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NewYork-Presbyterian performs the most transplant surgeries in the United States and was uniquely positioned to pioneer the domino partial heart transplant procedure due to the extensive expertise and training that went into preparing for this moment. Although partial heart transplants have been performed a handful of times in pediatric patients, this was the first time one was done as a domino procedure. The care team established for both patients was comprised of several cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, nurse practitioners, perfusionists, anesthesiologists, and others, under the leadership of:

The procedure performed at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia was incredibly rare, due to the young age of the patients involved and the use of a living heart donor, but what made it possible was the integrated team expertise and preparation that occurred leading up to the surgery.

Identifying the right living donor/recipient pair was the first key step that needed to occur to ensure a successful transplant. Timing was critical as both patients needed to have surgery at the same time and a donor heart needed to be available in that same period.

The partial heart transplant team was made up of nine people, led by Dr. Kalfa and Emile Bacha, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, as well as a perfusionist, anesthesiologist, operating room nurses, and others responsible for ensuring the success of the surgery.

The full heart transplant team was made up of seven people including Dr. Goldstone and Edward Buratto, MD, PhD, a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, as well as a perfusionist, anesthesiologist, operating room nurses, and other key medical staff.

The NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia pediatric heart failure team is working to strategize and identify patients in the hospital who are on the waiting list for a heart transplant who could be potential living heart donors, like Mia, for other patients who need valve replacements. The goal is to create a system to match the available living valves with recipients so that when donor hearts become available, the surgical teams will be prepared to mobilize quickly to perform additional domino partial heart transplants.

In contrast to the original dom.js project, domino was not designed to run untrusted code. Hence it doesn't have to hide its internals behind a proxy facade which makes the code not only simpler, but also more performant.

Note that because domino does not use proxies,Element.attributes is not a true JavaScript array; it is an objectwith a length property and an item(n) accessor method. Seegithub issue #27 forfurther discussion. It does however implement direct indexed accessors(element.attributes[i]) and is live.

The majority of the code was originally written by Andreas Gal and David Flanagan as part of the dom.js project. Please refer to the included LICENSE file for the original copyright notice and disclaimer.

The code has been maintained since 2013 by C. Scott Ananian on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, which uses it in itsParsoid project. A large numberof improvements have been made, mostly focusing on correctness,performance, and (to a lesser extent) completeness of the implementation.

In the 1970s, Domino's founder Tom Monaghan started giving watches as awards to high-performing franchisees of his tasty pizza chain. In his fiercely named autobiography, Pizza Tiger, Monaghan recalls that he started the tradition in 1977 after a franchisee saw a Bulova with a Domino's logo on his wrist and asked what he'd have to do to get a watch from Monaghan. Nowadays, the Domino's dial Rolex is charming because we know it's something that would never be done in 2024.

"Turn in a $20,000 sales week," Monaghan responded. And with that, the Domino's Pizza Challenge was born. In the following years, Monaghan started giving out Seikos and then Rolex watches to franchisees who met the sales mark.

The first Domino's Rolex was the Air-King ref. 5500, the long-running reference produced from 1957 through the 1980s (and my first love in vintage Rolex), with the pizza chain's red-and-blue logo added at six o'clock. Eventually Domino's upped the challenge, requiring four consecutive weeks of $25,000 in sales, but the challenge has remained since the 1970s. It's difficult but doable, which means you can usually find a few dozen Domino's Rolex watches on the market at any given time.

There are a bunch of relatively common corporate dial Rolex watches: Coca-Cola, Hallmark, Winn Dixie, Pan Am, Anheuser-Busch, Chevrolet, and so on. But the Domino's Rolex got popular over the past few years, mostly for the peculiarity of this most luxurious of watchmakers being subjected to an affiliation that triggers cravings for a greasy slice best consumed while imbibing or indulging in one of life's other delicious vices. I mean, who besides a certain beleaguered former Vice President wants a Rolex with a Haliburton oil dial? But pizza? Everyone loves pizza.

The first Domino's Air-King ref. 5500 had a "big logo" at six o'clock. In these early years, Domino's would also engrave the recipient's initials as well as "TSM" (for founder Thomas Steven Monaghan) on the caseback. Even the papers are made out to "Domino's Pizza." It's a bonus to find a Domino's dial in a case that still has its full caseback engraving to legitimize its provenance and originality. This personalized caseback engraving later changed to an engraving of the Domino's domino.

This additional proof of provenance is such a bonus because old-school dealers will tell you that, back in the day, they'd even swap these Domino's dials for standard silver dials and polish off that caseback engraving because no one wanted the logo of a crappy pizza chain on their Rolex. Slowly and then all at once, the market changed, and people not only wanted these Domino's dials, but were willing to pay a premium for them. Dealers were rummaging around in the back of every drawer for those old pizza dials, and if they found one, they'd plop it in any Air-King case they could find to print money out of thin air.

In 1989, Rolex phased out the 5500 for the Air-King ref. 14000. As with other models that transitioned from four-digit to five-digit references around this time, the 14000 is mostly the same as its predecessor, but with an updated movement and sapphire crystal.

Then, in the mid-1990s, we get to the tilted logo, seen in both the ref. 14000 and the ref. 14010, the same Air-King, just with an engine-turned bezel (this is the logo seen in photos throughout this article). Despite my affection for the ref. 5500, the tilted logo is my favorite flavor, the perfect amount of playful for America's favorite pizza delivery chain.

In the mid-2000s, tragedy struck. Rolex retired our beautiful baby, the Domino's dial, instead placing a steel logo on the first full bracelet link instead. It's boring and comparatively clunky compared to the bold logo on the dial that we enjoyed for all those years.

But the premium is starting to make sense again, if you're into that sort of thing. It's not exactly a choose two for $6.99-level deal, but it might hit a certain craving. Either way, the Domino's Rolex is a quirky bit of history; in a modern world where brand and image are so carefully controlled and Rolex doesn't collaborate with anyone, no less a pizza chain with questionable quality (to be clear: I love Domino's and would eat it weekly if my cholesterol would allow it), it's also charming because of the bygone era it represents.