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Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. --- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent weeks expressing his respect and admiration for the New York Police Department, while calling for unity in these difficult days, but the message doesn't seem to be sinking in.
When he spoke at a police graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden on Monday, some in the crowd booed and heckled him. This followed the mass back-turning by scores of officers when the mayor spoke on Saturday at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos; the virtual back-turning the day before by an airplane-towed banner ("Our backs have turned to you"), and the original spiteful gesture by officers on the night Mr. de Blasio visited the hospital where Officer Ramos and his partner, Wenjian Liu, lay dead.
Mr. de Blasio isn't going to say it, but somebody has to: With these acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity, many New York police officers, led by their union, are squandering the department's credibility, defacing its reputation, shredding its hard-earned respect. They have taken the most grave and solemn of civic moments — a funeral of a fallen colleague — and hijacked it for their own petty look-at-us gesture. In doing so, they also turned their backs on Mr. Ramos's widow and her two young sons, and others in that grief-struck family.
These are disgraceful acts, which will be compounded if anyone repeats the stunt at Officer Liu's funeral on Sunday.
The New York Police Department is going through a terrible time, and the assassinations of those officers only underscore the dreadful dangers that rank-and-file cops face every day. And, in truth, there is some thanklessness to being a cop. Officers often feel beleaguered, jerked around by supervisors and politicians, obligated to follow rules and policies that can be misguided, held responsible for their mistakes in ways that the public is not, exposed to frequent ridicule and hostility from the people they are sworn to serve. It has always been that way with cops.
But none of those grievances can justify the snarling sense of victimhood that seems to be motivating the anti-de Blasio campaign — the belief that the department is never wrong, that it never needs redirection or reform, only reverence. This is the view peddled by union officials like Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association — that cops are an ethically impeccable force with their own priorities and codes of behavior, accountable only to themselves, and whose reflexive defiance in the face of valid criticism is somehow normal.
It's not normal. Not for a professional class of highly trained civil servants, which New York's Finest profess to be. The police can rightly expect, even insist upon, the respect of the public. But respect is a finite resource. It cannot be wasted. Sometimes it has to be renewed.
The failures of some cops, the misguided policing tactics that feed a sense of oppression in parts of the city, the offensive provocations of some in the police-reform protest movement, and the horrific killings of two officers, have led the city to a dangerous point.
But there is a way out of this cul-de-sac. It was stated at Officer Ramos's funeral by an exemplary public servant — and stout de Blasio ally — Commissioner William Bratton.He put it beautifully: "The police, the people who are angry at the police, the people who support us but want us to be better, even a madman who assassinated two men because all he could see was two uniforms, even though they were so much more. We don't see each other. If we can learn to see each other, to see that our cops are people like Officer Ramos and Officer Liu, to see that our communities are filled with people just like them, too. If we can learn to see each other, then when we see each other, we'll heal. We'll heal as a department. We'll heal as a city. We'll heal as a country."
The mayor will be meeting Tuesday with leaders of the five police unions to lower the temperature and to move the city forward. He has been doing and saying the right things, but he also seems to be taking great pains not to say anything to set off the cops. Surely many officers understand and accept his conciliatory words and realize that the things Mr. de Blasio has done — like hiring Mr. Bratton, increasing financing for the department and modernizing its equipment — are motivated by an honest desire to do right by the Police Department.
The grieving rank-and-file need to recognize this and also see the damage that many of their colleagues, and their union representatives, are doing to trash their department's reputation.
Facebook executive Randi Zuckerberg said many people on the social networking site are asking whether Sarah Palin is to blame.
According to Zuckerberg that is the #1 question on the social network behemoth following the Tucson shooting.
Like so much with Palin, the roots are on Facebook. On her Facebook page last year when she posted the a map of 20 congressional districts targeted by SarahPac, the headline of the map: "It's time to take a stand."
At the time Giffords reacted to the map in an interview on a cable news program.
"When people do that, they've got to realize there are consequences to that action," Giffords said. And another tweeted, "Left blamed Palin b4 they knew 1st thing about shooter; unable to admit malice, they double down, co-ordinate narrative. Grotesque."
Another statement being retweeted by conservatives is this one, noting that even President Obama has used the language of armed conflict in politics. "The instigator for AZ massacre? Obama: 'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun," and linking to comments that then-Senator Obama made during Democratic primaries.
One thing is clear, Palin, who has been at the center of so much of the political discourse and discussion the last two years, is right back in the center, you might even say the crosshairs, whether she wants to be there or not. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/01/08/934410/-Sarah-Palin-put-the-gun-s-crosshairs-on-Gabby-Giffords#Can we please stop the pious high mindedness that says that this tea bagger BS is just part of the discourse? It's not, and John Adams and all of the other founding fathers they allegedly revere would slap them in prison, or worse, for the kinds of seditious acts that inspired todays violence. Sarah Palin is the one that put Gabby Giffords in the gun's crosshairs of this heinous assassin.
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Michigan prosecutors were weighing Tuesday whether to charge a homeowner in the killing of a woman on his porch in a case that has raised comparisons to the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin last year.
Renisha McBride, 19, was killed in Dearborn Heights on Nov. 2 when she sought help after a car accident, her family said. The results of an autopsy, released Monday, showed she died of a shotgun blast to the face.
Maria Miller, a prosecutor's spokeswoman, said her office was awaiting material from the Dearborn Heights Police Department before deciding whether to charge the man, whose name has not been released. It is not known when prosecutors will finish the review.
"The Wayne County prosecutor's office is waiting for several items relating to the investigation from the Dearborn Heights Police Department at this time. We have begun the warrant review process. News will be released when a charging decision has been made," Miller said.
The homeowner's lawyer said he acted properly.
Since the shooting, high-profile civil rights leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, and protesters have called for an investigation, likening the incident to the February 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. McBride was black and the homeowner is white. A jury in Sanford, Fla., acquitted George Zimmerman, who is of white and Latino heritage, of murder in the death of Martin, who was black. That case became a national issue after Sharpton and others protested authorities' initial refusal to charge Zimmerman.
The autopsy report provides new details on McBride's shooting, but leaves some key questions unanswered. For example, it confirms she was shot in the face, supporting the idea that she was facing the homeowner. But the autopsy does not specify the distance from which the weapon was fired.
"There was an entrance shotgun wound to the face, with no evidence of close-range discharge of a firearm noted on the skin surrounding this wound," reads the report by Assistant Medical Examiner Kilak Kesha, who ruled McBride's death a homicide. "The wound track was from front to back and from right to left."
According to McBride's family and supporters, she went looking for help after a car accident in the early hours on Nov. 2. She eventually went to the porch of a house in Dearborn Heights, where she was shot. Police have confirmed that McBride was shot on the porch but have not released details.
Cheryl Carpenter, the homeowner's lawyer, has said he was awakened about 4 a.m. by what sounded like "a person or persons" trying to enter his home. She said the shooting was justified.
"Let's wait and not prejudice" the case, Carpenter said last week. "Nobody, including the police, the prosecutor or the public, has all the information yet."


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- Research article
- Open Access
- Open Peer Review
Urinary kidney injury molecule-1 is related to pathologic involvement in IgA nephropathy with normotension, normal renal function and mild proteinuria
- Peng-cheng Xu†1,
- Li Wei†1,
- Wen-ya Shang1,
- Shun-li Tian2,
- Dong-mei Gu3,
- Tie-kun Yan1 and
- Shan Lin1Email author
© Xu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
- Received: 2 March 2014
- Accepted: 2 July 2014
- Published: 7 July 2014
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) may progress to renal failure for some patients without any clinical risk factors and it is not unusual to find severe pathologic damage in clinically mild IgAN. We therefore investigated whether urinary kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) was related to pathologic involvement in clinically mild IgAN.
Urinary KIM-1/creatinine of 51 IgAN patients with normotension, normal renal function and proteinuria < 1.0 g/24 h were tested. Relationships between urinary KIM-1 and pathologic features were analyzed.
Eighteen of the 51 patients had elevated urinary KIM-1. The tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis was more severe in patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 than that in patients with normal urinary KIM-1 (T0/T1/T2, 13/5/0 vs. 33/0/0, P = 0.004). Proportion of glomeruli containing cresecents was higher in patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 than that in patients with normal urinary KIM-1 (50% vs. 18%, P = 0.026). Urinary KIM-1 correlated with the proportion of total crescents (R = 0.303, p = 0.031) and fibrous crescents (R = 0.456, p = 0.001), but did not correlate with the proportion of cellular crescents or fibrocellular crescents. Although the proportion of vascular lesions was higher in patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 (44.4%) than that in patients with normal urinary KIM-1 (18.1%), the difference was not significant (p = 0.057). There was no difference of the response to treatment between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1 during a short-term follow-up.
Urinary KIM-1 is a reflection of tubularinstitial injury. For patients with clinically mild IgAN, high urinary KIM-1 is related to relatively severe pathologic involvement on renal biopsy.
- IgA nephropathy
- Oxford classification
Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) which is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis, is clinically heterogeneous and 20–40% of patients will progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) eventually after diagnosis [1, 2]. Some clinical risk factors have been reported to link with progressive IgAN including hypertension, proteinuria >1.0 g/day, and reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR), but it is not unusual to find patients with significant histological damage despite the absence of clinical risk factors [3–7]. Since IgAN may be progressive for some patients without clinical risk factors [8], renal biopsy seems to be needed for all patients with suspected IgAN [9]. However, renal biopsy is an invasive examination and not all the patients with clinically trivial disease can be persuaded to accept renal biopsy, so a noninvasive biomarker for assessment of the severity of pathologic involvement is needed.
Tubular/interstitial injury has been indicated to have predictive value of the prognosis of IgAN [10–13]. Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) is a protein expressed on renal proximal tubule epithelial cells and is a sensitive biomarker for proximal tubule injury [14, 15]. Urinary KIM-1 has been reported to be associated with disease severity and predict treatment response in IgAN [16–19]. However, previous studies mainly focused on the value of the urinary KIM-1 in the prediction of renal survival and all these studies involved patients with IgAN from clinically trivial to very severe. Thus, the value of urinary KIM-1 in IgAN without clinical risk factors is unclear. We hypothesize that urinary KIM-1 might be a valuable biomarker indicating significant histological damage in clinically trivial patients. In the current study, we detected the levels of urinary KIM-1 in 51 IgAN patients with normotension, normal renal function and mild proteinuria, and analyzed the relationships between urinary KIM-1 and pathologic variables identified by the recently published Oxford classification of IgAN.
Selection of patients
Fifty-one patients, aged >14 years, with renal-biopsy-proven IgAN, from Tianjin Medical University General Hospital between October 2011 and November 2013 were enrolled. Normotension was defined as systolic blood pressure <140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure <90 mmHg; Normal renal function was defined as serum creatinine < upper limit of test (100 μmol/L); Mild proteinuria was defined as proteinuria <1 g/24 h. Clinical and laboratory data were collected at the time of renal biopsy. Patients with secondary causes of mesangial IgA deposits, such as Henoch–Schonlein purpura or with comorbid conditions such as diabetes mellitus, liver disease or systemic lupus erythematosis, were excluded from this study. Twenty healthy volunteers were used as normal control. To analyze the relationship between urinary KIM-1 and cresecents, eighteen patients who were diagnosed as crescentic IgAN (defined as crescents in more than 50% of glomeruli on biopsy specimens) were also enrolled. The research was in compliance of the declaration of Helsinki and approved by the ethic committee of Tianjin Medical University General Hospital. Informed consent was obtained from each participant. For participants under the age of 18, written informed consents were obtained from the parents.
Clinical and laboratory information
Clinical and laboratory data collected included the following: gender, age (years), time from onset (months), with/without prior infection, with/without gross hematuria, systolic and diastolic arterial pressure (mmHg), proteinuria (g/24 h), serum creatinine (μmol/L), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, ml/min/1.73 m2), serum IgA level (mg/dL) and serum Complement 3 level (mg/dL). eGFR was calculated with an equation developed by adaptation of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation on the basis of data from Chinese chronic kidney disease patients [20].
Evaluation of pathologic involvement
The minimum number of glomeruli in renal biopsy to allow the inclusion in the study was ten. The four pathologic variables of the Oxford classification were scored as follows [21, 22]: Mesangial score: ≦0.5 (M0) or > 0.5 (M1); Segmental glomerulosclerosis: absent (S0) or present (S1); Endocapillary hypercellularity: absent (E0) or present (E1); Tubular atrophy atrophy/interstitial fibrosis: ≦25% (T0), 26–50% (T1) or >50% (T2). In addition, according to the recommendation of Oxford classification, there was a summary of the total number of glomeruli and the number with crescents and global glomerulosclerosis. Vascular lesions included hyaline change and wall thickening. Wall thickening was evaluated as the ratio of luminal diameter to outer diameter, and was considered to be present when the ratio was less than 0.5. Two pathologists who were blinded to patients' data examined the slides separately. Differences in scoring were resolved by re-reviewing the biopsies and coming to consensus.
Detection of urinary KIM-1
Urine samples were collected and centrifuged at 1500 g for 10 min to remove cellular components, and the supernatant was frozen at -80°C until use. Urine samples from 20 normal individuals were collected as controls. Urinary KIM-1 was measured by ELISA using a commercial kit (R&D Systems, DKM100) in accordance with the manufacturer's guidelines. The lowest limit of detection for this assay was 0.046 ng/mL. The inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) was 6.7%, and the intra-assay CV was 4.2%. The urinary KIM-1 level was standardized with urine creatinine (ng/mg). Adjusted urinary KIM-1 was expressed as urinary KIM-1 concentration/creatinine concentration (ng/mg).
Statistical analysis
The quantitative data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation or median with interquartile range as appropriate. Differences of quantitative parameters with normal distribution between groups were assessed using the independent t-test. Differences of quantitative parameters with abnormal distribution between groups were assessed using the non-parametric test. Paired samples were assessed using the paired t-test. Differences of qualitative data were compared using chi-square test. The Spearman coefficient correlation was used to analyze correlation among various parameters. A P-value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Analysis was performed with SPSS statistical software package (version 17.0, Chicago, Ill, USA).
Clinical and pathological characteristics of patients with mild IgAN
Clinical parameters of 51 patients with mild IgAN
Male/female (n)
Age (years)
29.08 ± 7.96
Time from onset (months)
4(0.33, 84)
With/without prior infection
With/without gross hematuria
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)
117.15 ± 12.05
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)
73.11 ± 9.05
Proteinuria (g/24 h)
0.56 ± 0.22
Serum creatinine (μmol/L)
74.75 ± 12.98
eGFR(ml/min/1.73 m2)
101.21 ± 24.50
Serum IgA (mg/dL)
335.47 ± 118.43
Serum Complement 3 (mg/dL)
94.42 ± 21.18
The distribution of pathologic variables defined by the Oxford classification was as follows: M0/M1: 42/9 (82.4/17.6%); S0/S1: 45/6 (88.2/11.8%); E1/E2: 44/7 (86.3/13.7%) and T0/T1/T2: 46/5/0 (90.2/9.8/0.0%). The median percentage of glomeruli with crescents was 0.0% with an interquartile range between 0.0% and 35.0%. The median percentage of glomeruli with global glomerulosclerosis was 0.0% with an interquartile range between 0.0% and 40.0%. Among all 51 patients, 14 were with vascular lesions (hyaline change and/or wall thickening).
Urinary KIM-1 in patients and normal controls
Comparison of EMST scores between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1
Comparison of the clinical and pathologic parameters between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1/Cr
Without elevated urinary KIM-1/Cr (n = 33)
With elevated urinary KIM-1/Cr (n = 18)
P value
Male/female (n)
Age (years)
30.03 ± 7.96
27.33 ± 7.89
Time from onset (months)
5(0.5, 60)
3(0.33, 84)
With/without prior infection
With/without gross hematuria
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)
118.18 ± 10.95
115.28 ± 13.98
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)
74.24 ± 8.11
71.11 ± 10.51
Proteinuria (g/24 h)
0.52 ± 0.20
0.62 ± 0.24
Serum creatinine (μmol/L)
74.24 ± 13.09
75.69 ± 13.10
eGFR(ml/min/1.73 m2)
105.24 ± 23.19
104.56 ± 16.27
Serum IgA (mg/dL)
318.05 ± 111.82
374.27 ± 127.36
Serum Complement 3 (mg/dL)
93.73 ± 23.15
96.38 ± 19.04
Mesangial hypercellularity (M0/M1)
Segmental glomerulosclerosis (S0/S1)
Endocapillary hypercellularity (E0/E1)
Tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis (T0/T1/T2)
With/without extracapillary proliferation (cresecents)
With/without global glomerulosclerosis
With/without vascular lesions
Comparison of the EMST scores in patients with proteinuria 0.5 ~ 1.0 g/24 h
Without elevated urinary KIM-1/Cr (n = 19)
With elevated urinary KIM-1/Cr (n = 12)
P value
Mesangial hypercellularity (M0/M1)
Segmental glomerulosclerosis (S0/S1)
Endocapillary hypercellularity (E0/E1)
Tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis (T0/T1/T2)
Comparison of glomeruli with cresecents and global glomerulosclerosis between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1
Besides EMST scores, proportions of glomeruli with extracapillary proliferation (cresecents) and global glomerulosclerosis between two groups were also compared. Proportion of glomeruli with cresecents was significantly higher in patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 than that in patients without elevated urinary KIM-1. There was no significant difference of the proportion of glomeruli with global glomerulosclerosis between two groups (Table 2).
Comparison of vascular lesions between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1
Among 14 patients with vascular lesions, 8 patients were with elevated urinary KIM-1 and 6 patients were without elevated urinary KIM-1. Although the proportion of patients with vascular lesions was higher in patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 (44.4%) than that in patients without elevated urinary KIM-1 (18.1%), the difference was not significant (p = 0.057) (Table 2).
Analysis of the relationship between urinary KIM-1 and glomeruli with cresecents
To further investigate whether the correlation found in patients with mild IgAN was valid in various stage of IgAN, correlation analysis was also made in 18 patients diagnosed as crescentic IgAN. For these patients, the percentage of glomeruli with crescents ranged from 50% to 95%. Unlike patients with mild IgAN, 72% patients with crescentic IgAN were with T2 score (T0/T1/T2: 2/3/13). Correspondingly, the urinary KIM-1 of patients with crescentic IgAN was significantly higher than that of patients with mild IgAN [1.34 (0.35-3.11) vs. 0.42 (0.68-1.64) ng/mg, P < 0.001]. However, no correlation between the percentage of glomeruli with crescents and urinary KIM-1 was found in patients with crescentic IgAN,
Comparison of the response to treatment between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1
Twenty-two patients were followed up for 3 ~ 24 months. During follow up, 16 patients were treated with ACEis and/or ARBs and 7 patients were treated with immunosuppressive therapy (13.5%). The mean follow-up duration was 11.41 ± 6.06 months. After treatment, the follow-up proteinuria decreased significantly (0.53 ± 0.24 ng/mg) compared with the baseline level (ng/mg, 0.53 ± 0.24 vs. 0.62 ± 0.23 P = 0.039). There was no significant difference of the baseline proteinuria between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1 (g/24 h, 0.57 ± 0.23 vs. 0.70 ± 0.22, P = 0.218). There was also no significant difference of the follow-up proteinuria between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1 (g/24 h, 0.46 ± 0.19 vs. 0.64 ± 0.28, P = 0.09).
Urinary KIM-1 has been considered to be a biomarker for tubulointerstitial damage and repair and is not detected in severely damajged tubules [23]. Inconsistent results about the relationships between urinary KIM-1 and clinical parameters in IgAN have been derived by previous studies. The earliest study on the correlation between urinary KIM-1 and IgAN was made by Van Timmeren et al. [23]. The authors studied 102 patients with various kinds of kidney diseases including IgAN and found that urinary KIM-1 correlated negatively with renal function but not with proteinuria. However, there were only 10 patients with IgAN in that study. Subsequent studies focusing on patients with various stages of IgAN got different results [16, 18]. In the current study, we found no correlation between urinary KIM-1 and proteinuria, as well as between urinary KIM-1 and renal function for IgAN patients with normotension, normal renal function and mild proteinuria, and the proportion of patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 was lower than previous studies [16, 18]. We speculated that the heterogeneity of the selected patients might contribute to the differences of the results.
Oxford classification is the first specially-designed pathological system for evaluating the prognosis of IgAN. Among all 4 variables, tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis has been indicated to have the most predictive value by different validation studies [10–12]. In the current study, the patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 had more severe tubulointerstitial injury (5/18 patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 had T1 score, while no patient with normal urinary KIM-1 had T1 score). Although no difference of the response to treatment between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1 was observed during a short-term follow-up, it seems that the long-term prognosis of the patients with elevated urinary KIM-1 should be paid more attention.
Although KIM-1 is a sensitive and specific biomarker for the tubulointerstitial damage, elevated urinary KIM-1 can be observed not only in the kidney diseases characterized mainly by tubulointerstitial damage, but also in that characterized exclusively by globular damage (such as minimal change disease) [23]. In these diseases, tubulointerstitial damage should be due to reabsorption of protein. So urinary KIM-1 is a marker of the disease activity, however when tubules and interstitium are extremely damaged, KIM-1 will disappear. In the current study, significant correlation between urinary KIM-1 and crescent formation was found in patients with mild IgAN. Previous studies indicated more than 20% of IgAN patients could be found to have crescents on the initial biopsy [24–26]. Poor prognosis of crescentic IgAN has been generally recognized by clinicians [25]. Coexistence of the cellular, fibrocellular and fibrous crescents reflects the process of slow progression of IgAN. Although crescent formation was not demonstrated to be an independent risk factor of ESRD in the Oxford classification, the significance of crescent formation in IgAN should not be neglected, because patients with rapidly progressive kidney failure were excluded when developing the Oxford classification.
IgAN is a kind of glomerulopathy and the tubular/interstitial injury should emerge following the glomerular injury. The chronic glomerular damage causes local microcirculation barrier, and then causes kidney ischemia and damages the tubules and interstitium. Although no correlation between crescents and urinary KIM-1 was found in 18 patients with crescentic IgAN, the urinary KIM-1 level of these patients was higher than that of patients with mild IgAN and the tubular/interstitial injury was much more severe (72% patients with crescentic IgAN were of T2 score). Thus, we speculated that crescents formation might be able to cause tubular/interstitial injury and then induce the expression of KIM-1 indirectly. It was noteworthy that for patients with mild IgAN, it was the fibrous crescent not the cellular crescent that correlated with urinary KIM-1. Fibrillation of crescents means the acute damage of glomeruli turn to be chronic and irreversible, and the microcirculation of interstitium will be injured inevitably. Thus, the correlation between fibrous crescents and urinary KIM-1 found in patients with mild IgAN might be a reflection of the ischemic injury of tubules and interstitium caused by the irreversible glomerular damage.
Although the exact reason is still unclear, previous studies indicated that vascular lesions in IgAN were very common [27, 28]. Since vascular lesions can influence the blood supply to the glomeruli, tubules and interstitium and cause more damage to the glomerular and tubulointerstitial tissues, it might also influence the expression of KIM-1. In the current study, no significant difference of the incidence of vascular lesions between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1 was found. However, since the p-value of the comparison had reached 0.057, we thought that the result might be reversed when the number of patients could be enlarged enough.
There are some limitations to the present study. First, According to Oxford classification, the histologic lesions of biopsy of patients with clinically mild IgAN were relatively small. The proportion of patients with T1 was low and no patient was found to be with T2. This might have an influence on the analysis of the relationship between urinary KIM-1 and the tubulointerstitial injury. Second, urinary KIM-1 was measured at a single time-point and it is unclear whether the level of urinary KIM-1 fluctuates on different occasions. Finally, since the time of follow-up is short, we could not judge the long-term outcome of these patients at present. A large-scale analysis with a long time follow-up is warranted.
In conclusion, urinary KIM-1 is a reflection of tubulointerstitial injury. For patients with IgAN without clinical risk factors, high urinary KIM-1 level is related to relatively severe pathologic involvement on renal biopsy. There was no difference of the response to treatment during a short time follow-up between patients with and without elevated urinary KIM-1. However, since IgAN tends to progress slowly, a long-term follow-up is still needed.
This work was supported by one grant of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81200534).
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River North is a vibrant community of artists, entrepreneurs, young professionals, and many others. In the past, RiNo was a nerve center for Denver industries-- warehouses, rail, and manufacturing. Now, it is one of the fastest growing and evolving neighborhoods in the city. Apartment buildings, office space, and mixed-use developments like Industry and The Source are transforming the neighborhood. RiNo is expected to be a focal point of the city's growth over the next twenty years.
In RiNo, the City aims to:
A list of projects can be seen below.
The City and County of Denver's 35th/36th Pedestrian Bridge Project has been built between River North, Curtis Park and Cole. The bridge connects the 38th & Blake commuter rail station to the surrounding neighborhoods and spans the railroad tracks between Blake and Wazee Streets.
A pedestrian bridge connecting the west and east sides of the South Platte River at 35th street is currently funded to 30% design. The City is working with the private sector and other partners in the community to move the project forward.
The City and County of Denver's Public Infrastructure (38th & Blake Station) TOD Project made infrastructure improvements to provide better pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular access to the Regional Transportation District's (RTD's) future 38th & Blake rail station that is being built as part of its FasTracks program.
The project constructed thousands of feet of new sidewalks immediately surrounding the station and make improvements to the existing Blake Street Bridge over 38th Street, which has been identified by the City and local community as a priority for improving accessibility to the station.
Reinvigorating the South Platte River Front is a priority for RiNo.
RiNo Park is envisioned as a recreational focal point for the community and a key entry point to the South Platte Greenway. It will feature a playground, large grassy area, and repurposed buildings for gathering spaces, among other amenities. Construction of the park is funded.
The park is designed to integrate with the River North Promenade, a linear park that will extend from 31st to 40th St. The Promenade is funded to 30% design.
Click here for more information about the RiNo Park project.
The Walnut Street Corridor Improvement project, headed by Denver Public Works and the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative (NDCC) will begin to organize the street to better accommodate pedestrians and parking between Broadway and 36th Street.


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If you're anything like me, we have a bunch of these pool noodles laying around in our garage. Check this out--you'll be floored with what they did with Pool Noodles!!
What about the next time you need a wreath form? Simply attach with duct tape, and you're good to go!Enjoy your day!!


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With few takers, timbers start to decay
- post-quake rebuilding
Sep 30, 2016-
Around 1,000 cubic feet of timber meant to be distributed to the families whose homes were damaged in the 2015 April earthquake have started to decay at Melchaur godown in Sindhupalchok district.
Around 50,000 people in the district had initially filed the applications requesting for timber to rebuild their homes. But very few applicants received them when the District Forest Office began the distribution process, said Shiva Sapkota, the office chief.
The District Forest Office (DFO) is distributing timber on the basis of recommendations from the VDC and municipal offices. Sapkota said one family is entitled to 25 cubic feet of timber for rebuilding purpose.
Chandra Bahadur Shrestha, of Thulosirubari, said his he DFO did not provide the timber when they needed it and now they have already built a new home.
But most earthquake survivors in the district say since they do not have the money to start rebuilding, there is no point taking the timber from the DFO. They are still living in temporary huts. The government has distributed Rs 50,000 each to the quake affected families as the first instalment of house rebuilding aid. The money, according to the earthquake survivors, is insufficient to start constructing homes. There have been several reports about house rebuilding aid being spent for other purposes.
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If you're planning to go on just one safari in your lifetime, it would have to be the Wildebeest Migration safari! Often dubbed as "The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth", it is a definite must-see for lovers of wildlife & nature.
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Marvin L. Watkins went home to be with the Lord Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015.
Marvin was born Nov. 12, 1939, in Minneapolis, Kansas to Raymond and Gladys Watkins.
He served in the Navy from 1958 to 1962 and retired from Cessna in 2006.
He is survived by his loving wife, Jeannie P. (Painter); children, Renee Riley and husband, Gary, Terri Greene and husband, Matt, and Raymond Watkins and wife Paula; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a twin brother, Melvin Watkins; a sister, Marilyn Jones; an aunt, Mabel Ellison; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was buried at Fort Scott, Kansas. Memorial services were held Saturday, Feb. 28, at Pathway Church, 2001 N. Maize Road, Wichita, Kansas.
Marvin loved the Lord and his family. He will be missed by all.


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This week Tina Buddha published an article I wrote about grief. I've been overwhelmed by the number of complete strangers who have reached out to me to share their stories. There was one message in particular that stuck with me though, from a woman who mentioned that her entire body started shutting down after the death of her mother.
This blog was started so many years ago, yet I don't think I ever really talked about how grief is what set me on this particular journey with RA.
A few months after my father died, something felt "off." I was slowing down, sleeping more and moving sluggishly through my days. I figured the issue was more mental than physical, considering the emotional trauma I'd just endured. Doctors diagnosed me with depression, handed me a prescription for Prozac, and called it a day.
Stranger things began happening. The first time I realized there was a bigger issue was when I was sitting in 3rd period history class taking a written exam. My hand locked up completely. My fingers wouldn't move on their own at all, and there was a searing pain that traveled from my wrist to my fingertips. I was terrified. Depression didn't do things like this.
Some weeks after, I woke up and couldn't pull myself out of bed. I limped around like an old woman for the next few days, couldn't get comfortable while sitting or lying down, and every joint of in my body felt like it was on fire. Yet, according to doctors, it was still only depression. I still didn't believe them. I couldn't believe that depression alone could take an active, healthy teenager and age her this much over night (that's not to say I don't think depression is a crippling illness. I just knew this was different).
It was almost 4 years after my father's death before I was officially diagnosed with RA. In truth, I think the only reason I got diagnosed was because I kept arguing with doctors to test me for things, but that's a blog post for a later time.
When my rheumatologist began questioning me about my childhood, we realized that I had RA for pretty much my entire life. I had just been symptom-free, aside from some obvious signs of the illness. So why did the death of a loved one give me a full-blown, active autoimmune disease?
I did some research after my diagnosis. According to the Arthritis Foundation, there are some people who are born with gene markers that make them more susceptible to developing Rheumatoid Arthritis. Different things can trigger these markers- bacteria, viruses, hormones…and stress from trauma.
I realize that the death of a loved one isn't always traumatic. In my case, my entire world came crumbling down. My father was everything to me, which I think is pretty clear in that article I wrote.
Having to deal with both grief and an autoimmune disease together sucked. In a way though, I'm glad they happened at the same time. I think I got through the first few years of my illness because I knew I was strong enough to fight. Battling grief taught me how much I was capable of enduring.
If you have an autoimmune disease that was triggered by grief, I'd like to hear from you. Let's build a community of understanding.


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Jennifer Meyer's 40th birthday party turned into THE non-Coachella celeb event of the weekend ... with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Katy Perry ... AND Orlando Bloom all showing up.
The huge bash went down at Peppermint in WeHo, where Justin Theroux was hanging with the wife and her "Friends" pal. Jessica Alba, Nicole Richie and a bunch of other celebs were inside.
As for Katy and Orlando ... no word if they saw each other inside, but there was at least a chance.
Jewelry designer Meyer and Tobey Maguire split up last year. Kinda obvious now who got the bulk of their famous pals in the breakup.
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In an effort to back up Obama's gaffe that he'll "talk" to anyone, even terrorists, as if diplomacy in and of itself was a cure all, editorial writer Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times has made a gaffe of his own that, in essence, makes the claim that negotiating with Adolf Hitler was perfectly reasonable even as each concession given to him by Europe's prewar powers obviously gave him every reason to be brave enough to start WWII. Ramsey seems to be trying to justify the appeasement of Hitler in order to give Barack Obama the cover he needs to make his inexperience and naiveté seem less detrimental to his presidential ambitions.
Ramsey is worried, he says, about the "continual reference to Hitler and his National Socialists, particularly the British and French accommodation at the Munich Conference of 1938." He feels that it was completely reasonable to cave in to Hitler in those days prior to the war.
What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.
We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany's eastern and western borders had been redrawn 19 years before-and not to its benefit. In the democracies there was some sense of guilt with how Germany had been treated after World War I. Certainly there was a memory of the "Great War." In 2008, we have entirely forgotten World War I, and how utterly unlike any conception of "The Good War" it was. When the British let Hitler have a slice of Czechoslovakia, they were following their historical wisdom: avoid war. War produces results far more horrible than you expected. War is a bad investment. It is not glorious. Don't give anyone an excuse to start one.
After all, Ramsey says, Europe didn't want a war, so just giving in to Hitler was not an "unreasonable" reaction to Hitler's demands. So, since the rest of Europe couldn't have realized how ruthless and evil Hitler was, their actions were just fine with Ramsey. If it was fine back then, he obviously imagines, it should be fine today. Since we cannot know the future, he seems to be saying, always caving in to tyrants just in case they won't turn out to be tyrants should be just fine.
This also seems like Obama's message.
Ramsey worries that calling people a Hitler damages any chance to "talk" to them. Ramsey says, "but who else is a Hitler? If you paste that label on somebody it means they are cast out. You can't talk to them any more." But, the only reason someone can legitimately be cast into a Hitler category is because of their actual actions, rhetoric and policies. Ramsey names Milosevic, Hussein, and Ahmadinejad in his piece as if calling them a version of Hitler is unwarranted. But, each of these men have committed crimes against humanity that warrant such a tag being placed on them. These are (and were) evil, evil men. Why does Ramsey discount their actual crimes so easily?
Also, it should be recalled that Hitler and the men that Ramsey seemed to think deserve the benefit of the doubt have all made their intentions quite clear previous to any action taken. As John Ray over at stoptheaclu.com reminds us:
They were ignoring evidence that they did not want to see. As far back as Volume I chapter 4 of Mein Kampf, Hitler had made clear his intention to grab for Germany the territory of other nations. But people just did not want to believe that he really meant it.
Obama has made claims that Ahmadinejad would be one of the people he'd "talk" to. Yet, Ahmadinejad has made it quite clear that he intends to kill as many Americans and Jews as he can.
Is THIS the sort of person that Ramsey and Obama think they can negotiate with?
In any case, as far as Ramsey goes, he obviously was hit pretty hard over the weekend for his simple-minded analysis because he substantially changed what he originally wrote. Still, even the new, altered version of his original post fails the common sense test. Negotiating with people who have repeatedly announced their desire for genocide and wide spread warfare, destruction, and empire building just isn't a reasonable idea. And appeasing their lust for power and death is an even worse one.


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New Family Member—Vintage Sunburst Ernie Ball Music Man Axis
Here's my latest acquisition, a Vintage Sunburst Ernie Ball Music Man Axis Guitar.
Beautiful isn't she.
Thanks to Marty in Chicago for selling me this beauty. By the way, ebay is a rip off. Send the buyer a note and ask if they'll sell the guitar off ebay in a private sell.
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This English grad teaches students that you don't always know where life will take you. Dianna didn't begin her college career in the English program; instead her journey at California State University East Bay (CSUEB), began in nursing that didn't go as she planned. Before earning both her Masters and Bachelors degrees in English, she struggled in her nursing courses and received low grades; this is something all so familiar to students. After she found out that nursing wasn't right fit, she gave business a crack and it still wasn't the right fit.
It wasn't until she started taking English classes to boost her GPA, when she inspired by Professor Williams, a premier story writer, that she found her passion for English. It was Professor William's praise of her writing that gave her the confidence to choose English as her major. The degree taught her to think strategically, research, analyze well thought out plans, analyze business websites and support with evidence.
Diana said she had a late start and her first job was an office manager for a manufacturing company. She originally thought she was going to end up teaching high school but she went to a guidance counselor and took the career assessment test and discovered at that point marketing communications was the perfect fit.
Dianna states that one of things that California State University, East Bay is good at is creating people who work – either for themselves or others – and who sustain the economy. Dianna currently lives in New Hampshire with her fifteen year old son, who she spends much of her time with when away from work. Dianna originally grew up here in the Bay Area in Alameda, CA. She's owned her own business since 1998, DH Communications, Inc.www.diannahuff.com a business-to-business Website marketing firm. Dianna's advice to students, "Keep learning constantly, this doesn't mean you need to go back to school but you should always keep learning in whatever career you end up in."


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Watch how 50 NBA stars made their first career baskets
There are plenty of ways to score in the NBA. There's the layup, the tip-in, a traditional shot, the floater, a 3-point shot, the dunk and many other variations. So how did some of your favorite NBA players make their first shot? We now have that answer.
The NBA released a video on its YouTube page over the weekend showcasing how some of the league's best players made their first basket. The video spans decades of players including Ossie Schectman, who is credited with scoring the league's first basket ever, and Michael Jordan, who made his NBA debut 31 years ago Monday.
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So, without anymore explanation, here is the video. Enjoy.


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The searching zeal for a true linguistic form of tunes, grossly of music, kept pushing SANJAY to get to the bottom from his early teens. At that time, available musical instruments were only two in their house – one was a pair of Indian drums, "Tabla and Buyan" and the other was a Harmonium. SANJAY began to learn "TABLA" from Shri Kantilal Bandopadhyay living at Naihati, a place not very far from his home at Shyamnagar. Soon after, he became a household name as a Tabla Accompanist in musical soirees of the locality and surrounding areas. In his school days SANJAY had occasions of attending such few hundreds of soirees even at the State level with both vocal and instrumental artistes.
Side by side, SANJAY also carried on with learning HARMONIUM, an Indian variant of Organ which has widespread use in various genres of Indian music particularly vocal music, ranging from Classical to Folk. He received his early lessons in Harmonium from his father, Shri Ajit Kumar Chakrabarty and was further groomed up by his elder brother. From the age of 15 or 16, SANJAY began to lend his support on the HARMONIUM with Classical Concerts of his elder brother who is none other than today's internationally acclaimed iconic Vocalist, PANDIT AJOY CHAKRABARTY in all Classical Music Conferences of the country and abroad.
From the year next, that is from the age of 17, SANJAY was picked up on priority as the most fitting Harmonium Accompanist in the concerts of world class maestros belonging to All India Radio and ITC Sangeet Research Academy, of Kolkata, the premier institute for promoting Classical Music as well as the Guru Shishya Paramparaa tradition of ancient India, having widely travelled across the country and abroad with a chock-a-block diary of programme schedules for all the time.
World wide recognition and fame followed galore. But SANJAY counted more on his fortune of having so close association with almost all the North Indian Classical Luminaries and also some of South Indian Music Legends. Of the northern fringe the names like Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Vidushi Kishori Amonkar, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansoor, Vidushi Girija Devi, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Swapan Chowdhury and of course his elder Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty, and of southern fringe the names like Padmavibhushan Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna and T. N. Sheshgopalan need a special mention.
Upon spending nearly a decade in playing Harmonium, that too with such above galaxy of world class artistes, SANJAY achieved a different peak, that is HARMONIUM SOLOIST. This independent calibre of SOLO PERFORMANCE got a fillip by virtue of his being born in a musician family, blessed with training and knowledge of Classical Vocal Music from his early days.
But the more he went into its depth the more he found that HARMONIUM was not the right medium of delineating the soul of Indian Raga Music (classical music) which is largely based on "Meend" that is gliding notes or tunes, inter-woven with micro-notes (tunes). HARMONIUM can only produce staccato tunes, that is a string of notes detached with each other. It made him ponder over inculcating such other instrument that could justify the right rendition of Raga music holding its dignity on high spirits.
In the middle of such confounded state SANJAY fell in love with the tonal elegance of SITAR and took to learning this majestic instrument from none other than the legendary maestro PANDIT NIKHIL BANDOPADHYAY of Senia Gharana (a most dignified school of Indian Raga Music headed by TAANSEN). Unfortunately for untimely demise of this great maestro, the curtain dropped only after a lead of 3 years. But SANJAY did not give in and continued learning SITAR under tutelage of Pandt Ajoy Sinha Roy of same lineage. With a musician's mettle in his heart, SANJAY did so well with his new instrument that his SITAR RECITAL started being staged to an extent in several places at home and abroad before long.
But SANJAY's life trajectory never ran smooth, and rather had always passed through pits and pinnacles. Accordingly, a sudden health hazard had broken his uprising graph with SITAR as doctor advised him to not even touch the instrument for a good few years. A flabbergasted SANJAY then tried out a switchover to Electronic Music Instrument and desperately bought a "01/W pro CORG Music Work Station" emptying his hard earned Dollars while in a concert tour in the USA in 1993.
A new journey happened to begin with his devoting almost 24 hours barring a little for food and a short sleep for mastering over this new gadget in particular reference to being thorough about the Electronic Music system. Here also SANJAY took no time to fulfill his commitment.
At this point of time today, SANJAY is full to the brim with blessings of the Almighty having a good voice for vocal rendition, a recovered health for playing the SITAR again and providing a wider coverage with an added access in handling Electronic Instruments beside the Acoustic ones.
Thus with the combined knowledge and skill in Indian and Western Music System SANJAY is always ahead of time in drawing success in the making and producing MUSIC of kaleidoscopic variety in fragrance, colour, taste and flavor.
Sanjay lives and breathes music – a rare thing to be found today.
Sanjay Chakrabarty's vocal timbre is magnificent. In some account his rendition is very near to the style of legendary Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Sahib.
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I was really excited to see this in the app store, as there are very few timeline apps out there. I have used it for several projects, and am glad to have it, but am also a bit frustrated by its interface. The feature that stands out to me as a big plus is the ease and flexibility of adjusting photo size and placement. The Wikipedia search feature is another standout. I do think this is a useful tool for the classroom and hope to see entering of time units become a bit easier. (SEE FULL REVIEW HERE).
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General Impression:
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Deson Development Ltd.("Deson Development" or "Company")has been a core business subsidiary of the Group since its establishment in 1988, serving as a main contractor for construction projects. As of today, Deson Development holds numerous construction licenses. The Company is well experienced in international project management and has professional teams, who are well familiar with international contracts, norms and procedures (including relevant requirements in various regions of China). The Company has worked in cooperation with many multinational companies as JV contractors for large construction projects, therefore it has procured rich practical experience in cost control and contract administration. Deson Development's business in Hong Kong and China covers many areas, which provides it with a certain competitive edge for various types of projects. Since its inception, the Company has successfully completed hundreds of construction projects in Hong Kong and in many major cities in China. Below are some job references of its completed main contract works:
Xin Qiao Hotel, Beijing
Legend Garden Villas, Beijing
Shartex Plaza, Shanghai
Zhong Da Square, Shanghai
Novel Plaza, Shanghai
Lippo Plaza, Shanghai
(The contract was jointly contracted with Taisei Corporation, Japan)
Gateway Plaza ( Phase II ) , Shanghai
Shanghai Square, Shanghai
German Centre, Shanghai
Guangzhou Parkview Garden ( Phase I ),Guangzhou
Gemstar Industrial Park, Panyu
Triumph Terrace, Victory Avenue Homantin, HK
Sunrise Villa, Chi Kiang Street, HK
Shiu Fai Terrace, Stubbs Road, HK
Royalton II, Pokfulam Road, HK
Le Village, Village Road, Happy Valley, HK
Luxury private villa, 87 Repulse Bay Road, HK
Delight Court, Ma Tau Wai Road, Kln, HK
Luxury private villa, 18 Fei Ngo Shan Road, Sai Kung, HK
Commercial Building, 12-14 Pak Sha Road, Causeway Bay, HK
HKUGA College, Aberdeen, HK
Luxury private villa, 1 Peak Road, HK
Luxury private villa, 12 Pollock's Path, The Peak, HK
Good Hope School, Ngau Chi Wan, HK ( Redevelopment of primary school section & kindergarten)
Other major projects, where Deson Development acted as a contractor or project manager or design & build contractor include:
Hilton Hotel, Beijing ( Fitting-out works & E&M works )
King Wing Building, Beijing ( Design & fitting-out works )
Marko Sanyuan Store, Guangzhou (Construction, Fitting-out & E&M works)
(The contract was jointly contracted with Hsin Chong Construction (Asia) Ltd.)
Grand Metropole Hotel, Yangzhou (Fitting-out works)
Continental Hotel, Hangzhou (Fitting-out works)
Jinxi Country Club, Hangzhou (Fitting-out works)
Kai Wah Plaza Hotel, Kunming (Fitting-out works)
Furama Hotel, Shenyang (Project Management)
Kingswood Harbour Plaza, Resort City, Tin Shui Wai, HK (Fitting-out works & E&M works)
(The contract was jointly contracted with Wing Hong Construction Ltd.)
Saint Joseph Home for the Aged, Sheung Shui, N.T. HK (Construction works)
YWCA, 1 Macdonnell Road, HK (Fitting out works & E&M renovation works)
XinHua News Agency, 5 Sharp Street West, HK (Fitting-out works & E&M renovation works)
Tsuen Wan 611 Church (Fitting-out works & E&M renovation works)
Empire Hotel, Kowloon (Fitting-out works)
Hong Kong Architectural Services Department - Term Contract for Design, Fitting out and E&M Works (TC-H019 – Hong Kong Island and Outlying Islands, 2-year Term)
Hong Kong Architectural Services Department - Term Contract for Design, Fitting out and E&M Works (TC-L017 –– Kowloon & New Territories, 3-year Term)
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No. 75 Peak Road, Hong Kong (Zone C)
No. 75 Peak Road, Hong Kong
Hoi Fung Path, Stanley, Hong Kong (Inland Lot 91)
No.44 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong
Pik Sha Road, Sai Kung, N.T., Hong Kong (Inland Lot 1588 in DD243)
Prada, Plaza 2000, 2-4 Russell Street and 8 Canal Road East, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
No.15 South Bay Road, Hong Kong
No.48 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong
No.64 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Miu Miu, No.1 Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
No.2-6 Fui Yiu Kok Street, Tsuen Wan, N.T., Hong Kong
Anfield International School, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
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No.1 Gough Hill Road, The Peak, Hong Kong
Saint Joseph Home for the Aged, Sheung Shui, N.T., Hong Kong
German Centre, Shanghai
12-14 Pak Sha Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Le Village, No.49 Village Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Royalton, No.116 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Sunrise Villa, No. 19-23 Chi Kiang Street, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Category A Inmates at Stanley Prison
Triumph Terrace, No.9, 9A-C Victory Avenue, Homantin, Hong Kong
Lippo Plaza, Shanghai
Shanghai Square, Shanghai
Marko Sanyuani Store, Guangzhou
Guangzhou Parkview Garden (Phase 1), Guangzhou
Novel Plaza, Shanghai
Zhong Da Square, Shanghai
Legend Garden Villas, Beijing
Shartex Plaza, Shanghai
Orient Arts Building, Beijing (Hilton Hotel, Beijing)
8A-8F Shiu Fai Terrace, Stubbs Road, Hong Kong
Trappist Haven Monastery at Lantau Island, Hong Kong
HKUGA College, Nam Fung Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
No.1 Peak Road, Hong Kong
10 Pollock's Path, The Peak, Hong Kong
Good Hope School, Ngau Chi Wan, Hong Kong
Sogo Department Store, Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong
Xinhua News Agency (Hong Kong SAR Branch), 5 Sharp Street West, Wanchai, Hong Kong
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Architectural Services Department (TC-H019 & TC-L017)
Sogo Department Store – Basement 2, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Empire Hotel, Kowloon
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Table of Contents
Spire Holdings
Warehouse 3456
- A seemingly abandoned warehouse in district 6, purchased by Castus off the record.
- Currently occupied by the surviving Arbites forces.
Insertion Assets
- 2nd Recon Regulars Fatigues
- +10 to Stealth in Urban environments
- Spectre Pattern Flak Armour Imperial guard flak armour marked with urban camouflage, this is the standard armour of the 2nd Recon 'Grey Walkers' regiment. This suit was taken from a slain 2nd Recon member.
- 4-All, 5 Against Explosives; +10 to Stealth in Urban Environments.
- Max Agility- 50
- Spectre Autorifle: A specialist weapon used by the 2nd Recon city-fight experts. Matte black and with an inbuilt silencer, they are weapons designed entirely for the close confines of a city. This model was taken from a dead member of the 2nd Recon in Spire 6 of Kapex Hive.
- Basic; 90m; S/3/6; D10+4; I; Clip [24]; Rld [1/2]; Reliable, Silenced, Red Dot Sight, Aux-Grenade Launcher (30m; S/-/-; Clip [1]; Rld [Full]; Does not benefit from Red-Dot)
- [24], [24], Manstoppers- [24]
- Manstoppers: +3 Pen
- Spectre Pattern Autopistol: A slight dark pistol used as a side-arm by the 2nd Recon. A covert weapon, this model was taken from a slain 2nd recon soldier and refitted.
- 25m; S/2/-; D10+4; Clip [7]; Reload [1/2]; Silenced, Red-Dot
- [7], [7], Manstoppers- [7]
- Manstoppers: +3 Pen
- Aurellian Sickle: A long curved blade of unknown origin found in the possession of a feral world hunter in service to the 2nd Recon traitor guardsmen.
- Aurellian Bolt Thrower: A heavy crossbow of unknown origin found in the possession of a feral world hunter in service to the 2nd Recon traitor guardsmen.
- 2x Choke Grenades
Stored [Fury Untold]
- Bar Room Broom: [Common] 2.0kg Often kept as a last, or first, resort weapon, the Bar-room Broom has a fearsome reputation among gangers in Desoleum Primus. With just a pull of the trigger, this multi-barrelled stub auto empties its entire magazine across a 30° arc in a devastating salvo.
- Pistol; 3m; S/-/-; 1d10+4; Pen:0; Clip:1; Rld:N/A; Scatter, Inaccurate, Compact, Storm, Spray, Unreliable.
- If a roll of 91 or more is achieved, this weapon detonates. Treat as if the user has received a single hit from this weapon to their arm location with 1 DoS. Requires a +30 Tech-Use test in a suitable situation to reload.
- Submachine Gun: [Scarce] 3kg
- Compact Autogun with Extended Magazine.
- Basic; 50m; S/3/10; D10+2; I; Clip [24]; Rld [Full]; Compact.
- 8x Clips
- Hot Shot Lasgun: [Rare] Black matte steel, this weapon was taken from the corpses of Skitarii hunter squads on Kalto.
- Hot Shot Lasgun w/ backpack.
- Basic; 60m; S/3/-; D10+4; E; Pen 7; Clip [40]; Rld [2 Full]
- 3x Clips
- Missile Launcher:[Rare] An unassuming grey tube that once belonged to the Desoleum PDF, moving onto the black market to the Metothine Gate where it was purchased by Davrus during the Kalto mission.
- Heavy (Launcher); 300m; S/-/-; Clip [1]; Rld [Full]
- 2x Krak Missiles (3D10+8; X; Pen Concussive [3]; Proven [2]) [Scarce]
- Chainsword: [Average] A gift from Coldo to Silens, this weapon is as brutal as it is ugly. A revving beast of a weapon, it obliterates anyone it touches in a mass of blood and bone.
- Melee; D10+2R; Pen 2; Balanced, Tearing 6kg
- 2x Vanth Swampfangs: [Common] 1.5kg A long and rusted blade taken from the body of a House Rosh enforcer on Vanth. It is a simple weapon that packs a surprising punch.
- Extended Machete; Melee; D5+1; R
- 2x Cog Axes: [Average]Axes shaped like the Cog of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
- Melee; D10+2; R; Unbalanced
- Transuranic Arquebus:[Near Unique] 14kg A long barrelled and massive rifle with a long stand, this weapon is the height of Adeptus Mechanicus gunsmithing. Despite its high level of technology the weapon appears to have been created from some sort of biologically created plast-wood. Launches a magnetically propelled depleted uranium round which can punch through the heaviest plate. Anyone unlucky enough to survive such a blast is usually knocked into a daze by the sudden pressure differential wake left by the heavy rounds.
- Heavy (Exotic); 500m; S/-/-; 2D10+10I; Pen 6; Clip [1]; Rld [2 Full]; Accurate, Razor-sharp, Concussive (2)
- 5x BQ Alcohol:
- A half-dozen of the finest bottles of Champogne from the wineries of Juno, this bubbling diamond liquid is highly sought after and gluttonously consumed by the rich and elite of Askellon.
- 4x Cases of 10 BQ Lho Sticks:
- Cigarillos hand rolled from the leaves of a broad-leaf plant found only on the shrine world of Ossur by the same artisans who crafted the megalithic statues of Imperial saints and heroes - one must make pilgrimage to the world and pay due deference to the God-Emperor before they be allowed to acquire such expertly-crafted finery.
Attire and Armour:
- Chainmail:[Common] An oiled hauberk from a less-civilised era.
- AP:3 All; Max Agi 35.
- Regicide Set
- Writing Kit
- 2x Manacles
- Auto Quill
- 10x Stablights/Glow Lamps
- Micro-bead
- Loud Hailer
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Yes, there are some questionable trends for spring. Flat plats. I think they make people's feet look like that of a duck.
I am wearing them today.
Exhibit A: Flat Plats
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Verdict: Just no.
I told you I have bad style decisions sometimes. These felt like the least painful shoes for a heavy lupus flare morning where my hips are inflamed. But still, they are really ugly, and I'm starting to wish I had suffered through the pain of a more stylish pair instead.
There are a couple trends out there some people find rather dubious. Take turbans, for instance. They have been on the runways and worn on praised heads such as Mary-Kate Olsen. However, for some reason, lots of style gurus decry and revile them, while street and style bloggers extol their awesomeness.
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You know what? When combined with spring's ubiquitous swingy, ruffly, feminine features, it achieves a lovely retro-vintage glam vibe, hearkening back to the halcyon days depicted in summer romance movies of the late 50s and early 60s (a la Sofia Loren, Bridgitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, just to name a few).
If the effect brings any iconic names to mind, I honestly can live with it. I won't necessarily be wearing it, because my execution really stinks, but I can definitely live with it. Like it, even!
Are there any trends on the Spring/Summer 2011 runways you abhor or adore? Do Share!
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So, I've got a friend named Mona. She elegant, aloof, and adored by millions. She lives in the most atmospheric city in Europe - Paris. Her residence? If you haven't figured it out yet, its the Musee du Louvre, the finest museum in France.
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Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robots, or PUFFER, is a small, origami-inspired robotic technology under development to provide a low-volume, low-cost mission enhancement for accessing new science from extreme terrains that are of high interest to future NASA missions. A "pop-up" robot that folds into a small, smartphone-sized weight and volume, PUFFER's compact design means numerous robots can be packed into a larger "parent" craft at a low payload cost, then deployed on a planet's surface individually to increase surface mobility.
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