Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Freedom

Let me breathe my own air

Let me choose my flying wings

Let me rest in the sky’s nest

I’m tired of impure words and hearts

I’m tired from the dance of colors in each face

I’m tired of looking backwards

through barred windows and shame

Let me be myself

Let me live as a human

That I am female should not matter

By Nilofar

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Freedom.

Ford to make cars with Heinz tomato skins?!

Ford to make cars with Heinz tomato skins?!

Heinz and Ford are exploring the idea of using tomato skins, a by-product in ketchup production, to make cars.

The concept is surprising, but Ford could make use of the by-product.  They could make the plastic parts for the cars with plastic that does not need petrol.

Heinz uses over 2 million tomatoes per year to make ketchup, this creates a lot of waste as the skin, pips and vines are not used.

via Ford to make cars with Heinz tomato skins?!.

Severe weather warnings for blizzard conditions and damaging winds in NSW, ACT and Victoria – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Summer in the city and fields for US but down-under… Severe weather warnings for blizzard conditions and damaging winds have been issued for a large area of south-eastern Australia.

Extreme conditions are expected to hit the NSW Snowy Mountains, parts of the South West Slopes and the ACT ranges tonight and tomorrow.

Meanwhile Victoria is bracing for more destructive winds tonight and tomorrow after being battered for the last 24 hours.

via Severe weather warnings for blizzard conditions and damaging winds in NSW, ACT and Victoria – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Habitat for Humanity to begin building 25 homes

Jaydon Crump, age 6, doesn’t know what sweat equity is, nor is he all that aware of the violence in his neighborhood that has worried his mother for the past three years.

He does know, however, that he’s about to get a yard to play in instead of a parking lot, and he already has big plans for a garden.

“I don’t know how he knows anything about gardens, and I’m not sure he knows what it means to grow one,” his mom, Candice Crump, said with a laugh. “But he’s told me we’re getting one. He says we’ll figure it out later.”

The Crump family’s three-bedroom, 1.5-bath house will be the first to be constructed in Habitat’s Hudson Hills community, located off Johnston Boulevard in West Asheville.

This July, Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity will begin building a cul-de-sac of 25 single-family arts and crafts style homes off Johnston Boulevard in West Asheville. The neighborhood of Green Built NC-certified homes is expected to be complete by the end of 2016 and will be referred to as Hudson Hills.

via Habitat for Humanity to begin building 25 homes.

Term – poem

TERM

by W. S. Merwin

TERM

At the last minute a word is waiting
not heard that way before and not to be
repeated or ever be remembered
one that always had been a household word
used in speaking of the ordinary
everyday recurrences of living
not newly chosen or long considered
or a matter for comment afterward
who would ever have thought it was the one
saying itself from the beginning through
all its uses and circumstances to
utter at last that meaning of its own
for which it had long been the only word
though it seems now that any word would do

via Term – 99.05.

Chennai children sing for peace – The Hindu

On the occasion of World Music Day, students from city schools – both private and Chennai Corporation-run institutions — are singing to promote harmony and peace.

On Saturday, carnaticworld.com will have school students and professionals sing across the city. Beginning 6 a.m. at Gandhi statue in Marina beach, there will be performances through the day at PSBB School in T. Nagar, Citi Centre Mall and Narada Gana Sabha. “Around 250-300 children will participate and we want to pass on these ideals to the next generation,” said musician K.N. Shashikiran. There is also an event in the evening at Narada Gana Sabha.

On Friday, 500 children sang folk, classical and semi-classical songs at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Anil Srinivasan, musician and founder of Rhapsody Music Foundation, said, “The idea is to bring communities together, to see music as an educational tool and not just as art.”

via Chennai children sing for peace – The Hindu.