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Votive candles laid out in the pattern of the letter "W" are lit during a candlelight vigil for Nationals' rookie catcher Wilson Ramos at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, Friday, November 11, 2011. . Ramos was kidnapped by armed gunmen in front of his family home in Venezuela on Wednesday night. (Rod Lamkey Jr. / The Washington Times)

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Michi Szpatura of Arlington, Va, lights candles for other to hold during a candlelight vigil for Nationals' rookie catcher Wilson Ramos at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, Friday, November 11, 2011. Ramos was kidnapped by armed gunmen in front of his family home in Venezuela on Wednesday night. (Rod Lamkey Jr. / The Washington Times)

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Kirsten Irwin and her husband Steve, of Washington D.C., work to keep their candles lit in the wind during a candlelight vigil for Nationals' rookie catcher Wilson Ramos at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, Friday, November 11, 2011. Ramos was kidnapped by armed gunmen in front of his family home in Venezuela on Wednesday night. (Rod Lamkey Jr. / The Washington Times)

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Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki offers remarks during an interview at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Alcorn State University student Ivory Thomas, left, of Crystal Springs, shakes hands with Tuskegee Airmen Lt. Col. James H. Harvey, III, center, and Calvin Moret after she and other members of the Alcorn R.O.T.C. made a special presentation to the pair at the conclusion of a Veterans Day program at the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)

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Korean War veteran James Gerard, right, wearing his original uniform, salutes during a Veteran's Day observance at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Staff Sgt. Tim Slusser puts a flag at one of the headstones at the Texas State Veterans Cemetary in Abilene, Texas, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in preparation for Veteran's Day on Friday. (AP Photo/Abilene Reporter-News, Tommy Metthe)

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Mohammed Zaffar Patel, standing second left, weds Jannat Khan, third left, at a marriage registrar's office in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Because of the days numerical conjunction, 11.11.11, people believe it to be an auspicious day leading thousands of couples to tie their knots on this day across India. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

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Kirsten Dunst (left) and Charlotte Gainsbourg play sisters in writer-director Lars von Trier's small-scale apocalyptic fantasy "Melancholia." (Magnolia Pictures)

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Senator Mario Monti, waiting for his wife at Rome's Termini station Thursday, is widely considered to be the top choice for the Italian premiership, now that Silvio Berlusconi has pledged to resign soon. Mr. Monti met with President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday night in what his office described as a "courtesy visit." (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Newly re-elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf answers questions as she meets with members of the press in Liberia's capital on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Exhibit: Transferred: Alternative Processes in Photography There's no Instagram or Hipstamatic at work in this show. Instead, the photos are made via "Gum Transfer on Handmade Paper," "Watercolor on Toned Cyanotype," "Pure Palladium on Translucent Vellum," and "Palladium Print from Wet Plat Collodion Negative." Physical materials, in other words. "I gravitated towards experimental images, playful images and images that made intriguing references to photographic history," Says Regina DeLuise, the juror of Torpedo Factor's latest photo show. "All the work appealed to my sense of curiosity and contains a true expression of visual poetry; it reveals a command of the materials, so that in fact, we don't dwell on the material, but move directly to the artist own vision." The works in question are photographs in a vanishing sense of the word. To Nov. 27 at the Torpedo Factory Gallery, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria, Va. Phone: 703-838-4565. Web: http://www.torpedofactory.org/

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Party: Nerd Nite Most English speakers are familiar with John Donne's Meditation 17, in which the famed metaphysical poet observes, "No man is an island." Fewer may realize that Donne penned a companion meditation, which he titled "17.0.01" and made exclusively available for torrent on The Pirate Bay. This follow-up meditation held that "No nerd is an island." Nerds need companionship, too, Donne seemed to be saying. For communal D.C. nerds, there's DC9's Nerd Nite, which will feature smart people speaking about things that could very well interest other smart people. Mischa Levin will talk about "malware, monetization and how to keep your parents from calling you with their computer problems"; Heather Mallory will discuss "how butterflies can learn shapes and colors, how praying mantises learn to avoid foods that make them barf, and how bees transmit complex information about the location and quality of resources using a dance that would make John Travolta proud"; Amber Straughn will discuss recent developments in telescope science; and the brainy and very listenable Tereu Tereu will provide tunes. Nov. 12 at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. Phone: (202) 483-5000. Web: http://www.dcnine.com/

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Peter Keane, a board member of the American Mountain Guides Association, tackles a cliff during the association's annual conference, where many of the top guides in the United States worked on a range of skills. (Ascent Services Worldwide LLC via Associated Press)

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In this photo taken Oct. 28, 2011 and released by Ascent Services Worldwide LLC, Margaret Wheeler, center, president of the American Mountain Guides Association, and executive director Betsy Winter, left, prepare for an event in Guide's Olympics during the association's annual conference at the Shawangunk climbing area in New Paltz, N.Y. (AP Photo/Ascent Services Worldwide LLC, Joe Lentini)

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Maria Campos (second from left) is joined by her daughter Milanyela Ramos (second from right) and family friends Marfa Mata (right) and Marfa's 12 year-old daughter Victoria Cabrera (left) as they cheer on her son Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos as he comes to the plate, as the Nationals host the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Mrs. Campos and her daughter, Wilson's sister Milanyela Ramos from Valencia, Venezuela, were recently granted visas to visit her son and to watch him for the first time play in the major leagues. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)