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NJ Department of Health and Human Services presents “Project DIRECT”
In response to the growing number of patients with type two diabetes, a partnership formed expected to reduce the rate of increase for type two.
A report by a three-pronged health alliance between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NJ Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. The Human Services Department, along with many facets of the community reported their findings on type two diabetes prevention at New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services.
The prevention program is called Project DIRECT, which stands for Diabetes Interventions Reaching and Educating Communities Together.
“Project DIRECT has been a successful program of outreach, health promotion, and diabetes care, in which the community participated in developing the interventions from the outset,” said Walter Ames, M.D., Ph.D., a Medical Epidemiologist at the CDC and
Project DIRECT began emphasizing Health Promotion. A “Ready, Set, Walk” program trained exercise leaders to promote daily 30 minute self-paced walking programs in schools, churches, community centers, YMCAs, and senior centers. Project DIRECT school- and church-based nutrition programs worked with cooks to reduce the fat content in lunches. Additionally, they worked with government officials to bring in health messages and personally improve the health of members of their organizations through cooking classes and health fairs on diabetes.
On Diabetes Care, workshops were held for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nutritionists and health educators on the American Diabetes Association guidelines for management and diagnosis of diabetes with the goal of improving the quality of care of the disease. Workshops were given to people with diabetes on basic self-management to help them control their blood glucose and prevent complications.
To create outreach for their mission and their work, Project DIRECT aired a major media campaign with talk show appearances, cooking segments on TV shows, and newspaper ads to promote their ideas. Other events included outreach to educators and church leaders to encourage them to talk about diabetes prevention and diabetes screenings conducted in schools, churches and at civic and fraternal group meetings.
- Nearly 21 million Americans have diabetes, characterized by high blood glucose levels that result when the body’s is unable produce and/or use insulin.
- Diabetes can lead to severely debilitating or fatal complications, such as heart disease, blindness, kidney disease and amputations.
- It is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.
- Type 2 diabetes is occurring more often in young people as more children and adolescents in the United States become overweight and inactive.
- African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians and other ethnic groups are at high risk for Type 2 diabetes
The American Diabetes Association is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization supporting diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the Association has offices in every region of the country, providing services to hundreds of communities. For more information, please call the American Diabetes Association at 1-800-555-1212 or visit http://www.diabetes.org. Information from both these sources is available in English and Spanish.
R.B. Public Relations is committed to and authentic journalism, delivering news that is non-bias and timely. It is our mission to spread honest messaging and tell the story of the people.
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1) As a proponent of innovative hiring practices, the companys president has worked diligently to hire older workers, disabled workers and the homeless.
CORRECTED: Company President John Smith develops a mission to hire older workers, disabled workers, and the homeless at John Smith inc.
2) The outrageously funny british farce, RUN FOR YOUR WIFE!, will romp across the Lake Street Players stage may 25–27 and may 31-june 2.
It will be a fun-filled evening for the whole entire family, with each hilarious performance starting promptly at 8 p.m. in the evening. Hurry to get tickets now before we run out!!
CORRECTED: “RUN FOR YOUR WIFE,” a British comedy, will take the Lake Street Players stage May 25-27 and May 31-June 2 all shows starting at 8 pm. Don’t miss the chance to see this outrageously funny show with the whole family. Tickets are on sale now!
3) In a move that shows how decisive she can be, the chancellor of the state system of higher education today appointed a very, very highly qualified search committee comprised of 14 distinguished members of the academic community to find a replacement for retiring board of trustees president Harold Walters. The chancellor charged the committee with the task of finding a replacement who could match Walters magnificent dedication toward education in the state.
CORRECTED: Higher Education State Chancellor appointed a 14-person search committee to find a replacement for retiring Board of Trustees President, Harold Walters. Walters's magnificent dedication to education in the state sets a high bar for his unknown predecessor.
4) Oak Ridge Homes is proud to announce the opening of its newest and most spectacular subdivision—Oak Crest. These unparalleled luxury four- and five-bedroom homes with spectacular views of Paradise Valley offer some of the latest in-home conveniences newhome buyers will surely want in their new homes. Built on 1/4-acre lots and beginning at $350,000, the quality of these new luxury homes has to be seen to be believed. Open houses are being scheduled by six of the areas finest and most prestigious real estate firms that have been selected to list homes in the Oak Crest subdivision.
CORRECTED: Oak Ridge Homes is proud to announce the opening of its newest and most spectacular subdivision—Oak Crest. Each home in Oak Crest is built on 1/4-acre lots and begins at $350,000. These luxury four-to-five-bedroom homes offer spectacular views of Paradise Valley the latest in-home conveniences for new home buyers. Six real estate agencies in the state are scheduled to show homes in the Oak Crest subdivision at open houses coming soon.
5) Emerson is dedicated and committed to his work as president of the board of directors and while serving in that capacity has distinguished himself admirably as a proven leader. Other executives can’t hold a candle to his unmatched drive to make Emerson Industries an unrivaled leader in precision manufacturing processes. During Emersons visionary leadership, production and sales of the companys products have increased a spectacular 37 percent for the year so far.4 Editing an Adv
CORRECTED: Emerson Walsh has proven his leadership in his short time as President of the Board of Directors in efforts to make Emerson Industries an unrivaled leader in precision manufacturing processes. During Walsh’s term, company production and sales have increased 37 percent this year alone.
“The Most Fascinating Freshman at Seton Hall”
Back in August 2023, John Henri Cartelli appeared on Seton Hall’s campus, and since then, has made a mysteriously strong impact on his new world, leading everyone who meets him to speculate whether or not he’s real. Within one conversation, I was convinced I had spoken to a woodland nymph. I met John Henri, a political science major somehow as spiritually far from the grim world of politics as one can be, in SHU theater’s production of Pride and Prejudice. Here is my newest conversation with the man behind the myth.
I found John Henri on a hammock between two trees outside of Boland. He offered me a stool for my seat.
“My name is John Henri Cartelli, the first of my line, '' he started. John is nineteen, a freshman born and raised in Boonton, New Jersey which is “two square miles of dirt along the Rockaway river in the armpit of Parsippany”.
“I'm truly very fortunate to have grown up there…it's walkable, with a good heart and community, diverse in opinions…and tolerant of those opinions.” Originally, John's parents lived in Sparta, but moved to expose John to a more diverse community. Apparently, with satisfying results: “10/10 would grow up again,” he told me.
Christopher John Cartelli and Amy Blithe Cartelli are his parents. John's father “is a classic jersey-italian man” describing his father and his white tank top and blue jeans. John Henri broke into laughter. “He says some silly things and can’t read so good sometimes…without being boastful or bias I would truly say he's the best father I could possibly image”
Similarly, he adores his mother “as a fantastic model of someone who is kind and tender and emotionally in touch.”
He has a brother “five years his elder who is just two inches taller and two inches broader.” The four of them grew up together with John Henri’s grandparents living right down the road amidst German and Italian families.
“I'm really just a guy to be honest,” he says humbly. As a political science and philosophy major, a lover of history and the arts, an actor involved in SHU theater, and a speaker in Voices of Leadership, you could say he has a few titles. John Henri is also “a hiker, a kayaker, an embroiderer, a woodburner, a wood carver, a frolicker,” not to mention a family-orientated cook.
When asked what motivates so many hobbies he said, “first and foremost, I have chronic ADHD, so everything is interesting all the time, so the second you mention anything remotely interesting I am now doing that for the rest of my life.”
Hiking is his oldest hobby. “The first time i went hiking I was a potato in my fathers backpack being dragged through the forest, so I started hiking before I could walk.” Now, he can't live without it.
Running through every activity is its anthropological center. “All of my hobbies are focused on that same web of humanity. I'm very interested in the human relationship to the natural world…all of my hobbies in essence are a folk hobby.”
The most motivational of his hobbies is woodburning pyrography. “When you sit down there with a hot pen and you have a needle that's four hundred degrees fahrenheit and you're like ‘what's gonna happen?’ that's amazing; that's sick.”
The Cartelli parents gave him the opportunity to make his own decisions which helped his confidence in deciding other personal aspects of his life, still there were strict moral guidelines.
“It was the brand on my last name and what that means…you are representing this concept and you make this name what it is…it is a way of guiding yourself…responsibility to yourself and your name to live your best life and if you are not living your best life and for your family then you are doing dishonor to the principles you've been given.”
John Henri’s father is a pioneer of the family because he is a bit of a split off of earlier generations. “I glorify him sometimes because I think he deserves it. He broke the chain...” John goes on to explain how his father made his own family ideals, separating himself from the wild aspects of the family he grew up with. His mother deserves just as much credit, John says.
I expressed that some people feel having a name to uphold is a burden, but this was not the case for John Henri. He explained,“I think the reason why it felt less like a burden which it often is when you hear someone say ‘you’re this,’ you know…it was more so just honor…there are certain fundamentals of what it means to be a good person. To be honest with myself. To be hardworking. To always look somebody in the eye. All of those things made it more of a privilege than ever a burden.” Being a Cartelli is his compass through life, something that was felt positively because of how his father, mother, and brother created it for him.
He owes his concept of masculinity to his father. He is both gentle and tough but endlessly intentional about what traits he chose to pass to his sons.
Christopher John Cartelli also grounded his music which “has followed a linear path.” He was born with the foundations of classic rock (Zeplin, Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers).
“I discovered my own foundations in 8th grade because I was young and angry at my math homework,” leaning into some tougher tracks. Once he “mellowed out,” he became himself. Enter: an indie phase. Peach Pit, the Vacations, Pinegrove, and more.
When asked for his spotify wrapped prediction, he leaned his head backwards on the tree. “Dude, it's gonna be crazy.” John Henri is now entering a bluegrass music era because of its folk roots which are at the core of his hobbies. Not to mention, he was in a bluegrass grass musical recently which may have influenced him for the past month to explore banjo and bluegrass fundamental to US culture.
John Henir said “You're gonna need a secondary interview” when I asked about books.
“ADHD has a bigger hand on the rudder than I'd like it to.” John Henri admits. “I currently have 25 unread books in my dorm right now.” Right now he is reading Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan for nostalgia, American Gods for its combination of myth and American culture and Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, his lifelong collection of poetry, and Heart of Darkness. Heart of Darkness would be John Henri’s most recommended book to read for its beautiful writing, conciseness, and trippiness. It uses colonialism in the African Congo as a metaphor for human subconscious
“My bookreads is gonna go crazy this summer, I'm gonna brag about that next fall” he said.
John Henri’s relationship with his friends on campus is “pretty silly.” However he admits his thoughts towards his friends at the moment are as follows: “You're the best; i wanna take a nap”
He thinks he has a “loose cannon effect on them” with exhaustion from school hindering total attention to them, but his impact is “silliness and absurdity” nonetheless.
John Henri posits that his friends followed stages to getting to know him.
The “first ten second reaction is intimidation or just odd…I'm lanky, I'm tall, I'm beared, I'm a man..it can be a bit of an odd sight.” But he is a self-proclaimed “silly billy.” Just a “silly fellow clicking his heels” on our campus.
He speculates the next stage could stagnate at whimsicalness, but there's a larger emotional depth and well-roundedness that people who truly get to know him will find. And they are more than welcome to find it.
John is generally an open book. “I would love to be mysterious, but who am I kidding…my essence is free domain.”
On the topic of things we love…
“I'm a bit of a lover…I really do love love.”
John Henri had a thing or two to say about love. He believes “Love is a fundamental part of a human being…it is a culmination of all of our humanity into a single entity…”
I asked John what he thought humans were supposed to do with love. He told me,“...the purpose of love is to make the most and build the healthiest and happiest and most respectful and blissful relationship with another human being…it is your personal bliss on earth…love is not more so a right, but it is your fundamental gift and opportunity as a human being to find your happiness on earth.”
Love will bring out the best in us, because it must. “If nothing else, love is boiled down to respect…you are being the best listener you can be, the most emotionally mature you can be, the best communicator you can be…it's a lot like Aristotle's definition of a true friend, because at its core love is something you can't control, but that friendship you build thats what makes love beautiful.”
I wondered if college students have just as much a chance at finding love and he answered, “(love) is not about time and place.” So, fellow student, if you ask John Henri, you can experience love right now. Still, it is very important to consider what that means.
“Its like baking a cake.” he says, excited to share this analogy he recently journaled about.”You need to know how to bake a cake, which means you need to know the skills necessary (how to communicate how to be respectful how to be emotionally intelligent) you need the ingredients (you need to know what to look for a find the right person that compliments yourself and also respects you how you respect them), and thirdly you need to put in a ton of effort.” As long as a person has those three things nothing else matters.
John Henri sees that “People are looking for the wrong things in each other” when they should be internalizing that “love is practicality.” It is coming to another person with your needs and a willingness to work and be able to communicate and listen back.
“You can never look for love,” he advises as part of this personal philosophy. “Never try to enter a relationship if you are lonely…you will compromise unintentionally and force that person to be something you want them to be which you never want to do.”
He owes these mature perspectives to seeing his parents' relationship as a child. The depth of their relationship has sculpted this perspective he shared with me and why he is so hopeful for his future love life.
“I think the goal of love and the purpose of love..in its most virtuous sense, is just to enjoy your time on earth and share something beautiful with another human being.”
John Henri smiled as he said: “All of the poems and songs about love are true…I almost kinda can't wait. Like I'm excited–I'm not in love right now, but I'm almost excited for the time I fall in love because I'm so confident and positive about the opportunities and the prospects of that relationship…you never know fully, there's so many bumps..but I value the principles necessary to learn and work through that with another person.”
Sitting up straight in his hammock, he says to all: “One day you are going to be absolutely and utterly and wholeheartedly to your core just in awe and admiration and respect and love with another human being like it's going to shake you to your core…and it's going to absorb your entire being”
Campus brightens with this resolution, bells are heard from Jubilee, and two squirrels chase each other across the green.
“I'm single though I'm not a guru…” he admits.
Love and religion are two things John Henri is navigating now.
John described an interesting religious history in his family. “When i was young i was baptism as a presbyterian–no one in my family is presbyterian”
John's dad is Roman Catholic and his mother was a Dutch reformist. John never identified as a Christian and was comfortable saying he was non-affiliated, but now he is in the process of that identification.
He would say he is Pagan now, which he recognizes for its cultural practice more than faith practice. Being Italian, Norse, German, and Irish, he likes to recognize the hellenistic pantheon and norse pantheon of Germany and Scandinavia and the pantheon of the celtic tribes.
“I take it more so as principles…they (gods) are devices of praising and doing real work.”
Unlike christianity, there are eight equi-distant holidays on the celtic calendar which start on the winter solitics, the darkest day getting brighter: hibernation, the thawing, the frolic and harvest.
“This religion actually eliminated my seasonal depression, because in modern culture people like to praise summer as when you have fun and then you have the dark times of winter–but that's not it. Every single season is necessary and has a purpose…every single aspect that exists within nature is absolutely critical to how nature functions.”
He also believes in Greek myth because of how what is sacred and loved by humans in myth reflects what we value in our own human culture and natural environment.
In his exploration, he finds gratitude. “Its a real gift to choose your own faith and it brings so much peace to your soul to choose”
However, he does feel he is being tested. “April is praying for my downfall…I must have not sacrificed enough fruit or something.” John Henri looks ahead anxiously to finals and internship applications but knows it's time to put his head down and buckle through it.
John Henri Cartelli is objectively fascinating, but I understand not everyone may practice as he preaches. He himself said, “If you wanna listen, listen, if you don't, I don't really care, you do you tough guy.”
John understood, “Im socratic, i'm a human, i don't know what i don't know” and said he certainly “won't claim (himself) as the most interesting”
“I could be totally wrong about the universe” he said, “–but it's awesome…I just know that when I die I'm going back into the earth” John’s philosophies assert that one is in a place where they belong and in a world that loves them. And that’s enough consolation for him at least.
There is suffering but it is fundamentally human.“It allows you to experience everything else so broadly,” John Henri emphasized.
In conclusion, “My main philosophical takeaway that I base these things off is life is just f****** awesome dude.”
He describes how he is sitting in a hammock “on a gorgeous breezy spring day in the bosom of my home and my mother and my earth, getting interviewed by an amazing friend of mine and the leaves just came out of the trees and the ground is nice and cool.” John Henri is absolutely overjoyed, “ …it's things like that,” he celebrates, “I love it…I can't help but love this stuff!”
He’d like readers to enjoy the little things, everything in moderation, but “enjoy every aspect of your life.”
“The only sin you can commit is when you betray your humanity.” Be true to yourself and your happiness.
“My main goal is life–only one–is to be content” John says, however that looks. “I got about 60 (years) give or take–hopefully give–...to do what I gotta do and that's lovely and my plan is just to enjoy it to the best of its ability and to leave the most positive impact on my environment that I can.”
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Heinz with the ticket to Summer-time Flavor
Heinz Releases 5 Bold Flavored Ketchups Just in time for Summer
April 16, 2024
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The Heinz Corporation will be presenting their new product line at the National Restaurant Association Show 2024 in Chicago, May 18-21, 2024.
Everyone knows Heinz as the classic red bottle of ketchup on the picnic table, wedged between the chips and burgers.
And while Hienz has been happy being such a part of dinner time for families across America for almost 150 years, it’s time for a face life–literally. Heinz has just released five fiery ketchups that are guaranteed to test your spice tolerance:
Jalapeno Tomato Ketchup, Pickle Flavored Ketchup,
Simply Tomato Ketchup, Tomato Ketchup Blended with Chipotle, Tomato Ketchup Blended with Habanero
Henry J. Heinz himself started the company with a vision of excellence– a vision that was born to be constantly changing. He said, “To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Heinz plain ketchup will never leave the table, but we think Mr. Heinz would be the first in line to try these new flavors. The elite five have been able to rack up impressive stats.
Heinz Jalapeno Ketchup can reach 2,000 to 8,000 Scoville
Pickle-flavored ketchup has a fresh tang that pairs perfectly with grilling staples
Tomato Ketchup blended with Chipotle uses SMOKED PAPRIKA, DRIED CHIPOTLE CHILI PEPPERS, SPICE, ONION POWDER to create it’s chipotle flavor
Heinz is a company committed to consistency but never complacency. For the betterment of our customers, and the ketchup-using world, Heinz stands for inclusion, imagination, and quality.
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“This is Rhyleigh Russell reporting for WCBS in South Orange New Jersey”
Intro and outro for midas
King Midas, the former King famous for wishing to turn what he touched to gold, reports regret at his wish.
Midas admits,“Ever since that morning, I have hated the very sight of all other gold.”
Midas learned a valuable lesson: even the most valuable gold can be replaced, but never people
Intro for hard news story
“This is Rhyleigh Russell reporting for WCBS in South Orange New Jersey.”
We had the opportunity to speak to State representative Manuel Sanchez, after being involved in a car crash that resulted in the death of another driver and his passenger. Representative Sanchez has no concerns for how this tragedy will affect his political career.
When we asked if Sanchez feels prepared to switch places with his former defendants, Sanchez told us “As an attorney, (I have) successfully defended two people who had been accused of vehicular manslaughter”
Sanchez feels confident that his trial will produce a satisfying conclusion, and he’ll be up for re-election without a single roadblock next year.
Intro for any other story
Father, Joseph Murphy, navigates life after being fired from is job in front of his daughter, who has begun therapy after the incident
“It’s not me I worry about,” Murphy said. “It’s my daughter. Bringing her to work was supposed to inspire her, now her hope is complicated”
Murphy’s daughter will be forever shaped by her first taste of the workforce.
Sir Ken Robinson discussing “Finding your element”
“I find many people don't think they have any special talents”
Sir Ken Robinson is a speaker that had a lot of history in academics and creativity–two things that have started to sound like opposites, but he embodies their cohesion. Speaking at a TED conference, Robinson gives a plethora of advice.
“They right people do not work at what they do, they work with who they are.”
Everything that we are–our ”talents,” skills, and passions– is lying below the surface. The people who have purpose and life and believe they act with their passions have found this, whereas those who believe they are untalented need to dig.
At the same time, we can be good at things we don't like to do, but Robinson says we should be wary: “Being good at something isn't a good enough reason to keep doing it.” Instead, we should work at what we love, although according to his reference to Confucious, once you find what you love, you never really work again.
Everyone wants to be happy but “Happiness is a state of wellbeing” that can be very dependent on our work; whether or not it fulfills us literally changes our view on our lives
Right now, Americans don’t live this way. Robinson posits that Americans are making up for fulfillment in other places, still, Antipsychotic drugs are the leading seller in medicine; the majority of people are unhappy.
We must focus on aptitude and passion. You have to want it and believe that you can have it. And we have to be willing to make mistakes.
“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will not come up with anything original,” Robinson says.
You must fall to find who you are.
Underage Driver
Charles Todd Snyder was charged with drunk driving without a driver's license following a traffic accident in South Orange one week ago.
He was scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. this morning. When he failed to appear in court, Judge Edward Kocembra ordered police to go to Snyders home and retrieve Snyder.
Police went to the address Snyder had given officers at the time of the accident: 711 Broadway Avenue. The police returned to the court at approximately 10:15 a.m. and appeared before Judge Kosembra with “Snyder” held in his mother's arms.
The “Todd Snyder” police brought to court was a 13-month-old child. His mother insisted that he drinks only milk and that the only vehicle he ever drove was a stroller.
Snyder, apparently frightened by the unfamiliar surroundings and people, cried.
Judge Kocembra deeply apologized for the inconvenience and told the officers to give Snyder and his mother a ride back to their home.
Police said that whoever was stopped had falsely given the arresting officers Snyder's name and address when he signed the. Police also reportedly told the judge that they have no idea who that person might be at this time.
Next week the State Spelling Bee will be held SOPAC ( South Orange Performing Arts Center) in South Orange, NJ. Winning this competition is without a doubt life-changing—but what about the losers? And where are the winners now? Here are the testimonials of five previous participants in the State Spelling Bee whose misspelled words changed their lives forever.
Todd Drolshagen competed in the bee 22 years ago at 13 years old while attending North Middle School.
He admits he was nervous from the start at nationals and didn’t recognize the first word he was asked to spell—paronymous.
“I swear, the guy who read that word mispronounced it or I didn’t hear it or something. I thought almost every vowel in the word was an a. So I spelled it p-a-r-a-n-a-m-o-u-s. And that’s how I ended my spelling career.”
However, prepping for Bee taught Drolshagen good study habits, which helped later in H.S. and college. He has since graduated at the top of the class from North H.S. and went to Stanford University for public affairs and now works as director of the City Code Enforcement Board.
He looks back at his time studying for the Spelling Bee fondly because of how much time he got to spend with his late mother, Daniella Drolshagen, in the process.
“It brought us closer together. A teenage boy doesn’t have a lot in common with his mother, but those memories are something I’ll never forget.”
Colin Castilango would also not forget his experience in National Spelling Bee because of how it changed his perspective on the world.
Landing in 18th place did not discourage Castilango from following of life of language. After H.S. went to the state university and graduated cum laude with a degree in teaching. Took a job teaching English to H.S. students in Wayne, NJ. Taught for about 35 years and spent the last few years as district coordinator for teaching literature in H.S.
He still loves words and considers them magical.
“I dream about words. I dream about pronouncing them, spelling them, and teaching them. I just love words.
Even in retirement, he continues to teach English to refugees in the Paterson, NJ area. Taught a woman from Guatemala how to read. After reading her first book the woman “thrust her hands into the air to thank God and then gave me a big hug.”
Other participants like Clara Warneky gained a lifelong hobby from their Spelling Bee participation. She won the state bee 28 years ago at 13 yrs old and in seventh grade at Colonial Middle.
Of the 108 in the national bee, she finished roughly in the middle of the pack.
Botching the spelling of “acetone” Warneky felt very disappointed in herself. She knew she had seen her father, a painter at the time, use it as solvent.
“I just got nervous or overconfident or whatever. Anyway, that’s how I was eliminated”
However, it was the trip to D.C. that made the most impact on her.
“I still love to read. I read almost everything I can get my hands on. My big love is biographies. I finished a biography of F.D.R. last week, and I’m working on a book on Rachel Carson now.”
She hopes to become a writer one day when she finds time outside taking care of her family, which she must thank for her talents; her mother, grandmother, and brother were all ace spellers and all voracious readers. Warneky thinks she has even passed down her hobby to her daughter, who loves reading and words, but not competing yet.
Warneky has worked as a manager for Hertz car rental for 15 years now.
Wendy Langston Shavers won her state spelling bee at fourteen but came in 20th at the national spelling bee. She had misspelled “Turnstile” instead mistaking it for the popular department store “Turn Style”
“Every time I walk through a turnstile, I think about that. I had gotten so many harder words right, and I go out on ‘turnstile.’”
Shavers's life would take many turns after the bee as well. While graduating third in her class gave her a scholarship to state school, it didn’t cover as much as she needed. She thought she was lucky to fall in love with Cole Shavers and start a business with him, but after Cole suddenly passed in a car crash, she was left bankrupt—a mother with no college degree and a four-year-old son.
Thankfully, her life took a turn for the better when she started working as a truck driver.
“There were damn few women driving over-the-road trucks when I started. And the other guys were not friendly to me. And the long stretches away from home were hard. But the money was so good, I was determined to stick it out.”
She’s thankful to her mother and sister for helping her raise her son and supporting her.
The final contestant won the state spelling bee 18 years ago. Tonya Livermore was an eighth grader at Kennedy Middle School and has nothing but good things to say about her experience at the Bee.
“I loved the atmosphere at the nationals. Everywhere we went we were treated like royalty. We got attention from the media, from politicians, from almost everyone. That’s what sparked my interest in performing, that’s what made me want to be on stage.”
After H.S., went to Northwestern University to study music. She specializes in religious music and Broadway show tunes.
Livermore did some acting in Chicago and New York once out of school, and eight years ago, she returned to New Jersey, and got a teaching certificate from Seton Hall.
Now teaches music to middle and elementary school children in Newark. She also performs occasionally in community theater productions, especially in the summers.
“The spelling bee was a great experience. It gave me a lot of confidence and opened up a lot of different people and opportunities.”
King Midas turns daughter into gold–20 years since the “Golden Touch” terrorized the crown
“How could it fail?”
These were the words of King Midas after a god came to his secret room with all his beloved golden items and asked him to make a wish.
King Midas asked the spirit to give him the power to have everything he touches turn to gold. Nothing else could satisfy him. In the morning, the King’s wish was granted and he turned his entire home into gold.
The King had a daughter named Marigold, whom he loved almost as much as his obsession for gold. That morning, he found her crying before breakfast, which he found unusual.
She “held out her hand, in which was one of the roses which Midas had so recently transmuted.” and said “it is not beautiful, but the ugliest flower that ever grew!” The child was upset that all the natural beauty within the home has been turned to gold.
King Midas grew upset as well, when all of the things he tried to eat turned into inedible metal. “Such a costly breakfast before me, and nothing that can be eaten!” he said.
The pair was so upset that Marygold reached to comfort Midas, and Midas reached to comfort her. But the King, forgetting his curse, turned the one real thing he loved to gold too.
“Gold is not everything,” said Midas. “And I have lost all that my heart really cared for.”
Thankfully the strange god came back and allowed Midas to reverse his curse. The King was relieved and learned a valuable lesson: to rid himself of his greed and value the real love in his life.
“Ever since that morning, I have hated the very sight of all other gold,” Midas recounts, now an older, wiser man. King Midas and Marigold teach this story together to the village children every year.
Father, Joseph Murphy, fired on “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” in front of his 14-year-old daughter.
After spending the day with her father at Collins Industries, Joseph Murphy was let go with his daughter in attendance. The company experienced financial losses last summer in the wake of the economic downturn that hit the nation and now had to let employees go.
Joseph worked for Collins Industries since he graduated college 18 years ago starting as a research assistant and being promoted twice to research director. Now, he’s one of the 8 mid-level managers being let go, but the company's timing was less than respectable.
“Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” is a special occasion to expose young girls to a variety of career opportunities, some traditionally not pursued by women. More than 37 million Americans follow the job-shadowing tradition, according to Forbes, and Murphy’s daughter was one of them.
At 2 pm, Murphy was escorted back to his office by security officers, given an hour to pack his office, then escorted from the building with his daughter, then in tears.
“It’s not me I worry about,” Murphy said. “It’s my daughter.” Murphy expressed frustrations that his company could not have waited one more day to let him go, and now he worries he’ll have to get her professional help to process her father losing his job in front of her.
“The timing of the dismissal of Mr. Murphy was regrettable,” admits Quentin, a member of HR. The company will give Murphy three months’ severance pay and help finding a new job.
However, people like Murphy’s wife are still upset and even want to sue the company.
All company employees had been sent by the company’s Office of Human Resources an email encouraging them to bring their daughters to work with them for the day. As such, HR knew Murphy’s daughter would be there at the time he received this news.
The President of Collins Industries has refused to make any statement.
State representative, Manuel Sanchez, was involved in a car crash that resulted in the death of another driver and his passenger. Sanchdez walked away with minor injuries, and is recovering. Sanchez will enter court with five tickets in the past four years for speeding and reckless driving on his record. Police said alcohol was not a variable in this crash, however, these details are bound to be considered on his court date, time to be announced. Ironically, Sachchez is no stranger to the legal suit soon to come. As an attorney, Sanchez successfully defended two people who had been accused of vehicular manslaughter, and now he finds himself as the defendant. Sanchez’s race through a red light is coming to the forefront of his political career while officials fight to remedy the tragedy of the two victims.
SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY---2023, February 3
2023, February 3, Robert A. Wiess robbed a local convenience store and threatened front desk clerk Michael Ernest Layoux with a gun, and was shot by Layoux three times in the chest.
Layoux is a college student working nights at the South orange convenience store, as he has been for 4 years while he attends graduate school. Last year, two convenience clerks like himself were robbed and killed in the cooler of the same convenience store, so Layoux carries a gun to work with him “all alone” at his 24 hour store in a remote part of the northeast of town.
A customer came in around 11pm and said to Layoux “you see what I got?” The customer carried a pistol by his hip, concealed from anyone outside. He demanded all the money Layoux kept in the cash register. Layoux admitted “ We never have more than $30 in the cash register. It’s company policy…so he didn’t get much, maybe $20.”
They did not leave after receiving the money from Layoux however. He began “shoving” Layoux to the large cooler. “I really got scared,” Layoux said. Since the robber couldn’t lock him in, Layoux says “The only thing I could figure was that he wanted to shoot me.”
So, Layoux reached for a .25-caliber pistol underneath the counter at the mention of the cooler and shot his attacker three times in the chest. The theif then broke through the glass front door. Police found Robert A. Wiess dead in a field 200 yards away.
Layoux has been let go from the store. “But I wouldn’t do it any different,” he says. Police decided at the scene of the crime that Layoux acted in self defense, but since it is against company policy to carry firearms on the property, the convenience store’s decision couldn’t be overruled.
“I’m still a college student, and I need the job. But I can understand the company’s rules” Layoux says.
Company officials refused to comment about the robbery or the firing. Ramone Hernandez, the district attorney, confirmed that his office considered the shooting self-defense and would not prosecute Layoux.
SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY---A recent meeting
A recent meeting at the county pharmacist association brought a host of issues concerning older populations and pharmaceutical drugs to light last night. Newly appointed President of the County Pharmacists association, Lillian Shisenaunt, announced that “in many cases, the medicine—the dosage and the way it’s taken—are all wrong.”
The association found in their research that older generations are taking “four or five” different drugs at once that patients either forget to take or take too much of, and when they are remembered in the proper dosage, the selection of medicine may cancel themselves out.
“Some of these oldsters become real junkies, and they don’t even know it” Shisenaunt says.
Shisenaunt believes the solution lies in a good druggist. “… if they get a good doctor…they probably can stop taking some of the medicines, and then they don’t actually have all the problems people think they have.”
Drug companies’ test subjects don’t match the age or health of the elderly population, treating their medicine as a one-size-fits-all all. “A lot of these older people aren’t senile;” Shisnaunt says. “They just take too many different drugs, and then it hits them like senility.”
Unfortunately, Shisnaunt and her team are finding that most people don’t know how to navigate the medical system and ask for more appropriate options.
Shisnaunt recommends making “a list of all their different medicines and dosages each time they go to a doctor and tell him what they’re taking. Then when they get a new prescription, they should write down the doctor’s instructions, and they should get all their prescriptions from just one pharmacist so the pharmacist knows everything they’re taking and can watch for any problems.”
She even recommends asking the pharmacist to color code the pill bottles to reduce confusion. A patient's pills for the day should be sorted out ahead of time as well.
Section I Using Proper Sentence Structure
Rewrite the following leads, using the normal word order: subject, verb, direct object. Avoid starting the leads with a long clause or phrase. You may want to divide some of the leads into several sentences or paragraphs. Correct all errors.
1) In an effort to curb what city officials are calling an epidemic of obesity among young people in the city, which mirrors national data on overall obesity of the population, your local city council voted 7-0 to offer free memberships at its meeting Monday night to local youth centers and health clubs in the city for children ages 8 to 15 whose parents do not have the financial wherewithal to purchase the memberships.
a. Local city council voted 7-0 on offering free membership to health clubs aimed at children ages 8-15
2) Despite the efforts of Karen Dees, 19, a student at your university who lives at 410 University Avenue, Apartment 52, and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation for more than 20 minutes, she was not able to help sheriff’s Deputy William McGowen, 47, of 4224 N. 21st St., who died while directing traffic after being struck by lightning during an electrical storm.
a. Sheriff's Deputy William McGowen died after being struck by lightning directing traffic in a storm.
Section II Emphasizing the News
Rewrite the following leads, emphasizing the news, not the attribution. Limit the attributions to a few words and place them at the end of the leads. Correct all errors.
1) The National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., released a report today indicating that more than 90 percent of all heart attack victims have one or more classic risk factors: smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
a. 90 percent of all heart attack victims have one or more classic risk factors: smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, National Institute of health reports
2) According to a police report issued Monday, accident investigators concluded that Stephanie Sessions, 16, daughter of Jeffrey D. and Michelle A. Sessions, of 9303 Vale Drive, had just gotten her drivers license two days before she was involved in an accident in which she rolled the Jeep Wrangler she was driving, injuring herself and two other passengers.
a. 16 year old rolls flips car, injuring herself and two passengers, two days after receiving her drivers license according to police report and investigation.
Section III
Combining Multi-sentence Leads
Rewrite each of the following leads in a single sentence, correcting all errors.
1) Gary Hubbard, superintendent of schools, announced a new program for your local school district. It is called the “Tattle-Tale Program.” The program involves paying students to tell on classmates who bring guns or drugs to school or violate other school rules. The program is in response to an incident last month in which a high school student was caught carrying a loaded handgun on school property.
a. Superintendent Gary Hubbard institutes “Tattle-Tale” program which encourages students to “tattle” on other students who bring firearms on school grounds in response to a student with a loaded handgun being dropped off days prior.
2) The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report Monday on the number of people in the United States who have spent time in prison. Last year, about one in every 37 adult Americans was imprisoned or had been in prison at one time. The 5.6 million people who were either serving or had served time in prison represented 2.7 percent of the adult population of 210 million people, according to the report. The figures represent people who served time in federal, state, and county prisons after being sentenced for a crime, not those temporarily held in jail.
a. One in 37 or 2.7% of U.S. adults have been imprisoned at one time according to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice.