Music on the Barge concerts relocate to pavilion

StructuPolycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,ral issues with the access ramp leading to the barge on Gull Lake have forced the Town of Gravenhurst to relocate the first two concerts of Music on the Barge to the Rotary pavilion in the park.
Sunday night's opening concert by the Muskoka Concert Band was played to a crowd of a few hundred within the park, which overlooks the Music on the Barge stage.

According to public works operations manager Geoff Carleton, the piles under the walkway ramp that leads equipment and performers to the barge stage have been sheared off by ice.

The town was first notified of the damage by a resident late last fall, but it was too late to correct the problem because the lake was starting to freeze over, according to Debbie Broderick, Gravenhurst's manager of community services.

Once the ice cleared, an engineer reviewed the structure and developed the specifications for repairs.
Quotations have been retained for the work and once the appropriate permits are in hand, a contractor will complete the work within eight days.buy landscape oil paintings online.we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, Approvals for the in-water works are required from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, as well as the Ministry of Natural Resources, Broderick said.

New piles must be secured 20 feet below the water to support the ramp walkway, Carleton explained.
Fred Schulz, producer of the popular music series that draws 2,000 to 3,000 people weekly, is looking forward to a speedy restoration.

"Regardless of the delays to make the necessary repairs to the barge, the shows must go on this season," he said. "If the barge is not available, arrangements will have to be made for portable staging in the park to allow the music series to continue for this season."

He said the first two concerts will be held in the Rotary picnic shelter in Gull Lake Rotary Park, with the rain-out location at Gravenhurst Opera House.Welcome to the official Facebook Page about Ripcurl.

"I know the Town of Gravenhurst is working very hard to expedite the work, so I'm hoping there's still a possibility we'll get on the barge sometime this summer," said Schulz.

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Top 10 IT Security Recommendations to Avoid Being Fooled

With April Fool's Day coming up, it's a great time to consider ways of preventing your customers, users, business, and yourself from being fooled by spammers and other high-tech malefactors. To get some advice, I spoke with, Craig Speizle, the executive director and president of Online Trust Alliance (OTA), a member-driven organization committed to helping businesses protect themselves and their customers against any potential security breach that could compromise identities as well as consumer trust.

These recommendations are targeted at small to medium businesses (SMBs), though Fortune 100 companies could benefit from implementing these suggestions if they're not already doing them. To put some context around the advice, Speizle says, "There's a recurring trend of some of the common breaches or incidents that some simple precautions, some simple operational disciplines, could have resolved. It's estimated by multiple organizations that 90 percent of the instances could be prevented. Most companies aren't doing these things, because they're concerned with running their business; they're not security professionals."

Speizle says these fixes are the low-hanging fruit that's often overlooked. They're vendor neutral and cross platform, and they can be done within a matter of a few days with little or no acquisition cost or upgrading costs. So why aren't people already implementing these measures? "Quite frankly," Speizle declares, "it's like a lot of things—we all have the best intentions, but we lose sight of things."

So without further ado, here are OTA's top 10 recommendations to help businesses and government agencies protect their customers' and employees' personal and financial data from being compromised.

1. Use up-to-date browsers. Upgrade all employees to the most current version of browsers that have integrated phishing and malware protection and privacy controls, including support of "Do Not Track" mechanisms and controls. Such controls provide users the control on third-party data collection, usage, and sharing of their online browsing activities, while balancing out the value of ad supported online services. Further, protect site visitors by notifying them of insecure and outdated browsers that lack integrated anti-phishing, malware protection, and online tracking privacy controls. Consider terminating support for end-of-life browsers with known vulnerabilities by preventing logons and providing instructions to upgrade.

"I would say the two leading browsers are Firefox and Internet Explorer 9," Speizle states.

2. Establish and maintain a Domain Portfolio Management program. This includes monitoring look-alike domains and tracking renewals to prevent "drop catching" of expiring domains. Domain locking is recommended to help guard against unintended changes, deletions, or domain transfers to third parties. Such programs and practices can help protect a company's brand assets and consumers from landing on look-alike sites compromising trademarks and trade names.

Speizle explains that companies need to proactively monitor for look-alike domain names that are registered. "I'm sure you've had it happen where you've typed in something wrong by one letter, and the browser comes up with a site where you have to think twice. 'Is this the site? What am I looking at here?'" But what malefactors are doing is capturing that traffic, and potentially, they could be using that site to defraud customers. This monitoring is something you can do yourself, and there are also companies that offer this monitoring as a service.

EDITORIAL: Light bulb law probably isn't a bright idea

South Carolina's feisty, anti-federalist streak is once again shining brightly for all to see.

As brightly as a good old-fashioned, energy-sucking incandescent light bulb, in fact.

The source is he inspiringly named "Light Bulb Freedom Act," a piece of legislation currently wending its way through the state house that seeks to illuminate and redress the ills of a recent light bulb bill passed by the U.S. Congress. The federal legislation, turned into law in 2007 by George W. Bush (who was not always thought of as the brightest of bulbs himself) calls for phasing out incandescent lights in the U.S., starting with 100-watt bulbs in 2012 and other, lesser wattages a few years after that. The old bulbs will be replaced by those cute little, curly cues known as compact fluorescent bulbs, of CFLs, or possibly by some other future technology, such as enhanced LED bulbs (which are currently on the market in a limited way but are quite expensive – more than $100 per bulb).

The point of banishing the stone age incandescent light bulb from American sockets is to save energy (and probably money). CFLs use about one seventh as much energy as an incandescent bulb and last thousands of hours longer.

Nobody really thinks saving energy is a bad idea, but some South Carolinians, and most importantly, state representative Bill Sandifer (R-Oconee), think the feds telling us what to do and when to do it is. Sandifer, a conservative (but not, apparently, of energy), is the chief sponsor of the Light Bulb Freedom Act. He told the Greenville News he drafted the legislation because he doesn't like CFL bulbs and because he wanted to stand up for states rights (again).

Sandifer's not a lone light in the light bulb darkness. U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina

is sponsoring a senate bill that would repeal the federal law, and legislators in three others states (Texas, Georgia, Minnesota) are waving the state's right bulb flag as well, having launched state legislation that's akin to Sandifer.

The Light Bulb Freedom Act is a clever bill in that it attacks the foundation of the federal bill, not its upper stories. It proposes to allow the sale of incandescent bulbs in South Carolina to continue – so long as the bulbs are all sold in state. That's a potential winner, legally anyway, because the feds' ability to give us orders stems in large part from the interstate commerce clause in the constitution. If there's no interstate commerce, then the clause is moot.

Whether Sandifer's cleverness is usefully employed is another matter.

There are problems with CFLs. The bulbs run on mercury, which is toxic metal. That makes both handling and disposal more complicated than with a conventional bulb. And CFLs are more expensive to buy, although they will actually save money over their life because of the savings in power useage.

But the savings in energy useage – enough to make a real dent in U.S. power needs – would seem to trump all that. Estimates do vary, but a recent United States Department of Energy report suggested that the almost 400 million CFLs shipped to the U.S. in 2007 would save 111 billion kilowatt hours, which is about what the state of South Carolina uses in a year.



Both patriots and tree huggers can rally round a technology that reduces the need for imported fuels in the country.

Yes, that will mean letting the feds tell us how to screw in a light bulb, or which one to screw in, but if we did otherwise the joke would be on us.

Glynn Academy student wins on and off the baseball field


BRUNSWICK | Johnny “Buckshot” Simmons is a winner in the classroom and on the baseball diamond.

The Glynn Academy senior has come back strong, academically and athletically, from a devastating eye injury last year.

Simmons, a pitcher, was practicing with his Red Terror teammates in May when a line drive struck him in the left eye crushing the socket, breaking his nose and causing his right eye to swell shut.

He spent the next four weeks either hospitalized or recovering at home after surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville saved his eye and his sight. Surgeons performed a cornea transplant, and reattached his retina in his left eye.

Initially told by doctors that he would never play baseball again, the soft-spoken Simmons politely rejected their prognosis then set about proving them wrong.

“I tried to just keep going,” Simmons said. “You push forward through it. There was nothing I could do about it [the accident], but I could do something about what happened after it.”

As hard as he trained to get back into shape to return to the team, which rallied to support him after he was hurt, Simmons worked just as hard to catch up on his studies.

“He’s always been a good student and a great kid,” Glynn Academy Principal Scott Spence said. “He did not let his injury impact socket him at all.”

Simmons’ focus has earned him state recognition. The 18-year-old became state champion in precision machining technology March 18 during the SkillsUSA Georgia Leadership and Skills Conference in Atlanta.

The day after he won the state competition, Simmons returned to Brunswick to pitch a winning game against Ware County, Spence said.

Representing Golden Isles Career Academy, Simmons will compete in the 47th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference June 19-24 in Kansas City, Mo. He will be among nearly 6,000 students showcasing their  skills, Principal Ralph Gornto said.

The competition will test Simmons in reading blueprints, completing milling projects and working with a lathe, Gornto said.

“Throwing a curve ball is a lot easier,” Simmons said.

Simmons is as passionate about the metal work as he is about baseball.

“I’m good at it and I like doing it,” he said with genuine modesty. “I like working with real-life objects and making things that people are going to use.”

The son of Johnny and Michele Simmons, he plans to major in mechanical engineering in college.

“I’ll be the fourth- generation machinist if I go into it,” said Simmons, who explained that his father is a reliability engineer at the Georgia-Pacific Koch Cellulose mill in Brunswick.

Simmons hasn’t decided which college he wants to attend, but he knows he wants to play baseball there.

If his record is any indication, he should be a welcome addition to any college team. He has a 3-0 record this season, and his earned run average ERA is under 3, his coach said.

“I wish I had 20 more kids just like him on the team,” Glynn Academy head coach Bobby Link said. “He’s a great athlete and all-round great kid.”

Simmons said his teammates, Glynn Academy’s Diamond Club and the community rallied to help him recover and return to do the things that he loves.

“Everybody has been so supportive and I can’t thank them enough,” he said.

Ingersoll Rand Launches New Industrial-Grade Impact Sockets

The method of pipe joining is an important factor when designing and installing a piping

system. Before choosing the joining method, it is important to consider several factors,

including installation conditions, project schedule, available labor skills and tooling

requirements, as well as other design and construction considerations. Each of these elements

has an impact on which piping method will be the most suitable.

The primary methods of joining carbon steel and stainless steel pipe in the commercial market

are welding, flanging, threading and, of course, grooved. Because every project has its own

set of challenges, for each project one must consider the best possible solution for that

application. In the case of mechanical systems, the opportunities to use grooved systems are

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A grooved pipe joint is comprised of four elements: the grooved pipe, the gasket, the

coupling housings, and the nuts and bolts. The groove is made by cold forming or machining a

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the two pipe ends, and the key sections of the coupling housing engage the grooves. The bolts

and nuts are tightened with a socket wrench or impact wrench. In the installed state, the

coupling housing encases the gasket and engages the grooves around the circumference of the

pipe to create a leak-tight seal in a self-restrained pipe joint.