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2007/5/21 10:47
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Bass season is upon us here in the Yough watershed as the water temperatures on the lower river and some of the tributaries are warming to the point that our favorite green fish are getting happy and grabby. We've been running a few trips on the warm water in between trout outings and finding bass willing to chase everything from topwater offerings to crayfish hopped along the bottom. At least one out of every two bass we've caught have either spit up crayfish in the boat or have had crayfish in their mouths, so if in doubt, throw the lobster.
Trout fishing has been spotty of late on the Middle. The usual summer pattern has set in with good morning and evening fishing and mid-day shut downs. The Middle is still offering up some fine dry fly fishing at times with the morning and evening caddis (tan body/ mottled brown wing) that continue to hatch on the river daily. Isos are bringing fish up as well and the nymphs are getting fish every afternoon. As far as nymph rigs go, caddis in green and tan from 14 to 20 in the morning and Isos paired with bwos in 18-22 in the afternoon should get it done. Water temps have been trouty almost all the way down to Connellsville still and trout down that way have been eating nymphs very well and streamers greedily in the morning.
Throw in the odd carp, walleye, rafter, or beaver and you have a general idea of what's happening on the river right now from top to bottom.
Look for reports to continue after the holiday.
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2009/11/12 21:15
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Great report. Going to fish the Middle Yough over the next few days. Have to stay close to the Outflow so....
I've fished there during a caddis hatch & did pretty well plus black ants did the trick.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Posted on: 2011/7/11 21:43
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You pretty much have it covered with those two bugs near the dam. You might try some small mayfly of caddisfly emergers as droppers off the dry if you want to fish subsurface, but fishing nymph rigs is going to get you lots salad. Bigger terrestrials like beetles and hoppers should get you some fish as well.
Posted on: 2011/7/12 11:51
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2009/11/12 21:15
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Just got back. Had a great time teaching the wife to flyfish and managed to land a few on ants, caddis & then a trout decided to be a smart a$$ and hit my strike indicator while nymphing. haha.
Next trip...gonna float the Middle on my PAC800 & hit below Ramcat. (like the good old days)
Thanks for the info.
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In January 1995, when it came time to have the second transplant, they had to drag me back kicking and screaming. I still hadn't yet recovered from the first transplant! But I was told that two transplants would be more beneficial and, eventually, I consented. The second transplant was much harder on me than the first. After 21 days in isolation, I came home from the cancer center only to find myself back at the local hospital, packed in ice to bring down a high fever. I vowed that if I would just be given the strength to make it through, I would give back of myself in any way I could. Within an hour, my fever broke, and I was home shortly thereafter.
Since then, I have been working on wigs for cancer patients. Helping women look good while battling cancer helps them feel more comfortable and less isolated. Every time I help someone with her hair and makeup, and I see a smile... that's a blessing to me. I also try to offer support on the phone and via email. Occasionally, I get requests from the cancer center to come in and talk with a patient who's having a hard time, and I am more than happy to help. Perhaps because I felt so alone when I was first diagnosed, I am absolutely obsessed with helping others.
Every day of my life consists of something that has to do with cancer. It's become a way of life. But the key word in that sentence is "LIFE." I look at my disease as an inconvenience. But that's not the way it's always been for me. I remember coming home one day, ripping off my wig, and just tossing it! The wig landed on the ceiling fan, and I laughed until tears ran down my cheeks. Another time, while I was on a date on a golf course, the wind grabbed my wig. I started chasing the wig as it flew and bounced all around the course. (In the meantime, my date was such a gentleman that he just kept hitting those balls like nothing happened.) After I finally caught the wig, I called the beauty shop to tell them the story. I started laughing, and everyone at the salon started howling with laughter. Sometimes you just have to find the humor in these things!
My second remission lasted for about 8 years, just like the first, but the myeloma relapsed once again in January of 2005. In May, I started four cycles of Doxil and VELCADE. I am now pain-free and my energy is slowly coming back. I have been fortunate to work with a team of wonderful doctors and nurses. But, from my experience, I would say that the most powerful tool in a cancer patient's arsenal is the mind—when your body is beaten down physically, you can push your mind to keep you strong mentally while you face the challenges life has given you.
Over the past 18 (almost 19!) years, I've been sliced, diced, hacked, whacked, chemo'd, and radiated so as to glow in the dark, yet I feel lucky and blessed in so many ways. When I was first diagnosed, my grandson was 4 years old, and my goal was to live long enough to see him graduate from high school. He is now in law school. When I was diagnosed, my granddaughter had not yet been born. She is now 10 years old, and my goal is to be around to see the woman she becomes!
When I found the IMF, I really wanted to attend one of its Patient & Family seminars, but there was never one close enough to me. So I became involved with the myeloma ListServ and joined the online chat group. This year, when a friend volunteered to drive me to the IMF meeting in Baltimore, I found myself in a room with over 200 others whose lives have been touched by myeloma. I am just a regular person, taking life one day at a time, so I was very honored to be asked to join the seminar's Patient Panel, and grateful for the opportunity to offer encouragement to so many patients who are trying to cope with grim statistics. In turn, the many wonderful people I met, both patients and seminar faculty, gave me great hope for a brighter future. There are so many strides being made in the field of myeloma that I look forward to the day when I can say, "I used to have a cancer called multiple myeloma."
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Luke Strand of the Holy Family
Parish in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, has a pretty interesting
ride. He drives around town in a black Volkswagen Beetle with a
logo featuring the phrase "God Squad" emblazoned on it.
That logo and the vehicle itself bear a striking similarity to the
mobile service vehicles of Best
Buy's service team, the Geek Squad.Apparently, Best Buy
isn't pleased with its look being appropriated by this man of the
cloth. Lawyers for the electronics retailer sent Father
Strand a
cease-and-desist letter telling him to ditch the logo or
face consequences. Father Strand mentioned the
letter at his Sunday Mass.Speaking to the Fond
du Lac Reporter,
Father Strand defended the logo. He says he uses the logo as a
creative way to spur discussions and bring his faith to the
community.Best Buy told reporters for the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel that
while it appreciates Father Strand's sentiments, it cannot stand by
and watch its trademarks be violated.The legal dispute
revives a long ongoing question of just how much ownership to an icon
a company can claim. Apple, Inc., for example, has been
particularly zealous in legally assailing those who supposedly
violated its trademark. From New
York City to music
festivals, anyone who used the logo of an Apple -- or
particularly a logo of an Apple with a bite out of it -- was hit with
lawsuits or cease-and-desist letters.
argue that companies are taking trademark enforcement to far;
corporate lawyers would obviously disagree.
quote: And besides that, a priest? You're going to sue a priest that was trying to stimulate interest in religion? GTFO.
quote: Heaven forbid a priest try to make Christianity a little more accessible with a bit of humor and/or tongue-in-cheek advertising. But there are a fair number of intolerant (to things like religion) liberals there in Richfield, MN. I wouldn't doubt it that he was served because he was a man of religion as much as anything else.


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Looking healthy and strong, Fantasia Barrino was welcomed back to American Idol last week, singing her new song "Lose to Win," and earning approval from the show's stars and fans for taking charge of her personal life and career.
"Everyone was saying how happy they were to see me at this place," she told PEOPLE. "I think my happiness and peace is now finally showing and so they were all like 'just stay right here.' "
Since she shot to fame to win season 3 of the show in 2004, the dynamic vocalist has chased ups and downs as she paired fame with motherhood and struggled to handle her new world in the spotlight.
Now, however, Barrino, 28, who attempted suicide in 2010, says she's newly fit and taking charge of her goals, feeling stronger about maintaining a balance as she enjoys her two children, daughter Zion, 12, and brother Dallas, who was born in December 2011.
"I always want to please everybody, and I want to help everybody and I think that that was draining me – moneywise, mentally," she said. "I had to change all of that. I still help people but in a different way. It's not about money."
She's also not only committed to her emotional health but she is taking care of herself physically, working out with a trainer who comes to her home to lay down the law.
"I work out twice a day. I love Pilates, yoga and spinning class," Barrino said.
"I've a trainer at home," she said. "She's the kind that she pops up at your house and if you have the wrong thing in front of you, she'll take your plate up and she'll throw it away."
Fantasia Barrino Finds New Happiness by Staying True to Herself


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2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 clove garlic, pressed
2 Tbsp finely grated onion
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1 Tbsp finely minced fresh parsley
1/2 cup cold water
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And for those eager to learn more about the enigmatic icon, the Weinstein Company and Warner Brothers has just released a first look at Grace of Monaco – the sumptuous looking Olivier Dahan directed biopic starring Nicole Kidman in the title role. Watch the trailer below.
"Long after the House of Grimaldi has fallen, the world is going to remember your name, your highness," says Frank Langella, who plays Father Francis Tucker in the film, in the one-minute clip. "You are the fairy tale; the serenity to which we all aspire. And peace will come when you embrace the roles you have been destined to play."
The film primarily focuses on Kelly in the early 1960s when she is already established as the Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainer III (played by Tim Roth) in 1956. Monaco is at odds with France, who has given the picturesque principality six months to reform its tax laws, and its citizens are looking to their princess for guidance, reports Variety,
Kidman has earned a thumbs up for the role from at least one person in the late princess's former inner circle.
"First of all, I know Nicole Kidman," Lynn Wyatt, Kelly's longtime confidante, told PEOPLE last year. "She's beautiful inside and out, and she's very sweet. She's very nice – and she's caring. I think she would be perfect."
The film makes its debut on Nov. 27.


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Historic Call for Obama, Rouhani
The presidents of America and Iran spoke directly Friday for the first time since 1979, setting the stage for delicate negotiations that could reshape the two adversaries' relationship.
The 15-minute call between Barack Obama and Iran's Hasan Rouhani, which focused on Iran's disputed nuclear program, topped a week of dramatic twists and turns. It also highlighted how critical Washington and Tehran have become to each other's pressing geopolitical goals.
For Mr. Rouhani, the opening of discussions with the U.S. lays bare how badly Iran wants relief from American-led economic sanctions. For Mr. Obama, Iran sits at the confluence of thorny foreign-policy issues on which he has staked his final years in office, which also include Syria's civil war and the Israeli/Palestinian peace process.
"The very fact that this was the first communication between an American and Iranian president since 1979 underscores the deep mistrust between our countries, but it also indicates the prospect of moving beyond that difficult history," Mr. Obama told reporters at the White House shortly after the phone call Friday afternoon.
The phone call, which the White House said Mr. Rouhani initiated, came just days after Mr. Rouhani declined Mr. Obama's invitation to meet in person while both were in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. But it also followed a series of indications from the newly elected Iranian president that he wanted to alter his country's relationship with the U.S.
Mr. Obama said he and Mr. Rouhani directed their governments to work quickly to reach an agreement over Iran's nuclear program.
Mr. Rouhani on Friday said his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, will bring a specific plan to address the West's concerns that Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons, which Iran denies.
In mid-October, Iran, the U.S. and other world powers will meet in Geneva to try to put in place a concrete diplomatic path to resolve the dispute within one year. Mr. Obama said Iran has the right to a peaceful nuclear-energy program.
He noted that both sides would have to overcome "significant concerns" to reach an agreement, including Israeli skepticism about Iran's sincerity.
A senior administration official said Mr. Obama opened the call by congratulating Mr. Rouhani on his election. The official said Iran's nuclear program dominated the call, and it ended with Mr. Rouhani saying goodbye in English and Mr. Obama saying goodbye in Farsi.
The U.S. outreach to Iran is fraught with risk and is unlikely to be smooth. In one indication, U.S. officials said Iran hacked unclassified Navy computers in recent weeks in an escalation of alleged Iranian cyberintrusions that target the U.S. military. Officials said the attacks were carried out by hackers working directly for Iran's government or by a group acting with the approval of Iranian leaders.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly cast doubt on Iran's recent charm offensive, arguing that Tehran is hoodwinking Washington as it pushes ahead with its nuclear program.
Mr. Obama is meeting Mr. Netanyahu on Monday in Washington. U.S. officials said Mr. Obama is expected to say that the U.S. will make decisions based on changes in Iran's actions, not rhetoric, and that the administration is pursuing a diplomatic track in parallel with the U.S. strategy of sanctions backed with a threat of force.
"Israel is interested in a diplomatic solution, like anyone else. But we don't want to cheat ourselves," said Israel's Minister of Intelligence and International Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, in an interview Thursday. "Some people are willing to be cheated."
The pace of U.S. outreach to Iran has unnerved many of Washington's closest Mideast allies beyond Israel, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They fear Washington's engagement could remove the financial squeeze on Tehran while letting it continue to develop its nuclear program.
Some nuclear experts who advised Mr. Obama said they have seen little evidence Mr. Rouhani is willing to drastically cut nuclear capabilities to seal a deal.
Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, didn't directly criticize the outreach but called for even stronger sanctions, saying: "We must increase the economic pressure until Iran stops its nuclear drive."
Mr. Obama outlined at the U.N. an agenda focused on curtailing Iran's nuclear program, dismantling Syria's chemical weapons and cinching an Arab-Israeli peace agreement. He will need support from Iran's president to achieve lasting success at any of those. Iran is the biggest backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has developed militant movements in Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories that could upend the Mideast peace process.
Mr. Rouhani campaigned for the presidency on a platform of revitalizing Iran's economy, in part by rolling back the sanctions. This week, he courted businessmen as well as diplomats. Inside Iran, his outreach to the West has been greeted largely with enthusiasm. Iranian newspapers, including conservative outlets, played up Mr. Rouhani's speeches and interviews in New York as a positive turning point. U.S. and Iranian officials now see a stepped-up series of engagements in the coming months, after more than three decades with virtually no diplomatic contact following the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Messrs. Rohani and Zarif repeatedly stated this week they are committed to a political solution in Syria, even as Tehran continues to finance and arm the Assad regime.
Mr. Obama's aides prepared for the General Assembly by laying fresh groundwork on the Mideast peace process and making overtures to Iran. White House officials began privately signaling a potential presidential-level meeting at least two weeks ago.
The White House offered a carefully framed message that the U.S. sought to engage Iran with "mutual respect," signaling it was taking Mr. Rouhani seriously.
A senior U.S. official said Mr. Rouhani's delegation communicated early Friday his desire to talk with Mr. Obama before leaving New York Friday evening. The official said the Iranians appeared encouraged to take this step following Secretary of State John Kerry's 30-minute meeting Thursday night with his Iranian counterpart, Mr. Zarif.
Senior U.S. officials said they were struck by the change of tone when Messrs. Kerry and Zarif met.
"I have gotten to know Iranians...and I can't say we had chatty conversations," said a senior U.S. official who met the Iranian delegation Thursday. "That has all changed."
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