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Jan 30, 2009
More NXT 2.0 pictures available
New images from toy fairs all over the world slowly pop up. Gadget review blog Pocket-Lint states, "Mindstorms NXT 2.0, will focus on offering 10 to 14-year-old boys a good robot experience rather than trying to appeal to the hardcore fans that use the kit.
Other new features include the inclusion of ten robot instructions from the software rather than two as in the previous model."
The article also tells us that this kit will cost around £200, which is about $285. However, these prices may vary per country: LEGO usually has different prices for different countries.
If follow the article link and click on more images, you will also see something which appears to be a new NXT- G feature, a remote control. This would suggest that the kit comes with newer software than version 1.1, which currently ships with NXT kits.
Update: One of readers correctly states that the target audience referenced on the Pocket-Lint blog doesn't cover the complete audience. Of course, Mindstorms NXT 2.0 is suitable and fun for both boys and girls, and I do not see the reason for a maximum age limit, either.
8 comments:
- Laurens Valk said...
"Other new features include the inclusion of ten robot instructions from the software rather than two as in the previous model."
I'm not sure, but it seems the author refers to the Classic clock and the robot DJ on mindstorms.com.
Additional models would indeed be a nice feature
- Jan 30, 2009, 1:00:00 AM
- LeGo-Bots Lady (;-p) V.Greene said...
Your blog said, "Mindstorms NXT 2.0, will focus on offering 10 to 14-year-old boys a good robot experience rather than trying to appeal to the hardcore fans that use the kit."
I hope that was a misprint about the BOYS only. There is a growing number of girls who participate in LEGO robotics & the FLL. The Girls Scouts have a national inititative to bring robotics to more girls.
Hey, I'm a female & I enjoy building NXT robots - I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the kit.
The LeGo-Bots Lady
- Jan 30, 2009, 1:43:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Good point!
- Jan 30, 2009, 1:47:00 AM
- Laurens Valk said...
LeGo-Bots Lady,
That's completely right. It was actually a quotation from another blog.
I'll update my post to emphasize that.
- Jan 30, 2009, 2:08:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Laurens is quoting the "boys" statement from the UK PocketLint blog. I doubt this statement originated from LEGO.
Out of the FLL teams I've mentored 2 were girl-only and the 3 other teams consisted of at least half girls. Of those half-girl teams...the girls went on to operate the robots at most of the competitions. At the FWF '08 in Atlanta...there semed to be roughly half and half attending.
There is a note somewhere about the female FLL registration numbers increasing every year. Does anyone remember the numbers?
I like your blog, LeGo-Bots Lady. Especially, the post about the NXT Dragster being your Favorite from the One-Kit book.
- Jan 30, 2009, 2:27:00 AM
LEGO is just acknowledging the well known fact that girls don't need instructions to build robots.
- Jan 30, 2009, 3:17:00 AM
- Stefan said...
This does look exciting but I'm struggling to see any major differences they couldn't implement on the NXT with a firmware/software update.
Granted there are what appear to be some new pieces (Ultra-Sonic eyelids?) but for the price will it really be worth it?
- Jan 30, 2009, 3:26:00 AM
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In our November 2008 issue, we slapped a Trick Flow Specialties top-end kit on our high-mileage passenger car 350 ci short-block and forced out 428 hp and 421 lb-ft of torque. No doubt, our stressed short-block was kicking and screaming all the way through the rpm range, but performed like a champ nonetheless. At 8.0:1 compression, and on 87-octane, our passenger car powerplant could have lived for another 50,000 miles ... maybe.
We weren't ready to take that chance, as the smogger 350 from 1973 was showing its age. The rings had jagged edges, the rods and crankshaft were practically touching, and 20 pounds of sludge had accrued just about everywhere. Thankfully, Summit Racing Products provided a cheap and efficient resolution with its 350 Rotating Assembly Value Pack spec-ed out at 9.6:1 compression. The kit comes with a cast steel crankshaft, forged I-beam connecting rods, and hypereutectic 0.030-over pistons, balanced and ready for assembly.
Also included in the kit are wrist pins, piston rings, rod and crank bearings, gaskets, oil pump, timing chain, and essentially everything you need to complete assembly in your stock block.
We took the standard bore 350 block down to Pro-Motion Racing Engines (East Hanover, New Jersey) for some essential machine work. We gave it a steam bath, decked the block, bored it out to 0.030-over, and gave it a final finishing hone. Then, the assembly began at Steve Ficacci Racing Engines where we washed and cleaned all the parts, cut the piston rings, and put the puzzle together piece by piece. Once completed, we went over to B&B Automotive in Lynbrook, New York, (not to be confused with B&B in Rahway, New Jersey, where the November tests were completed) and got to makin' horsepower.
We had the 355 on the hydraulic roller-cammed engine dynamometer early in the morning and began the 20-minute break-in. After some tuning and tweaking with both the shop carburetor and out-of-the-box 750cfm Summit Racing carb, we made 468 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque. This was thanks to 37-degrees of timing, 93-octane fuel (at $1.96 a gallon mind you) and 150-degrees of oil temperature. We have some plans for our now brand-spankin'-new small-block, including some time at the track, but not before we throw a rubber-band-style beatin' on it next month. Make sure to check next issue for a supercharged follow-up that is not to be missed.

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It all started innocently enough. Following a race last year, Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Pro Stock driver Jason Line bought a '68 Biscayne station wagon as a side project and laid out a quick, simple plan: Take an old 427 engine from a donor car, refresh it, and drop it harmlessly between the framerails of the wagonthen came Plan B.
Almost from the start, the guys at the shop were hacking on me about putting a relatively stock engine into the wagon, says Jason, who also builds and tunes the engines for the Summit Racingsponsored KB Racing Pro Stock team. That started me thinking. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, I was starting to assemble the pieces for a completely new custom motor.
Jason's Plan B was to build an all-new mild 9.6:1 compression 557ci mill with the goal of topping 750 hp on pump swill. A lot of people build 540s, 565s, or 572s, but I wanted something a little different, Jason says. Basically, I wanted a race engine with low compression so I could drive it on the street.
Jason started with a GM Performance Parts Gen VI 502 block with four-bolt mains to handle the considerable power he had planned. He had it bored out to 4.500 inches and clearanced for a 4.375-inch stroke crankshaft, producing 557 ci. He then contacted Summit Racing to help piece together the remainder of the components for the build.
The rotating assembly includes an Eagle Specialties forged crank with H-beam connecting rods and Diamond coated pistons. The top end is anchored by a set of Trick Flow PowerPort 360 cylinder heads, which got a little special attention from Jason; using his NASCAR and NHRA engine building experience, he altered the intake runners to increase airflow from 365 to over 400 cfm. A port-matched Trick Flow single-plane intake and a Willy's carburetor complete the top end.
The valvetrain centers around a COMP Cams solid roller camshaft, which Jason says is mild and durable enough for the street without sacrificing the power numbers he was shooting for. In fact, the 557 exceeded Jason's goals, delivering 812 hp on the dyno.
Anyone can duplicate this build using parts right out of the Summit Racing catalog, bolt it all together without the extra port work, and get close to the horsepower we made, Jason says. That would certainly be enough for most people, but our team motto is: Anything that can be done can be overdone. Jason's 557 is proof of that.


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The 1549 book was rapidly succeeded by a further more reformed revision in 1552 under the same editorial hand, that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. It never came into use because, on the death of Edward VI, his half-sister Mary I restored Catholic worship. On her death, a compromise version, combining elements of the 1549 and the 1552 editions, was published in 1559. Following the tumultuous events leading to and including the English Civil War, another major revision was published in 1662 . That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.
The Book of Common Prayer appears in many variants in churches inside and outside of the Anglican Communion in over 50 different countries and in over 150 different languages . Again in many parts of the world, more contemporary books have replaced it in regular weekly worship.
Traditional Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language. Like the Authorized King James Bible, and the works of Shakespeare many words and phrases from the Book of Common Prayer have entered popular culture.
The forms of parish worship in the late medieval church in England, which followed the Latin Roman Rite, varied according to local practice. These were termed local "use". By far the most common found in Southern England was the Use of Sarum. The rite was not consolidated into a single book. Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal (for the Mass), Breviary for the daily office, Manual (for the occasional services; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc), and Pontifical (for the services appropriate to a bishop—Confirmation, Ordination) . The work of producing English-language books for use in the liturgy was largely that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury at first under the reign of Henry VIII, only more radically under his son Edward VI. Cranmer was, in his early days, somewhat conservative, an admirer, if a critical one, of John Fisher. It may have been his visit to Germany in 1532 (where he secretly married) which began the change in his outlook. Then in 1538, as Henry began diplomatic negotiations with Lutheran princes, Cranmer came face-to-face with a Lutheran embassy . The Exhortation and Litany, the earliest English-language service book of the Church of England, was the first overt manifestation of his changing views. It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions . Published in 1544, it borrowed greatly from Martin Luther's Litany and Myles Coverdale's New Testament and was the only service that might be considered to be "Protestant" to be finished within the lifetime of King Henry VIII.
Further developed, and fully translated into English, this Communion service was included, one year later, in 1549, in a full prayer book, set out with a daily office, readings for Sundays and Holy Days, the Communion Service, Public Baptism, of Confirmation, of Matrimony, The Visitation of the Sick, At a Burial and the Ordinal (added in 1550) . The Preface to this edition, which contained Cranmer's explanation as to why a new prayer book was necessary, began: "There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted." Although the work is commonly attributed to Cranmer, its detailed origins are obscure . A group of bishops and divines met first at Chertsey and then at Windsor in 1548, drawn from both conservatives and reformers, agreed only "the service of the church ought to be in the mother tongue". Cranmer collected the material from many sources; even the opening of Preface (above) was borrowed . He borrowed much from German sources, particularly from work commissioned by Hermann von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne; and also from Osiander (to whom he was related by marriage) . The Church Order of Brandenberg and Nuremberg was partly the work of the latter. Many phrases are characteristic of the German reformer Martin Bucer, or of the Italian Peter Martyr, (who was staying with Cranmer at the time of the finalising of drafts), or of his chaplain, Thomas Becon. However, to Cranmer is 'credited the overall job of editorship and the overarching structure of the book' including the systematic amendment of his materials to remove any idea that human merit contributed to their salvation .
The Communion service of 1549 maintained the format of distinct rites of Consecration and Communion, that had been introduced the previous year; but with the Latin rite of the Mass (chiefly following the familiar structure in the Use of Sarum), translated into English. By outwardly maintaining familiar forms, Cranmer hoped to establish the practice of weekly congregational Communion, and included exhortations to encourage this; and instructions that Communion should never be received by the priest alone. This represented a radical change from late medieval practice—whereby the primary focus of congregational worship was taken to be attendance at the consecration, and adoration of the elevated Consecrated Host. In late medieval England, congregations only regularly received Communion at Easter; and otherwise individual lay people might expect to receive Communion only when gravely ill, or in the form of a Nuptial Mass on being married.
Introduced on Whitsunday 1549, after considerable debate and revision in Parliament—but there is no evidence that it was ever submitted to either Convocation—it was said to have pleased neither reformers nor their opponents, indeed the Catholic Bishop Gardiner could say of it was that it "was patient of a catholic interpretation". It was widely unpopular in the parishes, especially in places such as Devon and Cornwall . Particularly unpopular was the banning of processions and the sending out of commissioners to enforce the new requirements. There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.
The book was, from the outset, intended only as a temporary expedient, as Bucer was assured having met Cranmer for the first time in April 1549: 'concessions...made both as a respect for antiquity and to the infirmity of the present age' as he wrote . It kept the appearance of the Mass but abandoned its theology. AH Couratin in a set of unpublished Oxford University lectures from 1958 described it as a "bogus Mass". Both Bucer and Peter Martyr wrote detailed proposals for modification; Bucer's Censura ran to 28 chapters which influenced Cranmer significantly though he did not follow them slavishly and the new book was duly produced in 1552, making "fully perfect" what was already implicit . The policy of incremental reform was now unveiled: more Roman Catholic practices were now excised, as doctrines had in 1549 been subtly changed. Thus, in the Eucharist, gone were the words Mass and altar; the 'Lord have mercy' was interleaved into a recitation of the Ten Commandments and the Gloria was removed to the end of the service. The Eucharistic prayer was split in two so that Eucharistic bread and wine were shared immediately after the words of institution (This is my Body..This is my blood...in remembrance of me.); while its final element, the Prayer of Oblation, (with its reference to an offering of a 'Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving'), was transferred, much changed, to a position after the priest and congregation had received Communion, and was made optional with an alternative prayer of thanksgiving provided. The Elevation of the Host had been forbidden in 1549; all manual acts were now omitted. The words at the administration of Communion which, in the prayer book of 1549 described the Eucharistic species as 'The body of our Lorde Jesus Christe...', 'The blood of our Lorde Jesus Christe...' were replaced with the words 'Take, eat, in remembrance that Christ died for thee..' etc. The Peace, at which in the early Church the congregation had exchanged a greeting, was removed altogether. Vestments such as the stole, chasuble and cope were no longer to be worn, but only a surplice. It was the final stage of the reformers' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.
Cranmer recognized that the 1549 rite of Communion had been capable of conservative misinterpretation and misuse, in that the consecration rite might still be undertaken even when no congregational Communion followed. Consequently, in 1552 he thoroughly integrated Consecration and Communion into a single rite, with congregational preparation preceding the words of institution—such that it would not be possible to mimic the Mass with the priest communicating alone. He appears nevertheless, to have been resigned to being unable for the present to establish in parishes the weekly practice of receiving Communion; so he restructured the service so as to allow ante-Communion as a distinct rite of worship—following the Communion rite through the readings and offertory, as far as the intercessory "Prayer for the Church Militant".
Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that Cranmer's own Eucharistic theology in these years approximated most closely to that of Heinrich Bullinger; but that he intended the Prayer Book to be acceptable to the widest range of Reformed Eucharistic belief, including the high sacramental theology of Bucer and John Calvin . At the same time, however, Cranmer intended that constituent parts of the rites gathered into the Prayer Book should still, so far as possible, be recognizably derived from traditional forms and elements.
In the Baptism service the signing with the cross was moved until after the baptism and the exorcism, the anointing, the putting on of the chrysom robe and the triple immersion were omitted. Most drastic of all was the removal of the Burial service from church: it was to take place at the graveside. In 1549, there had been provision for a Requiem (not so called) and prayers of commendation and committal, the first addressed to the deceased. All that remained was a single reference to the deceased, giving thanks for their delivery from 'the myseryes of this sinneful world'. This new Order for the Burial of the Dead was a drastically stripped-down memorial service designed to undermine definitively the whole complex of traditional beliefs about Purgatory and intercessory prayer .
Cranmer's work of simplification and revision was also applied to the Daily Offices, which were to become Morning, and Evening Prayer; and which he hoped would also serve as a daily form of prayer to be used by the Laity, thus replacing both the late medieval lay observation of the Latin Hours of the Virgin, and its English equivalent, the Primer. This simplification was anticipated by the work of Cardinal Francis Quiñones, a Spanish Franciscan, in his abortive revision of the Roman Breviary published in 1537 . Cranmer took up Quiñones's principle that everything should be sacrificed to secure continuity in singing the Psalter and reading the Bible. His first draft, produced during Henry's reign, retained the traditional seven distinct Canonical hours of Office prayer; but in his second draft, while he retained the Latin, he consolidated these into two . The 1549 book then dispensed with the Latin, and with all non-biblical readings; and established a rigorously biblical cycle of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer (set according to the calendar year, rather than the ecclesiastical year) and a Psalter to be read consecutively throughout each month. He provided that the New Testament (other than the Book of Revelation) be read through three times in a year, while the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha would be read through once. Of the set canticles, only the Te Deum was retained of the non-biblical material. In the 1552 Prayer book, this pattern was retained, (as it was in 1559, except that distinct Old and New Testament readings were now specified for Morning and Evening Prayer on Sundays). Following the publication of the 1552 Prayer Book, a revised English Primer was published in 1553; adapting the Offices and Morning and Evening Prayer, and other prayers, for lay domestic piety .
Before the book was in general use, however, Edward VI died. In 1553, Mary, upon her succession to the throne, restored the old religion. The Mass was re-established, altars, roods and statues were re-instated; an attempt was made to restore the Church to its Roman affiliation. Cranmer was punished for his work in the English Reformation by being burned at the stake on 21 March 1556. Nevertheless, the 1552 book was to survive. After Mary's death in 1558, it became the primary source for the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, with subtle if significant changes only.
Hundreds of Protestants fled into exile—establishing an English church in Frankfurt am Main. A bitter, and very public, dispute ensued between those, like Edmund Grindal and Richard Cox, who wished to preserve in exile the exact form of worship of the 1552 Prayer Book; and those, like John Knox the pastor of the congregation, who regarded that book as still partially tainted with compromise. Eventually in 1555 the civil authorities expelled Knox and his supporters to Geneva, where they adopted a new Prayer Book The Form of Prayers, that derived chiefly from Calvin's French La Forme des Prières. Consequently, when the accession of Elizabeth I re-asserted the dominance of Protestantism in England, there remained a significant body of Reformed believers who were nevertheless hostile to the Book of Common Prayer. John Knox took The Form of Prayers with him to Scotland, where it formed the basis of the Scots Book of Common Order.
The alterations, though minor, were however to cast a long shadow. One related to what was worn. Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet (for bishops) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted 'such ornaments...as were in use...in the second year of K. Edward VI'. This allowed substantial leeway for more traditionalist clergy to retain at least some of the vestments which they felt were appropriate to liturgical celebration. It was to be the basis of claims in the 19th Century that vestments such as chasubles, albs, and stoles were legal. At the Communion, the words from the 1549 book 'the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ' etc. was combined with the words of Edward's second book, 'Take eat in remembrance.' etc. The instruction to the congregation to kneel at the Communion was retained; but the accompanying Black Rubric denying any "real and essential presence" of Christ's flesh and blood, was removed . The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through Parliament by only three votes . It made constitutional history in being imposed by the laity alone, as all the bishops, except those imprisoned by the Queen and unable to attend, voted against it . Convocation had made its position clear by affirming the traditional doctrine of the Eucharist, the authority of the Pope, and the reservation by divine law to ecclesiastics 'of handling and defining concerning the things belonging to faith, sacraments, and discipline ecclesiastical' . After the several innovations and reversals, the new forms of worship took time to settle in. Among Cranmer's innovations, retained in the new book was the requirement of weekly communion. In practice, as before the Reformation, many received communion rarely, as little as once a year in some cases; George Herbert estimated it as no more than six times . However practice was variable: very high attendance at festivals was in most places the order of the day and in some places regular communion was very popular, in other places they stayed away or sent "a servant to be the liturgical representative of their household." . Few parish clergy were initially licensed to preach by the bishops; in the absence of a licensed preacher, Sunday services were required to be accompanied by reading one of the homilies written by Cranmer . George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest . Music was much simplified; and a radical distinction developed between, on the one hand, parish worship where only the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins might be sung; and on the other hand, worship in churches with organs and surviving choral foundations, where the music of John Marbeck and others was developed into a rich choral tradition . The whole act of parish worship might take well over two hours; and accordingly, churches were equipped with pews in which households could sit together (whereas in the medieval church, men and women had worshipped separately). Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the new act of worship as, "a morning marathon of prayer, scripture reading, and praise, consisting of mattins, litany, and ante-communion, preferably as the matrix for a sermon to proclaim the message of scripture anew week by week." .
Many ordinary churchgoers—that is those who could afford a copy as it was expensive in terms of most people's incomes—would own a copy of the prayer book. Judith Maltby cites a story of parishioners at Flixton in Suffolk who brought their own prayer books to church in order to shame their Vicar into conforming with it: they eventually ousted him . Between 1549 and 1642, roughly 290 editions of the prayer book were produced . Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, something like a half a million prayer books are estimated to have been in circulation .
On the queen's death in 1603, this book, substantially the book of 1552, having been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner in the sixteenth century as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, as it was, by the seventeenth century had come to be regarded by some as unduly Catholic. The objections of the English Puritans were; firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer (as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer), other than to say "Amen"; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations; and fifthly, that all surviving "Catholic" ceremonial should be removed . On the accession of James I, following the so-called Millenary Petition, the Hampton Court conference of 1604—the same meeting of bishops and Puritan divines that initiated the Authorized version of the Bible—resisted the pressure for change (save to the catechism) . By the reign of Charles I (1625-1649) the Puritan pressure, exercised through a much-changed Parliament, had increased. Government-inspired petitions for the removal of the prayer book and episcopacy 'root and branch' resulted in local disquiet in many places and eventually the production of locally organized counter petitions. The government had its way but it became clear that the division was not between Catholics and Protestants, but between Puritans and those who valued the Elizabethan settlement. . The 1559 book was finally outlawed by Parliament in 1645 to be replaced by the Directory of Public Worship, which was more a set of instructions than a prayer book. How widely the Directory was used is not certain; there is some evidence of its having been purchased, in churchwardens' accounts, but not widely. The Prayer Book certainly was used clandestinely in some places, not least because the Directory made no provision at all for burial services. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the establishment of the Commonwealth under Lord Protector Cromwell, it would not be reinstated until shortly after the restoration of the monarchy to England.
John Evelyn records in his Diary, taking Communion according to the 1559 Prayer Book rite:
Christmas Day 1657. I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day. . . Sermon ended, as [the minister] was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away... These wretched miscreants held their muskets against us as we came up to receive the sacred elements, as if they would have shot us at the altar.
In 1557, the Scots Protestant lords had adopted the English Prayer Book of 1552, for reformed worship in Scotland. However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.
Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, his son King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland . The book concerned was not, however, the 1559 book but very much that of 1549,the first book of Edward VI. First used in 1637, it was never accepted, having been violently rejected by the Scots. Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (including the English Civil War), the Church of Scotland was re-established on a presbyterian basis but by the Act of Comprehension 1690, the rump of Episcopalians were allowed to hold onto their benefices. For liturgy they looked to Laud's book and in 1724 the first of the 'Wee Bookies' was published, containing, for the sake of economy, the central part of the Communion beginning with the Offertory .
Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559. First, informal changes were made to the order of the various parts of the service and inserting words indicating a sacrificial intent to the Eucharist; secondly, as a result of Bishop Rattray's researches into the liturgies of St. James and St. Clement, published in 1744, the form of the invocation was changed. These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church (until 1911 when it was revised) but it was to influence the liturgy of the Episcopal Church in the United States.A completely new revision was finished in 1929, and several alternative orders of the communion service and other services have been prepared since then.
Unable to accept the new book 1,760 ministers were deprived of their livings . In effect, the 1662 Prayer Book marked the end of a period of just over 100 years, when a common form of liturgy served for almost all Reformed public worship in England; and the start of the continuing division between Anglicans and Nonconformists . The actual language of the 1662 revision was little changed from that of Cranmer. With two exceptions, some words and phrases which had become archaic were modernized; secondly, the readings for the Epistle and Gospel at the Holy Communion, which had been set out in full since 1549, were now set to the text of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible. The Psalter, which had not been printed out in the 1549, 1552 or 1559 Books—was in 1662 provided in Miles Coverdale's translation from the Great Bible of 1538.
It was this edition which was to be the official Book of Common Prayer, during the growth of the British Empire, and, as a result, has been a great influence on the prayer books of Anglican churches worldwide, liturgies of other denominations in English, and of the English language as a whole.
By the 19th Century other pressures upon the book of 1662 had arisen. Adherents of the Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship. Known as Tractarians after their production of 'Tracts for the Times' on theological issues, they advanced the case for the Church of England being essentially a part of the 'Western Church', of which the Roman Catholic Church was the chief representative. The illegal use of elements of the Roman rite, the use of candles, vestments and incense, practices known as Ritualism, had become widespread and led to the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 which established a new system of discipline, intending to bring the 'Romanisers' into conformity . The Act had no effect on illegal practices: five clergy were imprisoned for contempt of court and after the trial of the much loved Bishop Edward King of Lincoln, it became clear that some revision of the liturgy had to be embarked upon . One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both 'Romanisers' (by imitating the Church of Rome) and their Evangelical opponents (by imitating Reformed churches) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, 'that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth'. These adherents of ritualism, among whom one will find Percy Dearmer and others, claimed that the Ornaments Rubric prescribe the ritual usages of the Sarum Rite with the exception of a few minor things already abolished by the early reformation. Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years.
In 1927, this proposed prayer book was finished. It was decided, during development, that the use of the services therein would be decided on by each given congregation, so as to avoid as much conflict as possible with traditionalists. With these open guidelines the book was granted approval by the Church of England Convocations and Church Assembly. Since the Church of England is a state church, a further step; sending the proposed revision to Parliament; was required, but the book was rejected in December of that year when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell "reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House" and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was "papistical" and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation. The next year was spent revising the book to make it more suitable for Parliament, but it was rejected yet again in 1928. The attitude of Parliament however altered nothing except the attitude of the bishops to the law of the land. They authorized the book on their own authority and some clergy used it, including those baptizing in the Crypt Chapel of the House of Commons.
The effect of the failure of the 1928 book was salutary: no further attempts were made to change the book, other than those required for the changes to the monarchy. Instead a different process, that of producing an alternative book, led to the publication of Series 1, 2 and 3 in the 1960s, the 1980 Alternative Service Book and subsequently to the 2000 Common Worship series of books. Both differ substantially from the Book of Common Prayer, though the latter includes in the Order Two form of the Holy Communion a very slight revision of the prayer book service altering only one or two words and allowing the insertion of the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) before Communion. Order One follows the pattern of modern liturgical scholarship.
In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship. It is a compromise of material drawn from the proposed 1928 book, the 1979 ECUSA book, and the Roman Missal. Catholic converts from Anglicanism within the Anglican Use published it primarily for their use.
Further revisions occurred in 1892 and 1928, in which minor changes were made, removing, for instance, some of Cranmer's Exhortations and introducing such innovations as prayers for the dead.
In 1979, a more substantial revision was made. There were now two rites for the most common services, the first that kept most of the language of 1928, and the second using only contemporary language (some of it newly composed, and some adapted from the older language). Many changes were made in the rubrics and the shapes of the services, which were generally made for both the traditional and contemporary language versions. However, there was arguably a greater degree of continuity than was the case in England, which may account for the fact that all the books of the series, from 1790 to 1979 retain the same title. The 1979 book owes a good deal to the Liturgical Movement and to the 19th century Catholic revival.
Even so, the revision caused some controversy and in 2000, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church issued an apology to those "offended or alienated during the time of liturgical transition to the 1979 Book of Common Prayer."
The Prayer Book Cross was erected in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in 1894 as a gift from the Church of England. Created by Ernest Coxhead, it stands on one of the higher points in Golden Gate Park. It is located between John F. Kennedy Drive and Park Presidio Drive, near Cross Over Drive. This sandstone cross commemorates the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in California by Sir Francis Drake's chaplain on June 24, 1579.
After a period of experimentation with the publication of various supplements, the Book of Alternative Services was published in 1985. This book (which owes much to Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and other sources) has widely supplanted the 1962 book, though the latter remains authorized. As in other places, there has been a reaction and the Canadian version of the Book of Common Prayer has found supporters.
John Wesley, an Anglican priest whose revivalist preaching led to the creation of Methodism wrote, "I believe there is no Liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety than the Common Prayer of the Church of England." Many Methodist churches in England continued to use a slightly revised version of the book for communion services well into the 20th century. In the United Methodist Church, the liturgy for Eucharistic celebrations is almost identical to what is found in the Book of Common Prayer.
A unique variant was developed in 1785 in Boston, Massachusetts when the historic King's Chapel (founded 1686) left the Episcopal Church and became an independent Unitarian church . To this day, King's Chapel uniquely uses the The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel in its worship .
In the 1960s, when Roman Catholicism adopted a vernacular revised mass, many translations of the English prayers followed the form of Cranmer's translation.
Some examples of well-known phrases from the Book of Common Prayer are:
The phrase "till death us do part" has been changed to "till death do us part" in some more recent prayer books, such as the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer.
References and allusions to Prayer Book services in the works of Shakespeare were tracked down and identified by Richmond Noble . Derision of the Prayer Book or its contents "in any interludes, plays, songs, rhymes, or by other open words" was a criminal offence under the 1559 Act of Uniformity, and consequently Shakespeare avoids too direct reference; but Noble particularly identifies the reading of the Psalter according to the Great Bible version specified in the Prayer Book, as the biblical book generating the largest number of Biblical references in Shakespeare's plays. Noble found a total of 157 allusions to the Psalms in the plays of the First Folio, relating to 62 separate Psalms—all, save one, of which he linked to the version in the Psalter, rather than those in the Geneva Bible or Bishops' Bible. In addition, there are a small number of direct allusions to liturgical texts in the Prayer Book; e.g. Henry VIII 3:2 where Wolsey states "Vain Pomp and Glory of this World, I hate ye!", a clear reference to the rite of Public Baptism; where the Godparents are asked "Doest thou forsake the vaine pompe and glory of the worlde..?"
More recently, P.D. James used phrases from the Book of Common Prayer and made them into bestselling titles—Devices and Desires and The Children of Men, while Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 film Children of Men placed the phrase onto cinema marquees worldwide.
In the United Kingdom, the British Crown holds the rights to the Book of Common Prayer. The rights fall outside the scope of copyright as defined in statute law. Instead, they fall under the purview of the royal prerogative and as such, they are perpetual in subsistence. Publishers are licensed to reproduce the Book of Common Prayer under letters patent. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland the letters patent are held by the Queen's Printer, and in Scotland by the Scottish Bible Board. The office of Queen's Printer has been associated with the right to reproduce the Bible for many years, with the earliest known reference coming in 1577. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland the Queen's Printer is Cambridge University Press. CUP inherited the right of being Queen's Printer when they took over the firm of Eyre & Spottiswoode in the late 20th century. Eyre & Spottiswoode had been Queen's Printer since 1901. Other letters patent of similar antiquity grant Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press the right to produce the Book of Common Prayer independently of the Queen's Printer.
The terms of the letters patent prohibit those other than the holders, or those authorized by the holders from printing, publishing or importing the Book of Common Prayer into the United Kingdom. The protection that the Book of Common Prayer, and the Authorized version, enjoy is the last remnant of the time when the Crown held a monopoly over all printing and publishing in the United Kingdom.
This protection should not be confused with Crown copyright, or copyright in works of the United Kingdom's government; that is part of modern UK copyright law. Like other copyrights, Crown copyright is time-limited and potentially enforceable worldwide. The non-copyright Royal Prerogative is perpetual, but applies only to the UK; though many other Royal Prerogatives apply to the other Commonwealth realms, this one does not.
It is common misconception that the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office holds letters patent for being Queen's Printer. The Controller of HMSO holds a separate set of letters patent, which cover the office Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament. The Scotland Act 1998 defines the position of Queen's Printer for Scotland as being held by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament. The Controller of HMSO holds the position of Government Printer for Northern Ireland.
As mentioned above, the The Episcopal Church's book is always released into the public domain. Trial use and supplemental liturgies are however copyrighted by Church Publishing, the official publishing arm of the church.


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I wanted to go to the auction cos it sounded interesting and I knew I couldn't afford anything anyway...until the Rincewind and Nanny Ogg stamps came up and yay, I won. 11 euros.
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"The brutality and corruption of Nazi Germany serve as the backdrop for this impressive debut mystery novel. Scottish-born Kerr re-creates the period accurately and with verve; the novel reeks of the sordid decade that saw Hitler's rise to power." (Publishers Weekly)
"Echoes of Raymond Chandler, but better on his vivid and well-researched detail than the master." (Evening Standard, London)
"Nazi Noir"
This is a very entertaining story. The hero is a classic 1930s detective, the story moves nicely along, but the best part was the setting -- Germany 75 years ago. It was completely captivating.
"Brilliant Nazi Era Mystery"
Philip Kerr is one of the very best. Think literary thriller (like John Le Carre) combined with a big dash of hard boiled attitude (like Raymond Carver). The detective navigates an increasingly Nazi-fied Berlin, trying to stay below the Nazi radar while maintaining a private stance of utter contempt for the rising regime. The story has plenty of twists and plenty of turns, but the atmosphere and characters are the real spell-binders. Highly recommended.
Narration is great.
"More a Detective Novel than Thriller..."
I love a good mystery or thriller, and I love any novel set in the WWII era. And John Lee is perhaps my favorite narrator. So this book seemed to have all the right elements. But as it turns out, it's more of a detective novel than a thriller. Not my cup of tea.
If you like the classic Raymond Chandler, you'll love this book. It's well written an well narrated, and seems to be an homage to that 40's Noir style. But I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd expected.
"Gripping but graphic"
This was a great period detective thriller -- but an excessively graphic one. Mr. Kerr earns high points for his research and detail but the rape scene was, in my mind, too much. If anything will keep me from purchasing his books in the future, it is the nightmares that I have had after listening to the graphic details of that scene.
"One of the BEST"
You won't want to stop listening to what is one of the best historical thriller written. Nazi Germany provides the background. The writing is Chandler quality. If you like historical thrillers - don't miss this one.
"Doesn't anyone here speak German?"
A good noir crime novel that pays tribute to the Hammett and Chandler tradition. However, it fails to convey a real sense of place and the narrator mispronounces German place names so badly that they are often almost unrecognizable which, of course, makes the characters speaking them unbelievable. John Lee does a very good job otherwise; couldn't he have been coached a little on this?
"Well done"
One of the best historical fiction audiobooks I've heard. I could not wait to find out how the detective was going to unravel this case. Nice story, good twists and turns that kept the story very interesting. I was a bit remiss about the ending, but hey I guess you can't have it all.
"Good story"
An LA type PI in Nazi Germany. Lots of possible material to grow and build new books. A very good start.
If it gets a little dirty and colorful at times, I guess that is the way it could have been. The ending caught me by suprise.
I listen to books to be entertained... my favorite genre is a "Legal Thriller" I have actually been a member since 2001. Love my books!
"I want more..."
This book gives you some insight into not so distant past and transports you to an era that is a blight on German history. Well researched and well written... I will definitely get this entire series.
"Love the Genre, Overall Good, Story a little flat"
I love books in the detective novel genre, and really enjoy stories written about the WWII era. This one takes place in pre-WWII Nazi Germany and introduces the protagonist Bernie Gunther as an Ex Cop, "Good Guy" detective.
Overall the story is a little flat and predictable, but the fictional tale around actual historical characters is interesting from a lot of angles. I like the author's writing style and his candid depiction of the real life brutality and violence that existed in 1936 Berlin, and I do look forward to continuing the series.
The narrator John Lee is one of the best in the business and is terrific in this one!
Overall Recommended, especially if you like the genre and stories about this era.
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Bloomington-Normal may be twin cities, but they're far more fraternal than identical. Bloomington is the more historic, more old-fashioned of the two. With a beautiful downtown courthouse (once part of Abraham Lincoln's "circuit" as a lawyer) and a downtown that has not changed architecturally much from the 1800s. There's a faded charm here that's both interesting and endearing. Bloomington is the seat of McLean County, so you'll find lots of downtown bars and restaurants catering to the legal trade and the many employees of State Farm Insurance, which is based here. Be sure to check out Station 220, a great farm-to-table restaurant, Kelly's Cafe and Bakery and The Chocolatier Inc. There's limited shopping, but Crossroads Global Handcrafts is a do-not-miss store with free-trade goods and exceptional prices. If live music is your thing, check out the Castle Theater, an old silent-movie house converted into an intimate concert venue. In Bloomington, you'll also find the wonderful Ewing Cultural Center, home to the annual summer Illinois Shakespeare Festival -- a worth-it outdoor theater experience. Normal is a college town -- home to Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan universities -- and feels like Bloomington's suburban counterpart. If you go "uptown" from the ISU campus, you'll find the wonderful Discover Children's Museum, the Art Deco Normal Theater, which shows art and classic films, the always-changing Garlic Press gourmet food-kitchenware-gifts-accessories store, Acme Comics, three "record" stores and the stunning Medici restaurant. There's also a new Marriott Hotel, which makes it easy to spend a weekend on campus.


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deldaisy wrote:On my laptop the Print Screen button is automatic. Saves it as it is in an image...
My old computer worked like that, I just pressed the button and had an image, only one at a time, but still had it (just changed the title and could take another one)
On this computer you have to transfer (copy and paste) it to Paint then save.
(Do I sound like I know what I am talking about???? Do it so seldom usually have to ask the teen)
You do know, because guess what, I tried copying in paint ... and I saw your post there... it works... I can't believe I never knew this and all this time I thought it just didn't do anything !!
Thanks Del you're a genius


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SPRINGFIELD – Vermont State Police investigators are calling the cause of a fire early Tuesday morning in the basement of a Main Street home "suspicious," but stopped short of calling it arson.
No one was hurt in the fire at 138 Main St., a large Victorian home next to the Springfield Post Office, that housed two apartments.
Springfield Fire Chief Russell Thompson said the fire was called in at 2:09 a.m., by the homeowner, Adam Saris, who was awakened by a smoke detector going off.
The chief said he immediately called a third alarm, given the fire's downtown location and its proximity to many buildings. The Springfield Community Center and Lovejoy Tool Co. are on the other side of Main Street.
He said firefighters encountered heavy smoke coming from the basement fire, which was largely put out by compressed air foam. There was heat and smoke damage to the other parts of the building.
Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. Steven Otis said the fire started in an area of the basement where there were no electrical wires nor combustible materials, leading to the "suspicious" label.
Otis said that Thompson had requested the investigation to determine the "cause and origin" of the fire.
"We can't determine it at this time," Otis said.
The house, which is undergoing renovations, is painted a distinctive pale purple, Otis said.
Otis said that Saris and his father were the only people home at the time the fire broke out. He said the bulkhead entrance to the basement was blocked, and that the fire department had to break through that in order to get access to the fire. He said the only access to the basement was through the building.
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I disagree... that finisher looks dominate.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
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ACC,Big East,or Big 12??
Easy- Big East
- they had 6 or 7 teams make the NCAA tourna ment last year
- NOVA, WVU, GTOWN, are all top 10 in country
- Battle on every night
-So much talent and so many good games in this conference
With out a doubt the big east. They just play a better brand of ball. Watch an acc or sec game, then watch big east. Its the classic eye test. Its just like the SEC has the best football.
BIG 12 lots of the teams are in the ranking and I think they are really strong this year!
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yeah think acc big12 or bigeast
the big east
big east
ClutchLegend33 wrote:
ACC,Big East,or Big 12??
big east
Big East
big east
Big East
what about the SEC?
the SEC is #1!
PAC 10 and BIG 10


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All essential and sustainable indicators are met at this time. On August 27, 2007 Leona Hakala, loan officer for AIEDA Energy inquired about whether or not Rose Nook was still the major for the City of Upper Kaskag. This was confirmed by phone to David Bigger and relayed back to Leona Hakala. On 8/21/07 information was requested on whether or not a emergency ordinance can be used for a land transfer in response to a old court order. Answer back 'no,' emergency ordinances are only good for sixty days and the Recorder's Office would not accept emergency ordinances for land transfers. To help the administrator catch up with his workload, he was mailed a copy of Model Financial Record Keeping System manual.
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Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
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Monthly finance and budget reports are prepared by RUC as two separate documents. RUC prepares and sends out (to the community of a monthly basis) a financial report showing revenues and expenditures for both Upper Kalskag system as well as expenditures for the 'central administration.' This report lists expenses and revenue categories with columns showing 'This Month,' 'Last Month,' and 'Year to Date'and budget. Since the initial assessment in June 2006 and at the recommendation of RUBA, RUC has added a line item for 'Replacement Part Reserve.' Most sanitation funding or regulatory agencies are recommending that utilities show this separately. The Sanitation Business Plan Template requires that utilities account for this separately. The budget process begins with the RUC Manager and Accountant drafting a budget using the previous years actual and next year's projections. Future projects or plans are considered when making the projections. The budget is submitted to YKHC-RUC for board approval. RUC provided a copy of the monthly statement from Alaska Village Electric Coopeartive for the Upper Kalskag utility. RUC pays the utility electric statement promptly and completly each month. Fuel for the utilities is bulk and purchsed bi-annually. the operators self-report fuel consumption. RUC has instigated fuel use efficiency and accountability practices that have substantially lowered consumption and expense in the community.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
The utility charges flat rates for residential customers. Bills are mailed at the end of each month. Payments of money orders or checks only are sent to a lock box at Wells Fargo who emails a list of daily payments to RUC. Payments of check, cash, money order or credit card may be paid at the RUC office. A hand written receipt is issued at time of payment. RUC uses QuickBooks Pro for accounting practices. Bills are sent at the end of every month. They are considered overdue if unpaid 20 days later. Thirty days after that, the operators are given a list to place pink door hangers alerting the customer that service will be shut off in three days. RUC strictly enforces the three day notice with disconnection of service for non-payment. Payment plans are offered, however, the manager noted that many customers do not honor the payment plan. NSF checks are submitted to a collection agency. Through the MOA, RUC has the authority to change customer rates. The manager and accountant make recommendations to the advisory board who votes to support or not. A vote of support is then sent on to the YKHC Board of Directors for action. The utility has a written purchasing system. An operator submits a purchase request to the manager who then submits the request to administration. Administration checks the budget prior to approval. Approving signatures required for the purchase are based on the amount of the purchase request. The higher the amount, the more signatures are required.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
A signed Tax Information Release Authorization was provided by the YKHC as the utility is an enterprise system included in the YKHC tax payer EIN number. The IRS deemed the taxpayer in compliance with federal employment tax filings, federal tax deposits and reports and noted that no recorded Notice of Federal Tax Lien has been filed. The State DOL office reports the YKHC is in compliance at this time. Paper time cards are submitted to the YKHC who calculates, tracks, and reports payroll liabilities through a computer system. This tax information pertains to the management of the utility only.
Personnel System
Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
The utility has a posted worker's comp policy from Alaska National Insurance Company for February 1, 2007 through February 1, 2008. The insurance covers all empyees of RUC including the operators in Upper Kalskag. All RUC employees follow the YKHC adopted personnel policy. This policy was reviewed by an attorney. Employees are at-will hires. An evaluation is performed at 90 days and one year from hire. The blank evaluation form is attached to the position description and presented to the employee upon hire. All new hires attend a corporate orientation for 2 1/2 days in Bethel for instruction regarding company policies, procedures, and department specific orientation. On-site training is also provided. Job openings are posted, with job titles and duties in the village for at least a week if the manager deems expediency is necessary. Native hire and local hire is encouraged when possible. Applications are submitted to YKHC who completes background and reference checks. The personnel policy also allows temporary hires for short term projects. Training opportunities are provided when money allows. YKHC presents four classes per year covering water/wastewater related topics. The Remote Maintenance Worker also presents CEU modules on site.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
Upper Kalskag signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with YKHC-RUC to operate the utility. YKHC-RUC has an advisory board that meets three times a year to recommend policy and procedures via letters of support to the YKHC Board of Directors. Through the MOA, YKHC has the authority to set rates, ordinances, policies, and procedures for the utility. The RUC Manager is diligent in personally attending city council meeetings of all RUC communities. Recently RUC hired Lee Piper as project manager/accountant. Mr. Piper is responsibile to oversee the accounting procedures for all RUC communities. YKHC finance department tracks and issues payroll. The system has received a certificate of public convenience from the RCA.
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification.
The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities.
Sustainable Indicators
The manager receives a monthly O&M report from the utility operator and routinely "spot checks" the facilities to see that the maintenance items are being completed.
The utility has a safety manual and holds safety meetings.
Utility facilities have not suffered any major problems/outages due to management issues that are unresolved.
The utility is operating at the level of service that was proposed.
The operator provides status reports to the manager on a routine basis.
The utility has completed and distributed its "Consumer Confidence Report".
The utility is not on the "Significant Non-Complier" (SNC) list.
The utility maintains an inventory control list.
The utility maintains a critical spare parts list.
Operation of Utility Comments
Copies of operator certification and preventative maintenance plans were submitted and are available upon request. A 'Safety Guidelines for Utility System Opeartor' guide is provided to all operators. Safety training is provided in conjunction with regularly scheduled operations training. The utility has not suffered any major problems/outage due to management issues. YKHC/RUC hires summer interns to complete the CCR reports. An additional assignment to the intern was completion of an inventory control and critical spare parts list. The utility has a large amount of inventory and spare parts on hand and have suffered no loss of service due to lack of parts. With the stable labor force and frequent RMW on-site support, maintenance requirements are minimal. It is however, recommended that a written inventory control and spare parts list be adopted for unforseen repari and maintenance needs.
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Designed specifically for drivers of luxury SUVs and crossover vehicles, the Michelin® Latitude® Tour HP tires combine the pristine ride quality of our premier touring tires with the durability of our toughest truck tires. Michelin Latitude Tour HP tires feature newly developed Secure Lock Tread Blocks that remain open during normal driving to deliver optimum all-weather traction, but close and lock under stress, creating a solid tread block that delivers better performance during acceleration, braking, and cornering maneuvers
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The Latitude Tour HPs I have are OEM tires for my 2014 Honda Crosstour @ 225/60R18, they are very cushy, great for long distance trips (super comfortable), much quieter compared to my 245/45R20 Continental DWS, but these tires are not designed for any sort of sporty feel (at least at my size).
They are the perfect All Year tire for the casual driver:
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2) Wet: I drove through a full on rain storm last summer at very high speeds, and you couldn't tell the difference.
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If you only have a FWD and not 4WD/AWD, I'd recommend a winter tire set if you drive through snow or mountains often... but if you're like me the 4WD / Latitude Tour combo works well enough in most winter conditions (The only condition I haven't tested on is solid ice).
I know many other reviews talk about road noise after a year or two, so I don't know how that will work out for me...
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Found 2 Michelin latitude tour non hp tires and could not find 4 in this size,So went with the latitude tour hp and put them on the rear on each side of 97 landcruiser.The front tires are T rated latitude tour with 12 32nd of thread and the rear were latitude tour hp 10.5 32nd thread(Made in poland)H speed rated.After 3,000 miles the rear hp's now have 7 32nd's of thread and I dont drive around corners fast and speed around,Very aware of tire wear as my dad and grandfather had tire businesses/franchises all their lives,Been around that scene alot.Bought these online from ebay,Wonder if michelin will do something about these tires,Does not look good for the future.Tires ride very good and low noise,Bad in the snow and mediocre at best in the rain,Feel it hydroplaning.The standard latitude tour's in the front are wearing great now at 10.5 32nds.Some latitude tour hp's are made in france,Anyone have any luck with them?
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Vehicle: 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser 4 Dr Sport Utility Base with 4827 KM of Tire Wear
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I've only wandered into the "deepweb" for an hour or so but it doesn't seem there is much there you can't find anywhere online now.


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Three weeks into the 2014 season, Alabama coach Nick Saban has steadfastly refused to name a starting quarterback between Blake Sims and Jake Coker.
But following the Crimson Tide's 52-12 drubbing of Southern Miss, it is clear that Saban really doesn't need to. Saban and offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin's division of playing time says it all: Sims is the guy.
Sims completed 12 of 17 passes for 168 yards and two touchdowns, while Coker hit on five of seven for 46 yards. AL.com's Andrew Gribble questioned the quarterback competition via Twitter during the third quarter:
We're midway through the 3rd quarter and Blake Sims is the only QB to play. Is the competition over?
— Andrew Gribble (@Andrew_Gribble) September 14, 2014
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Jake Coker appears to have lost Alabama's quarterback battle to Blake Sims.
Alabama's usage of Coker was telling. The Florida State transfer didn't enter the game until 2:10 remained in the third quarter, with the Tide holding a comfortable 35-9 lead.
He played the final three drives, all of which ended in scores, with a field goal and a pair of rushing touchdowns.
Entering Saturday's game against Southern Miss, Saban said he didn't have a set plan for the quarterbacks' usage in an interview on the SEC Network's SEC Nation (via AL.com's Andrew Gribble).
I don't think we have a specific, "OK, you're going to play this long and the next guy's coming in." I think we want to play both guys in the game if we can. Last week I had a specific plan for it. Today, I think we want to just sort of see how it goes.
How did it go? Sims took control or at least did enough to keep his bosses happy. D.C. Reeves of TideSports.com provided a comparison between Sims and AJ McCarron regarding stats after each player's first three games as the starting quarterback:
Blake Sims first 3 games as starter: 48-64 (75%) 646 yards, 4 TD, 1 INT.
AJ McCarron first 3 starts (68.4%): 65-95, 779 yards, 4 TD 2 INT.
— D.C. Reeves (@_DCReeves) September 14, 2014
Sims averaged a pedestrian 9.9 yards per attempt Saturday, with his longest completion a 27-yard pass to Amari Cooper. That's Sims' game: He doesn't do anything spectacularly, but he hasn't done anything to get Alabama beaten. Saban said as much on SEC Nation:
I think consistency and performance is important at any position, and especially at the quarterback position because you distribute the ball every down.
Blake obviously has been in the system a lot longer. Probably a little more comfortable, a little more confident. Jake is learning and improving all the time in terms of what is expected of him.
We're just going to keep trying to develop both guys. Both guys really do encourage each other and I think our team has confidence in both guys.
Afterward, he told reporters that the quarterback position remains "week to week" and that Coker "needs to play," as reported in a tweet by TideSports.com:
Saban: It didn't feel right to make a change. Jake needs to play and develop confidence. Decision will be made on week to week basis.
— TideSports.com (@TideSports) September 14, 2014
Sims might not have a long leash on the position, and it is certainly within the realm of possibility that Coker could have another chance at the role if Sims struggles with SEC defenses, starting with Florida next week.
But for now, it is clear that Sims is the Crimson Tide's guy under center—without a doubt.