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June 4, 2009 | Healthcare
Q&A with Victor Rivers
Victor Rivers is an author, actor, activist, spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence and a Community Champion for the Verizon Foundation. In his memoir, A PRIVATE FAMILY MATTER (Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster), Victor Rivers uses his own harrowing story of surviving a home where abuse took place on the level of torture. He now works tirelessly to raise awareness about what he considers our greatest yet most curable social disease - domestic violence.
In light of the recent media focus on domestic violence and the Verizon Foundation's role as acontributor to the prevention and awareness of Domestic Violence, we spoke with Victor to gain insight about the cause and his motivation for working with the Verizon Foundation.
Q. Why is it important to you to be a spokesperson for domestic violence?
A. While much has changed in terms of awareness and programs to assist victims of domestic violence or the "quiet crime," it remains the most underreported crime in America. For this reason, I decided to lend my voice and story as a witness and survivor to the cause and help educate the masses.
Q. Explain the importance of men advocating for this cause.
A. While women are the predominant victims of domestic violence, with approximately 4% being against men, it is still important that it is understood as an issue that affects EVERYONE -women, men and children. I was the first national spokesperson for NNEDV that was not a woman, and becoming a father and realizing that having men represented and standing up shoulder to shoulder with women shows unity. A real man respects and protects women and their children.
Q. How did you become a Verizon Champion for Domestic Violence?
A. I've been speaking on the issue for 10 years. It seemed like every event I attended, the Verizon Foundation was always there supporting the cause and working to help stop the cycle of violence. We were already working towards similar goals that included the focus on education and prevention, so it was a natural fit to work with them as a community champion and help keep the message alive. Also, without the community, I would be dead - the community took me in and raised me so I am a product of that and want to help when and where I can.
Working to educate and prevent domestic violence is also a transformational power of the village and Verizon is part of and is one of the leaders of that village that is trying to make a difference. I am proud to be part of the family to create a more peaceful and humane world.
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Tim McGraw is hitting the road on his Two Lanes of Freedom tour starting May 2 in Birmingham. Brantley Gilbert and Love and Theft will be along for the ride, and Tim is working up new songs from his upcoming album, Two Lanes of Freedom for the trek. That project lands in stores February 5.
"This album marks a new sense of excitement and artistic freedom for me, and I really wanted to extend that same feeling to the tour and create a cool vibe for the fans," Tim says. "Let's leave anything that might be weighing us down out in the parking lot and spend a few hours together feeling alive and free."
As an added twist, Tim has partnered with Tumblr for the "Fanticipation" program to let fans in each city announce when tickets will be available in their hometown. One lucky fan in each city will get a phone call from Tim himself as part of the program, and that fan will get to tell their friends or family about the on sale date first. For further details, go to TimMcGraw.Tumblr.com .
Here are the tour dates:
5/2 -- Birmingham, AL, Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
5/3 -- Charlotte, NC, Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5/4 -- Raleigh, NC, Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
5/10 -- West Palm Beach, FL, Cruzan Amphitheatre
5/11 -- Tampa, FL, 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre
5/12 -- Atlanta, GA, Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
5/17 -- Philadelphia, PA, Susquehanna Bank Center
5/18 -- Pittsburgh, PA, First Niagara Pavilion
5/19 -- Detroit, MI, DTE Energy Music Theatre
5/23 -- St. Louis, MO, Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5/24 -- Chicago, Il, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
5/25 -- Cincinatti, OH, Riverbend Music Center
5/26 -- Darien Lakes, NY, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
5/30 -- Indianapolis, IN, Klipsch Music Center
5/31 -- Cleveland, OH, Blossom Music Center
6/1 -- Washington, D.C., Jiffy LubeLive
6/7 -- San Diego, CA, Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
6/8 -- San Bernardino, CA, San Manuel Amphitheatre
6/9 -- Mountain View, CA, Shoreline Amphitheatre
6/13 -- Albuquerque, NM, Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque Presents the Pavilion
6/14 -- Salt Lake City, UT, USANA Amphitheatre
6/15 -- Denver, CO, Fiddler's Green
6/20 -- Beaumont, TX, Ford Park Pavilion
6/22 -- Dallas, TX, Gexa Energy Pavilion
6/28 -- Hartford, CT, Comcast Theatre
6/29 -- Boston, MA, Comcast Center
6/30 -- Holmdel, NJ
7/25 -- Toronto, ON (CAN), Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
7/26 -- Bethel, NY, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
7/27 -- Virginia Beach, VA, Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
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A Polish Village's Secret
A farming town hid a Jewish-born teacher during the Holocaust. I went to dig up what it had buried.
Wladyslaw was also on the run as a teacher. According to Nazi racial theories, the Slavs did not need, nor deserve, education. Limited elementary-level education was in place in some areas, where children were taught in non-Polish languages like German and Russian. (Hans Frank, the Nazi governor general of occupied Poland, worded it best: "the Polish lands are to be converted into an intellectual desert.") And so Wladyslaw was never even remotely safe from capture, practicing a profession the Nazis honored by sending teachers to the ghetto in the nearby village, deporting them to concentration camps, or immediate execution. "It didn't matter whether he was a Jew or a Pole. If the Germans found out he was teaching, he would be killed," said Edward. "Many teachers died in nearby villages. In Czerwinsk, there were teachers who were educating children during the war. They were arrested and died in a concentration camp in Pomiechowek. It was not a simple act to teach children during the war. It was extremely dangerous." During the war, according to one source, about 15 percent, or roughly 8,000 of Poland's teachers, were executed.
Every weekday morning during the war, when he wasn't running from the Gestapo, Wladyslaw carefully arranged six chairs in a room in Wychodzc, where he lived with Marysia and their daughter Modesta. Wladyslaw and the villagers would get warning signals from a Polish housekeeper and not-so-secret lover of the German military police commander. The housekeeper was also, conveniently, a member of the Armia Krajowa, the Home Army, the largest Polish underground resistance movement and one of the biggest in Europe during World War II.
He lived as a panicked man. In one of the rooms that doubled as a secret classroom, he pulled out a table, rug, and several Polish schoolbooks while nervously waiting for his first students to arrive at 8 a.m. He had one ear to my grandmother's or her sister's footsteps in the fields—for any sign he should hide. The children never went down the main road where German soldiers would march before resting in Poles' homes and eating their pigs and drinking their water and complimenting them for learning German and occasionally, depending on their mood, killing their families.
The children entered Wladyslaw's home from a door on the north side and traveled in small groups or alone. He quickly ushered them in and quietly closed the door. "I was a small girl, but I knew he was Jewish. But we never talked about him in hiding, or his situation," said my grandmother, who was 7 years old at the start of the war, in 1939. When communism penetrated their lives, their war experiences were silenced behind a thick curtain. "It's only in today's times that people talk about it, and it's taught in schools. Back then, parents didn't talk about politics, or the Jews, or the Germans. They didn't talk about it at all," said Aunt Stasia.
My grandmother and aunt walked through the fields to school with Wladyslaw when he had been hiding at their home at night. They carried Polish books inside books with German writing so that the soldiers would be convinced they were learning German. "One time, a German soldier saw that I was studying in my home and that my notebook was in German. He was pleased that I was learning German," said Edward, smiling proudly at his small, childish effort to stick it to a German occupier.
The children opened their Polish books, tucked deep into the German literature that they tossed aside during lessons. Wladyslaw, helped by his wife, secretly taught Polish language, math, history, and geography. "On the outside, he didn't look differently from anyone else," said Edward. "His accent was Polish. Even from the accent, you couldn't tell he was Jewish. He just had a personality that was, well, very difficult." Marysia checked their homework in the room 100 meters from Edward's home and steps away from the homes of a handful of women with whom Wladyslaw was rumored to be having affairs. The children sensed their tension in the way he talked down to her and in the fights they failed to control.
Love during the war was a strange, dark, and twisted concept. It was the blood that ran red and kept your family glued together and alive, or the very thing that could force a fatal betrayal. "Here in Chociszewo, there was a Jew hiding by a couple's home. The wife and the Jew fell in love, and she betrayed her own husband to the Germans," said Aunt Stasia. "She told them he was hiding a Jew. They immediately came, took her husband away, and killed him, and she stayed with the Jew. She lost her husband. When the Russians came later, they took the Jew, and they killed him, too."
How did she reconcile such betrayals? I asked. "I don't know. It's hard to understand people like that," she said. "But in our home, all kinds of people came, and somehow they weren't afraid. They knew we wouldn't betray them." In addition to Wladyslaw, my family also apparently hid two cousins from the Germans. I finally asked a question often difficult for Poles to broach, and even more so to answer: whether our family had ever betrayed anyone, turned anyone over to the Gestapo. "Oj. My family protected them to the end. Nikogo nie wydalismy," she said. We never betrayed anyone. I asked my Grandmother Henia, and she said the same.
But my family did turn away Polish partisans seeking refuge. Hunted by the Gestapo because of their resistance work with the Home Army, they came to my family's door and asked my great-great-grandfather to hide them. He told them to go instead to the neighbors. "He was already afraid for the people he was hiding," said Aunt Stasia.
Wladyslaw was an excellent mathematician who always demanded obedience. "If anyone misbehaved, whatever he had in his hand, he hit you in the head with it, and that was it," said Edward. Grandma Henia clarified, "He threw whatever he had in his hand at you. But I was friends with Modesta, so I was in the clear," she laughed. "But he was a very, very good teacher." Aunt Stasia, too, said even though he was stern, "I'm indebted to him because he taught me during the war. I finished three grades in one year after the war."
Wladyslaw, on average, taught 10 students a day, when there were no signals being sent out through the village that the Germans were carrying out lapanki, or captures. The children sat on a rug on the floor po Turecku, Turkish style, with their feet tucked under them because there weren't enough chairs. There were no desks or furniture or supplies that hinted of a school, in case the Germans stormed in. Each group met for two-and-a-half hours, with the last children quietly departing in the evenings. When the lessons were over, Wladyslaw would let them out one by one, at most two at a time, into the fields, when he felt it was safe. By the end of the war, there were 70 children coming to him every weekday.
Wladyslaw and his family survived off villagers' donations. Children brought potatoes, bags of flour, sometimes money, or pork, if a pig had been quietly killed. "For killing a pig you were sent to a concentration camp. You killed the pig in a way that it wouldn't scream," said Edward.
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Have you ever wondered why it's so difficult to please your partner? Well, research from Harvard University has found the near-impossible battle stems from a female need for emotional connection in relationships.
Bottom line women are happiest when their man is unhappy.
Confused? Don't be. The findings actually make sense in a somewhat warped way.
According to the research, women are far more satisfied in their relationship when their partner shares their negative emotions. Men, however, are quite the opposite. Blokes like their girlfriends to wash away any negatives with positive feelings.
Lead researcher Shiri Cohen believes the findings show females react to empathy and enjoy knowing their partner is on the same page.
"It could be that for women, seeing that their male partner is upset reflects some degree of the man's investment and emotional engagement in the relationship, even during difficult times," Cohen said. "This is consistent with what is known about the dissatisfaction women often experience when their male partner becomes emotionally withdrawn and disengaged in response to conflict."
Examining 156 heterosexual couples from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, Cohen and her crew recorded conversations with each individual partner about the toughest times in their relationship.
The couples were then brought together to view the recordings and rate how they felt on a scale ranging from "very negative" to "very positive" and whether they felt their other half was empathetic.
The results indicated that relationship satisfaction was 100 per cent linked to a man's ability to read his lady's emotions the right way, and women were more likely to enjoy their relationship if their partner was upset.
So, what does this mean for us men?
Cohen concluded that blokes should always try to be empathetic with their partners. Instead of countering a female's negative feelings with a joyous "Don't worry! You'll be fine!" a man should make an effort to sympathise in a gentle and compassionate way.
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Suffolk County to Reinvent Roadways
Suffolk County's dubious distinction of having some of the most dangerous roads in the state has led the Suffolk County Legislature to approve a bill meant to make new roads safer for all sorts of travelers. The "Complete Streets Program" will require the county's Department of Public Works to consider ways to accommodate not just cars on the roads, but to design features for other modes of transport including bicyclists, buses and pedestrians.
Huntington Building at Center of Dispute Taken Down
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Hurricane Sandy-damaged cars continue to spark contention on the East End. On Friday, Southampton Town attorneys went to Supreme Court after commencing litigation against the same car auction firm currently in hot water with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation over cars ordered to be removed from environmentally sensitive property at Enterprise Park at Calverton.
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So, are the rest of the months on Apartment Therapy really dedicated to homeowners? Which would explain a lot. :-)
Love that red side table! Where can i find it?
Looks a lot like the ones that CB2 has.
Agreed, @lyonstill , though I will say instead of fighting landlords I now fight a condo board that tells me what I can and can't do in the unit I pay for. But it's still worth it, yes.
good photo wall, I like your coach too.
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Who Is Affected by Chlamydia
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States. About 3 million people are infected with chlamydia every year.1
Reported rates of the illness are higher in women than in men. But experts assume that of all new cases, half occur in men and half occur in women. Most people with chlamydia are not aware that they are infected and do not seek testing.1
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time.
During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor.
Chavez repeatedly proved himself a political survivor. As an army paratroop commander, he led a failed coup in 1992, then was pardoned and elected president in 1998. He survived a coup against his own presidency in 2002 and won re-election two more times.
The burly president electrified crowds with his booming voice, often wearing the bright red of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela or the fatigues and red beret of his army days. Before his struggle with cancer, he appeared on television almost daily, talking for hours at a time and often breaking into song of philosophical discourse.
Chavez used his country's vast oil wealth to launch social programs that include state-run food markets, new public housing, free health clinics and education programs. Poverty declined during Chavez's presidency amid a historic boom in oil earnings, but critics said he failed to use the windfall of hundreds of billions of dollars to develop the country's economy.
Inflation soared and the homicide rate rose to among the highest in the world.
Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba in June 2011 to remove what he said was a baseball-size tumor from his pelvic region, and the cancer returned repeatedly over the next 18 months despite more surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He kept secret key details of his illness, including the type of cancer and the precise location of the tumors.
"El Comandante," as he was known, stayed in touch with the Venezuelan people during his treatment via Twitter and phone calls broadcast on television, but even those messages dropped off as his health deteriorated.
Two months after his last re-election in October, Chavez returned to Cuba again for cancer surgery, blowing a kiss to his country as he boarded the plane. He was never seen again in public.
After a 10-week absence marked by opposition protests over the lack of information about the president's health and growing unease among the president's "Chavista" supporters, the government released photographs of Chavez on Feb. 15 and three days later announced that the president had returned to Venezuela to be treated at a military hospital in Caracas.
Throughout his presidency, Chavez said he hoped to fulfill Bolivar's unrealized dream of uniting South America.
He was also inspired by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and took on the aging revolutionary's role as Washington's chief antagonist in the Western Hemisphere after Castro relinquished the presidency to his brother Raul in 2006.
Supporters saw Chavez as the latest in a colorful line of revolutionary legends, from Castro to Argentine-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Chavez nurtured that cult of personality, and even as he stayed out of sight for long stretches fighting cancer, his out-sized image appeared on buildings and billboard throughout Venezuela. The airwaves boomed with his baritone mantra: "I am a nation." Supporters carried posters and wore masks of his eyes, chanting, "I am Chavez."
Chavez saw himself as a revolutionary and savior of the poor.
"A revolution has arrived here," he declared in a 2009 speech. "No one can stop this revolution."
Chavez's social programs won him enduring support: Poverty rates declined from 50 percent at the beginning of his term in 1999 to 32 percent in the second half of 2011. But he also charmed his audience with sheer charisma and a flair for drama that played well for the cameras.
He ordered the sword of South American independence leader Simon Bolivar removed from Argentina's Central Bank to unsheathe at key moments. On television, he would lambast his opponents as "oligarchs," announce expropriations of companies and lecture Venezuelans about the glories of socialism. His performances included renditions of folk songs and impromptu odes to Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong and 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Chavez carried his in-your-face style to the world stage as well. In a 2006 speech to the U.N. General Assembly, he called President George W. Bush the devil, saying the podium reeked of sulfur after Bush's address.
Critics saw Chavez as a typical Latin American caudillo, a strongman who ruled through force of personality and showed disdain for democratic rules. Chavez concentrated power in his hands with allies who dominated the congress and justices who controlled the Supreme Court.
He insisted all the while that Venezuela remained a vibrant democracy and denied trying to restrict free speech. But some opponents faced criminal charges and were driven into exile.
While Chavez trumpeted plans for communes and an egalitarian society, his soaring rhetoric regularly conflicted with reality. Despite government seizures of companies and farmland, the balance between Venezuela's public and private sectors changed little during his presidency.
And even as the poor saw their incomes rise, those gains were blunted while the country's currency weakened amid economic controls.
Nonetheless, Chavez maintained a core of supporters who stayed loyal to their "comandante" until the end.
"Chavez masterfully exploits the disenchantment of people who feel excluded ... and he feeds on controversy whenever he can," Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka wrote in their book "Hugo Chavez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President."
Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was born on July 28, 1954, in the rural town of Sabaneta in Venezuela's western plains. He was the son of schoolteacher parents and the second of six brothers.
Chavez was a fine baseball player and hoped he might one day pitch in the U.S. major leagues. When he joined the military at age 17, he aimed to keep honing his baseball skills in the capital.
But the young soldier immersed himself in the history of Bolivar and other Venezuelan heroes who had overthrown Spanish rule, and his political ideas began to take shape.
Chavez burst into public view in 1992 as a paratroop commander leading a military rebellion that brought tanks to the presidential palace. When the coup collapsed, Chavez was allowed to make a televised statement in which he declared that his movement had failed "for now." The speech, and those two defiant words, launched his career, searing his image into the memory of Venezuelans.
He and other coup prisoners were released in 1994, and President Rafael Caldera dropped the charges against them.
Chavez then organized a new political party and ran for president four years later, vowing to shatter Venezuela's traditional two-party system. At age 44, he became the country's youngest president in four decades of democracy with 56 percent of the vote.
Chavez was re-elected in 2000 in an election called under a new constitution drafted by his allies. His increasingly confrontational style and close ties to Cuba, however, disenchanted many of the middle-class supporters who had voted for him. The next several years saw bold but failed attempts by opponents to dislodge him from power.
In 2002, he survived a short-lived coup, which began after a large anti-Chavez street protest ended in deadly shootings. Dissident military officers detained the president and announced he had resigned. But within two days, he returned to power with the help of military loyalists while his supporters rallied in the streets.
Chavez emerged a stronger president. He defeated a subsequent opposition-led strike that paralyzed the country's oil industry, and he fired thousands of state oil company employees.
The coup also turned Chavez more decidedly against the U.S. government, which had swiftly recognized the provisional leader who had briefly replaced him. He created political and trade alliances that excluded the U.S., and he cozied up to Iran and Syria in large part, it seemed, due to their shared antagonism toward the U.S. government.
Despite the souring relationship, Chavez sold the bulk of Venezuela's oil to the United States.
He easily won re-election in 2006, and then said it was his destiny to lead Venezuela until 2021 or even 2031.
"I'm still a subversive," Chavez said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press. "I think the entire world has to be subverted."
Playing such a larger-than-life public figure ultimately left little time for a personal life.
His second marriage, to journalist Marisabel Rodriguez, deteriorated in the early years of his presidency, and they divorced in 2004. In addition to their one daughter, Rosines, Chavez had three children from his first marriage, which ended before Chavez ran for office.
Chavez acknowledged after he was diagnosed with cancer that he had been recklessly neglecting his health. He had taken to staying up late and drinking as many as 40 cups of coffee a day. He regularly summoned his Cabinet ministers to the presidential palace late at night.
He often said he believed Venezuela was on its way down a long road toward socialism, and that there was no turning back. After winning re-election in 2012, he vowed to deepen his push to transform Venezuela.
His political movement, however, was mostly a one-man show. Only three days before his final surgery, Chavez named Maduro as his chosen successor.
Now, it will be up to Venezuelans to determine whether the Chavismo movement can survive, and how it will evolve, without the leader who inspired it.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Vice President Nicolas Maduro is taking over leadership of Hugo Chavez's political movement after the socialist leader died Tuesday at age 58 following a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Maduro now faces the daunting task of rallying support in a deeply divided country while maintaining unity within his party's ranks.
Maduro decidedly lacks the vibrant personality that made Chavez a one-man political phenomenon in Venezuela, but he has the advantage of being Chavez's hand-picked successor.
The mustachioed 50-year-old former bus driver won Chavez's trust as a loyal spokesman who echoed the president's stances. How Maduro will lead in Chavez's absence remains to be seen, although he's widely known as both a skilled negotiator and a leader who views upholding his mentor's legacy as his personal crusade and responsibility.
One of the biggest tasks Maduro will likely face is attempting to hold together a diverse movement that includes radical leftists, moderates and many current and former military officers.
Analysts have speculated that differences might emerge between factions led by Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, the influential National Assembly president who is thought to wield power within the military. But thus far both men have denied such divisions and vowed to remain united.
After Chavez's Dec. 11 cancer surgery, Maduro stepped up his public appearances to fill the void, providing regular updates on the president's condition, calling for unity among allies and lambasting the opposition.
Maduro also showed how he could attempt to continue Chavez's socialist-inspired project. Speaking at one December rally, he vowed in vague terms to maintain policies that have angered the country's leading business federation, Fedecamaras, which was long at odds with the president.
"We aren't going to give dollars to Fedecamaras. What we're going to give them is pains, headaches with this Bolivarian Revolution," Maduro shouted, his voice hoarse. "I swear to you ... we're never going to betray the people of Venezuela!"
Chavez's deteriorating health led him on Dec. 8 to announce Maduro as his chosen successor. He said that if his illness prevented him from being sworn in on Jan. 10, government supporters should rally around Maduro and elect him president.
Maduro is expected to keep promoting programs such as free medical clinics staffed by Cuban doctors and subsidized food stores, which have endeared the president with the country's vast numbers of poor. Maduro has vowed to block a return to past policies that he said had benefited the wealthy.
"Our people will never again see the bourgeoisie plundering this country," Maduro said, adding, "Better to be dead than traitors to the people and to Chavez!"
That loyalty made Maduro a logical choice, political observers said.
"Maduro combines two characteristics that influenced Chavez in his decision to designate him as successor: first, his loyalty to the party leadership, and second, his positions in favor of popular measures," such as social programs for the poor, said Steve Ellner, a political scientist at Venezuela's University of Oriente.
In his youth, Maduro drove a bus for the Caracas Metro transit system and later became a union leader.
It's unclear when Maduro and Chavez first met. But Chavez is thought to have first gotten to know Maduro in the 1980s, when Chavez was a lieutenant colonel and began a clandestine movement of disgruntled military officers that eventually carried out a failed coup attempt in 1992. Chavez was jailed on military rebellion charges and then released in 1994 when he was pardoned.
Maduro went on to become a leading member of Chavez's nascent political movement, growing closer to the budding politician and also getting to know Cilia Flores, who is now attorney general and was Chavez's defense attorney following his arrest for the 1992 coup attempt.
After Chavez was elected president in 1998, Maduro was selected to join a special assembly to draft a new constitution. He was later elected to the National Assembly and then became president of the legislature.
Maduro was named foreign minister in 2006 and oversaw international efforts such as consolidating the regional diplomatic blocs ALBA and Unasur, strengthening relations with countries such as Russia, Iran and China, and overseeing a rapprochement with U.S.-allied Colombia. He is thought to maintain close ties with Cuba's government.
Maduro "is perceived by Chavez as a negotiator with diplomatic skills who could potentially gather the support of the different factions and keep it united in the difficult months ahead," said Diego Moya-Ocampos, an analyst with the London-based consulting firm IHS Global Insight.
"Nevertheless, he is not necessarily perceived as such within all the top ranks of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela and the armed forces," Moya-Ocampos added.
Jennifer McCoy, a political science professor at Georgia State University, described Maduro as an easygoing man who has shown a willingness to talk with government opponents.
"He's always been someone who is easy to talk to," said McCoy, director of the Americas program at the Carter Center, which helped the Organization of American States facilitate dialogue between the government and opposition after a 2002 coup that briefly ousted Chavez.
Maduro was always willing "to discuss the issues, and I think that's really important going forward for Venezuela," McCoy said.
Before Chavez underwent his latest operation in December, he explained why he had chosen Maduro:
"He's one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I'm unable to - God knows what he does - if I'm unable to, to continue with his firm hand, with his gaze, with his heart of a man of the people, with his gift for people, with his intelligence, with the international recognition he's earned, with his leadership, leading the presidency."
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World Wetlands Day 1998 in Israel
What is World Wetlands Day? At the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee, in late October 1996, World Wetlands Day was officially designated for 2 February of every year, the anniversary of the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 1971, as an opportunity for governments, organizations, and citizens to undertake big and small actions intended to raise public awareness of wetland values and benefits in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular.
This page is part of a series of reports on activities held on and about WWD '98 in various countries of the world, as reported to the Bureau. If you should know of any other activities not mentioned on these pages, send us a note (firstname.lastname@example.com) and we'll add it to this list.
See also our earlier list of activities reported as planned for WWD '98, a repository of inspiring ideas in itself.
Subject: preliminary report of WWD: "Pity on the sea" in Israel
There is an old tradition to celebrate nature protection in Israel in connection with the traditional Jewish holiday of "Too Beshvat" - The New Year for the Trees. It was used in the past to plant trees, to eat dried fruits and to have a special prayer for the life of trees and for the sack of nature.
In the last three decades it became a holiday for all the green organizations who "adopt" this holiday which is symbolized the beginning of the spring. Every year we celebrate around the day of "Too Beshvat" from one Saturday to the next for 8 days. Each year is devoted to another subject of nature conservation and it is planned and announced in advance by the "Spokesmen forum" of the "Greens" (Israel Society for Protection of Nature, Nature Reserves Authority, National arks Authority, KKL (Forest authority), Ministry of Environment and Youth Department, Ministry of Education). Special activities are always planned and advised to the Education system through the "General Director directives".
A special happening was planned this year in the Red Sea (city of Eilat) by all local "Green" organizations, Israel Society for Nature Protection; Man, Nature & Law; Greenpeace; Green activity; The Israel Diving Federation; Nature Reserves Authority; "Dolphin reef" and Underwater Observatory.
The happening took place on February the 7th from 1000 till 1700 in the Eilat Art Center which will includes:
- Demonstration of coral reef and marine protection problems.
- Research and monitoring work by the Eilat InterUniversity Institute and the Eilat lab of the Israel Limnological and Oceanographic Research Institute.
- Children activities (operated by guides)
- Plays about nature conservation
- Fishing race (to rescue magnetic fish from polluted bucket to clean one)
- Preparation of marine mobiles (fish, corals and other from Neopren)
- Marine cosmetics
- Art workshop for families:
- Mr. Moshe Frumin - Orchestra play - Orchestra instruments done from recycled materials.
- Mr. Doron Polack. - The Sea Performance - done out of used papers
- Ms. Sylvia Priuval - Marine landscape painting on plastic bags.
- Mr. Rafi Malka- - Legends about sea and men.
- Ms. Ophira Avishar - Plays made of empty plastic bottles.
- Mr. David Yerushalmi - Marine sculpturing with ceramics.
- Ms. Ruthi Katz- - Colored sand in bottles
- Slides performance on the sea - every hour.
- Photo exhibition of marine subjects.
- Some local music groups will play through all the happening (donated by the local hotel owners club).
- Public relations and advertising:
1. The happening will be covered along the day by the local radio station "Red Sea voice".
2. The happening will be promoted and advertised by the local newspaper "Every evening".
Advertising for the tourists (local hotels) by the Ministry of Tourism - Eilat branch).
Yours, Reuven Ortal


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|Game 7 HR king: Yank Aaron
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
A promising start ended in a crushing loss for the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS. Boston's season came to an end in the 11th inning on a home run off Tim Wakefield. Full story >
Red Sox share pain like a family
Sox stick with Pedro in key eighth
Pedro cruises until late trouble
Millar: Sox have reason to be proud
Boston lacked late offense
Homers record little solace for Sox
Boston brass remains proud
Abridged history of heartbreak
Comparing the curses
ALCS Score Tracker: Game 7
Mound moves the key
ALCS Game 7 game balls
Red Sox notes: Little calm, confident
Fans understand gravity of Game 7
Wakefield: I let the team down
Millar thinking about Marlins
Varitek reacts to the loss
Garciaparra after Game 7
Martinez takes responsibility
Little's postgame remarks
Boone's homer ends it
Posada's two-run double
Williams drives in a run
Ortiz's solo homer
Giambi's second solo homer
Giambi's solo homer
Millar's solo homer
Wilson's error scores Varitek
Nixon's two-run homer
By Mark Feinsand / MLB.com
Aaron Boone's leadoff home run in the bottom of the 11th inning won Game 7 of the ALCS for the New York Yankees on Thursday night and sent the Bronx Bombers back to the World Series. Full story >
Get your Yankees ALCS gear
Game 7 Q&A with Aaron Boone
Aaron Boone: AB of a lifetime
Fish, Sharks: Remarkable theater
Rivera garners ALCS MVP honor
Bullpen key to victory for Yanks
Rocket gets a reprieve
Eighth-inning rally finished Pedro
Yanks rotation up in the air
As usual, Mo's money for Yanks
Giambi sets stage for ALCS win
Walk-off homers in NY playoff history
East Coast rivalry brewing
Calling on the Babe's 'mojo'
Yankees notes: Torre revamps lineup
Jeter believes in teammates
Boone on being the hero
Wells on "The Curse"
Bob Boone on sons Aaron, Bret
Boone, Rivera after Game 7
Torre on great ALCS matchup
Pettitte on the amazing win
Mussina on his contribution
Giambi on his two homers
Boone's walkoff homer in the 11th
Yanks tie it on Posada's double
Williams' RBI single
Giambi's second solo homer
Giambi's solo homer
Wilson's error scores Varitek