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Woven into tradition
Woven into tradition
Lasting artistry
Weaving continues to be an important practice on Guam. For thousands of years Chamorros have used Guam's abundant foliage to produce useful and unique items. Although the art of weaving is not as prevalent on Guam today as it has been in days gone by, or as critical for everyday life, it is still seen as one of the lasting artistries of Chamorro culture.
Utilitarian weaving
In ancient Chamorro society women completed the majority of the household tasks including most of the weaving. They used various leaves and palms to create items for everyday life including mats, sails, hats, baskets, bags and decorative pieces.
Many pieces were created from the same material but served different purposes. For example, a mat woven out of pandanus leaves, or akgak, could be used for sleeping, blankets, funeral preparations, food serving platters or cloths to clean surfaces.
Typical, everyday woven items included mats, boxes and hats. Rectangular baskets (kottot) were used for presenting gifts of rice. Smaller boxes, some equipped with handles (alan mamao) or complex latches (saluu), were used to carry betel nut. Chamorros wove bags with lids (balakbagk) equipped with straps to carry items at waist level. There were also larger woven cases (hagug) used like a backpack for carrying provisions and food.
In addition to the many types of woven bags, Chamorros also wove mats, plates and even cradles from leaves. The Chamorro basket weave is noted for its strength provided by a double rim.
Some woven items were more decorative than practical. Many weavers excelled at artistic creations including birds, shrimp, headbands and floral arrangements. Many of these items were created using a weaving tool known as a si'i. The tool is a piece of flat, triangular-shaped metal that measures roughly six inches.
Ancient Chamorros also used their weaving skills to create fish nets (talaya), traps and slings but less is known about these practices. Some sources indicate the ancient society used bark from the wild hibiscus (pagu) tree or bamboo for nets and traps. Some weavers also incorporated coconut husk fibers into rope and bamboo needles and gauges when weaving fishing nets. Slings were typically made from pandanus leaves.
Weaving techniques
The pandanus plant (Pandanus tectorius) is native to Guam and provides fibrous leaves that are good for weaving. The wide leaves grow low to the ground, making them easy to reach by women collecting weaving materials.
The pandanus leaf is typically prepared by cutting it from the plant and by using a si'i, a small cutting tool, to remove the hard, sharp thorns along the edge of the leaf. After the thorns are removed, the leaves are boiled and scraped with a shell before being dried in the sun. The dried leaves are rolled up and kept inside for a few days. Finally the leaves are left out in the sun for weeks where they are cured and readied for use. Before using the cured pandanus leaf for weaving, the weaver would drag a shell-tool across the surface of the leaf to make it more pliable.
Other plants found in abundance on Guam, coconut and nipa palm fronds, were also used for weaving materials. Both of these trees are found anywhere on island, although the former is more common. Typically younger leaves were best for basket. They were left in the sun to cure before use.
Sturdier leaves from the coconut or nipa palm, were used for roof thatching on traditional Chamorro huts. Nipa thatch was preferable because it lasted roughly five years compared to coconut thatch's two-year lifespan. Nipa and pandanus leaves can last up to eight years as thatching over bamboo slats.
When preparing leaves for thatching the fronds are typically collected in the drier months. Dry season falls in the beginning of the calendar year on Guam. Once harvested, the fronds are split down the middle. The two spines are then placed on top of one another and the leaves are woven using diagonal plaiting to make a piece of thatch. The pieces are tied together and dried before being placed on the roof of the home.
Another utilitarian form of weaving is trap making. Many times traps were made from bamboo that has been heated over hot charcoal and then stretched into the proper shape. Traps can also be made from coconut leaves.
Contemporary weaving
Although many woven items have been replaced with modern manufactured items in contemporary Guam, weavers continue to produce mats, bags, novelty items and decorative pieces that are either used locally or sold to tourists.
One of the most popular areas on Guam to watch and learn weaving is at Gef Pa'go, Inajaran, a cultural demonstration center in Southern Guam. Gef Pa'go employs several master weavers who demonstrate the art to students, tourists and interested residents. The Gef Pago cultural village area also has a small gift shop featuring woven creations by the masters employed there. The gift shop sells small woven animals, fish and utilitarian pieces created out of dried palm leaves.
Many of the masters working at Gef Pa'go and around the island learned to weave from family members or others living in their village when woven items were crucial to every day life. The tradition was not encouraged by the Japanese during the occupation of World War II but resurfaced after the liberation of Guam in 1944.
Although the practice of weaving continued after the war, the number of island residents that regularly wove began to dwindle as modern items became more available and replaced items had been woven in the past. In turn, the number of island residents who knew the art of weaving also began to dwindle.
In recent years, however, weaving is increasingly being seen as more of a cultural reminder and decorative art rather than an essential practice for everyday life. Weavers continue to make decorative items for local parties, fiestas, gatherings or displays. Decorations typically include hanging pieces, table centerpieces, palms woven in a vertical manner to create a divider are often seen.
Weavers are also beginning to transform the practice into more of an art medium. For example, woven leaves are now being used as a medium for sculpting.
Beetles threaten Chamorro craft
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - Guam's traditional weavers say they're worried that their craft could disappear if invasive coconut rhino beetles continue to destroy local trees.
The rhino beetles dig into the heart of coconut trees to eat and pass through undeveloped leaves. The damaged leaves grown in a V shape that makes them unsuitable for weaving, reported The Pacific Daily News (http://bit.ly/1OYvikR).
Weavers say they are already having a hard time finding leaves, and the beetles are so widespread that the island will have to import coconut leaves from its neighbors for the Festival of Pacific Arts in 2016. Boats from the Northern Marianas would need to drop off fresh leaves every other day, weavers told the Pacific Daily News.
"For all the weavers that are coming, we doubt that we have enough," said Rose San Nicolas, who weaves at the Inarajan cultural village of GefPa'go.
San Nicolas can point out a few trees at GefPa'go that weavers used to climb daily. She said it was easy, before, to climb up and get a day's supply of leaves.
Now none of the trees has useable leaves.
She said she's lucky to find one good tree for every 10 trees she inspects.
James Bamba, who weaves at SagganKotturanChamoru in Tumon, said he now has to make 30- to 40-minute treks along the beach and sometimes into the jungle to find leaves.
It's particularly difficult, said Bamba, to make big items like hats or baskets without good leaves.
"I see in the next 10 years I probably won't be weaving. I know it sounds so grim or dismal, but it's not by choice," he said.
Weaving is an important part of Chamorro culture, according to Bamba. He said the group has distinctive weaving that sets it apart from other islanders.
Researchers say Guam's rhino beetle is a different breed and that a virus effective at control other populations doesn't work here. They are hoping to find a strain that will be effective against Guam's beetles.
University of Guam entomologist Aubrey Moore says the beetles seem to have become immune to that virus and that there is a fungus that can also be used to control the beetle.
San Nicolas said the cultural village is trying to plant new coconut trees, but she's still concerned that the tradition won't get passed down to future generations.
"It worries us because, like the old saying, how can we let our children and their children know? How can we show them?" she said.
The Associated Press


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Over the holidays, I tried so many yummylicious dishes but one that made an immediate and lasting impression on my mind and palette is the massaged (with extra virgin olive oil) kale salad. This salad of fresh, crisp greens with the right touch of salt was or is heavenly.
That meshing of textures and flavors was all the inspiration I needed to embark on my next kitchen mission, to replicate that salad but this time with a twist of my own. The best part, preparation time is under an hour!
Kale is in the cabbage family which falls in the cruciferea classification. Cruciferea means cross bearing because of the shape of its flowers whose petals resemble a cross. Kale has green and sometimes purple leaves. It is high in soluble fiber, vitamins A and C. Per calorie cooked kale has more iron than beef.
Although a winter crop, it is available all year round. However, the winter makes it sweeter. A staple in most vegetable smoothies, it can also be minced finely and added to eggs, beans or pasta. Here is a recipe for a massaged kale salad.
Massaged kale, carrot and mango salad
1 lb kale
1lb salmon slice into thin strips.
1/2 cup diced red onions.
4 cloves of fresh garlic chopped
1/4 cup of olive oil
2 average sized carrots
1 cup of ripe mango, cubed
2 leaves of fresh basil
Sea salt and pepper to taste
Y peeler (optional) for carrot ribbons
Directions for Preparation
Wash the kale and let it drain. Pull the leaves off the ribs and discard. Cut these leaves into small pieces. Run it under running cold water one more time and let it drain (optional).
Cut off the tops and peel the tough or and dry skin off the carrots with the Y peeler and wash. Cut in tiny ribbons using the peeler.
in a large bowl add the kale and drizzle olive oil and a little salt over it. Massage for about 3-4 minutes until the leaves begins to wilt and turn a rich green. The kale will reduce in volume by almost half.
Season the salmon strips with salt and pepper to taste and sauté in garlic and onions.
Add the carrot ribbons and the red onions and mix with the kale. Garnish with the cubed mango and serve with the sautéed salmon strips. Serves 6-8.


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This is an online presence for the Christchurch Guild of Weavers and Spinners in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Please keep in mind it is a condition of our lease that members attending guild activities must not park in the Tannery carpark, please park on the street.
Our rooms are at 11 Tanner St and can also be accessed through The Wool, Yarn and Fibre Shop which is on The Boardwalk at The Tannery. We also have a group on Ravelry.
School holiday programmes.
We have school holiday programmes, although they're aimed at children aged 10 years and older, adults are welcome! Bookings for these classes are essential, cost is $25 and all materials are provided.
The weaving is done on rigid heddle looms which are an excellent way to learn the basics of weaving.
This is a programme we're starting in 2018 for the first time and is offering year 12/13 students from local high schools the opportunity to learn fibre arts as a sponsorship programme. At the moment this is for a very limited number of people, though it may well grow in future years. A student may choose a finished item they want to produce whether that be art, clothing or housewares (or whatever you can think of as long as it uses fibre) and we will assist them in learning the skills required to produce that item. We will work with the student to support them, and liase with school and parents as well. They are not limited to spinnng, knitting and weaving as we have members who also sew, embroider, felt etc.
We have contacted several local schools to get this underway.
We run classes on beginner spinning, beginner weaving, felting, embellishment and knitting from time to time. Please contact us for further information on email@example.com.
Our next Beginner spinning class is planned for March 2018, it will be 5 sessions on Monday evenings. If interested please visit the guild and put your name down on the list we have in the rooms. Diane Sullivan is our tutor, she has a great deal of experience at teaching new spinners and you will enjoy your time with her.
There will be a class on felting a bag in April run by Jane Dolan, time and date to be advised.
We are also planning a class in April/May about fibre preparation which will teach the use of the various tools available for this such as the drum carder and blending board.
Forums - Saturdays 1.30-2.30pm, bookings not required. Cost $2 members, $5 non-members
6 April 2018 - Embellishing knitwear. At this point I'm expecting this will include needle felting, duplicate stitch, embroidery and possibly applique.
20 April 2018 - Knitting in all directions
Dyeing Sessions
Bring along your fibre and yarns and dye unique colour schemes to spin, knit, crochet or weave. Email for further information on timing as this varies. Dye sessions are subject to demand and are run by Lynn and Mandy.
Cost: $20 members / $30 non-members
Monday Mentored Knits
10.15am to 12 noon. Helpers are always welcome. Bring your problems in any fibre craft and get support.
Cost: $5 for non-guild members
Tapestry Weaving
1-3pm every Monday. Beginners welcome.
Weaving Evenings
Tuesday evenings from 5.30pm, bring your meal. It is wonderful to see people who began weaving class now working on the 8-shaft on site.
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Jill Kills Cosmetic Ad (Photoshop). Info about this image: I followed a instructor supplied tutorial, and then added my own take on the original. The tutorial was of just creating the effects to the Image of the woman and the text. The Changes I made were to switch the text from Kill Jill to Jill Kills. & then I created a Cosmetic Ad, I added the caption above, & I also created & added the Lipstick & replaced the "Letter I" with the Lipstick. I also added the text at the bottom that wasn't in the tutorial originally.
Print Design are Adaptions & Originals by Eileen Scott. Copyright 2013. All rights reserved.
BumbleBee_Flower (Photoshop). This image is of a stock photo, & I used Photoshop techniques to create the look of a painting.
Identity Pkg_BiznessCard72 (Illustrator). This images is of my Logo/Business Card for my Personal Identity Package, to promote my Freelance Career.
VW_Bug_Font-Car (Illustrator). This image was for a project in Typography, where we had to create an Image from only using Fonts/text. I chose to create the image of a VW-Bug. I love how it turned out, & I enjoy this type of project.
Identity Pkg_LetterHead (Illustrator). This images is of my Logo/Letterhead for my Personal Identity Package, to promote my Freelance Career.
Clock (Illustrator). This image is an Original Design, that I created for a Technical Design class. This is how the finished product would look.
Clock_Technical-Diagram (Illustrator). This image is an Original Design, that I created for a Technical Design class. This is how the product would look, showing how the clock is put together, to become the finished product.
Recycle-ECO-Poster (Photoshop). This poster design was for a class final, where the concept was to create an Eco-Friendly or Environmental Issue Design. This is an Original Design idea that I created, I chose to focus on Recycling. I also incorporated, the Mosaic Design I created from another project into this Design, you will notice the mosaic design in the Recycle Icon.
EyeDiagrams_Technical-Drawing (Illustrator). This image was created as part of a Technical Design project. The concept was to take the black & white Technical line art drawing & colorize the Image. I chose the colors & achieved the look & feel of the image above by the use of Gradients & the Gradient Mesh tool.
Fashionista_Typography-Reflection (Photoshop). Image was for a Reflection of Type project. I chose to use the Word Fashionista & create the image of a body silhouette in place of the 1st letter "I". Also chose the color scheme of Pink/Grey.
Gumball-Machine (Illustrator). This image was from an Instructor supplied Tutorial, my version looks just like the Original which was found at (http://vector.tutsplus.com)
Christmas House (Photoshop). This image began from a Line-art image, & the concept was to colorize, paint, filters, etc in Photoshop. I chose to create a Nighttime Christmas/Snow scene.
Isometric-chair_Assembly-Diagram (Illustrator). Image was created for a Technical Design project. I chose to show the colorized version & how to assemble the product.
Little Girl-Gradient-Mesh (Illustrator). This image was from an Instructor supplied Photograph & the concept was to Paint in the colors & details using Illustrator, along with the Gradient Mesh tool. This is a Favorite project of mine. I love to paint in Illustrator & Photoshop. I am well versed in use of the Pentool & Gradient Mesh tools, etc. This was also the class Final project.
No-GMO-Poster (Photoshop). For this poster, the concept was to create an Environmental Poster that expressed a current environmental issue from another country other than the US. I chose to create my poster on Non-GMO foods and India. I researched the topic, the country & then once I found my info, located stock photos & chose the colors orange, white & green as the focus colors which are of the Indian flag the rest of the design process evolved from there.
Popcicle-Gradients (Illustrator). From a Tutorial that I created exactly like the Original, though I change the color of the Popcicle from the original blue to my choice of yellow-orange & added the text that says Creamsicle.
RandomHearts_MusicPoster (Illustrator). This Poster was created for a Fictitious Twin Music Duo that I chose to name Random Harvest. I gave them the genre of Folk/Pop-rock with the Retro feel. With all the color in the background, I chose to go with a grayscale image of the Twins.
Primative-Turkey_Eleven (Illustrator). For this image, the concept was to create an Original Image & incorporate the Number "11" somewhere within the image. I chose to create a Hand Turkey & designed the middle & ring fingers to look like the Number "11" using Illustrator brushes, I achieved the look of Feathers for the Pointer & Pinkie fingers. & the thumb for the head. I got the idea from the childhood craft of Hand Turkeys.
Pumpkin-Gradients (Illustrator) For this image, I followed an Instructor supplied Tutorial of just the Pumpkin to practice with the Gradient tools. I then added the Background Gradients & added the leaves around the pumpkin. To me this looks like the Front of an Autumn/Halloween Greeting card.
RoseMask (Illustrator). This image was created from learning how to use the Masking features in Illustrator, something I was only familiar with in Photoshop & Flash prior to learning it in Illustrator. Roses are my favorite Flower & so I chose to use an image of a Rose to create the masked image.
Valentine Roses_PostCard (photoshop). For this image, I chose to create a Valentines Greeting Card. The white/green is example of Positive/Negative space. The red enhances the image & gives the pop needed for a V-day card. This image was also used to create a Flash Preloader.
VinegarBottle (Illustrator). For this image the concept was to create an image from an everyday Kitchen Item. I chose a bottle of specialty vinegar, though changed the image to look like Orange/Grapefruit Vinegar. I added the gradient background, shadow & the font choices.
WomanWings (Photoshop). For this image, the idea was to Morph 2 images together, I chose to Morph bird wings in place of the woman's arms. The image of the woman was a colorize stock photo, that I changed to a sepia color tone. Using various Photoshop techniques.
Slate_OnlineAd Typographic-Imagining (Illustrator). For this image the concept was to create an All Text/Font(no images, the only way to get the look of images was to create them with text(ie the silhouette & heart images) Magazine Ad, from an Online News Source. I chose Slate Magazine. Also we were to Research the Magazine requirements for Uploading Design-work, along with that outcome also had to fit an element of the Magazine. I chose a Valentines/Love theme that fit with the Editorial on love & poetry found on the Website.
Isometric_Diagram_Boxes (Illustrator). Isometric-Assembly-Diagram (Illustrator). Image was created for a Technical Design project. I chose to show the colorized version & how to assemble the product.
Aloha_Poster (Illustrator). Created from a Tutorial, though I changes the color scheme from a boring Orange/brown look to this much more Vibrant color scheme which with the black background really makes the colors "POP"
FilmStrip_Mt Rainier (Photoshop). Created a Film stripe with different Recycling images and incorporated them into an image of Mount Rainier (WA) to give the concept of keep Washing clean & green, by recycling.
Custom-Brush_Pattern Design (Illustrator). This was from learning how to create Custom Brushes in Illustrator and then I used the brushes to create the pattern.
Water-Typography (Photoshop) This image was learning how to create the look of water using text.
Aztec-Lemons_Pattern Design (Photoshop). Using a Photoshop filter, learned to create Custom made patterns. This is an Original Custom made pattern.
Classic-Comedy Ad (InDesign/Photoshop). For this Poster image, I chose to create a Fictitious classis film company, I chose only to use Black, White & Copper to give the feel of Old time, Classic Pictures.
MardiGras_T-Shirt (Freehand). Created this T-shirt design & also learned the process of Color Separations.
Spa-Brochure-Front/Back (Quark/Photoshop). An original Spa Brochure I created for a fictitious spa. This was also a 1 color project, along with the use of Duo-tones.
Spa-Brochure-Inside (Quark/Photoshop). An original Spa Brochure I created for a fictitious spa. This was also a 1 color project, along with the use of Duo-tones.
TravelTime_Newsletter Page1 (InDesign/Photoshop). Page 1 of a Ficticous Travel Newsletter, that I created. I researched alot about Italy, before creating the newsletter.
TravelTime_Newsletter Page2 (InDesign/Photoshop). Page 2 of a Ficticous Travel Newsletter, that I created. I researched alot about Italy, before creating the newsletter.
TravelTime_Newsletter Page3 (InDesign/Photoshop). Page 3 of a Ficticous Travel Newsletter, that I created. I researched alot about Italy, before creating the newsletter.
DAC-Brochure_Redesign (In Design/Photoshop). I re-designed a Brochure from an real-life organization (DAC= Duvall Arts Center), though I do not have the original brochure to use for comparison at this time, the one that DAC had created was just plain black text on bright red paper.
DAC-Brochure_Redesign (In Design/Photoshop). I re-designed a Brochure from an real-life organization(DAC= Duvall Arts Center), though I do not have the original brochure to use for comparison at this time, the one that DAC had created was just plain black text on bright red paper.
KinderStation_Identity-Package (Freehand). This image is of the letterhead & business card for an Identity or a Ficticious Daycare Center named Kinderstation. I hand drew the train and scanned it & in freehand created the design.
Christmas-Cookies_2pg_spred (InDesign/Photoshop). This project was to design a 2 page Magazine spread. I chose to create a Fictitious food magazine with a focus on Holiday Cookies/Recipes. The Recipes are actual recipes that I had bookmarked to my online recipes folder.
11-Flowers_card (Photoshop). Greeting card idea. Use of Gradients, filters and shading effects.
Literacy_Poster (Photoshop). For this class project Poster, the focus was on Literacy & Reading awareness.
WeddingInvitation (Illustrator). This image is of the Invitation that I designed for my Wedding.
Cat Woman Unbelievable/Believable Collage (Photoshop). This image was for a class final project, the concept was to take a certain amount of images and photoshop them together into a collage & to make it look like a Belivable image with unbelievable elements. So I took 8 different images, combined them into this collage. I used a Displacement map technique to create the look of cat skin on the model, gave her cat facial elements, and then blended in the images of the cats, water fall, rocks, background follage flowers etc. Painted in the grass with a custom brush, and also added alot of filters, modes, & masking techniques along with painting in Photoshop. This has always been one of my favorite projects.
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text: Last weekend I had so much fun gettting together with some dear friends and their kiddos for a much needed catch up and wine drinking! While we sipped wine the kiddos (all 13 of them!) ran around and had a ball playing in the spring sun and of course I couldnt resist a few pics. Love you guys!


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#I Do Not Have Heart Disease—Should I Be Taking Aspirin?
Kunal N. Karmali, MD, MS; Mark D. Huffman, MD, MPH
JAMA Cardiol. 2017;2(7):824. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2017
Heart attack and stroke are sudden, symptomatic events that can lead to hospitalization and death.
Primary prevention describes the use of medical treatments to prevent a first heart attack or stroke before any symptoms occur. Although aspirin has established benefit in people with a history of a heart attack or stroke, its role in primary prevention is less clear.
How Does Aspirin Work?
In most instances, heart attacks and strokes occur when cholesterol-rich plaques that are attached to artery walls burst, leading to the formation of blood clots. These clots obstruct normal blood flow in heart or brain arteries, leading to damage. Aspirin reduces the chance of clot formation by preventing platelets (tiny blood constituents in blood clots) from sticking together.
What Are the Benefits of Aspirin?
There have been several large research trials testing the effects of aspirin in people without a history of heart attack or stroke. These studies show that aspirin prevents nonfatal heart attacks and strokes and has a small benefit in preventing death from any cause but no effect on cardiovascular death.
What Are the Potential Adverse Effects of Aspirin?
The biggest potential adverse effect from aspirin is bleeding, and the most common site of bleeding is the stomach or intestines. Bleeding can also occur in more serious locations, like the brain, although this occurs rarely. Aspirin bleeding risks vary from person to person and are higher in men; elderly individuals; people with a history of stomach ulcers; long-term users of anti-inflammatory medications, such as ibuprofen or corticosteroids; and long-term users of anticlotting drugs, including warfarin and clopidogrel. Risk of bleeding also increases with aspirin dosage, so low-dose aspirin (75 to 100 mg) is generally recommended for primary prevention.
Who Should Take Aspirin?
After a review of the best available evidence, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released guidelines in 2016 for the use of aspirin in primary prevention. Given the uncertainty between the benefits and potential adverse effects of aspirin for primary prevention, these guidelines emphasize the importance of shared decision making between patients and clinicians to personalize treatment decisions after accounting for benefits and potential adverse effects of therapy, patient preferences, and values.
The USPSTF guidelines recommend low-dose aspirin therapy in willing adults aged 50 to 59 years with a 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke of 10% or greater, no increased bleeding risk, and a life expectancy of at least 10 years. For similar adults aged 60 to 69 years, guidelines recommend more individualized decision making to guide aspirin use. The USPSTF identified insufficient evidence to provide a recommendation for adults younger than 50 years or older than 70 years, highlighting areas for future research.
How Do I Find Out My Heart Attack and Stroke Risk?
Risk assessment is an important part of aspirin guidelines. The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology developed a calculator to estimate a person's risk of first heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years. These estimates can guide discussions about who can benefit from aspirin use in primary prevention.
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GTOPG: We want to, but we just can't; Pens Win 5-2
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I don't think I ever underestimated Flower's importance to this team. But the two games this weekend solidify for me - beyond any shadow of a doubt - that he should be a Vezina candidate at least.ReplyDelete
For him to put up the numbers he does in the Pens high risk/high reward system is incredible (as poor Brad would attest to). Our G/G would be way down if they couldn't leave him out to dry with regularity. He just doesn't give up bad goals anymore: just an incredible season for the Flower.Replies
And yes, I'm deliberately ignoring the gaff behind the net last night. He just wouldn't be Flower if his puck handling didn't screw him at least every once in a while :)Delete
Those little "Fleurys" behind the net with the puck are why we love him.ReplyDelete
Though, really, in this case, it was Sid's fault anyway. I probably shouldn't have even implied that it was Flower being Flower (it's just kinda habit to assume it was him).ReplyDelete
It's not even about whose fault it is. About once every 10 starts, something terrible happens when Fleury goes behind his net to play the puck. That's just the way it is, and apparently will be, forever. He more than makes up for it elsewhere (and has actually improved his puck handling from where it was a few years ago).ReplyDelete


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Where the Wild Things Are just hit theaters, but I am really looking forward to seeing Where the Wild Things Are: Original Drawings by Maurice Sendak over at the Morgan Library. This exhibit is only until November 1st. And if you are really looking for more Sendak illustrations to gaze at stop by Sendak in Soho. (Admission is free on Fridays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m) Top: Preliminary drawing of dust jacket for Where the Wild Things Are. Pen and ink, watercolor. © Maurice Sendak, 1963. All rights reserved.
Bottom: "That very night in Max's room a forest grew / and grew." Final drawing for Where the Wild Things Are. Pen and ink, watercolor. © Maurice Sendak, 1963. All rights reserved {taken from Morgan Library Website}
Also coming up is my FAVORITE show to go to each year the 2009 Original Art: The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration
October 22 - November 25, 2009 (its free)
I love to look at each original (so different up close rather than in a bound book) and flip through the children's books, which they put out for browsing...
They are even having a children's book illustration workshop that I think I need to attend!
Both of these exhibits are great for aspiring artists of all ages.
October Illustration Exhibits in NYC
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Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University: Proceedings of International Symposia at Kalamazoo and New York, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse, Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stoudt, and Anne T. Thayer, Federation Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Medi&ales, Textes et etudes du moyen age 9 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Brepols, 1998). viii + 414 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 021500902-9. Eur 49.00. This collection of twentyone conference papers is arranged in three sections corresponding to the three parts of the community spelled out in the book's title. `The cloister' contains studies by Z. Izydorczyk, L. T. Martin, J. R. Blaettler, A. T. Thayer, R. D. Hale, D. L. Stoudt, and A. Syring. They range from discussion of the Irish influence on continental texts, to the uniquely Iberian reception of the Book of Revelation, the Gospel of Nicodemus, Helinand of Froidmont, Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso, and fifteenth-century preaching for an audience of south German nuns. The section on `The city' contains studies by P. B. Roberts, B. M. Kienzle, C. A. Muessig, C. Ho, L. Carruthers, J. W. Dahmus, P. J. Horner, and P. Howard. The discussions begin with a historical account of the development of urban preaching, and take in Helinand of Froidmont's suspicion of city life, preaching at Paul's Cross and Archbishop Arundel's anti-heretical legislation, Jacob's Well, Jacques de Vitry, and the use of John Cassian's fifth-century Collations by the fifteenth-century Dominican Johannes Nider. …


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The Missouri flooding is affecting Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska. The plant is completely surrounded by water, when photos were published it freaked everyone out. It is said to still be dry thanks to an aqua berm. However there was a 'notification of unusual event' posted, and since then rumors have taken off.
The officials are saying, 'it's safe, I tell ya!'
Flood notes: Guard sends copters, crews to Eppley
'Nuclear regulators and the utility that runs the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant said again Friday that there is little cause for immediate concern from Missouri River flooding. The plant, encircled by a giant rubber barrier against the water, has been shut down since April for scheduled maintenance. Omaha Public Power District said the complex will not be reactivated until the flooding subsides."
No, there have been no radioactive releases, I tell ya!
Radioactive Releases Not Expected at Omaha Nuclear Power Plant
"Officials at the Omaha Public Power District say there have been no releases of radioactive material since flooding from the Missouri River caused them to declare a low-level emergency June 6 at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant. The emergency level, declared as "a notification of an unusual event," is the lowest possible of four standard emergency classifications set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and, as of now, there has been no risk to the public."
OPPD Dispels Nuclear Meltdown Rumors In Ft. Calhoun
"Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman toured the flooded Missouri River this week and saw the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, seemingly inundated by water. The same image that the governor saw reached the Internet and had led to a wave of rumors. But Omaha Public Power District officials said the images don't tell the whole story. They said the flood water pumped into a giant donut around the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant was put there to keep flood water out. Officials called it an "aqua berm." The OPPD showed videos taken almost two weeks ago to demonstrate the efforts to keep the facility dry. "I want (people) to understand the plant is safe (and) will continue to be safe," said Dave Bannister, an OPPD nuclear plant officer. Officials said on Friday that the plant is on the lowest emergency status, but they are prepared if it rises another 10 feet."
So what if there was a fire?! All is well I tell ya!
Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuke Plant
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said. Officials at Fort Calhoun said the situation at their plant came nowhere near to Fukushima's. They said it would have taken 88 hours for the heat produced by the fuel to boil away the cooling water. Workers restored cooling in about 90 minutes, and plant officials said the temperature in the pool only increased by two degrees."
Obama orders news blackout over crippled nuke plant in Nebraska
"A shocking report prepared by Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a "total and complete" news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska. According to this report, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a "catastrophic loss of cooling" to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a "no-fly ban" over the area."
Aw, that last report was from The Nation in Pakistan. Pakistan hates Obama. They lie all the time. They would say anything, even if it wasn't true, wouldn't they? Well, ahem, the 'no fly' order is…true.
Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed
"On June 6th, the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant. "No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM," referring to the "notice to airmen," effective immediately. The OPPD claims the FAA closed airspace over the plant because of the Missouri River flooding. But the FAA ban specifically lists the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant as the location for the flight ban. Asked about the FAA flight ban, Hanson it was due to high power lines and "security reasons that we can't reveal." He said the flight ban remains in effect."
If any of the dams upriver from Fort Calhoun break, and they are all full as of now, a wall of water will cascade into the Fort Calhoun plant. And we have seen what a wall of water will do to a nuclear plant.
OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) has set up a web page to rebut the rumors. It is here. But no doubt, people are jittery over Fukushima.
This week green tea was sent back.
Japan's green tea contaminated with radiation
JAPANESE green tea, esteemed around the world for its purity and health-enhancing properties, has become contaminated with radiation, as fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant continues to blight Japan's agricultural heartlands, authorities revealed today."
Worse than that, the first birth deformities are showing up. This week a rabbit was born near the plant that had no ears. Rabbits have a faster life cycle so it makes sense that any deformities would show up in that mammal first. "The rabbit was born on May 7, according to its owner, Yuko Sugimoto, in the town of Namie, which is just outside the 18-mile exclusion zone that has been imposed around the crippled plant. The town has, however, been identified as a radiation hot-spot."
Is it any wonder the Americans looking at photos of a nearly inundated nuclear plant, hearing of fires, lack of cooling, no fly zone and news blackout from a less than honest government are NERVOUS?? And I'm not talking about Japan here, I'm talking Nebraska.
Oh, and PS? Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska just posted a "Notification of Unusual Event" due to the rising flood waters. According to that Nuclear Plant's emergency procedures, "The plan's procedures dictate when the Missouri River's water level reaches 42.5 feet, or greater than 899 feet above sea level, a notification of unusual event is declared. Should the river's level increase to 900 feet above sea level, plant personnel will also barricade internal doorways as another layer of protection for facility equipment. If the river's level increases to 45.5 feet or 902 feet above sea level, plant operators would take the station offline as a protective safety measure. The plant was built at 903′ MSL, which is 13 feet above natural grade."


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Issue No. 03 - March (2014 vol. 26)
pp: 623-634
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2013.26
Zhen Hai , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kuiyu Chang , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jung-Jae Kim , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Christopher C. Yang , Drexel University, Philadelphia
The vast majority of existing approaches to opinion feature extraction rely on mining patterns only from a single review corpus, ignoring the nontrivial disparities in word distributional characteristics of opinion features across different corpora. In this paper, we propose a novel method to identify opinion features from online reviews by exploiting the difference in opinion feature statistics across two corpora, one domain-specific corpus (i.e., the given review corpus) and one domain-independent corpus (i.e., the contrasting corpus). We capture this disparity via a measure called domain relevance (DR), which characterizes the relevance of a term to a text collection. We first extract a list of candidate opinion features from the domain review corpus by defining a set of syntactic dependence rules. For each extracted candidate feature, we then estimate its intrinsic-domain relevance (IDR) and extrinsic-domain relevance (EDR) scores on the domain-dependent and domain-independent corpora, respectively. Candidate features that are less generic (EDR score less than a threshold) and more domain-specific (IDR score greater than another threshold) are then confirmed as opinion features. We call this interval thresholding approach the intrinsic and extrinsic domain relevance (IEDR) criterion. Experimental results on two real-world review domains show the proposed IEDR approach to outperform several other well-established methods in identifying opinion features.
Feature extraction, Syntactics, Hidden Markov models, Dispersion, Data mining, Batteries, Educational institutions
Z. Hai, K. Chang, J. Kim and C. C. Yang, "Identifying Features in Opinion Mining via Intrinsic and Extrinsic Domain Relevance," in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 623-634, 2014.


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Biggerstaff will be guest speaker at 'History in the Park' tonight
Local artist and author Pat "Nolia" Biggerstaff will speak on "The Gullah People and their Culture" at the September edition of the Lincoln County Historical Society'.s ."History in the Park" lecture series, which will be held on Thursday, September 7, beginning at 7 p.m. in the May House at the Historical Park.
This is a fascinating story of a people and a culture that developed in the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands and coastal areas – referred to as the "Lowcountry" – with very little interaction with the rest of the country. The Gullah have their own language and culture that is descended from their African roots and the language is sometimes referred to as "Sea Island Creol."
Having recently completed her newest book, "Separation Song," which Biggerstaff both authored and illustrated, she explores the rich heritage and culture of the Gullah people, making her a knowledgable source on this particular community. Within her book she vividly depicts Sea Island life, and the unique Gullah language, culture, and cuisine surrounding the area.
Copies of the book will be available at the talk.
Her book likewise highlights real historical locations of the Lowcountry and is packed with rich vocabulary and educational areas of study.
"Separation Song" has been selected for the Beaufort, S.C., library system archives to help preserve information on the Sea Island life and the Gullah people. Biggerstaff will speak on the inspiration for her book and the unique information it contains for the young and old.
She will offer ideas on day trips and weekend excursions that encompass historical sites and information about the Lowcountry and Sea Island, while also sharing great getaway ideas for any time of the year, and the locations of southern Sea Island hidden treasures.
Biggerstaff came to Lincoln County in 1970, as the new bride of former mayor Dwaine Biggerstaff.
Nolia was a nickname given to Biggerstaff by her Sea Island friends, and is a name used for her artwork and business.
Her first job in Lincoln County was as the art teacher at Lincoln County High School. She taught art and reading in various classroom positions in Lincoln and Wilkes Counties, as well as serving as a reading consultant for the CSRA Regional Education Services Agency while she earned a Bachelor of Arts in education, with a minor in art, a Master of Education in reading, and a master's degree in administration and supervision.
She later served as vice principal in charge of instruction at Maxwell Elementary School in Thomson, where she gained the attention of state and national dignitaries, as Maxwell moved from a non-performing Title1 school to a National Blue-Ribbon School of Excellence in three short years.
During this time, she accepted many awards on behalf of the school and traveled the country speaking at various national educational conferences.
Upon retirement, Biggerstaff was appointed by then Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the Georgia State Board of Education. She often worked as the Governor.'.s .substitute speaker on educational issues during this time, and met with him frequently on educational issues.
After serving on the Georgia State School Board, Biggerstaff began to devote more time to her love of art and the Lowcountry. She has conducted many workshops and lessons on art – both public and private.
Currently, she enjoys her time by creating artwork for the community. Most recently she painted the memorial tree in the Lincoln County Library, along with working extensively on murals for the Elijah Clark Park Nature Center.
The Historical Park is located at 147 Lumber Street, and the History in the Park lectures are held on the first Thursday of each month from March through November, with the exception of July.
Desserts, water, coffee, and tea will be served after the presentation, allowing plenty of time to speak individually with the speaker.
There is no admission fee, however donations to the Historical Society will be accepted, as the Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
For more information, contact Edwards at 757-831-9556.


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InSite Gettysburg iPad Tour {Cassie's Corner}
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What is time when you have money? This is too true to be funny. But there is a lesson to be learned from the recent past. The next time you hear a politician use the Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
After all its people who speak casually about subject matters they really don't understand, are often found out to be misinformed, misguided, wrong, or just plain an idiot! I would have used the term "retarded idiot", but the term retarded isn't politically correct, but perfectly disruptively accrete.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend. Even for the politically advantaged idiot. But one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases. …
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
A billion dollars ago, was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain…let's take a look at New Orléans … It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) was asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS To rebuild New Orléans. Interesting number…What does it mean? Well…
If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orléans (every man, woman and child) You each get $516,528 Or…
If you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orléans, your home gets $1,329,787. Or…
If you are a family of four…Your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington , D.C…..HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??
How can we trust people that can't see, or tell if their calculators are broken? When these people can't grasp a billion dollars and how much that is…how can these people then deal with trillion-dollar deficits, or 16 trillion dollars worth of debt?
Do they know that one trillion is 1000 billions?
If our politicians are, or can be so easily fooled with numbers, or how to work with working calculators, how can they be doing a job worth the pay they receive?


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4 Apr 2011 We know Callie and Arizona are getting married on Grey's Anatomy. But will they be the only couple to tie the knot by season's end?If you and close friend, or you and another member of your family are thinking about a double wedding , it will take a special kind of commitment and present Double Wedding is a 1937 romantic comedy film. A bohemian free spirit (William Powell) helps meek Waldo (John Beal) win back his fiancée (Florence Rice) and Directed by Craig Pryce. With Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Ardon Bess, Robin Brûlé.Tia and Tamera Mowry star as twins Deanna and Danielle Warren, who, even though they may look alike, are anything but identical.
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Tax deduction always hurts that too when the amount getting deducted is big.
So how do we reduce tax in long term or what kind of planning is required to reduce this burden?
Every year we are advised by our financial planner or advisors to invest in something that reduces our tax liability. It may be NSC, PPF, ULIP, etc.
Tax planning: A perspective
these tax saving investments are at times taken based on advice from colleagues or friends or financial advisors at large. Generally investors go for the scheme if it helps to reduce tax liability.
Apart from reducing tax, you should ask some questions.
What is the risk involved?
Are the returns from the scheme taxable?
Do I need to make investment in this scheme every year or just a one-time investment?
Does it support my financial goals?
Apart from tax saving investments is there anything to be considered in tax planning?
Tax planning in your financial planning:
Tax planning is also a part of your overall financial planning. When tax planning is done in your financial planning, it plans tax in a much broader perspective.
1. Tax saving investments:
This is the most obvious one. In order to reduce the tax liability, where you need to invest will be answered here. This deals with the investments under section 80C. Also it covers section 80D and the housing loan interest for tax saving purpose.
When these tax saving investments are made or selected based on your financial plan, these schemes will not only save your tax, they will also help you achieve your life financial goals like children's future need or retirement plan.
Also, the tax saving investment scheme selected may change every year depending on the requirement of the financial plan.
If in a particular year, you have more exposure in equity, then the financial planner may recommend you to invest in PPF. In another year, if you have less exposure in equity, he may ask you to invest in mutual fund ELSS.
Tax planning will be different from year to year and person to person.
2. Salary structure:
Nowadays, employers provide some flexibility in structuring the salary of their employees. Sixty-seventy per cent of the salary will be given under the predetermined heads. For the remaining part of the salary, employers will give you some flexibility. That is, you will be allowed to claim that portion of your salary under allowance A or allowance B or allowance C, or as a combination of allowances A, B and C.
If your employers provide such flexibility then share the details with your financial planner. He will be able to tell you in what way you structure your salary that is going to be beneficial in reducing your overall tax burden.
3. Superannuation scheme:
Your employer may introduce some superannuation scheme with some special tax benefits in which you contribute an X amount and your employer will also contribute an equivalent amount.
When your employer introduces any such schemes, if you share the details with your financial planner, he will study the scheme and let you know whether it is a good scheme or not.
If it is a good scheme, then is it suitable to you or not? If it is suitable for you then how much you can contribute towards the scheme?
Many employees are clueless what to do when the employer introduces such schemes. If you opt to do your tax plan in sync with your financial plan then all these problems will be solved.
When employers allot some of their shares to their employees by way of employee stock option plan (ESOP), they generally announce some packages. That is, the employee will get X number of shares free and Y number of shares can be allotted at a subsidized rate.
Also, there will be some lock-in period for these shares. After the lock-in period the shares can be transferred to your demat account or the employers can sell those shares and give you the money.
Again, if you share these ESOP package details to your financial planner, he will be able to tell you in what way you claim your ESOP then that is going to be tax advantageous to you. Also, he will check in what way these ESOP will help you achieve your life financial goals.
Final words:
From the financial planning point of view, tax planning has got much broader perspective. Generally tax planning will be done as a part of financial planning.
Tax planning is covered under financial planning. But tax filing is not covered in financial planning. However, financial planner may do that tax filing service also with an additional charge.
#Financial Goals and how to achieve them?
Each one of us has dreams which we want to achieve. Unless we commit and persevere to achieve our dreams, they don't occur in reality. Whether personal or financial, setting goals helps us in defining what we want and taking small steps towards achieving the same.
Setting specific, financially viable goals and managing personal finances to achieve the goals forms the very core of financial planning.
Here are four easy steps on how to go about planning and achieving your financial goals:
Define your goal
Defining your goal is the first step towards achieving it. Goal setting involves setting objectivity to the investments we make. Some common goals we set are: buying a car, buying a home, education/marriage of children and a happy retirement.
All goals can be classified in two categories: one-time events and recurring events. For example, events like child birth, marriage, buying a car/home can be classified as one-time events as these require one-time bulk cash. Whereas, goals such as education of children or retirement can be classified as recurring events as they need a recurring cash flow for years.
Identifying financially viable goals and classifying them is the first step towards goal planning.
Set the time frame for your goal
After defining goals, we need to define the timeline for each goal. Timelines along with our risk appetite would help in deciding on appropriate financial planning. Goals which need to be realised in less than a year can be termed as immediate-term goals whereas goals which need to be realised in a time frame of 1 – 3 years can be termed as short-term goals. Medium term goals have a time frame of 3 – 7 years while goals with a time frame of over 7 years can be termed as long-term goals. Defining goals according to the time line can help you develop a roadmap with important milestones to be achieved on the way.
Assess the financial corpus needed for your goal
It is a common financial planning practice to assume the corpus needed for your goal in today's value and adjust the value to inflation, also known as time value of money. After considering the rate of inflation, we should focus on the time required to achieve a goal and the type of goal to determine the total corpus needed. For example, consider a one-time goal, such as down payment for a home, which you want to achieve in 3 years from now. To calculate the corpus needed to achieve this goal in 3 years, you should consider the corpus needed for the down payment at current value and adjust it to the inflation rate, which is simply the rate at which things become expensive.
In the case of recurring goals, individual cash flows are adjusted to the rate of inflation. For example, consider the goal of saving corpus for your child's higher education where you would need to pay a fee of Rs. 1 lakh every year for 4 years. Let us assume that the child will be starting higher education in 5 years from now. Here, the first year fee is adjusted to inflation considering a time frame of 5 years, and the fee for second year is adjusted to inflation considering a time frame of 6 years and so on.
Prioritise your goal
All our goals are not of similar value or importance. Despite fair planning, it is still possible that we may not be able to achieve all our goals. When it comes to trading off among various goals, we should give high priority to the ones which are of a higher importance than the rest, for example- child education, home etc. Similarly, some goals can be given low priority, buying an expensive car or planning an international holiday, for example. The idea here is to increase the likelihood of achieving important goals. Prioritising is done by ranking all our goals based on the order of their importance.


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Emma's short film Candace premiered on May 13th in Cannes, France as part of the American Pavilion Emerging LGBTQ Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival where it won BEST FILM. It continues to tour to festivals around the world. For more information on the film, please visit: www.candacefilm.com
Emma's theatrical work has been seen all over New York City, and in Chicago, IL, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Washington DC, Boston, MA and Lincoln, Nebraska.
Recent Projects include: an all female pop-infused Romeo & Juliet, Jeremy O'Harris's Slave Play, Noah Diaz's The Guadalupes, Chris Nunez's In the Palm of a Giant, the 18-month national tour of Madeline Burrows's Mom Baby God, an all-female production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, and Dreamland, a 1:1 installation that explores audience agency in interactive narrative environments. Emma is currently working on several original projects including Come My Beloved, a new play with music about the intersections of Jewish and Black history in Detroit, Michigan that will tour to Detroit and Chicago this winter.
Emma worked as an Assistant Director for Barry Edelstein at The Old Globe, Tony Simotes at Shakespeare & Company, Sheryl Kaller at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and Anne Kauffman at Yale Rep.
As an educator, Emma ran the Guerrilla Filmmaking Program for Teens and has worked with organizations such as The New Generation Theatre Ensemble and The 52nd Street Project. Emma was a Fall Festival Director for Shakespeare & Company and has directed in their Shakespeare in the Courts program for adjudicated youth.
Emma graduated summa cum laude from Smith College. Emma is an alumna of the Drama League Directors Project and is a New Georges Associate Artist. Emma is currently the 2019 Cullman Scholar in Yale School of Drama's Directing Program.


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A prime place to people watch is at Church. Despite accepting people from all walks of life and preaching that God is the only One that will judge you in your afterlife, there's a lot of shade being thrown in Church to those who aren't comformitive or a bit odd. Me, being a gay Catholic, mastered throwing shade at an early age and, perhaps, throw it only too often.
But sometimes my judgements are quite justified.
Now, there are a few things that I shrug off during Church because it's excusable. My sister and mother sing loudly offkey and, in my mother's instance, in her Asian accent, but at least they sing. My family's also guilty of glancing at our phones during the collection, reading the bulletin during the Readings and nodding off during the homily (who doesn't?).
When I was younger, I'd sleep during the midnight Christmas mass. During regular weekend mass, my siblings and I would play hand games, do shadow puppets or chip off my mom's blood-red polish on her claw-like nails, which would alternatively be punctured into our skins if we embarrassed her by being loud or disrespectful.
My nephews now are spoiled with how easy they have it, bringing toys, food and books in their diaper tote everyday, but back in the 1990s, my siblings and I had ourselves to play with, with no drink or food and only my Barney stuffed animal, which I took everywhere. But I digress.
I could understand why some people may be dressed in their baseball uniform or overalls because maybe they came from 4H or from practice, and less sympathetically find it permissible for people wearing sweat shirt, tank tops and Daisy Dukes only because it's better than not attending service. I overlook the fact that some people don't genuflect to their knee(s) or kneel with support on their tookus on the bench, even though I think both are signs of laziness. I throw massive shade at the parents who take the laid-back, hands-off technique on their children and let them run wild and scream, but some of them genuinely can't help it.
But there are some genuine misconduct at Church at I can't help but throw constant shade to those to commit them. When I see a full-grown Mexican father sitting against the wall of a pew on Easter mass playing his PSP with headphones in, not even making an attempt to stand or kneel at proper times but just sitting there, it's pretty ridiculous. When I see a 4+ member family come in right before Communion and leave right after, I can't help but shake my head and reference them in my mind as "Those People." But there's one singular act that I've witnessed that I absolutely found heinously disrespectful.
How would you react if you caught a random man reaching into your purse to grab a tampon? How would you feel if you found out that, during a house party you hosted, a stranger had taken your TV remote? What rage would incur in your body if you were standing in line at Best Buy, or Coach, or Bass Pro Shop for the newest product being 50% off, when the person in front of you is suddenly joined by 5 more people (whom have their iPhones opened to Craigslist, writing an ad for the product), resulting in you getting the grim, "Sorry Folks! Sold out!" from an unreasonably smiley worker? That's how I felt when I saw a non-Christian man take the Eucharist and tried to just walk away with it.
In those instances, it must be said that if you were the perpetrator of these crimes, then you would see it as a fair, acceptable act, that some people are lucky or that it was for a good laugh. But coming from the victim's standpoint, all these acts are horrendously vile and a bitch thing to do. If your male friend asked you for a tampon for their nosebleed, or someone you knew needed a controller for their cable box and you happened to have an extra one, or if you were in line for the new iPhone when you already have an iPhone 6+ and it were your friends that had cut you in line on Black Friday, you wouldn't feel too bad about it all. But here's a stranger, taking the most sacred item in Catholicism and walking away with it like he just caught a frog in his hand.
The priest had seen how this man handled the Eucharist and stopped him, asking, "Wait, are you Catholic?" He shook his head no, smiling at him. The priest took it back and continued with Communion. I had my eye on this guy, who had sat a few pews ahead of me and seemed out of sorts. He was joined by a girl and another guy, and the two guys had a rough time knowing what to do during the whole service, deciding that being awkward, goofing off and disrespectful was the best way about it.
The church allows people to receive a blessing instead of the Eucharist for those who aren't Christian. Most of the time, those people don't even go up in line for Communion and stay in their pews. That's two options that this man could've chosen, but like an idiot, he decided it'd be a laugh to go receive the Eucharist and take it back to his seat to save it for later, like rolls at a buffet. It's common sense– you don't do that shit at any religious service.
You pass on the lamb's blood at a devil-worshipping ceremony. You let the Greek family smash the plates during the Greek wedding. You politely reply a hard "No" when a friend asks you to be their Plus-One to a Brit Milah (Jewish male circumcision ceremony). You should pass on accepting the Eucharist if you're not Christian. It's absolutely simple logic.
Maybe I'm expecting too much common sense from the everyday American, expecting an ounce of respect to be shown in a religious setting. People get worked up over other small non-important 1st-World-Problem things like an unnecessarily stupid Buzzfeed article, but can't be sympathetic or "accepting of others" enough to see how disrespect for the Eucharist is a terrible offense to Christians. Perhaps I was raised with too much consideration of others and respect for everyone that I can't even fathom the state of mind of some people.
Either way, I threw the most shade ever at this trio for the rest of service.


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