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Brad Bird for imagining The Incredibles
Latest hit: The first animated action film. "Until The Incredibles, the conventional wisdom was that animators can't do action," Bird says. "Entertainment Weekly said it won't work because it's too hard to put characters in jeopardy. But it's all about how you do it."
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Fast start: At 14, Bird sent his first movie – a 15-minute take on The Tortoise and the Hare – to Disney and landed a job working with master animator Milt Kahl (Bambi, Cinderella). After fleeing the Magic Kingdom, he collaborated with Matt Groening on The Simpsons, then went on to direct The Iron Giant. He joined Pixar in 2000.
Hair remover: With CG, you can produce infinite detail. The trick is knowing when to stop. "At a certain point, people look deformed, because the skin is realistic and all the folds are there." Bird says. "We struck a balance: We have eyebrow hair, but not nose hair."
Despair remover: "When I see a really bad and cynically made film, I come out of it despairing for the medium," Bird says. "So instead of letting that sit with me, I make sure that I watch 15 or 20 minutes of a great movie." Faves: The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Right Stuff.
Damn bandwagon: "Film is essentially an intuitive medium; it's for gamblers. Businessmen hate that, so they have placebos like 'such-and-such actor is surefire' to help them get through the night. Right now, CG animation is surefire. It's 1995 all over again. In 1995, everyone thought that full animation with five Broadway tunes and a familiar story with some contemporary wisecracking was the route to success. Most people failed and ran away with their tail between their legs. Now a lot of those same people are back because computers are here. But you're never going to convert a bad idea into a good one."
Next: "If Pixar is interested in doing what I'm interested in doing next, I'd love to stay here," says Bird, 48, who won two Oscar nominations for The Incredibles. But he's not ruling anything out. "I want to jump around genres and mediums. Expect the unexpected." – Jennifer Hillner
The other nominees • Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation • Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind • Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Team America: World Police • Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2
Shigeyuki Hori for putting the Prius on the fast track
Latest hit: The new Prius, a redesigned hatchback built around Toyota's second-generation hybrid power train. For the 2004 model, Hori brought together a team of computer, electrical, and mechanical engineers to improve acceleration, vehicle handling, and fuel �efficiency. "It was the first time all three groups ever worked side by side," he says.
Hot wheels: Despite a six-month waiting list in parts of the US, Toyota sold almost 54,000 Priuses last year – more hybrids than all other automakers combined – and has doubled production to meet surging demand.
Road ahead: For years, Detroit has given lip service to the importance of fuel economy while churning out gas-guzzling road tanks. Meanwhile, Toyota quietly began designing an internal combustion engine that would work in concert with an electric motor. The Prius is more fuel-efficient than the best diesels and emits 95 percent fewer smog-forming emissions. "The hybrid system is a core technology for the future," Hori says. "Even our fuel cells and electric systems will use it."
Life in the fast lane: Hori set the hybrid speed record this summer when he got a Prius up to 135 mph at Utah's Bonneville salt flats. "Bonneville was fun," he says. "But I'm used to going much faster."
Next: A version of Hori's hybrid engine will power two four-wheel-drive SUVs this year, the 270-horsepower Lexus RX400h and the Toyota Highlander. But the Prius chief engineer is not stopping there. "We can make the engine faster with quicker acceleration, and we can continue to improve fuel economy," he says. "In the near future, we'll see smaller motors and smaller, lighter batteries that offer more power." – Jeffrey M. O'Brien
The other nominees: • Alex Bogusky, executive creative director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky • Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computer • Yuanqing Yang, president, vice chair, and CEO, Lenovo • Jong-Yong Yun, vice chair and CEO, Samsung Electronics
Steven Squyres for keeping Spirit and Opportunity roving
Latest hit: Overseeing the missions of the tough little Mars bots Spirit and Opportunity. The rovers were �supposed to last 90 Martian days and travel about 2,000 feet. But they're still going after more than 300 days and a couple miles of driving – and they've found signs of ancient water on the Red Planet.
Cool world: Mars is nice, but Squyres, a Cornell University planetary scientist, finds inspiration in the moons of Jupiter. "I'd love to see a Europa mission, man. Land on the thing, melt through the ice, find out what's in it, what's underneath it."
Would he go? "Hell, yeah. In a heartbeat."
Space fever: As a Cornell undergrad, Squyres talked his way into the university's Mars Room, an archive packed with photographic data. "I was going to sit down and flip through some pictures for 15 or 20 minutes," he says. "I stayed four hours and walked out knowing exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life." When Squyres graduated, famed astronomer and documentary host Carl Sagan asked him to work on the Voyager mission.
Next: NASA has ongoing missions to Mars through 2009, and Squyres, 49, is on teams for all of them. He's also working on image analysis for the Cassini probe of Saturn and its �mysterious moons. – Adam Rogers
The other nominees: • Peter Brown & Team, paleoanthropology, University of New England, Australia • Drew Endy, synthetic biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • James Hansen, climatology/science policy, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies • Richard Jefferson, biotechnology and intellectual property, Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS)
Robert Lanza for eye-opening work on embryonic stem cells
Latest hit: Lanza and his team at Advanced Cell Technology, where he is vice president of medical and scientific development, coaxed embryonic stem cells to develop into retinal cells. "They literally form little eyeballs growing out of the petri dish," he says. The experiment showed for the first time that looking at the transcriptome, or pattern of mRNA expression, can help researchers quickly spot cells that will mature into specialized tissue. Oh yeah, and the retinal cells that grew could lead to a cure for some forms of blindness.
Genetic underground: At 13, Lanza set up a lab in his parents' basement and genetically engineered albino chickens. With the help of some Harvard �scientists, the work was published in Nature: while he was still in high school.
Masters & service: He's worked with Jonas Salk, B. F. Skinner, and Christiaan Barnard. Their advice: Make a difference. "There are 3,000 Americans dying every day from diseases I believe could be treated using stem cell tech�nology," Lanza says.
Mad as hell: Lanza condemns the federal ban on embryonic stem cell research. "We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind," he says. "How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?"
Next: Massachusetts-based ACT is opening a satellite branch in California to take advantage of the state's $3 billion fund for stem cell research. – Mark Robinson
The other nominees: • Chester Buckenmaier, anesthesiology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center • John Donoghue, neuroscience, Cyberkinetics • Bette Korber, HIV bioinformatics, Los Alamos National Laboratory • Jonathan Tilly, reproductive biology, Harvard Medical School
Rem Koolhaas for transforming the library. Next up: Beijing's skyline.
Latest hit: The new crown jewel of Seattle. Koolhaas and his firm, OMA, didn't set out to build a house of books. The architects wanted to crack a bigger problem: how to store information. "A library has to adapt to social and technological change and to the accumulation of books," says Koolhaas.
Novel solution: The Books Spiral, a continuous ramp of shelves winding from the sixth floor up. It holds the library's roughly 750,000 volumes in Dewey Decimal Classification order, and as the collection grows, books can be packed in more densely, maintaining the sequence.
Post-Pritzker: Koolhaas, 60, built a reputation – and won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2000 – with a series of head-turning designs in the 1970s and '80s. While very few of his early plans were actually built, no one can call him a paper architect these days. In the past 18 months, OMA completed eight projects and won seven more, including the redevelopment of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Writing roots: His own books – especially 1978's Delirious New York – have garnered almost as much acclaim as his architecture. (Koolhaas began his career as a journalist and guest-edited Wired 11.06.) This year, look for a book on Lagos, Nigeria, and another on Rome as the first global city.
Next: Kill the conventional skyscraper, which Koolhaas says "is no longer an interesting form." For the new China Central TV headquarters, which broke ground in September, he's creating a 54-story building in the shape of an Escher-like loop. – Jessie Scanlon
The other nominees: • Santiago Calatrava, World Trade Center PATH Terminal, New York • James Corner & Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, The High Line, New York • Frank Gehry, Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts • Yoshio Taniguchi, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Danger Mouse for bringing mash-ups to the masses
Latest hit: His remix masterpiece The Grey Album, a fusion of Jay-Z's rhymes with tunes by the Beatles. After hearing the bootleg, the Fab Four's label served the formerly unknown DJ with a cease-and-desist order.
Critical mass: But the tracks were already on P2P networks, and within a month they were downloaded more than a million times. The Grey Album made it so big that Entertainment Weekly rated it the best record of 2004.
Breaking rules: The 27-year-old Atlantan names Protestant reformer Martin Luther as an idol. "He proved that you can't always ask for permission if you want to make progress."
Breaking records: Danger Mouse rocketed to fame thanks to file-sharing – most people first heard his work after downloading it for free – and he foresees further collapse of the record industry. "In the future, history books will say there was once a time when people got paid millions of dollars for selling CDs. Kids will be like, 'Get out of here with that crazy talk!'"
Next: Coproducing the upcoming Gorillaz album, due in May. "It's a completely new experience for me," he says. "It's no longer me sitting there in my bedroom, making tracks out of random records I have lying around." – Eric Steuer
The other nominees: • Björk, Medulla • Prince, Musicology • The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free • TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Blair Harrison for on-demand video highlights (hello, Ashlee Simpson!)
Landmark achievement: Pumping out a million downloads a day, Harrison's company, iFilm, is like a cross-�platform TiVo that ports must-see TV anywhere the Net goes, finally making good on the promise of video-on-demand. Who knew we'd demand supermodel catfights rather than Citizen Kane?
Eureka moment: Jon Stewart's infamous bitch-slapping of former Crossfire host Tucker Carlson and cohost Paul Begala. "Everyone needed a hero, and Stewart has the zeitgeist of his audience firmly in his grasp," Harrison says. "The clip wasn't just popular, it was Janet Jackson's-breast popular. A lot of people downloaded the clip who would never have watched Crossfire – me included."
Game on: Harrison's first venture in the tech business was developing computer graphics software. The impetus: Disney's breakthrough 1982 CGI-fest, Tron. "That film made a huge impact on me," says Harrison, now 38. "Before I knew about psychedelics, it was truly otherworldly. I loved the fact that Tron was a coherent world with its own rules, all under the control of machines and made out of code."
Clip he'd most like to see: "Einstein's wife sitting at the kitchen table, teaching her husband the mathematics that he needed to do relativity. That's a true story. Or footage of the asteroid impact that toasted the dinosaurs."
Next: "What we have is a good aggregation of clips with a slow-moving magazine-format Web site on top of it. The next version of iFilm will look more like a video blog, with the most recent addition at the top. What's the hottest movie trailer in the last few hours? That's what people want to see." – Steve Silberman
The other nominees: • Mitchell Hurwitz, Arrested Development • Jon Stewart, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Xzibit, Pimp My Ride • David Willis & Matt Maiellaro, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Kevin Sites for rewriting the rules of war reporting
Latest hit: Not content to be just a photographer, cameraman, reporter, and on-air correspondent, Sites pioneered the new new journalism of war-�blogging, enhancing his one-man-band dispatches from Iraq for NBC News with revealing, extended posts on Kevinsites.net. "Most of my daytime career is spent spitting out one- to two-minute reports," says Sites, 42. "The blog is a way for me to get away from that. To write loooooong."
Under fire: In November, while embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Sites videotaped a US soldier shooting and killing an apparently unarmed Iraqi lying on the floor of a Falluja mosque. The footage was front-page news, and Sites became part of the story – should he have used the footage? did he betray the Marines? With a 2,600-word post directed to the "Devil Dogs of the 3.1," Sites eloquently explained himself. "The blog gave me a voice to directly clarify what I had seen and videotaped; my account didn't have to be filtered through someone else's writing or perspective. I was able to take responsibility for my actions while providing background that helped people achieve a fuller understanding."
On a roll: Sites started as a photographer for Ohio's Geneva Free Press – at age 15. "I lied about my age. I didn't even have a driver's license; I had to ride my bike to shoot rotary meetings, local sports, and church events."
Not that kind of blogger: "I don't want to get to the point where I'm telling people what CDs I like and what I ate for breakfast. That's not why they're coming to me."
Next: Sites is working with NBC to create a training program for other "sojos" (solo TV journalists) as well as writing a book on covering global conflicts. – Thomas Goetz
The other nominees: • Ana Marie Cox, Wonkette.com • Mark Cuban, Blogmaverick.com • Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com • Rex Sorgatz, Fimoculous.com
Jeff Hawkins for rethinking the way we think
Latest hit: On Intelligence, Hawkins' bold theory of how the brain works. A neuroscience manifesto might be the last thing you'd expect from the guy who conceived the PalmPilot PDA and the Treo smartphone. Between product launches, though, Hawkins has been studying the human neocortex for 25 years. "I was fearful that I might go to my grave and not communicate this stuff," he says. "The day I finished writing the book, I felt a huge relief. No matter what happens, the ideas are out there."
Brainstorm: The key to his model of the neocortex appeared in a flash. Sitting at his desk in a UC Berkeley dorm in 1987, he noticed a coffee cup that hadn't been there before. "I thought, 'How do I know this thing is new?' And, bingo, it all fell into place: The brain works by making a steady stream of predictions about the state of the world."
Simple rules: Hawkins finds encouragement in a constant of scientific history: Even when a problem looks too complex to solve, the solution usually turns out to be straightforward. "I have to remind myself, the answer is simple," he says. "Look for it and you'll find it."
Beyond reason: "Intuition leads scientists astray every time," he says. "Your intuition about the nature of reality is very likely to be wrong. Instead, take a careful look at what you know. The answer is hidden there."
Next: Hawkins, 47, hopes to build an industry based on his ideas about the brain. Machines that think the way humans do, he believes, will succeed where AI has failed. The first test will be to make a device that can see and identify what it's looking at. "We're building stuff that makes me say, 'Oh my God, this works,'" he says. "Over the next 12 months we'll figure out how to make a business out of it." – Ted �Greenwald
The other nominees • Thomas Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map • Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell • Rael Dornfest, Dale Dougherty & Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Hacks series • James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
Burt Rutan for launching the private space age
Latest hit: SpaceShipOne, the first privately developed spacecraft. In October, Rutan claimed the $10 million X Prize for taking a pilot and the weight of two passengers more than 328,000 feet up twice within a 14-day period. (SpaceShipOne did it in five.)
Sky high: Rutan's first aviation success came in 1976 with the VariEze – a light, inexpensive airplane that was easy to build and featured an innovative design that made stalls all but impossible. A decade later, his Voyager became the first aircraft to circumnavigate the globe on a single tank of gas.
Dream up: SpaceShipOne's reentry technique came to Rutan while sleeping. He shot out of bed and sketched the plans.
Turn & burn: The key innovation is a tail that folds up when the ship reaches space. This causes the craft to right itself as it floats unpiloted back into the atmosphere. A second innovation is the engine, which burns a combination of nitrous oxide and rubber, avoiding the risks of volatile rocket fuels.
Form & function: Though Rutan's aircraft always look stunning, he says he never considers aesthetics beyond the paint job. "Any airplane designer shapes the wing for performance, the tail for stability, and the fuselage to hold the payload and the propulsion. Then he blends the shape for low drag. Once that's done he might step back and say, 'What a beautiful airplane.'"
Next: The 61-year-old and his company, Scaled Composites, are working on SpaceShipTwo, a 7- to 10-person ship that will take tourists into space as part of billionaire Richard Branson's new enterprise, Virgin Galactic. – Robert Capps
The other nominees • Apple Industrial Design Team, iMac G5 and iPod mini (Apple Computer) • Yves Behar, Jawbone Headset (Fuseproject) • Naoto Fukasawa, Plus Minus Zero Collection (Plus Minus Zero) • Paul Pierce & motorola CXD team, Razr V3 Cell Phone (Motorola)
Mark Fletcher for making bloglines the Internet's news network
Latest hit: An RSS reader that makes Really Simple Syndication even simpler. Fletcher's company, Bloglines, lets users pull together their news sources – all the best blogs, each favorite Web site, and every last data feed – on a single, continually updated Web page. Though RSS traffic is just starting to be measured, Bloglines has more market share than all its competitors combined.
Groupthink: Fletcher took listservs mainstream with OneList, a company he founded in 1997. Users turned to OneList to create, administer, and find mailing lists through a simple Web-based interface. By 2000, when Yahoo! bought the company for $420 million to establish Yahoo! Groups, OneList had millions of subscribers and was sending out billions of emails per month. "I got to ride the bubble!" says Fletcher, now 34.
Lesson learned: "This time, I'm trying to make new mistakes."
Memo to Bill Gates: "Bring it on." A Microsoft newsreader would expand the market without hurting Bloglines, Fletcher says. "They're a program, we're a service, like webmail. With us, you'll be able to read your feeds from anywhere."
Next: Targeted advertising. Fletcher's model is Google's phenomenally profitable AdWords, which slips low-key come-ons alongside search results. "But we have better data," he says. "We know who subscribes to what feeds." – Adam Fisher
The other nominees • Adam Curry, iPodder • Scott MAcCabe, Toshiba Microdrives • Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia • Zhang Zuoyi, INET
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy for turning media crit into pop art
Latest hit: Soft Rains, a collection of miniature film sets used to deconstruct genres like '50s melodrama and '80s slasher flicks. Feeds from 50 videocams are channeled through software that edits them into ever-changing vignettes.
Dada meets data: The McCoys' MO is to compile thousands of film clips – from footage they've shot to snippets snagged from Looney Tunes cartoons and TV shows like Starsky and Hutch – break them down into categories, then create short films straight from their databases. "Instead of looking at point, line, and plane – classic Bauhaus design – we're using popular culture," says Jennifer, 36.
Jargon watch: The McCoys turned corporate-speak into an art form with 1999's Airworld. They set up office on the 91st floor of Tower One at the World Trade Center and wrote a Web crawler to harvest marketing language from the sites of big companies to show the absurdity and familiarity of their jargon.
Amazing stories: The McCoys often rely on daily life and sci-fi motifs to spark creativity. For Soft Rains, they turned to Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" and its theme of total automation. They've tapped Philip K. Dick's Valis to devise a talking elevator and the original Star Trek series for their latest project, I Number the Stars, in which they plan to catalog all the technological activities aboard the Enterprise.
Next: The British Film Institute commissioned the pair to create an electronic sculpture exploring how the media affects people's lives. With this project, they'll turn the lens on themselves. "It's very abject to include ourselves," says Kevin, 38. "Like little voodoo dolls." – Laura Moorhead
The other nominees • Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes • Michael Lau & Eric So, vinyl action figures • Golan Levin & Zach Lieberman, messa di voce • Gerfried Stocker, Andreas Exner, Hannes Leopoldseder & Christine Schoepf, Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica
Pete Parsons & the Bungie Crew for the mind-blowing world of Halo 2
Latest hit: The wildly anticipated sequel that floored fans and critics with its in-depth story, fluid play, and addictive online modes.
Bigger than Hollywood: Halo 2 made $125 million on its first day of release. By contrast, the biggest opening weekend in film history was Spider-Man, which netted a mere $114 million over three days.
Jumping to Bungie: Parsons, 38, left a senior marketing job at Microsoft to join the Halo crew as studio manager. "I'd been a Bungie fan for a long time," he says. "They're an incredibly talented group of people who don't accept second best. I like the bar being set so high that falling off would kill you."
How to be a player: Before Halo 2, the best first-person shooter on consoles was … Halo. So what drives designers to make a better game when they're competing only with themselves? "Personal pride," Parsons says. "You wanna blow the fans away, but at the end of the day it's about the people you work with. It's about the people you live with. No matter what, you're not going to let them down."
Next: There are plenty of rumors – new maps available for download via Xbox Live, a souped-up version of the game for Xbox 2 (rumored to launch later this year) – but Parsons isn't talking. He says the team is taking some time off to rest and to play lots of Halo 2. "There are just too many n00bs online to go beat." – Chris Baker
The other nominees • Alex Ward, Burnout 3 (Criterion Games) • Jack Emmert, City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios) • Gabe Newell, Half Life 2 (Valve Software) • Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy (Namco)Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Some might not agree with that proposal. Too much too soon, they might say. On the benefits of legalizing medical marijuana, however, almost all New Yorkers agree – 80 percent, according to a recent survey. Let's come together and get it done.
Recently, the New York area was stunned when the evening news showed a desperate father pleading with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to allow medical marijuana, which is legal in New Jersey for adults, to be prescribed to minors. The father believed the drug could help his daughter, who suffers from severe seizures.
The sad truth is that many people are facing a similar crisis right here in New York City. Our office estimates that more than 100,000 New Yorkers with serious medical conditions would benefit if medical marijuana were legal.
That group includes roughly 88,000 suffering from chronic or severe pain, 15,000 with muscle spasms or multiple sclerosis, and 11,000 with severe nausea. Other qualifying conditions would include cancer, seizures, wasting syndrome, HIV/AIDS, and glaucoma.
At a press conference, we called on the State Legislature to pass a measure legalizing medical marijuana. We were joined by two physicians who explained that the benefits of medical marijuana far outweigh concerns that people may have. Most of those concerns, they said, are unfounded.
One physician noted that Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and the chief medical correspondent for CNN, has come out strongly in support of medical marijuana despite his former strong opposition.
"I apologize," Gupta wrote on a CNN website, "because I didn't look hard enough, until now. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis."
While medical experts make a strong case for legalization, the most compelling moments of that press conference came when four people shared their personal stories.
A man suffering from AIDS said his doctors believe that medical marijuana would greatly improve his quality of life.
Two parents, similar to the father in New Jersey, said their young children suffer from severe, life-threatening seizures. They said the medications now available in New York have provided little relief with devastating side effects. They pleaded with the State Legislature to quickly pass a law that would establish a medical marijuana program. Twenty states and Washington, D.C. have already taken this important step.
Finally, a woman explained that her father had recently died from colon cancer. He used medical marijuana, which greatly improved his quality of life, even though, she said, "it technically made him a criminal."
The Legislature needs to legalize medical marijuana so our doctors can recommend this medicine to those who can benefit. And New York City should leverage our tremendous medical, bioscience, and academic resources to lead the way in medical marijuana research in order to make a meaningful impact on suffering for years to come.
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Story of Chinese New Year
Chinese Lion and Dragon Dance
Polly Returns
Polly the Parrot
Welcome Back
Santa and his Reindeer
Christmas Play
Preparing for Christmas
Noah's Ark
My 5 Senses
Repeating Patterns
First Weeks In School
Class RF
Our Topics
Settling In.
Another fun week
Bear Hunt
Fruit Kebabs
Firework Pictures
Children In Need Day
Christmas is coming!
Chinese New Year
Pancake Day
Police Visit
Fire Visit
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Welly Walk
Class RJ
Our Topics
Week 1
Autumn Walk
Our Senses
Whatever Next!
Shape Week
Our First Nativity
Santa's Workshop!
Happy Christmas!
Our World
The Rainforest
Chinese New Year
The Oceans
Maths Day!
Pancake Day
Visit from the Police
The Three Little Pigs
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Class RM
Our Topics
Our first week!
Face biscuits
Shape and pattern
Our Five Senses
Bonfire Night
3D Shapes
Our First Nativity!!
Let's celebrate!
Our Amazing World
Chinese New Year
The Rainforest
The Desert
Under the Sea
Pancake Day!
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Welly Walk
Noah's Ark
Repeating Patterns
Facial Expressions
Class 1CM
Our Topics
Sport Relief - Welly Walk
DT: Moving Pictures- Wheel Mechanisms- March 2020
World Book Day- March 2020
World Maths Day- March 2020
DT: Moving Pictures- Sliding Mechanisms- February 2020
Maths Game Day- February 2020
Saving Mousey- February 2020
Whole-Part Models- February 2020
Science & Animal Sort- February 2020
Meccano Museum Visit- February 2020
2D Shape sorting- February 2020
Reading for Pleasure- January 2020
Allerton Oak Painting- January 2020
Chinese Lion Dance- January 2020
Sketching Patch- January 2020
Gymnastics- January 2020
Making Puppets- January 2020
Party Day- December 2019
Making Rudolph Cakes- December 2019
Santa's Reindeer Visit- December 2019
Breakfast with Santa- December 2019
Reasoning with Fractions- December 2019
Children in Need- November 2019
Remembrance Day Art- November 2019
Jackson Pollock Inspired Art- November 2019
Maths: Directions- November 2019
Observational Line Drawing of a Leaf- October 2019
Sense of Sight: Autumn Detectives- October 2019
Sportathon- October 2019
Science Investigation: Sense of Taste- October 2019
Map Work- Our Local Area- October 2019
Maths: A Pirate Problem- October 2019
Sense of Touch Investigation- October 2019
PE with Mr T- September 2019
Portrait Sketching- September 2019
Science: Investigating our Sense of Smell- September 2019
Kandinsky- September 2019
Painting Faces- September 2019
i.Pads- September 2019
Pirate Maps- September 2019
Golden Time- September 2019
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100% Attendance- July 2019
Tea with the Teachers- July 2019
Attendance Winners- July 2019
Year One Summerfest- July 2019
Handa's Surprise: Tasting Fruit- July 2019
Making Clay Giraffes- June 2019
African Tribe Necklace Making- June 2019
Tie-Dye T-Shirts- June 2019
Sketching:Shape and Perspective- June 2019
Compass Skills and Directions- June 2019
Measures: Capacity- June 2019
Measures: Mass- June 2019
African Sunset- June 2019
Telling Time- June 2019
Sketching Sunflowers- May 2019
Tree Hunt- May 2019
Imagine That! - May 2019
Sunflowers: van Gough- May 2019
Wildflowers- May 2019
PE: Ball Skills- May 2019
Planting Sunflowers- May 2019
Computing: We Are Researchers- April 2019
Lots of Socks: Down's Syndrome Awareness- April 2019
Nugget Treat: Easter Chocolate Hunt and Disco- April 2019
Making Chocolate Easter Nests- April 2019
Earth Day- March 2019
Exploring Music: Pitch and Musical Notation- March 2019
Chicks- March 2019
PE: Dance- March 2019
Houses from the Past- March 2019
Rock Steady Music- March 2019
Coding on Daisy- March 2019
Spring Sketching- March 2019
World Book Day- March 2019
Pancake Day- March 2019
Coding- February 2019
Sport-a-thon - February 2019
Chinese Food- February 2019
Saving Mousey!- February 2019
Playing Time Game- February 2019
Chinese Lion and Dragon Dances- February 2019
Time- February 2019
Questions- January 2019
Thormatrope Making- January 2019
Snow- January 2019
Sketching- January 2019
Gymnastics- January 2019
Animation- January 2019
Making Puppets- January 2019
Party Day- December 2018
Santa Day- December 2018
Nativity Dress Rehearsal- December 2018
Santa Dash- December 2018
Decorating the Christmas Tree- December 2018
Playing Musical Scores- November 2018
Children In Need- November 2018
Singing Up For Our School CD- November 2018
Remembrance Day: Making Poppy Pictures- November 2018
Computing: Firework Pictures- November 2018
Sense of Taste- October 2018
Presto Music- October 2018
Autumn Term Attendance Winners!
Links for some of the websites used in class
Dojo Videos
Class 1N
Our Topics - Click here to see what we've been doing in class!
March 2020 - Welly Walk For Sport Relief
March 2020 - Tadpoles
March 2020 - Gruffalo Dance Part 2
March 2020 - The Great Year One Maths Quiz!
March 2020 - Computer Coders!
March 2020 - Gruffalo Dance
February 2020 - Making Sliding Pictures
February 2020 - Sorry Letter From Goldilocks
February 2020 - Pancakes
February 2020 - Materials
February 2020 - Board Games
February 2020 - Looking At Trees and Plants
February 2020 - Heavier and Lighter Using Grams
February 2020 - Reading Julia Donaldson Books
February 2020 - Weighing Classroom Objects With Cubes
February 2020 - Heavier And Lighter
February 2020 - Puppets Finished!
February 2020 - Practical Measuring Of Length With Both Non-Standard And Standard Measures
February 2020 - Literacy Games
February 2020 - History Of Toys Board Game
February 2020 - Come And Share
February 2020 - School Visitor - Mr French The Meccano Expert
February 2020 - Gymnastics
January 2020 - Sorting Animals into Carnivores, Omnivores & Herbivores
January 2020 - iPads with Mrs Halewood
January 2020 - Decorating Our Puppets
January 2020 - Painting Allerton Oak
January 2020 - Making Model Animals
January 2020 - Chinese Lion Dancers
January 2020 - Old Toys
January 2020 - Learning About Internet Safety
January 2020 - Practical Division
January 2020 - Gymnastics
January 2020 - Design Technology - Making Puppets
January 2020 - Classifying animals by their body parts
December 2019 - Christmas Disco
December 2019 - Making Reindeer Cakes
December 2019 - Meeting The Reindeers
December 2019 - Breakfast With Santa
December 2019 - Pizza Fractions
December 2019 - Elf On The Shelf!
November 2019 - Classifying Animals Into Groups
November 2019 - Classifying Animals - Reptiles
November 2019 - Sorting Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals
November 2019 - Partitioning Two Digit Numbers
November 2019 - Coding on our iPads
November 2019 - Children In Need
November 2019 - Georgia O'Keefe Inspired Poppy Sketches
November 2019 - Position, Movement and Direction Walk Around School
November 2019 - BeeBot Apps on the iPads. Position and Direction
November 2019 - Jackson Pollock Inspired Firework Pictures
October 2019 - Identifying Leaves
October 2019 - Autumn Sketches
October 2019 - Telling The Time
October 2019 - Sense of Touch Investigation
October 2019 - Signs Of Autumn
October 2019 - Sport-a-thon!
October 2019 - Sense of Taste Investigation
October 2019 - Measuring Objects Around The Classroom Using Rulers
October 2019 - Resonate Music
October 2019 - Maths: Measuring length in non-standard units
October 2019 - Beauty And The Beast Pantomime
October 2019 - Science: Sense of Hearing
October 2019 - Maths: Comparing Sizes
October 2019 - Local Maps
October 2019 - Self Portrait Sketches
October 2019 - Kandinsky Pictures
October 2019 - Spanish
September 2019 - Science - Sense Of Smell Investigation
September 2019 - Autumn Leaves Sun-catchers
September 2019 - Resonate Music
September 2019 - Guess Who?
Class 1K
With a squilch and a splash!
There is something sneaking in the deep, dark woods.
Book reviews hot off the press!
Working together for our maths quiz.
Who can catch the Gingerbread Man?
We know how to make pancakes so it is time to eat the pancakes.
Looking at the different materials of the new room.
Putting our maths skills to fantastic use.
Are they carnivores, herbivores or omnivores?
What do we think is the heaviest and a lightest?
Why is a rectangle and a square different?
Finding out more about Frank Hornby and Meccano Toys.
Organising animals by features
Reasonate Time
How do trees change our environment?
Tree of the Year
Celebrating the Year of the Rat
Find the beat.
They are still fun to play with.
Nothing like reading a good book!
Using our counting by 2s skills
Creating our own puppets
Working in our Christmas Role Play
Our special time with Santa
Decorating our cakes
Two more special visitors!
Breakfast with Father Christmas
Dancing on a frosty morning!
Using my magic skills to find half and quarters of numbers
What would you like on this half of your pizza?
Do you know we have have 8 coins in England!
Colourful Spots
Looking at Jackson Pollack's drip method.
Is it smooth or rough?
What can we do in a minute?
Relaxing in class.
On your marks, set . . . go
Look at our lemon tasting faces
Measuring Rules
Beauty and the Beast
Which 3d shapes can roll?
Different ways to add 3 amounts.
Our fantastic concert
Using our sense of sight to see signs of Autumn
Sketching with pencils
Looking at 2D shapes
Our sense of smell
Creating similar work.
Land and sea
This is me!
Our first 1K Golden Time
We are learning about ourselves!
Class of 18/19
Programming Daisy the Dino
Our fantastic nativity
Our musical maestros!
Breakfast with Santa
Run, run Rodolph!
We made him feel welcome!
Dividing and sharing by 2
Puppet power
Different words for big and small
Tumbling into our gymnastics topic
Observational Drawing
I can give you a bigger number that that!
We caught a flurry of snow!
Terrific Thaumatrope
The next Walt Disney
Peer learning
We have to save mousey!
Time games
Our amazing visitors
Comparing acoustic sounds to electric sounds
There are only 8 coins that we use in our country
Tasting lots of different foods!
Having sporty fun for charity!
Knowing our number bonds quickly and correctly!
More number bond games
What topping shall I have?
He was a cheeky bunny!
Talking about our favourite books!
Rock Steady. Go!
Pyjama Party
Verb games
Watching our chicks grow
We can make the BeeBots move
Everyone looks wonderful
Delicious Chocolate Cakes
Tens and ones
Planting our sunflowers.
Imagine That!
He's behind you!
As caterpillars become butterflies.
Having great fun.
Continuing our phonic week
Measuring items around the classroom - June 2019
Using painting and cutting skills
Enjoying our new skills!
Painting with scissors
We are going to look so cool!
So many skills were used.
Look at our fantastic elephants!
Our creative African Topic
We are working with halves and quarters
Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores - O my!
Glasto or Allerton!!!!
Brunch meeting
External Links
Hubble, double toil and trouble
7 days a week
More nonsense words
More real and nonsense words!
More Practice
How quick can you get them all?
Class 2P
Our Topics
Welly Walk
World Book Day
International Maths Day
Pancake Day
Jam Sandwiches
Maths Games
Valentines Day
Clay Penguins Part 2
Crime Scene
Science Investigation
Clay Penguins
Chinese New Year
Music Lessons
Christmas Party
Making decorations
Special Visitors
Mog On Trial
Bridge Chapel
Children in Need
Samuel Pepys
London's Burning!
Silly Scenarios
Board Games
Golden Time
2d Shape
Bean Experiment
Philosophy for children
Habitats Sept 2019
Aboriginal Art Sept 2019
July 2019 - Year Two Leavers Kidchella Festival
July 2019 - Rock Steady Concert
June 2019 - Roly Poly Bird Craft
June 2019 - Investigating Weight
June 2019 - Designing Chocolate Bar Wrappers
June 2019 - George's Marvelllous Medicine - Exploring Capacity
June 2019 - 'Imagine That!' Trip
May 2019 - Ooh la la! We've been learning about France!
April 2019 - Gymnastics
April 2019 - Music Maestros!
April 2019 - Using Atlases
April 2019 - Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm The Gingerbread Man!
April 2019 - Decorating Gingerbread Men
March 2019 - Mrs Sharma's Birthday
March 2019 - Painting Our Model Penguins
March 2019 - Investigating Patterns
March 2019 - Cheeky Chicks
March 2019 - Red Nose Day
March 2019 - Rock Steady
March 2019 - Zumba Dancing
March 2019 - Fencing Assembly
March 2019 - Penguin Dancing
March 2019 - Mouldy Bread Investigation
March 2019 - World Book Day
March 2019 - Pancake Day
March 2019 - Making Clay Penguins
March 2019 - Painting Penguins
February 2019 - Sportathon
February 2019 - Making Papier Mache Masks Of Famous Faces
February 2019 - A Chinese Banquet
February 2019 - Strawberry Fields Jam On Toast!
February 2019 - Beatles Day
February 2019 - The Chinese Lion Dancers Visit
January 2019 - Fun In The Snow
January 2019 - Investigating Mass
January 2019 - Investigating Capacity
January 2019 - Collage and mask making
January 2019 - Papier Mache Mask Making
January 2019 - Balancing in P.E.
January 2019 - Gymnastics
January 2019 - Telling The Time
January - February 2019 - Growing A Hyacinth Bulb
January 2019 - Algorithms
December 2018 - Party Day
December 2018 - Feliz Navidad
December 2018 - Making 'Christmas Puddings'
December 2018 - Santa's Grotto
December 2018 - Meeting Santa And His Reindeer
December 2018 - It's A Party
December 2018 - Christmas Angel Craft
December 2018 - Cinderella Pantomime
December 2018 - Santa Dash
December 2018 - Elf on the shelf!
November 2018 - Marvellous Money
November 2018 - The Great Huff And Puff Experiment!
November 2018 - Christmas Journey At Bridge Chapel
November 2018 - Music Maestros!
November 2018 - Children In Need
November 2018 - First World War Armistice 100 Year Anniversary
November 2018 - Chocolate Sparklers!
October 2018 - Magic Mahem!
October 2018 - Making Tudor Houses
October 2018 - Block Printing On Polystyrene Tiles
October 2018 - Presto Music
October 2018 - More Investigating Patterns and Symmetry
October 2018 - Investigating Patterns And Symmetry
October 2018 - Painting Animals Down Under!
October 2018 - 3D Shape Investigation
October 2018 - Shape Pictures
October 2018 - Jack And The Beanstalk Pantomime
October 2018 - Bean Experiment Update!
September 2018 - All things Australian!
September 2018 - Bean Plant Experiment
September 2018 - Making Uluru
September 2018 - Boomerangs!
September 2018 - Yoga!
September 2018 - Aboriginal Art
September 2018 - Welcome Back To A Brand New Year!
Class 2D
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny!
Welly walk!
World Book Day
Beatles Art
Observation drawings!
Wacky The Feelings Monster
Pancake Day (Fractions)
Maths game day & World Maths Day!
Hygiene experiment
Lights, Camera, Action! We solved our mystery investigation!
Clay Penguins
Chinese New Year celebrations
Science- Growing and Changing Investigation.
ICT- We are Researchers
Continents & Oceans
Making Antarctica & Penguins
Telling the time
Party Day!
Christmas Time!
Sorting Materials for Recycling
Decorating our class Christmas Tree
The Christmas Story at Bridge Chapel
Sewing with Mrs Crighton
Great Fire of London
Silly scenarios
Children In Need
Identifying Materials
Poppy Day
Food chains
Great Barrier Reef poetry writing
2D Portraits
Microhabitat- Minibeast hunt
Mini Green Bean Experiment
Where's Charlie?
Aboriginal dot painting
Esio Trot
Welcome to 2D's Chocolate bananza...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Father's Day
Imagine that!
Pisa- Around the World
Where oh where could the Gingerbread Man be?
Lots of socks-Down's Syndrome Awareness.
Busy at Easter/Spring time.
Earth Day
Easter is coming
Mother's Day
Have you found Perry the Penguin?
Position, direction and symmetry
Diary entry
Red Nose Day!
Sewing with Mrs C.
Observational drawings.
Rock Steady School of Music!
Surprise visitor before our movie night!
World Book Day!
Pancake Day
Continents of The World
It's 'Good to be me!'
Science Investigation
Chinese New Year
Chinese Dancers
'BeatleMania' has hit 2D!
Measure Mania has hit 2D!
Fun in the snow!
It's SNOWING!
Healthy plate
Traditional Tales- Three Billy Goats Gruff
Algorithm- ICT
Christmas Fun!
Father Christmas & Reindeer
Busy at Christmas
Making Christmas Stockings
Panto- Cinderella
Christmas Cards
Christmas story at Bridge Chapel
Decorating our Christmas Tree
Freddie the Elf!
Santa Dash
Huff-proof experiment
Money, Money, Money!
Music session
Science- Materials
Children in Need Day!
Remembrance Day
The Great Fire of London
Bonfire night!
Sparkler Fun
Hey Presto!
Giant Spider- 'Spinderella'
Tasty toast
Let's SAVE Charlie!
Researching Australian animals
Bean Experiment
Science- Classifying
Peace at Last
Supermovers to Meditation
Mocktail time!
More Roald Dahl activities- Chocolate
Phizz whizzing Roald Dahl activities
World Cup Footaball Fever!
Imagine that!
Father's Day is coming...
Samba Mamba
Welcome back!
The Royal Wedding
SuperHero Day!
Investigating money
The Gingerbread Man
Welly walk
Easter Activities
Chick, chick, chick, chick, CHICKENS
Mother's Day
Fun in the snow.
Chinese New Year Celebrations
'Love Me Do...'
Beatles Masks
Measure Mania
We wish you a Merry Christmas...
Santa and the Reindeer
It's nearly Christmas.
Money, Money, Money.
The Christmas Journey
I'll huff and puff...experiment
Great Fire of London
Children in Need day
Poppy Paintings
Sparkling sparklers.
Panto Fun!
Hedgehog fun!
Using iPads for research.
PE with Mr Thorpe
Bean Experiment
Aboriginal Art
Creative Writing- Message in a bottle.
Class 2B
Our Topics- click here to see the fun we have in 2B!
Welly Walk! - March 2020
Observational Drawings - March 2020
Hygiene Results! - February 2020
Pancake Day - February 2020
Maths Games! - February 2020
Jam Sandwiches! - February 2020
Hygiene Experiment - February 2020
Computing Lessons - February 2020
Sketching - February 2020
Who was the Fairy Tale Slimer? - January 2020
Allerton Oak Competition! - January 2020
Painting our Penguins! - January 2020
Measuring Madness - January 2020
Chinese New Year Celebrations - January 2020
Clay Penguins - January 2020
Do the Tallest Children have the Biggest Feet? - January 2020
Penguin Painting - January 2020
Continents and Oceans - January 2020
Party Time! - December 2019
Christmas Cakes - December 2019
Wrapping our Prezzies - December 2019
Santa Claus is Coming to Booker! - December 2019
Breakfast with Santa! - December 2019
Christmas Crafts - December 2019
Elvis has a party in 2B! - December 2019
It's Beginning to look a Lot like Christmas! - December 2019
Yummy Fraction Sundaes! - November 2019
Bridge Chapel Christmas Journey! - November 2019
Division Problems - November 2019
Pudsey Biscuits! - November 2019
Fire of London Houses - November 2019
Yummy Sparklers - November 2019
Firework Art - November 2019
Hedgehog Cakes! - October 2019
Food Chains - October 2019
Observational Drawings! - October 2019
Sportathon! - October 2019
Shape Investigations! - October 2019
Growing Beans - October 2019
Minibeast Hunt! - October 2019
2B Learn Recorder! - September 2019
Aboriginal Art - September 2019
Making our Australia! - September 2019
Resonate Music Lessons - September 2019
Golden Time - September 2019
Kidchella! - July 2019
2B's Chocolate Factory Party! - June 2019
George's Marvellous Medicine - Capacity - June 2019
Imagine That! - June 2019
Estimating and Measuring - June 2019
Special Treat! - May 2019
Sunny Days! - May 2019
Bonjour France! - May 2019
United Kingdom and Capital Cities! - April 2019
Odd Socks and Gingerbread Men! - April 2019
Earth Day! - March 2019
Shape Investigations - March 2019
Chicks! - March 2019
Symmetry Detectives - March 2019
Painting our Penguins! - March 2019
Comic Relief - March 2019
Rock Steady Music - March 2019
There, their or they're? - March 2019
Clay Penguins - March 2019
World Book Day - March 2019
Bread Experiment! - March 2019
Pancake Tuesday - March 2019
Penguin Painting - March 2019
Observational Drawing - February 2019
Hygiene Experiment - February 2019
Balloon Globes - February 2019
Sportathon - February 2019
Yummy Chinese Food - February 2019
Beatle Mania! - February 2019
Music Time - February 2019
Beatles Concert Posters! - February 2019
Chinese Dragons - February 2019
More Snow! - January 2019
Measuring Madness! January 2019
Beatles Masks - January 2019
It's Finally Snowing! - January 2019
PE - January 2019
Time Games - January 2019
Party Day - December 2018
Secret Elves? - December 2018
Christmas Tree Biscuits - December 2018
Santa's Grotto! - December 2018
Meeting Santa and the Reindeer - December 2018
Reindeer Party - December 2018
A Snowman visits 2B! - December 2018
Christmas Crafts - December 2018
Santa Dash - December 2018
Elvis the Elf - December 2018
Money Money! - November 2018
The Great Huff - Puff Experiment - November 2018
Christmas Journey - November 2018
Fraction Sundaes! - November 2018
Natural or Man-Made? - November 2018
Children in Need! - November 2018
Poppies - November 2018
2B ROCK! - November 2018
Sparklers - November 2018
Fire of London Houses - November 2018
Spooky Fun - October 2018
Fireworks - October 2018
Patterns - October 2018
Jack and the Beanstalk - October 2018
Pass the Shape - October 2018
Alphabet Fun! - September 2018
Growing Beans - September 2018
2B does Yoga! - September 2018
Australian Art - September 2018
Golden Time - September 2018
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What types of sealants and sealant kits are available?
There are many varieties of sealants, putties, and sealant remover kits on sale, with leading brands including Dow Corning and Bostik.
While most tend to fall within one of a few basic categories - cement sealants, chemical sealants, or silicone sealants - there are also a number of sealants designed for more specialised purposes. These typically include:
- Plumbers putty
- Pipe and thread sealants
- Concrete and cement sealants
- High temperature sealants (for ovens and gasket joints)
- Intumescent or firestop putties (against penetration of flames and smoke)
- Non-toxic sealants (for use in aquariums and animal care)
- Food grade sealants (for storage or refrigeration setups)
Whats the difference between sealant types?
Silicone sealants - among the most widely available sealant types, and ideal for a wide array of household, DIY and construction tasks.
Acrylic sealants - often a cheaper alternative to silicone for use on wood, aluminium, and UPVC, and can also be painted. Theyre less flexible than most silicone versions, and more prone to eroding under certain application conditions.
Polyurethane foam sealants - extremely flexible/elastic and highly waterproof, ideal for use on most metals and fibreglass.
Why is sealant modulus and cure type important?
High modulus sealants are less elastic but more hardwearing, and better suited to indoor applications (around baths, showers, sinks and worktops).
Low modulus sealants offer better flexibility and adhesion where slight movement of the joint may be a factor, but are less hardwearing overall. Theyre generally best for outdoor and weather-resistant applications (perimeter seals and exterior UPVC).
Most sealants are available in one of two cure types - acetoxy and neutral.
- High modulus sealants tend to be acetoxy cure, meaning theyll cure faster and harder, and will emit a slight vinegar smell while doing so.
- Low modulus sealants are often sold in natural cure variants, meaning they adhere better to a greater range of surfaces, cure slowly to a more elastic consistency, and give off little odour.


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The thirty-six month curriculum leading to the degree of doctor of dental surgery begins in July and is divided into 12 quarters, each consisting of 10 weeks of instruction, one week of examinations and a vacation period of varying length (between one and four weeks).
During the first quarter, students practice use of dental instruments and materials, working position and posture using direct and indirect vision, and basic dental laboratory procedures. They also are introduced to study and test-taking skills and methods of time management that will assist them in succeeding in the professional curriculum.
In the first eight quarters, students take courses in the biomedical sciences, including: human anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and microbiology. Those courses are followed by instruction in clinical topics such as the importance of saliva, tissue aging, nutrition, and infection control. Throughout the curriculum, students learn application of basic sciences to biomedical problems of dentistry using the scientific method of inquiry.
During the preclinical instruction in the first four quarters, students learn to work from a seated position in a state-of-the-art preclinical simulation laboratory and with a chair-side assistant in conjunction with pediatric dental practice. Students begin working with patients in their second year.


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Some Modules I'm Looking At Currently
Now that I'm writing (a little) more reliably in this blog, I hope to soon revive my "Module Monday" series. At the time I started doing it, it was fairly easy to come up with new modules to review, as I was the owner/operator of a CPAN-oriented Twitter-bot called "
@cpan_linked". But then Twitter switched over to OAuth-only and I haven't had the time and energy at the same time, in order to update the bot.
But I still frequently look at new and interesting modules, always looking for new tools with which to fill my Perl toolbox. Here are some that I am currently reading up on and/or playing with:
I learned of this module from this blog post, and am both intrigued and frustrated. Intrigued, because I've always felt that changes-files needed to be electronically parseable so that the information could be re-purposed to other uses and formats. But also frustrated, because I wrote something similar to this a while back (
App::Changelog2x, which is based on an XML format I designed), which as far as I can tell only I have ever used.
Mind you, I've known that ChangeLogML has drawbacks from the very start– for one thing, authoring in XML is a HUGE pain in the ass. I've only just recently gotten my emacs set-up to handle ChangeLogML very well, and for that I had to first convert the XML Schema to RelaxNG, then that to the compact format, then hand-edit the resulting RNC file to get around things that hadn't converted correctly (though one or two of them may have been problems in the original XML Schema, to be fair). Even still, with all that, I'm still editing raw XML. I just have syntax highlighting and validation to help me find errors. And a lot of people just don't like dealing with XML, let alone editing it by hand.
ChangeLogML keeps more information than the
CPAN::Changes::Specspecification does, but mine doesn't have the concept of groupings, something I may look at trying to add if I ever revisit ChangeLogML and try to make it more useable.
One thing I'll look at either way, is transforming ChangeLogML to a conforming "Changes" file for my modules. That should be a lot easier than convincing people to hand-edit XML on a regular basis.
Being easily distracted and fascinated by blinking lights and colors, this tool just amuses me greatly. That is is also incredibly useful is a great bonus.
It's a module from Damian Conway, and I learned about it recently when he included it in a talk he gave to the London Perl Mongers group. I couldn't go (the commute from California to London being prohibitive and all), but Damian was helpful in posting a follow-up message to the mailing list with a list of the modules he had discussed. I had already taken some interest based on the "Regexp" in the name, as I'm not the best wielder of regular expressions in the Perl world, so I often need debugger-ish tools to fall back on. But just to make it even better, in response to a comment by someone else, Damian followed up his list of modules with a YouTube link to a demonstration of the module.
Watch the video, and I'm sure you'll be as interested in this module as I am. Note that this dates to 2012, and there have been several releases and new features since then.
I'm grouping these together as one provides a foundation that the second one builds upon.
Test::Trap, by Eirik Berg Hanssen, is an interesting approach to testing code in terms of blocks. You pass "
trap" the block to execute, and it handles the
evalmechanics for you, with the results and any error information wrapped in an object (called "
$trap" by default). There's a great deal of flexibility and configurability here, as well.
Test::Effectsis another module from Damian, one that builds on
Test::Trapwith an interface that lets you test all the effects of your code-block in one go. Where the former module would have you pass the block to
trap, then choose what to test against using
$trap, this module gives you a testing routine called "
effects_ok" that looks at everything, or alternately just those things you want looked at. It is also extremely configurable, including some options that may make my long-neglected
Test::Withoutmodule obsolete.
Lastly (for this listing, at least), is the well-known
Mojoliciouspackage. I'm kind of late to the game on this one, as it has been around quite a while. A co-worker of mine has used it some, and convinced me to give it a look for some web-services applications I've been tinkering with. What interests me the most about it is the built-in support for WebSockets, something Apache doesn't have (and doesn't seem to be planning for any time soon). I'm currently looking at how easily I can use it in different styles of event-loop processing, as the main place I'd like to use it would be an application that has to manage both an HTTP event-loop and a separate client/server socket simultaneously. (At this point, I don't yet know how the other socket works, or if it will play well with others. So Mojo might end up not being the deciding factor in that after all.)
So, there are five new modules that I'm currently focused on, any of which might end up getting their own post some day. Here's hoping that one or two might be of interest to other readers.


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Firstly, this is not my recipe, I couldn't possibly invent a Ham Chin Peng recipe. I saw this recipe at my friend's house while reading her cookbooks' collection. This recipe was from a cookbook called Pasar Malam Delights. When I saw this recipe, I got to have it because it has my favorite Ham Chin Peng recipe which the book called Nam Yee and Red Bean Dumplings. What got my attention was the easy one step method (no starter, no ingredient I couldn't recognize) and furthermore, I already have all the ingredients at home. You know me, I don't attempt any difficult recipe, anything too complicated, too troublesome, I passed. If you are like me, this is one recipe you should look at and try.
The end result, crispy skin, soft fried bread, sweet red bean paste and Nam Yee smell in the bread. Next time, I will try the savory version using this recipe, just replace the red bean paste with salt and five spice powder and wrap it differently (I liked the savory one more). I have a little step-by-step pictures in my next page and tips/note. Living abroad and everything have to make ourselves, this recipe is good enough for me. The one we get at the Vietnamese bakery store in Denver is plain, unlike the ones in Malaysia.
Ready dough waiting to be deep-fried. I made only 13 pieces. I didn't bother to measure 30g each.
During deep-frying. Remember to stretch the round dough wider before putting into the hot oil. Peanut oil recommended.
Deep-fried until golden brown like above.
Note/Tips: The dough will be sticky. I floured my hands before shaping the dough and added in the filling. Also remember to stretch the ready bread again before adding it into the hot oil to deep-fry.
I got the recipe from Pasar Malam Delights cookbook at a friend's house.
300g plain flour (or 2 cups)
1 Tbsp. baking powder
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp shortening (I used butter)
2 pieces nam yee
200ml water
300g red bean paste (I used canned red bean paste)
divided into 15 portions
some white sesame seeds
1. Sift flour and baking powder together into a mixing bowl. Add in the remaining ingredients and knead into a smooth dough. Cover with a piece of damp cloth or plastic sheet and rest for 30 mins.
2. Divide dough into 15 portions (35g each) and wrap in filling. Shape into ball, flatten it and rest for 15 mins.
3. Brush a little water onto the dough and sprinkle a little sesame seeds on top.
4. Heat up oil for deep-frying, deep-fry dumplings with medium heat until golden brown. Dish up and drain. Leave to cool before serving.


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Published on Thursday, March 14, 2013
The City of San Antonio's Economic Development Department has announced its continued commitment to the development of the small business community in San Antonio by partnering with Alamo Colleges and Accion Texas Inc. to launch the Business Empowerment Plan, which can be found at www.BeSanAntonio.com.
"Small businesses represent 97 percent of all employer firms, both in the State of Texas and the San Antonio metropolitan area. The Business Empowerment Plan provides these firms the tools they need to be successful and prosper in today's competitive markets," said Gloria A. Merrell, Chair of the City of San Antonio's Small Business Advisory Committee.
The Business Empowerment Plan is structured in two phases. Phase I is the Small Business Education Boot Camp. Phase II consists of two programs; the Mentor Protégé Program and the Bonding Assistance Program.
The Mentor Protégé Program provides guidance and advice to qualifying businesses in areas such as administration, organization structure and operations management. The Bonding Assistance Program helps small businesses build or repair their credit in order to become bondable, thus increasing their likelihood of being awarded city contracts.
"Working with the program is a great way to learn about the system, network with other businesses and explore business opportunities," said Debi Lamb-Burrows of Penguin Suits, a boutique advertising and marketing company in San Antonio, a graduate of the Business Empowerment Plan.
In conjunction with the Business Empowerment Plan, Accion Texas Inc. a non-profit small business lender, has announced the second phase to the plan's Bonding Assistance Program that will provide critical capital to traditionally underserved small business owners.
"Qualifying for bonding has been one of the biggest obstacles for small businesses to be able to access municipal contracts," said Patrick Shearer, San Antonio Market President for Accion Texas Inc.
Interested companies sign up for the Bonding Assistance Program through the City of San Antonio, complete the required courses and meet some financial requirements. In turn, Accion will issue a letter of credit to the bonding company for up to 20 percent of the bonding amount and a line of credit, if needed, for a City of San Antonio contract of up to $600,000. The letter of credit and line of credit could enhance a small business owner's credit profile and improve the probability of obtaining a bond.
"By providing a hand up to contractors that can show they are qualified to do the work, we can expand the pool of contractors capable of meeting the City's needs. This benefits both the contractors as well as the City," Shearer added.
Interested businesses can visit the Business Empowerment Plan's new website, www.BeSanAntonio.com, to find course descriptions, information about the Bonding Assistance and Mentor Protégé programs and applications.
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The days of the dedicated MP3 player are dead and gone. Every smartphone ships with its own music player now, and a dozen other streaming music options are just an app download away.
So it makes little sense that the headphones bundled with smartphones are usually crap. HTC is pushing back – its new Rezound phone for Verizon's 4G LTE network ships with a snazzy red and black pair of iBeats earbuds (around $100 on their own) that are complemented by the red accents on the handset. Some built-in Beats audio software comes pre-installed on the Rezound, as well. It's a move designed to appeal equally to those who want better (and louder) music performance and those craving a bit of visual flare.
HTC bought a majority share of the Beats by Dr. Dre brand for $300 million back in August. By dressing up the Rezound in Beats livery, HTC is making good on its promise to boost the mobile device maker's brand profile in the youth and accessories market.
But what matters most is the phone itself. Inside, it's a pretty typical high-performing 4G Android Gingerbread device. As a successor to HTC's mighty Thunderbolt, it has the heft we'd expect.
A 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor and an Adreno 220 GPU ensure the Rezound performs soundly. It's got 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage (plus 16 more on its microSD). Outside, it's got a 4.3-inch 720p HD display that manages to pack in more pixels than the iPhone's current Retina Display – the Rezound has a pixel density of 342 pixels per inch compared to the iPhone 4/4S's 326 ppi. The result is buttery smooth graphics and nary a pixel point to be seen.
An 8-megapixel camera with a dual-LED flash graces the back, and a 2-megapixel camera is on the front. The rear camera takes great 1080p HD video. And for photographs, you can adjust everything from the white balance, ISO and exposure, to the type of scene you're shooting (landscape, panorama, action shots). 13 different photographic effects can be used on top of that, ranging from Instagram-like filters ("vintage warm" and sepia tones) to fun tweaks like a posterized filter and a Photo Booth-style distortion.
The Rezound's tooling is tidy, with the power button and volume rocker lying nearly flat against the sides of the phone. This does mean they are a little more difficult to press than if they were raised a bit, but it reduces accidental presses. There's no dedicated camera shutter button.
Now, on to the audio goodies.
The external speaker, which lies flush among the texturized rubber ridges that decorate and add grip to the back of the handset, is surprisingly powerful. Mids are bright and crisp (as long as the phone is face down) and bass response is better than that of most other smartphone speakers. But of course, the real Beats magic lies within the headphone jack and accompanying iBeats, not the speaker.
The iBeats are pretty stellar as far as reasonably priced in-ear headphones go. Highs can get a little harsh as they compete with the upfront mids and strong bass, a common criticism of every product in the Beats line. But overall, they toss out some good sound – way better than you'd get from the cheapies that come bundled with most phones. (If Beats brand isn't your thing, we've got a few other suggestions under $100 that may fit the bill.)
The iBeats earphones are good by themselves, but they are meant to be paired with the Beats audio features inside the music player app that comes preloaded on the handset. The player app applies a volume boost and some EQ tweaking, and the feature can be enabled or disabled inside the player. Also, the Beats audio tweaks only work within the Rezound's music app, and can only be applied to tracks you've loaded onto the handset. The features can't be applied to other music apps like Rdio or Google Music.
But inside the Rezound's player, the audio experience gains new life. I listened to a wide range of songs to check out how this feature fared, and found that most tunes benefited from the overall sound boost and EQ-ing that Beats provided. When I switched on some U2, it sounded like Bono was crooning into my ear thanks to the midrange boost. But of course, Beats' strong point is the bass, so I kicked up the 4D3D3D3 and really got my jam on.
The call quality on the Rezound is nice too, with noticeably strong background noise cancellation. On a call with my parents, I had no idea my dad was eating popcorn while he was on the line until my mom said something about it. However, the complete silence between spoken phrases on the other end can make you think your call might have been dropped.
If you plan to spend a lot of quality time with your headphones in-ear and music on, the HTC Rezound is an excellent phone for you. It provides a good quality smartphone experience overall, but has the added benefit of extra audio love from Beats by Dr. Dre which pushes it a notch above the competition.
The price tag, unfortunately, is quite steep. The Rezound costs $300 on-contract, the same price as Verizon's other high-end LTE offering, the skinnier and much lighter Motorola Droid Razr. We can only guess how much those iBeats headphones inflate the Rezound's cost, but no matter what premium features you're after – super-thin case, the best display, fancy headphones – $300 appears to be the new standard for top-of-the-line Verizon devices.
WIRED Audio is superior to comparable smartphones. Camera has a boatload of effects and adjustable settings. Verizon 4G LTE makes for super snappy data transfers; webpages load quickly and app downloads take only seconds.
TIRED No volume controls on earbuds. Camera shutter is very slow when the flash is on. Massive amount of Verizon shovelware. HTC really needs to take its Sense UI down a few notches.
Photos by Ariel Zambelich/Wired
See Also:- HTC Rezound With Beats by Dre
- Buying Guide: Choosing a Smartphone
- Dre Sells Out to HTC for $300 Million
- HTC ThunderBolt Launches on Verizon's 4G Network With a Bang
- Verizon's 4G Network Leaves Other Carriers in the Dust
- Verizon Expanding 4G Coverage to 145 Markets by 2012
- So Long, WiMax: Sprint Confirms LTE Rollout by 2013
- Droid Bionic Review: A Shape-Shifter With Some Baggage


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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Arsenalnoye Extra Lager
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Bottom Shelf research director Emily and I mailed out wedding invitations well over 15 minutes ago and many of you ingrates have yet to R, which has her convinced that none of you are coming. This would SVP me just fine, because as much as I enjoy your company, if you don't show, hey, more bride and meatballs for me. But Emily wants you all to be there and thinks your micro-delayed oui means non, so I've tried to reassure her that you just haven't gotten around to answering because answering is not fun; you'll come through when it's time for the eating and drinking and joking and judging, though, because that stuff is fun.
Emily's standard operating procedure is to do everything that needs to be done, even the things that don't taste good or make her laugh, and she does so in the most efficient order possible. I admire this strange tic, because it's what makes her special and also what keeps our electricity turned on, but sometimes I get tired of explaining the rest of the universe to her. She struggles to relate to our sane and lazy way of doing things, so I have to keep reminding her that her friends will be there because they are kind and caring people, my friends will be there because there's an open bar, and my sister will be there because she likes the ocean. It will all work out just fine.
She still doesn't believe you're coming, but she's accepted my argument that regardless of whether any of the intended guests show up, our part of that case is closed—we stuck Post-Its with time and date under your windshield wipers; it's out of our hands now—so we can move on to planning the honeymoon.
We hadn't talked much about the honeymoon until last night, partly because of Em's preference for addressing things in a chronological order—she was hell-bent on finding a wedding venue, for example, even when it would have made much more fun-sense to finalize the song sequence and chicken wing flavors—and partly because we started off with conflicting priorities. Emily loves sand and water and sun and fruity drinks; when the topic was broached in February, I thought I only liked the last item on that list, so I recommended we compromise by going to a nice, dry, landlocked North American city with a thriving Mai Tai scene.
I've never been a big beach guy, because although I am very lazy in many ways, I don't enjoy the sit-still-for-hours kind of leisure. This is probably because I have an easy life; whatever the reason, just kinda sitting in the sand all day has never struck me as an ideal break from my comfortable reality. But after Sunday's trip to Revere Beach just north of Boston, I am now full onboard with the beach lifestyle.
You see, what I didn't realize is that in addition to sitting in the sand, you are also permitted to eat fried clams and conquer the ocean. I was always dimly aware of the pleasures of the clam, but I had never previously considered that it might be fun to mess around in the whale water. But man, I had a blast sorta swimming, intermittently floating, and not once drowning or being eaten. So a beach honeymoon it shall be.
The one thing that could have improved our trip to Revere would have been a small bit of beer. I don't want to get all trashy drunk on the beach, lest I horrify the children or anger the sharks, but I don't think a few gentle beers would have hurt anything. So now that I've acquiesced to Em's island fantasy, all that's left, other than the small matter of deciding which island, is figuring out the ideal beer for a week of beach drinking.
I tried one potential contender last night: Arsenalnoye Extra Lager, from Russian superbrewer Baltika, entered the competition as a dark horse due to its high (7%) alcohol content and its presumed scarcity on the tropical paradise of San Playa de Cabo What Have You, but it has one very compelling advantage: $4.99 gets you a 1.5 liter plastic bottle. That's 51 ounces of beer in a lightweight, unbreakable container that seems perfect for resealing throughout a short afternoon's beaching.
This is strange stuff. I should start off by disclaiming that I have no idea how long my sample bottle sat around the store before I bought it (though at least it was refrigerated). This isn't to say it tasted stale or past its prime, but rather an acknowledgment that it's so unusual that I can't say for certain if Baltika intended for it to taste the way it did by the time I got to it.
It didn't resemble standard lager in any obvious way; it seemed more like a cider/beer hybrid, with strong suggestions of malt and cider vinegar, very little hint of grain, and no hop character at all. All that said, I kinda dug it. It was refreshing and light, at least considering its high-end alcohol content and low-end packaging.
It turns out that Arsenalnoye Extra is a little too weird to rely on for an entire week's drinking, but I recommend giving it a quick go should you ever stumble upon it.
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UMG Recordings v. Augusto, —F.Supp.2d —-, 2008 WL 2390037 (C.D. Cal. June 10, 2008)
Some record companies create promotional CDs that they distribute to music industry insiders before an album is released. These promo CDs bear the following language:
This CD is the property of the record company and is licensed to the intended recipient for personal use only. Acceptance of this CD shall constitute an agreement to comply with the terms of the license. Resale or transfer of possession is not allowed and may be punishable under federal and state laws.
Troy Augusto is not an industry insider, but he bought copies of promo CDs in record stores and online, and he resold those copies on eBay. Record label UMG sent a notice to eBay under eBay's Verified Rights Owner program ("VeRO") and got Augusto's account suspended. UMG also sued Augusto for copyright infringement. Augusto counterclaimed under Section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), claiming that UMG knowingly misrepresented to eBay that the auctions infringed UMG's copyrights.
Both sides moved for summary judgment on whether Augusto had infringed, and Augusto also moved for summary judgment on the DMCA misrepresentation claim. The court granted Augusto's motion as it related to infringement, but denied it as to misrepresentation.
The court found that Augusto's conduct was protected by the first sale doctrine. This principle is codified at 17 U.S.C. §109(a) and provides that "the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under [Title 17 of the United States Code]… is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord." To invoke the first sale doctrine, Augusto had to show that (1) the CDs were lawfully manufactured with UMG's authorization, (2) UMG transferred title to the CDs, (3) Augusto was the lawful owner of the CDs, and (4) Augusto disposed of, but did not reproduce, the CDs.
In this case, it was undisputed that the CDs were lawfully manufactured by UMG and that Augusto did not reproduce them. The remaining elements, i.e., that UMG transferred title to the CDs and Augusto was the lawful owner of them, hinged on the question of whether the mailing of the CDs to the industry insiders resulted in a transfer of title.
The court found that title to the CDs passed because the language on them did not create a valid license, and the recipients were entitled to treat the CDs as gifts pursuant to the Postal Reorganization Act, 39 U.S.C. §3009.
In determining that the purported license was invalid, the court found that a significant hallmark of a license — an intent to regain possession — was missing. Further, the absence of any recurring benefit to UMG (the recipients were under no obligation to promote the music) suggested the distribution was a mere gift or sale, and not a license.
Moreover, the only benefit to UMG in having the provision enforced as a license would be to restrain trade, which would run contrary to century old Supreme Court precedent.
The court determined that the CDs were, under the Postal Reorganization Act, a gift. Under that act, if one mails unordered merchandise to a consumer without the consumer's consent, the merchandise may be treated as a gift, and the consumer may dispose of it as he or she sees fit. Despite UMG's argument to the contrary, the court held that industry insiders receiving the promo CDs were consumers. The court further held (rejecting UMG's argument) that the Postal Reorganization Act did not apply only to merchandise for which payment was requested.
In rejecting Augusto's DMCA Section 512(f) claim that UMG misrepresented the fact of infringement when it demanded eBay remove the auctions, the court found that UMG had a subjective good faith belief in its assertions. Under the holding of Rossi v. MPAA, 391 F.3d 1000 (9th Cir. 2004), this subjective good faith belief could not constitute a Section 512(f) misrepresentation.


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Medical professionals train using high-tech mannequins
Children's Hospital simulates real-life scenarios
Medical professionals used to practice treatment scenarios on real patients, but that isn't always the case anymore.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is using simulator mannequins to train everyone from dieticians to physicians.
"It always makes your heart beat, even though this is a pretend thing, it does always make your heart beat a little bit quicker, absolutely," said nurse Barb Spence.
Tuesday was training day for the hospital transport team, which is responsible for picking up patients all over the country and bringing them to Children's Hospital. The team tallies about 1,200 transports a year.
"Yesterday we had five transports during the day," Spence said. "Yesterday was a busy day."
Every day is filling with unique situations, and a patient's status can change in an instant. The condition of the training mannequins can be altered to simulate thousands of diseases and scenarios.
"It brings us confidence in our skills so that we can, our skills can be automatic and we can deal with the outside influences of the parents or of the staff that's around," said respiratory therapist Scott Mannebach.
"The mannequin simulators are portable, so they can be moved elsewhere," said Patrick Paolantonio. "So someone can practice and develop their skills in their own workplace. Sometimes within minutes of seeing a real patient."
"So they're in a familiar setting -- they're using familiar equipment that they would normally do, and then they're also surrounded by the people that they would be with routinely when they're delivering care to a child," said Dr. Michael Meyer of Children's Hospital.
Some of the funding for the training mannequins comes from Briggs and Al's Run and Walk for Children's Hospital.
"I think this is a great example of how the community effort enhanced the care and the education that we're providing to people and getting better outcomes in the care of children," Meyer said.
The test scenarios help medical professionals hone their skills with a taste of reality before the real-life situations come their way.
Briggs and Al's Run and Walk for Children's Hospital has raised more than $13 million. This year the 35th annual event will be Sept. 15.


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Lady Gaga opened and closed the fourth annual "Grammy Nominations Concert Live: Countdown to Music's Biggest Night," but the real stars of the show were multiple nominees Adele and Bruno Mars.
The 23-year-old British singer-songwriter and the 26-year-old R&B star both scooped up nominations in three of the four announced categories: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year. Adele will be walking in with a total of six nominations overall when the Grammys are held in February, while Mars will boast five.
Adele did not attend the event, as she is still recovering from the throat surgery she underwent earlier in the month.
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Amid all the talk of Adele and Bruno Mars however, was the surprisingly quiet but still dominant Kanye West. The rapper/producer's name was barely mentioned during the concert event (except in the Song of the Year category) , but overall West snagged a pack-leading seven nominations.
The hour-long concert event was hosted by LL Cool J, who also participated (alongside Common, Lupe Fiasco, and Rick Ross) in a tribute to rap legend Grandmaster Flash's iconic 1982 single "The Message," which is being honored with an induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
A Goth-looking Lady Gaga kicked off the evening in skull face paint, singing her new single "Marry the Night" amid smoke-spewing pipes. She sarcastically urged the initially static crowd to "Stand up. Have a good time."
In addition to Lady Gaga, who heard her name called for "Album of the Year," the concert featured performances by Sugarland, The Band Perry, and country star Jason Aldean (who sang - and rapped! -alongside hip hop star Ludacris). Rihanna performed her new single "We Found Love" via satellite from the O2 Arena in London.
Usher also performed, leading an abbreviated version of the award show's "In Memoriam" segment. The singer appeared alongside Valerie Simpson of Ashford & Simpson fame and Mike Stoller of songwriting duo Lieber & Stoller - both of whom lost their musical partners (Nick Ashford and Jerry Lieber) this year - for an emotional tribute.
The complete list of nominees has been posted on Grammys.com, with Adele, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Bon Iver, and Mumford and Sons clearly dominating the ballot in all major categories.
Record of the Year
"Rolling in the Deep" - Adele
"Holocene" - Bon Iver
"Grenade" - Bruno Mars
"The Cave" - Mumford and Sons
"Firework" - Katy Perry
Song of the Year
"All of the Lights" - Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi, and Fergie
"The Cave" - Mumford and Sons
"Grenade" - Bruno Mars
"Holocene" - Bon Iver
"Rolling in the Deep" - Adele
Best New Artist
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Album of the Year
"21" - Adele
"Wasting Light" - Foo Fighters
"Born This Way" - Lady Gaga
"Doo Wop & Hooligans" - Bruno Mars
"Loud" - Rihanna
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards will be handed out live February 12, 2012 at 8 PM ET on CBS.


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During my formative years I spent countless summers in the Queen City (OK, maybe two or three, but one summer in Buffalo is plenty for any kid), but I am far from an authority on their wings. In fact, even though I like them just fine, I don't go seeking out Buffalo wings much, and at the moment I can't recall any memorable wings I have had in recent years.
Likely for any Buffalo-nian, any wing from any place outside of Eire County-- or maybe upstate New York-- will never be good enough. I, for one (no offense Uncles, I am mostly kidding--it's a great city), will take the trade-off of living many thousands of miles away from New York's second most populous city for living in Denver and eating wings at which Buffalo natives would almost certainly turn up their noses.
(Excuse the photo quality, camera died and this is what our phone can do)
It is with that long and rambling disclaimer that I introduce Willy's Buffalo Style Hot Wings in Morrison, Colorado. The first things one is likely to notice about Willy's are the things I adore about it: the lovely patio under the rocky crags of Morrison as well as the no-nonsense service, decor and all-fried menu. And every time I go to the mountains to do something that burns calories (this time it was walking in the woods while carrying babies on back), I love to go somewhere that can not only replace those calories, but add on some extra for all the effort it takes to get there in the first place--and for the babies.
I hadn't been to Willy's in at least five years so I was interested to see how it was doing. Everything looked exactly the same although I imagine the layers of grease coating the walls and haphazardly framed sports posters was just a little bit thicker. We ordered 20 wings-- "X-hot", a family order of fries and two big Cokes.
The wings came out drenched in the customary bright-red Buffalo sauce. Putting the "X" in "X-Hot" were the chile seeds, coating everything and floating in all the spaces in between. One bite and everything came back to me. These are great wings. They were big, meaty and fried until the skin had a subtle crisp. Inside they mostly stayed juicy although there were a few that were a little overcooked, a common problem in the Buffalo wing world as far as I know.
The sauce is in the tradition of its Buffalo roots: it is tangy, buttery, runny, simple and in the "X-Hot" version, just enough spice to gather up a few beads of sweat on the neck and have a lingering burn on the lips. They were served with the traditional cooling side of celery and ranch dressing.
The fries were good enough to run through the copious amount of extra sauce that was left over in the bottom of our wing basket. Towards the end of the meal my mouth had a hard time distinguishing flavors other than hot sauce or cool ranch, so just the fact that the fries were another vehicle for more Buffalo sauce was good enough.
We sat back for a few minutes after inhaling our order and sipped on our extra large Styrofoam cups each full of a individualized soda medley from the fountain. We both looked up and each met the respective gaze of one of the twins, who were still in their car seats staring back at us with a look that made it clear they had never seen two people eat quite so ravenously. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even recognize the act of gluttony they just witnessed eating at all. But true to their thankfully mellow nature, they eventually just started to smile.
I can say without hesitation that Willy's Wings is my favorite wing-stop in the Denver area but as I mentioned above, I don't eat wings all that often and haven't really tried wings from any other Denver-area restaurant that prides itself on wing-making. I'm not sure where Willy's lies when held up to the gold-standard of Buffalo wings. I won't even pretend to know if they're the best in Denver, but it is a classic wing with a great sauce that ought to satisfy most--and maybe even a few Buffalo ex-pats.