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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded its latest Term. And over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has continued to duke it out with its adversaries in the federal courts.To tackle these topics, as well as their intersection—in terms of how well the courts, including but not limited to the Supreme Court, are handling Trump-related cases—I interviewed Professor Pamela Karlan, a longtime faculty member at Stanford Law School. She's perfectly situated to address these subjects, for at least three reasons.First, Professor Karlan is a leading scholar of constitutional law. Second, she's a former SCOTUS clerk and seasoned advocate at One First Street, with ten arguments to her name. Third, she has high-level experience at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), having served (twice) as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.I've had some wonderful guests to discuss the role of the courts today, including Judges Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.) and Ana Reyes (D.D.C.)—but as sitting judges, they couldn't discuss certain subjects, and they had to be somewhat circumspect. Professor Karlan, in contrast, isn't afraid to “go there”—and whether or not you agree with her opinions, I think you'll share my appreciation for her insight and candor.Show Notes:* Pamela S. Karlan bio, Stanford Law School* Pamela S. Karlan bio, Wikipedia* The McCorkle Lecture (Professor Pamela Karlan), UVA Law SchoolPrefer reading to listening? For paid subscribers, a transcript of the entire episode appears below.Sponsored by:NexFirm helps Biglaw attorneys become founding partners. To learn more about how NexFirm can help you launch your firm, call 212-292-1000 or email careerdevelopment at nexfirm dot com.Three quick notes about this transcript. First, it has been cleaned up from the audio in ways that don't alter substance—e.g., by deleting verbal filler or adding a word here or there to clarify meaning. Second, my interviewee has not reviewed this transcript, and any transcription errors are mine. Third, 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: 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 at davidlat dot Substack dot com. You're listening to the seventy-seventh episode of this podcast, recorded on Friday, June 27.Thanks to this podcast's sponsor, NexFirm. NexFirm helps Biglaw attorneys become founding partners. To learn more about how NexFirm can help you launch your firm, call 212-292-1000 or email careerdevelopment at nexfirm dot com. Want to know who the guest will be for the next Original Jurisdiction podcast? Follow NexFirm on LinkedIn for a preview.With the 2024-2025 Supreme Court Term behind us, now is a good time to talk about both constitutional law and the proper role of the judiciary in American society. I expect they will remain significant as subjects because the tug of war between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary continues—and shows no signs of abating.To tackle these topics, I welcomed to the podcast Professor Pamela Karlan, the Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School. Pam is not only a leading legal scholar, but she also has significant experience in practice. She's argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court, which puts her in a very small club, and she has worked in government at high levels, serving as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Obama administration. Without further ado, here's my conversation with Professor Pam Karlan.Professor Karlan, thank you so much for joining me.Pamela Karlan: Thanks for having me.DL: So let's start at the beginning. Tell us about your background and upbringing. I believe we share something in common—you were born in New York City?PK: I was born in New York City. My family had lived in New York since they arrived in the country about a century before.DL: What borough?PK: Originally Manhattan, then Brooklyn, then back to Manhattan. As my mother said, when I moved to Brooklyn when I was clerking, “Brooklyn to Brooklyn, in three generations.”DL: Brooklyn is very, very hip right now.PK: It wasn't hip when we got there.DL: And did you grow up in Manhattan or Brooklyn?PK: When I was little, we lived in Manhattan. Then right before I started elementary school, right after my brother was born, our apartment wasn't big enough anymore. So we moved to Stamford, Connecticut, and I grew up in Connecticut.DL: What led you to go to law school? I see you stayed in the state; you went to Yale. What did you have in mind for your post-law-school career?PK: I went to law school because during the summer between 10th and 11th grade, I read Richard Kluger's book, Simple Justice, which is the story of the litigation that leads up to Brown v. Board of Education. And I decided I wanted to go to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and be a school desegregation lawyer, and that's what led me to go to law school.DL: You obtained a master's degree in history as well as a law degree. Did you also have teaching in mind as well?PK: No, I thought getting the master's degree was my last chance to do something I had loved doing as an undergrad. It didn't occur to me until I was late in my law-school days that I might at some point want to be a law professor. That's different than a lot of folks who go to law school now; they go to law school wanting to be law professors.During Admitted Students' Weekend, some students say to me, “I want to be a law professor—should I come here to law school?” I feel like saying to them, “You haven't done a day of law school yet. You have no idea whether you're good at law. You have no idea whether you'd enjoy doing legal teaching.”It just amazes me that people come to law school now planning to be a law professor, in a way that I don't think very many people did when I was going to law school. In my day, people discovered when they were in law school that they loved it, and they wanted to do more of what they loved doing; I don't think people came to law school for the most part planning to be law professors.DL: The track is so different now—and that's a whole other conversation—but people are getting master's and Ph.D. degrees, and people are doing fellowship after fellowship. It's not like, oh, you practice for three, five, or seven years, and then you become a professor. It seems to be almost like this other track nowadays.PK: When I went on the teaching market, I was distinctive in that I had not only my student law-journal note, but I actually had an article that Ricky Revesz and I had worked on that was coming out. And it was not normal for people to have that back then. Now people go onto the teaching market with six or seven publications—and no practice experience really to speak of, for a lot of them.DL: You mentioned talking to admitted students. You went to YLS, but you've now been teaching for a long time at Stanford Law School. They're very similar in a lot of ways. They're intellectual. They're intimate, especially compared to some of the other top law schools. What would you say if I'm an admitted student choosing between those two institutions? What would cause me to pick one versus the other—besides the superior weather of Palo Alto?PK: Well, some of it is geography; it's not just the weather. Some folks are very East-Coast-centered, and other folks are very West-Coast-centered. That makes a difference.It's a little hard to say what the differences are, because the last time I spent a long time at Yale Law School was in 2012 (I visited there a bunch of times over the years), but I think the faculty here at Stanford is less focused and concentrated on the students who want to be law professors than is the case at Yale. When I was at Yale, the idea was if you were smart, you went and became a law professor. It was almost like a kind of external manifestation of an inner state of grace; it was a sign that you were a smart person, if you wanted to be a law professor. And if you didn't, well, you could be a donor later on. Here at Stanford, the faculty as a whole is less concentrated on producing law professors. We produce a fair number of them, but it's not the be-all and end-all of the law school in some ways. Heather Gerken, who's the dean at Yale, has changed that somewhat, but not entirely. So that's one big difference.One of the most distinctive things about Stanford, because we're on the quarter system, is that our clinics are full-time clinics, taught by full-time faculty members at the law school. And that's distinctive. I think Yale calls more things clinics than we do, and a lot of them are part-time or taught by folks who aren't in the building all the time. So that's a big difference between the schools.They just have very different feels. I would encourage any student who gets into both of them to go and visit both of them, talk to the students, and see where you think you're going to be most comfortably stretched. Either school could be the right school for somebody.DL: I totally agree with you. Sometimes people think there's some kind of platonic answer to, “Where should I go to law school?” And it depends on so many individual circumstances.PK: There really isn't one answer. I think when I was deciding between law schools as a student, I got waitlisted at Stanford and I got into Yale. I had gone to Yale as an undergrad, so I wasn't going to go anywhere else if I got in there. I was from Connecticut and loved living in Connecticut, so that was an easy choice for me. But it's a hard choice for a lot of folks.And I do think that one of the worst things in the world is U.S. News and World Report, even though we're generally a beneficiary of it. It used to be that the R-squared between where somebody went to law school and what a ranking was was minimal. I knew lots of people who decided, in the old days, that they were going to go to Columbia rather than Yale or Harvard, rather than Stanford or Penn, rather than Chicago, because they liked the city better or there was somebody who did something they really wanted to do there.And then the R-squared, once U.S. News came out, of where people went and what the rankings were, became huge. And as you probably know, there were some scandals with law schools that would just waitlist people rather than admit them, to keep their yield up, because they thought the person would go to a higher-ranked law school. There were years and years where a huge part of the Stanford entering class had been waitlisted at Penn. And that's bad for people, because there are people who should go to Penn rather than come here. There are people who should go to NYU rather than going to Harvard. And a lot of those people don't do it because they're so fixated on U.S. News rankings.DL: I totally agree with you. But I suspect that a lot of people think that there are certain opportunities that are going to be open to them only if they go here or only if they go there.Speaking of which, after graduating from YLS, you clerked for Justice Blackmun on the Supreme Court, and statistically it's certainly true that certain schools seem to improve your odds of clerking for the Court. What was that experience like overall? People often describe it as a dream job. We're recording this on the last day of the Supreme Court Term; some hugely consequential historic cases are coming down. As a law clerk, you get a front row seat to all of that, to all of that history being made. Did you love that experience?PK: I loved the experience. I loved it in part because I worked for a wonderful justice who was just a lovely man, a real mensch. I had three great co-clerks. It was the first time, actually, that any justice had ever hired three women—and so that was distinctive for me, because I had been in classes in law school where there were fewer than three women. I was in one class in law school where I was the only woman. So that was neat.It was a great Term. It was the last year of the Burger Court, and we had just a heap of incredibly interesting cases. It's amazing how many cases I teach in law school that were decided that year—the summary-judgment trilogy, Thornburg v. Gingles, Bowers v. Hardwick. It was just a really great time to be there. And as a liberal, we won a lot of the cases. We didn't win them all, but we won a lot of them.It was incredibly intense. At that point, the Supreme Court still had this odd IT system that required eight hours of diagnostics every night. So the system was up from 8 a.m. to midnight—it stayed online longer if there was a death case—but otherwise it went down at midnight. In the Blackmun chambers, we showed up at 8 a.m. for breakfast with the Justice, and we left at midnight, five days a week. Then on the weekends, we were there from 9 to 9. And they were deciding 150 cases, not 60 cases, a year. So there was a lot more work to do, in that sense. But it was a great year. I've remained friends with my co-clerks, and I've remained friends with clerks from other chambers. It was a wonderful experience.DL: And you've actually written about it. I would refer people to some of the articles that they can look up, on your CV and elsewhere, where you've talked about, say, having breakfast with the Justice.PK: And we had a Passover Seder with the Justice as well, which was a lot of fun.DL: Oh wow, who hosted that? Did he?PK: Actually, the clerks hosted it. Originally he had said, “Oh, why don't we have it at the Court?” But then he came back to us and said, “Well, I think the Chief Justice”—Chief Justice Burger—“might not like that.” But he lent us tables and chairs, which were dropped off at one of the clerk's houses. And it was actually the day of the Gramm-Rudman argument, which was an argument about the budget. So we had to keep running back and forth from the Court to the house of Danny Richman, the clerk who hosted it, who was a Thurgood Marshall clerk. We had to keep running back and forth from the Court to Danny Richman's house, to baste the turkey and make stuff, back and forth. And then we had a real full Seder, and we invited all of the Jewish clerks at the Court and the Justice's messenger, who was Jewish, and the Justice and Mrs. Blackmun, and it was a lot of fun.DL: Wow, that's wonderful. So where did you go after your clerkship?PK: I went to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where I was an assistant counsel, and I worked on voting-rights and employment-discrimination cases.DL: And that was something that you had thought about for a long time—you mentioned you had read about its work in high school.PK: Yes, and it was a great place to work. We were working on great cases, and at that point we were really pushing the envelope on some of the stuff that we were doing—which was great and inspiring, and my colleagues were wonderful.And unlike a lot of Supreme Court practices now, where there's a kind of “King Bee” usually, and that person gets to argue everything, the Legal Defense Fund was very different. The first argument I did at the Court was in a case that I had worked on the amended complaint for, while at the Legal Defense Fund—and they let me essentially keep working on the case and argue it at the Supreme Court, even though by the time the case got to the Supreme Court, I was teaching at UVA. So they didn't have this policy of stripping away from younger lawyers the ability to argue their cases the whole way through the system.DL: So how many years out from law school were you by the time you had your first argument before the Court? I know that, today at least, there's this two-year bar on arguing before the Court after having clerked there.PK: Six or seven years out—because I think I argued in ‘91.DL: Now, you mentioned that by then you were teaching at UVA. You had a dream job working at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. What led you to go to UVA?PK: There were two things, really, that did it. One was I had also discovered when I was in law school that I loved law school, and I was better at law school than I had been at anything I had done before law school. And the second was I really hated dealing with opposing counsel. I tell my students now, “You should take negotiation. If there's only one class you could take in law school, take negotiation.” Because it's a skill; it's not a habit of mind, but I felt like it was a habit of mind. And I found the discovery process and filing motions to compel and dealing with the other side's intransigence just really unpleasant.What I really loved was writing briefs. I loved writing briefs, and I could keep doing that for the Legal Defense Fund while at UVA, and I've done a bunch of that over the years for LDF and for other organizations. I could keep doing that and I could live in a small town, which I really wanted to do. I love New York, and now I could live in a city—I've spent a couple of years, off and on, living in cities since then, and I like it—but I didn't like it at that point. I really wanted to be out in the country somewhere. And so UVA was the perfect mix. I kept working on cases, writing amicus briefs for LDF and for other organizations. I could teach, which I loved. I could live in a college town, which I really enjoyed. So it was the best blend of things.DL: And I know, from your having actually delivered a lecture at UVA, that it really did seem to have a special place in your heart. UVA Law School—they really do have a wonderful environment there (as does Stanford), and Charlottesville is a very charming place.PK: Yes, especially when I was there. UVA has a real gift for developing its junior faculty. It was a place where the senior faculty were constantly reading our work, constantly talking to us. Everyone was in the building, which makes a huge difference.The second case I had go to the Supreme Court actually came out of a class where a student asked a question, and I ended up representing the student, and we took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. But I wasn't admitted in the Western District of Virginia, and that's where we had to file a case. And so I turned to my next-door neighbor, George Rutherglen, and said to George, “Would you be the lead counsel in this?” And he said, “Sure.” And we ended up representing a bunch of UVA students, challenging the way the Republican Party did its nomination process. And we ended up, by the student's third year in law school, at the Supreme Court.So UVA was a great place. I had amazing colleagues. The legendary Bill Stuntz was then there; Mike Klarman was there. Dan Ortiz, who's still there, was there. So was John Harrison. It was a fantastic group of people to have as your colleagues.DL: Was it difficult for you, then, to leave UVA and move to Stanford?PK: Oh yes. When I went in to tell Bob Scott, who was then the dean, that I was leaving, I just burst into tears. I think the reason I left UVA was I was at a point in my career where I'd done a bunch of visits at other schools, and I thought that I could either leave then or I would be making a decision to stay there for the rest of my career. And I just felt like I wanted to make a change. And in retrospect, I would've been just as happy if I'd stayed at UVA. In my professional life, I would've been just as happy. I don't know in my personal life, because I wouldn't have met my partner, I don't think, if I'd been at UVA. But it's a marvelous place; everything about it is just absolutely superb.DL: Are you the managing partner of a boutique or midsize firm? If so, you know that your most important job is attracting and retaining top talent. It's not easy, especially if your benefits don't match up well with those of Biglaw firms or if your HR process feels “small time.” NexFirm has created an onboarding and benefits experience that rivals an Am Law 100 firm, so you can compete for the best talent at a price your firm can afford. Want to learn more? Contact NexFirm at 212-292-1002 or email betterbenefits at nexfirm dot com.So I do want to give you a chance to say nice things about your current place. I assume you have no regrets about moving to Stanford Law, even if you would've been just as happy at UVA?PK: I'm incredibly happy here. I've got great colleagues. I've got great students. The ability to do the clinic the way we do it, which is as a full-time clinic, wouldn't be true anywhere else in the country, and that makes a huge difference to that part of my work. I've gotten to teach around the curriculum. I've taught four of the six first-year courses, which is a great opportunityAnd as you said earlier, the weather is unbelievable. People downplay that, because especially for people who are Northeastern Ivy League types, there's a certain Calvinism about that, which is that you have to suffer in order to be truly working hard. People out here sometimes think we don't work hard because we are not visibly suffering. But it's actually the opposite, in a way. I'm looking out my window right now, and it's a gorgeous day. And if I were in the east and it were 75 degrees and sunny, I would find it hard to work because I'd think it's usually going to be hot and humid, or if it's in the winter, it's going to be cold and rainy. I love Yale, but the eight years I spent there, my nose ran the entire time I was there. And here I look out and I think, “It's beautiful, but you know what? It's going to be beautiful tomorrow. So I should sit here and finish grading my exams, or I should sit here and edit this article, or I should sit here and work on the Restatement—because it's going to be just as beautiful tomorrow.” And the ability to walk outside, to clear your head, makes a huge difference. People don't understand just how huge a difference that is, but it's huge.DL: That's so true. If you had me pick a color to associate with my time at YLS, I would say gray. It just felt like everything was always gray, the sky was always gray—not blue or sunny or what have you.But I know you've spent some time outside of Northern California, because you have done some stints at the Justice Department. Tell us about that, the times you went there—why did you go there? What type of work were you doing? And how did it relate to or complement your scholarly work?PK: At the beginning of the Obama administration, I had applied for a job in the Civil Rights Division as a deputy assistant attorney general (DAAG), and I didn't get it. And I thought, “Well, that's passed me by.” And a couple of years later, when they were looking for a new principal deputy solicitor general, in the summer of 2013, the civil-rights groups pushed me for that job. I got an interview with Eric Holder, and it was on June 11th, 2013, which just fortuitously happens to be the 50th anniversary of the day that Vivian Malone desegregated the University of Alabama—and Vivian Malone is the older sister of Sharon Malone, who is married to Eric Holder.So I went in for the interview and I said, “This must be an especially special day for you because of the 50th anniversary.” And we talked about that a little bit, and then we talked about other things. And I came out of the interview, and a couple of weeks later, Don Verrilli, who was the solicitor general, called me up and said, “Look, you're not going to get a job as the principal deputy”—which ultimately went to Ian Gershengorn, a phenomenal lawyer—“but Eric Holder really enjoyed talking to you, so we're going to look for something else for you to do here at the Department of Justice.”And a couple of weeks after that, Eric Holder called me and offered me the DAAG position in the Civil Rights Division and said, “We'd really like you to especially concentrate on our voting-rights litigation.” It was very important litigation, in part because the Supreme Court had recently struck down the pre-clearance regime under Section 5 [of the Voting Rights Act]. So the Justice Department was now bringing a bunch of lawsuits against things they could have blocked if Section 5 had been in effect, most notably the Texas voter ID law, which was a quite draconian voter ID law, and this omnibus bill in North Carolina that involved all sorts of cutbacks to opportunities to vote: a cutback on early voting, a cutback on same-day registration, a cutback on 16- and 17-year-olds pre-registering, and the like.So I went to the Department of Justice and worked with the Voting Section on those cases, but I also ended up working on things like getting the Justice Department to change its position on whether Title VII covered transgender individuals. And then I also got to work on the implementation of [United States v.] Windsor—which I had worked on, representing Edie Windsor, before I went to DOJ, because the Court had just decided Windsor [which held Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional]. So I had an opportunity to work on how to implement Windsor across the federal government. So that was the stuff I got to work on the first time I was at DOJ, and I also obviously worked on tons of other stuff, and it was phenomenal. I loved doing it.I did it for about 20 months, and then I came back to Stanford. It affected my teaching; I understood a lot of stuff quite differently having worked on it. It gave me some ideas on things I wanted to write about. And it just refreshed me in some ways. It's different than working in the clinic. I love working in the clinic, but you're working with students. You're working only with very, very junior lawyers. I sometimes think of the clinic as being a sort of Groundhog Day of first-year associates, and so I'm sort of senior partner and paralegal at a large law firm. At DOJ, you're working with subject-matter experts. The people in the Voting Section, collectively, had hundreds of years of experience with voting. The people in the Appellate Section had hundreds of years of experience with appellate litigation. And so it's just a very different feel.So I did that, and then I came back to Stanford. I was here, and in the fall of 2020, I was asked if I wanted to be one of the people on the Justice Department review team if Joe Biden won the election. These are sometimes referred to as the transition teams or the landing teams or the like. And I said, “I'd be delighted to do that.” They had me as one of the point people reviewing the Civil Rights Division. And I think it might've even been the Wednesday or Thursday before Inauguration Day 2021, I got a call from the liaison person on the transition team saying, “How would you like to go back to DOJ and be the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division?” That would mean essentially running the Division until we got a confirmed head, which took about five months. And I thought that this would be an amazing opportunity to go back to the DOJ and work with people I love, right at the beginning of an administration.And the beginning of an administration is really different than coming in midway through the second term of an administration. You're trying to come up with priorities, and I viewed my job really as helping the career people to do their best work. There were a huge number of career people who had gone through the first Trump administration, and they were raring to go. They had all sorts of ideas on stuff they wanted to do, and it was my job to facilitate that and make that possible for them. And that's why it's so tragic this time around that almost all of those people have left. The current administration first tried to transfer them all into Sanctuary Cities [the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group] or ask them to do things that they couldn't in good conscience do, and so they've retired or taken buyouts or just left.DL: It's remarkable, just the loss of expertise and experience at the Justice Department over these past few months.PK: Thousands of years of experience gone. And these are people, you've got to realize, who had been through the Nixon administration, the Reagan administration, both Bush administrations, and the first Trump administration, and they hadn't had any problem. That's what's so stunning: this is not just the normal shift in priorities, and they have gone out of their way to make it so hellacious for people that they will leave. And that's not something that either Democratic or Republican administrations have ever done before this.DL: And we will get to a lot of, shall we say, current events. Finishing up on just the discussion of your career, you had the opportunity to work in the executive branch—what about judicial service? You've been floated over the years as a possible Supreme Court nominee. I don't know if you ever looked into serving on the Ninth Circuit or were considered for that. What about judicial service?PK: So I've never been in a position, and part of this was a lesson I learned right at the beginning of my LDF career, when Lani Guinier, who was my boss at LDF, was nominated for the position of AAG [assistant attorney general] in the Civil Rights Division and got shot down. I knew from that time forward that if I did the things I really wanted to do, my chances of confirmation were not going to be very high. People at LDF used to joke that they would get me nominated so that I would take all the bullets, and then they'd sneak everybody else through. So I never really thought that I would have a shot at a judicial position, and that didn't bother me particularly. As you know, I gave the commencement speech many years ago at Stanford, and I said, “Would I want to be on the Supreme Court? You bet—but not enough to have trimmed my sails for an entire lifetime.”And I think that's right. Peter Baker did this story in The New York Times called something like, “Favorites of Left Don't Make Obama's Court List.” And in the story, Tommy Goldstein, who's a dear friend of mine, said, “If they wanted to talk about somebody who was a flaming liberal, they'd be talking about Pam Karlan, but nobody's talking about Pam Karlan.” And then I got this call from a friend of mine who said, “Yeah, but at least people are talking about how nobody's talking about you. Nobody's even talking about how nobody's talking about me.” And I was flattered, but not fooled.DL: That's funny; I read that piece in preparing for this interview. So let's say someone were to ask you, someone mid-career, “Hey, I've been pretty safe in the early years of my career, but now I'm at this juncture where I could do things that will possibly foreclose my judicial ambitions—should I just try to keep a lid on it, in the hope of making it?” It sounds like you would tell them to let their flag fly.PK: Here's the thing: your chances of getting to be on the Supreme Court, if that's what you're talking about, your chances are so low that the question is how much do you want to give up to go from a 0.001% chance to a 0.002% chance? Yes, you are doubling your chances, but your chances are not good. And there are some people who I think are capable of doing that, perhaps because they fit the zeitgeist enough that it's not a huge sacrifice for them. So it's not that I despise everybody who goes to the Supreme Court because they must obviously have all been super-careerists; I think lots of them weren't super-careerists in that way.Although it does worry me that six members of the Court now clerked at the Supreme Court—because when you are a law clerk, it gives you this feeling about the Court that maybe you don't want everybody who's on the Court to have, a feeling that this is the be-all and end-all of life and that getting a clerkship is a manifestation of an inner state of grace, so becoming a justice is equally a manifestation of an inner state of grace in which you are smarter than everybody else, wiser than everybody else, and everybody should kowtow to you in all sorts of ways. And I worry that people who are imprinted like ducklings on the Supreme Court when they're 25 or 26 or 27 might not be the best kind of portfolio of justices at the back end. The Court that decided Brown v. Board of Education—none of them, I think, had clerked at the Supreme Court, or maybe one of them had. They'd all done things with their lives other than try to get back to the Supreme Court. So I worry about that a little bit.DL: Speaking of the Court, let's turn to the Court, because it just finished its Term as we are recording this. As we started recording, they were still handing down the final decisions of the day.PK: Yes, the “R” numbers hadn't come up on the Supreme Court website when I signed off to come talk to you.DL: Exactly. So earlier this month, not today, but earlier this month, the Court handed down its decision in United States v. Skrmetti, reviewing Tennessee's ban on the use of hormones and puberty blockers for transgender youth. Were you surprised by the Court's ruling in Skrmetti?PK: No. I was not surprised.DL: So one of your most famous cases, which you litigated successfully five years ago or so, was Bostock v. Clayton County, in which the Court held that Title VII does apply to protect transgender individuals—and Bostock figures significantly in the Skrmetti opinions. Why were you surprised by Skrmetti given that you had won this victory in Bostock, which you could argue, in terms of just the logic of it, does carry over somewhat?PK: Well, I want to be very precise: I didn't actually litigate Bostock. There were three cases that were put together….DL: Oh yes—you handled Zarda.PK: I represented Don Zarda, who was a gay man, so I did not argue the transgender part of the case at all. Fortuitously enough, David Cole argued that part of the case, and David Cole was actually the first person I had dinner with as a freshman at Yale College, when I started college, because he was the roommate of somebody I debated against in high school. So David and I went to law school together, went to college together, and had classes together. We've been friends now for almost 50 years, which is scary—I think for 48 years we've been friends—and he argued that part of the case.So here's what surprised me about what the Supreme Court did in Skrmetti. Given where the Court wanted to come out, the more intellectually honest way to get there would've been to say, “Yes, of course this is because of sex; there is sex discrimination going on here. But even applying intermediate scrutiny, we think that Tennessee's law should survive intermediate scrutiny.” That would've been an intellectually honest way to get to where the Court got.Instead, they did this weird sort of, “Well, the word ‘sex' isn't in the Fourteenth Amendment, but it's in Title VII.” But that makes no sense at all, because for none of the sex-discrimination cases that the Court has decided under the Fourteenth Amendment did the word “sex” appear in the Fourteenth Amendment. It's not like the word “sex” was in there and then all of a sudden it took a powder and left. So I thought that was a really disingenuous way of getting to where the Court wanted to go. But I was not surprised after the oral argument that the Court was going to get to where it got on the bottom line.DL: I'm curious, though, rewinding to Bostock and Zarda, were you surprised by how the Court came out in those cases? Because it was still a deeply conservative Court back then.PK: No, I was not surprised. I was not surprised, both because I thought we had so much the better of the argument and because at the oral argument, it seemed pretty clear that we had at least six justices, and those were the six justices we had at the end of the day. The thing that was interesting to me about Bostock was I thought also that we were likely to win for the following weird legal-realist reason, which is that this was a case that would allow the justices who claimed to be textualists to show that they were principled textualists, by doing something that they might not have voted for if they were in Congress or the like.And also, while the impact was really large in one sense, the impact was not really large in another sense: most American workers are protected by Title VII, but most American employers do not discriminate, and didn't discriminate even before this, on the basis of sexual orientation or on the basis of gender identity. For example, in Zarda's case, the employer denied that they had fired Mr. Zarda because he was gay; they said, “We fired him for other reasons.”Very few employers had a formal policy that said, “We discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.” And although most American workers are protected by Title VII, most American employers are not covered by Title VII—and that's because small employers, employers with fewer than 15 full-time employees, are not covered at all. And religious employers have all sorts of exemptions and the like, so for the people who had the biggest objection to hiring or promoting or retaining gay or transgender employees, this case wasn't going to change what happened to them at all. So the impact was really important for workers, but not deeply intrusive on employers generally. So I thought those two things, taken together, meant that we had a pretty good argument.I actually thought our textual argument was not our best argument, but it was the one that they were most likely to buy. So it was really interesting: we made a bunch of different arguments in the brief, and then as soon as I got up to argue, the first question out of the box was Justice Ginsburg saying, “Well, in 1964, homosexuality was illegal in most of the country—how could this be?” And that's when I realized, “Okay, she's just telling me to talk about the text, don't talk about anything else.”So I just talked about the text the whole time. But as you may remember from the argument, there was this weird moment, which came after I answered her question and one other one, there was this kind of silence from the justices. And I just said, “Well, if you don't have any more questions, I'll reserve the remainder of my time.” And it went well; it went well as an argument.DL: On the flip side, speaking of things that are not going so well, let's turn to current events. Zooming up to a higher level of generality than Skrmetti, you are a leading scholar of constitutional law, so here's the question. I know you've already been interviewed about it by media outlets, but let me ask you again, in light of just the latest, latest, latest news: are we in a constitutional crisis in the United States?PK: I think we're in a period of great constitutional danger. I don't know what a “constitutional crisis” is. Some people think the constitutional crisis is that we have an executive branch that doesn't believe in the Constitution, right? So you have Donald Trump asked, in an interview, “Do you have to comply with the Constitution?” He says, “I don't know.” Or he says, “I have an Article II that gives me the power to do whatever I want”—which is not what Article II says. If you want to be a textualist, it does not say the president can do whatever he wants. So you have an executive branch that really does not have a commitment to the Constitution as it has been understood up until now—that is, limited government, separation of powers, respect for individual rights. With this administration, none of that's there. And I don't know whether Emil Bove did say, “F**k the courts,” or not, but they're certainly acting as if that's their attitude.So yes, in that sense, we're in a period of constitutional danger. And then on top of that, I think we have a Supreme Court that is acting almost as if this is a normal administration with normal stuff, a Court that doesn't seem to recognize what district judges appointed by every president since George H.W. Bush or maybe even Reagan have recognized, which is, “This is not normal.” What the administration is trying to do is not normal, and it has to be stopped. So that worries me, that the Supreme Court is acting as if it needs to keep its powder dry—and for what, I'm not clear.If they think that by giving in and giving in, and prevaricating and putting things off... today, I thought the example of this was in the birthright citizenship/universal injunction case. One of the groups of plaintiffs that's up there is a bunch of states, around 23 states, and the Supreme Court in Justice Barrett's opinion says, “Well, maybe the states have standing, maybe they don't. And maybe if they have standing, you can enjoin this all in those states. We leave this all for remind.”They've sat on this for months. It's ridiculous that the Supreme Court doesn't “man up,” essentially, and decide these things. It really worries me quite a bit that the Supreme Court just seems completely blind to the fact that in 2024, they gave Donald Trump complete criminal immunity from any prosecution, so who's going to hold him accountable? Not criminally accountable, not accountable in damages—and now the Supreme Court seems not particularly interested in holding him accountable either.DL: Let me play devil's advocate. Here's my theory on why the Court does seem to be holding its fire: they're afraid of a worse outcome, which is, essentially, “The emperor has no clothes.”Say they draw this line in the sand for Trump, and then Trump just crosses it. And as we all know from that famous quote from The Federalist Papers, the Court has neither force nor will, but only judgment. That's worse, isn't it? If suddenly it's exposed that the Court doesn't have any army, any way to stop Trump? And then the courts have no power.PK: I actually think it's the opposite, which is, I think if the Court said to Donald Trump, “You must do X,” and then he defies it, you would have people in the streets. You would have real deep resistance—not just the “No Kings,” one-day march, but deep resistance. And there are scholars who've done comparative law who say, “When 3 percent of the people in a country go to the streets, you get real change.” And I think the Supreme Court is mistaking that.I taught a reading group for our first-years here. We have reading groups where you meet four times during the fall for dinner, and you read stuff that makes you think. And my reading group was called “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty,” and it started with the Albert Hirschman book with that title.DL: Great book.PK: It's a great book. And I gave them some excerpt from that, and I gave them an essay by Hannah Arendt called “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” which she wrote in 1964. And one of the things she says there is she talks about people who stayed in the German regime, on the theory that they would prevent at least worse things from happening. And I'm going to paraphrase slightly, but what she says is, “People who think that what they're doing is getting the lesser evil quickly forget that what they're choosing is evil.” And if the Supreme Court decides, “We're not going to tell Donald Trump ‘no,' because if we tell him no and he goes ahead, we will be exposed,” what they have basically done is said to Donald Trump, “Do whatever you want; we're not going to stop you.” And that will lose the Supreme Court more credibility over time than Donald Trump defying them once and facing some serious backlash for doing it.DL: So let me ask you one final question before we go to my little speed round. That 3 percent statistic is fascinating, by the way, but it resonates for me. My family's originally from the Philippines, and you probably had the 3 percent out there in the streets to oust Marcos in 1986.But let me ask you this. We now live in a nation where Donald Trump won not just the Electoral College, but the popular vote. We do see a lot of ugly things out there, whether in social media or incidents of violence or what have you. You still have enough faith in the American people that if the Supreme Court drew that line, and Donald Trump crossed it, and maybe this happened a couple of times, even—you still have faith that there will be that 3 percent or what have you in the streets?PK: I have hope, which is not quite the same thing as faith, obviously, but I have hope that some Republicans in Congress would grow a spine at that point, and people would say, “This is not right.” Have they always done that? No. We've had bad things happen in the past, and people have not done anything about it. But I think that the alternative of just saying, “Well, since we might not be able to stop him, we shouldn't do anything about it,” while he guts the federal government, sends masked people onto the streets, tries to take the military into domestic law enforcement—I think we have to do something.And this is what's so enraging in some ways: the district court judges in this country are doing their job. They are enjoining stuff. They're not enjoining everything, because not everything can be enjoined, and not everything is illegal; there's a lot of bad stuff Donald Trump is doing that he's totally entitled to do. But the district courts are doing their job, and they're doing their job while people are sending pizza boxes to their houses and sending them threats, and the president is tweeting about them or whatever you call the posts on Truth Social. They're doing their job—and the Supreme Court needs to do its job too. It needs to stand up for district judges. If it's not willing to stand up for the rest of us, you'd think they'd at least stand up for their entire judicial branch.DL: Turning to my speed round, my first question is, what do you like the least about the law? And this can either be the practice of law or law as a more abstract system of ordering human affairs.PK: What I liked least about it was having to deal with opposing counsel in discovery. That drove me to appellate litigation.DL: Exactly—where your request for an extension is almost always agreed to by the other side.PK: Yes, and where the record is the record.DL: Yes, exactly. My second question, is what would you be if you were not a lawyer and/or law professor?PK: Oh, they asked me this question for a thing here at Stanford, and it was like, if I couldn't be a lawyer, I'd... And I just said, “I'd sit in my room and cry.”DL: Okay!PK: I don't know—this is what my talent is!DL: You don't want to write a novel or something?PK: No. What I would really like to do is I would like to bike the Freedom Trail, which is a trail that starts in Montgomery, Alabama, and goes to the Canadian border, following the Underground Railroad. I've always wanted to bike that. But I guess that's not a career. I bike slowly enough that it could be a career, at this point—but earlier on, probably not.DL: My third question is, how much sleep do you get each night?PK: I now get around six hours of sleep each night, but it's complicated by the following, which is when I worked at the Department of Justice the second time, it was during Covid, so I actually worked remotely from California. And what that required me to do was essentially to wake up every morning at 4 a.m., 7 a.m. on the East Coast, so I could have breakfast, read the paper, and be ready to go by 5:30 a.m.I've been unable to get off of that, so I still wake up before dawn every morning. And I spent three months in Florence, and I thought the jet lag would bring me out of this—not in the slightest. Within two weeks, I was waking up at 4:30 a.m. Central European Time. So that's why I get about six hours, because I can't really go to bed before 9 or 10 p.m.DL: Well, I was struck by your being able to do this podcast fairly early West Coast time.PK: Oh no, this is the third thing I've done this morning! I had a 6:30 a.m. conference call.DL: Oh my gosh, wow. It reminds me of that saying about how you get more done in the Army before X hour than other people get done in a day.My last question, is any final words of wisdom, such as career advice or life advice, for my listeners?PK: Yes: do what you love, with people you love doing it with.DL: Well said. I've loved doing this podcast—Professor Karlan, thanks again for joining me.PK: You should start calling me Pam. We've had this same discussion….DL: We're on the air! Okay, well, thanks again, Pam—I'm so grateful to you for joining me.PK: Thanks for having me.DL: Thanks so much to Professor Karlan for joining me. Whether or not you agree with her views, you can't deny that she's both insightful and honest—qualities that have made her a leading legal academic and lawyer, but also a great podcast guest.Thanks to NexFirm for sponsoring the Original Jurisdiction podcast. NexFirm has helped many attorneys to leave Biglaw and launch firms of their own. 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Today we had the pleasure of talking with Alexander Marriott, history professor and author, about today's dismal political situation in America. He offers the listener his keen insight. Join us for a great hour!Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Alexander Marriott's post on FacebookBenjamin FranklinUnited States one-hundred-dollar billKite experimentCatilineIranian Nuclear Program: Will Israel Save Us? - Capitalism Magazine, June 4, 2003Republic? Democracy? What's the Difference? - Capitalism, January 4, 2003Tara Smith (philosopher)Alexander Marriott on Twitter (X)Alexander Marriott's websiteEpisode 99 (51 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on June 21, 2025, with Alitu's recording feature. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Listen Notes.Even better is to use one of the new podcast apps, on

We are back with the first new episode of 2025!  The Camerosity crew hopes you had a good start to the new year.  Unfortunately, the episode we had planned to have Jeff and Gabe from the I Dream of Cameras podcast had to be postponed due to the wildfires in Los Angeles.  Instead, we went to the Camerosity mailbox (aka Facebook) and did an episode about square format cameras.  We had intended to cover all cameras that shoot square format, but found so much to talk about with 35mm and 127, we didn't have much time for 120 6x6 cameras, so we can save that for a future show! Whenever you talk about square format 35mm, one of the more popular ones for collectors is the Zeiss-Ikon Tenax II, and whenever you mention the Tenax II, the Wes Loder's "Spidey Sense" starts tingling, so we were happy to welcome back Michael Wescott Loder for the first time since Episode 74! Joining Wes, Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on this episode were A.J. Gentile, Ira Cohen, Miles Libak, Mina Saleeb, Robert Coates, and Will Pinkham where they all shared their favorite square format cameras. We attempt to start off the list of square format cameras in alphabetical order with the Altix and quickly move into the Berning Robot and Bilora Radix, but our plan quickly goes off the rails as we jump around the alphabet with cameras like the Akarette (which isn't even square format), Metz Mecaflex, Yashica 44, and the Purma Special.  We also cover the popularity of square format Rapid film cameras from Japan like the Minolta 24 Rapid, Canon Dial Rapid, and Fujica Rapid S2. One of the more sought after square format cameras is the Mamiya Sketch, a camera that Mike has previously reviewed, but Theo desperately wants to acquire to round out his Mamiya collection. Mike shares his tips on rolling your own 127 film using bulk 46mm film, and Will asks for recommendations on affordable entries into square format 35mm.  Although the group is initially stumped, Mike comes up with an off the wall solution that is quite affordable! As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you! Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are into shooting or collecting cameras, no matter how long you've been doing it, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining! The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com. We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance. For our next episode, we are excited to revisit a topic that we love to talk about, Camera Auctions, specifically high dollar auctions.  Our special guest for the next episode will be Jo Geier from Wetzlar Camera Auctions.  In addition to Jo, we will be welcoming back Dan Tamarkin from Tamarkin Auctions in Chicago.  In order to accommodate Jo's time zone, this will be a "European Friendly Time Zone" episode.  We will record Episode 85 on Monday, January 27th at 1pm Central Standard Time, 2pm Eastern Standard Time, 7pm Greenwich Mean Time, and 8pm Central European Time.  For Theo, and those of you in Australia, this will be very early in the morning on Tuesday the 28th.  Please check your favorite time zone calculator to find out the exact time in your region if you'd like to participate. In This Episode Square Cameras Come in All Format / Using TLRs Over Your Head or Around Walls Eho-Altissa Altix / Altix I Through III Shoot 24mm x 24mm Berning Robots / 90 Degree Viewfinder / Robot Junior Large Wind Knob Robots / Loading a Robot Camera / Accidental Redscale Surprise Anthony and West Love the Zeiss-Ikon Tenax II  Lenses Used by the Navy Required Lens Coatings 35mm Square Format Was Driven by the Technology of the Time Aka Akarette / AGFA Square Format Cameras Usually Shot Rapid Film Japanese Rapid Cameras / Fujica Rapid S2 / Minolta 24 Rapid / Canon Dial Rapid AGFA Karat Film and Bilora Radix Cameras Japanese Bolta Cameras / Sida Extra and Bolta Photavit The Mamiya Sketch is a Sought After Square Format Camera Metz Mecaflex is the only 24mm x 24mm SLR Quite a Few 127 TLRs Shoot 4x4 / Many Called Baby or '44' Cameras Yashica 44 / Adapting to Use 35mm Film Purma Special Shoots 4x4 and has a Gravity Shutter Kodak Vest Pocket / Other Vest Pocket Cameras Super Flex Baby / Karmaflex / There Were a Lot of Japanese 4x4 Cameras Bencini Comet 44 / Czech Kola Camera The Doris 3a probably had a 1a and a 2a / Diana Mini Super Slides Were Popular For a While / Reloading 127 with 46mm Bulk Film Photo Labs Hated Non-Standard Film Formats Chroma Cube / Stereo Cameras are a Cost Effective Way to Shoot Square Format 35mm Links The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord! Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server. Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums. If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show! Check it out! https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm. The Camerosity Podcast is now on BlueSky @camerosity.bsky.social.  This modern, and clean replacement for Twitter is a nice alternative to cluttered social networks out there.  Follow us there for show announcements and other content. If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group, Instagram page, or Discord server. 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In episode 90 we talk with Neil Erian, a former math teacher who has discovered perhaps the true cause of school shootings; the schools themselves - specifically their curriculum. Don't miss this hard-hitting exposé on the massive failure of our government schools ("indoctrination centers")!Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Neil Erian's article, Product Safety Alert: Progressive Education - Capitalism MagazinePeter Langman's site, School Shooters dot infoJohn DeweyHorace MannHoward ZinnEric Harris and Dylan KleboldColumbine High School massacreDealing with Troubled Writers: A Literacy Teacher's Dilemma by John SimmonsCharles WhitmanThe Third Wave (experiment)Interview with Kerry McDonald on homeschooling - episode 36 of The Secular FoxholeInterview with Marsha Enright, President and Program Director of Reliance College - episode 83 of The Secular FoxholeRandsDay Boostagram of 221,905 Satoshis - episode 65 of The Secular Foxhole (February 2, 2023)Austin Scholar on Twitter (X)Episode 90 (43 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on October 18, 2024, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your

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As the world's first, number one, and only open source film photography podcast, we take pride in that in each episode you all get to influence the discussions we have.  For Episode 74, we decided to take it a step farther and dedicate the entire episode to two broad topics that listeners of this show have suggested to us.  The first is to cover the confusing and wide array of third party lenses and the second to go over some tips and tricks for home film development.  Never ones to disappoint our listeners, the gang took your suggestions to heart and turned both into a whole episode...mostly! Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike was a full house of returning callers A.J. Gentile, Dan Cuny, Dan Hausman, Mario Piper, Michael Wescott (Wes) Loder, Miles Libak, Ray Nason, Robert Coates, Will Pinkham, and Mark (sorry, Mark, we didn't get your last name!) We quickly jump into a lens discussion first clarifying what exactly is considered a Third Party Lens maker?  From there the wormhole quickly opens as we bounce around with discussions regarding Asanuma, Vivitar, Kiron, and what Mike calls the "German B-List Lens Makers" like Steinheil, A.Schacht, Staeble, Enna-Werk, and many others. Wes jumps in and pivots the discussion to the vast array of lenses available for the Akarette/Akarelle and Lordomat systems, and then Mike quickly gets back on track professing his love for the Wirgin Edixa. We cover the Voigtländer Zoomar and the rash of very good Chinese lens makers like TTArtisan, 7Artisans, Light Lens Labs, and the obscure Japanese lens maker MS-Optics. For home development, we cover a whole host of hacks from doubling up on rolls of 120 on a single spool, how Mike pushes HC-110 to the absolute limit when developing black and white and Anthony chimes in with his suggestions for how to make shooting a Minox camera the most affordable way possible.  We get into other things like tips for flatbed scanning and what everyone thinks about digitizing.  It was certainly a live discussion, but I should probably stop typing here and encourage you to listen to the episode. For the next episode, we are revisiting one of our favorite brands of camera, Pentax!  Although we have dedicated multiple whole episodes to Pentax, this time we have Pentax historian Gerjan van Oosten who authored "The Ultimate Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide 1952 - 1977" which I consider to be one of the most definitive Pentax resources ever written.  The amount of info that Gerjan has about Pentax, Takumars, and everything relating to screw mounts is far more than we can ever hope to capture in a single episode, but we will certainly try!  To accommodate Gerjan's European time zone, Episode 75 will be recorded on Monday, August 5th at the special time of 2pm Central Daylight Time, 3pm Eastern Daylight Time, and 9pm Central European Time. The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com. We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance. In This Episode Clarification on the Ricoh Singlex and the Nikon F Mount / Recommendations for PASM Manual Focus Cameras What is a Third Party Lens Maker? / Almost Every Japanese Camera Company Started Off Making Lenses Asanuma Was One of the First Good Third Party Lens Makers / Later Became Kiron Vivitar Was a Marketing Company But Was Instrumental in Developing Computer Designed Lenses Vivitar Serial Numbers / Ponder & Best / Vivitar Flash Units What are T-Mount Lenses? / T-Mount vs Adaptall How Did Sears Become Such a Big Camera Distributor? /  Focal, Photo-Quelle, Revue, Hanimex The Beginning of Zoom Lenses / Nikkor 43-86 Zoom / TV Lenses Akarelle, Akarette, and Arakrex / German "B-List" Lens Makers / Lordomat Lenses Mike Really Likes the Steinheil Quinon Lens / Wirgin Edixa SLR Lenses Are Not the Same As Regular M42 Lenses Voigtländer Zoomar 36-82mm f/2.8 Lens / The Beauty of Imperfect Lenses / Some Lenses Can Be Too Perfect Chinese Lenses / Light Lens Labs, TTArtisan, 7Artisans Lenses / MS-Optics Lenses Voigtländer Cosina Lenses / Super-Nokton 28mm f/0.8 / Paul Loves the Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 Tricks for Loading Film on Paterson Reels / Loading Robot and Photavit Cassettes Developing Your Own Film Saves a Ton of Money / High Upfront Cost to Get Started Scanning with a Flatbed vs Digitizing / Negative Lab Pro / Building a Home Development Kit Loading Two Rolls of 120 Onto the Same Reel / Mike Prefers the Unicolor C41 Kit Monobaths / Scanning vs Digitizing / Kodak TMax Kills Fixer A Flatbed Scanner is More than Adequate for 90% of Film Scanning Avoiding Newton Rings / A&R Glass / Target Photo Frames Anthony Economizes Shooting Minox Cameras By Cutting His Own Film Nikon S Rangefinder Lenses / Compatibility Between Nikon and Contax Lenses Links The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord! Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server. Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums. If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show! Check it out! https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm. If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group, Instagram page, or Discord server. The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast Dan Cuny - https://www.dancuny.com/camera-collecting-blog Wes Loder - https://wesloderandnikon.blogspot.com/ Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/ Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/ Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Hello Black Eagles fans! Come celebrate Beşiktaş' 3-2 Turkish cup victory over Trabzonspor with us tonight on YouTube! We will be going live at 19:00 Central European Time/20:00 Turkish time! Join us in the livechat and participate in our episode, we'll be reading out some of the top comments live on the show! Not yet a YouTube subscriber? Just search "The Black Eagles podcast" and we should pop up!

Natasha Bechtholdt is an English and Spanish teacher, coach and facilitator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been teaching languages for more than 13 years now.  She has several certifications and diplomas in language teaching, life coaching, #neuropsychoeducation, innovation and technology in education and translation, apart from being a passionate language learner. She delivers 1-1 English and Spanish lessons as well as group courses and teacher training workshops. In this episode we talk about new approaches to language learning which are more brain-friendly, especially for adult learners. These are defined as those that offer a more comfortable, motivating and enjoyable learning experience, which acknowledge the challenges learners face in learning, speaking and using a foreign language. We consider older and more recent methods of teaching and learning, including the concept of the 'flipped classroom' or 'flipped learning', which actually has its roots back in the 1990's. Natasha and I go into detail about the challenges adult students face as they try to juggle the sometimes conflicting priorities of work, study, home-life and varying energy and motivation levels and identify one of the key enemies of successful learning, procrastination. We consider the future and the impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools will have on language learning, considering the pros and the cons. You can contact Natasha: By email: nbechtholdt@gmail.com On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/powerup.ingles/ (English and Spanish Lessons) or https://www.instagram.com/tea.chable/ (Teacher training and Workshops) On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-bechtholdt-25b85185/  For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify. I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English who want to improve their conversational skills. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thank you. Please visit my LinkedIn profile at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/⁠⁠ #emotionalintelligence #teaching #learning #learningenglish #TEFL #TESOL #IELTS #listeningskills #listening #resilience #selflove #selfconfidence #curiosity #trust #motivation #resilience #Argentina #languages #determination #selfawareness #selfregulation #AI #flippedlearning #procrastination #enemiesoflearning #nanolearning #antiscreenrevolution #coach #facilitator #teacher --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

For this, the 64th episode of the Camerosity Podcast, the gang finally devotes our full attention to one of the most popular brands of cameras ever made.  A camera brand that was so popular, they named the entire company after it, the Rolleiflex! Originally founded by two ex Voigtländer employees who had an idea on how to build a better soldier's camera, a new company called Franke & Heidecke was created, and from there, a whole legacy of twin lens, and eventual single lens reflexes was born. Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike are returning callers Bill Smith, John Roberts, Marc Gordon, Patrick Casey, Rafael Espinosa, Tim Peters, and first time callers Dean Robinson and Steve "Johnny Appleseed" Lederman. In this episode, we will cover the early history of the company, how Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke first got started, the early and later Rolleiflex and Rolleicord TLRs.  We also cover their transition into both medium format and 35mm SLRs, the compact Rollei 35, the Cosina made Rollei 35 RF, and a few other Rollei models. We ask the tough questions like what is the difference between a Rolleiflex and Rolleicord, are the triplet lenses really that much worse than the Tessars, are German Rolleis better than Singapore Rolleis, and what are everyone's favorite models.  In addition to Rollei GAS, we briefly discuss a strange Japanese Rollei copy, why people tend to blend in better using cameras with waist level vs eye level viewfinders, the confusing transition from Voigtländer, Zeiss-Ikon to Rollei, and whether or not Vivian Maier was creepy. As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining! The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance. For our next episode, we are finally going across the pond for another European time zone friendly episode.  If you are a fan of the show but are asleep or otherwise unable to join us for our regular recordings, this is the episode for you!  We will record Episode 65 on Monday, February 12th at Noon Central Standard Time (-6 UTC), 1pm Eastern Standard Time (-5 UTC), 6pm Greenwich Mean Time (+0 UTC), 7pm Central European Time (+1 UTC), and 5am Tuesday morning Australian Eastern Daylight Time (+11 UTC).  We look forward to hearing from you! In This Episode Rollei Almost Didn't Exist / Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke Originally Worked for Voigtländer The Original Idea for the Rolleiflex Was to Be an Improved Vest Pocket Camera Franke & Heidecke Heidscop / Rolleidoscop The Rolleiflex First Went on Sale in 1929 / It Is Difficult to Tell Every Rollei Apart Early Rolleiflexes Were Designed for 117 Film / Some Were Modified to Use 620 Film Differences Between Rolleiflex and Rolleicords / Dim Viewfinders Was the 1950s the "Golden Era of Rollei"? / Triplet Lenses Can Sometimes Be Very Sharp Mike's First Attempt at Repairing a Rolleiflex Old Standard Rolleiflex T and Rolleimagic / TLRs with Interchangeable Lenses / Bay Filter Mounts Japanese Rollei Copy, the Rollekonter / Meopta Flexaret TLRs Rolleiflexes Are Precision Machines That Require Regular Service and Cleaning Honeywell Distributed Rolleiflexes in the US For a While Heinrich Peesel / Rollei 35 / Rolleiflex SLRs / Ifbaflex SLR Rolleiflex SL66 Medium Format SLR / Rolleiflex SL26 Instamatic / Rollei A110 and E110 The Confusing Transition from Voigtländer to Zeiss-Ikon to Rollei German Made Rolleis vs Singapore Made Rolleis / Triplets vs Better Lenses Cropping 6x6 Images / TLRs Are Great for Street Photography Vivian Maier / Being Confronted While Out Photographing People Mike Loves Vivian Maier's Work But Thinks She Was Probably a Little Creepy Cosina Made Rollei 35 RF is Based off the Bessa R2 Links The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord!  Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server.  Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums.  If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show!  Check it out!  https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm. If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group, Instagram page, or Discord server. The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/ Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/ Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

In this episode I interview educator Silvina Andrea Fernandes from Buenos Aires, Argentina about the role emotional intelligence plays in the language learning process. Silvina describes two key components of Emotional Intelligence, being 'intrapersonal emotional intelligence' and 'interpersonal emotional intelligence'. She defines these and gives practical examples of how she trains young people and teachers to develop the necessary attributes of curiosity, trust, surprise, resilience, determination, patience, courage, risk-taking and critically self-love in order to become successful learners, teachers or managers. Silvina is a trained teacher of English as a Foreign Language and she describes her own journey into a career in neuropsychoeducation as it is applied to teaching and learning. We feel the podcast will be of interest to teachers and learners alike and we hope it will stimulate discussion and thinking about the teaching and learning experience and why we sometimes feel so challenged when learning a foreign language. Silvina is launching an online course, 'A Specialism in Emotional Intelligence' on 2 March 2024, initially in Spanish, but, at a later date, the course will also be delivered in English. If you are interested in attending the course online, please contact Silvina directly via the following means: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/silfernandes_edu Email: info@silvinafernandes.com.ar for any mentoring on Emotional Intelligence. Web page to find out more about the course 'Specialization in Emotional Intelligence: https://silvinafernandes.com/coaching-educativo/cursos-y-talleres/especializacion-en-inteligencia-emocional/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvinafernandes/ You can ask for the English version of the course directly on WhatsApp +54 9 11 4026 2917. For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify. I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English who want to improve their conversational skills. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thank you. Please visit my LinkedIn profile at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/⁠ #emotionalintelligence #teaching #learning #learningenglish #TEFL #TESOL #IELTS #listeningskills #listening #resilience #selflove #selfconfidence #curiosity #trust #motivation #resilience #Argentina #languages #determination #selfawareness #selfregulation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

In this episode I interview Ian Viner of the company CV Writing Services which was set up and is managed by CV Writing Consultant Ian Viner who has over 30 years' management experience gained in a variety of small to medium sized companies covering a wide range of industries. Ian also has a broad range of leadership, coaching and mentoring skills. In recent years Ian has used these CV Writing Consultant skills both within companies and independently to assist a wide range of people in their job search as well as to cope with redundancy.​ With experience of Professional Outplacement Training, Ian has expertise in and understanding of how to successfully negotiate the job market, using an empathic and supportive approach to achieve results. He has also worked for a Professional CV Writing company as well as written CV's for the UK's leading Career Consultancy.  He differs from most other CV Writing companies as he meets all of his clients in person and spends most of the day drawing out their measurable achievements from his base in Watford, North London, England. We discuss the challenges of writing a CV which can 'stand out from the crowd', especially when Artificial Intelligence software is being used to screen digital CVs before they are even seen by a human being. Here we point to the significance of identifying and using the Keywords which might feature in a job advert or in the job description and person specification associated with the role for which you are applying. Additionally, Ian highlights the need to include Measurable Achievements as a key feature of any well-written CV. Ian Viner can be contacted on: Mobile Tel: (++) 44 (0)7855 514921 Email: ian@cvservices.uk.com Website: www.cvservices.uk.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cvreview/ For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify. I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English who want to improve their conversational skills. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at ⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thank you. Please visit my LinkedIn profile at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/⁠ #CV #curriculumvitae #CVwriting #employment #jobsearch #jobs #redundancy #recruitment #recruiting #HR #personnel --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

In this episode I interview Slovak entrepreneur Edita Angyalová from the Terzos company about the Productized Services Model. This is where companies develop and package their existing and sometimes new services into sellable products which they then promote in the Business to Business (B2B) marketplace. Edita emphasises the importance of high quality services which are effective and efficient being selected to be further developed into marketable products. We also discuss the process of packaging these products; price banding; the opportunities for selling products at scale; and the benefits of transparency and clarity which come from developing packaged products from a company's services. We discuss the origins of this business model and identify the key business segments or sectors which have adopted this model most effectively, namely: marketing agencies, IT software companies; consulting agencies; and some specific sectors such as architectural firms. We also briefly discuss my experience of and aspiration to develop packaged products in the B2C or Business to Customer/Consumer sector. After a 20-year career in IT management, with over 8 years' experience as Chief Executive Officer, Edita also continues to produce a podcast in Slovak where she supports Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), particularly their owners and founders, to share their business expertise; their transformation strategies; and to facilitate knowledge transfer. Edita's podcast can be found at: https://open.spotify.com/show/70aWyPI5cxMawAS1se8TG8?si=c6a06268a1314507 Edita Angyalová's podcast with her guests - who are all Slovak SME entrepreneurs about how to start a business and how to become a successful entrepreneur. In each episode one business topic is explored in depth, with a full of hands-on experience, sharing proven tips and tricks. We talk about the differences between traditional leadership and management models and for the continuing need for human interventions, even in the Productized Services Model. Edita Angyalová can be contact on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/edita-angyalova or by email at: edita@terzos.sk or visit her company website at: www.terzos.sk  For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify. I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English who want to improve their conversational skills. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at ⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠. Thank you. Please visit my LinkedIn profile at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/ #Productized #Services #Model #ProductizedServicesModel #entrepreneur #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurial #entrepreneurship #leaders #leadership #manager #womeninmanagement #womenleaders #managers #proofofconcept --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

Sonya Ross is a voice, speech and pronunciation coach. Since 2006, when she completed her MA in Voice Studies, she's helped thousands of international professionals express their valuable ideas clearly, smoothly, confidently and authentically in business and in life. She's based between London and Hastings, UK – and globally available online. Sonya and I discuss her Top 10 Tips for Clear Pronunciation in English, a PDF of which is available via the links below. Sonya will shortly be producing a video of these tips in action. When that video is available, I will provide a direct link to it here. Sonya's website can be accessed at:https://vocalchoice.co.uk/ The Free PDF with 10 Expert Tips for Clear Pronunciation in English is available here:  https://vocalchoice.co.uk/free-resources/ Connect with Sonya Ross on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonya-ross-voice-speech-pronunciation-coach/ Follow Sonya Ross on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/vocalchoicelondon/ For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify. I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English who want to improve their conversational skills. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at ⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠. Thank you. Please visit my LinkedIn profile at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/⁠ #voice #voicecoach #vocalcoach #pronunciation #English #Englishlanguage #clarity #speech #speakingskills #publicspeaking #speakinginpublic #breathing #breathwork --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

We wrap up our discussion with Professor Hicks concerning his book. Truthfully, we could do about five more hours covering this plague upon Mankind. Alas, we will see if we can do that in the future. Happy New Year!Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:POSTMODERNISM EXPLAINED, WITH STEPHEN HICKS (episode 57)The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship's YouTube channel. Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. - Rockford UniversityEpisode 79 (53 minutes) was recorded at 2130 Central European Time, on December 7, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value by streaming Satoshis (Bitcoin...

We're on vacation this week, but we wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. **YOU'RE INVITED** We're hosting a New Year's toast on Zoom to celebrate all the great work you've done in 2023, and to look ahead to an amazing 2024. Joining details (including Zoom link): https://plainenglish.com/event/happy-new-year-with-jr-jeff-and-plain-english/ Date: December 31, 2023 Time: 8:00 am Chicago 9:00 am New York 11:00 am Brazil 3:00 pm Central European Time 10:00 pm Taiwan Bring your favorite beverage (

Eva Lelkes is an internationally active mentor & coach empowering women. As a former top executive and a devoted change maker she supports professional women to harness their masculine drive and step into their feminine power, so they can chill with no guilt while creating a life which feels light and true. As the author of her 'Femme Fatale' mentoring program she empowers women to CHOOSE their destiny. We talk about her executive work as a senior manager and how experiences of burnout and anxiety led her to choose and follow her true calling. In the podcast, we examine emotions and concepts of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine; as well as the Wounded Feminine and the Wounded Masculine and how balancing this polarity within us can give us our power back and bring lightness into our lives. Follow Eva on Instagram where she posts daily at https://www.instagram.com/evalelkes_empowering_women/ Her LinkedIn profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/evalelkesova/ Eva is fluent in 3 languages; besides English she serves her clients both in Hungarian and Slovak. To contact Eva Lelkes by email eva.lelkesova@icloud.com For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify. I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English who want to improve their conversational skills. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at ⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠. Thank you. Please visit my LinkedIn profile at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/⁠ #mindfulness #wellbeing #coaching #female #burnout #anxiety #emotions #FemmeFatale #women #connection #energies #spirituality #somatic #consciousness #femininepower #Tantra #Tantric #intention #DivineEnergies --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club, a community where she helps film-loving non-native English speakers understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. Find out more about the Movie Club at: https://leo-listening.com/movie-club/ Many people enjoy watching films (British English) or movies (American English), but find following the dialogues challenging. With Cara's support and with fellow members of the Movie Club, you work through guided activities to help you get the most out of your film/movie watching experience. In this podcast, I ask Cara what motivated her to set up the Movie Club and where she first got the idea from. We discuss the feedback she has had from members of the Club as to how useful they have found their participation in the online and offline sessions and activities. I ask Cara to detail some of the 30+ movies her members have watched to date and which ones have been the most popular and most controversial. So, if you are interested in movies, explore this podcast and then follow the links through to Cara's webpages and find out more about the Club. If you sign up to the Club, please be sure to let Cara know that you found out about it via this podcast! To book a free Discovery Call with Cara and to find out more about the Christmas Special Movie Club in December 2023, please contact Cara by filling in the form available here: https://caraleopold.as.me/makeprogresswithmovies Cara Leoplod's LinkedIn page can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraleopold/ Cara's YouTube Channel can be found at: Subscribe to my YouTube Channel  I run Virtual Dinner Parties and a Virtual Book Club for Upper Intermediate and Advanced learners of English. If you want to find out more about these online discussion opportunities which usually take place in the evenings (Central European Time), please email me directly at johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk. Thank you. For more information on this podcast series, 'John Scott Lawton's English, you know', or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk⁠ or leave a sound bite comment on Spotify.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please visit my LinkedIn profile at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to view Recommendations regarding my English Language teaching and Executive Coaching Services (towards the bottom of my profile page). To join the Poetry Club - International, please visit the LinkedIn Group page at: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12492972/⁠ #English #films #movies #MovieClub #confidence #confidencebuilding #relationalcommunication #international #presentationskills #networking #culturalconnections #inspire #inspiration #storytelling #coach #coaching #selfdiscovery #poems #poetry #poet #IELTS --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-lawton/message

Archetypal Symbols panel Libra episode topic, “Libra Solar Eclipse Life's Renewal!” for the 21°07' LIBRA Solar Eclipse on October 14 at 1:55 pm EDT, and 10:55 am PDT.-London at 6:55 pm BST, and for Central European Time, at 7:55 pm CET.-Hawaii at 7:55 am HST. Sydney, Australia Monday, October 9 at 4:55 am AEDT-(Talk Cosmos website scroll to page bottom for time zone.What is this seed vision for the month about? Eclipses represent Transition Points.“A solar eclipse occurs when the moon aligns to travel in front of the sun, blocking its light. However, each eclipse belongs to a Saros family lasting approximately 1200 years with about 72 eclipses. This is the 44th of the 134 Saros series of 71 eclipses. Therefore, being near the middle of the entire cycle will involve a total eclipse.” said Sue Minahan, founder, and host of the weekly show.“However, it is an annular eclipse because the moon's distance is a bit further from earth and won't cover the light shining around the perimeter. This “ring of fire” is characteristic of the annular eclipse. The eclipse path begins in Oregon and moves to Texas before entering part of Mexico, Central and South America.”Archetypal Symbols panel tells the month's upcoming new moon seed vision or in this case, the transitional point consciousness journey. Eclipse energy lasts for longer periods and effects can last for six months, and perhaps longer when the transit aspects a chart because transitions become transformational, leading to many steps of development.The panel tells the solar eclipse's intentional story by synthesizing metaphysical symbolic systems with its astrology chart. Supportive symbolic systems include numerology, tarot, Jyotish Nakshatra, with many Sabian Symbols astrological degrees to support themes of consciousness feeding our growth.What are Sabian Symbols?-They were first created in 1925 by a spiritualist medium, Elsie Wheeler, along with acclaimed astrologer, Marc Edmund Jones.-Addressing each specific degree of the zodiac, the Sabian's involve a symbolic image, developing a complete series of 360 metaphor stories.-Other great astrologers, as Dane Rudhyar and Lynda Hill, have compiled their interpretations to further evaluate and understand the Sabian Symbol's metaphysical consciousness.Joining Sue Rose Minahan of Kailua-Kona, Big Island Hawaii will be the inspiring and insightful Archetypal Symbols panel members, Justin Crockett Elzie of Port Angeles, Washington, and Elizabeth (Liz) Muschett of Camano Island, Washington. Grab their bios below. Also, on Talk Cosmos website.Subscribe! and follow us on Talk Cosmos YouTube Channel for all visual episodes. Weekly show on YouTube, Facebook, podcasts, and 1150kknw.com where you can find the entire podcast episode library.ELIZABETH (LIZ) MUSCHETT: A professional Astrologer, Intuitive, Numerology and Tarotist Counselor. Teacher, Workshop Facilitator, Lecturer. https://www.ALightPath.com Email: lizmuschett@gmail.comJUSTIN CROCKETT ELZIE: An Archetypal Astrologer, Teacher, and Author. He combines both Western Ancient Astrology and Modern Psychological Astrology with Eastern Vedic Astrology. Justin specializes in Predictive/Electional, and Karmic Astrology. https://www.JustinCrockettElzie.com Email: Justin.Elzie@gmail.comSUE ROSE MINAHAN: Founder of Talk Cosmos since April 7, 2018, engages weekly with guests for insightful conversations to awaken consciousness for soul growth. Celebrating its 6th season in 2023. https://www.TalkCosmos.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Archetypal Symbols panel Libra episode topic, “Libra Solar Eclipse Life's Renewal!” for the 21°07' LIBRA Solar Eclipse on October 14 at 1:55 pm EDT, and 10:55 am PDT. -London at 6:55 pm BST, and for Central European Time, at 7:55 pm CET. -Hawaii at 7:55 am HST. Sydney, Australia Monday, October 9 at 4:55 am AEDT -(Talk Cosmos website scroll to page bottom for time zone. What is this seed vision for the month about? Eclipses represent Transition Points. “A solar eclipse occurs when the moon aligns to travel in front of the sun, blocking its light. However, each eclipse belongs to a Saros family lasting approximately 1200 years with about 72 eclipses. This is the 44th of the 134 Saros series of 71 eclipses. Therefore, being near the middle of the entire cycle will involve a total eclipse.” said Sue Minahan, founder, and host of the weekly show. “However, it is an annular eclipse because the moon's distance is a bit further from earth and won't cover the light shining around the perimeter. This “ring of fire” is characteristic of the annular eclipse. The eclipse path begins in Oregon and moves to Texas before entering part of Mexico, Central and South America.” Archetypal Symbols panel tells the month's upcoming new moon seed vision or in this case, the transitional point consciousness journey. Eclipse energy lasts for longer periods and effects can last for six months, and perhaps longer when the transit aspects a chart because transitions become transformational, leading to many steps of development. The panel tells the solar eclipse's intentional story by synthesizing metaphysical symbolic systems with its astrology chart. Supportive symbolic systems include numerology, tarot, Jyotish Nakshatra, with many Sabian Symbols astrological degrees to support themes of consciousness feeding our growth. What are Sabian Symbols? -They were first created in 1925 by a spiritualist medium, Elsie Wheeler, along with acclaimed astrologer, Marc Edmund Jones. -Addressing each specific degree of the zodiac, the Sabian's involve a symbolic image, developing a complete series of 360 metaphor stories. -Other great astrologers, as Dane Rudhyar and Lynda Hill, have compiled their interpretations to further evaluate and understand the Sabian Symbol's metaphysical consciousness. Joining Sue Rose Minahan of Kailua-Kona, Big Island Hawaii will be the inspiring and insightful Archetypal Symbols panel members, Justin Crockett Elzie of Port Angeles, Washington, and Elizabeth (Liz) Muschett of Camano Island, Washington. Grab their bios below. Also, on Talk Cosmos website. Subscribe! and follow us on Talk Cosmos YouTube Channel for all visual episodes. Weekly show on YouTube, Facebook, podcasts, and 1150kknw.com where you can find the entire podcast episode library. ELIZABETH (LIZ) MUSCHETT: A professional Astrologer, Intuitive, Numerology and Tarotist Counselor. Teacher, Workshop Facilitator, Lecturer. https://www.ALightPath.com Email: lizmuschett@gmail.com JUSTIN CROCKETT ELZIE: An Archetypal Astrologer, Teacher, and Author. He combines both Western Ancient Astrology and Modern Psychological Astrology with Eastern Vedic Astrology. Justin specializes in Predictive/Electional, and Karmic Astrology. https://www.JustinCrockettElzie.com Email: Justin.Elzie@gmail.com SUE ROSE MINAHAN: Founder of Talk Cosmos since April 7, 2018, engages weekly with guests for insightful conversations to awaken consciousness for soul growth. Celebrating its 6th season in 2023. https://www.TalkCosmos.com

Archetypal Symbols panel Libra episode topic, “Libra Solar Eclipse Life's Renewal!” for the 21°07' LIBRA Solar Eclipse on October 14 at 1:55 pm EDT, and 10:55 am PDT. -London at 6:55 pm BST, and for Central European Time, at 7:55 pm CET. -Hawaii at 7:55 am HST. Sydney, Australia Monday, October 9 at 4:55 am AEDT -(Talk Cosmos website scroll to page bottom for time zone. What is this seed vision for the month about? Eclipses represent Transition Points. “A solar eclipse occurs when the moon aligns to travel in front of the sun, blocking its light. However, each eclipse belongs to a Saros family lasting approximately 1200 years with about 72 eclipses. This is the 44th of the 134 Saros series of 71 eclipses. Therefore, being near the middle of the entire cycle will involve a total eclipse.” said Sue Minahan, founder, and host of the weekly show. “However, it is an annular eclipse because the moon's distance is a bit further from earth and won't cover the light shining around the perimeter. This “ring of fire” is characteristic of the annular eclipse. The eclipse path begins in Oregon and moves to Texas before entering part of Mexico, Central and South America.” Archetypal Symbols panel tells the month's upcoming new moon seed vision or in this case, the transitional point consciousness journey. Eclipse energy lasts for longer periods and effects can last for six months, and perhaps longer when the transit aspects a chart because transitions become transformational, leading to many steps of development. The panel tells the solar eclipse's intentional story by synthesizing metaphysical symbolic systems with its astrology chart. Supportive symbolic systems include numerology, tarot, Jyotish Nakshatra, with many Sabian Symbols astrological degrees to support themes of consciousness feeding our growth. What are Sabian Symbols? -They were first created in 1925 by a spiritualist medium, Elsie Wheeler, along with acclaimed astrologer, Marc Edmund Jones. -Addressing each specific degree of the zodiac, the Sabian's involve a symbolic image, developing a complete series of 360 metaphor stories. -Other great astrologers, as Dane Rudhyar and Lynda Hill, have compiled their interpretations to further evaluate and understand the Sabian Symbol's metaphysical consciousness. Joining Sue Rose Minahan of Kailua-Kona, Big Island Hawaii will be the inspiring and insightful Archetypal Symbols panel members, Justin Crockett Elzie of Port Angeles, Washington, and Elizabeth (Liz) Muschett of Camano Island, Washington. Grab their bios below. Also, on Talk Cosmos website. Subscribe! and follow us on Talk Cosmos YouTube Channel for all visual episodes. Weekly show on YouTube, Facebook, podcasts, and 1150kknw.com where you can find the entire podcast episode library. ELIZABETH (LIZ) MUSCHETT: A professional Astrologer, Intuitive, Numerology and Tarotist Counselor. Teacher, Workshop Facilitator, Lecturer. https://www.ALightPath.com Email: lizmuschett@gmail.com JUSTIN CROCKETT ELZIE: An Archetypal Astrologer, Teacher, and Author. He combines both Western Ancient Astrology and Modern Psychological Astrology with Eastern Vedic Astrology. Justin specializes in Predictive/Electional, and Karmic Astrology. https://www.JustinCrockettElzie.com Email: Justin.Elzie@gmail.com SUE ROSE MINAHAN: Founder of Talk Cosmos since April 7, 2018, engages weekly with guests for insightful conversations to awaken consciousness for soul growth. Celebrating its 6th season in 2023. https://www.TalkCosmos.com

In this show, we talk with Canadian Patriot, Matthew Ehret, who has an unique perspective on many issues, but one here, that I concur with, concerning Eco-Terrorism. Yes, it's a real thing. Links will be in the show notes.Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Video of the live streaming on YouTube. (It ended after 13 minutes, due to a tech. issue.)The Roots Of Modern Eco-Terrorism: From MK Ultra And The Unabomber To Maurice Strong And Yuval HarariRising Tide FoundationMatt Ehret's InsightsEpisode 73 (40 minutes) was recorded at 1915 Central European Time, on September 7, 2023, with Boomcaster. Martin did the post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value by streaming Satoshis (Bitcoin payments)....

We have a news sandwich with only positive news regarding clean energy, gene therapy, and lunar activities. Please support our show, if you value the content!Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy's sight. Similar treatments could help millionsWhat's next for the moonBill Gates Is Backing A Secret Startup Drilling For Limitless Clean EnergyHumanProgress.orgSend a donation to The Secular Foxhole podcast!New Media Show podcastSatoshis 221905 = USD 57.96TheSecularFoxhole.live PodpageANDREW BERNSTEIN: THE TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE (episode 71)New Podcast AppsRANDSDAY BOOSTAGRAM (episode 65)Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love with Passion & Reason by Edwin A. Locke and Ellen KennerMartin's profile page on PodfansSwan Bitcoin - Martin's referral linkMartin Lindeskog's PayPal pageScott Holleran's newsletter, AutonomiaEpisode 72 (19 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on August 3, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.

Book Club Teaser! Meet our first featured author for the Santiago de Compostela Book Club in this short interview and then come to our meeting this Saturday, August 5th (registration links below). We're thrilled to introduce you to Kari Gillespie, a UK-based pilgrim who shares the profound effect of her journey on the Camino de Santiago. This episode dives into her experiences, from the fears she grappled with before her first Camino to the emotional shifts and evolving relationship with pain she navigated during her journey. We also probe the key question of safety for women on the Camino and discuss John Brierley's influential book, which beautifully blends the practical and spiritual aspects of this journey. In an enlightening exchange, Carrie presents invaluable tips for anyone considering walking the Camino for the first time. She discusses the subtle differences between walking solo or with a friend and how these choices can impact decisions like lodging.  Lastly, we extend a warm invitation to our upcoming Santiago de Compostela book club meeting, where we'll continue unearthing the life-changing impact of the Camino de Santiago.Meeting #1— 11am Central European Time:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeirpzMjGtUoPgpY_RAihtdT_nzHE8pJ#/registrationMeeting #2—8pm Central European Timehttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sce6orjwjGtLx3fACJWs05mZv4JSnu-Cl#/registrationSign up for the bookclub newsletter:https://subscribepage.io/santiagodecompostelabookclubJoin Santiago de Compostela Book Club Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/273761715169505Follow Santiago de Compostela Book Club Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092678497699

Today we discuss Anders' political philosophy book, 'Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right.' Covering subjects like inflation, immigration, and the immorality of the welfare state. Plus Individualism versus Collectivism.Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Anders Ingemarson on TwitterAnders Ingemarson's websiteAnders Ingemarson's book, Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right: A 21st Century Citizen Guide (2nd Expanded Edition)Anders Ingemarson's newsletter on SubstackLaw of JanteTall poppy syndromePodcasting 2.0Value 4 ValueVasa Order of AmericaEllis IslandThe House of Emigrants in Växjö, SwedenHow Technological Progress Has Powered MigrationFor Open Immigration by Harry BinswangerThe Case for Open Borders by Harry BinswangerBlair Schofield and Martin Lindeskog on Racism in the U.S. and Sweden | Culture and Causation Ep 23The DispatchThe Free PressEpisode 69 (68 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on June 17, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by...

Our newest episode, the first for the New Year, features Professor Richard Ebeling, where we discuss his recent defense of Liberalism. Tune in for his penetrating insights on a number of issues.Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Liberalism, True and False - Capitalism MagazineThe Importance of Liberty and the Rhetorical Misuse of Freedom - The Future of Freedom FoundationJohn Locke - BritannicaAdam Smith - The Library of Economics and LibertyLudwig von Mises - Mises InstituteFriedrich von Hayek - The Nobel PrizeThe Rise and Decline of Nations Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson - Yale University PressWhat Is the Gold Standard? Advantages, Alternatives, and History - InvestopediaBitcoin - WikipediaFor a New Liberalism by Richard Ebeling - AmazonPodverseFountainEpisode 64 (46 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on January 12, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

Today we video chat with returning guests, James Valliant and Warren Fahy as they discuss the documentary made from their great book, Creating Christ: How the Romans Invented Christianity.(Due to an "act of God," I have published the web recording without doing any editing. ;) )Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity (book)Creating Christ documentaryEpisode 63 (48 minutes) was recorded at 2000 Central European Time, on December 17, 2022, with Boomcaster. Martin did the post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting...

https://www.aikohemingway.com/live-workshop: Free workshop for coaches. Nov 26th 8:00am Central European Time. I will show you how I reached 6 figures with a small list of 150. And how I raised my fees from $40 an hour to $1000 an hour in 5 years. Activate your throat so that you can start showing up fearlessly to promote your business and attract ideal clients with your voice. And reach 6 figures as a coach! It all starts with your throat: https://www.aikohemingway.com/activate-your-throat I help coaches work less and reach 6 figures with a micro niche, tiny lists, and high ticket offers. Do you think that you have to have a big following and many clients to reach 6 figures, and keep working day after day? No, that does not have to be true. It is possible for you to reach 6 figures with a very small following, small email lists, and a small niche. When you do that, you can charge very high and create coaching programs that are above $10k. Then, you will have time for doing other things and enjoying life. I built an American English pronunciation coaching business and I reached multiple $240K with small lists of 250, a micro niche, and $10k plus coaching offers. And I do clients' work for 10 hours a week, and I have time for growing my business, creating free content, going to the beach, and studying in different courses. If this is your goal as a coach, you are in the right place. In this episode, I shared my recent experience of turning a free live workshop into a $30K workshop. Since I want to practice public speaking, I host one free workshop a month and speak without scripts. And at the end of the workshop, I promote my paid offers. 3 weeks ago, I did a workshop. 7 people showed up. At the end, I promoted my paid offers. I emailed 11 times to my list after the workshop, and that brought me $30k. It was effortless, simple and fun which is the phrase my business coach Graham Cochrane always reminds me of. I shared how I did it in the episode. If you need help with your coaching business, I provide 12-month coaching. Come to my workshop this Saturday to check out what you can learn. I use Kajabi to run my businesses. You can see how I built my course and landing page here: https://www.aikohemingway.com/kajabi28days If you sign up for Kajabi with me, I will send you a Kajabi guide! #tinylist #highticketoffer #microniche #nichedown #doubleit #coachingbusiness

Author Ken West is our guest today. We discuss his high regard for Ayn Rand and her philosophy, and how it has enhanced his life and writing.Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:Ken West on TwitterKen West on MediumVeterans Day"There are no atheists in foxholes"Mandatory National Service: A Threat to Liberty by Ken WestKen West on LinkedInMatrix GazetteThe Wave that Wasn'tFord Hall ForumAyn Rand at the Ford Hall ForumThe Right to WriteGet What You Want!: Workbook to Reactivate Your Passion for Life, Find Your Purpose and Achieve Your Dreams by Ken WestPrimacy of Existence vs. Primacy of ConsciousnessWhy did Ayn Rand give Howard Roark orange-red hair?Your Ego: It's Your Salvation, Not Your Original Sin by Ken WestJon WosQuent Cordair Fine ArtDean KoontzEpisode 145 of EOFire podcast: Top 10 Business Books for EntrepreneursThe Copper PotEpisode 61 (34 minutes) was recorded at 1900 Central European Time, on November 11, 2022, with

Today with returning guest https://the-secular-foxhole.captivate.fm/episode/robert-tracinski-on-workism (Robert Tracinski) who is here discussing his two recent articles on https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2022/10/03/do-the-populists-have-a-point/ (populism) and https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/there-is-a-name-for-melonis-blend (illiberalism). At the end of the show, Martin is giving a shout-out to fellow podcaster, McIntosh of https://genwealthcrypto.com (Generational Wealth with Cryptocurrency podcast), for his support and boostagram with Satoshis (bits of Bitcoin). Why do you think that populism is popular nowadays? Download a new podcast app, e.g., https://www.fountain.fm/podcaster-guide (Fountain) and https://podverse.fm/sv/tutorials#clips-create (Podverse), and create a clip of this episode. Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) https://secular-foxhole.haaartland.com/ (The Secular Foxhole Town Hall). Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace! Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2022/10/03/do-the-populists-have-a-point/ (Do the Populists Have a Point? - Discourse) https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/there-is-a-name-for-melonis-blend (There Is a Name for Meloni's Blend of Socialism and Nationalism - The UnPopulist) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/06/populists-in-europe-especially-those-on-the-right-have-increased-their-vote-shares-in-recent-elections/ (Populists in Europe – especially those on the right – have increased their vote shares in recent elections) - Pew Research Center https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jlp.17024.ryd (Radical right-wing parties in Europe What's populism got to do with it?) by Jens Rydgren - John Benjamins e-Platform https://tracinskiletter.substack.com/p/two-big-trends (Two Big Trends - The Tracinski Letter) https://tracinskiletter.substack.com/p/the-illiberal-synthesis (The Illiberal Synthesis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawboning (Jawboning) - Wikipedia https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2021/12/16/the-case-for-neo-classical-liberalism/ (The Neo-Classical Liberal) https://genwealthcrypto.com (Generational Wealth with Cryptocurrency Podcast) Episode 59 (54 minutes) was recorded at 2030 Central European Time, on October 27, 2022, with https://ringr.com/ego (Ringr app).. Martin did the editing and post-production with the https://alitu.com/?fp_ref=egonetcast (podcast maker, Alitu). The transcript is generated by Alitu. https://the-secular-foxhole.captivate.fm/listen (Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast) in your https://podnews.net/podcast/i9d1q/all (podcast (podcatcher) app) of choice, e.g., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-secular-foxhole/id1529242825 (Apple Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/2OZNzkrzItT4zmDpc8TdqO (Spotify), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdGhlLXNlY3VsYXItZm94aG9sZS8?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif28Kq4IjsAhVK0IUKHbQpAREQ4aUDegQIARAC&hl=sv (Google Podcasts), https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/36c65af3-3a05-48fc-90b2-a60bc245d918/the-secular-foxhole (Amazon Music), https://gaana.com/podcast/the-secular-foxhole-season-1 (Gaana), https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-secular-foxhole-blair-schofield-and-0AFTLgs42OW/ (Listen Notes), or one of the http://newpodcastapps.com/ (new podcast apps), onhttps://podcastindex.org/podcast/1064830 ( Podcast Index), supporting the https://medium.com/@everywheretrip/an-introduction-to-podcasting-2-0-3c4f61ea17f4 (Podcasting 2.0) initiative,...

Part 1. Professor Hicks joins us to give an overview of his brilliant exposé on Postmodernism's roots. To be continued with Part 2, later this year. Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) https://secular-foxhole.haaartland.com/ (The Secular Foxhole Town Hall). Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace! Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services: https://www.stephenhicks.org/explaining-postmodernism/ (Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.) https://twitter.com/srchicks (Stephen R. C. Hicks on Twitter) Episode 57 (64 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on September 16, 2022, with https://ringr.com/ego (Ringr app).. Martin did the editing and post-production with the https://alitu.com/?fp_ref=egonetcast (podcast maker, Alitu).  (Editor's note: The https://www.veed.io/tools/transcription/podcast-transcripts (transcript will be generated by Veed.io) in the near future. I will test out the https://www.veed.io/tools/video-editor (online video editor), and generate https://www.veed.io/learn/how-to-get-the-transcript-of-a-youtube-video (transcripts for videos) in the near future, now with a new laptop, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgz9fJzjMxJ/ (MacBook Air M2).) https://the-secular-foxhole.captivate.fm/listen (Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast) in your https://podnews.net/podcast/i9d1q/all (podcast (podcatcher) app) of choice, e.g., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-secular-foxhole/id1529242825 (Apple Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/2OZNzkrzItT4zmDpc8TdqO (Spotify), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdGhlLXNlY3VsYXItZm94aG9sZS8?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif28Kq4IjsAhVK0IUKHbQpAREQ4aUDegQIARAC&hl=sv (Google Podcasts), https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/36c65af3-3a05-48fc-90b2-a60bc245d918/the-secular-foxhole (Amazon Music), https://gaana.com/podcast/the-secular-foxhole-season-1 (Gaana), https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-secular-foxhole-blair-schofield-and-0AFTLgs42OW/ (Listen Notes), or one of the http://newpodcastapps.com/ (new podcast apps), onhttps://podcastindex.org/podcast/1064830 ( Podcast Index), supporting the https://medium.com/@everywheretrip/an-introduction-to-podcasting-2-0-3c4f61ea17f4 (Podcasting 2.0) initiative, and http://value4value.io/ (Value for Value) by streaming https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satoshi.asp (Satoshis) (Bitcoin payments). Oscar Merry is ahead of the game, with his https://podcastbusinessjournal.com/app-making-bitcoin-payments-easier/ (Fountain app). Make a https://www.fountain.fm/blog/how-to-top-up-your-fountain-wallet-with-bitcoin (micropayment transaction) with the new https://play.fountain.fm/show/tAMgIwWrYj20GkK7x48m (podcast app, Fountain). You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by downloading it for free on https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-secular-foxhole/id1552689877 (Apple App Store) and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.apps.n180514 (Google Play).  https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-secular-foxhole-1468375 (Rate and review The Secular Foxhole podcast on Podchaser). Your https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Lyceum (support) will give us fuel for our blogging and podcasting! Thanks for reading the show notes! Continue the conversation by going to https://secular-foxhole.haaartland.com/ (our digital town hall on Haaartland).

Martin is proposing the following number (221,905) of Satoshis for the https://podnews.net/article/boostagram-numerology (Boostagram Numerology page on GitHub.) Blair is informing about https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swanbitcoin (Swan Bitcoin). At the end of the episode, we announce the winner of 50,000 sats, thanks to the giveaway campaign by https://explore.fountain.fm/ (Fountain app), and share stats about our podcast. Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) https://secular-foxhole.haaartland.com/ (The Secular Foxhole Town Hall). Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, discuss the different episodes, give us constructive feedback, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace! Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services: http://randsday.com/ (Randsday) https://theobjectivestandard.com/2012/02/have-a-selfish-randsday/ (Have a Selfish Randsday!) https://www.rush.com/2112-spotlight-on-ayn-rand/ (2112 album by Rush) https://github.com/Podnews-LLC/boostagram-numerology (Row of Ducks: 2222 Satoshis) https://podnews.net/update/boostagrams (Now, 'boosts' come with messages from your listeners - Podnews) https://james.cridland.net/ (James Cridland) https://www.oscarmerry.com/ (Oscar Merry) https://brianoflondon.me/ (Brian of London) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-first-pull-request-on-github-3/ (Pull request on GitHub) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi (Pi) boost: 3142 sats https://www.quora.com/How-many-Satoshis-make-one-bitcoin-1 (How many Satoshis make one bitcoin?) https://currency.world/convert/STSH_221905/USD (221,905 Satoshis (STSH) to US Dollar (USD) - Currency World) https://podcastindex.org/ (Podcast Index) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry (Adam Curry) https://podcasting20.substack.com/about?sort=people (Dave Jones) https://the-secular-foxhole.captivate.fm/episode/david-veksler-on-crypto (David Veksler on Crypto) https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/ (Mere Mortals podcast) https://the-secular-foxhole.captivate.fm/episode/global-implications-of-the-australian-federal-election (Vinay Kolhatkar), https://fountain.fm/savvystreet (Savvy Street on Fountain) https://saifedean.com/thebitcoinstandard/ (The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking) https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/guy-swann-bitcoin-freedom (Guy Swann on Bitcoin and Freedom - episode 3118 of The Survival Podcast with Jack Spirko) https://guyswann.com/ (Guy Swann's website) https://www.swanbitcoin.com/BlairS54 (Blair's affiliate link with Swan Bitcoin) https://www.swanbitcoin.com/tea-party/ (Martin's affiliate link with Swan Bitcoin) https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-pizza-day-a-day-of-celebration (Bitcoin Pizza Day) https://twitter.com/LyceumPeripatos/status/1557698778358071298 (Martin's tweet to Mark Asquith, Captivate) https://blog.getalby.com/alby-partnership-announcement-accelerating-podcasting-2-0-with-rss-com/ (Alby Partnership Announcement: Accelerating Podcasting 2.0 with RSS.com) https://fountain.fm/secularfoxhole (Blair on Fountain) https://fountain.fm/lyceum (Martin on Fountain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hicks (Stephen Hicks) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_Fawstin (Bosch Fawstin) https://texasipr.com/category/about/ (Brian Phillips) https://kenwest.medium.com/ (Ken West) http://ideasontrial.live/artist/leopold-ajami/ (Leopold Ajami) Episode 54 (22 minutes) was recorded at 1830 Central European Time, on July 31, 2022, with https://ringr.com/ego (Ringr app).. Martin did the editing and post-production with the https://alitu.com/?fp_ref=egonetcast (podcast maker, Alitu).  (Editor's note: As I generated the transcript, using Veed.io, I saw that they have a beta live stream feature. I will test out...

If you want to be a fantastic leader, today's conversation is perfect for you. My guest is Priya Ramesh. Priya is a Master Certified Coach and that in itself, I think is a pretty big deal, there are only 70 MCC's in India and  only 1,327 wordwide.  Priya was my Mentor Coach during my Coaching Certification Program and I have learnt so much from her. Today, the tables have turned, I'm the one asking the questions, and I know this will be such a valuable conversation In this episode, Priya and I talk about:- What Priya's original plans were upon graduating from university, and what actually ended up happening in reality- What has been the most transformative position Priya has held in your career, and how she got there- They say a shoemaker's children usually go barefoot. Being a coach and helping and guiding so many thousands of people, doesn't always translate to helping yourself objectively. How can someone listening today, who is heavily in that service mindset, put on their own oxygen mask first?- What it's really like being a Leadership Coach and what are some of the traits of a top coach- Priya's own coaching model the beautifully encapsulates the coach/client relationship. My South Asian listeners will particularly enjoy this one, and the rest will learn two new Sanskrit wordsLearn more about Priya by visiting her LinkedIn profile and website:https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-ramesh-mcc-leadership-coach-b015119/https://orenda.net.in/ -----------------------------------------------------------------Liked this episode? A few things:1. Share the podcast with three of your closest friends! And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts here or Spotify here (tap on the three-dot menu under the cover art of the podcast) , as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover it. 2. You will love my emails called Charge-Up! I send them once every few weeks.. they're no fluff no spam, where I share my favourite career insights from movies, TV shows, news and my own personal experiences, that I don't share anywhere else. Make sure you sign up here!  3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SuperChargeYourself4. Share your favourite takeaways and tag me on your Instagram and LinkedIn.Learn, once and for all, how to supercharge your career documents: Your Resume, LinkedIn Profile and Cover Letter, so they work for YOU, and not the other way round. Join me for this LIVE training on 29th June at 2 pm Central European Time. It's FREE! Don't miss it.Sign up here: https://www.superchargeyourself.com/documents

My guest today is Andy Griffiths. If you haven't heard of Andy, and if you have kids/nephews/nieces, there's a good chance you've heard of the Treehouse Books: the 13 Storey Treehouse, 26 Storey Treehouse and so many more. These books are created by New York Times bestselling team Andy Griffiths who is the writer and Terry Denton, the illustrator.  Andy Griffiths is one of Australia's most popular children's authors. He and Terry have collaborated on more than 33 bestselling books since 1997. In Australia, Andy and Terry's books have sold over 10 million copies, won innumerable awards including Book of the Year. Their Treehouse Series in particular have been embraced by children around the world and now published in more than 35 countries. Five of the books in the series have been adapted for the stage and have all had sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera house, as well as highly successful seasons in the Netherlands, New Zealand and the US.  I've brought Andy to the podcast for so many reasons: to learn about Andy's career, because it is a prime example of squiggly career path vs a career ladder that we've all believed to be true for so long, and this is such a valuable episode.  In this episode, Andy takes us behind the scenes and shares what real life was like, before being 'discovered' by Macmillan Publishers. Andy shares his stories of courage, heartbreak, rejection and how that journey brought him closer to his current success.We also talk about how he and Terry achieved global success in their fifties and sixties, and what that means in the world today that is quite obsessed with youth.We also talk about 'cotton wool' childhoods and why Andy is so vocal about it on social media.Whether or not you have children, nephews or nieces, I know this will prove to be a valuable listen. Learn more about Andy and his books here: http://www.andygriffiths.com.au/-------------------------Liked this episode? A few things:1. Share the podcast with three of your closest friends! And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts here or Spotify here (tap on the three-dot menu under the cover art of the podcast) , as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover it. 2. You will love my emails called Charge-Up! I send them once every few weeks.. they're no fluff no spam, where I share my favourite career insights from movies, TV shows, news and my own personal experiences, that I don't share anywhere else. Make sure you sign up here!  3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SuperChargeYourself4. Share your favourite takeaways and tag me on your Instagram and LinkedIn.Learn, once and for all, how to supercharge your career documents: Your Resume, LinkedIn Profile and Cover Letter, so they work for YOU, and not the other way round. Join me for this LIVE training on 29th June at 2 pm Central European Time. It's FREE! Don't miss it.Sign up here: https://www.superchargeyourself.com/documents

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Hey there! Do you want to have your say on this podcast? Do you want to connect with us? Now you can do it on November 4 at 7 pm Central European Time, On club-house (link below). We will have our first digital Aperitivo (yeah you better have a drink in your hand) with the theme "starting your side-project" where we will share a bit about our experience, what are the difficulties, the right mindset, how to keep doing things even when you don´t want to, etc. But we don't want to be the only ones talking! We will just try to set the tone and we hope that you will be joining our conversation and we will be able to hear your experiences and feedback! https://www.clubhouse.com/club/the-creative-insider If you don´t have Club-House feel free to connect with us on Instagram: @tcipodcast LinkedIn: The Creative Insider First of all, consider subscribing to our newsletter in case Zuckerberg deletes Facebook during an identity crisis so we can stay in touch! GET NOW OUR FREE GUIDE ABOUT DIGITAL FILING SYSTEM AND OUR PROJECT FOLDER STRUCTURE FOR CREATIVES ON: https://thecreativeinsider.com/subscribe/ If what we do is useful for you or gives you joy, you can support us with a coffee on: http://ko-fi.com/tcipodcast Thanks for listening and for your support! Kind regards, Georgi and Désirée :)

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Czechoslovakia continue their momentum and book a place in the next round with a win over their central European rivals Austria while in the second game of the day, West Germany overwhelm the UAE. 30 years later, we find out that the consolation goal wasn't as much of a consolation as we thought at the time. Join Rob and Ciaran as they continue the journey, and considering it was a quiet day they even have time to speculate on what films they would have gone to in the cinema had they taken a one day only break from the action. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/italia90onedayatatime/message

Please join us as we check in with author Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light. This absorbing debut tells a fictionalized account of Lee Miller's life, focusing on the years she spent in Paris and her tumultuous relationship with Surrealist artist Man Ray. An icon during her own time, Lee's bold vision and fearlessness still serve today as a template for a life lived fully. In Whitney's novel, we follow Lee through her time as a model, Surrealist photographer, fashion photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef. Whitney will discuss her book as well as provide us with updates about its reception and translation. Whitney holds a BA in English Literature from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her short fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications including Vogue, The Telegraph, The Tatler, and Bellevue Literary Review. Her first novel, The Age of Light, was published by Little, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in February, 2019, and was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller and named one of the best books of 2019 by Parade, Glamour Magazine, Real Simple, Refinery 29, Booklist and Yahoo. Internationally, The Age of Light won Le prix Rive Gauche à Paris, was a 2019 coup de coeur selection from the American Library in Paris, and has been published or is forthcoming from over a dozen other countries. Whitney has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Arts and Ragdale, a St. Botolph Emerging Artists Grant, and a Somerville Arts Council Artists Fellowship. She teaches fiction in the Boston area and is a co-founder of the Arlington Author Salon, a quarterly reading series. *Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public via Zoom. We have moved the events up, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. Recorded 5 May 2020

Please join us for a fun and informal talk by author and professor Susan Harlan, who has the rare gift of making the ordinary extraordinary for her readers and audiences. Susan will share with us a personal essay about the tote bags she's acquired on her travels and throughout her life, touching on themes that are at the forefront of our minds right now: travel, home, souvenirs, including unused bags and luggage. In her words, “I keep looking at my purses on my coat rack and thinking how strange it is to not carry a purse anymore. They just hang there, and then every eight days or so I go to the store. Beyond the present circumstances, the tote bags make up a kind of autobiography, and they tell stories about where they are from and what they have toted around.” Susan Harlan's essays have appeared in venues including The Guardian US, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Roads & Kingdoms, Literary Hub, The Common, Racked, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Bitter Southerner, and Public Books. Her book Luggage (Bloomsbury, 2018) takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. She also writes satire for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Billfold, Avidly, Queen Mob's Tea House, The Hairpin, The Belladonna, Janice, and The Establishment, and her humor book Decorating a Room of One's Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables was published by Abrams last October. She teaches English literature at Wake Forest University. *Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. Recorded 28 April 2020

Please join us for an informal and uplifting check-in with author and journalist Elaine Sciolino. Following country-wide quarantine measures put in place by the French government, Elaine is confined on the Rue des Martyrs, the subject of her 2016 book, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs. Despite the circumstances, this unique Parisian quartier–and its residents–retain a certain degree of pre-Covid 19 life and charm. In Elaine's words, the Rue des Martyrs is “a half-mile celebration of the city in all its diversity with rituals and traditions and a feeling of community that goes back decades. It does not belong to monumental Paris — you won't find it in most Paris guidebooks — and it has managed to retain the feel of a small village.” Tune in to our event to see how Elaine is experiencing confinement, what new hobbies she's acquired, and get the latest news on her most recent book, The Seine: The River that Made Paris. Elaine is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, based in France since 2002. In 2010, she was decorated chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the highest honor of the French state, for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public via Zoom. Each event will be capped at 100 participants. We have moved the events up, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. Recorded 21 April 2020