We have noticed a disturbing trend in the VPN industry. More and more VPN providers are promising an “anonymous” or “no logging” VPN service while providing minimal, or zero, transparency about how they actually handle your data. These so called “anonymous” VPN providers fall into two categories:
We aren’t the only ones who question the “anonymous” or “no logging” VPN providers:
[i]f someone tells you ‘you will be completely anonymous, [because] you’ll have VPN running all the time’, that’s a lie.
– SpiderOak, VPN, privacy and anonymity
…you have absolutely no way to know for sure how safe a “No logs” claim really is. Trusting your life to a no logs VPN service it is like gambling with your life in the Russian roulette
– Wipe Your Data, “No logs” EarthVPN user arrested after police finds logs
[a]nyone who runs a large enough IT infrastructure knows that running that infrastructure with ZERO logs is impossible.
– Spotflux, Debunking the Myths of VPN Service Providers
The “anonymous” or “no logging” VPN Providers have diverted privacy-conscious VPN users to focus on the false promise of anonymity instead of focusing on what really matters when choosing a VPN provider: transparency, trust, ease of use, performance and reliability. We hope dispelling some of these common myths will lead to a more transparent and frank discussion about privacy in the VPN industry and on the Internet in general. . . . .
Transcripts suck ~ and requesting them sucks even more. Naturally the annoying University of Iowa charges $16 a copy–$16! Michigan State University is actually free, and UI is charging $16. Ridiculous!
Most annoying is the fact that you have to fill out those stupid forms and send them in. If you are a traveler like me, fax machines can be rather difficult to come by. On the other hand, it’s a little surprising how many times I’ve wished for access to a fax so I could send important, time-sensitive documents back to the states. Like Transcript requests. 
Consequently, I spent much of the morning wandering around trying to figure out how to send a fax to Universities in America when I came across this little gem–MyFax.com. The process is simple–input your information and theirs, add notes if you need to, upload the file and send. You do need to go to your computer and verify that you want it sent when the message arrives, but that isn’t too much trouble. Much faster than trying to send something slow-mail from China!
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Name (English Pronunciation)- Meaning (Origin) – Chinese Translation (Pinyin)
**Capital vowels (AEIOU) are long vowels like “lAke” or “bIke” or “flUte”
### Pronunciation is by English standards, not Pinyin!
+++These names are not all common, but are recognizable to Westerners
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
Language Translation
Deceptively Blonde 