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Mother and daughter forced to flee as fire destroys their Chislehurst home
Updated 9:24am Thursday 14th February 2013 in Bromley By Patrick Grafton-Green, reporter
A WOMAN, her daughter and their pets fled the scene as flames engulfed a house in Chislehurst this morning.
Twenty fire fighters and four fire engines - from Sidcup, Eltham and Downham - battled the blaze in Elmstead Avenue after fire services were called at 8.24am.
The woman and her daughter - reportedly with their three cats and two dogs - had evacuated the building before fire services arrived.
The roof and first floor of the house were completely destroyed, while the ground floor suffered some damage.
The fire also spread to the neighbouring house, where a small part of the roof was damaged..
No one was hurt in the incident.
Sally Devito, Watch Manager, Sidcup Fire Station, said: "The fire fighters worked extremely hard to stop the fire spreading further.
"The house (next door) was saved through the hard work of the firefighters.
"The people who live there were alerted after their smoke alarm went off."
"It is very fortunate no one was hurt."
David Moore, 66, lives in Elmstead Avenue, and witnessed the fire fighters dealing with the fire.
He said: "When I left the house fire engines were coming up the road.
"It was huge - I couldn't see a lot of fire but there was black smoke was blowing all over the place.
"When the fire fighters started putting the fire out water from the hoses was running right down the house."
The fire has now been put out and a fire investigation team is looking into the cause.
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By RACHAEL OSBORNE
---- — PLATTSBURGH — Organizers of the Imaginarium Children's Museum are hoping to stir excitement and draw volunteers from the community during Sunday's grand-opening celebration.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., all are invited to conduct experiments in the brand-new science room, play with never-before-seen exhibits, learn about museum-membership opportunities and more.
"Basically, it's our big hurrah, saying we're here and we would love for you to come and see what we've been doing … we have all these new things," said Karen Dispo-De Boos, the museum's marketing director. "Our grand opening is also our kickoff for our regular hours that we're going to start installing."
The exhibits focus on interactive, hands-on exploration, imaginative play and fun. They include a new Construction Zone, complete with tools and a workbench; and the Glow Room, which features light tables, an activity similar to the popular Lite-Brite toy, and other surprises. A farmers market with realistic-looking plastic vegetables and a cash register is also featured, as well as a climbing wall, reading corner and more.
Also new is the dentist area, an exhibit featuring dental X-rays, an X-ray viewer and dental chair, all donated by a local practice.
"It's educational … I think it's also a good thing because it will help children to be less afraid of the dentist," Dispo-De Boos said.
"It's definitely a discovery museum," she added. "We want our kids to come and play and learn."
One reason the Imaginarium is unique is because it combines science and imaginative play to create something for everyone, said Alicia Roberts Frank, vice president of operations.
"A lot of the (children's museums) are either scientific or they're imaginative play, and we're trying to do a bit of both to appeal to all ages," she said.
"We're trying to reach everyone so that when a family comes, the older kids aren't bored; they have something that's interesting, too."
Sunday's Science Spectacular program will offer hands-on learning projects for the older children.
"I have someone who's going to be doing film-canister rockets, self-inflating balloons, invisible ink …" Frank said.
"We're having things like Goop and Gak and Oobleck … floating eggs and just little activities you can do at home."
The goal, she said, is to encourage learning through play and provide an avenue for kids to become inquisitive about their world.
Other projects, including a Sensory Zone, are in the works, with some dreams yet to be imagined.
"Because it's a community project, we want community input," Frank said. "If it's only a couple of us making decisions, then it becomes what we want and not what everyone wants, so the more voices and people we can get on the table, the better."
Frank and Dispo-De Boos, who each have two small children, said volunteers can help in many different ways.
"We're looking for people to help with exhibits, for people to help with programs, people who would be willing to staff open play (sessions)," Frank said.
Help cleaning up and setting up would also be greatly appreciated, Dispo-De Boos said.
Organizers are drawing ideas for exhibits from a number of other children's museums across the world. They aim to incorporate those plans into the museum's future permanent location, pending grant funding and a capital campaign to raise $10 million. The ground-breaking could happen as soon as spring 2014.
Frank said there are no limits to what the museum could become.
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27-40 21st Street
Astoria NY , 11102-8777
phone: (800)275-8777
|Private / Parochial Schools
St. Raphael's R.C. School (preK-8)
48-25 37th St.
Long Island City NY , 11101
phone: (718) 784-0482
Ideal Islamic School
31-21 12th St.
Astoria NY, 11102
phone: (718) 728-5307
|Public Elementary Schools
PS 017 Henry David Thoreau (Q017)
28-37 29 Street
Long Island City NY , 11102
phone: (718) 278-8257
PS 17 Mini School (Q17M)
28-37 29 Street
Long Island City NY , 11102
30-15 29 Street
Astoria NY , 11102
phone: (718) 932-5650
PS 171 Peter G Van Alst (Q171)
14-14 29 Avenue
Long Island City NY , 11102
phone: (718) 932-0909
fax: (718) 932-6749
|Public High Schools
William Bryant HS
48-10 31 Avenue
Long Island City NY , 11103
phone: (718) 721-5404
fax: (718) 728-3478
Aviation HS
45-30 36 Street
Long Island City NY , 11101
phone: (718) 784-8654
Long Island City HS
14-30 Broadway
Long Island City NY , 11106
phone: (718) 545-7095
fax: (718) 545-2980
|Public Intermediate / Junior High Schools
Academy for New Americans (Q235)
30-14 30 Street
Astoria NY , 11102
phone: (718) 932-5876
|Senior Centers
Raices Astoria Senior Center
21-21 30 Drive
Long Island City NY , 11102
phone: (718) 726-9642
|Elected Officials
|NYC Council
Hon. Costa Constantinides
District Office 31-09 Newtown Avenue, Suite 209
Astoria NY, 11102
phone: (718) 274-4500
fax: (718) 726-0357
Manhattan Office 250 Broadway, Suite 1
New York NY, 10007
|NYS Assembly
Hon. Aravella Simotas
District Office 31-19 Newtown Avenue, Suite 401
Astoria NY, 11102
phone: (718) 545-3889
fax: (718) 545-3607
Albany Office LOB, Room 652
Albany NY, 12248
phone: (518) 455-5014
fax: (518) 455-4044
|NYS Senate
Hon. Michael Gianaris
District Office 31-19 Newtown Avenue, Suite 402
Astoria NY , 11102
phone: (718) 728-0960
fax: (718) 728-0963
Albany Office Senate Capitol Building, Room 413
Albany NY, 12247
phone: (518) 455-3486
fax: (518) 426-6929
|US Congress
Hon. Carolyn Maloney
District Office 31-19 Newtown Avenue
Astoria NY , 11102
phone: (718) 932-1804
fax: (718) 932-1805
Legislative Office 2308 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington DC, 20515
phone: (202) 225-7944
fax: (202) 225-4709
|Boro President
Hon. Melinda Katz
Hon. Bill de Blasio
Astoria's western border is the East River. The southern border is just north of Queens Plaza, though the Post Office marks it along Broadway and 31st Avenue. The eastern border with Woodside is 50th Street.
Astoria dates to the colonial 1650s, when William Hallett Sr. received a land grant for what would become known as Astoria and Hallet's Cove. Stephen Halsey founded the village in 1839, naming Astoria after John Jacob Astor. In the 1870s William Steinway built Steinway Village for workers at Steinway & Sons Piano Factory.
Waves of immigrants have made Astoria home, from Czechs in the 1890s to Brazilians in the 1990s. Though famous for Greeks, Italians-Americans were more numerous until recently.
Long Island City lies in western Queens across the East River from Manhattan. The history of Long Island City spans more than 360 years from its humble beginning as Dutch farmland in the 1640s to its growth into a residential and commercial hub. On the western shore of Queens, Long Island City borders the East River to the north and west (spanning the length of midtown Manhattan to Harlem), Newtown creek to the south, and 51st/Hobart Street to the east. Although it has always been an integral part of the history of New York City, Long Island City has its own unique past.
Chartered in 1870, Long Island City was the merging of the village of Astoria and several hamlets such as Steinway, Ravenswood, and Hunters Point. Long Island City existed independently from New York City for 28 years until it was incorporated by the City of New York in the consolidation of 1898.
During the late 1800's, there was an increase in the commercial and industrial life of New York City, bringing about an increase in European immigration and a greater demand for real estate in Astoria. This era marked the beginning of the German settlement of Astoria by German cabinet makers. Few people have done so much to transform a country village into a community as the German immigrant Henry Steinway, patriarch of the Steinway Piano factory. After building a piano factory in 1853, Steinway and his family erected both a sawmill and a foundry. They carved out streets and opened a streetcar line; they built what was known as Steinway Village, complete with Victorian row houses, a church, and a school where German was taught as a second language. They also provided workers with one of the first free kindergartens in the United States.
The Long Island Rail Road terminal was built on Hunters Point in 1861, which helped the district become an industrial center during the Civil War. After the villages were consolidated into Long Island City, the new city government encouraged developing industry; gas plants, chemical and glass factories soon lined the East River waterfront.
The status of Astoria was changed in 1898, when it became part of greater New York City. Large farms and country estates were transformed into housing tracts for single family homes and apartment complexes. The largest gasworks in New York State and a railroad trestle for the Pennsylvania Railroad were constructed. By the end of the 19th century, the city had the highest concentration of industry in the United States.
In 1909, the biggest transformation began with the opening of the Queensboro Bridge, immediately changing the community from a remote suburb to a destination minutes from Manhattan. Continuing this expansion, the Second Avenue elevated train opened in 1917, connecting Long Island City even more closely to Manhattan. The Queensboro Bridge and the Second Avenue train proved only to be the beginning of the routes in and out of Long Island City. The Triboro Bridge, linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens, was finished on July 11th, 1936. Today, Long Island City is connected with the rest of New York City by six tunnels and five bridges. The development of bridges, tunnels and roads helped make Long Island City an accessible and vital industrial area for New York City.
Astoria Pool opened with much fanfare on the fourth of July in the scorching summer of 1936 on the first day of the Olympic trials. It was the best of 10 pools that opened within a 10-week span in what was dubbed as "the swimming pool year". It is still the city's largest pool (54,450 sq. ft.). Tens of thousands have enjoyed the warm water of Astoria Pool since its opening.
The Astoria branch is located at the corner Astoria Boulevard and 14th Street in Astoria. The branch opened on November 19th 1904. The total construction cost was $47,208.09. An addition was added to the original building in 1936. WPA artist Max Spivak's circus mural graces the wall of the Adult room. The branch is 8600 square feet. The orange brick building stands one story high.
More information about the community of Astoria is available from the following sources:
300 years of Long Island City : 1630-1930 by Vincent F. Seyfried.
According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one of two American men and one of three American women will have some type of cancer at some point during their lifetime. Queens Library HealthLink seeks to increase access to cancer screening and cancer treatment among medically underserved communities in Queens. Queens Library HealthLink is a partnership between Queens Library, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital and the American Cancer Society.


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Hawaii Kai in Wildwood Crest
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
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- community Hawaii Kai
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Beautiful Wildwood Crest professionally decorated Condo just one
block from the beach! Located on the third floor above all the
hustle and bustle of the vacation crowd, but your still able to walk just one block to the beach. If you don't want the beach then just lounge pool side.
Eateries and restaurants all around, no need to cook! If you do wish to cook
the condo units full kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite
countertops are at your disposal. Put your feet up and take a rest on the
private balcony. If you choose to stay inside the unit has free Wi-Fi and cable
TV. Hop on the local trolley bus and hit the Wildwood boardwalk. Cape May and
its shops are only a short drive away.
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- One block to beach
- Granit Countertops in kitchen and bathrooms
- Stainless steel appliances
- Pool
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer
- Dishwasher
- Covered Reserved Parking (two spaces cars only no trailers)
- Free Wi-Fi
- HD Cable TV
- 2 Queen beds
- Bunk bed (sleeps 2)
- Pull out full size sofa bed
activities and attractions in Wildwood Crest New Jersey
- Wildwood
Crest Beaches
- Wildwood
- Short Drive to Cape May
- Dolphin
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bicycle built for two ...or four
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$2,500 plus $500 security deposit. Rentals are from Saturday 2pm to Saturday 10am. Rented by a week or more. Sorry no day to day rentals.
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Illegal Immigration and Children
Witnesses testified on the status of illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and the impact of immigration reform laws on the economy.
*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
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- Denham, Jeff U.S. Representative [R] California
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- Amodei, Mark U.S. Representative [R] Nevada
- Duke, Barrett Official Southern Baptist Convention->Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
- Garcia, Joe U.S. Representative [D] Florida
- Gardner, Cory U.S. Representative [R] Colorado
- Goodlatte, Robert "Bob" U.S. Representative [R] Virginia
- Gowdy, Trey U.S. Representative [R] South Carolina
- Gutiérrez, Luis U.S. Representative [D] Illinois
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- King, Steven "Steve" U.S. Representative [R] Iowa
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- Lofgren, Zoe U.S. Representative [D] California
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Soft embarkation, and the best disembarkation I ever experienced! A nice ship, with nice service, few noise, few announcments and so comfort despite number of passengers. Quite impossible to imagine beeing on a mega-ship (despite od course number of proposals ans activities). In fact all the advantages of a mega-ship without the inconveniences, and all of the pleasures of a smedium sized ship (like Pacific Princess) with the offers of a mega. I do not know how Princess gain this result? But wonderful! And "Movies unders the stars" is far awy from a gadget, it 's a very plus.
I appreciate too the advices of the port lecturer as I have been abble to sightsee individually, as I prefer generally.Of all my cruises it's the first time I got such nice and pertinent advices.
As a frenchman, used to gastronomy (by education an culture) I can say too that cooking on board was a great experience.
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Obama's "blame game" attempt on immigration crisis is weak broth
As usual our "Blamer-in-Chief" is trying to lay off the blame for the crisis at the border on others. Adriana Cohen of the Boston Herald points out why that dog won't hunt:
The massive crisis of tens of thousands of illegal children and hundreds of thousands of illegal adults flooding over our borders is, no surprise, not President Obama's fault. It may have been entirely preventable, and certainly was highly predictable. But as usual, six years after he took office, the blame belongs elsewhere.
It's the Republicans, blocking immigration reform, the Obama administration wants you to believe. They're even trying to hang it on Obama's favorite blame target, George W. Bush, saying deportations are being slowed by a bipartisan 2008 law aimed at human trafficking — a claim none other than Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein says doesn't hold water, while other critics note it's a little thin, blaming a crisis now on a law that's been around for six years.
As Mitt Romney noted in 2012, "For two years, this president had huge majorities in the House and Senate — he was free to pursue any policy he pleased. But he did nothing to advance a permanent fix for our broken immigration system."
The crisis is in fact wholly owned by the Democrats.
Democrats — here and elsewhere — have been pushing for years to let people without Social Security numbers have driver's licenses and welfare benefits. They've pushed for in-state university tuition for people who don't belong here. Obama himself acted to dramatically reduce deportations — specifically of children — and has broadly signaled he wants to legalize the estimated 12 million illegals.
Who can blame the hundreds of thousands flooding across our borders for thinking they are welcome? The Democrats told them so. Never mind that 92 million Americans are unemployed or no longer looking for jobs.
And now he's out fundraising while refusing yet again to take a leadership role in solving the crisis. While in Texas, one of the states effected by this crisis, he refused the governor's invitation to visit the border, preferring again, to talk about it instead (another of his endless and useless roundtables that solve zip).
Can the President really come to Texas to fundraise and avoid going to the border? Now two Southwest Democrat congressmen have spoken out, saying it's an important issue and he should schedule a visit. Henry Cuellar said exactly that while making the comment that this issue could be Obama's Katrina Moment, and then Raul Grijalva, representing Arizona's 3rd district, chimed in,urging the President to go.
The answer to the question is "yes". And not only that he can then go to Colorado, swill beer, play pool and pretend all is well. Beer and pool – the modern version of Nero's fiddle.
I see the left hyperventilating over all this impeachment talk, but if ever a guy was working hard to give good cause to be removed, it is this clown.
Obama myth of a strong and decisive leader finally meets reality
I'm not sure why a majority of America once did consider Obama a strong and decisive leader, but then there are a lot of things I can't explain. But Gallup's latest poll makes it clear than President Obama is no long considered a strong and decisive leader, at least for the moment:
After six messy weeks — defined chiefly by the partial government shutdown and troubled rollout of the federal government's healthcare exchange website — President Barack Obama's reputation with the American public has faltered in some ways, but not in others. Most notably, for the first time in his presidency, fewer than half of Americans, 47%, say Obama is a "strong and decisive leader," down six percentage points since September.
The current spin coming from the White House and Democrats says this is all a cumulative bump in the road that had to be suffered. The disastrous ObamaCare rollout, the government shutdown, the perceived lie about keeping one's healthcare insurance if they wanted it have all, as Obama's favorite preacher would say have "come home to roost".
The question, however, isn't when will this pass, but whether it will pass at all? Is this just a bump in the road for the Obama team or is it the "new normal" for him?
There's no question the trend in his approval ratings the past few months have been anything but encouraging. One thing politicians have learned throughout the ages that they're unlikely to keep their job if they lose the trust of their constituency. There's obviously very little reason for Obama to be concerned about losing his job, however, loss of trust now, barely into his second term, could mean his second term agenda is all but dead on arrival. His desire to push immigration reform and climate change legislation wouldn't even get our of the starting gate. That's because other politicians, the ones he needs to get the job done for him, will have no fear of defying his wishes and facing the wrath of the people.
So how has Mr. Obama's trustworthiness done? Not well:
Similarly, the share of Americans who view Obama as "honest and trustworthy" has dipped five points. Exactly half of Americans still consider Obama honest and trustworthy, but this is down from 55% in September and 60% in mid-2012 as Obama was heading toward re-election.
He's at 50% and sinking. And you've got other Democrats taking the lead in trying to fix the ObamaCare debacle while he seems to be doing what he usually does – dither.
The hit, then, to both his trustworthiness and decisiveness are a bit of a double whammy to his ambitious agenda. And it may not be recoverable as Gallup points out:
Of more concern for the White House, Obama's once-positive image as a strong and decisive leader has suffered, in addition to his longtime reputation for being honest and trustworthy. Of these, the decline in Obama's honesty rating may be the most noteworthy because Gallup has previously found that this dimension is one of the most important drivers of his overall job approval. Thus, the recent controversy over whether the president honestly described Americans' ability to retain their own healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act could have the most significant implications for his presidency.
As Insty would say, indeed. Taking hits in decisiveness and trustworthiness are not hits you shrug off. They represent core qualities or a lack thereof and once lost, they're very hard to regain. Mr. Obama is seen more and more to be lacking those qualities. That doesn't bode will for him in the next 3 years.
The usual lack of leadership from a petty partisan ideologue
Not that it should come as any surprise to those familiar with our president. Nile Gardiner hits the sore spot:
The American Left's hatred for all things conservative has been on full display in Washington in recent days, with the White House and its allies in Congress heaving with anger and indignation over mounting opposition to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and growing calls to defund it. President Obama has blamed Tea Party Republicans for what he calls a right-wing "ideological crusade" prompting the federal government shutdown. As the president put it in his Rose Garden press conference, "they've shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans. In other words, they demanded ransom just for doing their job." Obama allies have used similar inflammatory language over the past week, aimed at demonising anyone who disagrees with their approach. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has railed against Tea Party "anarchists," and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has attacked what she calls "legislative arsonists." Even former Vice President Al Gore has jumped in to the fray, accusing the GOP of "political terrorism."
The harsh invective flowing from Washington's liberal establishment has been nasty, juvenile and petty. This should be a moment for humility for the White House over its hugely unpopular Obamacare reforms, which are opposed by a significant majority of the American people. Ironically President Obama turns the other cheek on the world stage when it comes to challenges to US global power, and has made the appeasement of America's enemies and strategic competitors into a form of art. But he acts in a truly imperial fashion at home, refusing to listen to the slightest hint of criticism domestically. This is a president who happily apologises for his country's past when he travels abroad, in thoroughly humiliating fashion for the United States, but cannot bring himself to acknowledge that his own policies might be wrong.
That's exactly right. And he makes it clear he's not going to take a leadership role – like a petulant child, he'll just refuse to deal with others. Fred Barnes points out the obvious:
Presidents have two roles. In the current impasse, Mr. Obama emphasizes his partisan role as leader of the Democratic Party. It's a legitimate role. But as president, he's the only national leader elected by the entire nation. He alone represents all the people. And this second, nonpartisan role takes precedence in times of trouble, division or dangerous stalemate. A president is expected to take command. Mr. Obama hasn't done that.
The extent to which he has abdicated this role shows up in his speeches. On the eve of the shutdown, he warned that a government closure "will have a very real economic impact on real people, right away." Defunding or delaying his health-care program—the goal of Republicans—would have even worse consequences, he suggested. "Tens of thousands of Americans die every single year because they don't have access to affordable health care," Mr. Obama said.
In an appearance in the White House pressroom, he said that "military personnel—including those risking their lives overseas for us right now—will not get paid on time" should Republicans force a shutdown. At an appearance in Largo, Md., the president accused Republicans of "threatening steps that would actually badly hurt our economy . . . Even if you believe that ObamaCare somehow was going to hurt the economy, it won't hurt the economy as bad as a government shutdown."
Yet as he was predicting widespread suffering, Mr. Obama steadfastly refused to negotiate with Republicans. He told House Speaker John Boehner in a phone call that he wouldn't be talking to him anymore. With the shutdown hours away, he called Mr. Boehner again. He still didn't negotiate and said he wouldn't on the debt limit either.
Mr. Obama has made Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid his surrogate in the conflict with Republicans. Mr. Reid has also declined to negotiate. In fact, Politico reported that when the president considered meeting with Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, along with the two Democratic congressional leaders, Mr. Reid said he wouldn't attend and urged Mr. Obama to abandon the idea. The president did just that.
The man is a presidential bust – and I don't mean the type that sits on a pedestal. He's never had it, he will never have it and we're going to continue to suffer because instead of any leadership qualities the only thing this man can boast is petty partisanship. He's a master at that. He's essentially said that he'll not negotiate and he'll use his bully pulpit to insult and degrade his opposition.
Some "leader".
Until he steps up and assumes that role – this is his shutdown.
What if Obama can't lead?
That's the question headlining a Ron Fournier article in National Journal. My first reaction was to laugh out loud. My second reaction was to wonder why it has taken all this time for someone in the press to actually ask that question.
The evidence of his lack of leadership has been on the table for 4 plus years. And for me that's a double edged sword. On the one side, I'm happy he's such a dismal leader because it limits what he can destroy. On the other side, especially the policy side both foreign and domestic, it has led to a decline in almost all areas. A decline a real leader will have to address when Obama is finally relegated to history.
Anyway, here's Fournier's take:
In March, a reporter asked Obama why he didn't lock congressional leaders in a room until they agreed on a budget deal. Obama's answer was based on two assumptions. First, that his opinion is supreme. Second, he can't break the logjam. What a remarkable combination of arrogance and impotence.
"I am not a dictator. I'm the president," he said. "I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that's been floating around Washington; that somehow, even though most people agree that I'm being reasonable, that most people agree I'm presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don't take it means that I should somehow do a Jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what's right."
Obama could still do great things. But not if he and his advisers underestimate a president's powers, and don't know how to exploit them. Not if his sympathizers give Obama cover by minimizing his influence. Cover to fail. Not if the president himself is outwardly and boundlessly dismissive of his critics, telling The New York Times, "I'm not concerned about their opinions."
To say the situation is intractable seems akin to waving a white flag over a polarized capital: Republicans suck. We can't deal with them. Let's quit.
I'm afraid they have quit—all of them, on both sides. At the White House and in Congress, most Democrats and Republicans have abandoned hope of fixing the nation's problems. If leadership was merely about speaking to the converted, winning fights and positioning for blame, America would be in great hands. But it's not.
Well I'm not so sure they've quit … or at least Obama hasn't quit. He has no desire to persuade or do the hard work of a leader and work with Congress. Instead, where he's headed does give lie to his claim of not being dictator. That's precisely what he'd prefer to be. And Daniel Henninger brings you that bit of insight:
Please don't complain later that you didn't see it coming. As always, Mr. Obama states publicly what his intentions are. He is doing that now. Toward the end of his speech last week in Jacksonville, Fla., he said: "So where I can act on my own, I'm going to act on my own. I won't wait for Congress." (Applause.)
The July 24 speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., has at least four references to his intent to act on his own authority, as he interprets it: "That means whatever executive authority I have to help the middle class, I'll use it." (Applause.) And: "We're going to do everything we can, wherever we can, with or without Congress."
Every president since George Washington has felt frustration with the American system's impediments to change. This president is done with Congress.
The political left, historically inclined by ideological belief to public policy that is imposed rather than legislated, will support Mr. Obama's expansion of authority. The rest of us should not.
And Obama is engaged in the systematic demonization of the other two coequal branches of government in order to sway the public toward his dictatorial inclinations:
To create public support for so much unilateral authority, Mr. Obama needs to lessen support for the other two branches of government—Congress and the judiciary. He is doing that.
Mr. Obama and his supporters in the punditocracy are defending this escalation by arguing that Congress is "gridlocked." But don't overstate that low congressional approval rating. This is the one branch that represents the views of all Americans. It's gridlocked because voters are.
Take a closer look at the Galesburg and Jacksonville speeches. Mr. Obama doesn't merely criticize Congress. He mocks it repeatedly. Washington "ignored" problems. It "made things worse." It "manufactures" crises and "phony scandals." He is persuading his audiences to set Congress aside and let him act.
So too the judiciary. During his 2010 State of the Union speech, Mr. Obama denounced the Supreme Court Justices in front of him. The National Labor Relations Board has continued to issue orders despite two federal court rulings forbidding it to do so. Attorney General Eric Holder says he will use a different section of the Voting Rights Act to impose requirements on Southern states that the Supreme Court ruled illegal. Mr. Obama's repeated flouting of the judiciary and its decisions are undermining its institutional authority, as intended.
Clearly, Obama's arrogance leads him to believe that a ruler is what we need, not a president. And he's up for that job, because it doesn't brook interference and it doesn't require leadership. Tyranny is the the usual place people who couldn't lead an alcoholic to a bar end up. And we're watching that happen now.
Henninger ends his piece with a final, ironic quote:
"To ensure that no person or group would amass too much power, the founders established a government in which the powers to create, implement, and adjudicate laws were separated. Each branch of government is balanced by powers in the other two coequal branches." Source: The White House website of President Barack Obama.
Our Constitutional scholar is now involved in a process to wreck that balance and enhance executive powers to the point that he really doesn't need Congress or the courts. And a compliant media along will the left will do everything in their power to enable the transition. Because their ideas and ideology would never pass the test of a real democracy and they have little chance of persuading the population to go along with them. So imposition is truly the only route open. That's precisely what you're going to see in Obama's remaining years as president. Executive imposition of his version of laws or, if you prefer, a brand of executive lawlessness unprecedented in our history.
But then, that's what dictators do, isn't it?
Are MoDo, et al, finally figuring it out after 6 years?
Maureen Dowd must be a little slow on the uptake if she is just figuring this out:
ABC News's Jonathan Karl asked Obama if he was already out of "juice" to pass his agenda, citing the president's inability to get a watered-down gun bill passed in the Senate, Congress swatting away Obama on the sequester cuts, and the recent passage of a cybersecurity bill in the House with 92 Democrats on board, despite a veto threat from the White House.
"Well, if you put it that way, Jonathan, maybe I should just pack up and go home," President Obama said with a flash of irritation, before tossing off a Mark Twain line: "Rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point."
Then he put on his best professorial mien to give his high-minded philosophy of governance: Reason together and do what's right.
"But, Jonathan," he lectured Karl, "you seem to suggest that somehow, these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. That's their job. They are elected, members of Congress are elected in order to do what's right for their constituencies and for the American people."
Actually, it is his job to get them to behave. The job of the former community organizer and self-styled uniter is to somehow get this dunderheaded Congress, which is mind-bendingly awful, to do the stuff he wants them to do. It's called leadership.
He still thinks he'll do his thing from the balcony and everyone else will follow along below. That's not how it works.
That may not be how it works, but for 6 long years, that's how he's pretended it worked, acted like it worked and claimed it worked. Of course he's not ever been a leader nor has he ever lead. Even his foreign policy has been a position of non-leadership (euphemistically called "leading from behind"). The great sucking sound you hear in DC these days isn't just the GOP leadership. It's the leadership void of this president.
Of course, it is a bit funny that the sycophants of the press are just now getting around to figuring out how ineffective the man is. And while we've been pointing out this lack of leadership from day 1 of his presidency, let me note that, in a meta sense, it is probably a good thing he's such a lousy leader. Lord knows what other abominable laws we'd be stuck with right now if he had even a clue about how to lead.
Obama's second term: Thunder, lightning, but likely little rain
I think Philip Klein has the best read on Obama's second inaugural speech. Oh, it had lots of things to make the left wet itself in joy, but, well, here's what Klein thinks (he bases his conclusion on 2 lines in the speech):
This brings us to the two lines in Monday's speech. He declared that, "We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit." This is Barack Obama, bold leader speaking (with an extra twist of irony given that the signature legislative accomplishment of his first term was supposedly aimed at containing the growth of health care costs). Then, he said, "But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future." Translation: he isn't going to do anything to seriously reform Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, and wants more economic stimulus spending, too. So, within a breath of calling for hard choices, he rejected the need for them. I can think of no more fitting summation of Obama's presidency.
I pretty much agree. He'll talk tough and then go to Hawaii. He'll claim the desire to do all sorts of things and then hit the links.
Leadership takes another 4 year holiday.
In his case, it might be a good thing, although it means nothing with entitlement reform will happen – again. We're instead going to play around the edges of immigration, gun control and global warming.
Hillary jumps under the Obama bus … or was she pushed?
Seriously. After spending 8 years holding Bush responsible for everything from 9/11 (it was an "inside job") to a Pelosi's hangnail, we now have the left settling on "it's Hillary's fault"?
Truman's "buck" stops at the State Department now?
The point, of course, as any good commander in the military knows, is that everything that happens or doesn't happen while you are in command is your responsibility.
So this doesn't cut the mustard:
"I take responsibility," Clinton said during a visit to Peru. "I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. The president and the vice president wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They're the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision."
Hillary, for political reasons, is trying to fall on Obama's sword for him. Someone has to take the blame (and Bush is unavailable for this one) so Obama can once again seem faultless. He does no wrong, you know. And besides, he has a debate tonight and he wants someone to point his finger at when the subject is inevitably brought up. Now he has her.
Jumped? Or pushed?
This episode illustrates how spot on Eastwood's empty chair metaphor really is. John McCain, the stopped clock that is right twice a day, actually gets this one right:
"The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the commander-in-chief. The buck stops there."
Of course the left first tried to blame it on the GOP claiming they'd cut millions from State's security budget.
Here's the bottom line on that line of attack: If you have a security contingent of Marines in the Embassy at Barbados, but not Tripoli or Benghanzi, your problem isn't "funding". It's resource allocation and politics.
Secondly, when something like this happens, you don't act like a politician, you act like a leader. IF you're a leader.
This past weekend we were treated to the spectacle of David Axlerod avoiding answering Chris Wallace's direct question about whether or not Obama met with his national security advosors and State in the aftermath of the murder of the US ambassador in Libya.
We all knew the answer before Wallace finished the question. And Axlerod's non-answer answer confirmed it.
Hell no, he was late for a political fund raiser in Las Vegas, and besides, these are just "bumps in the road".
While Clinton's attempt will seem courageous and loyal to some, it is pure, calculated politics. Hillary knows that by 2016 this will be well behind here and, actually, an advantage, since she'll have stepped up into the leadership void and acted like a leader. Obama? Not so much.
And make no mistake, as the state of the world and our foreign policy have announced loudly this past month – we are indeed suffering from a leadership void.
The empty chair we now have must be filled. We, nor the world, can afford 4 more years of it remaining empty.
America in decline?
That's the consensus in an interesting poll just published:
More than two-thirds of voters say the United States is declining, and a clear majority think the next generation will be worse off than this one, according to the results of a new poll commissioned by The Hill.
A resounding 69 percent of respondents said the country is "in decline," the survey found, while 57 percent predict today's kids won't live better lives than their parents. Additionally, 83 percent of voters indicated they're either very or somewhat worried about the future of the nation, with 49 percent saying they're "very worried."
The results suggest that Americans don't view the country's current economic and political troubles as temporary, but instead see them continuing for many years.
My father used to tell me "you live between your ears" meaning attitude and outlook are yours to control and play a critical part in life.
Attitude and outlook are also critical in any sort of economic recovery. If the attitude is pessimistic and the outlook deemed as dismal, it sometimes becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I remember back in the days of the Jimmy Carter presidency, the "malaise" that settled in on the country. People felt everything was out of control. Interest rates were through the roof, we were seen as a paper tiger in the world and whatever else Jimmy Carter might be, he wasn't much of a leader. Everyone then thought America was in decline then too.
But then Ronald Reagan came along, took charge, changed the attitude and outlook of Americans and, well, the rest is literally history.
One of the key jobs of a President of the United States is to address the country's outlook and attitude. It is a very important aspect of leadership. It is also critical to recovery from economic problems, unemployment and other ills that are besetting our country. It is about setting up the proper climate to make attitudes swing to the positive side and the outlook appear rosier.
One of the things I've said consistently since Barack Obama has taken office is he's not (nor has he ever been) a leader. That's actually no surprise to me because I understand what leadership requires. In a word, development. The great leaders of today, with very few exceptions, worked their way up to their ultimate leadership job through a series of lesser leadership jobs.
I use military examples because they're familiar to me, but no division commander ever took that job that hadn't first been a platoon leader, then company commander, battalion commander and brigade commander.
And even then, some division commanders are better than others. But regardless, their leadership skills have been developed and honed by successive leadership positions of increased size and responsibility. And the weak leaders have been cast aside in that process.
We've elected a man who hasn't even had a platoon, if you get my drift. And now we're asking him to lead (well, in reality, we ask him to lead 3 years ago) in a very difficult time.
This poll indicates how well he's doing.
In any school in the land, his grade in leadership would be "F".
Is America in decline? Under this president the answer is "yes". Does it have to remain in decline? No. But to change that, the first step is voting the present occupant of the White House out of office. The good news is we all know what happened to Jimmy Carter.
Twitter: @McQandO
More polling which points to electoral trouble for the President
As I pointed out yesterday, taken singly, polls indicate a snapshot in time. Taken collectively and analyzed, they provide trends. And those trends combined with the trends in other polls can mean good news or big trouble for incumbent politicians.
In the case of Barack Obama, they've repeatedly promised trouble. The latest? Public opinion on the state of the economy.
Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans – 90% – say that economic conditions remain poor.
The number, reported Friday in a new CNN/ORC International Poll, is the highest of Barack Obama's presidency and a significant increase from the 81% who said conditions were poor in June.
Of course when politicians see polls like this they look for whatever good news they can find:
For a White House now fully engaged in re-election efforts, there is one shred of good news: More than two and half years after inauguration day, Americans are still more likely to blame former President George W. Bush for current economic conditions.
The public has a bit of a incorrect view of the matter but such is life:
Asked which administration is to blame, 52% of Americans blame the previous Republican regime, while only 32% point a finger at Obama and Democrats.
There wasn't a "Republican regime". There was a Democratic Congress for the final two years of the Bush presidency. And, of course, while 52% may still blame Bush, didn't they hire Obama to fix the economy?
Meanwhile, enter Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States, with his usual wonderful timing, blurts out the political truth:
"There's a lot of people in Florida that have good reason to be upset because they've lost jobs. Even though 50 some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that's not relevant," Biden told WLRN's Phil Latzman.
"What's relevant is, we're in charge. And right now, we are the ones in charge, and it's gotten better but it hasn't gotten good enough. And in states like Florida it's even been more stagnant because of the real estate market. I don't blame them for being mad. We're in charge, and they're angry."
That's right – three years in, for better or worse, it's their economy. Biden finally has one right. Now it's up to the GOP to push that point home. And 3 years of pitiful performance is going to see the "Bush's fault" excuse wear thin.
Of course the final poll comes in November of 2012. That's the time this administration has to change the direction of the economy and the growing perception of poor leadership and a lack of viable solutions. The economy is indeed theirs, and political opponents will make sure that everyone knows they've been in charge (2 years with a Democratic Congress at the most critical juncture) while the economy has performed so dismally.
It's all there in the record.
Twitter: @McQandO
Obama fails "Leadership 101" – again
You are President of the United States. All 57 of them. And you have a challenge in front of you. The public is alarmed by the level of government debt and sharply rising deficits. Of course, being a "Constitutional law professor" you know that any action on this must be initiated by the House of Representatives since by law they are charged with the budget and appropriations. But because of a lack of confidence in the leadership of your party, as they held majorities in both chambers of Congress, the House was reclaimed by the opposition party who now enjoys a solid majority there.
So as a leader, you must address the reality of the situation, tone down the partisan rhetoric, make overtures to bipartisan cooperation and attempt to bridge the partisan gap that you and your party have helped create these past two years. Leadership 101.
Instead we got this – POLITICO lays it out for you:
President Barack Obama extended a fiscal olive branch to Republicans on Wednesday.
Then he beat them up with it. Obama's long-anticipated speech on the deficit at George Washington University was one of the oddest rhetorical hybrids of his presidency — a serious stab at reforming entitlements cloaked in a 2012 campaign speech that was one of the most overtly partisan broadsides he's ever delivered from a podium with a presidential seal.
I differ with the analysis – it wasn't a serious stab at anything. No details were present. Just a "framework", which is Obama's usual way of laying off responsibility or outsourcing his job to others. His entire first term, to date, has been about grand and nebulous words left to others to flesh out.
But back to the point – as someone, I believe it was Paul Ryan, said, instead of building bridges with his speech, Obama went about poisoning wells.
What he essentially acted like was a Senate back bencher throwing verbal bombs at the opposition. And, of course, if you recall, that's precisely what he was until he managed to fool enough people into electing him president.
How stupid was it to act as he did this past Wednesday?
But the combative tenor of Obama's remarks, which included a swipe at his potential 2012 GOP challengers, may have scuttled the stated purpose of the entire enterprise — to start negotiations with Republicans on a workable bipartisan approach to attacking the deficit.
And it didn't build much goodwill ahead of upcoming fights, especially the looming battle over raising the debt ceiling.
That's correct – the looming fights have now been made partisan by a president who set the tone. Donald Trump called him the worst president ever (well, unless Donald Trump were to become president that is). I have to agree – and I lived through Jimmy Carter who now seems almost competent in comparison.
Carter at least tried to be a leader. This man makes no attempt at leadership. He's a hack politician in way over his head and seems to thrive on political one-upsmanship, partisan bickering and playing politics with everything.
Leaders lead. Sounds trite and clichéd, but as was said about porn, you know one when you see one.
I've known many leaders in my day, and Mr. Obama is no leader.


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-Very clean studio condo faces east on the third floor of Pirates
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-One queen bed and a double size pull-out sofa, tile floors,
kitchenette with full size refrigerator.
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-4 person maximum occupancy.
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Should I share my OOP-CRUD journey?
Would sharing the result of my struggles to achieve an OOP based CRUD design strategy (through, say, an article) be worthwhile?
After over 200 posts to the Sitepoint site alone, and many hours of technical searches on OOP and CRUD (largely futile), book purchases and blind alleys; I've come up with a strategy that appears to serve as a general template beyond my specific application.
I'd like to share it to save others the struggle I've had -- BUT
1) Since I am no longer in IT (former mainframe programmer/analyst), I have no suitable contacts or criteria to know if it's good or it stinks. Where might I look to get competent feedback (given that it is perhaps too large for a forum post)?
2) If it is worthwhile, where should I publish it to share with an audience that could use it?
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I'd start here! See reactions and thoughts and then from there you may want to take it to a blog after your article has been refined :-)Kyle Wolfe
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Here's a first draft of a snippet after any introductory comments.
Overall Structure
The idea is that the CRUD activity results from interaction with the user through sending and processing of forms sent to a computer screen. Under this condition, I found that an effective OOP-CRUD structure need exploit only the Inheritance and Encapsulation components of Object Orientation.
The abstract template components of the client pseudo-conversation encapsulates
- The Form Abstract: a component for formatting, populating and sending a form to the client,
- The ParseForm Abstract: a component for receiving, parsing and taking appropriate action on the client's response and
- The DataManager Abstract: instantiated by the above components to handle the specific CRUD syntax in the language that the data store requires.
The Form Abstract
The form abstract delegates only the capture of the data the form requires (call this Abstract Function Capture) and the preparation of a child page's unique content (call this Abstract Function BuildContent).
So what's left? Quite a lot, actually. The abstract is more code intensive than any of it children. Which is, I believe, vindication of its role. There's the general layout of the form that includes the heading, any navigation menus or ribbons, meta-data, and any stylesheets and scripts that support them. There needs to be a means to handle messaging and there is also the opportunity for generic functions that the inheriting forms can use.
Without getting ahead of ourselves, perhaps a technical specification of the Form Abstract is in order.
Upon instantiation, the Form Abstract must
- (To assure proper base addresses to dynamically build file paths) establish whether the application is running in test mode on a local environment or in production mode on the host.
- Build a header as a variable that contains an icon path, the general application title and an optional subtitle.
- Capture any unique data required from the instantiated child by invoking abstract function named Capture.
- Grab the child's unique content as a variable from the instantiated child by invoking an abstract function named BuildContent.
- Format any messages in a variable by invoking a local function named FormatMessages which takes an array as an argument. This local function renders that array in the display language (such as xhtml).
- Send the form to the client by invoking a local function named Showwhich, in addition to the fixed format, allows substitution of the above variables.
In addition, for the convenience of the children, create a local, inheritable function that will render a simple array into a drop down list of the display language. It takes two arguments: the array containing the entries in the drop down list, and an optional field containing the item in the list to pre-select.
What's left for the children?
So the children that inherit form this Form Abstract concentrate solely on what data they need to acquire (Function Capture) and formatting it into the display language (Function BuildContent).
[To digress, there are those who legitimately choose to make the Capture and BuildContent functions as an OOP interface to be implemented rather than, as here, inherited.]


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New Years Eve UFO Sightings
On a night where firework shows and floating lanterns were dominating the sky, some people swear neither were the source of the unexplained lights they witnessed on New Year's Eve.
Multiple glowing objects were witnessed by several people in the Californin cities of Sacramento, Auburn, Stockton, and Hollywood.
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EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Johnny's Italian Steakhouse has found a new home in the East Peoria Levee District.
The restaurant, known for its location at Peoria's Shoppes at Grand Prairie, is now housed in the new East Peoria Holiday Inn and Suites.
Officials with the two companies held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.
The Hotel's Chief Operating Executive said the two businesses are winning combination and a great addition to the Levee District development.
"This is kind of the new focal point in the renaissance of East Peoria, down here in the Levee District. And this is kind of a cornerstone of the retail and shopping to have a world class full service hotel in the area," said Dave Hanning.
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Personally, my first choice midfield is Fletcher and Carrick with Anderson as replacement for the either 2.
However, Cleverley recent display have got many pumped up. I don't think he'll be that much huge factor come March/April/May where I expect Fletch and Carrick to be at top form, with Anderson/Cleverley forming the 3rd midfielder if we're playing 3 in the middle in big games.
Reading a lot of comments on soccernet and goal.com somehow overpraised the current midfield imo though. They are really good but not really yet fully tested though..
Against City in the Community Shield, City went into a shell to defend that 2 goal lead. Against Spurs, there was no Modrid or Huddlestone. Against Arsenal, there was no Nasri or Fabregas. Not taking the credit away from the talented duo though.
But no doubt it's fun watching the young United playing like champions though.
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