Ways I relieve stress.

I don’t relieve stress. I don’t have the time to, since I spend most of my free time trying unsuccessfully to do well in this class. When I should be sleeping, I am doing my homework for the other classes I have, that I didn’t have time to do.

Hopefully stress will cause me to have a brain aneurism young, so that I can get some rest, after I spend thousands of dollars on an education I won’t be able to get a job for, due to the poor job market, and the fact that about 50 million people will have the same degree as me, and probably from a better school.

I guess you could say writing this tirade is part of my stress relief. Now I have to stop writing this so I can write a 500 word story about a poll that maybe 20 people filled out- if I am lucky.

U.N Emissions talks

President Obama may be going to Copenhaugen Denmark for a U.N conference, where limiting green house admissions will be discussed. However, Paul Bledsoe, a spokesman for the bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy thinks that the president should be careful not to jeopardize a chance for a climate bill stateside. The President will be deciding in the coming days whether to attend the conference of not.

Is recycling important to Minnesotans?

Lucina Mendez
November 18, 2009
Recycling Minnesota


Is recycling important to Minnesotans?


Seventeen out of 27 Minnesotans surveyed last week say that they recycle every

day, and 10 out of 26 people polled said they believe global warming is a hoax.

According to Buzzle.com, a research based web portal, recycling is important

because it saves energy, by eliminating the need to use energy to extract virgin

materials in the first place. Energy is also saved by eliminating the need for the

energy that is required to deal with the refuse left behind by waste products that

cause pollution.

Some of the fossil fuels used in industry include coal, diesel and gasoline,

which emit harmful gases such as methane, sulfur dioxide, and carbon-dioxide,

according to Buzzle.com. Recycling minimizes the need for fuel usage in new

manufacturing, which reduces the amount of harmful pollutants in the environment.

Twenty out of 27 polled agreed that recycling is important; while seven

answered that they believed it to be sort-of important.

The Recycling Association of Minnesota offers programs to raise awareness

about the need for recycling. The “Away From Home” program sponsored by R.A.M gives

commuters in Minnesota the option to recycle their cans and bottles at area gas

stations. Their website gives more information on recycling programs in and around

the Twin Cities. Ellen Telander, executive director for the R.A.M

describes the website as “An educational website for the public on recycling.”



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Twenty-four of the 27 Minnesotans, who were polled, thought that recycling

receptacles should be available at all schools, government buildings and businesses

next to garbage cans.

AmyLynne Hermanek, a Human Services judge who works at the 777 Lafayette

government building in St. Paul, says that recycling bins can be found all around

the building. “I would prefer that most places give you the option to recycle,

because it’s such a high pay off for such a small burden.”


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Mother charged in case of boy who hid in oven

The mother of an 11-year old boy is being charged with endangerment of a child and malicious punishment of a child after she stopped her son from escaping their apartment where he was being assaulted by his father.

The boy’s father, William T. Hurley, was beating him with an extension cord, as well as his fist, and then burned him with an iron after the boy had received a beating with the belt from his mother after being found hiding under his mother’s bed.
The boy ran out of the apartment, so his mother grabbed him and dragged him back in, the complaint said. The boy ran to hide in the oven, and his mother turned on the stove to force him out, when he got out of the oven, Hurley started beating him again.

When officers arrived on the scene they found marks and burns on the boy’s body. The father had to be restrained, after threatening to beat his son again. The boy was taken to the hospital.

A Place I’ve Traveled to (Las Vegas)

A Place I’ve Traveled to (Las Vegas)

I traveled to Las Vegas with a friend this past April, the day after my 28th birthday. I had always wanted to go, as I’ve watched one too many gangster movies, and thought Vegas would be like something out of an Ocean’s eleven movie.
I saved for a long time, so that I could stay at a nicer room at Planet Hollywood, which at the time, was a newer hotel/Casino, right in the center of the strip.
I ended up having a really good time, but nothing like you’d think. I didn’t do anything I couldn’t tell my grandmother about (sadly) and I didn’t go to one night club, or win a lot of money.
What I did do in Vegas was visit Madam Tussad’s Wax Museum, ride a gondola, see a male stripper review, and visit the Eiffel Tower, I also visited over a dozen casino’s on the strip, all of which were beautiful.
I would love to go again, but maybe for a bachelorette party or, with more people, also it would have been nicer to have a little more money to stretch out. As it was I spent 1,500 hundred on the whole thing, which included airfare and 5 nights in the hotel, which is very very reasonable.

Minneapolis woman gets 5 years in prison for fatal DWI crash

Melissa Heus who pleaded guilty in September to killing 37-year-old James Wolter, in a drinking and driving accident which also injured another will serve more than five years in prison on her sentence of 96 months.

Heus had three previous drinking and driving offenses. At the time of the crash which occurred at the intersection of Hwy. 252 and 66th Avenue N , Heus’s alcohol level was .36 percent which is four times the legal limit.

James Wolter burned to death in his Chrysler LeBaron after being stuck by Heus. Daniel Goodrich, a witness at the scene, tried in vain to free Wolter , and still feels guilt over his inability to do so.

Heus also contributed to the death of Beverly Kauth, who was already in fragile health at the time of the accident and had brain surgery as a result of the crash. Kauth died this past June,

Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes

I spend an untold fortune this Halloween to be a Vulcan, but my shirt didn’t come, so I was forced to be a pimp instead. Which was okay, but I really wanted to be a Vulcan.
I went to Hell’s Kitchen and 1st ave this Halloween. My favorite thing I saw at dinner at Hell’s kitchen was a guy dressed as Kermit.
At 1st ave the costumes were insane. Many groups of people dressed together as an ensemble. There was the characters from never ending story, two guys in a death star costume, and a guy dressed as a piece of bacon.
I love Halloween but I have worked Halloween night the last two years. I think I won’t work it again. The only time I really want to go out and have a really good time is Halloween and New Years. This is why I hate working my second job at a bar. Those are the nights they want you to work the most.
I am thinking long and hard right now about what I want to be next year.