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Well, this time the scecesszio.com web site can provide a very special article. Thanks (but many ..) to my collegue Zita and to the kindly staff of the Foldtani Intézet I had access to the inner rooms of one of the most famous building of the hungarian szecesszio: the masterpiece building of Lechner which hosts the Hungarian Geological Society.
Eventually, a book was even donated to me: I published an excerpt in which the art critic Nemes Marta describes the bullding by an architectonic point of view. Enjoy the article and the photos as weel BY CLICKING ON THE FOLLOWING LINK !
For Lechner the building of the Geological Insitute was the final step before reaching the peak of his architectural development in creating a characteristically "Hungarian style". The formulation he achieved with this building is an organic part of the development between the
If we could put the three buildings next to each other as we can with their photographs, it will be obvious even to the non-expert that the Geological Institute and Museum forms the transition between the lavishly ornated vivacious mass of the Museum of Applied Arts and the clear simplicity of the Postal Savings Bank. Not only the decoration, but also the articulation of its forms is simpler than that of the Museum of Appied Arts, which fulfills the function of a museum and is more accentuated than that on the Postal Savings
Bank which houses offices. The appearance is also justified by its function: the building on Stefania-Street operates both as a museum and as an office building.
This fact is perfectly conveyed by the division of the exterior masses and the spatial composition of the interior, by the applied support structure and its ornaments, by the function the building fulfills in the cityscape and by the expression of the function: museum, the building is carrying.
In articulating masses the museum function demands that attention be raised and visitors invited, thus the common rooms (vestibule, library, meeting room) were placed above one another in the centerpiece. The block of these rooms is crowned by the large tent of a roof, covered by glazed ceramics. The globe on the top of the roof, visible from far away conveys the idea that this is a place worth visiting for geology-related issues. Once a visitor perceives that, he will receive more information when standing in front of the facade. The marvellous decoration of the exterior and the block of centerpiece, flanked by "bastions" which are extended by an attic level, promises an interior, not to be missed. Entering through the port a very special system of spaces attracts the visitor. The glass-wood wind-break is divided in three. Its glazing has etched ornaments. Behind this wall a three-vault covered space with a cross-house appears, leading the visitor up to the second floor, towards the exhibition rooms. This space-series is closed by an apsis like stairway.
The reflection of function is also very clear on the facades: the office windows
side-aisles, divided from the "nave" by only one couple of pillons on each side. Above this room on the second floor the meeting room opens, occupying the whole of the centerpiece so that the room of the "bastions" connects into the central space by means of a triple vault.
The similar structure of rooms above one another has already been seen in the centerpiece of the Museum of Applied Arts. In the case of this the steel structure would allow the size of the rooms, placed on top of one another, to increase. The open vestibule on the ground floor is followed by the ceremonial hall on the first floor extended on both sides and lit by rosetta window, and on the second floor the room under the dome occupies two levels, thus giving this room an ethereal feeling. The rooms attached to the corridors of the wings side reflect a more subordinate role.
The only really common room of the Postal Savings Bank is the counter-section which was established by building up the yard. As a result a line of offices occupy the street-facades. The solution the architect applied to the facades on the bank was a level "curtain wall" which reflects the aforementioned structure and a relative flexibility that is allowed by the steel-beam structure. The reasoning for this choice must have been thus, rather than just the narrow street alone. This shows an ingenious sense of seeing development trends, just as when he designed the roofs for the "birds". As if Lechner saw that a few generations later, people will see the patterns on his roofs from above. It was worth spending more energy to find solutions such as these for even the
are attached vertically with brick-frame, while the museum on the second floor is indicated by huge, three-part windows, connected by a border at the springing line.
The structure chosen for this: the centerpiece has transverse walls and the vaults of the vestibule spaning 8 metres are supported by riveted consoles, beams and pillars. Three riveted steel arch-bends divide the vestibule into three vault-segments. Lechner marked the untraditional steel structure by ornaments adding. This is why he formed "waves" with rivet-type ornaments on the inside of the arch-bends stucco cover, and "rivets" in the fluted columns that are supporting them. The "stalactite"-like segments of the capitals refer to the function of the building. From the ceiling, in the middle of the stucco rosetta of the vaults, the chandelier hangs on a stalactite-like supports. The master was able to attach the "waves" of the wind-break and the arch-bends as well as the two arms of the main stairway to the 8 metres span of the vestibule which appear in front of us. The decoration of the interior follows the elements of the inner divisions: arch-bends, pillons, vaults. The zig-zag frame of the wall sections is in harmony with the Zsolnay-ceramic rims on the exterior forms of the roofs.
The dynamism of the spatial composition draws one towards the main stairway. From the hall on the first floor the library room opened, including the four windows between the "bastions" of the main facade centerpiece. Not only in the width of the ground floor vestibule, but taking also the extensions on both sides, attached like
smallest problem. His critics saw only that the plans were delayed.
The Museum of Applied Arts, the Geological Institute and the Postal Savings Bank are the key elements in learning about Lechner's architecture. The intellectual values represented in these buildings show the quality of Hungarian architecture at the turn-of-the-century which is considered and proudly acknowledged as part of a European heritage by critics (e.g. N. Pevsner) in this field.
Budapest, 1993.
Martha Nemes


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Indiana State cashes in on three interceptions to knock off top-ranked BisonFARGO – A team that hadn't thrown an interception all season, top-ranked North Dakota State had two of three interceptions returned for touchdowns Saturday in the Fargodome.
By: Kevin Schnepf, INFORUM
FARGO – A team that hadn't thrown an interception all season, top-ranked North Dakota State had two of three interceptions returned for touchdowns Saturday in the Fargodome.
That was too much for the Bison to overcome as Indiana State stunned the Bison and the crowd of 18,164 with a 17-14 win in a Missouri Valley Football Conference game.
"I don't think anybody thought that we would win other than our players and us as coaches," said Indiana State head coach Trent Miles, whose unranked team improves to 5-2 overall and 3-1 in the conference. "Anytime you can beat the defending national champion at their place, it says a lot about our team."
What it says is the Bison are beatable. Not many people thought that after last week's impressive 48-7 win over No. 3 Youngstown State.
"This team by in large has had a great workmanlike attitude," said Craig Bohl, whose team falls to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the conference. "Today we didn't show up with that attitude. We were off and we need to make sure we get that corrected."
Even though he plays on defense, senior cornerback Johnny Towalid was responsible for Indiana State's only two touchdowns of the game.
He returned a Brock Jensen interception 27 yards to give the Sycamores a 10-3 lead in the second quarter. He returned another interception 31 yards early in the fourth quarter to give the Sycamores a 17-6 lead.
Even though the Bison outgained Indiana State 294 to 197 in total yardage, they could not overcome three interceptions.
"We had to make more big plays than they did.," Towalid said. "It was a heavyweight fight, and we came out with a victory today.
Words can't explain it. It's a very big win."
Trailing 17-6, the Bison offense finally came to life when Andrew Okland hauled in a 31-yard pass to set up a Jensen 1-yard touchdown run and a 2-point conversion run – cutting the lead to 17-14 with 9:56 remaining of the game.
After Indiana State missed a 46-yard field goal, the Bison marched to the Sycamores' 29 – threatening to take their first lead of the game.
But on second down, safety Larry King stepped in front of a Jensen pass intended for Ryan Smith. His interception with 3:42 remaining sealed the upset win for the Sycamores.
"I just read his eyes," King said, referring to Jensen. "His eyes just got big when he saw his receiver from the opposite side of me. I just followed his eyes to the ball. This is the biggest win that I've had and hopefully there will be more to come."
Indiana State will try to avoid a letdown when it plays at Western Illinois next week. NDSU will try to bounce back when it plays South Dakota in Sioux Falls.
"This conference, they are all heavyweights," Miles said. "Anybody in this conference can play with anybody. It will be just as tough next week going into Western Illinois."
Indiana State's defense, which ranks third nationally allowing only 13 points per game, kept the high-powered Bison offense out of the end zone in the first half.
The Sycamores got off on the right foot when they returned the opening kickoff beyond midfield. They didn't score but put the Bison in a hole, especially when quarterback Jensen was sacked at the 1-yard line. ISU got the ball back on the Bison 41, which led to a 48-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead.
Readers can reach Forum Sports Editor Kevin Schnepf at (701) 241-5549
Schnepf's NDSU media blog can be found at www.areavoices.com
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A woman was having an affair while her husband was at work. One day she was in bed with her boyfriend when, to her horror, she heard her husband's car pull into the driveway. "Oh My God - Hurry! Grab your clothes," she yelled to her lover. "And jump out the window. My husband's home early!" I can't jump out the window!" came the strangled reply from beneath the sheets. "It's raining out there!" "If my husband catches us in here, he'll kill us both!" she replied. "He's got a very quick temper and a very large gun! The rain is the least of your problems!" So the boyfriend scoots out of bed, grabs his clothes and jumps out the window! As he began running down the street in the pouring rain, he quickly discovered he had run right into the middle of the town's annual marathon. He started running along beside the others about 300 of them. Being naked, with his clothes tucked under his arm, he tried to "blend in" as best he could. It wasn't that effective! After a little while, a small group of runners, who had been studying him with some curiosity, jogged closer. "Do you always run in the nude?" one asked. "Oh yes" he replied, gasping in air. "It feels so wonderfully free having the air blow over all your skin while you're running." Another runner moved alongside. "Do you always run carrying your clothes under your arm?" "Oh, yes" our friend answered breathlessly. "That way I can get dressed right at the end of the run and get in my car to go home!" Then a third runner cast his eyes a little lower and queried. "Do you always wear a condom when you run?" "Only if it's raining."
A good fellow slips into his bedroom trying not to make any noise in a drunken stupor at 4 a.m. He succeeds in not waking his better half and slips off to sleep. 30 minutes later he is awaken by a tall ghostly figure standing in his bedroom. He jumps up and says who the hell are you and what are you doing in my bedroom. The gentleman says I am Saint Peter and your not in your bedroom.
The guy stammers bbbbuuuttt IIII ammm to to young to die. I have bills young kids you have to send me back. St Peter states I can only send you back as a goat or a hen. 5 seconds later he is pecking on the ground at his neighbors farm when a Rooster struts up beside him and says Hey Hey Hey your the new hen huh. He says apparently so then he gets this awful pain in his stomach and says my God what is that? The rooster said your ovulating your about to lay an egg and ploop there it is.
Well he is overwelmed with the feeling of motherhood and can't beleive he can hardly remember his other life and worries and it happens again. He is happy and not worried about his wife kids or bills.
Then the third egg his wife hits him in the back of the head and screams Pete wake up you are crapping in the bed!
Three rotten old Grandmas were sitting
on a bench outside a nursing home when
a Grandpa walked by. And one of the Grandmas yelled out,
'We bet we can tell exactly how old you are.'
The old man said, 'There is no way you can
guess it, you old fools.'
One of the old Grandmas said, 'Sure we can!
Just drop your pants and under shorts
and we can tell your exact age..'
Embarrassed just a little, but anxious to prove
they couldn't do it, he dropped his drawers.
The Grandmas asked him to first turn around
a couple of times and to jump up and down several times.
Then they all piped up and said, 'You're 87 years old!'
Standing with his pants down around his ankles,
the old gent asked, 'How in the world did you guess?'
Slapping their knees and grinning from ear to ear,
the three old ladies happily yelled in unison - -
'We were at your birthday party yesterday!'
Two businessmen in Florida were sitting down for a break in their soon-to-be new store. As yet, the store wasn't ready, with only a few shelves set up.
One said to the other, "I bet any minute now some senior is going to walk by, put his face to the window, and ask what we're selling."
No sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a curious senior walked to the window, had a peek, and in a soft voice asked, "What are you selling' here?"
One of the men replied sarcastically, "We're selling azz-holes."
Without skipping a beat, the old timer said, "Must be doing well...only two left."
Seniors -- don't mess with them!
Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day. As they walk, they come across a sign: "Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world."
"I am entering!" said Snow White.
After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, "Well, how'd ya do?"
" First Place !" said Snow White.
They continue walking and they see a sign:
"Contest for the strongest man in the world."
"I'm entering," says Superman.
After half an hour, he returns and they ask him, "How did you make out?"
" First Place ," answers Superman. "Did you ever doubt?"
They continue walking when they see a sign:
"Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?"
Pinocchio enters. After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.
"What happened?" they asked.
"Who the hell is Obama?" asked Pinocchio.
That's right !!! Who's Daddy now!!!
I admit I got this in an email but it made me smile. A few of you come to mind as I read this (not me though)
Drafting men over 60----this is funny &
obviously written by a Former Soldier-
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces think I'm too
old to track down terrorists. You can't be older
than 42 to join the military. They've got the
whole thing backwards. Instead of sending
18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us
old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a
military unit until you're at least 35.
For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think
about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think
about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us
more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to
concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be
cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous
soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm
tired and hungry' We are impatient and maybe
letting us kill some idiot that desperately
deserves it will make us feel better and shut us
up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up
before 10 a..m. Old guys always get up early to
pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm
tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up,
I may as well be up killing some fanatical
If captured we couldn't spill the beans because
we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name,
rank, and serial number would be a real
Boot camp would be easier for old guys.. We're
used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're
used to soft food. We've also developed an
appreciation for guns. We've been using them for
years as an excuse to get out of the house.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course
however. I've been in combat and didn't see a
single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the
side, nor did I ever do any pushups after
completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of
energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him.
He's still learning to shave, to start up a
conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't
figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to
shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at
home to learn a little more about life before
sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten
coward Muslim terrorists. The last thing an
enemy would want to see is a couple of million
pi&&ed off old fools with attitudes and
automatic weapons who know that their best years
are already behind them..
How about recruiting Women over 50 ......in
menopause! You think Men have attitudes! Ohhhhhh
my God! If nothing else, put them on border
patrol.... They'll have it secured the first
night! (And we won't have to hear "Press 1 for
English" anymore).
Hard liquor
Three ladies all have separate boyfriends named Larry. One evening, while sharing a few drinks at the bar, one of the ladies suggests,
'Let's name our Larry�s after a soft drink, because I'm tired of getting my Larry mixed up with your Larry, and her Larry mixed up with your Larry.'
The other two ladies agree.
The first lady speaks out, 'Okay then, I'm gonna name my Larry " 7 Up" because he has 7" and it's always up!'
The three ladies hoot and holler, and slap each other high fives.
Then, the second lady says, 'I'm gonna name my Larry "Mountain Dew" because he can mount and do me any day of the week.'
Again, the three ladies hoot and holler, and slap each other more high fives.
The third lady then says, 'You know, those two Larrys were good, but I'm gonna name my Larry "Jack Daniels".'
The other two ladies shout in unison, "'Jack Daniels"? That's not a soft drink... that's a hard liquor!'
The third lady replies, 'That's my Larry!'
A little Boy visits a ***** house
A little boy about 10 years old was walking down the sidewalk,
dragging a flattened frog on a string behind him. He came up to the
doorstep of a ***** house and knocked on the door.
When the Madam answered it, she saw the little boy and asked what he wanted.
He said, "I want to have sex with one of the women inside. I have the
money to buy it, and I'm not leaving until I get it."
The Madam figured, why not, so she told him to come in. Once in, she
told him to pick any of the girls he liked.
He asked, "Do any of the girls have any diseases?"
Of course, the Madam said, "No!"
He said, "I heard all the men talking about having to get shots after
making love with Amber. THAT'S the girl I want."
Since the little boy was so adamant and had the money to pay for it,
the Madam told him to go to the first room on the right. He headed
down the hall dragging the squashed frog behind him.
Ten minutes later he came back, still dragging the frog, paid the
Madam, and headed out the door!
The Madam stopped him and asked, "Why did you pick the only girl in
the place with a disease, instead of one of the others?"
He said, "Well, if you must know, tonight when I get home, my parents
are going out to a restaurant to eat, leaving me at home with a
baby-sitter. After they leave, my baby-sitter will have sex with me
because she just happens to be very fond of cute little boys. She will
then get the disease that I just caught.
When Mom and Dad get back, Dad will take the baby-sitter home. On the
way, he'll jump the baby-sitter's bones, and he'll catch the disease.
Then when Dad gets home from the baby-sitters, he and Mom will go to
bed and have sex, and Mom will catch it.
In the morning when Dad goes to work, the Milkman will deliver the
milk, have a quickie with Mom and catch the disease, and HE'S the
son-of-a-bitoch who ran over my FROG!"
Have You Heard?
An explosion killed a wild-living Navy boilerman and he found himself in hell. Being used to stoking fires and extremely hot temperatures, he found hell actually quite comfortable. When Satan went to check out the new arrival, he found him sitting in his room smiling.
"You like this?", Satan asked. "Yes, sir", said the sailor, "this feels like a spring day to me." Not wanting the new guy to be too comfortable, Satan turned up the heat a bit. When he went back the next day to see how his new arrival was doing, the sailor was still happy; he hadn`t even broken a sweat. "I like this kind of weather", he told Satan.
For the next few days in a row, Satan again turned up the heat, but each day the Sailor looked as comfortable as ever. Finally, Satan decided to try something different. Rather than turn up the heat even more, he turned it off. Icicles formed in the sailor`s room! When he checked on the guy, the room was icy and he was shivering, but he had a grin from ear to ear, bigger than ever. Satan was exasperated! "Why are YOU so happy?" he demanded from the sailor. "It`s FREEZING in here!" "Well, I`m from Denver," said the sailor. "And evidently the Broncos just won the Super Bowl!"
05-17-11, 12:39 PM #17831The Recession has hit everybody.....
I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can't afford batteries.
CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen..
A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she danced.
I saw a Mormon polygamist with only one wife.
If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America .
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
My cousin had an exorcism but couldn't afford to pay for it, and they re-possessed her!
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .
A picture is now only worth 200 words.
The Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
And, finally...
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.
History of the condom
In 1572, the Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first.
Baby Arnold
I was eating lunch on February 20th with my 7-year-old grandson and I asked him, "What day is tomorrow?"
He said "It's President's Day!"
He is a smart kid.
I asked "What does President's Day mean?" I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln ... etc .
He replied, "President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White
House, and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment."
You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose...
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Emboar is a fantastic Trick Room Pokemon, and with its sky-high Attack and low Speed, it can sweep through teams with ease. Its weakness to Water is a severe hindrance, as a Water Spout from Jellicent or a Surf from Hydreigon will easily take it out, but despite this, Emboar is a great pick for any Trick Room team, and has great staying power with its high HP.
Flare Blitz is Emboar's main STAB attack, dealing lots of damage at the cost of 1/3 recoil damage. Hammer Arm is Emboar's other STAB move, and comes with the added boon of lowering Emboar's Speed by one stage, which is very useful under Trick Room. Rock Slide is used for coverage and hits Thundurus and Tornadus, who can otherwise OHKO Emboar with their STAB Flying-type attacks, for super effective damage. Rock Slide also covers Chandelure, who resists both of Emboar's STABs. In the last slot, Protect is used to allow Emboar to stay alive long enough for its partner to KO an opposing threat or get Trick Room set up. Wild Charge can be used to hit Jellicent, but Protect is usually the superior option.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
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Brick Break can be used if you don't like Hammer Arm's 90% accuracy, but the power drop is usually not worth the slight accuracy increase. If the recoil from Flare Blitz turns you away, Heat Crash has no recoil, though its damage varies on the target's weight, only making it as powerful as Flare Blitz in the case of very light-weight Pokemon such as Amoonguss. This variable damage output makes Flare Blitz the decidedly more attractive option. Head Smash is an option instead of Rock Slide for an immense power increase but the at the cost of much lower accuracy and recoil. Furthermore, Head Smash only hits one opponent. A specially oriented set could be viable, utilizing Emboar's wide special movepool, but Emboar's middling Special Attack makes this a decidedly unattractive option.
If the slow, bulky, hard-hitting Pokemon of Trick Room is not your style, Emboar could be used on a team with Tailwind support, attempting to quickly attack and KO the opposition before they get a chance to move. When utilizing a faster set, Superpower should be used over Hammer Arm so as not to lower Emboar's Speed. Concern over Superpower's Attack and Defense drop should be dismissed, as Emboar is likely not living long enough for the drops to matter.
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Jellicent is a hard counter for Emboar without Wild Charge, as Emboar can't touch Jellicent and is easily defeated with either Water Spout or Surf in return. Even with Wild Charge, Emboar struggles to 2HKO Jellicent. Hydreigon can outspeed and OHKO Emboar with Surf if Trick Room is not up.


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Hours after a Facebook post alleged that a 19-year-old Milwaukee man had been beaten by police officers last weekend, Milwaukee police provided their version of events.
The allegation involving Jordan Cain was first posted on a Facebook account maintained by Occupy Milwaukee on Friday afternoon. The report alleged that two officers beat Cain up while he was filling his car with gas at the corner of N. 35th St. and W. Townsend. A photo of a person with a large bloody bruise on the right side of his face was included in the post.
Cain could not be reached for comment, but his mother, Charise Jordan, told the Journal Sentinel that her son had been beaten by police last Saturday morning near the gas station. Mrs. Jordan said she had not yet filed a complaint with either the Milwaukee Police Dept., or the Fire and Police Commission.
Mrs. Jordan also said the family had a video of the incident. Another family member also showed a Journal Sentinel reporter a cellphone photograph of Cain's face, which resembled the photo posted on Facebook.
An employe at Kool Petroleum, 3381 N. 35th St., confirmed there had been an incident involving police last Saturday. He said video from a gas station camera captured the incident, but added the video was of poor quality. The employee said the video had been given to Cain's family.
On Friday night, Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer, a police spokesman, gave this version of events involving Cain. He said Cain was arrested at 10:30 a.m. last Saturday in the 3300 block of N. 35th St.
Stanmeyer said two officers stopped a car driven by Cain because the vehicle was unregistered. Stanmeyer said the officers saw the suspect, identified later as Cain, trying to ingest a plastic baggie.
The officers took Cain out of the vehicle and a struggle ensued, Stanmeyer said. As the struggle continued, an off-duty sergeant showed up at the scene and assisted officers in subduing Cain.
Stanmeyer said Cain was taken to a local hospital for treatment and admitted to officers he tried to ingest narcotics. Stanmeyer said another sergeant also went to the scene to investigate, which is standard when force is used against a suspect.
Cain was charged with obstructing an officer and bail jumping. The bail jumping charge apparently stems from a December 2012 charge of resisting or obstructing an officer, Stanmeyer said. Cain is scheduled to be sentenced on the December 2012 charge on March 7, according to online court records.
Stanmeyer said no complaint stemming from the incident had been filed with the police department. The three officers remain on active duty, he said.
Patrick Curley, Mayor Tom Barrett's chief of staff, confirmed Friday night that Mrs. Jordan had contacted the mayor's office on Tuesday about the incident. Curley said a mayoral aide heard the complaint and immediately contacted him.
The matter was then referred to Mike Tobin, executive director of the Fire and Police Commission. Curley said Tobin reached out to Mrs. Jordan and told her she had the right to file a complaint either directly with the police department or the Fire and Police Commission.
Curley said Mrs. Jordan left a voice message with Tobin on Thursday, indicating that she planned to file a complaint with the police department.
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I guess crime doesn't pay, but suing the cops for being s criminal does...
I don't see the story here. A kid with a past for obstructing officers tries to swallow evidence. Which he admitted to. Sounds like your everyday occurance in North Milwaukee. These cops have a hard enough job without little punks breaking the law and then lying about it.
But I'm sure old Eugene Kane will find some way to make this about race.
one question, who is Mrs. Cain?Hide replies
That's his so called big momma :)
I'm guessing this has since been corrected to read Mrs. Jordan. You can hardly blame the reporter, it get's confusing when nobody in a family has the same last name. The urban dictionary has an excellent definition of baby mama. Where I work, it makes getting surgical consents difficult with a minor because nobody has the same last name and cousin, niece, nephew, aunt, mother, and etc. are all used very loosely and interchangeably.
I think I'll resist arrest and get a few head wounds and make myself a cool million bucks. Yeah, that's the ticket.Hide replies
And I'm sure he will say his civil rights were violated.
Obviously there is way more to the story here and MJS always supports the criminal first, MPD second. Either way, let's get a professional non-MJS person in there to determine what happened and move on.
Another case of " I got caught so I will resist until the cops use force to arrest me, then I can cry police brutality" and get a boat load of money. Throw this guy in jail and dismiss his brutality case.
Is it common for the owner of the video to give it out to people "featured" in the video? What if the gas station needs it for some other crime commited at that station?
Hmmm, there seems to be some Red Queen wannabes here, "First the punishment, then the trial!" "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
Godly people are armed, with wits, guns and the Truth.
Im sorry... if you resist at all...gloves are off...if you flee...gloves are off. But squishy liberals wont have any of that fun stuff!
If the police had been allowed to crack his skull open when he was 12 years old, he may have learned something. I can hear him momma now, he such a good boy!!


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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say heavy rains have caused flash flooding in Boulder County that has closed streets, prompted evacuations, and left one person dead.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency for Boulder County and northwest Jefferson County, while a mandatory evacuation was in effect for the tiny community of Jamestown and the Fourmile area.
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Flooding and landslides in southern China have been chiefly caused by rains brought by last week's Typhoon Utor. Another storm was bearing down on Taiwan and expected to arrive on mainland China sometime Thursday.
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McDonald County emergency management director Greg Sweeten says the woman died early Thursday when her car was swept off Missouri Route 90 near the town of Jane, Mo. Sweeten says normally-dry Brush Creek came up suddenly.
The National Weather Service says parts of southwest Missouri got 10 inches of rain overnight. The town of Hollister was especially hard hit, with about 100 buildings damaged. More than two dozen people had to be rescued from homes, mostly mobile homes, in Hollister, which is near Branson in Taney County.
The weather service says more heavy rain is likely for southern Missouri in the coming days.
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Floodwaters from the Gasconade River have closed all lanes of Interstate 44 from mile marker 172 to mile marker 186 near Jerome in Phelps County.
Motorists and commercial motor carriers traveling eastbound on I-44 are asked to exit at mile marker 69 and take Route 360 to Route 60 at Springfield to Route 63 at Cabool to get back on to I-44 at Rolla. Travelers westbound on I-44 should take Route 63 at Rolla to Route 60 at Cabool to Route 360 to get back on to I-44 west of Springfield.
The Missouri Department of Transportation has put up barriers at the closures, as well as signs to mark the detours.
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An evacuation order is in effect in Waynesville near Fort Leonard Wood where a young boy was swept away by flood waters and killed yesterday and a woman, believed to be his mother, remains missing.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency in central and southern Missouri where more heavy rain fell overnight and more than 100 homeowners watched in vain as water inundated their homes. The area already swamped by flash flooding yesterday (Tuesday) is again under a flash flood watch until 10 a.m.
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Boston prochoice and prolife leaders will discuss a secret dialogue that began after local clinic shootings in 1994 and was made public through a jointly authored article in the Boston Globe over five years later. What made their difficult conversations constructive? How did their exchanges affect their lives, their leadership, and the abortion conflict in Boston? Laura Chasin, a co-facilitator of their dialogue and founder of the Public Conversations Project, the organization that convened their dialogue, will facilitate their conversation with each other and with us.
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A professor's arrival in a small town brings mixed reaction when he advertises his ability to bring people back from the dead. He announces his plan to perform this miracle in the town cemetery. The town's mayor is dubious of the man's claims while others seem bent on keeping him from performing his miracle. This story seems to inspired by (if not a direct rip-off of) the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves." The two stories end differently, with this CBSRMT version ending in a conventional murder mystery/detective scenario. Still in all, an enjoyable episode. Genre: Drama
Lucerne N., 2012-12-16 20:05:37
I was rather disappointed with this one. I was hoping the story had more of a thriller/horror aspect to it. That is to say, I would have liked a story where it did turn out some of the dead were brought back--not as zombies or anything, but in the "normal" living state. Their survivors would have to deal with what that entailed and the returnees would have to deal with what they were and maybe even where they had been while they were dead. I guess I was hoping for a Buffy type of situation--being brought back, some perhaps who wouldn't have allowed themselves given the choice--and everyone dealing with that. I was disappointed that the whole thing was a con and that the murderer of the girl was revealed rather easily and predictably. Added note: the version I downloaded from the link shows a length of 56 minutes but the story is about 40 minutes long. The last 15 minutes is a portion of another mystery.
Elli Isaac, 2013-02-28 09:34:56
Just wondering, does anyone know of a story, in any genre, besides "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" where a person who was dead and buried was resurrected, ostensibly to resume the existence they had before? I don't mean zombie stories, or ghost stories where they inhabit people, or people getting a second chance via time travel to the past (where nobody else knows what happened). I mean a story where someone who was dead for some time was brought back and everybody knew it and had to deal with it. Buffy's story was mostly about how she reacted to it, and her friends, who were responsible for bringing her back, were just so happy to have her alive again, they didn't really think too much about how she would feel about it. They thought they were somehow saving her when, in fact, Buffy had been in heaven and considered life on Earth hell. I just think it would be such a fascinating story, in the right hands, to have it happen to a group of people who can have different reactions to it.
Elli Isaac, 2013-02-28 09:35:01
An interesting but predictable story. I liked it but the copy that I had was a bad one. There was no intro and instead of an epilogue at the end of this story, it jumped right into a another completely different one that made absolutely no sense. Did anyone else have the same problem? What I was able to listen to I enjoyed immensely. I've always loved storys that involved the art of deceit. The larger the audience that gets deceived (like the town for instance), the more enjoyable it becomes for me. I would like to get a clean copy of it though - so if anyone can oblige I'd be very grateful.
Geron D., 2013-02-28 09:35:05
AT the end of mine she has just spoken with the Dr. who is trying to help her with her Viking pirate fascination while she was picking berries and they are playing out the dream sequence where a pirate rides up and begins speaking to her and the whole audio cuts off!
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The phrase "postliterate America," which has been bandied about over the past 10 years, is, I think, a bit misguided. Shouldn't it be "postliterary America"?
I truly fear that the basic literary background that one assumed every college-educated person possessed is slipping quickly away. It used to be that you could make reference to certain literary characters—Ahab, Huck, Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Hester Prynne, Robinson Crusoe, Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Gulliver, Don Quixote—and assume that educated people knew who you were talking about. But I'm beginning to think that is no longer the case.
Let's rewind a month or so ago to America's favorite spectator sport: adultery in high places. It doesn't get much better than a five-star general and CIA director getting caught with his pants down with the very woman—a West Point graduate to boot—who was commissioned to write his biography, a tome entitled All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. Although the book received only mixed reviews, who can argue with the fact that the biographer, Paula Broadwell, certainly did her research? And has there ever been a biography with a more deliciously ironic title?
The media feeding frenzy with General Petraeus and his literary lover morphed into a delightful connect-the-dots exercise as another five-star general (the guy in charge of our brutal little war in Afghanistan) and a high-society army groupie became key players in our daily game of "Who Slept with Whom." Throw in some topless sextings from the FBI agent hired to investigate this mess, and America had its juiciest sex scandal since Bill Clinton's Oval Office dalliance with a 19-year-old intern.
Inevitably, when high-level adultery hits the top of the daily trending chart on Yahoo, the various media outlets drag out the Ivy League historians to explain to the American public that sex in high places is nothing new. After all, it seems that given the axiom that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, most presidents (with the exception of Nixon and a few other starchy Republicans) indulged in extracurricular bedroom activities. Emphasis is always placed on the fact that Washington and Jefferson certainly were no saints.
We were discussing the latest revelations of the Petraeus/Broadwell/Jill Kelley triangle at my book club the other day when I casually mentioned that Hester Prynne just keeps getting reincarnated over and over again. She must be the most durable woman in American history. Everyone, with the exception of a fellow sexagenarian, looked up at me and asked, "Hester who?"
Admittedly, the median age of the book-club members is probably around 35, but still, how has our society's collective literary memory been wiped so clean so quickly? These were book lovers who didn't know the identity of Hester Prynne, not a gang of tailgating Joe the plumbers.
"Oh, I know who she was," one of the members declared. "Wasn't she that slave girl that Jefferson fathered a whole family of children with?"
"No," someone else said, "that was Sally somebody."
All eyes looked up at me. "Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter," I explained patiently, "predates Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings by almost 200 years. She was the adulterer in Puritan New England who was forced to wear a scarlet A on her chest. The novel may still be the definitive statement on America's endless fascination with sex. Although it takes place way back in seventeenth-century Boston, its plot is timeless. Weren't any of you tortured with it in high school like I was?"
One old man of 28 looked up and said to me, "We were tortured with old books like Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace when I was in high school. Today kids get to read the Harry Potter books."
This answer made me reflect back to an experience I had a year or so ago when I was lounging in the hospital after a major prostate operation. Several hours after I had been wheeled out of the recovery room, a young, energetic rookie nurse came bounding in to see how I was doing. They always use the proverbial "we," as if they were under the knife with you. "How are we doing?" she asked. Because I had been tied down to the bed with five different tubes sticking out of my body and anchoring me to a series of machines flashing an ominous series of numbers, I answered: "A bit like Gulliver."
She gave me a blank stare and asked, "What does that mean?"
I replied, "You know that part in Gulliver's Travels where he gets tied down by the Lilliputians? Well, that's how I feel."
The nurse looked at me with disapproval and said, "No, I don't know what you mean. I'm not into bondage books like Fifty Shades of Grey."
This was a bright woman with a nursing degree. But I guess it does prove one point: Hawthorne was right. In America, it always gets back to sex.
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The economy of 2013 is a hillside rising from the trenches of recession, full of opportunity and growth.
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"Going into 2013, every statement needs a qualifier about what they will do to us or for us in Washington and Carson City," said Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bill Chernock.
Case in point: despite a last-minute deal in Washington on Tuesday making a majority of Bush-era tax cuts permanent (on incomes less than $400,000), the federal debt still looms near or above …


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May 25, 2011
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Here at Scholarships.com, all of our resources are geared toward helping students prepare for and afford college educations...not leave them behind. That being said, this new award probably won't be popping up in our database any time soon.
Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, announced the inaugural recipients of the Thiel Fellowship, a program that will bestow 24 students with $100,000 each to not attend college for two years and develop business ideas instead. The driving force behind the fellowship is Thiel's concern about the "irrational" increase in cost and demand for college educations and his belief that certain students would learn more by leaving school than continuing traditional coursework.
Not surprisingly, heated debates have erupted in academic circles – William K. Aulet, managing director at MIT's Entrepreneurship Center, believes the fellowship is sending the wrong message, stating, "To say that you're better off dropping out of school is a gross generalization." – but the fellowship winners have a different outlook: At least two recipients have expressed interest in returning to school at the end of the fellowship and one prospective winner turned down the deal entirely to enroll at MIT, which signals traditional education is still valued.
What do you think about the Thiel Fellowship? Would you be more than willing to apply and leave school if selected or would you prefer to continue your education in the classroom instead?
May 27, 2011
Summer breaks vary from college student to college student. Some work multiple jobs to help defray tuition costs, others intern or volunteer in their field of study and a select few sit by the pool and do absolutely nothing. Regardless of what they accomplish this summer – a semester paid in full, a professional reference or a tan – this student's "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essay is going to be way more impressive.
Twenty-two-year-old Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, an undergraduate intern with a team at Monash University's School of Physics, recently confirmed she had found part of the universe's "missing mass." For those not majoring in science or aerospace engineering, this basically means that scientists had previously detected matter present in the early history of the universe but it had disappeared. Astrophysicists had been stymied by its absence for decades...until advanced technologies and Fraser-McKelvie came along. "We don't know where it went. Now we do know where it went because that's what Amelia found," said Monash astrophysicist Dr. Kevin Pimbblet. Pretty amazing stuff!
Now we have to ask: What are you doing over your summer break?
June 7, 2011
In February, we read a New York Times article about students getting married to save on tuition and asked our Facebook friends and Twitter followers if they, too, would get hitched if it meant they'd pay less for school. The responses? Mixed, but the topic is still hot four months later.
State aid is down, tuition is up and students are stuck in a tough position these days. While some are continuing down the traditional paths of obtaining funding for college (filling out the FAFSA, applying for scholarships and grants, taking out loans, etc.), others are taking a different route – or should we say aisle – with a friend or another student in a similar monetary situation. Why? If a student is single and under the age of 22, their financial aid is determined by their parents' income but if the student is married, aid is determined by the joint income of the student and their spouse – an enticing loophole for cash-strapped undergraduate and graduate students. Unlike marrying to obtain citizenship, marrying for financial aid or in-state residency benefits is legal according to WalletPop; there are even matchmaking services that help students find likeminded individuals to marry for tuition relief and divorce after graduation!
What are your thoughts on these "on-paper" marriages? Would you say "I do" if you could save thousands on tuition and fees or do you feel this practice – while legal – is too unethical to consider?
June 8, 2011
This is not a good week for higher education in China. First, a cheating scam is toppled just days before the national college entrance exam and now, it's been discovered that Shaanxi Normal University Press is selling transcripts of Yale University's free online courses.
The content – five transcripts from Open Yale Courses, a program that's been offering free online videos of popular Yale classes since 2007 – has been published by Shaanxi without Yale's permission. In addition to lifting content from the video lectures, Shaanxi also took material directly from the transcripts' translations prepared by YYeTs, a Chinese nonprofit. Diana Kleiner, a Yale art history professor and principal investigator for Open Yale Courses, told the Yale Alumni Magazine blog "possibly as much as 95 percent" of the material was copied; this plus the sale of the content violates the terms of the course giveaway, which states others cannot profit from the material.
Though one professor says he is flattered by the attention, Yale officials are less than pleased, especially since the school is planning its own book series based on the Open Yale Courses.
June 21, 2011
It's the night before your final in a particularly challenging class and though you've been studying for weeks, you decide to turn this evening into an all-night cram session. You feel your eyelids starting to droop at around 2 a.m. and to prevent your GPA from doing the same, do you run to the vending machine for a soda or down the hall to buy some Adderall from your floormate with ADHD?
The latter scenario is playing out far more than the former on college campuses across the nation as students turn to Adderall to gain an academic edge. The 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported full-time students are twice as likely to illegally use Adderall as individuals their age who are not in school or only enrolled part-time. But how are students getting their hands on the drug? Usually from other students whose ADHD or narcolepsy warrants a prescription. While some students are happy to act as their dormitory's resident pharmacists – a UC Davis sophomore said they make about $200 per week selling Adderall but a whopping $1,200 the last two weeks of the quarter from students studying for finals – others are less than willing: A student at Christopher Newport University said she has to deadbolt her door and carry prescriptions in her purse to ensure her Adderall pills (which she actually needs) aren't pilfered.
Does your school have an Adderall addiction? Do you think students who take it are cheating in a way and that those who don't are at an academic disadvantage? If you have an Adderall prescription, are other students constantly asking you to sell it?
June 23, 2011
How much will it cost to attend the school of your dreams? The federal government hopes its new law will make that question easier to answer but higher education experts have their doubts where accuracy is concerned.
By this October, the federal government will require all U.S. higher education institutions to offer net price calculators on their websites so prospective college students can easily compare attendance costs earlier in their college searches. Users will be asked questions about their financial and academic backgrounds and their answers – and the calculator's tallies of tuition, fees, books, housing and food, minus scholarships and grants – will reveal the net price to attend that particular school. Though many experts are glad students will have access to this information, accuracy is a concern. Certain factors won't be taken into consideration because direct student-to-school contact has been eliminated; for example, Washington University is willing to adjust financial aid packages if a parent loses their job and this might not be reflected in the calculators' answers.
It's likely the law will be revised to make side-by-side comparison more accurate before the calculators are implemented - read more about the net price calculators in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch - but would you use this new technology or do you think it's still too early to glean accurate information?
July 1, 2011
Do you get a headache when thinking about rising college tuition and fees? You're not alone...but your company may surprise you.
Yesterday morning, administrators at more than 500 colleges reached for metaphorical Advil bottles when the Department of Education decreed special reports detailing tuition and student fee increases must be submitted to the government for review. Schools cited include public institutions Arizona State University, Georgia State University, Alabama State University and roughly two-thirds of California State University's 23 campuses for tuition hikes of 38 percent, 46 percent, 43 percent and between 37 and 46 percent, respectively, over the last three years as well as for-profit colleges from DeVry University, Education Management and Corinthian Colleges. In addition to explaining why costs have gone up so dramatically, the schools must also discuss how they plan to address the rising prices.
Do you think these new measures will help students make more informed college choices?
July 7, 2011
When most people start a new job, it takes a while for them to find their way and perfectly arrange their tchotchkes before they feel truly comfortable. Not Susan Herbst: She took over as president of the University of Connecticut just 22 days ago but she's already made a huge impact on campus and beyond.
Herbst, the former executive vice chancellor of the University System of Georgia, and her husband, marketing consultant Douglas Hughes, have announced they will donate $100,000 to create a scholarship for needy UConn students pursuing degrees in the arts and humanities. "In these difficult times, UConn desperately needs increased private funding of student scholarships, faculty research, and building projects in order to become the top flagship university the state of Connecticut and its citizens deserve," she said in a statement.
The aptly-named Susan Herbst and Douglas Hughes Family Scholarship will be based on academic achievement and need and will be awarded for the first time next spring. Does this financial aid opportunity have you considering spending your college years in the Constitution State?
July 8, 2011
Attention recent college grads: You may be able to pay down those student loans a bit sooner than expected!
According to the annual Salary Survey by National Association of Colleges and Employers, graduates from the Class of 2011 shows a 4.8 percent starting salary bump over last year's graduates. The increase was seen across most disciplines including engineering, liberal arts and social sciences, though 5 percent more 2010 graduates were able to find jobs than their 2011 counterparts. With approximately $2,357 more before taxes (this year's grads will average $51,018 to last year's average of $48,661), new grads will have enough for a few months of rent, some padding to a savings account or, yes, a way to make a dent in those loans.
Recent grads, are you happy about this news? Soon-to-be grads, are you hopeful the salary figures will continue to increase until you finish college?
July 11, 2011
There's good news and bad news regarding state aid for students. The good: State financial aid for college students, including grants, work-study and loans, rose by nearly 4 percent last year. The bad: Just about half of the states surveyed cut need-based grants, even as demand for financial aid increased.
The data – from a report by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs – also revealed a 1-percent decline in overall state higher education spending and more money spent on need-based grants versus the amount spent on merit-based grants. While this means some students have access to resources that will help them complete college and bolster the economy, not all students are benefiting. Ohio, Alaska, Michigan, Hawaii and Utah have cut need-based grant funding by as much as 66 percent and in Georgia, lower award levels have been implemented for the HOPE Scholarship. And what about California and Washington, where financial aid increased? They've seen an increase in student-aid applications but cannot honor all requests because they have run out of money.
Experts view these findings as positive overall but are proceeding with "cautious optimism." Do you agree or disagree with the actions taken thus far?
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NEW YORK (AP) — Critics say a film that will be shown at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York unfairly links Islam and terrorism. Full Story


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