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How can I get my toddler to give up the bottle?
My 22-month-old son still wants a bottle in the morning, one before his nap, and another at bedtime. If we don't give it to him, he cries inconsolably. How can we get him to use a cup during the day and to stop relying on the bottle to fall sleep? I could really use some advice.
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I know "they" want you to stop the bottle early these days, but my son was about 3 when he stopped drinking Milk out of a bottle. He never used a pacifier or sucked his thumb, and drank out of a cup for everything else BUT milk. He wanted to buy this orange cup while we were shopping and I told him, "if we buy this cup, no more bottles." He said OK! That was the end of the bottle. He's now 4-1/2 (and still bottle free!) My daughter is now 14 months and I am not going to rush her into a sippy cup. She doesn't use a pacifier or suck her thumb either - I honestly don't see what the rush is. I think it depends on your child. You still have to wash sippy cups. To me, it's not worth the grief to the kids. In time, they'll give it up. Do what's best for your situation.posted 07/10/2006 by summer_jn
My son just turned 22 months and I am having the same issue. He wants a bottle before his nap and before he goes to bed at night. I don't think it's that big of a deal, but I guess the pressure of other people saying he should be off the bottle is getting to me. My mother says that I drank a bottle before bed until I was almost 4, so that makes me feel a little better. He doesn't use a pacifier and feel that this is his way of soothing himself. He has been teething really bad over the past 9 months and now he is getting his molars, so I feel like the bottle is helping him cope with the pain. I have his 2 year check up in April and I am not looking forward to getting a lecture from the doctor that he should have been off the bottle at 14 months. Oh well - I guess the bottom line is we all have to do what we feel is right for our individual child and not worry about the popular opinion.posted 02/24/2007 by AngMcD71
We used Avent bottles and found that the Avent sippy cup tops fit onto the bottle bottoms ... our 2-year-old still liked the feel of the bottle, but didn't mind the sippy top.posted 07/11/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
The best way to get your toddler off the bottle is to pull a bottle away at a time. Start with the mid-day bottle,do that for a few days then pull the morning, do that for a few days and last the night. When you get down to the last bottle time, change up the baby's schedule. Don't stand around the refrigerator/kitchen if you were going to prep a bottle. Go for a walk, take a bath or anything different than the typical bottle time. then put them straight to bed. In 2-3 days you are done. I have been successful 3 times with this technique.posted 06/20/2007 by lisanalper
When I first tried to give my ds a cup with milk at 13 months, he cried and cried until I gave him a bottle. He would only drink juice out of the cup. What I finally did was break his routine. He was used to getting his bottle after every meal. I started giving him his milk in a cup at random times during the day and it worked like magic. After his meal he was full from the earlier cup of milk so he didn't want a bottle. I was finally down to just giving him the bottle before bed but it wasn't long until it was almost like he didn't want the bottle. He would take it and play with it but not drink very much. I gave him his cup and he drank it immediately. I am happy to say that now at 15 mo. he is completely weaned!posted 04/05/2007 by jvickers82
My daughter stopped drinking from her bottle at 12 1/2 months. She would drink juice and water from the sippy cups but her milk had to be in the bottle. One morning I told her that she had to say good bye to her bottles. She waved good bye, and I hid her bottles. I was afraid to throw them out, just in case. She cried and didn't like the cup very much for her milk. I got her a couple of new cups. Some had Sesame Street, some had soft nipple like spouts and some had straws. We have not touched a bottle since. The straws and the soft spouts worked the best for her transition. Good Luck.posted 07/10/2006 by jjglisch
Our 22 month old just gave up the bottle last month. She wouldn't lay down without it and would scream incessantly for it. In addition, she would get up between 2 to 5 times during the night for fresh bottles. I feel your pain! It all changed when she chewed a small hole in the side of the nipple in May. I started telling her that we would not replace it if she made holes in it. Once she'd made a few small leak holes in it (she was in no danger of biting the nipple off, as I watched it carefully), the drinks would come out more rapidly and she didn't like that. She still wanted to take the bottle to bed with her for about a week (we washed the same nipple over and over), but she started sleeping through the night and would only hold the bottle instead of drinking it. Gradually she didn't want it.posted 07/10/2006 by lanmeye
My daughter is 18 months. We stopped her bottles about three weeks ago. She would have 2 milk bottles during the day and 1 at bedtime. I stopped the day bottles first. She would cry at nap time and tell me she wanted her bottle but after a little while of crying she would go to sleep. I did that for about a week and when she would ask for a bottle I would tell her they are for babies not big girls. After that week of no nap bottles I did the night time bottle. I gave her a sippy cup of water if she wanted it. On the first night of no bottle she did not even cry at all. She now asks for her cup when she is ready for bed.posted 07/10/2006 by clubber
I suggest you try the cup with a straw instead of a sippy cup. My granddaughter refused the sippy and loves the straw cups because she sees the "big kids" and adults using them. She gave up the bottle at about 14 months without any hesitation. Proud Grandmotherposted 07/11/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
what we did was take it away slowly...we took half an ounce out a day until it was gone then she got it empty one night and then the next we took it away completely...i wont lie and say it was easy she cried and had a hard time learning to sleep without it but eventually she got the hang of it. good luck this is one of those really tough ones...the bottle was my nightmare for a long time... mommysrants.blogspot.composted 04/19/2007 by vickilouise
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There are some people who prepare raw tofu at home, using soy milk and Epsom salts. They believe that homemade tofu will probably last longer and can be used in a tofu raw diet for a longer time. However, making tofu at home and preserving it requires a lot of effort and if there is a slight error in the preparation the tofu could be completely inedible. Hence, it is a lot safer and much more economical to purchase fresh tofu from a supermarket.
In the United States, you can either buy tofu, in a vacuum sealed package or in a container that has been packed with water. If you are wondering "can I eat tofu raw?" you need to see if the tofu you have bought is pre-cooked and whether it is in an aseptic package. If it is, you can eat the tofu raw, i.e., without even boiling or steaming it.
However, if the tofu is packed in water, it probably means that it is not in an airtight container. Moreover, since the tofu is packed in water, it will be on the softer side. The chances of the soft tofu attracting bacteria are very high. These bacteria get destroyed when the tofu is cooked, but eating tofu raw could allow the bacteria to get into your system, since they have not been destroyed by the cooking procedure. The problem is that if the tofu looks fresh and smells fine, people do not realize that it could contain harmful bacteria. Due to this, there have been several instances of people suffering from food poisoning, after they eat tofu raw.
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There are quite a few ways in which tofu can be eaten in its raw form. You could just cut the tofu into bite size pieces and sprinkle some soy sauce over it. Adding green onions on top enhance their flavor significantly. Some people use ground ginger as a base on which the tofu is place before the soy sauce is poured over it. In some countries, people simply cut tofu into bite sized cubes and dip them in a sauce before eating them.
Given below is a recipe for Greek Salad with Tofu, which can be included in a tofu raw diet.
• 16 ounces tofu, firm • ½ cup of black olives• 1 small onion, chopped • 2 large tomatoes, chopped • 1 large cucumber, sliced• 1 head of lettuce• 1 teaspoon basil• 2 tablespoons wine vinegar • ¼ teaspoon oregano • ¼ cup olive oil • ½ teaspoon black pepper • 1 teaspoon salt
• Rinse the tofu thoroughly and cut it into bite sized cubes • Place the tofu cubes in a large or a medium sized mixing bowl • In another mixing bowl, add the basil, wine vinegar, oregano, olive oil, black pepper and salt. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly, to make a marinade• Pour the marinade over the tofu cubes and set it aside for at least an hour or so• In the mean time, separate the leaves of the lettuce head, wash them thoroughly and allow them to dry. • After an hour, add the sliced cucumbers, onion, tomatoes and black olives to the tofu and toss all the ingredients lightly. • Spread the lettuce leaves on a plate and pour the tofu and vegetable salad over them • The salad can be served immediately, or can be placed in the refrigerator for a short while
It is best to consult a dietician for the recommended servings of tofu that can be consumed each day. Like any other product, an excess of soy or tofu can be harmful to the health.
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Friday at Bonnaroo marked the opening of the main stages, but also an explosion of alternative music on the festival grounds, followed up by a smorgasbord of hip hop, dub step and classic rock jamming.
The opening of the main What Stage was heralded by Greensky Bluegrass, who were well received by those starting to collect already for the headliners. Mid afternoon, those still nearby What Stage were rocked by Umphrey's McGee and a raucous set by Janelle Monae, who brought a tightly choreographed and energetic performance to life.
Friday evening led to the indie music loving crowds rushing between The Head & The Heart and Phoenix on Which Stage, and Vampire Weekend on What Stage. Vampire Weekend managed to warm up a crowd who at first glance seemed mostly there for Kanye, getting most everyone on their feet and dancing along, with more than a few "I didn't know this was their song!" remarks uttered. The band, dressed in fun casual looks, played right through sundown, with a beautiful sunset as their backdrop. Phoenix, who answered Vampire Weekend's twee sunset show with a lush moonrise over the stage, packed out every possible space around the Which Stage and delivered an enigmatic performance that may have been one of the best of Friday, even complete with Thomas Mars throwing himself into the audience and surfing the crowd all the way to the back. Meanwhile, The Naked and Famous and CHVRCHES proved that great bands aren't limited to the main stages, both playing exceptionally enthusiastic sets to those who made their way over to The Other Tent for something a little different.
The Sonic Stage featured a different format, with some of Thursday's best acts returning to do more intimate shows, as well as signings. Jonathan Wilson followed his set with a Q&A session about life on the road, where he quipped about how people stumble by and sometimes seem surprised to see a band still using guitars, and discussed playing with Robbie Robertson. ZZ Ward followed him, with a special acoustic set making way after some brief technical difficulties. Ward proved quite popular, packing the small Sonic Village area and keeping them around until the end.
In the New Music On Tap Lounge, Royal Teeth opened the day by getting everyone clapping and dancing along to their delightful melodies. Later in the afternoon, The Orwells rocked the tiny venue with their bigger than life antics and energetic vibe. The New Music On Tap Lounge was closed out late in the night by Diarrhea Planet, who many stopped by to see on their way to one of the late night dance parties.
Of course, lest we forget, Kanye West closed out the What Stage on Friday with his headlining slot. His previous visit to Bonnaroo was notable only for how terrible it was, so lots of expectations (or perhaps a lack thereof) were placed on Kanye's return. To most in attendance it seemed he let down even what little was expected of him, stopping between each song to rant and rave about things which had little meanie to his audience. In typical Kanye fashion, he even managed to cut his set short.
Those who stayed up late and suffered through Kanye went on to party along with Ice Cube and Skrillex on the Which stage, while the metalheads rocked out to bands Mastodon, Deafheaven and Meshuggah in This Tent, and more folks danced to Disclosure and Die Antwoord in The Other Tent. In That Tent, the Derek Trucks-led Superjam wailed on, which featured the assortment of Chaka Kahn, Taj Mahal, Willie Weeks and even Ben Folds all teaming up for a glorious ensemble.
Bonnaroo isn't limited to music - the hordes descended on Comedy Theatre for the first of Craig Robinson's two stand up sets. Robinson later appeared in the Cinema Tent, introducing a screening of This Is The End. The Solar Stage also had some action, featuring morning yoga, acoustic performances and interviews, and evening DJ sets.


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STS-119 -- Mission to the International Space Station
The crew of space shuttle mission STS-119 has completed its mission! They launched on the space shuttle Discovery. The mission took the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. Now, the station has enough power to allow a full crew of six to live and work on board!
Lee Archambault was the commander for the STS-119 mission. Tony Antonelli was the pilot. The mission specialists were Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Koichi Wakata.
Wakata is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut. He joined Expedition 18 as flight engineer replacing Sandra Magnus. She returned to Earth with the
STS-119 crew.
The crew members spent months training and getting ready for this trip. They had to learn how to make emergency exits from the shuttle. They had to choose foods for their trip. Some of the crew members had to practice for the spacewalks to be done once they got into space.
Before going into space, the STS-119 crew members designed a patch to describe their mission. The shape of the STS-119 patch comes from the shape of an International Space Station solar array when viewed from an angle. Solar arrays are long panels that change sunlight into electricity. One set of the solar arrays on the patch is colored gold. It shows the last set of arrays to be added to the space station. The station sits in the center of the patch just below the gold astronaut symbol. The 17 white stars on the patch stand for the crew members of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia. The flowing U.S. flag shows that the people of the United States are proud of their space program.
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We are VERY VERY excited to announce a special event for those of you who are coming to the Fat Quarterly Retreat and will be in London on Friday morning.
At 11 am the Designers of the Lifestyle collection at Liberty will be giving a talk about Liberty, the design Studio and the Stile collection. Anna, the archivist will also give you an insight into the archival process and how prints from the Archive were adjusted to fit the Stile collection.
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Just wondering. I've been doing this as a hobby since August. Bought my first non-working set off CraigsList for $50. Rehab for cost plus new power board and remote for a bit over $100 total. Since then, I've searched for and picked up many non-working or broken screen units cheap or free. I have several success stories and willing to share. If any of you like to do electronic repairs at the circuit board level, let me know. I don't have the time to replace capacitors as I hold a full time job...I simply buy and replace the whole circuit boards. If this is up your alley, I can turn you on to many parts that need repair or I can help you fix your own. I'm almost to the point of having too much to handle now. Room full of flat panel LCDs and picking up more tomorrow.
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The Sound of Music
Sixteen going on Seventeen from The Sound of Music by the Granville High School Drama Club. Here Rolf and Liesl played by Cameron Gallagher and Amber Daigle perform one of the musical's signature numbers.
The Sound of Music by the Granville High School Drama Club
'Do-Re-Mi' from the Sound of Music from the second night of the three night stand at the Granville High School auditorium. In this scene Maria Rainer, played by Elle Leach, begins teaching the von Trapp children (including Liesl played by Amber Daigle; Friedrich played by Philip Hicks; Kurt played by Brett Colvin; Lousia played by Shelby McEachron; Brigitta played by Katelynn […]
All-County Junior High Band performs at Whitehall
'the Road Unknown' performed by the All-County Junior High Band at Whitehall High School, March 12, 2011.
All-County band performs at Whitehall
The Senior High All-County Band for Washington County performs Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana' a piece of music well known for its use in television and movies, often backed with a choir.
Horde girls beat Bulldogs
The Granville Golden Horde girls put the Cobleskill Bulldogs back in thier crate with a 47-34 home playoff win. Emily Fuller dropped in 15 points, four in the final minute to seal the deal. Granville moves on to face the second-seeded Hoosic Valley Indians Feb. 22.
Upper Turnpike Road closed
A hole in the deck of the Upper Turnpike Bridge in North Granville resulted in its closure Friday afternoon. The span will remain closed, officials said, likely permanently.
Spring is Maple Time – tapping trees has started
Matt Rathbun and crew are out in the woods on a great spring day checking lines and tapping trees to prepare for the coming maple sugar season. Rathbun says the crew will tap about 7,000 maple trees to bring to Rathbun's Maple Sugar House in North Granville.


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According to Digital Trends on Friday, Tumblr, which is host to The Daily Bugle website, paid homage in a viral marketing campaign for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2". Carnage, a quite ruthless and maddening villain as portrayed in the comic books, was teased on this site as a potential foe for the "Spider-Man" franchise. Eddie Brock, also known as the villain Venom, was mentioned as the author who had written the article about the incarceration of Cletus Kasady.
The article mentions the red headed description of the character who had murdered 12 victims in his killing spree as well as committed to Ravencroft Institute which is a ward for the criminally insane. It appears that since the author of the article, Eddie Brock, is the one shown to have written the exclusive faux news piece, it may be thought that this is how his character would be portrayed.
For those who aren't familiar with these significant "Spider-Man" characters that could get their own spin-off movies, Eddie Brock was a character that worked alongside of Peter Parker at The Daily Bugle. Apparently, when Cletus Kasady is apprehended by Spider-Man, Brock was fired for accusing the wrong killer. From that point on he blamed Parker for his fate and once bound with the alien symbiote, he thus contended to destroy Spider-Man.
Kasady was introduced to the symbiote in a somewhat different way that involved a visit to another planet. Upon his return to Earth, he was then invested with the alien parasite. It is unsure how this will be portrayed in the film, but this does seem to allude to the future of the "Spider-Man" franchise. Also, in the Sam Raimi "Spider-Man 3" film portrayed the symbiote as something that just fell from space, but in the "Ultimates" version of the comics, Marc Webb's rebooted Andrew Garfield "Spider-Man" films seems to fall closer to the mark of Webb's re-imagination.
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- 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Providence' episode stills and Patton Oswalt
- Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg discuss more on 'X-Men: Apocalypse'
- James Gunn talks about Thanos and friends in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'
- David S. Goyer thinks it's too early for a DC Cinematic Universe
- 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' featurette with Bryan Singer talking about the cast


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'Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle' is the third installment in the MG mystery series starring the brother-sister team and their mad scientist uncle. 'Secret Agent Gadget Battle' introduces even more mysteries, plot twists and DIY science projects.
All is not what it seems in Uncle Newt's quiet town. Nick and Tesla have suspected for a while that their parents aren't really studying soybeans in Uzbekistan, but now they have reason to believe that they are being watched by sinister agents. After an urgent phone call from their mother, they start seeing spies around every corner. But who might be the spy? Uncle Newt's new sort-of-girlfriend? His apprentice from the M.A.D. Scientist board? One of the neighbors? The cleaning ladies, or the exterminator? In true scientific fashion, Nick and Tesla set out to determine who's watching them, and why.
The 'Nick and Tesla' books feature step-by-step instructions for gadgets and simple machines. The build-it-yourself projects vary in difficulty, but most of the gadgets in 'Secret Agent Gadget Battle' are on the more difficult side. For readers who have been following the series, the difficulty is graded slightly per book so that the experience from previous books can be applied to each successive book. That way, the projects don't get too easy or boring. There's always a new challenge with each new mystery to solve.
If you want to construct as you read along, prepare to block out a good amount of time for each project. Adult involvement is key, not only to aid the learning process and make the gadget-building go smoother, but to buy some of the materials and use any power tools or knives as needed. None of the materials are anything you can't find at the store; however, you will need to purchase some items and have access to tools if you want to complete these projects. The author also demonstrates some of the projects on the series website. Readers are also encouraged to send them pictures of completed projects.
As such, the 'Nick and Tesla' books are ideal for a classroom setting. It would be easy to build one of the books into a middle school physical science curriculum. The teacher might assign each group of students a project from the book, for example, or do each project as a class. The reading level is somewhere in the middle to younger end of MG fiction, probably too advanced for elementary students but perfect for 11-12 year-olds. Authors Steve Hockensmith and "Science Bob" Pflugfelder are educators themselves, and the series they have written is friendly to family and classroom education.
The books are well-written, with memorable characters and engaging plots. Even if you don't build each gadget, 'Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle' is a good read. The series also subtly addresses several concerns about representation in science and in children's literature: one of the main characters is female and interested in science, and there is a good mix of genders, ethnicities, abilities, and personalities in the characters overall. Whether it's gadgets, mysteries, or characters, the 'Nick and Tesla' books have something to interest everyone.


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First there was Hard Core Logo. Now, 12 years after his mockumentary about a Canadian punk band wowed critics, Canadian director Bruce McDonald is about to bring you Hard Core Logo II: Still Hard. Or, possibly, Hard Core Solo — he hasn't quite decided on the title of the sequel set to begin shooting in January.
It gets better. There are plans for two more sequels following the fortunes of band members Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon), Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie), John Oxenberger (John Pyper-Ferguson), Pipefitter (Bernie Coulson) and punk pioneer Bucky Haight (Julian Richings), culminating with — wait for it — a high school movie about the teenage daughters of the aging punk rockers.
Building a movie franchise around an indie flick that lasted just days at most multiplexes despite critical raves might not seem like such a smart move at first glance.
And then there's the small problem of the death of the main character, singer Joe Dick, at the end of the original 1996 movie.
"He blows his head off," McDonald noted matter-of-factly in a phone interview as he took a break from post-production on his new film Pontypool, a quirky horror movie premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
McDonald's got the dead thing worked out, although he doesn't want to give too much away about how Joe Dick manages to come back.
As for the financial wisdom of investing in sequels to a movie that "didn't really do much business" when it first came out, McDonald points out that the film about the ill-fated reunion tour of a punk band called Hard Core Logo became a cult hit, thanks to exposure on DVD.
And Dillon, who was a complete unknown as an actor when McDonald cast him in the first Hard Core Logo, has become a hot commodity. Once best known as the singer for the now-defunct band the Headstones, the intense actor with the piercing eyes stars as the lead sniper in Flashpoint — the CTV cop show that's been a hit on both sides of the border — and Durham County, the critically acclaimed Canadian crime series in which he plays a tortured homicide detective.
McDonald says he and Dillon have been talking for years about revisiting Hard Core Logo — "He had some time on his hands before he became the star of Flashpoint and Durham County" — but it doesn't hurt that his old buddy suddenly has a much higher profile. "It just makes it better for the film to suddenly have an actor that is known to a different kind of audience."
The only drawback is that Dillon's success has made it harder to fit the movie into his busy schedule. And, McDonald points out, "Let's just say his price went up."
The plan is to have Dillon appear in all four movies, in some cases in a major role and in others in a less prominent part.
The first sequel — Hard Core Logo II — is about the relationship between Bucky Haight (Richings) and Joe Dick (Dillon).
The second, tentatively titled Hard Core Logo III: 45s, focuses on Joe Dick and Billy Tallent (Rennie) and was written by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor.
"Our inspiration was the movie My Dinner With Andre by Louis Malle and Daniel's cooked up a pretty terrific night on the town for our two gentlemen," McDonald says. "It's a real character piece. It's a smart, cool little Cassavetes kind of thing."
The third movie — which McDonald has been calling Daughters of Hard Core Logo — will be a new spin on "that sort of genre of Breakfast Club, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Fast Times at Ridgemont High — the classic high school movie." Written by Paul Spence (co-writer/star of Fubar), the movie is about Joe and Billy's teenage daughters, who have their own band called Sex Chimes.
In the meantime, McDonald is busy putting the finishing touches on Pontypool. Based on a novel by Tony Burgess and starring veteran Canadian actor Stephen McHattie, it's "a scary, original movie with fantastic acting."
Although it's been described as a zombie movie, that's not quite true. The creatures who terrorize Pontypool are "conversationalists" who've been infected with a language virus, according to McDonald.
"They're kind of cousins of zombies, because zombies are kind of a bit more monotone and a bit more thick headed. Our conversationalists are much more expressive and they're quite emotional."


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This key/seal assembly includes the diffuser with the 4-spoke spider gasket glued in for the Hayward Multiport VariFlo XL 1.5" valve. The model number for the valve is SP714T, also listed as SP0714T. The valve is used on various Hayward top mount sand filters. The spider gasket is not available separately and can only be purchased as part of this key/seal assembly.
My handle broke of when I tried to move it. Is this the part that I need to put the handle back on?
Hi, If you have the SP0714T Valve and the handle is in good condition but the part that the handle is connect to is broken then yes. If the handle is broken then you will need to replace the Handle-SPX0710XF.
Is the spx0714ca the same part as mine that is labeled spx0714c?
Hi Michael, The SPX0714CA and SPX0714C are the same parts.
How do you get the old key. Seal assembly out of the old shift handle housing
Th tension spring is very strong..once out how do you compress the spring to put new key seal & spring and pin back in? Any tricks on spring compression?
Jacuzzi 7 pos Diverter valve
Any replies would be helpful & appreciated. thank you
There is in fact a trick. This " How To " should show you a very helpful tip into putting the pin back into the handle.
Does this come with the 2 o-rings for around the neck?
No, they are sold seperatly. They are part number 4700-08a.
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Jan. 5, 2013
STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford rang in the New Year with a 159-92 men's swimming dual meet win over Pacific Saturday at the Avery Aquatic Center. The Cardinal recorded the top time in each of the events on the day.
"This was a great chance for us to race after a great holiday training period," Goldman Family Director of Men's Swimming Ted Knapp said. "The team had the opportunity to improve on their mental toughness and focus. We're looking forward to getting back into the academic calendar and traveling to Arizona in late January."
Next up for No. 8 Stanford (2-0) is the Bruin Diving Invitational (Jan. 11-13) in Los Angeles, Calif. The Cardinal will travel to Arizona State (Jan. 25) and Arizona (Jan. 26) for a Pac-12 Conference twinbill later this month.
A 1:28.52 in the 200 medley relay gave David Nolan, Aaron Wayne a victory to start the day for the Cardinal.
Drew Cosgarea (9:34.94) and Ben Holston (9:54.62).
Sean Duggan won the 200 free in 1:39.53 ahead of Ethan Hallowell (1:39.79) and Chris Pickard (1:41.08).
The 100 back saw Matthew Swanston earn first-place points in 49.02 as Will Gunderson (50.18) was second and Matt Thompson (50.62) finished third.
Mack Montgomery (1:47.58) touched first in the 200 fly in front of a trio of other Cardinal swimmers.
Wayne (20.43), Andrew Saeta (20.53) and Jake Hartley (20.88) swept the top three spots in the 50 free.
Ethan Hallowell (45.53) was the first of four Cardinal to finish in the 100 free.
Nolan (1:46.63) won the 200 back and Robert Hommel (2:07.60) duplicated the feat in the 200 breast.
Mitchell Stoehr (4:35.28) logged the fastest time in the 500 free and Ben Lovell (49.20) bested all swimmers in the 100 fly.
Hommell (3:59.06) led all swimmers in the 400 individual medley.
Nolan, Wayne, Saeta and Duggan teamed to touch first in 2:59.59 to close the day in the 400 free relay.


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At Strong4Life, created by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, our doctors, nutritionists and wellness experts create fun, easy ways to help your kids eat, move and live healthier. From picky eaters to passionate gamers, we have a slew of simple tips by experts who understand, because we're parents, too.
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A vestibular disorder can develop when disruption in at least one of those systems occurs. In children, teens and young adults, these disorders can have a negative impact on their growth and development.
Our vestibular rehabilitation services can help patients, birth to age 21, with these disorders through comprehensive evaluation and treatment.
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Our vestibular rehabilitation team includes pediatric audiologists and rehab therapists who have received special training in vestibular evaluation and therapy. Your child may not need to see both specialists.
Our audiologists use specialized equipment to perform comprehensive evaluations. This testing, done at the Children's Medical Office Building at Scottish Rite, helps determine which part of the balance system is causing the symptoms.
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Fig & Cherry by Berkeley Square is a Floral Fruity fragrance for women. The fragrance features tincture of rose, fig leaf, fig, apricot, musk, red berries, cherry blossom, cedar and amber.
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I like this. It does smell very sweet and jammy to start off with but the drydown is earthy and warm.
I love fig and i have great expectations for about this one. What a mistake! It was a great disappointment. It's very synthetic, boring, syrupy and cheap scent.
Very synthetic from start to the end, I gave it away to young girl which find it lovely fruity.
Love it, it's light, but interesting. Cherries aren't too synthetic, and I can feel fig leaves too. I think it's one of the most interesting fragrances from BSQ
It opened with a burst of alcohol and lipstick. The kind of lipstick our grandmothers used to wear, powdery and rosy, but not pleasant at all. I do feel something smoky, but mostly it's just fig and cherry as the name of the perfume stands. I couldn't agree less though to those who have said that it smells more expensive that it actually is. For me it smells very, very cheap. I would suggest this fragrance to those who love something like Morgan fragrances (the one with cherry), because this will be more natural and won't disturb the others around you.
I have spoken. Based from reviews I waited for lovely cherries, but this has no depth, no nothing. Just cherries dipped in alcohol.
I was drawn to the retro packaging (and the price...very reasonable) but both my 20 year old daughter and I love this fragrance (had only smelt it previously in air fresheners!)It is really different and has a dryness to it that makes me want to keep investigating it.
Cherries are delicious, and I love fig fragrances, but this is not for me-at least for regular wear. It doesn't smell cheap-it's not cloyingly syrupy-- it's just super-duper jammy as sky76sky made clear for everyone.
I prefer my fruit as more refreshing/light/juicy or bitterish/tart and serving a very complementary place in a composition-all of the notes are well-balanced for me but the cherry is just too sweet-perhaps not tart enough. I will be wary of cherry in general-but I actually don't dislike the smell of this-even if I didn't feel excited about the smell, my work day wasn't interrupted by a desire to bathe, or thoughts of "get it off me, I don't want to try this anymore/right now". The lasting power is decent-I would say 4 hours-perhaps 3-since I got a small bit on my shirt, and some of the fragrance was surely radiating from my shirt rather than my skin alone. Once the cherries fade a bit, the fragrance becomes much prettier for me, but this is Fig & CHERRY, so wearing this and waiting for the cherries to fade is kind of silly.
It's not my bag, but for someone who certainly really loves floral fruities AND cherries or even gourmandy fragrances, this might be what you have been looking for! I think I could like it more with every wearing even, but I would rather follow the fragrance path that matches me more closely.
I didn't hold much hope for this inexpensive little fragrance, but the 20's cloche hat drew me in for a closer look & a quick sniff as I waited in the queue to pay for my shampoo.
Sweet serendipity! This is a rich, creamy fragrance jam-packed with fruit & softened with cedarwood - not my usual choice of fragrance, but one so cheery & upbeat that I bought it on the spot.
Juicy figs & cherries, apricots & an assortment of black berries made into a rich, aged & almost crystalised & fermented jam.
Syrupy sweet, dark & delicious, this scent skips past the twee & tweeny icing sugar & candy offerings & almost lands in the cough medicine section if it wasn't for the healthy amounts of cedar wood & musks in the mix.
Smells far more expensive than it is although the lasting power is only average. If you enjoy compots of rich fruits, morello cherries & hot honeyed figs you won't regret buying this.
Jam, jam, jam! :)
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An infected rat has been blamed in a lawsuit that alleges that bacteria from said infected rat caused the death of a 10-year-old San Diego, Calif., boy last year. The parents of Aidan Pankey allege that Petco, the national pet retailer where the rat was reportedly purchased, was negligent in allowing an animal infected with rat-bite fever bacteria to be sold, thereby causing their son's death.
The Associated Press reported (via Yahoo News) Feb. 25 that the family's attorney, John Gomez, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Pankey family in San Diego County Monday. The lawsuit contends that Petco, the company where the rat was allegedly bought as a pet for the Pankey's son, should have known about the rodent's health, did not adequately test for the disease, and did not post adequate warnings of the risk -- especially to children. Negligence on the part of the retailer ultimately led to the boy's death. Due to his untimely passing, his parents, Andrew Pankey and Vanessa Sauer, have suffered emotional and economic hardship.
"It's a means to ensure this doesn't happen again," Gomez explained. "Apparently there was some breakdown in procedures. They want tighter controls."
Gomez said that Aidan Pankey's grandmother bought the pet rat for him on May 27, 2013, because he wanted a male rat as a mate for a female he already owned. Two weeks later, on June 11, he woke in the night with a fever, severe abdominal pain. He was pale, his movements lethargic -- to the point where he could barely walk, attests the lawsuit. He was rushed to the hospital where he died at 1:09 a.m. the next day.
The lawsuit asks for unspecified damages.
Petco Animal Supplies Inc. has stated that it is "in the process of investigating these claims and will respond appropriately when we have more information."
Although the San Diego County medical examiner's office ruled that Aidan Pankey's cause of death was streptobacillus moniliformis infection, commonly referred to as rat-bite fever, from exposure to an infected rat last summer, the lawsuit was slow in getting to the filing process due to waiting for confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
According to the CDC website, people can contract rat-bite fever from bites or scratches from infected rodents, such as rats, mice and gerbils, or even just by handling an animal with the disease without a bite or scratch. It can also be contracted by consuming food or drink contaminated with the bacteria. Rat-bite fever, or RBF, is not spread from person to person.
Antibiotics, such as penicillin, are highly effective at treating rat-bite fever. Contraction of rat-bite fever is rarely fatal, according to the CDC, and it can be effectively treated with antibiotics, like penicillin. Left untreated, however, RBF can lead to infections in the lungs, heart, and brain. It can also cause abscesses in internal organs.
The CDC says those at higher risk of contracting the illness are people with pet rats or who work with rats in laboratories or pet stores, or live in rat-infested buildings. However, anyone exposed to the bacteria is subject to contracting rat-bite fever.
Rat-bite fever is specifically mentioned as an example of a potential infectious disease carried by the rats they sell. Petco warns of the potential for rats to be disease carriers on their website, stating that owners should "always wash your hands before and after handling your rat and/or habitat contents to help prevent the potential spread of diseases."
John Gomez said the Pankey family was not giving interviews, still devastated by the death of their only son. He noted that the family filed the Aidan Pankey lawsuit to help raise awareness among parents regarding the deadly disease.
"He was a bright, energetic, friendly, happy kid who actually had a prior rat, who was a female, and he had this idea in his young head of having his female rat get married," Gomez said.
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LeBron made just 4-of-13 from the floor, including an ugly 1-of-6 from three-point range. He did contribute seven rebounds and five assists, but James also committed five turnovers in 39 minutes.
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The 13 points from James matched his output Nov. 19 against Atlanta, but that was a game the Heat won, 104-88. The poor output against Utah came as a surprise, as James' 29.6 points per game career average against the Jazz is his second highest against any one team, behind only Boston (30.1).
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Piano Media Brings National Media Paywall to Poland
Piano Media started its national paywalls in two fairly small countries, Slovakia and Slovenia. It uses a model similar to multichannel TV where customers pay a single subscription for content from a large number of sources. Piano collects 30% and distributes the rest according to traffic received.
Now it is setting up shop in its larger neighbor Poland. Nieman Journalism Lab reports that Piano says it is already successful in Slovakia and Slovenia although it will not give figures.
Forty-two websites are included in the Polish package, including major daily newspapers, magazines, and Polish National Radio. After a free trial period, Piano will charge about $5.85 a month (19.90 zlotys) or about $58 per year (199 zlotys).
Among those sites is Forbes.pl, which is putting about 10 percent of its content — mostly commentary and analysis — behind the paywall. That site's participation is notable because it's owned by Ringier Axel Springer, a joint venture that includes Axel Springer, the largest publisher in Europe — which means the potential impact of a success could be much broader.
Piano says it is aiming to convert between 0.5% and 1.5% of Internet-using Poles to paying users. It expects these to be high earners and could represent at least 100,000 customers.
Poland, with 38 million people and 19 million Internet users, is a big leap in scale for Piano, compared to Slovakia's 5 million people and Slovenia's 2 million. Like its predecessors, though, Poland is a single-language country whose media is relatively isolated — likely a better fit for a national paywall than other, larger European countries. Piano would probably have a much tougher in the geographically expansive, multilingual United States.
The company says it plans to launch in another market by the end of the year. In April it received €2million Series B funding from the Cisco-backed Technology in Central and Eastern Europe Fund SICAR (3TS Cisco Growth Fund).
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Special Delivery: Cooks Enter the Dining Room and Bring the Kitchen With Them
At more and more restaurants, cooks are encouraged to take leave of their stations in the kitchen in order to deliver food and interact with customers.
It's never been difficult to find celebrity chefs willing to parade around their dining rooms, glad-handing customers or pushing their cookbooks, which are conveniently for sale near the host station. (Even in the seventies, a proto–celebrity chef like André Soltner was a fixture in his dining room at Lutèce.) But increasingly, other members of the kitchen staff have been appearing tableside, too. At more and more restaurants, cooks are encouraged to take leave of their stations in the kitchen in order to deliver food and interact with customers; it's the latest example of kitchen culture creeping into restaurants' traditional service structure.
Chefs and cooks at Eleven Madison Park regularly head to the dining room to grind carrot tartare tableside, or to explain just how Pat La Frieda achieves that fine filigree of dry-aged fat lacing the 140-day-aged rib eye. At Aska in Williamsburg, guests may find themselves face-to-face with the chef Fredrik Berselius in the restaurant's tiny dining nook. And in September, partners Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, and Jeff Zalaznick tweaked the meal format at Torrisi Italian Specialties so that it now includes tableside plating from cooks, with a little explanatory food patter on the side. Tribeca's Le Restaurant, London's much-lauded Clove Club, as well as Alinea and Elizabeth in Chicago all feature some element of kitchen-staff delivery, too.
It wasn't always like this. In 2001, for example, I was working as a cook at Alain Ducasse at the Essex House. On December 31, we were cleaning our stations after service when the chef announced we had one last task to complete that night: We were handed new paper toques and instructed to snake out into the dining room, beating copper saucepans with wooden spoons at midnight to wish the guests a happy New Year. It was the only time we were ever allowed to set foot in the dining room, and it was mortifying.
"For the last ten or fifteen years, the front of the house has been evaporating," says New York restaurant critic Adam Platt. "Chefs are front and center in everything now." He adds, "It used to be a restaurateur's culture, but the chefs are the restaurateurs for the most part — they're the ones running the show."
He's right, of course. While kitchens were once predominantly closed off to customers, the eighties and nineties saw the rise of the open kitchen: First glass windows that showed cooks in action, then even wider windows and open walls that tended to break down any barrier between kitchen and dining room. In the aughts, chefs looked to sushi counters and saw a chance to break down the barriers even further, setting up chefs' counters where kitchen staff could interact with customers directly. Cooked-delivered dishes are simply an extension of that movement — chefs' counters without the actual counters.
The practice began to take hold at the tremendously influential Noma in Copenhagen, where René Redzepi and his team of cooks not only deliver particular dishes to diners, they also start most nights greeting customers when they walk into the restaurant. It has the effect of making the guests feel more connected to the people cooking their food.
"It's really nice to see a younger, more inexperienced cook running with a manager in the dining room," says Daniel Burns, the former pastry chef at Noma, who is now chef-owner of Luksus in Greenpoint. Burns says that from 2006 to 2009, Noma's cook-delivery system developed from a curiosity into a robust part of service. "I'm not sure why it started," he recalls. "Maybe there weren't enough servers."
Now, though, it's an integral part of the restaurant, and the advantages are clear: Allowing cooks and diners to interact, however briefly, has the effect of making a kitchen's unique ingredients and high-minded techniques feel more approachable. Guests relax. (Burns's own restaurant has only 26 seats and a wide-open view of the kitchen. During dinner, he happily delivers and explains dishes, and chats with guests sitting at the counter. He doesn't really have a choice, since he's standing about two feet away, and facing them all night.)
Still, not everyone loves the concept. The most prominent critic of cook delivery is Daniel Boulud, who says that the only place he wants to be served by cooks is at a sushi bar. "Basically this concept is turning cooks into waiters," he says. "Not that I don't like the idea of this evolution, but I believe service is service; it's still a craft that should be practiced by the pro." Boulud, whose front-of-house system includes servers, captains, a maître d', bus boys, food runners, and others, sees one way it works: "For places where it is hard to find professional waiters, it might be a great solution."
Food writer Jay Cheshes, who recently left his post as the restaurant critic at Time Out New York, agrees that it's a move other restaurants shouldn't necessarily implement just because it's trendy. He imagines it could get out of hand, with dining rooms clogged with cooks because someone erroneously thinks it might help save money on wait staff or telegraph some renegade vibe: "There's nothing worse," Cheshes says, "than getting your food delivered by a surly, stressed out, grease-spattered chef who'd rather be in the kitchen."


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After James Reimer's disappointing performance on Saturday night in Winnipeg, there is no longer any doubt about who is Toronto's #1 goaltender. While Jonathan Bernier has been steady, it's been the porous play of Reimer as of late that has solidified the starting role for Bernier.
There's been a gradual decline in Reimer's play since November 23rd. James got off to a great start to the season and was near the top of the league in save percentage and goals against average through the first seven weeks of the season. After allowing a season-high 6 goals against vs. the Columbus Blue Jackets on November 25th, things started to unravel for Reimer.
Since the final week of November, Reimer has stopped just 334 of the 380 shots he's faced (SV% of .879) and is allowing an average of 4.15 goals-against per game. While the statistics are certainly disappointing, they don't tell the whole story. Reimer appears to be questioning himself, fighting pucks and rebounds, and generally lacking confidence on what should be routine saves. There's been a whole lot of pressure on his shoulders since Toronto's disappointing collapse in Game 7 against Boston and that pressure was compounded with the offseason move to bring Bernier into the fold. What was once shaping up to be a season-long battle over the net has now turned to a question of whether or not Reimer will last his scheduled starts without being pulled in favour of Bernier.
The role and success of the back-up goaltender has never been more important than in this Olympic-year compressed schedule. Whether Reimer is playing well or not, he is going to get his fair share of starts due to the high number of back-to-back games and busy weeks. James Reimer may no longer be Toronto's #1 goaltender but they desperately need him to improve in his newfound role as their #2.
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