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71 data tables and 40 additional tables An overview of the global longevity and anti-senescence therapy market Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2017 and 2018, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2023 Country specific data and analysis for the United States, Canada, Japan, China, India, U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Middle East and Africa Detailed description of various anti-senescence therapies, such as senolytic drug therapy, gene therapy, immunotherapy and other stem cell therapies, and their influence in slowing down aging or reverse aging process Coverage of various therapeutic drugs, devices and technologies and information on compounds used for the development of anti-ageing therapeutics A look at the clinical trials and expected launch of anti-senescence products Detailed profiles of the market leading companies and potential entrants in the global longevity and anti-senescence therapy market, including AgeX Therapeutics, CohBar Inc., PowerVision Inc., T.A. Sciences and Unity BiotechnologySummary:

Global longevity and anti-senescence therapy market deals in the adoption of different therapies and treatment options used to extend human longevity and lifespan. Human longevity is typically used to describe the length of an individuals lifetime and is sometimes used as a synonym for life expectancy in the demography. Anti-senescence is the process by which cells stop dividing irreversibly and enter a stage of permanent growth arrest, eliminating cell death. Anti-senescence therapy is used in the treatment of senescence induced through unrepaired DNA damage or other cellular stresses.

Global longevity and anti-senescence market will witness rapid growth over the forecast period (2018-2023) owing to an increasing emphasis on Stem Cell Research and an increasing demand for cell-based assays in research and development.

An increasing geriatric population across the globe and a rising awareness of antiaging products among generation Y and later generations are the major factors expected to promote the growth of global longevity and anti-senescence market. Factors such as a surging level of disposable income and increasing advancements in anti-senescence technologies are also providing traction to the global longevity and anti-senescence market growth over the forecast period (2018-2023).

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the total geriatric population across the globe in 2016 was over REDACTED. By 2022, the global geriatric population (65 years and above) is anticipated to reach over REDACTED. An increasing geriatric population across the globe will generate huge growth prospectus to the market.

Senolytics, placenta stem cells and blood transfusions are some of the hot technologies picking up pace in the longevity and anti-anti-senescence market. Companies and start-ups across the globe such as Unity Biotechnology, Human Longevity Inc., Calico Life Sciences, Acorda Therapeutics, etc. are working extensively in this field for the extension of human longevity by focusing on study of genomics, microbiome, bioinformatics and stem cell therapies, etc. These factors are poised to drive market growth over the forecast period.

Global longevity and anti-senescence market is projected to rise at a CAGR of REDACTED during the forecast period of 2018 through 2023. In 2023, total revenues are expected to reach REDACTED, registering REDACTED in growth from REDACTED in 2018.

The report provides analysis based on each market segment including therapies and application. The therapies segment is further sub-segmented into Senolytic drug therapy, Gene therapy, Immunotherapy and Others. Senolytic drug therapy held the largest market revenue share of REDACTED in 2017. By 2023, total revenue from senolytic drug therapy is expected to reach REDACTED. Gene therapy segment is estimated to rise at the highest CAGR of REDACTED till 2023. The fastest growth of the gene therapy segment is due to the Large investments in genomics. For Instance; The National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) had a budget grant of REDACTED for REDACTED research projects in 2015, thus increasing funding to REDACTED for approximately REDACTED projects in 2016.

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Study Goals and Objectives

Reasons for Doing This Study

Scope of Report

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Geographic Breakdown

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Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Is Projected to Expand at A Steady CAGR Over the Forecast Period 2026 - Montana Ledger

The battle for 1989 was won by illiberal populism. Thats one thing we can say with certainty 30 years on from the fall of the iron curtain. In the narrative spun by Jarosaw Kaczyski, Viktor Orbn and their supporters, democratic transformation turned out to be a fraud, liberal democracy an illusion, and integration with the EU an upmarket form of foreign occupation. The illiberal populists, under the cover of such rhetoric, simultaneously dismantle the rule of law and independent institutions. Meanwhile, liberals seem devoid of ideas or initiative, agreeing only that somehow, it all went wrong.

This is not just about melancholy and misunderstanding. In a sense, post-communist countries became a testing ground after 1989. Both our families came from Warsaw and they struggled not only to survive the upheavals of that era, but to create better lives, if not for themselves, at least for their children. Individually, some succeeded, but it came at a high price. The revolutions of 1989 meant the almost overnight disintegration of entire ways of life. That had an immense impact, even if most people would not have wanted to hang on to their experience of pure socialism.

Todays populists tend to focus only on the downsides of what came after 1989. But how have they been so effective at imposing their interpretation of events, even now, 30 years on?

In the last year of the cold war, the west of our collective imagination was a place of hope Moscow we were more familiar with, and viewed with fear. Yet, contrary to the image often conveyed, the reaction in our countries to the end of communism was far from euphoric.

The promise of freedom and a better life lay on the distant horizon. Day to day, though, we experienced a poverty more humiliating than anything that had come before especially after seeing the west with our own eyes. It is a common mistake to think that illiberal politicians in post-communist countries are popular despite these countries successes. The contrary seems more plausible: their popularity is a consequence of the success.

At a time when populist leaders are in power in other parts of the world, including the US, it may be instructive to look at the causes of illiberal populism generally.

Our focus is on an aspect of human nature that is underexplored in political analysis: namely political emotion, and in particular, the feeling of loss.

It is astonishing to us to hear people in the US, the UK, France or Italy express views so familiar to us: Our jobs are being stolen, The world is changing too much, I dont recognise my country. This is where 1989 meets 2019 at least in the populists narratives. Their pessimistic interpretation of the fall of communism is mirrored in the current over-simplifications.

The year 1989 was one of those breakthrough moments in human history whose impact is felt in contradictory ways. As Charles Dickens wrote about 1789 in A Tale of Two Cities, it was the best of times and the worst of times. It was a spring of hope, and a winter of despair, it was indeed the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness.

The same duality was felt elsewhere. As well as the fall of communism, 1989 marked the beginning of an era of global change and acceleration. Quality of life and longevity improved, as revolutions were occurring in technology, communication, and social mobility. There was simultaneous gain and loss.

Central and eastern Europe has registered extraordinary economic growth on almost every parameter since the end of communism. But change, when it happens so swiftly and completely, can also involve great loss for the individual. We dont just mean the disappearance of jobs or bankruptcies. We mean something much deeper. A loss that relates to the micro-world of secure long-term relationships, identity and feelings of security, so important in the classical liberalism of Adam Smith and JS Mill.

In German, there is a word that captures this disruption: schleudern, which means to spin round and round as in a washing machine. In the social sense, our world spun repeatedly as we strived for a better future. This is the context in which we can see that illiberal populists are effective not because they buy voters, or manipulate negative emotions, such as fear or rage. Their skill is to recognise and empathise with feelings of loss when liberals tactlessly disregard or ridicule them.

And it is how we can explain the reactionary aspect of populism in eastern Europe, and beyond. Brexiters won with the slogan Take back control, and Donald Trump cut through with Make America great again. Kaczyski in Poland, Bjrn Hcke in Germany and Thierry Baudet in the Netherlands all talk about protecting the traditional values of their societies (usually without being specific about what this would mean).

Liberals often feel overwhelmed by this kind of politics. A peculiar defeatism surrounds the failure of liberal democracy to deliver. Liberals also fear that pandering to emotion plays the same game as populists. They prefer to calm feelings down or just steer clear of them.

Enemies of democracy have, of course, always manipulated feelings. Yet we believe that theres a key lesson from 1989 that liberalism can learn. We need a passionate defence of liberal democracy and the liberal order. We also need to embrace the feeling of loss and translate it into something positive and enriching, into a feeling about political community.

How could this be done? The collective sense of loss we have been describing is akin to the grief that follows the death of a loved one. In bereavement our first reaction is to look back, to dwell on the loss. Reactionary populisms concentration on the negative aspects of transformation might be compared with bereavement. As humans we know that after bereavement comes the recovery phase. And this means looking to the future and building networks of friends. It requires courage, hope and compassion especially for those who think so differently that they vote for populists.

This is what the liberalism of the future could mean. It could retell the story of 1989, while doing justice to this great and complex moment. Central and eastern Europe still has an important message for the world. It is the knowledge that the greatest successes of liberal democracy, including 1989, were enabled by passionate hope.

Karolina Wigura is a historian, political editor of the Polish weekly Kultural Liberalna and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin

Jarosaw Kuisz is a historian, editor-in-chief of the Polish weekly Kultura Liberalna and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin

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Dan Buettner in the Okinawa blue zone. Photo by Dan McLain/National Geographic

National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner investigates the food and culture of those who live the longest, and comes back with recipes

by Mark McDermott

Most mornings, Cowboy Jose Bonifacio rides his horse Corazn five miles to go see two old friends. Bonifacio is known far and wide as one of the great vaqueros, or cowboys, of the Guanacaste province on the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica. He began riding horses in 1921, at the age of 4. Hes 102 years old. His two friends are both over 100.

Two years ago, National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner went looking for the great cowboy, who hes known for years. Buettner has led several expeditions to the Nicoya Peninsula because it is home to some of the longest living humans on Earth, and longevity has been his area of inquiry for the last decade and a half. Hes written four books and dozens of National Geographic articles about the so-called blue zones, the five areas scattered across the planet where people live the longest. He sought out Bonifacio who is not hard to find, having lived in the same house all his 102 years for his newest book, The Blue Zones Kitchen.

Buettners intentions were simple. He wanted to share a meal with Bonifacio and his family, and take notes. Buettner has spent more time with 100-year-olds, known as centenarians, than anyone on the planet who is not 100. His research has been about the ways of life that lead to the kind of health in which people not only live a century but do so, like Bonifacio, with gusto. Hes examined everything from habits of human connection to physical activity and even the composition of the soil and water in the lands where people live longest, but all these roads lead back to the most fundamental of human activities: sharing a meal. And this is why he found himself back at Bonifacios humble dwelling in Guanacaste.

We arrive early, waiting for him in the cool shade under the 100-year-old mango trees in his courtyard, Buettner writes. He trots up on a horse wearing blue jeans, a checkered shirt, and a jaunty-angled cowboy hat. He dismounts with a bounce and welcomes us warmly with a handshake and a half toothed smile. Hes lived in the same house his whole life, now with four generations of descendants. At 100, he still recites romantic poems and professes his love of women.

Buettner has spent time with over 300 centenarians, but none cooler than the cowboy, who on this occasion asked his daughter and granddaughter to prepare a special lunch for his visitors, Buettner and famed National Geographic photographer David McLain. The lunch was served in an outdoor kitchen, centered around an oven used by the Chorotega, a tribe of corn farmers who historically were the most powerful of the Native Americans in the region.

Dinner is served in Ikaria. Photo by Dan McLain/National Geographic

They cook over a fogn, which is a Chorortega oven that dates back before the age of Christ, Buettner said in an interview. Its sort of a U-shaped adobe appliance, so to speak, with a wooden fire. So there you are, smelling roasted corn and woodsmoke and the aromaThe beans they are making tend to be more aromatic, with peppers and onions and garlic and cilantro. And its a wooden structure with slats in it, so sunlight is angling through the slats and hitting the floor in long parallel lines, but its sort of beautifully, smokily illuminated on the inside. And you are smelling the same smells that the ancient Maya were smelling in 1,000 B.C.

Lunch was chunky vegetable soup, a veggie hash with corn and onions, hearts of palms with herbs and garlic, creamy lima beans and herbs, and fried green plantains. It was accompanied by mugs of what Buettner described as shockingly refreshing horchata and citrus fresco.

The Blue Zones Kitchen, which includes recipes for each component of the lunch, was released last week and achieved a somewhat unusual feat for what is ostensibly a cookbook: it was the bestselling book in the United States across all categories. The books success shocked even Buettner.

Its surreal, he said. After years and years of these high-minded literary pursuits, I realized what people want are just pretty pictures and a great bean recipe.

The Blue Zones Kitchen isnt like any cookbook ever before published. In it, Buettner visits kitchens in each of the five blue zones: Okinawa, Japan; Ikaria, Greece; Sardinia, Italy; Yorba Linda, California (a Seventh Day Adventist community); and the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. An earlier book, The Blue Zones Solution, also included recipes, but not presented in this way, with McLains vivid photography showing the physical beauty of the people and the food of blue zones. Its pages emanate with the warmth of human conviviality.

David and I are not cookbook writers. David and I are a writing and photography team for National Geographic, Buettner said. This book is essentially a 300-page National Geographic article, centered around food and recipes. And thats how we approached it. For the recipes, I didnt just go find some other book and copy them; I sat on stools in 80, 90 and 100-year-old womens kitchens, and I watched them. I wrote down fastidiously everything they did. I estimated quantities you know, they dont use cups or teaspoons or any of that crap. I captured these recipes, which by the way will be gone in half a generation.

The recipes from Buettners notebooks were then taken to a test kitchen and proofed out for exact quantities, and now run alongside hundreds of photos taken by McLain, which are also not the typical, prettified pictures usually found in cookbooks.

Not a single picture in the book is shot in a studio, Buettner said. Its all editorial and its all with the gifted David McLain. He shot the ingredients, the setting, the people, the cooking techniques, and then the rituals around it. So its a very different book than a cookbook.

Dan Buettner in the Costa Rica blue zone. Photo by Dan McLain/National Geographic

Buettner is well-known locally because he launched the first Blue Zones Project in the Beach Cities. The projects, which now number over 50 nationwide, are public health initiatives which take the wisdom derived from Buettners studies of actual blue zones and apply lessons programmatically; locally, the Blue Zones Project is administered by the Beach Cities Health District (see last weeks Easy Reader cover story, Tripping Over Health). Buettners central insight is that healthy behavior happens not when we focus on changing behavior, but when the environment in which we live makes healthier choices easier to make.

The Blue Zones Kitchen follows this ethos. Its easy to use. Not one of its 100 recipes requires more than a handful of ingredients. It is peasant food; simple, cheap, easy, and by the way healthy.

Its organized by genres of cooking, Buettner said. There is Greek, from Ikaria; Italian, from Sardinia; Asian, in Okinawa; Latin American, Costa Rica; and American, Loma Linda. So they are easily recognizable categories of food. They are just simple. You can add cheese if you want to some of them, but the quotidian day-to-day eating in blue zones was plant-based. They ate meat, but it was a celebratory food, and I dont need to put a recipe for roasted meat in so all the recipes are plant-based. And they all have the most important ingredient, which is taste. These recipes, theyve been cooked for at least 500 years in most of these places. The reason they survived is not because people think the recipes are healthy. Its because people like them. They are tasty.

Cowboy Jose Bonifacio in Costa Rica. Photo by Dan McLain/National Geographic

Another aspect of the book that sets it apart is its beautiful array of story, science, travel, and cultural exploration. For example, in Costa Rica Buettner found what he believes might be the most perfect breakfast in the world, featuring what locals call the tres hermanas, or three sisters: corn, beans, and squash. He recalls in loving detail enjoying this breakfast in the Cooperativa Nicoya, where a dozen women begin preparation before dawn each morning and people stop by on their way to work. The meal is the locally beloved gallo pinto, rice, and beans with garlic, onions, peppers and squash, served with freshly made tortillas, a vinegar-based hot sauce called chilero, and locally grown coffee.

At 6 a.m., the first customers file in, most of them market vendors or laborers, Buettner writes. They take seats on benches at long green tables. Cooperativa waitresses, wearing simple dresses and flip-flops, serve giant cups of weak local coffee, steaming plates of the gallo pinto, and baskets of warm tortillas. As muddy ranchero music plays from a distant radio, customers fill their tortillas with beans topped with chilero hot sauce. This is arguably the most perfect food combination ever, and for some it brings forth tears of joy.

The meal is perfect because tastes great while providing everything the human body needs for sustenance. The corn tortillas are whole-grain, low glycemic (meaning more slowly digested, absorbed, and metabolized) complex carbohydrates, Buettner reports, noting that the wood ash of the stoves breaks down the corns cell walls, thus making niacin available and freeing amino acids for absorption into the body. The black beans are rich in both antioxidants and fiber, which is colon-cleansing, lowers blood pressure and regulates insulin. Combined with rice, the beans form a perfect protein; the pepper sauce that tops it all off is a probiotic (meaning good for gut health). Even the coffee is rich in antioxidants. The total cost of the breakfast was $4.23.

Buettner writes that this meal is what the poorest people in Costa Rica subsist on. His research partners found that these very people have the longest telomeres the DNA tips that mark biological age of any in Costa Rica. He says their bodies tend to be a decade younger than their age would suggest.

Its really kind of the Zen of eating, Buettner said. Its so simple. Its like great sushi. Most cuisines are additive for example, French cuisine is cream and butter and herbs. Sushi is just beautifully one ingredient. This is three ingredients. Imagine slow-cooked beans; the beans are perfect, kind of al dente, they still have their flavor, they still have the anthocyanins, which are the anti-oxidants you find in blueberries. Add a roasted whole-grain corn tortilla: all it is whole grain corn patted down and roasted. And then some roasted squash. You put the beans in a tortilla, maybe put some hot sauce on it, or in Costa Rica its chilero, and man, you do cry tears of joyIts so easy and so cheap and the stuff is good for a long time.

Buettners blend of storytelling and science is so seamless you dont really realize you are learning. Simplicity is key. Part of this is his sources. We dont live in a time when we often have access to the elders of our tribe, and their practical, well-worn advice, as most previous generations of humanity did. Buettner shared a meal with another centenarian in Costa Rica, a 106-year-old former lumberjack named Jose Guevara.

Hed actually done a good bit of thinking about his longevity and boiled it down to three secrets: Start your day with fruit, eat beans at every meal, and practice absolute honesty, Buettner writes. Words to live by, methinks.

Much of the wisdom that comes from the blue zones is essentially remedial human training: knowledge that was baked into the way people lived for eons before the disruption caused by more modern ways of living.

Its relearning what our grandparents instinctively knew, Buettner said.

Women in Ikiaria work together in the kitchen. Photo by Dan McLain/National Geographic

The links in that chain are mostly unbroken in the blue zones. Generations know each other, and cook together. Meals are shared multi-generationally, and often communally. Some of the recipes in The Blue Zones Kitchen contain varying versions, as each village or family has its own idea of how to do things. The Melis family in Sardinia (nine siblings with a combined age of 852 years) shared their version of minestrone soup, which they told Buettner theyd eaten every day of their life. Another family shared another version.

A 100-year-old cooked me Sardinian minestrone, Buettner said. The rest of her family cooked me other things and then we sat down and drank a good bit of wine, Connoneau, which is almost always an accompaniment with meals there. And then toasts ensue, and you get that sort of perfect combination of familial warmth and alcohol, and theres no better drug.

There is science underlying the warm feeling of this scene. Sardinian minestrone is a pot of healthy amino acids with all the protein a human needs for sustenance along with huge does of fiber and healthy gut bacteria. Its cruciferous vegetablesonions, cabbage, kohlrabiregulate thyroid function, a key to longevity. And even the wine, Connoneau, is particularly flavonoid-rich and brimming with antioxidants. But the biggest factor underlying long-living is the gathering itself.

I didnt set out to try to write a cookbook from the beginning. I realized, though, that the runway for people for a healthier life is often through their mouth, Buettner said. But what makes it work, what makes it stick, and what makes it last is building a meaningful social network, or social circle, around the food. And that is in an almost hormonal senseif you are eating with somebody you like, you have less cortisol interference as compared to eating on the run or eating with some sort of existential stress, and there is a love and a joy in that which I believe adds to longevity. But more important than that, if the people you are running with are also eating largely a whole-food, plant-based diet, its not a chore. You are not getting tempted by the burgers and the baby back ribs and the chips and all the other crap that people gather around.

We are, in fact, genetically hardwired for human interaction. Previous generations of humans could not have fathomed the idea of fast food or how much we eat alone. Another common trait in all blue zones kitchens is they are social places.

We tend to be genetically endowed with a propensity for things that ensure our survival, Buettner said. And humans, unlike so many other mammals that havent been as successful, are eusocial. That weve been successful because we come together as a tribe. We naturally are drawn to each other and we can take on bigger tasks together than we can by ourselves. So to all of sudden fast forward to 2019 when everybody is imploding in their devices maybe for survivability, on its surface, we dont really need other humans. But we still have that genetic yearning for it, and the meal is the natural time to give in to that. Its the natural time to socialize because you are slowing down, you are sitting down.

Research shows that people who eat socially, particularly families, eat more nutritiously than those who eat alone.

Because when you are eating by yourself, it takes about 20 minutes for the full feeling to travel through your belly to your brain, Buettner said. So if you are eating by yourself to your favorite TV show and wolfing down your dinner, theres a very good chance that you will already be full long before your stomach knows it, long before your brain knows it. Conversely, if you are sitting down with four or five friends, you are having a conversation, you are telling jokes, you are laughing, then you take a bite of food you are less likely to overeat.

The biggest piece of advice implicit in the The Blue Zones Kitchen is simply to cook. The benefits are myriad. People in the blue zones, and those who cook in general, tend to rotate between the same 10 or 12 meals. They thus have a more consistent diet, meaning their immune systems dont have to work so hard to always counter different potential threats. A worn-out immune system is one of the things that catches up with us in older age when the body can no longer fight off cancer cells, among other things.

Cook at home. You dont have to buy my book. Theres lots of other books, Buettner said. I hear all the time, Well, I dont have time to cook. And if you take a moment and you think clearly, people who are eating junk food their whole life are probably shaving a decade off their life expectancy. If you take those 10 years and average them back through the rest of your life, youve got about 2.5 hours of a day of time that you could be spending on making good food. And youll have just as many hours in your lifetime. We fail. We get misled by a certain cultural thrust that is wrong.

I think there are a lot of people out there marketing longevity. The Blue Zones kind of genre is not just about getting more, piling on more years, its about quality along the way. Its a holistic look at longevity. And the value proposition is about 14 years. The maximum average life expectancy for humans is about 93 or 94. We are getting about 80 in America right about now, so we are leaving about 13 or 14 years on the table. We could be getting those years by living a blue zone lifestyle. But if you are living with purpose, you are socializing and connecting with friends, you have that faith-based component in place and that could be going to church, it could be going to yoga you are enjoying the journey. Its not just living long. Its living well.

It is, in a sense, the oldest story in the world, and one that is increasingly being forgotten. Buettner said that all the blue zones are increasingly being encroached upon by the disease of convenience. His reporting is documenting ways of life which are disappearing.

Okinawa in 1990 was a fantastically exotic place, and now its a jungle of Pizza Huts and A&W Root Beer. Junk food, Buettner said. Theres only a few little pockets of originality left. Costa Rica theres a damn KFC as you enter the city of Nicoya. And here is this beautiful food tradition that in Nicoya anyway its been around for 5,000 years, the Mesoamerican three sisters of corn, tortilla, beans, and squash. Which are three foods that can wholly sustain you. They are being pushed out by buckets of hormones-suffused chicken and burgers. Just like when they came to America, they are incredibly alluring. They are fast and they are cheap and they are like an orgasm in your mouth when you been used to eating sort of subtle flavors.

His mind drifts frequently to a scene on the coast of Ikaria. A woman named Athina was cooking in a kitchen crowded with women.

She is about 60, and shes been cooking for 50 years, and she learned it from her grandmother who learned it from her grandmother, Buettner said. So sitting on a stool in a tiny kitchen watching her workYou can sort of see the Aegean Sea out the kitchen window and you kind of see 500 years of history unfold. Above your head, there are all these pans, and there is this wonderful cacophony of chopping and pans bubbling and pans clattering and kids running around squealing and these sort of nomadic aromas of sage and oregano and rosemary and olive oil and the pungency of roasting squash. And Im sitting there with a glass of wine, the type of wine that is produced in Ikaria, the Pranos, the same wine that Ulysses gave the cyclops to get him drunk so he could knock him offthey are still drinking that wine in IkariaIts just happiness.

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USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt breaks down his top five teams in the NBA so far this season. USA TODAY

MIAMI The Atlanta Hawks Cam Reddish wasnt alive when teammate Vince Carter played in his first NBA game in 1999. Atlantas Trae Young, Kevin Huerter and Bruno Fernando werent yet six months old when Carter scored 16 points in his NBA debut nearly 21 years ago.

Carter on Tuesday played in his 1,500th NBA game, joining John Stockton, Dirk Nowitzki, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Parish as the only players in leaguehistory to reach that milestone.

It is a testament not only to rare longevity but his talent and ability to adjust to different roles throughout his career from lottery pick to rookie of the year to All-Star to All-NBA to reserve to veteran sage who is playing less than half the minutes he did at the peak of his NBA powers.

Basically, he was the first option, second option, third option, sixth man, seventh man, all the way down to 14th, 15th guy," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said before the game, "and most guys are not emotionally stable enough to be able handle that and be willing to sacrifice and Vince has done that.

Im a big fan of his over the years just because when youre around all the time and I dont get to know a lot of people but I feel like Ive gotten to know him and hes a first-class human being and great pro (and) somebody who should be celebrated for his career for sure.

This is, by Carter's account, his final season.

Save for the two lockout seasons which cost him more games played Carter has played in at least 60 games in 17 of his 22 seasons.

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I was just trying to calculate how many more games he has than the rest of our roster combined, Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce said.

Atlantas Jabari Parker, Alex Len, Evan Turner, Allen Crabbe and Chandler Parsons skew that calculation, but the point is taken. Carter has played more games than Young, Reddish, Huerter, Fernando, DeAndre Hunter and John Collins combined.

This is pretty special, Pierce said. He grew up here in the state. This is his last time playing here in Miami. Were conscious of all the last times that are coming up. Its quite an accomplishment many different teams, many different highlights, many different moments of his career, too many count, but were going to cherish and appreciate what we have this year.

Atlanta Hawks guard Vince Carter acknowledges the crowd during the first half of the game against the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena.(Photo: Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports)

By the time this season is over, Carter, who turns 43 on Jan. 26, should pass Stockton and Nowitzki for third on the all-time games played list, trailing just Abdul-Jabbar (1,560) and Parish (1,611).

This season, Carter should pass Alex English for No. 22 on the all-time scoring list and finish among the top-20 all-time leaders in field goals.

For the tail end of his career, Carter has been a player who has provided insight to his teammates about topics on and off the court. It's rare to get an All-Star who is willing to do that in his 40s.

Id love to talk about the value off the court later. I still need the value on the court, Pierce said. I hope theres some box score accomplishments as well and he was tremendous the other night in Charlotte.

Thats the thing. Carter can still play. He had nine first-quarter points against Miami and had 17 points in 20 minutes, 25 seconds against the Hornets on Sunday.

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For nearly 70 years, Palomar College Community College located in San Marcos, has provided transformational education and career opportunities to students of diverse experiences, needs, and abilities. Our commitment is to our students. We remain focused on their success. We are training the workforce of the future and in this lies our focus.

Upon my appointment to the position of superintendent/president of the Palomar Community College District in June 2016, the Governing Board established explicit goals for me. My board-given mandate was to increase enrollment, address diversity among faculty, work with the Palomar College Foundation to enhance fundraising efforts, and most importantly improve the fiscal health of the college.

The transformational changes my team has instituted to meet these goals are intended to end deficit spending and safeguard the longevity of our institution. These changes are disruptive and difficult, and have led many faculty and staff at Palomar College to call for my resignation. While I understand their anxiety and anger over my decision-making, I will never be pressured out of policies and governance structures that enable us to better serve our students.

Over the past three-plus years, we have taken a forensic look at long-standing obstacles that have prevented the college from attaining fiscal stability. It is not unusual during this type of endeavor that angst ensues.

We have had to examine the costs associated in providing full health benefits to all employees and their families. We have scrutinized our course scheduling and faculty assignments to ensure our human and fiscal resources align with the new student-centered funding formula mandated by the Board of Governors of the California Community College System. These evaluative exercises are not complete and there is much work left to do in order to secure the fiscal stability of the college. I am committed to establishing long-term financial stability for the college. We must do so in order to effectively serve our current and future students.

The transformational changes during my tenure do not stop there, and there is good news: We have increased our fall enrollment by 5% over the last two years. Community college enrollment growth during a healthy economy is an achievement only a few community colleges in California can celebrate. Under my teams leadership, the Palomar College instruction and enrollment teams have instituted strategies that generated these results. It is through this type of leadership that we will continue to help our students achieve the learning outcomes necessary to contribute as individuals and global citizens living responsibly, effectively, and creatively in an interdependent and ever-changing world.

We also have been fortunate to recruit new and diverse faculty. While we have more work to do in this area, research indicates that student success is much more likely if students are able to see themselves in their professors and that students learn in environments in which they feel connected, welcomed and engaged. As a federally recognized Hispanic-serving institution, the need to increase the diversity of our faculty is at the forefront of our ongoing and intentional hiring practices.

And finally, we are immensely proud of the work of our Palomar College Foundation. We have hired new leadership, and worked with the strong and focused Foundation Board of Directors. In the past year, the foundation generated its highest annual revenue in foundation history, awarded over $600,000 in scholarships and textbook assistance, and launched a new and more beneficial fundraising event strategy.

Since we know that many of our students face non-academic obstacles that impede student success, in 2018 we opened a new food and nutrition center on campus. Within the nine months of opening, the Anita and Stan Maag Food and Nutrition Center impacted over 3,000 households, providing over 40,400 pounds of food to students, staff and faculty facing food insecurity. While I am superintendent/president at Palomar Community College District, we will continue to focus on eliminating the non-academic obstacles that impede the success of our students.

For as long as I serve, these intentional transformational changes will continue until Palomar College is financially sustainable, our faculty and staff reflect the diversity of our students, and our foundation is able to support all students who need it.

Unapologetically, this mandate is my mantra. Despite the outrage and hostility thrust upon me by those who do not share my students-first focus and financial goals, I am confident in the bright, sustainable future we are working toward. The transformational journey is long and difficult; our students are worth it and it is an honor to serve them.

Blake is superintendent/president of Palomar College.

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It takes roughly 15 minutes for a plane to reach its cruising altitude, which means that theres a brief, uncertain period during each flight where Im left wondering: Is the person in front of me going to recline their seat?

Usually they are, and theres nothing I can do about it, unless I want to risk diverting my flight by literally fighting them. (Over the course of one week in August 2014, three different flights were diverted because fights broke out over a reclining seat.)

I am among the camp of fliers who never recline; when it comes to short domestic flights, reclining doesnt provide a major difference in comfort for me. Still, plenty of debates have raged over fliers right to recline, since people are fervently defensive of their personal space and rights as passengers. It seems to be a never-ending cultural argument, during a time when more Americans are flying and airplane seats are the smallest theyve ever been.

Even newsrooms are split. Former New York Times business columnist Josh Barro argued in 2014, When I fly, I recline. I dont feel guilty about it. And Im going to keep doing it, unless you pay me to stop.

Damon Darlin Barros colleague at the time, who was as horrified by his opinion as I was published an opposing article in favor of the Knee Defender, a nifty device (banned by some airlines) that prevents the person in front of you from reclining.

The previous year, Slates Dan Kois wrote that people who tilt their seats back are pure evil after he unsuccessfully asked the woman in front of him to partially un-recline her seat. The issue is still being debated now years later on Twitter, where people notoriously air out their travel woes.

Your discomfort isnt entirely the fault of your fellow economy passengers, although theyre an easy target for quiet rage. Its more the fault of the American aviation industry at large, which condemns us to crowded planes with limited legroom and high fares.

Plane seats have shrunk considerably over the past few decades as airlines attempt to accommodate a record number of fliers by maximizing space within an aircraft.

Airlines are a business, Debbie Carstens, a Florida Tech professor of aviation with a background in human-factors engineering, wrote to me in an email. As much as airline companies value their customers experience, profits are vital to a companys longevity.

In a 2014 column for USA Today, travel writer Bill McGee dug through decades-old reports of airline seat size and compared them to todays standards. (His analysis primarily applies to major airlines since budget carriers typically offer smaller seats that might not recline at all.) He found that American, Delta, and United Airlines offer in some aircrafts a seat pitch, or the distance between rows of seats, of only 30 inches in economy.

In years past, 31 or 32 inches were the absolute minimums. Whats more, the roomiest pitch offered by the Big Three and Southwest (31-33 inches) are now tighter than they were at all four carriers in recent years, by anywhere from 2 to 5 inches.

Economy seats are also a few inches narrower than they were in the 1990s, which is exacerbated by the fact that Americans are physically wider than they were two decades ago. The narrowest seats today are about 17 inches wide two inches tighter than what were considered narrow in the 1990s, according to McGee.

On most domestic flights served by American, United, or Southwest, coach passengers are limited to a 2-inch recline. This year, Delta is testing a two-inch reduction on seat recline for one of its new fleets a move that the airline claims will improve personal space (Delta is not adding seats or reducing legroom).

Besides size, some design experts say airplane seats are not well-designed for human bodies, which explains why theyre so uncomfortable. Think of an economy seat as a shirt thats designed to be one-size-fits-all.

People with larger bodies than average are uniquely susceptible to strict airline policies, which could require passengers who dont fit comfortably within their seat to purchase a second one. If a traveler doesnt purchase accommodations ahead of time, theres no guarantee an airline will let them fly if they dont fit in their seat. There are also passengers with physical conditions who need to recline their seats for additional comfort, no matter how short the flight is.

Consumer groups have publicly voiced complaints about shrinking seats and crowded aircrafts to the Federal Aviation Agency. Under the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, the agency is expected to issue regulations that establish minimum dimensions for seat pitch, width, and length. The FAA is currently conducting a study with more than 700 participants for these standard dimensions, which lawmakers have criticized for its slow-moving pace.

Small seats have been the industry standard for decades now and thats not likely to change, even with the upcoming FAA rules. Seat recliners (and those who despise them) arent likely to change their habits either.

It seems the only thing we can do is perennially argue about it, because, in the grand scheme of things, were powerless against the aviation industry. So what are you supposed to do the next time you board? I consulted Myka Meier, an etiquette expert and author of Modern Etiquette Made Easy. Everyone has a right to recline, she said, but its about timing. Having a seat recline unexpectedly can be off-putting, especially if a person wants to have a drink or enjoy a meal.

Regardless of whether your discomfort is the fault of the airlines or your fellow humans, Meier encourages passengers to be thoughtful and courteous in interactions with neighbors to reduce the likelihood of mid-flight scuffles.

What I typically recommend is not necessarily asking because the person could just say no, she told me. You can just gently lean back and notify them that youre about to recline.

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Purpose. Impact. These terms are thrown around more than ever these days, including in some unexpected places, like one of the worlds largest investors annual letter. Purpose statements are printed on everyday objects and impact investing or sustainability are as likely as gross margins to be discussed over lunch in some offices.

We have yet, though, to pay as much attention to the concept of meaning, at our collective peril. This oversight is a root cause of companies and investments inadequate progress toward becoming better for the people and planet around them.

Why do we need to develop this third, perhaps apparently overlapping, concept? Without meaning, impact is neutral: defined as a marked effect or influence, by the Oxford English Dictionary. Similarly, purpose without meaning is an ambitious mission that fails to engage or motivate the people required to get it done. Purpose, impact, and meaning are closely related, but they are not synonyms or substitutes. We need all three to fulfill our human potential and build a healthier, more equitable version of capitalism.

We are living in the time of peak purpose where your dish soap or toothpaste label is as likely to have a purpose statement as a not-for-profits annual report. This is a good thing, and arguably not surprising: humans are evolutionarily predisposed to do things that contribute to some outcome larger than our own survival. And now that our careers and purchases are so intertwined with our identity, we have even higher expectations that the companies we work for and buy from to have this same sense of purpose.

We get anxious when we dont understand the larger goal that our daily efforts are advancing. Indeed, ample research has shown that identifying and pursuing a purpose improves individuals physical and mental well-being. Other studies have shown organizations to perform better (financially and in other terms) when they have a purpose AND employees are clear about what that purpose is and how they contribute to it. But none of these benefits are felt if the purpose isnt anchored by specific impacts and the meaning that they have to each individual participant.

These days, there is also a lot of talk about impact. Impact investing is all the rage these days, though many deals that claim the label dont pass muster for many experts (at least not as being markedly different from deals that have always happened) as simply good business.

Millennials have become famous for wanting measurable and immediate impact from their jobs, purchases, and donations. Theyre not the weird ones, its just that the rest of us are products of the last industrial revolution, in which we operated machines, pushed paper, or otherwise served as cogs in processes that separated us from our direct impact.

Purpose and impact at the organizational level are also having a heyday. Larry Finks annual letters pushed his portfolio CEOs a plurality of the global economy at this point to consider their organizations purpose and impact, beyond financial returns. In August 2019, 181 CEOs of large, publicly traded corporations issued a statement, revoking Milton Friedmans position that shareholder value was the primary and sole purpose of corporations.

The concept that hasnt been making headlines is meaning. This is a problem. Without meaning, impact is a neutral term: a marked effect or influence, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Similarly, purpose without meaning is a lofty aspirational statement. And while other creatures also are driven to contribute to something larger than their own evolutionary success (ever seen an ant colony work, or eaten honey?), what is uniquely human is the meaning that we are able to ascribe to those efforts. In other words, the impacts of our actions, and what purpose they serve. So without making meaning of the impact of our actions, and why they matter in a larger sense, over time, we are not fulfilling our human potential. Were just ants building a hill.

Ants work hard and collaboratively, but without the human ability of assigning meaning to their ... [+] efforts.

Dont want to be an ant? Great, heres your playbook.

First, lets agree on definitions.

Consider your morning workout. Its impact might include releasing endorphins, strengthening your heart or muscles, burning fat, distracting you from worries about the day ahead, providing quality time with friends, exposing you to potential new friends, building your confidence to tackle other, non-physical challenges, upholding your side of a bet with a friend or group, or preparing you for a marathon or other physical feat. These are all wonderful effects, but will not matter equally to every person or even to a single individual at different times of their life. This is where it matters that we make meaning of our impact. A prescribed marathon training routine or group commitment to regular workouts are proven to have far higher persistence rates than the famous new years resolution to work out more. The stronger the sense of significance, what the workout means to you the more likely you are to perform the act, meet your goals, and unleash your potential in this area of your life.

So imagine youre someone who finds great purpose in supporting friends and family. You build a workout routine that has the impact of keeping your heart healthy and body strong. This will mean that you are around for a long time and able to play with grandchildren, nieces and nephews, biological or otherwise. You also know that in our increasingly inactive culture plagued by diabetes and heart disease, its powerful to set an example of physical fitness. The impact of setting this example has great meaning for you as part of how you advance your purpose of supporting your friends and family.

Taking the time to make these connections between the impact of your workouts to their specific meaning for you, and how that ladders up to your purpose, provides powerful motivation. You likely wouldnt be as motivated by the other impacts of your workout mentioned above, such as social contact or buffer arms.

On the other hand, the heart health and longevity that directly advance your personal purpose are way too distant and abstract for other people whove just moved to a new city and have a purpose to build a community of fellow devotees of physical activity. They would be most motivated by workouts with a social element and a group of regular participants who might become friends.

Meaning is a critical element to derive the observed benefits of living and working with purpose.

We can apply the same meaning-making process in our professional lives. Imagine that youre a supply chain manager and have taken to mentoring and now more actively sponsoring a newly hired woman on your team. You see great potential, and shes very interested in integrating circular economy principles and social responsibility into your companys approach. Over time, your support has the impact of providing this woman with formative learning experiences, advancing her career and salary, improving conditions for the factory workers in your supply chain, and extending the useful life cycle of your products.

Most of us can see the meaning of all of these impacts. But well derive more motivation and fulfillment by focusing on the ones that connect most directly to our individual sense of purpose. In other words, if you see your purpose as reducing gender inequality, focus on the two former impacts and the meaning they have to you in elevating a woman toward your companys leadership. On the other hand, if your purpose is about reducing waste, spending time thinking about the meaning of your colleagues impact extending your products life cycle.

Playing the four-year-old favorite Game of Why is a simple way to get from impact to meaning and eventually the overarching purpose of your work. Your inner dialog (or eventually conversation with a direct report) could go something like this:

A: Why are you sponsoring this female colleague?

B: So that she gets a promotion.

A: Why do you want her to get a promotion?

B: So that she has more influence on our companys future.

A: Why do you want her to have influence?

B: Because our senior leadership team isnt yet representative of the diversity of our customers gender identities.

A: Why [you get the idea by now]?

B: Because when leadership represents customers gender mix we create a company and products that are better for all stakeholders and improve the companys performance.

A: Why?

B: Because that will provide advancement, professional satisfaction, and wealth to our female colleagues as well as products that best serve our female customers needs.

A: Why?

B: Because our society functions best when all of its members reach their potential, and currently were losing out on serious potential economic growth and social innovation.

We're born to want to know 'why,' as you know if you've spent time with a four-year-old!

Just keep asking yourself why, and be curious about your answers. This simple process works amazingly well with colleagues and direct reports to help them connect the dots between their impact on your team and the meaning they do or could draw from it, and eventually the purpose that unites and motivates their work.

Its exciting to be part of this twenty-first century evolution of corporate purpose, which is leading us to a more equitable and regenerative form of capitalism. But we must both 1) ground our lofty individual and organizational purposes in action, and 2) help all employees connect the dots of their day-to-day impact to its meaning the significance it has to them personally. Without investing the time and money to learn and do this meaning-making process, we are just ants building hills. And leaders commitments in Davos, at the Business Roundtable, and in the BlackRock portfolio, will remain admirable but empty pledges.

On the other hand, when we make the time to understand and then share the current and potential impact of our work, and explore what it might mean to us each as employees, we create the motivating drive that is required to transform our economy. We have all the technology and resource to make our impact more positive. The meaning-making process is simple remember our four-year-old Game of Why. And purpose emerges organically once we are really paying attention to themes in the meaning we derive from our work, individually and collectively.

All thats required is that we believe that businesses can and should work alongside the public sector and not-for-profits to have positive impact on the planet and all people. And then remember that work can be a powerfully meaningful part of the human experience. If we make these basic shifts in belief systems (which have long been and are still held by many global communities), we are positioned for a rapid transition to the most equitable, peaceful, and healthy global society ever.

The transition to a healthier, more equitable and regenerative capitalism is within reach.

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