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Members of the Wild Strawberry Student Movement yesterday slammed the indictment of National Taiwan University sociology professor Lee Ming-tsung (李明璁) for allegedly violating the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) during a sit-in last November.
Movement spokesman Chang Chih-hao (張之豪) said the students regretted the development, but said the indictment was "predictable."
"We realize after months of peaceful protest that this government did not feel any remorse for what they did," Chang said during an English interview with the Taipei Times. "They still don't think they have done anything wrong."
Chang was referring to the manner in which law enforcement officers dealt with demonstrations against the visit of Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) in November.
Lee was one of the initiators of the sit-in in front of the Executive Yuan on Nov. 6 along with a group of students who dubbed themselves the Wild Strawberry Student Movement. They called on the government to scrap the requirement in the assembly Act that rally organizers must seek government approval before staging a demonstration. Participants were evicted by the police for not applying to hold the sit-in, but reconvened later at National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall.
The protesters had demanded that President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) apologize and that National Police Agency Director-General Wang Cho-chun (王卓鈞) and then-National Security Bureau director-general Tsai Tsao-ming (蔡朝明) step down for what they called the "excessive force" police used against demonstrators.
Chang said the indictment revealed "the authoritarian mindset" of the government as prosecutors still considered Lee "the chief instigator" of the movement while ignoring the fact that college students in the movement were "well-informed" and could take responsibility for their own actions.
"We were not following Lee. We were following our heart," Chang said, adding that the students regarded Lee as a "comrade" rather than a "leader."
Chang said the students would take measures to voice concern about the indictment, but did not elaborate.
The indictment, issued on May 15 by the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office, stated that Lee "is well aware that assembly and parades are prohibited without submitting an application in advance," but did not do so when he led hundreds of students and civic group members to the sit-in.
Although police officers held up signs several times informing Lee and other demonstrators that their demonstration was in violation of the Act, Lee "refused to heed the warnings given by the police and continued to lead the crowd in protest," the indictment read.
Prosecutors alleged Lee violated Article 29 of the Act, which states that a leader of demonstrators who refuse to disassemble after being told to do so by authorities may face up to two years in prison.
Lee's attorney, Kao Yung-cheng (高涌誠), yesterday declined to comment on the indictment.


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Visitors welcomed
Monkstown Golf Club rejoices in its distinguished history and its unique setting overlooking Cork's glorious harbour. The Club celebrated its centenary in 2008 and has hosted many Golfing Union of Ireland and Irish Ladies Golf Union events throughout its history.
The antiquity of the site is evoked by the old Castle which dates back to 1636 and was the Clubhouse until 1971. It is fitting that the outline should form the crest of the Club since its inception in 1908. The Castle has recently been tastefully restored to its former glory.

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Ask any music fan what is their favourite thing about summer and they will all tell you the same thing.
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Just check out last year's aftermovie to get you all riled up!
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Copper Triangle Support Group
This social group is for anyone living with arthritis in the Copper Triangle area wanting to make social connections.
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This group is for people with Lupus, Scleroderma and Sjogren's Syndrome.
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Meet monthly at Marion Church of Christ
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Southern Arthritis Friendship and Support Group
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Matewan/Norma Rae Essay
Economics in Popular Film
Professor Gabriel
In plot summary, the movies "Norma Rae" and "Matewan" appear to be very similar: laborers working towards a union, with many obstacles put up by management. But, once one takes a closer look at each movie, it becomes apparent that each film takes place in a distinctive, but different, economic condition. "Norma Rae" describes a capitalist society, while "Matewan" describes a feudalistic situation.
In feudalism, one company, or one lord, has a monopoly over all of the necessary resources. This is the case in "Matewan" -- Stone Mountain Coal Company owns all of the land, the housing, even the food. It is also the sole employer in the town of Matewan. In "Norma Rae," Henleyville Mill provides a lot of people in the area with jobs. However, there are other jobs that Norma, or any of her co-workers, could have worked at; there were hotels, restaurants, even a JC Penny's. In fact, Norma's husband did not work at the mill -- he worked at a gas station. The workers in Matewan did not have this choice. If they decided to work some place other than the mine, they could no longer live in town, and they would have been forced to live as mountain men. In other words, the only way to lead a normal existence would be to work for Stone Mountain.
The workers for Stone Mountain were required to sign a contract, much like the contracts in other forms of feudalism. In Matewan, Stone Mountain was the lord whose serfs start out in debt because they had to buy tools from the company store. Also, the contracts stated that the workers would be paid in company scrip, and therefore were forced to buy from the company owned stores and live in company owned houses. This was not a free-market -- for the workers and for the buyers -- because there was no competition, and Stone Mountain had complete control over wages and prices. Competition is essential to a capitalist society. In "Norma Rae," the workers were not paid well, but they had the option of where to spend their money; the Henleyville Mill did not own all of the stores in town.
In a feudalistic society, the people work for themselves, in some sense. They have to give a quota to the "lord," but they then decide how much they work for themselves. This was true in the mines in Mingo County. Unfortunately, the quotas that were given to Stone Mountain were so large that the miners would work themselves into the ground just to make that little extra for themselves. In capitalism, what wages a worker makes, that worker can bring home at the end of the day, and is not indebted to give any of it to their employer. This was the case in "Norma Rae." Even though the wages that the mill workers earned were small, when they got their paycheck, the money was their's to spend on what they wanted, and it was not going to a business controlled by the mill.
Neither the Henleyville Mill nor the Stone Mountain Coal Company supported unions. However, the method each management used to frustrate the attempts of the union organizers were indicative of the economic conditions in which they existed. Stone Mountain denied the workers everything when they went on strike, and brought in detectives to enforce their rules. These detectives were much like feudal knights in that they used the threat of violence to control their workers. The Henleyville Mill used the threat of low wages and even loss of jobs, but their attempts to foil Reuben's efforts were not violent. They hid notices, and use the threat of job loss, but the mill workers would get their union if they voted for it.
Unions are essential to capitalism because they create a competitive market in which the laborer has control over what they are paid. In "Matewan," the workers are not able to get a union. The union organizer, Joe Kinnehan, is killed, as are many other miners who are involved with it. In "Norma Rae," the Henleyville Mill, however complies with the labor laws laid out by the government, because they operate in a capitalistic society where they are ultimately under control of the laws made by the people. In the feudalistic society of Matewan, the people are ultimately under the control of the "lord" -- Stone Mountain Coal Company.
In the end of "Norma Rae," the Henleyville workers get their union because they exist in a capitalist society. However, the workers in "Matewan" do not get a union because they live in a feudalistic society, and unions do not exist in such a society. Although the plots are very much the same, the workers in "Matewan" have a lot further to go before they can achieve even the freedom that the workers in "Norma Rae" had before their union.
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Facebook benchmark by Degordian
There are millions of questions when it comes to setting up, optimizing and planning your Facebook campaigns. Here are the answers and best practices to help you get the most out of your CPC, CPA and advertising efforts.
How much will my Facebook campaign cost? Does it have to do anything with country I advertise in? How about placement? Or industry? Setting up my first bids for Facebook campaign I had all this questions and I didn't really know where to start form rather than experiment.
After a few dozen optimized campaigns you start to get a feeling about these things, how they might go and how to bid. But I like to analyze and I need numbers for my feelings. :)
I decided to see what numbers have to say about cost per clicks and trends depending on country, time of year, placement and even industry. I gave myself a lot of work, but as geeky as it might sound – I like playing with data.
In this blog, I'm going to focus on Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Slovenia since these are the markets on which we placed most of our campaigns. Data for this Facebook benchmark was collected from January 1st to December 31st 2014.
At the end of this blog you will find a download link that contains all the calculations and data for top 25 countries in which we've placed and targeted Facebook ads.
Cost per Click
The initial idea behind the research was to get an average CPC depending on country the ads were placed in. First thing I've noticed was that countries in the region have lower CPC than more developed countries in the west such as Austria, Germany and Italy. Average CPC of 0,03 EUR in Serbia or 0,04 EUR in Croatia didn't seem right, it seemed way too low. My CPC bidding experience told me different. And I was right. The thing was these CPC calculations are based on all the campaigns, regardless of objective. The most common objective was Post Engagement in which the CPC was low.
However, when placing Post Engagement campaigns, after certain Facebook update, we figured the oCPM bidding was the most cost effective and so by using a different bidding method, we've managed to lower the initial CPC point of reference.
Except objectives, time of the year and season have the story of their own with CPC trends. Slovenia and Croatia, for example had an average CPC rising in summer time and significantly peaking in December, being the Christmas time. (more in dl link below)
Cost per Action
When you place campaigns that lead to an external web site or you want to get fans to like your page, you would like to know information such as Cost per Action or CPA. If you want to setup page likes campaign your CPA would be Cost per Page Like, if you want to lead people to your web site, you have your Cost per Website Click and so on.
Depending on the objective of the Facebook campaign, click through rate on these ads also varied – Page Posts Engagement campaigns were clicked the most. (more in dl link below)
Our research shows that people tend to click much more on ads placed in their Facebook News Feed rather than Right Side ads, and even more if they are placed in their Mobile News Feed. CPC on Right Side ads were higher than other placements, but on the other hand, cost per thousand impressions (CPM) were much lower. In the last column of table below you can see that CPM of Right Side ads will get high as only few percentages of the price of CPM News Feed ads. There are exceptions such as India as you will see in the calculations you can download at the end of this blog.
In other words, if you want your ads to be clicked, place them on the News Feeds. If you have a branding campaign and want to be seen, Right Side Ads will save the day.
There is a significant peak of CPC for Technology in December, since tech and gadgets seem to be the best gifts for Christmas. Tourism CPC's proved to peak in September (postseason) and spring (before summer vacation). You can notice different trends and price peaks, depending on the industry.
The cost of click on ads depend on various factors, only few of them being season, industry, placement, country your ad is shown in, trends and of course content. You can have great ads, a product or a service, but if you don't put much thought into campaign placement you will achieve less of a satisfying end-result and even lose money. On the other hand, you can know how to place and optimize your ads like a pro, but with low quality ad and content itself, there is little you can do.
Respect your customers and their clicks, provide them with original and quality content, and place your ads right! :)
Tell us about your experience in the comments below! Did you have experiences with other interesting trends? What countries or industries would you like us to analyze and share next?
For more data about Degordian's Facebook benchmark in 2014, fill in the form and download the document!
Hope you find it useful in improving your campaign results! :)


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Mixing Business & Pleasure
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Double Denim Made Easy
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
T-Shirt: Madewell
Skirt: Zara similar
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff
Skirt: Zara similar
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff
Sandals: Tomas Maier
I'm always a little worried about trying out the double denim trend as, outside the fashion world bubble, there is a serious risk of ridicule - queue the 90's and Britney jokes... So although wearing denim shirts with your favourite Levi's may well work outside Somerset House during LFW it's not so easy to pull off in every day life. So I've come up with a bit of a solution, the blue (NOT denim) t-shirt! This basic tee from Madewell is the perfect shade of blue that allows you to try out the double denim trend, but without really doing it. Playing it safe but in a good way :)
What do you think? Are you a fan of double denim?
Thanks for reading,
Lucy xx
It's darling...
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Jacket: Madewell
I've really got a thing about kimonos at the moment! How lovely is this one from Madewell? Definitely a Spring must-have!
Thanks for reading,
Lucy xx
Grey Cardigan & Black Flares
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Interior Inspiration
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Image via Pinterest
I'm really starting to look more and more at interior design, which is odd because if you'd have asked me a year ago to pick out a vase or a sofa I'd probably have responded with a laugh! As I'm getting older and no longer living with my parents though, it's becoming something I'm taking more and more of an interest in - because I sort of have to! So now when I go to Ikea, it's because I want to look at all the show rooms and get ideas, not because I need some new storage boxes...
I really like this sofa I found on Pinterest - this colour works the same for interiors the way it does with clothes - Camel WORKS even for the most minimal of minimalists!
Thanks for reading,
Lucy xx
Your Coachella Inspired Outfits Sorted
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Trying Out the Kimono/Flares Look
Monday, 13 April 2015
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Dressed Up Denim
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Shirt: Gucci
Jeans: Mango
Shoes: Jimmy Choo
I've recently started to be a little more "girly" which is a bit odd for me, especially as it means I have to find a few different ways to start wearing my denim and boyfriend shirts with something other than trainers! Fortunately, heels and jeans is socially acceptable these days (see above! I found proof on Pinterest).
Hope y'all have a good weekend planned!
Thanks for reading,
Lucy xx
Boyfriend Denim and Summer Vibes
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
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Labels: denim, ootd, street style
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Samsung was one of the earliest brands that came out of the proverbial gates with a smartwatch that combined a fitness monitor and phone into a wearable device. Soon after, all the titans in the mobile technology field came out with their own products as well; that, of course, included Apple.
- A distinctive steel bezel that you can rotate to access apps and notifications , Strap with buckle : 2.76 inches,Large...
- Text, call and get notifications directly from your watch through your Bluetooth connected smartwatch
- Make payments with Samsung Pay almost anywhere you swipe or tap a credit card; Battery Type and Size : 380mAh Li ion
With the success of the Apple Watch, and later the Apple Watch 2, it was time for Samsung to once again up the ante in this field.
The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier attempted to just that, by including many of the most sought-after features for wearable devices, including GPS, a heart rate monitor, water resistance, near-field connectivity (NFC), activity tracking, an altimeter.
And, their pièce de résistance: LTE service native and exclusive to the watch itself.
As you might guess, the Gear S3 Frontier is an evolution of Gear S2 device, with the former trying to do even more to sway the minds of consumers who believe smartwatches to be an unnecessary and frivolous product.
In terms of the overall build, the Gear S3 Frontier is a sportier and more rugged version of its predecessor, as well as its fraternal twin brother (the Gear S3 Classic).
It's definitely not for anyone looking for a sleek and dainty device. For those who are smaller in stature, or simply don't have wider-than-average wrists, the watch is a bit conspicuous. But, as you might imagine with a company like Samsung, there's a lot that that's packed into the device.
When you do put it on, you'll get the feeling of getting every penny's worth of what you paid for it. It feels sturdy, well-built, and yet comfortable at the same time. The stainless-steel casing of the watch is aesthetically appealing, especially with the serrations on the rotating bezel, which not only make the watch look a bit edgier, but also make it easier to rotate.
On the right side of the Gear S3 Frontier, there are two buttons. The top button functions as a universal back button, while the bottom button serves to return you to the home screen or the app menu on the device's Tizen Operating System (Tizen OS).
- Unlike Apple Watch devices, which only work with iPhones, the Gear S3 works across different phone brands and mobile operating systems. You can use the Gear S3 with any Android or iOS phone.
- The Gear S3 Frontier can take a licking and keep on ticking, figuratively and literally. It has been specifically designed to handle the elements with military-grade durability, making it resistant to water, dust, extreme temperatures, or impact on hard surfaces.
- Customize your watch by using thousands of colors and designs for your watchface, and swap out your band to make your watch appropriate for adventure, upscale, or everyday settings. The Gear S3 can be paired with almost any standard 22mm watch strap, so it's easy to update.
- Samsung's iOS app available on Tizen is much more versatile than what you could access on an Android Wear version, but more importantly, it allows you to remain compatible with apps for iOS.
- Samsung states that "the Gear S3's battery lasts up to 3 days on a single charge," but the true battery life for the device has been questioned by many early purchasers. The three-day life seems possible only if you don't use any apps, but what's the point of that? Some applications have been reported to use up as much as 10% of the battery in as little as 30 minutes.
- While you're able to perform essential functions like voice calls, text messages, and emails without needing your phone nearby, you do need the Gear S3 Frontier to be near your phone to receive notifications from Facebook, Twitter, or your favorite sports news service, since there are no viable applications specific to the watch for those as of yet.
- Many users have negative feedback about the Gear S3 Frontier's heart rate monitoring capabilities. Some have found that the watch takes too long to accurately begin tracking the user's heart rate while exercising, and others have found that the data tends to fluctuate wildly.
A Simple, Straightforward Solution
One of the chief ideas behind the Gear S3 Frontier was groundbreaking at the time, and something that competitor wearable device manufacturers are now trying to duplicate: the idea of the watch itself having its own LTE data service, without being tied to your phone. In other words: you can still connect to the world through your watch, even if you leave your phone at home.
The Gear S3 Frontier is one of the better products for handling voice calls. The speakers on the watch project the person you're talking to very clearly, and the person on the other line can also hear you very clearly, even when you're not talking directly into your watch (i.e., when you hold your hand at your side in a normal standing position).
Buying a watch with LTE service means you're paying for another LTE product. The Gear S3 Frontier is available with LTE service from either AT&T or T-Mobile, and you'll have to buy a data plan through either carrier for the watch. AT&T's service will set you back an additional $10 per month, and T-Mobile's charges include a $20 activation fee, plus $5 per month added to your mobile plan.
Further, both the Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier support Samsung Pay through both NFC and Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST), even if you don't have your phone on you. That means you can use just your watch to make payments at almost any checkout terminal; MST is accepted at almost all checkout terminals that have a card reader.
The Samsung Pay application stores your payment information in a way that allows you to make up to 10 transactions before you need to pair the S3 with the phone again.
Samsung continues to place all its chips on the Tizen OS, with some promising results.
Through Tizen OS, you can access a growing ecosystem of thousands of compatible apps, including CNN, Yelp, ESPN, Bloomberg, and Spotify. It also allows you to do everyday things through your watch like hail rides through Uber or monitor your home settings through Nest.
New Gear S3 Frontier buyers can also get a full year of Under Armour™ premium apps for free if they purchase their watch prior to June of 2019.
One of the newest and coolest wrinkles to the Spotify app for the Gear S3 Frontier is that you can now save offline playlists to the device, allowing you to play music straight from your watch without needing your phone nearby. You can even sync up Bluetooth headphones directly to your watch, for an even more wireless experience when running or exercising.
From a fitness-tracking perspective, S Health is the app native to the Gear S3 Frontier, and it allows for different functions including tracking your overall activity, heart rate, water intake, coffee intake, and even if you've been indoors for too long.
It'll remind you to stretch, and recommend different stretches if you've been sitting down for too long. The app also uses positive reinforcement to increase your "activity streaks" – ie, how long you've been doing a certain thing – acting as your own personal fitness trainer of sorts.
Consumers will love how easy it is to navigate through the Tizen OS because of how cleverly Samsung has integrated it into the Gear S3 Frontier with the spinning bezel on the device. In fact, people loved the spinning bezel so much that Samsung decided to use it for a few more things on this year's model.
If you spin it clockwise, you can get all of your notifications in one place. If you spin it counter-clockwise, you can access the default widgets — like the current weather, favorite contacts, calories burned and what's in your calendar — or any other one's you may have added on your own.
Top Features and Specs
- Gear S3 Frontier Specs –The device features a 1GHz dual-core Exynos processor, 768MB of RAM, IP68 waterproofing, and 4GB of internal storage.
- Vivid Display Screen – The Gear S3 Frontier has a 1.3-inch AMOLED screen that's bright enough to be cleary seen during the daytime or at night. The 360 x 360-pixel resolution of the screen can display up to 16 million colors (doubling the Gear S2's eight million), making the imagery depicted on the watch look clear and crisp. There's also the option to setting the Gear S3 Frontier's display settings to "dimmed," if you find it to be a bit too bright; turning on this setting provides just the right amount of dimming without making the screen too dark.
- Tizen Operating System – The Tizen OS for the Gear S3 Frontier almost feels like a happy medium of the usual Google or Apple-based operating systems, and some consumers have found it to be more user-friendly than Android Wear. The Tizen OS allows you to swipe left or right to access notifications and recently used apps, create reminders, and check the weather and health stats, among other tasks. You can also download additional apps in addition to the ones that come pre-installed on the device.
- Fitness Tracking – The Gear S3 Frontier is loaded with sensors that include an altimeter, barometer, GPS, and heart-rate monitor, allowing users to track a wide variety of sports and exercises, including elliptical, rowing machines, squats, lunges and cycling; the altimeter and barometer allow you to measure your elevation and the weather. You simply need to touch the start and stop buttons on the display screen to begin and end your exercise sessions.
- S Voice – After previously being omitted from the S2 wearable line, the built-in speaker has been placed in the Gear S3 Frontier. It not only listens to your commands but responds to them. Simply say, "Hi, Gear," and you can speak to the watch to do things such as send an email, call someone or check the weather. And unlike many of the popular competitor versions, you'll rarely have trouble with S Voice accurately interpreting what you're telling it.
What Customers are Saying
The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is one of the best new devices to allow for users to exclusively use their watch as their sole connected device.Lots of people who enjoy having a larger phone that they'd rather not carry around all the time have called this an excellent option to remain connected with just one device.
As the need and the demand for watches to show more information and allow for more interaction become greater, there's a fine balance between how much can be shown on the display screen at one time, without the face of the watch — and the watch itself — becoming too cumbersome. The Gear S3 Frontier seems to wrestle with that a bit.
Because of the slightly larger display screen, the watch ends up weighing around 2.2 ounces (without the band), which – as many people point out – is more than twice as heavy as the device's main competitor: the Apple Watch Series 2, which weighs just under one ounce.
But while the overall design of the watch might be a bit bigger than you're used to seeing from competitor products, you'll find that the functionality is greater, the display is sharper, and the overall enjoyment of your watch is better with the Gear S3 Frontier, thanks to all its cutting-edge capabilities. Plus, as other happy users have mentioned, aren't watches with big faces fashionable hip with today's trends anyway?
The Verdict
In an increasingly competitive market, the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is one of the best smartwatch options available, especially for Android phone users. Between the functionality of the watch itself, the eye-catching display, and the ability to function across multiple platforms, it remains a trailblazer in its field.
It's simply a better product than most of the competitor Android Wear products, and it can easily stand toe-to-toe with the second-generation Apple Watch.


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Spring Break History
Need to Know
A Brief Spring Break History
Most of our lives, Spring Break has been portrayed as a fabled experience of near-utopian bacchanalia, community with fellow youth, and warm sunny weather. But where does Spring Break, as a ritual of youth, come from? While there are no definite points in history to mark the definitive start of Spring Break, this article looks at a number of factors, traditions, and influences that have combined to create the Spring Break experience we have come to know and celebrate today.
Spring Break History- The Psychological Effect
Just like the changing of the seasons from Winter to Spring gives new life to trees and plants, so do human beings experience an increase in energy. This so-called "spring fever" is nearly universal according to psychologists. Along with the rising of new growth in the forests and gardens, young people look to sunny beaches and warm waters to reinvigorate their lives through parties and debauchery with fellow party people.
Ancient Spring Break History
Recorded history traces a very primitive history of Spring Break all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The young men and women of these cultures, particularly those of suitable age for mating, welcomed the return of Spring, the season of fertility, in pagan rituals celebrating Dionysus (Greek)/ Bacchus (Roman), the god of wine.
Such rituals featured days of drinking and dancing until participants were in an altered consciousness, open to the irrational calls of the god of earthly pleasures. The advent of Christianity put a stop to such rituals, since the new, especially since followers of the singular God advocated spiritual fulfillment while denouncing more earthly desires. Still, some believe the spirit of Dionysus/Bacchus lives on in today's youth- leading them to the experience we know today as Spring Break.
Traditionally, college Spring Break occurs somewhere between the first weekend in March and Easter Sunday in April. Recently, however, Spring Break has started as early as late February and lasted until late April. Most Spring Breaks last for one week. College students today head to a handful of cities made popular among fellow Spring Breakers who look for the crowds and an mixture of affordable hotels or other housing and a numbers of bars and nightclubs the cater towards the college-age crowd.
Spring Break has become a cottage industry to most of these "hot spot" towns with entire businesses designed around the goal of promoting the city and its amenities as welcome places for Spring Break revelry and debauchery. The result is a massive annual draw-down of hundreds of thousands of college students looking to party and "see-and-be-seen" amongst their peers. Spring Break History is now the stuff of legend.
Modern Spring Break History
The earliest notes of the tradition of Spring Break History in the United States go back to 1936. The swim coach of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, brought some of his swim team down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to practice their sport at the Casino Pool. The Casino Pool was the first Olympic-size swimming pool built in Florida. The experience was so successful that the coach brought his entire team back down to the Casino Pool the following year to train again.
Fort Lauderdale saw an opportunity and hosted the first College Coaches' Swim Forum at the Casino Pool in 1938. That same year, the famous Elbo Room opened in the Seabreeze Hotel. Thus, the mixture of large numbers of college students, the beach, and alcohol had been set and the stage was set.
1950s Spring Break History- A Swimmingly Good Time
The tradition of college swimmers going down to Fort Lauderdale in late winter continued throughout World War II, despite travel restrictions. By 1953, 15,000 students were making the regular trek down to the Casino Pool. In 1954, an estimated crowd of 20,000 college students made their way to the Fort Lauderdale beach.
Time magazine first reported on the growing phenomenon in 1959. In 1960, Fort Lauderdale firmly established itself as the national Spring Break headquarters with the release of the movie Where the Boys Are, starring Connie Francis. In that movie, three young college women go to Fort Lauderdale looking for fun, adventure, and romance. Despite its sanitized rendering of events at Spring Break, the movie promoted a beach vacation that directly appealed to young students.
1960s Spring Break History- A "Wholesome" Time
By 1961, 50,000 students were now making the annual trek to Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break. By the late 1960s, relatively near-by Daytona Beach began actively advertising itself as a Spring Break destination, trying to lure the tourist dollar away from Fort Lauderdale. Their efforts worked, as 100,000 students make their way to Daytona Beach during the late 1960s. Spring Break History had begun to shift.
1970s Spring Break History- An Altered State of Spring Break
While Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello may have also created a series of "wholesome" movies displaying a youthful beach culture, Spring Break, like all American institutions, experienced a significant change during the turbulent decade of the 1970s. Alcohol and other drugs played a larger role in the festivities, fraternization between the sexes took on some new dimensions in the hippie period of "free love," and the partying became raucous enough to cause significant damage to hotels, beaches, and other public property. This caused some communities, including Fort Lauderdale, to begin questioning the desirability of attracting a Spring Break crowd to their town.
1980s Spring Break History- Rise of Daytona Beach
Despite a lackluster decade in the 1970s, the self-indulgent 1980s brought Spring Break into a nationwide college culture looking for hedonistic revelry and escape from the regular duties and rigors of life. By 1983, the movie Spring Break, starring Tom Cruise and Shelly Long, was released- further promoting Spring Break as a collegiate rite of passage. Spring Break History was about to reach the mammoth proportions it has today.
By 1985, Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale reached its peak- 350,000 students cramming into the city and swelling the occupancy of its every hotel. But along with those numbers came an increasing problem with crime and strain on city services. Fort Lauderdale responded by placing barricades between city streets and the beachfront and clamping down hard on hotel occupancy rules and alcohol laws. Fort Lauderdale readily relinquished its role as Spring Break capitol to Daytona Beach. The city that had started it all in the United States had slipped into Spring Break History.
1990s Spring Break History- Spring Break Goes International
Daytona Beach came to the height of its prominence as "the Spring Break destination" during the early 1990s. By the mid-1990s, even Daytona Beach began to look for ways to manage rowdy crowds while not chasing away their tourist dollars.
By the late 1990s, Spring Break History was firmly planted within the college culture. In addition to being a rite of Spring for college students, high school students looked for break destinations as did young professionals looking to re-liver their college-days. As a result, Spring Break destinations became more varied and exotic, though several perennial "hot spots" had now emerged. These included Panama City, Florida (hosting over a half-million Spring Breakers in 1997) and South Padre Island, Texas (hosting 130,000 visitors during Spring Break 1997).
International destinations also became attractive as the younger Spring Break crowd looked to places with a lower drinking age. Cancun, Mexico, the Bahamas, and Jamaica all gained reputations as major Spring Break magnets with their lower (and usually unenforced) drinking ages, pristine beaches, and azure ocean waters. Spring Break History was now going beyond the borders of the U.S.
Spring Break History of Today
Today Spring Break is as venerable as it ever was. Hundreds of thousands of students make the annual trek to a more Southern latitude in search of all-night parties, sandy beaches, and lots of fellow college students. While awareness of alcohol abuse has increased, and alcohol advertisements are more tame, there is still plenty of partying to be found at any major Spring Break hot spot.
Along with the rise of Spring Break has come the all-inclusive travel package. Several tour companies now specialize in these packages. Such packages usually feature quad-occupancy of a hotel room combined with opportunities for two meals a day and up to 50 hours of free drinks throughout the week. Special theme parties and admissions are common place at bars and nightclubs that cater to Spring Break crowds.
Spring Break History continues to evolve. In addition to the rise of new international destinations, domestic locations such as Lake Havasu, Arizona, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and snow vacations in Lake Tahoe and Utah have became "hot spots" in their own right.
In addition, those looking to avoid the debauchery of the traditional Spring Break are now looking for "alternative Spring Breaks." These are usually week-long service projects that involve lots of manual labor and service to a needy community. This is a new part of Spring Break History that continues to evolve.
To catch up on the very latest, why not check out our very own Spring Break Blog for all that's making news in the Spring Break Industry.
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Reading Affect
- Spring 2014
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This one-credit course is designed as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect. It is framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship public. Several recently published books by non-academics—Wendy Lesser's Why I Read: The Serious Pleasures of Books (2014) and Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch (2014)—express the many meanings their authors find in and through reading of literature. As scholars of literature we should be contributing to the articulation of the value of what we study. We will meet on five Tuesdays during the Spring Quarter 2014. Reading and ardent discussion is required, as is a two-page paper on a possible project of public literary scholarship.
Over the past twenty-five years research on the emotions has exploded across virtually every discipline—history, anthropology, neurology, philosophy, art history, and literary and cultural studies. Recently several strains of this research have been labeled the "affective turn." The focus of Reading Affect will be work on affect and the emotions by scholars of literary studies. It is a vibrant area: at the January 2014 convention of the Modern Language Association, held in Chicago, there were over sixty papers devoted to aspects of affect and the emotions—among them, violent sympathies, terror, nostalgia, narrative empathy, and the feeling of blackness.


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GLOW: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DARK n 10 pictures (dec 2015)
The annual glow festival of light in the 'city of light' Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is growing to be a mayor feast of joy, attracting about 700.000 visiters.
By its nature, the glow festival of light has to be visited in the dark. Street lanterns turned low, it is very dark indeed and challenging to make photographs. Three main problems have to be solved. The first being (auto)focussing. The pictures were taken with the Fuji XE2 combined with the standard zoom 18-55/2.8-4.0 and the standard prime 35/1.4 lens. On both lenses autofocus was a bit slowish, but mostly not hunting, except on contrastlacking targets. On more or less contrasty parts (choosing central point focus, the central point set to medium or big) the autofocus locks in reasonable good time and secure. Manual focus was never needed. People move slowly, which helps focussing. Even so it is difficult to get people sharp because of their movements. Being so dark, short enough shuttertimes were impossible. Fuji's autofocus proved good enough in these difficult circumstances.
turbo flame
The second problem is the need for high ISO, in this case mostly 6400. In JPG I find 4000 and higher ISO ugly with the XE2 because of Fuji's agressive noisereduction leading to detail smearing. Being less agressive, my earlier XE1 did better, so why the change and the impossibility to turn down noisereduction in a sufficient way. With RAW, which I chose, the problem of noisereduction can be solved. While grain is there I see no need to eliminate all of it. It does not have an artificial look and is rather fine. Even choosing 1or 2 stops under exposure in order to prevent blown highlights, no problems arise to lighten up shadows in postprocessing. A great Fuji job at high ISO RAW.
The third problem has nothing to do with Fuji, but the enormous croud continuously walking along. Patience is needed to find good opportunities. When taking pictures of people the lowkey rangefinderstyle of Fuji helps tremendously. Hardly anybody reacts offended. Of course in the dark with so many other photographers things get easy, but also in broad daylight being the only photographer, the Fuji formfactor is of great help.
Most pictures are taken with the standard 18-55/2.8-4.0 zoom. Some are cropped in postprocessing. All processing is done in Lightroom. I did not use a tripod, just leaning against an occasional tree or building whenever available. Again a good point for the vibration reduction system of Fuji (although not available in the prime lenses, but most of which are compensated by their brighter apertures).
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under the road
dynamo youth centre lightperformance
churh of st. catherine
metallic ritm
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Kali claps thunder hands together so close to my ears I smart… but it's all blue skies and sandy beaches where I am … Shiva rattles loudly on the door… maybe 30 minutes and the sky will crack… the palm trees and gentle winds dance slowly in anticipation…. the 80 ft statue of Shiva perched behind me on the hill, watches. His benevolent eyes loom large and seem to sense our ignorance… are we even meant to be here? Van loads of men wearing black spill out at the base to walk their barefoot deference up the 150 steps up to the shrine. Women and children carry flowers and turn incense in circles about their heads. Seva is paid, pooja's performed. And we stand bathed in our naiveté; we are still a million miles (maybe somewhere just off the M25) away from even grasping what it means to be Hindu. Liz has attacked the issue with books and drags us into one temple or another on a more or less daily basis. Where upon we dutifully feel awkward and proceed to stumble about without shoes on (in one instance stepping in cow dung) for about 5 minutes until we either a) give up and retreat or b) sit and listen to the chanting (Bajans) before giving up and retreating. Our white skin and disorientation an embarrassment; and as the clear skies grumble at us – I'm sure that at last Shiva has found us out.
Hindu temples feel a lot like Georgian churches. There is an awful lot going on; lots of ritualised gestures made towards a statue or picture, things being whispered or chanted, offerings being made, music, cows, and the odd elephant jar about the place (scrub cows and elephants from the Georgia picture). It all appears highly meaningful and highly organised in a totally chaotic fashion. And it is all very confusing to heathens such as us. So we simply stand with it and watch; as with our experience of India generally.
The idea that either 'India' or 'Hinduism' can be packaged up in one tight little word is a linguistic transgression. As there are 1000's of incarnations of the Gods and Goddesses so there are 1000's of India's; Keralan identity is as far removed from Karnatakan as Germany is from France. The people ask different questions, speak different languages, and eat different foods. The landscape becomes more rolling, the hills more pronounced, the roads worse the further along the Karnatakan coastline we cycle. And if Karnataka is a different country, Goa is a different continent.
The 100 km's of steep hills that mark the southern end of Goa are threaded through with well tarmaced roads; gone are the potholes, gone are lungi clad men. Affluence showing herself in the increase of traffic, the increase of toilet paper/t-shirts/jeans, the increase of waistlines, and the decrease of smiles. The Lonely Planet talks of the Goan beach bubbles- where masala chai and nepalise clothes perpetuate a backpacker's mythology of 'India'. But is this any more or less 'real' than the 'real India' of the Bombay slums or the Keralan villages? Is Moss Side any more or less Britain than haggis in Edinburgh or afternoon cream teas in Devon? We enjoy Goa – we love that even in this tiny length of coastline Mother India caters for all – Mandrem beach for the middle classes, Calungate beach for the package tour masses and Vagator beach for those who want to party… While Mother India lines her pockets, the visitor gets the ubiquitous south Asian beach experience – Thailand, Bali, Vietnam all offering the caress of golden sandy beaches, evening meals by candle light, nights in a beach hut, and cheap beer / Thai (fisherman's) pants. It offers us a warm eddy of ease and familiarity amid the continual and ever changing cultural flows we are being swept though. Tomorrow we will close our eyes, stumble out of Goa and plunge into Maharashtra. Then it's only a short hop skip and a jump to Mumbi .. surely?


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This website has been produced by the Kent and Medway Domestic Abuse Strategy Group (KMDASG) in order to provide a central, comprehensive resource of all Domestic Abuse related services within Kent and Medway.
KMDASG was formed in 2000 for the purpose of researching multi-agency responses to domestic abuse in Kent, and to make recommendations for the way forward. The Delivery Plan of the KMDASG's 2010-13 Strategy details four ambitions actions for effectively addressing the issue of domestic abuse in the county and the steps that will be taken to achieve this within individual agencies as well as on a multi-agency basis.
The four ambitions are:
Reduce domestic abuse and change attitudes
Increase knowledge and understanding if impact of domestic abuse across communities and agencies highlighting the fact that it is everyone's responsibility whilst emphasising the effectiveness of early identification and intervention.
Provide support to victims of domestic abuse
Work in partnership to meet the needs of victims and their children of domestic abuse and enable access to specialist support, to reduce repeat victimisation and increase confidence in reporting.
Protect victims of domestic abuse
To support victims through the legal system and ensure offenders recognise and understand their behaviour, are held accountable and are encourage to attend rehabilitation services.
Multi-Agency Working
To continue to improve joint working between agencies, including information sharing to enable a co-ordinated approach to addressing domestic abuse.
For more information about KMDASG please contact us via the 'Contact' page.


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Every Latina's fave corn on the cob: Elotes! (RECIPE)
Summer is just around the corner!!! You see, next weekend is Memorial Day weekend and that means we can all start pulling out the grills and going to the beach. When I was looking around for what I wanted to cook next weekend, I was inspired by a recipe for elotes, the delicious Mexican corn on the cob that's a common street food. They can be served in cups or on the cob, but I found a traditional recipe—and boy, is it delicious. This should definitely make a recurring appearance on your summer menu--you and your whole family will be thanking me!
Read more ¿Qué más? Celebrate National Margarita Day with these classic, sweet and spicy versions
Elotes, a.k.a. Mexican corn on the cob (recipe courtesy of We're Not Martha)
4 ears of corn
3 tablespoons mayo
2 tablespoons sour cream
1/4-1/2 teaspoon lime zest
1/2 teaspoon fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
pinch of salt
1 cup crumbled or grated Cotija cheese
1. You can grill your corn, but since I didn't have a grill I just tossed it into a pot of boiling water. I then rolled the corn around in a skillet after it was boiled just to brown it a tad. Definitely not as good as a grill, since it didn't create that smokey flavor like grills do, but it did the trick.
2. While your corn is cooking, use a cheese grater to grate the Cotija. Make sure to grate the cheese over a large plate since you'll eventually be rolling your corn in it.
3. To create the spread, mix together the sour cream, mayo, lime zest, lime juice, chili powder, cayenne, and salt. You can definitely make this ahead of time, cover it, and store it in the fridge, so all the flavors can get to know each other
4. Once the corn is done and hot, hot, hot, with the back of a spoon, rub the mayo/cream cheese spread over each ear of corn. Then roll the corn in the grated cheese.
5. Once each ear of corn is rolled in the grated cheese, feel free to sprinkle another dash of chili powder or splash with lime juice!
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Have you ever made this Mexican corn on the cob? What's your favorite summertime Latin grilled dish? Share with us in the comments below!
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The Council of Europe's 'No Hate Speech' campaign aims to raise awareness of the problem of online bullying and Hate Speech. Concordia France recently ran an international workshop in Le Mans, France aimed at training educators and youth workers in methods to teach about this growing problem.
Have you ever been the subject of a 'joke' comment which instead of making you laugh maybe revealed more about the senders prejudices? Have you ever read a Facebook post which you thought was a little close to the bone? Most of us have. Cyberbullying and Hate Speech are new names for old problems. Traditionally intolerance and bullying involved comments thrown across the street or the playground, but today our increasingly online social lives offer new avenues for such comments.
'No Hate Speech' was the topic of a recent workshop organised by Concordia France in Le Mans for educators and youth workers from across Europe. The 'No Hate Speech' movements aims to raise awareness of this growing problem through education and publicity. It was established in 2012 by the Council of Europe. The workshop aimed at giving educators the tools to use with young people to make them aware of their online actions.
Prevention is better than cure.
Could we define key terms like Hate Speech, gender, discrimination, LGBT+, migrant, and refugee? These are words we use everyday but for which tying down a concrete definition is surprisingly difficult without a dictionary. Heated group discussion ensured. What were our personal experiences of discrimination? We identified instances where we had either been perpetrator, witness or victim of Hate comments. Sharing experiences and feeling made us aware of the impact of the problem.
We learnt methods to break down hateful comments to examine their origin and effect. One activity 'the tree of Hate' centred on one example of Hate and in groups we identified the root causes of the comment and what effects it later had. Our group choose the infamous 'Breaking Point' UKIP poster. Was this the result of fear of immigration, loss of border controls, a lack of knowledge of migrants and other faiths, a consequence of welfare cuts? Had it resulted in the EU 'no' vote? Topics for endless discussion.
Had we personally been discriminated against because of our looks, faith, sexuality, origins or even dress? Together we stood in a line, and stepped forward if we could answer no to each statement. It was surprising how many of us were left behind.
Towards the end of the week a workshop was organised for local youths from Le Mans to allow some of us to put our skills into action. A publicity event was organised in Le Mans to engage the local population; this involved handing out compliments from a bucket to passers by, asking people to cite things they loved, and aimed at educating about the project. Another group learnt how to make a video about online bullying.
Taking it forward
The international nature of the week greatly contributed to its success. Attendees from Austria, Albania, Greece and Great Britain all looked at problems with a different perspective. Attitudes to problems like the European migrant crisis are different depending on whether you are a transit country or potential host.
By actually taking part in activities you really learnt how these topics could be taught back in your host country. But perhaps as valuable as the actual training was the chance to engage with others with different background and different ideas. The ultimate take home message was maybe, we are all different but we all have the same feelings.
Participant in the No Hate Speech Training & International Volunteer with Concordia


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Web 2.0 : Yoomba
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Leverage the Use of B2B Collaboration System with Dead Drop Software
Dead Drop is a business to business messaging solution that allows easy and safe communication, secure file-sharing, and easy project collaboration with external business partners. It is a newly developed cloud-based software specifically created for security-vigilant businessmen. The Meaning Behind the Name Dead Drop ...Read More


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The ATE-C series conical twin screw extruder is set up as the plasticizing device which can guarantee both compounding performance and a stable extrusion job.
Compared to regular stones, PVC imitation marble advantage are:
- Lighter weight and thinner
- Wear-residence
- High elasticity and superior impact resistance
- Waterproof
- Fewer seams and seamless welding
General Description
The PVC Imitation marble sheet extrusion line consists of a screw loader, mixing unit, conical twin screw extruder, T-die mold, three-roll calendar, cooling frame, trimming set, hauling device, automatic cuter, and stacking section.
All parts in the ATE-C extruder are modularly designed and come in a standard and uniform structure to present the same quality grade; thanks to the modular design, less maintenance is requited. Specialized T-die molds designed to fit the PVC extruder allow for both stability and efficiency.
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Fill out and submit our Recycling Application Worksheet. One of our application engineers will contact you to discuss your application in more detail.
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The Process and formulation can be adjusted based on the final production usage to provide various products with multiple uses and shapes.
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Imitation marble production realizes the transfering from low value raw materials to a high-value final product. This occurs both in the low maintenance cost as well as the longer use life compared to regular stone.
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Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos
At the time of the last Lintian run, the following possible problems were found in packages maintained by Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos <email@example.com>, listed by source package. See also the report showing only errors and warnings. Also see their QA overview.
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Info Package Tracker Bugs Source Short report (outdated, last processed by Lintian/2.25.0)
W ancient-standards-version
- 3.9.3 (released 2012-02-23) (current is 4.4.1)
- X debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature
P insecure-copyright-format-uri
- http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
W package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version
- 8
- P rules-requires-root-missing
- I testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
- X upstream-metadata-file-is-missing
btag (1.1.3-1+b7; main)
I hardening-no-fortify-functions
- usr/bin/btag [amd64, i386]