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The research component of this division focuses on cognitive-experimental and neuroimaging approaches to cognitive functioning across the life span. There is an emphasis on normal and abnormal aging, and degenerative neurological disease.
Domains of current cognitive experimental studies include:
- Cognitive experimental and traditional neuropsychological battery-based studies of cognition in normal aging and our diseases of interest, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease.
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- Effects of literacy, education, ethnicity, and acculturation on cognition
- Cognitive and exercise interventions for cognition
- Cognition and functional capacity in Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases
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Foci of current cognitive neuroimaging studies include:
- Networks underlying recognition and working memory in young adults, normal aging and Alzheimer's disease
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text: Between our Baltimore and Washington, DC, venues, more than 17,500 animals representing 900 species call the National Aquarium home. There are constant changes, additions, and more going on behind the scenes that our guests may not notice during their visit. We want to share these fun updates with our community so we're bringing them to you in our weekly Animal Update posts! Check our blog every Friday to find out what's going on… here's what's new this week! Sally Lightfoot Crabs We have four new sally lightfoot crabs Percnon gibbesi in our Surviving Through Adaptation exhibit. Commonly found across the Pacific Coast of the Americas, this species only grows to have a carapace (shell) 1.2 inches wide. There small size allows them to quickly hide in the crevices of the reef to escape from predators. Check back next week to see what's new! Tags: animal-update-2, national-aquarium-2, national-aquarium-in-baltimore, pacific-reefs, percnon-gibbesi, sally-lightfoot-crab, survival-through-adaptation Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post

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Mary Coughlin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 27 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Caring Essentials Collaborative (CEC)
I am a nurse and educator with a passion for caring. In my vast experience I know that it's the small, sometimes intangible acts of kindness that make such a big difference in a hospital experience and was fortunate to pilot an education intervention (results attached) that measured the effect of clear, discrete caring actions on clinical and economic outcomes and the results confirmed what the science of integrative medicine purport, that human caring makes a BIG difference. CEC is a not for profit committed to raising awareness of the impact of key performance indicators for human caring on clinical, psychosocial, emotional, and economic outcomes of hospitalized patients worldwide. Grounded in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, integrative medicine and nursing science, CEC is dedicated to improving the patient care experience of vulnerable populations through the adoption and implementation of evidence based caring interactions. The Collaborative brings to light the vitality of a shared care interface, cultivating new approaches to care delivery that benefit both the caregiver and the care recipient. Aligned with the Institute of Medicine, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Joint Commission International, CEC will position itself as the fourth pillar in the movement to improve the safety and quality of healthcare globally.
We are targeting nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers as well as key stakeholders and leaders for healthcare improvement. This is a well established market very similar to the target audience of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (http://www.ihi.org).
The logo should be clean and streamlined but visually compelling. It should convey complexity simply with an understanding of a shared or common draw across all humans. Color, I defer to the designer for direction. Maybe represent a blend of the human and the science or mind body spirit (but not too alternative that it would turn off less spiritual folks). I think you check out the attachments it may give you some inspiration.
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MONTREAL – A former member of Quebec's legislature has been found dead on the side of a private road in a town on Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula.
Nancy Charest, 54, was a former Liberal politician who represented the riding of Matane from 2003 until 2007. She ran unsuccessfully for the federal Liberals in the 2008 and 2011 elections.
Her death was confirmed by her former Liberal riding association. Association president Rodrigue Bouliane told QMI Agency that Charest's body was discovered between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Quebec provincial police Sgt. Melanie Dumaresq said police are investigating Charest's death. The Quebec coroner's office has been called in, and an autopsy will be conducted in the coming days.
Both Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre and former interim Liberal leader Bob Rae tweeted their condolences.
Coderre, a former federal Liberal cabinet minister and MP, wrote that he "just lost a good friend."


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New Disc Clutch System News - What's New In Clutches
Easy Pedal Effort With Mega Holding Power: New Tech Brings Clutches Into The 21st Century.
It used to be a 500hp street car was a big deal. Today, even a stock LS9 Corvette makes 648 net horsepower straight off the showroom floor, and a real 700hp (or more) hot rod is not uncommon. The rise in streetable power and torque levels was coupled with a rise in driver expectations. "Today's customers want a clutch as smooth as stock with stock pedal pressure that will last forever and still hold 1,000 hp," says RPS Performance's R.J. Smith. Add in the hydraulic linkage used on most new cars, lighter and more compact drivetrains, and the removal of asbestos friction materials from the market, and manual transmission clutch system designers were faced with a whole new ball game.
The response has been to adapt race car technology for street use. Racers have been moving toward ever-smaller-diameter, lighter-weight discs and covers for years; taking 20 pounds out while simultaneously reducing rotational inertia significantly improves performance. According to Hays' Scott Stutler, the lighter materials "have pushed development of advanced friction materials to handle high torque loads with minimal surface area, which in turn has driven multidisc development and advances in hub design. As these technologies have become more refined, street applications have developed."
Disc Characteristics
It all starts with the disc; perhaps the most important part of the clutch system, it provides the friction for transferring engine torque to the drivetrain. The clutch facing or friction material is bonded or riveted to a thin metal plate on the disc. Racing clutches use a flat plate, but for street use, the plate has waves in it. Clutch makers call the wavy plate a marcel, and its purpose is to avoid chatter by smoothing clutch engagement. Street performance clutches always need at least a thin marcel.
The center of the disc, called the hub, determines how harshly the clutch engages or disengages. Racing discs are typically solidly riveted to the hub for positive (but extremely harsh) engagement. Most street clutches use a coil-spring hub that allows the disc to rotate a few degrees under engagement. This softens the initial hit, reduces driveline torsional vibrations, and minimizes noise and vibration.
Disc weight is another important factor. Heavy or larger-diameter clutches put more strain on the transmission synchronizers.
Disc Materials
The disc's friction materials work with the pressure plate to develop the clutch's torque-transferring ability. Clutch friction materials are similar to those on brake pads (see HOT ROD, Mar. '10, "What's New in Brake Pads"). The trend is toward linings with higher friction coefficients and softer pedal pressure. "Every time you push the clutch pedal down, you are trying to push the crank out of the front of the block," points out Centerforce's Will Baty. "A heavy pedal puts stress on the thrust bearing and hydraulics."
Like brake pads, clutch friction compounds can be broadly divided into three categories: organic, sintered metal, and various exotics. Organic materials have replaced asbestos, which has been phased out because of health concerns. Some clutch makers claim no modern organic performs as well as the old-school asbestos compounds; others insist the new-gen compounds are as good or better. Nevertheless, organic formulations remain the friction materials of choice for most street and many street/strip applications. Properly formulated, they offer smooth, gentle engagement, and (depending on the exact formulation) decent heat capacity. Popular organic, nonmetallic replacements for asbestos include fiberglass, ceramic, and carbon. Kevlar or semimetallic bronze or iron compounds can be integrated into the brew to raise friction; everyone has his own recipe.
Sintered metal compounds and their relatives hold sway in racing. They can tolerate much higher heat, and the bronze, copper, iron, or full ceramic materials offer great grabbing power and a high friction coefficient. Engagement is extremely positive-good for racing but generally too harsh on the street. Metallics tend to accelerate flywheel and pressure plate surface wear. They can also be a lot heavier: A double-sided, full-face, iron disc can weigh twice as much as a comparably sized organic disc. To save weight and generate really hard engagement, some racing metallic discs use three to six separate metallic pucks on a winged disc.
Exotic alternatives gaining favor in racing and on high-dollar street cars are aerospace-quality carbon-carbon (CC) friction materials. Pure carbon molecules are cooked in an autoclave at 2,000 degrees F at 2,000 psi for six to eight months. This costs a bunch of dough, but the prices are dropping as the compounds become more popular. A corresponding carbon insert will be required on the flywheel, pressure plate, and any floater-plate surfaces.
CC fiber discs have a linear and predictable friction increase, yield great friction characteristics, are cool running, and offer significant weight savings over traditional materials. The discs are extremely light and have an ultralow wear rate. "CC never warps, glazes, or smells," RPS maintains. "Noncarbon clutches warp, leading to erratic shifts. The CC insert friction material is replaceable for life, so you never need to buy another clutch." Yet another advantage: Because CC is so light, RPS "can make an excellent nonslip clutch with a standard disc diameter for smooth engagement and long life," according to RPS.
Any of these materials may be combined to tailor the clutch characteristics for particular applications. A clutch disc can have different materials on the flywheel and pressure plate sides; or (in the case of multidisc clutches) the entire discs can be made of dissimilar materials. Examples of this approach are Centerforce's Dual Friction and McLeod's Dual Performance lines. "We take iron or bronze and sinter it to a backing plate on the flywheel side with organic material on the pressure-plate side," says McLeod's Red Roberts. "The backing plate has a marcel so it won't chatter. It's the best of both worlds."
Diaphragm Pressure Plates
A diaphragm has some unique characteristics that make it a good choice for a wide range of applications once certain inherent design problems are overcome. Higher engine torque output requires a pressure plate assembly that develops more static load (spring pressure) to keep the clutch engaged. But at some point, the required static load at peak torque and rpm becomes so high that the clutch pedal becomes excessively stiff, putting a strain on the clutch actuating linkage and the driver's left leg.
That's why performance clutches replace old-school OEM flat-shaped fingers with a high-cone configuration. Once the pressure plate is bolted down, the fingers still maintain an upward angle, permitting the disc to disengage without over-centering the spring. Centerforce also adds centrifugal weights that float on the diaphragm. It is said to produce more force as rpm increases, preventing the diaphragm from sticking over center.
Hydraulic Linkage
Diaphragm configurations are particularly suitable for the hydraulic and cable clutch mechanisms used for the last 25 years. Performance clutches for these linkage types must be carefully tailored to avoid exceeding their capacity and travel limits. On a hydraulic, if the pressure plate's load gets too high or the curve used to apply the pressure is too linear, it may exceed the system's pressure and volume capabilities. For hydraulic linkages with an integral hydraulic release bearing, the overall travel and height of the disc and pressure plate and even the finger height of the Belleville spring must match the stock unit as closely as possible to prevent the bearing from bottoming out or extending too far, all while compensating for normal clutch wear. This makes a properly designed single- or multidisc diaphragm practically mandatory.
For extreme high-power applications, it may be necessary to upgrade the entire hydraulic system to support the clutch. Upgrade or retrofit kits are available from Ram, McLeod, and other clutch manufacturers. Hays is said to be developing a booster device that alters the amount of throw at the slave cylinder without changing the clutch slave or master cylinder.
From 1979 to 2004, Ford Mustangs relied on cable-actuated clutches. Serious aftermarket clutch upgrades needed to support high-power engines also require a beefier, adjustable aftermarket quadrant to ensure proper cable functionality. McLeod will soon be releasing bolt-in hydraulic clutch conversion kits for the Fox-bodied Mustangs as well as '65 to '73 Mustangs.
Multidisc Clutches
Clutch makers traditionally used a brute-force method to handle high power demands: Build a stiffer pressure plate, increase the friction coefficient of the disc, go to a larger-od disc and pressure plate, and finally move up to a coil-spring pressure plate. Accommodating the hydraulic linkage and generally smaller bellhousing envelopes of today's vehicles required clutch designers to revisit the multidisc clutch design for street or dual-purpose usage. Once perfected, it turns out that street multis work great for high-power, old-school muscle car combos as well.
Multi-element diaphragms first became popular for oval-track racers who don't worry about standing starts or rapid power shifting. "An oval-track clutch system just flat-out needs to hold the power in terms of clamp load," Ram maintains. "Weight and diameter are more important. By using smaller-diameter multidisc clutches, we can allow the engine to accelerate and decelerate quicker. This means the racer can drive the car harder into the turns and have the engine rpm drop fast to slow the car; on acceleration out of the turn, the engine is able to spin back up to peak rpm quicker than possible with a heavier clutch." The added friction surfaces provided by multiple discs compensate in terms of holding power for the reduction in disc diameter.
In their original form, racing multidiscs aren't suitable for street use. "Multiplate, purpose-built race clutches are generally very touchy on pedal release compared with stock," says Jeff Neal at Quarter Master. "These clutches release quickly, and when you factor in the low rotating weight compared with stock, it can be tricky to drive."
Typical two- or three-disc oval-track multis come in 4.5- to 7.5-inch diameters, but to balance the needs of containing high power and improved engine acceleration with the need to avoid excessive slippage from a standing start, domestic V-8 street multis are larger, usually between 9.5 and 10.5 inches. "Two discs effectively double the amount of friction surface area," Hays says. "This means less clamp load on the plate and less aggressive friction materials can be used for a given load. Imagine a clutch that can hold 800 lb-ft but requires less pedal effort and has smooth characteristics like a single disc street/strip clutch rated to 500 lb-ft."
In the past, multidiscs sometimes experienced shifting problems in performance street and street/strip applications. This was caused by wear between the spacer posts that drive the floating metal plates between each disc, difficulty in pulling the pressure ring away from the friction discs when the clutch is disengaged, and intermediate plate warpage. These problems could cause a hung clutch or transmission synchronizer problems under hard shifting. Lighter materials, sprung hubs, strapped floaters, and other design enhancements have overcome these problems. The new Challenger, Viper, and ZR1 Corvette all come stock with a twin-disc clutch, indicating the OEMs have faith in their long-term viability.
Referencing its new Small Twin two-disc clutches, McLeod comments, "They have light pedal pressure and quick release. We made a marcel disc on the bottom, strapped the floater, and then made the top disc flat. The units work with most stock hydraulics, will hold 800 to 1,000 hp, and are easy to install. They utilize the stock flywheels and require no spacer shims."
Centerforce's new True Sprung Hub multidisc has a front disc with a sprung chrome-moly splined drive hub that's thicker than the hubs used on most multidiscs. The second (rear) disc has no hub; it aligns over the floater via six alignment pins but is actually driven by the front disc's sprung hub.
Hays is developing a one-piece dual-disc assembly containing the discs and the floater ring combined in a single, shared hub. The advantages are said to be less noise during operation, quicker engagement, and-because the clutch hub is the heaviest part of the clutch other than the cover-a 40 percent weight reduction. The compact assembly could be just what the doctor ordered for today's compact installations; a setup for a production T56, for instance, has only 4 1/2 inches to contain the pressure plate, flywheel, discs, and release bearing, including the allowable travel up and down the input shaft. Tentative availability is set for late 2010.
RPS offers twin and triple CC multis specifically tailored for selected heavily modified C5-or-newer Corvettes, V-10 Vipers, the Ford 4.6L Modular family (particularly supercharged applications like the G.T. 500), the '10 Camaro, '09 Dodge Challenger, and miscellaneous turbo imports. RPS says its CC clutches "have been a godsend for the Corvette guys. It has allowed them to slip the clutch to control their wheel speed without worrying about hurting the clutch. An '06 C5 driver recently set the unofficial six-speed quarter-mile record of 9.25 at 153 using RPS' triple-disc clutch."
So just where is the crossover point when you need to move up from a single to a multi? Although a dual disc could be run anytime (even in a stocker), consider stepping up to a multi somewhere in the 500 to 600hp range. A single disc can be made to hold 550 to 600 hp, but odds are it'll be a metallic or extremely aggressive organic with relatively high pressure plate static pressure that severely impacts daily driveability.
Coil-Spring Clutches
Modern diaphragm single and multidiscs have pretty much relegated old-school coil-spring designs to the trash bin-unless you're an old-school diehard with a traditional restored Ford or Chrysler muscle car, have more than 1,200 hp on the street, or are running an upper-tier drag racer that needs a controlled-slip clutch to get the power to the ground.
Racing-style Long clutches can change the static pressure by adjusting the height of the coil springs. You can also change the levers, the lever pivot points, the counterweights, and many other clutch aspects to control how the clutch locks up as the car accelerates. "By adjusting the base pressure and counterweights, we can get the car off the line with minimal tire spin and then progressively apply the full clamp load of the clutch during the run," Ram says. "A Funny Car or Top Fuel clutch doesn't fully engage before the last 200 feet," Hays adds. Otherwise, there'd be nothing but tire smoke from those 8,000hp monsters.
Pro-level Long clutches range from three-finger configurations typically used in Pro Stock all the way up to Top Fuel 12-finger setups in which each finger has a different weight and is set at a different height. The fingers sequentially engage as the throwout bearing releases under pneumatic timer control. Clutch setup has become so critical in the Pro classes that a clutch specialist is now one of the most important team members.
Long clutch technology has also trickled down to lower classes. For example, the NMCA's 10-inch tire rule forces racers to limit power through the first 100 to 300 feet, and they do it with a Long-style slipper.
Flywheels are generally made from iron, nodular iron, steel, or aluminum (the latter with an insert compatible with the clutch facing). According to Quarter Master, "Billet or forged-steel flywheels are far safer than the cast ones at high rpm and can be manufactured to a target weight for either performance or driveability. We can now design and manufacture a steel flywheel to be as safe and as light as most aluminum. However, aluminum flywheels are nice for maintenance; the friction surface ring is bolted to the core, so it's an easy replacement." For serious performance, flywheels should be SFI certified.
Besides comprising part of the clutch's total friction package, flywheels act like a second harmonic damper to smooth out engine harmonics. A heavier flywheel absorbs and stores engine power. When this energy is suddenly released, it can help get a heavy vehicle moving or make a vehicle more manageable in stop-and-go driving. Conversely, a lighter flywheel lets the engine rev up more quickly once the vehicle is already in motion. Traditionally, light cars with aggressive rearend gears or those operating at sustained rpm could get away with lighter flywheels; heavier cars, street cars with mild rear gears, or Sportsman-level drag cars that needed to get off the line quickly went with the heavies. This thinking has evolved because many of today's hot rods make so much power and torque, they no longer need crutching by heavy flywheels. Unless you have a really heavy barge or mild rear gears, lean toward a lightweight flywheel above 500 hp.
Some trick flywheels even move the weight around to better control inertia, which is greatly influenced by where the weight is placed relative to the flywheel center. The farther away the weight is from the center, the higher the inertia; the closer to the center, the lower the inertia. This means a heavier flywheel can rev up quicker than a lighter unit if its weight or mass is concentrated closer to the center because its inertia is lower.
Many flywheels come with multiple pressure plate mounting patterns so they can accommodate a variety of clutch designs, including multidiscs. For example, Hays offers dual-drilled flywheels for GM LSX crate engines that accommodate diaphragm or Long clutches.
The Future
In the future, exotic clutch facings and more multidisc configurations will become commonplace even on OEM applications, making them more affordable. Some production technology will even trickle up into racing: Already, we are starting to see hydraulic clutches make inroads in oval-track racing.
Computer-controlled clutches are coming. Some exotic sports cars already use them. Gear changes are initiated by a paddle shifter on the steering wheel. The computer controls the gear changes and the clutch application without a clutch pedal. The result: perfect shifts every time.
Letting the ECU shift a manual trans clutch blurs the line between manual and automatic transmissions, so it shouldn't surprise anyone if today's automatic transmission torque converter is soon replaced by computer-actuated multidisc clutches. With the ECU able to closely modulate and control clutch actuation, slippage, and lockup, overall parasitic losses would be less than with a traditional converter. Some VWs already have it, and GM is rumored to be close . . . yes, a factory stock Clutch-Turbo perhaps as early as 2012.
Can you see the NHRA tech guys scratching their heads over how to classify paddle-shift cars or factory Clutch-Turbo cars? Do they belong in an automatic class, a stick shift class, or in an entirely new class? And where does that leave the legacy guys? Will they be allowed to use the new technology?


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Secure Operation (Reporting Services)
This topic provides guidelines on how to monitor report server access and maintain server security. As a report server administrator, you will want to consider:
Who is running reports, especially reports that have sensitive data.
How to update configuration settings when logins or accounts change.
How to revoke or change permissions when someone leaves your company or department.
How to revoke or change permissions for a report server administrator.
Auditing Report Access
The report execution log contains information about who is accessing reports. Although this information can be found in the report server database, it is strongly recommended that you create a separate database for the purpose of querying report server execution data. Reporting Services provides a sample Integration Services package that you can use to load and refresh the data that you want to analyze. For more information, see Monitoring (Reporting Services).
Updating Server Account Information
Reporting Services is a distributed server application. The report server and the report server databases can be on separate computers. Moreover, if the report server runs as a back-end server within a larger deployment of a SharePoint product or technology, you will have an additional connection to maintain between the SharePoint Web application and the report server.
The following list describes the accounts and logins you must maintain:
Report Server service.
Report server connection to the report server database.
Unattended report processing account.
Stored credentials for scheduled report or subscription processing.
Stored credentials in data-driven subscriptions.
For a report server that runs in SharePoint integrated mode, you must maintain the SharePoint database logins used by the report server to connect to the configuration and content databases. The database login is managed through SharePoint Central Administration. For instructions on how to set or update the logins, see How to: Configure Report Server Integration in SharePoint Central Administration.
You can use a built-in account for the Report Server service if you want to maintain fewer accounts. You can also configure the connection to the report server database to use the service account.
For all other accounts and logins, you must update shared data sources or custom data source settings whenever the account changes or a password expires. Using shared data sources can greatly reduce the overhead of this task. For more information, see Managing Report Data Sources.
Revoking or Changing Report Server Administrator or User Permissions
A report server administrator is a person who is a member of the local Administrators group on the report server computer. As such, this person has full permissions across the report server site and throughout the report server folder hierarchy, with the ability to grant server access to other users, add or remove items, modify properties of any item, change report server configuration settings, and so on. If you want to revoke permissions, you must remove the user account from the Administrators group.
It is not necessary to be a member of the local Administrators group to have far-reaching permissions on a report server. Specifically, if a user is assigned to the Content Manager role and System Administrator role on the report server, that user has permission to set role-based security and modify content or properties stored in the server. If you want to revoke this permission, you can delete or modify the role assignment. For more information, see How to: Modify or Delete a Role Assignment (Report Manager).
Revoking or Changing User Permissions
If an employee leaves the department or company, you can delete role assignments to prevent access to reports. If you created custom role assignments on specific folders or reports, be sure to check all of them.
Deleting a role assignment does not automatically delete subscriptions. To delete subscriptions, you must delete them from each report. There is no bulk edit feature for managing all of the subscriptions in a single place.
If the user is a recipient of a standard or data-driven subscription, removing role assignments will block the subscription for that user. However, you should always delete any subscription that is inactive.


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MacBook Pro Display Components
Grab a toolkit for your MacBook Pro model and fix your broken laptop!
iFixit has you covered with parts, tools, and free repair guides. Repair with confidence! All of our replacement parts are tested to rigorous standards and backed by our industry-leading warranty.
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MacBook Pro 13" Unibody (A1278) Front Display Glass
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MacBook Pro 15" Unibody (Late 2008-Early 2009) AirPort/iSight Cable
Replace a damaged or missing cable connecting the iSight camera and the Airport card to the logic board in a Late 2008 or Early 2009 model 15" Unibody MacBook Pro.
MacBook Pro 15" (Model A1260) AirPort Antenna Cables
Antenna cables and the assembly that rests inside the antenna cover.
MacBook Pro 15" (Models A1211/A1226/A1260) Antenna Cover
Houses the AirPort antenna cable assembly within the clutch cover.
MacBook Pro 15" (Models A1150/A1211) Display Data Cable
A damaged display data cable can cause video defects
MacBook Pro 15" (Models A1226/A1260) Clutch Cover
Houses the hinges and airport antenna assembly.
MacBook Pro 15" (Model A1150) Inverter/iSight Cable
Inverter/iSight Cable
MacBook Pro 15" (Models A1226/A1260) Front Display Bezel
Replace a damaged bezel without the cost of a new LCD
MacBook Pro 15" (Models A1150/A1211) Display Inverter
A bad inverter board can cause a dead backlight
MacBook Pro 17" (Models A1151/A1212/A1229) Display Data Cable
Replace a damaged or malfunctioning cable connecting the LCD panel to the logic board.
Catering to the working professional, the MacBook Pro is aptly named. With powerful processor and graphics capabilities, these Apple machines are great for either the professional or aspiring creative genius.
We sell dozens of MacBook Pro upgrades and repair parts. It's easy, fast, and safe to max out your machine! Two RAM slots allow for an easy memory boost. Need more storage? Drop in a larger-capacity 500 GB 7200 RPM 9.5mm SATA hard drive for some much-needed space as well as speed. An 85-watt MagSafe adapter will keep your machine juiced through even the most power demanding processes.
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About Liberace
Beloved by hausfraus who never questioned his romantic preferences, Liberace was one of the most popular performers of the first three post-World War II decades even though he never came close to a hit record after the mid-'50s. But his absurdly over-the-top piano flamboyance undoubtedly inspired rock 'n' rollers from Little Richard to Elton John. Not bad for a half-Italian/half-Polish boy from suburban Milwaukee. Born in 1919, he had followed his French horn-playing father's footsteps into local orchestras by his teens and soon also dabbled in jazz and played a sort of classical class clown in less reputable cabarets. He bounced from entertaining troops overseas to New York and then L.A., and by the '40s, as he intentionally deflated the symphonic repertoire with lowbrow kiddie tunes and comedy, his career took off. His glammed-out concert accouterments -- candelabrum, pianos, ornate outfits -- upped the ante and matched his stage shtick. He personified Vegas and performed privately for moguls and presidents. A hugely popular TV show, starting in the '50s, sealed the deal -- it's said no entertainer of his time had more earning power. In 1987, he died of HIV-related complications.
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Panera Cares cafe is now officially open in Boston
A recent Globe story described how this cafe differs from most others in a chain of more than 1,600 restaurants: "There is no cash register at the Panera cafe near Government Center in Boston. There are no prices either — just suggested donations and bins to leave money, if you can afford to.''
At the cafe at 3 Center Plaza, the idea is to provide a place where everyone can eat with dignity, regardless of their ability to pay.
In a statement, Ron Shaich, founder, chairman, and co-chief executive of Panera Bread, said: "This community cafe is a gift to the community that was funded by Panera. All of the build-out costs – nearly $1 million – were covered by the company. Panera donated the cafe to the Panera Bread Foundation and will operate it on behalf of the foundation. Now that the site is open, it's up to the community to sustain it. All consumers have to do is cover its direct operating costs. They do so by donating for their meals and leaving a little bit more if they're able to help cover the costs of the meals of customers who cannot contribute. This is a pay-it-forward model and will only work if the community supports it and one another.''
Previously, the foundation has opened community cafes in St. Louis; Detroit; Portland, Ore.; and Chicago.
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Rose (pink) defines timeless elegance. Glitter and sequins add a good dose of glamour. Plain fabric is from Italy.
Bikini Top Perles Rose
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Rose (pink) defines timeless elegance. Glitter and sequins add a good dose of glamour. Plain fabric is from Italy.
To ensure your Ocean Couture and Shark Couture swim- and beach wear stays in perfect condition for a long time, we would appreciate it if you could take a moment to read through how to take care for your newest items.
Due to the delicate nature of swim fabrics, we would like to advise you to hand wash every item with a very mild detergent, reshaped whilst wet and laid flat to dry, away from the direct sunlight.
Some of our 100% cotton pieces can be machine washed on a delicate cycle, however we still advise handwashing to be the best method.
For any further advice in regards to taking care of your swim and beachwear, do not hesitate to contact us at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Main fabrics (Italy) : Lycra 80% Polyamide/20% Elastane, lining 90% Polyamide/10% Elastane, mesh, elastics
Designed in Belgium, made in Latvia
Hand wash in a cool water (max 40° Celsius), separately.
To insure the quality of the fabrics, please do not use machine to wash, dry clean, or bleach


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Last week, following a number of missteps by NPR executives, the House passed a bill cutting off government funding for NPR — all of this part of the ongoing vanity project that House Republicans have been running, instead of generating jobs, in order to feed red meat to Fox News and the partisan talk radio hosts who have turned the public airwaves into a right-wing romper room.
There's no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPR's Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow — that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public policy. As he described in a special report last week how the United States Army is clarifying guidelines "that should make it easier for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries from explosions to receive the Purple Heart," it was mind-boggling to think that right wingers in Congress were at that very moment voting to eliminate the modest federal funds that make such essential and authoritative reporting available to anyone in America who cares to tune in.
Zwerdling's collaborator on this report was the nonprofit and equally independent newsroom ProPublica. As a result of their reporting, the Army now intends to give special priority to reexamining the cases of soldiers who suffered battlefield concussions but who mistakenly may have been turned down for the Purple Heart, which historically has been awarded to soldiers injured by enemy action.
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Last week, following a number of missteps by NPR executives, the House passed a bill cutting off government funding for NPR — all of this part of the ongoing vanity project that House Republicans have been running, instead of generating jobs, in order to feed red meat to Fox News and the partisan talk radio hosts who have turned the public airwaves into a right-wing romper room.
Opposing the bill to strip public radio of funding, Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Texas said, "My constituents turn to (public radio) because they want fact-based, not Fox-based coverage." The attacks, he continued, are "an ideological crusade against balanced news and educational programs."
And let's not forget NPR's other programming: the arts and entertainment coverage that plays its own distinctive role trying to keep our democracy spirited, diverse and imaginative. Think Garrison Keillor. Krista Tippett. Ira Glass. Think "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" "Car Talk" (yes, many of us are would-be grease monkeys). "On the Media" (the single best analysis and critique of media anywhere).
We're talking here about something essential to American life. President Kennedy touched on it in a speech at Amherst College less than a month before his assassination in 1963. Speaking in honor of the poet Robert Frost, who had recently died, the president's words were directed to the role of artists but can also embrace the importance of a public media, whose obligation is not to a political or corporate paymaster but to the integrity of the work and the trust of the listener:
"The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state," Kennedy said. "... In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having 'nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.'"
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Fellow RD Stephen Forte, working with the Data Farm guru Julia Lerman, asked a group of RDs to donate 1 hour of their time – to be auctioned off on EBay – with all proceeds going to help fund relief efforts in the Aceh Province of Indonesia. 30 RDs have and I'm truly excited to be a part of it.
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Brian Kenny of ESPN Radio is one of the best sports talk show hosts when it comes to talking baseball. He knows the history of the game, but he also knows how to apply Sabermetric concepts in a meaningful and understandable way. So I was honored to have the opportunity to do a guest spot on the Wednesday night edition of his show. Right off the bat, Brian asked me about Jorge Posada and whether I felt he was worthy of election to the Hall of Fame. In trying to assess his case objectively, I looked at Posada's career year by year and determined that he has put up about eight Hall of Fame seasons, based on OPS and fulltime playing status. That puts him roughly two to three seasons short of the call to Cooperstown. For those who prefer Wins Above Replacement (WAR), Posada has accumulated 44.7 of WAR for his career. That's a respectable total, but well short of another contemporary catcher, Pudge Rodriguez, who stands at 67.2 for his career.
During the radio show, I compared Posada to Ted Simmons, another switch-hitting catcher, albeit from the decades of the 1970s and eighties. Simmons posted about ten Hall of Fame seasons, and did so in an era in which conditions were far less favorable for hitters. Simmons also had the advantage in WAR for his career, at 50.4. All things considered, Simmons' ledger is probably sufficient to deserve entry to the Hall of Fame.
Right from the start, Simmons had a major advantage over Posada in that he arrived in the major leagues at a much earlier age. Simmons was 18 when he made his debut; Posada had to wait until he was 23. More importantly, Simmons established himself as a regular catcher by the age of 21, while Posada did not become the Yankees' fulltime catcher until he was 27. That's a six-year difference. So practically from Day One, Posada has had to play catch-up with his career. He did a terrific job right through last year, when he turned 39, before falling off a cliff in 2011. Barring some kind of late hitting surge this summer, Posada will likely be forced into retirement at season's end, thereby preventing him from building up any further Hall of Fame value.
While I think that Posada is at least close to Cooperstown requirements (I mean, it wouldn't be like putting Ron Hassey in the Hall of Fame), I suspect that the mainstream media will treat him less kindly in the Hall of Fame elections. Simmons received only three per cent of the vote in his first season on the ballot; in falling below the five per cent threshold, he fell off the ballot immediately, as the Hall of Fame rules dictate. And he hasn't received much support from the new Veterans Committee either.
So if Simmons received such a small level of backing, Posada will likely struggle when his turn comes up for the first time in 2017. Yes, he'll receive a boost from playing in New York and being such an important part of four world championship teams. But I don't see him coming anywhere near the 75 per cent minimum needed for Hall of Fame selection. He's more likely to fall somewhere in the 20 to 25 per cent range. That's nothing to be ashamed about, but it won't allow him to stand on the Hall of Fame stage next to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.
Of course, none of this is pertinent to the Yankees in 2011. Posada is having his worst season, and has been so thoroughly unproductive that he has been demoted from his job as the primary DH. I believe that Joe Girardi is completely justified in making the move; if anything, Girardi gave him more games and at-bats than he deserved because of his status as one of the Yankee icons.
The demotion leaves Posada as a glorified pinch-hitter and backup first baseman, a pair of roles that will translate into little playing time. Given such insignificance, some have argued that the Yankees should just release Posada and replace him with a more versatile and useful player. Ordinarily, I would agree with such sentiment, but releasing Posada is one of those rare cases where the affect of team morale is potentially more damaging than any gain that comes from replacing him with a better bench player. In spite of his paltry power and inability to hit for average, Posada remains one of the team's respected veterans. He is regarded highly enough by the majority of his teammates that his mere presence in the dugout and clubhouse can be justified–at least for the remainder of the regular season. Simply put, the Yankees don't need the disruption that would occur with the unconditional release of their catcher-turned-DH.
I'm not usually one for sentimentality when it comes to the cold, hard facts of constructing the 25-man roster, but for the moment, the Yankees are playing it right with Jorge Posada…
Am I concerned about the recent struggles of Mariano Rivera, another of the Yankee icons? Not in the least. Yes, he had a bad week, but it has only comprised three games. The start of the slump coincided with an appearance against the Red Sox, who have historically had their way with the great closer. Rivera's velocity remains very good; it's just the movement of the cutter that has been subpar.
It seems to me that Rivera ran into a similar slump last year, but it ended quickly and was not a factor in the postseason. So let's give Rivera a few more days before we decide that time has finally caught up with the Baron of the Bullpen.
I still don't understand why Girardi did not give Rivera an extra inning on Sunday night against the Red Sox. Though he had coughed up a one-run lead, he needed only nine pitches to get through the inning. He could have easily started the tenth. Even a subpar Rivera is a better bet than Phil Hughes making his first relief appearance of the season, pitching in the frying pan of Fenway Park, and having to do so with no margin for error.
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Cellist Sophie Shao performs Beethoven's 5th Cello Sonata in recital with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute at the Curtis Institute on January 8, 2012 presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
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Cuckson (who was present in the audience), born in the U.S., was raised in Australia and educated in England. His sonata was in three movements: it began with the slow development of infatuation between piano and cello; a romance between the instruments developed; a march, which became sarcastic and satiric ensued, then the instruments argued about the direction of each digression, each musical idea, ever more furiously, until they ironically echoed with bitterness their very first notes from the opening movement. This comic portrayal of the arc of infatuation, romance, and divorce was adroitly played by both performers with the exasperated lower register of Shao's fiercely sawing cello evoking mirthful laughter in me and smiles in other audience members too timid to laugh. Despite the obvious literalism of the program, this was quite an amusing outing worthy of a second hearing. After a brief intermission, Sauer played Scherzo No. 4 in E major for piano by Frédéric Chopin. Many commentators declare the recording Stanislav Richter to be definitive, yet Benjamin Grosvenor has recently challenged the Richter legend with a light, lyrical, cleanly gossamer version that has been much acclaimed. Yet Sauer delivered a different interpretation rooted in Chopin's life. On May 28, 1842, Chopin's lover George Sand wrote a letter acclaiming two new mazurkas by Chopin to be "worth more than twenty novels." Yet six weeks later the lovers were both ill. George was afflicted with an infected optic nerve and had to wear eyeshades to block sunlight which bestowed baleful headaches as she rushed to complete her latest novel set in Venice and the Czech Republic under the duress of a preposterous deadline. Chopin was bedridden for nearly two months in the hot summer heat with what may have been strep-throat, his neck swollen bulbously with mucus. He composed the Scherzo, his last and the only one in a major key, in fits-and-starts during this debilitating illness, thinking he was at death's door. Sauer captured the manic desperation of Chopin's struggle highlighting the alternation of hope and despair, imbuing his performance with desperate improvisational edge. Sauer's interpretation and performance was extraordinary; he brought out the passionate interior of the artist defying defeat through dramatic suspension, hopeful glissando runs, and surprise asymmetry that emphasized episodic construction. This was the aspiration, agony, and ecstasy of Chopin at work despite debility. Sauer revealed the process of composition as a struggle of incremental organic growth, stripping away the imaginary setting of the polite social salon by focusing on the isolated crisis of creation: the Polish folk tune of romance, upon which the Scherzo was based, became a living monument of Chopin's inspirational love for music itself under Sauer's fingers. Will there be a recording? I don't want to listen to anyone else's interpretation. Alluding to the difficulties of love, Shao re-appeared and they performed Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 102, no.1. In four movements, piano and cello conducted a civilized conversation arriving at flirtation. Each instrument had civilized things to say, yet their conversation never achieved anything—as they appeared to politely "talk" at cross-purposes without understanding each other. No solution to this quandary was achieved: the composition merely ended. What had recently occurred in Beethoven's tumultuous life was this: Countess Marie Erdödy, to whom Beethoven had dedicated several of his chamber works, admired Beethoven's music, and had invited him to live at her home as a lodger. Beethoven discovered that the Countess had been paying his manservant for sexual favors. In a rage, Beethoven moved out and rented a room in a brothel. This rarely performed Sonata is a satiric exercise about good music that goes nowhere. While the evening's program had begun with convention, it had suddenly veered off into the perilous terrain of love and art. I've always admired the subtle connections of Sauer's recital programs, yet this seemingly modest concert was a giant event.
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For 23 years, Gabriel Khater has come to work at his House of Pizza at 747 Richmond Road.
Seven days a week — 11 a.m. to midnight on weekdays, 11 to 2 a.m. on weekends.
"I feel like I could close my eyes and run the store," Khater said as he slices up a fresh-from-the-oven pie in his pizzeria, the last business left open in the once thriving strip mall.
In a few years, train tracks will run through this mall near the corner of Richmond and Cleary Avenue, which has been expropriated by the city as it prepares for Phase 2 of the LRT system. The mall will be the site of the train's Cleary Station.
Tenants have known for a year that they'll have to go, but it hasn't made the goodbyes any easier.
"It's sad," Khater said. "I've watched everybody leaving and I'm used to seeing them every day."
Khater and his wife Nadine, who works alongside him every day but goes home after the suppertime rush, are relocating to a new location at 160 Richmond Rd., near Kirkwood. They hope their faithful customers will follow them there, but for some, like those in the adjacent condo tower, The Continental, the move will be an inconvenience.
"One woman was so sad," Kahter said. "She said we were so convenient. She could just phone in the order and walk down to get it. Now she'll have to drive."
Next door at Nokham Thai Restaurant, Bouasonephet Bouasy-Jung and her father, Bouanokham Bouasy, were clearing out the family-run restaurant they've run for nearly 20 years. The glassware and cutlery was boxed. The ornately carved golden pediment that once graced its entrance had been removed and stood beside the stacked tables and chairs.
Nokham served its last meals Sunday night to, as always, a packed house.
"It's like a second home here," Bouasonephet, who said she spent 50 to 60 hours a week at the restaurant, often behind the scenes bookkeeping and ordering food. "Actually it's probably more like a first home because of all the time we spent here."
There's no new home for Nokham. It's closing for good. Bouanokham is going to spend time with his two grandchildren and travelling; Bouasonephet says she's just going to take it easy for awhile.
"Our customers told us they're going to miss us. That they loved the food," she said. "They've been asking me, 'Where's the next best place to go for Thai food?' Of course, I don't know. I don't go out for Thai," she said, with a laugh.
The restaurant had been told the mall was closing last September, but the deadline was extended, Bouasonephet said. More recently, the city told them they could stay until the end of February, but the family decided it wasn't worth it.
"If it had been a few more months, then maybe, but for just a few more weeks? No," she said.
The Warsaw Deli permanently closed on Dec. 31, the same day Mother Earth natural health closed its storefront (though it still has an online store.) Treasures Anew consignment shop packed up its Royal Doulton china, vintage watches and other curios from your grandmother's house, and moved last year to a new location at 1390 Clyde Ave., near Merivale.
The city says it has yet to receive a request for a demolition permit for the mall.
Back at House of Pizza, Gabriel Khater keeps answering phone calls, spinning dough and dishing on the toppings. The renovations are going slowly at the new location — he estimates it's about 50 per cent complete — so he's asked the city if House of Pizza can keep going where it is for a little longer. It may be lonely at 747 Richmond, he said, but it's still busy.
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I'll be at corner booth #149, right up front, and will have all the Sheldon books, prints, and miscellany, as well as any Original Art you'd like me to bring for the discounted convention price. I'll be givin' out free sketches all three days of the show.
Head over to the site and pick up your tickets now. This is a show we should all get behind.


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A baby's growth may also be influenced by hereditary or genetic conditions. Some conditions such as Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) have different growth charts. The most common reason for poor growth is that the baby isn't taking in enough calories or nutrients. But even if your baby seems to drink enough formula or breast milk, he or she may still gain weight very slowly due to the increased caloric needs. You need not weigh your baby at home. Your baby's pediatrician or cardiologist will weigh your baby with each office visit. These weight measurements will show how well your baby is growing.
Feeding your baby is rewarding, and provides nutrition for your baby's physical and mental growth. It is also an opportunity for you to love, touch and communicate with your baby. When your baby gains weight steadily and is content and thriving, it's reassuring and rewarding. A baby born with a congenital heart defect (CHD), however, may not gain weight as rapidly as other infants, despite your hard work and persistence, and at times this may be frustrating.
Babies with congenital heart disease typically do best when fed more often and on a demand schedule. They tend to tire quickly during the feeding, so frequent feedings tend to work well. Initially, you may need to feed your baby every two hours, and you may need to wake your baby several times during the night to feed him or her until he or she is able to tolerate a larger volume of milk. Some infants do best with a combination of breast- and bottle-feeding.
The "work" of breast-feeding is actually less than the work of bottle-feeding. Sucking, swallowing and breathing are easier for a baby to coordinate, and the amount of oxygen available to your baby is greater while breast-feeding than when bottle-feeding. In general, when compared to bottle-fed babies, breast-fed babies with congenital heart defects have more consistent weight gain.
Your baby is probably getting enough milk if you're nursing 8-12 times a day, the baby is latching on well, and you can hear the baby gulping and swallowing. Your baby should have at least 6-8 wet diapers per day. A consistent weight gain will also tell you that your baby is getting enough milk.
If you have questions or need help with either pumping or getting the baby latched onto your breast, contact a lactation consultant. Before you're discharged from the hospital, the lactation consultant will watch you breast-feed your baby to make sure it's going well.
All infants are individuals, and they vary in how much formula they take each feeding. Try not to compare the amount of formula your baby takes to the amount other babies take. The goal for feeding an infant with congenital heart disease is consistent weight gain. Most babies gain 1/2 to 1 ounce of weight per day. However, babies with heart disease tend to gain weight at a much slower rate.
Commercial formulas, available at most supermarkets, are made to be as similar to breast milk as possible. You and your baby's healthcare provider can decide which formula is best for your baby. There are also many types of baby bottles and nipples available. Some babies with heart disease have difficulty feeding from a regular nipple, so you may want to find a soft nipple or make a larger hole in the nipple to allow the formula to flow more easily. Small holes in the nipple make it harder for your baby to suck and he or she may swallow air, which may result in vomiting. You can enlarge the hole in the nipple by inserting a sterilized sewing needle into the hole, increasing the opening a little. The nipple should then be boiled for about five minutes in a pan on the stove and allowed to cool completely before it's used.
An occupational therapist, clinical nurse specialist or feeding team member may assess your baby's feeding habits and make recommendations for a specific feeding schedule and nipple.
Some babies with congenital heart disease may not take in adequate amounts of calories with breast-feeding or bottle-feeding alone. These children may require additional feeding using a nasogastric (NG) tube. This NG tube is placed in the baby's nose and passes to the stomach. Formula or breast milk is delivered through the tube. This makes the feedings less "work" and results in your baby gaining more weight. Other methods of tube feeding include gastrostomy tube (GT) or jejeunostomy tube (JT). These methods involve placing the tube surgically into the stomach (GT) or intestine (JT). You and your healthcare team will determine the best method and feeding schedule for your baby.
Other Liquids
Avoid giving your infant water, because water has no calories. You may give juice to your baby after four months, but it should not replace formula. Formula or breast milk is still the best way to meet your baby's caloric needs when solid food or juices are started, because milk has more calories than most solid foods or juices.
Starting on Solid Food
Your doctor will help you determine when solid food should be added to your baby's diet. This usually occurs around six months of age. Cereals fortified with iron are typically introduced first, followed by fruits and vegetables, and then meats. Solid food should always be fed to your baby with a spoon. Adding solid food to the formula in the bottle thickens the formula and makes it hard for your baby to suck it out of the nipple.
Parents sometimes think children with congenital heart disease need to eat special diets that are low in fat, similar to the low-fat diets recommended for adults with heart disease. In fact, since children with congenital heart disease often have poor appetites, high-calorie foods and snacks can play a very important role in providing good nutrition. Don't restrict fat in the diet, particularly in the first two years of life. It's needed to help children grow and develop properly. That's why lower fat milks (2%, 1% or fat-free [skim]) aren't recommended until children are two years of age or older.
Heart Medicine and Feeding
Many babies with congenital heart disease are given medications such as digoxin (Lanoxin) and furosemide (Lasix) to control congestive heart failure. These medications typically don't interfere with feedings. It's usually best to give medications to your baby before a feeding. Give the medications directly into your baby's mouth using a syringe or dropper from the medication bottle. Do not mix any medication in the formula bottle because your baby may not finish the bottle. If the baby vomits after the medication, do not give that medication again until the next scheduled time.
If your baby is receiving a diuretic such as Lasix, your cardiologist may recommend a potassium supplement because some diuretics remove potassium from the body along with the excess fluid. The potassium supplement is usually given as a liquid medication added to a small amount of juice or milk to mask the bitter taste. Foods such as bananas, orange juice, potatoes and dried fruits are also a good source of potassium for older infants.
Contact your cardiologist or other healthcare provider if your baby becomes ill, feeds poorly or vomits more than 2-3 feedings per day. Your baby's medication may need to be adjusted or a formula change may be needed.
Ways To Boost Calories. Babies with congenital heart disease may require more calories per day than the average infant. Some babies can't eat or drink enough formula to grow. If your baby gains weight too slowly and can't tolerate an increased volume of formula, your doctor may recommend increasing the amount of calories per ounce. Your pediatrician, nurse or dietitian can prescribe ways for you to concentrate or fortify formula or breast milk. Additionally, you can view a list of examples of high calorie baby foods. (PDF)
Looking Ahead. Persistent and loving efforts to feed your baby will be rewarded. Even when your baby doesn't eat with enthusiasm, just being physically close to you during feeding times is important. Feeding your baby should be a positive experience, never a battleground. Let your baby decide when he or she is satisfied. If your baby doesn't grow normally because of heart disease, heart surgery may result in a faster growth rate, with a catch-up period in height and weight. Children with heart defects often reach satisfactory growth by the time they become adolescents. Many books on infant nutrition can help you with additional feeding techniques If you have feeding problems or questions about your baby's growth, talk with your pediatrician, cardiologist, nurse or dietitian.


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After two injury plagued seasons in a row, Guillaume Latendresse's Wild career has come to an end. He will test free agency Sunday, the 25-year-old left wing said this morning. GM Chuck Fletcher says Latendresse advised him yesterday.
I talked to Latendresse earlier this morning and he said that he has decided he would like to be closer to his 4-year-old son, Hayden, who lives with his mother in Montreal.
"I've been here with my son in Montreal for two months. He's four years old now," Latendresse said. "It's pretty hard for me during the wintertime, so I think it would be best if I can try and land somewhere that would be closer to him."
The Wild offered Latendresse a one-year contract with performance bonuses, sources say. The bonuses are permissible under the collective bargaining agreement for players who have 400 pro games (played or missed) that spent 100 days on injured reserve in the final year of his contract.
"It's not that I didn't want to go back," Latendresse said. "It's not that the contract was not good. It's not that I didn't like the way the team was working or anything. It's really a personal matter more than anything. I would have loved to go back to Minnesota, but sometimes you have to make decisions for your family and for your future.
"And I think my son would be better if he could be closer to me."
Essentially, what Latendresse is saying is he wants to sign anywhere east of Minnesota and most likely in the north part of the country or Eastern Canada.
The Canadiens drafted Latendresse. It is his hometown team. They have a new coach (Michel Therrien) and new GM (Marc Bergevin) from when the Habs traded him to Minnesota for Benoit Pouliot in Nov. 2009.
I asked Latendresse if he would like to return to Montreal. It sure sounds like that's in the back of his head.
"I don't know," he said. "We'll see July 1 if something happens and if they're open to take me back. But as far as now, I don't know. I don't close any doors. But for sure, if they want me back, it might be something interesting. But I don't want to say yes or no because I don't know what's their plans, so I keep every door open."
Except Minnesota, that is.
It became clear during the draft that something was up with negotiations. Fletcher began to indicate that this could go until July 1, and then he gave the, "If it gets done, it gets done," line Saturday after the draft, saying, "I'm not losing sleep over it."
Didn't sound good. I also never got the impression the Wild was 100 percent sold on bringing Latendresse back. Frankly, if it wanted to, theoretically all the team had to do was extend him his $2.5 million qualifying offer Monday.
But he played 27 games out of 162 the past two seasons, playing 11 two years ago due to myriad abdominal and hip issues that began in training camp after the team made very clear he showed up out of shape.
Fletcher put the gauntlet on him last offseason, demanding to Latendresse privately and publicly that he arrive in shape. The Wild sent its strength and conditioning coach periodically to Montreal to check up on him.
Latendresse shed a lot of weight and arrived in shape before getting concussed in November. He was hit face first into the glass in Calgary on Nov. 8, then left the next game Nov. 10 early in San Jose with concussion-like symptoms. He missed the next 15 games, returned in Winnipeg on Dec. 13, scored the Wild's only goal in a 2-1 loss and was lost in the first period the next night at home against Chicago when he tried to initiate two hits on one shift.
We never saw him again.
So while bringing Latendresse back was a risk because his absences the past two years crippled the Wild's depth, losing him is also a risk. The Wild was the lowest-scoring team in the NHL last season and this is a kid that scored 25 goals in 55 games in 2009-10. Power forwards like Latendresse don't grow on trees.
It'll be interesting to see how the Wild reacts in free agency or on the trade market. It was always going to pursue Zach Parise aggressively, but is this the type of thing that makes the Wild now look for a second-line winger, too?
Does it go after Dustin Penner, who has got a similar frame to Latendresse and who has a history in Anaheim with Wild managers Fletcher and Brent Flahr? Does it pursue Peter Mueller, 24, who also has a concussion history, but is young and skilled (22 goals as a rookie in 2007-08) and wasn't tendered a qualifying offer by Colorado?
We will see starting Sunday.
I don't see how it makes sense for them to go after guys like Alex Semin, P.A. Parenteau or Jiri Hudler.
Why? I'll explain on my live chat on startribune.com Friday at noon.
In other news, as expected, the Sidney Crosby contract extension appears to be finalized. TSN's Darren Dreger is reporting it's worth in the $100 million range at a salary cap hit below $9 million. It cannot be signed until Sunday.
Not a shock this is coming out because now a bigtime free agent like Zach Parise knows Crosby is inked long-term in Pittsburgh and Parise knows if he signs there, he will be cemented to Crosby's wing, well, forever as long as both are healthy.
What this also means?
Parise now knows his offer from Pittsburgh will be less than the $8.whatever million (my guess will be $8.7 million again, his uniform number) Crosby's taking in annually. It also tells you that if the Wild wants to figure out a way to sway Parise from signing in Pittsburgh, it'll need to come in well north of that and then pray it's sales job, and the money, talks.
The Wild's contract offer to Parise on Sunday will be, let's just say, absolutely colossal.
I may be back later if there's more news, but again, please join my live chat here at startribune.com Friday at noon.


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