Air Guitar Shirt by CSIRO CSIRO has built a shirt that allows you to play air guitar and actually hear music! Dr Richard Helmer and a team of researchers at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology in Geelong have created a ‘wearable instrument shirt’ (WIS) that consists of a wearable sensor interface that uses custom software […]
Jennifer Lee Hampton Still Missing in Tennessee
Jennifer Lee Hampton, 21, has been missing since Friday, September 21, and police in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she was last seen, suspect foul play. Hampton was last seen at her hotel in Knoxville by co-workers on the night of the 21st. They called police when she did not show up for work the next day […]
A Guide to First Aid for Pets
First Aid for Pets Basic Supplies: Gauze pads, gauze roll/ bandages, roll of cloth, thermometer, tweezers, hydrogen peroxide, antibiotic ointment, Q-tips, instant cold pack, rags/ rubber tubing for tourniquet, First Aid book Handling an Injured Animal: Any animal injured or in pain can bite or scratch you. Even the friendliest of pets must be handled […]
Italy 2-0 France: Italians Breathe Sigh of Relief
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 Day eleven of GroundReport’s exclusive on-the-ground coverage of Euro2008. Italy trumped the French decisively in their Group C re-match of 2006 World Cup winners and runners-up Tuesday, moving on to play Spain in the quarterfinals on Sunday after an enlivening display of confidence. Meanwhile Holland, who remain unbeaten in three matches […]
What’s Worth More, a Smuggled Illegal Immigrant or a Pound of Marijuana?
You’d be surprised. This story’s about a week old, but I like it because it sums up nicely just how entrepreneurial migrant smuggling has become on the U.S.-Mexico border. An anonymous tipster notified Sonoran state police about Rita Lugo who was holding four migrant kids in a Nogales, Mexico, stash house. Happens all the time […]
Dog Meat Shortage Affects Restaurants in the Uplands
Restaurants in the City of Pines and Benguet Province traditionally serving dog meat menus are having difficulties maintaining their businesses after authorities and animal rights groups continuously intensified their operations against dog traders and haulers coming from the lowlands especially in southern Tagalog Region near Metro Manila. The authorities concerned and animal rights advocates had […]