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Taste assessment: Apparently, the katsu curry is the chief calorific sinner on Wagamama's menu. But boy is it worth it: strips of deep-fried chicken, with a thick, Japanese curry sauce and sticky white rice. Oddly, the red pickle salad was my favourite bit, and you get a more generous serving as a takeaway than you do in the restaurant. At £9.15, it seems expensive for a desk lunch but it's perfect on a day you want a treat.
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How big are your outdoor adventure dreams?
For Matt Kelly, a sales specialist in the action-sports department of the REI Northbrook, Ill., store, his dream was big indeed. An avid touring and commuter cyclist, Matt last year (prior to working at REI) completed a 21-month-long bike journey from Alaska to Argentina—some 17,500 miles of riding.
The laid-back 27-year-old recently spoke with The REI Blog about his experiences, and he shares his remarkable photos here. Like what you see? Join a live Q&A session with Matt on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 6pm Eastern time (3pm Pacific) on the REI Facebook page or on Twitter using the #REIbikeride hashtag. (View full-screen and click on "show info" to see Matt's photo captions.)
REI Blog: What prompted you to take this trip?
Matt: The short answer is that I wanted to do something out of the ordinary and see the world by bike. I had previously gone on shorter trips around Lake Michigan and in Wisconsin. Little by little, I decided I wanted to do something open-ended where I didn't have to be back at a certain time. Something clicked in my head, and I said it had to be all or nothing.
REI Blog: Why this route?
Matt: There was something alluring about riding from the 2 opposite ends of the Americas. Having grown up in Mexico City, I speak Spanish and that was a big advantage having that on the trip. It was just something I wanted to do.)
REI Blog: When did you go?
Matt: My trip from was June 2009 to March 2011.
REI Blog: How far would you go each day?
Matt: I averaged about 50 miles per day on days that I rode. I estimate that the ride was two-thirds on pavement, one-third on dirt, at least in miles, but dirt was much slower so a lot of my time was spent there. There were only 360 days of actual cycling, so I had lots of time to explore.
REI Blog: Where was it easiest and toughest to be a cyclist?
Matt: Anywhere with light traffic was more enjoyable. The toughest areas were due to traffic and bad weather. My coldest night was actually in Arizona in October. It got down to 10 degrees according to the little thermometer I carried from REI. The route I chose through the states was Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Arizona. It was getting late in the year, so I was kind racing against winter. I tried to avoid big cities, but I did bike through Tucson, Guadalajara and a few large cities in South America.
REI Blog: What type of bike did you ride?
Matt: I had a Surly Long Haul Trucker touring bike with a steel frame and front and back panniers to hold camping gear.
REI Blog: What kinds of maintenance issues arose?
Matt: Things start to wear out after many months on the road. I wore though 4 tires total—1 on the front and 3 on the rear since the rear had more weight on it. I replaced the chain and cassette 3 times (once in Canada, Mexico and Peru). One big issue was a split rim in Alaska, so I needed a new wheel. I had to hitchhike back to Fairbanks to get one. Other issues I was able to repair myself or wait until I passed through a town or city where I could get it fixed. My chain broke again on my second-to-last day. Fortunately, I was able to repair and use the broken chain, as I didn't want to use my new once since the bike was so dirty at that point and I was so close to the end.
REI Blog: What are your fondest memories?
Matt: I definitely fell in love with the mountains of both North and South America. I had some great views while camping, especially in the mountains of Peru. The highest pass of the trip was 15,900 feet; that day was tough but very memorable. I also really enjoyed my visit to the Casa de Ciclistas in Trujillo, Peru. The guy who runs it is a former cycling champion of Peru who has a passion for cycling. For the past 2 decades, some 2,000 cyclists from all around the world have come through his doors. He is one of these people who have an open-door policy for cyclists. I met all sorts of people along the way and won't forget the gestures of hospitality, whether it was a place to fill my water bottle, eat a local treat or have a place to set my tent up for the night.
REI Blog: What were your biggest physical challenges?
Matt: The first week in Alaska was one of the most challenging weeks of the whole trip, because I had no idea what I was getting myself into. People asked me if I trained. I was cyclist before, and I'd ride around Chicago a lot but never with 50 pounds of stuff on my bike. As for hills, there are none in Chicago. So when I got to Alaska and had to go over my first mountain pass, it was really challenging. It ended up not being a very high mountain pass, especially compared to those in South America, but because of my inexperience cycling mountains it was challenging. Little by little, though, I started to enjoy these challenges.
REI Blog: Were your biggest challenges physical or mental?
Matt: In the end, it was all about keeping myself motivated. I'd ask myself why I was doing this in the first place. There were times of tedium and repetition, but I wanted to stick it out.
REI Blog: Any scary incidents?
Matt: There were some close calls, and many times I wish drivers would have given me more than a few inches of clearance. I never actually had a collision or got bumped. Plenty of dogs chased after me though. One dog in Bolivia actually bit one of my panniers and tore it open. Better my pannier than my leg, I suppose. Fortunately, everything stayed in the bag and I was able to stitch it back up and be on my way.
REI Blog: How have your experiences helped you at REI?
Matt: Having had this great experience outdoors, I just try to convey that to customers somehow and get them excited about trips or adventures they may be planning. It's funny, but I usually don't mention my trip. Most people come by REI to ride for recreation, commuting or errands. But if people are interested in touring, I'm happy to share.
REI Blog: Any future riding plans?
Matt: I don't think I would do another 21-month-long trip, but I would like to go back to some of the places I saw on the trip. There's always that dirt road that is kind of heading up into the mountains and you don't know where it's going to and would like to find out. I'd like to go back to places in the U.S. like Utah or Colorado and explore and be able to make loops without worrying about getting to a specific end point.
For more on his journey, read Matt's blog or his interview in the DePaul University student newspaper.
Reminder: You can join a live Q&A session with Matt on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 6pm Eastern time (3pm Pacific) on the REI Facebook page or on Twitter using the #REIbikeride hashtag. Or, when you're in the Chicago area, come say hi to Matt sometime in the action-sports department of the REI Northbrook store.
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Immense, archetypal, and of matchless New York cred (this was after all the site of the famous Paul Castellano hit that made John Gotti) Sparks is the steakhouse of choice for native New Yorkers with a sense of history. The beef is prime but not dry-aged, which is more than OK with me.
Quality of food was excellent. Service- heated. Meat completely done. Bottles the best - Gold oak.I will be back. For sure.......LOVE THAT PLACE
The key differentiator between Cause and the other topnotch meat homes is the weather and category it projects. While others equivalent it in food, the weather at Cause is devoid of fellow in its classification.
Best Stake in NYC – Every time I go to NYC for business a visit to Sparks is a Must.
Best Stake, great service, incredible wine and cigars selections.
Good Old Sparks Steak House – I have been coming to sparks since the 80's what a great food. You get what you paid for. The greatest cuts of beef around. 5 stars for me.
Gash browns were the bomb! – Not enough stars
RIP Sparks (NO STARS) – Sparks used to be great. But it seems like the shootings and staff lawsuits have taken a toll on the establishment as it's now a complete den of disfunction.
I made a reservation 2 weeks in advance for my husband's birthday. They confirmed the date and time and I never thought twice about it. The night of our reservation we showed up for dinner to find the doors locked and the place closed. Needless to say we were furious. What decent NYC restaurant will make a reservation on a night they're closed?!
When I called the next day the managers could not have been more rude or unhelpful. The only thing they were concerned with was the date and time I called to make the reservation and the closest thing I got to an apology was "I hear you."
I WILL NEVER RETURN TO THIS RESTAURANT. If the staff is this completely incompetent making a simple reservation, there is no way I'd trust the food there. My husband and I went around the corner to Palm Too and had an INCREDIBLE dinner complimented by an amazing, super accommodating staff. RIP Sparks. You're officially dead to us.
hard of hearing – the service was horrible first to begin with second the steak was ok and the salad and seafood was good but i asked for my steak to be well done due to the bussy night the waiter or kitchen laacked to cook my steak properally blood red in the middle i asked for well done they brang me medium rare ughh makes me mad but atleast i enjoyed the raw ruberr seafood the only reall dinner i had was salad . sad to say i could of seen a mouse but the waiter yelled at me " we have no mouses "!
Magnificently Humiliating – The draw must still be that Paul Castellano was murdered on his way in. Ugly legacy for an ugly restaurant. Dining in a funeral parlor is what it was like for me. Dark, dreary and old. Looked like it hadn't been dusted in a while. My husband and I had different selections of steak yet they both had the same exact mushroom sauce on top. The waitstaff was demonstrably arrogant and willfully unhelpful. I don't know what the good ratings are about, this place is etched in my mind as the worst dining experience of my life.
A sprawling, old-school, ultra-masculine midtown steakhouse. – Sparks gained its most enduring fame when mobster Paul Castellano was assassinated on his way in, but that just proves that its meat is worth dying for. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration. Certainly no one comes here for their health--or the decor, which consists mostly of paintings of dead trees in winter and vast expanses of tables filled with hungry he-men and their dates. What you do get at Sparks is some of the city's best prime beef, expertly broiled and served unsliced and without effeminate garniture. The lamb chops, veal and other meats are also of the highest order, and the wine list is one of the biggest in New York.
Really excellent meal – Visiting NY from the UK for the first time we plumbed the depths of CitySearch for recommendations for a good Steak House and chose one within easy walking distance of our hotel. We're both sure that we chose well. Sparks is large but still manages to be inviting. We were seated quickly and our allocated table served by a pleasant and attentive waiter - Juan (from Argentina, we later learned). The menu, thankfully, is very simple with only 10 or so appetisers and slightly more entrees to choose form. The same cannot be said for the winelist. That was one of the most extensive winelist we've been presented with in the US.
Our chosen steaks were cooked to perfection as was our choice of vegetables. We really can't find any room for criticism of the food quality (and that's unusual for us!). Our deserts were OK - nothing remarkable or noteworthy - except that the Raspberry Romanoff didn't live up to it's "Rich but Good" title. As for service, Juan did a superb job. He found the right balance of attention, chat and pace. We never felt rushed at any point despite the restaurant being very busy. So why, you ask, do we only give it 4 stars? That's because of two things. Firstly, this was an expensive meal. The old addage "You get what you pay for" is true but in this restaurant, you pay for everything! The entree's price does not include any sides whatsoever. Quite surprising given the $40plus price-tag per entree. The second reason is the manner of the Maitre-De (spelling?). He was abrupt and arrogant - verging on rude - far too full of his own importance and apparently oblivious to the fact that customers pay his wage! That having been said, we really did enjoy this meal and would definitely recommend for the occaional "splurge" outing.
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Get off the beaten path and head right into the wonders of Southeast Asia. On this best-of collection of Bangkok, Bali, Sumatra and more, we'll see some of the most famous tourist areas as well as little-known marvels. With days spent on boat trips and sunny beaches and evenings full of bonding with new friends as you enjoy the city nightlife, your schedule will be so full that the 41 days will fly by.
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Arrive in time for a sunset cocktail then get out and explore.
Cross the border to Malaysia. Take a scenic boat trip through a sheltered archipelago to arrive to Penang. Enjoy a street food crawl with the CEO and group, one of the two on this tour. Optional city tour or visit Kek Lok Si Temple, Little India and Chinatown.
Optional highlands tour or go hiking.
Transfer to the capital and choose to take a city tour, visit the Petronas Towers, Chinatown, KL Tower, Islamic Arts Museum or the National Mosque.
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Fargo restaurant servers learn how to deal with "out of control" customersFargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- Imagine being the server at the restaurant, dealing with someone very drunk. The Safe Communities Coalition prepares servers to handle "out-of-control" customers.
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- Imagine being the server at the restaurant, dealing with someone very drunk. The Safe Communities Coalition prepares servers to handle "out-of-control" customers.
There's a lot of restaurants in this town, and the Coalition makes EVERY server go through training, every 3 years. It gives them a run down of how to deal with drunk people, and, outlines the laws about legally serving alcohol.
All the rules are laid out in this video.
"I'd like a beer." " Sorry man, I can't take your money, looks like you've had a rough day.."
Smart decision.
There are serious penalties for serving people who are already drunk, even if they just walked in, Like misdemeanor charges, fines, even jail time.
Robyn Litke/Safe Communities Coordinator: "The intoxicated individual may hurt or kill someone that's obviously the bottom line."
The Safe Communities Coalition trains servers to handle situations like this.
"Goind around a corner, the next thing you know the corner of my bike kicks out."
In a calm, cool, collected manner. Because acting like this.
"Hey bud, quit acting like a 3rd grader and get your butt out of my bar."
Not a good idea.
The Coalition says servers are trained to safely handle customers who are out-of-control.
Litke: "You should do some sort of intervention technique. Slow down service, obviously maybe no more service, serve them water, try to serve them some food."
The Coalition says even though it's legal, alcohol is still a drug. So servers have a lot of responsibility. Not only to keep themselves safe, but to keep the community safe too.
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Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova could make his long-awaited return from illness as early as this month, president Sandro Rosell has confirmed.
Vilanova, 44, has spent three months away from the Camp Nou after suffering a relapse of the cancer he was treated for in late 2011.
But after successfully undergoing chemo and radiotherapy treatments in New York, Vilanova could return to the sidelines for the latter stages of this season.
It will be a timely boost for Barca, with a 2-0 loss to AC Milan in the Champions League, as well as Copa del Rey elimination at the hands of Real Madrid, showing signs of fatigue.
But Rosell insists the Catalan giants were expected to stutter without the influence of Vilanova.
"There is no doubt that a group gets weaker when they lose their leader," Rosell said. "Sports psychologists say, and I suppose there is a scientific explanation to it, that after 30 days the group's shape weakens.
"We have been without our leader for a long time now and it is normal to see this happening. He is longing to come back, hoping for the process to finish, which is due at the end of March.
"The other day he told me he was happy because he could start the countdown as he is over half of the process and he has less than 50 percent of it left. That is very good for his state of mind. He wants to come back and we want him back."
Rosell insists Barcelona have not pressured Vilanova to return, with Jordi Roura proving an apt replacement, steering the Blaugrana into strong contention for the La Liga title.
"The absolute priority of the club this season is for Tito Vilanova to get his health back and everything else is of secondary importance," he said. "I want to thank Roura for his work, he is a hero. We must thank him enormously for what he is doing because it was not his responsibility.
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Rather than a re-post of house tours, I would have found it more helpful had you grouped it by type of room: multifunctional office/bedroom, entryway/living room, living/dining combos. The house tours are fun, but I just don't know where to look to find inspiration for my current space issues.
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UCLA is the happy recipient of a generous gift of $50,000 in 2011-12 from the Royal Thai Government to support Thai Studies in the United States. This is the largest such gift that UCLA has received for this project, and it comes after two years of previous funding from the Royal Thai Government, representing remarkable commitment.
Prof. Michael L. Ross, Director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, expressed his profound thanks to the three offices which were instrumental in making the gift possible: The Foreign Ministry of Thailand, the Embassy of Thailand to the United States, and the Consulate General of Thailand, Los Angeles. He expressed particular thanks to the individuals involved: Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkon, Senior Scholar at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and former University of California Regents Professor; Mr. Chirachai Punkrasin, Director-General of the Department of American & South Pacific Affairs at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs; His Excellency Kittiphong na Ranong, Ambassador of Thailand to the United States; and the Honorable Damrong Kraikruan, Consul General at the Consulate of Thailand, Los Angeles.
Ross explained: "This gift will be instrumental in ensuring that UCLA will continue to be able to offer three levels of Thai language teaching (elementary, intermediate, and advanced) in our Department of Asian Languages and Cultures for another year. It will also enable us to provide scholarships for students to study in Thailand, and to do public programing related to Thailand and Thai Studies at UCLA."
In the 2011-12 academic year, UCLA is the only university in California teaching Thai at all. Ross said, "This generous gift ensures that we can continue not only to offer Thai at the beginning level, for which there is great demand, but also at higher levels, where serious researchers can benefit." In Fall 2011 there are 32 students studying Introductory Thai (a record number), 9 students in Intermediate, and 5 students in Advanced. UCLA's Thai language instructor is Dr. Supa Angkurawaranon, a skilled instructor from Chiang Mai, Thailand, who received her Ph.D. degree in the U.S. from Northern Illinois University.
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Pahigian, 38, lives in Buxton with his wife and son, and continues to teach writing at UNE.
Q: Where did you get the idea for this novel?
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My wife and I were married on Pine Point Beach. Being educators, we have summers off, and have spent a lot of time on the beach. One summer (before having a child), we spent 43 days there. So I guess as a writer I noticed things about the place over time, and that led to the book.
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