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According to the Coast Guard, a mile-long sheen of oil is spreading from the offshore petroleum platform, owned by Mariner Energy.

All 13 people aboard the rig are safe. They were found in the water near the platform clad in their safety suits. After rescue they were flown to a hospital in Houma, Louisiana to be checked out.

NPR’s Jeff Brady reports on the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil rig explosion reports are so far unclear about whether a Mariner Energy facility south of Vermillion Bay has caused an oil leak. The rig is in shallow water, and no injuries are confirmed.

A oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday morning forced all 13 crew members to evacuate into the water.

Company officials said in a statement Thursday morning that the incident does not appear to have resulted in an oil leak. The Associated Press, however, has reported that the Coast Guard says there is a mile long, 100 foot-wide oil sheen near the platform.

The fire occurred on a platform about 100 miles south of Louisiana’s Vermillion Bay and west of the site of the Deepwater Horizon accident. The rig is in 320 feet of water, much shallower than the mile-deep well operated by BP that caused a massive oil spill this summer.

The shallower water would make an attempt to plug any leak significantly easier.

The Coast Guard dispatched helicopters, airplanes, and four cutters to the scene. The crew members had evacuated the rig in immersion suits and were picked up in the water by an oil service boat. The company says no injuries have been reported.

The facility, Vermillion Block 380, is owned by Mariner Energy Inc., an independent oil and gas exploration, development, and production company based in Houston. The company holds 350 offshore exploration leases, with 110 currently in development, according to the company’s website.

The platform collected production from seven wells producing about 1,400 barrels of oil per day and 9 million cubic feet of gas. Production was shut down, the company said, before the crew evacuated.

T.I. was arrested on drug charges last night in Los Angeles, after police smelled marijuana drifting from the rapper’s Maybach during a traffic stop on Sunset Boulevard. After searching the vehicle, police charged T.I. and his wife Tamika “Tiny” Cottle with possession of a controlled substance, TMZ reports. Bail was set for $10,000, and the couple was released early this morning. It’s unclear which controlled substance led to the arrest, but Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Mark Pope told the AP that a “narcotics investigation ensued” after police smelled the marijuana.

T.I., who was released from prison just seven months ago, after serving nearly a year behind bars on federal weapons charges, is on three years’ probation. He has had a string of drug-related charges in the past, including a 1998 arrest for breaking Georgia’s controlled substance law and another probation violation over possession of marijuana. As part of his plea deal stemming from the federal weapons charges, T.I. was required to speak to students about the dangers of guns and drugs.

T.I.’s latest arrest comes just days after Takers, a heist film in which he starred, topped the weekend’s box office. T.I. is also at work on his new album King Uncaged, which he told Rolling Stone was “the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since Tupac Shakur’s All Eyez on Me.” The album’s new single “Pledge Allegiance to the Swag,” featuring Rick Ross, leaked just hours before T.I.’s arrest.

In the current economy, I think so many people trying to make a little money in their spare time to find. A fun and entertaining way, start your own jewelry, pearl jewelry, to be exact.
To be honest, another hobby of mine is to buy jewelry at this hobby, which replaced it was cheaper, and I can both my product to sell and market it was clear.
I sell at the local Farmer’s Market and a few art and craft shows around. The rent for the space of places like this is relatively cheap and I always have enough money to cover the costs of the savings in time and materials and pay for one week and weekend cover.
I also started to sell some experimenting on consignment in local stores as the store I buy my beads bead lot, and I have had online sales sites like eBay.
The jewelry I can do is very simple, but looks like the type of costume jewelry can be found at the destination. I started, necklaces, earrings and bracelets made of pearls, gemstone, such as green malachite and lapis lazuli. But the cost of materials has a small (have you seen the price of turquoise beads increased recent U.S.?). This kind of jewelry is a compulsive purchase for many people: they see, they love and buy.
In the last two years I found instead that I have more jewelry to sell (and earn more money) with glass beads, especially Chinese and Indian glass. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes and designs.
If you want ideas, what kind of jewelry, just go through the local department stores, or even better, the local clothing stores. You can even target age and sex styles by pressing the right stores (American Eagle and A & E for the masses of Beach Bum young, fashion-conscious young Express, etc.).
Apart from the beads, but a lot of hooks, some beads and crimp.

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