HMC Completes Tombua Landana Installation Offshore Angola (Rigzone)

HMC Completes Tombua Landana Installation Offshore Angola (Rigzone) HMC's crane vessel Thialf left the Tombua Landana site in Angola after a successful installation. The Tombua Landana project for DSME/Chevron comprised the installation of a Compliant Tower and Topsides in a water depth of 370 m in Block 14, 50 miles offshore Cabinda. Go to Source Happy Xmas From Giraffe Recruitment More Jobs From Giraffe Recruitment

UFO Claim Over Wind Farm Damage UFO enthusiasts are claiming damage to a Lincolnshire wind farm turbine was caused by a mystery aircraft. The turbine at Conisholme lost one 66ft (20m) blade and another was badly damaged in the early hours of Sunday. County councillor for the area Robert Palmer said he had seen a "round, white light that seemed to be hovering". Go to Source Happy Xmas From Giraffe Recruitment More Jobs From Giraffe Recruitment

Did Earth's Twin Cores Spark Plate Tectonics? It's a classic image from every youngster's science textbook: a cutaway image of Earth's interior. The brown crust is paper-thin; the warm mantle orange, the seething liquid of the outer core yellow, and at the center the core, a ball of solid, red-hot iron. Now a new theory aims to rewrite it all by proposing the seemingly impossible: Earth has not one but two inner cores. Go to Source Happy Xmas ...

U.S. Scientists Learn How to Levitate Tiny Objects U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics, and said on Wednesday they might use it to help make tiny nanotechnology machines. They said they had detected and measured a force that comes into play at the molecular level using certain combinations of molecules that repel one another. Go to Source Happy Xmas From Giraffe Recruitment More Jobs From Giraffe ...

Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download Microsoft's excitable CEO Steve Ballmer showed off Windows 7 -- the slick, fast, user-friendly successor to the much-maligned Windows Vista -- and said it will be available as a public beta on Friday. Unveiled by an intense Ballmer during his keynote address on the eve of CES 2009, Windows 7 will offer better performance on underpowered machines such as netbooks, support for multitouch interfaces, and simplified home ...

The "Love Hormone" Oxytocin Helps People Recognize Faces They've Seen Before The so-called "love hormone" oxytocin, which is linked to a mother's tender feelings for her child and long-term devotion between mates, may play a more general role in promoting the social cohesion of a group. In a small new study, researchers found that volunteers who got an oxytocin boost were better able to recognize faces they had seen the day before than people who got ...

Two Stars Are Born Near the Perilous Edge of a Black Hole In the violent heart of our Milky Way galaxy lies a supermassive black hole with a mass equivalent to four million suns. But although the gravitational maw gobbles up anything that gets too close, it can also set up conditions that allow for the birth of new stars just a few light years away, according to a new study. Lead researcher Elizabeth Humphreys says ...

Yokogawa Participates in the United Nations Global Compact Yokogawa has announced that it joined the United Nations Global Compact on 5 January 2009. The Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative consisting of ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Yokogawa is the 76th participant in Japan. This initiative was proposed in 1999 by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an address to the World Economic Forum, and ...

Start-Package - For Printing on Your Own Do you need marking for cables, wires and components? You can now buy a Start-Package with a wide assortment of articles for printing on your own laser printer. The package is produced for those who need to print their own markers on a laser printer, and maybe want to try different marking systems or need markers for components, cables and wires. It includes character holders with cable ties and Flexilabel ...

The Offshore Financial Services Database 2008 Just Released (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that the new offshore Financial Services Database is now available in its catalogue. Go to Source Happy Xmas From Giraffe Recruitment More Jobs From Giraffe Recruitment