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BOCA RATON, FL / ACCESSWIRE / July 14, 2020 / StemSation International, Inc. (OTC PINK:STSN) - a pioneer in the emerging category of dietary supplements called Stem Cell Nutrition, announces strong industry trends should favorably impact its growth. https://www.newhope.com/market-data-and-analysis/analysts-take-online-supplement-sales-projected-double-between-2019-and

According to the Nutrition Business Journal, online dietary supplement sales are projected to grow from $5 billion in 2019 to over $10 billion in 2022. Sales in 2020 are projected to grow 61.4% as stay-at-home orders drive more people to e-commerce and many are then expected to remain loyal to this channel.

Ray Carter, StemSation's President and CEO commented, "it appears that current dynamics related to the pandemic are accelerating the positive trends towards dietary supplement purchasing. Our unique products are positioned to capture consumer attention and the efficacy of our formulations will keep them coming back for more". https://www.stemsation.global/www/en/us/products/category#categories=all

StemSation's all-natural products focus on supporting the two most recently discovered biological systems of the human body, the stem cell system of renewal and repair, and the endocannabinoid system of regulating physiological functions in both the central and peripheral nervous system and in peripheral organs. https://www.stemsation.global/www/en/us/about/

StemSation markets and sells its products online through its growing team of Independent Wellness Advocates in the United States and Europe, who each receive a StemSation replicated website in four languages and currencies. http://www.stemsation.global

StemSation is a company with a long-term health mission', ambitious research goals, and innovative, holistic approaches to health & wellness, and healthy longevity. Our product line shows a new pathway to wellness.

ABOUT STEMSATION INTERNATIONAL, INC.

StemSation International, Inc. (OTC PINK:STSN) develops, manufactures and distributes natural wellness products that support the stem cell and endocannabinoid systems in the human body through using a direct selling model in which Independent Wellness Advocates ("IWAs") advertise and sell its products directly to consumers. StemSation is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida and its website can be located at http://www.stemsation.global.

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Resuming play risky

"Skeptimiticissm."

Its a made-up term for the perception many people surely have of the potential return of professional sports. Or, more fittingly, how long they will last before shutting it all down for a second time due to COVID-19.

Rarely do medical degrees hang above the desks of sports journalists. Nor are crystal balls on the corner of scribes desks, any more than paperweights.

But it is a feeling of doubt that has crept over not the resumption of sports at pro levels, but the longevity before something goes badly.

Athletes are testing positive because, after all, they are human beings, too. And some are indicating that returning to work is not in their playbook at all and opting out.

For now, in the case of the National Hockey League, Edmonton and Toronto are hub centres for the West and East Conferences, respectively. Florida, of all places, is hosting the National Basketball Association. Major League Baseball? What a mess.

Confusing times? You know it.

As noted here a few weeks back, it is difficult to imagine athletes, whose bodies are their livelihood and paycheques, risking their careers for what could be interrupted restarts to seasons. Will champions even be determined for 2020?

Given the recklessness displayed daily in the United States, would it be any surprise if COVID-19 once again brings the sports world to its knees?

Branding for money

Since we're on the topic of branding, certain things really stand out when watching those vintage hockey games on Sportsnet.

You realize how the game has evolved over the decades, particularly in the goaltending and style of play, but also in the handful of penalties ignored each and every shift.

And its hard to remember there was once a two-line offside pass rule or touch icing.

Remarkably, even well into the 1980s, it is noticeable how few fans attended games decked out in team apparel.

Somebody, at some point, hit on a ka-ching idea that T-shirts, jerseys and caps would be popular sells. That realization turned on a tap that has since earned teams gazillions of revenue dollars.

John Cudmore is a longtime, award-winning reporter. His Cuddy Shark column appears regularly.

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On March 17, the coronavirus pandemic had just been declared a national emergency in the United States, and multidisciplinary artist Rachel Klinghoffer was taking stock of her new reality. Some of her rainbow-hued, alien-like sculptural work was on display in a solo exhibition at The Skirt, a site-specific installation space run by Ortega y Gasset Projects in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and Klinghoffer wasnt sure whether her show would be closed. I know Im going to have to pick up the work at some point, but I dont know if its going to be the date that we planned, Klinghoffer told Observer, adding that she also had multiple sales of her artwork in progress, and was uncertain about whether the transactions would still take place. On top of her professional concerns, Klinghoffer, who has asthma, was battling intense anxiety about her familys health and her own.

In normal times, the multiplicitous global dance that makes exhibiting art possible is fraught with innumerable complications and essential details that are generally left up to the industrys logistics experts to sort out: those in charge of the safekeeping and transport of works of art. In the midst of a deadly pandemic, fine art logistics experts found they suddenly didnt have the answers to the questions they were hearing from galleries, museums and artists like Klinghoffer: could work be deinstalled and returned, should work hanging in empty galleries be stored, could sold work be transported to its new owner? An industry was suddenly forced to throw out the playbook and make up new rules.

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Things came grinding to a halt essentially overnight. In February, amid fresh fear in response to the emergence of the virus that had already spread dangerously in China, Art Basel Hong Kong was called off. Galleries that had been planning to exhibit at the fair were offered a refund of 75 percent on their booth fees, which can often amount to $125,000 for large spaces, but the abruptness of the cancellation still sent art transporters into a tailspin. The New York Times reported that two shipping containers carrying artwork being offered by five different dealers were still at sea and en route to Hong Kong when the fair was cancelled, forcing the galleries to pay around $15,000 to get their art shipped back.

At the initial shock wore off and the virus continued to spread globally, museums began to close, while staffers threw all their energy into putting together digital content. Auction houses postponed or cancelled their live events and started hosting new rosters of digital sales. Galleries closed up shop and began launching online exhibitions. In the midst of all this, the question of what would happen to artwork itself had yet to be fully answered.

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Atelier 4, a North American fine art shipping and logistics company headquartered in New York City, told Observer that before the pandemic hit, We were a company that spread its services between domestic transport, climate storage, custom casework and international forwarding. After the March 22 shutdown, we became a storage company. In-process shipments were called off, ongoing transactions were suspended and panicked European dealers called in last-minute favors in the hopes of satisfying skittish yet demanding clients.

In a moment when only the shipment of certain commodities was considered to be essential, fine art handlers were operating in a grey area; not entirely certain about how to move forward and questioning whether they even should. Schwartz described an incident wherein an overseas client demanded that a work being held in a New York Atelier 4 facility be shipped to them after the states March 22nd PAUSE shutdown took effect, which the company refused to do. However, around the same time,the company went ahead with shipping a work of art from one of their storage facilities in Florida to a client in Switzerland because COVID-19 laws and restrictions differed from state to state, and continue to do so.

Professional art shippers have also had to rush to come up with new social distancing and customer-interaction protocols for their employees and clients. At Atelier 4, customers are now asked to place items in a single pre-designated location where distancing protocols can be maintained when shippers arrive to pick them up. But the extreme variety of materials used in different artworks introduces a host of new questions for every job. How long does the virus last on alloy? What about marble? Should wooden crates be wiped down with something alcohol-based? What about cardboard containers? And so on.

Additionally, its become essential for art shipping businesses to ensure that their various facilities are safe to navigate, and these types of necessary undertakings can get very expensive. We spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to secure masks and sanitizers, Paul Cannon, the Managing Director at Gander & White Shipping Incorporated, told Observer. Theyre a bit more readily available now, but there was one point where I came into the office every day just trying to source all that. It was really difficult. In preparation for the art market to reopen somewhat, Gander & White, which has American locations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach and San Francisco, has been preparing a handful of viewing rooms for galleries or private clients who may want to make use of them.

Each location is following either state mandate or government mandated guidelines, Cannon said. Visitors whore coming for a view will have to complete a form with various obvious questions. Have you had any COVID-19 symptoms? Have you been around anybody whos had symptoms? Have you travelled abroad? Were all wearing masks, weve got hand sanitizing stations and wipes in each viewing room. Weve got all types of new gadgets to try to keep people safe.

For employees and management, maintaining the cleanliness of art storage facilities is just as essential as ensuring that client-facing spaces are safe to navigate. Anything in your warehouse thats a fixture like a light switch or doorknob is being disinfected regularly, Schwartz said. At the interior loading dock, we treat everything like its contaminated and focus on wiping down everything. Every time we address a task, when the task is over, we disinfect ourselves. We dont relax until were in a designated safe zone.

Of course, long before these new precautions were put in place, many institutions in the art world found it necessary to lay off or furlough huge swaths of staffers. When the pandemic first hit, we furloughed the majority of our staff, which enabled us to continue paying their benefits which was really important for us, Cannon said. In the last four to five weeks weve been bringing staff back, and I think were probably at around 90 percent at the moment, and the layoffs were less than 5 percent or so. According to Schwartz, Atelier 4 initially furloughed 75 percent of the company, or 65 employees, but has since brought half of them back. In and of itself, the return process can be extremely fraught for furloughed fine art shippers.

With Paul Cannons employees, its a spectrum from Im so glad to be back at work, to Im not leaving my house, I cant come back, Cannon said, and you get everything in between. But what I find is that once theyre back in the environment for at least a week, they are genuinely beginning to relax and seeing that the world is still continuing. I think they see that management is trying to take them extremely seriously because were people too, with families who need that kind of reassurance.

Although art shipping employees are now tentatively coming back to work, theres much thats still unclear about how global art transportation will sustainably function going forward. The pandemic has severely reduced the amount of flights being made by commercial and cargo airplanes, meaning that international shipment rates have become much more expensive. Similarly, social distancing protocols have necessitated that shipment businesses incur the cost of additional vehicular ground transport. Before, there might be three people on a truck; we cant send three out now, Cannon said. Two will go on the truck, and then well get a van or a car for the third person to meet them.

For another example, traditionally, museums loaning out fine art for exhibitions will insist on the supervision of a courier, or a person who stays with a work of art through every step of its transport from point A to point B. Because of the degree to which the pandemic has made person-to-person interaction more dangerous, members of the fine art shipping community have begun exploring the possibility of using virtual couriers (an apparatus that could track the location and status of a work of art) so that art could potentially be moved largely without human intervention. The sudden absence of art fairs is also a huge concern in the shipping industry: without those events, the volume of work simply wont be there at the capacity it had been.

The one fact that everyone seems to agree upon is that no matter what happens, art collectors will continue to want to purchase art. Knowing this, the challenge for the art shipment industry becomes adjusting to the new needs of their customers. Weve seen, for example, Sothebys and the other galleries open up pop-up shops in the Hamptons, because thats where a lot of the New York wealthy have disappeared to, Cannon said. How do we keep up with that? What new services can we come up with to serve galleries and clients and auction houses?

In the foreground of all this uncertainty is the fact that the United States is being hit harder by COVID-19 than any other country in the world. Due to a toxic combination of a woefully insufficient federal response and the corrosive effects of American individualism, its highly likely that infection rates will continue to spike and fluctuate all across the country until a vaccine is developed. In the midst of a crisis thats very much still unfolding, art world professionals from every corner of the industry are taking things day by day, and counting their small victories.

During the last week of June, which she described as a very intense art moving week, the artist Rachel Klinghoffer finally began to feel optimistic. I literally have just acquired back most of my work, and most of one other show that I was in that opened but no one ever physically got in there; theres just images of it, Klinghoffer said. That show is coming back, theyre bringing it back up at the end of August. Even better, the sales that Klinghoffer had been uncertain about in March ultimately went though.

It makes me feel hopeful that there are collectors buying and supporting artists out there, said Klinghoffer, who added that shes discovered renewed liberation in her artistic practice. Ive reached a whole other level of appreciation, enjoyment and longevity in a different type of way that Id never even thought about before. I dont want to be doing anything the same way; everythings completely reevaluated. The disparities in this world are too great not to recognize that if you are human.

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Lifelong Great Neck resident here, one among many who was disappointed to read yesterdays editorial essentially defending your publication of the nonsense (your words) and salacious (my words) opinion piece by Joan Swirsky. Where does one begin?

While I sympathize with your point about not having the resources to properly fact-checkknowing how under-funded and under-staffed media, especially local ones, are these daysI simply have to question your editorial judgment. What part of Ms. Swirksys piece did you think was fit to print? Was it her disparagement of public education, in the newspaper of a town that prides itself on having one of the top public school systems in the country? Or was it the tantalizing title that drew you in, obvious clickbait that would bring more readers to your site? Anyone in any editorial position would take one look at that title alone and surmise that its only purpose was to stir division.

Dont know what camp you fall into but in my book, racial justiceand quite frankly, all areas of human rightsisnotand should not be a partisan issue. If these last six weeks have revealed anything, it is that everyone, regardless of their background or political affiliation, is responsible for both the longevity and thus the dismantling of the corrosive systems that divide us; anything less, neutral, or to the contrary reinforces those power structures that doomed this nation from the start. Running a well-argued piece about how Republican policies may help Black Americans? I may be intrigued! Running a piece that leans on overt racist stereotypes about Black Americans to further a conservative agenda? Part of the problem.

To that point, Id also like to call your attention to the piece of this editorial that identified Ms. Swirskys piece as at least not explicitly racist. This is, first, categorically untrue, apropos the aforementioned reliance on racial stereotypes (e.g., the welfare queen). But it also makes me wonder: What do you consider to be explicit racism? Is implicit racism alright with you, and does it fit with the ideals of the publication you run? Are you unaware of the lasting psychological harmthat racial stereotypes and microaggressions can leave on Black Americans and other Americans of color? What is less harmful about allowing a white resident to wield inane stereotypes about Blackness to bolster her claim to know anything about the plight of Black Americans compared to our Embarrassment of a President retweeting a video of white supremacists chanting All Lives Matter? Did you ever once consider how somealready-alienatedBlack residents of Great Neck might feel reading a piece like Ms. Swirskys? These arent rhetorical questions, I am genuinely curious to know.

But the most confusion piece of your editorial came in the concluding paragraphs:

Perhaps after the construction of Confederate statutes, the naming of military bases after traitors who attacked the United States government to protect slavery and decades of race-baiting politicians a letter in our papers would make a difference in the promotion of racism. But we dont think censoring bad ideas serves democracy best.

It is lost on me why you would think to compare journalism to the erection of Confederatestatues(which, by the way, is the correct term for a constructed monument;statutesrefer to written laws passed by a legislative body). Im actually not even sure what you are trying to say here, given the general lack of coherence, but I have read this in two ways. Either one, you have only now just begun to consider the possibility that giving voice to hateful ideas (and poorly argued ones at that) in your publication continues our countrys long and painful tradition of glorifying racist people and power structures. This would make your publication of pieces like Ms. Swirskys, at best, a pitiful lapse in editorial judgment.

But I cannot help but read this tone as being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, a confession that you do not believe the contents of your own paper make a difference. It is baffling that a newspaper editor would undermine the efficacy of its own publication in an editorial that, on the whole, makes a claim for the protection of the First Amendment right to free speech of all kinds, an amendment that allows publications like this one to exist. By this interpretation, your statement makes it painfully clear how you allowed such an egregiously offensive piece to run: Even you do not think the contents of your own newspaper matter.

Most of all, I am struggling to understand the logic behind your argument that in order to defend democracy, we must make space for ideas and thoughts that are not only antithetical to that ideal, but that directly undermine it. I love words; I believe in words. But I also believe the word democracy has become somewhat empty: yes, an ideal on which this country was founded, but one that has become abstracted to absurdity by conservatives and members of the far-right, under the guise of upholding systems under which democracy has failed.

It is not that I think democracy as an idealone that advocates for liberty and justice for allis a pipe dream; it is just that, as it stands now, it is still just an ideal, a distant hope that has yet to be realized. Remember that when our founding fathers founded this government as a democracy, its definition was limited to white men of property; still today, it is a word behind which our leadersgenerally similarly privileged cisgender heterosexual white menhave hidden in order to stall progress. And while people like Ms. Swirsky may believe we have achieved equality, everything from the last six weekshell, the last four yearshas proven otherwise. So please forgive me if I think wielding democracy as a defense in support of your failures on the job a weak debate tactic.

Simple request: the next time you think of publishing a navel-gazing piece about the purpose of journalism todefend your inability to properly do your job, please just do your job instead.

Nicole Biton

Great Neck

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An eGaming stadium and a post-pandemic housing typology for Singapore's migrant workers are among the student projects from the National University of Singaporespotlighted in this VDF school show.

Under the title Vision 2020, NUS is exhibiting 12 thesis works from this year's Master of Architecture graduates, which "provoke, inspire and question" where the industry is headed.

The projects fall into five broad themes, which crystallised themselves as the most pressing for students Atmosphere and Agency, Conservation and Heritage, Urban Commons and Wellness, Speculative Environments and Performative Design.

The remaining projects from the class of 2020 are also being showcased as part of NUS's virtual MArch Grad Show.

University: National University of SingaporeCourse: Masters of ArchitectureVirtual Exhibition: nusmarchgradshow.comInstagram: @nusm.archgradshow

Course statement:

"The NUS Architecture school positions itself as a design and research think-tank, tackling topics such as the environment and climate change, economic and cultural changes as well as technological advancement through the lens of architecture andurban development.

"Students explore design research through mixed modes of inquiry across a core set of speciality areas history and theory criticism, design technologies, urbanism and landscape studies. Design is pursued through multiple avenues by students and supervisors across a wide range of topics.

"As the NUS masters programme has evolved over the decades, these aspirations have forged an investigative approach that utilises architecture as an agent of change. They culminate in a collection of questions on nature the dichotomy between the collective and the individual and the conflict between human habitation and natural ecology in light of climate change.

"This small sampling of work links to a wider collection of critical design investigations in architecture by the graduating class of 2020 at NUS."

City as Ecosystems, Architecture as Scaffold by Candice ChenProject cluster: Urban Commons and Wellness

"Cities are often perceived as harsh, man-made environments that are antithetical to nature and her abundant biodiversity. This thesis aims to challenge this preconception and show how cities can be amendable to natural ecosystems.

"City as Ecosystem, Architecture as Scaffold advances a new paradigm for homeostatic living in the future, urban neighbourhoods of Singapore. Here, architecture acts as a scaffolding for sustaining natural ecosystems through biophilic design while fostering a sense of stewardship within the community to achieve social and urban resilience towards climate change."

Site:Greater Southern Waterfront, SingaporeThesis supervisor:Fung John ChyeProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/chentingyancandice

Project Metamorphosis by Fawwaz AzharProject cluster: Urban Commons and Wellness

"The resilience of the neighbourhoods that house our multicultural community will be affected when climate change alters our environment and when the technology of the fourth industrial revolution disrupts the way we work, live and play. While we are on the verge of the fourth revolution of cyber-physical systems, climate change also threatens our way of life here in Singapore.

"High-tech infrastructure advancements and climate change interventions have paved the way for a sustainable, future-ready typology for coastal city neighbourhoods. Called Project Metamorphosis, it thrives on a mobile and connected lifestyle."

Site:Tanjong Pagar Port, SingaporeThesis supervisor: Fung John ChyeWebsite: wazworks.net

Championing Fukushima by William Tin Wai LeungProject cluster: Urban Commons and Wellness

"The fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 still haunts and affects locals until this day. The daily lives of victims continue to be disrupted, as many lost their homes, jobs, communities.

"This proposal uses the event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as an opportunity to rejuvenate the affected towns and addresses the lingering stigma surrounding the nuclear fallout. This is achieved by empowering the remaining residents in Hirono-cho and inspiring the evacuees to return to their former lives."

Site:Hirono-cho, Fukushima Prefecture, JapanThesis supervisor: Dr Zhang YeProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/williamtinwaileung

Play! A Guide to Architecture for Resilience by Tan Xin YuanProject cluster: Speculative Environments

"This thesis posits that housing landscapes, as a spatial and physical construct, play a pivotal role in shaping the core identity of Singapore's residents. It also calls on the state's Housing & Development Board (HDB) to fulfil its role of shaping a resilient future generation.

"This project distils the sense of identity and the memories that can be created in everyday neighbourhoods and acts as a vehicle that is reactionary to the longevity and permanence of one's psychoanalytic id. Ultimately, Play! is a guide to creating a housing typology that builds meaningful identities based on permanent qualities and values beyond the traditional pedagogy of what a school can teach."

Site:Tanglin Halt, SingaporeThesis supervisor:Tiah Nan ChyuanWebsite: xinyuantan.com

Totem: An Evolution of Spectatorship and Play by Glenn LohProject cluster: Speculative Environments

"Set in New York City, Totem represents a new standard for gaming spaces. The project proposes an 'urban event' that draws on the escapism that can be achieved through the act of play.

"This novel, large-scale stadium typology serves as a point of convergence for difference industry agents creators, publishers, gamers and spectators in a celebration of the making, playing, watching and living of games. With its distinct focus on screen and projection technology, this new hub illuminates the way forward in our increasingly digitised society."

Site:New York CityThesis supervisor: Dr Joseph LimProject cluster: Speculative EnvironmentsProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/glennloh

Frontlines (Backalleyways) by Khoo Hui En VanessaProject cluster: Speculative Environments

"The Covid-19 pandemic has brought attention to the vulnerability of migrant workers in Singapore and their relegation to the city's margins.

"Through adapting Walter Segal's self build approach to construction, this new tenancy scheme aims to provide them with a comfortable ratio of private living quarters to shared common spaces. This new township typology forms a hierarchy of shared common spaces with varying levels of flexibility in layout and configuration, in order to return spatial autonomy to the migrant tenants and build social capital among them."

Site:Lor 13/15 GeylangThesis supervisor: Dr. Swinal SamantProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/vanessakhoo

Weaving the Complex by Wang ChangrenProject cluster: Performative Design

"BaishiZhou, the largest urban village in China, is facing demolition. The village has witnessed drastic urbanisation and serves as a low-cost housing enclave for migrant workers. This proposal aims to find an alternative to the current tabula rasa, or blank slate, planning mode while activating the area's commercial potential.

"First, an evolutionary algorithm is used to establish iterative, simulation-driven methodologies for bottom-up urban regeneration strategies. A palimpsest was cleared out for further design before choosing an urban fabric as a testbed for further, detailed design adaptations, which could eventually be implemented across the whole urban village."

Site:Bai Shi Zhou, ChinaThesis supervisor: Dr. Rudi StuoffsProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/wangchangren

Return of the Amphibious by Gary KwekProject cluster: Conservation and Heritage

" (yu) not only describes a terrain that disappears at high tide and temporarily emerges at low tide but also the cultural activities and spiritual fascination that humans have projected onto this phenomenon of impermanence. The Malay Archipelago contains many of these small, fragmented islets, but their 'amphibious' quality as an island has been lost through the reclamation and gentrification that accompanied the arrival of western modernity."This architectural intervention takes the form of a neo-vernacular village, where people can continue to define what constitutes 'vernacular' and reconnect with the amphibious identity that was a crucial part of our ancestors."

Site:Southern Islands, SingaporeThesis supervisor: Dr. Johannes WidodoProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/garykwek

The Sanctuary by Joanne Tiaw Zuo EngProject cluster: Conservation and Heritage

"Kuantan is highly regarded as one of Malaysia's most significant, biodiverse coastal areas. And yet it is also one of its most contaminated. Over the last decade of industrial occupation, the topography of this fragile environment has radically transformed. Kuantan Port, shipyards and water-bound infrastructure now define a highly modified and dilapidated shoreline.

"The ongoing conflict between people power and state-backed corporate power has shed a light on the world's largest rare earth extraction plant Lynas. Tapping into an established tourism platform, this thesis rethinks the rehabilitation of post-industrial ecology through the means of eco-tourism."

Project site: Gebeng Industrial Estate, Kuantan, MalaysiaThesis supervisor: Ho Weng HinProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/joannetiawzuoeng

Breeding Resilience: Thriving in Orange Air by Viany SustinaProject cluster: Atmosphere and Agency

"The project explores the process of oxygen production through a symbiotic relationship between humans and a kind of microalgae called Chlorella vulgaris. This idea is then translated into a form that aligns with the cultural and human context of the indigenous peoples of Kalimantan, Indonesia, who are plagued by raging fires and pungent haze.

"The thesis explores the site's mechanical and aesthetic opportunities, using village engineering and adhocism as a construction logic. It also maximises the silhouetted visuals created through the haze as an emerging aesthetic of resilience and adaptation, allowing them to thrive in their very own way."

Site:Desa Gohong (Central Kalimantan, Indonesia)Thesis supervisor: Tsuto SakamotoProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/vianysutisna

: An Architecture of Immensity by Goh Teck Kuang CliffordProject cluster: Atmosphere and Agency

" speculates about the changing role of cultural institutions in today's increasingly flattened, mediated network society. Through a study of works by esteemed Chinese artists, this thesis argues that Chinese art and cultural products are defined by the common characteristic of 'immensity' of large-scale productions that span across time and space.

"Referencing the Koolhasian notion of Bigness, this thesis speculates how cultural spaces may change in the near future to accommodate novel cultural formats. It proposes a series of underground and street-level spaces along Middle Road as part of a speculative expansion of the China Cultural Centre, Singapore."

Site:Middle Road, SingaporeThesis supervisor: Bobby WongProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/cliffordgoh

The Ethereal City of Pink by Ian MunProject cluster: Atmosphere and Agency

"The Ethereal City revives native Botswanan myths, fables and folklore in its practices. It capitalises on the natural shades of pink that can be found in the Sua Salt Pans, so that these ecological constructs become embedded into an architectural narrative and experience.

"In opposition to the effects of mass industrialisation, this thesis imagines an architecture, a landscape and a culture that is both constructed and organic. Pink is a shorthand for Botswanan identity and its architecture speaks of deference, independence, return and renewal."

Site: Sua Salt Pans, Sowa District, Botswana, AfricaThesis supervisor: Dr. Lilian CheeTeaching assistant: Wong ZihaoProject showcase: nusmarchgradshow.com/ianmun

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Every manufacturing line up ends with packaging line followed by labelling. As the manufacturing process are being automated the packaging line have also evolved from manual one to sophisticated fully automated packaging systems that requires minimum human interference. This is where advanced packaging technologies, systems and solutions providers offers their products and services. The products include the material handling, aliquoting and disposals in the containers with strict monitoring through computer-controlled systems. The technologies used has been further extended towards increasing the shelf life of the products packed that modifies the atmosphere and put right ingredients in the neck space that enhances the longevity and hence extends the best before date. These systems are highly used in the FMCG and packaged food sector where the mass consumer products are produced.

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Rising household incomes and the growing middle-class population have led to an increase in demand for packaged food products, which is increasing the demand for packaging technologies and equipment in this region. This is an emerging market, and hence provides opportunities for the growth of the food packaging technology and equipment market.

High cost of these technologies limits the uses in the packaged products whose selling prices are low especially in the food products. In many cases the cost of packaging eats away the profit margins and the cost cant be easily transferred to the retail prices when the end market is highly competitive. The opportunities lies in development of the low cost technology that embraces the advanced technologies through R&D.

On the basis of Technology, the market is segmented as Active Packaging (Active Packaging Systems: Oxygen Scavengers, Moisture Scavengers/Absorbers, Ethylene Absorbers; Active Releasing Systems: Antioxidant Releasers, Carbon Dioxide Emitters; Modified Atmosphere Packaging; Temperature Control Packaging; Anti-Corrosion Films and Smart and Intelligent Packaging which includes TTI Tags & Labels, Freshness Indicators, Oxygen and CO2 Indicators, RFID and Others

On the basis of end use, the advanced packaging technologies market is segmented into Food, Beverages, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial & Chemicals, Cosmetics & Personal Care, Agriculture, and Others. Food segment in the advanced packaging technologies market is further sub-segmented into Meat, Poultry, and Seafood, Fruits & Vegetables, Ready-to-Eat Meals, Dairy Foods, Bakery & Confectionary, Frozen Foods, and Cereals.

The global demand for advanced packaging technologies is largely fulfilled by the manufacturers present in major countries of Europe and North America regions. Here the higher disposable income covers the high cost of the products packaged with these advanced packaging technologies. The largest segment where it is used in the RTE segment and dairy as the shelf life of these products are very short.

Some of the key players in the global advanced packaging technologies market are PakSense, Inc, Landec Corporation, Sealed Air Corporation, Bemis Company, Inc, Crown Holdings, Inc., Amcor Limited, 3M Company, Timestrip UK Ltd., Cryolog S.A., Vitsab International AB, Varcode, Ltd., LCR Hallcrest LLC.:, Thin Film Electronics ASA, CCL Industries Inc., Temptime Corporation, Multisorb Technologies, Inc., Coveris Holdings S.A., and others.

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Global Precision Medicine Software Market presents insights into the present and upcoming industry trends, enabling the readers to identify the products and services, hence driving the enlargement and effectiveness. The research report provides a comprehensive breakdown of all the major factors impacting the market on a global and regional scale, including drivers, constraints, intimidation, challenges, opportunities, and industry-specific trends. Further, the report cites global certainties and endorsements along with downstream and upstream analysis of leading players.

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Abbott Laboratories(US)Syapse, Inc. (US)Roper Technologies(US)Sunquest Information Systems Inc. (US)Pfizer, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc.(US)N-of-One, Inc. (US)NantHealth, Inc. (US)LifeOmic Health, LLC (US)Fabric Genomics (US)Allscripts(US)GlaxoSmithKline plc(UK)Gene42, Inc. (Canada)Foundation Medicine, Inc. (US)Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Netherlands)PierianDx, Inc. (US)Translational Software, Inc. (US)Flatiron Health, Inc. (US)IBM Watson Group (US)Sanofi S.A.(France)Tempus Labs, Inc. (US)AstraZeneca plc(US)2bPrecise LLC (Israel)Qiagen(Germany)SOPHiA GENETICS SA (Switzerland)Human Longevity, Inc. (US)

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Chapter 1: Precision Medicine Software Market Overview, Drivers, Restraints and Opportunities

Chapter 2: Precision Medicine Software Market Competition by Manufacturers

Chapter 3: Precision Medicine Software Production by Regions

Chapter 4: Production, By Types, Market share by Types

Chapter 5: Consumption, By Applications

Chapter 6: Comprehensive profiling and analysis of Manufacturers

Chapter 7: Manufacturing cost analysis

Chapter 8: Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers

Chapter 9: Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders

Chapter 10: Precision Medicine Software Market Effect Factors Analysis

Chapter 11: Precision Medicine Software Market Forecast

Chapter 12: Conclusion of Precision Medicine Software Market

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Czechia and Slovakia have a long history of leadership in the automotive industry. The two countries make up a significant bedrock of the European industry as a whole, and are the 15th and 19th largest producers of vehicles in the world. Per capita, only Germany, Spain and France make more cars in Europe.

The two countries have much to offer. Strategic locations, seamless integration with European markets, a skilled labour force, political stability and highly developed supply systems all mean that both Czechia and Slovakia are well placed for automotive success.

But are they now about to fall victim to that success, with car sales plummeting around the world, not least in Europe?

Cars and spare parts make up a massive 20 per cent of Czech exports. Its flagship brand, koda Auto, is one of the oldest automobile makers in the world. In Slovakia, the industry is even more significant for the economy, accounting for 30 per cent of exports. It is clear that maintaining a healthy automotive industry is vital to the health of the economies in both countries.

The automotive industry has been facing significant challenges for some time, as public perceptions of mobility change. Covid-19 has brought these challenges into far sharper focus, while also bringing the market to a halt.

According to Jn Pribula, the secretary general of the automotive industry association in Slovakia, this is only exasperated by a disparity between the current economic situation and EU outdated legislation. Due to the pandemic, climate targets cannot be met, and the testing and marketing of new technology cannot take place as rapidly as originally planned. More specifically, the EUs policy of demanding emissions reductions creates unrealistic expectations for an industry that is now struggling.

Such an approach by the European Commission could result in large fines for vehicle manufacturers, further cutbacks in production, and even the scrapping of already vehicles which have already some off the production lines, he says.

Vojtch Severn, a spokesperson for the automotive industry in Czechia, believes that state and EU support will be required to help the industry through this difficult period.

At the moment, all companies can do is reduce investment, cut costs and do the best they can to keep their employees on board, he tells Emerging Europe.

Due to the multiplicity of the automotive industry, the downturn in production expected this year to be around 20 per cent in Czechia and 30 per cent in Slovakia has a multiplier effect on the broader economy. Upstream businesses such as steel, chemicals and textiles, as well as downstream industries such as ICT, repair and mobility services all feel the impact of stunted demand and market paralysis, making the need for support even more crucial.

As with so many industries, automotive is only expected to return to pre-crisis levels in the second half of 2021. Full recovery could even come as late as 2022. And while the Czech and Slovak governments have both introduced emergency legislation to prevent unemployment, this might not be enough in the long term.

In this sense, government cooperation and communication are crucial to ensuring appropriate support that is effectively tailored to the needs of the industry. And yet while EU leaders are currently fighting over the terms of the blocs Covid-19 recovery fund, delaying its implementation, this support cannot come soon enough.

However, both the Czech and Slovak auto sectors have proven to be highly adaptable, and it is this adaptability that may save them from the worst effects of the downturn. Both countries have been at the forefront of the recent shift towards electrification and automated technology.

Kia, one of Slovakias largest automotive producers, has announced a strategy to transition to electric vehicles and aims to produce one million environmentally-friendly vehicles by 2026, company spokesperson Jan Zgravcak tells Emerging Europe.

koda meanwhile has similar plans for electromobility, autonomous driving and digitalisation.

Automation is part of an ongoing process of improving efficiency, productivity, and eliminating the human factor either from operations hazardous to health or operations where human error could cause serious shortcomings of the product, Mr Pribula tells Emerging Europe.

Inherently, this shift towards automation also means a shift in labour usage, although Mr Pribula ascertains that, this is not reflected in a reduction of employees but in their qualification structure.

Czechia has seen an increased demand for highly qualified IT workers, suggesting that the hardest hit will be the least skilled. One of our common goals, together with the government, is creating re-skilling or up-skilling programmes for the re-qualification of people and changing the approach to education, says Mr Severn.

Despite these efforts, the industry is not likely to be spared job losses. Last year 3,000 workers were laid off at a plant in Slovakia that produces Volkswagens Touareg and Porsches Cayenne models, sending shockwaves through the industry. Covid-19 has left workers even more vulnerable.

A recent increase in research and development investment within the industry does offer hope for the future, however. In Czechia, last year saw research and development account for almost one third of industry investment, totaling 500 million euros. Yet while this is key to the industrys longevity, it does not help to mitigate the major shifts that will be felt among the most unskilled in the aftermath of Covid-19. Ensuring a continuation of government co-operation will be key to managing the current crisis, where these impacts on the labour market will be magnified.

As Mr Pribula explains, economic measures taken to help firms in Slovakia during the crisis were complicated, and at the beginning not suited for the support of large companies. Yet through initiative and communication,greater transparency was achieved, but only after a change in government at the end of March.

Communication with the government is currently intensive and we are helping to prepare legislative standards which will systemically address the measures that can be activated at times of economic imbalance, says Mr Pribula.

Similarly, Mr Severn says that, our cooperation with the Czech government is proper. In 2017 we signed the Memorandum on the Future of the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic and together we are gradually implementing the action plan for clean mobility.

However, some of this cooperation is falling short of expectations, particularly in regards to preparation for autonomous driving. We would also welcome faster construction of a suitable infrastructure for clean mobility and other operational and administrative changes that would facilitate the implementation of clean mobility in the Czech Republic.

He adds that the pandemic has somewhat reduced the urgency of these issues, but that they nevertheless remain at the core of the industry, and are inextricably linked with how the sector progresses as a whole.

Whats certain is that the automotive industrys proven adaptability is about to be put to the ultimate test. It is vital to health of both the Czech and Slovak economies that it passes.

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Earlier this month, Morgan Stanleys chief executive officer James Gorman shared a planon LinkedInto improve diversity at the bank.It included promotions for certain Black employees, the creation of an Institute of Inclusion and a $5 million donation to the NAACP.

On Tuesday, less than two weeks later, the firms former diversity head, Marilyn Booker, filed a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley alleging racial discrimination. The suit was filed on behalf of herself and her former Black female colleagues in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York.

Booker is suing Morgan Stanley, her former supervisor Barry Krouk, and Gorman for alleged discrimination and retaliation in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, alleged discrimination and retaliation in violation of the New York State Human Rights Law, and alleged violations of both the Equal Pay Act and the New York Equal Pay Law. Booker has also filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint, according to her lawsuit.

We strongly reject the allegations made in this claim and intend to vigorously defend ourselves in the appropriate forum, a Morgan Stanley spokesperson said. We are steadfast in our commitment to improve the diversity of our employees and have made steady progress while recognizing that we have further progress to make. We will continue to advance our high priority efforts to achieve a more diverse and inclusive firm.

Booker, who was fired from the firm in December, had worked at Morgan Stanley for 26 years, according to her complaint.

She spent about 16 years as the firms global head of diversity before allegedly being shuffled around through different departments. In 2010, she was moved to the office of development, which was eliminated in 2011. That year, she was selected to lead the firms urban markets group, overseeing minority financial advisors.

Booker alleged in the lawsuit that her salary was essentially held flat in that role as the firm slashed its budget for the program year after year.

According to Bookers complaint, she tried to create a plan to internally address the firms racial biases in 2019. Her plan, called Project Genesis was created with the goal of addressing Morgan Stanleys Black employees constant feelings of isolation and lack of support.

This included addressing their alleged inability to join financial advisory teams and barriers to partnering with white financial advisors on new business opportunities, including unfair commission splits and exclusion from new client meetings. According to the lawsuit, less than one percent of the firms financial advisors are Black.

Krouk, her supervisor, allegedly helped Booker identify analysts and executives who could help Booker on the project last year.

However, Krouk allegedly later told Booker not to tell her colleagues about the project, and allegedly stalled when she asked to present the project to senior management.

A meeting Booker allegedly expected to cover the project was scheduled in December 2019. During it, though, Booker was fired from the firm, the complaint said.

Despite her longevity, loyalty and stellar performance record, Morgan Stanley offered no explanation for her expulsion other than to vaguely say that her position which is one that primarily helps Black people and people of color gain financial literacy and acumen had to be eliminated, the lawsuit said.

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Gormans plan to improve diversity at the firm, shared on June 4, includes the creation of a similar initiative: the Institute of Inclusion. This group will set up policies and metrics to track diversity and will oversee mentoring, development, and promotion of the firms diverse employees. The announcement said that Morgan Stanley will set aside $25 million for the initiative.

This is the second discrimination lawsuit filed against Morgan Stanley this year. In late April, a female former financial advisor at the firm alleged in a lawsuit that she missed out on pay and was harassed by co-workers because she is a woman,Institutional Investorssister publicationRIA Intelreported at the time.

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Wine has always been one of our planets great social connectors, as well as a symbol of generosity, pleasure, and celebration.

This spring, however, while the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us how important human connection is, and the global Black Lives Matter protests have shown how far we have to go in creating a more equitable society, theres renewed energy toward making the wine world more inclusive.

Although there are more than 8,000 wineries in the United States, about one-tenth of 1% of the winemakers and brand owners are Black, estimates Phil Long, president of the Association of African-American Vintners and owner of the Longevity winery in the California Bay Areas Livermore Valley.

Which is why, Long says, the real goal of our organization is promoting awareness letting people know we exist, and we make great wine.

Its true. Many of the wines are absolutely delicious, and range from big, bold reds with savory flavors to refreshing whites, as well as unusual, experimental sparkling wines made from hybrid grapes.

I didnt know winemaking was a career choice, says Long, who has a degree in architecture and spent years as a creative director in the Bay Area. For Italian-Americans, wine is part of their culture and heritage. Most Black winemakers dont have that.

Getting attention hasnt been so easy. The only Black-owned labels that most people are aware of are celebrity brands such as singer-songwriter John Legends LVE collection, made by Napas Raymond Winery, and NBA star Dwyane Wades D. Wade Cellars, made by Napas Pahlmeyer.

Theodora Lee, owner of Theopolis winery in Mendocino, California, is starting to see some change, though. While acknowledging that the injustices and killings of Black men by the police is driving the Black Lives Matter protests, Lee says the movement has helped spotlight Black wines, causing a surge in sales.

Lee, a shareholder, partner, and trial lawyer at Littler Mendelson, says sales have doubled from January to June, and shes signed up many more wine club numbers.

Lee grew up in Texas as the daughter of educators. She learned to love wine via visits to law firm mentors in Napa, California, and thought: I could be a grape farmer and still keep my job. She took viticulture courses at University of California at Davis, hired soil experts to help her decide what grapes to plant, and ended up with five acres of petite sirah in Mendocino County. In 2006, she sold her first harvest and six years later started bottling her own wine.

COVID-19, she says, has encouraged direct-to-consumer sales, which has also helped support Black business owners. Shed like to see bigger wineries partner with Black wineries to help them with distribution.

Thats what happened to the AAVs Long, who launched a national distribution deal with giant Bronco Wine Co. for his two entry-level wines just before the coronavirus hit. After the Black Lives Matter protests, he saw more online sales in the first two weeks of June than in all of 2019. The question, he says, is how we keep that going.

In South Africa, the path to becoming a Black winemaker hasnt been easy either, despite empowerment efforts. The country now has about 60 Black-owned brands, according to Wines of South Africa. Ten are imported into the U.S.

Ntsiki Byela, the countrys first Black female winemaker, says, Wine is not part of our history. A collaboration with Napas Helen Keplinger, set up by Mika Bulmash of U.S. importer Wine for the World, gave her the funds to start her own winery, Aslina.

Its great that people are publishing lists of Black winemakers, says Krista Scruggs, owner of Zafa Wines, based in Burlington, Vermont. But we need to go way beyond that. She is pushing boundaries by making cider and wine blends and using hybrid grapes to make natural sparkling wines.

Julia Coney, a Black wine and travel writer in Washington, explains, One of the problems is that most wine is not marketed to people who look like us. We have to change the perception of what a wine drinker looks like.

Coney just launched Black Wine Professionals to help address the diversity problem in the wine industry. Meanwhile, AAAV sponsors scholarships to encourage others to work in wine and nonprofit organization Wine Empowered is offering tuition-free wine classes to women and minorities in the hospitality industry.

All are worth supporting but hey, dont miss out on the wines. Here are nine to look out for.

2018 Maison Noir OPP (Other Peoples Pinot)

Andre Hueston Mack, a former sommelier at New Yorks Per Se restaurant, is owner and winemaker at this McMinnville, Oregon winery. Think of this bright, juicy wine as an everyday pinot. $17

2019 La Fete du Ros

The first Black-owned ros brand from Saint-Tropez was released last fall by Donae Burston. Its soft textured and fruity, with bright cherryish flavors. $2 from every bottle sold via the website goes to racial justice organization Color of Change. $25

2019 Longevity Pink Pinot Grigio

This floral-scented wine from Californias Livermore Valley is made in the Northern Italian ramato style, in which juice from pinot grigio grapes sit on the pink-toned skins to pick up color. Its fresh and lively, with fruity citrus hints. $26

2017 Aslina Umsasane

Rich, savory, earthy, and sophisticated, this cabernet-based blend is filled with plummy, full-bodied fruit. Umsasane was Byelas grandmothers nickname. $32

2017 Theopolis Petite Sirah

This intense, peppery, deep-colored red comes from the Yorkville Highlands area of Mendocino. Its big and bold but has plenty of brightness and polish. $39

2018 Brown Estate Zinfandel

The only Black-owned winery in the Napa Valley, founded in the 1980s, specializes in zinfandel. This one is bright, spicy, dark-fruited and juicy and very elegant. $45

2019 Tesselaarsdal Pinot Noir

Winemaker Berene Sauls makes this stunning wine at Hamilton Russell vineyards in South Africa. Perfectly balanced, it brims with crushed strawberry and cinnamon aromas and flavors of bright red fruit and minerals. $45

2019 Zafa Wines Visions of Gideon Mea Culpa

This sparkling wine is made as traditional Champagne is, but its a blend of two hybrid grapes, frontenac blanc and frontenac gris. Delicate and soft, yet zingy with acidity, it will change your mind about hybrid grapes. $47

2015 Il Palazzone Brunello di Montalcino

Richard Parsons, former chief executive officer of Time Warner, bought this estate in 2000. This great vintage, released earlier this year, is floral and ripe, with sweet licorice notes and a subtle cherry crispness. $90

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Optimists live longer than pessimists. Considerably longer, according to research by the Boston University School of Medicine. And we're not just talking about a few extra days or weeks. In a study that involved 69,744 women and 1,429 men, researchers found that those with the highest levels of optimism had a life span that was 11 to 15pc longer than those with the lowest optimism scores. Those same high-scoring optimists also had a 50 to 70pc greater chance of achieving "exceptional longevity" - which is getting to 85 years of age.

While research has identified many risk factors for disease and premature death, we know relatively less about positive psychological factors that can promote healthy ageing," said Lewina Lee, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, when the results were published. "This study has strong public health relevance because it suggests that optimism is one such psychological asset that has the potential to extend the human lifespan."

Being optimistic means living your life in the belief that, in general, more good things will happen than bad. It's definitely a positive way to live, but can it really help you live longer?

Well, it seems that being optimistic can reduce the chances of getting many of the conditions that normally end lives early.

In a 2015 study, researchers at the University of Illinois examined the association between optimism and heart health in 5,100 adults aged between 45 and 84. Each participant's heart health was established by measuring their blood pressure, BMI, blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and by assessing their diet, level of physical activity and tobacco use. Each of these criteria were then given a score of 0, 1 or 2 - with higher scores indicating an ideal - which were then added together to give an overall heart health score.

Alongside this, each participant completed a survey to measure their mental health, including how optimistic they were.

The researchers found that those with the highest optimism levels were twice as likely of "being in ideal cardiovascular health" as those with the lowest levels of optimism. The optimists had better cholesterol and blood sugar levels, healthier BMIs, and were more likely to be physically active and less likely to smoke.

A few years earlier, in 2011, a study by the University of Michigan found that optimism can greatly reduce the risk of stroke. By devising a scale to measure the optimism levels of 6,044 adults over 50 years old, then monitoring their health over the next two years, the researchers discovered that every one-point increase in their optimism scale equated to a 9pc reduction in stroke risk.

Optimism also reduces the risk of diabetes. An American Menopause Society study that followed the health of 140,000 post-menopause women for 14 years found that women with high levels of optimism were 12pc less likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

But in addition to reducing the chances of having a serious illness, optimism also appears to reduce the severity of some illnesses and increases the chances of recovery.

In a small-scale study carried out by the University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston, researchers found that, in a sample of 49 stroke survivors, those with the highest levels of optimism suffered less severe strokes, had lower inflammation levels - post-stroke inflammation can further damage the brain and hamper recovery - and were less physically disabled by the stroke than those with low optimism levels.

"Our results suggest that optimistic people have a better disease outcome, thus boosting morale may be an ideal way to improve mental health and recovery after a stroke," said Yun-Ju Lai, the study's lead author.

In fact, 30 years of research have shown that optimism can positively affect our health in a multitude of ways. Optimists have better immune function. They sleep better. They heal quicker. They enjoy greater IVF success. The list goes on.

But why is this?

While the exact mechanism behind optimism's effect on our health is not known, a number of important factors have been identified.

One of those is behaviour. In general, optimists tend to adopt behaviours that make it less likely that they will have a serious illness. Take exercise, for example. A US study of 73,485 women found that those with high levels of optimism were more likely to take part in vigorous physical activity, which helps reduce the risk of heart disease. And while those same women reported a drop-off in this activity in their 50s, they still had higher levels of vigorous physical activity compared to similarly aged women with low levels of optimism.

Optimists are also better at dealing with the stressors in their lives. While pessimists have a tendency to avoid dealing with their problems directly and employ harmful coping strategies - such as excessive drinking, optimists are more likely to make plans and confront their problems head on. And if they don't succeed, they'll try again.

Optimists are also less prone to rumination and worry, which is why they rarely suffer from insomnia, and they usually sleep for six to nine hours a night, according to research by the University of Illinois.

These differences in how optimists and pessimists deal with life's stressors lead to important changes in how their bodies react to those stressors. For example, studies have found that pessimists, who tend to have higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure anyway, "tend to have larger blood pressure responses to stressors." Optimists, however, have less severe physiological reactions to the same stressful situations.

Despite all the years of research, psychologists are still not in agreement about the nature of optimism. Some believe that it's a personality trait, which they call dispositional optimism. And that, bar some fluctuations, this personality trait remains relatively stable over an individual's life course. They know this because dispositional optimism is quite easily measured, often by using a simple 10-question survey called the Revised Life Orientation Test.

But there are some psychologists who believe that optimism is a thinking style. And one of the interesting things about thinking styles is that they can be learnt.

Does that mean that pessimists could improve their health by learning to think like optimists?

"You can definitely learn optimism," says positive psychologist Dr Jolanta Burke of Maynooth University. "We have a lot of evidence suggesting this. And once you have taught someone the skills, their optimism level will keep improving.

"It's just a different way of looking at things. We can all change the way we think about things. And the great thing is, by changing your thinking you also change your physiological reactions. You change your emotions. You change your actions."

A good way of illustrating the differences in optimistic and pessimistic thinking styles is to look at how optimists and pessimists react to failure in their lives.

"Pessimists tend to blame themselves for bad things," says Jolanta. "For example, if they don't do well on a driving test they'll say, 'Oh, I'm absolutely useless at this!'

"And when you say this, that you as a person are useless at something, the chances of even trying it again are significantly reduced."

Optimists, explains Jolanta, are more likely to recognise the different factors that contributed to the test failure - such as lack of practice - and then take the steps needed to get it right next time.

Optimists also believe that every failure, every bad situation, is temporary. "And this is really important," explains Dr Burke. "If you don't think it's temporary, you don't have hope for change. And we require hope to make things happen.

"Something we've seen consistently in our research is that people with optimism keep trying. They don't give in as quickly. Pessimists, on the other hand, when they're in a bad situation, they think it's going to be like this forever, getting them so down that they're less likely to re-engage with things."

Optimists are also able to compartmentalise the bad things in their lives. "Let's say an optimist failed a test. They'll say, 'Okay, it's just a test. I'm not a failure. It's just one small aspect of my life that did not go well. Look at all the good things I have. I have friends. I have a family. I have a good job.'

"They're able to look at things from a different perspective - a larger perspective."

The good news is that there are very few complete pessimists in the world. Most of us are pretty optimistic, even when faced with a serious illness. But sometimes, we need a little help in believing that good things will happen.

"The people we surround ourselves with have a huge influence on us," says Dr Burke. "In difficult times you need other people to get you out of your thinking. It's terribly important.

"Optimism needs to be viewed as taking control of your life. Pessimism creates a lot of inertia. It's better to be optimistic."

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MedicalResearch.com Interview with:

John Gerard TowerProfessor of biological sciencesUniversity of Southern California

MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?

Response: Mifepristone is a synthetic steroid drug that is used in humans for birth control and as a treatment for Cushings disease, and is currently in clinical trials as an anti-cancer treatment.

We have previously shown that mifepristone dramatically increases the life span of mated female Drosophila flies.

MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings?

Response: In the present study, we find that mifepristone increases fly life span by altering genes and metabolic pathways that are shared with humans, including interactions with the microbiome.

In addition, we find that mifepristone increases the life span of mated C. elegans worms.

MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?

Response: It is striking how conserved the regulation of life span appears to be across species. The metabolism associated with a long, healthy life in humans is similar to the metabolism associated with a long, healthy life in flies, and this is promoted by mifepristone. The finding that mifepristone can increase life span in species as different as fly and worm suggests the possibility that mifepristone might also be able to increase life span in humans.

MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?

Response: It will be important to identify the exact molecular target of mifepristone in the fly, as this remains unknown, and identifying this target may be useful for designing further anti-aging interventions. It may also be of interest to design human clinical trials to test for possible life span effects of mifepristone.

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John Tower, Sean P Curran, Daniel E L Promislow, Jie Shen, Mina Abdelmesieh, Shinwoo Lee, Palak Patel, Jimmy Wu, Tianyi Wang, Jonah Vroegop, Ina Wang, Yang Fan, Lu Wang, Chia-An Yen, Devon V Doherty, Gary N Landis.Metabolic Signatures of Life Span Regulated by Mating, Sex Peptide and Mifepristone/RU486 in Female Drosophila melanogaster.The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2020; DOI:10.1093/gerona/glaa164

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Dr. Robin Khan and her husband, Dr. Ansar Khan, are founders of Sakoon The Spa, a Day Spa and Medical Spa located in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Ansar Khan, a native of Lucknow, is a renowned urologist with his own clinic in Fremont, Nebraska. Dr. Robin Khan is a successful dentist with her clinic "Dentistry For Health" in Omaha, Nebraska. With over 30 years of experience in providing physical healthcare to patients all over the world, this power couple opened Sakoon The Spa in hopes of enriching their community by providing wellness of the mind, body, and spirit.In addition to providing wellness to its local community, Sakoon The Spa is now working with XYZ Media and its founders - award-winning journalist XiXi Yang and Dr. William Puetz - to share its messaging of the importance of human connections inward and outward with a a global audience.

Dr. Ansar Khan, please share with us your childhood growing up in Lucknow, India. How has your heritage shaped the body of your work?

Dr. Ansar Khan: Growing up in Lucknow, I had the great fortune of being educated at La Martiniere School for Boys since the age of 10. My father and mother were physicians, so it was natural understanding that both myself and my sister would follow in their footsteps. My mother was an orphan raised in a Christian Community and was committedto charitable work and my father was of Sufi lineage and had come from a long line of Unani and western medicine traditions. The early life with my parents, extended family, and then my subsequent experience living among many close Hindu friends allowed me to see the beauty of unity as well as diversityin humanity. The poetic and artistic culture of Lucknow also played a major role in how I view and experience the world.

Dr. Robin Khan and Dr. Ansar Khan - After having success in your individual practices, what inspired the both of you to come together to open Sakoon The Spa?

Dr. Ansar Khan and Dr. Robin Khan: We both had been focusing on the physical dimensions of illness throughout our careers, and as we matured in our practices, we realized there are many facets to health that we wanted to explore further. We started pursing education from an optimized and holistic health model and we became convinced that in order to live life to the fullest of ones potential all aspects of an individuals life must be cared for. The human condition is complex and requires a caring and nurturing mindset on many levels. We have tried to optimize physical care within a functional medicine framework, mental health, and well being by providing a patio and social area to promote community and interpersonal relationships, and spiritually with relaxation modalities and aesthetic care.

How does wellness of the mind and spirit balance physical health?

Dr. Ansar Khan and Dr. Robin Khan:There is boundless research proving the positive effects of mental tranquility on the longevity of people who perceive they have a community of support and close intimate relationships.

What does it mean to you to name Sakoon The Spa an Urdu word? How has your community embraced Sakoon The Spa?

Dr. Ansar Khan and Dr. Robin Khan:Sakoon is an Urdu word meaning Tranquility of Mind and Soul. The purpose of Sakoon is to experience and know relaxation of the mind, body and soul. Omaha has received Sakoon with open hearts and minds. We feel very fortunate that the staff at Sakoon has completely embraced our vision.

It's not easy being a care provider, especially during unprecedented times. To what do you attribute your decades-long success as healthcare providers and business owners?

Dr. Ansar Khan and Dr. Robin Khan:The world is dynamic and shifting always. Medicine and business are no exceptions to that. We have had to make some adjustments based on safety for our guests and staff, but the general positive emotions about Sakoon persist. In both of our practices, we have always felt that if we lead by showing concern and care for our team of employees, they will in turn show the same regard for our patients and the business.

How have you adapted and grown?

Dr. Ansar Khan and Dr. Robin Khan:We like to adapt and grow by assessing the needs and desires of the community we serve. Each one of the guests that walks into Sakoon has inspired a piece of our journey. Growth happens when we're met with unprecedented times. Instead of resisting change, we choose to embrace change every single day because we believe it's a natural part of the human life. Whether it is at Sakoon or at our individual clinics, we have always put the needs and desires of our patients and guests first. We are inspired to give back to the world that has blessed us with an abundance of knowledge and resources. Sakoon is a reawakening of these disciplines in many ways. To be conscious of the need for self care as the foundation for service to ones family, community and humanity as a whole is a basic bedrock of life.

For additional information on Sakoon The Spa, check outwww.SakoonTheSpa.com!

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(CNN) How do you compare a dogs age to that of a person? A popular method says you should multiply the dogs age by 7 to compute how old Fido is in human years.

But new research published Thursday in the Cell Systems journal debunks that method. And thats because the scientists behind a new study say dogs and humans dont age at the same rate.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new formula that takes into account that variance. Tracking molecular changes in the DNA of Labrador retrievers, and in particular the changing patterns of methyl groups in their genome, according to a release, the study shows how dogs age at a much faster rate than humans early in their lives, then slow down after reaching maturity.

This makes sense when you think about it after all, a nine-month-old dog can have puppies, so we already knew that the 1:7 ratio wasnt an accurate measure of age, lead author Trey Ideker is quoted as saying.

Based on the study, a one-year-old dog compares to a 30-year-old human, a four-year-old dog to a 52-year-old human. The rate of aging decreases after dogs turn 7.

The new formula is the first that is transferable across species, and scientists plan to test their findings on other dog breeds to study the impact of longevity on their findings, according to a release.

Researchers also believe that observing changes in the methylation patterns before and after the use of anti-aging products could help veterinarians make more informed decisions in terms of diagnostics and treatment.

A graphic in the study makes the age comparisons intuitive and provides some helpful context for dog owners, including the scientists themselves.

I have a six-year-old dog she still runs with me, but Im now realizing that shes not as young as I thought she was, Ideker is quoted as saying.

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It is known that the mitochondria is called the powerhouse of the cell, without which there will be no energy production in the cell, thereby the body too! Along with this mitochondria has its role in other important functions, one crucial role being in aging.

Research has shown that age-related diseases are linked to mitochondrial functioning. Further, it is known that "mild inhibition of mitochondrial respiration" promotes longevity in many species, which means to mildly slow down mitochondria's energy-making process. Thus, the life-span extension compensates for the reduced mitochondrial respiration.

An enzyme called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) that promotes mitochondrial health is also known as anti-aging protein. The same enzyme plays a crucial role in life-span extension by reducing mitochondrial respiration.

Research on roundworms has shown that an enzyme called VRK-1 can extend their lifespan. VRK-1 does this by increasing the level of AMPK resulting in an increase in its activity, promoting longevity through phosphorylation.

This VRK-1 is also a gene that gives instructions in making a protein called VRK (vaccinia-related kinase), which is active in cells throughout the body. It plays a critical role in cell growth and division. It also influences proteins that control gene activity attaching itself to the DNA.

This is an important finding in the research of extending human lifespan too.

Korean scientists published a paper this Wednesday in Science Advances, that showed how the lifespan of worms was extended by varying VRK-1 levels.

Roundworms normally have a lifespan of about two to three weeks. But the genetically engineered worms in the experiment, having elevated levels of VRK-1 lived about 23.7 days on average - they lived longer. When they inhibited the function of VRK-1 in other worms, they found that their lives were shortened.

Lab-controlled worms that lived 20.3 days on average, lived only 12.7 days as VRK-1 was inhibited. That is, the worms died sooner.

A senior author of the paper, Seung-Jae Lee, professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology told Inverse that the key to activating longevity was in the anti-aging protein, AMPK, while the key to activating AMPK is VRK-1. The VRK-1 enzyme is found in worms and has its cousin in human cells, that's very similar to it.

"Therefore, it is possible that this mechanism can be applied to promoting human longevity in the future," he added.

Similar patterns were shown in cultured human cells in the experiment, Lee said, showing that the process holds even in complex organisms.

Replicating the study in animals, like mice will show it's likeliness in humans. However, scientists still don't know how exactly the process occurs.

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With some bailed out companies continuing to pay dividends, the focus should shift to making big corporations contribute to the cost of recovery.

Remember the world after the pandemic? The Covid-19 crisis has caused mourning in hundreds of thousands of families and brought the worlds economies to their knees. But by forcing more than half of humanity to stop, it has also forced us to think, to dream of a more egalitarian, greener world. In that world, we would recognise the importance of quality public services, having seen health workers fighting heroically against the virus and teachers trying to keep in contact with their students, despite the lockdown and lack of resources.

Through timely and otherwise-welcome operations of solidaritydonating masks and gel or opening up their premisesbig brands have not hesitated to advertise on the back of the pandemic. But all over the world, many companies are paying out billions in dividends, even after benefiting from state handouts.

In France, for example, half the CAC 40 indexrepresenting the 40 top companies by market capitalisationstill decided to pay out between 35 and 41 billion in dividends, despite receiving state aid from the short-time-work scheme to compensate workers for reduced hours due to the pandemic. In Germany, the list is also extensive, with carmakers featuring prominentlyVolkswagen has placed around 80,000 employees on short-time contracts, yet still plans to pay around 3.3 billion in dividends. And in the UK, the worlds largest chemicals company, BASF, which received 1 billion in support funding, voted last month to pay out more than three times that amount in dividends to shareholders.

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The soaring dividends are feeding the billionaires, though the European ones are not the champions of indecency. In the United States, the assets of 600 billionaires grew by $434 billion, or 15 per cent, during the first two months of lockdown. The fortunes of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg alonefounder bosses of Amazon and Facebook respectivelyincreased in sum by nearly $60 billion. This is no coincidence, as digital companies have benefited most from the pandemicsince they do not require any physical interaction with the publicoften at the expense of small and medium-sized distribution firms.

Ironically, these multinational digital companies are also the champions of tax avoidance. The GAFAGoogle, Apple, Facebook and Amazonare not the only ones who do not pay taxes according to their activities. But, because they are dematerialised, they are able to exploit the loopholes in the international tax system more easily.

By manipulating transactions between their subsidiaries, they are reporting record profits in tax havens and very low onesif not lossesin countries with higher corporate taxes, even though they are actually operating extensively in the latter. For example, Amazon, in spite of doubling its profits in the US in 2018, didnt pay a single dollar in taxes there, for the second year in a row.

This is why, while keeping in mind that the US administration has just announced that it no longer wants to take part in negotiations to overhaul the international tax system, it is urgent for countries to introduce, regionally or unilaterally, at least temporary taxes on the digital giants. This is one of five main recommendations proffered last month by the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)of which I am a member alongside economists such as Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucmanto enable states to cope with the explosion in spending caused by the pandemic.

When the economies of the European Union are set to shrink by 7.4 per cent, the worst recession in the blocs historythe International Monetary Fund is expecting a global recession of 4.9 per centausterity is no longer appropriate. We need to invest in health, schools and infrastructure, but also in supporting businesses, especially the smallest ones. But even if some governments pretend to ignore the fact that we shall have to foot the bill in the end, we must, from now on, turn to those who benefit from the system without contributing to it.

In addition to digital companies, governments must also apply a higher corporate tax to firms in monopoly or oligopoly situationsespecially those profiting from the crisis, such as in the pharmaceutical sector. Above all, we must not succumb to the siren calls for tax cuts, for which big companies are already campaigning, claiming that they are necessary for reconstruction.

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We already know that, in normal times, it is not taxation that pushes a company to invest in a country: it is more about the quality of infrastructure, the workforce, market access or political stability. And while expansion projects are constrained by uncertainty and corporate overcapacity, tax cuts will not stimulate private investment anyway. But they would certainly deprive governments of valuable resources.

To protect and increase these resources, we must finally make a major push for transparency, to uncover the amounts hidden in tax havens. This concerns those with large fortunes, of course, who should finally pay their fair share of taxes to fund the consequences of this crisissome countries, such as Argentina, are considering thisbut above all the multinationals.

They must declare where and how much they earn on a country-by-country basis. This would allow governments to tax them at a minimum rateat least 25 per cent, according to ICRICT.

In concrete terms, if a French multinational, for example, decided to declare its profits in the Cayman Islandsor, even closer, in the Netherlands or Luxembourgto take advantage of a very low tax rate, France would be able to recover the difference. This measure would quickly make the raison dtre of tax havens disappear.

And, for once, governments are in a good position to impose this transparency. All they have to do is announce, as France, Denmark and Italy, among others, have already done, that companies with headquarters or subsidiaries in tax havenswithout carrying out any real activity therewill not be entitled to any public aid to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.

There is no time to lose. The 2008 financial crisis already made us dream of a fairer worldwith results we all know about. Losing this new opportunity, at a time when social, human and climatic crises are multiplying throughout the world, would be unforgivable.

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It is only relatively recently that enough people have actually reached old age to enable us to study why and how some people stay healthy while others die young.

In 1900, the worldwide average life expectancy was 31 years; now it is 71 years, and in developed countries like Japan, the UK and Australia it is over 80.

One of the greatest gifts of being a doctor for older adults is the constant reminder that life is fragile, finite and precious. This makes me want to protect my life and my health because I want to live as long and as well as possible, but it also reminds me to enjoy today, in case that is all there is.

The competing knowledge that our lifestyle choices can prolong life, but that death is also inevitable can present one of the most challenging conflicts of human existence.

It manifests in the small, everyday decisions we make. Will I eat this piece of cake now: the delicious taste versus the longer-term risk of diabetes? Will I have another glass of wine: the light-headed buzz versus the increased risk of cancer? Will I go to bed or just stream another episode, the gripping TV show now or decreasing my risk of dementia by getting adequate sleep?

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As a geriatrician, most of my patients have problems related to age.

This does not mean they are all old. There can be vast disparities in health between two people of the same age.

My own grandmother has the kind of life that many of us aspire to enjoy in their nineties: she lives independently, tends her garden, walks her dog and is on the board of a charity. I see others who are living lives far more constrained by physical or cognitive impairments some in their sixties and seventies needing carers on hand at all times.

While one of the best ways to reach very old age is to choose your parents wisely, for most of us, the number of healthy years lived will be influenced by our lifestyle choices.

While people love to tell stories of people who lived to ninety while smoking a packet of cigarettes a day, these people are memorable in their rarity. Those who died young of smoking-related illness are no longer here to tell their story.

The traditional medical model of health is defined as the absence of disease by avoiding risk factors. It wasnt until I started my PhD research, exploring a framework of health outside this traditional model, that I truly understood that there is no conflict between the way we feel today and doing the best for our future.

It was my PhD supervisor, Professor Ruth Hubbard, who first suggested looking at positive factors associated with recovery rather than negatives. These are called health assets, factors that are desirable in their own right that are also associated with the creation of wellbeing.

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This approach is based on an idea with the lovely name salutogenesis, a word coined by sociologist Aaron Antonovsky. Salutogenesis is a theory of health that posits that we and our communities have resources that we can use to optimise our wellbeing, and that these are desirable in their own right.

Basically, including more things that improve life today is a strategy to increase longevity. This concept of health also goes beyond the idea that health is purely physical; it also incorporates social and mental health, as well as the concept of happiness.

We rarely allow ourselves to think this overwhelming thought, but for every single one of us, life is fragile and uncertain. Even following all the right advice, we could develop an incurable disease tomorrow or even die suddenly today.

This is why the question of how to live well today is so urgent: we need to start thinking about what makes life worthwhile in the present.

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Most of us will have goals we are working towards bigger-picture goals that are important for our sense of self and that create structure in our lives but it is the day-to-day minutiae that make a life.

It is discovering a new and delicious food, going out for a walk and seeing the morning light reflecting on a building or running into an old, much-loved friend.

Living well means creating the right conditions to feel positive, energetic and engaged. And that does not mean always taking the easiest option making the choice to feel better can be effortful, especially if it means a change in habits.

Yet it is an inescapable truth that with age comes an increased risk of developing a chronic disease.

Almost everyone I speak to who is aged over 50 has something like high blood pressure, or has had some sort of medical event, even if it was just the removal of a precancerous mole. Even if these health conditions dont kill us (and many wont), they can make life a lot less enjoyable.

But I also want you to remember that almost all of these conditions share the same underlying causes. This is why prevention is such an excellent all-for-one deal.

Our days are full of small decisions: What will I make for dinner? Will I walk or drive? Will I see if my friend is free for coffee? While they may seem minor, its these decisions that accumulate over time to contribute to our future health.

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They also affect how well we feel today our sleep, our mood, our energy levels. These decisions require us to prioritise our own health and wellbeing which can be a challenge for so many people

There are important factors in expected gender roles that also influence ageing.

Women often take on more hours of caring than men, both for children and older relatives. Although caring for others can be enriching and rewarding, if it is constant and unrelenting it can have negative implications for health.

Many women will spend decades creating favourite meals for loved ones but would never take the time to make something special for themselves.

Similarly, women are less likely than men to undertake regular exercise; many feel self-conscious and fear being judged, missing out on the immediate and long-term health benefits.

Men are also more likely to engage in risky behaviours and to use higher levels of drugs and alcohol, perhaps as a response to rigid tropes of masculinity, where they are discouraged from expressing negative emotions.

Making day-to-day decisions that optimise a feeling of wellness today ensures that our finite days are as satisfying as possible, with the excellent happenstance of longevity.

This is an edited extract from Dr Kate Gregorevics new book Staying Alive: the Science of Living Healthier, Happier and Longer, published by Pan McMillan Australia. Its available now online or for more information, visit her website, Project Three Six Twelve.

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(Safety-focused Lincoln Street redesign: Dedicated bus lane, traffic-calming lane reduction, bollards, and pedestrian improvements create the conditions for a people-focused multimodal thoroughfare.)

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Like many rapidly growing cities across the United States, Denver wrestles with its car-prioritized legacy of interstate building and exit expansions through its increasingly traffic-snarled communities. Just off the Lincoln/Broadway exit today, the dangerous, multilane urban arterial roadway we know as Lincoln Street whisks cars as quickly as possible from I-25 into downtown. Not surprisingly, drivers take full advantage. They speedand they crashplacing Lincoln in the High Injury Network.

Fortunately, Denver has adopted a Vision Zero Action Plan and has started to build out multimodal networks to address its growing traffic crash rate, dedicating bus lanes along downtown and adjacent streets such as Broadway. However, there is one last piece of the puzzle in this transit-oriented area that needs a safety-centric touch: that unique, urban, and mostly residential segment from I-25 to Speer, considered Baker on the west side and Washington Park West on the east side.

Today, its a car-centric stroadan unproductive, unsafe hybrid of a street and a road, on the brink of decline in some areas. But, with a few improvements to the Corridor to increase access and safety for those walking, cycling and taking transit, it can be transformed into a community-first place worth arriving at.

A walk down Lincoln today reveals just how much the street prioritizes cars over people. Drivers regularly travel at speeds well above the posted speed limit of 30mphtypically in the range of 40-50mph, and higher at night. Holding a conversation with another person with street noise at 75-80 decibels is a challenge. Vibrations from fast-moving heavy vehicles such as buses can be felt in adjacent structures, particularly where tree lawns were removed and the distance from doorways to speeding vehicles is minimal. While attempting to access grocery stores, shops, bus stops and light rail, or simply taking a stroll down the street, pedestrians are dodging cars, even in crosswalks. Cyclists have taken to riding on the sidewalks to stay safe.

(North-facing Lincoln Street today, just off the I-25 exit ramp. Though this is a transit-rich area, walking is dangerous since buffer zones to protect pedestrians have been removed to ensure interstate traffic is whisked quickly downtown.)

While the problems of Lincolns dangerous design are numerous and complex, the solutions are already laid out in city plans: Blueprint Denver and Denver Moves: Transit. By reclassifying streets, Blueprint Denver communicates a key distinction between Lincoln and its one-way couplet partner, Broadway. While Broadway maintains its commercial thoroughfare status as a Main Street Arterial, Lincoln Street is reclassified as a Residential Arterial. This new classification takes into account the adjacent land use, and implies that Lincolns street design be similar to parallel north-south Residential Arterials in the area, Logan and Downing. Both of these streets are considered thoroughfares like Lincoln, yet they have two general purpose travel lanes instead of three, two-way traffic flow, and traffic calming elements such as medians and buffer zones with tree lawns and/or parking.

Lincoln Street, however, is unique: as part of the Lincoln/Broadway Corridor, it is also considered a High Capacity Transit Corridor by Denver Moves Transit. This means its a candidate for Bus Rapid Transit or rail, each of which require full bus or rail stop amenities. Fortunately, implementing the goals of each of these documents is straightforward and in line with the Citys goals for Complete Streets Design, which are the citys new guiding principles for the citys public right of way, detailing how we allocate space to transportation, utilities and other public infrastructure. Lincoln Streets general travel lanes can be pared down from three to two, to bring it inline with its new street classification. To meet the citys transit goals for the street, another lane can be dedicated for bus service. And the final lanewhich was removed in the past to move cars and currently is a multi-purpose, difficult-to-manage flex lane that splits bus hours with car parkingcan be permanently transformed into a transit-friendly, easy-to-manage buffer zone.

(Red Carpet Lincoln: Dedicated Offset Bus Lane to provide adequate space for shelters, a buffer zone for a variety of parking types, mixed with in-street tree planters, bollards to limit curb-jumping from crashes, and an asphalt overlay to ensure the longevity of the red paint.)

To get larger numbers of people out of their cars and sustain our urban transit system long-term, we need to go a step further by designing it for human beings. Ill leave this with some questions for consideration. Would you rather:

To address transportation pollution impacts and rising traffic deaths head-on, we need to make the entire experience of transit something that large numbers of people can safely and comfortably opt into. That means we need to invest in repairing the urban spaces that have been cut away in the past to move cars, and redesign our public streetscapes for people so they will choose healthier, safer modes.

The time to do this is now by replacing travel lanes with lower cost tactical transit lanes. Only when we take that step forward will we see a safe, sustainable future for moving people in, out, and around Denver.

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The first-of-its-kind facility, situated near Gobindgarh in Punjab, will produce a new product, Continuously Galvanized Rebar (CGR). CGRs are value added rebars for higher life and low maintenance of infrastructure to provide significant cost savings compared to other corrosion resistant rebar systems. It offers on-site formability of the finished product, superior corrosion resistance in concrete at a price cheaper than other corrosion resistant rebar (Epoxy Coating & CRS rebar).

With an annual capacity of over 30,000 tonnes, the plant will manufacture ZNCOAT TEMPCORE TMT BARS under the brand name - JYOTI - a name that is now synonymous with excellence in steel manufacturing. This will be the first brand in Asia to apply CGR technology that will not only be superior but will also enhance life span of the rebars thereby reducing the overall maintenance cost.

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Commenting about the new facility, Mr. Sudhir Goyal - Managing Director, Madhav KRG Group said, "Unlike painting and epoxy which are solely barrier-type coatings, CGRs are known to provide superior corrosion protection - both barrier and sacrificial - that further enhances the lifecycle of the underlying steel. I would like to thank the entire team of International Zinc Association and Hindustan Zinc Limited for their support in helping us bring this technology to India that will further help minimize the damage cause by corrosion and put India on the global map for its sustainable usage of zinc."

Addressing the audience, the steel minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan assured the industry of full support from the government and deliberated on how zinc will play an important role towards building infrastructure for the nation. "As India is on its way to large-scale infrastructure expansions, use of galvanized rebar in construction is set to rise. India has a coastal line that extends over. 8000 kms. Coastal areas are prone to corrosion because of salty atmosphere leading to frequent maintenance requirement thereby adding to loss of material and impact on the productivity. Galvanizing ensures that the zinc coating is of a standard quality and offers resistance to erosion so that there is no risk of cracking due to bending. Galvanized steel and rebars are environment friendly and cost effective and possess properties that enhances life of any structure with minimum maintenance. The commissioning of the new CGR facility will further increase the usage of zinc in steel industry and will support the much awaited need of supplying galvanized rebar in the construction industry. I would like to congratulate the entire team International Zinc Association and Madhav KRG Group for their efforts in setting up the first-ever Continuous Galvanized Rebar (CGR) facility in Asia that will not only boost to domestic steel market but will also put India on the global map, aligning it to GoI's efforts in making India self-reliant or Aatmanirbhar Bharat."

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Sunil Duggal - Group Chief Executive Officer-Vedanta Limited, & CEO-Hindustan Zinc said, "Infrastructure, especially around the coastal areas face maximum risk of corrosion owing to humidity and constantly changing climate. A long-term answer to this far-reaching problem is use of zinc protected steel during the structure's initial construction stages, i.e. Galvanized rebar that not only ensures longevity of the structures but is also significant initiative towards safety. It's time to mandate use of galvanized coated rebar's in all infrastructure projects.

"In the last ten years, Indian zinc demand grew at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4-5%. However, usage of galvanized rebars and especially CGRs has been limited despite the fact that it bonds in par with concrete than uncoated rebar, thereby doubling the life of big concrete structures. As the government of India looks to strengthen Indian infrastructure, it calls for the need to adopt durable and proven corrosion protection methods, like structure galvanization. With continuous support from players like Madhav KGR and Hindustan Zinc Limited, we are confident of the shift to better national practices to help support India's efforts towards sustainable evolution." said Dr. Andrew Green, Executive Director, International Zinc Association (IZA) addressing the audience.

Galvanizing has been used for more than 100 years to protect structures exposed to different environmental conditions from corrosion.Realizing the importance of this technique, Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi had outlined a plan to spend about $1.5 trillion earlier this year, to upgrade and build infrastructure over the next five years to shore up economic growth, boosting the outlook for zinc, use of galvanized steel to prevent corrosion.

Over 1000 delegates (India and International) including ministry officials, opinion leaders, zinc producers, galvanizers, end users of galvanized products, industry executives from Railways, highway authorities, NHSRPL and design consultants attended the launch event.

About International Zinc Association

The International Zinc Association (IZA) was created in 1991 by a group of leading zinc & steel producers to represent the zinc industry globally. IZA's activities are to sustainably grow markets and maintain the industry's license to operate through effectively managed initiatives in research and development, technology transfer, and communication of the value of zinc. Operating internationally and locally through its regional affiliates, IZA helps sustain the long-term global demand for zinc and its markets by promoting such key end uses as corrosion protection for steel and the essentiality of zinc in human health and crop nutrition.

IZA's main programs are Sustainability & Environment, Technology & Market Development and Communications. Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina (USA), IZA also operates regionally through their offices in China, Europe, Latin America, North America, India and Southern Africa.

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