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Growing a Greener World "Thomas Jefferson & Monticello - A True Organic Gardener in Action" To gardeners, Thomas Jefferson holds a special place of honor. The gardens at Monticello were a botanic laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. As an avid plantsman and gardener, Mr. Jefferson kept detailed records over many years of his horticultural discoveries, plant exchanges with friends around Europe as well as his successes and failures when it came to his own gardening and farming practices at Monticello. D
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Wild Kratts "Voyage of the Butterflier XT" Using Aviva's newly invented Butterflier XT, the miniaturized Kratt Brothers embark on the most incredible insect voyage in the world - the Monarch butterfly's 2,000 mile migration.G
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The Jazzy Vegetarian "Farm Market Fresh" Host Laura Theodore prepares recipes that are bursting with "just picked" flavor. She begins with refreshing "Garden Vegetable Basil Gazpacho" a chilled delight on a hot summer night. Next up, fresh from the farm ingredients inspire tempting "Zucchini Fettuccini with Fresh Tomato Salsa" and zesty "Arugula and Walnut Pesto Pasta" Apples stand front and center in "Autumn Apple Crisp. D
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Christina Cooks "I Can't Have This Anymore" Christina wants viewers to change the perception that healthy food is boring and tasteless. She explores many natural food choices and urges that there is no excuse for not eating healthy. D
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Rudy Maxa's World "St. Petersburg, Russia" Rudy explores the former capital of Russia, from the splendors of Peterhof to the quiet grace of the canals.G
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The Seasoned Traveler "Peru" George Bauer's daughter Lisa joins him for a season-ending sojourn in Peru. Their travels take them to the sprawling capital city of Lima; to Cusco, former capital of the Inca Empire; and through the Sacred Valley of the Incas, site of the once-mighty Incan fortress of Ollantaytambo, considered by scientists to be perhaps the best preserved of all Incan sites. Their journey culminates in a visit to one of the world's most impressive archeological sites, the legendary lost city of Machu Picchu. D
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The Woodwright's Shop "Harvard Side Table" With artful arched feet and tenoned trestle top, this Shaker side table stands sturdy and fine. D
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Woodsmith Shop "Build Timeless Tables in a Weekend" The Woodsmith editors share three quick and easy techniques for making heirloom tables. A never-fail corner joint that simply bolts together. Two ways to put a top together without having to worry about glue and clamps. D
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The Victory Garden "Inspired Gardens" This week, VICTORY GARDEN host Jamie Durie demonstrates how to create a dramatic bougainvillea espalier, inspired by the Getty Museum in California. Gardening correspondent Paul Epsom takes viewers on a "seasonal walk" through the world-famous New York Botanical Garden to demonstrate how to sustain a low-maintenance seasonal border all year long. Resident chef Michel Nischan teams up with renowned Boston-based chef Barbara Lynch to dry vegetables for year-round use and stir them up into a hearty Italian summer minestra - a flavorful soup that uses the garden to its best advantage. D
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For Your Home "Dream Spaces, Part 7" Vicki decorates the dining room and master bedroom with beautiful bold fabrics and metallic accents. Rooms inspired by ballroom glam and Peter Pan's Neverland get finishing touches. D
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Martha's Sewing Room "Embroidery Undercover" Serger shadow work and embroidery on a yoke dress; Sew Quick, Sew Easy Madeira applique pincushion; Sew Easy Stabilizing segment on embroidering perfect lace; And Sew On rickrack daises & fiesta flowers. Guests: Pam Mahshie, Kay Brooks, Kari Mecca. D
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Best of the Joy of Painting "Serenity" Join Bob Ross at one of his favorite resting spots on canvas, beneath a huge old tree in the deep dark forest. D
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New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad "Back In Paradise" Andreas visits his family's hometown on the southern tip of Norway. He prepares honey-glazed smoked duck with vegetables and artichokes with wild garlic mayonnaise.G
10:30 am
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Asparagus Salad with Tangy Relish & Rolled Pork with Figs" Joanne's watchful instruction and encouragement gives her student Yasu the confidence to try more challenging recipes. Recipes: (1) GRILLED ASPARAGUS SALAD WITH LEMON SHALLOT RELISH, (2) PORK TENDERLOIN WITH ONION, ORANGE AND FIG MARMALADE. Student: Yasu Maskay - Public Relations Consultant. D
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "La Busqueda (The Search)" This episode covers words for seafood and other food items and the geography of Argentina.G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "En El Extranjero (Abroad)" This episode introduces more words for food and briefly treats Spanish colonial history in South and Central America.G
12:00 pm
Looking at Learning....Again Part 1 "The International Picture" This workshop offers an opportunity to investigate various aspects of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), other than the test scores themselves. Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology William Schmidt presents differences in curricula, textbooks, and teaching practices around the world, and a group of community members discuss how the TIMSS results reflect societal and cultural values. D
1:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Michelson-Morley Experiment" In 1887, an exquisitely designed measurement of the earth's motion through the ether results in the most brilliant failure in scientific history. D
1:30 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Lorentz Transformation" If the speed of light is to be the same for all observers, then the length of a meter stick, or the rate of a ticking clock, depends on who measures it. D
2:00 pm
Discovering Psychology "Cognitive Neuroscience" Cognitive neuroscience represents the attempt to understand mental processes at the level of the brain's functioning and not merely from information-processing models and theories. It relies heavily on an empirical analysis of what is happening in the brain, and where, when a person thinks, reasons, decides, judges, encodes information, recalls information, learns, and solves problems.G
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Discovering Psychology "Cultural Psychology" This newly emerging field is integrating cross-cultural research with social and personality psychology, anthropology, and other social sciences. Its main new perspective is focused on how cultures construct selves and other central aspects of individual personality, beliefs, values, emotions, and much of what we are and do.G
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Curiosity Quest "Bike Making" Join Joel on this sporty quest as he learns how BMX Bikes are made with Fit Bikes. Put your math skills to use for this intricate journey through the bike making world. D
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Biz Kid$ "Hidden Careers" You don't have to be perfect at your passion to build a career in it. If you love baseball, but don't have the skills of a super athlete, you will see there are many different roles you can play behind the scenes. Learn about "behind the scenes" careers in sports, music, entertainment, art, and even aviation. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "The Wordball Is My Oyster" Lisa gets a case of stage fright when she's cast as the lead in Hector's play. Can Lisa overcome her fears in time to save the play, or will she have to give her part to Annie?. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Raising The Bar" The main Cybrary is under attack. Hacker, disguised as an exterminator called the Vermin Vexer, has released a mysterious cyberbug that is systematically destroying certain information - but Ms. Fileshare, the overworked Cybrarian, is too busy to notice. When Hacker uses bar graphs to confuse Ms. Fileshare, the kids create bar graphs of their own to counter his contentions. D
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Essential Pepin "Egg-Ceptional" Mollet Eggs Florentine; Eggs In Ramekins; Eggs En Cocotte; Scrambled Eggs In Bread Cases With Candied Oyster Mushrooms; Fines Herbs Omelet; Mushroom Omelet; Flat Potato Omelet. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Slow-Cooker Revolution" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to cooking with a slow cooker. First, she teaches host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Old-Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup. Next, she reveals the test kitchen's secrets for foolproof Pork Loin with Cranberries and Orange. D
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Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen "Burn in the USA" The whole world grills, and a few countries smoke. But only one place on Planet Barbecue has highly evolved traditions of both-the U.S.A. D
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Clodagh's Irish Food Trails "The Midlands - Athlone and Mullingar" NULL
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The Woodwright's Shop "Harvard Side Table" With artful arched feet and tenoned trestle top, this Shaker side table stands sturdy and fine. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Little Europe: San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and Andorra" Don't blink as Rick blitzes through Europe's tiniest countries. Vatican City, the world's smallest country, comes with the planet's biggest church. He also visits the fairytale princedom of Monaco, Italy's last independent hill town of San Marino, castle-guarded principality of Liechtenstein, and tiny Andorra.G
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Burt Wolf's Family Vacation" NULL
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Essential Pepin "Egg-Ceptional" Mollet Eggs Florentine; Eggs In Ramekins; Eggs En Cocotte; Scrambled Eggs In Bread Cases With Candied Oyster Mushrooms; Fines Herbs Omelet; Mushroom Omelet; Flat Potato Omelet. D
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Slow-Cooker Revolution" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to cooking with a slow cooker. First, she teaches host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Old-Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup. Next, she reveals the test kitchen's secrets for foolproof Pork Loin with Cranberries and Orange. D
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Burt Wolf: What We Eat "Some Like It Hot: The Story of Chili Peppers" Burt looks at how the hot pepper spread around the world and changed cooking in China and India.G
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Journey to Italy" Joanne shares her memories of Italy with her student Barbra recreating some of the dishes form her travels. She starts with a simple salad of fig and prosciutto, then slowly adds just enough red wine for a faro risotto, and finally ends the meal with a dessert of strawberry, port, and black pepper. Recipes: Fig And Blueberry Salad With Creme Fraiche, Mint and Prosciutto di Parma, Farro Risotto with Red Wine and Grana Padano, Strawberry with Port and Black Pepper, and an Aperol Champagne Cocktail. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Little Europe: San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and Andorra" Don't blink as Rick blitzes through Europe's tiniest countries. Vatican City, the world's smallest country, comes with the planet's biggest church. He also visits the fairytale princedom of Monaco, Italy's last independent hill town of San Marino, castle-guarded principality of Liechtenstein, and tiny Andorra.G
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Art Through Time: A Global View "Cosmology and Belief" Shows how people from different cultures and eras have expressed their ideas about their place in the universe through art - including the Notre Dame Cathedral, creation myths carved into the canoe prows of Pacific Islanders, Yoruba representations of deities called ò risas, and the paintings of contemporary Russian-born artist Vitaly Komar. D
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Art Through Time: A Global View "Death" Reveals how art including the Egyptian Book of the Dead, early American commemorative miniatures, Ga fantasy coffins from Ghana, and luxurious embroideries by contemporary artist Angelo Filomeno help people come to terms with mortality, cope with loss, and express spirituality. D


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Re: Why sons and daughters do not write about their fathers (WW2 biographies)
Dear Johannes, Christian, Nick, Chris, David, Bruce, Andy and Richard
Thank you for taking time to answer. Your own words points to several aspects I thought were part of the equation/answer.
Johannes: thank you for adding details of Obfw. Wilhelm Baumgartner's career.
Christian: I remember what Martin Drewes said once, about Germany not letting the RK's winners meet in one of the Luftwaffe's Station...something like that...their own country did not want to loan them a place to their meeting!...and they all fought for Germany in WW2!!!
Chris: I quite do agree with you...Military and Aeronautical books are just a small part of the huge world that is that of Publishers and Editors of books. Not so many (as I saw on a previous thread here on the Fórum) do have more than 1,000 books on the subject....and not so many youngsters nowadays seems to care about WW1, WW2 and the other shorten wars...in general: of keeping History alive (and preserving it)!
David: Yes, some of them were and always will be true Gentlemen....with bounds of Humility...several answered me that they "were NOT heroes" (DFC winners, etc...).
Bruce: Good point!
Richard: I remember the second book of memories I read, when a 13 years old boy...that of Clostermann, which changed my life....sadly nowadays we do know it is full of mistakes, historical errors and fictional stories...INDEED, some of the veterans do need a Ghost Writer, a Historian or Researcher (or writer, like some of you) to give them a handle and cross-check the files, the archives and put the right thinks on the line. For instance I contacted a former RAF Mosquito airman that believed he was shot down by a Me 262...sadly we showed him that he was claimed by a Bf 109 G with MW50!!! There were NO other claim that day...so...MEMORY is a tricky think...Some of us are former flyers (Chris Goss is a former RAF officer and Wakefield, a former RAF and BOAC Captain, etc..). We certainly do remember our FIRST SOLO, but the third or fourth flight after it, we certainly will remember no more...what I mean is that: after decades, we do remember some of our most memorable flights, some events that were recorded on one's mind...this is why, I guess, to write a full biography of a former airman (WW1 or WW2) one's need to cross-check his Logbook/Flugbuch + some kind of diary + notes + Official Documents (ORB/Squadron Diary, etc..). Sadly, on the German side, some of those documents are lost forever. Martin Drewes told me they buried the III Gruppe NJG 1 Diary somewhere....on a box....it may be lost forever...You are CORRECT by pointing that SEVERAL Squadrons Associations (both in the USA, UK, Germany, etc.) have kept their MAGAZINE, where former veterans were encouraged to keep it alive and tell their stories. It is a most NOTABLE TRIBUTE and, I believe, an immense source of pride for them and of historical background for the next generations (of pilots, youngsters and pilots).
What I was suggesting, with that thread, and showed some good examples (Oxby's son, Sarah V. Mosher and others) is that MAYBE, in the near futur, the relatives (sons, grandsons, etc....) of former WW1 and WW2 veterans will face the thrilling and exciting patch to write about those forgotten heroes.
THANK YOU for sharing your ideas and points of view. I do have, a great admiration for some of you guys and for your Historical work (books, sites, etc..). KEEP GOING!!!
Most humbly yours,
Adriano S. Baumgartner
Re: Why sons and daughters do not write about their fathers (WW2 biographies)
Re: Why sons and daughters do not write about their fathers (WW2 biographies)
As I said, the war didn't start in 1944/45, but in 1939. They wouldn't have to fight for Germany if they hadn't started the war in the first place. And I, for one, am glad that there is a consensus about this in present Germany..
I do respect your opinion, but I totally disagree with it. They (airmen, veterans, etc.) did not started the war...they fought the war for Politicians as Clausewitz put in other words. I guess we do not need to go deeper, because we will be going to another area I would not like to enter...My main idea was to keep History alive with new books coming from the sons, grandsons and relatives...this was the focus of this thread.
Again, I do remain, humbly yours,
Adriano S. Baumgartner
Re: Why sons and daughters do not write about their fathers (WW2 biographies)
They (airmen, veterans, etc.) did not started the war...they fought the war for PoliticiansI don't want the thread to get into politics beyond saying that one should not generalise about the tens of millions who fought: some volunteered, some were conscripted, some would have been enthusiastic British or Japanese Imperialists, National Socialists, Communists; others would have been indifferent or outright opposed to their own governments. Also, there was a substantial crossover between politicians and veterans. Thanks to mass mobilisation, a European in a senior governmental or military position in 1939 had probably fought in the Great War as had many American generals in 1941 (sorry, I don't know about those in government in the USA).
Nick Beale
Re: Why sons and daughters do not write about their fathers (WW2 biographies)
When our fathers were alive, they were just normal " Daddy" in the RAF. It is only now in our maturity that we realise their tales were in fact heroic. We cared for their damaged bodies and minds - until we were too worn out for the luxury of writing. Those of us who have manuscripts that just need tidying up - let them be seem by people who might help - and then find our stories repeated, unattributed , by prolific authors. Still, we were raised to expect injustice after the way our government treated the survivors of Bomber Command.
Re: Why sons and daughters do not write about their fathers (WW2 biographies)
This is what brought me to this forum. I have been researching my Grandfather, a ball turret gunner from WWII, and decided to write about him. I am not writing a book or anything I think the public would devour, but just an account of what he went through. He did not talk about it at all to his children or grandchildren, we did not even know how many flights he had. Now I have tracked down most of the info I need to piece things together.
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The premiere of Andrews University Television (AUTV), "Take Me to the Movies," on Sunday, Oct. 20, promoted their new YouTube station where students can watch videos made specifically for them by their peers.
Tiffany Evering, senior photography major and director of AUTV, directs, produces and writes for the videos that are showcased online. Working alongside her is Jourdain Smith, senior documentary film major, director of photography; Lauren Olson, senior documentary film major and head editor; and Ben Choi, freshman pre-physical therapy major and assistant director. AUTV has three contract workers and also depends on volunteers. Jonathan Jacobs, president of the Andrews University Student Association (AUSA), directs and produces as well.
The AUTV station will debut a variety of different videos to engage Andrews' students. Character profiles, dubbed "The Profile," are short documentaries about students on campus that will allow students, faculty and staff to get to know each other by hearing about the lives of the featured individuals. The first episode of this series, "Scriptural Beauty," premiered on the AUTV YouTube page and shares the story of Brazilian Christian artists Tiago and Andre Arrais, who use the beauty of scripture to inspire their music to spread the gospel.
"Moods" is a series of silent shorts that will be shown about twice a month and will incorporate a story that the student filmmakers create and set to classical music. "Blue," the first episode of this series, stars Simone Weithers, junior graphic design major, and Joshua Martin, junior photography major, and tells the story of a classic love triangle.
There will also be a special segment featuring the Andrews seminary students entitled "Devotion." These shorts will allow students listen and watch devotions made specifically to inspire the Andrews community.
The series "Based" is currently in production and will incorporate stories heard from friends and peers and create them into short films.
Along with these original series, the Andrews Department of Communication is producing a campus-wide news program and will also provide live streaming of the University's basketball games and church services.
"We are very honored to be able to provide this sort of service for the Andrews community and we pray we expand," says Evering. "Our goal is unify our campus and to inspire creatively, spiritually and cognitively. We also want our viewers to interact with us, so leave comments under our videos, message us on Facebook, tweet us, whatever! We want to hear from our community because we are a service for them."
All of the AUTV shows can be found on their YouTube page, and on the AUSA page. For updates, "like" AUTV on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.
Image: Students prepare for the filming of their second AUTV news segment. Photo by Christa McConnell, IMC student photographer


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The name Otto Reich has popped up in the press again over the past several months. But who is this controversial former Miamian who still enjoys strong ties to South Florida? You should know, if only as a way to assess the health of our humble geopolitical region's clout in Washington these days. Test your acumen.
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(a) President George W. Bush's confounding nominee for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs who is an uncompromising supporter of the 40-year-old trade embargo against Cuba?
(b) a former Reagan administration official who is opposed by ranking Democrats for his role in the Iran-contra affair and for his judgment in the case of Orlando Bosch, a man once described by a senior justice official as a terrorist who is "unfettered by laws or human decency"?
(c) payback to Cuban-American voters for their crucial role in Bush's victory last year, backed by the Cuban American National Foundation and, paradoxically, also by its archenemy, the government of Fidel Castro?
(d) a public servant who "given a fair hearing can fully dispel any doubts about his capacity to steer U.S. policy in this hemisphere" even though he engaged in "misguided, even dishonest, attempts to propagandize the American public?"
(e) a nominee who has devotedly championed hard-line Republican issues on local AM radio but whose nomination may sink because of other Republicans?
See below for the correct answer(s).
If you guessed (a), you appear to be somewhat informed about an important State Department post that has remained unfilled for nearly the entire first year of George W. Bush's presidency. Whoever serves as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs is no less than the United States point man for winning friends and influencing people across the Americas.
Otto Juan Reich, age 56, is the clear choice for members of South Florida's Cuban-American political establishment. The son of an Austrian Jew who was beaten by "Nazi thugs" in 1938 and later married a Catholic Cuban woman, Reich left Cuba with his family in 1960 at the age of fifteen and settled in Charlotte, North Carolina. His family history is "fraught with totalitarian nightmares," as he wrote in a speech he delivered to a business conference in Toronto in 1993. He articulated his opposition to tampering with the U.S. embargo. "I believe it is immoral to lengthen the days in which an undemocratic, brutal, unelected, totalitarian regime survives to imprison, torture, execute, and cause more innocent people to flee," he proclaimed. Foreign companies that do business in Cuba are risking their investments, he warned, "because of the political upheavals that will turn the current policies of the Castro government upside down."
Eight years later those policies are still right-side up, but it's the kind of fervor that wins you a ringing endorsement from the Cuban American National Foundation, which has been lobbying for Reich for months. Reich is a "true believer" regarding U.S policies aimed at thwarting communism in Cuba and in Central America, CANF's executive director Joe Garcia raved. "For the past twenty years, Otto has been on the winning side in Latin America, the side of freedom, democracy, liberty, and human rights, and that came to pass. And I think this administration is committed to those same values that brought a democratized hemisphere but for one [country]." He's also an old friend of the late CANF founder, Jorge Mas Canosa.
Reich has the backing of CANF's staunchest ally on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). The committee approves State Department nominees. "People are pretty confident that he will get a hearing," Maurice Perkins, a Helms staff member, offered optimistically in late September. "President Bush needs to have his foreign policy team in place," he asserted. Until recently Perkins worked for Reich at RMA International, a small lobbying firm in Arlington, Virginia, whose clients include Bacardi (the rum producer evicted in the early days of the Cuban revolution) and Lockheed-Martin (one of whose goals has been to sell military jets to Latin-American governments). Reich is president of the company, which has a total of four employees.
The Republican Party activist's résumé is packed with governmental jobs. After receiving a bachelor's degree in international studies from the University of North Carolina in 1966, Reich spent two years in the U.S. Army stationed in Panama. He then went to Washington, D.C., and earned a master's degree in Latin-American studies from Georgetown University. He moved to Miami in 1972 and worked as an international representative for the Florida Department of Commerce until 1975, when he took a job as community development coordinator for the City of Miami.
When Ronald Reagan became president, Reich returned to Washington. During the twelve-year GOP reign, he served as an administrator at the Agency for International Development; director of the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy; U.S. ambassador to Venezuela; and, under the first Bush administration, alternate delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Since the Nineties Reich's time has been split as a lobbyist and television commentator on CNN's Choque de Opiniones, a Spanish-language version of Crossfire. In addition he directs the Center for a Free Cuba, which is allied with Freedom House, one of Washington, D.C.'s bastions of anti-communist ideology during the Cold War.
At the White House's request, Reich has not spoken publicly about his nomination since Bush tapped him in March. But his remarks on a radio talk show on Miami station WQBA-AM (1140) before his nomination provide a fairly fresh glimpse of ideas he might share with members of the Foreign Relations Committee, if he ever gets a hearing. The program, Polos Opuestos (Opposite Poles), originally aired in January and was rebroadcast just after the nomination.
"Fidel Castro is still seen as a dinosaur of the Cold War who supported the Soviet Union, who damaged the interests of this country, and who continues to damage them," Reich told the station. "And the only reason he can't damage them more is because he doesn't have money. I think that we have to avoid letting money into him from whatever source, private or international, because we know what Fidel Castro will do with this money, and that is to again support terrorism. As he said recently, very proudly, that he effectively supported the guerrillas in all of the Latin-American countries with the exception of Mexico, and I don't believe that either."
Reich's chances looked pretty rosy while Helms was still chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. That changed in May, when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party and gave Democrats control of the Senate. Joe Biden (D-Del.) replaced Helms as chairman of the committee. Last August assistant senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), acting on behalf of fellow Democrats, sent Reich's nomination back to the White House. It was a way of suggesting Bush find someone else for the job, though Reid told reporters that if Bush felt strongly about Reich, he could resubmit the nomination. The president did just that in early September.
But despite CANF's lobbying efforts and the newfound congressional unity in the wake of September 11, Reich's nomination is in serious doubt. Democrats have qualms about his propaganda work for the Reagan administration foreign-policy team that brought us the Iran-contra affair. "The Reich nomination is dead," concluded one committee staffer who works for a Democratic senator from a Midwestern state. To make matters worse, some of Reich's fellow Republicans don't even back him on the issue at the core of his diplomatic persona: the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
Answer (b) also is correct. Beginning last March, two senior members of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), began publicizing their concerns about Reich's involvement in the Reagan administration's covert activities, spearheaded by Lt. Col. Oliver North, to aid anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua.
Some of the senators' qualms are the same as those contained in a 1987 report by the bipartisan congressional committees that investigated the Iran-contra affair. Otto Reich is featured in a section titled "White Propaganda," which referred to his work at the Office of Public Diplomacy. The report described the OPD's operations as "a new, nontraditional activity for the United States government," which involved the illegal use of taxpayers' money for public-relations lobbying. For example the office produced op-ed pieces that were published in national newspapers without disclosing OPD involvement. The report quoted Reich's description of his modus operandi as "a very aggressive posture vis-à-vis a sometimes hostile press."
The U.S. comptroller general, after another investigation, soon concluded that Reich's operations were "prohibited covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public." The OPD had violated a restriction barring the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.
His background briefings, in which he often accused journalists of being communist sympathizers, are legendary in Washington. National Public Radio editors recall a meeting in which he testily referred to the network as "National People's Radio." His crusade also targeted U.S. reporters working in Central America. Miami-based author (and former New Times staff writer) John Lantigua remembers having lunch with Reich during a visit he made to Nicaragua in 1985, when Lantigua was freelancing for the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Reich was quarrelsome, Lantigua recalled, when the diplomat was confronted with facts that contradicted his ideology-laden conceptions about the socialist Sandinista government. "In retrospect he was fishing. He was being provocative to see who would argue with him," Lantigua surmised. The journalist soon found himself the subject of a report by Accuracy in Media, which claimed that the Sandinista regime was providing sex slaves to Lantigua in exchange for favorable reporting. Reich later took credit, telling a New York magazine writer that he had gotten the information from Sandinista defectors. "The guy's a slimeball," Lantigua scoffed.
Reich also engaged in potentially far more volatile forms of disinformation. In November 1984, purportedly citing classified intelligence documents, Reich told journalists the Sandinista government may have received a shipment of Soviet MiGs. Network news programs and major newspapers picked up the tidbit, which proved to be false. But the OPD goal, in this instance to malign the Sandinistas, was met.
In March Senator Dodd told the New York Times he didn't think Reich was "the right person" for the job. The right person, he suggested, would be someone with the diplomatic and political skills "to maintain bipartisan support for U.S. policies in the hemisphere." In July Dodd told NPR reporter Steve Inskeep he thought Reich's performance at the OPS was grounds for disqualifying his nomination. "I don't care what your party is or what your politics are, if you don't tell the truth and you lie to Congress, I'm not going to vote for you," Dodd declared.
In an October 11 letter to the Wall Street Journal, Dodd chastised Reich for waiting until October to submit a plan for avoiding conflicts of interest involving his public-relations clients, such as Bacardi. Dodd urged the administration to send "a qualified candidate" to the Senate, indicating he is not likely to support a hearing.
But at a hearing we could learn more about his history in the case of Orlando Bosch, a long-time advocate of violent struggle against the Castro government and a participant in more than 30 terrorist attacks in the Sixties and Seventies, according to the first Bush administration's Justice Department. In 1968 Bosch was sentenced to ten years in prison for firing a 57-millimeter bazooka shell at a Polish freighter in the Port of Miami. He violated parole in 1974 and landed in Venezuela. Authorities there arrested him in 1976 in connection with the bombing of a Cubana de Aviación jetliner that exploded after takeoff from Barbados, killing 73 people. He was still in prison and awaiting trial by a military court when Reich arrived at his Caracas post as ambassador in 1986. At Bosch's trial prosecutors presented evidence showing he was in contact with two men convicted for the bombing. But a Venezuelan military court acquitted him in 1988.
In confidential cables (now declassified thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the nonprofit National Security Archive) Reich queried the State Department about whether Bosch could become eligible for a U.S. visa. In one Reich informs Washington that friends of Bosch were poised to "whisk him out of Venezuela within four hours of his release from jail." In another Reich says an intelligence source informed him that "a hit team consisting of two men and one woman had arrived in Venezuela from Cuba to assassinate Orlando Bosch."
After his release Bosch returned to Miami in 1988 without a proper entry visa and was arrested upon arrival at Miami International Airport. While Bosch was detained for his 1974 parole violation, acting Associate Attorney General Joe Whitley ordered him deported in 1989. "His actions have been those of a terrorist, unfettered by laws or human decency, threatening and inflicting violence without regard to the identity of his victims," Whitley wrote, citing public and confidential information about Bosch's bellicose activities. But Whitley ruled out sending Bosch to Cuba, and no other nation would accept him. In 1990 George H.W. Bush's Justice Department released Bosch after he agreed to accept a form of house arrest.
In a recent interview with New Times, Bosch denied ever having contact with Reich. "I don't know Reich, nor have I ever seen Reich, nor did I ask him for anything," the 75-year-old pediatrician groused at his small one-story house in west Miami-Dade. "For me Otto Reich is like you. I don't know who you are." But when pressed, Bosch conceded he knew more than that. "He was ambassador to Venezuela," Bosch added. "I know that he is Cuban American and that he is going to be ambassador to Latin America [sic]."
According to the Washington Post, Dodd's office is preparing a set of questions for Reich in order to clarify his role with regard to Bosch.
If you guessed (c), you are probably a political junkie of some sort and quite possibly a cynical one. Would the president of the United States really nominate an anti-Castro ideologue for this important post just to keep a critical mass of Cuban American voters onboard?
Some members of the committee think it's conceivable. Without those votes George W. Bush probably would have lost Florida's historic cliffhanger and, hence, the 2000 election. Another motivator: The president's brother Jeb will also need that critical mass in his gubernatorial re-election bid a year from now. It is interesting to note that Reich enjoys the backing of other politicians who believe they need hard-line Cuban-American voters, for whom support of the embargo is an article of faith. The list includes Florida's two U.S. senators, Bob Graham and Bill Nelson, both Democrats.
"The president is heavily indebted to Florida," observed Andy Summel, who recently left his job as aide to Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. "He's heavily indebted to his brother. The Cuban-American community is a political force down there certainly but also in the country as a whole in terms of shaping legislation."
According to a report by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, an independent public-policy research group in Washington, D.C., Governor Bush urged his brother to nominate Reich at the behest of vehemently pro-embargo Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), who has made a career bringing anti-Castro tirades to the Capitol. Diaz-Balart reportedly informed the governor that if he wished to count on the support of Cuban Americans in his re-election in 2002, he needed to encourage his brother to nominate Reich.
New Times queried the governor's office on the veracity of this account and received this fluffy statement from his communications director, Katie Baur: "Mr. Reich is an excellent choice for this position. The governor strongly supports Mr. Reich and believes it is time for his hearing to take place. His commitment to this country and diverse background makes him the right man for this very important cabinet post." After some prodding on the Diaz-Balart connection, gubernatorial spokeswoman Leslie Steel relayed this response from the governor: "He said, I've supported Otto Reich for a long while and so has Lincoln.'" Steel added: "It has nothing to do with votes." (Diaz-Balart did not respond to interview requests made to his press secretary.)
Thus the nominee for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs is playing a far bigger role in domestic politics than in foreign policy. Even if the nomination goes nowhere, the president can likely guarantee Cuban-American support as long as he is perceived to be fighting for his hard-line, anti-Castro nominee. "In Washington, at the White House, in the Republican Party, they still see the Cuban-American electorate made up mostly of hard-liners," offered Miami pollster Sergio Bendixen. "I would personally question that analysis, but I think that's the way they see it and that's the way they play it." According to his voter surveys, the pro-embargo electorate is shrinking. "I think the whole political analysis that says to be able to get the Cuban-American vote you need to be a hard-liner is disintegrating quickly," he concluded.
But Bendixen thinks the president would not jeopardize his brother's re-election by giving up on Reich. "I think the president's advisors would tell him that dropping Reich would not be helpful with Cuban Americans."
Other prominent Cuban Americans share Bendixen's view. "I think that the majority of the Cuban community doesn't even know who Otto Reich is," noted Alfredo Duran, a Miami lawyer, Bay of Pigs veteran, and former Florida Democratic Party chairman, who favors a policy of dialogue with the Castro regime.
But what would happen if the president decided to abandon his controversial nominee? Hoping to assess the political cost of such a move, New Times queried Joe Garcia, CANF's executive director. Garcia dodged the question, saying he didn't believe withdrawing was an option. "I think you've missed the [Bush administration's] motivator," he insisted. "I think Otto Reich is a highly trained diplomat who's good at what he does. You're putting the administration in a box that I don't think they see themselves being in. I don't think that's an option, and I don't think they see it as an option. They could have, but they don't. It's an absurd question. It's like asking me what if my grandmother were a hippo? They've committed to go down the road with Otto." Garcia then suggested New Times put that question to Dennis Hays, CANF's highly diplomatic, Irish-American lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Hays also ducked. "Everything I've seen from this president is that he does not abandon a friend, and he doesn't abandon his choice when there is no information, no whatever, that indicates the individual has done anything other than be a first-rate servant of this nation," he declared.
Oddly enough CANF's archenemy -- the Cuban government -- thinks Otto Reich is a "magnificent" choice. "Otto Reich is the ideal undersecretary for a failed U.S. foreign policy in Latin America," Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of the People's Power, chortled during a recent interview in Havana. "I'm not worried in the least. The United States is who should be worried." Alarcón said Reich has already generated a negative reaction among Latin-American opinion leaders. He cited a widely published opinion piece by former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias, who warned that "appointing someone of Reich's ideological stripe would be a real setback in hemispheric cooperation."
Alarcón continued: "Otto Reich is more amusing to us than anything else. He is going to be concerned not only with Cuba but the whole continent. Perfect. Letting him help destroy U.S. relations with Latin America strikes us as a brilliant idea."
If you selected (d), you're right, at least as far as the Miami Herald editorial board is concerned. The bit about "misguided, even dishonest, attempts to propagandize the American public" comes straight from a March 26 editorial in the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily. But somehow that dark cloud didn't obscure the board's belief that Reich could "dispel doubts about steering U.S. policy" in Latin America. The editorial's endorsement noted that he enjoys the support of Governor Bush and Senator Graham but mentioned none who oppose him. Reich brings "solid diplomatic credentials and key contacts" to the job, the editorial assured.
The Herald editorial also ignored its own excellent reporting, including articles on the comptroller general's conclusion concerning Reich's propaganda activities in the Iran-contra scandal. Also omitted was any reference to a 1987 Herald article based on a report by the General Accounting Office, which determined that Reich's office had awarded a noncompetitive contract worth $187,000 to Richard Miller, the president of a public-relations firm that funneled private money to the contras. The GAO found the contract in violation of the ban on funding for covert propaganda operations. Miller currently is a partner of Reich's at RMA International.
The Herald's analysis of Reich continues to be mushy, perhaps so as not to offend members of the Cuban-American political establishment. It's an attitude that contrasts sharply with that of other major newspapers not known to be soft on Castro. The Chicago Tribune, in an October 15 editorial, likened the Reich nomination to "a moldy, B-grade production that inexplicably keeps popping up at the neighborhood moviehouse." The missive read: "The U.S. embargo against Cuba -- an article of faith among the majority of Cuban exiles in Florida -- is a weary, failed policy, and widely reviled around the world, particularly in Latin America. President Bush has spoken boldly about forging a new American policy with Mexico and Latin America. That's a role that cannot be played by a has-been with so many negative past performances as Otto Reich."
If you put your finger on (e), you are as savvy as some Senate insiders. Reich would obviously need to win over Republicans for his nomination to be confirmed. But the uncompromising policy toward Cuba is steadily eroding among GOP ranks, including members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"Cuba's not a huge market. But it's a market," maintained Andy Summel, the former aide to Sen. Richard Lugar. "It's not as big a market as Iran or Iraq would be if sanctions were modified there. But it would be a market, and it would be a market that would be sustainable over time. It's geographically close. And if the country were to grow economically, it would be a growing market.
"We have an independent view on Cuba," Summel continued. "Lugar and I personally think we ought to be selling food and medicine there, and we ought to lift a lot of the sanctions and put the pressure on Castro, rather than letting him benefit from our sanctions. He needs them politically."
Unfortunately for Reich, Lugar isn't the only one on the GOP side of the dais who thinks this way. At least five of the nine Republican senators on the committee also have supported lifting some sanctions against Cuba.
How would Reich refute them? "Cuba's economy cannot grow as long as Castro is in power," Reich declared on his WQBA appearance. "I think the policy of the United States should be, and again I'm speaking as a private citizen, to demand that there be internal changes in Cuba before the United States changes [its embargo policy]."
Polos Opuestos host Maria Elvira Salazar noted that a Republican president, Richard Nixon, had orchestrated a historic diplomatic opening with another communist country, China. She asked Reich why he opposed the idea of this Republican president trying the same thing with Cuba.
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"China isn't Cuba," he replied. "From an economic and commercial perspective, China and Cuba are two completely different countries." He then digressed into some of the capitalistic reforms, such as private businesses, that the totalitarian, one-party Asian behemoth has adopted since the Nixonian dialogue. But Reich seemed to be unaware of the paladares (private restaurants) and casas particulares (bed-and-breakfasts) that anyone who travels to, lives in, or reads about Cuba can't miss. "A Chinese person can have private property; he can have his own business," Reich maintained. "You can't do that in Cuba."
Reich was asked to reconcile the fact that many of his fellow Republicans, including Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft, support a loosening of the embargo. "I believe that the majority of North American companies know that Cuba is not a market," Reich insisted. "And frankly, that the [U.S.] Chamber of Commerce says one thing or the other isn't important because the Chamber of Commerce was against almost all of President Reagan's international economic policies. They opposed economic sanctions that Reagan imposed on the Soviet Union. They don't like economic sanctions in general."
By choosing Reich and sticking with him, Bush may have won points in South Florida, but he has lost some in Washington, especially inside his own party. "I think some [senators] are just concerned about why the president would want to choose somebody of that controversy, with that background, when it was known in advance that it would be a problematic nomination," observed Summel.
The answer to that riddle comes from the man who would be President Bush's chief diplomat in the Americas. "Cuba has an additional ingredient," Reich told WQBA's Salazar, "which is local politics."


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Andy Murray eases past Nick Kyrgios at Rogers Cup in first win after Wimbledon heartbreak
Andy Murray made light work of Nick Kyrgios as he cruised into the third round of the Rogers Cup in Toronto with a 6-2 6-2 victory over the Australian.
Kyrgios produced his career highlight by knocking Rafael Nadal out of Wimbledon earlier in the summer but he was unable to dent Murray's challenge in Toronto.
Murray dominated the match with his serve, producing seven aces in the two sets to book a clash with Richard Gasquet in the next round.
It was Murray's first match since failing to defend his Wimbledon title with a last-eight exit from the All England Club last month.
The 27-year-old British number one is on a Rogers Cup quarter-final collision course with Novak Djokovic should he progress in his debut hardcourt tournament of the season.
The event offers his main preparation before the US Open begins on August 25.


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2004-2011 Chevrolet Aveo: Used Car Review
With gas prices rising in the early 2000s and the Geo brand gone for good, Chevrolet needed a new subcompact that could compete with small, fuel-efficient rivals from Kia and Hyundai. That model was the Aveo, which was offered as a 4-door sedan or 5-door hatchback with five seats from 2004 to 2011. While it was known for its spartan appointments and tepid acceleration, the 2004-2011 Chevrolet Aveo did exactly what it promised. That involved providing budget-priced transportation for big-city car owners who didn't need the latest technology or the snazziest design. With prices starting under $10,000, the Aveo was among the least expensive cars on the U.S. market. After the 2011 model year, it was replaced by the Chevrolet Sonic, which also offers 4-door sedan or 5-door hatchback body styles.
Why You Want It
The Aveo is no luxury car, and it certainly doesn't make any claim to be high-performance or sporty. But its small size makes it ideal for big-city car shoppers who sometimes need to carry gear or the occasional passenger. Indeed, maneuverability is a strong suit, though it's equaled by fuel economy: The Aveo's 34 miles per gallon in city driving with its 4-speed automatic isn't great by today's standards, but it's hard to find among low-priced used cars. The Aveo is also much newer than many cars at its price point. That's good news for shoppers on a tight budget who otherwise may be considering Honda and Toyota models that are several years older -- and have thousands more miles on their odometers.
Five-door Aveo hatchbacks are the most practical. That's because the model's rear seats fold down (though not completely flat), allowing drivers to get larger, bulkier items in back. But even the 4-door Aveo sedan offers room for five people and enough trunk space for a few moderately-sized bags. The Aveo's tall height provides good headroom, which is rare in the subcompact class. And its large windshield gives an expansive view of the road, which is also welcome.
Notable Features and Options
Base-level Aveo models are, as expected, rather sparsely equipped. For example, the budget-friendly Special Value Model (SVM) didn't offer air conditioning or anti-lock braking. It also lacked power windows, power locks, power mirrors and even a CD player. But its 4-figure price made it one of the least expensive cars on the U.S. market.
Shoppers who upgraded to the mid-level Aveo (initially called just the Aveo; later renamed Aveo LS) received a few more features, including standard air conditioning, most notably. Anti-lock brakes were now optional, as was a CD player. The mid-level Aveo also included a height-adjustable driver's seat and power steering, though power locks and windows remained on the options list.
Drivers who wanted more amenities had to step up to the top-level Aveo, which was first called the LS but was later renamed the LT. That model included power windows, power locks and power mirrors along with air conditioning, alloy wheels and a CD player. It was also the only Aveo model to offer an optional sunroof. Cruise control, initially unavailable, was added in 2006.
Model Milestones
2004: The Aveo came out for 2004 in 4-door sedan and 5-door hatchback body styles. Available trims included the base-level SVM, a mid-level model and a top-line Aveo LS. A 5-speed manual was standard, while a 4-speed automatic was optional.
2005: In 2005, Chevrolet changed the Aveo's trim levels. The SVM remained, but last year's Aveo became the Aveo LS. And the former Aveo LS was renamed the 2005 Aveo LT.
2006: Standard front side airbags were the Aveo's biggest change for the 2006 model year. The top-level Aveo LT trim also added cruise control and remote keyless entry to its list of standard equipment.
2007: Aveo sedans were face-lifted in 2007 to remain fresh in the wake of new competition from the Nissan Versa and Honda Fit. The Aveo hatchback retained its styling but changed its name to Aveo5. The 4-door Aveo SVM models were gone, leaving the trim to carry on solely as a hatchback. And the newly-updated sedan now had a stereo jack for auxiliary music players.
2008: The Aveo was largely unchanged for the 2008 model year.
2009: For 2009, Aveo hatchbacks finally received the face-lift that the sedans received in 2007. The Aveo also added GM's OnStar telematics system, which was now standard across the General Motors model line.
2010: The Aveo was unchanged in 2010.
2011: The 2011 Chevrolet Aveo also received no changes in what ended up being its final year. The Chevrolet Sonic debuted for the 2012 model year and replaced both of the Aveo's body styles.
Engine and Performance
All Aveo models are powered by a 1.6-liter 4-cylinder engine that makes 106 horsepower and 104 lb-ft of torque. In 2010, the engine got a tiny boost to 108 hp, along with a slight torque increase to 107 lb-ft. The Aveo offered two transmissions. A 5-speed manual was standard and installed in a high number of Aveo models. That transmission has the best fuel economy, returning a rating of 27 mpg city/37 mpg highway from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). An available 4-speed automatic was rated at 26 mpg city/34 mpg hwy.
As expected, the Aveo's performance is underwhelming, despite its very low curb weight of around 2,600 pounds. With the standard manual transmission, getting from 0 to 60 miles per hour takes around 10 seconds, while it's closer to 11 seconds with the 4-speed automatic. Both figures mean that highway merging and passing can be a challenge. That's especially true with the automatic transmission, which can be slow to downshift even when a driver plants a foot to the floor.
On the plus side, the Aveo's engine is quite smooth and surprisingly quiet. And in spite of its small wheels and tires, the Aveo doesn't feel out of place cruising on the highway. It does, however, feel noticeably more labored with the air conditioning switched on -- an important consideration for highway drivers in warm climates.
Finally, while the Aveo is very maneuverable around town, the small car feels out of its element on the high-speed curves often found in rural areas. Body lean is noticeable, and acceleration out of most corners is mediocre. Numb steering feel doesn't help the subcompact's case.
Recalls, Safety Ratings and Warranties
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued the following recalls for the 2004-2011 Aveo:
2004: The rear seat belt retractor may lock in position, causing the belt to become unusable and twisted. Dealers fixed the issue by installing a new rear seat belt guide.
2007: The fuel line could fracture in a collision, which may cause a fuel leak and a fire. Dealers fixed this problem by installing a new section of the Aveo's fuel line free of charge.
The 2004-2011 Aveo received mostly good crash test ratings from the NHTSA. In front impact collisions, the Aveo earned a perfect 5-star rating for both the driver and the front-seat passenger. In side impacts, the Aveo received 4-star ratings for both front occupants when equipped with side airbags. Aveo models without side airbags earned only three stars in the side impact test. In the NHTSA's rollover test, the Aveo also earned a 4-star rating. These ratings apply to both the 4-door sedan and 5-door hatchback models.
The 2004-2011 Aveo has a 3-year/36,000-mile basic warranty, often referred to as a bumper-to-bumper warranty by automakers. The Aveo's powertrain warranty lasts five years or 100,000 miles. Shoppers that buy an Aveo under Chevrolet's Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) program receive an 172-point inspection and an additional 12-month/12,000-mile basic warranty that starts when the original warranty expires. The Chevrolet CPO program also includes a free maintenance plan that includes oil changes and tire rotations for 24,000 miles.
Word on the Web
The Aveo is generally known to be fairly reliable, aside from a few key trouble spots. The most important is the timing belt on 2004-2007 Aveo models, which is known to sometimes snap before its 60,000-mile recommended replacement interval. This can cause severe engine damage because the Aveo uses an interference engine, which means that, without the timing belt, the cylinders could collide.
The Aveo's plastic thermostat housing is also known to crack, which can cause engine overheating issues. Savvy Aveo buyers and owners will replace it with a metal housing. Finally, some Aveo drivers complain about excessive wind noise around the model's A-pillar. While the fix for this may be additional weather stripping, most drivers will likely just choose to leave it alone.
Other issues with the Aveo seem fairly minor and relate mainly to suspension components that are designed to wear over time. Later models also suffer from a minor engine issue related to the spark plugs, which could cause a check-engine light and a rough idle. Fortunately, a recent voluntary emissions recall should remedy that problem.
Competitive Set
Honda Fit: Only available as a 5-door hatchback, the Fit's build quality and materials are a step above the Aveo's. But so is its price, as the Fit retains value far better than the Aveo. The Aveo also holds an edge on fuel economy, though the Fit offers more interior space.
Hyundai Accent: The 2006-2011 Accent was offered as a 4-door sedan or a 2-door hatchback. Refinement is a cut above the Aveo, and used examples should be available in a similar price range. The Accent's city fuel economy also trumps the Aveo's.
Nissan Versa: On sale since 2007, the Versa is a popular subcompact also available in 4-door sedan or 5-door hatchback body styles. While no excitement machine, the Versa offers strong fuel economy and a rock-bottom base price.
Toyota Yaris: Toyota debuted the subcompact Yaris for the 2007 model year. Initially offered as a 3-door hatch or a 4-door sedan, the Yaris also added a 5-door hatch for 2009. The Yaris is far more substantial than the Aveo and boasts a larger interior. It offers slightly better city and highway fuel economy, as well.
AutoTrader Recommends
While the Aveo is no luxury car, it certainly makes sense for shoppers looking for an efficient subcompact on a budget. We prefer the more practical hatchback and highly recommend a 2008 or later model to avoid the timing belt issues that plagued earlier Aveos. But we also suggest that shoppers consider the competition, since many rivals offer similar fuel economy, larger interiors and a greater level of refinement. Still, buyers looking for a cheap city car with good fuel economy will find that the Aveo delivers exactly that.


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On Wed, Jan 09 2008, 12:34 AM, amazincc wrote:My heart just hurts... for him, for me... and as much as I want him to live - I somehow can't justify to myself to go about it this way.
I do want it understood that this is not the "easy way out" for me... it's damned hard and I've already been second-guessing myself 50 times, just typing this. I haven't made a final decision yet... but my heart is telling me to switch over to the oral meds and just let Mick enjoy his remaining time w/us... he so LOVES life... and I so LOVE him.
Christine, this is so touching. I have to believe he knows you are trying to help him, and apologizing for his fear or maybe assuring you he forgives you?On January 09 2008, 12:34 AM, amazincc wrote:And the killer was definitely the palm leaf he picked up in the parking lot on the way out of the vet office... he was still shaking, but he picked it up, carried it to my daughters car, jumped in the back seat w/me, nudged me - and gave it to me.
My heart absolutely went to pieces over that...
On January 11 2008, 2:32 AM, Jessica wrote:Mickey has been pretty sick with diarrhea and he has been throwing up a lot. My Mom is giving him medication for both and she is really worried about him. He is still bringing her a leaf every day even though he doesn't feel good and it makes her even sadder - that he is still thinking of her despite being so sick.
On January 11 2008, 12:42 PM, mnp13 wrote:I'm so sad for you, mick and your family...
When Riggs was really sick last December they gave him an injected anti-nausea drug, they may not be able to do that for him, but you might want to ask. I also know that in people they sometimes put in a shunt so that you don't have to try and find a vein every time you have to do chemo, is that a possibility? Maybe that would allow them to make the visits shorter and possibly less stressful?
I know you're getting a million suggestions from every side, which is dizzying.
A few years ago, I lost my very young cat to liver failure. There were a few treatment options that would have prolonged his life and possibly saved him but they would have been extremely stressful for him and lasted for 6 months or longer. I completely understand what you are going through with that decision. It is not easy, there is no "easy" in this situation.
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MICROSOFT: See the first trailer for the new Halo game
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Viking RV has signed more than 30 new dealers to represent its Viking or Coachmen Clipper brands of tent trailers during the first four months of this year.
"We have added a 'Who's Who' of new dealers from across the nation, from Freedom RV in Washington to Holiday on Wheels in Florida, and from Campers Inn in New England to Happy Daze in California" said Jerry Sell, national sales manager for the Forest River Inc. subsidiary in Centerville, Mich., according to a news release.
"The current economic situation and the trend toward smaller, more economical tow vehicles is creating a new audience for our products," Sell said. "Dealers are also recognizing that this customer is the first-time buyer, and could lead to more business as their customer follows the traditional trade-up pattern.
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Sept. 27, 2013 was declared Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy day by the City of San Diego, the San Diego City Council and Roberts.
The newly established Barnard Asian Language Foundation received $34,000 in contributions from organizations around the world. The Japan Foundation awarded Barnard with $20,000 to launch the Japanese Language and Culture program. Other donations came from the San Diego Korean Parent Association, House of China, the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association (APAPA), Better Chinese Publications and the Hom Family Foundation.
Barnard offers a Chinese Mandarin immersion program, with exploratory classes in Korean and Japanese language and culture. Additional languages, including Vietnamese and Tagalog, will be offered in the future.
The celebration concluded with a presentation of performances by the Chongching performing troupe from Chongching, China.
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A good graphic designer can design anything. It's really not about the software or the tools or this or that publication. It's really the art and skill of cutting through all the noise to find the essence of the subject -- and then being able to organize the best representations of that subject into a singular message. So it's true of type, typography and graphics like icons and even huge, monumental spaces. Thus this edition brings you An introduction to the principles of typography through letterpress, and selectively choosing the right icons, then Designing Exhibition graphics!
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An introduction to the principles of typography through letterpress.
This is a really fun little video -- with a lot of punch in terms of making a strong point. And, you realize this is the way all type was set -- once upon a time, right? This is actually, true entertainment ... we hope you really enjoy it . . .
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How to Choose the Right Icons
Icons are nothing new when it comes to web design, but that doesn't mean selecting the right icons to use is an easy task.
Like anything else when it comes to your website, careful thought is required to determine the use and need for each component. Whilst sprinkling your pages with decorative icons may give your site a unique feel, it's rarely the wisest of choices.
Gabrielle Gosha leads you through the steps you'll need
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Exhibition graphics are hugely important both for exhibitors
Exhibition graphics are hugely important both for exhibitors and organisers as they help to communicate important messages to the attendees. Graphics can be used at a wide range of corporate events, including parties and conferences. There are hundreds of reasons why big brands invest heavily in their exhibition stands and graphics – it's something that your business should be considering too.
The activities you lay on for attendees at your conference or exhibition stand are obviously very important, but the graphics that you use are what will actually attract those attendees first and foremost. You might be laying on the best conference or exhibition ever – but if you don't have great graphics displays and marketing in place in order to draw the crowds, no one will ever come to find out more about your business or brand at your corporate event.
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Intensity is an important component to almost every sport, but for Kansas sophomore tennis player Dylan Windom, it is something that defines her game when she is out on the court.
"A lot of my teammates know me by my fist pump," Windom said. "They all love it."
The Tifton, Ga. native's signature move is more than sign of celebration. For her, and for a number of her Jayhawk teammates, it serves as a motivator during hard-fought matches throughout the season.
"Like our coach (Amy Hall-Holt) says, 'When everybody is intense, fist-pumping and yelling at each other, you win,'" she reiterated. "When the momentum is going your way and you are pumping yourself up, you are unbeatable."
Windom's calling card usually comes during a match when things and the energy are on her side of the court. It is something her opponents just can't help but notice.
"I look at the other player and I just do this," Windom explains (as she holds her fist out in front of her and pumps it back and forth). "(Volunteer assistant coach) Boomer (Saia) tells me it looks like I am shaking my fist at my opponent."
Regardless of how it comes across to her cross-net counterpart, Windom's head coach is just glad her standout sophomore practices what she preaches.
"That competitiveness makes her very unique and special to this program," Coach Hall-Holt said. "She has so much passion for the game and the University as a whole that it enables her to keep that competiveness at a high level."
That quality is one that has come in handy for the second-year student-athlete, who often finds herself in long-grueling matches during the challenging Big 12 Conference schedule. One of those marathon matches came late last month against nationally-ranked Baylor, when Windom outdualed BU freshman Megan Horter, 6-7, 7-6, 12-10.
"During the Baylor match I was down 7-6, 5-2 and I don't really know what clicked in my head but I came back and won," she remembered. "I was just saying to myself, 'stick with your game plan, keep your composure and do it for your record and your team'".
That never-give-up attitude seems to rub off on her fellow teammates and is why Windom's coach sees the fist pumping Georgia peach as one of her team's leaders.
"She just thrives off of everyone wanting to do well and everyone on the team competing at a high level, so I think her way of being a leader is by example," Hall-Holt said. "Her presence is very much respected because everyone knows how hard she works, not only on the court, but in the classroom."
That hard work paid off following her freshman season, as Windom compiled a 14-7 overall record in singles competition and earned a national ranking of 67th in doubles play. Her sophomore campaign has been equally as promising as she has won 14 singles matches, while earning 10 victories playing with a partner.
In 2012 Windom started strong, winning her first five singles matches and nine out of her first 10, but a four-match losing streak in the middle of the season made her anxious to get back into the win column.
"I hate losing, it is horrible," explained the ultra-competitive underclassman. "I was not used to losing entering my sophomore year so I wanted to win every match, but the Big 12 is really tough in tennis. Most teams are top-30 in the nation."
Windom has shown her mettle thus far during the conference campaign, notching singles victories against 16th-ranked Texas A&M and No. 13 Baylor.
"I am not upset with my results so far this year," Windom thought. "I know I am playing well and I still have a couple matches left to play."
That positive yet determined attitude is one that her head coach believes helps Windom, as she has some high expectations for herself as well as the team.
"She has embraced everything that has been put out there for her as far as goals that I have set, or that she has set for herself," Hall-Holt said. "That's why everybody buys into the goals she sets for the team, because she leads by example."
"Sometimes I put too much pressure on myself, especially in doubles," Windom thought. "When the (ITA) rankings came out in January, we were 29th, so of course I felt pressure that my doubles partner and I had to lead the team. Eventually I had to learn how to play relaxed and without tons of pressure on my back."
With just a pair of matches left to play in the regular season during the next week, Windom's teammates will surely welcome her high expectations and the intensity that comes along with them. While the second-year Jayhawk will be working hard on the courts to get that 'W' for herself, her coach knows she will be focused on the bigger picture.
"She is much more than Dylan Windom, she is Dylan Windom playing on the KU tennis team," Coach Hall-Holt explained. "And it is very rewarding for me to see an athlete playing with that type of mentality."
So the next time someone watches a Kansas tennis match and sees an intense fist pump coming from someone wearing Crimson and Blue, they'll know its Dylan Windom, who is displaying that excitement for not just herself, but the rest of her team.


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I am pleased to announce the 1.2 release of the WidgetFX project. This brings the project up to speed with the latest JavaFX 1.2 release, and includes many bugfixes and improvements to the framework.
I want to thank all the widget authors who made an extra effort to port their widgets during the beta period so they would be available from day 1 on the new version.
So what are you running in your dock?
All these widgets are available and working today on the WidgetFX 1.2 release. To run WidgetFX, simply go to the WidgetFX home page and click on the Launch Dock link: http://widgetfx.org/
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- Built-in Layout – Widgets now have an onLayout() function that can be used to layout the top-level nodes.
- Signed Widgets – Widgets can now be signed with certificates to get out of the sandbox and gain access to system resources.
- Additional API Hooks – New event handlers for onShow and onHide.
- Macintosh Bugfixes – Transparency now works with the latest JDK (1.6.0_13), and dialog interaction issues have been fixed.
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