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Guest of Honor, author Mary Doria Russell presented with a birthday cake on her 50th birthday at ArmadilloCon 2000
Authors Vernor Vinge (Guest of Honor) and Elizabeth Moon at ArmadilloCon 2003
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Artist R. Cat Conrad and his rendition of fantasy world at Interactive Fantasy World Building panel at ArmadilloCon 2004
Guest of honor Charles Stross (right) is talking with Wil McCarthy, scientist, science fiction author, and popularizer of programmable matter idea at ArmadilloCon 2005
Texas author Julia Mandala at ArmadilloCon 2005
Celtic band Brobdingnagian Bards and author Rie Sheridan at their performance at ArmadilloCon 2005
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Texas authors Julia Mandala (left) and Linda Donahue at ArmadilloCon 2005
Texas authors Brad Denton (left) and Caroline Spector play in their band Two-Headed Baby at ArmadilloCon 2005
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GoH John Scalzi at the writers' workshop, speaking to aspiring writers about the Power of Suck at ArmadilloCon 2008
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The artist Guest of Honor David Lee Anderson cuts the ArmadilloCon 30th anniversary cake at ArmadilloCon 2008; first row from the right: Kurt Baty, Rocky Kelley (with a camera), fan GoH Kelly Persons
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Patty Wells, a fan Guest of Honor at ArmadilloCon 2008, is about to cut the cake at a Reno Worldcon bid party
Biomechanical action figures, created by Marvin Niebuhr from an Austin organization Robot Group, and exhibited in the ArmadilloCon 2008 dealer room
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Audrey Lockwood, Marshall Maresca, and Nicole Duson -- students at ArmadilloCon 2009 writers workshop, years before Marshall and Nicole became teachers at the same workshop.
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Highlights from prep and college sports.
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The session was titled "The Design of Life," and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution's role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education. Scientists and intellectuals hold very different beliefs about God from the American public, he says, yet they are cowed by the overall political environment. Dawkins' scornful tone drew strongly mixed reactions from the audience; some stood and applauded his courage. Others wondered whether his strident approach could do more harm than good. Dawkins went on to publish The God Delusion and become perhaps the world's best-known atheist.
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When I took the samples they tasted great, but bottled about 1 weeek later in both batches and they seemed "off". I had a bottle yesterday and it seems like it may have gotten slightly infected. This was the first time I tried the turkey baster method and never had a problem before. I also see the ring in the bottle necks which seems to indicate a problem.
Ill be brewing another batch in a couple of weeks and see if the problem continues. I'd like to prevent any further bad batches so I'm trying to hone in on the issue. That seemed like the first place to start. I'm rhinking the rubber bulb may have been an issue, even though i boiled it before sanitizing it.
I thoroughly sanitize my wine thief and hydrometer. Take the reading right in the wine thief then "I know I'm risking contamination" release the sample back into the fermenter.
I used to use a turkey baster. Then SWMBO took it to use on a turkey . I'm probably going to replace it with a wine thief.
I used my wine theif once and the cap on the end of my siphon came off inside it. I guess they are ruined wtf! N00b
Well since I haven't had a problem with any previous batches until I used this method that's about all I can attribute it to.
Thanks for the encouragement. Its always nice to see other brewers trying to help others out!
Sorry didn't mean to sound like an a-hole. I used to use the thief, but ended up having to dip it a few times to get enough for a sample, so now i just sanitize a dry measure cup (8 ounce volume) that's all I need. Not the most ideal since you have to open the whole lid (not really possible to do with a carboy) but its been working fine.
A really long turkey baster I got from my lhbs.
I'd love some sort of a sampler that has a little latch or something that closes so I can just do one dip with no drips. Bonus points if I can just drop the hydrometer in the top of it so I don't even need two containers.


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Need help with ID of OGR
I would love to know the name of this rose and am hoping one of you can help me. I found it at a home my Mother was living. The previous owner had kept it mowed to the ground. We let if grow back and it appeared to be a shrub rose, growing about 4' high and wide. It was in mostly shade but was covered in these pink blooms. I dug up a start and planted it in my garden, full sun and discovered it was a climber,12' or so. It's a once bloomer, mid to late spring. It has a very strong and sweet rose fragrance. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated!
Lynn, what a lucky find - it's a beautiful rose.
Let's try to narrow this down a little:
Your member page notes that you garden in central Indiana. That's probably USDA Zone 5. Whatever this rose is, it needs to survive fairly cold winters, so we know it's not a China, Tea, or Noisette.
The leaves appear to be matte rather than shiny. Does anyone remember which classes are more likely to have matte foliage?
You mention that you dug up a start of the original rose. Does this mean that the original plant sent out a lot of suckers, forming a wide thicket? Certain types of OGRs are more likely to do this than others.
Finally, how large are the flowers? It's hard to tell from the photos. And do you have any photos that show the buds, hips, or prickles (thorns)?
If you could answer Cecilia's questions it would be very helpful in narrowing down the possibilities.
At first glance it reminds me of a damask perpetual/Portland rose named "Comte de Chambord," so I'm putting a link to that one below. Click on the photos tab to see many pictures of that variety:
Here is a link that might be useful: Comte de Chambord
It does look a lot like Constance Spry. Here are some photos for comparison.
Constance is known for her distinctive myrrh fragrance. Lynn describes her rose's fragrance as strong and sweet. I know that fragrance is subjective, but if we could just get Lynn to recognize the myrrh fragrance, we might be able to confirm whether or not this is Constance.
Here is a link that might be useful: Constance Spry on Helpmefind.com
Sorry I haven't been able to get back with the question's you've all asked about my OGR. I lost my Grandmother last week and have been away dealing with everything that comes from such a loss. I really appreciate all of you trying to help me figure out this rose I have found. I'll try to answer as many Q's as I can! Please bear with me, I mostly only grow OGR's roses and don't know a lot about them! Most were given to me and I've no clue what the name is for any of them! So I may be here begging for help with the others as well! :)
"Does this mean that the original plant sent out a lot of suckers, forming a wide thicket?"
Yes, the canes come up from the ground like suckers. Each year I get 3 to 4 new canes. The original Rose I took my start from was at least 4 ft wide.
"Finally, how large are the flowers?"
I'm going by memory because I never thought to measure but I would say the first photo above they are about 3" across and about 4" once fully open as in the 2nd photo. I found a few more photo's. I'll include a link at the bottom of my post. They are not the best quality and the color is not true on most of them but maybe you can get a better idea on what this rose is. The photo's above are almost exact to the actual color.
"At first glance it reminds me of a damask perpetual/Portland rose named "Comte de Chambord,"
I checked the link that you provided and it does look very much like a few of the photo's of this rose. It says it blooms a second time in the fall, however mine has never done that. I've only had it bloom in the spring, May/June. I've pruned it back to the first set of five leaves and have never had it set on new buds. Could I be doing something wrong to keep it from blooming a second flush later in the season? This will be my 4th year with this Rose in my garden.
"Constance is known for her distinctive myrrh fragrance. Lynn describes her rose's fragrance as strong and sweet."
The best I can describe the scent is it has what most amatures like myself would call a rose scent? Almost like the bottles of toilet water I use to sniff at the dime stores when I was a child. Does that make sense?....LOL It is very sweet. You can smell the scent the minute you step into my back yard. My neighbor directly behind me says she can smell it when she step out her back door, which is maybe 50 ft from where the rose is growing on my fence. I don't recall it having a spicy scent at all,but again, I'm new to all this rose stuff!
"If you are ever interested in trading cuttings, I'm in."
I would be more than happy to trade cuttings in the spring with anyone who is interested. Just ask!
Thanks again to all of you who are so kind in helping me figure out what this rose is! I absolutely love it and hope I have given you a litte more to go on!
Here is a link that might be useful: More OGR Pictures
I dont often have time to visit the ID forum-maybe I will try to make time when I see what I am missing-what a lovely find! I dont think it can be Comte de Chambord since it is a climber-that rose generally tops out at 4 feet or so and the stem of the rose looks long and stout. I can only guess which direction to try-Hybrid Bourbons can have that look but are they hardy where you are? It has a Hybrid Perpetual look to me but they should have some rebloom. Hope someone who knows more than I do can ID it...patricia
Are there still any hips on the rose? You might try splitting the hip in half, as Mrs. Keays article suggests. I did this with a hip of one of my foundlings (since ID'd as Shailer's Provence) and was able to determine that it belonged to the hybrid china class. Keays also notes some other ways to narrow down your identification.
Here is a link that might be useful: What Old Rose is This?
Below is a link to the HelpMeFind list of roses by class. You can check out the Centifolias, Damasks, etc.:
Here is a link that might be useful: Roses listed by class
I was wondering if perhaps your rose is De la Grifferaie. It's a multiflora X unknown gallica or damask cross from 1845 that is cold-hardy, grows big (I found a picture of it on the web where it was trained as a climber), is once-blooming, and tends to sucker vigorously from the roots. The flowers are pink, very fragrant, and very double with a button eye. The plant has been used as understock, and may have been what the original rose was grafted onto before the previous homeowner mowed it down. The pictures I've seen describe the flowers as dark pink in the shade, but tend to be medium pink in the sun. De la Grifferaie isn't supposed to have many prickles, however; are the newer canes as thorny as the one in the picture that is posted?
Below is a link to HelpMeFind photos of De la Grifferaie. Click on photos for enlargement. Click on "Main" tab for description:
Here is a link that might be useful: De la Grifferaie
I thought it looked like Fantin Latour also but the flower form just doesn't look quite the same to me. FL to me appears more rosette-like and has more petals. Those big red thorns are not typical of FL either. I have a little FL and it has small prickles. I can't think what grows to 12 feet in the north either that looks like this. I agree the bloom looks a lot like Comte de C.
Actually De La Grifferaie can be quite prickly. I came across it when I was looking for understock roses to grow, as they are hard to kill. Some of these roses, although they are propogated vegetatively, can sport some as they go along, so they can be quite variable. Manetti is a good example of this; its prickles can range from absent to large. This sporting can result in some difference in flower color, etc, too.
Belle Isis isn't a climber, and has a strong myrrh fragrance, rather than old rose. Trospero said that it had either centifolia or gallica foliage, but it must be a hybrid since those are not climbers, and this rose is clearly a climber. A very lovely rose.
Some of the Gallica-China crosses are indeed climbers. This is not 'Compte de Chambord', nor is it 'Belle Isis' or 'Constance Spry'. It might be 'Fantin Latour' though. It might be 'De la Grifferaie'but you would know more certainly if it had the fringed stipules. So, what is it? Darn purty, thats what. :-)
AndreaRose: I'll get a petal count and do a more accurate measuring on the canelength and size of blooms. It should be in bloom by the end of May.
trospero: Many of the suggestions look so close but out of all of them so far 'Fantin Latour' looks and sounds the most like my Rose. But what do I know!? Not much that's for sure!...lol I agree she sure is darn purty! Maybe after I get more info we can figure this beauty out!?
Thanks to all of you for helping me try to name her. I really do appreciate it!
I have an OGR, found in the rock wall when I moved in her 30 years ago, which is just as you describe--it is also a very poor cut flower, falling apart quickly but smelling wonderfully until then.
An old (in years) friend said it was Dorothy Perkins, but I wonder. It looks like some of the DP photos.
I'll take some photos when it blooms.
The bloom form is different from my Fantin-Latour, mine also seem to have less petals and is a bit paler than on your pictures, more blush than pink. Andrea is also right about the canes of Fantin which are very flexible.
Your rose is very beautiful. It reminds me a bit of Ispahan, a damask which can grow very big under certain condition (full sun and support), but it probably isn't quite it also.
Gros choux de Hollande is also sometimes classed with Centifolias, it is a bourbon hybrid (or do we say hybrid bourbon?) that doesn't repeat. There is some ressemblance, perhaps a close relative?
Are you still trying to identify this one? If so, I have some questions and maybe a suggestion or two.
Can you get photos of buds that are about to open, flower stems, foliage, foliage details like the edges of the leaves, and a good look at the general habit of the plant?
With regard to suggestions that other people have made, I like the 1938 article by Mrs. Keays, though some of the names are now out of date. She has a lot to say about key characteristics.
As to the roses that people have suggested, I'm afraid they mostly don't seem right to me. For example, most of the photos of 'Fantin Latour' and 'Comte de Chambord' show blossoms that are significantly darker in the middle and paler at the edge, but I don't see that in any of your photos of your rose.
Photos of 'de la Grifferaie' seem to show a more ragged blossom with fewer petals, and much more color-change as the flowers age out.
'Konigin von Danemark' has dark-green wrinkly foliage, and the flowers tend to be pale at the edge. If I'm seeing your photos right, your plant has dusty mid-green foliage with a wavy (but not really wrinkly) surface, and it has relatively long flower-stems.
Several of the suggested possibilities (for example, 'La Ville de Bruxelles') have flowers that are mostly cupped, with a fairly flat front. Your photos don't look like that at all -- the flowers appear to open quite convex. (Are the petals any paler on the reverse than the front? That, too can be a key item...)
'Williamsburg' (http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=28904) is superficially similar, but I'm not sure it has as many petals, and the date of introduction is a bit recent (1965). 'Hetty's Mystery', found in California (http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=48548), is also superficially similar, but the leaves appear too flat and not dusty enough.
I just wish I could be more helpful.
It would be great, btw, if you'd be willing to post this rose to Fara Shimbo's new found roses Website. I'll give the URL below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Found Roses (a new site)


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I read about the High Gravity system that use a low density 4,500 watt electric heating element in their 15.5 gallon HLT and a 3,500 for their brew pot. From what I understand they run their system at 220 volts for brewing up to 15 gallon batches.
Questions I have:
Would the heating element cause scorching the wort being run at 220 volts vs 120 volts?
Is there enough heat from 3,500 watts on the brew pot to allow a rolling boil without scorching? This with a converted keg operating in a 60 degree F environment.
What I am thinking is why not weld in a 1 1/2" by 15" long stainless tube into the lower section of a keg with a cap on end plus a step down fitting to 1" pipe thread for the 4,500 watt screw in heater and run it on 220 volts. Have a short sight gauge connected to this tube that extends outside the keg filled with anti-freeze allowing for the sight level plus expansion of the anti-freeze when heated. This way you can have a high electrial heating with 220 volts plus a large surface area from the 1 1/2" by 13" long stainless tubing allowing for heat transfer without scorching.
I have propane plus natral gas in the patio but rather have a electrically heated and PID controlled system.
Am I thinking on the right track here?
Only at a paper design stage here.
Take a look at a thread called RIMS set ups. One of the posts is from Kladue. In it he shows some nice calculations for heating elements. As for the wort scorching, as I understand it, it is all about surface temperature on the element. In the boil kettle it doesn't matter so much because the thermal dynamics say the fluid will have a natural flow across the element. In a mash tun, the fluid is thicker, and not as viscous, so you would need something to stir it or the keep the fluid moving across the element. You could also use RIMS, HERMS, or steam infusion in the mash for temp control. As for the elements go... Think extra low density. Fifty watts per Square inch, this keeps surface temps on the element manageable.
If you look at dry type water heater elements by camco http://www.camco.net/Menu.cfm?SupCat...ProductId=2355, they are made to go inside a tube instead of directly into the liquid. The down side is the wattages are limited to about 2,000 watts or less.
I ran across heating elements as low as 30 watts per sq inch.
After reading the "RIMS set up" threads with one reply stating 50 watts
per sq inch "should" not cause scorching, this did not sound like a 100% scorch free system. Nothing would be worse that spending time and money on a brewing system with built in problems lowering the quality of the bier.
As for the dry type of heating element granted the wattage is too low, that system still is not a consideration even if it had 6,000 watts of available heating. Thanks for the reply anyway as i'm still open to any suggestions.
I even considered going to a 3 1/2" diameter thin wall stainless tubing 14 1/2" long inside the keg allowing 169 sq/in surface area including the end cap. With a 4.5 KW heating element on 220 volts results in 26.62 watts per sq/in. The question I have will 3 1/2" x 14 1/2" thin wall stainless tubing transfer 4.5KW of generated heat without causing the 50/50 anti-freeze water mix inside the tubing to go into a boil?
Still in the paper designing stage with untouched kegs so no mistakes applied to kegs.
This is just a guess, the element in a chamber with antifreeze will probably boil the antifreeze because of insuficient heat transfer without forced circulation. It would help if one could use a pump to induce flow over the direct contact element to move the heat and reduce element surface temperature to a point low enough to prevent scorching.
Not all that knowledgeable here but I do have experience using a standard 120 volt 2000watt element (both heat stick and kettle mounted). I have never detected any scorching! I even have used the stick to adjust mash temps (constantly stirring) w/out scorching the "high gravity" first runnings.
My field experince, and what I gather from what I've read is that fears of scorching are overstated. Of course ymmv.
anti-freeze isn't the best material for your plan. I'd use an oil with a high smoking point. Like synthetic hydraulic oil, or maybe even peanut oil.
A great man knows that he knows NOTHING
Sounds like a lot of work to avoid a something that may not even be a problem, meanwhile constructing something that will require a field test to assess functionality. I don't think anyone here can do better than guess at what the heat transfer will be like, but I tend to agree with Kladue, that it won't be great.
As for whether a 4500 w element will maintain a rolling boil, depends on how much wort, and I'd be much more concerned with how long it took to bring it too a boil:
4500 watts = 15,363 Btus
3500 watts = 11,949 Btus
The boil rate is independent of how much wort you are boiling. Once the wort reaches the boiling point, you need 970 BTU to vaporize a pound of water.
A 4500 watt element will heat ten gallons of wort about 3 degrees F a minute assuming no heat loss to the surroundings and assuming the wort has the same specific heat as water.
Making the same assumptions as above, it takes an electric heating element running at about 3600 watts to boil off wort at a rate of 1.5 gallons per hour, which is a typical boil rate for most of us. One gallon per hour boiloff requires 2400 watts of power.
Echoing others above, lots of folks have success using elements in direct contact with wort, and some in contact with the mash. I would use your obvious ingenuity to build an electric RIMS or HERMS system to heat mash.
All good replies I must thank you all.
I want to have over 10 gallons at the end of the boil so the total volume before boil must be around 13 gallons, just a guess figure to heat up.
On using oil vs anti-freeze that sounds like a great idea as there would be no pressure cap to increase the boiling point of the anti-freeze.
Now Amsoil synthetic ATF has a flash point (vapor) of 428 degrees Fahrenheit, way above what I would have to worry about. I will add a gear case sight gauge for filling, heat expansion and sight.
As far as extra work for myself you all know labors free besides it's the building of the project that counts. A little more welding than just welding half of a one inch coupling into a keg besides I have the welding equipment and not paying to have it welded plus have one odd manufactured keg that I can experiment on.
On the High Gravity Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies forum they show a build your own electric brewing system with a 15.5 gallon HLT kettle heated by 4,500 watts at 220 volts and the 15.5 gallon boil kettle heated with 3,500 watts at 220 volts. They claim 30% boil off hence only a 60 minute boil time.


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Although the film has a righteous heart, by focusing solely on government as showbiz, it's part of what it decries. Curry makes uproarious hay with the illegal shenanigans of incumbent mayor Sharpe James, but is that all there is? That said, Street Fight has enough cultural crosscurrents to fill out a novel.
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I like thebfire place in the rooom and very nice staffs..
No ventilation system in the bathroom.
price, nice room and location
very bad experience in the restaurant, service was very poor, entrees were not good and it was an expensive meal
The hotel room was spacious and charming. The room itself was clean and so was the dining area. Breakfast was a simple, but hearty continental self-serve buffet. Stephanie from the PM shift gets a ten out of ten for courtesy & friendliness.
Mornings were not quiet at all. My hotel room didn't face the main road, yet I heard all the street noise from the cars driving beginning at 5am. Gym had previous user's water cup left in machine. Rooms could use double bolt lock for added security.
Great location, well kept, taken care of.
There's no real lobby, which made check in and check out difficult.
1. There are no king beds anywhere on the property despite our reservation for a king bed. Really that was just fraudulent. 2. The wifi signal was so weak as to be nonexistent. 3. The room may have been nonsmoking but it was too musty to tell for sure.
The staff and the size and cleanliness of the room.
The fitness room is marginal.
Super clean for an older motel.
The staff were very nice, especially the manager that checked us out on Sunday.
The hotel room was in pretty rough shape, the basics were clean, bed, tub, toilet. Some of the walls and switches were filthy and the door had coffee stains running down the inside. The wall paper in the bathroom was torn and falling away from the wall
The hotel was very clean, and the staff were very friendly (special thanks to Chris and Lane, I believe her name was, at the front desk for providing directions to great places to see). The room surprisingly had a fire place in it! There are restaurants
The prices of rooms are reasonably inexpensive. Staff is very friendly. Complementary breakfast was a nice added touch to our stay.
We ran out of toiletries including toilet paper. One of our lamps had a broken bulb.
Noisy, room right on parking lot
The place is huge with lots of rooms.
There was hardly any heat. The living room had the heat unitand a small duct ran into the bedroom. It never warmed up!
Hotel staff was friendly and very flexible in offering us a room that was large enough to accomodate our small dog and large family.
The room was a bit small, not much space to walk around in the room, but it is what it is.
The price was right since I was traveling by myself.
Old and tired, wireless didn't work.
it was available, good location
ghastly decor, overpriced for what it is
Cant beat the location if you're interested in visiting Williams College, Clark Art Museum and the Williamstown theater. Short drive into town and very close to the Vermont border.
It's shabby, my room smelled of mold even though the dehumidifier was on. The tub was old and somewhat stained so there was a rubber mat to cover it. It appeared to be painted recently, but someone painted over wallpaper. Wifi didn't work.
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The Sunday Times carried out an undercover sting, in which lobbyist and former Bush administration official Stephen Payne thought he was meeting "Eric Dos," a man seeking to arrange meetings in Washington for Askar Akayev, the former president of Kyrgyzstan.
"Who does he want to meet with in Washington?" asked [Payne]. Dos replied: "Well of course, maybe the president of the United States, vice-president Cheney, to speak maybe directly to explain the situation in central Asia . . . To give his side of the story. These kind of things."
"I think that some things could be done," said Payne, adding that seeing Bush himself might be more difficult. With barely a pause, he continued: "I think that the family, children, whatever [of Akayev], should probably look at making a contribution to the Bush library. It would be like, maybe a couple of hundred thousand dollars, or something like that, not a huge amount but enough to show that they're serious."
Read the full story and make sure to watch the wonderful video of Payne selling access, too.
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Chinese Sex Scandal: Orgy Pictures of Top Politicians Go Viral on Internet.
More than 100 pictures, depicting three men and two women participating in group sex in a hotel room, were posted on Chinese social media Sina Weibo by an unknown user.
The men were recognised by internet surfers as being the ruling party's leader for the Lujiang district, Wang Minsheng, his deputy, Jiang Dabin, and the party's youth leader at Hefei University, Wang Yu.
Chinese authorities have been implementing a crackdown on pornography. Group sex is a crime in China and carries a maximum five-year jail sentence.
Wang Minsheng and his deputy denied they had taken part in the sex party. The images were Photoshop fabrications by their political enemies to undermine them, they claimed.
Lujiang authorities added to the confusion by denying that the pictured men were local government officials.
The pictures were a "malicious slander", the Lujiang county committee of the Communist Party of China said.
But Wang Yu said he was one of the three men. One of the women in the pictures was his wife, a high school teacher in Hefei, he said.
Chinese authorities have revoked their party membership and Wang Yu has been sacked.
The pictures were taken in a Shangai hotel room five years ago, when Wang Yu and his wife were not yet married, according to Chinese newspaper People's Daily.
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A request to Manics fans out there
This year I'll be writing a book on Manics album The Holy Bible, along with Larissa Wodtke and Daniel Lukes. My section will focus on the album's social and political context ie Britain in the 90s, the album's appeal to teenagers, and reasons why the band had such a huge female fanbase.
As part of researching this book, I'd find it helpful to speak to other fans of the band about the album – both those who, like myself, grew up with the Manics in the 90s, and those who discovered them later. (If you're interested in what I've written previously on the band, most of it is here.)
If you'd be willing to tell me a bit about your experience as a Manics fan, please reply to this post with a contact email or, if you prefer, contact me yourself on firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you!
In advance of the Manics' anniversary tour of The Holy Bible, the Cardiff production company Barefoot Rascals is making a short documentary on the album's history and its impact on fans, involving interviews with Simon Price, myself and others. To get the film produced, we are asking for funding on Kickstarter – please donate a couple of quid here if you can. We are halfway to meeting the funding target so far.
Below is a guest post and pictures by former music photographer Lorna Cort, who remembers the original album tour in 1994 and whose pictures will be used in the documentary.
The Manic Street Preachers were my life. After discovering Stay Beautiful in the Summer of 1991 I'd followed tours, collected just about everything, written too many letters to James, learned to play guitar ( a white Gibson Les Paul obviously!) and helped form the band of fellow Manics fans 'Dead End Dolls'.
By 1994, I bought a camera and decided I was going to be a music photographer. I can't remember who gave me a photo pass for Portsmouth Guildhall on 12th October but thank you, I have treasured the results. Back in the olden days of film and developing at Boots, I had no idea how the photos would turn out. As well as manual focus I had to contend with stage divers flying overhead, security guards taking up all the room in the photo pit, and the deafening sound of a thousand screaming fans 2 feet behind me and the flimsy barrier! The gig was over in a flash, I remember James raised his eyebrows 'hello' at me, the white sailor suit looked amazing under the lights, the sound was incredible, I wanted to sing along but no, I was a photographer… I couldn't look like I was actually enjoying myself!
The Holy Bible was a challenge to listen to, it was at times uncomfortable, shocking, it was emotional… and it was perfect. When I look at my photos 20 years later I see the concentration on James' face, the determination to get all the words out, Nick's anonymity, head down with a nose-skimming fringe, and I see how painfully skinny Richey's arms look, and that he has the word 'LOVE' written in black marker on his fingers. They were so beautiful, so focused.
I wanted to be part of The Holy Bible – My Testament to share my photos with old fans and new, to celebrate one of the most amazing records ever created and to remember the excitement and love I had for this band. To paraphrase Nick – they remain the most intelligent people I ever met in my life. I so hope this project goes ahead and maybe brings the Holy Bible to new listeners. Thank you.
Watch this space.
Most of the time life is horrendous or ridiculous or both, but then something like this happens. A few weeks ago I applied, on no more than a whim, for a scholarship-funded place on a novel-writing course. Reader, I got it.
Over the past few years, blogging and journalism and attempted political entryism under the guise of cultural criticism have been hugely validating, sometimes useful, and mostly enjoyable to me, but creative writing has always been at the heart of why I ever put pen to paper. Not that I've ever been under any illusions that we live in an age where simply wanting to write is enough – certainly if one lacks independent wealth, then one requires ideas, impetus, strategy, contacts, networking ability, luck, a regrettable learned attitude which buries sense and squeamishness beneath the cynical and mercenary and, above all these, financial support.
This funding, raised by the friends and family of the Welsh writer Eluned Phillips, does its bit to cushion the impact of my recent decision to jack in my previous minimum-wage shift work in retail after seven years and look for something more in keeping with keeping my sanity.
I've just started reading Eluned's memoir and as far as I can tell she led the kind of inspiring, restless and picaresque life that we – particularly women – haven't had enough examples of within living memory. I hope that I can do her justice.
Links to things I've written elsewhere.
1. 'Crumbling Pillars of Feminine Convention' – on Viv Albertine's memoir Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys. Sex, punk, feminism, the usual.
2. 'Living Fast: Revisiting Oasis' Definitely Maybe' – on Alex Niven's Oasis; 90s Britain (bad) and 00s Britain (slightly worse); pros and cons of 'Cigarettes and Alcohol' as life philosophy.
3. Retrospective on the 20th anniversary (!) of The Holy Bible, the summer of 1994 and the travails of being a teenage girl, available in the new issue of Planet magazine. Well worth buying a hard copy as it also contains, among other things, a fascinating article on the history of cross-dressing in protest. My piece is accompanied by the photo below, taken some time in the mid-90s when I had taken to hand-spraying a glittery hammer-and-sickle onto my dress, as was the style at the time. Outfit is not currently, as one correspondent suggested, housed in the museum of Welsh folk art.
On talking about pop when you want to talk politics.
Alex Niven's book on Oasis' Definitely Maybe is out now and worth your time. It's a book about working-class art, working-class politics, and the decline of both in Britain since the 90s, but there's no denying the fact that it's also a book about Oasis. So for the purposes of this post, which isn't about Oasis, let's talk about Oasis first:
Yes, it's alright if you think Oasis were shit. Yes, Oasis went downhill fast – almost immediately, in fact. Yes, Oasis were a more 'authentic' version of the freewheeling should-know-better casually chauvinist Lad that, in Niven's term, the 'bourgeois wing of Britpop' attempted to pantomimically portray, and no, this wasn't necessarily a good thing. Music press, tabloids and lad-mags in the 90s lionised the Gallaghers' laddishness as part of a tediously retrograde cultural discourse that was intent on rolling back the 'politically correct' gains of the decades before. This same discourse imposed a false dichotomy of class, in which Oasis' supposed proley authenticity was linked with loutish ignorance and excess, while experimentation, education and glorious pretentiousness were presented as the preserve of the middle class. So yes, Oasis were damaging. But more by accident – or by deliberate exploitation by a largely middle-class cultural industry – than by design.
And yes, there was more than Oasis happening in the 90s. The issue here is that no other band got so big, so phenomenally quickly, and the question is whether anything interesting can be said to explain that – you know, beyond the not-even-trying paradigm of "people like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis; you can't trust people, Jeremy". The book's background argument on this, to which I am a rock-solid subscriber, is that, as 90s politics capitulated to a post-Thatcher consensus, a more subversive, anti-establishment spirit persisted in early-90s pop culture – including early Oasis alongside the Manics, Pulp, Kenickie etc – which then got flattened under Cool Britannia, Blairism, and Britpop's imperial stage. Overthinking it? Yeah, if you like. Better than underthinking it, mate. Continue reading
From Olympia to the Valleys: What Riot Grrrl Did and Didn't Do for Me
[This essay first published in the Wales Arts Review, with artwork by the tremendous Dean Lewis.]
With riot grrrl now approaching the status of a heritage industry, not to mention Courtney Love's current incarnation as the post-grunge Norma Desmond, it can be hard to recall that both of them helped me find my feminist footing on the slippery rocks of a '90s girlhood. This is a roundabout remembrance of how it happened.
The arts have long been a space for radical expression by women, even if the extent of that radicalism has often gone under-acknowledged. In 1915, the author and journalist Dorothy Richardson produced Pointed Roofs, credited as the first English stream of consciousness novel, using an innovative prose style which she saw as necessary for the expression of female experience. Virginia Woolf observed that Richardson 'has invented, or, if she has not invented, developed and applied to her own uses, a sentence which we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender'. If Richardson's challenge to linguistic convention in her writing has musical counterparts, one of them is the 'new, raw and female' sound made possible by post-punk. Punk removed barriers of precedent and technical expertise to engagement in music, enabling trips into less-charted musical and lyrical territory. But it was in the subsequent voyage of discovery that was post-punk that punk's revolutionary potential really bore fruit, and the untried, experimental nature of post-punk music was particularly suited to women.
Answers to some questions on what, why and how I write.
I am answering the following questions on my writing, having been handed the baton by scholar and poet Alex Niven, a man currently poised to rescue Oasis from the enormous condescension of posterity.
I now pass the baton to the eminent Victorianist Dr Sophie Duncan, and to Ireland's foremost political satirist.
- What am I working on?
Officially, I am working on a new cultural history of the Rebecca riots, as detailed in this post.
Unofficially – having gained the nichest of niche acclaim with Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender, I am making life difficult for myself by changing tack from ~cultural ~studies to fiction, and currently have three novels on the go. Here follows, in brief, Not My Elevator Pitches:
Book A – Dystopian satire on this country's likely future under Tory government. NB this book is full of things that I made up in order to illustrate the horrific and ludicrous nature of a near-future Britain. Roughly one third of these things are now actual government policy.
Book B – Much less pointed satire set in present-day and Old Weird London, centred on the mutually reluctant attraction between a girl on the disillusioned fringes of the anticapitalist left and a boy who is a Shoreditch twat. (If you know me, laughably autobiographical.)
Book C – Historical fiction set during the aforementioned Rebecca Riots. Not satire but an exploration of class struggle, sexual identity, and tremendous outfits.
I write things like this secure in the knowledge that commercial mainstream publishing is being ever more relentlessly filleted and focused on the search for the next 50 Shades of Grey or other soon-to-be phenomena that the online world under forty in fact got bored with weeks ago.
My only previously published fiction is of course the smash-hit satirical mash-up P G Wodehouse's American Pyscho.
If I write anything more in the vein of Clampdown it will probably be a self-indulgent comic 90s memoir tentatively titled I Was a Teenage Manics Fan.
- How does my work differ from others of its genre?
I'm not sure that there are others of its genre – or indeed what its genre is to start with. Clampdown is a book that no publisher other than the small and heroic Zer0 Books would have taken a punt on, being as it is a blend of cultural criticism, class war, "angry" feminist intervention, incidental autobiography, excuse to fashion my aesthetic taste into socio-political critique, and love-letter to great but forgotten aspects of '90s and '00s music and culture. (Or 'Chavs for girls' as I think one review termed it. It's not Chavs for girls.) It was mostly written as a caprice and I'm still surprised when it strikes a chord with people. If there are others like it, do send them my way.
- Why do I write what I do?
I write what I do primarily because I do not see myself, my interests or my history adequately represented anywhere in current popular culture, politics, journalism or art. This doesn't mean that I personally am a special snowflake, rather it means that these channels are increasingly closed-off in terms of influence and interest to whole swathes of this country.
Secondly, I write because political satire is currently noticeable by its absence. I think this is both a consequence of the complacency and lack of political engagement now prevalent in arts and media – which, again, may be related to their class composition – and because this government is so outrageously, casually, gleefully accelerationist that it manages to easily outpace anything satire can conjure up. When you have Cameron sitting on a golden throne while making a speech on how there's no money left and we all need to tighten our belts, there's little room left for satire to breathe.
Finally, I write because I was and am heavily influenced by the kind of cultural criticism in which the 90s music press often engaged, which talked about music (and film, and tv, and other objects of consumption) both on its own terms but also with one eye on its social, political and historical context, and which brought theory and critique to bear on pop culture in a way often derived from book-learning but accessibly and enlighteningly applied. It's the main reason I began to write about music in the first place, but, aside from the occasional diamond, this kind of thing now seems to be a dying art.
- How does my writing process work?
Like everyone else without independent wealth, I have been working for the past decade in high-street retail, admin, reception, customer service and similar jobs, and writing and studying around them. So I think of myself less as a writer and more as a worker who writes in their spare time.
Currently I work two jobs. In between, I co-edit New Left Project; write stuff I'd hesitate to call journalism for various print and online publications; research/write/edit the Rebecca riots manuscript due in December; and work on other arbitrary stuff, both fiction and non-fiction, whenever inspiration strikes. Ideally this would necessitate working on each thing in a methodical and disciplined manner in pre-planned, focused bursts of activity, but instead I have very little process or method other than to write when I feel I have something to write, and – more crucially – when I can find the time to write.
I start every week yearning for some free time – for more free time, to be exact – and at the end of every week I languish unfulfilled. I get ideas at inconvenient moments like on the shopfloor, or during the commute, which I find to be good times for thinking but not for writing down an idea in depth, as you lack the time to adequately put your thoughts into words. Then by the time you get the chance to do that, your initial inspiration's dissipated and the idea sounds shite so you decide to forget about it – or worse, you're sure the idea was pretty good but you can't remember exactly what it was, and you're too knackered to think straight and write well anyway.
I could pretend that all this plate-spinning and theft of time concentrates the mind marvellously, and encourages motivation and discipline in the free time I do have. I could pretend that having working hours and contracts that are unpredictable from one week or one month to the next makes life terribly exciting and lends a dusting of raffish bohemian glamour to the task of earning a living. But of course it doesn't. Working to support oneself and trying to produce something creative in the cracks between is – as you'll know if you do it yourself – exhausting and exasperating. (Or maybe I'm just making excuses for myself, eh, and should do the artistic equivalent of getting on my bike.)
On rereading, I see this answer got away from me somewhat. Oh – I tend to write drunk and edit hungover. Maybe that's a better answer.


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I am interested in a stark double delicious apple tree. It has golden delicious and red delicious on one root stock. Has anyone had exsperience with multi grafted apple trees?
I have a 4-in-1 apple (anna, golden dorsett, gordon, and fuji) and the tree is not equally vigorous. Anna and golden dorsett grow way faster than the other two. Tbh the other two trees leafed out about 4 months after anna and golden dorsett. Red delicious variety is not a great apple imo. There are far better tasting apples out there. If you are trying to get a 2-in-1 apple simply because of space, I would instead do a multiple planting check out dave wilson nursery youtube page on multiple planting and pruning trees for a backyard orchard.
My first apple tree was a 3 in 1 (Golden Delicious, Melrose and Summerred). I knew nothing about growing fruit tree then.
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I would not mind having a multi-grafted tree now but not when I knew nothing about it.
I personally do not like close planting the way Dave Wilson suggests. This topic has been discussed over and over. There are proponents and opponents to it. If you search this forum, you'll learn a lot more about it and many other things concerning growing fruit trees.
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China has joined the world's elite club of offshore oil producers after China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) announced that its oil and natural gas output surpassed 60 million metric tonnes in 2010.
The country's largest offshore oil explorer's oil and gas production last year totalled 64.13 million metric tonnes of oil equivalent, of which 50 million was produced domestically, said its president Fu Chengyu on Tuesday.
"It marks a milestone that China has become one of the world's largest offshore oil producers after the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway ... And the marine petrochemical industry will boost the country's energy supply," said Mr. Fu.
China's surging energy demand has led the nation's foreign oil dependence ratio to reach a new high of 55 per cent in 2010.
"We estimate that 60 per cent of China's oil consumption will be imported by 2020," said Wang Jiacheng, a researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research under the National Development and Reform Commission.
Consequently, offshore oil exploration, which is still at an early stage, has become a major factor in quenching the nation's thirst for the natural resource. "We expect our gas and oil output to exceed 200 million metric tonnes of oil equivalent by 2020, including 50 million tonnes of LNG [liquefied natural gas]," Mr. Fu told China Daily.
He added that about 800 billion yuan ($121 billions) to 1 trillion yuan would be invested during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), with the majority going to offshore oil exploration.
The company's total profits exceeded 90 billion yuan in 2010, up over 70 per cent from 2009's 52.4 billion yuan, said Mr. Fu.
Offshore oil will make up 40 per cent of the world's oil output by 2015, compared with 34 per cent in 2004, according to figures from the China Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering Institute. Offshore gas will account for 35 per cent of the world's gas output over the same period. China's central government said in its 12th Five-Year Plan that the country should develop and implement a marine development strategy, and improve technical ability and comprehensive management.
CNOOC has tapped into Africa, South America, West Asia, and Australia for cooperation opportunities in oil and gas projects.
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In addition, CNOOC has also tried to develop deepwater oil and gas resources, an area that has a large growth potential.
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This mini-tee for your bouncing baby boy or girl is soft, comfortable and non-irritating to sensitive skin. The overlapping shoulder design promotes free movement for toddlers, cruisers and crawlers alike. This is a great gift for the new bundle of joy in your family.
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Designer girl's pink floral peter pan collar dress
Item No.2320202510
This girl's designer dress by Donna and Markus combines a plain ivory jersey top with a pink woven skirt in an all over smiling flower design. It has an elasticated waistband and a sequin embellished peter pan collar with a rear keyhole button fastening.
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- Keyhole button fastening
- Bodice: 95% cotton, 5% elastane
- Skirt: 100% cotton
- Skirt: 100% cotton
- Lining: 100% polyester
- Trim: 100% polyester


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