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.”