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As much as I would love to, I'll be on a hike with a bunch of 7 year old girls.

That Rockville storefront is cursed.

Is there any such thing as a fast drive down Rockville Pike?

Traffic looks to be flowling pretty well right now, but I really need to walk down the hall to get a better look.

We typically get about 100-150 kids every year. This year was no exception.

And as I sit here preparing for class in 30 minutes, we are under a threat posted on an internet site referencing a "15th hour" shooting to occur here on campus. Seriously, we have been threatened for 3:00, right smack in the middle of my scheduled class. The University has not closed any buildings or cancelled any classes or events, but students are freaking out. I am getting too old for this crap. With everything that's happened at Virginia Tech, I can't blame students for being fearful. But I am angry that any campus is probably no longer a reliably safe place.

ah, shit. As it happens, I'm in business with the Virginia Tech Volunteers Foundation - founded of parents of victims of VaTech. We've got some cool efforts going on - check out www.32nsci.org . Again, FULL DISCLOSURE - I have a business association with this organization.

Um, national interest. The Chinese have no dog in this fight. The Russkies need their only warm water base in Tarsus and the Assads have been a client for decades. They kill the most direct threat to their property. The U.S. balances the Sunnis and the Shiites and kills off a bunch of each. a few Special Ops guys die? Price of playing the game.

Nice price indeed.

Also, my mom says there's a pickle seller at the Courthouse Farmers' Market with fantastic pickles.

There are several decent pickle vendors in DC, but one that stands heads and shoulders above any other vendor of fermented vegetables. Number 1 sons. Ask the proprietor for the best wine pairings.

Dcandohio - my teaching is online and masters students only. So, it's all adults with real world experience, but I still get grade complaints. Undergrads are why I left academia 15 years ago.

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Professorial Instructor, Program Evaluation, George Washington University, Milken School of Public Health

I guess if it is good enough for my LinkedIn profile, it's good enough for a foodie forum.

Not sure exactly how A&J does it, but traditional Szechuan* way to prepare the cukes is to slice up. Salt and let sit 30 minutes. Rinse off excess salt. Pat dry. A 30 second spin in a wok for the garlic and chili oil. Combine

*Of course there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of variations on this recipe. The main thing is to salt the cukes to draw out water.

I bet Sweetwater was busy.

Amen. Every time that I have been out there, the "big box" restaurants are packed. The demos of single 20-somethings who live in Mosaic and the families from nearby middle-class suburbs who visit just do not lend themselves to higher end dining.

Stopped in the other day for lunch and had a serviceable Pad Kaprow (chicken). Nice slow build up of heat. Good, but not "go 20 miles out of your way" good.

You forgot one thing, Don.

I want all firearms to be covered with liability insurance.

Sushi Capitol, Daikaya Izakaya, Izakaya Seki, Sushi Taro

Don't know anything about Japanese food. Feel like I need to go with someone who knows something about it to help me select things. I will eventually just do this on my own, but that's the reason for procrastination.

Ditto

My mom wouldn't have that issue.

The first time I went nuts in the living room...6-5 final.  Canada won 2 games to 1.  All of the 3 games were 6-5 (Soviets won the first, Canada the second and third).

If you have time, watch all three games on YouTube.  Canada Cup 1987.  Two of the best teams you'll ever see, although the games weren't goaltending gems.  If you do watch, the Canadian announcer is the dad of the guy who currently calls the games for the St. Louis Blues.

I remember watching this. Truly amazing hockey. The last of the great Red Army teams v. Gretsky AND Lemieux.

D'oh! Wish that I saw this last night.

Without going into GOAT, I think that it's safe to say that Gretzky is in the top 5.

The amazing thing about him was that he was not particularly fast, not big, no standout physical attributes.

The thing that made him great was his anticipation. He knew what was going to happen before anyone else did. He was like Radar O'Reilly.

(Of course it didn't hurt that his 80s Oilers teams had multiple Hall of Famers. One of the greatest assemblages of talent ever. In any sport.)

Game 5 of the 1979 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles. Buccos were down 3 games to 1 and won the game 7-1.

I'd probably argue that it's not research as the activity is not "a systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge" [45 CFR 46.102(d)], but...

"Other Federal, State, and local laws and/or regulations may apply to the activity" [45 CFR 46.101(f)]

Signed,

Your friendly neighborhood Institutional Review Board Chair

Agree with you on Tarantino. To me, Goodfellas is a masterpiece in the way it traces Hill's (Ray Liotta) descent into drug-fueled paranoia. Also, you can almost think of it more as a buddy picture than a mob picture.

But, the way the interviewee described the interview, something about that sort of food prep makes me nervous, especially if any of the other 7 locations noted any foodborne-like cases.

If it isn't really due to foodborne-illness, kind of sucks for the restaurant. I still don't remember the name of the bug, but I sure do know the signs and symptoms of "Jack In The Box" disease...

IIRC, Jack in the Box was a particularly virulent strain of E Coli.

I think the good doctor has a valid point with his dart analogy, but...

I missed the earlier post about pre-prepped foods from NYC. That can be dangerous stuff. The food industrial complex spends an incredible amount of money on food safety. And the feds monitor them pretty closely, yet still we have the listeriosis from Blue Bell ice cream killing 3 people.

A small scale actor like this?

You can bet your ass that they are tracking every location and going over the prep kitchen with a fine toothed comb.

Got it.

If 1 millimeter of one blade of one skate is touching the blue line when the puck crosses, is it off-sides? I'll bet there have been some calls for instant replay on judgment calls such as this. (Is there instant replay in the NHL?)

So what are the specific rules for icing? I suspect it involves the puck crossing a certain number of lines without being touched by another player.

Need to go to bed. I've got a 6 am spinning class to get to and need to lift before, so turning it off after this.

Yes, one mm is good. No, no instant replay on this call. IR only on goal/no goal.

Icing is a puck from behind the blue line closest to your goal to over the goal line on the other end. Until 3(?) years ago, the other team had to touch the puck before the whistle blew. This led to a lot of potentially career ending collisions, so now refs have the discretion to make a judgement call. I wish this rule was in place when I was in HS or college. Thankfully no film exists of the multiple concussions I sustained through these races to the puck.

Just watch this...

Tough to catch on TV sometimes, but...

When the other team takes control of the puck closer to the Caps goal than Ovechkin is how hard does he try to get back to the puck?

1) Off sides = The  puck must completely pass the blue line farther away from your own goal before both skates of anyone on your team are over the line. One skate good. Two skates bad.

(PP is kind of out of date with the rules, the two line pass whistle doesn't exist anymore, but, c'mon it's Peter Puck!)

2) If your team is short-handed icing doesn't exist. Only if it is equal strength or you are on the power play. Don't know the exact history of the rule, but it makes sense to give the team that's a man down some way to take the heat out of the kitchen.