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COP26 updates: Global Leaders Meet In Glasgow For Climate Change summit
Global Leaders Meet In Glasgow For Climate Change summit
Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit in history.
The conference, delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was designed as the check-in for the progress countries are making after entering the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, a value that would be disastrous to exceed, according to climate scientists. More ambitious efforts aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Not one country is going into COP26 on track to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, according to experts. They will need to work together to find collective solutions that will drastically cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
"We need to move from commitments into action," Jim Harmon, chairman of the World Resources Institute, told ABC News. "The path to a better future is still possible, but time is running out."
All eyes will be on the biggest emitters: China, the U.S. and India. While China is responsible for about 26% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, more than all other developed countries combined, the cumulative emissions from the U.S. over the past century are likely twice that of China's, David Sandalow, a senior research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, told ABC News.
Prime Minister Modi announces India's net-zero plan for 2070
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the country will reach net-zero emissions by 2070, one of five pledges he made during his remarks at the COP26 leaders summit.
Modi said India will commit to increasing non-fossil fuel energy capacity, fulfilling 50% of its energy needs with renewable energy, reducing carbon emissions by 1 million tons and reducing the carbon intensity of its economy by 2030.
"These five elixirs will be an unprecedented contribution from India toward climate action," Modi said. © Alastair Grant/POOL/AFP via Getty Images India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents his national statement as part of the World Leaders' Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 1, 2021.
India has been one of the countries under pressure to update its commitments to the Paris Agreement, especially because of the country's heavy reliance on coal. India contributes around 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Modi is scheduled to announce a global clean energy initiative with Boris Johnson and Biden tomorrow.
Biden apologizes for Trump administration pulling out of the Paris Agreement
President Joe Biden apologized to fellow world leaders at COP26 for the decision made by his predecessor to pull out of the Paris Agreement.
Following his planned remarks at the summit, he made unscripted remarks at a smaller session hosted by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, where he offered a candid apology for the lack of leadership from the U.S. in the climate fight.
"I guess I shouldn't apologize, but I do apologize for the fact the United States, the last administration, pulled out of the Paris Accord and put us sort of behind on the eight ball," Biden said. © Christopher Furlong/Getty Images British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets U.S. President Joe Biden as they arrive for day two of COP26 at SECC, Nov. 1, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland.
Biden was forthcoming with world leaders that he will need to convince Congress to approve additional funding to help nations around the world fight climate change.
In June 2017, then-President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw from the agreement claiming that could be economically detrimental and cost 2.5 million Americans their jobs by 2025.
The withdrawal became official on Nov. 4, one day after Election Day.
Re-entering the Paris Accord was among the first actions Biden took upon swearing in as president on Inauguration Day on Jan. 20
Biden emphasizes urgency to fight climate change: 'The science is clear'
President Joe Biden addressed leaders at the COP26 conference, declaring that countries need to act and act now.
"It's simple," the president said. "Will we act? Will we do what is necessary? Will we seize the enormous opportunity before us? Will we, or will we condemn future generations to suffer?"
The upcoming decade will determine whether collective transformative action around the globe will be enough to curb global warming, Biden said.
"We only have a brief window left before us to raise our ambitions," Biden said, adding that the time frame is "rapidly narrowing." © Yves Herman/Reuters President Joe Biden speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 1, 2021.
The effects of the pandemic made "painfully clear" that "no nation can wall itself from borderless threats," Biden said, adding that no one can escape the worse consequences of climate change.
But it is in the self-interest of every country to create green energy and healthier ecosystems for the planet, he said.
"We're standing at an inflection point in world history," Biden said.
Biden stated that the U.S. will be able to meet its ambitious target to reduce emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030 but called on the rest of the world to do the same.
"We can do this, so let's get to work," the president said.
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Nago wants new governor to okay airport runway plan
Northern Okinawa's being given an olive branch worth ¥10 billion, but there's a small string attached.
Japan's central government is offering Nago City and northern Okinawa development money, but it is linked to construction of the new replacement airfield slated for Camp Schwab. The project was finalized by Japan and U.S. governments last May, but local Okinawa officials, including the governor's office, haven't agreed to it.
Nago City Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro wants the airfield, and wants the money. He and his city have already agreed to construction of the airfield, complete with the V-shape twin runways. They are to replace the controversial Futenma Marine Corps Air Station by 2014.
Hirokazu Nakaima, Okinawa's governor-elect, has generally supported creating a new airport in northern Okinawa, but has balked at the V-shape runways concept. Throughout his campaign he called the design flawed, because it would put aircraft flying over residential areas. Retiring governor Keiichi Inamine has been ardently opposed to even constructing the new airfield within the Prefecture.
Shimabukuro is pushing for Nakaima to reevaluate his position as he takes office December 9th, and to accept the V-runway plan. The grants and subsidies are big money for Nago City, and will drastically change the city's posture over the next decade with the cash infusion. The Nago City 2008 and 2009 budgets will depend on Nakaima's next move.
The central government money will cover 95% of construction costs on facilities to include ports, bridges, roads, monorails and schools. The government usually only offers 55-60% financial aid.

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The book includes works by Edward Hopper and the following photographers: Abelardo Morrell, Frank Gohlke, Wayne Gudmundson, Ken Abbott, Robert Benjamin, Eugene Buechel, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward S. Curtis, Mitch Epstein, Emmet Gowin, David T. Hanson, Anthony Hernandez, Cuny Janssen, Dorothea Lange, Nicholas Nixon, Eric Paddock, Mary Peck, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, Richard Rothman, Leo Rubinfien, Mark Ruwedel, William S. Sutton, John Szarkowski, Terri Weifenbach, Garry Winogrand, and William Wylie.
The title Art Can Help set my expectations for something beyond what this book is about. A more descriptive title might have been Thoughts on Photography as Art.


The 9th Annual Edison Earth Day Celebration will be co-presented by the Township of Edison, Edison Sustainable Jersey Green Team (ESJGT), Edison Clean Communities (ECC) and Edison Township Environmental Commission (ETEC) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on May 5. This free, family-friendly, green event will be held at Papaianni Park.
No registration fees are required for the event staff, volunteers, presenters, exhibitors and vendors. Sponsorships are available at a graduating scale of support. Elected officials, dignitaries and green advocates have been invited to attend. Participants are encouraged to bring donations of non-perishable foods for the Hands of Hope for the Community Food Pantry. Representatives will be onsite to accept these donations. Ample parking shall be available for event participants and visitors.
Location: Papaianni Park, 100 Municipal Blvd., Edison. For more information, contact Chris Mazauskas, Resource Development Officer, at 732-248-7356, email CMazauskas@EdisonNJ.org or visit EdisonNJ.org.


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Economic Update: Capitalism's Endless Costs
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Q: Where have XmlCsvReader and SgmlReader from XmlTools from gotdotnet.com gone to? Once upon a time there was a great microsofts dotnet site www.gotdotnet.com with lots of dotnet sources and examples.
One of these were the XmlTools with interisting classes like XmlCsvReader/writer (= csv 2 xml converter) , SgmlReader (can be used to transform sgml, html to xml) and XmlPrettyPrinter. The documentation is still online in msdn and there are many references to in it today on the internet.
Msdn-downloads for those link to gotdotnet.com.
Since www.gotdotnet.com went offline in 2006 or 2007 so the download links are broken.
Does anybody know if these xmltools are still available somewhere?
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*@Darin Dimitrov: SgmlReader is available on archive.msdn.microsoft.com

A: Here's SgmlReader. And the archived one. XmlCsvReader is still available on MSDN. You may also take a look at FileHelpers.

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ATAVISME accepts submissions of original articles that have not been published elsewhere nor being considered or processed for publication anywhere, and demonstrate no plagiarism whatsoever. The prerequisites, standards, and format of the manuscript are listed in the author guidelines and templates. Any accepted manuscript will be reviewed by at least two referees. Authors are free of charge throughout the whole process comprising article submission, review and editing process, and publication.
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Let us briefly go over how Navajocoin was created. It isn't a new gimmicky shitcoin with an anon dev. It is a coin that evolved from Summercoin which was released back in April of 2014. SUM was a trendy crypto which featured the all new (at the time) X11 algo , a Proof of Stake stage, and was considered to be the first season coin. However, the coin ran into some issues especially with the staking algorithm. Following what most developers of shitcoins do, the original dev of Summercoin bailed and a new developer took over. That dev team decided to dump SUM and start a new version called Summercoin V2. This coin featured the newer X13 algorithm in addition to the sought after POS stage. During the transition holders of SUM were able to convert their assets to SUM2 at a 1:1 ratio. So once the conversion has taken place the dev announced that they were working on a new project called the Navajo Anonymous Technology. This lead to a rebranding of SUM2 to the all new Navajocoin.
As you can see the POW stage of this coin was pretty short – only 7 days. As of now the coin is in pure POS stage, which means you earn 20% stake interest for the first year.
Each block (every 30 seconds), a random Navajocoin is selected to be the next "miner". There are 50 million coins so the odds of a single wallet being selected is the number of NAV in that wallet divided by 50 million. (Also, it's possible to calculate and agree on who that node is so the transactions need only be sent to that particular wallet.) If a node with the selected wallet is running, it will collect the transactions, make a block, and send it to the rest of the network and collect the fees. If the computer is turned off, however, then the entire network will have to select a different navajocoin to make the transaction. This time, the unresponsive wallet will be ignored. The network would suffer in that the time to make a block is decreased, but the thought is that people wouldn't leave their computers off if they have a lot of NAV because they're missing out on all the fees that they could have collected. If you only have a few NAV, you can leave your computer off: You probably wouldn't have collected much fees anyway.
So if you have extra hashes in SHA256, Scrypt, or X11 and would like to invest into NAV you should consider using chunky pools.
Above, the blue arrow shows the regular unencrypted transaction which gets broadcasted on the network and all the information gets stored on the blockchain just like with bitcoin. The red arrow shows the anonymous transaction which begins with the sender choosing a specific node to channel the transaction through, this begins the anonymous transaction phase. The selected node is the gateway to the subchain because from hereon it will set the destination to the next stage forming a "chain". The selected node will send the transaction through 2 gateways. first the Navajo "Magic" Gateway takes the information then uses double encryption to send it to the Choctaw "Star" Gate, which then forwards the transaction to a Destination Initialization Mechanism. The NMG and the CSG are the two main players in facilitating an anonymous transaction.
The Navajo "Magic" Gateway received the encrypted transaction infowhich includes the destination address and the amount. It decrypts it and then sends it off to the CSG which in turns verifies its integrity before broadcasting the transaction on the main chain. So what appears on the main blockchain is only the destination address and the amount. The reason is because the only part of the transaction the is being broadcasted on the main network is the one going from the CSG to the receiver. Since the only information the anonymizing node relays to the NMG is the destination address and the amount that is the only information that is available to the CSG which is responsible for broadcasing the transaction on the main network.
So, in turn the anonymous transaction cannot be traced using the blockchain because there is not enough information about it. It cannot be traced via the sub chains either because all data transfer is encrypted and the players responsible for the encrypted data transfer are decentralized. Furthermore, in order to counter other attacks of tracing similar amounts and linking senders and receivers Navajocoin cam up with the idea to introduce a random variable fee AND an option to split the sent amount among several different addresses.
Efficiency also plays a role in the system. Since it only takes 3 confirmations for the coins to be sent and received using the anonymous transactions there is no disadvantage to use this feature. Because the anonymizing feature uses subchains it does not bloat the backbone of the system.
Some may say that Navajocoin's anonymous transaction implementation is similar to Darkcoin's Darksend feature.
However, Darksend does not feature subchains or double encryption and their decentralized nodes are essentially pools.
@CoinsSource This is inaccurate "has some similarities to Darkcoin's node-based 'Darksend' system".
Here is how Darksend works. DarkSend uses a pool of transactions, currently POOL_MAX_TRANSACTIONS is set to 3. This means it will wait for 3 transactions before "darksending" them. Being that you can only send 1 transaction through the pool at a time, you will need to wait for someone else on the network to send another darksend transaction. If you don't want to wait, you can send multiple darksend transactions with multiple clients. The way Darksend is setup is it still uses the public ledger to broadcast the transaction but it obfuscates the source by having a decentralized node. It does not have an equivalent to a NMG and a CSG.
Another feature that the Navajo Anonymous technology is going to introduce is a decentralized messaging system. It will allow users to chat right from the Navajocoin wallet. The messaging system will use subchains to transmit the messages so once again the backbone of the network will not be affected. The on Wallet Messaging service will tie nicknames to addresses. An available balance will be required to chat in order to prevent spam because it is a decentralized network after all. To combat spammers the devs decided to implement a mute feature where a node will be able to sop listening to a certain nickname for a specific period of time.
Navajocoin is currently trading on Bittrex, Poloniex, and Bter.
As we can see Nav has been rising steadily on Bittrex. The release of the beta-testing on July 14th should pump the price even higher and unless something goes wrong and the beta release fails.
Hopefully NAV will keep rising after the 14th unless it pulls a Shieldcoin type move. The volume on NAV-BTC is also rising which is obviously a good sign. Keep an eye out for this coin because after all it has gone through a successful POW stage and made a smooth transition unlike Stealthcoin – which forked multiple times upon the arrival of the POS stage because the dev forgot to set seed nodes. Hopefully this time the dev did not copy paste code like Shieldcoin's dev then NAV should reach lunar levels.


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Charles-Martial-Allemand Lavigerie  (Huire, 31 de outubro de 1821 - Argel, 26 de novembro de 1892) foi um cardeal francês com forte trabalho na Argélia e no combate à escravidão, fundador da Sociedade dos Missionários da África.

Biografia
Nascido em Huire, em Saint-Esprit, Pirenéus Atlânticos, era de uma família de classe média, filho de Léon Philippe Allemand-Lavigerie (1795-1860), inspetor, originalmente de Angoulême e Laure Louise Esmenie Latrilhe (1800-1854), de Bayonne. Ele era o mais velho de quatro filhos, três meninos e uma menina e foi batizado em 5 de novembro de 1825; seu nome do meio Martial foi dado a ele em homenagem a seu avô.

Sua educação infantil no foi no Colléège de Saint-Lé, em Bayonne e depois, no Seminário Júnior de Larressore. Estudou também em St. Nicolas-du-Chardonnet e no Seminário de Saint-Sulpice, além do École des Carmes, todos em Paris. Fez seu doutorado em Letras (1850) e em Teologia (1853) na Universidade Sorbonne. Ele também recebeu um doutorado em utroque iuris, Direito Civil e Direito Canônico, por mensagem apostólica de 6 de dezembro de 1861.

Vida Religiosa

Presbiterado

Em dezembro de 1848, é ordenado diácono em Paris. Foi ordenado padre em 2 de junho de 1849, Paris, por Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, arcebispo de Paris. Por quase sete anos, foi professor na Faculdade Teológica de Paris. Em 1853, é o capelão de Sainte-Geneviève e, no ano seguinte, professor associado de história da igreja, na Universidade Sorbonne, tornando-se o titular da cadeira em 1857. Entre 1856 e 1861, foi o Diretor do L'Oeuvre des Écoles d'Orient. Nomeado Auditor da Rota Romana Sagrada, entre os anos de 1861 e 1863. Em 20 de setembro de 1861 é nomeado Prelado nacional de Sua Santidade.

Episcopado
Em 16 de março de 1863, foi eleito bispo de Nancy et Toul, sendo consagrado em 22 de março de 1863, na Igreja de São Luís dos Franceses, em Roma, pelo cardeal Clément Villecourt, ex-bispo de La Rochelle, assistido por Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, arcebispo-titular de Edessa, esmoler secreto de Sua Santidade, e Francesco Martinelli, bispo-titular de Porfireone, sacristão de Sua Santidade.

Promovido à Sé Metropolitana de Argel, em 27 de março de 1867. No ano seguinte, torna-se o Prefeito Apostólico de Saara e Sudão. É nessa época da fome de 1867, deixando um grande número de crianças órfãs no que é hoje a costa norte da Argélia, que Lavigerie prepara a criação da sua congregação para instruir e catequizar essas crianças (criação de aldeias cristãs) numa primeira etapa, e numa segunda etapa, evangelizar as populações do Saara e da África central, fundando a Sociedade dos Missionários da África (também conhecida como Padres Brancos ou Pères Blancs) em 1868 e, depois, em 1869, a Sociedade das Missionárias de Nossa Senhora da África, em latim: Missionariæ Africæ (Sorores Albæ).

Cardinalato
Foi criado cardeal-presbítero no consistório de 27 de março de 1882, recebendo o barrete cardinalício e o título de Santa Inês Fora das Muralhas em 3 de julho de 1882. Em 10 de novembro de 1884, o Papa Leão XIII restabeleceu a arquidiocese de Cartago, até então uma Sé Titular, e tornou-se arcebispo da nova circunscrição.

Abolicionismo

Lavigerie é confrontado com a realidade do tráfico de seres humanos que assola as regiões central e oriental do continente africano. Em 2 de janeiro de 1878, ele foi transferido para a "Mémoire secret", dirigida à Propaganda Fide. O Papa Pio IX não condenou explicitamente a escravidão, mas morreu um mês depois, e Lavigerie encontrou um ouvido mais atento no do novo papa, Leão XIII. Então, em 1888, a convite do Papa Leão XIII, lançou a campanha para acabar com a escravidão na África.

Último estado em que a escravidão tinha status legal, o Brasil declarou sua abolição em 1888. Leão XIII está prestes a se alegrar com a encíclica In plurimis. Mas o cardeal Lavigerie o chama para aumentar a conscientização: todo mundo está inclinado a acreditar no problema resolvido, no Brasil ou em qualquer outro lugar. No entanto, mesmo sem existência legal, o flagelo permanece. Lavigerie instou o Papa a encorajar os missionários a libertar escravos, por um lado, e os governos cristãos a reprimir o tráfico, por outro. Em 5 de maio, Leão XIII publica a encíclica, onde são encontradas as exortações sugeridas pelo cardeal. Em 21 de maio, o Papa autorizou este último a liderar uma "cruzada" para combater o tráfico de pessoas.

Ele sabia que para conseguir que os governos o fizessem, ele precisava mobilizar a opinião pública na Europa. Com esse objetivo em mente, ele visitou as capitais da Europa, dando conferências em Saint-Sulpice, em Paris, no Royal Albert Hall, em Londres, na igreja de Saint Gudule, Bruxelas e na Igreja de Jesus, em Roma. Ele chamou a atenção das pessoas para o fato de que as vítimas da escravidão africana eram especialmente mulheres e crianças, apelando em particular às mulheres de seu público para pressionar seus governos a mudar a situação. O cardeal não apenas pediu a todos os cristãos que se envolvessem nessa campanha, ele também apelou aos da comunidade em geral, e todo esse esforço contribuiu muito para que os governos europeus eliminassem a escravidão na África.

Final de Vida

Morreu em 26 de novembro de 1892, às 13h, em Argel e seus funerais ocorreram em Argel, Túnis e Cartago. O corpo foi levado para Túnis e depositado no cofre preparado para ele na cripta da catedral metropolitana de Cartago, na colina de Byrsa, em 8 de dezembro de 1892. Em 1964, quando a catedral se tornou propriedade do governo, seus restos mortais foram transferidos para Roma e enterrados na cripta da capela da Cúria Geral da Sociedade de Missionários da África.

Ligações externas

Cardeais da França
Cardeais nomeados pelo papa Leão XIII
Fundadores de ordens religiosas
Naturais dos Pirenéus Atlânticos
Bispos de Cartago

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Jeff began doing jewelry work while he was still in high school as an apprentice under Carlos Jimenez at the old Lewis Diamond Mine back in 1978. Under Carlos' expertise Jeff learned all of his jewelry repairing and manufacturing skills.
At the age of 23, in 1984 he opened his own store with partners, Rob Sanders and his father-in-law, John Hollabaugh under the name of Treasure Chest Jewelers. Jeff further improved his skills as he was totally responsible for all of the store's repairs and manufacturing as well as Rob's store, Sanders Diamond Company.
We are extremely grateful for Rob's knowledge and guidance in getting us going but, after 5 years we were able to venture out on our own. We bought out our partners and changed the name to Kennington Jewelers. It has truly been a family business. At one time or another Jeff has employed all four of his siblings, three of his children and his wife, Peggy, who has been a part of the accounting for over 26 years. In 2007, we changed locations, same corner just more visible with a much larger shop.
Jeff has changed his emphasis from repairs and retail sales to a custom design studio. After weeks of training in Chicago and years of practice, he and his staff are now capable of CAD design. We have a laser welder and a revo machine where all our waxes are made in house. We have brought the best of both worlds together. A small, friendly, no pressure, feel at home atmosphere, with the latest and greatest technology, enabling the customer to have a one of a kind creation with very reasonable cost.


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Don't expect medical apps on Google Glass for another one or two years
The healthcare industry is excited about the potential of Google Glass, but few expect medical apps to be ready for the device soon.
Ed Burns, Executive Editor
Google Glass could become a powerful platform in healthcare, allowing providers to quickly access patient data, videoconference other clinicians and perform a number of other tasks. But technical limitations and regulatory hurdles mean it could still be years before the tool is used on a wide scale.
Philips Healthcare recently teamed up with Accenture to push its existing Android-based patient data monitoring application to Glass. The functioning medical app has not cleared any regulatory process yet and is still considered part of a demonstration project, so isn't going to be on the market anytime soon. But Tony Jones, chief marketing officer for Philips Healthcare's patient care and clinical informatics business, said the project proves the tool has the potential to keep doctors focused on the patient and off devices.
You go right to the question of 'Is the potential benefit more than the potential risk?'
Dan Riskin, M.D.,
board-certified surgeon and CEO, Health Fidelity
"In a lot of cases in the hospital, the feedback loop is coming off monitoring devices," Jones said. "It'd be great if the monitor was in the ideal position, but it's often not."
Still, he said, neither Glass nor Philips' medical app is ready for wide use in healthcare. For one thing, Glass does not currently give users the ability to control applications with voice commands, as it is eventually supposed to. Users can only call up applications with their voice. This limits the functionality of Glass apps.
But beyond that, developers and end users need to think more about how they want applications to work. For example, Jones said it will be important to get alerts right. There is an obvious role for alerts in monitoring applications, but Jones said these alerts would have to walk a fine line of being noticeable but not distracting in the Glass environment.
Security is another consideration. Dan Riskin, M.D., a board-certified surgeon and CEO of the big data company Health Fidelity, said the basic things to keep in mind when it comes to using Glass are more or less the same as using smartphones or tablets in a healthcare setting. The device is only as secure as the network it's on. Hospitals that have very secure networks shouldn't have too much to worry about when streaming data to the device.
But a lot of the uses being talked about for Glass involve leveraging its video camera during the delivery of care. Riskin said patients will have to decide whether there is enough value in having their procedures recorded to justify this privacy compromise. He said some patients may see a great deal of value in having an objective record of their doctor's performance. But others may feel the risk of this video being leaked from the doctor's office outweighs the benefit. "You go right to the question of 'Is the potential benefit more than the potential risk?'" Riskin said.
Lynne Dunbrack, research vice president with IDC Health Insights, said interoperability may be another stumbling block to implementing Glass in healthcare settings. EHR vendors in particular are entirely focused on keeping up with the requirements of meaningful use. They aren't necessarily working to make sure their systems are compatible with every new emerging mobile device, Dunbrack said. This will delay the implementation of Glass in clinical settings.
There is an undeniable interest in mobile apps and wearable devices, Dunbrack said. But she expects the industry won't see any commercially available Glass applications until the end of 2014 or later.
"It really increases the mobility of clinicians," Dunbrack said. "[But] it's still pretty early for commercial availability."
Riskin said he thinks there will be ongoing development of medical apps for Google Glass over the next couple years. But he feels regulatory uncertainty will make it difficult for developers to know exactly what the device can legally be used for. Part of the reason for this uncertainty is the fact that it is still unclear whether the FDC will continue to regulate mobile medical applications or another agency like the ONC might take over.
"I think for the next couple years it will be a bit of a Wild West," Riskin said, "and the only protection we have is that the high-integrity firms will be their own watchdogs, because at the moment we don't have a watchdog assigned."
Even with these hurdles, hospitals are interested in what Glass can do for their physicians. Jones said after Philips announced its demonstration project a number of providers contacted him wanting to know how they can use Glass and when a fully functioning app might become available. Jones said it may still be a couple years before Philips makes a Glass application available industry-wide. But the fact that the project got people talking about the technology is a sign that things are moving in that direction.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect Tony Jones' correct title with Philips Healthcare.
Ed Burns is site editor of SearchBusinessAnalytics. Email him at eburns@techtarget.com and follow him on Twitter: @EdBurnsTT.
Data silos hinder IoT in healthcare; tech giants could help
By: Makenzie Holland
Philips Research brings AI, AR to healthcare
Philips buys Carestream Health's healthcare information systems
Connected medical device security, AI battle health hackers
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RD Group  — международная девелоперская группа компаний. Штаб-квартира компании расположена в Москве.

История
Компания основана в 1994 году. Первым проектом RD Group стала реконструкция одного из административных зданий МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова, которое было построено в 1890-х годах в Романовом переулке. Реконструкция здания была завершена в 1996 году и с этого момента функционирует в качестве бизнес-центра «Романов Двор». Реализацией проекта занималась дочерняя компания RD Group — RD Construction Management Эксплуатацией здания занимается другая дочерняя компания — RD Management. В 2005 году компания завершила реконструкцию Ректорского Дома в Москве по адресу ул. Тверская, 5а. Здание представляет собой особняк XVIII века, который являлся городской усадьбой князей Волконских. Впоследствии здание перешло к Московскому государственному университету М. В. Ломоносова, где располагалась служебная квартира ректора Университета, а также профессорского состава. Отсюда пошло название «Ректорский дом». Позже здесь располагалась редакция журнала «Телескоп», напечатавшего первое «Философическое письмо» Петра Чаадаева. В этом доме жили Виссарион Белинский и Николай Надеждин.

С 2006 года в Люксембурге работает европейское представительство группы компаний — RD Group S.A., которое возглавляет Всеволод Ямпольский.

В 2008 году RD Group завершила строительство второго корпуса бизнес-центра «Романов Двор» — «Романов Двор II». В этом же году был создан фонд прямых инвестиций Romanov Property Holdings Fund, который инвестирует средства в проекты коммерческой недвижимости класса «А». В 2009 году в Люксембурге было завершено строительство элитного жилого комплекса Val Des Roses (Долина Роз). В 2011 году в портфель RD Group вошел торговый центр Dream House в Барвихе. В 2012 году в RD Group вошла проектная и управляющая компания «Би Ди Джи» (Aurora Group и BDGworkfutures Russia & CIS), которая переименована в RD Studio. В этом же году RD Group приобрела 40 % ТЦ «Времена года» на Кутузовском проспекте.

RD Group приняла участие в восстановлении Народной обсерватории в ЦПКиО им. М. Горького, которая была открыта для посетителей 27 сентября 2012 года. На средства компании был приобретен зеркально-линзовый телескоп Celestron CGE PRO 1400HD, весом 110 кг.

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Глава представительства RD Group в России — Роман Владимирович Ткаченко

Генеральный директор RD Group S.A. -Всеволод Борисович Ямпольский

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Через дочерние компании RD Group осуществляет полный цикл девелопмена: инвестиции, проектирование и строительство, fit-out, эксплуатация. Основное направление — офисная и торговая недвижимость. Крупнейшие проекты — реконструкция гостиницы «Арктика» в Мурманске,, реставрация «Ректорского дома», эксплуатация знаковых бизнес-центров Москвы.

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This is one of the easiest States to allocate a regional Chip variety to. There are several Louisiana Potato Chips manufacturers, but none capture the imagery and regional wonder of Zapp's. You could literally pick any of their flavors, but the one we believe encapsulates the spirit of New Orleans better than any is Voodoo Heat. Added to that, it is also a great Chip.
Humpty Dumpty is now owned by Old Dutch. The Canadian arm of the company. Not the American arm. We think. It's all very confusing. What is not confusing is the unmistakable memories the people of Maine would have shared with Humpty Dumpty as they grew up. We have looked, but cannot find Mr Dumpty's wonderful Salt & Vinegar Chips anywhere. Hopefully, Old Dutch will put the brand and the flavor back together again.
The State of Maryland is one of few that has a flavor geared directly towards its inhabitants that has also ventured into the wider American consciousness. It has also sold successfully for their Chips manufacturers. Just as Sweet Maui Onion is synonymous with Hawaii, Old Bay seasoned Crab flavouring style Chips have become synonymous with Maryland. Herr's were the first to make this flavor, but we would select a similarly local brand; Virginia's Route 11 Chesapeake Crab flavor.


Welcome back to The Red Wagon. If you are like us, you are ready for some farm-to-table goodness. The market is opening this Friday, featuring lots of early summer produce. These sandwiches—Roasted Beet Pitas—remind us just how good good-for-you produce can be.
Beets are a surprising sort of beautiful. They are roots after all, and they come in from the field dull and earthy from doing their anchoring job. Yet, one slice to the flesh reveals a jeweled ruby brilliance.
That being said, I have had to work at liking these. I remember avoiding pickled beets and Harvard beets when I was a kid, nose turned up at both vegetables and pungent sauces. Now, all adult and health conscious, I know that beets are root vegetable superheroes—with antioxidant, detoxification, and anti-inflammatory powers rolled into one little bulbous package. So.
The secret is ROASTING. Roasted beets, caramelized and rich, make a great side dish that this recipe turns into a meal. We are getting ready for a carnival weekend here, and I'm planning on eating at least one gyro a day. Because there are no healthy superpowers in those, I upped the veggie ante this week and made Roasted Beet Pitas, which use both the greens and the roots and mimic gyro construction. They are an easy and complete meal.
Cut the tops off of the beets and peel. Your hands appear to have been involved in some sort of violent crime, but peeling the beets is worth it, and you'll look less scarlet after soap. If you choose not to peel the beets before you roast, you might find the flavor a little extra-earthy (and your husband might wonder why the house smells sort of like dirt).
Dice the peeled beets and spread them on a cookie sheet with sides. Give them a good drizzle of olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stick them in the oven. Roast them for about a half an hour, stirring a couple of times. The beets should soften and the edges should crisp up.
If you are just looking for a delicious side dish—stop right now. Serve.
If you're looking for a meal, chop the beet greens roughly. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a sauté pan and add a clove of minced garlic until it begins to sizzle. Add the greens and stir until they begin to wilt. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from heat.
It's hard to believe that we are almost at the end of the season. The market, the hay maze, the pumpkin patch, full of people, will be empty in a couple of weeks. The straw jump will seem lonely without laughing, shrieking little kids and the local middle-schoolers (our live scarecrows) will have to find something else to do. Pumpkin Festival time, sometimes interminable when we are in the middle of it, screeches to a halt, leaving us with our quiet, solid, winter-ready farm. Even market shelves suggest a change; where you once found cantaloupe and watermelon, you will now find winter squash: acorn and butternut. This dish—Butternut Squash Bisque— prepares us for the cold days and nights to come.
Hardy butternuts, unlike melons, keep. The thick rind protecting their sweet rich flesh permits you to buy in quantity, stash in a cool dry garage or basement, and use until mid-winter. Still, you will want to enjoy some squash now, and Butternut Squash Bisque combines all kinds of seasonal flavor. It's a little spicy (chilies) and a little fruity (apples and cider) and even a little exotic (ginger). Mostly though, it's just good.
First, peel the butternut squash. Squash is hard to peel, but it becomes infinitely easier if you have a good, old fashioned potato peeler. (Funny thing– I don't have a potato peeler, and end up borrowing one from my neighbor.) All you have to do is cut off the top and bottom of the squash with a butcher knife and peel away. Then, cut the squash in ½, remove the seeds, and chop roughly.
Heat the olive oil and butter in a heavy pan. Sauté the squash, carrots, onion, celery, ginger, and garlic for maybe 10 minutes until everything begins to soften and brown. The ginger is optional; if you don't have it, the soup will still taste delicious, but if you do have it, it adds a nice flavor.
Add the apples, the cider, and the chicken stock. Simmer for about half an hour.
Add either the chipotle pepper or the sambal oelek. Sambal oelek is red chili paste. You can find it in the Thai section of the grocery store. I use it in a lot of different dishes to add a bit of spice and it last a long time in the fridge. If you do not like things at all spicy, skip this altogether.
Remove the soup from the heat and let it cool just a little. Use an immersion blender to process it, or, if you don't have one, use your regular blender to process it in batches. The finished Butternut Squash Bisque should be smooth and creamy.
Serve with sour cream and a sprinkling of Gouda cheese (or just as-is). Butternut Squash Bisque gets better after a day in the fridge. Enjoy.
…This, by the way, is the last blog of the season. Hopefully, you have enjoyed the recipes and, hopefully, you have been inspired to try a little farm-to-table cooking. Thank you for reading. Thank you for visiting us at The Red Wagon and for sharing your own recipes with us. Come see us one final time, stock up on squash and pumpkins and cabbage and apples, and get ready to join us again in the spring.
I am literally "Falling" through this season, going from wake-up to work to dinner to activity to bed. My children are busy too, and I am proud of them, watching as they handle themselves , their school work, their music and sports. I am sometimes such an observer in their lives, standing back a little as they grow up. I am accepting and enjoying this role, even if I'm a little nostalgic for days when nap times and Thomas trains made up part of our agendas. This recipe—Oven Roasted Cabbage—tastes like those days when I had more time to cook. Except, of course, it takes no time at all.
I do like to give them simple healthy meals, just to remind them that they are home. Sometimes we eat together. Often, we don't. Still, recipes like this Oven Roasted Cabbage offer all of the comfort of a home-cooked meal. Roasting vegetables is one of my favorite cool-weather techniques because it brings out sweetness and flavor. It requires few added ingredients. It's mostly low calorie. The kitchen smells wonderful.
But CABBAGE? Who woulda thought?
Core a head of cabbage and chop it roughly. Put as much as you can comfortably fit onto a cookie sheet with sides.
Sprinkle with kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper.
Have a great week. See you at the Market.
I told my kids I was going to make you something with apples to celebrate this Pumpkin Festival week, because pumpkins are for carving and apples are for eating, at least among the younger set here. I was thinking maybe a raw apple lunchbox cake or a sugary upside down apple pancake. Both are delicious and common at our table, but both, my children emphatically insist, are equally poor choices. How could I give you apples, especially in celebration of Pumpkin Festival, and not give you Apple Pie?
And so, while I have reservations about how many of you will make this recipe (which seems overly long, now that it is all typed up), I have to share. Apple Pie is quintessential Fall at our house. It is dessert, and snack and especially BREAKFAST, so much better than any morning pastry or muffin. There are no tricks here, no caramel, or cheddar, or crumbly topping. There is only a simple flaky crust, which you can totally sub with the refrigerated variety if you find it daunting, and lots and lots and lots of fruit. In fact, my family is so in love with the fruit filling in this pie that they find the syrupy filling in most restaurant pies almost sacrilegious.
Pastry for a 2 Crust Pie.
You will notice that I tell you to use a mixture of baking apples. There are a wide variety of apples, which have a wide variety of tastes and textures. By mixing it up, you get a depth of flavor that you just can't achieve using one kind of apple. For this pie, I used Jonathon and Golden Delicious, tart and sweet. If you want to mix it up even more, check out this apple chart from the Ohio Apples Growers Association, which gives you all sorts of guidelines and suggestions.
Whatever apples you choose, peel, core, and slice thinly.
Sprinkle with sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. I give you measurements above, but adjust according to your tastes. Toss so that all of the apples are well coated.
The key with pastry dough (as with kids, ha!) is to be gentle and to know when to back off. Don't over handle or your dough will be tough. And if you forget or fail miserably, your pie may not look perfect, but it will taste pretty delicious.
So… preheat your oven to 350. Put the flour into a nice sturdy bowl. Measure the shortening on top. Cut the shortening into the flour using a pastry blender until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
Next, fill a glass with ice water. Sprinkle the water onto the dough one tablespoon at a time. Toss the dough with two forks in between sprinkles. The dough should start to hold together. You know you've added enough water when the flour is moistened and the pastry almost cleans the side of the bowl. The dough should not be wet.
Gather the pastry into two equal sized balls and shape into flattened rounds. Put one round on a flour covered board or pastry cloth. I always put a dishtowel under my cutting board, to keep it from sliding around.
Roll out the dough into a circle about 2 inches larger than your upside down pie pan. Remember to be gentle. I usually flip the dough once and re-flour my board when I'm about half-way rolled out. People might tell you that too much flour makes for tough pastry dough, but I don't worry about it.
Once the dough is rolled out, gently fold it into fourths. Lay it into the pie pan and unfold. Sprinkle the bottom with flour lightly, just to thicken up any extra juice at the bottom. Spoon the apples into the pie; it will seem overfilled. Dot it with butter, about 2 Tablespoons.
Roll out the second round of dough using exactly the same technique you used for the bottom. Place it on top of your filling and unfold. The top edge should hang slightly over the bottom edge of the pastry. If any edge seems too long, trim it with your fingers. Tuck the top under the bottom and flute. Some people use a fork; I like to pinch the sides into a sort of V shape. Either way.
Use a sharp knife to slit the top crust maybe 6 or 8 times. Wet your hand with water and rub it over the crust just to dampen. Sprinkle it with granulated sugar.
Put the pie on the middle rack of your oven. Bake it for at least an hour, maybe close to 1:15. The top of the crust should brown lightly and blister. The filling should bubble a little. If you insert a butter knife into the slits, the apples should be tender.
Let the pie cool. Serve it for dessert if you want to. ABSOLUTELY serve it for breakfast. There is nothing better than Apple Pie in the morning.
Enjoy your Apple Pie. My kids are sure that you'll love it (and I am hoping you give it a shot). If, by chance, you don't have time for baking this weekend, still come get some apples and check out all the Fall Fun at our Pumpkin Festival. This is family time at our market and we have lots of fun activities for everyone.
See you at the Market or at the Festival!
Butter Crisco sounds gross, but it sure makes a good pie crust.
If you don't have a pastry blender, you can use two knives.
Ice water. No ice in the dough.
Just a sprinkle of flour.
But not as pretty as this.
I love good metaphors. They don't always have to be profound; they just have to be true. I particularly liked what Kristin Armstrong, blogger of Mile Markers fame, recently wrote: that "time spent with good girlfriends is basic, organic nutrition, not dessert." So isn't Cheddar Corn Chowder, this week's magic soup-pot selection.
When the leaves start to turn, tradition dictates that we girls get together on Sunday nights and cook big vats of autumnal things—chowders, soups, applesauce. We bring bottles of wine and bags of ingredients and follow recipes loosely, ending up with enough food for all three of our families. Last Sunday, we made Cheddar Corn Chowder. Rich and delicious, full of the sweet corn still available in our market, this chowder reminds us of the abundance of fall. The original recipe comes from my friend Laura and, while it certainly isn't low-calorie, it is full-flavor.
Put a heavy drizzle of olive oil into the bottom of a large stock pot. Heat it over medium high heat and add bacon. Cook until crisp, and remove with a slotted spoon. Reduce the heat to medium and add onions and butter to the fat. (Olive Oil, and Butter, and Bacon…oh, my!) Cook until the onions are translucent, about 10 minutes. Add the minced garlic.
Stir in the flour, salt, pepper, marjoram and tumeric. Cook for three minutes. Meanwhile, microwave the sweet potatoes to soften them up a bit, also for about three minutes. Add chicken stock and both kinds of potatoes. Bring to a boil and then simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender.
If you are using fresh sweet corn, steam your corn and slice the kernels off of the cobs. Add the corn to the soup, and then stir in the half-n-half, cheddar cheese, and wine. Cook for about 5 more minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Serve the Cheddar Corn Chowder with a garnish of crumbled bacon and chopped green onions.
Enjoy. Be grateful, both for the abundance of the season and the people who make you happy.
Kids can clean the corn.
There is nothing better than bacon.
My friend has an awesome manicure.
You could stop here, if you just wanted delicious, bacon-y potatoes and onions.
Starting to look like soup.
We interrupt this regularly scheduled healthy eating blog with a message from the processed cheese food lady… You know, the one in charge of selling the deliciousness–in particular, the yellow colored, foil wrapped, no-refrigeration-needed deliciousness—otherwise known as Velveeta. Why? Because this processed cheese food is the main ingredient in our football season favorite: Mexican Cheese Dip.
I will tell you this: Whenever my friend Karen asks us over for dinner, I BEG her to make her Mexican Cheese Dip (and also her margaritas, but that's a different post). It is amazing—cheesy, creamy (dare I say "velvety"?) and so so addictingly spicy.
And since the market is full of peppers, at least half of this recipe is completely farm–to-table. We have jalapeños, green and red bells, Hungarian hot wax, semi hots, and sweet bananas. All of these, in addition to our own red onions, can be a part of the party.
You will also need big package of Velveeta (or a smaller one if you're not feeding an army.) Again, this is not necessarily in the refrigerated section. Some stores put it in a cooler, but others toss it on a shelf somewhere.
Once you are ready to put everything together, consider how hot you want your dip. Remember, seeds and ribs bring HEAT. If you are sharing this dip with kids, definitely remove the seeds and ribs. Also, consider wearing gloves. I think I've said this before, but there is nothing worse that chopping peppers and then having to take out your contacts.
Chop your peppers and onions roughly and put them in a big glass microwavable bowl. Chunk the cheese and microwave everything for maybe two minutes. Take it out, stir it, and microwave it a minute more. Continue until the cheese is totally melted, and roll out the tortilla chips! This Mexican Cheese Dip will stay creamy all night (there is a scientific explanation for why) and is just as delicious reheated the next day.
See… Mostly farm to table.
All chopped and ready for cheese food.
The kids got off the bus today right in the middle of a rainstorm and I was late getting home from work. They had to trudge up the driveway all by themselves. (Guilt makes me say trudge, but I'm sure they more ran or skipped… What little kid doesn't like rainstorms?) Still, I felt bad coming home to wet hair, tennis shoes, and bookbags and also to the news that I had forgotten weekend homework and that the little one had to "clip down" and "miss recess". I got snacks, facilitated homework and—what the heck—threw a few heads of garlic into the oven to roast. Roasted Garlic is the new staple at our house.
I learned how to roast garlic last month, over a wood fired pizza oven with a glass of wine in hand. Now, it is something I keep at-the-ready at all times—Roasted Garlic mixed with a little olive oil in a mason jar in the fridge, to be spread on any number of things: sweet, smoky, and rich in its simplicity.
Start with as many bulbs of garlic as you wish to roast. I did 5 today and ended up with half a pint jar full of spread. Pull off as much of the outer papery skin as you can but do not separate the cloves.
Using a sharp knife cut maybe ½ inch off of the top of the bulb. (This is not the end where the root is.) The meat of each clove should be exposed. There are some cloves around the edge of the bulb that won't be showing; take your knife and trim the tops of those as well.
Place each bulb in the center of a square of aluminum foil. Drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper. Pull the foil up around each bulb and twist, making a nice little garlic packet.
Remove the garlic from the oven and open each packet to let the garlic cool. It will be brown and soft, but it will also be hot. Take your kids for a walk outside, if the sun has come out.
Once the garlic has cooled, squeeze each head over a bowl so the garlic extrudes from the head. Actually, the kids can totally do this. It's better than play dough. If you have issues with messy fingers or garlicky kids, you can use a little fork, but it's not nearly as fun.
Drizzle some olive oil over your garlic, mash with a fork, and use as you see fit. If you have no white spaghetti or baguette, it makes an AMAZING pizza topper. The Roasted Garlic will keep, covered, in the fridge for a couple of weeks, and you will find yourself mixing it into all sorts of things.
See You… At The Market or at The Cleveland Garlic Festival.
Not a big ingredient picture this time.
A very colorless meal. But not bland.
Can certainly doctor it up. Zucchini and Tomatoes anyone?
In this house with small-to-medium sized children, the first week back to school marks the passage of time more profoundly than birthdays or New Year's. Everyone is a year older at the end of August, walking down the driveway pressed and polished, backpacks squarely on their shoulders. The summer air has made them taller and I am nostalgic, missing tiny fingers and toes. So I, more even than they, am glad when this first week is over, and we are headed to a pizza/swimming end-of-summer party. The weather is hot and I wander through the market, wondering what to bring. Looking at the tomatoes and red bell peppers, resplendent and grand, I remember this breathtaking Panzanella Recipe. Not only is this a perfect salad to pair with pizza, it is such showcase for the vegetables coming in from the fields now.
Panzanella is an Italian tomato and bread salad—vegetables and good bread tossed with a gentle vinaigrette. It also incorporates roasted red peppers, which you can totally make yourself. In fact, if this blog motivates you to do nothing else, let it talk you into making roasted red peppers. They are so much better than those you buy in the grocery store and take such little time and effort.
So, before Panzanella…Roasted Red Peppers. The Panzanella will call for two, but I would make a few more, to toss on pizza or sandwiches, to pair with hummus or salads, or to use as burger toppers. Wash however many you decide on and throw them, whole, on the grill, over medium high heat. As the skin chars, turn them, so that they are evenly cooked all over and softened. (They should still hold their shape, but you should be able to pierce them easily without any resistance, kind of like a really well done baked potato.) Then, take them off of the grill and put each in a brown paper bag. (The bags they put wine bottles in at the grocery to prevent clanging and banging? Perfect.) Roll up the tops and let sit for about 10 minutes. Finally, remove the peppers and use a pairing knife to remove the charred skin (so easy and fun, you'll be surprised). Cut into strips. Voila! Roasted Red Peppers!
The vegetable mixture can sit while you prepare the bread. I include less bread than might be considered traditional and more vegetables, per our August ideology. While I bought a loaf of multigrain from the bakery, any kind of good bread would be wonderful. This recipe originated as a solution to stale loaves, so don't feel like you need to make a special trip.
Anyway, all you have to do is cube the bread, drizzle it with extra virgin olive oil, sprinkle it with salt and pepper, and toast it on the grill over medium low heat. Don't burn it, but do crisp it up nicely. Then, put it on a tray to cool.
Seriously. Throw them on the grill.
See how the skin is charred and blistered.
Chopped vegetables in a big, pretty bowl.
You really don't even need bread.
But honestly, who doesn't love bread?


There has been a strong denial from a Republican Senate nominee over allegations that threaten to torpedo his political career.
Roy Moore is embroiled in sexual misconduct claims, just a month before a special Senate race in Alabama.
Among the accusations, a woman says the ex-judge and staunch conservative Christian initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14.
Moore told a Veterans Day event: "Just two days ago, The Washington Post established — or published, rather — yet another attack on my character and reputation in a desperate attempt to stop my political campaign for the United States Senate.
Senior Republicans had earlier gone on record to say that if the allegations were proved to be true, then Moore should withdraw from the race.
Protesters turned up to the event, calling on Moore to step aside. But his supporters remain unmoved.
In a blow to Moore, a senatorial committee that helps Republicans get elected has moved to cut off fund-raising ties with the candidate.


When I got a tweet from Sophie saying I'd won the ITSM Review Competition for a free ticket to the itSMF UK Conference and Exhibition I seriously couldn't wait to tell people…especially my manager who was delighted. I've never been to Birmingham and I'd certainly never been to an itSMF UK conference and now I had the chance to be there in a more interactive capacity than the odd twitter stream comment…wow…time to get organised and get up there.
Learning from others – practical hints, tips and experiences from other practitioners. Their journey using service management techniques to improve their company's IT landscape. The sort of thing that money can't buy – the sort of thing you don't necessarily read about …rolling the sleeves up and getting to the nitty gritty.
Networking – I was going to be rubbing shoulders with the some of the most respected and nicest people from the global ITSM community. People whom I follow on various social media streams, the ITSM Review crew and people I'd got to know over the past couple of years. As well of course to make some new friends along the way…well I thought gregarious by name, gregarious by nature.
Innovation – finding out what's new with the industry and what's coming our way in the future.
On sunday afternoon I beamed up to Birmingham to join everyone at the Hyatt hotel. The first thing that struck me was that so many people were there that are involved in the same IT discipline that I am…it was time to immerse myself and get involved.
The idea behind Sunday evening is to have informal drinks, network and enjoy your time getting a feel for what is going to unfold over the next couple of days. Take my example, randomly, I found myself sat at a table with fellow practitioners, consultants, trainers, mentors and even the Chairman of the ITSMF UK – Colin Rudd. Where else could this happen? Where else would all these Service Management experts be in one place? Where else I could I bump into Pengi? It was then that I realised the true value of being there…and I knew it was going to be good.
Monday morning came round fast and kicked off with an awakening electro charged sound track and video with Colin Rudd and departing Chief Executive, Ben Clacy introducing the conference.
Colin went on to say this was the 22nd ITSMF UK conference, featuring delegates from over 20 countries.
He discussed how Service Management will be more important than ever before through the use of service integration and the ability to demonstrate the value of IT services to the business – Service Catalogue will be key.
It was reassuring to hear that AXELOS (the new commercial owners of the best practice management portfolio) are engaging with itSMF UK and that they were to be a big presence at the conference.
Round table discussions to discuss the Big4 agenda were mentioned. The concept whereby delegates have the opportunity to share their views on what they think the four key topics in ITSM for itSMF UK to focus on should be for 2014.
Ben went on to introduce MONITOR, which is an online ITSM self-assessment and benchmarking tool that helps IT align with business goals. The contents of which have been "crowd sourced" from industry experts.
The opening session was then finished by Jo Salter, the opening keynote speaker. Jo is Britain's first female fast jet fighter pilot and in my opinion re-defined the meaning of stress at work. If flying at the height of a tree wasn't bad enough – try doing so at 600MPH – that requires not only fast thinking, but cat-like reflexes. She put the attribute of "speed and response" down to the sport of fencing in acquiring good hand to eye co-ordination.
Considering what Jo had done for a living she came across as being well grounded. When she was growing up she wanted to be a hairdresser, then an accountant and when the government decided women could fly jet fighters she took the opportunity to do just that. Along the way she faced much adversity – from old school boy scepticism to working out the easiest way to "pee" whilst flying.
Jo told several inspiring stories, each with a hint of tongue and cheek and doses of "eeek factor" and determination to succeed.
We're only human and we all make mistakes. Jo was once preparing for take-off, something she had done countless times before. The engineers were running final checks on the underside of her fighter. Due to miss-communication between them she accidently uncoupled a missile from the plane. It fell to the ground with a thud. Luckily nobody was hurt. Jo's message was a simple one "be honest and open" It's all about experiences -learning and moving on.
Over the two days six topical presentation streams were provided. I mainly focused on two. Real World Learning – this stream covered the main reason I wanted to be there – learning from others and their journey – adversities they encountered and what approaches they took to achieve their end goal. The second stream, IT(SM) into the future – what disciplines and innovations are emerging.
Monday's presentations came from a good mixture of companies such as Dyson, Accenture, Jaguar and Land Rover and Tata Consultancy Services. Between them they covered subjects such as Supplier Relationship, Business Relationship Management, Service Integration and End User Support.
Ask the question – who are we? And who does our supplier think we are?
Midway through Monday's presentations The Project of the Year award 2013 finalists from EE, Land and Property Services and QBE were showcasing how service management techniques over the past 12 months helped them reach their companies goals.
EE's objectives were to maximise their stability, and recognise and mitigate the risks during the London Olympics with the influx of foreigners to the capital. I liked their use of capacity management whereby they measured against forecasts to ensure services met demands and how this was used to good effect to drive through changes quickly.
Land and Property Services was a great example of minimal budget in times of austerity. Using an Agile approach enabled them to improve their IT systems freeing up man hours and leading to better services.
QBE – who later went on to win the award with its zero to hero Service Desk implementation. This was a classic case of turning around the business perception of IT. QBE's IT asked the business (their customers) what they thought of the service given to them from IT. The response was shocking – their stats showed that IT wasn't fit for service and the business didn't have confidence in its IT department. Their customers felt that they'd lost that personalisation and that their incident tickets were falling into a black hole. Being customer centric they took the feedback seriously and set out to bring back their in house Service Desk. Jacqueline Brunett and Amanda Rutlege spearheaded the initiative and employed 10 new service desk agents. Training for the new staff included learning the nature of the business (which I feel all organisations should provide for their service desk).
Three months on from the rebirth of the Service Desk the stats improved and both agreed that being customer centric was key to this success.
The afternoon presentations started with Mel Tuke Griffin from Accenture. They have a huge user base of 275K that mainly work out of the office and generate on average 1 million incidents a year. Their drive was to help prevent users having to come into the office for repairs. This was achieved by incorporating an effective one-stop shop self-service experience along with improved IT remote tools.
Accenture have used self-service since 2001 and 61% of their incidents come from the self-service portal and it is treated as the front door to IT. Once logged in they can search a database for known issues, for example outage information on key services and general issues such as what to do when your mail box exceeds its size limit.
After an action packed day attention turned to the evening for the glamorous itSMF UK Service Management Awards Dinner – hosted by Edwina Currie. A special mention must go to the guru Stuart Rance who deservedly won the Paul Rappaport award for outstanding contribution to IT service management. When collecting the award Stuart was kind enough to let Edwina hold Pengi to have their photo taken, which was especially cheered and clapped from a certain couple of tables near the back of the awards hall.
After the awards, the dance floor was rocking, surrounded by casino tables, bars and hilarious photo booths – fun was had by all deep into the early hours of the next day.
In a blur I arrived back at the ICC for the last day of the conference. My Tuesday agenda focused mostly on CSI, SIAM and Problem Management.
Interestingly Kevin asked a full room of attendees "Who has a service catalogue?" Only two put their hands up. In an ideal world you need a service catalogue to work out what you do. Without this you're wondering what does what and how the information flows.
SIAM is coming but if the majority of companies don't use Service Catalogues it will be interesting to see how SIAM gains momentum.
From one lively presentation to another – Amanda Kirby from Virgin Media gave a 10 step guide to successfully implementing problem management. Amanda's enthusiasm shone through as well as the attitude of "screw it … do it". During the session and with the help of other attendees (and myself) she used a fun game consisting of different coloured balls to demonstrate the conflict that can result from using the same resources for both problem and incident management.
The next session that I attended was by Adam Poppleton, from BrightOak Consultancy Ltd exploring the requirements of a good CSI implementation.
Adam's thought provoking presentation started with discussing someone he knows who embeds CSI in their personal life – this person would sit down and ask himself what is it he wanted and how is it he was going to get there. An interesting approach when you consider that as an industry we tend to be bad at taking our own medicine. Adams view is that CSI should be the first process people consider.
Before you start, baseline otherwise how do you know how well you're doing?
Next up, Laura Jay and Steve Bowler gave advice on the journey so far into their service improvement programme at 3M Cognet. Laura and Steve's story was similar to others, they needed to keep the service fresh, their challenge – lack of resources. Thinking adapt adopt – they didn't use the full 7 step CSI process and instead they used the parts of CSI that works for them.
Over the course of the two days I attended many presentations, that represented hours of insightful learning; but it didn't stop there. Bubbling away under the roof of the ICC was an ITSM eco-system, which meant in-between all these sessions you could network and exchange "war stories" and using social media I was able to keep updated and find out what else was going on.
My only criticisms of the event would be the woeful Wi-Fi – there would have been more twitter activity if it wasn't for all the signal problems.
After speaking to several of the vendors they felt visiting numbers could have been higher. I would consider a venue that allowed for the vendors to be central and whereby traffic can flow through the vendor area to get to their sessions.
The delivery of training in my opinion leads the way for innovation. Whether it is board games, computer games or education via your smartphone it gives a student more options to learning service management. Otherwise I felt innovation was lacking.
When all said and done the question is would I come back again? Most definitely. There is real substance to coming to an event like this and learning in one place from some of the industry's best.
There is a core in the ITSM community that I tap into from time to time so I can hear and read about their thoughts and opinions on what's happening out there in the world of ITSM. Going forward I will be doing so more often. Winning the ITSM Review competition enabled me to have the pleasure in meeting those acquaintances who I'm happy to say have now become friends.
Following on from my review of Day 1 of the itSMF UK Conference and Exhibition, it's time to take a look at what happened on Day 2.
As the second day started I couldn't help but look around slightly relieved that I wasn't feeling as bad as the majority of the other conference goers looked. By all accounts the wine on the table had been completely obliterated and some people (mentioning no names) didn't even managed to make it down for breakfast!
Talking of breakfast the fare at the Hyatt Regency was a decent spread and didn't taste too much like it had been standing for hours. My experience of the waiting staff was that they were efficient and courteous, something you'd think would be a given but it never ceases to amaze me how hotels can charge such an extortionate amount for breakfast and then get it so very wrong.
My first session of the day was Kevin Holland's Practical Tips for Effective Service Integration.
After threatening all the hungover attendees to stay awake or he'd do another Harmonica solo Kevin warned that System Integration is not Service Integration and that there is no need for an expensive supplier…you can do it yourself!
It took me a little while to concentrate on Amanda's session as I was mesmerized by her fantastic shiny red shoes! Getting Problem Management right is one of those elusive things that is so important and yet difficult to put into practice so I was interested to see Virgin's experiences.
Amanda ran a visual exercise to show how difficult it can be keeping all the balls in the air…literally!
She also shared Virgins mantra "Screw it…let's do it!" which appealed to the part of me that gets frustrated with the bureaucratic nonsense we've all experienced.
Amanda's bubbly enthusiasm was totally infectious and by the end of it I was ready to go back and tackle implementing Problem Management…you know… if we needed such a thing at The ITSM Review.
Over the course of the conference I had heard a few people commenting on how there wasn't a lot of mention of SM Congress and so I was pleased to find that an impromptu talk by a few of the members who attended the original sessions at Fusion were going to answer some of the questions that had been raised since.
The session was particularly useful to those who were hesitant about SM Congress, as it helped clear the air and display the facts about the initiative.
For those of you that have been on the moon for the last couple of weeks and missed all the SM Congress talk you can find out more about it here. I also recommend taking a look at #SMCongress on Twitter for general discussions about the initiative. If you have great ideas to help shape the IT community and the future of ITSM then please consider getting involved.
My final session of the day was a relatively new subject for me. Kaimar explained the methodology and benefits of DevOps and why Beer is such an important part of forging relationships, although judging by what I saw over the course of the conference any old alcohol will do!
At the end of day two I was thoroughly shattered but hugely buzzed by everything I'd learnt, and I had list as long as my arm of further reading and cool stuff to investigate.
Despite some of the comments that there was a smaller attendance than in previous years, all of the sessions that I went to were very well attended and all of the staff at ICC I encountered were welcoming and helpful.
Some of the vendors I spoke to were concerned that due to the layout there was less opportunity for delegates to pass through the exhibition area on their way from one session to the next. However vendors such as Gaming Works that invested significantly in self promotion via social media and other avenues leading up to the conference hardly saw time where their stand wasn't attended.
AlfaPeople attended itSMF UK conference to increase brand awareness and showcase Microsoft solutions as 'no one does what we do'.
All in all an enormously enjoyable event that I will not hesitate to revisit.
Great few days discussion at #ITSM13… Once again an eclectic mix of old and new faces. Thank you itSMF UK and safe travels everyone.
In closing we would just like to take the opportunity to wish Ben Clacy all the very best in his future endeavours. Thank you Ben for everything you have done for ITSM.
This was my very first visit to the itSMF UK conference. I arrived Sunday afternoon and got straight into the networking. Whenever I've been to an event before I have always attended with someone else and felt comfortable just meeting the occasional person.
It can be very intimidating attending conferences when you're new to it as everyone seems to already know everyone else. I could have just relied upon my new colleagues to introduce me but I was determined to get out of my comfort zone and do it for myself.
I sent a quick Tweet to say I had arrived and to query whether anyone else was around and within 5 minutes I had organised a meet up with Daniel Breston of Qriosity (someone I had never met before) in the bar.
That one connection led to meeting Stephen Griffiths of priSM and Brenda Peery of Tactare who in turn introduced me to countless others at the drinks reception. My advice to anyone attending an event for the first time is to be brave and get out there and meet people as soon as you can. You know you have at least one thing in common as you're all at the conference. Mingle…it knocks an already rewarding experience right over the edge when you leave having made new friends and contacts.
The Conference kicked off on Monday with Colin Rudd – itSMF UK Chairman, elucidating on why ITSM models of the future will change from Customer, Service Provider, Supplier to Service Broker, Service Integrator and that although the emphasis on service managers will change it will still be as important as ever.
Outgoing Chief Executive Ben Clacy introduced itSMF UK's exciting new online Self Assessment and Benchmarking tool, MONITOR ITSM and the new Elite Volunteer Card which rewards itSMF UK volunteers with discounts and extra benefits.
The opening keynote speaker, Britain's first female fast jet pilot – Jo Salter gave a very entertaining talk on the challenges she has met, how she has succeeded in the face of adversity and how peeing on demand is harder than it sounds. Everyone I'm sure will have taken away something from Jo's insights and experiences but I feel it was especially beneficial for the female contingent in the room to see it recognised that not all inspirational people are men!
Unfortunately I couldn't attend every session on the agenda for Day 1 (I'm only human), but below is an overview of the sessions that I did attend.
This session was full of real world learning and experience of maximising relationships with suppliers. Advice ranged from trying the 'Good Cop, Bad Cop' routine to ensuring you're measuring the right things as you want to ensure that your green KPI's match with the customers experiences of your service.
Submission of the Year and Service Management Project of the Year 2012 winners, Co-operative Group can probably add longest session title to their list of accolades.
Ian gave an interesting case study on how Co-operative changed their approach to Capacity Management using a the SatNav approach: Where are you going? Where are you starting from? When do you need to be there by?
After lunch on day one it was time for the Interactive Plenary with panel members Claire Agutter, Barclay Rae, Peter Hubbard, Robert Stroud and John Windebank as Chair.
The Big 4 agenda was discussed with questions thrown to the panel with a state-of-the-art system of red card/green card voting taking place. Technologically advanced, no…but perfectly adequate for the requirements.
#itsm13 #itsmbig4 if the London Underground are happy to say they are running a good service then why aren't we?
Chris Williams of EE (where was Kevin Bacon?), Ignatious O'Doherty of Land and Property Services and Jacqueline Simmons and Amanda Rutledge of QBE all gave overviews of their submissions for the Project of the Year award. Each showed the trials and tribulations encountered with some very honest accounts of issues encountered.
Mark and Martin walked us through the difficulties of building a single IT function when faced with a complex legacy IT environment with no capacity for innovation, and how they overcame these to create the dynamic service now in place.
Peter Hepworth and Frances Scarff of Axelos talked through their plans for the coming year referencing the Axelos 'Onion', encouraging everyone to come and visit their stand.
I admit to being surprised that I actually quite liked Edwina's hosting. I do tend to think of politicians as rather bland individuals with no sense of humour, so I was pleased that she managed to make it both enjoyable and amusing.
The highlight of the evening was when Stuart Rance won the Paul Rappaport Award for Outstanding Contribution to IT Service Management, which was very much deserved and to further his achievements he managed to get Edwina Currie to hold Pengi – The ITSM Penguin for the award picture for which I believe we owe him a prize!
A full list of the worthy winners (and finalists) can be found here. All of us here at the ITSM Review would like to congratulate both winners and finalists on their fantastic achievements. Well done to all.
The evening continued with a casino and disco which were enjoyed immensely by all, but the main attraction was the photo booth where you could look even sillier than normal by donning wigs, hats and glasses like the weird bunch in the picture>>>!
Later we were scuppered by the hotel in our attempts to have a piano sing-a-long with Barclay Rae, but we were treated instead to a harmonica solo by Kevin Holland.
The talk of the evening centered around Mr Rance's fantastic achievement, explaining to our very own Glenn Thompson that Swindon is not in the Midlands, and various conspiracy theories on why Patrick Bolger was still sober. General consensus was that aliens had abducted him and left a decoy…they're not fooling anyone!
All in all a thoroughly enjoyable day. It was nice to see the presentations grouped into specific themes (e.g. Real world learning: Stories from Members on their ITSM experiences) so that if you were attending the conference for a particular reason you could easily identify the sessions that you wanted attend. However, if there was one thing I found a struggle it was getting from one session to the next on time if I needed a loo break in between! The venue was rather large.
Awesome day at #ITSM13 – Great to speak to a lot of people.
Great first day at #itsm13 conference. Thanks for all who came to see my presentation and tweeted. Look forward to tonight's gala dinner.
Now where is Jo Salter and her adult nappy contraption?
itSMF UK recently announced it's new initiative for 2014 entitled "The Big 4 Agenda", and in this video Ben Clacy, CEO of itSMF UK provides an overview of what this new intiative is and how you can get involved.
Ben also explains the role that the itSMF UK Conference and Exhibition has to play in helping determine the four key topics that will drive itSMF UK's agenda in 2014.
Everyone is invited to get involved (regardless of whether or not you are an itSMF UK member), and you can do so by completing the Big 4 survey and/or joining in with Twitterchats on this topic.
If you have any questions about the Big 4 Agenda, how to participate, it's aims, or other then please leave your enquiries in the comments section of this article. Keep on top of the Big 4 Agenda by following the #itsmbig4 hashtag on Twitter.
Ben Clacy leaves itSMF UK on the 15th November after three years as Chief Executive.
itSMF UK have begun their search for a new CEO after it was announced that Ben Clacy is to leave the organization after the annual conference in November.
Ben first joined the non-profit organization in 2006 in a business development role and has served 3 years as Chief Executive. Ben is leaving the IT sector to lead operations at the Foundation Trust Network.
Ben's departure follows Chris Roberts leaving the organization as Member Engagement Manager in July.
Traditional 'country chapter' member organizations are still trying to find their role in the world amongst the growth of worldwide digital networks. If I want to discuss problem management, I want to discuss problem management – it doesn't have to be limited to talking to people in my country.
The new owner of ITIL, Axelos, has become an outright commercial operation and has stated it's intent to be community and discussion led with the 'Big Friendly Onion' strategy. This seems to encroach on itSMF's core purpose (However, whilst Axelos talk a good game we're yet to see them execute).
The ITSM Review team wish Ben well in his new role. We look forward to giving him a good send off at conference next month (Don't forget to check out our free conference ticket giveaway).
We've been so busy here at The ITSM Review we missed our own 2nd Birthday, Whoops!
Our very first article hit the interwebs on 3rd August 2011. Some 200 articles later, we have 24,000 visits a month (August 2013) from all over the globe.
A sincere thank you to all the readers, contributors, clients and supporters who have helped us grow.
Thank you for supporting us and sharing the stuff you like. We've grown organically through sharing and word of mouth thanks to your support.
Our first article was an interview with Ben Clacy, CEO of itSMF UK. Two years on and we're very pleased to be supporting itSMF as their headline media partner for the UK itSMF conference in November. In a moment of madness we've decided to give away a free ticket to the conference! (Click here for details).
We're proud to provide a platform for anyone in the ITSM industry to share their expertise, connect with peers and voice their opinions. We're also excited by the new ways to collaborate we're building for the near future.
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I attended the itSMF UK Tooling event on 25th January in central London.
That week in the UK was bitterly cold with lots of snow – so this event had low turnout or cancelled written all over it.
However, hats off to the itSMF UK events crew who managed to persuade around 100 ITSM folks to brave the snow and ice and discuss service management tools and technology.
"Finding the right ITSM products and implementing them correctly is a challenge for any organization, and keeping abreast of the latest software developments is becoming increasingly difficult as users have less and less time available to explore the options.
itSMF UK Chairman Colin Rudd was our opening speaker and guide for the day. Colin began by painting the big ITSM picture and discussing the 50,000ft view on what we are aiming to achieve with the practice of ITSM.
Colin's opening served as a useful orientation and allowed delegates, who had taken a day out from being at the rock face of day-to-day ITSM, to gain the right perspective.
Colin also urged us to support the itSMF UK team with their Reading Half Marathon charity run in support of long time itSMF supporter Ashley Hanna.
After Colin's introduction we heard from Cherwell, Marval, Hornbill, 2E2, BMC and Topdesk.
Simon Kent from Cherwell opened vendor presentations with a textbook example of this method in action.
He told us the leading Cherwell value points were: Ease of use, business value, service automation and innovation. He then proceeded to hammer each point home concisely by letting the technology do the talking.
This is the first Marval pitch I've seen without Don Page. Whilst Don is clearly a leading pillar of the ITSM community and someone you won't forget in a hurry, I thought it was refreshing to see a Marval presentation minus Don.
Underneath the façade of humour and expletives lies a solid ITSM company with a solid offering. The team are clearly service oriented and interested in the long-game consultative sale rather than just punting software. Good presentation from Tom West-Robinson, I look forward to seeing him present again.
The two presentations prior to Hornbill were focussed on ease of use, codeless configuration and DIY development. Prospective customers are perhaps thinking "If we swap our existing tool for something else we don't want to re-mortgage the business to pay for the configuration".
With this in mind, I felt the Hornbill proposition looked a little dated (versions aside).
Patrick's presentation was good as per usual and Hornbill's 'Make IT Happen' is a great approach but, given this is a tooling event, Patrick could have given us more to showcase the actual technology.
Martyn Birchall from 2e2 opened his pitch by stating that he 'got bored with own PowerPoint' and 'preferred to make things interactive'. What a refreshing change – an interactive session before lunch? Alas, Martyn then proceeded to plod through his PowerPoint and not allow for interaction. I won't dwell on his painful pitch since 2e2 unfortunately seem to have bitten the dust since the event.
Andrew Smith provided a live demonstration of Remedy Force which included harnessing the enterprise social platform chatter into service management work streams. Remedy Force will look very cosy and familiar for anyone working with the force.com platform. It was a good showcase and attracted the most questions and interaction throughout the day.
For a big lumbering publicly listed conglomerate the demo showed surprising innovation. I also liked the tool BMC use to help potential prospects navigate the portfolio.
Finally, last to present was Rob Goldsworth of TopDesk who stated that 'ITSM is not an IT function' and emphasized the use of their technology in HR, Facilities, CRM and so on.
Apart from a small home-goal with ITIL certification semantics Rob gave us a good tour of the compelling features within TopDesk via a live demo. In particular I liked the Kanban-style instant visualization of work in hand and resources available. Similarly the resource planner and process mapping tools look very well thought out. It was a good enough demo to whet your appetite without being too mechanical.
In short, I thought this was a good event. It was well attended, had a good mixture of exhibitors and provided a great opportunity for prospective buyers to network with peers and engage with software companies without the formality of the normal sales process.
Note: This is just my opinion, as an itSMF member of an itSMF event. If you wish to share your own opinion on this or any other event please feel free to use the ITSM Review platform.


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Q: Concatenate Multiple String Fields and Convert to Date field using ArcGIS Field Calculator? I'm Working in Model builder using the calculate value tool.  I have three columns - SignatureDay, SignatureMonth, SignatureYear - All three are string data types and all consist of just numbers for characters.  I can combine most values easily into a single field and then convert that field into a date.  My problem is that some values will not convert.
For instance:
SignatureDay   SignatureMonth    SignatureYear       Convert                SubmitDate
01                 05                 2014           20140105                1/5/2014
05                 05                 2014           20140505                5/5/2014
1                   5                 2014           201415

The code used to give me the values in the field
"Convert" = "{}{}{}".format(!SignatureYear!,!SignatureMonth!, !SignatureDay!)

for some reason the values with single digits and no zeroes in front, will not participate in the final output to a date type in the field "SubmitDate".
I've tried going through with the .replace() function but this table is dynamic and does not always have the same values.
So -
!SignatureDay!.replace('1', '01').replace('2', '02')

....etc   does not work, I would assume because all values 1-31(for every day possible) may not exist.  Also has to be a better way than repeating that 31 times.  I'm thinking there is an loop or something that could be run?
I'm a little lost on this one, my python experience is very limited as is my programming experience in general.

A: You do not need to do replace. You just need to modify the format string.
"Convert" = "{}{:02d}{:02d}".format(!SignatureYear!,!SignatureMonth!, !SignatureDay!)


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The grains are versatile and combine well with frozen, roasted or even fresh vegetables.


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