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Eastern Market ~ 7th Street SE
The Eastern Market corridor features numerous locally-owned cafes, restaurants and boutiques. The area gets its name from the historic Eastern Market that anchors this portion of 7th Street SE on Capitol Hill.
The market itself is a long, brick structure filled with a variety of vendors. Cheese, meats, poultry, vegetables, baked goods, flowers... just a few of the groceries and goodies offered up at the separate stands that line the market's main promenade.
On weekends, the sidewalks outside the Market bustle with a farmers market, flea market, and more vendors offering everything from crepes to candy apples from their tents and carts.
Access: Eastern Market metro station (orange & blue lines)
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Barracks Row ~ 8th Street SE
8th Street SE, the corridor known as Barracks Row, is a vibrant Capitol Hill destination street that includes a terrific variety of restaurants, bars, and shops.
Access: Eastern Market metro station (orange & blue lines)
Feature attraction: US Marine Corps' Marine Barracks Washington, home of the Silent Drill Platoon demonstrations. It's this historic military installation that gives this corridor its proud name.
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Union Station
Union Station is both a transportation hub for getting to, from, and around DC, as well as a terrific destination in it's own right. Once slated for destruction, the beautiful building now houses a wide array of shops and food choices. And, fulfilling its core transportation mission, the station is a hub of several transportation options:
- Amtrak
- Metro rail and metro bus lines
- MARC communter trains
- Virginia Railway Express
- cabs
- tour buses
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9/12 Tea Party Photo: False Image Spread By Anti-Reform Activists
Tea Party protesters trying to tout the size of their march on Washington last weekend have been passing around a photo of a packed National Mall. But the picture is years old.
Politifact asked Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, if the rally was big enough to fill that space. Piringer said no -- and moreover, the picture can't be from 2009.
Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.There's another big problem with the photograph: it doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.
"I've seen bigger crowds at Montreal Expos games, but I still wouldn't fake a photo just to justify your predictions of millions descending on Washington," said one gleeful Democratic media strategist. "This is grade-A stupid and just plays into the argument that these were astroturf protests to begin with. They've always brought the noise, but the question that was supposed to be answered this weekend was, could they bring the numbers? In that respect this was an unmitigated disaster."
A number of conservative blogs have since taken the photo down. Some have corrected their posts. Others say the circulation of the picture was a left-wing conspiracy to discredit the event. However, many of them are still claiming that at least a million people attended the march. Nate Silver estimates about 70,000 protesters showed up.
It isn't the first failed attempt by the protesters to inflate the size of the event. On Saturday, organizer Matt Kibbe announced on stage that ABC News had estimated a crowd of 1 to 1.5 million. ABC News had reported no such thing.
Denver skyline from 1196 Grant Street Penthouse.
I took this with the iPhone then used AutoStitch to put it together. Check out the double building it added on the right. I've never seen Autostitch do that before.It looks smoggy in the photo but I didn't notice it with my eyes but the camera caught it. Also on the right side you can just make out the Capitol building. It's really only about 4 blocks from where I'm standing. The mountains are also much closer in reality. This is the 7th floor penthouse unit I just listed for sale.
Denver Colorado Skyline 2009 Steven Beam
American Muslims and Jews Consider Obama's Middle East Policy
Reaction to President Obama's Middle East Policy, outlined in his speech in Cairo earlier this month, has been mostly positive. At the center of his policy is a renewed effort to bring about a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state living peaceably alongside Israel. The Bush administration also endorsed a Palestinian state but was seen as favoring Israeli policies. For the moment, Israel has refused to agree to a total settlement freeze, demanded by Mr. Obama.
"The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security," President Obama said in his Cairo speech.
Read more: http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-muslims-and-jews-consider.html
Tags: Obama, Netanyahu, Ori Nir, ADL, Jewish, Mulim, USA, Israeli settlements, Capitol Hill, Imam Abdullah Khoug, Debra Rubin, Palestine, Global Development News, Middle East, Washington Jewish Week,
