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82 games of cumulative mauling would add up

I agree with Bart and lion. Ignore it and it will go away eventually. I have never dealt with the third estate and had things come out fully as I expected them regardless of how well-intentioned the writer was. Take care of yourself first and foremost. Those who actually know what you do appreciate what you do.

Interesting... 

8, A team could employ the Mathew Dellavedova defense you referred to earlier; try and maul the Splash Brothers.  I suspect GS would send video the league and the refs to expose that.  Secondly when faced with one of those guys I suspect GS would have brawnier subs come in, set picks and apply elbows to Dellavedova's face.  That would stop that type of defense.  Tactics of that sort were often used in the 80's and 90's to limit overly ambitious defenders.

I would maul them with someone considerably bigger and stronger than Dellavedova... Nene comes to mind locally. Steph Curry should never shoot a shot in the lane where he doesn't wind up flat on his back.

thyme tends to be somewhat "semi-hardy" in our area. you will definitely lose some on occasion. common sage on the other hand tends to be pretty hardy. perhaps something other than temperature did them in- wet feet throughout a warm winter is hard on perennial herbs from drier climates as well.

Go Grizzlies! 

That's what I thought. It seems that all of those places only serve sandwiches/salads for lunch; which is a shame given that some of their dinner menus seem far more interesting. If that is the only option though, do you have a personal favorite? (Besides Eileen's, as I won't be in a huge rush).

Actually, I just noticed that Foode does brunch on the weekends. I might try one of their dishes there then, or would you recommend something else?

It would be inappropriate for me to choose one as better than the others as I sell to all of them with the exception of Eileen's.

I am not a "bruncher" and my weekend mornings are often occupied with farmer's markets so I have no real first hand experience to offer there. I do know that Foode's brunch is enormously popular.

Going to Fredericksburg in a couple of weeks, any suggestions on where to have lunch?

Bistro Bethem - varied menu that changes constantly with a heavy emphasis on house made, also do pizza in their brick oven for lunch

Foode - hearty fare with a southern spin from Top Chef competitor Joy Crump (she is also a partner in Mercantile around the corner from Foode)

Sunken Well - upscale bar food done well

Eileen's Bakery Cafe - creative sandwiches in an interesting old church building- I eat here the most because it is a faster option and I am always in a rush doing deliveries when down there.

Borned and riased in and moved back to F'burg in 2007. Unfortunately Poppy Hill has been hit or miss the last year or so, not sure what is going on. Our last meal there was good, but the previous two were lacking. 

Poppy Hill has just announced they are closing up shop to explore more catering opportunities.

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We rebuilt our box two weekends ago, and I'm looking forward to planting again.  Anyone starting already and/or seeing any good seedlings around town?  Frager's last weekend didn't have much besides lettuces and herbs.

Farmer's markets should all be getting going in the next few weeks. Vendors will have plenty of plants for the first month or so.

Butler beating Duke would've been WAY bigger. Nova over Carolina is barely an upset.

When Magic finished high school he was considered one of the 3 best basketball players in high school.  Albert King (Bernard King's younger brother) was one of the two others (Albert played for some very talented U MD teams).

Farmer passed on Magic, recruited Albert King and didn't get either one and he had a short career coaching at UCLA.   hmmm...recruiting matters.

As to which NCAA team is best ever....I don't know.  I recall those Walton UCLA teams.  He was freaking great in college and dominant in every way.  He made teams better.  He was not a super duper superior athlete but he was a phenomenal basketball player..with a basketball IQ that would have rivaled that of Einstein in Physics.   A team with a superstar that ESPN did rank high was that NC State team with David Thompson.  He was an athletic freak with great basketball skills.  Glad to see that team ranked highly.  Also the early 80's teams with North Carolina with Jordan and endless stars, Georgetown with Ewing and others and Houston with Olajuwon and Drexler were teams with amazingly talented college players!!  at least IMHO.

One of my first memories of watching basketball is Thompson hitting his head against Pitt and coming back to the bench in the second half wearing that huge bandage. I was 8 at the time.

This article offers an interesting perspective on the UCLA-NCSU game later in the same tournament. It calls out Walton for essentially undermining Wooden's coaching and as a result letting State have a chance.

The King/Banks recruiting class is one of the first I really remember following... I couldn't wait each year for the Street and Smith's basketball issue to come out- it was the only place I knew back then to get recruiting info and I ate it up like candy.

Nater had way more career rebounds than Walton even if you leave out his ABA years. (Yes, this means absolutely nothing.)

I am willing to give the UCLA teams the benefit of the doubt but there is absolutely no way that (admittedly unbeaten) Indiana team is among the top 10 of all time let alone the top 5. Quinn Buckner was the most productive NBA player of the lot... I would take the Maryland team with Elmore, McMillen, Lucas et al over them 7 days a week and that team didn't even make it to the Big Dance.

Kentucky (of late, anyway) pretty much has their pick of the crop of best high-school players in the nation, but they aren't developing properly, at least not according to this one statistic. I hope for their sake that they retain competent, *honest* financial planners, because they most likely make a fairly high income, but for less than ten years, and then - they most likely have to live off that money for the rest of their lives. Certainly, it can be done with the proper attitude, but you can't go out collecting mansions and yachts.

Players in the Calipari One and Done era at Kentucky have not had enough time to amass huge career statistics but Wall, Cousins, Davis, Bledsoe, Towns, etc. are well on their way at what are even now relatively tender ages. Bledsoe is the oldest at 26. Calipari has only been there 6 or 7 years even though it seems like eons.

127 players in the NBA averaged double digit scoring this season. 10 of them played for Calipari at Kentucky. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist would've been 11 if he had played more games. I'd say those guys are leaving with some decent preparation.

I personally think the move of having every player explore their draft stock is pure genius. Why would a one and done type player ever go anywhere else at this point?

Expect ingredients that have defined fine dining for decades: caviar, foie gras, lobster, dry-aged beef. Don't expect all of it to come from local producers. Neither Onwuachi nor Vakiner subscribes to what they view as the unsustainable farm-to-table movement.

Frozen waffles for all! I would love to hear what makes buying local food from local purveyors unsustainable.

I loved Fury Road... it is an absolute spectacle of sight and sound coupled with a ton of basically mindless violence. In my opinion it is the best action movie ever made- best seen on the big screen with the sound turned up to 11. The Oscars it won were all in the "technical" categories as opposed to the "artistic" and it was well deserving of those. I wouldn't lobby for it as a meaningful expression of complex human emotion but that doesn't prevent me from enjoying the ride.  This type of escapism is what I want in film... I have enough ponderously heavy things to contemplate in real life.  YMMV. 

I can't believe one of them picked Ray Allen, let alone two. He doesn't even belong on a best 5 from any given season.

Under today's rules- Michael, Magic, Bird, Lebron, Shaq.

Under more traditional rules- Michael, Magic, Lebron, Duncan, Olajuwon.

I loved Carmelo in college to the point of telling a friend I would draft him ahead of Lebron. He has probably been the best mid-range scorer in the league for the last decade. He has also allowed the all around game he showed in spades at Syracuse to devolve into being what people who do not watch today's (in my opinion excellent) NBA product like to claim is wrong with today's NBA product. His time with the Knicks (and his decision to resign in NY) has been nothing but a bunch of "me first because i'm a superstar". The good thing about this is he is doing it under the watch of the uber-pompous Phil Jackson and Dolan.

I would argue that the ppg actually say almost nothing. 

Tests found that giving lab rats copious amounts (many many times what anyone would encounter in any actual application) of safrole (active ingredient) increased their odds of cancer. At that point all the yummy things made from sassafras got pulled off the market. They have since backtracked a bit to allow for leaf but not bark or root- thus the file.

I have lots of sassafras in the woods here on the farm- have been making my own file from leaves for a few years but have not been industrious enough to dig up any roots.

They are also probably banking on the large amount of residential development at Tysons bringing in a dinner crowd from the "neighborhood".

I have never been to the new location so can't speak to the actual dining experience.

Neither of them is the original- that was a kiosk outside a now defunct sporting goods store near Ashland. The Boulevard location is the first actual restaurant and is much more convenient to 95.

This article is from a publication from Brown University a little while back. The author spent a summer working for me on the farm.

"The Real Dirt on the Baby Carrot" by Lisa Borst on theindy.org