Spring Break Collides with College Credit Card Debt Awareness Month
(ContentDesk) March 8, 2006 -- In observance of National College Credit Card Debt Awareness Month , companies are working with colleges to solve credit card issues on campus.
A top issue is students dropping out of school because of credit card debt.
According to John Simpson, administrator at Indiana University, "We lose more students to credit card debt than academic failure."
In honor of the month, UCMS and Duck9.com will allocate $2,000,000 to students to lend to other students.Larry Chiang of UCMS states, There are two sides of an interest rate equation.
Either you pay interest or get paid interest.
We have launched a product that gives college students the opportunity to lend $100 at our expense.
She further expands, The idea here is to whet their appetite to lend instead of borrow. Front line education at Spring Break.
Instead of the debauchery that happens at Spring Break, theres a bit of healthiness.
Credit educational seminars right off the beach, waves, sand and surf.The rates as read from the disclosure are for 9% or 13.5%.
The 9% rate is for when the $100 is insured against lost.
The higher 13.5% rate puts the free $100 at risk if there is borrower default.
Qualification for the program is simply having a Duck9 Mastercard Debit which has no annual fee.Given the limited $2,000,000 allotment, I am sure college students will be snapping up this offer before summer break.
A search performed at the vertical search engine, CreditCard.org on the term p2p lending yielded Duck9.com.About the companies mentioned:United College Marketing Services www.ucms.com is located in Oak Brook Illinois and represents top credit card / charge card companies at credit educational seminars where students sign up.www.Duck9.com is a company that promotes lending vs borrowing, charging interest instead of getting charged interest.www.CreditCard.org is a website that helps consumers with customized searches related to credit card problems..
Spring Break Travel.com Announces Celebrity Spokespersons
Spring Break Travel, a tour operator that specializes in college spring break packages, announced today its seven Celebrity Spokespersons.
Each Official Spokesperson is promoting SpringBreakTravel.com at events around the country.They are:
Cara Zavaleta, Kendal Sheppard and Dave Giuntoli, as seen on MTV's Road Rules, Jamie Murray and Malik Cooper as seen on Real World, as well as Jessica Bowlin and Jenny Schiralli as seen on ABC's The Bachelor.Each of these Official Spokespersons is also serving on the company's Celebrity Board of Advisors.
They are assisting Spring Break Travel in identifying and securing the best possible celebrity talent for Spring Break Travel's on-location events in the Bahamas & Florida.
Cara Zavaleta, as seen on Road Rules comments:
"I...
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Spring Break Costa Rica 2005, New Generation of Spring Breakers Opt for More Exotic Locations
Spring Break is a billion dollar industry for resorts, hotels, and bars.
Each year Spring Breakers flock in the thousands to sun-kissed beaches in Mexico, the Bahamas and the U.S.
This trend has been taking place for over thirty years and it keeps getting bigger and bigger.
However today's students are seeking more exotic locations and are discovering the allure of Costa Rica.NeedSpringBreak.com's President Wes Melcher whose company specializes in Spring Break in Costa Rica says "We will sell out every room we have available for 2005." Need Spring Break.com receives almost 10,000 hits a week leading up to Spring Break in March.Most College students are seen as Dollar Signs to huge Spring Break companies who tend to over-promise and under-deliver on claims of having the biggest and best Spring Break.
The commercial impact of Spring Break is now being felt on beaches around the globe.
Costa Rica who has seen one of the biggest tourism booms in...
Spring Break Costa Rica 2005, New Generation of Spring Breakers Opt for More Exotic Locations
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NeedSpringBreak.Com Announces Last Minute Spring Break Specials
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February 4, 2005 ? For many years Costa Rica was the closely-guarded secret of a handful of backpackers, geologists, and travelers, but not anymore.
Costa Rica has finally been discovered as a Spring Break hotspot for 2005.
Today the country is a prime international travel and adventure destination and tourism now accounts for the country's leading source of income.
For those looking to find a Spring Break destination in 2005 without the crowds, without the cost, and without the same old scenery, Costa Rica is topping their list.
Even for last minute planners Costa Rica is the ideal choice, according to NeedSpringBreak.Com founder Wes Melcher.Many U.S.
college students think of Mexico and Florida as their only destination options when it comes to a tropical getaway for Spring Break.
What they find are overcrowded lodgings, bars with long lines, and a general over-saturation of vacationers.
In addition, many...
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Stress Takes A Spring Cleaning
(ContentDesk) March 21, 2006 -- Workplace stress continues to grow in the U.S., say experts at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. And it applies equally to working in the home or in a career. $300 billion, or $7,500 per employee, is spent annually in the U.S. on stress-related compensation claims, reduced productivity, absenteeism, health insurance costs, direct medical expenses (nearly 50% higher for workers who report stress), and employee turnover. A spring-cleaning retreat offers a way to relieve stress and get right back to battery.According to the Mayo Clinic, when stressful situations pile up, our bodies dont have a chance to recover.
They report that this can eventually lead to a disruption in almost all of our bodys processes, including sleeping, maintaining our weight, digestive complaints, and depression. They suggest...
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NeedSpringBreak.Com Announces Last Minute Spring Break Specials
Dallas, TX
February 4, 2005 ? For many years Costa Rica was the closely-guarded secret of a handful of backpackers, geologists, and travelers, but not anymore.
Costa Rica has finally been discovered as a Spring Break hotspot for 2005.
Today the country is a prime international travel and adventure destination and tourism now accounts for the country's leading source of income.
For those looking to find a Spring Break destination in 2005 without the crowds, without the cost, and without the same old scenery, Costa Rica is topping their list.
Even for last minute planners Costa Rica is the ideal choice, according to NeedSpringBreak.Com founder Wes Melcher.Many U.S.
college students think of Mexico and Florida as their only destination options when it comes to a tropical getaway for Spring Break.
What they find are overcrowded lodgings, bars with long lines, and a general over-saturation of vacationers.
In addition, many...
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The Death Of Freaknik And The Rise Of Black Spring Break Events
For many years, especially during the late 80's and early 90's, the Freaknik In Atlanta, Georgia brought in over 250,000 participants. It created enormous traffic gridlock and
was considered the hot zone
for hundreds of thousands of black college students who traveled from all across the country every April to Atlanta, Georgia. For many of those years, it lived up to its name. It was Freak-Nik! There were the wild parties on the street, the dancing, the traffic jams and of the kinds of things you might have witnessed in a Girls Gone Wild type video if they had existed back then.In fact so many came in 1992, Atlanta was brought to a standstill. It became an event that was heard about through out the world.
It also received extra attention because it was also the headquarters of a famous 24 hour cable news station. In fact this month marks the 5th Anniversary of the death of Freaknik. In 2000 the event died while other spring break events took its place and have...
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Americans Are Fat, Frustrated, Fed Up And Finished With Fad Diets
Hoboken, NJ (ContentDesk) January 19, 2006 -- Atkins is gone... Bankrupt. Popular fat burner pills have been yanked off the market by the FDA. The FTC has pulled down the gates and padlocked the doors of one company after another for making false claims about their diet products. Weve cycled through an entire decade of low fat diets followed by another decade of low carb diets.Its now 2006 and millions of men and women desperate to lose weight have suffered through it all and tried it all. ...
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2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD, Soon On The Streets
The Chrysler Group has just recently announced that it is already planning on producing the very first diesel-powered and full sized sport utility vehicle. This new full sized SUV would be only sold and marketed in the United States. And guess what this SUV would be? Yes, it would be the 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
This new 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee would be mounted with a 3.0 liter common rail turbo diesel, or CRD, engine. The company targets that in around the first quarter...
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Vehicle Recycling Partnership and USCAR Initiated Tests by Cooper-Standard Show Cost Reduction Potentials Using More than 25 Percent Recycled Content in Automotive Rubber Parts have been Repeated in Europe
Recent tests in Europe duplicated the previous tests conducted by Cooper-Standard Automotive initiated by the Vehicle Recycling Partnership of USCAR (United States Council for Automotive Research). These independent tests reported at the European Tyre Recycling Conference (ETRA) confirmed the consistent production repeatability of the generic CBp Europe technology to recover and upgrade the carbon black and mineral fillers, including silica, from pyrolysed scrap tires and rubber into a competitive...
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