Global Rock Challenge.

The history of GRC1980
Global Rock Challenge started as "Rock'n'Roll Eisteddfod" in New South Wales, Australia, with a small number of local high schools. In 2006 over 400 schools and 40,000 students competed in 50 shows across Australia.
1993
The event opened in New Zeland, with 20 schools and 2000 participants. New Zeland now has 171 schools and over 16,000 participants.
1995
An English policeman visited Australia, and saw the Australia Eisteddfod Challenge. He liked it and decided to introduce it to the UK in 1996. It started in England with an event in Portsmouth. It is now a national 2-day event that takes place every year at the Hackney Empire Theatre in London.

2006
Tha African continent become a part of the GRC family! Over 2,000 South African students performed on stage in Johannesburg.

Today

The Global Rock Challenge takes place in 50 locations worldwide, including New Zeland, Germany, the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa.
The GRC message
All Global Rock Challenge events promote a 100% smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free environment. The emphasis is to encourage young people to live in a healthy way, without cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.

T H E A B C O F F R I E N D S H I P

A friend does most of these: (A)ccepts you as you are (B)elieves in "you"  (C)alls you just to say "HI"  (D)oesn't give up on you! (E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)  (F)orgives your mistakes (G)ives unconditionally (H)elps you (I)nvites you over (J)ust "be" with you (K)eeps you close at heart (L)oves you for who you are (M)akes a difference in your life (N)ever Judges (O)ffer support (P)icks you up (Q)uiets your fears (R)aises your spirits (S)ays nice things about you (T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it (U)nderstands you (V)alues you (W)alks beside you (X)-plains thing you don't understand (Y)ells when you won't listen and (Z)aps you back to reality

Jennifer Lawrence.

Jennifer Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, to Lawrence & Associates construction owner Gary Lawrence and children's camp manager Karen (Koch) Lawrence. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and is of English, German, Irish, and Scottish descent. She acted in local theater and, by the age of 14, had decided to pursue an acting career, persuading her parents to take her to New York City to find a talent agent. Prior to finding success in Hollywood, Lawrence attended Kammerer Middle School in Louisville. She graduated from high school two years early with a 3.9 average, aiming at a career in acting.
While growing up and in between acting, Lawrence served as an assistant nurse at the children's summer day camp that her mother ran.

Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009). She subsequently appeared in the independent films The Burning Plain (2008) andWinter's Bone (2010), for which she received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Screen Actors Guild Awardfor Best Actress. At age 20, she was, at the time, the third-youngest actress ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

At age 22, Lawrence's performance in the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook(2012) earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress, amongst other accolades, making her the youngest person ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress and the second-youngest Best Actress winner. Her performance in the comedy-drama American Hustle (2013) has earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award andCritics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress, among other accolades.Lawrence is also known for playing Raven Darkhölme / Mystique in the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role she will reprise in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past. Beginning in 2012, she gained international fame for playing the leading heroine,Katniss Everdeen, in the The Hunger Games film series, an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling trilogy of novels. Her performance in the films garnered her notable critical praise and marked her as the highest-grossing action heroine to date.

Lawrence's performances thus far have prompted Rolling Stone to call her "the most talented young actress in America." In 2013,Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, ELLE Magazine named her the most powerful woman in the entertainment business, and she ranked No. 2 on AskMen's list of Top 99 Most Desirable Women of the year.

The Freegans Phenomenon.

Freeganism is the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded. Freegans and Freeganism are often seen as part of a wider "anti-consumerist" ideology, and freegans often employ a range of alternative living strategies based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.

Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed."

The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan"; not all dumpster divers are vegan, but the ideology of veganism is inherent in freeganism. Freeganism started in the mid-1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashburyin San Francisco in the 1960s, that gave away rescued food.

I think that it's a great thing to do, instead of buying food from the store they eat what people throw away in the garbage. 

The Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.

Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where their drunken mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, victor of the 50th Hunger Games, instructs them to watch and determine the strengths and weaknesses of the other tributes. "Stylists" are employed to make each tribute look his or her best; Katniss's stylist, Cinna, is the only person at the Capitol with whom she feels a degree of understanding. The tributes are publicly displayed to the Capitol audience in an interview with television host Caesar Flickerman, and have to attempt to appeal to the television audience in order to obtain "sponsors". During this time, Peeta reveals on-air his longtime unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss believes this to be a ploy to gain sponsors, who can be critical to survival because of their ability to send gifts such as food, medicine, and tools to favored tributes during the Games.

While nearly half the tributes are killed in the first day of the Games, Katniss relies on her well-practiced hunting and survival skills to remain unharmed and concealed from the other tributes. A few days into the Games, Katniss develops an alliance with Rue, a 12-year-old girl from the agricultural District 11 who reminds Katniss of her own sister. In the meantime, Peeta appears to have joined forces with the tributes from the richer districts. However, when he has the opportunity to kill Katniss, he instead saves her from the others. Katniss's alliance with Rue is brought to an abrupt end when Rue is killed by another tribute, whom Katniss then kills in self-defence with an arrow. Katniss sings to Rue until she dies, and spreads flowers over her body as a sign of respect for Rue and disgust towards the Capitol.

The origin of my name..

Natasha: Russian variant of Natalia. It originates from the dies natalis, "the birthday", from the past participle of the verb to be born. It was originally connected to the martyrdom of Christians and was "the day that you enter into eternal life", was later associated with the day of the birth of Jesus, celebrated on December 25. Santa Natalia also commemorates July 27.The origin of this name is Latin.

Christmas in Italy

                               
Christmas in Italy
In Italy the Christmas season lasts for a few weeks up until Epiphany. It is common practice for Italian children write letters to Babbo Natale (Father Christmas) asking for Christmas presents. Christmas meals include:

• Lo zampone (skin of a lower pig leg filled with minced meat)
• Il cotechino (sausage, similar to salami)
• Turkey
• Lamb
• Tortellini (ring-shaped pasta)
• Il panettone (fruitcake)
• Bombardino (a popular drink similar to eggnog).

The presepe (Nativity scene) is often seen outdoors, particularly outside churches. The Nativity scene is popular custom that has spread across to many countries. TheCeppo (a Yule log) is also burnt during Christmas and must stay lighted until New Year’s Day.

History of British Christmas Customs and Tradition.

History of British Christmas Customs and Tradition.

They came from earlier festivals which had nothing to do with the Christian church. Long time ago people had mid-winter festivals when the days were shortest and the sunlight weakest. They believed that their ceremonies would give the sun back its power. The Romans, for example, held the festival of Saturnalia around 25 December. They decorated their homes with evergreens to remind them of Saturn, their harvest god, to return the following spring.

Some of these customs and traditions were adopted by early Christians as part of their celebrations of Jesus' birthday.

In Victorian times some new ideas such as Father Christmas, Christmas cards and crackers were added to the celebrations.