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To continue with the recipes for the holidays from the DiscountRamps.com staff, Dawnee (the Executive Assistant) and I (Jacci the IT Manager) wanted to share our favorite recipe for frosting.
A few months back, Dawnee and I took a cake decorating class at our local craft store. One of the first things we learned was how to make our own frosting. We could not believe how easy it was to make. Below is the recipe for the basic buttercream frosting we learned, along with a couple of cakes we shared with the DiscountRamps.Com staff.
1 cup vegetable shortening (I preferred butter flavored shortening )
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups confectioner's sugar (aka powdered sugar–about 1lb)
2 tablespoons milk or water
In a large bowl cream the vegetable shortening, add in vanilla. Slowly add in the sugar (I like using a flexible cutting board or paper plate for this) with your mixer at medium speed. Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure all sugar is mixed in. Add in the water/milk and continue to mix at a medium speed until it's light and fluffy. This is for a stiffer consistency which works well for flowers and other decorations on the cake. If you are using it to frost a cake, add in 2 more tablespoons of water/milk to give it a thinner consistency.
Now to show off our cakes!
First up is Dawnee's cake–she made a chocolate cake with raspberry filling and mint frosting. She did a cherry blossom design for her cake.
To make a mint frosting replace the vanilla extract with a mint extract.
Next is my cake–I made a red velvet cake with orange frosting filling and the same frosting was used on the outside. I made a basic flower design with peanut butter chips in the middle.
To make the orange frosting, replace the vanilla extract with the orange extract. I actually used 2 teaspoons for my frosting because I didn't think it was orangey enough with 1.
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Why am I posting on this page rather than on the Age of Wushu site? Well I'm going from mmosite to mmosite posting that my recent thread has been completely deleted and the devs are completing blacking out any and all information to the players with the current state of the game.
If you've played Age of Wushu NA (North America) you'll understand where I'm coming from. For those who don't know; the current lag issue with the game has to do with their server. I recently put a post up on the Age of Wushu Closed beta page discussing the current connectivity problems players have been having. Reports of players hitting pings of over 1,000. However, the moderators have deleted the thread completely.
While this game is good and I believe it will be and is an awesome success in other countries; do not touch the NA version of the game. It is riddled with bugs, exploits, poor translations, and horrific latancy issues with their servers. The dev's refuse to communicate with their community on any issue. Even when it comes to players who are paying large amounts for their in-game cash shops. The players who are paying for the game are reporting that they're not even receiving the cash shop gold they paid for.
Many glitches in the game ranging from permament slows after teleporting out of instances or assassination fights. Avatar displacement with using the dash skill. Bugged instances like Green Cloud Castle. Poor translations and improper descriptions of skills make the games "random encounter" system almost impossible to do, mainly because the majority of the NPC's you need to talk to are not correctly named. Improper information on stats and skills making it increasingly hard for players to know which stats suit their class the best.
Due to the current state of the game. I highly recommend not investing any time or money into the game until the GM's and Developers are willing to fix the problem.
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If you bothered to look, they moved it to Closed Beta bugs so that your post recieved more attention. I believe this it...
If that's not it, they probably black holed it for being a repeat topic. Forum warriors like you are tireless in making sure everyone else is hyper aware of your own ignorance.
In regards to translations, yep - they totally suck and Snail Games has acknowledged that much. Check out the interviews on Massively, this is an area that should get a great deal of focus in the next patch. We'll see if that actually pans out.
Random encounters are a reasonably unique feature, but a very small part of the game. Given that this version is in CBT and the others are in full release, the lack of content and buggy features are understandable. You don't just straight port over a game from China.
Originally posted by Alamareth
Hello Folks!
Nuff said, my post was much older than this one btw.
...and low and behold I've had barely any issues since. Is that "enough said" for you? Perhaps I just have a higher tolerance for issues in a CBT than you do.
I'm assuming that when you posted about your issue you followed the above?
Originally posted by Mtibbs1989
From the devs,
So they are looking into it, I even posted in that thread saying I also had lag on that day, however I am not having the issues you are talking about so it may be related to your region or your network as well. (If it is server side we would all be having it together like we were on 1/15)
Originally posted by Alamareth
My list was more than just the latancy issue, it ranged from latancy to game exploits, bugs, poor tranlations, and etc. Why would they delete a forum post listing so much?
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I play from North America and don't have any lag at all. Not sure what you're going on about. Maybe YOU have lag, but that doesn't make it their server that's the issue.
I've been fairly active on those forums and I've seen nothing to that effect from anyone.
Those moderators are pretty good, I seriously doubt they would just outright delete something. Otherwise, why are there dozens of posts that they edited carefully to bring them into line with the code of conduct?
My question is what do you have against the game that you went to multiple gaming communities to complain about a problem none of us seem to recognize? Whose payroll are you on? If you had an issue take it up with a moderator, you know - the way things are supposed to be.
Originally posted by Alamareth
Why indeed would the delete my entire compilation of information regarding bugs. I too follow the forums posts on the Age of Wushu website. Either way, my post has been deleted.
Are you just not going to respond to the fact that everyone isn't having this lag problem?
edit: Don't get me wrong if your having a problem and it is on Snail's side they need to look into it, but it seems they are looking into it. So that is good. The translations have been promised an overhaul by the CEO in the recent interview on Massively, I agree 100% that needs fixing.
But it seems you are having problems above and beyond what others are having as well.
I don't often go in the forums because it is full of people bitching about mechanics that are part of the game that most people IN the game don't bitch about and the foreign players, no offense to them, make some of the reading in that forum harder than the poor translations in Wushu.
Originally posted by GrayKodiak
Actually on the most recent update there has been an increasing amount of people having latency issues.
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I played for about 8 hours yesterday. Quite a few ping spikes, not constant lag.
Most noticeable after initiating combat, the skills would not reliably fire on time unless I spammed the button, and same with summoning horse, there was sometimes a huge delay between when I press the button and when I hear the whistle/ see the animation.
Originally posted by Zooce
While not constant most players experience the lag spikes quite frequently. The highest ping I've heard someone from my guild talk about was around 4,000. I myself only seem to spike 1,000+ during dungeon fights when assassins enter. When I'm not doing dungeons the game settles from 19-500. However, that's my personal experience.
Originally posted by Mtibbs1989
Sorry I think I slipped this in the prior post while you were responding.
Don't get me wrong if your having a problem and it is on Snail's side they need to look into it, but it seems they are looking into it. So that is good. The translations have been promised an overhaul by the CEO in the recent interview on Massively, I agree 100% that needs fixing.
But it seems you are having problems above and beyond what others are having as well.
I don't often go in the forums because it is full of people bitching about mechanics that are part of the game that most people IN the game don't bitch about and the foreign players, no offense to them, make some of the reading in that forum harder than the poor translations in Wushu.
In addition,
there is lag in Wushu at times, I see it in Chengdu from time to time...that being the player elected social hub it seems. Normally it is minor however like the above mentioned horse whistle delay or some such thing and it seems localized to that area at prime time. I hope it gets streamlined or they beef up the servers a bit but it should be noted we are in the pre-release (soft release) stage.
Originally posted by GrayKodiak
While I might be experience 1,000+ during dungeon runs. That isn't where I'm experiencing the lag the most. I personally spend the majority of my time PvPing and it becomes most noticable that there is a latency issue when you're dueling players. Especially when you're fighting with Wild Goose (dash).
In addition to the translation overhault they've stated I'm sure you're aware of the current divination exploit that out right now. It's dealing with the inability to see the numbers. I believe the improper translation is causing said bug. Apparently the game does not recognize the value when a players only puts 1's in the boxes.
Joined: 3/03/12
I'm in michigan. I bounce from 98-180 with spikes of 235.
I use Laetrix ping reducer though. before that I was at 235ish with spikes of 300.
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Joined: 1/24/11
Originally posted by bcbully
Never heard of this Leatrix thing before, thanks! Giving it a try now.
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Joined: 9/13/06
I play from German and my Latency was without Leatrix 400-700,
now with Leatrix 200-400.
In the last Week i had Lagspikes from 1500-25k+.
Quite often in GCC.
For this reason I will leave AoW with the start of the EU OB.
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Joined: 10/29/11
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A few quick things:
1) The lag can be bad. I've had issues where my ping does hit excesses of 1k and more into the red. Everyday? No not really but often enough to notice the servers aren't the best bording on bad.
2) The perma slow after leaving instances or assassin missions. That is a bug I encountered and wondered WTF. Then someone put me on like I'm about to put you on. Hit " / " on your NUMPAD. That is the toggle for running and walking. Hit it once to walk then hit it again to go back into your non-bugged running..
3) Players not recieving gold from Cashshop Top-Up. They do have some times where you will get your gold as soon as you pay with 10 mins. Then there are times where it can take an hour or more to recieve your gold. I have not ran into an issue where I did not get my gold whatsoever. I don't know about other cases personally but this one is mine.
4) Localization is an issue, still needs a good deal or work in properly translating and presenting the information clearly. Some stuff has decent English but then doesn't have the entire tool-tip message; it gets cut off. Kind of like they have some type of character limit in some of their descritpion tool-tips so they have to chop it down to as simple as possible.
5) Exploting. I don't know of any major exploits outside of people getting bounties and then claiming (podding) themselves to reap the rewards. With World chat tho, you can kind of let the rest of the server know about those that do this big time and maybe fight it a bit. I'm sure there are some that peopel are severly abusing, but nothing has been posted to forums about it really at AoW that I've seen. Oh can't forget Divniation bug LoL.. I forgot about this one. DIdn't get caught by it but that one was bad..
6) Gold sellers. They are in the game right now, just showed up in the last couple of days. This is one thing that is a major sore spot for me. Not really because of the gold selling (thats in many, many games) but my problem is that this game has a player run economy. One that is extreamly inflated from its Chinnese counterpart right now. These goldsellers are more than likey a very large portion of the crowd overcharging for wares. They are double dipping people. Don't buy from them.
I guess that's more than a few but what are you gonna do? Meh..
Very cool game tho, interesting and a little different. They had the $10 elite package at one point and that was absolutely a deal because they ended up getting more rewards than the $10 they originally put into the game. This isn't saying Snail Games takes care of it's players. That's still up for debate most definately.
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All the songs you download are free to you as a member of CCPL, as the library subscribes to the service for you. Type in your library card number and then you can see which are the current most popular downloads, and/or you can search for any artist (or song, album, composer or genre) you're interested in. You won't find every single artist you like, but the more you look around on the site, the more good music you'll find. If you're not sure whether you're going to like something, you can listen to a sample of each song before downloading it.
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Wear comfortable shoes to the 65-acre Carillon Historical Park; you're going to be doing a lot of walking. Don't be fooled by the stately brick building at the entrance, which looks like just another visitors center. Beyond is a wealth of history at this site near the University of Dayton. A nominal entrance fee admits visitors into a sort of Disney World for history buffs. First, there's the indoor portion, the Heritage Center of Dayton Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship. Antique cash registers (a tribute to Dayton's own NCR company) fill one room, memorabilia on the Wright brothers another, and items about the magazine McCall's, which began life as an Ohio publication, another. Outside the back door lies the heart of the park: a re-created town featuring everything from a vintage Sunoco station to Dayton's oldest building, Newcom Tavern, built in 1796 and transported here when the park first opened in 1950. Some buildings feature turn-of-the-century trains and other vehicles. The biggest thrill, though, is the original Wright Flyer III, built in 1905. It's given a place of honor in the John W. Berry Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center, in a quiet, darkened room where the only sound is the snapping of tourists' cameras.


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Josh Duhamel Describes First Seeing Pregnant Fergie's Ultrasound
Josh Duhamel told Yahoo! there's just something about him and kids that clicks. "I don't know if it's because I am a kid but it does prepare you whenever you're around them."
The 40-year-old actor is expecting his first child with wife Fergie, and during a press junket for Safe Haven in the UK, he talked more about his real-life fatherhood.
"It's very exciting," Josh said. "Seeing that ultrasound is unlike anything you've ever seen. Unless you've had one yourself. You're like 'wow it's mine.'" Aww!
He plays a father of two in Safe Haven, and he has nieces and nephews, and all his friends have kids. (Plus, he's hosting the 2013 Kids's Choice Awards.) "All that stuff is a learning experience for when it actually happens," he said, "but I don't think you're ever truly prepared until it's your own."
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AMNRL 2003 Season Draw
THE AMNRL season kicks off this Weekend for 2003. This year will see the introduction of two new teams to the AMNRL. The Washington D.C. Slayers and Connecticut Wildcats will be playing their first games as part of the expansion of Rugby League in the United States.
Queensland Cup - Round 10 - Review
BURLEIGH retained a share of fifth spot on the Queensland Cup ladder with a 26-16 win over Easts in a high quality ABC Television match at Langlands Park. The Tigers were first to score after 15 minutes when fullback Wade Liddell crossed after a Scott Thorburn bomb was not handled by the Bears. Five minutes later the scores were level at 6 all with Burleigh second row Stan Berryman crashing over after a set move.
3 Guilty Of Drug Charges
THREE players have tested positive for banned substances, the Rugby Football League's Doping Control Panel announced on Tuesday. London Broncos winger Dominic Peters has been suspended from playing for 12 months after testing positive for stanozolol.
Kids Take Over At Centurions
ALTHOUGH the first team had the Bank Holiday Weekend off, St Albans Centurions were still in action when their newly-formed Under-16 team pulled off another fine victory, winning 30-20 at Greenwich Admirals. The side, which was only formed this month by former first team skipper Lee Parkin, has done so well in its two matches - they hammered Essex Eels in their debut match a week earlier - that scouts from Super League club London Broncos are taking a very keen interest in several players.
Patten prepared to take pay cut to stay
BULLDOGS fullback Luke Patten says he is prepared to take another pay cut to stay with the National Rugby League club.
Roarty leaving Panthers amid dream run
SECOND rower Ben Roarty is quitting high-flying Penrith in the midst of its dream National Rugby League season to secure his playing future in England. The Panthers have agreed to give 28-year-old Roarty an early release because they can't guarantee him a contract for next season.
Adam MacDougall Put On Ice By Knights
INJURED Test winger Adam MacDougall has been frozen out by the Newcastle Knights pending the outcome of further talks over his future with the National Rugby League club.
The Benefit Of The Doubt
NATIONAL Rugby League (NRL) video referees have been told to give attacking teams the benefit of the doubt this weekend following a series of controversial rulings in recent matches.
Broncos re-sign young forwards
THE Brisbane Broncos have been boosted by three of their young forwards signing new National Rugby League contracts.
Thomson supports Gold Coast bid
MANLY boss Ian Thomson has thrown his support behind a consortium bidding to base a National Rugby League team on the Gold Coast from 2006.
Bulldogs Withdraw Vagana's Offer
THE Bulldogs have withdrawn their latest offer of a new contract to Nigel Vagana, prolonging the stalemate between the Kiwis' star centre and the National Rugby League (NRL) title contenders.
National Rugby League team on the Gold Coast ?
THE consortium pushing for a National Rugby League team on the Gold Coast will meet with officials from a Sydney club in the next 48 hours to discuss relocating to the tourist strip.
Round 12 - Teams and Fixtures
FRIDAY 30th May 2003
Forever - A place in Legend's Walk
THIS Sunday the St.George Illawarra Dragons return to OKI Jubilee Stadium Kogarah for their scheduled second match this season at the rebuilt ground against the Cowboys. Work continues on Stage One of the project, despite the terrible weather encountered by the builders.
Talau Ready To Decide On Future
KIWIS and Bulldogs centre Willie Talau is expected to decide on his future with the National Rugby League (NRL) club this week.


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Saturday, August 17, 2013
South Carolina Independent School Association Executive Director Larry Watt announced that a member of the faculty at a local SCISA school has completed the SCISA Teacher Institute.
University School of the Lowcountry teacher T.J. Medlock completed the two-day training program.
"The goal of the SCISA Teacher Institute is to give teachers new to one of the SCISA schools a thorough orientation and to insure a working knowledge of the policies under which they will be working," Watt said. "It is also a great refresher course for veteran teachers," he added.
Topics such as classroom discipline, classroom procedures, school politics, extra-curricular activities, testing and grading and communication with parents were presented and discussed. Case studies using the participants' policy manual and handbook were studied, and all participants were video taped teaching a typical lesson.
The South Carolina Independent School Association is a non-profit, voluntary association of over 110 independent schools serving more than 37,000 teachers and students.
Founded in 1965, the State of South Carolina incorporated SCISA as an exclusively educational organization with the responsibilities of establishing accreditation standards, coordinating academic and athletic competition and providing professional development for member organizations.
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Tennessee-based poet Darnell Arnoult reads her poem "Work" from What Travels With Us. Her first novel, Sufficient Grace, was published in June 2006 by Free Press.
"Work" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University's Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
|"Work." This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Poem text.
About the Author
Darnell Arnoult was born in Martinsville, Virginia in 1955 to a Baptist beautician from Draper, North Carolina and a Catholic architect from Memphis, Tennessee. During her junior year year of high school, she developed a love of reading and decided to become a writer. Shortly after her decision, Arnoult got married and became the mother to two children. By twenty-five, she was divorced and a single parent. Arnoult supported her family for nineteen years through a series of odd jobs, from delivering newspapers, changing headings on library cards, and cleaning houses, to working as a chair-side dental assistant, a secretary in an occupational therapy unit, and a counselor to prisoners in a minimum-security facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education administrator at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, receiving her MA in English and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. While in North Carolina, Arnoult published several short stories and poems and taught creative writing for the Duke Short Course Program and the Duke Writers Workshop.
Arnoult lived the first nineteen years of her life in the foothills of Virginia—Martinsville, Danville, Fieldale, and Bassett. She then passed the next twenty-five years in North Carolina, in the Chapel Hill and Durham area, with a short stint at Camp Lejeune and a year in Irmo, South Carolina. On April Fool's Day 2000, she married a cowboy and moved to middle Tennessee, where her husband encouraged her to ride horses and to write full time. At the age of forty-nine, she became a grandmother and published author, when What Travels With Us, her first book of poems, was released by Louisiana State University Press. What Travels With Us is the winner of the 2005 Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College, as well as the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book of the Year. Her first novel, Sufficient Grace, debuted in June 2006, shortly after her fiftieth birthday. Arnoult now lives in Brush Creek, Tennessee.
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Arnoult, Darnell. Sufficient Grace. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Arnoult, Darnell. What Travels With Us. Baton Rouge, LA: Lousiana State University Press, 2005.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, and James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, et al. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Roscigno, Vincent J. and William F. Danaher. The Voice of Southern Labor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Tullos, Allen. Habits of Industry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
The Uprising of '34, Dir. George Stoney, Judith Helfand, Susanne Rostock (First Run Icarus Films, 1995)
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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
An Aiken man reported on Thursday that someone opened and stole parts from air conditioner units at two buildings he owns on Richland Avenue and Park Avenue.
A John Deere Gator vehicle was reported stolen from a construction site on University Parkway on Monday.
A burglary was reported at a business on Williamsburg Street on Monday. The owner reported that a door was busted with a concrete block and two cash registers were missing.
Two unknown women entered a store on Whiskey Road on Monday and left with two necklaces and two air conditioner units without paying for the items.
A vehicle break-in was reported on Rutland Drive on Monday. Someone allegedly cut the lock off a trailer.
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A burglary was reported at a home on Pine Log Road in Warrenville on Monday. The owner reported a television, two computers, jewelry and two DVD players missing.
Additional burglaries were reported on Alley Street, Hillman Street and Project Road in Warrenville, Banks Mill Road in Aiken and Leitener Street in Graniteville.
A vehicle break-in was reported on Jack Jones Street in Aiken on Sunday. The owner reported a gun missing.
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Daniel Cormier on why Rashad Evans is a tougher fight than Jon Jones
Cormier said there are numerous reasons to believe Evans would be a tougher fight than Jones (19-1 MMA, 13-1 UFC). Its a bold statement considering Jones has recorded a record six straight UFC light-heavyweight title defenses and is currently ranked No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA pound-for-pound rankings.
But Cormier insists theres a reason for his belief. In addition to formerly training with Evans, which gave him some valuable intel, Cormier believes hell be harder to get to the mat.
I dont mind wrestling a guy with long limbs because I can get to their legs, Cormier said. Rashad doesnt kick as much, and kicking actually feeds your opponent the leg. Jon kicks more, so thats easier to grab takedowns.
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Vt. Senate approves compromise on aid-in-dyingBy DAVE GRAM
The Associated Press | May 09,2013MONTPELIER The Vermont Senate on Wednesday passed a hybrid aid-in-dying bill under which stiff safeguards would be in place for terminally ill patients seeking lethal medication for the first three years, after which regulations would be lessened significantly.
Sen. Claire Ayer, explaining her compromise amendment to the Judiciary Committee before the Senates 17-13 vote in favor of the bill, likened the system the bill would set up to training wheels used by beginner bicyclists. Many of the safeguards would expire in 2016, unless lawmakers act between now and then to preserve them.
If the House concurs before lawmakers scheduled adjournment for the year Saturday, Gov. Peter Shumlin is expected to sign the bill, which would bring to Vermont for the first time a legal method by which doctors could prescribe a lethal dose of medications to terminally ill patients who request it.
Shumlin issued a statement saying he knew Vermonters were divided on the issue.
But I also know how important it is for those who face terminal illness and tremendous pain to have this choice, in conjunction with their physicians and loved ones, in the final days of their lives, he said.
One of the spectators who have watched days of legislative debate on the issue, Marnie Wood of Middlebury, said after the vote, Vermont in my mind has always been about choice, about rights.
Wood cared for her sister, an Oregon resident, as her sister lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrigs disease, before she took advantage of Oregons first-in-the-country death with dignity law and ended her own life with a doctors help.
She had a beautiful death, Wood said.
Opponents of the legislation voiced disappointment that Vermont appeared poised to become the first state to pass an aid-in-dying law by legislation, rather than by referendum or court decision.
I just dont feel the government has any business getting between a doctor and patient, said Sharon Iszak of Fairfax, a member of the Vermont Right to Life Committee who has been a regular presence at the Statehouse in recent days, along with others favoring or opposing the bill.
The measure followed a fraught and circuitous route to Senate passage, while the House passed it easily last week. When the Senate first took up the issue in February, an amendment was offered by Sen. Peter Galbraith, D-Windham and Sen. Robert Hartwell, D-Bennington that sought to limit what they said was governments overly intrusive role under the original version of the bill.
On a 16-15 vote, with a tie broken by Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, the Senate passed a stripped-down version that shrunk the bill from 22 pages to one. It then went to the House, which restored most of the provisions in the original Senate version and moved it much closer to an Oregon-style law.
In debate over two days that ended Wednesday, the Senate then settled on the hybrid, in which an Oregon-style law would prevail for the first three years, then to be replaced July 1, 2016, by a more stripped down version similar to what the Senate passed in February. Passage came after Hartwell and Galbraith, critics of the Oregon-style legislation, joined the majority to support the compromise.
The Oregon-style provisions include three requests, one in writing, from the patient spread over 15 days, with two witnesses affirming the written request; a second doctors finding that the patient is terminally ill, and others. Those provisions expire after July 1, 2016.
Ayer said she had been in talks with House leaders and she expected the compromise would win approval there.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER The state Public Service Board on Friday announced it would fine Vermont Gas Systems... Full StoryMONTPELIER Less than a month after Vermonts out-of-state inmates were moved from a private... Full StoryA confidential memo obtained by Vermont Public Radio shows that the Agency of Education is still... Full Story
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Chairman Donald Black reported at the March 22 meeting that members of Jones County's Georgia's Initiative for Community Housing attended an alumni meeting last month. He said the topic of the meeting was heir property and the challenges faced by heirs of an estate when a will is not present.
Black suggested devoting the next housing meeting to the topic and sent out an e-mail last week announcing that a session on the importance of making a will, having clear titles, and looking at heir property, is scheduled April 9, 10:30 a.m. at the new Senior Citizens Complex.
Other items on the housing meeting agenda included the Haddock Community Enrichment Center that is planned after the renovation of the Idella Duncan Elementary School building. Black said the committee continues to work on its 501(c)3 status and has plans for fund-raisers to replace the building's doors.
Groundbreaking for the county's first community garden is planned for April 6 at the Haddock school in recognition of Keep America Beautiful National Day of Action to support the Great American Cleanup, all of which is sponsored by Keep Jones Beautiful.
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Rosemont, Ill. ---Jordan Schroeder's goal with 2:58 to go lifted the Chicago Wolves to a riveting 6-5 victory on Saturday night at Allstate Arena.
Zack Kassian, Michael Davies, Kevin Connauton, Bill Sweatt and Andrew Gordon also scored for the Wolves (5-2-0-0), who snapped a two-game losing streak. Schroeder's game-winner, set up by Davies and Sweatt, stopped a San Antonio comeback as the Rampage delivered three unanswered power-play goals in the third period.
"Once we got 5-on-5, our offensive guys went out and made some plays," said Wolves head coach Scott Arniel. "I mean, that last goal was a great tic-tac-toe play."
Kassian opened scoring on Breast Cancer Awareness Night just 38 seconds into the game. Nathan Longpre claimed the puck in the neutral zone and flipped it ahead to Kassian, who rolled in and fired a wrist shot from the left circle that whizzed over Jacob Markstrom's right shoulder.
Davies' first goal of the season made it 2-0 at 6:45 of the first period when his wrister from the goal line deflected off Markstrom and trickled across the line.
The Wolves surrendered their first first-period goal of the season at 17:55 when Jared Gomes' backhander from just beyond the crease squeezed in the corner of the net. Former Wolves forward Andre Deveaux made it 2-2 early in the second period with a power-play goal.
The Wolves regained control when Connauton, Sweatt and Gordon produced goals in a four-minute stretch. Gordon's short-handed tally with seven seconds left gave the Wolves a 5-2 lead after 40 minutes.
Chicago's three-goal lead didn't hold up long as San Antonio (2-3-0-1) ripped off three power-play goals in the opening 7:08 of the third. Drew Shore, Jean-Francois and Tyson Strachan delivered for the Rampage, who had four power-play goals for the night.
Wolves goaltender Eddie Lack (4-1-0) posted 24 saves in the win. Markstrom (1-2-0) made 19 saves.
The Wolves return to the Allstate Arena ice at 4 p.m. Sunday with a game against Midwest Division rival Grand Rapids. For tickets, call 1-800-THE-WOLVES or visit ChicagoWolves.com.
San Antonio 1 1 3 -- 5
Chicago 2 3 1 -- 6
First Period---1, Chicago, Kassian 4 (Longpre, Pinizzotto), 0:38; 2, Chicago, Davies 1 (Friesen), 6:45; 3, Gomes 2 (Jacques, Robak), 17:55. Penalties---Robak, San Antonio (high-sticking), 13:14; Selleck, San Antonio (kneeing) 18:48; Kassian, Chicago (tripping), 19:10; Chicago (bench minor served by Davies), 20:00.
Second Period---4, San Antonio, Deveaux 2 (DeSantis, Robak), 1:32 pp; 5, Connauton 1 (Hunt), 15:56; 6, Chicago, Sweatt 2 (unassisted), 17:51; 7, Chicago, Gordon 1 (Hunt), 19:53. Penalties---Desbiens, Chicago (fighting), 4:21; Selleck, San Antonio (fighting), 4:21; Haydar, Chicago (tripping), 7:02; Matheson (holding), 9:54; Hunt, Chicago (tripping), 13:41; Desbiens, Chicago (roughing, unsportsmanlike conduct), 17:02; Jacques, San Antonio (roughing), 17:29.
Third Period---8, San Antonio, Shore 2 (Deveaux, DeSantis), 0:50 pp; 9, San Antonio, Jacques 2 (Wellman, Robak); 6:06 pp; 10, San Antonio, Strachan 1 (DeSantis), 7:08; 11, Chicago, Schroeder 2 (Davies, Sweatt), 17:02. Penalties---Connauton, Chicago (holding), 5:05; Friesen, Chicago (slashing), 5:31; Kassian, Chicago (high-sticking), 13:51; Rallo, San Antonio (slashing), 17:12.
Shots on goal---San Antonio: 5-11-13—29; Chicago: 13-8-4—25. Power plays---San Antonio 4-10; Chicago 0-3. Goalies—San Antonio, Markstrom (19-25), Chicago, Lack (24-29). A---5,176. Referees---Jamie Koharski and TJ Luxmore. Linesmen---Dan Dineen and Al Stensland.


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Here Are the Large-Scale Figures We're Releasing This Year
Friday, April 09, 2004
We at McFarlane Toys are big fans of larger-scale figures. We release them in limited overall numbers, but we sure love the insane level of detail our sculptors and painters can get into the 12-inch-scale figures.
For 2004, we have a heaping handful of large-scale (12-inch) figures we'd like to announce.
For non-sports figures in 2004, we'll be offering:The previously revealed Alien and Predator 12-inch figures (click here for details).A 12-inch Wings of Redemption Spawn, set for an October release.A 12-inch version of the '68 Comeback Special Elvis, set for a September release.And a 12-inch version of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to accompany Movie Maniacs Series 7 in October.In sports, we have:Our second series of NFL 12-inch. Note that this series will be released in two waves, one each in July and August. The players are: Randy Moss and Donovan McNabb in wave 1; and Peyton Manning and Brian Urlacher in wave 2.12-inch hockey legends figures, featuring two versions of the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. Set for a September release.12-inch Major League Baseball. This October release features Nolan Ryan (from the Cooperstown Collection) and Sammy Sosa.12-inch NBA, featuring LeBron James and Yao Ming in a November release.Stay tuned for photography of these figures as soon as its available and for any special additions to the line we may make in the coming weeks (hint, hint).


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Can Rain Barrels and Gardens Help Keep Sewage in the Sewers?
EPA researchers investigate how well rain barrels and rain gardens retain stormwater and how to motivate the public to adopt these "green" practices.
If someone offered to plant a garden in your yard, would you allow it? What if they even offered to pay you as an incentive to gain your approval?
This is exactly what EPA researchers in the Mt. Airy region of Cincinnati did to encourage residents of the Shepherd Creek watershed to adopt individual stormwater management practices of rain gardens and rain barrels. Rain barrels catch and store rainwater runoff from roofs, and rain gardens (PDF) (2 pp, 1.2 MB) help detain and infiltrate runoff on the ground.
"People were literally chasing down the landscaper trucks saying, 'Where can I get one of these? My neighbor has one…I want one of those!'" recounts Bill Shuster, an EPA hydrologist involved with the Shepherd Creek project.
The aim of this project is to install numerous rain barrels and rain gardens across the watershed and then to monitor stormwater runoff in the creek for any changes in water volume and quality.
Rain barrels and gardens are considered "green" stormwater management practices and are intended to help reduce stormwater problems.
"Whether it's storm sewer or septic overflows or flooding in your basement or in your backyard – this is all tied to stormwater," explains Shuster, "and if we can take simple approaches and be intentional about their implementation, we will find that it's easy to take care of these problems."
In typical U.S. communities, most rainwater flows over impervious, man-made surfaces such as house roofs and paved roads instead of more natural areas such as forests or grasslands. The resulting runoff flows through traditional drainage pipes into what is called a combined sewer system.
As a consequence, when large rainstorms dump massive amounts of water, these sewer systems which carry human and industrial waste become susceptible to overflows and backups. Combined sewer overflows cause risks to environmental and human health.
The Shepherd Creek watershed, like many others, has this type of combined sewer overflow problem.
"We wanted to do [the project] in such a place that it could be replicated in other places. It was always our intent to come up with a tool that other places with same problem could adopt, so we chose the Shepherd Creek area," says EPA scientist Hale Thurston.
In order to raise awareness about green stormwater management and to distribute rain gardens and barrels to individuals in the watershed, researchers conducted two reverse auctions in 2007 and in 2008. A reverse auction is one in which there are many sellers (in this case, the homeowners) and only one buyer (the project team). Over 400 residences were invited to participate in the auctions where they could bid on how much they should be paid in order for rain barrels and gardens to be installed on their property (installation and maintenance were free for home owners).
Unexpectedly, the majority of people who participated in the reverse auction actually bid $0.
"It was a pleasant surprise that people, with just a little bit of knowledge about the problem, were willing to participate even without very much financial incentive to do so," observes Thurston.
Two hundred bids were received, ranging from a low of paying nothing to a high of $500, and researchers worked with contractors to install nearly 170 rain barrels and 81 rain gardens by mid 2008. In total, 25% of residential properties, distributed throughout the watershed, ended up with one of these "green water management facilities."
Researchers are currently in their third and final year of collecting data from the Shepherd Creek watershed. They hope to learn if the use of rain barrels and gardens decreases the amount of stormwater flowing into the creek during heavy rains. Rain gardens might also help filter runoff water of pollutants as it soaks into the ground.
One other facet of this study involves closely monitoring 10 rain gardens and 10 rain barrels in the watershed. The results of this research could help quantify how much rain water is actually detained by these technologies.
So far, the most dramatic effects have been found in a neighborhood where a high proportion (about 50%) of homes in one specific drainage area have accepted rain garden and rain barrel installations. Scientists developed predictive models that indicate stormwater outflow from this specific area has decreased by 5%-20% from the use of these green infrastructure practices.
The preliminary results aren't as dramatic elsewhere. "Although we don't see effects at the larger, watershed level, this neighborhood (where gardens and barrels were relatively dense) tells us that there is promise and a distinct ability to create detention in this area with a very simple, engaging auction approach," says Shuster. "We are building citizen storm water managers who are willing and able to take on this environmental management challenge through the use of what are largely passive…and user-friendly management practices."
Results are inconclusive so far as to rain barrels' and gardens' ability to rid water of pollutants, and scientists have observed no change in the creek's overall water quality. However, at the conclusion of field monitoring in May 2011, researchers will perform a full analysis of the gathered data to better understand what sort of impact these management actions might have.
Studies like this that quantify the benefits of such small-scale technologies have attracted a great deal of interest both domestically and internationally. This research could help pave the way to green stormwater management practices being adopted on a much larger scale throughout the United States and elsewhere.
Learn More
How to Make Your Own Rain Barrel (PDF) (1 page, 440 KB)
How to Make Your Own Rain Garden (PDF) (2 pp, 1.2 MB)
EPA Green Infrastructure Research (PDF) (2 pp, 365 KB)


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"There are spiritual principles (I'll say again) that apply to us, but I believe we need to be careful to not just mix it all together and not rightly divide (cut) the Word. It causes doctrinal confusion."You got that right. One has to start with truth, and build on the Rock as the foundation. the mixing altogether is what religion has done to appease the masses. The Bible is spiritual from cover to cover, and must be discerned by the Spirit, should those in religion not have the Holy Spirit for the discernment of the Word and they go about mouthing things that are not true and go as far as to make their statements part of a sect or denomination like a creed, where by it's one use is but for control of their people; we have what we has been going on for quite sometime up to and including today.One example: the Christian religion believes and states that when a soul/person expires/dies that they go to heaven. When one begins with a lie and builds on it, soon that foundation will give way to the sand it was built on. And yes I do not understand what you are saying.
An example; Jesus told 2 disciples to go get a donkey for Him to ride. That was for THEM to do. Not for you or me. We don't have to go get Him a donkey. Now, a spiritual principle to be learned from that could be, we need to be obedient. We can trust He knows what He's doing and what He's talking about. He is humble, etc., etc. For me, that's not what taking scripture "spiritually" means . . .morally maybe, but not so much spiritually. There are specific reasons why it wasn't a camel or an ox, but a donkey, and not a mature donkey, not a broken donkey, but one that had never yet been ridden . . .the colt itself is a symbol of something deeper . ..everything Jesus said and did had spiritual significance, nothing was just coincidence or happenstance. Our rational minds aren't equipped to read into those things, which is why it's so important that we walk in the spirit, so that the Spirit can reveal the depth of what is transpiring on the surface.


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Tottenham look to have won the race for Paulinho after the £17million man showered praise on the White Hart Lane club.
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Two North Augusta brothers are dead after leading police on a high-speed car chase from Augusta into North Augusta, according to police.
Derrick Darden, 23, and his brother, Deante Darden, 22, both of North Augusta, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash about 2 a.m. this morning on Carolina Springs Road, according to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton.
According to the Richmond County Sheriffs Office, a deputy attempted to stop the car the brothers were in when he observed them speeding on Broad Street in Augusta.
The deputy attempted to catch up to the vehicle and observed the car driving erratically, police said. The vehicle, a 2007 Chevrolet Impala, initially pulled over at the corner of 4th and Reynolds streets in Augusta, and as the deputy exited his patrol cruiser and approached the Impala, the brothers took off at a high rate of speed, police said.
The vehicle traveled into South Carolina on the Gordon Highway Bridge at speeds in excess of 100 mph, police said. The vehicle took the Martintown Road exit and traveled on several other roads before the vehicle went off the roadway and struck a tree at 515 Carolina Springs Road, police said.
Both men were not wearing seatbelts and died from multiple body trauma, Carlton said. An autopsy for Derrick Darden, who was the driver, is scheduled for today in Newberry, and toxicology is pending, Carlton said.
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Ray's Steve Sanchez (right) awaits the pickoff toss as Rio Grande City runner Javier Lozano gets back to first base Thursday at Cabaniss Field.
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Where are the international iPad minis with LTE?
Literally seconds after Apple opened pre-orders for the iPad mini I bought a 32GB model in white. That was on October 26. A month ago. Not only hasn't it arrived yet, it hasn't even shipped yet. U.S. iPad minis + LTE began arriving weeks ago but international iPad minis + LTE aren't being treated equally. That's nothing new. Apple famously (or infamously) delayed the release of the original iPad and iPad 2 almost a month outside the U.S., both online and at retail. With the iPad mini, the international Wi-Fi only versions were available for delivery and purchase day and date with U.S. versions. It's only the LTE (or cellular, if your carrier doesn't support LTE) versions that seem to be MIA.
The iPad Mini Wi-Fi + cellular was advertised here as available to ship in late November. That now leaves 4 days, and and means that, once it arrives (presumably 7-10 days later) time from pre-order to fulfillment will be over a month. Staging the rollout makes sense, and prioritizing the U.S. also makes sense. It simply shows that no company, not even Apple, can do everything at once, everywhere at once.
It took Apple an embarrassingly, outrageously, incomprehensibly long time to get Lightning cables and adapters into stores. During that painful period, early device adopters were left without connectivity, sometimes without even charging solutions for their brand new iPhone 5 handsets (especially those who lost or damaged the original, lone Lightning cable that came in the box). It was a rare and disappointing gaffe by a company that's usually the best in the business when it comes to getting product onto shelves.
The lack of international iPad mini + LTE shipments is nowhere near as bad as that. Apple still has a few more days left in November to at least ship the devices. And to get iTunes 11 done, and a few more weeks to get the new, wafer-thin iMacs out the door.
But that's a lot of product to leave to the last Holiday minute. And that's the problem with doing so much -- covering a lot of ground spreads anyone, even Apple, thin.
Anyone else outside the U.S. order an iPad mini + LTE? If so, what's your shipment status?
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Where are the international iPad minis with LTE?
as Eric implied I'm in shock that any one able to profit $4673 in 1 month on the computer. have you seen this website PIE21.ℂOℳ
I've never understood why people go to user sites for competing products to post stuff like that--do they really need to amuse themselves that bad?! I can't imagine spending my time trolling around the other Mobile Nations sites, for example, just to look for an opportunity to post some sarcastic comment...Go figure.....
I've ordered from Germany on October 26th, ca. 0:15 PST.
On November 16th, my order status changed to "Available to ship: 1 - 2 Weeks Delivers 30 Nov, 2012 - 07 Dec, 2012" and nothing changed ever since. As it is the 27th already, I don't think I will get it this friday.
I also heard from guys in Germany that their earlier delivery timeframe has been changed to a later one.
I work for an official reseller in Australia. We only just received the LTE 4th gen iPad, and Apple is being stingy with supply of the Wi-Fi mini at the moment (if they'd given us as much stock as they did for the third gen iPad launch, we'd have plenty sitting around doing nothing, but as is, nowhere has stock, which is pushing demand). It reeks horribly of deliberate withholding of supply to us.
A nearby Apple store has been telling customers November 29th is when they'll start appearing in LTE variations, but we're not so hopeful. Our purchasing department has suggested to us that "probably this year" is a more accurate time frame. Unfortunately, everyone is very vague.
I am in Gatineau Quebec and got my shipment notification (iPad min wifi cellular 64G) from Apple at 1:43 am today. Like you, I had ordered as soon as the Apple site allowed.
Hope this unleashes a flood for all the rest of you.
Adding on: delivery is said to be De ember 2.
BC, Canada. Ordered a Black cell version on 26th October, soon after the Apple Store opened. As of this morning, it has not been shipped, which means that I have been waiting for just over a month.
Ironically, I ordered a Kobo Arc over the weekend, and the ship date is 1 to 2 weeks. I wonder which I will receive first...
Here in Finland, I placed the order as soon as I could, on 4 Nov. The "promise" made in the order confirmation was that the order would be delivered between 28 Nov - 5 Dec. However, no news of shipping came until yesterday when the order status was changed into "preparing for shipment". Today, I finally received a shipping notification according to which the iPad will be delivered "on or before" 13 Dec. That's a delay of 1-2 weeks. In the greater scheme of things, it is nothing much, but nevertheless ...
Munich, Germany...
Not shipped (expected delivery Monday Dec, 3rd)
NZ : Ordered 64Gb LTE on 11/11, delivers 27/11/2012 - 04/12/2012. Not bad considering it's the 29th here and it hasn't shipped yet...
My LTE iPad mini got delivered to my home in Gatineau Quebec Canada today. Does that make me the first international delivery? I ordered mine at 3 am eastern to the 26th of October, minutes after Apple raised the curtain. It shipped on the 27th from Shanghai, so that was a really quick delivery.
My 32 Gb cellular iPad, ordered on 4 Nov, arrived yesterday (as originally estimated and despite the estimate at shipment, 13 Dec) to me in Finland.


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Inventions Lesson Plan: The Origins of Computers and Other Technology
Submitted by: Gabriel Garcia
Grade Levels: 6-8
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 6-8, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the origins of computers and how they have changed our lives and affected other inventions.
Students will:
- Understand the history of computers.
- Explain how and why inventions can change the way we live.
- Identify the positive and negative aspects of the Internet blurring the lines between computing and communications and the affects of this technology on our lives.
- Computer with internet access
- Encyclopedia dated 1980 or earlier (optional)
Preparation:Prepare a rubric to evaluate your students on their assignments. One option is to use the following three-point rubric:
- Three points: all questions answered, sketch imaginative and carefully executed, oral presentation well-organized and presented in a clear and lively manner
- Two points: most questions answered, sketch adequately executed, oral presentation clear and organized
- One point: few questions answered, sketch missing or poorly executed, oral presentation lacking clarity and organization.
Lesson Procedure:
- Ask students if they know who invented the computer. If they don't know, inform them that, in 1884, Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, tried to build a complicated machine called the "analytical engine." It was mechanical, rather than electronic, and Babbage never completed it, but computers today are based on many of the principles he used in his design. Your students may be interested to know that, as recently as forty years ago, computers were so large that they filled whole rooms. They were so complicated that only specially trained people were able to use them.
- If you can find an encyclopedia dated 1980 or earlier, have students read the entry for computer and hold a brief discussion of computers then and now. Show the BrainPOP movie Computer History to facilitate the conversation.
- Ask students if they can think of any other inventions that changed the way we work and live. Can they trace changes and refinements in those inventions? An example might be the sewing machine, which, originally, was mechanical, rather than electric, and had to be operated by a foot pedal. Another might be the phonograph, which evolved into the CD player.
- Tell the class that the activity in which they will participate will illustrate how inventions have evolved and are still evolving. Start by having students find partners.
- Give each pair of students the following assignment: Select a common, non-electric household item that you believe is important. Together, write down answers to the following questions about your item: What need does this item fill? What do you think the first one looked like? How did it change? How could it still be improved? What might this item look like in the future? (Draw a sketch.)
- After students have selected their items and answered their questions, have each pair of partners give an oral presentation on their findings.
- Lead a class discussion about how the activity applies to computers and how they evolved and continue to evolve.
Extension Activity:The U.S. Government pays out millions of dollars a year to "think tanks." These are organizations that research the state of things now and where they think things are going. In your class, establish think-tank teams of people with varied interests. Their assignment is to develop an image of a possible American culture fifty years from now. They should consider these questions:
- What can the Internet do?
- How do people communicate?
- What new uses have been found for integrated circuits?
- What advances in health care occurred because of the computer and/or integrated circuit?
- What are the problems in society as a result of growth and development?
- What new job possibilities are there that don't exist today? The culmination of the activity is an oral presentation by each team, painting the picture of the world they envision and giving reasons for their predictions.
Another extension activity is to ask your students if they can think of any things we use in everyday life that are not very well designed. Do they think there are needs that no one has yet filled with the appropriate invention? Have students choose one of the following assignments:
A. Find an item used at home, school, or another place you frequent, that is not designed well, and redesign it to make it easier for people to use. (Designs may be presented as drawings or physical mock-ups. Mock-ups may be made from any materials available. They do not necessarily have to work, just so they represent what the real item would look like, either full size or to scale.)
B. Think of a problem that hasn't been solved or a need that hasn't been met, and design an invention to provide a solution or fill that need. Respond in writing to define the problem, give causes for the problem, describe your solution, and tell why your solution will improve the situation.
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