There are so many great places to go on your Spring Break vacation especially if you book with a company like StudentCity.com so I thought it would be great to list my top 5 picks to help you decide which destination you want to travel to.

1.) Cancun, Mexico- This is the epitome of Spring Break, the beaches are amazing, the weather is great and the clubs are unbelievable. If your going to stay at a hotel while your here it's the Oasis Cancun, it's where everything happens and is known as Spring Break headquarters. It also features huge concerts and appearances by some of the biggest celebrities in entertainment.

2) Acapulco, Mexico- If you like to party this is the place for you, you can party all night, and has some of the best nightlife in the world. The beach isn't as nice as Cancun but it's still beautiful. The hotel to stay at is definitely the Playa Suites which is the Spring Break headquarters in Acapulco and has the best set-up.

3) Cabo San Lucas, Mexico- The luxurious beaches and tropical blue waters that combine to make Cabo San Lucas a world class resort destination. It has become a popular Spring Break location for Californians and the buzz is quickly spreading across the U.S. as Spring Breakers head to Cabo.

4) Panama City Beach, Florida- Panama City Beach is a party mecca and is the best destination in the States. This recently revitalized coastal city boasts 27 miles of sugary soft white and coffee-colored sand, and endless opportunities for Panama City Spring Break action. That includes concerts and special events to be held at the MTV/MTVU Official Spring Break Village at the Boardwalk Beach Resort as MTV/MTVU has chosen this location to be Spring Break central.

5) Negril, Jamaica- This place is for everyone, it's know for it's chill reputation but also features some great beach parties and some great open-air bars. The beaches are awesome and what could be better then getting a tan while listening to some great Reggae music?

Book your spring break vacation now with StudentCity.com before you miss out!

Let me know what destination you will be travelling to for your Spring Break, or which destinations you think you might be interested in, leave a comment!

<p>Few good things have come out of Winchester, Virginia. The small town is best known for being a Cocaine trade hub in the mid 80's, due to its location between New York and Floridia, and for its Apple Blossom Festival, Civil War History, and of course Patsy Cline.

All of that is about to change, however. Micill Midas is taking Winchester and the rest of northern VA by storm. In just a few short years, Micill Midas has made a name for himself by constantly challenging emcees in battle cyphers around the region, gaining a reputation for his razor-sharp wit and lightening quick responses, causing people to call him just plain ILL.

Ill has been cultivating a style that is unique to Hip-Hop and reflective of the town's influences. Due to his originality, there are few, if any ,emcees/dj's in the area who have not heard of, cyphered with, or been in the studio with him.

Born and raised in Winchester, VA, Ill found growing up in a small town boring. Where the "Winchester Speedway," Apple Blossom Festival, and high school football were things everybody got excited about, they were not quite to his taste.

Video games and professional wrestling had a profound influence on the young Micill. In these, Ill found many other kids who weren't quite into the given norm of the area. The Beastie Boys probably capture the essence of this as good as any band, along with Run DMC and LL Cool J being some of his earliest influences. Since the realization that he could, Micill has been involved in creating communities based on un-common interests. As with the rest of the world, Eazy E, NWA, and the Ghetto Boys changed the way we viewed american culture, life, and hip-hop in particular. Finding outsider viewpoints alluring, Micill was drawn to the heavy beats and hard-hitting lyrics in the Hip-Hop of the early nineties.

Nas' "Illmatic" and Biggie's "Ready To Die," along with everything Wu-tang, captured Micill's attention and forever changed his concept of the possibilities in hip-hop.Though still too young to know exactly how, he began to feel hip-hop would play a huge role in the rest of his life. The hustle was just in him and he knew it.

From organizing Magic tournaments to video game contests, back-yard wrestling matches to wrestling pay-per-view parties and pools, Ill always found himself spearheading some movement or another. This fostered relationships and community where there might not have previously been, while always collecting a tidy profit in the process.

It wasn't until a cold winter's day in 1997 that Micill starting making some sense of the role hip-hop would play in his life. While driving down I-81, long-time friend Dik James began beat-boxing on a whim, and Ill started rhymin' to it. Soon freestyling while kickin' it became more common between the two. Along with another local kid, Doc, they founded the group "B.D.C." They began kickin' rhymes at parties while just hanging out, which often lead to freestyling on open mics at local shows.

As a young Ill grew in age, the couple hundred dollars extra a week from these activities just wasn't enough. So he did what many of the youth from the northern Virginia area did. Ill learned another way of making a few extra dollars by hanging around the clubs in Washington DC and participating in what was known in the area as "the trade." Ill fell into the darkside of life so deep that in February of 1998, while visiting home in Virginia, his parents' house was raided by the DEA/drug task force with suspicion of crystal meth trafficking. Although the state was unable to find sufficient evidence to file charges to back up the allegations, it was a life-changing experience for Ill.

However, the music buisness was just a natural progression of his ability to find "outsiders" and customers. With friends playing in metal and punk bands, Micill was drawn to the inherent rebellious nature of being a musican once again. Shortly thereafter, "B.D.C." began hooking up with other emcees in the area, notably, "Partners In Crime," made up of $keme $ and Jaz-E. Around the same time, "B.D.C." hooked up with another Rhyme Faction from nearby Berryville/NoVa/Radford, collectively know as "US." The three groups began hanging out regularly and eventually merged into one collective Rhyme Sector simply known as 850 records.

850 Records officially began in March, 2006 with the release of Micill Midas' debut album, "The Offering." Singles from the album got air play in VA, WVA and NC. "Why" and "Fades Away," along with numerous mixtape-styled tracks got mad love from DJ's in the WVA stripclub scene and on radio stations at Radford University, Shepard College 89.7, and UNC Asheville's, "The Blue Echo."

As Founder and acting CEO of 850 Records, Micill Midas has spent countless hours in the studio both rapping and engineering. While steadily puttin' his peoples on, he has managed the fledgling company with the help of local producer 2012 into a hub of local hip-hop.

Nine months after "The Offering," 850 Records released Micill Midas' follow-up album, "The Medicine," in December of 2006. With this album, Micill has started taking a new marketing approach, and within a month of learning about MySpace, he has become the number one ranked page for Virginia's freestyle category, as well as number 20th in rap and 21st for hip-hop. He just broke the freestyle charts on MySpace at the number 77th spot in the whole US. Ill has recently won the first two battles at Milano's Bar and Grill, and he has been continuing work in the studio on various projects coming out on 850 Records in 2007. Micill has more plans in his future with his desire to succeed, along with the support of his family, friends, and fans. Keep a lookout for new material and check iconrecords.com for a copy of "The Offering" and "The Medicine" in February! 

<p>Squeakdigital says Go to Mininova to download this album if you like hip-hop/rap.  Micill Midas CEO of 850 Records brings you his 3rd album.  Featuring Congo, Willy, Mat Bass, Dirty D, Jaz E, Entice, and Diggity Dik James Biotch.  Copy and paste this link below to go directly to the torrent.  Enjoy!

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1130050

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1131646

http://www.myspace.com/micillmidas

I saw a post somewhere the other day regarding school uniforms for kids. And I was amazed at the people's arguments who were against the idea of school uniforms? The entire argument was premised on the idea that what a person wears is the basis for their individuality? The first thing that “popped” into my head was, “how in the world can a person’s individuality be based on what everyone else is wearing?” Meaning, if everyone is wearing ripped jeans and cut off T-Shirts, where is the individuality? They went on to say that if students were made to wear uniforms in schools that this was taking away their/our freedom? There is a very slight element of truth in that idea that I won’t go into right now, but I believe that these people were more then just a little off course?

Individuality is based on what we are inside, not what we wear outside. The real basis for freedom is what we do with our minds; it is not what we are wearing! Only a shallow buffoon would believe that what we wear is what defines us a person or even makes us who we are! School is about learning it is about educating ourselves to make ourselves and our society a better place. It isn't about a fashion show, if you want proof that it isn’t what you wear that makes you who you are look at some of the great minds through out the ages. Their cognitive process’s made them some of the great thinkers, not what they were wearing?

We live in a world where so many people want to believe that just because a celebrity has a lot of money, and a shiny new car and they are having their picture taking all the time, that these people are being individuals. And even worse, they believe that these denizen’s of the glam and glitter land are independent thinkers and, if we do all of the things they do, we’ll be free and independent thinkers! They wear whatever someone tells them to wear when they go to the Oscar’s, or Emmys, or whatever pseudo contest that they attend. It has nothing to do with who they are, nor what they are as a person! This is where everyone has seem to forgotten who and what these people are, they are just people like you and I, they just have different jobs. The follow the trends like most everyone else, and most of them are no more individual thinkers nor are they representative of individuality then kids in any school U.S.A.

Individuality is based on what we are inside, not what we wear outside. This is the real basis for freedom and what we do with our minds; it is not what we are wearing! School is about learning it is about educating ourselves to make our society a better place. I am all for uniforms and I believe that if uniforms were the norm, then we may be able to benefit from at least two things. One – Our children would learn to focus on mental growth, and Two – It is likely that many of our social issues would at least fade away if not entirely go away. I understand that it would take a lot more then just uniforms, but think about this. If children were made to wear uniforms, think about how many potential “Body image” issues we may have? The idea of Anorexia and Bulimia are based on the idea of self image. If we lessen the idea of how one looks and focus on how one becomes an independent thinker, ideas as image morphing may begin to fade?

Newly minted UN Messenger of Peace George Clooney visited Delhi today along with officials from the UN and India's Defense Ministry.

According to IANS, South Asia is well represented in the UN Peacekeeping forces: "With 9,357 troops engaged in UN missions, India is the third largest supplier of peacekeepers behind Pakistan (10,610) and Bangladesh (9,856)."

Clooney was coy on what exactly a messenger of peace does, saying that he was too new to the job to describe it.