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Picked up my Seahawks shirt today.
woot! Go, Seahawks!
Where ?
Anyone need rain ? We got a lot round here.
My brother is home from his fifth deployment! Yay!
Good news, PL.
Thank you, it is. My mom is feeling much better, in general, I think. She is an Olympic-caliber worrier, so this is one less thing to worry about.
My brother is home from his fifth deployment! Yay!
Thank you for his service!
I can totally relate.
Sorry, Ogg, but the Ballet remains a bit of a closed book to me.
But sometimes the music is nice (Dance of the Knights, for instance, or that famous Mazurka).
Seeing one of the standard works at a cinema is a good introduction - The Nutcracker, La Fille Mal Gardée, Giselle.
The plots are fairly simple. It is the combination of dance and gesture that gives the meaning.
Here is a guide to
ballet gestures
The price at a cinema is slightly more than a standard movie but affordable while seeing a live performance from a reasonable seat is not!
Slowed down explanation after basic dance from Swan Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaZnAyXsX4k
The Queen of the Wilis in rehearsal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xMJQQfU6UM
Good Lord!
I don't know why I read this as, "I can totally penetrate!"
Unrelated blurt:
Take a deep breath. In. Out. Again.
We are fishing for a fish we lost trying to fish the MWD tool that the wireline broke on. All of this inside 5" drill pipe because we needed to remove the MWD tool from the stuck drill assembly that got stuck because we lost circulation.
One little cause and a lot of effects.
We are fishing for a fish we lost trying to fish the MWD tool that the wireline broke on. All of this inside 5" drill pipe because we needed to remove the MWD tool from the stuck drill assembly that got stuck because we lost circulation.
One little cause and a lot of effects.
Workers are trying to stop the flow of natural gas from an out-of-control well being drilled by Rowan Companies Plc in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
There has been no fire, explosion or oil spill, said Jonathan Garrett, chief operating officer of EnVen Energy Ventures LLC, the well operator that hired Rowan.
“It’s blowing gas and formation water. We are circulating seawater to try to get it under control,” said Garrett. “We’re very concerned about a fire and taking all the precautions we can to keep that from happening.”
Rowan and EnVen, a privately held producer based in Metairie, Louisiana, evacuated 42 non-essential workers from Rowan’s “Louisiana” rig yesterday, while 37 remain to try to get the well under control.
Three boats are on standby at the shallow-water well site 108 miles (173 kilometers) southwest of Lafayette, Louisiana, in case they’re needed for additional evacuations, Garrett said.
The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which oversees offshore drilling, is monitoring the situation.
Rowan’s rig, hired by EnVen, was operating on top of a platform fed by six already-producing wells, Garrett said in a phone interview. When the company lost control of drilling on a seventh well beneath the platform, production on those six existing wells was stopped. The Bureau of Safety confirmed “all production was shut-in and remains shut-in.” Garrett declined to say how much the wells were producing.
All engines on the platform and rig -- potential ignition sources -- were turned off. The flow of gas, water and drilling fluids was diverted overboard, consistent with the emergency plan for the situation, Garrett said. To help prevent fire, seawater is being pumped into and over the flow stream, he said.
“All of the well-control equipment is functioning as designed,” Suzanne Spera, a spokeswoman at Houston-based Rowan, said in a phone interview.
The companies have called an outside well-control expert to the site, and plan to start pumping heavy drilling mud into the well bore to try to block the flow, Garrett said. There is a possibility also that the well bore could collapse on itself, which could stop the flow...
more...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...trol-incident-in-u-s-gulf-shallow-waters.html