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In addition to the stinking feet shoes smelly a fe

Fri, 18 May 2012 01:14:35 -0500

1, shoes is put inside small quick lime (eat rice cake snow and some other food inside often the desiccant).

2, grapefruit skin tore into little pieces into shoes inside.

3, will foot in 50 to 60 degrees Celsius in the hot water of hot a few times, every time 15 minutes, daily 1 to 2 times.

4, wash feet, in the water to join MiCu 10 to 15 ml, after cooked, put both feet in for 15 minutes left right, once per day, continuous bubble three to four days, stinking feet can disappear.

5, wash feet, put in hot water 50 g alum, soak for 10 minutes or so, can remove stinking feet.

6, puerarin 15 grams, inquiry into powder, add liquor 15 grams, add right amount water, wash feet fry once a day, a week after continuous, can remove caused by the feet sweat feet smelly.

7, sleep every night, or dip in with cotton far small alcohol, it evenly in just take off the glue, shoes inside, for the second day morning after dry wear it again. So insist on two weeks later, the shoes will not give off a bad smell.

8, apply adequate amount dehydration alum or dry lime powder, with small cloth bag well, every night the face before sleeping, placed inside the shoe.

9, put a few grain of camphor ball pressure into power, and in the clean shoes inside, in a piece of the insole cushions, so wear less smelly feet. Camphor ball can't directly and feet contact, the inside of the camphor ball as long as change once every other week. Camphor ball can have very good antibacterial effect, can kill for wet and breeding of bacteria, so it won't have bad smell.

10, new buy back the glue, shoes, the sponge in the evenly spray on foot liquor (until the sponge bottom can't absorb so far), to be its dry, look won't produce reek (an old glue, shoes, it will be cleaned with method can deal with).

11, dry tea (made of also can) bag into the shoes of odor removal.

12, wax gourd skin: wax gourd skin has cultivated, the effect of the spleen, wet benefit, can be used in the treatment of kidney disease, lung disease, heart disease, cause oedema, abdominal distension, childhood negative symptoms. In wax gourd skin wash feet for both Fried soup beriberi, and put to stinking feet, kill two birds with one stone.

13, socks, and it's easy to have bad smell, the water in the washing socks into a little vinegar, bubble for a while, and washed with clear water, such not only can remove stink, still can have antiseptic effect.

14, the shoe ark is also very good solve stink. As long as in the shoe ark put a piece of soap, will easily be able to remove the shoe ark stink. Open the shoe ark and good smell the fragrance of the boat.

Puzzles of Evolution (VI-VII)

Tue, 08 May 2012 03:36:58 -0500

A SINGLE mutation may have cleared the way for rapid brain evolution. Other primates have strong jaw muscles that exert a force across the whole skull, constraining its growth. But around 2 million years ago a mutation weakened this grip in the human line. A brain growth spurt began soon after (Nature, vol 428, p 415).
What drove this spurt is another matter. The environment probably presented mental challenges. Social developments would have played a part, too. To test the relative importance of these pressures, David Geary at the University of Missouri in Columbia compared the skull size of various hominins against environmental conditions each lived in, such as the estimated variation in annual temperatures, and against proxies for social pressure, such as group size. Both were associated with bigger brains, but the difficulties of navigating a larger social network had the greatest impact (Human Nature, vol 20, p 67).
A big brain is incredibly hungry, so early humans needed to change their diet to support it. The transition to eating meat would have helped. So would the addition of seafood about 2 million years ago, providing omega-3 fatty acids for brain building (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 107, p 10002). Cooking might have helped too, by easing digestion. This would have allowed ancestral humans to evolve smaller guts and devote the spare resources to brain building.
Big brains come at a price, however, including the dangers of giving birth. By the time the benefits no longer outweighed the costs, we had a 1.3 kilogram lump of jelly smart enough to question its own existence.
OUR ancestors have achieved some epic migrations. Homo erectus made the first great trek out of Africa and into east Asia 1.8 million years ago. Around a million years later, the predecessors of Neanderthals turned up in Europe. And 125, 000 years ago, Homo sapiens made an early foray into the Middle East. None of these populations lasted. But some 65, 000 years ago, one group of modern humans left Africa and conquered the world - an extraordinary achievement for any species, let alone a puny, furless ape. What possessed them to spread so far and wide?
It may have begun with a big squeeze. All humans belong to one of four mitochondrial lineages (L0, L1, L2 and L3) corresponding to four ancestral mothers, but only L3 is found outside Africa. Quentin Atkinson at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues have found that this lineage experienced a population explosion in the 10, 000 years leading up to the exodus (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol 276, p 367). So overcrowding in the Horn of Africa may have pushed the group to cross the Red Sea and move along the southern coast of Asia.
That still leaves the question of why numbers increased. Atkinson notes that for 100, 000 years the African climate had oscillated between drought and floods before becoming stable around 70, 000 years ago. Perhaps the environmental instability had forced early humans to become more inventive, with adaptations that helped population expansion once conditions improved.
Paul Mellars at the University of Cambridge has argued that the explosion in numbers was driven by a major increase in the complexity of technological, economic, social and cognitive behaviour (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 103, p 9381). The ability to control fire came much earlier, as, probably, did language. But the period does see a blossoming of innovation such as the manufacture of complex tools, efficient exploitation of food sources, artistic expression and symbolic ornamentation. These cultural advances would have been crucial, says Mark Pagel at the University of Reading, UK. "Not only can we walk, we can change the world when we get there." This flexibility would have propelled migrants ever onward, he notes, as populations quickly reached carrying capacity and individuals moved into new territory to avoid competition.
"Some of it would have been accidental, " adds Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum: the peopling of Australia may have come about when seafarers travelling between islands were blown further afield. Genetic mutations could also have made us more adventurous. For example, the so-called novelty-seeking gene, DRD4-7R, is more common in populations that migrated fastest and furthest from Africa (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol 145, p 382). "Of course there is the human spirit - to climb the unclimbed mountain, " says Stringer.

Bringing management lessons to Buddha

Tue, 08 May 2012 03:35:13 -0500

In Japan, where on-the-job training is often valued more than academic qualifications, an MBA is not an obvious step to career advancement – particularly if you are a Buddhist monk.
But Keisuke Matsumoto had a grander goal in sight when he decided to take a break from his job as a monk at Komyoji Temple in Tokyo and attend a one-year MBA programme in India.
Mr Matsumoto wanted to acquire management skills to help him realise his vision of transforming Japan’s Buddhist temples into something more relevant to modern Japanese society. The 32-year-old believes temples should be what Peter Drucker, the management consultant, called “change agents”, offering people a place where they can achieve their spiritual awakening.
Born in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, Mr Matsumoto was drawn to Buddhism after reading books that his grandfather, a Buddhist monk, had introduced him to as a child. After gaining a degree in philosophy at the University of Tokyo he became a monk in 2003.
“I wanted to change the world of Buddhism and in order to do that, you have to enter that world first,” he says.
He had long been troubled by the fact that although there were many temples in Japan, they were making little contribution to society.
“There are 70,000 to 80,000 temples in Japan, which is more than the number of convenience stores in the country. But temples are not making their mark on society in the way convenience stores are.”
He believed that temples had become ossified in their traditional role of performing funeral services and other rituals and were failing to fulfil their mission of serving the spiritual needs of contemporary society.
“What is important is the value of Buddhism, as a religion, to people who are alive now. I wanted to change Japanese Buddhism so that it would be relevant for today. A temple should be run with a view to providing value to people in this changing world. That is the real mission of temples.”
After working at Komyoji for seven years, Mr Matsumoto decided that a business school education would help him discover “how to manage a temple as a mission-orientated organisation” that could provide value to society. The leadership training at business school, he believed, would be useful in his quest to change the way temples operate in Japan.
“Monks study in their respective sects but they only learn about Buddhism. But you can’t manage a temple with just the study of Buddhism,” Mr Matsumoto says.
It is as important for a monk working at a Buddhist temple as it is for a corporate executive to be able to manage people, he adds, although a monk has to do so not with the aim of making money but of serving society.
Business school seemed to be his best chance for acquiring the necessary skills to manage people, since it is “a place that nurtures leaders, whether in the field of business or non-profit organisations”, he says, adding that it is “a place to study the template for how to move an organisation and provide value as an organisation and have an impact on society. And then you customise that to your specific situation”.
He chose the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad. “They say an MBA changes your life and they say India changes your life,” he says, and so he believed that combining the two would be a good idea.
He also thought that if he was going to meet the challenge of going to business school, he would rather go overseas than remain in Japan.
“I thought it would be better if the hurdle was high,” Mr Matsumoto says. He was awarded a Rotary scholarship and in spring 2010 he became the first Japanese person to attend ISB.
One lesson he brought back from the school was the importance of thinking “outside-in” rather than “inside-out”, which essentially means putting the customer first.
Monks are the archetype of inside-out thinking – their attitude is that Buddhism is a good thing so you should adopt its teachings, Mr Matsumoto says.
“There is a tendency to enforce things, to speak in a one-sided manner regardless of whether the person listening understands or not.
“But ... it is important to listen. Rather than saying, ‘this is what we have to give you’, it is important to understand what the other person needs, what is troubling him and what we need to do in order to solve that,” he says.
On his return from ISB, Mr Matsumoto changed the way he ran “Kamiyacho Open Terrace”, a temple café, which he had started as a way to reach out to the community.
Before business school he thought that once the café attracted a flow of people it would be a good place to spread the teachings of Buddhism. However, he now takes an outside-in approach and asks visitors what they want from the temple and the monks.
Mr Matsumoto was also struck by an idea from his lessons on customer relationship management: that customers should be thought of as individuals, rather than as a mass, and that one should adapt one’s approach to each customer.

20 eat not fat folk prescription

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:44:12 -0500

Nostrum 1 and the meals regularly quantitative

Nostrum 2, with small dishes with food

Nostrum 3, slowly to a bite of a spoon to drink the soup (soup except)

Interrupt: first drink soup is more aid in the digestion in order to, in order to reduce appetite, do you know how to do (the thin body soup?

Nostrum 4, drink the soup and then eat vegetables (had better not after oil. Stir fry)

Nostrum 5, meat and rice finally to eat, but also to appears awestruck chew slowly to swallow

Interrupt: lose weight can't eat meat? Not necessarily, watch what you eat, so that reduce weight is also can eat meat.

Nostrum 6, only eat lean lean, don't eat skin

Nostrum 7, something bone or have the shell to eat, don't eat ground meat

Nostrum 8, some barbed fish

Interrupt: eat fish healthy, both nourishing and hairdressing fitness. This is the traditional view, nutritionists told we: often eat fish many fat content is extremely high, can says "lose weight killer", the introduction of three paragraphs, enjoy all hope when "think before you and then feed"! So several kinds of fish is help to lose weight

9, eat pork nostrum cooking class food, eat less chunks of steak, pork chops

Nostrum 10, with powder Fried food, first the outside skin removed

Interrupt: Fried food or endure it, might as well eat delicious fruit, like grapefruit ah, banana ah, all can.

Nostrum 11, the food of the flour the water flour juice rushs eat again

Nostrum 12, would rather choose fruit, not fruit juice

Nostrum 13, to nibble slow pharynx

Interrupt: it seems like there was a kind of argument, every mouthful of all 15 times the best chewing, you have the patient?

Nostrum 14, only on the table to eat something

Nostrum 15, not watching TV chat and eat

Interrupt: so eat like a stuffy, then listen to music right, whatever you like!

16, not the stomach nostrum when of leftovers trash can

Nostrum 17, the eat immediately after brushing teeth

Interrupt: also need not immediately brush my teeth, and every half an hour or one hour later gargle or brush my teeth, and can keep fresh breath also won't looking for food and then eat it.

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Living With My Teenage Genius

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:42:09 -0500

AS HER son Cameron sits at his laptop completing an assignment for his maths degree course Alison Thompson is busy helping her daughter Emma get dressed.
Nothing unusual there, except that at just 14 Cameron is a highly gifted maths prodigy, while Emma is 12 and severely autistic.
Having two children with such contrasting abilities has at times been a challenge, admits full-time mum Alison, 34, who also has 10-year-old daughter Bethany.
While help has always been readily available for Emma, Alison and her husband Rod, 37, a computer programmer, have had to fight to get Cameron the support he needs. “People could see that Emma has special needs but because Cameron was doing so well at school his teachers never thought there was a problem. They refused to acknowledge that he was gifted, ” says Alison.
Admittedly it took Alison and Rod a while to realise their son was different. “Cameron was our first child and we didn’t really have anything to compare him with. He always had a very impressive vocabulary and we knew he was bright but he didn’t reach his milestones exceptionally early and there were no other real signs.”
It was only when he began primary school that his abilities became clear. “He used to cry when it was time to come home, ” recalls Alison. “He just always wanted to learn more.”
On one occasion he even corrected the teacher when she told the class that zero was the lowest number. Cameron told her she was wrong because there were negative numbers. He was four at the time.
By the time he was seven, Cameron, who lives with his family in Wrexham, North Wales, was leaps and bounds ahead of his classmates. It was also clear that he was suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, which is a form of autism. Children with Asperger’s typically find social interaction incredibly difficult and can become obsessive and inflexible.
“Not only was he getting bored at school but he didn’t know when to keep quiet and had no idea how to pick up on social cues, ” says Alison, who along with Rod started to put pressure on the school for extra support for their son.
Now 14 Cameron is at secondary school, studying for a distance learning maths degree with the Open University, having sailed through his GCSE at 11 and his A-level at 12, achieving top grades.
Today it is clear that this slightly built, engaging and awkward teenager is gifted but it has been a battle to get the authorities to acknowledge his needs.
“I don’t think the teachers had a clue what to do with a gifted child, ” says Alison. “We were worried about being labelled as pushy parents but there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting the best for your child. I think the teachers thought we were trying to drive Cameron with his maths but the drive came from him.”
Frustrated, the Thompsons considered home education – Cameron was also being targeted by bullies – but they thought it would hamper their son socially.
By his final year of primary school, Cameron had become bored and disruptive but fortunately when he moved to senior school teachers there took his talents seriously and he was encouraged to do more advanced maths work.
“He steamed through the GCSE syllabus in just three months, ” says Alison. “For the first time in ages he seemed really happy.”
Then his parents had to decide what to do next. Some gifted children are sent to university early but Alison and Rod felt this wasn’t right for Cameron. “What would he have in common with the other students?” she asks. “I just don’t understand these parents who are so ambitious that they lose all sight of their child.
“I was once contacted by a mother who told me her five-year-old was interested in taking a GCSE. I mean, really? What five-year-old has actually heard of a GCSE? When Cameron was five all he wanted was to be a train driver.”
Alison admits she is baffled by much of her son’s degree course. Even Rod, who has a maths degree himself, struggles to keep up. Yet they are careful never to compare Cameron with his sisters.
Bethany is bright too but not gifted. Sociable and artistic she is the one who will remind absent‑minded Cameron to put on his coat. She also helps him out in social situations. “Bethany could make friends in an empty room, ” says Alison proudly. “Having siblings with such different needs has made her very accepting.”
Emma attends a specialist school and the family is quick to celebrate her successes too. “The other day she did up the buttons on her coat which was real progress, ” Alison says.
The Thompsons try to live a normal life. Late last year they took part in a fly-on-the-wall television documentary to prove that not all gifted children are the result of overly ambitious parents. Cameron, who is also a brown belt in karate, was happy to take part as he had always wanted to be on TV.
“There is so much help out there for children like Emma but hardly anything at all for those at the other end of the spectrum, ” says Alison. “Gifted children need support too but their lives don’t have to be that different to anyone else’s. Cameron is proof of that.”
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A life less ordinary: Is emigration alluring or alienating?

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:41:05 -0500

From the outside, the lives of executives based beyond the borders of their own country can seem highly enviable. They are often somewhere that sounds exotic, the pay is probably good, the housing and education for their children better than at home.
However, each move means losing networks of friends and colleagues built carefully over years. It most likely means learning a new language, culture and etiquette. It means setting up a new household that often feels more like a hotel than a real home. And it means a dislocation that results from being an outsider both in one’s adopted country and, after some while, back home too.
Location makes all the difference, though. The populations of some cities, such as Dubai and Doha, seem to consist of nothing but expatriates. Modern Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai have built reputations on welcoming and looking after expats. But that infrastructure was also partly laid down during their colonial past. The UK can link into that heritage. And France, for example, has its own francophone alliances.
Those kinds of established networks can make it easier to work abroad – but they can also, paradoxically, make it more difficult. A bar or a restaurant that is full of expats does not satisfy a desire to experience the authentic soul of a country.
Other cities may not have the same populations of expats, but they have been built on an immigrant experience. Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and São Paolo, as well as New York and London, have absorbed successive waves of immigrants from around the world. These cities have a seemingly endless capacity for reinvention and expats can find it easier to be a minority when surrounded by other minorities. That is where cities that have a less extensive history of international immigration, ranging from Moscow to Beijing, can be less accommodating. Except, of course, for the wealthiest, who are miraculously welcome wherever they go.
But what does being an expat mean? And what makes a city a worthwhile base for an expat life?
The obvious benefits are learning a new language and culture by immersion, seeing life as it is lived rather than staying a spectator as a tourist is always destined to be. And for children, while it can be a wrench to be pulled out of school in one country and deposited in another, the chance to become as fluent as a native speaker in a new language is an extraordinary gift.
Other advantages may be more obscure – but perhaps even more useful. I was told by a friend who lived in China that the factory owners he worked with had 400 different ways of saying “yes”. And 398 of them meant “no”. This may be an exaggeration, but it contains the truth that communication is distorted by distance – and in-depth local knowledge can yield not only new strategies and negotiation tactics, but also real insights that are useful far beyond business. Whether a cultural diplomat or a banker, the expat can always learn from the different approaches of an adopted homeland.
The decision to emigrate is a big one. So what aspects of a city justify the move? For some it might be as simple as money or advancement. For others it might be environment. In Sydney or Rio de Janeiro it might be down to lifestyle – the idea of leaving the office at 5.00 and being on the beach at 5.15 is as seductive as the possibility in Switzerland of skiing in the mountains just moments away from home.
For others the work environment might be more attractive. Business culture varies widely, from Anglo-Saxon endless hours to the civilised (but decreasingly widely practised) long lunches in France or Spain. For others it might be culture. London cannot offer predictable weather, beaches or skiing, but its blend of art, theatre, music and food is matched only by New York.
All of these amenities are universally accessible, even without an extensive grasp of the language. And a culture that is rich and deep will keep expats coming back. But cities that are lacking in this respect can lose their allure quickly. Even places as seemingly vibrant as Hong Kong, Singapore or Dubai support a limited range of events. You can use them up fast.
The expat experience combines a cocktail of the thrill of the new and the ennui of global alienation, of displacement and dislocation. At its best, though, it can open up not only new places and peoples but also new ways of seeing. Expats can end up stranded in nostalgic clouds of yearning for a rosy-remembered home. However, they can also place themselves in the centre of of the global cities that are the de facto symbols of the contemporary world.

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