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Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series begins in Sydney

Friday, September 20, 2013

Cathedral Square, Sydney, Australia —Wikinews attended the Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series in Cathedral Square, Sydney, ongoing from Wednesday. This is the first time an international wheelchair rugby event has been held outdoors, and in this arena. Three nations are competing: the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

The venue is Cathedral Square, Sydney, which is adjacent to Hyde Park. The Sydney Central Business district is on the other side of the park. An outdoor stadium has been constructed specifically for the tournament, which is believed to be the first time an international wheelchair rugby tournament has been held outdoors. This choice was validated by the fine and warm weather. Free sunscreen was given to the crowd.

The Opening Ceremony was officiated by Australian Paralympic Committee Chief Executive Officer Jason Hellwig. In attendance were the Premier of New South Wales, Barry O’Farrell, the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, Robyn Kemmis, and Paralympic swimmer Matthew Cowdrey. A large crowd, mostly consisting of school groups, was entertained by boy band Justice Crew singing their hit Best Night.

Each team is to play the others two twice, on Wednesday September 18 and Thursday September 19. Finals are to be held on Friday. All three teams are highly ranked internationally. The United States team is ranked number one in the world. It won bronze at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, gold at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and bronze at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, and is the current world champion. This is its first visit to Australia since the 2000 Summer Paralympics.

The Australian team, known as the Steelers, is ranked second in the world. It won silver in Beijing and gold in London. The team is almost unchanged from the one that won in London. Greg Smith has become the assistant coach.

The first game, held immediately after the Opening Ceremony, was between the United States and Australia. The United States proved the better team, forcing errors and turnovers. Three turnovers in the first quarter were especially costly for the Steelers, who lost 56–43.

The second game was held at 17:30 under lights. The crowd was small, but there were a number of New Zealand fans in the crowd, including a few Maori. Two of the New Zealand players are also Maori. The well-disciplined United States team proved too good for the Wheel Blacks as well, who lost 58–40 in an entertaining contest.

The third game was at 19:30, between Australia and New Zealand. The Australians led the whole game, which was nonetheless entertaining to the last. In the dying seconds of the game, Australia’s Ryley Batt shunted a stalling New Zealand player across the line to force him to score, then threw the ball to team mate Chris Bond, who raced for the line at high speed but was beaten by the buzzer. Australia won 61–48.

The New Zealand team, known as the Wheel Blacks, is ranked tenth in the world. It won gold in Athens.

Highlights of the tournament are scheduled to be shown on Foxtel Sports in Australia on September 28 and 29.

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Past, Present, And Future Plumbers

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The people of the Middle East were the first to develop methods for transporting water. The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians developed irrigation systems that carried water to their gardens, fields, and orchards. They dredged canals and built aqueducts, large and hollow pipe like structures for carrying water. They used drains and valves to control the flow of water. This is where the term plumbers came from.

Archaeologists engaged in scientific excavations on Crete, an islands in the Mediterranean Sea, uncovered a four thousand year old palace that had a water and drainage system. The water system was formed by conduits, stone channels through which water flows. The cisterns of the conduits collected water that fell as rain or flowed down from the hills. The water was carried by the conduits into vertical shafts and from the shafts to the bathrooms and toilets.

Waste water was carried away by pipes made of Terra cotta, a form of baked clay. The archaeologists were amazed to see that these Terra cotta pipes were designed so that they might be installed easily. They were about thirty inches long and six inches in diameter, and one end of each pipe was made so that it would fit into the next. The pipes were fastened together with cementing clay. The pipe makers had also designed a trap in each pipe to catch sediment.

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The Romans were the first to use pipes made of lead. They called the craftsman who installed pipes a plumbarius, meaning worker in lead. This is the origin of the English words plumber and plumbing. Through the centuries lead has continued to be used for pipes. It is still used in some kinds of pipes today. Other materials used today are steel, copper, brass, concrete, cast iron, and plastic.

Plumbing is the name generally given to the piping system in a building and is also the usual name for the job of installing the pipes and all the parts connected to them. Plumbers are mechanics specially trained to repair, change, relocate, and replace any or all of the parts used in water supply and sanitary systems.

A plumber is often given a blueprint, which is a drawing that shows where pipes and fixtures are to be installed. Therefore, he must learn to make a blueprint that another plumber can read.

Since buildings are constructed of wood, brick, cement, and steel, the plumber must learn about these materials, so that he is able to cut holes, attach pipes, fittings, and fixtures, and patch up holes after ward.

He must learn how to identify metals and materials. For instance, he must know the difference between brass pipe and fittings and cast iron pipe and fittings. The plumber must also know how to join a pipe and its fittings by welding or soldering. He must learn how to use all of the many plumber’s tools. Since he must be so highly skilled, a good plumber is paid well for his work.

In the future, plumbers will be needed to install pipes and equipment for atomic projects, missiles, and nuclear power plants and laboratories. As industrial technology and know how advances the need for skilled plumbers will increase.

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Kenya government fires health worker strikers over failure to ‘report back to work’

Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Kenyan government has dismissed 25,000 striking health workers, mostly nurses, citing failure to heed government orders to recommence work and concern for the welfare of hospital patients. Speaking on behalf of the government, Alfred Mutua stated the workers were dismissed “illegally striking” and “[defying] the directive … to report back to work”, which he called “unethical”. The government asks that “[a]ll qualified health professionals, who are unemployed and/or retired have been advised to report to their nearest health facility for interviews and deployment”, Mutua stated.

The workers, who had been on strike for four days, were wishing to have improvements made to their wages, working conditions, and allowances. The strikes have caused a significant number of Kenyan hospitals to cease operations. According to Kenya Health Professionals Society spokesperson Alex Orina, the average monthly wage plus allowances for health workers in Kenya is KSh25,000 (£193, US$302 or €230) approximately. With an increasing number of reports of patients neglected in hospitals emerging, two trade unions met with the Kenyan government yesterday and negotitated a return to work, although a significant proportion of demonstrators defied the agreement, The Guardian reported.

Orina told Reuters the dismissals were “cat-and-mouse games, you cannot sack an entire workforce. It is a ploy to get us to rush back to work, but our strike continues until our demands are met”. Frederick Omiah, a member of the same society, believed the government’s actions would “make an already delicate and volatile situation worse”, expressing concern that demonstrations may continue in the capital Nairobi, amongst other locations. Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union chairperson Dr. Victor Ng’ani described government actions as “reckless”.

Mutua said the health workers were “no longer employees of the government” and had been eliminated from the payroll. While Ng’ani told the BBC of difficulties with finding other workers as skilled and experienced, Mutua reportedly stated that this would not be an issue. “We have over 100,000 to 200,000 health professionals looking for work today,” Mutua commented. “There will be a lag of a day or two … but it is better than letting people die on the floor, at the gate, or suffer in pain”.

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Rail network in Kashmir comes under attack

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Nearly two feet of the rail route in Kashmir, India was blown up by militants near the Pulwama district, affecting train services from north to south Kashmir. The blast came a few days after militants fought with the Indian army in the area, thereby killing fourteen people.

“There were no casualties, as no trains were running when the militants set off a powerful bomb on the railway track,” said Aijaz Ahmad, a local police official. He added that train services have been temporarily suspended.

According to police, the attackers detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Galbug at about 10 PM local time (4:30 PM UTC), Thursday night. Two feet of the rail track on the Qazigund-Baramulla area was damaged. This track was developed two years ago, police sources stated. The attack came just before senior officers were supposed to inspect ongoing works in the Kashmiri railways.

The track was repaired on Friday morning and train services resumed in the region. Kamal Saine, Deputy Inspector General of Police, south Kashmir, told the Press Trust of India agency that the damage to the track was not significant and it took a short time to mend it.

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Fourth U.S. state governor orders net neutrality in government contracts

Sunday, February 18, 2018

On Thursday, Phil Scott of Vermont became the fourth governor in the United States to sign an executive order requiring all companies providing Internet access to state agencies to abide by net neutrality for all customers in his state. He said he did this because Vermonters rely on Internet access without blocking, throttling and paid prioritization, threatened by the December 14 decision of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the matter of “Restoring Internet freedom”. The first state governor to challenge the FCC in this way was Steve Bulllock of Montana, who did so on January 22. Andrew Cuomo of New York followed two days later. Philip Murphy of New Jersey signed a similar executive order on February 5. These four executive orders differ in details, but all require that state agencies purchase Internet access services only from companies with an enforceable commitment to net neutrality for all customers in their state.

This is part of a flurry of state-level net neutrality actions. The New York State Assembly introduced bill A01958 on January 17, 2017, three days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, anticipating action by him to overturn the 2015 “Title II Order” that made net neutrality enforceable in the US. Two other bills were introduced into the Washington House of Representatives in the ten days before the official decision of Trump’s FCC on this issue. In addition to these, 63 other state-level responses by net neutrality supporters were documented by Fight for the Future (FFTF) by February 16, 2018, including at least 27 bills introduced into the legislatures of 17 states with others reportedly under consideration.

These bills are in addition to the lawsuit filed on January 16 by the Attorney General of New York on behalf of 21 states and the District of Columbia claiming this FCC decision was “arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act” (APA) of 1946 and other grounds. These states were New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington state. New Jersey reportedly later committed to join the suit.

These four executive orders are the only actions on FFTF’s list of actions by net neutrality supporters that seem immediately enforceable. All others require approval by democratic bodies. The four executive orders might be challenged in courts as conflicting with “Preemption authority” claimed by the US Federal Communications Commission’s “Declaratory ruling, report and order” adopted December 14 and released January 4. The FCC order was described by dissenting Commissioner Clyburn as “Destroying Internet Freedom” rather than “Restoring Internet Freedom” as the order is titled. She wrote that this order “will put profits and shareholder returns above what is best for” consumers.

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Wisdom Teeth And Dental Implants And Extraction Professionals

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The removal of Wisdom Teeth is a very precise process and is a very common occurrence as a majority of people’s Wisdom teeth tend to grow in at angles that can cause problems. The general consensus is to just have them removed to avoid much more complicated problems in the future. There are many different businesses that offer the removal of Wisdom Teeth. A great way to find a good oral surgeon is through a referral of someone who had a successful removal themselves. You will definitely want to have the extraction performed by an experienced dental surgeon. A surgeon who has experience will know how to hand any complications that arise. Sometimes, during surgery, there will be heavy bleeding and other minor problems. These complications are better handled by a specialist and not a normal dentist.

Trust is an important factor in choosing where to have your wisdom teeth removed. If you trust your surgeon, the process of extraction is easier as you have less anxiety about the procedure, and makes for an all-around smoother experience of having your wisdom teeth removed.

There are cases where the tooth may only partially erupt from the gum. Especially in this scenario, it is best to have the extraction performed by a qualified individual. In other cases, the tooth will be situated in a horizontal manner that can cause problems. These should be removed as quickly as possible. This is called an impacted wisdom tooth which is often the cause of headaches, and can make eating food a painful experience.

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Normally, wisdom teeth emerge between the age of 17-25 when the person is in their late teenage years or their young adulthood. Wisdom teeth perform no specific function in the mouth. Therefore, dentists recommend having them removed as they may cause larger and much more painful predicaments in years to come. Wisdom teeth are also prone to dental problems because of their location in the back of the mouth where food particles are often missed by brushing. Make sure to have X-rays and an examination before the extraction. Tooth extraction at an earlier age generally result in less complications than when older, which is why wisdom tooth removal is recommended at a younger age.

Another reason to have them removed while you are younger is that the healing process is faster than it would be for an adult. Although extraction should occur as early as possible, there is not a set age limit for this procedure.

After your extraction, make sure to follow the directions the surgeon or specialist gives you. Once the numbing agent fades away, the pain starts to come and it can be unbearable for some people. There are some things that you can do to help manage the pain like placing gauze over the extraction site while firmly biting down to help reduce the bleeding can help to take the edge off of the pain you are experiencing. Remember to take the prescribed medication which generally includes an anti-biotic and a pain killer. Taking the prescribed drugs will also help to make recovery more pleasant.

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CIA Director confirms use of waterboarding on terror suspects

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that his agency used the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three terrorism suspects nearly five years ago. In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Michael Hayden urged lawmakers not to place restrictions on the interrogation methods available to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Director Hayden’s testimony was the most detailed description to date of the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques.

“In the life of the CIA detention program, we have held fewer than 100 people,” he said. “Fewer than a third of those people have had any techniques, enhanced techniques, used against them in the CIA program.”

He confirmed that among those “enhanced” techniques used was waterboarding – which induces the feeling of imminent drowning, and which critics say amounts to torture.

“Waterboarding has been used on only three detainees,” he said.

He said those three detainees are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – one of the architects of the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington, Abu Zubaydah – who is believed to have been a top al-Qaida strategist, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri – who is believed to have played a key role in the bombing of the USS Cole. All three are being held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Hayden said waterboarding was used against the three detainees nearly five years ago because of circumstances at the time, including the belief that additional attacks against the United States were imminent.

Hayden defended the CIA’s use of extreme interrogation techniques as lawful, and urged lawmakers not to impose restrictions on such methods.

Congress is considering legislation that would restrict the CIA to using only the interrogation techniques authorized by the U.S. Army’s field manual, which does not include waterboarding.

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Thai anti-government leaders escape capture

Saturday, April 17, 2010

In a new setback to the Thai government’s efforts to ease mounting political tensions, protest leaders escaped from their hotel Friday after security forces arrived to arrest them.

One, Arisman Pongruangrong, climbed down three floors using a rope, and was rushed away by supporters thronging the building. The police say Arisman led recent rallies at the national parliament, the election commission, and satellite transmission bases.

Officials earlier Friday said the government is preparing to arrest people linked to violent clashes with security forces last Saturday.

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, Thai security chief, announced the raid on the hotel as it was unfolding, saying that a Special Forces unit had closed in around a downtown Bangkok hotel.

“As I am speaking, the government’s special team is surrounding the SC Park Hotel, where we have learned that there are terrorists and some of their leaders hiding,” Suthep said.

A spokesman for the governing Democrat Party, Baranuj Smuthararaks, says arrest warrants have been issued for those suspected of being involved in the violence. Some of the suspects have been identified from photos taken during the clashes.

“Right now the government’s focusing on issuing warrants for acts of terrorism by the people who fortunately have been captured in action [in photos] by both the local and international media,” he said.

According to the New York Times, as many as five protest leaders had been staying at the same hotel as Pongruangrong. Those leaders later appeared together at a protest rally in Bangkok.

“I would like to thank all of the people who saved me,” Arisman said. “You have saved democracy.”The government says armed men infiltrated protester ranks Saturday and fired on troops trying to disperse a rally. Five soldiers and 19 protesters died during the clashes.

Thailand is facing its most severe political crisis in almost 20 years. The anti-government movement, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship or UDD, demands that the government step down and call fresh elections.

UDD supporters, known as red shirts, have held protests in Bangkok for more than a month.

The UDD largely supports former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 and remains overseas to avoid a jail sentence for corruption. Mr. Thaksin has strong support among the rural and urban poor, as well among some sections of the army and police.

Some parties in the governing coalition want to set a clear time frame for elections to ease tensions. But the government says it will only call elections once the political situation has cooled.

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A Great Landscape Design Idea

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A good landscape design idea is a great way to start in designing the garden or the lawn. There are many different kinds of garden and lawn design that can suit any lay of the land. This is actually one of the more important aspects of a landscape design idea. The lay of the land should be changed as little as possible when thinking of a good landscape design idea. The choice of either a formal or rambling garden or lawn is up to the home owner but should complement the design of the house.

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Magazines and Design Forums One can get a good landscape design idea from various sources. The more credible of these sources are landscape magazines which advertise and advice how a certain are may be landscaped or designed to suit the home owner’s preferences. The landscape design idea should be incorporated into the natural lay of the land to avoid big changes which will eventually affect the area in the long run. Design forums in the internet often have advice and advertisements that may give the home owner a good landscape design idea. Many of these forums also offer good and sound advice regarding other aspects of landscape design. The same goes for getting a good pool landscaping idea, if the person intends to make a pool in his or her lawn or garden. Tips for a Landscape Design Idea As stated above, one important factor to consider when struck by a great landscape design idea is the lay is the land. Other things that need to be considered are the water and electric sources that are available for the area chose since the home owner might like to include a pool landscaping idea as well as landscape lighting to the overall landscape design. Another thing that should be considered is the types of plants that you want to incorporate into your garden or lawn. Some plants grow too fast while others may not be compatible with one another. Any landscape design idea should have a concession to the design of the house as well. Big plants that might not look so nice in a small garden or lawn should be avoided. Some houses look particularly well with borders made of bushes or small shrubs while others may need the bigger shrubs. In all, it is best to consider a lot of things before even starting to break apart your lawn or garden in favor of a landscape design idea that have no basis whatsoever.

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