Hundreds of Newark families with preschool aged children are scheduled to attend the second annual Preschool Families Night at the Newark Museum on June 14 from 4-7 pm. Co-sponsored by the Office of Early Childhood Education in the Newark Public Schools, the event provides Newark families with preschoolers the opportunity to discover the educational resources of the Museum and gain valuable lessons from Newark teachers in early childhood education and from local agencies.
A special highlight of the evening will be a program of fitness activities and healthy lifestyle lessons conducted by Rutgers Basketball Hall of Famer Sue Wicks.

During the first day of the 22nd Annual WEDI National Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, WEDI and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the launch of a series of HIPAA/HITECH-related webinars as a tool to help the healthcare industry adopt the new Omnibus HIPAA/HITECH Final Rule. Leon Rodriguez, Director of the Office for Civil Rights, announced the series of co-sponsored webinars during the conference’s opening keynote address, “Privacy & Security Post-Omnibus: Implications and Compliance Strategies.”

New York Times Bestselling Author of Roosevelt’s Secret War. A Random House Hardcover On sale: May 28, 2013

Much is known about FDR’s role as a president – how he stimulated the country to overcome the Great Depression and won four unprecedented presidential victories. Less well recognized is FDR’s deep personal involvement in World War II and the men who led the effort with Roosevelt: George C. Marshall, charged with revitalizing a force whose troops trained with broomsticks for rifles and eggs for hand grenades; Dwight Eisenhower, the genial Kansan elevated from obscurity to command the greatest fighting force ever assembled; and the mercurial, vainglorious Douglas MacArthur.

What’s the best way to teach children to tell the truth when the opposite can be so much easier?
Parent and educator Eunice E. A. Parbi inspires children to tell the truth through her entertaining and character-building story Yum! Yum! Yum! According to Parbi, nurturing and raising children with strong positive character is our collective responsibility, which Yum! Yum! Yum! helps foster.
“It is the trait we feed which will grow,” Parbi says. “We need to nurture the truth trait from childhood.” When Adam shares his candy with his classmates that he should not have, it tests all of their honesty when their teacher asks for the truth. The students soon find that telling the truth is even better than candy.

3 Contest winners to have their builds displayed at Cedar Fair parks for 2013

K’NEX Brands, the only US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love ®, is proud to announce the winners of the third annual K’NEX Great Thrill Ride Build-Off! Students from across the country created working models of the most hair-raising, spine-tingling rides they could imagine, and, while all were impressive, three projects stood out among the rest.

Bergen Performing Arts Center New Shows On Sale
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11AM
Todd Rundgren
Tuesday August 6th 2013 at 8PM
$99.00, $69.00, $39.00

The first Pace University STEM Collaboratory Conference, sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, will be held on Saturday, June 1 in the Multipurpose Room of One Pace Plaza on the university's Lower Manhattan campus, east of City Hall and six blocks from Wall Street.

Itinerary:

8:30 to 9:30 am: Registration & Coffee. Welcome by: Lauren Birney, assistant professor at Pace’s School of Education is the director and Jonathan Hill, associate dean of Pace’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, is the co-director of the STEM Center Collaboratory at Pace.

The Christie campaign unveiled a new campaign ad this week as part of a tired effort to mislead voters about the Governor’s economic record and falsely attack Barbara Buono.
Today, the Buono campaign released a new web video “A Record Like That” to push back against the Christie campaign’s false statements and shine a light on the Governor’s economic failures.

Legal Difficulties, Practical Problems featuring Matthew Schmitz, Deputy Editor, First Things Magazine and Contributor, National Review

Daniel Mach, Director, Freedom of Religion and Belief Program, American Civil Liberties Union
Edward Swaine, Law Professor, George Washington University
Faiza Patel, Co-Director, Liberty and National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice
Matthew Duss, Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress
Thursday, May 16, 2013
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Center for American Progress
1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Lunch will be served.

Some Moms got an EBYY for Mother's Day . Unwrapping it, they immediately knew this present would bring some sanity back to the household. Putting it to good use right away, there would be no more tangled, knotted, messed up earbud wires in their kitchen drawers. Next thing they wanted to know: Where can we buy four or five more?

From WWII to the JFK assassination; a historical novel of love, coming of age and adventures

On December 7, 1941, millions of American’s lives changed as bombs were being dropped on Pearl Harbor, but 16-year old Alice Breon could not have anticipated how drastically American life would change over the next few decades.
Green Gravy, Monster Bread and Other Adventures, by Alice Breon, is a historical collection of short stories that follows the 16-year-old and her life from WWII to JFK’s assassination.

Fairgoers can test their skills & meet NBA legend Darryl Dawkins in an interactive basketball experience

East Rutherford, NJ – May 14, 2013 – State Fair Meadowlands today announced that NBA Nation presented by Sprint will appear at the fair this year, offering fairgoers the chance to meet and greet NBA players and legends, watch high-flying dunks, and run through an agility course and competitive skills challenge. The interactive event will take place on one full court and two half courts inside the Meadowlands Fairgrounds, next to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, June 28-30.

Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that it has issued a number of recommendations that organizations can use to validate their DDoS defenses, as well as protection services they receive from mitigation providers.
“Making sure a provider can actually deliver on the level of service it promises is a critical step that many organizations overlook,” said Stuart Scholly, president at Prolexic. “Mitigation failure is such a common problem that the majority of Prolexic clients came to us after the DDoS protection they had in place did not work.”

Wiesenthal Center Sheds Light on Evolving Terrorism Threats "The Wiesenthal Center deserves great credit for previously exposing Al Qaeda’s promoting of the use of pressure cookers as explosives and for detailing how the Internet has become a virtual university for terrorism,” —Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA) Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The Center has…facilitated such cooperation among key stakeholders to do their share to control the online proliferation of hate and extremism,” Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member.

The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) issued this statement following the revelation of the seizure by the U.S. Justice Department of telephone records of the Associated Press:

Kiss Trust, a division of Eastern Point Trust Company, offers a solution to divorcing families with children. Kiss Trust provides an affordable savings trust product that prevents unauthorized access to college savings by either parent - while insuring the funds are available when needed.

“It is a common story, the assets set aside for a child into a custodial account as part of a divorce agreement are misused by one of the parents, or one parent does not trust the other to use the money properly ” said Ned Armand, President of Kiss Trust. “Historically utilizing a trust along with an institutional trustee, while the ideal solution, was too costly for most families. Now, Kiss Trust prevents unauthorized access by either parent. In addition, because Kiss Trust is an irrevocable savings trust it provides other added benefits such as improved student financial aid results, and can be created online by anyone in as little as 20 minutes.”

The objective of the design of loan insurance or the payment protection insurances is to help the policy holders. Actually this kind of insurance plans is designed for providing financial support to the policy holders for their critical moment. The insurance provides financial support for debt repayment when the need for the finance has been derived from unemployment or disability.

Warranties meaning here securitisation of personal assets while receiving the loans! The US official statistics shows that the unsecured personal loans have increased by 21% in a year. The reason behind that is the economy has undergone a big dump and people have struggles to maintain job prospects and regular income. The loss income has hurt owning capacity of borrowers and securitisation of assets would mean adding pressure to what is otherwise owned or in hand. Therefore, one would not like to take risk on the assets for smaller personal financial demands especially when the unsecured personal loans are available quite easily, cheaper and without any excuse of bad credit history.

-Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Celebrates Grand Re-Opening-
(Englewood, NJ, May 13, 2013) – Englewood Hospital and Medical Center’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine recently celebrated its grand re-opening after a year and a half long renovation project. The state-of-the-art facility offers a new open layout, designed to increase workflow efficiency and speed up testing and reporting.

Anyone can learn to fly fish for free this Spring with Orvis

Fly Fishing 101—Learn the basics • Fly Fishing 201—Catch a fish

Visit www.orvis.com/flyfishing101  to register for a class near you!

From April through June, Orvis will offer free fly fishing lessons nationwide through Orvis retail stores and participating dealers (www.orvis.com/flyfishing101 ). Now in its fourth year, Orvis has introduced more than 25,000 new people to the joys of fly fishing with these free clinics since 2010.