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The Most Common Sports Injuries
Spring is finally here, and sports season comes with it. Although playing a sport is a great form of exercise, there are many risks involved. Sports injuries can happen to both amateur players and professional athletes, so it's important to be familiar with common sports injuries and prevention methods, no matter your experience level.
Players can get injured not only from traumatic incidents such as falling or colliding with another player but also from overuse, especially when using improper form. Learn more about common sports injuries that occur in each sport with our handy infographic, including a few pro tips on how to avoid getting hurt. Below the infographic, we've also included a more comprehensive description of each injury and the risks of each individual sport.
If you feel pain in any of your upper extremities while playing a sport, contact the orthopedic doctors at Mirza Orthopedics today. Dr. Ather Mirza and Dr. Justin Mirza are expert orthopedic physicians who specialize in hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder pain. Our orthopedic physicians can rehabilitate you and get you back on the field, court, or arena as soon as possible.
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Tennis is one of the most popular sports played worldwide. Most tennis injuries are overuse injuries that can be caused by improper technique or simply from playing too often, creating stress in the muscles and joints. Some of the most common tennis injuries are:
Tennis Elbow: Tennis elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is one of the most well-known injuries. This condition is caused by overusing the tendons on the outside of your elbow, such as when you hit ground strokes on the tennis court. Symptoms include pain and tenderness in the elbow, often radiating into the forearm and wrist. Luckily, conservative treatments are usually effective at curing tennis elbow. It's also important to warm up regularly and pay attention to your technique to help prevent this condition.
Rotator Cuff Tears: Rotator cuff injuries, such as tears and tendonitis, are also common in tennis players. Overhead serves and shots can put pressure on the shoulder tendon, causing inflammation and injury. Symptoms can include a dull ache in the shoulder, pain when lifting or lowering the arm, or intense shoulder pain in cases of acute rotator cuff tears. Conservative treatments are always tried first, but surgery is available if necessary.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a wrist injury that can occur from tennis players performing repetitive motions that flex the wrist. Symptoms include numbness and tingling in the hand. Mirza Orthopedics provides conservative treatments and surgery if necessary.
Ankle Sprains: Ankle sprains are common in tennis because the sport requires quick changes in direction which can strain the ligaments surrounding the ankle. Sprains can also occur when players fall awkwardly, especially when running on uneven ground. It's important for tennis players to wear proper shoes and play on a flat surface. Warming up and wearing ankle supports can also help prevent sprains.
Stress Fractures: Stress fractures, especially in the leg and foot, occur with repeated impacts on hard surfaces. Stress fractures are more common in amateur players since they often play for longer periods than they can endure. When their muscles get tired, stress is placed on the bone, causing it to break. To prevent stress fractures, warm up properly and perform strength training exercises.
Hamstring Strains: Sudden changes in direction and sudden movements can cause hamstring strains. Warming up coupled with stretching can help prevent muscle strains.
Blisters: Blisters commonly occur on the hands and feet. Dry your racket handle often to avoid blisters.
Knee Injuries: Like the other overuse injuries, knee injuries often occur due to sudden movements and repetitive jumping on a hard surface. Take breaks often to avoid over-straining your knee.
Baseball Injuries
Rotator Cuff Tears: As with tennis players, rotator cuff tears occur from repetitive shoulder motions, such as baseball pitching. Pain when lifting, lowering or lying on your arm can be indicative of a tear. Practice proper throwing form and restrain junior players from throwing too often.
Tennis Elbow: Baseball players can also suffer from tennis elbow due to the repetitive throwing motions of baseball pitchers. Conservative treatments such as resting, ice, and anti-inflammatory medication are generally sufficient, and surgery is rarely necessary.
Shoulder Instability: Repetitive overhead motions can cause shoulder instability, especially in young athletes. Symptoms include a limited range of motion, clicking or popping when moving the shoulder, and muscle weakness in the arm. Resting and immobilizing the shoulder is generally recommended before considering surgery.
Knee Injuries: The ACL and MCL are ligaments in the knee that are commonly injured when running from base to base and rounding the bases. Making sudden stops, twisting the knee, and other movements can injure the joint. Sudden, severe pain and a loud popping sound are general indicators of a knee injury and may require surgery.
Muscle Sprains / Strains: Muscle sprains and strains in the leg, arm, and back are common among baseball players. If you've experienced a sprain or strain, remember RICE: rest, ice, compression, elevation.
UCL Strains: The ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) is an elbow ligament that is often stressed with repetitive throwing motions. Symptoms may include tenderness in the inner elbow and difficulty straightening the arm. As a baseball pitcher, take breaks often to prevent UCL strains.
Concussions: Getting hit in the head is fairly common in baseball, especially when a 100mph fastball is thrown at you. Always wear head protection, and do not return to the field if you have experienced a head injury. Get medical attention immediately to prevent any further injury.
Heat Stroke: As with most outdoor sports, heat stroke is a common risk. Stay hydrated and take a break if you feel yourself overheating.
Soccer Injuries
Ankle Sprains: The single most common soccer injury is a sprained ankle, which occurs when your ankle ligaments are overstretched. Avoid running on uneven ground, wear well-fitted cleats, and always warm up properly to prevent against ankle sprains.
Muscle Cramps: Cramps are a common occurrence amongst all athletes, but especially soccer players. Make sure to hydrate, warm up, AND cool down to prevent muscle cramps.
Achilles Tendonitis: Achilles tendonitis is an overuse injury that causes pain in the back of the ankle. If you have Achilles tendonitis, rest and seek medical attention. If ignored, this could cause an Achilles tendon rupture.
Knee Injuries (ACL): After the ankle, the knee is the next most common area where soccer players get injured. Like baseball players, quick changes in direction while running can cause a knee injury.
Groin Pull: Soccer players are also prone to groin pulls, which is caused by the inner thigh muscle stretching while kicking, changing direction or sprinting. Like most muscle strains, stretching can reduce the chance of a groin pull.
Head Injuries: Head injuries are usually caused by colliding with other teammates or goal posts. If you head the ball correctly, it should not cause injury.
Hamstring Strains: Hamstring strains are common since most of the sport consists of running. Increasing your flexibility and wearing proper gear will decrease the risk of hamstring strains.
Fractures: Stress fractures can occur in the lower extremities due to overuse. Resting is usually sufficient to treat stress fractures, but contact your doctor if the pain does not improve after several days of rest.
Concussions: Head injuries are one of the most common injuries among football players, due to the high rate of collisions in the sport. Refrain from returning to play following a concussion until you receive clearance from a doctor.
Shoulder Dislocation: Shoulder dislocations are common, especially in offensive and defensive linemen, since players often receive direct blows to the shoulder. Always wear protective gear and padding to prevent shoulder injuries.
ACL / MCL (Knee) Injuries: ACL injuries can occur when a player is hit from the front or back, while MCL injuries can occur when a player is hit from the side. Speak to a health professional after receiving a knee injury, since it can impact your play in the long-term.
Torn Hamstrings: Football players can tear their hamstrings while quickly accelerating, especially during the start of a play. Warm up and stretch properly to avoid hamstring injuries.
Shoulder Tendinitis: Shoulder tendinitis is an overuse injury caused by frequent and repetitive throwing motions. Make sure to practice good form while throwing and remember to take breaks.
Back Pain: Back pain is generally due to overuse, but sometimes lower back pain can be caused by an impact fracture. Strengthen your core and perform stretching exercises to prevent back injuries.
Ankle Sprains / Strains: One of the most common injuries among all sports players, ankle sprains are especially prevalent in football players due to the often uneven playing field and quick changes of direction in the sport. Wear proper shoes and play on level fields to avoid ankle injuries.
Torn Meniscus: Football players can tear their meniscus when they rotate their body without moving their foot, causing the knee to twist. Rest, ice, pain relievers, and physical therapy are generally sufficient for treatment.
Ankle Sprains: Ankle sprains often occur due to quick movements and changes of direction while running. RICE the ankle and consult a doctor if the pain is severe.
Jammed Fingers: Players can jam their finger when accidentally catching the ball with the tip of their finger. Icing the finger and taping it to an adjacent finger can allow a player to return to play. If the pain is severe, the finger may be sprained.
Wrist / Hand Injuries: Although not as common as lower extremity injuries, wrist and hand injuries can occur when falling or colliding with other players. If you experience wrist pain and swelling/bruising along with hearing an audible crack, you may have fractured your wrist and should consult a doctor.
Muscle Strains: Muscle strains, such as groin pulls and hamstring strains, can occur when overextending or putting excess pressure on the muscle. Always warm up and cool down with flexibility exercises to reduce the risk of straining your muscle.
ACL (Knee) Injuries: Knee injuries are common due to the stop-and-go nature of basketball. Wear a knee brace and/or strengthen your legs to prevent knee injuries.
Meniscus Tear: A meniscus tear is a traumatic injury that occurs when you twist a flexed knee. Luckily, meniscus tears generally only require RICE as treatment.
Achilles Tendonitis: Achilles tendonitis is an overuse injury that occurs from repetitive jumping and running, which are both common in basketball. Wear supportive footwear and gradually increase training to prevent Achilles tendonitis.
Deep Thigh Bruising: Deep thigh bruising, or thigh contusions, can occur from impact or improperly landing after jumping. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix, and rest is the best treatment.
Golfer's Elbow: Golfer's elbow, otherwise known as medial epicondylitis, is a condition that causes pain to your inner forearm tendons near the elbow. Golfer's elbow is an overuse injury, caused by repetitive club swinging motions. Use proper form and strengthen your forearm muscles to prevent golfer's elbow. For most patients, golfer's elbow can be entirely treated using conservative treatments.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Repetitive motions can also cause carpal tunnel syndrome, which is characterized by numbness and tingling in the hand. Reduce your grip pressure to protect against carpal tunnel syndrome, and refrain from playing for too long. Conservative treatments are generally effective, but Mirza Orthopedics also offers a minimally invasive carpal tunnel release procedure for more severe cases.
Rotator Cuff Tendonitis: Shoulder injuries such as rotator cuff tendonitis and tears are common in golf players from repetitive swinging motions or traumatic events, such as hitting a rock during a swing. Stretching and strengthening your shoulder muscles can reduce the risk of rotator cuff injuries.
Shoulder Pain: Other common shoulder injuries include shoulder arthritis, shoulder instability, and more.
Wrist Tendinitis: Wrist tendinitis is the most common golf-related wrist injury. Symptoms can include swelling, pain, and stiffness in the wrist. Prevent wrist injuries with conditioning and strengthening exercises throughout the year.
DeQuervain's Tenosynovitis: DeQuervain's Tenosynovitis occurs from repetitive wrist movements, and can cause pain, swelling, and tenderness at the base of the thumb. Conservative treatments are generally sufficient, but surgery is also an option for severe cases.
Back Pain: Back pain is common among all adults, but especially golf players, due to the rotational stresses of repetitively swinging a golf club. Proper swing technique is essential in preventing back injuries, and core strengthening and flexibility exercises can help.
Knee Pain: Golf swings tend to put a lot of pressure on the leading knee, which can cause knee pain and a number of injuries. Rest, ice, and compression can reduce knee pain, but contact a doctor if your symptoms are severe.


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The Democrats' Quandary
In a struggle between oligarchy and democracy, something must give
By Michael Hudson
February 26, 2020 "Information Clearing House" – To hear the candidates debate, you would think that their fight was over who could best beat Trump. But when Trump's billionaire twin Mike Bloomberg throws a quarter-billion dollars into an ad campaign to bypass the candidates actually running for votes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, it's obvious that what really is at issue is the future of the Democrat Party. Bloomberg is banking on a brokered convention held by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in which money votes. (If "corporations are people," so is money in today's political world.)
Until Nevada, all the presidential candidates except for Bernie Sanders were playing for a brokered convention. The party's candidates seemed likely to be chosen by the Donor Class, the One Percent and its proxies, not the voting class (the 99 Percent). If, as Mayor Bloomberg has assumed, the DNC will sell the presidency to the highest bidder, this poses the great question: Can the myth that the Democrats represent the working/middle class survive? Or, will the Donor Class trump the voting class?
This could be thought of as "election interference" – not from Russia but from the DNC on behalf of its Donor Class. That scenario would make the Democrats' slogan for 2020 "No Hope or Change." That is, no change from today's economic trends that are sweeping wealth up to the One Percent.
All this sounds like Rome at the end of the Republic in the 1st century BC. The way Rome's constitution was set up, candidates for the position of consul had to pay their way through a series of offices. The process started by going deeply into debt to get elected to the position of aedile, in charge of staging public games and entertainments. Rome's neoliberal fiscal policy did not tax or spend, and there was little public administrative bureaucracy, so all such spending had to be made out of the pockets of the oligarchy. That was a way of keeping decisions about how to spend out of the hands of democratic politics. Julius Caesar and others borrowed from the richest Bloomberg of their day, Crassus, to pay for staging games that would demonstrate their public spirit to voters (and also demonstrate their financial liability to their backers among Rome's One Percent). Keeping election financing private enabled the leading oligarchs to select who would be able to run as viable candidates. That was Rome's version of Citizens United.
But in the wake of Sanders' landslide victory in Nevada, a brokered convention would mean the end of the Democrat Party pretense to represent the 99 Percent. The American voting system would be seen to be as oligarchic as that of Rome on the eve of the infighting that ended with Augustus becoming Emperor in 27 BC.
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Today's pro-One Percent media – CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times have been busy spreading their venom against Sanders. On Sunday, February 23, CNN ran a slot, "Bloomberg needs to take down Sanders, immediately." Given Sanders' heavy national lead, CNN warned, the race suddenly is almost beyond the vote-fixers' ability to fiddle with the election returns. That means that challengers to Sanders should focus their attack on him; they will have a chance to deal with Bloomberg later (by which CNN means, when it is too late to stop him).
The party's Clinton-Obama recipients of Donor Class largesse pretend to believe that Sanders is not electable against Donald Trump. This tactic seeks to attack him at his strongest point. Recent polls show that he is the only candidate who actually would defeat Trump – as they showed that he would have done in 2016.
The DNC knew that, but preferred to lose to Trump than to win with Bernie. Will history repeat itself? Or to put it another way, will this year's July convention become a replay of Chicago in 1968?
A quandary, not a problem
Last year I was asked to write a scenario for what might happen with a renewed DNC theft of the election's nomination process. To be technical, I realize, it's not called theft when it's legal. In the aftermath of suits over the 2016 power grab, the courts ruled that the Democrat Party is indeed controlled by the DNC members, not by the voters. When it comes to party machinations and decision-making, voters are subsidiary to the superdelegates in their proverbial smoke-filled room (now replaced by dollar-filled foundation contracts).
I could not come up with a solution that does not involve dismantling and restructuring the existing party system. We have passed beyond the point of having a solvable "problem" with the Democratic National Committee (DNC). That is what a quandary is. A problem has a solution – by definition. A quandary does not have a solution. There is no way out. The conflict of interest between the Donor Class and the Voting Class has become too large to contain within a single party. It must split.
A second-ballot super-delegate scenario would mean that we are once again in for a second Trump term. That option was supported by five of the six presidential contenders on stage in Nevada on Wednesday, February 20. When Chuck Todd asked whether Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar would support the candidate who received the most votes in the primaries (now obviously Bernie Sanders), or throw the nomination to the super-delegates held over from the Obama-Clinton neoliberals (75 of whom already are said to have pledged their support to Bloomberg), each advocated "letting the process play out." That was a euphemism for leaving the choice to the Tony-Blair style leadership that have made the Democrats the servants' entrance to the Republican Party. Like the British Labour Party behind Blair and Gordon Brown, its role is to block any left-wing alternative to the Republican program on behalf of the One Percent.
This problem would not exist if the United States had a European-style parliamentary system that would enable a third party to obtain space on the ballots in all 50 states. If this were Europe, the new party of Bernie Sanders, AOC et al. would exceed 50 percent of the votes, leaving the Wall Street democrats with about the same 8 percent share that similar neoliberal democratic parties have in Europe (e.g., Germany's hapless neoliberalized Social Democrats), that is, Klobocop territory as voters moved to the left. The "voting Democrats," the 99 Percent, would win a majority leaving the Old Neoliberal Democrats in the dust.
The DNC's role is to prevent any such challenge. The United States has an effective political duopoly, as both parties have created such burdensome third-party access to the ballot box in state after state that Bernie Sanders decided long ago that he had little alternative but to run as a Democrat.
The problem is that the Democrat Party does not seem to be reformable. That means that voters still may simply abandon it – but that will simply re-elect the Democrats' de facto 2020 candidate, Donald Trump. The only hope would be to shrink the party into a shell, enabling the old guard to go away so that the party could be rebuilt from the ground up.
But the two parties have created a legal duopoly reinforced with so many technical barriers that a repeat of Ross Perot's third party (not to mention the old Socialist Party, or the Whigs in 1854) would take more than one election cycle to put in place. For the time being, we may expect another few months of dirty political tricks to rival those of 2016 as Obama appointee Tom Perez is simply the most recent version of Florida fixer Debbie Schultz-Wasserman (who gave a new meaning to the Wasserman Test).
So we are in for another four years of Donald Trump. But by 2024, how tightly will the U.S. economy find itself tied in knots?
The Democrats' Vocabulary of Deception:
How I would explain Bernie's Program
Every economy is a mixed economy. But to hear Michael Bloomberg and his fellow rivals to Bernie Sanders explain the coming presidential election, one would think that an economy must be either capitalist or, as Bloomberg put it, Communist. There is no middle ground, no recognition that capitalist economies have a government sector, which typically is called the "socialist" sector – Social Security, Medicare, public schooling, roads, anti-monopoly regulation, and public infrastructure. These are a valid alternative to privatized monopolies extracting economic rent.
What Mr. Bloomberg means by insisting that it's either capitalism or communism is an absence of government social spending and regulation. In practice this means oligarchic financial control, because every economy is planned by some sector. The key is, who will do the planning? If government refrains from taking the lead in shaping markets, then Wall Street takes over – or the City in London, Frankfurt in Germany, and the Bourse in France.
Most of all, the aim of the One Percent is to distract attention from the fact that the economy is polarizing – and is doing so at an accelerating rate. National income statistics are rigged to show that "the economy" is expanding. The pretense is that everyone is getting richer and living better, not more strapped. But the reality is that all the growth in GDP has accrued to the wealthiest 5 Percent since the Obama Recession began in 2008. Obama bailed out the banks instead of the 10 million victimized junk-mortgage holders. The 95 Percent's share of GDP has shrunk.
The GDP statistics do not show that "capital gains" – the market price of stocks, bonds and real estate owned mainly by the One to Five Percent – has soared. This is thanks to Obama's $4.6 trillion Quantitative Easing pumped into the financial markets instead of into the "real" economy in which wage-earners produce goods and services.
How does one "stay the course" in an economy that is polarizing? Staying the course means continuing the existing trends that are concentrating more and more wealth in the hands of the One Percent, that is, the Donor Class – while loading down the 99 Percent with more debt, paid to the One Percent (euphemized as the economy's "savers"). All "saving" is at the top of the pyramid. The 99 Percent can't afford to save much after paying their monthly "nut" to the One Percent.
If this economic polarization is impoverishing most of the population while sucking wealth and income and political power up to the One Percent, then to be a centrist is to be the candidate of oligarchy. It means not challenging the economy's structure.
Language is being crafted to confuse voters into imagining that their interest is the same as that of the Donor Class of rentiers, creditors and financialized corporate businesses and rent-extracting monopolies. The aim is to divert attention from voters' own economic interest as wage-earners, debtors and consumers. It is to confuse voters not to recognize that without structural reform, today's "business as usual" leaves the One Percent in control.
So to call oneself a "centrist" is simply a euphemism for acting as a lobbyist for siphoning up income and wealth to the One Percent. In an economy that is polarizing, the choice is to favor them instead of the 99 Percent.
That certainly is not the same thing as stability. Centrism sustains the polarizing dynamic of financialization, private equity, and the Biden-sponsored bankruptcy "reform" written by his backers of the credit-card companies and other financial entities incorporated in his state of Delaware. He was the senator for that state's Credit Card industry, much as former Democratic VP candidate Joe Lieberman was the senator from Connecticut's Insurance Industry.
A related centrist demand is that of Buttigieg's and Biden's aim to balance the federal budget. This turns out to be a euphemism for cutting back Social Security, Medicare and replace social spending ("socialism") to pay for America's increasing militarization, subsidies and tax cuts for the One Percent. Sanders rightly calls this "socialism for the rich." The usual word for this is oligarchy. That seems to be a missing word in today's mainstream vocabulary.
The alternative to democracy is oligarchy. As Aristotle noted already in the 4th century BC, oligarchies turn themselves into hereditary aristocracies. This is the path to serfdom. To the vested financial interests, Hayek's "road to serfdom" means a government strong enough to tax wealth and keep basic essential infrastructure in the public domain, providing its services to the population at subsidized prices instead of letting its services be monopolized.
Confusion over the word "socialism" may be cleared up by recognizing that every economy is mixed, and every economy is planned – by someone. If not the government in the public interest, then by Wall Street and other financial centers in their interest. They fought against an expanding government sector in every economy today, calling it socialism – without acknowledging that the alternative, as Rosa Luxemburg put it, is barbarism.
I think that Sanders is using the red-letter word "socialism" and calling himself a "democratic socialist" to throw down the ideological gauntlet and plug himself into the long and powerful tradition of socialist politics. Paul Krugman would like to call himself a social democrat. But the European parties of this name have discredited this label as being centrist and neoliberal. Sanders wants to emphasize that a quantum leap, a phase change is in order.
If he can be criticized for waving a needlessly red flag, it is his repeated statement that his program is designed for the "working class." What he means are wage-earners and this includes the middle class. Even those who make over $100,000 a year are still wage earners, and typically are being squeezed by a predatory financial sector, a predatory medical insurance sector, drug companies and other monopolies.
The danger in this terminology is that most workers like to think of themselves as middle class, because that is what they would like to rise into. That is especially the case for workers who own their own home (even if mortgage represents most of the value, so that most of the home's rental value is paid to banks, not to themselves as part of the "landlord class"), and have an education (even if most of their added income is paid out as student debt service), and their own car to get to work (involving automobile debt).
The fact is that even $100,000 executives have difficulty living within the limits of their paycheck, after paying their monthly nut of home mortgage or rent, medical care, student loan debt, credit-card debt and automobile debt, not to mention 15% FICA paycheck withholding and state and local tax withholding.
Of course, Sanders' terminology is much more readily accepted by wage-earners as the voters whom Hillary called "Deplorables" and Obama called "the mob with pitchforks," from whom he was protecting his Wall Street donors whom he invited to the White House in 2009. But I think there is a much more appropriate term: the 99 Percent, made popular by Occupy Wall Street. That is Bernie's natural constituency. It serves to throw down the gauntlet between democracy and oligarchy, and between socialism and barbarism, by juxtaposing the 99 Percent to the One Percent.
The Democratic presidential debate on February 25 will set the stage for Super Tuesday's "beauty contest" to gauge what voters want. The degree of Sanders' win will help determine whether the byzantine Democrat party apparatus actually will be able to decide on the Party's candidate. The expected strong Sanders win will make the choice stark: either to accept who the voters choose – namely, Bernie Sanders – or to pick a candidate whom voters already have rejected, and is certain to lose to Donald Trump in November.
If that occurs, the Democrat Party will evaporate as its old Clinton-Obama guard is no longer able to protect its donor class on Wall Street and corporate America. Too many Sanders voters would stay home or vote for the Greens. That would enable the Republicans to maintain control of the Senate and perhaps even grab back the House of Representatives.
But it would be dangerous to assume that the DNC will be reasonable. Once again, Roman history provides a "business as usual" scenario. The liberal German politician Theodor Mommsen published his History of Rome in 1854-56, warning against letting an aristocracy block reform by controlling the upper house of government (Rome's Senate, or Britain House of Lords). The leading families who overthrew the last king in 509 BC created a Senate chronically prone to being stifled by its leaders' "narrowness of mind and short-sightedness that are the proper and inalienable privileges of all genuine patricianism."
These qualities also are the distinguishing features of the DNC. Sanders had better win big!
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of J is for Junk Economics (2017), Killing the Host (2015), The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971), amongst many others.
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The original is easily one of my favorite action sci-fi films. Too many lens flares in this one. Lots of funky camera work in the beginning, thankfully it's mostly only in the beginning. They use dolly shots, a good amount of stabilized hand held shots, zoom, and slow motion. It's just way too much style for my taste.
Tons of special effects/environments that look like crap. Some of it looks good. Slight Minority Report rip off (with the landing/flying on top of futuristic car thingy). Starting from the recall scene, it is pure, monotonous action for a good 30 minutes. There a a few other 20 minute action sequences later on in the film.
If you don't want to watch this movie let me summarize it for you: imagine you watched Star Wars, The Bourne Identity, Minority Report, a cheap Blade Runner knockoff, the original Total Recall, and IRobot all in one movie. It really is that awful/amazing depending on how appealing this smorgasbord sounds to you. I prefer In Bruges. The zero gravity shoot out was pretty neat though.


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Sudan Protesters, Army Postpone Announcement on Ruling Body
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's ruling military council says the country's pro-democracy movement has asked for a delay on the announcement of a joint ruling body because of last-minute, internal disputes over appointees.
The 11-member sovereign council is to rule Sudan for a little over three years until elections can be held.
It was created under a power-sharing deal between the military and the protesters and was to be announced on Sunday.
But the military council's spokesman Shams el-Din Kabashi said Monday that the movement withdrew its appointees to the council and would hold more consultations among its factions.
The development comes after internal disputes within the Sudanese Professionals Association, one of the opposition factions, over its nominee. The SPA had spearheaded Sudan's protests that led to the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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Kat's 9 Lives: Ramen Festival at Mitsuwa!! Itadakimasu!!
Luckily there was one somewhat close to where I live. I know you ramen lovers out there will probably judge me for not going to all 3 ramen festivals since I am within driving distance to all. This President's Day weekend my friends and I decided to meet up at Mitsuwa in Costa Mesa. Great sales and an all out eating event. I went a little too overboard on the sashimi sale.
Parking there was horrendous but they had free valet. As I pulled out, the lady in front of me rammed the car behind her. I am still traumatized!
They served the Asameshi Maeda Honten ramen from Asahikawa, the shoyu-tonkotsu ramen. The broth was prepared with soy sauce, pork bones, and a fish-based dashi. There are thin slices of pork, onions, and a quarter of an egg. It had a very earthy taste to it, but a little too salty for my palette. The noodles were nice and firm. All of this for $6.99, so not a bad deal. Personally I like the ramen at Momofuku in New York much better because it was packed full of flavor but leaving you a very light feeling. I felt that the shoyu-tonkotsu was very strong and didn't leaving me feel refreshed.
They had fresh roasted chestnuts outside, so I picked up a bag on my way out for my family. It was very tasty and that says a lot coming from me, someone who hates chestnut. They also gave you a small pick to crack them open, very cute!
All in all it was a lot of fun. I love the events that Mitsuwa has once in a while. The ramen was good but not my cup of tea. This kind of makes me want to go to the other Mitsuwas to try all the ramen, but not enough to drive far. If the event is near your place, you should really go to give it a try! I had a lot of fun.


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Avoid Menstrual Migraines and Non-Menstrual Migraines with a Natural Remedy
Worried about your next menstrual migraine attack?
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It has been estimated that 70% of migraine sufferers are female. Of these female migraine sufferers, 60% to 70% report a menstrual relationship to their migraine attacks. In addition to typical premenstrual syndrome (PMS), many women also endure migraine headaches during the same few days.
Headaches in women, particularly migraines, have been related to changes in the levels of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone before, during and after a woman's menstrual cycle. These hormone levels fluctuate dramatically and are also associated with a large percentage of migraines in women approaching menopause (Pre and Peri-menopause.)
NON-MENSTRUAL VS. MENSTRUAL-RELATED MIGRAINES
Non-menstrual migraines occur randomly and are not consistently associated with the period of time either before, during or slightly after menstruation.
Menstrual related migraines can be broken down into 3 categories:
1- Premenstrual migraines, which occur just prior to the commencement of menstruation
2- Menstrual migraines which occur during menstruation
3- Late menstrual migraines which occur shortly after menstruation ends
All 3 types of menstrual-related migraine attacks are often more severe, last significantly longer, and are more resistant to treatment than the usual non-menstrual migraine attacks.
Work-related disability is greater in premenstrual and menstrual migraines than in non-menstrual migraines.
The literature indicates (and is substantiated by reports from sufferers) that all menstrual-related migraine attacks were less responsive to acute prescription drug options. Only 13.5% are pain-free after 2 hours compared to 32.9% of non-menstrual migraine attacks. This indicates that 86.5% of menstrual migraine sufferers and 67.1% of non-menstrual migraine sufferers do not achieve complete relief from debilitating migraine pain after 2 hours.
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Migraines can lead to more migraines and depression.
Migraines that first occur around your menstrual cycle may become chronic over time for many reasons. "Migraines beget migraines – the more of them you have, the more vulnerable you become to having another," according to Dr. Andrew Charles director of the Headache Research and Treatment Program in the UCLA Department of Neurology. He goes on to explain, "We've begun to see from researchers that the frequency of migraine attack is linked to permanent changes in the brain, and I think that changes the playing field for patients and those of us who take care" of them.
Migraines (menstrual or otherwise) are a risk factor for depression and can also lead to the vicious cycle of "Rebound Headaches" otherwise known as Medication Overuse Headaches. Continuously treating the pain and other symptoms of migraine with prescription and over-the-counter drugs can eventually increase the frequency and tendency of your migraines. This is a difficult cycle to break and often calls for detoxing and weaning off of medication.
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MIGRAINES & MENOPAUSE
Statistics indicate that migraines in women tend to increase during the approach to menopause and during menopause, however, they tend to decrease or go away after menopause.
Some women who have never had migraines develop them as they enter the period before and during menopause. The answer as to why this happens may be explained as follows:
A women's monthly cycle causes significant fluctuations in estrogen during certain times of the month. This hormonal fluctuation (decreasing levels of estrogen) is known to trigger menstrual migraines in as many as 1/3-1/2 of women with migraines.
Therefore, it is not surprising, that the decreasing levels of estrogen associated with menopause, may also trigger migraines in women. The solution in both cases may be to maintain a healthy diet, exercise, and add nutritional supplements to your daily regimen known to benefit migraine sufferers and balance hormone levels.
Migraine headaches can severely affect women undergoing the changes of menopause. They can range from mild to debilitating. Migraine headaches are closely linked to a woman`s hormones; as a result they experience five times as many migraines as men. An estimated 30% of women experience migraine headaches before menopause, and that percentage only increases during the time of menopause.
If your migraines, whether menstrual or menopausal related or not, are occurring several times a month or more, and you find yourself unable to function while reaching for pain medications more and more, you are a good candidate for migraine prevention, to stop migraines from occurring in the first place.
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Before the middle of the twentieth century there was no major dispute about the criteria for death. In the nineteenth century several isolated cases of premature burial from around the world raised some alarm, and safeguards (e.g., coffins equipped with alarms) were established to minimize the possibility of that practice. However, concern about the accuracy of diagnosing death largely abated by the turn of the twentieth century.
Beginning with the advent of more effective artificial respirators in the 1940s, major technological breakthroughs in modern medicine raised serious questions about the traditional ways of diagnosing death. Before the widespread use of respirators, defibrillators, intensive-care units, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation failures of cardiac, respiratory, and neurological functions were closely linked. When one system failed, the other two inevitably failed as well. However, respirators and other advanced life-support systems can sustain cardiac, respiratory, and other autonomic functions for prolonged periods even after neurological functions have ceased.


April made this card for a couple of challenges. Most were the theme of red, white and blue. I thought the boy was cute swimming especially as it's so hot here in Arizona. We were around 110 degrees today. This card makes me want to jump in the pool!! Please watch the video to see how this was made. My you tube videos are still a work in progress. Thanks for stopping by.
Oh how cute! Great papers and colors! TFS.--Pat N.
How much fun! Look at all those bubbles. Can you send me an email. I would like to know if you would like to be a Guest Diva.
Just love it. The embossed backing is so fun will have to try a copy cat of this!!
OMG! April, love the embossing the the bubble supr cute card!! BTW, I love your blog design very PRETTY!!
Love it... I may have to join some others and give this one a try. It is too darn cute.
I love the snorkeling boy and water theme! Thanks for reminding me about the great variety on Everyday Paperdolls. Are you from the upper Midwest? You sound like you are.
I'm from Michigan. I now live in Arizona for 20 years. That's funny you picked up on my accent. Glad you liked the card. Thanks!!
April: Wonderful card! Thanks for joining us for our Challenge #16 - "Country Where YOU Live".
What a gorgeous project! Thank you so much for entering it in our challenge at Allsorts this week and good luck!


Thousands of homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, were reduced to ash as a wildfire continues to ravage the oil sands area, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced.
Officials said close to 100,000 residents have fled their homes as the fire gains new ground, covering roughly 200,000 acres, or about 10 times the size of Manhattan.
Many evacuees are having to stay in work camps, homes and temporary shelters around Alberta, which have limited supplies including food and gasoline.
Alberta's provincial government announced the banning of fire and incendiary targets across the province to reduce the risks of more blazes as hot and dry weather persisted.
Pictures can't begin to capture the scorched areas littered with debris and rubble, with communities devastated by a wildfire large and intense enough to be visible from space.
The wildfire is expected to continue on its path for the next several days.


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Q: What's the difference between globals(), locals(), and vars()? What is the difference between globals(), locals(), and vars()?  What do they return?  Are updates to the results useful?

A: Each of these return a dictionary:

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*globals() always returns the dictionary of the module namespace

*locals() always returns a dictionary of the current namespace

*vars() returns either a dictionary of the current namespace (if called with no argument) or the dictionary of the argument.

locals and vars could use some more explanation.  If locals() is called inside a function, it updates a dict with the values of the current local variable namespace (plus any closure variables) as of that moment and returns it. Multiple calls to locals() in the same stack frame return the same dict each time - it's attached to the stack frame object as its f_locals attribute. The dict's contents are updated on each locals() call and each f_locals attribute access, but only on such calls or attribute accesses. It does not automatically update when variables are assigned, and assigning entries in the dict will not assign the corresponding local variables:
import inspect

def f():
    x = 1
    l = locals()
    print(l)
    locals()
    print(l)
    x = 2
    print(x, l['x'])
    l['x'] = 3
    print(x, l['x'])
    inspect.currentframe().f_locals
    print(x, l['x'])

f()

gives us:
{'x': 1}
{'x': 1, 'l': {...}}
2 1
2 3
2 2

The first print(l) only shows an 'x' entry, because the assignment to l happens after the locals() call. The second print(l), after calling locals() again, shows an l entry, even though we didn't save the return value. The third and fourth prints show that assigning variables doesn't update l and vice versa, but after we access f_locals, local variables are copied into locals() again.
Two notes:

*

*This behavior is CPython specific -- other Pythons may allow the updates to make it back to the local namespace automatically.

*In CPython 2.x it is possible to make this work by putting an exec "pass" line in the function. This switches the function to an older, slower execution mode that uses the locals() dict as the canonical representation of local variables.

If locals() is called outside a function it returns the actual dictionary that is the current namespace.  Further changes to the namespace are reflected in the dictionary, and changes to the dictionary are reflected in the namespace:
class Test(object):
    a = 'one'
    b = 'two'
    huh = locals()
    c = 'three'
    huh['d'] = 'four'
    print huh

gives us:
{
  'a': 'one',
  'b': 'two',
  'c': 'three',
  'd': 'four',
  'huh': {...},
  '__module__': '__main__',
}

So far, everything I've said about locals() is also true for vars()... here's the difference:  vars() accepts a single object as its argument, and if you give it an object it returns the __dict__ of that object.  For a typical object, its __dict__ is where most of its attribute data is stored. This includes class variables and module globals:
class Test(object):
    a = 'one'
    b = 'two'
    def frobber(self):
        print self.c
t = Test()
huh = vars(t)
huh['c'] = 'three'
t.frobber()

which gives us:
three

Note that a function's __dict__ is its attribute namespace, not local variables. It wouldn't make sense for a function's __dict__ to store local variables, since recursion and multithreading mean there can be multiple calls to a function at the same time, each with their own locals:
def f(outer):
    if outer:
        f(False)
        print('Outer call locals:', locals())
        print('f.__dict__:', f.__dict__)
    else:
        print('Inner call locals:', locals())
        print('f.__dict__:', f.__dict__)

f.x = 3

f(True)

which gives us:
Inner call locals: {'outer': False}
f.__dict__: {'x': 3}
Outer call locals: {'outer': True}
f.__dict__: {'x': 3}

Here, f calls itself recursively, so the inner and outer calls overlap. Each one sees its own local variables when it calls locals(), but both calls see the same f.__dict__, and f.__dict__ doesn't have any local variables in it.

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At South Seattle Elementary School, Reduced Gym Time Just One Symptom of Overenrollment
May 27, 2018 Editor	1 Comment
Under state law, children are supposed to get 100 minutes of physical education time per week. At Maple Elementary, they usually get about 40 minutes, at best, due in part to the school's over-enrollment problem.
"We have no room, so they have to turn the gym into the cafeteria, and so there is no way that we can work it to where our kids are able to be compliant with that requirement," Maple Elementary parent Gitane Versakos said.
Constantly having to convert the gym into a cafeteria and then back again is just one symptom of over-enrollment at the south Seattle school. Backed by Maple Elementary's PTSA, Versakos and fellow Maple parent Bao Ng have been spearheading the effort to win more district support for the problem of over-enrollment for the past two years.
While Maple Elementary doesn't have the least amount of square feet per child of the over-enrolled schools in south Seattle, it is the only over-enrolled Title I south Seattle elementary school with more than 500 students. According to an October 2017 headcount, in a capacity report released May 1, the kindergarten through fifth-grade school, whose operational capacity the report lists as 468 children, currently holds 532 students, in 53,630 square feet of space. Next year, the school expects a total of 548 students.
Versakos said the open concept layout itself isn't a problem – she and other parents find value in an open concept – but because the school is overcrowded, the noise level makes the school's layout problematic. Erected in 1971, Maple Elementary is an open concept school, which means there are no walls separating classrooms. Instead, the school uses bookcases. This means teachers must organize lesson plans around neighboring classrooms, in order to avoid disturbing fellow educators.
And it's not that the district doesn't know the school is over capacity. It's one of many Seattle-area schools that suffer from over-enrollment, according to the October 2017 headcount. So, in 2013, Seattle voters approved an almost $700 million Building Excellence IV (BEX IV) Capital Levy that provided funds for 17 schools to undergo renovation, in addition to funding other school infrastructure-related projects. Among these was Wing Luke Elementary School, whose anticipated size and increased capacity prompted the district to redraw boundaries in the area, in order to admit 100 more students from surrounding schools into the new space.
Though this redraw includes students from Maple, Wing Luke won't open its doors until the 2020-2021 school year, which still leaves Maple bursting at the seams. To mitigate this issue, 25 kindergarteners who would have matriculated at Maple for the 2019-2020 school year will be sent to neighboring Van Asselt Elementary, instead. Van Asselt is currently under-enrolled by 52 students, and projected to be under-enrolled by 73 students in the 2018-2019 school year. But even if enrollment numbers at Maple Elementary stay at projected 2018-2019 school year numbers in the coming years, if current Maple kindergarteners finish through the fifth grade at Maple Elementary, that still means an over-enrollment of 55 students for those years.
This problem could almost "immediately" be solved, though, according to Flip Herndon, the district's Associate Superintendent of Operations and Facilities. The reason it remains an issue at the moment is because of the School Board's expected "grandfathering" option, which allows children who are already attending Maple Elementary to finish out their schooling there through fifth grade. This means that it could take up to six years for the redraws to have the desired effect, Herndon said. Take away the option to stay, he said, and overcrowding would be alleviated. But he said this would also mean a disruption for families and students. As such, he said, given the choice, "most families are going to stay, and you're not going to have an alleviation of the overcrowding."
"The only other thing we could do is look at portables, which then takes up more of the play space," Herndon said, referring to temporary trailers in which classes may be held.
Herndon said in a follow-up email that while he anticipates the School Board will "want to support continuity for current families by grandfathering all current Maple students," because the option does not include incoming siblings of current Maple students, some families may choose to move to Van Asselt.
Versakos said she talked with Herndon, and got him to agree to hold a community meeting. She said the purpose of the meeting was supposed to be so Herndon and other district officials could share what the plan was for the school – "how they are going to support us, in terms of these capacity issues."
The meeting never happened, Versakos said, despite her efforts to nail down a time for Herndon to come out and meet with the school's parents. Herndon said that, normally, the district holds a community meeting for schools that are going to experience boundary shifts, but doesn't hold such a meeting for a single school, because a boundary shift impacts more than just one school.
"We are currently looking at scheduling a meeting where we can talk with all the impacted schools on boundaries," Herndon said. "We don't have it scheduled yet. … We'd love to have it before the end of June, but I am not sure that's going to be possible."
Though she is frustrated, Versakos said she understands the district is trying. In 2017, the district took steps to alleviate at least some of the pressures facing the school, by building four permanent third grade classrooms in a new building separate from the main school. The space has sliding whiteboard walls, which allow the classrooms to be converted to either separate rooms or an open concept layout, mimicking the main building. But the new building erased half the school's blacktop, taking away a basketball hoop and a tetherball pole, which exacerbated the problem of the school's already-limited ability to provide its children with enough physical activity.
In addition to the limitations imposed by the gymnasium also functioning as a cafeteria, because of the placement of the third grade building, children currently have even less room to run around outside than they did before – and that is only if they are brought outside to play at all, given that it rains for most of the school year. There is a field abutting the blacktop, but on rainy days, teachers don't want to let children run around in the mud.
Both Versakos and Ng said this problem could be partially solved by creating a covered space over where the blacktop currently sits.
"It could just … have a covered space, and we could work with that," Versakos said. "But we simply can't have P.E. class out in the rain, because children can't get wet, and spend their day wet."
It also doesn't help that the state has no way for parents or educators to get assistance, when it comes to kids missing out on the 100-minute physical education mandate. Though a new law will audit the state's school districts on physical education beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, there is currently no law regarding oversight, when it comes to keeping track of the number of minutes state schools are providing for physical education.
The new law includes language that requires schools to indicate to their respective districts if "there is sufficient dedicated gym space and sheltered areas to support the minimum amount of physical activity required of students by law or agency rule."
Herndon said there are no current plans to create a covered space on the blacktop, or build a larger gym space. However, according to Versakos, Herndon promised "that they would extend and replace our blacktop."
"The way I heard it … is that, because they took up half of our blacktop, they would replace the part that they removed … and that they don't yet currently have a date yet to finish," Versakos said in a follow-up interview. "When I spoke to him on the phone, he said he had to talk to people and to figure out when that would happen."
Flip acknowledged that "many of our schools don't have adequately-sized gyms," and that the concept of what is sometimes called "gymnaterias" or "cafenasiums" – spaces that function as both cafeterias and gymnasiums – aren't unusual in Seattle's schools. The challenges of figuring out how to effectively work with the space provided falls on principals' shoulders, he said.
Maple Elementary School Principal Elena Sanchez declined to speak on the record.
Ng and Versakos see the new physical education audit law as a positive step that doesn't go far enough. It is impossible to meet those requirements when the school doesn't have enough space for everyday learning, Ng said, let alone adequate gym time.
"Whether or not there is an audit, I don't know that they can be accountable, because of the lack of space," Ng said.
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WWF Director General: 'We need more nature by the end of the decade'
In an exclusive interview with Diálogo Chino, Marco Lambertini, Director General of the WWF, discusses biodiversity and the climate crisis ahead of COP26 and COP15
Fermín Koop	 October 6, 2021
Marco Lambertini of the WWF, pictured, on action for nature: "We don't have a clear destination for nature... so we are suggesting a global goal to be Nature Positive by 2030." (Image: WWF / Richard Stonehouse)
The world is facing simultaneous crises in biodiversity loss and climate change, which are deeply connected and require ambitious steps forward in order to be addressed. This is especially relevant for Latin America, which has seen more significant losses in biodiversity than any other region, and is also subject to multiple extreme weather events that are expected to increase in frequency and intensity in the future.
Seeking to address these challenges, governments will gather in the next few months at the first part of the COP15 Biodiversity Conference, and at the COP26 Climate Change Conference. Initial discussions already took place at the recent United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which included a full-day side conference on food systems.
In an exclusive interview with Diálogo Chino, the WWF's Director General, Marco Lambertini, addressed the importance of including nature-based solutions in countries' decarbonisation plans. The world has to be "nature positive" by 2030, a target he expects governments will include in the new global biodiversity framework to be discussed at COP15.
Diálogo Chino: At UNGA, developed countries made big climate announcements, such as China's pledge to end public coal financing. But there's still a long road ahead as developing countries call for further climate ambition. How can COP26 make a difference?
Marco Lambertini: We have been seeing growing commitment and action towards carbon neutrality and a net-zero future by 2050. The whole economy and society are begging to move in the right direction, but not fast enough. Several countries are acting but we need to see more. Increasing ambition is the most important thing, to get a snowballing effect with other countries. I'm hopeful COP26 will deliver significant progress, but it won't likely be enough. A real breakthrough would be to bring onboard countries that are still lagging behind in climate action.
What are the key issues that you would like to see addressed at the upcoming COP26?
The connection between nature and climate has to take a central role. Nature-based solutions are a fundamental tool to mitigate up to 30% of global emissions. Loss of nature is exacerbating climate change, with forest fires the most obvious [sign]. We would like for nature-based solutions to be more formally embraced as part of net-zero plans for 2050.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses delegates at a pre-summit event for the recent Food Systems Summit (Image: Xinhua / Alamy)
The UN also recently held the Food Systems Summit. While there's an agreement that the global food system is broken, stakeholders are divided on how to fix it. Has the summit made a difference?
The summit brought together all the different voices around food production and consumption, so it wasn't surprising to have dissenting views on the way forward. Still, the summit was very significant and served to open up discussions on food systems. There's been a recognition that food systems are failing people, with big issues with hunger, inequality and access to food. They [food systems] are also failing the climate, as they are a main driver of climate change and nature loss.
The summit happened as the UN is soon to host climate and biodiversity talks. There's an opportunity to capitalise on the output of the food summit, to inspire both UN discussions to take onboard targets and actions related to the food system. The disappointing thing is that this was a summit and not a decision-making event – not many decisions came out of it. Not many governments made a clear link between food, human health and planetary health. We have to build on this and continue the conversation, developing common targets to be pursued by governments, businesses and consumers.
This week, governments will hold the first part of the COP15 biodiversity talks, which will continue next year in China. A draft agreement has already been shared to replace the Aichi targets. What are your expectations of the upcoming negotiations?
There are some positive developments in the draft compared to the Aichi targets. There's a willingness to define quantitative measurable targets in the new biodiversity framework, which is significant considering that the only Aichi target that was delivered on was the one that had a numeral figure attached to it [protected areas]. Quantitative targets focus attention and increase accountability. If it's not measurable you can't get it done. The new draft has many more quantitative targets and that's a good development.
Still, a global goal for nature is missing, a clear destination for all these efforts we are planning to make. We have a clear destination for climate: decarbonisation by 2050. You can develop pathways and a plan based on that. We don't have something like that on nature in the current draft, so we are suggesting a sharper global goal to be "Nature Positive by 2030" – meaning that we have to have more nature by the end of the decade [than in 2020], measured in terms of species and ecosystems. Governments have to commit to more fish, forests, pollinators and overall biodiversity. It has to be the new compass for nature.
Is there still time to introduce these modifications in the draft?
China will become the president of the CDB COP and will drive the negotiations forward. There are still several months to fix the several gaps currently on the draft, the first one being the lack of a global goal for nature. This has to be in the agreement. Then we also need more clarity on production and consumption targets. This includes targets on agroecology, regenerative agriculture, sustainable fishing [and] sustainable infrastructure, something very relevant to China with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China has developed a green BRI and is taking steps in that direction. We have to green the key economic sectors that are drivers of nature loss.
We are clear about the problem and the consequences for our society – the only answer is to embark on a transition
There's also the issue of finance. This is about the funding for direct conservation efforts, with a gap of US$80–100 billion per year [required] to support developing countries to protect 30% of their land and ocean. This has to be accompanied by redirecting all the harmful subsidies that are spent for agriculture, fisheries and forestry. This is money that has to be repurposed, as is happening now with fossil fuels subsidies going to renewable energy. We have to see the same in these other sectors to make them nature positive.
Latin American governments have called for debt-for-nature or debt-for-climate swaps amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Can this mechanism be scaled up in a region with a high level of debts and a very significant natural capital that is currently endangered?
It's a very important tool that has to be considered. It's one of the best times in history for countries to embrace debt-for-nature swaps. The Covid-19 crisis has increased sovereign debts everywhere, especially in developing countries. We support the idea of multiplying these schemes. There won't be swaps enough, so it has to be carried out alongside other tools, such as the redirection of subsidies and sovereign green bonds. These can be used by governments to invest in transitions to nature-positive societies.
We are clear about the problem and know the consequences it's causing to our economy and society. The only answer is to embark on a transition that doesn't mean "stop developing". It's about growing wealth in a different way. A combination of innovation, technology and individual behavioural change could actually deliver that. That is happening on energy but we also need to see it on food, on agriculture, on fishing, and on the way we use our resources. The world has to agree on the destination and the plan to carry out that transition, not leaving anyone behind.
Latin America is a biodiversity superpower and relies on its natural capital for its economic development. But the region's biodiversity is severely endangered, as WWF's Living Planet Report has highlighted. How can Latin America better conserve its biodiversity while achieving a green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic?
The economic value of biodiversity is huge. We have to rediscover and account properly for the value of biodiversity. Almost half of the workforce in the world depends on natural systems, such as [in] tourism and agriculture. We have to preserve that natural capital, which is generating so much for the economy, and restore what we can. The more we have the more it will support our economies. Doing that means stopping the loss of biodiversity by protecting more of what's left on the planet, and avoiding forest destruction and conversion, which also means changing the way we produce food – particularly in Latin America, as this is driving deforestation.
Fermín Koop
Fermín Koop is Latin America editor for Diálogo Chino (The Southern Cone), based in Buenos Aires.
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Grabner discusses approach to art, curation
Artist talks invoking boredom, repetition as aesthetic themes, replying to harsh criticism
By Kayli Wren
Lilly Nguyen / Herald
Michelle Grabner discussed her creative process and approach to curation in a talk at the Granoff Center Wednesday. Grabner's art is currently on display in the "Other People's Things" exhibit also held at the Granoff.
In her talk Wednesday night, artist and curator Michelle Grabner described her art as a way to address patterns, repetition and boredom. She also described her curating style as a way to create opportunities for artists.
Grabner used Eugene Von Bruenchenhein to describe an artist completely opposite from herself. Bruenchenhein was "horrified of the ordinary" and "spent all of his time in the spectacular," creating thrones and towers from chicken and turkey bones, Grabner said.
Grabner prefers patterns and order. At the start of her career, Grabner was fresh out of graduate school, loaded with student debt and struggling to get studio time. She needed to examine the order and repetition in her own life, so she looked to patterns and simple backdrops such as window curtains for inspiration, she said.
Grabner created indexical pieces, stretching blankets over a panel and using paint to fill in the spaces created by the figure beneath. Grabner "sees the drama" in these pieces, and it "gets her giddy," she said. Grabner moved away from indexes and toward archimedes spirals around 2003, but her work was still focused on order and patterns.
Years later, Grabner took her "crusty, old paintings" from her work with indexes, and she cast them in bronze to monumentalize them. "Here I have this body, this material thing … in relationship to something that I'm after — this abstraction," Grabner said, referring to the abstractions of boredom and time. The bronze pieces look like holey quilts solidified in metal and hung up to dry. They reflect the idea that within boredom, someone can stretch time, play with time and make it elastic, Grabner said.
Grabner has recently been thinking about criticality, saying, "I have been very fed up with the suspicious critique," which Grabner describes as the idea that it is up to critics to unearth the meaning of an art piece. There are so many options for interpreting works of art, Grabner added.
As a visual arts concentrator, Nadya Kim '17 was inspired by how Grabner dealt with one extremely harsh review in the New York Times that called Grabner a "soccer mom" in 2014. In response to the label, Grabner created a series of pieces using soccer balls as materials. "My work and how people would perceive it is always a concern to me," Kim said, adding that it was inspiring to see how Grabner recovered from the review.
"The Suburban" is an artistic exhibition space that Grabner co-created in the Oak Park neighborhood in Chicago in 2009. "The Suburban" attracts the work of artists from all over the world and all different stages of recognition, "some people that you know, these fancy-ass artists, but also artists from New Zealand that you've never heard of, or St. Louis or from Madison, Wisconsin," Grabner said.
Grabner approaches curating from an artist-centric position, which Minae Choi '19 said she appreciated hearing in the talk. Grabner thinks exhibitions are less about the institution or the audiences involved and more about the artists themselves, she said.
Grabner tries to present artists with sites for their work that will allow them to grow artistically and stretch how they think about the world, she said. She gave Jessica Jackson Hutchins an abandoned Christian science reading room in Pendleton, Oregon to install her work for the 2016 Portland Biennial. Grabner described the experience as a chance for the artist to stretch her relationship to materials and to think about the site and context of her art in a new way.
Exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial were once considered the best place to go if someone wanted to learn the current trends in the nation's art, Grabner said. She co-curated the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014.
"I was not afraid to organize the bigger galleries of the Whitney Biennial around these bigger cliches, one of which is affect and materiality, one of which is appropriation," Grabner said. She organized and presented her portion of the building's gallery as a reflection of what artists were currently thinking about in their lives and world, she said.
The process of co-curating the exhibition showed Grabner that when it comes to art, "the facts are not the truth." Grabner explained that art is about interpretation. Someone can understand a piece of art differently from someone else and reshape its meaning, she said.
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Located in The Gap of Dunloe, Beaufort, County Kerry, Kate Kearney's Cottage, welcomes hungry and thirsty visitors. The restaurant serves dinner and bar food. There is a craft shop here and the cottage is a venue for Traditional Irish Nights.
Nestled at the entrance to the world famous Gap of Dunloe is Kate Kearney's Cottage, a 150 year old family-run establishment.
After a day's sightseeing, you can stop by for the famous pub grub and a drink in Kate's pub with its open fire. In the restaurant, a full a la carte menu is provided and groups, small functions, individual diners and couples are catered for. There's also a craft shop here which stocks a wide range of local gifts and produce.
At Kate Kearney's traditional Irish Night dinner, traditional music and costumed dancers are hosted.
The night is presented for groups either in the restaurant or the specially customised 'Barn'. The ambience and fine food has earned Kate Kearney's various awards and a worldwide reputation. Local musicians play guitar and other stringed instruments including fiddle, mandola, Irish bouzouki and banjo accompanied by the bodhrán, accordion, uilleann pipes, low whistle and tin whistle. Irish dancers in costume dance reels, jigs and the almost forgotten 'Brush Dance'.
The Gap of Dunloe is a narrow mountain pass between Macgillycuddy's Reeks (west) and Purple Mountain (east) in County Kerry, Ireland. A popular form of transport for tourists is the horse-drawn trap, a cart where up to four occupants sit facing each other. There are also riding ponies for hire. The trap and ponies are guided by men from families that live in and around the Gap. Bikes can also be rented in the town of Killarney and ridden through The Gap. This place was used as a filming location in the Irish film The Crying Game. The road through The Gap from Kate Kearney's Cottage, down to Lord Brandon's Cottage, is about 11 kilometers long, climbing and descending about 200 metres altogether. Many people hike or bike the route.


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In the first picture above are 2 of 5 WWN's 2015 Scholarship Recipients: Chidinma Ezeudu and Blessing Ochomma of St Kizito Girls' Secondary School. (Future courses of study: Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Respectively).
I say a huge YES! to more girls enrolled in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields (STEM). I believe these fields equip girls/women with problem- solving, analytical, logical-reasoning, leadership and resilience skills, to mention a few. (I must confess that the fact that my first degree was in Electrical Engineering makes me a tad biased)!
Here's a thought: Imagine that all the public/faith-based schools in our rural communities were transformed to have higher standards, and that the school fees are made affordable and accessible to all citizens? What would that do to our society as a whole? How would the overall quality of life be affected? Our rural communities can be transformed into innovation and sustainability hubs or development cells..
Some nations have successfully re-engineered their entire polity through quality PUBLIC education. Singapore did it, Canada did it, Scandinavian nations did it, Korea did it. In fact, UAE, Rwanda, Ethiopia and India are currently doing it. It is very possible in Nigeria if we curb corruption and ineptitude, especially in education funding, administration and management.
Why can't Nigeria attempt this noble feat?
Notice how India is now a leader in health tourism and ICT? Well, it didn't happen by chance. A few years ago, there was a well thought out, strategic plan to overhaul their educational sector/curriculum to reflect labour market trends and global outlook. Their diaspora population also played a huge role in achieving this.
Sick Nigerians, (rich and poor), now go to India for kidney/cancer/liver treatments! Our medical doctors are leaving in droves to foreign lands.
We are ripe for an emergency intervention in our educational systems. It is time to model after successful nations and urgently start raising up a new generation of Transformational-Ethical-Creative Leaders. We need a well developed human resources base to solve our many challenges.
It is time for all of us to become active and committed stakeholders in the education sector; start at the basics. Give back to your community schools through mentorship, scholarship or grants, training of teachers, building of adequate infrastructure, such as libraries, WASH facilities, playgrounds, makerspaces, STEM labs, sports centres and amenities for other extra-curricular activities. Or we may choose to engage in education development through advocacy, – by holding leaders accountable and demanding that Government lives up to its direct and indirect responsibilities.
The private schools account for only a small fraction of the total number of students enrolled in our schools. A high percentage of this generation, who are often touted as the 'future leaders', are wasting away and ticking like timed-bombs. The detailed statistics and industry reports of the rot in our educational system are even more disheartening.
There are more people at the grassroots or under-served areas than there are well-educated elites. If your neighbour is hungry or ill equipped, soon that problem will arrive at your own gate. The base of the pyramid ought to be solid, or those at the top are soon in trouble. The crimes of kidnapping, terrorism, armed robbery, bribery & corruption, poverty, incompetent staff, general insecurity etc., are all made worse when we pay lip service to education.
Education is too important an issue to delegate to the government or a few for-fee private school management or owners alone. Our public schools need our active engagement to overhaul them into centres of excellence. We can begin to collaborate and mix different tested models to make it work. A multi-modal approach will likely yield better outcomes. Integrate technology (edu-tech) and more entrepreneurial studies. We must own the challenges of development, and begin to approach our challenges in a holistic/integrated way. It is time to reframe problems as opportunities.
We now live in a knowledge-based, value-driven economy, and investment in human potential/capital development, is the key that unlocks the latent creativity, productivity, value and solutions. A relatable, equitable, inclusive, affordable, accessible education, that aligns with labour market needs/trends, is now needed more than ever.


A match is much cheaper than 'doing the right thing for others'. History is full of instances of 'easy way' and their dire consequences. Have we learned anything? Obviously we (as humanity whole) are not very smart. We keep forgetting to reflect on our experiences (history) and we fail to find ways to improve what we do (for ourselves – as humanity whole; not just for our very 'self').


The revision retrieval interface allows all relevant information for a given page revision to be retrieved. The information provided must be sufficient to locate and load all content objects that belong to the revision (slots). Access to revision meta-data such as the edit comment is also covered by this ticket.
The functionality provided is roughly equivalent to the retrieve/read functionality offered by the Revision class. The Revision class should remain a thin layer on top of the new revision retrieval interface, as a legacy proxy.
daniel created subtask T174025: Implement MCR revision retrieval legacy version.
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This is on our workboard and Q3 goal list but https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/mcr/index.php/Main_Page has it assigned to Adam, I assume that is @Addshore. Is it OK to assign this task?
• Addshore closed subtask T188518: Implement Storage service for content models and slot roles as Resolved.
[mediawiki/core@master] WIP DNM RevisionStore, multi content mode..
[mediawiki/core@master] MCR: RevisionStore: test old and intermediate schema.
[mediawiki/core@master] [MCR] [DNM] Set MCR migration stage to MIGRATION_WRITE_BOTH.
CCicalese_WMF edited projects, added Multi-Content-Revisions (MCR-SDC Storage Layer - phase 1); removed Multi-Content-Revisions.
[mediawiki/core@master] Prepare newNullRevision for MCR.
MCR: RevisionStore: test old and intermediate schema.
[mediawiki/core@master] MCR RevisionStore, multi content mode..
This is now implemented. Note however that the new features are still disabled per default.
At some point, we'll still have to change $wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage to MIGRATION_NEW.
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix undeletion write-both/read-old mode.