Author: AbigailsDiary Added: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:46:58 -0800Duration: 81 http://www.abisteendiary.com OK. Like worst. day. evs. Less

This was my first home studio song I had some friends by....There was some herb in the air...They kept passing it...Id say I high....Im Good....somehow I kept par taking... It became the Theme of the nite.....There was a time I thought I may be Jesus but thats another story....Hence Im jesus was born Again...for the first time....I love me some Jesus Christ This was meant not to offend but to rejoice....My lord...Im a sinner....Im Jesus Less

Just a goofy little tune I do. This is one you either like or dont. But should or shouldnt. I dont wanna be a song pusher. Lite up and follow the bouncing what ever you see bouncing and sing along. The words will have this tune stuck in your head like a bad jingle gone wild. Less

A song about being young and living in the city and trying to stay sane. There are a lot of young things in the big city that can distract a young man from the hustle. Sometimes those things are good, sometimes they're bad. My friend Henning Thomsen helped out on drums. Less

FAP767: Going green on Free Stuff Friday, Earth Day 2008 Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: “Banks are marketing aggressively through a variety of channels. They’re calling students on the phone, they’re mailing to students, and they’re using a combination of on-campus and off-campus tables where they give away products, ranging from offers for sandwiches, offers of food and pizza, all the way up to iPod shuffles,” said Edmund Mierzwinski, consumer program director for U.S. PIRG. The organization manages the “Truth About Credit” campaign. + The survey, of more than 1,500 students at 40 campuses in 14 states, found broad support among students for limiting credit card marketing on campuses. Eighty percent said they supported at least some limits. There was strong support for restricting access only to promotions for cards with fair terms and conditions, and opposition to colleges’ sharing or selling lists containing student contact information. “Many credit card companies encounter no difficulty in securing information of current students at colleges for marketing purposes,” the report notes. “It is also true that some state public records laws compel public universities and colleges to sell their lists of student information as public records, to anyone.” + I’d have to say that paying tuition with a credit card is a terrible idea, far worse than private student loans + Our student credit card education site + Chronicle: Guarantee agencies such as USA Funds, despite their concerns, are cooperating with the department to prepare for a possible emergency, James Manning said. Only three weeks after department officials said they were troubled by the state of preparations for a lender-of-last-resort declaration, “we’re much more comfortable with where we are now,” he said. + Mr. Manning also made it clear that the administration is not ready to be offering assistance directly to lenders. Even if large numbers of lenders withdraw from the bank-based system, the 20 largest lenders handle 85 percent of student loans, he said. The size of the lenders, along with the continued migration of some colleges to the direct-lending program, should prevent any large-scale disruptions, he said. + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Parent PLUS loans at ParentPLUSLoan.com Scholarship Update + The Woodlands High School GREEN Scholarship + $1,000 scholarships - 3 of them + For students at Woodlands High School in Texas + Be sure to Google for your city, town, county, and state with the words Earth Day scholarship to see what local environmental scholarships are available + Details at our free college scholarship search site Free Stuff Friday + Let’s see what we can come up with for green and free + Last week we mentioned PhoneRaiser to recycle phones and earn cash + FreeCycle.org is a site for trading stuff + Check out your local Craigslist free stuff column + Also check out the barter/trade column as well + Free Photoshop Express + When buying software, opt for digital download, and delivery is usually free + Mint has 30 free eBooks on personal finance + If you like horror, Scott Sigler’s eBook Infected is free until March 31 + Scholarship Search Secrets is free and paperless, too + Money savers - compact fluorescent lightbulbs - I’ve just started having to change bulbs I put in my house in 2001 - rechargeable batteries with a 1 hour charger + A really important point: green living can be money saving, too - sometimes. + Earth Day is April 22 - be on the lookout for free giveaways - last year, Lowes, Ikea, and Home Depot all had free CFL lightbulbs Free Song of the Week + Dirty Work, by Munk Promo + Financial Aid Podcast Live: Surviving the Credit Crunch 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 + Open an FDIC-insured savings account today! + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Student credit card information at StudentPlatinum.com + 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 + 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

FAP765: Student Loan TV Coverage of Scholarship eBook As promised earlier in the week, here’s the recent coverage of the Scholarship Search Secrets eBook in video - it’s about 52 MB and should be viewable on iPods and in iTunes. If you’d prefer to watch on the web, there’s a YouTube version and a high quality version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXX0J_LqQOI + Direct link to MP4 video file + High quality web version Promo + Financial Aid Podcast Live: Surviving the Credit Crunch 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. + + + Reminders + + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Free scholarship search secrets eBook at StudentScholarshipSearch.com/ebook + Open an FDIC-insured savings account today! + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Student credit card information at StudentPlatinum.com + 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 + 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

FAP745: Best of FAP: Financial Aid 101 Video Originally broadcast on 12/21, I thought that, while being on vacation, this video is timely, given that it’s FAFSA season. Enjoy it! I had the opportunity and honor of speaking to a class of seniors at Trinity Catholic High School about the basics of financial aid. In this recording, you’ll hear the lecture as delivered. Many thanks to Emily Samek for the invitation to speak. Direct file: iPod version 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. + + + Reminders + Student Loan Network $10,000 Scholarship - Apply in 32 seconds or less! + 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

FAP743: Jobcast: Top 6 job hunting tips Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “Brown University is eliminating tuition for students whose parents earn less than $60,000, after decisions by fellow Ivy League universities to bolster financial aid as their endowments grow,” The New York Times reports. “The university, in Providence, R.I., said on Saturday that it also planned to substitute grants for student loans in the financial aid packages of students whose families earned less than $100,000 a year. Brown also announced plans to increase tuition by 3.9 percent for the 2008-9 academic year to $36,928. With room and board, the costs are $47,740 for one year.” + Chronicle: Antioch College will close after all, the Antioch University Board of Trustees ruled on Friday. The decision confirms the board’s original plan, announced last June, to suspend operations at the 155-year-old campus for the 2008-9 academic year. + CNN: SLM Corp. (ticker: SLM) said Friday it is on track to close on its new and increased credit line in the asset-backed commercial paper market. The student-loan provider also said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires it expects to complete the deal in the next two weeks. The affirmation of the $35 billion of funding - up from the earlier announced $31 billion - comes amid speculation that the new financing agreement would hit a snag as investors shy away from credit markets in the ongoing credit crunch. Sallie Mae, which needs the financing for its student-lending business over the next year, will likely secure the deal at costly terms, said an asset-backed commercial paper investor. + Private student loans at AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Couple of different comparisons of private student loans Scholarship Update + NABJ/CNN Scholarship + Number of Awards Available: Four (4) four-year scholarships + Amount of the Award: $25,000 ($6,250 per year for four years) + Eligibility Criteria + Rigorous competition for the scholarship is open to high school seniors who are currently attending an accredited high-school. Students must be accepted at an accredited college college/university pursuing a career in broadcast journalism. + Be a high school senior, enrolled at an accredited academic high school. + Accepted to an accredited four-year university, with a major in broadcast journalism. + Minimum 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) + 2 Letters of recommendation + Proven community involvement + 1000 word essay + Details at our free college scholarship search site Jobcast + Again, going with a bit of a re-tread, since the original is more or less unlistenable + Top 6 Tips for Job Hunting + 1. Unique selling proposition. What is your personal brand? What sets you apart from the rest of the crowd, makes you different, unique, and better? Understanding and building your personal brand is the most important thing you can do, because all of the rest of job hunting is communicating that personal brand. If you can’t tell someone the essence of who you are and why they should hire you in one or two text messages, you need to sharpen your pencil. For example, mine is - I awaken the superhero in you. + 2. Job hunting is first and foremost a sales activity. The product you are selling is, not surprisingly, you. The only difference is that the product - unlike sweaters, computers, or cars - can talk a customer out of the sale as easily as you can make the sale. Thus, you need to develop good sales skills in order to help prospective employers understand your real value. How do you develop good sales skills? Lots of training. Take a look at Zig Ziglar’s book, Secrets of Closing the Sale, to understand how you can position yourself better. You can get it on Amazon. + 3. Job hunting is a numbers game. Assume the rule of 10: for every 1 job you land, you will need 10 interviews. For every 10 interviews you land, you will need 100 valid applications. For every 100 applications you land, you will need 1,000 good leads. If you want to consider two or three offers, you need to send out two or three THOUSAND resumes. How? That’s the joy of email. Focus on sending out at least 25 - 30 emails a day with your cover letter and resume. + 4. Job postings are a hidden treasure mine. Keep this in mind when you surf Monster.com and other job boards - a company generally will only post for positions it is most desperate for - enough to pay money for. That tells you two things: One, the company is serious about hiring. Two, the company probably has more than one position open. Consider applying for jobs at companies that meet your geographic and industry needs but don’t necessarily have the exact position you’re looking for. This is one of the best kept secrets in recruiting! + 5. Followup is the name of the game. Respond politely but clearly to EVERY response you get from your solicitations. A company may not have a job for you now, but might in two weeks, two months, or two years. Keep a record of those companies that respond with something other than an auto-reply, and touch base with your contacts every month or so. Be polite and non-intrusive. + 6. Positive mental attitude. Nothing will fail to sell a product faster than a negative emotion about it. Don’t give people a reason to discard you immediately. Project a positive attitude, even if you feel anything but. 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 + Student Loan Network $10,000 Scholarship - Apply in 32 seconds or less! + 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

In this episode, I share that I have taken some major steps to get back on track with a few of the higher priority items on my list of things that I desire to accomplish. Click Here To Download This Episode Less

Seasons Greetings from BLOGARJONA.net! Album: ‘The Magnatune Christmas Compilation’ Artist: ‘Various Artists’ Download URL: http://blogarjona.net Size: 91 mb Total time: 62:57 Release date: Dec/8/2007 Location of artist: CA, USA An absolutely perfect CD for holiday dinners. Playing right now: 01—Angels We Have Heard on High – Hark The Herald Angels Sing (James Edwards) Less

Eric and J.D. are split on the merits of the newest potential fantasy franchise, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, some old personal wounds are opened up, and there is some unexpected rejoicing. Less

Lincoln Barret aka High Contrast takes 1Xtra DJ Ronnie Herel on a tour of his regular haunts in Cardiff. They check out the club where he held his first residency and first saw Grooverider DJ and Lincoln’s original wax dealer Catapult Records. Along the way they talk about and drop the tunes that have influenced him. Less

Author: dadlabs Added: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:06 -0800Duration: 49 This portable high chair has a cool design that makes it perfect for those nights when you're fool enough to try a restaurant with your kids. Lightweight and ideal for travel. Reviewed by Daddy Brad. Less

Author: dadlabs Added: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:06 -0800Duration: 49 This portable high chair has a cool design that makes it perfect for those nights when you're fool enough to try a restaurant with your kids. Lightweight and ideal for travel. Reviewed by Daddy Brad. Less

Author: dadlabs Added: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:37:05 -0800Duration: 393 We love Troy. Gear Dad host Daddy Troy, that is. That kid on High School Musical 2 is a punk. But our kids are crazy about him. But is it really a good movie for kids? Less

Author: dadlabs Added: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:37:05 -0800Duration: 393 We love Troy. Gear Dad host Daddy Troy, that is. That kid on High School Musical 2 is a punk. But our kids are crazy about him. But is it really a good movie for kids? Less

The girls get GOTH for today's episode. Plus, we meet an effciency expert trying to clean up their acts. Less