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Competitive Tensions in Marriage at the Bridge Table and Other Games Gary Pomerantz, Journalist; Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University; Author, The Devils Tickets What can card games teach us about marital tensions in the 1920s and 30s and today? Celebrated nonfiction author Pomerantz gives a richly detailed account of how bridge became a nationwide craze during the Depression and was even at the center of a sensational murder trial. Pomerantz will explore just why and how the game of ...

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Minds for Sale Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard University; Author, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In conversation with Amanda Congdon, Co-president, Oxmour Entertainment; Co-owner, Rocketboom; Independent Videoblogger, Starring Amanda Congdon Imagine a future in which passengers on a subway stare into screens for a few minutes and earn as much money in that time as their respective skills and stations allow. New projects like Amazons Mechanical Turk and LiveOps ...

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The Future of Books Kevin Hunsanger, Co-owner, Green Apple Books Jared Friedman, Co-founder, Scribd Brewster Kahle, Director and Co-founder, Archive.org Dan Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Books Pamela Samuelson, Distinguished Professor, Law and Information, UC Berkeley David Hellman, Associate Librarian, San Francisco State University Moderator Will the printed word become obsolete? Access to information is constantly changing, and the popularity of e-books and online material is on ...

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The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart Anthony Myint, Mission Street Food Brian Kimball, Magic Curry Kart Steven Gdula, Gobba Gobba Hey Charles Phan, Executive Chef, Slanted Door Tamara Palmer, Contributor, Pavement Cuisine, SF Weekly Moderator These days you can barely walk down some streets without bumping into a taco truck, a sausage stand or the tamale lady. San Francisco just held its first-ever Street Food Festival, and the local Creme Brulee Man was recently written up in The ...

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What Americans Really Want Really Frank Luntz, Pollster; Political Consultant; Communications Expert; Author, What Americans Really WantReally Joseph Tuman, Professor of Political and Legal Communications, San Francisco State University; Political Analyst, CBS5 News and KCBS Radio - Moderator Whether its health care, religion and the Bill of Rights, or the size of your retirement nest egg, Luntz answers the question of what Americans really want. Luntz addresses the private hopes, dreams and ...

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A Good Death: Intersection of Policy and Practice Judy Citko, Executive Director, California Coalition for Compassionate Care Sharon Fernekees-Jeans, Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Manager of Social Work Services and Spiritual Care, Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley, CA. Kathe Kelly, RN, BSN, OCN City of Hope Nursing Research & Education, Duarte, CA Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Alan M. Kates and John M. Burnard Endowed Chair in Palliative Care, UCSF (moderator ...

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The Next 50 Years Addressing California's Mobility in a Time of Financial Challenge Steve Heminger, Executive Director, MTC Randy Iwasaki, Director, Caltrans Therese McMillan, Deputy Director, USDOT, FTA Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Director, MTIs National Transportation Finance Center Moderator By 2050, Californias population will double, and with that comes a new set of infrastructure and funding challenges. How will we be able to finance Californias transportation systems to meet those demands ...

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SuperFreakonomics with Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner Steve Levitt, Economics Professor, University of Chicago; Blogger, The New York Times; Co-author, Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics Stephen Dubner, Journalist; Blogger, The New York Times; Author, Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics In Conversation with Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor Online, Wall Street Journal INFORUMs Next 21st Century Visionary Award With Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner revealed the good, bad, ugly ...

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Rick Steves Travel Host, PBS; Author, Travel as a Political Act Spending four months a year overseas, Steves believes that thoughtful travel can expand our world view and shape how we address the political challenges that confront our country. This popular speaker returns to The Club to provide a unique perspective on how the other 96 percent of humanity views our country and why we should challenge truths we were raised to think were self-evident in order to become citizens of the planet ...

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Watching Out for Your Financial Future: How to make Americans more financially literate and fiscally safe Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, President, Charles Schwab Foundation Pam Erwin, Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility Group, Wells Fargo Michelle Greene, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Education, US Department of the Treasury José Cisneros, Treasurer, City and County of San Francisco Susan Keating, President and CEO, National Foundation for Credit Counseling ...

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