A surprise awaited me when recently I and others were given a tour of the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care (YHC) while attending a conference in Toronto, Canada. Completely unexpected, I was actually touring one of the world’s best geriatric centers, and witnessing an example of the power of one. The life expectancy of […]
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Importance of Waist Rotation in Taijiquan
February 2009
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One of the most important techniques in Taijiquan, as well as in almost all martial arts, is the need to rotate your waist while you are executing various forms. This is true whether you are doing warm up exercises, doing the forms in one of the Taijiquan form sets (e.g., the Simplified Yang Style 24 […]
Misplaced Priority and Its Social Impacts
February 2009
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Salaries of Top-Level Professional Sports The top 10 picks in last year’s National Football League (NFL) draft signed contracts that guaranteed an average of $18.7 million over the lifetime of their contracts, usually four-to-six years.[1] This is the guaranteed amount; that means they could earn even more, perhaps much more, if they perform to their […]
Sex Slaves of World War II
One of the most horrific crimes of the World War II period[1] has remained relatively unknown to most Americans, as well as to most people in many other parts of the world, even though more than 63 years have elapsed since the end of World War II. This is the crime of sex slaves, or […]