Hockey has been played in some form or another for 100s of years and is thought to be one of the earliest sports in the world. It was invented by soldiers based in Canada and has carried it’s way through the United States. Because of it’s cold weather, Minnesota is one state that hockey is very popular in.
Seventeen-year-old Donovan Carson from Orono, MN is a student at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis who has a real passion for playing hockey. He has played hockey for the past 12 years and has learned a lot from playing the sport.
Carson said, “I started out playing hockey because two of my older siblings played hockey. I really looked up to my older brother Cameron and he was mainly the reason why I started playing in the first place.” He started playing hockey at the tender age of five. His parents never forced or pushed him to play hockey but once he saw Cameron start to love the sport, he wanted to do what his brother was doing.
“I thought playing hockey was just alright until I saw my first Minnesota Wild game when I was eight-years-old. Seeing the professionals glide across the ice really inspired me. They players were amazing and I wanted to be just like them. That’s when I began to love hockey,” Carson said. Like any sport, hockey takes strength and determination to stick through it. Carson looks up to the hockey players who worked hard to get to where they are. “Watching these professional players work hard at something that they loved encouraged me to find something that I loved to do so I could chase after it like these hockey players did. I was so motivated after seeing that game that I knew hockey was something that I wanted to do for life,” he said.
Carson played for the Orono Spartans at Orono High School. The team is currently placed in third in Wright County for hockey. Carson made the varsity hockey team as a freshman. “It was a real honor to make the varsity team. You have to be really good at hockey to make the team as a freshman and I worked so hard to make the team,” he said. “I got to be under the mentorship of these amazing high school seniors as a freshman. I had an advantage most of the junior varsity and C-team never got. Those seniors really encouraged me to pursue my dreams even more. It was awesome,” Carson said.
Darby Henderson was the greatest influence on Carson during his hockey years. “I loved Darby. He shared my same values with being a Christian and he was a great hockey player. He had everything,” he said.
Even though hockey can be dangerous, Carson kept on playing. He got his first concussion during his first varsity game of the season his freshman year. “I had the puck in the third period and this guy who was much bigger than I was hit me really hard and my head hit against the boards,” he said. Carson was benched for about a month from hockey with the injury. Even though the doctor’s wanted him to stay off the ice, Carson wanted to persevere and just play for the team.
During the summer, Carson liked to participate in a three-week intensive hockey camp that J Robinson holds down at the University of Minnesota. All day, every day you train in weight rooms and on the ice, building up your skill for hockey. “Those intensive hockey camps required a lot of hard work, but it was so worth it. It taught me a lot of discipline. Some days, the last thing I wanted to do was put on cold, sweaty hockey equipment at six in the morning but I did it anyways. Discipline is doing what you don’t want to do, when you don’t want to do it,” Carson said.
Carson said, “If there is anything I would want people to get from my experience with hockey is to go out there and pursue your dreams, no matter what. I want to make it to the NHL (National Hockey League) and there’s nothing that will stop me from pursuing that. If I fail sometimes along the way, I’ll pick myself up and try again.”
Four senators from the United States have recently asked Facebook to modify the new changes they introduced last week. It’s called “instant personalization” where it allows Facebook’s partner websites, like Pandora, gain access to personal information from its users.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/senators-ask-facebook-for-privacy-fixes/?ref=technology
In a recent study of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), students and faculty members at North Central University were asked a serious question, is HIV/AIDS a big threat to our country?
HIV and AIDS are a disease of the human immune system. It has caused many people to die all over the world and is the 4th highest killer of people in the United States. It is contagious and is very easy to get it if you have certain contact with someone who has the disease. Any contact with contaminated blood and needles will give you a chance of contracting the disease. Sex and blood transfusions even pass it on to people. Infected mothers can give their children HIV/AIDS through pregnancy, childbirth, and even breast-feeding. HIV can develop into AIDS and can eventually kill you within 10 years of contracting the disease. Medication can prolong your life but they are expensive and hardly available to third world countries.
A total of 40 students and faculty members were interviewed and the results varied. Some people hardly knew about it and how deadly it really is. Some people knew all about it and had their opinions of the subject.
About 34% of the people interviewed said that HIV/AIDS were hardly a big deal and that people shouldn’t over-react about it. Sheila Nyakundi said, “No, It just has to do with the immune system so I don’t think it’s a big deal. I mean people aren't educated about it and that's why they make a huge deal of it.”
47% of the people interviews said that HIV/AIDS were a big deal and that people need to start doing something about the outbreak. Sarah Lundberg said, "I think it’s sad when people give it to their kids. I mean, its kind of a big deal, I don’t have it, but it’s a pretty big deal for other people." Andrew Peterson said, “People don’t realize how big of a deal HIV and AIDS are until they know someone who has suffered from it and have died from it. I think that there are either people who don’t know exactly what it is, or they’re too scared of getting the disease to do anything about it. Yes, we need to be careful and take precautions to not get it, but we need to step up and doing something to prevent more people from getting the disease.”
There were about 19% of the people interviewed who didn’t even know exactly what HIV and AIDS were. As Nyakundi said earlier, “People aren’t educated about it.” There were a few students that, when asked, were confused by the question. Jared Anderson said, “To be honest, I hear general things about HIV and AIDS all the time at school and stuff, but, I don’t exactly know what it is.”
So whether people think HIV/AIDS are a big threat to the United States or not, they need to be educated in all of the information so they can formulate an opinion and have a basic understanding of the disease.
In January, Google was hacked into and until recently, the extent of the theft has been a company secret. A person with knowledge of the investigation has now claimed that Google’s password system was attacked. While no g-mail user’s password has been stolen, they are still investigating the situation.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/technology/20google.html?ref=todayspaper
Students at North Central University (NCU) have a wide variety of opinions when it comes to student-professor dating on campus.
Most of the neutral opinionated students didn’t care whether a professor dated a student or not because they knew that they personally wouldn’t date a teacher. Sarah Lundberg said, “Either way is fine, I’m not going to date a faculty member, so I don’t care.” Jaron Kissner had another reason for his neutral opinion. He said, “I think it depends on the ages of the teacher and the student. If the student is older or the teacher is younger, it shouldn’t matter. That’s why they have rules though, to make sure everyone has a safe learning experience.”
There were a few “No’s” in the poll at NCU. Most of the students who said “No” didn’t really have a reason why teachers shouldn’t date students. Donovan Carson said, “Nope, professors definitely shouldn’t date their students. It makes the classroom unsafe.”
For being a Christian university, it is interesting to find that so many students have such a huge difference in opinions. Surprisingly, there were more students for teachers dating students than there were against. “If a student wants to date a faculty member, then do it,” Michael Netherton said. Anacari Jankowski also said, “I think that if they keep the relationship outside of the classroom, it is fine.” Formerly known as “North Central Bible College”, Dan Lauder said that it was okay for students to date faculty members because around the university “it’s called ‘North Central Bridal College’ for a reason.”
Microsoft is coming out with two new cell phones aimed at 15- to 30-year-olds to serve their social networking. The Kin One and Kin Two, designed to compete against Apple’s iPhone, will be sold with Verizon Wireless in the United States.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/technology/13soft.html?ref=technology
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The album MGMT has been working on for the past two years will finally be released this Tuesday, April 13, 2010. “Congratulations” will feature nine tracks and all of the tracks are performed by Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, who make up MGMT.
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Recently, researchers from Harvard set out to discover how much exercise women need to avoid gaining weight, as they grow older. They found that women of normal weight needed an hour of physical activity a day to avoid gaining more than five pounds over any three-day period.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/health/06regi.html?ref=health
Forty-year-old Brian Pingel from Maple Grove, MN is a professor at North Central University (NCU) in downtown Minneapolis and plays a major role in the youth department as a pastor. He’s a full time pastor at NCU and also works at Life Church in Maple Grove.
According to Pingel, God called him to be a pastor when he got saved in his sophomore year of high school. “With being a pastor,” he says, “I really had to know for sure that that was something God was calling me to do.” After a series of confirmations, one specific instance stood out and that’s when he knew he was called into the ministry. Pingel’s youth group traveled around cities doing drama through outreach musicals and on their way to Davenport, Iowa to do a performance, their bus had broken down three times in Illinois. Pingel stated, “Every time it broke down, I went outside and was really praying for my life and the bus and everything. When we finally got to Davenport, this lady came up to me after we had performed our musical and she was like, “Are you called to the ministry?” and she was telling me prophetically things that I had been praying about. That was confirmation that I knew I was supposed to be and called to be a pastor.”
Pingel feels that he’s called to reach out to teenagers in life. “The youth really need advocates to start their journey right. I just really want to see them transformed. Once you start out the journey right, then your life has a better chance of just staying with God,” he said. One of the things he wants youth to take from his preaching is that teenagers have what it takes to fix what’s wrong in the world and that they need to know they can do it. “I love the “God-moments” when their eyes just light up and they just get what you’re talking about. I love when they finally understand that you know what they’re going through and that you truly do care about them,” Pingel said when asked what he enjoys the most about working with teenagers.
Pingel’s greatest strength in the ministry is pastoral care. “I am able to walk along side of people and encourage them,” he says, “I can help with whatever they need without having to carry their baggage with me. I think that is an important ability in this area.”
The most influential person in Pingel’s life was his mother. “A true prayer warrior,” he says. Another influential person was his youth pastor. “I learned from both his examples and mistakes and it really took me awhile to realize the influence he really had on me.”
Pingel does have a real heart for youth, supports them, and wants to see them do something with their lives; which is something we all should be doing. Some advice he would give to someone aspiring to become a pastor or be involved in the ministry is, “Do the hard work of developing your character so that your character can support the weight of your dreams and can support the weight of your ministry.”
When looking at this particular group of teenagers and college students, you would have never expected them to take time out of their Thursday night to worship, pray, and seek the Lord, but that’s just what college students at North Central University did last Thursday night just before they headed in their own directions for spring break.
This was no ordinary prayer meeting by any means. These young adults were hungry and striving for God’s presence. After a week of fasting and prayer, this Thursday night was the last and was expected to be better than the last three days. The last three days have focused on a time of reflection, praying for brothers and sisters in Christ, communication from God, and hearing His voice. Thursday night’s meeting wanted to focus on praying with fellow students of North Central and to seek God’s guidance in their lives for the time of action has come.
The worship leader starts reading from Psalm 84:10 and 11, “For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” College students all around the chapel started worshiping God and singing “Better Is One Day”.
The theme for the night was “You Won’t Relent”. The young adults all over the room and the worship band sang it over and over. “You won’t relent until You have it all, my heart is yours,” the lead guitar player sang, “I don’t want to talk about You like Your not in the room, I want to look right at You, I want to sing right to You,” were the powerful words that were sung during a time of worship and prayer.
Prayer and intercession for teenagers who don’t know God was encouraged. An alter call for college students who wanted to dedicate or re-dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ was held. “Lord we come to You,” a student of North Central begins, “We admit that we need You in our lives and we turn from the rebellious sins of our pasts. We believe that You died for our sins so we can have everlasting life, and that You rose from the grave three days later. Lord, we invite You to come into our lives and come into our hearts to control our lives by the moving of the Holy Spirit. We receive You as our Lord and Savior.” You could hear a pin drop within the sound of that brave, courageous college student who volunteered to lead everyone in the chapel in a corporate prayer.
The prayer and worship meeting was just what college students needed for a great first night of spring break. North Central college student Donovan Carson said, “This was a great, powerful, and inspirational prayer meeting. A great start to a great spring break!”
A new study has found that one in four parents think some vaccines cause autism in children. The study also has shown that one in eight parents have refused to give their children at least one recommended vaccine.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health/research/09child.html?ref=health
Twenty-one-year-old Angelina Geinosky is from Warrenville, Ill., the hometown where she began her incredible passion of singing.
“My mom told me that I could sing before I could talk. I don’t know if I was influenced by Disney movies, or it could be my father’s love of music, all I know is that apparently I have been singing my whole life,” Geinosky said enthusiastically when asked when her whole passion started. Her choir director and mentor, Gordon Krauspe, inspired Angelina to really go out there and do something remarkable with her talent and even helped her discover her true passion of music.
Angelina Geinosky showed off her gift in several school choirs and even participated in the Midwest Young Artists. “One of the things I have learned over the years about my love of singing,” She says, “Is that although I love to sing on my own, I enjoy singing much more when I am singing in a choir.” Geinosky’s favorite singing part in her choir was the alto. She enjoyed it so much more because she usually got to sing the harmony.
“I really enjoy all the hard work and teamwork that comes along with chorale music because it helped me learn restraint and balance in my singing. I just love how people are blessed with the gift of song, and I think it's amazing that, when trained, I can use my voice the same way a person uses any other kind of instrument. Plus- it makes me happy,” exclaims Geinosky with such excitement that filled the whole room.
Alyssa Peterson
Media Writing
Interview with Angelina Geinosky
Q: Where are you from?
A: I was born in West Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Warrenville, Illinois. I moved to Plymouth, Minnesota just about 3 years ago.
Q: What is your passion and favorite hobby in life?
A: Singing
Q: When did you start singing?
A: My mom told me that I could sing before I could talk, I
don't know if I was influenced by disney movies, Or it could be my fathers
love of music, All I know is that apparently I have been singing my whole
life.
Q: Who was the most influential person in singing? Any coaches or musical artists?
A: I was really inspired by my choir director Gordon Krauspe. He really helped me discover my true passion of music.
Q: What kind of music were you into? More choir music or did you like to go solo?
A: I was involved in several school choirs and also involved in the Midwest Young artists. One of the things I have learned over the years about my love of singing is that although I love to sing on my own, I enjoy singing much more when I am singing in a choir.
Q: What was your favorite singing part in your choirs?
A: In my choirs I have always been an alto, and I think that’s why I enjoy the choir aspect more then a soprano would, because as an alto I usually sing the harmony.
Q: What do you enjoy most in singing and choir?
A: I really enjoy all the hard work and teamwork that comes along with chorale music because it helped me learn restraint and balance in my singing. (Because in a choir every voice has to blend in with each other.) I just love how people are blessed with the gift of song, and I think it's amazing that (when trained) I can use my voice the same way a person uses any other kind of instrument. Plus- it makes me happy.
Apple Inc. has just now started to ban sexually suggestive applications for its iPhone and its upcoming iPad. Apple is hoping that the iPad will be family friendly and an educational tool in schools, which would be hard to sell if the devices are filled with racy applications.
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http://www.startribune.com/science/85007957.html?elr=KArks:DCiUo3PD:3D_V_qD3L:c7cQKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
It was an eventful morning at the North Point Inn today. Nina Cortez, the bookkeeper, and Kevin Blohm, a cook, were robbed by knifepoint a couple minutes before 9 in the morning. The man who robbed the Inn took about $130 in cash off of Cortez’s desk and stabbed Blohm to death in the hallway. Nina Cortez was not injured in the robbery.
“He just took the money and walked out,” Cortez says. Police are still investigating the crime. Just goes to show, you should always be prepared and be cautious of your surroundings and suspicious matter.
A new research found that short, afternoon naps actually raise young adult’s learning power and improve their memory to learn new facts. The study suggests that sleeping can restore the brain’s ability to learn.
Original Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/research/23beha.html?em
An outbreak of mumps occurred in over 1,500 people in the New York area this week. The disease affected some Orthodox Jewish communities and young men in Brooklyn, despite them being vaccinated. Health officials have said that this is the worst outbreak of mumps in the United States since 2006.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/nyregion/12mumps.html?ref=health
There has recently been a major disagreement within the county commissioners in Anoka. The county sheriff, Gus Dicesari, proposed the idea to county commissioners that Anoka county should buy eight new police cruisers and hire five new sheriff’s deputies. Commission President, Anne Chenn, disagreed that these things were needed for the community and brought up that the county could not afford to hire more deputies and new police cruisers. Anita Shenuski, who agrees with Sheriff Dicesari, stated that the county should spend more money on the sheriff’s department and law enforcement than programs for the 5,000 migrant families who come to the county for work. Shenuski claims that the immigrants are the reason for problems in law enforcement. In the heated argument, Chenn denied that immigrants are the problem. Chenn claimed that because of increased costs for health care for employees, higher fuel costs, and the $50 million used to build the new prison to alleviate overcrowding is the reason why the county has no extra money to spend on the unnecessary new police cruisers. Chenn suggested instead of spending $580,000 on the cruisers and the five new deputies, that deputies not drive their cruisers home each day, as they do now, to reduce mileage on the cruisers. Dicesari still put up a fight saying that parking the police cruisers in the street was a deterrent to crime. In a vote 5-2, the sheriff’s request for the eight new police cruisers and five new sheriff’s deputies, has been denied.
Hollywood actor, Charlie Sheen, and his wife, Brooke, are due in court today due to accusations of domestic violence. Charlie Sheen is scheduled to enter a plea after he threatened his wife with a knife on December 25, 2009. The couple will have separate court hearings and only the judge will determine if they can leave together.
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http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/tv/83788022.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUq9_b9b_jEkP:QUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
To Save A Life, a new faith-based inspirational film opens this Friday to limited theaters across the country. It is said to deal with real life issues that teens face such as drugs, alcohol, social acceptance, and pregnancy. The cast and production crew is hoping that the film will reach out to people to help them deal with their troubles. They are hoping the film will “empower teenagers to be a messenger of hope by reaching out and befriending someone in trouble.”
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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/21/entertainment/la-et-save21-2010jan21
There was a dreadful accident that occurred on Interstate 790 at 6:45 a.m. in the morning. The incident happened when two tractor-trailers collided and started a chain reaction crash involving a total of four tractor-trailers and 14 cars. According to Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department, two people driving cars were killed and twenty other people were injured and taken to the hospital. Tony Sullivan, the local fire chief, was told by one of the ambulance drivers that four of those 20 injured are seriously hurt and had injuries that are life threatening. Sullivan stated that his firefighters had to cut the roofs off three of the cars to free the drivers and passengers that were trapped inside. All five ambulances from the fire department were called on the scene along with ambulances from four nearby citys’ fire departments and the “Life Flight” helicopter from Memorial Hospital in Andover. The helicopter was used to fly two seriously injured people to the Trauma Center in Statesville, which is 50 miles away. Sullivan said the scene of the accident looked like a war zone and that he had never seen anything that bad in the 18 and a half years he’s been with the fire department. The accident, which happened in the northbound lanes, closed the entire highway, north and south and is still closed at 10 a.m. Wei said he had no idea when the interstate would be re-opened and that the police department is still investigating the accident.
Public health officials stress that the “choking game”, practiced by 1 in 20 eighth graders in Oregon, was hazardous and could lead to brain damage, long-term neurological disability and death. Adolescent health managers and specialists are extremely concerned that so many kids are practicing this “game”.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/health/research/22choke.html?ref=health
The Food and Drug Administration is concerned about health hazards from a component of plastic bottles and other packaging called bisphenol-A, or BPA. They concerned about the effects it has on the brain and behavior of infants and children. The FDA is now investigating BPA and it’s effects.
Original Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/health/16plastic.html?ref=health
