"NEW YORK - A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building before crashing onto the street below."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_re_us/crane_collapse

"Excavating oil and gas has a little-known byproduct that costs the energy industry billions of dollars annually in removal--smelly sludge water.

A New Mexico start-up is trying to deal with the problem. Privately held Altela has developed a hydrothermal system that aims to turn the ancient groundwater extracted in oil or gas production into clean drinking water. The company calls its system "clean technology" because it can produce potable water with less energy than other desalinization methods, such as carbon filtration, without the use of pumps. Its technology can also be considered more energy efficient than hiring 18-wheel trucks to port the water away for burial in specialized wells, according to company CEO Ned Godshall.

"There's a great need for cleaning up this water rather than putting it back three miles underground, which is what's happening," Godshall said"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9954182-54.html

Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. Critics who fueled online complaints about the ad in blogs say such scarves have come to symbolize Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The kaffiyeh, Malkin wrote in a column posted online last Friday, “has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and
not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860437/

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/05/29(Thu)21:12 No.6701   File: 1212120775013.png -(142828 B, 270x190) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. So I guess American/British spec-ops guys are terrorist supporters now? I see them wearing those things a lot.

UK - "Drawings and computer-generated images of child sex abuse would be made illegal under proposals announced by Justice Minister Maria Eagle.

Owners of such images would face up to three years in prison under the plans.

The Obscene Publications Act makes it illegal to sell or distribute photos of child abuse but it is legal to own drawings and computer-generated images.

Ms Eagle said the proposed move would "help close a loophole that we believe paedophiles are using"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7422595.stm

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/05/29(Thu)22:52 No.6703   File: 1212126743992.jpg -(64522 B, 301x500) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.

Hey, what do you guys think of the window that shut automatically in the youtube video?

The guy who was being interviewed on the video is the suspect.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGBfX33WgA
1:08 in the video, the window of the killed woman's room shut automatically. (Left side)

"A man arrested Sunday night on suspicion of breaking into the condominium of a 23-year-old woman in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on April 18 has confessed to killing the woman, police sources said."
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080526TDY02311.htm
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080526p2a00m0na033000c.html

This makes me wonder. Maybe a police man's closing it?

"There are a growing number of designs being floated to make electricity from the sea. But the Seadog Pump may get the prize for the simplest."

"A floating station uses wave motion to drive a piston that pumps water through an exhaust pipe. That water is collected and then passed through standard turbines to make electricity when needed, returning the water to its source.

The company last week said that Texas A&M University at Galveston's Marine Engineering Technology Department had evaluated a demonstration machine in the Gulf of Mexico. The university found that the Seadog Pump was able to convert 22 percent of ocean wave energy into usable energy."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9952575-54.html

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/05/28(Wed)15:47 No.6680   File: 1212014857448.gif -(80442 B, 600x845) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.

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Junior Field Reporter 08/05/28(Wed)15:48 No.6681   File: 1212014887752.jpg -(42610 B, 416x390) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Pretty cool. Except ... what happens when we greedily put too many in the ocean at once and it litters the ocean? Oil wells are kept in few areas only because lucrative oil pockets happen to be in few areas, otherwise we'd see oil wells in our society as often as we see utility poles. But the ocean bobbing up and down? That's 70% of the Earth's surface.

"A nude maid is accused of really cleaning up at a Florida man's home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said a 50-year-old man hired the maid from the Internet on Friday to clean his Tampa home.

Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress and cleaned the house for $100-per-hour. Sheriff's office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean.

When the man's wife came home from vacation, she discovered $40,000 in jewelry missing from their bedroom.

Police are investigating. "

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyXX6MkkySreMjyLQI0K_eKmvOwwD90V00P00

"A breathing machine called an iron lung that kept a polio victim alive for almost 60 years stopped working Wednesday due to a power outage, causing the woman's death.

Dianne Odell, 61, died when family members watching her were unable to start an emergency generator to run the seven-foot long, 750-pound cylindrical chamber that helped her lungs work. Emergency crews that rushed to Odell's home near Jackson were unable to give help."

"Despite her condition and limitation, Odell was able to finish high school by studying at home and briefly took up psychology at Freed-Hardeman University on a scholarship. She also wrote a children's book using a voice-activated computer."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011097028

"Low thermostat settings in the office is driving up the sales of space heaters even during summer."

"Most of the buyers are office workers who find the thermostat setting too low for comfort."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011100395

A convicted felon who became a motivational speaker -- and used his life experiences to warn teens about the dangers of drugs and crime -- is accused of going on a bender, threatening to kill his girlfriend and her son, and smashing a former prison buddy in the face with a statue of John Wayne.

Authorities said Russell Simon Jr. was jailed on attempted murder charges after the events following his relapse into drugs and alcohol. According to a criminal complaint, a night of drinking with the prison buddy on May 15 led to Simon stripping off his clothes, fighting with the friend and firing shots at him and Simon's girlfriend.

At one point Simon hit the man in the face with the John Wayne statue, according to the complaint.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/motivational.speaker.ap/index.html

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/05/28(Wed)19:56 No.6684   File: 1212029778685.jpg -(44994 B, 197x431) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. the statue is what makes it