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Literature, Mennonites in -- United States and Canada (English, 1895-1980s)
The earliest fiction written in North America on Anabaptists/Mennonites concerns the Swiss Brethren of the Reformation period. True to the End (Philadelphia, ca. 1895), written by Henry S. Burrage, a Baptist church historian, follows history closely--perhaps too closely to result in good fiction. It is, however, a sympathetic treatment. The only liberty the author took with the facts of history was to have the first Swiss Brethren have themselves rebaptized by immersion upon discovering from further study of the Bible that their first baptism as adults, namely by pouring, was invalid. It was published in a German translation as Getreu bis ans Ende (Cassel, Germany, 1905 and 1920; 5th ed. 1922).
A less sympathetic, but prolific writer was Helen R. Martin, whose favorite subject was ridicule of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Among her novels are several dealing with the Mennonites and Amish of Pennsylvania. Tillie, a Mennonite Maid (N.Y., 1904), Sabina, a Story of the Amish (N.Y., 1905), and The Betrothal of Elypholate (N.Y., 1907; a collection of short stories) have Mennonites or Amish as their principal characters; in The Schoolmaster of Hessville (N.Y., 1920) the Mennonites play a minor role. In all of these works Martin treats the stricter branches of the Mennonite family, viz., the Amish and the "New" Mennonites (Herrites). In Martin's writings the Mennonite faith, indeed whatever savors of Pennsylvania Dutch, is something to be sloughed off in the process of personal growth and development.
Two early serialized attempts at fiction appeared in Mennonite periodicals. Jake, a Story of Plain People, by S. M. Grubb, was published in The Mennonite in 1911 and deals with the Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania, though not very happily. In 1922-24 the Christian Monitor published The Clemen Family by John Horsch which is a fictional narrative of events among the early Swiss Brethren. It was, however, not a literary success, since the characters are lost in the mass of historical facts.
The novels by B. Mabel Dunham of Kitchener, ON, who was herself a descendant of Mennonites, are highly sympathetic and effective treatments of the early Mennonite settlers of that area. The Trail of the Conestoga (Toronto, 1924) deals with the immigrants to Waterloo County, Ontario from Pennsylvania, and their early settlement in Canada. Toward Sodom (Toronto, 1927) gives a picture of the religious problems created later in the same settlement by isolation from and nonconformity to the "world" and the consequent loss of many young people to other creeds and faiths. Her point that the trend toward the city ("Sodom") is fatal to Mennonitism is debatable. Kristli's Trees (Toronto, 1948) is a charming novel for adolescents, also dealing with the Mennonites of Ontario. Dunham's Grand River (Toronto, 1945) is a wider descriptive and historical account of the settlement of this section of Ontario, and includes the Mennonite contribution to the total development of the province.
In 1925 Elsie Singmaster's volume of short stories Bred in the Bone (N.Y.) appeared, with an Eastern Pennsylvania locale. Many of these stories deal with the stricter branches of the Mennonites and Amish, but in a very different way from the writings of Helen K. Martin. Singmaster, one of America's great short story writers, wrote stories with an artistic finish. Furthermore her interpretation, though often amused, is never derisive, and always gentle. Her "juvenile" novel, I Heard of a River (Philadelphia, 1948), which deals with the Palatine German immigrants to Pennsylvania, including the Mennonites, touches on Mennonite nonresistance.
A most unfriendly interpretation of the Amish of Northern Indiana is given by Ruth Lininger Dobson in her novel Straw in the Wind (N.Y., 1937). Even from a stylistic point of view this novel is far inferior to Dunham's works. J.W. Yoder, himself a Mennonite of Amish descent, has presented an idyllic account of the Amish in Pennsylvania in his two semi-fictional books, Rosanna of the Amish (Huntingdon, 1940) and Rosanna's Boys (Huntingdon, 1948).
The Mennonite immigrants from Russia, specifically the Gnadenau (KMB) Mennonite settlement in Kansas, are the subject of two novels written in the second quarter of the 20th century. The Flamethrowers (Caldwell, 1936) by Gordon Friesen, a son of the settlement, is highly inimical, and written from a "leftist" point of view; its characters are not typical. On the other hand, The Locusts (N.Y. and London, 1943), by Otto Schrag, is sympathetic to Mennonites, although some of the author's interpretations of their way of life may be questioned. The Locusts was also published later in German as Die Heuschrecken (Munich, 1948). Helen Clark Fernald's treatment of the same community in Plow the Dew Under (N.Y., 1952), and Catherine Nickel's Seed from the Ukraine (N.Y., 1952) are not on an adult plane as literature.
Elizabeth A. Schroeter's slightly fictionalized autobiography, From Here to the Pinnacles, Memories of Mennonite Life in the Ukraine and America (N.Y., 1956), is an interesting account of the experiences and problems of a Mennonite Brethren immigrant of 1913 from the Ukraine to California. It includes not only episodes "as nearly as possible as they took place," but also "the ceremonies exactly as they were practiced." It is based upon a diary begun at the age of seven. All but the last 60 pages deal with Russia.
Travelogues and semi-autobiographical writings have been produced by a considerable number of North American Mennonites. H. J. Krehbiel's A Trip Through Europe (Newton, 1926), Frieda Kauffman's Auf Wanderwegen, Plaudereien uber eine Europareise (Newton, 1935), and Arnold Dyck's Meine Deutschlandfahrt, Eine Reiseplauderei (North Kildonan, 1950) tell about trips to Europe. S. C. Yoder's Down South America Way (Scottdale, 1943) and Eastward to the Sun (Scottdale, 1953) tell of a journey to Europe and India to visit Mennonites and their missions, and of a trip to the Mennonite missions and colonies in lower South America. Three MCC relief workers, Verna and Willard Smith in Paraguayan Interlude, Observations and Impressions (Scottdale, 1950) and Samuel A. Yoder in Middle-East Sojourn (Scottdale, 1951), relate experiences and observations, the former in Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and the latter in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Palestine. Autobiographical reminiscences are related by Hillegonda van der Smissen in Bilder aus meinem Leben (Newton, ca. 1935; in English, Sketches from My Life, Newton, ca. 1935), S.C. Yoder in Horse Trails Along the Desert (Scottdale, 1954), and Dorothy McCammon, We Tried to Stay (Scottdale, 1953). The last of these, a moving account of the experiences of a missionary couple in Communist China, was rated as one of the ten best religious books of the year by the Saturday Review.
In Canada Frederick Philip Grove, who was a teacher in Winkler, Man. and married Katherine Wiens, a Mennonite, touches on Manitoba Mennonite life in his novels Our Daily Bread (Toronto 1929) and In Search of Myself (Toronto, 1946). Paul Hiebert's novel Sarah Binks (Toronto, 1947) deals with pioneer conditions in Western Canada and is a satire on self-important literary criticism.
High Bright Buggy Wheels (N.Y., 1951) by Luella Creighton is set in Ontario among some of the stricter Mennonites, possibly Brethren in Christ. Creighton shows an appreciation of the idyllic aspects of their rural religious life, but little understanding for their faith.
A number of young Mennonite (MC) women wrote Christian fiction for young people, several of their works dealing with Mennonite life or doctrine. Not Regina (Scottdale, 1954) by Christmas Carol Kauffman, is a novel on Swiss Anabaptist beginnings and persecutions. Eunice Shellenberger's Wings of Decision (Scottdale, 1951) has nonresistance as its theme. Helen Brenneman's But Not Forsaken (Scottdale, 1955) is an interpretation of refugee experiences based on the author's experiences as an MCC relief worker in the refugee camp at Gronau, Germany after World War II. It is of superior quality, probably the best fiction produced by an American Mennonite writer up until that point in time. In addition to her historical novel, Kauffman wrote a number of religious novels for adolescents, not specifically on Mennonite themes. They include Lucy Winchester (Scottdale, 1945), Light from Heaven (Scottdale, 1948), Dannie of Cedar Cliffs (Scottdale, 1950), and Life with Life (Scottdale, 1952). Edna Beiler has written many good juvenile stories which have been published in the Youth's Christian Companion and Words of Cheer. Ten of the Words of Cheer stories were reprinted as Ten of a Kind (Scottdale, 1953). She also writes stories in Christian Living. Esther Eby Glass has many good stories for adolescents to her credit appearing in the Youth's Christian Companion since about 1947.
Other books on a late adolescent level include Marcus Bach's Dream Gate (Indianapolis, 1949), which gives insight into the life of a boy in a Hutterite settlement in North Dakota. Blue Hills and Shoofly Pie (Philadelphia, 1952) by Ann Hark contains some valuable descriptions of Amish life.
Some of the most delightful books on the Amish are those which were written for children. Among these are Henner's Lydia (N.Y., 1937), Skippack School (N.Y., 1939) and Yoni Wondernose (N.Y., 1942) by Marguerite de Angeli; Little Amish Schoolhouse (N.Y., 1939) and Amish Moving Day (N.Y., 1942) by Ella Maie Seyfert; Lovina, A Story of the Amish (N.Y., 1940) and Appolonia's Valentine (N.Y., 1954) by Katherine Milhous. Plain Girl (N.Y., 1955) by Virginia Sorensen is the pleasant story of an Amish girl in a public school, intended for older children.
Barbara Smucker, a Mennonite author, wrote the thoughtful and impressive Henry's Red Sea (Scottdale, 1955), relating the escape of a group of Russian Mennonite refugees from Berlin in 1948 on their way to final settlement in Paraguay. It is meant for children. Elizabeth Bauman's Coals of Fire (Scottdale, 1954) contains eighteen fictionalized true stories for youth which illustrate nonresistance; six of the stories are Mennonite.
The North American stage has featured plays and musical comedies based on Amish life and customs and other Mennonite themes. Papa Is All (N.Y., 1942) by Patterson Greene makes an average comedy of the universal theme of the overly strict father; it focuses on a conservative Mennonite group. Plain and Fancy (N.Y., 1955), by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, was a very successful musical comedy on the stage, and gives a sympathetic interpretation of the Amish. John Rengier's By Hex (1956), which reworked some of the ideas in Plain and Fancy, was less successful.
A number of North American Mennonites have written high quality religious lyric poetry. Jacob Sudermann, Joanna Andres, and Miriam Lind have published poetry in various Mennonite periodicals. Lind has to her credit a volume, Such Thoughts of Thee (Scottdale, 1952), containing excellent poems, most of which are on religious subjects.
Leo Beachy (1874-1927) of Grantsville, Md. wrote familiar essays on nature and people from his vantage point on Mount Nebo in the Allegheny Mountains. These essays were published as a series in the Christian Monitor and then in booklet form as Letters and Pictures for Isabelle (Scottdale, 1915).
In the United States, Leigh Brackett wrote a science fiction novel about the aftermath of an atomic holocaust, The Long Tomorrow (1955). The conservative and skillful Mennonite farmers are among the survivors of the Great Destruction, virtually controlling the government. They seek to maintain a simple agrarian civilization, resisting any return to a technological and urban society. But human nature has not changed. Two young Mennonites, Len and Esau Coulter, are not satisfied with the drab and anti-intellectual life of their community. They discover the secret place where a large computer is hidden with the information necessary to rebuild the old technological world. Having developed a sense of curiosity, Len repeats the fall into sin, as it were, and is unable to return to the simple community from which he came. The novel ends with the suggestion that technology will again lead to disaster.
In James Michener's novel Centennial (1974) Mennonites play a major role. One wonders what sources the author used for his Mennonites. While they are good farmers and generally thrifty, honest, and good people, the Mennonites in this novel seem to be preoccupied with their sexual and marital norms. Moreover, there is no suggestion that Mennonites are peace-loving, non-violent people. As in earlier novels about Mennonites (e.g., H. Martin, Tilly: A Mennonite Maid, 1904), there is in this novel the suggestion that in order to become free and self-fulfilled, Mennonites have to shed their past and leave their backward community.
In Canada, Anne Chislett has written a successful drama about a rural Ontario Amish community during World War I. Quiet in the Land (1983) recreates accurately the denominational distinctives of the Amish, portraying the diversity of human conflict within a particular milieu. Like Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many (1962), Chislett shows that, while it is possible to hold on outwardly to traditional regulations with regard to peace and nonviolence, it is more difficult to love real persons, including members of one's family and church. The play has been staged successfully before appreciative audiences.
See also Literature, North American Mennonite (1950-85); Literature, Russo-German Mennonite; Literature, North American Mennonite (1960s-2010s)
Robacker, Earl F. Pennsylvania German Literature. Philadelphia, 1943.
Bender, Elizabeth Horsch. "The Mennonite Theme in Contemporary American Fiction." Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Mennonite Cultural Problems. Newton, KS 1945: 107-34.
Bender, Elizabeth Horsch. "Three Amish Novels." Mennonite Quarterly Review 19 (1945): 273-84.
Bender, Elizabeth Horsch. "The Dream Gate." Mennonite Quarterly Review 24 (1950): 289 f.
Royer, Mary. "The Amish and Mennonite Theme in American Literature for Children." Mennonite Quarterly Review 15 (1941): 147-49.
Cressman, J. B., review of The Trail of the Conestoga and Toward Sodom. Mennonite Quarterly Review 5 (1930): 68-72.
Umble, John, review of Rosanna of the Amish. Mennonite Quarterly Review 15 (1941): 143-47 and of Rosanna's Boys. Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 115-17.
Suderman, Elmer. "The Russo-German Mennonite Theme in the American Novel." Master's thesis, University of Kansas, 1948.
Berg, G. "Mennonites in Fiction--Gnadenau." Mennonite Life 2 (October 1947): 23 f., a review of Flamethrowers.
Peters, Victor. "Frederick Philip Grove." Manitoba School Journal 9 (October 1948).
Clemens, J. R. "Pennsylvania Mennonites in Print 1940-1950." Mennonite Life 7 (1952): 83-85.
Burkhart, Charles. "The Amish Theme in Recent American Theatricals." Mennonite Quarterly Review 31 (1957): 60-62.
Chislett, Anne. Quiet in the Land. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1983.
Michener, James. Centennial. New York: Random House, 1974.
Brackett, Leigh. The Long Tomorrow. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974.
Wiebe, Rudy. Peace Shall Destroy Many. 1962.
Letkemann, Susan Rempel, review of Anne Chislett's Quiet in the Land, in Mennonite Historian (Winnipeg) 11, no. 4 (December1985).
Miller, Levi, review of James Michener's Centennial in Gospel Herald (22 September 1981): 717-19.
Sudermann, Elmer F. "Mennonite Culture in a Science Fiction Novel [Brackett, Long Tomorrow]." Mennonite Quarterly Review 49 (1975): 53-56.
Reviews of the many of the other titles listed above can be found in either Mennonite Quarterly Review or Mennonite Life.
The complete text of Plain and Fancy was printed in Theatre Arts for July 1956: 33-63. Recordings of the complete performance are also available on disks. The text was also published as a libretto in French's Musical Library as Plain and Fancy. A Musical Comedy. Book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, Music by Albert Hague, Lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt. New York: Samuel French, Inc., 1956.
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Sustainable energy projects extend to renovation of historical buildings
Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) announced that the company has supplied its solar modules for a flagship project for renovating old buildings using solar energy at the roughly 900-year-old St. Michael and All Angels Church in Withington, England. The country's first "zero carbon church" has a solar power generating system using Kyocera modules which supplies CO2-neutral electricity; as well as a biomass-powered boiler system providing environmentally friendly heat.
Powered by Kyocera solar modules, St. Michael and All Angels is England's first "zero carbon church"
The 12th century building is now powered entirely by renewable energies. The solar energy is generated with 24 Kyocera solar modules — with a total output of 3.12kW — which are installed on the roof of the church. With over 35 years of experience in the industry Kyocera's solar technology guarantees exceptional module performance and durability. Moreover, the modules were carefully installed to meet strict regulations concerning historical buildings by using a special ladder system that did not adversely affect the structure of the building or its visual appearance.
The renovation of the church followed both an ecologically and economically sustainable concept. In addition to the solar installation, an environmentally friendly biomass-powered boiler system was installed — which provides CO2-neutral heat. The renovation of the church has double value for the community, because in addition to the CO2-reduction, the electricity and heat generation create clear cost savings. The pioneering project will serve as a reference project for the sustainable renovation of other historical buildings.

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text: BOSTON -- Virtualization, mobility and social networking were flagged as posing most security risk to businesses, partly because there is no accepted set of best practices yet to protect them, IT Roadmap attendees were told.These three technologies have left traditional corporate security models in tatters, often lacking flexibility to keep up with threats designed to exploit weaknesses in each, John Burke, an analyst with Nemertes Research, told attendees at Network World's IT Roadmap event this week.The issues are worth paying attention to, he says, because the technology behind virtualization, mobility and social networks is making significant inroads. A Nemertes Research survey finds 67% of businesses have telework policies that call for how to use inherently dangerous public Wi-Fi networks using mobile devices. And 46% say use of personal mobile technology in corporate networks influences IT decisions.TESTS: How we tested virtualization securityIn the largest corporations, 68% of the corporate workload gets done on virtual machines.Social computing and mobile devices combine to create a primary avenue for data loss because enterprises are blind to mobile use of social computing. There are no tools for separating who can access what social networks on their mobile devices, Burke says.Virtualization blurs the duties of security, server, networking, storage and systems workers, and in that blurring, important tasks can be lost, he says. "Keeping the virtual environment performing well may lead to security policies not being enforced," he says.Less than 20% of organizations surveyed specify virtual security that peers into the host server. There seems to be a disconnect, though, because 51.9% rank their virtual security as excellent, perhaps because they haven't seen it compromised yet.So far businesses have been slow to expand data centers to the cloud, with less than 10% having done so, according to a survey last spring. But preliminary results of a survey this year have that jumping to 18% or 19%, and that doubling is expected to continue for the next year or two."You're making it part of what you need to worry about for security," Burke says. "Security for virtual environments seems to be ill-defined."To effectively battle new threats, businesses need to set up comprehensive, overarching security plans that incorporate tools that integrate policy to as many devices as possible. This is important both to consistency of policies and to making the task manageable for IT staff.Businesses need to build visibility into traffic into virtual environments and among virtual machines, and Burke suggests virtual firewalls and IDS\/IPS products to accomplish this.Social computing controls require identity management so privileges can be meted out to those who need them. Who gets what privileges requires input from business unit leaders who best know the needs of their workers, Burke says.A network proxy outside the data center is needed, he says, to create an audit trail of what mobile devices are up to. This may be necessary for regulators, but is also important if businesses hope to secure data center resources.Conventional threats include phishing attacks bent on ID theft and compromise of corporate intellectual property, cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks, polymorphic malware and botnets, Burke says."They target your network for attack then they fire the shotgun and try everything," he says. That includes tricks like dropping thumb drives with malware on board at coffee shops frequented by corporate employees in hopes they'll plug them in to their mobile devices. It also includes monitoring employees' activities on Facebook and other social networks in hopes of gleaning valuable corporate data or a means for accessing it.Adversaries are also becoming more sophisticated, dividing the chores involved in exploits into specialized fields such as finding vulnerabilities, creating exploit tools to take advantage of them, creating attack vehicles such as botnets, carrying out the exploit and stealing data and finally cashing in on the stolen data.Compliance itself can be viewed as a threat, Burke says, because businesses not only face penalties for failure to meet standards, they also face damage to their public reputations if regulations force them to reveal when their networks have been breached.Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.


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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Woman in Gold.....Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
Woman in Gold is a 2015 British-American drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The film starsHelen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern, andJonathan Pryce.
The film is based on the true story of the late Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee living in Los Angeles, who, together with her young lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was confiscated from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna just prior to World War II. Altmann took her legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in her favor in Republic of Austria v. Altmann (2004).
The film was screened in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival..
Friday, June 26, 2015
School DANCE.. Nacho Duato, decorating is a lot like creating a choreography. In the first issue of AD, the artist opened his home in Madrid, where he had played with movement and form. Pure spectacle. BY CASILDA SERRANO...... ALBERTO HERAS PHOTOS
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Guess What?Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday the UPS man came with a package from Moda Fabrics. Gotta love those packages from Moda. Our newest line Blueberry Crumb Cake filled the box.
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This line is going to be shown to shop owners in July. It will ship out to the shops in November.....in the meantime Barb and I will be working on quilts for our newest book, which will be released in October at fall quilt market.
Does this print look familiar? It's our first sampler print from our Rhubarb and Ginger line. We've updated the colors to fit into our "Moody Blue" phase.
We sprinkled some browns into this fabric line. No blueberry crumb cake is good without the gooey caramel topping!
A dash of small prints and you are ready for a recipe of fun! There are several more but too late for more photography....it's getting pretty dark here.
To celebrate......we are having a contest. There will be 10 winners...
Here's the prize. Each winner will receive 4 packs of Wild Rose mini-precuts. Just enough to sew up something sweet.
Drawing will end Wednesday. Just post in the comment section and I will run the random number generator to obtain the winning numbers.
Good luck to you all!
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- Marie Z in TXJune 19, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Love the new line. Been thinking about a two color quilt. Can't wait to see it in person.ReplyDelete
Oh those blues are wonderful, I don't want to wait till November. Well, I guess I could stand the wait if I had some Wild Rose mini pre-cuts to play with! Beautiful fabrics, thanks for the chance to win some!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Beautiful fabric! I love the sprinkle of brown with the blue. I look forward to seeing your new book!ReplyDelete
~Joyce in MI
I'd love a chance at these fabrics! I love your blog. I've been following for about 6 months.ReplyDelete
I am in love with the new line...why do we have to wait till November...whaaaaReplyDelete
Lovely range of fabrics! As usual. :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for entering me in the drawing.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM
oh my Alma thankyou for a chance to win this beautiful prize.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Great new colors. Please enter me to win.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 10:27 PM
oh my gosh it so pretty! I want to play with now and not wait!!! wendyReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 10:28 PM
oh my gosh it's so pretty! wendyReplyDelete
Love the new Blueberry Crumb Cake line of fabrics and wish we didn't have to wait until November to get our hands on the fabric.ReplyDelete
I see a blue and white quilt in my future.
Love the blueberries! Looking forward to picking some up in the fall.ReplyDelete
Love the new fabric! Please enter me in your giveaway. Thanks, BridgetReplyDelete
I love, love, love blues. The fabrics are yummy. Enter me to win.ReplyDelete
Wonderful fabric! love the colors. Thanks for the chance of winning.ReplyDelete
Those colors are so beautiful! Please enter me into the drawing!!ReplyDelete
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Love that fabric!! Please include me in the giveaway...I would love to make a small doll quilt for my granddaughter with those gorgeous colors!ReplyDelete
What a tease! I have used the rhubarb and ginger fabrics and would looooove the chance to work with the blues!ReplyDelete
Love the new line! And the newest Loose Feathers looks like a winner as well. Of course, now that I've begun quilting my stitching has slowed down. I just can't keep up with it all!ReplyDelete
How did ya know that we quilters just needed a blue line of fabric that's so romantic! Love it! Count me in. MaryA.ReplyDelete
Wow!!! I'll love to win the beautiful fabric. I love blue!!!ReplyDelete
Count me in!
I love your designs. Please enter me in your giveaway. Thanks. JoyReplyDelete
I was hoping the giveaway would be for some scraps of blueberry crumb cake, but I love wild rose also. I really like blue and white quilts so am really looking forward to seeing your new line.ReplyDelete
This fabric is absolutely gorgeous! I looks good enough to eat! Please count me in on the drawing.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your new quilt pattern book and your cross stitch patterns also. Please enter me in your giveaway. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Hello Alma, i have fallen in love with this fabric - cant wait to get my hands on some !ReplyDelete
Thanks for entering me into the giveaway, Best wishes...Heather
Wow, you did it again! Just gorgeous. Please enter me in the drawing. Thank you.ReplyDelete
TFS Your Beautiful New Line with Us it is Just Gorgeous and Can't wait to get hold of some...ReplyDelete
Thanks for the Giveaway...
Simply beautiful fabrics! Thank you for the chance to win as I've been drooling over Wild Rose, too.ReplyDelete
I love the fabric and what a wonderful name. Can't wait untill it is released.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway
Looking forward to your new line AND your new book!!! I am working to finish your Birds of a Feather at this time!ReplyDelete
You always have such beautiful fabric lines. I love them all! Thanks for the chance to win!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 10:58 PM
Can't wait for the new fabrics and your new book! Please enter me in your giveaway.ReplyDelete
Joan B. in Texas
Well girls you have done it again....They look gorgeous.....I can't wait until you make something up with them.....Hope I win the giveaway....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 11:04 PM
Beautiful !! I would love a chance to win your new line of fabric.ReplyDelete
Your new line of fabrics are to die for. I love them all.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous fabric line! Please enter me into your giveaway.ReplyDelete
Your new color line is beautiful!! Thank you for offering such a delightful giveaway!!!ReplyDelete
Your new fabric line has to be my absolute favorite: I am a blue person! :)ReplyDelete
PLease enter me in your fantastic draw. Thanks!
The New fabric is awesome! I love the blues. Thanks for entering me in the contest!ReplyDelete
- MicheleJune 19, 2011 at 11:28 PM
Love the colors, can't wait to see this line at the shops.ReplyDelete
Love the new fabric!!! I am a cross-stitcher, but my Mom is a quilter. I am entering and if I win I can gift her with the fabric which she will go crazy for!ReplyDelete
OMG! Love the new fabric, would love to win. Hugs MaryReplyDelete
Oh do I love the look of that new line! But then, I love all your lines!ReplyDelete
Beautiful material hun. I would love a chance to win some of your material. :) Can't wait til were able to purchase this beautiful blue/tan material.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Shar
Beautiful material hun. I would love a chance to win some of your material. :) Can't wait til were able to purchase this beautiful blue/tan material.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Shar
I'm obsessed with your sampler fabrics. So nice to see you've updated the colors and added them to this line of fabric. They add such charm to any quilt.ReplyDelete
Oh my, oh my, oh my!! those blues are so delicious. I can't wait to see them in real life. Thanks for another wonderful line.ReplyDelete
- firstname.lastname@example.com 19, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Un bonjour amical de France. Bravo pour toutes vos créations : point de crix et patchwork.ReplyDelete
I love the new fabric - the blues are so vintage yet fresh looking.ReplyDelete
Please enter me in the drawing, and thank you for the opportunity!
Beautiful new fabric line. I love all of the gorgeous blues. Please enter my name too.ReplyDelete
love the new fabric line! can't wait to get my hands on some. :)please enter me in the giveaway. Thank you!!ReplyDelete
Love your new line of fabric! Please enter me in your contest. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Aren't blue and brown so lovely together? I love the sprinkling of brown in your new blue/white line. I sure hope that I WIN!!!ReplyDelete
I love the new fabric line, all those delicious blues and browns.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 12:20 AM
Blue is my favourite colour so I can't wait for Blueberry Crumb Cake to be available. Would love a chance to win the mini-precuts.ReplyDelete
Roslyn from Australia
Beautiful fabric Alma !! I would love to win. Please enter me.. I just know I can make something great with that fabric from the contest.ReplyDelete
I can taste the Blueberry with the Caramel on top.ReplyDelete
Greeting from Australia.
I can taste the Blueberry with Caramel on top.ReplyDelete
Greeting from Australia.
Oh, what wonderful colours! just smell of summerReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 12:47 AM
Please enter me into your generous draw. Thank you. from Jenny McHReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 12:56 AM
I love your new fabric line! Congratulations!ReplyDelete
I bought yardage of this! It is lovely.......Need these minis to make something very petite!!!!ReplyDelete
I love blue and brown together !!ReplyDelete
I am waiting for the release !!
Have a nice day .
Great fabbies, I love them :)ReplyDelete
Please enter me too, many thanks!
Greetings from Hungary,
Those are just gorgeous fabrics!! Great for a two-colour quilt!ReplyDelete
Thanks fot such a lovely Giveaway!
Greetz from Holland. ;)
What a lovely fabric, can't wait to see.ReplyDelete
Lovely fabrics !ReplyDelete
Thank you for the chance
como siempre magníficos diseños de telas! ThanksReplyDelete
I love blue fabrics!!! Please enter me. Thank you so much for the opportunity.ReplyDelete
Greetings from Spain,
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 1:50 AM
I just love your new fabric line, I am not a "blue fabric" person but I definitely will be buying this range. At the moment I am stitching some of your latest patterns "Remember Me", Wild Lilies, Summer Iris and spring Tulips. Warm regards, Ann ~ Australia.ReplyDelete
Love the new fabric colours and designs.ReplyDelete
Please enter my name in your giveaway.
Oh I love a give-awayReplyDelete
So beautiful, but typical blackbird designs which I love and can't get enough of, please let me win.ReplyDelete
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Estoy deseando que llegue la nueva collecion a las tiendas me encanta, como todas.A ver si tengo suerte en el concurso.ReplyDelete
I love all your fabics and patterns. And I love everything blue and white! So I will be looking for you new line eagerly.ReplyDelete
Please enter me in your drawing. I would love to win.
Stoffe meravigliose.......io provo,ReplyDelete
grazie per l'opportunita!!!
Wauw whjat a beautiful fabrics ;)ReplyDelete
I love the colour ^_^
count me in a giveaway
thank you
I love your new gorgeous fabric line ! Please enter my name into your giveaway. Thanks ! Un petit bonjour de France.ReplyDelete
- DebbieUKJune 20, 2011 at 2:43 AM
Absolutely love the colours! I can see more fabric boxes coming on.ReplyDelete
Es una colección preciosa !!!!! Una combinación ideal .... ¡vaya maravilla!ReplyDelete
Me encantaría participar en el sorteo.
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 2:51 AM
Love the new line ! Can't wait for it to be out and add it to my collection. The blue and brown complement each other beautifully. Can't wait, can't wait.ReplyDelete
Please enter me in the draw :-)
Amitiés de France, V.
Blue is my favourite colour so you can imagine that I adore the new line! Please enter me into your giveaway draw.ReplyDelete
Ooooh, how gorgeous! Congrats on the new line, and I'd love to be entered in the draw, please!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, your new line is lovely!ReplyDelete
How delightful it would be to win these little cuts!
Those fabrics are sooo beautiful,to be honest I love all your designs,look forward to your new book to.ReplyDelete
Can you please enter me into your giveaway Thanks
- Michele PJune 20, 2011 at 3:36 AM
Hi from beautiful New Zealand! I do love blue and taupe and your new fabric is perfect! Look forward to it's release.Thank you for the opportunity to enter.ReplyDelete
Seeing your gorgeous new fabric line has totally changed the meaning of the phrase, "feeling blue" I am definitely feeling blue now I've seen it and I love it. Please add my name to your draw :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for such a generous giveaway. Angela
ohhhhh really love those blues :) absolutely gorgeous and now am hungry ..lol for pie heheheh .. thanks for the chance to enter the give away take care love mouse xxxxxReplyDelete
I am enthralled with your new fabric line and would love to win some.ReplyDelete
Love those blues!! Please enter me ~Kriss~ReplyDelete
Oh Blueberry Crumb Cake is so Beautiful..ReplyDelete
- Jocelyn SuttonJune 20, 2011 at 4:07 AM
Just waiting to start a project with this gorgeous fabricwReplyDelete
I love the new fabric line...it's gorgeous. Please enter me in the giveaway!ReplyDelete
Love the fabric, thanks for the giveaway.ReplyDelete
I am glad there will be a new line of fabrics, I always just love your fabrics and this one is looking very gorgeous to I can't wait to see it in the stores:-)ReplyDelete
LOVE those scrummy yummy colours . . . please enter me into your give-away :)ReplyDelete
Blues and browns - what a beautiful choice!ReplyDelete
Please, count me for the drawing and thank you for the giveaway.
Beautiful Fabric line!ReplyDelete
I love bleu,please enter me!
Greetings Lydie.
Beautiful Blueberry . . . thanks for a chance to win!ReplyDelete
yum that new fabric line is gorgeousReplyDelete
I love all your fabrics and cross stitch designs - and your skill at choosing such beautiful colour combinations .... truly wonderful!ReplyDelete
Oh how I would love to win your Wild Rose giveaway. I'm here in the UK, so hope I may be lucky?
Oh I love your new fabric, so pleased it's in the Rubarb design, you just made my day.ReplyDelete
And of course Wild Rose is fabulous too:)) thanks for the opportunity.
Love the new fabric line and I love the name - good enough to eat.ReplyDelete
Love the blues. Please enter me in the giveaway.ReplyDelete
Oh wow - fantastic colours. Please add me to the draw xReplyDelete
What a beautiful line of fabric!! Love it. And thank you very much for the opportunity to participate to this giveaway ;-)ReplyDelete
You are truly after my own heart, I am a blue girl thru and thru, the are so beautiful, please enter me in the drawing, many thanks.ReplyDelete
Wow, gorgeous fabric line. Love the chance for your giveaway.ReplyDelete
Love the new line - can't wait for November!ReplyDelete
Love the blue line! Please enter my name in the drawing. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Your new fabric line is delicious.ReplyDelete
Sarah in Scotland
Oh this fabric is just what I need ! I love blue. Please enter me in this wonderful giveaway Thanks, LindaReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 6:05 AM
Beautiful colors. Makes me want to get busy with my sewing machine, too!ReplyDelete
- BonnieJune 20, 2011 at 6:07 AM
Lovely new colors. I hope my local shop will have it when it's available.ReplyDelete
The combination of blue and brown is very nice!ReplyDelete
... I would love to sew!
Oh my! That's the prettiest fabric ever. I may have to make a quilt for our blue bedroom. Now I can't wait for the fabric to come out and am eagerly awaiting the new book in Oct. Yours are the best!ReplyDelete
Beautiful fabrics!! Besos SusanaReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 6:23 AM
What a lovely fabrics. I love blue and brown together.ReplyDelete
I like tot wine with the giveaway.
Love the new line of Fabrics. The variety of blues is great.ReplyDelete
I would love to enter your giveaway.
I love the blue/brown mix!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 6:34 AM
My order for the new line will be made as soon as it is available. I can not keep up with your wonderful designs and projects. That said please keep them coming.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the chance for the giveaway.
Wow!!! The blues and browns in your Blueberry Crumb line are simply luscious. I definitely NEED some of that yardage:)ReplyDelete
Im loving the blues!! Please enter me for your yummy fabrics. Thank You,Beth N. email@example.com)ReplyDelete
Beautiful blues! I can hardly wait for this line to come out and for your new quilt book. Just finished the main quilt in Quilting the Garden for my daughter's wedding, and it was beautiful. Would love to win a bit of Blueberry Crumbcake.ReplyDelete
Love the new fabrics!ReplyDelete
I will add your new fabric to my watch-for listReplyDelete
I would love to win that beautiful fabric!ReplyDelete
- EleanorJune 20, 2011 at 7:13 AM
They are beautiful. Sure hope I am a winner here in North Palm Beach!ReplyDelete
All your new fabrics are very beatutiful !!ReplyDelete
I love blue color.
Oh WOW! i haven't been this excited about a new line of fabric in a coon's age, but i just LOVE this line. I already know that i'm making a Tumbler quilt with it, and i've sent a note to Kimberly (Fat Quarter Shop) asking her to let me know when it's in stock.ReplyDelete
Can't thank you enough for bringing something so beautiful to us quilters!
- AnonymousJune 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM
I would love to win those gorgeous fabrics.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Carole in Quebec
- Pam BoJune 20, 2011 at 7:23 AM
thank you for the chance to win some of your beautiful materialReplyDelete
I just love the new blue line of fabric


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Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific Texts: A Hallidayan Perspective
Scientific Texts are generally concentrated on highly technical terms, and they are troublesome to understand due to their complexity in forms and meanings. Grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal. This paper focuses on the first type i.e. Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, which includes process types and nominalization. This paper adopts Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar to pinpoint and analyze nominalization and the role played by it. With a corpus of 10 authentic scientific texts drawn from very influential magazines, the analysis is conducted based on nominalization, its frequency and process types. The analysis displays that Ideational Grammatical Metaphor has permeated scientific texts and the prevailing process types are material and relational types. Consequently, the tone of the writing is more abstract, technical and formal. Instances of IGM In scientific writing enable technicality and rationality. Based on the findings of this study, some implications can be drawn for academic and scientific writing and reading as well as translators, students and instructors involved in writing and reading pedagogy.
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(RNS) Jews in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk where pro-Russian militants have taken over government buildings were told they have to "register" with the Ukrainians who are trying to make the city become part of Russia, according to Israeli media.
Jews emerging from a synagogue say they were handed leaflets that ordered the city's Jews to provide a list of property they own and pay a registration fee "or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated," reported Ynet News, Israel's largest news website.
Donetsk is the site of an "anti-terrorist" operation by the Ukraine government, which has moved military columns into the region to force out militants who are demanding a referendum be held on joining Russia.
The leaflets bore the name of Denis Pushilin, who identified himself as chairman of "Donetsk's temporary government," and were distributed near the Donetsk synagogue and other areas, according to the report.
Pushilin acknowledged that flyers were distributed under his organization's name in Donetsk, but denied any connection to them, Ynet reported in Hebrew.
Emanuel Shechter, in Israel, told Ynet his friends in Donetsk sent him a copy of the leaflet through social media.
"They told me that masked men were waiting for Jewish people after the Passover eve prayer, handed them the flyer and told them to obey its instructions," he said.
The leaflet begins, "Dear Ukraine citizens of Jewish nationality," and states that all people of Jewish descent over 16 years old must report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and "register."
It says the reason is because the leaders of the Jewish community of Ukraine supported Bendery Junta, a reference to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement that fought for Ukrainian independence at the end of World War II, "and oppose the pro-Slavic People's Republic of Donetsk," a name adopted by the militant leadership.
The leaflet then described which documents Jews should provide: "ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion, religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles."
Consequences for non-compliance will result in citizenship being revoked "and you will be forced outside the country with a confiscation of property." A registration fee of $50 would be required, it said.
Olga Reznikova, 32, a Jewish resident of Donetsk, told Ynet she never experienced anti-Semitism in the city until she saw this leaflet.
"We don't know if these notifications were distributed by pro-Russian activists or someone else, but it's serious that it exists," she said. "The text reminds of the fascists in 1941," she said referring to the Nazis who occupied Ukraine during World War II.
Michael Salberg, director of the international affairs at the New York City-based Anti-Defamation League, said it's unclear if the leaflets were issued by the pro-Russian leadership or a splinter group operating within the pro-Russian camp.
But the Russian side has used the specter of anti-Semitism in a cynical manner since anti-government protests began in Kiev that resulted in the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych. Russia and its allies in Ukraine issued multiple stories about the the threat posed to Jews by Ukraine's new pro-Western government in Kiev, Salberg said.
Those stories were based in part on ultra-nationalists who joined the Maidan protests, and the inclusion of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party in Ukraine's new interim government. But the threat turned out to be false, he said.
Svoboda's leadership needs to be monitored, but so far it has refrained from anti-Semitic statements since joining the government, he said. And the prevalence of anti-Semitic acts has not changed since before the Maidan protests, according to the ADL and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, which monitors human rights in Ukraine.
Distributing such leaflets is a recruitment tool to appeal to the xenophobic fears of the majority, to enlist them to your cause and focus on a common enemy, the Jews," Salberg said.
And by targeting Donetsk's Jews, they also send a message to all the region's residents, Salberg said.
"The message is a message to all the people that is we're going to exert our power over you," he said. "Jews are the default scapegoat throughout history for despots to send a message to the general public: Don't step out of line."
(Oren Dorell writes for USA Today.)


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In this episode of Everyone Loves Gwyneth, here she is with Nicole Kidman on the carpet last night holding hands. Kidman almost always towers over any woman she stands beside. Gwyneth really is that tall. I was delighted they decided to be all friends and girly together, considering they both looked like so much ass. But let's finish up the Everyone Loves Gwyneth situation first.
Because not only was she all besty with Nicole, she also received a huge hug from Penelope Cruz, and another one from Cameron Diaz – drunk off her ass – and hung out for a while with Jude Law with Cam, and spent time with the Downeys, and Valentino, and on, and on, and on. Interestingly enough though, Madonna was there. With Lourdes. And at press time, I can't find a single photo of Madonna and Gwyneth together. Madonna would have definitely seen G's performance. Oh girl sh-t. Please girls show me your girl sh-t.
In that environment though, I think Gwyneth has way more friends. And that's what's so perplexing: Gwyneth is so popular already, why is she trying so f-cking hard?
I am filled with so much hate for the disco sh-t she brought on the carpet. Didn't work against her skin, which is bad and blotchy these days, made her hair look so brassy and cheap, stank of so much "me! me! me!" and served as a prelude for her fontrum inducing white mic, closed eye performance on the broadcast in an all one colour blobby gown that too many people have worn too many times, and better, already.
I don't understand why she's not more embarrassed for herself. I don't understand why she didn't show up in something elegant and black and understated and carry it with the quiet confidence that is afforded someone in her position. What has changed in Gwyneth's life that she has shed herself of the effortless superiority of her past, the "they'll come to me, I don't go to anyone" attitude that made her who she is. Was.
The constant Trying is so exhausting to watch. The shamelessness is so heartbreaking to witness. Her pride seems to have deserted her completely.
Aaron Eckhart once said that Gwyneth is the closest thing America has to a princess. You might want to take him off your Five List for that, but it'd be harder to argue with him 5 years ago. Now? Where is that girl?
Enough. I'm too tired for this tragedy.
Let's go over to Third Lip for some fun horror instead. For a while there, we were good, you know? She was all honest-ish about her Botox, she sang along with Katy Perry, there was a freedom about Nicole Kidman we hadn't seen in a while. But the pressure of the Oscars, it was just too much. She just couldn't help herself. It's like itching for a cigarette and breaking down and buying a pack at midnight on a Saturday.
Third Lip went to the Spirit Awards on Saturday to get ready for the big night. Look at those flaps oozing out of both side of her mouth, celebrating another awards season. How can anyone possibly consider this anything but a mistake? Same could be said of her white Oscar dress. Unlike Natalie Portman, Nicole didn't seem to mind either that the gown was a Dior and that Mr Galliano may or may not be the Mel Gibson of the fashion world. Gran's had a long relationship with Galliano. And nothing comes between Gran and a dress, either. Remember when she chased down that famous chartreuse Dior back in the Tom Cruise days, all the way to a ski resort to talk a socialite into letting her have it?
Clearly, this time around, she wanted to wear an apron. Isn't that an apron? It suggests a wideness that couldn't possibly be there. Suddenly Nicole Kidman has hips. And on the right side is where she puts the spatula, and on the left side she'll tuck a pair of tongs to use on the barbecue later on. Right? What the f-ck is happening here?
After what she wore at the Grammys, she was supposed to be bringing it hard to the big show. Instead we get a domestic tool belt and the return of the Third Lip. Major f-cking buzzkill.
And that concludes our Oscar coverage for today.
Are you yelling at us? If you want to yell at Duana, send it to me at [email protected] and I'll make sure it gets to her.
Hope we've addressed almost everything you had in mind. 12,000 words later and we are ready to move on. Tomorrow, it'll be new gossip, and some riddling too. Thanks for your feedback and your messages. Keep sending!
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Oscar Worsts: Gwyneth Paltrow & Nicole Kidman
In this episode of Everyone Loves Gwyneth, here she is with Nicole Kidman on the carpet last night holding hands. Kidman almost always towers over any woman she stands beside. Gwyneth really is that tall. I was delighted they decided to be all friends and girly together, considering they both looked like so much ass. But let's finish up the Everyone Loves Gwyneth situation first.


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With the introduction today of its Creative Suite 5.5 design and development tools, Adobe Systems is underscoring support for mobile devices and HTML5. The tools are slated to ship by May 11. Adobe did not say what it would charge existing users to upgrade to the new version. The company also will offer the tools via a subscription option. The major Creative Suite tools -- Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Acrobat Pro, and InDesign -- are available singly, as well as in various suites.
As part of version 5.5, Adobe's Dreamweaver Web design tool features jQuery JavaScript library support for authoring of HTML5 and JavaScript widgets for various devices. "Dreamweaver's where all the HTML5 advancement is," said David Burkett, Adobe vice president for the Creative Suite design and Web segment. Dreamweaver CS 5.5 provides a visual interface to HTML5 capabilities.
[ In 2009, InfoWorld asked whether HTML5 might kill off Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight. But Adobe and Microsoft have pledged their "love" for HTML5. | Keep up with the latest in development news with the Developer World newsletter. | Follow Paul Krill on Twitter. ]
Adobe's Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit enables developers to build tablet applications so that Google Android, RIM PlayBook, and Apple iOS devices can interact with Photoshop. Using this SDK, three new iPad applications are being launched to bolster Photoshop workflows: Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop, and Adobe Nav for Workshop. These applications let users create custom color swatches or small samples, as well paint and drive popular Photoshop tools from tablets.
InDesign CS 5.5 also enhances some of the e-book capabilities found in the previous version, such as allowing more control over CSS export and image resolution.
Adobe noted that applications can be delivered on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Apple iOS, and other platforms via the HTML capabilities of Dreamweaver, Flash, and InDesign. Flash and InDesign can also export Flash-based video content and rich Internet applications; a separate tool converts such Flash applications to run on iOS. All these capabiltiies existed in the previous version of Creative Suite, 5.0.
The company's Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium Suite, for audio and video professionals, offers workflow improvements and new audio editing. The Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, which had been introduced as part of Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.0, now features broadened GPU support to include laptops and more cards.
This article, "Adobe adds mobile, HTML5 capabilties to Creative Suite 5.5," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Not to pick up electrons, but tweezers made of electrons. A
recent paper by researchers from NIST and the University of Virginia (UVA)
demonstrates that the beams produced by modern electron microscopes can be used
not just to look at nanoscale objects, but to move them around, position them,
and perhaps even assemble them.
Essentially, they say, the tool is an electron version of
the laser "optical tweezers" that have become a standard tool in biology,
physics, and chemistry for manipulating tiny particles. Except that electron
beams could offer a thousand-fold improvement in sensitivity and resolution.
Optical tweezers were first described in 1986 by a research
team at Bell Labs. The general idea is that under the right conditions, a
tightly focused laser beam will exert a small but useful force on tiny
particles. Not pushing them away, which you might expect, but rather drawing
them towards the center of the beam. Biochemists, for example, routinely use
the effect to manipulate individual cells or liposomes under a microscope.
If you just consider the physics, says NIST metallurgist
Vladimir Oleshko, you might expect that a beam of focused electrons—such as
that created by a transmission electron microscope (TEM)—could do the same
thing. However that's never been seen, in part because electrons are much
fussier to work with. They can't penetrate far through
air, for example, so electron microscopes use vacuum chambers to hold
So Oleshko and his colleague, UVA materials scientist James
Howe, were surprised when, in the course of another experiment, they found
themselves watching an electron tweezer at work. They were using an electron
microscope to study, in detail, what happens when a metal alloy melts or
freezes. They were observing a small particle—a few hundred microns wide—of an
aluminum-silicon alloy held just at a transition point where it was partially
molten, a liquid shell surrounding a core of still solid metal. In such a small
sample, the electron beam can excite plasmons, a kind of quantized wave in the alloy's electrons, that
reveals a lot about what happens at the liquid-solid boundary of a
crystallizing metal. "Scientifically, it's interesting to see how the electrons
behave," says Howe, "but from a technological point of view, you can make
better metals if you understand, in detail, how they go from liquid to solid."
"This effect of electron tweezers was unexpected because the
general purpose of this experiment was to study melting and crystallization,"
Oleshko explains. "We can generate this sphere inside the liquid shell easily;
you can tell from the image that it's still crystalline. But we saw that when
we move or tilt the beam—or move the microscope stage under the beam—the solid
particle follows it, like it was glued to the beam."
Potentially, Oleshko says, electron tweezers could be a
versatile and valuable tool, adding very fine manipulation to wide and growing
lists of uses for electron microscopy in materials science. "Of course, this is
challenging because it requires a vacuum," he says, "but electron probes can be
very fine, three orders of magnitude smaller than photon beams—close to the
size of single atoms. We could manipulate very small quantities, even single atoms,
in a very precise way."


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I think I finally have figured out Aaron Sorkin. He had eluded me.
I remember liking The West Wing — so much so that I don't dare watch it again for fear that, knowing what I know now, I might discover that Sorkin's masterpiece was really just another soap opera with sermons. I liked Sports Night, at least for its effort. I was willing to forgive Studio 60.
But I despise what Sorkin did to the truth and to Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and what he does now to Steve Jobs in his latest: demonizing them both. And I could not bear what he did for cable news in The Newsroom: worshiping it.
This week, watching Steve Jobs and listening to Sorkin as he was interviewed by The Verge's Nilay Patel at a screening, I think I finally got Sorkin.
He's jealous.
Sorkin admires those who change the world. In The West Wing, he imagined and brought to life the ideal, the impossible President that America could not — and God knows still cannot — produce on its own. He seduced us all to admire and adore Josiah Bartlet: Sorkin as kingmaker. In The Newsroom, Sorkin created people who would have changed the world with their high-minded journalism (if only they had not been such horribly flawed, misogynistic, pompous, wordy, preening, horny shitheads and disgusting sell-outs).
But regarding his subjects from the Other Coast, the Lesser Coast, I believe I can hear Sorkin's inner dialogue:
You just make toys, boys. Zuck: You get people laid because you couldn't get laid yourself. Never mind that you had a girlfriend I chose to ignore. I decided you didn't deserve one. That is my power. I am filmmaker. And as for you Steve: I had your daughter say it, but I believe it: Your iMac looked like a fucking Easy-Bake Oven. Your biggest invention, your only real invention was — as your technology tribe might say — Walkman 2.0. Toys, nothing but toys.
In Steve Jobs, Sorkin gives us a silicon opera, a telco novella, daring us to watch as he imagines and intrudes on horribly uncomfortable moments of his protagonist's life: being a heartless cad to his daughter, to his every employee, and to his Rainman (Sorkin's word), Woz. In Sorkin's eye, Jobs is all but irredeemable. It makes for a most uncomfortable two hours, like being stuck in an elevator with the meanest, nastiest feuding family you know. Or at a board meeting of a bad company.
Again, I hear Sorkin's voice:
Zuck and Steve, you two don't even try to be charming. You don't understand the obligation of celebrity. I know stars. Hell, I make stars. Stars seduce the public. So do my characters. Didn't you love my President? But you two: You don't seem to give a damn about earning anyone's love. Zuck: You are just a weird, flat nerd. Steve: You were a nasty SOB. How the hell can people love you when you don't try to be loved?
In his conversation with Patel, Sorkin said he was "astonished at the way Steve Jobs was eulogized." Sorkin said he could not understand how people loved not just the things he made but Jobs himself. He thus could not understand the impact of the technology itself in people's lives. Sorkin said making the movie is his way of catching up. Or perhaps, better put, it was his way of getting even.
Now, of course, it's not fair of me to psychoanalyze Sorkin — just as it isn't fair of him to psychoanalyze Zuckerberg and Jobs. But now I understand why he does it. It's fun. Bullshit, but fun.
Yet I have to give Sorkin this: Somewhere down in his gut, though he might not want to admit it, he understands that both Zuckerberg and Jobs are artists. For that is the context that wraps around his anger about them. That is where he attacks them. That is what makes him so sputteringly jealous.
What gives you two the right to change people's lives? Who chose you? Who made you? You are just technicians. I am the artist. Artists change people's lives. You geeks don't make art. You make gadgets and gimmickry. Yet people treat you as artists. They give you adulation and fortunes and credit and power. WTF?
Sorkin believes he works on a higher plane. He looks down on both technologists and journalists. When Patel dared challenge Sorkin about his disregard for the facts — pesky, fucking facts — in Steve Jobs, Sorkin the auteur — in his actual and not my imagined voice — responded:
"How do I reconcile that with facts? There is a difference between journalism and what I do…. The difference between journalism and what we do is the difference between a photograph and a painting. What we do is painting. Those facts are not as important…." As important as what Sorkin wants to say.
Sorkin also wants to believe filmmaking is a higher form by far than what Zuckerberg and Jobs do. But his films about them are his admission that he is wrong, whether he could bear to say that or not. Sorkin doesn't change the world as his subjects do. Sorkin works in a lesser art — which he uses, nonetheless, to tear these boys down to size, to assassinate their characters.
Sorkin is Salieri to their Mozart. They are greater artists than he will ever be. They and their impact will be remembered for generations — and not because of Sorkin's films about them, which will be soon forgotten. They have changed the world more than Sorkin or his beloved, imaginary President or journalists could ever hope to. Yet Sorkin is doomed to make movies about these damned, fucking geeks.


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JETMORE, Kan. — In a cramped meeting room at the county courthouse, US Representative Tim Huelskamp had just finished an update for his constituents when a woman rose. She didn't really have a question for the congressman, she said, so much as a message.
"I just want to thank you," she said, "for continually being a thorn in the side.''
"Keep it up!" a man nearby yelled.
On it went. Huelskamp, a two-term Republican congressman, is known, more than anything else, as a major irritant in Congress — a stubborn, hard-headed opponent of just about everything except bigger budget cuts. He's so unwilling to compromise that even House Republicans removed him from his high-profile committee assignments.
Huelskamp embodies the new intransigence that has invaded Washington, making it almost impossible to cut deals, bringing the capital to a grinding halt. Polls show many Americans find all the gridlock, debt crises, and brinkmanship frustrating.
But in Western Kansas, it appears, this is exactly what his constituents want.
"All he has to do is keep saying no," said Jim Hingle, a 56-year-old computer serviceman from Jetmore. "Just keep saying no until people listen. . . . We want him to rankle people."
Huelskamp voted against the Violence Against Women Act. He voted against the fiscal cliff deal. He voted against raising the debt ceiling. He even refused to support relief money for victims of Hurricane Sandy, saying the bill was "loaded up with pork." When he didn't think House Speaker John Boehner was being tough enough with Democrats, he nominated someone else more conservative in a failed attempt to unseat him.
The establishment in Washington views voters in places like Jetmore as part of the problem: They are sending staunchly conservative lawmakers to office with a mandate to oppose government spending and tax increases while avoiding any compromise. Their ideological purity has stymied efforts to set a coherent economic policy, sowing uncertainty in the business community and hampering the economic recovery.
But in two dozen interviews last week during the congressional recess, the people of Jetmore and the district's other rural communities said Washington and President Obama have it all backward. Although the fractured Tea Party groups that grew in 2010 have lost some of their national stature, the anger that gave rise to the movement is still out there.
The residents of western Kansas are tired of out-of-control spending and government growth, and Huelskamp is their response. The fifth-generation farmer and former state senator easily won his first House race in 2010, 74 percent to 23 percent. In 2012, he wasn't even opposed.
"I would say 90 percent of the people here are angry at Washington – because they're reckless," said Alan Snodgrass, the only doctor in Hodgeman County. "This president is trying to destroy the country I grew up in."
The First Congressional District is among the largest by territory in the country. It is nearly 60,000 square miles, about the size of the entire state of Illinois. Billboards dot country roads reading, "Smile! Your mom chose life," or "Did you pray today?" AM radio stations read off the latest soybean prices, and corn and wheat silos pop up along the two-lane highways.
It also is one of the reddest districts in one of the reddest states in the country, having elected only one Democrat – for a single two-year term — since the district was created in 1874. Kansas has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1964, when President Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected.
Although the residents rely heavily on federal agricultural subsidies, the efficient work of USDA meat inspectors, and extra government aid for rural hospitals, voters in conversations across the district expressed nearly universal disdain for Washington.
"Everything is negative. It's the worst I've seen in my lifetime, and I'm only 89 years old," said Wayne Hawkins, owner of a gift shop in Dodge City, once among the wildest places in the West. "Our government is in bad shape."
At the Larned Chamber of Commerce, the cookies topped with icing were displayed neatly on a table. Tea had been poured and coffee was ready. But anger percolated beneath the small-town hospitality.
Residents seethed over Obama's use of"scare tactics" to win an increase in the debt limit. They resent Michelle Obama for taking vacations. They are upset with Boehner for negotiating with Obama and not winning bigger budget cuts. They think their own party has strayed from its principles and needs to make a "severe correction."
"We hear criticisms that [Huelskamp] won't get along, but that's not what we elected him for. We elected him to vote for principle," said Paula Carr, a 64-year-old who sells and repairs lawn and garden equipment. "Compromise is why we're in the condition we're in now — too much compromise over the last 30 years.''
Huelskamp was part of a conservative wave in the 2010 elections that helped Republicans win control of the House, depositing a new breed of politicians in the Capitol who came to be known as the "Hell No Caucus." About half of the 63 seats gained by the GOP were captured with Tea Party support. The farmer from western Kansas was joined by an attorney from Idaho, a former military officer from Florida, and the owner of a pottery company in Colorado.
A backlash eliminated some of their numbers in 2012, but the survivors like Huelskamp have been heartened by their sustained influence. The GOP's fractures are visible in the House leadership. Boehner's deputies have at times undermined his negotiations with the president, and House majority leader Eric Cantor has emerged as a hero among the conservatives.
Still, some have suggested that intransigence from the Hell-No wing has backfired, pushing House Republican leadership further to the center in search of Democratic votes to pass important bills.
"As long as their districts are willing to elect them — and the country is going down the tubes because we can't come to compromise — we're not going to get anywhere," said Charles Bass, a former Republican congressman from New Hampshire. Bass estimated there were about 80 conservatives and 80 liberals who are largely averse to cutting deals, but the liberals get less attention because they are in the House minority, and because they are less vocal.
Huelskamp made his political mark by refusing to compromise. As a state senator, GOP leaders in 2003 kicked him off the Senate Ways and Means Committee. In his first run for Congress in 2010, he put out television ads showing him on a tractor, as a narrator described how he "went against his party leaders, and was kicked off his committee, for bucking the establishment and fighting wasteful spending."
Some state Republicans were so worried about his opposition to government spending that they have tried to protect funding for a government agriculture and defense research facility by excluding it from his district.
Huelskamp was unrepentant in an interview, expressing disillusionment with his own party.
"I think Republicans are frankly too lazy," he said between sips of unsweetened iced tea. "Too many of my colleagues don't get out and go to have a town hall and explain what we're about. Most Republicans don't go out and talk about freedom and opportunity, except for their donors, near that I see."
"What's the vision?'' he added. "What's it mean for real people?"
Huelskamp had kinder words for House minority leader Nancy Pelosi – and her ability to get Democrats to take a tough vote on health care when she was speaker in 2010 – than for Boehner, a leader he says "doesn't want to do much different" and favors "kind of status quoism."
"We've got to have Republicans,'' he said, "willing to stick to their principles rather than sticking to their office."
Huelskamp said he thinks lawmakers' unwillingness to stop automatic budget cuts during the sequester debate is a sign that the message from him and other Tea Party-backed politicians is sinking in.
And he expressed discontent with a blueprint released by the Republican National Committee last month, which said Republicans risked extinction unless they were able to moderate their image and broaden their appeal.
"It was 97 pages of 'Let's be more like the Democrats,' " Huelskamp said. His willingness to buck leadership prompted House leaders to remove him from the agriculture and budget committees.
His response? Fine.
"My people see that as a sign that I'm doing the right thing," he said. "Washington has a 9 percent approval rating. Root canals are better rated than Congress."
Jetmore (pop. 867) is a neighborly community where residents give out just the last four digits of their phone number, since most everyone has the same prefix. Towering grain elevators are the most prominent feature on Main Street. At his wife's homey diner, Judy's Cafe, Norman Bamberger settled into a chair and ordered dinner.
Bamberger is a lifelong Republican who is growing frustrated with his party. "The old establishment Republicans won't support the conservatives, and we've got a mess,'' he said, between bites of fried gizzards and a sirloin steak.
Bamberger has 900 cattle, and he's going on his second bad year in a row. Meat prices are high, good for reaping a profit, but a drought has caused increases in prices of grain he needs to buy to feed his cattle. He supports the automatic budget cuts of earlier this year, except for the one that threatens to reduce the number of federal meat inspectors — which could affect his own business.
"It's just stupid,'' he said. Then, in a jarring attempt at dark humor that most would find offensive, he added: "Where's Lee Harvey when you need him?"
Concerned about seeming harsh with his reference to the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, he quickly added, "That wasn't very nice."
The next morning, in the back corner of the local gas station, a group of about a dozen men sat near the stocks of Budweiser and Slim Jims and talked politics. The group included the mayor, a retired farmer, and the editor of the local newspaper, the Jetmore Republican.
"There's a lot of things you shouldn't compromise on — period," Charles Leet, who runs a television and appliance repair shop, said between puffs on his electronic cigarette.
Like what?
"Throw out anything," he said, then, answering his own invitation, he and his friends listed immigration and raising taxes. And in a region where older men reminisce about carrying weapons on the school bus and storing them in their lockers during class, they added gun control — a nonstarter in the Kansas First District.
Members of the gas-station gathering also agreed Medicaid and food stamps are making some people too dependent. They feel the moral underpinnings of the country are starting to fall apart. Mike Thornburg, the editor of the Jetmore Republican, was aghast when he realized the symbols he was seeing on his Facebook page were from people supporting gay marriage.
"We don't have the gay problem," he said with a chuckle. "We have goat and chicken [expletive] out here, but that's OK. We can deal with that."
Resentment toward Obama (whose mother grew up in rural Kansas) bubbled up again and again, including yet another jolting reference to assassination.
"Hell, we ought to impeach the little bastard," Leet said. "Asleep at the switch. I keep donating to the Bring Back Lee Harvey Committee. It hasn't worked yet."
The group chuckled.
"We aren't rabble-rousers. We don't want to cause trouble," Thornburg said a few minutes later. "But it's been coming down the pike for a long time. So we sent you Huelskamp."
Matt Viser can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Correction: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the relative geographic size of the First Congressional District in Kansas. It is among the largest by territory in the country.