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Dave Stachowiak and Bonni reflect on generous lessons from you on episode 500 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices. -Bonni Stachowiak Let's do 500 more! -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Laugh boldly: Alan Levine discusses his appreciation for satire and celebrated Episode 399, when Bonni read a McSweeney's column (with permission from McSweeney's and the author). Bonni also shares a clip from Episode 138 with Mike Caulfield, in which they both reflected on a This American Life story about the tooth fairy Cry openly: Dave introduced a clip of our daughter years ago on Coaching for Leaders Episode 310 with Tina Payne Bryson about how hard crying is when you're three… Bonni considers how hard crying is when you're much older than three and remembers Episode 165: Teaching Lessons from Course Evaluations. Bonni hopes for yet-another interview with Karen Costa… this time, about a chapter Karen wrote for a book about trauma informed teaching Show Up: Bonni plays a clip from Episode 141 with Clint Smith where he read a poem from Counting Descent. Think deeply: Derek Bruff (host of the Intentionally Teaching Podcast) describes how Episode 89 with Betsy Barre about course evaluations got him thinking Think again: Maha Bali reflects on how Mia Zamora articulated another interpretation of their research collaborations on Episode 475 Be humble: Rob Eaton shares about mistakes and vulnerability regarding Episode 470 and Bonni reminisces about Episode 100 and her first conversation with Ken Bain on Episode 36 Connect generously: James M. Lang (with many times he has been interviewed on Teaching in Higher Ed) reflects on his own learning Amplify voices: Karen Caldwell shares about Episode 432

Gerard and Anna Migeon come from different countries and backgrounds, but their story is one of unity and purpose. Gerard hailed from France, while Anna is American. Their chance meeting proved to be more than coincidence, and they married, forming an outreach to women called "Natural Womanhood," helping share the truth about their lives, their bodies and functions...in a culture that has hidden or distorted so much truth about gender. Also - a talk with author Jack Alan Levine.

BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get 20% Off Membership in July!) Air Date 7/4/2023 Today, we take a look at the difference between the kind of political messaging that feels like the right thing to say and the reframed messages that actually get political results that allow for progressive policies to get passed. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Why Behind The What with Gretchen Barton - How We Win - Air Date 6-21-23 Gretchen Barton, founder of Worthy Strategy Group, is a researcher and strategist who spends most of her time going inside the minds of American voters, and shares her unique perspective and insights with us! Ch. 2: Winning a Trifecta with Mike Lux - How We Win - Air Date 5-31-23 And joining us for our interview to urge us all into action to win in 2024, is a democratic campaign veteran and progressive media trailblazer, the one and only Mike Lux! Ch. 3: Winning Messages Anat Shenker-Osorio - Future Hindsight - Air Date 4-13-23 Anat Shenker-Osorio is a renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor, the host of Words to Win By, and the Principal of ASO Communications. Ch. 4: Democrats Can Win If They Follow These Rules Featuring Ken Weber & Daryl Weber - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 12-14-22 Why can't the Democratic Party message as well as the Republican Party? Ken Weber and his son Daryl Weber explain how the left can finally win if they use these rules on messaging that the GOP uses every single time. Ch. 5: A Dmitri Rebuttal by Messaging Expert Anat Shenker-Osorio - Deconstructed - Air Date 6-2-23 Grim and Shenker-Osorio discuss why certain messages do well and others fail, why reframing the debate is essential, and how to craft messages that resonate and win. Ch. 6: How Democrats can win Working-Class Voters - Start Making Sense - Air Date 6-21-23 Katie Rader joins the Start Making Sense podcast to discuss the issues that are most likely to mobilize them. Ch. 7: Winning Messages Anat Shenker-Osorio - Future Hindsight - Air Date 4-13-23 Anat Shenker-Osorio is a renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor, the host of Words to Win By, and the Principal of ASO Communications. MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 8: Why Behind The What with Gretchen Barton Part 2 - How We Win - Air Date 6-21-23 Discussing the politics of Florida Ch. 9: Why Behind The What with Gretchen Barton Part 3 - How We Win - Air Date 6-21-23 Looking at the messaging hurdles women face when running for president FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 12: Final comments launching our overdue membership drive MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions) SHOW IMAGE: Description: Photo of a three-dimensional museum sign hanging on a wrought iron bracket that reads “The People's Story.” A sculpted person holding a rolled-up newspaper and calling out with one hand cupped to his mouth sits above the words. Credit: “People's Story” by Alan Levine, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

Teatime with Miss Liz coming and sharing a strong T-E-A on addiction and recovery is the Expert Jack Alan Levine. Jack Alan LevineMay 11th, 10 AM ESTSTREAMING LIVE ON MULTIPLE PLATFORMS AND ON PODCASTS STATIONS AND APPSJack Alan Levine, addiction expert and author, has spoken to thousands of people over the last 20+ years on dealing with and successfully overcoming addiction. His books on addiction, My Addict Your Addict and Addiction and Recovery Handbook, talk about his battles and victory over addiction and show those struggling with addiction how to understand and overcome addiction. Jack created and developed the "Free For Life" Overcoming Addiction online video program, which helps addicts and their families deal with the realities of addiction and outlines the clear paths and solutions available to overcome addiction. Jack is a sought-after treatment center speaker, and his clear-cut message, based on reality, fact and faith, gives those struggling with addiction the tools they need to fight and overcome any addiction. He has spoken at Faith Farm, Teen Challenge and other organizations devoted to overcoming addiction. He was a featured speaker with Dr. Henry Cloud, Mark Glasser and Dr. Jared Pingleton at the Palm Beach Leadership and Recovery "Winning The Battle Over Addiction" conference. He speaks on overcoming addiction at many men's conferences, including Iron Sharpens Iron, Florida Men of Integrity, Igniting Men and Strongmen conferences. His articles on overcoming addiction have been published in Sober World Magazine, and he has written for addiction blogs, including AddictionLand. He has appeared as an addiction expert on numerous radio and television shows. Jack also speaks at many churches on Sunday mornings as a guest preacher. He is the Founding Director of Voice of God Ministry, a 29-year-old 501c-3 non-profit. Also, he serves on the board of Directors of Washed Clean Ministries, the National Addiction and Recovery Association and Purpose Church Orlando. He also is on the Board of Advisors of NOW Matters More, a non-profit helping those struggling with Drug and alcohol addiction. Jack also served many years on the Board of Directors at Oasis Compassion Agency and Changed Lives Church. A licensed minister since 2006, he served as Director of the Men's Ministry for 12 years at Boca Glades Church in Boca Raton. Currently, Jack serves as Executive Pastor at Purpose Church Orlando. Jack worked for some of the top advertising agencies on Madison Avenue on large accounts, including AT&T, The US Army and Dupont. He started his own Ad Agency in l985 and later founded a national television production company where he wrote, directed and produced hundreds of national television shows and thousands of commercials. In 2002 he sold that company to devote more time to entrepreneurial activities and helping those battling addictions. Jack continues to use his business skills and entrepreneurial gifts to own and build companies. Today his companies are involved in Biotechnology, Telemedicine, Solar Energy, Media, Specialty Food Distribution, Publishing, Real Estate and Business consulting. Jack remains a sought-after Business advisor to many companies, executives and business owners. He is celebrating 22 years of marriage and has three wonderful children. https://www.jackalanlevine.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/misslizsteatimes/message

Always an over-achiever, Jack Alan Levine graduated from both high school and college sooner than most, and found success in business. Sadly, he also became addicted to numerous drugs, and fought with this lifestyle for years. A chance conversation with a pastor in a church building (where he had gone to reflect) literally changed the course of Jack's life. Now, he is a prolific author, and popular speaker and consultant. He will tell you that everything about his life is aimed at one thing, and that is Jesus.

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In this week's episode Dr. Crane talks to Alan Levine about his experience building a cybersecurity program, what he got right, what he would do differently, and why being a CISO is hard. Alan is the former CISO for two Fortune 500 companies, Alcoa and Arconic, with over 35 years of experience leading global cybersecurity programs. He is also a founding board instructor at the Carnegie Mellon CISO program where he lectures to current and rising CISOs on stories from the trenches. In this episode: 00:00 — Welcome 01:26 — Introductions 01:29 — Surprises When Building A Cybersecurity Program 03:22 — Dealing With An Audit As A New CISO 04:47 — No Credit For Successes, Credit For Failure 06:05 — Making Friends And Allies 07:56 — Effective Actions And Controls 10:04 — User Awareness and BYOD 13:10 — Building Trust With Your Users 15:53 — The Most Misunderstood Part Of Being A CISO 19:50 — Sign Off Alan Levine: LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-levine-43a226a CISO Street — https://www.cisostreet.com/alan-levine/ Thanks To Our Sponsors: Heinz College CISO Certificate — https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/programs/executive-education/chief-information-security-officer-certificate CISOWise vCISO — https://www.cisowise.com/ Heinz College: https://www.facebook.com/heinzcollege https://www.linkedin.com/school/carnegie-mellon-university---h.-john-heinz-iii-college/ Carnegie Mellon: https://www.linkedin.com/school/carnegie-mellon-university https://www.facebook.com/carnegiemellonu Follow CISOWise on all podcast apps. Website — https://www.cisowise.com/podcast Show Notes & Transcript — https://www.cisowise.com/podcast/004-being-a-ciso-is-hard-with-alan-levine

Depositions are a crucial part of discovery—and they can also be, in the hands of a talented litigator, torture for the witness. So I suspect that many lawyers on the left—and beyond—might be jealous right now of Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan, the iconic lawyer and founding partner of Kaplan Hecker & Fink (“KHF”). Last month, Robbie had the pleasure of deposing former president Donald Trump—not once, but twice.I'm guessing it wasn't a fun experience for the Donald. His niece Mary Trump, who hired Kaplan Hecker to sue her uncle for fraud, described Robbie to Bloomberg as follows: “She's brilliant, she's unrelenting, she can't be intimidated, and she's not going to back down. She eats bullies… for lunch.”Deposing the president twice in the same month is only the latest distinction for Robbie, known for handling some of the most high-profile and high-stakes cases in the country. She's most well-known for representing the late Edie Windsor in United States v. Windsor, the landmark gay-rights case in which the Supreme Court held unconstitutional section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. But Robbie is also the lawyer of choice for major corporations like Goldman Sachs and Uber, who hire her and KHF to handle their most complex legal problems.On Monday, I was delighted to speak with Robbie for the fourth episode of the Original Jurisdiction podcast. She wasn't able to say much about the Trump depositions, but she did talk about her multiple cases against Trump in broader terms. We also spoke about what makes her unique as a litigator; her epic victory last year in Sines v. Kessler, in which she won damages of more than $25 million from the white supremacists behind the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in August 2017; her vision for Kaplan Hecker & Fink, the thriving litigation boutique she founded after more than two decades at Paul, Weiss; free-speech and cancel-culture controversies in the legal world; and whether she's a tough boss.Please check it out by clicking on the embed at the top of this post. Thanks!Show Notes:* Roberta A. Kaplan bio, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP* Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All, Amazon* A History-Making Litigator Leaves Biglaw To Launch A Boutique, by David Lat for Above the Law* Roberta Kaplan Builds Progressive Firm Suing Trump, Defending Wall Street, by Erik Larson for Bloomberg* 2020 Attorney of the Year: Roberta Kaplan, by Jane Wester for the New York Law Journal* Lady Justice and Charlottesville Nazis, by Dahlia Lithwick for Amicus/SlatePrefer reading to listening? A transcript of the entire episode appears below.Two quick notes:* This transcript has been cleaned up from the audio in ways that don't alter meaning—e.g., by deleting verbal filler or adding a word here or there to clarify meaning.* Because of length constraints, this newsletter may be truncated in email. To view the entire post, simply click on "View entire message" in your email app.David Lat: Hello, and welcome to the Original Jurisdiction podcast. I'm your host, David Lat, author of a Substack newsletter about law and the legal profession also named Original Jurisdiction, which you can read and subscribe to by going to davidlat.substack.com.You're listening to the fourth episode of this podcast, which airs every other Wednesday. Today I'm honored to be joined by one of the nation's most celebrated, successful, and significant litigators: Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan, founding partner of Kaplan Hecker & Fink. She is most famous for winning United States v. Windsor, the landmark case in which the Supreme Court held unconstitutional a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, paving the way for nationwide marriage equality a few years later. But she has worked on many other fascinating cases over the course of her career, including two pending cases against Donald Trump in which she deposed the former president—twice in the past month.Robbie was born in Cleveland and grew up in Ohio. After graduating from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and Columbia Law School, Robbie clerked for Judge Mark Wolf of the District of Massachusetts and the late Chief Judge Judith Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. Robbie then practiced for more than two decades at the major law firm of Paul, Weiss, where she built a thriving commercial and pro bono practice, including her big win in Windsor.In 2017, Robbie left Paul Weiss to launch Kaplan Hecker & Fink (“KHF”), one of the nation's top trial boutiques, known for handling both complex commercial and white-collar cases and landmark public-interest matters. One of the first such cases filed by KHF was Sines v. Kessler, a high-profile lawsuit under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 against twenty-four neo-Nazi and white supremacist leaders responsible for organizing the racial- and religious-based violence in Charlottesville in August 2017. That case went to trial, and a year ago this month, the jury awarded a total of more than $25 million to Robbie's clients.In our conversation, Robbie and I talked about her various Trump cases, how she knew she was destined for a legal career from a very young age, two qualities that have made her so successful as a lawyer, how KHF has managed to be so financially successful while also doing so much public-interest work, and her vision for the firm's future. Without further ado, here's my interview of Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan.DL: Thanks so much for joining me, Robbie—it's an honor to have you!Roberta Kaplan: It's a pleasure to be here.DL: To start with what's in the news—and I feel like you're always in the news—what can you tell us about your latest high-profile case, namely, E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former president Donald Trump? I know that you recently deposed him. Is there anything you can say either about the deposition specifically or about the litigation more generally?RK: Sure. We actually have two litigations that are very active against Donald Trump, and I actually deposed him in both, on two successive weeks. So it was a relatively exhausting period for me. I literally went to Mar-a-Lago two weeks in a row to depose him. That's about all I can say about it, in terms of the depositions themselves.But in terms of the cases, it's very interesting. The E. Jean case, which you asked about, is on the fastest track. Right now, trial is scheduled to happen on February 6th. Right now we have one case against Donald Trump for the defamatory statements he made in June 2019. That case is currently certified to the D.C. Court of Appeals as to the question of whether when he made those statements, he was acting within the scope of his employment as president—sounds like kind of a crazy question, but that's the question. And the D.C. Court of Appeals, I believe, recognizing the need for speed here, has scheduled that case on a very, very expedited schedule, with oral arguments to be on January 10. So I think it's entirely possible that we have a ruling from the D.C. Court of Appeals before the trial before Judge [Lewis] Kaplan starts.Even if that's not true, however, we have a second case that we've told everyone in the world, including Judge Kaplan and Trump's lawyers, that we intend to file on November 24, which is the first day we can file it. That is a case directly for battery, the common-law cause of action by E. Jean against Donald Trump, based on a new law that was passed in New York called the Adult Survivors Act. It's patterned on the Child Victims Act, and it gives people who were survivors of rape that happened a long time ago basically a free one-year period to bring claims, notwithstanding statutes of limitations. That case we're definitely bringing out November 24th, and I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn that we probably will add to that case some new defamatory statements that Donald Trump made on Truth Social against our client—again, none of which are subject to any Westfall Act issue at all, because he wasn't president when he made them.So big picture, it's highly likely, particularly given the judge we have—Judge Kaplan, no relation—that we will go to trial on all or at least some of those claims in February.DL: Wow.RK: And the new case shouldn't really delay anything because it's basically the exact same facts. As we told the court, the only thing that's different about the new case is the damages theory, so we will have different experts. You obviously have different damages for being raped than you do for defamation. But that's really it. Everything else has already been done in discovery. Fact discovery is closed, and I see very little reason for any additional fact discovery, again, because the facts are totally overlapping.DL: So what are the two depositions? What was the difference between the two depos?RK: The first deposition, which happened the week before, was in our fraud case. Before Judge [Lorna] Schofield in the S.D.N.Y., we have a nationwide class action, on behalf of people who invested—I'm using the word “invested” in quotes—in a business opportunity—I'm using “business opportunity” in quotes too—that Donald Trump endorsed and heavily promoted before he was president, known as “ACN” or “American Communications Network.”It's a multilevel marketing scheme—I don't think even they deny that—in which people pay $500 or $1,000 to become part of this opportunity. Then the goal is to sell video phones. The idea of selling video phones when Skype and other software was already heavily in use—not really the smartest idea in the world—and when I say video phones, I mean big, standard-looking video phones, like I haven't seen since I was a young associate, probably.The only way to make money as part of this multilevel marketing scheme is to recruit other people in it. You don't make money from selling the phones, you make money from bringing other people in, which is the classic hallmark of a multilevel marketing scheme. Trump was paid a lot of money, at least $11 million or so, from this entity over a period of years. He went to conventions where these people were recruited, and he had huge crowds going nuts for him that kind of looked like his conventions now, honestly. And he said it was the greatest investment he's ever heard of, he did tons of due diligence, he knew it was a great company, a great business opportunity, “people think I do this for the money, but I just like being here.”I gave you a sense of the kind of the statements he made, and we allege those were all fraudulent, in that they were untrue and he knew them to be untrue. In that case too, fact discovery is closed—there are a couple of exceptions that the magistrate judge ordered, but it's essentially closed. But in that case, given how much bigger the scope is, we are about to go into expert discovery and then class certification. So that case is behind the E. Jean Carroll case for those reasons, although we're very eager to try it before the next presidential campaign for sure.DL: Oh, interesting.RK: Because we don't want to lose our defendant.DL: Indeed. Totally, totally.So to rewind a little bit… as I know from having read your wonderful memoir, Then Comes Marriage, you knew from an early age that you wanted to be a lawyer. What can you tell us about your childhood or your upbringing that might have shed light on your future career or that shaped your career choice as a lawyer?RK: When I was a kid, I liked to talk a lot. I still do. I spent a lot of time with my maternal grandmother, who was a very wise, very smart person. And there's a famous story in my family that when my uncle was in the Peace Corps in India at the time, and there is a series of letters between my mom, my grandmother, and my uncle from India, and in those letters—we still have copies—my grandmother is talking about how I just keep talking all time, and how at one point she said to me, ‘Robbie, you know I love you, but can you just be quiet for like three minutes? Can you stop for three minutes?' And I said something like, ‘No grandma, I can't. I just can't help myself. I love to talk.'DL: Ha!RK: And at a certain point, at a pretty young age, because I liked to read, I realized that if you're a lawyer, you got paid to talk. And I was like, “Okay, that's the job for me!”Then Sandra Day O'Connor—this is going to show my age, but she was made a Supreme Court justice, I believe when I was in high school. And that had a big impact on me at the time, because prior to that I don't think a lot of women thought they really had—not that I wanted to be a Supreme Court justice, but after that [women] thought they really had a future in the law. I remember that to this day, when that happened, what a big thing that was.And I just told everyone that I'm 85 years old….DL: Did judicial office ever cross your mind? Was that something you might have been interested in, in the past?RK: I certainly have a lot of friends who are judges and I admire what they do, and I think it's a great job. But I like to be a fighter. I like to be an advocate, and obviously I can't do that as judge. I think I would find it too quiet probably for my taste, even at the district-court or trial-court level. But there's no question that more and more we need great judges, and it's probably the single—at least in my job, in my world—the single most important job anyone can have. The only legal philosophy that ultimately works for me is legal realism, which means that often how a case goes—the pace of the case, how it flows, and ultimately what the result will be—is going to be based not only the philosophy but also the life experiences and understanding of the judge. That's just crucial. So the more people who are people of high character and great experience become judges, all the better.DL: I totally agree with you, totally agree. Looking at your remarkable career as a lawyer, what would you say is your superpower that is unique to Robbie Kaplan? Obviously, we know about how hard you work and how much you prepare, and of course your tactical brilliance, but is there something you would regard as a little different [about yourself]?RK: So I have a son who's now 16, but when he was little, one of his favorite books that I used to read, hundreds if not thousands of times, was called Dog with a Bone. And I think the reason I liked that book so much probably said something about me, which is that, as a lawyer, I really am like a dog with a bone. I do not give up as a lawyer. Our firm doesn't give up. And if I don't succeed on something the first time for a client, I succeed the second or third time, and it's that stubbornness maybe—stubbornness isn't usually considered a good quality, but it's that ability to keep on fighting, our resilience, that is our number-one quality.Then I'd say, second, creativity. I'm the least creative human being on the planet. I can't draw. My son goes crazy if I try to sing in the car because I'm so off key. I could never do creative writing. My pottery teacher basically kicked me out of class in high school because he asked me why every single pot I made look like a bong. And I wasn't even trying to make a bong! I was like, “I don't know what you mean!” So I have no artistic talent. But to the extent I have any creativity at all, I apply it to cases and the law, and how to achieve what we want to achieve for our clients in a creative and often unusual way.DL: That makes me think of the Charlottesville case, and your case against the individuals who caused such violence there and how you used a very old statute that was designed to be deployed against the Klan to go after these white supremacists, which was quite brilliant and creative. How did that theory come to you?RK: We saw what happened in Charlottesville, and we knew something had to be done about it. We were very concerned—and my firm had four people at the time, four lawyers—we were very concerned that the Department of Justice, then headed by Jeff Sessions, was not going do anything. Which we turned out to be right about.Pretty quickly after Charlottesville happened, someone got into the Discord servers that the organizers used and leaked a whole bunch of messages. This made it very clear that this was a conspiracy. So okay, great, we have the facts, we have clients, we went down there—but what law do we use? And there's not a lot, frankly, of current law to deal with this, in part because no one—I hope we're not going back to those times—but at least in my lifetime up to now, no one ever thought this was a huge problem. No one ever thought that we would have private conspiracies that were racially motivated, that planned, promoted, and engaged in violence. That may be changing, and that's one of the most disturbing things about our country right now, but that's generally been true for decades and decades.We had to go back and look for a statute called the KKK Act of 1871, which was passed to do exactly what it says it was passed to do, which was to try to curb the growth of the then-new Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South. Arguably it didn't have great success in that regard, but there were cases in the 1870s when it was passed trying to curtail or slow or stop the growth of the Klan.When you think about what happened in Charlottesville, though, it really is the modern-day version of what that Reconstruction Congress was trying to deal with. Back in the 1870s in Alabama, mostly men would don white robes and white hoods, and they would meet in the forest, and they would plan, tragically and horribly, a lynching or whatever they were going do.Today it's much easier. All you need is a hashtag on Parler or Discord or one of these dark websites, and it's like whack-a-mole—the minute one of the sites stops hosting these people, another one will take over. So all you need is a hashtag—that keeps your anonymity for the most part, unless you self-identify in your hashtag—and you don't have to go into the woods. Literally the guys who organized Charlottesville are from all over the country, and they all were able to plan nationwide and even internationally.When we filed the Charlottesville case—this is going to show how naive I was—I thought it was a terrible one-off, but it was a one-off, and we needed to bring the case so that it would never happen again. How wrong, in humility, I have to say I was, because not only was it not a one-off, it was really a harbinger, a kind of a road map to a lot of what has happened since then. Even this guy who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband, while there weren't 20 guys who went to the house, everything that he believed and everything that he was motivated to do was based on these same kind of dark-web, white-supremacist, violent channels, which again, if you're interested or if you're a lonely guy who's looking for a community, it's pretty easy for you to get online and get indoctrinated in their thinking.DL: Absolutely. And I know this is perhaps a little far afield from your work as a lawyer, but maybe just even as a concerned citizen, how do we deal with this problem? How do we get ourselves out of this? It seems that it's just getting worse and worse.RK: I wish I knew. It's something I think and worry about all the time. We obviously—and I'm as committed as anyone to the First Amendment—we obviously have a right to free speech in our country, and we should have a right. But it may be both with the [Communications] Decency Act and with the case law, the developed case law in the First Amendment context, maybe [it] does not make sense in the modern day. For example, under Brandenburg, when you're doing something that wreaks havoc in a crowded theater, that may be translatable to things that people do online today in the dark web almost every single day. And whether our standards need to change to deal with that is a very, very serious question. Of course, whether or not this Supreme Court as currently constituted is open to hearing any of those arguments, I don't know.DL: That's very interesting. I wonder—because there are definitely some conservatives out there who want to revisit First Amendment doctrine as well—I wonder if this might be some weird area where maybe you agree with some of them?RK: We obviously have separation of church and state, though I'm a religious Jew, and Judaism going all the way back to the destruction of the Second Temple, in 62 AD or 66 AD, has been obsessed with speech. It's obsessed with speech because it understands that a lot of the damage that people can do to other people is through speaking. If you look at history, there's no question. Now, I'm not saying that we give up our right to free speech. It's embedded in our Constitution for good reason, and it came out of a world where people were severely restricted in what they could think and what they could say. But the link between certain kinds of speech and violence at this point is uncontroversial, and how we deal with speech that may not be committing violence, but is no question prompting and encouraging and invoking other people to commit violence, is a very serious issue.DL: Let me ask you this then, and again, perhaps I'm going a little bit out of what you usually focus on as a civil-rights, public-interest, and commercial litigator, but what is your take on what's happening to free speech in U.S. law schools right now? Because there have been speakers who have been shouted down, conservative speakers mainly, but of course, obviously conservatives have no problem going after free speech in other areas.What are your thoughts on that? Do you share the concern that certain speakers might come to law schools and inflict what activists call “harm” on students?RK: What I know about this, David, I mostly know from following your column, so that's basically the limit of my knowledge because I've been super-busy lately, but I have the general gist because you're a good journalist and I follow what you write. People have a right to protest. They should. But they don't have a right to protest in a way that stops other people from speaking.And there's no question that on both sides in our country right now—in fact, both the radical left and the radical right are looking more and more similar every day, which is petrifying because that's what it looked like in Germany in the thirties. So it's petrifying, but people both on the radical right and in the radical left who want to deprive other people of the ability to speak is not acceptable. It's not what the Founders meant. Speech and debate and discourse—even going back to Jewish law—is something to be highly encouraged. And we all make the situation worse, honestly, when we—I hate to use this expression, but when we cancel other people from expressing their views.Just because you don't agree with someone—I'm sure you and I don't agree on everything—doesn't mean that we shouldn't discuss and debate and argue with each other, and it's terribly distressing because it leads to the kind of breakdown in civil society I think that we're seeing today. And that's also incredibly scary.DL: Related to these cancel-culture controversies, what are your thoughts on the extent to which advocates can or should be held accountable for their clients? Even though you are most known or most famous for your civil-rights work, your public-interest work, you also represent Goldman Sachs, Airbnb, large companies, and there have been some on the left who have taken this sort of purist approach: “Oh, well, you represent all these progressive causes, but then you represent all these evil companies and defendants and what have you. “ So what are your thoughts on that, the extent to which lawyers should be held accountable for the sins of their clients?RK: I don't think lawyers should ever be held accountable for the sins of their clients. That's what lawyers do, and if lawyers were in any way held accountable for the sins of their clients, then we wouldn't really have a legal profession. The only exceptions to that would be when lawyers commit the sins of their clients as part of their representation, and that's where, for me, you can't cross the line. I think every lawyer I know weighs these things differently.Let me begin to say, I don't acknowledge for a second that Goldman Sachs or Airbnb or any of our other clients…DL: I'm playing devil's advocate—I have nothing against them personally….RK: … are evil or do anything evil or anything like that.You have to look at it differently in the criminal context than in the civil context. Criminally, I think my colleagues at Kaplan Hecker would say that everyone is entitled to a defense, and while there may be some criminal defendants that we wouldn't or that they wouldn't want to represent, the breadth of whom you represent criminally when someone's facing imprisonment is different than civil.Civilly, personally, it's a choice—and we, at Kaplan Hecker, think very seriously about these issues. We talk about them among the partners, and we won't take on a client who we feel somehow contravenes our values in some fundamental way. But that's a choice. I wouldn't judge another lawyer who did that because that's what lawyers do, if that makes sense.DL: That makes perfect sense, especially as you were saying in the civil context as well, because look, [clients] have a wide variety of lawyers they can choose from, and you have clients that you can choose from, you're very busy, and not everyone is entitled to Roberta Kaplan. I totally get that.RK: Other than E. Jean Carroll, who's entitled to me.DL: Indeed, indeed—and Edie Windsor, who was amazing, of course. This might be a dumb question, but is [Windsor] the win that you are most proud of in your long career? And if that is, then do you have a number two?RK: Charlottesville. Edie would be first, Charlottesville number two. Charlottesville, unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on how you look at it—was not covered that much. And the reason why is there were two highly racially motivated criminal trials going on at the same time. They were both in state court, so they were televised. So for the press, it was very easy to cover both those cases rather than cover Charlottesville, which had no cameras in the courtroom because we were in federal court, with very severe restrictions for Covid, and other things about access to the courtroom too. And I guess sadly in certain ways, the record we made wasn't really the focus of people's attention the way it should have been.But because of that, I don't think people realize how incredibly difficult it was. We were on trial for about four weeks. We had about a week of jury selection, so about five weeks total. Two of the defendants were pro se, Richard Spencer and Chris Cantwell. Chris Cantwell was then serving a sentence in federal prison for making violent threats against another white supremacist—I think he threatened to rape and kill his wife—but a week either before or after that, he made similar violent threats against me, saying something like, “When this case is over, we're gonna….”Can I swear on this?DL: Yeah, go for it.RK: “When this case is over, we're gonna have a lot of f**king fun with Robbie Kaplan.” And so we were in trial in this closed courtroom—the whole courthouse was closed, there was no other case going on for four weeks—with these two, with a bunch of defendants, but two of them who were pro se. I think Judge Moon rightly probably let them get away with almost anything they wanted to do because he was very concerned about an appellate record. And in retrospect, he was probably right.But living through it every day was extremely hard. They would just make incredibly outrageous arguments. Chris Cantwell in his closing started screaming, and I thought threatening the jury. The marshals would say to me, “Okay, you know, if Cantwell gets closer to you, we're gonna stay closer by you in case he tries anything.” It was crazy. And so just as a sheer endurance contest, and for being able to keep our dignity in the face of a trial where literally every day these guys were talking about how much they loved Mein Kampf—the rhetoric was unbelievable—is something I'm very proud of. And it's not just me, it's our entire team. I don't know how we did it so long, but we somehow managed to do it, and getting the verdict we did was incredible.DL: Absolutely. Congratulations. And Karen Dunn [of Paul, Weiss], Alan Levine [of Cooley]—you had a lot of other amazing lawyers involved as well, and other law firms. Did you have personal security at some point in addition to the marshals?RK: Yeah, I can't get into it, but yeah, so that made it hard too. We were really kind of trapped in the hotel in a lot of ways for security reasons. So imagine going from this closed-in courtroom to being trapped within the hotel for four weeks and thinking about how you're going to cross-examine someone about Mein Kampf or put on Deborah Lipstadt to talk about why these guys are obsessed with the Holocaust. It was something, for sure.DL: Yeah. But a great victory, a huge verdict, and a real blow against white supremacists and others who would harm the country.On a happier note, Kaplan Hecker & Fink celebrated its fifth anniversary, I guess this was over the summer?RK: Yeah, July 1.DL: Congratulations. What are you most proud of about the firm so far?RK: When we set out to create this firm, we had certain specific core values. One, doing work in the public interest together with commercial work and white-collar work. Two, having a paramount respect for maintaining our culture and making sure that we all liked each other and were friends and had the same values. And three, being as non-hierarchical as you can possibly be, in the sense that we hire, I think we now have 10 percent of our lawyers are Supreme Court clerks. That's kind of insane—like, I couldn't get a job with me anymore. But because we bring in such brilliant people, we make sure that we listen to their ideas, from day one.What I'm most proud of is that we kept to that. We really have to this day kept to that. Our greatest challenge, frankly, is not getting so large that we lose it. That's frankly the thing that we worry about the most right now. There are a number of partnerships where the partners don't know each other well enough to keep that sense of camaraderie and culture, and that's what we face every day. We're not there yet for sure, but that's what we think about a lot.DL: Right now the firm I think has around 60 lawyers, maybe 10 partners or so?RK: I think we're about—well, maybe about 13 or 14 partners.DL: Oh, okay.RK: And I think the limit for me, based on my experience, is about 25. Once you get to more than 25, it's hard for everyone to be friends the same way we are now. So we have some room to grow.DL: And what about total lawyers? Right now you're around 60-ish?RK: Yeah. Again, we don't know, but I think everyone agrees that at 125 we'd pretty much be at our limits. Again, we're nowhere near that now, but that's kind of what people have in mind, and I'm not sure all of us want to get even that big. We also, I think speaking unanimously for the partners, are not into this idea of having a lot of satellite offices.DL: That was my next question.RK: We have New York, which is kind of the main office, and then we have D.C., and I don't anticipate us expanding anywhere else. Before Covid, we might have thought about an office in California. One of the few good things about Covid, of very few good things, is that you see that you can practice across state lines in a much easier way than I ever anticipated. So I can't imagine [opening more offices] anytime in the near future.DL: Yeah, I totally agree with you. I don't think it's quite as imperative, and in this day and age of remote work, it is much easier.Let me ask you this question because people have asked me about it, and I'm genuinely curious for the answer. At Kaplan Hecker & Fink, you do tons of public interest work, you do tons of pro bono work, and then, on the other hand, you still pay above the Biglaw salary scale for associates.Something here is not computing. How do you do it? Maybe I'm being too nosy, but… are you content to just make, you know, a couple million rather than many millions, like you did at Paul, Weiss? What's the secret here?RK: I'm not going to get into any numbers—obviously, my partners would kill me—but let me put it this way: other than in our first year probably, I have not had to sacrifice anything financially at Kaplan Hecker & Fink.DL: Wow.RK: And I think for me and almost all the partners, we are doing appreciably better than we would have at big firms.What's our secret sauce? For one thing, we are very, very efficient. Even though our fees aren't significantly lower than big firms, our bills tend to be, because we don't have to have four levels of people working on something. The work product that we get from our associates is usually excellent and doesn't take as much work than it might at a big firm.Two, we're very creative about fee arrangements, which is also not a big-firm thing, at least in the past—it may be more so now. My managing partner, Julie Fink, was a client at Pfizer for years before she came here, and so she really understood this. We're very creative about success fees or contingency fees or flat fees in a way that I think is hard at big firms.DL: Hmm-mmm.RK: But suffice it to say that we're doing—knock wood, I'm knocking wood right now—we're doing okay, and we're pleased to be able to pay our associates and our staff the way we do. And money is not the paramount thing. No one comes to Kaplan Hecker thinking, “I want to earn as much as a hedge-fund person or an investment banker or a tech guy.” We do very well, and no one is in any financial distress. But maximizing dollar amounts per share, per partner, is not our number-one goal.DL: That makes perfect sense. I'm curious, since you mentioned contingency-fee arrangements—do you do a significant amount of plaintiff-side that work that helps generate unusually high revenue per lawyer, perhaps?RK: We've done some, we're certainly interested in doing more. We probably get, I don't know, I'd have to look at the numbers,.we get between six and a dozen people calling a week [with such cases]. We've probably turned down, I think the numbers have got to be 90, upwards of 95 percent of those. But the ones we take on tend to be profitable, so yes, that certainly helps the bottom line.DL: And then another thing I've heard about the firm is some of your public-interest work is also paid work, right? That it's not just entirely pro bono?RK: Yeah, some of it is funded. It's funded at a lower rate, so we have a public-interest rate we use that's about half our regular rate. We do a number of cases like that—a lot of the election work, cases that Joshua Matz does, are funded in that way.DL: Okay. So one last question before we go to my little lightning round of final questions. And again, maybe this is a delicate subject, but some people in the law firm world say you're a tough boss. Do you consider yourself a tough boss?RK: So let me tell you a story. Paul, Weiss had upward reviews. I don't remember when they started, but at some point when I was a partner, they started upward reviews. And my upward reviews—I'm not proud of this—but I would always have maybe one or two associates at a time that I didn't work so well with, and it always turned out that of the people who did the reviews, those would be the people who would turn in reviews. And so my upward reviews were not great. Then I did the Windsor case, and all of a sudden my upward reviews were stellar! I remember my wife saying to me, “Well, look, I don't understand.” Because I don't think I changed as a boss. I think what changed is the way people perceived me as a boss.DL: Hmm-mmm.RK: So, I don't know. Those were a long time ago, and I know I was under a lot of stress as a young partner at Paul, Weiss. But I don't think anyone today—you can ask them yourselves—has a problem with me as a boss. I certainly, and we all do, have high standards. We operate in very demanding situations, and our clients justifiably expect a lot from us. But I don't think anyone in the Charlottesville case or in E. Jean or in any of the paying matters for Airbnb or Uber would say I'm tough. If by tough you mean I have high standards, yes. But I'm also mentoring people and giving people opportunities to take depositions and to examine people at trial. We were the only firm in Charlottesville that had associates examining witnesses.DL: Wow. That's remarkable.RK: And that speaks for itself.DL: Totally, totally.So here are my standard final questions, which are standard for all my lawyer guests.My first is, what do you like the least about the law? And this can either be the practice of law or law as that abstract system that rules over us all.RK: I think what I like the least is the tendency of lawyers and judges at times to fail to see that behind all this case law and precedent and statutory language are real people, and that each case affects a real live person. And it's hard to keep those things balanced in your head, but good lawyers and good judges need to. And I sometimes find it very frustrating when people take things to such a level of abstraction that they fail to see the common humanity in what we do.DL: And I think that is one of your talents as a lawyer, just bringing out the humanity of your clients, whether it's Edie Windsor or Heather Heyer or E. Jean Carroll. I think your storytelling about these very real, flesh-and-blood people is something that just stands out about your practice,RK: Thank you, because I would like someone to say that about me, so I'm very pleased that you have. That's something we really care about a lot at Kaplan Hecker.DL: My second question is—and this'll be interesting because I know that from a young age, I think you have a line in your book about how at age 10 or 12, you were plotting out your legal career—what would you be if you were not a lawyer?RK: Believe it or not, because it's pretty timely, I thought seriously about becoming a Russian historian.DL: That was your undergrad major.RK: Yeah, I was a Russian history and lit major, and I spent—I think it was probably the single biggest influence on who I became—I spent the spring semester of my junior year in Moscow, in what was then the Soviet Union, but glasnost had been announced. So it was kind of the beginning of change, although change that didn't last very long. And I think that semester, I was fluent in Russian then, watching and living in what was then a totalitarian regime in, in a lot of ways—we were bugged and all kinds of things—just had a huge impact on the way I see the world. And maybe that made me a good lawyer, because I always expect the worst—which is a good thing as a lawyer in a lot of ways, because you want to be planning for and anticipating all contingencies.I ultimately realized that there are not a lot of happy years in Russian history, sadly continuing to today, and that if I became a Russian historian, it was going to be pretty depressing. But I originally went to law school just thinking, “Okay, this will be a way to figure out what else I want to do in my life.” And then I fell in love with it. I'd kind of forgotten about what I was thinking as a 10-year-old about getting paid to talk.Oh, and I flirted with the idea of going to the CIA.DL: Oh?RK: I started taking Russian because that was a big period of global crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States. My professor at Harvard was Richard Pipes, who came up with the phrase “the evil empire.” And I thought about it, but at that time, I don't think it would've been very easy for someone who was—I wasn't out as gay, but I certainly had concerns that I was gay and or lesbian, and I was smart enough to know that that probably wouldn't mix too well with going into either the NSA or CIA. So I didn't do it.DL: Mmm-hmm.RK: Probably the best for me in a whole lot of ways.DL: And certainly history has benefited from your choice to become a lawyer. So my third question is, how much sleep do you get each night?RK: Believe it or not, I'm probably at the high end of the people you've talked to, seven to eight hours a night. I've never been someone who's functioned well with very little sleep. I remember my freshman year in college, some of my friends and I decided as an experiment that we were going to stay up all night and then write some essay that was required for some writing class we had to take, taking a lot of NoDoz, like only freshmen in college would be stupid enough to do something like that. But suffice it to say, I had to ask for an extension of the due date for the essay.When I'm on trial, I sleep obviously a lot less, but even then I'll go to bed at midnight and wake up at four or five in the morning. I still need to sleep every night.DL: I'm glad to hear that. I always love talking to successful people who [get decent sleep]. And who are also working parents—you have a son. I think it's great when people can… Look, I know work-life balance may be sort of an illusion or maybe a little much to ask, but I'm glad to hear that you can get a decent amount of sleep.RK: I've had migraines ever since I was 12. I suffer from migraines, and if you sleep too little, it will bring on migraines. I remember once, when I was working for Chief Judge Kaye, I hadn't slept enough or I don't know what had happened, but she came into my office and I was curled up under my desk in the fetal position because I had a migraine. And I'll never forget, she thought I would die. She's like, “What is going on?” So since I suffer from something like that, I'm very careful about doing things that won't bring on a migraine, and lack of sleep—or even too much sleep, both sides—can cause migraines.DL: My final question: any words of wisdom for listeners who look at your life and career and say, I want to be Robbie Kaplan?RK: I'm not sure anyone should say that because we all have our own lives, and you shouldn't want my life any more than anyone should want anyone else's.But I would say one, stick to your guts. The single greatest lesson I've learned as a lawyer is to trust your own guts because they often tell you the right thing. There's a lot of distractions that you may listen to or follow instead of following your own inner voice, and that's really important, to hear your own inner voice.And two, and I alluded to this earlier, your ability to function as a lawyer is based on your integrity, and you should never, ever, no matter what the fee, what the pressure, what the circumstance—and again, we're seeing this today, unfortunately—never do anything for a client that in any way compromises your integrity. I learned that at Paul, Weiss. I learned it from my mentor at Paul, Weiss, Marty London, and a bunch of others. And it's the single most important thing you need to know as a lawyer.DL: Well said. Thank you so much, Robbie, for joining me. I am so grateful for your time and your insight, and I know my listeners will appreciate it as well.RK: It's a pleasure.DL: Thanks again to Robbie for joining me. She's had such a remarkable life and legal career, and it was wonderful to hear about her landmark wins and what she's working on today. If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend her memoir, Then Comes Marriage.As always, thanks to Tommy Harron, my sound engineer here at Original Jurisdiction, and thanks to you, my listeners and readers, for tuning in. If you'd like to connect with me, you can email me at davidlat@substack.com, and you can find me on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, at davidlat, and on Instagram at davidbenjaminlat.If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to Original Jurisdiction. Since this podcast is new, please help spread the word by telling your friends. And if you don't already, please subscribe to the Original Jurisdiction newsletter, over at davidlat.substack.com. 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Crossover episode! Alan Levine aka CogDog returns to Gettin' Air to flip the script on this podcast by bringing the OEG Voices Podcast, which features "the international perspective of open education practitioners", to Gettin' Air and becoming the host! We chat about the origins of Gettin' Air: The Open Pedagogy Podcast and The Liberated Learner project, among other thing. Also featured in this episode: 4 year old Hattie.

Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode You have to find and develop your personality. -Alan Levine I like to model being imperfect. -Alan Levine For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being. -Alan Levine Resources Mentioned Zencastr Zoom MIT - Open Courseware Initiative How to explain open educational resources to students, in terms of the value of college? - Loïc Plé Why does he do it and please never stop. - Terry Greene “How do you guide people into the most appropriate level/literacy for the moment, and get them started? - Joe Murphy What the SPLOT is that? Jon Udell Hamburger Menu on NetNarratives website Alan Levine's shower interface photos on Flickr Remi Kalir Annotated 13 Ways of Looking at a Sticky Note Jeffrey W. McClurken Mike Caulfield's SIFT Check Starter Course Bonni's YouTube playlist: SIFT (Four Moves) Episode 399: Satire from McSweeney's Julie Cadman-Kim replies to a question about if her fantastic article is available in audio form CogDog's Pinboard.in digital bookmarks Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream Alan's treat for Bonni on Twitter posted at 2:08 pm on Feb 18, 2022 OEG Voices Podcast

The entire country was watching when Linda Dunikoski and Alan Levine tried these two racially charged cases and won.  Host Amy Gunn talked with Linda and Alan during the ACTL Spring Conference about their pre-trial, voir dire and courtroom strategies, and their concerns and hopes for the American justice system. Tune in for a fascinating behind-the-scenes discussion of how these two gifted attorneys and their legal teams forced the vitriol of race to take a back seat to the rule of law.  

Is anyone else feeling a little frayed around the edges? Here is an interlude where I give some insight on how to avoid snapping under the pressure of our world, and even how to fray with grace. Send me an email at ravmikefeuer@gmail.com if you want to set up a counselling session about how to take these ideas deeper into your life. image by author Alan Levine, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

A huge thank you to the OE Global community for awarding our project a 2021 Open Education Award of Excellence for Reuse/ Remix/ Adaptation. for the 25 Years of EdTech: The Serialized Audio Version. From the OE Global Awards team: The award was given to the project in the “Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation” category and, according to the adjudicators, the project is an outstanding example of the power of OER reuse for the following reasons; Remixing the physical book into an audiobook has increased accessibility by providing the text in an alternate format. Drawing together the open education community around the reading of the text sparked the companion “Between the Chapters” podcast, providing a deeper dive and critical analysis by experts into the topic of each chapter. This has added an additional layer of richness to the original book.  The weekly podcast release schedule, and accompanying critical analysis created a fundamentally new way to experience the book – slower and in bitesize chunks.  Each episode of the main recording or the companion podcast also now exists as an OER available for future use / reuse. This was a project that could not have happened without an openly licensed book so thank you @mweller & @au_press -- thank you so much! This is just a quick thank you speech (in podcast format, of course) from Laura and Clint.And a huge thank you to all the volunteers who voiced and/or guested as part of the project. We have listed everyone by name below (and we hope we did not miss anyone who contributed):Bonni Stachowiak, Jeffery Saddoris, Tim Carson, Ken Bauer, Angela Gunder, Brian Lamb, Lorna M. Campbell & Phil Barker, Tom Farrelly, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Catherine Cronin, Chad Flinn, Sukaina Walji, Grant Potter, Julian Prior, Simon Horrocks, Terry Greene, Laura Czerniewicz, Rajiv Jhangiani, Brenna Clarke Gray, Deb Baff, Maha Bali , Caroline kuhn, Anne-Marie Scott, Alan Levine, Jim Groom, Mark Brown, Clare Thompson, Jessie Stommel Mark Guzdial, Kelvin Bentley Brian Lamb John Robertson D'Arcy Norman Laura Gibbs Bonnie Stewart, Maren Deepwell, Judith Pete, Virginia Rodés Bryan Alexander, Alexandra Pickett, Sara Frick, Orna Farrell, David Wicks, Sue Beckingham, Chrissi Nerantzi, Tanis Morgan Autumm Caines, Rebecca Hogue, Christian Frierich, Helen DeWaard, Dave Cormier, Rolin Moe, Amanda Coolidge, George Veletsianos Dragan Gasevic, Joyce Seitzinger, Chris Gilliard, David Kernohan, Audrey Watters, sava sahali singhDo you have thoughts, comments, or questions about this podcast? Send us a message or tweet. 

 Today's program featured wonderful music and a pre-recorded interview with Rabbi Alan Levine.    He is the author of "Hidden Secrets of the Passover Haggadah," Rabbi Emeritus at Kol Mashiach Congregation, and Director at Lev Elohim Ministries.Today he shared how he came to know his Messiah and I know you will enjoy it!If you would like more info on his book, you can find it here:Hidden Secrets of the Passover Haggadah - Kindle edition by Levine, Alan. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

In the United States, more than 90% of the landmass is rural. And in rural communities from coast to coast, the challenges in delivering healthcare can be very different than the urban and suburban centers that get most of the attention.There's untapped opportunity in reimagining healthcare business models and the technology that will enable them in rural areas, according to Ballad Health CEO, Alan Levine. And he should know – in the three years since Ballad was formed by merging Wellmont Health System and Mountain States Health Alliance, it has had exceptional success rewriting the rules of rural healthcare.Among some of its visible and measurable improvements, Ballad Health has decreased pricing by an average of 17% for urgent care and other physician-based services, cut its mortality rate for trauma in half, reduced low acuity admissions by 16,000 per year, and saved the region in which it operates more than $200 million per year in healthcare costs. And it's doing this with only a 20% commercial payer mix.In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Alan talks to Keith Figlioli about how Ballad Health is achieving these milestones by better understanding the dynamics of rural healthcare and making big structural changes to address them. He shares specifics about many of the changes Ballad has already implemented and his plans to continue down this revolutionary path. Their conversation covers topics including:Trading competition for regulation. In the areas of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky where Wellmont and Mountain States operated, only 50% of hospital beds were occupied and rates were declining. To survive and give it stability, Wellmont looked to be acquired by an outside system, until Mountain States stepped in with a unique solution to merge. But the FTC opposed the merger every step, forcing legislation in Virginia and Tennessee followed by approval from both states' governors, attorneys general and health commissioners. Against significant odds, the merger was approved with Ballad agreeing to cap pricing and price increases at a rate well below the hospital consumer price index (CPI).Eliminating duplication. Many of the structural changes at Ballad Health revolved around reducing duplicate services. Intense competition between Mountain States and Wellmont forced one system to always keep up with the other. As a result, a small town like Greenville, TN had two hospitals a little over a mile apart which had both lost $70 million at 30% capacity in the years leading up to the merger. One of Ballad's key goals is to implement a more rational approach and business model that makes sense for rural areas.Transforming from hospitals to health improvement. While reducing duplication, Ballad is thoughtfully applying the resources it saves to improve the health of its communities upstream. For example, in one region where it consolidated hospitals, it converted one building into a residential facility for women who are pregnant, homeless, drug addicted or have other needs. It gives these women housing security, food security and resources to help ensure their babies are born into a healthy situation.The new competitive landscape. Alan says his biggest competition is no longer the health system or physician group down the street. It's the tech-enabled company across the country or a retail chain that could provide primary care. And unlike health systems in urban areas that can offset the loss of a patient with populated growth, there's nothing to replace that loss in a rural area. This is why technology will play a significant role in the transformation of rural healthcare.To hear Alan and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.

This episode features Alan Levine, Chairman, President & CEO at Ballad Health. Here, he discusses his top priorities for 2021, how to support burned out healthcare workers, and more.

This episode features Alan Levine, Chairman, President & CEO of Ballad Health System. Here, he discusses his top priorities for 2021, how to support burned out healthcare workers, and more.

A belated birthday dedication to the one and only Nina Simone. Admittedly it took me a little while to fully get into Nina's records, even the well-known ones, but these days I always find something new and beautiful I hadn't noticed before on each one. Her eclectic song selection and style is so unique, there is nothing like it. The selections here are just a few of my favorites. Hope you enjoy. Special thank-you to Alan Levine and Ruth and Judith, who generously donated their copies of Nina's records to me in recent years.

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In this episode, Laura chats with Alan Levine about Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and what was going on in the land of learning online in 1994.

This episode features Alan Levine, CEO of Ballad Health. Here, he discusses the challenges with rural healthcare, what he’s looking forward to within his growing system, and more.

Alan Levine is the President and CEO of Ballad health, the innovative integrated healthcare delivery system that serves 1.2 million people in 29 rural counties of Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Northwestern North Carolina, and South Eastern Kentucky. Alan is a longtime friend who is re-imagining our nation's approach to non urban and rural care with impressive results Support for A Second Opinion comes from PYA, providing healthcare insights and strategy for nearly 40 years. Learn more at PYAPC.com. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Markus @mdeimann und Christian @friedelitis sprechen über Lehren und Lernen in Zeiten der Corona Krise, Listen mit Tipps und Tricks und ihre Favoriten. Feedback gern: https://feierabendbier-open-education.de/ Es geht um Beiträge von Alan Levine, Sean Michael Morris, Tannis Morgen, Anya Kamenetz, Daniel Stanford und einigen anderen. Don't put your courses online!

Markus @mdeimann und Christian @friedelitis sprechen über Lehren und Lernen in Zeiten der Corona Krise, Listen mit Tipps und Tricks und ihre Favoriten. Feedback gern: https://feierabendbier-open-education.de/ Es geht um Beiträge von Alan Levine, Sean Michael Morris, Tannis Morgen, Anya Kamenetz, Daniel Stanford und einigen anderen. Don't put your courses online!

Today, we are bringing you a special episode focused on rural health. We're broadcasting from Nashville with a live taping entitled solving the rural healthcare puzzle, national state and provider perspectives. Our panel and discussion are organized by the Nashville Health Care Council, the premier healthcare membership association with nearly 300 members here in Nashville, and the Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington DC based think tank that actively fosters bipartisanship by combining the best ideas from both parties to promote health security and opportunity for all Americans. I'm joined on today's panel by Dr. Sarah Chouinard, rural health expert and chief medical officer of community care of West Virginia, a system of 17 federally qualified health centers operating across nine counties in rural West Virginia. Alan Levine, president and CEO of Ballad Health, an innovative integrated health care delivery system that serves 1.2 million people in 29 rural counties of Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Northwestern North Carolina and Southeastern Kentucky, and Stuart McWhorter, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration and the co-chairman of governor Bill Lee's Health Care Modernization Task Force. Our wide ranging discussion touches on workforce issues, the challenge is rural and non-urban health system space with current payment models, and what on-the-ground conditions continue to see with the ongoing opioid epidemic. Our panel puts forth solutions as well as defines the problems. For the most up to date information on this epidemic please visit http://cdc.gov/ncov Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Antonio Vantaggiato (@avunque) is from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico! Terry and Antonio chat about how he delivers his long running open and connected courses, the great student work that comes out of them and his ongoing podcast with Alan Levine (@cogdog), The Puerto Rico Connection prconnection.cogdog.casa.

Antonio Vantaggiato (@avunque) is from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico! Terry and Antonio chat about how he delivers his long running open and connected courses, the great student work that comes out of them and his ongoing podcast with Alan Levine (@cogdog), The Puerto Rico Connection prconnection.cogdog.casa.

Florida Marchman Act Attorney Alan Levine who is the founder of Addiction Recovery Legal Services, LLC, a boutique private Florida law firm that only concentrates on helping families struggling substance abuse using the law. The Marchman Act Specific to Florida, Florida Statute 397, also known as the “Marchman Act,” is a legislative act that provides confidential, a court ordered, assessment, stabilization, and treatment for individuals struggling with substance abuse. How the Marchman Act Works The Florida Marchman Act is a legal intervention process that can compel a substance abuser to get court ordered and monitored Assessment, Stabilization and long-term Treatment for their drug or alcohol addiction. The process begins by filing a Petition and Request for Assessment and Stabilization. The Petition and Request for Assessment and Stabilization, as well as other necessary forms, for those seeking to handle the court process without an attorney, can be found in the DCF Marchman Act Handbook. Also, the clerk of the court in the county where the petitioner seeks to file typically has the most current updated forms. When seeking help for a loved one in a court of law, an experienced attorney with a complete understanding of the Florida Marchman Act statute as well as the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure can and will increase your success in obtaining an assessment, stabilization, and treatment for your loved one. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/philip-bell/support

Welcome to episode 129 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 3, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed more technology links than should technically be "legal" for a free #edtech podcast. Topics included the NSO Group and Pegasus iPhone malware and the proliferation of Android-based pre-installed apps posing privacy and security issues. Dangers anticipated via the upcoming bi-annual Windows10 update from Microsoft, Chromium browser benefits on Windows, and another Facebook data breach affecting over 500 million users were also analyzed. Google news included the 15th birthday of Gmail, new features including canned responses and scheduled messages, the effect of Google's regular killing of its digital children (documented on killedbygoogle.com), and Google's 2019 April Fool's Day jokes. A shotgun wielding flying drone in Russia, prospects for a renewable hydrogen-based economy, and Mark Zuckerberg's latest attempt to apologize for his privacy transgressions rounded out the show. Geeks of the week included Outline VPN, Daily Digital Alchemy (the next iteration of "The Daily Create" by Alan Levine,) free security awareness posters from SANS, a "Smarter Every Day" video series on YouTube weaponization, and a poignant letter by an Apple employee about alleged illegal searches by US homeland security officials at the US border involving his iPhone and MacOS laptop. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can (normally) at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links.

Alan Levine shares how he creates courses as stories on episode 218 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Terry Greene (@greeneterry) speaks with Alan Levine (@cogdog) about the endlessly amazing work Alan has done in the open over the years, including his involvement in the Ontario Extend project and where that work is headed.

Terry Greene (@greeneterry) speaks with Alan Levine (@cogdog) about the endlessly amazing work Alan has done in the open over the years, including his involvement in the Ontario Extend project and where that work is headed.

Speaker: Jack Alan Levine | Author, Speaker, Businessman, Addiction Expert

Networked Narratives (#netnarr) is an open connected course of digital storytelling, world building, civic imagination, and a bit of digital alchemy hosted online and as a course at Kean University during the Spring 2017. The course is led and conceived by Kean University Writing Project Director Mia Zamora with DS106 founder Alan Levine, and explores the ways our learning and storytelling intertwine.

On January 21, 2016, the Hayek Program hosted a book panel on Jacob Levy's 'Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom.' The panel included author Jacob Levy and panelists Peter Boettke, Alan Levine, and Richard Boyd. The panelists discussed whether the pressure between the rationalist suspicion of intermediate group power and the pluralist suspicion of the state can ever be reconciled in a liberal society.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, K12 Online Conference Preview with the Conference Organizers, September 19, 2015. Since 2006, K-12 Online has hosted a free, all-volunteer online conference with 40+ free videos each year featuring some of the most creative and innovative educators sharing their best ideas for engaging students with digital tools and effective learning strategies. Don Wettrick and his #Innovation students will kick off our 2015 conference with a pre-conference keynote on Monday, October 12th. For two weeks, starting on October 19th, 40 presentations will be published in four different strands, with four presentations posted per day. All K-12 Online presentations are published as pre-recorded videos, generally no longer than 20 minutes in length. You can view the recordings any time/any place once they are published and can also subscribe to them on your mobile device in iTunesU. http://k12onlineconference.org/ During this webinar an overview of the conference presenters, features and ways to participate will be shared. During week 1 of the conference which starts October 19th, Stephanie Chang will keynote the “Maker Ed” strand, while Alan Levine will keynote “Stories of Connection.” During week 2, starting October 26th, Scott McLeod will keynote “Overcoming Obstacles” while Karen Bosch will keynote “Beyond the Core: Art and More.” 2015 Conference Theme: “Virtual Unstoppable" Strands for 2015 are: Week of Oct 19 – 23: Maker Ed and Stories of Connection Week of Oct 26 – 30: Overcoming Obstacles and Beyond the Core: Art and More Schedule: http://k12onlineconference.org/2015-schedule/

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, K12 Online Conference Preview with the Conference Organizers, September 19, 2015. Since 2006, K-12 Online has hosted a free, all-volunteer online conference with 40+ free videos each year featuring some of the most creative and innovative educators sharing their best ideas for engaging students with digital tools and effective learning strategies. Don Wettrick and his #Innovation students will kick off our 2015 conference with a pre-conference keynote on Monday, October 12th. For two weeks, starting on October 19th, 40 presentations will be published in four different strands, with four presentations posted per day. All K-12 Online presentations are published as pre-recorded videos, generally no longer than 20 minutes in length. You can view the recordings any time/any place once they are published and can also subscribe to them on your mobile device in iTunesU. http://k12onlineconference.org/ During this webinar an overview of the conference presenters, features and ways to participate will be shared. During week 1 of the conference which starts October 19th, Stephanie Chang will keynote the “Maker Ed” strand, while Alan Levine will keynote “Stories of Connection.” During week 2, starting October 26th, Scott McLeod will keynote “Overcoming Obstacles” while Karen Bosch will keynote “Beyond the Core: Art and More.” 2015 Conference Theme: “Virtual Unstoppable" Strands for 2015 are: Week of Oct 19 – 23: Maker Ed and Stories of Connection Week of Oct 26 – 30: Overcoming Obstacles and Beyond the Core: Art and More Schedule: http://k12onlineconference.org/2015-schedule/

"Connected Learning TV" (http://connectedlearning.tv) is a weekly webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. In this Mar. 11, 2014 episode, we chat with Jim Groom, Alan Levine, and Howard Rheingold about "Digital Storytelling 106" (DS106) - a computer science course that evolved into a massive, open course on digital storytelling. You can catch a full video recording & other related resources at http://bit.ly/1gm1b1N

Lois and Jenny pull themselves out of holiday mode to bring you episode #66 of RUConnected. Jenny has attended Mobile2013 in Tucson- Location.... The Westin la Paloma Tucson Arizona Keynotes- Dean Shareski back to the basics - What really matters. Peggy Sheahy games based learning. 3d gamelab http://3dgamelab.com - game up your classroom People to follow on twitter that Jenny met- @iapplelearner ...Katherine Burdick @techyturner .... Rodney Turner and @tonyvincent ...Tony Vincent Jenny's Travel buddy - @missb ...Bec Spink Ignite sessions -20 slides each for 15sec Pechaflickr Thanks to Alan Levine. @cogdog ...20pics each for 20secs, add a topic and random pics are shown.  You have to improvise, no planning possible. Great for vocab work with students, icebreaker for staff meetings, conference warm ups etc LOIS attended the ABC Splash FREE pd at the State Library Victoria Summary of the ABC Digital Ideas Conference Film and Audio Tutorials Report on film festival - blurred lines between film and digital stories 60secondscience vids are due 3 part vids - context, science exp, model, Evaluation (peer and self) Plans for term 4 Lois- Radio shows at lunchtime, E-smart committee, Google sites, Scratch Jenny- Programming from Bee Bots to Probots, Cargo Bot, Scratch, Hopscotch (Scratch Jr coming out) Wedo and Makey Makey - getting some basics with staff as well eg loops, procedures, sub procedures etc . Kids designing tracks setting up challenges. UPCOMING PD SLIDE TO LEARN Sydney July 1-2 2014 Some keynotes Jonathan Nalder, Graham Brown Martin Teachmeets Gippsland Hosted by Louise Van Kuyk Education Co-ordinator, Gippsland Art Gallery Sale Thursday 17 October, 4:30 to 6:30pm at Gippsland Art Gallery (68 – 70 Foster St, Sale). Teachmeet @ Sovereign Hill Ballarat http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/education/ Saturday October 26th 2pm to 4pm hosted by Peter Beckwith @GoldfieldsEd Teachmeet Sydney English teachers Nov 1st TM wharf Sydney http://www.teachmeet.net/teachmeet-at-the-wharf/ 4:00-6:00pm

The Tiger mom used shame and punishment as strategies to motivate her kids. Is there an alternative? Richard & Jane along with their guest Dr. Alan Levine, mathematician and tutor, discuss alternative strategies to raise high achieving kids without raising stress levels that can be destructive for the child and the parents. The post Growing Great Families – Motivating Your Child to Achieve appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Der jährliche Horizon Report, der vom New Media Consortium in Kooperation mit dem Verband Educause durchgeführt wird, zielt darauf ab, technische Trends für den Bildungsbereich zu identifizieren. Stefanie Panke sprach in Austin / Texas mit Rachel Smith und Alan Levine vom New Media Consortium und Sachverständigen Rat des Horizon Reports über deren Arbeit, die Vorgehensweise und die Geschichte des Horizon Reports.

Welche Trends sind für die Organisatoren selbst am interessantesten? Alan Levine und Rahel Smith stellen im Interview dar, welche Technologien sie selbst und Ihre Arbeit am meisten beeinflussen. Der jährliche Horizon Report, der vom New Media Consortium in Kooperation mit dem Verband Educause durchgeführt wird, zielt darauf ab, technische Trends für den Bildungsbereich zu identifizieren. Stefanie Panke sprach in Austin / Texas mit Rachel Smith und Alan Levine vom New Media Consortium und Sachverständigen Rat des Horizon Reports über deren Arbeit, die Vorgehensweise und die Geschichte des Horizon Reports.

Wie sieht es hinter den Kulissen des Horizon Reports aus? Wie wird zum Beispiel entschieden, wer in das Beratungsgremium aufgenommen wird? Der jährliche Horizon Report, der vom New Media Consortium in Kooperation mit dem Verband Educause durchgeführt wird, zielt darauf ab, technische Trends für den Bildungsbereich zu identifizieren. Stefanie Panke sprach in Austin / Texas mit Rachel Smith und Alan Levine vom New Media Consortium und Sachverständigen Rat des Horizon Reports über deren Arbeit, die Vorgehensweise und die Geschichte des Horizon Reports.

Über das Horizon Wiki und die Bedeutung von Tagging für die Entstehung des Horizon Report. Der jährliche Horizon Report, der vom New Media Consortium in Kooperation mit dem Verband Educause durchgeführt wird, zielt darauf ab, technische Trends für den Bildungsbereich zu identifizieren. Stefanie Panke sprach in Austin / Texas mit Rachel Smith und Alan Levine vom New Media Consortium und Sachverständigen Rat des Horizon Reports über deren Arbeit, die Vorgehensweise und die Geschichte des Horizon Reports.

Der Horizon Report erzeugt viel Aufmersamkeit. Wie nimmt das Team die Reaktionen auf den Report und die darin angekündigten Trends wahr? Haben sie aus den letzten Jahren etwas gelernt? Der jährliche Horizon Report, der vom New Media Consortium in Kooperation mit dem Verband Educause durchgeführt wird, zielt darauf ab, technische Trends für den Bildungsbereich zu identifizieren. Stefanie Panke sprach in Austin / Texas mit Rachel Smith und Alan Levine vom New Media Consortium und Sachverständigen Rat des Horizon Reports über deren Arbeit, die Vorgehensweise und die Geschichte des Horizon Reports.

Drew Buddie recommends the work of Alan Levine and his 50 ways to tell a story project

Virtual Worlds: Promise and Perils presentation by Alan Levine for the WA Elearning Showcase (Oct, 2007). Refer to his wiki for his slides and great his links on virtual worlds from this presentation.

There is no shortage of "Cool New Web Tools" out there and all three of us are guilty as charged for presenting them to teachers via the firehose effect. In our session, we will begin with a nostalgic nod to our presentation past where just 3 years ago we were talking up "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" - blogs, wikis, and a little RSS. Now there is so much more, almost too much. So we may talk about some cool tools, but more at a level of looking at the affordances which make them compelling, and why these and future breeds of tools and platforms matter to K12 teachers.

There is no shortage of "Cool New Web Tools" out there and all three of us are guilty as charged for presenting them to teachers via the firehose effect. In our session, we will begin with a nostalgic nod to our presentation past where just 3 years ago we were talking up "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" - blogs, wikis, and a little RSS. Now there is so much more, almost too much. So we may talk about some cool tools, but more at a level of looking at the affordances which make them compelling, and why these and future breeds of tools and platforms matter to K12 teachers.

A conversation with Alan Levine on the role of New Media Consortium (NMC), the Horizon report, how technology is changing and advice for people on using new technology. We also talk about his upcoming speaking tour of Australia.