Chris Kuenne speaks Monday, November 18 at the Princeton Tech meetup . The topic: the Growth Playbook: 5 Cornerstones to Live By. Highly recommended… Kuenne’s latest venture: Rosemark Capital.
A bully? Igcognito vs Martin: Analysis by Clarence Lang, a labor expert who is African American.
Two headlines for the same medical report:
The Associated Press headline: New medical guidelines urge wider use of cholesterol drugs
The New York Times headline: Experts Reshape Treatment Guide for Cholesterol; Change in Statins’ Use; 2 groups see no need to drop to a specific level of LDL.
Marilynn Marchionne, the AP writer, starts out by saying that the edict calls for “twice as many Americans — one-third of all adults — to consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.” In other words, more use of drugs. In the fourth paragraph, she quotes a doctor saying the emphasis is to treat more appropriately.
Gina Kolata, the Princeton-based New York Times science writer, opens with a blander statement about the new guidelines. In her fourth paragraph, she quotes a doctor saying, “now one in four Americans over 40 will be saying, ‘Should I be taking this anymore?’ “
The AP seems to emphasize MORE use of the drug, Kolata in the New York Times, by quoting the doctor on the front page “above the fold” seems to emphasize LESS use of the drug.
Why does this matter? Will the NYT reader welcome news of fewer drugs? Is it that the Associated Press reader (and the reader of Yahoo and other websites) will want to take more drugs?
It all goes back to what my father told me, all the time. “Nothing is ever completely true or ever completely false.”
And I’m just glad I’m not a health reporter.
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 . . . “
