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Architects Ask if Borders Could Be Something Else
Event: Welcome to the USA: Architecture and Human Rights at the Border
Location: Van Alen Institute, 07.30.09
Speakers: Teddy Cruz — Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz, & Associate Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego; Thomas Keenan, Ph.D. — Director, Human Rights Project, & Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College
Organizers: Van Alen Institute; Bard College Human Rights Project
"Aesthetics of Crossing: Land Ports of Entry / Citizenship by Design" at Van Alen Institute.
Courtesy Van Alen Institute
For a nation that theoretically welcomes travelers with a lifted torch, the U.S. hasn't exactly made its border stations a beacon of friendliness lately. With security concerns trumping other values since 9/11, even the efforts by the General Services Administration's Design Excellence Program to bring progressive architecture to federal facilities have taken a back seat to a caution that borders (pardon the pun) on paranoia. As readers of the New York Times learned this week, the Department of Homeland Security recently ordered the removal of the large yellow lettering reading "United States" on the main building at a new station in Massena, NY, on the grounds that it might invite attack (See "At a Border Crossing, Security Trumps Openness, " by Nicolai Ouroussoff, 07.26.09). NYC-based firm Smith-Miller + Hawkinson was successful at imbuing the station and grounds with an open, Post-Modern aesthetic, but whatever combination of transparency, functionality, and patriotism the architects strove for, in some eyes a border crossing is just a military checkpoint, its structures inevitably resounding with a carceral clank.
In this context, Estudio Teddy Cruz's explorations of the complex spaces around the San Diego-Tijuana border, the world's most heavily trafficked national juncture, offer particular insight into the nature and possibilities of our borders. Teddy Cruz is living proof that architectural thinking extends beyond the formal disciplines of design and construction. Perceiving essential continuities between spatial analyses and social interventions, he has treated the U.S.-Mexico border as a site of contrasting communities, and as a broadly conjoined region, rather than a simple barrier.
While governments on both sides, he says, display the "arbitrariness and stupidity of the nation-state" in imposing political force on the area's complex economic flows and human energies, Cruz has designed spaces conducive to Tijuana's informal economy, adapted features of shantytown construction to new uses, worked with community groups to help the underprivileged obtain equity, and advocated re-zonings that would legalize the unfairly deprecated spatial forms associated with Mexican culture, and reduce parcels (notoriously supersized on the San Diego side) to an affordable scale. As a designer, he favors functionality, humility, and exuberance; he laments that in recent years "I saw the whole avant-garde of architecture rushing to Dubai and China," and he is impatient with debates "hijacked by the politics of style and form."
The conversation took place in association with the Van Alen's two-part exhibition "Aesthetics of Crossing," combining Smith-Miller + Hawkinson's "Land Ports of Entry," a series of designs for two stations on the border with Canada (including the Massena site), with Kadambari Baxi and Irene Cheng's "Citizenship by Design," a close reading of the intricate details of different nations' passports, rules, migration patterns, and identification technologies (including some rather invasive biometrics). Cruz debated with human-rights scholar Thomas Keenan, Ph.D., who offered constructive devil's advocacy about the beneficial potential of aesthetic concerns and the civil protections that state power can sometimes provide. Shared Mexican and Californian interests in protecting threatened resources like the Tijuana Estuary, Keenan suggested, could give old rhetorics of power imbalance "a chance to get re-inscribed or rethought in environmental terms." "I see you're a romantic," Cruz quipped, "as well as I am."
For both Keenan and Cruz, as well as audience members (including Henry Smith-Miller, who supplied details on his firm's tricky balancing act at Massena with Homeland Security, the Canadian government, and the independent Mohawk nation), the obstinacy of officials has not extinguished the optimism that border zones might evolve a few steps closer to what Smith-Miller considers their ideal condition: not being needed at all. Border containment is spectacularly futile. Some 45 tunnels have appeared beneath the southern border in the post-9/11 years alone, and an older site, La Casa del Túnel, is no longer a drug conduit: it's been repurposed as an international arts center. "All I'm saying" of the border, Cruz summarized, "is, could it be something else? Could it be smarter?"

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Three Poems live today in Change Seven!
Yellow Chair Review's Issue 7 is live!
Yellow Chair Review's Issue 7 went live yesterday, and you can read the entire issue here! My poem, "The Gasoline Tree," was published along with 99 other wonderful poets, seven artists/photographers, and 14 prose writers. Feast your eyes on a very diverse issue. Consider submitting your work to Yellow Chair Review! Yellow Chair Review is a literary journal accepting submissions of poetry, prose and art. Issues release quarterly. They seek to act as a safe space for both readers and writers from marginalized groups. They are particularly interested to see submissions from POC and the LGBTQ community. This would be a perfect opportunity for any of my fellow Central Floridians to submit writing related to the Pulse tragedies and how the Orlando community responded. Your voices should be heard.
In other news, I've been paying closer attention to the submission rejections I've received recently. Of the seven total rejections I've received in June so far, five of them asked me to consider sending my work again in the future. That's definitely something to be happy about. Happy Tuesday!
"Was this the journey they'd imagined in the days after Jenny's miscarriage? Were they getting away from pain and grief?" At Backpacker, Steve Friedman chronicles ultrarunner Scott Jurek's challenging journey to break the speed record on the Appalachian Trail.
In bittersweet news, the company that my fiancé and I worked for closed its doors on Friday, March 11, 2016. I was booze-drowning my unemployment sorrows at a friend's birthday party when I received a Facebook message from an old colleague. Cut to the chase, I met with him that following Monday and became his new Marketing Strategist. Although I'm not writing creatively for money, I get to proof content and coordinate development for websites we launch to market services throughout the country. And after a few weeks running food and serving sushi, Josh got a job as a Paid Search Specialist for a small agency with big clients. Pretty exciting stuff.
Creatively speaking, I'm on a roll! My poem, "Blind Tomorrow," was accepted for publication in print by Blue Monday Review, a quarterly Kansas City publication that draws inspiration from the works of Kurt Vonnegut. Then the title poem of my thesis collection, "The Gasoline Tree," was accepted for publication online sometime this coming June by Yellow Chair Review in Waco, Texas. Then four of my poems were published online by The Galway Review in Ireland: "Departure from Loneliness," "Vacancy," "Bring Me Back," and "Sandwich Generation." You can read all of them here! Last but not least, Crab Fat Magazine accepted my confessional prose poem, "I did a lot of things," and should be publishing it online sometime in July or August.
It's not you, it's us: Unfortunately, the piece is not for us. This does not necessarily reflect the quality of your work.
Holloback girl! Unfortunately, after much discussion, we ultimately decided we would have to pass this time around but I hope you will consider us in the future.
Tried & true: We wish you the best placing it elsewhere.
I treat the process of submitting my work like a full time job, because it is. I don't limit myself to specific markets, such as: genre journals or magazines, themed contests, non-simultaneous submissions, print only, online only, prose only, rhyming only, etc. Why limit yourself right out of the gate?
Acceptance vs. rejection ratios: You have to have some kind of confidence to exclusively send your writing to markets with 1% or less acceptance ratios. Tough markets often take longer to get back to you too. I don't necessarily want to wait 180 days for a NO, but that choice honestly depends on the poems. I know my best poems and I usually always want to save them for more reputable journals. Just remember that all journals have a reputation. Do your research and explore their published examples.
Response time: As I mentioned above, journals have a variety of average response times. Some accept within two weeks or four months while others reject within two weeks and accept in four months. Set realistic expectations based on statistics, and I strongly recommend you get a Duotrope account so you can keep track of simultaneous submissions. If a poem of yours gets accepted somewhere, you need to alert the other journals that you sent that poem to right away.
Print vs. online publication: Although your work is still as important when published online as it is in print, I typically reserve my best pieces for journals that do publish in print. There's always a risk of a website becoming defunct. This happened to me when I published my first poem online in Dead Beats, a UK literary blog dedicated to the Beat Generation. When I went back a year later to read new work, the site was nowhere to be found.
Pay vs. no-pay markets: We all want to get paid for our creative work. After all, I did spend five years in school earning my Bachelor's and Master's degrees. As we all know, education doesn't necessarily equate to prosperity these days. You need to be smart. You can't expect to be paid for each poem or short story you write, but you should always try.
Now that I'm done with school, I'm focusing on my career and expanding my horizons. Josh and I can start planning our wedding, but we're still waiting to find out how long we'll stay in Florida. Can't take the heat anymore! Or the flat landscapes! But I will miss the sunsets.
Feel free to say hello, tell your own publication stories, or ask any questions in the comments section. I'll respond as soon as I can.


SKILLS AND ATTACKS: They charge at you.
STRENGTHS: Blue are healed by thunder, red by fire.
WEAKNESSES: The wrong element on the wrong color does massive damage, and just don't overheal them.
BACKGROUND: Oho Jees are a race of strange things that live on the island of the Oho Oasis. Blue ones worship the thunder god Thunderhand, while the red ones worship Firebrand, a fire god. If an Oho Jee is hit by the power they worship, they go insane. However, they are usually quite a peaceful tribe. They tend to speak English, but speak it with very poor grammar, and tend not to make sense most of the time.
A green and a pink Oho Jee (complete with big blond Afros) run a surfing game on two small islands just south of the Oho Oasis.


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The Seaver Standard
Posted By Greg Prince On June 9, 2017 @ 11:22 am In 1 | Comments Disabled
Bergino Baseball Clubhouse proprietor Jay Goldberg possesses the wryest of wits. In graciously inviting me to pull up a chair and talk about Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star at his one-of-a-kind shop a few blocks south of Union Square, he offered me the date of June 15. We would discuss my new book, of course, "and given that it's the 40th anniversary of one of the worst days for both of us, we would certainly discuss that, too."
How do you dispute intuitive scheduling like that? The symmetry, I agreed, was too good to pass up, and thus I will be there (and hope you will be, too) this Thursday night at 7 o'clock [1]. Not coincidentally, I told Jay, June 15, 1977, inhabits the narrative of Piazza like a ghost. I'm not sure a person, especially a Mets-loving person, could have grasped the concept of a superstar franchise player being traded in the middle of his prime in the middle of a season for blockheaded management reasons if it hadn't happened before.
In May of 1998, it was the Dodgers who were the blockheads. In June of 1977, it was the Mets who made their fans cry good grief.
This guy made for a Terrific catcher.
The story of Mike Piazza as a legendary Met is informed by the precedent of Tom Seaver in a couple of ways. One, most obviously, is that Tom represented the previously unreachable precedent which Mike, to our way of thinking, was striving to match. Everything that was said about Mike's prospective Hall of Fame enshrinement and number retirement tended to be placed in the context of Tom. "First Met since…" "Only Met other than…" The Seaver standard served as a relevant emotional metric, and Piazza was, by consensus, the first Met to measure up. Nobody announced in advance that the final Shea Goodbye pitch would be Seaver to Piazza, but when the ceremonial battery formed, and 31 joined 41 as the only two Mets to walk through the center field gate, it made total sense to us.
Cosmically speaking, I'd like to believe it's no accident that Tom Seaver's Hall of Fame induction and Mike Piazza's major league debut came within a month of one another, on the back end of the Summer of '92. The fact that the former event occurred on August 2 and the latter September 1 — with the bridge between them thirty days of unrelentingly crummy Metsiness that foreshadowed the annus horribilis ahead and, ultimately, the several years of toxic-spill cleanup that 1993 would necessitate in Flushing — struck me as too good to be serendipity. It's why I started the story of Piazza in Cooperstown with Seaver; shifted it to Shea for everything that was going wrong with the team Tom had long before legitimized; and then moved the focus to Wrigley Field the day the Dodgers promoted the kid catcher who'd hit .377 for San Antonio and .341 for Albuquerque.
Within the book's first act, I also sought to establish how difficult it can be to cast in bronze an eternal identity once you start taking your talents elsewhere…or if somebody is sending you and them away. Seaver's image for the ages was always going to be tethered to the Mets in our hearts and minds, and the record books testified it wasn't just our imagination running away with us. Yet fate kept finding bad terms for Tom to leave New York on. You think Seaver was thinking kindly of his Mets association forty years ago next week when he found out he was about to call Southern Ohio his professional home? When he pitched against the Mets on eleven separate occasions? When he sat in the dugout opposite theirs with a world title hanging in the balance?
Given the "go in as a Met" topic that hovered over all our talk of Piazza before 75% of BBWAA voters made the inevitable a reality — and Mike made it crystal clear whose cap he'd be wearing forever after — I thought it would be instructive to examine for my book how much of a sure thing it was that Tom Seaver, the Met of Mets, would himself go in as a Met. My conclusion is that, as one of Tom's managers might have put it, it wasn't a certainty until it was a certainty.
What was certain was I had to cut certain sections of my manuscript for space, and the extended Seaver discussion wound up being one of them. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of one of the shall we say most memorable days Mets fandom has ever known, and in anticipation of a much happier night at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse [1], I decided to share what I wrote here.
Conceivably, it could have looked different, though there was a time that itself was inconceivable. That time was prior to June 15, 1977, a date destined to live in infamy among Mets fans of a certain age. It was the day Tom Seaver was traded to Cincinnati.
It never should have happened, not if you believed that some players and some teams were made for one another. Tom had been a Met for more than a decade by then, most of it under the ancient system in which ballplayers played ball and management did with them what it wanted. Then came free agency and, with it, the chance for ballclubs and ballplayers to improve their respective lots. Seaver wasn't happy with how his club was running its affairs — shunning the opportunity to enhance the offense behind him — and he didn't care for his suddenly outdated compensation package. In a nutshell, the man he worked for, Mets chairman of the board M. Donald Grant, didn't care for what he considered Seaver's uppity attitude.
The match made in heaven in 1966, when a pitcher's name was pulled out of a hat in a special lottery on behalf of a franchise desperate for a transcendent figure, was on the verge of dissolution. The Mets had gotten lucky when Seaver's original professional contract was voided by then-Commissioner Spike Eckert. Twenty-one year-old Tom, from the University of Southern California, found himself in a murky void, caught between the pro team that drafted and signed him, the Atlanta Braves, and USC, where his amateur status hadn't fully worn off. The Braves couldn't keep Seaver, but Seaver, it was decided, couldn't be kept from pursuing his career. Thus, the lottery that every team besides Atlanta was invited to join, yet only three did: the Cleveland Indians, the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. All it took to get him was a willingness to match the $51,500 bonus the Braves had planned on paying him and fate.
Fate sided with the Mets. It was their name on the slip of paper Eckert drew from the most charmed hat in Mets history. They got Seaver. Seaver went to Triple-A Jacksonville for a year, then made Flushing, Queens, major league a year later. The team that had never finished higher than ninth prior to Seaver's arrival…well, they finished tenth with him, but one could only recoil at imagining where they might be headed without him. Fortunately, for ten years, the Mets never had to seriously contemplate such a question.
Seaver pitched. The Mets improved. Hodges, beloved Brooklyn Dodger and Original Met, came home to manage him and Harrelson and Koosman and Grote and a clubhouse of young players who possessed talent but craved guidance. Gil guided. The Mets improved exponentially. Seaver excelled. The Mets followed suit and won a world championship in 1969 that could hardly be fathomed and would never be forgotten. Then the Mets leveled off. Seaver didn't. He kept pitching and kept excelling. His right arm was as strong a reason as any that the Mets stitched together another pennant, this one under Berra, in 1973. Through a torrent of innings and a paucity of runs and even in the aftermath of the tragic death of his professional mentor Hodges, Seaver kept going.
In the spring of '77, though, he was going out the door. Trade rumors began to boil over that spring. The pot was stirred to excess by Grant's ally, the legendary Daily News columnist Dick Young. Young invoked a supposed jealous streak Tom's wife Nancy maintained toward Nolan Ryan's wife Ruth. Ryan, the Met foolishly dealt to the Angels half-a-dozen years earlier, had grown into a star pitcher in California. Young's story had it that Nancy Seaver was upset Ruth Ryan's husband was getting paid more than her own. Tom didn't care for this tactic whatsoever. His demand to be traded was set in stone. Late on deadline day, June 15, he went to Cincinnati in exchange for four players who weren't and never would be the equivalent of one Tom Seaver.
"As far as the fans go, I've given them a great number of thrills," an uncharacteristically emotional Seaver told reporters in front of the locker he was compelled to clean out, "and they've been equally returned." It was a transactional assessment, but it was also correct.
The Mets were back where Seaver found them when he joined them: in the cellar. They struggled in his absence. They might have struggled anyway, given Grant's aversion to modernity. The organization was rotting from within. No viable reinforcements were graduating from the minors and no significant help was being obtained on the open market. The Mets of the late 1970s were probably doomed with Seaver or without him. But the Mets without Seaver, on principle and on the field, were unbearable.
Tom thrived in Cincinnati, no matter how odd his familiar form appeared trimmed in red. He pitched a no-hitter for his new team. He pitched them into the playoffs once, to the best record in baseball another time…but not the playoffs, amid the bizarre split-season contrivance of strike-sundered 1981 (a baseball version of the electoral college trumping the popular vote). Wear and tear was finally showing on him in 1982, his sixth season with his second club. The Reds, rarely less than very good for a generation, had finally stopped winning. They didn't necessarily need to continue paying an all-time great starting pitcher whose every-fifth-day effectiveness was ebbing.
The Mets had undergone many changes in Seaver's absence, though you couldn't tell it by the National League East standings. They continued to dwell near the bottom of them, but behind the scenes, things were very different. Grant was gone. The team had been sold. The new owners hired a general manager, Frank Cashen, determined to overhaul the entire operation. Cashen was building from within, drafting and nurturing a contender, occasionally shelling out for external help to patch over the rebuilding process. In the winter heading into '82, he did some headline-grabbing business with Cincinnati, taking off their hands the bulging salary demands of George Foster, an RBI man of the highest order. It was a crowd-pleasing move. That it didn't work out — Foster's production couldn't have diminished any faster had that been the plan — didn't mean it wasn't a good idea. Rebuilding was taking its not-so-sweet time. The goodwill attached to the 1980 regime change faded almost as quickly as Foster's talent for driving in runs. Nineteen Eighty-Two marked the sixth consecutive year of the Mets holding down one of the two lowest spots in their division. A diversion couldn't hurt.
Especially one that could still pitch a little.
Five-and-a-half years after the unthinkable trade of Tom Seaver from the Mets, Tom Seaver was traded to the Mets. All was right with the world again, save for the standings. The Mets remained well south of contention as 1983 dawned, but finishing last with Seaver loomed as so much more pleasant than finishing last without him. Opening Day told the story beautifully. Shea Stadium was packed. Public address announcer Jack Franchetti introduced "Number Forty-One" as the starting pitcher. No more needed to be said. Tom Seaver, in his native colors of blue and orange, strode down the right field line from the home bullpen. He stepped on the mound and threw to Pete Rose, these days a Philadelphia Phillie. His first pitch was a strike. His return was a home run.
Seaver the second-time Met was a phenomenon. Then it was just how it was supposed to be. Tom's presence blended into another sixth-place finish. He still pitched well, but the team still didn't score much for him or any of its pitchers. The losing continued. Cashen continued to conjure. The Mets' slogan, when they were sold to a group headed by Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon, was "The Magic is Back." That prematurely ballyhooed wizardry was about to manifest itself for real.
In May, the Mets promoted Darryl Strawberry, the first draft pick Cashen had made for the Mets. Strawberry probably wasn't yet ripe, but the season wasn't producing a bumper crop of wins. Darryl could learn in New York as well as he could in Tidewater. In June, on the sixth anniversary of the Midnight Massacre that made Seaver an ex-Met, the GM stunned baseball by making Keith Hernandez an ex-Cardinal. Hernandez was an in-his-prime Gold Glove first baseman and clutch hitter. He was exactly the kind of player Seaver lobbied the Mets to acquire when free agency dawned. Cashen all but pulled him out of a hat — more magician's than commissioner's — giving up two young pitchers he could do without. St. Louis didn't want Keith any longer and New York didn't particularly care why.
Last place wouldn't be escaped in 1983, but by August, the Mets no longer looked like long-term occupants. Strawberry was learning. Hernandez was getting comfortable. Others were coming around. Seaver was Seaver. A team on the rise and a legend in residence. For the first time since Tug McGraw implored a city to Believe, Mets fans had the sense they really could, and not live to regret it.
Then they were consigned to a sickeningly familiar state of disbelief. Tom Seaver, missed for so long, welcomed back so warmly, was gone again. It wasn't as ugly as the first time it happened, but it was awful enough. This time, the culprit amounted to a whopper of a clerical error. That strike that cost Seaver's Reds a postseason berth in 1981 yielded a strange compromise between players and owners called the compensation pool. In essence, if Team A signed a free agent from Team B, Team B was entitled to pick a player from Team Z, a.k.a., a team that was otherwise uninvolved in the initial transaction if Team B so chose.
For example, the Toronto Blue Jays opted to engage the services of pitcher Dennis Lamp, previously of the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox, under the terms of the Basic Agreement, were allowed to seek compensation from a pool of players left unprotected by everybody else. Floating in that pool was a 39-year-old pitcher who had just had a pretty good season for a last-place team. Because of his age, let alone his symbolic importance to his team, he seemed like the kind of player another team would leave alone.
The Mets protected the names that represented their immediate future in that compensation draft. They weren't going to expose a Strawberry or a Hernandez or any of the youngsters who had just arrived or were on their way. A veteran like Tom Seaver, however, seemed safe enough to not technically guard. Who would dare pluck the Mona Lisa from the Louvre?
If the Louvre was careless enough to leave its doors unlocked, the Chicago White Sox, that's who. They went for the masterpiece of veteran pitchers, Tom Seaver. Without warning, without an M. Donald Grant or a Dick Young stoking the tabloid fires, Seaver was again an ex-Met.
If January 20, 1984, the day Seaver's contract was transferred to Chicago's American League entity, didn't live in infamy, it resided not too far down the block from June 15, 1977, in the same neighborhood of dates and events that made Mets fans shudder to their core. On both occasions, the Mets rolled out the moving van and packed their greatest player ever off to a distant city. It wasn't as obnoxious or as obvious as what happened amid the Grant-Young maneuvers that sent Seaver to Cincinnati, but the result was the same. Tom Seaver was no longer a New York Met.
In short order, as conspiracy-theorists wondered just how much of an accident Seaver's departure really was, the New York Mets revealed themselves as no longer a last-place ballclub. All of Cashen's planning and planting began to pay off in the summer ahead. Under a new manager, Davey Johnson (who may or may not have wanted a strong figure like Seaver exerting influence inside his youthful clubhouse, if you bought the conspiratorial thinking), the Mets challenged convincingly for the NL East title in 1984 until the season's last week. They challenged even harder in 1985, falling heartbreakingly short on the last weekend. Then, as if it had been marked as the destination on their road map all along, they blew the doors off the division in 1986 en route to winning their first World Series since 1969.
It would be simple enough to say that after a while, Mets fans didn't miss Tom Seaver, not when their ballclub was leaping from 68 wins to 90 to 98 to 108 and the brassiest of brass rings, yet that is to not fully appreciate fan loyalty. Sure, there is the uniform, and there is the cap, and there is a fealty to success. The fan can be guided by the same transactional impulses as front office architects and free agent players.
But some things you don't take away and expect to go unmissed. You don't take away a first love. You don't take away a first star. You don't go to the trouble of bringing back the FRANCHISE POWER PITCHER WHO TRANSFORMED METS FROM LOVABLE LOSERS INTO FORMIDABLE FOE only to let him go a year later. You also don't not notice that Tom Seaver, who left New York the second time with 273 career wins on his ledger, wore garish horizontal stripes and a shirt that screamed SOX on the hallowed occasion of his 300th victory. It took place in New York, in front of Mets fans, but the Mets fans were one-day visitors to Yankee Stadium, same as Tom. The milestone was a fine moment, but it was also indicative of a right arm that was still churning out productive pitches. During the season of No. 41's No. 300, the Mets were battling St. Louis for first place. Seaver was in the process of winning sixteen games for the White Sox. The Mets finished three games behind the Cardinals. The math suggests those wins of Tom's would have looked much more attractive adorned by Mets gear. The 1985 Mets were formidable foes on most fronts, yet relied on soft-tossing Ed Lynch and still-learning Rick Aguilera for starting pitching depth down the stretch. They weren't terrible, but Tom was still Terrific.
When Seaver, having reached the age that he'd been wearing on the back of his jersey since he was 22, requested another trade, in 1986, it was to be closer to his home in Connecticut. The Mets didn't need much of a boost that season, so he was off to Boston, mentoring a meteorically rising righthander named Roger Clemens ("At home, I'll tell him what time the game starts. On the road, I'll tell him what time the bus leaves," is how Tom described the extent of his guidance) and helping another team to the playoffs until his right knee, the one that absorbed dirt from the pitching mound when his motion was ideal, gave out in September. Tom was forced to sit inactive in the dugout during the ensuing World Series at Fenway Park and, yes, Shea Stadium. Seaver the Red Sock was a footnote to the circumstances of the Mets' second world championship seventeen autumns after he was the heart and soul of the first one. Had he, instead of sacrificial lamb Al Nipper, been available to pitch for Boston in Game Four, it could be legitimately wondered whether the Mets would have won that second world championship when they did.
Seaver versus the Mets in the World Series…shudder.
Desperation less than fate boomeranged Seaver to Flushing the following June. His recovery, along with more ownership shenanigans — collusion had squeezed the free agent market of its usual brisk high-dollar activity — seemed to quietly end his career. But the Mets, trying to defend their title, were short of starting pitching. Injuries were taking a toll, and there was a spry gent up the road in Greenwich who knew how to get hitters out and was quite familiar with the route to Shea. The Mets and Seaver reunited one more time, conditionally. Tom would have to pitch his way into shape. He and they would have to be convinced that at 42, No. 41 could still do what he'd been doing all those years before.
It didn't work out. Seaver started an exhibition at Tidewater for the Mets. He didn't look great. He pitched what were called simulated games, throwing his best stuff to a cadre of bench players. He didn't look right. Backup catcher Barry Lyons in particular wracked him around. If Seaver couldn't handle little-known Lyons, what were the chances he could tame the Hawk, Andre Dawson, or the Cobra, Dave Parker? Finally, on June 22, 1987, at a press conference called not because of a feud with a feudal-minded executive and not because of a too-clever-by-half paperwork omission, Tom Seaver and the Mets parted ways, at last more or less on the same page. Their relationship was described as strained in the press — Cashen and Johnson were by no means Grantlike villains, but they hadn't exactly fallen over themselves to keep Tom on their team when he still had some competitive pitches left in that right arm. Yet in front of the cameras and microphones, only the most conciliatory of sentiments were uttered. "The single most important player in the history of the Mets," the GM declared, was "retiring as a Met."
Considering how rarely any player retired as a Met, it was more of an achievement than face value would imply. Rusty Staub received a knowing ovation on Closing Day 1985. Otherwise, Koosman ended with the Phillies, Harrelson (before returning to Shea to coach) played his last games with Texas, Grote bounced to Los Angeles, then Kansas City…and so on. Cleon Jones went out with the White Sox, Tommie Agee faded away as a Cardinal, Ed Kranepool was allowed to walk and keep walking after parts of eighteen seasons as a Met — the first eighteen seasons there were Mets. If Tom Seaver couldn't pitch any longer as a Met, then retiring as one was the next best resolution in light of the wary ride the Franchise and the franchise had intermittently shared over the previous decade and change.
Seaver's 41 had been out of circulation since the end of the 1983 season. Nobody wore it in Queens during his Cincinnati exile, either. Cashen announced the number, like he who wore it so elegantly, would be retired. That ceremony would wait a year. The Hall of Fame would wait five. Given the firmly established rapprochement between former pitcher and old team, there could be no doubt that Tom Seaver would enter that august institution embodying the New York Mets. The statistics wouldn't have it any other way and there was no discernible reason for the twice-spurned Seaver to want it any other way.
It would be a first. Since the founding of the Mets a quarter-of-a-century earlier, several men with blue-and-orange ties had gained Cooperstown induction: Warren Spahn, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra and Duke Snider as players, Casey Stengel as a manager, George Weiss as an executive. None, however, was in primarily by dint of what he accomplished as or with the Mets. Ralph Kiner remained on the BBWAA radar for a necessary fifteenth ballot, his last eligible year to be voted on by the writers, perhaps because he was a highly visible Mets broadcaster, but it was Ralph's production as a Pittsburgh Pirate that finally earned him election in 1975. Lindsey Nelson came to be so closely identified with the Mets between 1962 and 1978 that Yankee outlet WPIX-TV enlisted his services on August 4, 1985, to call Seaver's 300th win. Nelson received the Ford C. Frick Award in 1988, Cooperstown's paean to excellence in broadcasting. It was a substantial honor, but not exactly the same as being elected to the Hall (and Lindsey was a national broadcaster of considerable renown before and outside his work with the Mets).
Tom Seaver went into the Hall of Fame in 1992 because of what Tom Seaver did as a Met. It was all enshrined so as to be marveled at: 198 of 311 wins; 2,541 of 3,630 strikeouts; all of his Cy Youngs; his only World Series ring; and, if you still weren't sure, the NY on the cap on the plaque. That couldn't be traded for Pat Zachry, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson and Dan Norman, and it couldn't be left exposed as potential compensation because Dennis Lamp lit out for Canada.
Out in California, Tom recently received a visit from Bill Madden, who wrote about it in the Daily News. If you wish to catch up with the greatest vintner to ever toe a big league rubber, you can read about it here [3].
The recent passing of Frank Deford brought to mind a profile the acest of ace reporters wrote for Sports Illustrated in 1981, while Seaver's Reds "best record in baseball" campaign was on hold due to the summerlong strike. It captures a fascinating moment in time for a Met in exile. I recommend you click here and read it [4].
To reiterate, I will be joining Jay Goldberg at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. in Manhattan, to discuss Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star, Thursday night, June 15, 7 PM. No doubt Tom Seaver will come up. No doubt, also, that Jay will put that night's Mets game on in the store once the official chatting winds down. Copies of my book will be available from Bergino and I'll be happy to sign. I really do hope you'll swing by. The details are here [1].
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URL to article: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2017/06/09/the-seaver-standard/
[1] this Thursday night at 7 o'clock: http://www.icontact-archive.com/oQwqeijYVpLtHCZPPVTbYV7VB_nVdv5f?w=3
[2] Image: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2017/03/14/why-piazza/piazza/
[3] read about it here: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-legend-tom-seaver-advice-power-pitchers-article-1.3197263
[4] click here and read it: https://www.si.com/vault/1981/07/27/825804/behind-the-fence-tom-seaver-ever-the-picture-perfect-pitcher-is-congenial-but-maintains-a-wall-against-the-world
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Q: how to change the values of a rows if the values are the same import random
import pandas as pd
turn = []
turn_list_input = []
employee_list_input = []
turn_list_input = [item for item in input("Orari: ").split()]
employee_list_input = [item for item in input("Personale: ").split()]
while len(employee_list_input)>0:
    x = random.choice(employee_list_input)
    turn.append(x)
    new_new_list =random.sample(turn_list_input, 5)
    turn += new_new_list
    employee_list_input.remove(x)
test = {}
for i in turn:
    if i.isalpha():
          items = test[i] = []
    elif test:
          items.append(i)
df = pd.DataFrame(test, index=['Lun', 'Mar', 'Mer', 'Gio', 'Ven'])
print(df)

I am a beginner (stepped into programming a few days ago during covid lockdown lol) and self-taught, i'm trying to improve myself every day but... i'm stuck on this problem! (it's a project i'm doing for hobby)
Is there a way to tell the program to read the lines and change the equal values to another random value?
let me explain!
that's my result:
       l    g   r   t   h   e   y    a    j    k    d   u   q    f   s
Lun   10   14  10  11  10  13  12   13  14R   10   13  14   9    9  11
Mar    9   12  12  10  14  10   9   14   13    7    8  12   8   14  13
Mer   14  14R  13  12  11   9   7    8   12  14R  14R   8  14   11  12
Gio  14R    9  11  13   8   7  11  14R   14   14   10  10  13   10  10
Ven   12    7  14   8   9  12   8    9    7    9    9   7   7  14R   8

each row should have only one "7", one "14" and one "14R".
each column cannot have "7" or "8" or "9" after "14" or "14R"
thanks in advance for any reply! (and sorry for my bad english)

A: Hard to precisely pinpoint where do you want to get your replacement values from, but this code will allow you to get all the places you have to replace:
row_condition = df.apply(pd.Series.duplicated, axis=1)

col_condition = df.apply(lambda x: np.logical_and(x.isin(['14','14R']).shift(1, fill_value=False), x.isin(['7','8', '9'])))

to_replace = np.logical_or(row_condition, col_condition)

you can then replace them with:
df.where(~to_replace, some_unique_values)

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If buying a brand new computer is not in the budget, then buying a refurbished PC may be the answer. Not only is it budget-friendly to buy a "refurb," but it is also environmentally friendly. When talking about price, refurbished computers generally cost anywhere from 30 to 50 percent less than the retail price of a new computer. However, the significant price difference should not be your only consideration.
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If you use the computer mostly for surfing the net, updating your Twitter page, reading your email, and working with the word processor, then you can likely settle for an older PC without a lot of bells and whistles. However, more memory and an increased processing speed would be necessary for playing video games and downloading music and images.
Figuring out what you will need from your computer before you go shopping will help ensure your satisfaction once you make your purchase.
Unless you have a lot of experience with the inner workings of a computer, it is best to stick to retailers and manufacturers who are qualified refurbishers.
Generally, it is best to buy refurbs from a retailer that is also authorized to sell new products. Buying from online auctions, off of Craigslist, or from a listing in your local paper could become problematic later on and add to the expense in costly repair bills.
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Not all refurbished computers are good bargains so doing some research will pay off. Most computer PCs are older models. To entice shoppers retailers will display the refurb price and original or suggested retail price. Since the computer might be older, it likely received several price reductions that are close to the refurb price.
To ensure that the refurb price is a good deal, do a search for the computer using the model number. If the computer is still selling as a new system in stores, this will give you a good comparison for determining if the refurb price is a good deal. If new systems are not selling in the stores, search for new products with the same systems.
Many times shoppers will find new systems at the same price with longer warranties.
While the overall price of a refurbished computer is important for saving money, the warranty is what really counts in the long run. Many refurbished PCs are sold with limited warranties which is why it is important that shoppers take the time to read and understand all of the small print.
Ideally, the warranty should be provided by the manufacturer and not a third party. Third-party warranties can be problematic and should be avoided.
The length of time that refurbished computers are warranted should be the same as the new models, however many times this is not the case. Reputable companies selling refurbished computers may offer a three-month manufacturers' warranty. While this helps cover any immediate issues, it offers no support 90 days after the purchase date.
It is important to know how quickly the company fixes refurbished computers returned under warranty for repair. You can try asking the salesman, but an online search for the seller's name may turn up quality reviews by current customers.
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'Team need more exposure'
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THE national Under-19 football coach Kwon Oh-son believes that Brunei need to get more international exposure to improve their performances.
The national Under-19 team ended their campaign in the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U-19 Youth Championship without any win.
"I think the team need more exposure to international matches in the future," said Kwon in an interview with The Brunei Times at the International Airport in Berakas yesterday.
"These are good players, but they are lacking in match experience outside Brunei," he said.
"We were competing with teams who have been exposed to more international matches ahead of the tournament.
"We are still left behind as the level is very different in terms of skills, game play and tactics," said the Korean.
"However, this is a good experience for the team as they know the kind of level they need to maintain while playing at the international level," he added.
"The most important thing now is to keep the team together, keep on training and gain more exposure," the coach added.
Brunei kicked off the tournament with a narrow loss to the Philippines 1-2 last Saturday, followed by another defeat against Cambodia (5-0) on Monday.
In the third game, hosts Laos smashed Brunei 5-0 on Wednesday and Brunei had a disappointing end when they went down 6-0 to group A leaders Thailand on Friday.
Yesterday's match saw Vietnam thrashing Singapore 6-0 in a Group B match.
The competition will continue today with Thailand facing Vietnam in the first match.
Meanwhile in another Group A match Laos will take on the Philippines at the Laos National Stadium.
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By Joshua McDonald August 3, 2016 August 3, 2016 0
On the eve of the film releasing, Suicide Squad has officially "Rebirthed." As I did with most of the Rebirth titles, I came into this book anxious to see what direction the new creative team was going to take the narrative. What changes will we see? Will they be good? Bad? Weird? How well will the new writer convey his characters? They were all questions I kept asking myself, and they all have answers that are fairly positive in my opinion.
This issue kicks off with Amanda Waller – the real Amanda Waller – verbally going toe-to-toe with the President himself. As I stated in my review for Harley Quinn & the Suicide Squad April Fool's Special, I'm glad to see Waller back to how I always viewed her. Most of you will probably think I'm referring to her weight (and to a small degree, I am), but what I'm really referring to is her character. Long gone are the snarky, perhaps even bitchy, comebacks as "skinny" Waller constantly tries to prove that she's tough and can hang with the boys in the field. No, this Waller doesn't need to try and prove anything. This is the Waller that knows everything about you, what you're bringing to the table, and is a force to be reckoned with.
In the opening scene, the President calls Waller out for secretly operating her Task Force X initiative without his, or apparently Congress', consent. If you're familiar with my reviews of the various Suicide Squad titles, then you know that this tiny little moment is HUGE for me! I've been waiting for something like this to pop up, because the actions that Amanda Waller and the Squad are taking could technically be viewed as an act of war. And considering the disastrous missions that occurred in New Suicide Squad (let alone the fact that the book itself was a disaster), this is a valid qualm for the President to have. But for every dig the President throws, Waller has a comeback that's just as strong. Whether it's a dose of cold, harsh truth, or incriminating information, she's prepared to take the commander-in-chief on.
Now, if you're thinking, "Dude, these themes have popped up dozens of times with Suicide Squad! What are you talking about?" Yes, you're right, and I'm well aware that the topic of legality and consequences has occurred before, a number of times even, but it hasn't really popped up since the launch of the New 52. Not completely anyway. So I find it promising that Williams is using this theme to launch his run. It serves as the perfect introduction… which is exactly what this issue is, an introduction (and re-introduction for some).
Rather than deliver a quick jump-start to throw readers into a crazy mission, Williams takes his time to describe the Squad's purpose, and properly lay out their rank and order. As I mentioned, this issue is an introduction, and the catalyst of this introduction is Colonel Rick Flagg. Not only is his set-up and role within the Squad an interesting notion on its own, but he's also bringing a rich history and backstory that can be explored. With so many dynamic characters involved with the title, it's a shame that more time hasn't been spent focusing on who these people really are! Too often, Suicide Squad goes for high action and cheap thrills, leaving a rather hollow foundation to help carry the title.
While this issue does spend most of the twenty pages introducing and setting up Flagg, and while I'm glad to see that they're putting the characters at the top of the priority list, that doesn't mean this issue lacks action. In fact, it's quite the opposite. There are some well-played action sequences here, and much to my pleasure, the creative team didn't shy away from making the Squad's actions violent, dark, and morally questionable… which is EXACTLY the type of action that should be in this title.
The only active members featured here are Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and Captain Boomerang, and it's worth remembering that these guys are criminals first and foremost. Yes, Waller is turning them into "heroes," but in reality, they're so far from that, that it's almost a disservice to the title to call them that. These guys aren't Batman or Superman. They're not here to do the "right" thing, they're here to do the "best" thing according to Waller's/ the military's judgement. I think we can all agree that we face situations where the end result of a specific situation could be considered a "good thing," but the path we would be forced to take to get to that result rests on the opposite end of the spectrum of "good." That's what makes the Squad so successful. They're not afraid to take whatever means are necessary to finish their mission, even if it requires horrific actions. And as farfetched as this concept might seem to readers that are new to comics or this team, it really isn't too far off from aspects of the CIA – a clandestine, government organization with little to no government oversight that is technically committing illegal acts for the sake of the safety of our country. There's a very fine line separating right from wrong here, and this book looks like it's going to cover that idea head on.
As happy as I am with this issue overall, that doesn't mean it's perfect. First, and foremost, consistency will be key. Williams is creating a spider web of themes and conflicts already, and if he can continue the characterization, humanity, and questioning morality while also supplying engaging missions, this book will be extremely popular. Speaking of characterization, one of my least favorite experiences with this title was the way one of the characters was written… Harley Quinn. Something about her representation just felt off. Rather than coming across as a psychotic, it seemed like she was a soldier that Williams was trying to write as psychotic. It's a difficult feat to try and write a book with a darker tone while keeping Harley's whimsy, but it is possible, and is something that Williams will need to work on for this book to truly work. Aside from that, the only other issue I had with this debut was Deadshot's new mask design. I don't know why, but something about it bugs the hell out of me! I hope they revert it back to what it was, because I hate looking at that mask with its new fin/nose feature… It's bad.
The Art: Forgetting Deadshot's new mask, I'm not that impressed with Philip Tan's art. There are just too many instances where his work is inconsistent or looks incredibly messy. I like the effect that the heavy pencils create considering it give the book a grittiness and edge… but when your characters look drastically different from page to page, it's going to result in a negative opinion on my end. That being said, when Tan nails it, his work is outstanding! Perhaps it was due to timelines, but the look of this book was just too messy for me… We'll see how I feel if we start to see numerous, extended delays from this title once Lee takes over though… I might whole-heartedly opt to have the messy pencils back…
Breakdowns for this issue can be found in the spoiler tag.
The Good: There were a lot of positive elements found in this issue for me! If anything, I feel like this debut shows the broad opportunity this title has to tell a range of narratives with varying tones and shades considering my enjoyment of this issue, as well as the run that came before it by Seeley and Ferreyra. Both stories were highly entertaining and well done, and though they're vastly different, it's easy to believe these are the same characters living within the same universe and title.
Flagg. Waller's cohersion of Rick Flagg, as well as his discovering the reason he's imprisoned, was really enjoyable for me. There are endless possibilities for narratives based off of this foundation alone, and I'm excited to see the journey it takes us on. The concept of corruption, and the potential good that could come from it, should be a focus early on, and that too has endless potential.
Morals… Or Lack Thereof. This is the Squad I want to see! The team is on a mission to retrieve a bomb that can be used to turn ordinary humans into metahumans, and stop existing metahumans in their tracks by cancelling out their abilities. Consequently, they're also on a mission to extract the guy who created the bomb so that the device can't be recreated… So what means will the Squad take to complete their mission?
Well, naturally they're open to the prospect of severing the creator's hands so they can get the device, and aren't afraid to put a bullet in his head to ensure he doesn't create any more devices of this nature… ever.
Yep, it's dark, twisted, and perfect!
The Bad: I mentioned Harley's characterization already, as well as Deadshot's mask, but one of the other things that really bothered me was the fact that we didn't get to see Katana. Now, I will admit this is completely selfish on my end, but I'm really curious to see the context of her character in this title. I hope it matches the film's plot for having her, and doesn't turn her into a villain because she's such a great character and hero that hasn't been utilized properly for some time now.
You're a fan of Ostrander's Suicide Squad.
You're into the crossing worlds or military and politics.
You've been waiting for a darker, morally ambiguous Suicide Squad.
Overall: Does Suicide Squad Rebirth blow me away? No, but I'm ok with that because the book takes its time to develop characters, the immediate narrative, as well as dozens of other conflicts and plots that can come into play down the road. While this issue doesn't take readers from zero to sixty, it clearly identifies itself, unapologetically sets the tone for future issues, and let readers know, "This is where we're going, and we're not going to shy away from controversial concepts." So no, Suicide Squad isn't perfect, but who wants "perfect" when you have something this damn good?
SCORE: 8.5/10
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Major overhaul of Act establishing Register of Beneficial Owners of Domestic Legal Entities (LIE)
This article was first published here by First Advisory Group, Liechtenstein
The 5th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive sets out extended obligations in terms of content and transparency of registers of beneficial owners through a modification of Articles 30 and 31. In addition, within the framework of implementation of the Act currently in force, weak points have been identified which are being remedied through adjustment to the law.
On 1 April 2021, the new Act establishing a Register of Economic Beneficiaries of Legal Entities (Gesetz über das Verzeichnis der wirtschaftlich berechtigten Personen von Rechtsträgern, VwbPG) enters into force. It replaces the Act establishing a Register of Beneficial Owners of Domestic Legal Entities (VwEG) of 6 December 2018, which has been in force since 1 August 2019. As a result, the corresponding terms of the 5th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive will be implemented.
The 5th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive does not make a distinction between the terms 'economic beneficiary' and 'beneficial owner'. For this reason, the differing definitions applying in Liechtenstein of 'economic beneficiary' according to legislation on due diligence and 'beneficial owner' under the Act establishing a Register of Beneficial Owners of Domestic Legal Entities are being removed. Based on this standardization of terms, the terminology in the title of the Act is being modified.
The practical effects are as follows:
Duties of legal entities
Both with corporations, including establishments or trust enterprises with corporate structures, as well as companies without personality and foundations, trusts and establishments or trust enterprises with structures similar to foundations, the legal entities must establish the identity of the economic beneficiaries and notify the same electronically to the Office of Justice (Amt für Justiz, AJU).
If an existing entry in a corresponding register of another EEA Member State can be evidenced, then for trusts and similar legal agreements, there exists no obligation to enter the economic beneficiaries thereof in the register. This exception shall only apply if the trust or similar legal agreement is managed by a person in accordance with the terms of Article 3 (1) k) of the Due Diligence Act (Sorgfaltspflichtgesetz, SPG).
The economic beneficiaries must be established in line with the definition contained in the due diligence legislation and entered in the electronic register.
Consequently, in the case of corporations, including establishments or trust enterprises with corporate structures, as well as companies without personality, such natural persons must be identified and entered in the register who have a share/voting rights/a profit share of 25% or more in the said legal entities or who in any other manner exercise control over such legal entities.
Consequently, in the case of foundations, trusts and establishments or trust enterprises with structures manner similar to foundations, all economic beneficiaries must be identified and entered in the register, irrespective of whether or not they exercise control.
Consequently, legal entities may also be recorded and entered in the electronic register as members of foundation boards or boards of directors or of a trustee.
Reporting obligation in the event of inconsistencies
Those subject to due diligence obligations shall be under a duty to report any inconsistencies to the Office of Justice within 30 days from becoming aware of the same, which inconsistencies they shall identify as existing between the data entered in the register concerning the economic beneficiaries of legal entities and the information available to them with regard to the same. This shall also apply with regard to authorities.
Cross-linking of register
The register shall be cross-linked via the central European platform with the central registers of other EEA Member States.
The Financial Intelligence Unit, the Financial Market Authority, the national police, the tax administration, the public prosecutor's office, the Court of Liechtenstein and the Liechtenstein Chamber of Lawyers may in an individual instance retrieve and inspect on an unrestricted basis the data entered in the register concerning the economic beneficiaries of legal entities.
Upon application, the Office of Justice shall disclose to foreign banks and financial institutions as well as those subject to due diligence obligations in Liechtenstein the data relating to legal entities entered in the register for the purpose of fulfilling due diligence requirements.
Nationals and organizations of Liechtenstein and foreign nationals and organizations may for a fee apply to the Office of Justice for disclosure of the data entered in the register relating to single corporations, including establishments or trust enterprises with corporate structures.
Restriction on the disclosure of data in the case of legitimate interests
The Office of Justice may entirely or partially restrict the disclosure of data to parties subject to due diligence obligations in Liechtenstein and third parties upon application from a legal entity if the said legal entity shall provide documentary evidence to the effect that, taking account of all circumstances of the individual case, disclosure runs counter to overriding legitimate interests on the part of the economic beneficiaries, for instance, if they:
would be exposed to a disproportionate risk of fraud, abduction, racketeering and extortion, harassment, violence, or intimidation as a result of disclosure of data; or
are minors or otherwise do not have capacity to enter into legal transactions.
Legal entities existing at the time of entry into force of the Act establishing a Register of Economic Beneficiaries of Legal Entities, i.e. 1 April 2021, must notify the data relating to their economic beneficiaries to the Office of Justice within six months with effect from entry into force of the said Act, i.e. by 30 September 2021.
Those subject to due diligence obligations shall be required to notify inconsistencies to the Office of Justice also by 30 September 2021.
Transfer of existing data to new database
The Office of Justice shall transfer the data entered in the 'Register of Beneficial Owners' by the time of entry into force of the Act establishing a Register of Economic Beneficiaries of Legal Entities on 1 April 2021 into the new 'Register of Economic Beneficiaries'. The differing definitions of the data to be entered under the existing and new legislation may lead to discrepancies. Consequently, the executive bodies of the respective legal entities must verify the accuracy of entries and, as required, implement modifications in line with the new statutory rules.
The legal entities/their executive bodies shall be responsible for correct and complete entry of data in the register.
Electronic data recording
It is anticipated that data recording shall be available with effect from 5 April 2021; this may be undertaken via the online portal https://vwb.llv.li using forms C-VwbP and T-VwbP.
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Applications and reports to the Office of Justice, such as in order to disclose data, restrict disclosure or to report inconsistencies, must be submitted on paper using the corresponding official forms.
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It's your chance to win a £50 Haith's gift voucher. Competition closes 10am 30th March 2016.
Identify the bird species in the image above.
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The flying fish is a marine fish family consisting of approximately 70 species.

Flying fish may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media
 Flying Fish Records, a record label for folk, blues, Dancefloor and country music
 Flying Fish (film), a 2011 Sri Lankan anthology film by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
 The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure, a marine adventure book by Harry Collingwood, illustrated by Gordon Browne

Enterprises
 Flying Fish Books, a book publisher located in Tumacacori, Arizona
 Flying Fish Brewing, a brewery located in Somerdale, New Jersey
 Flying Fish Cafe, an eatery at Walt Disney World Resort
 Flying Fish Press, a publisher of limited edition artists' books established by Julie Chen (book artist)

Ships
 HMS Flying Fish, a name given to several British Navy ships
 USS Flying Fish, a name given to three different US Navy ships
Flying Fish (clipper), an American clipper ship engaged in the tea trade, constructed in 1851

Other uses
 Exocet, a French-built anti-ship guided missile, named after the French word for flying fish
 Volans ("Flying"), a constellation originally Piscis Volans ("flying fish")

See also


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A LIFE ONCE LOST Completes Work On New Album
Philadelphia, PA rock powerhouse A LIFE ONCE LOST has completed work on its new album, entitled "Iron Gag". Set for a September 18, 2007 release, "Iron Gag" was self-produced by the band and mastered at West West Side Music by the venerable Alan Douches. The follow-up to 2005's "Hunter" "delivers a massive wallop of scorched-out, ...
METALLICA Performs '...And Justice For All' For First Time Since 1989; Video Available
A low-quality fan-filmed video clip of METALLICA performing the song "...And Justice For All" in its entirety for the first time since 1989 last night (Thursday, June 28) in Lisbon, Portugal at the Super Bock Super Rock festival has been posted at YouTube. More clips from the concert can be found at
AM CONSPIRACY: More New Music Posted Online
AM CONSPIRACY, the new Florida-based project featuring former DROWNING POOL vocalist Jason "Gong" Jones, has posted more new music at this location. Boasting a sound encompassing hard rock and killer melodies, yet fraught with emotional peaks and valleys, AM CONSPIRACY is set to ambush the airwaves on August 7, 2007 with the release ...
RATT: 'Round And Round' Concert Footage From Connecticut Posted Online
A five-and-half-minute fan-filmed video clip of the reunited RATT performing the song "Round and Round" Tuesday night (June 26) at the Chevrolet Theatre in Wallingford, Connecticut has been posted at YouTube. Footage of RATT playing "Wanted Man" at the same concert is available here. A clip of RATT's performance of "Back ...
Spanish Teenager Dies While Riding 'Rock 'N' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith'
BBC News reports that French police are investigating the mysterious death of a 14-year-old girl who lost consciousness earlier in the week while riding on Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith (video) at Disneyland Paris. The Spanish teenager's friends noticed she was unconscious when the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster ride had ...
DEVILDRIVER: 'The Last Kind Words' Enters German Chart At No. 92
DEVILDRIVER's third album, "The Last Kind Words", has entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 92. The CD is scheduled for release in the U.S. on July 31 via Roadrunner Records. An e-card for "The Last Kind Words" has been made available at this location. DEVILDRIVER recently filmed a video for ...
SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND And MOBILE THREAT Announce Partnership
The organizers of the third annual Sounds of the Underground tour have announced today that Cellfish.com's Mobile Threat channel is the tour's official mobile partner. "It's pretty sweet to have a mobile company giving some love to the heavy bands. Every time I look for a ringtone, it's some pop bullshit. Bring on the CRO-MAGS ...
OZZY OSBOURNE Names Five Favorite Hard Rock Bands
Launch Radio Networks reports: Ozzy Osbourne has listed his five favorite hard rock bands for Spinner.com. The list includes LED ZEPPELIN, MOTÖRHEAD, NIRVANA, GREEN DAY and, of course, his own group, BLACK SABBATH. Osbourne said about his No. 1 choice, LED ZEPPELIN, "I can remember walking through Birmingham with Geezer Butler, the bass player from ...
SHATTER MESSIAH Drops Off TO/DIE/FOR Tour
SHATTER MESSIAH, the Akron, Ohio-based band featuring former NEVERMORE/ANNIHILATOR guitarist Curran Murphy and ex-ANNIHILATOR drummer Robert Falzano, has released the following statement: "SHATTER MESSIAH regret to announce that because of the promoter's failure to communicate and fully disclose the financial arrangements made with the local promoters of each show, SHATTER MESSIAH have been forced to ...
DEMIRICOUS' Equipment Ripped Off
According to IndyMetal.com, a stretch of recent robberies from the Shurgard Storage Center (now Public Storage), located at 933 North Illinois Street in downtown Indianapolis, have left numerous Indianapolis based bands in shambles. Tens of thousands of dollars' worth of music equipment is missing with little, to no assistance being offered by the ...


These Witch Finger cookies are one of my favorite easy Halloween treat recipes!
Every year, we go to an awesome Halloween party at my good friend Jill's house. She goes all out with her decorations and Halloween recipes. The kids have a great time playing games, trick-or-treating and spraying each other with silly string. It's loud and crazy but so much fun!
I just can't bring myself to go to a party empty handed. I try to bring something that's festive, fun and, of course, yummy. These Witch Finger cookies fit the bill perfectly!
The recipe below has my favorite sugar cookie recipe, but you could just as easily use a pre-packaged cookie mix. I won't tell.
In a large bowl combine eggs, shortening, margarine, vanilla and sugar.
Beat ingredients together until well mixed.
Slowly incorporate dry ingredients into wet ingredients until fully combined.
Form dough into a ball and cut into four equal parts.
Remove one ball of dough from refrigerator.
Scoop 1 heaping teaspoon of dough and roll into a thin finger-shaped cookie.
Gently press one whole slivered almond (do not use broken almonds) into one end of each cookie so it extends slightly beyond the end of the cookie.
This should give the appearance of a long fingernail.
Cut into the dough slightly with a sharp knife near the top and at the center of each finger to make the ridges of knuckles.
Arrange the shaped cookies on the baking sheets.
Bake in the preheated oven until the cookies are slightly golden in color, 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through and slightly golden.
Using a serrated knife, carefully slice off the end of the cookie that does not have the almond.
You don't need to slice off much of the cookie, just enough to make a jagged edge.
Place jam into a small microwave-safe bowl.
Microwave for 5 second or until jam loosens up slightly.
Remove the almond from each cookie; place a few drops of the jam into the place where the almond was.
Replace the almond and press lightly causing the jam to ooze out around the tip of the finger.
Dip the other end of the finger in the jam to create a severed finger.
Let jam dry before serving.
Haha – these are so cool. My boys would totally get a kick out of them!


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2019 Fact-Finding Report
2018 Comprehensive Report
PresentationsNew
Hospital Database
Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
Changsha Hunan
Approved Transplant Types
The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University ranked 19th among the 100 most competitive hospitals in China in 2015.301 It employs 631 senior professionals, 108 doctoral advisors, and 248 master's advisors. The hospital has 3,500 registered beds.302
The hospital began performing multi-organ transplants relatively early in China, and has reached an advanced level domestically. It is one of the seven hospitals approved to carry out the most types of organ transplants—liver, kidney, heart, lung, pancreas, and intestine.303
The hospital performed the first cadaveric kidney transplant in Hunan Province in 1985. Its organ transplant center was established in September 2001. During a half-year period in 2002, the center conducted more kidney transplants than it had in total in all previous years. 304
Its urological transplant department was established in 2003. The number of kidney recipients also increased each year. As of January to May 2015, its number of DCD kidney transplants ranked second in the country; it ranked fourth in the total number of kidney transplants.305
The department has 52 beds, 11 ICU beds, and 11 specialists, 7 of whom hold more senior titles than attending surgeons, 9 of whom hold PhDs and two who are pursuing PhD degrees. 306
The director of the urological transplant department, Peng Longkai, has completed more than 2,000 kidney transplants.307 He served as a member of the Chiidney Transplant Science Registration System Management Committee, a member of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association Organ Transplant Subcommittee's Kidney Transplant Professional Committee, and head of the Hunan Province Human Organ Procurement Organization Expert Group. Under his leadership, this hospital's kidney transplant work gradually entered a standardized, scaled-up development track and reached an advanced level domestically.
A media report in 2005 stated, "The donor organ network has gradually extended to the north and south, and has established resource sharing relationships with more than 10 domestic organ transplant centers."308 Its website stated that the kidney transplant department has been in close contact with other organ transplant organizations. It has built a nationwide organ source sharing network and maintains close relationships with other major organ transplant centers in the country.309
One could observe the volume of transplants from how busy the doctors were: "transplant surgeons often have to work for over 20 consecutive hours performing surgeries. They will start another round of operations after they rest for three or four hours. The surgeons are still at the operating table, while the scrub nurses have changed several shifts. They often conduct a dozen operations over a period of 2 ~ 3 days. They once performed 9 kidney transplants in one day."310
The organ transplant division under the General Surgery department was established in July 2005, which passed the assessment by the Ministry of Health in 2007 to get approval to become a national level liver transplant center. It has various groups to carry out liver transplants and other combined organ transplants. It assumes a leading role in the province. It has three professors, one associate professor, one doctoral advisor, and two master's advisors.311
Department head Qi Haizhi began conducting basic research in liver transplantation in 1994. He has engaged in organ transplantation research and clinical work for more than 20 years. His team performed Hunan Province's first orthotopic whole liver transplant, the first pediatric liver transplant, the first transplant for an acute liver failure patient, the province's first combined liver-kidney transplant, the first pancreas-kidney transplant, and the first liver-pancreas transplant. In December 2010, he and his team successfully completed a combined transplant of 8 intraperitoneal organs, including liver, pancreas, spleen, and stomach; this was a first in China and the second case in the world, creating a sensation .312
The hospital's cardiothoracic surgery department was recognized as a key clinical discipline by the Ministry of Health in 1992, and was approved by the Ministry of Education as a national key discipline in 2001. It has successfully implemented heart, lung, as well as heart-lung combined transplantation, and has set the record for the longest survival time for its heart-lung transplant recipients. Its heart-lung transplantation capabilities are said to lead the country.313
This department has conducted systematic research on key issues regarding the protection of the heart and lung and the prevention of long-term complications, in order to ensure the success of heart, lung, and heart-lung transplants.
With more than 230 beds, it is the largest thoracic and cardiovascular medical center in central China. Currently, the center conducts more than 4,000 heart surgeries annually. Its surgical volume and clinical scale rank first among general hospitals in China.
It has 40 teaching and research staff, including 11 professors, 12 associate professors, 15 lecturers, and 7 doctoral advisers. More than 60% of its instructors hold doctoral degrees.
Previously head of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department for 18 years, Hu Jianguo completed Hunan Province's first combined heart-lung transplant and set a record for the longest survival time in Asia.314
Yin Bangliang, former hospital president and director of the organ transplant center, studied in Germany and the United States on multiple occasions. He has engaged in clinical research in heart and heart-lung transplantation.315
The hospital's ophthalmology department was one of the earliest units in China to perform corneal transplants. It is a key discipline at Central South University. Currently, the department has 50 staff members, including surgeons / physicians, technicians, and nurses. Among them, 17 are associate professors or above. The department has one PhD advisor, 12 master's advisors, and more than 80 open beds.316
© 2019 China Organ Harvest Research Center


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