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Labor management systems to improve efficiency
Labor cost is almost always the highest expense item in a distribution center's budget. To control and manage this cost, visionary managers often rely on comprehensive labor management programs that promote and measure efficient methods for performing tasks. To achieve this goal, managers tie various software tools, such as labor management systems (LMS), together with strategies to monitor, report and reward actual performance against established expectations.
These programs certainly aren't new, and their ability to increase productivity by providing continuous feedback on worker performance is well documented. Don Cook, president of New Jersey-based labor management consulting firm Cook & Associates, sums it up this way: "With a good labor management program, organizations can reduce costs and ensure that merchandise is processed correctly, all while improving processing timeliness."
According to Cook, users who are able to tie a program together with the appropriate measurement software typically report a 20% increase in productivity along with increases in work quality and reductions in service times. Cook adds that many organizations achieve payback on their investment within nine to 16 months.
Tom Kozenski, vice president of product strategy for RedPrairie—a provider of both warehouse management systems (WMS) and LMS—also points to a big modeling advantage, or the ability to test scenarios on the computer before trying it for real on the warehouse floor. "Our software can do 'what-if' analyses of an operation on the computer and anticipate results, rather than going on the floor and trying to do 'what-ifs' on the fly with 100 people."
For example, what if you consider going from picking with paper pick lists to picking with radio frequency (RF) terminals, or from RF to voice-directed systems? You can model each alternative on your LMS and predict which one delivers the most productivity improvements before purchasing a single piece of equipment.
Other labor management solutions, such as those from Kronos, have also automated workforce-related processes such as hiring, time and attendance, and employee scheduling. Malysa O'Connor, director of Kronos' logistics practice group, says that by automating, you gain real-time visibility into critical labor data for accurate cost accounting by customer, by order or by task.
Even more benefits are reported when the program incorporates a gain-sharing, incentive-paying component. "Good workers want what they do to be acknowledged," says Matt Kulp, director of distribution and fulfillment projects for St. Onge Company, a supply chain consulting company. "When incentive programs are done right, good workers are going to want to stay onboard."
If you're contemplating such a program for your organization, your timing couldn't be better. The real-time interface of LMS with more robust WMS is giving these programs a new edge. In addition, better software, more widespread use of RF technology, and new warehouse mapping capabilities have reduced much of the manual effort involved in the work measurement component of the program, also increasing its accuracy.
Over the next few pages, we'll look at labor management programs and how they span well beyond the mere installation of software. We'll also look at what's involved during implementation and how a leading bridal products retailer is using labor management as a tool for continuous process improvements.
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"Terex Cranes wanted to further reduce the emission of VOCs during the coating process," said Karl-Heinz Edinger, BASF Commercial Transport Systems Germany. "We adapted our Ultra High Solids Technology to the specific needs of Terex, which made us win over this customer."
Commercial vehicles such as mobile cranes are exposed to particularly harsh stresses through weather impacts and their use in off-road conditions. BASF's primers and topcoats provide a high level of corrosion protection and weathering resistance. "Our topcoats also have high color stability to allow the Terex vehicles to keep their typical colors for years to come," Edinger said.
To achieve flawless surface results, BASF's Ultra High Solids Coatings feature special flow properties, since Terex uses spray application to coat the cranes. Depending on the crane model, 250 to 500 liters of paint are applied to the vehicle. For comparison, depending on the model, a total of 12 to 15 liters of paint are needed to coat a passenger car.
Terex Cranes Germany, a subsidiary of Terex Corporation, builds and coats mobile cranes with a loading capacity of up to 3,200 tons at its Zweibrücken plant. The various crane models range from small, maneuverable city cranes to caterpillar vehicles with extension systems that are up to 230 meters high.
"With Terex Cranes, we have succeeded in winning a key customer in this segment. We hope that we will strengthen and expand this collaboration in the future and, at the same time, continue to push forward the Ultra High Solids Technology," Edinger added.
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$currency = new Zend_Currency( array( 'value' => 1000, ) );
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Of course, you then put him back together with no problem at all! Really cute version of the classic stage illusion, and a great way to get more out of your Raccoon puppet. Works with Robbie Raccoon, Robbie Jr. or Rocky spring animal puppets.
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So, its early April. Its time for Jeff Ireland (Miami's GM) to bob-and-weave. He doesn't want to show the other 31 GMs what he has planned. Make no mistake: Ireland has a very clear plan. And, he is not showing his hand!
Question: Why is Jeff bringing in players to interview that will, by all accounts, be long-gone by the twelfth pick of the draft?
Answer: He is making some of these GMs think he has plans to move up and take a highly touted DB, Milliner and Vaccaro.
Personally, I think he is planning to trade up and get one of the 3 stud Offensive Tackles, because the drop-off in talent from the top 3 to the 4th (Fluker) on the list is as wide as the Grand Canyon.
Luke Joeckel*, OT, Texas A&M
Eric Fisher, OT, Central Michigan
Lane Johnson, OT, Oklahoma
DJ Fluker, OT/G, from Alabama is a Guard really, and probably is a second round talent. He looked good because of all of that other talent amassed by Nick Saban (I still hate you :-) at Bama.
If Miami wants a starter out of the draft at OT, Jeff Ireland must trade up and take one of those top three guys.
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Fresh, fruity flavor makes this pretty salad popular with all ages. Our whole family really digs into its fluffy goodness. I can put it together in the morning or even the night before and pop it in the fridge until suppertime. —Denise Nebel, Wayland, Iowa
- 3 cups water
- 1 package (3 ounces) orange gelatin
- 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 package (3 ounces) tapioca pudding mix
- 1 can (15 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- In a saucepan, bring water to a boil. Whisk in gelatin and pudding mixes. Return to a boil, stirring constantly; boil for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and cool completely. Fold in oranges, pineapple and whipped topping. Spoon into a serving bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Yield: 12-14 servings.
Originally published as Orange Tapioca Salad in Taste of Home June/July 1997, p31
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"Wonderful! Couldn't find the tapioca so I substituted Instant Coconut Pudding. It gave it an extra tropical boost!"
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"Love this recipe!! Have made it for many years. So delicious just as written! Made it at the beach this week . . . added more oranges & it was great! Had to give out recipe!"
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2011
"This is a Thanksgiving favorite in my family. However, I haven't been able to find tapioca pudding mix in years. I use 3 Tbsp tapioca and 1/3 cup sugar. I'm wondering if there are other suggestions?"
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"This is a favorite at our house."
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Marko Saljanin, the owner of Planet Pizza at 14 W. Washington St. in downtown Orlando, is planning on opening a new "dive bar" at the very short-lived Cuba De Cuba space on 63 N. Orange Ave. in downtown Orlando.
He's keeping mum on the name, but says it's a dive bar that will have a small menu, including oysters, crab legs and steaks — no word on pizza, though. Doesn't sound too divey to me, but I'll definitely eat there.
He's partnering up with the folks that recently opened Frank & Steins in downtown Orlando to open the new place. Looking forward to the beer selection if that's the case.
Saljanin has owned bars in Florida before but not Orlando, he says he had the lease and decided to do something a bit different. The bar will open in about four – five weeks.


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1107 St. Joseph Street, Apt ###, Dallas, TX 75204
Residents will be assigned a Washington Hall mailbox inside the apartment complex. Box numbers will NOT be the same as the apartment number. Mail cannot be sent to apartment numbers. Residents are also encouraged to submit a change of address with the US post office at https://moversguide.usps.com to begin forwarding mail.
Each resident must schedule his or her arrival date and time in advance with the Housing Office (Housing). Housing requires at least a two week notice of arrival, but residents are encouraged to schedule his or her move in date immediately after accepting the apartment offer. Doing so will improve the likelihood of the new resident getting the move in date that he or she prefers. Six resident moves can be accommodated per day during the allotted time slots. Arrival and time slots are scheduled through the Relocation Coordinator in the Housing Office.
Move-in Availability for Washington Hall
- Monday – Saturday (No Sundays or Seminary Observed Holidays when the Dallas Campus closes)
- Morning (AM) Time Slot: 8 am - 2 pm
- Afternoon (PM) Time Slot: 2 pm - 8 pm
Residents may not move in any item after 8:00 pm. Those not finished unpacking vehicles by 8 pm must complete the move on the following day (or Monday) if a time slot is available. Those who arrive between 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Monday through Saturday will not be able to move in belongings until the following day (or Monday). However, a key to the apartment and an air mattress (if available) will be provided until the appropriate move time.
No arrivals are permitted after 10 p.m.
Note: Because a POD type product will not fit inside the parking spaces, Housing is unable to accommodate them.
Check In
Thirty minutes prior to your arrival, please contact the Apartment Manager in Washington Hall at 214-887-5212. Upon arrival, the Apartment Manager or an Assistant Manager will provide you with keys, moving equipment, and check you into your new apartment.
Lease Meeting
Residents must sign his or her lease during the appropriate Lease Meeting which is held in the Housing Office. The Housing Office holds one lease meeting on Tuesdays & Fridays; starting promptly at 2:00 pm. Meetings are typically scheduled for the first Lease Meeting time following your move-in.
Prorated rent for the month you move in and the security deposit (less holding fee paid per request of initial apartment offer) will be collected at this meeting; kindly come prepared to pay. Cash, checks, cashier's checks, and money orders will be accepted during the lease meeting. If you wish to pay with a credit card, you may do so in advance of the lease meeting on your Campus Net online. We are sorry, but no credit cards can be accepted in the Housing Office.
The Seminary resells electricity to residents which will provide the lowest residential rate available. The Housing Office will bill each apartment monthly for this utility. One resident for each apartment will be responsible for making this payment to the Housing Office. (It is not possible to process multiple resident payments for utility charges and regrettably, no credit cards can be accepted for electricity payments.) There will be a $25 late fee charge for non-payment five days after the due date on the billing statements.
Wireless Internet
The Seminary has installed numerous antennae within the building, which grants access to PneumaNet, the Seminary's free wireless internet. Residents, who utilize this service, need to understand that because of staffing issues it is not possible to guarantee uninterrupted service. If the service is rendered temporarily unavailable due to maintenance or malfunction, the service may not be reestablished during evenings or weekends.
If a resident must be assured of 24/7 services, he or she must contract for personal internet service. The only source for internet service is via AT&T U-Verse.
Television & Phone Service
In Washington Hall telephone, high-speed internet, and digital TV service is only available through AT&T U-Verse. To have U-Verse installed, you must simply call AT&T for the services wanted and contact the Apartment Manager 24 hours before your scheduled installation. The Apartment Manager will give you a key for the communications room so that you may meet the installer and provide access to the appropriate communications room. If is necessary that the resident be present for the installation. The Housing staff may not handle this for the residents.
If you wish to have Digital TV installed, AT&T U-Verse may deny it exists in the building at first. Please give them your apartment number and ask them to check available services. They will then discover that you are, in fact, able to receive Digital TV for this location.
AT&T U-Verse Contact Info: 877-999-07886; www.att.com
All apartments are unfurnished except for major kitchen appliances (microwaves are not included) so residents should plan for this need.
Mini-blinds are installed in each window but you may put up curtains/drapes using only plastic anchors. Windows are 5'4" wide and 5'2" high. Arched windows on the 7th floor are 6'2 5/8" to the top of the arch.
Washington Hall's laundry room is located on the 2nd floor and utilizes a "SmartCard" system instead of coins or tokens.
- Washers – $1.00 per load
- Dryers – $.75 for 60 minutes
Frequently Asked Questions
- What food service options do I have?
- Home cooking, the Hope Café, Mitchell Dining service for on campus lunch service Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Many restaurants are in the area around the Seminary or within a short drive.
- How will I be paying for my apartment?
- Each resident has a rent account and will be billed monthly for their rent. It is the resident's responsibility to make rent payments by the due date. Rent statements are only sent to residents who fail to pay his or her rent by the deadline. (We'll go over that when you sign your lease.) You'll pay your pro-rated rent (in addition to a security deposit) when you move in and then each month thereafter.
- Where do I pay my rent?
- You may pay your rent inside the Housing Office or leave it in the drop box near the courtesy desk. Please make checks payable to DTS and include your ID number and the word "Rent" on the memo line. There is also an option to pay online using a debit/credit card (there is a fee for each occurrence) or using an E-Check (this option is free). Automatic draft payments can be arranged during your Lease Meeting by completing proper paperwork provided by the Housing Office.
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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh thyme
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Confectioners' sugar
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine buttermilk and sour cream. Combine the flour, thyme, lemon peel, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beating well after each addition.
- Transfer to a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Cool completely; sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Yield: 1 loaf (12 slices).
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"Love this recipe! Use my own lemon-thyme that I grow and I make muffins. Can't keep them around...family eats them up!"
"My family loves this recipe, especially the guys. I make muffins and they can't stop eating them. I grow my own lemon thyme so the grandkids love picking it and chopping it."
"This is a definite keeper. The keys are fresh tyme and fresh lemon in a great combination. Everyone with whom we've shared this has raved about it."
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US President Barack Obama, today (Thursday, 21 March 2013), visited the Israel Museum, where he visited the Shrine of the Book, home of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Upon meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the President said, "We had a great evening last night."
Later, at the entrance to the technology exhibit, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Dudu Fisher, who was present, to sing "He who Makes Peace on High" for President Obama. The Prime Minister explained that this is what the Jewish People pray for and that the song symbolizes the deep link between the long history of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel.
Prime Minister Netanyahu showed President Obama a series of technological products of the Israeli high-tech industries, in the framework of a special exhibit that was opened in his honor and which shows the technological face of the State of Israel. The Prime Minister noted that Israel was recently ranked
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and said, "R&D is our DNA."
The products that were chosen are in the fields of renewable energy, the war on traffic accidents, medicine, search and rescue, and robotics, and were selected from among proposals presented by Israel's universities in keeping with their degree of innovation, impact on humanity and presentability.
They were chosen by a professional committee headed by Prime Minister's Office National Economic Council Chairman Prof. Eugene Kandel. Also on the committee were Science and Technology Ministry Director General Menachem Greenbloom; Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry Chief Scientist Dr. Avi Chason and Prime Minister's Office communications Unit Head Rafi Shamir.
The chosen products that were shown to US President Obama:
In the field of energy alternatives –
has developed an aluminum-air battery designed for electric vehicles, and which allows a significant increase in travel range (three times that of a regular electric vehicle). The technology will allow for a reduction in global oil consumption. The system is based on metal air technology, including aluminum air and zinc air. A metal-air battery features an air-electrode that breathes oxygen from ambient air, instead of the conventional cathode. That is, the battery consumes the required oxygen from the air, rather than having heavy materials that bound oxygen inside it. Metal-air batteries therefore have a huge potential for delivering high capacity with low weight. The technology also has the significant advantages of zero CO2 emissions, full recyclability, safety and low cost. (Based on development at Bar-Ilan University.)
See YouTube video
In the field of the struggle against traffic accidents –
The goal of
, a global pioneer in developing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), is to develop and market vision-based systems that will help drivers keep passengers safe on the roads and decrease traffic accidents by warning about dangerous situations and even braking the vehicle when necessary. To date, Mobileye's technology has been implemented and launched by BMW, Volvo, GM and Ford in over one million vehicles. Beginning in 2014, the system will become standard for new vehicles as per the standards set by
. (Developed in association with Hebrew University.)
See YouTube video
In the field of medicine – BNA technology by
ElMindA's Brain Network Activation technology platform
provides a non-invasive tool for the visualization and quantification of BNAs of specific brain functionalities, disease development and rehabilitation from injuries, reactions to treatment, psychiatric and neurological problems, and pain.
(Developed in association with Bar Ilan University.)
In the field of search and rescue –
robot snake
The robot is designed to enter spaces in collapsed structures with minimal disturbance. The robot thus assists in location and rescue operations. The robot is unique in its manner of crawling and is very flexible thanks to its great number of segments. Each joint is motorized and has a computer, sensors, wireless communications and batteries. Its head carries a camera. Thanks to its flexible structure, the snake is able to crawl through wreckage without causing additional structural collapses and provide vital information about inaccessible areas, including the status of people who might be trapped, the location of hazardous materials, etc. (Developed in association with the Technion.)
See YouTube video
In the field of medicine –
approach aims to give persons with lower limb disabilities, such as paraplegia, an experience that is as close to natural walking as possible. The ReWalk exoskeleton suit uses a patented technology with motorized legs that power knee and hip movement. Battery-powered for all-day use, ReWalk is controlled by on-board computers and motion sensors, restoring self-initiated walking without needing tethers or switches to begin stepping. ReWalk controls movement using subtle changes in center of gravity, mimics natural gait and provides functional walking speed. A forward tilt of the upper body is sensed by the system, which triggers the first step. Repeated body shifting generates a sequence of steps, which allows natural and efficient walking. The ReWalk also sits, stands, allows turning and has the ability to climb and descend stairs. (Developed by a graduate of the Technion.)
See YouTube video
In the field of medicine –
A headset has been developed that enables computers to be controlled by brainwaves or facial movements. The computer is controlled without a mouse or keyboard by means of a headset that images the user's brainwaves from 14 separate points. The system, which was developed by three software engineering graduates from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is designed to serve the physically handicapped who could not otherwise operate a computer or other devices.
See Dropbox video
At the exhibit, President Peres showed US President Obama the Ma'an-Tech initiative, which incorporates outstanding Arab engineers into key roles in leading high-tech companies in Israel (including Intel, Microsoft, Google, HP and IBM), which the former initiated with the CEO of Cisco Systems, John Chambers. President Obama had heard of the project before his arrival and asked to find out more about this unique project during his visit.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:16 am
Post subject: Logged errors seen in books
I cant help noticing typos, poor grammar, inappropriate word choices, homophone errors, continuity errors, and some classes of scientific and historical errors. Some I assume to be from the author and some from a copy-editor [yes, editing CAN add errors], but I blame the publisher for ALL errors in a published work. Some writers are better able to proofread than others, but it is harder for the original writer to spot problems in text than it is for any other reader because we tend to see what we intended rather than what we actually created. Permanent mindos (mental errors instead of typographical errors) are a whole class of errors that writers can NEVER spot because what is written is what the author believes to be correct. (Transient mindos, momentary mental errors, can be spotted by the author later.) Supplying other eyes and minds to ensure a clean text is one of the all-too-often-shirked responsibilities of publishers.
I have joined periodic discussions of errors ever since I've participated in online discussions of what I read. In 2005, after encountering a book with more errors than usual, I started keeping a record of errors I noticed during my recreational reading. This is not deliberate proofreading, just what I can't help noticing. (I obviously don't record any errors that I don't notice when I don't know a particular usage any better than the author and publisher.) I like discussions to be based on objective data when possible, so my error tracking is an attempt to bring a little objectivity to this topic. My sample isn't randomized or controlled in a way suitable for scientific statistics, since most of my reading is in the romance & F&SF genres, but it is a reasonably large sample recorded by a single reader. Even the single reader aspect doesn't make the data completely consistent, since I started reading ebooks in 2006, changing from 100% printed books in 2005 to 20% printed books so far this year. I also encountered enough formatting problems (extra or missing spaces, bad hyphenation, broken paragraphs, etc.) in ebooks that in 2010 I stopped treating them the same as other errors and just started counting them (or estimating them in really bad cases). The ebook formatting issues could also have been affected by a change from lrf (Sony proprietary) ebooks to epub (more widely used standard) ebooks a couple years ago.
I now have over 1,900 books with logged counts of copy-edits I noticed during recreational reading.
When I sort by copyright year, there is little difference in error rates of printed books over several decades, despite complaints about declining text quality.
One way of looking at text quality is that 370 of 1,977 books (18.7%) had zero copy-edits that I noticed and logged, 303 had one, 256 had two, 177 had three, 115 had four, 288 had 5-10, 116 had 11 or more, and the rest had notations more complicated than a single number. Of the more complex counts, a few were cases where the same error was repeated so many times I logged a separate unique error count. Several others had so many problems I stopped recording specific typos or formatting problems and just estimated total errors (estimating over 1,000 errors in four ebooks, over 1,500 in another ebook, and over 4,000 in still another ebook). For one ebook, I just recorded "bad scan".
Formatting errors crop up in so many ebooks that I started counting them separately from typos and mindos in my log. The simple counts at the start of this paragraph predate this log change, which can produce compound entries in my copy edit column. Of the books with both text and format errors, 65 had one non-format text error, 59 had two, 42 had three, 35 had four, 65 had 5-10, and 21 had 11 or more.
Of the worst 231 books with over 10 errors each (adding format errors to typos & mindos), 188 were ebooks & 43 were printed books. None of these books were ARCs, so supposedly they had all been edited.
The absolutely worst-formatted purchased book I've read to date was the ebook of Once Upon Stilettos by Shanna Swendson (Ballantine Books ebook 2006). This is the one I estimated at over 4,000 formatting problems (many per page): it was missing all apostrophes, all quotes, all em & en dashes, and all accented letters. It was so bad it was a real challenge to read and I reported it to the Sony eBook Store I bought it from, and they eventually made a repaired copy available months after I reported the problem. At a quick glance, the new copy looked much more readable.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:17 am
Post subject: Word substitutions
This is a summary from over 7,000 errors recorded from over 1,900 books read since early 2005. I usually don't record nonstandard English in dialogue as errors when I can tell it is intentional (like dialect). Many errors involve spelling, punctuation, capitalization, formatting, word order, extra words, repeated words, or omitted words, and I won't go into detail about them here. This is mostly about word substitution errors where an incorrect real word is used (over 1,900 in my sample). I will use slashed word pairs to indicate incorrect/correct words.
Did educators lie down on the job? Lay/lie errors are far and away the most common. My list includes 794: 319 lay/laid + 201 lay/lie + 151 laid/lay + 83 laying/lying + 27 laid/lain + 7 lying/laying + 6 lays/lies. There is much more past tense than present tense or other verb forms in most fiction I read, and these error counts reflect that. They also show that people mess this up in both directions, though not equally.
The intransitive verb (action by subject) is lie, lying, lay, had lain (rest, be prone).
The transitive verb (action of subject on object) is lay, laying, laid, had laid (place, put down).
The confusion of "lie" and "lay" came up years ago on a romance novel discussion list I'm on, with a list member from Germany having a better understanding than most of the American members (including me). If I had ever clearly learned the proper usage in school I had long forgotten it, so I pulled a few dictionaries and style books (which I tend to collect) and made sure I understood the correct usage. I had to look in several books. Even though this is easy to keep straight when you know it, it is not always clearly taught or written about. IIRC, the best explanations were in books from Oxford University Press, not American books. I graduated from college in 1976, so I'm sure a lot has changed since I took any English classes, but I suspect that this is still a problem in many American schools.
All other errors were an order of magnitude less frequent than lay/lie errors.
The next most common error makes me grit my teeth. I counted 89 instances of "grit" instead of "gritted" for the past tense, usually in "gritted his/her teeth". None of the references I checked say that "grit" is a valid past tense. None even mention "grit" or "gritted" as a problem, so I guess most writers dealing with usage consider the correct past tense too obvious to mention.
Reluctant dislike: I counted 52 instances of "loathe" instead of "loath" in descriptions of reluctance ("loath to").
Don't tread on me: I counted 48 problems with "tread" (tread, trod, had trodden): 31 tread/trod, 12 trod/tread, 3 tread/trodden, 1 tred/tread, and 1 trounced that I think was supposed to be trod.
Don't subject me to this! I counted 47 subject/object pronoun problems: 20 I/me, 11 she/her, 8 he/him, 4 me/I, 2 her/she, and 2 him/he. I would count another 9 me/I errors from the book I read recently, except it was clear from the text that the first-person narrator is supposed to think he knows correct usage. These problems are already written about in many places. Most instances happen with x and y constructions. Just use the test of removing the "and y" to test your usage.
Next is another of my pet peeves that I haven't seen mentioned in the usage books I've checked. Between requires two or more objects, yet I counted 49 instances of between with singular objects. Most of these errors are in love scenes (cleavage, cleft, crevice, gap, gown, juncture, seam, slit, valley, vee and zipper are all singular).
Into every life . . . . I counted 48 confusions of "in to" for "into" (34 into/in to, 14 in to/into). Many incorrect instances of "into" were after forms of "give": "give into" instead of "give in to" (yield to). If you include a pause when you say it, include a space when you write it.
Next were 42 instances of one of the old standards everyone is warned about: its vs. it's. I saw 32 it's/its, 4 its/it's, 4 it/its, 1 it/it's, and 1 it'd/it's--definitely unbalanced toward extra apostrophes. Always mentally expand "it's" to "it is" if you aren't sure what to write.
Whatever you say: I counted 38 "what ever" instead of "whatever". I'm not sure why there are so many of these, since the two-word version is much rarer than the one-word version. It is possible that these are all formatting failures in ebooks, since some publishers really make a mess of syllable breaks in ebooks.
Heavy metal: I saw 34 led/lead problems (1 led/lead, 1 let/led, and 32 lead/led). The present-tense verb is a homograph with the metal (lead) and the metal is a homophone with the past-tense verb (led), but the two tenses of the verb are neither homophones nor homographs (lead/led: EE sound/EH sound), yet this clearly gives people trouble.
I object: I counted 32 adverse/averse errors, all in the same direction. Adverse usually refers to hostile or unfavorable situations or conditions. Averse (usually "averse to" in the U.S.) refers to dislike or opposition. Most appearances of averse are variations of "not averse to" (not opposed to). I think many people mess this one up just because there is almost no other use of averse in modern English.
Damp manuscripts: I saw 32 pour/pore errors (30 pore over, 2 pore through), all in the same direction. I think this is another rarity effect, since "pore" has no other modern uses as a verb. Unfortunately, every time I see these errors I think of the damage of applying liquid to books instead of studying them intently.
Better than then. Years ago I thought this error was just an ESL problem, but I have 28 instances (12 then/than, 9 that/than, and 7 than/then). I honestly have no idea why this happens, though it might just be a common word typo problem.
Horse & buggy rulers: I counted 24 reign/rein errors, all in the same direction. Maybe our culture is simply too far from horsemanship as a common skill for writers to remember the spelling of those straps for steering horses.
Spreading the bomb? I saw 23 diffuse/defuse errors, all in the same direction. Diffuse means spread or disperse. Defuse means remove a fuse (reduce danger). Figurative uses with situations, temper, tension, etc. should all be defused, not diffused.
Past time passed: I counted 21 errors with passed (11 passed/past, 9 past/passed, and 1 paned/passed). Passed and past are closely linked words, but past is an adjective and passed is the past tense of a verb. They really can't validly trade places.
Censor that! I saw 20 cens. . . errors: 13 censor/censure, 2 censure/censor, 2 censorship/censure, 2 censor/censer, and 1 stricture/censure. A censer is a container in which incense is burned. To censor is to cut or suppress. To censure is to criticize. People often censure the creators of material they censor, but there really is a difference.
Not one whit: I counted 17 wit/whit errors, all in one direction. Wit is intelligence. A whit is a very small amount. I suspect this is another rarity problem.
Not to be borne: I saw 16 borne errors (10 born/borne, 4 bore/borne, and 2 borne/born). These are all forms of bear, so some confusion is understandable. Bore is the past tense and shouldn't be used after had. Born and borne are both past participles, but born is restricted to references to birth and borne covers all other meanings.
Too much to drink? I counted 15 bad conjugations of drink, all of the form "had drank". Drank is the past tense of drink. Drunk is the past participle of drink. Don't use the simple past tense form after had.
A noisy climb: I saw 15 clamor/clamber errors (12 clamor/clamber and 3 clamber/clamor). To clamber is to climb, usually awkwardly or laboriously. Clamor is loud noise. I assume there are so many of these errors because neither word is in everyday use.
Being careful about to/too/two is another standard warning, but I still counted 15: 11 to/too, 2 so/too, 1 more/too, and 1 two/too.
Ring the wringer? I saw 11 forms of ring/wring, 4 ringer/wringer, and 1 wrung/rung. To ring is to surround or to make a sound. To wring is to squeeze and twist (usually to force out liquid). They really are different.
Sight the site or site the sight? I counted 10 site/sight errors and 3 sight/site errors. This is another standard warning.
I saw 9 clinch/clench errors (all verbs) and 4 clench/clinch errors (all nouns). To clench is to press tightly together. A clench is a tightening of part of the body. To clinch is to grapple or embrace. A clinch is a close scuffle or an embrace. Jaws clench. Couples on covers are often in clinches.
Clamp down: I saw 12 vice/vise errors, all in the same direction. Vice is immoral behavior or characteristics. In American English, a vise is a tool with jaws to hold objects. (In English English both are spelled vice, so I don't list this as an error when I know a book is using English English.)
Annoying tease: I counted 11 chaff/chafe errors, all in one direction. To chafe is to rub or annoy. To chaff is to tease.
Smile when you say that! I encountered 8 errors with smiled (verb past tense) used where smile (noun) should have been used, and 3 smile/smiled (wrong verb tense) errors.
Wash that cut! I counted 10 lathe/lave errors, all in one direction. A lathe is a machine for turning an object for shaped cutting. To lathe is to use a lathe. To lave is to wash. This error produces a disturbing mental image, since every instance is in a love scene where an author intended to use lave as an approximate synonym for lick and instead produced an image of cutting.
Break the brakes? I saw 9 break/brake errors and 1 brake/break error. A break is a pause or interruption. The meaning of brake intended in these cases is a device for stopping a moving vehicle.
What are you implying? I don't know why imply would be difficult, but I saw 7 infer/imply errors and 3 belie/imply errors. To belie is to disguise or contradict, to infer is to deduce or conclude, and to imply is to suggest, so mixing these up reverses meanings. These mistakes are apparently common enough to get a usage note in the OAD.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:21 am
Post subject: More word substitutions
The above notes were getting pretty long, so I will just give brief counts and spotty definitions for everything with under 10 instances.
9 fair/fare
9 ravage/ravish (severely damage/force sex)
6 roll/role + 3 role/roll
6 sunk/sank + 3 sank/sunk
8 illusive/elusive (deceptive/hard to find)
7 loose/lose + 1 lost/lose
8 worse/worst
7 phase/faze + 1 faze/phase
7 anymore/any more
7 bare/bear
7 Here, here!/Hear, hear!
7 ran/run
7 secret/secrete (noun/verb)
6 with out/without + 1 with/without
6 cache/cachet (collection or storage place/prestige)
6 lull/loll (calm/sit-stand-lie in relaxed way)
6 slather/slaver (spread liberally/let saliva run)
4 straightened/straitened + 1 straights/straits + 1 strait/straight
5 thing/think + 1 think/thing
6 whet/whetted
5 all together/altogether
5 bows/boughs (front of ship & other meanings/tree branches)
5 grinded/ground
5 peddle/pedal (sell/foot-operated lever)
4 sprung/sprang + 1 sprang/sprung
5 waiver/waver (instance of surrendering a claim/shake or quiver)
3 with in/within + 2 with/within
4 bath/bathe (noun/verb)
4 canvass/canvas (get opinions or solicit votes/course cloth)
3 dose/doze + 1 douse/doze
3 ate/eaten + 1 eat/eaten
2 floundered/foundered + 2 floundering/foundering (flounder=struggle clumsily/founder=sink)
3 proceed/precede + 1 preclude/precede
3 wrack/rack + 1 rack/wrack
4 stripped/striped (removed coverings/marked with stripes)
3 threw/through + 1 though/through
3 wreck/wreak + 1 reek/wreak
3 awhile/a while
3 an other/another
3 baited / bated (taunted or prepared lures/in great suspense)
2 beared/bore + 1 bored/bore
3 corroborate/collaborate (confirm/work jointly)
3 ancestors/descendents
3 eek/eke
3 epitaph/epithet (tombstone inscription/descriptive phrase or term of abuse)
3 her's/hers
3 lea/lee (open grassy area/shelter from wind)
3 onto/on to
3 peel/peal (remove skin/loud sound)
3 peak/peek (reach a high point/look quickly)
3 rang/rung
3 rouge/rogue (red cosmetic/unprincipled man)
3 sexton/sextant (person who looks after a church/navigation instrument)
3 tact/tack
3 throws/throes
3 Wig/Whig
2 back/aback
1 adjured/abjured + 1 abjured/adjured
2 protagonist/antagonist
2 any thing/anything
2 breath/breathe (noun/verb)
2 crackled/cackled
2 challis/chalice (a fabric/a goblet)
2 content/contentment
2 duel/dual (deadly contest/two-part)
2 solstice/equinox (in summer & winter/in spring & fall)
2 flaunt/flout (display ostentatiously/openly disregard)
2 honor/horror
2 incredulous/incredible (skeptical or unwilling to believe/unbelievable)
2 muzzle/nuzzle (put a guard over the face/rub gently with nose & mouth)
2 or/nor
2 parish/perish (church administrative district/suffer death)
1 cue/queue + 1 quay/queue
2 their/there
2 tortuous/torturous (twisty/causing extreme suffering)
2 thrice/trice (three times/moment)
2 want/wont (desire or lack/accustomed)
I won't list any of the word substitutions that I have only once in my log.
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This is amazing.
Partly I am amazed at your incredible records. !!
Partly I am amazed at your amazing knowledge of grammar and the English language.
I am stunned you are able to get through a book with more than 3 errors, though. Three is my limit. If I see 3 errors, especially if they are all errors of comma placement, I have to stop reading. I can't enjoy the story after that because I am terrified I will see another error.
If I run across an error, I spend way too much time sitting there trying to puzzle out various aspects of the error:
what it should have been instead
what the author might have meant
why anyone would use that option instead of the correct option
and finally
why some editor or proofreader would leave it there
-did they know what the author meant?
-did they not know and leave it anyway?
-or did they just miss it altogether?
If I did this for more than 3 errors per book, I would never have time to read at all.
Thank you for this:
The intransitive verb (action by subject) is lie, lying, lay, had lain (rest, be prone).
The transitive verb (action of subject on object) is lay, laying, laid, had laid (place, put down).
I have always wondered about this. I do not remember learning this in school or college - either did not pay attention or I was gone that day.
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Here's another to add to that impressive data. I've encountered "peeked" and "peaked" in error for "piqued," but I've never before, until today, encountered "piqued" in error for "peaked."
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:43 pm
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Salaisuus, I've always been a record keeper. I keep careful track of all books I buy, and have kept some form of reading log since 1975, so logging errors was not a big step for me.
I copy-edited a small quarterly journal for over 20 years. My day job is computer programming, which requires very careful attention to exact spelling. I can't turn the mental circuits off for recreational reading. I looked into some speed reading material many years ago, but the techniques were pretty contrary to my work needs, so I never practiced them.
I've always been interested in language and I read a lot, so some linguistic skill is inevitable. Despite the topic of this thread, the vast majority of published text does demonstrate good English, so nonstandard usage tends to stand out. I also have quite a few dictionaries and books on style and English usage in my personal library, so I can pull references when I'm not sure of something. The ebook Readers I use also have built-in dictionaries, so I can just double-tap a word while reading. The dictionaries in the Readers aren't as good as my large printed dictionaries, but they aren't bad.
I can enjoy a book despite errors. Errors irritate me without stopping me from reading. If I stopped reading at 3 errors, I would have to abandon more than half of my reading, while my actual DNF rate is about 1 book in 1,000.
My most reread book, A Rakes Reform by Cindy Holbrook, currently stands at 25 times read and 73 errors logged, proof that for me errors don't prevent enjoying a book.
I tend to make a mental distinction between the great story the author created and the lousy production job by the publisher.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:09 pm
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I generally read pretty quickly and probably skim a bit more than authors would appreciate. ;) I'm sure I don't catch every error (lucky for me, or I'd have nothing to read).
I like this idea of thinking it's the publisher's fault and not the author's fault. I will try that and see if it helps as I am reading. Maybe I should be making a note of the publishers with errors for my list to avoid, instead of authors.
I just get so DISTRACTED, by all these little questions when I see some random, comma stuck somewhere, it does not belong.
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Mark, thank you so much for illustrating the difference between
. I never did get that in school. I copied your example and filed it away for future reference. I feel confident I need never again wonder which is correct.
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I am dyslectic, so when I see certain errors I always have to stop and figure out if it is me, missing something or an editing mistake. I can't tell you how often I find him, her, he, she mistakes.
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Subject/object pronoun errors were only the fifth most frequent item on my list, but they could easily be more common than that suggests. I worked up the list by sorting several years of records in this format:
[page/paragraph/line #s on Sony Reader with 207 epub pages]
51/2/2 at the edge [of] her
120/2/3-4 yet it was [as] if she
150-151/3/5 braised [raised] his sword
154-155/3/2 he laid [lay] there
(I include the text location so I can see the full context if I ever need to check anything or if I give someone the errata, which lets me use short snippets to record the errors. The [] braces can show an omitted word to add or a replacement for the word before. The example above shows 2 of each.)
It is quite possible that I missed some subject/object problems due to the way I sorted and then narrowed down the results. There were other errors involving these pronouns, but they were typos, verb problems, gender flips (e.g., she for he), omitted words, etc. In fact, I can see that I probably should have defined another category of word substitutions: 8 she/he, 4 her/he, 1 it/he, 1 they/he, 5 him/her, 9 his/her, 3 he/her, 3 her/him, 1 them/him, 1 his/him, 22 her/his, 1 hers/his, 7 this/his, 1 its/his, 1 It/I, 1 you/me, 1 my/me, 3 the/she, 8 he/she, 2 he'd/she, 8 she'd/she, 2 she's/she, 5 he/the, 1 I/the, 1 they/the, 1 them/the, 2 her/their, 2 its/their, 1 his/their, 1 my/their, 3 him/them, 2 it/them, 1 it/they, 3 the/they, 1 we/you, 1 our/your, 1 I/you, 1 him/you, 4 you/your and 10 your/you're. Adding these 134 errors to the 47 subject/object errors I originally listed makes total pronoun errors a strong second place after lay/lie errors.
It is also likely that I read some errors without noticing them. I didn't spot the 73 errors in one book I mentioned above in one reading of the book--each reading added to the error list.
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Thinking and hoping that all of you who posted here have a sense of humor, I thought you'd enjoy this cartoon in the paper this morning. BTW, I also totally dislike errors in spelling and wrong usages of words, but there are times when we can laugh about it, too.
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LOL Tee! I here you..er, hear you!
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I decided to go through older logged errors to separate format problems from copy-edits, which ended up taking a while, or I would have posted this sooner.
I confirmed that all the "what ever" for "whatever" errors were from ebook format problems. I also saw a few examples of a format problem I didn't mention in my initial post: missing ligatures. A few ebooks have problems with the display of ligatures, e.g., changing flower to ower.
Someone elsewhere asked me about publishers, so I did a few sorts & calculations in my log spreadsheet to get these numbers:
Publisher Books w0Err % w>=10 % Mean Err MeanFmt
1632, Inc. 31 0 0% 30 97% 20.23 6.35
Ace 110 18 16% 16 15% 2.64 2.81
Avon 87 18 21% 5 6% 2.64 0.47
Baen 125 16 13% 28 22% 13.82 1.35
Ballantine 33 8 24% 6 18% 1.51 124.03
Bantam 44 12 27% 1 2% 1.95 0.52
Berkley 167 13 8% 31 19% 3.20 9.92
Carina Press 20 6 30% 1 5% 2.71 0.14
Del Rey 31 6 19% 3 10% 2.16 2.74
Ellora's Cave 62 12 19% 10 16% 4.63 0.53
Fawcett 15 3 20% 1 7% 2.93 0
Harlequin 184 45 24% 12 7% 2.63 1.51
Harper 13 6 46% 1 8% 2.23 0.15
HarperCollins 115 15 13% 14 12% 3.43 4.78
Jove 43 9 21% 3 7% 2.72 2.30
Kensington 32 1 3% 2 6% 3.57 0.60
Leisure 27 4 15% 3 11% 3.52 9.74
Love Spell 32 5 16% 1 3% 2.25 31.25
Luna 11 1 9% 3 27% 3.45 5.36
Mira 10 1 10% 1 10% 2.00 100.6
Onyx 10 1 10% 3 30% 1.40 12.5
Orbit 15 2 13% 2 13% 2.73 4.4
Pocket 71 14 20% 5 7% 2.42 1.28
Random House 12 8 67% 0 0% 0.33 0
Roc 16 4 25% 5 31% 1.38 7.13
Samhain 39 8 21% 5 13% 3.23 2.18
Signet 103 20 19% 15 15% 2.15 2.48
Silhouette 66 17 26% 0 0% 1.70 0.23
Smashwords 15 3 20% 2 13% 6.20 1.67
St. Martin's 71 13 18% 7 10% 1.96 4.90
Tor 27 6 22% 1 4% 2.04 8.33
Warner 24 4 17% 1 4% 2.83 0.04
Zebra 78 11 14% 18 23% 6.90 1.06
"w0Err" here means with zero copy-edits and zero format problems spotted & logged.
"w>=10" means with 10 or more problems logged.
1632, Inc. is a special case: all the books are issues of a bimonthly ebook called the Grantville Gazette which has stories and articles in the 1632 universe. Since someone gave me an address about four years ago, I've been sending the editor my copy-edits after I read each release. I may be reading these ebooks more carefully than others just because of that. Of course, it is also possible that a bimonthly publication isn't edited the same as other books.
I list separate means for copy-edits and format problems. I just found out a couple months ago that many format problems with accented letters and special characters are due to a display bug in my Readers rather than due to publisher errors, but I have no easy way to tell how many counted format errors were actually Reader display bugs.
You can see in the copy-edit mean for Baen (due to one book: Echoes of an Alien Sky, an unedited mess) and the format means for Ballantine, Love Spell and Mira how one or two books with really bad counts can greatly raise an average.
I also did a quick comparison of printed books to ebooks. Ebooks I've read have about 1.8 times the copy-edit error rate of printed books I've read, but when you add in formatting problems the ratio jumps to about 6.6 to 1.
Mean of copy-edit errors for 997 printed books is 2.72.
Mean of copy-edit errors for 1050 ebooks is 4.90.
Mean of combined copy-edit & formatting errors for 997 printed books is 2.77.
Mean of combined copy-edit & formatting errors for 1050 ebooks is 18.33.
Note: 129 of the ebooks in these counts are shorter works: novelettes, novellas, even short stories that are impractical for stand-alone printed publications but quite easy to create as stand-alone ebooks.
My initial post mentioned trends over time, so here is a quick breakdown by decades.
These numbers uses copyright years, so some are later reprints (including ebooks):
Years Books MeanEdits PrintBooks
1950s 16 3.19 15 3.20
1960s 26 4.19 23 3.83
1970s 31 2.97 27 2.93
1980s 81 2.65 76 2.39
1990s 209 3.43 199 3.42
2000s 1266 3.99 635 2.38
2010s 399 3.81 7 4.57
I've only read a few ebooks with copyrights in decades before 2000, but I counted two ways. First counts are all books (printed and electronic), then printed books only. The 2010s printed books mean edits value looks bad because of a single poorly edited book and a small sample size. Though the sample sizes for decades before the 1980s are a bit small, you can actually see a bit of a sine wave in the means, with editing getting worse in the 1960s, getting better again in the 1970s & 1980s, then getting worse again, then getting better again for printed books in the 2000s. All the variation is on a fairly small scale--the magnitude the mean edits of all decades is in a fairly narrow range.
These numbers are just for copy-edits. If you add in formatting problems, ebooks look much worse. I think it is reasonable to say that the quality of EDITING of books has not changed greatly over the last several decades, though ebooks don't get quite as good editing as printed books, but that with ebooks the quality of PRODUCTION has deteriorated due to some publishers' laziness or incompetence or deliberate devaluing of ebooks.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 19, 2010) - ETSU volleyball signee Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) was named a Schelde National Player of the Year Finalist announced PrepVolleyball.com this past weekend.
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New jazz artist Gregory Porter exhibits such vocal mastery that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton Marsalis has gone on record to call him "a fantastic young singer." The debut album, Water, is out now on Motema Music.
For the recording of Water, Gregory Porter tapped a powerful cadre of strong players, among them the iconic alto sax player James Spaulding (Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, and Bobby Hutcherson, et al). The album consists of original songs, with musical references to the old jazz greats, and a few re-worked standards like the Wayne Shorter song, "Black Nile."
Saxophonist, pianist and composer Kamau Kenyatta, who Porter also calls his best friend, produced the CD. In fact, it is Kenyatta who bears much of the responsibility for Porter's career trajectory, which can be traced back to Porter's early days singing in small jazz clubs in San Diego. He lived there while at San Diego State University which he attended on a football scholarship, as an outside linebacker, until a shoulder injury sidelined him permanently. Kenyatta, along with saxophonist Daniel Jackson (Ray Charles, Buddy Rich, Art Farmer and more) came to recognize Gregory's other standout talent, and nurtured the burgeoning performer. Kenyatta "taught him what he needed to know."
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"1960 What?" is somewhat divergent from the rest of the album. This 12-minute soulful track is Water's most political song. It's inspired in part by Kamau Kenyatta's stories of life in Detroit and by the 1963 assassination of Martin Luther King, as well as Porters's own experiences growing up in Los Angeles.
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Berry, a senior from Surrey, England, had already provisionally qualified for both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters. Berry is planning on running the 5,000 at the upcoming NCAA Outdoor Meet. Berry's time of 4:21.88 was a personal best and just missed the ETSU record of 4:20.7 that is held by Michelle Gregg.
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There are two primary ways to sync a mobile phone, portable music player, or other mobile device with your computer. You can install the sync software that many manufacturers include with their devices, or you can use the new Device Stage feature in this version of Windows if your device supports this feature.
Device Stage lets you sync music, contacts, calendars, and other files and information with a compatible mobile device. It also allows you to perform other device-related tasks that vary depending on the device, such as creating ringtones for a mobile phone. What files and information you can sync depends on the type of device you have and what it supports. For example, you may be able to sync contacts and calendars with a smartphone, but not with a portable music player.
To see which types of files and information you can sync with your device, connect the device to your computer. If your device is compatible with Device Stage, this feature will open automatically. (If you've already set up your device to sync, Device Stage will open, but it will appear minimized on your Windows taskbar.) Device Stage will list various tasks you can perform with your device, including sync setup.
Device Stage is customized for each device by the manufacturer of that device, and displays different options for different devices. If you have more than one device connected to your computer, you can have more than one instance of Device Stage open at the same time.
The easiest way to find out if a device you already have works with Device Stage is to connect it to your computer and see if Device Stage opens. For devices you don't already have, check with the manufacturer or review the specifications for the device. For a mobile phone, music player, digital camera, or other mobile device to work with Device Stage, the manufacturer must add compatible software (also called firmware) to the device.
The ability to use Device Stage to change ringtones on a mobile phone is not included in all editions of Windows.
Device Stage has different options for syncing contacts, calendars, tasks, and notes than it does for syncing music, pictures, and videos.
Turn on a compatible smartphone or other mobile device that has the ability to work with contacts, calendars, tasks, or notes. Connect it to your computer using a USB or other connection cable; or, if it's a wireless device, connect wirelessly.
If Device Stage doesn't open, your device either doesn't support this feature of Windows or it isn't properly connected to your computer.
In Device Stage, double-click Set up sync.
Select the check box for each type of file or information you want to sync (contacts, calendars, notes, or tasks).
For each type of content you selected, click the drop-down list and select what program to use as the source for your contacts, calendars, notes, or tasks. If you don't see the program you want listed, click Get more sync plug-ins. This will take you to a page where you can download sync plugs-ins for other programs.
In order for Device Stage to sync contacts, calendars, notes, or tasks with your device, it must have a source for those files and information. Device Stage can use as its source an e-mail program or similar program where you keep your contacts, calendars, notes, or tasks. But for a program to work with Device Stage, it must have a sync plug-in that allows Device Stage to interact with the program. If you don't see a sync plug-in for the program, it might not be compatible with Device Stage. Check with the program's manufacturer.
To sync all your contacts, calendars, notes, or tasks to your device, click Sync now. They'll all sync immediately, and again automatically in the future, when your device is connected to your computer. To save these changes and sync automatically in the future (but not now), click Save changes.
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After you're done selecting what music, photos, and videos to sync, click OK to return to the sync settings page, and then click Save changes or Sync now.
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Any mobile device successfully connected to your computer should appear in Devices and Printers in Control Panel, regardless of whether the device is connected with a cable or wirelessly. Many mobile phones connect using Bluetooth wireless technology.
Even devices that aren't compatible with Device Stage should appear in Devices and Printers. Here's how to check:
Open Devices and Printers by clicking the Start button , and then, on the Start menu, clicking Devices and Printers.
Look for your device. If the device is connected properly, its name should appear in Devices and Printers. It might be listed under a different (and sometimes not obviously related) name than the make and model of the device. If you haven't changed the name of a device in Windows, Devices and Printers will display whatever name the manufacturer gave the device.
If you don't see your device in Devices and Printers, and you're sure you connected it correctly to your computer, make sure the device is turned on and has fresh batteries or is fully charged.
If you see your device in Devices and Printers, but it doesn't automatically open Device Stage when you connect it to your computer, then the device isn't compatible with Device Stage. It should automatically open AutoPlay instead.
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William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center Task Force Established by Executive Order 2013-001
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Mayor Dennis P. Williams signed Executive Order 2013-001 to establish the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center (WHACC) Task Force and to work with Wilmington City Council to address the critical issues of children's achievement and neighborhood development. The Task Force will provide the Mayor and City Council with recommendations regarding a comprehensive renovation plan and the potential for construction of a new, updated facility.
The Task Force will be a coalition of members from the Administration, City Council, civic leaders, and youth committed to the advancement of WHACC and the development of a coordinated system of services, opportunities, and resources to support and improve the lives of Wilmington youth and their families.
"My Administration and City Council continue to explore and implement methods for creating a plan to improve the City's community organization and youth development," said Mayor Williams. "We are creating this task force to develop a comprehensive plan that will hopefully lead to a higher-quality facility and increased programming opportunities."
City Council President Theo Gregory today thanked Mayor Williams for establishing a group to assess the future of the City's only owned and managed community center. "The Mayor and City Council have been discussing in recent weeks not only the importance of the Hicks Anderson Center to the local community and the City as a whole, but also the need to focus on the center's future," said Council President Gregory. "We are very pleased that the Mayor has acted quickly and decisively to get a working group up and running to look at the brick and mortar issues regarding the center and most importantly how the center can better serve our youth and their families. City Council looks forward to working with the Mayor and the community on this effort."
The WHACC Task Force will be comprised of 11 members: the Director of Parks and Recreation, the Office of Management and Budget Director, the Commissioner of Public Works, the Director of the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center; two representatives from City Council, the Chair of the Education, Youth and Families Committee and Fifth District Councilmember; and five community stakeholders.
The community stakeholders will be appointed by Mayor Williams and must have demonstrated skill or expertise in the various fields of architecture, construction, engineering, finance, youth program development and display a vested interest in the future of WHACC. Two of the community stakeholders must be between the ages of 15 and 30 years old. The Chair of the WHACC Task Force will be one of the community stakeholders appointed by Mayor Williams.
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Women's Tennis Defeats Temple 6-1 to Open Dual Meet Season
The Princeton women's tennis team opened its dual-meet season with a 6-1 win over Temple Wednesday night on the indoor courts in Jadwin Gymnasium, taking both completed doubles matches and the top five singles bouts.
Lindsay Graff defeated Temple's top player, Yana Mavrina, without giving up a game at first singles. That came after she teamed with Amanda Muliawan, who gave up only one game in her win at second singles, to beat Temple's top doubles duo of Carly Bohman and Minami Okajima, 8-3.
Princeton will continue its dual-meet schedule in Ohio over the weekend with two matches hosted by the University of Akron, first against No. 52 Missouri Saturday at 9 a.m. and then against host Akron at 10 a.m. Sunday.
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3. (58) Chow/Goepel (P) vs. Breland/Osei (T), unfinished
Order of finish: 2,1
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- Red, white and blue sprinkles
- Prepare cake mix batter according to package directions for cupcakes.
- In a small bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and blue food coloring. In another bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and red food coloring. Leave remaining batter plain.
- Fill paper-lined muffin cups with 2 tablespoons red batter, 2 tablespoons plain batter and 2 tablespoons blue batter. Bake at 350° for 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Frost with vanilla frosting; decorate with sprinkles. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
Reviews for Patriotic Cupcakes
"Most definitely awesome!! If you desire to impress, make these. Will take advice from someone who commented here about using 1 Tbsp. each color batter vs. 2 Tbsp. I particularly do not like batter running over side of pan Just makes a **mess**. THANK YOU for sharing this recipe. J."
"These were a huge hit for kids and adults at one of our 4th of July parties. There was so much food and desserts and this one still took the cake, literally! It is a little time consuming to put each colored batter into each muffin liner. But, they were fun to make and delicious. I would definitely make this recipe again!"
"My grandson was born July3. He loves these on his special day."
"Everyone was impressed with these cupcakes but they were so easy to make"
"[quote user="mamabear223"]great idea, but 2 tbs. Is way too much. Next time maybe 2 tsp. [/quote] The recipe actually calls for one half teaspoon of each color. [quote]"