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These whole wheat sourdough english muffins are surprisingly easy to make – and the taste is so far above store bought that it's worth the effort. This recipe is one of our Best Bread Recipes–head over to the page to find more!
English muffins are one of those things that, up until a few years ago, it would have never crossed my mind to make (like so many other pantry basics I discovered were easy). I don't know…when you don't grow up around bread making and homemade stuff, it's easy just to think it can't be made at home. Which seems silly, because I knew it was possible to make bread, even if I didn't know anyone who did.
Oh, but have I learned they can be made at home, AND they taste incredible (Promise! I'm not just saying that because I make them), AND they are really easy.
And when you add whole wheat and sourdough into the equation? L.o.v.e.
Making whole wheat sourdough English muffins is a great way to use up your sourdough starter in a way that will turn out some seriously delicious sourdough bread. (New to sourdough and want to get started? Check out my easy guide to all things sourdough.)
The only thing that's hard about this recipe is to remember to start the night before. I've been known to make a big note and leave it on my bed to remind me I can't climb in until I've mixed up the initial dough! Do what you need to do to make it happen, though – you won't be sorry.
Here's all the steps you need to follow to make your own fresh-off-the-griddle English muffins.
Whole Wheat Sourdough English Muffins
Take five minutes the night before to mix the sourdough starter with a bit of honey, flour, and milk. Water will work if you're avoiding dairy, but they won't be quite as tender.
In the morning, it will look like the photo above (or it may have risen higher, depending on your starter, the temperature, how active your starter is, etc.). Go with whatever yours looks like. I've found English muffins, thankfully, to pretty forgiving.
Transfer the dough to the bowl of a stand mixer or a large mixing bowl if stirring by hand. Add baking soda, salt, and 1/4 cup flour to the dough and mix together.
Knead with the mixer (or by hand) for 3-4 minutes, adding another 1/4-1/3 cup of flour gradually (1-2 tablespoons at a time) during the kneading process.
When the 1/4 c. of flour has been added, the dough should be moist enough to stick to the bowl, but only be a bit tacky when touched with a finger. If a lot sticks to your finger that's how you know to add more flour, but no more than 1/3 cup total, as stated in the recipe.
I've found that the enemy of any bread is too much flour– it's best for the dough to need to be scraped out of a bowl, like shown above.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead it into a round.
Use a rolling pin to roll the dough to about 1/2- inch thickness. Cut the dough into rounds using a 3-inch biscuit cutter…or anything that will produce uniform rounds. I like using biscuit cutters- there are recipes I saw that require you to shape each muffin with your hands- who has time for that?
It's OK to gather the dough and re-roll to cut more muffins- I haven't noticed any difference between the first roll and the second. I take the little scrap from the last bit and hand-shape it into a cute little muffin. No waste here.
Set the rounds on a lined baking sheet (parchment or silicone) that has been dusted with cornmeal or a bit of flour. Don't let them touch as they will stick together, but an inch or two apart is fine. Dust the tops with a bit more cornmeal or flour. Cover with a towel and set in a warm place to rise for a couple of hours.
I've cooked these after letting them rise only one hour and they were fine, but the holes inside are bigger after the full 2 hour rise. The picture you see above is after a 2-hour rise and you can see that they actually don't rise all that much- just puff a bit. They will rise more when cooked.
Heat a griddle to a medium-low setting (about 275 degrees) so the muffins have time to cook inside without burning on the outside.
Tip: The muffins do tend to stick to the lining even with a dusting of flour/cornmeal, so as you slide a spatula under to transfer to the griddle, pick up a bit of the flour/cornmeal as you're lifting the muffin with the spatula. Then invert onto the heated griddle.
Cook on one side about 4 minutes, or until browned. You can see above how they puff during the initial cooking.
Turn and flatten slightly with the back of the spatula to get that characteristic English muffin shape.
Cook for about another 4 minutes, looking to make sure the muffin is browned on the bottom. Remove to a baking rack to cool. Keep for a day or two in a sealed container or freeze for longer storage.
Slice, toast, and butter like you would any English muffin. Just be prepared for a major taste difference!
And that's it- one quick mix the night before, another stir in a mixer, a simple roll-and-cut, a rise and a super-quick eight minute cook. I think it might be 20-25 minutes total hands-on time.
Not too bad for a dozen great tasting fresh English muffins that cost about $1.00.
Worth it!
Oh, and our family's favorite way to eat these is as a base for Eggs Benedict with super easy Hollandaise sauce – yum.
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A Council of Governments (COG) report released Wednesday says the D.C. Metro area will face a funding gap of at least $58 billion over the next 15 years.
The report analyzes transportation, water, energy, public buildings and public safety communications and their funding needs. Of the $58 billion, transportation accounts for $24 billion and water infrastructure accounts of $20 billion.
Even more specifically, Metro says it will need $16 billion during the next 15 years to maintain the system and improve safety.
"Without funding to make these improvements, [Metro] won't be anle to keep up with growing demand," the report said.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who also serves as chairman of COG, reviewed the report Wednesday.
"The concern is very great both from a reliability and safety perspective, but also the ability of public transit to meet the needs of the region," Mendelson said.
Leaders throughout the region said they're worried about huge costs of routine maintenance as well as new facilities with no clear idea of where the extra money might be found.
"It's clear, however, the state, federal government, the local governments and indeed the private sector need to seriously consider how they're going to come up with the money," Falls Church Vice Mayor David Snyder said.
Snyder, who has served on emergency committees, pointed out the importance of filling in the budget gap for transportation.
"I think we all as supporters of Metro have the right to demand management that at the very least provides full and accurate communications to riders in minor and major incidents and that's apparently not happened on a repeated basis," Snyder said, referencing this week's deadly incident inside the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station tunnel.


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How To Remove Gout and Joint Pain (Uric Acid and Crystals)
Gout pain is a kind of joint inflammation, which happens as a result of the build-up of uric acid, which forms crystals in the joints, that form in the synovial liquid (lubricating liquid around joints) and lead to swelling and also intense joint discomfort.
It generally happens more frequently in guys and 2nd most in postmenopausal females.
In the case of a gout arthritis assault, one usually experiences pain, soreness, and swelling in the location of the huge toe, and also other body joints. The pain can be so intense that also touching the location can be agonizing.
It can be triggered by a diet regimen abundant in carbohydrates, hydrogenated fats, alcohol, and conventional meat, yet the risk is likewise elevated when it comes to stress and anxiety, hypertension, insulin resistance, obesity, kidney condition, stress and anxiety, and also an acidic system.
For the most parts, gout arthritis is treated with medications like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, which pose significant wellness threats. We will discuss gout in details and assist you eliminate its signs and symptoms naturally.
Purines are compounds that naturally happen in the body as well as are exchanged uric acid. They are healthy and balanced and also needed for the DNA and also DNA duplication.
Nevertheless, a gout arthritis patient ought to limit the consumption of purine-rich foods, like peas, beans, lentils, salmon, red meat, sardines, body organ meat, herring, and also oily fish, considering that they raise the threat of this problem.
The body should run fructose into sugar in order to get energy, and the byproduct of the process is uric acid. The high uric acid levels in the body promote the manufacturing of nitric oxide, which keeps the high blood pressure low.
The too much consumption of fructose exchanges LDL, which is saved in the form of fat in the body. Yet, note that these are the effects of fructose drawn out from fruits an included in foods as well as beverages, not the one in fruits.
A research study published in the Journal of Paediatrics that included 5,000 teenagers, revealed that the much more juice and also fizzy beverages they took in, the higher their blood pressure and also uric acid levels were.
Additionally, a study released in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) which evaluated the frequency of gout pain in greater than 46,000 males for over 12 years, showed that the usage of carbonated rinks substantially raises the risk of gout pain.
Researchers have actually additionally shown that ladies those who consumed alcohol one sweet beverage daily had a 74% higher danger of gout pain compared to ladies who consumed less than one drink a month. Moreover, the ones that ate 2-3 sweet beverages daily had a 2 1/2 times higher danger.
The usage of alcohol increases the threat of gout too, as well as a 2004 study published in Lancet, located that beer poses the greatest risk.
To normally avoid this excruciating problem as well as reverse it, you ought to follow the tips below:
1. Stay clear of protein and high-purine foods such as beans, lentils, mussels, hen, crabs, shellfish, oily fish, scallops, and also porridge.
2. Prevent or limit the consumption of cheese and beer
3. Drink at least 2 liters of water daily, to eliminate uric acid from the body
4. Eat vegetables and fruits daily, particularly wonderful potatoes, wild rice, celery, and amaranth
5. Enhance the intake of prunes, considering that they support the metabolic rate of uric acid
6. Eat cherries, bilberries, blackberries, and also blueberries, given that they are rich in bioflavonoids and also reduced uric acid degrees
7. Cherries and pineapples assist the elimination of uric acid from the body
8. To alkalize the body and prevent gout, blend a banana, pear, apple, cherries, and pineapple a blender, and also add a teaspoon of chlorella, a small ginger item, and also bitter almond milk, and eat it every early morning.
9. Ginger and also turmeric extract have effective anti-inflammatory properties that will certainly aid you deal with swelling and eliminate gout. Cut off a little ginger item the dimension of an inch as well as boil it in some water for around 20 mins.
After that, consume alcohol the ginger tea throughout the whole day. In addition, you can include ginger and also turmeric to different dishes. Likewise, add ginger to some water in order to make a paste, as well as apply it on the affected location to act for half a hr.
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Drink 1-2 tbsps of raw unfiltered as well as natural apple cider vinegar in a glass of at the very least 8 ounces of water a few times a day to experience considerable alleviation. Also, you can saturate the feet in a container full of 4 mugs of warm water and also 1 cup of apple cider vinegar for half an hour.
11. Baking soda is an additional natural gout pain solution since it alkalizes the body. Add half a teaspoon to a glass of 8 oz. water, as well as drink this treatment a number of times during the day.
Yet, note that the Many will certainly repeat this throughout the day till they have actually consumed a minimum of 3 teaspoons of baking soda. It assists reduced uric acid giving with alleviation optimum suggested dose is 4 tsps throughout the day.


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Flags and national anthems are potent political symbols that can be used for good or for ill. In Mississippi voters recently retained a state flag that contains a symbol of the Confederacy, deeply offensive to Black Americans. In almost all modern nations the coffins or bodies of soldiers or civilians killed in battle are draped in the national flag. Revolutionaries and political enemies burn the flags of their opponents both as a sign of their hatred and to provoke more violence.
Japan, at the end of World War II, was forbidden by its victorious occupiers both to fly its flag, the Hinomaru (meaning literally "round sun") and to use its national anthem Kimigayo ("his majestic reign"). However, in 1952, after the Occupation ended, the Hinomaru was again displayed on public buildings and at public ceremonies, and Kimigayo was played even when the words were not always sung.
As early as 1958, the Ministry of Education issued a "guidance" in its teachers' manual (gakushu shido yoryo) that it was desirable to raise the national flag (it did not say the Hinomaru, as if it were already established as such) and to sing Kimigayo at public school ceremonies. It should be noted that the term shido, often translated as "guidance," is actually a euphemism for directive, with the connotation of mandatory compliance. In 1961, the government also created subcommittees on the national flag and national anthem; however, they failed to recommend legislation due to the leftist parties' opposition. In 1974, Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka expressed his intention to legislate the national flag and anthem but never did so.
Then, in 1989, the Ministry of Education issued a new teachers' manual strengthening its guidance on the use of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo at public school ceremonies. The Japan Teachers' Union, backed by the Japanese Communist Party and the Japan Socialist Party, was opposed and refused to obey. The union argued that there was no legal basis for public schools to treat the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem. As a result, there were many incidents of non-observance and acts of defiance at school ceremonies, and school principals were caught between the Ministry of Education and the Japan Teachers' Union.
In 1994, after the Liberal Democratic Party's dominance dwindled and it briefly lost its majority in the lower house of the Diet, the party co-opted Socialist Tomiichi Murayama as leader of a coalition cabinet that consisted of the LDP, the New Party Sakigake (Pioneers), and the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ, a new name for the Japan Socialist Party). In exchange, Prime Minister Murayama accepted the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as official national emblems. The SDPJ, led by Murayama, followed suit at its 1994 party congress, and the Japan Teachers' Union formally abandoned its opposition to the Hinomaru and Kimigayo in 1995. Finally, in February 1999, Japan Communist Party Chairman Tetsuzo Fuwa came out in favor of the idea of legislating a national flag and anthem, while adhering to his opposition to the Hinomaru and Kimigayo. Keizo Obuchi, who was prime minister at the time, stated that he considered the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as being already established as the national flag and anthem and was not planning any legislation about them.
In March 1999, a high school principal in Hiroshima prefecture became embroiled in a dispute over the singing of Kimigayo at a graduation ceremony and ended up committing suicide. This incident gave new impetus to the issue within the LDP. Immediately after the incident, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka raised the necessity of considering legislation, and Prime Minister Obuchi instructed the cabinet to take the necessary steps. Only three months later, in June 1999, the cabinet submitted the national flag and anthem bill to the Diet. In response to the submission of the bill, the Socialists retracted their earlier acceptance of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo, and the Japan Teachers' Union decided to oppose the bill.
The Origins of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo
According to the cabinet research office, the Hinomaru first appeared in Japan's literature in the late Heian period (12th century). For example, the Tale of Heike cited warriors who carried military fans with a Hinomaru on them. During the Tokugawa Shogunate (17th to 19th centuries) ships flew the Hinomaru to distinguish themselves from foreign ships. Then, in 1870, the Meiji government issued a decree concerning rules for commercial vessels, which stipulated that Japanese vessels should fly the Hinomaru and detailed its specifications.
Regarding Kimigayo, the problem has been its text, which praises the imperial reign and wishes it eternal prosperity. The text reads:
Kimi ga yo wa His majestic reign
chiyo ni yachiyo ni for thousands of years
sazare ishi no iwao to narite a pebble grows into a rock
koke no musu made until covered with moss
According to the cabinet research office, the text of Kimigayo dates back to the Kokinwaka-shu (the first anthology of Japanese poems compiled by imperial command in 905). The original poem's author is unknown, and its first phrase reads "waga kimi wa" (my lord), instead of "kimi ga yo wa" (his majestic reign), with the rest being the same as the current text. The first phrase was changed to the current form during the Kamakura period (late 12th to 14th centuries). Since then, Kimigayo was read by the common people on ceremonial occasions, but there was no official musical score until 1880. When the Meiji government adopted Kimigayo as an anthem to hail the emperor in ceremonies, Hiromori Hayashi, a musician in the Imperial Household Agency, created a Western score for Kimigayo with the help of European music teachers. It was played for the first time in November, 1880, on the emperor's birthday. Then, in 1893, the Ministry of Education incorporated the anthem into the public school curriculum and required that it be sung at public school ceremonies.
With Japan's defeat in World War II and the enforcement of a new constitution, the status of the emperor changed from "ruler of Japan" to "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people" (Article 1). When the bill legalizing Kimigayo was submitted in 1999, opposition parties argued that the anthem was unconstitutional. The LDP countered that there were many possible interpretations of Kimigayo's text. Thus, the exact meanings of the words kimi and kimigayo became the focal point of deliberations in the lower house. The word kimi literally means "lord" or "emperor" (broadly meaning "you" in an honorific sense), while kimigayo means "reign of kimi." Given the new status of the emperor, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nonaka stated in June 1999, that the government interpreted the word kimi as "emperor as the symbol of Japan," and thus it was appropriate to interpret Kimigayo's text as wishing long prosperity and peace to "Japan," including the emperor as its symbol. Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi stated at the same time that the word kimigayo meant "Japan" and that it embraced the emperor as the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people, based on the will of the people.
Opposition parties objected to the government's interpretation. Hidenari Ito of the Democratic Party criticized the LDP's definition of the word kimi because it lacked historical depth and breadth. Kazuo Shii, general-secretary of the Japan Communist Party said that there was no way the phrase kimigayo could be interpreted as "Japan" and that insofar as the text wished for an eternal imperial reign, it was inappropriate for a democratic nation. Another problem with the bill was that, although it designated the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem, it had no provisions to make their actual observance-- raising the Hinomaru and singing Kimigayo-- obligatory. The government did not specify when and how the flag and national anthem were to be used or make their observance mandatory because it feared that it could not then muster a majority vote for the bill.
Public Opinion Polls
According to a poll conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun in March 1999, shortly after the principal's suicide, 60.7 percent of the 1,954 respondents thought that both the Hinomaru and Kimigayo were already established as the national flag and anthem, and 64.2 percent felt that both raising the Hinomaru and singing Kimigayo were desirable at public school ceremonies. Also, 68.1 percent supported the idea of legislation that declared the Hinomaru and Kimigayo to be the national flag and anthem of Japan (43.0 percent expressed definite support and 25.1 percent moderate support), whereas 25.7 percent were against (11.5 percent definitely opposed and 14.2 percent moderately opposed).
Another poll conducted by the independent Japan Research Council on Public Opinion Polls in July 1999, after submission of the bill, yielded similar results. Out of 1,928 respondents, 68.3 percent thought that both the Hinomaru and Kimigayo were suitable as the national flag and anthem. Also, 71.3 percent said they supported the bill (44.9 percent with definite support and 26.4 percent moderate support), whereas 25.1 percent opposed it (9.8 percent definitely opposed and 15.3 percent moderately opposed) ("Honsha zenkoku seron chosa," Yomiuri Shimbun, April 9, 1999; "Kokki-kokka seron chosa," Chunichi Shimbun, August 3, 1999).
Judging from the results of the two polls, the majority of the Japanese accept the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem. However, it should be noted that the Hinomaru commands about 15 percent more support than Kimigayo, due to the latter's direct association with the emperor. In terms of age brackets, younger generations have more negative opinions about the Hinomaru and Kimigayo than the older generations, who have considerable emotional attachment to both.
The Debate in the Diet
Conservative parties, such as the LDP and the Liberal Party, supported the bill. Yoshiro Mori, then serving as LDP Secretary-General, stated in June 1999, that the Hinomaru and Kimigayo were accepted by the great majority of Japanese and that few would oppose the legislation. Liberal Party President Ichiro Ozawa said that most Japanese already considered the Hinomaru and Kimigayo to be the national flag and anthem and that the Diet could not possibly decide otherwise. Meanwhile, the middle-of-the-road New Komeito (Clean Government Party, CGP) was more cautious. Although the party's president, Takenori Kanzaki, said in June 1999, that he considered the Hinomaru and Kimigayo already established as the national flag and anthem, he considered legislation on the subject merely a possibility. In contrast, the party's Secretary-General, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, said that imposition of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo violated the constitutional right of freedom of conscience. In the end, however, the CGP decided to support the bill. It should be noted that the CGP held the balance of power in the Diet, where the LDP, even with its coalition with the Liberal Party, lacked a majority in the upper house. Thus, the LDP leadership invited the CGP to enter into a new coalition with it, and the CGP (with only 52 seats in the lower house) accepted the offer and supported the bill.
Although the high school principal's suicide was the catalyst, this quid pro quo with the CGP was a decisive requirement for submission of the bill. Chief Cabinet Secretary Nonaka of the LDP's old guard engineered it. It should be recalled that as of February 1999, Prime Minister Obuchi was not planning to submit a bill at any time soon. Even after the principal's suicide in March 1999, Obuchi, who was sometimes called the shinku shusho ("the vacuum, or empty space, prime minister") merely stated that he would like to legislate it during the year 2000. In contrast, Nonaka, known for a more straight-forward approach, saw an opportunity when the CGP showed an interest in joining the coalition and in June 1999 arranged for the swift submission of the bill. Nonaka allegedly said that he wanted to have the legislation passed before November 1999, the 10th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's coronation.
Meanwhile, leftist parties such as the Socialists and Communists remained unequivocally opposed. Socialist Secretary-General Sadao Fuchigami stated in June 1999, that the Hinomaru and Kimigayo had been imposed on other Asian nations as symbols of Japan's war of aggression. Communist Party Chairman Fuwa said that it was necessary to create a new national flag and anthem that were suitable to the present (democratic and peace-loving) Japan, while the party's General-Secretary Shii stated that it was wrong to initiate the legislation without having discussions with the general public.
The Democratic Party was the only one that could not come up with a policy on the bill. The party merely decided that it would discuss the issue with an eye toward supporting the bill, and that it would do its best to form a consensus. In the end, it decided to make the vote "free" instead of invoking togi kosoku (party discipline), under which members are obliged to vote according to a party's decisions. It is common practice for political parties to apply togi kosoku for important bills in order to enforce organizational solidarity. In this case, however, Democratic Party members were so divided that it would have been embarrassing if many members "rebelled" and voted against the party line. Tsutomu Hata, the party's secretary-general, justified the voting format by saying that this bill concerned individual beliefs. Although the party might invoke togi kosoku on bills concerning national finance and security, it would not bind the freedom of thought of its members. In addition, given the stronger objections to Kimigayo than to the Hinomaru among the party's members as well as the general public, the party decided to submit an amendment to the government-sponsored bill designating the Hinomaru as the national flag but omitting Kimigayo.
Even so, Naoto Kan, then Democratic Party president, expressed his approval of the original bill, stating that the Democratic Party recognized the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as being already established as the national flag and anthem, and that if there were a consensus among the Japanese on the bill, the party would follow it. In contrast, Yukio Hatoyama, then deputy secretary-general, stated that he personally liked the Hinomaru and Kimigayo but he was opposed to the bill. He was concerned that the legislation would accelerate mobilization efforts against the Hinomaru and Kimigayo and deepen the predicaments of school principals. Nonetheless, when the party's policy research council recommended supporting the bill, Hatoyama leaned toward voting for the bill for the sake of building the party's consensus, and he was even willing to make the vote a togi kosoku issue.
Diet Votes
The lower house of the Diet passed the bill in plenary session in July 1999, with an overwhelming majority of 403 in favor, 86 against, no abstentions, and 10 absent (see Table 1). Of those who voted, 82.4 percent supported the bill. The vote was striking in that there was no "revolt." All the parties, with the exception of the Democratic Party, voted unanimously. All members of the LDP, the CGP, and the Liberal Party who were present for the session voted in favor of the bill, whereas all members of the Socialist and Communist parties who were present voted against it. The only party in which the votes were split among its members was the Democratic Party, with 45 in favor, 46 against, and one absent. The Democratic Party-sponsored amendment bill was rejected.
In addition, the Democratic Party's leadership was split. Notwithstanding his earlier statement in favor of the bill, Naoto Kan, the president, voted against it, whereas Hatoyama, the deputy secretary-general, despite his earlier opposition to the bill, voted for it. Hata, the secretary-general, also voted for it. Thus, the bill exposed the yoriai jotai (hodgepodge household) nature of the Democratic Party, which is comprised of splinter elements from what are diametrically opposed parties, such as the LDP and the Socialists. The bill exhibited the indecisiveness and lack of coherent principles on the part of its leaders.
The vote in the upper house's plenary session in August 1999, displayed the same pattern as in the lower house. Out of 251, 166 voted in favor and 71 were against, with 5 abstaining and 9 absent (See Table 2). Of those who voted, 68.5 percent were in favor. While there was clear cohesion in five of the parties, the Democratic Party was again split with 20 in favor and 31 opposed, with 5 abstaining. Democratic Party President Kan stated that the result (its split vote) correctly reflected the wide range of opinion among the Japanese on this issue and that it would not jeopardize the party's solidarity. The Democratic Party-sponsored amendment bill was again rejected.
The new law went into effect on August 13, 1999, immediately after its passage in the upper house. Only two days later, Kimigayo, now the official national anthem, was sung for the first time at the 54th Memorial Day marking the end of World War II. At past Memorial Day ceremonies, Kimigayo's music was played during the entry and exit of the emperor and empress, but it was never sung. Even this time, the emperor and empress did not sing, while LDP politicians sang most enthusiastically. Tetsuya Takahashi, who teaches philosophy at the University of Tokyo, said after watching the ceremony that the fact that the emperor and empress did not sing reaffirmed that Kimigayo was a song of subjects hailing their rulers. If Kimigayo meant "Japan," as the Obuchi cabinet claimed, the emperor and empress should have sung as well. A Korean resident of Japan who had been conscripted during the war as a Japanese soldier and subsequently convicted as a war criminal of the prison-guard class attended past ceremonies to pay tribute to other Koreans who had served the Japanese and had been executed for similar war crimes. However, he did not attend this memorial because he could not bear the thought that Kimigayo would be sung at the ceremony. This former "Japanese" Imperial Army soldier is also suing the Japanese government because he and other Korean soldiers and their families have been denied war compensation by the government.
Reactions by Asian Neighbors
Some Asian nations have cautioned that the legislation was evidence of Japan's turn toward the right ideologically, while others received it calmly. Along with the enactment of new laws concerning U.S.-Japan defense cooperation, the U.S. plan to create a Theater Missile Defense, and the move to change the status of Yasukuni Shrine, China considers this legislation to be a step toward Japan's remilitarization. Although in June 1999, a Chinese foreign ministry official said that the bill was a matter of Japan's internal affairs, another ministry spokesman noted opposition to the bill within Japan and hoped the issue would be solved in a manner that would contribute to Japan's peaceful development. South Korea is also wary of this legislation and the review of Yasukuni's status, and it deems the sum of these actions to constitute a serious move to the right. The Kankoku Nippo, a Japanese newspaper that supports South Korea, wrote in August 1999, just after the bill's passage, that Japan had used the North Korean threat as an excuse to pass the bill in order to promote its military buildup and weaken citizen opposition to the nation's move to the right.
Meanwhile, in Singapore, older generations that had experienced Japanese occupation during the war still harbor resentment against the Hinomaru and Kimigayo, whereas younger people seem to have no such feelings. A senior lecturer at Singapore National University said that, insofar as there is no guarantee that Japan will not revert to militarism, a concern remains. He also said that it would be easier for him to accept the legislation if Japan had fully admitted its war guilt, as Germany has done. In contrast, a graduate student at the same university said that Japan was too sensitive about what other nations said about it and that the legislation would make Japan an ordinary nation with an official national flag and anthem. As for the Philippines, a Filipino foreign ministry spokesman said that the ministry did not consider the legislation a revival of Japanese militarism, while a high-ranking official of the ministry said that the legislation would merely make the de facto national flag and anthem official and that every nation had a right to choose its own flag and anthem.
Implications for Japanese Schools
Far from ending the controversies over the Hinomaru and Kimigayo, the legislation created more confusion concerning how to enforce the teachers' manual. The problem with the bill was that it has no provisions for enforcement despite the fact that one of its primary purposes is to provide a legal basis for teaching about the Hinomaru and Kimigayo in public schools. In July 1999, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nonaka explained that the government had left the bill without an enforcement clause so that there would be no change in the teachers' manual concerning the current practice of not enforcing observance of the flag or the anthem.
But if the government has no intention of enforcing observance in the schools, why did it initiate such a bill in the first place? It seems that the cabinet deliberately left the bill without an enforcement clause in order to make passage easier, while intending to enforce observance later after the legislation had become a fait accompli. It should be recalled that the CGP initially had reservations about the bill (Secretary-General Fuyushiba was against it) and that the Obuchi cabinet did not have a majority in the upper house. Here, the interpretation of "enforcement" was critical. As a matter of fact, in August 1999, the exact meaning of "enforcing" observance of the flag and anthem became the focal point of deliberations in the upper house. Asked what acts constituted "enforcement," Yasushi Mitarai, director-general of the Ministry of Education's Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau, answered that instructing pupils to stand while the Hinomaru was being raised and to sing Kimigayo at ceremonies, including telling students who left their seats during observances to return and sit down, did not constitute "enforcement." Education Minister Akito Arima explained that only inflicting psychological pain on pupils-- for example, by ordering them to repeat the instructions on the observance of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo many times and making them open their mouths during the singing of Kimigayo-- would constitute "enforcement."
Despite Chief Cabinet Secretary Nonaka's earlier statement that there would be no change where schools were concerned, Education Minister Arima expressed the ministry's intention to strengthen its guidance over teachers. They should teach their pupils the significance of the national flag and anthem, and those who failed to follow the ministry's guidance would be disciplined (chokai). Shigenori Yano, director-general of the ministry's Education Promotion Bureau, added that teachers would be required to teach pupils the anthem and the importance of the national flag and that they could not refuse to do so by claiming a right to freedom of thought and conscience. Insofar as teachers are public servants, they are required to execute their duties and those who do not do so can be disciplined under the public servants law. While the government did not make the law mandatory, it is attempting to enforce it anyway by tightening the guidance to teachers and disciplining those who resist.
Another issue is how to discipline pupils who do not observe a teacher's instruction. Education Minister Arima stated that the ministry would not force pupils to obey and that to the extent the instruction interfered with their inner convictions it would not reprimand pupils who did not comply. Also, Education Director-General Mitarai stated that refusal to comply would not affect pupils' academic evaluations. Even Prime Minister Obuchi stated that the legislation would not change the current practice of non-interference with pupils' inner convictions. Do these statements mean that pupils do not have to observe the instruction at all? Then, what is the rationale for teaching pupils the significance of the national flag and anthem?
The Ministry of Education's stance is fraught with contradictions. Director-General Mitarai's earlier statement that instructing pupils who left their seats during the raising of the Hinomaru and the singing of Kimigayo to come back did not constitute "enforcement" means that teachers should make them return and participate. Yet, Education Minister Arima's statement that the ministry would not "force" pupils means that teachers cannot physically make pupils come back and that those pupils who refuse would not have to do so. But is it not contradictory to discipline teachers who fail to make pupils observe the instruction, while not disciplining pupils who refuse to do so? And wouldn't it also be unfair to pupils who observe the formalities, regardless of their inner convictions?
In short, the legislation deepened contradictions concerning the observance of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo in public schools. The government has a long way to go to resolve these contradictions. For example, the Ministry of Education must clarify what constitutes enforcement and where to draw the line between "instruction" and "enforcement." Recognizing the contradictions in its officials' statements, the ministry announced that it would issue a teachers' manual on how to deal with pupils who do not obey the instruction.
Implications for Japan's Future
The Hinomaru and Kimigayo bill required the least amount of time for deliberations in the 145th regular session of the Diet. The bill's fast passage was remarkable, given that the issue was so controversial and was expected to paralyze the Diet. The same session also passed a bill creating a constitutional research council to study revising Article 9, which renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation and relinquishes the possession of any armed forces. In addition, the Obuchi cabinet decided in August 1999 to create a study group on Yasukuni Shrine. Yasukuni, a Shinto jinja honoring the war dead (including convicted war criminals from World War II), belonged to the Army and Navy Ministries until the end of the war. Today it is ostensibly a purely religious edifice. Leftist political parties therefore object to politicians paying official visits to it because that would violate the separation of church and state (Article 20 of the Constitution). After Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1985 paid a controversial visit as a "public person," succeeding prime ministers have refrained from doing so. But in 1999 the LDP leadership recommended that a study group consider giving the shrine the status of a special government corporation, thereby obscuring its religious nature. Prime Minister Koizumi has proclaimed that he will visit Yasukuni this coming August on the anniversary of the end of the war.
In May 1999, the Diet also passed bills concerning the new guidelines for U.S.-Japan defense cooperation. Among other things, these new laws authorize Japan to give logistical support to U.S. military operations in emergency situations in areas surrounding Japan, even though the phrase "areas surrounding Japan" is said not to be a geographical concept. An editorial in the Chunichi Shimbun of October 7, 1999, argues that the LDP, using its "tyranny of the majority," hastily forced through the Diet a series of very controversial bills that will change the nation's fundamental stance and functions. Kikue Sawachi, a popular writer, held that it was less than even farcical that the Obuchi cabinet passed these bills when there were no real opposition parties to confront the LDP. Similarly, Ken'ichi Matsumoto, a notable historian, argued that the LDP leadership was engaged in a petty display of numbers to show off its majority (kazu awase) in passing these bills, without demonstrating any national design for the next century.
The legislation seems to have signaled the advent of "neo-nationalism" in Japan and opened Pandora's box concerning the status of the emperor. Professor Tetsuya Takahashi of the University Tokyo argues that the Hinomaru and Kimigayo were the mechanisms whereby during the war Japanese were initiated into becoming the emperor's loyal subjects. He believes that by making them Japan's official national flag and anthem, what the Japanese learned from the defeat in war will be forgotten. Thus it was not surprising that former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori made his ill-conceived remarks about the emperor being the "God of the Nation" and that the movement to rewrite history, led by Kanji Nishio, professor of history at Japan Telecommunications University (Nihon Denki-tsushin Daigaku), emerged in the wake of the legislation. The new law also provided leverage for other items on the conservative agenda, such as amending the constitution and changing the status of Yasukuni Shrine. Kozy K. Amemiya, a sociologist, is concerned not only with the government's use of this legislation to turn Japan further to the right but also with its intolerance of different opinions and its resort to state power to silence opposition (see Patrick Smith, Kozy K. Amemiya, and Sheila K. Johnson, "Three Views of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo Vote," JPRI Critique, Vol. VI: No. 9, September 1999).
While these moves do not necessarily mean that in the short-term Japan will revert to militarism, as some Asian nations fear, the long-term implications of the legislation are serious. It is true that the LDP's initiatives, passed by large majorities, entail only symbolic changes in the nation's status and prestige rather than changes in Japan's actual national defense policy. Nonetheless, the conservative agenda is concerned with regaining Japan's national confidence and identity, lost in the defeat in World War II. Although the LDP will try to further intensify the "color of nationhood" in Japan, it also seeks to minimize national defense spending and will work in close consultation with the United States within the framework of the new guidelines for U.S.-Japan defense cooperation. This mechanism has served the Japanese national interest well and the LDP knows it. Unfortunately, the Bush administration seems to be adding its pressure to bring about constitutional revision of Article 9 and increased military spending by Japan.
The effect of symbolic changes on the national psyche over the long term should also not be underestimated. A case in point is the resurgence of the movement to rewrite textbooks and the Ministry of Education's approval in April 2001, of a middle school textbook written by the Society to Create New History Textbooks led by Nishio. The textbook not only justifies Japan's military acts of aggression during World War II but also includes the unestablished mythology and ancient history concerning the imperial family. By reading such distorted views of history, the younger generation will not learn what the Japanese military did during World War II and will receive a mythical understanding of the emperor.
Hatoyama, the new president of the Democratic Party and its former deputy secretary-general, has become an advocate of constitutional revision in order to end the artificial status of Japan's Self Defense Forces. However, he believes that Asian countries will have grave misgivings about the revision if Japan ignores its past acts of aggression (as conservative politicians do). Therefore, Hatoyama argues that Japan should acknowledge these acts of aggression unequivocally and solve lingering problems with Asian countries once for all by issuing a comprehensive review of these acts. He is also opposed to the new high-school history text and says that he would recommend to all local boards of education that they not adopt it.
It may be difficult to determine when a symbolic change concerning the nation's pride becomes a real change in the nation's defense policy. It should be noted that Japan's current defense budget is already about the size of France's and much larger than China's. Moreover, the new Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has advocated revision of Article 9 but without Hatoyama's preconditions. As of this writing, it remains to be seen whether the LDP-led coalition cabinet will actually succeed in legislating the remaining "unsettled postwar issues" and whether opposition parties, such as the Democratic Party with its new president Hatoyama, can effectively confront the cabinet. The Japanese voters will have a chance to issue their verdict in the forthcoming general elections for the upper house in July 2001.
MAYUMI ITOH is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and author of Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan, St. Martin's Press, 1998. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, California, March 9-12, 2000.
Table 1: House of Representatives Votes on the National Flag and Anthem Bill
in favor
Democratic Party
CGP (Komeito)
Liberal Party
Communist Party
Socialist Party
Source: Yomiuri Shimbun, July 23, 1999.
Table 2: House of Councillors Votes on the National Flag and Anthem Bill
Source: Yomiuri Shimbun, August 10, 1999.


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See our just-released winter issue of The Mount magazine here on our community's new website.
I just love what graphic artists around the world do with the google logo. Most of them are posted on google only in one country but some are posted worldwide. Here's one from November 30 posted here in the US: a tribute to Mark Twain on his birthday.
Google Doodles
And, an inspiration from Mary Oliver on the coming of the winter season, particularly for those of us for whom winter is spelled s-n-o-w!
In the Pasture
On the first day of snow, when the white curtain of winter began to stream down,
the house where I lived grew distant and at first it seemed imperative to hurry home.
But later, not much later, I began to see the soft snowbound house as I would always remember it,
and I would linger a long time in the pasture, turning in circles,
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Happy Halloween, Everyone! Yes, this post is late and back-dated, but I got a little wrapped up in celebrating and work. So, I hope you had a Happy Halloween. And though inktober is over, I still have a few days to back-fill. Also, as I teased with several Forsaken Stars pieces, including Naura and Mister President, I will be starting the comic up again and hopefully finishing issue five this year so that we can get to issue six and beyond in 2015!


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Scenic Trails
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2012
The top 4 things that students wished that teachers used more were: Open Educational Resources; Simulations or educational games; Learning Management Systems and e-books. It seemed to me unlikely that everyone would know what OERs were, but when I checked the questionnaire, in fact that item was phrased as "Freely available course content beyond your campus (OpenCourseWare, Khan Academy, etc.)".
There was a majority agreeing that technology was important to achieve success in their studies and their future jobs. The top technology valued was the Learning management System, followed by the Library Website. A larger number of students (than in the last study) felt that their teachers were using technology effectively.
There is more on this and other questions in the full report, available at http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/ecar-study-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2012
Photo by Sheila Webber: Autumn colour, October 2012
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I have been using Liz Earl products for around 6 months now. I have very sensitive skin and in the past, products have often caused me to have breakouts of spots and redness and sometimes dry patches too.
Since using Liz Earle products, my skin has been fantastic. Its smooth, soft and most importantly, no breakouts at all. I honestly can't tell you the last time I had a spot.
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Story Time Tuesdays at Wiggly Field with Sharon
December 17 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Reading to young children affects their brain activity and may just give them that boost they need to support and promote their early reading skills. Research shows that specific areas of the brain are affected when young children have reading exposure at home from an early age. These areas are critical for a child's language development.
Sharon Callaghan, Barbara's children's book section extraordinaire, will be hosting story time every Tuesday in our "Wiggly Field" children's book section. Sometimes, Sharon will invite special guests to read.
Make it a weekly book bonding ritual with the little ones to encourage reading.
Barbara's Bookstore in Vernon Hills


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AMANDACARLESKI's Blogs
Thursday, January 03, 2013 2 comments
I decided that this year is going to be the year for accountability. I am going to track each meal as well as my water intake and take responsibility for what is going on inside of me. And after talking about waking up at 5:00am to be at the gym... Read more
Insanity - Day 1 Fit Test
Thursday, December 20, 2012 3 comments
So, my mom bought me the insanity workout series for Christmas. I am hoping that by the end of the 60 days I can finally have the body that I had in high school. I really need to get rid of the food belly. Anyways, here are the stats from my fir... Read more
Half Marathon season is almost here!
Monday, September 03, 2012 0 comments
Well, after an unplanned five week hiatus, I have finally started running again...just in time to prepare for the three half-marathons that I am planning on doing this fall. I think that I was using the gym being so far from my new job and the w... Read more
Back to Work!
Sunday, August 26, 2012 0 comments
Yet again I am back on Sparkpeople. I was doing so well with exercise and eating well...I even won the Biggest Loser Challenge at my work! I had a pretty consistent routine going, but I didn't like the job that I was at so instead of focusing on... Read more
I Need Running Tips!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4 comments
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I Ran 5 Miles!
Sunday, April 29, 2012 3 comments
I can't believe it, but I just ran 5 miles today! I have been okay at three miles, and have been tired, but felt like I could do more, so today for my 'long' run, I decided to go for 5 miles instead of the planned 4 that I was going to do. I'm s... Read more
Tarheel 10 Miler and New Running Goals
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I just weighed myself in this morning, and if my morning measurements are accurate, I now weigh 142.8! I am SO close to be in the 140 range and I am so excited, because that means that I will be in the 130's soon--a number I haven't seen in YEAR... Read more
Went Down a Pants Size!
Saturday, April 14, 2012 2 comments
Yesterday was a very exciting day. For the past couple of weeks, I have a pair of jeans that I pretty much wear everyday during the week (I just started a job working with young two's, so I can't wear nice clothes to work - it's not appropriate!... Read more
Happy Easter!
Sunday, April 08, 2012 1 comments
Well, today is Easter and I am happy to say that I haven't eaten any easter candy! Sadly, that's about all I can be proud of. Last week was a wash for exercising since my husband left to go to PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) on Wednesday night, so I wan... Read more
New Job
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2 comments
Today is the last day that I am no longer working part-time. I caved and applied for a job at a preschool working with the toddlers because there are very few 'true' Administrative Assistant jobs around here that are offering full-time hours. I ... Read more
Ran a 5k Today!
Sunday, March 25, 2012 3 comments
Today I probably should have did the Jillian Michael's workout (I still might), but instead I decided to run at the YMCA. I joined a couple of weeks ago, and only have gone once, so I went there instead. Originally I was only going to run 2 mil... Read more
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Friday, March 23, 2012 1 comments
Today I completed day 2 of the level 1 of Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred. I am absolutely committed to completing this challenge, even if it isn't 30 days in a row like it maybe should be (I didn't do it yesterday because my abs hurt!). The 20 m... Read more
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2 comments
I finally feel like something has 'clicked' in this journey to get rid of this unnecessary extra poundage I have put on. While I wouldn't consider myself 'fat', I would definitely consider myself out of shape. I think because I'm petite the extr... Read more
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#QOTD: Give me your 2 cents on the "One is Greater Than Zero" Film – http://youtu.be/4fsYWXrGGcE
01:48 – On Facebook the separate business pages are easy to handle, on Twitter I can switch between accounts on my iphone with ease, but Instagram (!!!!), do I need separate accounts that the app hasn't made it easy to handle, or is there a way to successfully use one account for all 3 things without it being sh*t, jumbled and ineffective?
03:59 – They say you should hire slow and fire quick…how many chances do you give your staff?
06:55 – Do you think brands need to be represented across ALL social platforms? Or just the most popular ones?
08:51 -I import wines from Le #Marche Italy and sell via ecomm & thru distributors. Currently focusing on obtaining new distribution and have fallen behind on the ecomm side. Question: what % of my time should be split between each side of the business/what's a good way to balance the 2?
11:21 – I'm smiling in this pic but really I'm holding back tears and my heart is heavy cause Seahawks lost and I bet 225, 225…That's like 4 Xbox games and a Arizona. I've listened to Drake, The Weeknd, Jhene Aiko, and even PartyNextDoor but the pain is too much, how do I cope?
ONE IS GREATER THAN ZERO: http://youtu.be/4fsYWXrGGcE
ASK GARY A QUESTION: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-youll-need-to-get-garyvee-945936926.html
I've talked about not being crippled by hiring anybody, because if they aren't good you can just fire them. But for the first 15 years of my career I was not good with this. I hated it, there is nothing positive to firing anyone, I would always justify an excuse for them. I've learned that in the long run, letting someone go is better for both parties.
One thing that I'm very proud of here at Vaynermedia and Winelibrary is that when an employee is let go, people aren't surprised because they could already feel it coming. A question to ask yourself is do you have the emotional EQ? and the people skills to do the firing?
If not, find someone who does and hire them to take that position. As I always say, work on your strengths.
Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses. Fresh out of college he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years. Now he runs VaynerMedia, one of the world's hottest digital agencies. Along the way he became a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, investing in companies like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Uber, and Birchbox before eventually co-founding VaynerRSE, a $25M angel fund.
The #AskGaryVee Show is Gary's way of providing as much value value as possible by taking your questions about social media, entrepreneurship, startups, and family businesses and giving you his answers based on a lifetime of building successful, multi-million dollar companies.
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Technology has not been my friend lately; the screen on my personal laptop is no longer functioning and early this week the hard drive on my work computer crashed. Yeesh! So considering that I'm trying to recover all of my photos, I thought I'd share this little bit of advice with you today. So excuse me, I'm off to leave glittery footprints all the way to the Apple store.
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Uncle Bob: So, tell me -- what do you do, exactly?
You: I study the 3D epigenome of the developing brain [or insert other science-y topic here]. We use next generation sequencing technology to better understand how the orientation of genes in 3D space impacts the cell state, and then how that in turn impacts brain development.
Uncle Bob: Uh huh -- so... do you use 3D glasses to look at genies?
You: Kind of.....
And it's totally not Uncle Bob's fault for understanding what 'the 3D epigenome of the developing brain' means, because it's taken you 20 years of school to get to the point of studying 3D epigenomes, plus it's a pretty dense topic and it wasn't until 3 months into your rotation that you finally 'got it'. Sort of.
As you can probably tell, I've had this conversation on numerous occasions. For being a person who generally prides herself on being able to explain scientific topics to kids pretty well, I've found explaining my PhD research to be a whole new level of challenging. That's why I was so excited when I came across the awesome comic, Atomic Size Matters, by Veronica Berns. As she explains on her website, Veronica first conceived of making comics about her research when she was getting ready to defend her PhD in chemistry:
"I began to think about how much I had put into my graduate school career, and how everything would culminate in a dissertation. But I was disappointed when I realized my non-scientist family and friends would never read it. I often struggled to explain my work to them, because I knew they were all capable of understanding the ideas, but they just aren't well-versed in the jargon. Over the next eight months, I wrote and drew a comic book version of part of my graduate research. I included the comic itself as the final chapter in my official thesis."
I had a chance to ask Veronica some questions about her scientific journey as well as her comics. She's definitely got me thinking about making an awesome comic of a genie wearing 3D glasses...
Beta Pleated Chic: How did you first become interested in science? Is it something you've always been interested in, or do you remember 'discovering' it?
Veronica M. Berns: I've been interested in science since I can remember. When I went to the library as a kid, I never brought home story books. Instead I would check out non-fiction books about animals and nature. I was a big fan of Magic School Bus books too. I have always been happiest when learning about the world.
BPC: What has your scientific journey been? What topics have you researched in the past, and what are you currently working on?
VMB: I knew I wanted to do chemistry from my first chemistry class in high school. When I looked at colleges, I made sure my top choices had solid chemistry programs. Northwestern fit the bill, and the program there was everything I hoped it would be. While I loved all of my classes, doing research really provided me with the experience I was looking for. I worked on synthesis of solid oxide fluorides in the Poeppelmeier Group, my first taste of making new materials. I went on to graduate school at UW, eager to learn more about how crystalline materials take on order. I spent five years working on my degree, thinking about order and disorder in metallic compounds. For the past year I've been employed at UOP, a Honeywell company. We make zeolites, a class of materials with very large holes in their crystal structures, making them extremely useful for catalysis and separations.
BPC: Where did the idea of Atomic Size Matters come from? What was it like actually implementing your ideas? Did you hit any major road blocks?
VMB: The idea of the comic book came from when I was about a year away from graduating, I started thinking about how I would talk to my family about my work. It was a big accomplishment for me, and I wanted them to understand why. Since none of my relatives are chemists, I had to find some way to translate the excitement of doing cutting edge science without using the foreign language of science.
Ever since I was little, my dad and I always did a lot of drawings, just to make each other laugh. We're both big fans of comics, so it made sense to pair the words with funny little drawings in a comic book form. The book is intended to feel like a conversation with me, with a few sketches thrown in.
BPC: Do you have any comics you're working on that you're particularly excited about?
VMB: I've got a full time job outside of the comics, so it's hard to find time to be making new stuff! I have some ideas for future projects, and I hope to be able to find more time for them soon.
BPC: How do you decide what topics would make good material for your comics? Do you try to pick things that you can easily think of a visual explanation, or do you intentionally choose topics that aren't that way to have a bigger challenge?
VMB: Some topics lend themselves really well to visual explanations, but theoretical chemistry isn't exactly one of them. I like to choose topics based on how cool I think they are, and then think of the visualization later. It sometimes makes it hard to work quickly, but I think it makes for a more satisfying product at the end.
BPC: What are you hoping the impact of your comics will be?
VMB: I'm hoping that people will first of all enjoy what they read! I think the science content is important, but I tried to make the comic humorous and fun at the same time. I also hope that more people take the book as an example of an idea: Communicate your work. No matter how difficult it might seem, we as scientists need to give more attention to the way we talk to people outside of our fields. There's a lot of talk about "chemophobia" and just general fear of scientific evidence nowadays. I don't know how true that is, but I think there are a lot of people who are curious about science, but don't have a great way to connect to it. Maybe they loved science in high school, but they got turned off by the math involved. Or maybe they never liked science in school, but now they're hearing cool stuff about the Higgs Boson, and going to Mars, and sequencing genomes... and they want in! We've got to let people in on the excitement that we all feel for what we do.
We've got to let people in on the excitement that we all feel for what we do."
VMB: My free time right now is mostly comics-related! I also enjoy playing board games and video games with friends.
BPC: Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
VMB: I see myself as a lifelong learner. I'd like to keep doing research, and hopefully continue improving the communication of technical science to the general public.
Check out a sneak peak of her comic below. You can also buy the comic here.


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It is crucial to our nation's prosperity and standard of living that the U.S. attain and maintain world-class levels of labor productivity (economic output per unit of labor) across the economy. In effect, labor productivity represents an upper limit on national incomes. This limit can be exceeded only for brief periods and under unusual circumstances.
In manufacturing, the keystone sector of any modern economy, automation is the essential ingredient in maximizing worker productivity. This includes deploying world-class levels of manufacturing automation, as well as maintaining world-class levels in the production of automation tools and software for domestic use and export.
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The New York Times reported yesterday that Libya had successfully destroyed the country's chemical weapons stockpile at the end of January. The effort, supported by the United States, was conducted by contractors trained in Europe at a site southeast of the capital, Tripoli.
The New York Times piece suggested that this effort was conducted under a "a cloak of secrecy," but the activities have been both public knowledge and actively reported on. Last May, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, reported that Libya had destroyed approximately eighty-five percent of its declared "Category 1" chemical weapons stocks. Category 1 consists of "Schedule 1" chemical agents as defined by the international Chemical Weapons Convention and munitions filled with those agents. Also, at a hearing on the Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa in November before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations' Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Amanda Dory specifically noted the the chemical weapons "abatement" program being conducted at Waddan.
Regardless of how well known or not the program was, it is still an important development. Libya continues to face significant instability following the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. International partners, including the US, are to begin work this year to train a "General Purpose Force" to provide the foundation for national security forces, but militias continue to operate with impunity across the country. Attempts by the government to crack down on them have been met by violence and kidnapping, including the abduction just this past week of four Egyptian diplomats.
Since 2011, there have also been concerns about the proliferation of weapons in general from the country, including conventional weapons like man-portable surface-to-air missiles. The potential threat of Libya's chemical weapons stockpile was recognized immediately, and securing it was an important part of the little publicized US Operation Odyssey Guard, which followed the end of NATO's Operation Unified Protector. The destruction of Libya's chemical weapons stockpile marks a major milestone in international efforts to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and potentially serves as a model for the more publicized effort in Syria, as well as in other countries party to the Chemical Weapons Convention working to eliminate their stockpiles in the face of complicated circumstances.


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Fayetteville is the perfect destination for a fun family getaway. Along with being affordable, there are a ton of things to do that are fun for all ages. Whether you and your crew are having an extended stay or popping in for a "daycation" in Northwest Arkansas, here are a few popular suggestions for a memorable family outing.
Randy Noojin brings Woody Guthrie to life at the Faulkner Center On Saturday, May 5.
Hop on a boxcar through the Dustbowl with Woody Guthrie and commune with the spirit, stories and songs of America's iconic folksinger, saint-of-the-workingman and poet-of-the-people in Randy Noojin's critically acclaimed, award-winning multimedia solo show 'Hard Travelin with Woody'. Packed with Guthrie's spirit, music and artworks, Noojin's performance brings this tumultuous period of American history to life in an event that is both entertaining and culturally educational.
The 2019 Fayetteville Roots Festival will be held Aug. 21-25 at several locations and live-music venues throughout Fayetteville and Northwest Arkansas. Featured headliners include Mavis Staples, Hiss Golden Messenger, Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi and so many more.
The Septura Brass Septet will visit the Faulkner Performing Arts Center on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville as part of their USA Tour 2018. This "dazzlingly polished" (BBC Music Magazine) ensemble brings together London's leading players to redefine brass chamber music through the uniquely expressive sound of the brass septet. The group is the Ensemble in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has recorded 10 records for Naxos Records.
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