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First Aid for Mental Health
First Aid For Mental Health: Tucson, Sheen and In-between National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare CEO Linda Rosenberg will speak at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference at noon Thursday, March 10, in the National Press Building, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C. Rosenberg will discuss the emergence of Mental Health First Aid, a new public-education program that teaches people how to help someone in crisis who is developing signs of mental illness or substance abuse. Rosenberg will demonstrate how the program uses role playing and simulations to show participants…
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NPC House Committee
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NPC 5K Committee
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"Of Gods and Men" Film Screening and Discussion
SOLD OUT "Of Gods and Men" - Preview of Cannes Grand Prize Winning Film to Benefit Eric Friedheim Library March 8, 6:30 p.m. Based on the book by local author and historian, John Kiser, "Of Gods and Men" tells the true story of a group of French Cistercian Trappist monks caught up in the violence of Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s. The New York Times describes the film as a "beautiful, somber and rigorously intelligent new film by the French director Xavier Beauvois." The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. on March 8 at the West End Cinema, 2301 M Street NW (Entrance is on 23rd Street,…
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Garrett Graff
Washingtonian Editor-in-Chief Garrett M. Graff will tell the story of his new book, "The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror" at a National Press Club Book Rap Monday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m. The 28-year-old Graff has spent more time traveling with FBI Director Robert Mueller than any other journalist and this unprecedented access is the basis of his book, which explores the story of a small group of FBI agents who believed that they could confront a new generation of international terrorists without sacrificing America’s moral high-ground. In his book, Graff writes that…
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Governor Deval Patrick
Governor Deval Patrick will discuss his memoir, "A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life." In January 2007, Deval Patrick became the first African American governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of only two African American governors elected in American history. That was just one triumphant step in a long, improbable journey that began in a poor tenement on the South Side of Chicago. From a chaotic childhood to an elite boarding school in New England, to a sojourn doing relief work in Africa to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies and now to a career in politics…
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NPC Diversity Committee
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Preparing for the 21st Century
Mr. Perot talked about the deficit, the Oklahoma City bombing and a flat tax proposal. He also answered questions from the audience.
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NPC Newsmakers Committee Meeting
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NPC Luncheon with Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens
Ted Turner, chairman of Ted Turner Enterprises and CNN founder, will join T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capitol, to debate American energy policy during a joint luncheon, Tuesday, April 19. Pickens will outline his “Pickens Plan” to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil through alternate energy sources, such as wind, solar power, and natural gas. Turner will discuss renewable solar energy, including his recent solar projects in New Mexico and Atlanta, as well as nuclear disarmament and global politics. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m. with the speeches beginning at 1 p.m. and…
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