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    Contrast that with the return of Albert Pujols to St. Louis in a couple months (you should probably mark this on your calendar). Yes, more time has passed, but I know the St. Louis fan base - the man would have gotten a standing ovation if his return was on Day 1. As an aside, the best Cardinals fan story I can tell is from my teen years. A utility player named Mike Laga fouled a ball to the first base side, with the ball sailing out of the park. The crowd immediately jumped to its feet for a several minute standing ovation. Everyone there knew this was the first time a ball was hit out of the old Busch Stadium. Mike Laga? He was completely baffled and a coach had to run out and explain things to him. Hey - we're weird but knowledgeable and loyal.
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    Enjoy Paris! Be sure to report on all the great places to dine.
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    I've never been able to bring myself to book this place. The Goodstone Inn has the great meal, great room, etc. that tick all my boxes. I don't need the overpriced amenities. This fits within my overall philosophy of expensive hotels. I will pay up for international business class at times, but never for an expensive hotel (well, almost never). I'd rather have a nice room and blow the extra $200-300 on a couple nicer dinners. What's the difference? Someone to grab my roller bag and carry it to the check-in desk?
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    You have appropriately calibrated my trendiness level. I stand corrected.
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    Cowgirl Creamery is still there. Not quite the same in my book as it lacks the liveliness. Glad to see the local expert agrees with a place I randomly discovered!
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    St. James Cheese Company has become a lunch standard for me as I visit my daughter at school. Wish there was someplace like this in DC. Great cheeses, wine & beer, and a fun atmosphere.
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    I'd probably grab pasta at Sfoglina, then walk across the street for bread/pastries at BreadFurst.
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    Unfortunately that weekend went from difficult to impossible due to book-ended travel on either side. Please enjoy and post some tips!
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    Less cake-y. I’m not sure how else to describe it. The ratio of cookie to icing is too high.
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    If you can stretch to four blocks, Go Go Curry is at 38th and 8th. Good Japanese curry in a fast-food-ish environ. That area really is a wasteland for food. Other than that, I'd second the Shake Shack and respectfully disagree on the black and whites at Zaro.
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    Sydney - Had a very good dim sum lunch at Mr. Wong's in the CBD in Sydney today. Working on my bikini-bod, so stuck with wine and two orders of dumplings, but both were very good. The first was a roasted pork and chive dumpling, sauceless, which had that characteristic duck sweetness with just a bit of kick of spice. The second was a fried Szechuan style lamb dumpling. Great flavor and surprisingly not much curry or too much spice to it - I was expecting something more heat packed never having had this before. Decent wine list and the whole thing was fairly reasonable at about $50 USD in all (I did go for the large glass of wine). I'd definitely go back.
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    I'd love to do this. 3/30 would be tough but potentially doable for me. I didn't notice a cost - did they offer any indication?
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    We cut the cord about a year ago. Our commercials - via an internet tv provider - are now localized to feature, for example, the closest Verizon Wireless store with the address and phone number on the commercial.
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    Kids are weird. My 'vegetarian' eats chicken strips (not nuggets) or roast chicken, sausage patties, and is a voracious eater of all fish (he devoured half an order or fried calamari when we told him it was fish the other night at Little Beast). The funny thing is this all started with a trip to a crab house on the Eastern Shore where he was so upset at what we were doing to the poor crabs he had to leave.
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    I'm currently drinking a can of Underwood Rose and I have to say I'd buy this again. It's a casual sipper, but hits at or above its weight for about $12 a bottle equivalent. Plus - you're drinking wine from a can. Seriously - I'd rate this among the better wines I can find for that price.
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    You might want to sign up directly on their website. These things were sold out within a few hours.
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    Heat retention and convection, I'd think. This slab Kenji describes is 15 lbs. I've never encountered a cast iron griddle anywhere near that heavy. I'm assuming that means a ton in terms of how much heat it can hold so that when the pizza cools the surface, it gets quickly back to temperature based on the additional heat just below.
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    Top 1% earn about 20% of national income. Bottom 50% earn about 13%. That is essentially reversed from 1980. Source: Chicago Tribune The change from 40 years ago in both wealth and incomes is astonishing. Middle class angst isn't just a mirage - median incomes are stagnating relative to inflation. Averages keep moving up, up, up.
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    Reading what he actually said, I got a smile when he focused on the same two things I suggested! I would point out, though, that 'hedge fund guys' can't really avoid paying income tax rates on their earnings - that's really the purview of private equity and commercial real estate, mostly because few holdings at hedge funds last a year and no short position qualifies for capital gains at all.
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    Went to the Bethesda locale after about a five year hiatus. Have to say that it was significantly better than it had been the few times I went back then. Ordered the sautéed spinach (this is always great), Pan con tomate, Caulifower with olives, dates, and paprika (also very good), chorizo wrapped in potato, Chorizo with puree, salmon fillet, croquettes, and also had the special truffle menu item of poached egg, puree, sautéed mushrooms, and shaved black truffle. Definitely a strong enough dinner to win a place back on the dining rotation. Not sure why this one had languished so much earlier, but this was much, much improved.
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    Neither - it remains equally unacceptable to them.
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    You mean like this???
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    Clearly you're traveling between 12 and 12 on a day that ends in Y. How many speeding violations does your BIL have?
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    I think that marshaling other people's talents is an individual talent. Some (most) people don't want to be entrepreneurs or take risk so they want to work for someone who takes more risk to earn more reward. If it all dissipates when you die, it's inherently self-limiting.
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    I haven't, but I did get to spend several hours with him at Minibar (while he was essentially running it) and I'd give anything he made a chance. While he seemed a bit shy, he really came alive talking about how some of the dishes there were made - and that evening was a complete delight. Definitely one of my top 5 meals in DC.
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