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Introducing Innovation City: A Podcast featuring Innovators, Disruptors, and Creators

-- Innovation City is a podcast featuring the innovators, disruptors and creators behind the innovation movement. Innovation City is a collaboration of Venture Cafe St. Louis, Venture Cafe Miami, and SLAM! Agency.

Imagine a place where you can break through the status quo of business as usual and realize your life's purpose. Imagine a place where you can make a difference, have an impact and shape the future. This place exists in cities across the world. In this innovation podcast, we introduce you to the people behind the movement.

Our first guests include:
De Nichols -- Social Practice Designer (St. Louis, MO)
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan -- Founder at WatchMojo (Montreal, QC)
Michelle Abbs -- Director at WINLab Miami (Miami, FL)
Rodney Bullard -- VP of Community Affairs at Chick-Fil-A (Atlanta, GA)
Cami Cruz Thomas -- For The Culture TV (St. Louis, MO)
Brian Brackeen -- Founder at Kairos Inc. (Miami, FL)
Darian Wigfall -- Activist, Author and Independent Music Exec (St. Louis, MO)
Christine Handy -- Accomplished Model and Author (Miami, FL)
Jim St. Germain -- Author and Advocate (Brooklyn, NY)
Ben Triola -- Serial Entrepreneur and Game Designer (St. Louis, MO)
Zach Hatraf -- Founder at Anchor Rides (St. Louis, MO)
Jennifer Pierre -- Founder at Melanites (Miami, FL)
Ben Mizes -- Founder at Clever Real Estate (St. Louis, MO)
Mallesh Murugesan -- CEO & Co-Founder at Chirrp.ai (Miami, FL)
Milka Milliance -- Founder at We R Artemis Leadership (Miami, FL)

Innovation City launches April 3, 2018.

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Avatar Robot Cafe | JAPAN Forward

Recently there has been much debate on the pros and cons of accepting a large number of foreign workers to accommodate growing labor shortages attributed to Japan’s low birth rates and aging of society.



In a September 5, 2018, SEIRON column, I noted that there is a potential workforce of nearly 16 million Japanese, including the disabled and hikikomori (socially withdrawn youths), who have found it difficult to work, even as the Abe administration seeks to realize the “Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens.” Ensuring these diverse people have job opportunities in Japanese society is a key task that should be promptly addressed.

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About JAPAN Forward:
JAPAN Forward is a new English-language news and opinion website run by the JAPAN Forward association Inc.

JAPAN Forward aims to present the true face of Japan, as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, to a rapidly-changing world where unpredictability often outpaces stability. Japan has long lagged behind other countries—all of which have their own points of view—in conveying her own take on the world around.

JAPAN Forward sets out to overcome misunderstandings born of linguistic barriers. In covering major news stories in Japan, along with key points of debate, current events, history, culture, and the arts, we hope to deepen the world’s understanding of the Japanese archipelago.

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games on the horizon, there is a great need for a new English-language medium rooted in solid fact and fully cognizant of the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese people. Our expanding network of influential analysts and foreign experts based in Japan and overseas means that we are continuously improving our ability to bring the truth about Japan to an ever-wider English-speaking audience.

At the helm of JAPAN Forward is an editor who has decades of journalism experience in Europe and the United States, while our editorial team of native speakers hails from policy research centers, academia, journalism outlets, and more. This is the real Japan, in real English.

JAPAN Forward is operated by JAPAN Forward Association Inc., which has also established the JAPAN Forward Supporters Network to allow individual and corporate sponsors to join in our mission to keep Japan moving forward and build our recognition in the Anglosphere.

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The European Water Tech Week Leeuwarden

The global water technology sector is increasingly organized in hubs. The European Water Tech Week Leeuwarden 2018 (EWTW 2018) will connect these hubs in Leeuwarden, the United Nations Innovating City for water technology. At this special event, the sector will meet and inspire each other in the innovative climate of WaterCampus Leeuwarden.
Innovation, technology and policy leaders from companies, universities and governments get together during several inspiring events taking place from September 24 to 27, 2018.
EWTW 2018 will among others feature the Wetsus Annual Congress 2018, Water Alliance WaterLink2018 and a dedicated trade show. All of this will be accompanied by a unique cultural program linked to water, to celebrate Leeuwarden’s official status of European Capital of Culture in 2018.

San Francisco | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
San Francisco

Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates



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San Francisco (SF; ; Spanish for 'Saint Francis'; Spanish: [ˈsãɱ fɾãnˈsisko]), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th most populous city in the United States, and the 4th most populous in California, with 884,363 residents as of 2017. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large US city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is also part of the fifth most populous primary statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area (8.8 million residents).
As of 2017, it was the 7th highest-income county in the United States, with a per capita personal income of $119,868. The San Francisco CSA was the country's 3rd largest urban economy as of 2017, with a GDP of $878 billion. Of the 574 primary statistical areas in the US, the San Francisco CSA had the highest GDP per capita in 2017, at $99,347 per capita. San Francisco was ranked 14th in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of September 2018.San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. San Francisco's status as the West Coast's largest city peaked between 1870 and 1900, when around 25% of California's population resided in the city. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the hippie counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.
A popular tourist destination, San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman's Wharf, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Fitbit, Salesforce.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Square, Inc., Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, Craigslist, and Weather Underground. It is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of San Francisco (USF), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco State University (SFSU), the De Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the California Academy of Sciences.
As of 2018, San Francisco is the highest rated American city on world liveability rankings.

Robot Lady

From the JAPAN! Culture + Hyperculture festival at the Kennedy Center. She had artificial intelligence and could answer people's questions.

RIVER. SPACE. DESIGN.Towards a New Urban Water Culture

Lecture by Antje Stokman, Professor and Director of Landscape Planning and Ecology, Stuttgart University, Germany
Antje Stokman discussed how, within different cultural contexts, our relationship with water results in very different landscape and city forms. She outlined a vision for reintegrating the dynamics of water into our cities.

This program is supported by a generous gift from Michael V. Dyett AB '68, MRP '72 and Heidi Richardso

Chinese smartwatches manufacturer, phone wrist watch, watch phones, Shenzhen Timestar Electronic

Chinese smartwatches manufacturer, phone wrist watch, watch phones, Shenzhen Timestar Electronic

Shenzhen Timestar Electronic Co., Ltd. was founded in 1984, and it was the former subsidiary of Fiyta Group (Top Brand of Chinese Watch Industry) under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Timestar is the manufacturer of China's first electronic stopwatch, China's Top Brand of electronic timing products, one of the makers of Chinese watch industry quality standards, and the only designated watch supplier of Chinese National Croquet Game. Timestar mainly engaged in the development, production and sale of all types of smart watches, quartz watches, climbing watches, 3D pedometer, stopwatch, croquet watches, GPS locator, heart rate monitor, blood pressure test instruments, intelligent automatic ringer, gifts and other smart devices.

Company Development
After 30 years of development, Timestar is developed into the solutions provider, research institute, manufacturer and vendor of a full range of timing products across upstream & downstream, and our businesses are covering the whole industry chain. Timestar established a number of affiliated companies, including the electronic resolution design and development center Hong Kong Aerospace Group, the watch industry solutions planning center Shenzhen Zhongti Corporate Planning Co., Ltd., the electronic products and accessories agent and distribution company Shenzhen Xingbaiheng Industrial Co., Ltd. the electronic component sales division QCE Tech (HK) Co., Limited, and the corporate translation service provider OES (HK) Co., Limited.

Sales Channels
Depending on 30 years' hard word, Timestar established extensive distribution channels. It has 26 provincial agents in China, more than 170 stores and about 6.2 million end consumers. Timestar participates in various national and international exhibitions, including China International Science Fair, Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair, Hong Kong Sporting Goods Show, Shenzhen Culture Fair, Beijing Sports Expo, Shanghai Sporting Goods Show, Guangzhou Sports Fair, Shenzhen Sports Fair, Chengdu Education Equipment Exhibition, etc. Also, Timestar organized and participated in a lot of major games, such as the Third Asian Croquet Tournament, Chinese Croquet Championship, Hong Kong International Wushu Festival, Paralympic Game, Guangdong Disabled Talent Show, etc.

Honor
30 years of steady development was awarded numerous national and international awards, including China Famous Products, China Quality and Goodwill Demonstration Company, Chinese Qualified Measuring Instrument Enterprise, Excellent Partners of China International Sporting Goods Show, Advanced Enterprises in Shenzhen, ATC Quality Certification, VCA Quality Certification, Quality Trustworthy Products, China's Outstanding Sporting Goods Golden Phoenix Award, Consumers Loving Goods, Advanced Croquet Equipment Factory, The Third Grade Enterprise of Metrological Guarantee, etc.

Also, Timestar is the members of China Sporting Goods Federation, Hong Kong International Sporting Goods Show, China Educational Equipment Industry Association, China Stationery & Education Sporting Goods Association (CSASGA).

In addition, our Chairman Mr. Lu Zhongyuan has won lots of awards for his outstanding achievements and contributions, such as the Most Loving Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Outstanding Individuals, Disabilities Innovation of Guangdong Province, Re-employment Outstanding Individuals, Disabilities Venture Star, Loving Entrepreneurs, Disabled Self-Star,, etc. Also, Mr. Lu was met by former Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu for his contribution to China.

Prospect
Depending on 30 years of operation, although today's market is fiercely competitive, Timestar Electronic still completes a comprehensive, multi-level market layout, and it determines to build a world-class smart watch brand. Looking ahead, we are confident that clear goals, careful planning and efficient execution are the guarantee of success.

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Duke University | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Duke University


00:02:10 1 History
00:02:19 1.1 Beginnings
00:05:47 1.2 Expansion and growth
00:07:55 1.3 Recent history
00:11:23 2 Campus
00:16:18 2.1 West, East, and Central Campuses
00:19:54 2.2 Duke Kunshan University Campus
00:20:48 2.3 Key places
00:23:47 3 Administration and organization
00:24:41 4 Academics
00:24:50 4.1 Admissions
00:26:42 4.2 Graduate profile
00:27:41 4.3 Undergraduate curriculum
00:29:27 4.4 Libraries and museums
00:30:31 4.5 Research
00:32:54 4.6 Reputation and rankings
00:33:03 4.6.1 Undergraduate rankings
00:37:16 4.6.2 Graduate school rankings
00:40:31 5 Student life
00:40:40 5.1 Student body
00:41:00 5.2 Residential life
00:43:36 5.3 Greek and social life
00:47:47 5.4 Activities
00:47:55 5.4.1 Student organizations
00:49:54 5.4.2 Civic engagement
00:52:19 5.4.3 Student media
00:53:22 6 Duke Alumni Association
00:54:00 7 iDuke Magazine/i
00:54:22 8 Athletics
00:56:20 8.1 Men's basketball
00:57:35 8.2 Football
01:00:11 8.3 Track and field
01:00:41 9 Notable people
01:01:29 9.1 Government
01:02:21 9.2 Academia and research
01:03:18 9.3 Journalism
01:04:04 9.4 Literature
01:05:16 9.5 Business
01:06:23 9.6 Athletics
01:07:43 10 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:


You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:




The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates



SUMMARY
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Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
Duke's campus spans over 8,600 acres (3,500 hectares) on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. The main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot (64-meter) Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation. The first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) away is adjacent to the Medical Center. The university runs two concurrent universities in Asia, Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China, and Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
Duke is ranked 8th in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking and 22nd in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. In 2017, Forbes lists Duke among the top ten universities to produce the most Forbes 400 billionaires. In a corporate study carried out by The New York Times, Duke's graduates were shown to be among the most sought-after and valued in the world, and Forbes magazine ranked Duke 7th in the world on its list of 'power factories'.As of 2018, 13 Nobel laureates and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Further, Duke alumni include 40 Rhodes Scholars and 25 Churchill Scholars. The university has produced the 5th highest number of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars of any American university between 1986 and 2015. In 2018, the Wall Street Journal ranked Duke first (tied with Harvard and Yale) for graduate outcomes. As of 2018, Duke also holds a top-ten position in several national rankings.