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Avenged Sevenfold "Don't Feel Comfortable" Releasing a New Album Until They Can Tour Again
October 8th, 2020 at 10:48am
Axl Rosenberg
Avenged Sevenfold's most recent album, The Stage, was surprise-released at the end of 2016, following a protracted legal battle with the band's former label… and that didn't go so good for them. So, understandably, they wanna make sure they do things right next time — which, they say, means they won't release a new record until they're confident they can tour to support it.
The news comes from a message A7X sent out to fans on their e-mail list last night:
"First and foremost, we hope everyone is being as safe as they possibly can out there. As you know, we are living through unprecedented times.
"This moment has taught us a lot about the fragility of being a human being and how quickly the world in which we took for granted could be flipped upside down.
"Many people are in a tough spot as they grapple with their health and livelihoods. We are all dealing with this in our own ways.
vFor us, we have taken an inward approach. Spending large amounts of time with our families has been the silver lining.
"It has also given us the time to meticulously work on music and other projects. The truth though, is that it has been incredibly hard to record the way we want. For instance, the drum room we required for the album was shut down due to protests outside the building for weeks.
"String sections and outside musicians have still not been able to be recorded due to Covid-19 restrictions. We are not willing to sacrifice the sound we are going for to work around this. We will wait. There are other issues on the horizon but we are documenting it all for a later release when we can tell the whole story.
"At the end of the day it wouldn't matter anyway. We don't feel comfortable working on an album this long and then releasing it with no tour in sight. Part of the music we make needs to be expressed through live interaction.
"While we appreciate the artists who are attempting 'live streams' and other events, it just isn't the way we are choosing to roll this thing out. All of this may change in the future. We are going through this with all of you and feel frustrated as well.
"The good news is we also feel recharged and stronger than ever as a unit. We feel the music we have created is _______. Just because we aren't updating everyone at every step doesn't mean that we aren't working. The news gets tiring. Social media gets tiring.
"Everyone on the food chain fighting for attention and relevance seems trivial. We have chosen to shut our mouths, dig deep and give you something that we feel can add to the collective human conversation. At the end of the day the music will come when it comes. Until then we hope you and your families all stay safe and sane.
Quick aside: why is "live streams" in quotes?
ANYWAY, it seems worth noting that Avenged Sevenfold are, y'know, extremely successful, which affords them the luxury of being able to not worry about income for the time being. If we're all indoors in 2023, they may change their minds about this.
(Which is not to say ALL their decisions are financially motivated. When the pandemic first started to really make waves earlier this year, the band incentivized fans to stay home and social distance by giving away merch.)
Regardless, even if the band released a new album now, it would be the longest fans have ever had to wait in-between releases — since their divisive self-titled offering in 2007, they've put out a new album every three years like clockwork. Before that, they never went more than two years between releases.
Grieve over the weight of the wait in the comments section.
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Hatari Claim To Have Hired Christian Conservative Who Denounced Them — The Reykjavik Grapevine
Hatari Claim To Have Hired Christian Conservative Who Denounced Them
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Shortly after news broke that Christian conservative and social media paladin Margrét Friðriksdóttir condemned acclaimed anarcho-synthpunk anti-capitalist BDSM darkwave cyborgs Hatari and their Eurovision contender song, "Hatrið mun sigra" ("Hate will prevail"), the band issued a statement contending that weeks earlier, Margét had signed a publicist contract with Hatari's official international distributor, Svikamylla ehf.
The news was brought to light by the respected music news journal of note Iceland Music News, who say that Margrét agreed to be the band's publicist and signed a contract to that effect "some weeks ago". The article also notes that Hatari's "shockingly unexpected PR campaign seems to be working", as it has prompted more than one social conservative to wring their hands worryingly about the very fabric of Western civilisation being torn asunder by Hatari, their Eurovision song, or both.
Margrét has been diligent in her statements about Hatari, and has spared no hyperbole in talking about them. As she told DV recently, Hatrið mun sigra "is a terrible song and will have unavoidable consequences for Iceland if it's voted forward." She doubled down on this glowing assessment by threatening to move out of the country altogether, speculating that maybe the best thing would be for her to "let Iceland sink … into the darkness", thereby revealing that she alone has been keeping the country on the straight and narrow this entire time.
It has not been disclosed what next steps Margrét will take in advancing Hatari's visibility, but if this undoubtedly 100% true and not at all satirical statement from the band is to be believed—and it totally should—a good time will be had by all in the days to come.
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THE full text of Julia Gillard's speech to the Lowy Institute in Sydney, at which she outlined Labor's new policy on asylum-seekers.
THANK you very much to the Lowy Institute for hosting me today.
The Lowy Institute has established a reputation for independent, robust and forceful analysis of Australia's place in the world. It is exactly the right place to make today's address: Moving Australia Forward.
I first would like to acknowledge the enormous contribution of the Institute's founding benefactor, Frank Lowy. Frank Lowy is a great Australian. He was a refugee who escaped to Israel after World War Two in a crowded boat full of asylum seekers.
After fighting for Israel, he arrived on our shores as a very determined 21 year old. He worked hard and went from factory worker to milk bar owner to Blacktown shopping centre developer and in time, to the largest retail property group in the world - Truly great achievements and a remarkable story.
As the Socceroos' number one supporter, no doubt Frank has had some frustrating recent weeks in South Africa. I think both the Socceroos and Frank fought proudly for Australia.
But down to the business of today.
In my first press conference as Prime Minister I said I would lead a strong and responsible government to take control of our future.
That's why I moved to immediately end the uncertainty caused by the proposed RSPT, which has been successfully adapted to become the Minerals Resource Rent Tax. The investment community can be assured that the future of mining in Australia is strong and secure, And to all of our mining communities across the length and breadth of Australia, I assure you that your future is also secure and your prospects are bright.
I have also made it clear that a national leader must recognise when a Government needs to take a breath, slow down, weigh the evidence and make the right, considered judgements for our people. To this end I've made it clear that I support sustainable population growth and reject the idea that Australia should hurtle down the track towards a big population.
Population growth has always been a part of Australia's story. I arrived in Australia as a little girl with my family in 1966 – since then Australia's population has doubled from 11 to 22 million people, reflecting both immigration and natural population growth.
In the years ahead, our population will continue to grow, but the issue for Australia is both the speed of that growth, and whether - and where - it can be sustained.
We are very roughly the same size as America and we are a great country like America - but we are not America. We do not have the inland sprawling plains, fertile soils and cities for that kind of population. 80 per cent of our population lives along our coast precisely because our continent is different.
In many faster growing parts of Australia – like western Sydney, south-east Queensland and the growth corridors of Wyndham and Melton, in my own electorate in Melbourne's western suburbs - people would laugh if you told them population growth was intended to improve living standards. People in these communities are on the front line of our population increase and they know that bigger isn't necessarily better.
At the same time, other parts of Australia are crying out for more people – skilled workers to fill job vacancies in occupations like mining, health and aged care, and community services. I regard this alone as a giant policy question for Australia. It is truly the mismatch of modern Australia: communities with too many people and not enough jobs and then other communities with too many jobs and not enough people.
This is reason enough to declare that population policy should not be driven by an arbitrary single number.
Instead, I believe it must be driven by the needs and the circumstances of each region across the nation. With this in mind I have commissioned the Minister for Sustainable Population, Tony Burke to develop a population strategy for a sustainable Australia.
If we move forward together with 'sustainability' guiding our way, there are also new industries we can grow, new jobs we can create, new skills we can teach, new technologies we can develop and, if we get this right, a quality of life that will continue to be the envy of the rest of the world, and so we have begun an important debate on sustainable population growth. It is a positive debate we intend to lead and one that must not be constrained by self censorship or political correctness.
I have no truck with constraining debate on the big questions. I am for frank, open, honest national conversations, so let's have a frank, open, honest national conversation on the issues of border protection and asylum seekers.
Today I am announcing steps to strengthen Australia's border protection arrangements. I am setting out the long-term approach we will take to dealing with the pressure of unauthorised arrivals.
We are taking these steps in response to the increase in unauthorised people movements in our region and around the world.
I am also making the Government's policy goal clear: it is to wreck the people smuggling trade by removing the incentive for boats to leave their port of origin in the first place; to remove both the profitability of the trade and the danger of the voyage.
On the first point Mr Burnside is very, very right and I'm happy to oblige. He is right because in the context of our migration program, the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat to Australia is very, very minor. It is less than 1.5 per cent of permanent migrants each year; and indeed it would take about 20 years to fill the MCG with asylum seekers at present rates of arrival. This is a point well made.
On the second point he is very, very wrong. It is wrong to label people who have concerns about unauthorised arrivals as "rednecks".
Of course, there are racists in every country but expressing a desire for a clear and firm policy to deal with a very difficult problem does not make you a racist.
For too long, the asylum seeker policy debate has been polarised by extreme, emotionally-charged claims and counterclaims; by a fundamental disrespect that I reject.
This needs to be seen for what it is. It is a shallow slogan. It is nonsense.
Under John Howard, only a handful of boats were ever turned around. Tony Abbott claims that the Howard Government had an active policy of turning boats back. This is simply not true.
For the entire time of the Howard Government, only seven boats were turned back. The last Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel (SIEV) "returned from whence it came" was SIEV14 which arrived at Melville Island in the Northern Territory on 4 November 2003 with 14 Turkish passengers.
The Howard Government did not turn a boat back after 2003.
Let's ask ourselves why. Was it because the Howard Government suddenly lacked the resolve to turn the boats back? Of course not.
The Howard Government's actions changed because of a change in the practical reality, and the reality that confronted Prime Minister Howard confronts us today: the reality that to avoid being turned around boats are sabotaged raising safety of life at sea concerns for Australia's customs and border protection and defence personnel as well as the asylum seekers on board.
And the second practical reality is that there is nowhere to turn the boats back to.
My opponent, Mr Abbott, is good at slogans: a great big new tax on everything; a great big new tax on mining; a big bad tax; and now, turn back the boats.
But these slogans are hollow.
The Opposition is trying to sell the Australian community a fairy tale in which all you have to do is go out to an asylum seeker boat and turn it around and everything will be fixed - but this fairytale is not the facts.
The facts are the boat will be scuttled and start to sink.
The facts are that this nation would then be confronted with a stark choice: either we could leave the scene in the certain knowledge people including children would drown or we could rescue the asylum seekers from the water.
Today let me say one thing loud and clear: our nation would not leave children to drown. We are Australians and our values will never allow us to embrace this kind of evil. So, inevitably, the so-called strategy of turning the boats back would become a strategy of rescuing asylum seekers from the water with all the risks that entails to the lives of defence and customs personnel.
The slogan is hollow and Mr Abbott knows it.
In his own policy document he says that the so-called turnaround of boats would only happen "Where circumstances permit". This is an admission that it won't work.
How appalling it is that this is where the long-running debate on asylum seekers has taken us – to an unedifying exchange of incendiary labels like 'red neck' and hollow slogans like 'turn the boats around', with nobody asking how we can move the nation forward.
Think of the impasse this division has created.
If you are hard-headed you're dismissed as hard-hearted. If you are open-hearted you are marginalised as supporting open borders.
I say to those engaged in this type of rhetoric: Stop selling our national character short. We are better than this. We are so much better than this.
The other way, the path less travelled in recent times, is the path to move us forward together - to discuss the facts, reject the myths and make our decisions on what we know to be true on the principles that can unite us.
So let us start by considering the facts.
Last year, Australia received 0.6 per cent of the world's asylum seekers.
Refugees, including those referred for resettlement by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, make up less than 8 per cent of migrants accepted in Australia.
Even if all those who arrived in unauthorised boats were found to be refugees - which they will not - they would still be only 1.6 per cent of all migrants to Australia.
The total number of people accepted into Australia each year under our refugee and humanitarian program is 13,750 people. This is a fraction of our annual migration intake. This number has remained stable for many years and does not increase even when we face surges in boat arrivals. If more boats arrive, fewer people can be sponsored under our special humanitarian program.
We should also understand that what drives the peaks and troughs in the numbers of boats trying to get to Australia has less to do with what we do here and more to do with the conditions people are escaping - conditions like war, genocide, imprisonment without trial, torture, harassment by authorities, the disappearance of family and friends, and children growing up in refugee camps with no prospect of ever again seeing their home.
And when conditions deteriorate in countries with sea routes to Australia, as they did between 1999 and 2001, more boats come – some 5,516 people came to our shores in 2001. But then when conditions improved as happened after 2001 with the downfall of the Taliban regime fewer and fewer boats arrived.
This ebb and flow has been evident since the time when Malcolm Fraser was our Prime Minister in the 1970s and the people arriving in boats were from Vietnam.
Through their efforts to disrupt people smuggling, the Australian Federal Police, working with our regional neighbours, have prevented more than 5,000 foreign nationals coming to our shores illegally since September.
And that finally, if this were to happen, it would offend the Australian sense of fair play.
To ensure people smugglers have nothing to sell and so ending the long and dangerous voyages.
That means building a regional approach to the processing of asylum seekers, with the involvement of the UNHCR, which effectively eliminates the on shore processing of unauthorised arrivals and ensures that anyone seeking asylum is subject to a consistent process of assessment in the same place.
A regional processing centre removing the incentive once and for all for the people smugglers to send boats to Australia. Why risk a dangerous journey if you will simply be returned to the regional processing centre?
To this end I can report today that I have already taken steps to achieve this goal.
Irregular migration is a global challenge, and like all global challenges it can only be tackled by nations working together.
That's why we have put so much effort into regional cooperation in recent years. We co-chair the Bali Process with Indonesia, and through this process, we are working with our regional neighbours and key organizations like the UNHCR and the International Organisation for Migration, to manage irregular migration and stop people smuggling, and can I say how much we appreciate and value our cooperation with Indonesia as co-chair.
We do these things because we believe that building a sustainable regional protection framework is the most effective way to address irregular migration, including to Australia.
Building on the work already underway through the Bali Process, today I announce that we will begin a new initiative. In recent days I have discussed with President Ramos Horta of East Timor the possibility of establishing a regional processing centre for the purpose of receiving and processing of the irregular entrants to the region.
The purpose would be to ensure that people smugglers have no product to sell. Arriving by boat would just be a ticket back to the regional processing centre.
It would be to ensure that everyone is subject to a consistent, fair, assessment processes.
It would be to ensure that arriving by boat does not give anybody an advantage in the likelihood that they would end up settling in Australia or other countries of the region.
It would, of course, have to be a properly run, properly auspiced, properly structured centre.
President Ramos Horta told me that he welcomed the conversation about this possibility and I look forward to further consultation and dialogue on developing this initiative into a proposal that would advance the proper and consistent treatment of people arriving without authorisation in our region.
I have also spoken to New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, about this possibility, and he has said to me that he would be open to considering this initiative constructively.
East Timor and New Zealand are vital countries in this initiative as they are already signatories to the Refugee Convention, and New Zealand – like Australia – is a key resettlement country.
I have also already discussed this initiative with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres.
Australia maintains its strong support for the capacity of the UN to ensure appropriate forms of refugee assessment.
I told the High Commissioner that my Government is not interested in pursuing a new Pacific Solution - instead Australia was committed to the development of a sustainable, effective regional protection framework. Again, I look forward to a constructive and concrete dialogue with the UNHCR on this initiative.
This problem is not Australia's alone.
I want to reassure Australians that this is not about a quick fix – there is no quick fix. It is about stopping people getting in boats, but it is also about improving the protection outcomes for refugees by establishing a framework for orderly migration within the region. It will take time. I believe it will be worth the effort.
A solution that I will pursue relentlessly.
It is also clear there are steps we must take in the interim in accordance with the principles I outlined earlier.
Last night, the UNHCR published its revised eligibility guidelines on Sri Lanka. The guidelines are just one source of information which has helped to inform the Government about the changing situation in Sri Lanka.
The UNHCR report confirmed the improved human rights and security situation in Sri Lanka and that displaced people continue to return to their homes. Instead of automatically presuming that particular groups in Sri Lanka are refugees, the UNCHR states that all asylum claims must now be considered on a case by case basis, noting that some groups may still be at risk.
With the new information, acceptance rates are likely to fall.
Today, in light of these circumstances, I am announcing the Government has decided to lift immediately the suspension on processing claims for Sri Lankan. Those currently in detention will have their claims processed against a range of country information including the revised UNHCR report I have described.
So I have a message for people in Sri Lanka who might be considering attempting the journey to Australia. Do not pay a people smuggler, do not risk your life, only to arrive in Australian waters and find that far, far more likely than not you will be quickly sent home by plane.
The other group of arrivals for whom processing has been suspended is people from Afghanistan. So far this year more than 60 per cent of all asylum seekers arriving by boat have come from that country. Although there was a time when large numbers of Afghan asylum seekers were granted refugee status, since April there have more than 500 primary refusal decisions for Afghans. During the past month the primary refusal rate has exceeded 70 per cent.
If upheld at review, these increasing rates of refusals will result in many more people being returned to their homelands.
I am not immediately ending the suspension of processing of Afghan asylum seekers, but my Government will keep that decision under review in the coming weeks and months.
Under my leadership, the Government will work closely with the Government of Afghanistan on a range of migration-related issues – including putting in place arrangements for the return of Afghan nationals who are found not to be legitimate refugees to Afghanistan.
This process is essential for the integrity of our migration program, and it is important for sending a clear message of deterrence to people-smugglers and their clients that they cannot buy their way into Australia.
I look forward to securing an efficient return arrangement and then resuming processing Afghanistan asylum seeker claims and getting Afghans home.
To reiterate: I am committed to treating people with decency while they are in Australian detention, but if people are not found to be refugees, I am committed to sending them home, and whilst ever boats are attempting to enter Australian waters there must be effective policing.
We are successfully prosecuting dozens of people smugglers through our courts. We have successfully extradited alleged people smugglers from other countries.
Since September 2008 we have made 149 arrests for offences related to people smuggling – 48 people have been convicted, and a further 99 prosecutions are now underway in our courts.
We are also investing in eight new patrol vessels with improved surveillance and response capability - strengthening our Border Protection Command, which already has18 vessels and 18 aircraft available for patrolling Australian waters all year round. We already have more assets deployed for this task than any other Australian Government has had.
We ultimately destroy the illegal boats we intercept.
The Government recently strengthened penalties with the enactment of the Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Act 2010. This legislation includes mandatory minimum penalties for organisers and created a new offence of providing material support for people smuggling, with a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment and/or a fine of $110,000.
If re-elected I will legislate to toughen these measures further, increasing maximum penalties for situations where a people smuggling venture results in death.
I believe Australians are prepared to welcome those who are genuine refugees, but they also expect them to learn the rules under which we live and abide by those rules. That means that when newcomers settle in our community, they accept their responsibilities as members of the community – to learn English, enter the workforce, and send their kids to school like everyone else.
Most refugees fulfil these obligations and are grateful to be able to make a new home in Australia – just as hundreds of thousands of refugees also did in the aftermath of the holocaust and the Second World War in Europe.
But the rules are the rules. We will ensure refugees shoulder the same obligations as Australians generally.
In conclusion, we are implementing the changes I have announced today based on the principles I have outlined.
Moving forward means effective policy.
It means respecting the anxieties that are held by many in our community, but basing our policy and our discussion on the facts, moving beyond the false promises and simplistic slogans.
It means speaking frankly about the difficulties we face, and seeking common ground, consistent with the values that Australians share – values of fairness, respect for the rule of law, tolerance, compassion and responsibility.
I speak today cognisant and proud of these values, and before the end of this year I will seek our people's endorsement so that we may all move forward together.


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First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a "ville nouvelle" sociocultural context.
Sébastien Leseigneur
Station Dors Ph
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
A cross navigation between genres and techniques of photography (artist's book).
Florent Meng
Préambule, Alinéa H
Artist's book (limited edition of 350 hand numbered and signed copies).
Bruno Serralongue
La Otra
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays : a reflexion on contemporary photography.
Denise Bertschi
State Fiction – The Gaze of the Swiss Neutral Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
The artist Denise Bertschi highlights the little-known Swiss presence between the two Koreas in the aftermath of the war in 1953, and questions the supposed neutrality of the country.
50JPG – Osmoscosmos
Exhibition catalogue of the sixth Triennal 50JPG – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, exploring the relationships between eros and cosmos.


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Get Through Your Day with Science Club's Day Job
Philadelphia punk band Science Club released a fun, blistering album back in February. Day Job comes in at thirty minutes and is full of catchy hooks and some shorter songs played at breakneck speeds. The band is honest about the anxiety that comes with feeling like an uncool outcast, and they successfully transform those negative feelings into raw, sing-a-long tracks.
Science Club has a knack is for taking totally dismal thoughts and delivering in them in a way that is upbeat and lively. The album opener, "Another Cruddup Juggernaut," contains lines like "I hate everybody who looks just like me / We're part of the problem / Making it worse / The change that I don't wan't to be," while the quick instrumentals and emphatic vocal deliveries stress the feeling of using music as therapy. Guitarist Nate Adams and bassist Nick Elmer share vocal duties, and do so with a satisfying mix of slowed-down melodies and rapid shouts. "Bad at Parties" and "Crazy Taxi" are so fast that the lyrics are hardly discernible, while tracks like "Selling Drugs in Union Square" stay a little more calm and composed.
Their most impressive moments come from merging their high speeds with emotional honesty. "Drunken Sleaze Party" calms down for emotionally revealing verses and speeds up for choruses and bridges that eventually find some resolution. Another standout track is "Bro Song," where the band makes use of varied vocal styles, thumping bass and drum lines, and a piercing guitar riff. At times the guitars cut out to leave crashing drums and harsh vocals, while Adams eventually shreds through a guitar solo and the vocals turn into more obscure shouting. "RPGs" is a suitable wrap-up for the downright honest Day Job. Weaving in more clever instrumental work, the band reflects on their biggest hopes and fears. Their introspective yet goofy mindset leads to lines like "I've always been afraid of what was in the dark / Not in my room but what's created in my heart / I'd rather have a fucking monster at my door than have to live with what I'm capable of anymore," in a track that surrounds the topic of death and finding peace.
Science Club's Day Job confronts their negative emotions in a pretty positive way. The band's pent-up anger for the mundanity of everyday life is apparent in the lyrics, while the upbeat punk sounds and captivating hooks turn that hurt into something they can express while rocking out, presumably while laughing or with a smile on their face. Science Club is already working on their next release, which is shaping up to be a four song EP making its debut sometime in September.
Stream Day Job below or download on bandcamp. Catch Science Club this Thursday, July 16, at Philly Improv Theater (info).
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Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
Korean J Intern Med. 2008;23(2):100-102
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Publication date (electronic) : 2008 June 20
doi : https://doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.2.100
Ji-Eun Chang, M.D., You-Hyun Lee, M.D., Jisoo Lee, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
Correspondence to: Jisoo Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, 911-1 Mok-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul 158-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2650-6164, Fax: 82-2-2655-2076, leejisoo@ewha.ac.kr
Received 2006 November 03; Accepted 2007 February 15.
Arterial and cardiac involvement of Behcet's disease is a rare but life threatening complication. The rupture of an arterial aneurysm might result in sudden death. We report a 54-year-old man with an established diagnosis of Behcet's disease who presented with multiple cardiovascular complications that eventually lead to his death. He presented with extensive venous occlusions, and sequentially developed right ventricular thrombosis with multiple pulmonary thromboembolisms, and a pulmonary artery aneurysm. We report this unusual sequence of cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease.
Keywords: Behcet disease; Aneurysm; Pulmonary embolism; Thrombosis
Behcet's disease (BD) is often complicated by vascular complications with a clear preponderance for venous involvement1). Arterial and cardiac complications including aneurysms, arteritis, and thrombosis are rare but life threatening complications2, 3). We report an unusual case of successive vascular complications including extensive venous thrombosis, huge right ventricular (RV) thrombus, multiple pulmonary thromboembolisms, and a pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) rupture in a patient with an established diagnosis of BD.
In March, 2003, a 54-year-old man presented with cough, dyspnea and intermittent fever that began two months earlier. Two years previously, he was diagnosed with BD based on the clinical manifestations of recurrent oral and genital ulcers, skin manifestations including erythema nodosum and papulopustular lesions, and a positive pathology test. He had a previous history of recurrent venous occlusions at multiple sites, including the common femoral vein, great saphenous vein and inferior vena cava. He had been on maintenance coumadin therapy until eight months earlier when he stopped treatment and was lost to follow up.
On examination, his body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure were 38.1℃, 110/min and 120/80 mmHg, respectively. Multiple discrete round ulcers were observed on his lower lip mucosa, tongue and scrotum. The skin examination showed multiple 0.2 cm sized papules and pustules on both palms. The chest examinations showed no abnormal findings. The auscultation of the heart revealed a rapid beat without a murmur.
The initial complete blood count revealed a hemoglobin count of 12.6 g/dL, a platelet count of 368×109/L, and a white cell count of 10.6×109/L. The ESR was elevated to 73 mm/hr and the C-reactive protein was positive at 4.7 mg/dL. The anticardiolipin antibodies were negative but the lupus anticoagulant was positive (92.7 sec). The plasma homocysteine concentration was 19.9 mol/L (normal, 4.5-12.4 mol/L). The HLA B51 test was negative. The antithrombin III, protein C and S levels were within the normal range. The chest X-ray revealed haziness in the right middle and left upper lobes. The chest CT scan revealed a large mass in the RV. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a mobile ill-defined 2.0×1.3 cm sized mass that was attached to the tip of the papillary muscle of RV but valvular vegetation was not observed (Figure 1A). The ventricular functions were normal. The lung scan revealed multiple perfusion defects on the right upper, right lower, and left lower lung fields (Figure 1B). Doppler ultrasonography of the lower extremities did not show venous thrombosis.
Echocardiographic findings show mobile intracardiac mass (1.3×2.0 cm) in the right ventricle (A). Lung perfusion scan shows multiple perfusion defects on both lung fields (B).
Coumadin and methylprednisolone 24 mg/d were started under a diagnosis of BD complicated by intracardiac thrombosis and multiple pulmonary thromboembolisms,. His symptoms improved rapidly. After the coumadin treatment for one year, the right ventricular thrombus was completely resolved.
In October 2004, he suddenly developed a hemoptysis of 700 mL associated with chest pain and dyspnea. The body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure were 38℃, 140/min, 44/min and 110/70 mmHg, respectively. Coarse crackles were heard over both lung fields. The complete blood count showed a hemoglobin level, a white blood cell count and a platelet count of 11.0 g/dL, 16.4×109/L and 405×109/L, respectively. The coagulation profile, ESR, CRP, and blood chemistry were within the normal limits. The chest CT scan and pulmonary angiography revealed a pulmonary hemorrhage from a rupture of the right pulmonary artery and a thrombus within the aneurysm (Figure 2).
Chest CT finding shows a rupture of the right pulmonary artery aneurysm with a thrombus within the aneurysm.
The patient was diagnosed with a rupture of PAA and was started on high dose glucocorticoid and cyclophosphamide pulse therapy. After the completion of 6 cycles of cyclophosphamide therapy, he was maintained on azathioprine 100 mg/d and methylprednisolone 8 mg/d. His progress was uneventful for 10 months, and the PAA decreased in size. In August 2005, he developed recurrent hemoptysis, which resolved with high dose glucocorticoid therapy. However, he died during a third episode of massive hemoptysis in October 2005, twelve months after the initial presentation.
Since the main pathological feature of BD is vasculitis, the condition is often complicated by vascular complications with an incidence of vascular involvement ranging from 7 to 29%2). The venous lesions are mainly venous occlusions, while arterial lesions are either arterial aneurysms or arterial occlusions. Arterial complications, particularly when multiple vessels are involved, have grave consequences often leading to mortality.
The pathogenesis of thrombosis in BD is unclear. Endothelial cell injury by the deposition of immune complexes has been implicated as an important cause of hypercoagulability and thrombosis. Vascular inflammation can lead to the enhancement of platelet aggregation and an impairment of fibrinolysis resulting in a thrombosis4, 5). Recently, the von Willebrand factor antigen6), hyperhomocysteinemia, and antiphospholipid antibodies were reported to play a role in thrombus formation in BD7, 8). Thrombosis can occur in any type of vein or artery. However, thrombosis within the cardiac chamber is extremely rare9) and can only occur in settings where the immune system is extensively activated. This is because the endocardium is less prone to damage from circulating immune complexes and various inflammatory mediators due to high velocity dynamic blood flow within the cardiac chambers. In our patient, the increased lupus anticoagulant and plasma homocysteine concentration was documented during the severe disease flare up resulting in a thrombosis of the pulmonary artery and RV. Our case demonstrates that multiple thrombophilic factors act cumulatively to trigger a fulminant thrombotic phenomenon.
Aneurysms occupy approximately 60% of reported arterial lesions associated with BD10). The aorta is the most commonly affected artery followed by the pulmonary artery11). PAA is known to occur as a result of immune-mediated vasculitis1). The consequent neovascularization and degeneration of arterial wall result in the formation of an aneurysm12). Hemoptysis is the main presenting symptom but thrombi within PAA can cause secondary ischemia in the lung parenchyma. Medical treatment with immunosuppressive agents is preferred over surgery because a recurrent aneurysm or fistula at the anastomotic site is a common complication after a surgical resection13). There are reports of the regression of PAA associated with BD after a treatment with high dose glucocorticoid and cyclophosphamide combination14, 15). However, the successful control of the symptoms with these therapeutic regimens is not always enough to prevent a recurrence or rupture. Once an aneurysm develops, it carries the risk of rupture at any time. Approximately 30% of BD patients with PAA die within 2 years15).
When a BD patient with thrombophilic tendency experiences a major flare in the disease activity, a search for other vascular complications is recommended because multiple catastrophic vascular events can be triggered by the inflammation.
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So I admit at the outset I am biased. Years spent with, talking to, and learning from my mentor have left their mark. Rick begins a new series. The subject? Gossip. Read this first piece and you will likely be hooked on the whole. You need not be in a vocational ministry context to ruminate on the description of the power of words and the confusing source of our conflict.


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With a Little Top of the Pops From My Friends
Lend me your ears and I'll give you the 26th May 1988 edition of Top of the Pops!
Wet a little help from my friends
26/05/88 (Mark Goodier & Steve Wright)
Debbie Gibson – "Out Of The Blue" (19)
Girl next door Debbie gets tonight's show underway but the song got no higher.
LA Mix – "Check This Out" (13) (video)
With some nice touches of humour this was their only top ten hit and it peaked at number 6.
Ofra Haza – "Im Nin'Alu" (15)
Bringing some eastern promise (and a stack load of tellies) into the studio but like Debbie before her the song got no higher.
Climie Fisher – "This Is Me" (22) (breaker)
Aswad – "Give A Little Love" (25) (breaker)
The Style Council – "Life At A Top People's Health Farm" (28) (breaker)
Hothouse Flowers – "Don't Go" (11)
Making their studio debut but this was another song already at its peak.
Mica Paris – "My One Temptation" (17)
Another studio debutante and this song became her only top ten hit when it peaked at number 7.
Scritti Politti – "Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)" (18)
This understated little number peaked at number 13.
Wet Wet Wet – "With A Little Help From My Friends" (1) (rpt from 12/05/88)
Second of four weeks at number one.
Heart – "What About Love" (14) (video/credits)
And another song at its peak.
Next up is June 2nd.
She's Leaving Top of the Pops
Thursday evening at seven o' clock and the show begins - it's the 19th May 1988 edition of Top of the Pops!
What did we do that was wrong?
19/05/88 (Simon Bates & Gary Davies)
Prefab Sprout – "The King Of Rock 'N' Roll" (14)
Getting tonight's show underway with what became their biggest hit when it peaked at number 7.
Kylie Minogue – "Got To Be Certain" (4) (video)
Derek B – "Bad Young Brother" (16)
Gives it some energy in the studio but the record was at its peak.
Aztec Camera – "Somewhere In My Heart" (17)
Performing their only top ten hit - it was a great tune and it peaked at number 3.
Heart – "What About Love" (19) (breaker)
Ofra Haza – "Im Nin'Alu" (25) (breaker)
Hothouse Flowers – "Don't Go" (22) (breaker)
They got their big break as the interval act on this year's Eurovision, and this song was their biggest hit peaking at number 11.
Debbie Gibson – "Out Of The Blue" (27) (breaker)
Belinda Carlisle – "Circle In The Sand" (12) (video)
On its way up to number 4.
Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey – "She's Leaving Home" (1)
Bravely performing totally live in the studio, this was the flip side of the Childline charity single, and was Billy's (and Cara's) only number one.
And here's a snippet of the other side - the first of four weeks at number one.
Liverpool FC – "Anfield Rap (Red Machine In Full Effect)" (3) (video/credits)
The Crazy Gang of Wimbledon had beaten them in the FA Cup final, and thankfully the record got no higher in the charts.
May 26th is next.
Top of the Pops Emotions
You just won't know whether to laugh or cry when you watch the 12th of May 1988 edition of Top of the Pops!
Wad of the Pops!
12/05/88 (Simon Mayo & Mike Read)
Harry Enfield – "Loadsamoney (Doin' Up The House)" (4)
Cashing in on his popular Friday Night Live comedy character, this was Harry's only hit and number four was its peak.
Prince – "Alphabet Street" (9) (video)
The Adventures – "Broken Land" (23)
Making their studio debut and the song went up three more places.
Narada – "Divine Emotions" (16)
He'd had a number 8 hit in 1980 with I Shoulda Loved Ya, and now here he was in the studio eight years later with his second and final top ten hit, which also peaked at number 8.
Liverpool FC – "Anfield Rap (Red Machine In Full Effect)" (13) (breaker)
Peaked at number 3.
Belinda Carlisle – "Circle In The Sand" (31) (breaker)
Derek B – "Bad Young Brother" (26) (breaker)
Prefab Sprout – "The King Of Rock 'N' Roll" (28) (breaker)
Became their only top ten hit when it peaked at number 7.
Star Turn On 45 Pints – "Pump Up The Bitter" (12)
In the studio and they do seem to be doing live vocals, but the record got no higher, thank goodness!
Wet Wet Wet – "With A Little Help From My Friends" (5)
Will be number one next week.
Fairground Attraction – "Perfect" (1)
First and only week at number one.
Kylie Minogue – "Got To Be Certain" (15) (video/credits)
On her way to number 2.
Start Talking Top of the Pops
Quiet at the back please! It's time for the 5th May 1988 edition of Top of the Pops!
The ice-cream of the crop
05/05/88 (Bruno Brookes & Adrian John)
Joyce Sims – "Walk Away" (24)
Joyce gets the show off to a frilly dress start but the song got no higher.
New Order – "Blue Monday '88" (10) (video)
It only seems like yesterday that this song was first in the charts, and then once again, and now here it is for a third time! This remixed version actually did best of all, and peaked at number 3.
Magnum – "Start Talking Love" (29)
Making their debut next are Birmingham's answer to Bon Jovi, performing what becam their biggest hit, and it peaked at number 22.
Harry Enfield – "Loadsamoney (Doin' Up The House)" (17) (breaker)
On its way to number 4!
The Adventures – "Broken Land" (30) (breaker)
Narada – "Divine Emotions" (22) (breaker)
Prince – "Alphabet Street" (18) (breaker)
The Christians – "Born Again" (26)
They were studio regulars by now, and this song went up one more place.
Primitives – "Out Of Reach" (25)
Also in the studio tonight but this one got no higher
S-Express – "Theme From S-Express" (1)
A new performance tonight for their second and final week at number one.
Star Turn On 45 Pints – "Pump Up The Bitter" (15) (video/credits)
Er.... this comedy medley peaked at number 12.
12th May is up next.
A Top of the Pops Supreme
Oh, that's bad ...... no, that's good ...... it's the 28th April 1988 edition of Top of the Pops!
I got the top of the hots for you
28/04/88 (Nicky Campbell & Gary Davies)
Pat & Mick – "Let's All Chant" (15)
Getting us underway tonight is a former presenter, but it's all for charidee and it went up four more places.
James Brown – "The Payback Mix" (14) (video)
This weird medley went up two more places.
Fairground Attraction – "Perfect" (12)
Making their group debut in the studio with a song that will be number one in three weeks time.
Brenda Russell – "Piano In The Dark" (23) (breaker)
Primitives – "Out Of Reach" (26) (breaker)
Luther Vandross – "I Gave It Up (When I Fell In Love)" (28) (breaker)
Joyce Sims – "Walk Away" (29) (breaker)
Bananarama – "I Want You Back" (5)
In the studio again for a second performace but the song was now at its peak.
Will Downing – "A Love Supreme" (16)
Making his studio debut and this John Coltrane cover went up two more places.
S-Express – "Theme From S-Express" (1) (rpt from 21/04/88)
First of dos weeks at number one.
Scott Fitzgerald – "Go" (not in chart) (rpt from 07/04/88 + credits)
Came second in Eurovision but only made it to number 52 in the charts.
May 5th is next.
Top of the Pops's Prayer
Our father, who art at BBC TV Centre, give us this day the 21st April 1988 edition of Top of the Pops! Amen!
Ian gets his teeth into the song
21/04/88 (Simon Bates & Peter Powell)
George Michael – "One More Try" (14) (video)
This fourth single from his Faith album peaked at number 8.
Danny Wilson – "Mary's Prayer" (15)
The group's only top ten hit, peaking at number 3.
Pat & Mick – "Let's All Chant" (19) (breaker)
Will Downing – "A Love Supreme" (21) (breaker)
James Brown – "The Payback Mix" (25) (breaker)
Patrick Swayze & Wendy Frazer – "She's Like The Wind" (24) (breaker)
Jermaine Stewart -"Get Lucky" (17)
Hazell Dean – "Who's Leaving Who" (6)
Pet Shop Boys – "Heart" (1) (video)
Third and final week at number one.
Michael Jackson & Jackson Five – "I Want You Back '88" (10) (video/credits)
Next up is April 28th
Top of the Pops Cadillac
Pulling up into the studio tonight is the 14th April 1988 edition of Top of the Pops!
New girl on the block
14/04/88 (Bruno Brookes & Steve Wright)
Bananarama – "I Want You Back" (14)
Featuring new member Jacquie O'Sullivan, this song became their ninth of ten top ten hits when it peaked at number 5.
Natalie Cole – "Pink Cadillac" (11) (video)
Driving up the charts to number 5.
Climie Fisher – "Love Changes (Everything)" (3)
Def Leppard – "Armageddon It" (20) (breaker)
S-Express – "Theme From S-Express" (25) (breaker)
Will be number one in two weeks time.
T'Pau – "Sex Talk" (23) (breaker)
Jermaine Stewart -"Get Lucky" (22) (breaker)
His final top 40 hit and it peaked at number 13.
Jellybean featuring Adele Bertei – "Just A Mirage" (15)
Pebbles – "Girlfriend" (13)
Pet Shop Boys – "Heart" (1) (rpt from 07/04/88)
Bros – "Drop The Boy" (2) (video/credits)
Couldn't get any higher.
Next up is April 21st


is a full-length documentary that tells the incredible story of the Omaha Storm Chasers, one of Minor League Baseball's most beloved teams, as they prepare for Opening Day of their 50th Season.
The film explores how the Omaha club has managed to survive and eventually thrive, despite relocation threats, ownership changes, rebrands, and stadium issues—including the closing the iconic Rosenblatt Stadium. Through it all, the Storm Chasers maintained a record-setting 50-year affiliation with the Kansas City Royals.
50 Summers also goes deeper than just Omaha. The film provides an in-depth look at changing business of MiLB in America over the last half-century.
Interviews with George Brett, Warren Buffett, Alex Gordon, Jack McKeon, Branch B. Rickey, and dozens of MiLB executives paint a picture of where the league is today and how it got there, all as Omaha prepares for the two best words in the English language: Play Ball.


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Walk for Phil
12:00 am - 11:59 pm 2199 S University Blvd, Colorado
To be staged on "Super Saturday, March 11, 2017", Walk For Phil encourages the generosity of the nation's third biggest industry; to reach beyond it's own participants, fans and supporters to embrace the general community to aid three of Phil Sly's favourite charities.
Phil Sly was a larger than life character, thoroughly built around his passion for all of racing, from the punt, to ownership to camaraderie, but a man who valued life and giving to others.
Phil lost a staunch and rallying fight against "The Grub" of cancer in 2016 but not before inspiring others who were in sufferance along with many more who could make a difference and rally behind him and the cause.
And that is the idea behind Walk For Phil, something that he passionately drove before his passing, with a view to help his dear to heart Pancare, along with other life changing charities, Pinchapoo and Very Special Kids.
This walk is to honour not just his life, one fully spent, but to work towards providing life-changing differences for others.
Walk For Phil is a 27km walk from Caulfield Racecourse to Moonee Valley Racecourse and finishing up the straight at Flemington Racecourse .
Registration is $50 including a Walk For Phil shirt and breakfast .Walk starts at 5am sharp and concludes at 11:30am.
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10:15 am - 09:00 pm Conference & Event Services, Colorado
Give up your bed for one night and help keep a house warm this winter. Help us raise $25,000 to support the Lighthouse Foundation in keeping 10 homes warm this winter. Lighthouse is a dynamic and innovative Australian social venture organisation breaking the cycle of homelessness for young people. We are skilled at empowering young people to take responsibility for their own lives.
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Every year in Australia there are thousands of newborn babies that need the help of specialised nursery care to support them with their battle for life.
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The Hand on the Wall (#3 Truly Devious)
Author(s): Maureen Johnson
Young Adult Fiction | January Fiction
New York Times and USA Today bestseller New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years.Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie's greatest triumph . . . She knows who Truly Devious is. She's solved it. The greatest case of the century.At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it's hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow--somehow--all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated. Obviously, it's time for Stevie to do something stupid. It's time to stay on the mountain and face the storm--and a murderer.In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who've walked through Ellingham Academy.Praise for the Truly Devious series: "Readers, hang tight: there's one more round to come, and if the signs are right, it'll be to die for." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The Agatha Christie-like ecosystem pairs with lacerating contemporary wit, and alternating past and present scenes makes for a multilayered, modern detective story." --New York Times Book Review"Remember the first time reading Harry Potter and knowing it was special? There's that same sense of magic in the introduction of teen Sherlock-in-training Stevie Bell." --USA Today (four stars)"Be still, my Agatha-Christie-loving beating heart." --Bustle
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Imprint : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Weight (g) : 45359200.0
Dimensions : .865 Inches X 5.312 Inches X 8 Inches
Author : Maureen Johnson


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Q: Restore Oracle tablespace to its state from 2 days ago I have multiple test tablespaces in an  Oracle SID.  One of the tablespaces is updated with wrong data. It worked fine 2 days ago. I want to restore the tablespace to its state from 2 days ago.
I tried to restore the tablespace from the Coldbackups, but during startup it gave the error :
ORA-01113: file 10 needs media recovery
ORA-01110: data file 10: '/user/oracle/metadata/lmptest/gkpdbspace.dbf'

And
recover database

or
recover datafile '/user/oracle/metadata/lmptest/gkpdbspace.dbf'

didn't work.

A: You probably tried to restore and then recover the database. When you recover the database all the files should be in sync before you can open the database for work. The error shown tells you that some of your data files are not in sync with the rest of the database.
What your really need to use to recover a tablespace or a set of tablespaces is Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery (TSPITR). You can do it manually or with RMAN. In the latter case the command might look like:
recover tablespace app_data
until SCN 1234567
auxiliary destination '/tmp/auxdb';

And you wouldn't need to configure the auxiliary database manually. With user-managed TSPITR, on the other hand, you have to configure the auxiliary database first, and then use Transportable Tablespaces feature (see the section "Introduction to Transportable Tablespaces" in Database Administrator's Guide) to move the data files along with metadata to the target database.
For more details read "RMAN Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery (TSPITR)" and "Performing User-Managed TSPITR" sections in Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide, and also "Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery" section in Concepts.

A: I just noticed that you mentioned cold backups in your question. There's usually only one reason to make cold database backups – your database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode. If your database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode, you cannot use TSPITR, because it requires the database to be in ARCHIVELOG mode to perform incomplete database recovery using archive logs.
All you can do in NOARCHIVELOG mode to restore the tablespace(s) to some point in the past is use the previous backups of database, but in this case you can only restore the database (and therefore tablespaces) to the points in the past when these backups were made, because no archive logs are available and thus no recovery is possible.
This means that to restore your tablespace (database) as it existed two days before, you need to have a full backup of database made two days back, or you need a full database backup made more than two days back and all incremental backups of database up to two days before.
If you have all the backups required, you can duplicate your database to a different host, restoring it until two days before (or earlier), extract the tablespace(s) you need to restore (do you remember we can't recover in NOARCHIVELOG mode?), and then move this tablespace(s) to the destination database.
You can duplicate the database using DUPLICATE RMAN command (see the chapter "Creating and Updating Duplicate Databases with RMAN" in Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide).
You can use RMAN to move tablespaces to a different database using Transportable Tablespaces.

A: Usually this error comes up when you restore from a hot backup and any archivelogs needed for consistent recovery is not available.
In your case, since you are restoring from cold backup, this error should not be shown.
The open database statement is not available in your question.
Try:
alter database open resetlogs;

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On September 23 1992, Madonna was featured in a public service announcement titled The Diva for MTV's Rock The Vote series.
The three-and-a-half-minute skit was directed by close friend Alek Keshishian (Truth Or Dare), who would later use a similar premise in his television ads for Madonna's 1999 Max Factor campaign.
The beginning of her activism!


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Tell GR | What's your take on the Pokemon Sword and Shield controversy?
Paul TamburroMonday, November 18, 2019
Pokemon Sword and Shield are out now, meaning that Pokemon fans can finally play the game they said they were going to boycott. Much has been made of the Pokemon removed from the new Switch RPG, but after all this hubbub, was the controversy warranted?
In today's Tell GR, we want to know YOUR take on the Pokemon Sword and Shield controversy. Were fans right to be upset? Or was it a big uproar over nothing? Let us know in the comments section below and we'll feature our favorite response in tomorrow's Tell GR!
Paul Tamburro, executive editor: "Pokemon is a series that, for better and for worse, is defined by its unshakeable commitment to what it is. You select one of three starter Pokemon, you challenge several gym leaders in turn-based battle, and you try to Catch 'Em All along the way. As Pokemon Sword and Shield don't step away from these fundamentals, Game Freak bringing in fewer Pokemon was always going to be a major point of contention. Though the "cut" Pokemon don't really bother me, it speaks to a wider problem with the series in general. With there being no significant step forward in each iteration, fans are only left to squabble over the small core changes and what's missing. That's not to say that I don't think "Dexit" was blown out of proportion, but that this is a series that remains adverse to change. As such, any change that does happen is always going to be met with intense scrutiny."
Mack Ashworth, lead editor: "Now that I've played through the game (review coming soon), I honestly don't care about the cut Pokémon. I was never going to "catch 'em all" anyway. What that said, I can understand why some players are angry. I think for this next-generation Pokémon game, the developer played it a little safe. I'm still having fun, though!"
Michael Leri, features editor: "There's merit to being frustrated as this game was set up to be a Breath of the Wild-esque reinvention of the Pokemon series being the first new console mainline entry. It would have been awesome to catch all of these creatures in a world that didn't feel like an HD remaster of a 3DS game. But, like always, it was blown way out of proportion and made into this awful title that it frankly isn't. Disappointment is one thing and completely understandable, but taken for what it is, it's a Pokemon-ass Pokemon game and not worth mobbing Game Freak over."
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Should we expect forgiveness from God, if we do not offer it to others?
Sisters and brothers, in today's Gospel lesson, Jesus told a parable about forgiveness. A certain person having been forgiven a debt of a large sum of money went immediately to one who owed him a very small sum, grabbed him by the throat and demanded payment. This behavior may puzzle us as we wonder at the man's double-standards and his ingratitude. But Jesus told this parable to illustrate that this is the way we act, every time we refuse to forgive someone.
The parable is a clear example of our tendency to plead for forgiveness when that's what we need or want, but to deny it to someone else, when they seek it from us. We would do well as aspiring Christians, to heed what we pray for when we say every time in the Lord's prayer, "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us". The implication here is that, we shouldn't expect forgiveness from God, if we haven't offered it to others.
What does it mean to forgive? It means not to hold a grudge or seek to take revenge. Forgiveness means not to try to humiliate or hurt those who have hurt us. It means not to keep digging into the past, that particular turbulent event. It means not to repay evil with evil. Forgiveness stops the cycle of revenge, and cuts the chain of hatred. Forgiveness should go a long way in erasing painful memories that might otherwise be played over and over again in our mind and heart. For this reason, forgiveness is liberating.
hostility and hatred, became a soft heart full of love and compassion. It was a tremendous change. The forgiveness he received from the Lord resulted in a willingness to forgive others. In his letter to the Colossians, he urges people to learn to forgive: ''bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you must do'' (Col. 3:13).
Forgiveness is a beautiful concept, but it's hard to practice. There are times when we feel we can't forgive because we feel wronged, because we've been hurt, because we become defensive and because, often, we feel self-righteous. There are times when we genuinely fear that we'll be wronged again. But there are times, and these are many, when we won't forgive out of a selfish and stubborn pride, as though we are the only ones, that have been wronged.
Firstly, we have to realise that we cannot ask or expect forgiveness from God, if we are not prepared or able to forgive others sincerely. We must be mindful of God's mercy and how we have benefited from that, how many times He has forgiven us, and continues to forgive us. We must approach the issue of forgiveness with humility – knowing that we ourselves are not necessarily better than those who have wronged us, that Christ Himself was wronged, betrayed, and killed under the legalistic standards of this world, and yet was able to forgive. Are we more righteous than Christ?
Forgiveness is not always automatic. It is very often a process. Wounds take time to heal. But what matters is our willingness to embark on the process, our willingness to forgive. The desired result may take some time. This process of forgiveness will require prayer, and even reflection of the matter, under the guidance of a spiritual father. We should ask and pray to God to help us forgive, to show us how to forgive, to soften our hearts, and to give us the strength and the courage. And what is important is whether we are prepared to let it go, or not.
Finally, the real test of forgiveness is love. We can only pardon each other, as long as we cultivate to love. If we do not love, we will find it difficult to reconcile. It is love that covers a multitude of sins. It is love that saves. And, it is forgiveness that expresses the love of God, in action.
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A Washington think-tank has said amid growing security instability in Turkey that US nukes may be at risk.
Fifty US nuclear weapons stored at a Turkish airbase at Incirlik are at risk of being stolen by terrorists, a Washington-based think-tank has said in the wake of Turkey's attempted coup in July.
The report has claimed that the dozens of nuclear weapons held some 110km from the Syrian border could be compromised, putting the US's nuclear assets at risk.
It said leaving them at the base, which is a crucial strategic point for coalition forces carrying out airstrikes against Isis, was "a roll of the dice" after the facility's Turkish commander was arrested for his suspected involvement in attempting to overthrow the country's leading AKP party.
"Whether the US could have maintained control of the weapons in the event of a protracted civil conflict in Turkey is an unanswerable question," the report from the Stimson Center said.
"From a security point of view, it's a roll of the dice to continue to have approximately 50 of America's nuclear weapons stationed at Incirlik," one of the authors of the report, Laicie Heeley told AFP. "There are significant safeguards in place. But safeguards are just that, they don't eliminate risk. In the event of a coup, we can't say for certain that we would have been able to maintain control" she added.
The Pentagon has said it will not comment on its nuclear arrangements. The bombs are kept at the base strategically as a deterrent to Russia as part of the Nato alliance. Turkey hosts Washington's largest overseas nuclear weapons stockpile, all of them are believed to be stored at the Incirlik.
The publishing of the report comes at a particular low-point in relations between Washington and Ankara, in the wake of last month's failed coup attempt. Erdogan has called for the US to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of being behind the uprising.
In a symbolic reset in international relations between Russia and Turkey, Erdogan met Putin in St Petersburg on Tuesday (9 August), leading to a pledge of increased security cooperation. The two countries had been at loggerheads since November, when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in northern Syria.
However, Nato has said there is no risk of Turkey leading the alliance, despite rapprochement with Moscow. In a statement on 10 August, Nato spokeswoman Oana Lungescu described Turkey as a "valued ally, making substantial contributions to Nato's joint efforts".