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Simpsons Quotes
The latest episode of The Incomparable is fantastic; episode 410 - I Am Not a Crackpot. It's a draft of the best Simpsons Quotes with Jason Snell with Glenn Fleishman, Philip Michaels, John Siracusa, and Monty Ashley.
There are some absolutely classic Simpsons episodes, and many many fantastic quotes (mainly in the first 10 seasons). After listening to this podcast I had to try and put together some of my own favourite Simpsons quotes.
I tried to do a top 10, so here are 22…
Bart's Comet - S06E14
Homer the Heretic - S04E03
Bart's Inner Child - S05E07
The Springfield Files - S08E10
Lisa's Date With Density - S08E07
Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy - S05E14
Burns' Heir - S05E18
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield - S07E14
Treehouse of Horror IV - S05E05
Lisa the Beauty Queen - S04E04
The PTA Disbands - S06E21
Bart Gets Famous - S05E12
Lisa the Vegetarian - S07E05
Homer's Triple Bypass - S04E11
Lisa's Rival - S06E02
Lisa the Iconoclast - S07E16
Bart's Girlfriend - S06E07
Lisa's Substitute - S02E19
Gotta Catch 'Em All (again)
After introducing Ethan to Pokémon a couple of months ago, this morning we finished rewatching the 82 episode strong first season. It's surprising how well a children's TV show from 1997 still holds up today. A lot of it will be nostalgia for me; but Ethan is watching it as a child for the first time over 20 years after its debut - and he loves it.
Over the last couple of months he has become obsessed with Pokémon; our house is slowly filling with toys, books, cards, clothes, and a mass of other Pokémon merchandise. It's really surprising how quickly he's learnt the names of all the Pokémon, much quicker than learning the far fewer letters of the alphabet a few years previous.
Its going to be great fun when he's old enough to play the games; lets see if he can beat me in battle on Pokémon Red and Blue. But for now we'll stick with the TV show; next up is the emotional rollercoaster of Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back.
Viva La Bam will always be a fantastic show.
Home Is Such A Lonely Place
Lego #21309 - NASA Apollo Saturn V
Ethan and myself have spent many evenings over the last few weeks assembling the LEGO® NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket. In short this is now one of my favourite Lego sets. I first heard of this set on Hello Internet episode 89. Then a few months later after rewatching Apollo 13 I decided I had to have it.
The box this set comes in is huge, but is nothing compared to the size of the built rocket. When complete it stands a meter high (1:110 scale of the real thing) and contains nearly 2000 bricks; making it pretty heavy. You don't realise from looking at it, but it's actually solid inside; this isn't a hollow shell.
There are some great finishing touches to the set as well; like the Luna Lander, and a recreation of the command Module splashing down in the ocean. There really is a lot of detail in this set, and unlike most sets all details are printed onto the bricks; no stickers!!
The rocket fully separates into its first, second, and third stages; plus the Luna Lander and Command Module fit inside the Payload Fairing.
I'm really impressed with how easily Ethan managed to put this set together. The set places itself in the 14+ age range; but even while I was struggling to work out what parts of the instructions were saying Ethan was plowing ahead with the build.
Great fun; I can't wait for our next build!
Eddie Lee © 2018


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09/06/2011 by Maja Ingeman
The Marvel Bar in the North Loop, Minneapolis
Walking into the Marvel Bar in the North Loop, you'll swear you're in one of the trendiest places in the Twin Cities. Not only do you have to know where you're going (it's in a basement… without a sign… in the Warehouse District), the unremarkable appearance of the gritty, historic warehouse outside and the plaster-speckled, as-yet unpainted walls in the vestibule before you enter make the bar itself feel like a worthy discovery. And worthy it is. Slightly muted, colorful patterns adorn vast swaths of the walls, the floor, the chairs — each differing in color and texture, yet somehow working harmoniously. Wide, dark leather booths accommodate 4-6 people around round tables with their backs to a clear wall encasing the wine cellar. Bartenders in vests and, on occasion, jaunty fedoras or newsboy caps buzz about, shaking one, if not two, cocktails at any point.
One such cocktail? The Oliveto — a blend of olive oil, egg white, lemon, Licor 43, and gin. Tangy, light, with a smooth roundness from the olive oil, this was a refreshing, creamy drink.
Similarly smooth was the Angophile, the Marvel's play on a flip. Comprised of a whole egg, Licor 43, angostura bitters, and bourbon, this drink "tasted like Christmas," with a nice hit of warm seasonal spices. A smoother, thinner consistency and less sweetness on the front end than its cousin eggnog made it impressively drinkable.
Interesting in theory, the Morricone wasn't a particularly likeable drink. Campari and anejo tequila combined to create a sweet first note, followed by a long-lasting, off-putting bitter note from cacao mezcal. Though the bitterness eventually faded into a pleasant cocoa aftertaste (a gulp of water helped to speed the process), one member of our group remarked "I shouldn't have to spend so much time mitigating my drink."
Better was the Silverado (horseradish, coconut, green chartreuse, grapefruit, lime, silver tequila). Basically a margarita with an earthy edge to it, the drink featured the horseradish in the mid-to-end notes without the characteristic sinus-clearing kick.
Like The Bachelor Farmer upstairs, the Marvel Bar also features a number of expertly-crafted classic cocktails — prepare for a strong, booze-forward highball if you go this route. (Read our review of The Bachelor Farmer — including a few cocktails — here)
Fans of La Belle Vie's lounge, unite — there's another cocktail-forward bar in town. Belly up to the bar, grab an Angophile and a $1 cup of Cheetos, and oh — by the way — you're not dreaming if you notice the "-1" floor on the elevator wall on your way out.
BEST BET: Try the Angophile, a drinkable, "Christmas-flavored" rendition of a flip.
Marvel Bar
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50 North 2nd Avenue
OWNERS: Eric and Andrew Dayton
Sun-Thu 5pm-12am
Fri-Sat 5pm-1am
BAR: Full
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The daughter of an artist and a music teacher, Maja spent much of her childhood traveling the country in a rusty old van, attempting to model all of her father's salable jewelry at the same time, and sampling the many edibles available both on the road and at the art fairs they visited. Though she now lives in Minneapolis, the coffee addiction and love for food that she picked up en route to one of their many destinations never left her. Between marketing work in the medical device industry and poring over the Harvard Business Review, she can typically be found holed up in her kitchen, baking bread every weekend and experimenting in between.
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Ryan Anderson (ankle sprain) has already been ruled out of Tuesday's game against the Lakers.
Anderson's stock has taken a sizable hit this season, as he's been replaced by more capable defensive options and is now a bit part in the rotation. The Rockets might try to move that contract during the offseason, though they're unlikely to find many takers.


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THE LITTLE SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT COULD: Kevin Drum published a sensible post!
The New York Times published a novel: Kevin Drum wrote a sensible post in the wake of the Stuyvesant uproar.
It happens every spring! Only a handful of black kids had been admitted to Gotham's most "elite" public high school. In response to the annual uproar, Drum offered several sensible points.
First, he said progressives "are ill-served by the continuing notion that every standardized test ever invented is racially biased in a massive way." A larger point, one which was implied by this statement, was directly stated in Drum's headline:
The Black-White Testing Gap Is Real, and It's a Disgrace
The nation's achievement gaps are real! So Drum said this day. He also said that we pseudo-progressives should stop pretending they aren't.
Drum's second basic point this day was even gloomier. He said he didn't know what to do about those achievement gaps. Indeed, he almost seemed to say that no one else seems to know what to do either:
DRUM (3/22/19): These gaps are real effects of education, not just an artifact of test-taking, and the fact that the gaps increase over time is good evidence that much of the fault lies with our schools and the communities they serve. We miss this if we insist that standardized tests are useless. After all, if there's no "real" gap at all, then our schools must be doing fine.
I'm no expert in how to close this gap, though I can say that there have been many dozens of serious efforts—some aimed specifically at schools, others aimed at parents and communities—and virtually all of them have failed. In any case, we shouldn't pretend there's nothing here except a bunch of racist test constructors.
Oof! Drum said that he himself is "no expert in how to close this gap." He seemed to say that "many dozens of serious efforts" at closing those gaps have tended to fail.
Drum said those gaps reflect actual failures, not simple artifacts of test construction or test-taking techniques. He said that "much of the fault lies with our schools." He also said that much of the fault "lies with the communities [our schools] serve." At one juncture, he even seemed to suggest that some of the "fault" may lie with children's parents.
Is Drum allowed to say such things in this dumbest of all possible worlds? We have no idea, but of one thing we can be sure:
Such comments will produce no discussion—none at all—within the liberal world.
Alas! Our massively self-impressed liberal world has long been one of the "communities" which fails to address that "national disgrace." That's due to our massive lack of interest in the lives and the interests of black kids.
Then too, we have the New York Times, which responded in the time-honored way to the Stuyvesant uproar, then behaved in a similar way on last Saturday morning's front page.
With respect to Stuyvesant, the Times responded with an ugly and stupid propaganda campaign designed to suggest that the achievement gaps in New York City actually aren't real.
It's all a matter of "test prep," this dumbest of all Hamptons-based newspapers said. Test prep, and the fiendish amounts of money spent on same by Those People, Gotham's devious Asians.
In weeks of insulting, ridiculous work, the Times used "test prep" as the way to prove that those very large achievement gaps aren't real. Last Saturday, the Times swing into action again, this time with a lengthy, front-page version of a favorite press corps novel.
The press has been pimping this heart-warming novel for at least the past fifty years. Though the novel can take on many forms, they all share a Platonic form. The name of this brain-dead novel is simple:
The Little School System That Could
The upper-end, liberal world has been typing this heart-warming novel at least since 1967. In that year, Herbert Kohl published his high-profile memoir, 36 Children, in which a nice guy shows up in a sixth-grade classroom in Harlem and the kids start writing novels.
However these pleasing tales may be intended, they promote an obvious fiction. They seem to say that those apparent achievement gaps really aren't real—that the gaps can quickly be erased by a nice guy who doesn't hate the kids, or by a hard-charging principal with some magic solution.
Subliminally, these stories tell liberals that we can go back to sleep when it comes to the interests of black kids. There's nothing to look at! Keep moving along! Or so we liberals are told.
There is no serious problem here—or so we progressives are told. We can go back to our slumbers at Slate, where we amuse and thrill ourselves through gong-show headlines like these:
My Sexually Generous Boyfriend Won't Even Kiss Me During My Period
Is this a deal breaker?
So it increasingly goes at Slate as the site tries to capture our eyeballs! As we type this report, those are the headlines on the featured, top of the front page report at that increasingly dumbed-down site.
Is it all anthropology now? If so, such presentations might help us liberals see how dumb we actually tend to be. Such presentations might help us see what kinds of topics we actually care about.
Of one thing we can be sure—we don't seem to care a whole lot about the interests of black kids. That basic fact comes through loud and clear in last Saturday's front-page report in the New York Times.
The lengthy report concerns a brand-new school in Akron, Ohio—a school which is being substantially funded, directed and supported by NBA star LeBron James.
The school has been designed to address the needs of some of Akron's lower-performing grade school kids—though it apparently doesn't enroll Akron's "lowest performers," who were apparently excluded from the lottery from which the school's students were chosen.
The school may turn out to be a success, but it's still in its first year. At this point, there's nothing substantial to suggest that the school has been an instant success, nor would any sane person think that any such evidence would or should exist at this early juncture.
The school has been open less than a year! Its students haven't even taken their first set of annual statewide tests.
Only a fool would think it made sense to evaluate this school at this point. Needless to say, in stepped the Times, with a heart-warming, pointless old novel.
In last Saturday's presentation, we were told that the school's third graders have made it all the way to the ninth percentile nationally on a somewhat obscure reading test.
(Presumably, that means that the school scored in the ninth percentile as compared to other schools, not that the school's average student scored in the ninth percentile as compared to other students.)
As a further example of this new school's success, we were told that one particular fourth grade girl has boosted her attendance record to a point where she'll only miss 36 days of school this year—a figure which means that her rate of absenteeism is double the rate the state of Ohio regards as "chronic absenteeism."
(And yes, that's treated as a success! It's the heart-warming, unexplained anecdote with which the Times report ends.)
A long line of functionaries at the school are quoted by the Times as they shower themselves with praise. Such statements have long been a staple when newspapers insult their readers' intelligence by retyping this favorite old novel.
In a stunning insult to black kids, these ridiculous markers are treated as signs of this school's early success. The New York Times is our dumbest newspaper, but it also seems to be the least caring—and we liberals seem to love the silly old novels it types.
The Little School System That Could has been a favorite press corps novel for perhaps fifty years. We'll discuss its history, its effects, and its blinding stupidity during the rest of the week.
The school in Akron has been open less than a year! No serious person would think it makes sense to evaluate the school at this time. That said, the school involves a famous celebrity—and the school could be used to retell a favorite old story.
Anthropologically speaking, that familiar old story has long been a tale our liberal tribe—we "rational animals"—very much seem to enjoy.
Tomorrow: The rise of this particular novel
Posted by bob somerby on Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Mao Cheng Ji April 16, 2019 at 11:32 AM
"They seem to say that those apparent achievement gaps really aren't real.."
They aren't, Bob.
Only in the sick mind of liberal zombie-racialists they are.
In reality, this whole 'controversy' is a tool for inciting 'racial' hatred, with the single purpose: to increase, by a couple of percentage points, the turnout of your cult's loyal ethnic group in the next election, and thus to catapult a few more of your zombie cult's bosses into centers of power.
Better trolling please.
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Alan Snipes April 16, 2019 at 12:20 PM
Children are not getting the support at home in order to take advantage of school. 70% of black kids are in single parent homes. Tell me how the schools are supposed to overcome this.
Also 100% of black kids are black, seemingly the basis for virulent and endless racism.
I'd rather not have specialized schools, meritocracy is a powerfully negative notion.
Drum's post sparked a rather lively discussion in his comment section. And also here at TDH. Not that Somerby takes any notice of that. Guess none of that counts.
Anyway, when your comment is a) "He said he didn't know what to do about those achievement gaps. Indeed, he almost seemed to say that no one else seems to know what to do either"
Or b) "Our massively self-impressed liberal world has long been one of the "communities" which fails to address that "national disgrace." That's due to our massive lack of interest in the lives and the interests of black kids."
...Neither of those statements is of much value as a conversation starter.
Kevin Drum, like Bob Somerby, has chosen to ignore the serious research that has gone into study of achievement gaps. That should be the perfect thing for Drum, since he likes to be a "numbers guy" and publishes stats and graphs all the time. In this case, he simply asserts his own ignorance, punts and complains about the news coverage. On the other hand, the failure to engage in substantive discussion is par for the course for Somerby.
Frankly, it ought to be embarrassing to both Drum and Somerby to expect that their feeble complaints are sufficient to spark any kind of discussion at all.
CMike April 16, 2019 at 3:50 PM
12:31 PM is nothing if not inconsistent:
Drum's post sparked a rather lively discussion in his comment section. And also here at TDH.
Three paragraph breaks later:
But let's go with the latter passage, how about links to three threads in the progblogosphere where the laity were engaged in "any kind of [more useful] discussion at all" about grade school education than those at Drum and Somerby's sites 12:31 PM?
David in Cal April 16, 2019 at 12:35 PM
Repeating an earlier comment, the article has an apparent error regarding percentiles. It says the students entered this school at the lowest percentile and improved to 9th or 16th in a few months. But, they were selected as performing between the 10th and 25th percentile. Why did students selected as between 10th and 25th perform at the lowest, when they entered the school? As it stands, this makes no sense.
At the very least, the contradiction deserves explanation, including (as Bob observed) what population the percentiles are of. Possibly there's an outright error. My guess is that the reporter probably doesn't understand percentiles.
I agree with David in Cal, it is definitely genetic.
"He said that "much of the fault lies with our schools." He also said that much of the fault "lies with the communities [our schools] serve." At one juncture, he even seemed to suggest that some of the "fault" may lie with children's parents."
That is about the most obvious thing one can say. The fault is with schools, community, parents. Brilliant! Next thing you'll tell us is that the solution is to have better schools, better community, and better parents. Problem solved!
Neither Drum nor Somerby has explained to what extent schools can be logically blamed for failures if the principal problem lies with community and parents. This sounds like the typical fact-free "blame the schools" discussion that Somerby once denounced.
Drum's presentation is about as weak as it gets.
Somerby's point has been that schools exacerbate the gaps by not recognizing they exist for many students from day one of their K-12 years. As a result, the approach in many school systems is to teach those who are behind, not according to their individual abilities throughout their enrollment years, but according to their grade level.
Huh, so schools do not take into account individual abilities, I did not know that, glad someone here knows so very much about how schools run, thanks for the knowledge, friend. (Lord, bless this child...)
Tracking, ability grouping, peer tutoring, cluster grouping, adaptive teaching, multi level teaching, heterogeneous grouping, inclusion, homogeneous grouping, differentiated teaching, cooperative learning, universal design learning, etc.....all alien notions to educators, no doubt.
Problem solved, obviously.
Not solved, but recognized.
The roots of the problem fall outside the scope of schools. So called liberals are the only people supporting policies to address this; however, conservatives would rather die than help Others.
Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
Right, "the roots of the problem fall outside the scope of schools" and, therefore, those institutions will not be able to resolve this problem of the gaps. However, this is a reality that is not recognized by those in the liberal elite who find it shocking and unacceptable that the student bodies of various academically elite schools do not demographically reflect the population from which they are drawn.
Somerby believes the consequence of this lack of realism has long prevented schools from tailoring curricula that would best serve those who are destined from day one of K-12 to be among the lower performers in their age group.
Difference in Black-White student achievement and achievement gap in grade 8 mathematics from the 0-20 percent Black student density category, by Black student density category: 2011
My guess is that LeBron James, being a liberal, doesn't really care about those black kids. He has opened this school as a way of making virtue-signaling liberals feel good about themselves. Also, the New York Times only cares about elite schools and top students, thus they don't really care about these very low performers featured in this article.
Eat shit.
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Giacomo o Jacopo Zanguidi, conocido como Bertoia (Parma, 22 de julio de 1544 - Roma, 1574), fue un pintor manierista italiano.

Biografía

Natural de Parma, fue uno de los pocos pintores que supo mantener el estilo del Parmigianino, aunque con una imaginación más sofisticada, tendente a lo fantástico.

Estudió en Bolonia, al parecer con Lorenzo Sabatini y tal vez con Ercole Procaccini. Su primer encargo de importancia, un estandarte con la Virgen de la Misericordia (1564, Galleria de Parma), parece revelar en buena medida esta formación boloñesa.

Al año siguiente Bertoia recibió el encargo de pintar un fresco con la Coronación de la Virgen (acabado a mediados de 1566), sobre la fachada del viejo Palazzo del Comune. Aunque actualmente esta obra está prácticamente destruida, se puede observar todavía en ella la asimilación del estilo de Parmigianino. Parece que Zanguidi tuvo que trabajar sobre antiguos diseños del maestro y a partir de aquí adoptó su maniera.

Frescos del palacio del Giardino. La sala del Baccio
En su siguiente obra Bertoia incorporó su propia creatividad al estilo aprendido. La Sala del Baccio (Palazzo del Giardino, Parma 1566-71) contiene una de las mejores muestras de la fantasía decorativa del manierismo del norte de Italia. Arquitecturas imposibles y salones de falsas columnas de cristal poblados de figuras voluptuosas muestran un ingenio virtuosista. Por su calidad y género, es lo más parecido que puede encontrarse a las decoraciones del palacio de Fontainebleau, de autores como Niccolò dell'Abbate, aunque no tan sujetos al clasicismo manierista.

Obras de madurez. El Oratorio del Gonfalone. Frescos de la villa Farnese de Caprarola
Sin embargo, Zanguidi fue capaz de adaptar su estilo a las circunstancias y dejar los excesos manieristas cuando el encargo así lo requería. A partir de 1568 entró al servicio de Ottavio Farnese y dividió su actividad entre Parma y Roma, donde anteriormente ya había estado brevemente. En la Ciudad de los Papas moderó su estilo, algo extravagante para el gusto local y acentuó las tendencias clásicas de su arte. El Oratorio del Gonfalone (ejecutada en dos períodos: 1568-1569 y 1572) contiene su Entrada de Cristo en Jerusalén. Su contribución en este proyecto, que se reveló como uno de los más importantes del manierismo romano, no pudo ser mayor, debido a los constantes requerimientos del cardenal Alejandro Farnese, para quien decoró la Villa Farnese de Caprarola, sustituyendo a Federico Zuccaro, con quien había colaborado (1569) en la Sala di Ercole del citado palacio parmesano. Allí pintó (1571-72 y 1573-74) las bóvedas de las salas del Giudizio, della Penitenza y dei Sogni y la Anticamera degli Angeli. Lamentablemente, el acento parmesano en estas obras es muy débil y se circunscriben en un estilo romano más sofisticado pero tal vez menos personal.

Valoración de su obra
La obra de Bertoia fue una de las últimas manifestaciones genuinamente creadoras del manierismo parmesano, que a partir de su muerte sufrió un considerable descenso de calidad e inspiración en manos de artistas como Pomponio Allegri, el hijo de Correggio, y Alessandro Mazzola, Giovanni Battista Tinti o Giulio Cesare Amidano.

Obras destacadas

Decoraciones al fresco
 Frescos de la fachada del Palazzo del Comune, Parma (1566)
 Coronación de la Virgen
 Frescos de la Capilla Pepoli de San Domenico, Parma (1566-68), en colaboración con Prospero Fontana.
 Frescos del Palazzo Lalatta, Parma (1566-68)
 Frescos del Castello Rossi, San Secondo (1568)
 Frescos del Palazzo del Giardino (1566-71)
 Frescos del Oratorio de Santa Lucía del Gonfalone (1569-72)
 Frescos del Palazzo Borri, Parma (1569-70)
 Frescos del Palazzo de Caprarola (1572-74)

Lienzos
 Virgen de la Misericordia (1564, Galleria Nazionale, Parma), su primera obra documentada.
 Virgen con el Niño (Museo di Capodimonte, Nápoles)
 Venus es conducida ante el cadáver de Adonis (Museo del Louvre, París)
 Paisaje fantástico (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Roma)

Bibliografía
 Sydney Joseph Freedberg (1978). Pintura en Italia, 1500-1600. Editorial Cátedra, Madrid. ISBN 84-376-0153-3
 The Grove Dictionary of Art, MacMillan Publishers (2000)
 Roberto Lasagni, Dizionario dei parmigiani

Enlaces externos

 Bertoia en Artcyclopedia

Pintores de Italia del siglo XVI
Pintores de Italia del Renacimiento
Pintores manieristas de Italia
Nacidos en Parma
Fallecidos en Parma

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Q: Why can't i come back to older working version of php after ugrade with error log on php 7.2 and 7.3 I'm getting locked out of */wp-admin/ there is an error log. Its after changing php 7.2 to php 7.3. The error doesn't disappear even if i go back to php 5.6 where MySQL_connect function exists and is used.

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Restoring website does not work. I disabled all plugins via phpmyadmin and by renaming folders in ftp. I changed theme to default too. Now even if i come back to my theme, some pages stay stuck on default theme even if i clear browser cache. Website is accessible: Tatouage Calypso, Tattoo Québec.I can't access wp-admin Maria DB is up to date. I tried multiple restores. Wp super Cache is deactivated i even trued to define to false the wp-cache entry in wp-config.php, i even added site url and home url in wp-config.php. I tried renaming .htaccess, i renamed theme directory to force fallback to default theme.

A: The problem was nd_mysqli php modules not activated for 7.2-7.3 but that still doesn't explain why restore didn't work once activated it worked but had some webmaster fix it for me. Maybe caching but i kept flushing caches.

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Q: memoization question - My memo dict performs better than lru_cache. Why? I have been playing with memorization and lru_cache... I have a quick question as to why my memoization code runs better than lru_cache.
My code:
memo = {}
def fib(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    elif n < 2:
        return 1
    else:
        if n not in memo:
            memo[n] = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
    return memo[n]
print(fib(900))

lru_cache code:
from functools import lru_cache

@lru_cache(maxsize=1000)
def fib(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    elif n < 2:
        return 1
    else:
       return fib(n -1) + fib(n -2)

print(fib(499))

The second I try to find the 500th fib number, I get the following error with lru_cache:
lk/Documents/VSCode/testing_zone/fibonacci_examples/fib_with_lru_cache.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\lk\Documents\VSCode\testing_zone\fibonacci_examples\fib_with_lru_cache.py", line 14, in <module>
    print(fib(500))
  File "c:\Users\lk\Documents\VSCode\testing_zone\fibonacci_examples\fib_with_lru_cache.py", line 11, in fib
    return fib(n -1) + fib(n -2)
  File "c:\Users\lk\Documents\VSCode\testing_zone\fibonacci_examples\fib_with_lru_cache.py", line 11, in fib
    return fib(n -1) + fib(n -2)
  File "c:\Users\lk\Documents\VSCode\testing_zone\fibonacci_examples\fib_with_lru_cache.py", line 11, in fib
    return fib(n -1) + fib(n -2)
  [Previous line repeated 496 more times]
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Yet on my simple dict memoization I can go up to 900 before I run into the same error
lk/Documents/VSCode/testing_zone/fibonacci_examples/fib_with_memo.py
54877108839480000051413673948383714443800519309123592724494953427039811201064341234954387521525390615504949092187441218246679104731442473022013980160407007017175697317900483275246652938800

My understanding is that both the dict and the lru_cache operate in the same way where they reference the dict or lru_cache to see if n is in them before recalling the fib(n) function.
My question is why are they not performing the same? Have I misconfigured the code or is there additional optimizations/code I need to use with lru_cache?
lru_cache must be working, as fib(400) is returned almost instantly, which wouldn't happen if the decorator was not there.

A: Your precise problem is that @lru_cache introduces a second function call. It literally puts a wrapper around the function fib.
When you think you're calling fib, you're actually calling the wrapper program.  It looks to see if the value is in its cache.  If so, it returns the value; if not, it calls the saved original definition of fib, puts the returned value in its cache, and then returns that value.
So when you call fib(500), your function call depth is 1000.  Your memoization program has inlined its cache into the function body, so the call depth is only 500.   Hence the error about maximum recursion.
You can find out the current recursion limit using sys.getrecursionlimit().  You can modify the limit using sys.setrecursionlimit().


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Weight Loss Diets
Noom vs. Weight Watchers: Which Is Better for You?
By Kelly Plowe, MS, RDN Updated January 6, 2021
Kelly Plowe
MS, RDN
Kelly Plowe, MS, RD is a food and nutrition communications expert. As a registered dietitian, Kelly helps consumers put health and nutrition research into practice.
LIVESTRONG.com may earn compensation through affiliate links in this story.
With both the Noom and WW weight-loss apps, no food is considered off limits.
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One thing we've never had a shortage of is weight-loss diets. And while it seems that each year there's a trendy new diet vying for your attention, it can be hard to determine which — if any — is right for you.
App-based diets are on a whole other level. There are nutrition plans, coaches, food tracking, in-app purchases and so on — it's enough to make your head spin. Sorting through that to understand what's what can really suck up your time.
Which is why we've matched up Noom and Weight Watchers (WW), two of the leading weight-loss apps available today. Read on to compare their features, pricing and structures to help you determine if one might fit your goals.
How Each Diet Works
Noom is a weight-loss app that focuses on diet, exercise and behavioral changes. It's that last part — behavioral changes — that really sets Noom apart from most other weight-loss programs. When you sign up, you receive a personalized plan focused on small lifestyle changes, which you'll work towards with the help of your personal health coach.
The program exists solely within an app where you're able to track your food intake, physical activity and motivation levels, interact with your personal health coach and community and also receive education.
What Exactly Is the Noom Diet — and Should You Try It?
Weight Watchers is a point system where every food is assigned a specific point based on its nutritional value. Similar to calorie-counting (just in a different currency), you have a set number of points you're allowed to eat each day and each week.
The Weight Watchers diet has undergone many renditions over the past 50 years, continuing to update as more scientific research is published. It too exists on an app where you're able to track your food and activity intake, and access workouts, recipes, your coach and the WW community.
Is Weight Watchers Right for You? Here's What You Need to Know
How the Diets Are Structured
After completing an initial questionnaire, you're provided an individualized plan based on your calorie needs. Noom also uses a color-coding system to indicate the following:
Green foods: These are the least calorie-dense and/or contain the highest concentration of healthy nutrients. These foods should make up the bulk of your diet. Examples: broccoli, apple, tofu, oatmeal and brown rice.
Yellow foods: These foods have more calories and/or less healthy nutrients per serving than green foods and should be part of your diet in more moderate proportions. Examples: grilled chicken, salmon, black beans and avocado.
Red foods: These foods are higher in calories and have the least healthy nutrients and should be eaten less and in smaller portions. Examples: olive oil, almonds, peanut butter, pizza, ice cream and fries.
Each day you log your food intake, track your motivation and exercise for the prescribed amount of time. The goal is to stay within the established calorie limit. You can connect with your coach or the online community if you have questions or have hit a roadblock. The app also gives you health and wellness info.
All of the coaches have undergone a specific training program to help them work with their clients, but they're not required to be a registered dietitian. The coaches work with you to customize your plan and help you understand your current choices and behaviors with the goal of making small and sustainable changes.
Looking to lose weight for good? Noom gives you the support and tools you need to stay focused and achieve your weight-loss goals.
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Weight Watchers is a point-based system. After completing a personal assessment, you're assigned to a blue, green or purple group, which determines the number of recommended points you should eat each day, along with specific food choices.
From there you track the foods you eat at each meal. Similar to calorie-counting, you want to stay within your "point budget." WW also provides a list of ZeroPoint foods that you don't have to track, like grapes, carrots and bananas. These foods vary depending on which color group you were assigned to in the beginning.
Through the app, you can access tons of recipes, workouts and a community. Weight Watchers also offers a rewards program.
Foods You Can and Can't Eat
When following Noom, there isn't any food that you can't eat. This is very different from other diets like paleo and Whole30 where there are literally lists of foods to avoid. Noom's color system helps guide you, by showing you which foods you should try to eat more and less of, but nothing's off the table.
WW follows the same philosophy: No food is off-limits. Like calorie-counting, you can eat whatever you want within your point allotment. That said, foods are assigned points to help guide you toward healthier choices. The ZeroPoint foods are included to offer more flexibility, as well.
How Much Does Each Program Cost?
Noom has a free version of the app where you're able to track your food intake, weight and activity. If you want to upgrade to receive your personal nutrition plan and coach, and access to the community and exercises, the fee is currently donation-based for a 14-day trial. The price after the trial is $129 for three months.
Weight Watchers has three membership plans:
Digital (access the app and website tools): A three-month plan that runs $3.22 per week
Digital + virtual workshops (get support from an expert and other members): $6.92 per week
Digital + personal coaching (receive a personalized plan with weekly one-on-one phone calls and unlimited messages): $12.69 per week
The programs are similar in many ways. They both offer an app, tracking system, workouts, coaches, community support and education via their apps, emails, newsletters and more.
Noom is unique from most other online programs because it offers a psychological aspect that digs into the "why" of weight loss. Noom helps you identify barriers to change that you may struggle with and enlists cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help you make long-term changes.
Weight Watchers is unique in that it has a three-tiered membership plan that allows you to pick a program that fits your needs, including virtual workshops, which are not available through Noom. They have a rewards program, studio locations and offer WW cruises, which are not available through Noom. Additional support is provided by WW through their own food line spanning across breakfast items to snacks and desserts.
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Results and Promises
Noom promises that it's the last weight-loss program you'll ever need. The results are backed by 15 published clinical studies. Some of the major findings include:
64 percent of Noom users lost more than 5 percent of their weight in a September 2016 study in the BMJ
78 percent of Noom users sustained weight loss over nine months in a November 2016 study in Scientific Reports
Weight Watchers says users can expect to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week. The diet ranks as the fourth Best Diet Overall and is tied for first (with the flexitarian diet) among the best Weight-Loss Diets by U.S. News & World Report.
So, Which Is Better for You?
Noom is probably best for someone who is interested in losing weight and is committed to tracking every meal. In the November 2016 Scientific Reports study, researchers found that while the rate of sustained weight loss was high, people who failed to track their dinners were not as successful. It's also smart for someone who's interested in learning more about their behaviors and how to make long-term changes, but it may be cost-prohibitive for some
Weight Watchers is also for someone looking to lose weight who wants flexibility in their diet. That said, you have to track your meals and be committed to tracking for success. It's not overly complicated like some other diets, so it might be a good option for someone who just wants to get started and not have to worry about learning the ins and outs of a new diet. It's not as costly as Noom (for the basic digital membership), so it may be appropriate for those on a tighter budget.
Neither Noom nor WW is appropriate or recommended for anyone with a history of disordered eating or an eating disorder. If you have a chronic medical condition or disease, you should consult with your doctor before adopting any new diet plan.
A weight-loss app that uses a color-coding system and calorie tracking. It focuses on diet, exercise and behavioral changes and enlists a personalized coach.
A weight-loss app that uses a point-based system, similar to calorie counting. It focuses on diet and exercise and offers a coach in one of its membership options.
How Is It Structured?
There are green, yellow and red foods. Each day you log your food intake, track motivation and work out. The goal is to stay within the established calorie limit.
You're assigned to a blue, green or purple group, which determines the number of points you should eat each day. Similar to calorie-counting, you want to stay within your "point budget."
Foods Allowed/Not Allowed
Noom's color system helps guide you, showing you which foods you should try to eat more and less of. No foods are off the table.
Like calorie-counting, you can eat whatever you want within your point allotment. That said, foods are assigned points to help guide you toward healthier choices.
The fee is currently donation-based for a 14-day trial, and the price after that is $129 for three months.
For the digital option, the cost is $3.22 per week. For digital and virtual workshops the cost is $6.92 per week, and for digital and a personal coach the cost is $12.69 per week.
Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and a personal coach.
A three-tiered membership program, virtual workshops, a rewards program, WW cruises and their own food line.
15 published clinical studies backing the diet's long-term weight-loss success.
Promises you'll lose 1-2 pounds per week.
BMJ: "Weight Loss Efficacy of a Novel Mobile Diabetes Prevention Program Delivery Platform with Human Coaching"
Scientific Reports: "Successful Weight Reduction and Maintenance by Using a Smartphone Application in Those with Overweight and Obesity"
U.S. News and World Report: "Best Diets Overall"
The Pros and Cons of the New MyWW Program, According to a Dietitian
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Career Interventions cover a multitude of psychological tests, character analysis and mentoring. Many people also call these programmes Personal Development Programmes. PDPs are the tools that a good careers advisor can use to help you work out what you like doing, discover how you think, work and perhaps your personality. These programmes can also help you define your strengths and weaknesses, passions and dreams. Being armed with all of this information will help you when it comes to choosing what next whether looking at Higher Education or when applying for jobs.
What can a school, college or university do to help you on your way to a great career?
Apart from having excellent career staff - essential guides to an unknown land - careers departments should offer lots of Careers Interventions - programmes and opportunities where and through which you can learn about careers including opportunities to experience work, involving real employers or other outside experts.
One key indicator to look for is a CEIAG Quality Award. Schools that hold one of these take careers seriously.
We are setting out to document the individual Careers Interventions that schools use so that parents can have a clear view of what is on offer, and how this compares with other schools.
If you are a parent looking at a school, you will be able to see which Careers Interventions a school uses, and what each of these interventions or programmes offer your child.
If you are a teacher looking to improve careers provision, you will be able to see who is out there offering interventions, what they do, and which other schools use them (so you can ask for their opinions).
There are many tests and different processes that advisors have in their toolboxes. Some are better than others so; we have asked Careers advisors at Good Schools Guide Schools to tell us which ones they consider to be the most insightful, accurate, accessible and of course useful in helping children reach their potential.
Access Project (The): Delivers a personalised programme for year 10s to year 13s to support them in securing places at the UK's most selective universities.
Access Aspiration: Helps you do just that. Currently London only.
Ahead Partnership: Connects schools with local employers to develop work-related activities for pupils.
Aspire-igen: Provides employability, training and guidance services in Yorkshire and beyond.
AspirePeople: Is an education recruitment agency that also provides a list of useful resources for teachers, cover supervisors and students.
Barclays LifeSkills: Helps you to identify skills, gain experience, be inspired and supercharge your CV.
Believe in Young People: Is a charity which prepares and places young people into the world of work.
BestCourse4Me: A free service that aims to provide the most up to date information to help students decide on what course is right for them.
Big Bang Fair (The): Is an award-winning Fair for Young Scientists & Engineers, celebrating science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
Bridge2Work: Run by Loughborough College, students can receive job coaching, help with apprenticeships applications, careers advice etc.
Brightside: The top UK providers of e-mentoring for career and uni choices.
Brilliant Club (The): A charity that places doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in state schools with the aim of helping pupils secure places at selective universities.
Brokerage (The): A charity that introduces thousands of young Londoners to City careers and has helped thousands to access career opportunities.
BT Moving On: Offers job application and interview skills for young adults aged 14-19.
Business in the Community - Business Class: Creates partnerships between schools and businesses that are beneficial to both parties.
Career Academies: Are schools-within-schools' which offer learning through career-related classes focusing on skill-sets for a chosen industry.
Careers and Enterprise Company: Offers the world of work to schools and invests in locations that need support.
C&K Careers: Offers quality, impartial information, advice and guidance services to young people and adults.
Career Connect: Offers quality independent careers advice to young people and adults. It works with parents, schools/colleges and businesses.
CareerMap: A leading website for 15-19-year-olds looking for a pathway into apprenticeships and early career opportunities.
Career Ready: A charity that links employers with schools and colleges to open up the world of work to young people.
careersbox: Shows careers films on the web.
Careers Explorer: An easy to use program to generate career ideas. By answering job-related questions you can compare your skills and interests with graduate jobs.
Careers for Schools: Offers online careers packages, available directly to schools, by annual subscription.
Careers Lab: Provides a framework to bring together schools and businesses, with the aim of inspiring young people to think about their futures.
Careers South West: Offers information, guidance and support to people and organisations.
Careers World: Covers many different academic courses, apprenticeships courses and vocational training in the UK. It also lists jobs and apprenticeships.
CASCAID: Is the leading producer of careers information and guidance solutions.
Challenge (The): Is the UK's leading charity for building a more integrated society. Its programmes are NCS, HeadStart and Step Forward.
Citizenship Foundation: Helps teachers to teach citizenship and helps young people understand politics, the law and democratic life.
City Year UK: As role models, tutors and mentors, City Year's volunteers help children from disadvantaged communities succeed in school.
Class Careers: Enables students direct access to employers from the comfort of their classroom via online worshops.
CXK: Provides advice and guidance to help people progress into, education, training or meaningful employment in Kent, Medway, Sussex and Essex.
Discover What Matters: Find advice, games, quizzes and inspiration to help you find the career path which might suit you.
Do-it.org: This is a website that has lots of volunteering opportunities. It is possible to search by town or postcode.
EDT: Some basic and some seriously challenging STEM experiences
Engineering in Motion: Provides educational experiences through the magnetic appeal of Formula 1, motorsport and automotive engineering.
EngineeringUK: Works with the engineering community to promote the vital role of engineers and engineering to society.
Envision: Brings together schools, local businesses, charities and volunteers to provide a practical learning experience.
F1 in Schools: Supported by Formula 1, F1 in Schools is a global STEM challenge and competition.
Fast Tomato: Offers online career guidance programmes for teenagers, helping students explore the different career opportunities open to them.
Form the Future: Connects schools and businesses to help students prepare for their future careers.
Founders4Schools: Aims to improve the opportunities of students by giving them access to inspirational business leaders in the community.
Future First: Creates and runs effective alumni networks for state schools.
Future Foundations: Uses experiential learning to develop confidence, character, ambition. Home of the McKinsey Leadership Academy.
Future Frontiers: One-to-one coaching from university students.
FutureLearn: Try out university subjects before you commit to them.
Futures Advice: Provides employment training, careers advice and apprenticeships to young people and adults.
future-talent.com: A website listing apprenticeships, entry-level jobs, advice, training and courses.
Futureversity: Provides free courses and activities for 11-25-year-olds across Tower Hamlets and London.
GFutures: Works with people of all ages in Gloucestershire to improve their futures.
Global Generation: Works with young people, businesses and families in King's Cross as well as at its campsite in Wiltshire.
Greenpower: Aims to advance education in the subjects of sustainable engineering and technology to young people.
Groundwork UK: Re-connects people with nature while transforming neighbourhoods.
Guides: Go on trips, take up activities, develop skills, improve your confidence and take up leadership roles.
Ideas4Careers: Career advice and guidance service for young people, parents, schools/colleges and adults in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Inspira: Careers advice and guidance centres in Cumbria and North Lancashire; there is also a National Citizen Service programme.
Inspiring Futures: Full-line careers advice.
Inspiring the Future: Draw on the careers experience of a huge range of successful people.
Inspiring Women: Women volunteer to talk to girls in state schools about the jobs they do and how they got there.
IntoUniversity: Learning centres where young people are inspired to achieve a university place or a chosen aspiration.
Key UK (The): Runs projects for young people aged 11-25 in the North East, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
Learn by Design: Provides educational products and services to inspire future generations.
Manufacturing Institute (The): Offers world-class education and training, carried out by manufacturers for manufacturers.
Mosaic: Runs mentoring programmes at schools and for ex-offenders as well as leadership programmes.
Moving On Magazine: Explores gap years, apprenticeships, work experience and further education.
My Big Career: Free careers support for schools with high levels of disadvantaged pupils.
MyBnk: Delivers financial education and enterprise directly to 11-25-year-olds in schools and youth organisations.
MyKindaFuture: Organises challenges and interactions with major companies in a wide range of UK schools
National Careers Service: Provides careers information, advice and guidance.
National Citizen Service: A program that offer exhilarating challenges to 15-17-year-olds.
NCVO: Connects, represents and supports volunteering and the volunteering sector.
Not Going to Uni: A website listing apprenticeships, gap years, distance learning opportunities and jobs.
One Education: Supports educational professionals.
Outstanding Careers: Specialists in providing cost-effective careers support, consultancy and bespoke training.
Outward Bound Trust (The): Runs challenging and adventurous outdoor learning programmes help develop young people.
PET-Xi: Works with schools across the UK to deliver intensive interventions for students who are at risk of not achieving their academic potential
Primary Futures: Aids primary school children by helping them make the connections between their learning and their futures.
Prospects: Guides students to make the right choice of career.
ReachOut: Helps young people from disadvantaged communities in London and Manchester via one-to-one mentoring.
Right to Succeed: Aims to find, pilot and replicate solutions to educational inequality in schools.
SACU-Student: Offers innovative help with choosing uni courses and careers.
SchoolLeaverJobs: Has loads of jobs and apprenticeships for school leavers.
Scouts: Offers 6-25-year-olds fun and challenging activities, everyday adventure and the chance to help others.
Skills East of England: The region's biggest skills, jobs and careers event for young people.
Skills Show (The): The nation's largest skills, apprenticeships and careers event.
Sky Academy: Uses the power of creativity, TV and sport to inspire young people.
Smallpiece Trust (The): Supports 12-18-year-olds who wish to bring their ideas to life through STEM.
Solutions for the Planet: Works to promote education for sustainable development, social enterprise, and STEM careers.
Speakers for Schools: Provides talks from some of the UK's leading figures at UK state schools.
Springboard Charity (The): Helps deliver the skills to succeed in a career within hospitality, leisure and tourism.
STEM Insight: Offers staff in schools and colleges a chance to experience STEM-related work in industrial or university settings.
STEM Learning: Support for teachers and others involved in STEM education.
STEMNET: Organises visits from working professionals to help with science, technology and maths
Step up to Serve: Promotes social action among 10-20 year-olds.
Student Room (The): A place where you can discuss GCSEs, A Levels, universities, health, lifestyle and careers.
Success at School: A a nationwide careers website for students aged 13-19 years.
TechFuture Badge Academy: Inspires young people to build tech skills, outside the usual formal qualifications.
TechFuture Women's Network: A network of female tech professionals who volunteer their time to inspire young people.
Techmix: A leading digital skills and digital careers magazine. Also, runs an annual Digital Summer Trip.
Tenner Challenge: An interactive way for students to develop key business skills using real money.
ThinkForward: Helps improve the chances of making a successful transition from education into employment.
Tomorrow's Engineers: A platform for employers to work with schools to inspire students to consider engineering as a career.
Twenty Twenty: Helps young people gain confidence, earn qualifications, learn work-ready skills and get a job.
U-Explore: An online web app for 11-19-year-olds to explore career and training paths.
Unifrog: A platform for schools to bring into one place every apprenticeship, university course and college course in the UK.
Universe of Engineering: aims to encourage more young people to consider careers in STEM-related professions.
Volunteer It Yourself: Combines volunteering and DIY while fixing up local youth club and community centre buildings.
WA: Sometimes has details of internships for motivated and politically interested individuals.
workinsight.org: Provides short structured work placements for 14-19-year-olds, via their school or college.
WorldSkills UK: Champions world-class apprenticeships and technical skills.
Young Enterprise: Runs hands-on employability and financial education programmes.
Your Future Careers Fairs: More than 100 fairs run annually for 11-18-year-olds.
Your Life: A 3 year STEM campaign to ensure the UK has the Physics and Maths skills it needs to succeed in today's economy.
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The Catholic hierarchy teaches that God created a binary system of male and female bodies that are supposed to complement each other. They believe that women and men are equal in worth and dignity, yet their physical and anatomical differences are evidence that God intends different roles and purposes for them in church, society and the family. This system not only reinforces women's suffering but oversimplifies the complexity of gender identity, erasing whole communities of people made in God's image.
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A change in the scheduling of Garden City Community College's theater program College Players has moved the anticipated play Death of a Salesman to their April performance next semester. When asked, over email interview, why this change had occurred Phil Hoke, College Players director, stated,
"One of our cast members had a significant health related concern. I can't say more due to Hippa Privacy laws, but it was important to move the show to allow the student to recuperate in full which is happening." Though the change was sudden, it is merely a small set back as the theater still plans to present their own, smaller, showcase plays to the public.
"There is no negative effect. Decisions are always made by asking the question, What's best for students? In this situation, it would have been detrimental to move forward with the original production. I have actually been quite surprised, and frankly, delighted with the way students have responded to the showcase idea." Hoke said in his email, "Each element of the showcase was voted upon and approved by students for inclusion. I've basically pulled back and let them take the lead on organizing the event. The way the cancellation has affected students is that they have taken ownership of the situation and they seem fully empowered." The show for Death of a Salesman will be a much smaller showcase created by one of the students in the program.
"We will present a student showcase entitled Students 4 Students on Oct. 18. and 19. The showcase will feature the kind of performances students participate in when we go to Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival" Hoke continued in his email, "Our students participate in a variety of ways including Design Expo, Irene Ryan Competition, and 10-minute plays. To stand out we often perform original work since we are competing against Universities and Graduate Students. The production will feature original dramatic and comedy duets along with some music and dance. The performance will contain adult content. So viewer discretion is advised." Though theses showcases will still involve the students originally casted for Death of a Salesman, the play not have community members cast for parts in Death of a Salesman. All is not lost though, as these members will return to their parts in the spring for Death of a Salesman. The showcase itself will be performed on both Oct. 18. and 19. at 7:30 p.m. and is completely free to all community members and students alike. Come and see the student showcase and a student original 'Santa's Got the Flu' coming in late Nov.
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Just a few pics of my little ones that was taken today when we were out. Today was a kiddy rides day for my babies.
Love this pic of Beanie wearing sunglass, he looks so cool!
In the box: Rice, beef with onion, spinach, waterapple and corn.
How come my angel doesn't look like an angel? My girl thinks it is coz of the wings. Hehe.. I was too lazy to search for pics of the angel and hence, come out with my own version using the egg sheets that I still have. And I was trying to make the bento looked more colourful.
My 老二 requested to have soba for his bento.
I used green colored egg sheet for the 'grass'. Quite happy how the egg sheet turned out.
Simple sandwiches with grapes & raspberries.
Nowadays, morning I'm always in a rush... Don't have the luxury to take my time to prepare cute bento for them.
Pic was taken after their bubble fun and they were having their Macdonald dinner.
Beanie is 17 months old! The highlight of the month would be he uttered his very FIRST 2 syllabus word, BABY! Little Beanie loves baby! Whenever he sees one, he excitedly point to the baby and say it. He does that too when he sees it on TV.
♥ He already has full set of teeth.
♥ He is very excited when he sees an animal or birds. He will point it out to me, "there!"
♥ Nowadays, he follows what I do.... I use the magic clean everyday and he does that do. Love to see the way he is so focused when he does something.
♥ He likes to play with jiejie's Baby Alive, coz 'she' giggles! He shows affection to 'her', cuddling and patting 'her', as if trying to put 'her' to bed. So cute!
♥ Sometimes, if Beanie doesn't know how to play some of LZ's toys, he will sit with them and fiddle with their toys. After observing how they play, he is able to do it (most of the time).
♥ He still enjoys reading & scribbling. He often sees his siblings reading and when he sees that, he (usually) picks up a book to 'read' too. He 'upgraded' to drawing on our walls! We give him lots of paper to scribble but he still does that.
♥ Their computer chair is now Beanie's favourite chair. LZ use it to push him around the house FAST and he loves it! He sit on it (next to me) while I'm at the computer or he wants it when he watches TV.
My little ones had fun today with bubbles. Beanie loves to play bubbles!
Little Beanie was soooo full of energy before bedtime! He did this for more than 15 mins or longer (We didn't see the time). We didn't stop him coz we had so much fun watching him doing it. Love the part when he wiped his perspiration. Cute!
My 2 older ones didn't want to appear in the video coz they were shy (one in the underwear and the other shy).
His FIRST Tooth (yesterday)!! Yeah! Z waited a long time for it to happen. Why? So that tooth fairy will visit him and he will get a $10, just like his sister!
Unlike his sister, Z's tooth dropped on its own. It happened when he was having his meal!
Z read a book on tooth fairy and has been talking about ever since. He asked jiejie and me many questions on tooth fairies. Now that L is older, she knows there is no tooth fairy at all and mommy was the one who placed the $$ under the pillow. We kept quiet about, we didn't want to dampen his excitement. Love the way how L played along with it, told him what they will do with the teeth they collected etc... She also quietly told me exactly where he placed his tooth.
This morning, Z jumped with excitement when he saw the $10 note. "Mommy! Mommy! The tooth fairy came! My tooth is gone! See? She gave me the money!"
In the box: Bagel pizza with sausages, quail eggs, rapsberries & champagne grapes.
Bagel pizza? Or pizza bagel? I'm not sure too. What matters is that it is yummy! We had these for lunch too except Beanie. I still have threadfin the fridge so I cook porridge for him.
The shaped quail eggs looked quite odd to be in this bento but I wanted to try out the stencil again. My girl didn't mind coz she got cute food in her bento.
In the boxes: Brown rice, quail eggs, stir fry veggie, sliced pork, champagne grapes & raspberries.
Z finished everything in the box, including veggie. Hmm.... Cute bento does help I think.
While I was preparing bento, Beanie passed me the bento bag! He knew what I need and where to take it from! Bravo my boy! He is one of my little helper now that we don't have a helper.
We have sent our new helper back to the agent and decided NOT to have a live-in helper anymore.
This new helper threw away my kids' graduation & annual concerts DVDs without asking me. SIX DVDs! I can't describe how upset I am..... She was with me for less than a week when this happened. To cut the story short, attitude problem was the main reason that we sent her back. 2 days after sending the 3rd maid back, hub found a note in our shoe cabinet for her. A man date her out!!!!
My 2nd helper, is just as bad. She was dirty, lazy, etc... She took a whole day just to clean my house! Sometimes I wondered what she did when we were not at home. I do not need her to do all the cooking and she does not need to take care of Beanie at all. Many times, she was in daze. She is not new, with 2 years experience. The day the agent picked her up, we were shocked to find out she has been going out when she send my girl for ballet.
After looking back at our experience with helpers, we have no regret sending them off. Yes, it will be tough for me to handle 3 kids on my own, cooking & chores. At least I don't feel stress anymore. Maybe it is too soon to say that but I hope things will work out fine for us.
In the box: Baked drumstick, fishballs, rice, spinach rolled with carrots & waterapple.
The bento looked so plain so I added 2 fishballs with features on them but I have no idea what were they! They looked so weird. To make me happy, my girl told me they looked like 2 cute little bears.
In the box: Snoopy & Woodstock shaped rice, baby corn, pork rolled with asparagus, Japanese fish cake, longan & cherry.
I bought the snoopy set more than a year back and I forgot about it. If Beanie has not been ransacking my bento stuffs, I doubt I remember it.
My girl can't tell it is snoopy till I told her. She was quick to respond when she saw I was a little disappointed. "Oh! Mommy! I forgot the name of the character so I that's why I said I don't know." My sweet little girl.
Think I used a box that is a little too big.... Tried to put in more food to fill up the space and end up L can't finish everything inside the box (except the rice).