Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out

I punched the man who broke into my home – it came naturally | Gia Milinovich | Commentisfree | The Guardian

Having spent most of my life feeling vulnerable to being attacked by a man, I now feel a great sense of freedom. Being strong and knowing how to punch has brought me something I wish every woman could feel: for the first time in my life I feel like a full human being. I am not a victim. I am not afraid. I am not trying to take up as little space as possible. I am not trying to keep my head down. I’m not trying to stay out of the way. I have a strong voice, a confident gait and, frankly, very sexy, strong arms. I know I have an absolute right to be wherever I am without threat and I can defend that right physically if I need to.

All women should take some sort of self-defence training. Yes, of course, it would be nice to live in a world where women weren’t assaulted and where there was no chance of waking at 5am to find a strange man in your house. But until that day, it makes sense to learn how to handle yourself in threatening situations. Self-defence training teaches not only practical skills on how to strike an attacker, but awareness, assertiveness and how to enforce your boundaries. Most importantly, it will teach you something far more valuable: it is possible to live without the fog of fear.

via I punched the man who broke into my home – it came naturally | Gia Milinovich | Commentisfree | The Guardian.

Lady Gaga’s Ultimate Little Monster Experience Gets Even Bigger – Look to the Stars

Curated by Lady Gaga, this first of its kind special event gives the five-time Grammy winner’s most devoted fans a behind-the-scenes all-access meet and greet and VIP experience at the art RAVE ARTPOP Ball Tour. In addition to the dinner with Chef Art, fans will get an in-depth look at the inner workings of a Lady Gaga concert.

For more information, click here.

The Ultimate Little Monster Experience includes:

• Gourmet dinner, including appetizers and drinks, prepared by Chef Art Smith

• An individual meet and greet with Lady Gaga during dinner

• An individual photograph with Lady Gaga

• A backstage Haus of Gaga tour including the wardrobe area, stage access, sound booth and more

• Premium up close and personal concert seating with optimal stage viewing

The IfOnly experience comes with very limited availability and will continue in the following cities. Advanced purchase is required:

• July 11th: Chicago

• July 17th: Dallas

• July 21st: Los Angeles

• July 30th: Phoenix

• August 6th: Denver

via Lady Gaga’s Ultimate Little Monster Experience Gets Even Bigger – Look to the Stars.

5 Superhuman Ways to Crush Anxiety. | Rebelle Society

It is counterintuitive to our conditioned thinking of more, more, more to believe that the most important gift we can give ourselves is to kick some things to the MF curb. What does this have to do with anxiety? Anxiety arises anytime you are not living your truth.

The second you deviate from your authenticity, you will be notified by your bodily experience and the Universe (God of your understanding). For some, this is a full-fledged panic attack. For others, face-first-diving into an entire pan of brownies. Or a bottle of tequila. Or both.

via 5 Superhuman Ways to Crush Anxiety. | Rebelle Society.

US ship arrives in Italy port for Syria chemical weapons | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

The U.S. ship MV Cape Ray sailed into the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro on Tuesday to handle the unprecedented transfer and destruction of about 1,300 tons of Syrian chemical weapons.

The 648-foot (197.5-meter) U.S. government cargo ship has been fitted with two machines designed to neutralize the most toxic chemicals – including mustard gas and the raw materials for sarin nerve gas – that were removed from Syria as part of the international effort to destroy its chemical weapons.

via US ship arrives in Italy port for Syria weapons | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR.

Spain’s unlikely squatters — New Internationalist

The Platform is best known for actively obstructing evictions. But it has also occupied 15 blocks of flats and countless more houses, specifically those owned by banks that were bailed out by the government.

It is negotiating for evicted homeowners to live there legally while paying ‘social’ rent – no more than a third of their income. So far, banks have acquiesced in two buildings.

The group reports that over a thousand Spaniards are now squatting these homes, including more than 300 children.

‘Spain has three million empty buildings – the most in Europe – and more than a million of them belong to the banks,’ says the Platform’s Gala Pin. ‘We don’t need to build more houses. We rescued the banks with our money – millions of euros of public money – and they have to give something back.’

Pressure from the Platform and its cohort of disgruntled citizens secured new social housing and mortgage relief laws last year. But the policies have largely been branded a failure. Of the more than 6,000 bank- owned properties given over to social housing under the new laws, as many as two-thirds remain empty because application conditions are so strict. Particularly galling is the clause that requires families to apply through the same financial entity that evicted them in the first place.

via Spain’s unlikely squatters — New Internationalist.

Zhejiang bans urban live poultry trading – People’s Daily Online

{Personally, I am vegan but this is THE way to lower risk of this flu and new ones!}

Live poultry trading has been banned in urban areas of east China’s Zhejiang Province for good from Tuesday to control the spread of bird flu.

Zhejiang recorded a higher number of human cases of bird flu infections than any other province in 2013.

Many live poultry markets closed when a bird flu case was found. But markets reopened at a later date.

Fearing the spread of bird flu, Zhejiang has decided to completely close all live poultry markets in urban areas.

From now on, only dead and plucked poultry can be traded in urban markets, according to the provincial government.

Agricultural authorities in Zhejiang have begun to advocate standardized poultry cultivation so meat can be traced back to its producers.

Consumers are worried they may not be able to determine whether dead poultry was healthy, whereas they can when buying live poultry.

The authorities will also develop a process where poultry can be killed and plucked by machines on a large scale.

via Zhejiang bans urban live poultry trading – People’s Daily Online.

LOOK: Yunnan rainstorms force teachers to carry students across raging river to school: Shanghaiist

Teachers from a primary school in Funing Country, Yunnan province act as human ferries, carrying multiple students across a raging river to class.

via LOOK: Yunnan rainstorms force teachers to carry students across raging river to school: Shanghaiist.

Can you imagine students and teachers this motivated here in US today?

Danny and the Juniors- At The Hop (lyrics in discription) – YouTube

Danny and the Juniors- At The Hop

Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah

Bah-bah-bah-bah. bah-bah-bah-bah, at the hop!

Well, you can rock it you can roll it

You can stop and you can stroll it at the hop

When the record starts spinnin’

You *chalypso* when you chicken at the hop

Do the dance sensation that is sweepin’ the nation at the hop

Ah, let’s go to the hop

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

Let’s go to the hop

Come on, let’s go to the hop

Well, you can swing it you can groove it

You can really start to move it at the hop

Where the jockey is the smoothest

And the music is the coolest at the hop

All the cats and chicks can get their kicks at the hop

Let’s go!

Let’s go to the hop

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

Let’s go to the hop

Come on, let’s go to the hop

Let’s go!

Well, you can rock it you can roll it

You can stop and you can stroll it at the hop

When the record starts spinnin’

You *chalypso* when you chicken at the hop

Do the dance sensation that is sweepin’ the nation at the hop

You can swing it you can groove it

You can really start to move it at the hop

Where the jockey is the smoothest

And the music is the coolest at the hop.

All the cats and chicks can get their kicks at the hop.

Let’s go!

Let’s go to the hop

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

Let’s go to the hop

Come on, let’s go to the hop

Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah

Bah-bah-bah-bah. bah-bah-bah-bah, at the hop!

via Danny and the Juniors- At The Hop (lyrics in discription) – YouTube.