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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 28:18

The Biotech Startups Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 64:31

Jon Chee hosts Michael Chen, the Co-Founder and CEO of Nuclera, a biotech company that focuses on bringing rapid protein access to other labs. Michael is a seasoned scientist and entrepreneur who brings a rich background and valuable insights to our podcast. Before co-founding Nuclera, Michael did extensive research as an undergrad student at both Georgia tech and Emory and eventually got his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. He has also published nine scientific papers and worked with several leading scientists in their field.

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The Biotech Startups Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 52:51

Part 1 of 2: Jon Chee hosts our latest guest, Michael Chen, the Co-Founder and CEO of Nuclera, a biotech company that focuses on bringing rapid protein access to other labs. Michael is a seasoned scientist and entrepreneur who brings his rich background and insights to our podcast. Before becoming the Co-Founder of Nuclera, Michael did extensive research as an undergrad student at both Georgia tech and Emory and eventually got his Ph,D in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Having worked under some of the leading scientists in their field Michael also has 9 scientific publications to his name. His past experiences both at the lab bench and as a CEO make these episodes ones you don't want to miss.

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Parenting with Kindness (To Ourselves)

The Allender Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 36:06

In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen and her husband Michael Chen dive into the importance of parenting with kindness—not just toward children, but toward ourselves. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, or caregiver, it's common for past traumas to resurface when you're feeling overwhelmed or stretched thin. Rachael and Michael openly discuss the joys and challenges they've faced in their new marriage, blending families, raising young children, and navigating a pandemic, all of which have both triggered old wounds and offered opportunities for healing. This candid conversation is an invitation to explore how grief can be a catalyst for growth and how choosing kindness over harshness creates space for deeper connection and hope for yourself and for future generations. If you'd like to hear more on this topic, we invite you to join Rachael Clinton Chen and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber on Friday, October 4, for a live webinar, “Parenting As a Trauma Survivor.” They'll share trauma-informed insights to help you understand why parenting can be so triggering and offer practical tips for addressing your own healing while showing up for your children in the way they need most. Sign up to be part of the conversation at: theallendercenter.org/events

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AF - Can Generalized Adversarial Testing Enable More Rigorous LLM Safety Evals? by Stephen Casper

The Straits Times Audio Features

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 8:19

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Can Generalized Adversarial Testing Enable More Rigorous LLM Safety Evals?, published by Stephen Casper on July 30, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Zora Che, Michael Chen, Andi Peng, Lev McKinney, Bilal Chughtai, Shashwat Goel, Domenic Rosati, and Rohit Gandikota. TL;DR In contrast to evaluating AI systems under normal "input-space" attacks, using "generalized," attacks, which allow an attacker to manipulate weights or activations, might be able to help us better evaluate LLMs for risks - even if they are deployed as black boxes. Here, I outline the rationale for "generalized" adversarial testing and overview current work related to it. See also prior work in Casper et al. (2024), Casper et al. (2024), and Sheshadri et al. (2024). Even when AI systems perform well in typical circumstances, they sometimes fail in adversarial/anomalous ones. This is a persistent problem. State-of-the-art AI systems tend to retain undesirable latent capabilities that can pose risks if they resurface. My favorite example of this is the most cliche one many recent papers have demonstrated diverse attack techniques that can be used to elicit instructions for making a bomb from state-of-the-art LLMs. There is an emerging consensus that, even when LLMs are fine-tuned to be harmless, they can retain latent harmful capabilities that can and do cause harm when they resurface ( Qi et al., 2024). A growing body of work on red-teaming ( Shayegani et al., 2023, Carlini et al., 2023, Geiping et al., 2024, Longpre et al., 2024), interpretability ( Juneja et al., 2022, Lubana et al., 2022, Jain et al., 2023, Patil et al., 2023, Prakash et al., 2024, Lee et al., 2024), representation editing ( Wei et al., 2024, Schwinn et al., 2024), continual learning ( Dyer et al., 2022, Cossu et al., 2022, Li et al., 2022, Scialom et al., 2022, Luo et al., 2023, Kotha et al., 2023, Shi et al., 2023, Schwarzchild et al., 2024), and fine-tuning ( Jain et al., 2023, Yang et al., 2023, Qi et al., 2023, Bhardwaj et al., 2023, Lermen et al., 2023, Zhan et al., 2023, Ji et al., 2024, Hu et al., 2024, Halawi et al., 2024) suggests that fine-tuning struggles to make fundamental changes to an LLM's inner knowledge and capabilities. For example, Jain et al. (2023) likened fine-tuning in LLMs to merely modifying a "wrapper" around a stable, general-purpose set of latent capabilities. Even if they are generally inactive, harmful latent capabilities can pose harm if they resurface due to an attack, anomaly, or post-deployment modification ( Hendrycks et al., 2021, Carlini et al., 2023). We can frame the problem as such: There are hyper-astronomically many inputs for modern LLMs (e.g. there are vastly more 20-token strings than particles in the observable universe), so we can't brute-force-search over the input space to make sure they are safe. So unless we are able to make provably safe advanced AI systems (we won't soon and probably never will), there will always be a challenge with ensuring safety - the gap between the set of failure modes that developers identify, and unforeseen ones that they don't. This is a big challenge because of the inherent unknown-unknown nature of the problem. However, it is possible to try to infer how large this gap might be. Taking a page from the safety engineering textbook -- when stakes are high, we should train and evaluate LLMs under threats that are at least as strong as, and ideally stronger than, ones that they will face in deployment. First, imagine that an LLM is going to be deployed open-source (or if it could be leaked). Then, of course, the system's safety depends on what it can be modified to do. So it should be evaluated not as a black-box but as a general asset to malicious users who might enhance it through finetuning or other means. This seems obvious, but there's preced...

S1E17: Raising an Olympian in Singapore

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 43:16

What does it take for parents to nurture an athlete who wants to reach sport's pinnacle? Synopsis: The Straits Times tackles the talking points in sport every second Wednesday of the month. The Olympics is just around the corner and come July, several Team Singapore athletes will fly the flag for the Republic in Paris. Two of them, kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder and Singapore kayaker Stephenie Chen will make their Olympics debut. Beyond their individual hustle to get to sports' grandest stage, Maeder's and Chen's journey to the Olympics has been helped by their families' relentless support. In this episode, Maximilian's parents Valentin Maeder and Hwee Keng and Michael Chen and Sarah-Yvonne, parents of Stephenie, join sports reporter Deepanraj Ganesan to talk about how they have supported their children's aspirations. Highlights (click/tap above): 2:00 Did Maximilian Maeder's and Stephenie Chen's parents have sporting backgrounds that influenced their kids? 13:10 Is there a point in which parents build a roadmap to sporting success? 17:40 Why is there a need to trust the experts and coaches as opposed to intervening? 21:12 Making sacrifices for your children when they pursue sports 26:28 Why parents should be a safe space for their children who pursue sports 35:00 Reacting to naysayers who say there is no future in sports Read: https://str.sg/DMK2 Produced by: Deepanraj Ganesan (gdeepan@sph.com.sg), Eden Soh and Amirul Karim Edited by: Amirul Karim Follow Hard Tackle every month here and get notified for new episode drops: Channel: https://str.sg/JWRE Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWRa Spotify: https://str.sg/JW6N SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Deepanraj Ganesan on X: https://str.sg/wtra Read his articles: https://str.sg/ip4G Catch visual snippets of the podcast from ST's sports Instagram page: https://str.sg/vn2F --- Discover more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: https://str.sg/wvz7 The Usual Place: https://str.sg/wEr7u COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m Hard Tackle: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX --- ST Podcast website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts ST Podcasts YouTube: https://str.sg/4Vwsa --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Get The Straits Times' app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: https://str.sg/icyB Google Play: https://str.sg/icyX #hardtackleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S1E17: Raising an Olympian in Singapore

#GameOfTwoHalves

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 43:16

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NAIC Meta Discussion ft. Ian Robb, Michael Chen, Christian Fontenot & Emma Hagen

Lake of Rage - A Pokemon TCG Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2024 51:40

0:00 Intros 2:20 Top 3 played decks 8:30 Lugia VSTAR 16:30 Raging Bolt ex 22:00 Gardevoir 29:00 Dragapult 41:00 Snorlax stall 45:00 Best Hands deck Ian: https://x.com/Ian__Robb Michael: https://x.com/Oupas327 Christian: https://x.com/SticksPTCG Emma: https://x.com/Littlesislatias Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mellow_Magikarp Podcast: https://twitter.com/LakeOfRagepod Discord: https://discord.gg/SmbccF55xZ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mellow_magikarp Sponsor: https://www.tabletopvillage.com/ Code: Mellow5 for 10% off Sponsor: https://tcevolutions.com/ Code: lake10 Merch: https://www.doomed-gaming.com/ Code: Lake for 10% off Sleeves: https://thechampionsreserve.com/shop Code: lake15

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#7 - Michael Chen - Blockless - the next generation of dApps

Kiln's Restaking Rendez-Vous AVS Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 48:15

In the seventh episode of the Kiln Rendez-Vous podcast, Edgar Roth and Loïc Titren from Kiln host Michael Chen, the Co-founder of Blockless. Blockless is an infrastructure platform for launching, integrating, and securing Network Neutral Applications (nnApps). They delve into the genesis of Blockless and the collaborative efforts of its co-founders. Michael sheds light on the wide array of applications possible on Blockless, ranging from AI-powered self-evolving games to community-powered edge inference networks.

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2023 Gwinnett Chamber Multi-Chamber Mixer at After Hours

The Voice of Business Podcast (formerly Member Spotlight) with the Gwinnett Chamber

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2023

The Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce celebrated the community's global business scene with the annual Multi-Chamber Mixer at After Hours on November 1, 2023. Nearly 400 attendees from different nationalities, cultural backgrounds, and organizations came together to recognize the vibrant and diverse business community in Metro Atlanta's fastest-growing county. The event allowed attendees to interact with […] The post 2023 Gwinnett Chamber Multi-Chamber Mixer at After Hours appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

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Consulta popular no es vinculante - Entrevista a Ricardo Lombana y Michael Chen

Pittsburgh Pokemon Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2023 24:24

S3E57 Pacing the 151 Meta w/ Top8 player Michael Chen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 84:09

This week Jake and Chuck welcome Michael Chen on the cast fresh off his top 8 finish at Pittsburgh. We dicuss the potential of 151, new TMs and Pace of play woes. Michael's Twitter @oupas327 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/3xppodcast/support

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Michael Chen - Do Not Call Me Naomi

CGBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 38:45

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Colón es más que violencia - Entrevista a Michael Chen, Presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 25:13

AF - AI Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions by Simon Goldstein

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 12:20

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions, published by Simon Goldstein on August 29, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. By Peter S. Park, Simon Goldstein, Aidan O'Gara, Michael Chen, and Dan Hendrycks [This post summarizes our new report on AI deception, available here] Abstract: This paper argues that a range of current AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. We define deception as the systematic inducement of false beliefs in the pursuit of some outcome other than the truth. We first survey empirical examples of AI deception, discussing both special-use AI systems (including Meta's CICERO) built for specific competitive situations, and general-purpose AI systems (such as large language models). Next, we detail several risks from AI deception, such as fraud, election tampering, and losing control of AI systems. Finally, we outline several potential solutions to the problems posed by AI deception: first, regulatory frameworks should subject AI systems that are capable of deception to robust risk-assessment requirements; second, policymakers should implement bot-or-not laws; and finally, policymakers should prioritize the funding of relevant research, including tools to detect AI deception and to make AI systems less deceptive. Policymakers, researchers, and the broader public should work proactively to prevent AI deception from destabilizing the shared foundations of our society. New AI systems display a wide range of capabilities, some of which create risk. Shevlane et al. (2023) draw attention to a suite of potential dangerous capabilities of AI systems, including cyber-offense, political strategy, weapons acquisition, and long-term planning. Among these dangerous capabilities is deception. This report surveys the current state of AI deception. We define deception as the systematic production of false beliefs in others as a means to accomplish some outcome other than the truth. This definition does not require that the deceptive AI systems literally have beliefs and goals. Instead, it focuses on the question of whether AI systems engage in regular patterns of behavior that tend towards the creation of false beliefs in users, and focuses on cases where this pattern is the result of AI systems optimizing for a different outcome than merely producing truth. For the purposes of mitigating risk, we believe that the relevant question is whether AI systems engage in behavior that would be treated as deceptive if demonstrated by a human being. (In the paper's appendix, we consider in greater detail whether the deceptive behavior of AI systems is best understood in terms of beliefs and goals.) In short, our conclusion is that a range of different AI systems have learned how to deceive others. We examine how this capability poses significant risks. We also argue that there are several important steps that policymakers and AI researchers can take today to regulate, detect, and prevent AI systems that engage in deception. Empirical Survey of AI Deception We begin with a survey of existing empirical studies of deception. We identify over a dozen AI systems that have successfully learned how to deceive human users. We discuss two different kinds of AI systems: special-use systems designed with reinforcement learning, and general-purpose technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs). Special Use AI Systems We begin our survey by considering special use systems. Here, our focus is mainly on reinforcement learning systems trained to win competitive games with a social element. We document a rich variety of cases in which AI systems have learned how to deceive, including: Manipulation. Meta developed the AI system CICERO to play the alliance-building and world-conquest game Diplomacy. Meta's intentions were to train Cicero to be "largely honest and hel...

新造的人 – Michael Chen

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023

The Allender Center Podcast

Returning to Unresolvable Conflicts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2023 50:00

In relationships, there are conflicts that cannot be resolved with a clear “right” or “wrong.” In fact, the Gottman Institute's research cites that nearly 70% of relationship conflicts are unresolvable. Earlier this year, Dan and Becky Allender talked through unresolvable conflicts from their perspective of over four decades of marriage. Now, we're revisiting the topic with our other co-host, Rachael Clinton Chen, and her husband Michael Chen, who have been married since 2019. Rachael and Michael explore the complexities of unresolvable conflicts in marriage and share their personal insights about navigating these challenging situations. They both emphasize the importance of story work and how it's given them a common ground to understand and engage how they're feeling. They also highlight the importance of returning to one another after the moment to engage those difficult conversations. In doing so, progress can be made, even if it's not immediate or exactly how either of you would envision it. Rachael concludes the conversation by pointing out, “It's not by avoiding conflict or sidestepping it or somehow finding a way around it. It's actually often in the heart of the irresolvable tension that I think the Spirit is making something new. And that really can only be the work of the gospel.” Listener Resources: Listen to the episode, “Unresolvable Conflict” with Dan and Becky Allender Learn more about the Marriage Conference, happening this October 13-14 in Park City Utah Discover more marriage offerings from the Allender Center, including our Marriage Online Course * Source: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman, PhD and Nan Silver, 2015

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0684-Radi0: Michael ‘Hammer Mike' Chen on the National Pickleball League (June 15, 2023)

0684-Radi0

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 25:57

This week, we talk to New Canaan resident Michael Chen. Known on the pickleball courts at Mead Park as “Hammer Mike,” he's a co-founder of the rapidly growing National Pickleball League.

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Sal y Pimienta - 14 de junio del 2023.

ClaraMENTE

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 48:25

En el programa de ayer Mauricio y Daniel conversaron sobre el proyecto de extracción de arena en Portobelo junto con el presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón, Michael Chen.

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[STEP BY STEP] What is the Importance of Consolidating my Technology?

Future Commerce - A Retail Strategy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 26:37

This season on Step by Step, we are asking what does “seamless” mean to my eCommerce business and how do I demystify that in a way that helps me select the right solutions and softwares that make a seamless experience come to life? Join us as we hear from Michael Chen, Director of eCommerce Operations at Sugarfina, to break down the term “single handshake” and look more closely at consolidation of operations in your eCommerce business. Listen now!In this episode:{0:08:20} - “From the backend side, there are a lot of softwares we have to use to eliminate all the friction points from the time {consumers} find the website and go on the website to check out and pay. That should be really, really smooth.” - Michael{0:14:32} - “Right now everything is in Magento. We have Adobe Live Search, we have Product Recommendations, and everything is working in one place. So I don't have to go to different places, which save a lot of time and headache.” - Michael{0:16:01} - “Saving money is an important thing, but I would look at it as is the software actually better. If you're going to consolidate, is it actually better for the business? There are a lot of factors, so I wouldn't say saving money is the most important thing. There's a lot of research you have to do.” - Michael{0:18:32} - “To extract the most amount of value from any piece of software requires an intimate understanding and time spent in using the software, and the hard things become easy over time. So you grow into these capabilities. You don't just turn it on on day one.” - Phillip{0:23:51} - “You have to be focused on forward progress and continual improvement because your competitors are, and if they're doing it, you have to be more efficient and more optimized.” - MichaelAssociated Links:Learn more about Michael Chen and Sugarfina.Listen to more Step by Step episodes.Have you checked out our YouTube channel yet?Get your copy of Archetypes, our recently published 240-page journal! Check it out at ArchetypesJournal.comSubscribe to Insiders and The Senses to read more of what we are witnessing in the commerce world! Listen to our other episodes of Future CommerceHave any questions or comments about the show? Let us know on Futurecommerce.com, or reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. We love hearing from our listeners!

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Cámara de Comercio de Colón enumera al Gobierno carencias - Entrevista a Michael Chen

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2023 22:26

宇宙第一台 | EP12 你們一定沒想過我會回來

3Q陳柏惟

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 36:07

你們是不是沒想過我會回來!? 重啟連載還請大家繼續支持，這次我會更持久。如果忘記我之前的故事，我是不反對大家再重頭聽一次啦

God's salvation in His Name – Michael Chen

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023

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eCast (Episode 507: Department of Psychology with Dr. Michael Chen)

EKU Online - eCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2023 63:20

On this week's eCast episode we sit down with Dr. Michael Chen, Associate Professor and Interim Chair for EKU's Department of Psychology to talk about the EKU's largest program. Our conversation ranged from changes in the hospitality field, career opportunities, online teaching, and benefits of a hospitality degree. Join us!

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Michael Chen: Empresarios de Colón tienen las primas más altas en seguros

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2023 24:05

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JNIS podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 16:43

In this podcast, JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Felipe C. Albuquerque, speaks with Dr. Krishna C. Joshi(1) and Dr. Michael Chen(2) about their paper "Endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke in patients with cancer: a propensity-matched analysis" - https://jnis.bmj.com/content/14/12/1161. Please subscribe to the JNIS Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest episodes. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the JNIS Podcast iTunes page: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jnis-podcast/id942473767 Thank you for listening! This episode was edited by Brian O'Toole. (1) Neurological Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (2) Neurological Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Imagen de Panamá está en juego tras negociación con Minera Panamá

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2022 24:02

Por Susan Elizabeth CastilloEl presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Comercio de Colón, Michael Chen, señaló que si hoy no se llega a un acuerdo con Minera Panamá, los efectos serán notables."Esos inversionistas que confiaron en Panamá van a perder toda su inversión. Más de 40 mil empleos formales e indirectos, más de 7,000 familias que dependen de la actividad minera, más de 2,000 comercios proveedores directos de la mina, más de $100 millones en aportes a la Caja de Seguro Social, son algunos de los efectos", reveló Chen en el programa Radiografía.Por otro lado, señaló que aunque la minera está en la provincia no beneficia directamente a los colonenses ya que el 41% de sus trabajadores están en Coclé mientras que solamente un 14% están en Colón.Fed comienza reunión de política monetaria y moderaciónMichael Chen, propone que los ingresos de la minera de cobre sean percibidos por todos los panameños y se respete la seguridad jurídica. Pero asegura que se debe aclarar cuánto debe aportar la minera por todos los daños que hace al medioambiente."Hoy se debe llegar a un acuerdo y enviar la señal correcta, así como informar en qué etapa se encuentra la negociación, qué se necesita y por qué las partes no llegan a un acuerdo ya que mantienen en zozobra a miles de familias", indicó el presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón.El Gobierno de Panamá informó que de no firmar el acuerdo con la empresa Minera Panamá antes del 14 de diciembre, procederá con medidas alternas para la operación de la mina de cobre.

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Colón espera la llegada de medio millón de turistas

EN CONTEXTO

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2022 26:25

La provincia de Colón espera la visita de medio millón de turistas gracias a la llegada de unas 125 embarcaciones durante la temporada de cruceros.Sin embargo, el inicio de la temporada de cruceros en Colón mostró la triste realidad que se vive a diario en esta provincia, pero en este caso, fue percibida por miles de turistas.De acuerdo con el presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón, Michael Chen, el problema de las inundaciones en Colón no es nuevo.Explicó que en Colón hay 12 bombas, pero sólo 5 estaban en funcionamiento. Por su parte, la ZLC cuenta con 19 bombas, pero solo 11 están en funcionamiento."Menos de un 50% de las bombas en la ciudad están funcionando, pero tres factores han contribuido para las inundaciones en Colón: falta de reparación y mantenimiento de las bombas pluviales, ciudadanos que no hacen una correcta disposición de la basura y la destrucción de la barrera protectora natural que son los manglares y esto ha deteriorado la capacidad de la ciudad de Colón para prevenir las inundaciones", sostuvo el empresario.Y es que hace unos días, llegaron a Colón unos 5,009 visitantes en cruceros, de estos, el 60% se quedaron en la provincia para hacer compras en la Zona Libre de Colón (ZLC), pero desafortunadamente fueron recibidos por una ciudad inundada y llena de basura."La única manera de resolver la situación de Colón es trabajando en conjunto la sociedad civil, empresa privada, Gobierno Nacional en un plan para movilizar las inundaciones por medio de la planificación y uso adecuado de la basura", indicó Chen.Michael Chen, consideró que la llegada de cruceros es el momento es propicio para salir adelante junto con la Zona Libre de Colón y los puertos, no obstante, reveló que el acompañamiento de la misma provincia no es cónsono con la economía por lo que se deben hacer grandes esfuerzos para poder reactivar la parte económica, social y cultural, tomando en cuenta la percepción negativa que existe.La entrevista con el presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón, Michael Chen, se dio en el programa En Contexto. Puede revivirlo en VOD de Tigo Panamá.

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The Mountain Life | September 28, 2022

KPCW The Mountain Life

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022 52:57

Today on the Mountain Life, Lynn Ware Peek and David Wintzer's guests include: (01:42) Dr. Michael Chen, a new OB/GYN at Intermountain Park City Hospital. Then (28:26) Author and Rabbi Steve Leder joins the Mountain Life to discuss his new book For You When I Am Gone.

Primeros cruceros comenzarán a llegar a Colón desde octubre

Studio Kohler Presents: By Design

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2022 26:57

La provincia de Colón da pasos de reactivación económica, así lo manifestó hoy en el programa Radiografía, Michael Chen, presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón. Chen reveló que a partir del mes de octubre, comenzarán a llegar cruceros a la Costa Atlántica en el área de Colón dos mil, lo cual dinamizará el sector turismo de esta zona del país, el cual será complementado con el proyecto denominada “Colon Experience”.“En el mes de octubre ya viene el primer crucero a la provincia de Colón, confirmados dos grandes marcas, ya se están entregando los primeros locales del nuevo proyecto donde vamos a tener grandes marcas internacionales en la nueva etapa de Colón 2000”, dio a conocer Chen.El empresario indicó que la área de desembarque de los cruceros contará con otra plataforma, por lo que se podrán recibir dos cruceros de manera simultánea.El empresario indicó que la área de desembarque de los cruceros contará con otra plataforma, por lo que se podrán recibir dos cruceros de manera simultánea.Sobre el plan Colon Experience, indicó que se está practicando con el turista nacional el cual lleva a los turistas a distintos destinos dentro de la provincia.Cada crucero que llega a la provincia tendrá una capacidad de hasta 4 mil turistas, cada dos semanas 8 mil turistas van a impactar directamente en la economía local.

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Episode 3: Design for Community

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 33:17

Hosted by Debbie Millman with Michael Chen, Principal of Michael K. Chen Architecture and Co-Founder of Design Advocates, and Walei Sabry, Digital Accessibility of NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication, this conversation focuses on issues around inclusive design and innovative design strategies that can reshape the way we navigate our city.

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Today's episode is about a case thar happened recently..... don't trust anybody

En noviembre inicia la temporada de cruceros en Colón

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 25:14

Michael Chen, presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón informó que a partir del mes de noviembre, se reactivará la temporada de cruceros en esta provincia. Además anunció varios proyectos que se tienen contemplados como parte de la reactivación económica."En noviembre se reinicia la temporada de cruceros donde vamos a tener 2 de 4 mil pasajeros cada uno en la provincia de Colón", manifestó.Chen apuesta a una reactivación inclusiva pues destacó que el servicio que brinden los colonenses será vital para concretarlo.Apuesta a proyectos importantes como Colón Puerto Libre y la Zona Libre de Colón para mantener la economía."Tenemos una ley es un sistema aduanal especial delimitado a las 16 calles de Colón que incentiva la inversión y que las personas puedan comprar a precios exonerados del 7%"

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Panamá América Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2022 12:31

Presidente de la Cámara de Comercio capítulo de Colón, Michael Chen habla de la realidad de Colón. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/panama-america/message

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AF - Introduction to Pragmatic AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #1] by Dan Hendrycks

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 10:12

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introduction to Pragmatic AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #1], published by Dan Hendrycks on May 9, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is the introduction to a sequence of posts that describe our models for Pragmatic AI Safety. Thanks to Oliver Zhang, Mantas Mazeika, Scott Emmons, Neel Nanda, Cameron Berg, and Michael Chen for feedback on this sequence. Machine learning has been outpacing safety. Ten years ago, AlexNet pushed the boundaries of machine learning, and it was trained using only two GPUs. Now state-of-the-art models are trained on thousands of GPUs. GPT-2 was released only around three years ago, and today, we have models capable of answering bar exam questions, writing code, and explaining jokes. Meanwhile, existing approaches to AI safety have not seen similar strides. Many older approaches are still pre-paradigmatic, uncertain about what concrete research directions should be pursued and still aiming to get their bearings. Centered on math and theory, this research focuses on studying strictly futuristic risks that result from potential systems. Unfortunately, not much progress has been made, and deep learning resists the precise and universal mathematical characterizations preferred by some safety approaches. Recently, some established safety teams have focused more on safety in the context of deep learning systems, which has the benefit of being more concrete and having faster experimental feedback loops. However, many approaches often exhibit the downside of blurring the lines between general capabilities research and safety, as there appear to be few other options. Finally, neither the pre-paradigmatic nor industry deep learning-based approaches seriously emphasize the broad range of sociotechnical factors that are critical for reducing risk from AI systems. Given that ML is progressing quickly, that pre-paradigmatic research is not highly scalable to many researchers, and that safety research that advances capabilities is not safely scalable to a broader research community, we suggest an approach that some of us have been developing in academia over the past several years. We propose a simple, underrated, and complementary research paradigm, which we call Pragmatic AI Safety (PAIS). By complementary, we mean that we intend for it to stand alongside current approaches, rather than replace them. Pragmatic AI Safety rests on three essential pillars: ML research precedents. Safety involves technical AI problems, and the ML community's precedents enable it to be unusually effective at solving technical AI problems. Minimal capabilities externalities. Safety research at scale needs to be precautious and avoid advancing capabilities in the name of safety. Sociotechnical systems view. Preventing catastrophes requires more than technical work, such as improving incentives, safety culture, protocols, and so on. ML Research Precedents Despite relying on “broken” processes like conferences and citations, the ML community has managed to solve an increasingly general set of problems: colorizing images, protein folding, superhuman poker, art generation, etc. This doesn't mean that the ML community is set up optimally (we will discuss ways in which it's not), but it does consistently exceed our expectations and demonstrate the best track record in solving technical AI problems. In general, ML researchers are skilled at adding arbitrary features to systems to improve capabilities, and many aspects of safety could be operationalized so as to be similarly improved. This property makes ML research precedents promising for solving technical ML problems, including many safety problems. Here are some ML research precedents that we view as important: Long term goals are broken down into empirical simplified microcosmic problems Subproblems can be worked on iteratively, ...

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EA - Introduction to Pragmatic AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #1] by ThomasWoodside

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 10:12

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introduction to Pragmatic AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #1], published by ThomasWoodside on May 9, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is the introduction to a sequence of posts that describe our models for Pragmatic AI Safety. Thanks to Oliver Zhang, Mantas Mazeika, Scott Emmons, Neel Nanda, Cameron Berg, and Michael Chen for feedback on this sequence. Machine learning has been outpacing safety. Ten years ago, AlexNet pushed the boundaries of machine learning, and it was trained using only two GPUs. Now state-of-the-art models are trained on thousands of GPUs. GPT-2 was released only around three years ago, and today, we have models capable of answering bar exam questions, writing code, and explaining jokes. Meanwhile, existing approaches to AI safety have not seen similar strides. Many older approaches are still pre-paradigmatic, uncertain about what concrete research directions should be pursued and still aiming to get their bearings. Centered on math and theory, this research focuses on studying strictly futuristic risks that result from potential systems. Unfortunately, not much progress has been made, and deep learning resists the precise and universal mathematical characterizations preferred by some safety approaches. Recently, some established safety teams have focused more on safety in the context of deep learning systems, which has the benefit of being more concrete and having faster experimental feedback loops. However, many approaches often exhibit the downside of blurring the lines between general capabilities research and safety, as there appear to be few other options. Finally, neither the pre-paradigmatic nor industry deep learning-based approaches seriously emphasize the broad range of sociotechnical factors that are critical for reducing risk from AI systems. Given that ML is progressing quickly, that pre-paradigmatic research is not highly scalable to many researchers, and that safety research that advances capabilities is not safely scalable to a broader research community, we suggest an approach that some of us have been developing in academia over the past several years. We propose a simple, underrated, and complementary research paradigm, which we call Pragmatic AI Safety (PAIS). By complementary, we mean that we intend for it to stand alongside current approaches, rather than replace them. Pragmatic AI Safety rests on three essential pillars: ML research precedents. Safety involves technical AI problems, and the ML community's precedents enable it to be unusually effective at solving technical AI problems. Minimal capabilities externalities. Safety research at scale needs to be precautious and avoid advancing capabilities in the name of safety. Sociotechnical systems view. Preventing catastrophes requires more than technical work, such as improving incentives, safety culture, protocols, and so on. ML Research Precedents Despite relying on “broken” processes like conferences and citations, the ML community has managed to solve an increasingly general set of problems: colorizing images, protein folding, superhuman poker, art generation, etc. This doesn't mean that the ML community is set up optimally (we will discuss ways in which it's not), but it does consistently exceed our expectations and demonstrate the best track record in solving technical AI problems. In general, ML researchers are skilled at adding arbitrary features to systems to improve capabilities, and many aspects of safety could be operationalized so as to be similarly improved. This property makes ML research precedents promising for solving technical ML problems, including many safety problems. Here are some ML research precedents that we view as important: Long term goals are broken down into empirical simplified microcosmic problems Subproblems can be worked on iterat...

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28% de comercios cerraron en Colón

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Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 27:41

Por Hugo FamaníaEn Colón el Centro de Competitividad de Colón y la Región Oriental (CECOMCRO) conformado por la Cámara de Comercio, Agricultura e Industrias de Colón, la Asociación Panameña de Ejecutivos de Empresa, la Cámara de Turismo de Colón y la Asociación de Usuarios de la Zona Libre de Colón, mostraron su preocupación ante el llamado a paro y por el devenir económico de la provincia, por lo que hizo un llamado enérgico a las autoridades del Gobierno de Panamá a brindar los recursos y disposición necesaria para la aceleración de proyectos.Michael Chen, presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón, lamentó que la provincia de Colón amaneciera hoy congestionada por un paro, el cual exige al Gobierno de Panamá"El llamado a paro general por organizaciones de la sociedad civil es por la solicitud que se le hace al gobierno por la reactivación de varios proyectos", señaló Chen.Indicó que este apoyo tendría que venir de la mano de ofrecer un servicio de excelencia, por lo que el enfoque de Colón tiene que ser diferente.Añadió que Colón debe ser prioridad para el Gobierno de Panamá porque es la provincia que más aporta al Estado. Además de las solicitudes que se están reclamando son un realidad."La provincia de Colón requiere una gran reactivación económica, inversión de dinero y restauración".Los números en cuanto a desempleo son alarmantes, destacó el empresario."28% de las empresas que quedaban en Colón en el Casco y la Zona Libre de Colón han cerrado para siempre. Arriba del 20% es la tasa de desempleo".A su juicio el Gobierno de Panamá debe poner atención al dinamismo económico de la Zona Libre de Colón."La Zona Libre de Colón vive una desaceleración económica, hemos visto pérdidas de mercado. La Zona Libre ya debe cambiar su manera de hacer negocios".

En Contexto 18 de abril: Michael Chen

EN CONTEXTO

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 26:33

20220324 Michael Chen - Presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón"Principales retos de Colón y cómo enfrentarlos"24 de marzo de 2022

Sal y Pimienta

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2022 58:51

Michael Chen - Presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Colón "Principales retos de Colón y cómo enfrentarlos" 24 de marzo de 2022

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What is Success as a Software Engineer? - Michael Chen

Outside The Code

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2022 68:10

What is Success as a Software Engineer? - Michael Chen Why do we do what we do? For some, it's the financial motivation. For others, it's the recognition and social status. Mike's journey to software development is unique, but what's more compelling is figuring out the why behind the decisions he's made. Join me in my conversation with Mike Chen, who shares his early days before coding existed, his motivation in climbing the corporate ladder, and giving that up to work on something more meaningful to him. On today's show, we talk about how Mike Chen went from a Research Associate, quit that path, learned Java programming through books, and eventually became a CTO in the Bay Area.

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Changemaker Series: COVID-19 Research

The Prez Paul Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 31:27

The Prez Paul Podcast changemaker series continues with professors Michael Chen and Lauren Brooks, along with research assistant Tatianna Trojnor-Hill '21, sharing their health policy research on COVID-19. They received a data access award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine racial/ethnic disparities in access to laboratory testing and outcomes among more than 2 million patients across the U.S. They also found that geography and state-level political affiliations can predict individuals' risk of testing positive for COVID-19. Guests on the podcast: Michael Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing and Public Health. He received a bachelor's degree in economics and public health from Brown University and a Ph.D. in health services research and policy from the University of Rochester. Michael's research interests include maternal and child health, father involvement, and the development of theory-based explanations to inform health practice and public policy. Michael was born in Taiwan, grew up in Toronto, and has lived in Rochester since 2010. Lauren Brooks is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, primarily teaching courses in clinical laboratory science. She received degrees in biochemistry, biological sciences, and chemistry from Virginia Tech, a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of Rochester, and completed her internship for clinical laboratory science at Rochester Regional Health. Lauren worked in the Serology and Microbiology clinical laboratory at the University of Rochester Central Labs before joining Nazareth full time. She was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area and has lived in Rochester since 2009. Tatianna Trojnor-Hill graduated from Nazareth College in the spring of 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Public Health and International Studies. She currently works as a project associate with JSI Research & Training Inc. and will be moving to New Hampshire for work at the end of this year. Tatianna's interests include nutrition, food accessibility, and global health. She was born and raised in central New York and has lived in Rochester since 2017.

The Double A Team | Topics: Notre Dame & Awful Announcing

Bears Barroom Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2021 103:48

Notre Dame's new football coach and the state of sports broadcasting are the main topics. Michael Chen writer for FightingIrishwire.com and Ben Koo, editor in Chief of AwfulAnnouncing.com are the guests. Ken Fang and Ben Koo co-host.

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Ep 022: What should I know before pursuing a law degree?

College Financial Aid and Career Navigation

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2021 29:01

Michael Chen – College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 022 Josh Michael Chen Michael Chen serves as the assistant dean of admissions at Western State College of Law. In this role he develops and implements initiatives necessary to achieve institutional recruitment and enrollment goals. He also represents the law school by traveling nationwide to offcampus recruiting programs, events and conferences. After receiving applications, he is responsible for reviewing the credentials of applicants to make admissions and scholarship decisions. Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Michael Chen where we discuss what you should know before pursuing a law degree. Here is what to expect on this week's show: -The many different career opportunities a law degree presents you with -The ability to major in any subject you want before attending law school -Part-time law school and the flexibility it provides -The different types of financial aid available for law school -The difference between unaccredited and accredited law schools -Trial law and paper law as the two different types of law -The ability to switch your focus late in your career with a law degree -What JD advantaged careers are Connect with Michael Chen: Guest Contact Info: Website: www.wsulaw.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mission DeFi - EP 27 - Simone Pomposi from Fantom - Driving forward one of the fastest growing chains in DeFi

Mission: DeFi

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 85:01

Guest Info Name of Guest: Simone Pomposi Name of Project: Fantom Blockchain Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/theotherpomp Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN Project URL: https://fantom.foundation/ Project/Guest Description: Simone is the CMO for Fantom Why they are a guest: Fantom is a fast, high-throughput open-source smart contract platform for digital assets and dApps. ## Show Notes Background: 20 years in advertising Commercial and art Phillips auction house Creative production Worked at Ferrari Photographer What it is like being a CMO of a crypto project. Andre Cronje - yearn Speaking in 2017 at iota, holochain event with Fantom Involved at beginning as advisor A few months later her became heavily involved Core team members with Michael Chen and Chong Co-authored consensys DeFi at early stages Andre Why is Fantom's community so passionate? Born in bear market People invested and then helped to grow it Originally created in Korea Just a few months after the sale Consensus mechanism Gaming is a big focus upcoming for Fantom and they are seeing more and more game devs coming to them. How got into crypto: 2013 Co-worker - Mark Talked about bitcoin Tech background Bought on coinbase Michael Chen CMP Joined Fantom community early Meetup in NYC Andre Cronje How involved is Andre? Not hard core developing. Author of the consensys mechanism Major decision maker Artium. Michael Kong CEO What is powerful about Fantom? 1 second Use case - Reaper.farm Auto compounding vaults How do people fund apps on Fantom Recruiting developers Tech vs users Austin - Community members FTM alerts Projects.fantom.network Lets talk about community management and building. It can be a great time, but it can be difficult Loot Fantom build apps/games Real world applications Afghanistan ERP systems CBDC talks Pharmacy meds are counterfeit or not Check it Minister of health of afghanistan Reaper.farm Spooky Smooth --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/missiondefi/support

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#68：北美电商选品以及品牌经营二三事

Startup4Chinese

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2021 121:00

欢迎关注Startup4Chinese 播客：https://anchor.fm/startup4chinese 欢迎订阅 Youtube 频道：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5anEPSp8wwEMJFZjwsThHA 中国是制造业大国。身在北美的华人，很多都想利用国内的制造业优势，为自己在本地开辟新发展空间，在电商领域打出一片天地。但是，面对为数众多的品类和厂商，如何选取适合自己的产品？又该怎么经营一个品牌？本次分享嘉宾，将就上述话题分享自己的丰富经验。分享嘉宾： Michael Chen，湖南长沙人，2006年移民多伦多，2011年毕业于多伦多大学商学院，毕业后在Canada Computers总部担任采购总监5年。2015年创办电子产品全球贸易公司 Doglas Trading Inc，主要销售打印机，笔记本电脑，硬盘以及其他电子产品，总部位于加拿大多伦多，在美国休斯顿，中国珠海，阿联酋迪拜，墨西哥Guadalajara，澳大利亚悉尼有分公司，全球合作伙伴超过20个国家。2017年创办EVA Groups Inc，致力于将中国的科技产品以及品牌落地全球。目前集团旗下经营5个品牌，其中大量产品在Amazon, Bestbuy, Staples, Costco, Walmart, Shoppers Drug Mart, The Source等线上线下商店均有销售。同时部分品牌在美国，泰国，新加坡等其他国家进行销售。在深圳有分公司负责产品，美工，线上销售等工作。本次分享主题：在北美创业如何选对产品，如何经营一个品牌。关于Startup4Chinese Startup4Chinese，成立于加拿大多伦多，致力于联结华人创业者与各个族群中的聪明才智，弘扬华人创业者的创业激情，赋予华人创业者更大力量。Startup4Chinese 主张开放心态，锐意开拓进取，注重脚踏实地，让我们一起享受创新、创业的过程。欢迎关注Startup4Chinese 播客：https://anchor.fm/startup4chinese 欢迎订阅 Youtube 频道：https://www.youtube.com/c/Startup4Chinese 对活动有任何问题，请联系微信：bryanzk. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startup4chinese/support

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International Tax Planning with Linda Pfatteicher and Michael Chen

TPC Tax Insights

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 34:29

If you’re looking for an informed, thoughtful discussion on international tax policy, this episode is for you. We are lucky to have two experienced experts, Linda Pfatteicher, Partner at Dentons in San Francisco and Michael Chen, West Coast Regional Managing Director at True Partners Consulting, share their thoughts on the volatile state of tax policy, the proposed changes to the international tax rules and what it all means for U.S. and non-U.S. multinational corporations. Don’t miss this one! Associate Producer and Editor: Anthony Bielby

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Michael Chen - "He Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You" - Hebrews 13:5-6

CGBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2021 40:46

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Advanced Stroke Care at RUSH with Michael Chen, MD

Rounding at Rush

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2021 21:31

The RUSH System for Health excels in stroke prevention and care. RUSH University Medical Center is certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and RUSH has two certified Primary Stroke Centers in Oak Park and Aurora/Fox Valley. Given the time-sensitive nature of stroke care, RUSH seeks to expand current treatment windows and improve technologies used to treat emergency strokes as quickly and effectively as possible to minimize damage to our patients. Michael Chen, MD, a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and radiology at RUSH University Medical Center, discusses the ways RUSH is efficiently diagnosing stroke, how it is differentiating actual cases of large vessel occlusion stroke with false positives and how RUSH handles the benefits and challenges of using thrombectomy. Dr. Chen has authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and also serves as a senior editor for the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery. Dr. Chen currently serves as President-Elect for the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery. “There's strong evidence that highly effective therapies exist for stroke and they're also very time sensitive. If you have a large vessel occlusion stroke, 75% of the time patients are not going to do well. Thrombectomy can reduce that chance of a horrible outcome by half. The question is not necessarily whether you can make the diagnosis and what you do, but what work you have done ahead of time to prepare for the event when that patient does come into your emergency room.” CME credit link: https://cmetracker.net/RUSH/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/EventID/483128

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Jesus Teaches His Disciples to Pray

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2021 1:54

Readings from: Luke 11:1-10 Today's passages were read by Michael Chen. Michael is a member of Chinese Grace Bible Church in Sacramento, CA. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

You Must Be Born Again

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 1:54

Readings from: John 3:1-5,9-10,12-16 Today's passages were read by Michael Chen. Michael is a member of Chinese Grace Bible Church in Sacramento, CA. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

Haman Plots to Kill the Jews

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 2:10

Readings from: Esther 3:1-2,5-6,8-11 Today's passages were read by Michael Chen. Michael is a member of Chinese Grace Bible Church in Sacramento, CA. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

Cyrus Sends Israel Home

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 1:44

Readings from: Ezra 1:1-7 Today's passages were read by Michael Chen. Michael is a member of Chinese Grace Bible Church in Sacramento, CA. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

The Power of the Holy Spirit – Michael Chen

MONEY FM 89.3 - Prime Time with Howie Lim, Bernard Lim & Finance Presenter JP Ong

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2021

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Business expansion into Asia despite border restriction challenges

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 11:00

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Michael Chen, CEO and founder of global HR Tech enterprise, BIPO about business expansion into Asia despite border restrictions and quarantine regulations amid the coronavirus pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Call of Jeremiah: Part 1

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 1:54

Readings from: Jeremiah 1:1-10 Today's passages were read by Michael Chen. Michael is a member of Chinese Grace Bible Church in Sacramento, CA. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

Part Two with Michael Chen on Collective Liberation and Asian American Theology

The Arise Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 38:29

This is part two of a conversation with Michael Chen of AAPI.Liturgy. Recorded on April 30th, 2021Find Michael Chen on instagram @aapi.liturgy Michael Chen lives in Philadelphia with his wife Rachael and their two boys. He is a graduate of Princeton Seminary where he earned his Master of Divinity, and is currently working on a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Eastern University. As a long time campus minister, he has a heart for helping people live more fully into their unique identity and vocation. In his free time he likes exploring cities and eating dumplings. Also, he is a karaoke champion. Maggie offered a recap of last week: We talked about collective trauma, what it is and how that impacts the way we view healing. We explored what it means to be Asian, a name that encompasses a vastly diverse group of people from 50+ countries. Michael reflected on his own experience of growing up and working in predominately white spaces and how race has been somewhat of a binary construct of black and white. Through his work and research getting his PhD he started AAPI.Liturgy where he seeks to create a space to expand, explore and examine what it means to be both Asian American and Christian.Currently Michael is researching for his PhD and the overarching questions for him has been: What does it mean to Asian American and Christian? What is Asian American theology? Michael says “The term ‘Asian American' comes out of the 60's. It's a protest identification really trying to capture the essence, fervor of the Civil Rights Movement.” His big question is, “What happened?”Michael grew up in a Chinese Church that was somewhat divided. There was a Chinese congregation that was Mandarin speaking. With the influx of Chinese immigrants they grew a Cantonese congregation. And then the children of those immigrants needed their own congregation, and so they formed an English congregation. There were three congregations within one church and they just “did” church and the topic of what it means to be Asian or Asian-American in Church was not a topic of discussion. Michael was around Asians weekly and yet there was no exploring the deeper meaning of their sense of isolation, of being marginalized, of experiencing micro-aggressions or being stuck or feeling stuck in predominately white spaces and structures. “So we talked about Jesus… and we were just with one another which on a level was wonderful and great but in the back in my mind I had that question of ‘what does it means to be Asian American' that never made it into the church space.”It was this inquiry got filtered through literature and sociology classes, and through Seminary (at Princeton) where he studied white theologians—Calvin, Kuyper, Augustine, Luther…. The question, “Is there an Asian American theology?” was never given much room. Michael began to wonder, has anyone written on Asian American Theology? In his research he came across a math professor who was doing research and writing articles on Asian American Liberation Theology. He found the early course readers of the 70s, at the beginning of Asian identity as a political identity as a movement, as well as the conversation that was happening around Black Liberation Theology, the work of James Cone, [Gustavo] Gutierrez. At last it seemed he had found them—"Here are folks that are thinking about and talking about the experience of marginalization! People who are looking at the biblical narrative and finding themselves in it."Michael gives the example from the Japanese-American Rev Dr. Jitsuo Morikawa who converted to Christianity from a Buddhist background. He was interned in Arizona during WWII and began preaching the gospel at the internment camp. After this experience he went to seminary and eventually pastored a predominately white church in Chicago. At that time the sentiment was, “A Jap will always be a Jap. The Japanese will always be suspect.” Michael notes that for Morikawa to be in that position of widespread prejudice and to subsequently see the church grow, it is a powerful move of the spirit. When Michael read some of Morikawa's writing around the Asian American experience in the Exodus story, it was the first time he had seen or heard anyone thinking about Asian liberation in light of the Biblical narrative. It brought so much deep emotion for him and inspiration in thinking about the Asian American story in light of the movement from slavery into freedom — He asks, “Where are we now in our Exodus journey? And what does mean to become a priesthood of believers with our particularity, with our story, with our art, with our culture, with our poetry, with our faces?”Danielle is struck by how in the United States we have collected vast ethnicities of people groups into continents. She's says it is almost as if we (in the US) can not bare the particularity in their ethnicities. And yet she feels that as we come into the spaces of story there can be solidarity. She names for her, being Mexican is her particularity, she finds so much solidarity and inspiration in the stories coming out of Cuba Colombia, Argentina and other countries in South America. It moves her and makes her feel like she too can express her self and her story. Danielle remarks that it is in this continent grouping that happens in the United States, that for Michael as a [Chinese] man, he ends up looking towards other ethnicities within the continent grouping that the US has labeled “Asia” to find pieces to put together to form a theology.Michael says yes, and it is in part redemptive for his particular family story. His maternal grandfather was imprisoned by the Japanese in Taiwan, which was under imperial Japanese control. His grandfather spoke English as a translator, which during WWII made him suspected of having allegiances and ties to the United States. He spent two years in a Japanese in POW camp, after his mistreatment there he subsequently died a few years after his release of kidney failure. So for Michael to look to the Japanese experience in America is healing and redemptive to him, expressing a movement of the spirit and movement forward for all of us to find language, models and resources for our collective liberation. "When we can get into the particularities, the closer they are to our own stories they will move us and shape us and form us, then it will move us towards freedom and life. " We are hungry to know the end of the story. The wordlessness of the trauma we are in, the confusion and fragmentation that we are hearing, feeling, sensing… Michael says we need stories.Danielle remarks that last week we were talking about collective trauma and this week we are talking about collective redemption. She says there is an offer of hope for collective liberation for what we are going through as a country right now—She said in the churches she grew up in and in the places she's at, there isn't a theology for collection liberation. “If we gloss over everybody as a white theology then we actually miss out on a framework that God has provided for collective liberation.”Michael thinks one direction that Asian Americans needs to go in the coming years is addressing the large financial gap among the diverse and vast Asian American community. And knowing that it will take a tremendous about amount of work and intentionality to see a collective healing and liberation.Maggie recalls a quote “If even one person is not free, then no one is free.”She mentions the 2019 Korean film Parasite which was an up close looking at classism—naming the tremendous wealth gap and how the classes viewed each other. It made her think about what the wealth gap is like here in America, and even from a hyperlocal perspective in the area where she lives in the PNW with big companies like Microsoft and Amazon. There are a lot of wealthy people from SE Asia and India living in this area and it changes the way the wealth gap looks here specifically and she knows that it is not reflective of the larger experience in America. Parasite had helped her to become more aware of the wealth gap and classism among AAPI.Michael said Parasite was brilliant story-telling. He remember the idea of the smell, the particular smell associated with different parts of our world and our culture. He believes a lot of the issues we faced can not be solved through our logic, it has to be embodied. Parasite was able to show class structures and identity issues through sensory and embodied engagement.Michael wanted to say the name of John Huynh, who was stabbed in Bothell, WA this week because he knows that it will not get a lot of media coverage—first because we have be so inundated with seemingly ceaseless stories of death and violence, but second because most of the news stories around anti-Asian violence have been towards elders or women, and this was a young Asian man in his 20s. It caught his attention because of the nature of his death—he was stabbed in the heart. What came to mind for Michael was a word in Chinese,忍 (rěn) - He says most Chinese words are pictographs, which means the image conjures up also the meaning of the word. The picture is a knife on top of a heart, and the Chinese word means “to tolerate" or "forebear.” One of the complexities that he wrestles with is the idea of forbearance that requires him to cut off his heart, to cut off desire, to cut off parts of himself just to survive. He says as Asians “we've known that collectively for so long that we don't know any other way.” He says to keep cutting your heart has become a survival mechanism just to make it through. It's complicated, we've got to tolerate and bear a lot in life, as we all do in our various spheres of life… But the reminder of this man's death has brought him to ask, "What is my heart? Are there places that I am cutting off, that I feel like I need to cut off [just to survive]?Danielle says the loveliness that we're describing in the movie parasite comes in contrast with the rage-hate that is happening in our current world. In a discussion with some some colleagues, she asked “what's the word for resilience in your language?” Sam Lee also brought ren from Chinese and she said, “damn if I want to be resilient like that.” When Sam asked Danielle what the word is in Spanish and Danielle admits she doesn't know one. The closest word is aguantar, “just make it” or “bear up.” Danielle says the question she hears loudest is, “how can we bear up when people are stabbing us in the heart?”Michael says, it's too costly to keep doing the bearing up. “I need to find a better way…[we] can't keep taking the cuts and the stabs.”Danielle names that he is on the screen with two women, Danielle is half German and Maggie is mostly Swiss. There is complexity even in our conversation. The temptation to talk too much and not allow silence but then to allow also silence. This is a healing process for him, to talk about these issues that he's not had space for. “It's amazing, but it feels like a foreign country.”Maggie adds, “And a foreign language, if they're really aren't words for resilience that don't involve cutting off parts of yourself.”Danielle says it feels good that there are so many complexities and characters in the Chinese language and that that feels like there can be space for finding a third way.Part of Michael's migration trauma was not wanting to learn the Chinese language because it would move him into the area of what he was trying to avoid: It wasn't a good American endeavor to take time on a Saturday to go to Chinese School. Now he's sad but catching up. One article he read said there are 13 different words in Chinese for shame. “To be that well aquatinted with shame that you need that many different words to describe the nuances of the experience is very indicative.” Michael finds himself moving towards relief to think about having a community of folks to find a different way of being.Maggie says that is what has been so inspiring about Michael's presence on AAPI.liturgy—he has created a space that explores and expands and holds the complexities of his face and his faith, creating a sense of belonging for those that have been on the margin and can understand that liberation theology. “You literally creating what has not yet be done. It is beautiful.”Michael says, “I love that word, belonging." It is a sense of salvation—that feeling of connectedness and communion, a feeling of acceptance and belonging in a deep visceral experience.Danielle thinks that is what people are deeply longing for in the US and yet it is manifesting as violent rage in some. The prophets and pastors that are in those spaces need to say “enough is enough.” Almost like a parent to a teen; “Actually no you can't do that. And maybe your thinking hasn't changed but you have to stop that.”Michael names, there's a lot a stake.Maggie says it feels good to allow space, to offer a sense of wordlessness. As she reflects back on the conversation last week about how our bodies are not meant to hold or process what we are experiencing without a ritual without meaning making… To sit with you two to have space and to allow it.Danielle's essay comes out this week and she will have to update it to include the new names as much as she can. She has an expectation of violence but also a hope that there won't be. It is a deep ache. “Dear Lord Jesus, have mercy on us!”Michael is reading: Jitsuo Morikawa, Roy SanoMichael is listening to: “You will be found” Dear Evan HansonMichel is inspired by: the show Warrior, the way it handles Asian American identity, history and language is brilliant.If you are thinking: What can I do to stop racial violence? Danielle encourages you to sit down with whoever is in your circle (family, spouses, children, neighbors etc) and have a conversation about what it means to love people well and to see people's faces well. And if you hear something or see something when you are out, you have the freedom to say “Let's not do that, we're trying to stop this violence.”Keep the conversation moving, be actively involved with the people in your proximity.

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Real Estate News Brief: The Recovery Boom, Home Price Growth, Lumber Prices

Real Estate News: Real Estate Investing Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 6:16

In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending May 1st, 2021… the economic recovery boom, home price growth, and what builders are doing about lumber prices.Economic NewsWe begin with economic news from this past week, and the results of a two-day policy meeting by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chief Jerome Powell acknowledged a big improvement to economic conditions, and the Fed no longer feels that COVID-19 presents a “considerable risk” to the economy. But Powell says the central bank is committed to its current stimulus strategy. As you know, short-term interest rates are near zero, and the Fed is buying $120 billion in Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds every month. Economists say the economy is poised for a boom in 2021. In fact, first quarter GDP was 6.4%. Incomes were also up more than 21% last month, and spending was up more than 4%, thanks in part to government stimulus and those $1,400 checks. Many Americans also have more money saved than normal, and are now spending it on things like new cars and trucks, restaurants, travel, and other recreational activities. MarketWatch reports that Americans have almost $2 trillion dollars in savings that they wouldn’t normally have, and are likely ready to spend.But, Powell says: “While the recovery has progressed more quickly than generally expected, it remains uneven and far from complete.” He also expressed some concern about how fast home prices are rising, but said he hoped that builders will respond with more supply, which would slow that price growth.The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index shows the yearly pace of home price appreciation was 11.9% in February. On a month-to-month basis, it was up 1.2%. Prices are up in all parts of the country, but the Rocky Mountain area is seeing the biggest yearly rate of increase at 15.4%.Powell stands firm on his view of inflation, saying that the Fed believes any price pressure will be temporary. He also wants to see it slightly above 2%. The yearly average was up to 2.3% in March, and economists are expecting it to move higher from there.The latest unemployment report shows another drop in the number of people applying for benefits. Those state claims were down 13,000 from the previous week, to 553,000, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The total number of people collecting benefits from eight different state and federal programs is also down by almost a million in one week -- from 17.4 million to 16.5 million.Pending home sales moved higher, although the lack of inventory remains a problem. The National Association of Realtors says pending sales were up 1.9% in March. Compared to March of last year, they were up 23%.Consumers are feeling a lot more confident as the economy recovers and more people are vaccinated against COVID-19. The Conference Board says that consumer confidence hit a 14-month high in April, with an index reading of 121.7. The University of Michigan had a similar report, saying that that index rose to the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic.Mortgage RatesAs for mortgage rates, they didn’t move much this past week. Freddie Mac says the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is still under 3%. It was up just one basis point to 2.98%. The 15-year was up 2 basis points, to 2.31%.In other news making headlines...Lumber Prices Add $36,000 to New HomesLumber prices continue to add tens of thousands of dollars onto the price of a new home. The National Association of Home Builders says that prices have tripled over the past 12 months and are now adding almost $36,000 to the price of an average single-family home. That’s up from $24,000 in February. Prices began rising at the start of the pandemic, when a number of lumber mills shut down. They’ve been slow to reopen as the coronavirus numbers continue to surge in some areas. But there is hope that prices will retreat later this year, as mills reopen and supply ramps up.In the meantime, many developers are adding escalation clauses to their contracts. They specify that if the cost of building materials increase by a certain amount, the buyer would be responsible for paying the additional amount. Sometimes, builders share that increase with the buyers.Builders are also trying to keep costs down by pre-ordering lumber or by getting lumber price guarantees. They may also delay construction if costs get out of control, or do other parts of the project while lumber prices are spiking.Mature Trees Have Become a Hot CommodityThe new focus on home upgrades has increased the demand for what some are calling “trophy trees.” According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, luxury homeowners are requesting big trees as a focal point for their yards. But they aren’t willing to wait for them to grow, which has created a market for the purchase and relocation of these magnificent trees from other people’s yards. A landscaping and tree relocation company in Florida called Green Integrity says business is booming. Owner, Walter Acree, says they drive wealthy clients around the Southern part of the state looking for the perfect tree. When they find one in someone’s yard, they approach the owner to make an offer, buy it, and relocate the tree. Acree says he recently gave one client a $250,000 quote to move a tree.And they aren’t always nearby. Los Angeles real estate developer, Michael Chen, says it took a year-and-a-half to find a tree for a $65 million spec house in Beverly Hills. He ended up getting a 150-year-old 15’ olive tree from Tuscany.You’ll find links to more information on the podcast page for this episode at NewsForInvestors.comLinks:1 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-powell-doesnt-blink-and-5-other-things-we-learned-from-his-press-conference-11619647208?mod=economy-politics2 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-resurgent-u-s-economy-grew-6-4-in-first-quarter-and-even-faster-growth-lies-ahead-11619700267?mod=economic-report3 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-sink-13-000-to-pandemic-low-553-000-11619700207?mod=economic-report4 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-spending-surges-in-march-after-americans-get-1-400-stimulus-checks-11619786977?mod=economic-report5 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-spending-surges-in-march-after-americans-get-1-400-stimulus-checks-11619786977?mod=economic-report6 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-prices-are-rising-across-every-part-of-america-but-this-city-is-seeing-the-fastest-growth-11619529787?mod=u.s.-economic-calendar7 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pending-home-sales-rise-but-low-inventory-could-cause-headaches-for-buyers-11619705889?mod=economic-report8 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-confidence-jumps-to-14-month-high-thanks-to-coronavirus-vaccines-and-resurgent-economy-11619532387?mod=economic-report9 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-grow-increasingly-confident-in-the-economy-and-expect-unemployment-to-decline-1161979263410 - http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/11 - https://eyeonhousing.org/2021/04/how-builders-try-to-deal-with-rising-lumber-prices/12 - https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2021/04/23/luxury-owners-crown-homes-with-trophy-trees

Michael Chen on Collective Trauma, Margins and AAPI.Liturgy

The Arise Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 42:19

Find Michael Chen on instagram @aapi.liturgy Michael Chen lives in Philadelphia with his wife Rachael and their two boys. He is a graduate of Princeton Seminary earned his Master of Divinity, and is currently working on a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Eastern University. As a long time campus minister, he has a heart for helping people live more fully into their unique identity and vocation. In his free time he likes exploring cities and eating dumplings. Also, he is a karaoke champion. Maggie had the privilege and honor to meet Michael at Allender Center where they were trained in Narrative Focused Trauma Care - Level II.Michael is coming in tired and grateful. He's coming off of a few late nights but also good conversations and meaningful work. He's been in quarantine lock-down since the beginning (March 2020). Having married his wife Rachael in October of 2019, they enter their first year of marriage and hit the “accelerator” to get to know each other: getting to know all the quirks and dynamics of newly married life during the pandemic. They've hit wall emotionally and spiritually in this season. They've definitely triggered each other but have so much faith, trust and love in one another. He is looking froward to Philadelphia opening up a bit more. His boys start hybrid school next week and baseball season is starting up.Maggie checks in with Michael around how he is holding the Derek Chauvin verdict. He's angry that his Black siblings felt so much relief at something that should have been a “no brainer.” And he certainly has mixed emotions because he too felt relief. There was this sense of, “how can it be the case that something so seemingly straightforward and clear would even be in question?”Danielle says that white folks talk about justice in a way that they are entitled to it, that justice is a right. This exposes historical narratives back to Emmet Till, people along the border, and so many others that have been murdered… But justice is not a built in right for all people. Michael adds, “and hence the relief…I don't like that.”Michael asks how Danielle and Maggie processed the verdict and also hearing the news of Ma'Kaia Bryant on the same day, and what a tail spin that was. Maggie agreed that tailspin is a perfect way to describe her feelings — it was a sense of not knowing which direction is up or down. She too held a mixed bag of emotion - A sense of relief at the accountability, a small measure of justice, at the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin, as well as anger knowing how much work there is to be done with police reform, gun control and white supremacy in our country. And then feeling the overwhelming sense of, “How long, Oh Lord?” When hearing the news of Ma'Kaia Bryant. Watching videos of her showing her peers how to do hair… She wept. The only thing she could say was “How long?” Because there was no knowing of how to make meaning or sense of all that had happened in that one day.Michael believes that, “we were not built to take in this much information this quickly without a sense of ritual, a sense of grief, or a space for mourning.” There is a feeling that our bodies can not process the amount of trauma in the news at the rate and intensity it is coming at us. He reminds himself to stay cognizant of that.Danielle wrote an essay on April 19th about Adam, Dante and the impact of the massacre in Atlanta along with her journey to become a therapist. No sooner had she sent it off to get published when the verdict came in and Ma'Kaia Bryant was killed. She went to bed and felt like “this essay is no longer true.” She pulled the essay, edited it and resubmitted it today (April 23) to be published on May 3rd and her thought was, “Oh Lord, will I have to change this again? Will there be more stories to tell? I already know in my bones that it won't feel right to leave a name out…” She agrees with Michael, it is too much to take in. And sometimes she says feels like all we can do is to say their name. Michael adds, which feels like another injustice or violation.Maggie mentioned Michael's new work with AAPI.liturgy on instagram and read a recent post about looking at trauma in a way to include collective trauma. The post says: “A group experience of pain, loss or catastrophe that shatters the social bonds that form a community, resulting in loss of trust, dissolution of roles and boundaries, and the breaking of group identity.” - Kai EriksonIn beginning to define trauma with the collective, it is expanding our idea of trauma from an individual felt embodied experience to “as individual bodies experiencing trauma collectively.” Maggie said that is in fact what we just described as we have processed what it has been like to live in our bodies even just the last few days with collective trauma.Michael has thought for a long time that he does not know what it means to be Asian. He has grown up in a predominately white spaces in Minnesota and had taken a position in an a ministry organization as the director for cross cultural ministry, where he functioned as a mediator between white leadership and predominately Black staff. It felt like he had to do a lot of work on African-American History.Race as a construct in his experience has been a binary between Black and white. He has been inspired by his friend Cole Arther Riley of Black Liturgies in bringing Black history, identity, literature and poetry into liturgical spaces of prayer and spiritual formation. He thinks that the people he is talking to, whether that is professors or people on instagram, are still asking the question: what does it mean to Asian American and Christian?Michael believes that we are in a coming of age moment; people are seeking identity right now. So it is with that in mind that he started aapi.litgury with a sense of openness. He believes there is something to be explored around trauma, history and trying to formulate and articulate a way of being that might be helpful to Asian Americans as they grapple with their identity. He says, “What if we started with a collective definition to the question, what is trauma? Would that change our ideas of how we conceive of healing?” He doesn't have the answer but he found the quote provocative as it was shared by Kai Cheng Thom, a Trans woman, at a trauma conference called Tending the Roots. It has been a journey for Michael to put himself in spaces and places to listen and learn from folks at the margins. And then at the margins of the Asian-American Community. The margins of the margins.Trauma primarily as collective is the violation of boundaries and the breaking down of roles and identities. He still has a lot of questions about gender and sexuality, but it is his understanding that in traditional Asian cultures there is evidence that trans individuals, those with more gender fluidity, took on the roles of priests and mediators for the community. They mediated between binaries, they had roles and identities, and there is a sense in these cultures of not letting people fall into the margins: People get a place in the community. Colonialism and Western Individualism holds us back at some level to imagine people with various identities having roles for healing and connecting.Danielle says there is a unity in viewing the collective trauma that has a way of stripping shame of its power; the shame for the trauma you've experienced as an individual. Shame weds us to beliefs about ourselves and communities. There is something powerful about coming together.Michael notes it is a different perspective to think of trauma starting from the collective standpoint. To figure out how to deal with rules and shame with the collective in mind is a different emphasis and a different way of seeing trauma.What Maggie likes best is about this new way of looking at trauma is that it is expanding outside of ourselves. There is a tendency in Western Culture to think of only how we are individually impacted by trauma, and certainly trauma is an individually felt and embodied experience. But to open it up to a broader, bigger felt experience of connectedness shows our beautiful interconnected nature as human beings.Maggie as a witness to Michael's offerings on aapi.liturgy sees how he has named and acknowledged some of the common felt experiences of the Asian community. His recent post, “Appeasement and apology have been too much a part of our daily liturgy. These are our survival instincts. The new AAPI liturgy will be full of quiet strength and holy wonder.” She says it is a way name and reclaim, and move forward the experience of Asian Americans.Michael recalls a book his professor wrote called “At the Margins: Asian American Theology.” It is a theology of liminality and being caught in the margins. One part that Michael got stuck on in the book was that his professor was a US Citizen for 50 years and still felt unwelcome; Like an outsider, he was still needing to defer and appease those around him. This resonated so much with Michael's own experience; The most current iteration for himself was the experience of volunteering to be a baseball coach. He was the first one to respond to the email and the commissioner made him the head coach. Immediately Michael said no, he could not take on the role. And feeling like he still has that voice of “sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry.” Or “Don't take up space.” “I'm not going to get in your way.” “I'm not a problem.” It is such a survival technique to not be a destructive presence and there is also something honorable in pursing harmony and equanimity and peace, but Michael asks, at what cost?Danielle says she imagines that the minute you don't enter the space with appeasement and apology, there is disruption for dominate culture folks.Michael responds, “Yeah absolutely and then we have to decide. And typically we haven't been in power, we've been more at the margins, at the periphery of society, organizations, the church… Then we're gonna decide how much we're gonna bear.”Danielle names that as soon as the disruption happens, then there is so much more that follows if you then additionally say something.In a previous Christian ministry employer, the role of director of cross cultural ministry, people would only last a year or two. Michael stayed for five years. A lot of that time he said was appeasement and sometimes apology. He said, we tend to ‘eat it.”Danielle said that someone once asked her, “how much sin do you want to eat from a white folk?” And that stuck with her because sometimes we (as People of Color) just do. We eat the sin of white folk.Michael said it is a continual calculation of the costs of do I want to stay in this context or be ostracized, marginalized, off on the periphery again?Danielle named that even as we talk, the center is still whiteness. Even the conversation, it is still whiteness at the center. She asked Maggie what she is thinking.Maggie said she is pondering the cost for Michael to show up in spaces and bring the fullness of who he is. First in the very public space of his work on the AAPI.liturgy and but also in the pursuit of his PhD.Michael says his PhD cohort is another space where he is the only Asian: Amidst a beautiful diverse group of black and white, the only Asian face. He has learned to try to advocate for himself and his people in ways that feel potentially costly. He said it is a safe group, but there is the fear that is still there for him. With respect to instagram, he does not feel he is in danger. Michael wonders who is this for? He reminds himself when posting, if it can be of meaning for other Asian Americans trying to figure out their identity in God, then beautiful. But is it also for him. He has to ask himself, “How much teaching do I want to do? How much work do I want to do in explaining?” Overall he feels that if there are a number of people who are benefiting, and it is putting words and language to help move them through trauma and bring healing, to be seen and heard, then it's worth the cost.Michael is curious about where we grew up and our experiences of Asian Americans, the narratives that came out in our growing up. Part of what he is doing on the instagram account is trying to name some of these stereotypes and narratives and then deal with them, engage them. “Asians are good at math,” so the wrote a post about math.Maggie has grown up in the PNW and has had many interactions with Asians, but one of the posts that he put about Asians being silent hit her: “To be Asian American is to be silent. Silence has been both our greatest feat and our worst fear. Silence grounded in mindfulness brings unflinching fortitude. Silence driven by fear leads to an even deeper shame.” When Maggie thinks about interacting with Asians as a child she does think of that stereotype of Asians being quiet. And into her high school years, one of her best friends was half Chinese and she was not quiet at all. She recalls, “We tore it up.. We would have a good time and were kinda wild.” It was interesting because when she read the post she had the sense that it was true but that she didn't even know where that stereotype came from (and certainly didn't fit her experience with her friend). She asks, what is the history behind the idea of Asian's being silent?She mentioned that Michael, in advocating for himself to his PhD cohort, suggested they watch the PBS documentary called “Asian Americans.” Maggie went and watched the first (of six) parts as well. Being from the Northwest there is so much Asian American History here, she says. When her family moved to Bainbridge Island she learned about the Japanese internment. One of the properties that her parents were looking at purchasing was previously a strawberry farm owned by Japanese farmers who were interned during WWII. To know the history of the land, that two irrigation ditches went unkept for so long that they connected at the ends forming a long lake with a long skinny island in the middle, was to have a deep sadness. She remarks that Bainbridge Island has done a phenomenal job of marking the history with a Japanese Internment Memorial (Nidoto Nai Yoni - Let It Not Happen Again) and also at the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum. She recalls a haunting set of pictures (in the museum) of the school house on Bainbridge the year before internment and the year after — a beautiful mix of diverse face before and the next year completely white.Michael feels like he wants to make a pilgrimage to Angel Island, outside of San Francisco. He didn't learn about it's history until recently.Danielle says they could have a whole conversation about Asian and Latinx history. She recently had her DNA done. She recalls a cousin who often received derogatory remarks about her eyes, racial slurs of Asian eyes. Her family would always say no, there is no Asian ancestry. Danielle would think that the cousin did indeed look like she could be Asian. [She mentions the book Brown Theology by Robert Chao Romero]. Well her DNA confirmed she (Danielle) does have a percentage of heritage from the Northern Philippines. She said, so it is there! Besides that, her DNA is a tour of colonialism. She said, that's a part of me and she wonders if what's in our bones, what we're attracted to, where we feel at home, is in the DNA. She gravitates towards her Asian brothers and sisters. She has always felt a kinship. Maybe there is some evidence.Michael says, yes the Chinese diaspora is vast! There could be more intersectionality between Latinx and AAPI communities. It would be worth doing a bit more research.Michael says AAPI, the term, has become a demographic term. It was invented in the 1960s as an activist term for Chinese and Japanese people join in during the Civil Rights movement. It was so they could have a collective term to take up this movement towards justice. But it has become a bland and/or meaningless term because Asian Americans are so diverse with something like 58 countries represented and just as many languages.And so it starts with the collective and then moves into particularity.Join us for part two...

The Social Justice and the Kingdom of God – Michael Chen

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2021

Part II: HHS students and faculty innovate for the Rochester community during pandemic

The Prez Paul Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021 33:02

This time students and faculty from our social work, nursing, and public health programs join me to discuss the many ways they are continuing to support wellness for people in the Rochester community — despite the pandemic. Leanne Charlesworth is professor and chair of social work and the director of the undergraduate social work major. She received her bachelor's from Cornell University, master's in social work from University of Albany, and doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University. Leanne's scholarly interests include poverty and homelessness. She is deeply invested in a campus-community partnership called Project Homeless Connect, which includes ongoing work with Rochester's Homeless Services Network. Student Izzy Kimber is a senior social work major with a business minor. She's an office coordinator for Partners for Serving, president of the social work club on campus, and a third-year resident assistant (RA). If she were to describe herself in three words it would be outspoken, motivated, and passionate. She strives to promote social justice and a safe, empowering environment for people with whom she works. Izzy is currently applying to master of social work programs. Michael Chen is an assistant professor in the public health program. He has his bachelor's in economics and community health from Brown University and a doctorate in health services research from University of Rochester. Prior to joining Nazareth, Michael was a community organizer, a project coordinator at a public health consulting firm, a youth group leader, and a research assistant. Michael is broadly interested in health policy and outcomes research in the context of children, family, and health systems. Mary Dahl Maher is the chair of the Nursing Department and founding program director for the Public health undergraduate degrees. She earned her bachelor's of science in nursing at D'Youville College; master's of science in nursing. at Case Western Reserve University; and master's of public health. and doctorate at University of Rochester. Mary is a certified nurse-midwife who has worked in urban and rural settings and has a strong commitment to global education. Her passion for improving the quality of healthcare access and equity led to work in Haiti and a Fulbright award to Finland. Vicki Arena is a senior double major in nursing and public health who anticipates graduating in May. She is completing her senior nursing capstone. She completed a public health internship in summer 2020 with the Genesee-Orleans Health Department.

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Episode 4: A guy's guide to proposing! Ft Michael Chen

Right In The Feels

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 44:02

In this episode with my future brother-in-law Michael Chen, my fiance @xoxochristine's younger brother, I take you behind the scenes with secret insider access into what goes on in the minds of two men who just recently got engaged. What did it take for us to get to the point of popping the question? What battles within ourselves and with our partners did we need to overcome? What pressures did we feel in buying the RING? If you are a woman looking to figure out why guys take so long to 'PUT A RING ON IT' or a man trying to reach a point of a break through and get to that next level in an engagement, tune in to find out our thoughts and advice! Follow for MORE FEELS here: -instagram: instagram.com/rightinthefeelspodcast -tiktok: @rightinthefeelspodcast -twitter: @jackzwchen Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe on itunes! Much love. Email me ANYTHING!: rightinthefeelspod@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rightinthefeels/support

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Building an Impact

The Mic

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 50:18

How can designers serve as essential advocates to both their communities and each other? How can the urban landscape foster empathy, exchange, and learning? Join host Debbie Millman in discussion with two remarkable NYC-based Architects, Michael Chen and Andrea Steele, on the integral role that designers play in creating lasting structural change, and how we can build a more equitable and accessible city.

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From White to Mosaic - Michael Chen

The MindShift Education Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2020 40:15

For this episode, we sat down with Michael Chen, an educator with over two decades of experience in urban education, international development, and organizational change and who currently serves as the head of school at Pacific Bay Christian School in Pacifica, California. Michael is also a co-author of, "From White to Mosaic", a chapter in the book, Mindshift: Catalyzing Change in Christian Education, which you can find on our website at mindshift.school. We'll be hearing from Michael about his experiences as an immigrant to the United States, the biblical case for diversity in Christian education, and the importance of collaboratively unpacking privilege, disparity, racism and biases to bridge the gaps between individuals and communities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mindshift-education/message

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專訪大學助學金申請與稅務規劃專家Michael Chen【洛城二三事】20201116

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 24:25

節目名稱：2020/11/16 洛城二三事節目時段：週一至週五 14:00-16:00 主持人：一衣受訪者：大學助學金申請與稅務規劃專家Michael Chen ---------------------------------------------------