Download Now In Matthew Chapter 5, Jesus starts the Sermon on the Mount. He starts with the Beatitudes, gives illustrations involving salt and light, and moves on to describe God's standard of righteousness. <!--break-- Less

Web 2.0, deals, Lawyers Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based Avvo, which runs a website to help people find and rate lawyers, announced it has expanded its service to Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland. Avvo’s attorney profiles are now available in 18 states, including Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon, as well as Washington DC. That covers 80 percent of the practicing attorneys in the U.S., according to Avvo CEO Mark Britton, formerly top lawyer at Bellevue, WA-based Expedia. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS Less

Renowned capital defense attorney Stephen Bright discusses the death penalty in light of recent Supreme Court decisions. Less

AJ Benza and Neal Gumpel, the Real Guys Movie Review duo, wonder why director Kar Wai Wong strung us along and made “My Blueberry Nights.” The one thing you always get from our Real Guys is the truth. Unfortunately, the truth feels wrong for Wong. Created by and starring AJ Benza and Neal Gumpel. Real Guys Movie Review is a 60Frames original series. For more information, please visit us at http://www.60frames.com. Less

Hosts: Denise Howell, Bret Fausett, Cathy Kirkman, Collette Vogele, and Marty Schwimmer WikiLeaks, Julius Baer, Dynadot, registrars, domain tasting vs. front running, ICANN, Network Solutions, and more. Talking points: http://del.icio.us/thisweekinlaw/13. Audible Book Pick: Selected Shorts: Are We There Yet? (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) Thanks to Victor Cajiao for editing help this week. Victor produces the Typical Mac User Podcast and Immigration Tales Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 58:06 Less

In this Lecture Sheikh Salim Morgan talks about the Laws and Boundaries of Allah. It emphasises the importance of everyone being equal before the law and not only in theory but in practice as well. File Download (0:00 min / 13 MB) Less

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In this Lecture Sheikh Salim Morgan talks about the Laws and Boundaries of Allah. It emphasises the importance of everyone being equal before the law and not only in theory but in practice as well. File Download (0:00 min / 13 MB) Less

FAP749: How I Got My Job, Private Student Loan Dangers Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: In a report released today that outlined some of the dangers of private student loans, the National Consumer Law Center reviewed 28 private loans issued from 2001 to 2006. The group found all the loans to have variable rates, with initial annual percentage rates ranging from 5 percent to 19 percent. The average initial APR was 11.5 percent. + The survey of the more than two dozen private loans found several other problems, the report says. A number of lenders in the study were unwilling to offer reasonable settlements, and some loans “stated explicitly that there will be no cancellation if the borrower or co-signer dies or becomes disabled.” Some went into default as soon as one payment was missed. + Here’s the thing about this study, and about private student loans in general. + First, no one forces students to take these out – responsible lenders are even going so far as to warn students in advance of borrowing a private student loan, as are many financial aid officers. + Second, this entire market exists solely because as a country, as a citizenry, we’ve decided other national priorities eclipse a willingness to spend tax dollars on education, right or wrong. For example, the estimated value of the Iraq conflict, using accrual accounting (as opposed to cash accounting, which only the government can legally use), is $3 trillion as of today. Each month spent engaged in operations runs $12 billion; in just 6 months, the same spending would eliminate not only private student loans, but all student loans, period, if we as voters chose to make it a national priority and elected a government in alignment with those priorities. We did not, we have not, and we have earned the system and priorities we currently have based on our choices. No matter what your political beliefs are, these are the choices we have made, and the consequences of them. + The financial aid priorities list + Find and get scholarships + File your FAFSA + Apply for the maximum available federal student loans + Apply for private student loans as Carla Berg of Bentley describes them, the loans of last resort + For a great listen, check out Bloomberg’s On the Economy podcast, the interview with Joseph Stiglitz, author of “The Trillion Dollar War” Scholarship Update + All About Education $5K Scholarship + One (1) $5,000 scholarship will be awarded. Students must complete an application online at http://www.scholarshipexperts.com/apply.htx#5K&src=cs and include a short, original, previously unpublished written response to the topic, “How will a $5,000 scholarship for education make a difference in your life?” The response must be in English, exhibit correct spelling and grammar and be no more than 250 words in length. Additionally, each applicant is required to complete a scholarship search profile online at www.scholarshipexperts.com . Deadline ot apply is April 30, 2008 at 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time. + Details at our free college scholarship search site JobCast/Mail Bag + Daniel Johnson Jr. called in about the jobcast episode + Thanks, Dan! + HowIGotMyJob.com + How I got this job is a funny, funny story + Seth Godin’s All Marketers are Liars 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

Hosts: Denise Howell, John Palfrey, Ernie Svenson, Cathy Kirkman and Chris Johnston John Palfrey launches Draft Lessig Facebook group, tech-savvyness of presidential candidates, Lazy Web v. Twitter, your social graph and more. Denise’s blog on Draft Lessig: Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee Talking points: http://del.icio.us/thisweekinlaw/12. Audible Book Pick: The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. Thanks to Victor Cajiao for editing help this week. Victor produces the Typical Mac User Podcast and Immigration Tales Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 1:02:54 Less

As Fred Thompson drops out of the republican race for the whitehouse, Spike talks about why it’s a good thing he’s gone and examines his frighteningly extremist record. Politics talk ends at 22 minutes and eight seconds in, by the way. That’s after Spike’s talk radio conscience weighs in. Spike will deal with “this much freaky and scary” when it comes to Google’s information gathering (and their ‘official blob’) but is well impressed that they’re splashing some cash on worthy causes and generating almost a third of their power through solar. All whilst Yahoo is going down the tubes. He suggests a new way to deal with the UK’s problem of the failures of private prisons, talks about prostitution and uses the phrase “here’s the rub” without tying it into anything sexual (shame!), a how-to guide for making a few extra bucks with your webcam, haggis and the lies of the guys who got attacked by a tiger. Less

In this Marketing Over Coffee learn : What does Metcalfe’s Law have to do with marketing, Best practices with PURLs, and why January is Tech Geek Nirvana. Show length 23:50 Brought to you by MarketingProfs.com 00:43 Setting Strategy for 2008, setting up projects and objectives, and still holding some reserves 04:19 Lobbying and Government intervention 04:56 Marketing resources to recharge your brain. 07:40 Win a free copy of Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae, email us to enter 08:20 Holiday Card follow up and using PURLs - Good job for Landmark Impressions 10:18 Ilysa from Polymer Clay Productions asks about getting kicked out of Wikipedia 14:26 Networking, Metcalfe’s Law and user forums 17:02 CES, MacWorld and Camera Show in Tech Heaven Month. Always on the web gadgets. 18:48 Digital picture frames ask demonstration kiosk 20:09 XBox Live hits 10 Million users, right next to Skype 21:20 Private trade shows, and smaller regional events. College Goal on the 27 John is finishing both the company and sales kickoffs. Chris is off to College Goal Sunday and will be using Social Media Tools (and Zero budget!) to promote it. Our theme song is called Mellow G by Fonkmasters from the Podsafe Music Network Direct Link to File ShareThis Less

Download audio file (20070827_chinalawblog_dickinson.mp3) Download In today’s episode of the China Business Podcast, I sit down for a discussion with Steve Dickinson of the China Law Blog, one of the best blogs on the Web. Steve is an American lawyer living in Shanghai. Over the last ten years Steve has taught law (in Chinese) off and on at Beijing University School of Law. He frequently lectures on Chinese law topics in the United States and on American law topics in China, and he is the author of the Chinese corporate law section of Matthew Bender’s International Corporate Law. Steve works for Harris & Moure, a law firm with which Technomic Asia has worked on a number of China projects. Steve is completely fluent in Mandarin Chinese and nearly fluent in Japanese. He can also read Sanskrit and Tibetan and speaks a bit of Korean, as well. He managed to find spare time to chat with me — in English — about intellectual property concerns and other hot topics in China business and law. Less

Sarah Feingold, Etsy's inhouse counsel, describes how she got interested in both jewelry and law. Her admin account is SarahSays.etsy.com and her jewelry can be found at feingoldjewelry.etsy.com. Less

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