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Average Canadian throws out 17 things a year
If you're using online classifieds sites like Kijiji or Craigslist, you're not alone. Nearly two-thirds of Canadians are buying goods and services from each other, says Kijiji.
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Did you get a gift you don't like, but didn't have the heart to say anything?
Instead of tossing it in a closet or re-gifting, you might not have any qualms about selling it online via a classifieds site. In fact, you can use the cash to pay down those pre-holiday credit card bills we can all expect next month.
And what about other items in your home you're not using? According to Kijiji, the average Canadian threw away 16.7 items in 2011 they could have sold.
Related: More Canadians shopping online
Results from the same survey found 65 per cent of Canadians like to buy "consumer to consumer." The benefit to sites like Kijiji, or Craigslist, over eBay is you don't need to worry about shipping as the seller agrees to meet the buyer at a particular location to make the transaction, and it's in cash.
To ensure a smooth selling experience and ways to maximize profits, consider these following tips from Bart Molenda, head of marketing at Kijiji Canada.
Re-evaluate your clutter
The average Canadian throws away many items each year that could have been sold instead. Re-evaluate your clutter by asking yourself why you're tossing it. If you simply don't want or can't use the item, there's a good chance you can sell it to someone who does.
Do your homework
A great way to determine the best price for your item is to take a look at the price of similar items. You may be surprised to find that the couch or desk that you consider worthless is worth a few hundred dollars.
Ask for a best offer
If you're not sure of the item's value, don't guess at the price. Instead, ask potential buyers to give you their best offer. Simply keep track of offers as they come in and sell your item to the highest bidder.
Speed up the process
If you're using Kijiji, there are a few different options for getting your ad noticed. You can pay to have your ad on the homepage – which is viewed by 10 million Canadians each month, says Molenda.
Related: 8 tips for safer online shopping
Prep for profit
Take the time to photograph the clutter you're looking to clear and don't be shy about posting several photos of the item with your listing. Remember, the person buying the item is seeing it for the first time.
Cash is best
Ask the buyer to bring cash; it cuts down on paperwork and eliminates any transaction fees.
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My husband and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary at Captain Oliver's. We had seen it years ago and felt it would be a great place to stay for a couple of nights before our trip over to St. Barts. The view from our villa was beyond belief and the room was huge. The shower could have been hotter, and in-room amenities are not abundant. But we would stay there again in a heart beat just for the location at the marina and the excellent food. Every morning we had a delicious buffet breakfast with croissants better than we had in Paris! The staff was friendly and we loved the tropical birds and the friendly cats that live there. Would recommend Captain Oliver's to those who don't need plastic, cookie-cutter resorts!
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This I Can Leave You: A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch. By Mamie
Sypert Burns. Foreword by David Murrah. (College Station, Tex.:
Texas A&M University Press, 1986. Pp. xxviii+281. Foreword,
preface, introduction, illustrations, afterword. $16.95.)
Although Mamie Burns grew up on a farm, she was really a city girl
from East Texas when she moved with her husband, D, to the giant
Pitchfork Ranch in West Texas in 1942. D, the new foreman, was thrilled
with his job and with the ranch, but Mamie was uncertain what her role
would be. Romantic notions of ranch life did not correlate with reality.
Mamie's greenhorn curiosity, her wide-eyed wonder at her new life, and
her ability to laugh at herself are what make this book a delight.
About five years after the Burnses moved to the Pitchfork, a guest
challenged Mamie to write about her experiences and the ranch people.
From that moment until D retired in 1965, Mamie took notes. "A whole
way of life evolved" in her effort to write "The Book" (p. 4). She stashed
paper and pencil in every room and every pocket, and then stashed
notes in every drawer or pigeonhole. In 1973 she began to organize her
notes. She worked continuously on the manuscript until she turned it
over to the Ranching Heritage Association in Lubbock a few months
before her death in 1982.
Mamie's approach to documentation was literary rather than histori-
cal. She took "some literary license in telling certain of the incidents,
used a few fictitious names, too, but in the main my stories are true ...
Names have been changed to protect the guilty" (p. xx).
In addition to being entertaining, Mamie's book is important for sev-
eral reasons. First, the Pitchfork Ranch, 165,000 acres in Dickens and
King counties, is an historic Texas ranch. Secondly, the period of time
covered by her reminiscences, World War II to the mid-196os, has not
been treated extensively in Texas ranching history. Thirdly, the woman's
view of ranch life is one that has not been aired to any great extent. For
these reasons, Mamie's reminiscences take on a significance beyond
what she imagined.
This I Can Leave You is an interesting and cleverly written combination
of family history, anecdote, folklore, and fiction, told with wit and en-
thusiasm and a touch of impertinence.
Southwestern University MARTHA MITTEN ALLEN
Seven Pnes: Its Occupants and Their Letters, 1825- 1872. By Camilla Davis
Trammell. (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1986.
Pp. xii+289. Foreword, preface, photographs, illustrations, after-
word, endnotes, appendices, index. $17.95.)
Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, July 1987 - April, 1988. Austin, Texas. The Portal to Texas History. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101211/. Accessed July 8, 2015.


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The best addon ever. Thanks!
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Great Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
Since I have an Amoled screen I use black backgrounds. In the meantime I am so used to them that I never switched them off again. Much easier to read and saves battery power.
Needs an update button in styles. Waardering 4 van 5 sterren
This really needs an update button like Chrome Stylish has. Otherwise, I have to go to every style I have via userstyles and update it. And the update command in regular firefox isn't working either. I'd much rather have a button that directly updates.
Update: I meant the update mechanism. It isn't working. It actually has never worked on firefox and I have been developing skins for firefox for 4 years. The only way it seems to work is if I go on userstyles and update it there.
Stylish hooks in to Firefox's add-ons update mechanism, so if you check for updates for your add-ons, you're checking your styles too.
Android version is lacking. Waardering 4 van 5 sterren
The PC version is perfect.
The Android lacks a style editor. I saw the Dev's reply that no one would be writing styles on their Android device. Sure, but you can send it via e-mail and then copy and paste.
I have a lot of custom edits of styles available on userstyles, often ones that hide block that people most likely need but I do not, so there's no point in uploading them and I would love to have the ability to use them on my tablet and phone.
Edit: One option to let people use custom css would be to allow importing not only from the web, but also from the device.
You can also upload the CSS file somewhere and use the "Install from URL" feature. This will also allow you to update your style.
There's no way to install your own scripts or edit scripts. Waardering 1 van 5 sterren
The addon I got looks nothing like what is pictured. I see no way to edit scripts. And the only way to install scripts is from userstyles or an URL. And once you do install a script from userstyles, the only options are to disable or remove them. Pretty useless like this with no way to edit scripts.
Stylish on Firefox for Android is different than it is on PC or Mac. Specifically, you can't edit scripts because I figure no one's going to pecking CSS into their phone...
Good Stuff Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
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Love the Addon, but Why are all styles set to global? Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
Even when I assign the style to a specific page or site? I don't want to change every site.
See https://github.com/JasonBarnabe/stylish/wiki/Applying-styles-to-specific-sites for how to make them specific to a site.
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Supremely awesome plugin! It's one I've always had installed since I first used Firefox!
Update? Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
There is no option to Check for Updates to my installed userstyles. I would open the standalone Stylish Manager and use the Update button there, but there is no toolbar button for opening the standalone window. How am I supposed to check for userstyle updates? I'm certainly not going to right-click->Check for updates for each and every style.
EDIT: I didn't realize that they "Check all add-ons for updates" option also checks for UserStyle updates. I just wish there were some visual way of showing which styles were updated.
Use the button to check all add-ons for updates. It will check for updates to styles too.
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Great extension.
p.s. How to remove default code formatting in stylish?
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Awesome addon. With e10s enabled however, custom fonts do not work.
Doesn't work on Firefox Developer Edition Waardering 3 van 5 sterren
Been using it for awhile, but I recently switched to Firefox Developer Edition and it doesn't work any more. Even with all other plugins and add-ons disabled.
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The definitive extension for theming your browser and websites.
What should you use Stylish for, I here you ask?
1) Create a global theme for all websites. Firefox is very limited in this respect, and other extensions rely on GUI to make changes which means you'll lose the level of customization you get with Stylish and end up frustrated when making changes. You'll also find other extensions which offer themes for websites will struggle to apply it during loading, which means if you have a dark theme, you'll be pestered with white flashes during page load.
2) If you're not happy with how your global theme treats a particular website, create an exception for that website, and find/make a theme catered for that site.
See "Advanced matching with regular expressions": https://github.com/JasonBarnabe/stylish/wiki/Applying-styles-to-specific-sites
3) If you're partial to dark themes or backgrounds, you will find yourself annoyed at the white flashing of pages when opening new tabs or websites. Use stylish to change the background color of "about:newtab", "about:blank" and speed dial extensions that will flash white during load regardless of its background color settings.
EDIT: The "edit" button no longer does anything other than open another firefox window (but without showing anything). Weird. I've had to switch to an older version (using 1.4.3).
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Really Nice!, A bit heavy on the memory side, but nice overall!
Very Good Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
Very good addon. It would be nice to have the option of editing the stylesheet with a preferred editor, not that big of a deal though. Good job
I definitely hate the versions beyond 1.4.2! Waardering 2 van 5 sterren
When I write a new style, there is no longer a popping-up window, instead the Stylish window open in a new tab, and if I open it in another window, I have to re-size it all the time, and there is a bunch of extra bars for the tabs, the address bar and the bookmarks just like the rest of the browser inside of this window and I hate it so much!
Also, a lot of things does not seems to work on the new Firefox with it. I used to create some cool designs for the NewTab page and now #newtab-search-container { display: none !important; } for example can not be done. Something stronger for everything in this page is causing it to remains, whatever you do. Same with the UI of Firefox for the favicons and so on. I am not so sure, but it could be due to the new version of Firefox.
And to end with, the version 1.4.3b1 and beyond got what I believe is the auto-complete CSS feature which will auto-type some extra parenthesis, quotes and even do space-tabs for you and I find that really annoying!
Let those things be selective options please.
The options of the new Stylish editor are the same as Firefox's developer tools. If you press F12 then click on the gear icon, options you change there will take effect in Stylish too.
Great addon, easy to use Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
Some websites have lots of long interesting texts, but the design makes them very hard to read (tiny font, bad colors etc.) With this addon, I can simply override those websites' CSS with my own styles to make them better readable. Great, thank you!
Use it to get rid of favicons in the bookmark bar Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
the bookmark bar is an important part of a browser for me, and one of the most frustrating things about chrome is that it had those fat and ugly favicons in front of each bookmark which took up precious space on the bar. There is no way you can get rid of them in Chrome with an extension or setting of some sort. Somehow I found a simple code to get rid of favicons in Firefox and it work beautifully without any issues. I am not a web developer or anything of the sorts but I really find that this add on worked exactly how I wanted it to. Not to mention that it's been working for almost a few years' worth of updates.
It's amazing! Waardering 5 van 5 sterren
It's amazing thing that give me way to create my own styles for my favorite sites.


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The last 6 winters we've kept the heat at 62 at night, 68 during the day, and that feels uncomfortably cold to me. I hate being cold. My prized possessions right now are my thick alpaca socks and real sheepskin slippers. If you buy wool socks, 2 good pairs should be enough. You can wear them 2 days in a row. I wear wool long underwear, and lots of layers. LL Bean, Sierra Trading Post, and Lands' End are all having sales on long underwear now. A hat helps a lot. Layer, layer, layer. We use an electric blanket to warm up the bed before we get in, and it's fabulous. When you start to feel cold, get up and move around if you can, really do some exercise. Sweep the floors, scrub the counters, clean the windows.
It sounds like you don't have central heat in the basement, just whatever comes down from upstairs? There's only so much you can do to keep that warm. But if there are drafts anywhere, block them. A rolled up towel works on window sills and doors, and they're easy to wash.
I have Raynaud's, too, and we keep our house at 67 when we're awake and 61 at night this time of the year. (By the end of winter, we'll have worked back to 65 during the day and 58 at night.) Weekdays, the thermostat is set to 58 during the day, and I work from home 2 of those days but I've only ever seen it get down below 63. Even with Raynaud's it is totally doable for me as long as I am careful.
It seems to me, the trick is to keep the house dry and never,ever let yourself get chilled. Keeping the house dry isn't hard in our climate this time of year (I'm just about an hour north of you) - just don't run a humidifier in the house. As for keeping warm and not getting chilled, tea is your friend. :) I almost always have a mug of coffee, tea, or cocoa in my hand this time of year. For some reason cocoa seems to raise my body temp more than the tea or coffee - I reserve that for when I'm starting to get chilled and need to warm up fast. Tea and coffee work as maintenance drinks. I wear silk long underwear with clothes over. I have a cardigan I can throw on if I start to feel chilly. There are blankets/throws all over the house, so if we're sitting, we have a throw over us. I always have wool socks or slippers on in the house. Sometimes I'll wear a wool cap in the house, but not often. Lastly, I just keep moving. The more active you are, the warmer you'll be. If I do get chilled, I hop in a hot shower to warm back up.
My kids don't seem to have the trouble I do keeping warm, that's for sure. One is fine as long as he is layered. The other one runs really warm, and will run around in just his boxers, and never complains that he feels cold. He makes me sound just like my mom - "Put some clothes on - you're making me cold just looking at you!" ;)
Just wanted to chime in with a night-time idea. All those BPA-filled nalgene bottles we bought years ago are now used to keep us warm at night! I fill one up with hot water from the tap (ours does run pretty hot) and wrap it some fleece or an old shirt, then take the whole thing to bed with me. It's delightful and stays warm through much of the night. Must be due to the down comforter and three blankets! During the day I do what others said: layer up and keep moving. Oh and take trips to the library and our friends' houses. I do find myself geting used to the chill. The first month is always really rough but then suddenly I realize that I haven't felt cold in a few days. The less I "cheat" by turning the heat up though, the faster I adjust. Oh and we keep it at 62 during the day and 58 at night. Good luck!
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We are at 62 daytime and around 55 at night. We use wood with a furnace backup in a rather old drafty house--the actual temperature is sometimes 65 for instance and we actually turn the thermostat all the way down at night but it stays in the 50s.
We have lap blankets, slippers, and I personally wear wool sweaters all the time--even to bed--and I also wear a scarf in the house whenever it makes me feel cozier. Hot drinks and a cooked breakfast help. We aren't exactly used to it but it's okay. I am rather unproductive because I spend a lot of time with a blanket.
Our youngest child is 8yo. When we had littler ones getting damp clothing and having to have diaper changes constantly we didn't keep it as cool.
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I keep ours at 67,but most rooms feel cold.The master and part of our kitchen were additions,and the house in general is poorly insulated. I have blankets on the couch for use.Once I get dinner done I can be found in my room under the covers reading or watching tv.Besides covering windows I was thinking maybe you could add some sort of solid insulation sold in sheets, or blankets to the basement walls.
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Wear a woolen or cashmere scarf around your neck. You'll be amazed at how much warmer you feel! And you'll look so posh and European ;)
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I definitely recoommend addressing any humidity issues you might have, it will not only help you feel warmer, but help avoid getting mold. Also, since you mention having cold hands, have you tried wearing fingerless gloves around the house? I used to buy the really cheap stretchy gloves at the dollar store and cut some of the fingers off. If you're really cold you don't even have to cut off all the fingers since you can do a lot of stuff with just your thumbs and first two fingers.
Higher relative humidity increases apparent temperature. In cold climates, it can also cause window condensation and eventually rot out the sills, but really dry air is not a recipe for feeling warmer.
I beg to differ. HIgher humidity makes things feel hotter when it's summer and your sweat won't evaporate, but when it's chilly it makes you feel cold and clammy. There have been many times when it felt warmer in the -10C weather outside my parents' house, than in their 15C house with high humidity.
We live in the SF Bay Area in a townhouse and haven't actually turned the heat on yet (except for Thanksgiving Day for the older relatives). The indoor temperatures have ranged from 60 to about 67 degrees. Admittedly I am rather less bothered by cold temperatures than most people but a sweatshirt and slippers is generally sufficient to keep me warm; my husband usually needs another layer. Also, I bake a lot which at least warms up the kitchen and main living space.
I beg to differ. HIgher humidity makes things feel hotter when it's summer and your sweat won't evaporate, but when it's chilly it makes you feel cold and clammy. There have been many times when it felt warmer in the -10C weather outside my parents' house, than in their 15C house with high humidity.
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We keep our thermostat at about 70 degrees in the winter and about 82 in the summer. We live in the desert.
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We moved this year, and it's our first winter in this house. It's 1950s construction, single pane windows, and drafty. Very, very drafty.
Our thermostat (and the thermostat next to it) say 52ish. Sometimes, it goes to 50, and on nice days when it's sunny, it'll get to 56 or so. This keeps our bills at a reasonable level. You get used to it. At 50, it's cold in here, no doubt. But, at 52-54, my kids are stripping off their clothes cause "it's hot". I get really hot when we go shopping and are in and out of hot stores, though.
67 during the day and 66 at night. We wear sweats, sweatshirts and wool socks if it's feeling extra chilly. At night, everyone has 2 blankets, a cotton one next to the body and a polyester one on top :)
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65 during the day, 60 at night. Mornings at my house are cold!
I wear a lot of long underwear. I love expedition weight ones and have a pair of Smartwools as well. Sometimes, I wear both to keep warm. But I am cold and no, I am not used to it. I am moving next week to an even colder climate -- north of the arctic circle and I know that I will be cold, cold, cold. My joints ache, my body hurts, I never get used to it.
Hot tea helps. I go to bed early just to curl up in bed with warm covers. I have been reading for hours in bed at night, so on the bright side I have read several wonderful books this winter.
But I gripe a lot and am looking forward to spring.
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60 during the day and 55 at night.
I do tend to turn it up in the evenings before I go to bed as I find I am chilly when tired.
I do find people acclimate...my family is used to this. I guess it is possible we are genetically predisposed to be able to be Ok in cold - but i think it is more likely it is something we are used to.
Open the curtains to sunlight during the day, seal windows, use rolled up blankets at doors (particularly unused doors - leave one free as a fire escape). The stove warms things up - so bake or use it more than you would in summer. I open the door of the oven after cooking to increase the kitchen temp. Small space heaters are inexpensive and work (do not leave small space heaters alone)
As for sleeping - use the lightest blanket on top of you, then a thicker blanket, then a comforter. Putting a thin blanket on a thick one is almost useless..
If all else fails, wear a hat. More heat is lost there than anywhere else.
we don't skimp on heating or cooling. i find it crazy to wear tons of layers when i'm the house. my husband and i have to compromise on what is "comfortable" anyway so it does tend to keep the temps in check in either direction. but, we keep it at 70 during the winter and i'd keep it on 76 during the summer, he wants 68, so we settle on 72 or so. last summer when i was pregnant i had the A/C down to 68 some days because i just couldn't stand the heat at all - hubby was loving it.
I don't know if this is really warmer, but I always feel warmest if I put a fleece blanket over the comforter. It seems to help trap the heat really well.
we don't skimp on heating or cooling. i find it crazy to wear tons of layers when i'm the house. my husband and i have to compromise on what is "comfortable" anyway so it does tend to keep the temps in check in either direction. but, we keep it at 70 during the winter and i'd keep it on 76 during the summer, he wants 68, so we settle on 72 or so. last summer when i was pregnant i had the A/C down to 68 some days because i just couldn't stand the heat at all - hubby was loving it.
While I keep it cool because I am frugal and we like it that way - some people really do not have much choice.
I spend around $175-200 a month on heating in the winter months (fairly large single family dwelling). I have friends who spend around $400. An extra $200 on heating per month is not an option for some people.
We keep it at 62 at night and during the day when I'm the only one home. It turns on and goes up to 68 in the aM for the girls and DH to wake up to a warm house and get ready for school/work, but 9 it's set to go back down to 62. They love to sit on the heat vent when they wake up and get dressed, so this makes sure it's warm and the heat is blowing when they're wake. other than that from 3 - midnight it's at 65. Right now, I'm chilly so I have my robe on. During the day if I'm cold, I cover up with a blanket or start doing something. I stay pretty warm cleaning up or crafting or whatever. Folding clothes and watching TV I can get a little cold, so I put on a hoodie or cover up with a blanket. If I get too cold or am just freezing and can't get warm - I have the 65 - 68 window I can always turn up the heat. If it's set on 70 - I can definetly tell and it feels like a sauna in here. DH likes to crank it up - but I always know and can tell w/o even looking. He likes it warm.
This is just for the winter - we don't normally use the air conditioning in the summer. Lots of shade trees, good air flow with windows open.
we don't skimp on heating or cooling. i find it crazy to wear tons of layers when i'm the house. my husband and i have to compromise on what is "comfortable" anyway so it does tend to keep the temps in check in either direction. but, we keep it at 70 during the winter and i'd keep it on 76 during the summer, he wants 68, so we settle on 72 or so. last summer when i was pregnant i had the A/C down to 68 some days because i just couldn't stand the heat at all - hubby was loving it.
While I keep it cool because I am frugal and we like it that way - some people really do not have much choice.
I spend around $175-200 a month on heating in the winter months (fairly large single family dwelling). I have friends who spend around $400. An extra $200 on heating per month is not an option for some people.
This, and it seems incredibly wasteful to crank up the heat when it all escapes outside. We have a drafty old house and while we ARE trying to fix it, for now a lot of heat escapes. I am ashamed when I look at our energy usage! We use so much just to keep our house at a chilly temp! So while a good chunk of it is about money, it's also about the environment.
This is us as well. I have found the quality of my layers makes a big difference. I have a thin quilted thinsulate vest by LLBean which makes a huge difference for me. It is surprisingly warm. Warmer then many sweaters I own. And layered with a good quality patagonia fleece I have had for 12 years and I stay very warm. Not all fleece is actually warm. I have some cheapie fleece from lands end I save for cool summer nights because it is useless this time of year. And just because something is thick does not mean it is warm either. Good silk long underwear and sock liners are great. I have been known to leave a hat on my head. Fingerless hand warmers. Good wool or down slippers with an actual sole. I also try and not sit down for long periods of time if I can help it. Hot showers before bed.
We keep our heat at around 63-64 at night, we are all snuggled together in bed so we're toasty :) DH turns it up in the morning when he gets up very early for work - to about 68, so it's warm when we wake up. Then, I keep it consistently around 65-66 during the day. We have three blankets on the couch and we wear layers. Around here, you don't get to complain about the cold unless you have long pants, socks, and a sweater on. You don't have to wear a winter coat or anything (unrealistic if you don't have to imo) but don't you dare moan about the cold if you're in shorts and a t-shirt lol
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From 7 until 9am and 4 until 9pm the temp is set for 65. The rest of the time it's set at 60. Due to finances this is lower than we have set it in the past but we are all adjsting well. In fact I get hot and uncomfortable if the temperature reaches 68!
I'm the same as a pp, no one can complain they are cold if they are not fully dressed with a sweater over their top! I encourage my youngest to wear an undershirt and his thicker winter socks. We also have a lot of blankets on the sofa to cuddle up under. Our beds all have at least 4 thick layers on and we all go to bed with pj's on. Socks haven't been needed in bed for a while but the kids all have bed socks available just in case.
We have a small apartment so our electric bill isn't bad even though we keep it between 72 and 75. I do wear heavy clothes, use blankets, drink tea/coffee, etc. and I am STILL that cold. When it gets cooler, my hands start to hurt or get numb and my body aches. I don't know why...I'm only in my mid 20s but I have no tolerance for the cold whatsoever. It has been between 20-30 degrees here lately and I hurt just going out to my car (properly dressed for the weather). It is unfortunate because I love photographing the snow. :(
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We usually keep ours at about 67 or 68 if it's really cold. During the day I turn it down to 64 or 65 and throw on a sweatshirt. I usually sweats or sweat-shorts with socks and a tank top. Cleaning house gets me sweaty! LOL! But I actually prefer the cold.
Our housing has yet to turn on the heaters.. even though its been dipping into the 40s at night.. Burrr. Its very unseasonably cold over here (coldest its been in years) and housing is still trying to catch up. Yea, its never going to happen, by the time they get "around to us" its going to be summer. During the day we all wear long sleeves, sweaters, short sleeve shirt, skirt and leggings. Socks on the feet and sometimes if the girls get cold they will put on the gloves and hat I have in their dress up trunk (usually used for dress up, it almost never gets this cold, typical winter temps are in the 60s at the coldest). This week its not suppose to get below 50 so Im looking forward to not having to tell the kids to put clothes on and they won't be cold anymore.
As for night time, DH and both girls sleep in bed and they are quite toasty like that. I sleep on the couch (heartburn issues, only way I can sleep well is sitting partly up) with thermals and a sweater then covered by 1 or 2 blankets. Luckily the living room tends to be warmer than the rest of the house so I don't get to cold.
I am worried though for when the new baby comes. Im praying it warms up because otherwise Im worried hes going to get to cold. We don't have very many heavier blankets (1 or 2) and most of the sleepers and all we have been able to get are pretty light weight.
We keep our heat at about 65 during the day and 62 at night. We all wear a long sleeved shirt plus a sweater or sweatshirt on top, plants and smart wool socks. If I'm really cold I wear long john pants under. When we're vegging we grab a throw (my MIL and GMIL are great at keeping us supplied with gorgeous blankets they crochet). I wear birks in the house. I was raised in a house where you weren't allowed to complain about the heat unless you were wearing a sweater. I think it's a good policy.
Before our DD was born we kept the house much colder. She doesn't sleep well if it's not at least 62, so we set it there now.
Ha! At least you were allowed to complain, my dad considered paying for heat to be a waste of money.
Growing up in the northeast, I am guessing the house temp was kept at 55 degrees. Typical indoor clothing was wool socks, sheep skin slippers, one or two layers of long johns, sweat pants or jeans, turtle neck, sweater and a vest (wool or shearling) I remember sleeping with a wool cap on at times. We had a kerosine heater for the living room that was lit only at night, we huddled around it like a campfire. To get a bath in the bathtub, my mom would wheel it into the bathroom so she could comfortably soak. We used electric blankets to warm up the bed at night but turned them off before sleep.
The first time DH visited my parents' house he thought the furnace was broken. It was beyond his thinking that people, who could afford heat, choose to live without comfortable temps. To this day, we battle over the thermostat. He thinks it is his right to sit around in boxers and a t-shirt in the middle of winter.
Our downstairs is about 70-27 degrees, upstairs is 66-68 degrees.
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Hohner MIDI SqueezeBox - Tex-Mex Button Accordion CoreMIDI Control Surface
By Michael Eskin
Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
This app makes no sound by design, it's a MIDI controller for other devices. If are expecting an app that makes sound, please consider one of the other Hohner SqueezeBox apps such as the GCF SqueezeBox. Please read the description before purchasing or posting negative reviews. Several recent reviews clearly demonstrate that people buy things without even reading the description of what they are buying.
The Hohner MIDI SqueezeBox is a 31-button three-row diatonic Button Accordion CoreMIDI control surface for the iPad.
Inspired by the iconic Hohner Corona II, the app uses the standard GCF (Sol) button layout popular for Tex-Mex, Norteño, Tejano, Conjunto, Vallenato, and similar styles of button accordion.
The app doesn't produce any sound on it own, it is designed for playing hardware and software VST-style MIDI synthesizers via a CoreMIDI compatible interface connected to the dock connector or virtual MIDI instruments like IK Multimedia SampleTank® for iOS or Sonosaurus ThumbJam running on your iPad.
Please visit the app support website to see some amazing live demo videos and for the settings you will need to enable in the synth app you are using to have it work with the control surface.
Touch the buttons with the fingers on your right hand to play. Buttons highlight when playing.
Multiple buttons may be pressed at the same time to make chords.
This style of accordion plays different notes depending on whether you are pushing or pulling on the bellows.
Touch the anywhere in the bellows image at the top of the screen for PUSH notes, lift your finger for PULL notes.
The PUSH/PULL indicator shows the current bellows direction. Also, the sides of the bellows light up tracking the bellows motion
You may slide your fingers between the buttons.
Touch the MIDI connector icon at the upper left corner to show the MIDI controls.
Using the controls, you may set the overall instrument MIDI volume, MIDI modulation, MIDI channel (1-8), key attack velocity playing style (fixed or variable), velocity min/max, and transposition (+/- 12 semitones).
Both fixed and variable velocity modes are provided to allow for expressive playback. In the variable velocity modes, the X or Y touch position within the bellows sets the velocity for the notes being played. The range for the velocity is set using the Min and Max Velocity sliders.
For fixed velocity, the Max Velocity slider value is used.
You may also set the Max Velocity to less than the Min Velocity to reverse the direction for velocity mapping in the bellows touch areas.
The app is based on the standard GCF tuning. Other common tunings can be achieved by setting the transposition control.
For example, for FBbEb (Fa) tuning, set a -2 semitone transposition. For EAD (Mi) tuning, set a -3 semitone transposition.
Touch the '?' icon to show the base layout note names for each button (without transposition).
Touch the '!' icon at the top center to send an "All Notes Off" message to silence any "stuck" notes should they ever occur.
Touch the 'i' icon to show the instructions page.
All settings are saved when the app exits.
Here's the settings changes required for two popular synth apps:
IK Multimedia SampleTank:
- In Settings (touch the gear icon), enable "Background Audio"
Sonosaurus ThumbJam:
- In "Prefs", under "MIDI Control", in "MIDI General Options" enable "Use CoreMIDI" and "Active in Background"
Other CoreMIDI compatible synth apps will have similar settings.
What's New in Version 2.1
Cyborg is now the Hohner MIDI SqueezeBox!
This app makes no sound by design, it's a MIDI controller for other devices. Please read the description before purchasing or posting negative reviews. Several recent reviews clearly demonstrate that people buy things without even reading the description of what they are buying.
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Please read the description before buying - it's a MIDI controller for other synth apps
I keep seeing negative reviews that say "The app makes no sound" or "No hace ningun sonida". That's absolute right. This version of the SqueezeBox app family is a MIDI controller. It doesn't make any sound on its own. It says so right in the app description.
This app is used for controlling other CoreMIDI-compliant MIDI synthesizer apps like ThumbJam and Sample Tank, those apps make the sound, this app is for playing them.
It's exactly like using an external MIDI keyboard controller to play a synth program running on the iPad, except in this case, the controller is virtual, running on the iPad itself. The app just sends control signals to whatever synth app you run on the iPad along with this app.
If you want an app that makes accordion sounds on its own, you should be buying one of the other Hohner SqueezeBox apps, not this one. Please take the time to read the description before buying.
Fun app!
Another great app to use when you don't want to practice and don't have your accordion. Really cool being able to play different sounds. These Hohner apps are the only reason I bought an Ipad.
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It is not working fix this please cause if not i wasted 3 dollars on this for nothing i need my money back
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- Category: Music
- Updated: Nov 17, 2012
- Version: 2.1
- Size: 5.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Michael Eskin
- © 2012 Michael Eskin
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My question is why should you HAVE to tweak and tinker to get a device that works like it should? It's almost like you have to tinker with Android phones to get them to a stable and usable state. My iPhone has had the ringtone and wallpaper changed, that's it, no tinkering involved and it's perfect; no slowdowns, zero issues.
I've been in the IT business for a little while now and while I should "want" to tinker like all the other geeks, I think it's just a huge waste of time. Lots of other things in life that I would rather devote my time to. Just being honest.
I'm honestly not trolling here but it seems like manufacturers hand you a half-arsed phone with bloatware and expect you to do the rest of the job. "So I spend $200-$300 on this phone and it's only half way ready for me to use? You mean I have to tweak it to get the right memory settings just so I don't have slowdowns on my PDFs or apps? Guess I'll root and flash just to get rid of this bloat." Screw that noise. I say do it right the first time or don't do it at all.
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That's fine, then don't buy an Android phone. I want control over my hardware, so I choose Android. My Android phone is essentially a computer. Your iPhone is a phone with web access. But if that's all you need, then more power to you.
Also, most of these problems are the result of carriers trying to put new versions of Android on older hardware (crashes, slowdowns, etc.). Phone hardware has come a long way in the past couple years. It's their fault for being too aggressive with releases on their phones.
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Singer-songwriter Paul Rodgers returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a special one-off show to present work from his latest album, The Royal Sessions, alongside classic hits from his vast back-catalogue of Free and Bad Company.
The Royal Sessions consists of covers of blues, R&B and soul records that inspired Rodgers as a young singer in the mid-'60s. Recorded at Memphis' Royal Studios and produced by friend and collaborator Perry A. Margouleff, the album features many of the same players who had graced the original tracks.
This concert will see Paul Rodgers joined by Reverend Charles Hodges Sr. on the Hammond B3, bassist Leroy Hodges Jr., guitarist Michael Toles, Archie "Hubby" Turner on the Wurlitzer, drummer Steve Potts and the talented members of The Royal Singers and The Royal Horns.
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SUNDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Four of the most frequently prescribed epilepsy drugs appear to increase the risk of serious birth defects when taken early in pregnancy, a new study finds.
And the higher the dosage, the greater the risk, the international team of researchers reported in the June 6 online edition of The Lancet Neurology.
"Our results show that dose selection is as crucial as the choice of drug," the authors said in a journal news release. Their study gives doctors the opportunity to prescribe the safest anti-seizure medication at the safest level for women with epilepsy who want to get pregnant, they said.
The drugs studied were carbamazepine (Tegretol, Epitol), lamotrigine (Lamictal), valproic acid (Depakote), and phenobarbital.
The rate of birth defects was higher with increased dose for all the drugs, the researchers said, but they emphasized that the vast majority of women in their study delivered healthy children.
Most women with epilepsy need to take anti-seizure medication or risk harming themselves or their baby. Previous studies found that valproic acid, in particular, might increase the risk of birth defects, but those studies didn't look at individual doses. Nor did they take into account other influential factors, such as family history of birth defects or severity of epilepsy.
"Present guidelines caution on the use of valproic acid during pregnancy, but offer little guidance on alternative options and how to manage women whose seizures cannot be controlled by other drugs," Dr. Torbjorn Tomson, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues, said in the news release.
For their 11-year study, the researchers used data from the International Registry of Antiepileptic Drugs and Pregnancy on nearly 4,000 pregnancies in 33 countries.
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1. On a chopping board, slice the chicken breast into fine pieces cut on the bias and set aside in the fridge.
2. In a wok, add water and baking soda and bring it to a boil.
3. Once the water starts boiling, put the chicken pieces and par boil the pieces for a few minutes. Once done, remove the pieces and drain well.
4. Take the wok, discard the water and set it again on high, add oil and coat the sides of the wok well.
5. Add in the par boiled chicken, sear the pieces for 2- 3 minutes until crispy. Stir well in the peanut oil.
6. Add in the black bean garlic sauce, mix until the pieces are coated well and stir for 2 minutes.
7. Stir in the chicken broth and mix well and let this cook for 2 minutes.
8. Serve the Chinese chicken over a plate of hot rice.
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text: GamesBeat Hands on with Microsoft's slick speech-powered Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 (video) August 18, 2011 5:28 PM Matthew Lynley 0 Gaming is in its golden age, and big and small players alike are maneuvering like kings and queens in A Game of Thrones. Register now for our GamesBeat 2015 event, Oct. 12-Oct.13, where we'll explore strategies in the new world of gaming. Microsoft is rolling out a whole host of speech recognition features for its Windows Phone 7 devices and Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 consoles in a move to make the gaming experience more immersive. The new features are part of what the company refers to as the "natural user interface" (NUI). The company acquired speech recognition software developer Tellme in 2007. But there wasn't whole lot of interest in the speech recognition sector until Apple stunned the tech community by buying Siri last year — and doing nothing with it for more than a year. With the release of Microsoft's next mobile operating system update Mango and the next version of its Xbox 360 operating system, Microsoft is finally putting that technology to use. "In the living room, fundamentally, you don't want something on your lap," Ilya Bukshteyn, Tellme senior director for sales and marketing, told VentureBeat. "We want the Xbox 360 to be an application hub for the living room and move the technology out of the way." There were already a number of speech features built into the Xbox 360 dashboard, but Microsoft's NUI adds additional search features and makes it more accurate. When you say something to the Kinect, it automatically uploads that clip up to remote servers run by Microsoft that determines what you are saying and then issues a command back to the Xbox 360. The recognition is constantly improving as Microsoft's cloud servers gather more and more data. "Right about now it's about 80 or 90 percent accurate," Bukshteyn said. "But that's improving on a daily basis." Giving players new ways to control the game is one way to make the gaming experience more immersive. Microsoft has tried to market its Kinect motion controller as an "experience" by giving Xbox 360 owners ways to control other parts of their Xbox 360 with motion controls — like the menus in the console's dashboard access popular applications like Hulu and Netflix. Getting the features to catch on requires rebuilding games, even hardcore games like first-person shooters, with those same Kinect features. Adding voice controls gives gamers an array of new options, like new ways to control their squads in the role-playing game Mass Effect 3. While still controlling the series' protagonist Commander Shepherd with a regular controller, players can verbally tell their squad mates to advance on enemies and use special skills to disable them while Shepherd goes in for the kill. I had a chance to test out the new speech features recently to see first-hand how they changed the gaming experience. The voice commands are pretty accurate, and I only ran into a few issues when the Kinect didn't understand what I was saying. Gestures were also enabled at the same time, so I could wave my hand to move menus around and say something when I wanted to quickly jump to a new part of the menu. It doesn't feel like you have to do any extra work to use the NUI commands and they are pretty intuitive — it's like adding an extra button to a traditional game controller that should have always been there. Developers can tap into the Xbox 360 speech recognition features as soon as they become available, but they will have to wait a little longer to get the kind of immersion that Microsoft applications enjoy on Windows Phone 7 devices. At first, developers will have to make users launch the app before they start using speech commands (though they can launch the application with a speech command). For example, you couldn't just say "Tweet 'Hey, this music is awesome.'" Instead you would first have to go to Microsoft's Me service or jump into the Twitter application, then dictate your tweet. Those kinds of features are in the pipeline, Bukshteyn said, but there currently isn't a timeline for implementing them. You can catch a few quick hands-on presentations of both the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 NUI in action below.


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Trial date for Ira Beumer pushed back to March
EVANSVILLE - The November trial date for Ira Beumer, the Evansville man who is facing murder and other charges for a fatal vehicle pursuit of a group of men accused of robbing him at gunpoint in his home, has been moved to March 18.
Beumer was to have been tried Nov. 12 in Vanderburgh Circuit Court, but during a pretrial conference with Judge Carl Heldt and prosecutors, defense attorney David Lamont asked for the delay, according the court docket.
The trial will most likely be heard by current Superior Court Judge David Kiely, who is running unopposed to fill the Circuit Court seat that Heldt will leave vacant when he retires at the end of the year.
Beumer is next scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 12 to be informed formally of the change.A grand jury indicted Beumer, 41, after hearing evidence stemming from the investigation into his fatal vehicle pursuit of a group of men who are charged with robbing him at gunpoint in his home on Big Cynthiana Road in February.
Beumer has been on home detention with GPS tracking since he posted $2,500 bail after the May 22 court hearing in which he was charged formally. Although murder is an offense for which there is no bond in Indiana, Heldt set his bond at the amount typical of a voluntary manslaughter charge.Three men who were in the Pontiac Grand Am that Beumer struck with his Dodge Ram pickup also face criminal charges. Dezmont Hogan, 24; Nalakeio L. Bennett, 21; and Jeton Hall, 23, are charged with burglary resulting in bodily injury, criminal confinement and theft. Hall was critically injured in the crash, which also killed 22-year-old Antuan Jenkins.
Bennett was to have stood trial Nov. 12 but a new trial will be scheduled when he appears before Superior Court Judge Wayne Trockman at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 7. The case was assigned to Trockman last week.
Hogan is scheduled to be tried on Jan. 7. No trial has been scheduled for Hall yet.
Eric Weston Dunn, 23, was arrested in April in connection with the home invasion after phone records connected him to the incident. Dunn will be tried on Dec. 3 on charges of theft, armed burglary, criminal confinement and assisting a criminal.
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The Disneyland Paris that never was: Part Three: Main Street U.S.A
Here is the part two of the "Main street that never was" article, always with the brilliant comments of Main Street show-producer Eddie Sotto. We saw yesterday the 1920's Main street concept but other concepts not necessary linked to this 20's version were also never realised, and i asked Eddie more details about some of them, beginning by the one above.
"After the park opened, there were proposals to add more new experiences. Between the entrance to the Discovery Arcade and the Camera Store is a façade that we were going to renovate into what you see here. This was bringing the multiscreen history of silent film to Main Street. I knew this was a very hard sell, but I am personally passionate about silent and early film. Keaton, Linder, Chaplin, Louise Brooks, George Meiles and more would be on going in this exhibit. There would also be handcranked Mutoscopes and other machines that guests could look into and experience early film. Of course, there was no way anyone would want to do this. So we have a sketch to remember it by! I would've loved to see this come true. There also was an evolution of this idea that was a video store except the videos were previewed by turning a crank on the antique Muto scope machines. The name "Buffalo Nickel" arcade was first coined at Knott's Berry Farm where I had worked years earlier.
Below, this is the concept where a video store has demonstrations of coming Video attractions in the movieolas. You could crank the chapters of the video forward and back by using the handle so it really was a way of sampling upcoming movies. This was to go between the camera store and the Discovery arcade facing town square. I thought this might work, but they never went any further.
This next sketch was intended to depict what would happen if we decorated the interior of the Main Street Transportation Company. This may have been done after opening as an enhancement. Ever since we first designed it, the Main Street Transportation building was intended to display the live horses that pulled the trolleys. Being able to go in and pat the horses would be a very nice payoff to such a dominant building.
The original intent at the end of market Street - rendering below - was to cross the arcade and go through three arches which would take you outdoors and they are would-be wagons with all kinds of things to eat. This area still has arches and doors so at some point you could create a courtyard and do food carts out there. What's the point of having a market Street without an open-air market? So in this sketch I showed people in the arcade and then sunlight leading to the far left of where market Street would enter.
Barbara Wightman did this next drawing and I believe it was primarily intended to be a concept for a bakery and was very early in our interiors explorations.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The annual Texas Law Fellowships' Spring Pledge Drive began March 6 and wrapped up with the annual Pledge Drive party on March 24. By the final hour, TLF raised over $49,000. Combined with funds that TLF has raised all year, TLF will fund 21 law students working for public interest organizations this summer.
"Pledge Drive continues to show that public interest work is supported by the entire UT Law School community," said TLF President Jaime Richards.
Once again, first year law students led the Pledge Drive effort, raising over $24,000 of the Drive total. Many 2Ls and 3Ls gave in large numbers as well, motivated in part by the possibility that law firms where they will clerk over the summer have pledged to match their donations.
Last year TLF received over $8,000 from law firm matches. "This year we hope to double and maybe even triple the amount of money TLF generates from firm matches," say Carlos Romo, one of the coordinators of this year's pledge drive.
This year's Pledge Drive slogan was "What a difference a day's pay makes." In the end, thirty-three students gave a "day's pay" or more. One 1L even gave a "week's pay." The result: TLF fellows will receive a day's pay for their work in the public interest.
There were ten international and foreign law fellowships awarded by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, with assistance from the Cain Foundation and five fellowships from the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.
The list of winning TLF applicants is available at TLF's website: www.texaslawfellowships.org.
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Texas Law Fellowships (TLF) is an entirely student run, 501(c)(3) tax exempt, non-profit organization devoted to funding law students in pursuit of public interest careers. Every year since 1986, students who have been offered an unpaid summer clerkship with a non-profit legal organization apply to receive up to $3800 each from TLF. The $3800 fellowships are made possible by the donations, pledges, and contributions from students, faculty, staff, firms, organizations, and the community. TLF raises money by organizing events and contacting private benefactors. Among TLF's most important fund-raising events is the Spring Pledge Drive.
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Out In the Silence
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Following the story of a small American town confronting a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement in the local newspaper, this gripping documentary illustrates the challenges of being an outsider in a conservative rural community and the change that is possible when courageous people break the silence and search for common ground. Out in the Silence will challenge you to rethink your values and help close the gaps that divide our communities.
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Incredible Story
I happened to see this on PBS in State College and was amazed by how tough it still is to be "different" in a small town in Pennsylvania. What I really liked about the film is that all the characters are so real. The kid CJ is just a typical teen who happens to be gay, his Mom is so brave, the two women are classic small town characters, and the head of the American Family Association is a complete closet case. This was as good as most fictional films I've seen.
Look's Like A Great Documentary
As myself being a gay man who through out high school kept my sexuality hidden away because of this truly shows the emotion and drama people go through not just where you live but in the world. This documentary isn't worth $14.99 I'll maybe buy it when its $9.99 so I can check it myself =].
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This film represents the best in citizen journalism by combining social activism with artful storytelling. It's the sort of movie you can't wait to tell your friends about.
It all starts out when the filmmaker puts the announcement of his wedding to another man in the newspaper of his small, conservative hometown, which he had left (for obvious reasons) right after high school. It turn out that the town is now the headquarters for a rabid family values groups, and needless to say the head of it is none to pleased with the "homosexual agenda" invading her domain. An avalanche of nasty letters and threats ensues.
The story heads in a different direction when the mother of a gay teen who is being tormented at school reads the announcement and reaches out to the filmmaker for help. The struggle she and her son have against the school system becomes the major storyline of the film.
Once back in town, the filmmaker meets a series of additional characters whose stories enfold under his camera.
There is a lesbian couple who decide to renovate a beautiful old theater. The question of whether they will be able to get it up and running, and how the town will react, becomes an important subplot. There is also a hilarious scene involving who has the bigger chainsaw.
Then there is a fundamentalist Christian minister and his wife who start out strongly critical but, as they get to know him better, become friends with the filmmaker and his husband.
And there is the town itself, struggling with economic depression and trying to make a new start, both financially and socially. It is a beautiful town and the cinematography is lush.
Unlike many films on this topic, OUT IN THE SILENCE is full of comical moments. And in the end, even though there are many difficulties, it is a story of hope and optimism. But I don't want to spoil the surprise ending to this lovely and inspiring tale, so I'll just end by saying that although this is a film about gay and lesbian issues, it deserves to be seen by everyone.
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