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Alegro Family Vacation Condo is an Award winning, top rated, garden view vacation property that is constantly updated and refurbished. It's at 3000 feet with good breezes through the Santa Ana valley, just west of Escazú, Costa Rica.
NOTE: Coming by mid year, extra features like a gas BBQ on the patio, new patio umbrella & top quality bread machine to create an even better kitchen and living experience.
Even though it's easier to have a rental vehicle (Parklands can have you welcomed at the airport and shuttled to the condo, as well as get you honest quotes and have the vehicle of your choice delivered to the condo) Optionally: Buses are every hour during the day. Walking distance to upscale small supermarket/deli/bakery and restaurants. Van & Driver quotes are available for small groups and fun day tours from the condo organized by Parklands' Travel.
Alegro Family Vacation Condo has premium features for couples, families and small groups of friends. This lodging option is Peaceful, Relaxing, Comfortable and Safe - A beautiful quality upscale condo in the green belt, on the western edge of the city, with second-to-none customer attention, just 20 minutes from downtown San Jose, and 50 minutes from Pacific Beaches.
Alegro Family Vacation Condo has a garden view and is conveniently near a children's playground, but located safely away from the pool. The two adult and two children's swimming pools are just a quick one minute walk, but they are far enough removed to avoid the annoying noise, group parties, and loud conversations that poolside condos suffer!
Start your Costa Rican day with a great coffee or juice under the large umbrella on your spacious private terrace with a view of beautiful landscaped tropical gardens and the play area. With the morning year-round sunshine, walk in the green zones, later, relax in the swimming pools, grab a game of tennis, freshen up, and head out for some shopping at the supermarket/deli/bakery or a great lunch at one of the restaurants/cafes just 10 minutes safe walk away, then head home, call in local grilled chicken, or pizza, light the candles, pour the wine, and just sit back, snuggle between Alegro's big cushions and enjoy a great movie or mini series on the huge 50" flat-screen TV, before relaxing in a wonderful bed with a great book, and then getting a fantastic night's rest.
Alegro Family Vacation Condo is located in the fast-growing south-west of San Jose, with direct easy access to Prospero Fernandez Expressway and Caldera Highway (Route 27) - the fastest highway in Costa Rica. The condo is just 6 minutes west from the Forum in Lindora/Santa Ana, 12 minutes west from Multiplaza Escazu Mall, and 20 minutes west from Parque Sabana Sur, downtown San Jose. You will also be about 15 minutes south from SJO - San Jose Airport, and less than 50 minutes from the Pacific Coast. Alegro Premium Vacation Condo has a unique location, with amazing (can't get lost) fast expressway access via the new 27 highway. With your rental car or by taxi, you feel so close to the most modern zones of San Jose, but then you realize just how close you are to the volcanoes and the Pacific beaches for day trips, too.
Alegro Family Vacation Condo is ideal for couples, families or small groups of friends...with it's outdoor patio with BBQ for dining under the umbrella, two bathrooms, two private bedrooms plus a den area, and two more couches that can be converted into sleeping space. Sleeps 1 to 5 ideally, and up to 8 (and could sleep up to 11 for a small group short-stay for a night or two of debrief before heading to the airport or for the first nights to recover and brief after arriving in Costa Rica).
This modern vacation condo enjoys modern ceiling fans and corner fans throughout, good screens are on all windows for your comfort and safety, a nice landscaped garden view towards the kids play area, BBQ areas, and the pool. It's very clean, tastefully furnished and comes with a modern fully equipped kitchen.
For fun, there's international cable TV on three flat screen TVs, BluRay movies, wireless broadband internet, free secure parking for your rental car, and even a washing machine and dryer.
As a Parklands Central Valley guest, you will enjoy complimentary access to the beautiful swimming pools (kids and adults), kids play ground, tennis courts ($), basket ball courts, doggy park, park lands and lagoon (feed the ducks!), running trail as well as to the charcoal BBQ Kiosk areas near the pool (with advance reservation). Guests get 20% off the menu at the local Italian/Mediterranean restaurant, just 10 minutes walk from the condo.
Optional daily housekeeping can be arranged. Weekly housekeeping is often included in extended stays but must be requested and included in any quote.
Please message us for more info if you see Alegro Family Vacation Condo is booked for your dates, Parklands also exclusively offers the beautiful Cedro Premium Vacation Condo in the same building on the 7th (top) floor (with elevator), as well as other modern premium condos in Costa Rica's Central Valley (Real Cariari & Downtown / Paseo Colon / La Sabana - in San Jose/Central Valley of Costa Rica) as well as Panama.
Parklands Group's good value premium condo rates are hard to beat when it comes to the quality! Amazing facilities, comfort, security and free recreational activities that are all included. We sometimes have simple budget condos we can make available for those not needing so much comfort and amenities and full customer service, so please write! Feel free to check our rates and geographical area by clicking 'Check Rates'.
Reservations will also only be processed by email and your down payment is the first step to guarantee your dates. We want the chance to better the price of similar accommodation quotes and services you might be considering. So eMail us ASAP and let's talk! :-) We want to always offer the best value and the best condo stay in Costa Rica!
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We started by buying a condo and began creating and designing a beautiful living area inside, to match the beauty of the landscaped park lands outside. As more and more folk chose to stay, we improved what has become Alegro Family Vacation Condo. We also created more beautiful properties throughout the Central Valley and a range of complementary services so our guests wouldn't need to worry about their stays. We are professional travel planners for anyone needing authentic honest help in Costa Rica & Panama.
Parklands Group purchased this condo in 2010
We loved the location, the 24/7 safety for kids, and the beautiful green tropical landscaping, play ground, pools and parks as well as the way you can walk 10 minutes safely to the supermarket open from 6am to 10:30pm, and the cafes/restaurants, too. We liked the condo having a spacious outdoor patio was a real bonus for outdoor dining and drinks. We added a Gas BBQ. And the umbrella gives guests privacy.
While it's easiest to have a vehicle, this is a modern secure lifestyle complex, with pools, parks and space that is safe and there is public bus available each hour during the day. We love the view of the kids play area, landscaped gardens and park with pond, the large condo patio, too :-) We love the close-ness to everything. A day trip to the Pacific beaches, just minutes from the coolest mall in the country, and all the other modern amenities of the capital and airport. We love the safety, the green spaces, the clean air, and the weather. Close to San Jose (and with fast access) but not right in the city.
We very much appreciated how the condo felt like our home during our stay. It made our trip a lot more authentic than if we had stayed at a hotel. We explored almost all the Central Valley and we absolutely loved the beauty, tranquility and great vibe of Costa Rica. The Poas waterfall (and butterflies) was a great activity and the cultural night a very entertaining and cute experience. Pura Vida!
It's great a place, it's safe and you would have Poalo available for any help and suggestions, his service was fantastic. We will go back!
Let me start by saying how wonderful Paolo and Sara are. They are the kindest and most attentive rental owners I've ever met. Even on the weekend when office hours are suppose to be closed I will still get a quick response from them. They have been a wealth of knowledge, always forseeing possible problems and offering alternatives, and they are quick to offer suggestions/opinions without coming off as rude. We have thanked our lucky stars that we've taken their advice over many suggestions because it had definitely enhanced our experienced or made things easier for us. They even stopped by to say hi on our last night. Such a cute couple!
With that said, the rental property we stayed in was amazing. The rooms were spacious and clean. Everything was modern and in great shape. I loved that it was on the first floor and a short walk from the front door of the building.The community around this complex is really nice. There's a lake within walking distance, a playground right in front of our unit, and a pool just a quick walk from there. The location was perfect. With a rental car it was a quick 15 min. drive to the main area of San Jose. We have two children under the age of 6 and I much prefer staying outside of the downtown area to avoid all the hustle and bustle. Aside from the sound of the wind (and it got REALLY windy!) we were never disturbed by human noises when we were in our bedrooms. The beds were very comfortable and I loved having a washer/dryer unit in the condo. If we ever returned to the area we will no doubt use Parklands again!
I stayed at this 2 bedroom unit in March 2015 and was thrilled with the comfort provided by the owners. This vacation rental is ideal for families, with a children's play ground and swimming pool closeby.The eating bar is perfect for entertaining and the kitchen has everything you may need if cooking meals instead of eating out, although there are several great restaurants closeby. Alegro is a short distance from the airport and Highway 27 , which will take you to the west coast of CR, so driving here is not an issue.Quiet, safe, and uncrowded, Allegro feels like 'home'
I stayed at this Condo with my younger kids and my grandkids. They had a ball, the pool was wonderful and so was the play ground, they even had a see-saw haven't seen one of those in years. The owner was very attentive to power needs, everything we needed was provided, it was home away from home.
Our family of five stayed for almost a week. While on the outside of San Jose, the condo serves as an absolute oasis! It's incredibly well-equipped, clean & in a great, little, condo neighborhood. Paolo provided fantastic suggestions, service & support. We never would have experienced the rafting, coffee tour, water falls & city destinations without his advice & attentiveness. This is a such a great location for families because you can serve yourself in a great kitchen with comfortable spaces throughout, and you easily can access activities that make Costa Rica a great, energetic destination!
My family of five (two adults, three teenagers) stayed in this condo managed by Paolo & Sara Wright. The condo is exactly as presented on the site and very, very well equipped. We had all the supplies we needed and all questions answered within minutes of phone or email contact. Paolo & Sara went above and beyond to help us get setup with great activities, including river rafting, a coffee tour and a trip to the La Paz waterfall gardens. Paolo also sent us to a fantastic little wood factory where they hand-make all the beautiful Costa Rican wood jewelry, place mats, wood chimes, etc. that you will find at souvenier shops throughout the country--and for much, much cheaper. We loved seeing how things were made and talking with the staff who make the products. The grounds of the complex are beautiful, the pool tranquil and the tennis courts just a short walk. Paolo provided directions anywhere we needed, and he even set us up with some DVDs for late evenings in. We had a great stay just outside San Jose easily accessing the amazing activities in the area. We also had a great time cooking some meals in because the kitchen and house have everything we needed. Lastly, we had great instructions on everything related to the condo because of a well-organized binder (this is not the case with some home-stay rentals). Thanks so much to Paolo & Sara for a great stay. We definitely will recommend this apartment to anyone--for so many reasons!
Beaches, Volcanoes, Canopy, Zip-lining, White Water Rafting, City, Culture, rivers, festivals, day tours, typical food, night clubs, restaurants, shopping malls.
Other Activities: BBQ-Grilling, Birdwatching, Aircraft Watching
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Parklands is professional and tries to make the booking process easy, even though guests must take a little time to confirm their data and responsibility. Alegro Premium Condo is in a lovely residential complex where family PG rated activities are the norm. No drugs, no drunkenness, no loud noise or parties, and no prostitutes or similar is permitted. All guests will be required to name their party ahead of time when they sign an agreement of responsibility online and supply passport info and flight info - all this is required before receiving the final check in details, codes and key pick up confirmation.
* Just a cheap $30-$45 (depends on day or night and size of group) Personalized Airport Welcome and Transfer to your condo in order to avoid delays, stress and getting lost before check in. (Not mandatory when not arriving by plane, but highly recommended for a stress-free check in)
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* One young child up to 5 years old FREE if not using extra bed
* Guest signs online agreement, shares copy of ID, & makes down payment before dates guaranteed.
* No visitors allowed unless paid for as registered guests for the total length of main guest stay.
* Approximate monthly rate. Actual rate will depend on the days of the month you stay.


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The bus seat quality is very poor. the push back seat was not working, leg rest is broken, water bottle holder is broken. not worthy travel for the amount we had paid.
Decent journey...good mostly because of the roads rather than the bus....bus was a bit rickety, but not much issues
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"I Feel Like Kony Won"
"The End of Invisible Children"
That's the headline BuzzFeed trumpeted in December of last year, seemingly declaring the end of the one of the stormiest social justice ventures in recent memory. By the mid 2000s, Invisible Children had become shorthand for a new kind of activism—one that mobilized the global community through social media, bridging the then-stark gap between online communities and real-life action with millennial-savvy, storytelling chops and unbridled sincerity.
But a funny thing happened on the way to being the voice of a justice-hungry generation. A lot of funny things, actually. In the last few years, Invisible Children has been a roller coaster, a journey fraught with teetering highs, falls and disorienting loops.
The BuzzFeed headline was a little sensational, as it turned out. This year, Invisible Children is closing down its headquarters, reducing its staff from 22 to just a handful of people working remotely. It will no longer produce the sort of viral content that made it famous—but it does not plan on closing. Not yet.
It's one more fact jumble in an organization that has been dealing with them for over a decade; one more twist in which Invisible Children had to issue a handful of clarifying statements to whichever supporters and detractors will care to look past the headlines.
"I would say Invisible Children is not closing," the organization's co-founder, Jason Russell, says from his California home. "It is now focused on its mission statement, which is to dismantle the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army] and bring as many women, children and combatants home.
"The hardest part is getting this end and getting people to stick with you till the end. And in order to do that, [former CEO] Ben Keesey and myself and a bunch of us on management staff decided to forfeit our jobs and hand the baton off to the four people who have proven they have the tenacity and expertise to get the job done."
So Invisible Children is not closing, exactly, but they have entered a newer, lower-profile chapter—one that marks the organization's twilight years as it seeks to hand over its key programs in Africa to local groups.
It's an interesting switch, and for Russell, an admittedly difficult end. There was a time when it seemed Invisible Children had truly happened upon a viable recipe for changing the world—they created a sort of kickstarter (to borrow a term from a company they predated by half a decade) for making a difference. But with Russell leaving and the group's fortunes changing, their prospects mirror the fading hopes of the generation they once whipped into an inspirational frenzy.
In a way, we've all had to learn together that changing the world is no picnic. And the question we're left with is a simple, but haunting one: What now?
In the Beginning
Invisible Children started in 2004, but their story really begins in 2003, when Russell and two friends traveled to Uganda with only one aim: to find an interesting story and make an interesting movie out of it.
To say they were successful is like saying Alexander the Great had a healthy ego. They happened upon hundreds of Ugandan children—many of them orphans from the nation's lengthy civil war—attempting to avoid being kidnapped and brainwashed into the LRA, a terrorist group run by the ruthless and enigmatic Joseph Kony.
They captured powerful footage of kids sleeping in mass huddles near hospitals and bus stops, hoping their numbers would deter attacks. They nabbed interviews with children who had seen friends and family members murdered in front of their eyes.
All of this was turned into Invisible Children: Rough Cut, a film they screened on college campuses all over America, galvanizing one of the first waves of millennial college students into steely resolve. It's a time Russell looks back on fondly.
"There was something very nostalgic and magical," he says of that first trip. "The trip was really hard on [fellow filmmakers] Laren and Bobby and I, when you look back on the details of how it rolled out and what had to happen in order for us to find this very hidden conflict. The U.N. at the time called it 'the most forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today.' That's what they called it the year we were there. That's amazing."
The movie spurred a few things. First of all, Invisible Children became an IRS-certified nonprofit, and then the nonprofit became a phenomenon.
In 2006, when Invisible Children organized a "global night commute" in 125 cities around the world, asking people to spend the night in parks and public places to raise awareness for Uganda's child soldiers, over 80,000 volunteers responded. Three years later, at "The Rescue," 85,000 people got involved, including senators, state representatives and Oprah. Invisible Children became a real movement.
And then came "Kony 2012."
Making Invisible Children Famous
To get the full effect of the "Kony 2012" campaign, it's important to remember the climate of 2012. The U.S. was in the middle of a bitter presidential campaign, her post-recession fortunes far from certain. The country was politically split, and millennial apathy was soaring (only about half of all millennials ended up voting in the election).
It was on to this scene that Invisible Children released "Kony 2012," a 30-minute YouTube video that acted as a call to arms for volunteers to "make Joseph Kony famous."
The idea was simple enough. The people with the power and means to stop Joseph Kony would only do so if there was a public demand. Raise the public demand, and you tighten the noose. The video, released on March 5, 2012, called for volunteers to participate in an April 20 campaign called "Cover the Night," in which posters, stickers and "Kony 2012" memorabilia would be littered across the world—effectively turning Kony into the global community's public enemy No. 1.
In one week, the video had reached 100 million views.
The metrics of online success are difficult to quantify, but Time magazine declared it to be the most viral video of all time, and that would be difficult to disprove. But perhaps even more impressive than the video's viral success was its ability to inspire beyond the share button. "Kony 2012" got 1.4 million YouTube "likes," but garnering 3.7 million pledges of support is the real eyebrow-raiser. Invisible Children's influence extended offline.
"I know technology connects us, but in the end, we're very, very social," Russell theorizes. "Already, millennials are seeing the limitations social media brings. Yeah, we're all connected and we feel cool about it and we love this tool. But more than anything, we want to see each other and be in a place that's like the real human touch. And that's what Invisible Children has constantly and consistently been about."
At this point, it bears mentioning that Russell is saying all this the day after he officially left Invisible Children, the organization he started. He still refers to them as "we," which will clearly be a tough habit to break. He's immensely proud of his team's work.
"I see the outpouring of the work of Invisible Children, what it's been able to do, and I think that in some ways—and this might sound arrogant—we were ahead of our time. Usually, when people or organizations or ideas are ahead of their time, they're very criticized at first."
In Invisible Children's case, that would be putting it mildly.
More Kony, More Problems
"Do I think they steered people in the right direction or gave them the right set of information they need to make good decisions? No."
Dr. Chris Blattman is an associate professor at Columbia who worked on a tracking study in the mid '00s on war-affected youth in Uganda. His wife spent years in Uganda as both a researcher and humanitarian aid worker. He first saw Invisible Children: Rough Cut while he was a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. At the time, he had only been to Northern Uganda once and was "by no means an expert."
"I saw [the Invisible Children crew] around from time to time in Northern Uganda," he recounts. "They're kind of an inescapable presence. They were becoming very well-known, certainly."
In a series of blogs posted in the aftermath of "Kony 2012," Blattman took Invisible Children to task.
"Successful advocacy often tells a simple story," he wrote. "Simple stories usually lead to simple solutions; and simple solutions can do more harm than help. If you want to help, your first duty is to make sure you don't make things worse."
As the blowback against "Kony 2012" gained steam, the core of the counter-narrative was generally some version of Blattman's critique. Unlike many detractors, however, Blattman hedged his criticisms. Both in his writing at the time and today, he takes great pains to give Invisible Children its due credit.
"For all its weaknesses, Invisible Children has been more effective than any of us at raising awareness, and they may get us closest to the least worst action we can take," he wrote. "They can get better, and I hope this time they do."
He has a similar perspective today.
"I feel like Kony won. And everyone should sit with that. It is something to be grappled with. Kony is still winning." —Jason Russell
"There were things I really liked and there were things I didn't," he says of Invisible Children.
He notes that Russell and the other filmmakers carried a sense of humility in what they did and "they didn't hide their naiveté … I liked that."
"But I was critical of their sort of cavalier attitude and maybe some of the styles of advocacy they're emblematic of. 'We can go and save these kids!' is a very useful device for getting people involved, but eventually, it's kind of misleading, and it leads you to pick often very bad, inappropriate policies and approaches."
The actual ground zero for the "Kony 2012" pushback began in another corner of the Internet, a blog titled "Visible Children." A post there, published on March 8, was not nearly as moderate in its criticisms as Blattman's posts were.
"Do I have a better answer? No, I don't," the post stated. "But that doesn't mean that you should support 'Kony 2012' just because it's something. Something isn't always better than nothing. Sometimes it's worse."
That post was written by Grant Oyston—at the time, a sociology and political science student at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. His post gained 1.3 million views overnight, and he became something of an anti-Invisible Children figurehead in the ensuing months, much to his chagrin.
He considered himself then, as he does now, an aggregator of expert critiques. He's articulate and deferential—the years seem to have cooled some of his early rancor—but he's still unimpressed by Invisible Children.
"There were two main categories of criticisms that were being brought up regarding the video itself and the tone it used and the way it portrayed the history of the story it was telling," Oyston says.
The first criticism had to do with the film—saying it failed to present an accurate picture of the situation in Uganda, what Oyston calls "misleading or ethically dubious storytelling devices."
"People felt that it was oversimplified, it was somewhat patronizing. It had this narrative device of using a small child and telling it as a story of good vs. evil in a sort of simplified, direct way," he says. "They were doing things like using footage that indicated the conflict was bigger than it currently was. They were using that kind of footage without identifying the date of the footage—which was maybe five or six years old when this conflict was substantially larger."
The second accusation was about Invisible Children itself, and it's a common criticism of nonprofit organizations: Oyston took issue with how Invisible Children handled donations.
"People felt that their money would be going to direct action, when in fact, a lot of what their budget is going to is what they describe as a program expense. Essentially, it's awareness raising and lobbying. There was concern from some camps that what needed to be done was not lobbying as much as on-the-ground work supporting victims."
Oyston points out that Invisible Children may have had good reason for being vague about what, exactly, people's donations were funding.
"You were funding efforts to send people with guns into an African country, or funding efforts to lobby for America to send in advisers for the local-owned military and paramilitary groups to go in, guns blazing to kill someone," he says. "It's difficult to raise money for that."
Reaping and Sowing
The pendulum swing back on "the most viral video" of all time put Invisible Children in the uncomfortable position of playing defense. The organization swiftly put together a response on their website (which quickly crashed owing to the sheer volume of traffic), a move even the group's most adamant critics speak of highly.
Briefly put, Invisible Children didn't back down—they were filmmakers and storytellers at heart, and any perceived oversimplification was only in the best interest of telling a coherent narrative.
"This work is so nuanced and so layered," Russell says. "As a storyteller, your job is to quantify, like bring it all together and simply present it to a 14-year-old high school student."
Russell is a kind person, too kind to speak very negatively of the many, many personal attacks he endured in those times. He's more critical of himself than he is of them.
"You always say, 'Gosh, why didn't I try to sleep? Why didn't I go away instead of putting a very weird and bizarre twist on what could have been much more successful, as far as getting the story out there?'"
In case you don't know, that "weird and bizarre twist" was the low point of Invisible Children's existence. On March 15, 2012—just when the backlash against "Kony 2012" reached its peak—Russell suffered a public breakdown. A video of it was released online. He's naked. He's slapping the pavement, screaming obscenities, shouting about the devil.
The Internet had a field day. TMZ released the footage with its trademark snarky carnival barker voiceover. Twitter went ballistic. Former celebrity allies distanced themselves.
Russell was placed on a psychiatric hold and shortly thereafter appeared, fully clothed and composed, to apologize. He said it was the result of a brutal cocktail of stress, exhaustion, dehydration and anger. He still says that.
"Every day that goes by and Kony is allowed to be free, it sends a clear message to the rest of the world that you can get away with murdering children, mutilating people's faces, displacing—some count as many as 4 million people displaced from this man," Russell says.
"He has no political power. He has no money. And yet he has somehow managed to outsmart and outlast the billions of dollars our world spends on military power and intelligence. When you think about that chasm, it should make you want to run naked in the streets."
Even with Russell's apologies and Invisible Children's response, the blow was nearly fatal. A follow-up film, "Kony 2012 Part II: Beyond Famous," ably responded to the first film's critics, but received a fraction of the attention. The April 20 "Cover the Night" campaign suffered from abysmal turnout amid the swirling negative press.
"'We can go and save these kids!' is a very useful device for getting people involved, but eventually, it's kind of misleading." —Chris Blattman
Invisible Children has continued to work and raise awareness in the ensuing three years, but things were different.
"It was harder to book screenings," Russell says. "It was harder to get people to fundraise and continue the work."
At the end of 2014, they made the announcement that caused the BuzzFeed snafu.
"We thought there was the pendulum swinging to this really dramatic almost hyperbolic ending," he explains. "And then we realized, 'We don't need to close. We don't need the millions of dollars of funding to continue the work.' The work we're doing on the ground, if given the right amount of funding, can live on into 2015 and beyond.
"And so we had the difficult task of branding what has now been somewhat confusing—and I get the confusion—that Invisible Children is not closing. It's just focusing, and it's going to look different than it has in the past."
A big part of that difference, of course, will be Russell's lack of involvement.
"I always thought my final day would be around the day we capture or remove Kony from the battlefield. So it's been challenging as a storyteller to wrap my head around the fact that this isn't how the story's going to end, or at least the story's going to look different."
This clearly pains him, and while he knows that his story is "messy," he defends his intentions. He also seems baffled that anyone would want to stand in the way of a group so clearly bent on trying to make a difference.
"When polled in 2010 by Harris of the Harris Poll, they found that one out of four people believe they have a responsibility to make the world a better place by being involved in causes or issues," he says. "That statistic shows us that three out of four people are actually on the sidelines. They don't believe that they have the responsibility to make the world a better place. I think that really is the systemic core issue."
According to Russell, that has serious implications far beyond the life or death of the organization he helped start.
"I feel like Kony won," he says. "And everyone should sit with that. It is something to be grappled with. I mean, yes, we've made a lot of achievements. Out of the five commanders, three have been removed from the battlefield since 2012, and the defection and the 92 percent reduction in LRA violence since 2011—on that front, we should be proud.
"I shouldn't be a Debbie Downer, but that should be a conviction that we all feel as the human species. Not just as an American. Everyone should feel the way that the No. 1 war criminal for war crimes and crimes against humanity is still free. Is still free. Kony is still winning."
Jason Russell in the empty offices of Invisible Children
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Russell is right. Insofar as Invisible Children's mission was to bring Joseph Kony to justice, it has not been successful.
But there are larger, less tangible aspects to the movement it started. And victory there is a bit more difficult to quantify.
Blattman poses an interesting thought experiment:
"Imagine you had some really well-meaning Japanese high school student who is really motivated by what he sees on the television about Ferguson. He shows up in Ferguson and he wants to help, he wants to make a difference. He doesn't speak English, doesn't have much money. What's that person going to do other than get hurt or cause trouble? Nothing whatsoever.
"Now imagine this guy was a millionaire. Whatever this guy does is just going to be a disaster. How could it not be? You look at that and it's obvious. Just try to put yourself on the other side of this. Now we're the Japanese billionaires. We're just as foreign. We're just as clueless. We're just as relatively wealthy."
Blattman's analogy echoes a familiar sentiment that began around the time of "Kony 2012" and has followed in the wake of every viral social justice campaign since. The big question is: Does it do any good?
Oyston's response is "largely, no."
"Anyone can change the world, but it's difficult. It's not going to be a simple, direct matter." —Grant Oyston
"Every time you see these viral things and everyone hopping on board, obviously it's a hit to your own self-esteem. 'I did something good today. I did something productive today. I poured some money into helping people save lives.' It's something people do because they want to feel a little bit better about themselves, that they've done something good for the day."
And he says Invisible Children played into this mindset to their own detriment.
"Invisible Children tries to teach you that anyone can change the world and that it's easy. You need to click, you need to give, you need to share and that's the way forward," Oyston says.
"I think my message is, anyone can change the world, but it's difficult. If you're serious about making a difference, it's not going to be a simple, direct matter. There are problems in the world that have straightforward, direct answers, and we've fixed them. The problems that remain are complicated and difficult, and you can't just sort of jump in and play a significant role in resolving them. If you want to do this, it's a long-term commitment."
Blattman is a bit more measured in his criticism. He understands the urge to make a difference—he has felt it himself. Who hasn't?—he just thinks the enthusiasm needs to be channeled differently.
"I don't think anyone will disagree that [Invisible Children] raised awareness," he says. "That's good. They were showing this movie in Congress, for goodness sake. I think it's really important to say, 'Is that enough?' They exceeded any reasonable expectations, but the second and third time, after they've been doing this for years and years and years, it's harder to say, 'Yeah, that was good enough.'"
Blattman doesn't doubt Invisible Children's intentions. He's not cynical about the intentions of their supporters and fans. He just questions whether they were fully prepared for the mission they set out for.
"I think it's great when people feel this way," he says. "I felt this way as a young person. The number one piece of advice I give to people is to basically go into it with humility. Understand that at least at first there's very little you can do to help.
"In some sense, you have to understand what's going on before you can be effective. Trying to make a commitment to a place or to a topic, a question or an issue and really investing in that is important."
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While there are many differences, there are some similarities that I noticed while reading this, between the Invisible Children idealism and the idealism of the hippie movement of the last century. Our goal was peace and, many times it seemed that we believed it could come about by talking about it. This article mentions the awakening to the reality that big changes require enormous work, dedication, and support. One of the reasons why I attend a mission- focused church is that I believe I am actually making a difference.
I'm not sure if melancholy is the right response to IC's shut-down. They we're never going to physically remove Kony. They ran an incredible awareness campaign that got the attention of the ones who could do something.
I think what they did was brilliant. It was the catalyst for others who are bringing awareness to other injustices we may never hear about in the West.
I'm thankful for Jason and the entire Invisible Children team. It's easy to talk from the sidelines. In his case, he saw a problem and stepped up to become a part of the solution - and while Kony is yet to be captured, a lot of positive results have come from the work of IC. It's people like Jason that have inspired me to talk less and do more for others. I thank him. As for his critics, I won't listen to what anyone says about him until I see how they are playing a part in the solution.
Thank you for this article. I didn't know much about IC before Kony 2012 went viral, but I liked what I saw. Honestly, I was amazed that they were able to capture the youth culture and influence government actions in the way that they did. Of course, viral fame doesn't come without huge backlash. And it's sad that the backlash led to the scaling down of IC's operations. I'm happy to hear that, even though Kony hasn't been brought to justice, IC is continuing its mission through the community leadership and programs that they started. I have respect for Jason Russell and the rest of the IC team for bringing light to a largely unknown (to most of the public) conflict. While IC was not without its faults, it did see some great strides being made in the fight against the LRA and Joseph Kony.
No, I disagree with Blattman. It's not comparable to Ferguson & the Japanese billionaire. You can't compare the two situations because they're apples and oranges. If my family was actively being murdered I would beg the Japanese billionaires with access to people who could stop the killing...yes I would. I disagree wholeheartedly with this man. No, we can't be perfect. But yes, we can make changes. Thank God for Jason Russell. Thank God he wasn't paralyzed by fear--like all the rest of us--and went for it! And we shouldn't be scared to act because "we don't know what we're getting ourselves into". There is no way to know. But good intentions and trying ARE helpful. How dare this man discourage his audience from acting. I am so sickened that he discourages action because we can't do EVERYTHING... what a mistake. God calls us to people that are doers of our faith.


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Directions to Il Ramingo B&BAddress: Via S.Donato 300, S.Donato, Lucca, Italy
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Directions to Il Ramingo B&B
HOW TO GET TO THE B&B: From the motorway: Take the exit "LUCCA OVEST". When you are out side from the motorway you have to take the 1st right, then the 1st left. Turn right at the traffic light, this is via s.donato and the b&b is on the left side of the street after the train rail. You can park your car for free in the street next to the B&B or in the garden of the house, if there is a place available when you arrive here. By public transport: The easiest ways from the train station are: Take the city bus LAM-LINEA ROSSA (Chiasso-San Concordio) .The bus stop is outside the train station, on the left. You can buy the ticket at the bar of the train station or at the newsagent. Please, tell the driver that you have to get off near Via San Donato, at the beginning of the street there is an ice cream shop called "Il Gelatone" (Da Palmiro). OR Take a taxi, it's about 5 minutes. OR If your luggage is not too heavy you can walk thought the city center and ask for via S.Donato; it's around 25 -30 minutes from the train station. Please, see below the link to reach the B&B from the train station: https://goo.gl/maps/cuzYG Directions from the bus station: If you're arriving by bus, It's only 5 – 10 minutes walking from the bus station. When you are outside the city wall from the main gate (Porta S.Anna) just keep straight, you have to take the street in fron t of you on your left hand, the one that is close by the barrier on one side. At the 1st round about take Viale Luporini and turn left at the 2nd round about, this is Via S.Donato and the house is at the n.300 on the right side of the street. Please, see below the link to check on google map how to reach via S.Donato 300 from Piazzale Verdi: https://goo.gl/maps/S27J4 Anyway you'll find a tourist information office there, where you can ask a map. Remember to ask for VIA San Donato and NOT for PORTA San Donato (this is one of the gate of the city wall). If you are coming from PISA AIRPORT, you can: -Take a direct bus to Lucca, if you don't have to wait to long for it. OR - Take a city bus to Pisa central station, and then take a train to Lucca. Both options take around 50 minutes to reach Lucca. You can buy the ticket at the ticket office inside the airport. If you are coming from FLORENCE: I suggest you to take a BUS, because it is faster and the bus station in Lucca is only 10 minutes walking distance from the B&B. I suggest you to check on g o o g l e map how to reach via S.Donato 300 from Piazzale Verdi. Anyway you'll find a tourist information office in the same square of the bus station (in the opposite side of the square), there you can ask for a free map and directions. Remember to ask for VIA San Donato and NOT for PORTA San Donato (this is one of the gate of the city wall). The bus station in Florence is in front the train station. If you have some problem with the directions or if there is some delay, don't hesitate to call me or to send me a message (Phone:0039 339 1038070 or Whatsapp: 0039 339 1038070 ) or send me an email.


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A brief update on Beer Quest 2010, my effort to identify and rate beers from the twenty-three states that are not currently represented in the Fraters Libertas beer ratings by the end of 2010. I've received a number of e-mails with suggestions for beers from various states. Here's an update on the list with those suggestions included:
Alabama--Hurricane Brewing
Delaware--Dogfish Head
I received several e-mails specifically recommending Dogfish Head. It's a name I recognize and have seen it on store shelves, although regrettably not here in Minnesota. It is available in Wisconsin though so a run for the border (Hudson) may soon be in order.
One e-mailer hepped me to a great article on Dogfish Head's founder Sam Calagione that appeared last year in the New Yorker (yes, the New Yorker!):
Like most craft brewers, Calagione came to beer from something else. He grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the middle child of an oral surgeon and the heir to a long line of winemakers. His father and his uncle used to drive to Worcester to meet the trains that brought grapes from California. When they got home, and the juice had been stomped out in the basement, Sam would help bottle it. The process seems to have stripped him of any reverence toward the product. His forefathers worked hard making wine, he recently wrote, "so that I might have the opportunity to produce a superior beverage."
Calagione was a bright student and a scrappy athlete (to keep his weight up for the football team, his father made him eat a cheesesteak every night at ten-thirty). But by the spring of his senior year, at Northfield Mount Hermon prep, he had so many demerits that he was expelled. His offenses were of the usual Animal House variety: flipping a truck on campus; breaking into the skating rink and playing naked hockey; "surfing" on the roof of a Winnebago, going sixty miles per hour down I-91. As a junior, Calagione sometimes waited outside a local liquor store and got customers to buy him a case of beer. Back at school, he hid the bottles in his hockey bag and sold them to other students at a profit. "I remember when I got busted," he told me. "The dean said, 'You think you can make a living doing this?' I didn't have the foresight to say, 'Yeah, maybe someday.'"
I've played a lot of hockey in my day. Ice hockey, roller hockey, pond hockey, street hockey, floor hockey, boot hockey, drunk hockey (not recommended), and hungover hockey. But I've never known firsthand--nor have any inclination to ever know--what it's like to experience naked hockey. The phrases "bad naked" and "shrinkage" come immediately to mind.
But there's no doubting the value of hockey bags in hiding booze. In college, we used to employ hockey bags to smuggle kegs into our "dry" dorms.
Iowa--Millstream Brewing in Amana
Kentucky--Blue Grass
Mississippi--Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company
Craig e-mailed to provide this particular suggestion:
You need to check out Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company in Kiln, MS. In-state you would just say The Kill. Everybody knows about Kiln, MS as it is the hometown of Bret Favre although he lives here in Hattiesburg now. Well, when he's not kicking butt on the field for you guys!
I'm sure that the hordes of Twin Cities media who descended on Kiln late last summer are all too familiar with the charms of Lazy Magnolia beer.
New Jersey--High Point
New Mexico
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Carolina--Palmetto
South Dakota
Virginia--Starr Hill
West Virginia
Wyoming--Snake River
There are still several gaps in the list and if you have suggestions for how best to fill them, please drop me a line. Your support is most appreciated.
UPDATE: A few more recommendations added (in red) from Mark, a man who we hope--at least judging by his disturbing crush on Janeane Garafolo--knows more about fine beer than broads.


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All die-hard bloggers (Yah that's me), will spend hours reading material online and offline about the ins and outs of blogging. After having a mental blogger overload about two months ago, I took sometime to figure out exactly what type of blogger I want to be, and how I would like to brand Debt Free Martini.
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For many years Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon, ran a highly successful business as well as being a keen voluntary worker for a variety of different charities.
She also found the time to be a magistrate and was an active woman's rights campaigner, for which she was awarded an MBE in 1989.
She was a committed Tory all her life. Her initial involvement in politics started at a local level in north London, and from there she went on to become the Chairman of the Greater London Area Conservatives. John Major made her a life peer in 1993 and the following year she became a government minister.
She was one of the very few women in the Tory party – and particularly in the Lords – who actually knew how to start up and run a very successful business. Margaret Thatcher married into money by marrying a businessman with inherited money but she never ran so much as a whelk stall at a profit. Doreen Miller was different: working for herself, she started up and built a business – not in whelks, but in the esoteric world of beauty products for women.
Doreen Feldman was born in north London in 1933. She had a sound grammar school education at the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School for Girls. She studied for a degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From an early age she had had an ambition to run her own business, and on leaving university she went into the cosmetics industry. From 1971, until her retirement from business in 1989, she ran the highly successful Universal Beauty Club, as chairman and managing director.
Her company was essentially an international mail order and marketing business for cosmetics operating mainly in the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. In 1975, being something of an expert in the beauty business, she wrote a book about the subject, Let's Make Up. At a formal dinner in the Lords, she once said to me, "Ron, I bet you don't know the last thing every woman should do before she leaves the house in the morning!" I had to admit I was stumped. "She must always see that her hair is looking nice, that her make-up is OK and that her clothes look smart!" she said. Doreen practised what she preached. She always looked a million dollars.
In 1955 she met, and later married, Henry Miller. It was a good marriage, the couple going on to have three sons. Henry Miller was always very supportive of Doreen's political activities. For many years she was the president of a Tory dining club, the 1912 Club, which meets four times a year. I have been a member for about 20 years and cannot remember a single occasion when Doreen and Henry failed to turn up. Along with the Club's able chairman, David Amess MP, they always knew the importance of humour, and their jokes were very good. She rarely took holidays. But when she did, she said she "enjoyed sitting near sunlit pools, given the opportunity."
For many years Miller was a front bench spokesman for the Conservatives in the Lords. She served as a Government Whip from 1994-97 and was a Government Spokesman for health and education matters. She was an Opposition Whip from 1997 until 2000 and a spokesman for the Opposition on education and employment. From 2000-2003 she was an Opposition spokesman on trade and industry.
Throughout her political life, what she cared about most was trying to get more women into political and public life. "Doreen was highly effective in encouraging women to get involved in politics and supporting their careers," Theresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet, recalled. "I always received wise advice and brilliant support from her. Without her help and encouragement, I doubt I would ever have been elected as an MEP or MP. Doreen chaired the MEP selection meeting which gave me my first lucky break in politics in 1998 and she did so with great common sense and fairness. I owe her a huge debt of gratitude."
As Baroness Miller she was a very popular figure in the Lords, well regarded across the political divide. In this respect, she occupied a similar reputational position to that currently held by Baroness Trumpington: a thoroughly good egg, regardless of deeply held political convictions.
Shortly after he left prison, Lord Archer resumed his practice of throwing a champagne and shepherds pie Christmas party at his swanky apartment in Vauxhall. The press soon got hold of the guest list, and I remember a BBC journalist asking Miller why she was attending. Back came her immortal reply: "He is a friend – and I do not desert my friends. I know he has done time in prison. But that is over. And he should be entitled to a bit of fun – like anyone else who has just left prison!"
Doreen Feldman, businesswoman and politician: born London 13 June 1933; MBE 1989, cr. Life Peer 1993; married 1955 Henry Miller (three sons); died London 21 June 2014.Reuse content