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Meet Our Team / Leadership
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Victoria Hitzler
Kevin Kirkland
Wayne Kocher
Charles Otterbeck
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Derek Schnack
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Under Jims' leadership, OnePoint Patient Care has expanded to ten locations, including the original hospice pharmacy he acquired in Tempe, AZ, in 2005. The company has experienced 200% growth in revenue while delivering over 20% compound annual growth of EBIDTA for 11 consecutive years and captured approximately a 10% share of the hospice specialty care pharmacy market and growing.
Jim previously worked at IBM and AT&T, and served as managing partner of Gemini Consulting's technology practice in Europe before founding his private equity firm, The VenCom Group. During his tenure at VenCom, Jim founded nine technology companies and returned more than 300% to investors. Following the sale of its largest holding, OnePoint Communications, to Verizon, he served as senior vice president – broadband at Verizon.
Jim earned an MBA in economics and marketing from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BBA in decision sciences from the University of Iowa.
Named CEO in 2013, Jeff oversees all of the company's sales, services and technology. He previously served as OnePoint Patient Care's president and COO for eight years, with responsibility for market and operational expansion from a single local pharmacy dispensing location to a nationwide provider of hospice PBM and pharmacy services.
Jeff has 30 years of new business growth experience including business and new product development, operations, marketing, distribution channel management and product/technology licensing. He previously held several leadership roles at The VenCom Group and The MAC Group/Gemini technology and telecommunications practice.
He received his BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd College and a BA in management/economics from Claremont McKenna College.
National Recruiting Manager
Victoria is responsible for recruiting and screening corporate and pharmacy team members, as well as managing employee relations, for OnePoint Patient Care.
After graduating from Arizona State University in 2010 with a BS in kinesiology, Victoria held various positions in sales and management. In her role as a retail operations manager, she oversaw employee recruiting, hiring, and training for multiple locations across the Phoenix area.
President, Eastern Division
Kevin is responsible for operational management, business development and customer satisfaction for the Eastern Division. He has more than 20 years of international sales and marketing experience, including serving in leadership roles for Foxcom, a global manufacturer and distributor of satellite transmission equipment; Verizon Avenue, a division of Verizon Communications; and other telecommunications firms.
He earned a BA in communications from Elon University.
Business Development Director, Western Division
Wayne is responsible for the Western Division's business development. In this role he establishes new hospice partnerships as well as represents OnePoint Patient Care at various state and national conferences. He has been with the company for more than 10 years.
A nationally certified pharmacy technician, Wayne has more than 15 years of experience in the pharmacy industry. He has held a wide array of positions relating to running and maintaining a pharmacy, having worked in various settings ranging from independent retail to hospital.
Wayne earned his BS in marketing from Arizona State University.
Charlie's responsibilities include safeguarding and promoting the OnePoint Patient Care brand throughout all media channels, representing OnePoint at national and state conferences, coordinating articles and press releases, and devising and executing marketing strategies. He has numerous years of experience in digital media and marketing, including with the Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat and National Basketball Association.
Charlie began his career in the health care industry as a OnePoint Customer Care Specialist, which gave him the opportunity to witness firsthand the comfort hospice provides so many individuals and families.
Charlie earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science in Communication degree from Northwestern University.
Jason Polonus is responsible for all OPPC technology services including infrastructure, application development, integration services and platforms used internally as well as by customers and care providers. Jason previously served as OnePoint Patient Care's Vice President of Application Services. During that time, he oversaw all application development (mobile and web), database development, integration services and support of internal/external applications.
Jason began his information technology career in 2000 and has spent more than half of it focused on the healthcare industry. His varied roles have included software development, business intelligence, data warehousing, mobile development and project management.
He received his Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in information technology from DeVry University in Arizona.
President, Western Division
Michael is responsible for the Western Division's operational management, business development and customer satisfaction. He previously served as the company's senior vice president of the Midwest region. In that role, he oversaw the region's pharmacy and logistics operations as well as business development. Prior to that, he was president of OnePoint Patient Care's Nevada market.
He is a member of the Arizona Hospice and Palliative Care Organization regulatory committee and the advisory board for the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) Pharmacy Technician program. Michael earned his BA in management and finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Derek's responsibilities include financial reporting, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions and human resources. He has 13 years of banking and management consulting experience. Prior to joining OnePoint Patient Care, he was involved in numerous public and private financings as a vice president in the corporate investment banking division of BNP Paribas, and as an investment banking associate at TD Securities USA. Derek also worked at US Bancorp and Gemini Consulting.
He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and a BBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Vice President of Clinical Services
Joseph Solien, PharmD, BCPP, BCGP is responsible for OnePoint Patient Care's national clinical services programs, including staff and partner education, formulary design and development, and medication utilization reviews. He is the primary author of the OnePoint Patient Care Clinical Symptom Guide, currently in its 2nd edition.
He began working for OnePoint as a pharmacy student intern in 2004 and became a staff pharmacist after graduation. In 2010, he was promoted to clinical pharmacist and has continued to serve on the clinical team in a number of roles since then.
Joseph earned a PharmD from Midwestern University – Glendale and is board certified in both psychiatric and geriatric pharmacy. He earned a BS in biochemistry and molecular biology and a BA in chemistry from the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
Vice President and General Counsel
Pete is responsible for entity compliance and maintenance, document preparation and contracts, mergers and acquisitions. He also has responsibility for regulatory compliance for pharmacy dispensing and operations, as well as licensing.
He previously served as general counsel at The VenCom Group and was a partner in the law firm of Speranza & Bates in Lake Forest, IL, where his practice focused on small and mid-sized businesses. Before entering private practice, Pete was an assistant state's attorney in Lake County, IL.
He earned his JD from DePaul University School of Law and a BA from St. John's University in Minnesota.
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This blog is all about making IT more user friendly by looking at ITIL, Service Management and everything else to make IT better. Please leave comments and tell me what you think, this is also an opportunity for me, to write down my ideas and get feedback from everyone to help me understand the subject better.... When you understand something better, you are able to represent it better. You can put yourself in a place where you are no longer a spectator of that subject, but part of the game with it.
The quickest way to learn the foundations of a new subject is to talk with someone experienced in the field. In this case, your clients (hopefully). Explain that you are not very well versed in their field, and it would be beneficial to them if they could help you learn, since they would get a better product, faster.... 23/06/2012 · An English Lit student's best friends (besides the textbooks of course) are online study guides. Websites like Sparknotes, Cliffsnotes, Jiffynotes (just to name a few) were specifically made to help students understand school subjects better.
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The Fault Around Gaia And Camilla
Media outlets seem highly focused on the car accident in Rome where the son of a famous director hit two young girls as they were crossing the road. But the dynamics are still unclear.
Asia Guerreschi·
Media outlets seem highly focused on a specific car accident, but the dynamics are still unclear
Just over midnight in Rome during the night of December 22, Gaia Von Freymann and Camilla Romagnoli — both 16-years-old — passed away after being hit by a car driven by Pietro Genovese (20), while they were crossing the large road of Corso Francia. Considering that the number of pedestrians' death caused by cars is decreasing in Rome, they were not the only victims of this sort of incident. Why so much media attention, then?
Did this news explode because the young boy is the son of a famous director? If so, then it surely does question the way media selects news. This article is to reflect on this happening and as a media source ourselves, I wish to reflect the importance that regardless of the media attention — unreasonably exploded in this case — this news highlights the need to find who's at fault, rather than focusing instead on the details of what actually happened.
The media likes to blabber, rather than sustain a debate. So this time, let's debate.
The car accident: jaywalking or not jaywalking?
The incident happened in a wide road split in two by a median, with cars on each side heading in opposite directions. The two girls are said have crossed the road when they were hit by the young driver, Pietro, who was under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The dynamics are unclear; so are the witnesses' statements. It is still not understood if the girls jaywalked or not.
A witness declared that it could have been avoided and the young driver was tested positive to drugs and alcohol. He had also previously been reported for drug use.
Currently under home arrest, Pietro risks 8 years in prison. Such a strong sentence is said to be determined by the fact that he is a young driver who at the time of the event was under the influence of alcohol. The Court has now requested a professional examination of how the dynamics may have carried out to determine "the fault." Was it the driver's irresponsibility or did the girls jaywalk?
Misplaced
What confuses everyone is the fact that the girls body were found quite a few meters ahead of where the light stop is. The girls seem to have passed under a ramp and onto the street. A friend of the girls testified that, "…even I cross the street this way [jaywalking], I'm risking my life."
YouTube, Corriere della Sera.
The image above reconstructs what seems to have happened. The crosswalk discussed is located at 2 and the bodies were found at 3. Location 1 is where the girls seem to have ossed. Their lawyers support the theory that the girls crossed at the crosswalk (location 2), meanwhile Pietro insists that he was driving at a regular speed and did not see the girls.
Locations 2 and 3 are on the side of the road that heads south, while cars on the other side head north. Hence, the girls were coming from the right side (in reference to the above image) with the cars coming from the girls' left side.
Did Pietro hit them at location 2 or 3? How did the bodies get from location 2 to 3 if Pietro hit them at the crosswalk?
Two witnesses have yet to be heard: Pietro's friend who was sitting in the passenger's seat and another driver who supposedly let the girls cross the road at 3 in front of the car which stayed to the right, next to Pietro who was on the left side of the road. In simple words, he supposedly passed the light (he states it was green at location 2) staying in the left lane, while another car was on the right who let girls go by, while Pietro to the left hit the girls at location 3. The girls' lawyers insists the girls, however, were at the crosswalk on location 2.
Blaming the light stop
A media outlet questions: could have things gone differently if the crosswalk light had turned yellow instead of turning red immediately? The two girls' families' lawyers declared, "…an anomaly" in the crosswalk light: it does not turn yellow; it will only flash during the last three seconds it is green before turning red immediately. In fact, they also stated that, "…the responsibilities have been searched even among other subjects."
According to the Romagnoli family's lawyer, Cesare Piraino, "On December 22, the two students [the young girls] began to cross the crosswalk with the green light, they arrived towards the middle [when the light started] flashing […] and after 3 seconds they found themselves in the middle of the road at a red light with nothing else to do but face death."
Pietro stated to the authorities that he was in the left lane and he passed a green light. This further made the authorities hypothesize that the girls walked when their light was green to then find themselves at a red light in the middle of the street as the car was coming to hit them.
As the image above demonstrates, previous information provided seem to reinforce the validity of the young boy's statement that he was on the left. And yet the authorities' hypothesis lacks, to my opinion, some rational explanation.
One of the lawyers defending the girls filmed the video below and it clearly shows that the light does flash for the last 3 seconds while it stays green and immediately turns red instead of allowing some more time to cross as it could turn yellow.
I have personally lived in that area in Rome and can testify that the time allotted to cross is too little. Moreover, for someone who is a regular walker, like these two girls, they would be on the opposite side of the road for the last three seconds.
If they were walking from the same side where the car that hit them was driving, how slow must they have been walking? Did they start to walk towards the crosswalk when the light was already flashing green?
Some elements are out of place: either, as the image above hypothesized, the girls were jaywalking or the driver passed the crosswalk at a red light. These are hypothesis and most probably further facts will arise from other witnesses and cameras in the area.
There is no killer
Gaia's lawyer and former Minister for the Public Administration, Giulia Bongiorno, said that newspapers should, "resist the temptation to treat these girls like characters of a TV show […] I know the media uses their story to appeal to parents." However, these girls' story is not the only one.
Statistics show that all over Italy the number of deaths in the last 10 years caused by car accidents, pedestrians and drivers, (2008-2018) has decreased by 2%, while the number of injuries has dropped by 4%. In Rome in 2019, the police intervened 27,000 times during car accidents, and of those, only 108 were fatal and another 184 caused injuries. The highest number of injuries or death are for pedestrians. So what about these people?
The young man's lawyers have declared him not to be "the killer that everyone depicts." And I agree. As I read on a simple post on social media, the person interpreted this incident as three young people who acted irresponsibly and this makes sense with the facts that we do know.
What about the fact that murderers are sentenced to jail for fewer years than Pietro potentially faces, while the number of home arrests have increased for rapists, for instance — leading to a whole other issue of rapists looking for their former victims again? What about those? Those headlines should make our way.
Asia is a Ph.D. Candidate for Sustainability and Wellbeing focusing on circular economy and decarbonization for production cooperatives at the University of Ferrara, a circular economy advisor, and an environmental advocate. She is a Climate Reality Leader and in 2020 she founded Rethinking Climate a youth-led nonprofit that through research and engagement works to improve environmental communication for climate action.
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LinQ is the fastest rising Indies group in idol genre today having only made their debut on April 17 and securing a record contract with Tower Records new idol label T-Palette Records shortly after their debut .T-Palette which started in June by the way is run by Minewaki Ikuo who is a self- professed "wota" and a ranking official of Tower Records is also one of the fastest rising labels in idol genre with a number of groups nationwide under contract.
LinQ are from Fukuoka and before Aki-P decided to put another 48 in their backyard had joined with several other Fukuoka groups to become the dominate idol groups in Kyushu .
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When LinQ was created in February 2011 when a total of 1,162 girls auditioned ranging from the age of 12-24 .After the original roster was selected the group made their debut on April 17 and started to perform lives around Fukuoka and surrounding towns.
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Why corporate power is a public health priority
BMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e5124 (Published 21 August 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e5124
Re: Why corporate power is a public health priority
Correction to the address for Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes in citation #12. The current address is: 2600 Netherland Avenue (#1605) Riverdale, Bronx, New York 10463-4818.
William H. Wiist
PO Box 15015, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
For some reason GH overlooked the contributions of the UK Companies Act of 2006 which broadens Director responsibilities to a wider set of stakeholders than just the shareholders and his article fails to mention the international standard for social responsibility ISO 26000.
Marketing determines the needs of customers but this noble profession is blamed for harmful consumption instead of the true culprit: unscrupulous advertising.
Let us continue this important debate by reference to the existing tools to modify damaging behavior and to diagnose the causes to be excised with surgical precision.
Competing interests: Developer of organizational management systems to enable clients to help create more successful customers
John R. Broomfield
Management Consultant
QMII
43250 Brownstone Ct, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
Erudite and comprehensive article. We need champions like Dr. Hastings. As doctors we need to lead by example with modesty of lifestyle to show we are not victims/perpetrators of corporate greed.
Competing interests: I would like my children to live in a fairer world.
Abraham Cutajar
28 Harlseywood EX39 3FB. UK
It was gratifying to see that Dr. Gerard Hastings (Why Corporate Power is a Public Health Priority; BMJ 2012; 345:e5124) called for a broadening of public health's focus beyond concerns about marketing, tobacco and individual behavior. There are others in public health, for example, in food and nutrition 1, 2 noncommunicable chronic disease 3 who have also taken this perspective. Others have raised the issue of the wide-spread and multi-faceted means of corporate influence on public health 4 and the need for a framework for a public health that focuses on corporations 5, 6. Hastings' suggestion that public health move away from a narrow, technocratic focus to a broader macroeconomic participation that emphasizes the direction of capitalism and the implications of business is of critically important and foundational 7. His "ambitious pitch" that public health revitalize its upstream, political functions is welcome support for the concern in the U.S.A. of the political power of corporations 8,9. The influence and power of corporations transcends geopolitical borders (for example, through trade agreements 10) to the extent that corporations have become global governing agencies and as institutional social determinants11. Thus, it is important that public health professionals in every country network around our shared interests in addressing the influence and power of corporations 12, 13. We must build coalitions and join forces with others inside and outside the public health profession 14, 15, 16 to work together to build a strong, sustainable, and effective global movement that will reclaim public health and democracy from the vested singular interest of private corporate profits.
1. Nestle, M. Food politics: How the food industry influences nutrition and health. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
2. Stuckler D, Nestle, M. Big food, food systems, and global health. PLoS Med. 2012 June; 9(6): e1001242. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001242
Stuckler D, Siegel K. (eds). Sick societies: responding to the global challenge of chronic disease. UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
4. Wiist WH (ed). The bottom line or public health: tactics corporations
use to influence health and health policy and what we can do to counter them. NY:
Oxford University Press, 2010.
5. Jahiel RI. Corporation-induced diseases, upstream epidemiologic surveillance, and urban health. J Urban Health 2008; 85(4):517-31.
6. Wiist WH. The corporate play book, health, and democracy: The snack food and beverage industry's tactics in context. In Stuckler, D., & Siegel, K. (Eds). Sick Societies: Responding to the Global Challenge of Chronic Disease. UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
7. Brezis M, Wiist WH. Vulnerability of health to market forces. Medical Care 2011; 49(3): 232-239.
8. Rutkow L, Vernick JS, Teret SP. The potential health effects of Citizens United. N Engl J Med 2010; 362(15):1356-1358.
9. Wiist WH. Citizens United, public health and democracy: The Supreme Court ruling, its implications, and proposed action. American Journal of Public Health 2011; 101:1172-1197.
10. Shaffer ER, Waitzkin H, Brenner J, Jasso-Aguilar R. Global trade and health. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95 (1): 23-34.
11. Wiist WH. Corporations as global governing agencies: Influence on public health and democracy. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association; Washington, D.C. October 31, 2011.
12. Jahiel R., President, Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes. Public Health Study Group: Social Epidemiology and Industrial Diseases. P.O. Box 921, NY, NY, 10021.
13. People's Health Movement. (2000). The people's health charter. http://www.phmovement.org/sites/www.phmovement.org/files/phm-pch-english...
14. Wiist WH. Public health and the anticorporate movement: Rationale and
recommendations. Am J Public Health. 2006; 96(8):1370-1375.
15. Hawken P. Blessed unrest: how the largest movement in the world came into
being and why no one saw it coming. NY: Penquin; 2007.
16. World Social Forum http://fsm2011.org/
Competing interests: Editor of a book published by Oxford University Press.
William Wiist
Senior Scientist, Professor
Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute, Northern Arizona University
PO Box 15015 Flagstaff, AZ 86004
Corporate power is a reality that dominates and determines all policies whether public or private. Public health a concern for all government is linked to its economic policy. Corporate vision is therefore a dollar vision aiming mostly on the balance sheet that presents itself to the board that governs. The greatest concerns of public harm are alcohol, tobacco and fast food. They are also the most money-spinning industries and therefore become the most influential lobbies for the government to be formed or sustained. Democracies are run by these corporates along with corporate pharmaceutical industries and corporate hospitals. Common man therefore stands sandwiched between the two, one tempts him to harm his health and the other to provide medical assistance. Therefore common man must know his concern that will help him evolve a government that will cater to his real public health concerns rather than become a victim to corporate power. In short money power is corporate power that haunts public health. Primary health care therefore always takes a back seat and tertiary care become the focus of attention for corporates to invest. Poverty remains the most potent virus that harms public health. How that will attract the attention of corporate power remains to be seen though in the name of charity many start foundation say like AIDS foundation to attract public attention.
dhastagir s sheriff
Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi University
Benghazi, Libya
This welcome analysis showcases the growing recognition of society's need for a doctor. And what better a doctor, than the emergence of a united global public health front. A group of visionaries applying the discipline of quality research to making real improvements to the lives of all.
Such vision, as presented in this article, comes at an opportune moment in the UK, with the movement of public health services into the local authority. Public health professionals at all levels have a real opportunity to champion the specialty into a role of real influence. A role to re-focus the nation's direction toward providing health and happiness to all and to realign the nations leadership with the principles of duty and integrity in serving the people.
Real change will potentially require core reform of the political system and a reduction in the amount of leverage money has in influencing policy. Recent events such as the Arab Spring and the Kony 2012 campaign have highlighted how possible this is, especially when new media is combined with the collective will of the people. There really is no time like the present for change to begin.
Matthew D Saunders
Anaesthetist CT2
Macclesfield DGH
Victoria Road, Macclesfield, SK10 3BL
The issues discussed in the article are very important, and probably open up the most important public health debate of modern times. Going or gone are the traditional public health threats; the ones that Professor Hastings outlines are the most pressing and current ones and the worst because they have remained hidden for such a long time. This hidden anti-public health agenda of big business is partly accidental (business is not concerned with public health so why should it take an interest) but partly deliberate (if industry accepts any blame, it might have to compensate society and modify its behaviour).
But public health has not, in the past, flinched from addressing public health threats from any consideration of the agent responsible: no-one pulled their punches against pathogens out of sympathy for the organisms. We shouldn't be reticent now. But it would be foolish to assume that governments, commerce, the public etc will beleve us or back counter activity. But that never stopped committed public health professionals and their organised efforts in the past.
Competing interests: I am a public health professional who has worked closely with the lead author and we have worked on these issues for many years.
Raymond J Lowry
Retired public health doctor and dentist
BMA member, FFPH
35 King Edward Road, Tynemouth, NE30 2RW
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Soft Control is a multi-year project in the European region which aims to be a window for artists, scientists and other cultural agents. The project wants to open the labs and research lines of these agents to specialised and unspecialised audiences, while developing a framework that allows science and culture to share knowledge, methodologies and experimental and critical thinking models.
Interdisciplinary project that builds physical machines inspired in voice physiological systems. The set of disturbing devices that comprise laugh, cry, moan, express anger and sigh.
Bottom-up transdisciplinary research and sexual political action of empowerment. It focuses on health issues which have been marginalised by the insensitive treatment given to anything related with promiscuous and contentious practices.
Based on the research carried out by molecular biologist Dean Hamer about the genetic predisposition of the human spirituality, the project reflects critically about the links among media, science and religion.


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Distel is suitable for disinfecting medical equipment surfaces to help prevent cross-contamination of infectious agents (e.g. MRSA, Norovirus). Intended for use on hard surfaces of non invasive, non lumened medical devices such as monitors, IV poles, beds, patient trolleys, ultrasound and X-ray equipment.
Distel High Level Medical Surface Disinfectant is recommended for use diluted at 1:100 for high level disinfection, and at 1:10 in the presences of blood and bio-hazard spillage.


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Q: Layout change depending on number of posts within a widget Ok so I am going to try and explain this the best I can. I created a widget that will pull in a featured image from the post on the home page based on the category. Right now it pulls in 4 posts. I would like to have the option to pull in 2, 3, 4, or 6 posts. I would also like to change the layout based on how many posts are coming in. Is it possible to only display 2, 3,4, or 6 posts and how would I go about changing the layout based on the number of posts coming in. I was thinking it would refer to a container class in the css for each number of posts or something along the lines of that. Any links, tutorials, or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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A: Pure CSS
This provides a CSS3 method to achieve what you want, with a fall back in place for CSS2. Basically, you have a wrapper to target your post items, which will be the only children directly in that wrapper (or, at least the only children of a particular "tag" type, here a div). So something like the following, only the number of children can be 2, 3, 4, or 6 (as you requested).
Simple HTML (this does not have to be div elements; just illustrating)

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This is doen based on number of posts and will be displayed in all CSS3 browsers. It  uses this series of selectors, in this order: (we are using the cascade to our advantage here):
.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(2),
.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(2) ~ div {
   ... your two display css ...
}

.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(3),
.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(3) ~ div {
   ... your three display css ...
}

.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(4),
.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(4) ~ div {
   ... your four display css ...
}

.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(6),
.postWrapper > div:nth-last-of-type(6) ~ div {
   ... your six display css ...
}

What this is doing is utilizing the :nth-last-of-type() selector to "count backwards" through the number of child div's of the wrapper, apply a style to that div, and then use the general sibling combinator ~ to style all the other div's in .postWrapper that follow that (theoretical) first div. It does this for the first two using the :nth-last-of-type(2), but then if the wrapper contains three, the next set of selectors that uses :nth-last-of-type(3) overrides the previous (2) selector, and so forth. In this way, through a series of overriding css in the cascade, we change our settings for the number of post elements.
You can see a sample of this technique for illustration purposes in in this fiddle.
NOTE: Because we are using the cascade to override, it is imperative that you make sure to handle any previously set css. In my fiddle example, note how I put a margin on a group of four, but then I removed it on a group of six. If I had mentioned nothing of margin in group six (that is, no overriding), then elements 3-6 (but not 1-2) of the group of six would have had margin still applied based off the previous settings for the group of four.


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The History of Hot Air Ballooning
History reveals that man has always wanted to fly. Early cave drawings show man attempting to fly with wings. It wasn't until the curiosity of two brothers named Joseph and Etienne Montgolifier would flight for man be possible.
Joseph and Etienne were in the paper manufacturing business, and developed a new paper which was a combination of paper and silk. When they watched paper burn they noticed that little pieces of unburned paper and ashes would rise into the air. They were very fascinated by this phenomenon. They decided if they could capture this air man would be able to use this to fly.
The first hot air balloon flight was conducted by the Montgolfier brothers from Annonay, France on June 5, 1783. The envelope was made of linen and paper. The unmanned balloon had a volume of 23,308 cubic feet and the air within was heated from a fire on the ground. The first passengers were actually a pig, duck, and rooster. The Montgolfier balloon flew 1 mile from the starting point.
November 21, 1783 records the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. Lifting aloft in Paris, France two noblemen of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette took flight in a paper lined silk balloon crafted by the Montgolfier brothers. The flight lasted for 22 minutes flying 500 feet above the countryside from the center of town into the grape vineyards of the countryside. Legend has it that early French aeronauts carried champagne to appease angry or frightened spectators at the landing site.
In 1785 only 3 years following the invention of the hot air balloon, two men, a French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard and the first American balloonist John Jefferies, became the first men to fly across the English Channel. Jean-Pierre Blanchard later became the first man to pilot a balloon in North America. In 1793 Blanchard flew a balloon in America and was witnessed by George Washington.
Basically there were very few advances to ballooning for about 150 years. People then became interested in fixed wing aircraft (airplanes). The rebirth of ballooning occurred in 1960. Gas ballooning was expensive and the balloons were hard to control. Ed Yost developed basic techniques that made hot air ballooning practical. He built a balloon made of nylon and heated the air inside the balloon with a propane burner. Even though the balloon was primitive, Ed Yost is considered to be the father of modern day ballooning.
One of the most important improvements to hot air balloons is the parachute valve, sometimes called the deflation vent, located at the top of the balloon. Yost's balloon used a rip vent, a seal which could not be resealed and let all of the air escape at once. Then Tracy Barnes of The Balloon Works developed the parachute valve, that when pulled down by a line would let some of the air out of the balloon. The remaining air inside of the balloon caused the valve to push back upward and reseal itself in the top of the balloon when the line was released. This allowed pilots to open and close the valve during the flight if necessary to control their altitude and land with air remaining in the balloon.
Today, most balloon baskets are made of rattan wicker. Balloon baskets come in two main shapes: rectangular or triangular. In addition to carrying the passengers and pilot, the basket also contains the propane tanks, burner, and instruments. One instrument that shows the vertical speed up or down is called the Variometer. The second instrument that shows the temperature at the top of the balloon and the ambient temperature is the digital temperature gauge. The third instrument is the Altimeter which tells how high the balloon is above sea level.
There have been recent improvements in fabrics used to manufacture balloons. Taffeta has replaced nylon in many cases because of its ability to withstand higher temperatures. Both taffeta and nylon fabrics are treated with a coating to better contain the heat and provide ultraviolet protection. All fabrics used in balloons are certified by the FAA for use.
All of these improvements along with good pilot training have made hot air ballooning one of the safest forms of air travel.
Other ballooning moments worth note:
1932--Swiss Aeronaut Auguste Piccard 1st manned flight into the stratosphere (52,498 feet)
1935--Explorer 2 reaches an altitude of 72,395 feet a record that lasted for 20 years. This flight also was the first flight that proved that man could survive in a pressure suit in extremely high atmosphere.
1960--Captain Joe Kittinger parachute jumped from a balloon that was at a height of 102,000 feet. Captain Kittinger passed through the sound barrier while in free fall.
1978--The Double Eagle Flies across the Atlantic Ocean.
1981--The Double Eagle V crosses the Pacific Ocean.
1987--Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson fly a hot air balloon across the Atlantic. They flew 2,900 miles in 33 hours. Their balloon at the time was the largest ever flown containing 2.3 million cubic feet of air.
1991--Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson fly across the Pacific Ocean a distance of 6,700 miles in 47 hours flying at times at speeds of 245 mph.
1999--The first round the world flight was completed by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones. Leaving from Switzerland and landing in Africa they flew for 19 days 21 hours and 55 minutes.
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Q: Client Side Validation Doesn't Work In Nested Layouts in Asp.Net Core Razor Pages I have created a Students specific layout in my Razor Pages application and put it inside _Layout as a nested layout.Now the problem is when the Create page is opened within _StudentLayout,the client side validation doesn't work! However,when the Create page is opened normally,which means inside the application's _Layout,it does work well!
Here's the code at the top of Create:
@{
ViewData["Title"] = "Create";
Layout = "~/Pages/Shared/_StudentLayout.cshtml";}

Here's the code inside _StudentLayout:

            @{
                Layout = "~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
            }

                @RenderBody()

How should make client side validation work within a nested layout? What's the problem here?

A: I copied the scripts to the nested layout(_StudentLayout) and now the client site validation is working,but this solution doesn't sound right to me.The way I see it,once you have everything loaded in the _Layout,the nested layouts should ideally pick them up without needing to put them again in the nested layouts.Any opinions?
Here's what I did:
            ...

            @{
                Layout = "~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
            }

                @RenderBody()

@RenderSection("Scripts", required: false)


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Tycoon sues over 'useless' Pagani Zonda 760 supercar
Demands interest on top of £3.4m price
A PROPERTY tycoon is suing an exclusive car dealer over a £3.4 million supercar that he claims he is not allowed to drive.
Tufan Kalman, a Turkish millionaire, wants his money back and says that a London dealership failed to give him the registration papers that allow him to drive the Pagani Zonda 760.
The limited edition cars, with a top speed of 218mph, are highly sought after and Lewis Hamilton, the Formula One champion, has one.
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Mr Kalman, who lives in Dornach, Switzerland, where he runs a property company, said that he paid €3.85 million for the car on February 6 last year and took delivery of it six months later. However, he claimed that the car could not be used because Pagani UK in Park Royal, northwest London, had not given him the British registration documents.
A writ issued at the High Court in London says: "Without the original registration documents from the UK, Mr Kalman is unable to get the car registered in Switzerland." He is entitled to his money back, according to his lawyers, and he is demanding interest.
Christine Clarkin, the principal dealer at Pagani UK, said: "Nothing is ever black or white but we did supply Mr Kalman a Pagani Zonda, which he accepted delivery of and he had the car shipped overseas. Unfortunately I cannot comment further."
The allegations have yet to go before a judge.
Graeme Paton
This article first appeared in The Times
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There are a variety of ways to include TPT in your estate plans. Please consult your adviser for your best giving option(s). Below are a few recommendations for consideration.
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Q: TextView gravity bottom not working I have a simple LinearLayout and I try to make it looks like this:

Instead it looks like:

My xml is:
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        >
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="miasto"
            android:textSize="10sp"/>
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="ulica"
            android:textSize="15sp"
            android:gravity="bottom"
            />
    </LinearLayout>
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:textSize="30sp"
        android:text="22"
        android:gravity="bottom"/>

</LinearLayout>

Why gravity="bottom" doesn't work?

A: You set this text view a width of wrap_content it means, what ever the text is, the view take the size of the text and for LinearLayout , the default gravity is center
Thus, Change
android:layout_height="wrap_content"

to
android:layout_height="match_parent"

Meanwhile, just for your information, gravity is the way the text will align itself in the TextView. The TextView being in wrap_content does nothing, as the TextView is exactly the size of the text.
layout_gravity is the way the TextView will align itself in its parent, in your case in the LinearLayout.

A: Try to make your textview height match_parent.


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K-Ci Hailey Reveals Powerful Message on "Jesus Saves" Video
Jul 31, 2020 | New Videos
Whoa! That is our stunned reaction after watching the video for K-Ci Hailey's new single "Jesus Saves".
The beginning of the video reveals a chilling story of how the Jodeci lead singer suffered a stroke in the brain in 2018 and was told he would likely not be able to live a normal life again, let alone sing or perform.
However, as part of his recovery, K-Ci was able to sing again before he could even speak. The first song he sang was "Jesus Saves" which was his personal favorite as a child growing up in church in North Carolina. Amazing!
The song represents the latest offering from K-Ci as he moves forward with his solo career once again. He previously tributes his late mentor Andre Harrell in the video for "Tears in Heaven".
K-Ci Hailey Talks New Single "Jesus Saves", Upcoming Solo Album, Past Success with Jodeci…
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The Day Donald Trump Went Gray
After years in office, US Presidents go gray. Whether the stress gets to them, or it's their age, or they choose to stop dyeing their hair, or some combination of the above, it happens.
It happened with Presidents Clinton and Bush II. It even happened to Reagan, the former movie star with a suave demeanor and witty sense of humor.
Among other things, now that the 2020 campaigns are over, President Trump's unique hairdo appears poised to grant him the curious distinction of being the first non-assassinated President since color photography to leave office without showing any gray hair.
At the time of this writing, the color of President Trump's hair indeed appears to have changed somewhat during his presidency, although it is decidedly non-gray.
Trump's hair is less intensely yellow than than in the recent past, though it appears just now to be picking up some of the autumnal, oranger hues from Trump's complexion, resulting in a faded-blond-pinkish-whispy-something-or-other attached to a psychotic 74-year-old with dementia.
As the 2020 US Presidential Campaigns fade into the distance, and as the celebrations of Biden supporters in cities subside, this may be a fitting moment to remember the day Trump did go gray.
In late March of 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump appeared in his daily press conference suddenly gray-haired, projecting an image of calm, poise, dignity, respect, and seasoned wisdom in the face of an emerging public heath threat.
Strangely, it happened again for a day in July 2020, after the US failed to control the novel coronavirus.
The first report of a gray President comes from Vogue; the second comes from the New York Post, a one-time mouthpiece for long-time Trump associate Roy Cohn, and media property of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (along with Fox News).
Thus, despite keeping his "natural" hair color throughout the final days of his presidency, Trump may turn out to be the only president to have gone gray twice in office.
Whether his brief tenure with gray hair was an advisor's suggestion for projecting the image of a wise elder during the COVID pandemic, or whether it was something more like a focus group survey for his intended second term can't be determined, but if the second possibility has any validity, we may still have an opportunity to find out.
The election results have been available for a week now, and Trump is refusing to concede the election. We don't know what happens if two men show up to be sworn in as President on January 20, 2021.
Is Trump delusional, or is this reality television for his fans? Do his lawsuits and recounts and allegations of election fraud have any chance of changing the election result? Maybe, but not in the way one might expect at first glance.
The 2020 Presidential campaigns are over, but the States don't send delegates to the Electoral College until the December 8, 2020 "safe harbor" deadline, and the Electoral College doesn't vote until December 14. If the Electoral College cannot convene, cannot decide, or if the State Governors disagree with the Delegates nominated by the State Legislatures, the election may be resolved in the House of Representatives by a Contingent Election.
If a Contingent Election in the House determines the next President, the votes will cast by States, not by individual Representatives. And although the Democrats backing Biden have more individual Representatives in the House, the House represents a greater number of Republican States. This is because Republicans control a greater number of less-populous States.
Although Trump has promised to demand a number of recounts in closely-contested states like Georgia and Wisconsin, it seems unlikely his team will be able to invalidate enough ballots to secure the election. Litigating the vote count, however, may not be the ultimate objective of these lawsuits.
Trump has a history of protracted litigation. If the Trump strategy is to angle for a Contingent Election in the House, all the State recounts might really be about dragging out litigation, buying time to propagandize to his base about the "stolen" vote, sowing disagreement between how the State Governors and Legislatures think Electoral College delegates should be picked, and pressuring the Supreme Court to intervene as the "safe harbor" deadline approaches.
After the contested Bush v. Gore election in 2000, the Supreme Court intervened in the Florida recount precisely because the "safe harbor" deadline was imminent. Should Trump face such a scenario at the end of the month, he will have the advantage of having chosen three new Supreme Court nominees on the bench, all three of whom worked for Bush's legal team in the Bush v. Gore lawsuit.
His actions of late certainly don't resemble those of a man planning to leave the executive residence: in July 2020, Trump took down the official portraits of Presidents Bush and Clinton, having never unveiled President Obama's official portrait; in late August, First Lady Melania Trump unveiled a renovated White House Rose Garden; his executive branch is refusing to formally acknowledge the election results and his staff has been instructed not to cooperate with Biden's transition team.
Another possible endgame we might be witnessing stems not from Trump's grandiosity, but from his pettiness: if America can't be his, then nobody gets it. Maybe he knows his days in office are numbered, and he's just planning to burn everything to the ground on his way out and poison the water.
This could be a clue as to why — after the election — Trump replaced Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who publicly disagreed with Trump on the use of force and the Insurrection Act to subdue the BLM protests breaking out during the summer of 2020.
As Trump has stoked racial tensions while courting white nationalist groups, militia, and violent insurrectionists, he could be planning to go out with more of a bang than a whimper, popular caricatures notwithstanding.
By Author Ambrose Mnemopolous
Tags Coup, Democracy, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Election Lawsuits, Electoral College, Politics, Recounts, Supreme Court, Trump, Trump Hair, US Elections
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Description: Manage your game: Want to try out that new mod? Get it with one click & launch it right away. Enjoy all the updates the second they are released. All I have to do is launch the game withSIX and the mission is ready to play in the Scenario section of ArmA III. Play withSIX. Short article introducing Play withSix, a Steam-like game manager for ArmA II, allowing you to install mods, including DayZ, as well as browse.
We're happy to announce full support for the ARMA 3 in Play withSIX! Official Announcement Beta Announcement Don't miss out on our Plans. To install mods for this game we will use Play withSIX. Play withSIX is an ArmA mod installer, updater, and launcher. It helps a user find mods, install, and keep. Spacemen is an independent space exploration game, based in a procedural persistent universe, with modable content, explorable seamlessly in single-player .
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Origins of the Camarilla Equation Discovered while day trading in 1989 by Nick Stott, a successful bond trader in the financial markets, the 'Camarilla' equation uses a truism of nature to define market action - namely that most time series have a tendency to revert to the mean. The equation produces 8 levels that are meant to predict these reversal points allowing the trader to profit from them. The equation uses nothing more than the previous trading day's open, close, high and low levels and some interesting mathematics to produce these supports and resistances. Trading the Signals Now these levels are numbered L1-4 for the supports and H1-4 for the resistances but it is really the L3, L4, H3 and H4 ones that are most important. When the price level reaches the H3 level the theory behind the Camarilla Equation says that there is a strong resistance at this point and that a SHORT trade should be made with a stop loss at the H4 level. Conversely, when the price drops to the L3 level there is a strong support and a LONG trade is the recommendation with a stop loss at the L4 level.
Breakout Possibilities While the H4 and L4 levels should normally be reserved for setting stop losses on the above trades, occasionally there will come a point when these points are broken through. If this breakout is maintained for a significant amount of time and the price is still on the move then a LONG or SHORT trade should be entered respectively. These trades are not so common but could provide massive profits (or so the Camarilla Equation suggests) Choosing entry point with Camarilla Equation There are two entry points that you may like to consider when using the Camarilla Equation. Firstly you could trade as soon as the market reaches either the L3 or H3 level and go AGAINST the current trend but there is more of a danger that the trend will continue and you will lose out if this is your preferred method. The alternative is to wait after the market has broken the L3 or H3 level until the reverse actually occurs and enter the trade just as the market passes the respective level once again.
This allows you to trade WITH the trend which should prove a safer option. So does it Work? If you are interested in whether or not the Camarilla Equation provides a viable trading method then you may wish to follow my experiment which is testing the given levels for the FTSE 100, Dow Jones and DAX 30 stock markets.


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I went to sleep in the living room in the afternoon (I rarely seelp there), and sleep I did.
Topic: Astral Projection or Not?
Subject: Astral Projection or Not?
I thought of a way of knowing if the OBE experience is real or not.
two conditions are necessary to carry on the experience and get a proof.
1: RCs you do UNCONSCIOUSLY in your dream (because you're used to doing them in your waking life) and consequently become lucid thanks to them.
vv.Aviran, running through a window isn't a discreet practical test.
Is taking off glasses expecting to have a correct vision a good RC?
Has someone here ever tried this one?
Those of you who are famliar with lucid dreaming, hence familiar with the dream world, have you discovered new ways of checking reality?
yea mattiasdavis... that technique exists.
LDs are conscious dream states IN the body.
well, this might surprise you, but most of my LDs happen during naps I take in the afternoon.


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We often hear how important it is to protect the privacy of student data. But the consequences can seem pretty abstract.
When kids and adults alike are downloading a new app, or creating an online account, they tend to click "I agree" and "Allow" without a second thought. After all, they ask themselves, what's the worst that could happen?
In Louisiana, educators don't have that luxury. According to a student data privacy law passed there a few years ago, anyone who collects or shares students' personally identifiable information (or PII, as the shorthand goes) can be punished by up to six months in prison or $10,000 in fines.
That certainly raised the stakes on an issue that, until then, many people hadn't been taking very seriously.
But it also led to an environment where educators, schools and districts became so afraid of breaking the law that they curtailed their collection and use of all kinds of data, from batting averages and touchdown stats at school sporting events to Students of the Month and Honor Rolls hanging in the hallways.
When the possibility of a mistake meant steep fines and prison time, many teachers, naturally, decided it wasn't worth the risk.
Then Kim Nesmith got involved.
Nesmith is the director of data governance, privacy, and edtech for the Louisiana Department of Education, and she recently sat down with EdSurge to talk about the strictest student data privacy law in the country—and what it takes to help Louisiana educators face their fears and offer technology services to students and families in spite of that law (and with a healthy awareness of privacy).
Striking that balance isn't always easy, and it requires some real creativity. But one good thing that's come from the law, Nesmith says, is that in Louisiana, there's no mistaking the importance of student data privacy—not anymore.
Listen to the discussion on this week's EdSurge On Air podcast. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play Music or wherever you listen. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.
EdSurge: Anybody working in student privacy today has a difficult role, but yours, at the Louisiana Department of Education, is especially challenging—thanks to the privacy law that was passed there in 2014. Can you tell us about that law and what makes it somewhat unique?
Nesmith: Sure. We are not allowed to collect personally identifiable information at the department. So that makes the job of the department incredibly difficult because you don't have that PII. Additionally, our law, and I'm fairly sure of this, is the only law with criminal penalties for violations. So six months in jail or $10,000, and they're personal penalties, too, so a teacher is at risk. I'm at risk. Anybody that might release the data in a way that is not aligned with the law could be prosecuted.
How has that made your job difficult?
It's tough because it's scary, right? So people are afraid, and I hate that. But the good side of it is, it's caused people to be aware of student privacy. I'm not out there trying to convince people how important student privacy is anymore; the law has made it important.
But the difficult side of it is people are afraid, and people are scared, and it's a challenging situation. The consequences are what makes it scary. The thing that makes it most challenging, I think, is the fact that the department isn't able to have PII. Because, when you think about all the things that you do for districts, it is strictly, totally limited.
So to the point of putting children's names on their test booklets prior to the kid taking the test—that's an incredibly difficult job for us now because we aren't allowed to have PII. So, how do you make sure that Johnny gets Johnny's test and then Johnny gets Johnny's score, and then Johnny's teacher, you know for value-added, is associated with her.
Is there a lot of conversation or pushback in the state about it being so strict that it kind of ties educators' hands and what they are able to do in ways that can be beneficial to students?
There are people that feel that way, and I think that it is challenging for educators. But I think the reason the law came about is because parents had a real fear of what was happening with their children's data. And it was a very real fear for them. They were afraid of what researchers might be doing with the kids' data. They were afraid of where we might share the data. And so they had this very real fear.
So you have to balance the two. You have to figure out how you can allow teachers to do what they do best, and be enabled and accelerate the work with technology, and at the same time work within the law. And so, that's the challenging part, is to find that framework, and to get everybody educated and come up with the structure that allows us to go ahead and move forward and still do our work, while also keeping an eye on—and making sure we are taking care of—kids' data.
I imagine you are working with schools and districts pretty closely on this. How do you help them navigate the law and not be afraid of technology? I can see it being like an either/or—either we follow the law or we take this big risk and introduce technology that, in a lot of cases, is going to collect some student data.
In the beginning, I think people definitely felt like it was an either/or and kind of steered clear of it. But as we went forward, what we did was we worked out ways to make it happen. The first thing we did was, I developed a data governance and privacy guidebook, and that outlined how you develop a team, how you can get people on board, here are some things about security, and it outlined all the laws. Our teachers aren't necessarily aware of the federal laws, even, that guards students' data. I felt like it was a really unfair place for them to be in. So the guidebook that we developed was about helping them understand, here are the different laws, here are the things that are applicable to you, and here's the way to keep data secure and private and protect kids.
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But then, what we did after that, after we developed the book is, Louisiana is blessed with this structure of training districts. And so every quarter, department people go out and go to the different regions of the state and actually train. So there's this great forum that was already existing that I was able to just step into and leverage. So we went through and we trained on that guidebook. We also went through there, and one of the things that you're supposed to do is develop policies. So we talked through with districts and let them talk with each other, "OK, what kind of policy can we put in place that's going to protect teachers but also show them the path to be able to use technology?" And so letting those district leaders talk it out and come up with good solutions on their own, and work through that, I think that was probably the most valuable thing that we did.
So we came up with different ways to be able to utilize the technology, but also not necessarily give students' information. So we either are going to have a data-sharing agreement with that company on how they're going to protect kids' information and that way the district can share that information if they need to. Or we could possibly get parental consent to use a piece of technology if we think it's safe. And then the third option we came up with was somehow de-identify the kids' information. So they pick their favorite superhero, or they use their initials, or they use something that identifies them as them in the software, but does not give away any of their personally identifiable information. So those were the three ways we chose to handle using technology in the classroom but also protecting kids' privacy.
And what would determine which of those three options a classroom might pursue? Is that up to the teacher's discretion?
In the data governance guidebook, one of the things we recommended was you've gotta have an online policy for your teachers. You've gotta have an online-tools policy. You have to be able to guide that teacher through it. They are going to use technology. And so the best method for a district is to figure out how they can help that teacher do it. And so I strongly encouraged they didn't prohibit anything, but that they set the tone of come talk to me about it and we'll figure it out.
So in some districts, if we set up this policy, this online policy of maybe it's when something's purchased it has to come by that person responsible for privacy by their desk, and they had to see it, or maybe they did trainings with the teachers and they said, "Here are all the software that we have picked out, that we have agreements with that we feel are safe. So if you want something that's kind of quizzing, here's the software that kind of gives you a quiz. If you want something that kind of allows you collaboration, here's one that we have approved."
Would you say the companies that have come on board with Louisiana districts have had to be pretty flexible and nimble in what they are able to accommodate, or is it not that big of a lift on their end?
To be honest, when the department is providing a service to districts, what we did is we developed a data-sharing agreement with that entity, and we established a third-party stipulation in the agreement which allowed districts to opt into that agreement unilaterally by signing one little piece of paper. And so for those I negotiated those [agreements], and worked with some district leaders that also kind of wanted to have input, and we found compromises. But it was challenging. Because some of the things that some people in the state wanted were really, really restrictive, and some of the companies just couldn't agree to those things, and so we had to negotiate and have some back and forth.
Has the law been enforced?
No one has been put in jail or fined. I'm very thankful for that because I consider that one of my jobs, to help people out and to make sure that doesn't happen.
I am not a lawyer, but I think it would have to be a district attorney wanting to take that on, probably.
Talk about the upside of the law. Do you see educators in Louisiana being more thoughtful about this, than maybe those in other states?
Absolutely. I think that's one of the benefits of the law. So there's this part that makes it hard and challenging, but there's this other side of it where I was doing data governance and privacy before the law came about, and it was a struggle to get anyone to care. Like people didn't even know what FERPA was, they didn't care. I mean they care about students, but they didn't understand this movement that has come across the nation has truly made a difference I think for everyone.
The last several years have caused us to all to be more cognizant of keeping our information private, protecting ourselves from identity theft, and you know, cybersecurity attacks are on the increase for educational institutions. Last year, the U.S. Department of Education even put out warnings and information. So kids' information is very valuable, it's like they don't have a credit history yet. They are like this blank slate, and it's going to be a long time before they are ever found out because they are young and they aren't even going to be entering this credit world, until later. So there's this period of time, and from everything I've read, it's very valuable.
So I think that this law has helped us all become very, very aware, and has caused us to think about something. Do I think that maybe it was a little too strict in certain areas or challenging to work with? Absolutely. But do I think the benefit of protecting kids' data there? Absolutely.
Emily Tate (@ByEmilyTate) is a reporter at EdSurge covering K-12 education. Reach her at emily [at] edsurge [dot] com.
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