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How elements in our world affect your health
Apr. 15, 2020 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Alexander Cannera, educator and engineer, will present the latest research on how elements in our world affect our health. This information will shed light on how our bodies respond to the everyday exposure to sun, X-Rays, food,,computers, cell phones and more. His talk will explain how Mother Nature is very smart about the chemistry in our environment by evolving mechanisms within our cells that repair themselves to keep us healthy. Introduction by Steven Weiner. NOTE: This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. Rotary Club of Menlo Park is working remotely to support the Menlo Park commmunity during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Military Medical Evacuation & War in Iraq/Afghanistan
Apr. 22, 2020
Dean Winslow is an American physician, academic, and retired United States Air Force colonel. He is currently on leave from Stanford Department of Medicine while working as Lead Physician for the NSF at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. In addition to his Infectious Diseases subspecialty, he is a distinguished graduate, United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Flight surgeon (1983). NOTE: This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. Rotary Club of Menlo Park is working remotely to support the Menlo Park commmunity during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Apr. 29, 2020 6:00 p.m.
Thank Goodness It's Wednesday! Evening social event in lieu of weekly luncheon. NOTE: This is a virtual social event via Zoom. Rotary Club of Menlo Park is working remotely to support the Menlo Park commmunity during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Leonardo's Knots
May 13, 2020
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the original Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci, and a new book by a Silicon Valley author highlights a little-recognized but fascinating component of his art and work. Caroline Cocciardi focuses on Leonardo’s placement and use of mathematically-inspired knots throughout his art, and tells the story of the hidden messages conveyed by knots that appear in the artist’s most famous works, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. "The nonverbal language of drawing knots in a variety of designs and themes appealed to Leonardo so much so that he devoted a lifetime to their exploration," said Cocciardi. "Leonardo’s Knots is an intriguing and impressive journey through Leonardo’s fascination with knots, their mathematical intricacy, and their integration into his art," according to Santa Clara University professor Don Riccomini. "Leonardo's contemporaries considered him more mathematician than artist, and Cocciardi does a thorough job of showing why through her analysis of the mathematics of the knots he integrated into his paintings." Host: Amy Boggs |
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May 13, 2020 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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May 14, 2020 7:35 a.m. - 8:35 a.m.
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Today's Coast Guard
May 20, 2020
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May 27, 2020 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Enough, already, of sitting and watching a Zoom meeting. This week’s TGIW is a hands-on art workshop with acclaimed Pacific Art League instructor Caroline Mustard. This is all you need: |
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California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Jun. 03, 2020
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Jun. 06, 2020 6:00 a.m. - Jun. 10, 2020 8:00 p.m.
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Jun. 10, 2020 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Jun. 11, 2020 7:35 a.m. - 8:35 a.m.
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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford
Jun. 17, 2020
Invited by Steven Weiner
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors. |
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Jun. 24, 2020 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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Chinese culture illustrated by the history of the typewriter
Jul. 01, 2020
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Thomas Foon Chew: the California Asparagus King!
Jul. 08, 2020
Thomas Foon Chew arrived in San Francisco from China in 1897, when Thomas was 8. His father had a small cannery that was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, but he rebuilt the cannery in Alviso, and at that time brought Thomas into the business. They canned tomatoes, apricots, peaches, plums and more -- and added plants in Mayfield (now Palo Alto) and along the Delta. Local papers dubbed him “The Asparagus King” for perfecting the canning of green asparagus. By the 1920s, Bayside had become the third-largest canning business in the country. Although his life was short, thomas Foon Chew left a legacy of values. All seven of his children graduated from college, despite the Great Depression. Forty years later, many of his workers said his kindness had changed their lives. Alviso salutes him today with a street named in his honor and with four historical plaques. One is on Hope Street – a fitting place to mark the memory of this optimistic and inventive Californian.
Speaker invited by Steven Weiner
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Hearing Loss – the Silent Epidemic?
Jul. 15, 2020
Zoom presentation Monique has spoken to over 100 Rotary Clubs as well as over 140 other groups - to over 5000 members of the public and also to over 2500 employees at Special Employee Safety Meetings. Monique got into safety work after she went deaf in her left ear (due to an extremely loud band at a church fundraiser of all places!). She had to quit her job as a Hospital Pharmacist. Monique then studied, wrote the book: What Did You Say? and was appointed by the governor to the Commission of Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans (MCDHH). In her presentation, Monique discusses various aspects of hearing and stresses that hearing loss is permanent and not only for older people anymore. Monique also discusses how to prevent hearing loss and ways to better cope with it. Host: Amy Boggs Ross Hammond, contact. mnbry2@gmail.com |
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Jul. 18, 2020 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
ENVISIONING A NEW NORMAL IN BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION July 18, 2020, 10:00 am- Noon Join us for virtual panel discussion with top Bay Area executives, entrepreneurs and innovators. Connect and network with other business professionals during the breakout session. Be inspired by leading industry experts on:
Our Panelists:
Event Date: July 18, 2020 10:00 am - Noon
Hosted by District 5150 Rotary Means Business Fellowship Register at: Rotary5150.org/calendar Questions: Please contact District 5150 Rotary Means Business Fellowship |
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Can you Hack it?
Jul. 22, 2020
Crowdsourced Hacking?! Synack is a crowdsourced security testing platform that delivers testing to security teams to test their attackable surfaces. The company’s solution is the industry’s only penetration test to seamlessly combine trusted crowdsourced security testing talent augmented by proprietary AI technology to give customers the best of human intelligence and machine intelligence. |
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Jul. 29, 2020 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
We hope to see you at our first socially distanced TGIW! Enjoy beverages, snacks, and a sneak preview tour of Silicon Valley Sculpture 2020 presented by Menlo Park Public Art. Join Katharina Powers for a guided sculpture tour or take your own self-guided tour around the Menlo College campus. The event is free and please feel free to bring a guest. Attendees must wear a mask. You are welcome to join us if you do not have Covid-19 symptoms, haven't been exposed to anyone with Covid-19, and haven't traveled by air during the past ten days. Please park in the lot behind Bowman Library and look for signs to the President's house. https://www.menlo.edu/wp-content/uploads/about/menlo-college-campus-map.pdf |
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ShelterBox and Rotary - A Unique Global Partnership
Aug. 12, 2020 12:30 p.m.
Mitone Griffiths is a fellow Rotarian and Ambassador for ShelterBox. The global support from the Rotary International network is the cornerstone upon which ShelterBox is built. In April 2000, the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard in Cornwall, England adopted ShelterBox as its millennium project. Little did they know that it would become the largest Club project in the world, responding to disasters and conflict across the globe and providing emergency shelter to over one million people. Since ShelterBox was founded in 2012, they have grown from one club’s adopted project to Rotary International’s only Project Partner in disaster relief. Their global network has been key in our international growth. At present, all ShelterBox affiliates have been set up by Rotarians or Rotaractors and the growth has been phenomenal. This agreement enables both organizations to collaborate more closely to bring relief and temporary shelter to survivors of disasters worldwide. The project partnership has built on both organization’s strengths in responding to disasters all over the world. |
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Who shot Vincent?
Aug. 19, 2020
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Helping our communities in time of crisis
Sep. 02, 2020
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Wildlife of Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda
Sep. 16, 2020
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Rethinking National Security
Sep. 23, 2020
When World War II ended, our nation was totally secure from attack. Since then, we have spent trillions to improve our national security, yet we now can be destroyed in under an hour. What went wrong? This talk explores a number of assumptions that underlie our current thinking about national security, but that turn out to be highly questionable on closer examination.
Host: Les Dewitt/Amy Boggs |
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Sep. 30, 2020 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Hey there fellow Rotarians! Let's get together for our monthly social hour. Relax and enjoy each other's company from anywhere in the world. Here's a loose schedule of activities: 5:00pm - Icebreaker! Short and sweet, like a mint julep on a warm summer day. Zoom in, bring a friend. Zoom link (click to register): |
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How Dry I Ain’t: Prohibition – the Ignoble Experiment that Failed
Oct. 14, 2020
John Freeman will share his research into Prohibition in the Bay Area. The attitude toward Prohibition and its enforcement was lax and pretty consistent for for 8 of the 9 Bay Area Counties (Santa Clara County was a lot more righteous about enforcement). San Mateo County, from the speakeasies of Colma & San Bruno, stills in the hills, and the supply of Canadian Whiskey coming ashore in the dog holes along the coast, was about as “wet” as San Francisco or Marin! Join us to learn more about it.
host: Amy Boggs |