Seoul has spared no effort in its preparations for the summit, the primary time the leaders of North and South Korea have met in additional than a decade.

Within the room within the Peace Home the place they will meet, the conventional rectangular desk has been changed by an oval one. Moon’s workplace hopes the form will encourage the summit’s individuals to speak candidly.

Different design options concentrate on a shared historical past between the 2 international locations, together with incorporating parts of a Hanok, a standard Korean home.

Friends shall be served a dish from the hometown of the three South Korean presidents who could have hosted an inter-Korean summit.

They will eat meals from the Korean Peninsula’s far north and south, together with chilly noodles, dumplings and barbecued beef. There’ll even be meals sourced from the demilitarized zone itself.

A research hyperlinks the long-term use of some medicine with the next danger of dementia.

In England, 1.5 to 2 million individuals are prone to be taking anticholinergics for despair, Parkinson’s and bladder issues.

College of East Anglia researchers discovered extra circumstances of dementia in sufferers prescribed bigger portions of specific anticholinergics.

However specialists mentioned sufferers mustn’t cease taking them, as their advantages might outweigh any danger.

The research discovered no danger with different anticholinergic medicines used to deal with frequent circumstances similar to hay fever, journey illness and abdomen cramps.

What did the research take a look at?

The analysis, funded by Alzheimer’s Society and revealed within the British Medical Journal, regarded on the medical information of 40,770 sufferers aged from 65 to 99 with a prognosis of dementia between April 2006 and July 2015 and in contrast them with these of 283,933 folks with out dementia.

It additionally analysed greater than 27 million prescriptions – making it the largest research of its variety into the long-term affect of anticholinergic medicine in relation to dementia.

What are anticholinergic medicine?

They block acetylcholine, a chemical messenger that carries alerts throughout the nervous system.

Some can be found on prescription solely.

What ought to sufferers do in the event that they take any of those medicine?

A very powerful factor is “to not panic”, in line with Dr Ian Maidment, from Aston College.

“Do not do something all of a sudden. Do not cease taking your medicine,” he informed the Newpaper24.

“As a affected person, if you’re involved about it, go and converse to your physician or your pharmacist. You do not have to see them urgently.”

Not taking pharmaceuticals may have severe penalties, Dr Maidment mentioned.

“Having untreated despair can be a danger as folks can die from that, so it’s a query of balancing dangers,” he added.

How have specialists reacted?

Alzheimer’s Society head of analysis Dr James Prickett informed the Newpaper24 that in contrast with the danger of dementia being attributable to an unhealthy way of life, the potential danger of an anticholinergic drug contributing to the onset of the illness was “fairly small”.

“We do not precisely know inside these which might be taking these medicine, who’s on the elevated danger and who is not,” he mentioned.

Dementia Analysis nationwide director Prof Martin Rossor mentioned: “You will need to be cautious about associations as they don’t show causation.”

Alzheimer’s Analysis UK analysis director Dr Carol Routledge mentioned: “The research did not examine what may trigger this hyperlink between anticholinergics and dementia danger, and researchers might want to construct on these findings in future research.”

Rob Howard, professor of outdated age psychiatry at College Faculty London, mentioned: “It’s attainable that use of a few of these medicine might have really been to deal with the very earliest signs of Alzheimer’s illness, which will be related to low temper and decrease urinary tract infections, a few years earlier than the event of dementia.”

Dr Parastou Donyai, affiliate professor of social and cognitive pharmacy on the College of Studying, mentioned: “This kind of research imagines that sufferers really take their medicine as they have been prescribed for them.

“However we all know from different analysis that individuals with long-term well being circumstances actually solely take their medicine as prescribed round half of the time – the opposite half, folks both take roughly of their medicine or by no means.”

The airline is now taking supply of Airbus’ latest wide-body, the A350-900. It has 21 planes in its fleet, of an order for 67 plane.

Singapore Airways has ordered seven of the ULRs.

On April 23, the airplane had its first take a look at flight, an virtually five-hour round-trip that launched from the airframer’s meeting plant in Toulouse, France.

The ULR will be capable to fly a exceptional 11,160 miles, a rise of greater than 1,800 miles over the usual A350. It implies that Singapore Airways will reclaim the crown of operating the world’s longest nonstop air route.

Day within the air

The airplane will characteristic the award-winning Airspace cabin.

Courtesy Airbus

However how will passengers comfortably fly — or maybe endure — a flight that lasts the higher a part of a full day?

“The A350 is a clean-sheet design that has been designed for these long-range flights,” Florent Petteni, Airbus’ plane interiors advertising director for the A350, tells Newpaper24 Journey.

All A350s Share Airbus’ design philosophy that makes the plane cabin really feel extra like a room, moderately than an extended tube. The airplane has excessive ceilings, subtle LED lighting, virtually vertical sidewalls and a low noise degree.

These options, together with a most in-cabin simulated altitude of simply 6,000 toes, all mix to offer an improved passenger expertise, based on Petteni.

“You could not precisely pinpoint why it is so snug and so good to be flying on this airplane, however every thing was achieved on function.”

Just like the home windows.

A room with a view

The A350’s fuselage is comprised of composite supplies, together with carbon fiber — moderately than utilizing typical aluminum building strategies. This allowed Airbus to incorporate extensive, panoramic home windows. A number of home windows.

“We’ve got no lacking home windows. Every time a passenger selects a window seat, they may at all times get a window,” says Petteni. This eliminates the dreaded “windowless” window seat discovered on different plane.

However given the extremely long-range mission of the ULR, it was equally essential to make sure that the cabin might be made absolutely darkish, to provide passengers a restful sleep atmosphere.

Airways may have the selection between a typical pull-down shade, or an electro-mechanical, push-button system, with two cabin-darkening blinds.

The air circulation system on the A350 has additionally been designed to be quiet and draft-free.

“So though we recycle the air within the full capability of the cabin each two to a few minutes, we do it in a manner that we scale back the speed of the air contained in the cabin,” says Petteni.

Fill ‘er up

In comparison with the usual A350-900, the ULR will haul a further 24,000 liters of gas to fly its 20-hour missions.

Together with the stretch A350-1000, the household of planes shares mainly the identical wing construction. That construction features a common-sized heart gas tank.

“All that we’re doing on the ULR is to make use of all the quantity that we have now within the heart tank, a bit greater than the utilization that we have now for the -1000,” explains Marisa Lucas-Ugena, head of A350 advertising.

“We put in extra pipes and drains in order that we will get utilization of the complete quantity. For the [standard] -900 we’re not utilizing the complete area that we have now.”

That extra gas weighs about an additional 20,000 kilos. And identical to every other plane, the ULR’s operators should commerce on the payload/vary equation.

If you wish to fly far, you could carry extra gas. That gas provides extra weight, so you could then scale back the remainder of the payload.

A producer may improve the utmost take-off weight (MTOW) of the airplane, the airline may restrict the variety of passengers or quantity of cargo carried, or there might be a mix of each.

Airbus has upped the ULR’s MTOW to 280 tons, 5 tons greater than the usual airframe.

Singapore Airways will announce the inside configuration of its ULRs someday quickly, but it surely’s anticipated that there shall be far fewer than the 253 seats within the airline’s customary A350-900s.

There’ll doubtless be a big business-class cabin, and maybe a lot of premium economic system seats.

Along with the gas system modifications, the ULR sports activities a number of aerodynamic updates, embrace longer model of the A350’s elegant winglets.

Name of nature

Irrespective of the variety of individuals on board, Airbus feels certain that the ULR’s bathroom and water programs are as much as the problem of a 20-hour flight.

“There are not any modifications to the capacities, simply optimization,” explains Lucas-Ugena. “That is one thing that we do at Airbus, when we have now a household of airplanes, any time we have now a brand new kind or a brand new modification, we take the chance to enhance issues.”

Maybe one other Airbus idea will discover its manner into the ULR.

Positioned within the area usually stuffed with cargo containers, passengers would entry bunk beds by way of a stairway from the primary deck.

Candy goals.