The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are warning people not to drink raw milk. Drinking raw milk can contain damaging bacteria including salmonella, E. Coli and listeria. 1,624 people have reported being sick, 187 have been sent to the hospital while two have died from drinking raw milk from the year 1998 to 2008.
Star Tribune Online
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/89275537.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Story #6
Amanda Baker teaches math at PACT Charter School, “If I didn’t know her [Amanda] I would think she was an art or music teacher,” said one of her students, “Baker is an amazing teacher. She understands what everyone is going through and she doesn’t judge where you come from.”
I asked Amanda why she wanted to be a teacher and her response was “I actually tried not to be a teacher. I wanted to live a comfortable life style and wanted to deal with math so I figured a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). I tried some classes, got bored but figured I could deal for 30 years because I would retire nicely. I then got a cube job one summer and went bonkers! I got out any time I could. In the meanwhile, I was a camp counselor and tutored on the side. I loved working with kids and teaching them new things. To watch the light bulb come on is so much fun to watch.” She chose math because “I was always good at math and enjoyed the puzzle of it. I had a lot of bad math teachers, but one really good one that inspired me to stick with it.” Amanda’s students inspirer her to keep going, “Even if things are hard they [the students] still try every day.”
PACT is mostly a Christian school so her beliefs fit right in, “I heard it put a really good way why you should choose Christianity over all else. If you are a Buddhist, you go to heaven if you have done enough good works and been a good person. If you are Muslim, you are to do good works and pray to God if you are to go to heaven. If you are Mormon you are to do good works and pray to God if you are to go to heaven... If you are Christian you go to heaven by being a good person, believing in God, and asking Jesus to be your Savior. So in all reality if you are a Christian you would go to heaven for all the other religions as well. Not just that but there is so much evidence archeologically to support Christianity. I took Old Testament Archeology in College and loved it.”
One of Amanda’s favorite quotes is something Albert Einstein said, “Life is x+y+z. X is work, Y is play, and Z is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.” And a Rene Descarte quote “Perfect men are like perfect numbers, very rare.”
Her advice is “I believe that what you think about something will happen... If you think positive, good things happen, if you think negative that will happen. I also think that things need to be reworded when you think it. EX. Don't be late. If you tend to be late instead think on time... I have never been late when I changed my wording to that. I also think that if you smile you will feel better. “
I asked Amanda why she wanted to be a teacher and her response was “I actually tried not to be a teacher. I wanted to live a comfortable life style and wanted to deal with math so I figured a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). I tried some classes, got bored but figured I could deal for 30 years because I would retire nicely. I then got a cube job one summer and went bonkers! I got out any time I could. In the meanwhile, I was a camp counselor and tutored on the side. I loved working with kids and teaching them new things. To watch the light bulb come on is so much fun to watch.” She chose math because “I was always good at math and enjoyed the puzzle of it. I had a lot of bad math teachers, but one really good one that inspired me to stick with it.” Amanda’s students inspirer her to keep going, “Even if things are hard they [the students] still try every day.”
PACT is mostly a Christian school so her beliefs fit right in, “I heard it put a really good way why you should choose Christianity over all else. If you are a Buddhist, you go to heaven if you have done enough good works and been a good person. If you are Muslim, you are to do good works and pray to God if you are to go to heaven. If you are Mormon you are to do good works and pray to God if you are to go to heaven... If you are Christian you go to heaven by being a good person, believing in God, and asking Jesus to be your Savior. So in all reality if you are a Christian you would go to heaven for all the other religions as well. Not just that but there is so much evidence archeologically to support Christianity. I took Old Testament Archeology in College and loved it.”
One of Amanda’s favorite quotes is something Albert Einstein said, “Life is x+y+z. X is work, Y is play, and Z is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.” And a Rene Descarte quote “Perfect men are like perfect numbers, very rare.”
Her advice is “I believe that what you think about something will happen... If you think positive, good things happen, if you think negative that will happen. I also think that things need to be reworded when you think it. EX. Don't be late. If you tend to be late instead think on time... I have never been late when I changed my wording to that. I also think that if you smile you will feel better. “
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sock It
A worker at the Sunnyside Care Center in Lake Park allegedly saw a nursing assistant put a sock in a screaming patient’s mouth. The assistant was fired and has denied putting the sock in the resident’s mouth. They are not blaming the care center for what happened.
Star Tribune online
http://www.startribune.com/local/88947272.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr
Star Tribune online
http://www.startribune.com/local/88947272.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Art, Science, and Rock n’ Roll
Abigail Allan is an artist who does not really fit into any category whether it’s abstract or expressionism. She spoke Wednesday March 10th at Anoka-Ramsey Community College about her life and how it has helped create and shape her art.
Allan got her Masters of Fine Art degree at Minnesota College of Art and Design where she minored in biology and art history. When the art department found out her minor was science they were not too happy because art and science seem like polar opposites. She now teaches at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and sometime teaches at the Minnesota Science Museum.
Abigail seems to have a connection to animals and insects with deformities because she has a deformity as well. Drawing pictures of these creatures was sort of a way to let out her emotions even though she wasn’t aware of it. Allan started talking about how this one time this little girl came with her dad to one of Allan’s exhibits and the little girl had a really bad cold and was just really miserable, so when the dad saw the frogs he looked and said “look at these frogs, aren’t they cool?” and the little girl looked at him and said “no daddy, that’s sad” and that’s the reaction Allan wanted, she wants people to realize what is happening and that it’s sad.
Allan’s theory is that science fuels the ideas that turns into something personal; which people then turn into art.
People can relate to a cause or something going wrong in the environment if they have examples like sculptures or pictures of deformed species. She has many drawings and sculptures of the frogs from Minnesota that have more than the normal four legs. People react to that sort of thing because they see what is happening, especially if they have something to look at that actually looks alive or like it was once alive.
Allan decided to combine science and art because it intrigued her; she liked the gross things about life. Plus she really didn’t get modern art at all.
Abigail was explaining that the process of art and the process of science experiments are alike in a lot of ways. People have to observe what they want to draw and observe what they want to do an experiment on. Second they come up with ideas of what they want to happen with their specific art piece or what they think will happen with their science experiment. Third they actually draw/sculpt or paint the piece of art to see what happens or see how it will turn out. Same with a science experiment, scientists carry out their experiments and write down their results.
Her advice to art students or art majors is to take a lot of pictures of what they want to draw or sculpt. Make sure they are good pictures because they can forget what they want to draw or even some important detail that needs to be on there. She went through college without taking a picture and she regretted it.
To see more visit Abigail Allan’s website,.
Allan got her Masters of Fine Art degree at Minnesota College of Art and Design where she minored in biology and art history. When the art department found out her minor was science they were not too happy because art and science seem like polar opposites. She now teaches at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and sometime teaches at the Minnesota Science Museum.
Abigail seems to have a connection to animals and insects with deformities because she has a deformity as well. Drawing pictures of these creatures was sort of a way to let out her emotions even though she wasn’t aware of it. Allan started talking about how this one time this little girl came with her dad to one of Allan’s exhibits and the little girl had a really bad cold and was just really miserable, so when the dad saw the frogs he looked and said “look at these frogs, aren’t they cool?” and the little girl looked at him and said “no daddy, that’s sad” and that’s the reaction Allan wanted, she wants people to realize what is happening and that it’s sad.
Allan’s theory is that science fuels the ideas that turns into something personal; which people then turn into art.
People can relate to a cause or something going wrong in the environment if they have examples like sculptures or pictures of deformed species. She has many drawings and sculptures of the frogs from Minnesota that have more than the normal four legs. People react to that sort of thing because they see what is happening, especially if they have something to look at that actually looks alive or like it was once alive.
Allan decided to combine science and art because it intrigued her; she liked the gross things about life. Plus she really didn’t get modern art at all.
Abigail was explaining that the process of art and the process of science experiments are alike in a lot of ways. People have to observe what they want to draw and observe what they want to do an experiment on. Second they come up with ideas of what they want to happen with their specific art piece or what they think will happen with their science experiment. Third they actually draw/sculpt or paint the piece of art to see what happens or see how it will turn out. Same with a science experiment, scientists carry out their experiments and write down their results.
Her advice to art students or art majors is to take a lot of pictures of what they want to draw or sculpt. Make sure they are good pictures because they can forget what they want to draw or even some important detail that needs to be on there. She went through college without taking a picture and she regretted it.
To see more visit Abigail Allan’s website,
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Breast Milk Cheese
A New York City chef has taken his wife’s breast milk and changed it into milk. Daniel Angerer and his wife had too much breast milk and it was taking over their fridge. Angerer decided to be creative and make cheese. He posted the recipe on his blog and called it “my spouse's mommy milk cheese”.
Star tribune online
http://www.startribune.com/nation/87145422.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUX
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Kevin Pabst
There are some interesting people who go to Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Kevin Pabst happens to be one of them.
His hobbies tend to revolve around computers. “My hobbies tend to revolve around things with screens, computers, things you plug into a television.” It isn’t a wonder why he decided to go for a CNET major. CNET stands for Computer Networking and Telecommunications. “I’m a CNET major because computers come easy to me.”
Some of the things he is passionate about is video games. He hopes that one day he’ll have a job writing about various video games. He also loves to read. “I have a passion for reading, mostly fantasy and sci-fi. My favorite series is the Sword of Truth for fantasy, and was the Ender series until I recently read Neuromancer, which I enjoy a lot more.”
Pabst future plans consist of graduating for Anoka-Ramsey Community College this spring with an Associate’s degree in Science CNET. He is hoping that the credits he has gathered from taking general classes will transfer to the University of Minnesota. He hopes to write for Game Informer but he has doubts that it will happen because it’s the biggest.
Pabst has written for BeefJack.com for less than a year. Beefjack.com is a website that has articles about arcade games and various video games.
His hobbies tend to revolve around computers. “My hobbies tend to revolve around things with screens, computers, things you plug into a television.” It isn’t a wonder why he decided to go for a CNET major. CNET stands for Computer Networking and Telecommunications. “I’m a CNET major because computers come easy to me.”
Some of the things he is passionate about is video games. He hopes that one day he’ll have a job writing about various video games. He also loves to read. “I have a passion for reading, mostly fantasy and sci-fi. My favorite series is the Sword of Truth for fantasy, and was the Ender series until I recently read Neuromancer, which I enjoy a lot more.”
Pabst future plans consist of graduating for Anoka-Ramsey Community College this spring with an Associate’s degree in Science CNET. He is hoping that the credits he has gathered from taking general classes will transfer to the University of Minnesota. He hopes to write for Game Informer but he has doubts that it will happen because it’s the biggest.
Pabst has written for BeefJack.com for less than a year. Beefjack.com is a website that has articles about arcade games and various video games.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Kidney Stones
Drinking citric acid can help with kidney stones. The citrate helps stop the form of calcium oxalate stones and reduces urine acidity. According to the National Institutes of Health if you drink citric acid three times a day it helps more than lemon juice or a diluted lemon juice. On the other hand cranberry and apple juice are good for some and bad for other types of stones.
New York Times Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02real.html?em
New York Times Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02real.html?em
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