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Carnival Corp. president and CEO Arnold Donald is stepping down
Scott Mayerowitz
Scott Mayerowitz is the executive editor of TPG and oversees all of TPG's editorial coverage. He previously was a reporter, then editor, at The Associated Press and reported for ABC News.
The CEO of the world's largest cruise company will step down this summer after nearly nine years at the helm.
Arnold Donald, 67, is stepping down as CEO of Carnival Corporation, the parent company of Princess, Holland America, Cunard and six other brands, including its namesake line, Carnival.
Josh Weinstein, 48, currently the chief operations officer for the cruise giant, will take on the role of president and CEO after Donald's departure on Aug. 1.
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Over the years, I've gotten to know Donald, starting with a profile I did of him when I was a travel reporter for The Associated Press.
He was one of the few Black CEOs of a large travel company and took over the cruise company in 2013 during a period of turmoil. Donald replaced Micky Arison, the son of Carnival's founder, who had been the CEO since 1979. Donald was the first person outside the founding family to run the company, although Arison still remained very active in the company, serving as the chairman of the board.
Donald's first task — very similar to one of his last ones — was to reassure the public that cruising was safe.
Carnival was having a bad streak. First, its Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 passengers.
Then an engine room fire on its Carnival Triumph left that ship without power. That alone wouldn't be an issue — but for five days, passengers lacked air conditioning, hot food and use of most toilets. Cable news was fixated on the ship, dubbing it the "poop cruise."
Donald's job was to help passengers cast aside their fears and put the fun back into cruising.
More recently, his job was to steer the company through the COVID-19 downturn without filing for bankruptcy or taking government bailout money (no small feat). Now, the public seems to want to sail again, with strong bookings coming in across the industry.
The first time I met Donald, we were walking across the Lido Deck on one of Carnival's older ships. Every few seconds, he would stop mid-sentence to ask guests if they were having fun. Small talk is an art, and he was a master at it.
The cruise industry has always struggled to attract first-time cruisers. Donald went out of his way to be a cheerleader for those travelers.
"You're not marketing a product, you're marketing an experience — a life experience," Donald told me back in 2014.
Donald grew up in New Orleans during segregation, the youngest of five children.
In our first interview, he recalled that as a young Black boy, "society was constantly telling us in subtle ways that you're less than, you weren't really a part of, you can't do this, you can't do that."
Slowly, that started to change. The civil rights movement came and a scholarship let him attend a prestigious, private high school. That's when his opportunities grew and his mindset of preparing to run the world — or, at least, a giant company — began to form.
Donald's path to Carnival wasn't the most conventional one.
He spent much of his career at the Monsanto Company overseeing Roundup weed killer, and later led a company manufacturing the artificial sweetener Equal.
But he fell in love with cruises during his spare time. Actually, it was his love of blackjack that led him to cruises — something that as a blackjack player myself has always stuck with me.
Why blackjack?
"I counted cards," Donald told me in 2014. Back in the day, dealers on ships didn't shuffle cards frequently. That made it much easier to count cards than in land-based casinos. His winnings paid for that first cruise and there was no turning back.
Now, as Weinstein takes over the company, he is going to face one of the busiest travel seasons in recent history, one that is complicated by ongoing supply chain and staffing challenges.
The pandemic is also making it harder to get new travelers onto cruises. Images of passengers quarantined on the Diamond Princess, one of Carnival's ships, early in the COVID-19 outbreak are still fresh in many vacationers' minds.
Unlike Donald, Weinstein has spent years in the cruise industry. The past 20 have been at Carnival, including the past few years as Donald's deputy. Donald will remain involved in the company as vice chairman.
Donald addressed the change very briefly Tuesday morning during a panel discussion at Seatrade Cruise Global, the cruise industry's annual meetup in Miami.
"I'm really excited for Josh, and more excited for me, so it's all good," Donald said after being asked about his changing role at the company by BBC news presenter Lucy Hockings, who was moderating the panel.
Donald and other cruise industry CEOs on the "state of the cruise industry" panel then quickly moved on to talking about the ongoing comeback of cruising.
With additional reporting from Gene Sloan in Miami.
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Paya and Pollan - The Heroes in the Silence of Cuba
Paya and the Pope
(Tampa, Fl) -- Many people in America always complain that they don't have a voice, some people fight Anonymously, heroes without a face, heroes with a million voice, yet the heroes are only human and yet some people tend to complain that they don't have a voice, these heroes are the voices of many because when there is oppression the heroes will rise. Now imagine living in a society where you don't have a voice and if you dare to speak the government will try to silence you because you are daring to speak against the regime.
There is nothing pretty to live in Cuba and for the dissidents they have no choice but to keep fighting; between nine months two of the top figures in Cuba, Oswaldo Paya and Laura Pollan shook the political scenario because their abrupt deaths in which Pollan died from a sudden respiratory illness in a Cuban hospital and Paya died after a what is suspected to be a sabotage in his car mechanism but not evidence has been shown from part of their families regarding if the regime played dirty on the leaders of the opposition.
Even if the struggle for freedom of speech and democracy is going in new directions with the access of the internet, blogging, poetry in the streets or whatever they can find to express themselves, the legacy of Paya and Pollan is steady as they traveled in the imagery of the collective. Paya was the founder of the Christian Liberation Movement or Movimiento de Liberacion Cristiana in which they called for peaceful civil disobedience against the Communist Party of Cuba as well being one of the few dissididents who stood opposition on the Black Spring. Pollan was an amazing lady, founding the Ladies in White or Las Damas de Blanco, a group which protested for the liberation of the political prisioners and as Paya's group they also preached pacifism but the Cuban regime couldn't express any tolerance regarding any one oppose them because they are that a totalitarian regime and nothing more.
Yet, people think democracy is just a mirage, people just complain for minimal things, bitch for unnecesary things and yet they never go out and fight as many black radicals from the sixties call, the man; people who complain without knowing why they are complain show an ignorance but the people who go and fight for a change deserve respect because they are outside trying to make everything better even for the ones who have no clue what is happening outside.
Labels: anonymiss, anonymous, castro, cubana, fidel, laura pollan, oswaldo paya, political prisioners, prisioneros politicos, revolucion, revolution, yoani sanchez
Location: Tampa, FL 33614, USA
In the Pursuit of Happiness, It's Difficult but It's Gets Better
(Tampa - Fl) -- There is something I always believed it's unfair that people have to say who they love and a narrow segment of society judging. I firmly believe that everyone has the right to love the person they treasure without any taboo. The problem is when people try to impose and any imposition of character is wrong, let them live and live, as some people say every now and then.
I recently spoke with my parents about my own sexual orientation, I am bisexual and I can say that my better half is a man, the chat became a fight in less than 24 ours and I am experience twice the life of someone who decided to become an honest person with his own self in order to achieve happiness. We can't lie to our personas, it's impossible and denying who we are can cause stress to our own mental health as well physical bodies. I really think is wrong that a simple matter as love people judge it, but then again that people will judge and ignorant individuals who have no other weapons will use religion as the maximum truth even to explain pseudo-scientific facts even if life is more complex than one reality as it is composed of million different realities under one world.
The only unnatural thing it's celibacy, there is no such thing in the world and yet humans are the only ones to say it is a natural behavior. It gets better but the path is painful much of the time for much of the people who decide to be happy even if that means to defy the status-quo.You are never alone, there will be always a friend who will support you even if they are n the distance, and there are several hotline such as the GLTB National Help Center who will assist people in despair, I can say thanks to a friend I discovered how these hotline's can really help you.
Sometimes it's difficult, it's never easy to come in fact with the terms, I have to say it's been an emotional roller coaster with so many different factors to analyze and think, one thing I was debating in my head if I should do it was the economical factor, many young people who come at peace with their life think that as they rely on their parents and probably that's the biggest fear, being alone and without a penny and that is a situation that happens to many people who are cut from their families because their sexual orientation varies with their values.
Values is a strong word, a really treacherous word that usually separate individuals, duality, good or wrong. There is no duality in the universe even for shades between black and white there is always grey. What is good or wrong.? The ability to discern what can destroy you or to make you happy, the tears.? Who knows, for is just the ability to discern what is the best from the wrong according to your living experiences, there are times where we can't pretend, where it's you or them, a moment to take a decision but you will have to pay for the consequences the good one and the bad ones.
It takes a lot of courage, I am relearning certain things such as about life, friendship and love and what you can do to survive. It's not easy, but there is always hope and strengths to continue off, because if you keep fighting it will get better.
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Labels: bisexual, coming out, gay, gltb, help, it gets better, lesbian, peer, peers, stories, stories., story, support, transexual
Location: Lake Azzure Ct, Tampa, FL 33614, USA
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Darla (dog)
Darla (1975–1992) was a Bichon Frise best known for her acting role as Precious in the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs, a film which earned the Big Five Academy Awards.[1][2] Darla acted in several other films, including Batman Returns (1992).
Appearance of Darla in The Silence of the Lambs
1992 (aged 16–17)
Thousand Oaks, California
Precious in The Silence of the Lambs
Cristie Miele
1 Career and popularity
1.1 Notable scenes
3 Filmography
Career and popularityEdit
Darla began her career in the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure as Pink Poodle, and appeared in 1989's The 'Burbs starring Tom Hanks. Her most notable role was as Precious in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Darla became a cult icon due to the film's success and was the subject of a Facebook fan page titled "Precious".[3] Her final role was in 1992's Batman Returns, as Ratty Poodle.[4]
Notable scenesEdit
In Silence of the Lambs, the following famous quote by serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) was punctuated by a bark from Precious as he held her in his arms: "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again!" The scene demonstrates that, despite his total disregard for human life, Bill did care for the little dog, which is further evidenced by the small doggy bed next to his sewing machine.[5] Later in the film, Buffalo Bill's intended next victim, Catherine, manages to lure Precious into the well where she is being held captive, stalling Buffalo Bill long enough for help to arrive. The dog is again seen after the ordeal, still being held by Catherine as she is put in an ambulance.
In Batman Returns, Darla's last film appearance, she is credited as "Ratty Poodle", but because her fur was purposely roughed-up for the part she is barely recognizable. In one scene, The Penguin and his crew show up to confront Batman. One member of the crew is a blonde woman dressed in Victorian-era style clothing, and she is carrying Darla. In this movie, Darla is portrayed as a major nuisance for Batman. Darla ran to catch Batman's self-operating Batarang, used by his enemies in an attempt to frame him in the murder of the Ice Princess, thus confounding The Penguin's plan.[4]
Darla retired to Thousand Oaks, California, in 1992, and died later that year at the age of 16 or 17.
LifeEdit
Darla worked with trainer Christie Miele in The Silence of the Lambs,[6][7] according to whom Darla's "big thing" was stealing socks.[6] She was extremely smart and loved everyone. Darla loved being around people.[8] As published in Comic Book Resources, "Although many won't recall Darla's impact on these films, there's no denying that her skills as an actor have linked two excellent movies and proved that she was one of the best dogs of her time."[4]
In the 2021 sequel television series, Clarice, the role of Precious was taken up by a bichon frise named Kendall.[9]
FilmographyEdit
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) as Pink Poodle
The 'Burbs (1989) as Queenie
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Precious
Batman Returns (1992) as Ratty Poodle
TelevisionEdit
Coach (1990) as Watkin's Poodle
Eerie, Indiana (1991) as Fifi
List of individual dogs
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^ "Precious, the white toy poodle of Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs". Facebook.
^ a b c Brooks, Nicholas (2022-01-14). "Batman Returns' Surprising Link to Silence of the Lambs, Explained". CBR. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
^ Eddy, Cheryl (2020-07-20). "Toss Some Treats at These 10 Heroic Horror Dogs". Gizmodo Australia. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
^ a b "R.I.P.: Remembering Beloved Animal Stars". Peoplemag. 2009-07-23. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
^ "Dyed and shaved, dog's a real trouper", The Atlanta Constitution (March 29, 1994), p. 44.
^ "Jaegee: Darla Biography". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
^ Bender, Kelli (April 5, 2021). "There's Nothing Scary About the 'Precious' and Talented Canine Star of 'Clarice': 'She's Great'". People Magazine.
Darla at IMDb
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Today is NOT the day to head to the DVD Rentals to find a Saturday Night Movie – Today – You're going to want to stock up on Root Beer Float Supplies (Root Beer Float Day), Head over to Papa Murphy's and pick up a huge Cowboy Pizza – and hunker down with some Homestyle Popcorn and be ready for a Wholesome Thrill Ride Movie!
I was able to sit in on a private viewing with about 13 friends, many of whom I have met through The Old Schoolhouse Crew – along with Robin Lively – and chat through the movie. I gotta say Robin is such a great girl! She fit right in with us, and we were joking and laughing and all of us wanting to hit Re-Wind when the action flipped and we missed a part. This is a pretty fast moving movie. Normally the sponsored Family Night Movies seem more about promoting a product line than delivering a quality film – but- with this one – you really enjoy the film! The actors are great. You're going to love the way the family works together – how the kids interact – how the mom faces the circumstances – how they . . . Oh. I can't give it all away – but it is a great story line!
Hit the DVR to Record – or show up in person watching NBC at 8/7c Tonight – Saturday August 6th, 2011 for this great movie! Two thumbs up from me!!!
When unassuming geologist Simon Miller mysteriously disappears one night, the Miller family is thrown into a desperate search to find him. Simon's wife Meredith and their two kids, Sarah, 18 and Kevin, 15 frantically search Simon's office for information. When they find a stash of passports, all with Simon's picture but each with a different alias, they realize that their father has been keeping more than a few secrets. Who is Simon Miller? And what has he gotten himself – and his family – into? Not sure they can even trust the dad they thought they knew, the Millers embark on an international mission to get him back. It's a heart-pounding adventure that tests the limits to which families will fight for each other.
I did not receive any A&W Root Beer, Tillamook Ice Cream or Papa Murphy's Pizza – just the movie – Preview.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday Britain would send military personnel to Ukraine soon to help train its army, warning Moscow would move to destabilize other countries unless it was challenged.
"Over the course of the next month we're going to be deploying British service personnel to provide advice and a range of training, to tactical intelligence to logistics, to medical care," Cameron told a committee of lawmakers.
"We'll also be developing an infantry training program with Ukraine to improve the durability of their forces," he added, stressing British personnel would be a long way from any front line and not be involved in combat operations.
Cameron made the announcement after pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine brought reporters to witness the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line under a ceasefire deal. Ukraine said the rebels were using the cover of the truce to reinforce for another advance.
Cameron said he did not rule out arming Ukraine at some point in the future but that supplying non-lethal support was Britain's current approach.
Speaking to reporters in Paris after a meeting with his French, German and Russian counterparts, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said Kiev wanted to enhance its defensive capabilities.
"We don't need lethal weapons. What is critical is communications … jamming equipment and counter-battery equipment," he said.
He said Kiev was in bilateral talks with several countries to acquire those capacities.
The U.S. administration has said it is considering options including arming Ukrainian forces and imposing deeper sanctions against the Kremlin.
Do these Neo-Imperialists like Cameron want another Cold War? Providing aid to Ukrainian military will only intensify the conflict. Not only that, but they also don't understand the mentality of Putin. The opposition there is against, the more he wants to crush it to further increase his own power.


Correspondence to: Giovanni Benedetti. Cardiothoracic Department, University Hospital of Udine, P.le S.M. della Misericordia, 15, Udine 33100, Italy. Email: giovanni.benedetti@asuiud.sanita.fvg.it.
Submitted Dec 29, 2018. Accepted for publication Dec 31, 2018.
Patients with advanced heart failure refractory to standard medical treatment have a poor prognosis and quality of life. Despite intensive care and inotropic support, progression to cardiogenic shock and consequent multi-organ failure increases patient mortality while awaiting heart transplantation (HTx). Furthermore, when HTx is performed in this urgent/emergent setting, the outcome is generally worse than usual (1). Extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a short-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS) modality, has been suggested as a treatment of choice in cardiogenic shock because it provides, at the same time, both pulmonary and circulatory support, and because of its limited surgical invasiveness, easy implantation and ready availability (2,3). Despite this, ECLS support is burdened by a significant risk of 30-day mortality and morbidity such as bleeding, stroke, infection and ineffective left ventricular unloading (2-5). A variety of temporary MCS devices and implantation strategies have been proposed as alternatives to ECLS, and each of those presents advantages and disadvantages. Intracorporeal percutaneous devices (Impella® and Tandem Heart®) and paracorporeal devices (centrifugal and pneumatic pumps) are the most commonly utilized solutions.
DeBakey in the 1960s was the first to describe the application of a paracorporeal, pneumatically driven pump as a post-cardiotomy ventricular assist device (VAD) to wean the patient from the cardiopulmonary bypass and wait for the heart to recover. In the following decades, as HTx became a reality, the perspective of MCS also changed by being used as bridge to transplantation. At the time, available technology consisted of large consoles and extra- or paracorporeal pumps, not compatible with hospital discharge. The first successful case surviving the paracorporeal VAD implantation was reported by Hill et al. in 1986 (6). Since then, MCS underwent a rapid, worldwide spread, mainly as a bridge to HTx. Since VADs became widely used, research and technology have enabled for the progressive miniaturization of pumps and control units, while reducing the rate of adverse events, obtaining a longer and safer support. The long-term outcome of patients supported by VAD has improved continuously in recent years and accordingly, VADs have also been used as destination therapy, representing an alternative to transplantation. Smaller, safer devices are changing the VAD panorama, narrowing the indications for paracorporeal systems in adult patients (7).
Paracorporeal systems have the pump located outside the body, with inflow and outflow cannulas that traverse the skin connecting the pump with the heart and great vessels. They can be utilized to support the left, right or both ventricles. Among paracorporeal devices, centrifugal pumps are composed of a rotating impeller that propels the blood located inside the pump, whilst the energy source is outside the blood chamber (rotor). Pump flow is directly proportional to pump rotor speed and inversely proportional to pressure difference between the inlet and outlet orifice, thus is pre- and after-load sensitive. It can be used to support the patient's circulation for days or weeks, as a bridge to transplantation, to recovery or to further VAD implantation. Possible complications related to centrifugal pump technology include bleeding, hemolysis or mechanical obstruction by tube kinking during patient mobilization. Unfortunately, no published studies are currently available that compare these centrally-cannulated pumps with other temporary MCS options, but most clinicians would lean towards the use of these devices in the postcardiotomy setting.
Pulsatile pumps are usually composed of a rigid case containing a membrane that separates blood and air. The blood is propelled by positive displacement, by cyclically changing the internal volume of the compression chamber through a pneumatically-driven expansion of the membrane, directing the flow with one-way valves. The flow can be determined by setting rate and percentage of the chamber systole and by regulating preload and afterload. The energy source is an external compressor, which in more recent models has become smaller and portable. Two devices are available for pneumatic paracorporeal support: Thoratec PVAD and Excor Berlin Heart.
This pneumatic pump, which provides long-term uni- or biventricular support, is positioned on the patient's abdomen with the cannulae crossing the skin to reach the mediastinum. It consists in a flexible blood bladder of 65 mL volume made of Thoralon (a material that seems to minimize blood clotting and inflammation), controlled by a dual-drive console which alternates negative and positive air pressure. Mechanical valves (Monostrut tilting Delrin disc) on the inflow and outflow maintain unidirectional blood flow. The stroke volume is fixed, so the pump rate must be adjusted to modulate the pump output. It is designed to provide long-term biventricular support, but the dimensions of the console severely impact on the mobility of the patient, who can ambulate but usually can't leave the hospital. Usually, its use is precluded in children due to its size.
This paracorporeal VAD is available in various pump volume sizes (10, 25, 30, 50, 60, 80 mL), suitable to support patients from a neonatal age through to adulthood. It can be implanted as either uni- or biventricular support, consisting of a pneumatic device made of a three-layered flexible polyurethane membrane encased within a transparent semi-rigid housing, for better detection of thrombus formation. Between the membranes lies a graphite powder lubricant to minimize their friction and additionally, the innermost membrane, which is in contact with blood, is heparin-coated (8). The adult sizes were provided with mechanical mono-leaflet tilting disc valves, but now they have heparin-coated polyurethane valves as is in the case of pediatric valves. Also, the cannulas are available in small diameters and the drive units are wearable thanks to rechargeable batteries, allowing for patient mobility.
Paracorporeal VADs had a leading role as medium- to long-term assist devices in refractory heart failure, but their importance has decreased since the late 1990s due to the progressive diffusion of LVADs and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) (9). However, these pumps have still an indisputable indication in neonatal or pediatric patients, whose body size precludes the fitting of an implantable pump. Patients in INTERMACS level 1 or 2 with biventricular heart failure represent high risk MCS candidates. According to the last INTERMACS report, one-year survival for these patients is in the range of 50–60% (BVAD paracorporeal or LVAD plus centrifugal pump) (7). Although it is desirable to implant an LVAD, there are a considerable number of patients who require primary BVAD support. This accounts for 10–20% of the entire VAD population in some reports (10). In addition, Takeda et al. found that patients receiving unplanned secondary RV support had much lower survival chances (11). As depicted in the INTERMACS report (7), paracorporeal pumps play a definite role in patients with contraindications to ECLS because of peripheral vasculopathy, bleeding or contraindications to heparin infusion.
Surgical setup includes transesophageal echocardiography for cardiac visualization and implantation guidance, general anesthesia and full median sternotomy. Extracorporeal circulation is established through bicaval venous and aortic cannulation (slightly more distally in the aortic arch), and the VAD implantation is done off-clamp. In case of redo surgery, right subclavian cannulation should be preferred. The BiVAD implantation follows typically these steps: LV apex (or left atrium), right atrium, main pulmonary artery, ascending aorta (Figure 1). Left atrial cannulation is preferred in patients affected by hypertrophic or restrictive cardiomyopathy with very small LV cavity, or presenting a large apical myocardial infarction. The anastomosis of the outflow cannulas to the PA and the ascending aorta are performed after side bite clamping.
Early postoperative management includes monitoring blood pressure, pulmonary pressure, peripheral oxygen saturation and fluid balance measuring. Furthermore, VAD output, rate, vacuum and fill setting to reach complete emptying of the chambers all must be monitored. Management of bleeding includes meticulous haemostasis and sternal closure, aggressive correction of hematologic abnormalities and acidosis, a warming blanket to prevent hypothermia and early re-exploration if needed. Infection in these patients is a constant concern, especially at the cannulas exit site: if needed, it can be treated with local antibiotic irrigation and, in more complex cases, IV antibiotics could be applied. Nutritional and psychological supports are crucial, including education of both patient and caregiver alongside active family involvement.
While many different devices have been used in the past decades, only 2 devices are now routinely used around the world for pneumatic paracorporeal support: Thoratec PVAD and Berlin Heart EXCOR. There isn't any scientific evidence that support the use of one of the two devices over the other, so the choice is largely based on local experience.
The INTERMACS Registry reports that survival with BiVAD support has remained inferior to that of isolated LVAD (7) and, in the most recent era, only about 50% of patients were alive at 1 year, just slightly better than early and mid-term results of a total artificial heart. As of 2016, Thoratec PVAD has been implanted in around 5,000 patients (56% BiVAD, 36% LVAD, 6% RVAD patients) in 277 centers worldwide. The longest duration of support was 1,276 days (3.4 years) and different studies have shown a survival to transplantation of 70% (7,12,13). A single-center experience at Cedars Sinai (USA) reported 80 INTERMACS 1 patients (cardiogenic shock) treated with a BVAD as a bridge to transplantation between 2000 and 2008 (14). Survival to transplantation was 71.3% with a significantly better outcome in the late years (survival to transplantation after 2006 was 82%). The rate of clinically significant thromboembolic complications was relatively low (15%), while no clinically significant infection or VAD endocarditis was reported.
Since 1985 to date, Berlin Heart EXCOR has been successfully used in more than 2,200 patients at 106 heart centers in 29 countries worldwide (7,12,13). The main indications were dilated cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction. The preferred configuration was BVAD (68%), followed by LVAD (29%) and RVAD (3%). The mean time on device was 137 days and longest time on device >5 years, with an overall 1-year survival of 76%, with 47% of patients being transplanted. With more experience, better outcome for patients on EXCOR BVAD support have been accomplished during recent years, with a survival rate of more than 90% in selected younger patients supported by EXCOR BVAD (15).
Some institutions have reported a satisfactory 30-day mortality following BVAD implantation in selected patients: Potapov et al. showed a 33%-mortality in their single-center experience on patients with very advanced heart failure (16), and Tsukui et al. an even lower mortality of 15% in patients bridged to HTx (17). A recent study from the University of Heidelberg on patients in INTERMACS 1–2 reports a 1-year survival of 92% (18), while Creaser et al. (19) suggest that BVAD patients can be discharged safely under close management of multidisciplinary team while awaiting for a transplant. Other authors, on the other hand, have suggested that use of BVAD portends an increased risk of both early and late post-transplant mortality (20-23).
In our unit at the University Hospital of Udine, 129 patients affected by advanced heart failure of different aetiologies were mechanically supported with short term MCS since 1998. Among them, 34 were Berlin Heart Excor paracorporeal devices (Berlin Heart GmbH, Berlin, Germany) and in most cases (32 pts) a biventricular support was adopted. Intracorporeal LVAD implantation was excluded because of severe hemodynamic impairment involving both ventricles. All these patients were in critical conditions, 62% of them were in INTERMACS class 1, 53% needed IABP support and 21% mechanical ventilation (MV), 35% were affected by renal failure and 24% by liver dysfunction (Table 1). The median age of the patients was 54.9 (14.8–68.3), 97% were male and the most frequent cause of heart failure were ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy (41%).
After implantation, 3 patients (9%) died because of early multi organ failure (MOF). An additional 5 patients died after 1 month while in hospital: 2 for progression of MOF, 1 for cerebral ischemia, 1 for sepsis and 1 because of late cardiac tamponade. Fifty-nine percent of patients needed sternal re-exploration for post-operative bleeding, 32% experienced device-related infection and 9% had pump thrombosis. Other common complications were acute kidney injury (AKI) in 32% of patients, needing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in 29% and liver dysfunction in 24%. The median hospital stay was 45 (range, 0–146) days. After a median support time of 34 (range, 0–385) days, with 19 patients (56%) having a support longer than 1 month, 23 patients (68%) were bridged to HTx and 3 (9%) were successfully weaned with hospital discharge, resulting in an overall combined survival rate of 77% (Table 2). Considering the overall survival of patients requiring paracorporeal VAD and then transplanted or weaned, the 1-, 5- and 10-year survival was 67±8, 60±9 and 50±10 months during an overall median follow-up of 21 (range, 0–240) months.
During the last decade, intracorporal implantable LVADs have been widely adopted as a bridge to HTx. Unfortunately, these devices are not the best therapeutic option when the patient is in cardiogenic shock showing biventricular involvement and initial multiorgan dysfunction (24-26). ECLS has the advantage of being readily implanted in most patients and different clinical scenarios but is burdened with a significant mortality and morbidity rate. Moreover, to obtain effective left ventricle unloading, high-dose inotropic support is often necessary, alongside IABP and/or LV venting, with the result of increasing the risk of local or systemic complications (2,3,5,27).
Among paracorporeal devices, centrifugal pumps are commonly used because they are relatively cheap and simple to manage compared to other devices. The absence of the oxygenator can potentially lower the impact of inflammation and coagulation imbalance and offer a more physiologic blood flow both in uni- or bi-ventricular configurations. Despite a more demanding surgical approach, pneumatic paracorporeal devices may represent an appealing alternative to ECLS, not only by reducing the oxygenator-related complications, but also by offering a longer circulatory support compared to ECLS and centrifugal pumps, allowing thereby a safer organ donor allocation and a better multiorgan recovery and preservation: indeed, long-term circulatory support can improve end-organ function, even to complete recovery and permit the optimization of a patient's fitness and nutritional status before HTx.
It has also been demonstrated that pulsatile flow plays a significant role in preserving the microcirculation of patients affected by cardiogenic shock by improving end-organ tissue perfusion and capillary flow as measured in the liver, kidneys and stomach (28,29). Also, continuous flow was associated with an increased likelihood of damaging the Von Willebrand factor (30). Cardiogenic shock causes gastrointestinal mucosal ischemia, which increases the risk of bacterial translocation and of ischemic-hemorrhagic major events. In this setting, pulsatile flow could be advantageous over continuous flow, both by improving the mucosal capillary perfusion and avoiding the acquired Von Willebrand Syndrome.
On the other hand, many centers avoid using BVAD support as a bridge to HTx because of a more demanding implantation technique, increased HTx risk due to a previous sternotomy and major costs including overall hospital resources utilization (31). Moreover, as confirmed in our own experience, perioperative bleeding or late cardiac tamponade might be a serious complication and require a careful patient management and monitoring. Device failure and pump thrombosis are potentially catastrophic issues, although fortunately are not very frequent: the reported incidence is around 5% (32) and it occurred in 3 patients of our cohort, requiring in one case a pump exchange 2 months after implantation.
Three of our patients have been discharged home for 2, 3 and 11 months respectively and then successfully transplanted, accounting for the possibility of a long period of assistance to get an ideal patient recovery and donor organ matching (33). Considering our results in terms of patient survival up to HTx or weaning, it is remarkable the percentage of terminally ill patients who has benefited from pneumatic paracorporeal support, is not much dissimilar to that obtained with LVAD in cases with less advanced heart failure.
Patients presenting with refractory advanced heart failure are a demanding population which require intensive treatment and more often circulatory MCS to prevent irreversible multiorgan dysfunction. Despite the advent of new, smaller and safer devices, paracorporeal VADs still have a role in pediatric cases and in selected adult patients. In case of biventricular failure, these devices have to be considered for a short- to medium-term bridging, with satisfactory outcomes at follow-up. In our experience, pneumatic paracorporeal VAD can be considered a valid alternative of ECLS, providing an effective support as a bridge to HTx. Although surgical BVAD implantation may be more demanding and associated with the risk of perioperative bleeding, such therapeutic choice can potentially allow for complete organ recovery and improve patient rehabilitation, to achieve the best outcome of HTx.
We thank Veronica Ferrara e Helena Hortis for data collection and analysis.


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Nigeria seeks fair share of $1.7tn global data economy
The National Information Technology Development Agency says that Nigeria can get a fair share of the global data economy valued at more than $1.7tn, if it adopts and faithfully implements the National Smart Initiative Policy Framework.
In a draft copy of the policy obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday, NITDA said that the policy would also help the country to resolve security and unemployment challenges.
In the framework, NITDA said, "Core to the adoption and use of smart solutions to address global challenges is the data they generate and the potential value of such data. The value of data in today's digital economy cannot be over-emphasised.
"The data economy report by Digital Reality in 2018 showed that data contribute more than $1.7tn to the world's seven richest economies. Further, International Data Corporation, a market-research firm, predicts that data monetisation will become a major source of income.
"Nigeria is at a critical stage where it needs informed and properly analysed data to take decisions on how best to tackle its ever-increasing national challenges, which includes corruption challenges, diversification and growth of its economy, insecurity and terrorism challenges, job creation and youth empowerment.
"Thus, to tackle these national challenges like other advanced nations, the Nigerian government requires real-time access to data as well as the ability to process, analyse and extract insight from such data to make informed decisions."
The agency said that the need for the country to resolve its security, unemployment and corruption challenges, as well as the need to fix the economy and manage its resources efficiently and other national challenges, presented strong opportunities for smart initiatives.
According to the agency, real-time traffic, energy and resource data will enable public organisations to intervene and manage public resources in direct response to normal operation and external factors such as accidents, weather, over-utilisation and other constantly changing citizen demands.
With timely access to data and information flow, better planning and forecasting become the standard, more effective deployment and management of resources become a reality, thus yielding savings and better service delivery, it added.
"The adoption of smart initiatives in a holistic manner becomes necessary as it will help to ensure that deliberate decisions and actions are made across the smart value chain. It will give rise to new market, business models, and services to promote data and digital economy," NIDTA said in the framework.
It added that the initiative would also attract foreign investment opportunities and give the private sector the opportunity to participate in the industry.
Smuggling: Nigeria losing about 10 million litres petrol daily
EU invests N53.9bn in Nigeria's power sector


Clearly, silence hasn't worked. This week, news organizations around the state are collaborating to bring attention to the problem of suicide, report on populations at highest risk and share resources on how to prevent it. While the "Breaking the Silence" project won't necessarily provide answers, it aims to start a statewide effort to confront it. Using responsible reporting practices that examine, not sensationalize, suicide, these stories can provide the common understanding, motivation, tools and questions that can help the community mobilize against this public health threat.
The data shows just how widespread a problem this is. Oregon's suicide rate is 14th highest in the country and suicide is the second leading cause of death for those ages 10 to 34, according to the Oregon Health Authority. One fifth of those who kill themselves are veterans. More than half the deaths are caused by firearms.
While those statistics may seem daunting, they can also provide possible avenues where leaders can make a difference. Such data, in the aggregate, can help build support for increased funding for veterans' health services or provide tangible prevention options, such as the 2017 law that allows family members and police officers to petition a court to take away firearms from someone at risk for suicide or causing harm to others.


Back in the day, just a homely summerhouse. Now, an authentic Amalfi coast villa chosen as a filming location for an American movie!
Il Limoneto degli Angeli offers its guests a renovated 18th century villa, whose original masonry arches have been left untouched. It's named after our lemon grove, a suggestive place to relax, which offers a panoramic view of Minori and its sea. Internal rooms are exquisitely appointed with colourful Vietri majolica tile floors.


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Figures of Possibility
Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses
Niklaus Largier
SERIES: Cultural Memory in the Present
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From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential. Arguing for a new understanding of mystical experience, Largier foregrounds the ways in which devotion builds on experimental practices of figuration in order to shape perception, emotions, and thoughts anew.
Largier illuminates how devotional practices are invested in the creation of possibilities, and this investment has been a key element in a wide range of experimental engagements in literature and art from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and most recently in forms of "new materialism." Read as a history of the senses and emotions, the book argues that mystical and devotional practices have long been invested in the modulating and reconfiguring of sensation, affects, and thoughts. Read as a book about practices of figuration, it questions ordinary protocols of interpretation in the humanities, and the priority given to a hermeneutic understanding of texts and cultural artifacts.
Niklaus Largier is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
"This is a truly original work, grounded in wonderfully wide and deep learning. It is also a profound reflection on the ethical life and the role figuration might play within it. There is nothing like it that I know of, nor could anyone without Largier's range of learning and depth of thought have written it."
—Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays
"Figures of Possibility is a singular achievement, both as a work of breathtaking scholarship and as a new and exciting theory of aesthetic experience. The writing is exceptionally clear; the prose is passionate, beautiful, and compelling. Largier turns rigorous scholarship on medieval and early modern mysticism into a new approach to reading literature and aesthetic experience."
—Eric Santner, author of Untying Things Together
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We cordially invite you to join us for a breakfast at the EU Parliament on April 2nd from 8-9:30a.m.
In 10 years of research in robotics the EU-funded projects ECHORD and ECHORD++ have generated amazing results – not only in outstanding technology development but also in products that have already reached the market, leading to economic growth and job creation in Europe.
To present you the benefits of long-running EU-funded projects using ECHORD and ECHORD++ as an example, I would like to invite you to a breakfast at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 2nd, 2019 at 8 am (rue Wiertz 60, Brussels). This is an occasion for us to feel the robotics technology created and to get the spirit of successful industry-academia collaborations in robotics. After short presentations by the European Commission and the project consortium we will have the opportunity to take a close look at prototypes emerged from the projects and to discuss the future of robotics in Europe.


Ask the Imam is an online question and anwser service open to all. Its goal is to provide easy access to common Islamic questions and anwsers to anyone using the world wide web. Mufti Ebrahim Desai , former head of the Darul Ifta deparment at Jamiatul Ulama (KZN, South Africa ) and currently at the Madrassah In'aamiyyah ( Camperdown , South Africa ) provides anwsers to your questions submitted through "Ask the Imam" website. Br. Jaffar acts as technical liaison to Mufti Ebrahim Desai.


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This article is about some of the player options you can have in the game of blackjack. Surrender is the only decision in blackjack that should be indicated verbally where the dealer will collect half of your bet and return the other half to you. Raising or lowering bets is an option you can use to win more for favorable situations and lose less in unfavorable scenarios.
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Found what's causing this problem. You actually do have the messages for these events but they are hiding on page 2 and below. This is caused by certain messages being ruled as more important than others and will pin themselves on every page. For example the Youth draft announcements. This is a bug and I will fix this as soon as possible.
All draft picks should now been switched for promoting and relegating teams. This problem also affected already finished drafts GHL, SHL and BHL. In these cases we have transfered the player rights for picked players manually.
Let us know if you find anything else not correct.
I totally agree. The reason for these stealth patches is that I never felt quite finished with the release. I began to work on the first hotfix the minute after releasing 2.0 March 1st. And then came hotfix 2 and then 3... I thought I'd wait to announce the release in the change log until I had a clean and stable v2.0. But that's just stupid. The release has now been announced in the change log and all updates from now on will be announced in more fashionable manner.
It's now possible to filter for max values for all ratings plus for the player's overall.
A first reminder will now be sent to your inbox approx a week (in game time) before transfer deadline, a second reminder half a week before and also a reminder before the transfer window being opened again.
Transfer deadline and opening are also displayed on the league schedule.
Just to confirm, we have now made a change so new free agents will only be generated during pre season. And as was already the case, only if there's a very low number of available free agents.
The reason for generating new free agents in the first place was to let the system calibrate itself and generate new players as long as there was need for them. But I realize this caused more trouble than good.
Yeah, it was fixed about 1 day after I made this topic. Although I liked the chat window inside the page like it was in the old version, not the pop-up window now. But that is probably just my feeling.
I agree with you. But this was because a technical limitation. The chat window is running 'http' when the game is now running on 'https' (secured). That means that the website can not host unsecured content any longer. Will see if we can make a smoother integration further down the road.
#38686 New Game World Forums!
World forums and world chat rooms are now connected inside the game too.
#38469 Game Plan Hockey Manager 2.0 - Release date announced!
Sure, but those are prime years players, 29yo with still something to improve... 98 OVR C, 99 OVR G, those are brutal numbers. I think the way it was done in the past release (i.e. no 90 OVR players, you had to train them there from around 80 OVR best players) was better. Until those players retire, there will be ~8 season when they will be too good on their positions, making the game uneven. And 8 seasons in a slow world is now really long time. It is simply weird and I'm quite surprised to see such a high numbers as I expected that this will have slower training than the previous release... and in previous release 97 OVR was maximum in Biscuit in S18, for supertalented player trained hard from the start, playing big minutes already on entry level contract.
Not really complaining about what I got... 94 OVR 24yo G, 94 OVR 21yo C, 91 OVR 23yo F, 95 OVR 24yo D - those are players I can count on for more than a decade, top player for every position. In Biscuit it took me more than 8 seasons to get players like these and they were usually already older.
Just my observation since I haven't got time to play the UAT.
A few players will get the status of exceptional talents, those are the players that may develop to over 95 overall. But these players are very rare. In Game World Cage there are only 10 players in the whole world (about 0.1% of population). So the base of GHL will be around 85-87 overalls with a few stars on every team around 90 overall and a few teams will have superstars around 95 overalls.
So your observation is right. GHL is the only league with this wider spread of overalls.
#38460 Game Plan Hockey Manager 2.0 - Release date announced!
The new release contains a brand new player generator that will actually develop all the players as if they played season by season in the game. That means that there will be very little difference between the players you'll see from the start and the ones you will see in 10 seasons.


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Q: Extension Operator. I am working on my thesis about completion and extensions from an algebraic point of view. We have the closure operator which takes subsets to subsets with 3 criterias to meet

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*$C(C(X))=C(X)$

Which can be used to describe the completion of a module, which makes sense as it's inspired from the sequences of spaces. This can be used for the completion of modules as well but rather than subsets it would deal with modules. I am curious however if there is an operator for extensions that can be viewed similarly with a list of criterias? With an extension I mean
$$0\to A\to C\to B\to 0$$
Where $A$ is extended by $B$ to give $C$, is there a similar operator that can be thought of to it? I mean as in an operator $E$ such that, in the previous example, we'd have $C=E(A)$ and then $E$ satisfies certain criterias and the criterias are the important one.

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Cycling UK, a leading charity who have championed the cause of cycling for well over a century, commissioned Visual Assets to create a contemporary new look for their website. The charity promote all forms of cycling and the website needed to inspire existing and would-be cyclists of all ages. Our task was to create a responsive design that would engage their wide audience group with a clean layout and clear, easy to use navigation across all devices.
We worked with Cycling UK's in-house development team to create the site using Drupal – an open source content management solution we've been working with for over 15 years.


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6. Listening to Mr. G sing "Uptown Funk"…he actually has pretty good rhythm and tempo!
7. Getting my coffee made by the cutest 3 year old barista (baristo?) in town!
9. Last minute photo shoot shoot turned into a fun afternoon of playground time for Mr. G and time spent with my mom.


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Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead
Atlanta in Buckhead
Map 3300 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30305 Call+1 404 237 1234 4.5 Stars 1357 Reviews
TRAVEL + LEISURE NAMES GRAND HYATT ATLANTA BEST WINTER GETAWAY FOR 2022
Travel + Leisure just ranked Atlanta, Buckhead & Grand Hyatt Atlanta as the perfects stops for a warm winter getaway. As Travel + Leisure says:
"Food, culture, history, and attractions make Atlanta a great destination ... Several distinct neighborhoods make up the city, each with its own style. Downtown, the Georgia Aquarium and World of Coca Cola are popular attractions, and on the east side, there's the Zoo Atlanta and Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park. With Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, it's a perfect time to explore his life and Atlanta's role in the civil rights movement. Shoppers will want to visit the fashionable Buckhead Village District with hotel options that include the new Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta, Thompson Buckhead, and Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead ..."
"Why not start off the year with a vacation? You can begin planning now and make it a holiday gift to yourself ... Whether or not you decide to travel in January, we hope you'll at least put a vacation or two on your list of New Year's resolutions ..."
Plan your 2022 Buckhead escape today!
LONEY PLANET RANKS ATLANTA BEST PLACE TO VISIT IN 2022
Lonely Planet, the global travel experts, just included Atlanta on its world-wide Best in Travel list for 2022. Loney Planet ranked Atlanta No. 4 on its must-visit cities list for our diversity, community and thriving neighborhoods (plus our attractions, shopping and great dining!)! Learn more about all the great things to do in our hometown on our Area Attractions page. Plan your 2022 Atlanta vacation, staycation or weekend getaway today!
HYATT ANNOUNCES RETURN OF HYATT LOVES LOCAL WITH MORE THAN 160 SMALL BUSINESS COLLABORATIONS TO HELP REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES
GRAND HYATT ATLANTA SHOWCASES LOCAL ARTISTS IN LOBBY GALLERY
Building on the success of Hyatt's global initiative in 2020, Hyatt hotels are teaming up with even more minority and female-owned businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen communities in which they operate in
CHICAGO – Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announces today Hyatt hotels across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Asia regions have launched more than 160 Hyatt Loves Local collaborations in a continued effort to help revitalize and advance care to communities and small businesses recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the success of the 2020 community-driven initiative, which provides complimentary resources and exposure to select local businesses that have struggled during the pandemic, Hyatt Loves Local has evolved to further meet the current needs of Hyatt communities and guests, including collaborating with more minority-owned and female-owned businesses and delivering reimagined experiences inspired by the new travel landscape. In turn, Hyatt Loves Local connects those in-need directly with Hyatt guests and locals through distinctly local offerings, including wellbeing, arts and entertainment, "voluntourism," traveling with pets and culinary experiences.
Aligned with Hyatt's Change Starts Here commitment to accelerate Hyatt's longstanding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, nearly half of the 100 participating hotels are teaming up with more than 65 minority-owned and female-owned businesses, two groups that have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Participating hotels are also working with new businesses that were born out of the pandemic. For example, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego is collaborating with Seaside Cinema to offer personalized, mobile outdoor movie experiences on the shores of Mission Bay. Seaside Cinema founders, Brian and Krystil Hofmann, were inspired to start the company as an alternative to movie theaters and indoor gatherings after Krystil lost her corporate job due to COVID-19.
"Based on how enthusiastically guests and colleagues embraced Hyatt Loves Local since launch last year, we are excited to expand the program with more than 100 new community collaborations that truly support the people, businesses and organizations that are the foundation of the local communities in which Hyatt hotels operate," said Amy Weinberg, senior vice president, loyalty, brand marketing and insights. "Hyatt has been advancing care across communities for more than 60 years and to see Hyatt's role helping small businesses thrive through Hyatt Loves Local last year has been a rewarding experience. We are proud to continue supporting communities while simultaneously offering our guests experiences that celebrate the future and recovery of travel."
The latest Hyatt Loves Local trends and collaborations include:
• Emphasizing Wellbeing: With a focus on safety first and wellbeing always, Hyatt is reimagining the hotel journey with new wellbeing amenities and offerings that support local wellness providers who were forced to reduce or reshape their offerings during the pandemic:
o Hyatt Centric Downtown Portland in Oregon has collaborated with My Aroma Rocks, a local female-owned mind-body-spirit company specializing in aromatherapy, and Aesthete Tea, a female- and QBIPOC-owned organic loose-leaf tea and herbal blend brand, to offer a new "Self Care" room package to heighten guests' focus on wellbeing.
o Andaz San Diego is offering its rooftop for dance fitness classes with LR Dance & Fitness twice a week, growing class sizes and benefitting the bottom line of owner Lovelyn Redfearn.
o Thompson Nashville has teamed up with IV Therapy business Invigorate Health to offer guests a wellbeing-focused "Boost Your Stay…in a Wellness Way" package, with all proceeds for in-room, on-demand IV immune boosts going directly back to local business.
• Pet Projects: Pet adoptions boomed during the pandemic lockdown, with many travelers planning to bring their furry friends along for their next trip. Hyatt hotels are collaborating with local pet businesses to offer pampering and perks to pet travelers:
o Hyatt House Dallas/Richardson is collaborating with female-/Black-owned Lucy Lu Doggy Treats to offer complimentary space in the lobby for guests and locals to buy products.
o Ambassador Chicago, a JdV by Hyatt hotel is teaming up with nearby pet boutique Tails in the City to offer guests a "PAWsome Experience," which includes treats, pick up bags, a toy, and local information for guests' pet to experience Chicago.
o Hyatt House Virginia Beach/Oceanfront has collaborated with female-owned Sitters by the Sea to offer World of Hyatt members discounted pet services such as pet sitting and dog walking.
• The Art of Hospitality: As museums, movie theaters, and concert venues continue to face strict regulations to curb the spread of COVID-19, consumers are hungrier than ever to reconnect with arts and culture again. Hyatt hotels are serving guests art, music and film experiences in a socially distant manner:
o Grand Hyatt Atlanta Buckhead has launched a gallery space for local artists to showcase and sell their art. The hotel's first artist will be oil portrait and illustration artist Dwayne Mitchell, who is also a security employee of Grand Hyatt Atlanta.
o Hyatt Place Madison/Downtown in Wisconsin is using its lobby to sell craft kits from Revel Madison, a female-owned DIY arts and crafts business that had to close its craft bar during the pandemic due to county restrictions.
o Park Hyatt Chicago is teaming up with a three-piece band led by Egyptian-born Alex Wasilyn for a concert series hosted in the hotel's outdoor garden during weekend brunches.
• Stepping up for Voluntourism: The struggles of the pandemic have inspired many travelers to volunteer their time to support local organizations who have received less volunteer support over the past year and Hyatt hotels are connecting guests with these opportunities:
o Alila Diwa Goa in India teamed up with a local Podher (breadmaker) offering guests an experience to learn about the local breadmaking artistry and volunteer to prepare fresh breads for the kids at the nearby community center.
o Hyatt Regency Calgary in Alberta, Canada has started a rooftop garden to provide fresh produce for the Calgary Community Fridge on an ongoing basis. Come harvest time each season, a special group of World of Hyatt members and local community members will participate in safely gathering the produce to be donated.
o Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa is working with Parley, an organization focused on strengthening local conservation efforts, to help support a plastic collection competition at a nearby uninhabited island.
• Reimagining Hotel Gift Shops: Hyatt properties are taking onsite retail to new, hyper-local heights by inviting local makers and businesses to create and sell their products on property, resulting in guest experiences that educate and make a positive impact on communities:
o Park Hyatt Zanzibar off the coast of Africa will collaborate with female-owned businesses including the sewing cooperative Sasik Pillows and traditional African art artisan Zivansh to host a monthly flea market and dinner to feature their products.
o Hyatt Regency Cartagena has teamed with Art Visbal Cartagena to showcase artisans from La Guajira, Colombia, who design and create traditional Colombian purses, known as Mochilas, and other items for guests to wear and decorate their homes.
o Hyatt Centric MG Road Bangalore in India is offering space near its 24/7 restaurant for Elemental by Nanya, a female-owned concrete décor business, to showcase and sell its products.
Guided by its purpose of care, Hyatt's multi-layered Global Care & Cleanliness Commitment further enhances its operational guidance and resources around colleague and guest safety and peace of mind. More information on Hyatt's commitment can be found here: hyatt.com/care-and-cleanliness.
These and more Hyatt Loves Local collaborations are being offered through Summer 2021 and beyond. For more information about Hyatt Loves Local and participating property collaborations, please visit hyatt.com/hyattloveslocal.
Gold Standard of Cleanliness
Grand Hyatt Atlanta Achieves GBAC STAR Accreditation, the Gold Standard of Hotel Cleanliness & Care
Grand Hyatt Atlanta announced today that it has achieved Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation – the gold standard for prepared facilities. Guided by Hyatt's purpose, to care for people so they can be their best, Our hotel's top priority for welcoming guests and colleagues is doing so with their health and well-being in mind. Under the guidance of GBAC, a Division of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, Grand Hyatt Atlanta has been recognized for implementing stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfection and disease prevention on property.
Grand Hyatt Atlanta earns the 2020 AAA Best of Housekeeping Badge
The Grand Hyatt Atlanta, has been designated a AAA 'Best of Housekeeping' property for 2020. Grand Hyatt Atlanta has significantly surpassed expectations, as measured during the inspector's comprehensive on-site inspections.
U.S. News Names Grand Hyatt Atlanta One of America's Best Hotels
ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST HOTELS
Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead is once again honored to be ranked as one of the Best Hotels in the U.S. (2021) by U.S. News & World Report. This recognition is even more special because it's based in part on feedback from our guests. Congratulations to all our colleagues and Thank You to all of our guests!
Grand Hyatt Atlanta Partners with GayTravel
Grand Hyatt Atlanta Partners with GayTravel.
We are pleased to announce that GayTravel welcomed Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead into their exclusive list of GayTravel Approved® properties!
Every year, millions of LGBT travelers actively seek trusted and reliable resources to aid them in their decision-making processes. Living at the intersection of "gay" and "travel," GayTravel.com is a hub of relevant knowledge and information that specifically caters to the needs of the LGBT community.
One of America's Top 100 Meeting Hotels for 2019.
Grand Hyatt Atlanta Named Among Top 100 U.S. Meeting Hotels for 2019.
Cvent has included Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead on its 2019 list of "Top 100 Meeting Hotels in the U.S." The inclusion on Cvent's prestigious list means Grand Hyatt Atlanta is a top choice for meeting and event planners across the U.S.
Cvent ranks the Top U.S. Meeting Hotels each year based on meeting planner demand for the hotel, how fast a hotel responds to planners, visits to a hotel's Cvent profile, local market share and other criteria.
Grand Hyatt Atlanta is Buckhead's premier meetings hotel, with more than 42,000 square feet of meeting and event space in 14 distinct venues, both indoor and outdoor. Our indoor meeting rooms are newly remodeled, while our outdoor spaces look out over our famous Japanese Zen garden and 30-foot waterfall.
Visit our Special Events page or contact us at ATLGH-Shared.MB-ATLGH-RFP@hyatt.com to plan your next event.
TripAdvisor Hotel of Excellence Since 2015.
Grand Hyatt Atlanta Joins TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame.
After 5 years of receiving a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence, Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead is honored to be named to TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame.
The Certificate of Excellence honors hotels that deliver the best service and consistently earn positive guest reviews over the past year. The designation is presented to just 10% of businesses on TripAdvisor.
Hotels that have received a Certificate of Excellence for five consecutive years qualify for the Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame.
Grand Hyatt Atlanta has earned a Certificate of Excellent each year since 2015.
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ACOP has been a fascinating website to do because for the first time, I had an existing website done by someone else, and my task was to update its design and content.
Now, I really don't want to criticise the previous person. He had almost no funding to work on it (and I'm not being paid at all for this one), and he was getting no co-operation from the organisation's members to provide any new content. So what he'd achieved in the circumstances was pretty good.
For any site re-vamp today, web designers generally go for a "responsive" site (one that rearranges itself to work on any size phone, tablet, laptop or desktop screen), use CSS3 to embellish the visuals (because older web browsers will automatically ignore anything that they don't understand, thus just leaving out the fancy stuff), and use web fonts to improve the default Arial and Times New Roman typography (because the Google fonts are free, and because even very old web browsers support web fonts). So that's what I did.
The site's layout (menu header, slim footer, wide main content column and member menu in the narrow right column) was working well, so I kept it. You can see the old site here in the Wayback Machine. Drupal already provided a responsive layout for the old site, with the right-hand menu column moving to the bottom of the page on phones, so I set up the same behaviour by using Ryan Brill's Liquid Layout CSS. This is common practice, and Google has a name for it, they call it a Mostly Fluid responsive web design pattern. Doing this makes web pages particularly long on phones, so that scrolling back up to the top of the page to get to the menu is a real pain, so I added a Scroll To Top button as contributed by Robert.
Getting a usable menu on the scarce screen area of phones really needs the menu to display only when asked for, which makes it still a pain. This used to be done in JavaScript or jQuery, but there are now well established HTML/CSS-only solutions using the checkbox hack out there, and I adopted the one by Michael Billard. I suppose that one day, we will all be so used to the three horizontal bars icon that everyone will know it means to click here for the manu, but in the meantime, I've played it safe and used text, because for an art/craft website, I hardly expect early adopters to be the main audience.
What I felt did need an update was the colour scheme, which to me, had a grey feel to it. So I decided to base a colour scheme on the colours of Pittwater. I adopted a CSS3 gradient for the menu background, using the local ocean colours of blue and green, with a fall-back to blue for older browsers. A pale sky blue worked well as content background, and I used a deep blue (the colour of Pittwater itself) for the borders and also for the footer. The obvious other local colour to use for the site background was beach sand, but I found that a plain colour didn't work well, so I searched DeviantArt and found a great collection of wallpaper textures by Giles Hodgers- and paid him the whole six dollars or so that he asks for commercial use of his entire collection.
As for the web fonts, I rather liked Chewy (which was used on the old site for the page titles), so I kept it, but in a darker shade of blue (to improve the contrast). For the other fonts, I didn't do anything original, I followed the guidelines by Jeremiah Shoaf, who says that using Roboto for the menu and Open Sans for the content is now pretty much standard practice.
Working out how to display the galleries of members' work was a problem. There are so many good gallery plug-ins out there (virtually all written in jQuery) that there's no point in trying to write your own. I eventually decided that Fotorama by Artem Polikarpov was the best for the purpose, because I wanted a manual slideshow with thumbnails (like the old site). The only penalty was that Fotorama doesn't support IE6, but even Microsoft now run their own Counting down the end of Internet Explorer 6 website, which says that IE6 usage here in Australia is down to just 0.3%. So I wrote a Fotorama plug-in for CMS Made Simple's Gallery module, and one of these days, I'll get around to sharing it.
The old site had recently been updated with contact details for members, with a few email addresses exposed to the web. So I needed a contact form to replace that. There is a contact form template in CMS Made Simple, but it only allows one email address, and the documented solution is quite complex (hence risky that it might not survive the next CMS software upgrade). So I searched for other people's solutions, and found Joe Pettersen's Contact Form and modified it extensively, by using PHP instead of jQuery to do the input checking, and adding select case statements to contain the name and email address data. The result is a bit clumsy (in the sense that it mixes software and data) but works fine, and is easy to maintain because it is a single PHP code module.
The person who had recently taken over the content on the old site had already updated much of the content, but we both felt that it needed more content to tie it to the local area, so I wrote an About Pittwater page, and realised I could point out that Pittwater has Australia's third largest scheduled ferry network (after Sydney Harbour and Brisbane River). I don't think that's generally known, and it was a nice tie-in with one of my other sites. The problem on this page was getting a good picture to use, and I found a great air photo on Wikipedia, which fortunately has a licence that allows re-use if credit is given.
To test how the website worked, I used Google's PageSpeed, which taught me a lot about how to optimise the page HTML and CSS. I think the site is now just about as fast as it can be, within the limitations imposed by using Google fonts and Fotorama, and by not having different sizes of images for different devices (because it would then be harder to maintain the site). For further advice, I've recently used GTmetrix which gives me an A-grade on both PageSpeed and YSlow desktop speed tests - that's nice to have, although it does not rate as well on phones.
Photo editing for the web can be a minefield, so we don't get the members to do it themselves. We use freeware XnView (on Windows) for all photo editing. It's good enough, because it can do cropping, resizing. metadata removal (and if necessary, manual adjustment of brightness, contrast and colour balance), and it aggressively compresses the output jpeg images. The results are better, and the files smaller, than allowing CMS Made Simple to do resizing itself.
The original site had tried and failed to interest members in setting up and maintaining their own pages, so I decided that the CMS Made Simple limitation of not being able to assign separate edit permission for each gallery page is unlikely to ever be a problem. If it turns out that there are people who want to keep the text on their own pages updated, then this will be achievable, by assigning them ownership of their page, and the page template that I've written will prevent them accidentally messing up the galleries.


OK, what about car seats - still safe to use them after cutting down those tabs?
I've thought about that as well since I have a newborn. I would say no because those cables that are removed hold that seat to the truck firmly. I'm not saying the seat would go flying through the front windshield or anything, but it's definately not as safe as when they are in there.
Think about this though. A carseat/stroller combo is pretty big. I have one and with the way I have my seats adjusted in my SSS, it touches the seat backs. That irritated me alot since I don't want any holes in my seats after so much rubbing. It just doesn't really fit in the middle. Now if you put it on the passengers side, it would. I fixed all of that before she arrived by buying a Yukon XL for the wife. We never take my SSS with the baby.
Good tips, thanks. As for the baby seats in the back, I thought I would never have to put my twins in the back but I had to cause my 06 Trailblazer had to go in to get it's rear end replaced. I soon welded the tips and put it back to original the night before.
This was great! So obvious after looking at it...I took the reciprocating saw approach. Easiest and most useful 15 min mod I've ever done.
im lost.. where are the 5 bolts to take off?
Look under the seat and youll find them, there is also a plastic cover on the drivers side.
On another note about the baby seat couldnt you just use the latch system, in conjuction with the seat belt.
Just did this today and it really makes tweakin' on your amp a lot easier than moving the box and gettin to it that way, plus now you've got extra room for storage.
I cut a piece of plywood, covered it in carpet and glued it to the rear wall to be able to mount my audio stuff.
Looks nice! I wonder where can i get carpet at?
amp is a little low so right now i cant raise the seat up.
i know this is an older thread but i wanted to add 2 things... 1 is to say this is a sweet mod and makes a great place for extra storage. 2 is how did you guys remove the bracket things from the back of the seat? did you cut them off? beat them off with a sledge hammer? them seem to be welded on so im wondering how you guys got them off.
and btw i mean the bracket things that you have to remove to fit amps, not the tabs you cut to make this mod work.
Bump for an answer to this question. Wondering how to remove these to mount an amp to the back wall. I'm going to be doing this mod in the next couple and want to make sure I have my ducks in a row since I'm doing it as a means to mount my subs/amp and accessing them easier. If the OP wants to send me the pictures I can re-host them for this thread since there's only the one picture now. I have a pretty good idea but let me ask this: Do you cut right to that first hole so it's still there, bisect it or cut that hole gone completely for stock ride height? That's the best way I could think to describe the actual cut location question.


Something as innocuous as Hillary and Duncan going to a school dance together in the Sally Forth comic strip seems to be riling up certain readers.
Suffice it to say that comic strips aren't "For Whites Only." That this has to be even stated in 2018 seems surreal to me.
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Jim, you could only imagine some of the "fan" mail CURTIS has received for two decades.


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from django.utils import timezone
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# Create your models here.
class Article(models.Model):
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    content = models.TextField()
    create_time = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)  # 添加了字段,并设置了默认值
    last_update_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    auther = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING, default=1)  # 外键 ForeignKey
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    def __str__(self):
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