FAP752: Free stuff Friday, New England student loan troubles Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Boston Globe: Amid a deepening credit squeeze and cutbacks in federal loan subsidies, New Hampshire’s nonprofit student-loan agency said this week that it will no longer offer private loans. The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which lent money to 42,000 college students last year, has so far failed to secure any financing for its loans, as skittish investors shy away from taking on debt. + NASFAA and Minnesota Public Radio: “A report released by the National Consumer Law Center highlights the problem faced by students and recent graduates: steep tuition increases force students to take on more and more debt from private lenders. Then, a tight job market makes it hard for them to pay the loans back,” Minnesota Public Radio reports. “The private student loan market has exploded in the past five years and students are just now waking up to the long-term consequences, according to the center’s staff attorney, Deanne Loonin. ‘They’re just not in the economic shape they hoped they would in. They’re just not able to pay their loans. They have huge amounts of debt. It affects their credit. It affects their ability to build assets for the future,’ she says. Private lenders are not required to release information about default rates. But student surveys indicate a growing negative trend, Loonin says. In addition to higher tuition and persistently low federal loan limits, sophisticated marketing has greatly increased private lenders’ share of the market, she says.” Scholarship Update + FLO TV is looking for the ultimate Super Fan. Submit an original photograph or video showing why you’re a team’s Super Fan and you could win a 52″ HD LCD Toshiba Regza plus $1,000 in cash. Or, if you’re a spectator who can spot a Super Fan from a mile away, vote or review on a photo or video entry and you can win a $100 scholarship or cash. No purchase necessary. Open to anyone who is a resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, has access to the Internet, and is 18 or older at the time of entry. + Details at our free college scholarship search site Free Stuff Friday + Get high quality video out of YouTube + Get flight data via text message from Google + Other things you can text Google about: Local, Weather, Glossary, Sports, Movies, Stocks, Zip Codes, Directions, Maps, Flights, Area Codes, Products, Q&A, Airlines, Translation, Web Snippets, Calculator, Currency Conversion, Airports, METAR, Help + Score free travel by intentionally booking your flight on overbooked flights + Ze Frank video on how to study + Learn how to garden simple herbs. No, not THAT kind of herb, I mean the culinary kind. A simple window box of a few basic plants - chives, basil, dill, oregano, and mint can give you tons of flavor even to college cafeteria food (try sprinkling fresh chopped dill on a salad with italian dressing) and once you get it started, as long as you maintain it, it’s more or less free Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you . Subscribing for free means you don’t have to remember to download it every day. + + + Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 Reminders + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Free scholarship search secrets eBook at StudentScholarshipSearch.com/ebook + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Grad student? Get graduate financial aid information at the GradLoans.com blog! + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. I want to hear from you! Email me at financialaidpodcast {at} gmail {dot} com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast ShareThis Less

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Do you travel by air often? Are you going to be flying in the near future? What airline do you choose? How do you know which is best? Here are some tips to help you decide the next time (or first time!) you will fly. If the airline is new to you, you may want to look up their safety record and look at the ways they are criticized by others. If the airline has a crappy safety record and their maintenance allegedly sucks, you may want to give that airline second thoughts. A good place for this is Wikipedia. You may want to look at reviews of this airline If they allegedly have crappy service and the pilots don’t seem well trained, you may want to reconsider your decision to fly with this airline. But don’t let just one review convince you, only really get concerned when there are several reviews criticizing the same issue. If you have flown this airline before and you had a pretty bad experience while the reviews are mostly good, you may want to give this airline a second chance; it could just be that one crew. I know this may sound silly, but research the type of plane you are going to be on; the airline website when you are looking at flights will usually give you the plane model (e.g. 757, 737, A320, etc.). You can look at passenger comfort reviews of the plane and see what type of plane would be your best choice. And last, but not least, check out other airlines’ prices. You don’t want to spend $1000 on an airline that is the same quality as an airline that offers $100 for the same thing. Air Travel Secrets. Why Not Fly Free. Fired Travel Agent Reveals How To Get Dirt Cheap Airfare Tickets! Frequent Flyer Friend - Airline Availability Software. Control Your Add/adhd, Control Your Life! Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RYHXoU4L0w0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RYHXoU4L0w0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> Related Content: Pristine Christine Everything You Wanted to Know about Gnomedex (But Were Afraid to Ask) JetBlue Alaska Airlines, Part II Group Mentality Less

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The OSHKOSH Airshow, organized by the Experimental Aviations Association, is a celebration of recreational flight and in particular, those who make and fly their own planes. Listen to Dale, Dan, and Bill's conversation Oshkosh as you watch a slideshow of photos of airplanes at the airshow. Less

I walked into your subconscious as you visualized a wish fulfilled but the wish was flawed and imperfect, it didn’t reveal the clarity of the cause. It was like my response to your presence and my true feelings. It sidestepped a reality I always fear to face knowing rejection has a bitter taste. So you saw me playing the clown because I can’t afford to let my guard down. But when I do come listen well. My invitation will be a command that warms the sun at it’s zenith, melts the summit of Everest, stirs the Blue Nile into a frenzy, and then calms it for it means my hearts dreams have been realized. Come get into the limo, there is no one here except me, the driver, and cooled champagne. This is the time we always knew we would make happen. So let us celebrate a momentary victory. And then, and then, and then, we’ll kiss, get out , smile and return to work. Big business ain’t nothing but street game. Big business ain’t othing but street game. MBA, I’m proud and that is truly fine. But. BIG BUSINESS AIN’T NOTHING BUT STREET GAME. STREET GAME. street game. Take a playa’s lesson….....MBA BIG BUSINESS AIN’T NOTHING BUT STREET GAME. Enron, Merril Lynch, Worldcom, Bronfman Enterprises, Lucent Technologies, Motown, Notown, and Yotown, ABC. CBS, CNN, TNT, Washington Post, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, BET, and Martha Stewart. Hey baby where’s the game tonight? You can’t win it cause you ain’t in it. Names the same don’t be lame. BIG BUSINESS AIN’T NOTHING BUT STREET GAME. For those contemplating a marketing career this lesson is immediately clear. (Friday, August 16, 2002) Less

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – July 4,2006 – Jamie Leigh and friends attend launch of space shuttle Discovery. In a majestic Independence Day liftoff, Discovery and its crew of seven blasted into orbit Tuesday on the first space shuttle launch in a year. NASA’s first-ever Fourth of July manned launch came after two weather delays and a new crack in foam insulation on the fuel tank. Shuttle managers said early video images showing small pieces of debris breaking away — and one even striking the shuttle — were not troubling. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said of the launch: “They don’t get much better than this.” Less