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Ophiuchus (astrology)
Ophiuchus /ɒfiˈjuːkəs/ has sometimes been used in sidereal astrology as a thirteenth sign in addition to the twelve signs of the tropical Zodiac, because the eponymous constellation Ophiuchus (Greek: Ὀφιοῦχος "Serpent-bearer") as defined by the 1930 IAU constellation boundaries is situated behind the sun between December 1 to December 18.[1]
The idea appears to have originated in 1970 with Stephen Schmidt's suggestion of a 14-sign zodiac (also including Cetus as a sign). A 13-sign zodiac has been suggested by Walter Berg and by Mark Yazaki in 1995, a suggestion that achieved some popularity in Japan, where Ophiuchus is known as Hebitsukai-Za (へびつかい座?, "The Serpent Bearer").
Mainstream sidereal astrology, notably Hindu astrology, and tropical astrology (including the popular sun sign astrology), use the traditional 12-sign zodiac based on dividing the ecliptic into 12 equal parts rather than the IAU constellation boundaries, and do not regard Ophiuchus as a sign.
There is considerable confusion between the notion of a sign, which is an equal division of the sky into 12 in both the Vedic and the Western systems of astrology, and a constellation, which is a grouping of stars that touches the ecliptic. While Vedic uses a sidereal system based on the stars, that sidereal horoscope is divided evenly into 12 signs which are symbolic of the varying-size constellations they make contact with.
Ophiuchus and some of the fixed stars in it were sometimes used by some astrologers in antiquity as extra-zodiacal indicators (i.e. astrologically significant celestial phenomena lying outside of the 12-sign zodiac proper). The constellation is described in the astrological poem of Marcus Manilius: the Astronomica, which is dated to around 10 AD. The poem describes how:
Ophiuchus holds apart the serpent which with its mighty spirals and twisted body encircles his own, so that he may untie its knots and back that winds in loops. But, bending its supple neck, the serpent looks back and returns: and the other's hands slide over the loosened coils. The struggle will last forever, since they wage it on level terms with equal powers".[2]
Later in his poem, Manilius describes the astrological influence of Ophiuchus, when the constellation is in its rising phase, as one which offers affinity with snakes and protection from poisons, saying "he renders the forms of snakes innocuous to those born under him. They will receive snakes into the folds of their flowing robes, and will exchange kisses with these poisonous monsters and suffer no harm".[3] A later 4th century astrologer, known as Anonymous of 379, associated "the bright star of Ophiuchus", Ras Alhague (α Ophiuchi), with doctors, healers or physicians (ἰατρῶν), which may have been because of the association between poisons and medicines.[4]
Based on the 1930 IAU constellation boundaries, suggestions that "there are really 13 astrological signs" because "the Sun is in the sign of Ophiuchus" between November 29 and December 17 have been published since at least the 1970s.[5]
In 1970, Stephen Schmidt in his Astrology 14 advocated a 14-sign zodiac, introducing Ophiuchus (December 6 to December 31) and Cetus (May 12 to June 6) as new signs.[6] Within 20th-century sidereal astrology, the idea was taken up by Walter Berg in his The 13 Signs of the Zodiac (1995). Berg's The 13 Signs of the Zodiac was published in Japan in 1996 and became a bestseller, and Berg's system has since been comparatively widespread in Japanese pop culture, appearing for example in the Final Fantasy video game series and the manga and anime series Fairy Tail.
In January 2011, a statement by Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society repeating the idea of "the 13th zodiac sign Ophiuchus" made some headlines in the popular press.[7] However, Kunkle is an astronomer, not an astrologer, and does not believe in astrology, instead pointing out problems with astrology systems, which ignored the constellation.[8]
Schmidt introduced his own symbol for his Ophiuchus sign in 1974. It was a stylized representation of a man carrying a snake.[9]
In 1995 Berg also proposed a symbol for Ophiuchus, and it has come into comparatively widespread use in Japan. In 2009, it was suggested for inclusion in the Unicode standard as part of an emoji extension.[10] The symbol looks like a letter U with a superimposed tilde (U̴). It has been added to the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols codepage (U+26CE ⛎) as of version 6.0 (October 2010).
In his 2011 book, Kanatas Vasilis suggested the Greek letter phi (Φ) as the symbol for the sign of Ophiuchus, from the Greek word for Ophiuchus, "ΟΦΙΟΥΧΟΣ".[11]
- ^ McClure, Bruce. "Sun in constellation Ophiuchus December 1 to December 18". Earthsky Communications Inc. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
- ^ Manilius, Astronomica, I.333ff.
- ^ Manilius, Astronomica, V.389ff.
- ^ Franz Cumont and Franz Boll, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum, Vol. 5, part 1, Brussels, 1904, pg. 210.
- ^ Lee T. Shapiro, The Real Constellations of the Zodiac, Planetarian, Spring 1977. Because of the tilt of the planes of the planets' paths relative to Earth's (the ecliptic), the planets actually pass through a number of other constellations as well, as was observed by John Mosely in The Real, Real Constellations of the Zodiac, Planetarian, Vol. 28, #4, December 1999.
- ^ Modern Living: The Revised Zodiac, Time Magazine, 23 November 1970.
- ^ Howard Chua-Eoan, Welcome to the Zodiac, Ophiuchus. But Who Are You?, Time Magazine, 14 January 2011; New zodiac sign Ophiuchus is an old hoax: Astrologers strike back, International Business Times, 15 January 2011.
- ^ Why did your zodiac sign change? We asked the astronomer who started it all
- ^ Schmidt (1974), p. 17. His Cetus symbol has the shape of a stylized fish, books.google.com
- ^ Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding, Date: 2010-April–27. Authors: Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Kat Momoi, Darick Tong (Google Inc.) Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.).
- ^ Kanatas, Vasilis (2011). Astrology of the 13 Signs of the Zodiac. Klaudios Ptolemaios Publications. ISBN 978-954-92725-1-2.
- Stephen Schmidt (1970), Astrology 14: your new sun sign, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis; Pyramid Books 1971.
- Stephen Schmidt (1974), The Astrology 14 Horoscope: How to Cast and Interpret It, Bobbs-Merrill, ISBN 978-0-672-51647-4.
- Walter Berg (1995), The 13 Signs of the Zodiac: Discover who you really are with the new Sun signs, Thorsons, ISBN 978-0-7225-3254-6.
- Mark Yazaki マーク矢崎 (1995), 13星座占星術—これからはへびつかい座が加わるぞ! (13-Constellation Horoscopes: Enter Ophiuchus!), 21st Century Books, ISBN 978-4-391-11845-2.
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- Solar Zodiac Astrology Ophiuchus - the '13th Sign' by Shepherd Simpson.
- Ophiuchus Cannot be a Sign in the Tropical or Sidereal Zodiacs by Robert Hand.


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Annual snowfall: 305 inches
Vertical drop: 2,612 feet
Skiable acres: 1,294
One-day lift ticket: $66
Perfect for: Groups that include nonskiers. While the skiers test their mettle on the resort's throat-tightening steeps, everyone else can forage for art, food, and culture in town.
Why here: Located 20 miles from one of the quaintest and most colorful tourist towns in the West, Taos Ski Valley has a unique Southwest-meets-Europe charm. Its terrain rivals that of Jackson Hole and Blackcomb; what's more, it gets 300-plus days of sunshine a year. As for crowds, since there are no lift lines to speak of, you'll get in so many runs that your quads will be begging for a lift down the mountain at the end of the day. One word of caution, though: Check the weather report before you come. In a lean snow year, Taos's bony chutes are unforgiving.
The highlight: Even if you didn't challenge the mountain, you can still join the après crowd gathered around the Hotel St. Bernard's slopeside fire pit for a martini. Be sure to check out the 50-year-old photos…of people sitting around the fire pit.
Sleep for cheap: The rooms at Hotel Don Fernando de Taos are done in traditional Southwestern decor, punctuated by work by local artists. The hotel is located in town, and getting around is easy: There's complimentary shuttle service to historic Taos square, and the Taos Ski Valley bus (a.k.a. the "Chile Line") makes the 30-minute trip from your lodgings to the base an easy $1 ride. Nearby restaurants like Five Star Burger make dining out particularly affordable.
Rooms at the Hotel Don Fernando de Taos start at $89; lift tickets are $66.


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Houma man arrested after burglarizing car
POSTED: Friday, July 26, 2013 - 6:00am
UPDATED: Friday, July 26, 2013 - 6:04am
HOUMA, LA — Darren Marc LeBouef, 34, was arrested after law enforcement completed an investigation into a car burglary in the Summerfield area.
On July 24, Houma Police responded to the area of Levee Drive in reference to a suspicious person. Prior to their arrival, the reporting person informed officers that a white male, wearing a white shirt and khaki shorts was seen in the neighborhood pulling on car doors.
Officers saturated the area and located an individual matching the description who was identified as Darren Marc LeBouef.
As the investigation continued, officers recovered a GPS navigation system, as well as a TV monitor secured in Mr. LeBouef's clothing. Once this was done, he was detained and directed law enforcement where he retrieved the items from a vehicle.
Darren LeBouef was charged with Simple Burglary.


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Counterprivates: An Appeal
to Rethink Jessica Blaustein
Ordinary memory knows it so well that it sings, in
all languages, of the sweetness of one's "home, sweet home." Yet, the
enclosed garden where the body hides its pains and joys is not a "forbidden
city." If it does not want to become a synonym for a terrible house
arrest, separated from the living, the private space must know how to
open itself up to the flow of people coming in and out, to be the passageway
for a continual circulation, where objects, people, words, and ideas
cross paths; for life is also about mobility, impatience for change,
and relation to a plurality of others. Only a dead language no longer
changes; only the absence of all residents respects the immovable order
of things. Life maintains and displaces; it wears out, breaks, and reworks;
it creates new configurations of beings and objects across the everyday
practices of the living, always similar and different. Private space
is this ideal city in which all the passersby have beloved faces, whose
streets are familiar and safe, whose interior architecture is changeable
almost at will.
While imaginations of dwelling cannot but proliferate
unpredictably, these pages begin with a more paranoid tale about "privates"—the
oft-imagined private domain of the detached single-family variety of
American home sweet homes and the so-called private territory of the
self, of personhood. In the first two decades of the twentieth century,
both spaces converged in an unequivocally suburban form of American individualism
that not only impacted material forms of dwelling along residential landscapes,
but substantially limited so-called "proper" affective and
sexual life to the insides of house-bound nuclear familial units, while
it forcefully kept other kinds of connections and identifications out. Houses are recorders of experience, vouchers of taste or the lack of it. A man's thumb-prints upon paper have no more convincing a variation of individuality than the house he elects to build upon the lot of his choice. The bumps and depressions of a man's head are no more an indication of his character than the windows, porches, roof and doors of his house—were there some new species of phrenologist to interpret them. ("The Story of Home-Making" 216) If here the house signifies (literally standing in
for) the occupant, the individuality of said occupant emerges from
an empty lot. The house
takes shape from scratch; it has no history, or neighbors for that matter,
to speak of. Individuality is self-made upon a blank slate and only then
engaged and interpreted. "A distinct domicile is, indeed, something
worth fighting for," as Sorkin argues, in the sense that every
single person on earth deserves a home (198). And fair enough is Frank
Lloyd Wright's 1908 pronouncement that "[o]ur ideal is Democracy,
the highest possible expression of the individual as a unit not inconsistent
with a harmonious whole" ("Cause: First Paper" 13).
It is his more melodramatic restatement of the idea in his second lecture
six years later that should raise some eyebrows: "A great Democracy
is the highest form of Aristocracy conceivable, not of birth or place
of wealth, but of those qualities that give distinction to the man as
a man, and that as a social state it must be characterized by the honesty
and responsibility of the absolute individualist as the unit of its structure,
then only can we have an Art worthy the name" ("Cause: Second
Paper" 42). In a world where the "absolute individualist" is
the fundamental unit upon which the social order is built, there is no
foundational sense of shared space or collective subjectivities, no room
for the very basic idea that my conception of myself as a person comes
through my interactions with and compassion for people around me. Commercial sex was not limited to the expansion of
prostitution. Concert saloons, dance halls, and restaurants all offered
public spaces for expressing
sexual desire and for arranging extramarital liaisons. Images of nude
or seminude women could be purchased at cigar stores, were displayed
in saloons and pool halls, and could be found in national media like
the Police Gazette. Even marital sexuality was drawn into the commercialization
of sex, as married women perused advertisements for contraceptives and "female
remedies" and availed themselves of the services of professional
abortionists. (18)3 One: Households In his foreword to the 1923 government publication How to Own Your Home: A Handbook for Prospective Homeowners, Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce under the Harding and the Coolidge administrations, wrote: Maintaining a high percentage of individual homeowners is one of the searching tests that now challenge the people of the United States. The present large proportion of families that own their own homes is both the foundation of a sound economic and social system and a guarantee that our society will continue to develop rationally as changing conditions demand. (v) After World War I, but before the emergence of mass suburbanization
in the likes of Levittown, Hoover motivated a massive political, economic,
social, and commercial campaign for individual homeownership. And the
ideal American home, a detached, supposedly secure and self-sufficient
technological unit, was reproduced in massive quantities to serve as
both a foundation for and a shield from a rapidly changing social order.6
The 1920 census classified the majority of Americans as either suburban
or urban for the first time. Throughout the 1920s, the population of
suburbs increased at twice the rate as the population of cities, and
the suburban market tripled between 1920 and 1922 (Wright, Building the
Dream 195, 199). If a city is zoned it is almost always safest to buy in a residential district where there is safety from intrusion by factories, public garages, and scattered stores… If there is no zoning law, how about private restrictions?… If even one or two lots near by are unrestricted, objectionable buildings might be erected on them… Are the private restrictions such that a home will surely be protected? (Gries and Taylor 11) Homeownership guides were published to educate the
public as to proper ways of living but also to sell these residential
arrangements. With
the Hoover administration, there emerged an extremely widespread and
successful housing business. An open letter from John M. Gries, the Chief
of the Division of Building and Housing at the Department of Commerce
and one of the authors of How to Own Your Home, placed inside the front
cover of the guide reads: "It is our belief that if home ownership
is to increase and become a basis for a progressive citizenship, the
home seeker should have sound financing machinery available, that his
investment should be as free as possible from unnecessary hazards and
that he should be given in general a reasonable opportunity to attain
his purpose." In 1908, Sears Roebuck, acting as mortgage bank,
architect, contractor, and builder all in one, started selling small,
relatively low-cost houses ("Mass-produced Houses" 54). By
the 1920s, in conjunction with the emergence of the automobile (which
Hoover calls the "great impulse to suburban life" [v]), the
government and the housing industry massively coordinated their efforts
to move people out into planned suburbs, and the mid-1920s witnessed
an enormous boom in the production of single-family homes.8 The house
became an object to be bought, sold, and reproduced in the marketplace. Claim[ing] that the traditional building materials were those best adapted to the rooted, solid institution of the house, and that the chief materials of mass production—metals, fabrics, and plastics—would be ill-adapted to housing, . . . the foes of fabrication deposed that a man's home is wreathed in sentiment as is no other inanimate object. ("Mass-produced Houses" 52) Although Sears Roebuck led the way in pre-fabrication, their manufactured domestic spaces, designed to appear "homey" and precisely not part of the business world, "neatly stylized in the suburban manner with accents of Colonial New England," clearly reflect these general sentiments ("Mass-produced Houses" 54). Today, developers continue to make a whole lot of money mass-producing the "faces" of suburban privates, feeding a growing desire for the images of quaint communities and picket fences.11 Two: Subjects In his own home thus the Broadacre citizen would be not only impregnable.
He would be inviolate. This nation indestructible! . . . . He is his
country. The socio-economic and affective orders that materialized
through the built environment in the early twentieth century applied
in remarkably
similar ways to the self. "A free America, democratic in the sense
that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this individual freedom
for all . . . freedom in space . . . . The home of the individual social
unit will contain in itself in this respect all the city heretofore could
afford, plus intimate comfort and free individual choice" (Wright, "Modern
Architecture" 74, 76). Frank Lloyd Wright's prolific declarations
about privacy and individual liberty could be found everywhere in his
many lectures and books, as well as in the pages of popular women's
periodicals like Ladies Home Journal. "It is the essence of Democracy
that the individual man is free in his body and free in his soul . .
. . It is the ideal of Democracy that the individual man should stand
self-centered, self-governing—an individual sovereign, an individual
god," his early employer and mentor, Louis Sullivan, wrote (141).
Wright and Sullivan render a free-standing, self-governing sphere of
individuality that is the privatized liberal subject par excellence.
It is the theoretically autonomous figure who inhabits a landscape of
impossibly distinct boundaries between the public and the political,
on the one hand, and an interiorized private on the other. It is the
subject for whom much American legal and political theory and practice
is based and according to whom so many dimensions of American social
and personal space are imagined and materialized, and it gained considerably
strong currency in the 1910s and 1920s. The outer shape and the substance
of this subject, so it goes, remains universally the same on the face
of American politics. Each to an acre.12 And the personal, the peculiar,
the idiosyncratic mingle happily together inside property lines. It meant literally a state of being deprived of something, and even of the highest and most human of man's capacities. A man who lived only a private life, who like the slave was not permitted to enter the public realm, or like the barbarian had chosen not to establish such a realm, was not fully human. We no longer think primarily of deprivation when we use the word "privacy," and this is partly due to the enormous enrichment of the private sphere through modern individualism (38). At the turn of the twentieth century, the private
enclosures of modern individualism so enriched at the expense of the
public also demanded
legal protection from the public. It was only in 1890, with Louis Brandeis
and Samuel Warren's Harvard Law Review article entitled "The
Right to Privacy," that a principle of privacy was legally established
to regulate and discipline traffic around, into, and through private
spheres. In his extremely informative historical review of the right
to privacy, William L. Prosser explains that Brandeis and Warren's
article did not have an immediate effect upon the American legal, economic,
and cultural landscapes: "For the next thirty years there was a
continued dispute as to whether the right of privacy existed at all" (384-386).13
Prosser's point is worth reiterating, because it illustrates that
the dimensions of the private sphere of individualism were highly ambiguous
and that the private's relationship to the legal constitution of
individual subjects was up for heated academic and popular debate across
various legal, social, and cultural institutions from the late 1890s
through the 1930s.14 During this time, in other words, privacy was becoming
constitutive of personhood. The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world, and man, under the refining influence of culture, has become more sensitive to publicity, so that solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury. (196) The principle defended not just domestic possessions and corporeal private space, but "the thoughts, sentiments, and emotions, expressed through the medium of writing or of the arts" as well as "the personal appearance, sayings, acts and . . . personal relation[s] domestic or otherwise" of an individual person—thereby rendering the social exogenous to a very wide range of practices legally cordoned off as "the personal" (205, 213). All such personal attributes and behaviors, Brandeis and Warren argued, are "instance[s] of the enforcement of the more general right of the individual to be let alone" (205): It is like the right not to be assaulted or beaten, the right not to be imprisoned, the right not to be maliciously prosecuted, the right not to be defamed. In each of these rights, as indeed in all other rights recognized by the law, there inheres the quality of being owned or possessed—and (as that is the distinguishing attribute of property) there may be some propriety in speaking of those rights as property. But, obviously, they bear little resemblance to what is ordinarily comprehended under that term. The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any form, is in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality. (205) Brandeis and Warren understood the right to privacy
to be "a part
of the more general right to the immunity of the person—the right
to one's personality" (207). This "extended and unusual
sense" of property legally defined the individual person as a private
space, a bounded personality requiring its own legislation, policing,
and protection. Three: Counterprivates The actual alternative to the received and produced fixed forms is not
silence: not the absence, the unconscious, which bourgeois culture has
mythicized. It is a kind of feeling and thinking which is indeed social
and material, but in an embryonic phase before it can become fully articulated
and defined exchange. Its relations with the already articulated and
defined are then exceptionally complex. My concerns about models of defensive enclosure are
driven, in large part, by contemporary legislations of social bodies
and spaces that privatize
housing and subjectivity in the face of intimate relations between people
who don't adhere to the heterosexual couple formation or the detached
nuclear family. The policing of public sexual culture at the center of
the 42nd Street Development Project in New York City over the last few
years reminds me that the deconstruction of dominant social structures
is emphatically not an outdated critical activity.19 As I study the impact
of domestic form on subjectivity, I think about particular ways that
sexual difference and orientation, as well as skin color and economic
class, get figured into or out of contemporary models of dwelling. If
there is a sense of urgency fueling my analyses of the forces of privatization
which have been cleansing public spaces, policing bodies, and fueling
narrow-minded educational policies for almost ten decades, however, I
am at the same time acutely aware of the need to analyze and reposition
these forces as one set of multiple factors contributing to the multiple
and intersecting layers of social relations and landscapes that coexisted
in the early twentieth century. An emerging opposition between a social
sphere and an intimate one at the turn of the twentieth century speaks
to a state of acute vulnerability. But not everyone felt the need to
secure a personal space away from the social world. While divisions between
the home and the marketplace, between private realms and public spheres,
did and still do order a significant portion of the American landscape,
there existed other modes of dwelling and practices of subjectivity that
did not take such predictable forms. conjure a mirage: a home base of pre-political humanity from which citizens are thought to come into political discourse and to which they are expected to return in the (always imaginary) future after political conflict. Intimate life . . . is the endlessly cited elsewhere of political public discourse, a promised haven that distracts citizens from the unequal conditions of their political and economic lives, consoles them for the damaged humanity of mass society, and shames them for any divergence between their lives and the intimate sphere that is alleged to be simple personhood. (193) If this is clearly a limited (when not utterly disabling) formation
of the private, I am wondering if there is a private to be differently
imagined with respect to complex personhood? How might the private be
conceived within alternative contexts for living? Are there privates
that are attendant to the more flexible indexes for social membership
collectively constructed by counterpublics? I leave it to people of taste to make of their rooms the very image of their taste, and to fill them only with things of which they can approve. As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives profoundly different from mine, of a taste opposite to mine, where I find nothing of my conscious thought, where my imagination is excited by feeling itself plunged into the depths of the non-ego . . . where in the evening, when opening the door of one's room, one has the feeling of violating all of the life that has remained scattered there, of taking it boldly by the hand when, once the door is closed, one enters farther, up to the table or the window; to sit with it in a kind of free promiscuousness on the sofa designed by the upholsterer of the local county in what he believed to be the style of Paris; to touch everywhere the nakedness of that life with the intention of being troubled by one's own familiarity, by putting here and there one's things, by pretending to be the master of that room full to the brim with the soul of others and which keeps even in the shape of its andirons and the pattern of its curtains the imprint of their dreams, by walking barefoot on its unknown carpet; one has then the feeling of shutting in with oneself this secret life, when one goes, all trembling, to bolt the door; of pushing it in front of one onto the bed and finally lying down with it under the large white sheets which come up over one's face . . . . (17, 19) One's own strangers in residence are not ghostly
invasions of the homely that need to be expelled. They constitute a
precious and generative
unfamiliarity that is a welcome not a threat to a self utterly vulnerable
to its outsides. Notes 1 For example, Frank Alvah Parsons writes: "The house is but
the externalized man; himself expressed in colour, form, line, and texture
. . . . It is he" (vii). A browse through any issue of The Craftsman
from this period also demonstrates multiple variations of this pattern.
For the explicitly gendered aspects of such conflations, whereby the
female body is aligned with the domestic interior, see Post 200; de Wolfe
5, 18, 21; Burbank xi; Gordon. Why not then, take hold ourselves of this interior native content awaiting deliverance in our Culture in our own minority report and ourselves gradually build with it a Nation where no commodity can hope for success except as it contributes not only to the ease and wealth of the Nation, but contributes as well to the integrity of the Nation considered as created for the spirit of Man—not merely for men. ("Prospectus" 2-3) 10 From the very beginning of the practice of architecture in the United States, domestic and public architecture were treated differently—not just programmatically, of course, but stylistically. At the end of the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson built his private houses in the Palladian style and reserved Classicism for public buildings. It is important to point out that the difference between inner-city architecture and suburban architecture wasn't just one of taste or security—it had everything to do with the institution of architectural education at this time. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was understood that the best American architectural students (Louis Sullivan, Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Charles McKim, to name just a few) went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts, which exercised a strong influence on recently established schools of architecture in America, and where for several decades Americans were in a majority among overseas students . . . . As this relationship grew in the second half of the nineteenth century, so inner-city architecture in America came increasingly under the influence of the École des Beaux-Arts, whilst in the suburbs and in the countryside autonomous developments continued. (Kruft 345-355) 11 For a variety of disciplinary approaches to the
study of the front lawn as an extension of the domestic façade,
see Jenkins; Teyssot; Diller. Works Cited Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. 1958. 2nd ed. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1998. Jessica Blaustein is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches and writes at the intersections of American literature, architecture, urban studies, and critical theory. Her current research focuses on anti-sedentarist theories of subject and community formation, and she is preparing a book manuscript about alternative practices of privacy in the early twentieth century United States. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 3 (Fall 2003) |


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Cowboys fan gets prize of a lifetime (w/video)
Jan. 30, 2014 at 12:01 a.m.
Updated Jan. 29, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
• The opportunity to go inside the War Room on Draft Day for an inside look at the Dallas Cowboys draft player evaluation and strategies by Jerry Jones.
• Transportation on the Dallas Cowboys Luxury Bus to the official Dallas Cowboys Draft Party.
• Two VIP passes to the Dallas Cowboys Draft Party.
• Airfare travel for winners/guests outside of the Dallas/Fort Worth area (from the nearest major international airport) for two or ground transportation for winners/guests within the Dallas/Forth Worth area for two.
• Hotel accommodations for two for one night.
• Meet and greet with a Cowboys legend (former player).
• Breakfast and Draft review with Dallas Cowboys media personality.
Source: dallascowboys.com
Quite a few fans would love to give Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones some advice.
Mark Tamez will get the opportunity to do just that.
The 52-year-old Victoria resident and his wife, Denise, will be in the Cowboys' "War Room" with Jones and other team personnel on the first day of the NFL Draft on May 8.
Tamez won the NFL Draft Party package worth more than $66,000 in the Texas Lottery Cowboys' scratch-off second-chance drawing.
"I wanted to win the wild weekend or the draft day party," Tamez said. "To win the draft day party - I'm like, 'Come on man, you can't buy that."'
Tamez is the owner of Bail Bonds Hotline of South Texas and a self-confessed Cowboys fanatic.
He has a media room in his home decorated with Cowboys memorabilia that features three TVs and two levels of couches, one of which is where he and his 5-year-old daughter, Ciara, sit to watch the games.
The room includes Fatheads, framed autographed photos, and signed jerseys of Emmitt Smith and DeMarcus Ware, who is Ciara's favorite player.
Denise and Mark attend one Cowboys game a year at AT&T Stadium. They sit a few rows under Jones' box so Mark can high-five the owner when the Cowboys score.
"We love the stadium," Tamez said. "When I go, I wear a Roger Staubach jersey. I'm old school Cowboys."
Tamez is on the road for business and will buy Cowboys lottery tickets when he stops to get gas or refreshments.
He bought the winning ticket in Columbus and got the good news the day before Christmas.
"My wife got the letter," he said. "Ciara and I were sitting here watching a movie. She comes in and she's screaming. I asked her what was the matter and she said, 'I think you won the lottery.'"
Winning the grand prize did not come without some anxious moments.
The Tamezs went to Houston the day after Christmas and checked online and saw he had won an autographed Dez Bryant jersey, but somebody else had won the draft day prize.
Tamez may have been one of the few people to be upset about winning an autographed Cowboys jersey, until he called the lottery commission.
"As it turns out I had won the grand prize in the last drawing," he said. "I was actually the first runner-up. You have 30 days after you win to claim the prize. The other guy didn't claim the prize. So I won the grand prize and an autographed jersey."
Tamez and his wife will fly to Dallas on Wednesday, May 7 to attend a pre-draft VIP party with former Cowboys.
They will start draft day - Thursday, May 8 - by attending the media breakfast before going into the team's "War Room" where the pick is made.
"I went online and looked at last year's winner," Tamez said. "He was taking pictures with Jerry Jones' Super Bowl ring. I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. I'm ready to go."
Tamez has received all kinds of advice about who the Cowboys should select with the 17th pick in the first round.
"There's not one person who has said anything about offense," Tamez said. "Every single suggestion from every one of my relatives, friends and everyone is 'Tell Jerry we need defensive linemen and a safety.'"
Tamez has his own suggestion for the owner in mind, but it's not likely to get a good reception.
"There's a few things I would like to tell Jerry Jones," Tamez said. "Can I be your general manager? I've coached for a long time. I coached in the CYFL and I coach the Victoria Kings select baseball team. He needs to hire a general manager."
Mike Forman is a sports writer for the Victoria Advocate. Contact him at 361-580-6588 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or comment on this column at advosports.com


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The tradjic shooting event that happened at Sandy Hook this past week has left my heart a little lower. Every time I watch the news and hear their stories my heart breaks and tears soon follow. I can't even being to know what the parents of the innocent children are feeling. All I know is, I am not a parent yet- but in the process, yet I love my child with all my heart and I don't even know who he or she is yet. There is not a day hour that goes by that I don't think about them, yet I can't put a face to my love. The thought of someone hurting my child brings out the most rage I could ever feel. With that our hearts and prayers go out to every person and family that has been affected by this terrible event. It will make me hug my child even more every time I send them off to school, or any where for that matter.
Dispite the horrible event Heroes did arise. These are the people Heroes that died selflessly to help their students. Its teachers like them I hope impact my child greatly one day! Their stories are inspiring, just take a look.
Our heart, thoughts, love and prayers go out to every innocent person affected. Please keep them in your prayers as well, and be sure to hug you lil ones not just now but more often, in this crazy world you never know what tomorrow will bring.


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Some people say almost everything is larger in Texas, and when it comes to points of interest for the tourist, this certainly rings correct. There are plenty of issues to pay a visit in Dallas, from amusement parks to natural preserves. When it comes to experiencing the many hot spots in Dallas, all you require to do in order to check out every single area is get informed with them beforehand. Listed here are some of the ideal areas to examine while you're browsing Dallas.
Zero Gravity Thrill Amusement Park
The Zero Gravity Park is the a single and only amusement park in the entire world that is actually classified as a "thrill"park. They attribute 5 thrill rides: The Bungee Jump, the Skycoaster, Nothin' But Net, the Skyscraeper and the Texas Blastoff. Most of the sights can be experienced 2 at a time, so this way you can bring your buddies and encounter the thrills together. It is the perfect spot to have get-togethers and activities, from graduation bashes to birthday get-togethers. If you're searching for a thrill, the Zero Gravity Park will supply it to you.
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
This beautiful backyard garden is entirely well worth shelling out an complete working day just admiring the manicured grass, growing flowers and stunning trees. It is settled on far more than 66 acres, producing the ideal spot for you and your family to loosen up and have a picnic. Wander close to the grounds and enjoy the attractiveness of nature.
The Sixth Floor Museum
Soaking up a minor history while you're going to the hot spots in Dallas can often be useful, not just for you, but for your kids! One of the greatest attractions in Dallas is this museum, which showcases and outlines in detail the functions, daily life and series of encounters that led up to the well-known assassination of president Kennedy. You can also see wherever the shooter was when he fired a single of the most notorious shots in the nation history. Get your youngsters and get pleasure from the Sixth Floor Museum that celebrates the president John F. Kennedy's legacy.
Nasher Sculpture Center
This location includes three hundred of the world's best sculptures. A lot of of the biggest talents from the twentieth century have their operates displayed within this building, like Rodin, Matisse, Picasso, Calder, Kooning, Serra and Miro. It is located in the Arts district, a single of the finest things to do in Dallas if you have appreciation for the arts.
Dallas World Aquarium
There's nothing at all really like sea life to amaze you. The pulsing, colorful entire world of the ocean is impressive. At the Dallas World Aquarium you can take a look at some of the world's most colorful and incredible ocean creatures and their habitats on comprehensive view. It is by far| one of the most incredible attractions in Dallas. Do not skip out on the twenty two thousand gallon underwater reef tunnel - it will let you to see the underwater sea lifestyle in an completely new way. They also operate a preservation program that aids save sea turtles.
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'Tortoise smugglers' nabbed at Stansted
Mon, 20 Jul, 2009
Police at Stansted airport have arrested a man and a woman after finding seven tortoises in their luggage.
A 41-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were arrested after police were given a tip-off that they were attempting to smuggle endangered species into the country.
Police allegedly found three tortoises in the pair's hand luggage and a further four wrapped in socks in their suitcase.
After a police raid, more illegal wildlife was discovered at the duo's home in London.
Essex Police Force's wildlife crime co-ordinator Andy Long said: "You can tell when an animal is unhappy just by looking at it and that one looked miserable.
"When tortoises are smuggled in this way they suffer quite a lot and it would not be unusual for them to deteriorate and die."
The animals are said to be worth between £50 and £100 on the black market and the couple are now being questioned by police.


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- 12-26-2012, 03:42 PM Thread Author #1
Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
Just got my blue 32 gig 10.1 yesterday and I'm loving it, it's a beast. It compliments my blue GSIII perfectly. One hitch, I cant seem to find a way to uninstall the textbook app, netflix or the bn nook app. I dont plan on using any of them. I can uninstall updates but I cant remove the apps, are they locked onto the device?
I tried running a forum search but im somewhat limited using tapatalk on my phone. Thanks
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- 12-26-2012, 07:54 PM Thread Author #3
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
I'm no android rookie but this is my first android tablet experience so maybe I'm missing the obvious. The play store only gives me the option to uninstall updates or open the apps and the app manager only shows I can disable them. If I do disable it gives me a message about android system apps. I'm at a loss on this one.
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 2 - 12-26-2012, 08:02 PM Thread Author #4
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
Even stranger, they don't even have the option to delete them from the launcher.
Notice no red minus on the apps
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 2 - 12-27-2012, 01:35 AM Thread Author #5
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
ok finally downloaded the PDF manual and found the answer to my question. Applications pre-installed on the device cannot be uninstalled. A mild annoyance.
Oh well I'll live with it. - 12-27-2012, 07:44 AM #6
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
Commonly known as bloatware can't be removed unless you use a Rom
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Android Central Forums - 12-27-2012, 01:50 PM Thread Author #7
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
Yep, I was just surprised to see bloatware on a wifi only tablet. I usually associate bloat with cell phone carriers which is a sure sign ive been using macs to long since desktop pcs do it all the time. I forgot about that stuff
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Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
Bloatware allows subsidization and ultimately brings down the prices of hardware, so I doubt we will ever see it completely vanish. Even the Google owned Nexus 7 has some.
It doesn't mean I like it, but at least mine isn't a 3G tablet full of more service provider garbage. - 05-06-2013, 02:07 PM #9
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
I have samsung galaxy tab 2 and also android razr.....in ordrr to remove preinstalled apps, you have to go into the manqge applicarions at force stop them. On the droid razr you just hold the icon down and it will show app info....click the force stop. Doing this removes the app from your app screen.
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
You can't remove preinstalled apps without rooting. And rooting removes protections meant to protect your phone/tablet from beyond repair damage.
Most launchers allow you to hide unwanted bloat ware. Out of sight out of mind.
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk - 07-27-2014, 02:03 PM #14
Re: Uninstall netflix, bn, text book app
Go to Settings, Uninstall updates, then Disable. It should remove it from the app page.
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'Less is more' is a cliché. It's often also true when it comes to mountain bike gear. Manufacturers have a tendency to get carried away with gimmicks that you just don't need and eventually their latest, greatest offering grows bloated and obese with unnecessary features. Alpinestars didn't lose sight of this fact when it designed the Aero Glove. In a bid to create a lightweight, high-performance glove, it dropped the adjustable cuff, the gel padding, and the knuckle protectors and focused on things that you really need, like a stretch mesh back, strategically perforated palm, and spandex panels that eliminate binding and provide a full range of motion.
The Aero glove is designed to make blistering summer rides bearable. Heat is handled by large mesh
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Stuck in columbus ga for work. There supposed to be a river wave here but I haven't found it. Didn't bring a board anyway. Bout to get my flow on at the skatepark though.
Stuck in columbus ga for work. There supposed to be a river wave here but I haven't found it. Didn't bring a board anyway. Bout to get my flow on at the skatepark though.
Chunky today. Started out with some very solid HH+ sets. Storm is coming in, so winds on the outer waters made it kind of funky. Got a few good ones and one left-hand death-pit. Tide dropped and the sandbars got all funky. Kind of rippy. After I took one in, a pair of whales cruised the lineup blowing and fluking. Pretty friggin' awesome! Oh, there were also dolphins leaping clear out of the water just before I paddled in. Not the greatest day for surf, but still ended up pretty nice.
Passed on it today. There were some guys out, and it looked okay, but I'm spoiled. There's still too much short-period west windswell in the water, and it's causing the groundswell to be really peaky and either mush or close out instead of lining up like usual. It would have been fun, but just too much work. HH+ and peaky. Short rides. Moderate sideshores. Also too much tide at lunch. May dawn patrol tomorrow in the hope of cleaner surf.
Skinned it today for the first time this year. Mostly waist to chest dumpers but caught one that lined up and got four good turns on it. Loved not wearing the rubber but Im paying for it with a nice painful rash.
Yeah, I went for a swim after skim boarding on Sunday up here on Hilton Head Island and the water temps read 67, but it for sure felt like 70+. It was sunny and in the 80s, but the water felt perfect with no suit on. I was surprised. I usually don't get into trunks until its consistently in the 70s, but it felt great.
Solid, but too much drift/wind. CH-HH and clean with texture. Cold-azz water! Got a few fun ones. Constant paddling to stay in position. A pod of dolphins surfed a outside set wave right at me! Those are some big, fast, sea critters.
WH-CH+ today and clean. Still blowing sideshore and drifting, but not as bad as yesterday. My last wave was a solid left. Dropped in, beat a section, big cutback on a clean face, stall stall stall up top in the pocket, accelerate down the face, frontside 360, rebound off the foamball and then glide right on in to shore. Satisfaction. Sunny and hot with blue water and dolphins.
Way too small down here, only 6-8 foot faces. I only go out in DOH +, so I can spend some time in the "Green Room".


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Broadly speaking, nanotechnology involves manipulating matter at the nanoscale to create new materials, structures and devices. The nanoscale is usually taken to mean structures ranging in size from one to 100 nanometres, about the size of individual molecules. One nanometre (nm) is a billionth of a metre and to put this in perspective, a human hair is about 80,000nm–100,000nm thick, while a single molecule of the protein haemoglobin (which carries the oxygen in our blood) is about 4nm across. At this tiny scale, materials can have different properties from their bulk form because of the larger relative surface area (making them potentially more reactive) and new quantum effects that can take over from the usual laws of physics. Consumer products range from invisible sunscreens (with nanoscale titanium dioxide and zinc oxide) to shirts that don't stain. In medicine, progress is being made in areas such as disease diagnosis and drug delivery targeted at specific sites in the body (making cancer treatment, for example, potentially more effective), and in other non-domestic situations, nanotechnology is being applied in the fields of environmental protection for water and air purification, pollution detection and harnessing solar energy.
"Nanofoods" refers to all foods to which manufactured nanoscale food components have been added and/or packaged in materials to which manufactured nanoparticles have been added. Nanotechnology certainly offers exciting possibilities for the future, such as safer food that can be conveniently stored for longer periods without deterioration. Other possibilities include foods fortified with healthy ingredients such as vitamins, antioxidants or omega-3 fats, encapsulated so that they are delivered exactly where they are needed in your body. Some of the food giants, including Kraft, Nestlé and Unilever, are exploring the use of nanotechnology, but so far keeping very quiet. There are, however, plenty of potential food applications of nanotechnology being openly canvassed.
The main issue around regulation is not the small size of nanoparticles as such, rather their novel properties. We've always been exposed to naturally occurring nanoparticles, but never before to nanoparticles specifically manufactured to influence food properties. We simply do not yet know enough about how they could affect human health; no one predicted, for example, that carbon nanotubes could cause cancer (see Nanotubes — The new asbestos?). Regulation definitely warrants a precautionary approach; lack of evidence of harm isn't evidence of safety. CHOICE would therefore like to see all nanofoods considered as "novel" and as such trigger rigorous case-by-case safety assessments, as required for all novel foods under the Food Standards Code. Specifically, we would like to see the following safeguards:
Without these changes, there's a very real possibility that nanofoods will appear legitimately on the shelves without having undergone any safety testing — with the potential for serious consequences.
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The very properties that make nanomaterials so attractive – their small size (that of atoms and molecules) and relatively larger surface area – can also make them potentially toxic to humans.
There's nothing inherently unsafe about very small particles — we are exposed to them every day. The air we breathe, the food we eat and water we drink all naturally contain particles within the nanometre range. Most health concerns relate to the potential impacts of deliberately manufactured nanoparticles that are different from anything that occurs in nature (see Nanotubes — The New Asbestos?, below). The study of the toxicity of nanomaterials, "nanotoxicology", is in its infancy, so rigorous safety information is limited. However, experts agree there is an urgent need for research in this area:
Nanomaterials now in commercial use by the food industry, such as nanoscale titanium dioxide (used as an ultraviolet protector and an antimicrobial in food packaging and containers) and silver (used as an antimicrobial in food packaging, chopping boards and knives), have been shown to be toxic to cells and tissues in both test tube and animal studies. Another area of concern is the potential for nanonutritional additives (functional foods) to provide an excessive dose of some vitamins and nutrients, or to interfere with the absorption of other nutrients. Dr Qasim Chaudhry, leader of the nanotechnology research team at the UK's Central Science Laboratory, warns that nanoparticles and nanoencapsulated food ingredients "may have unanticipated effects, far greater absorption than intended or altered uptake of other nutrients, but little, if anything, is known currently".
A recent study in mice found that some forms of carbon nanotubes may be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities. There are many unanswered questions. It is still not clear whether carbon nanotubes will become airborne and be inhaled, or whether they still can successfully work their way to the sensitive outer lining of the lungs. A pivotal report on nanotechnology by the Royal Society in the UK in 2004 recommended that, until there was evidence to the contrary, factories and research laboratories should treat manufactured nanoparticles and nanotubes as if they were hazardous. Based on the results of this study, the toxicity and potential implications of long, multi-walled carbon nanotubes is an issue of priority for the Office of the Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC). The ASCC has also initiated a nanotechnology occupational health and safety research program, while the NSW Department of State and Regional Development's recent inquiry into nanotechnology recommended that a national mandatory labelling scheme be put in place for all engineered nanomaterials used in the workplace.
The national regulator, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), seems less concerned than its equivalents in the US and UK. FSANZ has strengthened the Application Guidelines for nanofoods, but the Food Standards Code itself remains unchanged, and CHOICE does not believe the changes made so far adequately protect consumers. Furthermore, there is no requirement for manufactured nanoparticles to be specifically labelled. FSANZ is thus failing to provide adequate information for consumers to make an informed choice — supposedly one of its primary aims (see What CHOICE wants).
With no specific regulation so far, and in the absence of laws requiring manufacturers to identify nanofoods on the label, there could well be nanofoods already on the supermarket shelves that we don't know about. Some nanotechnology analysts estimate that between 150–600 nanofoods and 400–500 nanofood packaging applications are already on the market internationally. In Australia, confectionery packaging, bottle coatings and PET drink bottles containing nanoparticles could already be on the market, because there is no regulatory process or safety assessment.
A recent poll of more than 1000 people commissioned by Friends of the Earth found nine out of ten Australians want safety checks on nanofood additives. Ninety-six percent of respondents agreed that food companies should conduct safety testing on food and food packaging ingredients that contain nanoparticles; 92% thought food companies should label food and packaging that contain nanoparticles; and 40% said they would not purchase foods containing nanoparticles at all. Last year a phone survey of more than 1000 people, carried out on behalf of the Australian Office of Nanotechnology, found that although many respondents were hopeful, even excited, about potential uses of nanotechnology, particularly in the area of medicine, the area of food was an exception — nearly 80% of respondents were either concerned or very concerned that food labelling should provide information about nanotechnology. Public opinion surveys in some European countries have also found that consumers are not in favour of the use of nanomaterials in food or packaging. Consumers also believe nanomaterials should be independently assessed for safety before they are placed on the market.
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BOE candidate looks to solve problems with funding
By JUDY SHERARD
Richard Kraemer thinks school districts are being asked to do more with less and funding is the biggest challenge for the Hays USD 489 Board of Education.
"If we don't at least maintain current funding, class sizes will go up, morale will go down, and the quality of our education will go down," he said.
Taxpayers' incomes have increased, but the percentage going for education hasn't "varied more than half a percent," Kraemer said. "We're being asked to do a whole lot more than just reading, writing and arithmetic."
Kraemer has been on the board since 2001. He is one of five candidates for three seats on the board of education in the April 2 election. The other candidates are newcomers Danielle Robben, Josh Waddell, Lance Bickle and Kathleen Fischer.
Most of the district's budget goes to salaries and benefits.
He points out the district has cut some administrator positions in recent years.
Superintendent Will Roth has "done a fabulous job in seeing how we can become more flexible (and) efficient with the dollars we have, yet still provide the quality of education we're known for."
Partnerships between the school district and local businesses could help expand some programs.
"We need hooks to bring students to the classroom -- debate, drama, sports, music, art."
Those partnerships include booster club participation and projects such as Building FAST, the new weight room facility at Hays High School.
"A lot of people in the community put a lot of time and effort into that, and to turn our back on them would have been -- I couldn't have faced some of the major contributors," Kraemer said.
He would like to see the infrastructure in structurally sound buildings improved and the district provide distance learning to smaller school systems.
Closing schools might not be popular, but having "a lot of small neighborhood schools does not make economic sense," Kraemer said. "How much money do we want to dump into Washington or Lincoln (elementary schools) knowing full well, at some point in time, the facilities will not be compatible with what public education is -- with what the technology is?"
Those schools could be used for other programs such as Head Start.
Districting or closed enrollment at elementary schools isn't his first choice, but might become necessary.
"At some point, we won't have a choice if we don't take steps to control our own future."
The facilities needs committee's recommendations should be considered by the board, but "as a board member, I'm a little concerned that they want to continue to try to salvage some of these smaller schools. I went to Washington. I went to Lincoln. I have no desire to close them. I really don't, but if we're not going to get additional funding, I see more pluses to consolidation than I do negatives. I think kids will readily adapt to it. ... I don't think it's going to be a problem."
Consolidation also makes sense educationally and in use of resources and staff, Kraemer said.
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Richard Kraemer is a Hays native. He graduated from Hays High School and is a vice president at Insurance Planning Inc.
He and his wife, Marty, have a son, Mitch. Kraemer also has two step-children, Tate Gooden and Tonya Normandin, and five grandchildren.


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Marc Randazzo on Jail Eats and Mickey Rourke's Nose
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New Times: You've got tons of photos of celebrities on your walls. Who's the most famous you've cooked for?
Marc Randazzo: I cooked for President Clinton and his wife. And a lot of fighters. The best person I cooked for was Mickey Rourke -- I'm a big fan. I've seen Pope of Greenwich Village about 200 times. I kinda helped him when he was boxing. I always told him I was going to do an Italian restaurant and he thought I was kidding. We became good friends when he was fighting. Then we lost touch for a couple years and he showed up at my restaurant when my friend Tommy Pooch brought him in.
The first day I met him he was starting to box. He came in to spar with this other fighter who didn't show up. I told his trainer, I'll spar with him. I'll take it easy on him. I won't hurt him. His trainer said, "Listen, he doesn't really know how to fight like you do, but he doesn't know that, so he's gonna come at you really hard." So I told him I'd work with him.
Are you the reason for his crooked nose then?
I liked him too much to hit him. I let him hit me.
And the fighters?
When I used to go to training camp with Evander Holyfield we would rent out a whole floor of a hotel. My trainer, he gave me the confidence to tell people I could cook. At least, back in the '70s, it was a girlie thing so I didn't tell the fighters I liked to cook. He kinda gave me the courage to come out of the closet as a cook.
Do you call yourself a chef now?
I'm just a cook. I cook my mother's recipes.
What would you eat for your last meal?
My mother's meatballs.
You'd have her cook for you? That's sweet.
I'd make 'em myself. I'm a better cook than her. Whenever I go home, my dad makes me cook for him.
Any other cuisines you like to cook?
I do Cuban for my wife. I really enjoy Mexican.
What have you not attempted?
Chinese. That's a totally different style.
What advice would you give a first time chef?
I would tell you to work in a the kind of restaurant with the kind of food you like. Learn as much as you can. Then I would try to talk you out of it. There's so much stress. People don't realize how much stress it is to try to get out 100 plates at one time and every one of them has to be perfect. I've worked so many jobs. I've worked construction, I was in the Marine Corps, I was a boxer. The most stressful by far is cooking. Other than being Mr. Mom.
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