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Podcast Hotel – TinyScreenfulsWiki
I created a page on the TinyScreenfulsWiki for the Podcast Hotel conference going on right now, to be a place for people to add, edit, and share information and useful stuff. Did you attend? Have a question? Want to promote your site or podcast? This is the place to go. It's your space – have at it.
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A Magnificently restored 1876 Victorian Inn located walking distance to beaches!
Our Sole Purpose At Angels' Watch Inn Is To Give You Your Own Private Heaven
Nine delightful guest rooms, beautiful common rooms, one block from the beach...
Fitch Claremont House B&B
A 4 room B&B on vineyard in rural Ct. next to Casino's & Mystic attractions
By The Sea Inn & Spa
A wonderful overnight enchanting escape
3 Liberty Green Bed & Breakfast c. 1734
We are near quaint village shops, antiquing, restaurants, cafes, coffeehouses, museums, live theater and Mystic attractions, Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun Casinos.
Riverwind Inn B&B
At Riverwind Inn, crackling fires greet fall and winter guests, while a wrap around porch with rockers beckons to spring and summer visitors
Mill House Inn
A gracious Bed & Breakfast Inn in the heart of East Hampton. Beautifully appointed rooms, spectacular dog-friendly suites, superb service & the best breakfast in the Hamptons!
Getaway House B&B
A charming bed & breakfast nestled in a wooded setting yet close to the village and the ocean beaches!
Arbor View House Bed and Breakfast
An Elegant Victorian Bed & Breakfast In Long Island's North Fork Wine Country, with Spa Services and Delicious Candlelight Breakfasts
Tidewater Inn
Cozy, elegant shoreline B&B. Nine rooms, some with fireplace or jacuzzi. Relax in the beamed sitting room or in the English Garden. Near beaches and village shops.
Swan Cove B&B
Located in a Residential, Historic part of New Haven, one block to a marina and great restaurant overlooking the Harbor for a seaside dinner at the end of the day.
Historic Mansion Inn
Historic mansion now a B&B/Inn in downtown New Haven. Old Elegance and Style. Stately 12.5ft ceilings. Four blocks to Yale University. A block to famous Italian restaurants.
Inn at Harbor Hill Marina B&B
Waterfront Bed & Breakfast with panoramic views of Long Island Sound and/or Niantic River. Enjoy breakfast on wraparound porch or Adirondack chairs with views of gardens and marin
Fourteen Lincoln Street Bed and Breakfast
This charming bed and breakfast is within walking distance of beaches, a seaside boardwalk and the quaint downtown center.
Lathrop Manor Bed & Breakfast
Lathrop Manor is nestled in the heart of the Norwichtown Historic District and only minutes from downtown Norwich, the Mystic Seaport, the Connecticut wine trail and the casinos.
Captain Grant's, 1754
Discover the history of this 1754 home used in the American Revolution and Civil War! Featured on HGTV in 2002.
Wallingford Victorian Inn
Commissioned by a silver baron for a wedding gift to his daughter, this three story grand Queen Anne victorian still holds the beautiful detailing of its historic era.
High Meadow Bed and Breakfast
Built in 1742, this classic Center Chimney Colonial home has modern comforts but quiet and peacefulness of another era.
Stay at a Westbrook, Connecticut Bed and Breakfasts and Inns for the personal attention you desire. A Westbrook B&B is a great alternative to hotels or motels while visiting the state of Connecticut!
Visit our Westbrook, Connecticut bed and breakfast directory of historic, romantic, and adventure B&B's. You can browse through our detailed listings of Westbrook, Connecticut bed and breakfasts and inns with nearby city listings that include pictures, room rates, booking information and area activities. Every Westbrook, Connecticut b&b inns has complete contact information and a direct link to the innkeepers.

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1. Exporting our vector logo
Step 1
Open your vector logo in Adobe Illustrator. Make sure that EVERYTHING is vector. Also, make sure that the text is converted to outlines. To do that, select your text and go to Type > Create Outlines (Ctrl + Shift + O).
Step 2
Save your document by going to File > Save As (Shift + Ctrl +S), name your file, and in the Illustrator Options, instead of leaving the version as Illustrator CC, select Illustrator 8 on the drop-down menu. Click OK, and we're done with Illustrator now.
2. Importing your logo to Cinema 4D
Step 1
Open Cinema 4D, and go to File > Open… and select your vector logo file.
Step 2
In the Adobe Illustrator Import pop-up window, select the scale you want and if you are planning on using different colors and depth for each part of your logo, then make sure that Connect Splines is unchecked but Group Splines is checked. Now, click OK.
Step 3
Now the logo should appear on your screen. It won't look like a solid logo, but an outline, because Cinema 4D just imported the vector splines. But don't worry, that's about to change.
Notice that on the Objects panel, we have a group named as our logo file (in this case, LOGO). If you click on the + icon next to the name, you can see what this group has, and it has a lot of paths.
Step 4
Take everything that is in the LOGO group and separate them on the Objects panel, so that there are no more groups. This way, we could give a different depth to each object if we wanted to.
3. Converting your 2D logo to 3D
Step 1
Now it's time to bring your logo to the 3D world!
And to do that we'll use a tool called Extrude. Go to Create > Generators > Extrude and now you have a new object on the Objects Panel.
Step 2
Select one of your paths from the Objects Panel and place it in the Extrude object. You'll see a black arrow pointing down, which means that the path will become a subordinate of the Extrude object. When you do that, you'll notice that the path has now turned into 3D!
Step 3
Now, repeat the same process. Create multiple Extrude generators, and place all the paths on each one. When you finish, you will have your entire logo in 3D.
Step 4
When you select an Extrude object, you can go to the Attributes Panel, select the Object tab, and in Movement, you can play with the depth. 35cm or should be enough, but feel free to try whatever number you want.
4. Coloring your 3D logo and rendering.
Step 1
Ok, we have what we wanted, a 3D logo! But it looks very dull in that grey color, so let's fix that.
In the Materials Panel, go to Create > New Material.
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Double click on the new material and a new window will open, the Material Editor. On this window, double click on the Color to open the Color Picker. Now, just input the RGB composition of your logo.
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Now that you've created the materials, just drag and drop them on your objects. You can also add some lighting if you want.
Finally, just render your logo and that's it, you now have converted your 2D logo to a very nice 3D logo!


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LA Weekly picked "Mama's Secret" in their new top 10 list!
Our Turkish Serpme Breakfast was selected as the only breakfast dish for LA Weekly's "top 10 halal dishes in LA" list! Thanks for all your support and help to bring us in LA's most read magazine!
You can read the article from the following link


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it's amusing because it's autological
Commissions are currently closed and will open again later this year. Please email me for pricing on birds, portraits, comics, and other material.
Why will there never be a noun credit card?
Because nouns get declined.
Why did the tortoise win against the hare? Because the hare's speed fluctuated wildly, but the tortoise took carapace.
What's a bean's favorite sport?
Poot-poot golf.
What's a fart's favorite tournament?
Her local boweling league.
Everyone on Sesame Street is frustrated, because they constantly have to relogin to all their favorite websites, but honestly, what did they expect when they decided to have their IT run by Cookie Monster?
What do you call military personnel who are sublessees?
Lieu tenants.
When are knitters are really invested in competitive yarncraft?
Only when they have skein in the game.
Why are parakeets so terrible at harvesting wheat?
They always wanna millet.
Every joke is a PK original. You're welcome.
Joke random on page load.
a comic about well if we assume the Force is real and that Star Wars takes place a long, long time ago...
a comic about, okay, look, honestly, there is no way you will like this unless you are an avid listener of Another Round with Heben and Tracy, which you should be, but even still, it's a bit of a stretch


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Founded in 2013, Atlantic Saltworks produces an artisan flake sea salt that has become a sought after ingredient on plates and in professional kitchens across the North Shore of Massachusetts and beyond. What started as experimental boil sessions in their homes and grew into to a small, shared kitchen facility in Amesbury, quickly blossomed into a dedicated manufacturing facility in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It is from these shores and from this dedicated saltworks, that our premium crunchy, flake sea salt is produced.
THE Owners
In July of 2016, founders Heather Ahearn and Alison Darnell handed the reigns of the business over to local, fellow foodie entrepreneurs, George and Jodi Bradbury who currently run the bakery & café, Jodi Bee Bakes in Salem, MA.. Coincidentally, Jodi Bee Bakes and Atlantic Saltworks both got their start in the same shared kitchen facility based in Amesbury, MA and it was there that Jodi became addicted to Atlantic Saltworks' all-natural flake finishing salt and began using it exclusively in her flagship products, Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt Brownies Bites and her Browned Butter & Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies.
With 15 years of marriage and 1+ years of a bakery business under their belt, George and Jodi are excited about their next adventure and feel blessed to be able to continue to produce and introduce people to a product that they have long supported and believed in, Atlantic Saltworks' Sea Salt.
When Heather Ahearn and Alison Darnell first met in the hallway of their freshman dorm at UMass-Amherst, never in their wildest dreams did they think they'd be friends 20+ years later, both get their MBAs from Babson College, and then start a company together. But, that's exactly what happened. Their passion for local, interesting, and tasty food led them to many afternoons of experimental cooking. They realized that salt was one of the few things we could not source locally, so they began harvesting their own salt right from the harbor in front of Heather's house. It quickly became the only thing they ever talked about and did together. The results and feedback were so fantastic that the idea grew and grew until they knew it had to become a business.


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Site Update: New Icon Archive, FB & Twitter Themes
Posted by Webmiss in Oct 31,2016 with No Comments
We have new themes for the Icon Archive, as well our Facebook and Twitter pages. A big thanks to Gemma over at Gratrix Designs! Previews below:
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The aircraft are on board the Norfolk-based USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), which was raced to the theater shortly after the North Korean assault on South Korea. Despite how some Atlantic Fleet admirals felt about participating in the Korean War in 1950 ("Korea is the Pacific Fleet's problem, the Soviet Union is ours" was a typical quote), several Norfolk-based ships (namely the battleships, Essex-class aircraft carriers, and minesweepers) participated in the war. The Pacific Fleet did not have the resources to handle the high intensity combat operations.
Nonetheless, Korea was only seen as one part of a large Communist plan and many of Norfolk's bigger aircraft carriers stayed in the Atlantic. After this deployment, the Navy transferred Philippine Sea to the Pacific Fleet on a permanent basis.


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Not just Pooh sticks: the top simple pleasures
Eating fish and chips by the sea is one of the greatest "simple pleasures" enjoyed by people in Britain, according to a new survey.
A poll of the outdoor activities favoured by families found that the three most popular excursions in England all revolve around food.
The favourite activity nominated by parents was eating a fish supper by the sea, with afternoon tea coming second and picnicking third.
Watching the puffins on the Farne Islands, Northumberland (Mark Burgess)
The survey is released ahead of the bank holiday this weekend, as part of a campaign by VisitEngland, the tourism board, to promote the "simple pleasures" on offer in the country.
The body has put its name to a guide book outlining the top 25 activities favoured because they retain an "old world charm".
It has been illustrated with pictures of Winnie-the-Pooh taking part in the various excursions. The pictures were drawn by Mark Burgess, who provided illustrations in the style of the original AA Milne books for an authorised sequel in 2009.
The book's publishers, Egmont, suggested that the "simple adventures" enjoyed by Pooh make him the ideal face of the campaign.
Number one in the list of the top 25 activities was eating fish and chips on Blackpool Pier. Placed alongside stargazing, boating on the Broads, and strolling alongside Hadrian's wall it might seem an unusual frontrunner.
But a spokesman for VisitEngland said: "There is nothing like tucking into a portion of fish and chips. A fish supper is an ultimate pleasure of which many people will have memories.
"It is a taste of quintessential English life, and I think that really resonates with the parents who were polled."
The spokesman added that it was "striking" that the top three activities were related to food. "That is what a family simple pleasure revolves around," she said.
Indulging in afternoon tea in Devon is second on the list, with picnicking on the shores of Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria, coming third.
The 2,000 parents surveyed in the poll, which was commissioned by Egmont, also selected rock-pooling in Treyarnon Bay, Cornwall, which comes fourth on the list, and camping in the New Forest, Hants, which is fifth.
Other favoured activities include getting lost in the maze at Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, and visiting the Farne Islands on the Northumberland Coast to see puffins.
Appropriately, given the poster bear of the campaign, the list also features, at number 17, playing pooh sticks at Hundred Acre Wood in East Sussex, the site of the original game in AA Milne's books. The contest involves each player dropping a stick into water on the upstream side of a bridge and seeing whose stick first appears on the downstream side.
Sarah Bates, publishing director at Egmont, said: "Winnie-the-Pooh shares many a simple adventure with his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood so he is the perfect character to remind us how to enjoy the simple pleasures that England has to offer."
James Berresford, chief executive of VisitEngland, said: "We are thrilled that these simple pleasures can be experienced across the country. We hope the guide will inspire families to discover, explore and enjoy the best of England this bank holiday."
Among the activities that might not make it into official guidebooks is attempting to make the guardsmen stationed at Buckingham Palace laugh, which was placed at 13.
The top 25 simple pleasures
1. Enjoying a fish supper on Blackpool Pier, Lancashire
2. Indulging in afternoon tea, Devon
3. Picnicking on the shores of Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria
4. Rock-pooling in Treyarnon Bay, Cornwall
5. Camping in the New Forest, Hampshire
6. Marvelling at Stonehenge, Wiltshire
7. Getting lost in the maze at Hampton Court Palace, Greater London
8. Taking a stroll beside Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland and Cumbria
9. Boating day out on the Broads, Norfolk and Suffolk
10. Watching the puffins on the Farne Islands, Northumberland
11. Stargazing in Exmoor National Park, Somerset and Devon
12. Taking in the vista from the peaks at the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire
13. Trying to make the Queen's Guard laugh at Buckingham Palace
14. Watching the changing of the Guards at Windsor Castle, Berkshire
15. Fossil-hunting on Brook Beach, Isle of Wight
16. Exploring the famous White Cliffs of Dover
17. Playing Pooh Sticks at 100 Acre Wood, East Sussex
18. Rolling down the hills around Corfe Castle, Dorset
19. Visiting a honey farm in Devon
20. Skimming stones at Holy Island, Lindisfarne, Northumberland
21. Picking blackberries on Box Hill, Surrey
22. Riding a narrow boat through the canal ways, Birmingham
23. Taking in the grandeur of Chatsworth House from the park, Chatsworth, Derbyshire
24. Seeking out the deer at Richmond Park, London
25. Admiring Bamburgh Castle from the beach, Northumberland


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Zane Taylor, an offensive linemen for the University of Utah football team, has been named to the 2010 Outland Trophy Award watch list on Monday, June 21. Taylor is a 2006 graduate of Grand County High School.
A senior at the U of U, the 6-foot 2-inch and 310-pound Taylor, 22, has started at the position of center for the last two years. He was named to the All-Conference honorable mention team two years ago and the All-Conference second team last year.
The Outland Trophy, presented annually since 1946, is the third oldest award in major college football. The Football Writers Association of America awards the Outland Trophy to the best interior lineman each year.
The trophy is named after the late John Outland, an All-America lineman at the University of Pennsylvania and Kansas at the turn of the century. The 2010 winner will be announced on The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards Show on Dec. 9.
Of the 63 players on the watch list, only one other is from the University of Utah – guard Caleb Schlauderaff. Three other players from the Mountain West Conference are also on the list: tackle Matt Reynolds from Brigham Young University, center Jake Kirkpatrick from Texas Christian University (TCU) and tackle Marcus Cannon, also from TCU. Both Taylor and Schlauderaff are three-time Academic All-MWC recipients.
Taylor was also recently named a pre-season All-American (fourth team) in Phil Steele's 2010 College Football Preview magazine.


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Do you have a little one on the way? Or, have your not-so-little ones been asking for a change of direction? The 2018 junior collection is full of great ideas to make decorating their rooms an adventure! Find fun and functional furniture, beds to transport them to another world, decor that drives imagination; everything you need to pave the way for your child's creativity and the next stage of their journey.All new for junior
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The Royal Standard initiated a takeover of its galleries by its studio members.
Exhibited weekly over three events, each week offered a completely different group of artists, presenting a dynamic and diverse range of styles and mediums. BamBamBam offered freshly made works and newly formed collaborative performances.
Studio members were offered a platform which was experimental and encouraged risk taking, presenting works that were still in development to a public who would not otherwise view them.


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The EcoAir APOLLO portable air conditioning unit is a highly mobile heating & cooling solution, bucket less and self-evaporating system designed for easy set up providing heating, cooling and dehumidifying. APOLLO is an A+ rating energy-efficient cooling system that provides higher comfort. It also offers an air filtration system to improve the air quality by reducing unwanted particles such as dust. APOLLO offers a heating & cooling capacity of 12000 BTU per hr and a dehumidification of 1.6L per hr. Designed to cool down a room up to 30 square metres or a conservatory size of 24 square metres. APOLLO has castor wheels for ease of movement. Comes with wireless remote control, 3 fan speed, LED display and 24 hours built in timer.
With new technology, bucket less and self evaporating system for ease of use.
Wireless remote control, 3 fan speed, LED display, Built in 24 hours timer and Memory Function.
Weighing 39Kg with its space saving design and giving easy move by the castor wheels, it is very portable around the house or office without compromise to its capacity.
12000 Btu (3.52kW) Cooling and Heating. 1 year Eco Air manufacturer warranty.
Washable mesh filter giving you fresh and clean air. Comes with 1500mm air vent hose.


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John Ferneley College footballers completed a league and cup double by sharing tournament victory at Catmose College, in Oakham, last Wednesday.
Ferneley's squad travelled to the Year 9 Melton and Rutland Futsal competition full of confidence having won the 11-a-side league, but were missing regular goalkeeper Gallagher Plowman who had county cricket training.
Ferneley got off to a great start, beating the hosts 4-1 despite going 1-0 down.
Stand-in keeper Kieran White had a brilliant game against tough opponents Casterton, but could not prevent them from equalising after Kyle Reek put the Melton school in front.
Melton rivals Long Field were up next, and Kieran was desperate to play out of goal against his former school.
This proved a good move as he scored one of the goals in a 2-0 win with stand-in Keeper Josh Clark keeping a clean sheet.
Clark was back out on the pitch in the next game and scored a great individual goal against Uppingham in another 1-1 draw.
This left Ferneley having to beat Belvoir in their last game to share the overall honours with Casterton, and they did so thanks to two goals from Charlie Hirst in a 2-1 victory.
Scott Cragg led the team well throughout the competition and special mentions go to Jack Close playing his first futsal competition in three years following injury problems, and Josh Close who coaches rate among Ferneley's most improved players this year.


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Wednesday's press review
ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA publishes an opinion article by Dr. Nikolai Zlobin of the Washington-based World Security Institute. The Russian-American academic writes that in the last weeks of his presidency George W. Bush spoke to the media much more than usual.
The writer thinks that in this way the outgoing president was trying to plant in the nation's minds the idea that his mistakes, if any, came from his belief in what he was doing, and that he intentionally took unpopular political decisions without regard to how these would effect his ratings, because he saw them as correct and beneficial for the American people. The author says he thinks that Bush sincerely believes that history will evaluate him much better than the public does at the moment.
Meanwhile, says the academic, his current rating is the lowest in history for any president of the United States who left office in the 60 years that passed since opinion polls were introduced. However the examples of Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan show that presidents who leave with a low rating can be re-evaluated as outstanding national leaders decades after they depart from the White House.
In the same few weeks before the inauguration, writes Zlobin, Barack Obama abandoned his criticism of George W. Bush, typical of his electoral campaign rhetoric, and switched to a milder language when he spoke of his predecessor, sometimes even praising his personal qualities as a family man, American patriot, and 'a man who took the best possible decisions in our troubled times.' The power transfer from the Bush administration to the administration of Obama became one of the smoothest and most peaceful in history.
Nikolai Zlobin thinks that as Obama became more involved in the affairs of state after the election, he started to understand better the limits and pressures that affect presidential decisions and learned that taking into account those limits and pressures, his predecessor was pursuing a rational political line.
The academic writes that Barack Obama will definitely differ greatly from George W. Bush, and his policies will be very different, with a fresh approach and new ideas rampant in the heads of his team, but that applies only to tactical matters. In the long run, strategic interests of the United States are stable and long-lasting enough to outlast any man's presidency.
That is why, says the academic, it is naïve to imagine Barack Obama as a cosmopolitan white pigeon of peace: Obama's policy may be more sophisticated and flexible, but the goals are the same – including the strengthening of the leading role of the U.S. in the international system. Tactically more acute, Obama will defend U.S. national interest in the same straightforward and uncompromising way as George W. Bush, says Zlobin.
IZVESTIA's veteran foreign correspondent and analyst Malor Sturua writes from Minneapolis: after the inauguration the new U.S. president and his team will have no rest. There's no need to choose priorities, they have been chosen already for this administration by the course of history: the economic crisis and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Today, writes Sturua, the new president meets his advisors to discuss crisis management, and in the afternoon he talks to his defence and foreign policy team.
Meanwhile, says the writer, the Obama factor has been at work in the outer world for some time already: the Israelis, for instance, decided to wrap up their military operation in the Gaza strip days before the Inauguration.
VREMYA NOVOSTEI writes that the comparison between Barack Obama and Edward Kennedy is commonplace but, in fact, inessential. The paper dismisses JFK as an 'unsuccessful U.S. president,' emotionally remembered for the way he died, and attributes much more significance to the fact that Kennedy's being a Roman Catholic stirred up much more trouble in his time than Obama's skin colour does today.
The paper says that the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama is a triumph of the civil rights movement and fulfilment of the expectations of Afro-Americans formulated in the famous speech by Martin Luther King, 'I have a dream.'
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA hints that the most expensive and beautiful inauguration ceremony in history is the first step of the new administration's crisis management program aimed at building up consumer confidence and says that in the opinion of many experts, the new president managed to invoke the right public emotions in his speech, without overloading it with slogans and catchphrases.
The paper also says that this inauguration has been celebrated wider than ever because Barack Obama is the first Afro-American to become president, and thus, the living incarnation of the ideals of Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
KOMMERSANT publishes an article by Fred Weir, the Moscow bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor newspaper. He writes that America expects Barack Obama to reform and improve the American political culture, which in turn would have a positive effect on domestic politics and foreign policy and improve the image of the U.S. abroad.
However, writes the Moscow-based American journalist, the core of Obama's team consists of several veterans of the Clinton era, those who were responsible for the deregulation of the U.S. economy which became the main factor in the making of the current economic crisis. It means that the same people, who in fact launched the crisis by their inadequate policies, will now take on the responsibility of fighting it. Will they succeed? There is a really big question mark on this phrase, writes the author.
He also predicts that Obama's policies towards Russia are not going to be much different from his predecessor's: unilateral decisions bypassing UN procedure, further eastward expansion of NATO, attempts to control post-Soviet space, further pressure on Iran.
The author doubts that there can be a Putin-Obama 'honeymoon' like the one enjoyed by Clinton and Yeltsin, and then again – during that 'honeymoon' Moscow hardly opposed any actions by Washington, even when those actions were against its interests. That is definitely not going to happen now, continues the author.
He also says that in the near future Russia will not be a priority for Obama. But it may become so in case of another crisis, like the one surrounding the war in Georgia last year. And that is already a paradox, says the author: crises playing the role of the engine in Russia – U.S. relations.
However, concludes the author, nothing prevents Obama from creating a specialized panel of experts on Russia, which could succeed, if not in the forming of a new policy, then at least in the lifting of the bilateral relations to a higher level of quality.
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA asks what Russia should expect from the new U.S. president and publishes a few short answers from well-known figures:
Senator and Chairman of the Federation Council's International affairs committee Mikhail Margelov: 'A hand extended for a handshake. The new president will have to conduct dialogue with Russia, whether he wants it or not.'
Sergey Markov, member of the State Duma and Director of the Institute of Political Studies: 'Nothing at all. It is not the president but the political elite that forms America's foreign policy. There is a consensus on Russia among the U.S. elite, so we will have to fight for our right to be independent in the ranks of the great world powers – as usual.'
Alexey Mukhin, Director of the Centre for Political Information: ''Obama' translates from Arabic as 'Blessed by God,' which gives us some hope. But Barack Obama is also a hostage of the heavy inheritance he received from George W. Bush. So I don't think we should expect anything extremely good in the near future.'
Alexey Leonov, Cosmonaut and Two-time Hero of the Soviet Union: 'Warming in Russia-U.S. relations. America will continue to pursue its interests, but we will not quarrel or fight wars with each other. That's for sure.'
Evgeny Belenkiy, RT


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|From Albert Yaw Opoku's Life Lesson 50
(Permission pending)
I'll be writing, here, about TRILOBOATS, 'square boats' and our life on the water in SE Alaska. It's a blend of engineless, junk rig sailing, shoestring living and voluntary simplicity, with a few yarns thrown in for good measure.
Come on aboard, and let's tip a cup o' kindness!
Anke and I are building our next boat, and writing about it at ABargeInTheMaking.blogspot.com. Access to the net comes and goes, so I'll be writing in fits and spurts.
Please feel free to browse the archives, leave comments where you will and write, and I'll respond as I can.
Fair winds!
Dave and Anke
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Shadow Dollars: Assets vs Liabilities
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Great post Dave. Most people don't understand it is what you don't spend that provides an enormous tax free benefit.ReplyDelete
Ahh, the sweet luxury of time to do as you wish. Apparently it was much the same with the shantyboaters who were somewhat looked down on by the townies but everyone knew these were the fun people to hang out with down on the river or the bayou. Folks with the freedom to bag a odd job to go coon hunting all night and were vastly skilled at expectorating dragonflies out of the sky in the middle of a bluegrass jam.ReplyDelete
Let's say Joe (custom microbrew) 6-pak loses his job well short of expected retirement. He's got a bit of possible capital to play with despite the house re-fi but it is going pretty quickly due to the "flow" (nice point that value is flow and not static). He has time now since being laid off. Thus very beneficial to build the very structure you detail in this fine post. He's making money actually and getting back in shape to boot. Technically he is unemployed. BFD to all judgmental melon farmers on that one.
You could make the same argument for a off-grid tiny house in a super low tax area. Or taking said low captial and moving to latin america or Thailand to live cheaply for years and years too. But for salt water lovers just a fine choice to choose boats, used or built.
Great post, in black and white economics and undeniable logic, and eminently practical, as are trilos. Thanks.
A fellow told me a while back that he and his wife were trying to figure how to live on only 75K a year so they could retire. I told him I live on just about 10% of that. Clearly there is a disconnect there somewhere. He just shook his head and said he didn't know how that was possible. I didn't bother to tell him, he really didn't want to know.ReplyDelete
You said, "I didn't bother to tell him, he really didn't want to know."ReplyDelete
On one hand, I've tried to pay attention to that exact same thing more in recent years and reduce or eliminate probable wasted energy in such cases.
On the other hand, I'm conflicted. If we don't tell them, regardless of what they want or don't want, where does that leave us collectively?
Yes, a conundrum indeed. My instinct tells me that a person wedded to a high salary existence is ingrained with the necessity of it. The idea that they might make money by not spending it simply does not make sense.ReplyDelete
It takes a lot of work to live on a margin. I know the fellow I speak of quite well and he would be oppressed by repairing his own house or tending a garden large enough to sustain his family. He would rather go daily to a job that stresses him mightily and complain to me how it's taking him down. I don't understand his point of view anymore than he does mine.
I'm sure he would function well, should some calamity force him, but in the meantime he will be unlikely to change his consumptive ways. Be careful about trying to change a person's mind - you can't predict what you'll get. My philosophy is simple. I'm here to help someone who truly needs it, but reluctant to convince another they need my help.Replies
Hi Doryman and Yoda,Delete
I often think of the saying:
You can't teach a pig to sing.
It won't work and annoys the pig.
Some of the best 'argument', I feel, is to persuade by example, as best we may. Living the good life without heaps of $$$ turns heads.
Still, I'm humbled by the extent of my own consumerism, and the slow progress I've made away from consumer economies. Constantly reminds me that most all of us are somewhere along the path.
There's a log in my eye!
Dave Z
Doryman: "Yes, a conundrum indeed. My instinct tells me that a person wedded to a high salary existence is ingrained with the necessity of it."Delete
Though not the originator of it (just like the Internet), Al Gore brought focus to an old corollary, something along these lines: "It's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it" ... or if his lack of understanding, real or feigned, justifies his salary.
Re: Dave's singing pig:
I heard a version of that many years ago from someone advising against a senseless action -- "It's like putting lipstick on a pig. It just wastes the lipstick and annoys the pig."
"There's a log in my eye!"
Sorry to hear that. With my perfect vision, I just can't relate! ;-)


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Hi Darren!
I read your post about the Asus Vivo Tab RT and the problem with the mobile broadband.
How did it go? Do you know what caused it not to be enabled?
I just bought the same model – yesterday – here in Sweden and have the same problem 😦
I have tried with 2 different simcards from 2 different operators in my Vivo Tab and I cant enable the mobile broadband. I have also the same message in control panel like you: "There is no simcard…"
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Hi Darren,
I have a Samsung Slate 7 too with Win8 Release Preview installed and I can't use wired network. Do you have this issue?
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Hi Darren I know you have a Samsung //BUILD/ prototype, now… I'm experiencing some troubles with mine, (I erased the BIOS and I need to reflash the ROM) but first I need to know if I can extract the flash from the mainbord so, can You send me some picture of your device when you opened it? and can you backup your bios and send me a copy of the image?


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This is an exceptionally long post, so I hope you don't get bored before the end.
As you walk into my home, this is what you see. I've used this napkin holder tree for years and years to hold my Christmas cards. I used to hang them with scotch tape to the window sills and sashes, but realized the tape left horrible marks on the wood, which had to be painted over.
I always have candy for guests, and I've filled my green tree with chocolate bits.
Golly this looks busy when you see it from this angle. I actually put some of the candles away that normally sit here, but it's still very busy.
I was really trying to show the tree candle holders I put out this year.
One holds a taper candle,
one a pillar. I'm not sure you can tell I color code my accessories, but the living area has maroon accessories, while the dining area has green. The back candles on the buffet act to tie the two areas together.
Yes, that's me taken a few years ago. I've often said I don't want my face shown on my blog, but I decided you have seen my legs, you can see my face, too. That's actually not a very flattering photo of me, but I guess we all feel that way, don't we? My friend Kathy and her husband are in the background.
On my writing desk are several trees and of course, the rocking horses that live there all year long.
I got lazy and didn't move the lamp to storage this year, as I normally do. The more I look at this, the more I dislike the arrangement. I often used my tree on this table that sits on my dining room table this year. It had lights up till last year, when I removed them because some had burned out. That meant I had no need for an electrical outlet.
I didn't realize I had skipped around so much, but we are back in the dining area. This is the only area that is always constant: the stockings. I have no other place to put them. This year there are four, because Squiggles got one. I always provide an extra stocking in case someone drops by. I fill it with a few goodies, like an orange, a candy bar, and a decorated match box filled with little tidbits.
This is the first year I've placed these trees on the sidebar. In the past, I have used bottle brush trees or a stuffed tree I didn't bring out this year because I was too lazy to put the antique clock away.
Trees and rocking horse, rocking horses and trees. What better way to celebrate Christmas when you have a small home?
Talk about lazy. I didn't even remove the doily I had just found among some of my grandmother's things, but left it on the plant stand that is now holding this tree.
Of course I had to add a rocking horse to play with the bear.
Another rocking horse that's holding a tree, this one filled with some yummy scented potpourri that I purchased last month.
When I found this mini muffin tin, I knew I had to have it for the decoration, since it was not in good enough condition to be used for baking.
I like how the light plays off it.
In this view, I was trying to show my sideboard that I added a metal tree and rocking horse to the knobs. It's a decent overall view of the living/dining area, as well as various cat toys, too.
This may help orient you, since I seem to have skipped around so much.
Although it's incredibly cold outside, the sunny day adds a touch of warmth to this room.
We're moving to the living area now, where
The tree was a gift from a wonderful friend who has since gone to heaven.
I added the little rocking horse ornaments to the tree the year she died.
So why are these three very different objects placed together, you ask.
(Ignore my camera strap in the photo, please) Although they are nothing alike in finish, design, or appearance,
they all hold a secret inside their trees.
Finally, it's time to go outside and view the desk that sits on my front porch.
I showed it before, but I immediately cleaned the bean pot after I showed it the first time.
And finally, the basket I reworked, as well as the other items on the desk, which include a metal lamb that originally was a cake mold, and a ceramic tree that holds some of my new potpourri.
I hope you weren't too bored, because I was delighted to welcome you into my home. Bleubeard, Squiggles, and I have enjoyed the visit, even though I did far less decorating this year than last. Since I'm sort of a minimalist, the trees have a tendency of take over every year, but this year I was lazy due to my hurt left shoulder and right hand. I left way too many things I normally put away, and in some respects, I fear it looks a bit stifling. Thanks for your comments and opinions, because they are truly appreciated.


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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't understand dating, men, modern "romance" (if that's even a thing and not just some oxymoron that's been flying under the radar this whole time).
Since it's Valentines Weekend (and I had to resist the urge to put a gif of a cats horking up a hairball after that bit because I'm a petulant child) of course I've had about 4 separate conversations today about what I'm doing and what/who my friends are doing. One of my friends went to see Deadpool last night by herself and came away with some dude's number. They're going for drinks tomorrow.
So he's either a unicorn or an ax murderer because NO ONE actually meets someone they're going to date by chance out and about anymore. As such, I reminded her to bring mace, or a paring knife. She reminded me she has a concealed carry and I told her to have fun.
If you couldn't tell, I'm single this V-day, which if you've read the story of how I accidentally told someone I love them last year may be a surprise, but that is long since over as far as I can tell. Long story short he started taking advantage of my feelings for him and kept "rescheduling" dates (including my birthday dinner) until:
He made a few paltry excuses. I didn't back down. My dignity and I will be dogsitting for my parents this Vday.
I have run the dating gamut. I've done the high school sweethearts thing. All sorts of online dating. Classmates from college. I dated a frat boy when I was in sorority. Even dated a totally drop dead gorgeous English kid for a couple years when he was here for auditions. More recently my married friends have started trying to set me up with their husbands' buddies. It's all terrible. ALL of it!
It's awkward. Dating is bad enough; I don't know who pays, or what to do with my hands. But it's got to the point where just meeting guys I might POSSIBLY be interested in is just as awkward as a first date. How wide should I be smiling? Should I be telling him I'm interested? When is it appropriate to offer my number? Should I ask for his? Is slipping someone a card still acceptable? When did that stop being acceptable. Am I the only one with cards in 2016? If I can easily find you on Facebook, can I add you and continue things from there? If you're interested in me, should you have found ME on Facebook by now?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD someone tell me who makes the first move? What even IS the first move? Because last weekend I deliberately sat down directly beside my (insert cat horking noise here) Crush and initiated an adult conversation and somehow no one I've talked to thinks that counts for anything.
Apparently getting to know someone counts for zilch, but freaking swipe right on a dating "app" and IT'S ON.
Side note: I just had to look up which direction meant "I'd tap that" on Tinder.
I'm THAT lost.
In my defense I was brought up on fairy tales and Judy Blume. There used to be a code for these things. I make eyes at you across the room and blush when you say two words to me. You scale the palace walls, slay the dragon, and then give me your Letterman's jacket.
Man code for "I like you" is much less easily deciphered these days.
Is it "can I have your number" or "do you wanna do something sometime?" Is it looking flustered when I compliment you or is it when you reveal you'd been watching me dance with other people?
Can I show interest by choosing to sit next to you when we don't know each other well and there are other places to sit? Are you showing interest by asking me to dance more than once when there are other, better, dancers around that you haven't yet touched?
A friend of mine was asked to a movie by a paramour with a group of couples but he made it sound deliberately casual. But they've held hands. Where is the line?
I can think of dozens of examples. All of my friends have stories like this.
To pipe up for gender equality, I don't think it's entirely one sided. I think men and women are equally lost or this wouldn't be the issue it is. I'm sure being a man these days is horrific as well. Deciding whether holding the door will be seen as chivalry or a personal affront on ones independence and security as a woman would absolutely RUIN me in social settings.
But something needs to be done. It is hard enough for me to put myself out there without trying to decode interactions with the opposite sex.
We need a new code. Update the etiquette? Is there a new Emily Post out there?
Get on that, will you?
In the mean time I'll just continue the awkward internet stalking and such.
But armed with wine.
And Happy V Day to all my fellow socially awkward penguins out there.


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Maori Boy Genius
Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti, 16 years old at the time of filming, is a charismatic young man through whom a great many aspirations flow. Born under a double rainbow, he's carried a weight of expectation ever since – and with it a wealth of iwi pride and support. Steeped in MÄori culture and political struggle, he has an avid appetite for political philosophy, and the hope that he might grow into a leader is not one he's ever ducked. In her first documentary feature to address a New Zealand subject (but not her first to garner international attention), Auckland filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly (The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins) accompanies him through a critical turning point in his education. Chaperoned by his father, Ngaa Rauuira travels to Yale where he is enrolled in intensive political science seminars. In a world away from the wider whÄnau, he encounters more daunting challenges and choices than have been thrown in his path before. The film we are screening incorporates material seen in the one-hour documentary commissioned and broadcast last year by MÄori Television.
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Report N1
She found me on good ol' americansingles, she sent two emails that were normal talk but the 3rd email was titled, Interpreter and wanted 100 euros a month to translate my "girlfriends" emails, it seems the first 2 were on the house.
James (USA)
Report N2
I send Oksana a mail and she respond with a nice sexy picture, after she send by a other person translation and ask money.
Victor (Belgium)
Report N3 (added on September, 20, 2006)
Well.... another story of a broken heart. Well, mine, that is !
Please give some special attention to this lady, because she is (unfortunately) one of the clever ones....
I met Oksana through Matchdoctor. She responded to my message, even though I didn't post a photo. Well, I am an attractive guy, so I mailed her a few after I got her email address. She started telling me that she was divorced, unhappily, and wanted love etc etc etc. Her letters were written in flawless English, which I complimented. But she told me that in reality it was her dearest friend who wrote the letters, on her instructions.
However, never ever she mentioned anything about paying for this.
She wrote that she works as a teacher, and lives with her girlfriend and her husband in one apartment. One very interesting thing is that she wrote me she's into action sports, such as scuba diving, skydiving, skiing, kayaking etc. Now, the funny thing is that I am a skydiver, kayak and scubadiver myself and well, there is kind of a culture about this. But Oksana never really wanted to go to deep into the subject....
The first alarmbell was ringing when - after having written in great detail about myself - she didn't comment at basically anything.
We came to the point where I wanted to call her. We talked for a long time ! Very very very sweet girl, speaks great English (even though she insist that it is not good enough for writing) - which makes believe that this girl works with other persons to scam.
Oksana has sent me perhaps around 30 photos of herself, all very beautiful, all very well made. And one more sexy than the other.... After I sent her a photo of myself, she even made a photo of herself, holding her laptop with my photo on the screen ! That at least proved to me that she was real.
After about a month, we decide to meet. My job let's me travel a lot and I discovered that it is now possible to travel to Ukraine. Actually, on asking her if she preferred to meet in my country or in Ukraine, she suggested ukraine herself. In Kiev. She is from Lugansk. So she suggested I should send her a total of 300 $ to cover the flight ticket, 100 $ for booking fee to an apartment she offered to set up and taxi to the airport.
(the 30 $ she explained was the taxi fee from Lugansk to the airport I found a bit stiff, but hey, I guess prices are on the rise in Ukraine, too). I checked with my travel agency, all her info about flight tickets to Kiev, prices and all was 100 % correct.
I refused. In the meantime I ordered my own flight ticket.
She got angry, offended, in our next phone conversation she accused me of not trusting her etc etc.
She again offered to find the apartment, to pick me up in a taxi (or some "friends" of hers in Kiev) so I didn't have to suffer from paying double price because I don't speak Russian and some taxi driver doubtlessly would overcharge me...
However, I am a very seasoned traveller and I can take care of myself. So, I politely refused and showed her some links to apartments I found on the net and asked her to chose one. She didn't and I could feel she was not happy.
To cut to the chase, I felt something was wrong. So this evening, I started searching for scammers, typing in her name, checking all known scammers from Lugansk etc. Nothing, until I came to your site. I am not registrated, so I took the pain of browsing through all of your approx.
1250 scammers. And to my shock, pain, relief, I suddenly saw the face of the girl I imagined to spend the next week with. What can I say ? You guys deserve to have a price, the least I can do is to registrer... Which I am going to do after this report is finished !
How did I get so suspicious that I sat all even in front of the computer, sifting through tons of pages to try to find her ? Well, perhaps just a
gut-feeling. It could very easily have gone wrong...
So, let's sum it up..... I can cancel my flight ticket, but can I cancel Oksana ? God knows what would have become of me, on her turf, with her "friends". I have a feeling that this lady has taken the next step, towards something bigger and better. I have the feeling that in some way I would have been harassed into paying for something or perhaps even robbed by the guy who was supposed to pick me up at the airport - if she had managed to get me over there.
Even now I am sitting with the feeling that "my" Oksana is real, that she is really looking for a husband, that the two previous reports on her is past deeds.... She seemed too real, I talked to her on all hours of the day, never there was anything to be suspicious about (no guys talking in the background, no interrupted phone calls, she answered the phone in the morning, late in the evening, etc).
Beware of this one.... :-(
Best regards,
Jacob (Italy)
Report N4 (added on September, 20, 2006)
2nd letter has request for money. This unfortunately is the second one TODAY.
Randy (USA)
Report N5 (added on September, 20, 2006)
+380642317178 is from her girlfriend Julia Gezerdeva also scammer from Lugansk
"My dear Jaap!
I can continue correspondence with you if I pay to translator.
Service cost 100$ per 1 month. But I don't want you then try to locate me on the scammer site too, because I started to ask for the correspondence:(
But I can't pay myself now letters, so if you want to go on to talk to me, pay this.
DO you want this? Are you really interested in me? Will you not find then another woman that not pay the correspondence?
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I have corresponded with Oksana for about 2 years. She never asked for plane tickets or money for visa and passport. However, she would ask for small items in the range of $150 to $500. She asked for things like an electric heater, a new cell phone, a washer dryer, etc. Oksana Sukhina is a real person and I met her in Kiev, Ukraine. She professed her undying love for me. But, when given an ultimatum, she conveniently stated she found a man in the Ukraine and is getting married and carrying her new lover's child.
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David Stanley, author of TJF Syndrome, tells why this book had to be written
The idea for TJF Syndrome emerged from a desire to expose the 'finer points' of policing in a format that would simultaneously entertain. The use of the fiction format allowed organisational cultures and attitudes that are applied in numerous situations to be revealed without compromising anyone's anonymity.
The need to expose the NSW Police attitude to crime and it's victims is now of paramount importance, particularly with the disturbing increase in domestic violence offences and the mismanagement of potential terrorists.
Having observed the Royal Commission into the NSW Police come and go from within the organisation, it was disappointing to all police that were not involved in organised crime (which was everyone except a very small number) that nothing was going to change. The process of the Royal Commission (and I say the process because even to this day the vast majority of the Commission's recommendations remain ignored) did nothing to improve the police response to crime and its victims. All that seemed to be achieved was creating a police culture terrified of complaints from the public. As complaints are seen as a measure of corruption, the avoidance of complaints becomes the priority and is drilled into every officer.
Intuitively, one would presume that the most effective method for avoiding complaints from the public about police performance would be for police to simply carry out their duties as intended by their Oath of Office and do so to the best of their ability.
Instead, a different opportunity emerged. Complaints could be minimised (even avoided) through techniques that required considerably less effort than investigating crimes – and the public would remain oblivious. These techniques are revealed in TJF Syndrome through a number of typical situations.
TJF Syndrome also delves into a number of internal policies and procedures that reveal how police manipulate overtime, the promotion system, and avoid losing their licences for minor traffic accidents. While it is acknowledged these chapters slow down the pace of the novel, they remain equally shocking.
When applied to current affairs, TJF Syndrome offers up an explanation for why the Commissioner always appoints arch enemies to the two highest Deputy Commissioner roles, why the police were (past tense because the Sydney Siege occurred five days after publication) secretly hoping for a terrorist incident in the not too distant future, and why the police serve government over the public.
TJF Syndrome deliberately offers a perspective that will challenge every reader's perception about how police operate and why. The book actually falls into the genre of realistic fiction, and the reader will be the judge with regard to plausibility.
Knowing what the book was to be about, and how to tell the story, the 'why?' question emerged. What was my intention (or intentions). The first and most brutally honest intention was to write a book that people would be interested to read and talk about. Conspiracy theories, whistleblowing, the inclusion of topics normally avoided or considered taboo (such as religion and terrorism) tend to entice the senses of those who read such genres. In that sense, TJF Syndrome is controversial and will be popular with some.
My second intention I mentioned briefly in the previous interview – to initiate change. The NSW Police is hardly unique in the sense that organisational change ever incurs from within, initiated by its own managers. Change must be forced upon it. For the NSW Police, this change is imposed by decisions made by the courts (such as the recommendation from the Coroner that police firearms be upgraded to semi-automatic weapons) or by the findings of investigative journalists and subsequent scandals (think of the Burn vs Kaldas title fight), or by the actions of whistleblowers.
Irrespective of the source, if unacceptable practices, behaviours and attitudes are aired publicly, someone will be forced to do something about it. TJF is by all accounts just a work of fiction like millions of others out there. But, if by chance readers now begin to observe some of these practices and attitudes, and public debate shifts from doubt to anger, change will occur. With some luck, TJF Syndrome will be the first drop in that ocean.
Thank you David for your time!
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Before we start this big ol' rant let me say that I was with Asukara at the start. I expected to hate it (and in the end I did) but for awhile there was a time when I actually kind of enjoyed it. Many times, the show did stuff that I didn't expect and surprised me. That didn't stop the end result from being predictable as hell though.
"But Fang-tan!", you cry, "It's not over yet!"
Well, you know, it might as well be.
I'm not sure why I'm really watching this still. Why was I ever watching it in the first place? Boredom? Yeah. But now? Stubborness, maybe. As I've said before and will no doubt say again, I kinda like having a show to riff on.
Watching wet teenagers gaze longingly at each other and run away when faced with conflict while somebody calls after them is pretty much perfect for that. Nothing gets your frustrations out like yelling at a bunch of moping brats. And boy oh boy do we have a fine assortment here.
It's pretty much everything I hate in a romance but hey, I like the water theme and the yanaginagi ed is pretty fantastic.
And while this show did have a few interesting tricks up it's sleeve for awhile, I had pretty much predicted what was going to happen from the get go. Well, it's obvious so I shouldn't really applaud myself. It's the interesting and unexpected bits that make it being so trite and predictable hurt so much.
Manaka being taken by the Sea God was glaringly obvious since the first episode but once Akari started having drama and it wasn't just a short, finished with arc, I knew she was going to be the one taken and Manaka would sacrifice herself or something.
And lo, so it was.
My other prediction was a timeskip and before that idea didn't really make sense but hey here we are and now it would make a lot more sense. Skip ahead where Sayu and Miuna are older and everybody in the sea including Hikari (if the preview for the next episode is any indication) has been sleeping and then suddenly wakes up for some reason.
Let's talk about the best character possibly being killed. I kept saying how Kaname got the short end of the stick and boy did he ever this time. The last thing he sees is the girl he likes with another dude and then he gets crushed (possibly). Since they didn't show the body and this show is full of insipid and predictable writing, I imagine they'll pair Tsumugu and Chisaki up and then he'll just show up and sudden Chisaki conflict?!? More running away with tears in your eyes while someone calls after you?!!?
Kaname cut right to the chase and as someone fully done with their teenage angst and bullshit, I was fully appreciative. The way that Kaname 'died' was pretty ridiculous though. That just that one would fall, right there, on him, that giant thing hitting no one else. Hmm. HMM.
Tsumugu used to be a pretty good character but then Manaka seemed to be going for a Hikari ending and welp. THAT is when my hopeful optimisim of this show turned to "it sucks and I hate it" and watched it only to be mad at it. To be fair though, whatever made him so interesting? Was it because he wasn't Hikari, who is the worst? Yes. It's probably that.
Chisaki is second worst though and now she's going to be angsting about the dead best character and that'll just be the HEIGHT of entertainment. Still, it really seemed like they were pushing for Chisaki/Tsumugu and really? I liked them as a begrudging friendship where they went to each other for advice (though that part was kinda onesided) and I had JOKED about them actually being together but really? Really?!
Looking back, maybe it was there. Maybe Tsumugu is just so bland that he didn't really drop hints that well. Maybe Kaname knew all along. They did interact a lot but I though that was you know, normal. I didn't want to think that the only reason these kids interacted with a specific person in their group was because they wanted to bone them but hey, I guess I was wrong.
I was hoping she'd actually get Hikari in the end and Tsumugu would do SOMETHING besides look and sound disinterested all the time. I wanted a Manaka/Tsumugu end.
And Manaka? She got bodied pretty hard. It'd be rad if she was actually dead for real. But haha fat chance.
So hey, spoilers time. Does it count as a spoiler? Wel lafter watching this I saw the image from C85 floating around of post-timeskip gang. So Kaname isn't dead and my prediction about Sayu and Miuna being older is haha right there on the money.
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So predictions? I don't know. Let's say something crazy like Miuna is the love interest now. I saw it bopping around that they might need another sacrifice and hey, it's Miuna's time to shine. Why? Who knows. Not important. If it's for the sake of *~drama~* I'm pretty sure this show will do it no questions asked.
I guess Kaname and Hikari both went to sleep since they were in the water when Shioshishio got covered with ice. But since Chisaki was not, she'll probably be the only older one? She's the only water kid who isn't different looking in that image.
Manaka isn't there. Because she got owned or because she's off being the sea god's waifu? I still don't think she's dead and she'll show up and it'll have majorly *~DRAMATIC~* consequences but for awhile it's Miuna's day in the sun. Well since Kaname isn't dead and Sayu looks majorly cute in that preview, maybe I can look forward to that. Sayu's day in the sun.
And my last prediction is that Chisaki feels so much guilt about Kaname that she refuses to be with Tsumugu even if he tries. And then Kaname returns. Dun dun dun.
Whatever. This show is some trash and it'll need a lot to change my opinion of it in the second cour. Thankfully, Nagi will still be there for me.


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Debunking some popular college mythology, counting the full extent of college welfare and recognizing the fatal flaw of mass-market teaching. Clearing the path for something better.
Over the last couple of months, I've tried to provide some long-overdue explanations for the college mandate for most professional jobs, the scholarship game of shady debt-dealers and the low-yield teaching styles embraced by subsidized educators over the last century. For this installment, I'll look at four semi-related and important issues afflicting the college world. I'll also touch on why honest work/saving/investing will always beat the "non-profit" approach of politics/protesting/fundraising when it comes to real progress—something once obvious in America.
As with any good workout, let's start with an easy warmup before we attempt the heavy lifting.
The Myth of College Value: Recognizing "Selection Bias"
Defenders of the college system will often pose the statement in the form of a question: "What about the 'proven value' of a college degree!?!"
This is a loaded question, so let's unpack some excess baggage. When looking at any official study of "college value," we should remember that such studies are prepared by the college industry to convince people into buying their expensive product. That may be shrewd marketing, but it's not "science." A pseudo-scientific equivalent would be like me paying for a "study" of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to prove that skipping college makes you a billionaire.
In both cases, the studies rely on "selection bias," a concept I first learned about from James Altucher [5] since I took Statistics in college and they never mentioned it.Mr. Altucher makes the good point that comparing the typical college graduate to a person who quits all schooling after high school fails to account for "ambition, drive, intelligence" . . . which makes all those "college value" studies pretty useless.
The Best of the Worst: Reaching the University Summit
In assessing the real value of college, one useful aspect to consider is their measures of utmost accomplishment (i.e., master's or doctoral papers)—the gold-plated crowns that allow a person entrance into the elite club of People with Letters after their Names.Just how valuable are these elements of highest achievement in the university setting? I mean real value, not imputed political significance from a corporate official.
Let's first look at the Apprentice Model, which grew out of the guild model of the Middle Ages and worked well for many professions. In the Apprentice Model, a person began as an unpaid student (apprentice) receiving free room/board/training, then moved up to being a paid worker (journeyman) after a few years. Qualified participants finally graduated to more independence through demonstrating their achievement by producing a "masterpiece [6]" as judged by a group of genuine experts, with significant accountability built into the system. That masterpiece could then be viewed by anyone—or even purchased if a buyer was interested. White-collar jobs could do likewise, if anyone got serious about training for those positions. Customers do like to buy "good things."
To the contrary, in the University Model, "masters" or "doctoral" status is granted by a panel of obscure academics based on their own subjective preferences. The "masterpiece" they scrutinize is typically some esoteric dissertation crafted merely to impress the university judges and, ultimately, their political sponsors, who both just LOVE official titles and nomenclature. Consumers, parents and employers have virtually no input or access to the modern process. And colleges prefer it that way. In other words, modern education is "public" for funding purposes, but not for accountability.
How does that charade affect quality? For the 10-year period of 2004 through 2013, over 478,000 Ph.D. titles were granted in America [7], along with millions more of additional Master's Degrees. Both prestigious titles usually involve some sort of major thesis or project. If any of these modern academic "masterpieces" have real value—I simply ask two questions to the general public. When was the last time you bought one? When was the last time you even looked for one?
In a nation that purchased over 680 million books [8] last year on the (somewhat) open market, I don't see many people or businesses clamoring to buy any of the Big Ideas from Big Schools with Big Subsidies. Political titles aside, the marketplace apparently views the element of highest achievement in the university setting (master's or doctoral papers) as basically a worthless formality. And the public is right.
The Extent of College Welfare
While it's common knowledge that college is subsidized, I've never heard any critic or supporter attempt to quantify the full extent of dependency. Perhaps that's a testament to the low level of dialog and heavy focus on superficial distractions from both sides of the pop culture divide.
Advocates of the college model use a clumsy version of circular logic to promote an alleged need for external welfare as opposed to being reliant on (and subordinate to) earnings and input from paying customers. The unwritten orthodoxy goes something like this: college is subsidized because it is great; college can never achieve its full greatness without subsidies.
This all makes perfect sense if you're an academic hiding from the cruel marketplace while clutching your tenure and title. That fanciful reasoning also helps reinforce another staple of modern academic thought: the customer is always wrong and is probably too stupid to realize it. Accordingly, students need to be told what to think, whom to obey and whom to fear. This primitive approach manifests itself in spoon-fed book reading assignments of approved authors, scripted multiple-choice testing, selectively lenient or harsh labeling for what groups to revere or revile, an ever-shrinking list of appropriate viewpoints, and what tribal slurs to hurl as weapons or which forms of alleged rudeness to indignantly protest as thought-crime. This is what you get when detached, vote-scheming politicians—instead of involved, responsible customers—pick up the tab for so long. (By "customers" I mean to include both the students and the employers who hire them.)
Since the college establishment has wielded enormous influence over American society for the last three or four generations, it's worth taking a look at just how much taxpayer funding gets handed out in the name of higher education. Otherwise, it's difficult for the public to make an "informed decision" on this important topic.
Tallying up the total outside support for colleges and universities is tricky since no single agency is willing to admit the full extent of academic dependency—despite the avalanche of other self-promoting "news releases" they crank out on a regular basis. Here are highlights from the best available data I can find.
For the Fall 2015 to Spring 2016 school year in America, colleges and universities reaped $239 billion [9] (see page 11) in government, institutional and private support from student loans and grants, plus $258 billion in direct subsidies for state-run colleges and another $46 billion (from prior link) in local government spending on community colleges for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. If we subtract the overlap of about $10 billion amongst the figures for state grants and subsidies, that leaves roughly $533 billion in total annual outside support. This includes about $60 billion in federal student loans that will eventually be paid back unless politicians declare a public "debt jubilee [10]," which might actually be the best of the horrible options available. (The bankers who finance bi-partisan political careers strongly disagree.)
However, the total incoming revenue stream for all colleges and universities that "grant associate's or higher degrees" is only $564 billion [11] according to the latest official data (2015-16 school year). These figures come from three independent sources and may not work well for comparison; it's hard to tell due to government's lack of attention on these important but embarrassing figures. Just imagine an annual report from the U.S. Department of Education stating, "welfare dependency at U.S. colleges and universities tops 90%." Again, this is probably the case, but we can't say for sure.
No matter how you look at it, America's enclaves of higher education are extremely dependent on outside support. More than anything else, this explains why subsidized academics are hostile to attempts at market-based reforms and have been so throughout their sorted history [12].
Fatal Flaw of Mass-Market Teaching: Easy Targets for Outside Interference
Perhaps the most detrimental feature of modern college that is becoming more apparent every year is the dialog-ending smear campaign of the Thought Police. Many on the political right think that merely shining a light on this heinous activity will somehow trigger a mea culpamoment of academic awakening or perhaps prompt jellyfish college administrators to suddenly grow a spine and assert actual leadership over their domain. Not only is that failing to achieve any positive results—except a ratings bump for Fox News and AM talk-radio, along with unwarranted attention for some ignorant children. But like everything political, it obsesses on the superficial effects without addressing the deeper cause.
The root cause of failure for the university model is its relentless pursuit of outside subsidies and their many restrictive strings attached, instead of pursuing quality and efficiency in the open marketplace. At this point, academic freedom is essentially dead in American colleges.
The university model has always chosen the path of privilege and double standards. When very few people got involved in that system (up until the 1940s), it had lesser impact on society. Now that everyone in corporate and political leadership is forced into the passive, pandering model of classroom books and lectures, the results are becoming more dramatic.
A sense of solidarity, conformity and intolerance was always part of the university system, but it has gotten progressively worse in recent decades. The most significant difference today is, thanks mostly to the internet, independent observers are finally getting a chance to expose the inner workings of the academic world. And it isn't pretty.
The ongoing substance-free, personal slander-fest—initially about "heretics" or "commies" or "isolationists," then moving on to "McCarthyism" (both real and imagined) and now anything deemed as "hate" or spoken by a "racist/sexist/homophobe" (usually morphed into one compound word) and other idiotic slogans—offers a perfect snapshot of the collapse of higher education. These crude one-word summations qualify as "approved slurs" to neutralize any criticism of expansive State power and promote an atmosphere of mass-conformity; see Part 2 of this series [13] for Exhibits A through E for some common examples. While some indoctrinated millennials and their collegiate ring-leaders may have perfected this pretentious piety parade, they certainly didn't start it.
The gross intolerance and self-censorship we see at most college campuses result from the inherent weaknesses of ALL written and recordable forms of teaching and communication that are sold for mass-distribution. Both methods present themselves as an easy target—essentially a "sitting duck"—to be shot down by partisan political groups that strive to maintain a pristine public image, an absolute must for manipulating others to hand over more tax-free "non-profit" subsidies.
And with the welfare state bulging with millions of hungry (but usually overweight) mouths and thousands of parasitic (and never satisfied) support groups, the attack on un-approved science, facts and opinions is relentless. On any given day, cable TV news and AM talk-radio spend hours howling over the latest "OUTRAGE!!" from the other partisan side.
And the left/right drama contest of fake indignation doesn't have a "balancing" effect, as some might hope. For starters, our college-educated leaders in the Republican and Democrat parties are virtually identical [14] on every major issue, notwithstanding so much noise to the contrary; this racket emanates from college-educated pundits paid to highlight their trivial differences and elicit votes, not to think for themselves and definitely not to solve problems. It was that way in 2004, around the time I finally started to accept what others were already insisting. It began long before then. And the unipolar ballet is essentially the same in Washington today.
But the smear quotient for mass-market teaching methods goes much deeper than partisan bickering. Since the rise of the welfare state in the 1930s [15] (and the warfare state [16] two decades before that), writers and teachers have overwhelmingly worked for the government or large institutions/corporations. As it turns out, their preferred mono-style communication and instruction methods have resulted in the general trend of promoting more centralized power, more hyper-legalism, more lawless abuse of the Constitution, more wealth confiscation and more violence (and attacking any independent voices that suggest otherwise). This has little to do with "liberal" or "conservative" bias, foolish labels tossed around by corporate shills with an axe to grind, who have probably never worked in the open marketplace. It has everything to do with cultivating institutional privileges while distracting people from what matters.
Writers, pundits and teachers respond to the well-known phenomenon of "conform or be cast out" by self-censoring material to pass muster with the official gatekeepers and maintain their institutional credentials. But even after their considerable efforts to mollify the mobs, it's never enough. Appeasement never sooths the angry brutes. (Independent scholars, by design, don't have credentials that can be taken away; they have intentional students to enlighten and challenge as needed or dismiss if warranted.)
Today on the college front, one sentence out of line (in the view of the academic gestapo) can ruin a career [17]. The chilling effects of this barbarism—even at "good" schools—cannot be overstated. Academic bullying has been a key feature of the university model for decades and it's only getting worse, as documented every day by The College Fix [18] and Campus Reform [19]. Putting the high cost of college aside, immersing oneself in that toxic culture creates major personal risks and attitude patterns that may linger long after graduation.
Since broadcasting any challenging message to a vast audience of strangers will always be rich pickings for slander-prone extremists and easily offended conformists—and the wealthy corporations and powerful government agencies who bankroll most of them—the best alternative is to bypass the dangers of the reckless distribution system to the greatest extent possible.
Direct teaching methods like mentoring and apprenticeships—where vested owners and stakeholders have more input—inherently provide some immunity from that public estrangement. They also preclude the easy profits of the mass-market education system. In the business community, that's called a "win-win" scenario.
Don't Wait for the "Anti-Profits" or Someone Else to Take the Lead
This is where an updated business model is needed and effectivequality control comes into play. I've tried to address both aspects [20], but that is only a starting point. If you don't like what I'm offering, maybe come up with your own plan or perhaps look in other existing non-college education alternatives for professional jobs, such as MissionU [21] and Praxis [22].
Implementation of college alternatives will take effort—one business, one student and one mentor at a time—not as a top-down spasm of outside government "help." It will take some people who understand the private-sector approach of doing your research, coming up with a scope and budget, investing time and energy to hopefully achieve mutual benefits with consumers . . . and perhaps gaining some long-term, sustainable profit if all goes well.
Since profit-bashing is a big deal nowadays, we should be careful not to step into the snare of the "non-profit" approach. Although there are a staggering 1.6 million tax-favored [23] charitable, political and religious groups in America, none of them have been effective in developing college alternatives. Very few are even trying.
For all the fundraising and shouting on the deficiencies of college education, the deafening silence when it comes to REAL ALTERNATIVES should tell us something. By definition, these activist groups are expressly "anti-profit" (i.e., anti-work, anti-cooperation, anti-equality before the law) and proud of it! Meeting the immediate needs of the poor and weak was once their specialty, and a very important role, but that never required special tax breaks. In today's political climate, none of the too-pure-for-profits are positioned to attempt a long-term solution to just about anything. That would be too "profitable" for their tastes and might put them out of business.
This is an important trend I've been watching (and the Fake News has been botching) that I plan to write about more extensively soon. For now, let's note that people who fall for the deceit of official policies of favoritism and divisive double standards (starting with lazy white slaveowners, crazy white college professors and every other narcissistic clan under the rainbow) are not just woefully lacking in discernment. They have implicitly doomed themselves and their intended mission field to a lifetime of dependency and despair. (If I'm wrong, please point to ONE tax-favored group out of 1.6 million that has put forward any viable alternative to the mandatory four-year college degree for professional jobs. I've looked and can't find a single good example. But I can find this tax-free corporate minion model [24] funded by the State of Colorado and praised by the State Media complex.)
The multi-generational failure of subsidized college should be enough evidence for reasonable people to consider a different approach. But the lure of subsidies and the warm blanket of official approval are apparently too much for the faint of heart, especially if they believe the message they've been taught in school that Big Things Can Only Happen with Big Government.
Along the way, we seem to have forgotten that innovation comes from individuals. That can (I hope) include people who are reluctant participants of one of those tax-favored groups as well as erstwhile members of small and large corporations, such as me. However, the misguided folks who advocate the practice of favoritism and double standards—particularly the ones who run the various educational, political and religious institutions of our day—have repeatedly proven over the centuries that they will never risk giving up their position of power by challenging the status quo.
My biggest take-away from that is to not wait for a Knight on a White Horse to storm in and crush the infidels, especially on the college landscape. Better to step out from the pack and find some reasonable people to cooperatively work with for the mutual benefit of everyone involved. After that, the more cautious can join in once the pioneers have cleared a path and the road becomes less dangerous . . . but also less exciting. That is simply how progress happens.
In the world of college alternatives and many other life choices, the adventure begins when you get an idea or hear a good plan and decide to act on it.
Back to work for me. What will you do?
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[2] http://www.strike-the-root.com/topics/labor
[3] http://www.strike-the-root.com/topics/govt-spending
[4] http://www.strike-the-root.com/topics/education
[5] https://jamesaltucher.com/2012/03/did-obama-really-say-he-wants-everyone-to-go-to-college/
[6] http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/crafts-in-the-middle-ages.html
[7] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/08/number-phds-awarded-climbs-recipients-job-prospects-dropping
[8] https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/75760-print-sales-up-again-in-2017.html
[9] https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2017-trends-student-aid_0.pdf
[10] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/07/02/debt-forgiveness-would-revive-the-economy
[11] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cud.pdf
[12] https://www.mentor-model.com/brief-history
[13] http://www.strike-the-root.com/college-alternatives-part-2-moving-out-of-educational-middle-ages
[14] http://strike-the-root.com/4/seachman/seachman1.html
[15] https://www.mises.org/library/how-fdr-made-depression-worse
[16] https://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/06/jim-powell/a-libertarian-view-of-the-worstcatastrophe/
[17] https://insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/08/syracuse-contests-former-adjuncts-suggestion-he-was-fired-defending-students-speech
[18] https://www.thecollegefix.com/
[19] https://www.campusreform.org/
[20] https://www.mentor-model.com/mentor-model
[21] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-one-year-alternative-college-promises-land-students-well-paying-job-debt-free-180962742/
[22] https://discoverpraxis.com/
[23] http://nccs.urban.org/data-statistics/quick-facts-about-nonprofits
[24] http://blog.acton.org/archives/100358-are-we-entering-an-apprenticeship-renaissance.html
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