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Minnesota Office of Higher Ed un-bans free online classes, but is that a good thing?
Said Pogemiller: "Our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they're free."
A day after generating a shitstorm of bad publicity with its announcement that free online classes would be banned in Minnesota, the state Office of Higher Education reversed course on Friday and un-banned Coursera and other sites of its ilk.
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The reversal represented a victory for common sense, but some argue there was actually a bit of wisdom in the OHE's initial decision to ban free online classes.
First, via Slate, here's OHE Director and former Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller explaining the reversal:
Pogemiller: "Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they're free. No Minnesotan should hesitate to take advantage of free, online offerings from Coursera."
He added that the 20-year-old statute in question clearly didn't envision free online classes from accredited universities, saying: "When the legislature convenes in January, my intent is to work with the Governor and Legislature to appropriately update the statute to meet modern-day circumstances. Until that time, I see no reason for our office to require registration of free, not-for-credit offerings."
But in correspondence with City Pages, Wes Burdine, a University of Minnesota English Ph.D. candidate, argued that free online courses are "a technocratic ruse being used to help defund public education rather than educate."
Burdine cited an Atlantic piece discussing the high non-completion rates characteristic of MOOCs (short for Massive Open Online Courses). From the piece:
Last summer, when Stanford announced its free, online artificial intelligence course, much of the attention celebrated just how *many* people would be able to partake of the intellectual delights normally reserved for the Stanford student body. "Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course," the New York Times announced. The story led, "A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe -- a class nearly four times the size of Stanford's entire student body."
The number of those enrolled would eventually top out at 160,000 students, and other online courses followed suit, trumpeting one by one the massive numbers of people wanting to get in on the goods.
But the massive enrollment numbers have not been trailed by massive completion rates. About 35,000 people (or a little more than 20 percent) finished Stanford's AI course. The Times [notes] that the debut course of MIT's experiment in free online education had a similar experience. "Of the 154,763 who registered for 'Circuits and Electronics,' fewer than half even got as far as looking at the first problem set, and only 7,157 passed the course," says Tamar Lewin in an interview with MIT's Anant Agarwal. Likewise, UC Berkeley professor David Patterson said that 3,500 people of 50,000 registered passed his online course. Across the board, online classes (or MOOCs, as they are sometimes called, meaning Massive Open Online Courses) are seeing consistently high drop-out rates.
"I think the main point is that MOOCs are an experiment right now, but people are taking them to be some sort of technological savior of education (e.g. Thomas Friedman)," Burdine wrote.
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Peaceful demonstrations took place around the country as many urged the DOJ to open a civil-rights investigation.
Late Saturday night, a Florida jury cleared George Zimmerman of all charges in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Immediately following the verdict, attorneys for the prosecution and the defense held press conferences, with prosecutors expressing their disappointment and solidarity with the Martin family, while Zimmerman's team celebrated their victory. "Things would have been different for George Zimmerman if he was black for this reason: he would never have been charged with a crime," said defense lawyer Mark O'Mara at one point. Shortly after that, Zimmerman's brother, Robert, went on CNN, where he concluded that America has to "grow" from the trial, though the comments that followed are unlikely to help in that process. "I want to know what makes people angry enough to attack someone the way that Trayvon Martin did. I want to know if it is true, and I don't know if it's true, that Trayvon Martin was looking to procure firearms, was growing marijuana plants," he said. "I want to know that every minor, high-schooler, that would be reaching out in some way for help, and they may feel it's by procuring firearms or whatever they may be doing, that they have some kind of help."
He went on to say that his brother "is going to be looking around his shoulder for the rest of his life" because "there are people that would want to take the law into their own hands as they perceive it, or be vigilantes in some sense." Indeed.
Many people took to the streets on Saturday night to voice their opposition to the verdict, but the gatherings were largely peaceful. In Washington, D.C., protesters marched through Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights chanting "No justice, no peace" and "Trayvon, Trayvon." Later, they passed around a bullhorn, which speakers used to urge listeners "to cling together in a fight for justice and against bigotry." Similar demonstrations took place near Chicago's Daley Plaza and in Union Square in New York, where protesters carried lit candles in paper cups and signs that read "Emmett Till 1955. Trayvon Martin 2013." In California, demonstrations formed in LA, San Francisco, and Oakland. Local media outlets reported that some in the Oakland crowd broke windows, started small fires, and vandalized a police car, but no arrests were made. Over in Nashville, Beyoncé interrupted her concert, which began about a half hour after the verdict was released, to "have a moment of silence for Trayvon." (She followed the break by singing the chorus of "I Will Always Love You.")
So, what's next? NAACP President Ben Jealous, who said he was "outraged" and "heartbroken" over the verdict, told CNN's Candy Crowley that he had already spoken to "senior members" of Attorney General Eric Holder's team about the possibility of a Department of Justice civil-rights case against Zimmerman. (Already, 115,000 people have signed a petition urging Holder to open an investigation.) And the Martin family is likely to file a wrongful death lawsuit. If that happens, Zimmerman would be made to testify under oath, and he would have to pay damages if attorneys show he acted with "simple negligence" in Martin's death. It seems that, as Al Sharpton put it on Friday night, Zimmerman's acquittal was "only the first round in the pursuit of justice."


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Grab It MagazineFeb 10, 2014I can guarantee you that once you've played through Icycle: On Thin Ice, you'll be jumping at the opportunity to share your experience with friends. It's a must-play video game that's worth every single one of its 99 cents. [Issue 1, February 2014]
Dec 2, 2013I'm not sure what else to say in this review, because I don't want to spoil anything at all. Icycle: On Thin Ice is a wonderful game from start to finish, and one of those rare games that, as soon as I finished, made me want to discuss what it means with others.
Nov 29, 2013Icycle: On Thin Ice is a steal for just $0.99 thanks to its outside the box creative execution and perfectly realized physics quests. It's a great one two punch of fun that carries much more heat than its moniker suggests.
Hyper MagazineFeb 12, 2014Enormous fun. [March 2014, p.76]
Dec 19, 2013Icycle: On Thin Ice is an exercise of style, a stunning mix of design and direction that will surprise you in each and every level.
Dec 11, 2013In many ways, Icycle: On Thin Ice feels like an art experiment as much as it does a video game. I missed having buttons, but not enough to make me abandon the game before getting to the end. Even without a defined narrative, I wanted to see everything Icycle: On Thin Ice had to offer.
Dec 5, 2013Strange, surreal, and spectacularly designed, Icycle: On Thin Ice is a one-of-a-kind platformer that only stumbles when it proves overwhelmingly punishing.
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Dec 3, 2013Icycle: On Thin Ice is a game that is at once both silly and poignant, backed up by solid level design that makes it the perfect game to play during the cold winter months.
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Nov 29, 2013An entertaining and gorgeous platformer, Icycle: On Thin Ice is as smart as it is fun.
Nov 29, 2013In the face of so much delightfully clever level design, it's easy enough to brush aside any niggles about the game. Icycle's colorful, clever and a great example of just how far a little imagination can go in the world of indie mobile development.
Nov 27, 2013A relatively plain platformer boosted by a vivid and surreal art-style, Icycle: On Thin Ice is just about crazy and unique enough to warrant a look. Bite-size, fun-packed levels make for a game that doesn't overstay its welcome, and stands out from crowd both artistically and mechanically.
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Your son wants to visit several colleges across the country. You're broke. Options?
Parent advice:
He needs to do more research and limit his visits to, say, three choices. "Virtual" visits will have to do for others. Contact the universities and see if there are any programs for funding prospective students to visit. Go through your budget and lay it out for your son: If money is to be found to pay for visits, then it has to come out of something else. So perhaps there are no birthday gifts this year or fewer dinners out or fewer movies, etc. Students in college need to be aware of costs and budgeting; the time is now to learn those realistic, important, tough lessons.
– Dodie Hofstetter
Choosing the right school is an important decision, but you're about to enter the most expensive time of your child's life, so it's reasonable to limit unnecessary expenses. Most school websites have virtual tours and pages of information and photos about what's available. Look online to see what people say about the school and talk to graduates you know for a firsthand account. You'll have to shell out some money for visits, but ask your child to narrow the list, factoring in academic requirements and cost, and only go to those that make the final cut. Most important, don't forget to enjoy this precious time with your child. These moments won't come around again.
– Amy Carr
Expert advice:
"The first and most important question is how does the family sustain itself?" said Joline Godfrey, founder of Independent Means Inc., a financial education institute for families, and the author of "Raising Financially Fit Kids" (Ten Speed Press).
"Part of our big debt problem is that parents are reluctant to be transparent around finances in the family," Godfrey said. "We need to be having frequent, honest conversations. 'What are our resources as a family? What can we do to create resources? How do we plan to use our resources?'"
Rather than deciding whether to go into debt to fund the visits, Godfrey suggests enlisting the whole family in a conversation about college.
"If education is a priority for your family, I suggest a big-picture approach to paying for college that includes everyone in the choices and value decisions," she said. "How do we pull together as a unit to make these things happen?"
It might mean forgoing family vacations for a few years or taking other cost-cutting measures. It may mean your kids put some of their earnings and savings into a college fund, part of which goes toward college visits. Each family's approach will differ a bit, but Godfrey said it's important to keep every family member invested in the process.
"Families have to move away from these assumptions about what we've grown accustomed to and toward deciding what's possible in order for the family to serve its purpose," she said. "It's not a conversation about deprivation, so much as choice.
"It's really an amazing teaching moment," she said. "It's an opportunity to teach your kids to be clear and mindful about what's important."
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|1 1⁄2 Ounce (40 gram)
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1. In a pan, cover the bacon with water and bring slowly to the boil.
2. Strain and leave to drain on paper towels.
3. In a pan, melt the butter add the onion and leeks and fry until soft.
4. Stir in the flour and cook for 2 minutes, then stir in the stock.
5. Bring to the boil, stirring constantly, then remove the pan from the heat and add the carrot, bacon and pepper to taste.
6. With cover, cook gently for 1 1/4 hours.
7. Heat through adding the butter and beans for 5 minutes.
8. If you wish to freeze the dish, do so at this stage. Cool quickly, then turn into a rigid container. Seal, label and freeze.
9. To serve the frozen dish, thaw at room temperature for 4 hours, then reheat on top of the stove, stirring occasionally.
10. Sprinkle with parsley to garnish.
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Calories 339 Calories from Fat 176
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Total Fat 20 g31.3%
Saturated Fat 8.8 g43.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 45.2 mg15.1%
Sodium 763.4 mg31.8%
Total Carbohydrates 26 g8.5%
Dietary Fiber 4.3 g17.1%
Sugars 5.3 g
Protein 14 g27.8%
Vitamin A 77.9% Vitamin C 27.3%
Calcium 7.3% Iron 14.3%
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Quoting Quiverfull: Letting Boys Be Boys Best Accomplished With Homeschooling?
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Sedalia's Weekend Events: Weekend of March 5
Here's a look at what's going on this weekend in our area.
Here's a look at what's going on this weekend in our area.
There's going to be a really fun event in Warsaw coming up next month. The 5th Annual Quarter Mania Fundraiser to benefit the American Cancer Society will take place on Saturday, March 7 at the Warsaw Community Building.
The Boonslick Regional Library has a lot going on this holiday season in all the branches all over Mid Missouri. In Sedalia, Warsaw, Boonville, and Cole Camp, things are really hopping.
"The Doctor Is In" is a free community wellness program where members of Bothwell Regional Health Center's medical staff give presentations and answer questions. Topics have included heart health, sleep disorders, diabetes and women's health issues.
Here's a look at what's going on this weekend!
Mikal Sue is a little girl diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease called Sanfilippo Syndrome. There will be a chili supper and silent auction to raise money to help Mikal Sue and her family go to the National MPS Conference and pay for medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Here's a look at the events going on in our area this weekend.
Here's a look at some of the events going on in our area this weekend.
The Warsaw Area Kids Triathalon will be coming up on July 26.
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Europe is heading towards the automatical transfer of banking data to fight tax evasion, Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein said Tuesday, amid growing pressure to abandon banking secrecy.
"I think that we are moving in the direction of automatic data transfer. The pressure is growing ever greater," the tiny principality's former head of state said in a visit to Austria.
Consensus is building in the European Union to abolish banking secrecy and for countries to automatically pass information on bank depositors to the countries where they pay tax.
Still holding out however is Austria, although the government has said that it is willing to discuss lifting banking secrecy for foreign depositors, but not for Austrians.
At present Austria, which was sharply criticised this week by Brussels, levies a withholding tax on interest earned held by foreign investors and only informs their home countries if requested to do so.
Liechtenstein and Switzerland are outside the EU, however, and both countries have traditionally been prime destinations for undeclared funds. Both have however recently been cracking down and sharing more information with other countries.


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The cost of insuring Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign bonds from non-payment increased, according to traders of credit-default swaps.
The Markit iTraxx Asia index of 40 investment-grade borrowers outside Japan advanced 1 basis point to 152 as of 8:29 a.m. in Hong Kong, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. prices show. The gauge is poised for its highest close since Aug. 3, according to data provider CMA. It is down from 159 on July 31.
The Markit iTraxx Japan index rose 1 basis point to 201 as of 9:19 a.m. in Tokyo, Deutsche Bank AG prices show. The measure was up about 16 basis points this month and is set for its highest close since Aug. 7, according to CMA, which is owned by McGraw-Hill Cos. and compiles prices quoted by dealers in the privately negotiated market.
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Forgive me for asking a very noobish question.
I have often heard people just say the term "I want to take my application to the cloud". Notwithstanding the fact that some people might just say it for the sake of using buzzwords.
I really want to understand the crux of it. What does it really mean to take an app to the cloud.


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Al Gore well nown my plase of live, Stuttgart. I agree globel warmng big probleme. If Al Gore dosnt run as presadent, he can come Germany and be alected by landslid. By way, Al' wieght probleme not handykapp here. But if he dosnt drink bier for ocktoberfest, it polittikal lieabilitie. It true.
Forget Obama...
Gore/Savage 08!!!
The remarkable thing about Gore is that he defies easy political categorization; he transcends left and right. And by doing so, he keeps getting proven right by history.
I could go on. But I can think of three things all these political stands have in common: intellect, wisdom, and courage. There's only one presidential candidate out there who isn't dwarfed and eclipsed by Al Gore, and that's Obama. And yet, Obama has been anything but courageous.
For all these virtues, I'm not sure running for president is the most effective thing for Al Gore to do -- even though I'm sure Gore would make a great president. Sorry to say, America deserves George W. Bush; America doesn't deserve Al Gore.
Many have asked him if he's running. His answer is: no. Not right now.
And, for now, that's a good thing. Not running leaves him free to say what he thinks. He doesn't have to obsess about raising money (and that's a major part of what a candidate does). He doesn't have to worry about spin or focus groups or offending someone somewhere with some misstatement.
If the field self-destructs, Gore will be there, ready to go with no primary campaign baggage to weigh him down. The best move for him is not to seek the presidency but to let it seek him.
Gore/Savage? Uh, no. I'm disqualified for the same reasons Hillary and Edwards oughta be disqualified--that and those videos I made when I was young and foolish.
God I hope he doesn't run. He lost/barely-won-and-didn't-fight-for-the-win an unlosable election in 2000 with eight years of peace & prosperity under his belt and a dipshit opponent. Because he was afraid of being associated with Bill Clinton's penis.
He isn't any less of a mainstream, establishment candidate than Hilary. He got the war right? Of course he did. He was a private citizen at the time and didn't have to respond to his constituents very real concerns about the war (constituents like our faithful reporter at Town Hall.) and was free to rip the shit out of Shrub without consequence.
I want a candidate who, when punched by the Republican machine, will punch back twice as hard. Someone who will *dust* the Swift Boat fucks and their descendents. So far Hilary seems like the only one I'm *confident* will do this. Edwards was part of the ineffectual Kerry campaign in 2004 and hasn't yet gotten out from under that (for me at least). Obama has not yet said anything other than platitudes.
I want a bunch of great choices. I will be happy if Edwards or Obama or Richardson or somebody else shows they won't pout or go quietly superior when the Republican dogs impune their honor or integrity or what we Democrats hold dear- that all Americans should have access to the American dream, and that we will enact tax and legal policies to make that vision a reality.
Until I see otherwise, I'm sticking w/ Hilary.
* America deserves George W. Bush
What the fuck? That's the kind of absolutist, "either we get Denny Kucinich or I'm not voting" mentality that kept my socialist friends from voting in 2000 and 2004 and handed our country into the hands of a MORON.
"He lost/barely-won-and-didn't-fight-for-the-win an unlosable election in 2000."
Excuse me? Gore won the popular vote by 500,000+. HE WON! It wasn't even that close. As one news story I read pointed out, both Gore and Bush had seen five presidential elections in their lifetimes that were CLOSER than the 2000 race was.
And he was fighting the Floriday result in the courts and every other way when the Republican appointed Supreme Court shut it down. If the recount in Florida had been allowed to proceed, he might have become president.
Give the man his due.
Prospero, he lost his home state! I like the guy, but come on... even Mondale carried Minnesota.
I. Want. A. Badass. Candidate. I'm tired of losing to Republicans. Yes Gore is smart, smarter than I am (like Clinton) and that's a start. And I caucused for Gore in MN in 2000, and I gave him money, but there was never a moment in the campaign where I thought "yeah! Kick ass! Now he's shown those bastards how a *real* Democrat does things."
You bring up good points about his stands on the issues. If he gets in the race, and kicks ass, then I will reconsider. There's a lot of time between now and Oct 2008. But I think it unlikely based on his track record.
Sorry about the f-bomb. It's late.
Gore/Obama 08!
That said, I agree with his answer about the Wall Street Journal.
You know, I like the current Al Gore the author & environmental activist a whole lot more than I liked the old Al Gore the ineffectual boring ass presidential candidate. While I would love to see him as president, I sometimes wonder if he is a little bit like Jimmy Carter. Most people will agree that Carter wasn't a stellar president, but has been an awesome former-president. Carter has done far more good since he left office than he ever did in the White House. Nobel Peace prize, independent ambassador, Habitat for Humanity, and all that good shit. All other former-presidents for the last 40 years have more-or-less disappeared from the scene once they left office. Maybe Gore would do more good and be more effective as a former-Vice-President than he would as President. Or maybe he'd be better in a different post, like oh, say, the head of the EPA or something.
dan, can you get a nicer camera? your camera sucks.
Why does he have to wear a suit at these things? It's Seattle, we like casual!
I'm in the first pic in the background. I was towards the end of the signing line too but didn't see you, Dan.
Most Seattlites are probably too polite to ask him about running when he has already answered several times in the press.
From across the room your t-shirt looked like Beavis and Butthead. I wasn't too far off!
That was the most refreshing blog of a political event I've ever seen!
Can you get to any of those friggin' debates? They could sure use the Savage touch
He is dieting...last night was a campaign stop. He is campaigning under the radar where he should be until Oct/November.
Umm, so what was the point of the t-shirt, Dan? To be contrary? To show the world, that dude, you need to update your tshirt wardrobe?
caught his appearance on Cspan this weekend, read his book and after last night's performance I am left with the inescapable conclusion that he is interviewing us the american public for the job of accepting his candidacy..
Are we ready for a ready to accept a candidate who will discuss and analyze the issues of the day? We say we are yet we are also quite willing to accept a media portrayal of Al that doesn't reflect the man or candidate.
I do believe he is presenting his thesis: his candidacy would require a systematic shift in our democratic system - one that would require an honest and open discussion of the constitutional crisis, global crisis, etc. When he runs, it will be a different candidacy. I do believe we are ready. Al is seeing this first hand and the discussion is happening in red state america. He is selling out big venues, he is making his case - one town at a time and getting exceptional news coverage in those local areas. He would not be able to do this as a confirmed candidate.
The point of the t-shirt: No point. I found that t-shirt when I moved recently, in the bottom of a box, and put it back in regular t-shirt rotation. Yesterday AM I put it on and went to work, but I wasn't going to the Gore event for us--Chris and Annie were. At the last minute I decided to go. It was a coincidence that I had that t-shirt on. I actually didn't even think of it until I got to Town Hall -- and it wasn't my intention to rub Gore's nose in it, as I didn't intend to line up and get a book signed.
I'm late to this party, but Big Sven is the first person to say what I'm thinking. If Gore runs, I'm not opposed to voting for him, but he's got to grow some. He DID lose in 2000 because that should have been a slam dunk and it shockingly wasn't. Popular vote, schmopular vote, he didn't get a seat in the oval office and he fucking should have and I blame him. Not Nader, not Florida, GORE. No sense reliving the past, I just want a Dem who can step up and bite back when it gets dirty.
Its all anyone cares about, its all anyone can talk about, and no one in this thinking, talking, communicating Seattle audience thought to ask Gore to communicate with us about the only thing anyone really wants to talk about?
Dude, can I just ask you this: as a journalist, why the fuck did you think this was the important question to ask? I mean, you're aware that he gets asked that question 50 times a day on the record. I know you know that. And I know you know what his answer has been and is likely to continue being. So why? I'm honestly interested in your journalistic rationale for this.
Man, you guys need to give it up. Gore would have been/would be a fine president, but there's no way in hell that most Americans would vote for him; he's just too wonky smart. Wasn't Bush II's campaign slogan "I'm real dumb, just like you."
See, we choose presidents the same way we choose real estate agents: We go with the biggest liar who tells us exactly what we want to hear, and don't you bring us no bad news.
What a wretched excess and waste of electricity is this - merely to promote a book (and of course for Dan to play reporter). Gore's old news.
Simple, Judah: I want the question put to Gore at every opportunity because I WANT HIM TO RUN.
And sorry, Original Andrew, but Gore won in 2000--popular vote and in Florida--so I don't think Americans truly wanted the idiot. Not in 2000, anyway.
I have reluctantly come around to Big Sven's thinking with this one.
Gore won't run. But if he does, I don't think he'd get my primary vote.
Clinton/Richardson 08!
My biggest concern is that a Democrat will be elected and nothing will change because the Dems have largely signed on to the Big Business agenda: Massive tax cuts for the wealthy combined with a race to the bottom for workers wages and benefits.
Its no secret that the middle class is in serious trouble. Huge increases in the cost of housing, energy, healthcare and education have sapped most peoples ability to save, while our salaries have lost ground during an economic boom (and yet were told that theres little to no inflation how about that?).
I read the paper every day and Ive yet to see one candidate explain how theyre going to bridge the growing class divide, except for John Edwards of course, but hes *ahem* hazy with the specifics. Can we say progressive taxation? Massive class inequality is a major threat to our democracy, not to mention fixing Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, rebuilding our crumbling civic infrastructure and extricating ourselves from disastrous foreign wars.
Are any of the candidates seriously and specifically addressing these issues?
I wasn't there, but I could offer a perfect recap of last night:
Also, since you keep echoing the lie, Dan, I have to keep echoing the truth: Gore did more to lose the 2000 election than Bush's cronies in Florida did to win it. If Gore ran anything resembling a decent campaign, and displayed marginally more charisma than a pet rock painted grey... the 2000 election never comes down to Florida.
Notice that neither of Bill Clinton's elections ever came down to Florida or Ohio. He never needed them, because he was a good candidate who won over the nation at large and took so many other states.
50.5 to 49.5 is only a win in technicality.
Run a candidate who doesn't behave like a liberal sock puppet or a lawyer on sedatives, and maybe Bush never takes office.
If Gore runs in 2008 and somehow snags the nomination, he will not only succeed in boring the public to death, but use the global warming issue to further polarize the left sociopolitically, and widen the ridiculous red/blue rift... while handing the presidency to Giuliani in 2008.
And he's not going to save the world, whether or not he's president.
Get off it.
Gomez: horseshit. The Republicans illegally purged minority voters from the rolls in a state run by George W. Bushs brother where the person in charge of protecting voter rights was also heading Bushs Florida campaign. It was the most appalling example of vote fraud since Kennedy took Chicago. None of Gores mistakes-- which were all essentially cosmetic --compare to that blatant malfeasance on the part of Katherine Harris and others.
There are 49 other states in the United States, and Gore lost most of those.
Arguing the corruption of Florida belies the larger point, which is that Gore didn't do enough to convincingly win over the rest of the nation, when facing a candidate so clearly batshit crazy that it would've been easy for any reasonable charismatic individual to do so.
The elephants stole Florida because Gore did so badly that it came down to Florida.
Yes, Gomez. But Gore still won. Are you seriously pinning the blame on Gore for his loss because... the election was sooooo close that the Rs just couldn't resist stealing it? Please.
Of course, Dan, I've seen you use pretty much that exact logic to pin the blame for the 2000 election on Nader voters, but I agree with your point here.
Gore didn't do enough to convincingly win over the rest of the nation, when facing a candidate so clearly batshit crazy that it would've been easy
Also, Gomez, you seem to be conveniently forgetting that a significant portion of the American electorate is also batshit crazy; they don't believe in evolution, they do believe in the rapture, and a shocking number of them believe-- even now --that there were WMDs in Iraq. Those people are crazy and stupid, they want nothing more than to elect one of their own to high office and they're becoming more strident about that with each passing year. Barry Goldwater wouldn't stand a chance in today's Republican party specifically because he was neither crazy nor stupid enough to pass muster.
Gore couldn't carry his own state.
Gore endorsed Edwards way too early last election.
Gore conceded too early last time, then called Bush back and took back his concession, then called and conceded again, too early.
Gore gave a speech about loving tobacco and then gave a sob speech about dead sister and the evils of smoking.
Gore let his VP mansion be remodeled with old growth timber.
Gore lives in a hugely energy inefficient house and is too arogant to move to something more green even though he has enough money to do so without hardship.
Gore's book,Earth in the Balance, while accurate about environment dangers is wacky about solutions - the environmental Marshal Plan to third world countries when we're the big polluters?
The sooner this guy gets off the stage the easier it will be to get rid of the right wing nutcases now in charge.
Dan, "Gore still won" is semantics. Whatever. He didn't make it into office.
Also, Gomez, you seem to be conveniently forgetting that a significant portion of the American electorate is also batshit crazy
Well, if you say so ::eyeroll:: You don't seem too sane yourself.
Their votes still count. Maybe we should outlaw elections if everyone is too batshit crazy to be trusted.
There are a lot of crazies in the US, I'll grant you. But Bill Clinton was able to gain clear electoral majorities not once but twice- including the second time against a reasonably sane "moderate" Republican.
He was able to do this because (1) on the one hand, he spoke to indepedents' concerns about jobs and the economy and (2) we Democrats united (the way the Republicans normally do) because an imperfect but articulate and passionate candiate.
Normally what we do is a circular firing squad to remove the articulate and passionate candidates. Not 100% on choice- OUT! Not 100% on GLBT- OUT! Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry were safe, bland, inoffensive candidates. Did any of them, while running for President, ever say one thing passionate? Gore's attempt to be passionate- the big kiss at the convention- was laughably staged.
He's *gotten* passionate since running for president, but again, he'll have to prove to me that he would run a genuinely energetic campaign before I'll get on board.
And now the circular firing squad is going after those who are not sufficiently anti-war. Clinton- like Danny S- supported the war at first. She was lied to, as we all were. And because she's not going to issue a fake, manipulative appology people are hoisting her from the yardarm. Fifteen years ago she was our darling ("Is Hilary too liberal for Bill?" was the quote at the time) but now we find a million reasons to not elect an articulate, smart woman that a plurality of Democrat-leaning voters support as our first woman President!
Questioning your opponents sanity, thats nice. Are we on Hannity and Colmes?
The irrationality, incoherence and general stupidity of the American voting public is well documented:
after analyzing the results of surveys conducted over time, in which people tended to give different and randomly inconsistent answers to the same questions, Converse concluded that very substantial portions of the public hold opinions that are essentially meaninglessoff-the-top-of-the-head responses to questions they have never thought about, derived from no underlying set of principles. These people might as well base their political choices on the weather. And, in fact, many of them do.
I fucking hate America. What is wrong with you all?
I'm appalled that so many of you aren't even bothered that an elected body was in place by fraud, destroying the democracy you are so keen on parroting. The democracy that the Republicans claim they want to deliver to Iraq. How can it not make you furious? It isn't a semantic argument that Gore won in 2000, it's the truth and it is so damn important that the man who rigged that election is still in power today. What the hell is wrong with all of you?
Yeah Gomez. Just because I say so.
Their votes still count. Maybe we should outlaw elections if everyone is too batshit crazy to be trusted.
You need some help propping up that strawman there slick? I never said they shouldnt be allowed to vote. I said they vote for their own, and who we get as president is going to reflect that.
And Big Sven, I appreciate your circumspect approach to the question of Clinton, but I disagree with your conclusions, particularly as regards my point about Republican insanity. The reason Dole didnt get as much support as he needed from the Republican base was specifically because he was so sane. He was in the Goldwater camp of Republicans who didnt believe religion had any place in politics, and that cost him the support of a lot of crazy-ass fundamentalist voters.
Rebecca @ 38,
The answer is shockingly simple: We put out propaganda that tells everyone the US is a liberal democracy, when in fact were a right wing country currently governed by our worst citizens.
From that angle it all makes sense: The militarism, the open hypocrisy, the wars, the constant flouting of international laws, norms and the diplomatic process not to mention kidnapping, torture, etc.
We also have the largest population of psychotic religious fanatics outside the Middle East, so you can see its not going to be ice cream and puppies over here.
There are many of us that are progressive liberals, but were by far the minority and really have no voice in the federal government.
Simple, right?
If Gore runs (and loses) again will all the retarded democrats find a way to blame it on Ralph Nader's 2000 campaign?
Just asking. I like to anticipate the next blame-game.
Judah, let's say I buy your argument that there's a sizable portion of the conservative voting base is bonkers. O.k., now what? Do we flee to Canada (or my fave, New Zealand)?
How do we use that fact to choose our candidate for next fall?
Original Andrew wrote:
We put out propaganda that tells everyone the US is a liberal democracy, when in fact were a right wing country currently governed by our worst citizens.
From that angle it all makes sense: The militarism, the open hypocrisy, the wars, the constant flouting of international laws, norms and the diplomatic process not to mention kidnapping, torture, etc.
Take that analysis a few steps further and it gets disturbing.
Lawrence W. Britt wrote an article, "Fascism anyone?" for Free Inquiry Magazine (vol. 23, nbr. 2) that begins:
We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted political worldview. Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of these models have been imitated by protofascist regimes at various times in the twentieth century. Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute their visual similarities.
For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Papadopoulos's Greece, Pinochet's Chile, and Suharto's Indonesia.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
The 14 characteristics of fascism that he came up with are:
Someone else took Britt's article and annotated it with specific examples of each of those characteristics found here in the United States. It's worth reading.
Sven: Im sorry. Did I say anything about having answers? No I did not, because I have none. I mean, to use someone elses comparison, recognizing that politics in the Middle East are dominated by crazy religious zealots doesnt necessarily suggest a solution.
That said, I imagine that a candidate who was actually going to be effective would need to begin laying the groundwork at least 4 years out, attempting to duplicate the sea change in popular thinking about global warming-- but in this case affecting a change in popular thinking about import replacement. Most manufacture-dependent regions in the U.S. recognize the importance of local manufacturing, but a majority of American voters are nervous about it because the business sector constantly issues dire warnings about the disasters that would befall the delicate American economy if we actually adopted a responsible foreign trade policy. An effective candidate would build a coalition of business interests with a stake in domestic manufacturing and labor rights and then direct that coalition to invest in advertising and entertainment (think FOX) that would push a labor- and human-rights foreign trade policy. This would give domestic manufacturing a moral imperative while simultaneously diversifying our economy and feeding the interests of a sector of voters thats totally underserved right now. That kind of thing would be win-win because I believe that a lot of the reason that rural populations have been so radicalized is because theyve been getting fucked in the ass by all branches of the government since the 50s. Giving them some good jobs and rebuilding a market for their agricultural products would, I believe, substantially reduce the crazy factor out there in the long term. But thats just off the top of my head. I havent got anything solid worked out.
I fucking hate America. What is wrong with you all?
And where are you living? I just got back from a year and a half in the UK, and I found it no better over there.
PhilM: Godwin's Law. Look it up.
Judah, my point is that we have a choice to make in the next 18 months. Bemoaning the state of democracy in America or figuring out 5 and 10 year plans is only so much crying in our beer. We have an election to plan NOW. Stop the bastards! And step #1 is finding a quarterback.
My point is that we can't change the past. The past that allowed all kinds of bad stuff to go on to let Bush be sitting in the White House. I am absolutely horrified by what happened in 2000, but I don't know what to do about that except try to make a difference this time around. I participate in local Democratic activities and contribute to civil rights organizations to protect what we still have left. I want a candidate who can win and my other point is that yes, bad stuff happened, but Gore didn't perform well during debates because he was too timid. He didn't use Clinton and he should have, blah, blah, blah. There are better points above re: his part in his loss - it can't all be explained away by the fraud. Gore is older and has the gift of hindsight just like I do, but I need some convincing that he's the best choice. He's made an impact as a citizen. Would it be better that he remain a citizen during the next election? That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Judah, I never said the UK was good either. Our leadership was elected in practical terms (despite having a monarch symbolically in place. All she does it talk for 15 minutes on Christmas while I walk the dogs), which is more than you could say for America in 2000 though.
But if you want complaints about Blair, I got 'em. One place being bad doesn't mean it's okay for the other to be bad as well.
As for "no better," it's better for some groups. We have civil unions across the country, and Catholic adoption agencies are forced to accept gay parents. Our most recent leader equalised homosexual ages of consent, as well. That's one of the few things he did right, but it's something.
Yeah, I know that one. I'm old enough to remember Usenet. I wan't making a specific coparison to Nazis or Hitler, though -- just quoting someone who mentioned them as examples of fascists. It's like if this Britt guy had made a list of men with narrow mustaches, including Hitler and Chaplin, compiled the similarities, then compared the situation here in the U.S. to that list of similarites and implied that we're becoming a nation of small-mustached-men. Or something.
Back to the point. Things aren't looking so good here, and people are too busy with their sports and celebrities and American Idol to notice. Media consolidation has ensured that the press aren't going to wake us up. I'm afraid it's going to take a major depression to snap people out of it.
Oh, and Phil M, that's fascinating. I'll be looking that up. "Goodwins" as Judah mentioned is an internet "law" that says once a comparison is made to Hitler/Nazi Germany, the argument is over and the person who didn't make the comparison won. The idea is that such a comparison is a desperate emotive tool in a debate. What Judah is missing is context - for one thing, the rule was created on journalfen and generally applies to "You stole me shoes! You Hitler!" type situations, and not where there is a legitimate, evidenced discussion of similarities put forward.
We have an election to plan NOW. Stop the bastards! And step #1 is finding a quarterback.
Whatever, dude. The Democrats are still bastards, they're just our bastards. I'm in favor of our bastards because I see the Republican pre-emptive invasion kick as a real problem, but I have no illusions that any of these Dems is going to restore honor and integrity to my government. Any candidate I could get all fired up about would lose. So I'll take what I can get. You go ahead and get excited about it if that makes you feel better.
As for "no better," it's better for some groups. We ...(snip)... but it's something.
Whatever. Does the phrase "McLibel" mean anything to you? The fact that something like that is even possible is an artifact of British civil process. And while I congratulate you on your legitimately elected government, I have to point out that at least the dickhead who took my country to war hadn't been elected. Your guy followed my illegally appointed president to Afghanistan and Iraq with popular support. Meanwhile, I'll be sure and recommend your country's glowing civil right record to the Guildford Four. Or maybe to Jean Charles de Menezes-- next time I have a ouija board handy.
But we could trade these back and forth all day. The fact is that the citizenry of both our countries have a long history or letting horrible shit happen in plain sight. You have the luxury of hating America because you're not an American, and America currently has the power to make the biggest mistakes. I have the luxury of not caring what you think because you're British, and the only meaningful mistake your country can make anymore is legimizing an illegal war by supporting my country. Which, as it happens, is exactly what you all did. So good job there.
That wasn't a strawman, Judah. That point was made in jest in response to the obvious inferrence of your previous point:
Also, Gomez, you seem to be conveniently forgetting that a significant portion of the American electorate is also batshit crazy
Batshit crazy, as in 'can't be trusted'. You went from blaming Florida to blaming the 'batshit crazy' electorate for refusing to vote for a bad candidate and making it come down to Florida, the same electorate who decides who the president is going to be, because they didn't want to vote for some blue blood milquetoast Democrat. Uh huh.
Way to make a strawman while calling someone else's remark in jest a strawman. That was brilliant.
That point was made in jest in response to the obvious inferrence
I think the word you're looking for is "mistaken", as in "mistaken inference". I never implied it, you inferred it, and you were wrong. Moving right along--
Batshit crazy, as in 'can't be trusted'.
And there's another angle on the same strawman. I never said batshit crazy meant "can't be trusted" and even if I had-- which I didn't --what the fuck does being trustworthy have to do with being able to vote? Even liars and morons get to vote. I'm aware of that, even if you're not.
You went from blaming Florida to blaming the 'batshit crazy' electorate for refusing to vote for a bad candidate and making it come down to Florida
Gomez, there are so many unsupported assumptions and misstatements in that passage, I barely know where to begin. The Florida election was stolen. When you couldn't dispute that fact you fell back to saying that Gore sucked because he couldn't carry the rest of the country against a batshit crazy candidate; I responded by stating that Bush's particular brand of batshit crazy is an asset in right-wing American electoral politics. Both of those statements can be true at the same time. I never "went from" one position to another; I can hold both those opinions from a single position.
You know, I see you wandering around the Slog acting like you're some kind of common sense contrarian with an incisive realpolitik perspective but-- and I know you've heard this before because I've seen other people say it to you, but I'll go ahead and add my voice to the din --the real reason you rarely lose an argument is that you're evidently too stupid to follow one to its conclusion. That's unfortunate, because you clearly have the moral courage to offend people in the service of honest dialogue, and that's a useful thing in a certain kind of debater. But the evidence definitely suggests that, beyond a kind of shallow intellectual honestly, you're just an enormous dumbass.
Judah is another obsessed internet nutball. That is all.
Judah, you seem to be missing the point that I hate England too. I have no patriotism, all being a citizen means is that I was born here, and nothing more. I have a critical eye for my country, and for America. I don't even know what point you're trying to make with my nationality, except perhaps that I am biased as to my own countries faults - in which case you shouldn't be commenting on America.
And disparaging the British public for voting for the man who took us to war? I believe my original comment here was my disbelief that anyone would vote for a man after knowing they rigged an election; unfortunately, the second time around Bush really did win.
Nice writeup of the evening Dan; but maybe too nice. I am Gore's (second) biggest fan (after yourself apparently)-- Gore/Obama '08!-- but the talk was disappointing. Exhaustion, maybe, but he was rather incoherent-- lot of non sequiturs and trailing off into cliche. And there we all were waiting to love everything he said; we weren't given much opportunity.
The new book is excellent. But in person he meandered at great length through some suspect "evolution of democracy" then repeatedly stressed how free communication is the solution to US democracy's problems. I just don't believe this. Dumbasses abound communicating freely on the internet and they are not getting any closer to being the well-informed citizenry we are supposed to be in order for this democracy to make good decisions. The problem is not a lack of information, it is information overload, so that ALL of us resort to predigested versions of the truth (in whatever fields we are not professionally engaged in) that have been coopted to one cause or another. And I don't see any way around that.
Anyone still reading? Think this fascism talk is hyperbole?
A reporter was arrested after the last Republican debate for asking questions Giuliani's staff didn't want to answer.
Giuliani told Peter Jennings in a live interview on September 11, 2001, that he was warned that one (or both? unclear) of the twin towers was going to collapse. He has since denied this. When a reporter asked about this after the debate, he was ejected and arrested for trespassing.
Giuliani told Jennings:
I went down to the scene and we set up, uh, headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right there with the police commissioner and the fire commissioner, the head of emergency management. And we were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse.
Here's the ABC interview:
Last month, Giuliani was confronted by a young lady who said she was family of a WTC collapse victim and wanted to know why, since as he reported to Peter Jennings, he knew the towers were going to collapse, the people inside weren't notified, and who else knew about this.
Giuliani responded:
The fact is, uh, I didn't know the towers would collapse.
video of the confrontation:
After the recent Republican presidential debate, a reporter -- with press pass -- was arrested for trespassing upon demand of Giuliani's press secretary after the reporter asked about Giuliani's foreknowledge of the collapse (no answer, of course).
video of the encounter:
report at Raw Story:
Here's video of the reporter, Matt Lepacek, talking to other reporters after being arrested and released:
Note that other reporters say they were warned not to ask any more questions about 9/11.
A reporter gets ejected from a press conference and arrested because a Presidential candidate's staff doesn't want to hear questions about that candidate's publicly-admitted foreknowledge of a disaster that resulted in thousands of deaths -- foreknowledge that the candidate now denies -- and our news media are too busy covering the release of Paris Hilton to cover the story. Nice work, free press.
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Mr. Grady, who distributes independent films through his Factory 25 label, makes several of the dozen titles in his growing catalog available on iTunes. But he's also gone in a seemingly contrary direction. He's released select titles in elaborate special-edition packages with vinyl LPs.
"I wanted to take these art films and make them into a physical piece of art," said Mr. Grady, who since launching in September 2009 has run Factory 25 out of his Park Slope apartment. His first release was "Frownland," an intense, low-budget psychodrama directed by Ronald Bronstein (who recently won a Gotham Award for breakthrough actor in the film "Daddy Longlegs").
The package is over the top: a gatefold album containing the film's soundtrack and the DVD; a comic book drawn by actor Mary Bronstein (as her alienated character); printed excerpts from a 70,000-word email exchange between the two lead actors (in character); a poster; and an actual snippet of 16mm film from Mr. Bronstein's work print. "Buy several thousand copies and reconstruct the entire film!" Mr. Grady urges customers perusing the catalog page on his website (factorytwentyfive.com).
"I'm trying to make the packaging as great as possible," he said, "so hopefully people if they are buying things, they want to buy something nice that someone put some time and effort into—not some throwaway package."
Mr. Grady was previously a partner with filmmaker Gary Hustwit ("Objectified") in Plexifilm, which favored music-themed projects such as the Wilco documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." His background in music video and distribution helped secure backing from Warner Music Group, as did an emphasis on releases that targeted a range of music genres: "You Weren't There," about the Chicago punk scene of the 1970s; "Until the Light Takes Us," a documentary about Norwegian black metal; "All the Way from Michigan, Not Mars," a documentary about the singer-songwriter Rosie Thomas; "High School Record," an obscure 2005 feature starring members of Los Angeles bands No Age, Mika Miko and Lavender Diamond.
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The label also champions more mainstream fare. Factory 25's latest release is "NY Export: Opus Jazz," a filmed performance of the 1958 Jerome Robbins ballet reprised by members of the New York City Ballet at various locations around the city. The vibrant document, shot by young New York filmmakers Jody Lee Lipes and Henry Joost ("Catfish"), aired as part of the PBS series "Great Performances."
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The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is an agency of the New York state government within the Department of Family Assistance.[1][2] The office has its headquarters in the Capital View Office Park in Rensselaer.[3]
OCFS was officially created on January 8, 1998 by merging the programs of the former state Division for Youth, the developmental and preventive children and family programs administered by the former state Department of Social Services, and the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped.
OCFS has wide-ranging responsibilities for the provision of services to children, youth, families, and vulnerable adults. The agency is responsible for programs and services involving foster care, adoption, and adoption assistance; child protective services, including operating the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment; preventive services for children and families; child care and referral programs; and protective programs for vulnerable adults. Additionally, OCFS is responsible for the state's juvenile justice programs, administering and managing residential facilities located across New York State for youth remanded to the agency's custody by family and criminal courts. The agency also supports and monitors detention, aftercare, and a range of community-based programs. OCFS also coordinates, in part, the state government response to the needs of Native Americans and their children on reservations and in communities.
Prevention and rehabilitation efforts are joint ventures with local and county government, supported by federal, state, county, and municipal funds, as well as private contributions. OCFS provides technical and financial assistance to agencies involved in community youth programs and monitors activities of voluntary child-care and detention agencies in New York State.
The agency divides its responsibilities into two main areas: program and support. The program divisions/offices include:
- Division of Child Welfare and Community Services
- Division of Juvenile Justice and Opportunities for Youth
- Office of Juvenile Justice Oversight and Improvement
- Division of Child Care Services
- Commission for the Blind
The support divisions/offices include:
- Division of Administration
- Division of Legal Affairs
- Office of Communications
- Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Development
- Office of Special Investigations
- Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Development
- Office of the Ombudsman
OCFS has regional offices in Albany, Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, and Spring Valley. The Regional Offices help districts and agencies keep children safe, achieve permanency, and improve the quality of life for children and families. Regional offices provide "oversight" to local districts and voluntary agencies. The responsibility to provide oversight is defined as (1) assuring compliance with OCFS regulations, (2) reinforcing good practice standards, and (3) improving district/agency capacity to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.
The agency's Bureau of Training maintains the Parker Training Academy. Located on the Academy grounds is a Dutch barn added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[4]
OCFS Juvenile Facilities
Secure facilities:[5]
- Brookwood Residential Center
- Columbia Girls Secure Center
- Goshen Secure Center
- MacCormick Secure Center
Limited secure facilities:[5]
- Finger Lakes Residential Center
- Highland Residential Center
- Industry Residential Center
- Sgt. Henry Johnson Youth Leadership Academy
- Taberg Residential Center for Girls
- Ella MacQueen Reception Center for Boys and Girls
Non-secure facility:[5]
- Brentwood Residential Center
- Red Hook Residential Center
- ^ Executive Law § 500. "There is hereby continued in the department of family assistance an autonomous office of children and family services. The head of such office shall be the commissioner of children and family services, [...]"
- ^ The Welfare Reform Act of 1997, Chap. 436 of the Laws of 1997, § 122. "(a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary, effective April 1, 1997, the department of social services, as established by chapter 55 of the consolidated laws of the state of New York, is hereby renamed the department of family assistance. Within the department there shall be the following autonomous offices: (1) the office of children and family services; and (2) the office of temporary and disability assistance. (b) The head of the office of children and family services shall be the commissioner of children and family services and the head of the office of temporary and disability assistance shall be the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance. [...]"
- ^ "Contact New York State Office of Children & Family Services." New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Retrieved on June 3, 2010. "Capital View Office Park 52 Washington Street Rensselaer, New York 12144-2834"
- ^ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ a b c d "DJJOY Facilities" (Map). New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Retrieved on April 22, 2015.


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If he was anti-Rengar, props to Riot for doing something different instead of nerfing him greatly or something.
Riots new favorite skill: leaping champions
Also that purple and green look a bit familiar..
After reading his mechanics a few times over, I might get him. He seems fun.
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