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There is still time to register for both the Saturday, October 1 Realtime Training Session and the Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2 CCRA-NJ Annual Fall Convention. Registration is available for Saturday only, Sunday only or both days. Please consider joining us in Atlantic City for this important event. You will get to spend time with your colleagues, have fun and earn CE points while you are there. If you want to register by phone please call Tim Bower at 856-875-0818 and he will be happy to assist.
The CCRA-NJ 2016 Annual Fall Convention SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 at Bally's Atlantic City Park Place and the Boardwalk (1900 Pacific Ave.) Atlantic City, NJ 08401 REGISTER NOW FOR THIS POPULAR CONTINUING EDUCATION EVENT! PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT ONLINE 2016 Annual Fall Convention Form PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PROGRAM WITH DETAIL ON THE EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS CCRA-NJ October 2016 Conference Brochure EARN UP TO 10 NJ CCR CREDITS AND 1.0 NCRA CE UNITS FROM THE CONVENTION ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY EARN 3 NJ CCR CREDITS AND .3 NCRA CE UNITS FROM THE REALTIME TRAINING SESSION CLICK BELOW FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE REALTIME SESSION The schedule for the Convention will be the same as past years with the opening session on Saturday starting at 2pm and ending at 4:30pm. Sunday sessions will start at 8am and end at 5:30pm. The schedule allows plenty of time to enjoy all of the nightlife offered at and around this centrally located hotel. Bally's Atlantic City is in the center of all the action in Atlantic City. We have reserved a block of guest rooms for Friday and Saturday nights at a discounted rate of ONLY $139 PER NIGHT FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND $169 PER NIGHT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. Please make your reservations directly with the hotel, and do so IMMEDIATELY, as the discounted room rate is only guaranteed until September 9, 2016 or the rooms sell out, by calling 888-516-2215. Be sure to mention you are with the CCRANJ (Certified Court Reporters Association of New Jersey) group (use code SB09CC6)to receive the discounted rate. This years agenda is full of great speakers and sessions. The sessions are listed below: Saturday, October 1
Sunday, October 2
The registration brochure with full agenda and session descriptions can be found by clicking the link below: Please contact Andrea Bower with any questions:
RENEW YOUR CCRA-NJ MEMBERSIP FOR 2016 TODAY!!!! To renew online today and pay by credit card click the link below: or if paying by check please complete the form available at the link below and mail both the form and the check to the address on the form. For membership questions please contact Tim Bower Interested in joining CCRA-NJ - please click here Tim Bower, CAE
CCRA-NJ is excited to announce that we are instituting a new membership recruitment program!! This new recruitment program is called the “Member-Get-A-Member” program. CCRA-NJ appreciates all the support you have provided to the organization over the years and also realizes that you are uniquely qualified to help CCRA-NJ grow so we can continue to expand the services we offer our members. To put it simply more CCRA-NJ members means greater resources and that will help CCRA-NJ remain a resource for you. The program is very simple and will also provide you a way to save money on CCRA-NJ membership and educational programs. For every new Reporter member that you recruit you will receive $25 CCRA-NJ “Bucks” that you can use to trade in to help reduce your membership or education costs for any CCRA-NJ programs. There is not a limit to the amount of “bucks” that you can accumulate so there is a possibility that you could fund your membership and March and/or October conference registrations through this program. CCRA-NJ “Bucks” are not transferable. Full Information is available here: ccranjmembergetamember2015flyer-final.pdf
The membership application is available here: ccranj2016membershipapplication.pdf
NOT A MEMBER - WHY NOT JOIN CCRA-NJ TODAY!! If you are not a current member of CCRA-NJ this is a great time to join. By joining before the Annual Convention that takes place on March 11 and 12, 2016 you can attend the convention at the member rate. By joining CCRA-NJ you are also supporting the ONLY association that is here to help protect the interest of the Court Reporter in the State of New Jersey. To join online please click: Membership Application To mail or fax your application in please click: Membership Application (payment by mail or fax)
Stenographers get pulled out of the background and into the limelight during NCAA’s March Madness Tournament By: Tina (Campise) Okomski, CCR, RPR, RMR, CRR It’s happened to every stenographer/court reporter...a curious witness, attorney, spouse, even our children. At some point in every stenographer’s career, we find ourselves being questioned about how it is we do what we do. For the stenographers at the NCAA March Madness Basketball tournament, this question was put on the national stage...and gave the profession more recognition than we’ve ever been told we could have...or perhaps ever wanted. After Wisconsin’s opening Round of 64 win, three of Wisconsin’s top players, Nigel Hayes, Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker, huddled around the stenographer, asking questions and even touching her machine to see what it would produce. To say they were intrigued is an understatement. At their next press conference, when sophomore Nigel Hayes was posed a question, his response was not for the media, but for the stenographer. “Before I answer that question, I would like to say a few words: cattywampus, onomatopoeia and antidisestablishmentarianism. (Laughs) . Now, back to your question.” http://time.com/3753478/wisconsin-nigel-hayes-stenographer-ncaa/ A later presser had the tables turned, as Hayes was caught with his mic on when saying, “Gosh, she’s beautiful,” presumably about that day’s stenographer. But the embarrassment didn’t stop Hayes, as his big-word antics continued, and before the Final Four game, Hayes came out with the following statement: “Sticking to tradition, prestidigitation and hello, Mr. Stenographer...” Hayes’ attention towards the stenographers brought as much attention to the profession as probably any amount of advertising ever has. Countless articles have been written and Twitter has blown up over it. Hayes, who said his love for vocabulary began when he was younger, has had over 10,000 words tweeted to him since this began. Along with the above, some other words Hayes has thrown at the stenographers include soliloquy, quandary, Zephyr, xylophone, prevaricated, syzygy, logorrhea, and succedaneum. As Wisconsin advanced all the way to the championship matchup, stenographers across the country became big Wisconsin fans. And in spite of constantly being tested, the Wisconsin Court Reporters Association appreciated the attention and publicly wished the team good luck. http://fansided.com/2015/04/03/wisconsin-court-stenographers-wish-badgers-luck-final-four/ For stenographers everywhere, I would like to extend a huge congratulations to the Wisconsin Badgers for an incredibly successful season, in spite of falling just short in the championship game...and an even bigger congratulations to the stenographers who drew their post-game press conferences. You’re the real MVPs!
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