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September 22, 2012 — The African Union Roadmap and the UN Security Council Resolution 2046 will conclude on 22nd September the direct negotiations on all the pending issues between South Sudan and Sudan. This new deadline came after such negotiations were extended by 50 days when President Bashir failed to turn up for the summit scheduled on 30th July in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is unlikely that such deadline will be extended again as that will tarnish the credibility of the AU and the UN.
If the two countries amicably reached solutions on all the pending issues, then the Panel will summit such agreement to the African Union Peace and Security Council for endorsement and to be forwarded to the UN Security Council for enforcement. If the parties, however, failed to agree on any of the pending issues, then the Panel will submit to the AU Council the agreed solutions and proposed solutions for issues not agreed upon for endorsement as final and binding solutions. These agreed solutions and proposed solutions will be forwarded to the UN Council for enforcement under Chapter VII of it Charter.
It is expected that the AU Council that is now chaired by Egypt will convene its next meeting immediately after the deadline date of 22nd September to receive report and proposed solutions from the Panel. Also the UN Council may convene Sudan Forum meeting on 27th September in New York to receive progress report from the Panel while waiting for the final report including the AU Council's endorsed resolutions for all the pending issues.
The Parties are still negotiating with the hope of preparing a comprehensive agreement on all the pending issues for the two Presidents to sign in the summit scheduled on 23rd September in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. While the two Presidents seem to accept to attend the summit, one is not sure about the participation of President Bashir as the increasing call for his arrest by human rights activists is haunting him wherever he goes. Although the new leadership of Ethiopia will provide President Bashir with all necessary protection, the business will not be as usual after the death of Prime Minister Meles as there could be some discontent voices in Ethiopia questioning his visit.
While the spirit of the negotiating teams in Addis seems genuine in resolving all the pending issues before the summit, the Parties are trying to capitalize in the remaining days to maximize their gains. This last minute behavior, particularly from Sudan, produces rather erratic positions that sometimes create an environment of despair and apathy. The negotiating team of Sudan seems not only divided but also so weak, uncertain, irrational and unreasonable. On the other hand the negotiating team of the South has shown beyond any doubt that it is serious and determined to reach agreement with Sudan. One may fear that the South may concede to the level that it will make it difficult to sell such agreement to the people of South Sudan.
Generally, the Parties seem to make progress in all the pending issues and with some sticking points in oil and other payments, border, security arrangements and Abyei. On oil, Sudan unsurprisingly reneged smartly by arguing that the agreed transit fee of $1 per barrel is only for the oil entitlements of the Government of South Sudan but not for the oil companies. It has managed to set $4 per barrel as transit fee for the oil entitlements of the oil companies. This high transit fee if accepted by the oil companies may be indirectly borne by the Government of South Sudan. Also, despite the South has forgiven all its arrears and claims, Sudan refused to give back to the South its two remaining oil consignments out of the five oil shipments that Sudan commandeered. While the South, in the spirit of friendship, accepted to avail to Sudan $3 billion as assistance, Sudan indirectly filed through its oil company a legal case against the South by claiming a compensation of $1.2 billion for the loss of its shares in the oil fields in the South. Despite these artificial differences created by Sudan, one expects that the summit can easily resolve these differences.
On the border, the Parties are likely to resort to the final and binding international arbitration on the five disputed areas after having the non-binding opinion by the AU Border Team Experts on the disputed areas. However, there is a sharp difference on the claimed areas including Panthou (Hegilig). While Sudan refuses to consider these claimed areas for international arbitration, the South is adamant to take these areas for arbitration. Other sticking point on the border is whether the Parties will continue with exploration and development of natural resources in the disputed and claimed areas. The South sees it appropriate to halt such activities until the ruling of the international arbitration, while Sudan insists to continue with these activities in the disputed areas. Probably, the Panel may assist the summit to reach agreement over the issues related to the border.
On the border security arrangements, Sudan continues to reject the map provided by the AU and UN for the establishment of the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone. In particular Sudan singled out 14 miles area and proposes the forces of the South to withdraw beyond 14 miles and suggests a joint Dinka Malual-Rizeygat traditional administration of the 14 miles area. The South on the other hand maintains its unconditional acceptance of the map provided by the AU and UN. The South rejects the proposal of Sudan on 14 miles and proposes the demilitarization of all the disputed and claimed areas if Sudan continues to reject the AU/UN map. It is most likely that the Panel may propose an amicable solution to the summit to overcome the differences over the border security arrangements.
On the final status of Abyei Area, the Panel maintains its position to present to the two Presidents in the next summit its proposal on the final status of Abyei as per the provisions of Abyei June 2011 Agreement. Prior to the summit, the Panel shared with the two Presidents its analysis of the basis upon which its proposal on the final status of Abyei will be based. The analysis of the Panel about the final status of Abyei seems to clarify the issue of eligibility, the expected outcome of Abyei Referendum and the challenges for making such outcome to create as much of a win-win situation. It is worth noting that while Abyei June 2011 Agreement mandates the Panel to make a proposal on the final status of Abyei to be considered by the two Presidents, the AU Roadmap mandates the Panel to propose a final and binding solution to the final status of Abyei if the Parties failed to reach a solution.
It is most probable that the Panel may propose a referendum with only Ngok Dinka and other residents as eligible voters but not the nomads and such a referendum to be conducted within one year by a commission with a chair to be appointed by either AU or UN. Other possibility and as the outcome of the referendum is known, the Panel may propose immediate transfer of Abyei to the South with specific proposals for mitigating the consequences of such transfer. It is most likely that President Bashir may reject direct transfer and may opt for a referendum, while President Salva may go for immediate transfer and to commit himself to exert more efforts to mitigate the consequences of such transfer on the Misseriya pastoralists and Government of Sudan. The issue of the final status of Abyei may be the only issue that the two Presidents may not agree and that will force the Panel to make a final and binding proposal to the AU Council and the UN Security Council.
It is clear that the remaining issues that may require the final decisions of the two Presidents are solvable if there is a political will. The two Presidents are coming to the summit after they have experienced the economic, political and social costs of bad relations between the two countries. It would be suicidal if the two Presidents in the next summit failed to reach amicable solutions for all the pending issues.
President Bashir in particular will face enormous challenges if he continues to be intransigent as his days are counted. Even the Islamic movements worldwide see Bashir as a liability to Islam. His recent visit to Egypt might have sent him the right signals as he failed to receive due attention and courtesy even from some well-known Islamic leaders and scholars. In Sudan, the political Islamists in the NCP see Bashir as a real liability and they may work for a change from within and that may result in a miserable end to Bashir. The uncontrolled and reckless demonstration in Khartoum against US and other western countries over the unjustified film made by individuals about Prophet Mohamed and the poor containment of such demonstrations send a clear signal to the friends and sympathizers of Sudan in the western countries of the need to support the option of a regime change.
President Bashir stands only chance during this summit to cleanse his image by boldly agreeing with his Brother Salva on all the pending issues including Abyei and SPLM-North and that might give him a window of opportunity to exist peacefully from power and with a legacy of peaceful and stable Sudan with good relations with its twin country, the Republic of South Sudan.
Luka Biong Deng is a senior member of South Sudan's ruling Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Co-Chair of the Abyei Joint Oversight Committee. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com. This article was Published by the New Nation Newspaper.


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Europe's private-banking industry continued to recover in 2010, helped by a bounce in financial markets. But looking ahead, they remain volatile, profitability and net inflows are still well below the levels achieved before the crisis, offshore markets remain under pressure from regulators, and the full impact of new regulation has yet to be felt.
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On average, European private banks increased their assets under management last year by 9 percent. Net inflows, however, amounted to only 2 percent, low by historic standards: they averaged 7 to 8 percent between 2005 and 2007. The remaining 7 percent increase in assets under management in 2010 was attributable to market appreciation—a level unlikely to be maintained in 2011, given the performance of financial markets so far this year.
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In the wake of heightened international concern about tax evasion, the survey shows that there were no overall net inflows to private banks in European offshore locations. Switzerland's asset base remained stable in 2010 thanks to emerging markets, some of which provided double-digit net inflows. Luxembourg, significantly more dependent on European customers, managed to offset its rapidly declining share of affluent clients by attracting ultra-high-net-worth investors seeking structured investment products.
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law despite Democratic objections that the move was a waste of time.
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Five Democrats joined the Republican majority in the 244-185 vote. Democratic leaders said a handful of their caucus members facing tough re-election battles in November might side with the Republicans on the volatile issue.
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Honestly sounds a bit overkill to me, given that I can do a good deal of that with a game such as the Sims (at least the pure housing stuff). All I really want are more practical aspects to a house, and the ability to put larger items in my yard outside (I want my own tents and ruins, my kin's filled up the spot with a fountain). Any more, well, it'd be nice, but I'm not planning on asking for it or anything.
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I honestly believe perhaps it is too much of a hassle to revamp housing or kin system...
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Apr 06 2012 12:02 AM #444
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However, on a flip side, when you overcome challenges in life, you become stronger...
C'mon turbine! Take it as a challenge! And revamp the kin and housing system...
Apr 06 2012 01:49 AM #445
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LOVE this idea. I hate that if I want to upgrade my house I cant sell but instead ,must find somewhere to stash all my items then abandon it
Apr 06 2012 10:19 AM #446
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When you abandon a house all the stuff goes into the home owner's escrow, unless an item is bound to another character, in which case that item will go into the other character's escrow. So you don't really need to find a place to store your stuff before abandoning. Not saying that abandoning is a good system, just telling how it works. It's a far shot better than the feeding frenzy that would happen if rich players could buy up all the properties and sell them to the highest bidder.
Glad to see this thread still getting posts. I too am hopeful that Turbine will realize the gold mine that could be had from a housing revamp. Heck, they could even charge $10 cold cash for a housing expansion and I bet more players than just me would jump at it. ... or have I said too much?
Apr 19 2012 04:21 AM #447
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Great ideas adder! well thought out.
player owned houses could be so much more then a (limited) trophy cabinet with a bit of storage room.
This thread should be kept alive at all costs till changes are made.
kind regards,
Apr 19 2012 06:44 AM #448
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I've been on about housing for years. I like most of the idea except the part that adds the usage requirement. Home should be a place to rejuvenate and rest. Being required to use the house for a set amount of time adds stress, in addition to giving us more things to remember.
Apr 19 2012 03:17 PM #449
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*slips Turbine a ten dollar bill*
There's more where that came from, if you can make this game more casual friendly (i.e. fluff me).
Apr 20 2012 02:17 AM #450
May 02 2012 11:06 AM #451
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Adder NEEDS to be working for Turbine.
May 10 2012 04:59 AM #452
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Keeping this thread top-listed.
And will help keeping it up till something is done with it.
May 10 2012 03:11 PM #453
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Please don't do that. If you look at the Forum Guidelines stickied at the top of the page, you'll find that "bumps" are not allowed here. In fact, they will sometimes get a thread Closed, and that would be a real shame in this case. While I'm not all that optimistic they'll spend much in the way of limited resources on housing, it's definitely something I'd enjoy.
May 10 2012 07:27 PM #454
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Why has nothing ever been done with this? Even to just implement the decoration and crafting portions would be a nice benefit. It makes no sense to "buy local" as the hints tell us if we have to then travel to even use the local items.
May 11 2012 08:25 AM #455
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We want our houses to look like this:
One word:
May 13 2012 09:18 AM #456
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Something I'd like to see: 'meeting table' furniture. A huge table with a lot of chairs around it that can be used by individual character.'
That, and our characters not rising from their chairs at each emote.
Then a kin meeting could be held in style
May 17 2012 04:25 AM #457
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Come on turbine make this happen this thread was made in 08 fo christ sake it is one of the few suggestions that many ppl would like to see why do you all not care about the housing system it is one of the few things in the game you have not tried improving same goes for hobbies
May 17 2012 06:47 AM #458
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This reminds me of the one new interior they have added in Bree. There is a long table with chairs all around. If you have not done that quest chain I suggest you do. Then again you might blow your top when you see the neat things they have added but yet cannot do any of this with housing.
May 17 2012 01:08 PM #459
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I love the idea but honestly it would take some serious investment by Turbine to make it happen doubt we'll see it but i agree some improvement is requiered for both housing and hobby systems.
Great Thread +rep
So what?->Now what?
May 19 2012 11:43 AM #460
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Thanks a lot! I started watching that in the wee hours this morning and never did make it into the game. That is one loooong video post! LOL (But quite interesting to be honest.)
I'm not sure I'd want Buckingham Palace as my Elf Hunter's/Dwarf RuneKeeper's/Hobbit Warden's/or even Race-of-Man Burglar's/et al home, but I think I know what you're getting at in a rather exaggerated way . We want to be able to customize and change our homes as we see fit and as it suits our fancy just as the Palace did throughout it's history - simple or extravagant; tastefully elegant or gaudily grandiose; themed or eclectic; utilitarian or exorbitant; sparse or over-flowing - and with that I am in full agreement.AdderHidden Nuggets we see all the time... - Hall of Fame ForumAdders /Mood_y /Emotes Compendium - LoreBookAnnouncing LOTRO Total Housing Redesign! - Suggestions Forum
May 19 2012 11:51 AM #461
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With a freestyle system of item placement instead of the current static hook system, a meeting table would be easy to set up. I used one in my EQ2 home for many of my Officer meetings (the Guild meetings were usually WAY to large to get everyone around a table, even when lining them up straight though the rooms LOL). And I definitely agree with you on the emotes. I and many others have been asking for combo emotes for a long time, especially while sitting.
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May 20 2012 05:46 AM #462
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After getting to lvl 45 after a looonnngggg grind I got rather fed up with killing stuff. I was also pretty sick of crafting having just achieved Supreme Master with the Woodworking Guild (and we all know what a nightmare THAT is). So the ONLY thing that would have kept me around until I reset would have been farming and playing house with my gf. But because the housing system was so atrocious and Turbine made it clear (through their silence and lack of implementing any damn thing in the 2 major updates while I was playing) they weren't gonna do a blessed thing about it I decided to just pull up posts and find somewhere else to set-up camp. It annoyed my gf but she understood since it really frustrated her too. Mr. "I'd just play Sims if I wanted that" consider cases like ours. She does like to explore and adventure every now and again but mostly she liked to stick around the Shire and farm with her little hobbit to keep the guild supplied. If there were a decent housing system I, as a more wandering adventure type, would have been more inclined to stick it out so I could make and get stuff for her to decorate with because we enjoyed having a game we could actually play together and, just as in life, I'd want to get her things to make her happy. Hell, I might have even been able to cox her out of the Shire more often if she could actually DO anything with the stuff she found! But since there was literally no incentive for me to stick around (farming was something I liked to do with her between runs but wasn't really my thing) I didn't. And obviously she wouldn't stick around after I quit. We even let out Lvl 7 guild go since most of our friends had already quit by that point and honestly whats really the point of a guild house anyway other than glorified group storage?
The idea was to take a breather and maybe come back but instead I found a new game to play with a system I didn't find to be quite so tedious and by that point she was so disillusioned she had little will to dive back in either.
Here it is just over a year later and I decided to come back by and check my favorite little thread to see if anything had changed since she was recently lamenting over missing that time together in middle earth. While still not a big fan of the combat mechanics, I am still hugely interested in housing and was hoping SOMETHING had happened. Believe it or not, if I actually had some creative license over my property I'd be more inclined to start playing again and picking up some of those new decorations I been hearing about. But alas, same #### different year. Whats the point of new decorations if I got nowhere to put them? It took all of my creative juices to make a decent living space with the sub-par system they have. I'd want to add to it, not take away from it just to add new stuff in the same place and possibly off-setting the whole friggin look. So I'm not going to bother re-downloading it cause frankly it'd just piss me off again.
This thread has been around this long and they just now got around to finally putting a mailbox in and some minor tweaks to the hook system I highly doubt I'd notice?
Thanks but no thanks! Hopefully something comes out soon with an engaging crafting system AND decent housing so we can have something to play together again.
May 20 2012 09:56 AM #463
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Xcuse guys for violating the policies since this may be a "bump" - post ?¿
However, I'll try to throw in more than just a PING.
I'm glad about all the new festivals and craftable Firework, so there are many good new things.
But I'm not so happy about all the energy being put into Raids. And this has thrown up a question for me as a LTS. I always thought its a good thing to actively support the Game when buying Updates & TPoints. I and my girlfriend bought anything since 5 years and we both have LTS since the beginning. We further bought Points for about 200$. Further we have a Premium running for the Kids. But we both know we could survive without any investments easily.
The question raised shames me, anyway it came up :-\
Is it worth to buy Rohan if NOT interessted to some quests and especially not into raiding ?
Buying Rohan could be a sign to subscribe the strategy of Turbine: TO DO NOT CONSIDER SUCH THREADS AS THIS ONE IS ?
In the german forums its clear no-one ever gives a feedback there. But I'd expected feedbacks here, especially if such an old thread is getting that much feedbacks and attention.
No, I dont need flying mounts or open pvp :-)
I think some few updates on housing would make me happy already.
Maybe thats an idea for the Update after Rohan ? I would however spend money again if there is something in of the wishlist above those awesome 31 pages.
Jun 03 2012 08:11 AM #464
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Very strange bug here. Anyone else see the antique-white background highlight on every use of the word 'housing' in this thread? Also, in the very beginning of the OP is the only exception - the word 'revamp' has the same antique-white background highlight. There isn't any way to duplicate the highlight with the forum editor either and I know that I didn't copy/paste anything into here lately, especially throughout the whole thread. Very weird.
EDIT - Weirder & weirder. I tried everything that I could think of to get those highlights to disappear before posting about them thinking that it might just be an anomaly in my system. They remained no matter what I tried. I posted the above and ***POOOF!***, gone. WTH?!?!Last edited by Adder; Jun 03 2012 at 08:17 AM.
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Jun 06 2012 09:20 PM #465
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I love most of these ideas..Unfortunately, I think a lot of them would be impossible, like designing our own houses and the 'counter' in homesteads and moving unused houses to alternate neighborhoods; but some would be easy.
Removing 'hooks' so furniture could be placed at will, adding extra rooms or an additional house size, crafting tables and ovens and producing garden beds, are all easy to do and would not be hard to code.
My husband and I like to play and RP together. We have 4 couples between us and we find it difficult to share 2 houses with such limited decorating scope, and LOTRO IS supposed to be an RP game.. even if most of the population doesn't RP. Shared storage is great for transfering craft matts between toons but I'd really like to use my house for more than that; to 'entertain' guests and such.
Oh yes.. Adder.. Turbine is hiring. Perhaps you could APPLY??Last edited by Heaseba; Jun 06 2012 at 09:35 PM.
Jun 06 2012 11:30 PM #466
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oh colorful and wonderful ideas, so well thought out, straight forward to implement(just got to do some code). I mean what a game this would be if they did the things in threads like this, I'd probably still be playing.
Jun 07 2012 11:37 AM #467
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I have really lost hope on housing after 4 plus years and no changes. Really, I would be happy if they just allowed us to own more than one home.
* Boudicia 85 Captain * Asilith 83 Hunter * *Elisal 75 RK * Lywynn 66 Guardian * Pupyluv Rank 6 Stalker
Jun 19 2012 12:53 PM #468
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+rep to the OP for such a well thought out proposed revamp for housing. It's been four years since this thread was made, and sad to see no attention had been paid to housing. Even if Turbine only used a quarter of the ideas listed here I know many many folks would be happy.
If you ever have some free time to spend on housing, developers, please take a look here and see what you could implement.
Jun 19 2012 04:40 PM #469
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This is the first forum petition I have ever /signed and I've seen a lot come and go in my life. This would be sucha draw, such a money maker and such a great way to retain players. It's a scientific fact, established in 1567 by Sir Isaac Newton in his Principia MMOtica, that one third of online gamers are housing addicts. Dang fact and all, if you take my meaning.
Jun 19 2012 05:49 PM #470
there is another thread in suggestions with a cool idea, the addition of stables for our yard. imagine how cool it would be to have all our mounts standing there eating hay!
Jun 20 2012 12:17 PM #471
Not going to Happen
Dont think this will ever ever ever happen. Housing will languish till the dying days of LOTRO Same for PVMP (Another thread though)
Jun 20 2012 01:45 PM #472
He will come to death, an image of the splendor of the kings of Men, in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, Housing Redesign... you will linger on in darkness and in doubt, as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell, bound to your grief under the fading trees... until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent.
Throw us a crumb at least.
'I have come,' he said. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!' J.R.R. Tolkien
Jun 21 2012 09:54 AM #473
/signed /signed and /signed
So many players want a redesign of the housing system - yet this thread is years old. Adding Polish and refinement to an MMO is what keeps it alive.
Jun 22 2012 01:54 PM #474
This sounds like an amazing idea...one can only hope.
Jun 23 2012 09:32 AM #475
I totally am pro this... especially the freestyle furnishing and being able to own multiple houses (at least for multiple characters...).
The housing system could be so much more than it is.
Jul 02 2012 06:29 PM #476
good work, but I don't think anything is going to change(this was made 4 years ago). Turbine just don't cares about housing.
Jul 03 2012 12:23 AM #477
/signed /signed /signed /signed /signed /signed /signed a million times, and a million times more! and another million at that! I LOVE THE IDEA AND PRAY THAT IT HAPPENS!!!!!!!! TURBINE LISTEN TO HIM AND MAKE IT AS UPDATE AFTER RoR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 03 2012 05:14 AM #478
Oh yes they do care. It's a topic among the devs (confirmed by Kate Piaz). It has just not made the move from topic to action yet.
They should test the waters for economic feasibility of housing as TP-sink by adding something new to the store, like for example a stable as Khafar mentioned in another thread. Or a cellar with an optional house chest as house-expansion. Something like that.
I predict it'll be a bestseller among single-use accountwide store-items. Then they'll realize how much more TP they can milk from housing.
Jul 03 2012 07:25 AM #479
/signed with both hands
That revamp on the housing would be such a large but useful change for the whole LotRO community.
Jul 03 2012 12:39 PM #480
I keep hoping they will do something with housing, but nothing ever happens. If only we could @ least own one house per character, instead of account. That woudl give us a lot more decorating options!!!
* Boudicia 85 Captain * Asilith 83 Hunter * *Elisal 75 RK * Lywynn 66 Guardian * Pupyluv Rank 6 Stalker


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The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/fed-feds-states-sue-over-lack-new-efficiency-rules/More than a dozen states along with New York City have banned together and filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy for falling 6-13 years behind in adopting efficiency standards that were mandated by Congress.
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Nicki Minaj snubbed Italian footballer Mario Balotelli. The Super Bass rapper, who recently claimed she would love to settle down and have family in the near future, refused to meet the Manchester City player on Monday night because she was so exhausted after her concert in the city. A source told The Sun newspaper, "Mario was gutted. He's a big fan and turned up with gifts along with his other Man City team-mates. But Nicki was too tired after the gig and feasted on a massive Nando's order instead, so he went home disappointed. He'd even bought a camera especially."
Nicki's snub followed a difficult gig for the rapper at Manchester's MEN Arena, during which she accidentally burst out of her tight fitting bustier dress. But Nicki laughed off the wardrobe malfunction and told the crowd, "You guys have seen my boobs before. You won't tell anyone, will you?" The American Idol judge appears to be too busy for romance this year as she previously rejected JLS member Ortise Williams. The Makes Me Wanna singer revealed he tried to woo the curvaceous rapper by sending her witty tweets, but when they met up in person over the summer she wasn't too impressed with Ortise's offer of a date. Ortise sighed, "We had a thing going on twitter for a while. She came over for the V Festival and we got chatting and I said I'd love to take her out and we left it there. "She hasn't got back to me. So I'm still looking for love. Any nice girls out there? Hit me up!"
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Check out the wide variety of special events taking place year-round – celebrating arts, culture, athletics and more. We've highlighted some favorites, or you can see the year at a glance. There's something for everyone!
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"In a Sacred Place" Photography by National Geographic Photographer Jim Richardson
April 2, 2013 - June 15, 2013
Venue: Small World Gallery
Address: 127 N Main St, Lindsborg, KS 67456
Time: From: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 785-227-4442
A new show by National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson will showcase sacred places worldwide. "In a Sacred Place" will be ...More
All Ways A Woman
March 28, 2013 - June 15, 2013
Venue: Cabaret Oldtown Dinner Theatre
Address: 412 1/2 E Douglas, Wichita, KS 67202
Time: Starting: 7:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 316-265-4400
Formerly known as Menopaus-A-Palooza! Previously sold out with a HUGE waiting list, it's back by overwhelming demand! This hilarious musica...More
Avenue of Flags, Memorial Day Services
May 24 - 27, 2013
Location: Garnett Municipal Cemetery
Address: 27510 NE Neosho Rd, Garnett, KS 66032
Time: Starting: 10:00 AM
Type: Events
View over 300 American flags flying, representing someone who lies in this cemetery that served our country proud. Flags representing the e...More
Beef Empire Days
May 31, 2013 - June 9, 2013
Venue: Finney County Fairgrounds & Campground
Address: 311 N 9th, Garden City, KS 67856
Time: All day
Type: Events
Phone: 620-276-6807
"Beef... The Taste of Tradition!" is the theme for 2013's celebration of the beef industry. This is the 45th year to salute the p...More
Belleville Farmer's Market
May 25, 2013 - September 28, 2013
Venue: Belleville Farmer's Market
Address: 1815 M St, Belleville, KS 66938
Time: From: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Type: Events
Phone: 785-527-5524
Farmer's Market located on the Historic Courthouse Square from Memorial Weekend Saturday in May to last Saturday in September with produce...More
Cato School Open House
May 17, 2013 - June 15, 2013
Venue: Cato Historical School House
Address: , Franklin, KS 66735
Time: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Type: Events
Phone: 620-347-4220
The historic Cato School, est. 1869, was the first school in Crawford County. The native stone, one-room schoolhouse was in use until 1956....More
Cheap Trick in Concert
May 28, 2013
Venue: Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts
Address: 151 S Santa Fe, Salina, KS 67401
Time: Starting: 8:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 785-827-1998
CHEAP TRICK may be one of the most covered bands of all time. Since the 70s they've been blending elements of pop, punk and even metal in a...More
CRUISE, SHOES & BBQs
May 25 - 26, 2013
Venue: Grainfield Opera House
Address: , Grainfield, KS 67737
Time: From: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 785-673-4219
Cruise, Shoes & BBQs
May 25 & 26
Come down to the City Park in Grainfield for a fun-packed weekend! Saturday starts with a Co-ed ...More
Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants
April 28, 2013 - July 7, 2013
Venue: Stauth Memorial Museum
Address: 111 N Aztec St, Montezuma, KS 67867
Time: From: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 620-846-2527
Small yet abundant, with complex and wildly diverse lifestyles, ants are everywhere, living mostly hidden from our view. What if we could s...More
Fish Trot for Kids Fishing Derby
May 25, 2013
Venue: Garnett Country Club Golf Course
Address: 1200 NE Lake Rd, Garnett, KS 66032
Type: Events
Kids, bring your poles and your parents (or guardian) to Fish Trot for Kids. The fish pond is stocked with lots of fish. A great first time...More
Fort Larned Living History Weekend
May 25 - 27, 2013
Venue: Fort Larned National Historic Site
Address: 1767 KS Hwy 156, Larned, KS 67550
Time: From: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 620-285-6911
Event kicks off the summer season with the event that attracts living history volunteers from several states. Visit the soldiers in the bar...More
Garnett Farmers' Market Season
May 2, 2013 - October 10, 2013
Venue: Anderson County Courthouse
Address: 100 E 4th Ave, Garnett, KS 66032
Time: From: 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 785-448-5496
Held weekly each Thursday from 4:30 to 7 p.m., the Garnett Farmers' Market includes the usual and items and activities not so common to eve...More
Glitz, Glam & Glitter
April 5, 2013 - June 3, 2013
Venue: Butler County History Center and Kansas Oil Museum
Address: 383 E Central, El Dorado, KS 67042
Time: From: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 316-321-9333
Special exhibit featuring textiles from our collection. Formal wear, evening wear, prom gowns and wedding dresses dating from the late 1800...More
Go Truck GO
May 30, 2013
Venue: Hays-Historic Hays Driving Tour
Address: Hays High School 2300 E. 13th, Hays, KS 67601
Time: From: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Type: Events
Phone: 785-623-2440
Kids of all ages enjoy examining numerous vehicles, sitting behind the steering wheel or honking the horn. Numerous vehicles will be on dis...More
May 4, 2013 - October 27, 2013
Venue: Old Abilene Town
Address: 100 SE 5th St, Abilene, KS 67410
Time: Vary
Type: Events
Phone: 785-263-2231
There are Gunfights May-October on the weekends.
Saturday - 11:30am, 1:30pm & 3:30pm
Sunday - 1:30pm & 3:30pm
Plenty of time to ...More


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Although it is highly recommended that firms minimize the amount of paper they use, the need for printers is undeniable. The question is: "What kind of printers work best?" Generally speaking, there are a few rules worth remembering. The first is that multifunction machines often entail compromise. They try to be jacks of all things, and they often end up being masters of none. We usually recommend dedicated printers.
For even the smallest offices, laser printers are preferable to ink jets for addressing normal business tasks. They cost less to operate, and they are more durable. Sharing a networked printer among a small workgroup is fine, as long as all users are in close proximity to each other. If users are spread out over a larger area, you are better off buying multiple printers. Whenever employees leave their immediate work areas, productivity suffers.
Where possible, stick with monochrome laser printers. They are fast and inexpensive. Networkable workgroup color laser printers have become much more affordable recently. If you shop carefully, you can find a networkable color printer capable of speeds up to twenty pages per minute for under $300.00, but you may want to pay significantly more for duplex printing, more flexible paper handling, and other premium features.
We strongly suggest that you consider doing away with your office copier. Paper is inefficient, and the mere presence of a copier encourages the proliferation of paper as opposed to more efficient alternatives. In the rare case where a copy really is necessary, a scanner connected to a printer can serve as an alternative, producing excellent quality copies.
Creating, storing and retrieving paper documents can be costly. Back-ups of paper documents are often non-existent because the cost of copying and storing duplicates is prohibitively expensive. Storing, retrieving and backing up digital documents, on the other hand, is relatively easy and inexpensive. If a client comes into your office with supporting documentation for a personal tax return, for example, it would be more efficient and less costly to scan those documents than to make paper copies. The former requires a little space on a hard drive. The latter requires paper, toner, and physical storage, all of which are expensive relative to the scanned images. If you've created a backup, the former will be accessible even if some disaster befalls your office. The latter will be destroyed.
Scanners, combined with document management software (DMS) allow you to convert paper to digital media, and then to file, store and retrieve it at will. The first general rule of scanners is to avoid multifunction devices, as stated earlier. The second rule is to avoid consumer scanners. They are not up to the needs of even the smallest practice.
Prosumer scanners, which sell for under $400, are sufficient for very small firms. These have some limitations, but they are capable of scanning up to twenty pages per minute (ppm) duplex in color. All other firms will need true business scanners. A good quality entry level workgroup scanner capable of 25 ppm or more can cost $750 or more. A reasonably fast departmental scanner capable of scanning 11 X 17 paper can easily cost over $3,000. Network scanners, which can operate independently of a computer on a corporate network, and which have the ability to route scanned documents to email, fax, and folders start at about $2,500.
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At this stage of the season, everyone can use a week off. But which Patriots will benefit the most?
Field Yates Good news on Ninkovich? Backup plan » Pats' plan for bye » Work, rest »
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Underfloor Thermal Insulation; Why? Part I
Underfloor Thermal Insulation; Why? Part I
I'm building an extension to my house at the moment. Actually, let me qualify that; I'm doing some of the easier work, a builder is doing the difficult bits like the walls, roof, windows etc. Part of the building regs that detail the groundworks (everything up to the damp proof membrane, including the floor structure) demand that a thermal insulation layer is included in the floor 'stack-up'. Not cheap compared to concrete which is by-the-by what with regs being "regulations", it's non-negotiable. So, what does this mean for the resulting thermal behaviour of the as yet un-built extension? Let's simulate it to find out…
The underfloor section of the groundworks is built up of a number of layers, from the excavated earth surface itself up to the tiles/flooring that will be placed on the top of the stack. One of my sons and I had great fun recently in putting these layers in (well I had fun). From 16 tonnes of scalpings (loose hardcore with stones no bigger than ~50mm in lots of sand) which we shovelled manually then packed down with a whacker plate, to a 20 mm 'blinding' of sand on top of that, to the damp proof membrane (dpm) on to which the thermal insulation boards were placed then subsequently a 100mm concrete screed was poured on top of that. Here's the first 4 layers progressing:
(note exhausted son on dpm)
For the simulation (bread and butter application of FloVENT) I've modelled an end section of the extension from the earth upwards to the ceiling of the ground floor (that's the first floor for most of the rest of the world). I decided to model the floor stack-up without the thermal insulation layer to begin with, assumed that 200mm of concrete screed was used instead. Here's a picture with two of the side walls not shown and the ceiling shown as wireframe for clarity:
FloVENT is great for creating realistic representations with the use of texture mapping, the window and picture were simply digital photographs taken in the existing house! To simulate the resultant internal room temperatures I put a hot radiator in and appropriate thermal conductivity values of all the materials used.
The results when compared to when a thermal insulation layer was included were interesting…. I'll leave the details until the next blog entry on this subject. For now I'll leave you with a nice picture of the internal air flow distribution and resulting surface temperatures inside the room.
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Why The Video Looks Shaky (Don Ward)
Updated: 06/18/2013 - We did a quick helicopter tour of the Black Forest burn area. Someone asked why the video looks shaky.
You might see smoke coming from an abandoned building Tuesday, nearly two days after a building caught fire. Firefighters are still battling the smoldering flames at a former meat packing plant in Pueblo.
The building is located at t he 300 block of Santa Fe Drive.
Both directions of I-25 re-opened late Sunday night at mile marker 98 in Pueblo. Pueblo Police shut it down for precautionary reasons when a fire started at the Alpha Beta Meat Packing building.
Firefighters say they're having a hard time putting the fire out because of cork that lines the walls once used as insulation. Firefighters say that cork burns extremely hot and slow so it's hard to get in to put it out.
We talked to one passerby who says his family help lay the brick for this building, and it's tough seeing something like this happen.
"it's kind of disheartening to see that happen you know. I'm like everybody else that curiosity to see what's going on and but at the same time, it's kind of like you know, I hate to see that happen," Jeff Grisham said.
Firefighters say throughout the day, they've been able to push the fire and contain it to just one building. They are working to keep the fire contained in one area of this very large facility. They believe this fire could continue burning into Tuesday morning.
Once the fire is completely out, an investigation will be underway to learn a cause of the fire.
One firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after slipping on some ice. She has since been released and is doing OK.
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