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A committee of the Lansing City Council unanimously approved changes to the fringe benefits of certain city employees, sending the proposals on to the full council for approval.
According to the Lansing City Pulse, the three-member Committee on Ways and Means voted in favor of a plan that would change health care coverage for members of the "Executive Management Group," which includes department heads and Randy Hannan, the mayor's chief of staff and executive assistant.
The same employees have also agreed to give back 5 percent of their salaries, the equivalent of taking 13 furlough days.
The proposed changes were brought forward by the administration as part of an effort to lead by example, Hannan told the City Pulse.
The changes are also consistent with a new state law limiting the amount of money a municipality can spend on employee health care.
Hannan told the City Pulse the two base plans employees can choose from are priced beneath the "hard cap" imposed by the legislation.
Both plans require employees to pay a deductible on their policy; once that's reached, the employee is responsible for 20 percent of the cost of "major expenses," the City Pulse reported.
Hannan said the city hopes to bring all employees onto a similar plan.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has made reducing health care costs a priority.
He has said health care costs and other fringe benefits, including retirement, are "eating up" the city's budget.
The mayor's budget proposal showed the city is slated to pay more in health care and retirement costs than salaries for the Lansing Police Department.
In his proposed 2013 budget, Bernero required city employees to take up to 26 furlough days; that number could be reduced if cost-saving concessions were made.
In an email Thursday, Hannan said the outcome of those negotiations resulted in non-emergency city employees taking 13 to 16 furlough days in the current fiscal year, depending on the bargaining unit.


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Some roots ought to be abandoned
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- February 28, 2013
MARK Butler is not a mean or nasty person. There is little doubt that the Labor frontbencher's remarks about Rooty Hill's famously racy name were not intended to cause offence and nor would they for most people.
In fact it is almost obligatory for everyone to make a joke about Rooty Hill the first time they hear of the place.
Unfortunately therein lies the problem. Just as the western Sydney population is wondering why the Prime Minister is now behaving as though she's only just found out about them, one of her ministers - an otherwise capable and intelligent rising Labor star - makes as though he's just heard the words Rooty Hill for the first time by making a joke that is as token as the Prime Minister's visit.
Again, let's not be precious - there's nothing wrong with having a laugh at each other or ourselves - but one would think a government in such peril in western Sydney wouldn't have its frontbenchers taking the mickey out of the place.
Indeed, Mr Butler might wish to take the pun further and observe that the people in Rooty Hill have indeed been well and truly rooted - largely by his government.
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IT is a sad fact that domestic violence takes many different forms but there is one factor constant throughout: There is never any excuse for it.
Assaulting one's partner is not just incredibly cowardly, it is unthinkably cruel. There is a special kind of torture involved in being physically and often repeatedly attacked by someone you are in a relationship with.
If anything it is arguably even worse than random street violence and yet it is often dismissed or overlooked - perhaps because it is so uncomfortable; perhaps because it is so common.
And yet just last week came the horrifying consequence of our unwillingness to openly tackle this dark subject once and for all. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the number of assaults rose by 45 per cent between 2011 and last year.
While this included all incidents, it was not the number of victims that rose significantly but the number of attacks. In other words the same number of victims are being assaulted more and more often.
The Daily Telegraph has long campaigned for an end to violence against women and indeed assaults generally. It goes without saying that this newspaper passionately and wholly supports the new provision for police to temporarily detain alleged offenders and issue apprehended domestic violence orders.
It is a practical and vital power that finally places support for the victim above all other concerns.
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The Wallenberg Curse
The Search for the Missing Holocaust Hero Began in 1945. The Unending Quest Tore His Family Apart
STOCKHOLM -- In neat script, blue ink on white letterhead, Fredrik von Dardel began writing to the stepson he had long been told to leave for dead: "Dear beloved Raoul."
It was March 24, 1956. He always wrote at his living-room table, his wife, Maria, looking on from a corner of the couch by the phone. On a chest, a spray of flowers she kept fresh stood beside a picture of her son, Raoul Wallenberg.
Mr. Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who safeguarded 20,000 Jews in Budapest in the waning months of World War II, vanished into the Soviet penal system in 1945. But the couple, then 71 and 65 years old, believed their son was alive and readied a letter for Sweden's prime minister to take to Moscow.
"We have been sustained by the hope of one day seeing you among us and again being able to kiss you and hold your hands and hear your beloved voice," his stepfather wrote in an old and elevated Swedish. "There's a room here waiting for you."
Mr. Wallenberg did not come home then, or ever. His end remains unclear. The world now knows the missing Swede as a symbol of humanitarianism -- an honorary citizen in four countries, commemorated with stamps in eight and monuments in 12, the subject of scores of films and books.
Unknown, however, is the price his family paid as it tried in vain to bring him home. For six decades, his parents and siblings battled Moscow and their native Stockholm, mounting a search for answers that cost them their savings, careers, relationships, health and, concealed until now, two of their lives.
Also unknown, even to the Swedish foreign ministry -- whose file on Mr. Wallenberg dwarfs its record of any king, colony or war -- is that the family documented its struggle. Mr. Wallenberg's late mother and stepfather, who died two days apart in 1979, kept a diary. His half-brother, Guy von Dardel, now 89, compiled a 50,000-page archive.
Together with hundreds of interviews, the family's thousands of journal entries, letters and documents -- most read for the first time by The Wall Street Journal -- lay bare the toll of an unending quest.
"It's a bestial thing," says Nina Lagergren, who at 87 still spreads her half-brother's name. "If you don't know if somebody is dead or if they are alive, you have to go on to look for the truth."
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was born on Aug. 4, 1912, in Lidingö, Sweden. His father, a member of a family with wide-ranging influence in banking and business, had died of stomach cancer three months before. Twenty-one years old, the widowed Maj Wallenberg wished to die, too. "But then I felt that I wanted to live, for my little poor fatherless child," she wrote weeks later.
In 1918, she married Fredrik von Dardel, a healthcare official who would later head the Karolinska Institute, Sweden's top medical university. Raoul's half-siblings, Guy and Nina, were born over the next three years.
Raoul's paternal grandfather, Gustav, groomed the multilingual Wallenberg scion for a banking career and dispatched him to business posts in South Africa, then Palestine.
There, in a kosher boarding house in Haifa in 1936, the Swedish Lutheran met a German Jew whose brother had been murdered by a Nazi. He soon read Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf twice, his half-sister recalls.
On Jan. 22, 1944, the United States established the War Refugee Board, an agency intended to protect the endangered populations of Europe. The board asked the Swedish foreign ministry, which staffed a mission in Budapest, to suggest a candidate to run an office there. Word reached Mr. Wallenberg.
Hired by the U.S. and granted diplomatic status by Sweden, Mr. Wallenberg, 31, arrived in Budapest on July 9, 1944. The Nazis had already deported more than half of Hungary's 750,000 Jews, nearly all to Auschwitz in Poland, where most were killed. Slight, balding and colorblind, Mr. Wallenberg used safehouses, counterfeit passports and bravado to safeguard thousands who remained.
On Dec. 12, he wrote his mother that the Soviets were so close he could hear their gunfire. He expected to be home by Easter. "Dearest Mother," he concluded. "I will say goodbye for today."
On Jan. 17, Soviet officers in Budapest arrested him on orders from Moscow.
Sweden's foreign ministry asked the Soviets about the wellbeing of its mission in Budapest. The Soviets wrote them Mr. Wallenberg was in their custody. According to Soviet and Swedish records, Stockholm didn't respond.
In mid-February, Mr. Wallenberg's mother arrived unannounced at the Soviet embassy in Stockholm to appeal for her son. Ambassador Alexandra Kollontay told her "that Raoul was in the Soviet Union and that he was treated well," Ms. von Dardel recounted to a reporter in 1971.
Appeals for Aid
A letter to Stalin from Raoul Wallenberg's mother, July 21, 1947:
"I am desperately appealing to the powerful ruler of the Soviet Union for help regaining my beloved son." See the full letter. (Courtesy Riksarkivet)
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In 1947, Guy von Dardel, enlisted fellow physicist Albert Einstein to appeal to Stalin on behalf of Mr. Wallenberg, his missing half-brother :
"As an old Jew, I appeal to you to do everything possible…" See the full letter. (Courtesy Guy von Dardel)
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From 1952 to 1978, Mr. Wallenberg's stepfather, Fredrik von Dardel, kept a diary. This is an excerpt from the second entry, Nov. 12, 1952:
"This was irksome, particularly as this paper is a life-organ of our social circle. After I and several others shook up the editorial offices, they inserted in their national edition, and in the subsequent Stockholm edition, a corrected announcement in a prominent place." Read the full diary entry. (Courtesy Riksarkivet)
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A letter to Mr. Wallenberg from his stepfather and mother, March 24, 1956:
"The 11 years that have passed since your disappearance have been filled with despair night and day, but we have been sustained by the hope of one day seeing you among us and again being able to kiss you and hold your hands and hear your beloved voice." Read the full letter. (Courtesy Guy von Dardel)
On March 8, the Soviets stated on Hungarian radio that the Gestapo had murdered Mr. Wallenberg in Budapest.
But assured by the ambassador, Ms. von Dardel was hopeful when, on April 18, she stood on a Stockholm quay awaiting the ship Arcturus. Some of its passengers had worked alongside her son in Budapest. She scanned the disembarking Swedes. Raoul wasn't there.
Sweden didn't ask for Mr. Wallenberg's return, even though the Soviet Union had seized the diplomat in violation of international law. Current and former Swedish foreign ministry officials say that amid worsening East-West relations, neutral Sweden feared petitioning the emerging superpower on behalf of a diplomat financed by the U.S.
Swedish leaders also worried about offending Scandinavian principles of egalitarianism. "How could the socialist government be seen to intercede on behalf of a Wallenberg?" says Jan Lundvik, a retired Swedish ambassador who handled the Wallenberg case in recent decades.
On April 25, more than three months after Moscow had told Stockholm that Mr. Wallenberg was in its custody, Sweden responded. "It is possible that [Mr. Wallenberg] has been in some kind of accident," Swedish ambassador Staffan Söderblom told the Soviet deputy foreign minister, according to a memo in the Russian foreign ministry archives. The ambassador gave him a more brazen message in December: "It would be splendid if the mission were to be given a reply...that Wallenberg is dead."
On June 15, 1946, the ambassador reiterated this message to Joseph Stalin. The case, Stalin promised, "will be examined and solved."
The Swedish foreign ministry told Mr. Wallenberg's family that it knew nothing of his fate.
The family marked Raoul's 34th birthday with a dinner in August. It paid his annual taxes in October, a City Hall official classifying him as bortavarande, missing. And it began to seek help through meetings, phone calls and letters addressed to everyone from the World Jewish Congress to United Nations chief Dag Hammarskjöld to actress Ingrid Bergman.
In the coming months, rumors placed Mr. Wallenberg in an Estonian prison, a Slovakian castle and an airplane arriving at the Stockholm airport, where his brother raced in vain in October.
In fact, her son was alive and in Moscow's Lefortovo prison, according to Russian foreign ministry documents. There, in cell 203, a fellow inmate later recalled to Swedish officials, Mr. Wallenberg tapped coded messages on walls and pipes. Returning in March 1947 from his fifth interrogation, he relayed his interrogator's withering words: "Nobody cares about you."
On Aug. 18, 1947, Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet deputy foreign minister, sent a letter to the Swedish ambassador in Moscow. It read: "Wallenberg is not in the Soviet Union and he is not known to us."
Others, too, washed their hands of Mr. Wallenberg. Leaders of Sweden's Jewish community endorsed the country's foreign ministry. U.S. officials did not pursue their former representative in Hungary after Sweden's ambassador in Moscow snubbed their offer to help.
The von Dardels readied for a long fight. They helped found Wallenberg Action, a committee to fund and publicize the search. The mother instructed her younger children to presume Mr. Wallenberg alive until the year 2000.
'A Dark Cloud'
On Oct. 24, 1952, his 34th wedding anniversary, Mr. von Dardel started a diary. After two paragraphs devoted to his wife, he turned to the stepson who had come to call him Papa: "Raoul Wallenberg's fate has lain like a dark cloud over our existence."
The next year, after Mr. von Dardel retired, the couple moved to a ground-floor apartment. There they would press their son's case for the rest of their lives, he at his table and she on the couch some 10 feet away.
Mr. von Dardel railed in letters and his diary against Swedish officials. He wrote of his wife's heated words for the foreign minister. "In Germany," she had told Mr. Undén, "there were a few who worked and succeeded in getting home the many. Here in Sweden, it seems many are now working but are not succeeding in getting home one."
Ms. von Dardel spent hours on the phone, most often on "negative, chilling calls from the foreign office, when they seemed to be quite without heart," recalls her daughter, Ms. Lagergren. Ms. Lagergren's daughter, Nane Annan -- the wife of diplomat Kofi Annan -- recalls her grandmother's knuckles whitening as she clutched her phone.
The von Dardels had their distractions. He played solitaire and painted watercolors. She sewed dresses and repaired the home. But they had all but stopped socializing: Sweden's neutrality during World War II remained a discomfort to Swedes, and the loss of Raoul served as a constant reminder of it. "People have a difficulty meeting somebody who lost someone," Ms. Lagergren says. "They cross the street."
On March 24, 1956, days before he was set to travel to Moscow, Swedish prime minister Tage Erlander visited the von Dardels. He told them he shared their wish that he return with their son. Mr. von Dardel sat down to write his stepson of the family's previous 11 years and their yearning for his return.
Mr. Erlander took their letter. He returned empty-handed. The family Easter, Mr. von Dardel wrote in his diary, was ruined.
On Feb. 6, 1957, the Swedish ambassador in Moscow received a memo from Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. It stated that Soviet officials had recently found, in the archive of Moscow's Lubyanka prison, a letter dated July 17, 1947, that prison health director Alexander Smoltsov had written to Soviet security minister Viktor Abakumov.
It began: "I report that the prisoner, Walenberg [sic], who is well known to you, died suddenly in his cell this night, probably as the result of a heart attack." A notation added that the body had been cremated without autopsy.
The Swedish foreign ministry alerted the von Dardels to the memo the afternoon it arrived. "First they say that they have taken him under their protection," says Ms. Lagergren. "Then they say that he was murdered...then that he didn't exist in Russia. They kept with this until they said that he died in 1947, that he died of a heart attack. So naturally, we didn't take it seriously."
The von Dardels had hoped that Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, the powerful brothers at the helm of their family bank, would press the Kremlin to send home the cousin they had called "little Rulle." But the family acknowledges the brothers wrote just two letters on Raoul's behalf -- one to former ambassador Kollontay in 1947, another in 1954 to a Czech business contact with Soviet ties. They also repeatedly declined to meet with the von Dardels' group, Wallenberg Action, according to a letter the group sent them in 1954.
"Mommy has been suffering for a long time," Ms. Lagergren wrote her brother Guy in March 1959, "not having any contact or support from Raoul's family."
Peter Wallenberg, 82, says his father, Marcus, who co-headed the family bank, had told him that Raoul's mother had asked the Wallenbergs not to interfere. "You didn't do things without total government consent," he added. "And there was not total government consent in regards to Raoul."
'Slippery as an Eel'
Mr. von Dardel increasingly scorned that government. He wrote that ambassador Rolf Sohlman was an "ineffective bastard," prime minister Erlander "slippery as an eel," foreign minister Undén "horrible."
As Mr. von Dardel recorded the drip of witness accounts in his diary over the years, his stepson was aging. But looking out from a picture frame on the green-marble chest top in his parents' Stockholm apartment, he remained 24.
In 1970, Mr. von Dardel wrote "Raoul Wallenberg: Facts Around a Fate," a sober recounting of the family's 25-year search. The book didn't sell. Says Ms. Lagergren: "People got tired."
And increasingly uncomfortable. "People look at me as if I was mentally ill," Ms. von Dardel told a reporter in 1970.
Having endured so many reports of her son's death, she periodically wished for her own. "She said over and over again, 'I no longer want to live,' " recalls her daughter-in-law, Matti von Dardel.
Maj von Dardel had broken her leg years before and walked with forearm crutches, a bag about her neck to carry things. Her husband, blind for decades in one eye, was losing sight in the other. But both wished to see their diary published. In 1976, they typed its handwritten entries and created an index of the 587 names that populated its pages. No publisher was interested.
On Feb. 6, 1978, Mr. Lundvik visited the von Dardel home. "A very painful meeting with these two old people," the ambassador wrote in his diary. "That he is alive is taken for granted."
The next month, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal -- who had earlier reported that Mr. Wallenberg was in an Irkutsk psychiatric hospital -- told the von Dardels he'd been mistaken.
On April 28, 1978, Mr. von Dardel concluded the diary begun nearly 10,000 days before. On its final page, he wrote two English words: "stone wall."
On July 10, Mr. von Dardel wrote to Swedish doctor David Hummel. According to a book written by a colleague, Dr. Hummel was helping people to die with insulin and Diminal Duplex, a sleeping pill. "I would like to give you my wife's and my thanks," Mr. von Dardel wrote, his script large and slack, "for your regards and for your prescription."
Soon after, Mr. von Dardel lay in his bed and raised a spoonful of sleeping pills to his lips. "But," says his daughter-in-law, "he dropped it and couldn't find his pills."
In 1979, Swedish papers reported that a former Soviet prisoner testified to the Swedish foreign ministry that Mr. Wallenberg had been in a prison in the city of Vladimir until at least the summer of 1975. But holes now emerged in this testimony, too.
Mr. von Dardel, aged 93, decided again to end his life. On Feb. 12, he died in his bed.
Raoul Wallenberg's mother, again widowed, lay on her sofa two days later and swallowed an overdose of barbiturates.
Nina Lagergren arrived shortly after. Her mother, still alive, asked Nina to promise that she and Guy would keep fighting for their older brother -- and presume him living, as she had long instructed, until 2000.
Nina gave her word.
Mourners laid a blanket of yellow, white and pink flowers over a pair of closed coffins. In their parents' death notice, the siblings listed three surviving relatives: Nina Lagergren, Guy von Dardel and Raoul Wallenberg.
Siblings' Secret
Together, Nina and Guy would carry until now the secret of their parents' suicides. But they would fulfill their mother's deathbed request in ways that increasingly pulled them apart.
After their half-brother's disappearance, Guy von Dardel often turned from his wife, two daughters and career as a particle physicist in Geneva to help his parents pursue Mr. Wallenberg. He chipped at diplomatic stonewalls and mined contacts -- persuading fellow physicist Albert Einstein, for example, to argue Mr. Wallenberg's case in a letter to Stalin.
Nina Lagergren, a housewife and mother of four in Stockholm, tried to provide her parents daily respite from their singleminded search. "I thought the best I could do for Raoul was to give them a real life," she says.
In the days after their parents' deaths, Mr. von Dardel, 59, asked his sister, 57, to help him form an advocacy group for Mr. Wallenberg. Ms. Lagergren wondered to a friend, Nobel Foundation president Stig Ramel, whether she should take up the mantle without traumatizing her family. She later recalled that he responded: "Can you do anything else?"
Ms. Lagergren soon asked her missing brother's cousin for help. Marcus Wallenberg offered funding and an office. Within months, the Raoul Wallenberg Association had a board and members.
Throughout the spring and summer, Mr. von Dardel and Ms. Lagergren sowed word of their sibling, meeting with dignitaries from Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to U.S. Senator Joseph Biden. By fall, Raoul Wallenberg committees were flowering in Jerusalem, London, New York and Stockholm.
A Brother's Archive
For six decades, Mr. Wallenberg's half-brother Guy von Dardel amassed an archive chronicling his family's search. Among its 50,000-odd pages is this letter his father, Fredrik, wrote on July 10, 1978, thanking Dr. David Hummel for a lethal prescription. See the document. (Courtesy Guy von Dardel)
Ms. Lagergren began to dress in red and blue, she says, "for courage." She found strength meeting Jews shielded by Mr. Wallenberg, including U.S. politician Tom Lantos and his family. "I felt a very strong emotional sensation looking at these lovely people, all so deeply committed in wanting to pay their debt to their saviour," she wrote in July 1979.
In December, Mr. von Dardel took the siblings' search to Moscow. He tried to drum up support for a Soviet-Swedish commission to research his brother and persuaded fellow physicist Andrei Sakharov to travel to sites where former prisonmates of Mr. Wallenberg were rumored to be.
In January 1980, Sweden's foreign ministry declassified some 2,000 documents -- about one-ninth of its holdings at the time. Ms. Lagergren told reporters: "We must look forward and act with certainty that Raoul is alive."
Mr. von Dardel wrote his sister: "You are doing a fantastic job."
In February, the first anniversary of their parents' suicides, Ms. Lagergren placed flowers on their adjoining graves. "I think that mom and dad in heaven probably are quite pleased with developments," she wrote to her brother. "We haven't been able to free Raoul, but his name is known as never before."
Mr. von Dardel let his sister know, however, that he saw little point in publicizing Raoul's exploits. "Next Sunday," he wrote to his sister on June 22, 1980, from Palo Alto, Calif., where he was on a teaching sabbatical at Stanford, "Mrs. Fleishacker, who is it seems one of the ten upper class people in San Francisco, opens her house in honour of Raoul. I do not normally find that Raoul is much helped by social events."
But such events drew Diaspora dollars and press. Mr. Wallenberg's story joined the writings of Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank and William Styron in the Holocaust education of a postwar generation.
On Oct. 5, 1981, Ronald Reagan declared Mr. Wallenberg an honorary U.S. citizen -- its second, after Winston Churchill. "What he accomplished was of biblical proportions," the president said in the White House's Rose Garden, the two siblings standing alongside.
Sweden, however, had no Raoul Wallenberg street, stamp or statue. And when a Soviet submarine ran aground on its coast in late October, Stockholm ignored a call from Mr. Lantos -- now a U.S. representative -- to trade its crew for answers about Mr. Wallenberg. It towed the sub into international waters
"The place where we are met with the most indifference," Mr. von Dardel wrote in a letter two months later, "is still our and Raoul's native country."
In 1984, Mr. von Dardel stepped up his assault, suing Moscow in a federal district court in Washington, D.C. "Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" alleged that the arrest of a Swedish diplomat was illegal and demanded the return of Mr. Wallenberg or his remains. The court ruled in Mr. von Dardel's favor. But the Soviet Union didn't respond and the case was eventually dismissed. He retired to search full-time for his brother.
Ms. Lagergren, meanwhile, assembled a book of letters her mother wrote about Raoul when he was young. She headlined the New York premiere of a Raoul Wallenberg movie in the fall of 1984. The next spring, at a black-tie dinner in her missing half-brother's honor, she dined on gravlax and reindeer alongside Henry Kissinger and Max von Sydow and lamented that her mother hadn't received such support.
Mr. von Dardel didn't attend either event.
Swedish reticence and Soviet intransigence began to give way. In 1987, Sweden issued a Raoul Wallenberg stamp and dedicated a Stockholm square to him. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced an era of openness.
Mr. von Dardel traveled to Moscow in 1987 and 1988 to meet again with Mr. Sakharov, relaying locations near Tbilisi and Leningrad where his half-brother was rumored to be. Mr. Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner, set off. "I was in a state of urgency," Ms. Bonner recalls.
The next year, the Soviet ambassador in Sweden summoned the siblings to his embassy and said they were invited to Moscow. "Their faces were glowing," he later recalled to a Swedish newspaper.
On Oct. 16, 1989, a Soviet official set a wooden box before Ms. Lagergren and Mr. von Dardel. The siblings, 68 and 70, beheld what had been seized from their half-brother 45 years before: an address book, calendar, car registration, cigarette case, diplomatic passport and stacks of old money -- Bulgarian leva, Hungarian pengos, Swedish krona, Swiss francs and U.S. dollars. The Soviets reiterated that Mr. Wallenberg had died in 1947 and nearly all his case files had been destroyed.
Mr. Sakharov, too, told the siblings that he believed their brother was dead.
Memories of Brother
A family photo, top, and 1992 sketch of Mr. Wallenberg commissioned from an FBI artist to show what the missing man would look like at 80.
The two returned home from Moscow, their paths now increasingly determined by their pasts.
Ms. Lagergren recalled her missing brother vividly. He had loved to dance and mimic, imitating German officers and French diplomats at a 1943 Christmas party. He remained everpresent in her home -- a bust of Raoul in her entryway, his architectural sketchings in her study, the wooden box from Moscow now tucked in her basement.
She spoke about him weekly at her Stockholm association but not to her aristocratic circle of friends. Ms. Lagergren began to take anti-depressants and sought refuge in her yard, tufts of corydalis ringing the trunks of her apple and pear trees. "I must have this dual life to be able to exist," she says.
Mr. von Dardel had not been as close to his brother and kept few of his possessions. He struggled to recall him, says his wife, Matti. A doctor suspected Parkinson's disease. Mr. von Dardel's face became increasingly still. Soon after, he wept without expression when he listened to Raoul's college classmates recount how the missing man had hitchhiked, shopped at Montgomery Ward and liked Laurel and Hardy.
The former physicist turned to research. He created the Soviet-International Commission on the Fate and Whereabouts of Raoul Wallenberg, which gave way to a Swedish-Russian governmental group. Its members hoped the Soviet Union's collapse would loosen archives and officials.
Mr. von Dardel distanced himself from the Raoul Wallenberg Association he had founded with his sister. The dues of its 1,000 members funded an annual concert and helped spread his name. There was now a Raoul Wallenberg daffodil, a Raoul Wallenberg wax statue in a Swedish museum, a Raoul Wallenberg entry in the Guinness Book of World Records ("Greatest Number of People Saved from Extinction"). In 1991, Mr. von Dardel did not attend the association's board meeting and in later years did not return.
"I have found these activities relatively uninteresting, if not to say tasteless, as long as Raoul's destiny is unsolved," he wrote in June 1994 to Peter Wallenberg, who had supported the association since assuming his family's helm in 1982. Mr. von Dardel asked the banker for $50,000 to fund his search.
Peter Wallenberg declined the request. (He says he was instructed to do so by Ms. Lagergren; she says this is false.) Soon, the Wallenberg bank also refused Mr. von Dardel access to its archive, the family lawyer stating on Swedish television that it was open only to "serious research."
Mr. von Dardel commissioned an FBI sketch of what his brother would look like at age 80. He wrote his sister to ask for Raoul's dental records. He traveled to Russia 15 times in 1994 alone -- the 75-year-old man enduring scabies, hypothermia and, when he approached a man Soviet files say interrogated his brother a half-century before, a cane swung at his head. He began to question the motives of those he'd hired to help him, letters show, and wondered if his phone was tapped.
Mr. von Dardel had used his savings, a few hundred thousand dollars, to fund his research, his wife says. He'd spent another $100,000 from his youngest daughter. By 1995, 50 years after he began looking for his brother, he'd all but stopped speaking to his sister.
Using his wife as an intermediary, she says, he told Ms. Lagergren he wanted to tap the account Mr. Wallenberg had left behind. Ms. Lagergren acquiesced. Over the next five years, Mr. von Dardel withdrew $130,000, Mr. Wallenberg funding his own search.
The siblings' Raoul Wallenberg Association closed its doors in 1999. Ms. Lagergren opened the Raoul Wallenberg Committee. She was its sole member.
Apology From Sweden
The year was 2000. The siblings were to assume their brother dead. But Ms. Lagergren couldn't bring herself to do so. The time, she says, "was not ripe yet."
In January 2001, the Swedish-Russian group that included Mr. von Dardel published its final report on Mr. Wallenberg. It was inconclusive.
Days later, Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson phoned the siblings. Recalls Mr. Persson: "It was an expression of apology from the kingdom of Sweden."
The prime minister failed to comfort. "How can one call after so many years?" asks Ms. Lagergren. "Just call?"
In short order, Mr. von Dardel broke his hip, got a pacemaker, caught pneumonia and, says his family, spoke less and less. He stopped speaking of his brother.
His doctors were unsure why. His family wasn't. "You understand now," says his daughter, Louise, "that the illness is Raoul Wallenberg illness."
In 2003, a commission appointed by the Swedish prime minister published "A Diplomatic Failure," an open critique of Sweden's policy toward its missing diplomat. "Diplomatic opportunities that might have helped Wallenberg were missed," says Sweden's current deputy foreign minister, Frank Belfrage.
Mr. Lundvik, the ambassador who long handled the Wallenberg case, is more blunt. "The Swedish government did not want him back," he says.
In 2005, Mr. von Dardel's younger daughter, Marie Dupuy, emptied the contents of her father's living-room closet into her Peugeot and drove it to her home in Versailles, France. She divided some 50,000 pages into 75 bins. One was devoted to her father's career in physics, 74 to his missing half-brother.
Here were the 32 years before Mr. Wallenberg disappeared -- a tracing of his newborn foot, an invitation to a 1944 cocktail party he hosted. But mostly, here were the 61 years that came after -- pleas for information from soldiers and girlfriends, lawsuits and librettos bearing his name. Here was the account of the Pole who claimed to have given Mr. Wallenberg extra soup rations. Here was the thank-you note, dated 1978, to the doctor who would help Raoul's parents die.
In September 2007, Ms. Lagergren visited Geneva and stopped to see her brother. He didn't speak. "The years when he was on the commission must have been very trying for him," she says.
On Aug. 4, 2008, dressed in red and blue, Ms. Lagergren clipped three red roses from her garden. She placed the flowers, as her mother had, next to the portrait of Raoul that had stood in her parents' living room. Ninety-six years after the day he was born, she still presumed him living.
Eight days later, Mr. von Dardel sat silently in Room 233 of a Geneva hospital. Belted to a recliner chair, his hospital bracelet sliding over his thin right forearm, he listened to this reporter recount his family's search.
"I think it was very unfair," he said in a faint voice, of the brunt of two suicides on his sister. "Nina was in the center position."
Talk turned to the search.
"One should go to the top," he said.
Vladimir Putin?
What would he like to tell the Russian leader?
Days before turning 89, Mr. von Dardel summoned his strength: "If we sit down...try to find out...the real hope would be if new information..."
Did he still think about Raoul?
"Yes, I do," Mr. von Dardel answered in his strongest voice.
Later, he added: "I see him in Russia."
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Corrections & Amplifications
Earlier versions of this article misidentified the birthday that the family marked with a dinner. It was Raoul's 34th birthday.
Write to Joshua Prager at firstname.lastname@example.com


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|Overcoming the past
All this stuff about "The Power of Positive Thinking" always sounds so inspirational. But what about the really hard stuff? What about the terminal illnesses, or the cancers, or the abuses, or the rejections, or the death of a child, or the bankruptcies, or the divorces, or getting old, or the hard times that all of us have suffered or will suffer.
After all, wasn't it the negative stuff that caused the sadness or frustration we feel about ourselves today? And for some of us, isn't it those rejections that led us to reject ourselves? And although any kind of rejection can be cruel and unjust, the far more harmful part is when we start thinking that maybe…just maybe… we should have been rejected; that somehow we deserved it.
So, can we really overcome these negative feelings today…on this first day of the rest of our lives?
These are all good questions. And the answer is…drum roll please…absolutely!
Let's learn how by first observing that when we were very young, most of us learned what was "right" and "wrong." We also learned the advantages of being "good" and the disadvantages of being "bad." And most of us also felt good about our "good" behaviors and felt bad about our "bad" behaviors. However, this is where a very sad and incorrect overgeneralization came into play.
We also learned that if we did something in a good way, we felt we were also "good!" But when we did badly, we also began thinking of ourselves as "bad."
And most of us accepted these overgeneralizations as absolutely true. (Indeed, we were too young to think any differently!)
We then began thinking to ourselves, "I absolutely must perform well or I am "bad." We then became "habituated" to these self-defeating patterns. And these patterns actually created one of the thousands of physiological self-images which all of us have in our brain. In this case, this particular self-image was one of being a "bad" person.
And this…is not good!
But when you get older, you begin to discover just how misleading many of these beliefs can be.
But no matter what our past history, or how others may have contributed to our feeling bad about ourselves, we remain so because we've chosen to still hold onto some those unrealistic and irrational beliefs about ourselves, even though they now have very little connection with who we are, or what we are doing, or not doing…today.
And…many of the bad feelings we have about ourselves stem from these irrational beliefs!
This was first postulated in a little book written in 1961 by the founder of cognitive psychology. The author's name was Dr. Albert Ellis, and the book was titled "A Guide to Rational Living," its premise (which has now been validated by decades of subsequent research) is that the beliefs we have about ourselves come first, and then are followed by our feelings…not the other way around.
Now hang onto your seat!
You can change the beliefs you have about yourself…today!
And this is an option that most people do not know about; that you can choose to stop believing what you have believing about yourself. You can decide to believe new things.
And do you know when you can start doing this! Today! Right now!!
And then the feelings you have about yourself follow these new beliefs!
And remember this…it is NEVER too late to create these new beliefs, unless you say it is.
And here is how your brain was custom-created by God to handle this!
It believes what you tell it!
No questions! No arguments! Messages might arise such as, "It's too late for you to believe something differently about yourself," or "You've always been this way," or "You have always thought this way." But these messages can be overridden by these new beliefs…when you decide to do so. (That's the reason they call this "cognitive psychology.")
Now…when you decide to believe differently, your brain simply says "Oh…ok!"
And then…its job is to do everything it can to make this new belief a part of who you are. (This is called "neuroplasticity.")
Now…is this new belief true? You know what…your brain doesn't even care! All it cares about is what YOU…tell it. You say it...it believes it! That's its job…as much as it is the job of your heart to pump blood.
And then…and then…when you lock onto this new belief, it does everything it can…to make it true…in your life!
Wow again!
Steven Campbell is the author of "Making Your Mind Magnificent" and conducts "The Winners Circle" every two months at Sonoma Mountain Village in RP. He can be contacted at 480-5007 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.anintelligentheart.com for more information.


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Didn't get a chance to attend? Don't worry, EdSurgents Christina Quattrocchi, Joan Young, and Katrina Stevens are on top of it all! Here's what they saw in Texas:
- Adam Bellow Rocks the House: Highlights from the conference's closing keynote.
- Where Good Ideas Happen--Stephen Johnson Gets Us Thinking: Tells us why great ideas aren't built of Eureka moments.
- Teachers Need Blended Learning Too: Verizon Foundation and ISTE team up to provide PD for mobile devices.
- Pitchfest Part 1: Actively Learn, BirdBrain Technologies, Citelighter, Gobstopper, Learnzillion, Livingtree, and Zondle strut their stuff on the ISTE stage.
- Pitchfest Part 2: And the winners are...
- Educators Hack Their Own Education: What happens when teachers organize their own pre-conference?
- Breaking a World Record: Massive multiplayer thumb-wrestling match makes a point about games in education.
- Content That's Moving to the iPad: iOS7 will make it easy for schools to do single sign on.
- Adam Bellow's Glass is Half...Camera? Educator turned entrepreneur is all about spurring change.
- Common Sense Media Launches Graphite: Platform will offer reviews of edtech.
- GameDesk's 'Educade' Focuses on Fun and Games: Launches a site for browsing lessons and activities from its Playmaker School.
- Edtecher & Educators Mashup: Imagine K12 party mixes one part edtech startups and two parts early adopters.
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Some folks show love with gifts or kind words, hugs or sentimental cards. Me? I show love with food. You knew that, didn't you? This week a man who has been a second father to me for 20 years is going through radiation treatments because his cancer has returned. Naturally, I wanted to do something and so I begged him to let me bring dinner. I say "begged" because he's a WWII veteran who is stubborn and fiercely independent. But I wore him down. He agreed that I could bring him some pasta salad.
I suggested pasta salad because it's been hot hot hot here and I thought it would be refreshing to eat. Of course, I also made banana bread and ginger cookies and added a jar of my strawberry jam. Great! Now that I blabbed about this, I won't get credit in Heaven. Sigh… but I wanted to share the recipe, along with my ideas of what to bring those who are going through difficult times. I'd love to know what you do and how you show concern. Credit or not here we go.
Pasta salad has a way of growing to giant proportions when I make it. I love to chop veggies and to see their color combinations play against each other to liven up the pasta.
And I make the entire dish in one pot – my largest pot. The pot I use to make jam. And there are no measurements, although I tried to jot notes as I went along. But you can make this any way you like.
This isn't really a recipe – it's more of a reminder. Remember to make pasta salad. It's summer, already.
And if you goof – and make a huge batch, you'll have an excuse not to cook for a few days. Because you can't let all those incredible ingredients go to waste. Oh yes, the ingredients. Here's a general idea.
12 oz package of "Wacky Mac"- which are vegetable pasta in different shapes. You use whatever you like. But don't call it macaroni.
1/2 red and green peppers, diced
1 small sweet onion, minced
3 stalks celery, diced
1 cup cooked edamame (soybeans)
1 cup carrots, diced
8 oz bag cheese cubes
4 hard boiled eggs, peeled and sliced
1 pound turkey ham, cubed (any cooked meat will work, or a combination of several)
1 cup light Italian dressing
1 cup light mayonnaise
Boil the pasta until it's almost done. You want it to still have some "tooth."
Drain the pasta in a large colander. While it's draining, wash the pot so you can assemble the salad in it.
Add all of the ingredients and mix together.
Keep the salad very cold until ready to serve.
Serve over a bed of lettuce.
Add avocado and tomatoes on top.
Other options: sprinkle your salad with sunflower seeds, croutons or crushed taco chips to add crunch.
Note: the vegetables and dressing give this a lot of flavor, so I didn't add herbs or salt. But you can add whatever you like to liven it up.
The great thing about pasta salad is that it's so versatile. And when you combine all the crunchy vegetables and the soft noodles, I mean pasta, your mouth will be in picnic heaven.


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COLUMBIA - Four men are vying for the Republican nomination of the lieutenant governor's seat, an office that could position the winner to become the future governor of South Carolina.
Mike Campbell, Pat McKinney, Henry McMaster and Ray Moore are facing off on June 10 for the position in the primary elections. The winner will go against Rep. Bakari Sellers, D-Denmark, in the general election in November. All five candidates seek to expand the power of the office.
The men have their eyes set on working on efforts that go beyond the office's required duties, such as working with Gov. Nikki Haley to bring more jobs to South Carolina or improving the state's education system.
The lieutenant governor's position has traditionally been a launching pad for higher office, said Kendra Stewart, a political science professor at the College of Charleston.
"It's right next to the seat of power," Stewart said. "It's a heartbeat away from the governor's office."
Still, the position has been largely ceremonial in recent years. The lieutenant governor's main tasks are presiding over the Senate and overseeing the Office on Aging. All candidates agreed that the office is underutilized and underestimated.
Mike Campbell
South Carolina voters will recognize Campbell's name because this is the second time the 45-year-old has run for the office. Campbell is interested in the position because he wishes to further the efforts Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell has started with the Office on Aging.
Campbell said the experience of taking care of his father - the late former Gov. Carroll Campbell - taught him much about Alzheimer's disease and the burden caretakers shoulder when caring for an ailing partner. He'd like to find ways to create programs that can provide some relief for caregivers.
Campbell believes his experience as a small businessman will make him an advocate for their growth. He also seeks to finish government restructuring efforts his father started as governor.
"I think I'm kind of uniquely qualified to do it simply because I've been around politics my entire life," Campbell said. "I know a thing or two about, not only how to get things accomplished, but to do it well. I still bring an outsider's perspective to it because I've never held office myself."
Pat McKinney
McKinney announced he would run for the position before McConnell said he would not seek re-election. McKinney said he's not bothered by the three new entrants in the race, because he became a candidate expecting competition.
McKinney, 63, hopes to bring his experience as a successful businessman to the position of lieutenant governor. He'd like to help with Haley's job growth efforts and lend his experience to further improve the state's economic development.
"I just look at it as an absolutely marvelous entrepreneurial opportunity to go up and support a governor whose leadership I respect," McKinney said.
Through the Office on Aging, McKinney would like to address issues that plague seniors such as dementia, diabetes and obesity. He'd also like to become an advocate for small business growth through tax reliefs.
Henry McMaster
Like Campbell, McMaster has name recognition in South Carolina. The 66-year-old was elected as Attorney General of South Carolina in 2002 and served until 2011. He also chaired the state Republican Party for nine years.
He vied for the governor's seat against then-Rep. Nikki Haley in 2010. After losing the nomination, however, McMaster became a Haley supporter.
McMaster said he's interested in the position of lieutenant governor because it's one of two statewide offices that has jurisdiction over every issue and every opportunity. It's also an office that needs a person with experience, he said.
He hopes to partake in what he called a "critical time" in which South Carolina can position itself to lead the way in job growth in the Southeast. Haley, he said, has shown this is a great place to business.
"Competition is going to be fierce, but we can prevail and I think I have the experience and understanding and a record of accomplishment that makes me well-suited for this position," McMaster said.
McMaster added he would push for ethics reform to eliminate any perceptions of ethical issues in government; a move that could lead to more businesses becoming attracted to the state. McMaster also wants to use his experience in the courtroom to create a team of prosecutors tasked with going after those who exploit the elderly.
Ray Moore
Moore, 70, decided it was his time to run for lieutenant governor when he learned McConnell would not seek re-election. Moore retired from the Army as a chaplain, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, but continued serving in pastoral ministry.
He wishes to use the position of lieutenant governor to advance an effort to move South Carolina's children away from public schools and into private Christian or home schools.
"We're basically calling on all the churches, families and pastors to withdraw their children from the public school system and to go into church schools and home schools," Moore said. "It's a school choice issue."
Moore believes the public school system is harming state's children and not educating them well. He received national attention in April, when the Huffington Post featured a speech he gave in Charleston about his thoughts on public schools.
If elected, he intends to work on a pro-life agenda. If the governor asked him to help with job creation, Moore said he'd make that an effort, as well.
Cynthia Roldan can be reached at 708-5891.
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Citing heavy losses from storms last year, the states fifth-largest insurer, Farm Bureau Insurance, is dropping 3,000 home insurance customers.
Property owners in 17 counties are being sent non-renewal letters, said Susan Merrill, director of marketing.
She said Farm Bureaus two home-insurance entities, S.C. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. and Palmetto Casualty Insurance, are non-renewing policies based on property locations, house-construction type and other factors that contribute the most to the companys overall exposure.
Merrill said the company paid more than 9,000 claims worth $36 million last year, the most since Hurricane Hugo in 1989. One storm April 9, 2011, dropped baseball-size hail in Berkeley County, according to the National Weather Service. That storm alone triggered $23 million in claims, Merrill said.
In addition to these losses, income from the companys investments was low while the cost of buying re-insurance has doubled in the past 10 years, she said. (Re-insurance is insurance for insurance companies and is used to protect a company in a catastrophe.)
Were in the business of selling insurance, she added. We never take non-renewing a policy lightly and are working as hard as we can to minimize the impact on policyholders and provide them with other coverage options.
On Wednesday, The Post and Courier revealed that Allstate, the second-largest home insurer, plans to non-renew about 10,000 home insurance policies in South Carolina. Allstate chose customers who didnt have its auto coverage, had older homes and coverage less than $220,000.
Non-renewal letters can be a shock, and after Allstate began sending letters, some customers said they felt a deep sense of betrayal.
We just got ours in the mail, said Fred Holtsclaw of Goose Creek, referring to a non- renewal letter from Allstate. He said his wife had been with Allstate for 40 years back when you had to go to Sears to get it. The word is greed. They put ads on TV saying youre in good hands. I dont think so.
The states top insurer, State Farm, along with Nationwide and USAA, have no plans to drop homeowners who do not bundle their auto and home coverage, officials with those companies said this week.
Merrill of the Farm Bureau said agents are helping customers find policies with other companies.
Reach Tony Bartelme at 937-5554.
Top 10 home insurers in South Carolina
Insurance company Premiums collected Market shareState Farm Group $312,132,128 26%Allstate Ins. Co. Group $161,086,384 13%Nationwide Group $87,485,211 7%United Services Automobile Assn. Group $81,626,274 7%S.C. Farm Bureau Mutual Group $68,205,658 6%Travelers Group $59,194,496 5%Auto-Owners Ins. Group $58,751,802 5%Farmers Ins. Group $55,701,724 5%Liberty Mutual $48,764,732 4%American Family Home $29,191,216 2%Total premiums collected by all private insurance companies: $1,211,841,261 Source: Post and Courier analysis of S.C. Department of Insurance data 2010


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One of two pit bulls that officials say savagely mauled a 70-year-old Jersey City woman on a Bayonne street earlier this month struck again yesterday morning, this time attacking a worker at a Newark animal shelter.
By paleale1984
Jesus S. Christ! One attack isn't enough? Destroy this mutt and people who own dogs like this too!
By bennielawsonjr
This dog needs to be elected mayor of Newark!
By Guess Who
I think YOU need to be destroyed for that stupid comment.
By Monica
Those dogs should of been put down a long time ago, what are they waiting for, why do they need a court order, these dogs are dangerous.
By jumbo1369
let's not blame a breed for this incident while this dog does appear to be overly aggressive and putting it down may be the only answer let's not blame the breed I myself have two pit bulls and have been around them my whole life they are very loyal animals who will do as they are trained now I am not familiar with these dogs so I cannot speak about them but my dogs allow those they know in my home and keep out those they don't the same as any other dog however I also take the precautions necessary when I have strangers in my home to prevent this kind of incident ...
By readitonline
Only this Particular dog is a danger! Not all pit bulls are dangerous.. It's the "deed" not the "breed" that makes them dangerous! Those little yappy dogs bite more people than pits do.. Don't blame the dog, blame the owner! My pits are the sweetest dogs in the world.. Unlike the fat golden retriever who lives next door- he already bit 3 kids!!! Drop that mangy mutt off the earth.. remember, it's how you raise them, not the dog itself!
By BEFootball2009
Hey Jumbo - are you against periods. What did they ever do to you.
All the pit bull apologists are going to give the same tired old BS line that it is not the dogs fault, it is the owner. Sorry. There are a lot of dogs with bad owners, pit bulls are the only one's who will rip your face off ...
People give you all types of "tips" for what to do when you encounter a pit bull; stay calm, no sudden movements, etc... You shouldn't need to treat a dog like a bear ... Spare me the history, these monsters can no longer be domesticated.
jumbo, you say what every single pit bull owner in America says. Your dogs are the best. But when they maul some kid because it got loose you will be crying the same tune as all the pit bull owners by expressing shock and dismay at your good dogs.
By wally64I understand that you can't blame a breed for the actions of one animal but it seems that there are more and more attacks and incidents with pits than other breeds ...
By Devils Advocate
No one ever thinks their dog would harm someone. Pit bulls are inherently dangerous, regardless of how well you think you have trained them. They can go off at any second and that can have disastrous results. Pit bulls and SUV's are generally for men with small weiners.
By ospil
As a lifelong dog owner I want nothing to do with pit bulls....Yes, I know that many owners are at fault but I'm happy with a mutt who licks my face at the end of the day....instead of a dog I can't trust.
By Colleen Stone/Web site Staff
gotta agree with devils advocate; all things being equal, pit bulls are one dog I wouldn't want to encounter in a dark alley. When you DO get a bad one, you're, well, hamburger. I'll take my chances with the yippers.
By njcrime09
PIT BULLS are white trash and ghetto dogs
case closed
By dagesq
APBT's are bred to be vicious. They are known to go from calm to red zone with no warning.
If a little yapper dog bites, no big deal. If a APBT bites, it's to kill. It's bred into their DNA.
By manmtnmike
Every time someone is mauled or killed by a pit bull the supporters come out and say that it is not the dog, blah blah blah. A study of all dog bites from 1982 to 2006 showed that 1110 of the 2209 attacks were carried out by pit bulls and 104 of the 264 deaths during the period were from the same. How can you possibly say that it is not the breed? ...
By chinoiserie
I'd LOVE to know where the people who are ranting about pit bulls get their statistics from.....in "most" cases where a kid startles a pit bull it will bite? where did you find that out? I'm guessing you made it up. maybe you should talk to the kid who almost lost his hand to a deranged Labrador retriever I once knew.
the dogs were bred to fight other animals, not people. any aggression shown towards humans is a sign that particular dog has aggression issues, which ANY dog can, particularly overbred popular dogs such as beagles and labs. put this dog down, but don't blame all pits, and don't quote your bogus stats. pit bulls pass temperament tests at a higher rate than dogs in general and that is a fact. also, not only are pit attacks the only ones that get news despite there are many more dog bites all over the country every day from other breeds, many bites are blamed on pits when the dog IS NOT actually a pit bull, often they are just a mutt or another breed entirely. the retractions don't usually get the front page though. Mr. Richard Censullo is, in my opinion, sadly misinformed. I note that he is not calling for a ban on Dobermans or German shepherds, who were bred to be guard dogs and have been known to attack people now and then.
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OK then you can adopt all the pit bulls and lets see how long it takes before they eat you for lunch.
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Round them all up, then NUKE'em
by BEFootball2009
chinoiserie -
Get over it. People own these dogs because they have tough guy issues or are pure white trash owning them for show. It is a serious narcissism issue that should be addressed by a shrink. Hey, look at me, I own a pit bull....oops, it attacked, I'm stunned ...
By chinoiserie
do you really think only pit bulls can kill? what about mastiffs? I believe it was mastiffs involved in that case with the woman in California several years ago....she was attacked and killed in her building hallway by the neighbor's dogs. they were not pit bulls. many types of dogs have the ability to kill if they set their mind to it...mastiffs, shepherds, Dobermans being a few.
I own a pit bull, and I am not "tough" or "white trash." I am a well educated professional. many people like me love the breed for its loyalty and intelligence ...
I realize I'm not going to change your mind, but I still maintain that prejudice against an entire breed is as foolish as prejudice against an entire race or ethnicity ...
By cracka428
Presa Canarios (a mix of mastiff and....you guessed it....pit bull) were the dogs who killed that woman in Cali


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i train and sparr against people who are trying to make it pro, i just sit behind my right jab and mix it up to the body and a few combinations, i fight more comfortable at southpaw, and make my opponent miss wit the philly shell (only works against people who cant really fight, when i sparr someone good it doesnt work) and then get tired in the third round and act like my asthma is bothering me then i go home and tell my son how i destroyed the whole gym!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with stamina problems. Lol. I remember I had my third am fight scheduled and knew I wasn't ready. I had been back to the gym for 2 weeks after a layoff of a month...my dumb@$$ trainer also happened to be the promoter of the card and talked me into fighting. I remember doing mitts for warm up before the fight and getting tired. Lol. So the fight begins and I'm fighting against an out of shape looking Spanish kid and thrashing him...at one point I hit him so hard with a straight right that he just moans...I hit him again and the crowd moans in unison. First round ends and I
Dying trying to catch my breath. Lol. My cornor is trying to convince me I'm not tired and the bell sounds for round 2....I look across to the blue corner and this @#*! Is just bouncing like he's getting ready for a lite jog...needless to say he beat my @$$. Lol
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I've trained & sparred. Never actually licensed for the ams. Tall & skinny a decade ago. 5-10 134, natural counter puncher, decent speed fought tall with a good jab. Did well against my amateur buddies far too undisciplined to actually make something of myself. A shame too, they tried to push me, I was a dumb dumb.
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Like any other AM I threw a whole bunch of punches per round. It started getting really fun when you can hit and not get hit cause you see more in the ring.
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I've talked to a lot of young (and not so young) Christians about their disappointment in the church. Many have been hurt by the church. Many more hurt for others who have borne the brunt of the church's injustices and failures.
Some of those I've talked to have been subject to criticism or suspicion because they have loved art, or music, or words, or peace, or people that the church has rejected or merely overlooked.
They have felt compassion for the outsiders spurned by the church.
They have studied history and are rightly angry over the racism of the church.
They have witnessed the present and are bewildered by the continued marginalization of some by the church.
They say the church is too shallow, caught up in outward trappings which sacrifice the substance of the gospel.
They have found the church too unwelcoming of hard questions, expressions of doubt, and spiritual struggles.
They have heard the call for war made in the name of the church.
They have seen the lure of lucre play out in the church.
They are disappointed that the church has not done what Jesus refused to do: overturn the prevailing political system and replace it with one built on Christian ideals.
They have seen co-workers disrespected and treated rudely by people who then turn around and pray over their meals.
They have seen—or been—the fallen woman (although not likely, inexplicably, the fallen man) treated not like a beloved sister but like a cup full of spit.
If only the church would see such as these with the eyes of Christ, they say.
And I say, in return, emphatically, Yes. If only we could see all with the eyes of Christ.
Yet, I want to say, gently or perhaps not-so-gently, That way you want the church to love those you love? Unconditionally, enthusiastically, and compasstionately? That's how you are called to love the church, too.
That forbearance, that tolerance, that grace, you extend so generously and rightly to the lost and the disobedient? That's what you are called to offer to the church.
To those who say that the church is too petty and political, too corporate-minded and culturally accommodating, I say, yes, it's true. Indeed, the wounds wrought by the church are fresh every morning.
The church is like that unfaithful woman God commanded the prophet Hosea to marry and have children with. The church is like that same errant woman God later commanded Hosea to seek and bring home, her and her children by other lovers. The church is like that unlovable woman God commanded Hosea to love. Yes, the church is like the prostitute Gomer: wayward and compromising, unfaithful to her promises, unlovable.
The bride of Christ? She's a whore.
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I have heard that it is possible with one or two stiches to make a woman's vagina more tight. Is that really possible and how much is it? How Much for Making Me More Tight?
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A 1-2 stitch vaginoplasty/vaginal tightening procedure??!
If you don't do it right it won't work, or work for only a short while before breaking down and leaving you like you were before, only poorer.
Here is how it is supposed to be done, how master, experienced surgeons do it. Anything less is substandard:
1. Removal of a sizable diamond-shaped wedge of vagina, vestibule, perineum, cleaning up all or tge fobrous scar tissue.
2. Placement of ~ 3-4 apporoximating heavy caliber delayed absorbable sutures into the sheaths of the "levator muscles of the pelvic floor (preferably under local anesthesia, as if you are conscious during surgery you can do a "Kegels" and your doc can better locate the exact right place to put sutures)
3. re-approximation of the tough fibrous layer, the "recto-vaginal fascia, as a second layer, a wrapping "blanket" over the levator muscles, with medium caliber sutures.
4. Very accurate placement of 1-3 (usually 2) "crown sutures" deeply into the tissue of the vestibule to gather up and approximete the muscles and bulk of the "perineal body" to repair and elevate it, bulking the opening and changing the angle of penile vaginal thrust.
5. Careful cosmetic, "plastic" closure of all areas, re-building the opening to be as close as anatomically poossible to pre-childbirth parameters, with a small-caliber "plastic" suture line.
This is a lot more than "...a stitch or 2..." And your surgeon should not call it quits there, but shephard you through a series of pelvic floor strengthening classes and/or supply you with and teach you how to use an electronic vaginal muscles strengthening device.
Our cost is $5750. This includes the full surgery, all pre- and post-op visits, surgical suite, anesthesia, electronic muscle exercisor, appointment with physical therapist and much more..
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Vaginal tightening
Vaginal tightening can be perormed. It is best for women who have had children via vagnial delivery and have stretched out their tissues. Patients will typically state that they feel that sex is not the same since childbirth. The surgery involves removal of excess mucosa with tightening of the underlying muscle and reduction in the diameter of the vaginal introitus (external opening of the vagina). I also sometimes perform fat injection into the side walls of the vagina if there is a great deal of vaginal laxity. The procedure takes around 1.5 hours and the cost with anesthesia and facility fee is around $5000-5500.
I Hope this answers some of your questions.
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How much does vagina tightening cost?
A vaginal tighteneing (vaginoplasty), is more than just putting in 1 or 2 stitches. It is done under general anesthesia and involves removing some of the mucosa, tightening the muscle layer, and reducing the size of the vaginal opening. Ave cost is $5500 - $6000 in our area.
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I would run fast and far from a "surgeon" making such commentary.
Tightening of the vagina can be performed surgically if the problem is significant and usually from childbearing.
Often the surgery is covered by insurance-
cash pricing is often $5-7k.
Also recommend you look into ThermiVa, very exciting new non-surgical option.
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It's no secret that Ohio's turtles are in trouble. When an Ohio herpetologist contacted the Zoo for some help, ZOOTeens were ready – and the project was so successful that it has inspired a youth summer camp.
"The wet meadow habitat associated with the Oak Openings Region is some of our best spotted turtle habitat," Kent Bekker says.
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Rows of spotted turtle decoys await their use in the field. ZOOTeens used images of the turtles' markings to create these decoys from toys of red-eared slider turtles. Photo: Kent Bekker
Humanely trapping the turtles in funnel traps, like this one, will help herpetologists estimate their health and population numbers in specific habitats. Photo: Kent Bekker
Herpetologists measure the shell of a painted turtle that was recently caught in a funnel trap.
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This project is part of the Zoo's Wild Toledo initiative to identify and restore native habitat for local wildlife.
Turtles are tricky animals to catch. Although they're slow-moving, they often keep to themselves and are hesitant to enter situations that they think look risky. Even something beneficial, like catching them to survey their health and numbers, requires a (humane) turtle trap that they don't want to enter.
Spotted turtles and Blanding's turtles are of special interest. "They are state-listed in Ohio as threatened species," Kent Bekker, one of the Zoo's herpetologists, explains. "With habitat fragmentation, a lot of the historic populations are no longer intact, so we're trying to determine where they still are and if we can find new habitats for them."
Research has shown that spotted turtles, in particular, are more likely to enter traps where they think another turtle is already inside waiting. Using a turtle decoy should be easy, right? Not really. No one at the Zoo or in other herpetological groups could find any spotted turtle decoys.
Greg Lipps, an Ohio herpetologist and former Toledo Zoo staffer, had an idea: buy some turtle toys and repaint them to look like spotted turtles.
But it wasn't that simple. "No toy manufacturer makes an appropriate spotted turtle," Kent says.
He and Greg did find some red-eared slider turtle toys which were about the right size. Transforming 75 of them into spotted turtle decoys, though, would take one or two people quite a long time.
Through some brainstorming, they came up with a plan: use the Zoo's retail contacts to get the turtle toys at the best price, then get ZOOTeens for the painting.
The Zoo relies on more than 300 hard-working teen volunteers who help with everything from community outreach to sharing biofacts with visitors to – now – painting spotted turtle decoys.
"ZOOTeens' dedication to local conservation made this an easy choice," Kent says. "Some of the teens had a specific art interest, too, so it was a nice little niche for them. And this first came up during the winter months, where there was a little less for them to do."
It took six ZOOTeens just two days to paint the decoys, using photos that Greg provided. He was able to put them to immediate use in the field throughout this spring, humanely trapping spotted turtles to learn more about their population numbers.
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As all this was happening, Josh Minor, the Zoo's manager of Education programs, was finalizing the Zoo's summer camps. Discussions with Kent about the spotted turtle painting project inspired another idea – why not offer local young people (ages 11-14) an opportunity to get involved, hands-on, in helping wildlife?
Just like that, Jr. Field Researcher camp was added to the schedule.
The projects will focus on the Oak Openings Region and the Lake Erie marshes, Kent says. "We'll definitely be running some traps for Blanding's turtles," he says, along with radio telemetry of eastern fox snakes or Blanding's turtles.
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- Drug use policy: Medication use evaluation, Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee, drug information, development of clinical policies and procedures, drug policy, medication safety and investigational drug protocols
- Practice management/administration: Budgeting, personnel management, financial management, managed care, development and implementation of new services
- Patient care: Work with health care providers and patients in a range of settings, including general/geriatrics, women's health, critical care, infectious diseases and neonatal intensive care
- Professional development: Year-long residency project, rotation projects, in-services, staffing, visits to other institutions, professional organizations, teaching and precepting, ACPE continuing education presentations, interviewing/recruiting, medication safety experiences, preparations for The Joint Commission and more
Specialty Pharmacy Coordinator
PGY1 Residency Director
Matt Carleton, PharmD, BCPS
Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W. Lincoln Avenue
West Allis, WI 53227
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com