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An intense and hurried campaign season will come to an end Tuesday for the two men running for the Bay State's open U.S. Senate seat.
An intense and hurried campaign season will come to an end Tuesday for the two men running for the Bay State's open U.S. Senate seat.
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-5th, or Republican Gabriel Gomez will become Massachusetts' junior senator on June 25, joining U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, on Capitol Hill. The two men are running for the seat previously held by now-Secretary of State John Kerry.
In the final weekend before the election, Markey and Gomez are expected to make their final pitches to voters, with help from thousands of campaign volunteers including those in the MetroWest area.
"We are getting a great response," said Tom Mahoney, of the Framingham Democratic Town Committee. "We have been (volunteering) since before the primary."
Markey volunteers from the MetroWest area are working out of the campaign office on Rte. 9 west in Framingham, Mahoney said. The Framingham Democratic Town Committee was expected to show its support for Markey at the opening of the Concerts on the Green in Framingham Friday evening.
Brian Herr, a Hopkinton selectman and Gomez volunteer, said he would be working at a phone bank for Gomez Thursday evening. Supporters also planned to stand in Hopkinton center holding Gabriel Gomez signs.
"I think he is a fascinating candidate and I hope he can pull it out," said Herr. "I think, really since the primary, he has been doing a great job."
Both camps agreed winning the MetroWest area is an important step toward victory Tuesday. Andrew Zucker, Markey's press secretary, said the campaign has recruited about 600 active volunteers from the MetroWest area.
"As MetroWest goes, so goes the election," Markey said this week. "There is wild enthusiasm and you can feel it."
Will Ritter, Gomez's press secretary, said in an email the MetroWest area has the kind of people they believe will respond to Gomez's message.
"The MetroWest area is crucial to the Gomez campaign strategy, that's why Gabriel's been aggressive in the area," Ritter said in the email. "With its dense population and innovation economy, these are the exact type of independent voters that respond well to Gomez's message of putting people before politics and getting things done in the U.S. Senate."
Herr said at one point in time when it came to state elections whatever Middlesex County did, which includes most MetroWest towns, the rest of Massachusetts followed suit.
Because Tuesday is a special election, both Herr and Mahoney said they are working to not only promote their candidate, but also to remind people the election is happening.
"The biggest thing is getting people out to vote," said Mahoney.
According to a press release from Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin's office, as of Wednesday the number of absentee ballots for the June 25 election was 49,748, well below the 63,610 requested for the 2010 special U.S. Senate election between Scott Brown and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
"With many people focused on the Bruins playing in the Stanley Cup Final, the Bulger trial and the end of the school year, the special election has a lot of competition for attention," Galvin said in the press release.
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Sometimes someone shows you something so slick you don't really appreciate it immediately for what it is. Such is the case here. So, bookmark this post… you'll come back to it for a double take some day. Or Digg it or Delicious it… keep it close. It's so stupid simple it's almost elusive. I happened to be participating in a conversation today at AVC.com (GREAT blog btw, highly recommend Fred) and realized I hadn't shared this little trick. Let alone blogged in while. So, consider me to have fallen back on the blogging wagon with this post.
I'm sitting in a coffee shop one day grumbling to an acquaintance about my email address getting a ton more spam than usual and suspecting it was due to signing up for one of a dozen or more services recently. He said, "You should have appended your email address."
"Yeah, all you have to do is put a PLUS symbol after your actual email ID (but before the AT symbol) when you register for stuff and you'll know who's doing what with your email. If an email comes from someone unexpected with THAT appendage it was obtained… somehow… probably without your knowledge or consent."
Bullshit! It couldn't be THAT easy. I need a service or something to do this… I think those were my exact words to him.
"Oh, yes it is that easy and you don't pay a penny to do it. Helps me figure out who I can trust and who I can't. Try it."
Hell if he wasn't right (mostly). I've registered with a TON of third party services since as firstname.lastname@example.com… and it's worked like a champ on my domain, on gmail but not on Dot Mac (or Mobile Me or whatever the hell they're calling it this year… iMe?) Anyway, point being I've been able to isolate some offenders. I've been able to prioritize some actions based on the TO: field (AT&T, Apple, special vendors I really don't want to miss messages from, etc).
Test it yourself. Not all email servers will behave with the + symbol in the ID area. If you send yourself a message with +TEST after your ID but before the @ symbol and it delivers… you're in tall cotton. If it bounces your email server doesn't play nice. Not sure why some do and some don't. That's just the breaks I guess. But, once you figure it out there are all sorts of things you can do from there. Have fun & spread it around.
If someone's intent on doing you wrong they'll be able to GREP that +TRACKING@ element out and THEN sell your information downstream. But, not all sleaze bags are that smart. Trust me, it'll be eye opening and you won't have to have a bunch of email addresses to keep up with.


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Um, well, not exactly. I love me a good story but I can love a book with no story and everything else. Take Breakfast at Tiffany's. There is really no story. It's a character sketch of an unusual and complicated woman. The writing is extraordinary. But is there a plot? Not really. And that's okay. One of my favorite authors, Carol Shields, used very little plot in her stories as well.
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If you're anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) No … it's because you want to know what happens next?
Or, um, is it just me?
Then there are books where you should hate the story, like Lolita. Pedophile kidnaps tween; let's see what happens. Yuck! But despite this, I ended up loving this book because of the language. I wish the stories had been different, but whatcha gonna do?
Of course, I can turn off my brain and read just for the story with nothing else. The Da Vinci Code wasn't the greatest writing ever set down on paper but there was plenty of story. I was exhausted from all the running from place to place in that one.
A not so great book is one where the author can't make up his/her mind. Just when you think the story is going to go somewhere, things just stop happening and the author tries to throw in a bunch of metaphors. I'm thinking of a recent novel which I will not name. I will forget the name (hint, hint).
So I guess I'd say that I read different books for different reasons.


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What's the first word that comes to mind when I think about the food of Northern Africa and the Middle East? Colorful! The array of fragrant, exotic spices found in their open-air markets are used in abundance in native dishes and have become a trademark of their cuisines. Warming spices of turmeric, saffron, paprika, cinnamon, coriander and cumin are widely used in the aforementioned regions, and they create a harmonious experience for the eyes, nose and palate. Poultry, lamb, beef and goat are also staple proteins to the Arab diet and are often accompanied by rice and sometimes couscous. Replicating the cuisine from this part of the globe isn't difficult at all and doesn't require a trip to an exotic grocer — most ingredients can be easily found in the spice and World Flavors aisles at your local grocery store.
Now I'm sure a "tagine" (or "tajin") may sound fancy and complicated to some, but it is simply a type of dish from North Africa. It gets its name from the cone-shaped clay pot with detachable base in which it is traditionally cooked and served in. For this recipe, a proper tagine pot isn't required — a cast iron or heavy-bottomed pot with a lid will do just fine.
The following recipe for chicken tagine hails from Morocco, but the ingredients are commonly found in most cuisines from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. It gets its bright yellow color from the addition of turmeric. Substituting beef or lamb for the chicken will work just fine, and feel free to play with different spices if you so choose — add a dash of cumin or coriander to the braising liquid, or even a pinch of saffron.
Traditionally, tagines are served with couscous: tiny pellets made from semolina flour (the same ingredient in traditional pasta) that are cooked by pouring boiling water over them and then allowed to steam for about 15 minutes. The couscous soaks up the lemony olive sauce, making it an ideal base for serving.
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How Mbeki Failed
A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream
Even a politician more thick-skinned than Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's recently ousted president, might have felt oppressed under the long shadow of Nelson Mandela, his universally heralded predecessor. Mbeki, who functioned as Mandela's de facto prime minister and wrote most of the speeches on the theme of reconciliation that the country's first black president then delivered with powerful effect, found Mandela's shadow so smothering that he once made the great man wait for more than a year before granting him an appointment he sought. In an odd toast on the occasion of Mandela's eightieth birthday in 1998, President Mbeki exposed his wish to see him disappear into quiet retirement by recalling Lear's fond invitation to Cordelia on their way to jail to "live,/And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh/At gilded butterflies." Mbeki's diligent and not unsympathetic biographer makes the inescapable point: Mandela had already done time; twenty-seven years, to be precise.
Though Mbeki's casting of Mandela as Lear was less than apt, there's still a tragic element in the multilayered narrative Mark Gevisser has painstakingly constructed. It attaches to both the country and Mbeki. Freed from the scourge of apartheid, a liberated South Africa wasted the better part of a decade before starting to marshal its considerable resources to confront the scourge of AIDS (by which time nearly 30 percent of pregnant South African women were estimated to be HIV-positive). Thabo Mbeki was the central reason for that catastrophic misjudgment. In his suspicious mind, the notion that HIV and AIDS were causally related was only a "thesis" propounded by multinational drug companies bent on opening new markets in Africa.
In private sessions with his party's caucus, Gevisser tells us, Mandela's successor speculated about the likely role of the Central Intelligence Agency in supporting these exploiters; his aides sometimes worried aloud that the President's life might be in danger because of his determination to probe beneath the science establishment's analysis of the plague, which, he convinced himself, grew out of a racist obsession with the sexual behavior of black men. Meanwhile, his chosen health minister, who lost her job only after Mbeki was summarily forced to resign as president last September by the African National Congress, prescribed garlic, beetroot, and olive oil as antidotes to the disease.
Mbeki's biographer struggles mightily—sometimes wordily, drenching his subject in adjectives like "guarded," "paranoid," and "repressed"—to reconcile the brooding recluse who sat up late into the night at his computer in presidential mansions in Cape Town and Pretoria, exploring the speculations of AIDS deniers, with the charming, reassuring diplomatic operative who in the 1980s sold the path of negotiation both to a nervous white establishment and to an underground movement that imagined itself bent on armed struggle. Even though the underground had accomplished very little in the martial line over more than two decades, its strategic aim remained a "seizure of power" through "mass insurrection."…
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The New York Sun's Eli Lake has another important story on the deep thoughts of the Baker-Hamilton commission: "Baker panel aide expects Israel will be pressed." Say what you will about the unrealistic "realism" of these folks, they are remarkably consistent. The confidential memorandum that supports Lake's story provides:
"To have any realistic chance of success, I believe that the process would have to start with the announcement of a major initiative, promoted and vigorously supported by the United States, to reach a comprehensive resolution to the Israel-Arab crisis through a process of reasonable compromise and accommodation between Israel and its Arab neighbors."
How's that for an idea? Let's get together in Oslo, once more once. It's a wonder what you can do when you put out the call for fresh thinking.
And over at the Sun's It Shines for All blog, Daniel Freedman has the latest on James Baker's Syrian friends: "Report: Syria planned to kill 36 Lebanese officials." Let's talk it out!
JOHN adds: What on God's green earth does Israel have to do with the problems in Iraq? Is it an obsession with Israel that makes one a "realist"?
PAUL adds: Blame the Jews — what could be more realistic than that? However, a report that states or implies the need to coerce Israel may not receive a full and warm embrace from some Democrats in Congress.


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Monday, March 3, 2008
memes memes memes MEMES!
The real annoying part about these is that long ago, randall even made a comic, #286, about how constantly referring to old memes is not cool, it's annoying.
In the meantime, you may suggest comics that are based around internet memes for me to include. They don't have to be lame - the point is just he does it a lot. Super-giant thanks to Jay, incidentally, for his comment below that got this whole list started.
the whole fucking secretary series
391 - decide for yourself on this one. It could go either way, I think.
305 - not about a specific meme, at least not a real one, but about the idea in general.
286, as mentioned above
124, times a bajillion
107 - Snakes on a plane was totally more meme than movie
SO - what should I add, what should I drop? the sooner you comment, the more likely I am to listen and not fight back! the list solidifies over time, because i am strange like that.
I can't help but notice the trends over time: the first 250 comics have only 4 meme comics; the last 100 alone have 12, as many as the first 350. It's clearly becoming more of a crutch.
Like all these category posts, this has been backdated a few months to keep it off the front page; I started this post on December 3rd, 2008.
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- AnonymousDecember 7, 2008 at 3:22 AM
Memes and meme-related humor. Ohh this one is going to be painful.ReplyDelete
http://xkcd.com/318/ (I like this one)
This is pretty conservative. There were some that I left off because I wasn't sure they'd be considered 'memes'.
That was a fun fifteen minutes. It was probably more but I'm going to pretend it wasn't.
This is a great list. I don't know if i'd count 389, because the meme there is really pretty hidden and not a part of the comic. But other than that, yeah, this is a great way to get started. I'm going to actually finish this post and the romance one next week, when I have some more time.ReplyDelete
Carl, I'm not sure #289 is about memes being annoying. If it's played straight, maybe Randall thinks the old memes still have potential humor value. This theory gains traction when you consider the number of AYB references contained in XKCD (to say nothing of the myriad other memes).ReplyDelete
Adam, I assume you mean 286, not 289, but whatever. I don't see how you can read it as anything other than "references can get old pretty fast, and it takes a long time for them to be funny again." I'll agree that you can read it as "they can still be funny" but the caveat seems to be "...when they are brought back after many many years of being forgotten"ReplyDelete
Maybe Randall realizes he's being pathetic and it's self-referential.ReplyDelete
I'm not saying it's probable, but it's possible.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2008 at 12:03 AM
/b/ is angry at Randall for his repeated references.ReplyDelete
"LOLOLOLIKNOWWHAT4CHANIS!!!1111" from the screaming mouth of a six year old is not cool.
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 12:15 AM
this comic basically summarizes every single xkcd strip in two panels. which is really sad.ReplyDelete
(you may need to read the comic before it to get what they're referencing, but the point is still made.)
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2009 at 5:20 PM
You used the phrase "common jokes of the internet".ReplyDelete
Emphasis on "jokes". It's a comic. What else do comics do? So now Randall isn't allowed to refer to the very medium in which his comic exists?
Actually I'd say the emphasis is more on "common" as in "these jokes are all over the place and old by now."ReplyDelete
I think you're getting confused between "jokes about the internet" and "jokes that are completely saturating the internet" such as the more popular memes. There is not really anything wrong with the former, as you say, but I think that the latter are extremely tired and lack originality. In this case, there are also a lot of times that the whole comic just seems to be about proving that Randall knows about the memes and little else.
- AnonymousApril 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM
This post is under 9000.ReplyDelete
Haha /meme warriors!
What about 391? The game is clearly a meme, and this comic, with its complete lack of anything resembling a joke is the point where I date XKCD's precipitous decline.ReplyDelete
Hm...that's a close call. I think of that as a meme that takes place more offline, and this is really about 4chan style internet memes. But I can add it and tell people I think it's borderline.ReplyDelete
of course. How did I miss that? got it added now.ReplyDelete
What's the meme in 398?ReplyDelete
Mr. Aaker, 398 is not on the list. 396 is (rickrolling).ReplyDelete
So he once believed that internet jokes were stupid?ReplyDelete
I guess all his base are belong to memes now.
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2010 at 7:54 AM
#16 (particularly the alt-text) was a lash out at reliance on referential humor, no? My how the mighty have fallen amirite?ReplyDelete
Once again, this is out of 600.ReplyDelete
And it IS part of the Language of xkcd. Memes are an internet language, no matter how old. Memes never tire out.
I really don't think you can do any better. Prove it to me that you are better than Randall in a competition rather than with sideline insult.
that's dumb, by that logic nearly anything is language.ReplyDelete
If you can set up a competition where we are judged anonymously (to remove preconceived biases from those judging us) and that Randall agrees to, I'd love to participate.
- AnonymousJune 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM
you constantly claim that you used to like xkcd, yet I've seen you criticize comics as early as 44. You don't like the math, sarcasm or science comics and you also don't like the relationship comics. My question is this: what exactly did/do you like about xkcd?ReplyDelete
I liked it when it used to be funny, smart, and original. I generally did not like th first 50 or so comics, because they were just random sketches that Randall drew in notebooks and uploaded. After 50 or so and up until around 300, the majority were pretty good. Look around this site for the posts where I talk about my favorite ten comics from 1-200 and 201-400.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM
After reading this, I suddenly got the urge to go listen to Eminem...ReplyDelete
It was very strange. I don't think I've ever actually listened to an Eminem song all the way through before ...


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Hunter introduces the ICC Controllers, which allow you to personalize and tailor the system to more effectively handle the odd number of stations your system may require. A controller built by combining sets of modules creates a system that can handle up to 48 stations and the different irrigation needs for turf, shrubs as well as any special watering restrictions. Features include a large, easy-to-read display, programmable master valve, 365-day calendar, rain sensor bypass, seasonal adjustment, and a choice of plastic, metal or stainless-steel cabinets.
Onset Computer Corporation introduces the wireless Radio Modem for its HOBO Weather Station and Micro Station products. Grounds care professionals can retrieve and analyze climate data from multiple HOBO weather stations deployed up to five miles away without having to physically travel to those remote sites. The independent battery-powered operation provides up to one year of operation using six D-cell batteries without taking power from the weather station. The Radio Modem uses 900MHz spread-spectrum technology, so no license is required.
The Golf Division of Rain Bird introduces the WS PRO LT Weather Station, designed to help superintendents eliminate the guesswork in determining accurate sprinkler run times. The sensors collect weather data, such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and rainfall amounts over a 24-hour period. This data is used to calculate an evapotranspiration (ET) value, which determines the precise amount of water that must be replaced in order to maintain soil moisture at a desired level. Additional features include ET override, weather data reports and unlimited data storage.
Senninger Irrigation introduces Irri-Maker software that provides flexibility in irrigation design. Irri-Maker evaluates installation alternatives in advance: surveys any terrain, produces a contour plan, draws the details and applies irrigation design. The software contains a built-in CAD module that allows you to add specific details to the contour plan, including text and bitmap images. Details like roads, fences, boundaries, rivers and trees can also be incorporated. You can control each element of the design, whether it's defining block areas, adding emitters and pipes, sizing the pipes or calculating the hydraulics.
Smart OSMAC software from The Toro Company provides standalone satellite operation for flexible irrigation control. It is designed for use prior to central control installation or in the event of a central failure or shutdown. The software utilizes over-the-air radio commands to set the maximum number of simultaneous stations, satellite time of day, satellite percent adjust, program percent adjust and program run time. Smart OSMAC allows up to 10 programs to run simultaneously with one station per program.
Tucor's full line of Flowmaster products provides economical, water-saving irrigation control. The controllers manage individual valves and come with built-in modems to allow two-way and remote communication. The line decoders receive power and control signals over the line, and contain a microprocessor that allows for easy controlling and testing. The sensor decoder is installed on the same two-wire path as the line decoder and may be programmed to operate with a 4-20mA, analog or digital input.
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L. Josephine Cheung, LCSW in Sunnyvale, CA, can offer assistance to people suffering with a variety of emotional struggles. Whether you're looking for a therapist to help you move forward in your life after a devastating loss or your child is having severe behavioral problems, I'll present you with strategies that may help you come to a resolution with your difficulties.
I have flexible hours, and I'm happy to meet with you in my office or online. Counseling is available via webcam or over the phone. We offer professional treatment for a variety of disorders:
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
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My counseling sessions can be conducted in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, or English, and as a therapist I employ a solution-focused approach. I also belong to the National Association of Social Workers. Contact me, L. Josephine Cheung, LCSW, at my office in Sunnyvale to set up an appointment so I can help guide you on a path to wellness.
Depression can be debilitating, affecting everything from your job and relationships to your physical health. But you shouldn't have to suffer with depression in silence. Help is available from L. Josephine Cheung, LCSW.
If you suffer from debilitating panic attacks, persistent worry, fears or phobias, or generalized anxiety, help is available. L. Josephine Cheung, LCSW provides anxiety treatment services in a caring and professional environment.
A child's struggles with difficult feelings, negative behaviors, or unhealthy relationships can impact the rest of his or her life. But addressing these challenges during the child's critical developmental years can set the stage for a happier, healthier future. That's why L. Josephine Cheung, LCSW is proud to provide professional therapy services for children facing emotional or behavioral challenges in Sunnyvale, CA.
Every couple experiences occasional struggles, but when difficult moments start to occur more frequently in a relationship, it's important for people to seek help in an order to reconcile any problems, misunderstandings, or flawed patterns of communication. L. Josephine Cheung, LCSW is a therapist in Sunnyvale, CA, providing professional marriage counseling for couples who want to try to live together more peacefully.
A very balanced, friendly person who is also a very good listener
I signed up with Josephine when I was facing a very difficult time emotionally. The emotional overwhelmingness was translating into my overall well being being impacted. Josephine diagnosed me with PTSD because of my difficult marriage and help me deal with the emotional trauma by carefully listening to my story and then helping me deal with each episode until I was fully over the emotional baggage I was carrying with it. She is meticulous, planned, patient and relentless in making sure to get to absolute root of the problem. She is helping me get my life back on track.
I came to this therapy paralyzed. Fear, depression, suicidal. I suffered trauma repeatedly back to earliest childhood. I had no joy, self doubt and lived purely to please others as I never wanted anything to get worse than what I experienced. I have now been freed of my trauma and the negative energy that diminished my choices and belief in my life choices. I now have hope after my trauma energy cleansing. I now have a future and don't feel depressed. I have dreamed beautifully after years of not being able to sleep because of night terrors. I have now communicated with family I couldn't face for the abandonment and rejection I endured at a very early age. I am free. I am peaceful. I am smiling. I am grateful. With this therapist I am now finally growing
Trauma Cleansing
I am very impressed by the trauma cleansing method. I have made great progress with removing negative emotions from a very traumatic year as a teacher and uncovering so many emotions I wasn't aware of. Great for open minded people who want to move forward passed trauma.
Down to Earth
Josephine is a very humble and down-to-Earth practitioner. I went to see her weekly for a few months to overcome a period of great stagnancy and low-grade depression. She is very practical in the sense that she does not re-frame things by sugar-coating. Rather, she has a very pragmatic approach by helping me examine my options in pursuit of resolving my perceived barriers that are exacerbating quality of life. Honestly, I was initially hoping that she would give me some tools or exercises (like self affirmations) to help me overcome that period in my life. However, I'm glad that we had discussions where we dealt with my issues head-on with clarifying, in-depth questions that made me realize how many of my worries are inconsequential to my livelihood. She is very constructively curious, honest and direct. I truly appreciate that approach and she is very direct with her approach.
Helpful Recovery from Traumatic Experience
A year and a half after the traumatic birth of my daughter I was still experiencing intense flashbacks and having trouble sleeping. I couldn't even look at pictures of my daughter as a newborn without getting upset. I decided to go see a therapist and am so glad I found Josephine! After only a couple sessions I was able to think of those days without crying and getting upset. Josephine guided me through a process of thinking about the experience and focusing on the feelings it brought up. It worked wonders for me. I can feel my body is holding less stress and I'm able to enjoy memories of early motherhood now. Josephine is direct in her approach, and I really appreciated being able to get to the root of my issues and work through them in such a focused way. Thank you so much for your help, Josephine!
Real Results
I began seeing Josephine a few months ago to address issues that might be preventing me from sleeping, which I assumed was anxiety. Through speaking with her, I discovered that in addition to anxiety, I was suffering from almost two decades of untreated PTSD resulting from a childhood trauma. Her unique method of trauma cleansing has helped reduce my trauma responses significantly. As for my anxiety, I suffer from anxiety with excessive fear. I didn't realize this before therapy, but I was expending an enormous amount of energy overanalyzing day-to-day situations because of my excessive fear. It had just become second nature, so I didn't even realize I was doing it. After meeting with Josephine for about 2 months, I noticed a significant increase in my energy level because she helped me get control of those anxious urges. I was so pleasantly surprised at how quickly I began to notice results, real results! And now, most nights, I can just fall asleep when I go to bed. It is an incredible feeling, after years and years of restless nights. I am thankful to have met Josephine, and I recommend her to anyone seeking real changes!
High Quality Service
After meeting with Josephine only a couple times, I have seen signifcant change that I have been looking for for a long time. For many years I tried to tackle PTSD alone but I am so glad I finally reached out for support. For a while I was unsure if anyone could help me get past the things I have experienced but Josephine has been such an amazing person to share my journey with and I couldn't have asked for a better helping hand. She knows exactly what to ask and is able to help me find different ways to clear the trauma from my mind. I am beyond thankful for her. If you come across Josephine, don't hesitate to see her.. she truly has changed my life in just a small amount of time.
Trauma discovery
I suffered from two episodes of breast cancer. After second episode, I developed PTSD and began having flashbacks from my whole life. I developed anxiety and depression. Going to Josephine for therapy I discovered I had deep rooted trauma from an abusive father where I experienced seeing brutal abuse of younger siblings and mother during childhood. I was in shock and learned at a young age I couldn't speak out at abuse I witnessed for fear of being hurt myself. I was molested by father which broke my trust with men. I always had a inner inflammation of my throat around voice box and felt constrained my whole life when speaking. Josephine reduced drastically my flashbacks, and showed me techniques to use when one would come back. My anxiety is gone and depression is no longer stopping me from living my life to fullest. I can't tell you how amazed I was to discover the buried hidden fear of my voice suppression and buried anger and it was like opening a door into sunlight. Her technique is amazing and helped me so much to open myself up to deal with day to day living experiences. I was amazed how the tools and techniques of breathing etc. worked and each session I slowly learned to peel back like an onion the layers of events that caused my PTSD. Josephine knows how to ask the right questions that led me to discover the real issues. I am so thankful I found Josephine and highly recommend her. Treatment for trauma should not be feared but sought out for healing. Go to Josephine and you learn how to live a fuller life.
Life Changing!
Josephine was always very courteous, and was curious and didn't judge my situations through the process. One of the main points she helped me with was a traumatic experience I had with a dog having attacked me years ago. Josephine helped me overcome the experience and not be taken to a bad place: or to be able to get myself out if I find myself wondering to one.
Friendly and professional
Josephine was great in helping me control my anxiety. She managed to figure out what caused it, and how to fix it within a few sessions. She's sympathetic, but also direct when she needed to be which really helped me acknowledge my problems. For my anxiety, she taught me a wonderful breathing technique that helped me relax and let go of any negative thoughts.
Compassionate, insightful, and extremely pragmatic
Josephine was a beacon of light through the hardest year of my life: my active father being crippled by a degenerative disease setting off a family crisis and the final chapter to a difficult marriage. To say I was struggling was an understatement. I was a puddle of raw emotions by the time I sought her help. Josephine gently but firmly guided me step by step out of what felt like insurmountable grief. She's helped identify so many blindspot... her insightful listening is invaluable. From professional challenges to family conflict, talking with Josephine was so helpful in building the ability to identify and then resolve the crux of the problems.
Josephine is a wonderful person very warm welcoming and caring.I went one day to our session with a lower back pain and told her about it since she asked me how my week has been I told her about my accident so she made me sit in a confortable position she asked me to close my eyes and to focus on the pain to find the pain and focus on it so I did we did this several times and for my amazement the pain was gone. I was in like a trans and when I focused on the pain it felt warm then just like that it went away. Till this day I'm thankful because i haven't felt any pain since she's great !! She has very good and positive energy that you can feel when you meet her!! Thank you so much !!! I always look forward to our sessions !!
Miraculous transformation to De-stress
I am so very grateful that I found Josephine Laihin Cheung and my miraculous transformation that she led me to take control of my life again and to be the master of my brain again! I was going through a rough patch in life, I lost my father, my mom and then my sister in law subsequently from 2015 to 2017. At the same time, I was going through a stressful marriage, unable to focus on life and enjoy the little things that once brought me happiness and peace. To the outside world, I was struggling with emotional pains and they really made me sick every day. My brain body and spirit were in conflict with each other. While my spirit screamed to get out of my body, my brain forced it to stay back in. Before all of this happened I was this happy stress free person who always had my mind under my control walking away from fights rarely losing my temper. I had become emotionally dependent on my spouse after my parents passed away. Every time he did something that disturbed me, I was breaking down uncontrollably. I was getting disturbed by a lot of things he did. In fact so much so that my only options were either to walk away from my marriage or to kill myself. There was one emotional incident in my life that had made me so numb, motionless and unable to connect with my surroundings. It was as if my brain had shut down feelings to protect me. I still cannot recall the next few days. Apparently I must have been at work , drove myself back home ate and slept because I had gone into a deep shock , I was deprived of any feelings or sensation. I had finally fallen over the cliff into this deep valley of depression. By the time I went to see Josephine for marital counseling with my spouse, I was deeply distressed, emotionally exhausted and as she would call it all over the place. She had to be so very patient with both of us trying to connect us together getting deep into our minds to focus on what the issue was. She had separate counseling sessions for us and also joint ones. She was patient, a good listener and gave us simple tasks to do to connect as a couple again. About two weeks back, I went in for my session alone, in tears, unable to breathe, panic stricken, and could not even express what was going through my mind. Josephine asked me to sit down close my eyes and connect with my feelings and the pain I was going through. She asked me to close my eyes and guided my mind to the incident that had happened that several months ago that had caused me deep distress. I could see it being replayed in my head. I felt chest pain and stress headache. After a few minutes she would ask me to open my eyes and tell her how I felt. This kept going on several minutes. I had not even realized that I was not crying anymore, I was calmer and each time I met sadness head on I felt this strange feeling of being in control of my mind again. Josephine connected with my grief anger and frustration head on and asked me to focus on the feeling till it went away, till I felt no more pain in any part of my body. I was transforming right in front of her. It was miraculous what had happened. I cannot even express in words what happened during that session. I got my smile back, my composure my confidence all in a few minutes! I am once more the master of my mind, able to control it the way I want! A great counselor will be able to get into your mind and find out exactly what is going on and what can be done about it. They will guide your mind to liberation. Josephine restored my emotional sanity for me through psychoanalysis and therapy. She still trains my mind to tackle disturbing sessions head on, on how to say no to things and people that disturbs my sanity and more importantly she helped me regain my mental strength. She made me realize that I have my own personal space at all times and it is my basic right to protect it. I am the one who controls my mind and my feelings. I have gained the strength to tackle issues head on. I am writing this because it might help someone out there who might be going through a similar situation as mine. I very highly recommend and trust Josephine after all she is the one who restored the life back in me!
Empowering, Caring, Respectful Professional Therapist!
I think our 10-year old daughter got exactly what she needed from meeting with Josephine for short-term counseling. Our daughter has multiple sensory and learning differences, and is internationally adopted into our mult-racial, multicultural household. She faces ongoing social challenges particularly at school, but thanks to Josephine's gentle counsel she is in a much better place to face them; choosing higher quality friendships, valuing herself and her uniqueness, and finding her inner voice. Josephine listened, made appropriate suggestions and helped guide her toward emotional independence. Going forward, if our daughter ever needs further professional support through the social challenges of middle school, or high school - we know she can go back to Josephine!
Highly inquisitive, friendly and helpful
After working with Josephine for six months, I have learned more about myself, my psychological attachments, and how to formulate my best action plans on my own than I could have ever imagined. She helped me overcome my own self-doubts and insecurities, and taught me how to better manage my anxiety with mindfulness. Josephine is very friendly and professional, so make sure you are on time and disciplined about seeing her. She asks great questions to make you think and does it in a way that makes you feel supported, not judged. I recommend her highly to any client who is looking for a therapist.
Helpful and practical
I found my weekly talks with Josephine to be helpful and uplifting. She is practical and kind, and her ability to listen and understand is very strong. She was instrumental in my being able to change habitual responses to stressful situations, as well as develop tools for dealing with future situations. Her questions and feedback were excellent.
Quick response to crisis
I'm truthfully appreciated Josephine's help to accompany me to the ER. After staying 2 nights at the inpatient unit, I feel better and think clearer. Her professionalism goes a long way. Thanks again!!
Highly Recommended.
Hello, I'm a man of few words. Talking with Josephine was like talking to an old friend. The sessions went by very quick. I'll recommend her services to any friend or family member without hesitation. Thank you Josephine. Regards. Jose.
Very helpful
Ms. Cheung is very experienced in helping my child with his separation anxiety (he was seven when he first saw her). We've seen improvements very soon. I found her opinion very useful especially when it comes to parenting. Soon we commited to bring my other child who had attitude problem to see her too. Her advices help me to become a better parent and provide me with a lot of handful solutions in dealing with my daily conflicts with my children. Very caring and always have a solution. Thank you.
Helpful for constructive approaches
Josephine was a great listener and always had constructive and helpful advice and tips. Her advice was useful in real-life situations, and helped me take a step back and consider productive ways to react (and productive ways to avoid stressful issues in the future). I'd definitely recommend her for anyone looking to productively deal with work stress.
A Skilled Healer
I entered therapy with Ms. Cheung in 2009-2010. At my request, we used the integrative therapy called AIT, using the theories of core beliefs and energy centers. Ms. Cheung always conducted herself with relaxation and compassionate friendliness balanced with a take charge professionalism and focus. I was experiencing periodic high levels of anxiety in the wake of a spiritual emergency experience. With Ms. Cheung's treatment I experienced certain relief, as old inhibiting core beliefs were cleared. Never again have I slipped into that old anxiety experience, and for that I am always grateful to Ms. Cheung and Asha Clinton, who developed the AIT technique. As a person who holds an advanced degree in counseling psychology, I am aware there are plenty of lame and even damaging counseling professionals out there. Ms. Cheung is a true healer, or healing assistant more correctly; we are all largely responsible for our own healing. Also, though AIT is a very effective technique, there are not many practitioners; Ms. Cheung is precious in that regard alone.
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I got referral from PAMF to see Dr. Cheung few months back, and as soon I met Dr. Cheung I liked her, she is caring and informative, I trust her opinion, very knowledgeable and many years of expirence tell me I will get professional help. I would travel accrossed the country to be in her professional care. My heart go out to you and every patient that is lucky enough to meet you!! I would definatly recommend Dr. Cheung to my family or friends. Thank you Dr. Cheung for being the ANGEL and Psychologist that I needed most. Barbara M I
Professional therapist
Josephine is really the one who will hear your problems and will feel your pain. She also is very good at understanding different cultures and its impact. She is very helpful and effective to my problems. I will highly recommend her to my friends.
Wonderful therapist that listens and helps you create your own solutions to life
My weekly chats with Dr. Cheung really help me reduce my stress and anxiety. I really appreciate how she not only listens, but also provides constructive feedback that you can actually act on. In the past I have spoken to therapists who insist you apply their solution, and when you tell them it will not work or that you've tried it, they keep insisting you must not have tried hard enough or that you should do it anyway. This is not the case with Dr. Cheung. Her questions and feedback really help you sort out what's going on in your life so that you can find your own solutions -- all in a way you're comfortable with. I would highly recommend Dr. Cheung to any of my friends and family!
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Since I have seen Josephine my life has been much more positive. She has opened up my way of thinking and dealing with issues that were at one point hard for me. She has made me see things in a different perspective and in such a humble way. I am a changed man because of her and I appreciate all her help in the process. I look forward to my sessions with her week to week.
Great service and awesome person.
Josephine was easy to talk to, She really empowered me to take control of my life. She really helped me with my anxiety and PTSD issues. Thanks a million Josephine!
Smart, confident and professional
Our kid had the opportunity to work with Josephine on his composure. By openly sharing and discussing things around him over a period of time, Mrs. Josephine was able to install a level of calming confidence into him. We are very happy and grateful for all her help.
Brought my life back
I visited with Josephine after I had an anxiety attack which landed be in the ER on Sunday afternoon in October of 2015.I was dealing with what I thought were some physical pains in my body which elevated to cause my anxiety.I went to many doctors for a year and none of them could detect anything physically wrong with me.After visiting Josephine she made me realize that there was nothing wrong with me physically but that these ailments were cause by my thoughts and that these negative thoughts were caused by living in a household surrounded by negative thoughts for may years.After several sessions and with some mind control drills provided to me from Josephine I was able to get control of my thoughts and after a while I was able to get rid of this so called physical pain.I would highly recommend her for those with anxiety,depressive situations.
Great quality service
Josephine really cares about her clients. She was instrumental in getting me mentally healthy. Highly recommend her service.
Professional and Friendly Counselor
I see Josephine over three years. She gives me many directions and helps me to solve my problems. Thanks, Josephine!
High quality, professionalism, exteremly personable
I was very impressed. Josephine is a an expert in her field. She helped me in a very professional way with her years of experience. I highly recommend her.
Good Therapist
My daughter sees Josephine once a week for an anxiety disorder. She enjoys coming. Her therapy is play based, so she looks forward to her visits. Little by little, she is more engaged in her sessions. It is not an overnight process, but gradually we are seeing positive changes in our daughter at home and in school. We have tried to implement Josephine's recommendations at home. Most of them have been helpful. When we have not been able to implement them, Josephine has asked why and tried to give other suggestions that might also help.
Great helps from Josephine
My wife and I had our marital issues many years ago and we consulted Josephine. She saved our marriage after a few visits. We are very grateful for her help. Josephine has given us good advice how to build a healthy relationship with good communication in our family. She also has provided us with good parenting skills on how to raise our children. With her guidance and support, we are now enjoying a warm and loving family life. Josephine has also walked through many difficult moments with our son and daughter in their growing when they were having difficulties dealing with challenges and transitions. They were open to seeing Josephine talking about their problems. My children have become confident, strong and positive, now they are succeeding at college. We are proud and thankful parents.
Ask for professional help when you need to
I am very grateful to Josephine's help for my son when he was having some difficulties in his growing up. Now he is going to college as a healthy and positive young man, I am happy as a mother and I am very thankful to Josephine.
Good for the whole family.
Josephine has been helping my family for a few years already. First, she helped my husband deal with his stress. He did therapy with her for a couple of years and the result we see today is unbelievable. Not only he knows how to deal with stress, he also looks like a zen master because she taught him breathing and meditation techniques that makes working for a big company look not stressful at all. Second, she helped me during a very hard time. Her work was so efficient I could say it was miraculous. In just three or four sections, I was able to solve my problem and move on with my life. At last, she's been helping my son for the last year. He is a kind and happy boy who couldn't deal with frustration when he started school. I took my son to see Josephine every week for one year and then we started doing therapy every other week. He loves Josephine! He truly does. She has a way to bond with him that is extraordinary. Visiting Josephine is the only "after school" activity that he has never complained about doing. My son now not only knows how to deal with frustration, but also he understands what is happening with him. He's been able to show his emotions and work them. He's is calmer, doesn't cry if he can't do something and has been doing so much better at school. We are so proud of his work with Josephine.
Finally, improvement in our son's behavior!!
We have been extremely satisfied with Josephine. Her recommendations of dietary changes, supplement usage and behavioral modifications have greatly contributed to our son's improved behavior. She has a gentle manner and understands how to communicate and get through to our son that translates into great progress. She relates well with him and has made a connection with him that other therapists were not able to.
Reconnected to to my teen aged child
With help I was helped to better understand what I needed to do to change my outdated understanding of what my child was going threw. I have slowly won back some of the trust I had lost by my old habits. We now have a more open understanding and a more open lines of communication. It is a work in progress. She has helped to to recenter and be less angry with that which I have no control over or is trivial.
My young daughter was having difficulty managing her emotions through many life changes including divorce of her parents, moving to a new home and school and leaving behind her old home. Weekly meetings with Josephine turned her around so she is happy and talkative now and no longer sad and quiet. I highly recommend her.
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Laihin helped me to recognize and change negative, unhelpful thoughts, develop skills to manage my anxiety and unhealthy habbits. Not only she helped me with these issues, she also helped me adopting lifestyle changes.
Dr. Cheung is very insightful and professional. She has given us so many parenting tips that smoothed out many family situations. Our child enjoys talking with her and play with her. We very much appreciate her help.
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Foreclosures In Little Burnt Bay
Buying a house from the foreclosure list can be a great way to buy a property or investment property at a huge discount! Largely this is because of lack of knowledge about the process or fear from misinformation they may have heard about buying a foreclosure. Foreclosuresearch.ca is a terrific resource to learn all about the foreclosure market and how best to negotiate a deal that suits your unique needs. Click below for foreclosures, power of sale and bank owned homes in Little Burnt Bay.
How can I find bank owned homes in Little Burnt Bay?
I use Foreclosuresearch.ca for my foreclosure needs because it is a one stop shop so to speak for knowledge about the market and foreclosure process as well as lists of available properties with images and descriptions.
This saves me a lot of time and effort. I don't have to search the internet for many hours looking at different Realtors websites combing through houses in Little Burnt Bay that are not foreclosures or don't fit what I am looking for.
Other options for finding foreclosed houses is to get in touch with your local bank to see if they are carrying properties in their portfolio or to contact a local Realtor that specializes in foreclosure listings. Many Realtors will list whatever property they can get their hands on but they may not be well versed in the foreclosure buying process so you need to be educated before going in.
How to buy a foreclosed house in Little Burnt Bay with bad credit.
Let me start off by saying that buying a foreclosed house in Little Burnt Bay with bad credit is conceivable!
You have the option to buy a residence for cash at a real estate auction. Your credit doesn't play a factor at all because you are not taking out a loan. Not everyone has this form of money lying around though so lets think about other options.
Research federal home buying programs. After the global economic crisis the last couple of years, banks have started to loosen their lending requirements again at the prompting of governments to allow homebuyers the chance of experiencing homeownership. There are many programs readily available again to assist those with low incomes or poor credit to buy homes. Your local housing authority department should be able to assist if you don't find what you need online.
Search for houses in Little Burnt Bay and look for loans with low down payments. Save up money for your down payment but expect to pay a slightly higher interest rate due to your lower credit score. You should be able to remortgage in a number of years after making on time payments to get a lower rate.
Tips on how to buy a foreclosed condo in Little Burnt Bay, NL.
The initial step is to get pre approved for a mortgage through a bank of your choosing or obtain enough money to buy a residential or commercial property through an auction for all cash.
Next, find condos in Little Burnt Bay, NL that you are interested in. Find a Realtor that focuses in foreclosures and will be able to help you through the process of buying.
If you have questions about the process, I would consider speaking with a real estate or foreclosure attorney before purchasing to make sure you understand the process and the ramifications of buying foreclosed properties.
Something that needs to be considered before you buy is that some foreclosure properties are not open to having a home inspection done before buying and/or the bank that owns the property may not want to make any repairs. This could end up costing you some money to make the repairs after buying. This is the only problem in my opinion when buying foreclosed homes.
How long does it take to buy a bank owned home in Little Burnt Bay?
This hinges on how you are buying the real property. Properties that are bought in cash at an auction are turned over within a week or two maximum depending upon how much time it takes your funds to transfer to the bank and the title to be completed. Personally, I have had properties transfer to me within three days in most cases.
If you are buying a property through a mortgage then the closing process takes a small bit longer. My experience has been about thirty days to closing, which is pretty standard when purchasing a property.
Are there reasons not to buy a bank owned home?
repo houses are usually sold "as is," meaning the bank is not willing to make any repairs before selling the property. This means that any repairs could fall back upon the new owner to take care of. Sometimes the repairs are trivial and other times they are significant.
Often a foreclosed property in Little Burnt Bay NL has sat uninhabited for a while so maintenance has been ignored and will need to be taken care of immediately.
Sometimes, just because the title has transferred to a new owner doesn't mean that all issues have vanished. This is the importance of having a title search done before buying a property because liens or lawsuits could be attached to the property and you could inherit them without knowing it.
How to negotiate for bank owned homes.
Diligence is key here! The bank is in business to make money so they will be trying to get the greatest price for the house that they can.
Dealing with banks is a mechanical process and usually handled by computers and not actual people. This can be annoying for you the buyer but it is what it is. Ultimately if you are persistent the bank will very likely cave if they have no other offers because they recognize they need to transfer the property quickly.
Are Little Burnt Bay bank owned homes good or bad?
This all depends upon your goals and the risk level that you are ready to accept. If you are willing to take on the prospective repairs yourself and not expect the bank to pay for them then this is a good deal!
Remember to do your homework on foreclosures and on your property before buying to know exactly what you are entering into.
Power of Sale Introduction
There are numerous things you may unknown about the power of sale. When do you understand you are confronted with a power of sale or foreclosure in Little Burnt Bay, and how do you know if it is the ideal financial investment for you? Offered listed below are answers to 7 frequently asked questions relating to the power of sale, and how it can help you make informed purchases in Newfoundland.
What is power of sale or foreclosure?
This is a term that not many daily individuals have heard of. However if you are interested in buying property, particularly those on the foreclosure market, then you want to recognize with this term. A power of sale is a stipulation that is composed into a mortgage which allows the lender to sell the residential or commercial property in the event of default to repay the home mortgage financial obligation. It technically is the stipulation that allows foreclosure on a home when a financial obligation is not paid. This type of sale happens so that the lending institution, which is normally a bank, can recover losses that they incurred by the loan default.
A power of sale also describes the power revealed or implied in a trust agreement permitting the trustee to offer the financial investment consisting of the trust.
Generally, this stipulation in a mortgage or trust permits the lending institution to sell the home without litigating to do so. It is a kind of shortcut to permit recovery much easier and quicker. For those planning to acquire foreclosed house, this is a lot easier as the lending institution does not have to go through the courts to make the sale happen.
If you are aiming to buy a power of sale foreclosure home, there are some advantages. This consists of an expedited process. Usually a foreclosure through the courts can take a great deal of time; whereas those that go through a contract stipulation can be much quicker.
Where can you discover power of sale houses?
It is actually easier than you think to discover power of sale houses. In Newfoundland, as in all of Canada, the normal procedure is to sell the residential or commercial property by power of sale, which is unlike most of the United States which tends to go through the courts for a foreclosure. Typically, when a home is being offered through power of sale, it really goes through a real estate agent. That makes it easy to find homes under power of sale. A real estate agent, or other real estate sites, will likely have listings of power of sale homes in your location.
How do you purchase a power of sale houses in Newfoundland?
It is an excellent choice to buy power for sale foreclosures in Little Burnt Bay Newfoundland. The procedure is quite fast and simple. The process for the sale is generally set out in the home mortgage, so they might differ a little bit differently for homes depending upon the lending institution.
In Newfoundland, there are two kinds of power for sale – legal and statutory. A legal power of sale is when the home mortgage files have actually included the power of sale stipulation. A statutory power of sale is when the power of sale stipulations is not consisted of, however these are really rare.
The general procedure consists of:
Notice provided to the borrower after fifteen days of default
Notification provided to anybody who has an interest in the home
For contractual power of sales, the borrower has 35 days to pay, if statutory, the customer has 45 days
Once the period expires and the default is not fixed, the loan provider can sell the home
The property can be sold by auction, private contract, or by tender. The property is normally noted with a realtor and placed on the marketplace for sale using several listing service (MLS).
The ownership of the home will alter hands only if the property is offered. This is likewise not a fire sale, although it is quicker than a court procedure. The offers from the purchasers like you are thoroughly taken a look at, and the present owner might request an accounting.
How do you find power of sale listings?
One of the very best ways to discover a power for sale listing in Little Burnt Bay is to utilize an exceptional MLS. These services are available on line and offer an excessive quantity of listings so that you can discover the exact home you are looking for. A site, such as foreclosuresearch.ca, can offer you with all the listings in Newfoundland under power of sale. Websites like this one permit you to search in your area for power of sale property, along with the timing and costs involved.
Are power of sale properties available for sale?Yes. Regrettably, there will always be those who can not afford to pay their home loan. This can be a tragedy, the opportunities that come along with a power of sale are terrific. It is a fantastic method to acquire your home, or to end up being an investor. Throughout Canada, there is a consistent rotation of foreclosure houses that are readily available for you to select from anytime. But they do go quickly because they can be such a good deal!
Get more information on buying a home at this link. Always use the services of a real estate agent when buying or selling any type of property in state. Find a local agent here. A lawyer might be a good idea too.


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Author: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
COMMENTARY — I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?
A significant barrier to Linux adoption is a natural human resistance to change. The vast majority of the world's computer users are now used to the Windows XP desktop and are not eager to give up something that works reasonably well for them in favor of something new, whether that "something" is Linux or Microsoft's own Windows Vista.
Apple runs millions of dollars worth of clever TV ads touting the superiority of Mac OS, but still has only a tiny percentage of the personal computer marketplace.
KDE and GNOME are as different as Windows and Mac
A switch between KDE and GNOME (or the other way around) is nearly as major, in a user experience sense, as a switch from Windows to Mac. GNOME, as typically installed by default, has a Mac-like "top of the screen" toolbar, while KDE keeps its controls on the bottom of the screen in a more Windows-like fashion.
A person who works on computers all day — as I do — and relies on muscle memory for routine tasks such as opening an application or clearing applications windows from their desktop is especially hard-hit by GUI changes. When I first started using GNOME on Ubuntu as my primary desktop, for example, I repeatedly clicked the Show Desktop button in the lower left corner of my screen, where KDE and Windows have Menu buttons, when I wanted to log out or switch users, even though the button for these tasks in GNOME on Ubuntu is in the upper right corner.
I am not saying one location for logoff and shutdown-type buttons is better than another. Windows, KDE, Mac, and GNOME usability people can have that argument without me butting in. All I'm saying here is that whatever screen layout we have grown accustomed to is easier for us to use than its alternatives until (unless) we retrain our fingers to dance in a new pattern.
Most people use the defaults
I've included a screenshot of my current GNOME desktop. It's obviously customized to my taste. The few files you see are ones I'm currently working on. All others are hidden. (My desktop backgrounds tend to change frequently, but are almost always Florida beach or sailing photos.)
Desktop customization takes only a few minutes in GNOME, and is nearly as fast in KDE. And yet, when I'm at computer conferences, most of the laptop computer screens I see display default backgrounds and themes, no matter what operating systems are behind them. Since I tend to go to conferences that are fuil of programmers and IT people, usually with a high percentage of Linux users among them, we can't say they don't know how to personalize their displays. They know how. They just don't do it.
Default screens seem to have a major impact on how people pick Linux distributions, too. Over and over, I see online comments (and get email) about this or that distribution's default appearance. Sometimes these comments puzzle me. I use Ubuntu these days, not because of its brown default desktop background and theme, but despite the way it looks "out of the box." Since I am in the habit of making my desktop over almost as soon as I install it, I don't care much about the default scheme. But others do. And I suspect that a lot of operating system and desktop decisions are made purely on appearance. ("Ooh, that new Mac OS is pretty — I want it!")
Some real differences between KDE and GNOME
One shocking difference I found between "normal" (GNOME) Ubuntu and (KDE-based) Kubuntu was in the way they handled wireless connections. In plain Ubuntu, my laptop's built-in Intel wireless "just worked." In Kubuntu, it did not. Even with help from a skilled sysadmin (thanks, Matt Moen), it was a puzzlement. In the end, we got painless wireless connectivity by installing the GNOME Network Manager.
Another difference was the Adept GUI software installation utility included in Kubuntu, which I did not like nearly as much as Synaptic. But then, I find Synaptic superior to the "Install and Remove Applications" utility included in straight-up Ubuntu, too.
A third difference, which still puzzles me, is that I never completely succeeded in making Thunderbird my default email application in Kubuntu. I consulted online guides and scrounged around in the KDE Help files and did what I thought they told me to do, but I still couldn't click on a mailto link in a Firefox window and have a Thunderbird "compose mail" window open automatically. I know, I know — in KDE I'm supposed to use KMail, just as in GNOME I should use Evolution. I have friends and coworkers who use and love both email managers, but I prefer Thunderbird for my email. And I prefer Firefox as my Web browser too, no matter what desktop environment — or even what operating system — lies beneath them.
KDE has it all — and wants you to have all of KDE
The KDE push toward an integrated KOffice applications suite is laudable. New, non-sophisticated Linux users will no doubt love having all the software most of them need for day-to-day use in a single package, with matching themes and a unified set of attractive icons. But then there are the grumpy oldsters (like me) who have programs they've grown accustomed to using over the years, and who don't want to trade in their favorites for equivalent KOffice components.
This KDE bent toward "all KDE all the time" may be why I had trouble making Thunderbird my default email app in Kbuntu. Without my pro-Thunderbird prejudice, I'm sure my Kubuntu experience would have been happier. But I am not necessarily the target market for KDE and KOffice. A new Linux user (who wasn't already accustomed to using Thunderbird on Windows) would probably be happy with KMail.
One thing that has improved in KDE in the last few years is that most of the included applications actually work. In the past, KDE apps were hit-or-miss. Some were stable and fully realized, while some were not quite "there" yet. I believe KDE would have been better off, and would be in better shape today, if there had been a little more discrimination exercised in package selection for a default KDE install. Packages and projects "that aim to bring you…" may be laudable and worth support, but for an everyday work PC we need software that works today, not software that may work in the future.
GNOME, too, has bits and pieces that don't work as well as they should — or, at least, the way I personally want them to work. For example, I don't particularly like gedit, the default GNOME text editor. But then, I don't like the KDE text editor either. Most of my writing appears on the World Wide Web, and Bluefish is the perfect text/HTML editor for my kind of work on any desktop.
This does not necessarily mean Bluefish is superior to its competitors. Many people like Quanta Plus as much as I like Bluefish, and would find it hard to switch from Quanta Plus to Bluefish — or to any other text or code editor. But that's my point: we get accustomed to certain tools, and switching to other tools, even tools that may be better in some ways than the ones we're used to using, can be painful.
Windows and Mac: Not to my taste at all
I tried Mac OS X. Several versions. I tried to like it. And I failed. After more than a decade of GNU/Linux use, Mac OS seemed alien and unintuitive. And the software had funny names, and even humble things like the closest application I could come on a Mac to my beloved Bluefish editor cost money, even though they were no better than — and in many cases not as good as — the free software to which I had grown accustomed.
There are ways to fiddle some Linux apps into working on Mac OS, much as Wine can make some Windows apps run in Linux, but this is a lot of trouble. I ended up using a $2,000+ MacBook Pro as a fancy Ubuntu (and for a while, Fedora) platform. What a waste! The only thing I do that needs lots of computing power is video editing, and it's the only thing I do that requires proprietary software, at least on a professional level, and I'd just as soon use Windows-only Sony Vegas as Apple's Final Cut Pro, so I turned in the MacBook Pro in favor of a much less expensive Dell laptop, dual-booting Ubuntu GNU/Linux and Windows XP.
And here's the funny thing: Windows feels a lot more Linuxlike to me than Mac OS. In many ways it seems as if it's a slightly clumsy knockoff of KDE. But it also has a lot more in common with GNOME than Mac OS does. The applications menus are structured in a similar manner. Ditto the way you store and find individual files, for which Windows uses the same "folders and subfolders" metaphor as both KDE and GNOME, and Windows gives me a Linux-style horizontal list of open programs across the bottom of my screen, which Mac OS does not.
Backing up my data in Windows is lots harder than backing up a /home or /username directory in Linux, because Windows seems to scatter data all over the place. Why this is I do not know, but no doubt someone at Microsoft could tell me why this inconvenience is a good thing, not a bad one, just as I'm sure they could tell me why all kinds of annoying pop-up balloons that interfere with my work (instead of letting me concentrate on what I'm doing) make my life easier instead of harder.
I could go on and on here, but I won't. I'll just say I treat my one dedicated Windows machine as a slightly touchy video editing appliance that connects to the Internet only through one of my Linux boxes — and from behind a Linux-based router at that. Windows is supposed to be less virus-prone than it was a few years ago, but the only way to keep malware off of Windows (that I know of) is to not connect it to the Internet — and to watch it like a whole flock of hawks when it is online, even if it is well-protected (by Linux) from the Internet's raw fury.
Conservative by nature
I was at an older friend's house yesterday, showing him how to get pictures from his digital camera onto his Windows computer — except he doesn't know what Windows is, just that his computer is a Dell, because it says so on both the monitor and on the black rectangular box that sits under his desk.
This person, who suffered from several virus infestations before a kindly local computer repair joint sold him a proprietary antivirus package, would be a natural candidate for Linux. He does nothing with his computer he couldn't do as well — or better — with Linux. Except for one thing: as far as he knows, he doesn't connect to the Internet or use email software. He connects to AOL, which to him is the Internet. Including email.
We're talking here about a man who, when I told him to right-click on a photograph to send it to me as an email attachment, said, "I'm not sure about right-clicking. I'm a left-click kind of guy."
This is someone who, by nature, ought to have a Mac. At least he wouldn't get confused by multiple mouse buttons. But then again, he'd be confused by almost everything else, and would take endless hand-holding to make the conversion.
And Linux? I'm sure I could teach him to use GNU/Linux, especially KDE. But when would I have time? My friend has had a home computer for three years, and used desktop computers at work for at least 10 years before he retired, and he still hasn't figured out how to right-click and use the little menus that that act typically brings up. He has several advanced degrees, but computer functions are alien to him, and learning what little he does know has caused him so much stress, and has taken so long, that I am scared to alter his computer-using routine in any way.
Not only that, he would resist the change. He was worried about Firefox, which I downloaded and installed for him, because it operates in slightly different ways from the AOL and Internet Explorer combination he has learned to use. He promised he'd try to use the new ("What did you call it? A browser?") thingie, but I have little hope that he will master it without intense instruction.
Am I really any better, though? I have programs and procedures and habits that get me through my days of computer use without thinking about them. I've developed those procedures and habits over many years, and not all of my computing habits are good ones. But they're mine, and I'm used to them.
I continue to advocate increased GNU/Linux and FOSS use, partly for licensing and freedom reasons, and partly because I believe open source, overall, leads to better software in the long run. But I no longer expect everyone who comes into my office and sees Linux on a desktop for the first time to suddenly yell, "Hallejulah! I have seen the light and will henceforth use nothing but GNU/Linux and Free Software!"
Instead, I have more luck helping people who want to be helped move toward open source software one step at a time, starting with programs like Kompozer, which another friend has now used to make a simple Web site for his wife's acupuncture practice, and OpenOffice.org, which is a great, cost-free alternative to Microsoft Office for the many aspiring writers and poets in my neighborhood. And yes, I've even moved a few people to Linux, but only a few, because I don't have time for much intense hand-holding, and that's what it takes to teach people who are not naturally computer-inclined how to use any new operating system or software.
Habits are hard to break. Even bad ones. Maybe especially bad ones. Now please excuse me while I light another cigarette.
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