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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

[OOC] Tales of Albion

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The Murmuration
mur?mur?a?tion
?noun
1. an act or instance of murmuring.
2. a flock of starlings.

Origin:
1350?1400; Middle English < Latin murmur?ti?n- (stem of murmur?ti? ).

NorthernSoul: Member for 5 years

Woohoo! Do you want to open up in Finshaw, and I'll have my charries trundle in on their marks?

Jadeling Hawkins: Member for 5 years

Yep yep, will do. I'm having some trouble uploading Ayden to the character list... Not sure why but he doesn't appear in the drop down menu when I select it to duplicate a character. Grrr!

Anyway, I'll try and have a post up by tonight!

NorthernSoul: Member for 5 years

Hm...that is odd. When you first sent the link over I couldn't get to his profile just by clicking it, either. I actually had to go to your name, scroll down the list and click on him there. Some sort of code funk going on?

Anywho, I'm excited! I eagerly await the cutting of the ribbon, so to say.

Jadeling Hawkins: Member for 5 years

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Tunisia: Canada Gives Villa of Ex-Ruler's Family to Govt

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Asma Ghribi

2 January 2012

On December 30th, the Tunisian Ministry of State Property announced that Canadian authorities have decided to cede the property of Ben Ali's son-in-law to the Tunisian government.

The value of the property (which includes a lavish villa - located in Westmount, Canada) and is estimated 1.338 billion Canadian Dollars.

The Canadian government initially intended to sell the property in an auction to pay off el-Matri's remaining debt. However, a newly ratified Canadian federal law prohibits the confiscation of money and property derived from corruption in third world countries or countries under (or previously under) a dictatorship.

The communiqu? released by the Ministry of State Property also reported that el-Matri's lawyer has been out of contact with Sakher el-Matri since he resettled in Dubai.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Video: GOP Primary Concerns

J.C Watts, Watts Partners, discusses Newt Gingrich's showing in Iowa, and a look at the GOP strategy, as the candidates finish up in Iowa and head to New Hampshire, with Howard Dean, former DNC chairman, and Michael Steele, former RNC chairman.

'American Idol's' James Durbin weds

James Durbin sure has something to sing about in 2012.

"American Idol's" season 10 rocker tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Heidi Lowe on New Year's Eve in the Santa Cruz mountains, Us Weekly has confirmed.

PHOTOS: 2011's most stunning celebrity weddings

Eighty-five guests -- including the couple's 2-year-old son, Hunter, and Durbin's Idol pals Stefano Langone, Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams -- looked on as the pair swapped vows near a redwood forest. The duo's little boy served as the ring bearer.

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PHOTOS: Before they were on American Idol!

Having to plan their wedding while Durbin was on the road with the American Idols Live! tour this summer may have seemed like a daunting task, but the couple took it in stride.

"We're having such a small wedding that it's not this big hassle that we can't handle. We're planning it all ourselves," Durbin told Us in November of their big day. "We don't need a wedding planner. We're not that crazy about it, you know. It's not about everyone else. It's about us, and we're keeping that mindset."

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Having his ceremony on New Year's Eve wasn't a biggie, either. "It doesn't matter what day it is," he told Us. "It's our day."

Durbin's debut album, "Memories of a Beautiful Disaster," was released in November.

Source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45841238/ns/today-entertainment/

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Myanmar artists test recent freedoms through film (AP)

YANGON, Myanmar ? Artists in Myanmar are testing new freedoms through films shown at a festival that for the first time in the country's recent history were not censored.

"The Art of Freedom Film Festival" began screening films on Saturday that were not approved by the strict Film Censorship Board.

Myanmar's new nominally civilian government has relaxed some draconian security measures, although films are still supposed to pass the censorship board.

The event was organized by comedian Zarganar, film director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Zarganar, who uses one name, was recently released from three years in prison. He described the festival as freedom of expression through film.

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Cross-Canada polar bear dips raise cash for charities

Rather than pledge to shed unwanted pounds or make more money, Al Peterson decided to be realistic, as usual. He opted to start 2012 with a dip in 7 C ocean water.

For the 34th year in a row, the 58-year-old was down at Vancouver's English Bay with his family for one of the oldest polar bear swims in the country.

"Rather than a New Year's resolution, which we don't keep anyway, we just wash off the old and start with the new," Peterson said, standing on wet sand among hordes of participants.

"And wash off that nasty hangover," joked his 23-year-old son Jason, who took his first dip at the turn of the millennium.

The father and son joined more than 2,100 people on Sunday for the annual dip that has spawned sister events across the country since it began 92 years ago. Many raise money for charity or, in Vancouver, food for the food bank.

Thousands more camera-clicking spectators gathered on the balmy 5 C day under a bright sun to watch the spectacle.

No hestitation

When the lifeguard's whistle blew, no one appeared to have cold feet.

Revellers in themed costumes ranging from superheros to reindeer and mermaids splashed into the sea, frolicking in the frigid waves.

"After you lose the feeling in your limbs, it's quite nice," said Tarrin McDonough, 40.

She and her sister Sorrel donned a giant paper mache Jaws costume, their heads peaking out from behind a sharp set of Styrofoam teeth.

Crashing into the cold water on the first day of a new year is a bonding experience, they said. But they don't expect it to be the peak of their 2012.

"No, this is just getting started. We like to start with a bang," Sorrel McDonough said.

It was an unseasonal 4 C in Toronto when the dippers in swim suits ? and some sporting headgear that included Viking-style horns ? took the plunge at Sunnyside Beach at noon Sunday.

Some had done this several times since the first dip in 2006 but others were first-timers attracted by the chance to raise money for Habitat For Humanity or giving in to the urgings of family and friends.

'It was for a good cause and a good way to ring in the new year.'? Jennifer Noddle

Joe McCallion was one of the first timers, who was there at the urging of his daughter.

"It's off the bucket list," a laughing McCallion said after taking the plunge.

"I conquered it. Probably be back next year, too."

For Jennifer Noddle, her first dip was a New Year's Eve decision.

"I saw a preview of it last night [Saturday] and a couple of us went out to the pub last night and just decided we would do it," Noddle said. "It was for a good cause and a good way to ring in the new year."

Organizers were hoping to raise $40,000 for Habitat For Humanity.

Laura McMahon said she was back for a third year to raise money for Habitat.

"It wakes you up after New Year's Eve," she said. "It's a lot of fun. You do it with family, with friends, you see some people year after year it's exciting."

Atlantic chill

Meanwhile, more than 150 people braved brisk winds and frigid water temperatures to plunge into the Atlantic Ocean near Halifax as part of an annual New Year's Day polar bear dip.

People young and old donned bikinis and swimming trunks for a brief-but-bitter dip into the icy waters in Herring Cove at noon Sunday.

Rob MacLellan, organizer of the event and a 14-year participant, says about $5000 was raised for local food bank Feed Nova Scotia.

Firefighters, police and emergency personnel were on hand to oversee the action and sent 20 people at a time to jump off the dock.

MacLellan, 54, compared the experience to being stabbed with needles thousands times.

He said the weather was ideal, with the temperature hovering at about 1 C and the sun peeking through the clouds.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/01/01/polar-bear-dips.html?cmp=rss

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The offshore drilling life: cramped and dangerous (AP)

ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICO ? The 160 workers on Shell's Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater.

Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well ? about $60,000 a year for a young roughneck, $90,000 for a young engineer and $150,000 for a supervisor. Plus they get a two-week vacation every two weeks.

The catch? They toil on this floating oil factory in 12 hour shifts for 14 days straight. Their rooms are tiny ? just enough space for a pair of bunk beds, one desk and some lockers. And there is definitely no getting away from work: They are 200 miles from shore and there is nothing on the horizon in all directions.

The clanking, buzzing machine they live on rises 30 stories out of the water and weighs 50 million tons. It uses new and unproven technologies to coax oil out of a tricky and important geologic formation in the Gulf of Mexico. One well is in the deepest water ever, 9,627 feet.

If they can't get Perdido to work right and have to stop the oil and natural gas from flowing, their company loses $5 million per day in revenue. If they lose control of it, their lives are at stake.

The job drives some people crazy.

"A lot of people have trouble," says Louis Lemoine, a drilling foreman from Alexandria, La. who has been working offshore for 41 years. "You can't go anywhere."

But the ones who stick to it say they love it.

Alison Whitt, a 22-year-old engineer just out of college says: "At the end of 14 days here I'm ready to go home, but at the end of 14 days (off) I'm ready to come back."

Workers compare it to having a second family. The isolation, the intensity of working so many hours straight and the danger breed closeness uncommon in most jobs.

Most people don't eat three meals a day with their co-workers, or share small bunk rooms with them.

There are movie nights and video game tournaments. There's even a nurse who nags workers to get their cholesterol and blood pressure tested. There are also flare-ups between workers who are tired, and tired of being cooped up with each other for so long. "It's just like home," Lemoine says. "Spats. Rumors. Gossip."

The sense of camaraderie ? as well as the tension ? has been intensified for all Gulf oil workers since 11 died in the explosion of the oil rig controlled by BP in April of 2010. That disaster led to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

Chris Smith, Perdido's operations manager, says there's been a "chronic sense of unease" among workers ever since.

The Perdido workers, like many in the oil industry outside of BP, say their culture and processes were focused on safety long before BP's disaster. They say they would have avoided such an accident.

But they know that Shell workers have died in accidents, too, and they are reminded of the fact during a tedious, 90-minute safety session they must sit through when they arrive at Perdido. As if the dangers of deepwater drilling needed reinforcing, lifeboats hang from the platform and sharks can be seen prowling the waters beneath it.

Perdido gathers oil and natural gas from wells drilled in its vicinity, many by an on-board rig that drills down into the sea floor and then horizontally into oil reservoirs. The oil and gas is then sent via undersea pipeline to terminals and refineries on the Gulf coast.

The platform also has desalination machines to make fresh water, power generators, air conditioners, a giant kitchen, laundry facilities and TV hookups. If something breaks, engineers on board fix it. The cable guy isn't coming to Perdido to adjust anyone's picture.

Perdido workers come from Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and as far away as Michigan and Alaska to get to work. They board a helicopter at an airport in Galveston, Texas, for the two-hour ride to the platform.

When the helicopter touches down, it's all work for two weeks. The schedule compresses a full year's work into six months. But that makes for nice stretches of vacation.

Todd Coulon, a Shell veteran of 23 years from Barataria, La., a bayou town 30 miles south of New Orleans, says the two weeks off each month allow him to get chores and home projects done. That allows him to have "real weekends" during which he can spend time with his three kids, watch LSU and Saints football games and fish.

When it's time to work, the focus is clear: Keep the oil and gas flowing. The device on the platform that transfers the oil and gas to pipelines is called the "Lease Automated Custody Transfer Unit" but workers have a nickname for it: the cash register.

At each change in shift there is a meeting in the platform's common room. The foremen from the outgoing shift brief the foremen from the incoming shift on how the platform and the rig performed, the maintenance activities planned, the equipment and supplies that are arriving by boat, the latest weather forecast and any safety problems.

Foremen wear camouflage baseball caps, recline in office chairs and murmur in polite southern accents of different shades, from a deep Mississippi drawl to Southern Louisiana creole.

A recent meeting started with a safety report from a foreman who reported missing earplugs, cracked coatings, hoses in the wrong place that created a tripping hazard, a hand rail missing a pin and a helmet blown off the head of a worker and into the sea by a gust of wind.

Even heavier winds were coming, so the cranes had to be put in their "cradles" and drilling would likely have to be suspended. Maintenance work was slotted into the schedule.

Production rates from the day before were discussed, along with goals for the next day.

Some of the equipment Shell designed to separate oil and natural gas on the sea floor before pumping it up to the platform hasn't worked as well as hoped. Technicians have been adjusting equipment, changing procedures, and installing new equipment over several months to try to fix the problem. Finally, it seems to be working.

After more than a year of steady operation, Perdido has only recently hit its monthly production targets.

Perdido is producing the equivalent of 60,000 barrels of oil and natural gas a day from six wells. Eventually, the platform will produce 100,000 barrels per day from 35 wells drilled in a 30-mile radius around the platform.

At today's prices, that means revenue of more than $1.8 billion per year.

The challenge is to balance the pressure to keep the oil flowing with the pressure to keep workers safe.

Coulon ended a recent meeting by telling workers to be safe and look after each other. He didn't need to remind them that not too long ago 11 people doing the same kind of work never made it home for their two week break to see their families, fish and get stuff done around the house.

Jonathan Fahey can be reached at http://twitter.com/JonathanFahey.

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