Published: January 31, 2011
Traveling into The Future |
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We all travel into the future, but we never arrive. The path into the future itself is all we experience and, without a time machine, that is destined to remain our reality.
But the path into the future, the road we travel to a place we never arrive, has changed drastically in one generation; and, to [...]
Published: January 28, 2011
Chilly Home Sales in Franklin Lakes |
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Franklin Lakes is a bit chilly according to Jeffrey G. Otteau, president of Otteau Valuation Group, but certainly a lot warmer than Ho-Ho-Kus.
The temperature gauge has nothing to do with the weather, as both towns have been blanketed with snow, but focuses on real estate and the available inventory of homes for sale.
An analysis conducted [...]
Published: January 24, 2011
Local "Housewife's" New Gig |
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Keepin It Real with Kim G.
Celebritymagnet.com has acquired Kim Granatell of Franklin Lakes, NJ, as their new weekly celebrity blogger. Best known for her mischievous housewife roll opposite Danielle Staub. Kim G. will fill you in on the hottest fashion, eateries, meal recipes, vacation destinations, relationship advise, and what to do in and around New [...]
Published: January 24, 2011
CFL Health Hazard |
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Saving money and saving the environment are two big subjects that are used to sell everything from coffee, to tax policies, to light bulbs, and the new trend in light bulbs is toward the CFLs, compact fluorescent bulbs, that consume significantly less electricity than incandescent bulbs.
While promoting the use of CFLs, governments and corporations are [...]
Published: January 22, 2011
Conversations with Cronkite |
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Walter Cronkite and Don Carleton. Conversations with Cronkite.
Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin: 2010
as reviewed by Ted Odenwald
Walter Cronkite, arguably the most respected, renowned, trusted, and influential newscasters in the twentieth century, reflects on his career in this edited collection of interviews. When Cronkite published [...]
Published: January 15, 2011
Local Celebs Help Kids with Cancer |
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“He’s incredibly gracious,” said New Jersey’s Celebrity Magnet Tom Murro in response to spending some time with retired New York Giants linebacker Harry Carson. Murro, his wife Kelly, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s” Kim Granatell, and NFL Hall of Famer Harry Carson were seen attending the Emmanuel Cancer Fund for children’s Hollywood Bash in [...]
Published: January 13, 2011
VFW Post 5702 Membership Drive |
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VFW Post 5702 is looking for new members. If you are a veteran who served in a hostile area, we invite you to become part of our organization. We ask you to join us in our efforts to support active duty veterans and their families, address veteran’s issues concerning health care and education, and enrich [...]
Published: January 13, 2011
Local Cantor Leads Lawmakers |
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Cantor Leon Scher, of Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, gave the musical selection at the bipartisan prayer service for victims of the Arizona shooting rampage.
The prayer service packed the Capitol Visitors Center with lawmakers of all persuasions. House Speaker John Boehner’s emotional speech saying, “No assailant’s bullet — no twisted act of violence or cruelty [...]
Published: January 11, 2011
Video of Franklin Lakes Winner |
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Get a video preview of Franklin Lakes resident Daniel Kim showing off the invention that made him a Trash to Treasure winner with The Design Squad Nation on PBS.
Published: January 11, 2011
The Autobiography of Mark Twain |
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain. The Complete and
Authoritative Edition. Volume 1. ed. Harriet Elinor Smith et al.
Berkeley, California: The University of California Press, 2010
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
In 1906, after many unsatisfactory starts, Mark Twain finally “…hit upon the right way to do an autobiography.” His method was a type of stream-of-consciousness, [...]
Published: January 11, 2011
Local School Scores |
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New Jersey recently released the test scores for individual schools. Readers can find reports for Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff at the bottom of this article, and more detailed analysis at NJ Department of Education.
The role of standardized testing has been a matter of public debate for decades now, and took on greater import with [...]
Published: January 7, 2011
Inspiring Greatness in Generations |
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In the dead of winter, with snow piled and falling, and the beloved Giants destined for the parking lot and not the playoffs, it’s a perfect time to remember better days. It’s actually easy as those days can be found on HBO, Broadway, and soon a major motion picture, and the common thread is [...]
Published: January 1, 2011
January 2011 Reviews |
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Going Bovine
Libba Bray
Cameron Smith is sixteen years old and his most outstanding quality is that he just doesn’t really care much about anything. He’s not incredibly social, but he’s not incredibly awkward either. Until weird things start to happen to his mind, anyway, and the doctors diagnose him with Mad Cow Disease. Now, he’s oddly [...]
Published: January 1, 2011
Martin Luther King, Jr's Message Was a Global One |
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By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
On January 17 we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., which was really on January 15, 1929. We’ve all heard a lot about King over the years, his “I have a dream” speech, and the details of his death. He was a non-violent voice for human equality [...]
