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Nine Reasons why Baylor has already lost
By Bayou Football Fan on Nov 25, 2015, 3:54pm CST 27
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Recap: Coach P, You are the Man and I love the move. Your plumbs are obviously larger than my buddy JP's, bravo sir… bravo.
Prologue: I don't truly hate anything… in the archetypal sense anyway. True hate is reserved for skinheads, the Jinjaweed and anyone who's been fooled into seeing Guns & Roses live after Chinese Democracy. I don't hate Baylor. I won't attempt to de-humanize Baylor people. They're human alright… the part of the evolutionary tree that doesn't fork. Baylor disgusts me. I look at Baylor like a backed-up toilet… in Cairo. To me, Baylor people don't wash their hands after using the restroom. Baylor people use the word "irregardless". Baylor people kill endangered animals on captive trophy hunts. Baylor people eagerly await the next Kevin James film. (Expletive which means "to fornicate") Baylor.
Reason #1: Waco – I've been to some of the more hopeless, desolate spots on the planet where shrapnel and overpressure are daily concerns. I remember those places fondly when driving through Waco. Traveling through that armpit of a town is like having a tooth pulled; it's painful, momentary and an instant reminder that you'd rather not do it again. Earlier in the year, I called Lubbock a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but there's no way I'd heap such high praise on Waco, TX. Gamma ray exposure has a way of throwing obstacles in your path. Waco has no such excuse. Waco is the obstacle. Travel further than 2 streets off of one of the nation's busiest smuggling routes and you'll find yourself steps away from a popular spot to abandon cars. It's a few exits down from a town that built a school next to a company with a penchant for stockpiling anhydrous ammonia. What could possibly go wrong? I gave up on speculation of what the removal of meth production might do to local tax receipts in Waco. It wouldn't matter because that town couldn't possibly get any worse.
Reason #2: Terminated for incompetence – Playing Baylor on the Big 12 schedule is like having to wrestle the kid with cold sores in the District tournament. There exists no scenario in which something is not lost. This is how I felt when interacting with my former Baylor-alum-coworker on daily basis. Every morning, I sat in silent, soul-cleaving agony ignoring his droll platitudes, waiting for the moments where he mercifully stopped complaining about his aptitude-deficient offspring or his clueless wife. At least a few minutes of this verbal waterboarding were always dedicated to his love for Baylor athletics. This piece of putrescence never failed in his frequent reminders to the world that he wasn't "much of a reader" and seized every available 45 minute window to make female wait staff uncomfortable about their employment decisions. His bad jokes skewed heavily to the amputee and little people categories. To top it off, he was one of the more incompetent humans I've ever met. Now when I watch Animal House, I add "openly homophobic" and "morally corrupt" to "fat, drunk and stupid" on the now famous list of objectionable states of living. I do this in memory of the most repugnant human I've ever known, my former Baylor-alum-coworker.
Reason #3: Jeff Dunham – All comedy is born of tragedy and I can't think of anything more tragic than attending Baylor. The notion that a man who converses with himself on stage is one of the highest paid entertainers on the planet doesn't surprise me when his jokes don't require more than a second grade education to land. But it's a jalapeno… ON A STICK… get it? I get that the puppet impaled on his hand isn't the only thing in the building that would flat-line an EEG. "But my grandparent's love Jeff Dunham", they cry. I'll give anyone a pass on taste if they were born before the Chosin Reservoir Campaign. For everyone else, Dunham is just a glorified sword-swallower cashing in on the intellectual decline of America. Great job Baylor.
Reason #4: The Biker Shootout… – That's right, an exchange of small arms fire among rival biker gangs that left 9 people dead. Is there anything more sad and juvenile than the modern outlaw biker gang? Just when they thought a V-twin, a side business selling trucker-crank and infection with the whole hepatitis alphabet weren't adequate totems of life's accomplishments, they found out that there were other moronic, socially-deficient people just like them. Disputes you say? Let's get every waste of oxygen we know together in one place to settle these issues. I know the perfect place. It's not in some small backwater roadhouse or big patch of dirt out in the desert… instead, it's a low-rent breastaurant in the parking lot of a Bed Bath & Beyond that's 5 minutes from Baylor campus. I thought "why Waco" for a few moments and then it came to me. If I were at an elevated risk of incarceration, I'd want to be in a place where the line between "biologically female" and "250lb transient from Brownsville" is blurry at best so as to ease my transition to Huntsville should the authorities intervene.
Reason #5: …the (verb which means "to fornicate" in present participle form) cult –Ask anyone who is aware of cults about the aforementioned topic, and you're bound to get a Waco thread in your response. Sure, the more seasoned West Coast hippies might have a Heaven's Gate joke that they've been waiting to dust off for a while. You might even hear about Ruby Ridge or Jonestown. But I'd bet every breakfast juice box I get for a week here at court-ordered observation that you'll hear about David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. I can see it in my mind's eye right now. "This place is perfect for the compound! We can put the menstruation shed right over there… and the location is soooooo much better for my illegal weapons trafficking business." We all know how this ended. Just like ghost pepper sprinkled on a taco… it was interesting, it induced a little sweat, but once the burning was over most people just forgot about it.
Reason #6: Steve Irwin – For those of you with minimal traffic in the medial temporal lobe, Steve Irwin was this loud, cartoon-character of a person behind the international mega-hit show The Crocodile Hunter. Look around your seat right now for Komodo dragons and Cape buffalo. They're not there because those animals are smart enough to steer clear of us. In spite of this, crazy-ass Steve (who had no formal education whatsoever) spent years screaming "Crikey!" and dancing about on television sets tormenting the toothed, horned, fanged and everything else in between. Every day I waited for a docile Puff Adder to load Steve's face up with paralytic compounds and digestive enzymes. Yet for years he avoided permanent injury… then it happened. To me, Baylor fans are just like Steve Irwin. They spend all fall harassing anyone who can't outrun them with empty, uninformed babble but in the end, they're vanquished by a more dangerous animal on camera. The only difference is that Baylor fans don't get the opportunity to destroy the tape before the world sees it.
Reason #7: Amateurism – Besides child beauty pageants and dirtbike "Big Air", nothing does more to inhibit the amateur development of otherwise productive young athletes than the Baylor Football program. I don't know exactly how, but proof isn't tough to find. Remember Baylor offensive tackle Jason Smith? He was the 2nd overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. You probably don't remember him because was cut by his 3rd team and out of pro football by the 2013 season. How about Danny Watkins? He was the offensive guard taken 23rd overall in the 2011 NFL Draft (2 spots after the other Baylor first round bust that year, DT Phil Taylor). Then Danny realized that he didn't like football. Not being good at it, probably influenced his opinion. Both he and Phil are now out of the NFL. This is particularly fun because 4 out of the 5 Horned Frogs drafted in that class (Dalton, Cannon, Kerley and Jones) are still playing in the NFL today. Last but not least, there's RG3, the 2011 Heisman trophy winner and former NFL Rookie of the Year. The second overall pick looked good early, but has trailed off quite a bit of late. He's injury prone. He's divisive in the locker room and he's best buds with one of the worst owners in pro football. Did I mention he likes the blame game? He's everything you need in a franchise QB. RG3 can always look to Charlie Sheen for some post meltdown inspiration. Besides, RG3 is in better health than Charlie… he doesn't have a terminal illness, he only plays like he does.
Reason #8: A blueprint for coach behavior – Long before every boring accountant in Dallas started dressing their kids up in Baylor gear for trips to the supermarket, the only concrete story about Baylor athletics that ever surfaced in conversation was the murder of Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy by another Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson. To compound this vile act, Baylor coach Dave Bliss, decided that it would be a great idea to instruct his players to fabricate the story that Dennehy was paying his tuition by dealing drugs out of fear that the murder investigation might uncover clear violations by Bliss to, among other things, circumvent scholarship limits. Ultimately the scandal was uncovered with sanctions imposed. Only at Baylor would an idiot head coach resort to extortion, obstruction of justice and witness tampering in an attempt to avoid disrupting the season. I should note that no criminal charges were filed against Bliss (I guess one can't obstruct justice if it isn't taking place). At the end of the day, this scandal laid the foundation for Coach Briles and the old-fashioned way he runs his team. Deny, deny, deny.
Reason #9: Denial is not just a river in Waco – It's good to be Art Briles. He's built a national contender with his high powered offense. Coach Briles is high enough on the ladder that he doesn't need to concern himself with the details. I'm not sure Art has really dug in on the current climate in the Crimea. I'm sure he's not up to date on the Presidential race. It's just too much information. Did Art know his son was involved in any recruiting violations? Not aware. Did he know one of his assistant coaches was on the opponent's sideline in a game against a Big 12 conference rival (not that it did them any good)? Nope, no one told him. Did Art knowingly recruit a known woman batterer to his program after the freshman All-American was dismissed from another program? Coach Briles just figured the guy wanted to be closer to home. Just how unaware is Coach Briles? Tubes of empty airplane glue in the locker room? Someone must be a model enthusiast! Someone offers Coach Briles some premium stereo equipment in the Whataburger parking lot? It must just be his lucky day! He doesn't worry about the NCAA or players on his roster who've given up on consensual relationships. Coach Briles' day is simple. He's got to make sure Kendal has enough finger tape (and find out why Kendal keeps spiking his coffee with cinnamon for that matter). He's got to make sure one of these is handy in case he needs to vet any recruits. He's got to make sure everyone on the team knows when to fake injury. There's a ball game on Friday.
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Heightened Flows and Legal Pathways for Migrants in Mexico
By Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Migration Policy Institute
Facing heightened migration flows from Central America and seeking to distinguish itself from its predecessor, the López Obrador administration soon after taking office adopted a new migration policy intended to promote safe, legal, and orderly migration while prioritizing human-right protections. Even as the administration has increased enforcement operations across Mexico, partially in response to U.S. pressure, its new approach has centered on leveraging and expanding existing policy mechanisms to register unauthorized migrants.[i] Despite the initial creativity of this approach, however, as Mexico's policy response evolves, the new administration faces significant barriers to fulfill its vision of a policy that is centered on humanitarian concerns, not enforcement ones.
Registering migrants in transit allows authorities to screen and manage flows—all aspects rightfully in Mexico's interest. In return, migrants are given an opportunity to legally stay in the country and, in some cases, work.
By issuing over 11,000 humanitarian visas at the Mexico-Guatemala border in January, for example, Mexican authorities were able to manage large caravans of migrants, easing immediate pressure on its already struggling asylum system.[ii],[iii] The decision to register and provide basic services to migrants seeking entry into Mexico were in sharp contrast with the border controls that the prior administration had implemented just months earlier. Yet, unable to keep pace with the growing number of migrants, the López Obrador administration stopped issuing these visas at the border a few weeks thereafter, requiring migrants apply from their countries of origin.[iv]
Figure 1. Select Visa Categories Issued by Mexican Authorities, by Month, December 2017 – March 2019
Source: Migration Policy Institute (MPI) calculations of data from Mexican Interior Ministry (SEGOB), "Boletín mensual de estadísticas migratorias, 2017–19," accessed May 7, 2019, www.politicamigratoria.gob.mx/es/SEGOB/Boletines_Estadisticos.
In addition to asylum and humanitarian visas, Mexico's migration law provides migrants other mechanisms to obtain temporary legal status. Regional visitor visas allow migrants restricted travel in the southern states of Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, and Tabasco, but prohibit employment. Originally only available for Guatemalan and Belizean citizens, the Interior Ministry (SEGOB) in April expanded eligibility to Salvadorans and Hondurans. With the expansion, the mechanism is intended to document migrants deemed ineligible for humanitarian visas.[v]
Similar to the regional visitor visa, Mexico also provides border worker visas to Guatemalan and Belizean citizens who seek temporary employment in southern Mexico. Employment authorization is valid for one year, renewable, and restricted to the same states as the regional visitor visa.[vi] Between fiscal years (FY) 2016-2018, Mexican authorities issued approximately 40,000 border worker visas, with most beneficiaries coming from Guatemala and working in low-skilled agricultural employment.[vii] To reduce illegal migration flows and contribute to economic development in southern Mexico, the López Obrador administration has suggested widening eligibility for the border worker visa or establishing a new visa to include Salvadorans and Hondurans.
But unlike the early response of providing humanitarian visas, which migrants commonly used to transit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexico faces significant challenges implementing these policies because they are perceived to contain migrants in the country.[viii] Migrants' prospects in the United States often outweigh any potential advantages of a legal stay in Mexico (e.g., language and cultural ties, lawful employment without the threat of deportation, and regional mobility). As a result, they may be less likely to register for legal mechanisms for long-term stay, instead opting for unauthorized transit that exposes them to dangerous conditions and abuse by human smugglers.
At the same time, these mechanisms have tested Mexico's capability and willingness to be a country of immigration and integration, exposing the gaps inherent in transitioning from the country's long role as one of emigration and, more recently, transit. Substantial resource and technical constraints inhibit the ability of the National Institute of Migration (INM) and the Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) to process and resolve migration documents and asylum applications, leading to long delays and reduced incentives for migrants to apply. Moreover, as images of caravans and migrants queuing in border cities flash on Mexicans' TV screens, public opinion towards migrants is becoming less favorable, with more Mexicans calling for deportation and asylum limits than in the recent past.
The administration's policies map a way forward for Mexico, particularly as it seeks better cooperation with the United States, but require addressing existing limitations. To incentivize migrant registration, regional restrictions could be lifted and attuned to labor demands across Mexico. Broader legislative efforts to design a detailed and flexible temporary worker program could be promising over the long term. These efforts could complement the administration's commitment to address the root cause of illegal migration by investing in southern Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries. But without additional investment to strengthen the migration institutions responsible for implementing these policies, for instance with the assistance of international organizations, the impact of this new migration policy is likely to be minimal.
The López Obrador administration has made clear that its policy is not free transit and requires migration to be orderly to safeguard migrants' human rights. And while the conditions on the ground and migrants' deep ties to the United States make it unrealistic for most to stay in Mexico in the short term, designing flexible policy mechanisms that transition Mexico to becoming more of an immigrant destination would be a worthwhile investment for Mexico and the region.
[i] Migration Policy Institute (MPI) calculations of data from Mexico's Interior Ministry (SEGOB) indicate authorities apprehended 11,000 migrants and deported 10,000 migrants in April 2018, compared to 18,000 apprehensions and 15,000 deportations reported in April 2019. See Fabiola Martínez, "Más de 11 Mil Extranjeros Fueron Repatriados en Abril," La Jornada, accessed April 28, 2019, www.jornada.com.mx/2019/04/28/politica/004n3pol.
[ii] SEGOB, "Entrega de Tarjetas por Razones Humanitarias," updated February 8, 2019, www.gob.mx/inm/articulos/entrega-de-tarjetas-por-razones-humanitarias?idiom=es.
[iii] Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR), "Estadísticas de solicitantes de refugio en la #COMAR al mes de ABRIL de 2019," accessed May 7, 2019, www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/458909/REPORTE_CIERRE_DE_ABRIL_2019.pdf.
[iv] Mexican Foreign Ministry (SRE), "Refrenda Gobierno de México Política Migratoria, de Brindar Ayuda Humanitaria," updated April 23, 2019, www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/refrenda-gobierno-de-mexico-politica-migratoria-de-brindar-ayuda-humanitaria?idiom=es; Jose Cortez, "Tempers Fray in Mexico as New Controls Frustrate U.S.-Bound Migrant Caravan," Reuters, April 3, 2019, www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-caravan/tempers-fray-in-mexico-as-new-controls-frustrate-us-bound-migrant-caravan-idUSKCN1RF2U1.
[v] SEGOB, "Acuerdo Por El Que Se Reforman los Lineamientos para Trámites y Procedimientos Migratorios," updated April 23, 2019, www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5558294&fecha=23/04/2019; SRE, "Refrenda Gobierno de México Política Migratoria, de Brindar Ayuda Humanitaria."
[vi] SEGOB, "Tarjeta de Visitante Trabajador Fronterizo," accessed April 12, 2019, www.gob.mx/tramites/ficha/tarjeta-de-visitante-trabajador-fronterizo/INM275.
[vii] SEGOB, "Boletín Mensual de Estadísticas Migratorias, 2015–18," accessed April 11, 2019, www.politicamigratoria.gob.mx/es/SEGOB/Boletines_Estadisticos.
[viii] Patrick Timmons, "Restrictive Mexican Visas Keep Central American Migrants Away from U.S. Border," United Press International, accessed May 11, 2019, www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/05/09/Restrictive-Mexican-visas-keep-Central-American-migrants-away-from-US-border/9151557326110/.
Targeting and tailoring development programs to combat forced migration in Central America
How a Fake Gang Crisis in the US Helps Fuel a Real One in Central America
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Drug Trafficking and Violence in the Northern Triangle
US Immigration Policy, Deportations, and the Migration Boomerang
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Helping Mexico Maintain a Middle Path on Migration Should Be the United States' Priority in Managing the Central American Migration Crisis
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March 23, 2010 March 23, 2010 Tumanian Talar News
Lara Garibian
Asbarez
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What Armenia lost to Azerbaijan after the war
I had the pleasure of meeting Sara Anjargolian for breakfast recently
to discuss her upcoming photography exhibit and book release called
"How We Live," which documents life on the margins in Armenia. When I
met with Sara, I didn't know very much about the project other than
it involved photography and an upcoming event. What I thought would
be an interview with an artist, turned out to be an interview with a
humanitarian who has elevated peoples' lives, art, and social service
to a new level.
After graduating summa cum laude from UCLA with a BA in political
science and public policy, Sara went on to pursue a law degree and
received her Juris Doctorate at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall in 2000. To
unwind from the daily grind of law school, Sara started taking classes
in photography. Little did she know that she was laying the groundwork
for an incredible body of work that would touch so many peoples' lives.
After passing the California bar and working as a trial attorney for
two years at the Justice Department in Washington D.C., Sara realized
she wanted more. As grateful as she was for her strong educational
background and opportunities, she was craving an adventure.
Adventure is just what she got. She received a Fulbright scholarship
in 2002 to live and work in Armenia. Although the grant was for a term
of ten months, Sara lived in Armenia for two and a half years. She
worked with Bars Media, a well-known documentary film studio in
Yerevan, and produced several documentaries about contemporary issues
in Armenia. She also learned a great deal about visual storytelling
and photography. In the years she lived in Armenia, she was able to
experience and document the country from a viewpoint most people never
see. She also put her law degree to good use during her last year in
Armenia when Sara served as an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
at the American University of Armenia's law department. In late 2004,
Sara decided to return to California. Since then, she has been working
as an attorney with the City of Los Angeles.
After she returned to Los Angeles, Sara continued to pursue
social impact documentary photography projects and would take every
opportunity to travel back to Armenia. A project she has been working
on for the last two years, called "Not Here," documents the global
story of labor migration through the stories of nine separated families
living between Los Angeles and Yerevan.
Sara met, interviewed, and photographed men and women who had
immigrated to Los Angeles, some illegally, and were working in the
shadows to be able to support their families back home in Armenia. She
found that despite the difficult circumstances of their lives, the
migrants in Los Angeles and their families back home in Armenia,
had a strong yearning to be heard and to tell their stories. She
also realized that she was the only link some of these families
had to each other. When asked about how the families felt about
their lives being so intimately captured by her camera, Sara said:
"They wanted to be heard, they wanted to tell me the details of their
lives. Many of the labor migrants I met live their lives daily within
the confines of the same four walls. This gave them a validity they
lacked within their day-to-day life."
It was during this process when Antranig Kasbarian, Executive Director
of the Tufenkian Foundation, approached Sara in 2009 and proposed
a new project. The Tufenkian Foundation, which has been working
in Armenia for over a decade promoting social justice and serving
vulnerable families, noticed a rapid rise in poverty in Armenia. The
World Bank reported in 2009 that for the first time in over a decade,
poverty was on the rise in Armenia, with 28% of the population living
in circumstances of extreme poverty. The Foundation wanted to raise
awareness about the situation and wanted to do it through photography
and visual storytelling.
Sara accepted the opportunity, went back to Armenia in July of 2009
for a period of three weeks, and documented the lives of fifteen
families living along society's margins in Armenia.
It's no surprise that the photos she returned with speak volumes. She
has managed to capture images that come to life in color and detail.
They jump out at you from the page, bringing humanity and life to the
person who is living this story. She went beyond the darkness that
generally represents poverty – families unable to meet basic food,
shelter, and healthcare needs. Sara's goal was to show that the people
she photographed were as human as we are. And that is how the title
"How We Live" came into being. While Sara captured poverty, alcoholism,
domestic violence, malnutrition and the barest form of survival,
she had a much larger plan in mind. Her goal for this project is to
eliminate the separation people feel when introduced to the lives of
people who are different, less fortunate, and far away.
It is the feeling of "us" and "them" she hopes to eradicate with the
upcoming art exhibit and book release.
Sara also had the privilege of working with three other amazing people
on this project. Narineh Mizaeian is a Los Angeles based designer
who has received her degree in Architecture. She is currently an
Associate at Frank Gehry's firm where she is working on a number of
projects that extend as far as Abu Dhabi. Narineh is the designer and
curator of the "How We Live" exhibit and she has designed something
incredibly original and cutting-edge. The exhibit features over 40
large prints, measuring 5×7 feet, suspended by an intricate tensile
network which draw the viewer into the lives of the people depicted
and which represent the larger issues of societal connectedness or
increasing disconnect. The "How We Live" exhibit design is conceived
as an experience, demanding the viewer to delve into the lives of
those photographed. The people and places captured in the photographs
are emphasized, employing the same gravity as the exhibit viewer and
occupying the same place and time.
Karlo Gharabegian, who is a four-time Emmy winner currently with CBS,
is also involved in bringing "How We Live" to life. He is creating a
short documentary that incorporates Sara's photographs and the raw
video interviews she shot with the families, to tell the story of
the current poverty crisis in Armenia, and the process of creating
"How We Live."
Mary Minassians designed the "How We Live" book, which is a hardcover
book of photography being published by the Tufenkian Foundation,
and which features Sara's photographs and their accompanying stories.
Having a strong background in graphic design and having worked on
projects for Disney, The Simpsons, and also a documentary called Beyond
Commitment, Mary engrossed herself in the "How We Live" project and
utilized her extraordinary aesthetic abilities in communicating the
experience of living on the margins in Armenia in the pages of what
promises to be a beautiful and moving book.
The collaborative efforts of these four talented individuals is highly
apparent, not just within the art, but within their hearts. "How
We Live" is truly a labor of love, as each has dedicated countless
hours to create something beautiful that has brought social impact
photography and art to a whole new level. Be sure to look for
the upcoming photo essay and behind the scenes coverage about the
creation of "How We Live." Also, mark your calendars for the "How We
Live" exhibit opening, Saturday, March 27th, 2010, at 7pm at Casitas
Studios, 3229 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039. For more information
about the exhibit please visit You can also visit
to see more of Sara's photography and work.
http://www.asbarez.com/78491/thi
www.HowWeLive.org.
www.SaraAnjargolian.com
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I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.
Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.
The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.
I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
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A HUGE 19% DROP in September !
That's back BELOW the lows of 2005 month ends (106).
A big fall in UK property retracing the post-2005 is in prospect.
PSN had a big move up in recent days, which lifted the BBI back to 106.
Why the near 20% move back up in PSN?
A short squeeze, was an explanation from the PSN thread.
But was "stopped in its tracks by the BDEV downgrade."
Last week two of Britain's biggest lenders, Halifax and Nationwide, admitted that the market was slowing, but they still painted a reasonably rosy picture, saying that values were 10 per cent higher than a year ago. But their conclusions are at stark odds with findings by The Telegraph, which contacted estate agents the length and breadth of Britain. Agents in Leeds, Birmingham and Nottingham report a market that has ground to a halt – where property is proving almost impossible to shift, even with substantial price cuts.
Sarah Nixon of Hammond Harwood, a Nottingham-based agency, says none of the city's agents could remember a time when so few sales were going through.
"It's frightening," she says. "We have properties which have been on the books for months and months, which have suffered price reduction after price reduction but are still not selling."
Nixon says September is usually one of the busiest months but was "completely dead".
"Even buy-to-let has gone stale, in a normally buoyant students' market. The returns mean that as an investment buy-to-let simply isn't feasible any more."
Leigh Bradnick of Englands in the Harborne area of Birmingham says he has a large stock of unsold property which has been on the market for more than six months. "Owners are having to be very realistic about what their properties are really worth."
Paul Wilson of Dacre, Son & Hartley describes the market in Leeds and much of Yorkshire as "very, very hard".
"Price cuts have been substantial, up to 10 per cent," he says. "Many vendors do understand what is going on, and if they want to sell, they have to cut their price. Unfortunately this isn't working either."
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If the BBI falls below 100 (and stays there), then the pre-2005 gains are at risk too.
There was a sharp slowdown in mortgage lending in the UK last month, says the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
Gross lending dipped by 12% from August to September, to £30bn.
Although lending was still higher than in September last year, the drop from month to month was larger than is usually seen at this time of year.
The CML said it was another sign that the housing market was responding to the five increases in interest rates since the summer of 2006.
"We have been expecting a slowdown in monthly lending levels in line with interest rate rises," said the CML's director general Michael Coogan.
"In the coming months, we expect to see monthly lending levels dip below their 2006 levels for the first time this year as rate effects are exacerbated by the recent liquidity problems in the mortgage market," he added.
The CML said that mortgage lending usually dips by just 5% between August and September.
However, September was the third month in a row that mortgage lending has dropped.
The CML's figures are very much in line with those from other market commentators such as individual lenders and estate agents.
The relationship seems to be that they are not related. But the Builders index of itself shows something is up. Why did it take off like that in '05 '06 when it was clear even then to anyone who cared to find out that builders were going to suffer?
Well I think you are blind!
I make a very good living trading, and an important part of my success is the ability to interpret charts.
Are you sure you cannot see it?
It certainly worked on the way up! And it has worked on the way down in the USA.
Dr B, and chance of viewing a comparable chart from the US if you have one?
Sorry, i dont have one, though I wish I did.
Behind your question, lurks a very important issue- i suspect.
I believe we would find that US property prices are proving very sticky on the downside.
thrust in US prices is nowhere as large- at least not yet.
drops that we have seen in the UK builders.
tool. it seems to prediction turns (in both the US and the UK) with a 6 - 9 months lead.
2003 in only 6-9 months- which is what the index hgas been suggesting.
Sorry mate, just my view, the world has changed. Money is drying up fast, house prices are going far lower than most think. Real estate [comm property has come off 16% in 10 weeks. House prices are falling very fast Now, today. Look at the last two property busts, 1974, and 1998. See just how low shares will fall. Forced sellers are hitting the market, and by the spring, will be in droves. Housebuilders are a one way bet, down,cos they will not make a profit on thr high price land they have. That land seemed cheap a year ago, however, now is falling like a stone. Losses for the next few years the pain has yet to start. Trust me, i saw a run on the banks comming. see thread , [RUN ON THE BANKS].
Barratt and other UK builders can now sell only at a loss.
"Prices are set to flatline in 2008," said Miles Shipside, commercial director of Rightmove.
"While we do not expect a price drop overall, there will be parts of the country that are over-priced and over-supplied for the likely levels of affordability and demand next year.
"In these areas, motivated sellers are starting to cut their prices and will need to be the cheapest on the street to sell.
"While bargain hunters will be paying less for these properties, prices will rise where demand continues to outstrip supply in quality areas close to major conurbations, especially London."
My model suggests that the property market runs in 18-year cycles. There have been three in the postwar years (1956-74, 1975-1992 and 1993-2010). The operating mechanism is shown in the graph above. Earnings across the economy rose roughly in line with national income, as did the cost of building homes (including materials, and wages and profits in the construction sector). House prices, however, rose much faster, to disruptive heights, peaking in the booms that result in busts. The cause of this instability is the out-of-control rise in the cost of land. The supply of land is fixed, so when the economy is growing, it has to become more expensive. Rising land prices squeeze corporate profits, reducing the money available for wages, until prices simply can't go any higher because most people can no longer afford to buy.
The phenomenal rise in land prices since 1993 is the main reason why the next downturn will turn into a depression.
That may sound extreme. After all, most of us could relax if the only issue was the trend in house prices. Negative equity will burden only those who are forced to sell properties bought in the past three years or so. But much more is at stake. Forecasters base their optimistic outlook on the belief that the "fundamentals" rule out a recession, claiming a strong labour market will offset the pain of falling house prices. In fact, causation runs in the opposite direction. The fall in house prices creates the conditions for recession, as is now clear in the US. Lay-offs in the construction industry and related sectors are curbing consumption, which discourages investment and ends in a recession.
Look what happened when the last real estate cycle exhausted itself at the end of the 1980s. In Japan, the authorities mishandled the biggest postwar boom in property prices. Bad loans to land speculators were allowed to blight the balance sheets of banks that should have been allowed to fail. The outcome? A decade-long depressed economy.
Much the same happened in Germany, and it looks like the US and the UK will make the same mistakes.
Interesting article from Roger Bootle that backs up Dr Bubbs theory.
The last time I wrote about house prices, in mid October, I was just finishing my diet of humble pie which had been self-imposed after my earlier forecast of falling house prices had proved so wrong. Since then the evidence has piled up that the housing market has turned a corner. In October, mortgage approvals for new house purchases fell to 88,000, the lowest level since February 2005. In recent weeks, Nationwide, Halifax, Hometrack, the RICS and Rightmove have all reported house price falls.
Moreover, this chimes in with evidence from the Home Builders' Federation. Their site visit balance has already fallen below its 2004 low. Interestingly, in the past six months house builders' share prices have fallen by 50pc. Falls on that scale have only been seen three times in the past: in 1974, 1976 and 1992. Each of the three major house price corrections of the past 30 years has been preceded by a collapse in house builders' share prices.
The credit crunch is not the root cause of what is going wrong in the housing market. The decline in new buyer inquiries began at least six months before the onset of the problems in wholesale markets - as did the downward move in completed sales. There are two fundamental causes of the housing market slump, one proximate and the other underlying. The proximate cause is interest rates. Official interest rates began to rise last August and they are up in total by 125 basis points.
The second, fundamental reason is that property has become too expensive. What goes up too far must come down - and often too far as well. There are several indicators of housing market excess. My own favourite is the house price to earnings ratio, which currently stands in unheard-of territory at over six.
This indicator is often decried because it takes no account of the effect of low interest rates. But even when you take account of this factor by measuring housing affordability, the picture still looks grim. A new mortgage currently absorbs about 50pc of national average take-home earnings, a third above the 30-year average.
Meanwhile, gross rental yields on property are running at around 5.3pc - below mortgage rates of roughly 6pc. This means that once you take account of all the incidental costs, landlords are making a running loss. It is only the hope of future capital gains that can justify hanging on.
On top of these pre-existing fundamental causes comes the credit crunch. The number of new mortgages approved by specialist lenders - those without a retail deposit base and who thus rely on raising funds in wholesale markets - is down 46pc over the past three months. Mortgage approvals by building societies by contrast are up 5pc over the same period. And there may be even more of an effect in the months to come as pressure on lenders intensifies.
So how bad could things get? Could it be a repeat of the early 1990s? In broad terms the answer is that the degree of pain will surely not be as serious since the economy is in radically different shape. That will limit the rise in mortgage arrears and forced sales.
Moreover, then interest rates reached levels that are unthinkable today. These conditions, plus the surge in mortgage lending close to the peak in house prices, coupled with the widespread use of 100pc mortgages, caused a huge surge in negative equity. This affected over 1m households, exacerbating the economic and financial impact of house price weakness.
But the market is arguably more over-valued now than it was then. And there are some adverse structural factors operating now. We estimate that over the next year an average of 110,000 households a month will come to the end of a fixed-rate deal. Two-year fixed mortgage rates are currently around 1.5 percentage points higher than in October 2005, a rise of a third.
Furthermore, the buy-to-let market is vulnerable. There is some, but not yet conclusive, anecdotal evidence of landlords selling up. Also many of the major buy-to-let lenders are heavily reliant on wholesale markets. A lack of new mortgage credit in what has been the fastest growing sector in the housing market could leave prices vulnerable.
Whenever I write about the housing market I get a host of smart-alec messages asking whether I realised that the housing market is an average and there are a whole host of different experiences within this average. Funnily enough I had realised this. It is just that when talking about macro factors it is most useful to concentrate on the average rather than on a myriad of special cases. Indeed, a blow-by-blow account of every facet of the housing market would take up the whole newspaper.
At present, there is acute downward pressure on the prices of purpose-built flats in city centres built for the buy-to-let market. In some cases the prices of such property are already 30pc down or more. By contrast, so far, the prices of good family houses in leafy suburbs are holding up well.
It is widely believed that London is the most over-valued region, but relative to earnings and compared with historical averages, this is not true. Valuation and affordability measures look most stretched in Northern Ireland, the South West, North East and North West, the East Midlands and Wales. Wales, Northern Ireland and the North East are also heavily dependent on the public sector for job creation - and could thus suffer from the public spending squeeze.
London has demand from overseas buyers and clear limitations on supply. Having said that, it will be the most vulnerable to upsets in financial markets and weakness in the global economy.
It is astonishing how much things can change. Once prospective buyers and sellers realise that prices are no longer rising they will concentrate their attention on fundamental values and the forces making for price falls will grow. But because house prices cannot fall very fast, in conditions of low inflation it can take many years to return the market to equilibrium.
In the last major downturn, prices started to fall in 1989 and continued to fall, depending upon which measure you look at, for between three and a half and six and a half years. In real terms house prices did not regain their 1990 level until 2002. Accordingly, during the recent housing boom, only the last five years have been breaking new ground; the previous 12 were simply recovering the ground lost since 1990.
Still, this time it's different - isn't it? Don't worry, I have learned enough not to throw away the humble pie just yet. It may well come in handy in relation to other awful forecasts. But at least as regards house prices, somehow I suspect that over the coming year I will not be forced to eat it.
Roger Bootle is managing director of Capital Economics and economic adviser to Deloitte.
rebased to zero at the beginning of each year, for the last 3 years.
Are we seeing more-than-usual seasonal supply because BTLers are pushing properties into the market?
I don't mean to dismiss your index, as I think it could be used as a useful signal for upcoming market reversals (particularly as a way of timing a bottom). However I simply don't agree with the correlation between the house price indices and the adjusted 5 builders index you have created.
market's direction 6 to 12 months ahead. I have used it for the US and for Hong Kong too.
on when the best opportunities were still available.
which the UK property market will bottom out, might be asking too much.
interesting to watch in the years to come.
Meantime, keep an eye on the US, where some builders have wiped out 70% or even 80% of value.
and even since the late 1990's. Let's see if US prices fall 40-60% for that to happen too.
The city showing the biggest declines in the Schiller Index is Detroit.
index is understanding the extend of price drops in many cities (like Miami) with loads of condos.
One reason I think the UK HPI indices will understate price drops is the way they are calculated.
A return to 1994-5 levels! Wow. I don't see that either, though it would be very nice. Monetary inflation will stop that.
What year do you see a return to in nominal terms?
Hey this is one of my fav threads and its gone very quiet. I've looking at Spline's site and the graph as moved on a bit making a bottom maybe? Is 2002/3 the price range we looking at in three to four years from now (real terms speaking).
Looking at the UK builders here versus what happened to US builders.
US peaked around Aug 2005 and bottomed Jan 2008 ~ 29 mth decline.
Pulte dropped around 83% and DR Horton about 74% high to low.
Persimmon has dropped ~ 67%, Taylor Wimpey around 82% and Barratts around 84% so far..
Barratt Developments was around £10-11 when in the FTSE100, look at it now.
Among the housebuilders, Persimmon was down 26 at 487-1/2, also under pressure as the company looks set for demotion to the FTSE 250 index next month, leaving no housebuilders in the FTSE 100.
And building materials group Wolseley was down 19-1/2 pence at 537-1/2, hit further by Panmure Gordon reiterating its 'sell' rating and 400 pence price target.
Among mid-cap housebuilders, Barratt Developments was 10-1/2 pence lower at 190, Taylor Wimpey was down 8 at 85.5, and Bovis Homes fell 19 to 429.
That is an unbelievable decline in Barratt. I kep looking at it thinking this can't go much lower and leaving it. I've not traded it nearly as well as I should have. But what is it saying about UK housing.
I remember sitting next to Bubb in an internet cafe in late 2006 looking at a chart and him saying, 'That thing could go to zero'. Well, well, well.
- Doom and gloom (housing sales, potential debt downgrade / rights issue etc ) all well known now.
Hmmm, well maybe but i would be very cautious.
Believe me or not, but Barratt's have issued an instruction not to pay sub-contractors for the next month whilst they progress funding issues.
Had it confirmed by people who work for Barratt's.


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Nevertheless, the Collegiate Medieval style was surpassed within the other half from the last century, as worldwide modernism taken the area. The triumph from the Worldwide style am complete that even at Boston College it had been unthinkable to construct a Medieval-style building before the late eighties. The restoration of Bapst and Burns Libraries won an award because of its sensitive adaptation from the Collegiate Medieval style in 1986. One of the chief designers of the project, along with the restoration of Devlin Hall (1993), was Royston Daley. Subsequent projects, like the makeovers of Fulton Hall (1995) by Svigals + Partners and Higgins Hall through the firm of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (2002) remade individuals cumbersome nineteen fifties-style structures into elegant modern Medieval monuments. The Collegiate Medieval had came back because the signature type of Boston College.
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What Went Wrong With the Gase Regime?
I'm sure any Dolphin fan can tell you the answer to that question, but I outlined five major decisions that I felt did this regime in.
1. Hiring Adam Gase. That's right. Gase was just not the right Head Coach for this team. Frankly, he was going to need a lot of help to succeed but we will get into that later.
Certain events unfolded during the 2018 season that had me second-guessing him. The first occurred on the first day of November last year. Gase was doing a routine press conference and Miami Herald Sports Columnist Armando Salguero had asked a question about Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill and Gase got really defensive about it. Honestly, the whole conversation that took place between Salguero and Gase was more laughable than offensive but I understand fans who were offended by some of Gase's comments. Listen, I doubt there is a Dolphin fan out there that has only been a fan of the team for three years. We may be just fans but we've cared about the team a lot longer than Gase has been a part of it but he is gone now, so we can move on.
The part of this conference that really got me cracked up laughing was when Gase gets all gaga-gaga and gooey over Ryan Tannehill. First, he starts talking about his arm, then his legs. I think I took to twitter and had some fun with it because Gase stated "he had never seen a quarterback do that before." It just had me second-guessing him because for the longest time, I had this conspiracy theory that Dolphins Owner Steve Ross was Tannehill's biggest advocate. He might still be. There is so much going on behind the scenes, we may never know.
The next set of events were rumors but never confirmed and they came from viable sources too. The first supposedly took place after the Colts game which was a game the Dolphins lost and Ross wanted to speak with Gase and Gase blew him off. The other event that may or may not have occurred was just as the season was wrapping up but supposedly Dolphins RB Kenyan Drake went to Ross and asked to be traded if Gase was brought back another year.
As stated earlier, we will never know the entire truth of what happened. I hope there is more to these stories because all of it shines a dim light on Adam Gase. It's possible that Gase was lying about the Tannehill question and he was just trying to look after his player but even before Gase arrived in Miami, Tannehill was not that good of a player. To all the Tannehill lovers out there, I'm sorry but the moment he signed that contract extension in 2015, the excuses ran out for him. He was paid to take this team to the next level. Never mind the fact that he was drafted to take this team to the next level, HE WAS PAID. Neither decision has panned out for us and now thanks to this continued stupidity, he is virtually untradeable. I'm going to get more into this later but for now, I'm going to leave it at that.
Speaking of stupidity, blowing off your boss? Didn't your momma ever tell you "Don't bite the hand, that feeds you." Love to try that with my boss and see what he says….no, not really. Again, if it's true, Gase might have checked out and firing him was a blessing for both sides but again it reiterates, he just wasn't the right coach anyway.
2. The promotion of Chris Grier. No, not the one he just got. The one he got before he became Executive Vice President of Football Operations. During this regime, he became the General Manager. What a very uninspiring move.
This regime for lack of a better ideal was supposed to be Ross's shining moment as an NFL Owner. He hired Mike Tannenbaum to the role Grier holds now and Tannenbaum was supposed to be this outside influence who was going to build up this football program and get it back on track and his first order of business, is to stay in-house and hired a guy, who I'll be honest hadn't heard of before and may have helped contributed in a small way to this perpetual cycle of mediocrity, we can't get out of, to a position he has never held before? I'm sorry, as a fan, I have to ask, how is that change? You want me to believe everything is going to be different. How? He has been here since 2003. At the time, we only had one playoff appearance during his tenure as an NFL scout. Our drafts have been terrible. He has no experience for the position he is being hired for. It was just a very blase move from someone who was expected to build a winning culture.
3. Never hiring an experienced Defensive Coordinator. I mentioned earlier that if Gase was going to be successful here, that he was going to need a lot of help. Having a defensive coordinator who knows how to manage that side of the ball WOULD HAVE HELPED. Gase was more offensive-oriented. Yes, officially he was the head coach. But he was a first-time head coach trying to figure out his role and it was so painfully obvious on Sundays that he needed a "whisperer". He needed a sidekick. Even the greatest of coaches have sidekicks. So, I don't hold it against him if he would sit on the bench when the offense was off the field. Our offense was terrible last year. He needed to do whatever he could to figure it out. But he wasn't going to get any help from Joseph or Burke. They had to muddle through too. So, that was a bad decision by this regime.
4. Mishandling the Tannehill situation. When this new regime came to fruition in 2016, Tannehill should have been traded right then and there. You probably could have gotten a mid-round pick for him. He did just sign a contract extension, so would have been difficult to get anything more for him. He wasn't injured yet. But he was also a quarterback who hadn't brought his team to the playoffs yet and if the Dolphins had traded him, we could have saved ourselves a lot of hardship. Coincidentally enough, he ends up getting hurt during the 2016 season and is out for the remainder of the year. Why he elected to not have knee surgery, I will never know.
So, 2017 rolls around. Dolphins don't take a quarterback in the draft for insurance and just as the preseason rolls around, Tannehill reinjures that same knee. Gase, in an attempt to salvage the season makes a blockbuster signing of Jay Cutler who had recently retired. Now, I like Cutler. I felt he had a fine career. But, the Dolphins had so many injuries with the o-line that summer that I would have taken that $10 million and tried to invest in some more offensive line depth and just count your blessings with Matt Moore. Kraig Urbik, who had recently signed a contract extension with the team suffered a career-ending injury and was forced to retire. Ted Larsen would be spending half the season on injured reserve. Anthony Steen was getting banged up. It just seemed like a critical oversight on their part.
Moving on to 2018. I'm at this point, where I'm thinking to myself 'This is it. This is the year we look for Tannehill's eventual replacement.' And it just didn't happen. This organization that has known about Tannehill's injury history for two years now, did not take a quarterback in the draft. Combine that with the fact that Tannehill now has a shoulder injury and this Dolphin fan is left to wallow in my own sorrow. I don't care how many stories are out there that the Dolphins are inquiring about trading him. He can't be traded. He's a charity case. He is a mediocre quarterback that has two career-threatening injuries with a significant cap hit for the next couple of years. If they can find a team, dumb enough to give up a seventh-round pick for him then Chris Grier is officially a genius. No way in hell that is going to happen, but we shall see. Tannehill will either be given his outright release, or he'll stick around a little longer.
My point to all this is they just waited too long on Ryan Tannehill and it's too late to get any compensation for him.
5. Using quality draft picks on receivers and tight ends. This is an issue that goes beyond this regime. But they made this mistake too. So, we gotta talk about it. The Dolphins a year ago spent two picks in the draft, two QUALITY draft picks on the tight end position and got literally nothing out of either one of them. In 2016, they spent a second-round pick on Leonte Carroo. In three seasons, he hasn't gotten much playing time. This past year, he was stuck on special teams mostly.
I've been doing draft analysis for 5 years now, I can tell you that the WR position is one of the easiest positions to fill via the draft. You don't need to waste a second-round pick to fill that need. The TE position is a little trickier. But there are plenty of other positions that need to be taken care of before you can even say the words "tight end". It is not an immediate concern.
I'm sure many of you can point out other poor decisions by this regime but I feel like these were the main ones that led to its crumbling demise. I hope the new regime can learn from this regime's mistakes. Time will tell.
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You love to blame Ryan but he was signed to execute the plays called by Gase. He did. Gase failed to protect the QB.
Yeah, but I would like a quarterback that every once in a while thinks for himself audibles out bad playcalling.
It's one thing to hear fans talking stupid, but it's completely something else to hear a supposed expert doing so! The whole idea that the only player that affects the outcome of a game is the quarterback is ludicrous! Tannehill wasn't the problem, terrible offensive line play, Miami's offensive line has ranked bottom four the last five years, and a terrible defense, ranked 29th this year, were the teams biggest failings. The play calling was also atrocious! There isn't a quarterback in the league that would win a super bowl on this team the last seven years!
Tannehill didn't get knee surgery the first time because the team doctors talked him out of it in a hope that he could come back for the playoffs in 2016. The 2017 injury was a reinjury of an unrepaired knee, not a new injury. Tannehill has been pretty resilient considering the lack of protection he has gotten from day one. It's obvious that you are just another mindless Tannehill hater.
Ever since Miami let Clay walk, our TEs have been awful, it made sense to fix that position. The biggest issue our TEs had was that they weren't featured in the offense, or given ridiculous blocking assignments. I guess the Patriots don't know how to draft either, as they have picked TEs highly as well! Most top WRs go in the first two rounds in the draft. Miami has made some bad decisions in the draft, mainly not building a good offensive line, and picking players that don't fit the system (Harris) or players at positions we don't need (Fitzpatrick) or just giving too much capital for one guy (Jordan).
What quarterback are you drafting in 2016? Lynch? Hackenberg? Brissett? Kessler? These guys all went between when we picked Tunsil, a pro bowl level Left tackle, and the end of the third round.
What about 2017? Who you picking? Kizer? Webb? Beathard? These are the guys that went after Harris until the end of the third round.
Who you picking in 2018? Jackson? Rudolph? These are the guys after Fitzpatrick through the end of the third round.
Last three years Miami wasn't in position to pick a single quarterback that would be a quality starter. The good ones all went before they drafted!
I didn't just talk about Tannehill, though. I talked about other things.
If you watch Dan Marino's interview with Dan Patrick, you could tell he does not like bubble screens and jet sweeps. I bet he did not care too much how the offense was run.


My name is Louise, I'm 24 and from Yorkshire. I like listening to rock and metal and going to lots of gigs.
Anytime. What bands do you like?
Awesome! Well we have an excellent metal forum on here so you will fit right in!


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First Lab-Grown Mini Thyroids Could Treat Thyroid Disorders
Researchers generate thyroid mini-organs in the lab using healthy thyroid tissue.
Importantly, the thyroid mini-organs could be matured and produced thyroid hormones in the cultures.
This research could help the 11% of the population dealing with hypothyroidism.
Hormones produced by the thyroid gland are essential regulators of organ function. The absence of these hormones either through thyroid dysfunction due to, for example, irradiation, thyroid cancer or autoimmune disease or thyroidectomy leads to symptoms like fatigue, feeling cold, constipation, and weight gain. The condition called hypothyroidism is estimated to affect up to 11% of the global population. Although hypothyroidism can be treated by hormone replacement therapy, some patients have persistent symptoms and/or experience side effects.
To investigate potential alternative treatment strategies for these patients, researchers have now for the first time succeeded in generating thyroid mini-organs in the lab. In a new study published in Stem Cell Reports, Robert Coppes and colleagues from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, used healthy thyroid tissue from patients undergoing surgical removal of the thyroid to grow mini-thyroid organs in a lab which resembled thyroid glands in their structure and protein content.
The thyroid mini-organs contained stem cells which re-grew and formed new mini-organs when the structures were dissociated, providing a potentially unlimited source of lab-grown thyroid tissue. Importantly, the thyroid mini-organs could be matured and produced thyroid hormones in the cultures. Preliminary proof that these structures could potentially replace thyroid tissue came from experiments in mice with hypothyroidism, where transplantation of the mini-organs increased serum levels of thyroid hormones and extended the lifespan of the animals compared to un-transplanted mice.
Further studies are required, however the study lays the foundation for generating thyroid mini-organs from surgically removed tissue and may potentially lead to a new therapy for hypothyroidism in the future.
This study was published in Stem Cell Reports in March 2021.


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Q: Error with SQL database I'm working on a problem and I've been having quite a problem.  I get the following error:
03-26 20:34:27.000: E/SQLiteLog(8930): (1) near "INTEGER": syntax error
03-26 20:34:27.002: E/DatabaseUtils(8930): Writing exception to parcel
03-26 20:34:27.002: E/DatabaseUtils(8930): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near
"INTEGER": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: SELECT * FROM story_table WHERE TITLE
LIKE ?  ORDER BY nullLOGIN_ID INTEGER ,STORY_ID INTEGER ,TITLE TEXT ,BODY TEXT ,AUDIO_LINK
TEXT ,VIDEO_LINK TEXT ,IMAGE_NAME TEXT ,IMAGE_LINK TEXT ,TAGS TEXT ,CREATION_TIME INTEGER
,STORY_TIME INTEGER ,LATITUDE REAL ,LONGITUDE REAL

Here's what I got for my code.  Could someone please help me out with that part.  I'm not sure what exactly I'm doing there.
public Cursor query(final String table, final String[] projection,
        final String selection, final String[] selectionArgs,
        final String sortOrder) {
return db.query(table, projection, selection, selectionArgs, null, null, sortOrder
            + Story_LoginId + " INTEGER ,"
            + Story_StoryId + " INTEGER ,"
            + Story_Title + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_Body + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_AudioLink + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_VideoLink + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_ImageName + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_ImageMetaData + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_Tags + " TEXT ,"
            + Story_CreationTime + " INTEGER ,"
            + Story_StoryTime + " INTEGER ,"
            + Story_Latitude + " REAL ,"
            + Story_Longitude + " REAL  ");

}

A: Your log show why this get error.
SELECT * FROM story_table WHERE TITLE LIKE ?  ORDER BY nullLOGIN_ID INTEGER ,STORY_ID INTEGER ,TITLE TEXT ,BODY TEXT ,AUDIO_LINK TEXT ,VIDEO_LINK TEXT ,IMAGE_NAME TEXT ,IMAGE_LINK TEXT ,TAGS TEXT ,CREATION_TIME INTEGER ,STORY_TIME INTEGER ,LATITUDE REAL ,LONGITUDE REAL

Select query not need datatype.
datatype need for create table.
You must change your query string.
SELECT * FROM story_table WHERE TITLE LIKE ? ORDER BY nullLOGIN_ID, STORY_ID ...

A: according to the logCat you have a problem here "ORDER BY nullLOGIN_ID INTEGER", Select clause don´t need data types.
if you only need a select from a table, this is an example:
return db.query(table, projection, selection, selectionArgs, null, null, sortOrder);

More info:
SQLiteDatabase.query method

A: You would need to cast Columns like Story_LoginId, Story_StoryId, Story_CreationTime into Text first before concatenation them to literal values like INTEGER or REAL.

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module Models {

	export interface IWindowSettings {
		width: number;
		height: number;
	}

	export interface IAppSettings {
		window? : IWindowSettings;
		currentFolder? : string;
		resourcesFolderName? : string;
		settingsFilename? : string;
	}

	export class AppSettings {
		window : IWindowSettings;
		currentFolder : string;
		resourcesFolderName : string;
		settingsFilename : string;

		constructor(settings : IAppSettings) {
			settings = settings || <any>{};

			this.window = settings.window || { width: 800, height: 600 };
			this.currentFolder = settings.currentFolder || "";
			this.resourcesFolderName = settings.resourcesFolderName || "NotedownResources";
			this.settingsFilename = settings.settingsFilename || ".notedownSettings";
		}
	}

}

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