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In September 2012 the Bushcare Groups that work in the upper catchment of the Kedumba River — The Gully — Katoomba, held their first annual Combined Catchment Day. The purpose was to enable all the groups in that water catchment (the area that catches the rain water that drains over Katoomba Falls into the Kedumba River) to come together to meet each other, find out what other Bushcarers are up to and do some Bushcare together.
There are five Bushcare Groups actively working in the catchment:
- The Friends of Katoomba Falls Creek Valley Bushcare;
- Gargaree Swampcare;
- Katoomba Golf Club Landcare;
- Kedumba Creek Bushcare;
- Upper Kedumba Creek Bushcare.
This first combined Bushcare day was hosted by the Gargaree Swampcare Group, the youngest of the groups.
Representatives of all five groups met at the Gully Heritage Centre in Gates Ave and were treated to a sneak preview of the new 'Keeping Place' which is now housed there. Sharyn Halls gave us a presentation on the history of the Gully before leading us on a short walk to the newly constructed walking track around the Blue Mountains Swamp which is the focus of the Group's work. Their efforts are supported by significant contracted bush regeneration work funded by grants the Group has obtained through the Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority/Caring for our Country programs.
We enjoyed some delicious food before everyone gathered around to introduce ourselves properly. This was made all the more memorable when David King presented two Meeting Sticks: one to the Gundungurra elders for the Heritage Centre and one that he had made and painted especially for this group meeting. The stick was passed around to be held by the person speaking, and seemed to encourage everyone to talk about their involvement in Bushcare. I, for one, was moved by the significance of David's gesture and look forward to using the meeting stick again next year, when we hope one of the other Gully Bushcare Groups can host a similar get together.
We then walked five minutes up Pine St where David Rae, the Upper Kedumba Bushcare Group's Community Co-ordinator showed us their work site and discussed their plans. And then — after all that talking — time for some Bushcare! A number of people pitched in to follow up work done earlier by the other two Gully groups and attack some mature privets and cotoneasters in the picnic area opposite the Gully Heritage Centre.
As we Bushcarers all know, Bushcare is just as much about connecting with people as it is about protecting the environment. The Gully has always been a popular place for people to gather and with such a rich cultural history, combined with significant environmental features. It's no wonder it continues to attract people to care for it and keep it alive.


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The debate whether bioplastics, specifically polylactic acid (PLA), can be recycled with mainstream PET continues to rage on. Released studies seem to contradict each other, with one indicating PLA does not contaminate the PET recycling stream and another indicating it does.
Bioplastics are used to create products typically made from petroleum-based products. They are biopolymers, derived from renewable biomass sources such as corn starch or vegetable oil. PLA is one form of bioplastic, produced from glucose.
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) recently announced its concern for potential contamination of the PET recycling stream associated with PLA bottles. The trade association for the PET plastic industry in the U.S. and Canada cited its concerns involving cost of separation, increased contamination, yield loss and impact on recycled PET (RPET) quality and processing.
"We don't doubt that PLA can be recycled," said Tom Busard, NAPCOR Chairman, "but there are unquestionably some big issues yet to overcome."
NAPCOR's Technical Director, Mike Schedler, added, "The entire premise that you can simply add PLA containers into the PET recycling stream, successfully sort them out and eventually find markets for the material, is like advocating that mixed ceramic materials can be thrown right in with the recyclable glass stream to be sorted out, and that eventually there will be enough of this mixed material that someone will want to buy it. It's really no different from this and just isn't a viable solution from anyone's point of view."
On the other side of the debate are the manufacturers of PLA bioplastics. NatureWorks, LLC, a commercial manufacturer of PLA bioplastics, released the findings of a two-year bioplastics recycling study earlier this year, concluding that automated systems currently being used in the recycling industry are capable of sorting bioplastic bottles from petroleum-based bottles with an accuracy of nearly 100 percent.
"Demonstrating that natural plastic bottles can be brought seamlessly into the recycling stream through the use of automated sorting equipment available today is a major finding and another step toward greater sustainability," said NatureWorks director of communications and public affairs, Steve Davies.
A mixed plastics recycling study, Domestic Mixed Plastics Packaging Waste Options, conducted by U.K. based Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), also found that current NIR (near-infrared) recycling systems can effectively sort PLA from a mixed packaging stream.

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Guided Bird Walk — Local birder Carl Starace will guide visitors around the loop trail near the Sandstone Ranch, identifying as many as 30 species of birds. Bring binoculars. The walk starts at the covered picnic shelter at the southeast corner of the soccer fields. No registration required; 8:30 a.m., Sandstone Ranch, 3001 Sandstone Drive, Longmont; Free; longmontcolorado.gov
The Governor's Art Show & Sale — The largest fine art show exclusively features Colorado artists in a a month-long exhibit at the Loveland Museum; 10 a.m., Loveland Museum, 503 N. Lincoln Ave, Loveland; $5; 970-670-0035.
Backyard Nature & Science for Families — Tuesdays and Wednesdays, June 4-July 25, feed your child's natural curiosity about the world with a science-themed storytime that includes hands-on exploration of nature. Learn about everything from insects to dinosaurs and rocks to plants. This storytime includes parent or caregiver participation. Each session will end with a make and take activity. All ages welcome. No registration required; 10:15-11 a.m., Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont; longmontcolorado.gov.
St Vrain Chain Gang Spin Into The Setting Sun — Ride with SVCG on 15-20 mile routes. Weather permitting, then have a beer and a bite at 300 Suns Brewing; 5:15 p.m. , 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave, Unit C, Longmont; 300sunsbrewing.com/events/.
Artisan Cheesemaking — The Art of Cheese introduces guests to the art and science of home cheesemaking. Learn how to make an easy soft cheese and leave with recipes for several easy cheeses; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, The Art of Cheese, 505 Weaver Park Rd, Ste E, Longmont; theartofcheese.com
Square Dance — Wednesday Night Square Dance features $2 cheese squares with music and dancing; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Rosalee's Pizzeria, 461 Main Street, Longmont; Free;Rosaleespizzeria.com.
Kidzz Movie Connection — Activities include movies, games, adventures, crafts, lessons, sports, exercises, science, snacks, prizes and gifts. Space is limited; 9 a.m. Thursday, Message of Life Ministries, 605 SW. 18th St, Loveland; $1-$2; 970-663-5433 ext.101.
Brewed at Altitude: The History of Colorado Brewing — American Brewing Historian and Left Hand Brewer Carl Rose will be present a lecture covering the complete history of Colorado's brewers; 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Brewmented, 900 S. Hover, Unit C, Longmont; Free; 720-699-0214, Register: brewmented.wufoo.com/forms/zju9w6n02q51i9.


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Many Biology majors and minors intend to pursue careers in the Health Professions. This includes such programs as medical, dental, veterinary, nursing, physician's assistant, physical therapist, etc. This page contains information regarding how students can prepare for applying to and gaining admission into these programs. The information is sorted by year, but this is not meant to imply that failure to do any of these things at a particular time will make it impossible to successfully apply. Rather, this is meant to provide an idea about a "typical" path.
|1. Inform your academic advisor that you are interested in the health professions. This will help your advisor work with you in deciding upon appropriate course selections. Also let him/her know if you are in any special program such as PACE.
|2. Begin (or continue) work (paid or volunteer) in a health care setting related to what you think you would like to do. In other words, if you are interested in dentistry, get a position working in a dentist's office, or shadow a dentist. Keep in mind that some programs require a great deal of paid or volunteer experience BEFORE you apply (Vet schools require 500 hours as a minimum). More importantly, the more experience you have, the better able you will be to decide which area to pursue.
|3. Attend the information session for freshmen held by Ms. O'Hara, the Health Professions advisor. She will provide general information regarding the process of preparing for and applying to schools of the health professions.
|4. Check out information available from professional societies like:
|1. Talk with both your academic advisor and Ms. O'Hara about your career plans, especially before registration. Students planning to enter nursing, PA, PT and other programs will need to begin taking specific courses to fulfill admissions requirements.
|2. Attend career panels, the "Dinner with a Doc", health professions advisor meetings, and other activities where you can meet professionals working in health care to talk about their jobs. Get involved in one or more of the shadowing opportunities.
|3. Continue volunteer/paid work in health care. It is important that you get in a position where you see ongoing health care. In this regard, hospitals, doctor's, dentist's, vet's offices, are preferable to hospices, rest homes, shelters. While all types of service are good, be sure you are getting to see and talk with health professionals so you can decide what career you want to pursue.
|4. Beginning at the end of your Sophomore year, and continuing throughout your Junior year, spend 10 hours per week reviewing material for the professional exam you will have to take. For medical school (MD or DO) you will need to take the MCAT, for veterinary school you take the GRE, depending on the program, for dental school you take the DAT, for optometry school you take the OAT, and for many other programs (PA, PT, etc.) you take the GRE.
|1. Make decisions about what programs you will apply to. You should definitely visit schools whenever possible and talk with the students enrolled in the program you are considering. Be sure to check with SJU teachers and Ms. O'Hara as there are probably SJU alums in those programs who would be glad to talk with you.
|2. Thoroughly familiarize yourself with the details of the profession you are considering. Be sure to be able to address questions like : "What is the difference between Osteopathic and Allopathic philosophies?", "What are typical duties of a BS-RN?", "What has motivated you to want to enter health care?", etc.
|3. Talk with your academic advisor about your career plans. You may want to consider taking 4 courses one or both semesters junior year to provide more time for preparing for the admissions test and review process. Be sure that doing this will not prevent you from graduating on time!
|4. Students planning on entering fields (MD/DO, Dental, Vet) requiring review by HPAC Health Professions Advisory Committee), should begin the HPAC application process in the Fall of their Junior year. Letters of recommendation are required from science and non-science faculty. These should be requested well in advance and from teachers who know you well. Make a point of visiting all of the members of HPAC early in the Spring semester to introduce yourself and answer any questions they might have. Prepare your personal statement and have it reviewed by both your academic advisor and Ms. O'Hara.
|5. Apply for and take the appropriate admissions test. Many students find a review/preparation course helpful as part of their preparation, but not all students do.
|6. Continue volunteer/paid work in health care. It is important that you get in a position where you see ongoing health care.
|7. Work on your interview skills. Attend the mock interview sessions and visit the Career Development center for help.
|8. Most students will begin the application process for professional school in the junior year. Continue with this through the Summer. Make sure that schools have received completed applications.
|1. Students will typically hear from schools starting in the Fall of Senior year. Schedule interviews as quickly as is possible as many times schools will use a rolling admissions process. Review information about each program before going to the interview. Have questions about the program prepared ahead of time
|2. Inform you academic advisor and Ms. O'Hara of the decisions of the programs you have applied to.
|3. If need be, consider alternative options for after graduation. Pre-professional MA programs, research-based MS programs, and jobs in science/biotech are good ways to improve your chances on the next round. Talk with your advisor and Ms. O'Hara to identify weaknesses that need to be addressed.


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With all the chat around sugar, we want to help you understand exactly how sugar is classified, how much you should be consuming, and how to work out the amount of sugar there is in different foods and drinks, to help you reduce your intake.
Sugar is classed in two ways:
- FREE SUGARS – sugar added to food and drink, as well as sugar found naturally in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates
- NATURALLY OCCURRING SUGARS – found in fruit and milk
In the UK, there are lots of figures out there so it can get confusing. Let's break it down:
- The reference intake – the Government's guideline daily amount – of "total sugars" (both naturally occurring and free sugars) for the average adult is a maximum of 90g per day, but they don't currently provide specific guidelines for children.
- The Government's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) gives guidance on the consumption of free sugars. They recommend that our daily intake should be less than 5% of our total energy intake. So what does that really mean?
- Children aged 4 to 6 should have no more than 19g or 5 teaspoons of free sugars per day
- Children aged 7 to 10 should have no more than 24g or 6 teaspoons of free sugars per day
- Children aged 11 years and upwards, as well as adults, should have no more than 30g or 7 teaspoons of free sugar per day
– To put this into perspective, a typical 330ml can of fizzy drink can contain up to 35g or 9 teaspoons of free sugar –
Sugar is added to all sorts of foods and drinks to make them taste sweet or to preserve their flavour. And it's not just found in products you'd expect, such as cakes, biscuits, fizzy drinks and desserts. You'll also find it in things like baked beans, bread and cereal. So, make sure you check the ingredients list on the label so you know how much sugar a product contains.
Things to look out for:
- Added sugar or free sugars – the ones we want to cut down on – aren't always labelled as sugar, so can be tricky to spot. The following are all sugars: agave nectar, corn sweetener, dextrose, honey, corn syrup, sucrose, fructose, glucose and molasses. Make sure you read the labels
- Food labels list the ingredients in descending order, so in general the higher sugar appears in the list, the more that product contains
- For extra clarity, use the nutritional information panel on the back of the pack. Sugar is listed as 'of which sugars' and is the total sugar content per serving and/or per 100g. But, this figure doesn't distinguish between naturally occurring sugars and free sugars, so read the ingredients list too to give yourself an idea of whether there are likely to be any naturally occurring sugars in that product
- In the UK, many food and drink manufacturers now use traffic light labelling on front of pack as well, signposting key nutrient values – including sugar, saturated fat and salt – as green, amber or red (low, medium or high). Use this information to educate yourself. As a general rule, most of the time you should aim to choose food and drinks that are mainly green and amber across all values, not just sugar!
The reality is that consuming too much sugar will have a detrimental effect on your health:
- Sugar provides the body with empty calories that give us energy without any nutrients. As a result, we eat more without feeling full or satisfied. This leads to an increased risk of weight gain, certain diseases, and a cycle of highs and lows in energy levels, which will leave you feeling tired and craving even more sugar
- Frequent consumption can lead to tooth decay. A report by the Royal College of Surgeons published earlier this year showed tooth decay to be the most common reason five- to nine-year-olds were admitted to hospital
- It can also lead to type-2 diabetes, the levels of which have risen dramatically in recent years. Being overweight or obese also increases your risk of developing the disease. Diabetes UK reports that there are currently 3.3 million people in the UK living with diabetes, and many of these cases are type-2
The key thing to remember is that overall, eating healthily is all about balance. Indulgent foods, such as those high in fat and/or sugar, can be enjoyed and savoured, but only occasionally, not every day. The majority of our diet should be made up of balanced, nutritious everyday foods.
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Radnor Hunt Races 2015–85 Years and Counting…
By Alev Gefen
Photos by Inna Race
Hi, friends and fans! Alev here with Private Paparazzi Productions.
We are traveling the world with our camera yet again, and this weekend took us to the Radnor Hunt Races in Devon, PA.
Saturday, May 16th marked Radnor Hunt's eighty-five years in existence; we at Private Paparazzi Productions could not have been more thrilled and privileged to take part in the event, which was regal as ever.
The show kicked off with the Orpheus Club Choir's moving rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
This throng of renowned singers is the oldest all-male choir in America.
Each year features a new theme, and this year's was Fairies.
All of the guests were attired in their finest suits and dresses, as usual; on their heads they donned exquisitely unique hats and funky fascinators, as did I.
Not to brag, but the theme for my hat, Spring Love, won second place in the Chapeaux contest.
The firs place went to a gorgeous hat made by Zoya Egan.
Another gorgeous day in a gorgeous crowd, enveloped in gorgeous history.
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My Pet World
These questions don't directly relate to pet behavior or health, but instead are answers to questions regarding my opinions on timely pet-related topics.
Q: You recently wrote about breed-specific bans and communities banning pit bulls. These dogs are always in the news. It seems that whenever there's a dog attack, a pit bull is involved. Why in the world wouldn't you want to ban them?
A: Just because news reports say a dog is a pit bull doesn't mean this is true. Most dogs you see on the street with a stocky muscular body and broad head of a certain size are called "pit bulls." However, we now understand with modern genetic testing that many such dogs are merely mixed-breeds that fit a certain look. Their genetic background might not even include true pit bulls.
I suggest dogs with a pit bull look may be the most common dogs in America. So there's also a numbers game going on. You're not likely to see many reports of American foxhounds attacking anyone. That's not only because when well socialized, these dogs are very unlikely to attack, but also because there are so few of them.
Years ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped paying attention to the reported breed in the event of a dog bite. For starters, their studies determined that the breed in such incidents is often misidentified. What's most important is why a dog of any breed or mix bites in the first place.
We know the most common explanations for dog attacks, and breed is not a big factor.
If you want citations to back up this information, check out the new American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior position statement on Breed Bans, which I co-wrote with Ontario, Canada-based veterinary behaviorist Dr. Sagi Denenberg at: avsabonline.org/uploads/position–statements/Combined–Punishment–Statements1-25-13.pdf
Q: If you're such an animal lover, why do you endorse feral cat colonies being placed where rats are for rat control?
A: So, you like rats, do you? Domestic pet rats are, in fact, great pets; they're very interactive and surprisingly intelligent. Sadly, rats don't live very long.
City rats are also intelligent, and clearly the Norway rat (though not actually from Norway) is a survivor, co-habitating with people around the world for centuries. In New York City alone, it's estimated there are about 70 million rats.
The rat's place in the ecosystem is unclear. In other words, without Norway rats, the world could be a better place. Certainly, the many diseases carried by rats might disappear.
Millions of feral cats roam freely in America. Placing them in shelters is actually not in the best interest of these unsocialized felines (and there's no way to catch them all, anyway). It's labor-intensive to socialize these animals to be pets. In the meantime, they take up space better used for more adoptable cats.
Years ago, the TNR or trap/neuter/return program was launched, whereby volunteers trap feral cats and have them spayed/neutered, vaccinated for rabies and ear notched (to identify them as TNR animals). The cats are then returned to the outdoors, and caretakers oversee their care, offering extra food and warm shelter in cold climates.
Over time, because TNR cats can no longer reproduce, their numbers diminish.
Because of budget constraints, many American cities have cut back, or even eliminated, their rat-abatement programs. In Chicago, Tree House Humane Society began a green program to put TNR cats to work eliminating rats. Community leaders love it, and so do the cats.
TNR cats are relocated to where there are rat infestations. Sometimes the cats catch the vermin, but mostly the rats move elsewhere. While these cats eventually die off, there are always reinforcements.
Q: When I grew up, people kept dogs outside, not indoors in their own beds. To me, that's not a dog's place.
A: More than anything in the world (except perhaps food and water), our dogs want to be with us. Certainly, when living outdoors a dog is close by, but the relationship between dog and owner benefits from dogs living in the home. Sure, you can treat (and should treat) a dog like a dog, but the pet can still be a member of the family.
What's more, left to their own devices, outside dogs can get into trouble — jumping over or digging under fences to escape, barking at passerby, digging up rose bushes, etc.
As for whether a dog shares the bed, that's up to the individual owner.
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Get Ready For Go Set a Watchman
The much anticipated Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is now available at your local Fauquier County Public Library location!
Harper Lee's first published work – Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird – was published in 1960 and is a classic of American literature. Go Set a Watchman is the "prequel" but was not discovered until 2014.
Go Set a Watchman is available in multiple formats but you may have a short wait for the next available copy. If you would like to revisit To Kill a Mockingbird (or explore it for the first time), the book, movie and CD book formats are available from the library. You can also learn more about the author, Harper Lee, from these resources, available at your local library:
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
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2016 Annual Bannock Gathering
'Banakwate Yaduana Kwaya'atu Appigakwe'
We will speak Bannock language for a long time
Published August 6, 2016
FORT HALL, IDAHO — The 2016 Annual Bannock Gathering is scheduled for Monday, August 8 and Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel & Event Center in Fort Hall, Idaho. This year's Gathering will feature "Throughour Clothing, We Remember," a historical clothing show on Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 7:00PM in the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel & Event Center.
The annual gathering features a historical show which is a unique runway-style presentation of various styles of dress depicting the Shoshone and Bannock people, including pre-cloth materials. According to historical show coordinator, Yvette Tuell, "It is not limited to traditional regalia but includes all manner of dress, which reflects how our people adopted modern styles of dress and incorporated it into our native culture. We will show men's clothing styles that reflect warrior, cowboys, and Indian leaders to contemporary dress. Women's clothing styles will range from sagebrush clothing to early cloth dresses, to boarding school uniforms, shell and buckskin dresses to modern clothing." The show is intended to share, wear and teach tribal history. The show is open to the public and admission is free. See attached agenda for the two-day gathering.
For more information, contact Merceline Boyer at 208-236-1100 or Yvette Tuell at 220-2855.


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I was young with a low self esteem and I was at my friends house and her mom was VERY hot, but I was young and confused about my sexuality.i trusted her so I told her about my relationship issues,and we went to her room to be alone and talk. She started to get really touchy Feely with me. She then started stripping and put her t*** in my mouth and I got really scared but she got my clothes off, shoved her dirty panties in my mouth, and f***** my a****** with a strapon, telling me that fat girls and mommies both need love. She f***** me for the rest of the night while her daughter was in the next room :$ . It wasn't for awhile after that when I realized I liked bdsm, but that was the start
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I had a slight incident this weekend when I was trying to get ready. I attempted to get a necklace out of this tangled mess in a heap I keep in my top drawer when I realized that my jewelry organization was kind of a joke.
Something had to be done!
So, as any do-it-yourself type of person I was determined to find a cool, pretty way to organize my jewelry and I figured it out! On a trip to Hobby Lobby I discovered these beautiful blue boards with knobs on them.
I placed them in my closet and hung my jewelry on them.
Viola! Intense jewelry organization!
Now, all of my large necklaces are on display and easy to access!
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I am writing to lend my strong support for Ron Beaty, the only candidate for the 5th Barnstable District State Representative who has consistently demonstrated his unwavering devotion to the principles of open government, accountability and transparency regarding our Cape Cod Regional Government and State Government.
According to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, "the purpose of the Open Meeting Law is to ensure transparency in the deliberations on which public policy is based. Because the democratic process depends on the public having knowledge about the considerations underlying governmental action, the Open Meeting Law requires, with some exceptions, that meeting of public bodies be open to the public. It also seeks to balance the public's Complaints against State, County and municipal commissioners, boards, and committees when they have ignored or violated the Open Meeting Law, to the detriment of the public interest.
As a State Representative, Ron Beaty will bring this same refreshing diligence and public advocacy to the forefront of all his activities involving the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
We urge you to vote for Ron Beaty on September 4 because he will be your BEST representative.
Lillian and Julian Harwood, Pocasset
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January 7, 2016
How many strikes do you get?
Here's an interview with the latest victim. Good for her for facing the camera, scar and all.
Thirty-two priors and that doesn't begin to could all the sh*t he's done without being arrested? He's a one-man crime wave. His last arrest was on December 30 (yes, one week prior), when he randomly punched a woman on East 8th Street. He was also arrest in February 2015 for grand larceny and in 2013 for "forcible touching."
Does the guy need help? Obviously. But what kind and how do we give it to him? If he hasn't been able to get needed help by now, what makes anybody think the 33rd arrest is going to be charm? He simply needs to be kept off the streets.
12 comments:
- Adrian said...
"After the punching incident, the Manhattan District Attorney's office requested he be held on $1,000 bail, but Bazemore was released by Judge Laurie Peterson without bail."
So Judge Peterson releases on his own recognizance a man with (at that time) 31 prior arrests who is accused of random violence.
Peterson's term runs out in 2024...
- January 8, 2016 at 11:41 AM
- Moskos said...
"Priors" means arrests. Conviction is much higher standard and a different game. From a police standpoint, it's borderline irrelevant. I'm going with the police operative assumption of guilt here. Yes, I do think he was guilty each and every time. Or at least 30 out of 32. And that doesn't begin to add dozens and probably hundreds of offenses he committed that weren't reported or didn't result in an arrest. I mean, even a dumb mentally-ill criminal gets away most of the time.
Take the punching incident, once guilt is established, a judge can and should take priors into account. I don't know his rap sheet. Maybe that was the first sign of violence... But I doubt it.
- January 8, 2016 at 4:28 PM
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- January 8, 2016 at 10:14 PM
- Moskos said...
I'm not talking about "deciding" criminal guilt. There's something odd about conflating court conviction with reality. I'm talking about what actually happened. (You know, it's even possible for police to arrest somebody without probably cause and have that person guilty.) My point is I'm not talking about convictions at all. Nor do I want to on this post. Nobody gets arrested 3 dozen times by mistake.
Sometimes I think too many Americans actually believe that our constitution and system of justice make inherent real-world sense. There are countries, civilized fair ones, that don't use reasonable suspicion and probable cause. Does that make everybody innocent?
I had this weird talk with a reporter a while back about a guy in S.F. who was shot by police.
It went something like this:
Me: "Wait, he had just *cut* somebody?"
Her: "Allegedly."
"What do you mean allegedly? You just said he used the knife. Did he stab somebody or not?!"
"Well, allegedly. But he wasn't convicted."
"Are you serious? Are police supposed to wait till conviction before a guy can be dangerous?"
"Well, we can't be certain he did."
"But did he cut somebody and did police on the scene know that."
"Well then it's not an alleged stabbing. It's a stabbing. What matters to the cop facing a guy with knife is what he just did, not what might happen in court. It's not alleged if it actually happened!"
- January 9, 2016 at 12:52 PM
- Moskos said...
Comment pet peeve: A post about a guy who commits acts of violence against random people devolving into a discussion about police behavior and probable cause.
- January 9, 2016 at 12:53 PM
- aNanyMouse said...
Shit like this (no bail required) is part of why so many of us get so bitter; I'm so glad I didn't have direct experience of it. Even if he was innocent of 90% of the priors, unless the remaining 10% of ("convictable") priors were (only) about drugs or booze, that leaves at least 3 serious crimes upon (presumably) innocent citizens.
You know, one major reason for having a legal system, is to give victims hope for justice, instead of them having no choice but to take the law into their own hands.
- January 9, 2016 at 1:17 PM
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- January 9, 2016 at 6:22 PM
It's shocking that there are people like him that are still roaming the streets waiting to commit their next violent act. While I am a big advocate of punishing drug offenders, they usually are not that violent. Three strikes and they're out sends them to prison and they just take up space. People like this guy should not be able to see the outside of a cell. Obviously he can't be changed with 32 priors. The government needs to see what is really happening and take action to change this.
- February 5, 2016 at 1:29 PM
Kari Bazemore should have been in jail. His actions were unacceptable. This man has a very long rap sheet and even though his actions aren't serious he still has 32 priors and for the system to just continue to look past that is also unacceptable. The system has failed to protect the citizens from someone who is known to hurt people. Obviously being arrested doesn't phase this man so lock him up and throw away the key. We could always implement the punishment of flogging and maybe if he was in the amount of pain flogging causes he wouldn't be interested in hurting anyone anymore. He would also have scars just like he is giving many of his victims only his wouldn't be visible.
- February 5, 2016 at 10:17 PM
Honestly it sounds like the best thing to do with him is lock him away for the safety of others because leaving him out in the streets or even giving him the opportunity to return to the streets he has proven 32 prior times that he will commit crimes. The fact that he does it with zero motive and repeatedly shows he has no remorse, no self control, and zero desire to change. He is clearly not human so why treat him like one put him in a box and keep him there let the boredom drive him mad.
- February 5, 2016 at 10:45 PM
- Moskos said...
Because we're better than that. Because he actually is a human being. And we're better than that.
- February 5, 2016 at 11:44 PM
Its sad that he actually had the opportunity to do so many stupid acts like such and not be placed in some place that will help or completely punish him!
- February 5, 2016 at 11:59 PM


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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Big Window Challenge = Eddie Ross Room Love
Clean lined, upholstered furniture balance curved, vintage pieces that are warmed up with gilded bronze metal finishes. Love, love the chandelier.Shoes off + a pile of magazines + a blanket = Eddie's got my number!
The room is filled with original twists - check out these oversized pink patterned oval pillows.
If you read this blog, you know I'm a big fan of Eddie Ross. I'm also a big fan of this room and hope you'll take the time to check out Bloomingdale's Big Window Challenge HERE and cast your vote. You can vote through January 28th. Hope you'll join me in voting for the Eddie Ross room!
Images above: Addie Juell (via La Dolce Vita)
Image source Kristy May
11 comments:
- Cristin // Simplified Bee said...
Eddie has my vote too!
- January 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Thank you so much! This means the world to jaithan and me! it is so AMAZING the greart friend you can make from blogging! xoxo
Eddie + Jaithan
- January 21, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- Gwen Driscoll said...
Don't you just love Eddie Ross? He knocked himself out with this one. Hope you are well and have a great weekend. So glad to have met you through world of blog!
- January 22, 2010 at 12:16 AM
- P.Gaye Tapp at Little Augury said...
Edit,edit,edit.Less would have been more in this case. All three rooms leave alot to be desired
- January 22, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- Lauren said...
Oh YES! I was so happy to see another post about this today! He surely takes the cake:) his room is gorgeous and the details are stunning.
- January 22, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- Jen of MadeByGirl said...
Eddie Ross is great....I love these pictures! Inspiring!
Jen Ramos
- January 22, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- James XVI said...
I still have four Italian balloon-back chairs I bought at Bloomingdale's in 1989. I should have bought French chairs that year, being the bicentennial of the revolution that freed the Marquis de Sade from the Bastille. They always had some great vignettes on the furniture floor... I remember a desk in a minimalist but antique punctuated bachelor pad had an open journal with the penned entry "Nathalie is gone". I subsequently lived that one myself... life imitates art. I will cast my vote for this artful window.
- January 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM
- Renée Finberg said...
this is just another great example of his big, big, big talent!!!
- January 22, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Leah Moss said...
This room is so bold, I love it!
I'm also so impressed with the sway that certain design blogs seem to have on this contest. I noticed votes sky-rocketed for Eddie as soon as a few key blogs mentioned his room. Blogs are powerful!
- January 23, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- pve design said...
Eddie rocks, I need to do a post for him so he can win and then get a set designer job for a tv or film! All eyes on Eddie + J.
they rock!
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Intimation had been sent from the palace to Dr Tempest of Silverbridge of the bishop's intention that a commission should be held by him, as rural dean, with other neighbouring clergymen, as assessors with him, that inquiry might be made on the part of the Church into the question of Mr Crawley's guilt. It must be understood that by this time the opinion had become very general that Mr Crawley had been guilty,--that he had found the cheque in his house, and that he had, after holding it for many months, succumbed to temptation, and applied it to his own purposes. But various excuses were made for him by those who so believed. In the first place it was felt by all who really knew anything of the man's character, that the very fact of his committing such a crime proved him to be hardly responsible for his actions. He must have known, had not all judgment in such matters been taken from him, that the cheque would certainly be traced back to his hands. No attempt had been made in the disposing of it to dispose of it in such a way that the trace should be obliterated. He had simply given it to a neighbour with a direction to have it cashed, and had written his own name on the back of it. And therefore, though there could be no doubt as to the theft in the mind of those who supposed that he had found the cheque in his own house, yet the guilt of the theft seemed to be almost annihilated by the folly of the thief. And then his poverty, and his struggles, and the sufferings of his wife, were remembered; and stories were told from mouth to mouth of his industry in his profession, of his great zeal among the brickmakers of Hoggle End, of acts of charity done by him which startled the people of the district into admiration;--how he had worked with his own hands for the sick poor to whom he could not give relief in money, turning a woman's mangle for a couple of hours, and carrying a boy's load along the lanes. Dr Tempest and others declared that he had derogated from the dignity of his position as an English parish clergyman by such acts; but, nevertheless, the stories of these deeds acted strongly on the minds of both men and women, creating an admiration for Mr Crawley which was much stronger than the condemnation of his guilt.
Even Mrs Walker and her daughter, and the Miss Prettymans, had so far given way that they had ceased to asseverate their belief in Mr Crawley's innocence. They contented themselves now with simply expressing a hope that he would be acquitted by a jury, and that when he should be so acquitted the thing might be allowed to rest. If he had sinned, no doubt he had repented. And then there were serious debates whether he might not have stolen the money without much sin, being mad or half-mad,--touched with madness when he took it; and whether he might not, in spite of such temporary touch of madness, be well fitted for his parish duties. Sorrow had afflicted him grievously; but that sorrow, though it had incapacitated him for the management of his own affairs, had not rendered him unfit for the ministrations of his parish. Such were the arguments now used in his favour by the women around him; and the men were not keen to contradict them. The wish that he should be acquitted and allowed to remain in his parsonage was very general.
When therefore it became known that the bishop had decided to put on foot another investigation, with the view of bringing Mr Crawley's conduct under ecclesiastical condemnation, almost everybody accused the bishop of persecution. The world of the diocese declared that Mrs Proudie was at work, and that the bishop himself was no better than a puppet. It was in vain that certain clear-headed men among the clergy, of whom Dr Tempest himself was one, pointed out that the bishop after all might perhaps be right;--that if Mr Crawley were guilty, and if he should be found to have been so by a jury, it might be absolutely necessary that an ecclesiastical court should take some cognizance of the crime beyond that taken by the civil law. "The jury," said Dr Tempest, discussing the case with Mr Robarts and other clerical neighbours,--"the jury may probably find him guilty and recommend him to mercy. The judge will have heard his character, and will have been made acquainted with his manner of life, and will deal as lightly with the case as the law will allow him. For aught I know he may be imprisoned for a month. I wish it might be for no more than a day,--or an hour. But when he comes out from his month's imprisonment,--how then? Surely it should be a case for ecclesiastical inquiry, whether a clergyman who has committed a theft should be allowed to go into his pulpit directly he comes out of prison?" But the answer to this was that Mr Crawley always had been a good clergyman, was a good clergyman at this moment, and would be a good clergyman when he did come out of prison.
But Dr Tempest, though he had argued in this way, was by no means eager for the commencement of the commission over which he was to be called upon to preside. In spite of such arguments as the above, which came from the man's head when his head was brought to bear upon the matter, there was a thorough desire within his heart to oppose the bishop. He had no strong sympathy with Mr Crawley, as had others. He would have had Mr Crawley silenced without regret, presuming Mr Crawley to have been guilty. But he had a much stronger feeling with regard to the bishop. Had there been any question of silencing the bishop,--could it have been possible to take any steps in that direction,--he would have been very active. It may therefore be understood that in spite of his defence of the bishop's present proceedings as to the commission, he was anxious that the bishop should fail, and anxious to put impediments in the bishop's way, should it appear to him that he could do so with justice. Dr Tempest was well known among his parishioners to be hard and unsympathetic, some said unfeeling also, and cruel; but it was admitted by those who disliked him the most that he was both practical and just, and that he cared for the welfare of many, though he was rarely touched by the misery of one. Such was the man who was rector of Silverbridge and rural dean in the district, and who was now called upon by the bishop to assist him in making further inquiry as to this wretched cheque for twenty pounds.
Once at this period Archdeacon Grantly and Dr Tempest met each other and discussed the question of Mr Crawley's guilt. Both these men were inimical to the present bishop of the diocese, and both had perhaps respected the old bishop beyond all other men. But they were different in this, that the archdeacon hated Dr Proudie as a partisan,--whereas Dr Tempest opposed the bishop on certain principles which he endeavoured to make clear, at any rate to himself. "Wrong!" said the archdeacon, speaking of the bishop's intention of issuing a commission--"of course he is wrong. How could anything right come from him or from her? I should be sorry to have to do his bidding."
"I think you are a little hard upon Bishop Proudie," said Dr Tempest.
"One cannot be hard upon him," said the archdeacon. "He is so scandalously weak, and she is so radically vicious, that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence of evil days coming."
"You are more impulsive than I am," said Dr Tempest. "In this case I am sorry for the poor man, who is, I am sure, honest in the main. But I believe that in such a case your father would have done just what the present bishop is doing;--that he could have done nothing else; and as I think that Dr Proudie is right I shall do all that I can to assist him in the commission."
The bishop's secretary had written to Dr Tempest, telling him of the bishop's purpose; and now, in one of the last days of March, the bishop himself wrote to Dr Tempest, asking him to come over to the palace. The letter was worded most courteously, and expressed very feelingly the great regret which the writer felt at being obliged to take these proceedings against a clergyman in his diocese. Bishop Proudie knew how to write such a letter. By the writing of such letters, and by the making of speeches in the same strain, he had become Bishop of Barchester. Now, in this letter, he begged Dr Tempest to come over to him, saying how delighted Mrs Proudie would be to see him at the palace. Then he went on to explain the great difficulty which he felt, and great sorrow also, in dealing with this matter of Mr Crawley. He looked, therefore, confidently for Dr Tempest's assistance. Thinking to do the best for Mr Crawley, and anxious to enable Mr Crawley to remain in quiet retirement till the trial should be over, he had sent a clergyman over to Hogglestock, who would have relieved Mr Crawley from the burden of the church-services;--but Mr Crawley would have none of this relief. Mr Crawley had been obstinate and overbearing, and had persisted in claiming his right to his own pulpit. Therefore was the bishop obliged to interfere legally, and therefore was he under the necessity of asking Dr Tempest to assist him. Would Dr Tempest come over on the Monday, and stay till the Wednesday?
The letter was a very good letter, and Dr Tempest was obliged to do as he was asked. He so far modified the bishop's proposition that he reduced the sojourn at the palace by one night. He wrote to say that he would have the pleasure of dining with the bishop and Mrs Proudie on the Monday, but would return home on the Tuesday, as soon as the business in hand would permit him. "I shall get on very well with him," he said to his wife before he started; "but I am afraid of the woman. If she interferes there will be a row." "Then, my dear," said his wife, "there will be a row, for I am told that she always interferes." On reaching the palace half-an-hour before dinner-time, Dr Tempest found that other guests were expected, and on descending to the great yellow drawing-room, which was used only on state occasions, he encountered Mrs Proudie and two of her daughters arrayed in a full panoply of female armour. She received him with her sweetest smiles, and if there had been any former enmity between Silverbridge and the palace, it was now all forgotten. She regretted greatly that Mrs Tempest had not accompanied the doctor;--for Mrs Tempest also had been invited. But Mrs Tempest was not quite as well as she might have been, the doctor had said, and very rarely slept away from home. And then the bishop came in and greeted his guest with his pleasantest good humour. It was quite a sorrow to him that Silverbridge was so distant, and that he saw so little of Dr Tempest; but he hoped that that might be somewhat mended now, and that leisure might be found for social delights;--to all which Dr Tempest said but little, bowing to the bishop at each separate expression of his lordship's kindness.
There were guests there that evening who did not often sit at the bishop's table. The archdeacon and Mrs Grantly had been summoned from Plumstead, and had obeyed the summons. Great as was the enmity between the bishop and the archdeacon, it had never quite taken the form of open palpable hostility. Each, therefore, asked the other to dinner perhaps once every year; and each went to the other, perhaps, once in two years. And Dr Thorne from Chaldicotes was there, but without his wife, who in these days was up in London. Mrs Proudie always expressed a warm friendship for Mrs Thorne, and on this occasion loudly regretted her absence. "You must tell her, Dr Thorne, how exceedingly much we miss her." Dr Thorne, who was accustomed to hear his wife speak of her dear friend Mrs Proudie with almost unmeasured ridicule, promised that he would do so. "We are sorry the Lufton's couldn't come to us," said Mrs Proudie,--not alluding to the dowager, of whom it was well known that no earthly inducement would have sufficed to make her put her foot within Mrs Proudie's room;--"but one of the children is ill, and she could not leave him." But the Greshams were there from Boxall Hill, and the Thornes from Ullathorne, and, with the exception of a single chaplain, who pretended to carve, Dr Tempest and the archdeacon were the only clerical guests at the table. From all which Dr Tempest knew that the bishop was anxious to treat him with special consideration on the present occasion.
The dinner was rather long and ponderous, and occasionally almost dull. The archdeacon talked a good deal, but a bystander with an acute ear might have understood from the tone of his voice that he was not talking as he would have talked among friends. Mrs Proudie felt this, and understood it, and was angry. She could never find herself in the presence of the archdeacon without becoming angry. Her accurate ear would always appreciate the defiance of episcopal authority, as now existing in Barchester, which was concealed, or only half concealed, by all the archdeacon's words. But the bishop was not so keen, nor so easily roused to wrath; and though the presence of his enemy did to a certain degree cow him, he strove to fight against the feeling with renewed good-humour.
"You have improved so upon the old days," said the archdeacon, speaking of some small matter with reference to the cathedral, "that one hardly knows the old place."
"I hope we have not fallen off," said the bishop, with a smile.
"We have improved, Dr Grantly," said Mrs Proudie, with great emphasis on her words. "What you say is true. We have improved."
"Not a doubt about that," said the archdeacon. Then Mrs Grantly interposed, strove to change the subject, and threw oil upon the waters.
"Talking of improvements," said Mrs Grantly, "what an excellent row of houses they have built at the bottom of High Street. I wonder who is to live in them?"
"I remember when that was the very worst part of the town," said Dr Thorne.
"And now they're asking seventy pounds apiece for houses which did not cost above six hundred each to build," said Mr Thorne of Ullathorne, with that seeming dislike of modern success which is evinced by most of the elders of the world.
"And who is to live in them?" asked Mrs Grantly.
"Two of them have been already taken by clergymen," said the bishop, in a tone of triumph.
"Yes," said the archdeacon, "and the houses in the Close which used to be the residences of the prebendaries have been leased out to tallow-chandlers and retired brewers. That comes of the working of the Ecclesiastical Commission."
"And why not?" demanded Mrs Proudie.
"Why not, indeed, if you like to have tallow-chandlers next door to you?" said the archdeacon. "In the old days, we would sooner have had our brethren near to us."
"There is nothing, Dr Grantly, so objectionable in a cathedral town as a lot of idle clergymen," said Mrs Proudie.
"It is beginning to be a question to me," said the archdeacon, "whether there is any use in clergymen at all for the present generation."
"Dr Grantly, those cannot be your real sentiments," said Mrs Proudie. Then Mrs Grantly, working hard in her vocation as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters,--the archdeacon professing an opinion that the Southerners were Christian gentlemen, and the Northerners infidel snobs; whereas Mrs Proudie had an idea that the Gospel was preached with genuine zeal in the Northern States. And at each such outbreak the poor bishop would laugh uneasily, and say a word or two to which no one paid much attention. And so the dinner went on, not always in the most pleasant manner for those who preferred continued social good-humour to the occasional excitement of a half-suppressed battle.
Not a word was said about Mr Crawley. When Mrs Proudie and the ladies left the dining-room, the bishop strove to get up a little lay conversation. He spoke to Mr Thorne about his game, and to Dr Thorne about his timber, and even to Mr Gresham about his hounds. "It is not so very many years, Mr Gresham," said he, "since the Bishop of Barchester was expected to keep hounds himself," and the bishop laughed at his own joke.
"Your lordship shall have them back at the palace next season," said young Frank Gresham, "if you will promise to do the county justice."
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed the bishop. "What do you say, Mr Tozer?" Mr Tozer was the chaplain on duty.
"I have not least objection in the world, my lord," said Mr Tozer, "to act as second whip."
"I'm afraid you'll find them an expensive adjunct to the episcopate," said the archdeacon. And then the joke was over; for there had been a rumour, now for some years prevalent in Barchester, that Bishop Proudie was not liberal in his expenditure. As Mr Thorne said afterwards to his cousin the doctor, the archdeacon might have spared that sneer. "The archdeacon will never spare the man who sits in his father's seat," said the doctor. "The pity of it is that men who are so thoroughly different in all their sympathies should ever be brought into contact." "Dear, dear," said the archdeacon, as he stood afterwards on the rug before the drawing-room fire, "how many rubbers of whist I have seen played in this room." "I sincerely hope that you will never see another played here," said Mrs Proudie. "I'm quite sure that I shall not," said the archdeacon. For this last sally his wife scolded him bitterly on their way home. "You know very well," she said, "that the times are changed, and that if you were Bishop of Barchester yourself you would not have whist played in the palace." "I only know," said he, "that when we had the whist we had some true religion along with it, and some good sense and good feeling also." "You cannot be right to sneer at others for doing what you would do yourself," said his wife. Then the archdeacon threw himself sulkily into the corner of his carriage, and nothing more was said between him and his wife about the bishop's dinner-party.
Not a word was spoken that night at the palace about Mr Crawley; and when that obnoxious guest from Plumstead was gone, Mrs Proudie resumed her good-humour towards Dr Tempest. So intent was she on conciliating him that she refrained even from abusing the archdeacon, whom she knew to have been intimate for very many years with the rector of Silverbridge. In her accustomed moods she would have broken forth in loud anger, caring nothing for old friendships; but at present she was thoughtful of the morrow, and desirous that Dr Tempest should, if possible, meet her in a friendly humour when the great discussion as to Hogglestock should be opened between them. But Dr Tempest understood her bearing, and as he pulled on his nightcap made certain resolutions of his own as to the morrow's proceedings. "I don't suppose she will dare to interfere," he had said to his wife; "but if she does, I shall certainly tell the bishop that I cannot speak on the subject in her presence."
At breakfast on the following morning there was no one present but the bishop, Mrs Proudie, and Dr Tempest. Very little was said at the meal. Mr Crawley's name was not mentioned, but there seemed to be a general feeling among them that there was a task hanging over them which prevented any general conversation. The eggs were eaten and the coffee was drunk, but the eggs and the coffee disappeared almost in silence. When these ceremonies had been altogether completed, and it was clearly necessary that something further should be done, the bishop spoke: "Dr Tempest," he said, "perhaps you will join me in my study at eleven. We can then say a few words to each other about the unfortunate matter on which I shall have to trouble you." Dr Tempest said he would be punctual to his appointment, and then the bishop withdrew, muttering something as to the necessity of looking at his letters. Dr Tempest took a newspaper in his hand, which had been brought in by a servant, but Mrs Proudie did not allow him to read it. "Dr Tempest," she said, "this is a matter of most vital importance. I am quite sure that you feel that it is so."
"What matter, madam?" said the doctor.
"This terrible affair of Mr Crawley's. If something be not done the whole diocese will be disgraced." Then she waited for an answer, but receiving none she was obliged to continue. "Of the poor man's guilt there can, I fear, be no doubt." Then there was another pause, but still the doctor made no answer. "And if he be guilty," said Mrs Proudie, resolving that she would ask a question that must bring forth some reply, "can any experienced clergyman think that he can be fit to preach from the pulpit of a parish church? I am sure that you must agree with me, Dr Tempest? Consider the souls of the people!"
"Mrs Proudie," said he, "I think that we had better not discuss the matter."
"Not discuss it?"
"I think that we had better not do so. If I understand the bishop aright, he wishes that I should take some step in the matter."
"Of course he does."
"And therefore I must decline to make it a matter of common conversation."
"Common conversation, Dr Tempest! I should be the last person in the world to make it a matter of common conversation. I regard this as by no means a common conversation. God forbid that it should be a common conversation. I am speaking now very seriously with reference to the interests of the Church, which I think will be endangered by having among her active servants a man who has been guilty of so base a crime as theft. Think of it, Dr Tempest. Theft! Stealing money! Appropriating to his own use a cheque for twenty pounds which did not belong to him! And then telling such terrible falsehoods about it! Can anything be worse, anything more scandalous, anything more dangerous? Indeed, Dr Tempest, I do not regard this as any common conversation." The whole of this speech was not made at once, fluently, or without a break. From stop to stop Mrs Proudie paused, waiting for her companion's words; but as he would not speak she was obliged to continue. "I am sure that you cannot but agree with me, Dr Tempest?" she said.
"I am quite sure that I shall not discuss it with you," said the doctor, very brusquely.
"And why not? Are you not here to discuss it?"
"Not with you, Mrs Proudie. You must excuse me for saying so, but I am not here to discuss any such matter with you. Were I to do so, I should be guilty of a very great impropriety."
"All these things are in common between me and the bishop," said Mrs Proudie, with an air that was intended to be dignified, but which nevertheless displayed her rising anger.
"As to that I know nothing, but they cannot be in common between you and me. It grieves me much that I should have to speak to you in such a strain, but my duty allows me no alternative. I think, if you will permit me, I will take a turn round the garden before I keep my appointment with his lordship." And so saying he escaped from the lady without hearing her further remonstrance.
It still wanted an hour to the time named by the bishop, and Dr Tempest used it in preparing for his withdrawal from the palace as soon as his interview with the bishop should be over. After what had passed he thought he would be justified in taking his departure without bidding adieu formally to Mrs Proudie. He would say a word or two, explaining his haste, to the bishop; and then, if he could get out of the house at once, it might be that he would never see Mrs Proudie again. He was rather proud of his success in their late battle, but he felt that, having been so completely victorious, it would be foolish in him to risk his laurels in the chance of another encounter. He would say not a word of what had happened to the bishop, and he thought it probable that neither would Mrs Proudie speak of it,--at any rate till after he was gone. Generals who are beaten out of the field are not quick to talk of their own repulses. He, indeed, had not beaten Mrs Proudie out of the field. He had, in fact, himself run away. But he had left his foe silenced; and with such a foe, and in such a contest, that was everything. He put up his portmanteau, therefore, and prepared for his final retreat. Then he rang his bell and desired the servant to show him to the bishop's study. The servant did so, and when he entered the room the first thing he saw was Mrs Proudie sitting in an arm-chair near the window. The bishop was also in the room, sitting with his arms upon the writing-table, and his head upon his hands. It was very evident that Mrs Proudie did not consider herself to have been beaten, and that she was prepared to fight another battle. "Will you sit down, Dr Tempest?" she said, motioning him with her hand to a chair opposite to that occupied by the bishop. Dr Tempest sat down. He felt that at the moment he had nothing else to do, and that he must restrain any remonstrance that he might make till Mr Crawley's name should be mentioned. He was almost lost in admiration of the woman. He had left her, as he thought, utterly vanquished and prostrated by his determined but uncourteous usage of her; and here she was, present again on the field of battle as though she had never been even wounded. He could see that there had been words between her and the bishop, and that she had carried a point on which the bishop had been very anxious to have his own way. He could perceive at once that the bishop had begged her to absent herself and was greatly chagrined that he should not have prevailed with her. There she was,--and as Dr Tempest was resolved that he would neither give advice nor receive instructions respecting Mr Crawley in her presence, he could only draw upon his courage and his strategy for the coming warfare. For a few moments no one said a word. The bishop felt that if Dr Tempest would only begin, the work on hand might be got through, even in his wife's presence. Mrs Proudie was aware that her husband should begin. If he would do so, and if Dr Tempest would listen and then reply, she might gradually make her way into the conversation; and if her words were once accepted then she could say all that she desired to say; then she could play her part and become somebody in the episcopal work. When once she should have been allowed liberty of speech, the enemy would be powerless to stop her. But all this Dr Tempest understood quite as well as she understood it, and had they waited till night he would not have been the first to mention Mr Crawley's name.
The bishop sighed aloud. The sigh might be taken as expressing grief over the sin of the erring brother whose conduct they were then to discuss, and was not amiss. But when the sigh with its attendant murmurs had passed away it was necessary that some initiative step should be taken. "Dr Tempest," said the bishop, "what are we to do about this poor stiff-necked gentleman?" Still Dr Tempest did not speak. "There is no clergyman in the diocese," continued the bishop, "in whose prudence and wisdom I have more confidence than in yours. And I know, too, that you are by no means disposed to severity where severe measures are not necessary. What ought we to do? If he has been guilty, he should not surely return to his pulpit after the expiration of such punishment as the law of his country may award him."
Dr Tempest looked at Mrs Proudie, thinking that she might perhaps say a word now; but Mrs Proudie knew her part better and was silent. Angry as she was, she contrived to hold her peace. Let the debate once begin and she would be able to creep into it, and then to lead it,--and so she would hold her own. But she had met a foe as wary as herself. "My lord," said the doctor, "it will perhaps be well that you should communicate your wishes to me in writing. If it be possible for me to comply with them I will do so."
"Yes;--exactly; no doubt;--but I thought that perhaps we might better understand each other if we had a few words of quiet conversation upon the subject. I believe you know the steps that I have--"
But here the bishop was interrupted. Dr Tempest rose from his chair, and advancing to the table put both hands upon it. "My lord," he said, "I feel myself compelled to say that which I would very much rather leave unsaid, were it possible. I feel the difficulty, and I may say delicacy, of my position; but I should be untrue to my conscience and to my feeling of what is right in such matters, if I were to take any part in a discussion on this matter in the presence of--a lady."
"Dr Tempest, what is your objection?" said Mrs Proudie, rising from her chair, and coming also to the table, so that from thence she might confront her opponent; and as she stood opposite to Dr Tempest she also put both her hands upon the table.
"My dear, perhaps you will leave us for a few moments," said the bishop. Poor bishop! Poor weak bishop! As the words came from his mouth he knew that they would be spoken in vain, and that, if so, it would have been better for him to have left them unspoken.
"Why should I be dismissed from your room without a reason?" said Mrs Proudie. "Cannot Dr Tempest understand that a wife may share her husband's counsels,--as she must share his troubles? If he cannot, I pity him very much as to his own household."
"Dr Tempest," said the bishop, "Mrs Proudie takes the greatest possible interest in everything concerning the diocese."
"I am sure, my lord," said the doctor, "that you will see how unseemly it would be that I should interfere in any way between you and Mrs Proudie. I certainly will not do so. I can only say again that if you will communicate to me your wishes in writing, I will attend to them,--if it be possible."
"You mean to be stubborn," said Mrs Proudie, whose prudence was beginning to give way under the great provocation to which her temper was being subjected.
"Yes, madam; if it is to be called stubbornness, I must be stubborn. My lord, Mrs Proudie spoke to me on this subject in the breakfast-room after you had left it, and I then ventured to explain to her that in accordance with such light as I have on the matter, I could not discuss it in her presence. I greatly grieve that I failed to make myself understood by her,--as, otherwise, this unpleasantness might have been spared."
"I understood you very well, Dr Tempest, and I think you to be a most unreasonable man. Indeed, I might use a much harsher word."
"You may use any word you please, Mrs Proudie," said the doctor.
"My dear, I really think you had better leave us for a few minutes," said the bishop.
"No, my lord,--no," said Mrs Proudie, turning round upon her husband. "Not so. It would be most unbecoming that I should be turned out of a room in this palace by an uncourteous word from a parish clergyman. It would be unseemly. If Dr Tempest forgets his duty, I will not forget mine. There are other clergymen in the diocese besides Dr Tempest who can undertake the very easy task of this commission. As for his having been appointed rural dean I don't know how many years ago, it is a matter of no consequence whatever. In such a preliminary inquiry any three clergymen will suffice. It need not be done by the rural dean at all."
"My dear!"
"I will not be turned out of this room by Dr Tempest;--and that is enough."
"My lord," said the doctor, "you had better write to me as I proposed to you just now."
"His lordship will not write. His lordship will do nothing of the kind," said Mrs Proudie.
"My dear!" said the bishop, driven in his perplexity beyond all carefulness of reticence. "My dear, I do wish you wouldn't,--I do indeed. If you would only go away!"
"I will not go away, my lord," said Mrs Proudie.
"But I will," said Dr Tempest, feeling true compassion for the unfortunate man whom he saw writhing in agony before him. "It will manifestly be for the best that I should retire. My lord, I wish you good morning. Mrs Proudie, good morning." And so he left the room.
"A most stubborn and a most ungentlemanlike man," said Mrs Proudie, as soon as the door was closed behind the retreating rural dean. "I do not think that in the whole course of my life I ever met with any one so insubordinate and so ill-mannered. He is worse than the archdeacon." As she uttered these words she paced about the room. The bishop said nothing; and when she herself had been silent for a few minutes she turned upon him. "Bishop," she said, "I hope that you agree with me. I expect that you will agree with me in a matter that is so of much moment to my comfort, and I may say to my position generally in the diocese. Bishop, why do you not speak?"
"You have behaved in such a way that I do not know that I shall ever speak again," said the bishop.
"What is that you say?"
"I say that I do not know how I shall ever speak again. You have disgraced me."
"Disgraced you! I disgrace you! It is you that disgrace yourself by saying such words."
"Very well. Let it be so. Perhaps you will go away now and leave me to myself. I have got a bad headache, and I can't talk any more. Oh dear, oh dear, what will he think of it!"
"And you mean to tell me that I have been wrong?"
"Yes, you have been wrong,--very wrong. Why didn't you go away when I asked you? You are always being wrong. I wish I had never come to Barchester. In any other position I should not have felt it so much. As it is I do not know how I can ever show my face again."
"Not have felt what so much, Mr Proudie?" said the wife, going back in the excitement of her anger to the nomenclature of old days. "And this is to be my return for all my care in your behalf! Allow me to tell you, sir, that in any position in which you may be placed I know what is due to you, and that your dignity will never lose anything in my hands. I wish that you were as well able to take care of it yourself." Then she stalked out of the room, and left the poor man alone.
Bishop Proudie sat alone in his study throughout the whole day. Once or twice in the course of the morning his chaplain came to him on some matter of business, and was answered with a smile,--the peculiar softness of which the chaplain did not fail to attribute the right cause. For it was soon known throughout the household that there had been a quarrel. Could he quite have made up his mind to do so,--could he have resolved that it would be altogether better to quarrel with his wife,--the bishop would have appealed to the chaplain, and have asked at any rate for sympathy. But even yet he could not bring himself to confess his misery, and to own himself to another to be the wretch that he was. Then during the long hours of the day he sat thinking of it all. How happy could he be if it were only possible for him to go away, and become even a curate in a parish, without his wife! Would there ever come to him a time of freedom? Would she ever die? He was older than she, and of course he would die first. Would it not be a fine thing if he could die at once, and thus escape from his misery?
What could he do, even supposing himself strong enough to fight the battle? He could not lock her up. He could not even very well lock her out of his room. She was his wife, and must have the run of the house. He could not altogether debar her from the society of the diocesan clergymen. He had, on this very morning, taken strong measures with her. More than once or twice he had desired her to leave the room. What was there to be done with a woman who would not obey her husband,--who would not even leave him to the performance of his own work? What a blessed thing it would be if a bishop could go away from his home to his work every day like a clerk in a public office,--as a stone-mason does! But there was no such escape for him. He could not go away. And how was he to meet her again on this very day?
And then for hours he thought of Dr Tempest and Mr Crawley, considering what he had better do to repair the shipwreck of the morning. At last he resolved that he would write to the doctor; and before he had again seen his wife, he did write his letter, and he sent it off. In this letter he made no direct allusion to the occurrence of the morning, but wrote as though there had not been any fixed intention of a personal discussion between them. "I think it will be better that there should be a commission," he said, "and I would suggest that you should have four other clergymen with you. Perhaps you will select two yourself out of your rural deanery; and, if you do not object, I will name as the other two Mr Thumble and Mr Quiverful, who are both resident in the city." As he wrote these two names he felt ashamed of himself, knowing that he had chosen the two men as being special friends of his wife, and feeling that he should have been brave enough to throw aside all considerations of his wife's favour,--especially at this moment, in which he was putting on his armour to do battle against her. "It is not probable," he continued to say in his letter, "that you will be able to make your report until after the trial of this unfortunate gentleman shall have taken place, and a verdict shall have been given. Should he be acquitted, that, I imagine, should end the matter. There can be no reason why we should attempt to go beyond the verdict of a jury. But should he be found guilty, I think we ought to be ready with such steps as it will be becoming for us to take at the expiration of any sentence which may be pronounced. It will be, at any rate, expedient that in such a case the matter should be brought before an ecclesiastical court." he knew well as he wrote this, that he was proposing something much milder than the course intended by his wife when she had instigated him to take proceedings in the matter; but he did not much regard that now. Though he had been weak enough to name certain clergymen as assessors with the rural dean, because he thought that by doing so he would to a certain degree conciliate his wife,--though he had been so far a coward, yet he was resolved that he would not sacrifice to her his own judgment and his own conscience in his manner of proceeding. He kept no copy of his letter, so that he might be unable to show her his very words when she should ask to see them. Of course he would tell her what he had done; but in telling her he would keep to himself what he had said as to the result of an acquittal in a civil court. She need not yet be told that he had promised to take such a verdict as sufficing also for an ecclesiastical acquittal. In this spirit his letter was written and sent off before he again saw his wife.
He did not meet her till they came together in the drawing-room before dinner. In explaining the whole truth as to circumstances as they existed at the palace at that moment, it must be acknowledged that Mrs Proudie herself, great as was her courage, and wide as were the resources which she possessed within herself, was somewhat appalled by the position of affairs. I fear that it may now be too late for me to excite much sympathy in the mind of any reader on behalf of Mrs Proudie. I shall never be able to make her virtues popular. But she had virtues, and their existence now made her unhappy. She did regard the dignity of her husband, and she felt at the present moment that she had almost compromised it. She did also regard the welfare of the clergymen around her, thinking of course in a general way that certain of them who agreed with her were the clergymen whose welfare should be studied, and that certain of them who disagreed with her were the clergymen whose welfare should be postponed. But now an idea made its way into her bosom that she was not perhaps doing the best for the welfare of the diocese generally. What if it should come to pass that all the clergymen of the diocese should refuse to open their mouths in her presence on ecclesiastical subjects, as Dr Tempest had done? This special day was not one on which she was well contented with herself, though by no means on that account was her anger mitigated against the offending rural dean.
During dinner she struggled to say a word or two to her husband, as though there had been no quarrel between them. With him the matter had gone so deep that he could not answer her in the same spirit. There were sundry members of the family present,--daughters, and a son-in-law, and a daughter's friend who was staying with them; but even in the hope of appearing to be serene before them he could not struggle through his deep despondence. He was very silent, and to his wife's words he answered hardly anything. He was courteous and gentle with them all, but he spoke as little as was possible, and during the evening he sat alone, with his head leaning on his hand,--not pretending even to read. He was aware that it was too late to make even an attempt to conceal his misery and his disgrace from his own family.
His wife came to him that night in his dressing-room in a spirit of feminine softness that was very unusual with her. "My dear," said she, "let us forget what occurred this morning. If there has been any anger we are bound as Christians to forget it." She stood over him as she spoke, and put her hand upon his shoulder almost caressingly.
"When a man's heart is broken, he cannot forget it," was his reply. She still stood by him, and still kept her hand upon him: but she could think of no other words of comfort to say. "I will go to bed," he said. "It is the best place for me." Then she left him, and he went to bed.
The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 48. The Softness Of Sir Raffle Buffle
The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 46. The Bayswater Romance
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 48. The Softness Of Sir Raffle Buffle
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 49. Near The Close
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 50. Lady Lufton's Proposition
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 51. Mrs Dobbs Broughton Piles Her Fagots
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 52. Why Don't You Have An "It" For Yourself?
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 53. Rotten Row
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 54. The Clerical Commission
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 55. Framley Parsonage
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 56. The Archdeacon Goes To Framley
- The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Chapter 57. A Double Pledge