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Revision as of 03:20, 3 November 2012
- Thanks to Michael F. from the Lansing Makers Network for alerting i3 Detroit to the availability of these machines.
- Thanks to Jim K., Roger S., Nate W., Brian W., (someone please help with this list!) for hauling these unwieldy, messy, heavy machines from an unlit pole-barn in Ionia to our space under a tight deadline.
Shop Safety!
- Keep shop area clear of debris, spills, and other hazards.
- Wear eye protection at all time when using equipment.
- Wear appropriate clothing. Tie long hair back, remove dangling jewelery.
- Take your time. Accidents happen because someone is in too big of a hurry.
- Think about what you are doing. If something seems unsafe, it probably is.
- Injection Molding Shop Consumables
- Mold Release
- Resin - http://www.midwestresins.com
- Clamps
- Nozzles
ToDo List Notes
The intention of these ToDo lists is to maintain current answers to several different questions:
- What do we need to do to make these machines a practical tool for our members?
- How can I help with the injection molding project?
- Is the project making good use of the shop space it occupies?
- Is it making progress or is it stuck?
- Does it have the specific resources/expertise it needs?
- Does it have a practical roadmap to reach success?
What am I promising to do if I put my name in a "Contact" box?
- Keep track of the status of that ToDo item
- Help coordinate work on that ToDo item to avoid duplication of effort
- Do as much (or as little) actual work on that item as your expertise and time allow.
- Most importantly, if it stops being fun, make noise! Fail loudly! If you're not seeing the progress you want to see on your ToDo item, let people know, ask for ideas and help.
Injection Molding Shop Infrastructure ToDo List
|Moved to east shop wall between kiln and paint storage
|Exhaust system
|Note that what may appear to be a vent pipe with a red funnel is actually a chute for parts to fall down.
|Cooling water supply
|We do not expect to need a chiller, but we do expect to need open-loop or closed-loop room-temperature water flow.
|Compressed air supply for the smaller machine
|Extend a line into the molding shop
|Electrical power
| Overhead pendulum drop, 240V 18A 3PH rating on large hydraulic pump motor, heater power TBD.
Smaller machine is 110V.
|Resin storage: acquire more airtight bins/containers/barrels.
|Some resin is in bins, some in paper bags, some in jugs.
|Hydraulic fluid spill management for the larger machine
|Sheet metal pan under the machine (proposed), automotive oil pan until constructed.
|Wheels/casters for easy relocation of machines
| Small machine needs heavy duty and lockable wheels/casters.
The big machine has rubber feet for a reason, user death imminent!
Injection Molding Shop Support ToDo List
|Arburg Documentation
|Phone message was left at i3 by the Arburg regional manager
|Roger S.
|Safety: Oil, resin, people near hot surfaces. Fluids under high pressure. Rapidly closing molds.
|Mold Design
| CAE (software tool chain?)
Copy existing mold design (where to find examples?)
|Mold Fabrication
| Tool steel appears to be impractical for our shop.
Forged/rolled Al plate (specialized mold alloy) proposed. Alumold 500 is available from Alro. Expect to get many hundreds of shots with a conservatively-designed mold made from the right aluminum stock.
|Process Control
|Temperature (two zones), pressure, cycle time, etc.
|Reading List
|Project plans/status/info on i3 Detroit wiki
|First injection molding wiki page (this page) has been started
|Dave S.
Arburg ALLROUNDER 150 ToDo List
|Degrease more
| Grab a bucket of warm/hot water, put some purple power in it, wipe grease off machine.
Don't get water in the oil reservoir
|Degrease machine
|Find grease nipples and make sure they are lubed
|Move to new home
|Located between kiln and tool crib on east wall
| Connect the 2 220v lines to the bus bar, rewire from control box to motor.
Ted wants to run a pendulum drop, this would be ok if a 110v outlet is also on this drop for the CB4
|Replace key switch
| (f00f says he plans to rekey it half of key is stuck in front plate on control box)
Otherwise a lock in place 2 position switch is fine.
|Figure out fuses for thermal controls
|(they appear to be missing)
|Reservoir and pump, possible 5gal bucket.
|Hydraulic fluid
|lost a bit in transit - should be ok at level to test, will need more soon 5-8gal aprox.
|Lower barrel to horizontal position
|This can be left in current state for time being, we dont have a mold to run, can be tested without.
|with or without mold, there is 1 mold that may work, needs cleaning/repairs
|Nate W.
|Clean up small 6" mold to test
Arburg C4b ToDo List
|Degrease more
| Grab a bucket of warm/hot water, put some purple power in it, wipe grease off machine.
Don't get water in the oil reservoir
|Grease machine
|Find grease nipples and make sure they are lubed
|Move to new home
|Located between kiln and tool crib on east wall
|Electrical wires on machine:
| drooping/hanging wires, deteriorating insulation, replace main plug,
no wiring diagram as yet.
|not required
|Compressed air supply
|Route line down to machines. Tap off above line if possible.
|Solenoids: Not engaging, could be a timer (controls on controller box) issue.
|Wiring is pretty rough, Need to determine if they electrically function.
|Thermocouple: Replace!
|Appears it fully failed
|Nate W
Tons of work still to go
|Nate W
Project Milestones
- First photo of the Injection Molding Shop with machines and supplies in place (Done!)
- Electrical power supplied, machine turns on (C4b Done!)
- Working pressure reached in hydraulic circuit with no visible leaks (working pressure reached in compressed air circuit with no audible leaks) (C4b Done!)
- Cooling water flowing with no visible leaks
- Stable temperature control observed (C4b Done!)
- Melted plastic supplied to a mold (C4b Done!)
- First example of molded plastic item using mold from the pole-barn. (C4b Done!)
- First mold fabricated at i3 Detroit
- First example of molded plastic item using mold fabricated at i3 Detroit


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I love Mandala Tea, and have been waiting for the Special Dark Pu'erh to become available on their web site. I commented on that fact on one of my Mandala Tea tasting notes. Garret from Mandala said that they don't have very much of it – therefore it not being listed on the website, but if I wanted some to just email him. I LOVE THIS COMPANY's customer service. So of course I had to take him up on that generous offer, and since I was ordering I also got:
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I ended up caving and placed an order with Tazo, 50% off site wide plus a coupon code for another 10% off since it was my first order. Who can pass that up? They also had the matching teacups for my new teapot so I picked up a set of those too.
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Golden Monkey – Size: 2 oz – $4.97
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Shipping Costs: $4.95
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Coupon discount: -$2.68
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I just placed my first order from Aliexpress.com for some glass teaware and a tea pet. I literally spent 3 straight hours on that website while we watched movies. So much tea stuff! The store I bought from had free shipping and really good prices. And my little piggy tea pet is pretty darn cute! http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Tea-pet-yixing-tea-decoration-set-artificial-animal-clay-sculpture/708336474.html
Although this little guy is my absolute favorite.
Just a little too much money. Maybe some day. Or my birthday :-)
What an adorable tea pet <3
That pig is so cute!
very cute. I've done a couple orders through Aliexpress and haven't had a problem. They withhold the payment from the seller until you confirm that you receive your order and that your happy with it. There is a complaints mediation system of you or the seller has a problem and if you don't receive the item after 60 days you are automatically refunded. Enjoy the tea pet it's quite cute.
They have SO MANY of them! I might just order a pixiu from them one day.
I have been wanting to try a straight green rooibos for a while so I finally got the ok from the hubby to break my hiatus!!!
Green rooibos 3oz x2- $14
Green Dragon balls (lol) 3oz- $14
Spiced apple chai sample- $2
Vanilla chai rooibos sample- $2
Rooibos lemon cloud sample- $2
plus shipping total was $37.75
Went for the Tazo Tea Sale:
Flowering Honeybush
Hula Maté
Enchanted Orchard Rooibos
Earl Grey
Sub Total: $23.80
Shipping Costs: $4.95
Order Discount: -$11.92
Coupon discount: -$1.19 (Thanks to S-S)
Tax: $0.00
Payment Total: (Just less than $2 per ounce, shipping included)
Since I had a slightly rough evening and broke the saucer of my gaiwan, I decided to bite the bullet and order a bunch of tea..a BUNCH. Eek. Hopefully I like them a lot haha, although I already have a few people in mind to split with, and one who is anxious to try them haha!
Andrews & Dunham Damn Fine Tea
Adventure Pack (contains Mount Gray, Double Knit Blend, and Tiger Assam)
4.4 oz x 3 = 13.2 oz of tea
(now I go hide)
BUT FREE SHIPPING TO CANADA! Huzzah!
Great, now I want that. I have never had A&D but I love their tins and marketing. I just don't tend to be super interested in the blends. Must resist
uniquity – tiger assam….you know you want it. it has a tiger on the tin! and it's delicious! just ask terri and cavo! (and soon misslena)
I actually don't really like assams. Or earl greys. This makes it easier to resist but this little voice seems to suggest that maybe that is different now, hah!
what you do is swap with one of us to TRY them…which means you can totally wait until the next sale…since there will be one.
Haha yeah I haven't had too many assams or Earl greys myself, but I couldn't resist the free shipping, and I have been craving strong teas lately it seems, and yes, I saw the little tiger in the pictures and was like YES. I WANT IT.
I can't wait to try them :D I will try to not be a tea enabler here..but it is a pretty awesome deal.
Finally used my $5 off coupon!
Laoshan Black 1 oz.
And 7g each of:
Golden Fleece
Yu Lu Yan Cha Black
Laoshan Roasted Oolong
Laoshan Green Oolong
Eight Treasures Yabao
Ginger Sage Winter Spa Blend
Bai Mu Dan White Tea
$25 including shipping.
Another order. /hangs head/ I was doing so well with no orders for a few months and now here's two orders in under a week, with likely 2 more in the near future from other companies. Lol.
Anyway, I took advantage of the Tazo sale to try some new stuff. Though I'm kicking myself 'cause I waited too long (thinking too much) about the order and the infuser basket went out of stock. /sigh/ Hopefully I'll find one for that cheap again.
Phoenix Mountain 2oz
Jasmine Yin Hao 2oz
Organic Vanilla Apricot Crème 1.4oz
Black Dragon Pearls 4oz
Peach Cobbler 4oz
Sub Total: $84.60
Order Discount: -$42.32
Coupon discount: -$4.23 (Tazo10)
Tax: $0.70
Shipping Costs: $4.95
Payment Total: $43.70
I may have gone a bit overboard in hindsight. But I like the dragon pearls I have from another company and as far as I can tell, this is a crazy deal on them. I just hope they don't suck. Lol. And I love peach so I have high hopes for the cobbler.
not sure what type of infuser basket it is but upton often has their finums on sale for the cheapest prices we've seen around…
I'll definitely have to check that out then. If I remember correctly it was a steel infuser like the ones that come in the DavidsTea perfect mugs.
Edit – The one at Upton isn't the same one that Tazo had. That one was all metal. But thanks for the suggestion Sil. ^^
Soooo I placed my verdant order today! It was on the list of birthday orders i'll be placing but i figure this still counts as a July order since it won't arrive in Canada until July anyway!
Sample sizes of nearly everything except for LB; Yu Lu and LBG :)
Bai Mu Dan White Tea
Qianjiazhai Old Growth 2012 Sheng
Golden Buds Shu Pu'er Xingyang 2010
Laoshan Black Chocolate Genmaicha
Bergamot Rose Laoshan Black
Laoshan Apothecary Green
Golden Fleece
Laoshan Black
Yu Lu Yan Cha Black
Laoshan Roasted Oolong
Laoshan Green Oolong
Dinosara – i don't know WHAT you mean :) and hey..i'm almost at 215! from 227! at the start of today…
I think we're learning to rationalize from you as well! Glad you ordered your birthday order!
Also I'm jealous of those sipdowns! I haven't been home long enough today!
Cavo – i have to pee every two minutes lol but i'm having fun wit things at least :) I'll be away from tea and up all night (6pm-6am) so that's how i'm justifying loading myself up with delicious tea!
Haha your progress is certainly impressive. At least a lot of your stash seems to be 1-2 cup samples!
well they're 2-4 cup samples for a lot of them..but that's really 1-2 cup samples in my world. i have big mugs lol


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Later this afternoon I think I'll put in an order for a 14" x 14" x 1" cordierite kiln shelf (Laguna Clay number RF-239)Does anyone think 1" cordierite is overkill for this project?
Thanks for any input!
Do you think that a cordierite kiln shelf 1" thick will be able to handle the burner 6" directly below it with nothing to deflect the flame?
Holy frick. I can already tell its going to work. At worst case if a deflector is needed you have plenty of room. I like the top heat mode. At worst case maybe add some little "vortex generators". Will you put a hinge on that lid ? It will be tight to load/unload/turn if not.Just my .02
I've been debating about the hinge on the lid. I have several ways I've thought about implementing a hinged lid but I would like to avoid it if possible. I should get a peel on order so I can get a feel for how the lid height is going to affect the loading / unloading and turning I'm going to have to be doing. I am afraid I'm going to regret not putting in some kind of system to rotate the stone for an even bake. I think a lot of potential problems could be solved by a rotating stone.


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By Carole Giambalvo
Published May 25, 2007
British band Bloc Party is a little tense. Reflecting on terrorism, racism, drug use and death in its new album, A Weekend in the City, the band has made its frustrations with the world known.
But man, do they want you to dance to it. "Lord give me grace and dancing feet, " they implore.
The Londoners bring their frenzied guitars and sleek beats to Jannus Landing in St. Pete on Monday. The concert was originally scheduled for the USF Sun Dome in Tampa but got relocated to the smaller, outdoor venue.
Jokingly labeled as "crunk-like, " Bloc Party aims high to get listeners moving, in spite of some heavy-hitting lyrics.
"There's a certain economy to the drum parts that lends itself to dancing, " said drummer Matt Tong. "Plus there's a lot of tension between us as musicians when we play and that lends a lot of energy to the songs."
But weighty lyrics like "MTV taught me how to sulk and love nothing" might keep you guessing. In his blog, lead singer Kele Okereke called the album "not angry in an 'F.U., I won't tidy my bedroom, Linkin Park' way; more silent rage, like what is left when frustration boils over." Tong agreed.
"There is a lot of anger and it's a lot more direct than anything we've done before, " he said. "Kele sharpened and refined his focus, but it's not an angry record in the more traditional sense - I don't think it's any less potent because there's something tangible about where his frustrations came from."
A third single, Hunting for Witches, scheduled to be released in July, has already generated buzz for referencing the London transportation system bombings of July 2005.
"It [the song] is more about the fallout of what happened - an indictment of the sensationalist nature of the reporting of the events, " Tong said. "Stereotypes and scapegoats were carved out against some ethnic minorities."
Bloc Party got its break after bringing a demo to a Franz Ferdinand concert in 2003. The band was able to get a single into the hands of both Franz lead singer Alex Kapranos and Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq. Not long thereafter, Bloc Party songs popped up in popular TV shows like Grey's Anatomy and The O.C., and in Saturn car commercials.
The band toured with Panic! at the Disco in 2006. However, they dropped of the tour early after Tong was admitted to the hospital.
"I got a collapsed lung earlier on in the day while playing football, but I didn't know the extent of my injury, " he said. "I played the show that night, but by the end of it, I really couldn't breathe very well ... that was about 2 months off of drumming for me."
Now back on tour, the band looks forward to the possibilities.
"It's going to be an interesting tour for us because we're playing a lot of places that we haven't been to yet in the states, " Tong said. "Three shows in Florida and the same kind of passionate energy - there is even more to gain this time because we have so many people who haven't seen us before."
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Chang, Eileen
Eileen Chang 1921-
(Also transliterated as Zhang Ailing) Chinese short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator.
Considered among the most talented and influential writers in China in the 1940s by critic C. T. Hsia, Chang's short fiction has been compared to that of Eudora Welty and Katherine Mansfield. Written in simple and direct language, her deeply moral and realistic stories focus on the tragic ironies of human experience. They are replete with metaphors, symbolism, and imagery, especially nature imagery. Because Chang has translated much of her own work, infusing colloquial English into it in the process, her English translations stand beside the Chinese stories as independent creative works. Criticism of Chang's translations, as well as that of her original Chinese works, has been laudatory, with most critics concentrating on her 1943 novella Jin suo ji (The Golden Cangue).
Biographical Information
Little is known about Eileen Chang's life. She was born into a distinguished Shanghai family on September 30, 1921, and raised in Beijing and Tianjin until 1929, when her family returned to Shanghai. Many sources have suggested that Chang suffered a great deal in her youth, much like many of the protagonists in her fiction, as a result of an abusive father. She attended the University of Hong Kong from 1939 to 1942, after which she returned to Shanghai. There she began producing most of her short fiction and essays while also working for The Times and Twentieth Century. After the war, in 1952, Chang again moved to Hong Kong where she worked for The World Today, in which much of her work appeared weekly. In Hong Kong she published two novels, Jidi zhi lian (1954; Naked Earth) and Yang-ko (1955; The Rice-Sprout Song). In 1955 Chang moved to the United States where she later wrote two novels based on her much acclaimed novella The Golden Cangue: Yüan-nu (1966; The Embittered Woman) and The Rouge of the North (1967). Since living in the United States, Chang has been associated with various universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Miami University in Ohio, and the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Major Works of Short Fiction
Chang's novella The Golden Cangue has generated a great deal of favorable criticism. Stylistically based on the eighteenth-century Chinese novel The Dream of the Red Chamber, The Golden Cangue examines the life of a woman who is forced by her family into a loveless marriage. She grows mad after years of suffering, but eventually obtains wealth and independence after the death of her husband. She then manipulates and terrorizes everyone near her, especially her children. Many of the themes in this novella—particularly anguish and survival, clashes between family members, conflict between duty and self-fulfillment, and compromised love—appear throughout Chang's work. The latter theme, especially, is developed in many of Chang's stories dealing with marriage. In "Ashes of Descending Incense, First Brazier," for example, a young woman falls in love with and marries a wealthy and manipulative gallant even though her love is not reciprocated.
Chang's characters are drawn from all levels of Chinese society; they include mandarins, students, farmers, servants, and concubines. Regardless of their social station, all of her protagonists suffer from tragic experiences. In The Golden Cangue, for example, it is a wealthy young woman whose chances for love and marriage are repeatedly destroyed by her oppressive mother, while in "Indian Summer, A Hsiao's Autumnal Lament" an uneducated maid is singled out as she falls in love with her miserly, amoral master. While the majority of Chang's stories feature women, some delve into the consciousness of men. In "Ashes of Descending Incense, the Second Brazier," a college professor marries a young, beautiful, and innocent woman who considers his wedding night advances acts of perversion and consequently humiliates him in public. In "Jasmine Tea" an unhappy young man discovers his true father's identity and, in a fit of passion, rage, and jealousy, violently attacks the man's daughter.
Critical Reception
Chang's fiction is considered unique for its time because of its blending of Chinese and Western elements. The abundance of imagery and symbolism in her short fiction is reminiscent of classical Chinese literature. Yet numerous critics have detected modern Western psychology in her fiction as well. According to C. T. Hsia, "A Freudian emphasis is noticeable in several of her stories about a parent-child relationship, particularly 'Jasmine Tea' and 'The Heart Sutra'." Above all else, Chang's critics appreciate her truthful rendering of the human experience, however painful, as well as her moral integrity. As Steven Cheng summarized "Eileen Chang's stories in their delineation of the universal suffering in the human scene point out the importance of love and sympathy; hence, though she does not exalt the highest ideals of human conduct, in her praise of the little deeds of kindness and acts of grace that perhaps ultimately save and redeem us, she remains nonetheless profoundly moral."
Principal Works
Short Fiction
Jin suo ji [The Golden Cangue] (novella) 1943
Chuanqi xiaoshuoji [Selected Romances] 1947
Xiaoshuoji [Selected Short Stories] 1954
Chang k'an [As Seen by Eileen Chang] (stories and essays) 1976
Qingcheng zhi lian: duanpian xiaoshuo xuan [Love in a Fallen City: Short Stories] 1985
Other Major Works
Jidi zhi lian [Naked Earth] (novel) 1954
Yang-ko [The Rice-Sprout Song] (novel) 1955
Yüan-nu [The Embittered Woman] (novel) 1966
The Rouge of the North (novel) 1967
Pan-sheng yüan [Half a Lifetime's Romance] (novel) 1969
Liu yan [Gossip] (collected essays) 1969
Hung-lou meng-yen [Nightmare in the Red Chamber] (nonfiction) 1977
C. T. Hsia (essay date 1971)
"Eileen Chang," in A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 389-431.
[In the following excerpt, Hsia provides a laudatory overview of Chang's short fiction—especially The Golden Cangue, "Jasmine Tea," "Blockade," and "Love in a Fallen City"—in which he discusses both the Chinese and Western elements in her works.]
[To] the discerning student of modern Chinese literature, Eileen Chang is not only the best and most important writer in Chinese today; her short stories alone invite valid comparisons with, and in some respects claim superiority over, the work of serious modern women writers in English: Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers. . . .
Eileen Chang deals with a society in transition, where the only constants are the egoism in every bosom and the complementary flicker of love and compassion. Her imagery, therefore, not only embraces a wider range of elegance and sordidness but has to suggest the persistence of the past in the present, the continuity of Chinese modes of behavior in apparently changing material circumstances. In that respect her imagery has a strong historical awareness.
Eileen Chang's world is also rich in nature imagery. Its metropolitan character does not preclude the sun and moon, the wind and rain, and that extensive part of vegetation still easily within the reach of a city-dweller's eye. Red azaleas in the arms of a bus passenger; a creeping plant, placed in a pot on the sky terrace of an apartment building, trying vainly to climb upward; summer breeze fluttering like a flock of white pigeons inside the silk blouse and trousers of a rejected lover—touches like these not only enrich the narrative but also define the scene or character under description. Because of her habitual importation of nature, whether as setting or metaphor, into her world of manners, Eileen Chang is also the foremost symbolist among Chinese writers of fiction. And her predominant symbol is the moon, which looks down upon the world of love with cold detachment, hazy sympathy, or benign irony. It is possible to write a monograph to illustrate the uses of the moon symbol in her fiction.
Along with her shrewd use of imagery and symbolism, Miss Chang evinces a powerful grasp of the complexities and subtleties to be observed in social intercourse. Just as she is absolutely uninfluenced by the leftist modes of Chinese fiction, she is little tempted to follow the dazzling fashions of present-day Western fiction—to pursue, for example, stream of consciousness to the neglect of weightier moral concerns. She knows with the instinctive sagacity of a born storyteller that the truth of the human heart is best told within the framework of manners, which condition the expression of emotions in the first place. Understandably, therefore, while she is deeply indebted to Freud and Western novelists for the psychological sophistication and metaphorical enrichment of her stories, she is even more of a dedicated student of traditional Chinese fiction. There is simply no other school that could enable her to make the best fictive use of her personal observations of Chinese society. Along with several stylistic devices—such as prefixing reported speeches with the simple verb tao—Eileen Chang gains from her study of Chinese fiction principally a mastery of dialogue and a corroboration of her insight into peculiarly Chinese behavior. The characters in Romances are solidly and in some instances frighteningly Chinese; they are therefore solidly and frighteningly real. While she is primarily concerned with the world of her contemporaries, her study of Chinese fiction has led her to stress the strong persistence of traditional sensibility even in an apparently uprooted and cosmopolitan set. Sensibility evolves slowly; old manners die hard even during a period of unprecedented technological and economic change. Each character in Romances is sharply defined against his social and economic background, against his parents, and by extension against a culture in decadence.
Examples are necessary to support our description of Eileen Chang as a short-story writer. In many of the Romances the basic situation is a courtship, flirtation, or affair, but what is involved is more than the expected comedy or pathos of the love game: it is the condition of a soul unpropped by its usual stays of vanity and desire. Miss Chang professes not to abide by the classical formula of tragedy because it is her belief that the sheer weight of habit and animalism precludes the possibility of any prolonged flights of sublimity or passion. For her as for most story-writers since Chekhov, tragic revelation comes only at the moment when the protagonist, temporarily outside the shell of his ego, surveys the desolation of his triumph or failure. Even in her satirical tales tragic knowledge is always implicit in the temporary disarray of the hero's composure or sudden disappointment of his expectations. But a few of her longer and more ambitious stories fall nothing short of the full tragic commitment, and one of these we shall now examine in some detail in order to appreciate her art at its highest level of intensity.
The Golden Cangue, a long story of over 28,000 words, is in my opinion the greatest novelette in the history of Chinese literature. It is a new type of Chinese fiction bearing happy witness to its author's skillful appropriation of the elements of both the native and the Western tradition. In method and style it is clearly indebted to the great Chinese domestic novels, while for its psychological and moral sophistication it apparently owes more to Western fiction. But the whole work is undeniably the creation of a highly distinctive and individual talent.
The Golden Cangue traces the life of a woman from her frustrated and unhappy youth to her malevolent and mad age. When the story opens, the saucy and shrewd Ch'i-ch'iao, whose family owns a cooking-oils store, has been married for five years to the paralytic second son of a wealthy official family. The marriage was possible because no daughter from a family of equal wealth and position would consent to a match with a puny invalid and because Ch'i-ch'iao's elder brother was avaricious enough to sacrifice his sister's happiness. Ch'i-ch'iao accepts her intolerable situation with courage, parrying with occasional material assistance her brother's greed and defying petulantly but with self-possession the snobbery of her husband's family. Her one consolation is that, in the event of her husband's death, she will become a rich and independent woman. But still normal and healthy despite the opium habit she has acquired while nursing her husband, she craves love. The sight of her two weakling children only reminds her of the travesty of sexual attention her husband pays her on rare occasions. In her frustration she fancies herself to be in love with the third son of the family.
This third son, Chiang Chi-tsê, has been married only a month. A good-looking wastrel, he regularly visits brothels and flirts with maidservants. But he draws a firm line in regard to Ch'i-ch'iao's attentions. He rightly reasons that it will be very imprudent to form a liaison with a sister-in-law under the same roof; besides, with her bad temper, he would have a most difficult time extricating himself from this affair once he got tired of her. When Ch'i-ch'iao supplicates for his love and feels his legs with her hands, he only squeezes her foot once and tells her to desist.
Ten years later, with the death of her husband and mother-in-law, Ch'i-ch'iao is finally in a position to enjoy the reward of her patience. (The author introduces at this juncture a powerful scene of a family quarrel over the division of property.) Chi-tsê, who has squandered most of his fortune even before he has inherited it, now pays Ch'i-ch'iao a visit and protests undying love to her.
Ch'i-ch'iao bowed her head, basking in glory, in the soft music of his voice and the delicate pleasure of this occasion . . . All these years she had been playing blindman's buff with him and could not near his person; who could have expected today! To be sure, half her life had gone—the flower-years of her youth. Life was always like that, devious and unreasonable. Why had she to marry into the Chiang family in the first place? For money? No, it was so that she could meet Chi-tsê and fulfill her preordained love for him. She lifted her head slightly and saw Chi-tsê standing close to her, his hands clasping her fan and his cheek nestling against it. He had also grown ten years older, but after all he was the same person. Is he deceiving her now? Can it be possible that he is only thinking of her money—the money for which she has sold her life? This very thought made her suddenly very angry. Even if she has misconstrued his intentions, can the suffering he has undergone for her make up for the suffering she has undergone for him? It has not been very easy for her heart to die; now he is again tempting her. She hates him. He is still looking at her. His eyes—in spite of the ten years, he is still the same person! Even if he is deceiving her now, would it not be better to postpone this discovery till some later time? Yes, even if she knows he is deceiving her, can't she accept his love for real, since he is such a good actor?
Her weakness, however, is only momentary. The golden cangue in which she had locked herself during all these years of waiting and scheming has incapacitated her for love, real or spurious. (A cangue is a large board frame used to confine the neck and hands of criminals in the old days in China.) With a business-like air Ch'i-ch'iao proceeds to discuss money matters with Chi-tsê and detects him in a lie. Angry beyond herself, she flings her fan in the direction of his head but upsets instead the glass of sour plum drink on the table, which splashes all over his silk gown. She shows him the door.
Chi-tsê had gone. The maidservants and amahs also hurriedly left the room after being scolded by Ch'i-ch'iao. Drop by drop, the sour plum drink trickles down the table, keeping time like a water clock at night—one drip, another drip—the first hour, the second hour—one year, a hundred years. So long, this one moment of solitude. Ch'i-ch'iao stood there, her hands cupping her head. In another second she had turned around and was hurrying upstairs. Lifting her skirt, she half climbed and half stumbled her way up, continually bumping against the dingy wall of green plaster. Her Buddha-blue blouse was smudged with large patches of dust. She wanted to look at him once more from her window upstairs. After all she had loved him once and that love had given her no end of pain. This consideration alone should entitle him to some affectionate regard. How many times, to repress herself, she had to steady her body until all her muscles, bones, and the roots of her teeth ached with sharp pain. Today it was all her fault. She acted as if she hadn't known all along that he was no good! If she wants him, then she has to pretend to be stupid and tolerate his badness. Why has she had to unmask him? But isn't life always like that? When one comes down to the heart of a matter, how can one tell what is true and what is false?
She approached the window and pulled open the foreign-style dark-green curtains fringed with velvet pompons. Chi-tsê was walking in the lane toward the street, his gown folded against his arm. Like a flock of white pigeons, the wind on that sunny day fluttered inside his pongee blouse and trousers. It penetrated everywhere, flapping its wings.
Many a story-writer would feel justified in ending the tale at this point: the study of a woman torn between her passion for money and her love for an unworthy man has constituted an interesting theme for much good fiction. The first half of The Golden Cangue, moreover, is unlike anything by any other modern Chinese writer: one scarcely encounters elsewhere the vivid recall of upper-class family life of an earlier period (about the time of the downfall of the Ch'ing dynasty), the effortless rendition of dialogue, and the powerful fusion of feeling with imagery that is apparent in the passage just quoted. Yet for Eileen Chang the romantic episode is only the beginning; in the second half of her story she unfolds the lonely madness of Ch'i-ch'iao's later life in all its terror.
Ch'i-ch'iao's two children grow up under the dominance of her malevolent will. A completely docile weakling, the son Ch'ang-pai has little schooling and early indulges in the vices of his class. Ch'i-ch'iao gives him a wife when he begins to frequent brothels. Then, with the insane jealousy of a frustrated woman unable to abide normal sexual life around her, she induces her son by taunts to leave his wife's bed and to serve her opium. Reclining on the opium couch in the small hours of the night, mother and son joke about the scorned woman. To further humiliate her, Ch'i-ch'iao buys her son a concubine. Years later both wife and concubine break down under the insufferable strain and commit suicide.
But it is in her delineation of the subtle clashes between Ch'i-ch'iao and her daughter Ch'ang-an that Eileen Chang gives the most astonishing evidence of her dramatic power. At her own insistence Ch'ang-an once attended school, but she soon quit because she could no longer endure the shame her mother continually brought upon her in the eyes of her teachers and schoolmates. A sensitive girl, "she felt that her sacrifice was a beautiful and desolate gesture." While her mother is alive, this gesture remains her only self-defense.
Ch'i-ch'iao is obliged by custom to choose a husband for her daughter, but she approaches the task with the greatest reluctance. The better families are not interested because of her own notoriety and Ch'ang-an's plain features, while the poorer familes can always be dismissed for their supposed mercenary interest. The real trouble, of course, lies in Ch'i-ch'iao's unwillingness to relinquish her hold on her daughter. As the years go by, Ch'ang-an becomes a confirmed opium-smoker with a temper as peevish as her mother's.
When she is approaching thirty, a girl cousin takes pity on Ch'ang-an and introduces her to T'ung Shih-fang, a German-returned student in his late thirties. After his eight lonely years abroad and some unhappy love experiences in his early youth, this man has developed a nostalgic longing for the demure type of Chinese girl and finds Ch'ang-an quite to his liking. After several quiet and furtive dates they become formally engaged. To be worthy of her fiancé, Ch'ang-an even summons enough will power to stop smoking opium.
But Ch'i-ch'iao keeps postponing the wedding and scolding her daughter for her shameless impatience. Rather than stand the taunts further, Ch'ang-an finally decides to break off her engagement to Shih-fang. "It would be safe if he could never see her mother, but sooner or later, he had to face Ch'i-ch'iao. Marriage is a lifelong affair; it is possible to remain a thief for a thousand years, but impossible to guard against a thief for a thousand years—how could she know what her mother would not do? Sooner or later there would be trouble; sooner or later there would be an end. This was the most beautiful episode in her life; rather than let other people spoil it in the end, she would terminate it herself."
After she has called off her engagement, Ch'ang-an still goes out with Shih-fang. To their own surprise, they begin to experience real love in each other's company. But this fragile love, of course, cannot hope to circumvent Ch'i-ch'iao's evil genius. The reader is now introduced to the climactic scene in the story, a scene of sheer dramatic surprise in which, quite appropriately, Ch'i-ch'iao is fully visualized for the first time as a prematurely old woman of evil cunning:
The rumor, however, was heard by Ch'i-ch'iao. Behind Ch'ang-an's back, she asked Ch'ang-pai to invite T'ung Shih-fang over for an informal dinner. Shih-fang thought that the Chiang family was perhaps trying to warn him against his persisting in a delicate relationship with its young mistress. But while he was talking with Ch'ang-pai over two cups of wine about the weather, the world situation, and other sundry matters in that somber and spacious dining hall, he noticed that nothing was mentioned of Ch'ang-an. Then the cold plates were cleared away and Ch'ang-pai suddenly leaned his...
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Stephen Cheng (essay date 1977)
"Themes and Techniques in Eileen Chang's Stories," in Tankang Review, Vol. VIII, No. 2, October, 1977, pp. 169-200.
[In the following examination of Chang's short fiction, Cheng explores the themes, imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and narration in her works.]
Eileen Chang started her writing career in the early 1940's in Shanghai, then under the Japanese occupation. Her stories and essays appearing in the newspapers and periodicals there enjoyed wide popularity and were later collected in Romances and Gossips. . . . She left Shanghai for Hong Kong in 1952, and while there she published two novels, Rice-sprout Song...
(The entire section is 11830 words.)
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (essay date 1988)
"Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang Among Taiwan's Feminine Writers: The Eileen Zhang Phenomenon," in Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 4, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring/Fall, 1988, pp. 201-23.
[In the following excerpt, Sung-sheng points out those characteristics of Chang's fiction, especially in Chuanqi (Romances), which have inspired a new generation of women writers.]
The growing popularity of Eileen Zhang's fiction in Taiwan between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s is easily explained with reference to social development. As the urban milieu of Taiwan's big cities became increasingly metropolitan, the characteristic sophistication and cynicism of Zhang's...
(The entire section is 2795 words.)
Shirley J. Paolini and Chen-Shen Yen (essay date 1988-89)
"Moon, Madness, and Mutilation in Eileen Chang's English Translation of The Golden Cangue," in Tamkang Review, Vol. XIX, No. 1-4, August, 1988-Summer 1989, pp. 547-57.
[In the excerpt below, the critics examine recurring motifs in Chang's English translation of The Golden Cangue, noting in particular variations from the original Chinese version of the novella.]
In Eileen Chang's novelette, The Golden Cangue, motifs of moon, madness, and mutilation dominate the story of the progressive destruction of Ch'i-ch'iao and her family. These motifs are developed by means of point of view, stylistics, theme, and images and symbols. Although the story...
(The entire section is 3535 words.)
Lucien Miller and Hui-Chuan Chang (essay date 1989)
"Fiction and Autobiography: Spatial Form in The Golden Cangue' and The Woman Warrior," in Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989, pp. 25-43.
[In the following excerpt, the authors assert that spatial form in Chang's novella The Golden Cangue indicates a blending of two genres, fiction and autobiography.]
The Golden Cangue may be readily considered in terms of traditional Western characteristics of fiction. It is a long, novella length, work of the imagination, a portrait of a whole complete world, which may be approached through a study of character, narrative point of view and structure. Qiqiao's...
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Hop onto Santa's sleigh with Popcorn Picks for Hong Kong Flicks to find out if snacking during Arthur Christmas 3D (亞瑟少爺救聖誕) puts you on the naughty or nice list.
The compatibility of snacking with your film is based on two categories:
Crunch Factor on a scale from 1 (might as well be a silent film) to 10 (totally crunchtastic)
Crowd Control on a scale from 1 (massive movie night) to 10 (couples-only crowd)
Crunch Factor
Jingling bells, the zooming of Santa's sleigh and the clamoring of elves fill the crisp air throughout Arthur Christmas. He only has one night to save Christmas for one special child, and a silent night is not his priority. This movie's Crunch Factor of 8 enables you and Arthur to ensure that Christmas snacking proceeds in good spirits.
Crowd Control
In the spirit of the giving season, consider sharing your gourmet popcorn with loved ones. Did someone treat you to the movies? Perhaps you should treat them to Garrett Popcorn! The holidays are not a time to be selfish, so Popcorn Picks rates this movie's Crowd Control with a "Ho Ho Ho-5!"
Popcorn Picks Recommendation
With a tin of Garrett Popcorn in hand, you are ready for a true Arthur Christmas adventure. Crunch happily and share liberally with friends – you never know who may be watching.
Showtimes for Arthur Christmas
Palace IFC Cinema
8 Finance St Podium L1, IFC Mall


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MACCA-Central EXCLUSIVE:
I just got the scoop ! Here is the Official Press Release for the 2nd Leg - 'Back In The U.S.' - Note that the tickets for Milwaukee, Hartford, Atlantic City, Indianapolis, Columbus and Oklahoma will go on sale on Saturday July 20th at 10.00 am.
As is the 1st leg of the tour, MACCA-Central will be an official ticket source for all tour dates. If you intend to buy tickets packages PLEASE do so through MACCA-Central.com.
PAUL McCARTNEY'S "FEELGOOD FACTORY"
The show they are calling "The Feelgood Factory", Paul McCartney's 36-song set of the big hits of his life, is getting Back In The U.S. this Fall for the second leg of the tour that has rocked America.
Following the rave reviews and crowds' Maccamania that met his sell-out Driving USA shows in April/May, McCartney is to surf the success with a further 23 concerts on the Back In The U.S. tour.
Back In The U.S. will launch in Milwaukee on Saturday September 21st before touring through mainly new markets that didn't catch McCartney's Spring sensation.
Hailed by critics as "the season's hottest ticket", the first leg of the tour won Paul McCartney some of the best reviews of his career.
Now he is to return to play in a further 20 cities, coast-to-coast from Seattle to Atlantic City.
For Back In The U.S. Paul will play again with the same band that wowed audiences on Driving USA; Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray on guitars, Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums and Wix Wickens on keyboards.
"This band is too good to be just put up on a shelf; we're having too much fun to want to stop playing now", said Paul.
McCartney's eagerness to encore the tour has delighted US promoters keen to take the show beyond the 19 cities played earlier this year.
"Paul is putting fun back in life with this show", said Brad Wavra, Touring VP for promoters Clear Channel, "It will make you dance, it will move you and it will make you believe again in the redemptive power of rock & roll. With some 20 Beatles songs in the set and another dozen of his hits since, seeing this show is like going to the feelgood factory".
"I watched Paul McCartney's show four times on the last leg from strat to finish and I still didn't get enough of this gig", said Randy Phillips, CEO of co-promoters AEG Live, "America is lucky to get a second chance to see one of the finest concerts on the road this year. I wouldn't want to predict if we'll ever see its like again".
"Paul McCartney's show is like nothing you've ever seen him do before; this gig is making history now, and we want to be a proud part of that", said Jeff Trisler for The House Of Blues, promoters of Paul McCartney's Portland date.
Back In The U.S. will run from September 21st through to October 29th and will play in cities including Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Hartford, Atlantic City, Boston, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Raleigh, New Orleans, Houston, Oklahoma, Portland, Tacoma, Sacramento, San Jose, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
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The Digital Skeptic: If You Want to Be Safe Online, Have Less Stuff
NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Chris Doggett has this to say to Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson, Ashton Kutcher, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, The Associated Press -- and all the other supposedly above-the-street celebs, politicos and media companies who just can't seem to keep their online selves from getting stolen.
"You want the Internet to be as safe as possible?" Doggett told me on the phone about a month ago. "You want to be touching as little of it as possible."
Doggett is not guessing about what it takes to stay secure in today's digital slum. He's head of North American corporate sales for Kaspersky Lab, the Woburn, Mass., security firm. And to this geek's credit, he's become a brother in skeptical arms about the reality of not being the next AP Twitter hack victim here in the Internet hood.
"You want to be turning off as much of the Web as you can," he said.
Let me repeat that long and loud, investors: He said TURN OFF AS MUCH OF THE INTERNET AS YOU CAN.
What goes first?
"You know that piece of software called Java that is always updating on your PC? People put that on there for some dumb game," he explained. "But most folks don't use it. It's very easy to attack old versions of it. New exploits are created all the time."
So we all just go into our computers and uninstall it?
"Exactly," Doggett said. "Your PC will be a lot safer. Just turn it off."
What else can go? The Adobe
Flash is "buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates," is the line I love from the must-read Occupy Flash website, where anti-Flash sentiment is organizing online. "It's a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology."


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Best Mom on Wheels
SHAKOPEE – A Shakopee woman with local roots who suffered a broken spinal cord and other injuries in a single-vehicle crash between Klossner and St. George 19 years ago, received a national award recently from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Nora Hoffmann Boyle, 35, was named the Best Mom on Wheels by the foundation that honors mothers living with paralysis that exhibit dedication, love, encouragement and goodwill.
"I was driving to school that day (April 19, 1994) on the Fort Road (Nicollet County Road 5) when I hit a field approach, was thrown from my car and broke my back," Boyle said. "I didn't wear my seat belt that day, which was weird because I usually do."
She also suffered a broken wrist, collapsed lung, bruises and had surgery twice at North Memorial Medical Center in the Twin Cities.
Unable to walk, she didn't let life in a wheelchair slow her down much. Boyle studied travel management at Rasmussen College in Mankato and married Jesse Boyle of Redwood Falls.
Living three years in Peoria, Ill., where Jesse was an engineer at Caterpillar, Inc. the couple had a boy and girl – Debi and Owen – before moving to the Detroit area where they lived for another three years, before they moved back to Minnesota.
Doctors told Boyle she could do anything anybody else could do except walk. That doesn't keep her from family activities. She recently bought a hand-powered bicycle and enjoys biking on trails in and around Shakopee with her family.
"I can go as fast as any conventional bicycle. We just joined a bike league," Boyle said. "I feel just like any other mom, doing just about anything they do. I'm busy with two very active kids."
Working full-time as a special education teachers aide at Jackson Elementary School in Shakopee, Boyle is also a Girl Scout troop leader, Parent Teacher Organization volunteer and enjoys scrap booking with friends.
Nominated for the award by her mother, Susan Hoffmann, of rural Nicollet, Boyle received more than 20 percent of more than 2,100 votes for 10 national award finalists.
After being named a national finalist, Boyle posted the news on her Facebook page. The news was echoed in several Twin Cities newspapers and television stations. She received a $500 gift card for the award.
The Christopher & Dana Reeves Foundation website (www.christopherreeve.org) recently reported that the regulatory equivalents of the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) in Switzerland and Canada, have approved a human neural stem trial for people with spinal cord injuries, three to 12-months post-injury.
Trials underway in Zurich are researching the safety and any signs of efficacy for a line of purified human neural stem cells. The first three people who got the cells in Zurich reported no safety issues.
Two showed multi-segment sensory function gains. One patient converted from complete to incomplete injury, according to the Reeve Foundation. A fourth patient was an incomplete paraplegic. There was no word on any status change in the fourth patient, according to the Reeve Foundation website.
Anyone who believes they may qualify and are interested in participating in the study is asked to contact the study nurse at firstname.lastname@example.com
Fritz Busch can be e-mailed at email@example.com.


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I was watching a recent episode of the Colbert Report, and Alan Alda was the guest. I have been an Alan Alda fan since he was on the TV version of M*A*S*H as Hawkeye. Well, apparently Alan Alda not only played a questionable role model physician, but he is also really into science. He explained his idea, the Flame Challenge:
As a curious 11-year-old, Alan Alda asked his teacher, "What is a flame?" She replied: "It's oxidation." Alda went on to win fame as an actor and writer, became an advocate for clear communication of science, and helped found the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. He never stopped being curious, and he never forgot how disappointing that non-answer answer was.
So when he was invited to contribute a guest editorial to the journal Science, he wrote about why we need scientists to communicate clearly and vividly with the public. And he issued the Flame Challenge: I'd like to try a playful experiment. Would you be willing to have a go at writing your own explanation of what a flame is—one that an 11-year-old would find intelligible, maybe even fun? The Center for Communicating Science is looking for new ways to light up people's minds with science, and you might point the way. We'll try out the entries on real 11-year-olds and see which work best. . . .
So here I am—I'm 11 years old and looking up at you with the wide eyes of curiosity. What is a flame? What's going on in there? What will you tell me?
I remember asking a science teacher to explain a flame to me when I was in junior high (that's what we used to call middle school, kiddies), too! I was also disappointed in the answer I received: "It's a chemical reaction." Yeah, OK, but what IS it? Solid? Liquid? Gas?
The winner is a candidate for a Ph.D. in quantum physics who lives in Austria, but is from the United States. His name is Bill Ames. Here is his winning entry. His entry was chosen by eleven year olds.
There is more background information, and an adorable picture of Bill Ames and his daughter here.


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A collection of stories from individuals with disabilities, families, friends, and disability service providers in Tennessee
Showing stories 1 - 2 of 2
Results related to: Adult Services / 36 to 59 years / Self-advocate
"There's not too much for people with disabilities to do in Memphis. To me, I think it could be better.
"Frank always credits the various state and federal programs that have supported him on his new path; the Americans with Disabilities Act, Social Security, Vocational Rehabilitation, Disabled Student Services, and the Federal Workforce Recruitment Program."


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Topic: Design Review: Business Object Permissions in my Models
Greetings forum! The design I describe below for custom object permissions is working well for me in development. I have not yet taken this to production. I am posting this design for public review and commentary. Is there a more efficient way to implement a dynamic roles/rights model? Please tear it apart. What am I doing wrong?
Kudos to Bruce Perens for his ModelSecurity gem.
Happy Friday!
- Taylor
A. Overview
My new collaboration application requires a roles/rights system that goes beyond what is described in "Rails Recipies", Fowler. Rather than having a global, fixed caste system of moderators or admins, my access rights are very 'per object' and subject to business rules.
I implemented my permissions business rules down at my Model layer as ModelSecurity User.current aware can_user_do_this? boolean instance methods. I then use these methods with my current working object (@project.can_user_do_this?) in the view rhtml to restrict visibility of widgets and in the controller layer to prevent posts of information.
I hope to, as a separate phase, implement full on ModelSecurity, but haven't though that out fully yet.
B. Requirements
My Business Rules / Permissions Requirements:
1. Project Owners can view and modify all parts of their own projects.
2. Project Team Members can view and modify some parts of their team projects.
3. Registered Visitor can see most parts of all projects.
4. Anonymous can see parts of all projects.
5. Nobody can modify a project if the Owner hasn't paid his subscription fee.
6. A Project Owner may also be a Project Team Member on other Projects.
C. Implementation Examples
Model Permissions implementation:
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user # owner relationship, do not confuse with User.current.
def user_can_read_core?
# ModelSecurity convention - means user logged in. Must have an account to read core.
true if User.current
def user_can_post_core?
# Only the owner can post core information, and only if he's paid.
true if User.current && User.current.id == user_id && project_is_paid_for?
Controller Permissions usage:
class ProjectController < ApplicationController
before_filter :require_login, :only => [ :post_core ]
def post_core
@project = Project.find_by_id(@params['id'])
raise "Permissions Exception" if @project.user_can_post_core?
# Do magic to store parameters to object.
View permissions usage:
<% if @project.user_can_read_core? %>
Project ID: <%= @project.id %>, Name: <%= @project.name %>
<% end %>
<% if @project.user_can_post_core? %>
Modify the core information below: ...
<% end %>
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- 11-07-12, 09:48 PM Thread Author #1
Adorno Themes
Ok so I got burned by one of these Adorno themes (Cross i7) for my Bold 9900. I am pretty pissed, not because of $4, but because of all the $4 they get for ripping people off with bogus themes. I purchase this theme and get "Elegant i7" instead which is totally not compatible with my device.
2nd, do a theme search for top rated and the entire list of top rated themes are all for Adorno themes with 5 star ratings.
How do they get away with this?
Who do we talk to to get this fixed?
This really sucks for legit theme vendors because people are getting sucked into buying things that they expect to be legit because they assume they're buying from a controlled environment and they're missing out on the business.
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This has been mentioned a few times.....many users have had the same issue including myself, yet they continue to allow it to happen....I wonder if RIM just doesn't care because they are getting a percentage also....just a thought.....throw in pixel dreams also.....no one will receive a refund but maybe they will stop the nonsense.....
- 11-08-12, 12:02 AM Thread Author #3
Re: Adorno Themes
Thing is, "RIM ecommerce" gets the money if you pay with paypal. Being that the vendor's domain is lapsed, where is RIM sending the payment?
Also, how the do they get away with the ratings fixing? I posted my own review which had negative comments and guess what....it's gone now! I can't see it in app world or even on web version. How does that work?
I call bull!
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i think the majority of reviews for Adorno are coming from the older OS's which the themes work properly on and probably from some fake reviews too, i nearly got burned by them too with the panoram theme
- 11-22-12, 10:07 AM Thread Author #5
No way...this is just a scam. They know they can get away with it because paypal has no recourse for intangible items. If you post a negative review, it gets removed from the list and you can't re-revieiw it. This is a load of BS. PayPal gave me my money back but only because they were being nice. I told them I didn't care about the stupid $4.19 because it is the principle. People are getting ripped off and there is no recourse. RIM does not respond to emails and the there is no way to contact the vendor.
Man I'm pissed about this. Fact that people are getting ripped off and there's nothing that can be done just makes me angry.
- 11-22-12, 07:29 PM Thread Author #6
Well it seems my venting on twitter got me a bit further. @BlackBerryHelp finally decided to reply and gave me the address to their "Exception Case Support" form. For those that want it, here it is: https://www.blackberry.com/technical....do?ft=generic (seems a little secretive if you ask me!)
Anyway, filled out the form and got not 1 but 2 replies to 2 of my email addresses (not sure how they got the 2nd) indicating that they would refund and investigate.
I created a long winded reply indicating that it was not the money (and told them paypal cleaned up their - RIM's - mess) but the fact that I feel scammed and that it was so difficult to find a support channel for this stuff.
Hopefully others will get some value out of this post.
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Got suckered today! Is there anyway we can post a warning somewhere to let others know? I've never had this issue with Android or Windows! RIM needs to get their butts in gear on this end or they will lose out! So Angry!
Requested a refund.
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I so agree with everyone here. My second rip off from these people. Who the heck is email@example.com that continues to kick back e-mails.
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The inaccurate descriptions of these themes is such a scam!
- 04-07-13, 06:43 PM Thread Author #12
Well I have been in contact with RIM to see why they won't remove this vendor from AppWorld with all the complaints and the inability to reach the vendor via their support e-mail. I was told to contact the vendor and no answer to my question about removing the vendor. Isn't it funny that you can't reach Adorno direct?
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Jeremy Scott isn't into subtlety. Take his fall/winter 2011 collection, for example. It featured lightning rods, giant stuffed animals, neons of every color, the Superman "S" made into a question mark, and a twisted take on the Coca-Cola logo that replaced the original slogan with "Enjoy God."
But after seeing that show, little mattered apart from opening model, Charlotte Free. Before the lights went down at Milk Studios, Scott tweeted a picture of Free, her famous pink locks pulled back in pigtails, with the caption "Meet Charlotte Free my new muse!!!" Her first time on a runway, for Richard Chai, had been six days earlier. She was all anybody was talking about.
Free ran with the flash sensation, booking editorials in places like Jalouse and Interview, and posing for photographers of the Terry Richardson and Cobrasnake sort — not exactly Mario Testino for Vogue, but a specific kind of triumph nonetheless.
Now, she's made the biggest leap yet. Yesterday it was announced that Free will be the new face of Maybelline, the largest cosmetics brand in the world.
She was discovered in late 2010 by photographer David Mushegain at a video game arcade in Los Angeles, where her family has lived for five generations. The resulting photo series was, well, free — Charlotte in a Los Angeles parking lot, Charlotte crouched in a bus terminal, Charlotte climbing over a graffiti-speckled wall. Mushegain started sending around the pictures to see if they attracted any attention. They did. "[Mushegain] told us he just found an amazing new face in a video game arcade in L.A.," the California skatewear brand RVCA blogged on its Web site. "Charlotte Rvles. You will be seeing a lot of her around RVCA." She was signed to IMG Models, home to Gemma, Lara, and Gisele, and hit the runway just a few months after.
Then came the photoshoot with Richardson, which resulted in a spread for Olivier Zahm's Purple Magazine. She's her usual rebellious self, wearing men's clothes, flicking off the camera. More striking is the outtake that Richardson posted on his blog of Charlotte licking her own unshaved armpit. In a Guardian article, Free defended the pose as a feminist statement.
Today, she's still an edgy choice, but she's lost some of her shock value. The early pictures don't exactly scream "maybe she's born with it," and they certainly don't say "maybe it's Maybelline." They're grainy, they're punk rock. She's knocking soup off the racks in grocery aisles, she's going to bars in a Lakers T-shirt. Her hair is that fantastic pink, but it's also scraggly and unwashed. Don't tell her current employer, but back then, her face showed no trace of makeup. For a company that's been represented in the past by Erin Wasson, Christy Turlington, and Julie Stegner, Maybelline's choice of Free feels like a brave move.
To reveal their new face, the brand made a video with P'Trique (real name: Patrick Pope), the filmmaker behind the "Shit Fashion Girls Say" viral videos. In it, the flamboyant would-be-fashionisto calls designers, socialites, and Twitter-famous fashion editors to say he has a secret — or in P'Trique-speak, a "chic-ret" — but he can't tell unless they promise they won't tweet it. Of course they do, and so did every person who watched the clip. The meta-social networking trick, works every time.
And then today, a blog on the Grazia Web site offered a peek at what Free's first TV spots would look like. In the stills, she's in a black form-fitting outfit that might be a leotard, with a black choker creeping up her neck. And there's no sign of the foundation-free grunge kid: she's got thick slashes of yellow eyeshadow, black eyeliner, and rose lipstick. But most shocking is her hair: black at the roots, blond through the middle, and finally, but only at the tip of the bun, pink.


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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Aug. 12, 2007) - The U.S. Men's Sitting Volleyball Team returns to the Parapan American Games to defend its gold medal title from the 2003 Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina. It was there the U.S. won a berth to the 2004 Paralympic Games and eventually finished sixth in the 2004 competition, their highest finish ever in the Paralympic Games.
The U.S. returns four veterans from the 2004 team including team captain Brent Rasmussen (Omaha, Neb.), Eric Duda (Edmond, Okla.), Curtis Lease (Naperville, Ill.) and Chris Seilkop (Deland, Fla.).
A ninth-place finish at the 2006 Sitting Volleyball World Championships was not enough to advance the team to the 2008 Paralympic Games. Now, the Parapan Am Games are the final opportunity for the U.S. to qualify for the 2008 Paralympic Games. The U.S. must win the gold in order to head to Beijing next year.
The team arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Friday and began practices at the Rio Centre on Aug. 11. They practiced in the morning and afternoon and then finished the day with a scrimmage against Costa Rica.
"We are trying to get focused at this point," U.S. Head Coach Bill Hamiter (Bethany, Okla.) said. "Today I want the guys to get mentally ready. Once they are mentally prepared, the physical part will be much easier."
Besides Costa Rica, the teams of Canada and Brazil will also be represented. Although the Canadians have competed in standing volleyball, this is their first international competition in sitting volleyball. The U.S. defeated Brazil at the 2006 World Championships; however, Hamiter indicated "both teams have improved".
In addition to the four returning players, Hamiter commented he expects great play from Jose Zabala (Carolina, Puerto Rico), Matt Johnson (Omaha, Neb.), Edgar LaForest (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Brad Johnson (Pompano Beach, Fla.).
The U.S. Sitting Men will scrimmage again on Aug. 13 against Canada. They will begin competition on Aug.15 at 11 a.m. (local time) versus Canada. Pool play will take place Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with all teams playing each other. The teams will then be seeded according to records for the semifinal games.
2007 U.S. Men's Sitting Volleyball Parapan Am Games Roster
No. Name Position Current Residence
1 Matt Johnson L Lincoln, Neb.
3 Curtis Lease MH Naperville, Ill.
4 Hugo Storer OH Houston, Texas
5 Eric Duda OH/MH Edmond, Okla.
7 Bradley Johnson MH Pompano Beach, Fla.
8 James Stuck O/MH Edmond, Okla.
9 Roderick Green OH/MH Edmond, Okla.
10 Edgar LaForest OH San Juan, Puerto Rico
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