금요일주제 11/1 Friday – Let’s improve our English skill and have fun!|

[Joy주영]

<< Session 1 – 7:30 ~ 8:25 >>                                                              proposed by William

Breathing Lessons : The key to a smaller waist and a sharper mind might be learning to inhale.

Who hasn’t been annoyed by the advice to just take a deep breath? But it turns out there might be something to that recommendation. According to Jill Miller, the creator of the Yoga Tune Up program at Equinox, exercising your breathing muscles—namely, the diaphragm(횡경막) and intercostals(늑골근육)—can not only chill you out but also improve your physique(체격). A perfect inhalation, Miller says, reaches all the way down to the lower lungs, puffing out the belly. “If breathing muscles are aligned properly, your heart and digestive system work better,” says Miller, who created a workout during which students roll their bodies over rubber balls to get those muscles working optimally. And there’s an aesthetic upside: Miller likens strong intercostals to “an internal corset” that holds in your midsection. Meanwhile, in New York, clinical psychologist Belisa Vranich’s Breathe classes at Willspace studio combine posture correction, core work, and inhalation practice to get students using more of their lung capacity. “You break down nutrients with oxygen—your brain runs on it, and your muscles heal with it,” she says. But stress, combined with sucking in our bellies, drives most of us to breathe shallowly. It’s a vicious cycle: Stress causes shallow breathing, and shallow breathing increases stress, leading to elevated levels of cortisol, a hormone linked to increased belly fat.

Breathing exercises, on the other hand, have been shown in recent studies to lower blood pressure and improve hand-eye coordination. The self-proclaimed “breath guru” Alan Dolan believes they can also save your career—and even your marriage. Dolan conducts retreats on the Canary Islands, where, in addition to yoga, he uses stretches, breath work, and music to help clients reset respiration. “I’ve ‘breathed’ athletes, actresses who need help steadying nerves, and couples working on a relationship,” Dolan says.

If an island retreat isn’t in the cards, check out Vranich’s book, Breathe, out in January. Her DIY techniques draw on martial arts, pulmonology, sports psychology, yoga, and Russian ­special-ops training. “My clients are type A people who tune out as soon as they hear the word ‘meditate,’ ” Vranich says. But that isn’t to say her breathing lessons don’t have a trippy side. At the end of each class, Vranich uses music, aromatherapy, and cycles of very deep, very fast breaths to flood students’ bodies with oxygen. The side effect? A light-headed, blissed-out state that, for some, borders on hallucinogenic(환각제). Even Xanax(신경안정제) can’t compare. 

1.     How much do you care about your health nowadays?

2.     What kind of exercise or supplement do you take to improve your health or get rid of stress?

3.     Do you think you are under lots of stress? How do you control it? What do you think about taking breathing lessons? Do you think it makes sense and is worth trying?

4.     Nowadays people seem to pay much attention to their physical health, then how about our mental health? What do you do for your mental health? Reading books, meditation, or what?

5.     What exercises do you take for which parts of your bodies? Let’s share a good way of being healthy or going on a diet with each other

6.     Make your own questions.

<< Session 2 – 8:35 ~ 9:30 >>       

Right to be forgotten emerges as hot potato in US, EU                         from Korea Times prepared by Joy

The ability to forget is said to be a gift from God ― not anymore.
A female singer was embroiled in a scandal when web-cam footage of a naked teenage girl surfaced on the web. Although she claimed the woman in the video was a lookalike, the video spread fast with her name on it anyway. This happened three years ago. And yet, if a person web-searches the singer, online search engines all too smartly reveal “body cam” next to her name. The video is carried to and shared with others, and people reproduce the content by adding their own comments or thoughts.
In this digitalized world, it seems increasingly difficult ― close to impossible ― to forget anything. Words or images might fade in one’s memory, but they can still circulate through online networks, haunting the person, even after his or her death. This happens to average Joe and Jane, too.

 When Park, now a 29-year-old housewife, was a college student four years ago, she liked to visit clubs with her friends to dance. She would sometimes be invited on stage for dance competitions, winning on-the-house drinks or side dishes.Park said she is unable to visit clubs with her friends after marriage. But she was shocked when her sister-in-law said she found an Internet video showing Park dancing on a club stage. “It was embarrassing to explain to my sister-in-law that I loved dancing and I used to visit clubs often,” Park said. “Both my sister-in-law and I didn’t think it was something I should feel ashamed of. But still, I want to be able to decide whether or not my past is recorded. If I can’t, I believe it is a breach of privacy.”

Kim Seung-hyun, 30, an employee at a trading company in Seoul, learned it the hard way. He used to post messages on the Internet about personal thoughts and feelings. He wrote complaints about people, like his ex-girlfriend, or other general matters relating to society. What Kim didn’t know was that his future bosses might also be able to see the messages. Soon after Kim started working at the office, almost all of his colleagues and seniors including his boss came to know about his past private life. “I wanted to start anew when I was employed, escaping my past full of complaints, because I actually have changed,” Kim said. “I didn’t think that someone I recently got to know could learn about my past so easily through the Internet.”

Data protection today
Faced with those issues, data protection ― the so-called right to be forgotten ― has emerged as a hot potato in the European Union and the United States.
In Korea, lawmaker Lee Noh-geun presented a bill that could give individuals the right to remove what he or she wrote and what is written about him or her online, in February. However, the bill is already facing some obstacles. The problem is that the bill, if enacted, may infringe on one’s freedom of speech. It leaves the question of whether it is right for someone to erase all of the falsely reported news articles about him or her, as if none of it happened. This is closely related to the freedom of speech.  

Digital undertakers
Businesses were quick to follow the trend, churning out new services and professions providing online security. A “cyber undertaker,” otherwise known as a “digital undertaker,” is one who clears all cyber information that has been left behind after one dies or upon the wishes of their clients.
“We help families identify, and record, any relevant digital information including financial assets or liabilities following a demise, and we try to close down, as much as possible, the deceased person’s online life,” said Mike Donaldson, a digital undertaker based in the U.S. “The rights to remove or amend any of the deceased’s details are provided by an executor to a will or a family legal representative, a court injunction or simply by presenting the right information to the company holding the digital information and following their processes,” he said.

1.     How often do you upload and exchange your comment and photos with your acquaintance? Do you feel comfortable with it without worrying about any risk of revealing your information?

2.     Have you ever experienced or heard anything like the above case; such as your ID/photos or comments wrongly exposed on the web?

3.     Are there any ways to solve the above 3 cases? What action do they have to take to set things straight?

4.     In digital world, how do you protect your personal information and life? Do you have any tips?

5.     What do you think about “Digital undertakers”? Do you think such system is necessary or not?

6.     Make your own questions.

[Anne, 쏘영]

금욜이 되면 늘 마음은 참석하는데....ㅎㅎ 퇴근시간만 되면 몸이 집으로 간다는;;
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10월의 마지막날 잘 보내시고~ 해피 할로윈~~~

[Sam안홍삼]

올만에 정참 한번 해볼께요~^^

[Damon 형석]

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[철없는Cathy(경희)]

저는 오늘 불참입니다...

[Lara(민향)]

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[ssam/김민수]

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[MJ민정]

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