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Britain is substantially increasing its aid to Pakistan and outlining a new strategy for how it is spent. Author: bbcworldnews Keywords: BBC News Britain doubles Pakistan aid Added: July 3, 2008

If she can make it, we can make it says one young woman referring to her American flag.The video show a truly phenomenal display of American pride the video showing only a sampling of the hundreds of flags flown just days after the flooding. http://www.IowaFloodAid.com Iowa is a place where old time values still exist. It s a friendly yet unassuming place with a great quality of life. It s a place where people still say hello to each other. It truly is within America s heartland. Iowans immediately went straight to work to recover their own lives. They need America s help. When faced with the devastation, the residents who lost everything and face a bleak future turned to their American pride by displaying their American flags - no matter how battered and bruised they may be. THEY TURNED TO YOU AMERICA! NOW - THEY NEED YOU, AMERICA! Please donate today. We need to raise tens of millions to the effort as this disaster has a truly massive affect on our people. Salvation Army Cedar Rapids: www.tsacedarrapids.org Red Cross Grant Wood Chapter:http://www.grantwood-redcross.org/index.html?gwatitle.htm&1

Image via Wikipedia FAP831: Need based financial aid, Free Stuff Thursday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: A shift back to need-based aid isn t hurting at least two colleges. In the last few years, some colleges have pulled back from the policies everyone else says they d like to pull back from. Notably the sky hasn t fallen (and neither have their admissions numbers). Consider the cases of Hamilton College, which completely eliminated merit aid to spend more on need-based aid, and of Tufts University, which imposed a limit on its use of early decision. Both colleges are competitive in admissions, with excellent academic reputations – but neither has even close to the endowment or admissions clout of Harvard or the other institutions at the top of the admissions pecking order. + IHE: Many University of Chicago graduate students will need to find new loans — quite likely under terms less favorable than they are used to receiving. The Chicago Tribune reported that the university has had to end its use of the school as lender program for graduate students because of the inability of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to renew its line of credit. Chicago officials believe that the graduate students who have used the program will be able to find loans elsewhere, but will likely not find some key benefits of the old program, such as the lack of origination fees and a reduction in interest rates after four years of on-time repayment. + In some ways, what people were talking about legislating last year, the market has corrected this year + Prudence and caution are back in style + Had an interesting case yesterday when the computers would have said yes, I said no - and with good reason Scholarship Update + Scholarship Idol SLN Scholarship + A Scholarship Points Contest + Watch the embarrassingly poor quality YouTube video Free Stuff Thursday + Free cotton shopping bag + Free Snuggle fabric softener + Rhapsody free album with signup + Astroglide uh, yeah. + Swurl is pointless fun + Make your Mac sing in Terminal + Joys of Summer Gift Pack - 50 ziploc bags + Free pretzel from Auntie Anne s + Get lost a lot? Free Atlas + Sell Back Books - they pay you, including shipping Free Song of the Week + David Usher, Kill the Lights + See the YouTube video 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 + Financial Aid discussion forums + Get FAFSA news at the FAFSA 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 gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. ShareThis

To donate, see:Salvation Army Cedar Rapids: www.tsacedarrapids.orgRed Cross Grant Wood Chapter:http://www.grantwood-redcross.org/index.html?gwatitle.htm&1These are phenomenal displays of American flags and pride amidst the ruin and devastation caused by the floods in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, neighborhoods. The victims turn to their American pride by displaying the American flags - no matter how battered and bruised they may be. NOW - THEY NEED YOU AMERICA! Please donate today.

FAP830: Expert interview with Larry Wilson, Coastal Federal Credit Union Listen now: Expert Interview + Today we discuss credit unions, personal finance, and living within your means with Larry Wilson, CEO of Coastal Federal Credit Union in North Carolina. 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 + Financial Aid discussion forums + Get FAFSA news at the FAFSA 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 gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. ShareThis

Two Northwest relief agencies are leading the effort to bring US food aid to North Korea. Officials from World Vision, based in Federal Way, and Mercy Corps, based in Portland, are on the ground in North Korea. They are overseeing the distribution of 37,000 tons of US wheat. It is the first direct US food aid to that country in 8 years. KUOW's Deborah Wang reports.

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The former foreign minister has confirmed he's quitting politics to help revive long-stalled peace talks between the Greeks and Turks on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Cyprus has been split since a 1974 Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greek Cypriot coup. But with both sides now showing renewed political will, Alexander Downer is being urged to seize the moment.

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FAP829: GI Bill expansion, pirated textbooks, mail bag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to steal music and movies. Feeling threatened, book publishers are stepping up efforts to stop the online piracy. + One Web site, called Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent. Other textbook-download sites are even easier to use, offering digital books at the click of a mouse. + Inside Higher Ed: President Bush signed a supplemental war spending bill Monday that includes a dramatic expansion of GI Bill benefits for veterans who have served on active duty since September 11, 2001. The new GI Bill, championed by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) would provide up to the cost of in-state tuition at the most expensive public college in a veteran s state, a monthly housing stipend based on a college s location, and an extra $1,000 annually for books. Currently, GI Bill benefits are worth just $1,101 monthly, and many are wonder how the infusion of new funds for veterans might impact where they choose to attend college. The GI Bill expansion is estimated to cost $62 billion over 10 years. + Be sure to check in with the Veterans Administration to learn how to take advantage of your new benefits Scholarship Update + If you could send a message on a science, technology, or health issue to the next U.S. president and Congress, what would it be? + Voice your vision for science and society to win cash and other prizes! GRAND PRIZE: $2,000 + Energy security. Nuclear weapons. Genetic engineering. Climate change. Stem cells. 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Enter the contest today for your chance at the cash prizes listed above! + DEADLINE: July 15, 2008 + Details at our free college scholarship search site Mail Bag + Brittney writes in: What if a student s marital status changes during a school year they have already been awarded money for? Do they just need to wait and change it the next time they file their FAFSA? Or do they need to notify FAFSA in some way? + Brittney - if the money s been awarded, then you just file differently the following year. + Linda writes in: What if you were in a foster home and was adopted by the forster parent who received money from the state for you. Are you considered independent? + Linda - if you ve been adopted, then you re no longer a ward of the state and are now a dependent student. + David writes in: I m David, greencard holder, 22, both of my parents passed away years ago, living alone with a partner and a child that s hers. I filled out my FAFSA already as independent, claiming my partner as a dependent, receiving more than half of her support from me. In my taxes I had no dependents since she has no SS#. I m getting more money for school by claiming myself as independent? + David - if the child in the house is deriving its support from you, and you claimed the child as a dependent on your taxes, then you would be an independent. Your partner would need to be your spouse to make the claim for her. + See this blog post on who is a dependent vs. independent student + M Reyes writes in: I m confused as of what to borrow : parent plus loan or Alternate student loan. I understand that there is not deferrement on Parent plus loan. Is it true? I will appreciate much if could answer. thank you. + There is deferment on PLUS loans, but there are other key differences + See lots of student loan options at StudentLoanNetwork.com 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 + Financial Aid discussion forums + Get FAFSA news at the FAFSA 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 gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. ShareThis

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Draft without Background Music: Phenomenal displays of American flags and pride amidst the ruin and devastation caused by the floods in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Czech Village neighborhood.

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FAP828: 10 key factors influencing your financial aid Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Here s a frightening thought for every college administrator planning for a big disaster: What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? + In June the U.S Climate Change Science Program, which is sponsored by 13 government agencies, released a report saying that extreme weather like heat waves, heavy downpours, and superpowered hurricanes would be more common in the future. The timing of the report — coming just as officials in Iowa were surveying the damage from the swollen Iowa River — could not have been better. The news media jumped all over it, saying that the world could expect Iowa-like floods, as Bloomberg put it. + Prepare for disaster - put important documents in a zip-top plastic bag + Chronicle: Tuition has become a populist cause in Washington. And underneath that big tent is a collection of issues that appeal to various political persuasions. Conservatives delight in going after the tax-exempt status of the ivory tower, while even liberal-leaning professors get steamed about the money universities spend on sports and presidents salaries. And almost everyone can find a reason to be upset about Harvard University s $35-billion endowment. Scholarship Update + Coach Design a Tote Scholarship + Coach is searching for one truly inspired and unique design to adorn their classic chic tote. Start from scratch, one of your favorite sketches, or incorporate some of Coach’s iconic design elements. Just download the provided silhouette, create and submit a graphic, and enter to win a $2,500 shopping spree and party in your hometown Coach store — plus have your design created into a special limited edition item and sold in select locations! This is your opportunity to put your artful stamp on the perfect Coach tote! + Grand Prize: One winner, selected by Coach experts from all entries, will have his or her Coach tote manufactured as a special limited edition item to be sold in select Coach stores and/or online at Coach.com. Plus, a celebratory event for the winner will be held at a local, full-price Coach store along with a $2,500 shopping spree, and a $500 scholarship or cash! If the winner is not within a 50-mile radius of a full-price, retail store location they will receive a $2,500 online shopping spree and a $500 scholarship or cash plus Coach swag bags for the winner and 4 friends to have their own Coach style party! + Most Viral: One winner, selected by Coach experts from the top 100 most viral entries, will win a $1,500 Coach online shopping spree and a $250 scholarship or cash. Learn about Most Viral. + High Score: One winner, selected by Coach experts from the top 100 highest scoring entries, will win a $1,500 Coach online shopping spree and a $250 scholarship or cash. + Deadline August 4 + Details at our free college scholarship search site Financial Aid 101 + 10 pieces of data that largely influence how much financial aid you ll receive + Based on the EFC + These are all part of the FAFSA form + Get FAFSA help at FAFSAonline.com + When you look at this, you can get an idea of what things you have influence over and what things you don t + Age of older parent + How many people live in your household + Parents marital status + Parents non-retirement assets + Parents total income + Parents U.S. income tax paid + Parents untaxed income + Parents value of home equity + Student s assets + Student s total income 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 + Financial Aid discussion forums + Get FAFSA news at the FAFSA 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 gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast ShareThis

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Author: NVNS Added: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:34:00 -0800 Duration: 78PANDE AXUCAR ISLAND, Philippines (June 27, 2008) Anti Submarine Helicopter Squadron Four (HS 4), the Black Knights from the aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), unloads supplies from a Sea Hawk helicopter (HH-60H), to victims of Typhoon Fengshen in Pande Axucar Island in the Republic of the Philippines. At the request of the government of the Republic of the Philippines, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) is off the coast of Panay Island providing humanitarian assistance and disaster response. Ronald Reagan and other U.S. Navy ships are operating in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility to promote peace, cooperation and stability. U.S. Navy Video (RELEASED)

PANDE AXUCAR ISLAND, Philippines (June 27, 2008) Anti Submarine Helicopter Squadron Four (HS 4), the Black Knights from the aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), unloads supplies from a Sea Hawk helicopter (HH-60H), to victims of Typhoon Fengshen in Pande Axucar Island in the Republic of the Philippines. At the request of the government of the Republic of the Philippines, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) is off the coast of Panay Island providing humanitarian assistance and disaster response. Ronald Reagan and other U.S. Navy ships are operating in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility to promote peace, cooperation and stability. U.S. Navy Video (RELEASED)

Climate change is a battleground of risk. It appears we need to make fateful decisions in a context of exceptional uncertainly. Enter Ross Garnaut. He has been commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth, state and territory governments to make sense of the risks, costs and benefits of tackling runaway carbon emissions. His interim report is due this week. Today we hear from the man himself, delivering the sixth HW Arndt Memorial Lecture at the Australian National University. Can the immeasurable be measured? You can find a transcript of the lecture at The Garnaut Review see below:

Author: fanscapevideos Added: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:37:24 -0800 Duration: 33How are you going to pay for college? Help make a difference in your education by voting at http://www.chooseorlose.com. Its up to you!

Image via Wikipedia FAP827: Student credit cards, coffee scholarship, Free stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York hopes to have completed by this fall an investigation into the relationships between credit-card companies and college officials, according to Benjamin Lawsky, deputy counselor to Mr. Cuomo, who previously investigated questionable ties between student loan companies and financial-aid officials. + Mr. Lawsky testified at a hearing today of the House consumer-credit subcommittee in which members considered various ways to reduce students’ credit-card debt and misuse. Panelists, including Mr. Lawsky, sketched a scenario in which students are taken advantage of by predatory companies, who offer free gifts and withhold important information about payments and rates to students who apply for credit cards. + Check out our student credit card guide at StudentPlatinum.com + Inside Higher Ed: It’s that rare story involving a pig, a taser and a happy ending. For weeks now, Colby College officials and Maine authorities have been trying to capture a runaway pot-bellied pig that escaped from its owner, a student, at a picnic. The pig was roaming the campus and managed to elude capture with nets. Local press coverage has been extensive. This week, the pig was enjoying a snack of some French fries offered by an area resident who called the police. The Morning Sentinel reported that the person who shared the fries also called the police, who used a taser to stun the pig, leading to the pig’s capture and ending a month of freedom for the animal. While the pig will not be continuing on at Colby, it will stay in education, and has been adopted by a preschool. Scholarship Update + Maxwell House Minority Scholarship + ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be minority high school students or graduates from New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, or Newark. Applicants must be willing to attend one of the black colleges participating in their local black college fairs. + AMOUNT: $3,000 + Details at our free college scholarship search site Free Stuff Friday + CL Desktop - visual Craiglist shopping tool - I m checking out the free stuff in Boston category by photo - VERY useful! + WebKut - application to make a PDF of any web page - also very useful! + Fotobooth and iSpy - two other free apps + Free Prima J tank top at Wet Seal + Free pack of Stride gum + Updated info on the free credit reporting from Transunion + Google Finance adds NYSE quotes in real-time + Evernote has a Mac desktop application now + Boxee is a Tivo style interface with social stuff + Stupid fun: make a radiation shield from your cell phone out of a Red Bull can Free Song of the Week + Geoff Smith, Bohemian Financial Rhapsody 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 + Financial Aid discussion forums + Get FAFSA news at the FAFSA 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 gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. ShareThis

Author: seeprogress Added: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:33:48 -0800 Duration: 165http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security The next president of the United States will face real and serious national security challenges on a multitude of fronts, with al-Qaida at the top of the list. Nearly seven years after 9/11, its media ...

PHILIPPINES (June 26, 2008) - An SH-60 Seahawk helicopter launched from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) arrives in the Republic of the Philippines to deliver supplies. Philippine military members and U.S. Navy Sailors load the helicopter with supplies for delivery. Later, a C-2 Greyhound arrives in the Republic of the Philippines to deliver supplies. Then Commander Carrier Strike Group 7, Rear Admiral Phil Wisecup arrives in the Republic of the Philippines and meets with Philippine military members. Ronald Reagan sent 12,000 bottles of water and 7,500 pounds of Rice to the Philippines supporting disaster relief efforts. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is support the government of the Republic of the Philippines to help provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the victims of Typhoon Fengshen. U.S. Navy video (RELEASED)

PACIFIC OCEAN (June 25, 2008) Sailors load cases of water bound for the Philippines onto a Sh-60 Seahawk helicopter and a C-2A Greyhound on the flight deck aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan sent 12,000 bottles of water and 7,500 pounds of Rice to the Philippines supporting disaster relief efforts. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is support the government of the Republic of the Philippines to help provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the victims of Typhoon Fengshen. U.S. Navy video (RELEASED)

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security The next president of the United States will face real and serious national security challenges on a multitude of fronts, with al-Qaida at the top of the list. Nearly seven years after 9/11, its media outreach programme broadcasts messages on the airwaves and the internet, attempting to radicalise unaffiliated sympathisers into violent action. Regional groups in Iraq, Algeria and elsewhere place themselves under its brand in an effort to magnify their importance and gain funding as terrorist franchises. The threat from al-Qaida is diffuse, but US and foreign intelligence agencies have reached a strikingly unanimous conclusion that the core organisational leadership has re-formed itself. Its location? Pakistan. Al-Qaida has, in the words of the US director for national intelligence's February 2008 Annual Threat Assessment, "retained or regenerated key elements of its capability, including top leadership, operational mid-level lieutenants and de facto safe haven in Pakistan's border area with Afghanistan". Top officials at the CIA, state department and Joint Chiefs of Staff have all echoed this assessment in recent months. And under questioning from the Senate armed services committee at his confirmation hearing for the position of Centcom commander, which carries responsibility for Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Iraq, General David Petraeus finally added his voice to this warning chorus as well. CAP Senior Fellow Brian Katulis, author of THE PROSPERITY AGENDA, traveled to Pakistan recently and brought back this video report.

The International Whaling Commission has been meeting all week in the Chilian Capital of Santiago, and while votes have been few and far between, there is one outcome - the decision to create a working group of 20 nations to look at major reform of the deadlocked commission and it's future operations. It's a decision that former federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell is critical of, saying it plays into Japan's hands. He's at the IWC, this time as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.