ATLANTA—The National Review Board (NRB), a lay group advising the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the handling of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy, issued a 10-year progress report, June 13, at the USCCB spring meeting in Atlanta.
Al Notzon III, NRB chair, addressed the bishops on the report (http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-actions/child-and-youth-protection/upload/10-year-report-2012.pdf). The report looked at the decade since the 2002 approval of the bishops' Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.
The NRB noted that "Ten years later, there has been striking improvement in the Church's response to and treatment of victims. Children are safer now because of the creation of safe environments and action has been taken to permanently remove offenders from ministry."
"Yet, much work still needs to be done," the NRB said.
THE NRB cited data that "found the incidence of abuse began to rise in the sixties, peaked in the seventies and declined sharply in the eighties." Even cases from the past which are reported now, they said, "continue to fall into this same pattern" and that "the hundreds of cases reported yearly continue to fall within the timeline of the established curve."
"These results do not mean that the hurt of the abuse is in the past," the report said. "It is apparent that many people abused fifty years ago are still hurting."
The report said that "Strides have been made in the work of healing and reconciliation." The NRB said, for example, that "prior to the Charter, at least 25 dioceses/eparchies had Victim Assistance Coordinators (VAC); since 2002 all 195 dioceses/eparchies have them. The VAC assists the bishops in responding to those making allegations in ways that promote healing and reconciliation. The Church learned that responding to victims in a strictly legal manner did not help either the victims or the Church. In the long run, the strictly legal response caused more pain, did more damage and cost more money. The lesson learned by the Church is clear: we must treat those making allegations of sexual abuse with compassionate care.It is not only the best solution but the right thing to do and an integral part of the Church's spiritual mission."
"Policies and procedures to carry out the Charter have been implemented across the country," the NRB said. "Prior to 2002, at least 77 dioceses/eparchies had policies and procedures in place to respond to allegations of sexual abuse. Now all 195 dioceses/eparchies have such policies and procedures. Codes of conduct are in place for clergy, employees and volunteers. All dioceses/eparchies have Review Boards whose responsibility is to advise the bishop on whether or not a cleric accused of sexual abuse should be reinstated or permanently removed from ministry. These boards consist of laity and clerics, both diocesan employees and those not in the employ of the diocese."
The NRB noted that "confidential settlement agreements with victims have been abolished except when requested by the victim. Prior to 2002, when bishops learned of incidents of abuse they may have quietly settled with the family of the victim. Confidentiality agreements either at the request of the bishop or the family were frequently a part of that settlement. The Charter forbids this practice and the audits over the past ten years verify that in cases where confidentiality agreements were made, they were only at the request of the victim."
The NRB said dioceses now realize that "cooperation with legal authorities is in the best interest of the Church" and are "required to report all allegations of sexual abuse of minors to public authorities and to cooperate with all investigations on all matters of sexual abuse. They are also required to advise victims of their right to make a report to public authorities. When one bishop fails to do so, the whole Church suffers."
The board addressed the zero tolerance policy, saying it is "one of the more controversial requirements of the Charter. Some feel this is too harsh if, for example, behavior occurred many decades ago, the NRB said, but concluded that "this policy is in the best interest of children and the Church." They pointed out that "convicted sex offenders cannot be police officers, Boy Scout leaders, or teachers" and said, "They cannot be allowed to remain members of the Catholic clergy functioning in public ministry either." They reported that data from 2004 found 4,392 clerics had allegations made against them and an additional 1,723 clerics have had credible allegations made against them since then. Many of the accused are now dead, but the NRB said the Church "should take a special look at those men who have been removed from public ministry." The NRB said many dioceses have developed "safety plans" for those clerics removed from ministry but not from the clerical state. "These safety plans are critical to the continued protection of children," the NRB said. "Assignment to a life of prayer and penance must be taken seriously."
The NRB highlighted "boundary violation reports that involve international priests."
"Behavior that might be culturally appropriate in one place, may not be appropriate in U.S. culture," the NRB said. "This issue needs to be investigated more thoroughly and programs instituted to help international priests learn U.S. cultural ways. Because boundary violations mimic grooming behaviors," the NRB said, "the National Review Board recommends that the bishops take action to address boundary violations made against any cleric."
The NRB cited lack of trust that bishops are handling the problem, even in the face of proof that they are.
"Despite solid evidence many of the faithful believe that sexual abuse by clergy is occurring at high levels and is still being covered up by bishops. This suggests a trust problem that must be met with scrupulous adherence to the Charter."
The NRB highlighted safe environments.
"Safe environments are created by training clerics, employees, and volunteers who work with children to understand the nature and scope of child sexual abuse and how to prevent it in institutions," they said. They cited statistics to indicate what has been accomplished.
The NRB said dioceses have trained and conducted background checks on 60,190 clerics and candidates for ordination; 159,689 educators; 249,133 employees; 1.8 million volunteers. They said they have trained "94 percent of the 5.1 million students attending Catholic schools or parish religious education programs" and that "annually, $20 million is spent on safe environment programs."
The NRB said that "problems exist with the coordination between religious orders and dioceses" and said there are still instances where dioceses are not informed of religious order priest offenders living in the diocese until it is too late. The NRB recommended "dialogue between bishops and religious superiors within the diocese on a yearly basis to address these issues."
The NRB warned against "complacency or Charter drift – that is, thinking 10 years of action is enough and programs and vigilance can be taken for granted or worse, watered down."
"While the current trend shows a decrease in clergy sexual abuse, we must never let our guard down. Now is not the time to drift away from the moral requirements of the Charter and the legal requirements of reporting. Children must be protected. Bishops must continue to work toward restoring the trust of the faithful. Only when bishops are seen as following through on their promise to protect and pledge to heal will the faithful begin to trust them to take care of their most precious gift – their children."
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In the research cabin, our hearts are warmed by your tremendous response to the name quest. Clever, thoughtful names—over a thousand of them. Good names for this and other cubs in the study. We'll let the names sink in for a day and come up with one.
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Wit. Witty. Witless. Ah, what a sordid affair it is to pin people under this unsavoury genre. How cruel, that the likes of me have such authority as to partake in a whimsical fancy of classifying humans based solely on opinion! Who am I to meddle with affairs of a larger scale? Oh but I am, I am a somebody, a somebody who cringes at the very existence of this pasquinade of errors that exists at the expense of our immoral intelligence, an intelligence local to the millennial era.
I speak not only of my fellow comrades or of the grandeurs from the "Greatest Generation", I speak about the mindlessness of what we put out there for others and inevitably for us to sip on, relishing every minute, unaware of how we degenerate.
Has one ever wondered how the content we inhale is ebbing away or how what we share has receded in intelligence? But then again, as a rule, man is a fool. Following the trend-herd so as to not be left behind. Being a millennial myself, it's safe to say that my opinion is not invalid. I have grown to terms with the very fact that the world around me has hit a wall. A wall in dire need of being reprimanded, kind of like Trump's hypothetical one. What I talk about is the content we thrive on -- reality shows, articles with no depth or the overuse of words made 'special' by socialites with no claim to fame.
Recently I encountered a group of people who played the 'like' trick, dime a dozen times, so much so that I forgot what the argument was about (eventually it turned out to be a discussion on Kylie Jenner's baby…). What is that you ask? Well, I am sure all of you are aware of the pathetic nature that the word has been reduced to… LIKE is steadily replacing our age old connecting words, throwing them into a darkened abyss. But this was only brought about with the increasing trend of viral content that yes, makes us laugh and yes, controversies give us respite to read about, and yes, is shaving off basic intelligence -- stroke by stroke.
Now, I don't mean to call every second person one who runs in an array of negative IQ levels, no. I wish to throw light upon the fact that because of a spreading pop-culture that marries only the scandalous and pretty, we somewhere lost essence of true knowledge. I suppose it all started with single women flocking around a stud in micro-minis, trying to convince themselves that said stud is their long lost soulmate, just the seasons and faces seem to change… Coming to what we read about, the content we engulf promotes shady lingo and catchy 'Signs he's the one' know-hows. Most videos are irrelevant to basic life but catch the viral train because they are purely entertaining. If you ask a young teen today who the forefather of our country was or to name the vice-president, I highly doubt they'd be able to recall a name minus the 'Kardashian'. Is this how we want our future generations to grow? I think not.
If you try to sell your kid to me saying she is an all-rounder and an ace student, that doesn't quite counter my argument. What has grades got to do with intelligence? And why should we bother ourselves with the gibberish that I talk about?
It is solely because if you pick up the likes of the Economist or TIME, articles there are deemed immaterial to today's millennial trend, but what we don't see is that they are most relative to the globe's trend. They see, they feel, they debate, they click and then they write. Each written line has depth behind it, has logic and argument, is something we must seek actively.
In conclusion, what our generation needs is realisation. Somebody to tell them that what they watch, ain't always right. It isn't something to be proud of. In the long run, what stays with us is the knowledge we garnered over years of experience, and if those experiences are wasted away with the likes of reality shows, then what is the point of me writing this article? The window will just be cleared from all aspects.
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Warren Possible for Seat on Senate Banking Committee
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The chances are good, but not guaranteed, that Elizabeth Warren will secure a highly coveted seat on the Senate Banking Committee, a move that would dramatically elevate her campaign against Wall Street excess.
Senior Senate Democratic aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Massachusetts senator-elect is a logical fit for the committee, even though it is rare for a freshman senator to get such a plum assignment. If she gets the slot, Warren's bully pulpit would be replaced with real power. The bipartisan panel can greatly influence policy decisions through its oversight of financial services, international trade, insurance, housing, securities and economic issues.
Warren, who has called for breaking up the big banks, could move to block legislative tweaks to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law that would blunt the full impact of profit-pummeling reforms. She would also be able to forcefully push for regulators to use all the powers available to them to write strict interpretations of rules.
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That could mean stronger curbs on Wall Street trading, higher capital buffers and rules that would compel mega-banks to shrink. A spokeswoman for Warren did not respond to numerous requests for comment. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid likely won't start considering committee assignments until the new year. Still, one Senate Democratic aide predicted that if Warren wants to be on the banking panel, the odds are good she'll get it.
"The leadership and committee chairmen usually work together to try to accommodate incoming senators' preferences, within reason," the aide told Reuters. "If Senator-elect Warren indicates she'd like to serve on the banking committee, given her prominent work on those issues, she would certainly have a very good shot."
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Warren, a Harvard law professor, is credited as the prime architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created by Dodd-Frank. She rose to national prominence in 2008 when she was named chief watchdog of TARP, the $700 billion taxpayer bailout of the U.S. financial system. She made regular television appearances railing against Wall Street and mega-banks, a habit that made her bankers' public enemy No. 1.
Warren then became the acting director of the CFPB, but President Barack Obama dropped the idea of formally nominating her for the post, in large part because there was only a slim chance that the Senate she is now joining would confirm her. Her victory on Tuesday over Republican incumbent Senator Scott Brown is unleashing fresh nervousness in the financial services sector.
"The biggest impact I think would be for the mortgage and credit card industries," said Joseph Engelhard, a senior vice president for Capital Alpha. "She'll be pushing the CFPB to be a really tough regulator and examiner of the big banks."
Senator Jack Reed, a senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, declined to make a prediction on Warren, saying he thinks she will have an important impact on financial services policy regardless of where she lands.
"I'm just glad she is in the Senate - I'll settle for that," Reed said in an interview Wednesday. "She is very talented and she has got great experience. There are very few people that come to this body with literally a lifetime of experience and detailed knowledge about ... financial regulatory issues."
Retiring U.S. Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat and the co-author of Dodd-Frank, said Warren could be a critical defender of cherished reforms against Republican attacks. "She'll have a very important role there. I assume she'll get on the Banking Committee," Frank said in an interview on Wednesday.
TOUGH COMPETITION
Still, a seat on Senate Banking is still not guaranteed, one senior Democratic committee aide warned. There are numerous factors that go into committee assignments, from just the basic math of how an election outcome will change a committee's ratio to whether there is competition among current sitting senators for openings.
At least two Democratic spots on the panel have opened up after both Senators Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Daniel Akaka of Hawaii decided to leave the Senate.
But aides and analysts who follow the Hill say that Warren may have some tough competition for the slots. Names being floated around town include Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, as well as Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, just to name two.
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Jason Rosenstock, the director of government relations for ML Strategies, said that generally incoming freshmen are not placed on priority "A" committees like banking, though more recently there have been exceptions and first-time senators have landed seats. He also noted that Warren could be a prime candidate for other committees like Senate Judiciary because of Warren's in-depth knowledge of bankruptcy law.
Regardless of where Warren lands, most observers agree that Warren won't need a banking seat to get her position across. But some doubt her larger impact. "She's just one of 100 senators," said Harvey Pitt, a former Republican chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Yes, she can kick up a fuss and raise significant issues, but at the end of the day, all she can do is try to embarrass people or create difficulties. By herself it's going to be very difficult for her to have very much of an impact."
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; additional reporting by Emily Stephenson and Rachelle Younglai in Washington and Suzanne Barlyn in New York)
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The heating degree days in the deep winter were about 6-7% higher in 2011/12 than 2012/13. The heating degree day is a measure of how cold the month was. The higher the number, the colder the month. Thismeans the heating load was around 6-7% higher last winter than this past one. With this correction, what we spent this year matches last year very well.
On the surface, this would be a bit surprising. New house, expensive energy saving features, same energy cost. There are two things to remember: The volume of our new house is about 2.2 times that of our old house. We are heating twice the volume for the same cost.
We had very different heating habits in our old house. We tended to turn our gas furnace off as much as possible. We would often let the house dip into the mid-50's overnight. When at home, we kept the thermostat quite a bit lower. More like 62-63 degrees rather than the 67 degrees we currently heat to. We closed heat vents in unused rooms. While this saved us some money, it made for a rather uncomfortable house. And because we let it get so cold, condensation would form on the walls in places with little circulation. Not a good thing. Now our practice is to set the heat pump to 67 degrees and leave it there. Day and night, home and away. A temperature that is very comfortable, keeps the whole house warm, and prevents the less efficient back-up Pick-a-Watt heaters from coming on.
For the same cost, we are heating a house that is 2.2 times bigger than our old house and we are heating it to a much more comfortable temperature that keeps moisture away and promotes constant circulation.


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what is a nearly perfect meal? it is an idiosyncratic confluence of elements, the sum of parts. it has almost nothing to do with expense, other than that special dinners draw people together and place them in a suitable and shared frame of mind. this can be done anywhere, which is why this is not a list of restaurants but a list of meals. this can also be done for nearly any price, which is why some of these meals involve pancakes.
i now realise what everyone who opens an ambitious restaurant knows: it takes enormous effort to reproduce reliably what sometimes unexpectedly and serendipitously materialises when people get together to cook or eat.
in most of these cases, the food was confident and made with care, the beverages appropriate (but often not exalted), the company incomparable. some of these places i've been to many times, some only once. in every case, the particular perfection of the meal has not been reproducible in other places and at other times. your mileage may vary.
just put it up there. i was hoping to only include those for which there was some record of the near-perfection but i now see that such pettifoggery is pointless.
I've found the Kitchen to have perfected the art of the poached egg and Hollandaise sauce.


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I must say that I enjoy the relative free speech this medium affords me and that I was denied in my previous job. You can agree or disagree with my commentary but you should know that I work hard to ensure that the information presented here is accurate, useful and, when necessary or advertised as such, up-to-date.
Congratulations on one year of blogging! Looking forward to another year!


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The malignant narcissists and sociopaths who walk among you are probably people you know and like – and if you haven't personally been victimized by them, you're none the wiser.
No Contact is the key that locks out that person from ever entering our heart, mind, and spirit in any palpable way again.
There's a lot of scientific evidence that when you are in a long term relationship, your brain develops a neurological groove around the person. The only way to heal the metaphorical wound is to stop picking at the scab.
An unhealthy obsession is being formed day-by-day, one that wasn't there when he was present. Certainly you will go back to normal when he comes home. For now you are obsessed with finding new ways to survive without them.


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Moore Delighted With Arrival of Bingham
Ronnie Moore completed his first piece of transfer business of the summer this afternoon and it was a move that put a big smile on the face of the Pools boss.
Striker Rakish Bingham has returned to Victoria Park after catching the eye of Moore during his loan spell at the Club in January,
"We're delighted," Moore told hartlepoolunited.co.uk.
"When he was here during last season he did really well and we missed his pace when he went back.
"He gives us an out, he is always a threat and hopefully there will be plenty more goals to come from him as well.
"He just needs an arm around him. He has spent too much time on the bench at Mansfield and now it is up to myself and Sam to get out of him what we think he's got in there.
"We know he can become a really competitive player and we're looking forward to working with him."
Bingham made plenty of friends during his first spell at the Club and Moore is hoping to see the player make just as big of an impact now he's become a Pools player,
"Everybody liked him and took to him and he did well when he was here.
"He's quick and when you have that, it gives us chance to get out from the back four or back three if you put balls into the right areas.
"I think the Hartlepool fans will be pleased with the first of what we're hoping will be several new signings."


We were blessed with Wily for almost 15 years. She had so many endearing traits. When we picked her up from our breeder, she trotted to us with her little greeting (woo-woo howl); she knew she was meant to be ours, maybe even before we did. Her little spirit guided us on many adventures over the years – pet friendly locations and meeting many wonderful people. We hope this donation can bring some happiness into the life of some need rescue dog – as she had brought so much happiness to us.
Bear was a wonderful friend and companion. Years ago he did an Iams commercial photo shoot. He was on a plane, boat and even in church. He loved our grandchildren and was a buddy to my husband. We will never forget him. He is always in our hearts.
In memory of my sweet boy. He loved everyone he met and in turn, they quickly grew to love him also.
Riley was the Mayor of the neighborhood with neighbors greeting him first, and the human on the other end of the leash second, but that was as it should be. In his passing one neighbor referred to him as "a ray of light walking down the street". Even diabetes couldn't dampen his sweet, gentle nature. Thanks to all who are involved in rescue, it is an honorable venture and I am all the better for meeting you. Riley was a gift that monetary donations could never repay. I am especially grateful to Michelle and Chris Bogart, his foster parents for loving him enough to let him go. It was a great 6-year ride and I wouldn't have changed a thing, except the duration. But then, there is never enough time with our dear little Westies.
You can stop a heart, but not a soul. And no goodbye is forever.
I will see you again my sweet boy.
In memory of Breezy, the loved little Westie of Jackie and Pete Droncheff.
Dolly was abandoned ont he side of a road. She was blind, deaf and had arthritis. A guardian angel found her and brought ther to the W.H.W.T.C.S.E.M. Westie Rescue where she was fostered by another guardian angel. We are grateful to everyone in the rescue for working so hard to save her and bring her into our lives.
We will never forget her courage, her strength and her Westietude, which was so much a part of her personality. We will miss her great big ears, her tiny face and her cute black nose. The way she nuzzled into us when we picked her up and the feel of her soft, soft coat.
Dolly will live in our hearts forever. We were blessed to have her, even for a short time.
Goodbye for now, sweet Dolly. I know we will be together again at the rainbow bridge.
In the simplest measure, Casey was our pet for a short time but he will be with us forever.
Casey was the first dog in our family. He was a great friend and companion. "Once we all got to know each other, he became our dog. He loved riding in the car, his morning rubdowns adn being my outdoor grilling partner. He also enjoyed "guard duty" on our deck this time of year. He loved being in the snow; I guess it reminded him of his youth in South Haven.
Unfortunately, Casey's diabetes led to other problems that took his life. We miss himi very much. Goodbye, friend, your paw prints are on our hearts.


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November 19, 2019Today's big news was the resumption of the public impeachment hearings. Today was both breathtaking and grave. The morning's witnesses were Lt. Col. Al…
Heather Cox Richardson
Today's big news was the resumption of the public impeachment hearings. Today was both breathtaking and grave.
The morning's witnesses were Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine specialist at the National Security Council (the advisors who help the president on national security issues and foreign policy) and Jennifer Williams, a foreign service officer assigned to Vice President Mike Pence's office. Both Vindman and Williams were on the July 25 call.
The afternoon's witnesses were Kurt Volker, the special envoy to Ukraine who resigned the day after the whistleblower's complaint was made public, and Timothy Morrison, a former Republican staffer who at the time of the July 25 call was an NSC aide (he went on to replace Fiona Hill as Trump's Russia and Ukraine advisor in August, and resigned the day after he testified before the House on October 31). Ranking member (that is, the top Republican member) of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), requested the appearance of Volker and Morrison. He expected their testimony would undercut the case against the president.
Bad call.
The day's testimony was devastating all around, but perhaps Volker's was the worst for the president. Expected to be a somewhat sympathetic witness, he started by revising what he had said on October 3 behind closed doors. Since then, he said, he had "learned many things that I did not know at the time of the events in question." That is… he had to "revise" his previously somewhat sympathetic testimony to bring it into line with what other people had established.
See why closed door hearings were a good idea?
Volker distanced himself from the whole fiasco. He said he was completely out of the loop on whatever Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland were doing, and that, if he had known, he would have "raised my own objections."
He denied that he was aware he was one of the "three amigos"— Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and himself—that acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney had tapped for Trump to run a secret Ukraine policy to pressure Zelensky to announce an investigation into the Bidens. He blamed Giuliani for creating the mess in Ukraine, insisting that he, Volker, simply cared so deeply about the progress of democracy in Ukraine that he tried to "thread the needle" of what he thought were the inappropriate demands of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in such a way that he could still help Ukraine hold off Russia.
Whether or not Volker's blindness will fly is not clear to me: he had a reputation as a straight shooter and a good diplomat who has done much for Ukraine, among other places, but his blindness here seems extreme (although perhaps explainable). That he is throwing himself on the mercy of the nation rather on Trump is clear both from his long description of his service to the country and his voluntary dismissal of the idea that Biden was corrupt. He volunteered that Joe Biden "is an honorable man and I hold him in the highest regard."
Morrison, a staunch Republican, tried to defend the president by saying that his own flag of the July 25 call between Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky, which he, too, heard, was problematic not because it was so very bad on its own but because he worried "how its disclosure would play in Washington's political climate." But then he, too, delivered a zinger: he testified that Sondland told him directly that he, Sondland, had told the Ukrainian officials that they would not get the military aid they so desperately needed (and that Congress had approved on a bipartisan vote) unless they announced an investigation into Burisma and the Bidens. Anyone waiting on a direct connection of aid to an investigation just got it.
That this was the best defense the Republicans could muster speaks volumes. So did Nunes's opening statement: he sided with the Russian intelligence agencies pushing the idea that it was Ukraine, rather than Russia—as our intelligence agencies have established-- that attacked the 2016 US elections. And he accused the media of being the puppet of the Democrats because it has said the hearings are devastating for the president. (It has, of course, streamed them live as well as commenting on them, so people can watch for themselves.)
If the afternoon's testimony was breathtaking, the morning's was grave. We watched the clash of two visions of America as Republicans attacked the patriotism of anyone willing to cross the president. They questioned the abilities and the loyalty of Lt. Col. Vindman, a highly decorated military veteran, who came from the USSR as a refugee with his family when he was just three, and who went on to embrace the American dream. He got an education and joined the armed forces, fighting in Iraq, where he was wounded in 2004. Vindman continued his career serving the country as a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Eurasia, advising the U.S. embassies in Ukraine and Moscow before bringing his expertise back to Washington, D.C. An aide to the NSC, he was on the July 25 call and instantly flagged it as an attack on our democracy.
Vindman recognized that Trump was trying to solicit foreign help in undermining the 2020 election, an effort which makes our government look far more like the corrupt oligarchy of Russia than like a democracy. So he followed the rules. He reported the call to the head NSC lawyer, John Eisenberg. But rather than dealing with the substance of the complaint, Eisenberg tried to hide the problem, moving the call into the highly classified system to limit access to it. Now Vindman is telling what he knows to Congress, and in his opening statement he made clear the difference between the US he loves and the totalitarian government from which his family fled. In America, he said, "right matters."
Vindman's powerful testimony and the backlash against it, in the very halls of our democracy, were a grave portrait of the threat under which we now rest. And they were, I think, a reminder of our own responsibility for our future.
Today is the anniversary of Lincoln's 1863 delivery of the Gettysburg address, when in the midst of the Civil War, the president insisted that America stood for equality before the law. That principle was under siege, he noted, and brave people were struggling to keep it alive. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication for a national cemetery where men who had died in that struggle were buried. He called for Americans to "here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain" and that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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PLACE Design Group is excited to announce a new design team for the Gold Coast Office. Welcoming Design Leader Alex Cohn and newly promoted Lead Landscape Architect Sam Shepherd, the team is set for the next phase of the Gold Coast's development.
Working alongside the new design leaders, Peter Bell, PLACE Design Group Planning Principal is looking forward to collaborating closely with Alex. Having continued to grow the planning arm of the Gold Coast Office Peter says it is an exciting time for not only PLACE Design Group but for the Gold Coast.
"We are starting to see strong recovery of the Gold Coast market. There is a lot of interest from developers looking for new sites as well as an influx of Chinese investors who are securing development sites and are constructing major projects, the likes of Rhapsody and Jewel.
"There is also major construction happening with the Pacific Fair redevelopment and Coomera Town Centre. This has fuelled confidence and increased activity with smaller projects especially around the Southport PDA. The expectation for 2015 will be for substantial development activity and having Alex and Sam working alongside will be of great benefit," Mr Bell said.
Returning back to the Coastal Community that he knows so well, Mr Cohn will bring over 30 years of professional design practice and knowledge, as well as international design appreciation to this new role. Having arrived in Australia in 1990, Mr Cohn's first role was at a local architecture firm; Cummings + Burns located in Southport, with his first project working on a series of prestige golf front houses at the renowned Royal Pines Resort.
Having left the Gold Coast in early 2000 it is still obvious to see thatMr Cohn's passion for this region has never wavered, "I love the optimism and unashamed confidence with which this city grows and develops. I also love its environmental wealth and its natural, raw beauty. As an immigrant this city represents my second "hometown" where I formed my first impressions of the Australian culture and its lifestyle,"Mr Cohn said.
Alex CohnAfter spending ten and a half years working at the PLACE Design Group Brisbane office,Mr Cohn is drawing on his strengths and is thrilled about his new position.
"This role represents the opportunity to give back to the city that as a young professional gave me opportunities to develop and integrate in an advanced and competitive design culture. The untapped potential in this part of the world is incredible.
Sam Shepherd who will be leading the Landscape Architecture team is equally excited to take on this new role and demonstrate to the Gold Coast community his experience, enthusiasm, and passion for quality resolved built environments. Mr Shepherd has ten years of experience in the industry, with a background in Master Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Public Spaces that will prove invaluable in his new role.
PLACE Design Group has a strong history of leading significant Planning, Urban Design, and Landscape Architectural projects on the Gold Coast. The next design era for PLACE Design Group is set to build upon the legacy of creating great places for years to come.


If you're getting ready to tackle a garage organization project, you should have a plan. It can be tough to know where to start, especially since our garages are often used for multiple purposes. Whether it's strictly a place for your car, a workstation for your tools, or storage space for your lawn accessories, get your Kirby vacuum ready and try out these garage organization tips to get that area clean and tidy.


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Ephippiochthonius distinguendus est une espèce de pseudoscorpions de la famille des Chthoniidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique du Pays basque en Espagne. Elle se rencontre dans la grotte Mendikuteko kobea à Albiztur.

Description
La femelle holotype mesure .

La femelle décrite par Zaragoza en 2017 mesure .

Publication originale
 Beier, 1930 : Neue Höhlen-Pseudoscorpione der Gattung Chthonius. Eos, Madrid, ,  (texte intégral).

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Chthoniidae
Espèce de pseudoscorpions (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique d'Espagne