Relieve Arthritis Pain The Natural Way}
More On This Topic: Medical Scrubs Sets Submitted by: Brent McNutt Arthritis can be very painful and most people who have this disease can attest to that. Arthritis is a degenerative disease that affects the joints in the body. When one has arthritis, pain is your ultimate companion. The pain can be felt in the back, neck, hip, and knee or feet depending where the arthritis is. The pain is caused by the inflammation that develops around the joints. Aside from that, the pain can also be caused by daily wear and tear of the joint, the amount of damage to the joint by the disease, fatigue and most especially muscle strains due to movements that force stiff and painful joints to work. This pain can be relieved by taking some pain medication such as muscle relaxant or any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications. These will help with the swelling and pain.…
Wikinews interviews Australian wheelchair basketball player Tina McKenzie
Friday, January 3, 2014 Preston, Victoria, Australia —On Saturday, Wikinews interviewed Tina McKenzie, a former member of the Australia women’s national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders. McKenzie, a silver and bronze Paralympic medalist in wheelchair basketball, retired from the game after the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Wikinews caught up with her in a cafe in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Preston. Tina McKenzie: [The Spitfire Tournament in Canada] was a really good tournament actually. It was a tournament that I wish we’d actually gone back to more often. ((Wikinews)) Who plays in that one? Tina McKenzie: It’s quite a large Canadian tournament, and so we went as the Gliders team. So we were trying to get as many international games as possible. ‘Cause that’s one of our problems really, to compete. It costs us so much money to for us to travel overseas and to compete internationally.…
Google launches free city wide Wi-Fi in Mountain View, California
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Google on Wednesday inaugurated a free city-wide Wi-Fi system in its home town of Mountain View, California. Google insisted that it had no plans to offer a similar service nationwide. Most residents of Mountain View, can connect to the Internet via a Mesh Wi-Fi network for free. Google said that its network “eventually will cover the entire city” and serve as “testing ground for future innovations.” The network is currently setup in downtown Mountain View, and much of the suburbs are yet to be hooked up. The wireless network (Wi-Fi) covers 90% of Mountain View. It offers maximum data transfer rate of up to 1 Megabit per second, which is slightly slower than DSL. The system costs about US$1 million to build and uses 380 transceivers mounted on street-lights throughout the 31 km² city. Reviews of the network say that it works smoothly in open areas,…
Man arrested in connection with Honolulu toddler death
Saturday, January 19, 2008 Matthew Higa, 23, has been arrested in connection with the death of a 23-month-old boy. Higa is alleged to have thrown the child from a pedestrian overpass into oncoming traffic on Honolulu’s H-1 Freeway. The local coroner’s office noted that the child died on impact after falling 30 feet (9 meters) from the overpass. This occurred during Thursday’s lunch rush hour in the heart of downtown. Upon impact, several cars struck the child, which caused traffic to grind to a halt. The toddler, Cyrus Nainoa Tupa?i Belt, was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:07 p.m. (2207 UTC), approximately 27 minutes after being allegedly being ejected from the overpass by Higa. The portion of H-1 was closed for approximately five hours with traffic diverted to side streets. The freeway was reopened in time for the evening commute. At first the relationship between Higa and the child…
Holyhead To Dublin Top Travel Tips When Travelling By Ferry
More On This Topic: Royal Melbourne Hospital Parking Holyhead to Dublin -Top travel tips when travelling by Ferry by Sarah Maher Make sure you check in on time: the latest check-in time when travelling on ferries to Ireland is 30 minutes before departure [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL034uXkN5Q[/youtube] Get priority boarding: If you upgrade to club class or book a cabin (before travel commences) you will receive priority boarding. You will also get complimentary drinks and snacks in the class lounge. Carry your passport: It is recommended that all passengers bring a passport with them on ferries to Ireland. Irish and British citizens do not strictly require a passport to travel from Holyhead to Dublin but -some form of identification is required. Please note that all nationalities except Irish or British require passports. Travelling with Children? Travelling with children can be very stressful. There are lots for children and adults to do onboard ferries.…
Wikipedia victim of onslaught of April Fool’s jokes
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Friday, April 1, 2005 Today Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone with access to the Internet can edit, was the victim of an onslaught of practical jokes, as April Fool’s Day kicked in various timezones around the world, at least those parts which follow the Gregorian calendar. It is believed that Wikipedia contributors were kept busy tidying up and removing prank articles and changes made by other Wikipedia contributors, and were expecting to be cleaning up the aftermath for days afterwards. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_victim_of_onslaught_of_April_Fool%27s_jokes&oldid=743055”
Tim Curry, TV premiere screenings, cosplay feature at Fan Expo Canada
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Toronto pop culture convention Fan Expo Canada has wrapped for another year. It ran from Thursday to Sunday. Major panels included Tim Curry and the cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Beauty and the Beast voices Robby Benson and Paige O’Hara, actors Kathleen Turner, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Daniels, Felicia Day, and child leads from Stranger Things. Canadian television channel Space hosted a Star Trek: Discovery panel with seven lead cast members. On the heels of sister event Toronto Comic Con’s Degrassi reunion event, the lineup included a twentieth anniversary panel with the stars of another Canadian high school television series, Student Bodies. Heading into its fourth and final season, attendees got a chance to see the season opener of Star Wars: Rebels on Saturday, followed by a panel. The event has had a continuing relationship with the series, screening other episodes previously. The second season premiere…
Civilians killed in U.S. raid near Balad
Friday, March 17, 2006 A U.S. raid near Balad on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of between nine and 13 civilians. An Associated Press photographer recorded pictures of the bodies of two men, five children, and four covered corpses reported to be women. The victims had bits of rubble tangled in their hair and were covered in dust. Police Capt. Hakim Azzawi said in an interview with the Washington Post that 13 in total were dead, two men, five children, and six women. The U.S. military confirmed the attack but said only four people died — two women, a man and a child. Family of the victims said the 11 dead people were wrapped in blankets and driven in three pickup trucks to the Tikrit General Hospital. The US military said that the raid resulted in a “foreign fighter facilitator” being taken into coalition custody for questioning. Police Capt. Laith…
Polarized Bifocal Sunglasses For Your Viewing Comfort
More On This Topic: Jacon Site Submitted by: Jarrettph Franco Consequently, individuals who can not see obviously of objects in both equally far and in the area distance will benefit tremendously by wearing those sunglasses. They are composed of two quite evident areas, the decrease part and the upper part, each of which is responsible for near vision and far vision respectively. And people today can see any matter in the distance by looking at the upper portion, and at lessen piece for nearby distant objects. Such design can nicely fix this difficulty and lots of wearers genuinely have identified their lives become substantially much better than ever previous to. Nevertheless, there is yet another problem- some people imagine there is an evident vision line concerning the two lenses and they will sometimes sense unpleasant whilst transforming the vision locations. And there are also some other new bifocal sun eyeglasses,…
Author of My Billion Year Contract reflects on life in elite Scientology group
Thursday, January 14, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Nancy Many about her book My Billion Year Contract, and asked her about life working in the elite Scientology group known as the “Sea Org“. Many joined Scientology in the early 1970s, and after leaving in 1996 she later testified against the organization. Published in October, Many’s book has gone on to become one of the top selling new books on Scientology at Amazon.com. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Author_of_My_Billion_Year_Contract_reflects_on_life_in_elite_Scientology_group&oldid=1659356”