EF College Break Announces Alternative to Traditional Spring Break Travel: International Travel Can Earn Students College Credit

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CAMBRIDGE, MA, December 9, 2005 — EF College Break, a division of EF Cultural Institute, announces an alternative for students seeking a bit more culture than sun basking during Spring Break – affordable international travel while earning college credit. Ranging from 6 to 29 days, the guided tours offer an educational experience for 18-30 year olds who want to see the world, but have limited time and budgets to do so.

Travelers can also earn college and graduate credit while traveling on an EF College Break trip through a partnership with Eastern Washington University. Credits are transferable and are documented on an official transcript.

The most popular destinations for Spring Breakers include Amsterdam and Paris (7 days starting at $883 pp), London (6 days starting at $773 pp), Rome and Florence (8 days starting at $1,060 pp) and Costa Rica (6 days starting at $1,085 pp). Each tour includes airfare, hotel accommodation, breakfast daily and welcome dinner upon arrival, sightseeing, a 24-hour EF Tour Director and select entrance fees. Tours are designed with the 18-30 year old in mind, with guided sightseeing and group activities balanced with plenty of free time.

“Traveling with EF College Break gave me the opportunity to see countries and learn about other cultures without having to take off a semester,” said Lisa Shawcross, a student traveler. “I had the opportunity to go to the beach with my friends, but I am so glad I went to Europe instead. It was a life-changing experience.”

For more information about EF College Break or detailed itineraries of all of the tour offerings, visit www.efcollegebreak.com or call 1-800-766-2645.


About EF College Break:

EF College Break is an expert in travel for 18-30 year olds, offering educational travel and experiential learning at the guaranteed lowest prices. It is part of EF Education, the world’s largest private education organization with more than 40 years of experience. EF’s North American headquarters is in Cambridge, MA, though the company spans the globe with hundreds of offices and schools in 51 countries, a staff of over 3,000 employees and 23,000 full- or part-time teachers. For more information about EF College Break visit www.efcollegebreak.com or call 1-800-766-2645.

Pacific-trawlers.com Launches Site - Online Boating Marketplace

Pacific-trawlers.com Launches Site - Dive into Fishing, Boating and Sailing at www.pacific-trawlers.com as the Online Boating Marketplace Launches Its Web Site.

Mumbai, India (PRWEB) December 1, 2005 -- Pacific-trawlers.com, a leading online Boat Portal, Creates World's one of Largest Database of Information About Boats and Trawlers. Every year, millions of Americans make plans to go boating with friends and family.

Today, Pacific-trawlers.com launched the premiere place to go on the Web for anything and everything related to fishing, power boating and sailing. Through commerce, education, information and community, pacific-trawlers.com brings consumers and marine companies together within an expansive marketplace for anyone who likes the water. "Pacific-trawlers.com makes the entire boating experience more enjoyable by bringing content together with boating specifications and products in a convenient and user-friendly environment."

With more than thousands in boat listings representing thousands of boats for sale, pacific-trawlers.com promises to be the next-best thing to actually being out on the water. In addition to boats for sale, pacific-trawlers.com offers users the world's largest database of boat specifications, along with articles and tips from the fishing and boating worlds' top experts.

Boat buyers will find information on thousands of boats, including boat reviews and specifications and current model year information from the world's top manufacturers. Once the buyer has found the right boat, pacific-trawlers.com will connect them with a dealer for new boats or directly with the seller for used boats. Boat sellers can take advantage of a nationwide audience of potential buyers - with free listings available. Complete with extensive photos and proprietary input systems, the pacific-trawlers.com listing area allows sellers to easily showcase their boat to a multitude of potential buyers.

Visitors to pacific-trawlers.com can register for even greater user benefits such as unlimited access in the pacific-trawlers.com community and buy/sell sections, a personal profile and home page. Membership in Pacific-trawlers.com means access to a vast array of resources to help me get listings and, most importantly, sell the boat.

About pacific-trawlers.com:

Pacific-trawlers.com- Premier Online Hub for the Boating Community and Marine Industry. Pacific-trawlers.com enhances the capabilities of the boating industry by offering dealers a range of unique products, online and offline, which help sell, finance, insure and market all marine product lines. With an established network of industry alliances - Pacific-trawlers.com provides an unmatched level of consumer access to information, boat listings, accessories, and financial and insurance products for the marine industry. Pacific-trawlers.com has a proven track record as the most visited marine site on the Internet. Pacific-trawlers.com uses the Internet to establish relationships between yacht brokers and boat dealers and prospective buyers of new and used boats from around the world. The unmatched database of information about new and used boats solidifies Pacific-trawlers.com status as the most-frequented yachting resource in the world.

"From the beginning, we saw Pacific-trawlers.com as an important asset, one that would continue to grow in value to our customers and ourselves, " said Bijal Jethwa, chief strategy officer, Pacific-trawlers.com. "The enhancements to the Pacific-trawlers.com site we are launching today advances our vision to make boating and the boat buying process a more enjoyable experience."

For more information, visit http://www.pacific-trawlers.com.

TixNix.com Attorney to Answer Truckers’ Traffic Ticket Questions on Midnight Trucking Network

TixNix.com traffic attorney Steven Owsley will be appearing Friday morning, December 9th, from midnight to 1AM CST on the Midnight Trucking Network. He will be answering traffic law and ticket questions from truckers nationwide.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 1, 2005 -- TixNix.com traffic attorney Steven Owsley will be appearing Friday morning, December 9th, from midnight to 1AM CST on the Midnight Trucking Network. He will be answering traffic law and ticket questions from truckers nationwide.

“I’ve helped dozens of truck drivers fight unfair moving and DOT violations through TixNix.com,” says Owsley. “I look forward to bringing the TixNix.com message of fast, inexpensive and effective traffic violation representation to the Midnight Trucking Network’s audience of professional drivers.”

When a truck driver or private motorist fights a traffic or speeding ticket with TixNix.com , they will get free advice from a traffic lawyer on how to deal with their ticket. If they choose to use a TixNix.com lawyer to fight their ticket, they never have to go to the lawyer’s office and almost never have to go to traffic court.

Truck drivers with traffic ticket questions are encouraged to call in to the Midnight Trucking Network Friday morning, December 9th, from 12AM-1AM. Drivers can also contact TixNix.com at 1-877-TIXNIX-1 or visit www.TixNix.com anytime for free advice from a traffic lawyer.

Steven Owsley is a Houston, Texas based traffic attorney with over twenty years of experience practicing law in Texas.

TixNix.com is a nationwide network of traffic lawyers that lets drivers fight traffic tickets using their phone or the Internet. TixNix.com service is available in Alabama, California, Colorado. Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Washington DC. TixNix.com plans to expand into more states soon.

Operated by ABC, the Midnight Trucking Network is broadcast every day from midnight to 5AM central time, Monday through Sunday over dozens of AM radio stations nationwide and the SIRIUS Satellite Radio network Channel 147.

Nautical Book Offers Tips for Alaska-Bound Boaters

For boaters yearning to skipper their own boat to Alaska, there is a new nautical book. "Cruising to Alaska: Tips & Tactics from 20 Skippers” offers advice from experienced boaters who have collectively ventured through the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska.

Bellingham, Washington (PRWEB) November 25, 2005 -- For the thousands of boaters yearning to skipper their own cruising boat to Alaska via the Inside Passage now there is a nautical book written just for them. “Cruising to Alaska: Tips & Tactics from 20 Skippers” offers advice from experienced boaters who have collectively ventured through the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska more than 100 times during the past decade.

Bob Duke, the book’s author and one of the 20 skippers, has written a recreational boating book unlike any other on the market today. “Tips & Tactics” offers 20 boaters’ viewpoints on outfitting and skippering a boat cruising the Inside Passage. The book brings to the reader the nautical skills and knowledge of experienced cruising skippers gathered by the author through detailed questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The information is presented in engaging prose, with energetic style that makes for easy, entertaining reading.

The result is a real hands-on, how-to guide that offers between its covers the collected wisdom of 20 boat crews and detailed descriptions of 20 capable cruising boats. Some profiled boating couples have made 12 consecutive cruises to Southeast Alaska; all average 23 years of boating experience and six seasons of cruising in Alaska.

“The book is an effort to put an advanced Alaska cruising seminar into the hands of readers,” said Duke, a Northwest boating magazine writer. “It would be difficult to get all these expert cruisers together at one time and in one place to offer advice and answer questions. But I realized that I could accomplish that within the pages of a book.” As a result, “Cruising to Alaska: Tips & Tactics from 20 Skippers” brings 20 boats, ranging in length from 26 to 62 feet, and the experiences of 20 skippers to your door. In the book’s pages you get to know skippers and first mates, look at their cruising boats and equipment in detail and learn tips and tactics that have made cruising the Inside Passage to Alaska safe, comfortable and practical for them.

“Cruising to Alaska: Tips & Tactics from 20 Skippers,” priced at $24.95, comprises 160 pages in a 10 3/8-inch by 8 3/8-inch format with 39 photographs, a map and index. It is available from nautical book distributor Robert Hale Company, Inc. and is sold through nautical booksellers and boating supply stores. The book may also be ordered directly from Good Enough Publishing, P.O. Box 2505, Bellingham, Washington 98227, or by calling 360-756-8036 or e-mailing email protected from spam bots.

Author Bob Duke has owned a dozen large and small power and sailboats and has cruised and chartered worldwide. In 2002 he completed a 3000-mile round trip cruise to Southeast Alaska, six weeks of it single-handed. Since 1982, Duke has authored more than 500 articles for regional and national boating magazines.