Podcast appearances and mentions of jack chen

How much is too much when it comes to getting those stains out? We're joined by Dr Jack Chen, senior lecturer at AUT's faculty of Chemistry.

Today I sit down with Chef Hilary Prince and Chef Jack Chen to talk everything from the business realities of running a restaurant to the importance of taking your staff to the farm to a story so hilariously tragic - or tragically hilarious - that it is literally A Knife to the Tart. Detailed show notes are at the Cheftimony website.

Jack Chen, an associate general counsel at Meta (formerly Facebook), is a product lawyer. With his focus on online advertising, Jack uses a holistic understanding of Meta's ad business, product roadmaps, and the law to anticipate and address legal issues -- from data contracts to privacy regulations in a global context. Jack does what's already a complicated, difficult job in a world where digital accessibility has a long way to go. While he was born low-vision, he lost his eyesight entirely in high school, testing his resilience but ultimately providing a number of advantages he's grateful for and leverages daily. Jack is a graduate of Fordham Law School.This episode is hosted by Katya Valasek.Mentioned in this episode:Learn more about William & Mary Law SchoolLearn more about Rutgers LawLearn more about Kaplan LSAT PrepLearn more about Rutgers LawKaplan Learn more about 7SageLearn more about Vermont LawAccess LawHub today!

· Feminisme er ut, nå er det ytringsfrihet som gjelder. Det viser Ung 2024-undersøkelsen fra Opinion. Særlig unge menn trekker ytringsfriheten frem som en stadig viktigere sak for dem, faktisk så er ytringsfriheten det aller viktigste temaet for denne målgruppen nå. Representant for gruppen, samfunnsdebattant Jack Chen, mener at ytringsrommet har blitt mindre. Men stemmer det?· Avtroppende kulturbyråd i Oslo, Omar Samy Gamal, oppfordrer til boikott av alle israelske kulturaktører som ikke aktivt motarbeider den israelske statens handlinger, frem til angrepene og blokaden av Gaza og Palestina opphever. Dette har vekket kraftige reaksjoner. Er det riktig å boikotte israelske kulturaktører nå? · AKKURAT NÅ, AKKURAT NÅ, AKKURAT NÅ: SJOKK: Ja, for nå skal det handle om Dagbladet. De mildt sagt skuffet kulturlivet da de nylig annonserte at de kommer til å gå videre uten en fast kulturredaktør. «Dagbladets sjel» er dermed borte, mener kritikerne. Har Dagbladet mistet sin sjel? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great Jack Chen stops by to share his sight loss story and how a simple podcast episode with Dan Berlin turned into a documentary film and bold social action campaign to fundamentally alter the way that employers think about talent in the blind community. Both blind, Jack and Dan knew that their positions as Assistant General Counsel for Facebook and CEO of a large food company were not aberrations. They set out to prove to the world that people who are blind could be successful both on and off the bike, in the saddle and in the boardroom.   The gripping documentary film, Surpassing Sight, parallels their journey of building a team to tackle the toughest cycling race in the world, RAAM (Race Across America), with their equally grueling journey through the employment world.      GET YOUR #DONTWAIT MUG! :: https://amblind.creator-spring.com/listing/destiny-dont-wait-black?product=1565    :: PODCAST LINKS :: For show notes, guest profiles, photos, blog and more information, visit AmbiguouslyBlind.com and connect on:    Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin  Like what we're doing? Support us: Buy Me A Coffee  This is a listener supported podcast.  Please consider donating to build and sustain our community  :: EPISODE LINKS ::  Jack's Guest Profile :: https://www.ambiguouslyblind.com/guests/jack-chen/  Jack's Podcast ExcelAbility :: https://teamexcelability.com/  Surpassing Sight Movie :: https://surpassingsightmovie.com/  ::

One of the hardest parts of telling any history, is which innovations are significant enough to warrant mention. Too much, and the history is so vast that it can't be told. Too few, and it's incomplete. Arguably, no history is ever complete. Yet there's a critical path of innovation to get where we are today, and hundreds of smaller innovations that get missed along the way, or are out of scope for this exact story. Children have probably been placing sand into buckets to make sandcastles since the beginning of time. Bricks have survived from round 7500BC in modern-day Turkey where humans made molds to allow clay to dry and bake in the sun until it formed bricks. Bricks that could be stacked. And it wasn't long before molds were used for more. Now we can just print a mold on a 3d printer.   A mold is simply a block with a hollow cavity that allows putting some material in there. People then allow it to set and pull out a shape. Humanity has known how to do this for more than 6,000 years, initially with lost wax casting with statues surviving from the Indus Valley Civilization, stretching between parts of modern day Pakistan and India. That evolved to allow casting in gold and silver and copper and then flourished in the Bronze Age when stone molds were used to cast axes around 3,000 BCE. The Egyptians used plaster to cast molds of the heads of rulers. So molds and then casting were known throughout the time of the earliest written works and so the beginning of civilization. The next few thousand years saw humanity learn to pack more into those molds, to replace objects from nature with those we made synthetically, and ultimately molding and casting did its part on the path to industrialization. As we came out of the industrial revolution, the impact of all these technologies gave us more and more options both in terms of free time as humans to think as well as new modes of thinking. And so in 1868 John Wesley Hyatt invented injection molding, patenting the machine in 1872. And we were able to mass produce not just with metal and glass and clay but with synthetics. And more options came but that whole idea of a mold to avoid manual carving and be able to produce replicas stretched back far into the history of humanity. So here we are on the precipice of yet another world-changing technology becoming ubiquitous. And yet not. 3d printing still feels like a hobbyists journey rather than a mature technology like we see in science fiction shows like Star Trek with their replicators or printing a gun in the Netflix show Lost In Space. In fact the initial idea of 3d printing came from a story called Things Pass By written all the way back in 1945! I have a love-hate relationship with 3D printing. Some jobs just work out great. Others feel very much like personal computers in the hobbyist era - just hacking away until things work. It's usually my fault when things go awry. Just as it was when I wanted to print things out on the dot matrix printer on the Apple II. Maybe I fed the paper crooked or didn't check that there was ink first or sent the print job using the wrong driver. One of the many things that could go wrong.  But those fast prints don't match with the reality of leveling and cleaning nozzles and waiting for them to heat up and pulling filament out of weird places (how did it get there, exactly)! Or printing 10 add-ons for a printer to make it work the way it probably should have out of the box.  Another area where 3d printing is similar to the early days of the personal computer revolution is that there are a few different types of technology in use today. These include color-jet printing (CJP), direct metal printing (DMP), fused deposition modeling (FDM), Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM, multi-jet printing (MJP), stereolithography (SLA), selective laser melting (SLM), and selective laser sintering (SLS). Each could be better for a given type of print job to be done. Some forms have flourished while others are either their infancy or have been abandoned like extinct languages. Language isolates are languages that don't fit into other families. Many are the last in a branch of a larger language family tree. Others come out of geographically isolated groups. Technology also has isolates. Konrad Zuse built computers in pre-World War II Germany and after that aren't considered to influence other computers. In other words, every technology seems to have a couple of false starts. Hideo Kodama filed the first patent to 3d print in 1980 - but his method of using UV lights to harden material doesn't get commercialized.  Another type of 3d printing includes printers that were inkjets that shot metal alloys onto surfaces. Inkjet printing was invented by Ichiro Endo at Canon in the 1950s, supposedly when he left a hot iron on a pen and ink bubbled out. Thus the “Bubble jet” printer. And Jon Vaught at HP was working on the same idea at about the same time. These were patented and used to print images from computers over the coming decades. Johannes Gottwald patented a printer like this in 1971. Experiments continued through the 1970s when companies like Exxon were trying to improve various prototyping processes. Some of their engineers joined an inventor Robert Howard in the early 1980s to found a company called Howtek and they produced the Pixelmaster, using hot-melt inks to increment the ink jet with solid inks, which then went on to be used by Sanders Prototype, which evolved into a company called Solidscape to market the Modelmaker. And some have been used to print solar cells, living cells, tissue, and even edible birthday cakes. That same technique is available with a number of different solutions but isn't the most widely marketable amongst the types of 3D printers available. SLA There's often a root from which most technology of the day is derived. Charles, or Chuck, Hull coined the term stereolithography, where he could lay down small layers of an object and then cure the object with UV light, much as the dentists do with fillings today. This is made possibly by photopolymers, or plastics that are easily cured by an ultraviolet light. He then invented the stereolithography apparatus, or SLA for short, a machine that printed from the bottom to the top by focusing a laser on photopolymer while in a liquid form to cure the plastic into place. He worked on it in 1983, filed the patent in 1984, and was granted the patent in 1986.  Hull also developed a file format for 3D printing called STL. STL files describe the surface of a three-dimensional object, geometrically using Cartesian coordinates. Describing coordinates and vectors means we can make objects bigger or smaller when we're ready to print them. 3D printers print using layers, or slices. Those can change based on the filament on the head of a modern printer, the size of the liquid being cured, and even the heat of a nozzle. So the STL file gets put into a slicer that then converts the coordinates on the outside to the polygons that are cured. These are polygons in layers, so they may appear striated rather than perfectly curved according to the size of the layers. However, more layers take more time and energy. Such is the evolution of 3D printing. Hull then founded a company called 3D Systems in Valencia California to take his innovation to market. They sold their first printer, the SLA-1 in 1988. New technologies start out big and expensive. And that was the case with 3D Systems. They initially sold to large engineering companies but when solid-state lasers came along in 1996 they were able to provide better systems for cheaper.  Languages also have other branches. Another branch in 3d printing came in 1987, just before the first SLA-1 was sold.  Carl Deckard  and his academic adviser Joe Beaman at the University of Texas worked on a DARPA grant to experiment with creating physical objects with lasers. They formed a company to take their solution to market called DTM and filed a patent for what they called selective laser sintering. This compacts and hardens a material with a heat source without having to liquify it. So a laser, guided by a computer, can move around a material and harden areas to produce a 3D model. Now in addition to SLA we had a second option, with the release of the Sinterstation 2500plus. Then 3D Systems then acquired DTM for $45 million in 2001. FDM After Hull published his findings for SLA and created the STL format, other standards we use today emerged. FDM is short for Fused Deposition Modeling and was created by Scott Crump in 1989. He then started a company with his wife Lisa to take the product to market, taking the company public in 1994. Crump's first patent expired in 2009.  In addition to FDM, there are other formats and techniques. AeroMat made the first 3D printer that could produce metal in 1997. These use a laser additive manufacturing process, where lasers fuse powdered titanium alloys. Some go the opposite direction and create out of bacteria or tissue. That began in 1999, when Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative medicine grew a 3D printed urinary bladder in a lab to be used as a transplant. We now call this bioprinting and can take tissue and lasers to rebuild damaged organs or even create a new organ. Organs are still in their infancy with success trials on smaller animals like rabbits. Another aspect is printing dinner using cell fibers from cows or other animals. There are a number of types of materials used in 3D printing. Most printers today use a continuous feed of one of these filaments, or small coiled fibers of thermoplastics that melt instead of burn when they're heated up. The most common in use today is PLA, or polylactic acid, is a plastic initially created by Wall Carothers of DuPont, the same person that brought us nylon, neoprene, and other plastic derivatives. It typically melts between 200 and 260 degrees Celsius. Printers can also take ABS filament, which is short for acrylonitrile-butadien-styerene. Other filament types include HIPS, PET, CPE, PVA, and their derivative forms.  Filament is fed into a heated extruder assembly that melts the plastic. Once melted, filament extrudes into place through a nozzle as a motor sends the nozzle on a x and y axis per layer.  Once a layer of plastic is finished being delivered to the areas required to make up the desired slice, the motor moves the extruder assembly up or down on a z axis between layers. Filament is just between 1.75 millimeters and 3 millimeters and comes in spools between half a kilogram and two kilograms. These thermoplastics cool very quickly. Once all of the slices are squirted into place, the print is removed from the bed and the nozzle cools off. Filament comes in a number of colors and styles. For example, wood fibers can be added to filament to get a wood-grained finish. Metal can be added to make prints appear metallic and be part metal.  Printing isn't foolproof, though. Filament often gets jammed or the spool gets stuck, usually when something goes wrong. Filament also needs to be stored in a temperature and moisture controlled location or it can cause jobs to fail. Sometimes the software used to slice the .stl file has an incorrect setting, like the wrong size of filament. But in general, 3D printing using the FDM format is pretty straight forward these days. Yet this is technology that should have moved faster in terms of adoption. The past 10 years have seen more progress than the previous ten though. Primarily due to the maker community. Enter the Makers The FDM patent expired in 2009. In 2005, a few years before the FDM patent expired, Dr. Adrian Bowyer started a project to bring inexpensive 3D printers to labs and homes around the world. That project evolved into what we now call the Replicating Rapid Prototyper, or RepRap for short.  RepRap evolved into an open source concept to create self-replicating 3D printers and by 2008, the Darwin printer was the first printer to use RepRap. As a community started to form, more collaborators designed more parts. Some were custom parts to improve the performance of the printer, or replicate the printer to become other printers. Others held the computing mechanisms in place. Some even wrote code to make the printer able to boot off a MicroSD card and then added a network interface so files could be uploaded to the printer wirelessly. There was a rising tide of printers. People were reading about what 3D printers were doing and wanted to get involved. There was also a movement in the maker space, so people wanted to make things themselves. There was a craft to it. Part of that was wanting to share. Whether that was at a maker space or share ideas and plans and code online. Like the RepRap team had done.  One of those maker spaces was NYC Resistor, founded in 2007. Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach Smith from there took some of the work from the RepRap project and had ideas for a few new projects they'd like to start. The first was a site that Zach Smith created called Thingiverse. Bre Pettis joined in and they allowed users to upload .stl files and trade them. It's now the largest site for trading hundreds of thousands of designs to print about anything imaginable. Well, everything except guns. Then comes 2009. The patent for FDM expires and a number of companies respond by launching printers and services. Almost overnight the price for a 3D printer fell from $10,000 to $1,000 and continued to drop. Shapeways had created a company the year before to take files and print them for people. Pettis, Mayer, and Smith from NYC Resistor also founded a company called MakerBot Industries. They'd already made a little bit of a name for themselves with the Thingiverse site. They knew the mind of a maker. And so they decided to make a kit to sell to people that wanted to build their own printers. They sold 3,500 kits in the first couple of years. They had a good brand and knew the people who bought these kinds of devices. So they took venture funding to grow the company. So they raised $10M in funding in 2011 in a round led by the Foundry Group, along with Bezos, RRE, 500 Startups and a few others. They hired and grew fast. Smith left in 2012 and they were getting closer and closer with Stratasys, who if we remember were the original creators of FDM. So Stratasys ended up buying out the company in 2013 for $403M. Sales were disappointing so there was a changeup in leadership, with Pettis leaving and they've become much more about additive manufacturing than a company built to appeal to makers. And yet the opportunity to own that market is still there. This was also an era of Kickstarter campaigns. Plenty of 3D printing companies launched through kickstarter including some to take PLA (a biodegradable filament) and ABS materials to the next level. The ExtrusionBot, the MagicBox, the ProtoPlant, the Protopasta, Mixture, Plybot, Robo3D, Mantis, and so many more.  Meanwhile, 3D printing was in the news. 2011 saw the University of Southhampton design a 3d printed aircraft. Ecologic printing cars, and practically every other car company following suit that they were fabricating prototypes with 3d printers, even full cars that ran. Some on their own, some accidentally when parts are published in .stl files online violating various patents.  Ultimaker was another RepRap company that came out of the early Darwin reviews. Martijn Elserman, Erik de Bruin, and Siert Wijnia who couldn't get the Darwin to work so they designed a new printer and took it to market. After a few iterations, they came up with the Ultimaker 2 and have since been growing and releasing new printers  A few years later, a team of Chinese makers, Jack Chen, Huilin Liu, Jingke Tang, Danjun Ao, and Dr. Shengui Chen took the RepRap designs and started a company to manufacturing (Do It Yourself) kits called Creality. They have maintained the open source manifesto of 3D printing that they inherited from RepRap and developed version after version, even raising over $33M to develop the Ender6 on Kickstarter in 2018, then building a new factory and now have the capacity to ship well over half a million printers a year. The future of 3D Printing We can now buy 3D printing pens, over 170 3D Printer manufacturers including 3D systems, Stratasys, and Ceality but also down-market solutions like Fusion3, Formlabs, Desktop Metal, Prusa, and Voxel8. There's also a RecycleBot concept and additional patents expiring every year.  There is little doubt that at some point, instead of driving to Home Depot to get screws or basic parts, we'll print them. Need a new auger for the snow blower? Just print it. Cover on the weed eater break?  Print it. Need a dracolich mini for the next Dungeons and Dragons game? Print it. Need a new pinky toe. OK, maybe that's a bit far. Or is it? In 2015, Swedish Cellink releases bio-ink made from seaweed and algae, which could be used to print cartilage and later released the INKREDIBLE 3D printer for bio printing. The market in 2020 was valued at $13.78 billion with 2.1 million printers shipped. That's expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21% for the next few years. But a lot of that is healthcare, automotive, aerospace, and prototyping still. Apple made the personal computer simple and elegant. But no Apple has emerged for 3D printing. Instead it still feels like the Apple II era, where there are 3D printers in a lot of schools and many offer classes on generating files and printing.  3D printers are certainly great for prototypers and additive manufacturing. They're great for hobbyists, which we call makers these days. But there will be a time when there is a printer in most homes, the way we have electricity, televisions, phones, and other critical technologies. But there are a few things that have to happen first, to make the printers easier to use. These include: Every printer needs to automatically level. This is one of the biggest reasons jobs fail and new users become frustrated. More consistent filament. Spools are still all just a little bit different. Printers need sensors in the extruder that detect if a job should be paused because the filament is jammed, humid, or caught. This adds the ability to potentially resume print jobs and waste less filament and time. Automated slicing in the printer microcode that senses the filament and slices. Better system boards (e.g. there's a tool called Klipper that moves the math from the system board on a Creality Ender 3 to a Raspberry Pi). Cameras on the printer should watch jobs and use TinyML to determine if they are going to fail as early as possible to halt printing so it can start over. Most of the consumer solutions don't have great support. Maybe users are limited to calling a place in a foreign country where support hours don't make sense for them or maybe the products are just too much of a hacker/maker/hobbyist solution. There needs to be an option for color printing. This could be a really expensive sprayer or ink like inkjet printers use at first We love to paint minis we make for Dungeons and Dragons but could get amazingly accurate resolutions to create amazing things with automated coloring.  For a real game changer, the RecycleBot concept needs to be merged with the printer. Imagine if we dropped our plastics into a recycling bin that 3D printers of the world used to create filament. This would help reduce the amount of plastics used in the world in general. And when combined with less moving around of cheap plastic goods that could be printed at home, this also means less energy consumed by transporting goods. The 3D printing technology is still a generation or two away from getting truly mass-marketed. Most hobbyists don't necessarily think of building an elegant, easy-to-use solution because they are so experienced it's hard to understand what the barriers of entry are for any old person. But the company who finally manages to crack that nut might just be the next Apple, Microsoft, or Google of the world.

California dermatologist Dr. Yue “Emily” Yu is arrested after being caught on a nanny cam video putting Drano in her husband's lemonade. Dr. Jack Chen says his wife has a long history of mistreating him and their two children.  Now, Yu's divorce attorney says she was trying to deal with an ant infestation and not trying to kill her husband. The attorney's comments came as the two appeared in court as part of divorce proceedings.  Yue is now indicted on three felony counts of domestic battery with corporal injury, according to Orange County prosecutors. She faces more than eight years in prison if found guilty. Joining Nancy Grace Today: Matthew Mangino - Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), Former Parole Board Member & Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States;" Twitter: @MatthewTMangino  Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist; Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: "Caryn Stark"   Mona Kay - Private Investigator, "Mona K Investigations" (Omaha, NE); Twitter: @monakay Dr. William Morrone - Chief Medical Examiner, Bay County Michigan, Author: "American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality"  Nathan Percy - Crime and Public Safety Reporter, Southern California News Group; Twitter: @NDPercy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With digitalisation and advanced tech, many businesses were forced to shutter if they failed to keep up with the times. Not for this second generation business owner, who not only preserved his late dad's last wishes, he is keeping up with the times as he continues to share and promote Chinese culture to the younger generations. On Mind Your Business SME segment today, Lyn Lee Foo and Ryan Huang speak with Jack Chen, Chen Soon Lee Book Stamp & Coin Centre, to find out how he changed took his parents' traditional business model to remain relevant in this day and age.  This podcast is produced and edited by Anthea Ng (nganthea@sph.com.sg)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

· Radikale klimaaktivister vil ha slutt på oljenæringen. Derfor går de til angrep på dyrebare kunstverk på museer rundt om i Europa. Ja, to av Vincent Van Gogh og Claude Monets mest kjente arbeider er nylig blitt utsatt for aktivisters hærverk for å rette fokuset på klimakampen. Men er dette god klimaaktivisme?· Det pågår store opprør i Iran, etter at myndighetene har tatt livet av Mahsa Amini og flere kvinner for ikke å bære hijaben sin på riktig måte. Derfor skulle det populære NRK-programmet «Debatten» gå på lufta med hijab som tema denne uken. Men etter flere reaksjoner på sosiale medier, snudde Fredrik Solvang og NRK. De ville ikke diskutere hijab likevel. Har vi fått berøringsangst mot å snakke om det kontroversielle hodeplagget?· Dagens situasjon fratar sårbare kvinner grunnleggende rettigheter, og øker faren for vold og overgrep, skriver FPU-er Kristin Lode. Å selge sex er ulovlig i Norge i dag, men Lode mener at forbudet bidrar til flere negative konsekvenser enn positive. Burde vi oppheve sexskjøpsloven, og tillate prostitusjon? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Parents want this New Jersey teacher fired because of her body. Mother's demand that a teacher be fired; they accuse she is “very voluptuous” Terrible! A homeless mother's 2018 leasing agreement contained a provision requiring sexual favors for no less than five years. Candy Torres claims she had to give her landlord bl— jobs on demand. The husband, identified as 53-year-old Jack Chen, filmed his wife pouring Drano into a cup, which he claimed to be his lemonade. Chen also claimed they diagnosed him with stomach ulcers, gastritis, and esophagus inflammation. Yu was eventually arrested and posted bail. As of August 10, she has not been charged. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unity-queen/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unity-queen/support

This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: After killing his daughters and evading authorities for 12 years, Yaser Said was convicted and given life in prison for capital murder. Plus, a wife allegedly caught on camera poisoning her husband with drain cleaner.  Nancy Grace joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Man in China arrested for marrying off underage, mentally disabled daughter to 3 different men for money     The father, surnamed Xie, from Lianyuan Hunan province, sold his daughter Tingting to receive bride payments. He claimed that his daughter was over 20 years old, although she was born in January 2005. Tingting first got engaged to a man in 2018 when she was under 14 years old. In 2019, she was engaged to a man, surnamed Chen, in his 30s. She had just turned 14, although Xie kept her true age a secret. The matchmaker who brought the two together stated that she was “18 years old and young and fertile” and that she “doesn't even know that one plus one equals two.” When Chen asked Tingting for her ID card to open an account at the bank, he discovered that she was only 16 years old. He and his family, however, expressed nonchalance as the two had been married for more than two years at the time. “She was young and fertile, which is difficult to find in rural regions,” Chen said per South China Morning Post. Xie received more than 90,000 yuan (approximately $13,328) from Chen's family. He also collected tens of thousands of yuan from the other two men as well. When the Chen family discovered that Xie had sold his daughter to a third family, they demanded their money back. Xie refused to return the money. When police arrested Xie in March, they discovered that he had spent all the money. The Lianyuan City Public Security Bureau announced on Aug. 2 that the investigation had been completed. The case has now been sent to prosecutors as they decide whether to charge Xie with fraud. Xie's wife, who also has a mental disability, was sent to a nursing home in Lianyuan City Center, while Tingting was sent to the Lianyuan City Social Welfare Institute. Weibo users expressed outrage, condemning the father.   Russian groom Stepan Dolgikh sentenced for wedding-day murder of bride A groom has been sentenced to 18 years for killing his new wife on their wedding day in front of shocked guests. Stepan Dolgikh, 35, beat wife Oksana Poludentseva, 36, to death then dumped her body in a ravine. He told a court in Novosibirsk, Russia that he believed his new bride was cheating on him. Dolgikh had a previous conviction for murder but the wife – who got to know him while he was in prison as a pen pal – believed she could tame him. Witnesses said he started kicking and punching mother-of-one Poludentseva after becoming “jealous” of her communication with another guest at their alcohol-fuelled wedding party in a private house in Chik village.   He accused his new wife of “behaving incorrectly”, it was alleged. Chief investigator Kirill Petrushin said: “He began to punch and kick her outside the house.” He continued to attack her inside the house. “He grabbed her by the hair, hit her, pushed her out into the street, where he also continued to strike her body and head.” When she appeared lifeless “he dumped her into a nearby ravine”. The incident was several hours after the couple had exchanged vows at their wedding. Other guests were reportedly too scared to intervene but they called law enforcement. The groom was detained at the scene by the Russian National Guard. Dolgikh confessed to the killing, said Petrushin, senior regional detective of the Russian Investigative Committee. “He beat her for a long time, in front of witnesses, and struck her vital organs – in the torso and head,” he said. He “fully admitted guilt during the investigation” but failed to repent, he said. “He was jealous of her with one of the male guests,” said Petrushin. “It seemed to her husband that she had behaved incorrectly, which caused a scandal. “All the rest were afraid of him, so they tried to intervene, but were rebuffed.” A friend said: “She truly loved him, and was waiting for release.” “The deceased woman knew about his criminal record,” said Petrushin. “They met while he was serving a sentence in prison for his previous crimes.” He added: “She did not think that while drinking alcohol or just in a fit of anger, a person like this may go over the limit and commit a serious crime.” California dermatologist Yue Yu arrested for allegedly poisoning husband   A Southern California dermatologist was arrested last week for allegedly poisoning her husband — who set up a hidden camera to catch her in the act, police said. Yue Yu, 45, who treats patients at an office in Mission Viejo, was busted Thursday after cops served a search warrant on the couple's $2.5 million mansion in Irvine. Yu's 53-year-old husband Jack Chen told police he had been suffering from an unexplained ailment for about a month. “His condition became increasingly worse and based on the husband examining his routine and looking at what could be causing it, he grew suspicious of his wife and put a hidden camera in place that captured her poisoning him,” Irvine police Lt. Bill Bingham told The Post Monday. Yu's husband of 10 years — who turned over the video evidence to authorities – “sustained significant internal injuries,” but is expected to recover, police said. Bingham declined to elaborate further or provide additional details of the alleged poisoning, citing an ongoing investigation. Detectives are still looking into a potential motive, he said. “We do believe this is a domestic-related incident,” he said. “There's nothing that we discovered that has caused us concern for the patients that [Yu] treated” Yu, whose bail was set at $30,000, was released from custody late Friday after posting bond, online records show. Prosecutors were reviewing the allegations to determine whether to press charges, an Orange County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman said. Chen filed for an emergency restraining order in Orange County on Friday, claiming he was the victim of domestic violence, court documents reviewed by The Post show. A hearing had been set for Aug. 18. He also filed for divorce on Friday. The couple have been married since July 2012 and have two kids, ages 7 and 8. Chen is seeking sole custody of their children and asked the court to keep the kids away from their mom pending an upcoming court proceeding. “Ms. Yu absolutely and unequivocally denies trying to poison her husband or anyone else,” her attorney, David Wohl, told The Post on Monday. He wouldn't comment any further on the allegations against his client, but said they have yet to receive video footage. “She doesn't plan to go anywhere near the accusing spouse right now,” Wohl said when asked about the request for a restraining order. Yu is affiliated with Providence Mission Hospital, which issued a statement saying staffers were cooperating with authorities. “The incident is a domestic matter which occurred in Irvine and we want to reassure our community that there has been no impact on our patients,” Mission Heritage Medical Group officials told The Post, while referring additional inquiries to cops. Yu's biography was apparently removed from the hospital's website as of Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Staffers at Yu's Mission Viejo office declined to comment when reached by The Post early Monday. Attempts to reach Yu and her husband were unsuccessful.   Pennsylvania defense attorney charged with pressuring clients into sex SCRANTON, Pa. — A defense attorney targeted vulnerable clients and pressured them into having sex in exchange for legal work, the Pennsylvania attorney general's office said Monday. Corey J. Kolcharno is charged with four counts of promoting prostitution after an investigation found he sexually exploited clients, tethering “his performance as their counsel to a demand for sexual services from them or in exchange for payment,” police wrote in an affidavit. Kolcharno — a former Lackawanna County prosecutor — was arraigned Monday and released on $20,000 unsecured bail. A statement issued by his attorney said Kolcharno “has made a conscious decision to accept responsibility.” Kolcharno told reporters he intended to give up his law license. According to state police, Kolcharno targeted women who struggled with addiction, had been sexually abused or had financial problems. At first he requested nude photos or worn underwear, then escalated his predatory behavior into a demand for sex in exchange for legal services, authorities said. He paid his clients as much as $500, police said. Victims said they were ashamed but felt they had no choice but to give in, authorities said. Kolcharno “picked these victims because they had limited choices, because he thought they would be easy to silence, and less likely to be believed if they ever came forward,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a written statement. Investigators said they found hundreds of sexually explicit images of Kolcharno's clients on his cellphone. Police said the crimes took place between 2018 and 2022, when Kolcharno was a partner in the Fanucci & Kolcharno law firm outside Scranton. UK man caught by police after hiding inside a giant teddy bear He was able to run but could barely hide. A man who was wanted for car theft and failing to pay at a gas station was sent to jail Friday after police found him hiding inside a teddy bear in Manchester, England, according to Greater Manchester Police. Joshua Dodson, 18, stuffed himself inside the giant 5-foot teddy bear at his girlfriend's house when he tried to escape from police, according to the Sun. “When we went to arrest him, our officers noticed a large bear breathing in the address before finding Dobson hidden inside!” Greater Manchester Police tweeted. Dodson's botched plan unfolded in May, when police were on the hunt for him after he stole a Mitsubishi SUV worth $10,364. Dodson was caught when police raided his girlfriend's home and spotted the teddy bear in a corner of the house “breathing.” That's when police yanked the man from the teddy bear inside the home.

Thousands of people want to see TikTok influencer Andrew Tate banned from the platform. Tate�s TikTok posts have been viewed more than 11 billion times. However, the influencer, and founder of Hustlers University, is being accused of spreading misogyny to minors on the platform. "Banfield" speaks with a panel of experts about the case. Plus, a California doctor is accused of secretly poisoning her husband of 10 years. Jack Chen began suspecting that his wife, Yue �Emily� Yu, had been secretly poisoning him for an undetermined amount of time. In an attempt to catch her in the act, he set up a security camera in their home. Steven Hittelman, Jack Chen's attorney, weighs in on "Banfield." Watch Ashleigh Banfield�s Talk Show on NewsNation weeknights at 10/9c.

Tigers fire Al Avila, Oxford High's security guard, Charlie LeDuff v. Gov. Whitmer, Britney hates her kids, celebs nailing nannies, Aidan Hutchinson on HBO's Hard Knocks, Drew Crime, and Trudi is heading to Florida with the Trump Unity Bridge.Al Avila has finally been blown out by the Detroit Tigers. VaTech's Kerry Carpenter gets the call up to the big leagues and Drew couldn't be prouder.Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions premiered last night on HBO to much fanfare. Aidan Hutchinson stole the show."Blue Origin Brian" sent in an incredible care package. Thank you. Now who is your daddy, and what does he do?Politricks: Joe Biden goes on vacation with his family (except that unofficial grandkid). Donald Trump pleads the 5th. 70% of Americans do not approve of the raid. Joe Biden declares inflation 0.0%.Matt Lattanzi did Olivia Newton-John dirty with nanny Cindy Jessup. This leads us down a list of celebrities who cheated on their spouse with the nanny. A little too much is being made out of that LLWS hug. It does remind Drew of when he peaked at age 12.Deshaun Watson gets the start in preseason week 1.Music: Woodstock '99 emails. Shawn Mendes completely bails on his tour to work on himself because Camila Cabello continues on with her life. Lady Gaga was "attacked" on stage.Cram and Charlotte are watching gymnastics sitcoms.Hillary Clinton approves of Bradley Cooper nailing Huma Abedin.Donald Trump fans are in tears over what "they" are putting Donald through. Marshawn Lynch was SO wasted when he got his DUI.Frank Gore charged with simple assault in New Jersey.Meijer doesn't mess around with the under 20 item line.Chris Ilitch said a bunch of nothing. Bring Theo Epstein to Detroit.We check in with Rob Cortis to find out why he's not uniting everybody in Mar-a-Lago. It's starting to sound like he might if Trudi goes with him. Rob asks us to watch a movie about multiple donkeys.Kwame Kilpatrick wins again.Charlie LeDuff remains LeMiffed about Gretchen Whitmer using him in her political ads.Oxford parents are frustrated with Oxford High's post-shooting response.Drew Crime: The 'Honor Killing Father' has been found guilty. 51-year-old Muhammad Syed is busted following the death of four Muslims in New Mexico. The 2019 death of Jack Elliott is back in the news as it turns out his death did not occur the way his friends said it did. Courtney Clenney has finally been arrested for the death of. Jack Chen busted his wife poisoning him.Honorary Russian, Steven Seagal, takes photo-op at Ukrainian POW camp.Britney Spears tops herself with her new Instagram response to K-Fed. Update: Britney has deleted the post.Social media is dumb, but we're on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels and BranDon).

Date: 7/9/22Episode title and number: FSuccess In Plain Sight Featuring Dan Berlin & Jack Chen Season 2 - #7Brief summary of the show:Welcome to Season 2 Episode  7 of Bold Blind Beauty On A.I.R.  Today we're talking with former Iron Men, Dan Berlin and Jack Chen about their soon-to-be-released  documentary on their experience during the Race Across America. Known as the World's Toughest Bicycle Race, Race Across America is a grueling coast-to-coast 3,000-mile cycling event. Dan and Jack's tandem team consisted of physically fit sighted pilots and blind stokers.  This interesting conversation draws parallels from the boardroom to interdependence and the capabilities of blind people.  If you've ever doubted what blind people can do, this episode will challenge you to see those on the blindness spectrum in a new light.  Bullet points of key topics & timestamps:0:00 | Welcome2:17 | Meeting Jack Chen4:10 | Meeting Dan Berlin7:21 | Race Across America18:08 | Beauty Byte With Dana Hinnant20:25 | The Documentary23:53 | Learning More About The Movie25:24 | Connecting With Dan & Jack27:08 | What's NextContact information & social media handles to connect with Bold Blind Beauty:

Today's episode is an unusual one, as Dr. Hallowell invites several guests to present a different form of diagnosing a difference! More specifically, the episode highlights an exciting new tool for screening for ADHD: the Virtual Reality Attention Tracker! This wearable device is a project of Cognitive Leap, a digital mental health company exploring innovative ways of applying the latest technology to the diagnosis and treatment of all kinds of conditions. Ned's friend Jack Chen is the CEO of the company and overseer of the VR Attention Tracker project, and he joins the podcast today along with his colleagues Skip Rizzo, a professor at USC, and Aram Ma, the principal investigator of the project.

For this episode, we welcome back a staple of the show, Christine Chen! (my beautiful fiance, cohost of the perfectly imperfect podcast, host of the xoxo christine podcast, and a life coach)! It's only fitting for an episode about the "C" word, that Christine and I, your host Jack Chen, get nitty gritty and very personal about all the struggles we have dealt with in the course of our 9 year relationship centered around couples COMMUNICATION. The classic problem of women over communicating and men under communicating is an issue we have faced and still do in our relationship. Tune in to find out how we have adjusted to communicate better through lies I've told that led to a breakup to finally being engaged and on the cusp of getting married! We share so many tips for men and women in relationships as well as single to work on to reach that elusive next level of healthy communication. Follow and find Christine here! Instagram: @xoxochristinechen Life coaching: xoxochristine.com Asian Soul Care: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asiansoulcare Follow for MORE FEELS here: -instagram: instagram.com/rightinthefeelspodcast -tiktok: @rightinthefeelspodcast -twitter: @jackzwchen Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe on itunes! Sharing is caring Email me ANYTHING!: rightinthefeelspod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rightinthefeels/support

In this episode of Unmuted by GosuGamers, the panel is joined by manager/director of Quincy Crew Jack “KBBQDota” Chen to discuss their journey in qualifying for The International 10 and their decision to forge their own path.

Hi guys! I have a treat for you all! I brought on my very first guest on this podcast and I couldn't be more honored. His name is Jack Chen the creator and host of Right In The Feels Podcast. In this podcast I ask Jack on the male's perspective when it comes to healing emotional trauma, the ego and all things mental health. It's important to be aware that everyone goes through their own journey and because predominantly women are the ones who are more open about it, we don't get to see a male's perspective. You can find Jack on Instagram: rightinthefeelspodcast and also subscribe to his podcast as well!

Jack Chen lost his sight from an early age due to a failed eye operation. He remained motivated and initially pursued Computer Science, completing his undergrad at Harvard and a masters at UC Berkley. He ultimately found his passion in patent law and completed a law degree as well. He is currently Assistant General Counsel @Facebook, and leads the core Online Advertising Product Legal Team. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/careersfortheblind/message

Completing an Unfinished Task - Guest Speaker Pastor Jack Chen

Cette semaine nous allons aborder deux thématiques que m’inspirent l’invité qui a rendu visite Graine de Business dans les locaux de Radio Taiwan International : le premier thème est celui de l’euphorie de projet, notre invité est en effet au tout début de son projet entrepreunarial et plein d’énergie et de volonté de réussir, nous allons voir quels sont les pièges liés à cette euphorie et ce qui peut aider à surmonter la déception face aux premières difficultés. Le deuxième thème est celui de l’entreprise de notre invité, la création d’un nom, et du service de conciergie et d’aide administrative qu’il veut apporter aux étrangers. Notre invité s’appelle Jack Chen (陳悅敏) et dont l’idée commence à peine à emmerger, puisqu’il a créé son entreprise il y a seulement quelques semaines. Nous allons donc parler de GoTask, un service d’aide aux procédures anglophone pour les étrangers. Pour plus d’informations sur Go Task Save Time consultez la page facebook

This week we're joined by Jack Chen, Christine's fiancé, to answer all your assumptions about men! We asked you over Instagram, questions and assumptions you had about men so we can dive in deeper as to what the heck is going on! Assumptions like: Men don't care or are just less emotional; they fear commitment and marriage; all they care about is sex; how do we talk to them about their exes, and why the negging?! We also want to congratulate Jack on launching his new podcast @rightinthefeelspodcast where he talks in depth about men and feelings! What are they thinking? How to breakthrough the stereotypes or fears that hold you back? And just getting.. right into the feels! Definitely follow and listen in! Links below. Follow Jack + Right in the Feels Podcast here! Jack - Instagram: @jackchenwashere Right in the Feels Podcast - Instagram/Tiktok: @rightinthefeelspodcast Follow Asian Soul Care here! Instagram: @AsianSoulCare; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asiansoulcare Thank you to our sponsor BetterHelp! If you'd like 10% off BetterHelp counseling services, visit BetterHelp.com/pip Follow us here! Untold Stories Journals - https://xoxo-perfectly-imperfect.myshopify.com/collections/notebooks Christine - Instagram: @xoxochristinechen; Twitter: @christinechen4 Regina - Instagram: @regina.fang; Twitter: @reginafang; At Last: @wearatlast Perfectly Imperfect - Instagram: @perfectly.imperfect.podcast; Facebook: perfectlyimperfectpodcast Remember to rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes and don't forget to tell a friend about the show :) See you guys next week! Send us feedback/questions at theperfectlyimperfectpodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

COVID-19 infection rates are growing exponentially. Even with a vaccine on the horizon, it will be some time before everyone is vaccinated and life can return to usual. In addition to mask wearing and social distancing, one of the critical ways to support the economy is through comprehensive testing and robust contact tracing. Loud-Hailer is a technology company that provides a cutting-edge contact and facility tracing solution. Our Guest, Jack Chen, is the CEO and co-founder of Loud-Hailer. He and his team are working to get everyone safely back to work.

COVID-19 is in the headlines again. Infection rates are growing exponentially. Even with a vaccine on the horizon, it will be some time before everyone is vaccinated and life can return to usual. In addition... The post Jack Chen. Loud-Hailer. COVID-19 & Contact Tracing. appeared first on Up Next.

Join us with the esteemed Jack Chen, PharmD as we discuss some of the advancements in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. 

Bringing in a special guest this week, we sit down virtually with Jack Chen to discuss the generation where social interactions are formed through virtual platforms (how on theme!). In our conversation, we visit our views on the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, the influence of social media on mental health, the Chinese phenomenon of Tencent's WeChat, and more. Overall, the theme of this week's episode dances around the heavy theme of how the Internet and our online personas are creating an increasingly polarized and opinionated society… *Trigger Warning: brief discussions on self-harm and suicide* --- Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, check out the links below: Website: thebiculturalidentity.com Instagram: instagram.com/thebiculturalidentity --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebiculturalidentity/message

Join us with the esteemed Jack Chen, PharmD as we discuss some of the advancements in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us with the esteemed Jack Chen, PharmD as we discuss some of the advancements in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. 

Startups have unique marketing challenges. Especially when they enter a high growth stage. In this episode, Adam Torres and Jack Chen, Co-Founder and CEO of SWIDIA, explore performance and growth marketing strategies for startups.Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule.Apply to be interviewed by Adam on our podcast:https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/

On this episode, I have a conversation with Jack Chen, the CEO and Co-Founder of SWIDIA (a performance marketing partner for high-growth companies and venture-funded startup). Jack worked for 10+ years in the content and influencer space before co-founding SWIDIA. Jack and team are changing the way brands are thinking about growth marketing. They take a four-pronged approach to growth: Strategy, Media Planning, Conversion Centric Creative and Analytics. The results have been incredibly impressive. They are working with brands such as Cameo, Dude Wipes, Radish and many others. Key 1st Time Founder Lessons: - The keys to really scale a company, you need to make sure that everything you're doing is trackable, measurable and scalable. - How complimentary skills between the co-founders (Creative & Analytics) was the right combination for SWIDIA. - Don’t copy someone else’s story, create your own. - The difference between performance marketing and traditional agency marketing and how to incorporate into your growing business. - How 1st Time Founders should be thinking about performance marketing in their growth plans. - How to successfully work with operating partners to assist with growth and the key questions to ask.

Walt Woods joins us to discuss his paper Adversarial Explanations for Understanding Image Classification Decisions and Improved Neural Network Robustness with co-authors Jack Chen and Christof Teuscher.

On this episode of the NavigatingBlindness podcast, we chat with Lou Moneymaker, President & CEO of Bosma Enterprises, and Jack Chen, product counsel in charge of Chrome at Google. Jack talks to us about racing across America with his tandem bike team, who recently completed the 3,070 mile coast to coast, nonstop Race Across America, how lack of exposure to and understanding of blindness plays a major role in keeping employment rates low for the blind community and how education and training played a role in his success.

We discuss Annalee Neuwitz’s novel Autonomous, a sci fi story set in a world of biotech and aggressive patent enforcement. The book is a two hander about a drug pirate named Jack Chen and a robot named Paladin who awakens and finds love. It’s thematically about the meaning of autonomy, both in terms of political […]

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team,  check out ExcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this years 2018 race Across America.null Podcast summary In this episode we speak withJenny Lay Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft. Jenny experienced increasing deafness as a child but never let it prevent her from pursuing her dreams. Join to hear Jenny’s attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled her to achieve incredible success. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Key lessons Jenny will show us that  Not hesitating to self advocate to get what you need,  not seeing yourself as different Embracing all of life as developing problem solving and innovation skills Identifying your own board of directors to serve as mentors have led to her tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the web for more resources

Show Summary: Full Transcript Below Daniel Berlin joins Jeff in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk about phase 5 of his Team See Possibilities 7 continents in 7 years goal. New Zealand is the next target for Team See Possibilities. [caption id="attachment_4090" align="alignleft" width="300"]Team See Possibilities walking the Great Wall of China 2017[/caption] Last year it was China and the Great Wall, another was climbing Kilimanjaro, and as you can gather, these extreme endurance events gain the attention of many throughout the world, Alison, Brad, Charles and Dan get most energized when they are able to meet with children who are blind and vision impaired. Each event includes visits to blind schools, parents and teachers of the blind. Over the last 5 years, Team See Possibilities has raised over $100,000 to support children who are blind around the world. And they have been busy working on a Global Scholarship initiative that will launch in early 2019. This scholarship program is aimed at blind students wanting a college education and have a drive to succeed.   You can find Team See Possibilities on the web at www.TeamSeePossibilities.comCheck out their schedule of events and find out how you can support the Team’s mission.     Contact: Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.   Full Transcript:   Dan Berlin: We're on our fifth continent now, and taking on our fifth endurance challenge, this one in New Zealand.   Jeff Thompson: Please welcome Dan Berlin, Team See Possibilities.   Dan Berlin: It's the challenge itself that brings out the strength in us.   Jeff Thompson: Blind ultra-marathon runner, extreme endurance athlete, co-founder of his own company, and blindness advocate.   Dan Berlin: To see the possibilities, not the limitations, our message is always about letting each individual find their true own self human capacity, human potential, and help them to recognize that.   Jeff Thompson: You can find out more about Dan Berlin and the foundation at teamseepossibilities.com.   Dan Berlin: The barriers and challenges are there for someone with a visual disability, but they're not insurmountable. It's just, we always learn how to attack the problem from a different angle.   Jeff Thompson: For more podcasts with the blindness perspective, check us out on the web at www.blindabilities.com, and download the free Blind Abilities app from the app store, that's two-words, Blind Abilities.   Dan Berlin: For anyone who likes Lord of the Rings, almost all of that film was filmed around that area. Basically we're running around Mount Doom.   Jeff Thompson: Now, here's Dan Berlin. We hope you enjoy. Welcome to Blind Abilities, I'm Jeff Thompson. Today we got a special guest who's taken off to New Zealand. He's a blind endurance athlete. His name's Dan Berlin. Thank you, Dan, for taking the time in such a crunch moment and coming on to Blind Abilities.   Dan Berlin: Oh thank you Jeff. Thank you for having me.   Jeff Thompson: Oh, you bet. It's a pleasure to have you on. Can you tell people what you've been doing? You got seven countries, seven years, but you're doing something that's bigger than just the event itself.   Dan Berlin: Definitely. This started out as a recreational activity in the extreme sense with three of my friends and I looking to run rim-to-rim-to-rim in the Grand Canyon. We did that four years ago. After that, it was so impactful that we decided to form a non-profit called Team See Possibilities. Since then, we've been taking on once a year, epic endurance challenges around the world with the mission of supporting children who are blind in each country that we go to. We're on our fifth continent now, and taking on our fifth endurance challenge, this one in New Zealand. We leave tomorrow evening.   Jeff Thompson: You're going to be doing an endurance marathon. I mean, it's not just around the track 26-miles, this is something quite different.   Dan Berlin: Yeah. We like to find things that are challenging. As any of us who have limited, or no sight know, uneven surfaces to the extreme of trying to run on the trail is about as challenging as it gets. That's kind of right in our wheel-house. We put ourselves in these tough situations and try to figure out how to get through it. Each time we attempt one of these runs, we're learning as we go, adapting, to different techniques of guiding. I've learned so much on the fly about how to deal with different situations as they present themselves, and doing it safely, and really relying on others, working together as a team to do these things that seem impossible at the time. Then we find a way to get them done.   Dan Berlin: Then we try to take that message and share it, especially with parents, educators, children who are interacting, or who are visually impaired themselves, and really say that this is tough. It's hard to go through school. It's hard to think of a career when you have limited sight, but the reality is that the challenge can actually make us stronger. It's just like when we do train for an endurance event, when we do train for a marathon, we don't jump off the couch and run it, we have to put ourselves through all sorts of challenges in order to build up that endurance to be able to tackle the goal that we want to obtain. We use this analogy in taking on some of these tremendously hard endurance challenges, to really say, "It's the challenge itself that brings out the strength in us."   Jeff Thompson: Doing such feats as this brings a lot of attention to it. You kind of relay into bringing attention to blindness, and the orphanages, and people involved in those countries.   Dan Berlin: Yeah, definitely. We spend a lot of time with schools. Spend a lot of the time with children who are blind, and also their peers, their communities, their educators. So often it's about not coming in with pre-set expectations, or a very low bar of what somebody's capable of achieving. Our message is always about letting each individual find their true own self, human capacity, human potential, and help them to recognize that. So often it's the most well-meaning adults in the child's life that put up these roadblocks around them, or guardrails might be more ... to say to keep them safe. In so doing, oftentimes, limit their own self-beliefs on what can be accomplished, or what they can truly achieve. That's what we try to knock down.   Dan Berlin: Professionally, I co-founded the Vanilla Extract Company, been CEO here for years. We actually just made a transition with the company, so now I'm back into a very large corporate environment. You know, the barriers and challenges are there for someone with a visual disability, but they're not insurmountable. It's just we always learn how to attack the problem from a different angle.   Jeff Thompson: When you attack this problem of the trail ultra-marathon, you're not just going to run one, you decided to do two in a week.   Dan Berlin: Yeah. You know what that say, that expression about you become the average of your peers? The real true test of that is to pick incredible peers to be hanging out with. When I got together with this team, if you said the bar was two-feet high, they looked at it and said, "Well, that's the first one, the real one's four-feet high." They're always upping the ante, and that's great for me, because we push each other to achieve things that we're not sure if we know we can do. When we go into these things, we never really know that we're going to accomplish it. That's what makes it so special when we do. This time, in New Zealand, we're taking on the Tongariro Circuit in the north island, which is about a 27-mile run. For those that love Lord of the Rings, if you picture Mount Doom, we're basically running around Mount Doom. Yeah, so you can imagine how rugged that terrain is in the films, that's where number one ...   Dan Berlin: Then, for after leaving the north island, we head to the south island and take on the world-famous Milford Track. For this one, we're going to start by kayaking a few kilometers to the start. This is traditionally a four-day hike, about 33 miles. We're going to run it, actually reverse, to the normal route that's taken. It gets a lot of climbing, and the rugged terrain in there in the first half, and take that on, in less than a day.   Jeff Thompson: Less than a day?   Dan Berlin: Less than a day.   Jeff Thompson: Wow.   Dan Berlin: We're not bringing sleeping bags, so it's going to be pretty cold and wet if we don't make it.   Jeff Thompson: There's the incentive. There you go.   Dan Berlin: Exactly. That's what they say.   Jeff Thompson: It's great what you do. I know you started this a while ago. This is number five out of the seven, right?   Dan Berlin: Yeah, this is five of the seven.   Jeff Thompson: Five continents. Last year you did the Great Wall, and wow, Kilimanjaro.   Dan Berlin: Yeah.   Jeff Thompson: The list goes on.   Dan Berlin: It's great. Each time we go to one of these countries, we have the opportunity to speak at schools, to talk with children who have vision loss, and parents and teachers, and communities in which they live. So we always get lots of ability to interact with many communities, and to really spread our message of ability, and not pre-judging. The whole goal is to just blow up these perceived notions of what someone with a disability is capable of doing.   Jeff Thompson: And let them see the possibilities as in the name Team See Possibilities.   Dan Berlin: Exactly. We want everyone, the individual themselves, and those around them to see the possibilities, not the limitations.   Jeff Thompson: Yeah, just like you said in other times when we've talked, you said, "You don't think about what you can't do, you think about what you can do," I like that attitude.   Dan Berlin: Yeah. It's exactly. I mean, in the workplace, so often we focus on enhance your strengths, play to your strengths, take advantage of your strengths, do whatever you can to diminish your weaknesses, that's so often in many things, whether it's a sport, business, personally, that's what leads to success. For someone with a vision impairment, like myself, yeah, a significant weakness is the fact that I can't see what I'm doing. Mitigate that weakness, find an awesome team. I have three fantastic guides and play to my strengths. In my case, my strengths are the love and ability to do some of these endurance challenges and make that most of that.   Jeff Thompson: Why don't you give a Team See Possibilities a shout-out right now? I think they're great. I've watched those videos, and wow, it's just neat seeing what they do for challenges along with you. Cause you seem like they're either crazy guy, and they're there with you though.   Dan Berlin: Oh, sometimes I think I am the sane one in the group.   Jeff Thompson: Oh wow.   Dan Berlin: So it's awesome. We were first started with Charles Scott, longtime friends, been friends for almost two decades now. When I first got into just running, my goal was really to start running and get to a 5k, this was about nine years ago. I had no idea of getting into endurance sports at the time. I was in my late 30s, feeling down, gaining weight, had started a new enterprise, new company, and was feeling pretty low about my physical health, and just decided to go out and start running to try to get back in shape. Charles is really the inspiration to take it a step further and try a marathon. He's one of the main drivers of the team.   Dan Berlin: Brad Graff is a longtime friend of Charles, and invaluable teammate. Brad is our logistics guru. He takes care of everything, packing list, plan-wise, transportation, gets us to where we need to be, keeps us on time. It's absolutely fantastic. Alison Qualter Berna is our third team member, and she's really the heart of the team. Alison brings so much compassion and joy to everything she does, that being out there together makes it so enjoyable. Then the four of us, we support each other. We all have our high points, and we all have our low points. It's all about doing this as a unit and being together.   Jeff Thompson: You really caught my attention when I heard about ... when you ran the rim-to-rim, the Grand Canyon. Like one foot to the left would have been thousand feet down. You ran the ... First blind person to ever do that. Let's see there is South American, there's China, Kilimanjaro, there's Europe coming up next year, but I saw on your list of number seven is Antarctica.   Dan Berlin: Antarctica is the big one. We systematically put Europe as number six, because if the opportunity opens up for us to be able to Antarctica next year, we're sure we can find a way of doing Europe the following year. That is the big one. We haven't determined exactly what Antarctica looks like yet. It's expensive. It's time-consuming. It's a pretty incredible place to be. That is going to be the capstone of this journey.   Jeff Thompson: Yeah, the thing about at the South Pole, if you go 10 miles north, 20 miles east, or west, you're still on 10 miles from the South Pole.   Dan Berlin: I know. It's pretty cool.   Jeff Thompson: Yeah, mind-boggling is what I see this as. You guys are out there, you're a team. I like that team spirit that you have, you talk about, and what you're doing for all the communities, and that you get involved with. You're doing something else this fall, not only running two ultra-marathons in one week, but you're starting something very special this fall, why don't you tell the listeners about it.   Dan Berlin: Definitely. In our travels around the world, we often speak at schools, and have been giving financial donations, contributions to school-by-school as we visit them. We started a music program in a school for the blind in Lima for instance. We helped buy supplies for an integrated school for the blind in Tanzania. What we want to do is create a more meaningful, lasting impact on the blind community, and those that interact with them. In thinking about it, we thought, tackling this transition, for youths, from high school, into college, and helping students obtain a meaningful secondary education. Now this is not for everyone, this is for the students that have the will, and the tenacity, and the fight to go and take on the college education.   Dan Berlin: I know from experience, it's very challenging. It's hard enough to understand where should we go? Where can we get accepted? What should we major in? The expense, and the cost of going. Now layering on top of that, the challenge of having to figure out how you're going to get around campus. What type of support will I need in the classroom? Will my professors understand if I can't see what they're presenting, or the video that they're showing? These stresses are just in the added level of challenge that just requires additional hard work and tenacity to get it done.   Dan Berlin: What we're starting up is a scholarship program at least where we can to help offset the cost of students that want to take on this challenge. We'll be rolling this out first quarter of 2019. Probably looking to take applications by March or April of 2019 for the fall of next year. Our goal is to be able to offer five $5000 scholarships. We targeted it around both New Zealand, and the United States for this year. The long-term goal of the project is to identify and create meaningful pathways for a student with vision-loss, or no sight, through a university program, into a career path, and be able to have mentors, and folks that have done it, that have navigated those waters before, available to help mentor, and just to be there as resources.   Dan Berlin: Again, really, this is when a student approaches a professor in a freshman year of biology class let's say, and can't see the screen, having them have somebody that they can talk to and ask about, "How did you do it?" I think that will be very powerful, and really getting back to our mission about supporting children with vision loss and helping them achieve their maximum potential. Sometimes we get stuck trying to solve the problem when there's a solution, but if we can prevent having to reinvent the wheel every time, that's what we're after. This isn't for everyone, but this is for those that are really looking to get out there and go through a university program, and not quite sure all the roadblocks they're going to face. We're looking at initially financial support, and eventually building this into a lot more peer-to-peer mentoring support.   Jeff Thompson: I really like what you say as a career pathway, a pathway for other people to follow. Like you said, reinventing the wheel, every person that comes along, they think they're the only person in the world that has ever done this, but just like when the next blind person gets to the top of Kilimanjaro, there's probably a little piece of braille up there that says, "Dan Berlin was here."   Dan Berlin: I tell you, I mean, when I take on these challenges, I research the trail, and I look for anyone else who's vision impaired that has done similar things before, part of the trail, or similar type things, and ask them. That's one of the ways I met Jack Chen. Years ago, I called him when I was looking at going up Kilimanjaro, cause I read that he climbed it several years ago. I really asked him, I said, "Well what was it like? What was the trail like? How did you handle this? How did you handle that?"   Jeff Thompson: Oh wow.   Dan Berlin: To be able to provide that level of ... Somebody there to be able to be supportive, and just be that sounding board for a student to be able to ask, "Well, how did you get through a course that's all dealing with quizzes, and clickers, and you have to see the screen to enter the number, and which one you choose?" Little practical issues like that, that are the reality in college today. If we can solve some of those issues without having to involve ... Sometimes we don't like the stigma of having to involve university services, or to make a big to-do about special accommodations.   Jeff Thompson: Sometimes there's just that little thing that gets you past something that you go, "Oh, that's it?" It's just a little simple thing. What I was going to say earlier is there's ... someone's going to get to the top of Kilimanjaro and find a braille Dan Berlin was here, but now I'm corrected, now it's going to say Jack Chen and Dan Berlin were here.   Dan Berlin: Yeah, exactly. I mean that's how I met Jack. Jack is a fantastic person. He and I have such similar beliefs, and attitude towards life, and the way we view things.   Jeff Thompson: Well, you guys did the Race Across America last year ... well this year, 2018.   Dan Berlin: Yeah.   Jeff Thompson: Wow.   Dan Berlin: Yeah, it was the past June.   Jeff Thompson: Two big major feats.   Dan Berlin: I know. Time goes by.   Jeff Thompson: Wow. Well Dan, I know you got to get packing, heading out to New Zealand for that endurance flight. I just want to thank you so much for coming on here, sharing. If you want to read more about Dan and his Team See Possibilities, it's teamseepossibilities.com on the web. Congratulations on the Race Across America. Good luck to you and your team, Team See Possibilities when you head to New Zealand, and accomplish your goals.   Dan Berlin: Yeah, thank you very much Jeff. I really appreciate having the opportunity to share this with you, and the other listeners.   Jeff Thompson: Oh great. I'm looking forward to hearing about it. I talked to you earlier, it was like, "What? You're going to New Zealand? Now what's up?" It's like, wow, that's really cool. I want to say if you get a chance to go onto the website, there's some videos there that just explain doing the wall. It's not just a path, the wall is not a path. There's obstacles, there's some parts that are perfect, picture perfect parts, but you kayaked in the morning, you climbed ... oh it was like, "Wow, this is really cool." There's other videos on there too. Just good information on there, and hopefully people can get a chance to go to your website and check it out.   Dan Berlin: Oh, thanks Jeff.   Jeff Thompson: I'm excited for you. I'm excited for your team. Good luck to all of you.   Dan Berlin: Ah, thank you Jeff. I think this is fantastic. I really appreciate this, such short notice, this is great.   Jeff Thompson: Safe travels man.   Dan Berlin: Thanks Jeff.   Jeff Thompson: All right.   Dan Berlin: Take care.   Jeff Thompson: Bye-bye. Be sure to check out Team See Possibilities on the website at www.teamseepossibilities.com. I'm sure we'll get back with Dan Berlin when they return, and some other exciting news as they start to launch the global scholarship project from Team See Possibilities. Once again, I want to thank you for listening. We hope you enjoyed. Until next time, bye-bye.   [Music] [Transition noise] When we share -What we see -Through each other's eyes...   [Multiple voices overlapping, in unison, to form a single sentence]   ...We can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations, and the realities of Blind Abilities.   Jeff Thompson:         For more podcasts with the blindness perspective, check us out on the web at www.blindabilities.com on Twitter @BlindAbilities, download our app from the App Store. Blind Abilities, that's two words, or send us an email at info@blindabilities.com. Thanks for listening.

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities.   Podcast summary In this episode we speak with CEO Jim Gibbons. Jim has served in an executive role at several prominent organizations including Good Will and National Industries for the Blind. Jim was the first student who was blind to graduate from the Harvard Business School. Join us to hear Jim’s attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled him to achieve incredible success. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Key lessons Jim will show us that Leveraging technology to gain access to the world around him, Continuously exhibiting tenacity and sticktoitiveness, and Building influence with others by learning to trust them have led to his tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the web for more resources   Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out ExcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this years 2018 race Across America.   ExcelAbility: Conversation with Steve Walker, Entrepreneur Who Happens to Have Dyslexia Podcast summary In this episode we speak with businessman Steve Walker. In Steve’s early years, he struggled with reading and writing and nearly failed out of school. After discovering how his unique approach to problems gave him an edge in manufacturing, Steve started several wildly successful companies. Join us to hear Steve’s attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled him to achieve incredible success. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Key lessons Steve will show us that Finding work arounds in your disability to teach us about finding creative solutions for all areas of our lives, Not dwelling on the negatives but focusing on the positive, and Always looking for the unique advantage that you bring to the table have led to his tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We'd love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the web for more resources  

An interview with Jack Chen of Team VGJ, an eSports Team Director, Chinese-English interpreter, and analyst. Learn why: - Jeremy Lin is investing in eSports in China - Team VGJ has teams in China and North America - Eastern teams and Western teams train differently - The Chinese government is embracing eSports - China may lead the world in eSports - Tencent’s ecosystem may threaten developers

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. To learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out ExcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this year’s 2018 race Across America. ExcelAbility: Conversation with Peter Denman, UX Designer who happens to have Dyslexia and quadriplegia Podcast summary In this episode we speak with user experience designer Peter Denman. As a young man, Peter suffered a spinal chord injury which resulted in his quadriplegia. Peter has learned to leverage that experience, as well as his dyslexia, to work on the most incredible design projects. Peter assisted in the development of the computer interface used by the late Stephen Hawking. Join us to hear Peter’s attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled him to achieve incredible success. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Key lessons Peter will show us that never giving up and pressing forward for the opportunity that will come, finding creative solutions to overcome challenges, and always saying yes, even if you are not sure you can do the thing you’ve been asked to do have led to his tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the web for more resources   Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out ExcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was be on the Sea To See Team in this years 2018 race Across America.   ExcelAbility: Conversation With Dan Berlin, Rodelle Food Company founder and epoch adventurist who happens to be blind In this episode we speak with Dan Berlin, founder and owner of the RodelleFood Company. Rodelle produces fine baking products and spices, including vanilla bean and extracts. Rodelle’s vanilla products can be found in many of your local grocery stores in the U.S. Dan also regularly tackles epoch adventures such as hiking the Inca Trail in one day, running rim to rim to rim in the Grand Canyon, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in the dark to raise awareness and funds for various international causes. Tune in to hear about how Dan turned the hard lessons of vision loss to make him a better business man, adventurist, and person. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Key lessons Dan will show us that Using his daily experiences as a person with a disability to make him a effective risk taker, Using the challenges of disability to catalyze his true strengths, and Working harder and smarter, have led to his tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the web for more resources   Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.

4 Tandem Team Sea to See became the first ever team with blind/visually impaired stokers to complete Race Across America. Jack Chen joins us to talk about the incredible experience! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out WxcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com http://www.TeamExcelAbility.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this years 2018 race Across America.   ExcelAbility: Conversation With Sander Flaum, Marketing CEO And Best Selling Author Who Happens To Have A Stutter In this episode we speak with marketing executive Sander Flaum. Sander has run a number of pharmaceutical marketing firms, including bringing the firm of RSCG Becker to number two in the world and starting his own consultancy, Flaum Navigators. At one point in Sander’s career, he failed to receive a promotion to run Lederley Labs (now part of Pfiser) because members of the board thought that Sander’s stutter was a form of mental illness. Sander set out to be more successful than any of them. Join us to hear Sander’s attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled him to achieve incredible success. Click here for a transcript of this episode. Key lessons Sander will show us that Hard work and demonstrating that you are better than the competition, Engaging quality mentors, Discussing your disability as a way to take the pressure off, and When discussing your disability, talking about how it has taught you to work harder and smarter than the next guy have led to his tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the webfor more resources Be sure to tune in next month for another ExcelAbility Podcast. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store. Get the Free blind Abilities App on the Google Play Store.

Jack Chen is a drug pirate, illegally fabricating patented pharmaceuticals in an underground lab. But when she discovers a deadly flaw in Big Pharma’s new productivity pill, corporate bosses hire a team of assassins to silence her. Annalee Newitz’s novel Autonomous (Tor, 2017) isn’t only a fast-paced cat-and-mouse story. It’s also an exploration of the rapaciousness of capitalism and its ability to turn everything, even freedom, into a commodity. Her first novel, Autonomous has been widely acclaimed, receiving Nebula and Lambda Literary award nominations. “I’ve written a lot about patents and how they affect innovation and how companies use patents to screw customers over,” Newitz, a journalist and founder of io9, says in her New Books interview with Rob Wolf. In Autonomous, she highlights how “something dry and wonky like patent law has a life or death hold over us.” Newitz also turns the idea of robot rebellion on its head. “I wanted to tweak this idea that is such a big cliché in science fiction about a society that builds a bunch of robots to be their slaves, and these slave robots rise up and enslave humanity.” In Autonomous, which is set 150 years in the future, robots and human are in the same boat—both subject to servitude. “As soon as we can quantify something that we’re saying is equivalent to human life—we’re saying these robots are human equivalents—it’s super easy legally and ethically … to put a dollar value on human life.” And when that happens, “everyone will end up being enslaved,” she says. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Chen is a drug pirate, illegally fabricating patented pharmaceuticals in an underground lab. But when she discovers a deadly flaw in Big Pharma’s new productivity pill, corporate bosses hire a team of assassins to silence her. Annalee Newitz’s novel Autonomous (Tor, 2017) isn’t only a fast-paced cat-and-mouse story. It’s also an exploration of the rapaciousness of capitalism and its ability to turn everything, even freedom, into a commodity. Her first novel, Autonomous has been widely acclaimed, receiving Nebula and Lambda Literary award nominations. “I’ve written a lot about patents and how they affect innovation and how companies use patents to screw customers over,” Newitz, a journalist and founder of io9, says in her New Books interview with Rob Wolf. In Autonomous, she highlights how “something dry and wonky like patent law has a life or death hold over us.” Newitz also turns the idea of robot rebellion on its head. “I wanted to tweak this idea that is such a big cliché in science fiction about a society that builds a bunch of robots to be their slaves, and these slave robots rise up and enslave humanity.” In Autonomous, which is set 150 years in the future, robots and human are in the same boat—both subject to servitude. “As soon as we can quantify something that we’re saying is equivalent to human life—we’re saying these robots are human equivalents—it’s super easy legally and ethically … to put a dollar value on human life.” And when that happens, “everyone will end up being enslaved,” she says. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Chen is a drug pirate, illegally fabricating patented pharmaceuticals in an underground lab. But when she discovers a deadly flaw in Big Pharma’s new productivity pill, corporate bosses hire a team of assassins to silence her. Annalee Newitz’s novel Autonomous (Tor, 2017) isn’t only a fast-paced cat-and-mouse story. It’s also an exploration of the rapaciousness of capitalism and its ability to turn everything, even freedom, into a commodity. Her first novel, Autonomous has been widely acclaimed, receiving Nebula and Lambda Literary award nominations. “I’ve written a lot about patents and how they affect innovation and how companies use patents to screw customers over,” Newitz, a journalist and founder of io9, says in her New Books interview with Rob Wolf. In Autonomous, she highlights how “something dry and wonky like patent law has a life or death hold over us.” Newitz also turns the idea of robot rebellion on its head. “I wanted to tweak this idea that is such a big cliché in science fiction about a society that builds a bunch of robots to be their slaves, and these slave robots rise up and enslave humanity.” In Autonomous, which is set 150 years in the future, robots and human are in the same boat—both subject to servitude. “As soon as we can quantify something that we’re saying is equivalent to human life—we’re saying these robots are human equivalents—it’s super easy legally and ethically … to put a dollar value on human life.” And when that happens, “everyone will end up being enslaved,” she says. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Job Insights Extra #2: Advice from Team Sea to See on Transitioning and Rebranding Disability Through Achievement Welcome to Job Insights Extra, part of the Job Insights Podcast with Serina Gilbert and Jeff Thompson, a podcast focused on the world of employment, career pathways and gainful and meaningful employment. The Job Insights Extra podcasts are success stories, interviews and demos that enhance the experience of reaching that career you want. In Job Insights Extra episode #2 we share the insights from Team Sea To See, a team entered in  to the Race Across America (RAM). The team of 4 will tandem bike race across America dipping there wheels in the Pacific Ocean and racing non-stop to the Atlantic Ocean. While they were in the Blind Abilities studio promoting the race, they hung out to talk about a topic they feel is very important. We asked them what advice they would give to a student transitioning from high school to college and the workplace?  Jack Chen, dan Berlin and Tina Ament each took turns talking about their personal experiences and gave us some very good insights and we are glad to share the conversation with you all on episode #2 of Job Insights Extra.    Full Transcript Below You can check out the Race Across America podcast with Team Sea to See on Blind Abilities.plain-sight-meet-team-sea-to-see/ And check out Team Sea to See on their Facebook page. You can learn more about Rebranding Disability Through Achievement on the web at Lime Connect   Thank you for listening! Follow Job Insights on Twitter @JobInsightsVIP Do you have any suggestions or feedback? Send the Job Insights Team an email   Job Insights is part of the Blind Abilities Network. You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store. Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the Google Play Store.   Transcription:   Job Insights Extra #2: Advice from Team Sea to See on Transitioning and Rebranding Disability Through Achievement   [Music] Jeff: Welcome to a Job Insights Extra and today I want to share with you some job insights that came from Jack Chen, Dan Berlin, and Tina Ament. They're three quarters of the team of Team Sea to Sea, and they're entering the race across America this summer and some of the feats these three have been in is quite astonishing. From climbing Kilimanjaro, to racing in ultra marathons, world champion Hill climber, Google lawyer, a US attorney, co-founder of a major food company, the list goes on and on. And be sure to check out the podcast with the Sea to Sea race across America. I'll put the link in the show notes and you'll learn so much more about each of these individuals and the feats that they've accomplished. While I had them in the studio I asked them some questions about transition age students and employment and I really appreciated them taking the time to answer these questions and being willing to share their experiences and advice with us, so please welcome Jack Chen, Dan Berlin, and Tina Ament on transitioning students and employment. We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening to this episode of Job Insights Extra. Job Insights is a podcast that is helping you find careers and gainful employment through innovations and opportunities and you can find the job insights podcast on blindabilities.com, part of the Blind Abilities network, and as part of the Job Insights podcast we will be bringing you the Job Insights Extras consisting of interviews, demonstrations, and news surrounding employment, careers, and jobs. With host's Serina Gilbert, and myself, Jeff Thompson. And you can contact us by email at jobinsights@blindabilities.com, leave us some feedback, or suggest some topics that we cover, you can also follow us on twitter at Job Insights VIP. So while we're here I want to take this opportunity to ask you a couple questions about transition and employment and some words of advice. Dan there's a topic that you brought up and it's about people not knowing what they can't do, something of that nature, can you explain what you meant when you said that? Dan: Yeah it's so, it's so true in human, you know our existence, and so often I mean, none of us know what we can't do, we all know what we think we can't do, but until you put it out there and actually try it, actually go for it, we really don't know what their limits are. And so often what we're pushing up against as blind individuals just happen to have it highlighted more than others, but this is universal, we're pushing up against our perceived limitations. That's something that all of us can challenge, that's why this message can be universal, you know beyond blindness, beyond disability. We catch a lot of attention because we're a cyclist who was blind, or a runner who is blind has done X Y Z, and I hear the comments all the time from folks that say yeah, I can't believe you run a marathon, I can't believe you did an Ironman, I could never do that, and that label right there, it's like, you know no, you probably could do it, you just, it would need a lot of work and and you know we tend to limit ourselves quite a bit right there. And it's so freeing to have those limitations removed, just that idea that you know we really can do whatever we want to do, it's just where we're going to focus and whatever we're going to put into it, so attitude, effort, and discipline is really what it all comes down to. Jeff: Dan, you mentioned at around age 30 you went through some vision loss and that you said you weren't even much of an athlete, now I don't know what not much of an athlete at the level that you're at right now means, but could you explain that? Dan: Yeah definitely, you know I started losing my sight when I was 7, and it was a slow progression all the way up through my 20's and by 30 I was pretty much legally blind you know early thirties. I was an amateur athlete, I was the type who would run two to three times a week 2 to 3 miles a time, I jogged for 20 minutes on the treadmill, I go to the gym once or twice a week and lift weights up until I was about 39 years old and then I had moved from New York City to Colorado, given up a lot the public transportation, was feeling pretty down, I mean I was, I was really low for a while, my whole family had moved out here with me, for me to start my own company out here. I realized at some point that I needed to take on something to kind of turn my mental state around and that's when I just started, I started running, I started just running around my neighborhood you know three miles at a time. Soon realized I needed to find a goal and so signed up for a half marathon and took it from there, so I've been running now, I did my first half marathon, well it'll be seven years ago, let's see I'll be eight years ago in September, so I've really started what I would consider converting myself into an average middle-aged dad about eight years ago into what I would define myself more as an athlete now, and it was completely done just by saying, I was going to do it. I joke with everybody, I definitely don't have the genetic gifts for running or pretty much any endurance sport, but I have the willpower to do it, and you know will trumps skills almost any day. Jeff: Mm-hmm, now you also climbed Kilimanjaro, I mean is it just because it was there, or did you go down to your local gym and just start wall climbing and want another challenge, how did that come about? Dan: Well you know it's because it's there. [Laughter] Jeff: Well there you go. Dan: Just kidding it's, yeah that's it, no it was just a challenge, you know was something that you know I love mountains I moved to Colorado like I said about ten years ago now and after being out here, I love being in the altitude, I love being in the mountains. You know for me what a lot of this comes down to is this idea of setting a goal and going out there and focusing on it and seeing if we can achieve it. Part of the excitement is you know is one of my good friends has a quote that he often says "if something excites and intimidates you it's worth doing" Jeff: Mm-hmm, that's a good one. Dan: And that's what RAM is to me, that's what I think RAM is to all of us on the team. None of us are sure we can do it, but we're all excited by it. Jack: And I think it's a really important point Jeff to drive home is, a lot of people count themselves out before they even get started right, I mean they ask the question can I, but they don't say I can, and so I think that for all of us, I think I would say, where our blindness started, our lives really began, and what I mean by that is, it's easy for folks and this is not just cyclists of course, but for anybody to have something significant happen to them, and in their lives, or to be treated in a particular way, our fifth grade teacher told me very specifically that, you know you don't have to work so hard, government's gonna take care of you, don't stress out, don't, don't work so hard in school, because that was a kid who I really wanted to do well when I was younger, and I struggled, and so the mentality sometimes sets in that, well I do have certain limitations and I should really count the costs, and, and for me I've come to the point now where I say, well rather than thinking first about whether I can do something I say, how can I do it, you know, so it's not can I, but how can I? And that extra word adds an incredible amount of power and success in one's life, and that's kind of one of the things that we want to communicate. Jeff: Well put, very well put Jack. Tina, being that you lost your eyesight early on, how did you overcome the obstacles that you faced? Tina: Well to some extent, with a lot of help, a lot of support from family. I grew up in the days when my parents fought to get my sister and me into public school and we sort of fought for every you know, between them and, and, and us individually, we fought for every little thing, and on the be careful what you wish for side, you know there were, there was a lot of bullying, you know back then teachers didn't care if kids picked on us, there was no stigma attached to bullying or any of that, so a lot of it was between that and being military kids who had to move all the time, you just had to learn how to jump in and swim, like essentially. I think having sports and activities was a way to belong and I can remember when I was a, in fourth grade and I had a little bit more vision than I do now being forced into gym class, and the day that we were doing soccer drills and I actually saved a goal and the class cheered for me was you know one of the greatest days of my life. I mean who remembers a silly a PE class in fourth grade, but I do because it was sports was a way do you belong with my sighted peers and I think it's so important for anybody with a disability or, to have the chance to fit in because it's, it's such a big part of growing up in the states and you know, sports, music all these kind of activities that kids do, my parents and my sister and I both, we had to push ourselves to get off the sidelines and be able to do something to belong. So I think you know, doing sports through, for me I'm a very competitive person, so like Jack, I always wanted to do well in school and was sort of you know very self motivated to do well, but it was hard and you did have to deal with low expectations, because a lot of teachers and and people didn't expect much of you, and you know you had to find it within yourself to decide, hey I'm gonna go for what I think is important because, you know nobody's going to tell me. Jeff: Tina what advice would you have for someone who is transitioning from high school to college to the workplace, and has their job sights on employment? Tina: Be your own best advocate. I think that the hard thing about leaving high school is, and then about leaving the education environment going into the work environment, is that the older you get the less built-in support systems you're gonna have, so my advice would be to learn early on how to advocate for yourself and how to dispel people's assumptions about you. When I started at my law firm out of law school there had been another blind attorney who worked there before me and he had left to go and teach and I started maybe six months after he did, and I got put in the same office as he had been, and I remember one of the partners coming in and saying, don't let this firm decide that you are Max, you're not Max, you're you, and not that Max wasn't a great guy and had a lot of you know great talents, and, and nothing against him, but you have to overcome people's assumptions that either, they know what's best for you, or whatever some other blind person did is what you do. So I would say learn how to self-advocate and learn how to recognize people's assumptions for what they are because sometimes you won't necessarily see them unless you're on the lookout for it. Jeff: That's a great point, how about you Jack? Jack: One of the things that's absolutely key is to find people who have done this thing, whatever it is that you're doing before you, if that's possible. And one of the great things that I've also been involved with is creating a network of people who have incredible talents who have disabilities. It's called Lime Connect and its motto is to "rebrand disability through achievement" and one of the the great things about this organization is there are ten thousand, ten thousand plus other people out there who have disabilities who are doing what you're doing, and who can act as a resource, and you know when you go to your first job interview and they ask you a question that you don't know how to answer, like for example they come to you and say, hey, well how are you going to draw this drawing? Well you go back to your network and you say, hey guys, anyone else face this issue, how did you deal with it? And just being empowered by having this as a resource is incredible, incredibly valuable I think. I know I didn't have that when I was growing up but, sounds like Tina didn't have that when she was growing up, but now there are resources available just, you know, quote unquote click of a mouse. You can find people who are similarly situated with you or people who've gone before you so, finding those individuals who know what you're going through and can help give you some advice and some support along the way, that our resources are out there, so go find it. Jeff: Dan, I know these are two tough people to follow, but you want to give it a shot? Dan: Tell me about it. [Laughter] Yeah sure I mean, I have a little bit different perspective too because I lost my vision a little later in life so I was into my career and working hard at it. I hid it for years you know kind of that fake it to you make it mentality, and then I had an epiphany at one point, I had this whole change in attitude that was so great for me, and the advice I would give to someone is to be yourself you know just be comfortable in your own skin, you know at the end of the day, you are who you are and nobody can change that. The second thing is, with that in mind, don't be afraid to ask for help. You know if you need some help, if you need to tap into your resources, if you need to ask somebody, hey can you tell me where this is, don't be afraid to ask. The third thing is, use the limitation as your advantage, you know, one of the things that whether we like it or not, and it's just what Tina was alluding to here is, the standards are set lower for people with disabilities. So not that, we have we do not have to live up to these standards, but that's our benchmark now. So it gives us the opportunity to achieve above and beyond these standards, so look at this as an opportunity. Opportunity that the shackles are off, my expectations are low on what I'm going to do, so I'm just going to blow it out of the water. Because my my downsides of being wrong is quite minimal, so take advantage of that, you know just go for it! Tina: I would sort of add to that I, I think the one thing that sometimes you know I let for me or discourage me as, you know as I said before people are always making assumptions about you and the first thing they're going to make an assumption based on, is that you're blind or differently-abled, and so much of the time I mean, you don't know how many times I get on to public transit and somebody says, do you know what stop you're going to? As though I would get my fare card, dress up and work clothes, and get on the train having no idea what stop I wanted to go to, [Laughter] So it's it's sort of like half the world assumes that you're feeble-minded, and then a quarter of the world assumes that you're some sort of superhuman like you must have Steve Austin bionic man hearing and of you know computer chip implant for a memory because you actually get up and function in the world, so a lot of the time I just have to remind myself not to let either of those assumptions you know, or people say like, oh well you're just so much more doggin and determined because you do your sports, it's like well no, I'm not a Superman, I'm not a bionic woman, I don't have a Harry Potter time turner so I can do twice as much training as anybody, I'm just a person who doesn't see, and so when you strip away a lot of the assumptions, you have to remind yourself, like I'm not as great as some of them think and I am not as feeble-minded as some of them think I am. But you have to I think really look to your own self to try to decide where your self-worth comes from because assumptions that a lot of people make about you are so bogus and so out of hand that if you listen to them you'll drive yourself crazy. Dan: To put that into you know perspective too, in our modern capitalistic business world here too, I would love nothing better than all my competition to underestimate what we as a company are capable of doing, and then you get out there and you just outperform it. It's one of the classic mistakes that people make you know in life and in business, and it's one of those things where we again can turn the disability, we could turn the perceptions others have of us into a positive. Jeff: That's great, turn it into a positive! [Music] Such a great opportunity to talk to Jack, Dan, and Tina, team Sea to Sea in the Race Across America this summer. That's Ram, Race Across America, we'll be covering it, stay tuned, and such a great thing that they shared such great advice, such transferable advice, it's not just for school, not for employment, but life itself that they shared with us today. Thanks for listening to this episode of Job Insights Extra and be sure to check Job Insights on the Blind Abilities Network. We hope you enjoyed, and until next time, bye bye. [Music] [Multiple voices] When we share what we see through each other's eyes, we can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations and the realities of blind abilities. Jeff: For more podcasts with the blindness perspective check us out on the web at www.blindabilities.com, on Twitter at Blind Abilities, download our app from the app store, Blind Abilities, that is two words, or send us an email at info@blindabilities.com. Thanks for listening!

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out ExcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this years 2018 race Across America. ExcelAbility: Conversation With Blind Film Composer Steve Letnes In this episode we speak with film composer Steve Letnes. Pioneer and trail blazer, Steve is the only visually impaired film composer in the industry. Steve has scored dozens of films, including one from Sony Pictures called Santa’s Bootcamp. Tune in to hear about Steve’s journey through the seemingly impenetrable film industry as a blind composer and his journey to great success. Key lessons Steve will show us that: Not being afraid to ask for help when needed, Not shying away from doing the hardest thing first because then you know you can do anything, and Always saying yes to all the opportunities that come your way even if you’re not quite sure that you can do it have led to his tremendous success. Here is a link to Steve's page'. Contact Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Visit Team ExcelAbility on the webfor more resources Be sure to tune in next month for another ExcelAbility Podcast. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.

In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out WxcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this years 2018 race Across America.   ExcelAbility: Conversation With Vint Cerf, Hearing Impaired, Father Of The Internet In this episode we speak with Vint Cerf, the father of the internet. Tune in to find out how Vint’s hearing impairment drove him to a career in computers and directed him to create the internet. Click here for a transcriptof this episode. Key lessons Vint will show us that Feeling comfortable with his disability, Asking for help when needed, Relying on technology to clear away obstacles, and, Leveraging his disability to drive his career direction have led to his tremendous success. Connect Send us your comments, feedback, or tell us about your own story of success. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter @TeamXLAbility Like Team Excelability on Facebook Visit Team ExcelAbility on the webfor more resources Be sure to tune in next month for another ExcelAbility Podcast. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.

Jack Chen joins us again to continue the conversation. He left the IT industry to start his own broking company, Bankers Finance, and build a multi-million-dollar portfolio of nine properties spanning across Sydney and Brisbane.From being a cog in the corporate wheel to quitting his day job, follow along as Chen reveals how his research, strategies, and hard work paid off to the tune of over $5 million!Click here to find out all about it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jack Chen joins us again to continue the conversation. He left the IT industry to start his own broking company, Bankers Finance, and build a multi-million-dollar portfolio of nine properties spanning across Sydney and Brisbane.From being a cog in the corporate wheel to quitting his day job, follow along as Chen reveals how his research, strategies, and hard work paid off to the tune of over $5 million!Click here to find out all about it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the Founder and CEO of Loud-Hailer, Jack Chen helps everyone from small businesses to global enterprises connect with the right audiences. Today he shows us how he does it. Jack also sheds some light... The post Jack Chen: Revolutionizing the Connectivity Between Businesses and Audiences appeared first on Up Next.

The Ironman Triathlon is a grueling one day endurance race consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.22 mile full length marathon run. It’s considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. To accomplish this feat once in your lifetime is impressive enough. But to return to this race 3, 4, 5 times or more? Today, I welcome back on the podcast Sam Chung, Jack Chen, and Rob Koh who talked with me about their Ironman experience back in March. What drives them back to Ironman year after year? What’s it like to have to drop out mid-race? And how does one of them train with his six year old daughter? Thank you Rob, Jack, and Sam for coming back to the show! Catch the first episode, “How to be an Ironman” here: http://whatjustpodcast.libsyn.com/how-to-be-an-ironman-ep-16 Thanks for listening! Music Del - Smells Like Summer Christian Nanzell - Switchblade SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW What Just Happened? on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Reach me at Facebook: www.facebook.com/whatjusthappenedpodcast Twitter @davidgchang whatjustpodcast @ gmail . com

The Ironman Triathlon is a grueling one day endurance race consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.22 mile full length marathon run. It’s considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. To accomplish this feat once in your lifetime is impressive enough. But to return to this race 3, 4, 5 times or more? Today, I welcome back on the podcast Sam Chung, Jack Chen, and Rob Koh who talked with me about their Ironman experience back in March. What drives them back to Ironman year after year? What’s it like to have to drop out mid-race? And how does one of them train with his six year old daughter? Thank you Rob, Jack, and Sam for coming back to the show! Catch the first episode, “How to be an Ironman” here: http://whatjustpodcast.libsyn.com/how-to-be-an-ironman-ep-16 Thanks for listening! Music Del - Smells Like Summer Christian Nanzell - Switchblade SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW What Just Happened? on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Reach me at Facebook: www.facebook.com/whatjusthappenedpodcast Twitter @davidgchang whatjustpodcast @ gmail . com

Jack Chen - mortgage broker at Banker's Finance - joins us in this episode. He explains how he built his portfolio so that both he and his wife could leave their full-time careers, and how he turned down early retirement to start his own mortgage broking business.Escaping the restraints the nine-to-five in IT to becoming his own boss, follow Chen's journey and discover the strategies he uses helping his own clients to visualise your own success.Click here to find out more! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jack Chen - mortgage broker at Banker's Finance - joins us in this episode. He explains how he built his portfolio so that both he and his wife could leave their full-time careers, and how he turned down early retirement to start his own mortgage broking business.Escaping the restraints the nine-to-five in IT to becoming his own boss, follow Chen's journey and discover the strategies he uses helping his own clients to visualise your own success.Click here to find out more! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, I walk with my good friend, Iron Jack Chen on the High Line of New York City. Jack is a blind Ironman triathlete who has completed two Ironman races, as well as a number of other endurance challenges. (I have had the honor to be his guide.) Jack and I are now training to participate in the Race Across America, an annual bike race across from Seaside, California to Annapolis, Maryland.  We'll be doing the race next summer, as part of a team of four blind cyclists (and four sighted pilots). Our team, Sea to See, is racing to change the way sighted people see blind people.  (And the way blind people see themselves.)  The team will be the first team of blind cyclists to do this race, which is one of the most difficult endurance challenges in the world. I'm tremendously honored to be on this team with Jack and our other teammates, all of whom are incredibly accomplished– both athletically, professionally and otherwise.  Thanks to Jack to inviting me to be part of this epic journey– and for walking with me to share some of his story on the podcast. –#EveryMileMatters P.S. Here's a link to learn more about Lime Connect. P.P.S.  I didn't have time to record an intro and outro to this one because I had to jet to Lake Tahoe for the Spartan World Championships where I'll be recording a number of awesome interviews for the podcast.  So stay tuned for that! Subscribe on iTunes / Subscribe on Stitcher / Subscribe on Google Play   The post Iron Jack Chen: On a Vision Quest with a Blind Triathlete Racing Across America to Change How We See Blind People (And The Way They See Themselves) appeared first on Charity Miles.

Jack Chen, Daniel Berlin, Tina Ament and Micheal Somsan are putting together the first All-Blind Stoker team for the epic endurance bike race in the world, the “Race Across America,” (RAAM). The RAAM is a non-stop race from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast on a Tandem bike and the logistics and preparations are well underway.  Listen to Jack, Tina and Daniel talk about putting the Team together and all that goes into such an epic endurance event. Jack is a Google lawyer, Tina is a US Attorney in DC and Daniel is a co-founder of a major company producing Vanilla extract. Besides their business success they all train and seek out challenges that are out of this world. From Kilimanjaro, to Ironman races, ultra marathons and mountain climbing on a tandem, the RAAM was just waiting for them, I guess, just because it was there. Join Jeff Thompson from the Blind Abilities Podcast team as Jack, Dan and Tina invite you all to share their event and spread the word about Success in Plain Sight. You can read below and to learn more check out Team Sea To See on the web And follow the Team Sea To See on Facebook. (from the web) Team Sea to See is committed to proving that blind people can succeed in any field. We believe that demonstrating this capacity to succeed is critical to empowering others in the blind community and changing society’s perceptions of the blind. We are illustrating this capability by building a team of blind people to tackle RAAM and an accompanying media and outreach campaign. We believe that lack of exposure to and understanding of blindness plays a major role in keeping employment rates so low for the blind community. Employers aren’t intrinsically hostile to the blind; they just don’t understand how blind people can, through ingenuity and adaptive technology, enjoy the same success as their sighted colleagues. We’re taking on the high-profile challenge of the Race Across America to show what blind success looks like, on and off the bike.  We are a team of successful businesspeople and athletes who share blindness as a common characteristic. We’re entering the world’s most grueling endurance cycling race, the 2018 Race Across America (RAAM), to show the immense capabilities of blind people and to raise awareness of the abysmal employment rates of the blind. We will be highlighting our achievements through a major media campaign and a full-length documentary. And we need your help. Your tax-deductible gift can help us shed light on the unacceptable employment rates for blind people across the nation and bring the inspiring stories of our team members into plain view. By supporting Team Sea to See, you will interact with an international audience through conventional and social media, showing your support of diversity and inclusion and helping to change the way the world sees the blind.   Check out the American Foundation for the Blind  (AFB) and see how they are expanding possibilities for people with vision loss. Find out more about USABA. USABA is a Colorado-based 501(c) (3) organization that provides life-enriching sports opportunities for every individual with a visual impairment. Thank you for listening. You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store.

Jack Chen says he’s investing in property to give himself the financial freedom to make decisions on his own terms. Here, the Sydney-based investor reveals the investment strategy that could allow him to retire today, as well as the drivers behind his wealth creation success. In this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, Jack joins host Phil Tarrant and guest co-host Eric Brown to explain how he overcame his debt-adverse mindset to build a nine-strong property portfolio, the sacrifices he’s made to further his wealth creation efforts, and why he believes working with a team of professionals has been critical to achieving his goals. Tune in now to hear all of this and much, much more in this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show! SUBURBS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: *Marrickville - http://bit.ly/2toLEw4 *Logan - http://bit.ly/2t4gMlv *Zillmere - http://bit.ly/2s3Mgtp *Sydney - http://bit.ly/2rjsNSF *Brisbane - http://bit.ly/2t430yZ RELATED ARTICLES OF INTEREST: *What to expect when rentvesting - http://bit.ly/2rjonuR *2 terrible investment mistakes and how to fix them - http://bit.ly/2rjtYBo *‘Enough is enough’: When do you stop investing? - http://bit.ly/2sCkkhh *Most affordable suburbs in capital cities revealed - http://bit.ly/2srgDKG FOLLOW US: Did you like this episode? Show your support by rating us on iTunes (The Smart Property Investment Show) and by liking and following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you’d like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insight! iTunes: apple.co/2tryShe Facebook: bit.ly/2rTJaom Twitter: bit.ly/2sSacBG LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2sFIqVd www.smartpropertyinvestment.com.au

It doesn’t seem humanly possible. Swim 2.4 miles in open water. Bike 112 miles--farther than the distance from Manhattan to Philadelphia. And then, assuming you have any energy left, run a full length marathon, 26.2 miles. All back to back to back, in less than 17 hours. That is the Ironman triathlon—widely considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. (And not to be confused with “Iron Man” Tony Stark of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) Today, I speak with three men who have all completed full length Ironman races and are training for more. I ask them to do a bit of soul searching--while I do a bit of my own--as they talk about what drives their ambition to compete in this crazy race. They discuss what it takes to finish an Ironman and whether or not it’s fair to describe Ironman training as “selfish.” (Lots of shout outs to significant others in this episode!) We talk about training schedules, logistics, nutrition, and the mental challenges of completing a race. And in a twist, regular contributor—and triathlete in her own right—Jennifer Lee Koh joins us to reveal what it’s like to be an “Ironmate.” Many thanks to Rob Koh, Jack Chen, and Sam Chung for taking the time to talk and reflect! Sam, Jack, and Rob are all part of the Trinity Endurance Club or TEC—a group that Sam started to build and foster a community of fitness fans. This was such a fun conversation, and I am so inspired by your stories! Thanks for listening! SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW What Just Happened? on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and SoundCloud. Reach me at My website: www.podcastenthusiast.com Twitter @davidgchang Facebook www.facebook.com/davidchang99 whatjustpodcast @ gmail . com

It doesn’t seem humanly possible. Swim 2.4 miles in open water. Bike 112 miles--farther than the distance from Manhattan to Philadelphia. And then, assuming you have any energy left, run a full length marathon, 26.2 miles. All back to back to back, in less than 17 hours. That is the Ironman triathlon—widely considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. (And not to be confused with “Iron Man” Tony Stark of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) Today, I speak with three men who have all completed full length Ironman races and are training for more. I ask them to do a bit of soul searching--while I do a bit of my own--as they talk about what drives their ambition to compete in this crazy race. They discuss what it takes to finish an Ironman and whether or not it’s fair to describe Ironman training as “selfish.” (Lots of shout outs to significant others in this episode!) We talk about training schedules, logistics, nutrition, and the mental challenges of completing a race. And in a twist, regular contributor—and triathlete in her own right—Jennifer Lee Koh joins us to reveal what it’s like to be an “Ironmate.” Many thanks to Rob Koh, Jack Chen, and Sam Chung for taking the time to talk and reflect! Sam, Jack, and Rob are all part of the Trinity Endurance Club or TEC—a group that Sam started to build and foster a community of fitness fans. This was such a fun conversation, and I am so inspired by your stories! Thanks for listening! SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW What Just Happened? on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and SoundCloud. Reach me at My website: www.podcastenthusiast.com Twitter @davidgchang Facebook www.facebook.com/davidchang99 whatjustpodcast @ gmail . com

Jack Chen has accomplished many of quests that many of us would and will probably never try. From climbing Kilimanjaro, running Triathlons, navigating the busy crowds in New York City, to working at Google 5 days a week as council for Google Chrome. Jack is also a family guy and has a big picture outlook for the direction he wants to take himself, his family and his passion for changing the perceptions of Corporations and creating opportunities for others with disabilities. Jack works for Google and is on the board of directors at Lime Connect.  Listen in as Jack talks with Cheryl, Pete and Jeff about his work, his ideas and what he is planning in the near future. You can find out more about Lime Connect at www.LimeConnect.com You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities Check out our web site at BlindAbilities.com Get the Free Blind Abilities App from the App Store!  

Welcome to LME Podcast! Thank you for listening. This podcast’s contents are: 1.       HELLO 2.       NEWS: To Believe or Not To Believe 3.       Country Shane’s FACT! 4.       Your questions…          Can I pronounce "th" as a "d" sometimes?          Does OUR sound like ARE?          Can I pronounce "th" as a "z" sometimes?!! 5.       Do the English Challenge on FaceBook and win a free month of lessons!                 http://www.facebook.com/eslcoachshane        JOIN PIRF NOW!:  For the free AUDIO book, go here: Get our FREE APP for ANDROID users: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/app Can you sponsor my podcast for $1 a month?   Do you wanna MASTER ENGLISH? Do you have 30 minutes every day? Try one month of DDM for free!  http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm        JOIN DDM!   DDM LITE: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite DDM LIVE: http://dailydictation.blogspot.com DDM OPEN: http://ddmopen.blogspot.com Thank you for listening! I really hope to hear your feedback! Miguel’s BLOG for Spanish speakers:  Mario’s BLOG for Portuguese speakers: http://vamosdominaringles.blogspot.com.br/ Quy’s BLOG for VIETNAMESE speakers: http://englishstudyandshare.blogspot.kr/ Nabeel’s BLOG for Urdu speakers: http://cochshane.blogspot.kr/  Azin’s blog for Persian speakers: http://englishcoachshane.blogspot.co.uk/ Max’s blog for Russian speakers: http://coachshane.ru Mohammad Reza’s blog for Persian speakers:  and http://mrmddi.jimdo.com/ Ji Hyang’s blog for Korean speakers: http://sunhyang.blogspot.co.uk/ Gokhan’s blog for Turkish speakers: http://kaybetmekyokcoachshane.blogspot.com.tr/ Narcissa’s blog for Persian speakers: http://letsmasterenglish.blogfa.com/ Jack Chen’s blog for Taiwan:   Kim JoonBum’s MOBILE Blog for everything:

Welcome to LME Podcast! Thank you for listening. This podcast’s contents are: 1.       HELLO 2.       NEWS: Doo-doo Voodoo 3.       Country Shane’s FACT! 4.       Your questions…          Can I become a "native English speaker"?          Pronunciation difference: CUT and CAT?          LIVING ROOM vs FAMILY ROOM...any difference?          WERE, WE'RE, WHERE, WEAR, WARE...Pronunciation?   5.       Book Club and PATREON!!     JOIN PIRF NOW!:  For the free AUDIO book, go here: http://www.audibletrial.com/lme Get our FREE APP for ANDROID users: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/app Can you sponsor my podcast for $1 a month?   Do you wanna MASTER ENGLISH? Do you have 30 minutes every day? Try one month of DDM for free!  http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm        JOIN DDM!   DDM LITE: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite DDM LIVE: http://dailydictation.blogspot.com DDM OPEN: http://ddmopen.blogspot.com Thank you for listening! I really hope to hear your feedback! Miguel’s BLOG for Spanish speakers: http://aprendeinglescoachshane.blogspot.co.uk/  Mario’s BLOG for Portuguese speakers: http://vamosdominaringles.blogspot.com.br/ Quy’s BLOG for VIETNAMESE speakers: http://englishstudyandshare.blogspot.kr/ Nabeel’s BLOG for Urdu speakers: http://cochshane.blogspot.kr/  Azin’s blog for Persian speakers: http://englishcoachshane.blogspot.co.uk/ Max’s blog for Russian speakers: http://coachshane.ru Mohammad Reza’s blog for Persian speakers:  and http://mrmddi.jimdo.com/ Ji Hyang’s blog for Korean speakers: http://sunhyang.blogspot.co.uk/ Gokhan’s blog for Turkish speakers: http://kaybetmekyokcoachshane.blogspot.com.tr/ Narcissa’s blog for Persian speakers: http://letsmasterenglish.blogfa.com/ Jack Chen’s blog for Taiwan:   Kim JoonBum’s MOBILE Blog for everything:

Welcome to LME Podcast! Thank you for listening. This podcast’s contents are: 1.       HELLO 2.       NEWS: Happy Wife, Happy Life 3.       Country Shane’s FACT! 4.       Your questions…          Which "th" sound do we use?           When do we use the Dark L, when the Light L?          How do you pronounce PERCENT?          How do you pronounce HURT, HEART and HEARD?          How do you pronounce SURE? 5.       Coach Shane’s SPEAKING CLASS!! Try it FOR FREE! THANK YOU!!! For the free AUDIO book, go here: http://www.audibletrial.com/lme Get our FREE APP for ANDROID users: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/app Can you sponsor my podcast for $1 a month?   Do you wanna MASTER ENGLISH? Do you have 30 minutes every day? Try one month of DDM for free!  http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm        JOIN DDM!   DDM LITE: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite DDM LIVE: http://dailydictation.blogspot.com DDM OPEN: http://ddmopen.blogspot.com Thank you for listening! I really hope to hear your feedback! Miguel’s BLOG for Spanish speakers:  Mario’s BLOG for Portuguese speakers: http://vamosdominaringles.blogspot.com.br/ Quy’s BLOG for VIETNAMESE speakers: http://englishstudyandshare.blogspot.kr/ Nabeel’s BLOG for Urdu speakers: http://cochshane.blogspot.kr/  Azin’s blog for Persian speakers: http://englishcoachshane.blogspot.co.uk/ Max’s blog for Russian speakers: http://coachshane.ru Mohammad Reza’s blog for Persian speakers:  and http://mrmddi.jimdo.com/ Ji Hyang’s blog for Korean speakers: http://sunhyang.blogspot.co.uk/ Gokhan’s blog for Turkish speakers: http://kaybetmekyokcoachshane.blogspot.com.tr/ Narcissa’s blog for Persian speakers: http://letsmasterenglish.blogfa.com/ Jack Chen’s blog for Taiwan:   Kim JoonBum’s MOBILE Blog for everything:

Welcome to LME Podcast! Thank you for listening. This podcast’s contents are: 1.       HELLO 2.       NEWS: Who's the boss? 3.       Country Shane’s FACT! 4.       Your questions + FREE audio book…          How can I learn to speak well?          Should I use a dictionary to see where the stress is in each word?          Worried VS Concerned?          Is Win State another name for Wisconsin?          Pronunciation HELP: Poor, Pour, Pure! 5.       Thank you and DDM OPEN! For the free AUDIO book, go here: http://www.audibletrial.com/lme Get our FREE APP for ANDROID users: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/app Can you sponsor my podcast for $1 a month?   Do you wanna MASTER ENGLISH? Do you have 30 minutes every day? Try one month of DDM for free!  http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm        JOIN DDM!   DDM LITE: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite DDM LIVE: http://dailydictation.blogspot.com DDM OPEN: http://ddmopen.blogspot.com Thank you for listening! I really hope to hear your feedback! Miguel’s BLOG for Spanish speakers:  Mario’s BLOG for Portuguese speakers: http://vamosdominaringles.blogspot.com.br/ Quy’s BLOG for VIETNAMESE speakers: http://englishstudyandshare.blogspot.kr/ Nabeel’s BLOG for Urdu speakers: http://cochshane.blogspot.kr/  Azin’s blog for Persian speakers: http://englishcoachshane.blogspot.co.uk/ Max’s blog for Russian speakers: http://coachshane.ru Mohammad Reza’s blog for Persian speakers:  and http://mrmddi.jimdo.com/ Ji Hyang’s blog for Korean speakers: http://sunhyang.blogspot.co.uk/ Gokhan’s blog for Turkish speakers: http://kaybetmekyokcoachshane.blogspot.com.tr/ Narcissa’s blog for Persian speakers: http://letsmasterenglish.blogfa.com/ Jack Chen’s blog for Taiwan:   Kim JoonBum’s MOBILE Blog for everything:

Welcome to LME Podcast! Thank you for listening. This podcast’s contents are: 1.       HELLO 2.       NEWS: Chocolate Cake EVERY DAY! 3.       Country Shane’s FACT! 4.       Your questions…          How can I distinguish “I can play baseball” and “I can’t play baseball”?          How can I learn NUMBERS?!!          My IELTS is next month, how can I improve my listening and speaking?          Are American TV shows good for improving my listening skills? 5.       Thank you and Good bye!   Get our FREE APP for ANDROID users: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/app Can you sponsor my podcast for $1 a month?   Do you wanna MASTER ENGLISH? Do you have 30 minutes every day? Try one month of DDM for free!  http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm        JOIN DDM!   DDM LITE: http://www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite DDM LIVE: http://dailydictation.blogspot.com DDM OPEN: http://ddmopen.blogspot.com   Thank you for listening! I really hope to hear your feedback! Miguel’s BLOG for Spanish speakers:  Mario’s BLOG for Portuguese speakers: http://vamosdominaringles.blogspot.com.br/ Quy’s BLOG for VIETNAMESE speakers: http://englishstudyandshare.blogspot.kr/ Nabeel’s BLOG for Urdu speakers: http://cochshane.blogspot.kr/  Azin’s blog for Persian speakers: http://englishcoachshane.blogspot.co.uk/ Max’s blog for Russian speakers: http://coachshane.ru Mohammad Reza’s blog for Persian speakers:  and http://mrmddi.jimdo.com/ Ji Hyang’s blog for Korean speakers: http://sunhyang.blogspot.co.uk/ Gokhan’s blog for Turkish speakers: http://kaybetmekyokcoachshane.blogspot.com.tr/ Narcissa’s blog for Persian speakers: http://letsmasterenglish.blogfa.com/ Jack Chen’s blog for Taiwan:   Kim JoonBum’s MOBILE Blog for everything:

We talked with several film makers from this year's QFEST as to what advice they would give future film makers. Guests included JC Calciano (eCupid), Jack Chen & Allan Neuwirth (What's the Name of the Dame?), Lewis Tice (Longhorns, Bear City), Kelly Burkhard (Regrets), Wendy Jo Carlton (Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together),

In this podcast, we hear from Verizon Business customer, Jack Chen, Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Provost for Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Mr. Chen discusses how collaboration is at the heart of the university and how the university leverages technology to foster collaboration with staff, faculty, students and visiting […]