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Robert Hoyle Brown joined Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work in 2014. Since that time, he has worked extensively with the Cognizant Digital Operations practice as head of market strategy, and also with Cognizant's Business Accelerator leadership to drive the development of its intelligent automation strategy, messaging and go-to-market outreach.
His research emphasis has been on the topics of robotics, automation, privacy and augmented reality and their impact on business processes.
He was the lead author on the Center for the Future of Work whitepapers "The Robot and I: How New Digital Technologies Are Making Smart People and Businesses Smarter by Automating Rote Work" (2015), "Every Move You Make: The Future of Privacy in the Age of the Algorithm" (2018), as well as "Augmenting the Reality of Everything" (2017). He was also a co-author of "21 Jobs of the Future: A Guide to Getting – and Staying – Employed Over the Next 10 Years" (2017).
Prior to joining Cognizant, Robert served as a Managing Vice President at Gartner, Inc. both in the US and London. In addition to his career as a strategist and research analyst, his experience has included positions at Hewlett-Packard as well as the British House of Commons. He also currently belongs to the Leadership Council of DisruptHR SF, and sits on the board of directors for Big Skills, Tiny Homes, a nonprofit tiny homes outreach initiative in local high schools.
He holds a BA in History from the University of California at Berkeley and, prior to his graduation, attended the London School of Economics as a Hansard Scholar. He resides in Marin County, California.
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Aspen Action Forum: Fearless Leadership for the Future of Work
Robert Brown |Jul 30, 2018
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Multiple Authors |Jul 20, 2018
At the end of 2017 the Center for the Future of Work published a landmark report titled 21 Jobs of the Future. This report laid...
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Of Media Kings, Chessboards & Rice: The Future of Entertainment Is NOW
Robert Brown |Jun 21, 2018
Legend holds that a conman craftsman once made a chessboard for a king. "Your Highness, I don't want money for this. Or jewels....
Six Ways to Swallow the PII Pill of GDPR
Vast amounts of ink (more realistically, Internet blog spaces) have been spilled on the subject of the brave new world of GDPR....
How Does it Feel? The Currency of Experience
Robert Brown |May 31, 2018
In 1967 Jimi Hendrix sang "Have you ever been experienced?" To be sure, Jimi was talking about acid, or otherwise...
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Every Move You Make: Privacy in the Age of the Algorithm
Multiple Authors |May 23, 2018
With every click we make online, our interests, preferences, intent and even location are revealed to those we trust –...
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Traffic congestion marked by thick red lines on a Google Map. A browser that remembers your credit card code. Tracking down a...
The Future of AR, Popstars, and ABBAtars
An amazing development in the future of entertainment dropped this past week. Iconic Seventies band ABBA announced that they...
Taking the Ethical Road in an Augmented World
Robert Brown |Apr 03, 2018
One of our most recent research pieces at the Center for the Future of Work lays out the road ahead for AR and VR technologies....
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Robert Brown |Mar 09, 2018
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by hand until form an unsticky dough.
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New album by the Ska and Reggae English legend (and also Grammy award winning) Nick Welsh, also known as King Hammond.
Ex-member of Bad Manners, The Selecter and musician of Dave Barker, Laurel Aitken or Lee Perry, for whom he wrote the Jamaican ET album. With this brand new album Nick pays tribute to Jamaican Reggae and Rock Steady and the original Skinhead multiracial cult.
In his own words: "When I returned as King Hammond to the musical arena in 2010 it was to make music I affectionately called "21st Century Scorchers", which was to create a modern day Skinhead Reggae with a tip of the trilby to the 'spirit of 69'. I've always taken the 'write what you know about' school of songwriting so that basically means… me and my life!.
Although on this album it's made up of less 'confessional' material and much more dance floor orientated grooves, but non the less it's still music from the heart".
Despite of being an album focused in a musical style one thing that the listener finds out is the variety of the music: "'Rocking On Ridley Road' is me revisiting the East London street market, I would visit as a teenager to buy my my Reggae & Soul records back in the mid 1970's, 'Cuban Missile' is my musical tribute to the late great Ska originator Laurel Aitken, and 'Skin 2 Skin' Well that's what I call feather cut bedroom music for the rude boy/girl generation. I could go on and on and… but instead I suggest you just sit down and listen to '21st Century Scorchers' and have yourself your own personal 'Reggae Riot'.
The album features both instrumental and vocal tunes, from frenetic Reggae stompers written for the dancehall to sweet Rock Steady tracks. Only released on vinyl in a very special edition with 'cut out' cover sleeve and two different covers.


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We run daily before and after-school care for children from Reception to Year 6. Our Early Birds club starts at 8am and children are then taken to their classes for the start of the school day. Our Adventurers Club runs from 3:30 until 5:30 every day.
These clubs are run by school staff, and a wide range of activities is planned, including provision for active play and use of the outdoors, as well as a wide range of indoor resources including art activities, games, books, construction, toys, puzzles, and more. Children may also make some use of technology - using laptops, i-pads and playstation. The use of these is closely monitored, and time on technology is restricted to ensure children access a wide range of different activities and spend time playing with others, interacting and having conversations with staff and their peers.
For more information about our out-of-school care, including fees payable and our charging policy, please contact the school office.
In addition to our Early Birds and Adventurers clubs, we also offer a wide variety of extra-curricular clubs and groups which run once a week for up to 6 sessions a term. Children can sign up for these free of charge on a termly basis.
We provide a different range of extra-curricular clubs each term, and the range on offer includes:
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Have you ever wished to drive a lorry? Me neither. In real life, it looks like a kind of a drag, with endless tedious hours behind the wheel, accented by greasy rest stop sandwich and nights on an uncomfortable mattress at a lay-by.
But, like so many things, it can make perfect sense as a video game. In the digital universe, you are free to enjoy the spectacle of the open road and the bracing challenge of directing a car the size of a blue whale without any one of the downsides. Truck Simulation 19 is the most recent trucking simulator to get on the application shops, and it comes to us due to sim pro astragon.
Place in the united states, the spiritual house of the trucks sees you traveling from location to place, collecting cargo here, dropping off it there, earning money, and finally enlarging your haulage empire across North America. As you're free to research, there are campaign missions to assist you to get started. At the first, you reconnect with what seems like a former girlfriend who wants your help.
Following an icy exchange, you agree to do the work for her, and from there the story gradually builds. First things first. Truck driving sims may take a little getting used to. While most driving games – or games normally, for that matter – revel in misbehavior, Truck Simulation 19 motivates you to drive responsibly.
In the end, your constant objective is to make money, and each time you collide with another vehicle or violate the speed limit for far too long you wind up paying a fine. Each time you carelessly smash your truck in a barrier or collide with a wall whilst trying a label through the grass verge you inflict harm which costs money to repair.
This has the effect of turning responsible driving into a rewarding challenge. The money you fritter away on roadside recoveries and avoidable penalties, the more you can spend on your progress. Including purchasing new trucks, unlocking new pieces of America, and make a large number of adjustments on your car, inside and out.
Finally, you will also be capable to purchase new depots across the nation, that has the effect of starting up new jobs and also giving you fast travel spots. America is a large country, so these really are crucial.
The missions you complete for the campaign inject a welcome dose of drama into proceedings, and finally run out of money normally finally run out of money. On the other hand, the jobs which you may take on are considerably more receptive. While there is always a GPS path to follow, you may always take another path after consulting the map.
In reality, you do not finally run out of money in any way, however, you'll finally run out of money. The same as in real life. However, what about the actual driving? Truck Simulation 19 does not just simulate the professional experience of a US trucker, but additionally the physical driving bit.


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SMNZI operates three categories of award
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The prize is awarded for the best materials presentation at New Zealand Engineering conferences which include a significant material component.
Some support as appropriate is given from time to time for research students presenting papers to a conference.
There have not been any recent conferences which included appropriate sessions but we hope a materials engineering conference will take place in New Zealand in the near future.
Final Year Undergraduate Student Prize
As a tradition, SMNZI awards annual prizes to graduating materials engineering students. Award winners are students who are judged to be the first and second highest achievers in their graduating Bachelor degree year.
These students are either selected on the basis of overall marks achieved in coursework, or selected by a panel for the best presentation of a final year materials project.
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За́мок Бо́дулів () — замок, один з найменш відомих фортифікаційних укріплень Закарпатської області. Розташований між селом Сільце і містом Іршава, на вершині гори Бодулів. Замок ХІІІ століття очевидно не був введений в експлуатацію.

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Місце для розміщення надійно укріпленого пункту було вибране дуже вдало — це невелика округла вершина гірського кряжу, який стрімко опускається в долину річки Іршавки. Колись вершина була оточена штучним валом і ровом, залишки яких можна бачити і тепер. Городище займало вигідне географічне розташування, воно дозволяло проглядати навколишню місцевість на кілька кілометрів. З північного та північно-західного боку підніжжя гори були заболочені, з південно-східного за 200 м від підніжжя протікає річка Іршавка, що впадає в річку Боржаву. Східний та північно-західний схили гори круті, південно-західний — пологий.

Після проведених розкопок було виявлено, що на горі Бодулів існувало кілька поселень у різні часи.

Перший етап заселення гори датований III—II ст. до н.е. В цей період виникає перше поселення без укріплень. Знайдено кераміку гальштатського періоду.

Другий етап Х-ХІ ст.

Третій етап ХІІІ ст.

Руїни укріплення були розібрані у ХІХ столітті для будівництва нового храму в Іршаві.

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Контури замку було визначено за залишками кам'яного фундаменту. У плані він квадратним, розміром 32x32 м. З північної і південної сторін замок додатково захищали зведені вздовж стін рови і вали.

Згадки про замок в письмових джерелах відсутні. В такій ситуації для визначення часу функціонування замку можуть бути використані тільки матеріали археологічних досліджень.

Вперше пам'ятку досліджувала в 1981 р. експедиція під керівництвом С. І. Пеняка. На підставі зібраного керамічного матеріалу дослідником виділено три культурно-хронологічних горизонти (III—II ст. до н. е., ХІ—XII ст. н. е. і XIII—XIV ст. н.е.). Останній горизонт пов'язаний зі зведенням замкових стін.

Роботи в урочищі Бодулів було відновлено в 1991 р. А. В. Дзембас. Він виявив незначну кількість фрагментарної кераміки, визначеної як гальштатського періоду і епохою середньовіччя (X—XI ст. н. е.).

Обмежений матеріал, отриманий при дослідженні Бодуліва, змусив знову звернути увагу на цей пункт. З метою набуття додаткових даних, в 2009 р. була організована археологічна експедиція під керівництвом відомого археолога Вячеслава Котигорошка. Було закладено розкоп і два шурфи на ділянці, обмеженій кам'яним фундаментом. Кераміка, отримана в ході дослідження Бодуліва, дозволяє визначити час існування замку другою половиною XIII ст. н. е.

Галерея

Примітки

Джерела
 «Замки Подкарпатской Руси», Дмитрий Поп, Иван Поп, 2004
 «До питання про історію замків Закарпаття», О.М. Гомоляк, 2007
 «Исследование замков Закарпатья», И.А. Прохненко, Е.М. Гомоляк, И.Т. Зомбор, 2009
 «Городища как предшественники замков», Д.Поп, И.Поп

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Замки та палаци Закарпатської області
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Mila Zelkha is a housing advocate and social entrepreneur whose ventures have combined architectural design, strategic partnerships and socially responsible investing to help Bay Area communities. Currently she is the head of Bay Area Forward, a broad-based coalition fostering inclusive communities as a special project fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Recently, she was the director of real estate and facilities for InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter/housing and supportive services across Silicon Valley serving thousands of homeless clients annually through its "Beyond the Bed" services. She holds a bachelors degree in architecture from Rhode Island School of Design.


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Enabling remote working
Reducing business mileage
This toolkit offers some great ideas on how to reduce business mileage; introducing any one of these options could help reduce your business costs. It also includes a business case study from an Exeter company.
This toolkit includes information on:
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Why try to reduce business mileage?
It can save you money on travel costs;
It can make your staff fitter, healthier and happier;
It may encourage staff to travel more sustainably to and from work as well as during work hours;
It may help towards your business travel plan; and
It reduces the risk of your staff being involved in an accident.
Business mileage
Restructuring your business mileage policy can make business travel more cost effective. Options could include:
Introduce a cycling and/or walking mileage allowance.
Reduce your business mileage rates – high business mileage payments can encourage employees to drive unnecessary miles due to financial gain.
Provide a 'flat rate' for mileage payments which does not discriminate in favour of larger cars.
Reducing the number of car trips made for business travel can not only reduce costs, but can also increase the amount of productive staff time. This can be achieved by making alternative travel choices more attractive than lone driving:
Introduce tele/video-conferencing facilities and promote the increased use of e-mail, messenger as well as file-sharing and document collaboration tools;
Consider purchasing public transport season tickets for staff making regular business trips to the same destination, or buy 'pool tickets' so any member of staff can take the ticket for meetings, training, or whenever necessary;
Introduce a pool bike scheme and encourage employees to travel to meetings or training by bike over short distances – the average distance cycled in 2015 in the UK was three miles but depending on their level of fitness and confidence, people cycle much longer distances;
Set up an e-bike scheme – they allow users to cycle further with the same physical effort and might encourage those willing to cycle but afraid of arriving at meetings in sweaty clothes – see the case study below for an idea of how the scheme works;
Encourage travel using public transport by providing your staff with up-to-date travel information;
Provide pool cars or join a car club, which can be booked by staff for business trips or site visits as and when they are needed – joining a car club or providing pool cars can be cheaper than covering staff travel costs and also safer, as car club vehicles are usually newer than the average vehicle on the road;
Encourage staff to car-share when travelling to training or meetings; and
Incorporate electric vehicles into your company car fleet.
Bishop Fleming Reduces Mileage
Bishop Fleming is the UK's fastest growing accountancy firm with seven offices stretching from Worcester to Truro. The firm recently implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS) in order to measure three core metrics – electricity & gas, paper & toner, and business mileage, and set itself a target of reducing consumption of these by at least 5% per annum. The EMS quickly highlighted that a reduction in business mileage was an area that would produce quantifiable savings in cost, time and carbon.
Ewan McClymont, Director of Corporate Development, explains: "The EMS works on the principle that what gets measured gets managed and minimised. It was important for us to focus on the areas that we felt would give us the most effective environmental and cost benefit. Reducing our business mileage was an obvious choice, particularly since growing the business with another 100 staff and two additional offices last year.
The solution was to install a new telephone system throughout the seven offices with the ability to facilitate voice conference calls for up to 10 locations. The system went live in September 2012 and has already had an immediate impact. Whilst the firm acknowledges that it still has much work to do in this area, mileage per employee fell by 6.2% in 2012 over 2011, equating to a saving of just under £20,000 in fuel costs alone. The added cost saving in time is also driving the firm to find new ways to reduce this even further.
Ewan added: "We have found that internal meetings that often involved people from several offices can be held just as effectively using the tele-conference facility. Our clients are also starting to see the benefit, especially if they operate multi-sites or if our specialists, sometimes based in different offices, need to talk with a client on a particular matter at the same time".
Bishop Fleming is currently upgrading its inter-office bandwidth links. When complete, this will improve call handling between offices, further encourage teleconferencing, and allow the firm to look at video conferencing as the next step.
Paperlinx mileage management system
The international merchant group first offered the system, provided by Vertivia, in 2011 within just two of its operating organisations for a 150-strong fleet. The organisation decided to roll out the system to the rest of its UK businesses, adding 200 more company car drivers. The system is part of Paperlinx's strategy to improve the management of its car fleet costs, more closely measure the cost of fuel, plot mileages and measure its environmental impact more effectively. Mileage monitoring reduces the administration required for both the driver and the organisation. It also helps managers identify wasted journeys.
Chris Stockley, director of the project at PaperlinX, said: "The Vertivia system is easy to operate, allows drivers to accurately assess the number of miles their journey will cover, and they can log-in to record the mileage for each journey or at the end of the month, whichever they prefer. It has proved very reliable with no technical hitches and has been shown to be a very accurate way of capturing business miles; hence we had no hesitation in extending its use across the group."
Paul Chater, Sales Director at Vertivia, added: "Our system removes any unexplained variance in the distances that some drivers log when claiming business mileage. This is a much more efficient and accurate way of logging mileage and removes any element of guesswork.
"For employers, the system can provide improved HM Revenue and Customs compliance and detailed data breakdowns so they can consider alternative reimbursement structures and manage their fleets more effectively. The result is a drop in fuel costs and also in carbon emissions."
See mileage management, a guide for fleet managers.
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'Game of Thrones' Series Finale Ratings Set All-Time HBO Record
Meredith Jacobs May 20, 2019, 3:31 pm
Not all Game of Thrones fans may have been pleased with how the final season has gone, but that wouldn't keep them from tuning in to see how it ends, right?
The HBO drama ended its eight-season run Sunday night with a finale that had plenty of lingering questions to answer, none greater than who would end up on the Iron Throne — and that was sure to be enough to bring in viewers. But did the series end with another record-setting episode?
'Game of Thrones' Series Finale: Who Died & Who Won the Crown? (RECAP)
In true heartbreaking fashion, we end this tale with an episode drawing attention to the importance of a good story.
Yes, it did, with 13.6 million tuning in for the first airing on HBO. Altogether, 19.3 million watched across HBO's platforms (linear, HBO GO, and HBO NOW), beating the previous series record of 18.4 million for Episode 5. The finale was not only the most watched Game of Thrones episode ever, but also the most-watched single telecast on HBO ever. (The Sopranos Season 4 premiere previously held that record, with 13.4 million tuning in on September 15, 2002.)
Game of Thrones Season 8 averages 44.2 million viewers per episode in gross audience, which is more than 10 million viewers more compared to Season 7.
Emilia Clarke & More 'Game of Thrones' Stars React to the Finale
From initial script impressions to their characters' fates.
However, the numbers aren't looking good for "The Iron Throne" on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer. It currently has a 57% "Fresh" to represent the percentage of approved Tomatometer critics who have given the episode a positive review. That's the second-lowest score for a Season 8 episode, with Episode 5 sitting at 47%. It has also received an average rating of 6.64 out of 10, and again, only Episode 5's 6.35 is lower.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, the finale was also not well-received when compared to previous sixth episodes or season finales, nor was the season when compared to the previous seven. The only Episode 6 with a lower score is Season 5's at 54%. However, "The Iron Throne" did significantly worse when compared to the other season finales. Other than Season 7's 87%, the others all scored in the 90s or 100%.
(Helen Sloan/HBO)
Comparing the Tomatometer score for the finale to the rest of Season 8, it is on par with the other two episodes of the second half. Overall, the final season currently has a score of 70% on the Tomatometer, while the previous seven have all scored in the 90s.
There were no significant changes in viewers across the rest of television Sunday night, though Good Girls did improve slightly.
'Game of Thrones': Did [Spoiler] Deserve the Iron Throne? (POLL)
Someone finally won the game, but fans are divided.
The series finale was a hot topic on social media, with the show and its characters dominating the trending topics.
game of thrones is really dominating the trends section of twitter #GameOfThrones #TheFinalEpisode pic.twitter.com/mcP2lRhoJB
— mika | spoilers (was @sassgodjohnson) (@iwqnrheon) May 20, 2019
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Gateway students selected to participate in Regional Science Bowl
Mill Creek Gateway Middle School students selected to participate in Regional Science Bowl.
Sixth-grader Srinandan Ramachandran and seventh-grader Dhruvik Parikh of Gateway Middle School have been selected to participate in the Regional Science Bowl to be held at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington on March 2, 2013.
The Department of Energy (DOE) created the National Science Bowl in 1991 to encourage students to excel in mathematics and science and to pursue careers in these fields. More than 225,000 students have participated in the National Science Bowl throughout its 22 year history, and it is one of the nation's largest science competitions.
Over the next several months, more than 9,500 high school students and 4,500 middle school students will compete in 70 high school and 50 middle school regional Science Bowl tournaments.
The National Science Bowl for Middle School Students was started in 2002 and includes two types of competitions – an academic math and science competition and a model car race. In the academic competition, students are quizzed in a fast paced question-and-answer format similar to Jeopardy. Competing teams from diverse backgrounds include four students and one alternate. The car race gives students a "hands-on" science and engineering experience in which teams design, build and race their model cars.
Science Bowl competitions can be both positive and affirming for young students. It forges a community of peers with similar interests in scientific fields of study.
Mary Waggoner
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Hans-Leo Fischer (* 11. Februar 1897 in Samotschin, Deutschland; † 29. Februar 1944 in Den Haag, Niederlande) war ein deutscher Theaterschauspieler.

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Der aus dem heutigen Polen stammende Fischer begann seine Bühnenlaufbahn 1923 am Ostpreußischen Landestheater zu Königsberg, dem er fünf Jahre lang angehören sollte. 1928 wechselte er an die Städtischen Bühnen Kiel. Hier blieb Fischer dieselbe Zeitspanne, bis er infolge der Machtergreifung 1933 entlassen wurde. Im Anschluss wurde Fischer in Deutschland nur noch am Berliner Lessing-Theater tätig. Seit 1936 blieb der gewerkschaftlich engagierte Schauspieler – Hans-Leo Fischer war bis Jahresbeginn 1933 Obmann des genossenschaftlichen Ortsverbandes Kiel – unbeschäftigt. Fischer floh schließlich in die Niederlande, wo er während des Zweiten Weltkriegs von der deutschen Besatzungsmacht verhaftet und am letzten Februartag 1944 hingerichtet wurde.

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 Kay Weniger: Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945. Mit einem Geleitwort von Paul Spiegel. Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9, S. 117.

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Global clinical software development company, Getz Clinical, today released the latest version of its Analytics module, a cloud computing-based module used by hospitals to manage the performance of perioperative departments and aid clinical research.
Analytics is a module in the Getz Clinical Cloud software suite, the world's first cloud computing solution for perioperative information management systems. Getz Clinical Cloud has been adopted by hospitals as a replacement for paper-based patient record keeping processes.
'Our software captures anywhere up to 50 times more patient vitals than are traditionally documented on hand-written reports' said Mr Stephen Fitzgerald, Chief Information Officer of Getz Clinical and product visionary.
'This is achieved by recording patient data sourced directly from patient monitoring and ventilator equipment, and data keyed by clinicians on medical-grade touch screen devices. Clinicians obtain more patient data with less effort, which ultimately leads to improved patient outcomes.
Each year, Getz Clinical Cloud documents an average of 6,000 patient sessions and records 20 million patient vitals in each hospital using our clinical modules.
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Entrust Sets Secure E-Commerce Initiative 'In Motion'
By Mary Hillebrand
E-commerce security solutions provider Entrust Technologies (Nasdaq: ENTU) has launched an initiative with Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) to offer secure wireless e-commerce solutions to the mobile marketplace.
Research In Motion (RIM), a provider of wireless data products and services, will first add the Entrust/Express security solution to its BlackBerry wireless e-mail product. Future applications that will be covered by the agreement include secure online banking, e-brokerage functions and other mobile e-commerce initiatives for both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets.
"Security is a key concern and a fundamental requirement when sending and receiving certain sensitive and confidential corporate information from a wireless handheld," commented Jim Balsillie, RIM chairman and co-CEO. "This agreement facilitates RIM's intention to ship wireless subscriber devices that are e-commerce ready."
Ontario, Canada-based Research In Motion Limited develops and integrates hardware, software and services for the mobile market. The company's portfolio of products includes the BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution, the RIM [email protected] Pager product line, wireless personal computer card adapters, embedded radio-modems and software development tools.
PKI for the Wireless World
This week's announcement builds upon Entrust's wireless strategy to position its PKI (public key infrastructure) solutions to enable the delivery of digital certificates for users who work with the mobile Internet platform. The BlackBerry handheld unit, integrated with Entrust/Express for secure e-mail communications and transactions, will be demonstrated on January 17th at the RSA Security Conference in San Jose, California.
"Enabling our collective existing and future customers to capitalize on the forecasted exponential growth of wireless e-business is a manifestation of the aggressive strategy we've recently announced," stated John Ryan, Entrust president and CEO.
"We believe that we're very well positioned to do something significant in this new space," added Brian O'Higgins, executive vice president, CTO, and co-founder of Entrust.
PKI utilizes the power of cryptography, a means to scramble data through mathematical algorithms. Although the issue of encryption technology has remained controversial, the U.S. Department of Commerce released a new set of rules this week that relaxes export restrictions for high tech firms.
Learning To SEE
Plano, Texas-based Entrust issued a white paper in the fall of 1999, titled "The Security Enabled E-business [SEE]: The Management Mandate for the New Millennium," in which it outlined a framework for what it will take for a business to securely and successfully move its operations online.
"With the proper security infrastructure, companies can dramatically reduce the cost of transactions, lower the cost of remote access, launch new lines of business quicker by shortening the time-to-market, lessen corporate risks, and effectively communicate with much wider audiences of partners, suppliers, employees and customers," observed Ryan.
"Because a SEE views security as a doorway to new opportunities rather than a defensive posture it can more fully realize its business goals," he said.
Entrust believes that SEE will become a sort of seal of approval that it applies to firms that it feels have leveraged technology to achieve their business goals while ensuring the security of all transactions.
More by Mary Hillebrand
One Year Ago: Napster Bites Back with VCR Defense
One Year Ago: Burger Giant To Launch Internet Venture
One Year Ago: U.S. Launches Probe into Airline Supersite
One Year Ago: 'Phantom Congressman' Inspires Net Legislation
One Year Ago: 'Map' of Web Reveals Connectivity Flaws
One Year Ago: Top Graduates Snub Dot-Coms for Consulting Firms
One Year Ago: Fee-Based Music Takes Hold on the Net
One Year Ago: New Federal Site Takes Aim at Cybercrime
One Year Ago: E-Commerce Gets a Voice
One Year Ago: VeriSign To Acquire Network Solutions for $21B


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The snake-like robots would crawl toward the engine to help diagnose hard-to-spot car issues.
Rolls-Royce recently developed a unique solution to engine issues within planes. Rather than tear apart an engine, the company crafted robotics systems capable of crawling into the engine itself for repairs and diagnostics.
The Rolls-Royce engineering firm collaborated with the University of Nottingham and Harvard University engineers to create the endoscope-like robots. They presented the work at the Farnborough Airshow.
- SWARM robots are a set of mini-bots roughly 10 mm in diameter that would be placed in the middle of an engine via a separate snake-like robot. SWARM bots would perform an inspection of hard-to-reach areas in engines by carrying tiny cameras for a live video view.
- INSPECT robots would be a series of periscopes permanently attached to the engine that consistenly look for maintenance needs. These robots would be the size of a pencil and are crafted to withstand the consistent heat and exposure to the engine.
It's important to note that the Rolls-Royce in question here is not the one responsible for luxury cars. The British company Rolls-Royce Plc. is a different company entirety from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. While we'd love to one day see these sorts of robotics systems help diagnose car troubles, we'll have to be content with plane engines for the time being. Kell said the applications for this style of robotics could go beyond airplanes. He noted in an interview that medical engineering and medical technology still inspires technologies used in repairing cars and planes.


Denver Botanic Gardens is offering an array of gifts for sale during its annual holiday sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Gardens' York Street location.
More than 50 vendors will sell one-of-a-kind, handcrafted holiday items, bath and body products, pottery, jewelry, specialty foods, clothing and antiques. An assortment of gourmet vinegar, herb blends and soaps made by Denver Botanic Gardens Guild will also be sold.
Admission to holiday sale, which also grants access to the Gardens, is free.
Botanic Gardens Members receive a 10 percent discount on all gift purchases at holiday sale when they present their membership cards. More information at www.botanicgardens.org.
Dale Chihuly, the "it man" in the world of art glass, clearly prefers to let his stupendous pieces of spectacular art speak for themselves rather than pontificating on his work.
During a five-minute media meet-and-greet last week, Chihuly politely posed for pictures in front of the Monet Garden Pool at the Denver Botanic Gardens where an installation of the artist's genius dots the grounds. The exhibition runs through Nov. 30.
He answered a couple of questions while cameras, notebooks and tape recorders pressed in. This man of few words lets his art do the talking, and it has a lot to say.
The exhibit, which features installations (some designed specifically for the Denver Botanic Gardens) at 14 sites is a don't miss opportunity to bask in colorful beauty. Now that I've seen the show during the day, a nighttime return is on my short list.
This is the Rocky Mountain Region's first major outdoor exhibition of artwork by the celebrated American artist. Chihuly's sculptures – ranging in size and form – add bold colors and dramatic beauty to the Gardens' 24-acre urban oasis.
Chihuly is credited with revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement and elevating the perception of the glass medium from the realm of craft to fine art. He is renowned for ambitious architectural installations around the world, in historic cities, museums and gardens.
While I was oohing and aahing over the Saffron Tower & Cattails in the Elipse Garden, a 30-foot-tall creation made of 312 hand-formed yellow neon tubes, the artist, decked by "handlers", rode up to the site in a golf cart.
I asked him what he was thinking as he gazed at the Saffron Tower. "It has a lot of power, especially at night," Chihuly said.
Well said. For more information and to buy tickets, go to www.botanicgardens.org/exhibits/outdoor/chihuly/about.
Denver Botanic Gardens will present the Rocky Mountain region's first outdoor exhibition of artwork by celebrated American glass artist Dale Chihuly. His dramatic sculptures will be on view June 14 through Nov. 30.
Chihuly is credited with revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement and elevating the perception of the glass medium from the realm of craft to fine art. He is renowned for his ambitious architectural installations around the world in museums and gardens.
In Denver, vibrant sculptures will be displayed throughout the Botanic Gardens, responding to plant and architectural settings.
The art – ranging in size and style from small water floats to large vertical installations – adds bold colors and dramatic beauty to the Gardens' 24-acre site. Highlights of the exhibition will include special programming and after-dark viewing hours.
Chihuly's work is included in more than 200 museum collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Corning Museum of Glass.
Exclusive downtown Denver hotel packages are now available, featuring VIP, skip-the-line tickets and other special offerings through the run of the exhibition. For more information, go to http://chihuly.denver.org/hotel-packages/.
The historic mistreatment of wild horses is examined in the film "American Mustang," which chronicles an emotionally charged journey through a tenuous landscape dotted by ranchers, wild horse advocates, government agencies and the American people.
The film screens at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at the SIE FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax, as part of the 36th annual Starz Denver Film Festival. The movie-lovers madness opens Nov. 6 with an 8 p.m. screening of "Labor Day" and runs through Nov. 17.
In her filmmaking debut, "American Mustang" producer Ellie Phipps Price, vintner and animal welfare advocate, brings her passion for protecting wild horses to the big screen.
"American Mustang" is a feature film, shot in eight Western states with wild horses filmed for the first time in 3D. Threaded into the narrative is the story of a girl, a cowboy and an American icon – the wild horse. The film encourages protection of America's wild horses while being aware of the reality of limited grazing and resources on the open range.
The film is narrated by actress and activist Daryl Hannah. Throughout a 30-year film career, Hannah has starred in more than 40 feature films, and has created numerous iconic roles in successful, critically acclaimed and enduring movies.
Collaborators on "American Mustang" include director Monty Miranda who worked closely with writer and co-producer Henry Ansbacher and executive producer Phipps Price. Phipps Price and Ansbacher co-wrote and developed the characters based on extensive interviews that create a rich palate of voices for the film. The interviews are with people who are on the front lines of the battle over preservation and management of wild horses – a contentious issue that incites strong emotions from every side.
Phipps Price spent her early years in Colorado, studied film at University of California, Berkeley and currently resides in Sonoma, Calif., where she produces Dunstan Wines from the Durell Vineyard. She adopted her first mustang, Dunstan, from the Bureau of Land Management holding facility at Cañon City in 2009.
Recently, Phipps Price established a 2,000-acre wildlife preserve for wild horses in northern California. "I am thrilled to be coming home to Colorado for the launch of 'American Mustang' – a film about these amazing and beautiful animals that have captured my heart," she said.
Director and former Denver dweller Miranda attended the University of Colorado to study film and journalism and currently lives in Los Angeles. His career includes credits for the memorable TV commercials for John Hickenlooper's mayoral campaign. Miranda's feature-film directorial debut, "Skills Like This," won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Colorado-based Ansbacher of Just Media focuses on film projects that have a history of bringing change, social justice and raising awareness about environmental issues. Ansbacher's film "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short.
More information on the movie at: www.americanmustangthemovie.com.
For screening times and to purchase tickets, go to: http://www.denverfilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=25922&FID=77.
To learn more about the 36th annual Starz Film Festival and the featured movies, go to http://www.denverfilm.org/festival/index.aspx.
I told you on last week that Lakewood was included in the Top 100 Best Places to Live on liveability.com's inaugural ranking, but that was only part of Colorado's prized participation. Culinary Colorado's Claire Walter (thanks, Claire!) pointed out that there's more to the story.
While Lakewood ranked No. 88 (besting Scottsdale at No. 89), Aurora scored No. 49, and Boulder came in at an impressive No. 2. Topping the lauded list was Palo Alto, Calif., which I'm proud to say is my hometown (think Stanford University, John Elway, Eddie McCaffrey, Andrew Luck, etc.).
"The list was created in partnership with the Martin Prosperity Institute, the world's leading think tank on the role of location, place and city-regions in global economic prosperity. The list was produced after studying U.S. cities and factors that make them the best places to live, work and play," according to the Livability.com website.
Factors included in the Top 100 ranking included good schools, hospitals, amenities, affordability and the local economy. Read more at http://livability.com/top-100-best-places-to-live#/palo-alto/ca.
Denver Botanic Gardens continues its annual celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Mexican day of remembrance and honor for the departed, with expanded programming this year.
In Mexico, streets near cemeteries are filled with parades, colorful decorations, flowers, candy, skeletons and skulls. It is believed the spirits of the dead visit their families Oct. 31 through Nov. 2. Families make altars with a photo of the deceased, along with offerings of food, candles, incense and yellow marigolds.
The Gardens will observe the tradition with an all-ages celebration of Latino music, food, art and history on Friday. All events take place at the York Street location. For tickets and more information, go to: http://www.botanicgardens.org/events/special-events/d%C3%ADa-de-los-muertos.
The Washington Redskins lost to the Broncos Sunday, but head coach Mike Shanahan's team will eat like winners on the plane home.
Shanahan told 104.3-FM The Fan on Friday his team will nosh on Shanahan's Steakhouse fare on the plane ride home after Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos. Shanahan also noted he wouldn't have time to visit his signature steakhouse in south Denver.
Ace Eat Serve at 501 E. 17th Ave. will be the place to catch all the Denver Broncos football action this season where the games will be shown on one of two projection screens.
Happy hour specials for the entire game (menu at www.acedenver.com/menus/happyhour). And, tap into your own competitive spirit with free Ping-Pong as long as the Broncos are playing.
Tables can be reserved in advance, and for the entire length of the game. Get your reservations now for the next game (Broncos vs. Chargers on Nov. 10 since Sunday is a bye week) at 303-800-7705. Free Ping-Pong and extended happy hour specials will be available during all Broncos home and away games for the rest of the 2013 – 2014 season.
The "dolphin trainer" actor in the Colorado Lottery commercial (created by local ad shop Cactus) shopping Thursday at Whole Foods Market on Hampden. He wasn't spotted in the fresh fish section.
Did you hear that I have a new column, "Mile High Life," in Colorado Community Media's 17 weekly newspapers circling Denver? Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here's where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com. Want to advertise your business here? Contact Trisha at trilind@hotmail.com.
So what would it take for Judi Wolf and Cleo Parker Robinson to perform on stage together? Donald Seawell's 100th birthday.
On Aug. 1, those of us who were lucky enough to be invited to such an illustrious affair inside of his namesake ballroom, witnessed several testimonials to Seawell, free run 6 femmes who's made an indelible mark on this city's theatrical heritage.
But the most entertaining moment came when Wolf and Parker Robinson kicked up their heels in their version of "My Heart Belongs to Donald".
Sabor, the annual food fest to support the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, was a great success at the Denver Botanic Gardens last week.
Restaurants came out to supply best bites while supporting the Chamber. The nearly sold-out affair was muy caliente y sabroso. Que bueno!
The right hand will know what the left hand is doing when Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, 1317 14th St., joins hands with Left Hand Brewing Co. at 7 p.m. Aug. 13 for a left-handed dinner and beer fest celebrating National Left-Handers Day.
Guests should expect left-handed surprises throughout the event. Right-handed participants are welcome as well. Euclid Hall chef de cuisine Jorel Pierce has prepared a multi-course menu paired with favorites from Left Hand.
Menu and reservations: www.euclidhall.com or 303-595-4255.
The Grand Hyatt Denver's general manager Greg Leonard recently announced the opening of Pub 17, the hotel's new restaurant on the corner of 17th and Welton.
The new pub aims to capture the mood and flavor of the Mile High City by providing neighborhood microbrews, regional wine and fun food fare.
Pub 17 prides itself for serving a bounty of locally grown produce, artisan cheeses and premium meats. Menu items include the Mile High Reuben or chef de cuisine Jay Leandro's interpretation of mac and cheese.
Other menu stand-outs include a Western-style herb roasted bone marrow. Every signature dish complements a list of local microbrews. Reservations: 303-295-1117 or www.pub17denver.com.
This month's edition of Food Network magazine free run 6 v2 femmes includes a bit called "You can eat like a football player," restaurants are kicking off football season with dishes named after NFL players.
Two of my favorite QBs get the nod with Drew Brees' Breesy Beef Mac and Peyton Burger.
The Breesy Beefy Mac is a fave rave for the New Orleans Saints QB who eats the ground beef and macaroni before every game. A chef at the Ritz-Carlton apparently added a version with béarnaise sauce, andouille sausage and ground beef to the menu.
On Manning's behalf, locally based Smashburger announced that Colorado locations would serve an off-the-menu Peyton Burger topped with orange hot sauce and blue cheese in honor of Broncos' colors.
The Palm in the Westin Tabor Center has secured back its free valet for lunch and dinner. That's good news to those of us who drive to the steak place and bristle at paying to park.
The On the Town family recently had an amazing dinner at the restaurant located at 16th and Lawrence. Reservations: www.thepalm.com/denver.
Denver lost a major player in the theater community when Robert "Bob" Garner died after a short illness Thursday in his home. He was 80.
Garner, whose name graces the Garner Galleria Theatre, the cabaret-style showroom inside the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, was a pioneer in bringing Broadway touring shows to town as the head of Denver Center Attractions.
He was a fixture on opening night nike lebron 11 performances for all the major productions that brought their shows here. In addition to theater, Garner was passionate about cruising, which he did frequently with his theater pals.
He was that guy that you wanted to hang out with during a pre-performance cocktail party, dinner or a post-party because he always had the best stories, and wasn't allergic to a little harmless gossip.
I'll miss his enthusiasm, energy and that twinkle in his eye when he had something juicy to share. Opening night performances will be missing a big fan.
Walk Like a Man (or Woman), and get yourself to the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, the Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, now playing through Aug. 11 at the Buell Theatre.
If you are of a certain age (like me), you will be able to sing along to all 35 songs the fab four perform during the musical about the group's rise and fall from fame.
It's the story of four Italian-American youths from New Jersey growing up in the 1960s who easily could have chosen prison over music. But instead, they pushed out hit after hit but not without personal sacrifice.
One of the show's highlights is back to back presentations of Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry and Walk Like a Man. The crowd goes wild.
"At that moment the audience has forgotten they're watching four actors, and they root for these four guys as though they really are the Four Seasons in their youth," Rick Elice one of the show's Tony-nominated book writers told Applause magazine.
Salt on the Rim, a food-and-margarita fundraiser to benefit The Kempe Foundation and Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, starts at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Featured restaurants and caterers include Brio Tuscan Grille, Chinook Tavern, EDGE at the Four Seasons Denver, The Food Guy, Hard Rock Cafe, Japoix, Lifestyles Catering, Lime, Mezcal, The Palm, Piatti, Sam's No. 3, 16 Mix Cocktail Lounge at The Sheraton Downtown, Twisted Pine Brewing Co. and Zink.
Tickets are $100 at: https://www.blacktie-colorado.com/online_sales/rsvp_ticket_purchase.cfm?rsvpid=6556 .
The Ritz-Carlton Denver is featuring dishes inspired by executive chef Justin Fields recent travels abroad with a Pop-Up Dinner and Film at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Guests will be served a multi-course French-inspired dinner paired with a showing of the classic film La Femme Nikita and served on the outdoor plaza.
The cost is $75 per person plus tax and tip, or $125 with wine pairings. Reservations and more information: 303-312-3826 or e-mail allyson.fredeen@ritzcarlton.com.
When the Seattle-based kitchen store opted to nike zoom hyperrev leave the Cherry Creek Shopping Center last April, the store announced it would move to new bigger digs across the street at 121 Clayton Lane.
A sign on the door says it's opening Friday. This new location will have room to offer cooking classes in addition to kitchen gadgets and goodies.
Brandon's Pub, the hybrid Mexican food place and sports bar at 3027 E. Second Ave. in Cherry Creek North, has closed its doors.
The phone is disconnected, and there was a notice printed in Westword about an auction for the restaurant's contents. Brandon's opened in Cherry Creek in May 2010, after moving there from the Beauvallon on Ninth and Lincoln.
Becky McKernan, widow of Tim "BarrelMan" McKernan, the longtime fixture at Broncos games, is hosting a fundraiser from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Wystones Tea, 7323 W. Alaska Drive, Lakewood.
The evening will include a silent auction plus player autographs from Ron Egloff, Dave Studddard, Billy Thompson and Larry Brunson. One-of-a-kind barrel art work from local artists will be available for purchase with 100 percent of proceeds going to the Barrels of Love foundation.


Amelia & Russ, Hearth & Field.
Hearth & Field is the combination of passions for our home, and the field. Whether it's raising wonderful home and hunting companions, keeping life sweet with the bees, or enjoying small moments with our family, we aim to improve upon what we have been given.
…life is full of many paths.
Beekeeping is our next adventure.
We're excited to learn more about these incredible creatures, what they do for our environment, and what we can do to help facilitate that process. Beekeeping is a new adventure in life with challenges we're embracing. Stay tuned for more on this journey.


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Yes, agree 100% we should never ever give anyone the power to break our spirit in any circumstances.


Thanks to all of our supporters who joined us this year for our annual Gala which took place on Friday, April 8th, 2016.
What an accomplishment this year's gala was! We are so blessed to have incredible supporters helping us to help SIck Kids Burn Unit! Thank you to all of our speakers, guests, volunteers and the staff of Universal Event Space.


We welcomed our baby girl at 4.40am on the 9th of September, and it was the most magical and overwhelming and beautiful moment of our lives. Jason and I are head over heels in love with Miss Ottilie, and can't quite believe she's ours!
It's taken me a good couple of weeks to finally get round to posting here about Ottilie's arrival, because as any new parent learns pretty sharpish, the first few days are a whirlwind adjustment period!
I've also been laying low and spending some time recovering after my labour and delivery, which was not at all the experience I'd hoped for or expected! We found out the week I went into labour that Ottilie was laying 'back to back' inside me, which meant it took me days and days of prolonged, hideously painful contractions to make almost no progress at all! After three full days of labouring and getting to only 4cm dilated (my body did *not* want to let this baby go!) I wound up needing some strong pain relief, which was a blessed relief I can tell you!
I was a bit unlucky and suffered a compressed nerve during my labour which has left me with a temporary paralysis in my left ankle and foot, so I left hospital on crutches! I'm slowly slowly getting better and more steady on my feet though, and have managed a fair few trips out just me and Ottilie this week which feels amazing!
Now that I'm getting up and about again I'm hoping I'll be able to get back to blogging a touch more frequently! I've missed updating here so much, but I hope you've not minded there being a little break whilst I've recovered and adjusted to the amazing whirlwind that is life with a new baby!


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The Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP,  , ), shortened to the Social Democrats (, ) and commonly known as the Demars (, ) is a social-democratic political party in Finland. It is currently the largest party in the Parliament of Finland with 40 seats.

Founded in 1899 as the Workpeople's Party of Finland (; , lit. "Workers' Party of Finland"), the SDP is Finland's oldest active political party and has a close relationship with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. It is also a member of the Party of European Socialists, Progressive Alliance, Socialist International and SAMAK.

Following the resignation of Antti Rinne in December 2019, Sanna Marin became the country's 76th Prime Minister. SDP formed a new coalition government on the basis of its predecessor, in effect continuing cooperation with the Centre Party, the Green League, the Left Alliance and the Swedish People's Party. Seven of the government's nineteen ministers are SDP members.

History

The SDP was founded as the Workpeople's Party of Finland in 1899, with its first meeting being held from 17–20 July in Turku. The name was changed to the present form in 1903. The SDP was closely associated with the Finnish Trade Union Federation (SAJ), established in 1907, with all of its members also being members of the party. The party remained a chiefly extra-parliamentary movement until universal suffrage was introduced in 1906, after which the SDP's share of the votes reached 47% in the 1916 Finnish parliamentary election, when the party secured a majority in the parliament, the only time in the history of Finland when one party has had such a majority. The party lost its majority in the 1917 Finnish parliamentary election after independence from Russia and started a rebellion that escalated into the Finnish Civil War in 1918.

SDP members declared Finland a socialist republic, but they were defeated by the forces of the White Guard. The war resulted in most of the party leaders being killed, imprisoned or left to seek refuge in Soviet Russia. In addition, the process leading to the civil war and the war itself had stripped the party of its political legitimacy and respectability in the eyes of the right-wing majority. However, the political support for the party remained strong. In the 1919 Finnish parliamentary election, the party, reorganised by Väinö Tanner, received 80 of the 200 seats of the parliament. In 1918, former exiled SDP members founded the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) in Moscow. Although the SKP was banned in Finland until 1944, it was represented by front organizations, leading to the support of the Finnish working class being divided between the SDP and the SKP.

It became the life's work of Väinö Tanner to re-establish the SDP as a serious, governing party. The result was a much more patriotic SDP which leaned less to the left and was relatively isolated from its Nordic sister parties, namely the Danish Social Democrats, the Norwegian Labour Party and the Swedish Social Democratic Party. President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud's animosity kept the SDP out of government during his presidency from 1931 to 1937. With the exception of a brief period in 1926, when Tanner formed a minority government, the SDP was excluded from cabinet participation until Kyösti Kallio was elected President in 1937. During World War II, the party played a central role in a series of broad coalition cabinets, symbolising national unity forged in response to the threat of the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939–1940. The SDP was a member of the Labour and Socialist International from 1923 to 1940.

During the first few months of the Continuation War (1941–1944), the country, the parliament and the cabinet were divided on the question of whether Finland's army should stop at the old border and thereby demonstratively refrain from any attempt of conquests. However, the country's dangerous position called for national unity and the SDP's leadership chose to refrain from any visible protests. This decision is sometimes indicated as one of the main reasons behind the post-war division between the main left-wing parties (the SKP and the SDP) and the high percentage of SKP voters in the first elections after the Continuation War. After the war, the SKP was allowed to continue working and the main feature of Finnish political life during the 1944–1949 period was the competition between the SDP and the SKP, both for voters and for the control of the labor unions. During this time, the political field was divided roughly equally between the SDP, the SKP and the Agrarian League, each party commanding some 25% of the vote. In the post-war era, the SDP adopted a line defending Finnish sovereignty and democracy in line with the Agrarian League and other bourgeois political parties, finally leading to the expulsion of the SKP from the cabinet in 1948. As a result, the Soviet Union remained more openly critical towards the SDP than the centre-right parties.

Because of the SDP's anti-communist activities, the United States Central Intelligence Agency supported the party by means of funds laundered through Nordic sister parties or through organizations that bought luxury goods such as coffee abroad, then imported and sold them for a high profit as post-war rationing served to inflate prices. In the 1956 Finnish presidential election, the SDP candidate Karl-August Fagerholm lost by only one electoral vote to Urho Kekkonen. Fagerholm would act as Prime Minister in the Fagerholm I Cabinet (1956–1957) and the Fagerholm II Cabinet (1958–1959). The latter cabinet was forced to resign due to Soviet pressure, leading to a series of cabinets led by the Agrarian League. In 1958, due to the election of Väinö Tanner as party chairman, a faction of the SDP resigned and formed the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders (TPSL) around the former SDP chairman Emil Skog. The dispute was over several issues, namely whether the party should function as an interest group and whether it should co-operate with the anti-communists and right-wingers or with president Kekkonen, the Agrarian League and the SKP. During the 1960s, the TPSL dwindled, its members returning one by one to the SDP or joining the SKP, with Skog himself returning to the SDP in 1965. In the 1970 Finnish parliamentary election, the TPSL failed to gain any seats in parliament. Only in 1966 was the SDP able to satisfy the Soviet Union about its friendly attitude towards it and could thus return to the cabinet. Since then, the SDP has been represented in most Finnish cabinets, often cooperating with the centrist-agrarian Centre Party (formerly the Agrarian League), but sometimes with the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party. The SDP was in opposition from 1991 to 1995, when the main parties in the cabinet were the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party (NCP).

The 1995 Finnish parliamentary election saw a landslide victory for the SDP, achieving their best results since World War II. The SDP rose to government from the opposition and leader Paavo Lipponen headed two consecutive cabinets from 1995 to 2003. During this time, the party adopted a pro-European stance and contributed actively to the Finnish membership in the European Union in 1995 in concert with the cabinet. In the 2003 Finnish parliamentary election, the SDP won 53 of the 200 seats, ending up a close second to the Centre Party. As a result, Lipponen became the Speaker of Parliament and the Centre Party leader Anneli Jäätteenmäki became the new Prime Minister, leading a coalition cabinet that included the SDP which got eight ministerial posts. After two months in office, Jäätteenmäki resigned due to a scandal relating to the Iraq leak and was replaced by Matti Vanhanen, another Centre Party representative, who commanded the Vanhanen I Cabinet.

In the 2007 Finnish parliamentary election, the SDP gained the third-most votes. The chairman of the then-largest Centre Party, Matti Vanhanen, became the Prime Minister and formed a coalition cabinet consisting of the Green League, the NCP and the Swedish People's Party of Finland (SFP), leaving the SDP to the opposition. SDP leader Eero Heinäluoma did not immediately resign as party chairman, but he did announce his withdrawal from running for party chairman in the following party conference. He was replaced by Jutta Urpilainen. The SDP suffered further losses in the 2008 Finnish municipal elections and the 2009 European Parliament election. In the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election, the SDP lost three more seats, ending up with 19.1 percent of the vote which corresponded to 42 seats, the party's worst-ever result. However, as the Centre Party lost even more voters, the SDP became the second-largest party in the country after the NCP, receiving only some 1,500 votes more than the Finns Party which came in third. After lengthy negotiations, a six-party coalition government, the Katainen Cabinet, was formed with the NCP and the SDP as the two main parties. SDP leader Jutta Urpilainen became the cabinet's Minister of Finance, with NCP chairman Jyrki Katainen serving as Prime Minister.

In the 2014 party conference, Urpilainen was narrowly defeated by her challenger Antti Rinne in a 257 to 243 vote. Urpilainen subsequently stepped down as the Minister of Finance, passing the seat on to Rinne. In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election, the drop of support continued for the SDP. The party lost eight more seats compared to the 2011 parliamentary election, ending up with 34 seats and 16.5 percent of the vote. With the repeat of the worst-ever result, the SDP dropped to being the fourth largest political party in Finland, receiving 50,110 fewer votes than the NCP, yet 237,000 more votes than the Green League. The SDP was left in the opposition and provided extensive criticism on the actions of the Sipilä Cabinet on matters such as alcohol policy, cuts to education spending and the so-called active model. On 22 June 2016, Maria Tolppanen, a Finns Party representative, joined the SDP. This increased the SDP's parliamentary seat number to 35. In the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, the SDP gained 6 seats in comparison to the 2015 parliamentary election and became the largest party in the parliament. Based on the answers and initial talks with all parties, Rinne announced that he would negotiate forming a government with the Centre Party, the Green League, the Left Alliance and the SFP. The negotiations were ultimately successful and the Rinne Cabinet was formally inaugurated on 6 June 2019. On 3 December 2019, Rinne resigned as Prime Minister after the Center Party had expressed a lack of confidence in Rinne for his handling of the events surrounding a postal strike in Finland. He was followed in the position by Sanna Marin, who was appointed as Prime Minister on 10 December 2019.

SDP has received a lot of negative feedback that they have had connections with Russia for years. For example, Eero Heinäluoma, Paavo Lipponen, Erkki Tuomioja, Antton Rönnholm and Tarja Halonen has had connections to Russia. In 2005, according to Halonen, Russia's goals were democracy, human rights and good governance. After 9 years, in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea, Halonen thought that Russia should not have been punished by isolations or sanctions.  SDP's current party secretary Antton Rönnholm has also taken his part. Through his consulting company, he invoiced almost 200,000 euros in Gazprom's gas pipeline project. More than half of Gazprom is controlled by the Russian state. Gazprom is partly used as a geopolitical tool in Europe.

In February 2022, Tuomioja published a work with the title "Finland and NATO - Why Finland should have the opportunity to apply for NATO membership and why that opportunity should not be used now". In his work Tuomioja estimated that Russia was viewed rather unanalytically. Also in February 2022, when Russia had already been pressuring Ukraine for a long time, Eero Heinäluoma said in a Finnish current affairs television program  that preparing for the Russian threat was part of the problem. According to him, placing defensive armaments in Russia's neighboring countries was a threat to Russia.  Paavo Lipponen has lobbied and consulted Russia's Nord Stream project since 2008. In 2008, Russia went to war against Georgia, which was the start of Putin's foreign policy aggressions. Many SDP politicians have therefore built their careers by appeasing Russia.

Ideology
The SDP is a centre-left social-democratic party. It is supportive of joining NATO, although up until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the party opposed joining NATO and instead preferred to remain in the Partnership for Peace. In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election, 91% of SDP candidates were opposed to NATO membership.

The SDP is in favor of LGBT adoption rights, the construction of nuclear power plants, the conservation of Swedish as one of Finland's two official languages and the increase of funding to public universities. The party is advocating for Finland to become oil-independent by 2030. The SDP has advocated for policies preventing foreigners from working in Finland. In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election, only the Finns Party had a higher share of candidates opposed to the easing of work-based immigration.

The party opposed economic reforms both in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election and in the subsequent government program negotiations. The SDP maintains a close relationship with trade unions. The party has opposed social reforms that would reduce the role of earnings-related unemployment benefits. The government pays them to recipients through financial middlemen that are almost exclusively trade unions. The SDP supports the separation of church and state.

Voter base
The average age of an SDP member is 61.5 years. Over one half of all SDP voters are active members of the workforce.

Prominent Social Democrats

Leaders of the Social Democrats

Election results

Parliament of Finland

Municipal

European Parliament

Presidential elections

Indirect

Direct

See also
 List of Social Democratic Party (Finland) breakaway parties

Notes

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1899 establishments in Finland
Full member parties of the Socialist International
Members of the Labour and Socialist International
Centre-left parties in Europe
Parties represented in the European Parliament
Party of European Socialists member parties
Political parties established in 1899
Progressive Alliance
Registered political parties in Finland
Second International
Social democratic parties
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Why Does Gossip Feel So Good?
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Welcome back to the Ask Pastor John podcast. Well, gossip is no small problem, even for Christians. Spreading damaging reports about others feels so good and comes so naturally to all of us. But why? Why is this impulse so natural? And how do we fight against this natural impulse to speak damaging things about other people behind their backs? That's the question today from a listener to the podcast named Amber. "Hello, Pastor John — and thanks for this podcast! I'm wondering how God defines gossip. What's the difference between gossip and simply sharing information about another person? And how do I avoid becoming a gossiper?"
Here are my three keys for not becoming a gossiper: (1) humility that does not need prominence, (2) love that does not hurt others, and (3) large-hearted purposefulness that is not empty or aimless. Now, let me show where I got those three earlier today when I was pondering this from Scripture.
Words of a Whisperer
First, consider Proverbs 26:22: "The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body."
"I think this is why gossip is so delicious, why it tastes so good. It's because it feeds pride."
Now, just a side note here: the Greek word translated gossip in 2 Corinthians 12:20 and Romans 1:29, at root, means "one who whispers." This may affect this translation from the Old Testament, so I think when they say a whisperer, they mean somebody lowering their voice and saying things which we call gossip.
But here's the point. There are whispered words about other people which taste really good. They are like a morsel that's going down "into the inner parts of the body." I think that means the person who speaks them has eaten them with relish, and now, the person who's listening and who's hearing is eating them with relish. We all know what this feels like.
There's a pleasure that comes from being one of the first people to hear some juicy piece of news about someone. We can hardly wait to let others know that we're in the know. We've heard the news, and we might be the first one who could tell somebody else about it.
Of course, gossip like that can be of two different kinds. It can be what I call "hard gossip," which means you really are mean and want to hurt somebody. Or it can be "soft gossip" (which is what I think Amber is really asking about), where you may not have any intention to hurt another person. It just feels so good — "so delicious" — to be in on the scuttlebutt and to be able to tell somebody who doesn't know yet.
Leave the Stage
Now the question is, why does gossip feel so good? What drives this thing? Why does hearing something before others hear it and then being the first to tell someone taste so delicious?
"Are you being motivated by love or pride? Are you motivated by the pleasure of being seen as in the know?"
I think at least part of the answer is found by looking at the context in 2 Corinthians 12:20. It goes like this: "For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish — that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder." Now, when I look at that list of eight destructive forces in the Christian community and try to fit them all together and find out which one of them is at the bottom giving rise to all the others, I think at the bottom would be the word conceit — being puffed up. I think this is why gossip is so delicious, why it tastes so good. It's because it feeds pride, which is endlessly hungry.
You got the news first. You get to tell somebody else before anybody else can tell them. In the chain of gossip, you have become center stage for a moment. You got the news. You give the news. Aren't you something?
So I conclude that the key to not being a gossiper is humility — humility that doesn't need prominence. You have a deep, humble contentment in God, and you don't need to feed your craving ego with delicious morsels of being the first to hear and the first to tell the juicy bit of gossip.
Cover an Offense
The second key to not being a gossiper is love that does not hurt others. Here's Proverbs 26:20: "For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases." Proverbs 17:9 says, "Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends."
In other words, if you put to death the pride that craves prominence and are willing to get no credit whatsoever for being in the know, and if you deny yourself the delicious pleasure of hearing and telling news that may stoke the fires of quarreling or dissension, you are acting in love. You're doing what you can do to keep from adding hurt to others — "for lack of wood the fire goes out." And covering an offense is the pursuit of love.
The key question is "Are you being motivated by love or pride? Are you motivated by the pleasure of being seen as in the know?" So the second key to not being a gossiper is love that does not hurt others.
Get a Vision
The third key is large-hearted purposefulness that is not empty and aimless. Here's where I get that. (This was new for me — a new insight that I thought about in this particular context.)
"If you deny yourself the delicious pleasure of gossip, you are acting in love."
Paul cautions young widows in the Christian community who have had their ordinary patterns of purposefulness in life ripped away from them in losing their husbands. He urges them not to become "idlers, going about from house to house" — and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not (1 Timothy 5:13).
Now notice, on one side of gossip is the word idler, and on the other side of gossip is the word busybody. An idler is someone whose heart is empty and aimless. They just have nothing purposeful to do. More time on their hands and no purpose, no vision, no great dream for their life. They're just coasting from day to day. The result is they become busybodies, meddlers.
They don't have any significant affairs of their own, so they nose into the affairs of others. Sandwiched between emptiness and aimlessness on one side (idlers) and intrusiveness on the other side (busybodies) is gossip. So my conclusion is that the third key to not becoming a gossiper is large-hearted purposefulness that's not empty and not aimless and doesn't need to poke its nose into other people's business or promote oneself in the spreading of what belongs to somebody else.
So, Amber asks, "What's the difference between gossip and simply sharing information?" My answer to answer that question is to ask these three questions.
1. Is the sharing of this information a mark of humility that does not need prominence, or is it motivated by pride that loves the delicious feeling of being in the know?
2. Is the sharing of this information motivated by love that wants to avoid hurting others, or is it indifferent to what the destructive effects may be?
3. And finally, is the sharing of this information part of my large-hearted purposefulness in life or simply an echo of how empty and aimless I really am?
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Artificial intelligence is merging with human thinking, providing mental shortcuts that allow your life to be more easily scheduled and laid out. Not surprisingly, the disillusioned masses continue to cheer on their own enslavement to this artificial intelligence. In early May, in front of a live audience, Google CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled a new Google Assistant equipped with AI technology that can mimic a human voice with great accuracy. The AI voice mimicry technology can learn all about your personal life, autonomously make phone calls, set appointments for you, and interact with real people over the phone, without being detected as a robot. The AI can then report back to its human, messaging the whereabouts of the appointments and confirming dates and times.
The AI voice mimicry technology is embedded in The Duplex, Google's latest invention that merges AI with humans' way of life. The AI voice mimicry technology can comprehend the context of a conversation and respond accurately to unclear answers it receives over the phone. This AI is navigating human language with stunning acuity.
And this new personal assistant will know everything about its human. The Duplex can effectively negotiate for you, making arrangements with human beings over the phone. When completed, The Duplex will be able to make calls, reserve a dinner table at a restaurant, set up hair cut appointments, and coordinate meetings with human colleagues.
Remarkably, the person on the other end won't even know they are talking to an AI robot. The voice utters timely "ums" "uhs" and "hmms" to trick the person on the other end of the line into thinking they are speaking with a real human being. The robot's human-like cadence is so convincing, it was able to set up a haircut appointment at a specific date and time for its human. In another demonstration, The Duplex talked its way through a conversation to set up a dinner appointment at a restaurant. During the conversation, The Duplex responded with ease, using questions and counter remarks to set up the appointment and accept that the restaurant couldn't make the accommodations. When Google CEO Sundar Pichai played these phone calls to a live audience of Google worshippers, the place erupted in clapping and awe.
As Google collects more data about its users, it will be able to make AI assistants more effective. "We are at an important inflection point in computing," said Pichai. "We know the path ahead needs to [be] navigated carefully and deliberately." These intelligent systems will be able to process a vast amount of information – learning personal details about its human so it can converse on behalf of him/her. The AI will eventually be able to understand your psychology and behavior and predict what you want and need. As these personal assistants learn everything about you, the content of your conversations, and the way you interact, they will eventually own you. As they engage in phone conversations, undetected, they have the potential to learn about the people on the other end of the call, too.
AI worshipers will be psychologically enslaved to the technology, counting on robots to think and interact for them. Humanity is on a course to be controlled by artificial intelligence, while suffering under the illusion that humanity is always in control of the technology.
AI will further destroy human culture, giving power to the entities (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) and their robots that will ultimately come to know everything about you. You will be predictably analyzed by AI systems, your behavior and thought patterns manipulated and your direction in life dictated. These systems will consume every aspect of life because they will be a mental shortcut for people. This will further damage human's free will and interaction, while chaining people to a life cycle dictated by algorithms and computer driven analysis, prediction, and marketing.
The human brain will become addicted to the mental shortcuts that AI systems provide in every aspect of life. These mental shortcuts and the autonomous processing, understanding and catering of human needs and desires will change the brain's expectations, distorting brain chemicals associated with pleasure and pain.
Privacy is of utmost importance going forward, to protect the dignity and health of your own mind and the freedom of your own thoughts. Giving away your life details to Google will result in the decay and enslavement of your conscious and subconscious mind.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: I say unto you: one must still have chaos in one's life to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto yo: you still have chaos in yourself.
Alas the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star.
Alas the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.
'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' thus asks the last man & blinks.
The earth has become small & on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest.
'We have invented happiness,' says the last man & they blink.
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One of the most extraordinary displays of Jewish power in the United States took place in the State Department press briefing room on April 11th though it went virtually unreported.
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This is a preview of the first part of our new installment in the Big Picture series, which deals with the 70s and early 80s in America.


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