Merry Christmas

Today is Christmas Eve.
what r u going to do? with who r u going to stay?
Date some one n cheer Xmas day!

here we go "Merry Christmas!"

What Diabetes Is, How It Is Treated, and What You Can Do to Prevent It

Diabetes is the name for a medical condition in which too much glucose, or sugar, builds up in the blood. Diabetes develops when the body does not make enough of the hormone insulin or makes no insulin at all. It also can develop when the body is not able to use the insulin that is made.

There are two main kinds of diabetes: type one and type two. Type one diabetes generally affects children and young people. It results from a lack of insulin production. The exact cause is not known.

Signs of the disease may develop suddenly. People suffering from type one Diabetes may develop a strong desire for food or something to drink. Other signs are increased production of liquid wastes, loss of body weight, changes in eyesight and feeling extremely tired.

Most people with type two diabetes are overweight and need physical exercise. Their bodies cannot produce enough insulin to reduce glucose levels in their blood. Or their bodies do not react correctly to the insulin being produced.

Signs of type two diabetes are similar to those of type one. But experts say many people with type two diabetes have no signs. As a result, the disease may not be recognized until after the patient has already begun to develop medical problems.

Experts say genes seem to be important in the development of diabetes. They say that about ninety percent of those with type two diabetes have family members who also had the disease.


More detail: http://voanews.com/specialenglish/2007-12-17-voa2.cfm

Gini Coefficient

Gini Coefficient= Express the difference of income in a cooutry.
(not difference of income of khmer tut)


That Cambodia = that of USA

Japan promises $100 mln of concession loan for Cambodia to reduce poverty

Thanks a lot to Japanese people for their help.

Veasna

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Japan promises $100 mln of concession loan for Cambodia to reduce poverty


PHNOM PENH, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government has pledged to provide 100 million U.S. dollars of concession loan each year for Cambodia to facilitate its poverty reduction efforts, said Prime Minister Hun Sen here on Thursday.The loan will be increased by one third on annual basis and the interest rate will keep as low as 0.01 percent, he told the construction ceremony of counter-flood facilities on the Tonle SapRiver bank in Phnom Penh.Cambodia will pay it back in 40 years, he said, without giving other technical details of the loan."I urge the Cambodian government officials and the Japanese experts here to quickly take the loan to help and develop the poverty reduction projects," he added.The loan deal was reached by both parties while Hun Sen paid his recent visit to Singapore to attend the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asia Nations) meetings.International institutions have put the poverty rate of the kingdom at 35 percent.

Want to Stay Warm in Winter? Think COLD

Winter is coming. Are you ready?

Winter to me is snow and having fun activity such as skiing, making snow man, christmas and so forth. But cold weather can cause people to suffer frostbite and hypothemia. These can cause minor damage to your health and sometimes deadly.

Thus, you must be ready (esp. for those who just face winter for the first time). Think of COLD.
- C: Cover
- O: Overexertion
- L: Layers
- D: Dry

As recommended in L, you should wear many layers of clothes rather than just one thick jacket (opposed to Mr. Kimret's idea about how to wear).

For full detail, visit http://voanews.com/specialenglish/2007-12-11-voa3.cfm

Have fun in winter season. Be safe.


Veasna

PS: for the who has someone inside her body, i think she can go skiing this year. Poor you are. However, congratulation those those couple.

NHK develops tracking system for pirated movies

Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 07:45 EST

TOKYO — NHK on Wednesday unveiled a new system to put hidden identifiers into films to trace counterfeit works distributed over the Internet. The system, developed with Mitsubishi Electric Corp, consists of highly detailed electronic signals which are put inside films and other visual works but invisible to the human eye.

If a person copies the film at a cinema or in front of a television screen, his or her camera will automatically tape the signal which will stay in the machine's memory. Automatic software can then search the Internet using the coded signal to find any works that have been illegally copied.
"The signal will stay and can be traced, even if only part of the image is put on line," NHK and Mitsubishi Electric said in a joint statement. "We hope that this system, once fine-tuned, will manage to better protect the rights of copyright holders," the companies said, adding they eyed to put it into use soon.

The code can also help authorities trace the exact cinema and screening at which the person illegally taped a film.



Exerpted from http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/422544

PhD scholarship in Singapore

One PhD research scholarship is available in the fields of genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation with applications in bioinformatics or photonics or financial engineering. If you are interested, you can send your complete CV to epnsugan@ntu.edu.sg. Good GRE (1250 out of 1600) and TOEFL (590) scores are also required in addition to a good bachelors or masters degree. The GRE requirement may be waived if GATE scores or 1st/2nd upper class from NTU or good MSc grades from NTU or good research journal publications is submitted.

If you are in Singapore, it can be possible to commence your PhD in January 2008, otherwise, August 2008.

Please feel free to forward this message to your friends who may be interested in a PhD position.

Bong Kimret's Graduation photos and gang's Party

What do you think about the person in the last photo?