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Ashley's 2014 Oscar's Predictions
March 2, 2014 Ashley F. Milleracademy awards, film, gravity, movies, oscars4 Comments
As you may or may not know, I get screeners every year, so I usually see most of the nominated movies. Here are my predictions and opinions on the categories for this year (except the shorts).
EDIT: I missed 3 out of 21, most disappointingly, The Act of Killing did not win Documentary Feature.
WILL WIN: "12 Years a Slave"
SHOULD WIN: "Gravity"
Alfonso Cuarón, "Gravity"
Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"
David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
WILL WIN: Alfonso Cuarón, "Gravity"
SHOULD WIN: Alfonso Cuarón, "Gravity"
Christian Bale, "American Hustle"
Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
WILL WIN: Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
SHOULD WIN: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Amy Adams, "American Hustle"
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"
Judi Dench, "Philomena"
Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"
WILL WIN: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
SHOULD WIN: I have no feelings on this matter
Barkhad Abdi, "Captain Phillips"
Bradley Cooper, "American Hustle"
Michael Fassbender, "12 Years a Slave"
Jonah Hill, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
WILL WIN: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Sally Hawkins, "Blue Jasmine"
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"
June Squibb, "Nebraska"
WILL WIN: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
SHOULD WIN: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
"Before Midnight," Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
"Captain Phillips," Billy Ray
"Philomena," Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
"12 Years a Slave," John Ridley
"The Wolf of Wall Street," Terence Winter
WILL WIN: "12 Years a Slave," John Ridley
SHOULD WIN: "12 Years a Slave," John Ridley
"American Hustle," Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
"Blue Jasmine," Woody Allen
"Dallas Buyers Club," Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
"Her," Spike Jonze
"Nebraska," Bob Nelson
WILL WIN: American Hustle," Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
SHOULD WIN: "American Hustle," Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Cutie and the Boxer"
"Dirty Wars"
"20 Feet From Stardom"
WILL WIN: "The Act of Killing"
SHOULD WIN: "The Act of Killing"
"The Missing Picture"
WILL WIN: "The Great Beauty"
"The Grandmaster," Philippe Le Sourd
"Gravity," Emmanuel Lubezki
"Inside Llewyn Davis," Bruno Delbonnel
"Nebraska," Phedon Papamichael
"Prisoners," Roger A. Deakins
WILL WIN: "Gravity," Emmanuel Lubezki
SHOULD WIN: "Gravity," Emmanuel Lubezki
"American Hustle," Michael Wilkinson
"The Grandmaster," William Chang Suk Ping
"The Great Gatsby," Catherine Martin
"The Invisible Woman," Michael O'Connor
"12 Years a Slave," Patricia Norris
WILL WIN: "12 Years a Slave," Patricia Norris
SHOULD WIN: "12 Years a Slave," Patricia Norris
"Ernest & Celestine"
WILL WIN: "Frozen"
SHOULD WIN: "Frozen"
"American Hustle," Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
"Captain Phillips," Christopher Rouse
"Dallas Buyers Club," John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
"Gravity," Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
"12 Years a Slave," Joe Walker
WILL WIN: "Gravity," Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
SHOULD WIN: "Gravity," Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
"Dallas Buyers Club," Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
"Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa," Stephen Prouty
"The Lone Ranger," Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
WILL WIN: "Dallas Buyers Club," Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
SHOULD WIN: "Dallas Buyers Club," Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
"Happy" from "Despicable Me 2" music and lyrics by Pharrell Williams
"Let It Go" from "Frozen," music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"The Moon Song" from "Her," music by Karen O; lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze
"Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, lyrics by Paul Hewson
WILL WIN: "Let It Go" from "Frozen," music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
SHOULD WIN: "Let It Go" from "Frozen," music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"The Book Thief," John Williams
"Gravity," Stephen Price
"Her," William Butler and Owen Pallett
"Philomena," Alexandre Desplat
"Saving Mr. Banks," Thomas Newman
WILL WIN: "Gravity," Stephen Price
"American Hustle," production design: Judy Becker; set decoration: Heather Loeffler
"Gravity," production design: Andy Nicholson; set decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
"The Great Gatsby," production design: Catherine Martin; set decoration: Beverley Dunn
"Her," production design: K.K. Barrett; set decoration: Gene Serdena
"12 Years a Slave," production design: Adam Stockhausen; set decoration: Alice Baker.
WILL WIN: "The Great Gatsby," production design: Catherine Martin; set decoration: Beverley Dunn
SHOULD WIN: "American Hustle," production design: Judy Becker; set decoration: Heather Loeffler
SOUND EDITING
"All Is Lost," Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
"Captain Phillips," Oliver Tarney
"Gravity," Glenn Freemantle
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," Brent Burge and Chris Ward
"Lone Survivor," Wylie Stateman
WILL WIN: "Gravity," Glenn Freemantle
SHOULD WIN: "Gravity," Glenn Freemantle
"Captain Phillips," Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
"Gravity," Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
"Inside Llewyn Davis," Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
"Lone Survivor," Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
WILL WIN: "Gravity," Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
SHOULD WIN: "Gravity," Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
"Gravity," Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
"Iron Man 3," Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
"The Lone Ranger," Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
"Star Trek Into Darkness," Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
WILL WIN: "Gravity," Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould
SHOULD WIN: "Gravity," Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould
As for the shorts, I have no idea.
2012 Movies, Part 1: Top 5 Films
January 3, 2013 Ashley F. Miller2012, alma reville, argo, beasts of the southern wild, brave, django unchained, hitchcock, movies, rise of the guardians, silver linings playbook, the hunger games, wreck it ralph, zero dark thirty7 Comments
The Extraordinary
Fantastic movies of 2012
I've seen a lot of movies this year and wanted to discuss all of them in-depth, but realized that was way too much for one post. So, to start with, this is a list of my ten favorite films of the year and a discussion of the problematic aspects of many of them. It is possible, of course, to love a movie that has issues, and many of my favorite films of the year focus on the privileged. So without further ado, my top 10 films and their strengths and weaknesses.
1. Django Unchained: The story of a slave and an enlightened German bounty hunting and seeking revenge in antebellum South. This is my favorite movie of the year. It deserves nods for Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Soundtrack, Best Original Music, Best Ensemble, Best Western Since Blazing Saddles, Most Brilliant Unnecessary Carnage, and Best Conversation Starter.
Representation: Bechdel Test: Fails. The beautiful and awesome Kerry Washington is the damsel in distress who, unfortunately, doesn't do anything proactive. Zoe Bell has a brief appearance, unrecognizable and badass as a villainess. There are also several slave women who are there to be eye candy or Mammy and Leonardo DiCaprio's character has a sister, who meets a wonderfully horrific end. And, with the loss of Tarantino's brilliant editor Sally Menke, there aren't any women in above-the-line positions on the film. On the other hand, the film makes strong use of African-American characters, who have complex interactions with the Institution, making it a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of slaves.
2. Hitchcock: The story of the making of Psycho and the relationship between Alma Reville and Alfred HItchcock. I love Helen Mirren so much I would go see her in anything and she has some wonderful moments here. Anthony Hopkins is good as Hitchcock, but it is really Mirren who steals the show, especially since so few know the story of the woman behind the man.
Representation: Bechdel Test: Pass, I think. It's a biopic about Hitchcock, who is a man, and nearly every conversation is about him. But I'm fairly certain his secretary, played by the wonderful Toni Collette, and Alma discuss the script, which Alma rewrites for her husband. The story is not strictly historically accurate, but it is fascinating, especially as an attempt to give credit to the woman who was so instrumental to Hitchcock's success. In a way, the film is very empowering in as much as it reveals just how much Alma contributed. There are, of course, no people of color in the film, arguably because that's what Hollywood and Hitchcock's circle looked like in 1960.
Great interview with Helen Mirren:
3. Silver Linings Playbook: The story of a man trying to overcome his bipolar disorder so that he can reunite with his wife who meets a young woman struggling with her grief from her husband's death. The trailer did not make me think that this movie was going to be particularly special, but the reviews were so positive that I went to see it anyway. Although I have some issues with the end, it is an incredibly well-made movie and both Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are perfect in their roles. The scene-stealer of the movie, however, is Robert DeNiro, who I would give best supporting actor to in a heartbeat.
Representation: Bechdel Test: Fail. Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, and Anupam Kher offer faces of color and interesting, complicated characters. While they are not the leads, they have meaty roles that offer them more to do than most films give their secondary characters. All three of them are incredibly charming and funny. Lawrence is, of course, a fantastic and fun woman who is complex and, while she needs a little rescuing, she is also rescuing Cooper from his life as well. She is strong and vicious and sweet in turns. Jacki Weaver is also great as the mother.
Not the spitting image of Ben Affleck
4. Argo: The true story of a CIA agent pretending to be a Hollywood Sci-Fi movie's location scouter to rescue 6 Americans from Iran. I normally can't stand Ben Affleck as an actor, but I love real-life intrigue stories and, it turns out, he was actually really good in this film. Roger Ebert named this as his number one film of the year, and while it didn't quite reach that for me, I understand why it did. It is, as he says, the most "movie" movie of the year and, like Ebert, I am very much interested in popular movies as much as I am in high film, if not more. John Goodman and Alan Arkin are brilliant as ever.
Representation: Bechdel Test: Pass. This is very much the story of tricking the Iranians and Iranians hating Americans, so there's not a lot of positive feelings given their way. Affleck is also playing a person of Mexican heritage — on the one hand, it's awesome that a movie got made with someone named "Mendez" as the hero and it never would have gotten made without Affleck, on the other hand it's a shame that the movie plays down his heritage and didn't have the ability to give the opportunity to someone who is Mexican American.
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild: The story of a little black girl living outside the levees in New Orleans and how she survives a big storm and her father's illness. I was fully expecting this to be my favorite movie of the year — I love magical realism stories about children. Plus, Obama recommended it to Oprah, who named it her favorite film of the year — if that's not endorsement, what is? It didn't make it to number one, but it is an incredible movie. Quvenzhané Wallis is incredible in the lead.
Representation: Bechdel Test: Pass. While I found this movie empowering and meaningful as a depiction of rural, Southern life, there has been substantial disagreement from others. While Obama and Oprah loved it, bell hooks thought it was a portrayal of the noble savage and black matriarch stereotypes. I personally think the entire movie subverts those stereotypes with a strong black single father who is fiercely devoted to his daughter, if not affectionate, juxtaposed against the strong teacher figure who helps her with her father's illness but doesn't ever take care of her — and I don't see how a six-year old who is dependent on others to survive is a "matriarch".
Honorable mentions: Brave (Bechdel Pass, no people of color); The Hunger Games (Bechdel Pass, strong secondary characters were people of color); Rise of the Guardians (Bechdel Fail, no people of color); Wreck-it Ralph (Bechdel Pass, no people of color); Zero Dark Thirty (Bechdel Pass, one minor character and bad guys were people of color)
Films on other people's lists that I haven't seen: The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spiderman, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Oranges, Moonrise Kingdom, Safety not Guaranteed, Take this Waltz, Life of Pi, Amour
June 7, 2012 Ashley F. Milleratheism, haters, introduction, movies, skepticism, toddlers & tiaras69 Comments
I cannot tell you how excited I am to be joining Freethought Blogs. Interestingly enough, I was asked to join FtB exactly 2 years after I started blogging about skepticism and atheism. I am a relatively new voice in this atheist/skeptic/oh-my-god-don't-conflate-the-two blogosphere, though I have been blogging for 14 years.
Many of you know me, but some of you do not. So hello! I'm Ashley, there's a bio over there that basically says I know too much about movies and talk a lot. The thing that most people seem to find shocking about me is that I worked on Toddlers & Tiaras. What else? They should be bringing my archives over eventually, but my old site is http://ashleyfmiller.wordpress.com
Here is a list of things I love:
Baby Sea Turtles
Rainbows, Sparkles, Sparkly Rainbows, Rainbow Sparkles
Here is a list of things I hate:
Ron Paulians
Dark Harbor
In summation:
Ashley's 2010 top 10
February 27, 2011 Ashley F. Millerfilms, king's speech, list, movies, top 10Leave a comment
Since I've just watched all of the Oscars out of some sort of masochistic impulse, I felt like I should do my top 10 list of the year.
1. I Love You, Phillip Morris
2. The King's Speech
3. The Social Network
4. Waiting for Superman
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Black Swan
7. Harry Potter 7.1
8. The Karate Kid
9. Despicable Me
10. Freakonomics
Movies I still need to see:
Made in Dagenham, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Red, Let Me In, Easy A, Tangled, Toy Story 3, Kick Ass, 127 Hours, True Grit, Winter's Bone, Four Lions, Flipped, Never Let Me Go, Secretariat, Get Him to the Greek, The Runaways, Ramona and Beezus, Nanny McPhee Returns
Tron: Legacy: Where are all the women?
December 18, 2010 Ashley F. Millerbechdel test, fembots, feminism, movies, tron, women in film41 Comments
I'm the first to admit that sexism and lack of reasonable representations of women in movies doesn't always bother me, especially if the movie is entertaining otherwise. The original Star Wars Trilogy, for example, didn't pass the Bechdel test at all, but I still love them. So, my extreme dislike of the movie Tron: Legacy is not just because it's terrible at representing women, but also because it's terrible generally. It's just that a lot of my inability to appreciate even the special effects and music comes from the ridiculous treatment of women in this film.
The Bechdel test, for those unfamiliar with it, is a very simple test about the representation of women in a movie. Passing doesn't mean a film isn't sexist, but it is useful in showing how few films actually do the following:
1. Have at least two named female characters
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something other than a man
Fembot/Siren
Tron: Legacy passes the first one, and only just, having the characters of Quorra (Olivia Wilde) and Gem (Beau Garrett). All the other women in the film have names like "Siren #4". There is only one line in the entire movie spoken between two women and it is "He's different," spoken by fembots, excuse me, "Sirens" about a recently en-spandexed Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund).
What I don't understand about this movie is that there are so many opportunities to put women into it, why couldn't there be some in minor roles? Why couldn't they be in major roles?
Why couldn't Sam have been a woman? Would a story about Flynn's daughter not have been equally compelling? I think it could have only helped the film, and it would have been a much more original piece to have a young woman who refused to take up responsibility at her father's company, than having yet another rich boy who won't take up his father's mantle. The movie could have been exactly the same, but with a Samantha instead of a Samuel, it would have been much better and much more original.
But let's accept for the moment that the world is just not ready for girl slackers even though it loves the infantilized Apatow boys, surely there could have been a woman in the real world that had an impact on Sam's life, right? Instead, the evil CEO and the young Encom programmer they set up as Sam's rival, and then drop without a second thought, are both men, as is Sam's only living mentor. The security guard and police that chase him? Men. Even his dog is a boy. As for his grandmother, she's just dead, as is his mother — both of them unceremoniously dumped from the film for fear of encumbering it with nuances in the presentation of women.
Jeri Ellsworth: Real Life Awesome Programmer
But surely within the world of the computer there is room for females, right? After all, there are women programmers, women love the internet, and within a computer it doesn't really matter if you're a man or a woman. The freedom in the semi-anonymous enclave of the computer has been a source of great empowerment for women, surely the creators of the film would give a little something back to all the women who go to Comic Con. Because women are actually a huge part of geek culture, and the last people who are going to trivialize women and make them into mere sexual toys are the nerds, right?
I have to admit that I was shocked at the fembots/sirens scene — it pulled me right out of the movie. When Sam Flynn goes into the Grid world, he is immediately taken into a room with four super sexy women — the kind of ridiculous, hyper-sexed women I haven't seen in a theater since Dude, Where's my Car? — they strip him down and then dress him. Why does this scene exist? There is no new information given and surely they could have introduced Gem, who appears later, in a much less embarrassing way.
"First you give us the continuum transfunctioner, then we give you oral pleasure."
So then Sam goes to fight in the Neon Frisbee games, and all of his competitors are men, because hurling a frisbee is bad for female programs' delicate sensibilities, and then he goes to talk to the evil Clu, who has a strictly XY inner circle. I will refrain from complaining too much, because James Frain was brilliant and I love him, but is there any reason the major domo couldn't have been a woman? Or maybe the guards or people working on computers nearby could have been female. Or just one person in the light cycle bike racing fight.
I find these heels incredibly practical for fighting and driving
When Quorra finally makes an appearance, it's almost a relief to remember that non-fembot women are, in fact, allowed to be on screen. Unfortunately, Quorra is a hyper-sexualized, wide-eyed, male fantasy. She only wears skintight clothing, can fight and drive fast cars, but doesn't know anything and needs men to teach her about the world and make decisions for her. I love Olivia Wilde, but this character is embarrassing — after seeing how brilliant and nuanced she can be on House, it's incredibly depressing to see her made into nothing more than fodder for fanboy fantasy.
At this point the film just gets dull and repetitive until we are reintroduced to the siren Gem, and meet Zeus, played to manic David Bowie extremes by Michael Sheen. Once again, there is an opportunity here for a meaty secondary role to be given to a woman, and once again they give it to a man. I love Michael Sheen, but what if Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton had had this role? It would have meant giving lines to a woman who wasn't a smoking hot 25 year old, I know.
Quorra gets injured and has to be saved by Flynn the elder. And then she gets captured by Tron and has to be rescued by Flynn the younger. And then there's a chase scene in which she flies a plane, as directed by the men, and Flynn the younger shoots at people and Flynn the elder uses his magic godlike powers to fight Clu. At the end our intrepid hero gets the girl and drives her around on the back of his bike, where women belong.
Why is it necessary to have this shot, and why am I sitting like this?
There were so many opportunities for this film to treat women as anything other than sexual objects and so many good reasons for it to have done so. It's very difficult for me, as someone who loves and identifies strongly with geek culture, to put up with the complete lack of reasonable female characters in almost every major release that is supposed to appeal to me. This stuff isn't hard and it doesn't require that much thought, but of course the only female with a major role in the creation of the film was the woman who wrote the original screenplay to Tron 30 years ago.
Advice for 2010 Grads Coming to LA; 15 things
May 5, 2010 Ashley F. MillerAdvice, Contest, eddie kritzer, Entertainment, film industry, film school, Hollywood, LA, los angeles, movies, moving, scam, screenwriting, women in film, Writing4 Comments
The Bitter Script Reader posted some advice about how to survive to move to LA. I tried to comment over there and it won't let me, but this is what I said.
1) Get settled so that you're as comfortable as possible — living out of boxes makes everything seem transient. Have roommates or whatever, but make sure that you've got a space, however small, that is yours. Spend some time driving around the city and getting to know places. Find the studios. (Have a car!)
2) I really love Glendale, it's safe and cheapish. Frogtown is super cheap. North Hollywood is becoming a lot safer, the parts closer to the 134 are totally fine for a single girl to live in.
2) I would say you probably need at least 7k in the bank before coming out here and at least two finished scripts and some outlines for more. Basically, you need enough money that you can go several months without making much money at all and enough written that if you're too discombobulated to write, you've got something to work with. I applied for internships and jobs for 6 months before I moved out and it still took me 3 months to land a part time paid gig, though I did have an internship lined up.
3) Apply to every job you can find, do things for free, take an internship in the industry if you can afford it and then work at whatever you can in the rest of the time. It doesn't matter if it's an industry job, making contacts of all sorts is important, life experience, all that jazz. I'm not super social and I don't like to drink, but working on other people's projects is a great way to meet people and learn useful skills.
4) Find something else you can do in the industry besides writing. Can you edit? Can you gaff? Find a way to make yourself useful. Pursue every avenue. Learn to script supe, that's easy and low impact. Find something you like to do that isn't writing.
5) A lot of people would say find a writing group. I personally am not in one, but I have a large group of friends who I can get advice from. Writing groups are pretty useful if you don't have that.
6) Apply selectively to contests, but do apply. I've definitely gotten contacts from agents and managers and earned some street cred by placing in contests people had heard of.
7) Mandy.com, realitystaff.com, and craigslist are your new friends. I personally don't really like the UTA job list, but it's out there too.
8) Figure out a way to make your commute worthwhile. A voice recorder is great if you can think outloud for writing purposes. I listen to a lot of audiobooks.
9) Do things that have nothing to do with film because people who only talk about film are boring. Read books, magazines, go do stuff that's got seriously zero to do with film and then you'll have something interesting to talk about. The reason Hollywood loves young blood is because they have experience outside of the Hollywood system and they haven't quite yet been turned into normal LA people who can only talk about themselves and movies.
10) Write genre scripts that can be produced cheaply if you're really out to make a sell.
11) Don't ever be a douchebag. Don't have a temper. If you talk shit online, don't use names. (Unless revealing scam artists!)
12) Conversely, if you're working for free, you have the right to be treated well and to learn something from the experience. Don't be afraid of anyone. And don't be afraid to speak up for yourself, just don't be aggressive. Along these lines, know how much you should be getting paid, even if you're not being paid that. This is useful info.
13) Be on the look out for scams. Not all competitions are worthwhile. Not all agents are legit. If someone asks you for money upfront to be your agent, that guy is a scam artist. (google Eddie Kritzer)
14) If you're a lady writer with a girly name, I'd recommend using your initials. That sounds terrible, but there's genuine gender bias out here and I'm super lucky that all the other Ashleys out here are guys. This is especially true if you're replying to internet ad, because internet people are super creepy.
15) Give yourself deadlines so that you're not constantly second guessing yourself and make sure they're reasonable. I, for example, haven't always been totally sure LA is the place for me, but I'm only allowed to seriously think about moving during the month of August. So I don't dwell on it in general.
(I never had a problem with the tap water, don't know what people are talking about)
Why I Write for Children; Why I love Children's Media
October 12, 2009 Ashley F. Millerchildren, children's films, children's literature, dinosaurs, Lemony Snicket, movies, series of unfortunate events, stegosaurusLeave a comment
Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket knows that children have the best appreciation for the imagination at work.
I'm not there because I subscribe to the specious and lunkheaded notion that children are unspoiled spouters of true wisdom. (Let's mothball that idea, next to the one that African-Americans are inherently rhythmic and Latinas can't be on the Supreme Court.) I'm merely looking for the most interesting conversationalists. If I could find an adult icebreaking with "Last night I dreamed I was a horse" or "Tree frogs have big eyes," I'd drink with them instead.
SAM: The little man walking down the street and he doesn't see a dinosaur walking by. And he eats him. *delighted cackle*
Simple, emotional, exactly as complicated as the story needs to be. Go watch Sam. He likes Stegosauruses. Me too.
Natalie Dee
Stegosaurus Car
Busted Tees. Never Forget Dinosaurs.
100 Favorite Female Characters OnScreen
October 11, 2009 Ashley F. MillerActing, Casting, movies, women, women in film7 Comments
This was actually really hard. I could shoot you off 100 dudes in no time, but I had to do a lot of IMDb surfing to find these. So, who am I missing?
1. Abbey Bartlett, Stockard Channing (The West Wing)
2. Ainsley Hayes, Emily Procter (West Wing)
3. Anna, Jodie Foster (Anna and the King)
4. Anne Shirley, Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables)
5. Annie Wilkes, Kathy Bates (Misery)
6. Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
7. Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)
8. Barbara Novak, Renee Zellweger (Down with Love)
9. Baroness, Anjelica Huston (Ever After)
10. Beatrix Kiddo, Uma Thurman (Kill Bill)
11. Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
12. Brenda, Bette Midler (First Wives Club)
13. Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy)
14. Cady, Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls)
15. Carrie, Sissy Spacek (Carrie)
16. Catwoman, Eartha Kitt (Batman)
17. Charlotte (Charlotte's Web)
18. Cinderella, Lesley Ann Warren (Cinderella)
19. CJ Craig, Allison Janney (The West Wing)
20. Clarice Starling, Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
21. Clarissa, Melissa Joan Hart (Clarissa Explains it All)
22. Cruella de Vil, Glenn Close (101/102 Dalmatians)
23. Danielle, Drew Barrymore (Ever After)
24. Debbie, Joan Cusack (Addams Family)
25. Eddie, Jennifer Saunders (Ab Fab)
26. Elena, Catherine Zeta Jones (Chicago)
27. Elise, Goldie Hawn (First Wives Club)
28. Elizabeth Bennett, Jennifer Ehle (Pride & Prejudice)
29. Elizabeth II, Helen Mirren (The Queen)
30. Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
31. Elle, Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde)
32. Emily, Joan Cusack (In & Out)
33. Grace, Brenda Blethyn (Saving Grace)
34. Gracie Lou Freebush, Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality)
35. Gwen, Sigourney Weaver (Galaxy Quest)
36. Helen, Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies)
37. Jane Tennison, Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect)
38. Jane, Susan Sarandon (Witches of Eastwick)
39. Jean Brodie, Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
40. Julia Child, Meryl Streep (Julie & Julie)
41. Karen, Megan Mullaly (Will & Grace)
42. Laine Hanson, Joan Allen (The Contender)
43. Lamia, Michelle Pfeiffer (Stardust)
44. Laurie, Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween)
45. Leeloo Dallas Multipass, Milla Jovovich (5th Element)
46. Leontine, Fiona Shaw (Triumph of Love)
47. Lisa Cuddy, Lisa Edelstein (House)
48. Madeleine Kahn (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part 1)
49. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
50. Marge, Frances McDormand (Fargo)
51. Marquise de Merteuil, Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons)
52. Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
53. Matilda, Mara Wilson (Matilda)
54. Matron Mama Morton, Queen Latifah (Chicago)
55. Melinda, Kristen Stewart (Speak)
56. Merryweather (Sleeping Beauty)
57. Mia Thermopolis, Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries)
58. Mildred Hubble, Georgina Sherrington (The Worst Witch)
59. Miranda, Meryl Streep (Devil Wears Prada)
60. Miss Minchin, Eleanor Bron (A Little Princess)
61. Miss Perky, Allison Janney (10 Things I Hate About You)
62. Molly Weasley, Julie Waters (Harry Potter)
63. Morticia Addams, Anjelica Huston (Addams Family)
64. Mrs. Macbeth, Maureen Tierney (Scotland PA)
65. Mrs. Tingle, Helen Mirren (Teaching Mrs. Tingle)
66. Mrs. Wilkinson, Julie Waters (Billy Elliot)
67. Nina Garcia (Project Runway)
68. Ofelia, Ivana Baquero (Pan's Labyrinth)
69. Patsy, Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous)
70. Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking)
71. Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)
72. Princess, Mira Sorvino (Triumph of Love)
73. Principal, Joan Cusack (School of Rock)
74. Private Benjamin, Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin)
75. Rainbow Brite (Rainbow Brite)
76. Raymond's mother, Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate)
77. Ripley, Sigourney Weaver (Alien)
78. Sally, Catherine O'Hara (Nightmare Before Christmas)
79. Sally, Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally)
80. Samantha, Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City)
81. Sara Crewe, Liesel Matthews (A Little Princess)
82. Sarah, Jennifer Connolley (The Labyrinth)
83. Scarlett O'Hara, Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)
84. Serafina Pekkala, Eva Green (The Golden Compass)
85. She-Ra (She-Ra)
86. Susan Stanton, Emma Thompson (Primary Colors)
87. Susan, Meryl Streep (Adaptation)
88. Terry, Joyce Hyser (Just one of the guys)
89. Tina Fey (Mean Girls, SNL, 30 Rock)
90. Tommy, Pam Ferris (Death to Smoochy)
91. Tracy Turnblad, Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray)
92. Velma Kelly, Catherine Zeta Jones (Chicago)
93. Veronica, Winona Rider (Heathers)
94. Victoria, Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria)
95. Warden Walker, Sigourney Weaver (Holes)
96. Wednesday Addams, Christina Ricci (Addams Family)
97. Willow, Alyson Hannigan (Buffy)
98. Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman)
99. Xena, Lucy Lawless (Xena)
100. Yzma, Eartha Kitt (The Emperor's New Groove)
Female Filmmakers; Women Directors
October 7, 2009 Ashley F. Millermovies, screenwriting, Stats, women, women in film1 Comment
There's an interesting article over at Film School Rejects which basically lists about a hundred films directed by women. Now, I do appreciate that there are not very many women directors, or at least, not a lot of successful ones, but I do think that it's useful to look at the entire field of filmmaking. After all, directing is just one part of the puzzle — movies are written, edited, produced, and a million other things. Even movies with leading females aren't that common. Statistics from San Diego State University. Last Year (2008):
Only 6 of the top 50 grossing films (12 of the top 100 films) starred or were focused on women.
Women comprised 9% of all directors.
Women accounted for 12% of writers.
Women comprised 16% of all executive producers.
Women accounted for 23% of all producers.
Women accounted for 17% of all editors.
Women accounted for 25% of production managers.
Women comprised 44% of production supervisors.
Women accounted for 20% of all production designers working on the top 250 films.
Women comprised 5% of sound designers.
Women accounted for 5% of supervising sound editors working on the top 250 films.
Women comprised 1% of key grips.
Women accounted for 1% of gaffers working on the top 250 films of 2008.
Even film critics are overwhelmingly male:
In Fall 2007, men penned 70% and women 30% of all reviews. Furthermore, of the newspapers featuring film reviews, 47% had no reviews written by women critics, writers or freelancers. In contrast, only 12% had no reviews written by men critics, writers or freelancers.
So what do I have to offer as a way to remedy this? Not much. There are some resources out there, but you usually have to pay money to join. Or else they're just not updated that often.
Go and be depressed now.
http://www.allianceofwomendirectors.org/
http://www.wif.org/
http://blog.moviesbywomen.com/
Roman Polanski; No Sympathy
September 29, 2009 Ashley F. MillerEntertainment, movies, womenLeave a comment
It's not OK to drug and rape children; sex with a child is rape. People who admit to raping children and flee the country should be brought to justice.
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"2013 National Turfgrass Evaluation Program Bermudagrass Test: 2013–201" by Linda R. Parsons, Michael J. Shelton et al.
Kansas represents the northernmost region in the central United States where bermudagrass can be successfully grown as a perennial turfgrass. Historically, few cultivars that have both acceptable quality and adequate cold tolerance have been available to local growers. Because new introductions are continually being selected for improved hardiness and quality, both seeded and vegetative types need regular evaluation to determine their long-range suitability for use in Kansas.


Heidi joined the Petroff Center in September of 2011, contributing her professionalism and creativity to our Lake Oswego medical team. Heidi has ambitiously taken on her role as our medical assistant, excelling in all areas of her job. She assists with the pre- and post-operative care of all of our patients, ensuring their cosmetic journey is as exceptional as possible. She is a versatile employee and a strong asset to the Petroff Center. Heidi loves her job because it provides her the opportunity to interact with customers and watch people's lives change for the better. We are confident that our patients will love getting to work with Heidi during their treatment and recovery process.


These modules are useful for educators seeking to teach IACUC members and staff to define significant changes to IACUC-approved protocols, and to build participants' confidence in implementing available forms of protocol review, including Veterinary Verification and Consultation (VVC).
Provide IACUC members with a basic understanding as to what constitutes a significant change to an IACUC-approved protocol.
Allow IACUC members to gain an understanding of the review methods available to them for review and approval of significant changes.
Empower the IACUC to implement the Veterinary Verification and Consultation (VVC) process at their institution.
Describe the review methods for significant changes.
Formulate a template process to implement Veterinary Verification and Consultation (VVC).


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What A $300K Wedding Dress Looks Like
Story from Designers
Have $300K In The Bank? This Wedding Dress Is For You
Landon Peoples
Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.
In case your eyes are also starting to glaze over from seeing yet more fancy gowns on the couture runways (because our lives are so hard), let this be your palate-cleanser. According to fashion critic Alexander Fury, Elie Saab sent a wedding dress down its 2016 couture runway today that really went for broke: The thing costs $300,000.
Now, this is haute couture we're talking about. And an Elie Saab gown of comparable embroidery can easily run you anywhere from $12,000, to, well, that. Yes, $300K is nothing to sneeze at — not to mention the fact that it weighs a reported 150 pounds (imagine doing the hora in that bad boy). But let's talk statistics.
Like, for instance, who's going to buy a $300K dress now that Angelababy is off the market? Well, in a recent WWD article, jewelry designer Temple St. Clair noted "remarkable sell-throughs" in her haute couture collections: "There are so many people in the world right now who have a lot of everything, and I think are looking for very special, unique pieces." And seeing as Elie Saab is a designer who generally dresses real-world princesses (see: Princess Claire of Luxembourg and Belgian Countess Stephanie de Lannoy), maybe a $300K wedding dress is a feasible purchase for some.
So if you're ready for the "I'm married" chapter of your life and have a third of a mil burning a hole in your platinum-plated trousers, look no further than Look #51. (And if you don't have said third of a mil, well, we're not particularly surprised.)
Elie Saab $300,000 Couture Wedding Dress
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Q: pip won't install channels_redis for working with Django channels I need to install "channels_redis".
while installing "channels_redis" I face this error, any thought?
by the way, I'm on windows and it showed me an error of C++ first and after installing Microsoft visual studio build tools vanished, and now this.
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: 'E:\Programming projects\Django\channels\chat_launch01\venv\Scripts\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0]
 = '"'"'C:\\Users\\KaNi\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-dt2d0_z3\\hiredis_a7d15f1044b343288a4bc87864c6418e\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\
Users\\KaNi\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-dt2d0_z3\\hiredis_a7d15f1044b343288a4bc87864c6418e\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"
'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d
 'C:\Users\KaNi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-m0bnautd'
       cwd: C:\Users\KaNi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-dt2d0_z3\hiredis_a7d15f1044b343288a4bc87864c6418e\
  Complete output (23 lines):
  C:\Users\KaNi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-dt2d0_z3\hiredis_a7d15f1044b343288a4bc87864c6418e\setup.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the imp module
is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
    import sys, imp, os, glob, io
  E:\Programming projects\Django\channels\chat_launch01\venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:642: UserWarning: Usage of dash-separated 'des
cription-file' will not be supported in future versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead
    warnings.warn(
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\hiredis
  copying hiredis\version.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\hiredis
  copying hiredis\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\hiredis
  running build_ext
  building 'hiredis.hiredis' extension
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.9
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.9\Release
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.9\Release\src
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.9\Release\vendor
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.9\Release\vendor\hiredis
  d:\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29910\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -Ivendor -IE:\
Programming projects\Django\channels\chat_launch01\venv\include -Ic:\users\kani\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\include -Ic:\users\kani\a
ppdata\local\programs\python\python39\include -Id:\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29910\include -IC:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt /Tcsrc\hiredis.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.9\Release\src\hiredis.obj
  hiredis.c
  c:\users\kani\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\include\pyconfig.h(200): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'basetsd.h': No suc
h file or directory
  error: command 'd:\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.28.29910\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code
2
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for hiredis

A: This happens because there is some problem with your build tools. Therefore,

*

*If your build tools further not answering to your problem, try to install build tools manually through this link.

*After that, you have to restart your PC or laptop.

*Then try to run your code again

A: The issue comes when in your windows system you are trying to install channels_redis in venv Python environment and not in the main system,
Try to install and run the project outside any virtual environment i.e into the main system.

A: When I use python version python-3.10.5 I'm getting  the same error and I tried all things but couldn't work, so I changed my python version to python-3.7.3 and it worked.

A: Error occurs when building hiredis.
Make sure Python development headers are available when installing hiredis-py. On Ubuntu/Debian systems, install them with apt-get install python3-dev.

A: finally i used docker image to solve this problem

*

*install docker

*run docker desktop

*in terminal enter the following line
docker run -p 5432:5432 -d --name redis redis

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Guy Martin sets off on attempt to break British around-the-coast cycling record (video)
TV presenter and motorbike racer Guy Martin is attempting to set a new record for the shortest time taken to cycle around the British coastline
By Nigel Wynn published 7 December 16
Motorcycle racer turned television presenter Guy Martin is currently riding around the coast of Britain in an attempt to set a new record.
Martin is attempting to ride the 4,802-mile coastal route in 20 days, having set off at 4am on Sunday morning (December 5). He aims to complete the challenge by 5am on Christmas day morning in order to safely better the current record of 22 days set by Nick Sanders in 1984.
Martin filmed a video from what appears to be the back of his van 'in a pub car park' on Saturday evening. In the video, he says: "We've got a big job on. The record's stood since 1984, I'm going to try and break it."
"It all starts here. It's further than you think," explains Martin. "If you'd have asked me, you'd think... Land's End to John O'Groats is 900 miles, so it would be times two plus a bit. But it's not, it's miles. 4,802. That's what the official record distance is.
>>> Cycle lanes cause problems for road users, says Transport Secretary
"It's not the best time of year to be doing it," admitted Martin, who faces limited daytime light, low temperatures and windy conditions on his coastal route.
Although little information has come via Martin's official social media channels, Facebook user Stephen Belll snapped a photo of himself with Martin in Amble, Northumberland, at 10.30pm on Sunday night after Martin had ridden 240 miles north from Grimsby.
It's by no means the first cycling challenge that Martin has undertaken. He was the British motor-paced cycling land speed record holder, having clocked 112.94 mph in 2013. That record was subsequently broken in April 2016 by Neil Campbell.
Martin was most recently seen on TV screens in the Channel 4 series Our Guy in China. During the last episode broadcast on Monday evening he attempted to set a new fastest time to cross the hostile Taklamakan Desert by bike. He set a new record of 28 hours and 17 minutes for the 341-mile trip, soundly beating the previous mark of 47 hours.
Nigel Wynn
Former Associate Editor
Nigel Wynn worked as associate editor on CyclingWeekly.com, he worked almost single-handedly on the Cycling Weekly website in its early days. His passion for cycling, his writing and his creativity, as well as his hard work and dedication, were the original driving force behind the website's success. Without him, CyclingWeekly.com would certainly not exist on the size and scale that it enjoys today. Nigel sadly passed away, following a brave battle with a cancer-related illness, in 2018. He was a highly valued colleague, and more importantly, n exceptional person to work with - his presence is sorely missed.
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Patent Issued to MRO for IdentiScan® Medical Record Integrity Application
by Nicole Hoy | Nov 13, 2018 | Press Release, Uncategorized
by Nicole HoyNov 13, 2018
Optical character recognition technology eliminates privacy breaches, exclusive to healthcare providers partnering with MRO
Nov. 13, 2018 – MRO, a leader in the secure, compliant and efficient exchange of protected health information (PHI), announced its IdentiScan® medical record integrity application was patented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). U.S. Patent Number 10,037,409, "Automated Method and System for Reducing the Improper Disclosure of Documents," was issued on July 31, 2018.
Healthcare providers partnering with MRO for release of information (ROI) benefit from IdentiScan as an embedded feature in the ROI Online® platform, used during a rigorous quality assurance process. IdentiScan uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to scan for and locate misfiled pages within patient health record sets to enable correction prior to sharing with requesters of the information.
"We are pleased that IdentiScan is now patented, positioning MRO to protect the technology that makes our product unique, powerful and accurate," said David Borden, Chief Platform Architect and inventor of IdentiScan. "Through this patent, MRO clients receive the exclusive benefit of this type of technology to ensure PHI disclosure accuracy."
With IdentiScan in place, MRO fulfills requests with a 99.99 percent accuracy rate. MRO has identified comingled records in approximately one in every 200 requests processed. Since the deployment of the application in July 2013, MRO's specialists have used the technology to perform quality checks on millions of record requests to correct instances of comingled medical records that may have resulted in privacy breaches.
In September 2018, KLAS published the report "Release of Information 2018: Who Delivers Most Consistently Across Customers?" in which MRO was recognized as the best overall performer with the highest rating for quality. MRO is the five-time KLAS "Category Leader" for ROI, as designated in the 2013-2018 "Best in KLAS Software & Services" reports.
MRO, the KLAS-rated #1 provider of release of information (ROI) solutions since 2013, empowers healthcare organizations with proven, enterprise-wide solutions for the secure, compliant and efficient exchange of protected health information (PHI). In addition to ROI, MRO's suite of PHI disclosure management solutions is comprised of government and commercial payer audit management and accounting of disclosures services and technologies. MRO's technology-driven services reduce the risk of improper disclosure of PHI, ensure unmatched accuracy and enhance turnaround times. To learn more, visit www.mrocorp.com.
Press contact information:
Becky McLaughlin, MRO, (610) 994-7500, ext. 353
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If you turn 65 and qualify for Medicare while incarcerated, you should actively enroll in Medicare Parts A and B during your Initial Enrollment Period (IEP). You will not be eligible for automatic enrollment while you are incarcerated. If you enroll during your IEP, you can avoid late enrollment penalties and gaps in coverage when your incarceration ends.
To enroll in Part A and Part B, send a signed and dated letter to the Social Security Administration (SSA) that includes your name, Social Security number, clear statement that you want to enroll, and the date coverage should be effective. Be sure to keep a copy of the letter that you send. If possible, it is best to send paperwork via certified mail to ensure their delivery. Your application must contain your signature in order to be valid.
If you fail to enroll into Medicare while incarcerated, you may go months without health coverage upon your release. You may have to wait until the General Enrollment Period (January 1 through March 31 of each year) to enroll, meaning your Medicare coverage won't start until July 1. Also, delaying enrollment means that you may incur a Part B premium penalty, which will make your Medicare coverage more expensive.
Be sure to learn about how Medicare coverage works while you are incarcerated. For example, you will typically need to pay the Part B premium ($135.50 in 2019) each month to avoid being disenrolled, but Medicare typically will not pay for your medical care until you are released.
If you are under 65, qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and are within your two-year waiting period for Medicare before incarceration, the time you spend incarcerated will not count toward your two-year waiting period. Once your SSDI benefits are reinstated after your release, time spent toward your two-year waiting period will resume.


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HomeIndiaGujarat ATS nabs four fugitive terrorists from 1993 Mumbai bombings, trying to flee abroad.
Gujarat ATS nabs four fugitive terrorists from 1993 Mumbai bombings, trying to flee abroad.
While the investigating agency has forged passports with them. The four terrorists were trying to flee abroad with fake passports.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested four fugitive terrorists in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Anti-terrorism squad has arrested four fugitives close to notorious mafia don Dawood Ibrahim and accused in Mumbai blasts. They include Abu Bakr, Yusuf Bhatka, Shoaib Baba, Syed Qureshi. The ATS is investigating his arrival in Ahmedabad and the people he met here. The ATS has informed the Mumbai police about the arrest of the four terrorists and will take the Mumbai police into custody in the bomb blast case and proceed with the court proceedings.
His involvement in a terrorist attack in Jaipur has also come to light, with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigating the matter. Ahmedabad team of Anti-Terrorism Squad has caught these terrorists. Earlier, the National Investigation Agency had raided dozens of places in Mumbai.
The Additional Director General of Police, Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) said that four terrorists were nabbed from Sardar Nagar area near Ahmedabad Airport. While the investigating agency has forged passports with them. The four terrorists were trying to flee abroad with fake passports. The four had fled the country after the Mumbai blasts, but their return to Gujarat has caught the attention of investigative agencies.
The four terrorists have also worked for a smuggler in Mumbai. At his request, Dawood Ibrahim was also assisted in the 1993 bombing case. In Mumbai, Arjun used to make threats in the name of gang. Various gangs involved in the bombings were trained abroad. At Dawood's request, the four were sent to Pakistan for training.
Three of them left India in 1995 after the bombings.
See also #NupurSharma: Mumbai Police has summoned Nopur Sharma, Delhi Police has beefed up security.
Tags:ATS, bombings, flee, fugitive, Gujarat, Mumbai, nabs, Terrorists
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No Special Prosecutor in Bell Case
March 19, 2019 6:59AM CDT
KENOSHA, WI–There will be no special prosecutor in the Michael Bell case. A Racine County judge ruled yesterday that no new criminal charges could be filed from the evidence that was presented in the case.
In his ruling, Circuit Court Judge Timothy Boyle said that the conflicting statements of eyewitnesses from the night in 2004 when Michael Bell Jr was shot and killed by police, means that there is no potential for a second degree homicide charge as the elder Michael Bell claims.
Instead Boyle said that misconduct in public office charges could be possible against the officers if they lied, but the statute of limitations has run out on those charges.
The judge also noted that he is the latest in a long line of other officials who have declined to reopen an investigation in the case.
Bell Sr has long sought a new investigation after the initial inquiry was done internally by Kenosha Police and exonerated the officers involved.
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Swachh Bharat: PM Modi picks up litter at the newly-inaugurated tunnel in Delhi
PM Modi was seen inspecting the newly inaugurated tunnel and picking up an empty water bottle and other pieces of trash as he walked along.
New Delhi [India]: A staunch advocate of the Swachh Bharat campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday picked up litter at the newly launched ITPO tunnel built under Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor in the national capital.
The Prime Minister inaugurated the main tunnel and five underpasses of the Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor Project in New Delhi today.
The Prime Minister has always stressed on keeping the surroundings clean.
In October 2019, in a video shared on Twitter, PM Modi can be seen picking up plastic bottles, plates and other garbage from a beach in Mamallapuram while jogging.
PM Modi has always given the top priority to cleanliness be it Swachh Bharat Mission or Namami Gange. The Centre launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on October 2, 2014, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The key components of the initiative include the construction of toilets in every household, community and public toilets and solid waste management.
Coming back to the Integrated Transit Corridor project, according to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), it is an integral part of the Pragati Maidan Redevelopment Project.
The Integrated Transit Corridor project has been built at a cost of more than Rs 920 crore, entirely funded by the central government.
It is aimed to provide hassle-free and smooth access to the new world-class exhibition and convention centre being developed at Pragati Maidan, thereby facilitating easy participation of exhibitors and visitors in the programmes being held at Pragati Maidan, said the PMO release.
Further, it will ensure hassle-free vehicular movement, helping save time and cost of commuters in a big way. It is part of the overarching vision of the government to ensure ease of living for people through transforming urban infrastructure.
The main tunnel connects Ring Road with India Gate via Purana Qila Road passing through Pragati Maidan. The six-lane divided tunnel has multiple purposes, including access to the huge basement parking of Pragati Maidan. A unique component of the Tunnel is that two cross tunnels below the main tunnel road have been constructed in order to facilitate the movement of the traffic from either side of the parking lot.
It is equipped with the latest global standard facilities for smooth movement of traffic such as smart fire management, modern ventilation and automated drainage, digitally controlled CCTV and a public announcement system inside the tunnel. This long-awaited Tunnel will serve as an alternative route to Bhairon Marg, which is running much beyond its carrying capacity and is expected to take more than half of the traffic load of Bhairon Marg.
Along with the tunnel, there will be six underpasses – four on Mathura Road, one on Bhairon Marg and one at the intersection of Ring Road and Bhairon Marg. (ANI)
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I rarely remember books I read on the Kindle as well as I remember books that I read on print. Ask me to summarize a book I held in my hands and physically turned the page, and I have no problem relaying the story back to you. Ask me about a book I read on my Kindle, and I'll be able to recall some of the major details, but not as clearly or concisely. So this technology has affected my reading. I lose the kinesthetic feel of where information is on a page, how it's physically organized.
Reading from a computer screen is similar. Because there is no sense of spatial organization, I tend to skim. Scrolling pales in comparison to flipping a page, running your fingers over text, imprinting the memory of the image of the words onto your mind. You can't interact as well with a screen as with a good old-fashioned print book. You can't annotate; you can't underline or highlight; you can't bookmark or dog-ear pages.
I'm currently taking a cyberliteracy course where we're trying to examine whether my generation's preference for print is from habit and upbringing or from how humans must learn. Most of my peers, when assigned a reading online, print out the reading and use the hardcopy to underline and make notes. I do this. I just printed out a 55-page white paper on children learning through technology. I printed front-to-back, but I still took the time to print out 28 pages just so that I could read better. When we read from a computer, we skim. Reading from a computer requires bullets, shorter sentences, a get-to-the-point, hurry-it-up chase to the message. We tend to read the first few sentences of a web page then scroll quickly through the rest, so if you have something important to say, say it at the top of the page.
I think the preference for print is probably from habit and taught modes of learning. Students learn to take notes physically, to annotate books for class, to read from hard-copy textbooks. I had the option of buying an e-textbook for significantly less than the print version, but I sprung for the print version just because I knew I wasn't going to remember an e-book as well as the print version. It's the way I learned, and I'm not going to break easily the surface, superficial learning I do from online sources. It's going to take some time.
But back to my feeling old at a young age. Yes, my generation grew up learning to use computers and came of age during the myspace and Facebook revolutions, but we still learned primarily from a traditional pen-and-paper classroom setting. I have a feeling we'll have trouble keeping up with students who are learning from computers, who will have more training in comprehending from a screen, who will (maybe) be better able to concentrate and control the distractions inherent in learning from a computer. I'm not sure I'll fully be able to do this within the next few years. I feel obsolete and behind-the-times, and I'm still waiting for my twenty-first birthday.


★★★★☆ So I absolutely love this ring, however, it gets caught on a lot of my clothes and recently I lost the top to it because of how often it gets caught. I also have silk sheets in which it catches on to that as well. The ring is beautiful I just don't like how often it gets caught onto my clothes, sheets, and towels. Hope this helps.


Produced by Terry Knight, Closer To Home is Grand Funk Railroad's third studio album, and was released in 1970. The album reached Gold record status the same year, making it the group's third Gold record in one year.Closer To Home was the record that really broke them through to the commercially successful level of Metal masters such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
Most evident is the inclusion of strings, the acoustic opening on the disc's leadoff cut, "Sins a Good Man's Brother," as well as the comparatively mellow "Mean Mistreater." But the boys had far from gone soft. The majority of Closer To Home is filled with the same straight-ahead rock & roll that had composed their previous efforts.


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Mexican 'water monster' salamander battles extinction
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The Aztecs called it "water monster." Its tiny legs make it look more like a walking fish than an amphibian, and gills flare out from behind its jaw. But this fascinating salamander, called the axolotl, is critically endangered. It has a very small range, and invasive carp and pesticides may be part of the reason its numbers are dwindling. Scientists are partnering with local farmers to improve the axolotl's habitat. They hope that keeping non-native plants and pesticides away from the water will help the salamander population grow.
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Censoring pee porn won't address the harm of pornography
November 24, 2016 by Meghan Murphy
A clause in a UK bill will, if successful, force internet service providers to block sites hosting content showing "non-conventional sexual acts." This amendment in the Digital Economy Bill will likely prevent users from accessing BDSM porn, limiting, among other things, "the number of digits that can be placed into any orifice while on video." The Guardian speculates that "Pictures and videos that show spanking, whipping or caning that leaves marks, and sex acts involving urination, female ejaculation or menstruation as well as sex in public" will also be targeted.
Pandora Blake, a pornographer who owns a company that produces BDSM porn, claims the bill harms "people with marginalized sexualities." She also complains that the mandatory age verification included in the bill will force "feminist, queer and indie porn sites" out of business because these sites supposedly can't afford to "securely age check every site visitor" *cough* Bullshit! *cough* and says "age checks requiring users to submit identifying details to prove their age will enable record-keeping on a global scale."
I can only assume these concerns mean Blake doesn't have a Gmail or Facebook account?
Blake claims she makes BDSM porn because she "want[s] to send the message that there's nothing wrong with being kinky, and to help isolated individuals feel less alone," but of course that isn't really the whole truth. The primary reason a person would produce and sell pornography is for profit. In other words, Blake is protesting because this bill cuts into her profits, not out of concern for the perpetually oppressed watersports fanatic. Profit is the number one reason porn producers protest laws that limit their ability to sell pornography. If they wanted to help marginalized people, there are many effective ways to do so that don't involve caning videos. Beyond that, if these people were really invested in protesting this bill because they want to "maintain the rights of adults to view adult content," then you'd think they'd want to ensure that their porn was only being consumed by adults, not kids. I mean, are you concerned about "harm" or not? (Spoiler: the answer is "not.")
But aside from the lack of integrity behind these protests led by porn producers, I myself fail to see the purpose of these new restrictions. The harm of pornography is not rooted in pee or even in spanking. Rather, the harm of pornography exists in your regular, everyday "vanilla" pornography, as well as in the more extreme stuff. It is in the kind of porn most men watch, which is often pee- and menstrual blood-free. (A ban on period blood porn strikes me as particularly ridiculous — I mean, if I had to choose, I'd vote for more period blood in porn.)
Pornography is harmful because it turns women into sexualized objects that exist for male pleasure. Because it sells painful, degrading, male-centered, uncomfortable, often violent acts as "sexy." Because it sexualizes rape and incest and pedophilia. (Those Bang the Babysitter videos are a-ok according to this bill.) Porn tells us that sex is for men and that their orgasms take precedence over everything else — anything that makes a man come is all good, no matter how it affects women, girls, and oh right marginalized communities.
And hey! Speaking of marginalized communities, you'll notice that none of these porn producers who claim they are protesting "censorship" because they care so deeply about social justice and freedom ever speak out about the racism that dominates pornography. From "Geisha girls" to "hot and spicy Hispanics," porn uses racist stereotypes to sell sexualized violence and degradation to men.
Not having free access to sexy pee videos does not marginalize anyone. Racism and misogyny does.
One thing Blake and I agree on is that this bill is "a distraction from the real issues." But I have the feeling she and I disagree on what those issues are. I'm all for placing restrictions on the ability of porn producers to profit from exploiting and abusing women, but this bill doesn't seem rooted in a concern for women or for society, as a whole. Compartmentalizing various sex acts that feature in niche porn misses the point, and will not address the actual harm of pornography.
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Portrait of Chief Two Guns White Calf. Painted by A. J. Davis, apparently from a photograph on a postcard (shown below). n.d.
The painting above was purchased by my good friend, Wes, at a thrift store, recently. He didn't know who the artist was nor anything of his story. He just liked the painted rendering of the portrait. A bit of digging online revealed that the painting was made by Alfred John Davis (a Vancouver artist) – who was unknown to Wes or me – from a photographic postcard of Chief Two Guns White Calf.
A. J. Davis was born in England in 1868. He later immigrated to Canada and settled for a few years in Winnipeg. He came west to Vancouver in 1891, and he married Ellen Ann McCannell here in 1897. His occupation in Winnipeg and in Vancouver was as a railway coach painter for the Canadian Pacific Railway (later on, in Vancouver, he became foreman of the CPR paint shops here).
Although I'm very appreciative of the Sun for assigning a reporter (albeit, an anonymous one) to write the profile of the today-all-but-unknown artist, if I'd had my 'druthers', it would have been helpful to have more detail about A. J. Davis' work for the CPR, including what exactly his job entailed. Was he responsible for any of the famous CPR posters? Was he responsible for painting scenes in railway coaches (in which case, most of his career art work must surely now be gone) or (more likely), was it his job to see that all CPR property was properly maintained with a fresh coat of paint, inside and out?
CVA 152-1.180 – [Construction progress photograph of the CPR Pier "A-B" extension] July 1913. A worker is painting the exterior of the pier. Was this the sort of painting work with which A J Davis was principally concerned?
A. J. Davis died while still in harness with his employer of 45 years on January 25, 1933. His widow died in 1953 in Burbank, CA. What happened to the treasures in their former home is unknown to me.
CVA – AM1052 P-872 – The five Georges (ca 1910). The above postcard (front and verso) is the only piece of art and information available at the City of Vancouver Archives pertaining to A. J. Davis. The drawing of the "Five Georges" is a reproduction of a painting, according to the note on the card's face.
*This claim that the Davis item is the sole extant piece of the Beaver isn't accurate. See here for an image of an auction mallet composed of wood from the craft and a reference to "a number of other such items" from the Beaver, including its boiler which resides outside of the Maritime Museum.
**I appreciate very much the information embedded here in an online request for help with additional details about her grandfather, A. J. Davis. Without the reference in her post to the newspaper article profiling Davis, I would have had very little to say about his life and vocation (and avocations).
April 19/16: I have just found a listing of a few others of AJD's work; they were on display at the Theatre Royal (aka the first Orpheum Theatre), as part of the First Annual Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Association, September 25-27, 1900.
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I have an original piece of A J Davis painting of an Indian Chief and I'm looking to find additional information and perhaps value of his art any help would be appreciated.


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With manufacturing returning to US, is globalization in retreat?
By Eduardo Porter / NY Times News Service
Not long ago, executives at the Dutch multinational Royal DSM, a globe-girdling maker of nutritional supplements and high-tech materials, used to require a battery of internal studies to decide where to clinch a deal or locate a new manufacturing plant.
However, today, "we won't even do the study," Stephan Tanda, the managing board member with responsibility for the Americas, told me. "It's clear it will be the United States."
The US, he points out, has lots of cheap natural gas and a very lightly regulated labor market.
At the same time, China, where Royal DSM has some 40 plants, is losing its edge.
"It is less attractive than it used to be as a source from which to serve the world," Tanda said.
For the last time the US was as competitive as it is now, he added, "you have to go back to before the first oil shock in the 1970s."
Of the US$3.6 billion in acquisitions by Royal DSM since 2010, 80 percent has come to the US.
Could globalization make a U-turn?
Over the last year or two, a growing number of business analysts have been arguing that we are entering a new era of global manufacturing, with the US at center stage.
'RESHORING'
Last month, the Boston Consulting Group, following up on an earlier survey that suggested "reshoring" of factories back to the US was the new name of the game, issued a report that argued that the US had the lowest manufacturing costs among major exporters in the developed world and was nearly competitive with China.
However, before becoming overly excited about the prospects for a US industrial renaissance, it is worth looking more skeptically at the claim that globalization has run its course.
"I don't agree that China's moment is coming to an end," Karl Sauvant at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment said. "The most important determinant of investment is market size and market growth, and China remains a big market and continues to grow at a reasonable pace."
So what if workers in China's coastal areas are becoming more expensive? The country will move up the value-added ladder to make more sophisticated products. Indeed, countries tend to trade more as their incomes converge, not less. Manufacturers seeking cheap labor still have plenty of places to go, like Vietnam, Bangladesh, Mexico or even China's heavily populated hinterland, which will benefit from Beijing's huge investments in transportation infrastructure connecting it to the coast.
CHANGING FACTORS
There are dynamics that could put a real dent in globalization. If energy prices take off again, that will favor regional rather than global production networks. Intellectual property piracy in China might temper multinational corporations' appetite to invest in advanced industries there.
Technologies that allow fewer workers to perform more sophisticated tasks — 3D printing, say — might encourage more production in rich countries, near consumer markets.
Already, slow growth is undermining the case for open markets that globalization rests on. Trade has slowed significantly since the Great Recession. Small-scale protectionist measures have multiplied as countries have sought to protect domestic producers.
Terrorism and political instability could slow the process further, adding another layer of cost to global production networks.
Perhaps China's rising costs will finally provide a break to US workers who have been losing ground for two decades to a once-bottomless pool of cheap workers.
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Helen Lin
"The Lincoln Center has Wynton Marsalis. The Philly Pops has Peter Nero. And we have Helen Lin.";
"Electrifying, soothing, energetic, and uplifting, she envelopes her audience with an intensity that includes emotions and exudes joy."
—The Doylestown Patriot
"Helen Lin is one of the greatest pianists of her generation…..hear classical piano like you never heard it before"
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"charismatic, contagious, of the highest level from which she communicates the essence of music combined with her vivid imagination and outstanding pianism…."
"…unique as she exhibits great individuality, command, and unusually strong musical conviction with fiery temperament."
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*Lifetime professor: Yantai University, Weifang University, China
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*Chair, Christ College Taipei
*Chair, Alvernia College
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Touring Places: Germany, France, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain, the United States, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
Voted one of the top eight musicians in the world by the Web Concert Hall International Competition in 2003, Helen Lin's professional engagements have ranged from performing as a full-scholarship recipient at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Tchaikovsky Music Festival, and Wagner Music Festival, to touring as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician in Germany, France, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain, the United States, Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and her birth place Taiwan. Since 1996, her performances have been broadcast on television and radio stations frequently throughout the United States. The American Music Scholarship Association has made Lin's performance of Chopin's E Minor Piano Concerto as an educational videotape. The numerous prizes she has won have include "The Young Artist International Piano Competition", the "IBLA Grand Prize International Piano Competition", and the "Rising Star Concert Series Piano Competition".
Lin's performance has been described as "charismatic, contagious, of the highest level from which she communicates the essence of music combined with her vivid imagination and outstanding pianism…." "…unique as she exhibits great individuality, command, and unusually strong musical conviction with fiery temperament." Lin's series of concerts in held in The National Concert Hall in Taipei, was an outstanding success in December 2000. Lin's reputation in Taiwan as a sensational phenomenon caused the tickets for this series to be sold out in the first three days of sale. As a result, the Taiwanese President delivered a congratulatory telegram during his duty abroad and the Taipei City Mayor "FedExed" baskets of flowers prior to the event got started. A solo recital in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2001, hosted by Maria Canals International Piano Foundation; a solo recital in Paris, France, hosted by Yamaha Artist Concert Series; two solo recitals and a concerto concert in Muenchen, Germany; a solo recital in Barletta, Italy; and a concerto concert in Como, Italy secured her as a world-class concert pianist in Europe. Since 2000, Lin has collaborated with Armenian concert pianist Sergei Babayan (Casadasu gold medalist and Artist-in-Residence in The Cleveland Institute of Music) and performed piano-duo concerts worldwide. Lin has given concerts at the University of Dayton, Miami University at Oxford since 2002. She has served as the accompanying pianist for the Lima Piano Concerto Competition in March, 2003 to sightread difficult orchestral music for contestants. Her CD "In Remembrance of September 11th" has become the "text book" at universities for music appreciation classes since 2003. Her concert "Dream of Love" was broadcast on PBS TV in the Fall of 2005. Some of Lin's recent concerts have included the privilege of performing on the Steinway & Sons "Rhapsody" piano (a specially designed art-case piano in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Gershwin); two solo concerts sponsored by Mercedes-Benz in 2006 and 2007; concerts at San Angelo State Museum, TX and master class at San Angelo State University where she performed with Dr. John Irish; a private concert for the Consulate General of Austria and the honor of performing for The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, while he received the Union League of Philadelphia's Gold Medal Award in 2008; an invitation to perform a solo concert (where she peformed the virtuosic piano tone poem "Schuylkill at Night" composed by Dr. David Laganella) and to teach a master class at Wesley College, Delaware in 2009. Lin was invited to be a guest professor at The National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 2010 and has performed throughout Taiwan including a concert with Dr. John Irish to world premiere "Skeletal Dance" which was dedicated to both John and Helen composed by Australian composer Dr. Houston Dunleavy; featured soloist at Chang-Jung Christian University in Tainan in celebration of its 17th birthday with music director Dr. Ching-Shin Ko (renowned cellist); featured jazz soloist at The National Tsing Hua University; and featured soloist at Music Forum Concert Series in Taipei titled "Playing with Fire" (where she world premiered "Trillium" which was dedicated to her composed by New York City composer Jeremiah Bornfield). In 2011, Lin was invited by world renowned soprano Dr. Shudong Braamse (Voice Professor at Southeastern University, Florida and Weifang University, Shandong, China) for an extensive China concert tour, locations including Shandong University, Weihai; Weifang University, Shandong; and the prestigious Shenzhen Concert Hall, Guangzhou. In 2012, Lin gave a series of concerts and master classes in Beijing, Jinan, Taian, Weifang, Zibo, Shenzhen and Zhaoqing where she also premiered works including John Adams's "Phrygian Gates", Tristan Murail's "Territoires de L'oubli", Jeremiah Bornfield's "Trillium", Carol Worthey's "Fantasia" and "Pastorale" hosted by Dr. Shane O'Shea (Dulwich College) in China. Further more, Lin was the featured pianist at "The 1st Diversity Project", 6th and 7th "ISCMS Music Festival" hosted by Dulwich College Beijing and Beijing Central Conservatory of Music where she performed several concerts including a performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with Beijing Youth Orchestra under the baton of Shane O'Shea; during this festive event, Lin also Premiered "Tangled Impressions" by American composer Anthony Paul de Ritis. Lin has been serving as the American judge at The Asia Pacific International Piano Competition, Taipei, Taiwan since 2012. In July, Xing-Zi School of Bengbu (Anhui, China) has renamed itself after Lin as "Helen Lin International Conservatory of Music", it is the first international school which has the complete western musical education system for students from age of 3 to 18. Lin is the editor/music critic for the "RGV Beyond Arts and More" magazine (Texas based) since September 2013, her articles "Music Connect" (monthly) have included the most current music issues, people and events. In 2014 and 2015, Lin was invited to judge the International Piano/Chamber Music Competition of Enkor (Germany) and The 7th and 8th China Piano Arts Festival where she also gave her debut concert at the Gulangyu Concert Hall. Late 2014, she gave a winter teaching and concert tour 2014/15 where she performed her faculty concert debut at the newly renovated Yantai Concert Hall and Shanghai Chopin Scholarship Foundation.
In 2015 and 2016, Helen Lin has been awarded by Carnegie Hall for the extraordinary dedication and achievement in the field of teaching music and presenting students to perform at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Furthermore, she has received a diploma of Recognition from The Taiwan Ministry of Culture in recognition of outstanding musicianship as a juror, a lecturer of masterclasses, and a performer of master recital during the International Taipei Music Festival in April, 2016.
Besides her career as a concert pianist, she has been a Master Teacher and Artist-in-Residence at the Community Conservatory of Music in Doylestown, Pennsylvania since 2006. Lin served as a piano chair at Alvernia College and Albert Conservatory in 2007-2009. During her school years, Lin was the Resident Artist for Steinway & Sons pianos at Premier Pianos in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2005 and an opera coach for the Opera Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. There, she held students' recitals regularly under the sponsorship of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Premier Pianos. Currently, she is a piano professor at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; piano professor at Yantai University (Yantai, Shandong); artist-in-residence/professor at Weifang Univerity (Weifang, Shandong), Taian Univeristy (Taian, Shandong), University of Technology (Zibo, Shandong), Anhui Normal University (Wuhu, Anhui), Ludong University (Yantai, Shandong), and Zhaoqing University (Zhaoqing, Guangzhou), China. After receiving a Master of Music degree at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she continued her studies under the multiple gold prize winners and most wanted piano teachers in the United States, the Pridonoff Duo and the eminent scholar James Tocco for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature. She has attended the Juilliard School of Music and Michigan State University for her Bachelors Degree where she was under the guidance of Tchaikovsky gold medalist Chen-Zhong Yin and Van Cliburn gold medalist Ralph Votapek.