http://www.pushcartprize.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushcart_Prize
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Hardship
1. a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship. 2. an instance or cause of this; something hard to bear, as a deprivation, lack of comfort, or constant toil or danger: They faced bravely the many hardships of frontier life.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Adopting a Cat from Feline Friends
FOR ADOPTING A CAT PLEASE CALL THE HOMING COORDINATOR:
050 823-1569 - Abu Dhabi
050 451-0058 - Dubai
http://www.felinefriendsuae.com/adopt.htm
050 823-1569 - Abu Dhabi
050 451-0058 - Dubai
http://www.felinefriendsuae.com/adopt.htm
What is Feline Friends?
Feline Friends is a non profit making organization that helps cats in the U.A.E. Volunteers rescue and re-home stray cats and kittens; promote the control of street cats by sterilization and re-release and provide care and relief to sick and injured cats and kittens.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Stop Child Labor
Initiatives towards Elimination of Child Labour – Action Plan and Present Strategyhttp://labour.nic.in/cwl/ChildLabour.htm
Child labor is done by any working child who is under the age specified by law. The word, “work” means full time commercial work to sustain self or add to the family income. Child labor is a hazard to a Child’s mental, physical, social, educational, emotional and spiritual development. Broadly any child who is employed in activities to feed self and family is being subjected to “child labor’.
http://www.childlabor.in/index.htm
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Panglossian?
characterized by or given to extreme optimism, esp. in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
Let's go to the movies: Taare Zameen Par
http://www.taarezameenpar.com/Synopsis :
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class.
When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to "be disciplined'. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family.
One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of "how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover why. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Squelch
1. to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash. 2. to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.—v.i. 1. to make a splashing sound. 2. to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound.
—n. 1. a squelched or crushed mass of anything. 2. a splashing sound. 3. an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument. 4. Also called squelch' cir"cuit, noise suppressor. Electronics.a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver, that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency at which virtually no carrier wave occurs.
Hoopla?
1. bustling excitement or activity; commotion; hullabaloo; to-do. 2. sensational publicity; ballyhoo. 3. speech or writing intended to mislead or to obscure an issue.
Hoopla
1. bustling excitement or activity; commotion; hullabaloo; to-do. 2. sensational publicity; ballyhoo. 3. speech or writing intended to mislead or to obscure an issue.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Untouchable
1. Hinduism. a member of a lower caste in India whose touch is believed to defile a high-caste Hindu; Harijan.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Love is Sisyphean ordeal
1. of or pertaining to Sisyphus. 2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.Sisyphus: a son of Aeolus and ruler of Corinth, noted for his trickery: he was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Project Nanhi Kali
Project Nanhi Kali was initiated in 1996 by K C Mahindra Education Trust (KCMET) with an objective of providing primary education to the underprivileged girl child in India.http://www.nanhikali.org/
Virtue
1. moral excellence; goodness; righteousness. 2. conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude. 3. chastity; virginity: to lose one's virtue. 4. a particular moral excellence. Cf. cardinal virtues, natural virtue, theological virtue. 5. a good or admirable quality or property: the virtue of knowing one's weaknesses. 6. effective force; power or potency: a charm with the virtue of removing warts. 7. virtues,an order of angels. Cf. angel (def. 1). 8. manly excellence; valor. 9. by or in virtue of, by reason of; because of: to act by virtue of one's legitimate authority. 10. make a virtue of necessity, to make the best of a difficult or unsatisfactory situation.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Another Chance
How often we wish for another chanceTo make a fresh beginning
A chance to blot out our mistakes
And change failure into winning.
It does not take a new day
To make a brand new start,
It only takes a deep desire
To try with all our heart,
To live a little better
And to be always forgiving
And to add a little sunshine
To the world in which we're living.
So never give up in despair
And think that you are through,
For there's always a tomorrow
And the hope of starting new.
-- Helen Steiner Rice
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Copycat
—n. Also,cop'y cat". a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child.—adj. imitating or repeating a recent, well-known occurrence: a copycat murder.
—v.t. 1. to imitate or mimic: new domestic wines that copycat the expensive imports. 2. to copy slavishly; reproduce: The clothes were copycatted straight from designer originals.
Mousetrap
1. a trap for mice, esp. one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted. 2. a device, machine, or the like whose structure or function suggests a trap for mice. 3. a device, system, or stratagem for detecting and catching someone in an unauthorized or illegal act. 4. Football.trap1 (def. 11). 5. build a better mousetrap, to make or offer a superior product.—v.t. 1. Informal. a. to trap or snare: traffic cops mousetrapping drunken drivers. b. to manipulate by devious or clever means; trick or outwit: to mousetrap the witness into a contradiction. 2. Football.trap1 (def. 20).
Patience
1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. 2. an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner. 3. quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Wolf down
to devour voraciously (often fol. by down): He wolfed his food.The Boy Who Cried Wolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Wish
1. to want; desire; long for (usually fol. by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning. 2. to desire (a person or thing) to be (as specified): to wish the problem settled. 3. to entertain wishes, favorably or otherwise, for: to wish someone well; to wish someone ill. 4. to bid, as in greeting or leave-taking: to wish someone a good morning. 5. to request or charge: I wish him to come.—v.i. 1. to desire; long; yearn (often fol. by for): Mother says I may go if I wish. I wished for a book. 2. to make a wish: She wished more than she worked. 3. wish on, a. to force or impose (usually used in the negative): I wouldn't wish that awful job on my worst enemy. b. Also,wish upon.to make a wish using some object as a magical talisman: to wish on a star.
—n. 1. an act or instance of wishing. 2. a request or command: I was never forgiven for disregarding my father's wishes. 3. an expression of a wish, often one of a kindly or courteous nature: to send one's best wishes. 4. something wished or desired: He got his wish--a new car.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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