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An arrastra, in its simplest terms is a grinder and dates back to the fifth century B.C.
The grinding surface is typically flat bedrock situated near a stream. A vertical pocket is drilled into the rock and a pole is placed in the pocket. Attached to the pole near its base is an arm and attached to the arm, usually by chains, are heavy drag stones. Farther up the pole is a long horizontal beam that is used to turn the center pole.
As the pole is rotated, the heavy drag stone do the grinding against the bedrock surface. Small arrastras could be human powered and draft animals were used to turn larger examples.
The most common use in Colorado was to grind ore containing gold flakes. The ore was placed on the grinding surface and after hours the ore is pulverized into a fine powder. A small amount of mercury is added during the process to amalgamate the gold.
The gold-mercury amalgam settles to the bedrock while the worthless rock is washed away using water from the nearby stream. The amalgam is then collected and strained through a cloth to remove most of the mercury leaving behind a gold button. The remaining mercury is driven off in a retort, condensed and reused. The gold requires further refining to remove the remaining impurities.
Arrastras were used in the absence of large, efficient gold mills or in remote locations. They are very limited in the amount of material that could be processed.
Arrastras in Colorado are rare. Many have been cut out of the bedrock and moved to museums. One example, still in its original location and relatively easy to reach, is north of Buena Vista on Fourmile Creek. It requires only a short walk from a four-wheel drive road.
To reach this arrastra, follow Colorado Avenue north from downtown Buena Vista. The road crosses the Arkansas River and becomes County Road 371. Within sight of the first Colorado Midland Railroad tunnel, County Road 375 heads east and uphill. After a mile, take County Road 376 to the right to Fourmile Creek.
This road has many washouts and it quite sandy — it may require four-wheel drive. After crossing the creek, there is a small parking area on the right. By stepping over a wire fence (not posted) and walking west, there is a wide gravel wash. By following the wash down hill, the arrastra is at the edge of the trees at a distance of about 400 feet.
Kenneth Jessen has been a Loveland resident since 1965. He is an author of 18 books and more than 1,300 articles. He was an engineer for Hewlett-Packard for 33 years and now works as a full-time author, lecturer and guide.


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It has a couple of typos. Some more serious than others.
Let's gather those schematic typos and errors here.
The quality of the schematic is high. It looks like it contains the information that designers need.
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- On sheet 3, area C9, should that not be a (B) instead of (A) under the "IC3?"
- Also D10 close by
- R22,23,24,25 & C28 all missing (B) designation
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Basically, I attempt to profit off of the policy errors of governments and central bankers world wide. This has been a most profitable profession over the last 10 years or so, with said errors causing massive and obvious bubbles in real estate, equity and credit markets which paid those in the real estate markets handsomely. This "multi-asset bubble" culminated in what was "an easy to see coming"crash that allowed both me and my subscribers to score abnormal returns on the downside as well. Back when I tabulated my results publicly, 300% and 400% returns were common place (see Sample Research & Performance), not including the equally impressive levered returns garnered during the bubble. I was able to time the exit from the real estate market 6 months before the market peak, a combination of luck, intuition and spreadsheets. This 9 year performance was dampened in the last 3 quarters of 2009, where I took a 39% loss by misjudging the timing of the effect of central bankers' policy errors (yes, they are still making big mistakes and no, this is not a bull market but a bear market rally - I was simply off about 9 months in the anticipation of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis). I wrote about this in detail in my Year End Note to BoomBustBlog Readers and Subscribers in an attempt to both put things in perspective and self-flagellate.
Case Shiller index has been amplified by a factor of 10x for the sake of comparison to the S&P 500.
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Needless to say, the time to ride the bear is here again, and in a fashion that many do not appreciate for I fear the Sovereign Debt Crisis may make the Asset Securitization Crisis look like a mini-bull rally in and of itself, dwarfing the capital destroying potential of the latter in both size and scope. This brings us to the analysis below.
The PIIGS at the Center of the Global Sovereign Debt Crisis
Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy, collectively referred as PIIGS, are a reflection of how the developed countries, the credibility of whom have been endorsed over the years by high credit ratings and low credit spreads, are turning out to be the epicenter of sovereign risk in Europe. Huge fiscal deficit and unimaginably high levels of public debt, dragged these nations to the verge of default when the markets refused to lend money at prevailing rates against their fragile fiscal situation and structurally decaying economies. Greece, the weakest of all, has effectively defaulted on its debt obligations when it approached EU/IMF for funds (see How the US Has Perfected the Use of Economic Imperialism Through the European Union!). The support extended by the European Union was primarily to contain the contagion effect (resulting from common currency as well huge inter-country claims) which would have done greater damage and would have cost more. However, the aid extended by EU and IMF is quite insufficient as it will solve only a fraction of the liquidity problem, and even then for a short term, while the major solvency and liquidity issues over the medium-to-long term remain. Thus, the only inevitable outcome which can bring sustainability to the public finances of these countries is the restructuring of their sovereign debt.
The Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Sovereign debt restructuring can be done either by taking haircuts on the principal amounts or by extending the maturity of the debt. While the latter will result in some losses to the creditors owing to resultant reduction in Net Present Value , the losses shall be significantly lower than in case of haircuts in the principal amount. However, in the case of PIIGS, this option will solve the liquidity side of the problem rather than solvency issues. In the following model, we have estimated the haircuts on the principal amounts that might be taken to bring the sovereign debt of PIIGS to a more sustainable levels.
The restructuring of the sovereign debt of PIIGS nations, especially Greece, is likely to occur owing to, either or both, of the following reasons
Government debt ratio (Government debt as % of GDP) is at unsustainably high levels
- Government debt levels in excess of 100% of GDP are highly unsustainable owing to the the huge re-financing risk as well as the interest rate risk. Interest expense on such a high debt level is already a huge burden on the fiscal situation; an increase in interest rates can put more pressure on the public finances of the country. Further, the country runs the risk of failure to refinance or roll-over such high level of debt in the market .
- PIIGS have been facing tough times meeting their debt obligations (interest expense and the principal repayment) owing to increasingly expanding spreads over the perceived safe haven rate of the German bund. The liquidity crunch (pre-EU/IMF bailout announcement) that they are witnessing in the market is owing to high risk perception build due to poor public finances situation (rising primary and fiscal deficits) as well as bleak economic outlook of these countries. Subscribers should reference:
- While the IMF/EU package will be a short term liquidity relief over the next three years, after 2013 these countries will again turn to the credit markets to finance not only the scheduled bond obligations but also repay IMF and EU loans (reference What We Know About the Pan European Bailout Thus Far). Thus, restructuring of the debt might become inevitable for PIIGS countries specially those which have debt levels in excess of 100% of GDP. Out of the PIIGS countries, Greece and Italy already have government debt in excess of 100% of GDP while Ireland and Portugal are rapidly approaching those levels. Greece in particular has unsustainably high debt ratios which are estimated to spiral from 116% of GDP to 140-145% of GDP in 2013
Increase in government debt ratio (Government debt as % of GDP) is unsustainable
- Increases in government debt ratios stem primarily from the "snowball effect" and the primary deficit. The snowball effect is the self-reinforcing effect of debt accumulation arising from the spread between the interest rate paid on public debt and the nominal growth rate of the national economy. If the average interest rate paid on existing public debt is higher than the nominal GDP growth rate, it will result in increase in government debt ratio (Government debt as % of GDP).
- PIIGS are recording huge primary deficits, i.e, government expenditures (excluding interest expenditure) exceeding government revenues, which are leading to additional borrowing that then adds to the government debt levels - wash, rinse, repeat... This coupled with the snowball effect, which itself increased substantially due to negative nominal GDP growth and rising interest rates, has been contributing substantially to the increase in the government debt ratios of these countries. In the case of Greece, this effect has been extremely large owing to very high government debt, rising borrowing cost and the shrinking economy.
The BoomBustBlog Haircut Model
Below is a live spreadsheet summary, currently updated by our analysts with new developments and refinements, that calculates the expected haircuts in several of the PIIGS members, followed by a much more comprehensive sheet for our professional subscribers.
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Lovely piece of functional artwort, although it is quite big! Some hooks for earrings may not allow the earrings to be seen clearly, but a beautiful piece to have!
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This is a lovely earring holder, but I failed to check the size before purchasing (my fault). It's HUGE - 20" x 17". I was expecting a delicate tree more like 12"x12". This was supposed to be a gift, but it won't fit in th space available. I just wanted to highlight this for others to save someone else the trouble. I would really love it if it were only smaller - it's very beautiful and well-crafted.
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Digital Globe has directed one of their Worldview satellites to the island of Giglio, Italy, to see how the Costa Concordia shipwreck looks from space. It's surreal to see the ship peacefully sitting there on its side. Especially because it's not.
The ship is now moving, in fact. All rescue operations have been halted as the authorities wait for the ship to reach a new resting place. 23 people are still missing. [Digital Globe via Slashgear]


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A common name in the Bible (Zacharias in AV).
1. The son of Jehoiada, stoned by the populace (2 Chron. 24: 20–23) and probably referred to in Matt. 23: 35. 2. The Minor Prophet after the Exile (Zech. 1: 1–7). 3. The father of John the Baptist (Luke 1: 5) to whom an angel appeared to announce the forthcoming birth to his wife Elizabeth. When he asked for a confirmatory sign he was struck dumb—until the child was born, when he then blessed God and spoke of the hope for a Messiah for whom John would prepare the way (Luke 1: 76). 4. Son of Baris, murdered by Zealots shortly before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE according to Josephus.
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Pat McCormick, 63, and her sister, Ginny Danaher, 71, share a laugh Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, while their children empty out the flooded first floor of Danaher's home in Breezy Point. McCormick's basement was also flooded by Superstorm Sandy, and now the sisters -- whose husbands died two days apart -- are hunkering down together to weather life's latest storm.
BREEZY POINT, N.Y. -- They are each other's "lifelines" and best friends, sisters who have weathered life's storms together.
Their husbands died two days apart years ago, and now they've each been forced out of their homes after Superstorm Sandy triggered widespread flooding and a destructive fire in their Breezy Point community.
Ginny Danaher, 71, and her baby sister Pat McCormick, 63, are putting on a brave face to the challenges ahead, cracking jokes. But they are also coping with the reality of being a "displaced person." It's a term they suddenly realized applied to them while listening to an appeal for donations on Saturday by their brother, a Catholic priest. The pair is staying at his church's rectory in Brooklyn.
"I never thought I'd be called a displaced person, but I am!" Danaher said, making a wide-eyed face.
"I'm displaced and unemployed," McCormick, whose workplace was also flooded, chimed in.
Her sister laughed and said: "Can't get any worse."
The sisters mused about their current situation as their sons emptied out Danaher's flooded first floor on Sunday. They hauled out her white wicker dresser, her bed and a few bottles of white wine gone bad -- which the sisters said in jest maybe they should go ahead and just drink.
"We're living out of bags," said McCormick, the youngest of four (their oldest sibling, a brother, died a couple of years ago). "It's like you don't have your own definites. You're still displaced."
The pair reminisced about a plant given to Danaher's husband by one of his granddaughters that had survived through the years, and on this Sunday bore a red blossom. They also recalled a family trip to Ireland in August 2011, with Danaher kissing a photo album that had survived the floodwaters.
"You see how good God is, like, I have ... fantastic, fantastic memories," she said. "When I'm looking at this stuff and I'm getting sentimental, everything is really in your heart, isn't it? … The pictures that you have, I mean, I have tons of them, you know when the last time I really looked at them?"
As they stood on Danaher's deck and talked about fun moments, such as going to the weekly "Golden Age" gathering for seniors here, they at times finished each other's thoughts, spoke over one another or said the same sentences simultaneously. Their decades here have been full of family gatherings, children (they have three each) taking the Catholic sacraments, and grandchildren (they have 15 combined and a sign at Danaher's house reads, "Welcome to Nana's").
When Sandy blew through here two weeks ago, it helped spark a fire that destroyed more than 100 homes and set off flooding that is believed to have damaged the other 2,100 houses. McCormick's basement was flooded, while the water rose several feet inside Danaher's home. The sisters waved to neighbors passing by and waxed nostalgic about their tight-knit community, which was founded by Irish immigrants more than a century ago.
"The thing I love best about here: I live by myself. I'm a widow and let me tell ya, I'm never alone," Danaher said.
"No, you never feel alone," McCormick, whose house is a few blocks away, quickly added.
The private community, run by a cooperative, has some roads but also is made up of many "sand lanes" or paths, as well as tiny concrete walkways with homes or bungalows tucked in, side by side. Normally "you don't get home for two hours because you're chatting with everybody" along the way, said McCormick.
The summers are magical, Danaher said.
"You have to get cheese fries in the Sugar Bowl (a popular beachfront bar) and an ice cold beer," she said. "And the minute you walk in everybody knows you, and you're hugging each other. … It's a small town."
They have traded in that small town for Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, which some in the community refer to as the "old neighborhood." It's bigger, faster-paced. Danaher laughed about dealing with the cars flying by on a busy avenue and getting lost in the rectory at St. Patrick's church.
"I had to go look for her this (Sunday) morning," McCormick quipped. "There she is standing there, I said, 'This way!'"
They are not sure of their next move, though McCormick said: "We'll stay together somewhere until we get back here."
And Danaher jokingly declared: "We're going to get a little apartment and be single girls!"
Their children said the pair seemed to be holding up, given the circumstances.
"They do everything together," Katherine Delmar, McCormick's daughter, said through tears, noting that she was terribly worried about her mom in the storm's aftermath. "They go out to dinner together, you know, go shopping together. … They have each other, which is great."
But they do have their emotional moments, and on Sunday, Danaher asked her sons a few times if they needed to throw one item or another out. "They are just kind of coming to terms with it, you know, realizing that they are not going to be back here for a long time," Delmar, 34, said.
As they left Breezy Point on Sunday, a reporter asked them about their bond.
"Lifelines, best friends, what else are we, sisters?" Danaher deadpanned with a cackle.
"We get along well and we'll get through this together," McCormick said.
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Sarah Boyce '12 has been awarded a one-year Bristow Fellowship in the U.S. Department of Justice following the completion of her current clerkship with Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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'Give It Away And Pray' Isn't A Business Model... But It Doesn't Mean That 'Free' Doesn't Work
from the once-again...-with-feeling deptI've been noticing an interesting trend lately. While more folks aren't totally averse to the idea that they need to somehow embrace "free," they're mishandling what they do with "free" and then going on to complain how "free" doesn't work. The basic problem is this: they hear about the importance of "free" and so they give something away for free. But they don't have a business model around the free content. They don't understand the economic forces at work. They just give stuff away and pray... and then whine when nothing happens. As we've pointed out before, no one says that "free" by itself pays the bills. You need to have a more complete strategy than that -- and it involves a lot more than "give it away and pray." It's good that they're at least trying, but if they don't understand the real issues and fail at the experiments, they suddenly come back and claim that "free" isn't the answer, and suddenly rule out all business models involving free. And that is a real recipe for failure.
The latest to head down this road is NY Times columnist David Pogue, who bashes the idea of digital publishing of books by pointing to a long and interesting blog post from author Steven Poole, who did the "give away and pray" option along with a tip jar. It didn't make him much money. That shouldn't be any surprise, because tip jars aren't a real business model. But, because Poole seemed to have an expectation in his mind, he ends up being quite disappointed, noting that 1 out of every 1,750 downloads (0.057%) left some money. What's left implicit here is that that figure is too low. What this really means is that Poole didn't really give away the book for free. He had an expectation that people would magically pay for it. But, that's not a business model. That's not tying the free and infinite good to other scarce goods that will help you make money.
Unfortunately, both Pogue and Poole then use this to bash the entire concept of free-based business models, with Poole getting unnecessarily offensive in his response:
"I'll call it, for short, "the Slashdot argument". It says that books, music, films, software and so on ought to be freely distributed to anyone who wants them, simply because they can be freely distributed. What is the writer or musician to do, though, if she can't earn money from her art? Simple, says the Slashdotter: earn your money playing live (if you're one of those musicians who plays live), or selling T-shirts or merchandise, or providing some other kind of "value-added" service. Many such arguments seem to me to be simple greed disguised in high-falutin' idealism about how "information wants to be free". Perhaps it's not empty pedantry to point out that "information" doesn't want anything in and for itself. The information in which humans traffic is created by humans. And most information-creating humans need to earn dollars or yuan to survive.While I'm sure there may be some Slashdot-types who may make this argument, it doesn't mean that it's an accurate representation of the more important discussion of these business models. The main problem is his use of "ought," as in people saying things "ought" to be free. It's not that things ought to be free because they can be free -- but that things will be free because that's just basic economics. Price gets driven to marginal cost in a competitive market, and the reason it happens is because others do learn to put in place business models that work, and then if you're the lone holdout, people start to ignore you. Also, I'll note that that Poole brushes off the (indeed, simplistic) business model suggestions as being "high falutin' idealism" but fails to actually try out any real business model.
And then he weakly follows it up by implying that you can't earn money by giving away stuff for free. But, again, he's blaming the wrong thing: he's blaming free for his own failure to use a real business model where the free offering was closely tied to additional scarcity he could sell. He continues, getting even more insulting as he goes:
In any case, I think the Slashdot argument can actually be disposed of rapidly with one rhetorical question, as follows.This misleading and mistargeted argument has been debunked so many times, it's disappointing to see both Poole and Pogue repeat it. But, since it needs a response, let's do it again: you give away the infinite goods, not the scarce goods. Your time is a scarce good. No one is saying that everything needs to be free -- they're saying that infinite goods will be free, because of it's very nature in economics. In fact, Poole's argument is particularly weak when it comes to programmers, because most programmers don't earn any kind of royalties for the software they write. They are paid a salary, for their time -- but not for the software itself (which is an infinite good). And, I won't even get into the number of programmers who work on open source projects for free... or the fact that Poole is blogging for free...
Oh Mr Freetard, you work as a programmer, do you? How interesting. So do you perform all your corporate programming duties for free, and earn your keep by selling personally branded mousemats on the side?
Didn't think so.
Again, Poole and Pogue are so focused on free, that they fail to distinguish between infinite and scarce goods or the business models involved in what's going on. Poole then weakly dismisses the Radiohead experiment:
Perhaps I could have tried distributing Trigger Happy the Radiohead way, making sure you had to pay a minimum to get the goods. Would I still have attracted 30,000 readers like that? I doubt it. The sublime In Rainbows seems to have been a nice little earner for Radiohead, but that's because they're Radiohead -- and they became Radiohead through the nasty old music-industry business model. So did Nine Inch Nails, whose recent internet release of (the excellent) Ghosts was very clever -- the first nine songs of a triple album for free in compressed mp3; the whole thing in a lossless format for $5. But if there's been a comparable success by a band that hasn't already gained its cultural capital and name-recognition through the evils of copyright and corporate promotion, I'd like to know about it.Poole and Pogue (who quotes the same snippet) both miss the fact that in both cases described above, the bands in question didn't "give away and pray," but both put together real strategic business models that were focused on using the infinite goods (the music) to sell more scarce goods. In the case of Radiohead (despite some claims to the contrary) at the same time Radiohead announced the downloads it also told fans that it would be selling a beautiful "discbox" for the album as well. This was a very valuable scarce good -- that the free music made a lot more valuable by increasing the demand for it. As for Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor offered a tiered system of scarce goods that were all made more valuable by the availability of the music -- proven by the fact that Reznor quickly sold out of his limited edition deluxe offering.
And I still chuckle about the argument that these models "only work for big bands." That's because a few years ago, when we pointed out how this worked for some small up-and-coming bands, people would whine "but that only works for small bands -- big bands would be screwed!" The model, when well designed works for small bands just as well as big bands. No, it might not turn around millions in a week, but it can certainly help an artist make a living. Witness the case of Maria Schneider, who ended up making a Grammy-winning album using some the concepts discussed around these parts. And, of course, we've worked out the details of the type of business model that an up-and-coming band could use to embrace these concepts to grow.
So, it's nice to see someone at least willing to explore the concept of free without shutting out the possibility. But free alone isn't a business model. And it's wrong to blame free for the lack of establishing a complete business model. Just because "give it away and pray" isn't a workable business model, that doesn't mean that there aren't business models that do work. Hopefully, Poole and Pogue will eventually recognize that they're dismissing the wrong thing. They shouldn't be complaining about free (or making misleading accusations about those who simply recognize the economic forces at work) -- they should be complaining about a failure to put in place a real business model to take advantage of what will be free.
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posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 12:52 pm
Prof. Muthen,
In short I have the following statistical/econometric model to estimate … For a particular time period "t", we have a simple MIMIC (multiple indicator multiple cause) model … i.e. Y(t) a vector, is regressed on a latent variable "eta", which in turn is regressed on a vector of strict covariate X(t) …. We have t=T number of time periods. For simplicity, let us assume the vectors Y and X are observed for each time period …
Q1. Our model requires "eta" to be estimated over the entire "T" time periods assuming errors are correlated over the time periods, and I want to estimate the path or trajectory of "eta" for each as well as for the entire sample of size "n", so that as an extension of the model, we can do some mixture analysis to see how the "locus of eta" could be grouped together ... could u kindly suggest me some article, if any, which had dealt with this type of situation ... I would like to coin this situation as MIMIC growth model
Q2. It would be very helpful if you kindly suggest me how to proceed with the code-syntax
Thanks and regards
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 4:01 pm
Example 6.14 is a multiple indicator growth model. Without the growth it is a longitudinal CFA model. If you add covariates, it is a longitudinal MIMIC model. This can be extended to the mixture setting. You may be interested in the Factor Mixture Analysis papers on the website.
Sanjoy Bhattacharjee
posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 8:23 am
Thank you Madam.
Michael Hallquist
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 7:53 am
Hi Bengt and Linda,
I have a mult. indic. growth model with three waves of data, which fits well and is meas. invar.
I am interested in predicting initial status and change using several variables (i.e., a long. MIMIC model). I have regressed the second-order growth factors on the covariates (some latent), now I would like to plot the magnitude of each effect.
In the usual LGM case, I would construct model-estimated trajectories by writing out the reg. eqn. for all covariates at their mean. Then one can plot a given covariate at the mean +/- 1 SD to see its effect.
But in the long. MIMIC case, I'm unsure of how the latent vars are scaled. The I growth factor has a fixed intercept at 0 and typically latent vars are scaled sd=1. TECH4 indicates I mean=1.019, sd=.63, and S mean=-.032, sd=.32.
I have a latent covariate, X, that is a factor from a CFA. TECH4 indicates X has mean=0, sd=.86. Using this factor as a covariate in the growth model, it has a est. of .135 for the I ON X effect.
With that setup:
1) Would I use the TECH4 for I in the growth model (1.019) as the B0 in reconstructing my estimated trajectory? And is the I variable scaled m=0, sd=1, or m=1.019, sd=.63?
2) Is the interpretation that an individual one sd above the mean on X (.135 * .86=.116) increases I by .116, which is a .18 sd (.116/.63) increase in I?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 8:39 pm
1) I has intercept fixed at 0 but its mean is a function of the covariates as well and that is what TECH4 reports. Tech4 also gives the total I variance/
2) Yes
But perhaps it is easier to look at how the means of a key factor indicator changes over time. You get that by expressing the indicator in terms of the X (the indicator is a function of I and S which are in turn functions of X).
posted on Monday, April 08, 2013 - 8:08 am
Dear experts,
We want to compare two models. In model I, covariates influence change of a latent variable over time. In model II, the covariates are directly allowed to influence change of the indicators of the latent. This is the longitudinal equivalent of a MIMIC model, applied to change.
We were unable to find literature or MPLUS syntax regarding that rather specific question, and were wondering whether you had suggestions.
In 2007, Linda described a model (6.14) that could be adapted to create a longitudinal MIMIC model, but are not sure whether the model allows to predict _change_ (in contrast to predicting the latent at time 1 and then latent at time 2, setting paths of covariates to be equal across time).
Thank you
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, April 08, 2013 - 5:12 pm
If your change of a latent variable over time is represented by a growth model for the latent variable, you can simply regress the change (slope) factor on covariates.
If you are talking about latent difference modeling, you can also study change as a function of covariates - but you would have to consult SEMNET on how to do this.
In line with not being able to identify the influence of a covariate on both factors and their indicators directly in MIMIC modeling, I don't think you can do both in a change context either. But again, in this case such general modeling questions may be better suited for SEMNET.
posted on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - 3:16 am
Thank you very much, Bengt!
posted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 6:37 am
Dear Prof Muthens,
We want to test DIF in a longitudinal model: do the risk factors x1-x3 have significant indirect effects on increases of indicators from time 1 to time 2, or do they only affect increases of the latent? We have been unable to find examples for this in MPLUS yet, could you take a look whether we specified this correctly?
Baseline model
f1 by y1t1-y3t1; ! time 1
f2 by y1t2-y3t2; ! time 2
f2 ON f1 x1-x3;
f1 ON x1-x3;
y1t2 ON y1t1;
y2t2 ON y2t1;
y3t2 ON y3t1;
y1t1 with y2t1; ! determined through mod indices
y2t2 with y3t2; ! determined through mod indices
The DIF model
same as above, in addition:
y1t2 ON x2;
y2t2 ON x1 x2;
y3t2 ON x3;
y1t2 IND f2 x2;
y2t2 IND f2 x1 x2;
y3t2 IND f2 x3;
(this is the final DIF model, a previous full DIF model included all effects of all x on all yt2, we dropped the non-significant ones as recommended in cross-sectional DIF models)
Output looks ok and we don't get errors, but we're not sure if we made sure to implement everything that is required.
Thank you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 9:59 am
See the beginning of the multiple indicator growth model in either the Topic 3 or Topic 4 course handout on the website. This shows how to test for measurement invariance in a longitudinal model.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- Senior Matt Baber (Claxton, Tenn.) and freshman Chad Boruff (Knoxville, Tenn.) both earned Southern Conference Player-of-the-Week honors for the week of March 27-April 2. Baber, the SoCon Pitcher-of-the-Week, pitched the Bucs to two wins while Boruff, the SoCon Player-of-the-Week, led the team with a .474 batting average in five games this week.
Baber hurled two complete-game victories to improve his season record to 5-5 and lower his earned run average to 5.21. He allowed just five runs (four earned) in 18.0 innings of work for a 2.00 ERA. Baber struck out 11 and walked just two. Boruff stroked nine hits in 19 at-bats (.474) in the five games -- belting three home runs, scoring seven times and collecting seven RBIs. He leads the team with six home runs in 27 games.
After an 8-3 setback to Tennessee on March 28, ETSU rebounded behind a strong pitching performance by Baber to defeat UNC Asheville, 5-3, on March 29. Baber allowed three runs on six hits in the complete-game victory. The Bucs' ace struck out nine, giving up one walk.
ETSU next traveled to Davidson for a three-game weekend series. Boruff belted three home runs and knocked in six RBIs to lead the Bucs in a 17-3 win in the opening game of the series (April 1). The slugging first baseman crushed a solo shot in the third, a two-run shot in the fifth and finished with a three-run homer down the left field line in the eighth.
Boruff hit a run-scoring double in the fifth inning of a 5-4 loss to the Wildcats in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader. On April 2, ETSU finished the series with a 6-2 win behind another stellar pitching performance by Baber. The right-hander scattered 12 hits over nine innings to earn his fifth victory of the season. He allowed just one earned run and fanned two Wildcat batters.
The Bucs (9-18, 6-9 Southern Conference) will return to action with a non-conference game against Wake Forest at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5.


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Notes from Carwriters tour of Big 12 South
My recently concluded "Carwriters" tour of the Big 12 South revealed a lot more than what Tommy Tuberville's new office looks like at Texas Tech and Bob Stoops' disdain for agents.
Through 1,143 miles of some of the ugliest real estate on planet earth, I jotted a few other notes down the side of my notepad. If I can just wipe away the tartar sauce stains from too much catfish, here's what I found:


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NH chiefs plan gun raffle that will include some semiautomatic weapons
NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) � The New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police plans to give away 31 firearms, including several semi-automatic weapons, in a raffle to raise money for a youth training academy.
The Valley News in West Lebanon, N.H., (http://bit.ly/ZHwDQ4 ) reports that the raffle is planned for this May. It says the chiefs' association is selling 1,000 tickets for $30 each to anyone 18 or older hoping to win some the most popular New Hampshire-made sporting firearms.
The raffle is planned as a national debate heats up over whether to restrict citizens' access to firearms, especially semi-automatic weapons commonly used in mass shootings, following the Dec. 14 school shootings in Connecticut.
A state legislator, Democratic Rep. Sharon Nordgren of Hanover, says the gun raffle shows insensitivity as the country tries to grapple with the issue.


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That hipster down the street is no longer the only person to follow on Instagram.
Determined not to let the Republicans have all the political fun, President Barack Obama is now officially on Instagram.
Let the filtered photo-following begin.
Mr. Obama sent an image of himself recording a video message for the Iowa Caucas via Instagram Tuesday night, followed by a tweet stating that the "race is officially on."
The President already has a strong social media presence on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, which was largely credited with his ability to draw out young voters to the poll during the 2008 presidential election.
The Obama campaign is also using the app to encourage followers to send their images of the presidential race to them with the hashtag "#obama2012."
The app, which allows users to take pictures, apply filters to them and then send them out to followers, built by San Francisco-based Burbn, Inc. is one of the most popular apps on the iOS platform.
Instagram has more than 5 million users that have sent out 150-million photos.


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Ginger Syrup
We threw a party this year for New Year's Eve. As far as I am concerned a New Year's Eve party is successful if it is easy for me to stay up until midnight. Lucky for us, our guests came in waves all night, bringing fresh energy and assorted fresh goodies with them.
We had asked guests to bring a finger food of some sort, and many marvelous homemade concoctions showed up: a beautiful country pate with cornichons, a bushel of pristine Bluepoint oysters, paddlefish caviar from Montana, a fabulous potato torta, homemade spinach pies and little soft sandwiches with proscuitto and baby spinach, boiled fingerling potatoes served with homemade aioli, cheese and breads and sausages, endive filled with all sorts of savory things, creamy gravlox on cucumber rounds, buttery anchovies on crostini spread with fatty Icelandic butter, a number of delicious homemade pizzas, a tray of sweet stuffed eggs, a rather unbelievable kugelhopf cake with associated table décor, cases of Gruet sparkling wine, constant martinis—though I serve them in 2-ounce glasses: they're tiny—crunchy macaroons, including the potentially lethal Tonka Bean macaroon, a beautiful tin of Christmas cookies, and a platter of rich, black chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing. Even though I hired a housekeeper to help, the place was trashed. I was finding champagne glasses under chairs and oyster shells on the bookshelves for two days. Unsurprisingly, New Year's day was slow. Very slow.
We ate a restorative pho broth with pieces of the potato torta in it, which actually has a precedent in all sorts of cuisines. In Italy, a popular dish is chicken stock with crespini, a delicate crepe flavored with Parmesan cheese and parsley. We had it on Christmas Day.
Anyway, the thing I really wanted was a ginger ale, but nobody in the house was willing to get dressed and go to the store. That's when it occurred to me that having some ginger syrup on hand would have been a very good idea (we had lots of leftover soda water from the party).
Ginger syrup is very easy to make, with two caveats. There is no USDA data that I could find with processing times. While some people think ginger syrup can be processed like a berry syrup, I don't think so. Ginger has a pH of 5.6 to 5.9, above the safe limit for water bath processing without added acid. Sugar is a preservative, but not in the same way acid preserves. Sugar preserves like salt does, by dehydrating the food and in so doing, creating a hostile environment for spoilers. Syrup is, by its very nature, wet. It seems ginger syrup would likely have to be pressure canned. The problem with that idea is the syrup is rather fragile: After a few days in the fridge ginger syrup loses its oomph. (The pungent gingerole compounds degrade into milder flavored compounds over time.) I think pressure canning may decimate the flavor, though I haven't tried it yet as I still need to figure out a safe processing time. So Caveat #1 is, you have to refrigerate the syrup. Caveat #2 is, if allowed to boil too long,
And allow the syrup to get too thick,
The syrup will crystallize when cool.
You will find yourself scraping away at the candy in the bottom of your jar to get a spoonful of the stuff, although it still dissolves in soda and tastes great. But it's best to just watch the syrup and make sure you don't overcook it.
I added a small red hot pepper and some lemon rind to amp up the flavor, and I like it very much, though their inclusion is totally optional. To serve the ginger ale, I combine about 2 teaspoons per half cup of soda water and stir, and then pour over ice.
It is totally fresh, easy, delicious. Of course, you can always go the next step and make fermented ginger ale. But being a rather low-tech sort, I like the simplicity of having the syrup on hand.
With the leftover ginger slices, I made crystallized ginger, which is not necessarily something I eat very much of, but I have a few ideas which may be fodder for a future post.
Until then, Happy New Year!
Ginger Syrup
Makes 1 ½ cups syrup
When buying ginger look for a smooth, hard rhizome with a pungent smell. Wrinkled, scabby ginger rhizomes will be fibrous and have a faded taste.
½ lb ginger, peeled and sliced into thin discs
1 ½ cups sugar
2 cups water
2 or 3 pieces lemon zest
1 small dried hot pepper
Place all the ingredients in a heavy-bottomed pot and bring to a boil over a medium high heat.
Lower the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes. At this point I removed the red pepper—you don't have to. Continue cooking for another 30 minutes, until the syrup is reduced by 50%. Allow to cool enough to handle. Strain (reserve the ginger pieces) and pour into sterilized jars. One and a half cups of syrup will fit nicely into 3 half pint jars, or an 8.5 ounce bottle. (To sterilize, boil the jars in water for 10 minutes at sea level, adding 1 minute for every 1,000 feet above sea level.)
The syrup holds in the fridge for a week, although the flavor may begin to fade even earlier.
Crystallized Ginger
Makes ½ pint ginger pieces
In a bowl combine the strained ginger pieces and a cup of granulated sugar. Toss well. Pour the sugar and ginger pieces onto a cookie sheet and place in a dry spot in the house. I put mine on the radiator overnight.
You may need to press some sugar into pieces of ginger that seem juicy. This usually happens with the thicker discs of ginger. After about 12 hours the ginger should feel dry and rubbery.
Store in a clean jar. Holds indefinitely.


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YukonAnni necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We aren't a brand, just ourselves! Acupuncturist, Osteopath, Naturopath and Massage Therapists
I am the manager of a group of Canadian complementary health practitioners who love our work and working together. We are looking for a thread to connect us - and hope that you can provide that for us!
Who we are:
* Acupuncturist / Chinese Herbalist
* Osteopath / Physiotherapist
* Naturopathic Doctor
* Massage Therapists (one male, one female)
As practitioners we are all fully licensed in our specialties, with highly professional standards and practices. We have individual practices within the clinic, but practice alongside one another and support each other and our common clients. As individuals, we are also very much a part of our small community (pop 25,000), connected to the arts, sports, and outdoors communities.
We practice downtown out of a beautiful heritage-style building with views of snow-capped mountains, forests, and a river. The most common comment we receive about our space is how peaceful it is. There is a clean, open, bright, natural feel to the space - lots of plants, lots of windows, high ceilings, hardwood floors etc. We are not a "clinical" looking space but are simple and professional.
We are located in Northern Canada - a territory filled with creative, outdoorsy, adventurous, off-the-beaten path folks combined (often within the same person!) with government employees. There is a strong focus on health, the environment, and the outdoors lifestyle (hiking, canoeing, fishing, skiing). The seasonal extremes of light and dark, sun and snow, inside and outside are very notable.
The majority of our clients are women between 25 - 55. However, we do not want anything specifically "feminine" about our image, as we would like to appeal to both genders and all ages.
We are seeking logos for each of us which are variations on a theme - all similar but with different elements based on our specialties. By this I mean they should all be very alike, but with a twist that represents our particular practices.
We would love to see some clean, clear, nature-inspired designs. We would shy away from images that are too "corporate", sleek, or too sophisticated looking.
Some of our ideas include:
Natural brush-strokes
Circular patterns
The impression of movement / vitality / upwards reaching
The impression of a body in movement
Tree, leaf, branch images
River images
Impressions of darkness and lightness
The impression that would best reflect our practices and clinic would be vitality within calmness. Professional but accessible.
These images will be used on our signage (ex. a sandwich board), likely as "bullet points" in front of each of our names, or possibly as headers and/or footers. They will be incorporated into our websites, brochure, and possibly our individual business cards.
Lots of design opportunities ahead!
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We highly motivated and strive to advance our technical knowledge in the area of materials and fabrication technology.
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A community of warm and welcoming people looking to live life to the fullest! We have been growing for over 8 years and are the only studio in Eastern Canada offering Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga.
With the belief that yoga and its experiences are for everyBODY, we offer more than 40 yoga classes each week and we really do aim to have a class for everybody! Our vision is to create an empowered community of Yogis in action who spark change everywhere they go! Come and be encouraged and empowered by our top notch instructors that will help you tap into new levels of connection, awareness and health. Make your move and be part of the celebration … live life inspired!
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Junk bond yields have risen above 8% as investors' fear a growing number of defaults are looming amidst weak sales and low commodity prices.
According to the Bloomberg World Bond Index, which measures high yield debt issued worldwide, the average yield of high-yield debt has risen to over 8%, while the yields on U.S. corporate bonds is nearing 8%. The yields on commodity-based company debt, particularly energy companies, is soaring the highest while bond prices fall.
The rise in yields is largely due to rising default risk. As commodity prices fall and operating margins fall and turn negative, analysts expect defaults and bankruptcies to rise throughout the market. As a result, investors are demanding a higher yield on debt.
Creditors are also fretting that a knock-off effect of defaults could drive bond prices lower for non-commodity based companies, causing debt prices market-wide to rise in anticipation of higher default rates.
More Defaults Expected
Default rates expect to rise throughout the U.S. and Canadian markets, particularly amongst non-investment grade debt. One debt-rating firm has said expected default rates are expected to rise to more than 5, up sharply from less than 2.5% a year prior. Meanwhile actual default rates have risen sharply to over 3%, and analysts expect that rate to rise further.
Profit margins are falling because of sluggish spending, falling energy costs, and rising competition. Some debt ratings firms warn that an acceleration of corporate debt, which rose 7% in the second quarter of 2015, and a fall in corporate profits, which has fallen to less than 7%, signals a greater risk of missed payments, defaults, and bankruptcies amongst large debt-issuing firms.
Capacity utilization, which measures the total use of available fixed capital to produce goods and services, has fallen considerably since the end of the Global Financial Crisis. Analysts cite a falling cap utilization rate as a signal of greater default risk, as costly maintenance of infrastructure is not offset by strong revenues. Capacity utilization fell to 67.2% in the beginning of 2009, when defaults rose to 14.9%, over ten times as much as they had been 18 months prior.
While capacity utilization has improved since its recessionary low in 2009, it is still below historic norms at less than 78%. That is nearly 5% less than the average cap utilization rate in the 1980s and 1990s.
Divergence in Asia
Asian bonds are seeing greater demand despite weak economies in Japan and China, which is causing some analysts concern that a flood of capital is overcrowding the market and causing yields to fall too low relative to the risk of defaults. In China, some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have seen so much demand for their debt that their corporate issuances denominated in U.S. dollars have seen yields fall to less than 4% for 5-year terms. While that has made borrowing costs extremely low for Chinese firms, it also signals the market is failing to be sufficiently compensated for risk, as the debts are trading at a lower yield than many U.S. firms.
In Japan, investors are skirting energy firms, fearful that they are likely to default without the government intervention that SOEs can rely on. One analyst told Bloomberg News that investors are unwilling to lend to energy sectors, causing traders to lower their exposure to the company's corporate issuances.
In the U.S., high yield bonds are at their highest point since May 2012 and trading at the highest spread relative to the U.S. Treasury in over three years. Corporate to Treasury spreads have risen nearly 200 basis points from their low in 2015, as demand for credit dries up in the bond markets.


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chance(Fortuity), noun advantage, befalling, casus, circumstance, event, favorable time, fortuitousness, good fortune, happening, occasion, opening, suitable circummtance, time
Associated concepts: arise by chance, last clear chance
chance(Possibility), noun aptitude, attainability, bare possibility, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, favorable prospect, hope, imaginability, indeterminacy, liability, likelihood, possibleness, potentiality, probability, prospect, spes, uncertainty, unexpectedness, unpredictability
Associated concepts: chance verdict, games of chance
Foreign phrases: Casus fortuitus non est supponendus.A chance happening is not to be presumed. Casus fortuitus non est sperandus, et nemo tenetur devinare. A chance happening is not to be expected, and no one is bound to foresee it.
See also: access, accident, bet, coincidental, contingency, fortuitous, gamble, haphazard, happenstance, hazard, likelihood, lottery, occasion, opening, opportunity, outlook, possibility, potential, privilege, probability, prospect, quirk, random, risk, speculate, speculation, suspicion, uncertainty, unexpected, unintentional, unwitting, venture
CHANCE, accident. As the law punishes a crime only when there is an intention to commit it, it follows that when those acts are done in a lawful business or pursuit by mere chance or accident, which would have been criminal if there had been an intention, express or implied, to commit them, there is no crime. For example, if workmen were employed in blasting rocks in a retired field, and a person not knowing of the circumstance should enter the field, and be killed by a piece of the rock, there would be no guilt in the workmen. 1 East, P. C. 262 Poster, 262; 1 Hale's P. C. 472; 4 Bl. Com. 192. Vide Accident.


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The Tragedy of Yosuga Pass (ヨスガ峠の悲劇, Yosuka Tōge no Higeki) is a tragic event that happened ten years prior to the start of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Three shinobi from Kirigakure, Suiren, Ganryū and Junsai were sent on a mission to retrieve a document taken by Kumogakure with Iwagakure's assistance. However, when the document was retrieved, the Iwagakure shinobi immediately betrayed the Kiri team on the orders of their Tsuchikage to retrieve the document although it ultimately remained in Kirigakure's possession after Ganryū was pushed from a cliff into a river. However, this resulted in Junsai's death and Suiren sacrificing herself in order to save Ganryū at Yosuga Pass by blocking a barrage of kunai meant for Ganryū. Since that day, Ganryū and other Kiri ninja who disapproved the betrayal had grown to despise Iwagakure and its shinobi. This incident, known as the Tragedy of Yosuga Pass marked the beginning of hostility between Kirigakure and Iwagakure.
Near the beginning of the Fourth Shinobi World War, the Third Tsuchikage sent an envoy to formally apologise for the incident, sending the Kiri ninja the personal belongings collected from Kiri's fallen shinobi.


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This meeting is generously hosted by our friends at CivicTech Toronto and begins with pizza and a civic tech presentation. Learn more about Civic Tech Toronto Meetups.
The weekly DemocracyKit group meeting agenda includes:
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I have just finished reading A Gathering Darkness" by Haruo Tohmatsu and H. P. Willmott. It is about the political and economic events which precipitated the Japanese slide into WW II. In one of the last chapters, on pages 126-127, the following passage appears;
"The final debacle [of the Singapore surrender] was far worse than anything that was ever admitted officially. The British government's postwar refusal to conduct a full public inquiry into the disaster was tacit admission of this fact.....all sorts of stories abound of what allegedly happened, and there is no way of fully ascertaining the truth. It has been estimated, for example, that probably three quarters of the Australian division in the line on Singapore had deserted by the time that the Japanese moved across the Strait. Allegedly, British marines and bluejackets from a light cruiser stormed a ship at Batavia that had been seized by Australian deserters at Singapore and forced to sail for Java; the word was that the Australians were afforded summary execution."
On page 139 of the Notes section, the authors supply additional details. The ship allegedly commandeered at Singapore by the Australian deserters was the Empire Star. The light cruiser was the British HMS Durban, Captain Peter Cazalet commanding, and the date on which the Empire Star was stormed was either February 13 or 14 and this took place at Batavia. The author's claim that the ship's logs involved were deliberately falsified (although the Durban's log does note the dispatch of an armed landing party), and that the fate of the deserters is in dispute. There is reference to two books that mention the episode; Singapore's Dunkirk by Geoffrey Brooke (pages 183-184) and Singapore, The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elphick (pages 455-456).
I have read extensively of the events in the early part of the Pacific war, but have never heard these charges. I note that they are heavily qualified with words like "allegedly" and "probably". Can anyone shed any more light on this incident or even verify that it likely took place? And what was the eventual fate of the deserters?


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Brain Imaging for HIV-Associated Thinking and Mood Disorders
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01692236
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : September 25, 2012
Last Update Posted : December 5, 2019
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- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection appears to cause problems with blood vessel function. These problems may add to some thinking and mood disorders found in people with HIV infection. Researchers want to evaluate HIV infected patients to see if blood vessel function contributes to thinking and mood disorders, such as early dementia and depression. To do so, they will compare study results between people with and people without HIV infection.
- To compare the thickness of blood vessel walls between people with and without HIV infection.
- To study the relationship between blood vessel thickness and thinking and mood disorders.
- Individuals between 25 and 55 years of age who have HIV infection.
- Healthy individuals between 25 and 55 years of age.
- Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood and urine samples will be collected.
- Participants will have imaging studies of the brain and major blood vessels in the head and neck.
- Participants will also have neuropsychological testing. These tests will look at memory, learning and thinking ability, attention, and mood.
- Participants will have the option of coming back for repeat blood tests every six months and repeat imaging studies and neuropsychological tests every year, over 1- 4 years period.
|Condition or disease
|Human Immunodeficiency Virus Neurocognitive Impairment
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|84 participants
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|Neurovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Assessment of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders
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|September 13, 2012
|Study Completion Date :
|April 4, 2018
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- Serum biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and inflammation [ Time Frame: 1-6 years ]
- MRI brain and vascular findings [ Time Frame: 1-6 years ]
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Inclusion criteria for all participants:
- Age 25-61 years.
- Willingness to allow stored samples, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) testing, and future genetic testing.
- Hemoglobin less than or equal to 9.0 g/dL, HCT less than or equal to 28%, platelets less than or equal to 50,000/microL.
- English language fluency (required for neuropsychological testing).
Additional inclusion criteria for HIV+ participants:
- Documented HIV infection by standard HIV testing. Prior documentation of HIV- antibody status at the NIH will be accepted in lieu of repeat testing.
- HIV viral load below the limit of detection on combination antiretroviral therapy for less than or equal to 1 year.
- Under the care of a primary care physician.
Additional inclusion criteria for HIV-negative participants:
1. HIV-antibody negative.
Exclusion criteria for all participants:
- Contraindication to MRI scanning, including pacemakers or other implanted electrical devices, brain stimulators, some types of dental implants, aneurysm clips (metal clips on the wall of a large artery), metallic prostheses (including metal pins and rods, heart valves, and cochlear implants), permanent eyeliner, implanted delivery pump, or shrapnel fragments.
- Subjects with a condition precluding entry into scanner and acquisition of scans (e.g., morbid obesity, claustrophobia, back pain, motion disorders).
- Glomerular filtration rate <45 mL/min/1.73 m(2) as estimated using the Modified Diet in Renal Disease equation.
- Allergy to qadolinium (MRI contrast)
- Evidence of current or prior central nervous system opportunistic infection(s) and/or space-occupying lesions such as primary CNS lymphoma.
- Prior history of intrathecal chemotherapy or radiation therapy to the brain.
- History of or current diagnosis of systemic vasculitis.
- Active systemic infection or malignancy requiring therapy.
- Psychiatric condition interfering with ability to participate in study procedures or provide informed consent.
- Patient or provider report of alcohol or drug abuse ongoing or within 3 months prior to participation.
- Sickle cell disease (due to known association with vasculopathy).
- Systolic blood pressure less than or equal to 180 mmHg at screening.
- Persons infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who are being treated or planning to seek treatment for HCV.
- Women who are lactating, pregnant, or actively seeking to become pregnant.
- Other known clinical condition or conditions discovered on MRI that, at the discretion of the investigators, precludes serial clinical, neuropsychological, or imaging evaluation.
Additional exclusion criteria for HIV+ participants
1. HIV acquired perinatally (due to potential effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on neurocognitive and vascular development).
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01692236
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|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Avindra Nath, M.D.
|National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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|September 25, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 5, 2019
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|April 4, 2018
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
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Feeling lucky? Go ahead and mail your voter registration form into the county. They'll probably get it.
But they don't have to process it.
That's one of the nasty little changes tucked deep in the budget (and unearthed by the investigative reporting outfit California Watch).
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In order to save $33 million, the state no longer provided money to reimburse county registrars for a variety of things they do, including the processing of voter registration forms that arrive in the mail.
When that money was cut, the state mandate that the counties take care of such things were suspended.
Other things the counties don't have to do: send an absentee ballot to anyone who wants one.
Counties can still provide these services, and state officials are urging them to do so. But they don't have to.
By the way, this bit of budget news offers another reason why California needs to establish on-line voter registration -- and pronto. (It's currently illegal to register on the Internet).
Efforts to establish a system to do that have been set back and delayed for years.