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This year's juniors might be the last students to graduate from Cascade Locks High School.
Declining enrollment in Cascade Locks and growing student numbers at Hood River Valley High School suggest the need to examine whether or not to keep Cascade Locks a K-12 school, Superintendent Jerry Sessions said this week.
The district has begun studying the idea of changing the school to a kindergarten-through-eighth grade facility, effective in 2003-04. CLHS students would attend Hood River Valley High School or regional community colleges.
"We need to start a conversation about the future of Cascade Locks High School," Sessions said. "We are not talking about closing the school; we are committed to keeping a school open in Cascade Locks."
Sessions said he wants the district to reach a decision by March 2003, when the schools' funding picture for the next year is known.
In what is the start of an extended discussion, Sessions and first-year principal Chris Daniels met with a group of a dozen Cascade Locks citizens Tuesday to discuss what he acknowledges would involve a major change for the Cascade Locks community. "We want input from the community," Sessions said.
He appears likely to receive it.
"To the residents of Cascade Locks the closing of the high school is not feasible and not desirable," said Dr. Robin Voetterl, a Cascade Locks resident who is helping facilitate discussions with the district.
"In our minds there is no question. It is a moot suggestion and we are going to work as hard as we can with the county and the city and the school district staff and our own staff to make sure that doesn't happen," said Voetterl (pronounced va-TEL).
Sessions said the idea of making Cascade Locks K-8 arises from fiscal reality, given the disparate class sizes at the two high schools. Class sizes average about 11 students at CLHS, compared with about 28 at HRVHS. HRVHS will lose 2.33 teaching positions in 2002-03 if the proposed budget is approved next month.
Under the proposed budget Cascade Locks' teaching staff would lose one-half a position, at the elementary level. Sessions said that because of state graduation requirements, CLHS staffing could not be reduced.
Sessions said a number of options are open to consideration, including going to a K-10 enrollment at Cascade Locks, and allowing students to take classes at Mt. Hood Community College or Columbia Gorge Community College.
The future of Cascade Locks School will be discussed in the school band room on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., during a meeting of an existing visioning group for the school.
The group includes students and community members, Sessions said.
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TOLEDO -- Expanding Ohio's sales tax might take some of the fun out of going to concerts, football games and amusement parks.
Gov. John Kasich wants to cut the state's overall sales-tax rate while also putting the lower 5 percent sales tax on a long list of new items that include circuses, arcade games and carnival rides.
Admission to fairs, museums, and theme parks would fall under Ohio's sales tax for the first time, too. So would tickets to pro, college and high school games.
The governor is proposing sweeping changes in the way Ohio taxes businesses and individuals in his two-year budget that still must be approved by lawmakers. Kasich's plan includes cutting the income tax rate by 20 percent over three years and the small business tax by 50 percent.
The reductions add up to $1.4 billion in tax cuts over three years.
At the same time, his proposal tacks on Ohio's sales tax to attorney fees, cable TV and pet grooming as well as entertainment options.
"By broadening this tax, by broadening it, we're actually bringing greater fairness to the system," Kasich said last week.
Adding the sales tax on arts, entertainment and recreation alone is projected to bring in $85 million to the state government over the coming two years.
It's also likely to add to the cost of seeing a ballgame or a play.
Some entertainment businesses and sports teams will pass the costs onto ticket buyers and customers while others are likely to absorb the costs, fearing that a price increase will drive away business.
"There has to be a decrease somewhere, either in my profits or customers," said Eric Bates, president of Bates Brothers Amusements Co., which is based in Wintersville in eastern Ohio and supplies carnival rides to fairs and festivals.
He worries that some cash-strapped county fairs won't survive if they're forced to give up 5 percent of their gate fees to the government.
"I don't know that it's wise at this time," Bates said.
Bowling alley owner Marty Teifke agreed it would hurt to pay a tax on lane rentals.
"It's not easy to raise prices, and the economy is not the best around here" said Teifke, who runs Timbers Bowling in Maumee near Toledo. "It scares me to hear this."
Most entertainment businesses and groups that would be affected by a wider sales tax are still trying to figure out what the impact might be and how they'll respond, including Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., owners of Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky and Kings Island near Cincinnati.
Both parks have fought against past attempts by local governments that have tried to tax tickets and parking.
The addition of a 5 percent state sales tax on admissions would amount to $2.75 on the price of a $54.99 Cedar Point ticket at the gate.
A $22 Cincinnati Reds ticket in the upper deck would generate $1.10 for the state.
Close to 70 cities and villages in Ohio already have some sort of admission tax with most coming in at 3 percent. Cleveland's is at 8 percent.
Tickets for high school sports wouldn't be exempt from the governor's proposal.
Jim Stoyle, athletic director at Centerburg High School north of Columbus, said he wouldn't want the cost of admission to go up. "That's the one thing I hate in sports today," he said.
Game tickets at the school now are $6 for adults and $4 for students.
He's concerned that families would be stretched thin if the price goes up, especially for those with several children playing, and that the teams would suffer as well.
"Most of our high school athletic programs survive on ticket gate sales," Stoyle said.
Community theater groups would face the same decisions.
"There wouldn't be much choice but to pass along a sales tax increase to the customers," said Tom Neff, board president of the Chagrin Valley Little Theater in Chagrin Falls. "People would understand it's part of what you would have to do. I don't think there's any way around it."
Items that would be under expanded Ohio sales tax
Admissions and amusements that would no longer be exempt from Ohio's sales tax under Gov. John Kasich's budget proposal:
-- Admission to cultural events
-- Admission to professional sports events
-- Admission to school and college sports events
-- Amusement park admission & rides
-- Billiard parlors
-- Bowling alleys
-- Cable TV services
-- Admission to and games at circuses and fairs
-- Coin operated video games
-- Pari-mutuel racing events
-- Pinball and other mechanical amusements
-- Rental of films and tapes by theaters

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When Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered the Bureau of Land Management to begin looking for wild lands in the West, he set up a new chapter in an old confrontation.
Conservation and environmental organizations in Colorado saw an opportunity to take a step toward long-sought goals of having land across the state — most of them in northwest Colorado — and in neighboring Utah set aside for preservation of wilderness characteristics.
Others, however, saw the inventory of wild lands as a threat to the energy and other industries.
The order by Salazar, a former Colorado senator and onetime head of the state's Department of Natural Resources, was innocuous, said Kurt Kunkle, wilderness coordinator for the Colorado Environmental Coalition.
Salazar's Secretarial Order 3310 was merely aimed at complying with federal law, the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, which calls for a inventory of such lands.
"It's not a land grab," Kunkle said. "I'm kind of surprised by all the hubbub around wild-lands policy."
Salazar's order reinstated long-standing BLM authority that was reversed during the George W. Bush administration, Kunkle said.
That's not to say, however, that Kunkle's organization and others want the land only to be inventoried.
"We still would like to look at a map and see wilderness one day," Kunkle said.
Talk about doing that, however, already is having the unwelcome effect of further depressing an already stressed economy in the northwest part of the state, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., said.
The starting point for the wild-lands discussion in western Colorado are proposals set out in 2006 by the Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance, which outlines 60 proposed wilderness areas, and a majority of them, 37, are in northwest Colorado. The areas were offered as wilderness proposals by residents.
Tipton's district affected
Conservation and environmental organizations see Salazar's order as a return to the original idea of land management in the West.
Tipton says the Interior Department "overreached its authority, moving into the powers granted to Congress."
"We need input first, rather than after the fact," Tipton said.
Tipton's 3rd Congressional District, which he wrested from Salazar's brother John in November, includes most of the Western Slope. It is potentially the most heavily affected in Colorado by the wild-lands proposal.
Many of the proposed northwest Colorado areas are where the oil and gas industry is active or holds leases, including the Roan Plateau in Garfield County and Vermillion Basin in Moffat County.
Salazar's order calls on the BLM to protect lands with wilderness characteristics by avoiding "impairment" of those lands "unless the BLM determines that impairment of wilderness characteristics is appropriate and consistent" with existing law and other considerations.
The order requires that wild lands be recognized as a part of the development of resource-management plans, which guide the management of bureau districts for 20 years.
It's in the drafting of those plans that the public will have the opportunity to be deeply involved in the wild-lands discussion, Interior Department officials say.
Uintah County, Utah, Commissioner Mike McKee said he fears that Interior Department officials in Washington, D.C., would be able to supersede local and state bureau officials and play too great a role in determining whether lands have wilderness characteristics that need to be protected from development.
The secretarial order wipes out work already done in many parts of the West and lets environmental organizations take another shot at establishing wild lands after decisions have been reached, McKee said.
"So, it's a continual moving ball," he said.
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The wild-lands proposal also stands to hinder efforts to develop domestic energy resources, Tipton said.
"The West is mineral rich, and there are those of us who believe there can be a win-win" with energy and environmental concerns, Tipton said.
Industry already has a big lead in that department, environmental organizations said, pointing to statistics showing that one acre of BLM land is set aside as wilderness for every 42 acres leased by oil and gas corporations. More than 64 percent of lease acres remain to be drilled, according to checksandbalancesproject.org, which criticizes leasing as "simply a land grab on the part of fossil fuels corporations."
Restrictions on drilling and rising unemployment in the West are likely connected, Tipton said.
"I don't think you can dismiss it as a potential cause of unemployment," Tipton said, noting the 11 percent unemployment rate in Mesa County, which three years ago was a booming energy area.
Recognition of wild lands could be beneficial to the recreation industry, which includes hunting, angling and wildlife viewing, said Suzanne O'Neill, executive director of the Colorado Wildlife Federation.
Salazar's order put back in place a criterion for the multiple-use evaluation of BLM holdings that had been removed in 2003, O'Neill said.
"We are comfortable with it being a criterion" in deciding how to manage those lands, especially considering that wild lands could be an important part of a robust outdoor-recreation segment of the regional economy, O'Neill said. "We can have extraction, and we can have areas that are really for wildlife recreation."
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@AdamSchefter: Former Titans TE Jared Cook reached agreement with the Rams.
@AdamSchefter: Former Saints OT Jermon Bushrod reached agreement with Bears.
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Dolphins release Dansby.
Titans letting Cook walk is such a bonehead by their FO.
Why take a freak like Cook (who you know is going to take a couple years to develop) invest all this time and money in to him -- and then... and THEN, when the time come to actually reap the rewards, you let 'im go.
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The Panthers opened scoring in the 15th minute when Kency Lopez passed the ball to Haley Thatcher, who beat the Tiger goalkeeper to bring GC up 1-0. Kelsey Panzau scored the second Panther goal just a few minutes later. Kami Suess the last goal of the first half and Greenville headed into halftime with a 3-0 lead.
Thatcher and Panzau each recorded another goal in the second half, this time with assists from Sara Palombo and Mo Murphy. Palombo found the back of the net herself late in the half to bring the game to it's final score of 6-0, GC.
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|Phil Cassidy
GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
|Full Name
|Phil Cassidy
|Phil, The One Armed Bandit
Vice City
Trailer in Little Haiti, Vice City
Rockford, Staunton Island, Liberty City
Louise Cassidy-Williams (sister, deceased)
Mary-Jo Cassidy (sister)
Mary-Beth Williams (niece)
Marty Williams (brother-in-law, deceased)
|Main Affiliations
Trailer Park Mafia (until 1984)
Jerry Martinez (until 1984)
Victor Vance (1984 - 1986)
Lance Vance (1984 - 1986)
Ricardo Diaz
Umberto Robina
Tommy Vercetti (from 1986)
Ken Rosenberg (1986)
Hilary King (until 1986)
Cam Jones (1986)
Toshiko Kasen (until 1998)
Ray Machowski
Claude (2001)
Green Patriot
Yellow Walton
Phil's Army Surplus (GTA III)
Phil's Place (GTA Vice City)
Phil Cassidy's Fully Cocked Gun Shop (GTA Liberty City Stories)
Phil's Depot (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories)
|Voiced by
Hunter Platin (GTA III)
Gary Busey (GTA Vice City/GTA Vice City Stories)
Uncredited (GTA Liberty City Stories)
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|game_2 = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
|game_3 = Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
|game_4 = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
|name = Phil Cassidy
|aka = Phil, The One Armed Bandit
|status = Alive
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Phil Cassidy is a bitter war veteran featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, and Grand Theft Auto III, chronologically.
In all appearances, Phil is featured as a heavy artillery arms dealer, selling the protagonist military-style weaponry which can devastate easily, such as Grenades, Rocket Launchers, Miniguns, etc. He claims to have served in the military; however, it is been revealed that he was never in the army. One of Phil's most notable features is his one arm - in GTA III he claims to have lost it in Nicaragua, but GTA Vice City reveals that he lost it in a pyrotechnics accident while drunk.
Before 1984
Phil claims to have been in the army and fought in Vietnam and Nicaragua before being discharged sometime around 1983-84. However, he was frequently rejected because of drunkenness and temperament, and when interviewed by Jenny Mitchell he admits he was dishonorably discharged from the catering corps (as seen on the Vice City Stories website). Ray Machowski claims Phil is his "army buddy" from Nicaragua, though Ray likely met him via the catering corps.
Phil's been featured as a heavy drinker. He distills his own alcohol, a dangerous and highly explosive drink known as "Boomshine" which Phil started distilling and selling in Vice City around 1984. Phil says during a phone conversation with Tommy Vercetti that due to his heavy Boomshine drinking, he is blind in his left eye.
GTA Vice City Stories (1984)
In Phil's first chronological appearance, he is introduced to Victor Vance through Sergeant Jerry Martinez. Phil is Jerry's gun dealer. Jerry sends Vic to help Phil get rid of some Cholos giving him trouble. Through Phil, Vic meets Phil's sister Louise Cassidy-Williams and Phil's brother-in-law Marty Jay Williams.
After completing some jobs for Marty and eventually killing him because he tried to pimp Louise, Vic returns with Phil and saves him from Jerry's goons who want to finish him for betraying Jerry. After was being saved by Vic, Phil promises to stay sober from now on; however, he begins to drink again when Armando Mendez kills Louise. Phil, wanting revenge with the Mendez Brothers, gets drunk and blows up the entrance of Fort Baxter Air Base so Vic can steal a Hunter helicopter to attack the Mendez compound.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Phil is sporting a handlebar mustache. Between 1984 and 1986, he has shaved this off.
Gary Busey once again voiced Phil (as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was released earlier than Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories).
GTA Vice City (1986)
In his next appearance, Tommy Vercetti hires Phil to pull off a bank robbery in the mission The Shootist. Phil is the one who suggests Tommy should employ Hillary King as a getaway driver in the mission The Driver. After the robbery (The Job), Phil invites Tommy to work for him in order to get been fixed with firepower. After Tommy kills Phil's rival gun dealer Pedro Garcia, a drunken Phil invites Tommy over to check out a Boomshine bomb he had set up, wired to a remote detonator. The remote doesn't work the first time, so Phil changes its batteries for fresh ones sitting beside the bomb. Now standing one meter away from the powerful explosive, in inebriated carelessness, he accidently squeezes the remote's trigger, detonating the bomb and blowing off his own arm. Tommy drives Phil to an ex-army surgeon to be patched up.
Gary Busey voiced Phil for the first time.
GTA Liberty City Stories (1998)
Phil makes a short appearance during the mission "More Deadly Than the Male" as Toshiko Kasen's gun dealer. Heavy artillery can be bought from his gun-store, Phil Cassidy's Fully Cocked Gun Shop.
In the mission Arms Shortage, corrupt LCPD cop Ray Machowski commissions Claude to go and meet Phil at his shop, since some members of the Colombian Cartel tried to extort weapons out of Phil. Phil and Claude attack the Cartel men as they arrive and kill them, preventing them from stealing Phil's weapons. During this mission, Phil claims to have lost his arm in Nicaragua, but it is revealed later in GTA Vice City that his arm was blown off in a boomshine bomb explosion.
Hunter Platin voiced Phil in this game. In the credits for the game, he is listed as Phil the One-Armed Bandit.
VCBI record
The Vice City Bureau of Investigation has a file on Cassidy[1]:
- Redneck arms dealer.
- Believed to be involved in weapons trade.
- Gun enthusiast. Member of various second amendment organizations and various Vice City gun clubs.
- Sources suggest he also distills "boomshine" in own stills.
- Fighting war with Mexican gun-running gangs.
- Linked with "Cam" Jones. Jones and Cassidy believed to have worked together numerous times although Cassidy has avoided convictions.
- Degenerate.
- Patriot.
- Also believed Cassidy claims to have served in various divisions although Army records show he was repeatedly rejected for service because of drunkenness and an unsuitable temperament for combat.
- The player can play as Phil in GTA Vice City by inputting cheats.
- Phil makes the most appearance throughout the series, appearing in four altogether (GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories, GTA Vice City Stories).
- In GTA Vice City, Phil stats in a phone call following "Gun Runner" that he can only see with one eye because of prolonged intake of Boomshine.
- In Boomshine Saigon, it clearly shows Phil blowing off his right arm, not his left arm. This is likely simply a mistake in the creation of the cut scene, where they had Phil standing with the bomb to his right, rather than standing on the other side of the bench, with the bomb to his left. Successfully delivering Phil to his friend's place shows Phil correctly, missing his left arm and still having his right.
- In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, it was revealed that Phil was beaten by his father for having a sexual attraction to his sister and cousin.
- He seems to have a sort of dislike towards Mexicans, due to him hating the Cholos and sending Tommy to kill M.A.D.
- In Rockstar's Manhunt, one of the cops will sometimes say "I promised my little boy I would take him to Cassidy's Bargain Firearms Emporium tomorrow", suggesting that Phil also has a business in Carcer City.
Phil during "Arms Shortage", his only appearance in GTA III.
Game art of Phil Cassidy for GTA Vice City. Note that he's holding an AK-47, which doesn't appear in GTA Vice City.
Mission appearances
- GTA Vice City
- The Shootist
- The Driver
- The Job
- Gun Runner (Boss)
- Boomshine Saigon (Boss)
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- GTA Vice City Stories
- Cleaning House
- Conduct Unbecoming
- Cholo Victory (Boss)
- Boomshine Blowout (Boss)
- Truck Stop (Boss)
- Marked Men (Boss)
- Blitzkrieg Strikes Again
- Domo Arigato Domestoboto (post mission pager message)
- Over The Top
- Phil's Army Surplus (GTA III)
- Phil's Place (GTA Vice City)
- Phil Cassidy's Fully Cocked Gun Shop (GTA Liberty City Stories)
- Phil's Depot (GTA Vice City Stories)
- Cassidy's Bargain Firearms Emporium (Manhunt)
- ↑ Vice City Crime Tree. Rockstar Games. official GTA Vice City website


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"Falling back" is seldom a good thing. If an army falls back, it usually means it's losing the battle. And if a runner or race-car driver falls back, there's no trophy at the end of the course.
But today's a time when falling back is a good thing. That's because this is the day we leave behind Daylight Saving Time and fall back into Standard Time — you did remember to reset your clock before you went to bed last night, right? — so we get back the hour of sleep we lost in March.
The "fall" marks the yearly end of Daylight Saving Time.
The idea of "springing forward" during the months of longer daylight caught on during World War I. The United States adopted the idea in 1918.
It lasted only a year, but was reinstated during World War II. After the war, individual states were free to use Daylight Saving Time or not, for any part of the year they chose. It was standardized in 1966, and since then it has been extended to take up a greater chunk of the year.
The rationale for the modern version of Daylight Saving Time is that people tend to use less energy during the dark early morning than they do after dark in the evening, so extending daylight by an hour in the evening cuts down on energy use. Study results on the issue are mixed, but most do show a small savings.
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Aboriginal art is chronologically integrated throughout the Canadian galleries for the first time. The Gallery awards the 2001 Millennium Prize, the first international contemporary art prize in Canada, to Janet Cardiff for Forty-part Motet, a sound installation in the Rideau Chapel that reportedly causes some visitors to weep
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The Gallery coats its 6,000 windows with a plastic sheet to protect patrons and artwork in the event of a terrorist attack at the nearby U.S. embassy. The Treasury Board grants the $3.2 million funding.
The National Gallery revives a publication tradition with the launch of its new annual art journal, The Review. An attractive and engaging resource, it presents contributions by curators and conservators, and demonstrates the NGC's commitment to the advancement of knowledge of the visual arts.
The National Gallery of Canada is the first art institution in Canada to feature on its website a list of works of art and digital images of over 100 paintings and sculptures from its permanent collection that have gaps in their provenance for the year 1933-1945.
The online Provenance Research Project presents the Gallery's continuing research on the provenance of works in its collection during the period 1933-1945, published in accordance with the Guidelines Governing the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects during the Nazi Era.
The Library's catalogue is made available on the Web, and includes archival records and materials relating to all Gallery exhibitions dating back to its inception.
Co-produced with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Mexican Modern Art, 1900-1950, is on view from February to May and features some 270 works by fifty of Mexico's finest artists. It is the first display of Mexican modern art in Canada since the early forties.
During the summer, Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, features 67 exceptional works; the National Gallery is the first North American and only Canadian stop on the exhibition's tour.
The Gallery celebrates artist Alex Colville's 80th birthday with the exhibition Alex Colville: Milestones.
Following a long strike, which started on 10 May, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) bargaining team and the National Gallery of Canada announced that they have concluded a tentative agreement for the 200 workers. PSAC accepted the agreement at a vote held on July 13.
The Gallery's annual acquisition budget is increased to $6 million.
Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams donates Emily Carr's The Welcome Man, 1913 to the National Gallery, the most important painting from the early stage of Carr's career.
In April, the National Gallery of Canada returns the relief sculpture Figure of an Arhat (c. 700-720 A.D.) by an unknown artist from the Tang Dynasty to China for ethical reasons.
The Gallery awards the 2001 Millennium Prize, the first international contemporary art prize in Canada, to Janet Cardiff for her work Forty-Part Motet.
First of a series of exhibitions featuring drawings from the Gallery's collection, Italian Drawings from Canadian Collections comprises of a selection of some seventy works from the 16th to 19th centuries.
For the first time in North America, the Gallery brings together some 120 of Klimt's greatest masterpieces in Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making. Shown during the summer, Ottawa is the exhibition's only venue.
On 26 September, the National Gallery of Canada launches Phase II of CyberMuse-Art Unlimited Your On-Line Educational Tool, with the generous support of the AMEX Foundation. It contains new content specifically designed for students, educators, children and arts enthusiasts. Phase II includes state-of-the-art interactive learning tools, as well as practical teaching resources for schools. It makes nearly 10,000 digitized images of the permanent collection available for on-line viewing.
The Gallery bridges the gaps in provenance for four paintings; Gustav Klimt's Hope I, Hieronymus Bosch's The Temptation of St. Anthony, Veneto Bartolomeo's Portrait of a Young Lady, and Harold Gilman's A Swedish Village.
No Man's Land. The Photographs of Lynne Cohen, on view from February to May, provides visitors the opportunity to step inside Lynne Cohen's extraordinary interiors with over 60 photographs.
The retrospective exhibition Gathie Falk, celebrating the career of the Vancouver artist, excites the imagination by unveiling the witty and unexpected in the everyday with nearly 80 works.
On view during the summer of 2002, Tom Thomson is the first major retrospective of his work in over 30 years and features over 160 oil sketches, paintings and designs by Thomson and additional paintings by his contemporaries.
The Prints of Betty Goodwin brings together almost 100 works created between 1969 and 1994. With some 249 of pieces, the Gallery has the largest collection of Betty Goodwin's art, including four sculptures, one painting, 32 drawings and 212 prints.
The Gallery also presented the most remarkable collection of jade sculptures ever shown outside China, Jade, the Ultimate Treasure of Ancient China, which featured 120 jade pieces and groupings, some dating from 7000 B.C.
Pierre Théberge is reappointed as Director of the National Gallery of Canada.is reappointed as Director of the National Gallery of Canada.
The acquisition budget is increased further by $2 million, making the $8 million annual acquisition budget the largest the Gallery has ever received.
The Gallery publishes Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada, a beautifully illustrated, 288-page, catalogue representing some of the finest and most significant works held by the National Gallery. The reproductions are each accompanied by a detailed description of the artist, his work, and the respective importance of both.
After an overwhelming success in Quebec City, the exhibition Suzor-Coté, 1869-1937: Light and Matter comes to Ottawa from January to May. This retrospective sheds light on many unknown aspects of Suzor-Coté's life through 82 paintings, 45 works on paper, and 15 sculptures.
In an exhibition entitled Edward Burtynsky: Manufacturated Landscapes, 60 stunning large-scale colour landscapes photographs are on view from January to May. This is the first major examination of the internationally-renowned photographer.
Summer 2003 presents The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. It brings together some 100 paintings by 25 of the most gifted artists of the 18th century, including works never before shown in Canada.
Featuring 180 rarely seen paintings and drawings by our nation's most celebrated artists, The Group of Seven in Western Canada showcases five decades of groundbreaking work in Canada's West.
Celebrating the fifth centenary of the birth of Parmigianino, A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino assembles some 60 of the artist's most important drawings, pioneering prints and intimate paintings.
Art of this Land chronologically integrates First Nations art with the Canadian works on display in the galleries.
The Gallery mounts The Body Transformed, a showcase of works by some of the world's best modern and contemporary sculptors, at Shawinigan Space, a national historic site in Shawinigan, Quebec.
The National Gallery of Canada acquires Emily Carr's painting Forest Landscape (1932), thanks to the NGC Foundation's new Corporate Circle program.
The Gallery also acquires several documents from the studio of renowned English painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), donated by Barry Joule, a Canadian who was the painter's friend. The material is related to Bacon's Study for Portrait No. 1, an oil painting of a pope owned by the National Gallery of Canada.
The Gallery continues to expand its Audioguide program by featuring more than one exhibition per year, and launching a children version for the summer exhibitions. With the generous support of Bell Canada, the Gallery launches highlights of the Canadian collection in three new languages: German, Spanish, and Mandarin.
Noah's Ark, the second exhibition presented at Shawinigan Space, opens for the summer.
Some 20 sculptures and numerous works on paper by Canadian-born, New York-based contemporary artist David Rabinowitch are presented and offer a critical overview of his art as it has developed in major cycles spanning several decades.
Faces, Places, Traces: New Acquisitions to the Photographs Collection showcases 97 photographs that reflect the scope and depth of the history of photography from its beginnings in 1839 up to the present day.
French Drawings from Canadian Collections is part of a series of exhibitions bringing together more than 100 landscapes, portraits, genre pictures, and representations of historical and religious subjects dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
The summer exhibition The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown comprises nearly 200 paintings, drawings, prints, vintage photographs, sculptures and videos, including Picasso's stage curtain painted for the ballet Parade in 1917, measuring 16.2 metres wide by 10.52 metres high (53 by 34.5 feet).
In the Fall, the Gallery marks the hundredth anniversary of Jean Paul Lemieux's birth with Homage to Jean Paul Lemieux. This exhibition brings together more than 50 paintings and drawings by this remarkable Quebecois painter.
Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa shows how, in African art, the choice of material (wood, ivory, stone, metals, ceramics and animal parts) is an important means of constructing identity and power.
The National Gallery of Canada celebrates its 125th anniversary with exhibitions ranging from the Renaissance to the Sixties and beyond. The Gallery holds extraordinary exhibitions, art installations and activities in Ottawa and across Canada.
On 28 May, the National Gallery of Canada Foundation presents its first-ever national fundraising Ball to mark the occasion of the Gallery's 125th anniversary, Attracting close to 500 patrons from the arts, business and government community, the Renaissance Ball raises over $1 million in net revenue. The Government of Canada, through the Department of Canadian Heritage's Minister, the Honourable Liza Frulla, matches this amount, thus creating a balanced blend of private and public funding.
The funds are also used support the National Gallery of Canada's travelling exhibitions program across Canada, as well as educational art programs for children. The Renaissance Ball is recognized at the 9th Annual Canadian Event Industry Awards as the "Best Fundraising Event" for 2005.
The funds raised by the Renaissance, including an exceptional gift from the Volunteers' Circle of the National Gallery of Canada, are directed to the acquisition of two major works of art for the Gallery's permanent collection by Francesco Salviati: David and Virgin and Child with an Angel.
Maman by Louise Bourgeois is installed outside the National Gallery of Canada. The 30-foot-tall (9.25 m) bronze spider carries a sack of 26 pure white marble eggs under her belly. "Maman is a very important and exciting acquisition for the Gallery and for Canada as a whole," says Pierre Théberge, Director of the National Gallery of Canada. "Her sheer size and extraordinary power make Maman an icon that will turn the National Gallery's Plaza into a landmark.
The Gallery publishes the Index to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Catalogues of Art, a 2,000-page, two-volume resource that helps identify, date and establish previous ownership of artworks, which facilitates research on the history of artistic production, art collecting and the art market in 19th-century Canada.
The Gallery acquires Jacopo Pontormo's Renaissance drawing Reclining Male Nude (1530-1540), a sketch that passed as a Michelangelo original for at least two centuries.
The exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, curated by Dr. David Franklin, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, features 125 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints highlighting the genius of such Florentine luminaries as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Bronzino, Andrea del Sarto, and Piero di Cosimo. It marks the first time a High Renaissance exhibition of this remarkable scope has been produced outside Florence.
For its 125th anniversary, the Gallery gets groovy with The Sixties in Canada, a trip back in time to a decade of unprecedented experimentation, when artists tested the limits and pushed the boundaries of artistic expression. It charts the emergence of pop art, minimalism, kinetic and conceptual art through some 80 works by well-known figures.
The Gallery teams up with one of Canada's largest financial institutions to present an exhibition of exceptional art from Canada's North: ItuKiagâtta! Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of the TD Bank Financial Group, featuring 91 stone, bone and ivory sculptures.
British Drawings features 114 works spanning on three centuries of superb draughtsmanship by works by the likes of William Hogarth, Benjamin West, Thomas Gainsborough, J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer and Henry Moore.
The Gallery marks Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt's 70th birthday with more than 60 large-scale landscapes, seascapes, buildings, interiors and figures, as well as some study drawings and biographical material on the artist.
The second phase of the innovative Art of this Land project is launched with the installation of a generous loan from the British Museum in London, England.
At Shawinigan Space, the Gallery celebrates the forms and forces of nature as interpreted by 13 contemporary artists. The Elements of Nature has a unique interpretation of nature and our place in the natural world.
Due to major construction work, which is scheduled to increase during 2007 with the repair of the terrace, the CMCP closes its doors to visitors in October. As a precaution against construction-related damage, the CMCP collections are moved to the NGC. The entire collection, including 17,500 photographic works as well as the National Film Board collection of 144,400 negatives and transparencies, are relocated from its regular home of 1 Rideau Canal to a gallery especially arranged to house the collection. The move involves the transport of more than 1,500 boxes and packages and 132 crates of framed work-as well as two slotted, insulated "super crates" that will store large-sized prints until their return to the CMCP.
Through its Foundation, the Gallery receives an extraordinary gift of $2 million dollars for the creation of The Audain Endowment for Contemporary Canadian Art to acquire Canadian contemporary art with an emphasis on British Columbia.
The Gallery acquires the work People's Flag, 2006 by Canadian artist Brian Jungen. The work is a monumental work composed of an accumulation of red-coloured clothes and material that were assembled in Vancouver and London charity shops. This complements the Gallery's small but significant Jungen holdings, which include the sculptures Shapeshifter and Vienna.
The Gallery adds to its Indigenous collection the work of Canadian Norval Morrisseau Artist and Shaman between Two Worlds, 1980.
Le Salon de Madame Aron by Édouard Vuillard, whose provenance is cleared in 2004, is returned to Alfred Lindon' heirs in 2006.
The Gallery is the first visual arts museum in Canada to offer podcasting. The launch of the Lisette Model sub-site on CyberMuse introduces podcasting, where visitors can download complete MP3 audio files featuring interviews and lectures.
The National Gallery of Canada presents the first solo exhibition by a First Nations artist. It showcases 59 selected paintings by Anishnaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, also known as Copper Thunderbird.
Morrisseau is considered to be the father of contemporary Aboriginal art, and can lay claim to creating a completely new art movement, known as the "Woodland School" or the "Anishaabe School" of painting. This school of art is typified by Morrisseau's signature "x-ray" representation of animals and people in which the interiors of living beings are shown with a stylized skeletal structure and are often embellished with connecting "spirit" lines and "power" lines.
During the summer, Emily Carr: New Perspectives features some 200 objects, including a partial reconstruction of the Gallery's 1927 exhibition. Presented by Sun Life Financial, it is co-organized by the National Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre is one of the first exhibitions to explore the transformation and wide variety of "staged" photographs from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
The eighth member of the Group of Seven, Edwin Holgate is featured in the largest retrospective ever devoted to his work, offering over 150 works that include paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, notebooks, book illustrations and archival photographs.
The show Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942. Dreaming the landscape offers an exceptional journey through more than 200 paintings, engravings and illustrations by the artist.
Known for his explosion works, gunpowder drawings and theatrical installations, Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese-born artist now working in New York. His work is featured at Shawinigan Space in the exhibition Long Scroll organized in collaboration with the MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).
The Gallery receives Treasury Board approval for $14.8 million from the Management Reserve Fund over the fiscal years 2007-08 to 2009-10 to address capital infrastructure renewal projects.
The Gallery is one of 17 federal departments and agencies that participated in the federal government's Strategic Review process. As part of this process, the Gallery conducts a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of its funding, relevance, spending and program performance. The 2007 Strategic Review demonstrates the responsible and effective management of public funds by the Gallery and identifies the 5% least-performing programs and services. The immediate result of the process represents a reduction of 1.5% in 2008-09 and 2.5% in subsequent years.
The Gallery Board of Trustees holds its first Annual Public Meeting, on December 3rd.
The Audain Curator of Indigenous Art Endowment is created through a $2-million gift from the Audain Foundation received in 2006. Greg A. Hill is appointed as Curator of Indigenous Art and is responsible for exhibitions, acquisitions, loans, research, and publishing in relation to the care and the promotion of the collection of indigenous art.
The National Gallery of Canada is constantly seeking to improve its services and offer the best possible experience to its visitors. As a result, the Gallery undertakes a number of improvements;
• The NGC offers various programs adapted and developed specifically for individuals with special needs, thanks to the generous support of The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.
• An interactive floorplan is made available on CyberMuse. This innovative online program enables anyone to navigate throughout the Gallery's various exhibition spaces, and even design a personalized tour.
• The Gallery launches the Rideau Street Convent Chapel on CyberMuse. The website uncovers the origins of the Chapel with an illustrated timeline and detailed 3D renderings.
• ShopNGC, the latest addition to the Gallery's family of websites, becomes available online. This virtual boutique sells 300 items from the NGC bookstore.
• The Gallery's re-designed website is launched, and constitutes the first major overhaul since 2001 of 8,000 pages of content. The site's rich virtual resources become more accessible, searchable, and prominent to even the most casual visitor.
The Gallery's educational and interactive art website, CyberMuse, has won numerous awards and attracts more than 33 million virtual visitors each year.
Promoting collections, exchanges and exhibitions, the National Gallery of Canada collaborates with other galleries and lends more than 1,000 works of art a year to venues in Canada and around the world.
The Gallery and its feature exhibitions attract audiences to the Ottawa region and in turn contribute to the area's economic growth. Through the critical role they play in making these exhibitions possible, the Gallery's partners assist the arts in Canada while simultaneously generating regional economic growth
The National Gallery of Canada currently has a collection of more than 35,000 works of art, with 1,200 of the most significant on view within the Gallery at any one time.
The Gallery's collection of Canadian art is the most comprehensive in existence. The museum also boasts impressive collections of contemporary Inuit art and historical photography, along with a fine collection of Western European art from the late Middle Ages to the present.
The library of the National Gallery is the most extensive visual arts library in Canada with a collection of more than 230,000 books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals.
The Gallery acquires A Girl, a spectacular sculpture by internationally acclaimed hyper-realist artist Ron Mueck. The Gallery now has three works by the artist: Old Woman in Bed, 2000 purchased in 2001, and Head of a Baby, 2003, purchased that same year.
The work of Chinese-born Cai Guo-Qiang, Illusion 2004, is purchased following the exhibition in Shawinigan the previous summer.
The Gallery also acquires Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006), a 90-minutes film which alternates between close-ups of the French superstar's knees, feet, torso, and face, and full-body shots of him, running; kicking and waiting for action. The film was produced while the athlete was observed by 17 cameras and 80,000 fans, yet he remains utterly absorbed in the game.
A rare work of art by Canadian artist, David Milne (1882-1953), Alcove (1914), is added to the National Gallery of Canada's collection, with the support of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Canadian Art Fund.
The National Gallery of Canada presents Ron Mueck, an exclusive Canadian exhibition of this renowned Australian sculptor. An impressive 83,500 visitors flock to the Gallery to view the largest collection of Mueck's work since the beginning of his career.
The National Gallery of Canada reaches more Canadians through its traveling exhibitions than any other visual arts institution in the country. In recent time some 35 traveling exhibitions in venues from coast to coast reached more than 250,000 visitors.
In collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Gallery presents Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge, dedicated to this contemporary Haida artist. It is presented by Bombardier.
German Drawings is the latest in a series of exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection that began with Italian Drawings in 2001, followed by Dutch and Flemish Drawings in 2003, French Drawings in 2005 and British Drawings in 2006.
Ten years after the memorable Renoir's Portraits, which set an attendance record of 340,000, the Gallery is the only Canadian venue for Renoir Landscapes, 1865-1883. It is presented by Sun Life Financial and jointly organized by the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery, London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
From October to January, the Gallery is the only Canadian venue for Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography. The exhibition presents over 165 works by 40 acclaimed artists from a dozen African countries and is organized by the International Center of Photography in New York City.
At Shawinigan Space, One, Some, Many: 3 Shows by Carsten Höller is the first solo exhibition in Canada by this internationally-acclaimed, Belgian-born artist. He is widely known for his large-scale, multimedia and sculptural projects that unfailingly transform the way people interact with art and their surroundings.
The Gallery celebrates the 20th anniversary of its building at 380 Sussex Drive, in Ottawa, Canada.
The Volunteer's Circle of the National Gallery of Canada celebrates 50th years of wonderful activities since it started in 1958. The Circle releases In the Company of Friends, a book that traces the development of five decades of dedicated and creative volunteering at the Gallery by exceptional people. The celebration culminates with a grand public tribute on October 5 which included a free admission day for everyone.
The newly redesigned Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography website goes live in August. The second phase of the project which will feature much more on its rich collections will be launched in 2009.
With the financial support of the RBC Foundation, the Gallery redesigns its school website. Launched in August, the site presents more detailed information in a clear and user-friendly way. All lessons plans are updated and new ones are added. New features like on-line booking for schools are very well received by teachers.
The National Gallery of Canada Foundation announces an important gift of $650,000 from 13 of its Distinguished Patrons to create the first endowment dedicated to the National Gallery of Canada's travelling exhibition program, On Tour. This gift will also support the acquisition of the work that was the source of its inspiration, Running Horses, a breathtaking laser-cut steel and bronze sculpture by Canadian artist Joe Fafard.
More than 8,000 digitally archived images and documents linked to the major exhibition Canadian Painting in the Thirties, first presented by the NGC in 1975, are made available only within CyberMuse, NGC's research and education site.
Over 69 works – ceramic, bronze plaster, and steel sculptures, as well as works on paper – by Fransaskois artist Joe Fafard were shown from February to May before travelling to the MacKenzie Art Gallery, co-organizer of the exhibition, and other venues. An educational website was created to support the exhibition while on tour.
Following the acquisition of some major works owned by Lord Dalhousie, the Gallery presented Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector, featuring 140 watercolors, sketches, lithographs, models, architectural drawings and other objects commissioned in the early 19th century by George Ramsay, the 9th Earl of Dalhousie.
The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" exhibition was presented exclusively in Ottawa and featured over 200 works by 103 artists including Ernst, Picasso, Miro, Giacometti, Sander, Wood and Albright. A war artist during World War II, guest speaker Alex Colville recounts, at the exhibition opening, how he witnessed to the era and ideology surrounding the creation of "the new man".
The Gallery displays the first major retrospective of the work of one of Canada's most celebrated contemporary, landscape photographers, Geoffrey James. The exhibition comprises 91 works created between 1987 and 2002.
Caught in the Act:The Viewer as Performer is a dynamic and innovative exhibition of contemporary Canadian Art, which presented sculptural works by ten artists and collectives.
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture organized in collaboration with the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, documents the remarkable rise of the sculpted portrait in Rome in the early seventeenth century. The exhibition was named "one of the top 10 exhibitions in North America in 2008" by Times Magazine.
After a six year agreement, the Gallery organizes its last exhibition at Shawinigan Space. Real Life features the work of internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck, and Berlin-based video artist Guy Ben-Ner. A reduced version of the exhibition travels to other venues in Canada.
The Gallery acquires Theatre of Cruelty, an immersive art installation by internationally-renowned Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer, through the generous support of the NGC Foundation's Audain Endowment for Contemporary Canadian Art.
The Petrobelli Altarpiece by Paolo Veronese is restored and shown in the summer along with three other known fragments, a first in three centuries.
In the summer, the Gallery presents the Canadian exclusivity of one of the most important periods in art history, the Italian Renaissance. Presented by Sun Life Financial, From Raphael to Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome examines Renaissance Rome through a careful selection of 150 exceptional paintings and drawings.


text: jtnc 3,667 Report post Posted December 24, 2012 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Jets backup quarterback The Golden Calf of Bristol was so frustrated when the starting job was conferred upon Greg McElroy early last week that he told the coaches he didn't want to be used in any Wildcat packages Sunday against the San Diego Chargers, multiple Jets sources told ESPNNewYork.com. The Golden Calf of Bristol was active, but did not play in the 27-17 loss at MetLife Stadium. In The Golden Calf of Bristol's absence, wide receiver Jeremy Kerley -- a former high school quarterback -- ran the plays for the first time all season. The Wildcat has been The Golden Calf of Bristol's package, and was the reason Jets coach Rex Ryan and offensive coordinator Tony Sparano said he was brought to New York. The Golden Calf of Bristol has been frustrated all season by his lack of playing time, but it culminated Tuesday upon hearing he would be passed over for a starting opportunity when Ryan decided to bench Mark Sanchez. The Golden Calf of Bristol was disappointed and upset enough to say he didn't want to be used situationally, sources said. He told the Jets coaches early in the week, giving Kerley time to take the practice reps. Soon reports emerged speculating the backup was looking to play outside of New York next season. http://espn.go.com/n...cat-sources-say Such a fuging team player, instead of calling him what he is;Selfish. Instead you have reporters saying "Good for The Golden Calf of Bristol sticking up for himself." You can fuging say racism isn't alive yadda, yadda, yadda. But the fact of the matter is, Cam is a definitely a victim of double standards and the fact some you are ENTIRELY oblivious is amazing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Sterlington senior third baseman Cassidy Brady made her college choice official Tuesday morning when she signed a softball scholarship with Bossier Parish Community College.
Senior third baseman Cassidy Brady signed a national letter of intent to continue her softball career at Bossier Parish Community College in the presence of her parents, grandparents, Sterlington High teammates and coaches during a brief ceremony in the SHS library Tuesday morning.
Brady can play either corner infield position, but it's her bat that attracts — make that demands — attention.
"I've never seen the ball come off the bat like it does with Cassidy," said Jack Goode, Sterlington's first-year coach. "It's scary pitching to her in practice."
"The first time I saw Cassidy in the batting cage, I knew she could be something special," said Boyd Cole, who recently retired after 17 years as the Lady Panthers' softball coach. "She generates a lot of bat speed."
Brady put together a monster season as a junior, batting .595 (.800, yes .800, in District 2-2A play) with six home runs and 45 RBIs in helping the Lady Panthers to a 25-3 record and a state quarterfinal appearance. She was named first-team All-State and shared the District MVP award with teammate Sarah Gandy.
For Brady, Tuesday marked the fulfillment of a long-time goal.
"I've been wanting to play college ball since my sixth grade year," said Brady, who played summer travel ball for the Fury and Rippers.
Transferring from Ouachita to Sterlington as a sophomore, Brady was penciled into the lineup as the designated player. Earning honorable mention All-State accolades, she put together a .414 batting average with five homers and 28 RBI.
Brady said BPCC coach Ashley Grisham extended the scholarship offer following a fall tryout.
"Coach Grisham saw me play in a tournament in Shreveport over the summer and asked me to come to a tryout with four other girls," Brady said. "She offered me a scholarship the day I tried out, but I took a little time to decide. It's a relief to sign because if I have an off year, I have something to fall back on and still have time to improve over the summer."
Brady, a 3.0 student who plans to go into physical therapy, says she likes what BPCC has to offer academically as well as athletically.
"I like the way coach Grisham is so open and tells you what she thinks," Brady said. "I liked everything I saw — the field, the school and the girls on the team."
Goode is quite familiar with the BPCC program. Besides being a former pitcher for the Cavaliers' baseball team, two of his former West Ouachita players (Hannah LaBorde and Ashley Frost) played for BPCC.
"It's a good program. I had fun playing there," said Goode, who played his high school ball at Riverfield Academy in Rayville. "There are a lot of similarities in going from a Double-A school to a junior college. It's an easy transition."
Goode says junior colleges offer athletes a chance to gain valuable experience prior to singing with a four-year school.
"The good thing about junior college is you're not restricted to how many games you can play in the falll," Goode said. "By the time you come out of a junior college program, it's about the same as playing at a four-year college."
While Brady's offensive skills overshadow her defense, Cole says she works on all aspects of her game.
"She's a little hard-headed, but she's willing to do the work and practice the little things," Cole said.
"Third base is not an easy position to play in softball because sometimes you have to play up so close. It's easy to be afraid of the ball. She started staying after practice last year and became more comfortable playing third base."
Cole says Brady has benefited from having supportive parents.
"If Cassidy needs anything for softball, they make sure she has it," Cole said. "Carl and Monica Brady have been good friends and will continue to be good friends of mine."
Cole is confident that Brady will be successful at the next level.
"I'm excited for her," Cole said. "I think she'll be a good college player."


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The secret to job-search success for new graduates (hint: it's not your GPA)
While recent graduates for the class of 2014 are concerned about how their GPA, coursework and internships will translate into jobs this summer, companies are actually more concerned about personality when recruiting new grads.
In a new joint study done by Beyond.com and my company, Millennial Branding, we found that 43 percent of HR professionals rank "cultural fit" as the single-most-important thing in the hiring process. Only 2 percent of companies care about how high your GPA is.
For the projected 1.6 million students graduating this year with bachelor degrees, this is a major shift in how they choose which companies to approach and how to best market themselves. Students now have to apply to jobs based on cultural fit, not just on salary, benefits and location, as is typical in a recent grad's criteria.
A company's culture is what it's like to work there and its overall environment. When interviewing, employers are looking to see if the prospect has a positive attitude (84 percent), communication skills (83 percent), and whether or not that they can work successfully in a team (64 percent).
Based on a study I did last year, these are also the attributes that managers are looking for when promoting workers. The person you're interviewing will judge your attitude based on your body language, tone, and overall excitement for the position and company.
They will know quickly if you're just looking for the paycheck or if you're interested in a career with them. That's because employees who have a positive attitude are more productive and stay with the company longer, which saves companies money and increases overall output per employee.
This is why you should focus on the companies and positions you are genuinely passionate about. If you don't, the person who has that enthusiasm will get the job over you every single time.
To further judge your communication skills, employers will look at your eye contact, posture, hand gestures, and how well you can sell yourself and your abilities. Finally, they will ask you questions about situations where you've worked in teams and introduce you to their team members to see how well you get along with them.
The real secret to employment is doing your due diligence on the companies you're applying to so that you're aligning who you are with the company that can best support you.
The problem is that students aren't ready for interviews. In our study, we found that 36 percent of companies say students are unprepared, and 33 percent said they have a bad attitude when interviewing.
If you're selecting the right companies, you will naturally put in the extra effort to review everything about them before you apply and go on your first interview. If you're just trying to get a job, then you won't invest enough time to convince them that you want to work there, it's that simple. There's just too much competition now to walk in unprepared, and with a bad attitude, so it's far better to be patient and really think about the company culture that would best fit your personality before applying.
Dan Schawbel is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, as well as the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is The New York Times bestselling author of "Promote Yourself" and "Me 2.0." He's spoken at some of the world's most prestigious companies including Google, Time Warner, CitiGroup and Siemens. Schawbel was named to the Inc. magazine "30 Under 30" list in 2010 and the Forbes Magazine "30 Under 30" list in 2012.


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Phyllis Parker named outstanding senior volunteer
Phyllis Parker of Grand Marais has been chosen as Minnesota's 2013 outstanding senior volunteer.
Parker, 69, is the state's winner of Home Instead Senior Care's Salute to Senior Service Award. She is being recognized for her dedicated community service, including her work at the North Shore Care Center.
Through Care Partners she's formed deep relationships with patients and their families. She reads on a weekly basis to several seniors, including a 104-year-old lady whose family lives out of state. You can hear an interview with Phyllis Parker on WTIP's Third Thursday Community Conversation program, airing June 20 at 7 p.m.
Parker is also the volunteer secretary of the Grand Marais Maple Hill Fire Department and is in charge of registration for the annual Mush for a Cure fundraiser. A $500 donation will be made to the non profit of her choice and she is in the running for national recognition.


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Hearty Barley Beef Soup Recipe
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A big slice of sourdough bread goes great with a bowl of this heart-warming soup that's brimming with beef and barley. --Megan Taylor
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- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper, divided
- 2 pounds lean beef top sirloin steak, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 4 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 4 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) reduced-sodium beef broth
- 4 medium carrots, sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 cup quick-cooking barley
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add beef and shake to coat. In a Dutch oven, brown beef in oil over medium heat. Remove and set aside.
- In the same pan, saute mushrooms until tender. Add the broth, carrots, garlic powder, thyme and remaining pepper; bring to a boil. Add barley and beef. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes until the meat, vegetables and barley are tender. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Hearty Beef Barley Soup in Test Kitchen Favorites 2004 2005, p68
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"I've made this soup several times. My husband and I both really enjoy it. It goes together quickly and has a nice full flavor."


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The bond that exists between A.J. Brown and Kevin Bickner can appear a bit odd – at least from the outside.
Brown and Bickner are teammates, having grown up honing their ski jumping abilities at Fox River Grove's Norge Ski Club. They are friends – or as one characterizes the close relationship with the other, more like brothers. But Brown and Bickner also are friendly combatants who managed to grab two of four open spots with the American contingent that will compete later this month in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Trentino, Italy.
Considering the ties to the world stage that creates for a Norge club that also produced Sochi Olympic hopeful Mike Glasder, it makes Brown and Bickner's feat even more impressive.
"That doesn't happen very often," Bickner, a 17-year-old Wauconda native, said Monday night. "Having two from our club really shows that we have a strong program going and that everybody is really improving."
American ski jumpers competing on the national level tend to be a close group. But for Bickner, a member of the U.S. national development team, and Brown, an 18-year-old Fox River Grove native, continuing their training together in Park City, Utah, has helped ease the transition into elite level competition.
Following Glasder's lead, Brown and Bickner hope to be part of the future of their sport. Both will leave Monday for Italy, where they will continue preparations for their respective world championships debut.
Brown and Bickner both remain dedicated to each chasing after a world championship among the 78 ski jumpers who will compete in Trentino. Despite sharing the same aspirations to reach the top of their sport, though, they won't step on one another on their way to the desired destination.
"It's not like a competitive, at each other's throat, relationship," Brown said. "It's a friendly, push each other, [relationship]. We're happy for each other."
Each admits he will be more relaxed heading into the world championships than he was going into the recent qualifying competition in Park City. Brown and Bickner both feel like they are well prepared for the biggest event they've participated in, again building off one another along the way.
It's part of what makes their friendship unique in a competitive environment in which only a small number of opportunities to compete against the world's best exist. Brown and Bickner both train with the same coaches and train with the same teammates and work toward the same goal of improving the reputation of U.S. ski jumping on the international stage.
"There's nothing really to hide as a jumper," Brown said. "We all know what we're all working on. It's all about what happens on the jump. It's such a mental sport, and so there really aren't any tricks we can pull out."
Bickner's world championship debut carries special meaning after he failed to qualify for the event last year. Like Brown, he will carry a worry-free approach into the competition, having spent the past year training to improve his performance. Although the pressure is off to be counted among the world's best junior ski jumpers, Bickner has heightened his expectations now that he has advanced past the qualifying stage.
Now, he said, it's about making a dent in how American jumpers are perceived by their international competition.
"We feel like we're getting better, and so we want to go over there and show, as a country, that we are improving and stepping it up in the world," Bickner said. "I'd love to be one of those guys who really makes a difference in the sport. To be one of those guys who is suddenly winning all these competitions and is the first (from the U.S.) to do it, that would be awesome."


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President Obama, leave the selfless, charitable Catholic nuns alone. Grant Little Sisters of the Poor the same relief you've given big business and special interests that weren't ready to accept the mandates of your signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The nuns do not merely believe. They live their beliefs. Their religion guides what they eat, what they sing, how long they pray and who they associate with financially.
To live their faith means to reject an Affordable Care Act mandate they believe ties them, even by extension, to a federally controlled insurance policy that pays for abortions and contraceptives—each of which is strictly prohibited by their church. For the moment, they've been spared the Obamacare mandate by a temporary stay issued Dec. 31 by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also a Catholic.
The Great Divider's new health care law surely ranks among history's most embarrassing policy debacles. Day after day we hear how it makes health insurance less affordable and accessible, even among those who were previously well insured. It can be viewed as a veritable tax-war on young adults, who are demanded to pay exorbitant amounts for policies with deductibles so high the premiums mostly subsidize an older generation that has already buried young people with debt.
The health care law was sold as government benevolence. It would make health insurance affordable and accessible to all. Despite good intentions, the law hasn't been charitable in the least to a majority of Americans.
Little Sister of the Poor, which came to America from France, epitomizes good charity. The Denver chapter has run the Mullen Home for the Aged for 95 years. The sisters give thanks for their "privilege" of serving some of the neediest elderly individuals among us.
The mission of the nuns: "To offer the neediest elderly of every race and religion a home where they will be welcomed as Christ, cared for as family, and accompanied with dignity until God calls them to himself."
If any organization knows how to provide affordable care, it's Little Sisters of the Poor. They are an asset to the country and we are fortunate to have one of their care facilities in Colorado.
Advocates of federalized health care often talk about other countries. France, England, Canada, and more. Most of the developed world has some form of socialized medicine, they explain, so we should do the same.
But this country wasn't founded to replicate policies of others. It hasn't flourished trying to be more like England and France. Quite the contrary, this country was founded to protect liberties that cannot exist in conjunction with excessive federal intrusion into our daily lives. For most of 237 years, the United States has been a place in which individuals and their families have been free to fail or succeed. The best health care has gone to those with the most ability to pay. Above-average health care, by world standards, has gone to those with no ability to pay. In part, that's because of charities such as Little Sisters of the Poor.
Mostly, this country was founded to defend a free market of religious beliefs. Religious convictions, protected by countless Americans who have died in battles, are the reason so many nuns take vows of poverty and devote their lives to enjoying the privilege of serving others. Our country is full of similar charities, which have migrated here from countries less tolerant and supportive of their lifestyles. We don't need a health care law suppressing religious liberty, even a little.
"I understand that legal issues in these cases will ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court," wrote Louisville, Ky., Archbishop Joseph E. Kurze in a Dec. 31 letter to President Obama on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "In the meantime, however, many religious employers have not obtained the temporary relief they need in time to avoid being subjected to the HHS mandate beginning January 1. I urge you, therefore, to consider offering temporary relief from this mandate, as you have for so many other individuals and groups facing other requirements under the ACA."
It's good advice, Mr. President. Respect religious liberties, which are more important than overpriced health insurance, and prevent more embarrassing fallout from a law that looks worse by the day.