Marc friedman author of the new book, the big shift navigating the new stage beyond midlife talks about the need for better social programs and savings plans for people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who want meaningful and sustaining work later in life. From the Commonwealth Club of california in San Francisco, this is 45 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the meeting of the Common Wealth club of california. I am chair the clubs grown ups for amend your host for today. We also welcome our listening audience and we invite everyone to listen to us on line at Commonwealth Club. Org. Now its my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker. Marc freedman is ceo and founder of encore. Org, a Nonprofit Organization working to promote Encore Careers. Second acts for the greater good. He spearheaded the creation of the experience core, now one of americas largest Nonprofit National Service Programs engaging people over 55. And the purpose prize, which annually provides five, 100,000dollar pric
Yes, we are actually helping with the nfl evolution. Set each day you see some of the tips, which i am the publisher of that site. I am also the author of home team advantage, the Critical Role of mothers in youth sport and i have a great new hat as a producer of a documentary about the. I keep hearing great pieces about parents. So yes, moms team is the website that i run. For the past 12 years weve been leading the way, i believe, in concussion education at these Sports High School level. Moms are very concerned. As a matter of fact a year ago, nine months ago i received a letter from my mom in oklahoma and she wanted moms seem to parachute in with our of experts to set up a concussion Risk Management program. That is a very common question we have received over 12 years is can you help us . We been halted by the long, but this time of what to document every step of the way. One of my triplet sons was taken out of football because of concussions years ago. Now knowing what i know, th
Were on the red carpet. Finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. We want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. Domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. His fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q a and at the National Book festival in september. The late Anthony Shadid has been nominated. He died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him, and thats nada bachary. Katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and Anne Applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q a show in september. So well be interviewing those authors as we go. Well be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. Right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation, and this is david steinberger. Mr. Steinbergers is also head of the beco
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And growing up in russia and i have noticed that basically if they are smart and if they are liberal, they try to leave the country. You mentioned Silicon Valley how russia is one of the languages. Russians are verys bart are very smart but they are not looking to improve stay in their country because it is so shaky the legal system and so forth. Then you see the other guys that are staying, nationalist and skinheads and people like that who are going to protest in beating up immigrants and stuff like that on the streets. They are not just of the streets, protesting and they are rising up and taking positions and government as well. That is just about the future of russia in its self. Putin, the man is 61 years old and he is not going to be around very long. [laughter] we are all very old on this panel. [laughter] sorry about that. Speaking as a member of the younger generation, im looking for to russias future. I do not mean to offend anybody. Just a russias history, it has had a very