Don’t Forget to Stop your Mail

If the high gasoline prices are not going to keep you from traveling this summer, you should prepare for your trip. If you travel frequently, you probably keep all your travel items together and you are not likely to forget something at home, but when you are an occasional traveler, it is always frustrating to have to buy something that you forgot at home. When you buy on the road something substantial, like a camera, it is almost always inferior in quality than what you left at home. You are not going to spend several hundred dollars on another Canon or Nikon because you need your cash for the trip, so you end up buying a disposable camera with a bad lens.

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Most foot problems are caused by ergonomically bad shoe designs. The incidence of bunions (hallux valgus), bunionettes and hammer toe are four to five times more common in women than in men. The stylish and fashionable high-heeled women’s shoes with narrow toe boxes cause increased plantar pressure and toe crowding which over time distort the bones of the foot. Although only 9 percent of 30- to 60-year-olds have bunions, approximately 16 percent of people over the age 60 have them.

High-heel shoes, and ill-fitting shoes hamper mobility and increase the risk of falls. Bad insole designs can increase the pressure on the nerves of the foot and make it uncomfortable to walk. Podiatrists perform over 400,000 surgical operations per year to correct foot problems that could have been avoided by wearing comfortable, properly-fitted shoes.

Bad shoe designs are so prevalent that there is a large market for shoe inserts such as gel insoles that make it more comfortable to walk by distributing the weight of the body over a larger area of the foot.

English is the most common language in international trade, but there are many people in the world who do not understand English. Over 313 billion web pages have been published on the World Wide Web, and approximately 70% of them are written in English. Here are some global internet statistics of web content by language:

Language	Percent of web content
English	68.4%
Japanese	5.9%
German	5.8%
Chinese	3.9%
French	3.0%
Spanish	2.4%
Russian	1.9%

It is important to consider that the native language of people using the internet is not always English. About 30% of the web surfers are English speakers, but 15% speak Chinese, and 9% speak Spanish. Here are some statistics of the percent of users who surf the internet.

Language	Percent users	Number of users
English	30.1%	379M
Chinese	14.7%	185M
Spanish	9.0%	113M
Japanese	6.9%	88M
French	5.1%	64M
German	4.9%	62M
Portuguese	4.0%	51M

From these statistics, it is evident that Chinese and Spanish readers are being underserved. Web sites seeking to expand their global audience should consider translating some of their pages to make them accessible to speakers of other languages.

ScientificPsychic.com uses the following national flags to indicate the availability of web pages in other languages:

	English
	Spanish
	French
	German
	Russian

To see an example of an internationalized web page see:

English Verb Conjugation and Inflectional Morphology

Diet calculator in Spanish

Recientemente leí que los mexicanos han engordando tanto que ahora México esta en segundo lugar mundial en obesidad despues de los Estados Unidos[1]. Esto me ha motivado a traducir mi calculadora de dieta a español.

Espero que esta página web ayude a mis amigos y familiares en México a controlar el sobrepeso, aunque creo que también será útil para mis amigos en España y Sudamérica.

[1] Mexico now the 2nd fattest country, after U.S.