Saturday, 7 March 2015

Happy Women’s Day Quotes & Sayings in English


All should know how big and important day is march 8th.This day is the apt day day to express our love and affection to our beloved mother ,sister,daughter,grandmother and wife.Its International women's day and it is celebrated grandly all over the world.Celebrating it grandly doesn't make it big,its about celebrating truly from the heart.Lets us convey our love through some wonderful quotes and saying about woman and make them feel superior than others in the world.

 

Truthful Women's Day Quotes & Saying from Our Famous Ladies for International Women's Day 2015

Women do faces lot of challenges in her day-today life. Of course everyone faces some difficulty in their lives also but being a women and facing them is a different scenario.She tackles her problem and also never failed to show her care and affection to her beloved family at any situation.She is a warrior in the sense she faces many unknown personalities in her life especially the ones who goes to work for the sake of her family in order to meet their expenditure.

Inspiration, Motivation and Funny Quotes for our world Ladies on this Special International Women's Day

Mother is a woman who all care us even at her dreams and also keep the home filled with happiness.Wife is next mother,we can say like that.After a particular point of time mother will keep some distance and that space left by her will be filled by one in the name of Wife.She may be from different family but she changes her character according to that family,she adopts and adjusts well for the welfare of the family.that makes her even more special in this world we live.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. - Hillary Rodham Clinton
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.” - Virginia Woolf
Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book. - Malala Yousafzai
“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.” - Hillary Clinton
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. - Michelle Obama
"Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women." - Nicole Hollander
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist - Indira Gandhi
Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- but I can say they are certainty no worse. - Golda Meir
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. - Angela Merkel
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry - Gloria Steinem
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimated is exactly the type of man I have no inerest in. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. - Nora Ephron

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Gaza's housing crisis

Around 96,000 homes were destroyed in the bombardment, leaving tens of thousands of families struggling in the harsh winter without a home. And aid agencies say that number is set to increase due to dwindling relief and slow restoration.
According to the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism, an UN-brokered deal between Israeli and Palestinian authorities - an agreement was reached to enable construction work "on a large scale" in the area.
However, it includes an arrangement that restricts the flow of "dual use" materials into Gaza, comprising of cement and other essential building materials, supplies that could be seized for military purposes by Hamas.
As a result, few homes have been rebuilt despite international pledges amounting to billions. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said they were forced to suspend its cash assistance programme at the end of January after running out of money.


The agency claimed that to date, it had only received $135m (£87.8m) in pledges, leaving a shortfall of $585m (£380.6m), and the number provided to Palestinian refugee families to repair the homes was far less.
Aid agencies have subsequently found innovative ways to temporarily accommodate Gazans, as temperatures plummet in the strip.
Makeshift temporary homes made out of metal and wood have been created in a bid to evade Israeli restrictions on imports into the territory.
The Catholic Relief Services told Reuters that the agency had built 70 temporary homes in Khan Younis, a town in southern Gaza heavily damaged in the 50-day war, and has funding for 100 more. Forty families are reported to have moved so far, but remain in cramped conditions.
A UNRWA spokesman told Channel 4 News that some material was being allowed in to the territory, but it was still not enough. Christopher Gunness said: "We had to suspend the programme because we ran out of cash.

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

How to catch all the fish in a lake within 15 minut

In the past, Bamba is said to have been covered in lush green forests. The lake, which is considered to be sacred and populated with good spirits, used to offer tons of fish that contributed to local food requirements. But with changes in climate, desertification, and the passage of time, the region gradually became dry, infertile and inhospitable. The locals now face huge problems such as unavailability of water, but the lake still represents a precious resource to the local Dogons, but one which they exhaust every year during Antogo. The event is held on the 6th month of the dry season, generally in May, but the exact date is fixed each year by the council of wise men. Saturdays are market days in Bamba, and for the first three market days of the month wooden sticks are placed in the middle of the lake, acting as a signal, a warning that the ritual is getting closer. On the day that is finally designated as the day of Antogo, hundreds gather from all parts of Mali around Bamba’s lake. The 3 biggest groups are formed by the most respected and ancient families of various Dogon villages. The group from Bamba itself is usually the largest. These groups of people maintain a collective mystical silence, except for the wise who recite incantations and praise deities. When they are done speaking, the ritual itself – and all the magic associated with it – begins. 16 more images after the break...

he children and men form a frame of sorts around the lake; women are prohibited from participating in the ritual as they are considered impure because of their menstrual cycles. Once the frame is formed, they wait and watch, until the tinkling of a bell and a gunshot is heard. Then, hundreds of Dogon jump wildly into the lake, armed with fishing baskets, attempting to catch as many fish as possible, as fast as they can. The caught fish are quickly stashed into local leather bags, but sometimes people keep them in their mouths until they can find a place for storage. The Dogons soon become unrecognizable, covered completely in mud. The dance continues, nevertheless, and the fishing quickly turns into a frenzy. All this goes on for about 15 minutes, when a gunshot marks the end of the ritual. All the captured fish are put together and handed over to the oldest man of Bamba, the village elder, who will make sure the catch is properly distributed among the villages.