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DALTON, Ga. — Grappling with the state budget, health care and education is high on the agenda for three Republicans who represent Northwest Georgia in the state House of Representatives.
As for introducing new legislation -- not so much.
"I haven't seen a big push for a lot of new laws," said District 5 Rep. John Meadows, of Calhoun.
Meadows would know. He's chairman of the Rules Committee that decides whether a bill lives or dies.
Meadows visited Dalton State College on Friday along with District 1 Rep. Jay Neal, of LaFayette, and District 6 Rep. Tom Dickson, of Cohutta. The three lawmakers shared their expectations for the legislative year during an informal hourlong talk with the media.
"The main thing's going to be the budget," Meadows said.
Republican Gov. Nathan Deal ordered most state agencies to cut 3 percent from their budgets during the 2013 and 2014 fiscal years.
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"We know of 26 hospitals that would close," Meadows said, including the Murray Medical Center in Chatsworth, which is in Meadows' district.
Dickson, a former educator who's done everything from driving a school bus and teaching to serving as superintendent of schools, was asked about the effects of publicly financed, privately owned charter schools.
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The cost of the stadium would be paid by the Falcons and a tax on Atlanta hotel visitors. That's a better deal than the team's current field, the Georgia Dome, which Neal said was 100 percent publicly funded.
"The [proposed] stadium is a pretty good deal for the state of Georgia," Neal said. "Us propping up the Falcons -- that's not the reality of what this deal is about."
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Save for the genuine bite of "Money" and "Time," Dark Side is among the least visceral and most cerebral of great rock albums, all floating textures and creeping tempos. "My doctor said never play above your pulse rate," Mason says. But Gilmour's incandescent lead guitar is a constant link back to hard rock. "Some punch, some rock guitar," he says, nodding. "You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick."
Dark Side lacked an ending until Waters came in one day with "Eclipse," a short but immensely powerful track that's constructed as a prayerlike litany: The first two lines echo lyrics from "Breathe," at the start of the album: "All that you touch/All that you see," Waters sings, as the track gradually gains momentum. "I remember working hard on making it build and adding harmonies that join in as you go through the song," says Gilmour. "Because there's nothing to it – there's no chorus, there's no middle eight, there's just a straight list. So, every four lines we'll do something different."
The last step was the album cover. Thorgerson prepared numerous sketches, including one that would have been a photographic treatment of Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer at a beach. The whole band instantly selected the image of a prism emerging from a triangle (which symbolized "thought and ambition," according to Thorgerson), partially a tribute to its light show. In a gesture of largesse that today's recording budgets wouldn't quite allow, Floyd then sent Thorgerson to Egypt to shoot pictures of the Pyramids for the album's interior art.
'Money, it's a hit," Gilmour sang, and so it was, along with just about everything the band would do for the next eight years. "Money" made the Top 20 in the U.S., Dark Side began what would be a 741-week run on the charts, and Pink Floyd were an arena-level act in the States. Waters, who had been a committed socialist, saw a certain cynicism creep in. In the Pink, a long-unreleased memoir by his friend Nick Sedgwick, has Waters saying things like, "Oh, I'll just go write another song and make a few thousand quid. Here's to the punters – let's buy another motorboat." "I don't shine in a positively bright way in the book," says Waters, who's putting it out himself soon. "But I don't give a fuck now. We all are who we are." The book apparently also makes a strong case for Waters' creative dominance, which he has said led the other members to reject its release.
The Floyd were already trying to work on songs for a follow-up to Dark Side by 1974, and they started having the worst arguments of their time together to date. "Looking back, we shouldn't have gone back into the studio so soon after Dark Side," says Mason. "We should have toured for [another] year."
By 1979, Waters' control of the band was all but complete. He forced out Wright, whose contributions had slipped in the wake of personal problems. 1979's The Wall was Waters' baby (though Gilmour is proud of his musical contributions), and 1983's stark The Final Cut was a Waters solo album in all but name. "Maybe the band could have continued if everyone decided to do everything exactly how Roger wanted," says Mason. "But it may just be that Roger had outgrown the band." In 1985, Waters left Pink Floyd – and was stunned when Gilmour and Mason decided to carry on without him.
"Roger left in '85," says Gilmour. "I was in my late thirties and I'd joined Pink Floyd when I was 21. My entire adult life had been working on this artistic enterprise, this band, which was pretty much playing the sort of music that I loved. Why would I suddenly want to quit? I didn't want to quit. Roger leaving, you know, one can discuss forever what we lost and how what came afterward in some way didn't consistently match up to what may have been our best previous moments. I don't know. Very tricky sort of area to discuss, but the fact is for me, we went on, we continued doing what we did, we were pretty damn successful at it, and had a fantastic great time."
The Gilmour-led Pink Floyd recorded two studio albums, 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason and 1994s The Division Bell. They commercially trounced Waters' solo work, with the bassist sometimes seeing half-sold arenas at his own shows while Floyd played stadiums nearby. "You know, he set up confrontational things," says Gilmour. "The humiliation you talk about was designed by him as a head-to-head, and hopefully he learned. And he wanted to do his solo stuff and mix in Pink Floyd. There was a certain pride in that."
The new Floyd finished their last tour in 1994, and without fanfare, Gilmour called it quits. "I was launched into being pretty much" the sole leader by Roger leaving," he says. "And I was having to bear that hurdle, that burden, all by myself. It was difficult, it was a learning curve, that first album. But you know, Division Bell's got a lot to be said for it. After that the weight of carrying that burden was getting a bit much. And I thought I might sort of retire or look into solo things."
Gilmour released a solo album, On an Island, in 2006, and embarked on a well-reviewed theater tour with Wright onboard. "Doing it on a slightly smaller scale without the expectation of that Pink Floyd tag on it, doing whatever I wanted with whatever musicians I wanted was joyful," Gilmour says. "Not many people want to change scale in that direction, to downsize. Most people want to get as big as they can be and cling up there to the last possible dying gasp. I've been there, and I've done it, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm satisfied with it, and I just do not want to play a stadium again." But his retreat from the Floyd legacy left a hole that his former bandmate was all too happy to fill.
Two days after Gilmour's houseboat interview, Waters sits in his own, more businesslike home base on the other side of the Atlantic – a production office on the 10th floor of a downtown Manhattan office building. At 68, Waters is wiry and fit, and he's exuding some seriously feral energy today. It's not just because it's his first time back in the office after a summer off: His Wall tour was the second-highest-grossing in North America last year, and it's only getting started. "In Europe, it seemed to be even better than over here, and it just gets better and better – we sold 86,000 tickets yesterday," he says with a broad smile, referring to a run of shows in Buenos Aires. Then, as if to upstage the rerelease of his own band's back catalog, he makes a point of announcing that his tour will return to the U.S. next year, based around baseball stadiums.
In other words, the album that decried the inhumanity of stadium shows will, for the first time, hit stadiums. The wall that goes up during the show, Waters says, will now have a square surface of 140 yards: "We've done light tests in Fenway Park and Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium, and it's fine. It works." He's also working on a filmed version of the tour, a long-planned Wall Broadway show and multiple upcoming productions of Qa Ira, his opera about the French Revolution.
Once the Wall tour is over, Waters may follow Gilmour's lead and scale down. "I'm not sure I want to go out and do greatest hits again," he says. "I think if I did any more in the future it might well be smaller."
Waters was busy touring while the reissues came together, and waves off questions about the specifics. "Dave and Nick would know a lot more about what's going on than I would," he says. ("I sent him the box a year ago," says Thorgerson.)
Sitting by an immaculate glass conference table in the wood-floored office – where it's impossible not to notice a window opening onto a brick wall – Waters takes great pains to avoid debating his former bandmates. As he told me last year, "I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings ever again." When I mention that Gilmour claims that Waters rarely wrote vocal melodies, he looks grim for a second and then embarks on an answer about how memory can be unreliable. He does make a point of noting the importance of the collaboration. "Something might have happened without Rick or without me or without Dave," he says, perhaps accidentally leaving out Mason's name, "but it wouldn't have been what did happen."
The truth is, Gilmour and Waters were never particularly close friends, and hardly knew each other until Gilmour joined the band – though Waters remembers being delighted when he first arrived. "He's a wonderful singer and a great guitar player," he says. "What more could you want? And he's also a nice bloke. Good fun, likes a laugh and all that. It wasn't like, 'Oh, he's a great guitar player and a beautiful singer, but, he's weird.'"
From the outside, it seems that relations between Gilmour and Waters are the strongest they've been since Waters left. "You would think so, yeah," Gilmour says, pursing his lips and staying silent for a moment. "You could say that, but when I hesitate, it's almost nonexistent. I played on Roger's Wall show here one night a few months ago, and I haven't seen or heard a word from him since." In the intervening period, Gilmour's son Charlie was sentenced to 16 months in prison for his participation in a violent protest against a U.K. university tuition hike – which might have been a good opportunity for Waters to get in touch. Months before that, Waters and Gilmour played "Wish You Were Here" and three other songs at their charity acoustic gig, and they had no communication in between, according to Gilmour. "It's not unfriendly. But it's not part of either of our day-to-day existence."
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EDMOND — Turnovers and big plays have been a problem for Moore, and continued to be Thursday when it lost 49-13 to Edmond North at Wantland Stadium in Edmond.
The loss drops the Lions to 1-7 on the season as their struggles to hold onto the ball doomed them from the very start.
"We didn't play like we should have," Moore senior Evan Sprayberry said. "Came out really, really, bad. It's the only word I can say."
The Lions got the ball to start the game. On fourth-and-one on its own 29, they attempted to catch the Huskies (5-3, 4-1) off guard with a quick kick. However, the maneuver failed when quarterback Jordan Bernhardy had his punt blocked by North's Mark Piatt and recovered on the 19-yard line.
Two plays later Luke Rossi caught a touchdown pass to give the Huskies the early advantage.
The Lions gave the ball back again on the very next possession when Antonio Williams picked off Bernhardy. It led to back-to-back touchdowns by Ezel McIntee, who put the Huskies up 21-0.
Moore's lone bright spot came when Casen Haddox blocked a North field goal attempt late in the period in the opening quarter. But Moore was unable to translate it into points.
Midway through the second quarter, Moore had its third turnover when on fourth down the snap went over the head of punter Lance Biswell's. North took over on the Moore 23, and Marcus Ford scored on the short drive.
Bernhardy was able to make things happen with his legs that allowed him to pick up a few first downs. But Edmond North put the clamps on tailback Ryan Lujan any time he touched the ball. The passing game was nowhere to be found.
Moore got its offense moving late in the first half when Bernhardy drove the team down the field before they stalled out at the Huskies 40-yard line with less than a minute on the clock.
That was more than enough time for McIntee, who broke off a 60-yard touchdown run to put North up 35-0 at halftime.
McIntee scored twice more in the first three minutes of the third quarter. He ended the night with 212 yards and five touchdown runs on eight carries.
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"What I want to see is no one give up," Sprayberry said. "We still have two games left. We can still win these games and finish off with some pride. Maybe knock some teams out of the playoffs. I know the chances of us getting in are really slim, but knocking them out would be just as good."
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The Party Source is graciously donating an event for my charity, the Krystal Pepper Memorial Scholarship Fund. It's a wine tasting event to be held on Sept 11, 6-8 pm. We have seats still open for 28 people. Seats are $40/pp and include appetizers and a flight of 6 wines + the education to go with it.
We know we want to focus on French reds that evening, but Jay at the Party Source has given me a choice on the niche he talks about. Such great topics that I just can't choose!
I love the idea of women Winemakers, because Krystal was all about girl power. I love the idea of young, up & coming winemakers, as Krystal was just that. And I love the idea of a traditional, powerful Bordeaux/Burgundy tasting.
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CONCERNS have been raised about land which has gone up for sale next to a recently formed travellers' site.
The travellers moved onto land opposite Willow Cottage, on Southend Road, near the Five Bells roundabout, over the Easter bank holiday weekend.
This sparked anger among local residents that Thurrock Council did not act sooner to prevent the caravans from settling on the land.
Thurrock Council is treating the development as a planning breach and considering taking enforcement action.
Now it has emerged two plots of land around the site, thought to be owned by someone living in Spain, are for sale. Fears have been raised the land could be bought by the traveller community already on the site and others may join them.The owner of Five Bells Caravan Centre, in Southend Road, owns the rest of the land in the area.
One resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "This land will probably be bought by travellers. It will make that stretch of land and road busier and dangerous for the amount of traffic it receives each day."
The sale of the two parcels of land is being handled by Dedman Gray, which is holding a public auction on July 17. The company said its client does not want to be identified.
Russell Hawkes, auction consultant for Dedman Gray, said: "If the neighbours are concerned, they should contact us and come to the auction. It is a public auction."
Corringham and Fobbing councillor Mark Coxshall thought this showed where the council's development framework policy had failed. He claimed this land should have been included with other plots in Thurrock to be developed on, namely as the site for East Thurrock United's new football stadium, which might have meant this saga was avoided.
He said: "I can't tell a businessman who to sell his land to. But if it was my land, I wouldn't sell it to travellers because I wouldn't want to upset good relations with Corringham and Fobbing residents.
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International iPad 2 pricing announced, UK less than the original iPad launch price
Earlier today Apple confirmed that iPad 2 will go on sale Friday, 25 March at 5pm local time, with online orders starting a 1am -- and now international pricing has begun to show up.
Read on for the full breakdown...
UK iPad 2 Pricing
In the UK, iPad 2 is actually cheaper than the original iPad. The WiFi only models of the iPad 2 will go on sale at £399.00 for the 16GB, £479.00 for the 32GB and £559.00 for the 64GB. The premium to go with a 3G derivative will be exactly £100.00.
The original iPad WiFi only cost was £429.00 for the 16GB, £499.00 for the 32GB and £599.00 for the 64GB model, so this represents a nice saving on every model for those in the UK.
Australia iPad 2 Pricing
In Australia, iPad 2 with Wi-Fi will be available for a recommended retail price of A$579 inc GST for the 16GB model, A$689 inc GST for the 32GB model, A$799 inc GST the 64GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available for a RRP of A$729 inc GST for the 16GB model, A$839 inc GST for the 32GB model and A$949 inc GST for the 64GB model.
Canada iPad 2 Pricing
In Canada prices are $519 (CAN) for the 16GB model, $619 (CAN) for the 32GB model, $719 (CAN) the 64GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available for a suggested retail price of $649 (CAN) for the 16GB model, $749 (CAN) for the 32GB model and $849 (CAN) for the 64GB model.
France iPad 2 Pricing
France gets a MSRP of € 489 including VAT (€ 400.86 excluding VAT and remuneration for private copying) for the 16GB model, 591 € including VAT (€ 484.15 excluding VAT and remuneration for private copying) for the 32GB model, and 693 € TTC ( € 567.43 excluding VAT and remuneration for private copying) for the 64 GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available at an MSRP of 609 € including VAT (€ 501.20 excluding VAT and pay for private copy) for the 16GB model, 711 € including VAT (€ 584.48 excluding VAT and remuneration for private copying) for the 32GB model and 813 € including VAT (€ 667.77 excluding VAT and remuneration for private copying) for The 64GB model.
Germany iPad 2 Pricing
In Germany, iPad 2 goes for 479 € including VAT (€ 402.52 excluding VAT) for the 16 GB model, for 579 euros including VAT (€ 486.55 excl VAT) for the 32 GB model, and for € 679 inc VAT (€ 570.59 excluding VAT) for the 64 GB model. iPad 2 with WiFi + 3G for 599 € including VAT (€ 503.36 excluding VAT) for the 16 GB model, for 699 euros including VAT (€ 587.39 excl VAT) for the 32 GB model, and for 799 € including VAT (€ 671.43 excluding VAT) for the 64 GB
How do the prices compare to the original iPad in your country? Let us know in the comments!
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WOW thats just awesome, and I ordered mine 2:33 PST on launch day and still have no iPad. WTF? mine wont ship until April 1st and the rest of the world will get it and cheaper! (UK). Why doesnt Apple fix the supply problem here before adding world wide supply?
They probably don't want to leave the International Customers in the cold like they did last year.
Mine is still stuck in Hong Kong. But it got out of China and got onto the island where the Hong Kong international airport is.
I ordered mine at 1am pst and got it yesterday... one day early in fact. So maybe there is hope that you will get it sooner.
You had a two week head start
RJ - look at the currency symbols. It's actually considerably more expensive in the UK, which I hope satisfies your xenophobia/sense of entitlement.
The reason hy it appears we are getting it for a cheaper price is because our Canadian dollar has appreciated in value and is worth more than the American dollar.
So really we are paying more than Americans are in Canada.
529 CAD = 540 USD so really we're not getting it "cheaper"
Same can apply fir other country. Most countries currency appreciated in value compared to the USD
In Portugal, 3G prices remain unchanged (599€,699€,799€) but Wifi models decreased in comparison to the original iPad, at 479€, 579€ and 679€, against the previous 499€, 599€ and 699€ (which later increased due to a VAT raise).
In germany, it is 20€ cheaper than the first ipad!!!!
£399! Oh my god I sold my iPad 1G for £350 yesterday!
Really pleased at the UK pricing structure for iPad 2. Notoriously labelled as 'ripoff Britain' because normally something for sale in USD$ normally equates to a 1:1 conversion ratio into GBP£.
I intend to get to the Apple Store in Milton Keynes at 3pm, hoping that'll leave enough time to get a good place in the queue to snap up a 32gb WiFi model, not bothered which colour, the cover ad a HDMI cable.
Dude you're going to want to line up MUCH earlier than that. If you really want one on launch day be prepared to show up a couple hours BEFORE THE STORE OPENS. By the time you get there at 3 there will already be 1000 people in line.
I might be totally wrong but I can't imagine needing to get to a UK Apple Store for 6am-7am and queuing till 5pm in order to get one. I can't even imagine seeing 1000 people there. Again, I could be wrong but I can't really see it here in the UK. What were store queues like for the iPhone 4 or iPad 1? Don't recall reading about MASSIVE queues...
that says it's "delayed" to 5pm on friday, which is nonsense because that's the same time they're launching it everywhere (including the time they launched it in the US).
Really interesting UK pricing, especially considering that VAT has gone up from 17.5% to 20% since the 1st Gen iPad launched.
Well those prices (including UK VAT) are still not enough to get an iPad 2 here in Sweden. My guess is they will end up around £450 here with our taxes and stuff.
Still worth it, yey for free healthcare =)
Not happy Jan! Oz price have gone up $20 which is totally bizarre as now our dollar is worth more the the US$. In fact when the first iPad was released the Oz$ was only worth $0.83US, whereas today it's worth $1.01. Come on Apple, stop ripping us off and drop your prices Inc iTunes as well!!!
Oz prices haven't gone up at all, they've been marked down. The 16GB Wi-FI Only model has gone from $629 to $579 - $50 bucks off. Same with the 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G model. Was $1049 now $949 - $100 off!. Thanks Apple for acknowledging the parity of the US and Australian Dollars for a change! Pretty happy about the price drop but still not enough to make me want (to pay for) a 'third device'.
iPad 1 Australian Prices (for comparison):
iPad is available in Australia for a recommended retail price of AUS$629 inc GST for 16GB, AUS$759 inc GST for 32GB, AUS$879 inc GST for 64GB for Wi-Fi models and AUS$799 inc GST for 16GB, AUS$928 inc GST for 32GB and AUS$1049 inc GST for 64GB for Wi-Fi + 3G models.
Well, yes they were the launch prices but the wifi 16gb was AU$549 prior to the price drop to AU$449, so I call it still a price increase. Still say we're getting the raw end of the prawn at $579, as that means they value our dollar at only US$0.86 even though its been over a dollar on avg for nearly 6 months.
Maybe Apple dollars are worth more!!
what time are online orders as some sites are saying the press release said 1pm not 1am. Can anyone clarify
Dear Yanks, you had ur chance now it's the rest of the world's. You aren't the centre of the world. U preferred ordering online instead of getting it instantly by queueing up, sad but blame yourself. I'll wait something like 12 hours in a line and get to play with my iPad2 straight away. YOU you will have to wait a few more weeks because you took the easiest route. Stop sooking, suck it up!!
I'm on your side!
People who queue 12 hours make people queue 13 hours.
And I'm queuing 12 hours because there was people queuing when I the iPhone 4 line 10 hours early! =D
Exactly. This is people crowdsourcing themselves dumber. If the 2 or 3 hour queue looks longer than anticipated supply at my local Apple Store then I'm going to go home and play computer games and play with my iPad 1 until the online order arrives.
kinda feel cheated... so much more for the same £££
though it could be worse I suppose.... right?
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An open house was held Monday for general surgeon Jay Jacinto, M.D. at his new office.
Colleagues, patients and residents attended the event and enjoyed conversation and refreshments as they toured the new office.
Dr. Jacinto joined Valley View Regional Hospital in May 2011 from the Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he completed his internship and residency at the Brooklyn Hospital Center.
"I've been here in Ada for almost a year now," Jacinto said Monday. "The people have been great and I've been having a real good time. My practice has been slowly building up and it's getting a little bit stronger now. I'm very happy here in Ada."
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Monday, October 03, 2005The Valparaiso softball team concluded fall play with four wins and two losses. Leading the way for the Crusaders were sophomore pitcher Chris Halstead (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral H.S.), who earned two victories, and sophomore catcher Shannon Robinson (Toronto, Ontario/John Redmond H.S.), who ended fall play with a team-high .517 batting average.
The Brown and Gold started fall play by dropping a 6-3 decision to Saint Joseph's College. Halstead, a 2nd team All Mid-Continent Conference performer last season, took the circle for the Crusaders against Loyola (Ill.) and twirled a gem, leading Valpo to a 1-0 victory.
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Offensively, Robinson led the way for Valpo, pounding out seven doubles and three triples to go along with her .517 average. Junior Taylor Callahan (Grayson, Ga./Greater Atlanta Christian H.S.), a 1st team All Mid-Con selection last season, finished play with a .434 average and 11 RBIs. Also contributing in the lineup were senior Ann Sievert (Davenport, Iowa/Assumption H.S./Muscatine CC), sophomore Courtney LaFerle (Elgin, Ill./Larkin H.S.), and sophomore Maggie Seidel (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest H.S.), who each hit over .300 for the Crusaders.
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Over the years a frequent request of SANS attendees has been for consensus policies, or at least security policy templates, that they can use to get their security programs updated to reflect 21st century requirements. While SANS has provided some policy resources for several years, we felt we could do more if we could get the community to work together. This page provides a vastly improved collection of policies and policy templates.
It also offers a primer for those new to policy development and specific guidance on policies related to legal requirements such as the HIPAA guidelines.
This page will continue to be a work in-progress and the policy templates will be living documents. We hope all of you who are SANS attendees will be willing and able to point out any problems in the models we post by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We also hope that you will share policies your organization has written if they reflect a different need from those provided here or if they do a better job of making the policies brief, easy to read, feasible to implement, and effective.
We'll make improvements and add new resources and sample policies as we discover them.
What's in a name? We frequently hear people use the names "policy", "standard", and "guideline" to refer to documents that fall within the policy infrastructure. So that those who participate in this consensus process can communicate effectively, we'll use the following definitions.
A policy is typically a document that outlines specific requirements or rules that must be met. In the information/network security realm, policies are usually point-specific, covering a single area. For example, an "Acceptable Use" policy would cover the rules and regulations for appropriate use of the computing facilities.
A standard is typically a collection of system-specific or procedural-specific requirements that must be met by everyone. For example, you might have a standard that describes how to harden a Windows 8.1 workstation for placement on an external (DMZ) network. People must follow this standard exactly if they wish to install a Windows 8.1 workstation on an external network segment. In addition, a standard can be a technology selection, e.g. Company Name uses Tenable SecurityCenter for continuous monitoring, and supporting policies and procedures define how it is used.
A guideline is typically a collection of system specific or procedural specific "suggestions" for best practice. They are not requirements to be met, but are strongly recommended. Effective security policies make frequent references to standards and guidelines that exist within an organization.
SANS has received permission to provide sanitized security policies from a large organization. These policies were developed by a group of experienced security professionals with more than 80 years of combined experience in government and commercial organizations, and each policy went through a vigorous approval process. They should form a good starting point if you need one of these policies.
Anything that is in <angle brackets> should be replaced with the appropriate name from your organization. The term "InfoSec" is used throughout these documents to refer the team of people responsible for network and information security. Replace "InfoSec" with the appropriate group name from your organization. Any policy name that is in italics is a reference to a policy that is also available on this site.
Defines responsibilities regarding corporate acquisitions, and defines the minimum requirements of an acquisition assessment to be completed by the information security group.
This policy provides for more secure Bluetooth Device operations. It protects the company from loss of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and proprietary company data.
Defines appropriate dial-in access and its use by authorized personnel.
Defines the means to establish a culture of openness, trust and integrity in business practices.
Defines the requirements for classifying and securing the organization's information in a manner appropriate to its sensitivity level.
Defines requirements for internal labs to ensure that confidential information and technologies are not compromised, and that production services and interests of the organization are protected from lab activities.
Describes Information Security's requirements for Personal Communication Devices and Voicemail.
Defines the requirements and provides the authority for the information security team to identify, assess, and remediate risks to the organization's information infrastructure associated with conducting business.
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Rear disc for drums on Silverado?
Hello all. I was reading that some people want to convert the rear drum brakes on the Silverado to disc.
Is this a good move by GM to keep putting drum brakes on $40K pickups? I am pretty sure that the drum brakes in the rear will do the job just fine.
IIRC GM had 4 wheel disc on their trucks up to 2002, but then went back to rear drums.
Disc are great because they are easy to maintain, have superior stopping power, and work well with ABS.
Drums are great because they are cheap, reliable, better for loads, and don't get affected by water.
Both are great in their own way but for a daily driver disks win, for a heavy hauler drums rule. But with new disc braking tech discs are king because they can have several calipers, be easily cooler, and offer better computer control possibilities.
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Disc brakes dont actually have better stopping power than drums.
The advantages Disc's do have are:
Shed water and debris better and faster
Easier maintenance
Faster cooling
Hold water and debris out longer
Dont have as many warping issues
Take longer to heat up
As far as operating force theres quite a few drum brake systems made that have multiple pressure points, but the systems used at this time dont really have the need for this type technology.
Drums can be manufactured with more square inch's of braking force by enlarging the brake drum over the axle hub, Disc brakes require a larger disc to enlarge square inc's of braking force which means a larger wheel is required, which sometimes requires a larger brake to stop the now larger wheel, you could keep going with this until it got rediculous.
Manufacturers have gone back to drum brake set-ups because they cost less to manufacture and have less repair issues, i.e. warping. Rotors when compared to drums tend to warp easily, and if your driving a truck designed to pull or carry heavy loads you'll be using the brakes quite a bit, after a while you'll end up warping the rotors.
Theres a few designs manufactured to stop this issue but manufacturing cost's are more expensive.
Take a look at many race vehicles or Semi trucks, they use Disc brakes but the disc's arent mounted at the ends of the axle inside the wheels, they're mounted inboard where they get better cooling and can be larger since their not size restricted by the wheels. But designs like this are a little cost prohibitive at this time for normal production vehicles.
I believe all GM trucks (at least since the 1999/2000 change over have both let me explain). My 2000 silverado has 4 wheel discs with ABS.
However the rear axle is a combination Disc/Drum where my powered brakes are discs, but the drum is there for the emergency/manual/parking brake that you press with the parking brake pedal.
The Below Article goes into Detail as to Why G.M. went back to Rear Drum Brakes, in 2005" on their Trucks,
In Braking Systems, the Race for Better Stopping Power Is On
Published: 16 Sep 2004
By Avijit Ghosh
Several automakers and major suppliers are preparing new, high-performance brake systems that can effectively address consumer concerns. Porsche, Ferrari, and Mercedes-Benz recently have launched very expensive carbon-ceramic braking systems. But automakers and suppliers are more concerned with cost-effectively improving braking systems for everyday vehicles.
Shortcomings of Current Braking Systems:
Chevrolet's Silverado and GMC's Sierra light-duty pickup trucks have been two of the best-selling and most-profitable vehicles for General Motors Corp. However, customers have raised certain complaints about the braking system of these models, which face stiff competition from Ford's F-150, Nissan's Titan and Dodge's Ram pickup trucks in the North American market.
The issues that caused concern on the part of Silverado/Sierra drivers were:
- High force must be imparted on the brake pedal to initiate vehicle stoppage.
- The brake pedal feels spongy.
- Brakes do not possess satisfactory stopping power.
To address such concerns, automakers and brake system suppliers focus on the following goals:
- Providing brakes that wear less and last longer, thus providing longer service life.
- Reducing the force needed on the brake pedal to stop the vehicle.
- Substantially reducing stopping time and distance.
General Motors teamed up with brake system supplier Robert Bosch GmbH to develop a new braking system for the 2005 models of the Silverado and Sierra. This is an attempt to provide a solution to customers' concerns.
Bosch Braking Systems:
Bosch provides power-assisted braking systems that produce maximum deceleration even on application of relatively light brake pedal force, considerably reducing braking distance. Bosch also provides emergency valve assistance for vehicles equipped with anti-lock braking systems.
Bosch brake pads feature multi-layer technology. They are vehicle specific, with specially formulated materials that provide high stopping power with less noise and longer service life. For light-duty full-size pickups, Bosch improved the stiffness of the front brake calipers, which reduces pedal travel and redistributes braking effort between the front and rear brakes.
Specifics of the Bosch System for the Silverado/Sierra Vehicles:
In 2002, Bosch received a contract from General Motors to develop a new braking system for the 2005 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra light-duty full-size pickup trucks.
Prior to 1999, the Silverado/Sierra pickup trucks had drum brakes at the rear wheels. In 1999, standard four-wheel disc brakes were introduced for these vehicles, but these remained only through 2004. The 2005 models are reverting back to the earlier concept of drum brakes for the rear wheels.
General Motors measures overall braking comfort and performance on a scale of 0 to 100, called the Brake Feel Index (BFI). Scores are based on a weighted composite of variables that contribute to drivers' overall impression of the braking experience. According to General Motors' estimates, the BFI of the 2005 Silverado/Sierra models will improve to 84, up from 62 for the 2004 models. In comparison, BFIs are 76 points for the 2004 F 150 Super Crew, 62 points for the 2004 Ram Quad Cab, 71 points for the 2004 Titan Crew Cab, and 59 points for the 2004 Tundra, according to General Motors.
For General Motors, Bosch focused primarily on developing the front brakes, since pickup trucks place the majority of braking torque on the front wheels. This is mainly because during vehicle deceleration, load is transferred from the rear tires to the front ones. As the rear brakes in pickups do not significantly contribute to slowing the vehicle, it makes sense to use drum brakes, which are less powerful and less costly, for the rear wheels. Instead, developing the front brakes and other brake system components is more cost-effective.
According to General Motors, the new braking system will reduce stopping distance by 26 meters and stopping time by 2 seconds from a speed of 97 kilometers per hour, using just the front brakes. These improvements, and the better BFI score, are attained by means of a stiffer master cylinder, stiffer twin-piston calipers, and front discs that are 2.5 centimeters larger in diameter. This reduces brake pedal effort and the spongy brake feel, and gives better overall response and proper feedback to drivers.
The larger rotors provide an additional 355 square centimeters of swept area, which generates more stopping force. Additionally, the drums to be used are the largest in a light-duty vehicle, having a diameter of 29.5 centimeters.
The upgrading of rotor and caliper components will allow an expensive and space-consuming booster to be eliminated. The booster had been needed to provide the necessary hydraulic pressure in the event of power loss.
Delphi's Maximum Torque Brake System:
Delphi Corp. has designed a braking system called the Maximum Torque Brake (MTB) system. This system uses two brake rotors for each wheel. This is an innovative concept from Delphi, because a single brake rotor has been used in every production disc-brake system to date.
In the MTB system, each rotor is clamped by a caliper, just like in a typical single-disc system. There are four friction surfaces per wheel to generate braking force, instead of two. According to Delphi, as a result of the doubling of the friction surface area, the MTB system generates 1.7 times more braking torque as compared to a system using a single rotor with the same diameter. Stopping power is enhanced with less pedal effort. The system also incorporates low-friction linings to reduce noise.
The twin-disc design provides four cooling surfaces, which reduces thermal stress on the brake components. This eliminates the need for vanes or cooling channels. According to Delphi, disc diameter can be reduced by 25 millimeters, which allows use of smaller, lower-cost wheels.
This system is suitable for a wide range of vehicles, from small passenger cars to light-duty sport-utility vehicles and trucks. According to Delphi, this system can be integrated with other systems in its portfolio of electronically controlled brakes, including Delphi Electronic Stability Control. Therefore, this system may set a new standard for braking systems. However, to date, Delphi is not known to have any contracts for the MTB system.
Will General Motors' New Braking System for Pickups Take Off?
Market acceptance of General Motors' new braking system can only be determined in model year 2005. Although we may see technologically advanced braking systems like Delphi's MTB System in the future, these will not be able to compete on a cost basis with low-cost rear drum brakes.
General Motors maintains that its new braking system will address consumer complaints quite effectively, but other automakers may well introduce advanced braking system of their own in the near future. The race for more-effective braking systems - both in terms of stopping power and cost-effectiveness - is on.
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That is my one complaint with my Tahoe it's brakes stink and feel so weak. It scares me come to a light and I just turns red because it have to try to stop 5400lb in a short distance. I wonder if old trucks can be upgraded with new brake systems?
these rotor vehicles had park brake recalls only on the standard shift because they lacked the proper holding power.
rear drum brakes are best for these trucks . the rotor park brake I have is not very strong ! if you apply this rotor park brake on my vehicle with it moving this will break it. also not to hold vehicle on steep grades. this was all revealed to me after I purchased the vehicle and this was at 15,ooomi when I failed inspection because the small park brake shoes worn out due to GM defective shoe clips ! this was replaced in the stardard shift models . the automatic models got zero ! about 2yrs ago a class action lawsuit finnaly made it thew the courts GM had to pay those who could show they had to repair these defects.
the park brake shoes worn out and never used !
I had rear drum emergency brakes , on my prior vehicle 380,000mi and never had a failure . 15,ooomiles and the park brake went to the floor !
The one thing I did notice about my 2013 Silverado is that the braking is way better than my 2008 Silverado. The pedal is far more responsive on the 2013 than the 2008. I gather that GM improved the brakes.
Yes there are trucks that have it @RayVoy the very late 90's trucks had them because they needed a better parking brake then the discs. I have several diagrams in my manual for 88-98 trucks it applies to 98's with full disc brakes most were 2wd and smaller, but it was eventually put on bigger 1500 trucks. The point is drums are better parking brakes because of their larger surface area.
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An inside look at the hidden side of marketing, PR and strategy.
Yesterday, I wrote about Alex Day, a YouTube musician who is turning the music industry on its head. Where is the music press on all this? Sleeping of course.
They not only missed the story on Alex, they missed the significance of his latest move—which I spoke of briefly in my article. The move, which came on May 27th, breaks all the rules: Day decided to release three singles on a single day instead of batching them together in an album. As Day puts it, "Releasing three songs at the same time flies directly in the face of major label conventional wisdom. It's exactly the opposite to the major label method with acts like Justin Bieber and One Direction."
And it seems to have worked so far. The songs are well on their way to selling 150,000 copies. Just ONE of the videos has already done more than 300,000 views, and the three have been streamed more than 100,000 times on Bandcamp. But despite all the noise—and thousands of radio requests from Day's fans in the UK and Australia—hardly anyone in the music industry noticed. I imagine that's because they can't see a disruptive model when it's right in front of them.
To me, this presages a very clear fact: the album as we know it is over.
"Albums are dead as far as I can tell," says Day. "I don't mean physical formats are dead, but the concept of an album seems redundant when you can cherry-pick any individual track you like on iTunes anyway. Putting out singles means each song has its own artwork and its own video; it gets its time to shine; it makes me work harder to make sure the songs are good enough to withstand that light; and it's more interesting for my audience, who are getting new songs from me every few months at the moment instead of once every year or two."
Why would someone like Day, free from the constraints of a major label, need to arbitrarily package his songs together in a 12-song pack? He wouldn't. With no real need to appeal to retail stores, with no hope of strong radio sales, this frees him up to go directly to the fans with songs whenever he feels like it.
So just know this: by doing that Day is changing the model right in front of our eyes. All the talk we've heard from blogs and gurus in the last few years about the 1,000 true fans model and the future of self-publishing? Well, here it is, on a real scale, doing real volume. He's the self-made, self-marketing and self-funded musician, and he's making a killing of it. And instead of giving credit where credit it due, those same talking heads are asleep on the job.
Bob Lefsetz, the music guy that Wired Magazine called the "digital-era pamphleteer," actually asked Day to ask his fans to stop emailing him because he would never write about him. " This all means nothing to me," he told him rudely. "When I feel the groundswell from the outside, then I'm intrigued." You missed the boat Bob, congrats. (also, real mature tweet!). Guys like Bob knew this new kind of star would come one day but couldn't quite grasp the form it would take when it did. That's why a 23-year-old British kid writing nerdy pop tunes seems to escape their radar.
I'll give you Day's words one last time because I think they make a lot of sense.
"I make pop music. I make it for other people to enjoy. The more people that hear it, the better. And I'm immensely proud of the songs I've released; I think they deserve a moment in the spotlight."
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The difference between Alex and bigger musicians that are stars, is that fans of his would rather pay for his music than illegally download it, whereas it's the opposite with huge celebrities because people assume they have enough money to go without that 99 cents they could have spent on purchasing their music on itunes. People like Alex aren't so far out of reach and won't consider themselves too big for their fanbase and will be supported for doing so.
LeakyNews may not be a big-name pop music industry talking head, but in our defense: http://leakynews.com/three-new-songs-from-alex-day
Alex has catchy tunes and a great mind for music business. I think he is certainly shaking things up a bit. He's not like a big pop star in that he's accessible and people can relate to him. There are also quite a few other Internet-savvy musicians out there doing the exact same thing.