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Events This Week

Global Challenges, Modern Solutions

with

General Brent Scowcroft, President, The Scowcroft Group

Wednesday, September 28, 6:00-7:00 p.m.

George Washington University

Room 451

Duques Hall

2201 G Street NW

RSVP: http://scowcroft928.eventbrite.com

As one of the nation's preeminent authorities on international policy, General Scowcroft will discuss contemporary

challenges in international affairs and policy formation and reflect on lessons learned from the end of the Cold Warfrom the government's perspective. His unique perspective will draw from his extensive background that includes

serving as a National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.

Sponsored by the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communications and the Walter Roberts Endowment

Golden Buddha Happy Hour

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 4:00pm - 8:00pm

Buddha-Bar

Venue Address:

455 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20001

United States

See map: Google Maps

Admire the new gold Buddha statue while enjoying Buddha-Bar DC’s new happy hour menu, which isavailable Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The larger than life Buddha is the golden reincarnate of the restaurant’s original statue, which hasattracted much attention since Buddha-Bar DC first opened its doors last year. It was originally

crafted from black onyx and designed in Indonesia specifically for the DC-location. Upon its arrival,the statue was blessed by a local Buddhist group in order to observe Buddhist traditions. The statuemeasures an impressive 18 feet and sits in a meditative state on a stage, overlooking the expansive

dining room.

The menu includes $4 domestic beers, $5 imported beers, $6 glasses of wine, and $7 signaturecocktails on the rocks.

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Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline

September 28, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Open Society Institute

1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 7th Floor


Lunch will be served.

Register: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/events/breaking-school-to-prison-pipeline-

20110928/event_rsvp

The growing trend of harsh school discipline practices such as suspension, expulsions, and zero tolerance policies

in public schools do more to increase student involvement in the criminal justice system than to correct or curb

behavior. In many states, children are often arrested and criminalized for minor disciplinary offenses. African

American males are the largest group of students disproportionately affected by such School-to-Prison Pipeline

policies. In fact, a recent school discipline study in Texas by the Council of State Governments found that almost 60

percent of Texas public school students received punishments ranging from expulsion to in-school suspensions at

least once between 7-12 grades. The study also found that African American males and students with educational

disabilities were disproportionately disciplined for discretionary actions.

Harsh and discriminating school discipline policies led the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of

Justice to create the Supportive School Discipline Initiative, which encourages positive and effective disciplinary

practices that create safer school environments conducive to learning and do not remove students from the

educational setting.

Please join the Open Society Foundations for a panel discussion on the impact of school discipline policies andvarious initiatives underway to dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Representatives from the U.S. Department

of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice will join experts to discuss the federal program and other

initiatives.

Panelists

Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Robin Delany-Shabazz, Director for Concentration of Federal Efforts Program, U.S. Department of Justice

Kristen Harper, Policy Advisor for Safe and Drug Free Schools, U.S. Department of Education

Kavitha Mediratta, Program Executive for Children and Youth, Atlantic Philanthropies

Jane Sundius, Director of Education and Youth Development Programs, OSI-Baltimore, Open Society FoundationsChristopher Scott, Criminal Justice and Campaign for Black Male Achievement Policy Analyst, Open Society

Foundations (moderator)

Everything on GU's website is listed as being at "37th & O Streets NW" - It's close.

Here's a crappy map:

http://maps.georgetown.edu/

presents

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“The German Federal Constitutional Court at 60: Karlsruhe Copes with the Pull of Europe”

with

Dr. Heiko Holste

Visiting Scholar, BMW Center for German and European Studies

German Federal Ministry of Justice (on sabbatical)

Wednesday, September 28

12:00-2:00 p.m.

Georgetown University

McGhee Library

Inter Cultural Center 301

Heiko Holste is a visiting scholar at the BMW Center on leave from the German Federal Ministry of Justice. From 2005-2009

Dr. Holste served as political Counselor and Head of Speechwriting for the Minister of Justice, Brigette Zypries. From 2004-

2005 he was an advisor to the Federal Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily. In 2001 he earned his Ph.D. in constitutional history

from the University of Göttingen. Dr. Holste is co-editor of the German quarterly “Recht und Politik” (“Law and Politics”).

Lunch will be provided.

Register:

http://heikoholste.eventbrite.com/

Please direct all questions to [email protected]

The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series with David Ignatius


The Aspen Institute

One Dupont Circle NW

Suite 700

Washington, DC 20036-1133

RSVP:

Devon Rodonets (202) 736-3844

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius discusses his new thriller Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage. He is the

author of Body of Lies, which became a major Hollywood film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Leonardo

DiCaprio and Russell Crowe (2008).

About the book:

Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's

enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the

killing and why. Her starting point is Alphabet Capital, the London hedge fund that has been providing cover for

this secret operation, but the investigation soon widens to include the capitals of the Middle East and the cruel hills

of South Waziristan. Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss, Jeffrey Gertz, and his genial mentor

at headquarters, Cyril Hoffman. In addition, she gets help from the well-mannered lieutenant general heading

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. But the closer Sophie gets to her quarry, the more she realizes

that nothing in this gallery of mirrors is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and retribution, in which



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the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.

Moderator:

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

Roundtable on Women & the Economy


The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

10 G Street NE

Suite 600

Lunch will be provided; please come a few minutes early to help yourself to the buffet

RSVP: [email protected] by Tuesday September 27th.

We're back! We've decided to kick off the return of the Roundtable from our "summer break" with the release of

two very important reports on the results of the IWPR-Rockefeller Survey of Economic Security. We hope you can

join us to hear about and discuss the state of Americans' economic and retirement security. It is a vital time for

such a discussion.

Agenda:

"On the Edge: Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession" &

"Retirement on the Edge: Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession"

Carol Wayman, Director, Federal Policy, Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)

Terry O'Neill, President, National Organization for Women (NOW)

Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

Jeffrey Hayes, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

Washington D.C. Monthly Policy Luncheon

"An Analysis of Obama's Jobs Plan"

Wednesday, September 28, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Regional Economic Models, Inc.

700 12th Street NW

Suite 700

There is no charge to attend and lunch will be provided.

RSVP:

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REMI (Regional Economic Models, Inc.) invites you to join us for our Monthly Policy Luncheon.As the country's unemployment figures continue to rise, REMI explores different options for job creation.

Specifically, we will focus on President Obama's job creation proposals. These include the payroll tax credit,




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maintaining infrastructure, and middle class tax cuts. Scott Nystrom will take an unbiased look at these options

and how they effect the economy.

COMPLIMENTARY WINETASTINGS

Join ZWK for happy hour and enjoy our weekly pick of amazing new wines paried with our artisanal cheeses.

Zola Wine & Kitchen505 Ninth Street NW

Wednesday, September 28, 5:00-7:00 p.m. ZWK Presents: Unusual Varietals

Sipp Mack Sylvaner Bodegas Carrau Tannat Calheiros Cruz

Friday, September 30, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Fun American Wines with Andrew Stover of Vino 50!

Breaux Seyval Blanc Shindig White Okanogan Bench Rock Red Sawtooth Skyline Red

Supreme Court Preview: 2011 Term




Lehrman Auditorium

The Heritage Foundation

214 Massachusetts Avenue NE

Washington DC 20002-4999

RSVP: http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/09/Supreme-Court-

Preview?utm_source=DC+Linktank&utm_campaign=27783fbf24-DC_Linktank_Weekly_Events-09_26_011&utm_medium=email

Just days before the High Court’s 2011 Term begins, The Heritage Foundation will preview the likely blockbuster

cases, with Supreme Court luminaries Paul Clement and Kannon Shanmugam. The Eleventh Circuit’s recent ruling

striking down the individual mandate in ObamaCare, which Paul Clement won for 26 states, makes it almost

certain the Supreme Court will hear the case. Will the government be able to delay the final decision until after the

2012 election? How will the Justices respond to the latest racial preference cases from the Fifth and Sixth Circuits:

Will they overrule Grutter v. Bollinger or kick the can down the road for another 25 years? How will United States v.

Jones (the GPS tracking device case) and Florence v. Board of Freeholders (the prisoner strip search case) change

Fourth Amendment protections? Will the High Court uphold the Arizona immigration law or strike it down?

Paul Clement has argued over 50 cases before the Supreme Court, including high profile cases like McConnell v.

FEC , Gonzales v. Raich, and Gonzales v. Carhart . Since returning to private practice, Clement has taken up significant

cases headed to the High Court, such as the ObamaCare suit in the Eleventh Circuit and Congress’s defense of

DOMA in the First Circuit. Kannon Shanmugam was an Assistant to the Solicitor General and has also argued a

number of cases before the Court, including Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Merck & Co. v. Reynolds. He’s

been named as one of Washington’s “Top 40 [lawyers] Under 40” by National Law Journal and The Washingtonian.

Join us as these distinguished experts discuss what is likely to unfold in the next Supreme Court term.

More About the Speakers

Paul Clement, Former United States Solicitor General and Partner, Bancroft PLLC

Kannon Shanmugam. Former Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General and Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP

Hosted By

Todd Gaziano, Director, Center for Legal & Judicial Studies

You are cordially invited to a special lecture with

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed

Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations, American University

Advisory Board member, IWP's Center for Culture and Security

on the topic of

Poetry in Islamic Culture

and his new book,

Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse

Thusday, September 29, 4:30 -6:30 p.m.

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The Institute of World Politics

1521 16th Street NW


Please RSVP to [email protected]

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of International Relationsat American University in Washington, D.C. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Ahmed was the Pakistani High

Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom. He has also held many other senior positions in Pakistan.

His many award-winning books include Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society,

Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World,

Jinnah Quartet, Journey into Islam, and, most recently, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam.

DC APA Film Festival Kick-off Party

Event Date:

Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 6:00pm

Tabaq Bistro

Venue Address:

1336 U Street NW


United States


www.tabaqdc.com

We are excited to have our Kick-off Party next Thursday, Sept 29 at Tabaq Bistro!

Come join us at 6pm and learn more about our 12th Annual DC APA Film Festival and partake in

some great food/drink specials.

We can't wait to see you as we kick off another great year of APA films!

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Exclusive - FFP at Gibson

Event Date:Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm

RSVP:

RSVP Required

Cost

Price:

$15.00

The Gibson

Venue Address:

2009 14th Street NW


United States

Phone: (202) 232-2156


www.thegibsondc.com

As a supporter of Fashion Fights Poverty, you are invited to an exclusive evening of mixology at TheGibson.

Jon Harris will be speaking about his craft while he prepares four fashion inspired cocktails. Savorybites. Soul Call Paul providing the beats.

$15 (very limited number of tickets available) to access the entire private upstairs.

Buy Tickets Now! http://tinyurl.com/092811FFP

100% of ticket sales support FFP programs.

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COMPLIMENTARY WINETASTING

Potenza Wine 15th & H Streets NW

Join us at Potenza for a weekly tasting and enjoy a variety of amazing new wines, paired with our artisanal cheeses.

Thursday, September 29, 5:00-7:00 p.m.Red Wine and White Whiskey: Selections from Bacchus Imports

Avalon Sauvignon Blanc

Albino Rocca Dolcetto

Avalon Cabernet

Chehalem Pinot Noir

High West Silver Oak Whiskey

WINE SPECIAL

Sauvignon Blanc on sale for $10.49 and Cabernet on sale for $15.99!



Is Competitiveness Worth Defending?

Thursday, September 29, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center

Twelfth Floor

American Enterprise Institute

1150 17th Street NW


RSVP: http://www.aei.org/event/100472

Politicians often call for actions to enhance US competitiveness with other countries and chide their political rivals

for pursuing policies contrary to that purpose. Meanwhile, segments of the academic community have largely

written off national competitiveness as meaningless. Economist Paul Krugman went so far as to say that "theobsession with competitiveness is not only wrong but dangerous, skewing domestic policies and threatening the

international system." In light of the academic challenge to the notion of competitiveness, AEI has gathered experts

to research the value of competitiveness in different spheres. How do we define competitiveness, and is it worth

pursuing as a policy goal? In what ways do countries compete in various areas, including education, intellectual

property, health care and taxes?

This AEI conference will be the first of a two-part series in which scholars will present new research on

competitiveness. Each paper will be presented by its author(s), followed by comments from an expert and

questions from the audience.

Agenda

8:45 a.m. - Registration

9:00 a.m - Introduction:

Kevin A. Hassett, AEI

9:15 a.m. - Competitive Tax Policy

Author/Speaker:

Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan

Discussant:

Andrew Lyon, PricewaterhouseCoopers

10:15 a.m. - Rethinking Competitiveness

Authors:


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R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia Business School

Matt Jensen, AEI

Speaker:


Discussant:

Chris Edwards, Cato Institute

11:15 a.m. - Break

11:30 a.m. - The Role of Innovation and Intellectual Property in Economic Competition

Author/Speaker:

Robert J. Shapiro, Sonecon

Discussant:

John H. Makin, AEI

12:30 p.m. - Lunch

1:00 p.m. - American Competitiveness and the Health Care System

Authors:

Michael E. Chernew, Harvard Medical School

Philip I. Levy, AEI

Speaker:

Michael E. Chernew, Harvard Medical School

Discussant:

Stephen T. Parente, University of Minnesota

2:00 p.m. - Education and Global Competitiveness: Lessons for the US from International Evidence

Author/Speaker:

Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Discussant:

Grover J. Whitehurst, Brookings Institution

3:00 p.m. - Adjournment

Health and Harmony: Population, Health, and Environment in Indonesia

September 29, 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Fifth Floor

Woodrow Wilson Center

Ronald Reagan Builing

13th & Pennsylvania avenue NW

Admission is free.

RSVP: [email protected]

Photo ID required to enter the Reagan building

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Forests cover 60 percent of Indonesia, while agriculture supports 49 percent of its workforce. As in othernational parks, the management of Borneo's Gunung Palung must balance the demands of environmental

conservation with the need to support the livelihoods of local communities. An innovative population, health,and environment (PHE) program supported by Health in Harmony--called Alam Sehat Lestari, or "Healthy

Nature Everlasting"--seeks to meet these development challenges by combining family planning, health care

and medical training, reforestation and rainforest protection, and organic farming and alternative livelihoods.

Speakers:

Alene Gelbard, Director, Company-Community Partnerships for Health in Indonesia, Public Health Institute

Kinari Webb, Founder, Health in Harmony, Oakland, California; Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), West Kalimantan,

Indonesia

Event: Public discussion – part of the Ambassador's Lecture Series

From Mississippi to Broome: Creating transformative economic opportunity

Thursday, September 29, 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Embassy of Australia

1601 Massachusetts Avenue NW

RSVP: [email protected] or (202) 797-3373

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of the largest employers in their state, with almost 8,000 people

employed in 19 different businesses. They have created an economic success story that has transformed their

community, and in doing so have opened up a new world of educational and professional opportunities for young

Choctaw. Other indigenous nations - including Citizen Potawatomi of Oklahoma, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska,

Membertou First of Nova Scotia, and Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Colorado - are also building economies that

work. Why and how is this happening?

Transforming native title into sustainable economic development is one of the great challenges facing Aboriginal

communities from the Torres Strait to Broome. Professor Mick Dodson (The Australian National University) will

lead a roundtable discussion with Dr Manley Bagay (University of Arizona and Harvard University) and Dr Toni

Bauman (Australian Institute of Torres Strait Islander Studies) to consider what lessons there are in the NorthAmerican experience, and examine the policy and legal changes that would be needed unleash similar opportunity

in Australia.

Panel

Mick Dodson

Mick Dodson is Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University.

He is a Professor of law at the ANU College of Law. He is a member of the Yawuru peoples the traditionalAboriginal owners of land and waters in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western

Australia. Mick Dodson has been a prominent advocate on land rights and other issues affecting Aboriginal and






Torres Strait Islander peoples. In 2009, he was named Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day

Council. He is the current Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.

Manley A Begay Jr

Manley A Begay Jr, Navajo, is Associate Social Scientist & Senior Lecturer in the American Indian Studies

Program at the University of Arizona. He teaches courses on nation-building, curriculum development, andIndigenous education. He is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic

Development, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Toni Bauman

Toni Bauman is a Research Fellow in the Native Title Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She is an anthropologist, mediator, facilitator and trainer who has published

widely and made presentations to national and international audiences. She has over 30 years experience in

Indigenous matters including land and native title claims, agreement-making, decision-making and dispute

management processes, joint management of national parks and Indigenous Protected Areas, governmentpolicy, art and craft, program evaluation, feasibility studies, tourism and training.

Newsletter | Austrian Cultural Forum Washington



The Austrian Cultural Forum Washington and

Brodmann Pianos present:

lecture

Fascination Liszt

Thursday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.

Embassy of Austria

3524 International Court NW


Admission free, RSVP required: www.acfdc.org/events-

registration or (202) 895-6776

Child prodigy, piano virtuoso, heartthrob and enchanter of

Europe’s concert halls: Franz Liszt was one of the most

dazzling musical personalities of the Romantic era and the

composer of a gigantic oeuvre. On the occasion of the 200th

anniversary of Liszt’s birth, the artistic directors of the Liszt

Festival Raiding Johannes and Eduard Kutrowatz will hold a

lecture on outstanding Austrian composer Franz Liszt.

Johannes and Eduard Kutrowatz studied piano at the

renowned Josef Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, with a

special focus on original works for four hands or two pianos

respectively. The brothers won many international awards

and filled concert halls all over the world. Both of them teach

at the Music University in Vienna.

Franz Liszt was born in Austria-Hungary. He became one of

the greatest pianists of his time. Liszt was also a renowned

composer and piano teacher. At the age of only eight years,

Liszt composed his first works. With nine years he already

played in Sopron and Bratislava. In the 1820’s Liszt took up

his studies in Vienna. As a celebrated pianist he toured

throughout Europe. He spent his last years in Hungary,

Germany and Italy. Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth in July, 1886.

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The Gallery Contemporary Middle East and Arab American Artists

2425 Virginia Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20037Metro: Foggy Bottom

(202) 338-1958 Gallery Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.



The Jerusalem Fund Gallery invites you to

Of Refuge, of Home

an exhibition of paintings by Adam Chamy

(September 30-October 28)

Opening reception to meet the artist:Friday, September 30, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Open to the PublicFree

No RSVP Needed

Palestinian-Texan artist Adam Chamy explores identity, myth,and home through a series of family portraits and installation

works that weave themes of migration, roots, and belonging.

Faces of Texan farmers hang side by side with Jerusalemmerchants. One has centuries-old ties to land through frontier

settlement of the American South. The other, an enterprisingglobal Levantine merchant family, faces a broken homeland

severed by colonization and war. Together these fragmentedmyths and stories formulate an identity questioning the idea of

home and form a story of a bicultural Arab-Americana.

Born in Fort Worth, Adam graduated from George WashingtonUniversity in 2009 and received a BA in International Affairs with

minors in art, art history, and anthropology. His works have

exhibited in group shows in the Washington area, Texas, andSpain. This is his first solo show.

The Jerusalem Fund for

Education and Community

Development is a 501(c)(3)

non-profit organization based

in Washington, DC that doeseducational and humanitarian

work on behalf of Palestinians,

particularly those living in the

Occupied Territory and

surrounding refugee camps.

The Gallery is The Jerusalem

Fund's cultural program. It

promotes the work of artists

from Palestine as well as from

the Arab and Islamic worlds

through art exhibits, book

signings, film screenings,

musical performances and

workshops.

Food Price Increases: Causes, Impacts and Responses

Friday, September 30, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.


The Elliott School of International Affairs

City View Room, 7th Floor

1957 E Street NW

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8:30-9:00 a.m. - Registration and Coffee

9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks

Stephen Smith, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, and Director, Institute for International Economic Policy,GW

9:15-11:15 a.m. - Panel 1: Causes: Long and Short Term Forces Underlying Food Price Spikes and TrendsNora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University; "Survey of Long and Short RunFactors"

Keith O. Fuglie, Chief of the Resource, Environmental, and Science Policy Branch in the Resource and Rural EconomicsDivision, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; "Global and Regional Food Productivity and OutputTrends

Patrick Webb, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, TuftsUniversity; "Models of Determinants of Food Price Increases"

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. - Panel 2: Impacts: Poverty, Nutrition and Welfare Impacts of Food Price IncreasesFrancisco Ferreira, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank; "Rising Food Prices and HouseholdWelfare: Evidence from Brazil"

James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GW; "Measurement Issues in Assessing Poverty Impactsof Food Price Spikes"

1:15-2:00 p.m. - Lunch Keynote Address

Alain de Janvry, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

2:00-4:00 p.m. - Panel 3: Responses: Policy and Program Responses to Food Price SpikesCarlos B Martins-Filho, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder; Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI;"Excessive Food Price Volatility Early Warning System"

Maximo Torero, Division Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division; leader of the Global Research Program onInstitutions and Infrastructure for Market Development; Director for Latin America, IFPRI; "Price Volatility in Food andAgricultural Markets: Policy Responses"

Uma Lele, Author and Development Advisor; "Responses of the World Bank to Food Price Spikes"

The forum will feature current research and policy analysis on the causes, impacts, and responses to recent increases in

food prices. The forum will include a combination of presentation of research results, demonstration of policy tools, and

discussion of policy implications, priority actions, and future research needs. The forum will focus on global trends as well

as regions of interest, notably Africa.

Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy

Abolish the Transportation Security Administration

Friday, September 30, 12:00 p.m.

(Lunch Included)

B-354 Rayburn House Office Building

Featuring David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; and Jim Harper, Director of Information PolicyStudies, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, federalized aviation security has proven costly,

reactive, and an intrusive failure. Restoring security responsibility to airports and airlines would providenumerous benefits to the traveling public without compromising security. Join us for a discussion of why

Congress should privatize airport security and abolish the Transportation Security Administration.



photo by Antoine Sanfuentes

Starting at 8:00 p.m., THE CONNECTION, a free jazz performance by Butch Warren & Freddie

Redd accompanied by a photographic slide show by Antoine Sanfuentes. A poetry reading by

local DC poet, Fred Joiner, will also happen in between sets.

An evening of jazz and art with two legendary jazz musicians, Freddie Redd pairs up with Butch Warren to play hard bop

jazz...known for his piece "The Connection," these two connect an era and an art form.

Born in 1939, Butch Warren began his career as a jazz bassist at the ripe age of 14. Early on, the bassist worked locally in

the Washington, DC, area, most notably with Stuff Smith. Warren was in great demand for club work and appeared on

many recordings, particularly dates for the Blue Note label led by Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Stanley Turrentine,

Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, and Dorham. He was a member of Thelonious Monk's

quartet from 1963-1964 and then moved back to Washington, DC, where he worked on a television show from 1965-

1966.

Antoine Sanfuentes is the Washington DC Bureau Chief for NBC news that has been documenting Butch Warren's recent

life history. His photographs chronicle Butch Warren's come back. After four legendary years recording for blue note

records in New York (1960-1964), Butch Warren spent decades off the music scene only re appearing briefly to

disappear again. These photographs document his struggle as a jazz musician and an artist.

This performance is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts

Both events are free and open to the public.

For more details: 202.580.597

1241 Good Hope Road SE Washington DC 20020



Runway Moms for a Cause

Event Date:Friday, September 30, 2011 - 6:30pm - 10:30pm

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Venue Address:

3519 International Court, NW


United States


"Runway Moms for a Cause" (RMFAC) is an impactful intersection of philanthropy and fashion at itsbest.

Labeled a visual fashion statement for Global Goodwill, RMFC is a runway show for philanthropists totake a stance on an often overlooked issue, and lend a helping hand towards a solution.

The inaugural black-tie event will focus on influential Washington, DC mothers raising funds fororphans through the United for Kids Foundation (UKF) - a 501c3 organization committed to fightingpoverty and illiteracy through education and social welfare programs in Nigeria. RMFAC isrecognized by the Embassy of Nigeria as a prelude to the Nigerian Independence Day celebrations.

Participating mothers will be adorned in one of a kind designs by L-Shandi and guests will partake in a silentauction featuring original artwork, sent from Nigeria, by the benefitting orphans depicting their life goals anddreams.

WHO: Hosted by Maureen Umeh, Emmy award winning Anchor of Fox 5 News, Aba Kwawu, Founder, TheAba Agency, Jessica McFadden, Founder, top online DC Metro area Mom site "A Parent in Silver Spring",Kelly Collis, Tommy Show on Fresh 94.7, Founder, City Shop Girl, Maimah Karmo, Founder, TigerlilyFoundation, Rebecca Cooper, Anchor, WJLA Channel 7, Maggy Francois, Fashion Educator, West PotomacAcademy, Tanya Dallas-Lewis, Musician and Journalist, Christine Brooks-Cropper, President, GreaterWashington Fashion Chamber of Commerce, Chichi Emeson, Executive Director, Miss Nigeria in America,

Inc., Natalie Jobity, President, Élan Image Management, Mia Redrick, Owner, Finding Definitions, Kristie Hale,CEO, Impulse Design Group, Inc., Susi DuPuis, Personal Assistant to CEO & CFO of BP Alternative EnergyNorth America, Monique Lighart, Realtor, Long and Foster, Neneh Diallo, Director of Communications,Millennium Challenge Corporation, Christhel Barron, PR & Events coordinator at LJ Bamboo, Doyin Daramola-Boatin, Doctor of Pharmacy, Dekalb Medical Hospital.

About Runway Moms for a Cause ( www.lshandi.com/charity

):

"Runway Moms for a Cause" (RMFAC) is an impactful intersection of philanthropy and fashion at its best.

Labeled a visual fashion statement for Global Goodwill, RMFC is a runway show for philanthropists to take a

stance on an often overlooked issue, and lend a helping hand towards a solution. The inaugural black-tie event will focus on influential Washington, DC mothers raising funds for orphans through the United for Kids

Foundation (UKF) - a 501c3 organization committed to fighting poverty and illiteracy through education and

http://www.lshandi.com/charity






social welfare programs in Nigeria. RMFAC is recognized by the Embassy of Nigeria as a prelude to the

Nigerian Independence Day celebrations.

Upcoming Show at Studio Gallery

EXHIBITIONS

September 28 - October 22

Artist Reception

Saturday, October 1, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

First Friday Reception

October 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Studio Gallery

2108 R Street NW

Solo Show: Meditations, Abstractions,and Distractions

Carolee Jakes

Local artist Carolee Jakes was working on

textile-embedded portraits of the women

in her family when she began the

indulgently pleasurable experience of

knitting a "windsock". Using recycled sari

yarn spun by a women's cooperative in

India as the primary material, she added

old buttons and strips of discarded silk, as

well as pieces of used violin, cello, and bass

strings. This show includes work that leads

up to and responds to this creative

process.

Duo Show: Chroma

Eugene Markowski



An Exhibit of Architectural Photographs of the Future

By Kenneth M. Wyner

(September 1-October 28)

Opening Reception


American Institute of Architects

1735 New York Avenue NWWashington, DC 20006

(202) 626-7300



The Royal Thai Embassy will be bringing a Thai village to the heart of

Georgetown on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from Noon to 5 p.m. The event will

feature a Thai food fair, including authentic, healthy and popular dishes fromall four regions of Thailand prepared by the Embassy and local Thai

associations. The food fair includes authentic Thai drinks, Thai beer and Thaifruit. Attendees will be invited to watch the following cultural performances:

Muay Thai demonstration, long drum dance, traditional Thai musicalinstrument performance, and a Thai fencing/sword-baton dance

demonstration. There will also be an opportunity to experience a Thai

massage and a special exhibition of Thai-U.S. relations. Admission to allexhibits and performances is free of charge, while food and beverages will

be available for purchase. Proceeds raised will go toward charitable causessupported by Grace Church. For further information, please contact the Royal

Thai Embassy at (202) 944-3600.

Embassy - 1024 Wisconsin Avenue NW

You and your guest are invited to our home//my studio to welcome the end of a rainy summer, new artworks, and good health.

Come by to celebrate with food, refreshments, and friends.


3330 N Street NW

RSVP: [email protected] or call 202-329-1155

Looking forward to seeing you,

Andrey Bogoslowsky






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Luce Unplugged

Amy Bormet

DC-based jazz pianist & vocalist

Amy K. Bormet performs after an art talk Sunday, October 2, 1:30 p.m.

Luce Foundation

Center

Smithsonian American Art Museum

8th & F Streets NW

GLENVIEW MANSION ART GALLERYGlenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park603 Edmonston Drive

Rockville, Maryland 20851



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The 2011 Edward Said Memorial Lecture

with



Dr. Saree Makdisi

Professor of English & Comparative Literature

University of California, Los Angeles

Monday, October 3, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

The Palestine Center

2425 Virginia Avenue NW


Click here to RSVP now! Dr. Saree Makdisi is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, and the

author of Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998), William Blake and the

Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Palestine Inside Out:

An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton, 2008; revised and updated, with a new foreword by Alice

Walker, 2010).

He is currently completing work on a book tentatively called Occidentalism, Race and Imperial

Culture, which explores the convergence between the civilizing mission into which the British

empire would morph in the nineteenth century and the almost exactly parallel mission inside

England itself. The book includes chapters on William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Francis Place,

Robert Southey and Thomas Macaulay, and Charles Dickens. Among other things, it aims to re-

evaluate the significance of Romanticism as one of the key sites of resistance to the imperial

culture that would consolidate itself in Britain after 1815, and would go on to affect virtually

every aspect of British culture by the end of the nineteenth century.

He is also the co-editor of the volume The Arabian Nights in Historical Context (Oxford

University Press, 2008), and of Marxism Beyond Marxism (Routledge, 1996).

He is also Editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature, which is published by the

University of California Press.

He received his PhD from the Literature Program at Duke University in 1993, and his BA from

Wesleyan University in 1987.

Most of his scholarship focuses on the culture of modernity and empire in late eighteenth- and

early nineteenth-century Britain (the Romantic period), but he is also interested in the

consequences and afterlives of modernity and empire in the contemporary Arab world,

especially Lebanon and Palestine, about which he has published extensively in scholarly books

as well as in academic journals such as Critical Inquiry .

In the spirit of speaking not only to a relatively narrow circle of scholars sharing a common

expertise but to a broader public as well, he has written a number of articles on contemporary

events which have appeared in, among others, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post,

The Chicago Tribune, The Nation, The Huffington Post, The London Review of Books and the

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Beirut newspaper al-akhbar . He has also spoken or appeared on, among others, the BBC World

Service, National Public Radio, al-Jazeera, PBS, South African Broadcasting Corporation’s SAFM,

and Radio National in Australia.

The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about thePalestinian political experience to American policy makers, journalists, students and the general public. Established in 1991, it is theeducational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development.

The Palestine Center brings together people and resources within the American and Palestinian communities to educate aboutPalestine and the Palestinian people's ongoing quest for sovereignty on their land, civil and political rights and an end to Israelioccupation.

The need for an organization such as The Palestine Center can be found in the effects of the economic, cultural and politicaloppression Palestinians have endured and which continues on a daily basis in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, thesurrounding refugee camps and for Palestinians world-wide as they struggle to retain their homeland.

Palestinians' ability to maintain their daily lives and strengthen their democratic political system depends on internationalhumanitarian and non-governmental organizations such as The Palestine Center.



The U.S.-Israel Relationship:

Twenty Years after Oslo

Monday, October 3

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

U.S. Capitol Visitor Center

Congressional Meeting Room South (CVC-217)

Capitol Hill

Washington, DC

Space is limited for this conference. For more information, or to register, please visit:

usisraelrelations.eventbrite.com

Twenty years after the Madrid Peace Conference and the launch of the Oslo era — and a

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decade after those hopes for peace were shattered by the Second Intifada — the United

States and Israel face unprecedented challenges. From attempts to isolate and deligitimize

Israel at the United Nations to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, from suicide bombers to cyber -warfare, the threats are many and increasing. The political situation in the Middle East

following the Arab Spring is tenuous at best. With the Obama administration making the

Arab-Israeli peace process the focus of Middle East foreign policy, in order to meet thesethreats, the United States must work closely with its allies, above all Israel.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is pleased to sponsor a day-long HudsonInstitute/Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference which will feature some of

the country’s top experts to discuss these important issues.

SCHEDULE

8:45 am: Registration and Light Continental Breakfast

9:00 am: Welcoming Remarks

Kenneth Weinstein, President & CEO, Hudson Institute

Clifford May, President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

9:15 am: Peace Process — Expectations and Reality

Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relationsand former Deputy National Security Advisor

John Hannah, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, former NationalSecurity Advisor to Vice President Richard Cheney, and senior advisor to Secretary of

State Warren Christopher

Kenneth Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History

and Israeli Studies and Director of the Middle East Research Program at Emory

University

Moderator: Lewis Libby, Senior Vice President, Hudson Institute; former Chief of Staff

to Vice President Richard Cheney and former National Security Advisor

10:30 am: An Ascendant Iran — The Threat to the U.S. and Israel

Ilan Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council

Michael Doran, Visiting Professor, New York University and former Deputy Assistant

Secretary of Defense and Senior Director at the National Security Council

Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Lee Smith, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; Fellow, Foundation for Defense of

Democracies; and Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard

Moderator: Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of

Democracies

12:00 pm: Luncheon Keynote Address

Ambassador Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States

1:15 pm: Israel — Value of the Strategic Relationship

Gary Bauer, Director, American Values



George Gilder, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute and author of The Israel Test

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), co-chair of the Republican Israel Caucus

Moderator: Hillel Fradkin, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy,and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute

2:45 pm: The Way Forward — Threats and Opportunities

Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Robert Lieber, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown

University

Joshua Muravchik , Foreign Policy Institute Fellow, SAIS

Abram Shulsky, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Moderator: Douglas Feith, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and former Under Secretaryof Defense for Policy

4:00 pm: Reception at the Conclusion of the Conference

Please note that due to limited space, filling out the registration form does not guarantee a

spot. You will receive a separate email within one week confirming the status of your

registration.

Artemis G. Kirk, University Librarian

and the Georgetown University Library Associates



cordially invite you to

Suspense and Shiraz! Murder and Malbec!

An Evening with Ellen Crosby

Author Ellen Crosby in conversation with

Georgetown Professor and Critic-in-Residence Maureen Corrigan

Monday, October 3, 2011

6:00 p.m.

Copley Formal Lounge

Copley Hall

Georgetown University

Reception and book-signing to follow

Please RSVP to library.georgetown.edu/rsvp or 202-687-7446 by September 29, 2011

Ellen Crosby is the author of a series of wine country mysteries, the most recent of which are The Sauvignon

Secret and The Viognier Vendetta. For the past twenty years, she has been a freelance journalist in the US,

London, Moscow, and Geneva, Switzerland, writing feature stories for such publications as The Wall Street

Journal, The Christian Science Monitor , and The Washington Post . Before that, Ellen worked as ABC Radio

News’ Moscow correspondent during the late 1980s. She later wrote her first novel, Moscow Nights, based on

her experiences in the former Soviet Union during the waning days of the Gorbachev era. Prior to working as a

journalist, Crosby was an economist in the United States Senate. She has a master’s degree in internationalrelations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in political

science from The Catholic University of America. She spent her junior year of undergraduate school in Madrid,

Spain and did a semester of graduate studies in Bologna, Italy.

Maureen Corrigan is Critic-in-Residence and a Lecturer in the Department of English at Georgetown

University. She is an expert in 19th-century British literature; women’s literature, especially autobiography;

popular culture; detective fiction; contemporary American literature; and Anglo-Irish literature. She receivedher Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Fordham University. For the past

18 years, Corrigan has been the book critic for the Peabody Award-winning program, “Fresh Air,” heard

nationally on NPR. She is also a columnist for Book World in The Washington Post and a regular contributor tomany publications. She is the author of Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books .

Wine bottle design by David Hagen.

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The Census of Marine Life

Tuesday, October 4, 12:00-1:00 p.m. .

A light lunch will be available at 11:45 a.m.

Resources for the Future

1616 P Street NW

Washington, DC 20036 First Floor Conference Center

The recently completed first Census of Marine Life was a cooperative international effort to

assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. At this RFF

seminar, Program co-founder Jesse H. Ausubel will overview the most comprehensive and

authoritative answer yet to one of humanity's most ancient questions - “what lives in the sea?”

The Census combines information collected over centuries with data obtained during the

decade-long effort to create a roll call of species globally and in 25 biologically representative

regions - from the Antarctic through temperate and tropical seas to the Arctic. The Census

helps set a baseline for measuring future changes in the Earth's oceans. Japan recently

announced that the Census will receive the 2011 International Cosmos Prize for the program’s

contributions to science and conservation.

Jesse H. Ausubel is Vice President of Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whichprovided core support to the Census, and Director of the Program for the Human

Environment at The Rockefeller University in New York City. The author or editor of over

150 articles, reports, and books, Ausubel is a university fellow at Resources for the Future

and an adjunct faculty member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Registration is required.

To RSVP for this event, please visit RFF's event registration page.

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Please note that RSVPs should go to [email protected]

THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ASIA PROGRAM

and THE CENTER FOR AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Present a luncheon book discussion:

Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010:

Middle Power Dreaming?

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2011 12:00 – 1:15 PM

5TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM

WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

Ronald Reagan Building

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

James Cotton

University of New South Wales

With introductory remarks by

Kim Beazley

Australian Ambassador to the United States

RSVPs required. Contact [email protected]

The advent of the Rudd-Gillard governments in Australia brought a return to the Labor tradition of “middle

power activism” in foreign policy, especially in relation to Asia-Pacific regionalism, nuclear nonproliferation,

and development in t he Pacific island states. Both governments’ results in the diplomatic arena,

however, have been mixed. Australia’s successful management of the impact of the global financial crisis, its

membership in the G20, which has emerged as a major organ of global governance, and the Rudd

government’s failure to adhere to its own ambitious climate change agenda or to capitalize fully on the prime

minister’s extensive knowledge of China are some of the issues considered in the forthcoming Australia in

World Affairs 2006-2010 (Oxford University Press).











About the speaker: James Cotton (PhD, London School of Economics) is professor of politics, University of

New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. He was a graduate fellow at

Princeton University and a language student at the Beijing Yuyan Xueyuan. He has held academic positions

in Western Australia, Newcastle upon Tyne, Singapore, the Australian National University, and Tasmania. In

2001 he was Centennial Professor in International Relations and in the Asia Research Centre, London School

of Economics, and in 2004 and in 2007 he was a visiting professor in the department of politics and public

administration, University of Hong Kong. Between 1997 and 2003 he was a foundation member of the

Foreign Minister’s Advisory Council convened by the foreign minister of Australia. In Fall 2009 he was the

Wilson Center’s Australia Scholar. He is the co-editor, with John Ravenhill, of the four volume series Australia in

World Affairs.

Nonprofit Outlook: Where's the Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Tuesday, October 4, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Urban Institute

2100 M Street NW

5th Floor

Lunch will be provided at 11:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at noon.

Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2223287914

Panelists:

• Stephen Bennett, president and CEO, United Cerebral Palsy

• Elizabeth Boris, director, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute (moderator)

• Howard Husock, vice president for policy research and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative,

Manhattan Institute

• Julie Rogers, president and CEO, Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation

• Marta Urquilla, senior policy adviser, White House Domestic Policy Council’s Office of Social Innovationand Civic Participation (invited)

The recession and its aftermath continue to ravage many nonprofits with a trifecta of troubles: reduced

giving from individuals, government funding cuts, and increased demand for services. Mix in bruised

foundation and corporate philanthropy, unemployment rates stuck over 9 percent, rising poverty levels,

the desperate status of most state budgets, and the politics of the federal deficit and you have an

environment choking the nonprofit sector.

Join the discussion as a distinguished panel wrestles with such formidable questions as

• What are nonprofits doing -- or failing to do -- to cope and move ahead? How does this look locally?

Nationally?• Can the force of budget pressures be channeled into opportunities for the sector?

• How are nonprofits shaping the policy environment? Are they proposing policy options?

• How are relationships being reconfigured? With businesses? With governments? With donors? With

foundations?

• Can the focus on social entrepreneurship and strategic impact help nonprofits surmount current

challenges?

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JOIN US

After a summer of sharing their story in major news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, Countdown with Keith

Olbermann and in front page news stories across the country, Bradford Wells and Anthony Makk will be

joining Immigration Equality in Washington. They will be meeting with key Congressional leaders ... and

they’d like to meet you, too.

Please join them — and the Immigration Equality team — on Tuesday, October 4th, for our Third

Annual Capital Reception & Fundraiser, hosted by Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. We’ll have important

updates on our work to help families like Bradford & Anthony ... celebrate the successes of the past year... and build the support we need to continue our critical work on Capitol Hill.

Tuesday, October 4, 6:00-8:30 p.m.

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

1526 14th Street, NW

(between P & Q Streets, NW, in Logan Circle)


The event is free, however your support is welcome, and critical to our success. We hope that if you're

moved by our work, you'll help us reach our goal of $15,000 for our on-going work on behalf of LGBT

immigrant families. Donations can be made online at ImEqActionFund.org/DCevent

Please RSVP by September 30th to Maria at [email protected].

Thank you for being part of the Immigration Equality family. I look forward to seeing you in Washington

on October 4th.

Immigration Equality is the only national organization devoted exclusively to working on behalf of LGBT

and HIV+ immigrant families. Since 1994, our free hotline has answered thousands of legal queries from

LGBT families facing immigration problems, and built a nation-wide grassroots network of activists,

advocates and allies. For more info, please visit ImEqActionFund.org/blog or check out our three-minute

“ Day in the Life of Immigration Equality ” video at YouTube .

Immigration Equality Action Fund is a 501(c)4 not-for-profit organization. Because 100% of gifts to the Action Fund support unlimitedlobbying for LGBT families, gifts to the Action Fund are not deductible either as charitable contributions or as business expenses under 26

U.S.C. § 162(e).

Immigration Equality Action Fund, 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20005

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What Should the Palestinians Do Now?



The Elliott School of International Affairs

Linder Family Commons, Room 602

1957 E Street NW

A light lunch will be served.

RSVP: http://bit.ly/nHgi07

Panelists:

Wendy Pearlman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Mouin Rabbani, Institute for Palestine Studies

Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW

Moderator:

Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Institute for Middle East

Studies; Director, Middle East Studies Program, GW

Three leading political scientists discuss prospects for Palestinians after the United Nations statehood bid.

Sponsored by the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and the Institute for Middle East Studies

October Networking Mixer


Josephine

1008 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005

Register:

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Join us for an exclusive look a the newly renovated Josephine, a 5500 sq/ft upscale lounge in downtown DC.

Originally opened in 2008, Josephine is currently undergoing a total rennovation. MES will be the first group to

host an event in the newly renovated space. Click either of the pictures above for a full size look at the architect’s

rendering. Simply Stunning!

The October #MESmixer will feature:

• Networking with over 300 local event professionals

• An exclusive look at a new DC venue

• Food, Entertainment, and more!

This month we’re partnering with Regal Celebrations, to add a number of interesting twists to the event

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"Frontera Sin Frontera"

Poetry Traditions of Mexico and the U.S.

October 4, 7:00 p.m.

Library of Congress

Mumford Room, sixth floor

James Madison Building

101 Independence Avenue SE

Book sales and a signing will follow the discussion.

Free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed.

A panel of experts will discuss the poetry traditions of the United States and Mexico and the literary exchangesbetween the two countries, shedding light on the historical, political and cultural heritages of both nations.

The event is sponsored by the Library’s Poetry and Literature Center and co-sponsored by the Library’sHispanic Division.

Panelists include Jeannette Clairon, co-editor (with Harold Bloom) of a forthcoming anthology of American

poets; Mónica de la Torre, co-editor of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry"; Rafael Pérez-Torres, author of "Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins" and co-editor of "The

Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán 1970-2000"; and Mexican poet Pedro Serrano. The panel willbe moderated by Luis Alberto Ambroggio, poet and member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua

Española (North American Academy of the Spanish Language).

Panelists will focus on the ways in which American poets reach Mexican audiences and vice versa, through the

publication of recent anthologies in both countries. It will also address the particular challenge Chicano poetsface, with the influence of both traditions.

The Poetry and Literature Center is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position that hasexisted since 1937, after the late Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Since then, more than 40 of the nation’s most eminent poets have served as either Consultant in Poetry to the

Library of Congress or, after the passage of Public Law 99-194 in 1985, as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.The Poet Laureate suggests authors to read in the literary series and plans other special literary events during the

reading season.



TO RSVP PLEASE: CLICK HERE

John Konkel The Red Door

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"Shining Stars"

Mixed-Media Exhibition

(September 8-January 7)

Meet the Artists Reception

Wednesday, October 5, 5:30-8:00 p.m.

1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Form, color and highly polished material, ranging from bronze, steel, glass and mixed-media will transform the

Eleven Eleven Sculpture Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW and capture the eye and imagination of visitors

in this show featuring monumental and pedestal sculpture and three-dimensional wall art by Julie Girardini, David

Hubbard, Joan Konkel, Barton Rubenstein and Paul Martin Wolff.

The Cato Institute invites you to a Book Forum

The Cato Institute invites you to aPolicy Forum

October 5, 2011

Because of the ongoing construction in our building expansion, this Cato Institute Policy Forum will be held at the Barbara Jordan Conference Center

Kaiser Family Foundation

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The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and

Evidence-Based Health Reform

featuring Katherine Baicker

Harvard School of Public Health

Robin Hanson George Mason University

Michael F. Cannon Cato Institute

Rachel Garfield Kaiser Family Foundation

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moderated by Julie Rovner

National Public Radio

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is the first study ever to measure the effects of

health insurance by randomly assigning subjects to receive Medicaid coverage or nocoverage. At this forum, lead investigator Katherine Baicker will present the Oregon HealthInsurance Experiment's first set of results and discuss further data that this revolutionaryexperiment will produce. The panelists will comment on the study’s results and what the

Oregon Health Insurance Experiment means for medicine, Medicaid, and health care reform.

Thursday, October 5

4:00 p.m.

(Reception to follow)

Barbara Jordan Conference Center • Kaiser Family Foundation

1330 G Street NW


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World Wildlife Fund’s

Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature

Seminar Series

Insights from biodiversity science for addressing global

sustainability challenges

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About the Speaker

Georgina Mace is Professor of Conservation Science at Imperial College London. Her research interests are inmeasuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and the assessment of species extinctions. She led

the process to develop, test and document criteria for listing species on IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species,

and subsequently worked on the biodiversity elements of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and on thetechnical development of measures for the CBD 2010 Biodiversity Target.

From 2000 to 2006, Mace was Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London and Head of the Institute of

Zoology. In 2006, she moved to Imperial College London as Director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology. She

was awarded a CBE in 2007, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002, and was the 2007 winner of the

International Cosmos Prize. She has been Vice President of the British Ecological Society (2001-2004), President of

the Society for Conservation Biology (2007-2009) and Vice Chair of DIVERSITAS - the international programme on

biodiversity science (2007-2010).

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You are cordially invited to a lecture on

"American Traitors: Fathers and Sons"with

Bryan DensonReporter

Federal Courts/InvestigationsThe Oregonian

and Brian Kelley

IWP Adjunct ProfessorRetired CIA Operations Officer

October 7, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

The Institute of World Politics1521 16th Street NW


Please RSVP to [email protected]

"I would never hurt my kids" said convicted spy Jim Nicholson to interviewer Katie Couric as he was recounting the eventswhich caused him to be arrested as a spy and sentenced to twenty four years in federal penitentiary. Yet a dozen years

later, Nicholson convinced his youngest son Nathan to make contact with the Russian SVR to try and collect some$300,000 which the SVR maintained in Nicholson's "escrow account" which had built up during the eighteen months inwhich Nicholson was on the SVR payroll while a serving senior CIA operations officer. Nicholson maintained that heneeded money to keep his family together after a costly divorce and that he saw no other way to get the money heneeded other than to sell secrets to the Russians.

Some two decades before Nicholson made his fateful decision to sell out his country, a retired Naval Warrant Officer bythe name of John Walker told interviewer Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes why he became a spy for the KGB for almosteighteen years. He simply wanted to live a better lifestyle and did not think that the secrets he was selling had any realstrategic value.

What linked these two spies? Both of them recruited their sons to follow in their footsteps. When Michael Walker wasgetting ready to graduate from high school, his father told him the family secret; John was a self-proclaimed "master spy"for the KGB. He told Michael that he had been grooming him since he was a young boy to take over the family business.To do this Michael needed to enlist in the Navy and get access to secrets which he would in turn provide to his father forsubsequent sale to the KGB. During the interview of John Walker, he was shown a 60 Minutes interview of his sonMichael who was incarcerated in another prison. A chastened young man was lamenting about his poor choice which hadresulted in lengthy prison sentence. Wallace asked John bluntly, "How could you do this to your son?" John Walkerpaused and then said, "I don't want to talk about that."

Nathan Nicholson was twelve when his father was arrested. Nathan struggled growing up and enlisted in the Army aftergraduating from high school. An injury caused Nathan to be discharged early and he faced financial difficulties. His fathersaw in his son a conduit to the SVR and convinced his son to seek out the SVR to begin to collect escrow money. Young







Nathan revered his father and agreed to the plan.

What happened next? Bryan Denson, a senior investigative reporter for the Oregonian newspaper covered the Nicholsonfamily caper which ended with eight additional years added to the sentence for Jim Nicholson. Denson did extensiveinterviews with Nathan, his mother, his sister and other notables who knew Nicholson and knew about what transpiredprior to the arrest of Nathan by the FBI.

Denson will appear at the Institute of World Politics on 6 October 2011 to tell the fascinating story of the father - son spyteam. He will be introduced by Professor Brian Kelley who will review the Walker father and son spy case using severalvideo clips of the Walker family trying to explain what happened to that family which resulted in three familymembers being sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their involvement in espionage. The speakers will show theremarkable parallels between the two cases.

Introducing

The Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C.

by Michael Lee Pope

Book Launch

Friday, October 7, 7:00 p.m.

Athenaeum201 Prince Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

(703) 548-0035



How did Alexandria end up as part of the District of Columbia? What went wrong, and why did it leave? Findout as author Michael Lee Pope reveals the "HiddenHistory of Alexandria, D.C." at the historic Athenaeum.

The history of Alexandria, D.C., began in 1791 with agentleman's conspiracy. Political smokescreens and backroom deals involving George Washington set the new capital on both sides of the Potomac. Yet what first seemedan economic boon for the port city descended into aneconomic quagmire with a judicial vacuum. The streets were rocked by the lawlessness of a dueling mania,devastating fires and a draconian court system that sentpetty thieves to the gallows. Author Michael Lee Popecharts this all-but-forgotten history from the incorporationinto the District of Columbia and the controversialsurrender of the city in the War of 1812 to gangs of retrocessionists that roamed the city in 1846 and the risingtensions between North and South that finally returned Alexandria to the commonwealth.

Steinway Series:

Peabody Pianists Celebrate Liszt

Sunday, October 9, 3:00-4:00 p.m.

McEvoy Auditorium

Smithsonian American Art Museum

8th & F Streets NW

Born in Hungary on October 22, 1811, Franz Liszt was one of the greatest pianists, composers, and teachers of

the nineteenth century. In honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, four piano students from the

renowned Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University will perform a selection of Liszt’s solo piano works.



The Goethe-Institut Washington and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden present Lunch

Bytes, a series of three monthly lunchtime events dedicated to digital art and culture, examining the consequences

of the increasing ubiquity of new media in the art world and considering challenging questions raised by this

changing artistic landscape.While enjoying a light lunch, the visitor experiences and participates in

discussions between renowned German and American artists and intellectuals.

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Lunch Bytes: Institutional Challenges

October 12, 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Goethe-Institut 812 Seventh Street NW


Digital art continues to present new questions to museums and other institutions devoted to the presentation and

preservation of art. How are institutions adapting to the challenges, needs, and opportunities of contemporary

society? How can digital art be stored, exhibited and preserved? What happens to the vast amount of data

circulating daily on the web?

Artists and expert panelists include:

Joel Holmberg, New York-based artist

Jeff Martin, Time-based Media Conservator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Christiane Paul, Director of Media Studies Graduate Programs at The New School and Adjunct Curator of New

Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art,

Peter Weibel, Director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION

FSF'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION LUNCH







WHEN: Wednesday, October 12, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

WHERE: The Mayflower Hotel

Special Keynote Speaker

Senator Jim DeMint

Ranking Member, Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet

This past Spring, the Free State Foundation celebrated the FifthAnniversary of its founding. While our ambitions and goals were clearfrom the start, we were not so bold then to proclaim with any certaintywhere we would be in five short years -- indisputably one of the nation'sleading, most influential, and most respected think tanks promoting free

market-oriented, property rights-protective, and rule of law policies.

To celebrate this milestone, only a bit belatedly, but hopefully with allearthquakes, hurricanes, and the like behind us, we are planning a galacelebratory lunch on October 12, 2011, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Moredetails will follow shortly. But make plans now to attend. We want you tocelebrate with us, as we look back at the past five years, and, mostimportantly, ahead to the next five. Indeed, the theme of our program willbe: "Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five

Years."

A complimentary lunch will be served, subject to space limitations andreservations.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

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Hudson Institute cordially invites you to...

Better-For-You Foods: It's Just Good Business

Thursday, October 13

12:00-1:30 p.m.Lunch will be served.

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center

Hudson Institute

1015 15th Street NW

6th Floor


Hudson Institute would like to invite you to join us for therelease of a new report examining efforts by the food andbeverage industry to sell better-for-you products and whatimpact those efforts have had on major consumer packagedgoods companies’ bottom lines. This report was produced by

the Obesity Solutions Initiative of the Hudson Institute, withfunding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Among the topics to be discussed:

Can selling better-for-you foods be better for corporate

bottom lines?

Can shareholders benefit when better-for-you products

are emphasized?

Can the same strategies be used to improve public

health and help the food and beverage industry achieve

its business goals?

Speakers include:

Henry J. Cardello, MBA, Senior Fellow and Director,

Hudson Institute Obesity Solutions Initiative, lead

author of the study

James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President and

Director, Health Group, Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation

Susan J. Crockett, PhD, RD, FADA, Vice President,

Health & Nutrition, General Mills

Richard Klauser, MBA, Head of Marketing, Nestlé

Infant Nutrition

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This event will be streamed live on Hudson's websitewww.hudson.org/WatchLive.

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Under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREEK HERITAGE

&

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

PRESENT

A

Lecture and Reception

David Gilman Romano

University of Pennsylvania Museum of

Archaeology and Anthropology

"Zeus on an Arcadian Mountaintop and

the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos"

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.

The Embassy of Greece



Reception following the Lecture


About David G. Romano

Dr. David Gilman Romano is Director of

Greek Archaeological Projects at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology andAdjunct Professor of Classical Studiesat the University of Pennsylvania. Hereceived his A.B. at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, an M.A. at theUniversity of Oregon, and a Ph.D. atthe University of Pennsylvania. Hisresearch interests include Greek andRoman cities and sanctuaries, AncientGreek athletics and the ancientOlympic Games, computer applicationsin archaeology, and Roman urban andrural land planning. He directs theArchaeological Mapping Lab at the

Penn Museum(http://archaeologicalmappinglab.org).Since 2004 he has been Co-Director andField Director of the Mt. LykaionExcavation and Survey Project and hasbeen directing the creation of theParrhasian Heritage Park of thePeloponnesos.

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Mt. Lykaion Excavations in progress in the open air

altar at the peak of the mountain.

Since 2004 the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project(http://lykaionexcavation.org) has been underway in the Arcadianmountains at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion -- the birthplace of Zeus, according to some ancient sources. Archaeological explorationshave indicated that activity at an open-air altar on the mountaintop

goes back to the Final Neolithic period with a significant Mycenaeanshrine by the Late Helladic period. The site was also famous in thehistoric periods with major athletic games, only 22 miles from themore acclaimed Olympia. The mountainous landscape of the westernPeloponnesos -- western Arcadia, northern Messenia and Southern Elis-- that surrounds Mt. Lykaion is a spectacularly beautiful region of Greece, characterized by forested hills, river valleys, peaks, mountainmeadows, springs, isolated but charming villages and towns, andwinding roadways. The area abounds with native flora and fauna, andlarge parts of the region remain mostly undisturbed by moderncivilization. The region has a rich history and mythology going backthousands of years with vestiges of many important ancient temples,sanctuaries and cities.

A proposal initiated by the Mt. Lykaion Project and a team of Greek,American, and international collaborators to designate this region asthe Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos(http://parrhasianheritagepark.org) has already receivedoverwhelming support from the grassroots level to the governors of Arcadia and the Peloponnesos, the mayors of many villages and townsin the region, and most recently from the Minister of Culture andTourism of Greece. This heritage park would be the first of its kind inGreece and promises to preserve and promote the region, stimulatingeconomic growth and pride in the region’s rich cultural heritage andnatural beauty. In this presentation, Dr. Romano will highlight someof the exciting discoveries resulting from the work of this joint Greekand American excavation project under the auspices of the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies at Athens, and will introduce the audience

to the Parrhasian Heritage Park.

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The Cato Institute invites you to aBook Forum

October 14, 2011

Because of the ongoingconstruction in our building

expansion, this Cato InstituteBook Forum will be held at

Atlas Economic Research

Foundation

1st Floor Conference Room

1201 L Street NW


Frédéric Bastiat: Campaigner for Free Trade,

Political Economist, and

Politician in a Time of Revolution

featuring David Hart

Editor, The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, Vol. 1 (Liberty Fund, 2011)

moderated by Jason Kuznicki

Editor, Cato Unbound

Frédéric Bastiat was a pivotal figure in French classical liberalism in the mid-19th century. Hesuddenly emerged from the southwest province of Les Landes to assume leadership of thefledgling French free trade movement in 1844, which he modelled on that of Richard Cobden’s

Anti-Corn Law League in England. Bastiat then turned to a brilliant career as an economic journalist, debunking the myths and misconceptions people held on protectionism in particularand government intervention in general, which he called “sophisms” or “fallacies." When

revolution broke out in February 1848, Bastiat was elected twice to the Chamber of Deputieswhere he served on the powerful Finance Committee and struggled to bring governmentexpenditure under control. He confounded his political opponents with his consistentlibertarianism: he denounced the socialists for their economic policies, but he took to thestreets to prevent the military from shooting them during the riots that broke out in June 1848.Until his untimely death in 1850, Bastiat was an indefatigable foe of political privilege,unaccountable monarchical power, the newly emergent socialist movement, and above all, thevested interests benefited from economic protectionism. He was a giant of 19th centuryclassical liberalism, and Liberty Fund is publishing a six-volume collection of his work.

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The Cato Institute invites you to aPolicy Forum

October 18, 2011

Because of the ongoing

construction in our building

expansion, this Cato Institute

Policy Forum will be held at Mount Vernon Place

Undercroft Auditorium

900 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001

Mexico and the War on Drugs:

Time to Legalize

featuring Vicente Fox

Former President, Mexico

moderated by

absorb the beauty. Even urban scenes feel quiet as if lost in time. Working in oil, the artist uses subtle

and lend a sense of calm. Pace has studied art locally and in Italy. She draws inspiration from extensiv

Twice selected as artist-in-residence at the Stone Tower Studio at Glen Echo, she exhibits her work reg

in the mid-Atlantic region.

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Ian Vasquez Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Cato Institute

Mexico is paying a high price for fighting a war on drugs that are consumed in the United

States. More than 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence since the end of 2006when Mexico began an aggressive campaign against narco-trafficking. The drug war has led toa rise in corruption and gruesome criminality that is weakening democratic institutions, thepress, law enforcement, and other elements of a free society. Former Mexican presidentVicente Fox will explain that prohibition is not working and that the legalization of the sale, use,and production of drugs in Mexico and beyond offers a superior way of dealing with theproblem of drug abuse.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Noon

(Luncheon to follow)

Mount Vernon Place

Undercroft Auditorium



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"The Mechanics of Seduction"

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The Solo Show of Glenn Arthur

Glenn Arthur's "The Mechanics Of Seduction" is a series of paintings exploring thefascination, power and sensuality found within the human machine. Inspired by an era

defined by industrial enlightenment and artistic innovation, Glenn fuses together a

fanciful blend of elaborate and historical aesthetics. Each delicately painted female

entices the viewer through mechanical elements while alluring them with hypnotic beauty

into a world of ornate elegance wrapped in a cloak of disquieting surrealism. The

juxtaposition of organic emotion and unfeeling apparatus demonstrates the unyielding,

seductive romance between human and machine reminding us of the inherent desires

that fuel us all.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Opening Reception


Art Whino Gallery

120 American Way

National Harbor, MD 20745

The event is FREE and open to the public.

Show end date: November 13th

About the Artist

Glenn Arthur is a self taught visual artist from Orange County, California. Born in

February of 1979, he grew up in a conservative, religious household with little to no

influence in art. After shedding his roots he quickly realized that creating art would be his

calling. Although he constantly doodled and sketched throughout his youth, Glenn did not

come into painting until later in life when a friend forced a paintbrush into his hands and

said, “You need to do this!”

Since then Glenn has been diligently working on creating his own brand of beautifully

painted images. Using acrylic paints on wooden panels, he adds in elements andinfluential symbols of his past and present to each piece. Beyond the aesthetics of his

artwork, Glenn brings an overwhelming sense of passion to his paintings. Touching on



themes of love, death, conflict and duality, Glenn’s art tells stories of strength and hope

through emotion and sentiment with his sensual beauties and signature hummingbirds.

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