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It is a pancake place, so I ordered waffles topped with strawberries and cream - RAPatton from iPhone

I'd order the strawberries and cream. Yum! - Fossil Huntress

chomp! - Anna Lynn M.

I won't know how perfect they are until I can taste. Cookie Monstress 335 s. 22nd st. la crosse, wi 54601 - Rochelle Rochelle

Back to Life (However You Want Me) by Soul II Soul - RAPatton from iPhone

ooohh nice mix! - Anna Lynn M.

♫ Shake it like a ladder to the sun ♫ Makes me feel like a madman on the run ♫ Find me never never far gone ♫ So get your leather, leather ♫ leather on on on on ♫ - RAPatton

Wonder what PETA has to say about this. - Jill is sugar free

The members of PETA are likely all wearing leather shoes. - Fossil Huntress

wow. haven't heard them in years... great live show. :) - T. Brent, technopeasant

oh and I missed their most recent tour here....:( - VAL D.

"Are there any [comic book movies] you've seen floating around in Hollywood that you'd like to see made? Yeah, I can, there was one or two that I heard of that sounded really cool. One of them was about, I think... it's a vampire and a killer, and they're on the road, and it's this really strange story. I thought that sounded pretty cool. Also some of the obscure ones, I don't know if there are any more superheroes left. That sounds a little bit like Preacher? I think it might have been Preacher. You should get involved with that! I'm trying to. I heard about that one, I like that." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Preacher film , YES! Plez dont ruin it by casting the wrong person in the lead. (Matrix- still great, Daredevil....etc.) - echostreamer

<3 !!! - Anna Haro

"Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in addressing issues at the heart of Jewish identity, it has exposed bitter divisions in Britain’s community of 300,000 or so Jews, pitting members of various Jewish denominations against one another. “This is potentially the biggest case in the British Jewish community’s modern history,” said Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper here. “It speaks directly to the right of the state to intervene in how a religion operates.” The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to the school, JFS. Founded in 1732 as the Jews’ Free School, it is a centerpiece of North London’s Jewish community.... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I've long been confounded by some of these issues. That whole thing about not having to be observant - just your mother has to be Jewish. Also is Jewishness creed or ethnicity? Because Jews come from many different parts of the world - there's even the major division between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. I've never asked anyone about this stuff because it seems like stepping out onto a minefield... - Spidra Webster

I want my 2 dollars! -- my sons will finally know why I say it all the time - RAPatton from iPhone

This is my favorite movie. - Alan Simpson

"A laser-powered robotic climber has won $900,000 in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth's equator and deploying the other end thousands of kilometres into space. The centrifugal force due to Earth's spin would keep the cable taut so that a robot could climb it and release payloads into orbit. Though building a space elevator might require an initial investment of billions of dollars, proponents say once constructed, it would make for cheaper trips into space than is possible using rockets. But huge technological hurdles must first be overcome, including how to supply power to the robotic climber. To that end, NASA offered $2 million in prize money in a competition called the Power Beaming Challenge, in which robotic climbers, powered wirelessly from the ground, attempt to ascend a cable as fast as possible. Now, a robotic climber has made a prize-winning ascent... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"On Wednesday, LaserMotive fired up its laser, powering the climber to ascend 900 metres up a cable suspended from a helicopter at Edwards Air Force Base in Mojave, California. The climber reached the top in just over 4 minutes, for an average speed of 3.7 metres per second. The team's climber repeated the feat at a slightly higher speed of 3.9 metres per second on Thursday. On Friday,... more... - RAPatton

Wow, I didn't realize they had advanced this far with the idea. - Jason Huebel from Android

"The decline was rapid. I got my first pair of glasses aged 9, and by my mid-teens could no longer read the title on the cover of New Scientist at arm's length. With my mum's eyes just as bad, I always assumed that I'd inherited my short-sightedness from her and that I could do little to stop my vision from becoming a little blurrier each year. Around the same time, however, rates of short-sightedness, or myopia, were rising to epidemic proportions around the world. Today, in some of the worst-affected countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, around 80 per cent of young adults are myopic, compared to only 25 per cent a few decades back. Rates are lower in western countries - between 30 and 50 per cent - but myopia seems to be rising steadily here too. What could be causing this mysterious epidemic? It is clear that genetics alone can't explain the condition, and the long-standing theory that reading was to blame has failed to play out in subsequent studies. Large-scale... more... - RAPatton

Nice article and insightful. - ashish

"She's famed for her individual sense of style and rarely makes a public appearance without enormous sunglasses, an extravagant hat or mask obscuring her face. But Lady Gaga wore nothing but make up on German chat show Wetten Dass...? last night, making a rare decision to show off her face instead of fashion. The 23-year-old New Yorker revealed glowing skin and on-trend smoky eyes during her interview with host Thomas Gottschalk. Although she made her entrance wearing huge sunglasses, she soon whipped them off to discuss the tattoo on her arm of a poem by German writer Rainer Maria Rilke." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

that she chose wetten dass for that appearance is a miracle to me - maybe she thought that thomas gottshalk is costumed enough for two (as he always is) - ★ Esther Rudolph

From her 365 project - RAPatton from iPod

loved the bottles idea in the middle pic - فی‌ دل

"To many people, it's a health food. To others, it's simply soda in disguise. That virtuous glass of juice is feeling the squeeze as doctors, scientists and public health authorities step up their efforts to reduce the nation's girth. It's an awkward issue for the schools that peddle juice in their cafeterias and vending machines. It's uncomfortable for advocates of a junk-food tax who say they can't afford to target juice and alienate its legions of fans. It's confusing for consumers who think they're doing something good when they chug their morning OJ, sip 22-ounce smoothies or pack apple juice in their children's lunches. The inconvenient truth, many experts say, is that 100% fruit juice poses the same obesity-related health risks as Coke, Pepsi and other widely vilified beverages. With so much focus on the outsized role that sugary drinks play in the country's collective weight gain -- and the accompanying rise in conditions including diabetes, heart disease and cancer -- it's time juice lost its wholesome image, these experts say." - RAPatton

"Juice is a relatively recent addition to the human diet. For thousands of years, people ate fruit and drank mostly water. But in the early 1900s, citrus growers in Florida were harvesting more oranges than they could sell. Then they had an epiphany: promote juice. "You consume more oranges if you drink them than if you eat them whole," said Alissa Hamilton, author of the book... more... - RAPatton

Like with most things, it's a matter of moderation. In terms of glassware, a juice glass traditionally is really rather small, holding 4-5 oz of liquid. That's probably a much more judicious serving size than those large bottles a lot of people drink. - Katy S

"♫ You wants it easy; ♫ you want it relaxed ♫ Said I can do alot of things, ♫ but I can't do that ♫" - RAPatton from Blip.fm

I still sing this version out loud with my sons every other day - RAPatton

CURSES! "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions." - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

The song is pop-y, which isn't my thing, but it came up on iTunes, and it reminded me a lot of Jimmy Eats World, and I do think these guys could have some mainstream success - RAPatton

"Guide upon guide describes Vancouver as the gem of North America, an unparalleled mix of urban sophistication and surreally beautiful, rugged nature. Glass skyscrapers sparkle against snow-capped mountains and islands of tall evergreens. Ferries zigzag across the choppy bay as seaplanes descend from the mists. Visitors come to ski slopes that feel like wilderness and 15 minutes later find themselves in a restaurant in the cobblestone-and-brick warehouse district, dining on arctic char still quivering on a plate. The Journal Travel Guides Tips on where to go before, during and after the Olympics in Vancouver. But when more than 250,000 visitors come to town for the Winter Olympics, they'll quickly see that, spectacular though Vancouver is, the downtown hub on and around Robson Street has become as bland and generic as an upscale suburban shopping mall. There's A/X Armani Exchange, American Eagle Outfitters, American Apparel—that's just the A's—along with Chanel, Hermès, Tiffany and... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Night is the best time to go to Gastown—a neighborhood close to downtown but a little rougher, where, according to legend, John "Gassy Jack" Deighton started the first real saloon in 1867 to serve sawmill workers. Until about a year ago, this was a touristy area selling kitschy trinkets amidst modern furniture stores. Now there are funky boutiques and restaurants that specialize in... more... - RAPatton

"The Archipelago of the Bijagós is such a place, a spattering of 88 palm-fringed-islands in the Atlantic Ocean, only 23 of them inhabited, off the coast of one of West Africa’s most dysfunctional yet beguiling states, Guinea-Bissau. To just say that these verdant tropical specks have miles of deserted, spectacular beaches, peculiar feats of nature like a rare herd of saltwater hippopotamuses, and unusual customs like one of the world’s few functioning matriarchies — women have traditionally chosen their mates, with little right of refusal, on the island of Orango — is to do them an injustice. Because to arrive in the Bijagós after the two-hour ride in a small speedboat from the decrepit yet ingratiating capital of the country, Bissau, is to enter another world and another century, though it would be difficult to pinpoint exactly which ones. In a village on the island of Soga, the little children pinched my white skin to see if it was real, as they emerged from mud-walled,... more... - RAPatton

"For all the pleasure of lying on the white sand and not seeing a soul as minutes and hours pass, an even greater pleasure is in being somewhere where you are just as strange to the inhabitants as they are to you. The usual relationship of tourist to native — that mix of wariness, guilt and hostility — doesn’t exist. That the accommodation ranges from spartan to simple but comfortable... more... - RAPatton

"Gilles will take you fishing on one of his boats, or simply on an exploration of this island universe he knows as well as any outsider, for a beach picnic on a deserted island, or a visit to one of the villages. At the entrance will be a giant tree in which the tutelary spirit, the iran, is said to dwell; the children and women flocking around an elderly woman will be a clue to the... more... - RAPatton

"The wandering of the Jews is frozen in the marble of the corned beef on rye. The fall of the Temple, the exile, life in the ghetto, reliance on the cheapest meat and the ensuing need to tenderize and smoke and spice, the crossing to the New World -- it all culminates in the towering sandwich you find at the Carnegie in New York, Junior's in L.A., Manny's in Chicago. Every deli is a synagogue. What remained when the kingdom was smashed and the faithful sent a-wandering. In his deeply satisfying new book "Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen," David Sax sets out to tell this story one city, one deli, one tradition at a time, traveling from New York to San Francisco to Los Angeles, speaking to deli men, eating smoked meat, working as a cutter at Katz's on Houston Street ("Like snowflakes, no two pastramis are exactly alike, sometimes the flesh would be buttery soft, with very few sinews to impede my carving, but often I'd cut... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"For historical reasons, Jews are obsessed with the fall of temples, and the aftermath of Diaspora, memory and pain. Two such disasters echo through this book: the fall of the 2nd Avenue Deli, which went down in a moment, like a collapsing star, leaving a black hole on the Lower East Side of Manhattan ("The two-foot-high Yiddish- inspired letters of the . . . sign lay dismantled on the... more... - RAPatton

"Jimmy Choo took the town by storm last week, hosting not one but two parties. Not Jimmy Choo the man (the shoemaker sold his name in 2001), but Jimmy Choo the British footwear brand and its glamorous president and founder, Tamara Mellon. No stranger to Los Angeles, Mellon lived in Beverly Hills from ages 8 to 14, attending Marymount High School (Camp Beverly Hills was a favorite hangout), before settling in London. She was also one of the first to recognize the power of the red carpet, setting up the brand's first Academy Awards showroom for celebrities and stylists in 1999. She, like the celebrities she dresses, has been tabloid bait since marrying the heir to the Mellon fortune in 2001. (The two have since divorced.) She dated actor Christian Slater for two years and worked with movie-turned-fashion mogul Harvey Weinstein on reviving the Halston brand. So it's no surprise that she came back to L.A. -- this time with her own red carpet -- to launch her hotly anticipated line for H&M, which hits stores on Saturday." - RAPatton

Someday, I'll pay a lot of money for a designer pair of shoes. the same day I win the lottery, probably. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

""Bond girl Eva Green insists she’s ‘not confident’ about her body – but you might beg to differ, given her latest sultry photoshoot. The 29-year-old seemed to show no inhibitions when she posed naked for the latest edition of style bible Tatler, recreating a classic Seventies portrait of British actress Charlotte Rampling. Sitting on a polished antique table in front of an ornately gilded mirror, the Casino Royale star has only a glass of wine for company as she mimics erotic photographer Helmut Newton’s 1973 memorable image."" - RAPatton

The article has some mildly NSFW images, but really it doesn't showcase her eyes enough, which are her primary asset - RAPatton

"From the sudden whiff of school cabbage to the pungent smell of hospital disinfectant,  nothing transports people back to their childhood more than an unexpected smell. Now scientists think they have discovered how scents from the past make such a lasting impression. Using brain scans, they have shown that new 'odour memories' - such as the association of a perfume with a person - really do get 'etched' onto the brain. The 'signature' of the memory is different from other types of memories, they found. Dr Yaara Yeshurun, who led the study at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel said early smells had a 'privileged' status in our memories. Scientists have long known that smells are one of the best ways to evoke the past.  Past studies have shown that memories triggered by smells are more vivid and more emotional than those triggered by sounds, pictures or words. The new study, reported in the journal Current Biology,  tried to mimic the creation of childhood memories of smells in 16 adult volunteers." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"'We found that the first pairing or association between an object and a small had a distinct signature in the brain,' said Dr Yaara. 'This "etching" of initial odour memories in the brain was equal for good and bad smells, yet was unique to odour.' The researchers also found that they could predict what a person what remember later based on the activity in their brains on the first... more... - RAPatton

"She glides silently through the cobalt water, banking gently to the left so smoothly the movement is barely discernible. Seconds later, with pinpoint precision, we swoop down to chase a school of fish confused at the sight of this strange new creature of the deep. My cockpit headset crackles into life: 'Now, brace yourself for the porpoise,' says Captain Alfred McLaren, the excitement palpable in his voice. As the joystick is thrust backwards sharply, the world's first underwater 'flying' machine shoots upwards, breaching the water surface nose-first, before splashing back down and descending once more to the depths. The Super Aviator, a revolutionary submersible, could be considered the ultimate boy's toy. Sleek and oozing more sex appeal than your average fighter jet, the 22ft long futuristic sub has already seduced billionaires such as Roman Abramovich and Richard Branson. They've both made enquiries about buying one of the £1.5 million machines. But this is far more than a rich... more... - RAPatton

Did the kids get a photo? or a video? because that've been fun to see. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I am at the gym alone, so there is no video - RAPatton from iPhone