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Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutALTeacher Nov 24, 2010 5:50 AM (in response to GreksLost)
I have had the same issue with my NC. So far I have been underwhelmed by this device.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outcjohnson Dec 26, 2010 2:55 PM (in response to ALTeacher)
My NOOKcolor seems possessed! I've had this issue with many different books--pages turning by themselves, menus popping up, etc. Today, I even "bought" a book I didn't want without realizing it or even looking at the book's details--I happen to see it in my library later in the day (hope I get a refund Restarting seems to help, but is very irritating. Now I've password protected my purchases--which I now highly recommend due to this "freak out" issue.
bn.com is also very slow and/or unresponsive--I haven't been able to access my "ebook library" all day.
I hope Barnes & Noble can figure out the fixes for these issues soon!
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outdonc13 Nov 24, 2010 2:32 PM (in response to GreksLost)
GreksLost wrote:
I've waited to see if this problem pops up on the boards, but really haven't seen it addressed in a dedicated thread. The touchscreen on my nook color keeps going crazy. I first noticed it when I would try and play the crossword puzzle and after a few answers the game would just start scrolling through the puzzle. But the truly troublesome part is when it starts rapidly shuffling through pages of the book that I'm reading or randomly selecting words on the page that I am currently on. Sometimes it does the opposite and the touchscreen doesn't even respond to actual gestures. I have turned the nook off, then on. I have rested it. I have also reset and deregistered the device. They work with varying degrees of temporary relief. I assume that this is a software glitch and not a hardware issue. My reasoning is that restarting can act as a very temporary solution. I have heard that a planned software update is coming in January. But I can't be the only one with this issue. If not then this is a major impediment to even reading a book. That being said I am hoping that this issue gets addressed in the next few weeks.
Do you by any chance have your NOOK color plugged into the charger when this happens?
Several of us have noticed that at least initially, when you try to enter data into the touchscreen while the NC is charging, you end up getting double letters and other weirdness.
That all goes away if the NC is not attached to the charger.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutGreksLost Nov 25, 2010 12:30 AM (in response to donc13)
No I don't usually use it when its charging. This happens at any time.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outbyrnook Sep 17, 2011 7:43 PM (in response to GreksLost)
Mine acts possessed too. On more than one occasion. To me, it seems like some phantom is "driving" the nook haphazardly, OR it is "remembering" (despite being turned off and recharged and the like) being touched when it wasn't on or still process being touched from the use before.
I usually turn it off and back on, and that works, but it keeps happening. And has happened often enough (sometimes zooming in and out and in and out and not letting me scroll) that I have thought about going to the BN store.
What do you think? Glad I'm not the only one. Thought maybe my kid had touched it too much (he's gentle, but he does do puzzles and the drawing app on there).
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutPathfinder_12 Nov 25, 2010 9:35 AM (in response to donc13)
Yeah happend to me when the charger was plugged in and gave me double letters etc but stoped when unplugged
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutJanetCA Dec 23, 2010 11:32 PM (in response to donc13)
I just got my 2nd NC, the first one wouldn't hold a charge. I was reading and the screen started to dim and would flash back to its original color and this would go on and off several times. Then all of a sudden the screen went white and then shut off, came on, and went back 25 chapters. I guess I'll have to take it back and get a Kindle instead. Too many bugs with the NC and I shouldn't have to play with it to get it to work.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutHenryW Nov 25, 2010 11:00 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I had similar experience with the touch screen. Several times while I was reading an ebook or in the web browser the cursor would jump all over the place uncontrollably. I had to reset the device and often times the reset would go into a loop. It would reset itself several times by itself which is really annoying. The only way to get out of that is to leave the device power off for a period of time then it goes back to normal. Is this a software glitch or do I have a bad hardware?
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outready2rest Jan 27, 2011 4:39 AM (in response to HenryW)
I have this problem as well. I turn it off and back on which works for awhile. I deregistered and that worked for a few days. Very frustating !! Thank goodness I still have my old nook to go to, when I'm stuck in a good book and it goes crazy it drives me nuts.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outsalbenn Nov 27, 2010 6:34 PM (in response to GreksLost)
The problem of run-away pages has frustrated me as the first time it happened the pages turned all the way to the end of the book. It has taken me several days to figure out what was happening and replicate the action. If your finger rest on the outside edge of the page (just inside the plastic frame) the page can run away from you.
Your finger resting on the left outside of the page will take you backward. The right side of the page will take you forward. I have been talking tech support for two days and they think that it might be isolated to my nook but I do not think so. They are will replace my nook but will hold to the original 14 days to be able to return the nook. I think that I will return the nc, and purchase another one so that I can have another 14 days to determine if everything is all right. All this being said, I absolutely love the nc (NOOKcolor) and hope that I can get the run-away pages resolved. Reading at night with out a book light, no eye strain, being able to get books from the library, transfer all my files, all my books from other sources is awesome
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutStinkySQL Mar 5, 2011 6:15 PM (in response to salbenn)
I bought my wife her NC for Xmas and NEVER had an issue. We have also been running the 1.1.0 software for some time so there are no significant changes goin on. The issue you describe has been intermittent. More significant in the cool mornings, less likely to occur in the afternoon until today. Now it happened twice and both times required a reboot-and-wait period. Normally it was just clicking the middle button that stopped it.
I do trouble-shooting of hardware/software systems for a living and to me this "effect" that we see is a software runaway condition brought upon by a marginal hardware input. The way I see the Wife's system is that the hardware is fading, causing the issue more frequently and more severely. That's why some people replace their Nooks and its all better, and some just have the same problem. Either way, it seems that the problem will creep back in until they stabilize the hardware or put an smarter input filtering cap on the software.
One more thing, a lot of folks mention the "left side" of the device. We note it on that side also, although my wife is left-handed
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outrickpalmer Sep 28, 2011 7:23 PM (in response to salbenn)
my nc is doin the run away page thing too n im not sure how im suppose to hanndle this
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutAlex Garcia Oct 3, 2011 1:26 PM (in response to rickpalmer)
Hey rickpalmer,
Have you tried cleaning your screen at all? A lot of times smudges and debris can throw off the NC from properly registering user input.
If you're still having issues after trying that, feel free to send me a PM with your serial number & email, and I'll get together with CS for you.
Hope this helps!
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outjulestrik Nov 30, 2010 12:42 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I seem to be having issues also not sure if it's a screen problem or something else. The first thing that happened was I cleaned up my homepage to only have my news papers and the book I was reading to appear and then one day I had about 10 books from my library appear. I removed them and sent them back to the library only to have them show up the next day. Glitch or do I need to change a setting somewhere. The second problem is the book I am currently reading (800+ pages) sometimes opens where I left off and sometimes it starts at the cover of the book and I have to figure out where I was. I have started leaving bookmarks and that works but that is also an extra step I shouldn't have to do. Anyone out there with suggestions or anything? I love my Nookcolor and I don't want glitches.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outterra85 Dec 12, 2010 4:25 AM (in response to GreksLost)
I am having the same problem; my Nook Color fasts forwards through pages, even when it's lying on a flat surface. I just posted on the general/main Nook message board about this problem. Unlike the YouTube video posted, my Nook does not have the pop-up screen popping up all the time--it fast forwards seamlessly, as if someone was pressing to go forward. Nonetheless, this problem sounds like it's not so isolated. I hope it's the software and not faulty hardware that's causing this problem. It's really unacceptable that B&N is reluctant to replace malfunctioning Nooks and threatens to charge people for a new unit if they can't replicate a problem that is intermittent but negatively impacts use of the device. I haven't contacted customer service yet; hopefully the negative encounters with B&N store managers is isolated and not a widespread anti-customer policy. I'm going to contact someone at B&N and see about replacing my Nook Color. Maybe this problem would be "acceptable" for an off-brand budget ereader purchased at a drugstore, but for a $250 device--no way. $250 is a lot of money to me (and many others, I'm sure).
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutPJQ Dec 15, 2010 8:08 AM (in response to GreksLost)
I've made some observations regarding the TouchScreen "Freakng Out".
1. Freaking out while charging is somewhat expected and probably has to due with a grounding issue. Since the Touchscreen is capacitive and not pressure sensitive the User and device must be properly grounded. When a user is holding the device they are both grounded. When the device is plugged in the ground loop becomes much different.
2. I've also noticed that my device needs time to warm up. If the device is on the table and the room is a cool 65 degrees, once the device powers on i notice the touch screen feels 'wet' as if there is condensation on it. There really isn't any condensation it is just the temperature difference between the cold glass and my warm hands. The interaction of the two seem to leave small 'wet' spots where I touched it.
Cleaning the display and giving it time to 'warm up' seem to help. but it is very frustrating and dangerous. I"ve had the device delete email messages while web browsing and almost make book purchases I did not want. I am going to try a screen protector to see if that creates some insulation "Fingers crossed"
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutwatchingDclock Dec 15, 2010 9:20 AM (in response to PJQ)
Mine did the same thing for the first time last night. I was browsing the Web, and suddenly the browser started to go forward/back and zooming in and out on it's own. Couldn't use any soft buttons or gestures, and had to do a reboot using the power button. For what it's worth, the temp in the room was probably about 50 degrees, so definitely colder than its normal environment.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutLizzyland Dec 15, 2010 12:10 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I thought I was the only one to get, as I called it, a possessed nookcolor. I returned it one week after buying it for a new one. I'd reset it, I'd done everything. What was really fun to watch was when it played suduko by itself. And I wasn't touching it.
My second one has been tons better and the only time it's skipped pages have been things like people have said, grazing the edges accidently. Or a big on for me is when I'm reading a tense book (thriller) I tend to fist my hand over my mouth and end up changing pages with the warm air that way.
So I think there are some ncs that are just plain possessed and the rest are just sensitive.
I love my 2nd one though! First one I thought would drive me batty!
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutwatchingDclock Dec 17, 2010 9:35 AM (in response to Lizzyland)
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutPathfinder_12 Dec 21, 2010 6:29 PM (in response to Lizzyland)
Yeah it's a nice product...BUT I call and say it's totally unusable when plugged in and the guy tells me that's "normal" (his words) until they come up with some software update in the next couple of months??? I was like what???? I'm an electrical engineering student and I'm thinking charging circuit (hardware problem)….?
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outthans56 Dec 16, 2010 5:05 PM (in response to GreksLost)
Same issue here with run away pages. Each time it's happened my thumb was just protruding over the edge of the side onto the page. Seems at some times the screen is over sensative and other times it's not lol.
Most likely a lot of the current issues will be fixed with the next updates as they were with the regular nook.
I've had my CNook for a week now and have noticed little updates here and there in various places.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outnjnookman Dec 16, 2010 6:03 PM (in response to thans56)
BN implemented the side-touch gesture as an alternate page-turning mechanism to overcome a human factors issue. It is NOT a bug, it is a very USEFUL feature.
Other tablets require the table to be held in one hand, while the other finger swipes across the page to turn it. This finger swipe, plus the tablet's own weight, acts as the downward force on a lever, with the fulcrum being the joint of the third finger. After a while -- this hurts!
NC, however, allows the use to hold it in BOTH hands, and simply touch the screen withing the first 1/4 inch of space to turn that page. A deliberate tap gesture with one's thumb in this space, anywhere on the edge, will, and should, turn the page.
Obviously, if you let your thumb hover over that space, lightly touching the screen, it WILL queue up several page turns. Please rest the thumb on the side rail, or on the cover if you have something like a Vasco or Soho trifold cover.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outanieb Dec 17, 2010 3:04 AM (in response to njnookman)
I bought one today and I find it stunning for its images and the things it does well. I had not planned to get one but it was pretty impressive.
However, with warm hands, this reader is oversensitive. There is no reason I should be on page 9 and then suddenly on page 63.
And when I type a letter into the keyboard I shouldn't suddenly see another page altogether show up (this happened about 3 times at the B&N store too and we were both puzzled by it). But other pages suddenly appearing out of nowhere in a situation like this, that's a problem.
I plan to keep this reader since I love the access to nat'l geo which i am trying out, and I think the monthly charge is very decent for that. But the touchscreen is altogether too sensitive and should have a sensitivity setting.
I have a 'light touch' so this is a bit over the top. It happens in the magazine too. And it varies (is inconsistent), because sometimes a touch does NOT do anything and if you make it VERY firm, then it works ('back' options usually but it happens on a few screen buttons).
A workaround on oversensitive page-turn events: they can give us the option of not using page-turn taps but use swiping only.
Or they can have an option to lower sensitivity of the touchscreen.
As for the charger-time typing, there should be a B&N insert telling people not to try to register or set a WiFi password when the unit is charging.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outrogrocket Dec 6, 2011 9:15 AM (in response to anieb)
As I can see, I am not alone with my Nook problems. I have had the following problems:
click on the right of the screen > display goes back one page instead of forward
click on the right of the screen > the screen displays a highlighted word and sometimes goes into a crazy mode where the highlighting jumps around the screen. When that happens, I have to turn my Nook off and the back on again to get it to settle down.
click on the right of the screen > nothing happens. Have to click several times to get the page to turn.
Sometimes, my Nook responds when I move my body (such as on the subway) and anything can happen but usually it skips pages and I have to find my place again in the book.
The Nook is an annoying reader. It is too sensitive to be used casually with confidence. My other issue with the Nook is the way the shelves and book lists were designed to work and how they look. In my opinion, the look is a major turn off. I also dislike the B&N shopping screens so much that I don't buy books there anymore. I found it surprising that B&N has such bad suggestions for books. I have ended up with three books I don't like and I can't delete them. So, I now get books on recommendation from a local independent bookstore that works through Google.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outcrybbchub Dec 17, 2010 11:00 AM (in response to GreksLost)
if your touchscreen is freaking out, make sure you wipe your screen... It's sensitive to finger prints... ( FYI: sensitive to heat also)
- If this doesn't work, yeah go ahead and perform erase and restore factory settings ( you can find this under device info)
-if this doesn't work.. then perform a factory fallback on the device--- hold the power button and the horse shoe button below the nookclor at the same time for 15-20 seconds and turn it on again..
if it still doesn't work, then go ahead and have it replaced
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outvman44 Dec 20, 2010 9:12 PM (in response to GreksLost)
ok i'm glad i'm not the only one having this problem hope they fix it soon
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outrjmeyer Dec 22, 2010 9:01 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I had this problem, too. I read in another thread that a user was advised to clean off the screen and turn the power off. It's worked fine ever since.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutDarthNook Dec 23, 2010 11:34 AM (in response to GreksLost)
I had a problem when the "Nook" charger was plugged in, the screen would become over sensitive "Freaked out Screen". It made the Nook impossible to use while plugged in. I called tech support and they first had me restore the Nook to factory settings which did not solve the issue. I found out some of the chargers or cables cause electronic vibrations in the touch screen and they will send you out a new one. I went to the B&N store and they gave me new one to try and it corrected the problem. Also, remember to keep the screen clean. One side note, the orange "N" finally turns green when fully charged.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutRodneyJT Dec 23, 2010 12:58 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I don't have a NC yet. But I actually think this may not be B & N fault but a problem with the Android OS itself. I have a Droid Incredible phone and does the same thing. All of a sudden will just randomly scroll and jump around.
In searching for some remedies I've see several Droid forums reporting the same thing with other phones. Something with Android 2.1+ it seems.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutTorr Dec 27, 2010 12:26 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I have gotten this a few times. It seems to do it to me when it is cold. If I turn it on in the early morning and try to use it right away it will do the full freak out. My house is set at 65 during the night.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutAtomant Jan 1, 2011 7:51 PM (in response to GreksLost)My CN is possessed as well. Started a couple days ago. Happens on different books and unplugged. Screen has been cleaned. I'm just holding it in my hand flat and the nook flips pages or highlights words definitions. No change in temperature. No breathing on it. So far the temporary fix is to push the power button to sleep mode and turn it right back on. Last time however, the nook worked correctly only for a few minutes before acting up again. Is there a better way to clean the oil off the screen then just a damp anti-static cloth. Anyone tried breaking the rule before returning the Nook and using alcohol to clean it and see if that clears up the problem. My current on-going major issues: 1) Screen going crazy. 2) Poor PDF support. Unit is going back for a full refund around the 15th if I don't hear some good news.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutMosier42 Jan 2, 2011 10:09 AM (in response to Atomant)
Atomant wrote:
Anyone tried breaking the rule before returning the Nook and using alcohol to clean it and see if that clears up the problem.
I would not suggest using alcohol or any other liquid other than water on a damp cloth to clean the screen. This is pretty standard with all current devices and you could damage the screen (and possibly void your warranty, although I'm not exactly sure on that).
You may try getting a protective cover, this may help with some of your capacitive screen issue. They're a bit more durable than the glass on the screen and allow you to remove them if they get too bad.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutCallimachus Jan 6, 2011 9:13 AM (in response to GreksLost)
I have had some experience with the Nook Color screen freaking out that I can share.
My Nook has been very good and I've had no problems except when I read in an environment of very high (extreme) humidity the color Nook can freak out. It has happened to me three times now so I can definitely say it has something to do with condensation. This last time I was very careful to make sure my fingers were not wet but it still freaked out.
The fix everytime was to shut the Nook off and move the Nook into a dry area. Once I got really worried because it was so freaked out it wouldn't shut down and I thought I might have to take the battery out and then I remembered you couldn't take the battery out but it finally shut down.
Once in a dry area it always started working correctly again.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutJaunx Aug 19, 2011 8:29 AM (in response to GreksLost)
There is a simple app to fix this issue:
Unfortunately you need to root (voiding warranty) your Nook Color in order to run this fix. But since B&N's "fix" for this issue is to turn your device back on and off, their warranty doesn't appear to amount to a hill of beans anyway.
This issue has plagued Nook Color devices since their release and B&N has done nothing to address the issue. The least they could do is add a recalibration utility so people didn't have to risk their warranty to make their device function properly.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outcnardell Aug 28, 2011 10:23 AM (in response to Jaunx)
How do you "root" a Nook? When I try to access this utility, the Android market keeps saying that I don't have any Android phones associated with this account.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outmichelledotart Dec 18, 2011 3:48 PM (in response to GreksLost)
I got my nook color about two months ago. A few weeks ago I'm having the problem you all have described. My hands are not even close to the screen. I have a leather case, and the cover folds under, so usually I'm craddling my nook while I read with two layers of leather underneath. It still acts all wonky. I can't say I'm pleased with this product by any means. I may just resort back to my more than reliable iPad to read ebooks.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutgeatdanemomDT Dec 18, 2011 4:15 PM (in response to michelledotart)
michelledotart wrote:
I got my nook color about two months ago. A few weeks ago I'm having the problem you all have described. My hands are not even close to the screen. I have a leather case, and the cover folds under, so usually I'm craddling my nook while I read with two layers of leather underneath. It still acts all wonky. I can't say I'm pleased with this product by any means. I may just resort back to my more than reliable iPad to read ebooks.
That is not normal nook behavior. Try cleaning your screen. If that does not help you can P.M. BN_AlexG, go to your local B&N or call customer service, do not e mail.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outmichelledotart Feb 2, 2012 9:33 PM (in response to geatdanemomDT)
Hi geatdanemomDT! Thank you for your reply, and I followed your advice. One month has passed and it is still acting crazy. I'll be reading then suddenly it flips forward to the end of the book and there's no "back button" to get me back to the spot in the book. Cleaning the screen has only helped for a short period of time, then it just Goes back to what it was - haywire. Thank you for the suggestions though.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outroustabout Dec 18, 2011 4:18 PM (in response to michelledotart)
Michelle, a good first thing to try is to clean the screen carefully with a soft cloth and a screen cleaner (I use a product called Klear for all of my LCD screens. If I'm not at the house, I clean the screen much like I do my glasses, by fogging it with my breath and wiping the condensation off.)
Lots of folks have reported issues when charging and using the nook at the same time.
Some folks find a full power cycle helps - hold power ~20 seconds, ignore the "do you want to shut down?" dialog and the device powers on. Hold power in around 5 seconds, the screen 'pulses' and the device starts up.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutHavaLyon Dec 25, 2011 9:16 AM (in response to roustabout)
I am very frustrated right now. I received a Nook Simple Touch this past Tuesday as an early Christmas gift. We tried to log onto our WiFi connection with it, and the screen kept freaking out. It would flash strangely, and at one point, 3/4 of the screen went blank. This was straight out of the box. We decided that I must have gotten a lemon, and so I packed it back into the box to return it. My fiance said that I could pick out another reader if I wanted to, and after doing some research, I decided to upgrade to a Color Nook.
I bought the Color Nook online so I could get a refurbished one, and brought the Simple Touch back to my local store and got my money back. I was so excited when my Color Nook arrived in the mail!! I've done nothing but play with it ever since.
Well, it's not even been a week yet, and the thing is freakin' possessed. I have it sitting next to me, and as I am typing this post on my laptop, I am watching the screen just go bananas. Bullcrap that it's my touch setting it off, or my breath, or the temperature change, or smudged fingerprints (I read through this whole thread) because I am not touching it, I am not breathing on it, it hasn't gone outside since I received it in the mail and my house is set at the same temperature night and day, and I have cleaned the screen MULTIPLE times (I have glasses so I know how to clean screens).
I have rebooted it and it "fixes" the problem...for as long as an hour, but this last time, when I rebooted it, it literally started freaking out again as soon as the screen came on. I am not charging it when it happens - it just goes crazy and there's not a darn thing I can do about it.
I am frustrated, if you can't tell. My local B&N doesn't have refurbished units, so I don't know what'll happen tomorrow when I try to return this. I am WELL within the refund period, but because it's a refurbished item...
Also, I have it set to go to sleep after 15 minutes of non-use, and I haven't touched it for at least the last 30. But, it's just as awake as ever because it thinks I'm touching the screen. It's like the poltergiest over here - I told my fiance that it's my new entertainment, because I sure as h*ll can't read anything on it, I might as well watch the screen goes nuts.
I'll report back tomorrow on what my local B&N says - if they give me crap, I'm not going to be real nice about it though. They were great about taking back my Simple Touch, so here's hoping!
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outmichelledotart Feb 2, 2012 9:37 PM (in response to roustabout)
Hello rousatbout and thank you as well for your suggestions. None of them have helped - perhaps temporarily (an hour or two) but nothing more permanent. I don't read while charging, I clean the screen all the time thinking the fingerprints are an issue, I power it on and off completely every night. I guess I'm just stuck with a very expensive but useless gadget.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutLeAnnInMtta Feb 20, 2012 8:59 PM (in response to GreksLost)
Nook locked up on me tonight while I was using it. It's fully charged, so not charging when it happened. Screen went blank, light blue, soft light reflecting on screen. Can't turn it on or off. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outbobstro Feb 21, 2012 4:47 AM (in response to LeAnnInMtta)
LeAnnInMtta wrote:
Nook locked up on me tonight while I was using it. It's fully charged, so not charging when it happened. Screen went blank, light blue, soft light reflecting on screen. Can't turn it on or off. Any suggestions? Thanks!
You tried holding the power button for 20-30 seconds? That should usually get it to turn off, then hold it again to turn on. If not, I'd definitely call support or take it in.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Out5ivedom Jan 18, 2013 11:03 PM (in response to bobstro)
Also try the Power+N button thing i.e.
Hold Power button and N button (the physical n button below the screen) for 20 seconds.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking Outjamielynk Jan 20, 2013 11:47 AM (in response to GreksLost)
My NC goes thru fits of not responding to touch commands at all, to scrolling, highlighting, and tabbing anything and everything, and I never even asked it to. I'm really disappointed with my NC and have put up with it for 2 years now. Unfortunately now that the Color is going by the wayside and the HDs are out, I dont expect much from B&N to solve it.
I thought I might give the NC to my 5yo for games and Netflix but even she gets tired of the lagging response, zero response and flipping out.
B&N needs to have a trade in or something for those of us who invested 250 to get this new fangled thingy thats really just kinda meh.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutGeneral_Cornwallis Jun 4, 2013 6:39 AM (in response to jamielynk)
My Nook Color didn't ike humidity. It was either going bananas or I was pounding on the screen and nothing was happening. How humid was it? I was in a meeting room with lots of bodies and it was summer. The AC was on too. Well, I knew there and then my Nook was another one of those Android POS. A week or two later the thing went and bricked itself. Now I'm doing what I should have done in the first place - bypassing the android garbage and going for an iPad.
Re: Nook Color Touchscreen Freaking OutGeorgeOH Jun 30, 2013 9:46 AM (in response to General_Cornwallis)
I have a Nook Tablet actually, but they're basically the same I guess. My NT started going berzerk about two weeks ago...freezing, turning pages randomly..all these crazy things. Turn it off and back on it would work for 5 minutes then back to it's crazyness. Tried all the remedies from these threads, cleaned the screen, pushed all the buttons short of wiping the whole thing back to "like new"
Here's what worked for me (so far)..about an hour so far. Knock on wood, salt over the shoulder, horseshoes pointing the right way. I've had this for a year and a half so no warantee issues. I took it apart..plenty of utubes on disassembling on the net..cleaned the screen real good under the front bezel with a little windex on a paper towel..there's like double back tape under the bezel..took that off. Then reassembled the thing. A couple of the screws seemed to be loose when I took it apart, so I tried to torque all the screws the same putting it back together.
So..it's not as good as new. I broke a couple of the little plastic tabs that snap the back cover on, but if it keeps working, I can live with it.
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Togo's numerous pressing development challenges have increased in recent years due to political and economic instability. A significant percentage of Togo's rural population lives in extreme poverty. Less than 30 percent of the female population has the opportunity for education or training that can equip them to participate in the development of their communities. AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate, with HIV infection estimated at 6 percent of the adult population. Deforestation and other forms of environmental degradation are worsening as the country's growing population places increased demands on its natural resource base. The Peace Corps works to promote self-sufficiency in the areas of business and micro-enterprise development, environment, health, and education.
Peace Corps History
Main article: History of the Peace Corps in Togo
The Peace Corps began its work in Togo in 1962, as part of the second wave of countries where the Peace Corps began service. Since that time, more than 2,000 Volunteers have served in Togo. Peace Corps/Togo has a successful history of collaboration and involvement with the Togolese people at all levels. The Volunteers' efforts build upon counterpart relationships and emphasize low-cost solutions that make maximum use of local resources, which are usually people. Collaboration with local and international private organizations, as well as international development organizations, is an important component of Volunteer project activities.
Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyle
Main article: Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Togo
Volunteers in Togo are provided housing as part of the community's contribution to their work. Most Togo Volunteers live in villages in a two or three-room house, most likely in a compound with a Togolese family. Some Volunteer houses have tin roofs; a few have straw roofs. It is unlikely that you will have running water or electricity although they are more common in larger city posts. Water sources in villages can be traditional wells, bore-holes equipped with pumps, cisterns, and natural water sources—in some cases, rivers. Whatever your source of drinking water, you will have to treat it before use.
Main article: Training in Togo
Training is held in communities that are as similar as possible to the typical site for a given project. During your pre-service training, you will live with a host family. Other trainees from your program will live in the same village, but you will all have your own host family. All of your language, technical, cross-cultural and community development, and personal health and safety sessions will take place either in your host village or a neighboring community. Current Volunteers are available during PST to assist in training and to answer your questions.
Training days are long and demanding, so be prepared. Your day will start at 7:30 a.m. and continue until 5:30 p.m., with a two-hour break for lunch and other short breaks throughout the day. On Saturdays, you will have classes from 7:30 a.m. until noon. Training is an essential part of your Peace Corps service. Our goal is to give you sufficient skills and information to prepare you for living and working in Togo. Pre-service training uses an experiential approach wherever possible. Rather than reading and/or hearing about Volunteer activities, you will be practicing, processing, and evaluating actual or simulated activities.
The 11 weeks of pre-service training are divided into two phases. Phase I runs for the first six weeks and is very intensive in French language and cultural training. Additionally, there are sessions on safety and security, medical/health, and some technical training. This first phase will help you develop basic language and cultural adaptation skills.
Phase II is also very intensive, but it centers on technical training. Language classes will continue, and technical material will increasingly be presented and practiced in French. Some trainees will begin local language classes during this phase, depending on their level of French. Safety and Security training and medical/health training also continue.
During the second or third week of training, your program director will interview you about possible sites to help identify a post that is linked to your skills, interests, and needs. During the seventh or eighth week, you will spend a week at your site. This will be your first contact with your future site and will provide an idea of what real Volunteer life is like, what work options exist, and an opportunity to know more of Togo. It also gives you a break from the intense, structured regime of the pre-service training schedule.
Health Care and Safety
Main article: Health care and safety in Togo
The Peace Corps' highest priority is maintaining the health and safety of every Volunteer. Peace Corps medical programs emphasize the preventive, rather than the curative approach to disease. The Peace Corps in Togo maintains a clinic with two full-time medical officers, who take care of Volunteers' primary healthcare needs. Volunteers who become seriously ill or injured will be transported to either an appropriate medical facility in the region or to the United States.
The Togo med-unit provides everything that a extremely well-stocked first aid kit would have. For example it provides: anti-histamines, antifungal crème, anti-itch gel and crème, antibacterial gel, aspirin/ibuprofen, pepto-bismol, tums, floss, drandruff shampoo (if needed), sunscreen, malarial meds, coartem (in case you get malaria), bandages, tape, scissors, tweezers, multivitamins, etc.
Diversity and Cross-Cultural Issues
Main article: Diversity and cross-cultural issues in Togo
In Togo, as in other Peace Corps host countries, Volunteers' behavior, lifestyles, background, and beliefs will be judged in a cultural context very different from our own. Certain personal perspectives or characteristics considered familiar and commonly accepted in the United States may be quite uncommon, unacceptable, or even repressed.
Outside of Togo's capital, residents of rural communities have had relatively little direct exposure to other cultures, races, religions, and lifestyles. What is advertised as "typical" cultural behavior or norms may also be a narrow and selective interpretation, such as the perception in some countries that all Americans are rich and have blonde hair and blue eyes. The people of Togo are justly known for their generous hospitality to foreigners; however, members of the community in which you will live may display a range of reactions to differences that you present. We will ask you to be supportive of one another, and encourage you to share American diversity with the Togolese.
In order to ease the transition and adapt to life in Togo, you may need to make some temporary, yet fundamental compromises with who you are as an American and as an individual. For example, female trainees and Volunteers may not be able to exercise the independence available to them in the United States; political discussions will need to be handled with great care; and some of your personal beliefs may best remain undisclosed. You will need to develop techniques and personal strategies for coping with these and other limits. The Peace Corps staff will lead diversity and sensitivity discussions during your pre-service training and will be on call to provide support, but the challenge ultimately will be your own.
Sexuality in Togo: Homosexuality is severely disapproved of in Togo. However, conceptions of gender relations are such that acts consider to be indicative of sexual attraction in the United States (holding hands, very close sustained physical contact between males, and the wearing of even girl's clothing) is found throughout Togo. Oftentimes, clothing styles found in the States find new uses in Togo. Tight girl pants, fishnet tank tops, even two piece swim suits, have found new expressions on Togolese males. For females, the issue is simply not discussed and very little attention is paid to it. Volunteers with any sexuality should not feel endangered or threatened in Togo. Most Togolese do not have a very solid conception of American culture so most behavior outside Togolese culture is attributed to the usual American bizarreness.
- Possible Issues for Female Volunteers
- Possible Issues for Volunteers of Color
- Possible Issues for Senior Volunteers
- Possible Issues for Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Volunteers
- Possible Religious Issues for Volunteers
- Possible Issues for Volunteers with Disabilities
Frequently Asked Questions
Main article: FAQs about Peace Corps in Togo
- How much luggage will I be allowed to bring to Togo?
- What is the electric current in Togo?
- How much money should I bring?
- When can I take vacation and have people visit me?
- Will my belongings be covered by insurance?
- Do I need an international driver's license?
- What should I bring as gifts for Togolese friends and my host family?
- Where will my site assignment be when I finish training and how isolated will I be?
- How can my family contact me in an emergency?
- Will there be e-mail and Internet access? Should I bring my computer?
Packing List
Main article: Packing list for Togo
All of the items on the packing list are recommended but not required. Almost anything you would truly need is available here in Togo. Everyday items are nearly the same price, or cheaper than the U.S. Electronics or computer related equipment will be 50 percent to 100 percent more expensive here compared to the U.S. You may want to consider bringing some extra cash and lightening your luggage in the process.
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Peace Corps News
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Country Fund
Contributions to the Togo Country Fund will support Volunteer and community projects that will take place in Togo. These projects include water and sanitation, agricultural development, and youth programs.
See also
- Volunteers who served in Togo
- List of resources for Togo
- Pre-Departure Checklist
- Inspector General Reports
External links
- Peace Corps Journals - Togo
- Togo-L Togo-L is an e-mail discussion list that supports the mission of the Friends of Togo, Inc./Les Amis du Togo. FoT is a non-profit educational and service organization created in 1981 by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) and staff who have served in Togo, West Africa. Membership is not restricted to Togo RPCVs and staff. They are joined by family members and friends, by diplomats, aid workers, businesspeople, and missionaries who have served in Togo, by Togolese nationals living outside of their country, and by others who are interested in Togo.

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This comfortable apartment of the area of 90 m2 has been furnished to the highest standards including distinguish furniture, a fully fitted kitchen and sumptuous bathroom. Spacious and cozy created especially for those, who do not want to overpay for hotel. Everything in this apartment is designed to make your stay as delightful as possible. It is equipped with two king size beds, two single beds, big sofa, table, wardrobe, fridge, TV-SAT.
The apartment has 3 king size beds (160x200), sofa bed, 3 wardrobes, TV 32" with digital SAT, table, chairs, gas cooker, oven, fridge, microwave, kettle, plates, glasses , towels, hairdryer, soap. Iron and iron board available on request.
This apartment has been created especially for those, who wants to have a high-standard accommodation in Krakow, within easy reach of Old Town, and do not want to overpay for a hotel.
The streets that surround the apartment have many popular tourist spots and also bars, cafes and restaurants, including the famous Loch Camelot, which is within easy reach.
The apartment is perfectly designed up to 4 people.
The apartment is situated on Tomasza street, one minute away from Main Square. All monuments and cultural highlights are just next to you. Old town, within the apartment is located, is the Cracow centre of culture events with uncountable coffee houses and restaurants. For those who wants to get to know Krakow 's "night life" music clubs and pubs will be waiting for just nearby.
The central location of our apartment causes that you are able to reach all those attraction just walking, there is no need to use a car o taxi. Next to apartment there are parking facilities (extra charge).
Check-out 11:00
Check-in should be made at the office, which is located at 39 St. Florianska, where you will be taken to the apartment by staff.
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Highly recommended. It's agency with many apartments, very professional and resourceful. Upon arrival we were informed that our apartment had been damaged and were moved to a larger one. Change without paying more. Upon arrival we saw that the TV did not have USB and changed us for another very fast. I recommend it without any doubt, very friendly and professional. They have in the office with a person who speaks Spanish, not met but is very useful.
Right in the centre of town. Easy walk to everything. Big apartment. We (me, wife and 18 year old son) were very comfortable. We parked our hire car out of town for 3 days then caught a tram back to the apartment.
The appartment is located in a very good place because
Is into the old city and near the old square. The problem
With this appartment is the four large floors that we must
Climbed by foot with our bagages and the kitchen has no
Windows and there aré no living room.
We enjoyed our stay in cracow very much!! Th city ia really great and tanks to the apartement we could really enjoy it. The place was perfect for five people. Very big bathroom and it`s location is perfect. It is next to the big market place where all the sightseeing must sees are located! So we can really recommand this apartment!
Effective organisation and flexible arrangements. Absolutely central area and vintage building (what many look forward in Cracow). The apartment itself is in good condition. With few adjustments, it could be super (towels in the bathroom, sink in the kitchen and a couple of other things). The kitchen is small but functional. Still, I can recommend it.
Was very happy with our stay, the apartment was nice and clean, and very spacious. We were very happy with the location, although we did not stay at the location shown on the map or in the pictures (we were still in the old town).
Marike and Nico - Holland
Fine appartment in one of the main streets of the centre. Good services from P&J appartments with the check-in and check-out.
large appartment with more than enough space
with a walk of less than 5 minutes you are at the central market (Rynek Glowny)
Not such a nice bed
Small windows, litte fresh air and a bit dark but you have many lights to turn on
No parking space, but you can park at the 24h parking from hotel Wyspianski (Street: Mikolaja Kopernika), 15euro for a day and 10 minutes walking to appartments Florianska.
The apartment was excellently located - just a few minutes walk from Market Square. The reception were very helpful and friendly. The facilities were good and it was very clean. I thoroughly recommend.
My only reservations were about things that were really beyond the control of these guys - it was unusually hot whilst I was in Krakow and the apartment was very stuffy (they had provided an electric fan) and there were building works outside which meant it was noisy early in the morning.
Everything was good. Krakow is a very very nice place. The house is direct in the old town. It was clean and thanks alot for hosting house in Krakow. I and my husband know where we gonna stay if we again have the opportunity to visit Krakow again.
Nos alojaron en un apartamento recién reformado justo encima de las oficinas. Limpio y camas cómodas. A 1 minuto andando de la Plaza del Mercado. Muy recomendable. Lo único negativo fue que al estar en una calle peatonal hay mucho ruido por las noches y el piso no está demasiado bien insonorizado.
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2012/08/03 Bank Reform GA 1st steps v 5
Primary Policy for Banking Reform (and related financial institutions) for GA v5
Context – see overleaf
1/ End Tax Havens/Secrecy Legislatures
No other reforms can be fully effective without this, because large chunks of the banks can be registered off-shore, generally co-ordinated from a web centred on the City of London (or on-shore within special arrangements e.g. Delaware, Luxembourg) so that legislation inside countries, where they actually do business and affect people, is not enforced.
The banks are both the largest users of tax havens and provide the means for all the other abusers to use them. The mostly tax-free trillions hidden away are a theft, from the peoples of both sovereign elected governments and those under dictatorships, by the rich – who fail to contribute fairly to the collective means of survival for which we all share a responsibility. They also render sovereign nations impotent to conduct an independent financial, fiscal and monetary policies which allows the self determination of the 99%.
How? Tactical and strategic combinations of pressure from Occupies internationally, national and regional legislation, international agreement, selective consumer boycotts (including government requisitions), support for pressure groups like the Tax Justice Network.
2/ Massively Shrink Bank Bonuses and excessive Executive Pay
The end of unjustified banker remuneration would also make their balance sheets more secure, less likely to need bail outs and able to do more socially useful lending.
It would discourage bankers from taking taxpayer-insured inappropriate risk. Housing in London would probably become more affordable.
How? 'Move your money' campaign(s). Minimally implementing A Haldane's proposals for a metric to justify anything (then develop it). More legal blocking powers for shareholders & other stakeholders (account holders, creditors, employees [this gets big]- Haldane suggests they all have board level input,) & probably by financial regulators. General outreach & public protest & demonstration.
3/ Effective financial Regulation including a ban on unsafe Derivatives
Accountancy standards and regulations in banks are untrustworthy, obscure and inconsistent between jurisdictions. Accounting practices are so lax that it makes effective regulation impossible. Even a ratings agency may decline to give a rating to a bank on the grounds that the 'financial instruments' are too 'opaque' to understand.
'Regulators' like the International Accounting Standards Board are hostage to the institutions they regulate. Thousands of pages of alleged financial regulation and reform are already 'in the pipeline'. These include the Vickers Report, due in place 2019, which the government is now softening up on (despite the LIBOR scandal), Basle 3 which demands higher levels of ostensibly safe capital back-up in proportion to what is lent and the Dodd Frank Act (US) which is passed but far from implemented while consultants (typically seconded from the financial/legal sector) write further screeds of documentation. It includes some restriction on derivative trading. IOSCO – International Organisation of Securities Commissions, also has responsibilities here. Other outfits e.g. the EBA = European Banking Authority, ECB European Central Bank, ESRB – European Systemic Risk Board, Mifid – Markets in financial instruments directive, and various national sovereign bodies all bear responsibilities.
The difficulty is that simplistic instant implementation of 'safe banks' policies would get banks clawing back loans from the most vulnerable and useful & making few new ones. Also all these outfits aren't integrating well. None of this makes it impossible or less urgent; the main requirement is the will and international co-operation. Pressure from Occupies internationally can strengthen this. The risk of financiers' personal financial loss & responsibility may simplify regulations.
Many financial derivatives are catastrophically unsafe and direct commercial (not financial) commodity derivatives should be traded on exchanges only or (for the less traded commodities) with comparable visibility and strict regulation so that an instrument is permitted only if a licensing authority is persuaded that it does not risk direct or indirect economic harm. (nb. the 13 point EWG agreed paper on regulation developed from Tom Lines & A Haldane discusses change in more detail.)
Context 3 Aug 12
At an earlier GA on banking the Economics Working Group raised some dozens of suggestions for banking reform. We were told to go back and set two or three initial priorities. From an initial shortlist of eleven items papers were written modified and debated – extensively, and voted on at the EWG and among members on-line.
The issues of banking reform are massive and often complex. Best 'solutions' in one area often depend on choices made in another and can vary over time. So many specifics are arguable. Most of the reforms on this sheet and the following 13 point paper deal with the short and medium term which we have to survive before more thoroughgoing transformations for the benefit of the 99% (at least) can be trialed and developed. More is coming.
The three starter list top priorities are given above, on the first side. The three items underlined are hardly controversial and if passed by the GA (incredibly only 1/ is yet official collective policy) will allow us to move forward with a coherent view.
The background given underneath the three underlined items can not be perfect. But ideological perfectionism has arguably hobbled our development and effectiveness and led to widespread disappointment among our potential supporters. If any of the positions turn out to be inadequate they will be changed.
What we urge on the GA is to agree these three initially and positively so that we can articulate more of what is in the pipeline. It would be futile to have basic suggestions incessantly referred back, and a make months of work pointless. Last year at an early Banking GA we seemed to pass 7 items but not at the level that made them policy. Confusing or indecisive?
So we look forward to suggestions for a third substantial Banking document (The 13 point one is ready for you.) and/or feedback on the amalgamated 'Roadmap' currently running at 16 pages and due early August.
nb This got consensus at the GA outside Scotland Yard on Friday 3rd August 2012


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With the help of Raymond Ramos, Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville's vice president and chief operating officer, and key members of the Christus Spohn Beeville Leadership Team, inpatient dialysis services became a reality earlier this summer; two inpatient dialysis machines are in place.
"Christus Spohn is committed to quality health care. Having these dialysis machines means that people who need to be hospitalized for other reasons can be treated at Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville," said Ramos. "The patient can be hospitalized and, if they normally receive their dialysis treatment on Wednesday, we're able to provide inpatient dialysis at their bedside, so they can receive treatment at the prescribed time.
"It is also another way Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville is improving access to health care services that our community needs".
According to those who work closely with Intensive Care Unit and critical care patients, the machines are making all the difference in the world.
"It makes it easier for patients with end stage renal disease to stay at home, in Beeville," explained Joanne Guerra, a nurse at Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville. "They don't have to travel.
"In the past, they would have to travel to Corpus Christi to have their dialysis, because we didn't offer it here."
Dr. Khan echoes those sentiments, saying, "It is an extra service provided at Christus Spohn Beeville.
"The inpatient dialysis service is a team effort conducted by the nephrologist, dialysis nurses, hospital staff and administration.
"If patients need hospitalization and they need dialysis, Christus Spohn Beeville can provide it.
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This is part of the state's "ice missile" law that went into effect at the beginning of the year.
Since Jan. 1, troopers handed out 230 tickets to truckers and other drivers, according to Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police.
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In the U.S., the number of jobs open to geologists will rise 18 percent in the decade ending in 2018, about double the average for all occupations, according to a 2010-11 report from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Albion College geology graduates continue to be quite successful in obtaining interesting and well-paying jobs, as professional geologists, graduate students in geology, law, medicine, or business, and as K-12 teachers. As an integrative science, geology teaches students how to approach and solve complex open-ended problems that may or may not have a unique answer. Geology develops and requires a melding of analytical, creative, and visual skills that allows our students to be successful in many areas. Many of our students do summer research and internships while at Albion to gain experience.
The current and future professional geology job market is fantastic. There continues to be a major resurgence of industry jobs in petroleum and mineral exploration. Our alumni in the petroleum industry report starting salaries of $100,000 for geologists with a two-year MS degree.
There continues to be a job boom in the environmental field. Many of our recent grads are employed in Michigan and across the US in environmental consulting firms. Science magazine ran an interesting article on "recession-proof" hydrogeology careers in August 2008. Other geology graduates have been employed by research institutes; by state geological surveys and the U.S. Geological Survey; by universities and colleges as geology professors and research scientists, and by secondary schools as earth science teachers.
About two-thirds of our graduates have chosen to continue studying geology or other disciplines at major universities and have obtained masters or doctoral degrees in geology before beginning their careers. Recent graduates have enrolled at Arizona State, Northern Arizona University, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Stanford, Wisconsin, New Mexico Tech, Texas A&M, Maine, and Boston University.
Careers in the Geosciences and Current Job Openings
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Everyone seems to have a pretty good idea of what marriage is like right up until the honeymoon anesthesia wears off and they can start to feel life's groin shots again. Sometimes that takes a few years -- sometimes it happens right out of the gates. But it eventually does happen, and how you handle it can drastically alter the direction of your life.
The bad news is that there is no way to avoid these situations. The good news, though, is that you can at least prepare for them to make the blows a little easier to take -- like an MMA fighter punching himself in the face before the bout. Or a soldier shooting himself in the leg before a war. I don't know much about the military; I'm doing some assuming there. You get what I'm saying though, right? The bullet in the case of marriage is a simple conversation, but almost no one does it because it's extremely hard to have. But if you can summon the balls, you're going to have an extraordinary advantage over life's bullshit if you can talk about things like ...
4Exposing Your Ugly Past
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There's a problem with relationships that I'm not sure any amount of evolution can ever surmount, and that's the abrupt end of the impression stage. There's nothing wrong with that stage -- it's natural. Hell, most of us aren't even aware that we're doing it because it doesn't happen as a conscious choice. We just know that the person we're trying to get (and keep) likes X, so we do lots of X. Money, sex, appearance, romance, dates, grave robbing. Whatever they're into.
The abrupt change happens when we get comfortable in the fact that the other person isn't going anywhere. And that change isn't us becoming worse people ... it's us becoming our normal selves again. The other person just isn't used to that because they've only known the "impression stage" you. Here's the problem: Making impressions isn't just about you doing things; it's also about you covering up the terrible parts of yourself. And all too often, that impression stage doesn't end until you're bound by law and vows. The end result is that your partner doesn't get to know the real you until after you're married.
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"What? I thought I told you about my hobbies."
In the early stages of your relationship, it's probably best that they not see all the nasty brown streaks in the tighty whiteys of your past. But let's be realistic here -- at some point, you need to divulge some information that's not exactly easy to talk about. It's not fair for your spouse to find out that you have a legitimately crazy ex when they confront them at 3 a.m., standing at the foot of your bed, holding a knife and half of your dog. They can't find out about your past addictions from a current relapse.
It's hard. I know that. But it's necessary, because not all of those demons stay buried, and eventually one of them is going to catch up with you and try to make you eat devil poop. As surprised as you'll be to see it, your spouse will be absolutely fucking blindsided by it. "Wait, you promised our firstborn child to the MAFIA?! No, it doesn't matter that it was before you met me or that you were just young and stupid! This is information I needed to have before we conceived a child!"
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"Women. Am I right?"
Thankfully, not all of us have horror stories to tell, but it's still an issue that can easily be overlooked because it's boring and clinical. "We have a history of cancer and heart disease in my family. I have a common, mild case of herpes. My case of broccoli farts are extremely severe, though, so don't ever make that." These things seem unimportant and kind of gross up front, but you don't really want to find out about them the hard way.
3Figuring Out What to Tell the Kids About Subjects You Bitterly Disagree On
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Debate is a good way to keep some spice in a relationship. Let's face it, if you find someone who agrees with every single thought that ever passes through your skull, not only can it get boring pretty quickly, it will be just flat out weird. I wouldn't want to date a boob version of myself. On some levels, it's nothing: My wife loves Arrested Development -- I don't. I love StarCraft II -- she'd rather shout offensive slurs at Candy Crush Saga.
Where it gets sticky is when there are fundamental beliefs at stake. Differing political, religious, or financial views can be absolute deal breakers if not approached with ninja precision. Over time, situations will absolutely present themselves that require both of you to make a joint decision, and that decision will infringe upon one of your sets of core values. Especially if you have children.
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"That's right, Jimmy, one day you'll be tasked with destroying it all."
One of you is an atheist, and the other is a Baptist. The atheist is totally fine with the baptism because, eh, what can it hurt? It's just a little water, right? But a few years later, you find yourself in a volcanic blowout about whether to send the kid to a Christian school or a secular one. Later, the kid is learning about government, and the parents are telling him completely conflicting lessons, like dirty recruiters trying to sweet talk him into joining their team. Years after that, one of you is ready to split up for good because the other is insisting that professional wrestling is fake, and that Stone Cold Steve Austin was a pussy.
If you're not prepared for it, it will shove a splitting maul up your relationship's ass in a heartbeat. But more importantly, it'll confuse the living shit out of your children. If you talk about it at great length before you commit to marriage, you can at least set some basic terms for when those situations do pop up. Rules of engagement like "On opinion type stuff, we can talk to our kids separately, without the other parent present, so we don't debate about what we're teaching them. That way they get both sets of values and can decide on their own what to believe." And compromises on the hard stuff: "Let's put them in a secular school for basic education, and I'll agree to take them to church so they can learn your spiritual stuff."
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"... and the darkness shall swallow us whole ..."
It's not as easy as that, but it's a start. And it's definitely a fuck-ton easier than just winging it when it becomes a real world ordeal out of the blue.


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Re: Goooood Morning SHR -Rodent Day
beaverpond wrote:I was reading an article this morning and I think you want to shoot the wrong thing A. You want to shoot the ground hog and in the article it say the inner circle (the guys with the black top hats) decide the night before whether or not the ground hog will see his shadow. They have no science behind their predictions as to if he sees his shadow or not. So bottom line is to shoot the guys in the top hats.
J, you know as well as I do that you need to look at the center part of our country and look at who left the door open...North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, & Montana. If you keep blaming me, you need to get a new map and get your eyes checked.
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Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is seen in an image taken from a video found at his walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The first anniversary of bin Laden's killing by U.S. Navy SEALs is on Tuesday.
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- A year after Osama bin Laden was found and killed in Pakistan, one key question has yet to be answered: how did the world's most wanted man manage to move and live, undetected, in this country for so long?
Journalists, analysts, and others have been working to fill in the narrative holes over the last 12 months. Leaked and strategically released nuggets of information have helped to paint a vague picture of what life was like inside the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden spent his final years, living with three of his wives, and several children and grandchildren. We've learned of the austere conditions inside the home, the restricted lifestyle led by all inside, and the discipline with which the head of al-Qaida communicated with a trusted few. But the crucial questions -- how he got to that compound in the first place and who helped him to do so -- remain unanswered.
Kamran Bokhari, vice-president for Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs at Stratfor, a global intelligence company, believes the idea that bin Laden moved around without a network of individuals organizing his transportation and logistics is simply not possible.
"If you're a six-foot-five Arab, and the most wanted man on the planet, you can't just walk into a place like Pakistan without support," Bokhari said. "So what's the nature of that support?"
U.S. officials publicly state they have no evidence that any Pakistani institutional leaders had any knowledge of bin Laden's presence here, nor played any role in helping to move him. Privately, however, some admit that the deep mistrust between the two nations has led to strong, lingering suspicions within many in the U.S. that Pakistan's premier intelligence agency -- Inter-Services Intelligence, or the ISI -- must have known, at some level.
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U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.
"There are deep suspicions on both sides," says retired General Mahmud Ali Durrani, a former national security advisor and ambassador to the United States. "I think the biggest concern in the U.S., if I put it in a phrase, is that Pakistan is hunting with the hounds and running with the hares. That is the perception."
Panetta recalls nail-biting moments of bin Laden raid
That perception has not been helped by what seem to be Pakistan's action priorities over the last year. The prevailing public dialogue among military and government officials in the immediate raid aftermath focused on how the U.S. had managed to breach Pakistan's borders, not how bin Laden had. The Pakistani doctor who ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad for the CIA in an effort to secure DNA samples from inside the bin Laden compound was swiftly tracked down, arrested, and remains in detention, possibly to stand trial for treason. Authorities quietly began work after dark to demolish the compound in February, keeping press behind a security cordon half a mile away, and after a year in custody, the widows and their families were shuttled out of their house in the dead of night and deported to Saudi Arabia.
The wives and children of Osama bin Laden are taken to a chartered flight out of Islamabad after being deported to Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan did immediately launch a formal commission with wide-reaching powers soon after the raid, pledging to investigate both the U.S. border breach and bin Laden's presence here. The Abbottabad Commission, as it's come to be known here, has enjoyed unparalleled access to anyone and everyone associated directly or peripherally with either issue, interviewing over 100 witnesses over the last year, including bin Laden's widows, the detained doctor who worked for the CIA, and high-level Pakistani officials. But there is no working deadline and expectations vary as to how blunt and definitive an account commission members will be able to put forth.
"Given how previous commissions in Pakistan have behaved, I'm not really hopeful that much will come out of this," Bokhari said. "This is not like the 9/11 Commission or anything similar elsewhere in other countries where there's a process and transparency and rule of law."
Nearly a year after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces, President Barack Obama spoke exclusively to NBC's Brian Williams inside the Situation Room and reflected on the raid. The full report airs Wed., May 2 at 9pm/8c on NBC's Rock Center.
Durrani, who's been in touch with members of the commission, says the length of time it's taken for them to compile findings speaks to their determination to fulfill their mandate to the best of their ability.
"If the report comes out tomorrow and it's a whitewash, then people will ask -- what have you done?" Durrani said. "They [the commission members] are keen to get to the bottom of this, to find out what happened, why it happened, who's at fault, and what needs to be done so we don't have such embarrassment and such issues in the future."
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Osama bin Laden is dead following a military operation in Pakistan and the US has recovered his body, US President Barack Obama announced Sunday night.
Driving the investigators' query is a widely-held belief here in Pakistan that bin Laden was never here at all -- that the entire raid was an effort by the U.S. to defame and destabilize Pakistan's security establishment. Residents of Abbottabad with whom NBC News spoke reiterated that skepticism, saying they don't believe the U.S. claim that bin Laden was living in their midst, particularly in the absence of any evidence of his death.
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Commission members have been reluctant to speak with the media until their findings are complete, but the head of the commission, retired Supreme Court Judge Javed Iqbal, confirmed to NBC News that one of the key issues his team is investigating is whether bin Laden was ever really here at all.
PhotoBlog: Abbottabad -- One year after Osama bin Laden raid
Despite low expectations for the pending report, Bokhari admits the commission is tasked with an enormously difficult job, one that will have repercussions for generations to come in the form of Pakistan's official narrative of this historic event.
"This is the biggest event in recent history since the fall of the Soviet Union -- 9/11 and its impact, the killing of Osama bin Laden -- so I'm not surprised it's taken them this long to come up with a report," Bokhari said. "It may take decades before anybody can actually come up with a comprehensive view of what was really happening."
Nearly one year after the death of Osama bin Laden, some Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of using the event for political gain. NBC's Mike Viqueira reports
The few specifics that have emerged from Pakistan in the last year in effect lead to more questions officials here must attempt to answer, through the commission or otherwise.
The U.S. moved quickly on the message-control front after the Abbottabad raid, releasing selective video clips and pieces of information from the "treasure trove" of evidence seized from bin Laden's compound. An NBC News team was given an exclusive briefing by a senior U.S. counterterrorism official on currently classified intelligence from the raid, including details of the role bin Laden played in al-Qaida from his hideout in Pakistan, who he was in touch with, and more on the life he lived within that compound. Those details will air on Discovery Channel on Tuesday as part of a one-hour special on the anniversary of the U.S. raid.
U.S. counterterror officials say that after years of drone strikes and other activities against the leaders of Al Qaida, the group is no longer able to pull off a major attack against U.S. interests, such as 9/11. NBC's Mike Viqueira reports.
But the details from within Pakistan have been few and far between. A rare piece of evidence -- a confidential interrogation report of bin Laden's youngest wife, Amal, obtained by NBC News -- did reveal some surprising details about the family's life on the run after the attacks of September 11.
According to the report, Amal told investigators that the family scattered after 9/11, bouncing from house to house and place to place in Pakistan. In her complicated timeline, she moved across multiple residences in the southern mega-city of Karachi, then moved on to Peshawar to link up with her husband. From there, the family moved to Swat, then to Haripur, and finally settled in the Abbottabad home for about six years until the U.S. raid that killed her husband.
On the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, there have been no signs of plotting by any terrorist groups, but officials say there is always a concern that homegrown terrorists could do something on their own. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
"These people are fanatics. They're ideological but keep in mind that they are also very professional at what they do," Bokhari explained. "They're in a business where if you make a small error in judgment it can easily translate to death for many people. There are people waiting for you to make a mistake. You have to be highly disciplined."
But the pace of movement believed to have been followed by bin Laden and his family -- traversing entire provinces in Pakistan, and including rural, tribal, settled, and urban areas while remaining completely undetected -- would be difficult without some sort of network of support. Current and former Pakistani officials and analysts have offered up the possibility of "rogue or retired" elements from within Pakistan's military or intelligence establishment as possible facilitators or co-conspirators helping to hide bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, Zakaria al-Sadah, spoke to NBC News in Islamabad in his first interview with an American television network. He said he is concerned for his sister, who was shot in the raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, and frustrated she and her children have been in custody ever since. NBC's Amna Nawaz reports.
The nature of Pakistan's retired uniformed corps, many of whom stay involved with the work of the agencies long after they leave as the new leadership continues to make use of their experience and contacts, albeit in unofficial capacities and with limited authority. As the largest employer in Pakistan, it follows that the Pakistan army also has the largest pool of retirees, some of whom spent significant time working closely with and gaining the trust of jihadi groups in the 1980s and 1990s.
"If it's a retired network of people, what I call the 'Pakistani Blackwater,' that's not that bad. It's bad, but not that bad," Bokhari said. "But if it's someone who's serving, or more than one person, then [Pakistan's leaders] have a leak in [their] system and that's terrifying. Anyone who's a very nationalistic, Pakistani leader who doesn't want al-Qaida or the CIA to be able to get into their house will want to get to the bottom of that."
Bin Laden's widow's condition worsens, brother says
As potentially worrying or damaging as some of the information in the commission's report may be for Pakistan's institutions, it is also widely believed that the organizations cannot survive without taking a hard look at their own potential faults, and admitting mistakes where they did occur. The military and intelligence establishments were already raked over the coals by the government and media after last year's raid in Abbottabad, and are now under the highest level of scrutiny in the country's history.
January 16, 1997, nearly four years before the 9/11 terror attacks,  NBC Nightly News aired the first network television report on Osama Bin Laden. NBC's Tom Brokaw referred to Bin Laden as "maybe the most dangerous man in the world." NBC's Andrea Mitchell profiles Bin Laden who commanded a business empire dedicated to terrorism.
A failure, at this point, to produce a credible, official version of events will only damage Pakistan, according to Durrani.
"Pakistan wants to move forwards not backwards. They have to get to the bottom of this, in their own interest," he says. "If they don't, it will be another major issue buried in the sands of history. And people will forever be looking for answers."
NBC's Fakhar Rehman contributed to this report from Abbottabad.


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WASHINGTON Government dairy subsidies that affect the cost of a gallon of milk are set to expire at the end of the year as farm-state lawmakers said Tuesday that they do not expect to have a new farm bill or an extension of current law before Jan 1.
Expiration of the current dairy subsidies triggers 1930s and 1940s law, outdated statutes that could upend the commercial dairy market and eventually cause the price of milk to rise. But Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, said she has assurances from the Agriculture Department that the price spikes would not happen before the end of January, and she and House Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas, a Republican, say they hope to have a final farm bill deal by then.
The House and Senate have passed separate versions of the five-year, roughly $500 billion bill, but with widespread differences over crop subsidies and how much to cut food stamps.
We will be ready to vote in January, Stabenow said after a meeting with Lucas Tuesday.
House Speaker John Boehner said last week that he favors an extension, and House leaders have reserved space on their agenda this week for extending the current law.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid balked at that plan. Let them vote on it. Were not going to do it, he said Tuesday.
Stabenow said a short-term extension could allow subsidies called direct payments to continue. Those subsidies are paid to farmers whether they plant or not and have come under political fire from conservatives and others who have lobbied for less spending on farm programs. Both the House and Senate farm bills would eliminate the subsidies and create new ones.
Finding a compromise on cuts to the nations $80 billion-a-year food stamp program has been the toughest obstacle in the talks between the House and the Senate. The House passed a bill this summer that would cut $4 billion from food stamps annually and allow states to create new work requirements for some recipients. The Democratic Senate, backed by President Barack Obama, passed a farm bill with a $400 million annual cut, or a tenth of the House cut.
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I wonder how long JRsmith had this type of attitude, and where did it come from???
JRsmith is in his 10th season in the NBA, and his 8th season with Franchise Player Carmelo Anthony as a teammate.Smith admits he doesn't know much about playing defense. "That's really not my area of expertise. I'm more of a scoring-type player, I'll leave that to those guys. Whatever they want to do, it's OK with me. Just let me know."
I wonder if NBA Franchise players .. Duncan, KG, D.Wade, Lebron, Durant, and Westbrook, would accept a player like JRsmith as a teammate? I know franchise rookie CP3 got rid of JRsmith as a teammate after one season together.


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