Happy 1st Anniversary of the world heritage-Preah Vihear Temple

By MPS

THE KHMER EMPIRE

The Khmer Empire was at its apogee during the reign of Jayavarman VII (1181-1215 A.D.). Its territory covered the current Cambodia, all of southern Vietnam, all of the current Laos, all of the current Thailand, and part of the current Malaysia.
Unlike the Khmers, Thais, known then as Siamese, were not natives of the region. The kingdom of Thailand, known then as Siam, did not appear in Southeast Asia until the mid-14th century. A well-known Thai historian, Sulak Sivarak, who was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the winner of the Right Livelihood Award said of the Khmer Empire: “It included everything right up to Lopburi and all of what is now Bangkok’.
Again, describing the Khmer Empire, Peter Janssan of the Hindustan Times quoted Sulak Sivaraka in his article on 18 June 2008: “Thai invasions of Cambodia, then in its decline, led to the adoption of many Khmer cultural traditions by the Thais, including the Hindu concept of god-kings and court rituals, and an ongoing fondness for Brahman-inspired black magic, especially among Thai politicians”. Peter Janssan went on to describe that there are many more Khmer temples located in Thailand, especially along the northeast Thailand- Cambodian border like Buriram, Surin, and Sisaket.

Icon does not show Picture Thumnail in Vista

There will be sometimes when you go to Picture Folders to see your photos. Then you want to view Medium, large, or Extra Large Icons, but you still cannot see the preview of your photos, only the generic mountain and lake scene for every picture.

Like this

To solve this problem, just follow the steps below:

Tools>Folder Options. On the View tab uncheck Always show icons, never thumbnails.

That’s it.

by MPS

NEW WMC WEBSITE

The Women’s Media Centre is Cambodia’s premier non-governmental, non profit media organization. WMC was born from a movement to increase the participation of women in the democratic process during the UN-sponsored elections in 1993. The WMC delivers innovative, national awareness and informative programs on a diverse range of issues affecting contemporary Cambodia, with a special focus on the roles and rights of Cambodian women.

Since its inception in 1995, the WMC has produced high quality, innovative radio, television and video productions designed to educate and inform Cambodians on a wide range of issues impacting on women’s rights and human rights including HIV/AIDS, trafficking, elections, domestic violence, decentralization and poverty.

In 1999, WMC launched its own radio station FM 102, which has become one of the nations leading radio stations, with 83.6% of 2005 national survey respondents stating they had listened to FM102 including 77% of all youth respondents. In addition, an outstanding 76.7% of respondents stated that FM102 programs had positively influenced their attitude and behaviour. Read More »

Those who are always fants of WMC dramas and Radio FM102 will have chances to listen to selected programs and watch its Drama online. Click Here or type this address http://wmccambodia.org/ to start surfing.

By MPS

HAVE A NICE HOLIDAY

Did you know?

Just to let you know.

American cats and dogs > human

Americans fed their 75 million dogs and 88 million cats almost $16 billion worth of food in 2006. Bill Clinton said, “All that we need to feed, educate and care for all the third world children is just 10 billion US dollars”.

Quoted from the presentation of Joseph Xavier SJ

Towards rights and values realised youth

Challenges and Opportunities

1. Introduction:

Let me take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Developpement et Civilisations, Lebret – Irfed (DCLI) and Association for Rural Education and Development Service (AREDS), and Society of Women in Action for Total Empowerment (SWATE) for giving me a space to share with you, a group of vibrant young people who have gathered here from across the world representing various countries, cultures, ethnicity, languages etc. I am personally overwhelmed to see many of you coming from the developing[1] world. It is an encounter; an encounter in India in the backdrop of today’s youth crisis. It is an opportunity to meet one another face to face, share with others who we are and what we are, the hopes, dreams, vision that we have for ourselves individually and collectively as youth, to understand the crisis the youth go through and to commit ourselves to transform this crisis ridden world. It is in this background I have titled my paper as ‘Towards rights and values realised youth – Challenges and Opportunities.’

Photo Slide Show of the International Youth Encounter, India

Cambodia Flag Milestones

ALL FLAGS OF CAMBODIA by MPS		1863-1948	Flag of Cambodia under French protection
		1942-1945	Flag of Cambodia under Japanese occupation
		1948-1970	Flag of the Kingdom of Cambodia
		1970-1975	Flag of the Khmer Republic
		1975-1979	Flag of Democratic Kampuchea
		1979-1989	Flag of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea
		1989-1991	Flag of the State of Cambodia
		1992-1993	Flag of Cambodia under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)
		1993-present	Flag of the Kingdom of Cambodia
		Royal Crest	Royal Crest of the Kingdom of Cambodia

Good Mfone Spot?

Is it a good idea for Mfone to advertise their service with children using the phones. I mean, are children in danger or is it good if they are encouraged to use the phones from the very young ages. I think they should not involve much in these kinds of stuff. It seems that other young children can be amused by this spot.​ (Please watch its TV spot or listen to Radio spot for more idea).

They will be likely to ask their parents to buy phones for them and whom are they going to call? What if they are cheated by other people? Why don’t they use the adult in their spot?

Please involve in this discussion to make me more comfortable. Those who are specialized in children’s matters should explain here.

Personal View by MPS

Read related article HERE

International Youth Encounter, Tamil, India

Group Photos

Before the start of Encounter

Participants visiting SWATE Women’s Bank

The Remaining Participants visiting AREDS PLAYWAY SCHOOL

Some Photo from Tamil, India

Here are some of the photos from The International Youth Encounter, May 2009, Tamilnadu, India.

(Left) Sally Rousset–co-organizer, DCLI, France

Mr. Sushovan Dhar, One of our great Speakers, India dhar.sushovan@gmail.com

Group photo with some of the participants, SWATE Women’s Bank Complex

Some of the participants during a cultural performance by a team of AREDS AWARENESS EDUCATION PROGRAM A team of AREDS AWARENESS EDUCATION PROGRAM

A bridge in Trichy

The night before the first group of participants left AREDS

(From Left) CHHIT Muny, Youth for Peace, Cambodia; BIZ MARTINS Renato, YMCA of São Paulo, Brazil; [ACHARYA Debaki, PAUDEL Tilottam, DHAKAL Radha], Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN), Nepal; me

(Right) BHATTARAI Sushil, JCYCN, Nepal

Volunteers acting during the playback theater

During gift giving by Napali friends

At the end of the playback theatre

(Left) TYMAL, Frantisek, ADEPTTs, Czech Republic

Fried Cake from Tamil. Look delicious?

(left) HERLIANA, Invani, Yayasan Pondok Rakyat (People’s Shelter Foundation), Indonesia and Rebeca, India

Group Photo while celebrating Fatima’s Birthday.

BENAISSA, Selim, Movement pour la Coopération Internationale (MCI), Switzerland and me acting during the playback theater.

(from left) PARK Gah-ye, Diplomacy & Trade Institute, South Korea; LINTANG, Fatima, Young Advocates for Peace and Solidarity (YAPS), Incorporated, Mindanao, Philippines; and LAVANDERO Charity Care, Alliance of Mindanao Youth for Peace, Philippines.

If anyone of us find that I have made spelling error of each participant’s name, please kindly leave your comments here or send me e-mail. I still cannot remember some names and their details for Rebeca, and some of her friends. I am adding more photos, so please help me correct any mistakes on the photo captions.

By MPS, Cambodia.

How Google Search Engine Works with your Website

Life of a Google Query

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The life span of a Google query normally lasts less than half a second, yet involves a number of different steps that must be completed before results can be delivered to a person seeking information.

Source: Google.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE AUTHOR

I wish you all a fulfilled Khmer New Year. May all your GOOD DREAMS come true.

Enjoy your blessing New Year’s Days!

Best Wishes,

Mao Piseth
Blog Author

Multimedia Glossary

A

AAC
Also called MPEG-4 AAC, this audio codec is the continuation of the MP3 codec created by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Due to advances in the technology, AAC files encoded at a 96 kbps bit rate sound slightly better than MP3s encoded at 128 kbps.

AC3
Audio Codec 3. This was the original and more technical name for Dolby Digital. Some RF modulated, 5.1-encoded laser discs were labeled as AC3.

AMR
Adaptive Multi Rate is a high¨Cdata rate service and transmission principle for 3G cell phones and networks.

ASF
Advanced Streaming Format (formerly Active Streaming Format). A Microsoft file and data stream format for multimedia data including audio, video, still images, and other data types. Also referred to as Windows Media format.

AVI
AVI is short for “Audio Video Interleave”, the original Microsoft file format for Microsoft’s Video for Windows standard. It is an audio video standard designed by Microsoft and is apparently proprietary and Microsoft Windows specific. It is a format developed for storing video and audio information. Files in this format have an .AVI extension. However, Video for Windows does not require any special hardware, making it the lowest common denominator for multimedia applications.
Video Compact Disc (VCD) is a special version of a CD-ROM that uses the MPEG-1 format. The quality of the exported movie is almost the same, but usually better than VHS tape-based movies. A VCD can be played back on a CD-ROM drive, VCD player, and even on a DVD player.

B

bandwidth
A network’s capacity for transferring an amount of data in a given time.

bit rate
Bit rate very often used when speaking of video or audio quality and file size — defines how much physical space one second of audio or video takes in bits (note: not in bytes). The higher the bit rate, the more times per second the original sound is sampled, thus yielding a more faithful reproduction and better sound. When choosing an MP3, weigh the advantage of a higher bit rate against the size of the file. Generally speaking, a bit rate of 128 kbps or higher will provide satisfactory sound quality. Constant Bit Rate (CBR) encoding maintains the same bit rate throughout an encoded file. Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is an MP3 encoding method that’s used when file size is not an issue. Unfortunately Magic DVD Creator decodes VBR but doesn’t encode it. Selecting the proper bit rate for your projects depends on the playback target: if you’re making a VCD for playback on a DVD player, the video must be exactly 1150 Kbps and the audio 224 Kbps.

C

codec
An abbreviation for compressor/decompressor. Software or hardware used to compress and decompress digital media.

compression
A process for removing redundant data from a digital media file or stream to reduce its size, or the bandwidth used.

D

DivX
DivX is the name given to a video codec (a piece of software used for encoding and decoding video) and is based on the MPEG-4 compression format. MPEG-4 is a new standard of video compression that is both high quality and low bit rate. They are usually only a fraction (around 15%) of the size of a standard DVD, even at 640×480 resolutions, making them the best home video format thus far. They only take half the time to encode, and yet at the same time are smaller in size than MPEG-1 – due to the incredible compression technology – some have even called MPEG-4 the “MP3 of the video world”. Quality ranges from net-streaming quality to DVD and better.

F

frame
One of many sequential images that make up video.

frame rate
The number of video frames displayed per second. Higher frame rates generally produce smoother movement in the picture.

G

3GP
3gp is a file format which is used in mobile phones to store media (audio/video). This file format is a simpler version of “ISO 14496-1 Media Format”. MOV (used by QuickTime) is also a format which follows similar file format. This format can only carry video encoded as MPEG-4 or H.263. Audio is stored in AMR-NB or AAC-LC formats.

I

.IFO file
The .IFO (and backup .BUP) files contain menus and other information about the video and audio.

M

MOV
A QuickTime movie can actually be used to store both movies and sounds. A file with this extension could thus be either an audio file or a movie file. Both types are supported by many different platforms. Note though that there are several different versions of QuickTime files in use, and not all players will play all versions.

MPEG
Gives excellent compression with little loss in quality of the video. MPEG support three types of data – video, audio and streaming. There are a number of standards: among them there are two flavors of MPEG available today.

MPEG-1
MPEG-1 was designed to provide VHS video quality and CD audio quality at a combined data rate of 150 kilobytes per second. MPEG-1 is displayed at 30 frames per second in a frame that is 352×240 (horizontal x vertical) pixels in size. This allows relatively high quality video images to be stored in relatively small file sizes for playback across computer networks or CD-ROM delivery.

MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is the other side of the compression coin. It is a broadcast standard specifying a playback size of 720 x 480 pixels at 60 fields per second. Data rates can range from 2 to 10 megabits per second. This means large file sizes and data rates that require specialized hardware for playback. MPEG-2 is one of the core compression technologies for DVD. See the MPEG site for more information.

 

O

Options

Audio Options

`-ar freq’
Set the audio sampling frequency (default = 44100 Hz).

`-ab bitrate’
Set the audio bitrate in kbit/s (default = 64)

`-ac channels’
Set the number of audio channels (default = 1).

`-an’
Disable audio recording.

`-acodec codec’
Force audio codec to codec. Use the copy special value to specify that the raw codec data must be copied as is.

Video Options

`-b bitrate’
Set the video bitrate in kbit/s (default = 200 kb/s).

`-r fps’
Set frame rate (default = 25).

`-s size’
Set frame size. The format is `wxh’ (default = 160×128).

`-aspect aspect’

Set aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9)

`-vcodec codec’
Force video codec to codec. Use the copy special value to tell that the raw codec data must be copied as is.

Audio / Video Grab Options

`-vd device’
sEt video grab device (e.g. `/dev/video0′).

`-vc channel’
Set video grab channel (DV1394 only).

`-tvstd standard’
Set television standard (NTSC, PAL (SECAM)).

`-dv1394′
Set DV1394 grab.

`-ad device’
Set audio device (e.g. `/dev/dsp’).

R

RM
RealMedia is a digital sound and video file format that is the registered trademark of RealNetworks. This format is typically used to stream media through the net. It can be played with the RealOne player or with other media players using the Real Alternative codec.

S

Sample Rate
The speed at which audio samples are recorded and played back. This is analogous to video and film frame rates. Higher sample rates give higher audio quality at the expense of larger audio file size. Lower sample rates save disk space but result in poorer audio quality. Typically, 8 kHz is fine for human voice recording. Audio CDs are recorded at 44.1 kHz, and audio DATs are recorded at 32, 44.1, or 48 kHz.

SVCD
SVCD is Super Video CD, a great method to save DVD movie to CD without losing much quality. SVCD discs can be played in your DVD player.

SWF
The SWF graphic file format is a version of the Macromedia Flash Player vector-based graphics format introduced in 1997. The SWF file format is ideal for presenting vector-based interactive and animated graphics with sound for the Web.

V

VOB
A data file used in the DVD Video format to deliver video, audio, and graphics.

W

WAV
A digitized sound file format for Microsoft Windows, which has “.wav” as the file name extension. Most pre-mastering software ill extract CD (CD-audio) tracks and write them to the hard disk as a Wav file. Wav files can have various qualities of sound depending on how they are created or saved, but the most common is 44,100 Hz, 16 bit, stereo (equivalent to audio track on CD).

WMV
Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of proprietary streaming video technologies developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Media framework.

Y

YUV
YUV is the color space used in the PAL system of television broadcasting which is the standard in most of Europe and some other places. Y stands for the luminance component (the brightness) and U and V are the chrominance (color) components. The YCbCr or YPbPr color space, used in computer component video, is derived from it (Cb/Pb and Cr/Pr are simply scaled versions of U and V), and is sometimes inaccurately called “YUV”.

Call Back Volume and Network Icon to System Tray, Vista

There will be sometime when either of your volume or network icon disappears from the system tray, or sometimes both of them are not there. Usually, when this happens, we just simply right click on the free area of the taskbar (not on the area of the system tray) and then go to Properties ->> Notification Area and you will see this dialog. Then check the box under the system Icon and click OK. That’s it.

However, sometimes, it does not allow you to check these boxes. What should you do?

Then you have to work with modifying your regedit. go to run and type REGEDIT followed by clicking OK. Then it opens the regedit.

Go to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify]

Delete these two values (IconStreams and PastIconsStream) and then restart your Explorer using taskmanager. I hope you know how to restart your Explorer.

Now you can go to the Notification Area just as mentioned above and check the boxes. They will go back to your system tray.

by MPS

VOTE THE EARTH

THIS IS THE WORLD’S FIRST GLOBAL ELECTION, BETWEEN EARTH AND GLOBAL WARMING.

On March 28 you can VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights for one hour.
Or you can vote global warming by leaving your lights on.

The results of the election are being presented at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. We want one billion votes for Earth, to tell world leaders that we have to take action against global warming.

WHY SHOULD I VOTE EARTH?

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

Please read more HERE!

All Olympic Symbols (Beijing 2008)

For details of each symbol and related information, read HERE!

TIME

HOW TO HIDE FOLDER

First click on Start button and type CMD in Run box then press Ok button to display the windows command prompt.

Now type the command “attrib +s +h D:\Data” without quotation marks and press Enter button to execute it.

This command will hide your “Data” folder from D drive and now you can verify it.

Any one cannot unhide this folder using windows “Show hidden files and folders” option also.

When you want to unhide this folder, again open command prompt and type the command “attrib -s -h D:\Data” and press Enter button. If you want to hide files then simply move all these files to this “Data” folder.