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4001 J St Sacramento , CA 95819
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I believe in empowering patients with knowledge and provide compassionate care to make them equal partners in healthcare delivery.
- Dow Med College And Civil Hospital
- Karachi Medical and Dental College, University Of Karachi
- U Cincinnati
- University of Karachi / Dow Medical College
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Dr. Maqbool Ahmed, MD's Experience
Critical Care Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
Hospital Medicine
Board Certifications
- Critical Care Medicine American Board of Medical Specialties
- Internal Medicine American Board of Medical Specialties
- Pulmonary Disease American Board of Medical Specialties
Procedures Performed
- Arterial Blood Gas Test (ABG)
- Breath Testing
- Bronchoscopy
- Central Line Insertion
- Chest CT (incl. Heart and Lungs)
- Chest Tube Insertion
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
- Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Pacemaker Insertion or Replacement
- Peripheral Artery Catheterization
- Pulmonary Function Test
- Pulmonary Procedures
- Respiratory Management
- Thoracentesis
Conditions Treated
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- Acidosis
- Acute Bronchitis
- Asbestosis
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- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis
- Bronchitis
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- Chronic Pulmonary Heart Diseases (incl. Pulmonary Hypertension)
- Collapsed Lung (Pneumothorax)
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- Cough
- Emphysema
- Empyema
- Fungal Infections
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Influenza (Flu)
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Low Blood Oxygen Level
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- Lung Cancer
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- Lung Nodule
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- Wheezing
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This is very much NOT dairy-free... Just throwing that out there before we get started. Avert thine eyes, dairy-free babes.
This is your basic corn chowder, except for the addition of the poblano chile which was DYNAMITE and a liiiittle bit of an unexpected flavor. Awesome addition. It wasn't spicy, however, and Macson (total spice HATER) loved it.
Recipe: (serves 3)
4 slices of bacon
1 small onion (finely diced)
8 sprigs of thyme
3 cups of chicken broth
2.5 cups of corn (about 3 ears of corn, kernels removed)
1-2 lbs. fingerling potatoes (not an exact science on this one... more potatoes for a heartier soup, fewer for something with more broth)
1 poblano chile (seeded and finely diced)
1.5 cups of half and half (I used a combo of full fat/fat free- not for dietary reasons, but because I ran out of full fat half and half. LOL)
Start with the slices of bacon in a pot. Cook the bacon until the fat is rendered and then transfer said bacon to a plate (where it shall later be crumbled into bits and scattered atop your chowder). DO NOT TOUCH THAT BACON GREASE! One, because it's hot and two, because you're going to use it to flavor the rest of your meal. So yummy, so essential.
Moving on... Add the onions and sprigs of thyme to the grease and cook until the onions are translucent (about 5 minutes). Now add your chicken stock and bring it to a boil. Reduce to medium heat and let it simmer for 15 minutes. Next, add your corn, potatoes and chile and cook until the potatoes are tender (about 15 minutes). Remove and discard the thyme, add the half and half and allow chowder to simmer until hot. Season with salt and pepper and garnish with the bacon crumbles, duh. ;)
Hope you love it!

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Where did she go???
I saw this picture of her and thought, " Where did my baby go?" :(
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
A little flower
So she was a flower for Halloween. The selfish in me wanted her to be as baby as possible for one more year! But I should have known better! My instincts told me she would hate the hat and she did! But she did wear it long enough to take some pictures and for trick-or treating at two houses!! I just couldn't resist the waddle and the big fluffy feet! SO fun!
Oh this lady bug smells funny! I tried to tell her that the lady bug is supposed to smell her not the other way around!
Seriously guys!? I hate this thing!
I am going to tear it apart with my teeth. That'll teach them!!
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Mad Bros #02 : The splitlane
What you been up to
Dont' have real time to keep posting stuff, but I still have so many photos to put here.
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here' s a tank I painted for my friend Riton.
(before he went on a cafe racer delirium and put hit the ground dryyyy) so I had to repair it and tweak it a little, and gave it back to him right the way I thought he'd like to see it.
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Mad Max
First build by madbros engineering
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Le Bon Gout #1
it's been a long time I don't do a simple freak post so here's one,
proper french high class stuff for sale on french equivalent of craigslist, "leboncoin.fr"
fucking gold right there.
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Technology & Networking in Silicon Valley & the SF Bay Area: Upcoming Meetings, Courses and Conferences
FRIDAY April 25, 2014
SCV Monterey Bay Subsection
– PC revolution, history, commemoration, plaque …
Speakers: Mayor, past IEEE president, more
Time: Talks at 2:00 PM; Plaque dedication at 4:00 PM with refreshments
Cost: none
Place: City Chambers, 300 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove; then 801 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove
RSVP: not required
Web: www.facebook.com/KildallLegacy
The IEEE has joined with the Computer History Museum and organizers of AMW to schedule a commemoration of the role that Garyâ??s work played in the personal computer revolution with the dedication of an IEEE Milestone and the unveiling of the Milestone plaque following the close (more…)20140425scv
THURSDAY March 6, 2014
SCV Technology Management Chapter
– useful, many fields, Scrum, projects, services …
Speaker: Sue Shreve, Agile Coach, cPrime
Time: Networking at 6:00 PM, Mgmt Forum at 6:30 PM, Dinner at 7:00 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM
Cost: $11 for IEEE member; $14 for non-member ($3 more at door)
Place: Ramada, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale
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The word "Agile" most commonly brings the Scrum process to mind. Kanban is also an Agile process, has been around longer than Scrum, and is more widely useful. While Scrum is employed almost exclusively for managing software development, Kanban is used (more…)20140306scv
WEDNESDAY March 12, 2014
SCV Photovoltaics Chapter
– adoption, opportunities, next 10 years …
Speaker: Dr. Charlie Gay, president, Applied Solar, and chairman of the Applied Solar Council
Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
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Place: Palo Alto Research Center, Pake Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto
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What can happen over the next 10 years, as photovoltaic (PV) power costs continue to drop? This talk will cover the range of opportunities associated with changes in energy supply in developed and developing economies. We will briefly review the history of solar and discuss the key (more…)20140312scv
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SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter
– low distortion, polar-modulation, maximally efficient …
Speaker: Earl McCune, Besser Associates (IEEE-MTT Distinguished Lecturer)
Time: Networking and snacks at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Agilent Technologies, 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara
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Wireless communications signals have evolved greatly over the past century, from the use of Morse Code to very complicated digital modulation schemes such as wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and 3GPP Long-term evolution (LTE). This progression challenges the design of transmitters to (more…)20140313scv
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SF Power & Energy Chapter
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Speakers: Willem Fadrhonc, Manager, Grid Solutions, and Jim Detmers, Advisor, Stem Energy Storage
Time: Networking and light lunch at 11:30 AM; Presentations (no cost) at 12:00 PM
Cost: $5 for IEEE members; $10 for non-members (or bring your own lunch)
Place: Pacific Gas & Electric Conference Room #305, 77 Beale Street, San Francisco
RSVP: by March 11 to Sean Ely, firstname.lastname@example.com, 415-973-7192
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1403-sf-pes.pdf
The addition of distributed generation to the California power system is changing the needs and challenges facing grid operators and transmission and distribution system planners. When operated in concert, behind the meter energy storage can play a role as a fast (more…)20140313sf
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SCV Consumer Electronics Chapter
– development, market-building, interoperability, regulatory …
Speaker: Mick Conley, Executive Director of Engineering, WiFi Alliance
Time: Networking and pizza at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $5 for IEEE members; $10 for non-members; IEEE Student members free
Place: NVIDIA, Building E, 2800 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
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Wi-Fi Alliance is a global non-profit industry association of hundreds of leading companies devoted to seamless connectivity. With technology development, market building, and regulatory programs, Wi-Fi Alliance has enabled widespread adoption of Wi-Fi (more…)20140225scv
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SCV Bay Area Multimedia Group, with Computer Chapter
– video encoding, multimedia, compression, enhancements …
Speaker: Debargha Mukherjee, Google
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Cost: none
Place: AMD Commons Theater, 991 Stewart Dr, Sunnyvale
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Web: www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Multimedia-Meetup-Group/events/165124882
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Scenic Mogollon Rim Jeep Tour
Embark on a Scenic Mogollon Rim Jeep Tour and explore the Grand Canyon's beautiful West Rim while discovering the vast history and geology of the area.
This tour lasts about 1.5 hours and takes you far beyond the beautiful Sedona Red Rocks. Your pastel-colored, four-wheel drive, open-air Jeep Wrangler will pick you up from your hotel or resort or you can meet up with your tour guide at the Pink Jeep Plaza. Driving your Jeep will be a trained and certified 4x4 driver who will keep you informed of all the juiciest information about the area throughout the duration of your tour.
Your tour begins heading up the Schnebly Hill Road and through Bear Wallow Canyon. As you ride through, you will not only see some of the most incredible views, you will be listening to your tour guide filling you in on information about the surrounding wildlife, landscapes, and history.
Once you get through Bear Wallow Canyon, you'll pass the Munds Wagon Trail that was once used to guide the pioneers of the past. Next, your tour guide will point out Mount Wilson, the highest point of Sedona and former volcano. Other stops on your tour include the Merry Go Round, Schnebly Vista, Verde Valley, and the Black Hills of Jerome.
The highest point of elevation during your tour is over 1,500 feet tall! This tour will show you some of the most incredible views of the Sedona Red Rock area. You won't want to miss out on this wonderful opportunity to see rare wildlife, listen to rich history, and see beautiful views!
- What type of clothing is appropriate?
We recommend wearing comfortable outdoor clothing with closed toe shoes. You may want to bring a hat and switch to eyeglasses if you wear contacts (tours can be dusty and this can irritate your eyes if you wear contacts). Sunscreen and a bottle for water. We have a water refill station located at our merchandise store to keep your bottle full of water. Don't forget to bring a camera!


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Outcomes in morbidly obese adolescent patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in the Indian subcontinent: A retrospective review
Kirit Arumalla, Vitish Singla, Sandeep Aggarwal, Harshit Garg, Ritesh Goel, Varidh Katiyar
Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:Dr. Sandeep AggarwalDepartment of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110 029 IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/jmas.JMAS_143_17
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jmas.JMAS_143_17
Introduction: There is a worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity among the adolescent population in India from 16.3% in 2001 to 19.3% in 2010. Recent evidence suggests that bariatric surgery leads to resolution of comorbidities and associated long-term complications in adolescent patients with morbid obesity.Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the impact of bariatric surgery on the weight loss and comorbidities of morbidly obese adolescents.Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of the data of 10 adolescent patients, who underwent Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy at our institute (tertiary care hospital), from July 2009 to July 2016 was carried out.Results: Of the 10 patients, 4 patients had syndromic forms of obesity. The median age was 16.54 years. The median pre-operative weight and height were 112 kg and 154 cm, respectively, with a body mass index of 47.2 kg/m2. There was no intra-operative or post-operative complication except for suspected methylene blue toxicity in one patient which was treated conservatively. Median follow-up period was 1 year (0–5 years). The patients had an increase in excess weight loss (EWL) of 54.5% until the end of 1 year. There was a regain of weight between the 1st and 2nd year, followed by a sustained weight loss achieving 44.8% EWL at 3 years and 60% at the end of 5 years (only two patients followed up at 5 years). Similar results were found in syndromic patients. Among the four diabetic patients, three had complete resolution and one had improvement in diabetes status. Among the three patients with obstructive sleep apnoea, two patients had complete resolution, while one patient had improvement in symptoms. One patient with hypocortisolism improved after surgery with a decrease in the steroid requirement. Among the hypothyroid patients, one patient had a complete resolution, one patient had improvement in hypothyroid status while two patients had no change.Conclusion: Bariatric surgery is effective for morbidly obese adolescents, leading to significant resolutions of comorbid illness.
Keywords: Adolescent, bariatric surgery, obesity, weight loss


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The Rev. Amy Spagna
Easter 2C – April 3, 2016
John 20:19-31
In some parts of the Church, this second Sunday of Easter is known as "Holy Humor Sunday," where the telling of jokes and funny stories is highly encouraged. As the logic goes, since God pulled the biggest practical joke of all time in raising Jesus from the dead, it's only fitting that we ought to take advantage of the opportunity to laugh, a lot. In that spirit, I have this to offer:
Jesus is playing a round of golf with Moses in Heaven and they come upon a water trap.
Jesus turns to Moses and asks, "Didn't you do something with water once?" and Moses says yeah, and proceeds to do the trick where he parts the waters.
Jesus is impressed, and Moses in turn asks, "Didn't you also do something with water?"
Jesus says, "Yeah watch this" and proceeds to step out onto the water, but he sinks almost immediately to his knees. He gets out, gets a running start, and tries again, this time sinking to his waist. He comes out confused and embarrassed and Moses asks, "What was it you were trying to do?"
"I used to be able to walk on water," Jesus replies.
"The last time you tried it," Moses asks, "Did you have those holes in your feet?"[1]
While holes in his feet might stop him from walking on water, they don't keep him from walking into a room through a locked door. How he gets into that room, where the disciples have gathered and are hiding, we aren't told. What he finds there is a group of people who are still very afraid of what's going on outside. The city hasn't calmed down much after the upheaval of the past few days. While it wasn't all that unusual for public executions to take place there, they didn't normally involve outspoken Jewish prophets who claimed to be the Son of God. The disciples had scattered on Friday afternoon out of an abundance of fear for their own lives. It was a small comfort that nobody had tried to track them down – at least, not yet. But once they see Jesus, standing there among them, everything changes. Rejoicing replaces fear. Even Thomas, blessed Thomas, who demands to see the proof for himself before he'll believe it, cannot help but confess Jesus to be both his Lord and his God once he finally does. And everyone lives happily ever after.
Yes, the sarcasm is deliberate. For many preachers, interpreting or retelling the story of Thomas is risky business. One of the challenges comes in trying to avoid beating a proverbial dead horse – which in this case, is the theme of "to see is to believe." While that theme is crucial to John's understanding of the events surrounding Jesus' death and resurrection, if you're like me, you have probably heard this part of the story so many times that it has become a cliché. Leaving the story at that is also somewhat less than satisfying. So I found myself asking the question of, "what if?" in the process of wrestling with the text this week. What if we look at it from a different angle? What if Thomas actually does understand what has happened? And, what if he were to tell the story himself?
With apologies to the real Thomas, here is an attempt to answer those what-if questions.
"Blessed are those who have not yet seen, and yet have come to believe."
I've been pondering this phrase for years, ever since the night he said it to all of us. We all saw him, and we all believed that not only had he been raised from the dead, but that everything he'd told us was absolutely true. I'm not sure how much of it we really understood at first, though. It took having to go through the awful thing of watching him die and be raised before we finally did get it. To hear from Mary Magdalene that he was alive was almost as big of a shock as losing him was. When she came running up to us, out of breath, the look on her face told me all I needed to know about our lives once again were about to change in unimaginable ways.
I didn't NEED solid proof of that. What I did need to know, in no uncertain terms, was that there were actual signs of the change Mary told us about. That's why I told everyone else that I HAD to see the physical evidence that it really was him. Somehow the idea of going and dying with him no longer meant standing up with him and running the risk of falling victim to the anger of the crowds. It had this whole other dimension to it, too. Part of the point of it was as he'd shown us through his teaching and his actions. His work glorified God, so that those who witnessed it, whether in person or not, would believe in him. Of course, it's not "belief" of the sort that would, say, demand you go to sacrifice a cow to appease a God who doesn't care one way or the other about your long-term welfare. It means taking on a whole new sort of life, one that participates in Christ's work and where death is not the last word. As I later heard a fellow by the name of Paul had told some people in Rome, if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his, and that new life that we live in and with him is a life lived to God (Romans 6:5-11, NRSV).
Of course, there is more to this new life than simply glorifying God. What we experienced firsthand in Christ's death and resurrection is where the hope for our own futures lies. While it's hard to be sure exactly how that will unfold, even with some of the visions floating around out there, the one certainty we do have is that somehow, God has done something new through him. It is that new thing in which we, in turn, are called to participate. Jesus' giving the Holy Spirit was intended to help us get to that place. Just as the Father breathed life into creation at the very beginning, the Son is doing the same thing for us right here and right now. That's right, it's not something that you have to wait for until his return, or even necessarily until you celebrate Pentecost. It is a gift, given freely and for the taking, if you're willing to make the leap and simply believe in him.
It's the immediacy of it – this offer of a new kind of life – that shocked me the most, I think. We all had problems with the idea at some level, even before Jesus was crucified. Let's face it: when someone is talking about being the Bread of Life, offering living water to drink, and saying that the wine on our Seder table is in fact his blood that has been poured out for everyone, it's easy to think that he's totally nuts, or that he doesn't understand what he really means. It also makes one wonder whether he even completely believes what he's saying. Convincing other people that you're telling the truth, even if you aren't, is not all that difficult. But, when I saw Jesus walk into that room, I was certain that I understood all of it. Jesus had been insisting at least since he raised Lazarus that what he called eternal life was indeed on offer. Of course, he didn't mean that those who came to believe in him could avoid the physical necessity of dying. However, what he did say – and what his own example points to – is that seeing his glory here, on earth, will let us see it again when we join him in the Father's presence.[2] It was this that I got a glimpse of in Mary's eyes on Easter morning, and saw in its fullness when I saw Jesus in person the next week. It was all I could do to get the words out to tell him that yes, I know who he is.
The story doesn't end with my confession, or with the breakfast on the beach a few days later, or even when the Holy Spirit blew through Jerusalem on Pentecost. As my old friend Peter reminded everyone that day, we are all witnesses, along with the Spirit, to what God did through Jesus. And, we can continue to reap the rewards of that as long as we act in light of it. Even those who didn't see those things directly, and yet have come to believe, are blessed by their having taken place. As Barbara Brown Taylor, one of the more famous preachers of this generation notes, we may not literally be able to take Jesus up on his invitation to reach out and touch his scars. However, if we open ourselves up to the fact that it is possible, the story makes us feel as if we can. If we believe, because believing is all the Holy Spirit needs to bring it to life. Or to put it more precisely, believing is all the Holy Spirit needs to bring us to life, breathing on us the same way Jesus breathed on his disciples.[3]
[1] "Funny Easter Jokes for Adults." http://laffgaff.com/funny-easter-jokes-for-adults/
[2] Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the Gospel of John (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 240.
[3] Barbara Brown Taylor, "Believing in the Word." Home By Another Way (Boston: Cowley Publications, 1999), 117.


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MVRDV has won a competition to renovate and extend the Palais du Commerce in Rennes, France. Developed in collaboration with co-architects Bernard Desmoulin and developers Frey and Engie Avenue, the transformation of the historic landmark will "signify a renaissance for both the building and its surroundings."
The MVRDV scheme will reactivate both the Place de la Republique and the Palais, turning a former public building into a centerpiece of the city's main commercial street as was originally intended. While being respectful to the existing building, the MVRDV proposal adopts a critical approach to its drawbacks, such as transparency and accessibility.


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Hebrews 4: 14-5:4
The priesthood was a sacred profession in the Hebrew texts. The title was passed on through family lineage. The role of a Priest was honorable and righteous. After all, they were responsible for things pertaining to God.
"And one does not presume to take this honor, but takes it only when called by God, just as Aaron was."
The notion that just by family name gave you the honor of the priesthood seemed to be questioned. God must call Priests. To be called into the priesthood carries the yoke of being a servant.
Prayer: Holy God, when you call us into your priesthood of believers, let us be ready to respond to that call, "Here I am , Lord, use me." Let us accept that title knowing you are our Lord. Amen


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There are 3 US Post Offices in Montgomery County serving a total of 12,117 residents equating to 4,039 residents per post office. It's estimated that approximately 19,340 packages are handled across the 3 county post offices annually. Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,925. Its county seat is Winona. The county was either named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada, or for Montgomery County, Tennessee, from which an early settler came. In that latter case, it would have been indirectly named for John Montgomery, a settler in Montgomery County, Tennessee, who founded the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, in that county."


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Styling for fun
Most days I will come home from working and will want to continue styling. I get excited when I stumble across a new piece to style with, and I usually can't wait to get home and experiment. There's a small table in my kitchen that I like to do most of my styling on. It has West facing windows so there's an abundance of natural light.
I came across these brass baroque scissors from anthropologie. I love their details and the slender shape is a nice change from my black bonsai shears. I paired them with a white stone elephant that my mother-in-law brought us from Bulgaria. Sometimes it's fun to just play around and style for yourself.


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Social Systems
So it's social month, and I've gotten out the mandatory talk about basic roleplaying principles, now let's talk crunch. Yeah, that sweet sweet salty roleplaying crunch. The archetypical smooth talking rogue has been around since the early days of tabletop rpg's, and just as long as we've been killing monsters we've been finding enemies we'd rather not kill. Maybe they're too strong, too weak, maybe we agree with them or we have a code, but for whatever reason some problems get solved by talking. Since the moment that this first came up there have been two prettybasic schools of thought. One being "We need rules for this" and the other being "We don't need rules for this".
There are some games in which there are no rules at all for roleplaying, and there are some games where there is almost no roleplaying needed in the rules for social interaction, but over time game systems tend to hover somewhere around a middle spot where there are rules, but more often than not they're intentionally left vague. The other school of thought is "Social combat".
Social combat is a pretty simple idea. If we can take the delicate interplay of deadly swords, kung fu, backstabs and assault weapons and resolve it through combat, why not do the same for social interaction? I've seen my share of social combat, and the premise has always interested me. The idea of being able to apply a set of rules and actions and track progress towards social success has a lot of allure. The notion of how something is worded, what approach is taken having mechanical benefit, feels rewarding. Being able to clearly see social options laid out like attacks gives the player an easy way to categorize and consider their approach. Some of the most attractive advantages to social combat are: Being able to see something like how much of a bribe will improve your odds by what amount, knowing which skill to use when, being able to eyeball how hard someone is to persuade, and of course being able to excel as a social character even if you yourself aren't a smooth talker. Every time I play in a game with a social system I see players taking new approaches they wouldn't have used or thought of without being able to see the mechanical impact.
With all of that being said, I don't like social combat. That must seem odd because I just spent a whole paragraph praising it, but the flaws with a social combat system are, in my opinion, simply too big. First of all, most roleplaying games are designed so that everyone has something to contribute to combat, even if someone is less accurate they can offer better positioning, they can flank or add bonuses to their allies, or at least offer the appearance of outnumbering a foe. That's great in combat because it gets the party involved and of course you're going to gang up on the bad guy most of the time. But imagine you're at a party talking to someone. Things are going fine, they mention they need a ride home and then BAM three of their friends come over and everyone starts talking to you at once about why you should drive them all home. You'd be notably disconcerted. Social combat is either going to be a solo affair or quickly turn into a 5 on one conversation. There are some situations where a good GM can get around that, but in general those are the most common options. Now of course it's fine to have some 1 on 1 scenes, it happens a lot and it's not a bad thing. But think how many 1 on 1 combat encounters you run while all the other players do nothing. Hopefully it's not a lot. if you replace a lot of solo conversations with full length encounters it can get messy and drag on. Which leads to my next point. Time.
Table time is valuable time. I've never met a group who felt like they'd be better off if things progressed slower in social situations. Social combat creates this by necessity, it will never be faster to roll dice and check values between each new idea, statement, or sentence. There is just no way a social combat won't stretch things out longer. On top of this, while I think nearly anyone should be allowed and able to play a social character I don't believe a bonus should be a substitute for thought. A character built for social combat poses the risk of a player throwing the dreaded "I intimidate" or "Social roll to make them love me" without giving the GM anything to work with to carry on the narrative. And lastly while it empowers good "tactical" social thinking to offer different benefits and advantages, it also creates other cases where a social approach becomes less optimal, it causes you to be more likely to succeed with specificapproaches, based on die pool, difficulty, and the like, but this is not guaranteed to be the approach that makes the most sense in that situation.
Pointing out a problem without offering something better is just rude however, so I'll show you what my favourite method for integrating social attributes in a game. I think absolutely there should be a social stat, or several social stats, to give those "Face" characters something to put their points into. But my general approach is. "Tell me what you say. Roll the stat, and here's a bonus for your roleplaying." They make the roll, I eyeball it compared to the relative difficulty they'd go up against in the default for that system, and then have the npc re-act accordingly. This lets me balance their approach with their stats. But it also doesn't let them off the hook for explaining what their character says. There have been times where a player will fail a social roll even if their bonus would have been enough, just because what they say is so, utterly absurdly bad that no amount of charisma can fix it. I do make some exceptions. For some players, usually ones with social disorders I'll allow them to be more vague on their exact wording, but they still have to give me an idea of how they're making their case and then give them a little more leniency. I haven't found a system that this doesn't work for and it strikes a balance between keeping the stats important, and focusing on the details of the interaction.
I know firsthand how hard a lot of game developers work on their rules, social rules included, but for me, I use this quick easy adjustment for just about every RPG I play. But as always, the most important rule at your table is to make sure everyone is having fun. If you like social combat then go for it! And if you think social interaction shouldn't have rules at all then you go for that too. The most important thing is to find the balance that fits your game.


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Calories: 604 kcal
Macros: 47g Protein, 34g Carb & 31g Fat
With the warmer weather, it give us even more reason to have a lighter healthier salad, and knock the heavy starchy foods on the head at lunch time. That should help with the post lunch crash! What you have here is a take on a classic, but with more fat and carbs to keep you fuller and more energised for longer. Tuna steak is replaced with Tuna Mayonnaise with Chives. Then you have some warm buttery New Potatoes to bring some comfort and temperature to the plate. It works perfectly, especially as the gherkin cuts through the flavours to bring some zing. It's a light and low calorie Lunch (or Dinner if you prefer), providing you with a nice portion of healthy Fat and Protein to fuel the rest of your day without needing a siesta.
- Free Range Eggs – 2x
- Grass Fed Butter – 8g
- New Potatoes – 170g
- Tuna (tinned in brine) – 1x tin / 120g
- Light Mayonnaise – 2x tablespoons
- Spring Onion – 1x medium
- Chives – 1x teaspoon
- Butterhead Leafy Salad – 23g
- Carrots – 0.5x medium
- Cucumber – 40g
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil – 1x teaspoon
- Seasoning/Flavouring – Sea Salt & Black Pepper
Eggs are great source of protein and should be a staple for most active people, with egg yolk providing a nice hit of good cholesterol that helps with hormone production and cell energy. They contain calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and zinc. Tuna is an incredibly lean protein packed fish that is a staple for body builders and those looking to control calories/fat. Carrots are a rich source of Beta carotene – a powerful antioxidant that can also be converted into vitamin A in the body to help maintain healthy skin. Butter from grass-fed cows is much higher in Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin K2, compared to butter from grain-fed cows, making it a much healthier and more nutritious choice. Generally, healthy fats are critical for healthy hormone production, and having optimal hormonal balance will lead to more energy, better mood, less stress and an optimally functioning body.
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"Rights of a defendant in a criminal felony jury trial? When a defendant goes to trial on a criminal felony and the jury comes back deadlocked? With a verdict of 9-3, can the judge make them go back and deliberate again after they announce the verdict in the courtroom?"
A verdict is by definition, unanimous. Thus, 9-3 (in a criminal matter) means the jury is deadlocked or undecided. The judge absolutely can and will have the jury go back and deliberate further unless or until he or she is satisfied that there is no reasonable likelihood the jury can agree. If the jury stays deadlocked, whether 9-3, 8-4, 6-6, 11-1, and there is no way the jurors will come to a verdict, then we have a hung jury. A hung jury is typically a win for the defense even though the case starts all over (this is true for many reasons I can explain if you are interested). Note, that a defense lawyer should pop up and move for a mistrial as soon as it becomes reasonably clear that the jury is deadlocked even if the judge denies and keeps the jury in. Judges do not want a hung jury mistrial because they want the case to resolve itself and be over in one way or another (whether by virtue of acquittal, settlement, or conviction). This is why you may be seeing or hearing the judge pushing the jury to deliberate further despite the fact that the jury has already written the judge that they are undecided.


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[L]eaders from the organisation who run Community hospitals in Cumbria took part in a live interview on the current proposals for the inpatient beds in the county's community hospitals.
The Chief Executive and the Director of Service Improvement from Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Claire Molloy and Dr John Howarth took questions alongside Dr Niall McGreevy from NHS Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group from BBC Radio Cumbria presenter Mike Zeller.
In all of the options that have been proposed by the Success Regime the beds in Alston, Maryport and Wigton will close.
Mike asked them to respond to concerns he has been sent from an Alston resident who explained that Alston is largely used as an end of life and palliative care unit. She said:
"As such it is top notch, it is exemplary….. it fulfils all the quality of life indicators for a good death and it seems destructive to get rid of it."
She went on to explain a possible scenario if the beds were to close at the community hospital: "We have to wait ages for the ambulance anyway, Alston has a difficult ambulance situation, then there would be that awful journey, then there would be the difficulty to access for other people, then you would be admitted to an acute care ward not a palliative care ward, dealt with by people you don't know. That in its self could lead to dying away from where you want to die, lack of choice. That could have consequences in the health and metal health in the people who you leave behind. That would be a bad death as it is called. Deaths in Alston are what are known as good deaths."
Dr John Howarth saying he understood the unique nature of Alston's situation and is working to help find a better alternative: "We have been trying to actually work with the community and others to find alternative proposals in Alston, Maryport and Wigton to try and find alternative solutions.
"We are trying to look at better way forwards really quite sustainable and exciting futures on the Alston Moor by looking at the community hospital beds with the extra residential care home beds and home care and trying to find out how we can have a much more integrated facility that still has beds for things like palliative care and end of life we are more likely to find a long term sustainable future. "
Claire Molloy added: "What we want to do is create an alternative service that does support people at the end of life in their own home or in some sort of bed in that local community. Now that may not be exactly that community hospital bed that we have got at the moment but as John said we are working with the local community and local stakeholders to see if there is any alternative that we could do.
Kate Whitmarsh from Maryport Alliance explained why her community were very concerned about losing the beds in Maryport Hospital. She explained that as with Alston the hospital mainly looks after people who are end of life or who need extra support before going home after a stay in the main hospital.
"If the beds close, those people will most likely need to be looked after in Cockermouth so the main issue for people is transport. Maryport hospital is on the Ewanrigg estate in Maryport and 42% of households don't have any access to transport and if you want to get to Cockermouth hospital from Maryport at visiting times its a 4 hour round trip because you have to go via Workington."
Dr John Howarth who is working on an alternative plan with the local community said: "Transport is an issue in Maryport and in the work that we are doing together this is one of the issues we need to tackle. So to put it into context the community hospital had 252 admissions last year and we looked at how people move for care out of Maryport and last year there were 29572 journeys out of the town for care – most going to the local acute Trust so one of the big problems we have a massive movement for care. So the solutions we come up with need to address these."
Claire Molloy explained that changing to new ways of working and providing services would not happen overnight but would be part of a transition.
"I think there is something about building the confidence of the local community in these alternatives because I think people really value their community hospitals and in particular they get a fantastic service and our staff provide really good care in our community hospital and so whatever we develop we have to make sure that it is as good a standard as what people are getting at the moment."
The interview also talked about Integrated Care Communities – a term that is not well understood, Dr Niall McGreevy explained what they were: "The basis is closer working of those in health and social care and the third sector. We often work in the same community but don't work together very well, talk to each other and we frequently duplicate jobs and there are gaps that none of us look after. In ICCs we will be one team we will do things together and it will make things a lot more simple for patients. So it's a smarter way of working using the resources we have but using them in a different way.
Claire Molloy added that although people may not understand what they are they are actually working in Cumbria right now and we need to improve and expand them: "I think that difference in what we need to do now is to really scale it up and to do it in a consistent way across all patches."
The full hour interview is on the iPlayer here or choose the first hour of the Kevin Fernihough link for 23rd November.


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By Carlos A. Gutiérrez
The Dominican Republic has become the latest country to join the Latin American cinematic renaissance that has been fueling the region for over two decades now. Not only has the Caribbean nation broken all-time film production records—in 2017, a whopping 25 feature films were released in local theaters in a country with a population of 10.6 million—but over the past couple of years Dominican films have been selected for many of the most important international film festivals, including Locarno, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, and Tribeca. With all of this and without fanfare, a new generation of young Dominican filmmakers has emerged, breaking new cinematic ground on the island.
Dominican film production has increased largely thanks to the 2010 film law, which included aggressive tax incentives both for local and foreign productions, and was able to inject private funds into local cinema, boosting film production. In the course of five years, the Dominican Republic redoubled the total number of films made throughout its history: Between 2011 and 2015, 106 films were made, surpassing the 101 films that were made in the country between 1922 and 2010.
As has happened in many Latin American countries experiencing a boost in their film industry, the local mainstream cinema experienced a boom in low-brow comedies of little artistic relevance trying to lure audiences. And yet, similar to other countries in the region, a small group of independent directors has taken a different aesthetic and narrative turn to signal new possible directions for local filmmakers.
Spearheading this Dominican cinematic revolution is Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias with his milestone feature film Cocote. With diverse and eclectic influences—from the films of Brazilian director Glauber Rocha to the fiction of Chilean-born Roberto Bolaño—de los Santos Arias' rapturous crime fable premiered last year at the Locarno Film Festival, where it was awarded the prize for Best Film in the Signs of Life competition, arguably the highest honor ever received by a Dominican production.
An artistically ambitious and accomplished film, mixing film formats, colors, and aspect rations, Cocote follows Alberto, an evangelical Christian who works as a gardener and who suffers a religious and cultural clash as he returns home to attend his father's funeral. When Alberto finds out that a powerful local figure killed his father, he realizes that he's been summoned by his family to avenge the murder.
Following its Locarno win, the film played in numerous festivals, including New Directors/New Films, Toronto, San Sebastián, Rotterdam, Miami, and Mar del Plata, where it won the award for Best Latin American Film. Cocote was theatrically released last week in the U.K. to critical acclaim—"Accomplished, intense, disquieting" wrote The Guardian—and it opens this Friday, August 3, at the IFC Center in New York City.
CalArts graduate de los Santos Arias had already started making waves with his auspicious debut feature film Santa Teresa and Other Stories / Santa Teresa y otras historias, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best First Film. In his experimental non-fictional film, the Dominican filmmaker extrapolated from Chilean author Roberto Bolaño's unfinished, posthumously published novel 2666 to explore a multiplicity of perspectives and voices in the fictional Mexican town of Santa Teresa riven by bloodshed, a stand-in for Ciudad Juárez. The film had its world premiere at FIDMarseille and went to play in numerous film festivals including Toronto, New York and Mar del Plata.
The pioneers of the Dominican indie scene are the directorial duo Laura Amelia Guzmán and Mexican-born Israel Cárdenas. Their second feature film, Jean Gentil (2012), opened the door for a different type of cinema, marking a big contrast to the silly comedies that had become a staple of the booming mainstream Dominican cinema. Mixing fiction and non-fiction techniques, Jean Gentil follows a Haitian man who recently lost his job as a French teacher and begins a desperate search for work in Santo Domingo.
Guzmán and Cardenas found international acclaim with their 2014 release Sand Dollars, starring Geraldine Chaplin as an older European woman who becomes captivated with Noelí, a young Dominican woman struggling to make ends meet, with whom she establishes a romantic relationship. A New York Times critics' pick, the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and participated as an official selection at several prestigious international film festivals, including Miami, Palm Springs, Rome, and Cairo, receiving numerous awards, including for best actress at the Chicago and Havana film festivals.
In 2017, Guzmán and Cárdenas premiered the boxing drama Sambá (from the English 'sand bag') at the Tribeca Film Festival, about Cisco, a man who returns to the Dominican Republic after 15 years in an American jail. Facing family problems, he turns to illegal street fighting to earn easy cash, and is discovered by an Italian ex-boxer.
Last year, the directorial duo also premiered their experimental documentary Noelí Overseas / Noelí en los países at the Visions du Reel film festival in Switzerland, a portrait of Yanet Monica, the young actress who played the role of Noelí in Sand Dollars, as she travels in Europe for the first time. Guzmán and Cárdenas are currently shooting their most recent production, Beauty Kingdom / Reinado de belleza.
Another of the most visible Dominican films in the 2017 film festival circuit was Woodpeckers / Carpinteros by José María Cabral. The film had its world premiere in the official World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, and enjoyed a successful film festival run. Starring Jean Jean and Judith Rodríguez Pérez, the film follows a man who is sent to prison for petty theft and finds love with a female inmate in an adjacent penitentiary, but the two must communicate in secret using sign language.
More recently—just few weeks ago—the directorial duo Natalia Cabral and Spanish-born Oriol Estrada had a successful world premiere of their fiction debut feature, Miriam Lies, in the official competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film, an understated coming-of-age drama of racial politics, follows the adolescent Miriam, who meets her internet boyfriend. While her family and friends prepare a traditional fifteen birthday party for her, Miriam doesn't know how to explain to them that her boyfriend is black.
Cabral and Estrada had already shown their talent with their documentary films You and Me / Tú y yo (2014) and El sitio de los sitios / Site of Sites (2016), which was screened at the Neighboring Scenes festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York and was included in Cinema Tropical's list of best of the year films.
Other noteworthy Dominican films and filmmakers are the social drama El hombre que cuida / The Watchman, the debut feature film by Alejandro Andújar—winner of the Yellow Robin Award at the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018—about a watchman in a luxury seaside villa whose life gets disrupted by the arrival of the owner's son for a wild weekend; the documentary film Jeffrey by Yanillys Pérez—winner of the Dropbox Discovery Award at the Toronto Film Festival—about a 12-year-old windshield washer who dreams of becoming a famous reggaeton singer; and the documentary featurette Caribbean Fantasy by Johanné Gómez Terrero, winner of the Best Short Film Documentary at the Havana Film Festival, about the secret love between a boatman and a married evangelical woman on the banks of Santo Domingo's Ozama River.
Carlos A. Gutiérrez is co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical.


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When Olympia was founded in 1848 it was still part of the vast Oregon Territory. Edmund Sylvester, who had grown up working the impossibly rich fishing grounds off Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Levi Lathrop Smith, a Presbyterian divinity student, each claimed a 320-acre land grant from the Oregon Provisional Government around the southern shores of Puget Sound. The two struck a pact that should either die, the survivor would gain the whole of Smither, which they christened their property from a mingling of surnames. It did not take long for the morbid pact to play out as Smith suffered an epileptic seizure while piloting a canoe and drowned.
Sylvester laid out building lots and the United States Congress authorized a custom house in 1851 that was the first port of entry created on Puget Sound. When Colonel Isaac N. Ebey arrived to take the post of customs collector he persuaded Sylvester to change the town name to reflect the magnificent Olympic Mountains visible to the north. About the same time a new territory was cleaved off the Oregon Territory north of the Columbia River in March of 1853 and Olympia was proclaimed capital. Six years after Sylvester and Smith made their wilderness claims a Territorial legislature was convening on the land. Olympia was incorporated as a town in 1859 with a population of 1,489.
Over the years there were repeated efforts to haul the capital away from Budd Inlet and down to the Columbia River. Roads were bad and the railroad didn't reach town until the 1880s but the Territorial government remained anchored in Olympia. When another vote was taken to the move the capital upon statehood in 1889 Olympia prevailed with 37,413 ballots out of 41,416 cast.
Although oystering and logging and distribution all brought jobs to Olympia ithas been at heart a government town, serving as county seat for Thurston County as well as state capital. Much of the streetscape reflects that service, a panorama of shaded avenues and low-rise structures. That streetscape was permanently altered in 1949 when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake jolted the Puget Sound region. Almost all large buildings in Olympia suffered some damage and when repairs were made and structures shored up a great deal of early architectural personality was lost.
Out walking tour of the Washington capital will move from downtown out several blocks to Capitol Campus and we will begin on a still empty remnant of land from Edmund Sylvester's first sketch of his planned townsite...
Sylvester Park
bounded by Legion Way, Capitol Way, Seventh Avenue and Washington Street
This square was Block 16 of Olympia founder Edmund Sylvester's original plat of the town in 1850. Sylvester donated the land for a public square with the condition it remain a park in the tradition of the New England town square he knew from his native Maine. When the county courthouse was constructed in 1893 the square was formally landscaped for the first time and named after Sylvester. There was a Victorian gazebo and a fish pond and an ornamental iron fence erected around the edges. The pond has been filled in, the fence removed and the gazebo razed and replaced but the statue of John Rankin Rogers has stood in the square since 1905. Rogers, another Maine ex-patriate, was a two-time Washington governor who died in office of pneumonia in 1901 at the age of 63. A Populist, Rogers championed the "Barefoot Schoolboy Act" that spread public education to rural Washington counties with state support.
Old County Courthouse/ Old State Capitol
600 SE Washington Street between Legion Way and Seventh Avenue
This grand Victorian pile was created in 1892 to serve as the fourth Thurston County Courthouse. Architect Willis Ritchie, an Ohioan who practiced in Spokane for some 40 years and designed several Washington county houses of justice, tapped the brawny Richardsonian Romanesque style then popular for important government buildings. Based on the works of influential Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson, hallmarks of the style include rough-cut stone, triangular gables, rounded turrets and powerful arches. Chuckanut sandstone from Whatcom County quarries was used to craft the courthouse. In 1901 it was purchased for $350,000 to serve as the second Washington State Capitol, and after a second wing was added, it performed that duty from 1905 until 1928. After the legislature moved out a crippling fire swept the building and the 1949 earthquake claimed several turrets and the centerpiece octagonal clocktower as victims. Another tremor rattled the building in 1965 leading to a state commission to determine its fate. The answer was a $9 million renovation that was completed in 1983 for the home of the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Olympia Carnegie Library
620 SE Franklin Street at northeast corner of Seventh Avenue
The first books were lent in Olympia in 1869 from a reading room operated by Good Templars Lodge. In 1896 the Women's Club of Olympia began taking donations for a library service. About that time Scottish-born industrialist Andrew Carnegie was selling his steel company for $400 million and becoming the world's richest man. He set out to give away all his money and one of his pet projects was public libraries. He funded over 2,500 of them around the world, including 44 in Washington, most of which were in communities that had no existing public library. The libraries were constructed between 1901 and 1916; 33 still stand with 14 still active. In 1909 the city offered to assume responsibility for the 900-volume Women's Club collection and maintain a public library. A Carnegie grant of $25,000 funded the creation of this compact Beaux Arts library building in 1914, fashioned of buff-colored brick and terra cotta. It served as the town library until 1978.
Reed Block
208 SE Legion Way at northeast corner of Washington Street
This corner commercial building is a souvenir of the 19th century but like most Victorian-age structures in Olympia was treated roughly by earthquakes in 1949 and 2001, costing the Reed Block its parapet and Romanesque-styled windows. Thomas Milburne Reed was born in Sharpsburg, Kentucky, on December 8, 1825, of Scotch-Irish parentage. Reed made his way to San Francisco in 1849 to chase gold but wound up peddling goods and studying law. In 1857 Wells, Fargo & Company sent Reed to Olympia where he settled in as a store-keeper and surveyor while handling his sales agent duties. Reed also immersed himself in local politics, becoming president of the Territorial Council. He bankrolled this commercial block that housed the post office and the presses of Daily Olympian in 1891 while serving as Washington's first state auditor. "Honest Tom Reed" passed away in 1905.
Old Hotel Olympian
116 SE Legion Way at northwest corner of Washington Street
City fathers in the early days of Olympia always harbored a nagging insecurity that the capital might be snatched away by a larger city. One of the things that was necessary to maintain the viability of Olympia was a first class hotel. Planning for just such a facility, the Hotel Olympian, began in 1916 but the doors did not open until July 16, 1920. The H.L. Stevens Company, a hotel construction specialist out of Chicago, executed a Georgian Revival composition that featured 155 rooms, half of which sported a private bathroom - the epitome of luxury at the time. So much political haggling took place in the Olympian's meeting rooms and elegant dining rooms that it was consider the "real" capitol when the Washington legislature was in residence across the street.
Martin Building
113 SE 5th Avenue at southwest corner of Washington Street
George Martin arrived in Olympia in 1889 and got into the plumbing supply business. With his son James, the Martins expanded their reach into hardware and building materials. James also helmed the Olympia Sand and Gravel Company. The Martins constructed this commercial block in 1920 on plans drawn by Joseph Herman Wohleb. Wohleb was born in Connecticut to German parents in 1887 and came to Oakland with his family in 1900. He studied at the University of California in Berkeley. Pursuing architecture in Olympia, Wohleb brought California design influences with him as he became the town's most prolific architect. The two-story structure faced in dark brick displays some hallmarks of Wohleb's work such as inset tile laid in geometric patterns and a fondness for glass blocks. This corner was home of Woodbury Doane's popular oyster house for many years. The captain began his trade in the 1870s pan-frying oysters on the Olympia waterfront but his tiny delicacies (the Olympia bivalve was so small it took 1,600 to create a gallon-pack) sold so well that he pulled up anchor and moved the restaurant downtown.
Jeffers Studio
500 SE Washington Street at southeast corner of 5th Avenue
Joseph Wohleb filled up this intersection over the years, beginning with this studio for Joseph Jeffers, the town's go-to photographer. Wohleb tapped the Mission Revival style for the 1913 building, drawing on his California sensibilities. Jeffers' family came to Olympia in 1881 and he worked in lumber mills as a young man. He developed a fascination for Kodak's early box cameras and in 1902 he struck out with his Kodak Brownie as a traveling photographer before returning to Olympia two years later to start a studio with his brother. Jeffers' images would form a photographic record of everyday life in the capital in the early 1900s until his death in 1924 from a fall in the Olympic Mountains during a photographic expedition.
Capitol Theater and Office Building
206 SE 5th Avenue at northeast corner of Washington Street
In 1909 E.A. Zabel purchased the Acme movie house that operated in this location presenting slides and live entertainment. The Acme would be the foundation for Zabel's entertainment empire in Olympia which grew to include such houses as the Lyric, Rex, Ray, and Strand theaters at one time or another. In 1924 Zabel and William Wilson sunk $180,000 into The Capitol, destined to become the town's grandest movie palace. Joseph Wohleb drew up the plans for the theater and the slightly less ornate office building attached. The architect dressed the Capitol in stucco with a classically inspired terra cotta cornice awash in sculpted scallop shells and rosettes. The theater could seat 900 and boasted such amenities as earphones for the hard of hearing, a glassed-in section for parents with small children and oversized seats for those challenged by the width of normal theater seats. The Smith pipe organ featured nine ranks of pipes for silent film accompaniment and live vaudeville acts and musical performances by such acts as Judy Garland. The building was damaged by a fire in 1937 and it emerged with a wholly new interior and a large neon marquee that became an Olympia landmark until it was removed in 2008. Ownership of the Capitol passed into the second generation of Zabels and has recently been purchased by the Olympia Film Society that has been the sole tenant since 1986. The Society has replaced the 1940s marquee with a replica of one the Capitol's original signs.
Columbia Building
210 SE 4th Avenue
Although the two storefronts have been compromised you can still look up and see Beaux Arts elements such as white terra cotta and the decorative cornice from the original 1914 building. It carries the name of its predecessor, the wooden frame Columbia Hall, that stood on this site from 1869 until it burned in 1914. Columbia Hall harbored both the Olympia town government and the fire department, whose pride and joy was a Columbia fire pumper. The moneymen for the commercial replacement were attorney P.M. Troy and banker Fred Stocking.
State Theater
204 E 4th Avenue at northeast corner of Washington Street
Born on the Greek island of Andros, Alexander Pantages spent his twenties digging the Panama Canal, boxing in San Francisco and prospecting for gold in the Yukon Territory. He began his career as a show business exhibitor in Dawson City, Yukon as a partner to saloon and brothel-keeper "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, operating a small, but highly successful vaudeville and burlesque theatre, the Orpheum. In 1902, at the age of 27, he was in Seattle opening the Crystal Theater and launching a chain of theaters across the West in Canada and the United States. His go-to architect was Benjamin Marcus Priteca, a Scot, who was barely 20 years old when he hooked up with Pantages in 1910. Priteca designed 22 theaters for Pantages and another 128 for other theater owners; this is one of his later designs, from 1949, in collaboration with Joseph Wohleb. The State traced a familiar storyline for downtown theaters in the battle with television and suburban malls - its original 1,000 seats were divided for three screens in the 1970s and then the movie house screened second-run films and finally dollar shows before shuttering in 1983. It was one of the fortunate ones, however, and rather than being reduced to rubble it received a million-dollar facelift in 1998 for the Harlequin Productions theater company.
Security Building
203 E 4th Avenue at southeast corner of Washington Street
Olympia's first "skyscraper" - five stories tall - joined the city streetscape in 1926. Since it was built on a part of Olympia that had once been tidal marshes about 300 60-foot long pilings were sunk for a foundation. This served the structure well when the city was rocked by earthquakes in 1949 and 2001. Architect Abraham Horace Albertson, a graduate of Columbia University and a veteran of the Spanish-American War, tapped the orderly Chicago Style for the design. Albertson was availed with some of the finest building materials seen in Olympia - the entry columns are formed from Mother-of-Pearl granite found only in a single quarry in British Columbia and inside are marbles imported from Europe and rich mahogany woodwork throughout. Albertson livened the building, which takes it name from the Security Bank that once anchored the ground level, with polychromatic terra cotta and fanciful decorations on the facade, including pineapples, griffins and roselies.
The Spar Café, 1935
114 SE 4th Avenue
Since the 1860s this lot has contained a saloon, a bowling alley, a pool hall and, beginning in1935, this Art Moderne-influenced building. For over 60 years, starting in 1945, the Spar was in the McWain family, evolving from a rough-and-tumble rooming house/bar into an Olympia institution. In its early days Olympia was known for its famous spring water with as many as 90 artesian wells in town; one located in the Spar's cellar could pump eleven gallons a minute for customers. Like others on this block, the Spar is outfitted with Carrera glass tiles.
Chambers Block
110 N Capitol Way at northeast corner of 4th Avenue
Andsworth H. Chambers was born near Olympia on June 25, 1851, seven years after his parents became some of the earliest homesteaders in the area. His work life began at the age of 12 and by 19 he was in business with his father, operating a meat packing operation. When he erected this eclectic commercial block in 1887 on the site of the original town pump, he was in his third term as Olympia mayor. Tacoma architect John G. Proctor provided an ornate design with projecting bays and soaring parapets. The 1949 earthquake claimed most of the decorative details although replacements attempt to capture the original form.
Olympic Block/Mottman Building
101 N Capitol Way at northwest corner of 4th Avenue
This commercial building was constructed in 1888 by Charles Williams and taken over in 1891 by Nathan G. Kaufman and Ferdinand Toklas for their mercantile store, southwest Washington's oldest, largest and finest. Toklas' 14-year old daughter would eventually settle in Paris, France and gain fame as the partner of poet Gertrude Stein for almost 40 years. Toklas and Kaufman would sell out to employee George A. Mottman, a future four-term mayor who is most associated with the building. Mottman added a third floor to the block in 1911 and installed the town's first elevator. Mottman's Mercantile remained open until 1967, all the while heeding to 19th-century ways of doing business with wire baskets on a pulley system carrying orders to the sales desks. The store became a tourist stop of sorts for nostalgia buffs as it was heralded as the last store of its kind in the United States. Thanks to damage during a 1949 earthquake and multiple renovations today's rectangular building looks little like the Romanesque-flavored original.
Capital National Bank
402 S Capitol Way at southeast corner of 4th Avenue
Clarence J. Lord, a native New Yorker, left his father's livestock importing business in 1890 when he was 25 years old to come to Olympia and open a bank. Despite the nationwide Panic of 1893 Lord prospered and by 1900 had sold his majority interest in Capital National Bank and headed for the richer grounds of Seattle. But he was shortly back in Olympia, re-acquiring control of the bank he founded and even getting elected as mayor in 1902. Lord commissioned the building of this stately bank headquarters in 1922. Architect Joseph Wohleb drew up a restrained Beaux Arts plan executed in Wilkeson sandstone from quarries fifty miles to the east. The next year Wohleb would design a grand Spanish Colonial villa for C.J. Lord that now does duty as the State Capital Museum. Lord was the dominant financial figure in Olympia during the first third of the 20th century until his death in 1937.
Olympia National Bank
422 S Capitol Way at northeast corner of 5th Avenue
This Neoclassical vault was raised in 1915 for the Olympia National Bank that had been organized back in 1899. Its creation moved the local press to gush, "One cannot gaze upon the solid, artistic white tile without a feeling that here is beauty, strength, and progressiveness. The building is a classic, both in point of exterior appearance and interior finish and arrangement." Louis and Michael Beezer, twin brothers who began their architectural practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before coming west in 1907 to work a quarter-century in Seattle, drew up plans for the Beaux Arts confection that was built upon a base of high-quality native Wilkeson sandstone.
Walker Building
500 S Capitol Way at southeast corner of 5th Avenue
J.E. Walker, an accountant, hired his business associate Joseph Wohleb to design this commercial block for him in 1916. Like many of downtown Olympia's properties it featured offices on the second floor and retail space below. Large plate glass windows were just coming into vogue at the time of their installation here.
Elks Building
609 S Capitol Way at southwest corner of Legion Way
The Benevolent Protective Order of Elks were founded in New York City in 1868 in the theater district. At first they referred to themselves as the Jolly Corks. The Olympia Lodge, BPOE #186, organized in 1891 with mostly state officials on the membership roster. In the late 1890s a change in party power and defections to the gold fields of the Yukon left the lodge so depleted it surrendered its charter. The Elks retained their number, however, confident of better days to come, which arrived on June 20, 1903. This four-story red-brick lodge was raised in 1919, created by Elks member Joseph Wohleb. It served the fraternal organization until 1958 and thirty years later received a makeover for housing and retail space, including a restoration of the glass pergola at the entrance.
North Coast Lines Depot,
107 SE 7th Avenue at southeast corner of Capitol Way
This small splash of Art Moderne on the Olympia streetscape was crafted in 1937 for the North Coast Lines, a bus operation started by the Puget Sound Power and Light Company in 1922 to augment is electric rail service. In 1949 North Coast became part of the Greyhound conglomerate. There have been makeovers to the building in 1942 and 1960 but it retains the sleek streamlined chrome canopy with sensuous curving corners.
Federal Building/Dolliver Building
801 S Capitol Way
Olympia's grandest hotel in the 1800s stood here until it burned in 1904. A decade later this Neoclassical structure rose in its place as Olympia's first dedicated post office building. Economical terra cotta was originally slated to be used in construction but it was replaced by Tenino sandstone and Alaska marble bringing the price tag to $120,227.00. James Doherty took his place as the first postmaster in the new building on opening day January 6, 1915. Over the years it served the U.S. Forest Service and myriad other federal agencies. Although most of its early 20th century contemporaries between Capitol Campus and downtown Olympia have been razed, the Federal Building stands as a vestige of an earlier time; in 1998 it took the name of James Dolliver who served for 22 years on the Washington Supreme Court.
Gibbons Rooming House
1017 S Capitol Way
This beefy Craftsman-style house with 18 rooms was constructed in 1918 by E.B. Crews for his daughter Jesse Crews Gibbons. She operated a boarding house here with a parade of Supreme Court justices and legislators as tenants until she closed the business in 1962. The building has since been fitted out as apartments; the pioneering Olympia businesswoman died in 1972.
Capitol Conservatory
Water Street and Cherry Lane
Using Depression-era stimulus funds this greenhouse was constructed in 1939; it is another Joseph Wohleb design. The Conservatory provided bedding plants for the roster of Capitol Campus gardens, including a sunken garden across the street. Hundreds of varieties of tropical and desert plants were cared for here as well as native specimens used to populate the 54-acre capitol grounds. Its most famous resident was a Christmas cactus carried to Washington on the lap of a pioneer woman. The Conservatory, which in its heyday sheltered 500 varieties of plants and produced 70,000 flowers, was closed in 2008 and faces an uncertain future.
State Capitol/Legislative Building
416 Syd Snyder Avenue at northwest corner of Cherry Lane
In 1893, four years after achieving statehood, Washington announced a nationwide design contest for its State Capitol building, allowing for a budget not to exceed $1 million. From almost 200 entries, New York architect Ernest Flagg's plan was selected. Excavation was begun and a foundation laid but an economic recession halted construction. After moving into the old Thurston County Courthouse the plans for a Capitol Building were again kickstarted in 1909. Flagg was called back as a consultant and this time he recommended a group of buildings rather than an all-inclusive Capitol Building, the first such plan in the United States. Another design contest yielded Walter Robb Wilder and Harry Keith White of New York who proposed a grouping of six structures that would play off views of Puget Sound and the Olympia Mountains, The centerpiece was the Legislative Building that was dominated by a 287-foot high dome, the tallest self-supporting masonry dome in the country. It is flanked by four smaller sandstone domes; inside the floors and walls are sculpted with marbles from Alaska and across Europe. Count the steps on the north entrance leading through the Corinthian portico - there should be 42, symbolic of Washington's admittance to the Union as the 42nd state.
Temple of Justice
415 12th Avenue SW at southwest corner of Cherry Lane
The Temple of Justice was the first of Wilder & White's designs to come online, completed in 1920 as the home of the State Supreme Court and the State Law Library. The 15-foot high entrance doors are made from cast bronze; sandstone from the high-quality quarries of Wilkeson, Washington was used on the exterior. Its construction brought an end to the peripatetic wanderings of the court that began in Tacoma Hall in Tacoma in 1890. It then convened in Talcott's Variety Store and Olympia's commercial Kneeland Building.
Governors Mansion
Governor's Mansion Road
You can glimpse at least the upper half of the gated and lushly landscaped Washington Governor's Mansion. The 19-room executive house was crafted in a Georgian Revival style in 1908 by Everett Phipps Babcock and and Ambrose J. Russell of Tacoma. Although it was planned to be a temporary structure the mansion has survived several recalls and has been the home of every Washington governor for more than 100 years. Governor Albert E. Mead helped lay the cornerstone but was voted out of office before its completion and successor Samuel G. Cosgrove served only one day before falling ill and being whisked away to a spa in California where he died five weeks later. So the first governor to move into the mansion was Marion E. Hay whose wife Elizabeth went on a $15,000 shopping spree to fill the $35,000 home with furniture, much of which is still in use.
John Cherberg/John O'Brien Buildings
304/504 Sid Snyder Avenue SW
These state office buildings were the last of the Wilder & White buildings to be constructed to complete the original plans for the Capitol Campus, in 1937 and 1940, respectively. The Senate Office Building is named for John Cherberg, a one-time University of Washington football coach who won eight-consecutive terms as Lieutenant Governor beginning in 1957 and served in the post for 32 years. The House Office Building now carries the name of John Lawrence O'Brien who served 26 terms in the legislature from 1939 until 1993, through the administrations of nine governors. O'Brien served on every major House committee and assumed every post in the House, including Speaker.
Insurance Building
302 Sid Snyder Avenue SW at northeast corner of Cherry Lane
There were supposed to be two matching office temples but the Insurance Building is the only one that was built, in 1921 (the other was to be raised on the opposite side of the Legislative Building, on the site of the Governor's mansion - th efirst time the house staved off demoltion). Behind the stately Doric facade and other classical trappings of the Insurance Buidling are modern office suites. Like most stately Olympia structures it is finished in Wilkeson sandstone.
Winged Victory Monument
western terminus of the South Diagonal and the North Diagonal
The grounds of the Capitol Campus were laid out by the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, inheritors of the landscape design business of their father, Frederick Law Olmsted who is considered the Father of American Landscape Architecture. The Winged Victory Monument was first conceived as a remembrance to World War soldiers in 1919 but dedication did not take place until Memorial Day 1938. Alonzo Victor Lewis sculpted a bronze monument group including a sailor, soldier, marine and Red cross nurse protected by a 12-foot figure of Nike, the goddess of victory at war. Lewis, a Utah native, was honored as Washington Sculptor Laureate by the State Legislature shortly after the unveiling.
Tivoli Fountain
between North and South Diagonals
The original terraced Italian fountain upon which this hydrospectacular is based was created in the 1500s in the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, a village outside of Rome. It has since inspired many replicas, most notably a design by Danish architect Fritz Meyer in Copenhagen. It was that fountain that Peter Schmidt, president of the charitable Olympia-Tumwater Foundation stemming from the locally famous brewery, was smitten by during a European trip in 1949. He was so convinced that a similar fountain belonged on the Washington State capitol grounds that he began purchasing essential components for the fountain before even returning home. In 1953 the 50-foot fountain became a reality with 540 jets surrounding a 25-foot spout. Today the fountain is shut down between April 1 and October 30th each year, resting through the winter.
Thurston County Courthouse/Capitol Court Building
1100 S Capitol Way at southeast corner of 11th Avenue
Joseph Henry Wohleb plied his architectural trade for nearly 50 years until his death in 1958, contributing over 150 buildings to the Washington landscape. In the 1920s he eagerly embraced the stripped-down classicism of the Art Deco style that was adopted by the government for many of its buildings. This gray sandstone edifice of Wohleb's from 1930 is a prime example of the form which featured poured concrete walls with metal frame windows. It was originally constructed as the courthouse for Thurston County, which stayed until the late 1950s.
Kearney House/YWCA
220 East Union Street at northwest corner of Franklin Street
The YWCA of Olympia organized in 1945 with a founding meeting of ten women looking towards the needs of thousands of service wives in the area. Three years later the YWCA purchased this commodious residence with a Tuscan porch and oversized roof brackets as a clubhouse. It was constructed in 1907 by J.F. Kearney, a grocer.
Abigail Stuart House/Women's Club of Olympia
1002 Washington Street SE at southeast corner of 10th Avenue
Abigail Howard Hunt Stuart, a college-educated Boston native, was campaigning for women's suffrage in Olympia as early as 1871. The Territorial legislature actually granted women the vote in 1883 but the law was struck down by the Supreme Court. In 1883 a group of nine women, including Mrs. Stuart, organized the Woman's (now "Women's") Club of Olympia focusing at first on social and literary and travel subjects rather than politicized issues. The club used the Stuarts' downtown commercial building as meeting grounds before purchasing a clubhouse that would burn down several years later. This handsome clubhouse was constructed in 1908 and named in honor of Abigail Stuart who passed away in 1902. Could members from 100 years ago come for meetings today they would recognize their original clubhouse that has changed little through its century of use.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Exchange
119 NE 7th Avenue at southwest corner of Washington Street
Carl Freylinghausen Gould was one of Washington's most prolific architects and founder of the University of Washington's Department of Architecture. New York-born and Harvard-educated, Gould brought a classical training from the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France with him to Seattle in 1908 when he was 35 years old. Gould designed several buildings for the phone company which favored the Art Deco craze in the 1930s, of which this brick structure is representative. Since 1997 it has done duty as residential apartments.


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