(토요모임) [24. Sep. 2016] Saturday meeting topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy ! 

It's me Scarlett !   

This week we have 3 topics. 

◈ Life 

- Answered! Life’s 25 Toughest Questions

◈ Healthcare

- The number of people aged over 60 is set to double by 2050. Are we prepared?

- An ageing population is about to have a big impact on Europe's economy

◈ Security 

- Participation nearly doubles in Great Oregon ShakeOut earthquake drill

- Warning that Korean peninsula could become new quake zone after series of tremors in the South

Hope you enjoy the topics. 

With luv 

Scarlett

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Answered! Life’s 25 Toughest Questions

1. Can love really last a lifetime?

Absolutely — but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after. A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12 to 18 months. After that, you and your partner are on your own. Relationships require maintenance. Pay a visit to a nursing home if you want to see proof of lasting love. Recently I spoke to a man whose wife of 60 years was suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s disease. He came to sit with her every day and hold her hand. “She’s been my best friend since high school,” he told me. “We made a promise to stick together.” Now, that’s a love story.

2. Why do married folks begin to look like one another? 

Watch any two people who like each other talking, and you’ll see a lot of mirroring. One smiles, and so does the other. One nods or raises her eyebrows, and so does the other. Faces are like melodies with a natural urge to stay in sync. Multiply those movements by several decades of marriage, all those years of simultaneous sagging and drooping, and it’s no wonder!

3. Can a marriage survive betrayal? 

Yes. It takes time and work, but experts are pretty unanimous on this one. In her book The Monogamy Myth, Peggy Vaughan estimates that 60 percent of husbands and 40 percent of wives will have an affair at some point in their marriages. That’s no advertisement for straying — but the news is good for couples hoping to recover from devastating breaches of trust. The offended partner needs to make the choice to forgive — and learn to live with a memory that can’t simply be erased. Infidelity is never forgotten, but it can gradually fade into the murky background of a strong, mature marriage.

4. Why does summer zoom by and winter drag on forever? 

Because context defines experience. As Albert Einstein once said: “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour.”

5. Do animals really have a sixth sense? 

Or seventh or eighth! A box jellyfish has 24 eyes, an earthworm’s entire body is covered with taste receptors, a cockroach can detect movement 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom — and your dog’s sense of smell is up to 100,000 times greater than yours (some dogs have been known to smell human cancers). It’s safe to say that animals experience a much different world than we do.

6. Why does the line you’re in always move the slowest? 

Because you’re late for your kid’s band practice, and you curse your luck and envy those speeding by. Conversely, when you’re in the fast line, unfettered by stress, you don’t even notice the poor schlubs in the slow lane. Good luck rarely commands one’s attention like bad luck. (See answer on buttered toast, “The Ultimate Test,” below.)

7. By what age should you know what you want to do with your life? 

Any moment now. This used to be a question the young asked. Now it’s a quandary for baby boomers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that younger boomers have abandoned the American ideal of picking a job and sticking with it. Between the ages of 18 and 36, these boomers held an average of 9.6 jobs. That’s a lot of exploration. The wisdom of elders in all cultures seems to be this: There’s nothing to do with a life but live it. As Gandhi pointed out, “Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

8. Where do traffic jams come from? 

Scientists are hard at work on this one, studying computer models of the physics of gridlock and inventing all new traffic-light algorithms. Some of them postulate that the rhythms of automobile traffic are influenced by the same cyclical forces that cause waves in the ocean. For the average commuter, though, it may be helpful to think of it this way: congestion. There are just too many darn people trying to do the same thing at once. (Flush every toilet in a single office building simultaneously, and see what happens.) All of this by way of saying: Buy a newspaper, load up some favorite tunes on your MP3 player, and take the bus.

9. When is your future behind you? 

When you stop chasing dreams. So don’t stop!

10. Do you have to love your job? 

No. Love your children, your spouse and your country. Love your parents, your neighbor and your dog. Loving is too important an emotion to attach to the way you make a living. But it’s OK to strive for satisfaction. According to a recent Harris Poll, across America 59% of workers say they are extremely, somewhat or slightly satisfied with their jobs, but a depressing 33% feel as if they’ve reached a career dead end. If you’re among the latter and thinking about a new job, consider the fact that employees in small firms said they felt more engaged in their work than did their corporate counterparts.

11. Can a man and a woman ever just be friends? 

For a short time perhaps. Making the friendship last requires that you find each other at least vaguely repulsive. Good luck!

12. When do you take away Grandpa’s car keys? 

Twenty-two states currently require frequent testing for senior drivers. The American Medical Association and the AARP, however, say safe driving has more to do with functional ability than age. True, seniors are more at risk for reduced vision, hearing loss and impairments associated with arthritis — but all of these conditions depend on the individual. So when it seems to you that Pop is becoming a danger to himself and a danger to others, tell him straight. Point out that his reactions have slowed or his judgment is losing its edge. Suggest he not drive anymore. Be firm, but at the same time, don’t treat him like a child. Allow him his dignity. Offer him

a ride.

13. Do siblings who fight really end up liking each other? 

I surveyed my older sisters, both of whom have vivid memories of how I tripped, pummeled, and whacked them with various large plastic dolls (hey, they started it — they teased me!), and both confirmed my suspicion that nowadays they like me just fine. I sure like them. All the experts will tell you that fighting among siblings is normal. The key is how parents handle it. Rule No 1: Don’t take sides. Never get into a discussion of who started what or what is more fair. Stop fights with a time-out for all offenders. My mother would send us to separate rooms. So we invented string phones and a pulley system to transport necessary treats and toys. And whatever we were fighting about was forgotten.

14. How do you know when to end a friendship? 

As soon as you get that sneaking suspicion that it never really began.

15. Why do we turn into our parents when we swore we wouldn’t? 

Because really, when all is said and done, we admire them.

16. Can a half-empty person become a half-full person? 

A current theory is that people have an “emotional set point.” Some folks are just made happier than others. Pessimists will see this as bad news, believing it really doesn’t matter what you do — they are never going to be any happier. But there is hope — as any optimist will see! Happiness has more to do with how you construe the events in your life than the actual events themselves.

17. When do kids become adults? 

Biologically, it’s happening earlier; emotionally, it seems to be happening later. Nowadays puberty occurs in females between ages 8 and 14, between 9 and 15 in males. A generation ago, when you turned 18, you were out the door and on your own. Now we see kids in the Boomerang Generation coming home to Mom and Dad after college, hoping for a hand with bills, laundry, meals and other responsibilities of adulthood. It’s cute for a while, less adorable the older the kid gets.

18. Can a mother be friends with her teenage daughter? 

No. Most teens aren’t ready for anything close to a mature friendship. According to current research, the brain continues to develop into a person’s 20s. Mothers often want to befriend their daughters; fathers, their sons. But this is not in anyone’s best interest. Teenagers need to form identities distinct from their parents. That means: lots of privacy, even some secrets. It’s usually easier for a teenage girl to befriend the friend of her mother, and it’s usually best for the mother to leave it at that.

19. Does money really buy happiness? 

No. Because happiness isn’t for sale. Many people get tripped up by this one, amassing wealth only to find themselves cycling into a bottomless pit of unsatisfiable yearning. Turns out, joy and misery are not that far apart when it comes to very big wads of cash. Consider the case of a Kentucky couple who won $34 million in 2000. Thrilled to be released from the demands of their boring old jobs, they frittered their fortune away on fancy cars, mansions, all the usual stuff — losing everything that mattered in the process. They divorced, he died of an alcohol-related illness, and she died alone in her new house just five years after cashing the winning ticket. When it comes to happiness, only people you love, and who love you, can bring it. If you have enough dough to buy yourself a luxurious yacht, but no real friends to sail with, you’re sunk.

20. Can spenders and savers stay married? 

Sure — and they won’t run out of things to talk about either. Disagreements over money are a leading cause of divorce, so experts advise lots of work around this issue if, financially speaking, you’ve found yourself married to your opposite. Tip: Always talk in terms of “ours” instead of “mine” or “yours,” and work your strengths. The saver should be allowed to draft the budget; the spender gets to be

in charge of vacations, celebrations and ordering extra toppings on the pizza.

21. Is money the root of all evil? 

No. Greed is. Elvis nailed this one when he said, “Sharing money is what gives it its value.”

22. What do you do if you see a parent berating a child? 

Cringe. Take a deep breath. If you truly believe you can help the situation, approach as someone showing sympathy — not as an accuser or member of the parent police. Empathize with the overstressed parent. Suggest that he take a deep breath. Tell him it worked for you.

23. Why is it so hard to say you’re wrong? 

Because it often involves saying, “I’m sorry,” which is even harder. Throughout history people have found it easier to stop speaking to one another, punch, slander, shoot and bomb rather than apologize. Tip: Next time just say, “Whoops,” and see what happens.

24. When should you reveal a secret you said you wouldn’t? 

It’s a matter of damage control. Is the person who asked you to keep the secret in danger of hurting himself or others? If so, intervene. Otherwise, mum’s the word.

25. Does the toast really always fall buttered-side down?

Scientists in the Ask Laskas Kitchen conducted a study for which they first toasted an entire loaf of bread, one slice at a time. They buttered each slice, and dropped it from a variety of heights ranging from tabletop to ceiling. Among their findings: A dropped piece of toast never lands on its edge; stomping your foot and yelling “Darn!” does not change a thing; and the floor in the Ask Laskas Kitchen is not nearly as clean as we’d like. Well, life’s like that. Never as neat as you’d like it to be. But keep buttering your toast. And savor every slice you’ve been given.

Article source : http://www.rd.com/advice/relationships/answers-to-lifes-toughest-25-questions/2/

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The number of people aged over 60 is set to 

double by 2050. Are we prepared?

Written by Derek Yach/ Chief Health Officer, Vitality Group

Published Friday 9 September 2016

By 2020, individuals aged 60 and older will be greater in number than children younger than five. By 2050, the world’s older adult population will have doubled to 2 billion. These numbers are striking. Cognitive decline, strained pension schemes, and burgeoning healthcare costs: are we prepared for tomorrow’s complex longevity challenges?

These challenges provide unique opportunities and considerable threats if we fail to act soon. Governments and insurers monetize health and have a direct interest in actively promoting longevity. But they are not alone. All sectors and stakeholders have a role to play in enabling progress toward the creation of healthy and vibrant older societies.

Financial services organizations – particularly banks and insurers – have a fiduciary duty to uphold for their customers. Financial protection is needed for preventing financial abuse of the elderly. Technologies predicted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution – ranging from wearables and in-home sensors to artificial intelligence and advanced algorithms – can support the health and wealth of older adults. Regulations and policies must accompany these technological advancements.

As global citizens advocating for and leading positive change, how can we spur action to proactively address the impacts of ageing on human and financial wellbeing? Here are five recommendations:

 Create “whealthcare”

A growing number of academics and businesses are examining the impacts of health and wealth together. Skills in financial reasoning are among the first to erode with cognitive changes to the brain. Training professionals in cognitive impairment and ageing are needed to support better communication across a majority of institutions. Physicians should be trained and encouraged to discuss financial and personal affairs with their patients.

 Life-course approach

The value of activities undertaken to promote health and wealth in early life become increasingly apparent in later life. Financial planners must work with their clients to develop financial plans that address the effects of cognitive decline across the life course. Urban planners must build housing, transport, and entire cities for an ageing global population.

 Collaborative research

Research is needed to better bridge the divide between health and wealth. For healthy ageing, additional research is needed on the determinants of longevity and its most effective interventions. For wealth, predictors and patterns of financial abuse and fraud is required. Academic researchers and financial institutions must collaborate to generate cross-cutting research on healthy ageing and financial wellbeing.

 Develop innovative technologies

Personalized technologies with the potential to facilitate healthy ageing and the prevention of financial fraud among older adults are gradually emerging. These technologies must be developed for ease-of-use and functionality, while maintaining appropriate safeguards on data protection and privacy. Artificial intelligence and robotics will be enablers of enhanced function and protection, though they will require collective action to ensure their widespread benefits.

 Age-friendly policies

The regulatory and policy environment needs to be adapted for ageing populations. This may include modifications to caregiver oversight and power of attorney statutes that serve to prevent financial fraud and abuse. Granting access to third-parties, including caregivers, must become the new norm in a world of ageing populations.

These recommendations are inspirational and ambitious. They cannot be fulfilled by one individual or organization acting alone. It will demand the deliberate foresight and collaboration among diverse stakeholders to facilitate the creation of sustained health and wealth for older adults. They will take cooperation and dedication, though the results are worth the investment.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/5-ways-to-prepare-for-tomorrows-ageing-population/

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An ageing population is about to 

have a big impact on Europe's economy

Written by Will Martin/ Markets Reporter, Business Insider UK

Published Thursday 25 August 2016

Europe's ageing population is going to cause a sharp productivity slowdown and cause serious economic problems, according to new research from staff at the International Monetary Fund.

Europe's already ageing population is about to swell as workers reach retirement age, which in turn will cause a substantial drop in productivity, IMF staff members Shekhar Aiyar, Christian Ebeke, and Xiaobo Shao, wrote.

European productivity is already poor by historical standards, particularly in states like Italy and Greece, where rock-bottom productivity has previously caused significant economic issues. In fact in Italy, weak productivity growth is one of the biggest factors in the country's stagnant economy.

Within the next two decades, the IMF argues, the number of people in the European workforce aged between 55-64 will increase by one third, growing from 15% to 20%. This in turn could cause big issues.

Here's the an extract from Aiyae, Ebeke, and Shao's blog (emphasis ours):

"There are several different theories regarding age-related effects on productivity. On the one hand, accumulated years of work experience could make older workers more productive. On the other hand, frailer health and obsolete skills could reduce their productivity, at least beyond a certain threshold. While it is difficult to generalize across occupations, the consensus in the literature is that productivity increases with age at first, peaking sometime in the 40s or 50s. Then it diminishes."

The IMF staff continue by explaining the big issues that the ageing workforce could cause, adding (emphasis ours):

"First, ageing will take a considerable toll on productivity growth over the medium- to long-term. As shown in Chart 2, average total factor productivity growth in the euro area is forecast to be around 0.8 percent per year. This could be higher by a quarter—that is to say, total factor productivity could increase to about one percent per year—if we shut down the effect of workforce ageing. This result stands in stark contrast to the United States, where the workforce is not projected to age at all (in fact, it is projected to become slightly younger), and hence the impact on total factor productivity is negligible."

And here is Chart 2:

As previously noted, the IMF argues that these productivity slumps could be unevenly distributed, with already weak nations facing the biggest burden. Here's the fund one final time (emphasis ours):

"Second, the burden of workforce ageing will fall unequally across euro area member states.Worryingly, some of the largest adverse effects on productivity will fall on countries that can least afford it, such as Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.These countries already have elevated debt levels and meager fiscal space, and need rapid productivity growth to build competitiveness and bring down unemployment."

Europe's economy isn't exactly in a brilliant state as it stands. Years of negative interest rates and super-accommodative monetary policy have as yet at least, failed to stimulate the growth and inflation so desperately needs coming out of the eurozone crisis. Add into the mix the economic uncertainty caused by the UK's Brexit vote, and the last thing the continent needs is for productivity to fall even lower.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/an-ageing-population-is-about-to-have-a-big-impact-on-europes-economy?utm_content=buffere051f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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<Questions>

Q1. Do you prepare for a life after 60 or after your retirement? 

Q2. As time goes by you are getting aged. How do you feel about that? 

Q3. What are the merits and demerits of aging? 

Q4. Do you have a second life plan? 

Q5. Do you feel any changes in your industry due to the aging population increase? 

Q6. What do you do usually when you are alone? 

Q7. Nowadays we talk a lot about an automation industry. How could we take advantage of this tech. to tackle troubles of aging society? 

Q8. Do we have enough welfare system for aged group? 

Q9. What is the proper welfare system for aged group? (Maybe not just money.) In other words, why old generation is not happy? How can we make our old generation happy? 

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Participation nearly doubles in Great Oregon

ShakeOut earthquake drill

When it comes to the threat of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, attention must be paid.

And the kind of attention generated by this summer's article in The New Yorker not only scared the bejesus out of folks who call Oregon and Washington home, it has nearly doubled the number of people who signed up for the Great Oregon ShakeOut drill this year.

"We have nearly doubled the amount of people participating in the shakeout this year," said Cory Grogan, a spokesman for the Oregon Office of Emergency Management. "Last year, we had 390,000 people who signed up; now we have more than 520,000 and counting."

» TIMELINE: CASCADIA EARTHQUAKES: Tracking 10,000 years of Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes. 

The drill starts at 10:15 a.m. Thursday and will take place around the world, Grogan said.

In Portland, the city's Bureau of Emergency Communications Center will join in, officials say, when 911 dispatchers and emergency managers will practice "drop, cover, and hold on," along with switching to backup radios, messaging outside emergency contacts, and working through established emergency response protocol set forward for times of catastrophe and crisis," according to a news release.

Grogan said in addition to The New Yorker article, renewed focus on the devastating earthquakes and tsunamis in both Indonesia, and more recently Japan, has generated a sense of urgency among state, local and federal emergency managers along with the general public.

"Oregon is at risk for both crustal and subduction zone earthquakes that have the potential to destroy property and take lives," said the agency's geologic hazards coordinator, Althea Rizzo. "It's critical that people know what to do during an earthquake so they can be survivors. Oregonians should strive to be self-sufficient for at least two weeks after a major earthquake." 

A 2013 report by the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup found that a repeat of the magnitude-9 earthquake that hit the region on Jan. 26, 1700, "will have lasting impacts to coastal communities and the potential to inflict tens of billions of dollars in physical damage, dramatically impacting the region's economy."

The urgency of the looming disaster has prompted the U.S. Geological Survey to turn to Twitter for a fast, efficient way to get out earthquake alerts as detailed in an Oregon Public Broadcasting piece earlier this week.

While public schools are often the focus of earthquake and emergency drills, Portland Public Schools is sponsoring a more extensive Youth Disaster Academy from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Benson High School.

The full-day workshop is for 60 juniors at the school and will include hands-on medical triage, small fire suppression training (with the help of firefighters from the Portland Fire Bureau) and a session on developing a safety plan using mobile phone applications and other tools. Students will also participate in the Great Oregon ShakeOut.

Article source : http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/10/number_of_participants_in_grea.html

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Warning that Korean peninsula could become 

new quake zone after series of tremors in the South

By Julian Ryall, tokyo / 13 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 3:16PM

When South Korea was rocked on Monday evening by the most powerful earthquake since seismic records were first collated on the peninsula in 1978, there were mercifully few reports of injuries, and no serious damage. 

But experts are now warning that recent earthquakes in nearby Japan have destabilised fault lines in Korea, adding fuel to fears the peninsula is no longer a "safe zone." 

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook much of South Korea shortly after 8:30 pm, but had been preceded by a magnitude 5.1 tremor close to the city of Gyeongju, 230 miles south-east of Seoul, just 45 minutes previously.

Seismic monitors recorded more than 40 aftershocks in the hours after the tremors.

South Korean media said there were two reports of people sustaining injuries, while buildings and infrastructure sustained minor damage. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. reported that none of its nuclear reactors had been affected by the quake and all were operating normally.

Geologists suggested that the Korean Peninsula is now feeling the affects of the seismic activity that has rattled Japan in the last six years.

In March 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake off the coast of north-east Japan caused widespread damage that was compounded by the massive tsunami that it triggered. More than 18,000 people died in the disaster.

That quake was followed by a series of aftershocks until April his year, when a magnitude-7 tremor struck Kyushu, in southern Japan, causing 51 deaths.

Experts say it is no coincidence that four of the nine most powerful earthquakes recorded on the Korean Peninsula have happened in the last two years.

"The latest earthquake was relatively more powerful because the Kyushu quake occurred on the Eurasian Plate, which also includes the Korean Peninsula", Je Heon-cheol, a seismologist at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

"Earthquakes generally occur in regions that have experienced seismic activity in the past", Sun Chang-guk, another analyst at the institute, added.

"The fault line [at Gyeongju] is active enough to cause an earthquake at any time", he added. "Our analysis so far shows that the biggest quake that could occur on the Korean Peninsula measures around 6.5 in magnitude, though some geologists believe a 7-magnitude earthquake is possible".

Park Geun-hye, the South Korean president, on Tuesday promised to take measures to better protect key facilities - including nuclear power plants - from earthquakes.

Article source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/warning-that-korean-peninsula-could-become-new-quake-zone-after/

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<Questions>

Q1. What is the most crucial factor that makes you feel insecure in Korean society?

Q2. When earthquake hit Korea peninsula last week, how did you feel about it? 

Q3. What is your housing type? Did you feel that your house is safer than other types of housing? 

Q4. Which type of urbanizing concept is safer in terms of earthquake? Compact city concept or sprawling city concept? Where will you live between two conceptual cities?

Q5. Do you prepare survivor kit for an emergency situation? If yes, what did you prepare? 

Q6. Do you know the drills when serious earthquake is striking us? 

 How to React During an Earthquake

<Three Methods>

1. Drop, Cover and Hold On (Indoors)

2. Triangle of Life (Indoors)

3. Surviving Earthquakes Outdoors 

Earthquakes happen when the earth's crust shifts, causing seismic waves to quake and crash up against one another. Unlike hurricanes or floods, earthquakes come without warning and are usually followed by similar aftershocks, although the aftershocks are usually less powerful than the quake. If you find yourself in the middle of an earthquake, there's often only a split-second to decide what to do. Studying the following advice could be the difference between life and death.

Article source : http://www.wikihow.com/React-During-an-Earthquake

Q7. Please check out status-quo of your house in terms of earthquake proof status. Below picture is ready for your reference. 

Q8. If earthquake hits your community what would be the most risky or vulnerable infrastructure? Do you think your governmental body has the concrete plan to protect you from that emergency situation? 

Q9. Have you ever practiced earthquake drill in your community? 

Q10. What do you expect for our government to do for Korean citizen?