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Student Loans Should be Last Resort

Student loans are both a blessing and a curse to college students all across the country. On one hand, student loans allow you to have the money you need in many cases to attend college at all. On the other hand, most college students, particularly those entering college for the first time have inflated opinions of their starting salaries upon graduation and the bills they will face while living in the real world. In fact, most freshmen college students have no real concept of the limits of money in which to base their decisions as to whether or not they can realistically expect to repay those funds once they've graduated college.

The sad truth is that many college graduates find that for the first 10-15 years after they have graduated college, they are essentially indentured servants to their student loan debts. There are many reasons for this and different college graduates will find different things about their student loans when the appropriate time comes. First of all, those taking out student loans need to understand that a college degree does not guarantee a high starting salary. Beyond that, a college degree is no guarantee that there will be employers lining up to take your name and number upon graduation. The truth is that most college grads take anywhere from 6 months to a year to find a job in their fields and even then the starting salaries are often far less than anticipated.

Part of the blame for over-inflated expectations is the fault of universities attempting to validate their high tuition rates by displaying average starting salaries of only those that have successful offers in the field of study immediately upon graduation (which usually indicates a history of working with the company or another company as an intern prior to being hired) and not those students who have no prior work experience in their chosen fields. Part of the expectations is students reading job advertisements for experienced workers in a field and assuming that an education will provide the experience that employers require. Regardless of the reason, most starting salary expectations are not realistic in light of the current market.

The problem is that for many students a student loan is the difference in receiving a college education or not receiving one. For these students, there is no option. The price they will pay (with interest) for having student loans in order to get through the educational process will repay itself over the course of a lifetime if they are wise about making the necessary payments and stay on top of things such as consolidation loans and making payments on time.

Student loans are a great tool for those who have no other options when it comes to attending and affording to attend a university. On the other hand, for those who do not have an absolute need for the funds a student loan can provide they can prove to be problematic when trying to establish your career and your lifestyle upon graduation. This is a tool for education that should be used sparingly at best.

Whether or not you choose to take out student loans in order to fund your college education it is a good idea if you exhaust all other available resources first. Check out your options for grants, scholarships, and work-study programs before leaping into student loans to pay for your education.  

1 Affiliate Program Pay Him $2.2 Million Dollars In Just 1 Year, Are You The Next-_68838

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First, Here's what he DIDN'T Do:

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Tissa�s program (especially to The SECOND step in the program) make me achieved financial freedom without "getting rich quick" and here is only additional $125 proof in 24 hours . And now, financial freedom means being able to stay at home and spend the day with my wife and son. It means my wife doesn't have to go out to work. It means we can send our son to a private school. It means several family vacations every year. It means we never have to worry how we're going to make the next car or mortgage payment. It means not worrying about bills or debts. What does financial freedom mean to YOU?

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He Did It By Investing $100,000 to Build a Niche Search Engine Around a HUGELY Popular Topic!

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07 Irresistible Traffic Generation Internet Marketing Strategies To Make Money From Private Label Ri_62743

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05] Break the private label rights products, with a few necessary changes, into articles. Submit these articles to article directories and permit webmasters to republish them with a resource link back to your site. Allow them to customize these articles with their affiliate links. If you have your own product in the affiliate networks like Clickbank, it will be very easy to allow webmasters to
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06] Use these articles to add more content to your website to make more money from Adsense. More content will bring more free targeted traffic from search engines, and hence more income.

07] Private label rights products are the quickest way to make money from internet. How? Just stick your name as the author and sell them as your own products, as though you have created them. The time factor predominantly determines your success rate in selling private label rights products. The faster you buy a private label rights product and set up a site to sell it, by implementing a good internet marketing strategy to bring targeted traffic, higher the chances you have to make money.Paul O'Brien  

.tel Domains - More Names For Your Internet Business_69765

Many business owners who now want to start a website are faced with the challenge of registering a desirable domain names. In general, there are 2 commonly known approaches when registering for domain names.

Branding your website.

The first approach requires registering a domain name for branding purposes. For example, if you own a well known brand, you want your website to reflect this well established brand. Many huge major companies do this. So domain names for such companies tend to look like this - CompanyName Dot com.

Keyword based domain names.

The other approach, which is more popular among Internet marketers, is to register for keyword based domain names. The key benefit for doing so is that it's easier for the website to rank well in the search engines, which leads to more traffic. For instance, if you are running a garden tools company, you may want to choose GardenTools Dot Com as your domain name.

So which is the better approach, and how should you choose?

It all depends. If you already own a well established brand that is bringing in revenue, stick with your current brand name. Choosing a domain name that is not associated with your brand name will only confuse your customers. In this case, your brand name is valuable. Do whatever you can to protect it.

However, if you are just starting out, traffic may be more important than anything else. Without traffic, your website will never be able to get the boost that it so badly needs. Therefore, it is better to choose a keyword based domain name. You may even register a company based on the keywords if it works well for you.

So far, that sounds fine in theory. In reality, it's now very difficult to get your desired domain names, especially if you are aiming for keyword based domain names.

Fortunately, you can now register for .Tel domain names. When new TLD (Top Level Domains) domain names are released, the earliest customers usally get the best domain names. But you may need to pay a premium price for the domain name if you want to be one of the first to get a .Tel domain name. This measure is in place to prevent those who buy domain names with the sole intention of reselling them later to capitalize on the opportunity and preventing others from getting their desired domain names. If you are in no hurry, you can just wait for the initial rush to cool off a little, and sign up for a domain name that would be priced at ?4.95 for a full year.

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Kevin Barwell, Retired Correctional Officer, Blasts Conditions At Albion Prison Where Dennis Austin Died

ALBION, Pa. -- A former correctional officer from the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Albion said he is not surprised by the recent death of Dennis Austin, an inmate who suffered from grossly infected bedsores.

"It's happened before. This is a pattern that's been ongoing," Kevin Barwell, the retired correctional officer from SCI Albion, said in an interview with The Huffington Post. "[Austin's death] is a direct result of negligence. They're not doing their job."

Austin, 48, had been diagnosed in July 2010 with lung and bone cancer. The inmate died on New Year's Day. According to the Erie County Coroner, Lyle Cook, Austin died as a result of stage-four metastatic lung cancer.

Committed to the prison in 1991 for rape and kidnapping, Austin was serving a 28- to 57-year sentence.

Austin's sister, Paula Thomas, of Erie, Pa., previously provided The Huffington Post with post-mortem photos of her brother that showed bedsores covering a large portion of his body. Thomas said the photos show serious neglect. "It's awful. It's just awful," said Thomas, who suspects the bedsores caused or contributed to her brother's death.

Barwell, 48, said he had worked at SCI Albion, a medium-security correctional facility located 30 miles southwest of Erie, for about 14 years. He retired in 2008.

"I'm not a disgruntled employee," Barwell said. "I did not get terminated or anything. I took an early retirement for personal reasons. I left the right way. I have commendables on my employee evaluations. My only sore spot is how they treat people."

Barwell did not know Dennis Austin, but said he is familiar with the infirmary at SCI Albion where Austin received treatment.

"We had one inmate who was in the infirmary who was paralyzed from the waist down," he said. "He had bedsores right down to the bone on his buttocks. I saw them and I could actually smell the flesh. He needed [rolling] several times a day. [The inmate] eventually started talking to an attorney and threatened to file a lawsuit. After that they started to [turn him regularly]."

The retired correctional officer said it was not unusual to walk through the infirmary and smell "feces or rotting flesh." He said the medical staff can get "extremely busy" and that it was not uncommon for things to "fall between the cracks."

"You're not going to get the same level of care in that infirmary that you'll get in the hospital," Barwell said.

Susan Bensinger, deputy press secretary for the state Department of Corrections, would not comment on Austin's death -- citing privacy laws and the recent request for an investigation -- but did defend the prison's medical facilities.

"We have an extensive medical [staff] from LPNs up to and including medical doctors," Bensinger told The Huffington Post. "All of our institutions are accredited by the American Correction Association [and] the Department of Health. There are extensive checks and balances in place to ensure we are providing the [same] care [...] they would receive in the community."

The former guard has a different opinion and said the attitude of some individuals while he was employed there was that they did not care if inmates like Austin received proper medical treatment.

"The general consensus, and I can hear this ringing in my head, is 'F--k it, he's a child molester or a sex offender, so he can lay there and die for all I care,'" Barwell said. "Sure, stuff like that is said. I don't know if it was said in Mr. Austin's case, but it was said in the past."

On Wednesday, former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Del Fuoco asked Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri to conduct a formal investigation. Daneri has not returned multiple calls for comment this week from The Huffington Post.

Del Fuoco had an opportunity to speak with Barwell Thursday afternoon and sent a synopsis to Daneri.

"According to the witness, care managers at the infirmary (who have recently been seen on television picketing the facility in light of planned privatization) appear to harbor the attitude, 'he's f--kin' dying anyway, he's a dirtbag, let 'em lay there.' The witness suggests that this managerial attitude has now permeated the entire staff's viewpoint," Del Fuoco wrote.

"[Barwell] relates that had a proper medico-legal investigation been done, this would have 'opened up a whole Pandora's box all the way up to the Superintendent,'" the synopsis continued.

Del Fuoco said he has yet to receive a response from Daneri. In regard to Barwell, the veteran attorney said he commends his "courage and integrity" for coming forward.

"It's important for, in essence, whistleblowers like this guy to come forward in cases like this where many times what goes on inside an organization can only be verified by somebody with personal knowledge," Del Fuoco said.

Speed Freak Killer's Letter Cites More Bodies

 Sacramento television station CBS-13 has received a letter it says is from serial killer Wesley Shermantine claiming he knows of sites where the bodies of additional victims were dumped.

The station reports that in a letter with Shermatine's signature from San Quentin State Prison, the convicted killer says there are two locations where his accomplice, Loren Herzog, disposed of two victims.

Shermantine says he hasn't revealed the locations because he hasn't been paid $33,000 promised by bounty hunter Leonard Padilla.

Padilla, who recognized Shermantine's handwriting in the letter, says he's working to establish a trust account before paying. Padilla says San Joaquin County sheriff's officials have a copy of the letter. They didn't immediately return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment on it.

Shermantine and Herzog, known as the "Speed Freak Killers," are suspected in as many as 20 murders. Herzog committed suicide last month after being told Shermantine was cooperating with authorities.

Authorities have been searching a farm in Linden based on information provided by Shermantine.

Elizabeth Smart marries boyfriend in private, spur of the moment Hawaiian ceremony Published February 19, 2012 | NewsCore

HONOLULU –  Elizabeth Smart, whose 2002 kidnapping gripped the nation, married her boyfriend of one year, Matthew Gilmour, in a private ceremony Saturday afternoon in Hawaii.

Smart met her 22-year-old fiance, who hails from Aberdeen, Scotland, when both were doing Mormon mission work in Paris, People magazine reported.

"To be in one of her favorite places with her family has made for a dream wedding. It's been an absolutely beautiful day," her spokesperson, Chris Thomas, told People. "She is positively radiant. And Matthew couldn't be happier."

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hermes kelly bags Smart, 24, and Gilmour, 22, will honeymoon at an undisclosed location before returning to Salt Lake City.

Last month, a family spokesman announced that Smart was engaged and would be married this summer.

People reported that the couple instead decided on an earlier, destination wedding to avoid media attention.

Smart's father, Ed Smart, told The Salt Lake Tribune, "We're just thrilled that she's married," adding that the Hawaii wedding was "kind of a spur of a moment thing in a way."

Smart was taken at knife point from her parents' Salt Lake City home in 2002 at age 14. She was found in March 2003, about 18 miles from her home and in the company of Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.

Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison in May 2011 after being convicted of kidnapping and rape. Barzee had earlier pleaded guilty to federal charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor and is serving a 15-year prison sentence.

Smart is currently a contributor to ABC News.