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DCUrbanMix, Can you put a link back to DCpages.com? Thanks

Is the Parrot Head Club for fans of Jimmy Buffet?

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Travelers and visitors to Reagan National Airport will be able to enjoy more than 300 works of art by students in District of Columbia Public Schools that are on exhibit at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport through May 31st. The theme, "Icons of Understanding," is reflected in the works of students from 150 schools in the city - pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The exhibition is located on the lower (baggage) level of Terminals B and C. "We are very pleased to continue our relationship with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and to have this opportunity to show Washington, D.C. and travelers from all over the nation and the world, the artistic achievement of our students," said Paula Sanderlin, Art Director for D. C. Public Schools. The exhibit includes drawings, paintings, collages, prints, computer graphics, mixed media and three-dimension constructions. Terminals B and C also incorporate the work of 30 professional artists and artisans as a permanent part of its design. "We are pleased to be able to showcase the work of young artists in the District of Columbia along with our own architectural enhancement program. This program has grown into a wonderful community event and this is the sixth consecutive year it's been held at the Airport," said James E. Bennett, President and CEO of the Airports Authority.

Roman, How can you be upset at the U.S. for fighting Communism in Korea and Vietnam, when you make statements against Communism. I am a bit confused here. I do not think you support Communism or Facism. It is clear you do not support Liberalism. I am not sure if you follow Conservatism or an Aristocratic form of government. What ideology do you support? And why?

A baseball fan was critically injured in a fall from the top level at RFK Stadium after the Nationals defeated the Braves, 2-0, on Wednesday night. The Associated Press reports that the 35-year-old man, who was not identified, fell from a ramp on the 500 level of the stadium while looking over a railing, hit several ramps and railings on the way down, and landed on the concourse of the 100 level, according to Alan Etter, a spokesman for the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services. The man, suffering from multisystem trauma, was flown to a hospital in a U.S. Park Police helicopter. The Nationals were not available for comment.

The Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) Program provides national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) users priority authorization of telecommunications services that are vital to coordinating and responding to crises. Telecommunications services are defined as the transmission, emission, or reception of intelligence of any nature, by wire, cable, satellite, fiber optics, laser, radio visual or other electronic, electric, electromagnetic, or acoustically coupled means, or any combination thereof. Are the national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) users under Homeland Security?

Opening Game was one to remember. Take a sneak peak at the Washington Nationals gallery we are working on. http://dcpages.com/gallery/view_album.php?...ionals-Baseball Let us know what you think

DCpages covered the 2002 National Grand Prix http://dcpages.com/Autos/National_Grand_Prix/ It was fantastic. But, the neighborhood complained about the noise, so future races were cancelled.

mm4662, What are you interested in doing?

As the Washington Nationals prepare for their home opener at R.F.K. Stadium this Thursday, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) is also preparing to handle the anticipated crowds with extra trains and personnel, and reminding everyone to have enough money on their farecard or SmarTrip card when leaving Metro that evening. "Metro has a distinguished history of providing safe, reliable and convenient service for large crowds, and this event is no different from other events in Washington, D.C.," said Richard A. White, Metro's CEO and General Manager. "Everyone at Metro is excited about the return of Major League Baseball to the nation's capital, and we are honored to be able to provide fans with service to and from the game." On Thursday, patrons can expect the following services from Metro: Metro will operate its full rush hour service with six-car trains starting at 3 p.m., continuing up until game time (7:05 p.m.). Patrons attending the game should utilize the Stadium-Armory Metrorail station on the Blue and Orange Lines. After the game, Metro will have up to 14 six-car trains available to transport attendees from Stadium-Armory. Metro will have free brochures available that provide simple walking directions to R.F.K. Stadium from Stadium-Armory, as well as information on Metrobus service and parking. (The free brochure is available to view on Metro's Web site at www.metroopensdoors.com) Metro will have additional station managers, rail supervisors, and Transit Police at Stadium-Armory to assist customers with service questions, and how to get to and from R.F.K. Stadium. Metro volunteers will be at the following six stations to answer questions: Franconia-Springfield, Greenbelt, Largo Town Center, New Carrollton, Shady Grove, and the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU Metrorail stations. The volunteers will also remind patrons to check their SmarTrip card or farecard to ensure they have enough money to enter or exit the Metrorail system. These special volunteers will be wearing blue Washington Nationals baseball hats and Navy blue t-shirts that say Metro Staff and "Thanks For Taking Us Out to the Ball Game." Metro will make special on-board train announcements and station announcements reminding people that they must have a SmarTrip card when exiting a parking facility, and telling them which direction customers should walk toward when exiting the Stadium- Armory Metrorail station. Metro personnel will be on hand to sell farecards and SmarTrip cards at Franconia-Springfield, Vienna/Fairfax-GMU, Shady Grove, New Carrollton, Greenbelt, Largo Town Center through the afternoon peak period, and Stadium-Armory from 4 p.m. to the conclusion of the baseball game to help reduce lines at the farecard machines and to remind customers to have the appropriate value on their SmarTrip cards to exit Metro parking facilities. Metro will have additional station managers and supervisors throughout the entire system starting Thursday afternoon and into the evening to assist where needed. "Metro will be ready to provide safe, reliable, and convenient service not only for Thursday's Washington Nationals opening home baseball game at R.F.K. Stadium, but throughout the entire season," concluded Mr. White.

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT), in conjunction with the Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), will strictly enforce a two-part curbside parking strategy* around RFK Stadium, April though October 2005, on Washington Nationals and DC United game days. Vehicles registered within certain Ward 6 and Ward 7 parking areas will receive a special RFK Stadium Parking Permit from the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission. The permit is available at the RFK Stadium Administrative Office on the 4th Floor of the Stadium 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. Special RFK Parking Permits are required for Ward 7 vehicles east of 19th Street and south of Florida Avenue; and Ward 6 vehicles south of C Street and east of 16th Streets, NE/SE, and north of Pennsylvania Avenue. Any vehicle without a special RFK permit or a valid visitor's pass in these areas will be ticketed and/or towed during a DC United or Nationals game. In addition, there is a secondary area of high Residential Parking Permit (RPP) enforcement in Wards 6 and 7. In these areas, only persons with a valid RPP may park during game days. There is no two-hour grace period for non-RPP holders on game days. This applies to Ward 6 registered vehicles in the following area: east of 19th Street, NE/SE, south of Maryland Avenue and Florida Avenue, NE, and north of Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. It also applies to the Ward 7 River Terrace in Northeast. Residents with guests within these zones must obtain a visitor parking permit from the Metropolitan Police Department local precinct. New signage to implement these parking regulations will be placed on the affected neighborhood streets beginning Monday, April 11, 2005. District government agencies will continue to monitor the effectiveness of this curbside parking strategy and make adjustments as required to ensure that local residents have priority access to curbside parking in their neighborhood.

Please join (John Hanshaw) this Sunday, April 17th for the second meetup of the GUERRILLA CINEMA CLUB! The idea is to take in a film and join other film-lovers for drinks and/or dinner before or after the screening (depending on the time of the show you attend). Tell John DCpages.com sent you. ************************ SCREENINGS: roughly 5 and 7pm shows (depending on film) E St. Cinema 555 11th Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 (entrance on E Street between 10th and 11th Streets, NW) 202-452-7672 DRINKS AND/OR DINNER: 6 - 11pm Les Halles 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (across from the Reagan Bldg) Washington, DC 202-347-6848 (From E St. Cinema just walk down 11th St, take a right on PA Ave and walk one block; Les Halles is at 12th & PA Ave.) One of the producers of VOICES IN WARTIME, JAG BHALLA, will come by LES HALLES before and after the 7:45pm screening to discuss the film and meet the audience.

Roman, Just a little guidelines on how to use this forum. Please keep your responses with the topic being discussed. This way you can post topics that interest you and have people respond to them appropriately. Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Asha, Are you located in the Washington DC area?

Using the filibuster to delay debate or block legislation has a long history. In the United States, the term filibuster -- from a Dutch word meaning "pirate" -- became popular in the 1850s when it was applied to efforts to hold the Senate floor in order to prevent action on a bill. In the early years of Congress, representatives as well as senators could use the filibuster technique. As the House grew in numbers, however, it was necessary to revise House rules to limit debate. In the smaller Senate, unlimited debate continued since senators believed any member should have the right to speak as long as necessary. In 1841, when the Democratic minority hoped to block a bank bill promoted by Henry Clay, Clay threatened to change Senate rules to allow the majority to close debate. Thomas Hart Benton angrily rebuked his colleague, accusing Clay of trying to stifle the Senate's right to unlimited debate. Unlimited debate remained in place in the Senate until 1917. At that time, at the suggestion of President Woodrow Wilson, the Senate adopted a rule (Rule 22) that allowed the Senate to end a debate with a two-thirds majority vote -- a tactic known as "cloture." The new Senate rule was put to the test in 1919, when the Senate invoked cloture to end a filibuster against the Treaty of Versailles. Despite the new cloture rule, however, filibusters continued to be an effective means to block legislation, due in part to the fact that a two-thirds majority vote is difficult to obtain. Over the next several decades, the Senate tried numerous times to evoke cloture, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds vote. Filibusters were particularly useful to southern senators blocking civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds (67) to three-fifths (60) of the 100-member Senate. Many Americans are familiar with the hours-long filibuster of Senator Jefferson Smith in Frank Capra's film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but there have been some famous filibusters in the real-life Senate as well. During the 1930s, Senator Huey P. Long effectively used the filibuster against bills that he thought favored the rich over the poor. The Louisiana senator frustrated his colleagues while entertaining spectators with his recitations of Shakespeare and his reading of recipes for "pot-likkers." Long once held the Senate floor for fifteen hours. The record for the longest individual speech goes to South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Joe, Here is an image of Wilkerson when he was playing for the Expos.

Where and what is Bobby Van's Steakhouse ?

Roman, I see that you are making some harsh statements about the Senator. Do you have an evidence you can show us that this is true? Please post ! Thanks in advance.

Hey Danette, Can we get a poster from you. It would look great at our office. Thanks in advance.

Roman, What does liberals have to do with a football mentality??? I do not understand your point. I do agree with your point that the Democrats have to move to the center more to reach American Workers. What do you think about outsourcing our jobs to China, India, and all of the other cheap labor countries?

Roman, Can you tell us the story of Senator Kerry killing a 14 year old boy in the back in Viet Nam? Is there truth to it. What were the charges?

Blaze You never respond to questions. You might as well call yourself a spammer. I am going to have to ban your future posts in the future and put you on the spammer watch list if you do not respect our guidelines.

Finally at rest after years of crippling disease, Pope John Paul II's body lay in state Sunday, his hands clutching a rosary, his pastoral staff under his arm. Millions prayed and wept at services across the globe, as the Vatican prepared for the ritual-filled funeral and conclave that will choose a successor. Television images gave the public its first view of the pope since his death: lying in the Vatican's frescoed Apostolic Palace, dressed in crimson vestments and a white bishop's miter, his head resting on a stack of gold pillows. A Swiss Guard stood on either side as diplomats, politicians and clergy paid their respects at his feet. An estimated 100,000 people turned out at St. Peter's Square for a morning Mass and thousands more -- tourists, Romans, young and old -- kept coming throughout the day, filling the broad boulevard leading to St. Peter's Basilica. They clutched rosaries and newspaper photos of the late pontiff as they stood shoulder-to-shoulder to pray for the soul of "our beloved John Paul." Source http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/20...pnews/top01.txt President Bush U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush will lead a small delegation attending the funeral, spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters today. ``I'm not worried about heads of state coming to Rome,'' said Mayor Walter Veltroni at a press conference today. ``It's not the first time we are organizing an international event, even though nothing compares in emotion to what we have before us.'' The Italian Interior Ministry said funeral plans included adding 6,430 additional police and security officers in Rome. There will be more than 800 officers on motorcycles, according to a ministry statement. At midday in Rome today, police opened the barricades at the end of Via della Conciliazione, the avenue that leads from Castel Sant Angelo, formerly a papal fortress, to the Vatican. Thousands of people charged down the road to secure a place at the front of the line for the public viewing. St. Peter's By 2 p.m. the 20-foot-wide line stretched back to the castle. St. Peter's will remain open for viewing until the funeral, except for a three-hour stretch each night between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. The city will be setting up portable beds for about 15,000 people at several locations with free bus transportation to St. Peter's, Veltroni said. As many as 5,000 of those beds will be at the Rome fairgrounds, and campgrounds will be provided with a capacity for several thousands people. To accommodate chartered tour buses arriving from as far away as John Paul's native Poland, Rome is setting up 11 parking areas with capacity for 3,980 buses carrying 197,500 people, according to the city government's Web site. Once the funeral ends, the official nine-day mourning period begins, which leads up to the start of the conclave. Only cardinals under the age of 80 can vote. Currently there are 117 cardinals of voting age, with all but three appointed by Pope John Paul. The cardinals are sworn to secrecy and would risk excommunication for talking openly about possible successors. Dionigi Tettamanzi, the 71-year-old archbishop of Milan, is the leading Italian candidate, daily Corriere della Sera reported, without saying where it got the information. Francis Arinze of Nigeria, 72, is regarded as an ``outsider'' who may become a top candidate. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...F78R2c&refer=us

A Final Prayer Jesus said."Abide in Me, and I in you... for apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15:4-5 I leave you now with this prayer: that the Lord Jesus will reveal Himself to each one of you, that He will give you the strength to go out and profess that you are Christian, that He will show you that He alone can fill your hearts. Accept His freedom and embrace His truth, and be messengers of the certainty that you have been truly liberated through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. This will be the new experience, the powerful experience, that will generate, through you, a more just society and a better word. God bless you and may the joy of Jesus be always with you! [L.Osservatore Romano, 11-5-79, 2] Please Forward this to your Family, Friends and Neighbors