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[MauiTime first broke the story of the sale of Alexander & Baldwin's old sugarcane lands in November 2018. Our ongoing Changing Maui: Mahi Pono series investigates the new owners of these massive land holdings and the changes they will bring to Maui. It is part of Changing Maui, a larger series on the changes facing Maui County. Click here to view our coverage.]
Despite vigorous opposition by public interest groups, HB1326 – the bill they've nicknamed the "Corporate Water Theft Bill" – effortlessly passed another interim vote at the State Legislature last week, with only four "no" votes. Does this sound familiar? It should.
Back in 2016, opponents fought the passage of the very similar HB2501 – pretty much written and produced by Alexander & Baldwin, which for years had been diverting water from East Maui watershed for its sugarcane fields. In the process, streams were emptied, and the ecosystem ruined. HB2501 would have given A&B a hall pass, allowing the company to hold endless temporary "revocable" permits so it could continue to divert millions of gallons of water each day from the suffering East Maui streams. Permanent water leases would be considered when A&B submitted an environmental impact study. Although opposition groups couldn't kill HB2501, their amendment efforts limited the temporary permit extension to only three years, setting a 2019 termination date.
From 2016 to 2018, A&B splashed around, un-diverted a few of the streams, and dithered on its environmental impact study of the East Maui irrigation situation. A&B further infuriated East Maui residents and other water conservationists when it stopped sugarcane production altogether, but still wanted water for "future diversified agriculture use." Then, last December, A&B simply walked away from its water rights obligations when it sold 41,000 acres of cropland and 15,000 acres of watershed containing the East Maui Irrigation (EMI) system to newcomer Mahi Pono for $262 million.
Mahi Pono, which means "to grow or cultivate properly" apparently wasn't thinking much about that carefully-crafted name when it came to getting East Maui water. Senior Vice President of Operations Shan Tsutsui went to work on day one of the legislature to ensure that this relatively un-pono status quo on temporary water permits continued. So even though MP hasn't announced any kind of crop plans or water needs, it still wants every drop of water formerly guzzled by A&B, despite the continuing negative impact on East Maui watershed.
Out of those lobbying efforts HB1326 was born, supported by Upcountry Rep. Kyle Yamashita (the companion Senate bill was introduced by Central Maui's Gil Keith-Agaran). The new bill, much like the original version of HB2501, offers temporary water permits with no time limits or other restrictions until a new lease agreement is reached. How unpopular is this bill among progressives? Even Mahi Pono's newly-appointed Community Relations Director Tiare Lawrence acknowledged, "I don't support the language in this bill as written," when asked during a recent MauiTime interview.
In response, Rep. Lynn DeCoite, in support of her frustrated East Maui constituents, introduced HB1573, which would ban any commercial water diversions. It existed for about a minute before dying. In the middle was HB848, introduced by South Maui Rep. Tina Wildberger, which actually established some conditions for future water diversion and was generally considered to be a solid compromise bill. It, too, was snuffed in committee.
That left HB1326, which had its first hearing on February 8 before the House Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs. More than 600 people and groups submitted testimony (243 pages in all), much of it urging lawmakers to kill the bill. Opponents included the Sierra Club, the Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Earthjustice, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Hawai'i Alliance for Progressive Action and many other individuals. Their argument was simple: No more corporate water concessions.
Sierra Club of Hawai'i Director Marti Townsend said the bill "favors wealthy corporations… by taking more than their fair share of water with no oversight and no accountability." Yet, those favoring HB1326, notably the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the state Department of Agriculture, testified that more time was needed to complete long-term water leases (the bill affects water leases on other islands as well). Mahi Pono also submitted a supporting statement. "All of Mahi Pono's farm plans are contingent on… the ability to use waters in East Maui as the source of needed irrigation water for our planned crops," it stated, adding, "We are stewards of the land and water and take that responsibility very seriously… With the water, we will use only what we need."
At committee member Wildberger's request, Shan Tsutsui appeared at the hearing, where she asked him about her compromise bill, HB848. "I asked if he would be amenable to a modicum of stream restoration," Wildberger told me last week. "I asked him directly twice and he evaded the question and kept saying that he hadn't looked at the bill." [Really? The bill is about five double-spaced paragraphs long and has been sitting on the legislature's website since January 24.]
I wrote to Tsutsui, who has liberally shared his email address during meetings and promised to answer any questions. I asked if he had now read HB848 and whether he might support adding some language from that bill to HB1326. He did not respond.
The bill was passed by the House committee (Wildberger was the only "no" vote) with an amendment. Instead of unlimited time to continue the revocable permits, there is now a new deadline of seven years. That version passed a second reading on the House floor on Friday. Among the four "no" votes: Wildberger and West Maui Rep. Angus McKelvey. Rep. DeCoite would have voted against HB1326 as well, but was ill and at home, a staffer said.
I spoke to Wildberger hours before the vote, where she planned to speak on the floor, asking her colleagues "not to abdicate their kuleana to represent all interests." Said Wildberger, "There's no reason why a modicum of stream restoration could not have occurred. Over the last two years, they've had holdover permits because they were mandated by court proceedings. But it's an awful lot of water they're dumping and diverting. It's unconscionable. I'm not saying that Mahi Pono shouldn't have water. They need water. We want them to do diversified ag and keep these important lands in agriculture. But it sure seems like somewhere in the middle there's some room for some stream restoration for East Maui kalo farmers and residents who have stream beds on their properties."
The bill's next stop is the powerful Finance Committee (Wildberger and Yamashita are both members) where opponents plan further testimony. Still, HB1326's passage seems almost assured. As one legislative insider put it, "Leadership supports this bill."
Why such support? The answer rests more with A&B and its needs, than any political pull exerted by Mahi Pono.
That's due to a little paragraph in the hefty Mahi Pono-A&B purchase agreement relating to EMI, which accounts for just $5,442.333.47 of the $262-million sale.
Mahi Pono is making the EMI payments to A&B in two installments. The first $2,721,166.74 was paid on February 1. The balance goes to A&B after "certain events" occur in the future. One of those "certain events" is that EMI receives "long-term" state water leases. If that doesn't happen, then A&B must rebate up to $62 million of the purchase price to Mahi Pono. That explains the push to make sure that EMI has water leases – even temporary ones – immediately.
With that potential windfall, why wouldn't Mahi Pono just sit on the sidelines, silently root for HB1326 to fail, collect its rebate and then lobby for a new deal? Well, there's more fine print. This time, the legalese boils down to this: If Mahi Pono doesn't help to get those state leases (in this case, via HB1326), it won't be entitled to any rebate at all. That's probably why Tsutsui has been a constant presence at the legislature as the bill moves forward.
These sales agreement conditions may also explain why many opposition group members told me that, even if this unpalatable version of HB1326 passes, they are hopeful that with A&B finally out of the picture, Mahi Pono will ultimately work with the community to craft a new water arrangement that is more favorable to all.
Given the importance of water to Maui's future, it would be nice if there were something more tangible to rely upon than just hope.
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Childhood maltreatment predicts adult inflammation in a life-course study
Communicated by Burton H. Singer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 30, 2006 (received for review September 20, 2006)
Stress in early life has been associated with insufficient glucocorticoid signaling in adulthood, possibly affecting inflammation processes. Childhood maltreatment has been linked to increased risk of adult disease with potential inflammatory origin. However, the impact of early life stress on adult inflammation is not known in humans. We tested the life-course association between childhood maltreatment and adult inflammation in a birth cohort followed to age 32 years as part of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. Regression models were used to estimate the effect of maltreatment on inflammation, adjusting for co-occurring risk factors and potential mediating variables. Maltreated children showed a significant and graded increase in the risk for clinically relevant C-reactive protein levels 20 years later, in adulthood [risk ratio (RR) = 1.80, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.26–2.58]. The effect of childhood maltreatment on adult inflammation was independent of the influence of co-occurring early life risks (RR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.08–2.31), stress in adulthood (RR = 1.64, 95% CI = 1.12–2.39), and adult health and health behavior (RR = 1.76, 95% CI = 1.23–2.51). More than 10% of cases of low-grade inflammation in the population, as indexed by high C-reactive protein, may be attributable to childhood maltreatment. The association between maltreatment and adult inflammation also generalizes to fibrinogen and white blood cell count. Childhood maltreatment is a previously undescribed, independent, and preventable risk factor for inflammation in adulthood. Inflammation may be an important developmental mediator linking adverse experiences in early life to poor adult health.
Inflammation is an integral part of the stress response (1–3). In the context of the "fight or flight" reaction, acute psychosocial stress can induce activation of the transcription nuclear factor κB and secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, presumably by adrenergic stimulation (4, 5). These are chief stimulators of acute-phase proteins, such as C-reactive protein, which promote resistance to infection and repair of damaged tissues. Through the production of proinflammatory cytokines, immune activation progressively stimulates the secretion of glucocorticoids, and glucocorticoid signaling, in turn, terminates the inflammatory response once the threat fades (1).
Early life adverse experiences may disrupt the potentially adaptive response to stress. Animal models suggest that maternal care exerts a critical influence on the development of the stress response (6) and may alter the long-term predisposition to inflammation (7). In humans, adults who reported experiences of childhood maltreatment showed a reduced ability of glucocorticoid signaling to control the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to a psychosocial stress test (8). Given the inhibitory influence of glucocorticoids on inflammation, this finding suggests that maltreated children also might show increased levels of inflammation in adulthood.
Also, adults who were abused as children have been shown to be at increased risk of disease with potential inflammatory origin (9, 10). However, the impact of early life stress on inflammation has not been investigated in humans to date. The persistent activation of inflammatory pathways could be one of the mechanisms through which early life adverse experiences alter long-term health outcomes.
Our first aim was to test the hypothesis that maltreated children are characterized by an increased risk of clinically relevant high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels in adulthood. We chose hsCRP because it is thought to be one of the most reliable indicators of inflammation and recently has been endorsed as an adjunct to traditional risk factor screening for cardiovascular disease by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association (11).
Our second aim was to test whether childhood maltreatment was an independent risk factor for adult inflammation. We tested three alternative explanations for this life-course association. According to the "co-occurring risk hypothesis," maltreated children may experience other early life risks (12) that could be responsible for inflammation in adulthood. We measured three potential early life risks, low birth weight (13), socioeconomic disadvantage (14), and low intelligence quotient (IQ) (15), and tested whether maltreatment still predicted adult inflammation after controlling for co-occurring risks. According to the "adult stress hypothesis," maltreated children grow up to be exposed to more stress (12). We measured three indicators of stress that have been linked to inflammation, low status attainment (16), depression (17), and perceived stress (18), and tested whether childhood maltreatment is related to adult inflammation because maltreated children experience more stressful lives when they grow up. According to the "health-behavior hypothesis," maltreated children may engage in more health-damaging behaviors and show poorer health in adulthood, factors that have been independently associated with inflammation (19, 20). We measured indicators of the metabolic syndrome, smoking, physical activity, and diet, and tested whether the association between childhood maltreatment and adult inflammation is accounted for by these factors. If childhood maltreatment is an independent risk factor, its association with adult inflammation should still be significant after controlling for these confounding effects.
Our third aim was to extend this inquiry to fibrinogen and white blood cells (WBCs), two other common markers of inflammation that also show significant association with cardiovascular disease (21). We tested whether the association between childhood maltreatment and adult inflammation was specific to hsCRP or more generally predicted the clustering of inflammation factors in the same individuals.
Table 1 shows the biomarkers of adult inflammation as well as the risk factors associated with childhood maltreatment. The regression analysis in Table 2 (baseline model) shows that children in the definite maltreatment group were 1.80 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.26–2.58] times and children in the probable maltreatment group were 1.18 (95% CI = 0.87–1.60) times more likely to have elevated hsCRP in adulthood compared with nonmaltreated children. Analyses restricted to the sample of participants free from drugs with substantial effect on hsCRP, namely statins and estrogens, yielded overlapping results: Children in the definite maltreatment group were 1.86 (95% CI = 1.23–2.81) times more likely to have elevated hsCRP in adulthood compared with nonmaltreated children. We also sought to ensure that the association between maltreatment and inflammation was not simply a function of individuals having extreme hsCRP values. We excluded all individuals with hsCRP >10 mg/liter (11) and observed that children with a history of maltreatment were still 1.59 (95% CI = 1.02–2.50) times more likely to have elevated hsCRP in adulthood compared with nonmaltreated children.
Consistent with the co-occurring risk hypothesis, maltreated children were significantly more likely than nonmaltreated children to experience co-occurring early life risks (Table 1). Although early life risks were independently associated with adult inflammation (Table 2, baseline model), even after controlling for these risks the association between maltreatment and elevated adult hsCRP remained significant, risk ratio (RR) = 1.58 (95% CI = 1.08–2.31) (Table 2, model 1).
Consistent with the adult stress hypothesis, maltreated children also were significantly more likely than nonmaltreated children to experience adult stress (Table 1). However, even after controlling for these indicators of stress, the association between childhood maltreatment and elevated adult hsCRP remained significant, RR = 1.64 (95% CI = 1.12–2.39) (Table 2, model 2).
Finally, consistent with the health-behavior hypothesis, maltreated children were more likely than nonmaltreated children to be in poor health and to engage in health-damaging behaviors (Table 1). After controlling for these factors, the association between childhood maltreatment and elevated adult hsCRP still remained significant, RR = 1.76 (95% CI = 1.23–2.51) (Table 2, model 3).
Even after controlling for all co-occurring childhood and adult risk factors simultaneously, the association between childhood maltreatment and elevated adult hsCRP remained significant, RR = 1.61 (95% CI = 1.12–2.32) (Table 2, model 4).
Under the assumptions of causality and independence, we estimated that 11.2% of the cases of high hsCRP in the general population were attributable to childhood maltreatment.
The significant dose–response association between childhood maltreatment and inflammation generalized to continuous measures of (logged) hsCRP, fibrinogen, WBCs, and the composite factor score of inflammation [Table 1, Fig. 1, and supporting information (SI) Tables 3–5].
This longitudinal-prospective study links exposure to childhood maltreatment in the first decade of life to specific, clinically significant biomarkers of inflammation in adulthood. In light of the role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic lung disease (22–24), and of the increased risk for such disease in adults maltreated as children (9, 10), we suggest that inflammation may be an important mechanism mediating the adverse effect of early life stress on adult health.
Current evidence suggests the possibility of stress response programming by early life adverse experiences. Experimental research suggests that early life stress can induce a persistent condition of insufficient glucocorticoid signaling (6, 8). In animals, epigenetic programming seems to be responsible for the effects of early life stress on later stress reactivity, by inducing persistent, although reversible, reduction in glucocorticoid receptor gene expression (6). Insufficient glucocorticoid signaling, in turn, might lead to an unrestrained inflammatory state in adults maltreated as children, hampering the extinction of otherwise adaptive responses to stress (1, 2). Similarly, early life stressful experiences might reduce inhibitory cholinergic neurotransmission (25), favoring inflammation persistence (26).
The experimental design needed to directly test causation in humans, namely randomly assigning children to maltreatment, is not ethical. Findings from this longitudinal child-to-adult study therefore provide crucial data and appear to meet several criteria suggestive of a causal association between childhood maltreatment and adult inflammation (27). First, maltreatment preceded the outcome. Second, there was evidence of a dose–response relation between severity of maltreatment and inflammation. Third, the association between maltreatment and inflammation appeared to be independent of a wide range of correlated risk factors, including (i) other early life risk factors for poor adult health, (ii) stress in adulthood, and (iii) adult health factors and health-damaging behaviors. Fourth, the evidence was biologically plausible and consistent with emerging experimental data suggesting that maltreatment may have tangible neurobiological effects, ultimately influencing glucocorticoid signaling (8). Nevertheless, it is possible that residual confounding may account for the long-term association reported here.
If causal, the effect of childhood maltreatment on adult inflammation may have significant public-health implications. First, childhood maltreatment is a novel target for the prevention of inflammation and inflammation-related disease, with the potential to reduce by > 10% the cases of low-grade inflammation in the general population. Second, childhood maltreatment is a preventable and potentially treatable childhood risk factor for poor adult health. Although, for example, improvements in socioeconomic condition and in IQ remain a largely unmet target, effective preventive strategies exist for maltreatment (28). Therapeutic interventions including psychological and pharmacological treatment also might reverse the long-lasting effects of maltreatment (29, 30). Third, childhood maltreatment is a pleiotropic risk factor influencing multiple pathophysiological pathways and outcomes [e.g., psychiatric disorders (31), health behaviors (19), and crime (12)]. The eradication of maltreatment therefore is likely to relieve a public-health burden far bigger than the one related to inflammation alone.
These new findings should be evaluated alongside several limitations. Because we studied a cohort of children born in the early 1970s, we are not yet able to assess clinical endpoints, such as cardiovascular disease, because the study members still are too young. Instead, we focused on intermediate risk factors, such as high hsCRP, that are known to predict future disease in midlife and old age (22–24). Moreover, findings from this New Zealand cohort require replication in other parts of the world. However, given the consistency of our findings regarding other correlates of adult inflammation [e.g., low birth weight (13), low childhood socioeconomic status (SES) (14), and depression (17)] with evidence reported from different population-based studies worldwide, there is reason to believe that our results may be replicated in other settings. Similarly, we do not know whether these findings generalize to all ethnic groups.
Life-course epidemiology adds a temporal perspective to the conventional understanding of health and disease. Findings from the present study, along with evidence emerging from other life-course investigations, suggest that health is not a state but a lifetime achievement. A better understanding of developmental processes and of the mechanisms by which psychosocial experiences "get under the skin" and leave enduring health signatures is needed to unravel complex disease pathophysiology (32, 33).
Participants are members of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a longitudinal investigation of health and behavior in a complete birth cohort. Study members (n = 1,037; 91% of eligible births; 52% male) were born between April 1972 and March 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and participated in the first follow-up assessment at age 3. The cohort represents the full range of SES in the general population of New Zealand's South Island and is primarily white. Assessments have been carried out at ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, and 32. Data are collected at the Study Research Unit during a full day of individual data collection.
This investigation is based on participants who completed the age 32 assessment (n = 972; 96% of the 1,015 study members still alive in 2004–2005).
Study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the participating universities. Study members gave informed consent before participating.
Measure of Childhood Maltreatment.
As described in ref. 31, evidence of childhood maltreatment during the first decade of life (ages 3–11) was ascertained by using behavioral observations, parental reports, and retrospective reports by study members once they reached adulthood. First, exposure to maternal rejection (reported for 14% of study participants) was assessed at age 3 by observational ratings of mothers' interaction with the study children. Second, exposure to harsh discipline was assessed at ages 7 and 9 according to parental reports of disciplinary behaviors. Parents scoring in the top decile of the samplewide distribution were classified as unusually harsh. Third, exposure to disruptive caregiver changes was assessed through age 11 and defined by two or more changes of the child's primary caregiver (6% of participants). Fourth, exposure to physical abuse (4% of participants) was assessed retrospectively at age 26 on the basis of reports of multiple episodes of severe physical punishment resulting in lasting bruising or injury through age 11. Fifth, exposure to sexual abuse (12% of participants) was assessed retrospectively at age 26 on the basis of reports of unwanted sexual contact before age 11. Given that the effect of stress often appears to be cumulative (2, 9, 19), we derived a cumulative exposure index for each child by counting the number of maltreatment experiences during the first decade of life (31); 64% of children experienced no maltreatment, 27% experienced one indicator of maltreatment (hereafter "probable maltreatment"), and 9% experienced two or more indicators of maltreatment ("definite maltreatment").
Measures of Adult Inflammation.
Physical examinations and venepunctures (always between 4:15 and 4:45 p.m.) were conducted at age 32: 92% of the participants (n = 892) provided blood samples. Pregnant women (n = 26) were excluded from the reported analyses.
hsCRP (mg/liter) was measured on a Hitachi 917 analyzer (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) by using a particle-enhanced immunoturbidimetric assay. We adopted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/American Heart Association definition of high cardiovascular risk (hsCRP > 3 mg/liter) to identify our risk group (11).
Fibrinogen (g/liter) was measured on a Sysmex (Malberg, Germany) CA-1500 by using a fully automated cap piercing coagulation analyzer.
WBC (109/liter) were measured on a Sysmex (Kobe, Japan) XE2100 automated hematology analyzer via flow-cytometry with a semiconductor laser.
Co-Occurring Risk Factors and Potential Mediating Variables.
Low birth weight.
Children's birth weight was obtained from hospital records. Children with weight <2,500 g were classified as having low birth weight.
Low childhood SES.
The SES of study members' families was measured repeatedly from birth through age 15 with a six-point scale assessing parents' occupational status. The scale places each occupation into one of six categories based on educational levels and income associated with that occupation in data from the New Zealand census (34). The variable used in our analyses is the average of the highest SES level of either parent and reflects the socioeconomic conditions experienced by the study members while they grew up.
Low childhood IQ.
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was administered by trained psychometrists at ages 7, 9, and 11 (35). We averaged scores from the three age periods, standardized the IQ score, and defined children with IQ < 85 (more than one SD below the mean) as having low IQ.
Low SES in adulthood.
At age 32, study members were asked about their current or most recent occupation; homemakers and those not working were pro-rated based on their educational status according to criteria included in the New Zealand Socio-economic Index (36). Information was coded to a six-point scale for occupations in New Zealand.
Major depression.
At age 32, study members were interviewed by using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (37) with a reporting period of 12 months. Depression was diagnosed by using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (38).
Perceived stress.
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (39) administered at age 32 is a subjective measure quantifying the degree of unpredictability, uncontrollability, and overload in respondents' lives. Study members in the top quartile of the PSS distribution were considered as having high perceived stress.
Cardiovascular risk cluster.
As described in ref. 40, health risk-factor clustering was assessed by measuring six biomarkers: (i) overweight, (ii) high blood pressure, (iii) high total cholesterol, (iv) low high-density cholesterol, (v) high glycated hemoglobin, and (vi) low VO2 max adjusted for body weight. We assessed multiple risk-factor clustering by summing the number of biomarkers on which the study member was at-risk. Study members were "clustered" if they had at least three risk factors.
We divided study members at age 32 into nonsmokers, light smokers (up to 10 cigarettes per day), moderate smokers (11–20), and heavy smokers (>20).
Physical activity.
At age 32, study members were interviewed about the amount and type of physical activity in the last week and about personal effort involved in carrying out a specific activity. According to guidelines proposed by Ainsworth et al. (41), interviewers rated physical activity as light, moderate, hard, and very hard. The total metabolic equivalent (MET) score for the week was calculated as the weighted sum of the time spent in each activity. We divided the MET score into quartiles for analysis.
On the basis of evidence linking Mediterranean-style diet with a reduced risk of inflammation (42), we divided study members according to their daily intake of fruit and vegetables. We divided the sum of fruit and vegetable consumption into quartiles for analysis.
Antiinflammatory drug use.
At age 32, study members were assessed for their use of medications with antiinflammatory effect, including systemic steroids, respiratory steroids, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, prophylactic aspirin, antigout medications, antirheumatic medications, statins, and estrogens.
Statistical Analysis.
Cox regression models with constant time of follow-up and robust variance (43) were used to estimate the effect of childhood maltreatment on the categorical outcome of high hsCRP at age 32. We present RRs for elevated hsCRP in children classified in the definite and probable maltreatment groups, compared with nonmaltreated children. The regression model was expanded to test alternative explanations for the association between childhood maltreatment and adult inflammation. Results were adjusted for sex and antiinflammatory drug use.
The contribution of childhood maltreatment to the overall burden of inflammation at age 32 years was estimated by calculating the population attributable fraction.
For sensitivity analysis, we estimated the effect of childhood maltreatment on age 32 continuous measures of (logged) hsCRP, fibrinogen, and WBC. Intercorrelations among these three measures ranged from 0.20 to 0.63. A principal-component analysis yielded one factor accounting for 59% of the variance, showing that all three measures index inflammation risk.
We thank the Dunedin Study members and study founder Dr. Phil Silva. The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit is supported by the New Zealand Health Research Council. This research received support from Medical Research Council Grant G0100527, National Institute of Mental Health Grants MH45070 and MH49414, and the William T. Grant Foundation. A.D. is a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow. C.M.P. is a Medical Research Council Research Fellow. A.C. is a Wolfson Merit Award holder.
- §To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: a.caspi{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk
Author contributions: A.D., C.M.P., A.C., and R.P. designed research; A.D., C.M.P., A.C., and R.P. performed research; A.D., A.C., and A.T. analyzed data; and A.D., C.M.P., A.C., A.T., and R.P. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0610362104/DC1.
- Abbreviations:
- confidence interval;
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Ryan Allison, 21, of Setting Road, west Hull, received a 26-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, must attend 31 sessions of a Building Better Relationships course, and have up to 30 days rehabilitation, for perverting the course of justice by making threatening phone calls, and putting a person in fear of violence on at least two occasions. He was made subject to a restraining order indefinitely, which includes him being barred from a street in Hull and a street in Beverley. He must pay £85 costs and a £115 surcharge.
Peter Frame, 45, of Coltman Street, west Hull, received a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for having an axe and a metal file in Coltman Street. He must pay £85 costs and a £115 surcharge.
Matthew Robinson, 47, of Westbourne House, Princes Avenue, west Hull, must pay £170 compensation, and have up to 25 days rehabilitation, for racially aggravated assault by beating.
Sophie Scarah, 18, of Dock House, St Peter Street, east Hull, was fined £240, and was ordered to pay £25 compensation to each victim for two offences of assault by beating. She must pay £85 costs.
Lewis Gibbs, 20, c/o an address in Norton Grove, west Hull, must do 100 hours of unpaid work, and have up to 15 days rehabilitation, for stealing a 42inch flat screen TV, two remote controls, PlayStation3, a green sports bag, three bottles of aftershave, two watches and a multi-charger after entering a house in Roslyn Road, west Hull, as a trespasser. He must pay £85 costs and an £85 surcharge.
Tina Karsera, 49, of Norland Avenue, Anlaby, was fined £200, and was banned from driving for 20 months, for drink-driving and driving without insurance. She must pay £85 costs and a £30 surcharge.


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Falconer Chester Hall is helping revitalise Liverpool's high street retail offering with a glittering exterior refurbishment of the old BHS store on Lord Street.
Working with owner Vabeld and new tenants H&M, Falconer Chester Hall's design replaces the previous monolithic façade with a lighter arrangement of full height glazing and elegant aluminium over-cladding.
"The client wanted an outstanding, high quality refurbishment to fight the pull of places like Liverpool One, and attracting more people to this area of the city centre. Our use of folding white aluminium cladding, symbolising H&M's flagship brand, creates an appealing and dramatic destination that complements the existing buildings." Says Quentin Keohane, Project Architect.
Together with the design team, Falconer Chester Hall overcame the challenges of working with the existing building which was subject to numerous redevelopments since the Blitz.
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Brookfield Selectmen Meeting | June 3, 2014
Meeting Notes
Welcome to the Brookfield New Hampshire Selectmen meeting from 6/3/14. The Selectmen met at the Town Offices, 267 Wentworth Rd and began at 6:00 pm.
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Craig Nichols, DRA Department of Revenue Administration; Chad Roberge, Assessor, Avitar Associates of New England; Brookfield Selectmen Brian Robisheau, Richard Zacher, Bill Nelson, Administrative Assistant, Jessica Robisheau;
Review of Agreement; Timeline;
Brice Drive; Easement for well that is on town property; Recording the location of the well location; Related Warrant Article;
Churchill School House window installation update; Timeline; Water heater selection; Quality and type of water heater; Moving of old safe; Oil tank disposition; Town Clerk Broad band or internet connection;
Taxing the value of telephone poles; Pole taxes; Fairpoint versus Time Warner cable; Telephone ownership; lease agreements; Depreciation of telephone poles;
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Recently, Jocelyn Eikenburg, author of the blog Speaking of China, had an article published in the Huffington Post entitled: "Why Won't Western Women Date Chinese Men?" She talks about dating and marrying her Chinese husband as an expatriate living in China, and reveals her investigations as to why Western women find dating all these effeminate, sexless, grotesque Chinese men so terribly abhorrent.
While it's fascinating to highlight all the racist stereotypes and cultural differences that keep Western women from dating Chinese men, there is more to the story. After all, you can't just say Barbie-doll whitewashing and Hollywood are to blame. You must dig into the psyche of Western women (or more specifically Real-American women) and recognize that they have certain needs that Chinese men simply cannot provide.
Here at AiYaWeb, we've enumerated these needs as a courtesy to Real-American women so they no longer have to explain themselves and their despising of the very idea of dating Chinese guys. Apologies for using numbers since we know how much Real-American women hate math.
Please share this with all the Real-American women you know. Their infinite suffering of having to possibly consider dating a Chinese guy over spending an eternity alone eating cheese in a closet must end.
7. Real-American women love giant men
Hey, let's face it: women love NFL players. Where else is there a larger percentage of violent, enhanced men than those who play for the joy of concussions? And since there are no Chinese men in the NFL, it correlates that for the type of mate Real-American women are drawn to, Chinese men simply don't fit the demographic.
Real-American women want Ray Rice, not Fried Rice.
6. Real-American women can't not live in a trailer park
You've never seen a Chinese person live in a trailer park. Why? It's a bad investment. But for Real-American women, it's part of their life's dream that their truck-driving, beer-swiggling, former-high-school-homecoming king will sweep them up from their lowly single-wide trailer to a double-wide castle down the narrow street and have meth babies. Chinese guys simply can't measure down at this level. It's our failing.
5. Too much sex
There are 1.3 billion Chinese in China. This didn't happen through artificial insemination – Chinese are too frugal for that. So how did all those people get there while oppressed by a one-child law? Do I have to explain how babies are made?
Chinese men got funky with Chinese women – a lot – at least 1.3 billion times. And a Real-American woman simply can't handle the sexy time smorgasbord a Chinese man can dish out. While we're scholars/doctors/engineers during the day, at night, we're transformed into insatiable Mongols unstoppably (but with full consent) conquesting your lady parts until they are strewn about with exhaustion. Really, please don't even bother trying to keep up. Only a Chinese uterus can handle that amount of hard loving.
Chinese men are sexless? Ninja, please.
If anything, it's much too much sex for you, Real-American lady. Go back to reading People magazine. It's safer.
4. Too much damn math
Another reason why Real-American women shouldn't date Chinese men? They sure hate counting money. It's too much math.
And because Chinese in America excel so much in their careers and financial planning, it just makes things worse. Plus, suddenly, you'd have a spouse who can figure out when your credit is tanking. Real-American women hate debt reduction and sound financial practices. Then there's the having to keep up with the second houses, shadow money, low-interest refi's, and investment accounts. Math hurts their heads like the idea of having sex 1.3 billion times.
"A billion? Is that a lot? Who knows! The Voice is on!"
3. Chinese babies are too damn cute
"O! M! G! Really? Um, fer sure! Chinese babies are like really totally too damn cute! AmIRight? That like cuteness, y'know? It's, y'know, like ehmagawd! Too much! EEEKEKEKEKE!" – That's what she said.
2. No more "ching chong chinaman" jokes
Hey, who doesn't love "ching chong chinaman" jokes? Nobody. And it's one reason why Real-American women can't start dating Chinese men.
"Damn, ching chong chinaman jokes are funny, and dating a Chinese man means giving them up… forever! It's so unfair. All humor on Earth will be destroyed when we can't tell a ching chong chinaman joke. We'd only have the Long Duk Dong jokes!" – That's what she said (again).
1. Real-American women would have to acknowledge Chinese men are people
Hey, everyone gets to believe what she wants to believe. It's the American way. If Real-American women suddenly started dating Chinese guys, they would have suddenly be forced into loving, family-oriented partnerships. They'd have to look beyond color and culture and realize that most everyone wants the same things in this journey we call life: caring, security, community, passion, connection.
They couldn't be racist anymore, which totally kills their racist vibe.
Then what's left? After all, your hate is a terrible thing to waste.
Please share this with all the Real-American women you know. Their infinite suffering of having to possibly consider dating a Chinese guy over spending an eternity alone eating cheese in a closet must end.


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Summer Brings Building Boom in City Schools
While most students and teachers have abandoned classrooms for the summer, thousands of schools are nonetheless abuzz with activity.
This is especially true in some urban districts, where, after years of neglect, schools are ringing with sounds of drills, chain saws, and hammers as workers race to restore and repair old schools and finish building new ones before classes resume this fall.
- From June through August, Detroit officials are spending some $80 million to repair and restore the most ailing of the district's 263 schools. Workers are replacing roofs and windows, repairing restrooms, and painting and polishing hallways and classrooms.
- In addition to finishing three new schools and four multistory additions in Chicago this summer--part of a major capital-improvement plan there--officials are improving access for the disabled, modernizing high school science labs, refurbishing restrooms, painting classrooms, hallways, and cafeterias, and generally sprucing up schools.
- On any given day in New York City this summer, some 20,000 construction workers will be spread out over about 600 school construction or renovation projects. The New York City School Construction Authority is working on adding 16,000 new seats to the 1.1 million-student system by September, part of a five-year, $11 billion capital-improvement plan.
Broad Support
"School construction has reached an all-time high," said Joe Agron, the editor in chief of American School & University, an industry magazine that tracks construction trends. Last year, according to an annual nationwide survey by the magazine, some $17.1 billion was spent on building and repairs, up from $14.9 billion in 1997. "We're seeing a lot of that work in the largest school districts," he noted.
Such districts also have the biggest pot of construction dollars, the largest number of dilapidated schools to spend it on, and, most important, Mr. Agron and other experts say, political leaders who have taken the school construction bull by the horns.
"The political will is great, and the know-how is there," added Paul Abramson, a school construction consultant and the editorial director of the trade magazine School Planning & Management.
"It's not just education people talking about [fixing schools] anymore," Mr. Abramson continued. "It's coming from the mayors and governors now, too--political people who know how to get things done."
Long Backlog
In many cases, construction and repair projects are coming after decades of deterioration and neglect of city schools. Generations of students have spent their days in rundown buildings, often with leaky roofs, chipped paint, cracked windows, drafty classrooms, and restrooms with broken fixtures and no stall doors.
But in many big urban districts over the past few years--with the economy soaring, the school-age population growing, and popular support for upgrading schools rising--a backlog of construction needs is finally being addressed.
"The level of support to build and repair schools has been nowhere near what it should have been over the last 20 to 25 years," said Dan Childress, a spokesman for the 174,000-student district. "I can't tell you how excited teachers and principals are to finally get these needs addressed. Principals who usually take a short break over the summer are sticking around to ensure that the projects are handled properly."
Motor City voters passed a huge, $1.5 billion school bond initiative in 1994, but the district hasn't taken on any major projects since the measure passed, Mr. Childress said. The district's schools are on average 60 years old.
In New York City, which has spent $7.5 billion on school construction and repairs in the past decade, Schools Chancellor Rudolph F. Crew has outlined an $11 billion capital-needs budget for the next five years. This summer, the city's School Construction Authority, which manages school building and repair projects, is busy with 89 new schools, additions, or mini-schools, 73 "major modernizations," and 5,200 assorted other projects.
Some 180 schools in the district still have antiquated coal-burning boilers. The district has set a goal of removing all of them by 2001.
"We've just finished a record number of construction projects, but there's still a tremendous amount of work to be done," said Jack Deacy, a spokesman for the construction authority. "The physical integrity of schools is terrible."
He attributed the wave of construction activity to "a public that knows there's a physical crisis in schools because they haven't been maintained over the years."
"It's like the transit system here," Mr. Deacy continued. "Twenty years ago, it was grinding to a halt because they had deferred all maintenance. It's the same now for schools."
Economy Credited, Blamed
Though the booming economy has brightened the financial picture in many districts, it also has a downside for administrators who are scrambling to get schools built or repaired.
In the spring, Detroit officials had to sit down with the district's largest contractors--who are also busy this summer with several big commercial-construction projects, including new football and baseball stadiums and a major airport renovation--to ask them to make the district's projects a priority despite their tight schedules.
"Most contractors were tied up on jobs," explained Mr. Childress, a district spokesman. "But there's a new spirit here in Detroit," since Mayor Dennis W. Archer took over schools in the spring.
And when Mike Duggan, a Wayne County official who is overseeing the district's construction efforts, asked local contractors to make schools a priority, he said, they agreed to help. Mr. Duggan, the county's chief deputy executive, is serving the district temporarily as a a deputy chief executive officer to interim Superintendent David Adamany.
And in New York, officials say prices of both materials and labor have risen sharply. "Prices are up all over," Mr. Deacy of the construction authority said. "And there are shortages in carpentry and all kind of trades."
In Los Angeles, where voters passed a $2.4 billion bond issue in 1997--the largest ever for a local district--not only are construction costs skyrocketing, but the price of land also can sometimes surpass the cost of building an entire school. In addition to 91 new schools the system intends to build in the next 10 years, many of its 915 schools and centers need repairs, officials say.
"Expensive land is the real problem here," said T. Bradford Sales, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Unified School District. "We're landlocked as a city. There's very little open space left to build schools," and the spaces that are for sale are either incredibly expensive or former industrial sites that need to be cleared, he said.
Vol. 18, Issue 42, Pages 1, 16Published in Print: July 14, 1999, as Summer Brings Building Boom in City Schools
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For folks who are recovering from childhood abuses (legalism, physical abuse, cults, etc), recovery groups seem like a good resource for recovery. But are some recovery groups worse for you than the thing you were originally recovering from (or at least compounding the trauma)? Kicking wounded people while they are down?
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In the most recent issue of Utne Reader, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders calls on Americans to act now against a "handful of Republicans" who want "to bring this country back to where we were in the 1920s." It is an impassioned call for help from the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. "There is a war going on in this country," the senator writes, "and I am not referring to the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. I am referring to the war waged by the wealthiest people in America on the shrinking middle class of our country."
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Highlights - May 2015
|May 2015
Commission Highlights
Vol. 21 - No. 5
Check out the SWRPC Highlights Archive for previous issues.
There is still time to register for the Southwest Region Planning Commission's Annual Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at Keene State College. For more information, please contact Becky Baldwin of Commission staff or visit www.swrpc.org/files/annualmeeting.pdf.
During May, the Planning Commission began activities that will provide traffic data for more than 130 different locations in the Southwest Region on behalf of the NH Department of Transportation. These important studies assist in understanding traffic growth, freight movement, provide data for road and bridge maintenance projects, and calculate vehicle miles traveled in the region and across the State. Scheduled counts this year will occur in Dublin, Gilsum, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Hinsdale, Jaffrey, Keene, Langdon, Marlborough, Marlow, Peterborough, Richmond and Walpole. SWRPC can provide a limited number of additional studies to towns seeking traffic volume, speed or vehicle classification data that does not already exist. For more information, please contact Henry Underwood of Commission staff.
In early May, Planning Commission staff participated in the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors' Action Institute to Increase Walking and Walkability in Nashville, Tennessee. Interdisciplinary state teams received instruction and guidance on their efforts to pursue statewide policy and environmental changes to increase population levels of physical activity through increased walking and walkability. Staff member Tara Germond served on the NH state team that has been working to develop a statewide action plan for improving access to safe walking and biking through advocacy and policy measures. The event was led by Mark Fenton, a national public health/planning/transportation consultant, along with a team of equally recognized faculty in the field of walkability. Attendees included ten state teams composed of representatives from public health, transportation, planning, economic development, and environmental sectors. For more information, please contact Tara Germond of Commission staff.
During May, the Planning Commission welcomed three interns that will assist staff with transportation-related field work, data collection, and other ongoing projects throughout the summer. Megan Pietrowski, Nevada Mullen, and Matthew Collins are students or recent graduates from Keene State College and have completed coursework through the Geography Department, featuring a variety of human and environmental topics as well as map-making, research methods, and other studies. They are eager to apply their knowledge and skills towards local and regional planning in Southwest New Hampshire. Please join us in welcoming Megan, Nevada, and Matthew.
During May, Planning Commission staff participated in Local Public Agency (LPA) trainings organized by the NH DOT Bureau of Planning and Community Assistance and Office of Federal Compliance. Municipalities, school groups, non-profits and others seeking to locally administer transportation projects with federal funds are required to participate in the 1½ day training in order to receive funding. Planning Commission staff took part in the training in order to provide support to municipalities seeking federal funds from transportation programs such as the Transportation Alternatives Program, Municipal Off-System Bridge Program and the Highway Safety Improvement Program. The training covered requirements for project reporting, consultant selection, bidding, quality assurance procedures and other LPA requirements. For more information, please contact J. B. Mack of Commission staff.
On May 2nd Planning Commission staff attended the NH Office of Energy and Planning Spring Planning and Zoning Conference in Concord, NH. This year's conference attracted 278 attendees including municipal officials and citizen volunteers. Sessions included: using census data in community planning, planning board basics, the role of the ZBA, rooftop solar, building, fire, and energy codes to name a few. Conference materials are available at: http://www.nh.gov/oep/planning/resources/conferences/spring-2015/index.htm. For more information, please contact Lisa Murphy or Henry Underwood of Commission staff.
On May 6th Planning Commission staff attended the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Implementation Workshop, hosted by the NH Community Development Finance Authority in Concord. The workshop covered the following CDBG topics: use of the online grants management system, municipal adoptions/approvals, environmental reviews, subrecipient agreements and monitoring, procurement, financial management, construction management, municipal responsibilities, housing rehabilitation, acquisition and relocation, and job counting. For more information about the workshop or CDBG, please contact Rebeckah Bullock of Commission staff.
On May 6th Planning Commission staff attended the NH DES 2015 Drinking Water Source Protection Workshop in Concord, NH. The program was sponsored by the American Ground Water Trust and was targeted for planners, municipal officials and commissions, and professional consultants. Workshop session topics included improving water quality through community awareness of septic system maintenance, barriers to well water testing, recreational access, nitrogen reduction, and more. For more information, please contact Lisa Murphy of Commission staff.


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December 20th, 2017
Stop Wanting and Start Doing
With the new year coming around the corner many of us take this time to reevaluate ourselves. We first look at the things we accomplished but we usually get stuck on what we didn't. How can we end the year saying "I did" more than "I wanted to do?" One of our favorite blogs "Goins, Writer" wrote a inspiring post on this subject which we posted along with our bog today. Jeff says we need more action in our words to reach our goals. You can read his thoughts here.
This year we suggest you use SMART goals to determine what things will be at the top of your to-do list.
If your goal is to finish a novel in a year... make sure you set smaller goals that help you achieve the overall goal. This keeps your goals specific and helps keep you on track. There are many ways to measure goals but we suggest getting a goal journal. Keeping track of your goals by a journal forces you to revisit your goals and see your progress or no progress. You can decide to track daily, weekly, or monthly. It doesn't matter how you measure your progress but it matters that you do. By measuring you are holding yourself accountable to your "wants." Achievable is probably them most important of the SMART goals. If you don't set a goal that is achievable you might as throw in the white towel January 1st. You know your limits and what you can actually accomplish. Don't get caught up in the "wants" that reality won't allow you to finish. By creating a year plan this can help you keep your goals in reach. Result-focused goals are important because it helps us grow. If we set a goal that doesn't get anything done then what is the point? Set goals that push you to become a better you. By keeping your goals "SMART" you are one step closer to saying "I DID."
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A Minimalist Look To Try This Season
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We've said it before and we'll say it again: although eccentric, personal style is totally in, minimalism still is as well. When done right, of course. "Less is more," may be an old cliche saying but when simple styles are done correctly, they can make more of a statement than the boldest and loudest of ensembles. This minimalist fashion blogger made an impact in just a roll neck jumper, side-slit skirt, and white sneakers.
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The Ultimate Hong Kong Sports Diary
There's a vibrant sports scene in Hong Kong for participant and spectator alike, from professional events enticing the world's top athletes to those open to beginners and amateurs.
Hong Kong Marathon, 21 January 2018
The ultimate Hong Kong sports diary for the amateur runner, a marathon is often the pinnacle of achievement and a fantastic way to see a city from a unique perspective. The Hong Kong Marathon follows a spectacular route, passing through Lai Chi Kok Park, Tsing Yi and finishing in Victoria Park. Great fun for spectators and participants alike. Find out more here.
Hong Kong Sevens, 6-8 April 2018
This world famous annual tournament – celebrating its 43rd year in 2018 – brings some of the top international rugby teams to the Hong Kong Stadium. With a carnival atmosphere to complement the frenetic on-pitch action, the tournament is great fun for both die-hard rugby fans and newcomers alike. Find out more here.
The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival, 18 June 2018
This takes place every year, combining a huge party with an impressive show of physical prowess. It's also a quintessentially Asian sport, inspired by the folklore of Chinese national hero Qu Yuan. He drowned himself in the Miluo River over 2,000 years ago to protest against China veering from its socialist roots. Legend has it the townspeople beat drums to scare the evil spirits away and threw rice dumplings into the water so the fish wouldn't eat his body, inspiring the current festival.
New World Harbour Race, 20 October 2018
As you can see the ultimate Hong Kong sports diary is packed already and for the past 70 years, hundreds of people, from elite swimmers to amateurs, have taken to the waters of Victoria Harbour to complete this iconic 1.8km swim. Even if you're not a confident open water swimmer, you can join the thousands of spectators at one of Hong Kong's most celebrated events. Find out more here.
The Hong Kong Open golf tournament, 22-25 November 2018
This is one of the longest running and most prestigious international sporting events in Hong Kong. With four days of excitement on the fairways and greens, featuring some of the world's leading golfers, and entertainment for the whole family taking place off the course. Find out more here.
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, events throughout the year
The Hong Kong sporting calendar features more sailing events than we've room to feature here. One of the oldest sports clubs in the city, it has an active calendar of social and competitive sailing, and rowing events and courses, as well as a thriving social scene. Find out more here.
Horse racing, September-July
A trip to one of Hong Kong's world-class racetracks is a must – Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island and Sha Tin in the New Territories. The key events in the calendar are the Hong Kong Derby and the Queen Elizabeth II Cup, where you'll rub shoulders with the elite and watch some of the finest horses and jockeys from around the globe. Find out more here.
Whether you're a budding athlete, an enthusiastic spectator or simply looking for a good party, Hong Kong has plenty of sporting events to add to your calendar.


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One thing I liked about Seattle is that it shares my feelings about the magnitude of a good cup of tea (left) in relation to a cup of coffee (right). Here's what tea-drinking heaven looks like:
You never know, in Seattle, where the perfect gustatory experience will reveal itself. Top Cat and I walked all over our University Park area on our first morning of the Great Pacific Great Northwest Tour and we could not find one single cute quaint achingly chic hipster-Seattle breakfast experience. Hunger got the better of us so we stopped in at (what I thought was) a one-off neighborhood establishment called Burger Master. (Turns out it's a local chain.)
The place was clean, well-lighted, and full of regulars that looked like truck driving college professors. And the best thing was that if you order tea, they give you a choice of half a dozen black, green, and herbal teas. AND THEN THEY GIVE YOU A BACK UP TEA BAG.
Burger Master is the ONLY PLACE ON EARTH where that happens.
"We're coming here every morning," I told Top Cat.
And we did.
Here's what the best breakfast place in all of Seattle looks like.
Although Burger Master is totally 100% my kind of place, you know that Top Cat, like most grown-ups, is much more demanding when it comes to cuisine. So he dragged me to a couple of fine dining experiences.
First, there was Elliot's on the warf there, underneath the Pike Place Market.
The Copper River salmon had just that morning arrived from Alaska, an event that is as ballyhoo'd in Seattle as the Nouveau Beaujolais is in France.
This (above) is what a $35 piece of fish looks like at Elliot's. Top Cat said it was worth every farthing. ( had a $6 Caesar salad and couldn't wait until it would be time for breakfast again.
The next night we drove across the West Seattle Bridge across the Puget Sound to go to Alkai Beach, to Salty's restaurant, where we could dine while gazing at the Seattle skyline. Also, out in the middle of the bay there's a float on which huge fat sea lions pile and bark their constant complaints that there are too many huge fat sea lion asses on this damn float.
This (above) is what a $50 piece of Copper River salmon looks like at Salty's. Top Cat said it was worth every half-farthing.
My fish-n-chips were pretty good too.
The next day we headed to Edmunds.
Edmonds is a lovely town, as we walked around and poked into a few other book shops and Top Cat discovered that the wine shop there stocks a little-known Bordeaux that we discovered in the Cotes de Castillon— Chateau Robin — and he also found out that the wine we paid $40 for at Salty's costs $14 out in the real world. It's called 14 Hands and you will not regret spending $40 on it if you have to.
So we got a bottle of 14 Hands and drove to have a look at the coastal town of Mukilteo.
We had heard that Mulkiteo is a fine place to watch the sunset.
It was a tiny bit chilly, slightly colder than usual for May, and windy, and we had an open bottle of wine, so we sat in the car and opened a small bag of pretzels that Top Cat had been carrying in his jacket pocket for four days, and I opened the doggy-bag (Styrofoam box) that I'd got for the half sandwich I couldn't finish at lunch, and we hunkered down for the view.
The light got dimmer, the wind got colder, it began to rain, the seagulls called one another, and we kept toasting our luck in being together in a rented car with left overs on the edge of the beautiful Puget Sound.
Here's what a priceless dining experience in the Great Pacific Northwest looks like.


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IT is probably not the job for most people, but one that has been Jim Emery's pride and joy for 26 years.
The grandfather-of-three has been the long-serving public face of Southampton 's largest cemetery.
He has been available day and night as a friendly face and listening ear to grieving relatives or visitors searching for family or famous headstones among its 53,000 graves.
Throughout that time Jim has made his family home the lodge house at the gates of Hollybrook Cemetery as part of his appointment as the city's cemetery superintendent.
Jim, 60, had been looking forward to spending the rest of his working days at the lodge with his wife Lorayne, and their six-year old pet dog Honey.
But after a total of 42 years of loyal service, much of it beyond the call of duty, he is now facing eviction after the city council "deleted" his job.
Under council budget cuts Jim will be made redundant and dismissed on October 5 and will lose the four-bed house that came with his job for a nominal rent.
Jim said it came as a "real kick in the teeth" just a few years before he planned to retire.
Over the years he has greeted thousands of visitors, and has become well respected by clergy and funeral directors as well as the traveller community who use the cemetery.
He was even entrusted by Benny Hill to keep an eye on his parents' graves before the comedian himself was laid to rest in the cemetery.
Jim said he had "reluctantly" accepted his job was gone but had offered to continue to open and close the cemetery gates and nearby toilets and maintain a presence in the cemetery to deter vandals, without payment, if the council will let him continue to live at the lodge at a reduced rent.
But council chiefs refused the offer and the Emerys now face an uncertain future in a smaller property somewhere else in the city.
The decision has sparked worldwide support for Jim.
An Internet campaign condemning the council decision has already notched up over 1,900 supporters and its website page received 90,000 visitors from around the world.
Council chiefs have also been deluged with angry emails calling for a rethink.
Jim's daughter, Lisa Whitmore, said her parents were devastated.
"My dad is the most private person. The only time I've ever seen him show any emotion was when I got married.
"But this has broken him inside. He's never known anything different. They've just thrown him in the rubbish bin."
Lisa, 36, said that to add insult to injury the council had offered to redeploy him as a gravedigger – a job he was doing when he was 18.
Jim said he had also been offered positions as a traffic warden, a CCTV operator and a school caretaker, but didn't feel he was suitable.
"I'm 60. I've worked here all my life. This is all I know", he said.
Lorayne, 64, who works at the nearby Spire hospital, said her husband had dedicated his working – and a lot of his home – life to the people of Southampton.
She said: "We've lived and breathed this place for 26 years. We've been privileged to live here. We've looked after the house, looked after the visitors. We are the face of the council.
"As far as Jim is aware there are no plans for the house so why throw us out when he can still contribute and is still willing to help with the upkeep of this very special place."
The council is pressing ahead with its plans to rehouse the Emerys and has offered the equivalent of six-months' salary – around £11,000 – as a redundancy package.
The couple have been shown a two-bed first floor flat at an old people's housing scheme, but politely declined it.
Mr Emery's job was cut in this year's council budget, set by the previous Conservative administration in February.
It will save the council's bereavement services around £25,000 a year.
A Southampton City Council spokesman said: "With the use of new technology and the necessary presence of other council staff at burials and at other times to maintain the grounds, it was decided that the service could be maintained in the absence of a cemetery supervisor.
"This difficult decision was taken against an urgent need for the council to save money. We have worked with this member of staff to explore opportunities for redeployment and continue to do so."
She added a number of options were being considered for the future use of the cemetery lodge.
Cabinet member for environment and transport Councillor Asa Thorpe is due to meet Mr Emery on Monday to discuss "future employment and accommodation opportunities".


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My nephew Jordan is the very talented chef at Rocky Mountain Ranch- an historic family ranch nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. He has the freedom to plan creative menus from scratch, using local ingredients and assembling theme dinners, etc. Last spring he contacted me to see if I had a great, classic crumb coffee cake recipe for him to use. I checked my website and found that I really didn't have anything fitting that description. So he came up with one on his own, and I didn't think much about it after that. But when Christmas rolled around this year, I thought about that conversation I had with Jordan and figured it was high time I added a Classic Crumb Coffee Cake to the collection.
This recipe comes directly from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook. And I must say… it's an awfully good one.
The texture of the base batter is very thick. It spreads rather thin (I thought…), but it rises up a fair amount to create a nice cake layer.
Here's the shocking part… are you ready for this? I'm seriously embarrassed to even admit that I made this, and I was totally freaked out and grossed out at the same time. The crumb topping has 3 1/2 sticks of butter in it. !!!!!!!! EEK. I decided that Martha Stewart probably knows what she's doing and just went for it anyways. I was also super surprised that the crumb layer was a good 1/2-inch thick. It kind of seems like you don't need that much crumb when you're making the cake, but it really does turn out perfect in the end.
Martha calls this a "foolproof cake – perfect for beginners." I'd say that she's right. It was so easy to prepare, and it turned out exactly as I was hoping it would. It was a big hit on Christmas morning with my relatives. I tried to warn them how much butter was in the cake, but no one seemed to care. Everyone went back for seconds anyways! As for my nephew and his ranch, I must say… Martha's Crumb Cake might be a nice addition to the Ranch's breakfast offerings! By the way, I hope to visit the ranch this summer, since my son quite enamored with fly fishing and outdoor boy stuff. If the chef adds this crumb cake to his menu, we just might have to seriously consider making a reservation 😉
Martha's Classic Crumb Cake
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
- butter for greasing the pan
- 2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups sour cream
- additional butter, for greasing the pan
- 3 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt (I used Kosher)
- 1 3/4 cups (3 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter a 13x9-inch baking pan (I used a metal pan- but a pyrex would probably work out okay too).
- Prepare the cake layer: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer), beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes (scrape sides of bowl during mixing to incorporate all of the ingredients). Beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture, then the sour cream. Beat just until combined.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, and use a rubber spatula to spread it into an even layer.
- Prepare the crumb layer: In a medium bowl, whisk to combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt; cut in the butter using a pastry blender, until large, moist clumps form. (I used a food processor to combine the butter and the other ingredients, pulsing until crumbs formed. The crumbs were smaller than large, moist clumps as described by Martha, but they worked perfectly fine in the recipe anyways).
- Sprinkle the crumb topping evenly onto the batter. Bake until cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. The center of the cake should feel slightly firm to the touch and not soft and soggy. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Slice and eat!
Other good-lookin' coffee cake recipes on the blogs:
Mom's Sour Cream Coffee Cake by Shutterbean
Coffee Cake Cupcakes by The Shiksa
Cinnamon- Cream Cheese Coffee Cake by Bake or Break
Lemon Pull- Apart Coffee Cake by Leite's Culinaria
Gluten- Free Pumpkin Coffee Cake Muffins by Jeanette's Healthy Living


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Millar's point is found about 200 m up from the popular Hobie beach. It is situated in the suburb of Summerstrand.
DistanceIn the city
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special accessDon't know
Wave qualityTotally Epic
ExperienceAll surfers
FrequencySometimes break
BottomFlat rocks with sand
PowerFun, Ledgey
Normal lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good day lengthVery Long (300 to 500 m)
Good swell directionWest, SouthWest, South, SouthEast, East
Good wind directionWest, SouthWest, South
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movementRising tide
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdCrowded
Spot is extremely fickle and only breaks about 20 times a year.
Beware crowds of up to 100 surfers on the good days.
Plenty of snaking longboarders.
Is also the only spot that handles swell over 10 foot.
atmosphere at millars is mellow to a certain degree.Can get bad vibes when crowded and the longboarders are getting greedy.But otherwise a mellow vibe.
Fires when the swell comes!
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By Mike Castignani , 08-01-2010
Only for the patient... - I've surfed Millars at about 8-9 foot - in '84 in winter off a big south ground swell after the wind turned west. Any time it gets big it breaks on the middle reef unless the tide is high - and it needs a full storm swell to get any size. So it mostly has a reputation from the old days before the breaks were affected by the pier that was built and harbour wall extention in the 70's. Its really just a fun wave that can be good under specific conditions. Typified by a lazy flat section that suddenly pulls up in a steep wall for 4 - 5 meters before going soft then it repeats this a few times as a result of the reef. It can produce very small barrels easily on the rising and dropping tide. Suffers from chop in the NE wind.
By Anonymous , 05-02-2009
Sick wave - Surfing as a lifestyle is all about patience .....when the good wave switches on ...you gotta chuck everything and be on it !Millers is like that . If you want instant gratification and can't wait piss off and if you can ,this is an epic wave for the folk who are true die hard frothers.I've had J-Bay type waves here over a 10year span of sessions.Best at 4-6 ft....very deceptive ..you can assasinate the lip and pull in for 150m .Love it when cooks tune crap about this wave- more for me and my bros....quality before quantity!J-Bay comes to PE for the patient ones who always have their eyes opened ready to pounce.
By Anonymous , 22-09-2007
- ye when millers is working the waves face is softer than the surrounding beaches but it has some sections where its good to smack off the top. nice break if u want a long rolling wave with some barrel sections. i extremely dislike the snaking longboarders though. its normaly the older guys they snake u but if u do it back then they give u a kak look. they normaly suck too.
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Without peace, stability, human rights and effective governance, based on the rule of law - we cannot hope for sustainable development. We are living in a world that is increasingly divided. Some regions enjoy sustained levels of peace, security and prosperity, while others fall into seemingly endless cycles of conflict and violence. This is by no means inevitable and must be addressed.
High levels of armed violence and insecurity have a destructive impact on a country's development, affecting economic growth and often resulting in long standing grievances that can last for generations. Sexual violence, crime, exploitation and torture are also prevalent where there is conflict or no rule of law, and countries must take measures to protect those who are most at risk.
The SDGs aim to significantly reduce all forms of violence, and work with governments and communities to find lasting solutions to conflict and insecurity. Strengthening the rule of law and promoting human rights is key to this process, as is reducing the flow of illicit arms and strengthening the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
China- Goal 16 in Focus
China has made a commitment that it will shoulder the responsibility of implementing the 2030 development agenda, and seek solidarity and cooperation to constantly push the cause of global development.
Learn more about Goal 16 and the opportunities and challenges China faces for reaching this goal by 2030, in this video from UNDP China's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Agenda 2030/SDGs: http://open.163.com/undpsdgmooc
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I love this time of year and I particularly love conkers. I love their prickly shells and the beauty of the shiny brown conker within. My 10yo loves to collect them. He keeps them in his school bag where they tend to fester for the next 12 months lol.
It reminded me of the time that I was cooking with Lydia and how I nearly poisoned the family.
I used to use a whizzy gadget to chop up onions. Lydia loves to help in the kitchen. At the age of 3 she would stand on her stool by my side. It was conker season and she had found a baby conker! I was making spaghetti and chopping up onions in super whizzy gadget. I turned to get something, then did some more whizzing. Unfortunately things looked a bit green with brown bits! Light gradually dawned…..
Me: Lydia what have you done with baby Conker?
Lydia: I put him in the whizzy thing Mummy…….


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Activists in fancy dress gathered outside Reading's Civic Centre to encourage councillors to support a motion to protect public services.
The group, from the Reading Trade Justice Group, donned symbolic costumes to show how corporate 'fat cats' could take over essential public services - if a global trade agreement goes ahead.
Meanwhile, inside the offices, Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors united to vote in favour of the motion proposed by Tony Jones, committing the council to lobbying the Government to investigate the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
GATS, currently under discussion at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, could force national and local governments to contract out public services to private sector businesses on the grounds of free trade.


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She's Going To Cut You… Cut You Bad
You'll have to forgive the cut and paste on today's comic, got home super late and this was the only way to get the comic out before I collapsed in a boneless heap of sleepy despair.
Holy crap I am tired. I really need to work harder on getting a buffer so I don't have anymore of these late nights.
On the plus side we'll get to see the character Sheila and her (Cough) assets (cough cough) for a while. You'd be surprised how many requests I get to bring her back to the comic strip… I'm almost up to double digits!
I hope to exercise some of my own personal demons with Sheila's appearance in the strip….. I have so many that it may take a while. Isn't it fun to be emotionally scarred kids?…. for life.
I'm going to bed.