Car driver dies in tractor crash
Police appeal for witnesses after a car driver dies when he was in collision with a farm tractor and trailer.
2008-11-29 05:29:13Nigeria: Lorry Crushes 25
Twenty- five people died in a road accident in Ikare, Akoko North-East Council of Ondo State, yesterday as a trailer loaded with rice ran into a market and crushed the victims, even as dare-devil armed robbers snuffed life out of six people including four policemen when they attacked two commercial banks in the ancient city of Ibadan.
2008-11-29 03:43:1650 Cent 2 Video Game Trailer
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2008-11-26 05:12:20"Seven Pounds" Preview & Trailer - Will Smith, the Ultimate Do-Gooder
Hey, Will Smith! Wanna pay my mortgage! In “Seven Pounds,†he plays an IRS agent who changes the lives of seven strangers. The trailer has him giving someone a house and all kinds of crazy things. But if he wants to just pay off my mortgage, that’d be fine with me. I wonder where the “pounds†comes from, though…it’s all very mysterious… It’s by the same folks who made “The Pursuit of Happyness,†so I guess it’ll probably be an emotional tear-jerker. It’s rated PG-13 for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality. Official Site. In theaters Dec. 19, 2008. Tags: film, movie trailers, Movies, seven pounds, seven pounds trailer, will smithShare This
2008-11-26 02:32:17Study: Many kids in Katrina trailer park anemic
Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana's biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate more than four times the national average. About 41...
2008-11-25 22:41:15Man gets prison over FEMA trailer refurbish scheme AP
AP - A man who advertised a bogus investment plan to buy and refurbish FEMA trailers used after hurricanes Katrina and Rita is going to prison.
2008-11-25 16:00:00Study: Many kids in Katrina trailer park anemic AP
AP - Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana's biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate more than four times the national average.
2008-11-25 16:00:00'Fish technology' developed to draw affordable renewable energy from water currents
Washington, Nov 22 ANI: The day is not far when slow-moving ocean and river currents may become new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source, all thanks to VIVACE - a machine designed by an engineer at University of Michigan that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power.VIVACE is the first known device that could harness energy from most of the water currents around the globe because it works in flows moving slower than 2 knots about 2 miles per hour. Most of the Earth's currents are slower than 3 knots. Turbines and water mills need an average of 5 or 6 knots to operate efficiently.Expanded as Vortex Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy, VIVACE doesn't depend on waves, tides, turbines or dams. It's a unique hydrokinetic energy system that relies on "vortex induced vibrations."Vortex induced vibrations are undulations that a rounded or cylinder-shaped object makes in a flow of fluid, which can be air or water. The presence of the object puts kinks in the current's speed as it skims by. This causes eddies, or vortices, to form in a pattern on opposite sides of the object. The vortices push and pull the object up and down or left and right, perpendicular to the current."For the past 25 years, engineers-myself included-have been trying to suppress vortex induced vibrations. But now at Michigan we're doing the opposite. We enhance the vibrations and harness this powerful and destructive force in nature," said VIVACE developer Michael Bernitsas, a professor in the U-M Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.Fish excel in how to put the vortices that cause these vibrations to good use."VIVACE copies aspects of fish technology. Fish curve their bodies to glide between the vortices shed by the bodies of the fish in front of them. Their muscle power alone could not propel them through the water at the speed they go, so they ride in each other's wake," said Bernitsas. The working prototype in his lab is just one sleek cylinder attached to springs. The cylinder hangs horizontally across the flow of water in a tractor-trailer-sized tank in his marine renewable energy laboratory. The water in the tank flows at 1.5 knots.Now, the VIVACE cylinder in the current causes alternating vortices to form above and below the cylinder. The vortices push and pull the passive cylinder up and down on its springs, creating mechanical energy. Then, the machine converts the mechanical energy into electricity.Bernitsas said that only a few cylinders might be enough to power an anchored ship, or a lighthouse. These cylinders could be stacked in a short ladder. He estimated that array of VIVACE converters the size of a running track and about two stories high could power about 100,000 houses. Such an array could rest on a river bed or it could dangle, suspended in the water. But it would all be under the surface.It is believed that the system would not harm marine life like dams and water turbines can, because the oscillations of VIVACE would be slow.Bernitsas said VIVACE energy would cost about 5.5 cents per kilowatt hour. "There won't be one solution for the world's energy needs. But if we could harness 0.1 percent of the energy in the ocean, we could support the energy needs of 15 billion people," said Bernitsas. The study is published in the current issue of the quarterly Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ANI
2008-11-22 03:00:00Man dies in Vernon trailer fire
Vernon police say a man has died in a fire in a trailer park on Kelly Road.
2008-11-21 06:00:00Twilight NY Comic-Con Teaser
Meet the characters of Twilight and get a look at the first behind-the-scenes footage of Summit Entertainment's upcoming release. Twilight will be in theaters 11-21-08.Note: We've updated the date since we originally created the trailer...
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