SDG #13 SDG #13 Ensuring Long-Lasting Change

What’s the Difference? Migraine Vs. Headaches

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By Nirupa Mohan Dore Ceylon Today Features

Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor take centre stage, as Linda and Paxton, in the one-of-a-kind Life During and timely, heist comedy, Locked Down. Set in London amidst the pandemic, the story features the duo as a disgruntled couple who are waiting for the lockdown to end, to go their separate ways. The film with the tagline ‘Some the Lockdown people unravel faster than others,’ highlights everyday life during the lockdown, like wearing masks, randomly watching people buy more toilet paper than they can ever use, the need to get fully dressed with make-up and all for online meetings from their home spaces, What’s the Difference? even down to dealing with letting go off staff, and the many other situations that can’t be avoided. The frustrations of being in a lockdown –forced to live in the same Natasha, Jazmyn Simon as Maria, house, as a couple desperate to Stephen Merchant as Michael, Migraine Vs. Headaches leave, is what the movie’s core plot. Sam Spruell as Martin, Claes Meanwhile, an amateur attempt at Bang as Essien and Frances Relaxation techniques a heist in the film, is what gives it Ruffelle as Byrdie. When there is pressure or pain in infection symptoms like fever, stuffy Other differences include the pain’s an edge in terms of storyline, given The 118-minute film by director your head, it can be difficult to tell nose, cough, congestion, and facial quality: A migraine headache will Because most headaches are that most of the film looks like they Doug Liman, working together with whether you are experiencing a pressure. cause intense pain that may be stress-induced, taking steps are home, while making video calls. producers Michael Lesslie, Alison typical headache or a migraine. Chiari headaches throbbing and will make performing to reduce stress can help relieve The film’s dialogue manages to Winter and P.J. van Sandwijk, was Differentiating a migraine daily tasks very difficult. headache pain and reduce the risk keep the story flowing with calm made in collaboration with headache from a traditional A Chiari headache is caused by a Migraine headaches are typically for future headaches. These production companies Hypnotic, headache, and vice versa, is birth defect known as a Chiari divided into two categories: migraine include: heat therapy, such as Nebulastar, AGC Studios and important. It can mean faster relief malformation, which causes the skull with aura and migraine without applying warm compresses or Storyteller Productions, with a through better treatments. It can to push against parts of the brain, aura. An ‘aura’ refers to sensations a taking a warm shower, massages, budget of three million dollars. The also help prevent future headaches often causing pain in the back of the person experiences before they get a meditation, neck stretching and movie received mixed reviews from from occurring in the first place. head. migraine. The sensations typically relaxation exercises. critics, with 42 per cen featured on So, how can you tell the difference Thunderclap headaches occur anywhere from 10 to 30 Treating migraine Rotten Tomatoes, a similar 42 per between a common headache and a minutes before an attack. These can cent on Metacritic and a moderate migraine? A ‘thunderclap’ headache is a very include: Prevention is often the best 5.2/10 on IMDb, with many What is a headache? severe headache that develops in 60 n feeling less mentally alert or treatment for migraine headaches. appreciating the fact that Locked seconds or less. It could be a having trouble thinking Examples of preventive methods Down was written and filmed in the Headaches are unpleasant pains in symptom of a subarachnoid n seeing flashing lights or your doctor may prescribe include: middle of a pandemic, with a star- your head that can cause pressure haemorrhage, a serious medical unusual lines making changes to your diet, such studded cast who managed to add and aching. The pain can range from condition that requires immediate n feeling tingling or numbness in as eliminating foods and their short roles into the film in mild to severe, and they usually medical attention. It may also be the face or hands substances known to cause different ways, in what looks like occur on both sides of your head. caused by an aneurysm, stroke, or n having an unusual sense of headaches, like alcohol and caffeine video calls. Some specific areas where headaches other injury. Get help immediately if smell, taste, or touch and taking steps to reduce stress At a time when the COVID-19 can occur include the forehead, you experience a headache of this Some migraine sufferers may Medications pandemic is running rampant temples, and back of the neck. A kind. experience symptoms a day or two Review: around the world, this film focuses headache can last anywhere from 30 What is migraine? before the actual migraine occurs. People who have migraine less on the impact it has had on daily minutes to a week. According to Known as the ‘prodrome’ phase, frequently may benefit from taking Locked Down life in London, thus making it health professionals, the most These headaches are intense or these subtler signs can include: medications known to reduce relevant filmmaking that captures common headache type is a tension severe and often have other constipation, depression, frequent migraine quickly. Check with your pacing, as the couple navigates their this period in history. headache. Triggers for this headache symptoms in addition to head pain. yawning, irritability, neck stiffness doctor to ascertain names of these way through the challenges of This, new age pandemic type include stress, muscle strain, Symptoms associated with and unusual food cravings. medications. staying home together and entertainment is a film that some and anxiety. a migraine headache include: Migraine triggers Identify and treat early feeling bored, while having will find amusing, while Tension headaches aren’t the only nausea, pain behind one eye or ear, their own personal drama in others may feel that it type of headache; other headache pain in the temples, seeing spots or People who experience migraine Headaches can range from being the mix. Though there is no needs more plot depth, types include: flashing lights, sensitivity to light report various factors that are a mild inconvenience to being plot depth, the script instead of solely Cluster headaches and/or sound, temporary vision loss associated with them. These are severe and debilitating. Identifying manages to deliver it concentrating on the and vomiting. called migraine triggers and may and treating headaches as early as humorously. dialogue and the high- Cluster headaches are severely When compared with tension or include: emotional anxiety, possible can help a person engage Anne Hathaway and stakes heist. painful headaches that occur on one other headache types, migraine contraceptives, alcohol, hormonal in preventive treatments to Chiwetel Ejiofor deliver excellent “Rated R for language side of the head and come in headache pain can be moderate to changes and menopause. minimise the chance of another performances that easily carry the throughout and some drug clusters. This means you experience severe. Some people may experience Treating headaches headache. Distinguishing migraine story, though they are supported material” this is a surprisingly cycles of headache attacks, followed headaches so severe they seek care from other types of headaches can by a star-studded cast, who play strange comedy, that might just be by headache-free periods. at an emergency room. Migraine Over-the-counter treatments be tricky. Pay particular attention short but prominent roles. Dule seen as a timely piece of history, Sinus headaches headaches will typically affect only Fortunately, most tension headaches to the time before the headache Hill stars as David, Lucy Boynton captured on camera, with the aim of one side of the head. However, it is will go away with over-the-counter starts for signs of an aura and tell as Charlotte, Ben Stiller as Guy, delivering a simple story, supported by Often confused with migraine, possible to have a migraine headache treatments. Check with your doctor to your doctor. Ben Kingsley as Malcolm, Mindy a strong cast of talented individuals, sinus headaches co-occur with sinus that affects both sides of the head. ascertain names of these medications. (healthline) Kaling as Kate, Katie Leung as who aim to easily entertain. 04 05 Double Excel In conversation with A Level aces Ilni and Ilmi Adeeshani

“Teachers gave us extra By Priyangwada Perera support. Each unit was Ceylon Today Features covered by giving us test papers in the end. Some For these set of identical students do not come but we twins brilliance has come did not miss a single term from the zygote they shared. test. So, we knew what our Leave aside what the level was, what we were good biological science book says, we had no doubt at and what we were not so they have proven it. Sisters, about choosing good at. Term tests were a Ilmi Adeeshani and The message good evaluation. School Ilni Adeeshani have aced this Biology as our supported us very much,” the year’s Advanced Level we want to give duo said. examinations by ranking subject stream They both agreed that, “If Colombo District 82nd and the youngsters you have a target, give it 144th respectively, in the for Advanced some weight. Focus on it and Science stream. or anyone doing work hard. But don’t get “We both were so much Level. Nobody stressed about it. Your love similar in everything we did. Advanced Level for what you do is what Whether we studied or did told us or forced matters. Nobody should force sports, we showed more or is to work hard you. If you have no interest it less the same talents,” said us. It was some- is pointless.” Ilmi, the younger of the two. during these two On a lighter note, they Born to M. Mudith thing we both shared that although they Hemantha and J. Nileeka years. But to look very much alike, their Perera, Ilni and Ilmi started knew, even when parents and close friends do school from i-Gate College, keep it cool. Do not mix them up but on an international school in we were much occasion their class teachers Thalawathugoda. From there, not pressurise used to get them confused. both attended the Malabe Sri younger. We For fun and games they Rahula Balika Maha yourself both did athletics, netball, Vidyalaya for Grade 3, and knew what we football, elle, and kabadi. And subsequently they both besides that, they also love to entered Visakha Vidyalaya wanted to do read and watch movies. through the Grade 5 Together they even dance. Scholarship exam. “In grades 10 and 11, our Back then, they were “too Speaking to Teen Inc, the might be many who disagree school has big concerts called young to understand the youngest shared that as long with her, she laughed. Miyesi Visaka. We took part importance of the scholarship as they could remember they As for preparation, though and enjoyed dancing. Even exam,” Ilmi noted while always had only one ambition they had study groups in though we did not compete as adding that thus, all credit and that was to become school, the twins never went dancers, we danced at each goes to their parents who doctors. “That is why we had to their friends’ places to school show and concert. As have always been their no doubt about choosing study, as they had an a subject, we learnt Kandyan strength and guiding lights. Biology as our subject stream advantage of having each Dancing but for concerts, we They worked hard to prepare for Advanced Level. Nobody other to revise with. After did all types of dance,” Ilmi them for their Grade 5 told us or forced us. It was classes, in the night they gave some insight to their fun scholarship and every step of something we both knew, would sit down to study “but side. the way since, she reiterated. even when we were much we never strained ourselves In conclusion they opined, Even until Grade 9, they were younger. We knew what we also active members in in mind,” Ilni said with burning midnight oil. We “The message we want to give pretty much focussing on wanted to do.” various societies in school. confidence. When asked out never stayed back after the youngsters or anyone their extracurricular By the time they entered Akki was the Vice President of the three subjects, Biology, midnight when the term tests doing Advanced Level is to activities and sports. Advanced Level, their aim of the Astronomical Society Chemistry and Physics what were around the corner. As work hard during these two “Coming to Grade 10, we was bright and clear. To get and I was a member of the her favourite is, out came the one has to have at least five years. But to keep it cool. Do decided that we should pay through to do medicine was Science Society,” Ilmi spontaneous answer. hours of sleep we only got up not pressurise yourself,” and attention to our studies. We their aim. They knew they explained. “Chemistry,” Ilni responded. early to study,” they reasoned all will flow seamlessly, to thought we must try to score had to keep their priority Doing Biology is no easy Even though that was not out. achieve your desired results. well enough to get 9As. We straight but that didn’t stop task. “It is tough. really the answer we guessed, Apart from their own All you need is a little bit of then started focussing on them from partaking in other Competition is also tough. she explained why Chemistry efforts, both Ilni and Ilmi fun, a little bit of strength studies with a new energy. school activities. “We But we managed. We is her favourite. “It is the were full of praise for their and support, and a whole lot So, we worked a little harder continued to play inter- focussed on our goal and got easiest of the three subjects” school teachers, paying them of study time. during the two years.” school volleyball. We were going. We kept our ambition she said, and when told there due credit for their success. (Pix by Udesh Ranasinha) 06 07

Sustainable Development Goals SDG #13 Ensuring

Six years ago a mysterious man Marshmello stayed independent Long-Lasting Change arrived at Los Angeles International and struck deals on a song-by- Airport with his head encased in a song basis, making it easy for him rigid 13.5-pound helmet shaped like to collaborate with artists on By Shani Asokan needs of developing countries in the a marshmallow. He reluctantly different labels. Keeping control of Ceylon Today Features context of meaningful mitigation removed the fragile apparatus at the his copyrights enabled him to actions. behest of a TSA agent and fed it further goose his social presence The Sustainable Development Overall, it aims to promote through an x-ray machine. When he by giving influencers his music to Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals mechanisms for capacity building for went to retrieve it, his worst fears use in their videos. In turn, they that were agreed upon by all United effective climate change mitigation were confirmed. would tag him, thereby Nations (UN) Member States at the and related planning. It also aims to “It was cracked,” the headpiece’s introducing him to their followers. 2015 UN Sustainable Development promote mechanisms for effective owner, incognito DJ-producer This was part of what Shalizi likes Summit as part of the 2030 Agenda climate change-related planning and Marshmello, told Forbes in a rare to call “infinite algorithm” of social for Sustainable Development. management in least developed interview. media. Goal 13 is about climate action. countries and small island Nowadays he can afford to fly To be sure, Marshmello isn’t the The official wording of the goal is to developing states, with a focus on private. Marshmello earned a couple first DJ to cash in on a mysterious ‘take urgent action to combat climate vulnerable groups such as women, of handsome million dollars over the image—he follows in the helmet- change and its impacts’. Climate children and indigenous past few years, thanks to six-figure steps of electronic acts like change affects every single country communities. nightly fees and crossover hits like Deadmau5 and Daft Punk—but his across the globe. It disrupts national Climate action and the Happier (with Bastille) and Wolves earnings total over the past year economies and affects lives, causing (with Selena Gomez). ranks as the best annual haul for an both micro- and macro-level impacts global pandemic “What sets the world’s greatest DJs incognito DJ ever measured across continents. Weather patterns Although 2020 saw a drop in apart is that they are also great by Forbes. are changing, the planet is warming, greenhouse gas emissions due to producers and songwriters, creating “It’s less about the masks and more and sea levels are rising; natural travel bans and economic songs that transcend genre and about the actual talent,” Beatport’s disasters are becoming more severe. slowdowns, this was only appeal to a global pop audience,” McDaniels says of Marshmello. “He’s The Paris Agreement adopted in temporary. These emissions are says CEO of Beatport, Robb Keeping certainly got a long career in music 2015 aimed to strengthen the global likely to pick up as countries start McDaniels, “Marshmello is one of the ahead of him.” response to climate change by to reopen and the world returns to a select few who have defined this Sure enough, his later keeping global temperature well sense of normalcy. As countries generation.” album, Joytime II, claimed the top below 2 degrees Celsius above pre- move towards rebuilding Success has allowed 28-year-old spot on the dance charts in 2018. industrial levels. The agreement was economies, these strategies must Marshmello to upgrade to a In June 2019, he released Rescue meant to strengthen countries’ include ways that are green, clean, US$55,000 helmet that has an Me, a collaboration with American abilities to deal with the impacts of healthy and safe. The new plans to internal air-conditioning system and it Mellow rock band A Day to Remember as the climate change, through financing restart global economies must be programmable LED lights and weighs first single from his third green initiatives, developing new more resilient. just eight pounds. More important, demanding. “I’m going through some ed. It took a slip-up by Skrillex, and a album, Joytime III. On November technology and enhancing a capacity The current pandemic and global the headgear has turned into a stuff in my life and I really need to lot of nagging from fans, but we soon 2019, Marshmello collaborated building framework across the globe. crisis has given us an opportunity for transcendent symbol that has placed know who he is because the music is learned that Marshmello is Chris with Blackbear and Yungblud to However, in recent years, this a profound and systemic shift Marshmello among the world’s helping me.” Comstock, also known as Dotcom. release Tongue Tied. agreement has proved insufficient to This may not seem like a lot, so to emissions grew far more quickly than towards a sustainable economy that five highest-earning DJs even as he But Shalizi’s client wanted to True Marshmello and Dotcom fans In May 2020, Marshmello then deal with the climate crisis and meet put things in perspective, for each the decades before. safeguards both people and the refuses to obey the music industry’s remain anonymous and didn’t seem guessed the identity match even collaborated with Halsey to release 2030 goals. one degree increase, grain yields fall However, a chance still remains to planet. Hence, a transition towards rules: He still hasn’t signed a major particularly interested in fame. Even before Forbes started looking into it. Be Kind. In July 2020, Marshmello Goal 13 progress by about five per cent. This was change the trajectory. This includes decarbonisation of all aspects of the label record deal, much less shown after he started texting Skrillex, The dead giveaway was Chris’ red, appeared on rapper Juice Wrld’s evident between the years 1981 and technological and institutional economy, with green jobs and his face in public. Marshmello was so shy that he right leg tattoo. posthumous album Legends Never As of 2021, the Paris Agreement 2002 when yields of grain crops like changes to greener initiatives. sustainable growth is paramount. The story begins in 2015, when the initially refused to contact his hero Dotcom, Chris, and Marshmello are Die, on the tracks Come & Go and has been signed by 191 countries. By maize and wheat fell by 40 megatons Goal 13 targets Companies and states must invest in young DJ and his manager, Moe about an in-person meeting. “Skrillex the same person. Hate the Other Side, which reached 2018, 168 countries had per year due to a warmer climate. sustainable solutions; which means Shalizi—who met Marshmello while [is] the guy who I›ve been looking up Dotcom is Chris’s other stage numbers two and 10 on communicated their first nationally Between 1901 and 2010, the global The main objective of Goal 13 is to fossil fuel subsidies must end and he was still experimenting with to ever since I started doing name, who happens to be on the the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. determined contributions to the average sea level rose by 19cm as ice strengthen resilience and adaptive polluters must pay for their pollution. different sounds and identities electronic music,” Marshmello recalls same management roster as Like Marvel’s stable of superheroes, United Nations framework in the glaciers melted and oceans capacity to climate-related disasters Above all, climate risks must be online—picked the name Marshmello telling Shalizi as they cruised Marshmello. Chris is reluctant to his image is one onto which anyone convention on Climate Change expanded due to the warming of the in all countries. This means, confronted and dealt with in a timely in a nod to his music’s mellow feel. through Los Angeles. “I›m not just associate himself with the anywhere can project their hopes and Secretariat. In the same year, 10 planet. The Arctic sea’s ice has been ensuring that climate change manner. These changes must be long To this day, the DJ has never going to call him.” Shalizi stopped the Marshmello persona, even though we dreams—Shalizi says his biggest developing countries also submitted shrinking consistently since 1979, measures and protocols are term and systemic. publicly acknowledged any car. “I’m not going to go until you call know who he is, but he has no markets range from Brazil to their national plans for adaptation with a little over one km2 loss every integrated into all national policies, Governments have already spent biographical information. And when him,” the manager replied. problem publicly appearing as Singapore. Marshmello connects by and response to climate change. decade. strategies and planning. time creating national plans of action Marshmello made his musical debut, Marshmello relented—and found a Dotcom. nodding to local favourites, playing Developed countries also made a Considering current rates of To make climate action more to meet the 2030 agenda. These releasing a free download every few surprise on the other end of the line: His 2016 breakout hit, Alone, Bollywood theme songs at New Delhi commitment to jointly mobilize on-going emissions of greenhouse successful, countries must improve plans must be re-evaluated to days for three weeks via Soundcloud, Katie Couric, who happened to be racked up 1 billion views on gigs or posting Indonesian fried rice US$100 million annually for climate gases, projections show that it is education, awareness and human include the effects of COVID-19, and the mystery helped supercharge his interviewing Skrillex for Yahoo on YouTube; his first recipes on Cooking With Marshmello change mitigation actions. This has likely global temperature will exceed and institutional capacity on climate the lessons we have learned in the popularity. Electronic music fans on camera. (“It’s Chris,” she noted as the album, Joytime (2016), reached No. 5 for his Jakarta fans. been central to the Paris Accords, 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the change mitigation and adaptation. past year. Plans for economic growth Reddit became obsessed with caller ID flashed onscreen. “Oh, on the U.S. Dance charts. Major And, in theory, Marshmello is and is a symbol of trust amongst all century. This means that the oceans According to Goal 13, developed must include plans to be more discovering his identity, as did some Marshmello,” Skrillex replied). A labels came calling with multimillion- infinitely scalable. Imagine an army parties. will continue to grow warmer and the countries must implement the sustainable and resilient. The year of the genre’s superstars—like week later the video interview went dollar record deals, but Marshmello of confectionary clones fanning out According to the Intergovernmental ice will continue to melt. Since 1990, commitment made to the UN 2021 is where we start if we want to Skrillex, the earliest high-profile public—and Marshmello’s growing and Shalizi weren’t convinced that across the globe, paying Marshmello Panel on Climate Change, average global emissions of carbon dioxide framework convention on Climate save our planet. booster of his music. legion of fans got their first clue to his giving up their independence was a cut of their nightly fees. Just don’t global temperature increased by 0.85 have increased by almost 50 per Change to jointly mobilise US$100 Join us next week for a discussion “I need to know who Marshmello identity. worth it. “They wanted to sign us just bet on that last part happening. degrees Celsius from 1880 to 2012. cent. In the last two decades, million a year by 2020 to address the of Goal 14! is,” Shalizi remembers Skrillex Marshmello was un-marshmallow- to sign us,” says the DJ. 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