It is a great pleasure to be here in Budapest and to open this joint conference entitled "Cost and efficiency of retail payments" organised by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Let me start by thanking Governor Simor and our co-organisers from the MNB for the excellent cooperation during the preparation of this conference and for their warm welcome in Budapest.
The causes and effects of the financial crisis as well as the way ahead remain important issues for the ECB. Today, however, I would like to focus on some underlying fundamental elements of trust in the currency, namely payment services systems, and especially retail payments. This is not unrelated to the crisis, quite the contrary.
Since the introduction of the euro, the ECB has been responsible for maintaining the trust of 330 million Europeans in their currency. What is "trust in a currency"? Currencies have to be trusted to perform their three classical functions, first defined by Aristotle : namely, to be a store of value, a unit of account (or standard of value), and a medium of exchange (we would say today: means of payment). Let me address them in turn.
Trust in the euro as a store of value rests on the ECB fulfilling its primary mandate of medium-term price stability. It has done so in the past and will continue to do so. Euro area inflation has on average been very close to 2% since 1999; medium-term inflation expectations are very firmly anchored; and the ECB can be trusted to act decisively whenever risks to price stability materialise.
Let me be frank: in some places, trust in the euro as a standard of value has been undermined by (unjustified) fears of a euro break-up, also known as "redenomination risk". This risk has been compounded by interbank market fragmentation along national borders, and by the fear that, say, one euro of commercial money might not be worth the same everywhere in the euro area. Responses are now in place or taking shape: the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions will ease concerns of a euro area break-up, provided countries make the necessary adjustments; and the single supervisory mechanism should be promptly implemented to restore the singleness of euro area banks' liabilities, then complemented by a unified mechanism to wind down failed banks.
Trust in the euro as a means of payment rests on well-designed and resilient infrastructures, both at the wholesale and retail levels. I would like here to convey two messages. First, properly functioning large-value and retail payment systems are essential, and therefore public authorities and central banks have both an interest and an obligation to ensure their resilience. Second, given the social and private costs of retail payments, authorities should not only focus on the smooth functioning of payment systems but also keep a close eye on their efficiency. An increased level of harmonisation and integration in the retail payments market could be a catalyst for greater efficiency.
The development of an integrated infrastructure for large-value payments was necessary in order to create a single money market and to allow for the transmission of a common monetary policy in the euro area. This macroeconomic relevance explains why central banks are typically much more involved in large-value payment systems (LVPS) than in retail payment systems.
This is especially true for LVPS, which have had to cope with major challenges. TARGET2 and Euro1 as euro-denominated LVPS faced a sharp decrease in their activities from 2008 onwards as a direct consequence of the financial crisis. Since 2010 they have been growing again but at slower pace. The same phenomenon has been observed elsewhere – consider the Fedwire Funds (the Real-Time Gross Settlement system operated by the Federal Reserve System). In addition, the systems have had to cope with higher traffic volatility and even the default of some of their participants. The launch of TARGET2 was completed in May 2008, just before the Lehman episode. Since then it has proved to be extremely robust and has greatly helped banks to properly manage their euro liquidity in these difficult times. It continues to lead by example, with an availability of 100% in 2012. Almost 1,000 banks in Europe use TARGET2 to initiate payments on their own behalf or on their customers' behalf. Taking into account branches and subsidiaries, almost 60,000 banks worldwide (and thus all of the customers of these banks) can be reached via TARGET2. The system is settling on average around €2.4 trillion every day, with peak days over €3.5 trillion, which represents more than a third of the whole euro-area GDP settled in just one day.
But what are the reasons for this strong performance in such difficult times? The answer is that the necessary infrastructural decisions have been taken and implemented with the euro introduction and they have been steadily developed since then.
The Eurosystem is also actively pursuing more efficient and safer arrangements for the management of liquidity, collateral and securities. For example, the implementation of cross-border tri-party collateral management services within the Eurosystem's collateral framework. Today, these services are only available to a limited number of Eurosystem counterparties in a small number of countries (France, Germany, Luxembourg and, very recently, Italy). In 2014 however, the Eurosystem will go live with the support of cross-border use of tri-party collateral management services via the Correspondent Central Banking Model (CCBM), thereby making them equally available to all euro area counterparties. While tri-party services do not increase the availability of collateral as such, they allow for a considerably more efficient delivery of collateral to the Eurosystem, in turn allowing counterparties to optimise the use of their collateral assets with central banks and in the market. To enhance this process even further, the Eurosystem is also cooperating with the market to achieve interoperability between the different tri-party offerings.
Another very important initiative in this respect is TARGET2-Securities or T2S, which is a single platform for the settlement in central bank money of potentially all securities transactions in Europe. The idea of consolidating numerous systems into a single platform managed by the Eurosystem was triggered – on the cash side – by TARGET2, which brought about an upheaval in terms of banks' ability to manage their liquidity in central bank money throughout the euro area. Furthermore, TARGET2 made it even more apparent that a fragmented securities settlement landscape, such as the one we have in Europe, can give rise to serious inefficiencies and risks. As of 2015, T2S will complement the integration already in place at the payment system level, and contribute to creating a true single market for post-trade services. It will increase competition in the provision of those services and thus reduce fees for end users and investors. T2S will foster financial stability by allowing seamless cross-border as well as domestic securities settlement in central bank money across all participating markets. It will reduce the complexity and fragmentation that characterise the current infrastructure. Moreover, T2S will support the Eurosystem collateral management framework by simplifying the cross-border exchange of securities eligible as Eurosystem collateral, meeting the increasing need for high-quality collateral that we are witnessing in the market today. T2S is the proof that, in spite of the current crisis, there is still an integration momentum. We are striving to build a stronger euro area and in particular stronger euro area markets.
One final point on the subject of LVPS: given the importance of sound payment systems and market infrastructures for the effective implementation of monetary policy and financial stability, robust oversight arrangements with adequate central bank involvement are critical. We have recently seen decisive progress in this area. The April 2012 CPSS-IOSCO principles, agreed by central banks and securities regulators worldwide, have strengthened respective international requirements. Similarly, at EU level, the new European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) provides for the close involvement of central banks of issue, such as the ECB, and central bank overseers in the ongoing oversight of central counterparties (CCPs). Enhanced cooperation arrangements are also being developed in the context of the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR).
Let me now turn to retail payments.
Like the large-value payment systems, retail payment infrastructures have also worked well during the crisis. Admittedly, they have no direct major impact on the overall stability of the financial system. But they are essential for the proper functioning of a market economy and people's trust in the currency as a means of exchange. Europeans' trust in the euro can be inferred from their support of Economic and Monetary Union with the euro as the single currency: in the euro area, almost two-thirds of citizens support the single currency (63%) . Therefore, besides their function as an overseer for retail payments, central banks also need to build trust, facilitate integration and improve efficiency in this field too.
The most prominent integration example in Europe is the establishment of the "Single Euro Payments Area" – in short, SEPA . This project aims to harmonise and integrate former purely domestic retail payment markets. It is should lead to lower fees, speed up payment execution and foster competition across Europe. SEPA is one of the most far-reaching transformations in the field of European financial integration. Having started as a self-regulatory initiative by the payments industry, the final push had to be provided by the legislator. In this way, concrete end dates for full migration towards SEPA credit transfer and SEPA direct debit were defined and put forward. Currently, the euro area indicators for migration to SEPA credit transfers show that about one out of three transfers in euro are already processed in the new SEPA format. However, there are still big country-specific differences. In respect of the figures for migration to SEPA direct debits, progress is far less promising: less than two out of 100 direct debits are currently processed in the new SEPA formats. Today SEPA is a reality and as I speak, it is harmonising the way thousands of banks, hundreds of thousands of companies and tens of millions of people are processing and making their day-to-day payments.
Soon, in February 2014, all corresponding national legacy instruments for euro retail payments will be fully replaced by the two SEPA instruments in the countries of the euro area. By that time, the key foundations of SEPA will have been laid. With the successful completion of SEPA, we not only have the euro as our single currency, but we will also have one domestic market for cashless payments – extending well beyond the euro area. Throughout 32 SEPA countries , payments in euro will be as fast, safe and efficient as national payments are today.
In addition to SEPA credit transfers and direct debits, payment cards and other innovative, mobile and online payment instruments are becoming increasingly important. Therefore, further efforts, going beyond SEPA, are needed. These will require political support to create a fully integrated and competitive European market for retail payments. However, we must be careful to avoid creating a "fortress Europe" by disregarding international developments. Precisely for this reason, SEPA has been built according to international technical standards  which can be used globally – not only within Europe and not only for retail payment infrastructures but also for large-value payment systems and security settlement systems. It is encouraging to see that countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and the Americas are paying close attention to SEPA, maybe with a view to adopting it in their national context. Such harmonisation and integration initiatives beyond Europe are certainly welcome.
Let me now address the issue of SEPA governance. The SEPA Council, established in 2010 and currently under review by the European Commission and the ECB, brings together high-level representatives from the demand side (corporates, SMEs, retailers, consumers) and from the supply side (banks, payment service providers) and facilitates a dialogue on retail payments at European level.
To achieve a fully integrated European payments market, there are two distinct concepts that would need to be reflected upon when re-defining the mandate of the SEPA Council. One option would be that the SEPA Council becomes an advisory body for public authorities in the exercise of regulation. Another option, which is the preferred alternative in my view, is to accept a body that is empowered with a self-regulatory focus.
These two concepts are not mutually exclusive; one may fit best in respect of some issues, while the other may do so on other issues. Any self-regulatory nature of the SEPA Council shall be complemented by regulation and/or competition to find out the most efficient solutions to integrate the market. In any case, the notion of self-regulation versus regulation shall be seen as a dynamic phenomenon which may change over time. I admit that finding the right combination of self-regulation and regulation always represents a challenge, but the benefits of market-driven solutions for retail payments in Europe are apparent. In addition, it is important that self-regulation is guided by the search for Europe-wide solutions, thereby preventing any recourse to national and fragmented market structures.
Fragmentation of retail payment markets can lead to inefficient market structures and higher costs to participants and society as a whole. Measuring the true underlying costs of retail payments is not trivial. Some pioneering national central banks have already looked into this issue at domestic level. European cross-country comparisons are so far uncharted territory. It is only recently that the ECB has shown in a study ,  that the social costs of retail payment instruments, including cash and non-cash payments, are substantial. They amount to almost 1% of GDP in Europe. The study also makes clear that considerable differences exist within Europe. In facilitating the debate among participants in the payment chain, the ECB study seeks to provide an important tool for further benchmarking and efficiency analysis.
Another important dimension is trust in the safety of retail payment instruments. In this sense, the protection of individuals' payments data becomes more and more sensitive and important. Data breaches can have effects as devastating as environmental disasters  and undermine overall confidence and faith in a currency and retail payment instruments. Therefore, payments data have to be handled with utmost care. It should be protected from misuse, while at the same time recognising the need for open and fair competition in the payments field.
Let me also point out the issue of financial inclusion. It is interesting to note that in the EU not everybody has a bank account. For example, one-quarter of Italians and one-third of Hungarians do not have a bank account. According to the European Commission, in Romania and Bulgaria almost three-quarters of inhabitants are unbanked . Against this background, while striving for greater efficiency in retail payments, financial inclusion is another important pillar. In my view, it is essential to make sure that every European consumer can open and use a basic payment account with a set of basic payment services. Only then will people will be able to fully benefit from SEPA. As such, I fully agree with the European Commission, which has stated this objective in a recent EU Recommendation .
Talking of retail payments let me say a final word on banknotes. Even if there are different views in society about the efficiency of cash as a means of payment, both its friends and foes agree that it will be used as a means of payment in the foreseeable future. And as it is the task of the Eurosystem to protect the integrity of the euro banknotes and stay ahead of counterfeiters, the ECB has recently announced the introduction of a new series of euro banknotes, called the Europa series. They will be introduced in ascending order over several years, starting with the €5 banknote in May 2013. The new €5 banknote will include enhanced security features and has been made more durable. It will be unveiled in full on 10 January 2013.
Let me conclude by emphasising that large-value and retail payment systems play a vital role in the overall economy. We can be proud of the fact that payment systems have proven to be the rock in the troubled waters of the crisis. I do not want to imagine what would have happened if payment systems had got in trouble as well. Therefore, it is our duty to ensure the continued operational performance of payment systems, to strive for efficient cost structures while keeping a high level of security in retail payments.
This conference will for sure bring further insights, allowing us to take the right policy decisions. I look forward to a stimulating discussion, wish all of us a very successful conference and I thank you for your attention.
I wish to thank Thomas Lammer, Heiko Schmiedel and Wiebe Ruttenberg for their contributions to this speech. I remain solely responsible for the opinions contained herein.
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book V, and Politics, Book I.
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Article 127.2.
 For more information on SEPA see: www.sepa.eu.
In addition to the EU27, SEPA comprises Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, and Switzerland.
SEPA makes use of ISO standards, such as IBAN and ISO20022. ISO20022 is the standard used for T2S and plays an important role for the future developments in TARGET2.
The following 13 central banks have been actively participating in the study: Danmarks Nationalbank, Eesti Pank, Central Bank of Ireland, Bank of Greece, Banco de España, Banca d'Italia, Latvijas Banka, Magyar Nemzeti Bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, Banco de Portugal, Banca Naţională a României, Suomen Pankki and Sveriges Riksbank.
 European Commission (2012): Special Eurobarometer 373, Retail Financial Services, 2012.


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Atwell Pianist
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The boogie-woogie pianist who set up the first Black British salon
Winifred Atwell was a Trinidadian pianist, who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.
She was the first Black person to have a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and is still the only female instrumentalist to do so. She was also the first British artist to have three consecutive million-selling hits.
During the 1950s, Atwell's popularity was unprecedented, not only because she was the first Black person to have a number-one hit, but because she also set up the first Black British hair salon. This is something that was unheard of at the time and pulled the community together, during an era where Black people would often be turned away when trying to enter white owned highstreet salons.

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OUKITEL finally confirmed all the important specs for their upcoming OUKITEL K8 model.
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Vice President of Marketing, Cultural Connections Pepsi Beverages North America
Adam Harter is a 15-year veteran of PepsiCo and has held a broad range of Marketing roles across Sports, Innovation and Brand Strategy. Adam is currently the Vice President of Cultural Connections at Pepsi, which includes overseeing the Culture, Music and Media Strategy teams that manage Pepsi's network partnerships, entertainment properties including the Live Nation partnership, Grammy's and MTV Video Music Awards, and Pepsi's robust set of celebrity and music talent, including the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Adam also leads our U.S. Sports partnerships with leagues that include the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL, more than 60 professional teams, including the NY Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and NY Giants and more than 100 professional athletes.
Adam holds a Bachelor's degree from St. John Fisher College, a JD from The University at Buffalo Law School and an MBA from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
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Secretary of State for Environment, Michael Gove speaks on stage during a Waste-To-Wealth Summit at Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility on November 22, 2018 in London, England.The Prince of Wales, President and Royal Founding Patron of Business in the Community (BITC.), will attend BITC's Waste-to-Wealth Summit. BITC is convening the Waste-to-Wealth Summit at which 200 leaders from business, government, academia and civil society will come together to tackle one of the challenges of our time; to commit to work collectively to create new solutions that will increase resource productivity and reduce avoidable waste.


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Dylan Alcott posed for selfies and swilled drinks with delirious fans after creating tennis history with a fifth straight Australian Open quad wheelchair singles title.
The Melbourne native downed American David Wagner 6-4 7-6 (7-2) in a repeat of last year's final and the most recent US Open decider on Rod Laver Arena on Saturday.
Victory earned the 28-year-old a seventh grand slam title – but having the final aired live on TV meant so much to Alcott.
.@DylanAlcott: "Today was a really special day."
"I remember I was 14 years old and I was lying in bed and all I wanted to do was make it in the mainstream in some way," an emotional Alcott said.
"I wanted to show that people with disability can be elite at what they do.
"I wanted to show them that they could be normal people, get a job, work, have fun, have a partner, do all the things everyone takes for granted.
"This match was broadcast into every single TV in Australia. That meant a lot to me – and it meant a lot to the four and a half million people in Australia with a disability.
The local hero endured some nervous moments, giving up a 5-2 lead in the second set and sending down two double faults at 5-5.
But the 44-year-old Wagner, a six-time major winner, was unable to keep his momentum going in a tiebreaker dominated by Alcott.
A Paralympic gold medallist in tennis and basketballer who has earned major sponsorship deals and launched a budding media career, Alcott has arguably brought greater visibility to people with disabilities in sport than any other Australian.
In 2016, he was also the first disabled athlete to win the prestigious Newcombe Medal, the highest individual honour in Australian tennis.


Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimisation' started by dzoapps, Dec 10, 2015.
Anyone suggest me, What is best SEO strategy for Google Rank, I try so many thing for improving the website ranking.
There are several way you can get ranked on search engine. But most preferable method is using long tail keywords in your title.
Links still determine how your site will be ranked. A few quality links will get your better rankings than numerous low-quality. Whilst you are link building always aim for quality. It certainly will make a huge difference.
Still on links . . .
Make sure that all links pointing back to your site use one of your keyword phrases as anchor text. Relevant anchor text is not only good for SEO but can also drive traffic to your site.
What type of site is it? eCommerce, content site, affiliate site, etc.?
You need to create wikipedia page and try press release to get good traffic to your site.
Press Release is best. With the increase in traffic to your website, there should be a corresponding amount of conversions (sale of your product or service).
Please elaborate. About your site, your target audience.
Successful keyword research means successful SEO strategy. Those successful with SEO understand what people are searching for when discovering their business in a search engine. These are the keywords they use to drive targeted traffic to their products. Start brainstorming potential keywords, and see how the competition looks by using Google AdWords Keyword Tool. If you notice that some keywords are too competitive in your niche, go with long-tail keywords (between two and five words) which will be easier for you to rank. The longer the keyword, the less competition you will have for that phrase in the engines.
It's true, content is king. Search engines have stated that creating quality content is the best way to not only rank for keywords, but also create positive user experiences. It will also go a long way with making sure you're educating your consumer, and being an authority in your niche will leads to boosts in sales.
There are many ways to gain backlinks to your site. Just remember, if content is king, then backlinks are queen. Remember, it's not about which site has the most links, but who has the most quality links pointing back to their website. Build backlinks by submitting monthly or bi-monthly press releases on any exciting company, and contacting popular blogs in your niche to see how you can work together to get a backlink from their website. Create the best possible product site you can, so people talking about the products you sell will link back. Try creating graphics or newsworthy content that will influence bloggers and news websites to link that content.
The algorithms have truly changed since social media first emerged. Many content websites are community-oriented — Digg began allowing users to vote which stories make the front page, and YouTube factors views and user ratings into their front page rankings. Therefore, e-commerce stores must establish a strong social media presence on sites like Facebook FB -1.92%, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. These social media sites send search engines signals of influence and authority.
If you think images don't play a role, think again. When many consumers search for products in the search engines, not only are they looking at the "Web" results, but they're also looking at the "images" results. If you have quality images of that product on your site — and the files' names contain relevant keywords — these images will rank well in search engines. This avenue will drive a lot of traffic to your site, as potential customers will click on that image to find your store.
First of all on page optimization then off page optimization but organic seo technic use.
On Page and Off page seo startegies are very important to rank in the Google.
First of all, make sure your site is mobile-responsive. If it is not responsive, it's very likely you will never rank (not even 2nd page). Make sure you are optimizing your site for mobile first.
These are 5 ways I get website traffic for a variety of sites I monetize personally. After you read this I ask you to post one of your tips for increasing traffic, let's turn this thread into a pot of gold to help each other and newbies to the forum. There is so much guru BS out there so lets start some intelligent discussions we can all build on.
Start your title with a keyword.
Start your meta description with anchor keyword.
Use header tag that is h1, h2 etc.
Use external link with keyword at last paragraph. The largest tutorial site in Bangladesh.


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Q: JPA+ORACLE: Can't pass boolean param to my stored procedure I can not pass boolean param to my stored procedure in Oracle. If I set value directly in the query text (mypackage.Test(?, false, ?, ?);) all work fine...

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*jdbc-driver: ojdbc6.jar

*container: Tomcat 7.0.28

*hibernate-core+hibernate-entitymanager: 4.1.6.Final

*oracle: Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

Here my realization:
EntityManager em = defaultFactory.createEntityManager();
em.createNativeQuery("BEGIN mypackage.Test(?, ?, ?, ?); END;")//
    .setParameter(1, factId)//
    .setParameter(2, false)//
    .setParameter(3, auth.getDt())//
    .setParameter(4, auth.getName())//
.executeUpdate();

My persistance-unit:
<persistence-unit name="unit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
        <non-jta-data-source>java:/comp/env/jdbc/db</non-jta-data-source>
        <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults" value="false"/>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="validate" />
        <property name="hibernate.connection.characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
        <property name="hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults" value="false"/>
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

Logs:
2013-01-24 11:28:44,582 DEBUG JdbcTransaction (71) - disabling autocommit
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,633 TRACE QueryPlanCache (196) - Unable to locate native-sql query plan in cache; generating (BEGIN 2013-01-24 11:28:44,582 DEBUG JdbcTransaction (71) - disabling autocommit
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,633 TRACE QueryPlanCache (196) - Unable to locate native-sql query plan in cache; generating (BEGIN mypackage.Test(?, ?, ?, ?); END;)
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,644 TRACE SQLCustomQuery (85) - Starting processing of sql query [BEGIN Collection_Fact_IUD.Del(?, ?, ?, ?); END;]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,669 TRACE ConnectionProxyHandler (110) - Handling invocation of connection method [prepareStatement]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,669 DEBUG SqlStatementLogger (104) - BEGIN mypackage.Test(?, ?, ?, ?); END;
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,670 TRACE JdbcResourceRegistryImpl (65) - Registering statement [org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.proxy.PreparedStatementProxyHandler@41801d[valid=true]]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,670 TRACE BasicBinder (83) - binding parameter [1] as [BIGINT] - 68593
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,670 TRACE AbstractStatementProxyHandler (88) - Handling invocation of statement method [setLong]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,670 TRACE PreparedStatementProxyHandler (75) - Binding via setLong: [1, 68593]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,672 TRACE BasicBinder (83) - binding parameter [2] as [BIT] - false
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,673 TRACE AbstractStatementProxyHandler (88) - Handling invocation of statement method [setBoolean]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,673 TRACE PreparedStatementProxyHandler (75) - Binding via setBoolean: [2, false]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,673 TRACE BasicBinder (83) - binding parameter [3] as [TIMESTAMP] - 2013-01-24 11:28:44.631
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,673 TRACE AbstractStatementProxyHandler (88) - Handling invocation of statement method [setTimestamp]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,673 TRACE PreparedStatementProxyHandler (75) - Binding via setTimestamp: [3, 2013-01-24 11:28:44.631]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,674 TRACE BasicBinder (83) - binding parameter [4] as [VARCHAR] - unknown
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,674 TRACE AbstractStatementProxyHandler (88) - Handling invocation of statement method [setString]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,674 TRACE PreparedStatementProxyHandler (75) - Binding via setString: [4, unknown]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,675 TRACE AbstractStatementProxyHandler (88) - Handling invocation of statement method [executeUpdate]
 2013-01-24 11:28:44,691 DEBUG SqlExceptionHelper (139) - ORA-06550: Строка 1, столбец 7:
PLS-00306: ошибочно число или типы аргументов при обращении к 'Test'
ORA-06550: Строка 1, столбец 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
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 java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06550: Строка 1, столбец 7:
PLS-00306: ошибочно число или типы аргументов при обращении к 'Test'
ORA-06550: Строка 1, столбец 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored

    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:445)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:396)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:879)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:450)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:192)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:531)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:207)
    at ...

What is wrong with my realization?
Thanks!

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Q: FileMaker SQL queries via ODBC Table doesn't return a result I have this seriously strange issue. I have 4 tables in a FileMaker 12 file: Issues, Articles, FMBM, Ads. I have 2 methods in my results class, one writes a series of serial IDs to each of these tables, the other queries those tables. The method that writes the serial ID's works perfectly. The method that queries the tables works for 3 of the 4 tables (Articles, FMBM, Ads) but returns no result set for Issues.
I have checked permissions, but as this is the admin user, it has full access to all and there are no table specific or layout specific restrictions (again, it's the admin). Oddly enough, I thought maybe it's the query, but when I run "SELECT * FROM Issues" in my ODBC Query Tool, it returns the appropriate results. It's just baffling to me that the setKeys() method works perfectly but the view method ONLY fails on Issues.
The Model:

class Application_Model_Results {

    public $keys;
    public $odbc;
    public $comp = array('Issues', 'Articles', 'Ads', 'FMBM');
    public $existing = array();

    function setKeys() {
        $this->odbc = 'Migrator';
        $obj = new Application_Model_Utilities();
        $obj->name = $this->odbc;
        $config = $obj->getElements();
        $conn = odbc_connect($this->odbc, $config['user'], $config['password']);
        if (!$conn) {
            exit("Connection failed: -> " . $this->odbc);
        }
        foreach ($this->comp as $c) {
            $sql = "SELECT Serial_ID FROM " . $c;
            $rs = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
            if (!$rs) {
                exit("Error in SQL");
            }
            while (odbc_fetch_row($rs)) {
                $this->existing[] = odbc_result($rs, 'Serial_ID');
            }
            if (in_array(true, $this->keys[$c])) {
                foreach ($this->keys[$c] as $v) {
                    if (!in_array($v, $this->existing)) {
                        $iSql = "INSERT INTO " . $c . "(Serial_ID) VALUES('$v')";
                        odbc_exec($conn, $iSql);
                        $obj->output = 'Inserted Serial_ID: ' . $v . ' into table ' . $c;
                        $obj->logger();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public function getResults($table) {
        $this->odbc = 'Migrator';
        $obj = new Application_Model_Utilities();
        $obj->name = $this->odbc;
        $config = $obj->getElements();
        $conn = odbc_connect($this->odbc, $config['user'], $config['password']);
        if (!$conn) {
            exit("Connection failed: -> " . $this->odbc);
        }
        $sql = "SELECT * FROM " . $table;
        $rs = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
        while (odbc_fetch_row($rs)) {
            $results[odbc_result($rs, 'Serial_ID')] = odbc_fetch_array($rs);
        }
        return $results;
    }

}

The Controller:
public function viewAction()
    {
        $results = new Application_Model_Results();
        $result = $results->getResults('Issues');
        $page = $this->_getParam('page', 1);
        $paginator = Zend_Paginator::factory($result);
        $paginator->setItemCountPerPage(1);
        $paginator->setCurrentPageNumber($page);
        $this->view->paginator = $paginator;
    }

Note: If scrap the view code, and just write:
<?php

$conn = odbc_connect('Migrator', 'admin', '********');
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Issues";
$rs = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
while(odbc_fetch_row($rs)){
    print_r(odbc_result_all($rs));
}

I get no rows returned.
EDIT:
Culprit has been found:
while (odbc_fetch_row($rs)) {
    $results[odbc_result($rs, 'Serial_ID')] = odbc_fetch_array($rs);
}

Now, I am working on a solution that grabs each result row and pushes it to an associative array, the problem is, on the view, I need to dump everything, not have to use odbc_result($rs, ) for every single field.

A: Finally, my nightmare is over:
public function getResults($table) {
        $obj = new Application_Model_Utilities();
        $obj->name = $this->odbc;
        $config = $obj->getElements();
        $conn = odbc_connect($this->odbc, $config['user'], $config['password']);
        if (!$conn) {
            exit("Connection failed: -> " . $this->odbc);
        }
        $sql = "SELECT * FROM " . $table;
        $obj->output = 'Running query: ' . $sql;
        $obj->logger();
        $rs = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
        $obj->output = 'Results found: ' . odbc_num_rows($rs);
        $obj->logger();
        $results = array();
        $i = 1;
        while(odbc_fetch_row($rs)){
            $results[] = odbc_fetch_array($rs, $i);
            $i++;
        }

        return $results;
    }

This returns an associative array that I can actually loop through.
NOTE: in this instance, any use of odbc_fetch_array, odbc_fetch_object, odbc_fetch_into, unless I forced the odbc_fetch_array to have a row value, would only reutrn every other result, not all results and then would die on the view unless I specifically called for a field value, and even then, the same value persisted across all paginated records.


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The devil's playground
Robert Wilonsky March 9, 2000 4:00AM
Roman Polanski begins this interview by asking the questions -- about last names, countries of origin, family members murdered by the Nazis. After all, as much as any landmark film (Chinatown or Rosemary's Baby) or connection to tragedy (the 1969 murder of his wife Sharon Tate by members of Charles Manson's "family") or notorious escapade (his 1977 conviction for raping a 13-year-old girl), Polanski's story is that of loss, terror, and escape. He fled the Nazis, spent his childhood on the run, and lost his own mother to the gas chambers. He likes to hear other Jews tell their stories, perhaps because he wants to relate somehow or perhaps because he just wants to share. It's the subject closest to his own heart, a wound still painfully fresh.
Indeed, though his latest film, the laconic demonic thriller The Ninth Gate, arrives in theaters this week, Polanski would almost rather talk about his next film, which he has yet to shoot or write. If all goes as planned, it will be an adaptation of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiography The Pianist, about life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Szpilman, whose book was published in the United States last September, was a pianist for Polish radio before World War II, and when the Germans invaded, he was herded into the Warsaw Ghetto. His mother tried to maintain some semblance of normality amidst the chaos and death, which only made things worse for the young Wladyslaw; the "normal" became only more aberrant. Later, he would be loaded into a train with his family, headed for certain death -- only to be released before reaching his final destination. He would survive the war, but only with the help of a German soldier who cared for him when it became obvious the Nazis were doomed.
That Polanski would be drawn to such material is inevitable. After all, it bears such a resemblance to his own life: The Pianist is like the shadow that has tailed Polanski since he was child in Krakow, enduring German occupation. His 1984 autobiography Roman contains familiar echoes of Szpilman's book: Polanski writes of a mother who kept the family's apartment "spick-and-span," a village that smelled of bustling markets and fresh loaves of bread, a loving father who "often hurt my feelings in little ways." Polanski would live behind the brick and barbed wire of Krakow until March 13, 1943, when the ghetto was liquidated and his father, who would survive the war, was marched off to the camps. His mother had gone earlier, never to return: She was gassed only days after being led from Krakow. Until the end of the war, little Roman lived with various families in the countryside of Poland, though it was far from an idyllic existence.
"This is a film I always wanted to make," the 66-year-old Polanski says of The Pianist. "But I was waiting for the right time, and I think I got the right book. I thought, 'This is it.' I know the guy. He's still alive. He's 87. And he's a great pianist, and the element of music in it is superb, don't you think so? And I always wanted to do this, but I was not ready for it yet. First of all, it seems the right atmosphere for doing this, in view of what's happening in Europe and other places. I was too close to it. I need a certain...What do you call it?...maturity to do it."
Polanski has had his chances to make his Holocaust movie: Steven Spielberg approached him about doing Schindler's List, but Polanski passed. He was not yet ready -- and, more to the point, the film bore too painful a resemblance to his own story. It was set in the Krakow Ghetto, and the notion of walking amongst those ruins did not sit well with the writer-director.
"It was too close to what I went through," he says, an audible shrug slipping through his lilting accent. "I must say, I was avoiding the subject most of my life. I wrote about it in my book, because my book recounts my life, so I was very happy to get it all out. But I didn't dwell on it, and most people I know who went through it try to sweep it under the carpet. Szpilman himself wrote the book right after the war, but then he did not talk about it, even with his son."
And so the conversation goes for a little while, until Polanski decides it would be wise to talk about The Pianist when it's released. The Ninth Gate, his new baby, needs all the help the writer-director can muster, especially since he must promote it from Paris, where he has been on the lam from the rape conviction since 1977. He would love to come to the States and make the talk-show rounds, but there will be no such promotional tour. Such is the fate of a man forever on the run.
The Ninth Gate is only Polanski's seventh film since 1973's Chinatown; he works at a dead man's pace, which is perhaps appropriate, since he is a corpse as far as most in Hollywood are concerned. His résumé since Chinatown is sparse and inconsistent: Save for 1979's elegiac Tess and 1994's desolate adaptation of Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden, he has produced little of note. Frantic, released in 1988, was the sort of Hitchcockian thriller even Brian De Palma has grown tired of making, and 1986's Pirates, a spoof starring Walter Matthau, is one step above Yellowbeard on the har-de-har-arrrgh food chain. Yet the pickings have been slim for Polanski: His distance from Hollywood has limited his choices, often to nothing at all. Over the past two decades, he has acted in nearly as many films (all European productions with little or no U.S. release) as he has directed.
The Ninth Gate, adapted from the Spanish novel El Club Dumas, hardly feels as though a "great director" made it. It plays like a tossed-off parody, one long punch line to a joke that began with the director's own The Fearless Vampire Killers in 1967 and Rosemary's Baby a year later. It's the anti-End of Days, a languorous thriller about rare-book merchant Dean Corso (Johnny Depp, still in high Ichabod Crane mode) sent by sinister publisher Boris Balkan (played with deadpan glee by Frank Langella, whose PIN number for everything is "666") to track down the two remaining copies of a book containing illustrations allegedly drawn by the devil himself. Eventually, we're led to believe, these drawings will summon Lucifer, who will then welcome the keeper of these drawings into the Ninth Gate -- where, of course, immortality awaits.
But the payoff never arrives, at least not the one we've been led to expect (by this film and so many others like it). There are no garish special effects, no grand revelations unveiled from behind the curtain. There is no cathartic release, only a shrug of an ending -- Polanski's gag, delivered with a nod and a wink. (This is a movie in which Depp refers to an attractive woman as "dishy.") Artisan, which is distributing the picture, might well be offering up The Ninth Gate as a supernatural thriller (its trailer makes it look like Stigmata), but it's simply a droll comedy hiding behind a devil's mask.
"How can you take this theme seriously?" Polanski wonders. "I really don't understand it. How can an adult, an intelligent person, believe in the devil? And you have to believe in the devil in order to make a serious film about it. I remember, when I was doing Rosemary's Baby, the only trouble with the subject was that at the end of the day, she gives birth to the devil's offspring, and I tried to make the film in such a way that it could be interpreted two ways. You can just assume it's all her imagination."
In The Ninth Gate, people aren't just murdered -- they're found with their tongues dangling from their mouths, their eyes bulging out, their electric wheelchairs bumping endlessly against walls. Such moments are hysterical, which is just as Polanski intended it, even though reviewers in Europe -- where the film opened last year -- seem to miss the point. One French review deemed the film a disappointment because it wasn't "scary at all."
"I realized, to my surprise and horror, that Kafka is not perceived as a writer with a sense of humor outside of Poland and Czechoslovakia," he says. "I remember reading Kafka, and I saw a lot of comedy elements in it, but in France, about eight years ago, I acted in Metamorphosis, and I realized the French don't see any humor in it. And with The Ninth Gate, when we were writing the script, we had so much fun, and we were laughing at so many lines and situations. Then I realized that not everybody gets that." Polanski chuckles. "I think youngsters see more humor in the film than adults. You can't take horror movies seriously."
Not so long ago, Polanski's friends insisted he was desperate to return to Hollywood -- desperate to become part of the system he was forced to abandon and to work on a regular basis. Now, he insists that is not true, that his difficulty in getting films made has only "a little bit" to do with his distance from the machinery. Polanski insists that he simply hasn't found projects he would like to make, and that when he does, the money is not there. He longs for the good old days, before films were made by committees instead of men like Robert Evans, the producer who nearly willed Chinatown into existence.
"In years before, I remember not only myself but all my colleagues shooting a film a year," he says. "Now, if someone makes a film every three years, he considers himself lucky. And it's frustrating. Also, with time, you hesitate more. You think about what kind of battle it represents, how much it involves. Before you plunge, you think twice. The system has changed drastically, I must say. And I don't know if I fit in. It's more of a struggle to get a more ambitious or exciting project together."
In his book, Polanski wrote with the tone of a man at his end, an artist so exhausted and beleaguered, he seemed to be disappearing on the final pages. And, yes, one could sense his self-pity, his cry to be understood and perhaps even forgiven (though for nothing he did, of course). But his was a rather tangible pain, and nowhere was it more evident than when he wrote, "I seem to be toiling to no discernable purpose."
Sixteen years later, he is asked how he overcame that. After all, a man who believes his work has no meaning would not work at all.
"I simply don't think about it," he says. Then he pauses for a moment and emits a slight, sad laugh. "It's the way it is. It's c'est la vie, as they say."
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Ciara And Nicki Minaj "I'm Out" (Video)
Kelson @urbaninformer
Kelson is definitely knocking at your door and is determined to be the next best personality in radio, television, big screen or wherever his career opportunities take him. Perseverance, determination, a strong will and a never settling for anything but the best attitude are just a few attributes that Kelson is equipped with to climb his way to the top. Entering the radio game at the age of 19 he's already made a tremendous mark on his peers, co-workers and his surrounding neighborhood. With friends and family already dabbling in the entertainment business it was only a year after entering the doors of the University of Maryland that he exited in search of his true dream… to entertain. During a transition of switching colleges, Kelson landed the opportunity that would jump off a lifetime of endless career objectives. ... In 2005, Kelson received his B.S. in Electronic Media & Film with a concentration in Radio from Towson University. His experience in radio, warm, welcome, outgoing, competitive, friendly, sarcastic personality, and teachings have helped shaped Kelson's success and the degree has help solidify it. In 2007 and 2008 he was promoted to interim Music Director/Program Director Assistant for 92Q Jams. A year later he was officially crowned Music Director title. Having an on-air shift and assisting the programming department of the number 1 station in Baltimore may be considered a lot however it is do-able. Over the years, Kelson went on to do radio in Washington D.C. (WKYS-FM) and hosting the hottest Saturday night clubs, before transitioning to Cincinnati to host Afternoons and get his first stripes as a Program Director of 101.1 The Wiz (WIZF-FM). In 2016, Kelson returned back home to host the #1 Afternoon show, Kels In the Afternoon, for two years while overseeing the cluster of stations owned by Urban One Inc in Baltimore. In 2020, Kelson proudest accomplishment is being the father of his daughter, Blake. When Kelson isn't being a daddy, doing radio, he is being a Chef. "I love cooking for people and them tasting my flavorful food." He's launched his own cooking channel, Cookn With Kels, and hosting Zoom cooking class. For those who like to sit back and watch as others progress don't blink because you may miss Kelson as he excels to the top. His motto "MAKE YA HATERZ YA MOTIVATERZ." @urbaninformer
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A niche has a direct impact on how successful your blog will be. Also, how much effort you will have to put into it in order for it to gain momentum. Furthermore, the type of niche you choose is directly related to profits you can make in future based on opportunities it avail.
This said, before you can even think of blogging, you must have a unique selling point. In other words, focus on solving a problem; let your blog answer what and how questions. Of course, see to it that you choose a niche you're interested in or are quite knowledgeable. In this way, you stand a good chance of becoming a successful blogger.
How to choose a niche for your blog?
Unwavering focus – it is impossible to run a successful blog when you are not focused doing things the right way. However, if you love what you are doing, then definitely you will always remain focused. Importantly, you will not abandon your blog in the long run.
Consistently have ideas with something you like or are quite knowledgeable about. You will always have ideas on how to go around every process.
You easily develop a unique style that can be compared to no other blogger in your niche. As such, there is a high probability of having better readership and an audience that will stick with you for pretty a long time.
There is nothing so important in choosing a niche based on passion, and one that you can closely relate with at any time. It is easy to know about your passion; just consider your hobbies and what you do most of your free time. You can as well consider the classes you enjoyed over the years you were in school and college. Your passion also explicitly shows whenever in what you like reading and talking about. If you analyze these things, then definitely you will have an idea on which direction to go. In fact, it becomes easier to choose specific line in any industry you want to blog about. Passion is one thing that is behind the success of many bloggers who are making six figures in a year.
It is imperative for you to know that finding a niche can be easy, but finding a hole in the niche you choose can be a daunting task. As a matter of fact, no matter what niche you choose to blog, there are literally million of blogs. The success of some might even scare you from beginning your blog, but this shouldn't be the case. You are advised to take some time and do research in order to get the hole in the niche and capitalize on it. In a nut shell, you will have found a problem and you will be able to offer solutions that will work.
The thing here is to consider how many people in your previous networks will be able to be pulled in your new venture. In most cases, most to-be bloggers often overlook this issues and end up regretting in future. Overall, this is a factor that is quite pivotal when it comes to launching a new blog that has potential of attracting a large audience. Therefore, before you can start blogging and choose any niche, it is highly recommended to consider previous networks as marketing strategy.
It is important to choose a niche that is directly related to your interest and passion, but without money you might stop blogging altogether. If your blog is popular, then your blog will generate some income. This means that it should be able to cover bills - hosting charges, network provider fees, etc. It's true that some niche are popular than others but do not choose those that you can't even make some few dollars over time. If you are choosing a niche to blog about, always have in mind a rough estimate in what you think will solve the problem in the long run.
There are a number of things that readers focus on when it comes to reading blogs. In most cases, they want a certain problem solved and this might be an urgent need. However, some want to be entertained, reach a defined goal in life, or learn something new and get rid of fear. Therefore, while choosing a niche, try to pinpoint the desires of your target audience before you can start blogging. Overall, ensure that you get the best possible results from the word in order to reach your goals.
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Batchelder products are made from California clay. Ernest Batchelder established a tile studio in Pasadena, California, in 1909. He went into partnership with Frederick Brown in 1912 and the company became Batchelder and Brown. In 1920 he built a larger factory with a new partner. The Batchelder-Wilson Company made all types of architectural tiles, garden pots, and bookends. Early Bacthelder tiles were incised and modeled with vines, flowers, birds, or Mayan designs. The plant closed in 1932. In 1936 Batchelder opened Batchelder Ceramics, also in Pasadena, and made bowls, vases, and earthenware pots. He retired in 1951 and died in 1957. Pieces are marked Batchelder Pasadena or Batchelder Los Angeles.


Guy Faux (band consisting of STLQ and King Vo) release the mixtape Ascension.
The tale of two brothers navigating their way through life in the Memphis,TN is something to admire. Stream the extremely wavy project below and as always, stay young.


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Carly Fiorina: On Leadership and Ethics
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina delivers the inaugural Peter S. Hagerman '61 Lecture in Ethics. Photo: Christa Neu
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina had stories to tell Tuesday night—about people overlooked and underestimated, and who rose up to new challenges—as she delivered Lehigh's inaugural Peter S. Hagerman '61 Lecture in Ethics.
"What I've learned over and over and over again," she told the audience in Baker Hall on March 27, "is that everybody has more potential than they realize and that most of us, all of us probably, need somebody to take a chance on us. Most of us, all of us, need somebody at some point to say, 'I see possibilities in you,' to give us a helping hand, to give us a chance, maybe a second chance, maybe a third chance. But all of us have more potential than we realize."
In a 90-minute forum that ended with a standing ovation, Fiorina talked about character, ethics and leadership, about lessons she's learned in her business and political careers, about her professional climb from agency temp to first female chief executive of a major technology company to her presidential run. She talked too about the nation's founding ideals.
"What the Constitution says is that the individual is sovereign," she said. "That was a radical idea. Not a king, not a government, not a president, not a Congress. The individual is sovereign. My way of saying it is that everybody has more potential than they realize. The Constitution's way of saying it [is], everyone has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
A core ideal, she said, is that people should not be defined by their circumstances, appearance or parentage. "We're defined by what's inside and what we do with it," she said. "We are defined by our contribution."
Fiorina's address on "Why Ethics and Respect Matter" helped launch Lehigh's new Center for Ethics, an interdisciplinary endeavor housed in the College of Arts and Sciences and under the direction of Robin S. Dillon, the William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh.
"Ethics as a dimension of any Lehigh education has become ever more pronounced as society faces crises in the important spheres of life, where Lehigh expects its graduates to work and assume leadership roles," said Dean Donald E. Hall, who introduced Fiorina.
"Our center seeks to address the need to develop educated citizens, both aware of moral complexity and committed to advancing the common good, individuals who have learned to assess information and attend to sound ethical values in achieving understanding, who are civic-minded and capable of civil discourse even when value conflicts arise and whose personal code of values and ethics emphasize a need to accept responsibility for themselves as well as for the well-being of their various communities."
Hall said Fiorina, as a tested corporate and community leader with decades of experience, was the perfect fit for the opening lecture.
Fiorina began her talk by telling her life story: that she grew up shy and eager to please, that she studied medieval history as an undergraduate, that she went on to law school but quit because she didn't like it. After that, she took a job as a secretary in a nine-person real estate office, and after six months, she was approached by two men in the office who said they saw potential in her and offered her more responsibilities.
"I'm not quite sure how my life would have gone if those two men didn't see possibilities in me," she told the audience. "But it is a lesson I have remembered all my life. Because they saw possibilities in me, I saw possibilities in myself."
Fiorina said she met other people throughout her career who, when given opportunity and recognized for their potential, went on to excel at their jobs. In addition, she said, she learned that people impacted by a problem can figure out how to solve it, that concentrated power in a bureaucracy can lead to abuses and that problems won't get solved unless someone is willing to challenge the status quo.
"Someone has to be willing to say, 'I don't accept the way things are,'" said Fiorina. And that's where leadership figures in, she said. "Leadership is not about position or title. Leadership is about solving problems…. A leader has to challenge the status quo in order to solve problems."
Inevitably, criticism will follow, she said, which means that leadership also requires courage and character. "It requires knowing, 'what do I think is right or wrong?'...Not everybody is going to agree on those things, but you have to know the difference between a popularity contest and actually making progress. You have to know the difference between reaching out to an individual because they have quality and potential and something to contribute, versus reaching out to [individuals] because they're popular or wealthy or whatever makes them a success in the status quo."
Also, she said, it takes character to understand that how things get done is as important as what gets done. "When you speak disrespectfully to other people, you don't achieve as much," she said. "You don't pull a team together."
Fiorina also spoke about humility and empathy, which she said are important in collaboration.
"You can act by yourself all the time, but you're not going to get much done. You need to collaborate with others. And in particular most of the time you need to collaborate with people who are different than you because we are surrounded by people different than us."
Fiorina said every era and culture recognizes a difference between right and wrong. While that may be defined differently, she said, people always conclude that what's right and wrong is not necessarily defined by popular culture.
"It's a matter of conscience, not what the popular culture says at the time. ... So often the people who are celebrated as ethical and good people after the fact were criticized mightily in their times," she said. "Interesting, isn't it, that you can't necessarily look out to the headlines of the moment to figure out the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, that you have to look inside and think deeply about what you believe."
In a question-and-answer segment that followed, Fiorina was asked whether she was considering a Republican presidential primary challenge. While she did not rule it out, she said she has no current plan to do so.
Fiorina also was asked about the political vitriol that is polarizing the country. What's important, she said, is not to be infected by the contagion but "to sit down and have civil conversations among ourselves, even if we disagree on some things, to sit in our communities and talk about how to make it better, to sit [with] our families and talk about how to make it better.
"I'm not saying not to be an engaged citizen and not to vote, not at all….But don't allow the way politicians talk to become the way we talk. Because remember in this country, although it doesn't always feel like it...citizens are sovereign."
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OCR settles 1st HIPAA Right of Access case with Bayfront
Mackenzie Garrity - Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 Print	| Email
The Office for Civil Rights issued its first settlement Sept. 9 for its Right of Access Initiative, a rule which requires hospitals to provide patients with copies of their medical records promptly and without being overcharged.
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg (Fla.) agreed to pay $85,000 for violating the Right of Access rule. The OCR began investigating an incident at the hospital after a mother complained that she was unable to gain access to her unborn child's records.
After more than nine months from her first request, the mother received copies of the child's medical records.
The new HIPAA rule requires healthcare providers to release medical records to patients within 30 days of the request. Additionally, providers must only charge a reasonable cost-based fee.
Along with paying the settlement, Bayfront will undergo a corrective action plan, which includes one year of monitoring by the OCR.
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