who is very interested in you right now is a seeing eye pop in training this is through the seeing eye organization in morristown new york marks ten new jersey rather and dauntless is ten months old and i receive her at my doorstep when she's seven weeks and my wife kate and i will have her till she's about sixteen months old and our responsibility for those sixteen months is to love her to death to socialize or to give her good house manners and when she goes back to the seeing eye at age sixteen months she goes through a training program and she is ready hopefully after another five months to be paired with a blind person and between now and then i take her everywhere so all of my errands everything i do in town when i run into mccaffrey's i'm usually with thoughtless and on walks just about everything i do she's with me to get her ready to the partner of a blind person and when these dogs are fully trained it's pretty remarkable what they're capable of doing they will learn commands and then they will learn to disobey the command so for example one of the commands is forward and if they get to a street corner and the blind person says forward and the dog hears a car coming around the corner that maybe the blind person didn't hear the dog will stop even though the dog has received the command to forward and the seeing eye calls that intelligent disobedience or they've learned that they've learned the command and then they've learned to overrule the command which is pretty special so you're nice to include us  we're so glad you could come to us and we're so proud of the ones that make it the dog that i had before was a black lab called ruffles and ruffles is now living in boston with a piano student at the berklee college of music really great oh that's wonderful yeah i think i have all our students here who went to berkeley and came back steve allen is one you can't praise berkeley and sure love steve truly before ruffles is with somebody in florida whose goal is to hike the appalachian trail with the dog so they do mind they do some pretty special things us a little bit how many there are in mercer county in somerset county sure so between mercer in somerset there's a about forty families that are raising these dillon and through the seeing i alone in marseilles town there are about five hundred dogs five hundred puppies that are raised each year for the ball and the goal of the seeing eye is that if you're blind and you apply and for a dog that you shouldn't have to wait we're not quite there yet we're almost there the way it's very short but that's the ultimate goal for you to be able to get a dog immediately when you want one they they will be with a blind person for roughly eight to ten years and then they're retired a blind person  has the opportunity to keep the dog and it becomes a family dog or it can go back to the family that raised it oh this is really so interesting i'm so glad that we'll keep in touch ok in the mean here bob i would love to talk about your new adventure and it's called inside prince and can earn think it's wonderfully needed  as organizations or bringing talent into their organization or company those people are maybe considering an offer in san francisco or new york or some other community and they very often have to make a decision very very quickly to accept the offer if they are were to accept the offer in this town and they don't know princeton right it's not greenwich it's easy to to not get princeton if you haven't lived here like we have all these years so essentially i'm doing three things for for my clients one is to present the community quickly to the candidate and perhaps the spouse or partner so they can make an informed decision about whether or not they want to join secondly when they're here and they've accepted the position to help them acclimate to the community as quickly as possible imagine the hundred things that you would need to know about if you move to different community and then thirdly to help the partner or spouse find a job very often the partner is a very very accomplished person in his or her own own right so i am asked now quite frequently to help them find a job lo and behold that was not part of my business plan never even thought of that and this falls into the category of come up with a business put together a business plan and in the end the client will shape your business thank you very much and that's as it should be and then words aren't it's definitely going to work princeton sells itself think of everything we have within a ten minute walk of this studio it's amazing right it is just simply we have more of him behind us than we have the center of theological inquiry across the street the arts council it's really quite a means and that doesn't scratch the surface so the town sells itself my job is to very quickly find out what the candidate or the family or interested in and help direct them perhaps make introductions introduce them to people answer questions if they have concerns to address the i'm merely providing information i'm not persuading people to do thing or the other but it is terribly important you can come into a community in the grand thing it's wonderful however depending on the client there are different things that are interesting to them depending on whether they have children they don't have children school soccer or whatever but i have found that the community is just so loaded with possibilities if you keep open one of the things that we always mention i think is probably the key thing which is community making it warm and wonderful is that your versity that takes place and if you're interested in that you can find there's someone here from the netherlands and there's someone here who only speaks spanish and yet you know there are schools and they do that and now we get a special school for chinese i mean it's quite a broad community it's small in a sense pennington and quite frankly that is the greater yeah princeton community and we used to say that as a matter of fact because somebody you know i live in hope well my lad to come that's the arts council of prince oh my heavens is  greater princeton but it is the greater prince and people are more and more going off into the ceral and mountains and hearing about a farmer or we started our day with a walk there this morning  would you think don't let's pretty good i need to make sure she was tired and that she would sleep for the interview was that we took a very long walk this year we're very comfortable here taking a little nap right we brew but bob i was thinking about day fabulous interview and he said wonderful creature and more than welcome to have us go talk about history think about this one of my other passions is to play golf and i have been i of springdale golf clubs since the late seventy's and there isn't a day that i don't go to springdale and think about the battle of princeton during the revolutionary war how many people can say that they walk up and down fairways that literally oh right right it's just remarkable and there's so many different kinds of examples of that princeton of everybody sliding down it's just so my favorite it's still my kid and her children will never forget it nor will turn hoffman bless his heart but it's and it's just been such a pleasure and not only do we have our history but we have so many extra little wonderful things that not every community has we have something called the colson i buried it in the the princeton university library you have it you can take children there or you can just take your grandparents or and just enjoy and then you can go to the bear in the books and hope will take them and all that wonder you could sure they are in and by the books there i know she is just rea say if you're if you like to to hike we're we have this we walk the trip this was the fun part for me i've lived here forever and i've had to really educate myself about town one of the things i was curious about because i do so much walking with the dogs is where should i be walking what knew the the number of trails that exist within a fifteen minute car ride if here is shouldn't be framed that and any rate we we can't lose him it's an example of one of the parks you could take people to and enjoy and then don't listen joy i went out my way so there's just that's just wonderful in you know living in this town you can hear for instance that there's a carillon at the graduate college and you can hear you probably hear it when you're playing on sunday between running to and  very tween that and then the rare where i can remember david can be home in the train and i could hear it coming and it was very exciting and that is almost here is almost there and you know this just makes a community all together and quite wonderful  i was thinking that we might mention for instance there's a wonderful exhibit for those who are interested sculptor on campus and there's a sculpture walk that one could take i mean just a s walk but incredible scope area that's been given and quite special and then i was thinking that on campus of course there's the woodrow wilson school with all kinds of lectures and interesting here baker the new york times columnist is going to be here monday night and getting there very early i bet you make sure i get to see he just wonderful he i've only seen him on television but my i haven right here monday night scott berg at berlin theater a few months ago talking about lindbergh so just the lecture opportunities alone between the library richardson woodrow wilson all throughout town you could probably attend a lecture at least once a week for from a worldwide fill in the bla physicist journalist politician commentator and you know you if you live in town you walk there and you walk there on the way home you keep thinking oh my is and we're in the fall organ concerts right right here at the chapel just walk in for twenty minutes and you can set to get agitated to get your breath re center yourself who between meetings obama it so quite frankly and i've had to i've learned a lot yes you know when when you live in a town for a long time there are certain things that you take for granted and if you don't continually keep yourself fresh if you don't continually look for things if you don't experimental who hit you can get then this business has forced me out of the shell and forced me to say to lots and lots of people over the last year ramping up to starting this business would you like to have a cup of coffee  is that if you're interested in becoming a board member for a nonprofit organization in the fall in the spring she runs a program which will teach you how to be an effective board member how to read financial statements how to be a good fiduciary partner to that organization what does it mean to be a board member of a nonprofit not a college course that we take  they just are filling a say in all over every community has a concern to take care of people who aren't so great at taking care of themselves just given the chance and i don't know it's rewarding did know that your community does bother it's never enough but it does bother yeah and that's nice to know that we're part of that community yes very much so about more of an in the history a net fairly new for us to have this broad wonderful organization now and i just keep thinking this gets better and better and now they're bringing in newark and how we all started organization isn't titled decorate a tree and get that going into christmas caroling the carter i know there's a tradition there's a little annual jam mimi for princeton tour company yes i've mentioned how about mimi she told us that he's just the best she's incredible she's one of the very very first people that i went to when i was starting this business  was introduced to me she took me under her wing immediately which was great because she was new to town and i've been here forever and she took me under her wing people right through i absolutely love it if you know me me you get you sort of get that and we've become good friends and the day that i launched the business she has about two thousand facebook followers the david i launched the business she sent out a blast to everybody in her network all two thousand people this is what my good friend is doing and here's his website just a little touch give to her very much but this is what the community can do and of course our that henderson real estate and there's another person who has been just absolutely fabulous and when i have somebody who needs to talk real estate my first quick e mail is to years ago but i'm not exactly sure what the numerous and the interesting thing is that the day before that there was no coffee shop in princeton so it's interesting and you know and it's such a good point that you've raised the remarkable thing about princeton it is how much the town has changed and yet how much the essential character of the task is the same that's a real is a real trick that's not easy to pull off and you mention some of the events i mean the whole way in parade is still just as exciting for those children and their families as you could ever imagine it changed their browed a little bit but it's basically you know and the mayor will give you a little button that costs about a quarter of a cent the to get pinned on saying that you've been acknowledged and it's half of it just to have children know that and their families know  the town was divided into do we have town remember when you started converse of that and then you had all these kids on campus but there were two kids on campus and said you know we could do something you have it both of them were involved with c and before i knew it they would say we can set at the tables and do the chair and one thing led to another one of the gals is now a pediatrician in new york city and the other guy dove clad is in russia working on one thing or another you probably don't remember me but i was in under age and awful and she wouldn't go that's so nice of your speak and so forth and what are you doing now and she said i'm an editor in london and i thought o we haven't even touched on schools i know right i know we have not and the number when we talk about variety and people iconic people jane freeman you oh and she is the great  not you know so much as saying that no no no grey's way no ever going to now needs a couple of really great thoughtful but educators the educational possibilities again within a fifteen minute drive of here are truly extraordinary and that's the thing that i think about i was very very lucky i grew up in new york city and spent a couple years in documentary films as you may recall and when i showed up here to teach at princeton day school i knew nobody i didn't know one person and the faculty the it ministration the parents council i'd probably met thirty people in town within the first six months just through that association thank you very much and so we all loved you and had a wonderful time and grew and met new is pleased and maybe not and how can we make it more wonderful for both partners and i don't listen i ready ok we're ready for that almost all right ready to go but you're right yes well thank you very very much