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Skyrim talk:Personal Steward
- 1 Hearthfire - Replacement Upon Death?
- 2 Hearthfire - Steward Appointment
- 3 Fixing the "Not enough money" glitch
- 4 Getting rid of a steward?
- 5 Moved from article
- 6 one steward
- 7 Moving Stewards
- 8 Make steward housecarl again
- 9 Very Bugged
- 10 Multiple chickens
- 11 Levelling Stewards
- 12 Left your service.
- 13 Followers who can become Stewards
- 14 Only one volounteer?
- 15 Steward as Spouse?
- 16 steward just offers to follow for free
- 17 Steward Disappears After Being Appointed
- 18 Changing a stewards schedule?
- 19 Uninstalling Hearthfire and it's effect on the steward
- 20 Having Three People In One House
- 21 Speeding up Steward Furnishing
- 22 Are Personal Stewards permanent (respectfully to each house)?
- 23 Replace Steward console commands
- 24 Steward disappearing is not a glitch.
- 25 Steward Voices
- 26 Reappointing a steward
- 27 PS3 Hearthfire I Think I broke my Stewards
- 28 Verification of Milk Cabinet
- 29 Can't get Rayya to function fully as steward
Hearthfire - Replacement Upon Death?[edit]
Can you get a replacement Steward if your current one dies ? — Unsigned comment by 188.8.131.52 (talk) at 13:20 on 13 September 2012
- In my case yes, I was able to do it. (Details: I came home to find my steward, Sven, dead outside. Later on I returned with other follower [Ingjard] and she offered herself for the post; I accepted and everything's in order now.) Inescf (talk) 17:02, 17 September 2012 (GMT)
- As far as I know it should not have been possible, so I guess the experience by Inescf was a glitch of some type? —MortenOSlash (talk) 20:34, 5 May 2014 (GMT)
Hearthfire - Steward Appointment[edit]
I discovered recently that despite building a small house on the land purchased in the Pale along with a garden, stable and animal pen, I am unable to hire a stewward for my house. The housecarl for the Pale, Gregor, whom I was going to choose, does not even have the option to be offered the post. However Rayya, the housecarl for Falkreath does have this option. The noticeable difference is that my home in Falkreath has the max number of possible additions on the house. Is the reason Gregor does not have the dialogue option because he does not have a bed in my home in the Pale and a steward would require one or is this a glitch on his character? Thelisaraptor (talk) 21:21, 29 September 2012 (GMT)
- Looking at the game data, the quest BYOHHouseStewardOffer checks, whether the variable numRoomsCompleted for the house is greater than 1 . The main hall and any extension wing count, but not the initial small house. --Alfwyn (talk) 16:21, 7 November 2012 (GMT)
- A similar bug just happened with me yesterday with that same housecarl several in-game days after building the main hall and library. Long story short, he was unable to move past the small slope just out back. How I'd fixed it was to ask him to follow me and fast travel to Heljarchen even though I was already there, thus the option to make him a steward returned. Soulrider (talk) 19:01, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
- Gregor can be a bit buggy, and I have noticed in the past that sometimes followers refuse to be made stewards unless they're actually following you (although the local housecarl is supposed to have the steward dialogue available while patrolling, it doesn't seem to always work). --Morrolan (talk) 17:37, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Fixing the "Not enough money" glitch[edit]
Anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm sitting on 500 thousand right now and have purchased everything except the furnishings for my main hall, which my steward steadfastly proclaims I haven't got enough money to buy. This is really annoying. 184.108.40.206 11:08, 4 October 2012 (GMT)
- I had a similar glitch, however mine was an option I'd already selected. I brought the entryway to see if it was different, went in looked and came out, the option had reappeared but I was being told I lacked the money. 188.8.131.52 03:39, 6 October 2012 (GMT)
- About the glitch with the entry way; in fact, the steward is buying/making furniture for the room. The glitch is that the dialog is till here, it shouldn't be available since everything have been purchased. I guess the steward is just giving a defaut answer seeing the choice can't be validated. Maybe it s the same thing for the main hall, but it never happened to me with this room. 22.214.171.124 09:30, 8 October 2013 (GMT)
Getting rid of a steward?[edit]
I understand murder is possible, but what if I didn't want to/can't go that route? Like...if I wanted to do it by console? How would I go about doing that? Unless I'm completely messing up the syntax, my attempts at removefac for faction "BYOHHouseStewardFaction" are failing for Brelyna Maryon, who I now want to use for adventuring than keeping at home. One of my mods seems to have set her as essential, so murdering isn't gonna work. I haven't tried using the console when she's not actively following, though that shouldn't matter. Any advice would be great, thanks. --184.108.40.206 06:06, 28 October 2012 (GMT)
- In my experience, even after hiring a follower as a steward, you can still have them as a follower. All you have to do to switch them from steward mode back to follower mode is ask them to follow you through dialogue as normal (I believe the dialogue is at the bottom of the choices, after all the steward choices). Then, when you don't want them to actively follow you, you dismiss them, and they'll tell you they're going back to the home where they're a steward and resume their duties as such. There isn't a need for console use to remove them as a steward, at least not if the only reason is because you want to "use them for adventuring instead of keeping at home". — ABCface◥ 07:00, 28 October 2012 (GMT)
- I kinda figured that was my only option, since finding the RefID for the faction has turned up nothing. I guess it won't be so bad after all. --18.104.22.168 15:44, 28 October 2012 (GMT)
- But what if you want a new steward? Say you appoint a follower as steward, but want to change your mind later? Can you just /kill them and appoint a new steward, then /resurrect the follower? 18.104.22.168 06:44, 4 November 2012 (GMT)
- Reply to steward replacement: resurrect might be useless, for your dead steward would be spawn at the X-shaped room, never able to come back to Skyrim. Using recycleactor on him can make him back to normal life so that a new steward can be appointed. Check my reply to "Moving Stewards" below. --Stasindigo (talk) 15:44, 22 December 2012 (GMT)
- But what if you want a new steward? Say you appoint a follower as steward, but want to change your mind later? Can you just /kill them and appoint a new steward, then /resurrect the follower? 18.104.22.168 06:44, 4 November 2012 (GMT)
- I kinda figured that was my only option, since finding the RefID for the faction has turned up nothing. I guess it won't be so bad after all. --22.214.171.124 15:44, 28 October 2012 (GMT)
- Found a solution. Dismiss Steward mod, which can be found here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/34515/? — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 04:36 on 29 July 2013
Moved from article[edit]
- "Personal stewards may take your money to buy stuff and furniture and buying nothing at all."
I've moved the above bug note from the article because it's very likely not a bug at all. When stewards decorate the home for you, they do so very slowly, sometimes adding only one item at a time. In my experience with having a steward decorate the main hall, it took a couple weeks in-game for all the furnishing options to appear. I'm guessing the person who added this bug simply didn't wait long enough. — ABCface◥ 15:15, 31 October 2012 (GMT)
- I agree with this. Even when the player adds furnishings to the house, it sometimes doesn't show up for several minutes. It seems only logical that it would take an in-game NPC longer. Thelisaraptor (talk) 16:19, 3 November 2012 (GMT)
- Well, my experience is different here, and it seems to quite obviously be some bugs stopping progress.
- I bought all three houses, appointed all a steward and told em all to get busy decorating everything. The only home to have any decoration after I had run through Dawnguard, probably a few months of gametime, is the last one I bought/asked steward to decorate. And that house is fully upgraded.
- The other two houses are devoid of _any_ decoration at all, i.e completely empty. The stewards are still around. All decoration options are exhausted so I can't ask them again. (Except for the one option Entry Hall which remains for every single steward, and can't be bought again. Works the first time, after that they reply "you can't afford that". But this is a known bug I think) — Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk) at 19:54 on 20 November 2012
- If that's the case for you, it could be appropriate to note the bug on the article with some short details about the conditions of your bug. This is much more specific than the bug which was removed, so these other variables may make the difference. For instance, the problem might be telling them all to do the same thing in a row. If you reload a save from before telling them all to decorate your homes and try telling them each one at a time (waiting for the upgrades to take effect in one home before asking the next steward to decorate the next home) something like that may work. It would take some testing to see, but the details are important for things like this. The original bug note was too vague to tell what may have caused the issue. — ABCface◥ 21:07, 20 November 2012 (GMT)
- Honestly I'm not sure what caused it and I'm not much for editing wikis, just sharing what I've experienced myself here, do with it what you will. After some testing I managed to get one of them to start adding decorations again for a while by killing him and doing a console resurrect, then appointing him steward again. Didn't bring back the options but he was suddenly adding new stuff. Tried it again with the last one with no effect, that might be caused by two stewards again decorating at the same time if that's the issue here. What i can say for sure though is that there is something buggy about this. Another thing I was thinking about trying is making the steward your follower for a while, then dismissing him/her to see if that resets it the same way. — Unsigned comment by 18.104.22.168 (talk) at 14:27 on 22 November 2012
- I think I know what your problem is. Try this:
- Fast travel to one of your houses. Go inside. Go back outside the house. Fast travel to any other place other than your house, like Whiterun, Solitude etc. Then fast travel to another one of your houses (NOT the first one). Go inside. You should find that your second house furnishings should now be updated.
- Your problem happened to me as well. When you fast travel from one house to another house (Hearthfire houses only), the second house furnishings will not update. It is a bug but it is avoidable. The only furnishings that you won't get from steward are the ones for cellar. You have to furnish the cellar on your own. — Unsigned comment by 18.104.22.168 (talk) at 07:00 on 6 December 2012
- I've had this problem as well, it's not related to asking the second steward (since I've not done that). I built a house with all the extensions, hired a Steward & then asked then to decorate it all. Since the Entry way option didn't disappear from the menu, I did ask him to do that twice (Getting the "not enough money" response the second time). Went off to do other stuff for several in game days. Returned & zero furnishings have appeared. I hadn't asked any other stewards to furnish stuff. However, the fast travelling fix mentioned above works a treat, ta! 184.108.40.206 22:08, 5 March 2013 (GMT)
one steward[edit]
Will I be able to hire 1 steward for each house, or only 1 steward? (Vvardfell (talk) 12:27, 7 November 2012 (GMT))
- One per each created house. VycDarkshadow (talk) 18:36, 12 November 2012 (GMT)
- One follower can be the steward of multiple homesteads, but this only leads to confusion.--Stasindigo (talk) 15:38, 22 December 2012 (GMT)
Moving Stewards[edit]
So I hired Lydia as the steward at Lakeview Manor.. that was all good and fine.. When I built Heljarchen Hall I moved her there thinking it would be easy to move her back.. turns out I was wrong. Can any one help? 126.96.36.199 04:29, 6 December 2012 (GMT)
P.S. I just made an account after posting this Dbonder (talk) 04:32, 6 December 2012 (GMT)
- Just want your Lydia back to Lakeview Manor? You can kill her by any mean then use the code "recycleactor" on her through console. Should her return to her normal life, you can just ask her to be your steward of Lakeview Manor.
- Take my experience as example. Once Lob was the steward of both Lakeview Manor and Harjarchen Hall. When I asked him for a cow, the cow spawned at Lakeview Manor, not Harjarchen Hall. Then I used the "kill" made him dead, then I leave the house, received a letter of heritage, and my housecarl was able to take the place of steward that Lob once occupied. Then I used "resurrect" on Lob, sadly discoverd he would just stand in the cross shaped "graveyard". I used "recycleactor" on him afterwards, sending him back to his stronghold and continue on normal life.The problem is solved.The letter of heritage was "MarkForDelete" as if he was never dead.--Stasindigo (talk) 15:37, 22 December 2012 (GMT)
Make steward housecarl again[edit]
- Discussion moved from Skyrim talk:Steward#Make steward housecarl again
I have a steward at a house i dont really use. is there any way to get her to become a housecarl agen? — Unsigned comment by Revencher (talk • contribs) at 10:29 on 7 January 2013
- Yes and no. Your steward is still a housecarl and will follow you in the same way a housecarl does. However once hired, you can't fire her as a steward; she's a steward forever. This also applies to all followers that become stewards; they retain all their previous abilities, except that where they sleep changes to the houses they're stewards of and they have the steward dialogue added when they're not following you. --Morrolan (talk) 22:12, 19 February 2013 (GMT)
Very Bugged[edit]
i am on ps3 and i've studying about hearthfire so as soon as i can, i'll make the rigth choices about marriage, adoption and stewards, but right now it seems that the best choice is to avoid having a steward at all, am i right? i dont wanna take chances on losing a follower. i am very attached to them, all of them. this missing stewards is frequent? should i avoid ahving one? tks184.108.40.206 03:13, 29 January 2013 (GMT)
- I don't think you should be that worried. Your stewards are supposed to patrol the area around your home, and when Hearthfire was still new, a lot of people didn't realize that the stewards weren't always as close to the home as they were expected to be. Housecarls in regular homes in the base game stay inside the home only, so that's probably why people were confused. The stewards at homesteads will patrol the exterior of the home, as well as every room you build, so if you don't see them inside the main area they're probably either outside or in the cellar. The one legitimate exception to this is Valdimar, whose AI package is glitched. So if you pick someone else as your steward, you should be just fine. — ABCface◥ 03:38, 29 January 2013 (GMT)
- Generally, I don't use my regular follower(s) as stewards; I recruit new ones for each house. At first I was hoping the steward and housecarl would protect the manor from bandits and the like; they don't, though they will help in a fight.Quillan (talk) 04:01, 29 January 2013 (GMT)
- I just started playing on my PS3 this week. I had a mercenary from Dragonborn as my follower and then hired a steward that was the assigned housecarl. I noticed some dialog from my follower about adventuring in Skyrim, but when I looked around again, he was gone. I guess I'll have to go back and get him again and hope my steward is still there. — Unsigned comment by 220.127.116.11 (talk) at 14:12 on 5 March 2013 (GMT)
- Generally, I don't use my regular follower(s) as stewards; I recruit new ones for each house. At first I was hoping the steward and housecarl would protect the manor from bandits and the like; they don't, though they will help in a fight.Quillan (talk) 04:01, 29 January 2013 (GMT)
Multiple chickens[edit]
Do you still have a nest if all of your chickens are killed? I had one chicken die as a result of bandit attack, and I don't seem to be able to buy a replacement chicken. That might be the only advantage to buying max chickens, insurance. --Morrolan (talk) 14:42, 7 February 2013 (GMT)
- I'm pretty sure the nest will continue to spawn eggs even if you lose all your chickens. Likewise, I think the Jug of Milk in the kitchen will continue to respawn even if your cow dies. But it needs to be tested. TheRealLurlock (talk) 13:51, 19 February 2013 (GMT)
- They do continue to respawn, even after the animals themselves are killed. Jeancey (talk) 19:18, 9 March 2013 (GMT)
- I'd just like to point out that I purchased all animals and one of my 3 chickens was killed in a bandit raid. I spent some time doing all the quests in another hold and when I returned to Windstad Manor all 3 chickens were there. So, apparently chickens respawn, and perhaps the cow does as well. The horse is another matter as it's quite expensive, but it's possible the horse would respawn given time. If the Slaughterfish in the Fish Hatchery respawn then it might be worth it to kill them for their scales. Perhaps this should be tested and later added to the articles for clarification?--22.214.171.124 04:54, 23 May 2013 (GMT)Archmage Darium
- They do continue to respawn, even after the animals themselves are killed. Jeancey (talk) 19:18, 9 March 2013 (GMT)
Levelling Stewards[edit]
Do Stewards level up as you do (In the same way as normal followers)? Or do you have to take them back adventuring? 22.214.171.124 10:10, 19 February 2013 (GMT)
- This got answered at Skyrim:Followers. People who are followers, but aren't following you, level up all the time, you don't have to take them adventuring. They seem to level up when you enter their cell. --Morrolan (talk) 13:18, 8 October 2013 (GMT)
Left your service.[edit]
(Moved from namespace) If you have a follower and then hire that holds given housecarl as the steward, you're follower will have "left your service". — Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk)
- Needs verification, moved from namespace and added unsigned listing for poster. Lord Eydvar Talk|Contribs 04:19, 22 February 2013 (GMT)
- ok i'm on ps3 and i have rayya as a steward for lakeview manor first then thinking i can get her to leave and come back put her on windstadt manor, now i just want to put her back any ways possible....? — Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk) at 05:38 on 22 February 2013 (GMT)
- I believe this is true in some aspect. While having Vorstag as a follower, I hired a steward. When I went to go collect all the items I gave Vorstag to hold, he was gone. I found him later at the Silver-Blood inn. I had to rehire him to get my stuff back. --188.8.131.52 07:16, 16 March 2013 (GMT)
- I had J'zargo as my follower and appointed Raaya as the steward of Lakeview Mannor. The first time I thought J'zargo had been killed as there were bandits at my house when I fast traveled so I reloaded and sure enough appointing Raaya triggered the "your follower leaves your service" message and I had to reask J'zargo to follow me. — Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk) at 15:57 on 16 July 2013
Followers who can become Stewards[edit]
If anyone asks, I fixed the max level / moral level numbers of all the housecarls. All of them were backwards and incorrect, especially reflecting against their own personal pages. A simple input error. BlackOp (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2013 (GMT)
- Good catch. Though for future reference there's no need to post on the talk page for an obvious fix like that - that's what the Edit Summary is for. — TheRealLurlock (talk) 13:13, 27 February 2013 (GMT)
Only one volounteer?[edit]
I have this issue when Rayya volounteered for steward work and I declined it, as wanted to see another NPC (Marcurio) as a steward. But when my char went back the same day to Lakeview manor with him (he was left there, nearby, as I only changes Rayyas armour, so he didn't run away too far), the volounteer dialogue wouldn't start and no dialogue options for making follower a steward appeared. Does this mean that only a volounteer NPC can become a steward, and you can't choose? Or few days/weeks should pass to hire yourself a steward after you declined the first one? --Mr.Killjoy (talk) 18:23, 28 February 2013 (GMT)
- You should be able to hire him, but you'd best have him follow you when you ask him. Don't know exactly why you couldn't ask him there, but it's probably just because of that. I'm fairly certain you can ask for stewards any time, provided they are eligible ~ Dwarfmp (talk) 18:29, 28 February 2013 (GMT)
- Nah, actually, he was my followe at the moment. In a parallel game with another character I have this same issue, but this time with Erik the Slayer. --Mr.Killjoy (talk) 20:47, 3 March 2013 (GMT)
- Any solution to this yet? 22.214.171.124 18:42, 15 August 2013 (GMT)
- Nah, actually, he was my followe at the moment. In a parallel game with another character I have this same issue, but this time with Erik the Slayer. --Mr.Killjoy (talk) 20:47, 3 March 2013 (GMT)
Steward as Spouse?[edit]
Is it possible to marry Stewards? I am curious to know because I don't want to screw up a potential marriage by making someone a steward. --126.96.36.199 16:10, 2 March 2013 (GMT)
- Yes, it is possible. I converted my follower Lydia into a steward in order to take care of Lakeview Manor. Later on, I initiated the marriage procedure in Rifton and when I came home, of course, wearing the Amulet of Mara, the marriage option immediately became available in her dialogue box. I married her without any problem and when I returned to Lakeview Manor she was already there - now as my wife. You will then have to decide the location where you want to live with her (I chose Lakeview Manor as this was the only possibility available in her dialogue box). Interestingly, I adopted a child before marrying her and the child attended the wedding ceremony. — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 21:12 on 3 March 2013
steward just offers to follow for free[edit]
Can someone help me ive tryed quiting and joining but it doesnt work i am using PS3 220.127.116.11 14:57, 11 April 2013 (GMT)
Steward Disappears After Being Appointed[edit]
I can confirm this bug. After hiring my steward, I watch him/her walk into the house and then disappear completely. They are not in the house or anywhere around the area. If I follow them inside it is just empty. — Unsigned comment by 22.214.171.124 (talk) at 21:40 on 14 April 2013 (GMT)
- This happened to me as well. I was using the unofficial patch as well, but I guess it didn't take care of this bug. — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 07:26 on 3 February 2014 (GMT)
- This keeps happening to me as well, but so far she keeps reappearing (eventually), either when I enter my house one time, or sometimes after I exit she will be chopping wood or something. She will be in the house, then I leave and go back in and she would be gone! It through me off guard! I went outside and looked around the house for over 20 mins the first couple times it happened. She seems to always show up eventually after some time passes. Now, I just hope she will eventually keep reappearing after she disappears. On a side note, I wish she wouldn't talk like she was still at the college of WInterhold (Brelyna). Any way to get them to stop speaking location-based phrases? --220.127.116.11 11:12, 25 October 2014 (GMT)
- Their dialogue does not change when they are appointed steward, except that they get the new dialogue for the steward tasks. Followers with a lot of location-specific dialogue can be a bit jarring. Your steward is probably just walking around outside, they do that. --Morrolan (talk) 22:18, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
Changing a stewards schedule?[edit]
Are they supposed to explore the area around the house? Im having an anoyying issue where at lakeview manor, I have been building there until I got to the part where I was supposed to build the main hall. Went to falkreath, couldnt find Rayya to hire her so when I went back to Lakeview there she was walking around the house scouting the area, however as soon as I ask her to be my follower, she just stands where the workbench is and sometimes mines the iron ore vein, and doesnt scout at all. Then she goes straight inside at 6 oclock and sometimes dissapears completely. is there a way to make her partol the area and not come into my house so early, rather her do her job???— Unsigned comment by 188.8.131.52 (talk) at 22:02 on 18 May 2013 (GMT)
- The steward does not patrol around the house, that is the housecarls job. So if you make Ryya steward she stops beeing a housecarl.
- But if you have done that there is no way to turn her back in to a housecarl. — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 20:42 on 5 September 2013 (GMT)
Uninstalling Hearthfire and it's effect on the steward[edit]
I can't find the answer to this and would be glad if anyone knows. i want to rebuild my houses and for that i need to uninstall hearthfire, save and reinstall it. surly everything saved there will be deleted and all children will be unadopted. but the thing i am interested in is, What happens to the stewards (vannila)? will they return to theyre original location or will they just disapeare? And on the same topic, what would happen to a meeko if his my adopted childs pet? — Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk) at 08:35 on 24 May 2013
- after a small test, it seems that the stewards return to theyre original location. havn't checked with meeko, just took him as a follower before uninstalling. — Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk) at 09:05 on 24 May 2013
- Idk I had Ingjard an I uninstalled an installed it to rebuild my houses an she yet have not returned to dawnguard an IM pretty mad
- - CHIKOGHOST — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 07:26 on 18 August 2013
- I have the same question but with Rayya as a follower. I can't get anyone to follow me now, since I had Rayya as a follower when I uninstalled and reinstalled Hearthfire but I didn't know she was apart of the DLC as well. So now, everyone including her say I have a follower already. — Unsigned comment by Jinxyzilla (talk • contribs) at 02:37 on 21 December 2013 (GMT)
Having Three People In One House[edit]
I am married to Jordis The Sword Maiden from Solitude, I have Rayya as a housecarl and was wondering if you could also add a third follower as a steward and have three people living under the same roof? If I tell Rayya to stop following me, she will go to Lakeview Manor. If I move my wife to Lakeview Manor then she will live there with Rayya. Is it possible to then make a new follower my Steward or should I go ahead and tell Rayya that she can do it? — Unsigned comment by 18.104.22.168 (talk) at 22:05 on 27 May 2013
- That shouldn't be an issue. My Homestead current has myself, my Daughter, my wife Mjoll, Aerin (who just stares at Mjoll while she sleeps), Rayya, and my Steward. If you were to fully furnish your house you would have room for 5 adults and 2 children. You could in theory fit one more adult in there by making your Housecarl stay outside. 126.96.36.199 08:01, 5 June 2013 (GMT)
Speeding up Steward Furnishing[edit]
Moved from article:
- "You can fast speed your steward's furnishing by leaving the cell of the plot and return. In Lakeview, the two pinetrees between the carriage driver and the small pond is a perfect place to do it. Just run past the trees, back and forward, multiple times and within no time your steward will finish his furnishing. 20-100 times will do it, depending on the job. Check now and then how far he is. Same trick works on Heljarchen and Windstad."
added by 18.104.22.168 at 20:19, on 8 July 2013
I've moved this from the article for a few reasons. Aside from the grammar and wording which would need improvements, and the fact that it needs verification from other users on all three homes with multiple rooms to ensure it actually works... it seems to me to be something so unnatural in terms of gameplay that it isn't something we should recommend on an article. If it was simply leaving the area and coming back once, or even twice, that would be a different story (and we already know this doesn't work) but twenty to one hundred times? It seems too extreme to me to be worth noting. Thoughts? — ABCface◥ 20:50, 8 July 2013 (GMT)
- I Do not have an account yet, however i I tried this and it seems as if it works. my house was completely furnished after only doing it like 17 times I don't know if that is what it was or if it was the traveling beforehand regardless; my house is furnished and I am happy. :)
- EDIT: Okay, I kept trying it and it seems to work. It was taking FOREVER to furnish, and when I kept leaving and reentering the cell it sped up, and is now 100% done. Anyone else want to try and confirm?— Unsigned comment by 18.104.22.168 (talk) at 17:16 on 17 July 2013
- I tried this and it worked really well!!! I was pleased to see half my house furnished in a mere few minutes (real life minutes, not Skyrim minutes!) — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 08:33 on 5 September 2013
- Sorry I took so long to reply, I haven't checked this page in a while. Anyway, it seemed that every time i went off my property and back on my steward built two or three things in my house. — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 09:58 on 22 September 2013
- I can confirm that it does work and looks like it adds a new furnishing each time you cross. So if you told your steward to furnish your entire house, then it could take over 100 crossings since there are a lot of pieces he/she would need to furnish. This is definitely a tip that should be added.184.108.40.206 00:17, 9 February 2014 (GMT)
- I can also confirm that this works. Just running in circles around those two trees makes furnishing much much faster. I agree that it seems to be about one item per loop, so if you're doing the whole house at once it would likely take 100+ to furnish it all. --18.104.22.168 05:04, 27 March 2014 (GMT)
Are Personal Stewards permanent (respectfully to each house)?[edit]
From reading the discussions, it sounds like once you choose a Steward for any particular homestead, you cannot change your mind and get someone else to be the steward there (except for PC users using debugging console hacks).
I take that to mean that if I asked Lydia at the only home I built, I could not later ask another at that specific location to replace Lydia, unless Lydia dies?
I did not see anywhere in the wiki where it actually states one way or another. Can someone provide an explanation, or add it to the wiki entry page for Personal Stewards? ((or am I totally not seeing where it is explained??))
1NUY4SH4 (talk) 06:41, 27 July 2013 (GMT)
Replace Steward console commands[edit]
Console commands to dismiss the steward of Lakeview Manor in Falkreath Hold:
- SetConsoleScopeQuest BYOHHouseBuilding
- EmptyRefAlias House1Steward
- SetPapyrusQuestVar BYOHHouseFalkreath bHaveSteward False
Console commands to dismiss the steward of Windstad Manor in Hjaalmarch:
- SetConsoleScopeQuest BYOHHouseBuilding
- EmptyRefAlias House2Steward
- SetPapyrusQuestVar BYOHHouseHjaalmarch bHaveSteward False
Console commands to dismiss the steward of Heljarchen Hall in the Pale:
- SetConsoleScopeQuest BYOHHouseBuilding
- EmptyRefAlias House3Steward
- SetPapyrusQuestVar BYOHHousePale bHaveSteward False
— Unsigned comment by 126.96.36.199 (talk) at 06:52 on 2 August 2013
- Can anyone on PC verify that these work? They're technically cheats but fit the kind of thing we usually allow on articles, and we do get questions about them sometimes. --Morrolan (talk) 04:12, 24 September 2013 (GMT)
- It works, but the command "EmptyRefAlias HouseXSteward" won't work correctly if run from a bat file. If you run all the commands directly from a bat file, the emptyrefalias will fail, but the other 2 will work, making place for steward free, but your old steward will still have his steward dialogs. 220.127.116.11 00:04, 8 October 2013 (GMT)
- Yes, everything seems to work properly when it's typed into the console, my housecarld of lakeview manor who was steward after this lost his steward dialog and the dialog to propose steward was here. For more testing, i even bring Lydia here to make her steward and she was able to buy me a horse. i simply made 3 bat files, lakeview1, lakview2, lakeview3 with each 1 of the 3 commands. obvioulsy, lakview2 will fail, but i's just for me to have the text under the console to copy it. 188.8.131.52 08:34, 8 October 2013 (GMT)
(←) Thank you! I can confirm these work. It solve an issue I got when modding improperly, causing my steward at Lakeview to remain my steward after death and after using the dismiss mod. It's just a shame I had to dig into the talks page to find this console command. --Lawful Gray (talk) 22:05, 18 January 2014 (GMT)
- These work for dismissing a steward, but I found the command for assigning a steward. This is handy if you have the bug from Dragonborn where a follower does not give you the dialogue option to become steward. For Lakeview Manor, it is simply
forceRefIntoAlias house1Stewardwith the follower you want currently selected as the console target. For Winstad and Heljarchen, it's
house3Stewardrespectively. Don't forget to do
SetPapyrusQuestVar BYOHHouseFalkreath bHaveSteward True, or the game might allow you to assign more than one steward, which could cause problems. 126.96.36.199 13:58, 26 January 2014 (GMT)
Steward disappearing is not a glitch.[edit]
The steward disappearing is not a glitch I believe it has to do with the purchasing of furnishings or even just having kids. In dialogs with the kids, steward, and spouse they talk about going to the market I believe the disappearing may be them going to the market. Possible glitches could be them not appearing in markets and spouses/kids not leaving the house to go to a market. Fireofall (talk) 02:00, 3 September 2013 (GMT)
- None of the holds with the homesteads have markets. — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 07:56 on 17 September 2013
- All the homesteads are close to markets (Lakeview is close to Riverwood, Heljarchen is close to Whiterun, and Windstad is close to Solitude). However I've never seen a steward at the market. I don't think this is the explanation. --Morrolan (talk) 04:26, 24 September 2013 (GMT)
- I meet only once this "steward disappearing" thing. It simply turns out that he was inside the house but at a place that i still didn't have built. I could see him through the wall with the detecting dragon shoot. 184.108.40.206 22:47, 7 October 2013 (GMT)
- Neither Riverwood nor Falkreath has a market. — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 06:57 on 7 November 2013 (GMT)
- I just witness something strange. i have the 3 houses, each one a housecarl and a steward. The steward of lakeview manor never sleep, he just stays next the bed. the steward of windstar seems to work fine, and the best is o_O ... The steward of heljarchen goes all the way from heljarchen to windstar to sleep with the steward of windstar. So between 0 h 00 min and more or less 12 h 00 min, he's never at heljarchen because on the road. 126.96.36.199 09:10, 8 November 2013 (GMT)
- After having checked ai packages for steward and housecarl in the CK, and the unofficial hearthfire patch fix, it is normal they disappear. Some ai package (at least 3 of them) target the wrong house, so the npc walk all the way to the wrong house (he tries) to do his stuffs. The unofficial hearthfire patch should fix it.22.214.171.124 07:02, 13 November 2013 (GMT)
- The only fix that I have come upon is that you need to tell him to follow you and then tell them to wait where you want them to stand. This is at the cost of being able to have a follower, however. {Dragons1ayer189} — Unsigned comment by 220.127.116.11 (talk) on 14 February, 2015
- After having checked ai packages for steward and housecarl in the CK, and the unofficial hearthfire patch fix, it is normal they disappear. Some ai package (at least 3 of them) target the wrong house, so the npc walk all the way to the wrong house (he tries) to do his stuffs. The unofficial hearthfire patch should fix it.126.96.36.199 07:02, 13 November 2013 (GMT)
- I just witness something strange. i have the 3 houses, each one a housecarl and a steward. The steward of lakeview manor never sleep, he just stays next the bed. the steward of windstar seems to work fine, and the best is o_O ... The steward of heljarchen goes all the way from heljarchen to windstar to sleep with the steward of windstar. So between 0 h 00 min and more or less 12 h 00 min, he's never at heljarchen because on the road. 184.108.40.206 09:10, 8 November 2013 (GMT)
- Neither Riverwood nor Falkreath has a market. — Unsigned comment by 18.104.22.168 (talk) at 06:57 on 7 November 2013 (GMT)
- I meet only once this "steward disappearing" thing. It simply turns out that he was inside the house but at a place that i still didn't have built. I could see him through the wall with the detecting dragon shoot. 22.214.171.124 22:47, 7 October 2013 (GMT)
- All the homesteads are close to markets (Lakeview is close to Riverwood, Heljarchen is close to Whiterun, and Windstad is close to Solitude). However I've never seen a steward at the market. I don't think this is the explanation. --Morrolan (talk) 04:26, 24 September 2013 (GMT)
Steward Voices[edit]
I end up loading the CK to check the list containing the voices supported by the steward dialogue every time I see someone I would consider as a steward. I can't find this one the wiki anywhere either, so perhaps it's just better to post it here for me, and for anyone who'd want to know as well:
- FemaleCommoner, FemaleCondescending, FemaleCoward, FemaleElfHaughty, FemaleEvenToned, FemaleNord, FemaleSaultry, FemaleCommander, FemaleYoungEager
- MaleElfHaughty, MaleEvenToned, MaleGuard, MaleNord, MaleNordCommander, MaleOldGrumpy, MaleOrc, MaleSlySynical, MaleYoungEager, MaleCommander, MaleCondescending, MaleCommonerAccented
FemaleChild and MaleChild are in there too, but I don't know... ~ Dwarfmp (talk) 15:12, 3 September 2013 (GMT)
- Err, you mean FemaleSultry not FemaleSaultry there right? :) --Morrolan (talk) 04:10, 24 September 2013 (GMT)
- Yes, it's the list BYOHVoicesNonUnique against which the quest BYOHHouseStewardOffer checks the follower aliases. --Alfwyn (talk) 17:36, 15 January 2014 (GMT)
Reappointing a steward[edit]
I asked Rayya to follow me after dismissing my follower because I hit his max level of 30. I gave Rayya upgraded armor and weapons, so she can protect the house better, and then told her to part. Now the steward texts don't come up. If I walk her outside,and dismiss her there,will she go back in, or go back to Falkreath? FMPhoenixHawk (talk) 08:01, 3 December 2013 (GMT)
- Update. Dismissing her outside made her return. Will see if steward dialogue options return later. FMPhoenixHawk (talk) 08:10, 3 December 2013 (GMT)
PS3 Hearthfire I Think I broke my Stewards[edit]
The first house I bought was Heljarchen Hall. And during the process of building it Lydia offered to become my steward. And I thought why not? Later I started building Lakeview Manor, and assigned Uthgerd the Unbroken as my steward there. And lastly I bought Windstad Manor but did not immediately assign a steward as I wanted to re-arrange the ones I had.
I wanted Lydia at Lakeview Manor, so I asked Uthgerd to follow me to Windstad. Upon arrival I checked and the option was there for Uthgerd to assume the role as steward, so I posted her there as steward. Then I went back and took Lydia to Lakeview Manor. When I got her there I tried to appoint her as steward, but the option was not available.
Since then I have tried several others, including Uthgerd again, but I cannot assign a steward to Lakeview. And Although the menu is there for Uthgerd to upgrade Windstad, she never actually does it. When I click on the 1000 gold entryway upgrade, she tells me I can't afford it even though I can. When I click on other more expensive things she says ok, but she never actually does them. She also doesn't take the money.
Any help would be appreciated.— Unsigned comment by 40YrOldGamer (talk • contribs) at 23:21 on 23 September 2014
- If you read the bugs section of the page, you'll find that a couple of the issues you mentioned in the last paragraph are common bugs. Unless you're playing on PC and can install the Unofficial Hearthfire Patch, it unfortuneatly looks like there isn't anything that you can do to fix them. As for the bug with the first few paragraphs, I can't really help you there. Maybe this has happened to somebody else lurking around the wiki. •WoahBro►talk 23:33, 23 September 2014 (GMT)
Verification of Milk Cabinet[edit]
I can verify that without a cow, milk is not deposited in the cabinet, while with a cow it is indeed deposited in that kitchen cabinet. It seems to accumulate over time and maxes out at 7 bottles. Consequently I removed the verification needed tag. Kalevala (talk) 02:58, 18 April 2015 (GMT)
Can't get Rayya to function fully as steward[edit]
Made all 3 Manors and appointed housecarls as stewards. While the other two housecarl/stewards will function as advertised, Rayya has no dialog option which allows me to ask her to purchase materials, hire bard or carriage or purchase chickens, cows or horse. Have pretty much built Lakeview up myself but would like to get livestock and servants. Can I remove her as steward and bring in another functioning follower or is this just a bug I can't fix? — Unsigned comment by 220.127.116.11 (talk) at 21:50 on 30 April 2015 (GMT)
- What platform are you playing? If you are playing pc, do you have or have had any mods or unofficial patches installed that can affect NPC behaviour? —MortenOSlash (talk) 10:34, 3 May 2015 (GMT)
- Am also having difficulty with Rayya as steward and housecarl with 0 dialogue options. I'm playing on PC and have the Ultimate Follower Overhaul mod from Nexus downloaded, though it is not yet updated. Will be back with news if it does/does not fix bug. 188.8.131.52 02:34, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- Bugs introduced by mods or otherwise outside normal gameplay are as a rule not documented on this wiki. It might be a subject for discussion on our forums, though. —MortenOSlash (talk) 15:30, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- I'm also having this problem on PC. Am using USLEEP, but no mods that alter NPCs or followers so it probably isn't a mod problem. 188.8.131.52 06:27, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
(←) Mods can introduce surprising problems sometimes, Skyrim is pretty heavily interconnected. Can you try disabling the mod and seeing if it fixes Rayya? It's probably a mod issue because nobody's ever reported it on console. --Morrolan (talk) 12:00, 26 June 2016 (UTC)


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EINet Alert ~ Jun 01, 2007
*****A free service of the APEC Emerging Infections Network*****
APEC EINet News Briefs offers the latest news, journal articles, and notifications for emerging infections affecting the APEC member economies. It was created to foster transparency, communication, and collaboration in emerging infectious diseases among health professionals, international business and commerce leaders, and policy makers in the Asia-Pacific region.
In this edition:
- Global: Cumulative number of human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1)
- UK (Wales): H7N2 avian influenza infections reported in 4 humans
- China: New case of avian influenza H5N1 infection in human
- China: Avian influenza H5N1 samples from human cases arrive in US
- Indonesia: Report of fatal case of avian influenza H5N1 infection
- Pakistan (Sihala): Avian influenza infected poultry culled
- Thailand: Avian influenza prevention strategies
- Viet Nam: More avian influenza H5N1 outbreaks among poultry
- Viet Nam: Latest human case of avian influenza awaits WHO confirmation
- Nigeria (Zamfara): Report of avian influenza H5N1 outbreak
1. Updates
- Avian/Pandemic influenza updates
2. Articles
- Avian influenza A/(H7N2) outbreak in the United Kingdom
- Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenzas and human health
- Transparent Development of the WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines
- Prophylactic and Therapeutic Efficacy of Human Monoclonal Antibodies against H5N1 Influenza
- Immunogenicity and Safety of Intradermal Influenza Immunization at a Reduced Dose in Healthy Children
- How can IT respond to a flu pandemic?
3. Notifications
- CDC Guidelines for Large-Scale Influenza Vaccination Clinic Planning
- Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog: HHS forum, runs May 22-June 27
- Guidance for Industry: Clinical Data Needed to Support the Licensure of Seasonal Inactivated Influenza Vaccines
- Technical Meeting on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Human H5N1 Infection
Global: Cumulative number of human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1)
Economy / Cases (Deaths)
Total no. of confirmed human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1), Dec 2003 to present: 309 (187).
Avian influenza age distribution data from WHO/WPRO:
WHO's maps showing world's areas reporting confirmed cases of H5N1 avian influenza in humans, poultry and wild birds (last updated 5/31/07):
WHO's timeline of important H5N1-related events (last updated 5/10/07):
Europe/Near East
UK (Wales): H7N2 avian influenza infections reported in 4 humans
4 people have tested positive for the low-pathogenic H7N2 avian influenza subtype found last week in chickens at a small farm in Corwen Farm, Conwy, Wales, and health authorities suspect some degree of human-to-human transmission of the disease. Of the 4 positive results, 2 were from Wales and 2 were from northwest England. England's Health Protection Agency (HPA), in announcing the positive tests 4 days ago, said 5 other patients whose test results were negative for the virus are undergoing treatment as a precaution because they had similar illnesses. All of the patients who tested positive for the virus had contact with infected birds. The poultry outbreak in Wales started 8 May 2007, was laboratory confirmed 24 May 2007, and notified to the World Organisation for Animal Health 25 May 2007.
The National Public Health Service (NPHS) for Wales said that of 221 people who were identified as contacts so far, 12 are ill with conjunctivitis or a nonserious flulike illness. The NPHS said it could not rule out human-to-human spread of the virus but that it had no laboratory confirmation of such cases. "Of the people with conjunctivitis or a flulike illness, some did not have close contact with infected poultry," said Marion Lyons, lead consultant in communicable disease control for the NPHS.
On May 24, 2007 veterinary officials in Wales confirmed a low-pathogenic H7N2 avian influenza outbreak at a farm near the northern town of Denbighshire. Great Britain and Wales contingency plans have been activated. A 1km restriction zone was been set up around the farm, and the restrictions are still in place. For outbreaks of mild strains of avian flu subtypes such as H7N2, public health officials often order culling of birds and monitor human cases because the viruses could mutate into highly pathogenic forms. Welsh veterinary officials think the infected Rhode Island chickens could have been exposed to the virus on May 7 at the Chelford Market in Cheshire. A total of 30 chickens from the smallholding have now been slaughtered after 15 birds died. The owners of the farm tested negative for the virus. Reportedly, tests on birds at another farm in Llyn Peninsula came back negative.
Of 221 patients identified as contacts, 171 may have been exposed in a workplace setting, including patients and staff at 2 hospitals. At one of the hospitals, 79 patients and staff were offered oseltamivir because of contact with a healthcare worker who was treated for the H7 flu virus. Lyons said the sick staff member was working between May 21 and 23, when she may have been infectious. At the other hospital, 69 patients and staff were notified because a patient who had the H7N2 illness was recently treated at the facility. Lyons said the patient was discharged May 18, and after an 8-day incubation period, anyone who was ill would have had symptoms by May 26. "So we are contacting all staff and patients to ensure that they remained well and to reassure them," she said. Lyons said that people who have had contact with individuals who became ill with the H7N2 virus are being offered prophylactic antiviral medication. In a related development, children at a primary school in the town where the Welsh farm is located are reportedly being given Tamiflu after one of their classmates became ill with suspected H7N2 infection. The ill child visited the affected farm 10 days ago for less than 15 minutes.
A case is an individual with influenza-like illness (fever above 38 C, aches and pains, cough/head cold, sore throat or conjunctivitis) who has been in contact with affected premises or with known infected poultry (handling/within one metre) or close contact with another human case. A contact is defined as an individual who has been in contact with affected premises or with known infected poultry (handling/within one meter) or has had close contact with another person with confirmed or presumptive avian influenza). Reportedly, there is enough oseltamivir (Tamiflu) to treat a quarter of the population of Wales.
Some infectious disease experts say human illnesses associated with the H7N2 outbreak in Wales are a reminder that other virus subtypes—not just the well-known H5N1 strain—could spark a pandemic. Other experts say the focus on the H5N1 subtype's pandemic potential is justified. David Halvorson, a veterinarian in avian health at the University of Minnesota in St Paul, said that H5 and H7 subtypes both have the ability to generate a highly pathogenic virus of the same subtype, but there's no way to project when and if such evolution will occur. "Whether that will happen quickly, as it did in Chile or British Columbia, or not happen for over 10 years, as it has not done in New York live bird markets, is not predictable," he said. The WHO's Regional Office for Europe said human illness from other H7 subtypes has occurred in two other instances in the past few years. In 2006 a poultry worker in the UK was diagnosed with conjunctivitis linked to an H7N3 poultry outbreak, and in 2003 an outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N7 in the Netherlands resulted in 86 confirmed cases of mild illness, with 1 death—a veterinarian who died from acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Situation updates are available from the Welsh Assembly Government:
China: New case of avian influenza H5N1 infection in human
WHO confirmed China's latest avian influenza H5N1 case, in a 19-year-old soldier who was apparently being treated in a military hospital. China now has had 25 cases, 15 of them fatal. The patient's H5N1 results were confirmed by China's national laboratory May 23. Before the soldier got sick, he was serving in Fujian province. He experienced fever and pneumonia-like symptoms May 9 and was hospitalized May 14. "There is no initial indication to suggest he had contact with sick birds prior to becoming unwell," WHO reported, adding that the patient's close contacts are under medical supervision and remain well. China has not reported any H5N1 outbreaks in Fujian province poultry this year, but on May 19 the agriculture ministry, in a report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), said an outbreak at a farm in southern Hunan province killed more than 11,000 ducklings and led to the culling of 9,600 more.
A woman who was diagnosed with avian influenza Feb 2007 has left the hospital, according to reports from China. The patient is a 44-year-old woman who farms in Fujian province. On Mar 1, 2007, WHO confirmed her as China's 23rd avian flu case-patient. She got sick Feb 18 and had been in critical condition. Reportedly she kept poultry in her back yard, but it was not determined whether she was exposed to sick birds. She was released after 3 months in the hospital. "A doctor in her village will carry out medical checks every day and report her condition to us to ensure her complete recovery," Huang Jian, deputy director of the health bureau in the town of Jianou, where the woman lives, said.
China: Avian influenza H5N1 samples from human cases arrive in US
Indonesia: Report of fatal case of avian influenza H5N1 infection
Pakistan (Sihala): Avian influenza infected poultry culled
Excerpts from OIE report:
Start date 01 Feb 2007; Date of confirmation of event 4 Feb 2007; Date of previous occurrence July 2006
Summary of outbreaks Total outbreaks: 4. Total animals affected: Susceptible 17324; Cases 5627; Deaths 5627; Destroyed 11 697; Slaughtered 0. Apparent morbidity rate 32.48 percent; Apparent mortality rate 32.48 percent; Apparent case fatality rate 100.00 percent; Proportion susceptible removed 100.00 percent. Epidemiology Source of infection: Contact with wild Species. A ring vaccination with an H5 inactivated monovalent vaccine in a 3-km-radius zone around the outbreaks is ongoing.
Thailand: Avian influenza prevention strategies
Viet Nam: More avian influenza H5N1 outbreaks among poultry
While more than half of Viet Nam's 64 provinces and cities have completed the first phase of poultry vaccinations against bird flu, all the infections found so far were among those which were left out of the nationwide campaign. Agriculture Minister, Cao Duc Phat, said 29 May 2007 that all waterfowl must be vaccinated or slaughtered to help stop bird flu from spreading. The virus has infected ducks and chickens at the beginning of summer, which is unusual as experts say the virus appears to thrive best in cool temperatures and weakens in warmer weather. Many of the provinces that have detected the infection May 2007 are along the national north-south Highway One, suggesting poultry movement should be tightened further to keep the virus from spreading, officials said. International public health officials describe Viet Nam's mass poultry vaccination programme and other measures as a model for keeping the virus at bay.
Avian influenza has hit 12 Vietnamese cities and provinces, namely Quang Ninh, Son La, Nam Dinh, Hai Phong, Bac Giang, Ninh Binh, Bac Ninh, Ha Nam, and Vinh Phuc in the northern region, Nghe An in the central region, and Can Tho and Dong Thap in the southern region. Viet Nam sent its most recent follow-up highly pathogenic avian influenza report to the OIE 24 May 2007, referring to 8 new outbreaks reportedly starting between 9 and 19 May 2007, in the following provinces: Nam Dinh (3 outbreaks), Quang Ninh (2), Dong Thap (1), Can Tho City (1), and Son La (1). Reportedly, fowls have died en masse in Viet Nam's central Quang Ngai province and the 2 northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Thanh Hoa over the past few days. The fowls might have died as a result of infection by bird flu virus strain H5.
Viet Nam: Latest human case of avian influenza awaits WHO confirmation
On 31 May 2007, a local newspaper quoted an official as saying that a change in the bird flu virus strain H5N1 has diminished the effectiveness of vaccines against the disease among poultry. Avian influenza vaccines are produced according to the gene type Z found in bird flu virus strain H5N1 in 2003, when Viet Nam was first hit by the disease, but another gene type called G was detected in 2005, said Nguyen Tien Dung, head of the Ultra-Virus Department of the Veterinary Institute under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The types Z and G genes are not very similar, so the vaccines are more effective [against] type Z, and less effective [against] type G, he said, noting that the first infected poultry with the type G gene in Viet Nam were mainly smuggled. According to the ministry's Department of Animal Health, Viet Nam is strengthening bird flu vaccination among fowls nationwide, using vaccines imported mainly from China and the Netherlands.
Nigeria (Zamfara): Report of avian influenza H5N1 outbreak
Health authorities reported 23 May 2007 an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara. The virus was confirmed through tests on affected birds in Namaturu village and more than 200 birds had been culled to curtail the spread of the disease, said Aminu Abdulrazak from the state health ministry. The whole area had been disinfected and villagers had been advised to follow advice from doctors. Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with some 140 million people, earlier in 2007 reported west Africa's first human bird flu death. A 22-year-old woman died in Lagos on 17 Jan 2007, weeks after plucking and disembowelling a chicken. Bird flu was first detected in Nigeria on a farm in Jaji town outside the northern city of Kano in Feb 2006 from where it spread to other parts of the country. Kano, northern Nigeria's most populous city, was worst affected by the flu outbreak which ravaged 97 farms in the city resulting in the death or culling of at least 300 000 birds, officials said. Katsina, Sokoto and Bauchi, 3 other northern states, have recorded a resurgence of bird flu since it resurfaced in Kano.
(Promed 5/26/07)
1. Updates
Avian/Pandemic influenza updates
- UN: http://influenza.un.org/. UN response to avian influenza and the pandemic threat. Also, http://www.irinnews.org/Birdflu.asp provides information on avian influenza in order to help the humanitarian community.
- WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/index.html.
- UN FAO: http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/health/diseases-cards/special_avian.html.
- OIE: http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm. Link to upcoming Paris Anti-avian influenza conference.
- US CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/index.htm.
- The US government's web site for pandemic/avian flu: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/. New updates on the pandemic influenza blog and World Health Assembly's influenza virus sharing resolutions.
- Health Canada: information on pandemic influenza: http://www.influenza.gc.ca/index_e.html. New travel Health Advisory: Avian Influenza A (H5N1) released.
- CIDRAP: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/. Frequently updated news and journal articles.
- US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center Avian Influenza Information: http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/disease_information/avian_influenza/index.jsp. Updates from Hong Kong, Russia, and United Arab Emirates 1 Jun 2007.
(UN; WHO; FAO, OIE; CDC; Health Canada; CIDRAP; PAHO; USGS)
2. Articles
Avian influenza A/(H7N2) outbreak in the United Kingdom
Editorial team (firstname.lastname@example.com), Eurosurveillance editorial office http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2007/070531.asp#2 (references removed)
"Several cases of influenza-like-illness (ILI) and/or conjunctivitis in humans have been linked to an outbreak of avian influenza in poultry at a smallholding near Corwen in northern Wales in the United Kingdom (UK). Three of the cases were hospitalized. H7N2, a low pathogenic strain of avian influenza (LPAI), has been identified as the cause of the poultry outbreak by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Four human cases (two in Wales and two in north-west England) have confirmed Influenza A infection and are closely linked in time and place to the discovery of the H7N2 avian influenza virus. Since there are currently very low levels of seasonal influenza in the UK, it is presumed that they are infected with influenza H7N2. Antiviral medication was given to three of the cases and all have now recovered. The poultry infections have been traced back to a public market selling poultry in Chelford, north-west England, on 7 May.
In accordance with UK policy, it was decided to offer antivirals to anyone who may have been exposed to the diseased poultry or had close contact with cases. By 30 May, 20 avian flu contacts had been identified who have or have had symptoms of an ILI or conjunctivitis. The National Public Health Service (NPHS) for Wales is using the following definitions of cases and contacts: A case is an individual with influenza-like illness (fever above 38° C, aches and pains, cough/head cold, sore throat or conjunctivitis) who has been in contact with affected premises or to known infected poultry (handling/within one metre) or close contact with another human case; A contact is defined as an individual who has been in contact with affected premises or with known infected poultry (handling/within one metre) or has had close contact with another person with confirmed or presumptive avian influenza.
The NPHS of Wales identified 256 people who might have had contact with the avian flu: in household settings, in a school and in the workplace setting, including patients and staff at two hospitals. Seventy-nine patients and staff from Ward 6 at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd have been offered antiviral medication as a precaution because of contact with a healthcare worker who became sick with an ILI and is a part of the outbreak. Sixty-nine patients and staff from the Accident and Emergency Unit, Trysfan Ward and Gogarth Ward at Ysbyty Gwynedd are also being contacted because a patient, who is now discharged, is being treated for the avian flu virus. As of 29 May, the NPHS had received microbiological test results from 12 patients in Wales. These were from swabs taken from the nose and throat and eyes. They were tested for the Influenza A viruses, including the H7 subtype that was isolated from the affected poultry. One test was positive for the H7 subtype and one for influenza A. Investigations are ongoing in the UK and further results and updates will become available through the web-sites of the relevant authorities - the Health Protection Agency (www.hpa.org.uk), DEFRA (www.defra.gov.uk), the Welsh Assembly Government (www.wales.gov.uk) and the NPHS for Wales (www.nphs.wales.nhs.uk)."
Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenzas and human health
Human disease due to LPAIs The fact that an avian influenza is highly pathogenic for birds does not necessarily mean it is pathogenic for humans. However, one notable influenza (type A/H5N1) is both highly pathogenic for birds and humans. Influenza A/H7N2 virus infection in humans and all other human infections with LPAIs have only been associated with mild to moderate self-limiting disease, primarily conjunctivitis or flu like illness. Some cases have ended up requiring hospitalisation, but all have recovered. In addition, it is likely that there are asymptomatic infections and infections with mild symptoms that are never diagnosed because LPAI is not suspected and tested for. It is unclear whether or not there has ever been human-to-human transmission of an LPAI virus, although this has happened with some highly pathogenic viruses. During case-finding in outbreaks, people are often found to have symptoms compatible with LPAI infection, but turn out not to be infected. This was seen in an influenza A/H7N3 virus outbreak in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2006, when a single poultry worker presented with conjunctivitis and had confirmed infection, but others with similar symptoms were test-negative.
Who is at risk from LPAIs? Following requests from European Union (EU) Member States and the European Commission, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is undertaking a formal risk assessment for avian influenza viruses (excluding H5N1) in relation to human health. We also posted a document examining this outbreak and its implications on our website on 28 May. After a thorough review of the literature, our assessment was that there is only limited public health risk from LPAIs, but that those who are at risk should nevertheless maintain vigilance and take precautions. The risk of infection with LPAIs is almost entirely confined to people who have close contact with domestic poultry (chickens, ducks etc) or their droppings. Human cases have almost entirely been in this category. People with small domestic and pet flocks are probably most at risk, as they are less likely to be able to take precautions than those working in industry and may be less aware of the dangers. Other groups that have occasionally been infected are veterinarians and people involved in controlling outbreaks in birds (culling) and people who work on industrial poultry farms. Most EU Member States have standard occupational guidance for the latter group, but there are others at theoretical risk who should follow basic precautions, as shown in the table below. However, no infections have been seen in these groups. For the vast majority of people, who have no direct contact with domestic birds or their droppings, the risk of acquiring LPAIs and the risk to health are almost non-existent. Human infection with LPAIs from wild birds has never been reported.
What actions should those with domestic poultry take? The advice from the ECDC has not changed and is the same as for reducing the risk of acquiring infection with HPAIs. People with small domestic flocks in Europe should always look out for ill-health in their birds and promptly report such to the authorities. They and their families should also maintain basic hygiene as this will minimise the risk of them catching LPAIs and the more dangerous pathogens that poultry may carry such as campylobacter and salmonellosis. The ECDC has produced model guidance on this for use by national authorities.
What is the risk of a pandemic resulting from an LPAI? Essentially this risk is unknown and unknowable. It is thought that each of the three pandemics of the 20th century had a link with avian influenza, as some avian genes seem to have appeared in the resulting human pandemic strain. Although there is particular concern about avian influenza H5N1 because of its high pathogenicity in humans and its stability over time in bird populations, there is no prima facie reason to imagine that the next pandemic strain will contain genes from a HPAI rather than an LPAI."
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To facilitate the most efficient and safe delivery of available vaccine via large community clinics, these recommendations and guidelines have been developed to assist with planning large-scale influenza vaccination clinics by public and private vaccination groups. Ideally, plans from private and public groups should be shared to identify best practices, avoid unnecessary overlapping of services, and maximize the effective and efficient delivery of influenza vaccinations.
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Without a doubt, it's one of my favourite London hotels
From the moment you walk into the courtyard, you feel like you've stepped into a world of pure luxury and tranquility. Scarfes Bar serves up the finest cocktails in a beautiful environment, where you are surrounded by bookcases and serenaded by the dynamic jazz duo of Kitty La Roar and Nick Shankland. If you are looking for some comfort, or perhaps a quintessentially British Afternoon Tea, then look no further than the Rosewood's very own Mirror Room, which offers up an array of teas and a wonderfully adorned patisserie counter (which I must admit, have visited far too often lately). With Holborn Dining Room (the hotel's restaurant) set to open imminently and its own in-house spa getting ready to unlock its doors soon, this hotel is poised to become London's latest hot-spot and rightly so. I love the ambience, the staff are extremely welcoming and if that wasn't enough, it's right around the corner from Covent Garden's Seven Dials and it's just a short walk from The British Museum. Simply put, ROSEWOOD London is the hotel.
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Thursday Night Fun
Last night was fuuuun. I've always enjoyed going out on a Thursday (or a Wednesday…Tuesday, Friday, any day for that matter). A little bit of midweek madness goes a long way. Yesterday I caught up with some good friends over dinner and drinks and then danced the night away to some hard beats over at BASEMENT, which is tucked within one my latest London hotel haunts, The Edition.
Jacket by William Hunt Savile Row, Waistcoat by H&M and Top by Zara.
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May is the month
This month is going to be very…telling.
Interesting. Time to experiment artistically. I can feel that Summer is on its way. So let's get this party started. It has been beautiful being back in London for the week. Blue skies and starry nights. Now I'm ready to head on out again, fresh and focused.
Vintage waistcoat and boots
Reiss shirt
Levi's jeans
Black briefcase
Tom Ford fragrance
Good to go.
Covent Garden Market
Byron Brownie anyone?
It was nice to be home this Week.
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Mayfair in the sun
Yesterday was grand.
Today shall be as well.
The sun was shining high.
I'm in a good mood, can you tell?
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X marks the spot
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Orange October
October was orange.
Caravan. Dirty burgers and walks down the canal.
Reading. History books and eating the dinosaur.
Wallflower and buying flowers in Covent Garden.
London Cocktail Week shenanigans and classes with laughter.
Drinking hot chocolate at the W and stuffing my face with Thai food.
Old school friends. Disco dancing and two bottles of wine.
A tour of Liverpool. A lot of rain.
It's getting colder.
I feel older.
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Third-seeded Gov. Livingston had four players score in double figures and defeated 14th-seeded Johnson, 60-47, in a Union County Tournament first-round game in Rahway.
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Minnesota Sen. Mike Parry, R-Waseca, made a provocative accusation about DFL Gov. Mark Dayton in remarks Monday at an outdoor event to a quiet group of Brown County Republicans.
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He said, "[Dayton is] the most liberal governor in the U.S. When you sit across from him and you watch him pop 15 to 16 pills while you're having a meeting, it's scary. We all know how scary Obama is – he is at the same level."
Dayton acknowledges taking medication for depression but said Parry exaggerated and is using "gutter politics," MPR reports.
In response to that, Parry conceded that maybe it wasn't 15 or 16 pills, but "it was more than just a few," the Star Tribune reports. Parry could not recall the date of the alleged incident. He said the pills were sitting on the table while the two of them were having breakfast.
"I was there. I saw it," Parry told reporters after the candidate forum, the Star Tribune reports. He further explained, "What I was speaking about was that it would be very scary, very scary if our governor ended up with a House and a Senate that was controlled by one party."
Parry is in a bitter GOP primary fight with Republican Allen Quist. The winner of that Aug. 14 vote will take on incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn.
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Arresting Results: How One District Achieved a 70 Percent Closure Rate with Video Alarms
By Jennifer Mrozowski, Executive Director, Office of Communications, Detroit Public School Police Department; and Keith Jentoft, Coordinator, Priority Response Coalition, and President, RSI Video Technologies, White Bear Lake, Minnesota
n addition to ensuring the safety of about 70,000 schoolchildren and thousands of staff members, the Detroit Public School Police Department (DPS PD) is responsible for protecting more than 230 facilities spread throughout Detroit's 143 square miles. A declining population and shifting student enrollment required that some buildings be closed for renovation or resale, and these vacant buildings became targets for criminals looking to strip the structures of their copper wiring, their pipes, and their other fixtures. Once the buildings are targeted, the school district bears the enormous cost to bring them back up to code and prevent their facilities from becoming blights on neighborhood property values.
In mid-2009, Detroit decided to use video intrusion alarms to protect these vacant buildings. The alarms were part of a $41.7 million district-wide security initiative that strives to make all schools safer. The district also launched a new visitors' identification badge system, requiring visitors to Detroit Public Schools high schools, career technical schools, and the district's police command center to be put through on-the-spot sex-offender registry checks as part of a security clearance system aimed at making campuses safer for students and staff. The department itself is also housed in a $5.6 million 23,000-square-foot state of the art command center and headquarters that opened in January 2011.
These new battery-powered wireless alarms that monitor Detroit school buildings send video clips of the intruders over the cell network for immediate action. Without wires, Detroit considered the installation to be inexpensive. That was a bonus since the vacant buildings were slated for resale and DPS sought to minimize new costs on those structures. Four technicians from a local security company installed the alarms over six days in 30 school buildings around the city. The results have exceeded all expectations since the program began. Working within an austerity budget, the DPS PD has proven the value of video intrusion alarms and is updating its new dispatch center and policies to build upon this success.
The statistics for burglary arrests is the highest in the department's history. In the school year beginning August 2010, 101 burglaries occurred in vacant facilities and more than 70 of them have been closed with arrests—roughly a 70 percent closure rate. Further, these buildings are not easy facilities to protect. They are large, old, brick-and-plaster structures built early in the last century, full of potential hiding places between the walls and above the ceilings. Older school buildings have many possible points of access and are difficult to secure against creative thieves. Criminals have even used the sewer systems and heating tunnels to enter and strip the vacant buildings of their copper.
Video intrusion alarms have made the difference, delivering the edge the responding officers need to make arrests. A video intrusion alarm itself is simple. An apple-sized device called a motion viewer detects the break-in with a pyroelectric (passive) infrared motion sensor, and the onboard camera (with infrared night vision) immediately sends a 10-second video clip of the intruder over the cell network to a central alarm monitoring station—in this case a facility in Exton, Pennsylvania. The monitoring station operators review the video to confirm the alarm is real and then call DPS PD dispatch while emailing the video clips to the command center as well as an alert list—in this case, to the cell phones of the executive deputy chief, command officers, and the on-duty K-9 officers. DPS officers were surprised by the quality and resolution of the cameras. The clips received were actionable video, at times in total darkness, where officers could obtain descriptions of individuals being sought.
Once video has confirmed that individuals are hiding in the premises, K-9 handlers are extremely efficient in locating the intruders in these large facilities. It is a difficult job of hide and seek in large, vacant buildings, but police officers are winning by employing the visual description of the suspects and the use of a K-9 Team.1 Knowing that there is a high percentage of arrests through this system encourages officers to hurry to the scene.
With video alarms, dispatch operators can tell responders how many intruders exist and what weapons or implements they are carrying. This is a big step forward for officer safety. When officers know there is a group armed with crowbars, responding officers request backup immediately and avoid unpleasant, violent surprises when they arrive.
Video sent directly to the responders' telephones has proven extremely valuable. Once the central alarm monitoring station has reviewed the video and filtered out nonevents, the central station sends the clips to the police department's command center and dispatch then sends the video clips of the break-ins directly to officers' cell phones. In several cases, when the suspect escaped before the officer arrived, officers have been able to catch the perpetrator on a subsequent break-in attempt and use the earlier video to charge the individual as a multiple offender. At the sentencing part of the trial, the prosecutor can request stiffer penalties from a judge.
Some of the arrests recounted seem almost like fairy tales. Early on, after the citizens of Detroit became aware of these successes, a camera crew from a local news station requested permission to shadow a K-9 and his handler for an evening. The crew was out for only 15 minutes before the first arrest of three people with the cameras running. On May 8, 2009, in a single evening, eight arrests were made on three alarms: one sergeant with a couple of backup units arrested five people as a K-9 team arrested two people at another location and then finished the evening at a third location with another arrest. At 10:00 a.m. the following day, the K-9 team arrested two more suspects.
The K-9 teams have proven they are ideally suited for finding burglars hiding in these large facilities. In 2009, immediately after the systems were installed, the very first video alarm confirmed that an intruder was in the building. Responding officers spent two hours combing the facility without success. The K-9 team showed up and located the perpetrator in fewer than two minutes. Shortly thereafter, another alarm showed the suspect in the boiler room. After a futile search by the officers, the K-9 team retrieved the individual, who was hiding in the furnace. The intruder had climbed inside through the top of the boiler to hide when the officers arrived.
The Detroit experience shows that the videos of actual intruders aid the officers in making arrests. In the past, there were many alarm runs where, after inspecting the outside of the building and finding no visible sign of break-in, the officers would leave as there was no evidence of anything occurring. Unfortunately, in some of these instances, the thieves had actually entered the premises through a window or roof that was difficult to check. Another benefit of the quick video response is that the perpetrators have less time to damage the buildings, and the school's losses have been minimized. Quick arrival by law enforcement prevents thieves from using their crowbars, sledge hammers, and other demolition equipment to tear open walls and rip out plumbing or fixtures.
The only videos the responders see are those requiring immediate action. The central alarm monitoring station reviews every incoming video alarm and filters out events that do not require dispatch. The crimes in progress are sent to the 9-1-1 dispatch center and then to the responding officer. The timely delivery of these filtered short alarm clips to the responders has dramatically improved policing in the Detroit Public Schools.
The upgrades to the district's command center and their scout cars have allowed the school district to maximize the effectiveness of the video alarm systems. The police department is also considering installing mobile computers in all scout cars to receive video clips that are currently being sent only to the cell phones. ■
1 "One on One: John Greene," Police K-9 Magazine (April 8, 2010). In late February, President Obama signed legislation that would allocate the D-Block to public safety. For information, visit http://www.theiacpblog.com. More coverage will be in the April issue of Police Chief magazine.Please cite as: Jennifer Mrozowski and Keith Jentoft, "Arresting Results: How One District Achieved a 70 Percent Closure Rate with Video Alarms," The Police Chief 79 (March 2012): 4852.Click to view the digital edition.Top
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- Weather the story for wine grape growers in 2011
- Rain seals deal
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- Central Coast wine grape growers will not soon forget 2011, unfortunately, for mostly the wrong reasons.
- Growers saw improved prices without yields to cash in on a market turnaround.
- If there was a silver lining, the low yields seem to be offering promising intense flavors in the final wine.
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Grape grower Dana Merrill's company of Templeton, Calif., reports coastal wine grape yields are very low in 2011. "Our yields will be very low this year. Even without the frost, we'd be looking at a lighter-than-normal crop. But throw in the frosted blocks and I wouldn't be surprised if we're 40 percent off normal on our yields."
Irony of good quality
"Quality-wise we're good this season," Wolff says. "The Brix of our Chardonnay met our needs and those of our customers. And, the cold weather resulted in tiny clusters and berries in our Pinot. So, the flavor and color will be very concentrated.
However, it will be a little different story for his Syrah and Petite Sirah. With their tight clusters these two varieties are especially vulnerable to Botrytis and other fungal diseases.
Ideally, winemakers like these varieties to have 25 to 26 degrees Brix, Wolff notes. However, by the end of the third week of October, the Brix readings of those two varieties had only reached the 21 to 22 range.
"We can't afford to wait much longer, when we will get anything close to the mid 23 Brix we're picking this year. You can still make a decent wine at that level of sugar."
Dana Merrill's company, Mesa Vineyard Management, Templeton, Calif., owns and manages 6,000 acres of vineyards from the Santa Maria Valley north to King City. Among his varieties that recovered the best from the April freeze were Zinfandel and Merlot. Viognier fared the worst. Blocks of that variety that normally produce about 5 tons an acre yielded, at best, just half a ton this season.
"Our yields will be very low this year," he says. "Even without the frost, we'd be looking at a lighter-than-normal crop. But throw in the frosted blocks and I wouldn't be surprised if we're 40 percent off normal on our yields."
Merrill has also heard reports of half-a-ton yields of frost-damaged Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that typically have produced 5 or 6 tons per acre.
Shattering from poor weather during bloom has also taken its toll. "The cluster counts on Zinfandel looked good, because it's fairly resilient following frost damage," he says. "But the clusters had a lot of shot berries and incomplete fruit set. As a result growers this year may have harvested 2.5 tons per acre. But, by the time they're done sorting for quality they may end up getting only about 1.75 tons of grapes per acre."
Damage from the early October rains in his area also varied by variety. "Fungus problems have been worse on the softer-skin grapes like Petite Sirah and Zinfandel," Merrill says. "Most of the guys on the east side of Paso Robles were able to get their Zinfandel off without too much trouble, But on the west side I imagine they having to cope with fungus. With a little looser cluster, the Cabernet Sauvignon weren't hurt as badly."


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At Acer's press event in New York City today, the PC maker was quick to show off its upcoming convertible behemoth in the Acer Aspire R7. Seriously folks, it's a beastly thing and isn't necessarily part of the ultrabook category; thankfully so. However, if you've been dreaming about a...
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I want this
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For the first time in my life,I want this laptop. Don't care about the specs. I just love the form factor.
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nice Acer !
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WOW! Looks Cool Acer!
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Is there someone holding a Samsung Galaxy Camera in the background at the beginning?
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my current acer laptop is 4 months old and its already falling apart. Acer Aspire S3. Not to mention the wifi card driver is 80% functional at best, also windows 8 is a sloppy POS.


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if i wanted 2 see lights i would go to a laser light show
its cool though
if u did all the soldering musta took a lot of time and fun if ur into that
a glowing zelda triangle would b cool too
i hope your wii breaks jk hahaha good luck
have u thought of just painting it a solid white?
i think a wii would look real sleak like that.(jp)
i like the fact u used changing color leds
u should add so many leds its like a night bright and have scrolling words scroll through one side of your wii hahhaa
props for all that time and/or money invested into this wow