Why Tai Chi Is Right For You!
Better Balance With the Internal Martial Art in recent years, even campaigning to make it an Olympic event. In an interview, Li explained his push to make tai chi a more widely recognized and accepted exercise: “In our attempts to push ourselves, we’ve lost sight of an important part of the sporting mindset: balance.” For anyone setting out on a mission to age gracefully, tai chi can help reduce your risk of falling with its focus on posture. An ounce of preventive tai chi may be worth a pound of cure; the Center for Disease Control reports that people pay an average of $35,000 in health care costs every time they fall. Many community centers and health and wellness facilities offer opportunities to learn tai chi, from free community classes to entire tai chi facilities. Go see for yourself why this is the martial art everyone should practice.
Free publicWi-Fi hot spots are everywhere. You may have hopped on a publicWi-Fi network at an airport, hotel, school, restaurant, or café. These networks are incredibly convenient when you need to check your email, browse the latest headlines, or do a little out-of-office work without using your data. They’re especially useful when you’re out of network or traveling abroad. The question is this: Do you know how secure your devices are? In some cases, free and accessible networks allow other people to see what is on your device. In other cases, people set up fraudulent hot spots near legitimate ones in order to snoop and steal data. Just about anyone with the proper know-how can quickly identify what type of device you are using, whether it be a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, and what the device is named, like “Alex’s iPad.” When a snooper wants further information, it doesn’t take much effort. If you have any publicly accessible files, like shared documents, music, or photos, all of this can be easily found and viewed. If the snooper wants even more information, all they need is a special program or app for stealing data —which they likely have. Snoopers may use software to gather information on the websites you are visiting, your email, and instant messages you send and receive, along with When you think about martial arts, a few images come to mind: Mr. Miyagi, possibly nunchucks, and people breaking objects using impressive disciplined strength. But one of the most powerful martial arts you may not immediately picture is tai chi. This ancient Chinese form of combat in slow motion is an internal martial art that works from the inside out by developing the body’s internal energy, known as qi, or “chi.” In Chinese medicine, balanced qi is essential to good health. Hundreds of studies demonstrate the mental and physical benefits this quiet martial art provides. Because of its focus on posture, tai chi is particularly helpful for balance. In Harvard’s analysis of 20 different studies, tai chi was shown to improve cognitive function and slow the progression of dementia more than other forms of exercise. While the movements appear mild, the practice of tai chi requires discipline and strength. That’s part of the reason why it provides a powerful punch of health benefits and also why less than 5 percent of people stick with it. Some teachers say it takes three years to learn the basic movements of tai chi — and more than a lifetime to master. Physical training, combined with the internal meditative aspect of tai chi, are the reasons martial arts legend Jet Li has turned to the exercise
HOW SECURE ARE YOUR DEVICES? Protect Yourself When Using Public Wi-Fi
usernames and passwords. It’s not as simple as screen-sharing. Snoopers will only see packets of code and other similar information, but software can help piece this information together to decipher what you are looking at. They can also grab data quickly and splice it together at a later date. How can you best protect yourself, your data, and your devices? First, only connect to networks you trust. Avoid connecting to publicly accessibleWi-Fi, if possible. If you need to use it, make sure theWi-Fi network is secured in some way, such as requiring a password (many hotels take this step). You should be able to get the network name and password from the provider of theWi-Fi hot spot. Second, if you notice two similar networks when you try to connect, alert the owner of the legitimate network, such as an employee of the coffee shop providing theWi-Fi, and confirm the network’s legitimacy before you connect. If you can’t verify a network, it’s best to play it safe and simply not connect. PublicWi-Fi is more common than ever, making it harder to ensure you are connecting to a legitimate and secure signal. Taking these steps to secure your devices and your data are always worth it. You never want to risk strangers getting hold of any information you may have on those devices.
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