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Architecture, Local History, Maps
Ottawa Passé & Présent/Ottawa Past & Present
by M.C. Moran •
Ottawa Passé & Présent/Ottawa Past & Present is a remarkable website: an interactive blog which juxtaposes photographs from Ottawa's past with photographs from the Ottawa of today.
Here, for example, is 96 to 102 Wellington Street, in 1938 and in 2014. Use your mouse to move the slider to the right to reveal the photograph from 1938; move the slider to the left to reveal the 2014 photo. The beauty of brick and stone masonry, with arched windows and doors to soften and humanize the building's lines, versus the cold utilitarianism of completely regular rectangles of glass.
And here is the Ottawa Public Library at the corner of Metcalfe St. and Laurier Ave., circa 1900 (I believe this Carnegie library opened in 1906) and in 2013. Again, use your mouse to move the slider from left to right, and from right to left, to reveal how a beautiful neo-classical building was replaced by, in siteowner Alexandre Laquerre's terms, "another one more along the lines of brutalism." It is to weep.
As I mentioned in my post on the "Lost Ottawa" Facebook group, I find it rather depressing to view the photographs of older Ottawa buildings that were demolished in the name of "progress" and "development:" in my opinion, the wanton destruction of heritage buildings to make way for soulless concrete blocks and generic condo towers is an ongoing scandal in Ottawa's urban planning. Needless to say, I can only agree with Ottawa Past & Present's tagline: "We believe this city could be better."
Ottawa Passé & Présent/Ottawa Past & Present is the work of Alexandre Laquerre, an engineer who has lived in Ottawa since 2006, and whose interest in architectural heritage was first inspired by his dismay over the destructive effects of the Dufferin superhighway (l'autoroute Dufferin-Montmorency) on the downtown core of his native Quebec City. The website is clearly a labour of love; and also, I think, a gift to the Ottawa public.
Irish Records, Maps
Down Survey of Ireland 1656-58
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Via Deborah Large Fox, I've just discovered The Down Survey of Ireland 1656-58, a searchable, online mapping database with digitized images of all surviving Down survey maps from 1656 to 1658. From the project's website (at Trinity College Dublin):
Taken in the years 1656-1658, the Down Survey of Ireland is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. The survey sought to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish in order to facilitate its redistribution to Merchant Adventurers and English soldiers. Copies of these maps have survived in dozens of libraries and archives throughout Ireland and Britain, as well as in the National Library of France. This Project has brought together for the first time in over 300 years all the surviving maps, digitised them and made them available as a public online resource.
Wow! This is a fantastic website, offering (free of charge!) an amazing resource.
Directories, Maps
Red are brick, blue are stone: Goad's Insurance Plan of Ottawa
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And as Goad's Insurance Plan of the City of Ottawa makes clear (click thumbnail preview, left, to see larger image), she grew up almost in the backyard of St. Patrick's (then a church, now a basilica), at the corner of Kent and Nepean Streets.
Now, in this particular instance, I didn't need a map to tell me that my grandmother had lived near St. Pat's: having grown up in Ottawa, and having attended Mass at St. Patrick's many times as a kid,2 I already knew that Gloucester between Kent and Lyon was very close to the corner of Kent and Nepean. But the fire insurance map provides a striking visual representation of the proximity of her wooden frame house at 308 Gloucester to the stone church at 281 Nepean.
Library and Archives Canada has a digitized copy of Goad's Insurance plan of the city of Ottawa, Canada, and adjoining suburbs and lumber districts, January 1888, revised January 1901.


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A majority of the American people want us to leave Afghanistan right away. From the Washington Post:
A majority of Americans — 55 percent — believe that most Afghans are opposed to what the United States is trying to accomplish in that country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. About as many Americans — 54 percent — want the U.S. military to withdraw even before it can train the Afghan army to be self-sufficient, a pillar of President Obama's war strategy.
While most Democrats and independents soured on the war a long time ago, the poll found that Republicans, for the first time, are evenly split on whether the decade-long war is worth fighting.
In addition the poll found that after weighing the war's costs and benefits, only 35 percent of the country think the war was worth fighting, while 60 percent think it was not worth it.
After a decade it is long past time for the US to end this foolish occupation. Our "mission" in Afghanistan has shifted and changed so many times it is impossible to even get a straight answer from government officials as to why we are still there.
Trying to build a true nation state there would at best take decades of additional massive spending, even if the Afghan people were highly supportive of our presence. After a string of recent disasters destroyed whatever good will might have remained, it is impossible to see how we "win" a war that no longer has even a defined mission.
The most depressing part is that it seems the Obama administration knows it is an unwinnable mess, but it keeps going solely to save face politically. How many more lives and billions will be needlessly sacrificed on the alter of a political career?
It is time to bring our troops home now.


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A Nepalese boy offers Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Kathmandu
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A Nepalese boy offers Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Kathmandu
A child attends midday prayers at Strasbourg Grand Mosque on the first day of Ramadan on Tuesday. The Grand Mosque of Paris has fixed the first day of Ramadan as Wednesday, splitting from the French Council of Muslim Religion, which determined it would begin on Tuesday.
Pigeons are startled outside Shah-Do Shamshira mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday.
Children wait for their parents after finishing a koran reading session in the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei Darussalam.
A Lebanese army soldier stands guard near the Bilal bin Rabbah mosque where Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir once preached, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon on Wednesday.
Abu al-Taib, leader of Ahbab Al-Mustafa Battalion, during a military training for female fighters in a mosque in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood in Aleppo on Tuesday
Black smoke rises from the Bilal bin Rabah mosque behind an armored personnel carrier as Lebanese army soldiers detonate booby traps set by gunmen in the Abra district of the southern city of Sidon. Troops seized control of the headquarters of a radical Sunni sheikh whose supporters battled the army for two days and killed 16 soldiers.
An Iranian boy stands among worshippers during the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at Tehran University in the Iranian capital
Muslims sit near their destroyed homes after riots broke out in a village at Oakkan town, about 100 km north of Yangon, on Wednesday. One person was killed and nine injured after mobs attacked mosques and burned homes in central Myanmar, authorities said, in the latest religious unrest to erupt in the country.
Syrian rebel fighters stand in a damaged section of the Umayyad Mosque complex in the old part of Syria's northern city of Aleppo on April 16 2013. After nine months of fighting that has devastated many districts in Aleppo, rebels now control more than half of the city.


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Contract manufacturer Hon Hai has begun production of the much discussed Apple iPad Mini tablet, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserts in a research note. Misek also contends that Apple's oft-rumored iTV product is now in production, and could show up in stores before year-end.
Misek notes that Hon Hai's July revenues were up 5% sequentially from June; the month is historically seasonally flat. Misek thinks the difference maker is the Mini. He also notes that based on July Taiwan component sales data and his own check with the supply chain, planned iPad builds for the September quarter have been raised to 25 million from 18 million, with the December quarter now targeting more than 30 million units, up from a range of 22-25 million.
At the same time, Misek contends that Apple is now in "full production" on the iTV.
"Recent data out of Sharp, Hon Hai and other specialty chemical and TV component suppliers support this," he writes. Misek also notes that JDSU recently said it has a new non-gaming customer for its gesture control modules, which are also used in Microsoft's Kinect system for Xbox 360. JDSU indicated this is a new "living room" based customer. "We believe Apple will leverage AT&T's and Verizon's content deals for the iTV," he writes.
Misek estimates that Apple will have about 15 million iPhone 5 units built by mid-September, and that the iTV will launch in the December or March quarters. Misek projects that total iPhone builds for the second half of calendar 2012 will be in excess of 80 million units.
Misek estimates that the company will earn $63 a share in the September 2013 fiscal year, well ahead of the Street consensus at about $52; he contends the iPhone "will be the biggest handset launch in history." He also figures the company will sell 2 million iTVs in the December quarter at an estimated ASP of $1,250, for an extra $2.5 billion in revenue; and he thinks they will sell at least 8 million iPad Minis int he quarter at a $300 ASP, for a similar revenue boost.
Misek, who has a Buy rating on the stock, today lifted his price target on Apple shares to $900, from $800.
Misek says the September 12 product launch event Apple reportedly is planning is almost certainly going to include the debut of the iPhone 5, possibly the iPad Mini, and less likely the iTV, which he thinks will debut later.
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Who is Lil Reese? Let's start there. He hasn't exactly put out any quality music that warrants the type of attention he receives. He's a Chicago rapper most known for his affiliation with fellow Glory Boys Entertainment rappers Chief Keef and Lil Durk. Def Jam saw something in the teenager and signed him. Both Reese and his partner in crime Chief Keef have been called out for the type of poor behavior they glamorize. Keef made headlines last month for his dismissive "LMAO" tweet upon finding out rapper lil JoJo–whom he was beefing with–was murdered.
Birds of a feather…You know the rest. In a video that recently surfaced you can see a boy who is suspected to be Lil Reese beating up an unidentified woman. What the two are arguing over isn't clear, but the woman can be heard asking, "Who the f— let them in here?" She also asks him to keep his hands to himself to which he doesn't oblige. He punches her repeatedly. He stomps her repeatedly. The truly sad part is the number of people who didn't intervene. Lil Reese didn't deny it was him either. He tweeted, "The haters tryna see a mf Dwn lol Dey gotta b broke and bored wanna upload sum sh-t from years ago damnn we winnin it's 2 late."
Sigh. And this is what's being rewarded with major record label deals these days, eh? Youth homicide in Chicago is real; and devastating. This type of violence against women is a piece of the thread to the larger issue. Rapping about street life because it's what you've grown up seeing is one thing. Living that actual life, laughing about it and promoting it is quite another. It's high time we all give careful consideration to the type of foolishness we give platforms to.
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Too Short to Drink Milk
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Penny and the boys were away for the weekend, helping her parents pack up their condo in MA in preparation for a move to VT. Her folks want to be closer to me, of course.
With the family away, I went into git 'r dun mode. Both mornings I was up and out the door by 4:40, doing what chores could be done in the spectral half light of the four o'clock hour: Feed the chickens, slop the pigs, give the cows a fresh paddock, heat a bottle for Foster, and so on. Then, as light filtered into the sky, milk Apple and Minnie, pausing every few minutes to shake out hands and forearms, all those small muscles reorienting to the task. After milking, a piece of toast (I am making some wicked good sourdough these days, if I do say so myself. And I do), a cup of coffee, and then, by 6:30, the house reverberating with the heavy thunder of all the infantile music Penny cannot tolerate (goodness, but I'd almost forgotten about Dio!) and me with hammer in hand, framing the sidewalls of the new woodshed. A decade-and-a-half we've been here, the whole time stacking firewood under sheets of old roofing tin, weighted by old tires and other random objects of significant mass. But this year, a woodshed: That, my friends, is what passes for upward mobility in these parts.
On both days I treated myself to an hour or so of mushrooming, with the result being well short of last year's haul – it's been terrible dry – but plentiful enough that my primary meals of the weekend featured steaks cooked just past the point of biting back and a sweet mess of pan fried morels. I scarfed them sitting on the front stoop, then picked a salad out of the greenhouse, and scarfed that, too. Then back to framing, then chores, then leftover steak, a glass of cream (because life's way too short to drink milk), and another salad.
Sitting there last night, gnawing cold steak from last year's steer, drinking cream skimmed from the mornings milking, eating early salad out of the greenhouse, and picking at the crusted remnants of morels in the fry pan while Metallica's Ride the Lightning (I know, I know: I really need to grow up a bit) rattled the windows, I couldn't help but feel like 'bout the luckiest fool ever to walk this good, green earth.
And I thought of how, just a couple days before, Penny and I had been discussing our finances, which are not actually all that bad at the moment. Then again, they're not actually all that great, either, particularly if the current proposal my agent's shopping around doesn't find a home. Ah, to have my family's financial fate resting in the hands of a bunch of NYC publishers I've never met. "Comforting" is not the word that comes to mind.
Yet there I sat, every last morsel of food in my belly a product of the very piece of land on which my family has made our home, onto which my sons were born, and onto which, if my luck holds, my own flesh and blood will decompose. There I sat, full and satisfied and tired in that sweet, bone-deep way that can only come of physical labor.
And then do you know what was best of all? It started to rain.
§ 6 Responses to Too Short to Drink Milk
Sounds like a sweet weekend Ben, thanks for sharing. Once again with a great quote …"a glass of cream (because life's way too short to drink milk)…" I think you need to be putting these quotes on ball caps or t-shirts and have them around for folks to buy.
Nothing more staisfying than hard work and a meal of your own making. We had a similar weekend here in NC. The smell of sweat and smoke in the air as we tended the bees, moving rocks to shore up a retaining wall, dragging chicken tractors to fresh grass, and then, just as I was lamenting that it has been hot enough this week to cause some of the Romaine to bolt already… it started to rain, which we needed. We just stood out in it, it felt so good. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I agree with Dave. Tshirts or hats with your quotes could be quite good "revenue enhancers." Peace!
Great post! To say it is "evocative" of your world sounds too high-falutin'…but I felt the joy you feel in it, and I thank you for sharing.
I can relate Ben! Same here up in the good ol' State of Maine. My four days a week work has me in a climate controlled office (hopefully not for long). My husband and I worked on chicken fence, raspberry bush planting, garden plans, sweaty, sunburned and never happier from swinging a hammer and getting that fence up to provide our own food. These office folk think I'm nuts until I bring in a dozen fresh eggs and fresh veggies!
Reminds me of that quote: "Some people are so poor all they have is money". Sounds like you are a very rich man indeed!


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easy and not
necessarily Icelandic
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Back to the Menu
Take a leg of lamb with bone (approx. 1 1/2 kg.). Wash under running
cold water and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper. I also like to use
Aromat (flavour enhancer), Season-All, garlic and coriander. Quarter an
onion and put in a roasting pan with the meat. It's good to rub the meat
with the onion before seasoning. Cover and insert into a heated oven
(175-200° C.). Allow the meat to brown on the outside, about 15-20
minutes. Pour in some water to cover the bottom of the pan, and add more
water as it evaporates. Baste the meat with the water and juices. The
roast should stay in the oven for about 2 hours. After about 1 1/2
hours, take the roast out and pour off the cooking liquid. Return to the
without covering, to brown. Use the cooking liquid to make the sauce (see recipe
Alternate method: If you have enough time, slow-roast the
meat. Treat as above, cover and insert into a 200° C. oven. Lower heat
immediately to about 125°C. Allow to brown and add water. Slow roast at
125°C. for 1 hour, then turn up the heat to 150°C. and roast for
another hour. Turn up the heat to 175°C. and roast for a third hour.
Pour off the liquid and put uncovered into a 200°C. oven to brown.
Icelandic lamb is very tender, and this slow cooking method makes it so
soft that it almost melts off the bone, while still retaining the
Sauce to serve with Sunday roast: Pour the
cooking liquid off the meat through a strainer. Put the onions in the
strainer and mash into the liquid. Skim off the fat. Heat to boiling.
Mix together some water and flour into a smooth, thin paste. When the
liquid boils, add the flour paste, stirring constantly, until sauce
begins to thicken. Stir well to mix. Strain if the sauce is lumpy (sift
the flour to avoid this). Heat
to boiling again, and add some cream (not strictly necessary, but
improves the flavour and smoothness). Adjust the flavour with salt/spices if
For an authentic Icelandic Sunday roast, serve with the sauce on the
side, boiled or caramelized
potatoes, green peas and rhubarb
jam. For my part, I like to leave out the peas and jam and serve
instead a fresh salad and some sautéed mushrooms. If you feel like
eating anything else after this heavy repast, ice-cream is the favoured
dessert. Home-made
ice-cream is especially good.
Remove all membranes and blood vessels from the liver and peel the
potatoes. Peel onions and chop coarsely. Mince together liver,
potatoes and onions. Mix in flour, baking powder and spices. Add the
egg. Thin the mixture with milk, until it is the consistency of
porridge. By this time it should look like a disgusting mess.
Traditional preparation: Cut the meat into thin slices, and
roll each in a mixture of salt and pepper. Put a slice of bacon on each
slice of meat, roll up and tie up with twine. Brown on a hot pan. Add
the water and cook until done through. Use the flour to thicken the
sauce. Serve with potatoes, rhubarb jam and green peas.
Easy method (Recommended), with bacon and mushrooms: Cut
the meat into bite sized pieces and brown on a frying pan. Put in a pot
with the water and bring to the boil, lower cooking temperature to
simmer. Cut the bacon into pieces, fry lightly and add to the meat. Cut
one large onion in half and cut the halves into thin slices, crosswise.
Fry on a pan until transparent and add to the meat. Cut some fresh
mushrooms (about 1/2 kg.) into slices and fry in butter until soft. Add
to the meat. Simmer until the meat is done.
Cut slits into the bird's chests and draw strips of bacon through
(this is to ensure that the flesh will not be too dry). Truss the birds.
Melt the butter in a cooking pot and brown the birds on all sides in the
fat. Heat water and milk to boiling and pour over the birds. Add the
salt and cook for 1-1 1/2 hours. Remove the birds and strain the cooking
liquid. Thicken with a mixture of cold water and flour. Add the cream
and adjust the flavouring to taste. Divide the birds and serve with
mixed vegetables, dried fruit (stewed), pickled red
cabbage, redcurrant
jam and caramelized
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We ask 8 seasoned travelers the same 5 questions.
Last year, road warriors throughout the U.S. competed to be one of the most frequent of frequent flyers, true "Sky Warriors", to win one of 10 ThinkPad Twist ultrabooks during a promotion offered by Lenovo. We decided it would be fun and informative to get in touch with the winners to ask each of them the same five questions.
Those vying for the moniker of "Sky Warrior" were asked to visit the Lenovo Facebook page and enter the number of miles accrued through a single frequent flyer program between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, 2012. The top 10 verified mileage balances received a ThinkPad Twist. The mileage amounts that won totaled 1,572,941 miles in the following frequent flyer programs: American Airlines AAdvantage, British Airways Executive Club and Delta Air Lines SkyMiles.
Lenovo reached out to frequent flyers because the ThinkPad Twist bends to fit the user's environment with several viewing modes: as a laptop, a tablet or you can twist it at 180* for the stand mode to watch movies or view photos, which makes it especially suited to use on planes. Lenovo sees the ultrabook as especially suited for those who roam the skies and depend on commercial jets to function both as a conduit to a destination and a mobile office.
Over 100 frequent flyers took part in the contest with only the top 10 taking home the ThinkPad Twist and the honor of being proclaimed a Sky Warrior. We approached all 10 winners with our enquiries but two were too busy to reply. The questions and answers of the eight who replied are listed in this article.
Q As a Sky Warrior, what one travel tip would you give someone new to frequent travel?
Carlos Conde (Highland Beach, Fla.)
Determine what airline suits your travel needs best from your home city to your likely destinations (e.g. ATL = Delta, Miami = AA, etc.). Then stick with that airline as much as possible to reach as high an Elite level as possible to reap the rewards.
Darrell Demello (St. Louis Park, Minn.)
Relax. Get familiar with the travel. Develop a schedule to eat, sleep, work, etc. while on a plane. Plan your travel well. Stressing out does not help as our bodies are already highly stressed due to the high altitude, dry atmosphere, dry cabin and the takeoff and landings.
Bill Haskett (Houston, Texas)
Understand your travel itinerary. You are the one who will have to run between gates or be stranded waiting for a car at 2am. This means you need to be as involved as possible in your hotel and flight selections. I prefer to do all of my bookings myself directly with the airlines and hotels. There's no third-party middlemen with their perpetually unavailable prices for me.
Doug Pollock (San Clemente, Calif.)
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Joe Ruiz (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Expect things to go wrong and have a backup plan ready to go. I used to get worked up about canceled/delayed flights, but once you accept that this is part of frequent travel, you'll be much more at ease and probably more productive on the road as well.
Ruban Selvakumar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Get TSA Pre Check approved as soon as possible. It's like flying in the '90s!
Tom Snook (Meridian, Ind.)
Always ask for upgrades at the gate.
Thomas Ta (San Diego, Calif.)
Never check in a bag. Carry-on only.
Q Which is your favorite frequent flyer program, why is it your
favorite, and if you don't mind answering, how many lifetime miles do you have with the program?
Carlos Conde (Highland Beach, Fla.)
American AAdvantage. It was the first, and in my opinion still the best. The upgrade process benefits the upper Elite levels, and award redemption is usually readily available. As of today, I have 3,901,308 lifetime miles on American alone--most of which are flight miles.
Darrell Demello (St. Louis Park, Minn.)
Delta SkyMiles. I live in the greater Minneapolis area, was a member of Northwest WorldPerks and came to Delta with the merger. As a Hub captive, I have very little choice, and I prefer direct flights. Since 1996 until today, I have 1.5 million actual in-seat miles or "butt-in-seat" miles.
Bill Haskett (Houston, Texas)
People's "favorite" loyalty program is usually the one that they know. That may be the airline program you have the most miles with, or are the one you are forced to travel with by company decree (never good) or due to living in a hub city. Over the years I have shuffled through Air Canada, Delta and American ultimately landing on the United program. Loyalty programs have two primary benefit paths, experiential rewards and travel awards. The best programs will balance experiential and travel. For me, MileagePlus gives excellent upper level elite benefits I see every time I fly, and compared to some other options, have reasonable award rates and availability. One aspect I rarely use, but is quite meaningful is the spousal elite level match. I usually do about 200,000-300,000 butt-in-seat miles a year which means earning is about 600,000 a year, the majority of which is international travel. Lifetime miles five million.
Doug Pollock (San Clemente, Calif)
I favor both American and United, I have about 750,000 on each airline (lifetime miles). I like American because they have a lot of bonus mile specials, but United seems to have better options when booking flights using rewards. I also enjoy taking advantage of bonus miles using the United credit cards, both for business as well as personal use. Recently AA offered 100,000 bonus miles for three flights to Europe, so in six weeks I was able to rack up an extra 100,000 miles.
Joe Ruiz (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Delta SkyMiles is my favorite frequent flyer program, mostly by default because I have flown on Delta over 90 percent of the time for work trips. I get upgraded quite frequently and the complimentary Sky Club membership is a huge benefit for me. Lifetime miles for Delta SkyMiles (including bonus miles) are around 950,000.
Ruban Selvakumar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
American Airlines AAdvantage--over 1.3 million miles.
Tom Snook (Meridian, Ind.)
Delta. The flight schedules Delta provides to and from most of my destinations usually match well with my travel plans. I have 1,262,750 actual flight miles.
Thomas Ta (San Diego, Calif.)
Any oneworld alliance airline (I'm with British Airways) because they have the best network with the best planes and the best service. I don't know how many miles I've accumulated over my life so far but I can tell you that you can never have enough.
Q What one benefit do you appreciate the most given to you as a frequent flyer from your preferred airline? And why do you appreciate it the most?
Carlos Conde (Highland Beach, Fla.)
Upgrades of course. Even though first and business class are not what they once were, neither is coach!
Darrell Demello (St. Louis Park, Minn.)
As a premium flyer with Delta, Diamond Medallion, upgrades to first class for travel within the U.S. is the one benefit I appreciate the most.
Bill Haskett (Houston, Texas)
I'm Global Services with United. That means I get access to the Global Services line, and those people have gone far out of their way in the past few years to get me where I needed to be. Making lines and wait times disappear ... being met at the gate and ushered through to the next plane quickly and efficiently ... it makes a huge difference in the travel experience.
Doug Pollock (San Clemente, Calif.)
American Airlines is very generous with the systemwide upgrades, and they clear almost all of the time, so I appreciate being able to upgrade into business class for international flights without any restrictions or hassles from the airline.
Joe Ruiz (Milwaukee, Wis.)
I appreciate the expedited security lines at the airport the most. This usually saves a lot of time, especially on Thursdays at busier airports.
Ruban Selvakumar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Executive Platinum customer service desk. They have the best service agents with no waiting. When I have a travel problem, the most important thing is to be able to have my schedule fixed ASAP.
Tom Snook (Meridian, Ind.)
The upgrades to first and business class. When much of your time is spent flying, the aircraft is used frequently for working and sleeping. The extra room makes it much more pleasant.
Thomas Ta (San Diego, Calif.)
I can't name a single benefit that outweighs any other but the most important perks to me would be any perk that saves me time, makes me more comfortable while traveling and better service.
Q Recount one memorable travel experience (or one particularly good use of your miles).
Carlos Conde (Highland Beach, Fla.)
With three kids and a wife, using my miles to take my family to Peru (our home country) several times a year. Beats paying $3,500 each time.
Darrell Demello (St. Louis Park, Minn.)
I usually use my miles for my family--for my wife and boys to travel to India to visit family. In August 2012 when my wife took ill in Rome, Italy ... once discharged I was able to fly her and myself on miles on Air France to Mumbai, India to have her treated and taken care of by her family. I was already taking care of Ricky Demello my second son, in Rome who on July 2, 2012, had an accidental fall from the fifth floor apartment (fell 90 feet) to the ground. Ricky was transferred back to Minneapolis on Sept 7, and is now at home rehabbing from Nov. 17. A true Miracle in Rome!
Bill Haskett (Houston, Texas)
I earn my miles. My wife uses them so I shall have to relate an experience. Picking a single experience is difficult. With many trips each year that blend together, it is difficult to find something that would interest people. Yes, I've been in a couple emergency landings. I've been snowed-in in Frankfurt, London and believe it or not ... Buenos Aires (and since they've only been snowed in for about eight hours in the past 90 years, you should be able to pinpoint when I was there). I've been taken aside for private "discussion" while going through customs in the U.S., Canada, U.A.E., Bahrain and Angola.
I guess one situation I ran into while flying sticks out. Over the years I've maintained status as a Licensed Paramedic in Texas. I respond when crews ask for medical support. Earlier this year while travelling from Tokyo to San Francisco we had a cardiac arrest to work ... and best of all, they survived fully intact (I even received a nice note from the lady. It is always good when they do that). So, take care of yourself. Don't take other people's medication. If one airsickness pill works, it doesn't mean that two will work better. Otherwise, you have a chance of waking up looking at my blue eyes.
Doug Pollock (San Clemente, Calif.)
Just booked six roundtrip tickets to Maui courtesy of United Airlines. Also last Christmas, we had five seats, and four upgrades cleared into first class. So I took my three kids up to first class and left my wife in the back with a handful of drink coupons. It was the best flight she has had in the last eight years.
Joe Ruiz (Milwaukee, Wis.)
A few years ago, I booked a last-minute flight using miles and paid a surprise visit to my brother in East Lansing, Mich. for a Wisconsin vs. Michigan State football game. I was living in Florida at the time and had to fly from Tallahassee to Atlanta to Detroit to Lansing, but it was well worth it when I showed up at his door unannounced from several states away.
Ruban Selvakumar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
One good use: It keeps the wife happy! I use my miles to take my wife along with me on my business trips to the more exciting locations so she can experience the Sky Warrior lifestyle.
Tom Snook (Meridian, Ind.)
The ability to take my family on unforgettable holidays. Especially, the Christmases we spent in Barcelona and Paris.
Thomas Ta (San Diego, Calif.)
My wife's good friend couldn't make it to our wedding. Her friend didn't give a reason but I had a strong intuition that she was short on funds so I went ahead and booked a flight for her using my miles and sent her the confirmation saying how much my wife would love it if she could make it. Fast forward to the night before our wedding where my wife still thought her friend wasn't coming until her friend snuck up behind her at our rehearsal dinner with her baggage in tow straight from the airport. It was quite a surprise!
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Sit on the bed to make sure there are no distracting noises that might interrupt sleeping, such as the elevator, ice machine, street noise, etc.
Darrell Demello (St. Louis Park, Minn.)
Start my laptop, log on to the Internet and catch up.
Bill Haskett (Houston, Texas)
... drop my bags and go out for a walk around the hotel area. If I don't, I find that I anchor in to the room and my world reduces to 400 square feet (1,200 square feet if I'm lucky). The walk also lets me calm down from travelling for better sleep. I'll walk around (in safe areas) no matter what time I arrive. If stores are open I'll buy some snack food or salads to tide me over through those 3am sleepless, hungry jet lag moments. If you don't know the area around your hotel, you can miss out on a lot.
Doug Pollock (San Clemente, Calif.)
... check to see that the security lock works.
Joe Ruiz (Milwaukee, Wis.)
... turn on ESPN while unfolding/hanging up my work clothes.
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Figure out if the hotel has free WiFi.
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Check the view, see if the window opens, and plug in my electronics.
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I immediately unpack my laptop (Lenovo X220), hook it up to the WiFi to do some work, look up something to do or a find a place to eat.
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One of Surry County's largest private employers will soon have a new home.
An official of WorkForce Carolina, now celebrating 25 years in business, has announced the move of its corporate headquarters to an office building at 1908 Caudle Drive, located behind Lone Star Steakhouse in Mount Airy. The human resources firm will begin operations there on Feb. 27.
It is now based in the New Market Crossing shopping center.
WorkForce Carolina was established in 1987 and provides a wide range of staffing services including employee recruitment and placement in both permanent and temporary positions.
As the company has evolved, its office space demands have increased, according to Teresa Lewis, longtime president of WorkForce Carolina.
"Our company has grown and added several full-time staff over the past couple of years and we have outgrown our current location at New Market Crossing on Independence Boulevard," Lewis added. "I'll bet I've (recently) hired seven or eight full-time employees internally."
The office staff now numbers 26, Lewis said.
"In addition to better accommodating our present staff, the new location will give us plenty of room for continued growth." It contains 10,000 square-feet of office space.
WorkForce Carolina is moving to a site formerly known as the Thomas and Howard Building, which recently was renovated by The Crown Companies of Dobson.
The structure basically has been gutted, "so the interior is like brand-new," Lewis said. The office space is re-designed in a manner to best accommodate WorkForce Carolina's clients as well as office staff.
WorkForce Carolina will occupy the entire upper level, with doctors housed in other parts of the building.
Since it is located right off U.S. 52 (Andy Griffith Parkway), the new location will allow easy access for both customers and clients, she said.
Along with its move to a new facility, WorkForce Carolina will celebrate its 25th anniversary with an upcoming event, for which details have not been finalized.


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This re-release seems unnecessary at first glance, but the conclusion of Kratos' journey serves up a level of spectacle that remains impressive in 2015.
Her Story is a bold and largely successful experiment in interactive crime fiction.
Rocksteady's gorgeous-looking third Arkham game refines its open-world format a bit and lets you drive a whole hell of a lot of Batmobile.
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EA's 2009 entry in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise.
Golf: Tee it up is a golf game that is easy to pick up and play but takes practice to perfect. It features cartoon characters that can be customized and 2 full 18 hole courses to play.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 is the sequal to Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee on the PSP. It delivers the same arcade style golf that the series has become known for in a pick-up and play format
The Hot Shots series makes its way to the PlayStation 3 with enhanced graphics and online play.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 is an iteration in the popular EA sports golf series. Starring Tiger himself, the game includes improved visuals over previous games and a large cast of superstar golfers such as Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 is the series debut on the Xbox 360. The game featured upgraded visuals and gameplay elements on the Xbox 360, but suffered from glitches and inaccessible achievements.
A golf game for Xbox and PlayStation 2.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 further refined the character creation system and added new features such as Tiger Proofing and Legends Matches
Build a thriving country club and beat the competition in this golf course management simulator from Sid Meier.
CyberTiger was a golf game released in 2000 with a career mode consisting of various tournaments
This is the sole golf game for Sega's doomed 32X console. It featured then-popular golfer Fred Couples, and had relatively good graphics and gameplay compared to other golf games of that era.
The 1996 version of Electronic Arts' seminal golfing franchise adds a variety of graphical and gameplay changes.
American college football game featuring legendary coach Bill Walsh, who led the San Francisco 49ers in their glory days in the mid '80s, before moving on to coach Stanford.
Golf video game released in 1993 for the SNES. Known in Japan as "Serizawa Nobuo no Birdie Try".
John Madden Football '93 was an early title in the popular football series. Released on the Genesis and SNES in 1992.
Golf simulation developed by T&E Soft in 1992. It is set in Pebble Beach, California.
Awesome Golf was a golf simulation released for the Atari Lynx handheld gaming console.
From the specialists of the military simulator comes a fantastic golf simulator.
Step up to the tee and play 18 holes in True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club, fore. While the game was new, there was a sweepstakes card you could send in and win a trip to Hawaii. This card is worth some money now.
A golf game that uses an uncommon top-down perspective. It was the first golf game (and first sports game) for the Super Famicom.
Links: The Challenge of Golf was the first game in the Links series. It was originally released for the PC in 1990 with a port to the Amiga and a port to the Sega CD which was released in 1994. The Sega CD port was developed by Papyrus Design Group.
A Famicom Disk System golf game featuring Mario.
A licensed golf game that was released for the Intellivision in 1980.
Simple Golf game for the Odyssey 2. Could play with up to 4 players.
Released in 1994 for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, PGA Tour Golf III (3) was the third in a series of golf games produced by EA Sports. The PGA Tour series is the precursor to the Tiger Woods series of games.
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The NCSSM Science Department is hosting TEDxNCSSM on April 21, 2012 during the NC Festival of Science. The Dean of Science, Dr. Amy Sheck, received a TEDx license to organize this conference and to emulate the celebrated format of the TEDTalks. Students from NCSSM compose the organizing committee and will be instrumental in inviting speakers and inviting the audience. The invitation-only audience is capped at 100 and will include NCSSM students, sets of Durham high school students each accompanied by their science teacher, NCSSM faculty, and dignitaries from the Triangle invested in science education. The conference is designed to optimize interaction between speakers and audience members and to spark ideas.
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Rob JacksonFracking and the Future of Gas. Robert "Rob" Jackson is a professor of biology and the Nicholas Chair of Global Environmental Change at the Nicholas School of the Environment, at Duke University. His research involves how humans affect the earth, especially involving energy and land use and climate change. Jackson received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at Rice University in 1983. He worked in industry at the Dow Chemical Company for four years before receiving M.S. degrees in Ecology (1990) and Statistics (1992) and a Ph.D. in Ecology (1992) at Utah State University. He was a Department of Energy Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow for Global Change at Stanford University and an assistant professor at the University of Texas. In 1999, he became a part of Duke's faculty. He is currently Director of Duke's Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and National Institute for Climate Change Research for the southeastern U.S., and co-directed the Climate Change Policy Partnership. According to Thomas Reuters, Jackson is also among the top 0.5% of most cited scientific researchers.
Arlie PettersIs There a Fifth Dimension? Arlie O. Petters is a professor of mathematics, physics, and business administration at Duke University. Petters was born in a poor, rural community in Belize. At the age of 13, he emigrated to Brooklyn. He participated in an accelerated B.A./M.A. program at Hunter College, receiving his degrees in mathematics and physics in 1986. In 1991, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. Petters' research is focused on the development of mathematical theory of gravitational lensing. He is the leading author of the book, /Singularity Theory and Gravitational Lensing/. Petters also works within Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, where he deals with finance, social entrepreneurship, and environmentally sustainable STEM business efforts. Petters has given back to the minority community by mentoring numerous underrepresented minority students, faculty, and professionals. He is highly involved in the Belizean community. In 2005, Petters founded the Petters Research Institute, which works to aid Belizean individuals pursuing work in STEM fields and aiding Belizean national development through environmentally sustainable applications of technology. In 2008, he was named by the Queen of England to Membership in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire as a result of his exceptional work in research, education, and outreach. In 2010, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Council of Science Advisors to the Prime Minister of Belize.
Billy PizerClimate Change: What Do We Do Now? Billy Pizer is an associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions, both at Duke University. He specializes in environmental economics and policy, particularly related to the problem of global climate change. After graduating from NCSSM in 1986, Pizer received his bachelor's degree in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He subsequently received both his master's and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University in 1996. From there, Pizer worked for twelve years at Resources for the Future, eventually serving as Senior Fellow and Research Director. During that time he took a leave to serve as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001-2002 and, after leaving RFF, served from 2008-2011 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy for the U.S. Department of Treasury. His involvement at the Treasury led to a new office responsible for managing the department's role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States. His research at RFF and now at Duke focuses on global climate change and how policies can be designed to be both cost-effective and responsive to the needs of different stakeholders. He served as a lead author on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Amy SchmidSurviving the Outer Limits: Life in Saturated Salt. Amy K. Schmid is an assistant professor in the Duke University Biology Department. Her work in systems biology focuses on the way archaeabacteria survive in extreme, dynamic environments. She received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in Biology and German Literature from Marquette University in 1996. In 1997, Schmid was selected to participate in the Fulbright Program, which allowed her to study abroad at Eberhard-Karls University for a year. She attended the University of Washington, from which she received her Ph.D. in 2004. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington until 2008. Her work at the time focused on the transcriptional and translational response to oxygen level changes of archaeabacteria in environments with high salt concentrations. She was appointed to the position of Senior Scientist at the Institute, a role in which she stayed until 2009. In August of 2009, she became an assistant professor of biology at Duke University.
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Liver-specific deletion of insulin receptor substrate 2 does not impair hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism in mice.
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Aims/hypothesis: Hepatic insulin resistance is thought to be a critical component in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes but the role of intrinsic insulin signalling pathways in the regulation of hepatic metabolism remains controversial. Global gene targeting in mice and in vitro studies have suggested that IRS2 mediates the physiological effects of insulin in the liver. Reduced hepatic production of IRS2 is found in many cases of insulin resistance. To investigate the role of IRS2 in regulating liver function in vivo, we generated mice that specifically lack Irs2 in the liver (LivIrs2KO). Materials and methods: Hepatic insulin signalling events were examined in LivIrs2KO mice by western blotting. Glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity were assessed by glucose tolerance tests and hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp studies. The effects of high-fat feeding upon glucose homeostasis were also determined. Liver function tests were performed and expression of key metabolic genes in the liver was determined by RT-PCR. Results: Proximal insulin signalling events and forkhead box O1 and A2 function were normal in the liver of LivIrs2KO mice, which displayed minimal abnormalities in glucose and lipid homeostasis, hepatic gene expression and liver function. In addition, hepatic lipid homeostasis and the metabolic response to a high-fat diet did not differ between LivIrs2KO and control mice. Conclusions/interpretation: Our findings suggest that liver IRS2 signalling, surprisingly, is not required for the long-term maintenance of glucose and lipid homeostasis, and that extra-hepatic IRS2-dependent mechanisms are involved in the regulation of these processes.
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Etiquette dinner draws large crowd
HUNTINGTON -- Focusing on the food was only half of the battle for Marshall University students who attended the biannual Etiquette Dinner Wednesday night on campus.
The event, which takes place once each semester, has become a mainstay on the calendar of Marshall's Career Services, which conducts the event each semester said Debby Stoller, assistant director of Development and Outreach at the Career Services Center.
Wednesday's event marked the largest gathering since the event's inception. About 98 students registered for the event, which took place in the basement of the Memorial Student Center, Stoller said.
"We want to help them be polished and be professional," Stoller said. "More than that, we want to help them build confidence for if they are going into an interview. Professional dinners and situations like this can be wrenching if you've never experienced it before."
The four-course dinner included soup, salad, an entree and a dessert.
The meal is part of the presentation given by Terri Thompson, founder and owner of Etiquette in Action. Thompson travels throughout the country giving business and etiquette training to business professionals as well as other college students.
She said the food, while an important part of the event, serves as a catalyst for whatever business is to take place during the professional situations in which students may find themselves in the future.
"I hope they have fun and enjoy the presentation, but, most of all, I hope they leave here comfortable in the knowledge they gained," Thompson said. "If they can go into an interview and have the confidence they need, the food doesn't even matter. It's all about having that confidence."
John Fauss, a journalism major from Charleston, said he and other members of his fraternity on campus were attending the event.
He said he was curious to see what tips he might pick up from the event.
"It's important for students to have the opportunity to broaden their horizons no matter what they plan to do after college," Fauss said.
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Proponents of green burials try to build network
There are green buildings, green cars, even green weddings. Now comes one of the latest, and ultimately last moves, environmentally conscious consumers can make: green burials.
Forgoing embalming, metal caskets and concrete burial vaults, green burials instead cover the body with a shroud, place it inside a biodegradable wooden or cardboard box and bury it in a woodland, where a new tree or a stone marks the grave.
This natural approach, proponents say, is far less damaging to the Earth because it eliminates formaldehyde, a chemical used in embalming, as well as barriers that simply delay the body's inevitable decay.
The practice, which began in the United Kingdom and in recent years has spread to California and other parts of the country, recently received a boost from Pittsburgh's Roy A. Hunt Foundation.
It awarded a $5,000 grant to the Green Burial Council of Santa Fe, N.M., seeking to establish a national network of funeral homes to provide green burials.
'It can be inexpensive'
Josh Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance in Vermont, a national group with 400,000 members that aims to educate consumers about costs and procedures involved in funerals, says green burial is "not just for Californians anymore" and exemplifies "good old-fashioned Yankee simplicity and frugality.
"It can be inexpensive. It's not wasteful of money or resources. It's not about the beautiful casket. It's about the family participating in an important life passage," Slocum said.
Joe Sehee, founder of the Green Burial Council, contends green burials are a way for funeral directors to reconnect with families who have avoided funeral homes by taking bodies directly to crematories.
When Jessica Mitford published her scathing book, "The American Way of Death," in 1963, Sehee said, she "put cremation on the map. That's the way you circumvent the death merchant.
"The funeral industry is either going to respond or lose this (the green burial) business."
Sehee believes green burials reduce the amount of waste involved in conventional funerals and with the proper planning will conserve land that would otherwise be developed.
He regularly urges funeral directors, who began losing business to crematories in the 1960s, to offer the service. According to the Funeral Consumers Alliance, the average American funeral costs $6,600 while a cremation without a funeral, known in the industry as "direct disposition," is well under $1,000.
"Ninety percent of the people who are attracted to green burial otherwise are going to do a direct cremation. You are going to make more money facilitating a green burial," Sehee said.
Not even notice the graves
Ramsey Creek, the first woodland burial ground in the United States, opened in 1998 in Westminster, S.C., on 40 acres of farmland once used to grow cotton. Visitors to Ramsey Creek can walk trails through the land and may not even notice the graves.
There also are woodland burial grounds in Greensprings, outside of Ithaca, N.Y., as well as in California, Texas and Florida.
Frank Ashbaugh, vice president of Pittsburgh's chapter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, recently wrote letters to 21 local cemeteries to see if any of them offered green burials.
He received no response. In follow-up phone calls to 11 cemeteries, Ashbaugh learned that none of the cemeteries was interested in providing green burials.
William Howard, vice president of sales for Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh, said a portion of land in a 50-acre swath of the cemetery near Frick Park could possibly be used for green burials.
"You don't have to be embalmed, and you don't need a vault. I do believe it's something we should consider. I think a lot of people would prefer that type of burial," Howard said.
"You should have something for everyone."
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Sparkle & Shine: Holiday Wish List 2013
Every year the holiday season seemingly creeps up on us, and here we are again, finding ourselves getting ready for Thanksgiving and (perhaps) thinking about gifts, decor and outfits for the cheery Christmas celebrations to come. Here's a list of my favorite and most coveted holiday items, which basically fall into the category of anything sparkly, shiny or gold. 'Tis the season!
1. Gold Serving Set | 2. Sequin Clutch | 3. Metallic Heel Pump | 4. Crystal Bib Necklace | 5. Jeweled Pony Holders | 6. Jeweled Lucite Bangle | 7. Sparkle Bobbi Pins | 8. Tweed and Glitter Pumps | 9. Gold Hoops Ear Cuff | 10. Gold Dots Cocktail Decanter
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A birth policy change sparked a rally Monday outside a western Wisconsin hospital. The mothers and mothers-to-be are upset over how they're being told they can give birth.
Starting Aug. 31, Hudson Hospital will no longer offer what's called the VBAC procedure, which stands for vaginal birth after Cesarean.
Under the new policy, if a woman had a C-section at the hospital any other babies she delivers there will have to be born via C-section as well.
The protesters aren't happy about the change. Laura Nelson gave birth to her first child via C-section. She's now eight months pregnant with her second child and is due on Sept. 4. She says she is switching doctors because of the new policy.
"It's been very stressful and frustrating and an emotional two weeks, and I just really hope that they change their policy about VBACs here," Nelson said.
A written statement from Hudson Hospital reads, "A joint decision was made last week by Hudson Hospital's medical staff leadership and hospital administration to suspend Vaginal Births After Caesarian Section (VBAC) deliveries beginning on Aug. 31. We support VBACs as an option for women, but at this time we cannot provide this service due to human resource constraints. We have shared this change with expectant mothers who have a planned VBAC that may occur after Aug. 31 and are working with their physician to find an alternative hospital."
We check the policies regarding VBAC procedures of several other metro hospitals. Hennepin County Medical Center, Regions Hospital, North Memorial Medical Center and Fairview Hospitals all offer VBAC to moms-to-be. Most Allina hospitals do as well.
Smaller hospitals outside the metro, including Cambridge Medical Center, do not. They don't have the staffing necessary to monitor the procedures.
Allina also eliminates VBAC if a woman has had two or more C-sections or got pregnant less than a year after her last delivery.
The hospitals all recommend women considering VBAC should talk to their doctor to discuss the risks and benefits.


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