tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50853809036673809202024-02-02T18:28:14.430+01:00ETAGORA blog of mineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-1031151285356240352018-12-09T19:49:00.001+01:002018-12-11T20:43:35.570+01:00Les Symboles Nationaux (1) v2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(L'article ci-dessous est une révision de <a href="https://etagor.blogspot.com/2011/08/les-symboles-nationaux-1.html" target="_blank">l'article</a> publié en 2011)</div>
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Chaque pays a ses symboles nationaux qui montrent la culture unique du pays. Les symboles comprennent des animaux ou des plantes qui existent seulement ou se proviennent d'un pays. Par exemple, au Cambodge, il y a, par l'arrêté royal du 15 juin 2004, sept animaux et plantes comme symboles nationaux. Parmi les sept symboles, je vous présente le premier: Kouprey (Khmer: គោព្រៃ).</div>
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1. Kouprey : Le Mammifère Nationale du Royaume du Cambodge</div>
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Cet animal, nommé scientifiquement "Bos Saveuli", vient de la famille des vaches sauvages dont la longueur de son corps va de 1700 à 1900 millimètres. Il pèse de 700 à 900 kilogrammes. Les Koupreys sont différents des vaches à cause de leur taille supérieure et de leurs cornes qui s'approchent. Ils sont normalement de couleur noirâtre et blanche au bas des jambes. Les femelles ont des cornes de 40 centimètres en forme de lyre, et des cornes des mâles s'étendent jusqu'à 80 centimètres. Leur longue queue mesure de 100 à 110 centimètres. Leur espérance de vie est environ 20 ans. Les Koupreys se trouvent près du Fleuve de Mékong et au nord, est et nord-est du Cambodge.</div>
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(Régions où se trouvent les Koupreys)</div>
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Quelques Koupreys se trouvent aussi au Vietnam et Laos qui partagent la frontière avec le Cambodge. Cette espèce a été découverte en 1937.</div>
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Aujourd'hui, la chasse de Kouprey est interdite par la déclaration numéro 359 du 01 août 1994 par le Ministère de l’Agriculture Forêts et des Pêches. Le Kouprey est classé comme une espèce en danger critique selon la liste Rouge de l’UICN dû au fait qu'il y a moins de 250 Koupreys dans le monde. Pendant les années 1960s, le roi du Cambodge, Norodom Sihanouk, a déclaré le Kouprey comme le symbole du patrimoine naturel du Cambodge. Les Koupreys sont des animaux intelligents, industrieux, robustes, rapides et surtout duveteux (fluffy). Au Cambodge, les Koupreys sont souvent mentionnés dans les poèmes, les chansons populaires et la littérature pour exprimer la richesse de la nature, pour faire référence aux caractères de l'homme, et pour inciter la paix et la prospérité. Par exemple, la chanson «Tunsoung Kouprey» semble parler simplement de la vie quotidienne des Koupreys, mais, cachés dans les paroles, on trouve aussi des métaphores reflétant la société humaine.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-87473313531958490152018-11-27T17:15:00.000+01:002018-11-27T17:15:47.601+01:00Khmer Unicode Problems in newer Linux distros<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Type the following command into Terminal:</div>
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Log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.</div>
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I noticed recently that the problems with Khmer vowels appear again in new versions of Linux distros, including
the popular Ubuntu and its derivatives like <a href="https://elementary.io/" target="_blank">elementaryOS</a>
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<span style="display: inline-block; width: 130px;">Shift + A</span>
<span style="display: inline-block; width: 35px;">⇒</span> ាំ (Srak Arm)
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<span style="display: inline-block; width: 130px;">Shift + Semicolon (;)</span>
<span style="display: inline-block; width: 35px;">⇒</span> ោះ (Srak Orss)
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<span style="display: inline-block; width: 35px;">⇒</span> េះ (Srak Ess)
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<span style="display: inline-block; width: 130px;">Comma (,)</span>
<span style="display: inline-block; width: 35px;">⇒</span> ុំ (Srak Om)</div>
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<span style="display: inline-block; width: 130px;">Shift + Comma (,)</span>
<span style="display: inline-block; width: 35px;">⇒</span> ុះ (Srak Oss)
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The problem is that, instead of outputting the intended vowels, square block or nothing at all is outputted.</div>
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A widely-shared workaround to resolve this problem is to add entries for these vowels in <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">/usr/share/X11/locale/$LANG/Compose</span>:</div>
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<U17ff> : "ាំ"
<U17fe> : "ោះ"
<U17fd> : "េះ"
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NOTE: At the time of writing it seems that most distros already include these bindings.</div>
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Plus, you need to fallback to the legacy input method xim, which respects the aforementioned Compose file, by
adding the following line in <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">/etc/environment</span>:</div>
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All is well and good, right? Unfortunately, no. As of late, most Linux distros are shipped with the popular ibus as
the default input method, and the current version of ibus (1.5.17) does not support multi-character Compose key
output (the 5 Khmer vowels are multi-character), so the previous method no longer works even with <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">GTK_IM_MODULE=xim</span>
in the <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">/etc/environment</span>
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A solution to this is to force the default input method of the system to xim:</div>
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I found out that just using this command will make the Khmer Unicode compose key bindings work again in GTK
applications without any need to modify the <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">/etc/environment</span>
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Wait, only GTK applications? Yes, QT applications still don’t seem to work correctly with multi-character Compose
key output, at least not the applications I tested with:</div>
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<li>VLC Media Player</li>
<li>VirtualBox</li>
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Strangely, even forcing <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">QT_IM_MODULE=xim</span>
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Please keep in mind that xim is very old and will most likely be completely removed in the future as other input
methods are more stable. That being said, until ibus gains support for multi-character Compose key output, xim is
still a valid band-aid to this annoying problem. In the meantime, you can also take a look at other input methods
like uim which has better legacy support with xim and multi-character Compose key output. I tested uim and it seems
to work out of the box with the 5 Khmer vowels. The only problem is that it’s not included by default in most
distros, so you have to install it manually.</div>
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Hopefully this will make your Linux adventure with Khmer Unicode better, and if you have a different method to make
Khmer Unicode support works better on Linux, please let me know.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-69607659255596343092015-02-04T16:16:00.001+01:002017-04-08T12:25:42.916+02:00Changing default Khmer system fonts on Windows 8.1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Khmer UI was first introduced in Windows Vista and has served since then as the default Khmer fonts for the Windows User Interface.<br />
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Due to the its difficult legibility, the team behind Khmer Unicode (NiDA) introduced Khmer fonts fixer for Windows Vista and Windows 7 (which should also work for Windows 8) in order to replace Khmer UI fonts with Khmer OS Sytem font.<br />
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However, in Windows 8, this method doesn't work anymore most likely due to Microsoft's deeper integration of system fonts. In fact, Microsoft has used another font which is actually a combination of three typefaces: Thai, Lao and Khmer. The result font file is called <b>Leelawadee UI</b> (which can be found in the Fonts folder in Windows).<br />
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Therefore, to replace Khmer UI typeface with Khmer OS System typeface, I tried modifying Khmer OS System with respect to the three font files of Leelawadee UI (LeelawUI.ttf, LeelUIsl.ttf, LeelaUIb.ttf). After that, all there is to do is installing the three modified fonts (the process will ask to replace the three existing fonts), logging out, and you'll see the results after logging in.<br />
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I don't know see how this affects the Thai and Lao typefaces for the UI because they were not included in Khmer OS System font, but I haven't see any noticeable errors by typing Thai in Chrome's address bar (which should use UI fonts).<br />
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I provide the link below for all those who would like to change Khmer default fonts on Windows 8.1. What will Microsoft do with Khmer fonts in the next Windows? Only they know...<br />
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/oux6m74t838mizy/Khmer%20OS%20System%20Fonts%20for%20Windows%208.1.zip?dl=0" target="_blank">Change default fonts in Windows 8.1</a></div>
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Reference: <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688099.aspx">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688099.aspx</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-28717602225675776692015-01-27T10:19:00.000+01:002015-01-27T11:08:36.132+01:00Khmer Fonts for iOS 8Starting from iOS 8, Apple has integrated Khmer language into its mobile operating system, most likely due to a huge amount of requests from Khmer people led by 4khmeriphone team which has been making Khmer Unicode keyboards and Khmer language available to iOS users since the third generation of iOS. I'm sure this brought joys to all Khmer people from every corner of the world.<br />
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And I, an iPhone user turned amateur themer/developer, has initially started making Khmer fonts for the jailbroken iOS 7 because I saw very few Khmer fonts on the iOS platform whereas English fonts for iOS were in the hundreds or maybe thousands. So I decided to make a change. So far, I've modified/made several Khmer fonts for iOS 7 and two Khmer fonts for iOS 7.1.x (since it's gotten harder to port Khmer fonts to iOS on this version due to Apple's change of how the system renders fonts). I hosted all these packages on my MyRepospace repository: <a href="http://cydia.myrepospace.com/fidele007">http://cydia.myrepospace.com/fidele007</a><br />
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Here on iOS 8 (jailbroken), I've made many more. You can see below the results of my work. All the fonts listed below are available on ModMyi, one of the official repository on Cydia, under my pseudonym fidele007. I've made it even easier for the users by integrating my fonts to the app Bytafont 2 so that you can easily change fonts without having to un-install other fonts.<br />
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You can all use these fonts free of charge.<br />
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If you have a request for a Khmer font you like, you can give me a shout out in the comment section below or contact me via my e-mail address: <a href="mailto:kforcefidele@yahoo.com">kforcefidele@yahoo.com</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-52951092183091661042011-08-31T18:05:00.006+02:002015-01-27T10:20:39.542+01:00Les Symboles Nationaux (1)<div style="font-family: inherit;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chaque pays a toujours ses symboles nationaux. Des symboles nationaux montrent la culture unique du pays. Ils peuvent être des animaux ou plants qui existent seulement ou proviennent d'un pays. Au Cambodge, il y a aussi beaucoup des symboles nationaux. Par d’arrêté royal du 15 juin 2004, maintenant nous avons sept animaux et plants comme nos symboles nationaux. Quelles sont les sept symboles? Alors, je vous présente le premier symbole: Kouprey (<b><i>Khmer:</i></b> <span style="color: blue;">គោព្រៃ</span>) </span><br />
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 14pt;">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 14pt;">Kouprey : Le Mammifère Nationale du Royaume du Cambodge </span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tout le monde l'appelle Kouprey. Cet animal est reconnu généralement comme Kouprey par les gens de tous les nationalités. Des biologistes internationaux les appellent «Kouprey» aussi (c'est très génial, je pense). Son nom scientifique est « Bos Sauveli ». </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le Kouprey est une espèce de bœufs sauvages</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> qui fait de 1700 millimètres à 1900 millimètres. Il pèse de 700 kilogrammes à 900 kilogrammes. Les Koupreys sont différents des vaches parce qu’ils sont plus grands et ses cornes ont des noyaux qui sont plus proches ensemble. Ils sont de couleur noirâtre avec le couleur blanc au bas des jambes. Les femelles ont des cornes de 40 centimètres en forme de lyre, et des cornes des mâles envergent jusqu'à 80 centimètres. La queue est longe (de 100 à 110 centimètres). Leur espérance de vie est environ 20 ans.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Les Koupreys se trouvent près du Fleuve de Mékong et au nord, est et nord-est du Cambodge.</span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> On peut aussi trouve quelques Koupreys au Vietnam et Laos près des frontières avec le Cambodge. L'espèce a été découvert en 1937.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maintenant, la chasse de Koupreys est interdite par la déclaration numéro 359 du 01 août 1994, délivré par le Ministère de l’Agriculture Forêts et des Pêches. Le Kouprey est classé comme</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> une espèce en danger critique selon la liste Rouge de l’UICN parce que aujourd'hui, il y a moins de 250 Koupreys dans le monde. En 1960s, le roi du Cambodge, Norodom Sihanouk, a déclaré le Kouprey comme le symbole du patrimoine naturel du Cambodge. Les Koupreys sont intelligent, industrieux, robuste, rapide et bon à sentir. Au Cambodge, les Koupreys sont aussi mentionnés dans les poèmes, les chansons populaires et la littérature pour exprimer la richesse de la nature, montrer le caractère des hommes</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> et pour promouvoir la paix et la prospérité. Par exemple, une chanson qui s’appelle «Soriya Lageach Thagai » explique la vie quotidienne des Koupreys mais aussi avec le sens figuré pour éduquer les hommes.</span> </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-55460768394573919092009-06-19T05:30:00.001+02:002015-01-27T10:20:49.229+01:00Natural Remedies for Curing Headache<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65Tchg6N0UuoofmGhLmp17cl5xMYQHUuC3TWFQAlEeZ-5n5UcjYsYMv8ta5uM_T0xoz-BA0-wKMPS2SONLjmvjj_AVDjidzEqwQsAgdKo0vfl_WFsKTLE7kHzXK9mMIzyxRsRvBjScpA/s1600-h/headache.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65Tchg6N0UuoofmGhLmp17cl5xMYQHUuC3TWFQAlEeZ-5n5UcjYsYMv8ta5uM_T0xoz-BA0-wKMPS2SONLjmvjj_AVDjidzEqwQsAgdKo0vfl_WFsKTLE7kHzXK9mMIzyxRsRvBjScpA/s320/headache.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348877847741443522" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 147px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 196px;" /></a>Headache is a common problem for everybody, but this ailment can be deadly as well. Most of Khmer people, as seen nowadays, try to get rid of headaches at the first sign of symptoms by swallowing loads of drugs acquired from pharmacies. Many of them don’t know or care whether or not these drugs can do as much damage to our health as they help. Medicine is like a two-sided blade, in other words it can be advantageous and disadvantageous at the same time. That’s why natural remedies can help you better in dealing with this nagging malady. Here are some of them:<br />
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All these tactics described above are just a few tricks to help your with your headache without costing you the disadvantages of using medicines. Remember, these techniques vary from one person to another; one that works for a person might not work for another person. So, you should check out all of these tricks out and see which one works well with you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-27571967341783541862009-06-16T07:45:00.004+02:002015-01-27T10:20:57.121+01:00Life's Choices<span style="font-weight: bold;">Life's Choices</span> is a comic book depicting the way of Cambodia students studying in high school, covering most of important issues including corruption, love, living standards and so on. This comic tries to approach as much as possible into the Cambodian people's real lives in our nowadays society which is full of complexity and inevitable corruption.<br />
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The setting of this comic story is set in Kompong Spean Senior High School in grade 11 E. The three main characters in this story are Samphos, Rith and Bopha, who have been best friends since they were kids. During the school year, they encountered many problems, such as Rith loving Dany, three of them going to Karaoke, lacking of concentration in their study, etc. This story ends with Samphos wondering if she could study the summer class because her family couldn't afford much.<br />
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This story is very educational for Cambodian people, especially Khmer youth who are having the same problems. You can download it either in <a href="http://lifes-choices-cambodia.net/download?l=en">English</a> or in <a href="http://lifes-choices-cambodia.net/download/?l=kh">Khmer</a>.<br />
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Well, all in all, these are just statements. It cannot do anything but to help your mind to reconsider your activities nowadays whether you love your country or not. Remember, if you can’t help develop your country, don’t say you’re a real Khmer. I’m not, but I’ll try to become one. That’s my goal.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-89680359335364566192009-05-27T07:11:00.003+02:002015-01-27T10:21:26.171+01:00Chicken or the Egg?This is a controversial topic that has brought many scientists headache because they couldn’t find a reasonable explanation as to which one of them came first, the chicken….or the egg? This matter was first brought up as early as 46 A.D., a long time ago. If you think about it, a chicken needed to hatch from an egg, but an egg needed to be laid by a chicken as well. It’s just like an endless circle of happenings.<br />
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Fortunately, a group of scientists have claimed they found an answer. It’s the egg. It can be explained like this. The first chicken to be born on earth must have hatch from an egg, and the egg couldn’t have been laid by chickens, so it must have been laid by other animals which have the same DNA as chickens we now see these days since, according to science, no matter what form any animal might transform itself into, its DNA remains intact. So, that might be the case. However, I think there might be some loopholes here. How could two animals (male and female) other than chickens breed an egg with a chicken in it? Maybe those two unknown animals were the same species as chickens, which explain why their DNA and the chickens’ are the same. Well, that is my speculation.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-37791505076441405202009-05-09T15:18:00.005+02:002015-01-27T10:21:46.596+01:00Detective ConanToday I've got something new for you guys. After reading Naruto manga, I found it very interesting. Right now I'm tracking any sources for new releases and hope it'll be out soon. What's more, now I have a new interested manga, and that is....Detective Conan! At first, I used to watch it randomly at the weekends. Now that I know it's a manga, I'm starting to follow it again..and from the beginning (Chapter 1). My God! It's more than 600 chapters! I think I'm going to have to spend lots of time in order to catch up. Anyway, let me introduce this manga to you a little bit!<br />
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Detective Conan, a.k.a Case Closed, is a manga talking about a famous junior high school detective named who, with his sharp eyes and brains along with detailed analysis of situations, solved any cases not long after it occured, no matter how strange or complicated the case is. However, after solving one mysterious case, he got beaten by a man in black suit. Then, after the man made him drink some experimental drug, his body was shrunken into a little boy. After that he still continued involving himself in cases as usual but with different phsycial condition and was living with a lazy-boned detective, the father of his beloved girlfriend Ran who didn't know he was really....<br />
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I've read through Volume 3 so far, and am currently pursuing, hoping to get to the latest chapters. You can find and download it here @: <a href="http://www.realitylapse.com/manga/detectiveconan.php">http://www.realitylapse.com/manga/detectiveconan.php</a>. Share the fun!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-67836625768132158892009-05-07T14:09:00.003+02:002009-05-07T14:52:37.329+02:00Why do we yawn?Have you ever wondered what makes you yawn everyday? And why do we yawn just because we see someone else does. Overall, what is the meaning of yawning, and how does it happen?<br /><br />Surprisingly, to scientists, this is still a mystery. However, scientists claim that yawning is not because of boredom. There are some hypothesis made by various scientists. Some say that we yawn because our body needs oxygen. That explains the fact why we open our mouth widely so that the lung can get more oxygen, which leads to the increasing rate of heartbeat, creating more oxygen in the bloodstream. Yet again, this theory is skeptical since we do not usually yawn when we're doing exercise, for exercising needs lots of oxygen as well.<br /><br />Therefore, the answer is yet to be found. What does only one simple word can make it so complicated for scientists? Let's share what you think. I hope WE can find the answer!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-59199959719714300342009-05-02T15:29:00.004+02:002009-05-02T15:57:45.785+02:00Q&A About Swine Flu<ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>What is Swine Flu?</li></ul>Swine Flu is a kind of influenza virus named H1N1. It was originally occurred only between pigs from the infected one to other pigs that it gets into contact with. However, somehow this virus was able to get itself transmitted to humans as well. It’s worth note-taking that this virus has already happened a long time ago, and there are also different types of Swine Flu such as H1N1, H2N2, H3N2 and H3N1.<br /><br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>Why is it so feared right now?</li></ul>The scientists are now afraid that this Swine Flu virus is able to infect from one human to another. Why? The case may be that a person who contains the virus got the common flu, so the Swine Flu virus can combine itself with the common flu virus and become a new and more dangerous virus which can be transmitted to another human body. If that’s the case, then there is no question why infected people are increasing remarkably. Moreover, it is founded out that this new virus has a combination of three distinct genes – human, bird and pig.<br /><br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>What are the Swine Flu symptoms?</li></ul>The symptoms of Swine Flu are quite similar to those of common flu, including headache, high body temperature, vomiting, diarrhea, coughing or runny nose, etc.<br /><br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>Is Swine Flu treatable?</li></ul>I must say the answer is unknown yet, but now we have four antiviral drugs which may help make the disease milder. Those are <span style="font-weight: bold;">oseltamivir, zanamivir, amantadine</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">rimantadine</span>. However, it is said that these drugs must be taken immediately after the first sign disease to ensure its effects.<br /><br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>What should we do to prevent ourselves from the virus?</li></ul>Cleanliness is the most important we can do right now, and stay away from pigs if you can! Wash your hand often and go to the hospital as soon as the symptoms said above occurred to you in an unusual way.<br /><br /><blockquote>It’s worth realizing that Swine Flu now reaches Level 5 of the six-level scale made out by World Health Organization (WHO). Be extra careful!</blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-86093518483060322282009-05-01T08:58:00.006+02:002009-05-01T09:19:54.411+02:00Chinese Pascal's TriangleThere is a renowned Pascal's Triangle which makes up the formula (a+b)^n. 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One of the most timeless laws of<br />success holds that all things are created twice: first on<br />the picture screen of one's imagination and then in reality.<br /><br />Those people that create rich, fulfilling lives regularly<br />flex their imaginations and visualize a better future. By<br />constantly holding that vision in their mind's eye and<br />taking action to make it a reality, they overcome their<br />circumstances and create the life of their dreams.<br /><br />Create a 'Success Mastermind'. Just as five fingers can<br />achieve more than one, getting together with a group of like<br />minded achievers and pooling your knowledge and success<br />strategies will bring you to your goals much faster.<br /><br />Set a time every week and meet with your success mastermind<br />Share your goals and dreams. Share your frustrations as well<br />as techniques that have worked for you. Support each other.<br />Encourage each other. Celebrate even the smallest of<br />successes as you advance confidently towards a better life.<br /><br />Love Failure. Failure is the highway to success. Every<br />successful person has faced endless failures and encountered<br />adversity. However, rather than giving up and moving on to<br />another easier pursuit, they persisted. They believed in<br />themselves and in the importance of what they were doing.<br />They had the wisdom to know that failure is an essential<br />teacher. From failure, we grow wise. Failure teaches us how<br />to win. Without failure, there would be no success.<br /><br />Get a Coach. The Law of Duplication says that if you do the<br />same things that someone else did, in the same way that they<br />did them, you are certain to get the same results in your<br />life. Whether you are trying to build a great business or<br />grow a great family, get a mentor.<br /><br />Find someone who has 'been there, done that.' Why reinvent<br />the wheel? Use your mentors' own experiences to shorten your<br />learning curve. Learn from their mistakes and let their<br />pasts serve you.<br /><br />Mentors need not be alive. Becoming a serious student of<br />great people who have lived before us by reading their<br />biographies and analyzing their personal habits will work<br />just as well as any association with a living achiever.<br /><br />Play the Numbers. Success is a numbers game. Smart<br />salespeople will tell you that the average sale is closed on<br />the fifth try and yet most people give up after the first.<br />Similarly, the more times you try to succeed, the closer you<br />get to success.<br /><br />The more times you ask for something, the greater the<br />probability that you will get it. Take more chances, seize<br />more opportunities and take more action. Just as the farmer<br />who plants more seeds reaps a richer harvest, you will<br />attract much more success into your own life.<br /><br />Work Hard. Successful people will tell you that the harder<br />they work, the luckier they get. In this age of the quick<br />fix, where people buy creams to slim their thighs and pop<br />pills to lose weight, one timeless truth remains, hard work<br />always produces its just rewards.<br /><br />No undertaking can ever be successful without patience and<br />hard work. Have the character strength to put in the effort<br />required to reach your dreams. Remember, the harder you are<br /> on yourself, the easier life will be on you.<br /><br /><br />Have Written Goals. Goals that are not written down are<br />impotent. By writing out your goals, they become embedded<br /> on your subconscious mind and crystallized in your<br />consciousness.<br /><br />Write out your goals on 3X5 cards and post them next to you<br />bed, on your bathroom mirror, on the dashboard in your car<br />and next to your computer at the office. Never lose sight of<br />your goals. Never let the busyness of the everyday allow you<br />to forget about your life goals. By thinking about them<br />constantly and acting on them daily, you will steadily<br />create the brilliant life you know in your heart you<br />deserve.<br /><br />Master Your Moods. Just as you are not your thoughts, you<br />are not your moods. Effective people don't let their moods<br />get in the way of their progress. If they feel tired, they<br />keep on working. If they feel disappointed, they laugh it<br />off and keep chasing the dream. If they grow fearful, they<br />act on their fear. By overcoming their moods, they liberate<br />their inner power and grow stronger by the day.<br /><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-45439774010390614882009-05-01T08:09:00.001+02:002009-05-01T08:30:13.781+02:00The First and Second World War<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXlnR-dr_a1J5NWhk1o1dAZtSNAM8ZbezPRWVczTujGGwcQzz6Ov_oX43VopE__1BXieE6A1kr_kU3nUzKrnJYo0yVQhzJAvVAEBEPLVb9ooOncFX4LiR7BgvncNcfS19i_XlhBf2qzoE/s1600-h/ww1main.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXlnR-dr_a1J5NWhk1o1dAZtSNAM8ZbezPRWVczTujGGwcQzz6Ov_oX43VopE__1BXieE6A1kr_kU3nUzKrnJYo0yVQhzJAvVAEBEPLVb9ooOncFX4LiR7BgvncNcfS19i_XlhBf2qzoE/s320/ww1main.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330737802202874338" border="0" /></a><br />Many wars have occurred since the beginning of humanity. Each of them always brought endless pain and sorrow to everybody living in between and proclaimed a lot of people’s lives. However, the most tragic and greatest wars of all time are the First and Second World War.<br /><br />First of all, I would like to describe about World War I. How come there was World War I? The main cause that provoked the First World War was due to the conflict between new powerful countries and old powerful countries over the economic markets. The war occurred right after the death of the Hungarian royal heir in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. There were two groups divided in this fierce war. The first one was called the Allied Powers, which included United Kingdom, France and Russia. Besides, the other group was named as the Central Powers, including the United States, Germany and Japan. The war went on and on for four years. There were lots of deaths, and this war brought Europe an enormous disaster. Homes, factories, school and other buildings were almost completely destroyed. About ten millions of soldiers were killed in this war, not including the amount of dead civilians. In 1918, in order to end this war, representatives from each country gathered together and made up the Peace Conference. This meeting was held in Paris, and there were 32 countries participated. They decided to sign on the Peace Treaty, and then the war was over.<br /><br />Nevertheless, on 2nd September 1939 the Germany, under the governing of Adolf Hitler, announced a second war, known as World War II. Hitler’s ambition was to rule the entire world. Other countries that didn’t prepare for the war were attacked and defeated in the meantime by Germany. Germany went on to combat with other countries remained. Soon, the United States decided to cooperate with United Kingdom and Soviet Union so as to defeat Germany. After six years of ruthless war, the German army became weaker and weaker, and so did its partner, Japan. In 1945, the Germany and Japan were defeated completely. Meanwhile, it was also the same year the United Nation was born, on 24th of October. In this World War II, there were even more great losses than the previous one, due to advanced technology and modern weapons. Several cities were absolutely ruined and deserted…like ghost cities. Over 55 million people lost their lives!<br /><br />As a result, the First World War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945) cost many people’s lives. Therefore, WAR can only bring tears to us. Only PEACE can bring the world a bright future. Only PEACE makes the whole world a beautiful place to live in.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-18069977258110501282009-04-28T12:39:00.002+02:002009-04-28T12:43:41.314+02:00A Political Joke<p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>Phone Calls from Hell</b></p><p>Queen Elizabeth, George Bush and Hun Sen died and went to Hell.</p><p>Queen Elizabeth said, 'I miss England, I wanna call England and see how everybody is doing there...' She called and talked for about ten minutes and then she said, 'Well, Devil, how much do I owe you???'</p><p>The Devil goes, 'Five million dollars...' She made him a check.</p><p>George Bush was so jealous he started screaming, 'Me, too! I wanna call the United States!' And so he did and was on the phone for about twenty minutes. Then he said, 'How much do I owe you, Devil?'</p><p>'Ten million dollars...' came the Devil's reply, so Bush wrote him a ten-million-dollar check.</p><p>Hun Sen was extremely jealous as well. He yelled, 'I wanna call Cambodia, too!' To his delight, he made his call to his family, his lovers, his CPP friends, his government and his ex-King...he kept talking and talking for about twenty hours.</p><p>Then he said, 'How much do I owe you, Devil?'</p><p>'ONLY ONE DOLLAR!' Devil answered, to Hun Sen's surprise.</p><p>'THIS IS VERY CHEAP! WHY?' Hun Sen asked.<br /></p>'Well, FROM HELL TO HELL, IT IS A LOCAL CALL!!!' came the reply.</blockquote><br /><br />This is a joke I got from Sacrava. I found it's funny, even though it affects Cambodia's leader, known as Samdach Aka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-54579365012260500252009-04-28T11:38:00.000+02:002009-04-28T11:44:16.267+02:00Start!Hello, my name is....err....oh, right! My name's Fidele. I was born in Cambodia, so I'm Khmer, right? Anyway, I just created this post hoping to make another new start of sharing my ideas. I also created another blog in Wordpress named <a href="http://kienforcefidele.wordpress.com">kienforcefidele.wordpress.com</a>. So, please be happy to comment on anything.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085380903667380920.post-42176870720917883352009-04-27T21:52:00.002+02:002009-04-28T12:51:15.223+02:00The King's Last SongIt is amazing to realize that there is an English novel writing about Cambodia, for it's rare. And here we are, authored by Geoff Ryman, came the first wonderful Khmer novel ever to be written in English language. Have it a go!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXeE64ApBz0nHlzpUkcRIORc045Wc4z5-CEBnh7Bl_yCFaRIPLxHWVSKod7vEJp41BLYTCko-urmyPaV_ABjbj7QhLoPPsS-92wTXG2W8WZZ7X8PYE8X79LIM_mW6_UiYnDZuc_MWTnT8/s1600-h/ryman-72-full.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXeE64ApBz0nHlzpUkcRIORc045Wc4z5-CEBnh7Bl_yCFaRIPLxHWVSKod7vEJp41BLYTCko-urmyPaV_ABjbj7QhLoPPsS-92wTXG2W8WZZ7X8PYE8X79LIM_mW6_UiYnDZuc_MWTnT8/s320/ryman-72-full.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329682017735102370" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Book Review:</span><br />The King's Last Song is an immersive novel of epic proportions that interweaves two Cambodian stories: Archeologist Luc Andrade discovers an ancient manuscript inscribed on gold leaves but is kidnapped — and the manuscript stolen — by a faction still loyal to the ideals of the brutal Pol Pot regime. Andrade's friends, an ex-Khmer Rouge agent and a young motoboy, embark on a trek across Cambodia to rescue him. Meanwhile, Andrade, bargaining for his life, translates the lost manuscript for his captors. The result is a glimpse into the tremendous and heart-wrenching story of King Jayavarman VII: his childhood, rise to power, marriage, interest in Buddhism, and the initiation of Cambodia's golden age. As Andrade and Jayavarman's stories interweave, the question becomes whether the tale of ancient wisdom can bring hope to a nation still suffering from the violent legacy of the last century.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Praise from others:</span><br />* "An unforgettably vivid portrait of Cambodian culture past and present." —Booklist (starred review)<br /><br />"Ryman's brilliant new novel, "The King's Last Song," is permeated by the theme of salvation through destruction. In parallel narratives, Ryman reveals the (imagined) memoir of 12th-century ruler and Cambodia's greatest king, Jayavarman VII, and presents the history of 20th-century Cambodia, a story of endless and eviscerating civil war. In so doing, he vividly creates a portrait of individuals whose souls are fused with that of their country, both ravaged and beautiful…. Ryman - best known as a fantasy writer but one who proved his power as an author of nuanced, rich historical fiction in the unsung novel "Was" - has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror." —Boston Globe<br /><br />"The novel conveys not merely a story, but the light and darkness, despair and hope, tradition and Westernization that is Cambodia itself.... While peaceful William, war-consumed Map, and Cambodia-loving Luc could easily be flat, typecast characters, Ryman steers clear of such simplifications. Their interwoven histories are at times noble and at times horrifying, laced with profound emotions and punctuated with atrocities.... The King's Last Song leaves one q<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6oX3C32qZkiHVnlwuX_1uB7HglyWFl7nOWNll0Fwr4KrOa7sobJdEz90eWUpDYI25Rm5EbKncPhpmfdpvOisMrV8DB04Eeqi0K-_-_2v7fdZEhz7sKpbE4vCm37Pvs2bWkcoXEnXzE0/s1600-h/200px-Geoff_Ryman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6oX3C32qZkiHVnlwuX_1uB7HglyWFl7nOWNll0Fwr4KrOa7sobJdEz90eWUpDYI25Rm5EbKncPhpmfdpvOisMrV8DB04Eeqi0K-_-_2v7fdZEhz7sKpbE4vCm37Pvs2bWkcoXEnXzE0/s320/200px-Geoff_Ryman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329682025285093314" border="0" /></a>uestioning preconceptions of good and evil, and conflicted between hope for and discouragement with the human race." —Rain Taxi<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />About the Author</span>:<br />Geoff Charles Ryman was born in Canada in 1951 and moved to the United States when he was 11. He earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England in 1973, where he has lived most of his life. He said that he knew he was a writer before he could talk, and consequently, his first work was published in his mother's newspaper column despite the fact that he was just then six years old.<br /><br />For more information, or to buy the paper edition, go here: <a href="http://lcrw.net/ryman">http://lcrw.net/ryman</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705890668594322117noreply@blogger.com0