February 2011

Video Stars Tell All: Pathways to Fame & Fortune

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Wed, Mar 9 2011 - 7:00pm

Video Stars Tell All: Pathways to Fame and Fortune

Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3
David Prager, CEO, Revision3 & Producer, Diggnation
Tara Long, Host, Destructoid
Dan Brown, Host, Dan 3.0
Jack Conte, Recording Artist, Pomplamoose
Martine Paris, Marketing Manager, Electronic Arts - Moderator Read more »

The Patterns in Our Personalities

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Mon, Mar 7 2011 - 6:00pm

The Patterns in Our Personalities
George Hammond, Author, Rational Idealism and Conversations with Socrates
Monday Night Philosophy explores our emotions, desires and attitudes, which are littered with illusions but have a substantial base in reality as well.  Hammond cuts through the complications to the core principles that drive our personalities in their (more successful than usually noticed) pursuit of happiness and avoidance of pain.
MLF: HumanitiesLocation: SF Club Office Read more »

Ground Level: A soldier's 15 month Journey in Afghanistan

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Thu, Mar 10 2011 - 6:00pm

Ground Level: A Soldier’s 15-Month Journey in Afghanistan
Jeremiah “Jeb” Ridgeway, Former Soldier; Photographer
Ridgeway recounts his experiences as a combat arms soldier and speaks about his published work of photographs, currently on exhibit in the Club office. Along with his personal story, he will be discussing the complex situations facing American men and women serving in Afghanistan and will address his transformation from soldier to student. Read more »

Ground Level:A soldier's 15-Month Journey in Afghanistan

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Fri, Mar 4 2011 - 10:00am

Mar 04 – May 13

Ground Level: A Soldier’s 15-Month Journey in Afghanistan
Photographs by Jeremiah Ridgeway

While serving in the Afghan war, 21-year-old Jeremiah (Jeb) Ridgeway documented the daily lives of his combat unit with a camera brought from home. Ridgeway will be speaking at The Club on March 10.

MLF: Arts
Location: SF Club Office
Time: Regular Club business hours
Cost: FREE
Program Organizer: Lynn Curtis

Charles Ferguson - Inside Job

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Wed, Mar 2 2011 - 6:00pm

Inside Job, Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary (Feature)
Charles Ferguson, Documentary Filmmaker, Inside Job and No End in Sight
Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune magazine - Moderator
This event is sold out
Come hear from the filmmaker of this year's Academy Award-winning best documentary feature film. Could the global economic meltdown of the last few years have been prevented? Read more »

Financial Crisis Report: Phil Angelides

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Thu, Mar 3 2011 - 6:00pm

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report:  Findings and Ramifications
Phil Angelides, Chair, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; Former Treasurer, State of California
Mary Cranston, Senior Partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman;  Past Chair, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors - Moderator
In the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, the president signed into law on May 20, 2009, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, creating the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commissio Read more »

All Things Shining

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Mon, Mar 7 2011 - 12:00pm

All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley; Co-author, All Things ShiningSean Dorrance Kelly, Chair of Department of Philosophy, Harvard University; Co-author, All Things Shining
Dreyfus and Kelly will explore the unrelenting flow of choices confronting us, and the absence in our culture of clear ways to choose. Read more »

Addressing the Legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam

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Fri, Feb 25 2011 - 12:00pm

Addressing the Legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam
Bob Edgar, President and CEO, Common CauseCharles R. Bailey, Director, Ford Foundation Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin
Wars don’t end when the guns fall silent. Thirty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, the legacy of Agent Orange - dioxin contaminated soils and a heavy burden of disability on people in Vietnam as well as on American veterans - continues to be a challenge. Read more »

Magic Theatre Virgin Play Reading: "Peace"

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Mon, Feb 28 2011 - 6:00pm

Magic Theatre Virgin Play Reading: “Peace”
Magic Theatre brings its artistic staff and one of the candidates for next season's main stage to the Club. Hear the very first reading of a new play and meet the director and playwright, who will hold a conversation after the reading. “Peace,” inspired by the playwright's correspondence with a peace group in a college town, comes from Lydia Stryk, who returns to Magic after last season's extraordinary play, “An Accident.” Stryk has a laser-like focus on the human heart. Read more »