This great photo, entitled “Not Quite Still,” by my U.S. 1 cohort John Symons, makes me want to revist Grounds for Sculpture. It is in a photography exhibit juried by Michael Mancuso, photographer extraordinaire, with whom I used to work at the Trenton TImes (when it was the Trenton Times, not the re-jiggered “Times of Trenton.) Mancuso is still there. The exhibit at Mercer County Community College opens with a reception on November 20.
Boots on the Ground in Civilian Life: A new program, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, employs veterans to help New Jersey residents negotiate the new health care plan. An all round win.
i PUT THE WRONG TIME, IT IS AT 5:30, NOT 7:30
Count on Eddie Moore to call it like it is — who gets to use the N word, and when? Ever? He speaks on Thursday, November 14, at 5:30 p.m. at the Carl Fields Center.
Tuesday, November 12 4:30 p.m.: “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House” Peter Baker White House correspondent, the New York Times, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. A public reception and book sale/signing of his book, “Days of Fire,” will follow the discussion in Shultz Dining Room.
How to Identify White Space
A startup is not a company? No, says David Teten, Partner at ff Venture Capital; Founder and Chairman, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York. He speaks Thursday, November 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the Friend Center Convocation Room (113) for the Keller Center.
He will address the importance of market research in starting a business, identifying proper audiences for your product, and ways to reach out to particular people. After conducting research on best practices for deal origination, David found that venture capitalists only invest in one out of every one hundred startups that present pitches to them. Entrepreneurs should be nimble, listening to the market and acting according to the data they collect. A startup is not a company; rather, it is a group of people in search of a business model on which they can build a company.
Breakfast with the real Tony Auth
“I don’t try to be balanced,” says former Inquirer cartoonist Tony Auth. “I try to tell the truth as I see it.” Auth will speak and show his Pulitzer Prize-winning drawings at the Princeton Chamber’s breakfast this Wednesday, November 13 at 7:30 a.m. at the Nassau Club. Cost: $25 for members.
For an example of his work, here is his cut-to-the-bone Veteran’s Day cartoon. Now Auth is digital artist-in-residence for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org blog, Behind the Lines, where he uses a $5 app on his iPad to pioneer in online cartooning. After appearing on NewsWorks, his cartoons are syndicated across the country. His topic on Wednesday: Sacred Cows Make the Best Hamburger: A political cartoonists observations of the absurdities and ridiculousness of the past several years.
For more than 40 years Inquirer readers “had breakfast” with his cartoons. Now we can have breakfast with the real Tony Auth.
Day is Done . . .
Above, the MIA table, set for one.
We observed a Veterans Day with a long-time friend at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery, which was recently established but is filling up all too quickly.
It was a reverent and moving ceremony with some wonderful musical selections, particularly those by soprano Tiffany Pao and trumpeters Tom Molnar and Kathleen McCall, who did an echo version of Taps. Here are some of the photos.
Cantor David Wisnia, an 86-year-old Auschwitz escapee who found his way to — and fought with — the 101st Airborne Division, gave a moving sung-and-translated Aaron’s blessing. He is the father of Rabbi Eric Wisnia who leads Congregation Beth Chaim.
“May the Lord bless us and keep us and cause his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us . . . “
Sam Daley-Harris will speak at the One Table Café, this Friday, November 15, at Trinity Church, 233 Mercer Street, Princeton, 6:30 p.m. To make a reservation for dinner, please call 609-924-2277 ext. 352.
His latest oped is here.
A Princeton resident and author of “Reclaiming Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government,” he founded RESULTS, a citizens advocacy group focused on ending poverty. He also founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign and the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation.
The Food and Drug Administration may be able to improve the nation’s health in one fell swoop by finally banning all trans fats.
Our household learned about trans fats when my husband had a heart attack some 18 years ago. Back then, no one had heard of them. We have been reading labels ever since. I recommend you do as well.
Tusculum Sold for $5.5
On the Block: Tusculum, the historic home of John Witherspoon. sold for $5.5 million at auctionaccording to a tweet, last night, from the head of Concierge Auctions. I have not confirmed that price with the auctioneer or the real estate company, Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s, as of this morning.
Tom and Avril Moore bought it in 1996.
Moore is the former CEO of Advaxis He was replaced by Daniel O’Connor in August.
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