| Score aid information at College Goal Sunday
You've marked your calendar for Super Bowl Sunday, now consider this weekend's College Goal Sunday. College Goal Sunday is a free, nationwide program to help students and families complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. It's being held in the Firstenburg Student Commons at Washington State University Vancouver at 2 p.m. Sunday. The program is open to all students, not just those who intend to apply to WSU. Filling out the FAFSA's preapplication can take about two hours and requires ample paperwork. Alyson Galloway, who works in the financial aid office at WSUV, said even students from wealthier families should fill out the FAFSA. "The concept of 'Do I make too much money?' is a myth about financial aid," Galloway said. "Students from million-dollar families still qualify for Stafford Loan programs." To snag a low-interest Stafford Loan (now hovering at 6.8 percent but due to go down to 6 percent in July), students must fill out a FAFSA.
Austin's Foreclosures Down By 15 Percent
Attorney General Greg Abbott said the rate of foreclosures in Texas is a crisis. He also warned that some lenders are contributing to the problem. "In part, because a lot of these homeowners were misled into entering into these loans to begin with, that we've been involved in bringing legal actions against some of these sub prime mortgage lenders, such as Ameriquest," Abbott said. Abbott encouraged those homeowners to contact their lenders directly or to talk with a Housing and Urban Development-approved agency. While cities like Fort Worth, Dallas and San Antonio suffer with increasing foreclosure rates, Austin is actually fairing pretty well.
KXAN Austin News spoke with two realtors Monday, who said that the foreclosure rate in Travis County is actually down 15 percent, compared to this time last year.
Dante Tosetti Appointed Managing Director
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- First Republic Bank, a leading provider of private banking, private business banking and wealth management services, today announced that Dante Tosetti has been named Managing Director - Business Banking. Tosetti, who has 10 years of banking experience, will work with commercial business clients in the Bay Area and is located at the Bank's Walnut Creek office at 1400 Civic Drive. First Republic's business banking group provides an array of innovative financing solutions to businesses. Products include lines of credit, business loans, commercial real estate financing, and cash management programs, including online banking, remote deposit, and lockbox services. "Dante Tosetti is a terrific addition to our growing team of business bankers in the San Francisco Bay Area," said Katherine August-deWilde, President and Chief Operating Officer of First Republic Bank.
Bragging Rights At Stake In Broncos-Chiefs Tilt
The Chiefs' Herm Edwards is 2-3 against both Shanahan and the Broncos as a head coach, including 1-2 since arriving in K.C.WHEN THE CHIEFS HAVE THE BALLKansas City has fielded one of the NFL's best rushing attacks over the past few years, but the team has failed to establish a strong run game this season even when Johnson's been healthy. The Chiefs average a meager 85.6 yards per week on the ground (29th overall), although Smith (252 rushing yards, 2 TD) has breathed some life into the offense since taking over as the starter. The fifth-round draft choice ran over the Raiders for 150 yards and two scores two weeks ago and followed up with 83 yards on 21 carries against a tough San Diego defense last Sunday. A shaky offensive line has been partly to blame for the Chiefs' rushing struggles and could be without starting tackles Damion McIntosh (knee) and Chris Terry (personal) this week.
Process Rebates Online - Can It Be Done?
The number of people working from home each day keeps growing because more and more people want to work from home and to grow their incomes. Sometimes, the money that they are earning is not nearly enough to pay for their large bills. Car payment, house mortgage, phone bills, electricity, water, food, and all of the other bills that they are getting all the time. A job is not enough for them when it comes to paying their bills. So what people do is go online and search for ways to earn money on the web so that they can improve and grow their incomes. There is a new concept in the work at home arena and it is called "processing online rebates". It is the hottest new thing around in the online marketing era. Doesn't it sound fantastic. You can just sit at home, process rebates for $10 - $15, and make it big online.
Category: Enterprise 2.0
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Tech spending (naturally) taking a dip in 2008 Posted in: General IT Management Enterprise 2.0 The New York Times reports on IDC's outlook for tech spending growth, which may fall from 7 percent in 2007 to 4 percent or less this year. The drop is not as precipitous as in 2001 when tech spending dropped more than 10 percent, gutting many companies. Most public companies can be in belt tightening modes depending on how the quarterly numbers are moving, and given the current state of the economy belt tightening is on everybody's mind. Steve Lohr's article quotes Monte Ford, the CIO of American Airlines: "Technology remains the best lever for getting more value from all those, making your employees more productive, making better use of your fleet and increasing your fuel efficiency." Not all CIOs have the corporate buy-in to exercise that point of view on technology during tougher times.
Lebanon Police Investigate Bombing
Investigators were also trying to determine if the latest bombing was part of a string of attacks that have targeted leading anti-Syrian politicians in the past three years, a security official said Saturday. Syria has often been blamed in the attacks, but Damascus has denied any role.
The powerful bomb Friday killed Capt. Wissam Eid, whose work included probing the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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