The study found that drinking beer can make you smarter than before?

World: Beer or ingredient in beer may have the capacity to boost the role of the human brain, according to a study has found. Do not hurried cheer Okay read on you will know! The researchers pointed out that a substance named Xanthohumol Like Flavonoid substances were found in the beer and leaves plants Hops (earths plant ingredients to produce beer) can help increase the level of awareness of the people. But the substance Flavonoid back was found in plants, it is you making plant colors on the leaves, flowers or trees, scientists have found that they are found in fruit Berry black, dark chocolate and red wine that this substance can help fight against cancer or heart disease, etc. - etc. -. Professor of the University University Oregon State explained that they needed more time to be arguments on this study and test the next possible on mammals (pet-feeding) because the tests first is done only on mice only. However, this study only find the usefulness of plant leaves name Hop only that it contains help stimulate the brain only the quantity of leaves Hop which they took to the ingredients making approach beer is small, so the researchers interpreted until alcohol research Beer 2000 liters per day recently discovered the benefits of leaf Hop to the brain, so does not mean that researchers urged us drink beer a lot, because drinking beer much can affect the health and lose self-reliance.

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Life Today:A mother’s colourful love

From the moment a woman finds out she is pregnant, she pays more attention to every movement – how she walks, stands, sits, sleeps, eats – in order to ensure her baby is safe. When her baby is born, she doubles her care to comfort the child with compassion and love. In response, the baby looks at the mother with inquisitive eyes and love. This unique bond has been captured by Battambang painter Tor Vutha, and serves as the theme of a series of paintings entitled Baby and Mother that will open tomorrow at Phnom Penh’s Insider Gallery. “My purpose in showing this art is to stimulate people to think about how children are treated,” says the 37-year-old painter, who is also an art teacher and co-founder of the renowned Phare Ponleu Selpak arts school in Battambang province. “If mothers don’t treat their children very well, when their children grow up they won’t take care of them very well either. But if we treat our children better, they will care about us in the future too. This will continue to the next generation.” Tor Vutha got the idea for treatment behaviour after seeing negative images such as child beggars, child labour or child scrap scavengers in Cambodian society. “Their parents are most likely careless with their children,” he thought. Tor Vutha’s awareness of such social issues is reflected in his own life, and he vows to not let them happen with his first baby, who was born recently. He and his wife have treated their baby gently and with compassion and love, he says. “When we first got married, we felt normal,” he said. “When we had a baby, we felt we had a big responsibility. We had to give more love.” Through the images, Tor Vutha also wants mothers to be aware of pregnancy. He feels that women should have compassion for their unborn babies, and that if they are not ready to have a baby, they should take steps to avoid getting pregnant. The Baby and Mother exhibit includes 37 abstract paintings. In his paintings, Tor Vutha shows the face or body of the mother and unborn baby. He uses his abstract style to add emotion to the works. Along with the paintings, Tor Vutha will be showing seven sculptures from an exhibition entitled Mother’s Love that he presented last year. The sculptures were inspired by the story of his widowed mother, who raised him and his 10 siblings with the compassion and love that he plans to bestow on his own child. Tor Vutha hopes that by displaying his work at InterContinental Hotel’s gallery, he will have a chance to share Cambodian contemporary art with many different people, especially foreigners, and show how Cambodian artists try to apply their artistic ideas to represent social issues. He feels that until now, foreigners have shown more interest in his work than Cambodians. He attributes this to the fact that Cambodians often worry more about their business or their job than about art. “When people cannot afford enough, how they are going to think about art?” he says. “But all that will change. Cambodian people will find art important too.” Baby and Mother will be on display until May 27 at the Insider Gallery of the InterContinetal Hotel, #296 Mao Tse Toung Boulevard, Phnom Penh. The opening will take place this evening at 7pm.
(Source:PhnomPenhPost)

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Life Today:Graffiti duo show their style in Thailand

Two of Cambodia’s leading urban artists will take their unique style to Thailand after being invited to present their work at the Lotus Arts de Vivre Gallery in Bangkok. Artistic duo Lisa Mam and Peap Tarr, who have become known locally for their colourful, intricately designed murals scattered around Phnom Penh, will create a live painting at the Thai gallery from May 2 to 5, producing a unique artwork in front of an audience for charity. “It feels strange to show my work in Thailand, where Khmer artists are rarely invited to perform,” says Lisa Mam, also known as Little Dots, who has been referred to as Cambodia’s first female graffiti artist. “I am happy and surprised to present my work there.” Lisa Mam and her partner in crime Peap Tarr regularly collaborate on murals and paintings. They burst onto the world stage in March after selling a piece at the first art auction ever held in Cambodia by Christie’s, the 250-year-old British auction house. Their painting, a graffiti-inspired portrait of a young woman, was bought by an overseas bidder. “It was my first time joining an international auction,” Lisa Mam says. The pair have been keeping busy before their Thailand visit by working on a collaboration called Cambodian Mask Project. They’re among dozens of Cambodian and foreign artists residing in Cambodia who have been invited to decorate one mask each made to look like an ancient Khmer mask. The masks will then be sold to raise funds that will support young Cambodian young artists. Lisa Mam and Peap Tarr have dubbed their contribution Master Mask Graffiti. An exhibit featuring the painted masks opens at the Plantation Hotel on May 24.
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Life Today:Queen of Sexy keeps mum on rookie’s love

Sexy Cambodian actress Kol Davy adopts a blank expression when asked if she loves rookie star Sothea Piseth, who has already confessed his love to her in public. The 29-year-old actress, known for her ample bosom and sexy outfits, has denied reports of an affair with SEATV presenter Panha Sith, saying their relationship is like brother and sister. The rumours about her and Sothea Piseth, however, appear to be true. A source close to the actress has revealed they saw Kol Davy and Sothea Piseth in a car late at night. The couple have also been spotted in night-clubs dancing and drinking to their hearts’ content. The 24- year-old has admitted he and Kol Davy are in love, saying: “She and I have just fallen in love. Our relationship sparks anger in Panha Sith because he was dumped by her.” Kol Davy is infamous for changing boyfriends as often as her outfits. Sothea Piseth is the third man who has publicly confessed his love for her, but she remains tight-lipped on the subject.
(Source:PhnomPenhPost)

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Life Today:Risque singer to wed wealthy police officer

Cambodian singer and comedian Sam Polida caused a double showbiz shock this week after announcing her sudden engagement two days ago to a rich military policeman and her plan to walk down the aisle next month. The 37- year-old singer, famous for her dirty jokes, said she had known her fiancé, Svay Sisotha, for many years, but it was only in the past couple of months that she had felt sure he was Mr Right. The once-divorced singer said: “I knew my fiancé very well before I decided to marry him. It’s not a case of love at first sight.” Sam Polida believes her fiancé truly loves her for who she is. He also cherishes her two children from her first marriage. With a big diamond ring sparkling on her finger, Sam Polida said: “We don’t want to drag it out any longer. We’ll get married on June 12.”
(Source:PhnomPenhPost)

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Life Today:Rwandan actor reflects on shared history, role of art

Wesley Ruzibiza, a choreographer at the National University of Rwanda, is one of two Rwandan actors who joined Cambodian artists from Amrita Performing Arts to perform the play Breaking the Silence during a recent tour through the African country. The play deals with reconciliation between victims and perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge genocide. Ruzibiza corresponded from Ethiopia with reporter Roth Meas to share his ideas on the cultural exchange and the play’s role in inspiring reconciliation in two countries with similarly painful histories. Can you describe to me what you heard about your own story, the Rwandan genocide, while growing up? I came to hear the story of the Rwandan genocide in late 1998. Certainly, I knew, living by that time outside Rwanda, that there had been a terrible war that had taken one million lives. But I never knew how terrible genocide was, and – speaking frankly here – I was shocked and scared to death. What were the challenges in working with Cambodian artists to produce Breaking the Silence in your country? The main challenge I had with the Cambodians in producing this play was the language but, honestly speaking, we transcended that by just listening to one another’s stories and relating to them. The other challenge was that of emotions: how to deal with a real, painful story on stage and be able to act and make people understand the Cambodian history. The director of the play, Anna Maria, was able to work it out with different techniques that made the performance true and at the same time created a safe stage for the artists. What were your expectations for this performance? Did your people understand what the Cambodian artists wanted to tell them? At the beginning of this artistic adventure, I had only one expectation of the performance: to make people understand this story and to make the Cambodian story clear for the Rwandans to relate to it. At the end, I had more expectation of telling the story, sharing the pain and bringing the Rwandan audiences to share their experiences. That was indeed what happened. The Rwandans related to the Cambodian story and knew the Cambodians had come all that way to share their history and comfort the Rwandans in their pain, and especially letting them know that they are not alone. They discovered that a genocide happened in Cambodia, in a different way and time, but indeed it did happen and Cambodians suffered the same as Rwandans. In your opinion, what should be the best way to reconcile among your people? The best way to reconcile my people is through true forgiveness and the reconstruction of human life through true justice for the survivors. This will bring respect to the memories of the people whose lives were taken. And through speaking aloud about genocide so that it will never again happen to anyone in the world. What are your plans for the future? I deeply hope that one day we will perform in Cambodia!
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Life Today:Ask the doctor: Fake pills and ‘in house’ pharmas

I’ve been hearing horror stories about generic medications sold here in Cambodia. How reliable are they? What is the difference between generics and “brand” medications? How do I know which is which? You raise two issues: the first one is fake medications, and the second is generic medications. Regarding fake medications, it is one of the major public health threats in Asia, and Cambodia is no exception. Either incorrect dosages or presence of a different substance – be it active with unexpected and harmful effects or inactive – may occur. The only way to prevent getting sick when taking medications – apart from possible side effects or wrong prescriptions – is to get them from an authorised pharmacy of good reputation. According to Cambodian law, a pharmacy must have a licensed “in house” pharmacist, but there are problems with the law’s implementation and interpretation. There are more outlets than pharmacists available and as a result a pharmacist may work in one outlet but sell his name and qualification to two or three other outlets without being physically present as required by law. Regarding generic and “brand” medications (assuming we are talking about genuine ones): The problem is completely different. A generic is similar to the original “brand” one, and manufactured according to the same process since the licence of the original molecule goes to the public domain after a while. The only differences with the original are the excipients (binders) and its presentation. In terms of efficacy, the generics and “brands” are basically identical, although some scientists have recently raised concerns with some antibiotics (minor differences anyway). It can be difficult to know “which is which”, and doing so usually requires the expertise of a medical doctor or a qualified pharmacist. But never forget: The only professionals trained to diagnose and prescribe a treatment are medical doctors, although qualified and graduated pharmacists can provide medical advice. I’ve seen some reports of increased drug-resistant malaria in Cambodia. If these are true, how worried should I be? How effective, safe or recommendable are prophylactics for an expat living long-term in Cambodia? Yes, we have strong evidence of a developing malaria resistance at the Cambodian-Thailand border well as at the western Thailand-Myanmar border. However, we have also evidence that the usual ACT – artemisine combined therapy – remains efficacious for the treatment of the most common and severe malaria disease – caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite – in this area. The usual recommended prophylaxis for those exposed to malaria remains efficacious too. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and other international health organisations, the only areas free of malaria are: Angkor Wat complex, Phnom Penh and around Lake Tonle Sap. For those staying in all other areas for a long stay, malaria prophylaxis is recommended with Atovaquone-Proguanil combination (Malarone) or Doxycycline. The duration of such a prophylactic treatment is controversial, but should never last less than six months. This duration of treatment covers the period at highest individual risk, when the immune system has not yet met the parasite. Afterwards, the immune system gives some protection against the parasite, and the decision to continue treatment takes into account the benefits, such as protection against the Plasmodium, and the risks – side effects of a long-term preventive treatment and selection of resistant parasites. Last but not least: Mosquito-bite prevention is of the utmost importance. Repellents, long sleeves and pants, bednets, are the main ones, which by the way will protect from all the other mosquito-borne diseases, so frequent in Cambodia (dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, chikungunya amongst the most famous).
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Life Today:Paris Children's Choir perform in Phnom Penh

On Friday evening, 250 members of Phnom Penh’s Francophone community braved Monireth Boulevard’s motorcycle gridlock for a rare evening of sophistication: a touring recital by the Children’s Choir of the Paris National Opera, organised in conjunction with The Institut Français du Cambodge. Fresh from travels to Laos and Vietnam, the Children’s Choir performed Maurice Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) to an audience that ran the full gamut of the city’s French speakers, from sartorially-minded embassy staff and their families to restive groups of elementary school language students. First performed in 1925, Ravel’s opera is the tale of a petulant child who flies into a rage after a confrontation with her mother, destroying all objects in her room. Slowly the objects come alive to reprimand her. After a brief interval, the child re-emerges in the garden outside the house where she is chided and attacked by the plants and animals she had tortured in similar tantrums. As the animals prepare to attack her, the child helps a squirrel injured in the fracas, and in a change of heart after witnessing her kind behaviour, they help to return her home while singing her praises. The Paris National Opera’s production spared no indulgence, with an ensemble cast featuring 50 of France’s finest young vocal talents performing in tandem with the choir’s resident string ensemble. Elegant butterfly costumes used in the second half were the opera’s aesthetic highlight, and their wearers were held aloft and spirited across the stage with all the grace and finesse of the Children’s Choir’s adult counterparts. Gaël Darchen, director of the Children’s Choir since 1999, said that his young charges were enthusiastic about the opportunity to share their love of opera with people of the region. “It is so different to what the audience is used to here. The idea of musical harmony is different to what people are used to here. Our audiences in Europe are used to operatic performances; they don’t have to learn to listen like our audiences here do,” he said. Darchand added that such an extravagant production was only possible because of the firm commitment given to developing the arts by the French Government – in particular, the advocacy and financial support from Patrick Devedjian, the President of the General Council for the Hauts-De-Seine Département, which administers the neighbourhoods of Paris where the National Opera resides. François Allain, the cultural chargé de mission at Institut Français, says that his organisation revelled in the opportunity to imbue Cambodia’s French students with a love of the language and provide a taste of high culture to the city’s Francophone expatriates. “The National Opera has a huge budget, whereas we have to work with the same amount of resources every year,” Allain said. “Naturally, it’s great to have something of such a high artistic level, something which one would see in Paris and France being performed in Phnom Penh.” The production of Ravel’s opera marks the third occasion that the Children’s Choir has travelled through the region, following a tour of contemporary composer Isabelle Aboulker’s Marco Polo through China in 2005 and the baroque opera Dido and Aeneas around India two years later. It is also one of the many events organised to commemorate the Institut Français du Cambodge’s 20th year in the Kingdom.
(Source:PhnomPenhPost)

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Life Today:Grandmaster Flash rocks Cambodia

Despite a professional downturn since his heyday in the 1980s and ’90s, Grandmaster Flash, one of hip-hop’s founding fathers, proved last Wednesday that he’s still got what it takes to get heads bopping and hands waving in the smoke-filled air. A near-capacity crowd of Phnom Penh-ites, the vast majority expats, were eager to see one of the genre’s trailblazers work his magic on the ones and twos at Pontoon. Bronx-raised Joseph Saddler, better known as Grandmaster Flash, came to prominence in the 1980s as the DJ for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, where he pioneered turntable moves such as “scratching” and track looping that are now considered standard deejaying techniques. The group was the first rap crew to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Flash’s recent solo attempts, however, have not been greeted with much enthusiasm. VICE magazine said his latest album, The Bridge – Concept of a Culture, released in 2009, “sounds just a little too much like exactly what you would expect from a 51-year-old who’s been out of the game for more than two decades”. The same could be said of Wednesday’s show, with Flash spinning and mixing tried-and-true classics like the Furious Five’s biggest hit, 1982’s The Message, 1990s gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg, and other mainstream crowd-pleasers that even the most lily-white of suburban-raised expats recognised from their MTV-fuelled adolescences. There were no surprises, but it was precisely the throwback feel of the set that got the crowd smiling and bumping. Having fostered a reputation for grumpiness offstage, the legendary DJ radiated only positivity throughout his set. He told the audience that of all the shows he had done in the region, this was the best. “I’ve been to Hong Kong, I’ve been to Singapore,” he yelled into the microphone. “But Cambodia can rock tha mothafuckin’ house!”
(Source:PhnomPenhPost)

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Life Today:Cambodia steps towards a dance world record

BY all estimates, Cambodia is set to make global dance history, after about 1,100 young people from around the Kingdom joined the “Loy 9 Challenge” on Saturday to break the Guinness World Record for Largest Madison Dance. It was drizzling when the dance began on the lawn in front of Wat Botom in Phnom Penh, but despite the rain, the event, organised by Loy 9, a weekly, youth-oriented program aired on CNT-TV, surpassed the goal of bringing together 1,000 dancers to beat the previous record of 459 people, set last year in France. Nov Pouleakhena, 21, a student at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, already knew how to do the Madison. She had heard about the challenge on Facebook and came with friends. “I wanted to join the dance because it’s to break the world record. We’ve never broken such a world record before. “Second, the Madison doesn’t belong to Cambodia but it is well known in Cambodia. When we dance to this music, it makes us happy,” she said. The popular line-dancing style requires good co-ordination among dancers. But not everybody who joined on Saturday was as familiar with the dance as Nov Pouleakhena. Song Savy, 20, a student at Mekong University, learned how to dance Madison for the first time from a trainer five minutes before the challenge officially began. “I really like Loy 9. The show encourages us to be involved. When I heard about the dance, I really wanted to join,” Song Savy said. Chan Phearun, 23, an arts teacher at the non-profit organisation Hagar, gave those new to the dance some quick training. With only an hour to train beginners before the 4pm start, Chan Phearun split hundreds of novices into smaller groups to teach basic steps. Madison has several styles, but she taught the classical one to avoid confusion. “Fifty per cent of the participants already knew how to dance the Madison,” Chan Phearun said. “We trained those who didn’t know how to do the dance by counting steps. They learned very quickly,” Loy 9 project director Colin Spurway was worried the rain would discourage participants, but by 4pm more people than expected had arrived. “We look like we have more people than we need to set the new record,” he said as the event took off. The “Loy 9 Challenge” must be reviewed and certified as a new world record by a Guinness committee in London before it is officially announced as such. Independent observers were present during the event, as is required by Guinness World Record guidelines, and Spurway will submit the event for consideration this week. He expects to learn next week whether young Cambodians have officially danced the French out of the record books.
(Source:PhnomPenhPost)

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