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Virtualization has given us a world of ease when it comes to IT/server administration. Sometimes, it's so easy to shut down and start up VMs that we forget the fact that these are actual servers. Under normal circumstances, an administrator doesn't just yank the power cord on their Dells, or hold down the power button on the…Read More


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This French classic depicts a brief love affair between Johnny and Krass, with Padouan completing the triangle as the homosexual involved with Krass.
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Hello, happy Tuesday and welcome to Day 1 of Newton's Nook Designs April Release. You should have arrived here from Taheerah's blog but if not don't worry you can start at the beginning at Newton's Nook Designs blog or there is a hop list at the bottom of the post
So today we are showcasing a super cute set 'Delightful Doxies'. As I thought I a lot of my awesome teamies would be using the cute dogs I decided to go a different route and use the smaller elements on the stamp set….. well you know me right?!?!?
I love this! I love how you can take a set and not use it how it was intended and make you're own way….. just use your imagination and it will take you in different directions 🙂
Would you like to win "Delightful Doxies"?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!
Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, April 16th at 9pm CDT to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 17th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
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I would really love to know what you think of my card! Please leave me a comment, maybe even subscribe to my YouTube channel or follow my blog If your interested I'm also on Facebook and I share sneak peeks of my projects (and my life) on Instagram.
That's it from me the next stop on the hop is Larissa. Hope you have a beautiful day and I hope to see you again soon!


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Over the years, the Montreal region has attracted many Computer Graphics companies. This group of companies developed in different areas of Computer Graphics, from the development of animation software to scientific simulations and video games. This page lists many companies working in one of the many areas of Computer Graphics.
Things are moving quite fast in Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, so if you find outdated information or new candidates relevant to this list, please send us a message. Compiled and maintained by Eric Paquette.


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Review – Skull & Roses
A bluffing, hand management game.
Title: Skull & Roses
Year Published: 2011
Designer: Hervé Marly
Publisher: Lui-même
Players: 3-6
Game Time: ~45 Mins
Set-up Time: >1 Mins
Ages: 10+
Theme: Biker Gangs
Mechanic: Bluffing, Hand Management, Auction
How to win: Win two rounds.
Game Description
Skull & Roses is the quintessence of bluffing, a game in which everything is played in the players' heads.
Set Up
Each player takes a mat and tiles of their colour placing the mat skull side up… erm done.
Game Play
Each player puts one card on their mat face down to get the game going.
Starting with the first player and going clockwise, you either place another card or make a challenge. If you have no cards left in your hand you must challenge.
Going round the table, a player may increase the bid, or drop out by passing. The highest remaining bidder is the challenger and must reveal cards equal to their bid but must always start with all of their own cards first.
The challenger then flips over the top card of any players stack in any order one at a time.
If they find all Roses before revealing a skull, they win and they flip their mat over to the roses side.
You gather all cards and play another round with the winner being the new start player.
If they flip over a skull you stop revealing cards, you have lost. All players take their cards back in hand and the opponent who had their skull revealed takes a random card from the loser and puts it in the box without looking.
This player also goes first in the next round.
If you revealed your own skull, you choose a card to discard from the game and choose who the next start player will be.
If you lose your last card, you are out.
Game End
You win the game by either winning 2 rounds, or being the only one player remaining.
Round Up
This is poker without the fluff. You need to bluff and sound confident when making a challenge knowing you've put a Skull down.
Losing your Skull is horrible, especially when the other players work it out…
A fun, tense game.
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A new Kate Scarpetta novel is always highly anticipated by devotees of lesbian detective fiction. Patricia Cornwell has been much in the news these days, and not just because of her new novel, The Bone Bed (Putnam), the 20th in her Kay Scarpetta series and her 30th book.
Cornwell has sold more than 100 million copies of her books. Enough for one in three Americans to have one in hand. Contemplate that for a brief moment: 100 million people reading a lesbian writer. Cornwell's the wealthiest lesbian writer in the world. Even if I didn't like Scarpetta, I would love that.
But there has been more than one mystery churning in Cornwell's life. On February 19 a Boston jury awarded Cornwell $50.9 million, settling a years-long lawsuit against her previous management firm, Anchin, Block & Anchin. Cornwell had hired the firm in 2004 at the pricey sum of $40,000 per month to maintain her finances.
They didn't.
In 2009 she discovered she was missing tens of millions. Where did the money go?
The short version is, into the pocket of the guy supposed to be managing her money. Because Cornwell herself was having some bi-polar issues and those can lead pretty directly to the poorhouse, she wanted someone else in charge, she wanted someone taking note of what she was spending and what she was spending it on. Alas, no one was watching what her money manager was spending of hers.
Cornwell gave Katie Couric an exclusive and came on the show in leather talking about the lawsuit, her bi-polar disorder, her wife (Harvard neuroscientist Staci Gruber) and Scarpetta. It was a bracing hour which you can watch at katiecouric.com or ABCnews.com.
Cornwell is a fascinating character herself and knowing just this much more about her makes reading her work all the more enticing.
And enticing is the right word for her latest novel. The Bone Bed takes Dr. Kay Scarpetta on a journey she has not previously taken–she goes back to her roots as a forensic specialist and as the independent, solo actor in her own life. Scarpetta hasn't been gone, but with The Bone Bed, it feels like the real Scarpetta is back, with a vengeance.
In many ways Scarpetta parallels Cornwell (even though she's based on the former Virginia chief M.E., Marcella Fierro): Scarpetta's getting older, but she's still hot, she dresses hot, she's Italian, but blonde and she's, well, hot. And in charge. Scarpetta is always in charge.
There's also Scarpetta's lesbian niece, Lucy Farinelli, who has a genius IQ which she parlayed into a multi-million-dollar business. She's a gazillionaire with a penchant for big machines. So Cornwell is part Farinelli as well. (Cornwell is known for having her own helicopters and planes.)
But The Bone Bed finds Scarpetta in a kind of paranoid malaise. As she delves into her latest case–cases–she feels she can't trust anyone–not her lead investigator, Pete Marino, not her husband, Benton Wesley and not her niece, Lucy. She feels isolated, alone and surrounded by danger.
Which she is.
As the book opens, Scarpetta has been sent a huge email file of a video of a dinosaur dig in Alberta, Canada where paleontologist Emma Schubert has disappeared.
The opening description in the prologue is beautiful and spare as Cornwell takes us into the last days of a dinosaur herd. And then the mystery begins to unfold. An ear–likely Schubert's–is at the center of the mystery. The ear is severed, "devoid of hair" and has a piercing in the center. It is displayed on a copy of the Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune and from it Scarpetta is supposed to deduce…something.
But before she can do so, there are other pressing events to deal with. She must testify in court about a previous case. But before that can happen, there's an even more pressing matter: the body of a woman has been found in Boston Harbor. Wrapped up with an endangered leatherback turtle who must be carefully, delicately cut from the corpse.
All the while the clock is ticking: on the turtle, the body from the harbor which will begin to fall apart like an overcooked chicken as it moves from the icy waters to the warm mortuary and of course, the rest of Emma Schubert, if that is indeed her ear.
I admit, I left Scarpetta some years ago. I tired of the focus on forensics and what felt to me like shallow, phoned-in plots with not a lot of characterization. I still really liked Scarpetta as a character as well as Lucy, Pete and Benton, but it just felt wearing to read those novels.
Well, something has snapped back into place for Cornwell, because The Bone Bed harkens back to the best of Scarpetta–there's a vulnerability to her in this novel that female readers especially will identify with because of what she's contemplating in her musings. Plus, the return to first-person narrative helps pull the reader in and propels us forward. That first-person narration also softens the at-times overload of forensics, because it is Dr. Scarpetta who is narrating those, not some bored omniscience from above. The reader feels the commitment and the passion she feels for her work.
"Her organs are decomposed. Her lungs are collapsed, reddish-purple and very soft, the airways devoid of water, froth, sand, or foreign material, the gallbladder dry and wrinkled with no residual bile. With each minute we work it becomes abundantly clear that this is an autopsy of exclusion, of ruling out possible causes of death and leaving little doubt that she either asphyxiated or was poisoned. But it will be a while–days at least–before we have a complete ethanol and drug screen of liver tissue."
Scarpetta goes on to weigh the gastric contents, to order special stains, to detail the contents of the stomach and intestines. This is the cataloging of what is left of a life and at the end as Scarpetta rips off her gloves and booties and tosses them in the bio-hazard can she explains that she can't say what caused the woman's death, only what did not.
The scene, about five pages long, mid-novel, points out the frustration of solving a murder mystery: it should be there, it should be explanatory, the answer should be revealed and yet: no. Maddeningly, everything is revealed in bits and pieces. Most especially whodunit. Science is there, but science doesn't have all the answers.
Cornwell expresses Scarpetta's unsettled feelings about her life and her relationships with a frankness and openness that has been missing in the last few books. Readers will remember the best of Scarpetta–The Last Precinct comes to mind–and revel in the return of that forensic scientist and that woman in The Bone Bed.
Watching Cornwell weave these separate cases together, watching as Scarpetta reveals parts of herself as well as the parts of the victims definitely makes this read worthwhile. It's a hefty book–500 pages–but it's compelling, even as one tries to discern before Scarpetta who has done what and why–and if Benton and Lucy are somehow shifting their roles in Kay's life.
For fans of the series, but for newcomers as well: Cornwell backtracks just enough in the first few chapters so that those unfamiliar with who Scarpetta is will be on solid ground.
The Bone Bed
by Patricia Cornwell
Hardcover, 9780399157561, 480 pp.
October 2012
A few thoughts:
1)The Kay Scarpetta series is not "lesbian detective fiction." Scarpetta is neither a detective nor a lesbian.
2)While it's very exciting to ponder the success of Patricia Cornwell, the "wealthiest lesbian writer in the world," she was not out as a lesbian while she amassed that fortune. She's only been out about five years. Not long before she lost that wealth to her sleazy management firm. The Scarpetta series began in 1991.
3)The one recurring lesbian character, Lucy Farinelli (at least recurring who survives more than a couple of books), did not come out until well into the series (granted she started as a 10-year-old).
All of which is to say, if you can make your mark first as a straight writer, you can amass a fortune, but I don't think it's a stretch to say if you start out as a lesbian writer with lesbian characters, you'll be lucky to be published by the likes of Bold Strokes Books. Take J. M. Redmann's Micky Knight series. I'd put Ms. Knight right up there with Kay Scarpetta any day, but Redmann isn't living in a mansion with a helicopter at her disposal. Then again, she probably doesn't have to worry about her fortune being stolen.
Patricia Cornwell's lesbianism was one of the worst-kept secrets prior to her official coming out. And anyone who reads the Scarpetta books would be hard-pressed to remember ever having met a straight woman like Scarpetta–she's a lesbian paradigm made accessible to a straight audience, an encoded lesbian character. Much like Cornwell herself. And while it's certainly true that Cornwell has a tendency to kill off her secondary lesbian characters, Lucy IS a staple, even if her partners don't seem to survive. That said, Cornwell is not the standard lesbian writer–obviously. She was at the right place at the right time with the right character. And lesbians are among the readers who buy her books in the millions. If there's a takeaway from this comment by Elaine Burnes it should be this: lesbians should buy books by lesbians from queer presses. The support for writers like Jean Redmann or myself–women who write solidly queer characters living queer lives–has to come from our own community. Only five percent of American writers live off their writing alone. It's a struggle. But we write to be read. All that said, I can't ignore the most read and best published lesbian writer in the world, either, even as I review smaller books from smaller publishers, and that's who Cornwell is. It would be great if we could have more lesbian writers able to get their work disseminated further, but it's still a new genre, out lesbian fiction. Prior to Cornwell, Patricia Highsmith was the big lesbian seller. But her one lesbian novel, "The Price of Salt," was written under a pseudonym, Claire Morgan. It's hard to know what the answers are–Big Six publishers promoting out queer writers or independent publishers paying us more for our work. But it still comes down to readers. Buy our lesbian books. Please. (I have many…;-))


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Empires & Allies is another crown jewel from Zynga, as soon as the game starts you can feel the Zynga touch, great graphic environment, cute characters, Farmville or Frontierville style and you are up to a great game already, you can feel it.
The game is set on a post war situation were your city has been attacked by enemies generals and you have to build your city from scratch, while defending it from enemy attacks.
You start the game with a well driven tutorial, first you are introduced to military building, nice touch by Zynga, as some might expect another city building game like CityVille. This game is also about city building, and about farming and about getting friends and so on… but on a more combat strategy orientation.
After4 building your first barracks, which require usually 3 steps (3 clicks), you train your first troops, after which you have your first fight, and have to defend yourself against enemy invasion. All this is done in such a natural, smooth and paced way, that you get the hang of it so fast…
Empires & Allies starts paced but with a good grip, as you advance you will notice that there is so much to do… and there a problem with that, it is the energy thing :), yes it will never be enough, from training combat units, to buildings, to farming and production you will have always something to do and the energy… you know the drill.
Talking about option, you have many types of building, 20 types of Housing building at start, 9 military buildings, 11 types of industry and farm related buildings, 9 different government buildings with various functionalities.
You also have to deal with energy and resources, from wood necessary to building houses, to more elaborate materials from oil, aluminum and copper to uranium all of them necessary for different things.
There are also Power-ups, roads, decorations etc. and of course expansions to your territory.
Well enough of bragging the game just head on and play it, in my opinion this can be the future of Facebook games and a new CityVille phenomena as social games go. Add to this the possibility to send 75 friend request at a time and its sure to grow fast!
Tips and Tricks
How to play Empire & Allies Walkthrough
We are showing a full tutorial until level 4.
The game is divided into episodes, this give some sensation of accomplishment and at the beginning divides the game basically by type of tasks.
After a short animation, where you see your island destroyed Pearl Harbour way, you have to start building up.
Your first task is to build a barracks so you can train soldiers and build military units.
You have to click 3 times in each building in order to finish it.
Now you can use the barracks to train cadet soldiers, this is done by clicking on the barracks building and choosing the cadets unit.
Each units has its own requirements, the basic only require cash, but more advanced will require other resources such as oil.
After this you have your first fight, just click on the brown square to fight the invaders…
The fight is actually quite simple, all you have to do is click on your units and then click on the enemy units on the right.
Each victory bring rewards, in the form of cash and resources. You have now finished the first episode.
The second episode is devoted to teaching you the building and production basics.
To deploy your units all you have to do is click on the barrack when they have finish producing and place them where you wish, you can move then at any time after.
You are now asked to place your Empire flag, this teaches you were the inventory is, in the right low corner of the screen.
Now you have to build some housing for your population, and some other buildings. Remember you have collect cash from buildings from time to time.
Building houses is done in the build menu, right low corner menu button with a hammer and work hat.
Your next assignment is to build a farm and produce food for your people. This works the same way as before, click 3 times in the building, and after it is done you can click on it to produce the food you want.
Next you'll have to build a Parliament Building, which is necessary for you to raise your population. At this point you will notice that you need friends, more precisely 3 friends or you need to pay in order to put your Parliament to function.
Its time to send some friend invitations, lucky for you Empire & Allies lets you send 75 friend request a day!
You have to hire 1 House Speaker, 1 Lord Chanceler and 1 Majority Leader.
Now its time to build up your forces, more barracks and new units to defend your island.
Eventually enemies will start to appear, this is one of them and you need to tell him a lesson! Its time to leave your island and attack the enemy in its ground.
Travel and attack your new "neighbor" , you can get help from friends, during the fight just choose a friend, if you don't have any, you can always count on General Steele 🙂
After this fight , you reach the end of episode 2.
Here is the screen for episode 3, don't forget to visit us as news info updates will come. Next page there is a list of building and available stuff by level.
You have additional info? Share it using the comments!
Keep coming back, as we are always updating!!
Empires & Allies Strategy Guide
Units and Combat Guide
Combat is a crucial part of Empires & Allies, you have to play and use your units the best way to win.
Here are some tips on Units pros and cons.
Ground Units
Cadet soldiers
Great against artillery, carrier and airships. The down side is they are sitting ducks against Tanks, Gunboats and Bombers.
As you level up, you will have Grunts Soldiers that are the same type but with more firepower and health.
Canon Artillery
Great against Tanks, Battleship and Bombers. But great targets for Soldiers, Carriers and Fighters.
Canon Artillery will be replaced for Field Artillery when you get to level 17.
Vintage Tank
Great against soldiers, gunboats and fighters. But with low defenses against Artillery, Battleships and Airships.
Further in the game, as you reach level 20 you will have access to Armored Tank.
Air Units
Vintage Fighter and Mustang Fighter
This get bonuses against Canon, Carriers and Airships. Low defense against Tanks, Bombers and Battleships.
Airships Units (Zeppelin and Helicopter)
Great against Tanks, Gunboats and Bombers. The downside is they are bad against Soldiers, Carriers and Fighters.
Bombers (Vintage and Flying Fortress)
Good against Soldiers, Battleships and Fighters. Penalty against Canons, Gunboats and Airships.
Naval Units
Ironclad Gunboat and Torpedo Gunboat
Great against Soldiers, Carriers and Bombers. Bad against Tanks, Airships and Battleships.
Battleships (Vintage and Light) and The Butcher
Bonus against Tanks, Gun boats and Fighter classes, penalty against Canon, Bomber and Carrier.
Carrier class (Vintage and Light carrier)
Great against canon, battleship and airship. Bad against Soldiers, Fighters and Gunboats.
Now that you know all the unit types their pros and cons, you have to play them wisely in the battlefield, analise your enemy units first and then place your units to maximize their strengths and minimize damage.
Use your Powerups!
Use your powerups in battle, don't risk loosing your more valuable units! Below are all PowerUps available in the game ate the moment.
And don't forget to use your allies help in battle, choose your ally and then click on it for a random Powerups!
You have additional info? Share it using the comments!
Keep coming back, as we are always updating!!
Empires & Allies Trailer
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To help our colleagues at OpenSCG provide better service to our clients, BigSQL developed pgDevOps – a one stop shop to provision, develop, and monitor PostgreSQL databases.
And now… we are making pgDevOps available to the PostgreSQL community!
Install and Provision:
Monitor and Tune:
Administer and Develop:
|pgAdmin4 Web Integration: Simple navigation to switch to the pgAdmin4 Web interface automatically hooked to your PostgreSQL installation(s).
pgDevOps needs pip. Our Windows installer comes bundled with pip. If you are running Mac or Linux, if pip is not already installed on your system, you will need to run the following commands as a user with sudo privileges:
Mac OSX:
sudo easy_install pip
CentOS 7.1, 7.2:
If easy_install is not present, install it first.
sudo yum -y install python-setuptools.noarch sudo easy_install pip
Ubuntu 12, 14, 16:
Ubuntu may require installing few python related packages first if they are not already present.
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-openssl libpython2.7 sudo easy_install pip
Using our 9.6 OSX & Windows graphical installers, you can install pgDevOps at the end as an optional component
It's also easy to install pgDevOps via our command line package manager (in Linux, OSX or Windows) by just typing three simple command:
pgc install pgdevops
pgc init pgdevops
pgc start pgdevops


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Artist Exposure
The Exposure Program, in conjunction with the Aqua Art Fair, we will be selecting our best emerging artists for exhibition during Art Basel Miami, the largest art fair in the Americas, taking place in December of 2016.
Applications are currently being accepted from emerging and mid-career artists.
Now in its fourth year, the Exposure Program will be bringing emerging and mid-career artists to this highly attended art fair, while also preparing our artists with the promotion and career training they need to make the most of such an opportunity. More information is available below.
The deadline to apply is March 25th, 2016.
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All submissions of 2-d and 3-d works must have dimensions under 28" x 28" although exceptions are occasionally made. Emerging artists and unrepresented artists are encouraged to apply. Please see below for details, prices, and payment options.
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- Real world access and exhibition experience at an otherwise exclusive art fair
- Presentation of work to thousands of serious collectors, dealers and gallerists who are looking for cutting edge artists
- Non-exclusive representation to encourage and enable our artists to move forward and get picked up by a gallery
- 90% commission given to the artist on all sales of artwork (our gallery only takes 10% to cover administrative costs)
- Participation in exclusive VIP events in Miami as available
- Ongoing online presence and promotion in Starry Night Exposure Gallery
- Inclusion in the third edition of our annual publication, Artists to Look Out For, which features our top 100 artists each year, published every December
- Invitation to join our private Facebook group and connect with hundreds of artists from around the world
- Full access to our eight week, online professional practices program, Artist Resources & Tools, valued at $995, and included at no cost to Exposure Artists
- Pre-selection for the Residency at Starry Night in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, so there's no need to apply separately
Online application process
Applicants must provide a current CV or Artist Resume, an artist Statement/Bio, and work samples (5 to 10 images). Video artists may bypass the image requirements and submit links to a video.
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All works will be evaluated by the Aqua Art Fair and the Starry Night Exposure team for inclusion in the exhibition. Artists must submit between five and ten digital images of artwork under 28" in any dimension for consideration. Upon acceptance, specific pieces will be selected for exhibition based on current trends that are believed to present best at the fair.
In November, all works must be brought or shipped to Miami, where we will receive it, hang it, light it properly, and provide non-exclusive gallery representation. All participating artists are encouraged to attend the exhibition in person, although travel costs are not included in the Exposure fees. For the duration of the fair and exhibition, dedicated staff will be on site to represent the work and distribute promotional materials of the work and of the exhibition as a whole.
Our Exposure Miami artists will be included in all print and online promotional materials related to the Exposure program at the gallery venue. In our online promotions, a link to the artist's website will be included, in order to drive as much traffic to their work as possible, both during and after the exhibition ends. For artists who do not have a website they feel is well designed, access to our comprehensive online training program, Artist Resources & Tools (valued at $995) is included for all Exposure artists at no additional cost.
Typically, galleries do a split of the total sale price with the artist. In many cases, the gallery takes 50% to 60% of the total amount that a piece of art sells for. This leaves less than half of the total selling price for the artist, the creator of the work, to take home. The Exposure program aims to make this opportunity for our artists to show and sell their work at the Aqua Art Fair as cost effective as possible. In this spirit, we take only a 10% commission on works sold during the exhibition, to cover administrative costs.
Receipt of Artwork
For accepted artists who are planning on shipping their work for exhibition, we require that all work be received in Miami no later than the last week of November, 2016. The shipping address and detailed instructions for shipment will be provided. Shipping of any remaining artwork back to the artist is the artist's responsibility.
The Exposure Program is an international exhibitions program that includes our signature comprehensive professional development and training. This has been designed for emerging visual artists who want to jump start their career, show their work at a prestigious art fair, and learn invaluable tools for becoming a career artist, while getting their work seen in the broader art world. Emerging 2d and 3d artists are encouraged to apply.
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There is no fee to apply to the Exposure Program, but upon acceptance the participation fee is $2995. It costs nearly gallery to have a space at the fair, and we have broken down the costs below.
Monthly installment plans are available, and the earlier an artist applies, the longer they have to pay the balance, so the smaller the installments. Fro this reason we encourage artists to submit their application as early as possible.
The following is a breakdown of some of the costs related to exhibiting at an exclusive art fair:
Space Rental: $8500 (on the low end)
Lighting: $800 (whether purchased or rented)
Insurance: $300 (required by all fair venues)
Tables & chairs: $500 (whether purchased or rented)
Advertising: $500 (business cards, flyers, etc.)
Portfolio & presentation: $100 (a mead notebook won't cut it)
Ground transportation: $600 (to get the furniture and lighting)
Airfare: $500 (on priceline, during peak season)
Lodging & meals: $1400 (on priceline, during peak season)
Gallery staff: $2400 ($40/hour – 10 hour days – 6 days including install and deinstall)
Total cost of going it alone is more than $15,000. With no one there to help you or guide you through the process to promote your success.
Cost to Exposure Artists
The total price for exhibition, representation and promotion with the Exposure program is $2,995.
The Exposure program is the most cost efficient way of bringing your artwork to a fair of this size. The price includes all of the aforementioned professional training, curation of the show, lighting and hanging of the artwork, full time representation of the artist and their work for the entire 10 day show, and featuring in our online gallery which includes a link to their website. It also guarantees inclusion in all printed and online marketing materials related to the show.
Payment Options
All fees are payable by Credit Card or eCheck via our secure, online system. Payment plans are available.
Application Deadline
The deadline to apply is March 25th, 2016.
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Nov 22 2011
Apple Delaying iOS 5.0.2 Update Citing Memory Leakage Issues
Apple was supposed to release the next iOS 5 update that is the iOS 5.0.2 to fix the much talked about battery drainage issues that the iPhone 4S users have been facing for quite a while now.
But now according to a German site Macerkopf.de, Apple is delaying the iOS 5.0.2 update citing memory leaks in the code for the particular version and would eventually require more time for testing before the update gets released.
The site also suggested that yet another minor update was scheduled after the 5.0.2 that is the iOs 5.0.3 update, so at this time Apple do not want to rush into with unnecessary update release one after the other.
The iOS 5.0.2 update is expected to fix the battery issue to increase the battery life of the iPhone 4S to upto 10 hours of active usage. Soon after the initial rollout of the iPhone 4S many of the users complained about poor battery life for their iPhone 4S, this is the next most disappointing scenario for Apple after the last year's iPhone 4 antenna gate fiasco.[via - AppleInsider]


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Zayra's Art & Poetry Featured at the International Pasta Party Series in Sausalito
The Unfinished Sonnet - collage by Zayra Yves
We are happy to announce that Zayra will be featuring several brand new collages in the Red Series as well as some from the Sonnet and Serenade Series. She will also be performing a poetry reading from the favorite "Empty as Nirvana" and sharing an award winning poem "Faded Hieroglyphs" from her CD "Crowned Compassion" at the International Pasta Party Series in Sausalito, California.
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Taylor Swift gives $1 million to flood relief efforts in Louisiana after recent flooding that has left 11 people dead and 40,000 homes destroyed. Swift also released a statement where she talked about her love for Louisiana and encouraged others to help out in anyway possible.
"We began the 1989 World Tour in Louisiana, and the wonderful fans there made us feel completely at home," Swift, 26, said in the statement. "The fact that so many people in Louisiana have been forced out of their own homes this week is heartbreaking. I encourage those who can to help out and send your love and prayers their way during this devastating time."
On Sunday, President Obama declared a federal emergency in Louisiana due to the flooding. Reportedly, more than 60,000 Louisiana residents have applied for disaster aid from Federal Emergency Management Agency. Other celebrities took to social media to pray for Louisiana and contribute to the relief efforts as well including Lil Wayne, Odell Beckham Jr., Lady Gaga, and Ellen DeGeneres.
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This is an edited transcript of a face-to-face interview that took place in London on 21st of January 2015.
Stephen Dunne (hereafter SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work?
I'm endlessly fascinated with one particular book by Jacques Rancière, namely The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (the original French was published in 1987; the English translation appeared with a fine introduction by Kristin Ross in 1991).
Steffen Böhm (SB): Larry, you and your colleagues have been at the forefront of the critique of carbon markets for almost a decade now. You have published a great number of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles, blog entries as well as academic articles, all of which you have made available on the Corner House website.[1] Many people from around the world, North and South, have downloaded these contributions, making it one of the key resource centres presenting critical thought on carbon markets.
When I recently asked Simon Critchley in a TV-show how he ended up as a philosopher he laconically proclaimed: 'failure'. He claimed to have failed not only as a musician and a poet, but also as a political activist.[1]
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD) I'd like to begin with a question that will serve to put your contribution to this interview into some sort of context. That way it will be easier for your audience to explain your comments away with recourse to your background! Ok, the first thing that is apparent, on this question of your background, is that at the time of interviewing, you all work within Universities, indeed within Business Schools.
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Day 30 – Morning Psalt Intake
I will sing a new song to You, God. I will sing praises to You!
Psalm 144
By David.
1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: 2 my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me. 3 LORD, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him? 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. 5 Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. 6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. 7 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners; 8 whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9 I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you. 10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword. 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace. 13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields. 14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets. 15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised!
Psalm 145
A praise psalm by David.
1 I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. 5 Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate. 6 Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness. 7 They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness. 8 The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. 9 The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. 10 All your works will give thanks to you, LORD. Your saints will extol you. 11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power; 12 to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The LORD is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds. 14 The LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. 18 The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them. 20 The LORD preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. 21 My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
Happy is he whose hope is in the Lord!
Psalm 146
1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul. 2 While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. 3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help. 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God: 6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; 7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners. 8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous. 9 The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. 10 The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!


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We all love mobile games but 10 years ago, no one would have believed that a mobile game could make millions of dollars a day. In 2017, that has become a reality, there are tons of games that are generating huge amount of revenue. Most popular games today make their money from advertisements or In-game purchases, just think about it how many times have you bought something in a game to beat a level or get upgrades. I know I have, I have probably spent over $1000 on just Candy Crush and close to $5000 on all games combined, I know I have a gaming addiction 🙂
Here are some of the highest grossing mobile games, if you aren't playing these games right now, you might as well download them and start playing because there is a reason these games make so much money, they are super addicting!
Pokémon Go
It is needless to say the frenzy that surrounded Pokémon Go a few months ago has died down considerably. However, this was a game that not only dominated the app stores but would also end up making a lot of potential revenue for its parent company. Insane performances were put down to the basic intelligence of its key demographic, which were teenagers. A lot of people attribute their fitness primarily due to searching for Pokémon in this particular game. This game is legendary!
Candy Crush Saga
Before the popularity of Pokémon Go, the market was pretty much in tune with the exploits and the revenue generation of Candy Crush Saga. It was one of the most addicting games that was always on the top of the App stores (it still is today) and it led to the term of 'addictive gaming' being coined for mobile games. Moreover, the excessive amount of revenue generated by this game is due to the accuracy of advertising done by King (developer of the game). The Candy Crush Saga keeps going on and on with new games released every year.
Clash of Clans
SuperCell, the creators of this game not only went on to make a ton of money but also made Clash of Clans one of the most popular mobile games of all times. The game comes with amazing game play and frequent updates to make the game better and more interesting each time. This game has been reported to generate more than $3 million dollars a day and a revenue of more than $1 billion each year. That is amazing!
Mobile Strike
Endorsement by Arnold Schwarznegger certainly helped the fortunes of Mobile Strike. Aggressive advertising as well as a good revenue generation process enabled this game to become one of the highest grossing games in the market. You would see this game being actively promoted in various social media platforms as well as being on board with a lot of marketing campaigns in traditional media.
If you have played any of the above-mentioned games, you would why these games are so successful. These games generate huge amounts of money for their developers and have also made a mark on the mobile gaming industry. Do you think you can make the next big mobile game? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


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Kini will be responsible for the bank's investor services, issuer services, institutional cash management, trade finance and cash management (TFCM) services in the country.
He will report to both Feng Gao, chief country officer for China, and Lisa Robins, Asia Pacific head of global transaction banking.
He will continue to report to Kaushik Shaparia, head of TFCM for Asia Pacific.
Previously, Kini moved to Shanghai from Singapore in September 2016 to take on the role of head of trade finance and cash management corporates for China.
Gao said: "The China market is of strategic importance to Deutsche Bank and we are committed to offering a comprehensive suite of corporate and investment banking products that meet the needs of [clients]."
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Lately I have realized all my life I believed in love (fall in love synonym) and trusted everyone. But there is no love left in this world.
Only pure and unconditional love is love from your parents the rest is just (just in case meaning) fake. When u love someone you don't cheat them, you respect the other person and anything related to them.
I have been cheated betrayed so many times that my heart stopped believing in love anymore.
Sirf adat ko pyar samjhty hein hum. It's better to stay out of a bad relationship or marriage than dragging the relation.
I might sound different and rude. But what is the point if you don't love someone and can't be loyal to them. Then just set them free. Don't hurt anyone.
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I have been playing for a few years, but really got into it at the end of last summer with a friend. Played my first league round in December or January, and a few more since(now going every Monday starting this week). I have met some pretty cool people playing. Everyone has been very helpful. Played doubles last week and some guys took the time to show my friend and I how to putt better. Also showed me what I was doing wrong with my form. They were very friendly about it and never complained about my poor shots even though I was paired with someone much better than myself.
Monday for League night we went with someone that has played leagues much more than us and gave us the rundown of it. Had a blast. Sure there are a few people that drink while they play, but I have never seen someone completely hammered either. At the course I play at, most the people I see come in to smoke don't play disc. They just park and stay in their car, then leave when they are done.
Sucks that you had to have that experience. Maybe find another club/league to play in nearby?
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested
According to reports, Gottfried Swartholm Warg, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, a controversial file sharing website, was arrested in Cambodia. The arrest was made at the request of the government of Sweden, Warg's native country. After being found guilty of illegal file sharing, the website co-founder disappeared in 2009 to avoid a one-year jail sentence and 32 million kroner in fines. The arrest was made at a home Warg was renting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. While Cambodia doesn't have an extradition treaty with Sweden, Cambodian officials agreed to examine their laws to determine how they may handle the case. Last week, they agreed.
Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay features magnet links to various forms of media, including films, music, and video games. The links are used to access media, which are available via various peer-to-peer networks. Media found on "the bay" can be opened in a BitTorrent client and downloaded onto users' devices.
The Pirate Bay has faced numerous legal troubles, including raids, and the company has made many changes to its technical structure. Although the website has had to battle through numerous legal assaults, Pirate Bay considers itself to be the most resilient BitTorrent site in the world.
A court in the Hague issued a ruling in May that required Internet service providers to block The Pirate Bay; in addition, it was ordered that The Pirate Bay and the political Pirate Party, a UK-based proxy that allows users to access The Pirate Bay, stop publishing information that enables users to circumvent blocks. The Hague ruling was the result of a complaint from Brein, an anti-piracy trade organization that represents Dutch movie studios and the recording industry in Holland. Brein is comparable to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), two American trade groups that also have an interest in preventing piracy. Because the ruling calls for fines levied against Internet service providers and groups like Pirate Party to be directed to Brein, the trade organization stands to benefit directly from the ruling. Some view the decision handed down in the Hague as an attempt to limit censorship-avoidance education.
The Pirate Party responded to the ruling by calling it novel and "a slap in the face for the free Internet." The Pirate Party also expressed concern that thanks to the ruling more of the Internet could be censored, because, technically, it may be used to access sites that violate copyright laws; the result, they argued, would render most of the Internet unreachable.
Warg's arrest ends The Pirate Bay co-founder's three year run from sentencing, which included a missed court appearance in 2010; his previous abscence, according to Warg's attorney, was due to illness.
If deported to Sweden, Warg will likely have to serve out the jail time to which he was previously sentenced. Because Cambodia does not have an extradition treaty with Sweden, Cambodia will likely take administrative steps toward deportation, and it is unknown at the time of this writing to which country Warg will be deported.


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As the Website & Communications Coordinator, Nicole manages Hope's website and writes the twice monthly e-newsletter. She also has the privilege of working with individuals at Hope to create a digital story about their faith or other significant life experience.
Nicole received a BA in Philosophy from Wheaton College and a Masters in Communications from the University of Denver. She lives in the Denver neighborhood of Harvey Park with her husband, daughter, and two stepsons. Nicole is happiest when reading a good book, engaged in deep conversation, or savoring one of the many culinary delicacies cooked up by her husband.


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Whaling is a specific form of phishing that's targeted at high-profile business executives, manager, and the like. It's different from ordinary phishing in that with whaling, the emails or webpages serving the scam take on a more official or serious look and are usually targeting someone in particular.

For perspective, regular non-whaling phishing is usually an attempt to get someone's login information to a social media site or bank. In those cases, the phishing email/site looks pretty normal, whereas in whaling, the page is designed to specifically address the manager/executive on whom the attack is placed.

Note: Spear phishing is a phishing attack against someone specific, like an individual or company. Therefore, whaling may also be considered spear phishing.

What Is The Objective of Whaling?

The point is to swindle someone in upper manager into divulging confidential company information. This usually comes in the form of a password to a sensitive account, which the attacker can then access to gain more information.

The end game in all phishing attacks like whaling is to scare the recipient; to convince them that they need to take action to proceed, like to avoid legal fees, to prevent from getting fired, to stop the company from bankruptcy, etc.

What Does a Whaling Scam Look Like?

Whaling, like any phishing con game, involves a web page or email that masquerades as one that's legitimate and urgent. They're designed to look like a critical business email or something from someone with legitimate authority, either externally or even internally from the company itself.

The whaling attempt might look like a link to a regular website you're familiar with. It probably asks for your login information just like you'd expect. However, if you're not careful, what happens next is the problem.

When you try to submit your information into the login fields, you're probably told that the information was incorrect and that you should try again. No harm done, right? You just entered your password incorrectly... That's the scam, though!

What happens behind the scenes is that when you enter your information into the fake site (which can't really log you in because it isn't real), the information you entered is sent to the attacker and then you're redirected to the real website. You try your password again and it works out just fine.

At this point, you have no idea that the page was fake and that someone just stole your password. However, the attacker now has your username and password to the website you thought you logged in to.

Instead of a link, the phishing scam may have you download a program in order to view a document or image. The program, whether real or not, also has a malicious undertone that's used to track everything you type or delete things from your computer.

How Whaling Is Different From Other Phishing Scams

In a regular phishing scam, the web page/email might be a faked warning from your bank or PayPal. The faked page might frighten the target with claims that their account has been charged or attacked, and that they must enter their ID and password to confirm the charge or to verify their identity.

In the case of whaling, the masquerading web page/email will take a more serious executive-level form. The content will be crafted to target an upper manager like the CEO or even just a supervisor that might have lots of pull in the company or who might have credentials to valuable accounts.

The whaling email or website may come in the form of a false subpoena, a fake message from the FBI, or some sort of critical legal complaint.

How Do I Protect Myself From Whaling Attacks?

The easiest way to protect yourself from falling for a whaling scam is to be aware of what you click. It's really that simple. Since whaling occurs over emails and websites, you can avoid all false links by understanding what's real and what isn't.

Now, it's not always possible to know what's fake. Sometimes, you get a new email from someone that you've never emailed before, and they might send you something that seems entirely legitimate.

However, if you look at the URL in your web browser and make sure to look around the site, even briefly, for things that look a little off, you can greatly decrease your chances of being attacked in this way.

See How to Protect Yourself From Phishing Scams for more information.

Do Executives and Managers Really Fall for These Whaling Emails?

Yes, unfortunately, managers often fall for whaling email scams. Take the 2008 FBI subpoena whaling scam as an example.

20,000 corporate CEOs were attacked and approximately 2000 of them fell for the whaling scam by clicking the link in the email. They believed it would download a special browser add-on to view the entire subpoena.

In truth, the linked software was a keylogger that secretly recorded the CEOs passwords and forwarded those passwords to the con men. As a result, each of the 2000 compromised companies were hacked even further now that the attackers had the information they needed.


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This 3 Port PCI Express FireWire card comes equipped with a low profile bracket for installation in small form factor PCs, and includes an optional full-size bracket for installation in a standard-sized PC case. The FireWire card can be installed in a PCIe slot to add two IEEE1394b (FireWire 800 - 9 pin) ports and one IEEE1394a (FireWire 400 - 6 pin) port, providing broad compatibility with a wide range of FireWire devices (e.g. DV camcorders, external hard drives, digital cameras, etc.). The 2x FireWire 800 and 1x FireWire 400 card features a native (single chip) PCI Express chipset, which provides faster, more reliable and cost-effective performance than expansion cards that utilize a "bridge" chip.
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