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Demolition delayed for historic aviator's house
FAIRFIELD -- First Selectman Michael Tetreau has granted protestors a delay on the demolition of a house built and owned by Wright brothers' rival Gustave Whitehead.
"I was hoping they'd save the house and not let another piece of history from this area go," said Dolly Curtis, who organized a protest at the house on Tuesday. "People are calling me up, offering money. But we don't know where to move (the house)."
The stay was instigated by new information that may prove the house is 100 years old -- the age set by a local ordinance that requires a 60-day stay on demolitions.
The documents in question were discovered by Melanie Marks, founder and president of Connecticut House Histories, who did a title search on the property this week.
She found a property tax record that shows that Gustave Whitehead's wife, Louise Whitehead, purchased four lots on Alvin Street in 1914. She got a mortgage on that property on Jan. 28, 1915. Tax records from that year also show a house existed on the property.
Marks gave town officials the information Thursday.
"Hopefully at least we'll have an extra day. I just hope (the owner) understands the significance of this house," she said.
Curtis said she received calls on Thursday from neighbors who said workers were taking measurements of the property and removing electrical components. "I think it's shameful," she said.
Tetreau said the tax assessor will review the documents Monday to determine whether the town's records, which indicate the house was built in 1918, are incorrect.
"We've asked the owner to delay for a few days so we can clarify the information Ms. Marks provided," he said.
Jane's All The World's Aircraft, the technical bible for aeronautical engineers and pilots, last year credited Whitehead as the first to build an operational heavier-than-air flying machine. Newspapers in Whitehead's day published stories about his flight a full two years before the Wright brothers -- but no known photo of the event exists, hampering official documentation.
Opponents of the demolition held a protest Tuesday. Another rally will be held Friday at 8 a.m. in front of the bungalow, at 184 Alvin St.
"Things have been really rolling along," said Stephen Link, who has asserted that his grandmother was the last living eyewitness of Whitehead's flights. "It's Good Friday, a bad time. But the point is the signs and the people have to be there as long as there's still a backdrop."
Curtis said she hoped a 60-day stay would provide enough time to find funds to move the house to another location.
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Again at the hospital I see the horrid results of every battle. Men mutilated in every shape conceivable, groaning, begging for assistance and gasping in death. Many of our wounded will have to lie all night in that horrid swamp, it being impossible to find them and carry them out on the narrow foot bridge that has been made. Many have had their heads propped up out of the water where they lay to keep them from drowning.
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The Civil War is usually studied through major campaigns and battles presented as the maneuvers and clashes of large armies. Lost in this approach is the human element, the effect of the war on the individuals who fought it. Encountering the Civil War on a smaller, human scale makes the conflict more approachable, vivid, and real. Rivers Bridge State Historic Site offers a glimpse of the Civil War on such a scale: Its small area allows one to comprehend the entire battlefield, its tactics, and to see how veteran troops near the end of the war sought to avoid high casualties. The relatively few casualties--most of whom have been identified through historical research--are people, not numbers, and they convey the true human tragedy of this battle and all Civil War battles. Rivers Bridge also serves as an example of how one community remembered its combat casualties after the war--it was through the act of remembering the Confederate dead from the fight that the Rivers Bridge battlefield was preserved.¹ Oscar L. Jackson, The Colonel's Diary: Journals kept before and during the Civil War by the late Oscar L. Jackson of New Castle, Pennsylvania, sometime Commander of the 63rd Regiment O. V. I. (Sharon, Penn,: N.p., 1922), pp. 177-178.
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YES! Magazine Blogs On No Impact Week
So far this week:
- Sunday: Consumption
- Monday: Trash
- Tuesday: Transportation
- Wednesday: Food
- Thursday: Energy
- Friday: Water
- Sunday: Eco-Sabbath
The YES! Magazine Team
Seattle Area, Washington
The past few weeks have been unusually lively at the YES! office. Twenty staff and interns have joined the YES! Magazine Dream Team for No Impact Week—there's excitement but also apprehension about just how hard this week might be.
Some of us have long commutes to the office. Others have kids. We all have a lot to do every day at work. But each of my 20 team members have contributed stories, ideas, and a sense of adventure as we prepare to step up to Colin Beavan's challenge.
I've already been surprised by the ways in which I've gotten to know my coworkers in new ways, and the week's just beginning. We're already a low-impact group, by national standards—we pick veggies from the garden outside our office every day for lunch, we maintain a lively worm bin for our food scraps, and we sometimes work with the lights off to save energy. Many of us bike, bus, ferry, and walk to work already. We patronize local businesses and bank at local banks.
But we're also used to living comfortable lives. In preparation for No Impact Week, each one of us expressed different concerns: What if I don't own a bike? Is it hygienic not to flush the toilet every time we use it? How will my kids react to carrying trash around? What about all of the takeout containers we use when we're too busy to bring a lunch from home? How will I dry my laundry in soggy western Washington?
This week is an opportunity for us each to explore the ways in which our lifestyles affect the planet, and pledge to take the next step to reduce our impact. The challenges and joys will be different for each of us. But it's certainly more fun when you're supported and pushed a little further by those around you.
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Live a fuller and happier life by buying less stuff.
For me, day one of No Impact Week marked the final day of moving in to my new house with YES! web editor Brooke Jarvis and two other friends. We were coming from a house we'd fully furnished from garage sales, Craigslist, and Freecycle. Our friends were coming from a tiny, off-the-grid cabin they'd built themselves.
No shopping this Sunday. I spent the whole day finding space for our duplicate coolers and canning pots, stacking cases of homemade blackberry wine above the bathroom cabinets, and asking myself how I could possibly own so many shoes. The whole day was a revelation that these four people who are pretty into the minimally consumerist, do-it-yourself lifestyle still own a lot of stuff.
By six that night, we still had a lot of unpacking to do, but that could wait. This day is about consumption, isn't it? We'd brewed a keg of scotch ale last month, and a big crock of sauerkraut was ready—made from cabbage my new housemate grew on her farm just 10 miles away.
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As employees at YES! Magazine, we often find it challenging to reconcile our personal lives and actions with our organization's image and reputation, and the actions that we advocate.
For example, with 25 people in our office, recycling and composting is challenging both in terms of educating our staff and interns about how to do it, and holding everyone accountable to actually do it.
In the past month, Gretchen has been working closely with a local zero waste group to bring solid waste diversion to our community, and hold workshops and demonstrations on use.
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Derek had a life-changing moment at the Hollyhock Summer Gathering last month when two keynote speakers presented the latest information on the plastics issue, including artist/filmmaker Chris Jordan, who gave a very compelling and emotionally wrenching presentation—about albatrosses dying by the tens of thousands on Midway Island, in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, after having their body cavities filled with plastic.
Plastic bits are found on beaches in San Diego, and as far as Antarctica. In some places, the oceans consist of half plastic bits, and half plankton. The plastic will get smaller, but it will never break down.
The flow of plastic into the oceans is increasing, and we need to take a stand—we need to refuse single-use plastic, and to start conversations with business owners, managers, friends, etc. about how we can reduce waste in a respectful and doable way.
The word that comes to mind as I (Gretchen) move through this No Impact Week is "awareness." Trash Day has brought several things to my attention: First, we at YES! struggle with trash disposal just as much as the next guy; and second, the wrappers from my favorite morning Lara bars are taking up way too much space in the landfill.
Truthfully, the conversation for this theme has been happening all month here at the YES! office. The zero waste committee has been helping us improve our systems with better signage—detailing what goes where—and meeting with our staff to answer those tough recycling questions: What do we do with our tea packets, with their sneaky foil lining? And what about our used nose tissue?
We quickly realized that in order to simplify and manage our composting needs, we needed to invest in a commercial composter. But with this decision came the difficult question—what to do with our hardworking worms?
A BYO Takeout Container Flash Mob
Photo Essay: Follow YES! staff as they descend on local eateries with reusable plates in hand.
One item that was overwhelming our smaller compost bin was our takeout containers—a wake-up call to YES! staff that we needed to rethink how we are getting our lunch items to work. This inspired a BYO container flash mob, armed with plates and homemade cloth napkins, to visit to our local restaurants. It not only brought awareness to our town's establishments, but also inspired a conversation with others in our community—and was a fun bonding opportunity for staff!
We visited three locally owned restaurants and asked them if we could either borrow a plate for takeaway that we would wash and return, or to plate our meal on a dish that we brought ourselves.
I (Derek) have been doing this for years in Seattle, and decided to share the idea with my colleagues. Compostable or recyclable takeaway containers are better than throw-away ones, but not using any is the best.
Other Takeaways
So the worms are going home with our staff worm wrangler, our local recycler says "no" to used nose tissue, and we will be attempting to convert to bulk tea to avoid those deceptive tea packets.
And that Lara bar wrapper solution? Gretchen googled the Lara Bar recipe and will attempt to duplicate her favorite peanut butter chocolate chip bar from her kitchen over the weekend.
The lessons in this week are still happening here at YES! At the office, as Gretchen gathers the sprinkled flower petals from our recycle bin (with a frustrated sigh) and moves them to our new compost bucket, she's hopeful.
Healthy eating can also lessen your footprint.
In preparation for this day, I realized a large portion of the food I eat needs to take a plane or truck cross-country just to get to my belly. The banana for my smoothie had to hop on a plane from Ecuador, and those garbanzo beans had a long journey from India to get to my salad.
The "but I'm an unpaid intern" line is hardly an excuse for not eating local at YES! because we have a vegetable garden full of kale, squash, and other tasty eats (even hops!)—only steps from our office.
So this week I can at least speak for the YES! intern house on Bainbridge Island, where all five of us interns live, in that we have been making good on our no-impact pact, eating up everything in our cupboards supplemented with greens from the garden.
In an effort to get the YES! staff and interns to eat a local lunch on Wednesday, we had a potluck at work. Not everything was 100 percent local like my blueberry cheesecake bars, which only included local blueberries and eggs, but everything was still 100 percent delicious. And according to Vicki Robin's article for YES!, 7 Ways to Cook Up a Sustainable Diet, "If it is in your fridge or on your shelves, count it as local."
I'd have to say our fulfillment manager, Paula Murphy, wins the award for most local ingredients used in her tasty potato leek soup. Not only the hearty vegetables were local but also the butter and cream! For the recipe, check out YES! Picks: Recipes for Fall.
When I know my food comes from a short distance away it automatically tastes better—and to be fair, it probably is better. This has been the hardest task for me personally but the one I feeI I will most likely incorporate into my routine, even if only little by little.
Thankfully I have the support of my mother, who despite her love of Wendy's chicken sandwiches, has agreed to take a no-impact journey with me on the East Coast. Sharing our successes and meals we've made with local ingredients have added some excitement to our long-distance relationship, and make me feel that much closer to her.
-Jennifer Kaye, Editorial Intern
More stories from No Impact Wednesday: Food
Replace kilowatts with ingenuity.
Right from the beginning, I knew that no energy day was going to be a one of the biggest challenges during all of No Impact Week, probably impossible to do completely. Obviously, I'm on my laptop as I type this entry. But I think it just makes me realize more and more how dependent we are on electricity—even with mundane, everyday things, like illuminating a room with light, or using my phone to call or text someone.
We were able to make a lot of progress, though. The other day, former editorial intern Robby Mellinger came to the YES! office to build a rocket stove, which was featured in YES! Picks in the Summer 2011 issue. Many staff members contributed something to make it possible: Robby brought a massive popcorn tin, and managing editor Doug Pibel and publisher Fran Korten donated items to the cause.
It took Robby about an hour and a half to make, and it was his first time making one. It's a very efficient tool because it's insulated by ash, and small sticks in tubing produce enough heat to cook food without producing much smoke. Most importantly, no electricity needed!
I helped Jenni Kaye, another editorial intern at YES!, make candles from soy flakes and lavender oil. We filled the wax in old pasta sauce and peanut butter jars that were already in the house. They were surprisingly simple to make, and they smell great! Awesome Christmas gift idea, anyone?
With this combination of great tools, the YES! interns hosted a "no-impact" house party on Thursday night. We utilized the rocket stove by making pasta, and later, smores. Also, we made enough candles to illuminate each room in the house, as well as the back deck where the group ended up settling for most of the evening.
But there was more than just a lack of electricity at that party. I think that because there were few distractions, we were able to have great conversation as friends and co-workers. There wasn't any mingling; we all sat together in one big circle, taking turns talking, and listening when others spoke.
I think with distractions like phones and computers, it's difficult to keep a conversation flowing the way it did last night—especially with 15 people in the group.
It makes me hopeful that others will realize that there are great benefits, beyond saving fossil fuels and money, to not using electricity.
-Kate Malongowski, Editorial Intern
More stories from No Impact Thursday: Energy
Soak up the benefits of using less water.
I make a very poor land creature. If possible, I would rather be in the water. If swimming to work was an option, I would much prefer that than riding my bike.
When I stopped being in the pool all the time, around the time I started this internship and stopped giving swimming lessons, I started taking a lot more showers—two a day—and I still never felt clean (minus the chlorine oozing from my pores). I also wash my dishes thoroughly before putting them in the dishwasher. I would say my water use habits would have put me pretty high in the ranking of water use offenders.
According to National Geographic's Water Footprint calculator, though, I come out below average in every category. Apparently disliking red-meat, being lactose intolerant, and generally being too poor to spend money on many non-food products makes me much more water-friendly to the environment than most Americans.
What the calculator doesn't have is a category for use of public swimming pools. I was curious how much that could potentially add to my water footprint. I was surprised that, according to the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals, pools use substantially less water than a lawn of the same surface area.
So. If my water consumption is, for the most part, so far below average, what could I do that would make a significant difference in my water footprint? Confine myself to one shower a day, yes. Shorter showers, yes. Let go of spotless dish obsession…working on it. Oh, and I could kick the bottled water habit.
Despite what The Story of Stuff claims in The Story of Bottled Water, I think bottled water tastes infinitely better than tap. City water tends to taste like chlorine. The water out of the tap at the intern house on Bainbridge Island tastes like dirt. The filter on the office tap makes for the only good water I've had recently that doesn't come from a bottle. I don't know what the waste stats on Brita filters are, but hopefully are the better of two evils in this situation. I can't go cold turkey and switch to straight tap water, but I can invest in a filter and reusable water bottle.
I do wonder, though, how much of a water impact I make every time I ride the ferry…
-Ayla Harbin, Online Intern
More stories from No Impact Friday: Water
Take a break from everything. Ohm Shanti.
Late September brought warm, dry weather to the Puget Sound area—helpful for those No Impact Week team members who made long bike commutes to the YES! office on Bainbridge Island. Adding No Impact changes to our regular work routines made this a busy week. Staff and interns streamlined our office waste systems, made sustainable community connections, sourced, cooked, and shared local food, made candles, arranged parties, and even constructed energy-efficient technology—in this case, a bright red rocket stove.
After work, and the ferry trip back to Seattle (arguably the world's most beautiful commute), I attended several talks and meetings this week. They're abundant in autumn, the season of mellow fruitfulness and book tours. The pace was a little hectic, but just by showing up I got valuable insight from expert authors and engaged audiences: On Israel/Palestine Monday night, on divisions in labor unions Friday. On Saturday, activists at the GI coffeehouse at Joint Base Lewis-McChord launched a campaign for recognition and treatment of soldiers suffering war trauma.
By Sunday I was ready for a day of rest and the No Impact "Eco-Sabbath," but there was one more significant event on the calendar: President Obama's visit to Seattle. Local groups called for a street greeting to remind the president of the people's "to-do" list: create green jobs, protect Medicare, end the wars, and save the planet.
A storm blew in after a week of warm still evenings. On Sunday morning I walked through wet, windy streets to the Paramount Theatre where Obama was scheduled to appear. The wide intersections at 9th and Pine were cordoned off from traffic, transformed into something almost like a pedestrian plaza. I found activist friends standing behind a cluster of Tar Sands Action Solidarity signs. We huddled under an umbrella chanting "Pipeline: No!" and "There is No Planet B!" for an hour, then took a break at a nearby coffee shop, where the conversation turned to the question of effectiveness. One discouraged friend, a longtime peace activist, wondered if there was much point in a street corner protest far from the seat of power.
But I was energized. I'd gotten an unexpected, and positive, reaction when I passed out Tar Sands Action leaflets to the well-dressed people waiting in line for the Obama fundraiser. "Have you heard about the Keystone XL pipeline?" I asked. "It would be an environmental disaster, and President Obama has the power to stop it."
Several people said this was the first time they'd heard about the pipeline. One woman, reading that 1,252 people had been arrested in front of the White House to prevent the State Department's approval of Keystone XL, said she thought it would be a good idea to get that reported more widely in the media. Several people immediately "got it" when I mentioned the threat to the Ogallala Aquifer, and said they'd go to the Tar Sands Action website for more information. According to my brief straw poll, people need to hear more about this cause.
Dried off and caffeinated, we walked out into the street just as the presidential motorcade rounded the corner. Flashing blue lights, motorcycles streaming past, and then two identical stretch limos with darkened windows. Peering at the first limo, I was sure that familiar silhouette in the backseat was POTUS, but someone said, "No, he's in that other one." I still don't know what I saw. Which was the doppelganger, which the president I voted for?
To find out more, go to www.tarsandsaction.org
-Valerie Schloredt, Associate Editor
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Inexpensive and readily available, paint is a fun, easy-to-use supply to utilize on your scrapbook layouts. Use it to add artistic edges to your layout, to create unique accents, and to add textural interest to your pages. We'll walk you through a basic technique and give you helpful tips for your layouts. Gather your materials and follow along with us!
For A Cure by Gretchen McElveen, as seen in the November/December issue of Creating Keepsakes.
Give your layout artistic flair by edging your pages and key elements with paint, like Gretchen McElveen did on her layout.
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* Mix a little metallic spray ink into your paint to add a slight shimmer to your project.
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A. We like acrylic paint because it's inexpensive, easy to find, and comes in so many colors. Click here for a quick guide to different types of paint. Or, if you want ideas for using watercolors on your layouts, click here.
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The 50th Anniversary season of classic Doctor Who stories on UKTV in Australia and New Zealand continues.
Sunday 10th February sees the broadcast of the five-part 1968 Patrick Troughton story The Dominators. It screens in New Zealand at 3:40pm and in Australia at 4:00pm. New Zealand has a additional showing on Monday 4th February at 3:30am.
The Dominators was first broadcast in Australia in 1970. It was not screened in New Zealand until 2000, a full 32 years after the UK broadcast.
UKTV is showing stories every Sunday throughout the year in the lead-up to the anniversary in November. The Dominators is the second of four stories to be aired as part of the channel's celebration of the second Doctor this month. The next two stories are The Mind Robber (17th February), and The Seeds of Death (24th).
Up-and-coming broadcasts from both 20th and 21st Century series of Doctor Who can be found via UKTV's Doctor Who sections for Australia and New Zealand.
Stack Magazine: The latest issue of the New Zealand edition of DVD retailer JB Hi-Fi's free in-store magazine Stack (issue 37, February 2013), features Doctor Who on the cover as well as a two-page article (also online) about the lasting appeal of the series.
To mark the anniversary screenings on UKTV, JB Hi-Fi in association with DVD distributor Roadshow is running a promotion of Doctor Who on DVD throughout 2013, showcasing a different Doctor's era each month.


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The Portland International Film Festival is in the final stretch and, as of this writing, I've seen 17 films since my last post. Here are the ones you can still see in the festival's final days, along with three more of my favorites to watch for in hopes of a theatrical or DVD release (and my ratings on a 10-point scale):
One of my favorite films of the festival was "Aftermath" (9), a powerful Holocaust story that apparently was quite controversial when it was released in Poland. Inspired by a true story of a Polish town, the film involves two brothers, the older of whom is returning home for the first time since immigrating to Chicago 25 years before. Franciszek's return has been occasioned by the fact that his brother Jozef's wife has suddenly left the village and moved to the U.S. with the couple's two children and won't say why. Upon his arrival, Franciszek finds that Jozef (and he, by extension) are the target of some hostility in the town. With some digging, he traces the hostility to Jozef's actions in unearthing some Jewish headstones that were repurposed for paving after the town's Jewish cemetery was destroyed during World War II.
It turns out that the headstones are just the tip of the iceberg that Franciszek encounters, and part of the achievement of this film is how genuinely successful it is at unfolding a very suspenseful tale of literally buried secrets. Significantly, the film does a better job than most Holocaust films at depicting how great evil may reverberate on unwitting successive generations. What drives the two men (one of whom seems to be anti-Semitic himself) to pursue the truth, how each reacts to the successive discoveries, and the reactions of the townspeople all are depicted with stark psychological realism. Full of devastating insights. (Plays again on Feb. 23)
"Ernest and Celestine" (8) is the best children's film I have seen at the festival, which inevitably means it offers much for adults to enjoy also. It's the charming story of a mouse, Celestine, and her friendship with a bear, Ernest. In the world of this delightfully animated film (based on a series of French children's books and justly nominated for an Academy Award), bears and mice live in separate worlds, above and below ground, nursing age-old antipathy with urban legends about each other. Celestine and Ernest have artistic souls, which contributes to their outsider status in each culture, and also provides a basis for them to bond. Of course, as outsiders, they also share a willingness to carve a path outside of convention, which lends a revelatory quality to the world they create for themselves. It's not a new theme, but it is very well executed here. And something about listening to their dialogue in French makes it all the more delightful. (Plays again on Feb.23)
The central enterprise of "The Great Passage" (6.5) is the arduous task of creating an ambitious dictionary (for which the film itself is named) during the period of change in which books are fading in significance and online resources are on the rise.


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I loved that he could wear anything he wanted under it. I wish I had more time; I would have made pants that looked like the sea floor. I also had visions of a bubble machine but there are only so many hours in the day!
We recently got a roku box and have been watching the same cartoons that my husband and I grew up on with our own kids. We both had the same reaction of all these childhood cartoon memories flooding back. So far they have watched He-man, Care bears, Mr. Rogers, and of course She-Ra Princess of Power.
My daughter had thrown out a new costume idea everyday including, but not limited to: Princess, Butterfly, Tinkerbell, Hello Kitty and finally resting on She-Ra. I am guessing it is because she has a crown, cape AND sword. Once she mentioned She-Ra I admit to being more enthusiastic because I knew that costume would be the easiest and I liked that she was a kick ass princess with a sword.
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Private companies who finance expansion projects at Saudi airports will not be reimbursed by the government, but by travelers using the terminals, a Saudi aviation official announced last week.
Prince Fahed Bin Abdullah, head of Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia said the new system would be tested at King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah. Abdullah said officials expect the new terminals to help the airport accommodate 12 million travelers annually, now that the kingdom has decided to allow pilgrims access to the holy cities throughout the year. During the Haj, or pilgrimage, some one billion pilgrims passed through The King Abdul Aziz Airport, Abdullah said.
Abdullah told Saudi newspapers on last Thursday that aviation officials would allow the financers to operate commercial shops in new areas and proceed would be deposited in a fund used to repay the money. The additions at King Abdul Aziz Airport include bridges and 32 mobile gates that connect to the airplane. Parking and land waiting areas for both local and international travelers will be modernized and made more comfortable for traveler, Abdullah said.
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UGANDA - Two Views on Joseph Kony (PERSPECTIVE)
"MY UGANDA" by Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi
(Video PM Office, Uganda)
(HN, April 20, 2012) - Last Saturday April 14th, the Prime Minister of Uganda Amama Mbabazi posted a video on YouTube entitled "Visible Uganda" aimed at what he says is correcting the inaccurate portrayal of Uganda resulting from the "Kony 2012" video by the Invisible Children Organization which over 100 million people worldwide have viewed and portrays Uganda as unsafe due to the activity of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.
The video recognizes that in the past Uganda did suffer atrocities as a result of LRA activity. Similar atrocities are very much a reality in neighboring countries tho, says the Prime Minister. Further he goes on, "The government is determined, having suffered the ravages of Kony in Uganda not to let any other country or communities suffer the same".
The video points out that Uganda is now a "thriving peaceful country" where the Peace, Recovery and Development Programme implemented by the Government has greatly assisted in the last 6 years of lasting peace, rejuvenation and rebirth of the Northern Region of the country where the LRA was most active.
"My Uganda is a country endowed with great resources and captivating natural beauty," Mbabasi says. "My Uganda is a country that is poised to take off. We have registered success after success in the last 25 years and we are determined to build on this success to bring about in the next few years a new and prosperous nation."
He invites people not only in Uganda but across the world to share their Ugandan experiences and he ends by saying, "That is my Uganda. Please tell us about your country"
--Source, Uganda Prime Ministers Office
Kony 2012 & Cover the Night - promoting international justice starts here at home
(Video Kony 2012)
By Noelle Jouglet
Over the last several weeks, our organization Invisible Children, has seen what is possible when you have the right idea at the right time…and have spent nine years unwittingly laying a foundation for it.
Our idea was to make Uganda's Joseph Kony, the notorious head of the Lord's Resistance Army famous - not as a celebrity - but as an international war criminal who has committed mass atrocities with impunity for 26 years.
We made a 29-minute documentary about what he had done and what policy experts and region leaders told us needed to happen if Kony was to be apprehended and his crimes permanently stopped.
We set an ambitious goal aiming to get 500,000 people to view the film before the end of 2012. Instead, it vastly exceeded our expectations. The film swept the globe and surged past 100 million views in a matter of days.
But beyond the exposure for Invisible Children, and much more importantly, the global reaction to our film started real conversations about international justice, development work, Joseph
Kony, and whether there was any action—like a tweet—that was too small.
In the weeks since the film's release we've been amazed by the responses from middle schoolers who are bringing up Joseph Kony in their social studies classes and equally amazed that US Senators and Representatives are putting partisan politics aside for the sake of a conflict in one of the remotest parts of Central Africa.
Between the House and Senate, 107 Members of Congress have signed onto bipartisan resolutions that call for robust U.S. support for regional efforts to protect communities and help bring Joseph Kony to justice.
Many have expressed surprise at Invisible Children's apparent overnight success.
But that is hardly the case. We have actually produced 12 documentaries and met more than three million people face-to-face during our 13 tours around the country where our representatives show our films at high schools and colleges and answer questions about the conflict.
When Invisible Children launches a new campaign, it's not just the forty people in our San Diego office launching it, it's the millions we have met on the road.
There were many celebrities that shared KONY 2012 in the first hours and days after its release through social networks and other means. We are so grateful that they used their influence to share the story, but I do not believe that those celebrities would have heard about the film if our core supporters hadn't rallied around the campaign in their own local communities and shared it in such great numbers using their personal networks.
The original goal of Cover the Night, as introduced in the KONY 2012 film, was to make Joseph Kony famous. That happened in a matter of days thanks to millions of people around the world who shared the KONY 2012 films. The event has expanded into a global day of action that actually started earlier this week with daily "missions" to engage our national and international leaders.
Tonight, Friday, April 20, 2012, we are earning the right to be heard globally by serving locally.
Everyone who wants to participate is encouraged to form a small team with friends, colleagues, or neighbors. Each team should volunteer in their own communities for a few hours (picking up trash, washing cars for free, donating blood, etc.) and then spend the evening promoting justice for Joseph Kony in creative ways (posters in the windows, sidewalk chalk, painting a mural, etc.)
What I've learned in the seven years that I've worked for Invisible Children is that a personal, human interaction is more valuable than a digital one.
Every time.
Cover the Night in its simplest form is an event that acts out that truth. We're taking the anonymous conversation about a viral video into the streets where the relationships are formed and the future is forged.
We always tell our supporters, "You are more powerful than you think you are." When they begin to believe that about themselves, amazing things start to happen. We've seen students wake up to their own power and begin organizing school-wide screenings of Invisible Children documentaries or donate $12 each month to our scholarship program. Other students call their senators and lead local lobby meetings.
There are thousands of these students out there–some of whom have grown up and become teachers or filmmakers in their own rights. They are the ones who will be leading the way tonight. They may be young, but they can earn the right to be heard online and around the globe by acting offline in their own communities.
We know that these stories will be rolling in for weeks and Invisible Children will do its best to share those stories and amplify the life change that will come as a result of trying to promote justice for Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, a man whom many people had never heard of just six weeks ago.
But rather than wait to hear the reports of life change, we encourage you to go out into your community tonight with your family or friends and experience it for yourself.
-- Noelle Jouglet is the Director of Communications at Invisible Children. Her editorial originally appeared on FOXNEWS.COM


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It barely seems like 5 minutes since the start of the year. 12 months have disappeared in a flash and we are once again on the verge of a New Year. Looking back, so much has happened over this time it is hard to comprehend. I thought I'd just upload a brief recap with a few of my favourite images before the partying starts...
I'm sure of writing something similar towards the end of 2012 but this year has been a huge one for me and my climbing. Last year was brilliant, and another big step up in terms of climbing, but 2013 has blown it out of the water.
Taking advantage of some of the late season snowfall, in APRIL!
For the last few years I've spent a fair amount of the time traveling and climbing abroad. It is crazy fun spending endless weeks at a sun kissed European crag, without a care in the world, other than your current project. This year however I made a decision to stay at home and climb local, with the hope that we might just get a decent summer. However we did make one brief trip back out the Frankenjura in April. Myself and Ted had a brilliant time out there last year and this time our aim was to stay for longer. In the end it was hardly the best of times and we found ourselves back home rather early, but we still got some great routes done and it was a good learning curve.
Once this was done it was time to escape the heat and head into the depths of Chee Dale. The Cornice is a classic crag with a tonne of classic routes. I had missed climbing down here and it was dam good to be back! Some stand out routes from our trips here include the old school line of 'Devonshire Arms' and the new school testpiece 'Techno Prisoners'. I had also forgotten how good it was a few years ago to head to this crag on rest days and do a bunch of the easier routes the place has to offer.
One of the best new routes in the Dale. Gran Techo | 8b
I also had a couple of brilliant short trips with my Dad to both Yorkshire and Wales. We spent an awesome week camping at Gordale and climbing at the local crags. Malham especially is such a cool place and I always look forward to climbing there. We also got to check out Giggleswick for the first time, and spent a couple of sessions here, away from the crowds and heat. The weather was perfect, climbing early in the morning to beat the sun, relaxing on the campsite and enjoying being somewhere different.
Jerry's Roof, V9 | Llanberis Pass
By the time the autumn arrived and temperatures started to cool off it was time to think of the main project that I had been mulling over for most of the summer. This was of course the extension to Mecca and I could barely wait to get stuck into something really hard, test myself and put everything I had learned over the last few months into practice.
It took a fair few sessions but eventually it went down. My first 8c. I loved every moment of the whole process, even the days when things didn't go entirely to plan. In some ways I was sad to see it all end, but it was another huge personal moment for me and one I won't forget in a hurry! Thanks again to all the support I received from everyone and to my Dad for the hours he put in belaying.
The grit season has been going amazingly well and as its all still fresh in the memory I won't go on about it, but again there have been some stand out moments over the last month or so and more major milestones reached. Lets just hope that the season continues at its current rate and the New Year brings more good conditions and top days out on the brown stone!
Happy New year to you all and thanks for ya'll continuing to check in. I'd also just like to thank all my sponsors, Mammut, 5.10, NakdWholefoods, ProBalm and GUEnergyUK for their continued support. They are all a terrific bunch and I am super grateful and to be working with them all.


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ALFRED, NY — Alfred University's defense forced five turnovers and held St. John Fisher to 45 yards rushing as the Saxons knocked off the visiting 11th-ranked Cardinals, 26-13, at Merrill Field Saturday afternoon to remain unbeaten in Empire 8 Conference play.
After a scoreless first-quarter, Alfred (4-1, 3-0 Empire 8) fell behind early, as Fisher scored on its possession of the second and took a 6-0 lead after a missed PAT. The Saxons scored 19 points in the second period – 12 on two TDs scored in a four-second span – to take a 19-6 halftime lead.
A fourth Saxons' touchdown 5:45 into the third made it 26-6 Alfred, before Fisher tallied a TD with 6:03 left in the period to close out the game's scoring.
AU allowed Fisher quarterback Ryan Kramer to throw for 272 yards and a pair of touchdowns, but he was intercepted three times. The Saxons forced two fumbles, with both leading to touchdowns in a strange sequence of events late in the second quarter.
With 37 second left in the half and Alfred clinging to a 7-6 lead, AU freshman cornerback Michael Berardi forced a fumble at the Fisher 34-yard line that was recovered by senior strong safety Reggie Pressley. Six plays later, junior tailback Chuck Beckwith scored on a three-yard run with eight seconds left in the half. The PAT failed and the Saxons led 13-6.
On the ensuing kickoff, Pressley forced a fumble at the Fisher 25, and Saxons' sophomore cornerback Michael Perkins recovered at the Cardinal 17-yard line with four seconds left in the half. The Saxons lined up for a 34-yard field goal, but junior wideout Jonathan Ruffin, the holder, took the snap and raced up the middle for the 17-yard TD run. The PAT again failed and Alfred took a 19-6 halftime lead.
The Saxons pushed their lead to 20 points when they scored on their opening possession of the second half, driving 69 yards on 10 plays, with freshman wide receiver Maleke Fuentes scoring on a two-yard run to give AU the 26-6 lead.
Fisher scored on their ensuing drive to make it 26-13 with 6:03 left in the third. But the Cardinals turned the ball over three times in the fourth – all on Kramer interceptions in Saxon territory – to end any hope of a Fisher comeback.
Senior free safety Jon Jackson picked off Kramer at the AU 32 with eight minutes left in the fourth and returned it to the Fisher 35-yard line. The Saxons turned the ball over on the first play of its ensuing drive, but Fisher could not capitalize on a drive that started at the Saxons' 22-yard line, turning the ball over on downs. On the Cardinals' next drive, Berardi intercepted Kramer at the Alfred 2-yard line and returned the ball to the Saxon 30. Fisher forced Alfred to punt, and blocked the kick to set up a drive at the Alfred 22, which ended with Jackson's second interception of the game, this coming in the Saxon endzone.
Alfred's run defense was outstanding for a second straight week. After holding Ithaca to four yards on the ground last weekend, the Saxons held Fisher – which came in averaging 184 on the ground – to 45 yards. The Saxons had nine tackles for loss, with senior defensive end Chris Steeves leading the defense with eight tackles (1 ½ for loss). Junior linebacker D.J. Welch also had eight stops and senior linebacker Brendan McGinnis had seven. Berardi finished with four tackles, a forced fumble, and interception and a pass breakup and Jackson had three solo tackles to go with his two picks. Pressley had six tackles (all solo, one for loss), three pass breakups, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
Beckwith had his third straight game with at least 100 yards on the ground, finishing with 148 yards on 23 carries and two TDs. Junior quarterback Zach Sopak completed 15 of 23 passes for 138 yards and Fuentes had six catches for 86 yards.
Fisher wideout Tyler Stell caught eight passes for 124 yards and wide receiver Kevin Francis caught seven for 58. Tailback Cody Miller, who came in averaging 73 yards per game rushing, had 31 yards on 14 carries. End Mason Judd led the Fisher defense with a game-high 13 tackles, including a sack and a forced fumble. Linebackers Mike Donitzen and Joe Leavell had nine and eight tackles, respectively.
Saturday's win sets up an Empire 8 Conference showdown next weekend for AU, as the Saxons travel to Salisbury University for a noon kickoff. Salisbury (5-1 overall) and Alfred are tied for first in the Empire 8 with 3-0 conference marks.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. - April 9) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is warning Arizona residents to be cautious of door-to-door and telephone scam artists peddling phony insurance policies in an effort to capitalize on the new federal health care law and defraud consumers.
Some scam artists have attempted to make dishonest profits by urging consumers to obtain coverage in a non-existent "limited enrollment" period that they falsely claim was made possible by the new legislation. Arizona law requires companies and their agents to be licensed to market or sell insurance.
"These attempts by scam artists to dupe people into buying phony health insurance will be prosecuted," Goddard stated. "I urge every Arizonan who is approached by someone who represents that their insurance policies are required by the new health care law to report such persons to our office."
The Attorney General offers the following tips regarding door-to-door
● Get the address and phone number of the company and the
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● Do not be rushed into a decision, no matter how attractive the
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● Do not let a stranger into your home. Talk outside or through a
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If you believe you have been a victim of fraud, please contact the Attorney General's Office at 1.800.352.8431. To file a complaint in person, the Attorney General's Office has satellite offices throughout the state with volunteers available to help. Locations and hours of operation are posted on the Attorney General's Web site at www.azag.gov. Consumers can also file complaints online by visiting the Attorney General's Web site.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are engaged after an elaborate proposal by the rapper that involved renting out a baseball stadium and hiring a 50-piece orchestra. On her 33rd birthday, no less.
"YES!!!" Kardashian tweeted Tuesday morning along with a photo of her 15-carat diamond ring, with the scoreboard in the background reading, "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!"
West popped the question — reportedly down on one knee — Monday night in San Francisco, where according to E! News he'd acquired use of AT&T Park for the evening.
Just before the proposal, he'd been at the 2013 Hollywood Film Awards in L.A., presenting a special honor to "12 Years a Slave" director Steve McQueen, so the surprise was amplified.
With family and friends of the couple present at the home of the San Francisco Giants (but not North; the baby was tucked safely away from the night chill) the orchestra played Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful" and Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo and West's "Knock You Down," and fireworks exploded into the night, E! reported.
"Wow!!!!! Am I dreaming??!?!," sister Khloe tweeted around midnight. "Tears of JOY!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!"
Kris Jenner told E! it was "a match made in heaven," adding, ""I am so happy for both of my kids, Kim and Kanye."
It'll be the third marriage for Kardashian, who was previously, albeit briefly, wed to Kris Humphries, and before that to music producer Damon Thomas.
West has not been married before, and if this low-key affair is how he proposes, we can't wait to see the spectacular way he ties the knot.
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You love where you live. And you love the people in your area. So now is your chance to show it. MoreLoveLetters and Kind Snacks have paired up to celebrate love all over the country, on a small community level. No, don't feel like you have to rush out and buy your city a present, but do pull out your stationery, grab your Sharpies, and get writing. Tag all your letters with #KindWords, and leave them where you shop, where you bank, your kid's school, where you go for dinner, the doctor's office, any parking lot. Anywhere you go, you can leave letters. If you wonder how to get started writing, here's some advice.
Tuesday night, invite your friends over, share your writing materials, and have a letter writing party. While you do, follow the world-wide love letter community with the Twitter party from 8 to 10 p.m. (#KindWords). I'll be there! (You can follow me on Twitter).
All week be sure to spread the kindness far and wide in your day-to-day actions. And if you're sharing love letters this week, I want to hear all about it. Let me know in the comments, on Facebook, Google+, tag me on Instagram, e-mail me, or however. I love hearing about all shared love, and y'all are so inspiring.


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An explosives expert has told the Lockerbie trial the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 could not have been in a suitcase on the floor of a cargo container, reported BBC.online Wednesday.
Ian Cullis gave evidence at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, where two Libyans are accused of bombing the New York-bound Boeing 747.
Cullis, 47, who has worked for the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera) since 1978, told the court he was also part of a team carrying out work for the Civil Aviation Authority.
He said the CAA project included experiments into the effects of explosives on baggage and baggage containers within aircraft.
The witness, who is employed in Dera's warhead and terminal effects department, was questioned by prosecuting counsel Alan Turnbull QC, about the effects of an explosion on metal.
Cullis said carbon deposits which looked like a very fine soot were one of the most obvious signs.
"There are a number of effects you can get. A metal can be shattered into small pieces if it has a certain structural integrity," he said.
"It can be pitted by very fine impact craters. It can shear. It can fracture."
The pitting, which could look like a roughening of the surface, was caused by small particles from the explosion traveling at speeds of up to 2,500 meters a second, Cullis was quoted by BBc as testifying – Albawaba.com
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Cameron must be applauded for a policy that would free half a million children in the country's worst schools from the failure of Labour's Statism. It is no surprise that our worst schools are all in Labour's traditional heartlands, or that Brown imagines the dead hand of the State can do a better job of educating kids than parents and local communities supported by the business sector.
For the past ten years Zanu Labour have done the only thing they know; fiddle, interfere, modify the curriculum with each new Education Secretary, and throw money at them. They just can't accept that the true solution is the one Cameron is proposing - to free them from central control.
People are waking up. They look around them at their schools, streets, services and communities and the reality is sinking in - Labour just means Failure.


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MIAMI, March 29 (UPI) -- President Obama returned to economic issues Friday, urging Congress to pass tax incentive and spending proposals to lure investment in U.S. infrastructure.
Standing under sunny skies at the Port of Miami Terminal, Obama said there was work to be done on the nation's infrastructure and workers ready to do it.
"Let's prove to the world there's no better place to do business than right here in the United States of America and let's get started rebuilding America," he told the crowd after he toured a joint public-private construction project building a tunnel beneath the channel to link the port to major highways.
Obama also recalled his State of the Union call to rebuild the nation's infrastructure so America is more attractive for businesses.
Obama's "Rebuild America Partnership" will bring together new and existing policies aimed at "enhancing the role of private capital in U.S. infrastructure investment as a vital additive to the traditional roles of federal, state and local governments, making American workers and businesses more competitive and putting more Americans back on the job," the White House said in a fact sheet.
Obama called on Congress to enact a National Infrastructure Bank, based on a model that had bipartisan support in the Senate in the past, funded with $10 billion that would leverage private and public capital and invest in infrastructure projects that would be awarded "not pork-barrel politics" but on based on "how much good they'll actually do for the economy [and] how much the projects make sense."
He also spoke of his new "America Fast Forward Bonds" program expands the Build America Bonds program to include projects that can be financed with qualified private activity bonds while also making the combined program more flexible.
The third is to build on the success on of two grant programs that were part of the Recovery Act by proposing $4 million in new funding for both programs.
The cost for the three programs would be about $21 billion, the White House said.
Obama's chief economist, Alan Krueger, said the three programs would have a substantial effect on the economy because "they will be leveraged 2-to-1, 3-to-1, 4-to-1, up to 7-to-1, depending upon the particular program. And ... they will not increase the deficit by a dime because they are paid for in our budget."
Building better roads, bridges and schools "should not be a partisan idea," Obama said, noting that the Chamber of Commerce and unions agree that it should be done.
The White House said the Miami port tunnel project has created work for 500 employees and more than 6,000 contractors and subcontractors.
"We can do this not just here," Obama said, "we can do this all across the country."
Before Obama's visit to Miami, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican said the president should reimburse Florida for its port projects.
"We're certainly glad President Obama is coming to the Port of Miami ... but he's late to the party," Scott, who is running for re-election, told reporters in a conference call Thursday.
"We could not wait for the federal government to come to the table with their share of the project," Scott said Thursday, demanding Obama "step up to the plate" and promise to reimburse Washington's share of the funding.
In the past three years, Florida taxpayers invested $425 million in seaport-related upgrades, Scott said. This includes $77 million two years ago to fund the port's $180 million "deep dredge" project, deepening the port to 50 from 42 feet, which will let Miami handle bigger cargo ships and is projected to create more than 30,000 new jobs, he said.
The White House responded to Scott, saying it funded a $340 million loan to help finance the port tunnel project and a $23 million grant to restore freight rail service between the port and the Florida East Coast Railway, which provides intermodal shipping-container transportation.


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Shrubin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 274 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
Seth Rubin Photography
I'm a 32 yr old freelance photographer specializing mostly in portraits & weddings currently living in Wash DC. I recently won a National Geographic Traveler photo contest and was awarded in a 2007 Nat'l Geo contest, plus various others. I have a beard. I'm laid back and enjoy shooting nature and live music photography for personal work. Love music & traveling and have spent considerable time in Europe, Africa, and Australia over the last 4 years. Enjoy shooting weddings & portraits for the life love & fun in the spontaneous moments.
Looking for young professional couples in/around the Wash DC area (although that could change in the future). My audience should be relaxed, fun, and creative, allowing me to express my creativity. Although semi-conversely, professional couples who are able to afford quality. Logo should reflect quality and class.
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Logo should be:
- sophisticated / classy
- neutral - adaptable to weddings and to fine art
- classic (or at least not screaming modern)
Colors: mostly blue and grey/white, with some green
- I gravitate towards all caps (the way I write), but am open to other thoughts
- I enjoy the following fonts, but am also open for your experimentation: Georgia, Palantino, etc
I would like to get a seal stamp/press to put (authentication type) seals on my prints when I'm unable to sign them (give it to my printing co). I'd like the icon to eventually be made into a seal for fine art prints. Nothing really to concern you, but maybe would give ideas.
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Thank you!
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New 2019 KiaForte S Sedan
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Not a mini stinger/ Big on safety and economy!
By Car maniac Davy C on Wednesday, June 05, 2019No carbon copy of the famous stinger. But Kia has a ringer in a car here. You would be stupid if you do not test drive one of these cars. You will be like me and buy one of these because where else can you find a brand new car for under $18,000 that is full of options. This car is the size of a Chevy Impala. But what I love about it is it gets 40 some miles to the gallon about Everywhere I Go. I pushed it to the limits this weekend and went to a wedding in the mountains. It climbed all of the hills in the twisting turning roads. And handled about 110 miles an hour on the interstate with no problem. The funny thing is I still got 43.5 miles to the gallon. So people that complain about the power remember that when you go to the gas pump. The only major problem I have incurred is the short pipe it has to the gas tank when I pump gas . I have backsplash numerous times do to such a short passageway to the gas tank . So now I just put $20 in when it gets down there empty and call it a day . I have its cousin the 2013 Elantra. It's an awesome car but the most I ever get out of its 1.8 L regular transmission is 35 miles to the gallon and that's on a good day. This car has more room and feels a lot bigger than a subcompact car. I love all of the safety features like Lane assist and frontal impact crash stop. I love it when a high-dollar car comes like a Lexus or BMW or Mercedes and I can take my hands off the wheel and wave and say hello to them for paying $30,000 more. It also has dual climate control and has a nice expensive look to it. I love the old style vents and the nice 9-inch Android and apple autoplay. The chain drive automatic transmission that is CVT is doing good with gas mileage. It sounds like an electric car it's so quiet. Kia is getting a lot of things right. If you are not a prude and don't want to spend a lot of money on a car. You will get more than your money's worth out of the Kia XLS platform. It will only set you back 19 big ones and sometimes cheaper. Bought this car for my spouse . She never wants to let me drive it . I know why it's such a cool car she loves it . And so does my pocketbook . What a deal! I call this car the used car Buster!
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