The two remaining obstacles are likewise removed

Much as she did the last time the Kentuck Museum Association sought an executive director, Emily Leigh has stepped up to make sure Art Nights happen, studio artists stay happy, unwanted bats stay away and the annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts in October takes place.

In 2009, Leigh, with friend and co-worker Carrie Fitts, helped guide the Kentuck Art Center through a dark period when former executive director Sara Anne Gibson resigned,Cheap Dedicated Server following allegations she had stolen from the organization. In February, Gibson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve three years under the supervision of the Tuscaloosa County Community Corrections program and seven years on probation.

Leigh and Fitts, with help from the Kentuck board of directors and Kentuck's many volunteers, held the organization together until Jan Pruitt was hired in 2010 to continue setting the house in order. Leigh stayed on as assistant director, not applying for the top job, because she wanted to keep shorter hours. But now she's back on the longer days as interim director, helping run things until a new boss can be hired.

“I negotiated for 30 hours a week, but I scheduled myself for 37, and it became 45,” Leigh said, laughing.

Pruitt left in 2012, under happy circumstances — newly wed and moving south. The major financial difficulties had been straightened out and order restored in the Kentuck world. Shweta Gamble was hired to replace Pruitt in July last year but resigned this spring when it became clear the board wanted someone with more fundraising experience.

 In idcloak’s newly published article, How to unblock Facebook – the dedicated IP VPN solution, advice is given to users whose access to the social media site is prohibited. Where traditional proxies fail, the article says one type of service will succeed.

Before pitching the solution, the article explains the four primary obstacles that follow Facebook access through a proxy:

the fact proxies set off Facebook’s security checks (due to the unfamiliar IP location), meaning the user must spend considerable time validating their identity during each log in;
there are severe compatibility issues when accessing Facebook via proxies – the site and many of its features do not display properly (at best, the site is displayed in mobile device format);
proxy transfer rates are so slow that the site becomes unusable;
censors routinely block all known proxy IP addresses so access to the proxy is also denied.

The presented solution – a VPN with dedicated IP address – appears to negotiate all four of the above obstacles.

The author of the article, idcloak’s Robin Welles, explains, “When a user sets up a VPN with a dedicated IP address, they have continuous access to the web from one remote IP that is theirs and theirs alone. No one knows that this IP address belongs to a VPN proxy server except for the user and idcloak. This solves the problem of Facebook security checks as the site becomes familiar with the dedicated IP after the first login.”

“A dedicated IP also prevents censors from blocking access to the proxy, since they have no way of knowing it is serving an unblocking function. The VPN encryption also ensures Facebook content is not observed on its way in.”

The two remaining obstacles are likewise removed, “VPNs inherently transcend all site compatibility problems as they operate on the network level. Facebook appears through a VPN exactly as it should do. And as long as a high-grade VPN service is being used, data transfer speeds are much faster than on regular proxies. Essentially, it’s the perfect solution.”
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