Madame Butterfly
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Wearing my "life is good" yoga dude pajamas
I just took off my jewelry and also put on my glasses.
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Baby mine don’t you cry
Baby mine dry your eye
Rest your head close to my heart
Never to part
Baby of mine
If they knew sweet little you
They’d end up loving you too
All those same people who scold you
What they’d give just for the right to hold you
Little one when you play
Don’t you mind what you say
Let those eyes sparkle and shine
Never a tear
Baby of mine
From your head down to your toes
You’re not much, goodness knows
But you’re so precious to me
Cute as can be
Baby of mine
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Turn it inside out so I can see
The part of you that's drifting over me
And when I wake you're never there
But when I sleep you're everywhere
You're everywhere
Just tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who you are
'Cause every time I look
you're never there
And every time I sleep
you're always there
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
that makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone
I recognize the way you make me feel
It's hard to think that
you might not be real
I sense it now, the water's getting deep
I try to wash the pain away from me
Away from me
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
that makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone
I am not alone
Whoa, oh, oooh, oh
And when I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never comes a day
No matter where I go
I always feel you so
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
that makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I catch my breath
it's you I breathe
You're everything I know
that makes me believe
I'm not alone
You're in everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me
~Michelle Branch
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Of all the things I believe in
I just want to get it over with
tears from behind my eyes
but I do not cry
Counting the days that past me by
I've been searching deep down in my soul
Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old
Looks like I'm starting all over again
The last three years were just pretend and I say
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I love
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
I still get lost in your eyes
And it seems like I can't live a day without you
Closing my eyes till you chase my thoughts away
To a place where I am blinded by the light but it's not right
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
Ohhh yeah
It hurts to want everything & nothing at the same time
I want whats yours and I want whats mine
I want you but I'm not giving in this time
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
We the stars fall and I lie awake
Your my shooting star
~Michelle Branch
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Shrimp and Fish Gone From Louisiana Coast
'They Lost Their Livelihood Along With the Land'
By KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP
PORT SULPHUR, La. (Sept. 13) - The shrimp and fish are gone. The oysters are mixed with mud. Hurricane Katrina took not just Dwight Reyes' house, but the livelihood he has known as a shrimper since he was 11.
AP
The future is filled with uncertainty for people across Plaquemines Parish, the 100-mile sliver of land through which the Mississippi River twists and curls on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Some estimate that half the 27,000 residents will not come back.
Two-thirds of the parish was made uninhabitable by hurricane damage, and more than half of it remains flooded. Citrus groves, celebrated at an annual festival, are brown from the deluge of salt water. Many of the oil and gas workers who live here are homeless and out of work.
Dana Smith, a registered nurse, wonders how the community can recover from the loss of jobs - particularly for fishermen. Nearly everything needs to be rebuilt.
"The boats, a majority are destroyed," Smith said. "They lost their livelihood along with the land."
In this isolated place on the edge of the ocean southeast of New Orleans, people know not to mess with hurricanes. When birds left in flocks that looked like white clouds, nearly all the residents fled, too.
Reyes gathered 40 of his relatives - ranging in age from 2 to 92 - and sailed north for eight hours in his family's shrimp boats. He barely got the boats tied up in a canal next to a levee when the storm's fiercest winds started bearing down on them.
"It sure gave us a big scare," said his brother-in-law Louis Thompson, 61.
After the hurricane passed, barges from the Mississippi River rested on a nearby levee. Coffins from a mortuary were scattered along the main road and herds of cattle were dead. Within days, the New Mexico Army National Guard moved into the area. Soldiers wearing fishing waders, gloves and surgical masks began daily searches for the living in the ruins of houses.
The storm turned the peninsula into a bathtub, flooding houses, grocery stores and churches, and rocking them from their foundations. At least four of those who remained died. One man told a soldier how he swam for his life, then survived for two days on a can of Vienna sausages and two bottles of water.
In the northernmost part of the parish, considered part of metropolitan New Orleans, residents were allowed back on Sunday to begin picking up the pieces. But they could not go south past Port Sulphur, 50 miles from New Orleans, because the highway is underwater.
"They start crying and get mad, but over all, they have pretty high spirits from all they've been through," said Spc. Anthony Bustillos, 27. "It's pretty overwhelming."
Rebuilding in Plaquemines Parish isn't an option for residents such as Keith Delahoussaye, a self-employed oil and gas mechanic with three grown children. Though he has owned his house for 20 years, he and his family plan to move to another Louisiana community with others of Cajun descent - perhaps Houma, 90 miles away.
It's just a matter of time before he hears of someone he knows from the parish who is dead, he said.
"Why keep going through this?" Delahoussaye asked. "We knew this was coming sooner or later. We didn't expect it to be so catastrophic."
Others are determined to stay.
Reyes and Thompson said they hope the shrimp and other sea life will return in a year or so. For now, they and their families are eating military rations and living on their boats until they receive insurance money from their lost houses.
"We are fishermen," Thompson said. "It's going to be hard to do something else. We don't have much to live on. We take care of one another. We're survivors."
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Drinking a cold glass of chocolate milk.
Feeling comfy in my jammies.
Talking to a friend on MSN
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Thank you BH
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It's a combination color, the lip color is called apple berry, and I gloss over it with cocoa cream.
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Well I believe it is something that has to be learned.
You look to your parents as how to have a romantic relationship.
If your Dad is thoughtful and considerate of your mother in a romantic sense, than the chances are greater that you will also be thoughtful and considerate.
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Record spin rate for cosmic body
By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter, in Cambridge
Astronomers have discovered what they say is the fastest rotating object in the Solar System for its size.
The object is called 2003 EL61 and rotates once every 3.9 hours.
Rather than being spherical like a planet, the object has a shape much like a squashed rugby ball, its discoverers told a Cambridge meeting.
2003 EL61 is located in the Kuiper belt - a vast, distant region of the Solar System that contains the planet Pluto and other ice-rock bodies.
"It's by far the record," said David Rabinowitz, of the department of astronomy at Yale University, US.
It's the weirdest shape ever seen for an object this size
David Rabinowitz, Yale University
"For an object almost the size of Pluto, this has very dramatic consequences."
Flat sphere
Planets are spherical because gravity pulls them in all directions. But as spin rates start to increase, bodies that would otherwise be spherical can begin to stretch into a flat sphere.
However, 2003 EL61, first seen in July, is spinning so fast it has been stretched into the shape of a squashed rugby ball.
"It's the weirdest shape ever seen for an object this size," said Dr Rabinowitz.
By knowing its shape, astronomers have been able to determine the object is about two-and-a-half times denser than ice. And they have also been able to find that its reflectivity is almost that of pure snow.
2003 EL61 is big enough that gravity is the dominant force governing it rather than its internal structure. But, said Chad Trujillo of the California Institute of Technology, US, it could be approaching the kind of rotation rate where a body of its size would get torn apart.
"I think if you took a body that large and spun it twice as fast, you might be getting close to the limit," he explained.
It is common for asteroids to spin as fast as 2003 EL61, but these are small, fairly solid objects with low gravity. 2003 EL61 is distinct because it is a large object dominated by gravity, much like a planet.
Dr Trujillo said a spiralling-in effect of the object and its moon could have caused 2003 EL61 to spin at its fast rate.
Results were presented at the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Cambridge
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I have a new lip gloss, it's lovely.
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If there is a historical society in your town, I would suggest you ask them to do some research for you, or find a time where they may have at least gotten things together so you can research it in your free time.
Seems an odd thing to say but make sure there is a lot of natural light in the house, make it very very clean.
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Do you know the history of the house at all?
Discovery had some interesting shows on haunted homes not so long ago.
A poltergeist is not a nice entity to have and can usually be tied to children in their teens.
Is there a teen in the house?
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What you are attracted to in your youth isn't necessarily what is right for you later in life.
She made the right choice, though I can see why his passionate nature was so alluring.
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Writing a paper
Helping someone with their maths.
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What It Feels Like For A Girl by Madonna
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Drinking a cold bottle of water and trying to cool down after going for a run.
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Tagged turtles traced online across Atlantic
Updated: 2:34 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2005
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Aitkanti the sea turtle has already braved fishing nets and shark infested waters in her swim from breeding grounds in South America but is only half way to the rich feeding waters off the coast of West Africa.
The endangered leatherback turtle was tagged in Suriname on June 25 with a satellite transmitter, and now the public can track her progress across the Atlantic on the Internet.
So far she has swum 3,000 km (1,800 miles) and dived to depths of 840 meters, more than twice the greatest depth reached the most intrepid human scuba divers.
She is one of 11 leatherbacks, the world's largest turtles, tagged in June and July and tracked to raise awareness about turtle conservation. "This is the first time the public can trace the movements of so many sea turtles online," said Carlos Drews of conservation group WWF, one of the project's sponsors along with Tortugas Marinas and Caribbean Conservation.
"We have tagged 11 turtles so far and we are hoping to tag 25 in total to have a representative sample of the movements of these turtles in the Atlantic Ocean," he said by telephone from his office in Costa Rica.
"The transmitter gives you their location, their depth of dives, their speed of travel, their speed during dives and the water temperature."
Exact leatherback numbers are not known globally but the species is widely regarded as endangered.
According to one study, as many as 50,000 leatherbacks are estimated to be caught as fisheries "bycatch" each year.
One of the tagged creatures has already perished. Drews said evidence pointed to a fishing net, the turtles' gravest threat.
"If you click on Kawana you will see how she met her demise off the coast of Suriname and French Guiana by drowning in a gill net," Drews said.
"The record of her last dive indicates that she was held underwater for nine hours which suggests gill nets," he said.
A similar fate could await the other turtles. "Aitkanti is heading towards the coast of West Africa where she will face the challenges of international and coastal fisheries," Drews said.
The turtles are also revealing their migratory routes.
Five of the turtles were tagged in Panama and one of those is already off the coast of South Carolina and appears to be headed north for feeding waters off Nova Scotia.
Another could be the first turtle to show how leatherbacks cross to Latin America from the West African country of Gabon.
Some leatherback populations, such as the one nesting on South Africa's Indian Ocean coast, are on the rebound because of conservation measures to protect their beach nesting sites.
Anyone interested in the movements of the turtles can find them on www.panda.org.
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Ancient humans 'altered' climate
By Helen Briggs
BBC News science reporter
Law Dome, Antarctica, where the ice cores came from. (Image: Science)
Humans were influencing the climate long before the Industrial Revolution, new research suggests.
Levels of methane rose steadily in the atmosphere in the first millennium, according to an analysis of gases trapped in ice beneath Antarctica.
Much of the greenhouse gas came from huge fires lit by humans as they cleared land for settlements and farming, researchers report in Science.
But natural climate change would have contributed to the emissions, they say.
Wetter, warmer
Greenhouse gas emissions have risen to record levels over recent centuries but little is known about the atmosphere in pre-industrial times.
Dr Ferretti with the ice core evidence. (Image: Science)
Now, using a new technique, scientists have been able to analyse traces of methane trapped in air bubbles within cores of 2,000-year-old Antarctic ice.
The chemical fingerprint of stable types, or isotopes, of carbon atoms gives a record of methane in the atmosphere over the course of history, and where it came from.
It appears that much of the gas came from the burning of biomass - the likes of wood and grass - rather than other known sources of methane, such as the burning of fossil fuels, or natural emissions of methane from swamps and wetlands.
"Fire has been known to mankind for hundreds of thousands of years - even though the human population was very small, they set off large fires on a regular basis," lead researcher Dominic Ferretti, of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited in Wellington, New Zealand, told the BBC News website.
"It shows that in pre-industrial times there were much higher levels of methane from wood and grassland fires than we ever thought before.
"The end result is that in the future, with climate change and inevitably warming, we are likely to experience more wild fires in the bush in many areas of the planet as it becomes warmer and drier."
Amazon fires
The research adds to a body of evidence that human settlers torched vast areas of jungle and grassland to clear land for farming and settlements.
In the Americas, large swathes of grassland appear to have been burnt every year, for farming or to drive animals into the path of hunters.
Early settlers cleared large swathes of grass and shrubland
Large-scale fires were also lit in the Amazon jungle, to produce charcoal for improving the fertility of the soil.
The data suggests that methane emissions from burning tailed off by about 1700.
The researchers say this may have been due to a natural trend toward cooler and wetter conditions, as well as the decline in the indigenous population in the Americas because of the introduction of diseases by European explorers.
With the advent of industry, however, emissions started to rise once again, far exceeding the levels seen between AD 1 and 1000.
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Flying reptiles just got bigger
By Jonathan Amos
BBC News science reporter, Dublin
Scientists are only now starting to recognise the astonishing size reached by pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.
New discoveries in the Americas suggest some had wingspans of 18m (60ft).
But there was nothing ugly about the way they moved through the air, according to expert Dr David Martill, of the University of Portsmouth.
Their ability to utilise air currents, thermals and ground effects would astonish aeroplane designers, he said.
"Pterosaurs were beautifully engineered," he told BBC News.
"Their skeletons were exceedingly light: their bones were very thin and hollow, and those hollows were filled with an air-sack system. They'd also got rid of their reptilian scales and their wing membrane was very, very thin.
"All this meant there wasn't that much weight to get off the ground, and so they probably flew really rather well," the researcher said.
The oldest pterosaur fossils date back 220 million years and scientists have now identified several different forms - some with teeth, some without; and some sporting elaborate head crests.
With their membranous wings attached to their legs, there was something bat-like about them, and their long beaks look like some bird species - but scientists stress they have no line to any living creatures.
Indeed, there is still great debate about where exactly they should be placed in the evolution of life forms on Earth. Dr Martill told the British Association's Festival of Science in Dublin that new discoveries would help solve this riddle - and perhaps reveal just how big these beasts managed to grow.
Early flight
Pterosaur trackways recently found in Mexico suggest the animals could achieve a wingspan of 18m. There are also Romanian and Brazilian fossils from creatures that reached 13 or 14m (42-45ft) across.
Compare this to today's biggest flying bird, the wandering albatross, which has a wingspan of about 3.5m (11.5ft).
"One of the reasons they were so big may have been because they just kept on growing," speculated Dr Martill.
"We get to teenage years and we stop; but if a pterosaur kept on growing then the older it got, the bigger it got. They would be rare as big ones, though, because the older you get, the more chance you have of being eaten or being involved in an accident."
There is evidence from rare fossil eggs containing pterosaur embryos which suggests the creatures could fly soon after hatching.
If this was the case, scientists say, it was a remarkable achievement because the wings would have had to have grown from just a few tens of centimetres in length to several metres without interrupting the animals flying capability.
"The equivalent of an aircraft engineer trying to convert a Eurofighter into a jumbo jet while it was still flying," enthused Dr Marthill.
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Ice belt 'encircled Mars equator'
By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter, Cambridge
Mars Express entered orbit at the end of 2003
Europe's Mars Express probe may have found evidence for a band of ice that once spanned the Martian equator.
A frozen sea and patterns of glacial activity on the planet may be a relic of this ancient belt of ice, says a top scientist.
The ice may have formed just before five million years ago due to a change in the tilt of Mars.
This change caused moisture from the poles to be deposited as snow at the equator.
The idea is based on work by a team of scientists led by astronomer Jacques Laskar of the Paris Observatory, France.
Laskar's team has shown that the tilt of Mars on its axis can vary between 15 degrees and 40 degrees, largely because of its lack of a significant moon. By contrast, the Earth varies little from its tilt of 23.5 degrees.
Flowing glaciers
Groups of modellers in Paris, Oxford and at the Nasa Ames Research Center in the US have also modelled the climatic effects of these changes in obliquity.
They found that when Mars' tilt changed to an obliquity of about 35 degrees around five million years ago, moisture trapped at the North and South Poles may have been re-deposited in equatorial regions as snow.
These Martian craters show signs of glacial flow
It is also possible that water trapped in the Martian tropics since ancient Noachian times was mobilised around five million years ago.
Eventually, the poles may have got smaller and a thick belt of ice formed around the tropics.
Now, Dr Bernard Foing, the European Space Agency's (Esa) chief scientist, said Mars Express could have found multiple lines of evidence for this, including a pattern of glacial activity in the so-called tropics.
"When we look at some of the Mars Express data we find evidence of glacial deposits or even flows on the flanks of some of the equatorial mountains and volcanoes," Dr Foing told the BBC News website.
He added it was possible the ice could have got as thick as several hundred metres at high altitudes.
Evidence for recent and recurring glacial activity at tropical and mid-latitude regions on Mars has also been found by James Head of Brown University, US.
Frozen sea
Another line of evidence from Mars Express is the possible discovery of a frozen sea in the Elysium region, near the Martian equator. The finding was announced by Dr John Murray of the Open University in Milton Keynes and colleagues earlier this year.
The sea, which would have been about the size of the North Sea and about 45m deep, froze as pack ice and was covered over as a layer of dust, the researchers said.
Intriguingly, the best estimate of its date comes out at about five million years, exactly when the icy belt may have existed around the tropics.
"This could be a future site for exploration, to search for possible life on Mars," said Dr Foing.
Details were announced at the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Cambridge, UK
What was the most beautiful thing you saw today?
in The Cotton Candy Factory
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The sun hanging like a huge orange ball in the sky.