Our MCO Fall Concert 2019
https://youtu.be/nB51hRy5ZNA
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Presentations to focus on human rights in the Holy Land
By Emma C. Johnson
Midland Daily News, 15
Nov 2019: A1.
FULL TEXT:
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Skate Midland 2019
Adult 3 FS
Gold medal
Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Midland Civic Arena in Midland, MI.
Skater: Emma Johnson
Choreography by: Emma Johnson
Coach: Melanie Black
Videography: Melanie Black
Music: Les Savy Fav's "Disco Drive" off of their 2001 album Go Forth.
https://youtu.be/uhHTze7vaI0
Adult 3 CM
Gold medal
Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Midland Civic Arena in Midland, MI.
Skater: Emma Johnson
Choreography: Emma Johnson
Coach: Melanie Black
Videography: Kaye Horn
https://youtu.be/RSJd0HADNWg
Adult Artistic
Silver medal
Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Midland Civic Arena in Midland, MI.
Skater: Emma Johnson
Choreography: Emma Johnson
Coach: Melanie Black
Videography: 張齡友
Music: "No Rain" by Blind Melon with a hip-hop section in the middle by DJ Girl Talk sampling "Black and Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa and "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones
"No Rain"/Blind Melon
Articles:
Gold medal
Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Midland Civic Arena in Midland, MI.
Skater: Emma Johnson
Choreography by: Emma Johnson
Coach: Melanie Black
Videography: Melanie Black
Music: Les Savy Fav's "Disco Drive" off of their 2001 album Go Forth.
https://youtu.be/uhHTze7vaI0
"Disco Drive"/Les Savy Fav
Adult 3 CM
Gold medal
Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Midland Civic Arena in Midland, MI.
Skater: Emma Johnson
Choreography: Emma Johnson
Coach: Melanie Black
Videography: Kaye Horn
https://youtu.be/RSJd0HADNWg
Adult Artistic
Silver medal
Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Midland Civic Arena in Midland, MI.
Skater: Emma Johnson
Choreography: Emma Johnson
Coach: Melanie Black
Videography: 張齡友
Music: "No Rain" by Blind Melon with a hip-hop section in the middle by DJ Girl Talk sampling "Black and Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa and "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones
"No Rain"/Blind Melon
"Triple Double"/Girl Talk
Articles:
MFSC skaters earn high finishes at Skate Midland
Skate Midland to host record 140-plus skaters on Saturday
17th annual Skate Midland competition
ABC12 News at Noon: Skate Midland Competition
Friday, October 25, 2019
Co-piloting N8110C with Linda!
Logging 1.1 hours in the air above Midland and Bay City, Michigan. 10-25-19.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Bee girl on the rink
Photographs and videos by Photographer & Blogger Gracie BUTTON:
[Photographed and filmed on October 17, 2019 at the Midland Civic Arena]
Working on my upcoming skating program.
[Photographed and filmed on October 17, 2019 at the Midland Civic Arena]
Working on my upcoming skating program.
Friday, September 6, 2019
Published article links (329)
PUBLICATIONS (395)
Topics covered
Animal rights
Art
Consumer safety
Cultures (China, India, Iraq, Palestine/Israel)
Economics
Education
Environment
Fashion
Finance
Gun violence
Healthcare
Law
Occupy Wall Street
Palestinian/Israeli conflict
Political campaigns and events
Public policy
Technology
Veterans
Topics covered
Animal rights
Art
Consumer safety
Cultures (China, India, Iraq, Palestine/Israel)
Economics
Education
Environment
Fashion
Finance
Gun violence
Healthcare
Law
Occupy Wall Street
Palestinian/Israeli conflict
Political campaigns and events
Public policy
Technology
Veterans
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Johnson: This is one deportation America must stop
Op-Ed by Emma Johnson
Midland Daily News, 4 Sept 2019.
https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/This-is-one-deportation-America-must-stop-14408759.php
FULL TEXT:
Isabel Bueso came to the U.S. from Guatemala to participate in a rare-disease study at UCSF and now has 33 days to leave the country; but, in Guatemala, they don’t offer the intravenous infusions that keep her alive.
The Trump administration’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is deporting children who are receiving life-saving medical care in the U.S. due to a deferred action policy. While all cases are egregious, Bueso’s situation stands out as especially disturbing.
At an internship at Michigan Technological University that involved analyzing human blood, I had to pass two tests before conducting any research using human subjects. One was on safety and the other concerned ethical guidelines by the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
In the scientific community, it is against the rules to conduct testing on populations that will not benefit from the research.
That’s why there cannot be testing on prisoners, the homeless, or people in third-world countries. The only exception is for diseases that have a higher prevalence within a population and the cure will benefit that population.
This rule is to avoid past unfortunate cases such as:
1. Studying the effects of syphilis on African Americans in the South without treating them and lying about it.
2. Doing studies that could have deleterious outcomes on vulnerable populations that are desperate for money, such as prisoners and the homeless.
3. Going to third-world countries to test on their populations, only to let participants die because they can’t afford the life-saving medicine they helped develop.
4. An African-American woman Henrietta Lacks unknowingly “donating” her cancer cells and then not receiving treatments based on research employing her cells.
The United States government and the scientific community deemed that using the bodies of vulnerable populations only to let them suffer and die, while an affluent mostly-white population reaped the benefits, was ethically wrong.
Today, we have another case violating this code of ethics. Bueso was part of the solution to finding a life-saving treatment for MPS-6, an enzyme disorder that inhibits cells from processing sugars and now she faces being cut off from treatment.
To use her body, deport her, deny her treatment, and then save the lives of affluent white babies who haven’t yet been born will be a shameful mark on our country’s history if this deportation goes forward.
Emma C. Johnson is a writer and a Midland resident.
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Midland Daily News, 4 Sept 2019.
https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/This-is-one-deportation-America-must-stop-14408759.php
FULL TEXT:
Isabel Bueso came to the U.S. from Guatemala to participate in a rare-disease study at UCSF and now has 33 days to leave the country; but, in Guatemala, they don’t offer the intravenous infusions that keep her alive.
The Trump administration’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is deporting children who are receiving life-saving medical care in the U.S. due to a deferred action policy. While all cases are egregious, Bueso’s situation stands out as especially disturbing.
At an internship at Michigan Technological University that involved analyzing human blood, I had to pass two tests before conducting any research using human subjects. One was on safety and the other concerned ethical guidelines by the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
That’s why there cannot be testing on prisoners, the homeless, or people in third-world countries. The only exception is for diseases that have a higher prevalence within a population and the cure will benefit that population.
This rule is to avoid past unfortunate cases such as:
1. Studying the effects of syphilis on African Americans in the South without treating them and lying about it.
2. Doing studies that could have deleterious outcomes on vulnerable populations that are desperate for money, such as prisoners and the homeless.
3. Going to third-world countries to test on their populations, only to let participants die because they can’t afford the life-saving medicine they helped develop.
4. An African-American woman Henrietta Lacks unknowingly “donating” her cancer cells and then not receiving treatments based on research employing her cells.
The United States government and the scientific community deemed that using the bodies of vulnerable populations only to let them suffer and die, while an affluent mostly-white population reaped the benefits, was ethically wrong.
Today, we have another case violating this code of ethics. Bueso was part of the solution to finding a life-saving treatment for MPS-6, an enzyme disorder that inhibits cells from processing sugars and now she faces being cut off from treatment.
To use her body, deport her, deny her treatment, and then save the lives of affluent white babies who haven’t yet been born will be a shameful mark on our country’s history if this deportation goes forward.
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Friday, August 30, 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
Thursday, May 23, 2019
MCO's May 2019 Concert
The Midland Community Orchestra's concert filmed by Midland Community Television (MCTV) on May 19, 2019, at the Bullock Creek Auditorium in Midland, Michigan. I am playing violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1bJUkwMCNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1bJUkwMCNI
Friday, May 17, 2019
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Figure skating show 5-10-19
"A Night Under the Lights"
Promotional poster
Rehearsals for "Hamilton":
Getting ready
The finale number "Wonder"!
Backstage after the show
https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Midland-Figure-Skating-Club-to-nbsp-present-A-13754135.php
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
On being a musician
Introducing myself and talking about my process:
https://youtu.be/3-_ozJDfUs8
The whole 24-minute outtake:
https://youtu.be/XIPIae_j3QQ
https://youtu.be/3-_ozJDfUs8
The whole 24-minute outtake:
https://youtu.be/XIPIae_j3QQ
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Music Résumé
SUMMARY
Voice, guitar, violin, piano
110 performances
1991-Present
Piano, Delta College, 2 semesters + self-taught
Guitar, self-taught + University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, 2 semesters
Violin, Decorah Public Schools + Copper Country Suzuki Association, 8 years
Choir, Houghton High School, 1 year
Flute, Houghton High School, 6 years
Recorder, Decorah Public Schools, 1 year
Autoharp, self-taught
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Saturday, March 30, 2019
LYRICS - So Dream
So Dream 03_30_19
LYRICS:
It’s hard to prove them right.
It’s hard to prove them right.
Winners often lose.
Upper-middle-class expectations.
Stuck in young adulthood.
I try to be aspirational.
I try to be aspirational.
I try to be aspirational.
I try to be aspirational.
It’s daunting when the future’s hazy
And the American Dream is a dream.
So, dream!
So, dream!
So, dream!
Dream!
It’s hard to prove them right.
Winners often lose.
Upper-middle-class expectations.
Expectations.
Expectations.
Expectations.
Expectations.
So, dream!
So, dream!
So, dream!
Dream!
It’s daunting when the future’s hazy
And the American Dream is a dream.
So, dream!
So, dream!
So, dream!
Dream!
LYRICS W/ CHORDS:
Friday, March 22, 2019
Refugee presentation will tell how Midland residents can make a difference
By Emma C. Johnson
Midland Daily News, 22 Mar 2019: A1.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Chamber Ensemble Showcase 2019
Midland Community Orchestra Chamber Ensemble Showcase
featuring Warren and Flick of Ann Arbor, MI
Friday, March 15, 2019, 7pm at Creative 360
in Midland, MI
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019
My ancestry
I found out I am:
79% Whales & Northern Western European
16% Irish & Scottish
3% Norwegian
2% Swedish
I thought my mom was 75% English and 25% Scottish-Irish, but her results show she is also Norwegian, Swedish, and French. I knew from my dad's side that I was Swedish and French, but I didn't know that either side was Norwegian!
What I thought I was before DNA testing:
69% English
10% Irish
7% Scottish
7% The Netherlands
6% Swedish
1% French
I love thinking about my ancestors. For me, it makes history come alive!
79% Whales & Northern Western European
16% Irish & Scottish
3% Norwegian
2% Swedish
I thought my mom was 75% English and 25% Scottish-Irish, but her results show she is also Norwegian, Swedish, and French. I knew from my dad's side that I was Swedish and French, but I didn't know that either side was Norwegian!
What I thought I was before DNA testing:
69% English
10% Irish
7% Scottish
7% The Netherlands
6% Swedish
1% French
I love thinking about my ancestors. For me, it makes history come alive!
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