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No matter the readily available facts, no left-winger will ever let them stand in the way of him wielding his poison pen. I refer to Jim Scarantino's description of Tom Udall's Third District Congressional seat as not being "safe," and to Scarantino's description of Udall's predecessor, Bill Redmond, as a "right-wing Republican" [The Real Side, "Democrats Against the War," Nov. 22-28].
This "unsafe" seat was held by Bill Richardson, its initial occupant, from January 1983 to February 1997, a period of 14 years. Not bad for a seat that Scarantino describes as "not all that safe." It is true that after Richardson resigned the seat to serve in the Clinton administration, Bill Redmond won the seat in a special election, and for good reason, too. The Democrats had nominated Eric Serna as their standard bearer. Serna had some ethical problems, and many Democrats also objected to the manner in which he was chosen. The Green Party ran a strong candidate (Carol Miller), who siphoned off thousands of votes that would have otherwise gone to Serna. She won 34 percent of the vote in Santa Fe County (close behind Serna's 39 percent), and 28 percent in Taos County. (Final vote percentages were Redmond—43 percent, Serna—40 percent and Miller—17 percent.)
Many Democrats viewed the special election that put Redmond into office as an opportunity to destroy Serna. They knew Redmond couldn't hold on to the seat in the 1998 election, and with Serna out of the way they could run a candidate without any baggage, and who would easily win. That win came for Tom Udall, who, with his name recognition, easily swept aside the Republican's Redmond and the Green Party's Miller.
As far as Redmond being a "right-wing Republican," this label is utterly baseless. Redmond was a Democrat at one time, and he worked on the McGovern campaign in 1972. His voting record in the House of Representatives was a mixed bag. For a specific evaluation of his record in the House, we can compare Redmond's voting record with that of Bernard Sanders, a self-proclaimed Socialist who represented Vermont. In a published evaluation of 20 votes on a broad array of issues, Redmond received a score of 35 percent, and Sanders received a score of 30 percent. How can someone have a voting record that's almost the same as a professing Socialist, yet be called a "right-wing Republican"?
Steven Dapra
Cut to the Crux
Dear Alibi,
"Immigration? Who Cares?" by Jerry Ortiz y Pino [Nov. 15-23] revealed the crux of the immigration issue. No one cared enough to attend a well-advertised event that should have brought out the most virulent opposition. It is most curious that the sponsoring network, ABC, and local radio station, KKOB—well known for conservative views—would have attracted such a small showing from among those who support their analysis of the news. Instead, we witnessed a great dialogue, proving that once again We The People are the real foundation of democracy.
Ortiz y Pino points to the Johnny-come-lately hysteria concerning immigration and asks, "Why does the media call this a crisis, and when did it become one?" The media takes up any cry the Bushites tell it to, and this administration is not averse to using media to ignite the American public. Bill Moyers, before the 2003 National Conference on Media Reform, said, the "quasi-official partisan press ideologically link(s) to an authoritarian administration that in turn is the ally and agent of the most powerful interests in the world."
Bushites will continue to influence the media until we turn them both off—at the polls and on the dial. Immigration, fear or fancy, is just another media uproar, a camouflage to blind patriotic Americans from observing the privatization of our tax dollars. First there was the war on drugs, then the war in Iraq. Now it is a pending war in Iran.
Immigration? Move over birth control and marriage rights.
Judith Binder
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Every Sunday for two years, volunteers from Trinity House Catholic Worker have served picnics for hungry and homeless people Downtown. This summer, opposition from Downtown residents and the police forced us to leave Robinson Park. With increased community support, we are continuing to serve at Soldiers and Sailors Park.
The city wants us to apply every month for a special event permit, the kind a company would have to get for its annual park picnic. While embracing the chance to be in good communication with many groups who are affected by what happens in the park (homeless folks, as usual, are left out of the process), we feel this regulation is being applied to groups like ours inappropriately.
First, the national trend of cities criminalizing homeless folks in order to clear them out of Downtown and other gentrifying areas is appalling. When our economy does not afford everyone private space, it is imperative to maintain the rights of all people to use public space, as well as the right to freedom of assembly. There are more effective ways to fight crime, drugs and even poverty, than making it hard for homeless people to exist in public.
Second, the fact that at least 10,000 Albuquerque residents have no home is a state of emergency. According to the New Mexico Task Force to End Hunger, New Mexico ranks second in the country in terms of food insecurity and sixth in terms of hunger. When groups like ours step into this situation, it is because there is a void of adequate action by the city and individuals capable of getting personally involved. Instead of using a permit process to force us out of Downtown, can we get a Good Samaritan exemption?
Chelsea Collonge
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Cuzco, the newest collection by the lovely Kate Spain, has recently hit stores and is causing quite the buzz. This collection is bright, exotic and has been on the minds of many quilters and sewists for quite some time. We had the pleasure of interviewing Kate for our YouTube channel (video to come soon!) this weekend and now have her on the Jolly Jabber chatting about Cuzco. Keep reading for a little more information about Cuzco and shop the collection here!
Q: What inspired this collection?
A: This collection was inspired by the colorful textiles of Cuzco, Peru, in South America. I've never been there, but have long-admired the pottery and tapestries from that part of the world. I would have to dedicate this collection to all the artisans and craftspeople who work with their hands to create beautiful woven, died and embroidered clothes and fabrics — and also to everyone who enjoys a little imaginary journey to faraway places. Here is a glimpse at part of my inspiration. The liveliness of the motifs and bold colors made me so fidgety with excitement that I eventually packed my bags and headed out on this creative adventure!
Q: What is your favorite project using this collection?
A: So hard to pick a favorite, but I absolutely adore this long pillow that my friend Katy made using a pattern that John designed from their book Fat Quarterly Shape Workshop. I love how she limited the palette and made those stars twinkle! (photo by Katy Jones). I also designed this fun and really simple quilt pattern called Lost City that uses only a jelly roll and some yardage. It's available as a free download from Moda or you can order a hard copy of the project sheet (for 99 cents!) from Fat Quarter Shop.
Q: What would be your collection's theme song?
A: Something like this — accompanied by that breathtaking scenery!
Q: If you could live in a movie, what movie would it be?
A: "Midnight in Paris" by Woody Allen. I have only been to Paris once, but that was all it took for me to fall in love with the city. Woody Allen's movie was so imaginative and I love the idea of being able to walk the city streets of today as well as being able to time-travel to the city throughout its spectacular history. Not to mention the possibility of bumping into Matisse or F. Scott Fitzgerald!
Q: What do you get nostalgic over?
A: I sometimes wish time could be perceived as it was on summer days when I was a little girl — where the days were so long and time seemed to stretch out in infinite directions — and the word "deadline" was non existent. Well, other than having to be home in time for dinner :)
Q: What is your favorite TV show of all time?
A: know it's a recent series, but I really love Modern Family. It's such a funny show, but also has a sweet side to it. There's always a tender message about family, friends and community that comes through at the end and I love that.
Q: If you could be a modern day fictional character, who would you be?
A: Maybe Hermione Granger from Harry Potter because I'd be able to cast a petronus charm and disapparate to Paris, and I could stop time, banish the word "deadline", and then find a portkey to spend the day in the mountains of Cuzco!
Q: What's the strangest compliment you've ever received?
A: When I was in college, I was taking an Amtrak train home for Christmas. The train was overbooked and no seats were available so I ended up sitting on my suitcase between cars. One of the exit doors would not close all the way, and it was snowing outside! Naturally, you can't help but band together with others in a situation like that, so I struck up conversation with an older gentleman who was sitting on his suitcase next to me. After chatting for a while, and periodically brushing snow off our feet, he told me I looked like a Modigliani painting (huh?). The whole scene was so bizarre, and I wasn't very familiar with Modigliani's work, so wasn't even sure if it was a compliment — but I thanked him anyway and was at least happy he didn't tell me I looked like a Picasso painting!


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National Gallery of Ireland adds to collection with contemporary works by Davidson, Nickerson and Crozier.
Over the past year, the National Gallery of Ireland has secured several important works of art which will enhance its holdings of twentieth-century Irish art and contemporary Irish portraiture. They comprise a total of 12 works in a variety of media, the majority of which have come by way of gift or bequest.
One of the most impressive pieces to enter the collection is Colin Davidson's portrait of Michael Longley, Ireland's distinguished poet and anthologist, which will go on display in the Gallery's Millennium Wing from Monday 17 December. Belfast-born Davidson is an acclaimed artist whose work is represented in private and public collections throughout Ireland and the UK. This striking portrait of Longley will contribute greatly to the National Portrait Collection which has been significantly enhanced in recent years with portraits of prominent figures from Irish life.
Another significant addition to the National Portrait Collection is Jackie Nickerson's digital C-print of poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney. Nickerson is an internationally renowned photography-based visual artist whose sitters have included actors Julie Andrews and Ethan Hawke, philosopher Anthony Flew, and writer Colm Tóibín. In her portrait of Heaney, taken in the kitchen of the poet's home in Dublin, Nickerson captures the benign and contemplative expression with which Heaney is so often associated.
Also added to the Gallery's collection is William Crozier's Flanders Fields (1962). Glasgow-born Crozier became an Irish citizen in 1973 and divided his time between Hampshire and Kilcoe in West Cork. Crozier died in 2011. He was a prominent figure in the London art world in the 1950s and 1960s and exhibited with, among others, David Hockney and Francis Bacon. This painting is evocative rather than literal. It has a universal quality which links it with other works in the collection, most notably, Jack B. Yeats's Grief and Louis le Brocquy's A Family (both 1951). Flanders Fields is scheduled to go on display in the Gallery from next March.
Other artists whose work has been acquired by the Gallery in 2012 inlcude William Conor (Girl with Buckets, 1950s); Sean Keating (Homage to Jimmy and Frans, (Portrait of Jimmy O'Dea) 1963); Harry Kernoff (Miss Joan Wall, 1941); Dr Jacob Epstein (Head of Dr Solomons Snr, c.1955); Edward James Rogers (Sylvia, c.1929); AE [George Russell] (Fairies in a Wood, c.1962), Roderic O'Conor (Portrait of a Man, possibly Paul Sérusier, 1895) and two works by Walter Osborne (In the Life Class, 1894, and Portrait of Mary Louise Gwynn, c.1903).
Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, says: "As the Gallery looks to build further on its collection of twentieth-century Irish art, these recent additions, all of which are highly accomplished pieces, will prove to be important references and represent timely additions. Enriching the Gallery's collection is rewarding yet challenging at a time when funds for acquisitions are restricted. For this reason in particular, we acknowledge the extraordinary generosity of individuals who have gifted works to the Gallery during this past year. They are works of the highest quality and we look forward to displaying them over the course of 2013."
A full list of the Gallery's acquisitions for 2012 are available online.
National Portrait CollectionThe National Portrait Collection was established in 1875. Initially much of the display was made up of prints and engravings, a significant number of which were purchased from the Chaloner Smith Collection in 1887. Over the years, the collection has been added to with paintings, drawings and sculpture. Since 1998, the collection has been enhanced by a series contemporary portraits of individuals who have contributed to the cultural, social and political life of the country;
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Madison Police Chief Noble Wray will hold a news conference Friday at 3 p.m. to discuss new developments regarding Officer Heimsness.
Heimsness was on paid leave during the investigation into the shooting. He claimed the overtime pay for a number of days he was called to work, regarding the investigation, on what were considered days off.
The Madison Police Department union contract states, "Employees, on an off duty day...who are called back to duty...shall be paid...a minimum of three hours at the rate of time-and one-half the employee's regular rate of pay."
Joe Durkin, with the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, told WISC-TV Heimsness was also called in for additional meetings on some days that he was getting paid for a regularly scheduled shift, and he did not put in for OT those days, although he could have under the contract language.
Officer Heimsness was cleared of any wrongdoing after he shot and killed Heenan, who was unarmed, on Madison's near east side on Nov. 9 while responding to what he thought was a burglary in progress.
It was later determined that Heenan, who was drunk, had entered a neighbor's house by mistake, prompting a 911 call of a reported break-in.
The Dane County district attorney reviewed the case and cleared Heimsness of any criminal liability. The Madison Police Department conducted an internal investigation and concluded that Heimsness acted in compliance with department protocol.
The U.S. Department of Justice said this week it will review the shooting case to determine if Heenan's civil rights were violated by a use of unreasonable force, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil said he asked for the review after receiving up to 100 letters requesting an independent review of the Madison Police Department's internal investigation of the shooting.
The review by the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., will be limited to the question of whether there was a violation of federal law. Vaudreuil said the review will specifically look at whether Heenan's constitutional rights were violated by the use of unreasonable force.
Michael Bell, an advocate for the Heenan family, told WISC-TV that he spoke with Heenan's parents Thursday afternoon and they didn't know about the U.S. attorney's decision then.
"I'm quite surprised. Hopefully it's a good sign. The U.S. attorney doesn't usually step in like this," Bell said.
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B.A. English Literature, Diponegoro University 1987
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*PSY1110 Intro to Psychology, regular and fully online
* PSY213 General Psychology
* PSY301 History and Systems of Psychology
* PSY323 Marriage and Family
* PSY322 Theories of Personality
* PSY320 Lifespan Development
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* PSY328 Cognitive Psychology
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* PSYU581 Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Disorders
* PSYU570 Advanced Psychopathology And Diagnosis
* SOC113 Intro to Sociology
* SOC338 Group Dynamics and Social Behavior
* SOC345 Sociology of Diversity
* ANT225 Cultural Anthropology
* ANT350 Language and Culture
* ANT430 Culture and Personality
* ANT460 Culture and Religion
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* Attachment, Intercultural Relations
* Acculturation, stress, cultural adjustment
* Parenting, Romantic Relationship, Spirituality
American Psychological Association
National Council on Family Relations, Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE)
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* Adjunct Faculty, Chapman University, CA
* Adjunct Faculty, Hope International University, Fullerton, CA
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August 22 – 24, 2013 Presented research paper on "Adult Attachment Style, Acculturative Stress and Satisfaction with Life, at the 5th Asian Congress of Health Psychology, DCC, Daejeon, Korea
May 19, 2013 Invited Speaker on "The Connection Between Psychology and Spirituality," for Technology Entertainment and Design (TEDx) Glen Wilson High: Explore, Hacienda Heights, CA
July 5 - 7, 2012 Presented research paper on "Using Attachment Theory to Predict Psychological Wellbeing and Sociocultural Adjustment Among Indonesian Immigrants in the United States," at the Fourth Asian Psychological Association Conference: Mindfulness, Wellbeing and Positive Psychology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
June 27 - 30, 2012 Discussed and responded papers at "The fourth International Consortium for Social Development-Asia Pacific," sponsored by the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Indonesian Social Work Consortium for developing new social development strategies in line with post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
February 15-17, 2012 Participated in symposium on " SCHIZOPHRENIA AND HUMAN FLOURISHING: Science, Service, Community, and Church," with Nobel Laureate, Dr. John Nash and others, sponsored by The Lee Edward Travis Research Institute and Fuller's School of Psychology, Pasadena, CA.
February 15, 2012 participated in seminar on "What Parents Want: Evidence From Child Adoption," with Leeat Yariv, Professor of Economics at Caltech, presented by California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
October 24 -November 2, 2011 Studied Palestine - Israel conflict, travel around West Bank and Israel.
July 17, 2011 Presented Seminar on "Managing Your Money Wisely," at Grace Indonesian Christian Fellowship, Sierra Madre, CA
July 8, 2011 Presented seminar on "A Healthy Model of Multicultural Relationship" at The Fifth Biennial Convention of Mennonite Church USA, Pittsburgh, PA
July 7, 2011 Led workshop on "The Persecuted Church in Indonesia: The Church Between the Crescent and the Demo-cracy" at The Fifth Biennial Convention of Mennonite Church USA, Pittsburgh, PA
July 6, 2011 Presented seminar on "Parenting and its Impacts on Sexuality and Spirituality" at The Fifth Biennial Convention of Mennonite Church USA, Pittsburgh, PA
June 19, 2011 Presented seminar on "How to Disciple Your Children," Grace Indonesian Christian Fellowship, Sierra Madre, CA
May 20, 2011 Participated conference on understanding virtue: The Vicarious Brain: The Neural Basis of Emphaty, Learning by Observation, and Sociopathy with Christian Keysers, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
May 19, 2011 Participated conference on Understanding virtue: Why Habit Matters: The Bodily Character of the Virtues with Stanley Hauerwas, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
May 8, 2011 Presented seminar on "Communication with your Children," Grace Indonesian Christian Fellowship, Sierra Madre, CA
April 17, 2011 Presented seminar on "Communication and Intimacy: Romantic Relationship," Grace Indonesian Christian Fellowship, CA
April 30, 2011 Presented seminar on "Communication with your Spouse," invited by Indonesian Churches in Philadelphia, PA
April 28, 2011 Presented seminar on "Parenting: How to Discipline Your Child with Love," invited by Indonesian Churches in Philadelphia, PA
February 16-17, 2011 Participated at The Fuller Symposium on the Integration of Faith and Psychology: Reflections on God and Mental Illness with Stanley Hauerwas, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
August 25, 2010 Presented workshop on "Integrating Science and Faith in Dealing with Diversity: Toward a Model of Intercultural Relationship," California Baptist University, Riverside, CA
July 24-27, 2010 Presented a research paper on "Attachment Styles, Socio Cultural and Psychological Adjustment among Indonesian Immigrants in the US, "at The First International Conference of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology, Jogyakarta, Indonesia
July 23, 2010 Invited speaker and Presented seminar on "Building Peace in the midst of Religion and Cultural Pluralism," at the joint meeting of Forum for Peace, Inter Faith & Ethnic and Women's Solidarity for Humanity and Human Rights, Solo, Indonesia
July 14-15, 2010 Participated in the discussions and workshops at the "3rd International Yale Indonesia Forum: Interdisciplinary Conference" at the Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia.
June 18-20, 2010 Participated in discussion and responding paper at the International Symposium on East and West Cultures and Management 12th Academic Conference of Oriental Forum of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
March 27-29, 2009. Presented research paper on "Attachment Styles and Culture Change among Indonesian Immigrants in the United States," at the Joint Biennial Conference, The Society for the Anthropology of Religion and The Society for Psychological Anthropology, Asilomar, CA
July 1-3, 2009. Presented seminars on "Love, Intimacy and Spirituality," at the Biennial Mennonite Church USA Convention, Columbus, Ohio
July 1-3, 2009. Presented seminar on "Building Bridges: An Intercultural Relationship Models for Culturally Plural Denomination," at the Biennial Mennonite Church USA Convention, Columbus, Ohio
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* Hesston College, Board of Director, Hesston, KS
* Reference Committee on Cross Cultural Relations, Mennonite Church, USA
* USA Executive Board of Directors, US Mennonite Central Committee, USA - http://www.mcc.org/
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* Computer
* Reading books
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"And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'"
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"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
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KATHERINE stood in the central space of the great, state bedroom. It was just upon midnight, yet she still wore her jewels and her handsome, trailing, black, velvet dress. She was very tired. But that tiredness proceeded less from physical than mental weariness. This she recognised, and foresaw that weariness of this character was not likely to find relief and page: 263 extinction within the shelter of the curtains of the stately bed, whereon the ancient Persian legend of the flight of the Hart through the tangled Forest of This Life was so deftly and quaintly embroidered. For, unhappily to‐night, the leopard, Care, followed very close behind. And Katherine, taking the ancient legend as very literally descriptive of her existing state of mind, feared that, should she undress and seek the shelter of the rose‐lined curtains the leopard would seek it also; and, crouching at her feet, his evil, yellow eyes would gaze into her own, wide open, all through that which remained of the night. The night, moreover, was very wild. A westerly gale, with now and again tumultuous violence of rain, rattled the many panes of the windows, wailed in every crevice of door and casement, roared through the mile‐long elm avenue below, and roared in the chimneys above. The Prince of the Powers of the Air was let loose, and announced his presence as with the shout of battle. Sleep was out of the question under present conditions and in her present humour. Therefore Lady Calmady had dismissed Clara,—now promoted to the dignified office of lady's‐maid,—and that bright‐eyed and devoted waiting‐woman had departed reluctant, almost in tears, protesting that:—"It was quite too bad, for her ladyship was being regularly worn out with all the talking and company. And she, for her part, should be heartily glad when the entertaining was over and they were all comfortably to themselves again."
Nor could Katherine honestly assert that she would be altogether sorry when the hour struck, to‐morrow, for the departure of her guests. For it appeared to her that, notwithstanding the courtesy and affection of her brother and the triumphant charm of her niece, a spirit of unrest had entered Brockhurst along with their entry. Would that same spirit depart along with their departing? She questioned it. She was oppressed by a fear that spirit of unrest had come to stay. And so it was that as she walked the length and breadth of the lofty, white‐panelled room, for all the rage and fury of the storm without, she still heard the soft padding of Care, the leopard, close behind.
Then a singular desolation and sense of homelessness came upon Katherine. Turn where she would there seemed no comfort, no escape, no sure promise of eventual rest. Things human and material were emptied not of joy only, but of invitation to effort. For something had happened from which there was no going back. A fair woman from a far country had come and looked upon her son, with the inevitable result, that youth had page: 264 called to youth. And though the fair woman in question, being already wedded wife,—Katherine was rather pathetically pure‐minded,—could not in any dangerously practical manner steal away her son's heart, yet she would, only too probably, prepare that heart and awaken in it desires of subsequent stealing away on the part of some other fair woman, as yet unknown, whose heart Dickie would do his utmost to steal in exchange. And this filled her with anxiety and far‐reaching fears, not only because it was bitter to have some woman other than herself hold the chief place in her son's affections, but because she—as John Knott, even as Ludovic Quayle, though from quite other causes—could not but apprehend possibilities of danger, even of disaster, surrounding all question of love and marriage in the strange and unusual case of Richard Calmady.
And thinking of these things, her sensibilities heightened and intensified by fatigue and circumstances of time and place, a certain feverishness possessed her. That bed‐chamber of many memories—exquisite and tragic—became intolerable to her. She opened the double doors and passed into the Chapel‐Room beyond, the light, thrown by the tall wax‐candles set in silver branches upon her toilet‐table, passing with her through the widely open doors and faintly illuminating the near end of the great room. There was other subdued light in the room as well. For a glowing mass of coal and wood still remained in the brass basket upon the hearth; and the ruddy brightness of it touched the mouldings of the ceiling, glowed on the polished corners and carvings of tables, what‐nots, and upon the mahogany frames of solid, Georgian sofas and chairs.
At first sight, notwithstanding the roaring of wind and ripping of rain without, there seemed offer of comfort in this calm and spacious place, the atmosphere of it sweet with bowls of autumn violets and greenhouse‐grown roses. Katherine sat down in Richard's low arm‐chair and gazed into the crimson heart of the fire. She made a valiant effort to put away haunting fears, to resume her accustomed attitude of stoicism, of tranquil, if slightly defiant, courage. But Care, the leopard, refused to be driven away. Surely, stealthily, he had followed her out of her bed‐chamber and now crouched at her side, making his presence felt so that all illusion of comfort speedily fled. She knew that she was alone, consciously and bitterly alone, waking in the midst of the sleeping house. No footstep would echo up the stairs, hot to find her. No voice would call her name, in anxiety for her well‐being or in desire. It seemed to Katherine that a desert lay outstretched about her on every page: 265 hand, while she sat desolate with Care for her sole companion. She recognised that her existing isolation was, in a measure at all events, the natural consequence of her own fortitude and ability. She had ruled with so strong and discreet a hand that the order she had established, the machinery she had set agoing, could now keep going without her. Hence her loneliness. And that loneliness as she sat by the dying fire, while the wind raved without, was dreadful to her, peopled with phantoms she dared not look upon. For, not only the accustomed burden of her motherhood was upon her, but that other unaccustomed burden of admitted middle‐age. And this other burden, which it is appointed a woman shall bear while her heart often is still all too sadly young, dragged her down. The conviction pressed home on her that for her the splendid game was indeed over, and that, for very pride's sake, she must voluntarily, stand aside and submit to rank herself with things grown obsolete, with fashions past and out of date.
Katherine rose to her feet, filled, for the moment, by an immense compassion for her own womanhood, by an over‐mastering longing for sympathy. She was so tired of the long struggle with sorrow, so tired of her own attitude of sustained courage. And now, when surely a little respite and repose might have been granted her, it seemed that a new order of courage was demanded of her—a courage passive rather than active, a courage of relinquishment and self‐effacement. That was a little too much. For all her valiant spirit, she shrank away. She grew weak. She could not face it.
And so it happened that to‐night—as once long ago, when poor Richard suffered his hour of mental and physical torment at the skilful, yet relentless, hands of Dr. Knott, in the bed‐chamber near by—Katherine's anguish and revolt found expression in restless pacings, and those pacings brought her to the chapel door. It stood ajar. Before the altar the three hanging lamps showed each its tongue of crimson flame. A whiteness of flowers, set in golden vases upon the re‐table, was just distinguishable. But the delicately carved spires and canopies of stalls, the fair pictured saints, and figure of the risen Christ—His wounded feet shining like pearls upon the azure floor of heaven—in the east window, were lost in soft, thick, all‐pervading gloom. The place was curiously still, as though waiting silently, in solemn and strained expectation for the accomplishment of some mysterious visitation. And, all the while without, the gale flung itself wailing against the angles of the masonry, and the rain beat upon the glass of the high, narrow windows as with a passion of despairing tears.page: 266
For some time Katherine waited in the doorway, a sombre figure in her trailing, velvet dress. The hushed stillness of the chapel, the confusion and clamour of the tempest, taken thus in connection, were very telling. They exercised a strong influence over her already somewhat exalted imagination. Could it be, she asked herself, that these typified the rest of the religious, and the unrest of the secular life? Julius March would interpret the contrast they afforded in some such manner no doubt. And what if Julius, after all, were right? What if, shutting God out of the heart, you also shut that heart out from all peaceful dwelling places, leaving it homeless, at the mercy of every passing storm? Katherine was bruised in spirit. The longing for some sure refuge, some abiding city was dominant in her. The needs of her soul, so long ignored and repudiated, asserted themselves. Yes, what if Julius were right, and if content and happiness—the only happiness which has in it the grace of continuance—consisted in submission to, and glad acquiescence in, the will of God?
Thus did she muse, gazing questioningly at the whiteness of the altar flowers and those steady tongues of flame, hearing the silence, as of reverent waiting, which dwelt in the place. But, on the other hand, to give, in this her hour of weakness, that which she had refused in the hours of clear‐seeing strength,—to let go, because she was alone and the unloveliness of age claimed her, that sense of bitter injury and injustice which she had hugged to her breast when young and still aware of her empire,—would not such action be contemptibly poor spirited? She was no child to be humbled into confession by the rod, frightened into submission by the dark. To abase herself, in the hope of receiving spiritual consolation, appeared to her as an act of disloyalty to her dead love and her maimed and crippled son. She turned away with a rather superb lift of her beautiful head, and went back to her own bed‐chamber again. She hardened herself in opposition, putting the invitations of grace from her as she might have put those of temptation. She would yield to weakness, to feverish agitations and aimless longings, no more. Whether sleep elected to visit her or not, she would undress and seek her bed.
But hardly had she closed the door and, standing before her toilet‐table, begun to unclasp the pearls from her throat and bracelets from her wrists, than a sound, quite other than agreeable or reassuring, saluted her ears from close by. It proceeded from the room next door, now unoccupied, since Richard, some five or six years ago, jealous of the dignity of his youth, had petitioned to be permitted to remove himself and his possessions to the suite of rooms immediately below. This comprised the page: 267 Gun‐Room, a bed and dressing room, and a fourth room, connecting with the offices, which came in handy for his valet. Since his decline upon this more commodious apartment, the old nursery had stood vacant. Katherine could not find it in her heart to touch it. It was furnished now as in Dickie's childish days, when, night and morning, she had visited it to make sure of her darling's health and safety.
And it was in this shrine of tender recollections that disquieting sounds now arose. Hard claws rattled upon the boarded spaces of the floor. Some creature snored and panted against the bottom of the door, pushed it with so heavy a weight that the panels creaked, flung itself down uneasily, then moved to and fro again, with that harsh rattling of claws. The image of Care, the leopard, as embroidered upon the curtains of her bed, was so present to Katherine's imagination to‐night that, for a moment, she lost her hold on probability and common sense. It appeared to her that the anxieties and perturbations which oppressed her had taken on bodily form, and, in the shape of a devouring beast, besieged her chamber door. The conception was grisly. Both mind and body being rather overstrained, it filled her with something approaching panic. No one was within call. To rouse her brother, or Julius, she must make a tour of half the house. Again the creature pushed against the creaking panels, and, then, panting and snoring, began ripping away the matting from the door‐sill.
The terror of the unknown is, after all, greater than that of the known. It was improbable, though the hour was late and the night wild, that savage beasts or cares incarnate should actually be in possession of Dickie's disused nursery. Katherine braced herself and turned the handle. Still the vision disclosed by the opening door was at first sight monstrous enough. A moving mass of dirty white, low down against the encircling darkness, bandy legs, and great grinning mouth. The bull‐dog stood up, whining, fawning upon her, thrusting his heavy head into her hand.
"Why, Camp, good old friend, what brings you here? Are you, too, homeless to‐night? But why have you deserted your master?"
And then Lady Calmady's panic fears took on another aspect. Far from being allayed they were increased. An apprehension of something actively evil abroad in the great, sleeping house assailed her. She trembled from head to foot. And yet, even while she shrank and trembled, her courage reawoke. For she perceived that as yet she need not rank herself wholly among fashions passed and things grown obsolete. She had her place and value still. She was wanted, she was called page: 268 for—that she knew—though by whom wanted and for what purpose she, as yet, knew not.
The bull‐dog, meanwhile, his heavy head carried low, his crooked tail drooping, trotted slowly away into the darkness and then trotted back. He squatted upon his haunches, looking up with anxious, bloodshot eyes. He trotted away again, and again returned and stood waiting, his whole aspect eloquent in its dumb appeal. He implored her to follow, and Katherine, fetching one of the silver candlesticks from her dressing‐table, obeyed.
She followed her ugly, faithful guide across the vacant disused nursery, and on down the uncarpeted turning staircase which opens into the square lobby outside the Gun‐Room. The diamond panes of the staircase windows chattered in their leaded frames, and the wind shrieked in the spouts, and angles, and carved stonework, of the inner courtyard as she passed. The gale was at its height, loud and insistent. Yet the many‐toned violence of it seemed to bear strange and intimate relation—as that of a great orchestra to a single dominant human voice into the subtle, evil influence which she felt to be at large within the sleeping house. And so, without pausing to consider the wisdom of her action, pushed by the conviction that something of profound import was taking place, and that someone, or something, must be saved by her from threatening danger, Katherine threw open the Gun‐Room door.
The shout of the storm seemed far away. This place was quick with stillness too, with the hush of waiting for the accomplishment of some mysterious event or visitation, even as the dark chapel upstairs had been. Only here moving effect of soft, brilliant light, of caressing warmth, of vague, insidious fragrance met her. Katherine Calmady had only known passion in its purest and most legitimate form. It had been for her, innocent of all grossness, or suggestion of degradation, fair and lovely and natural, revelation of highest and most enchanting secrets. But having once known it in its fulness, she could not fail to recognise its presence, even though it wore a diabolic, rather than angelic face. That passion met her now, exultant, effulgent, along with that light and heat and fragrance, she did not for an instant doubt. And the splendour of its near neighbourhood turned her faint with dread and with poignant memories. She paused upon the threshold, supporting herself with one hand against the cold, stone jamb of the arched doorway, while in the other she held the massive candlestick and its flickering, draught‐driven lights.
A mist was before her eyes, a singing in her ears, so that she had much ado to see clearly and reckon justly with that which page: 269 she did see. Helen de Vallorbes, clothed in a flowing, yet clinging, silken garment of turquoise, shot with blue purple and shimmering glaucous green—a garment in colour such as that with which the waves of Adriatic might have clothed the rosy limbs of new‐born Aphrodite, as she rose from the cool, translucent sea‐deeps—knelt upon the tiger‐skin before the dancing fire. Her hands grasped the two arms of Richard's chair. She leaned down right across it, the lines and curves of her beautiful body discernible under her delicate draperies. The long, open sleeves of her dress fell away from her outstretched arms, showing them in their completeness from wrist to shoulder. Her head was thrown back, so that her rounded throat stood out, and the pure line of her lower jaw was salient. Her eyes were half closed, while all the mass of her honey‐coloured hair was gathered low down on the nape of her neck into a net of golden thread. A golden, netted girdle was knotted loosely about her loins, the tasselled ends of it dragging upon the floor. She wore no jewels, nor were they needed, for the loveliness of her person, discovered rather than concealed by those changeful sea‐blue draperies, was already dangerously potent.
All this Katherine saw—a radiant vision of youth, an incarnation, not of care and haunting fears, but of pleasure and haunting delights. And she saw more than this. For in the depths of that long, low arm‐chair Richard sat, stiffly erect, his face dead white, thin, and strained—Richard, as she had never beheld him before, though she knew the face well enough. It was his father's face as she had seen it on her marriage night, and on his death night too, when his fingers had been clasped about her throat, to the point of strangulation. Katherine dared look no longer. Her heart stood still. Shame and anger took her, and along with these an immense nostalgia for that which had once been and was not. Her instinct was of flight. But Camp trotted forward, growling, and squatted between the pedestals of the library table, his red eyes blinking sullenly in the square shadow. Involuntarily Katherine followed him part way across the room.
Richard looked full at his cousin, absorbed, rigid, an amazement of question in his eyes. Not a muscle of his face moved. But Madame de Vallorbes' absorption was less complete. She started slightly and half turned her head.
"Ah! there is that dog again," she said. "What has brought him back? He hates me."
"Damn the dog!" Richard exclaimed, hoarsely under his breath. Then he said:—"Helen, Helen, you know"—
But Madame de Vallorbes had turned her head yet farther, page: 270 and her arched eyelids opened quite wide for once, while she smiled a little, her lips parting and revealing her pretty teeth tightly set.
"Ah! the advent of the bull‐dog explains itself," she exclaimed. "Here is Aunt Katherine herself!"
Slowly, and with an inimitable grace, she rose to her feet. Her long, winged sleeves floated back into place, covering her bare arms. Her composure was astonishing, even to herself. Yet her breath came a trifle quick as she contemplated Lady Calmady with the same enigmatic smile, her chin carried high—the finest suggestion of challenge and insolence in it—her eyes still unusually wide open and startlingly bright.
"Richard holds a little court to‐night," she continued airily, "thanks to the storm. You also have come to seek the protection of his presence it appears, Aunt Katherine. Indeed, I am not surprised, for you certainly brew very wild weather at Brockhurst, at times."
Something in the young lady's bearing had restored Katherine's self‐control.
"The wind is going down," she replied calmly. "The storm need not alarm you, or keep you watching any longer, Helen."
"Ah! pardon me—you know you are accustomed to these tempests," the younger woman rejoined. "To me it still sounds more than sufficiently violent."
"Yes, but merely on this side of the house, where Richard's and my rooms are situated. The wind has shifted, and I believe on your side you will suffer no further disturbance. You will find it quite quiet. Then, moreover, you have to rise early to‐morrow—or rather to‐day. You have a long journey before you and should secure all the rest you can."
Madame de Vallorbes gathered her silken draperies about her absently. For a moment she looked down at the tiger‐skin, then back at Lady Calmady.
"Ah yes!" she said, "it is thoughtful of you to remind me of that. To‐day I start on my homeward journey. It should give me very much pleasure, should it not? But—do not be shocked, Aunt Katherine—I confess I am not altogether enraptured at the prospect. I have been too happy, too kindly treated, here at Brockhurst, for it to be other than a sorrow to me to depart."
She turned to Richard, her expression serious, intimate, appealing. Then she shook back her fair head, and as though in obedience to an irresistible movement of tenderness, stooped down swiftly over him—seeming to drown him in the shimmering page: 271 waves of some azure, and thin, clear green, and royal, blue‐purple sea—while she kissed him full and daringly upon the mouth.
"Good‐night, good‐bye, dear Dickie," she said. "Yes, good‐bye—for I almost hope I may not see you in the morning. It would be a little chilly and inadequate, any other farewell after this. I am grateful to you.—And remember, I too am among those who, to their sorrow, never forget."
She approached Lady Calmady, her manner natural, unabashed, playful even, and gay.
"See, I am ready to go to bed like a good child, Aunt Katherine," she said, "supported by your assurance that my side of the house is no longer rendered terrific by wind and rain. But—I am so distressed to trouble you—but all the lamps are out, and I am none too sure of my way. It would be a rather tragic ending to my happy visit if I incontinently lost myself and. wandered till dawn, disconsolate, up and down the passages and stairways of Richard's magnificent house. I might even wander in here by mistake again, and that would be unpardonably indiscreet, wouldn't it? So, will you light me to my own quarters, Aunt Katherine? Thank you—how charmingly kind and sweet you are!"
As she spoke Madame de Vallorbes moved lightly away and passed on to the lobby, the heels of her pretty, cloth‐of‐gold slippers ringing quite sharply on the grey, stone quarries without. And, even as a little while back she had followed the heavy‐headed and ungainly bull‐dog, so now Lady Calmady, in her trailing, black, velvet dress, silver candlestick in hand, followed this radiant, fleet‐fooled creature, whose every movement was eloquent of youth and health and an almost prodigal joy of living. Neither woman spoke as they crossed the lobby, and passed the pierced and arcaded stone screen which divides the outer from the inner hall. Now and again the flickering candle‐light glinted on the younger woman's girdle or the net which controlled the soft masses of her honey‐coloured hair. Now and again a draught taking the folds of her silken raiment blew it hither and thither, disclosing her beautiful arms or quick‐moving slippered feet. She was clothed with splendour of the sea, crowned, and shod, and girt about the loins, with gold. And she fled on silently, till the wide, shallow‐stepped stairway, leading up to the rooms, she occupied, was reached. There, for a moment, she paused.
"Pray come no farther," she said, and went on rapidly up the flight. On the landing she stopped, a dimly discerned figure, blue and gold against the dim whiteness of high panelled walls, moulded ceiling, stairway, and long descending balustrade.page: 272
"I have arrived!" she cried, and her clear voice took strange inflections of mockery and laughter. "I have arrived! I am perfectly secure now and safe. Let us hope all other inmates of Brockhurst are equally so this stormy night. A thousand thanks, dear Aunt Katherine, for your guidance, and a thousand apologies for bringing you so far. Now let me trouble you no longer."
The Gun‐Room Katherine found just as she had left it, save that Camp stood on the tiger‐skin before the fire, his fore‐paws and his great, grinning muzzle resting on the arm of Richard's chair. Camp whined a little. Mechanically the young man raised his hand and pulled the dog's long, drooping ears. His face was still dead white, and there were lines under his eyes and about the corners of his mouth, as of one who tries to subdue expression of physical pain. He looked straight at Lady Calmady.
"Ah!" he said, "so you have come back! You observe I have changed partners!"
And again he pulled the dog's ears, while it appeared to the listener that his voice curiously echoed that other voice which had so lately addressed and dismissed her, taking on inflections of mockery. But as she nerved herself to answer, he continued, hastily:—
"I want nothing, dear mother, nothing in the world. Pray don't concern yourself any more about me to‐night. Haven't I Camp for company? Lamps? Oh! I can put them out perfectly well myself. You were right, of course, perfectly right, to come if you were anxious about me. But now surely you are satisfied?"
Suddenly Richard bowed his head, putting both hands over his eyes.
"Only now, mother, if you love me, go," he said, with a great sob in his voice. "For God's sake go, and leave me to myself."
But after sleepless hours, in the melancholy, blear dawn of the November day, Katherine lying, face downwards, within the shelter of the embroidered curtains of the state bed, made her submission at last and prayed.
"I am helpless, O Father Almighty! I have neither wit nor understanding, nor strength. Have mercy, lest my reason depart from me. I have sinned, for years I have sinned, setting my will, my judgment, my righteousness, against Thine. Take me, forgive me, teach me. I bring nothing. I ask everything. I am empty. Fill me with Thyself, even as with water one fills an empty cup. Give me the courage of patience instead of the courage of battle. Give me the courage of meekness in place of the courage of pride."


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The greatest hazard of lead poisoning from tableware today lies in the use of imported products used by certain ethnic communities rather than commercial china and dishes. For example:
Latin American folk terra cotta pottery, primarily from Mexico, is especially dangerous because of its high lead content and everyday uses that enhance lead leaching (cooking, storage of food/drink, use with acidic foods). It can leach significant amounts of lead and has been documented as a source of lead poisoning in Latino children in California.*Another potential source of lead exposure are certain highly decorated traditional dishes used in some Asian communities. Some styles of these dishes, such as the "Long Life/Four Seasons" pattern, have been used for centuries. It is important that tailored education and outreach be provided to Latino and Asian communities to prevent their exposure to lead from this tableware. These "talking points" are guidelines to assist health educators incorporate information on tableware into their presentations on lead to these groups. Note to educators: Information about lead in tableware should always be given within the context of the general problem of lead. Some general points about lead are included. Please feel free to use other lead education materials to complement this outline. Additional materials for working with at-risk communities are contained in the sections Educational Materials for Latino/Spanish-Speaking Audiences and Educational Materials for Asian/Pacific Island Audiences. * California Department of Public Health, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, Care Management and Surveillance Section.
Some characteristics associated with risk of lead exposure in tableware:
People often feel these dishes and pots have special qualities. Acknowledge that the special qualities are true. They include:
a. Imparting sweetness or special flavors to food such as beans;
b. Making rice come out loose, not sticky;
c. Distributing heat better when cooking;
d. Preventing food from sticking to the pot.
a. Serve vinegar, soy, or chili sauce in leaded dipping dishes;
b. Serve acidic foods (such as pickled foods) in leaded bowls;
c. Serve tea in leaded cups.
Note to educators: Bring samples of both leaded and lead-free alternatives such as the rice pattern and plastic replicas to show the audience.
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Cougars left-hander Michael Heesch is working with the pitch chart crew during today's doubleheader against Bowling Green, but that doesn't keep him from having a pulse on other goings-on.
One of those things is the Hot Rods roster, which includes Neuqua Valley graduate Geoff Rowan, a backup catcher.
That's the same Rowan who opposed Heesch as a right-hander when Prairie Ridge beat Neuqua in a 4A state semifinal in June 2008.
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|Don Johnson
Hey Russ,
If you have some title to add, I'd say bring it on! The more, the merrier!
...and I look forward to the salmon/steelie list you compile.
Excellent idea! I'll get a library list of slamon/steelhead boods started on the salmon/steelhead flies pages. I'll leave the trout books alone, eventhough I have a lot of trout books, because there are plenty of trout tyers around.
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One more tidbit...
Other things, as were alluded to in a previous post, are resources in the form of videos, DVDs and books. I don't have too many DVDs or videos so I'll have to lean on others to offer up advice there. I am a book lover though and the Benchside Reference is a great resource. Also, Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple by Morris, Wet Flies by Hughes, Production Fly Tying by AK Best, the trilogy by Jack Dennis, Fly Tying Methods and Micropatterns by Darrell Martin and many others are out there and readily available. I don't want to get in trouble for supporting a non-sponsor, but a valuable resource I have found for locating old, out of print books is abebooks.com, FYI.
Anyway, most of the aformentioned adhere to the trout fly genre' of patterns, which I thought appropriate given the origin of the thread. With that said, why don't we chime in a make a list of what WE ALL feel to be a good resource library for the TROUT fly tyer.
(Russ, maybe you could start one of these on the salmon/steelhead pages?)
Here's some of mine:
Wet Flies: 400 Patterns by Ken Sawada
Wet Flies: Their Style and Dressing by Ken Sawada
Wet Flies by Dave Hughes
The soft hackle trilogy (the first 3 books) by Syl Nemes
The Art of Tying the Wet Fly by Leisenring
A Handbook of North Country Flies by Roger Fogg
The North Country: A Fly Fishing Tradition by Leslie Magee
North Country Flies by TE Pritt
Brook and River Trouting by Edmonds and Lee
Silk, Feather and Fur by Skues
A Way of the Trout with a Fly by Skues
The Benchside Reference
Fly Tying Methods by D. Martin
Micropatterns by D. Martin
Caddisflies by LaFontaine
Nymphs by Schweibert
Mayflies by Caucci and Nastasi
Aquatic Entomology (can't remember the author)
Production Fly Tying by AK Best
1000 Best Flies by Randy Stetzer
Tying the Dry Fly and Tying the Nymph (2 seperate books) by Randall Kaufmann
Western Fly Tying Manuals (3 of them) by Jack Dennis
There may be more at home that I am forgetting, but that's a start. I'll add more later if I find any at home that I feel are worthy of addition.
Looking forward to seeing everyone else's favorites.
Don Johnson
Those hackle packs are exactly what I was referring to. A great value, great hackle in small affordable packages. My reference to the cheap capes is aimed mostly at the crummy indian necks they sell at cabelas and in other catalogs, and is also what they often stick in those "everything in a box" kits. I've been buying Whiting for so long that I have a good stockpile and haven't purchased a cape in a couple of years. I have no firsthand experience with the good low cost capes you speak of, but I'll be looking for them!
I have a few S&M bobbins and my preference is totally with the Rite bobbin with the insert and adjutable tension. Better is better, period. I know this is all a matter of preference. I just think they're the most user friendly.
Don is correct about the Keough "Tyer's Grade" necks, they are exceptional values, and the Whiting 100's and Spencer's "Hackle Packs" are also very good values. Also there really is no reason for a tyer to buy anything other than grade #3 genetic hackle necks (which is what most professional tyers use) unless he is going to tie a lot of small, hackled dry flies flies in the #18-#24 size range. Most folks get caught up in the "if it is grade #1, it has to be better" syndrome when all they need are necks for tying #12-#16 flies, and a grade #3 neck is flush with hackle in those sizes. Therefore, instead of spending $60.00 or more for a grade #1 neck or saddle, look into getting grade #3 necks that sell for about $30.00.
I also take exception to what was said about all-metal bobbins. My favorite bobbin(and the favorite of A.K. Best as well) is the S&M, which sells for about $7.00. I have one I bought back in the late 1960's that is still in use after having been used to tie tens of thousands of flies and I've never had problems with it cutting thread (just don't use it with kevlar or gel spun thread).
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The last piece is mostly true barring one exception. Keough Hackles offers "Tyers Grade" necks which retail for about 20 bucks and are an exceptional value. They have a lot of feathers in a decent range of useable sizes.
Aside from that, look into things such as Whiting saddle hackle that are graded for size (100's I think they are called) and Spencer's Hackles "Hackle Packs".
All good advice!
Another piece of advice is to get good bobbins with the ceramic inserts. Very frustrating when the cheapo metal ones cut your thread when a little tension is put to them. 15 bucks and well worth it.
I'd also advise you to have a clear idea of what flies you wish to tie so your local shop can set you up with what you need and avoid buying material you'll never use.
A good video is a valuable asset to the beginner. I like A.K. Best's videos.
One last thought, avoid the cheap hackle. There are 20 dollar capes out the that aren't worth a dime. If you know what flies you're going to tie you can buy small packs of hackle feathers from Hoffman /Whiting that will tie X # of flies. A good way to go if your just getting into it and can't justify several 60 dollar capes.
Don's advice is in my opinion the best way to go. This way you only buy materials that you will use and can spend more on a decent vise. Avoid the imported from Indian vises, they are poorly made, don't hold hooks well, and don't last very long. You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a decent vise, Griffin has some very affordable, well-made vises for $50.00 or less and the venerable Thompson Model A, which has been around for over 100 years (it and the other Thompson vises have been recently put back into production by a new owner after a hiatus of about 8 months after the owner of Thompson Vise decided to retire and close the vise factory), which sells for around $50.00 too.
The two most important tools to buy are the vise and a quality pair of scissors. Therefore, avoid the cheapo scissors too because they are false economy. Instead get a quality pair, afterall, good scissors can be had for between $12.00 and $20.00 and they will last for years, the cheapos won't.
The only tools you need are a vise, scissors, bobbin (which holds your thread), and a bodkin. To this, you can add a whip finisher like the Materelli and your tool needs will be met for many years.
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Thanks, all of you, for the very good advice. I will definitely visit my local shop.
I agree with visiting your local shops. It's getting to be around Christmas time and many of them will start offering package deals put together in there shop. Just tell them what your interested in and interested in paying and they should be able to hook you up. Besides, they know what an addiction there starting you in and they'll more than make a profit off of ya.
As for getting started with patters and techniques I'd recommend "The Fly Tiers Bench Side Reference", it's a little steep but you'll use it for the rest of your life. Mines raggy and full of post it note's but still is my goto source.
Tight Lines!!!!
|Don Johnson
One suggestion, if I may offer, would be to not overlook your local fly shop. Figure out which patterns you think you really want to start out tying and see if they will give you a discount on a "starter" package. This way you get the materials you know you will use and have taken steps to initiate relationship with a good resource for your future tying needs.
The one thing about kits, in my experience, is that you get stuff you'll never use and the vise and tools are sometimes of lesser quality than what I would consider adequate, although I know little of the kits you referred to in your post.
Good luck!
Don Johnson
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I'll be honest with you. Fly tying kits usually aren't very good. They typically have sub par tools and materials, some of which you may rarely use.
I truly believe that if one is to start tying, they should get an affordable vise and a few basic but necessary tools. Then start acquiring materials for patterns that you intend to learn. Before long, you'll find some overlap and that some of your materials can be used for more than one pattern.
Any fly shop worth its salt should be able to help you with this. You've posted here in the trout forum, so I assume that you'll be starting with trout patterns. If you have any questions about specific patterns, don't hesitate to ask. There are plenty of knowledgeable people here who can help.
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I am getting ready to start tying flies and I am looking at various beginner kits, Orvis, Cabelas, and L.L. Bean. Can you please advise me which company has a good starter kit?
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TUPELO – A Tupelo man pleaded guilty Monday to the 2012 shooting death of Everett Ray Foster.
Kelly Mims, attorney for James Williams, 43, said his client accepted a plea offer from the District Attorney's office to avoid a trial by entering a guilty plea to manslaughter with a 12-year sentence.
"It was his decision," Mims said. "It's a tragedy – their families were friends."
A Lee County grand jury indicted Williams on a murder charge in February for Foster's death.
The men were friends and apparently became intoxicated, then got into a fight. When Foster returned to Williams' mother's South Canal Street residence, Williams fired a .22-caliber rifle three times through a door and fatally wounded Foster.
DA spokesman Paul Howell said Foster's family agreed to the deal.
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Circuit Judge Paul Funderburk presided at the hearing in the Lee County Justice Center.
Assistant District Attorney John Weddle represented the state.
During the late-morning hearing, Williams apologized to Foster's family and Foster's sister told the court they deeply regretted what had happened between the two men.
Before the plea deal, Mims sought to suppress a video statement Williams gave to the Tupelo Police Department on the day of his arrest Oct. 12, 2012. He argued that once an intoxicated Williams was read his rights and asked for counsel, all questioning should have stopped and could not resume until he knowingly consented to waive his rights.
Mims also aimed to show a jury at trial that Williams was defending himself when he shot Foster.
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2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup warm water
1.In a medium sized bowl, sift together flour and salt. Add oil and warm water, stirring to combine. Transfer dough into a lightly floured surface and knead for 3 minutes until dough is smooth. Divide dough into 10 equal pieces and roll each piece into ball. Allow to rest, covered with plastic wrap for 30 minutes.
2.Once dough has rested, preheat cast iron skillet over medium high heat ( i used a flat pan ) . Roll out each ball into a circle, about 6 inches in diameter.Cook one at a time in the hot skillet, flipping half way through, when it starts to puff and a few brown spots have appeared on the first side. Remove from skillet.
p/s the author advised not to use non stick pan as the non stick pan may not get as hot as the cast iron skillet. I used a flat griddle and am quite happy with this. I used some other recipes previously using a non stick pan and they were okay.
If you are not keen or find it a hassle to make your own tortillas., you can always get the ready made ones from stores. I'm showing here 2 different types of fillings which i made; one is breaded chicken with egg mayonnaise with some leaves and another one is lighter, just ham with some veggies and sprouts. No exact amount of some of the ingredients used, just an idea.
Breaded chicken with egg mayonnaise wraps
4 pieces of chicken fillets, striped. Season them with salt for 10 minutes, Coat them with cake flour, dredge them over beaten egg and finally coat them with dry breadcrumbs . Pan fry them in a non stick pan, letthem cook till fully brown on one side before turning over to cook the other side.
Mashed an hard boiled egg with couple of spoonfuls of mayonnaise and one spoon of dijon mustard and spread them on tortillas. Put the breaded chicken, some lettuce, chopped celery, capsicum in the center of tortilla and roll up
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I've started reading SICP. Fascinating book. But can't build mit-scheme on my machine because I simply don't have enough memory. The ubuntu repositories are no help either because I use 7.04, which they just stopped supporting. I can find compiled binaries elsewhere, but I guess I might as well use this excuse to install 8.04LTS.
Moved my blog from LiveJournal to WordPress. WordPress looks so much cooler, and its open source to boot. The only catch was that LiveJournal only allows one month to be exported at a time. But this wasn't a problem for me since I only started there this month.
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