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EVENTS ON MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HOME AND SERVICES FOR THE AGING holds its Future of Aging. Services Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - In the Spotlight: Disruptive Demography- Implications for the Aging Services...Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
11:30 a.m. - Media Briefing: Technology and the Future of Aging Services
Russell Bodoff, Executive Director of the Center for Aging Services Technologies at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Washington, D.C.
William L. (Larry) Minnix, Jr., D.Min., President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Washington, D.C.
David Tennenhouse, Ph.D., Vice President and Director of Research, Intel Corporation
Eric Dishman, Manager of the Proactive Health Research Program, Intel Corporation
Philippe Fauchet, Director of the Center for Future Health, U. of Rochester, New York
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-508-9499, cell 301-922-6179
WEB ADDRESS: aahsa.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION holds its Rural Water Rally.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Welcome
Phil Bastin, NRWA President
Reporting to Congress
Mike Keegan, NRWA Policy Analyst
How Rural Water Conveys Its Message
A Dramatization Featuring
John Montgomery, Legislative Consultant
Bob Scott, NRWA Senior Vice President
Rodney Tart, NRWA Vice President
and a cast of others
Dear Colleague Letters
Rob Johnson, NRWA CEO
G. Tracy Mehan, III, EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water
Hilda Gay Legg, Rural Utilities Service Administrator
Over A Billion in Rural Water Funding in 2002,
How is it Working for You?
John Keys, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation
The Future of the Bureau of Reclamation and Rural Water Projects
Phil Bastin, NRWA President
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 580-252-0629
WEB ADDRESS: nrwa.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program to discuss Employee Stock Options with Rick White, Chairman and Kim Boylan, General Counsel of the International Employee Stock Options Coalition.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS holds a rally to fight the global AIDS pandemic will launch a day of intensive lobbying at a press conference/rally.
WHO: AIDS activists include:
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Medical Director for Partners In Health
Dr. Garth Graham, Board Member, Physicians for Human RightsMinesh Shah, American Medical Student Association
Akenji Ndumu from Cameroon, Student Global AIDS Coalition
Cara Henry, Amnesty International.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: Upper Senate park on the corner of Delaware and Constitution across from Russell Senate Office building.
CONTACT: John Heffernan, 617-413-640
WEB ADDRESS: phrusa.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program featuring M. Hakan Yavuz, PhD., Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, who will examine Turkish policy toward Kurds inside and outside the country and how Turkey's desire to join the EU is reshaping Turkish policy.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Cynthia Glassman Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission discussing "SEC Implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley and the New Corporate Governance."
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H Street NW, Washington,
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Ukraine Between the Elections (2002-04): Opportunities and Pitfalls Ahead with Serhii Komisarenko, President of the Ukrainian Institute for Peace and Democracy, and former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingd.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Bogotá Transmilenio" with Oscar Edmundo Diaz, currently with New York University's Department of Protection and Transportation Services and formerly the adviser to the mayor of Bogota, Colombia, discussing his experiences with the Bogota Project.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: Room 806, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs presents Ambassador of Uganda to the U.S. Edith Grace Ssempala, discussing with Elliott School adjunct faculty member David Shinn the current state of affairs in Uganda.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: Elliott School Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St. NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-994-4876.
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture featuring a lecture by Azar Nafisi, a fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, about her new book, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, published March 25 by Random House. The book is a
tale of seven young women who came together to read and study
classics of Western literature with Nafisi in the Islamic Republic of
Iran. Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, and Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, will provide introductory remarks.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE celebrates National Scottish Tartan Day with Elke Baker & Friends. A U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, Elke has played around the world and her music is featured on the nationally broadcast soundtrack The Boyhood of John Muir.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Oz Shelach discussing and signs copies of Picnic Grounds.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-7435
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Robert And Ellen Kaplan discussing and signing copies of The Art Of The Infinite: The Pleasures Of Mathematics. The Kaplans portray history's great mathematicians (Pythagoras, Descartes, Leibniz) and illustrate the intertwined modes of mathematical thinking-the intuitionist and the formalist-through the lens of infinity.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER presents lecture by former mayor of New York Rudy Guiliani discussing his work.
DATE: April 7, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
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