Morris County Career Network features career coach on Sept. 13 in Morristown

On September 13th from 9 to 11 am the Morris County Career Network will feature Joanna Winquist, talking about “How to Use the MBTI to Your Advantage During the Hiring Process.”

The MBTI is the “Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator,” a personality scale.

Barbara Such is emceeing the event, which is part of a series for people in transition that meets on the second and fourth Monday of every month at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown.

Joanna Winquist is a professional trainer, program developer, and consultant with 30 years experience. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Joanna applies her keen understanding of personality differences to develop unique and highly successful approaches to career development, team building, management development, change, and conflict management.

She has presented numerous harassment prevention programs that are powerful, interesting, and concise. In the last five years she has focused much of her energy on job search training through her partnership in the DeterminEssence Group.

She worked for Citibank, Warner-Lambert Company and Baker Industries prior to starting her consulting business in 1992. Joanna works with the Retail Skills Center in Elizabeth, NJ, where she helps job seekers learn the skills necessary to find a job match.

Joanna holds a Master of Science Degree in Organization Development from American University/National Training Labs.

Joanna is the founder and past president of the New Jersey Chapter of the Association for Psychological Type and is committed to helping others realize their potential through a better understanding of personality. Information about the MBTI programs she offers is available on her websites, www.winquistconsulting.com and www.typelady.wordpress.com.

St. Peter’s Church is at 70 Maple Avenue in Morristown. Entrance to the hall is just behind the small cemetery and the back building behind the main church.

Hope to see you on the 13th. We will also be dedicating some time to networking, using some of the techniques communicated, so please make sure to bring business cards as well. Take care. Thank you.

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Jerzey Derby Brigade action in Morristown

The Jerzey Derby Brigade’s Corporal Punishers punished the Blue Collar Betties of Utica, NY, by a 97-86 score in Morristown over the weekend.

MG photographer Vicki Birmingham captured the action:

From graffiti to economics to abstract expressionism, artist Timothy David Lang comes full circle with Morristown exhibition

Timothy David Lang was poring over equations in a microeconomics class at Salisbury University in Maryland a decade or so ago when something snapped.

“I thought there’s no way I can do this to myself,” he recalls. “I switched my major the next day from business to art.”

The results will be on display throughout September at Gallery Egan in Morristown. The show, called Specifics, features 10 acrylic-on-canvas works ranging up to three-by-five feet in size, priced from $1,800 to $3,200.

Tim’s early creations were in the contemporary realism style, based on photographs with exaggerated colors. He liked to juxtapose urban scenes and landscapes, for a tension/release contrast.

Specifics strives for the same contrast effect–in an abstract way. Each piece in the series is a diptych with a calm hue on one side and an explosion of colors on the other that suggests his fascination with graffiti as a student at Morristown High School.

“I only did legal walls,” he insists, clarifying his graffiti days.

Tim returned to Morristown this year, after six years in North Carolina, to be closer to the New York art scene.  His transition to abstract expressionism was partly practical–photorealism pieces were averaging about four months each to complete. Yet he finds his minimalistic new medium liberating on an artistic level, too.

“Producing this work is a little more enjoyable,” says Tim, 31. “There, you stick to an image. Here, I can use my arm and wrist and hand and explore color relationships that you wouldn’t see in real life.”

That exploration relies on palette knives, scrapers, markers, pens and graphite more than paint brushes, he says.

Real or abstract, Tim is a man of inherent contrasts.

“I can be very calm and philosophical, and at other times, really intense,” he says. “I’m a very intense person, very passionate. There’s a push and pull between who I am.”

His passions include surfing, jazz and classic hip hop music; he is doing an album with his group, Systematic.

To pay the bills, he works at Rod’s Steak & Seafood Grille in Madison. He shares an apartment on Morristown’s Speedwell Avenue with Rick Bedkowski, an artist who recently had his own show at Gallery Egan. They rent from another artist, Robert Richardson.

Although this will be Tim’s 10th show, it’s his first solo exhibition. A small army of family and friends–including his mentor and former professor Jinchul Kim– has promised to attend a reception on Friday.

“He’s very hard core and very passionate about what he’s doing,” says the professor, who has exhibited at galleries from New York to Florida, and in South Korea. “Tim has an incredible amount of energy. I’m really optimistic about his future.”

Tim views Specifics as an important milestone, as he prepares to start pitching New York galleries next year. It’s a process, a journey, and he is patiently following a carefully crafted road map.

“I’ve worked 10 years to be standing here talking to you about this show,” Tim says, showing his calm, reflective side.

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This week’s installment from local artist Paul Laud:

Christie at the Blackboard.

Up in the air: Electrical plans for blast-damaged Morristown library

Jersey Central Power & Light is seeking easements from property owners to run overhead power lines to the Morristown & Morris Township Library, which plans to partially reopen next month after being closed since a May 3 explosion.

The Daily Record reports that a Maple Avenue property owner, Benjamin Gruber, awaits more details from JCP&L about the easement request. In the meantime, library officials intend to reopen using leased electrical generators, according to the article.

The explosion occurred in a basement area where underground power lines connected to the library. JCP&L and Public Service Electric & Gas have said they did not cause the blast.

Asbestos has been removed from the library and library staffers have been preparing the newest wing of the facility to reopen sometime after Labor Day.

Cliff Eberhardt at The Minstrel in Morris Township: ATM machines will never look the same

How can a guy with a trunk-load of sad songs be so funny?

That’s the fascinating dichotomy of Cliff Eberhardt, the husky-voiced tunesmith who played Friday at The Minstrel in Morris Township.

He punctuated songs of unrequited love with hilarious stories.  Like the one about his musical apprenticeship in a Queens convalescent home. Or the mythical album cover inspired by his song, “I Love Money but Money Don’t Care for Me.”

Here is my hastily sketched version of this would-be album cover. I’m not going to explain it; Cliff tells the story a lot better and you should catch his show sometime to hear the punch line.

I wanted to add some photos, but my camera was under the weather and so the drawing must suffice.

As for the musical portion of Cliff’s show, my notes contain this observation, scribbled by my companion:

“He sounds a little like a sea lion sometimes.”

That has album cover potential, too.

The evening’s opening act was noteworthy as well, and not just for the matching argyle sweater vests worn by brothers Dan and Noah Rauchwerk, who call themselves the Lords of Liechtenstein.

Dan is 21 and plays guitar, Noah is 16 and strums a ukulele.  While Cliff Eberhardt’s music meanders like a mountain stream, LOL hits you like a tsunami. These Holmdel bros were practically bouncing off the walls of the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. Red Bull should sponsor a tour.

All in all, an inspired bill. Not bad for $7.

Leader of the pack: Toby tops the field in Morristown Critical Mass ride

Sure, he’s pint-sized. And his bike only has one gear. But that didn’t stop eight-year-old Toby Gaynor of Morris Township from rocketing to the front of Friday’s Critical Mass ride in Morristown.

Technically speaking, the monthly biking event through downtown Morristown is not a race–as Toby’s dad, Conor, frequently reminded him.

Still, we imagine Toby will be doing some bragging next month when he takes his rightful place in the third grade at the Alexander Hamilton School.

The Otten family, meanwhile, rolled out some new bikes from Marty’s Reliable Cycles.

So we expect Toby’s crown may be challenged next month by the likes of Josie, Courtney and Emily Otten–ages 8, 8 and 10–and their pals, Ally and Carly Toth, ages 7 and 9.

Stanley Cup cheers kids at children’s hospital in Morristown, courtesy of John Madden

Once a Devil, always a Devil.

John Madden may have won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks this year. But he chose to bring the Cup back to Jersey, where it belongs.

On Thursday, the former New Jersey Devil brought the 117-year-old trophy to Morristown’s Grasshopper Off the Green; today, he paraded it through the Goryeb Children’s Hospital at Morristown Memorial Hospital.

John spent about 90 minutes bringing smiles to children fighting everything from broken legs to cancer.

Judging by these photos from MG contributor Cerea Steficek, one would have to say that hockey’s Holy Grail is just what the doctor ordered for these kids on the mend.

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