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You are cordially invited to attend the Consultant Entrepreneur's Forum, an idea exchange intended to increase our value to our clients, and more importantly (for our sanity), provide a forum to poke fun at those "ridiculousnesses" of living as a consultant in modern society.

Our next meeting will be Friday, September 15th, between the hours of 2pm and 4pm at Pane e Cioccolato café on 10 Waverly Place (on the corner of Mercer) in downtown NYC. It's BYOF - Buy Your Own Food, and Pane only takes cash.

Participants can arrive any time between 2pm and 4pm, but note that arriving at 2pm permits you to get more out of it. Please RSVP to reserve an optimal number of seats.

The discussion topics for the afternoon will be:

1) Defining Crime in Our Society,
2) War As a Means or An End,
3) Agnotology (the study of ignorance) and Society,
4) Re-org'ing the Galaxy or Fixing the Environment - Ideas on How To Better Spend Our Time and Money

Here are the inspirations for each:

1) I published a blog on my opinion on the Imette St. Guillen homicide and received a stern response from a close friend of the late Ms. Guillen. That and the sudden witch hunt for pedophiles sparked by Mr. John M. Karr.
2) I'm utterly dumbstruck by Israel (nearly 9 billion in military spending) vs. Lebanon ($540 million in military spending): who won, who lost, and why - really.
3) Yes, it's a science; a new one. I think we need to make fun... err, I mean, talk about it.
4) My trip to Tom Brown Jr.'s really got me thinking about what we're doing to our planet. There are lots of creative solutions, but we'd rather spend time renaming planets than implementing these solutions.

If you have a topic in mind, let me know and it'll get added on. Otherwise, bring it with you...

Remember, this is a casual forum, with no expectations of transactions, unless you're using ideas as currency. The notion continues to be that there are simply a dearth of stimulating experiences in our networking travels, making this a refreshingly innovative concept. For more information, including the forum's participation policies and a history of this endeavor, visit: www.alberrios.com/events/cef/.

See you in 3 weeks!

Al Berrios
Managing Director
al berrios & co.

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