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Despite millions of investment dollars and rapidly increasing sales, Maine's Own Organic Milk, known as MOO Milk, has ceased production and no longer will sell milk directly to consumers, the company's top executive said Friday.
The decision, which is likely to put a dozen Maine dairy farms in jeopardy, highlights the challenges to the long-term viability of local food producers, said representatives of Maine's food industry.
MOO Milk CEO Bill Eldridge said the Falmouth-based company is shutting down because of problems with its packaging equipment, which pours the organic milk into cartons.
"It's been very, very dicey from the beginning. It started to get worse this year," Eldridge said. "We were just starting to get poor (packaging) quality coming out."
The company explored the option of building a new packaging plant but decided against it because the construction timeline would have kept MOO Milk off store shelves for as long as 18 months, he said.
Putting the brand on hiatus for so long would have made it difficult to get it back on the retail market, Eldridge said. "Supermarket chains really don't forgive you for a year and a half."
MOO Milk's production and sales volumes had been rising rapidly. In late 2011, the company was selling about 2,000 gallons of milk per week. This year, it was selling 8,000 to 10,000 gallons per week, Eldridge said.
Its whimsically designed milk cartons have been in 200 grocery stores all over New England.
The four-year-old company's final production day was Wednesday, Eldridge said. Its last shipment of milk will be on retailers' shelves until it sells out.
MOO Milk laid off half of its six-member staff Thursday. The remaining employees will help the company wind down, which likely will take about 90 days, he said.
MOO Milk has enough cash to pay off its current debts and will not have to file for bankruptcy protection, Eldridge said.
It has a contract to sell its milk wholesale for the next three months to Stonyfield's yogurt facility in Londonderry, New Hampshire, he said.
Farms 'really in trouble'
The company's milk has been produced by 12 organic dairy farms in Maine, including Two Loons Farm in South China.
The farm's owner, Spencer Aitel, said MOO Milk's shutdown came as a surprise. "We had been moving aggressively toward building a new facility, and I thought we were going to continue with that," Aitel said.
The demise of MOO Milk means its network of organic dairy farmers will have to scramble to find a new processor within the next three months. That's not likely to be easy, said Aitel. Aside from Stonyfield and Smiling Hill Farm, the nearest processor of organic milk is Guida's Dairy in New Britain, Connecticut. "There's a lot of people that are really in trouble here," he said.
Since MOO Milk, a low-profit limited liability company, began production in 2010, Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook has been its exclusive processor.
But Eldridge said MOO Milk relied on antiquated equipment that was donated by Oakhurst Dairy after it was taken out of use by Maine's largest dairy processor. The equipment to fill cartons used old technology, broke down frequently and was incapable of meeting MOO Milk's needs, he said.
MOO Milk and Smiling Hill Farm have agreed to terminate their agreement, Eldridge said. The shutdown will not affect production of Smiling Hill Farm's milk, which is packaged in glass bottles by different equipment.
Expansion plans tripped up
In some ways, MOO Milk is a victim of its own explosive growth, Eldridge said. Until Friday's announcement, it was considered by many a rising star in the locally produced organic food movement.
In May 2013, it secured $3.9 million in private funding with the goal of bolstering its finances and hiring an advertising agency to promote its brand.
In March, Eldridge told the Kennebec Journal that MOO Milk was planning to expand into new markets and add six farms to its stable of milk producers. Its retail network of grocery stores included Hannaford, Shaw's and Whole Foods.
MOO Milk most recently expanded to stores in the Boston area, Rhode Island and Connecticut. However, the packaging problems derailed the company's plans, Eldridge said. MOO Milk was ill-prepared to solve those problems, he said, partly because the rapid rise in sales had outpaced the development of contingency plans and a more reliable infrastructure.
"We sprang full-bore into being a company," he said.
Aitel said the fallout from MOO Milk's failure extends well beyond Maine dairy farmers. Investors in the company include Norman Cloutier, founder and former chief executive officer of United Natural Foods Inc., and S. Donald Sussman, majority owner of MaineToday Media, which publishes the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram.
"There's been an awful lot of effort put in by a lot of people," Aitel said, "an awful lot of money on investors' part that's been lost here."
The demise of MOO Milk illustrates the difficulties that Maine's medium-sized, local food businesses face in finding adequate capital to sustain themselves as they grow, said Ted Quaday, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
"The growth challenges are largely in the infrastructure available to support shipping, processing and distribution of dairy products, especially in the far reaches of Maine like Washington and Aroostook counties," he said.
The problem isn't lack of demand, Quaday said. Consumers want locally produced food, and local, organic farms are good for the environment and create jobs.
But Maine's farmers continue to struggle with the process of getting their food to market, he said. Quaday called for government and the community to do more to help keep the local food industry viable.
"We need to redouble our efforts and work with stakeholders, including the Department of Agriculture and state policy makers, to ensure that development of dairy infrastructure is a priority in Maine," he said.
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After my last post on the Another Hole In the Head film festival raised the perennial issue of film vs. video projection at film festivals, I got a comment from Indiefest director Jeff Ross. He informed me that there are indeed five films in this year's HoleHead that will be screened in 35mm. In addition to the previously-mentioned Barbarella and Yaji & Kita, the screenings of Alone, Tunnel Rats and Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer will be shown on film.
As I've mentioned before, I tend to find horror films scarier when shown on 35mm prints in theatres. So this is welcome news for me, especially in regard to Alone, which I've decided I don't want to know anything more about until I get to see it for myself once the festival starts. Admittedly, it made me a tad less intrigued by Exte: Hair Extensions to learn that it would definitely be a video projection, at least until I read the last paragraph of this piece, which unearths the social critique in the film. I remind myself that perhaps my favorite Indiefest experience ever was seeing a well-attended digital screening of Takashi Miike's Visitor Q, which is packed with about as much disturbing social critique as a blistering Pasolini film. Sometimes the immediacy of digital can indeed be scarier than the terrible beauty of the most pristine horror film print.
This seems as good a time as any to put another plug in for the Film On Film calendar, maintained by the same team that presents screenings such as this double feature of Dennis Hopper's the Last Movie on 35mm and Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? on 16mm at the Roxie on June 4th, the evening before HoleHead settles in there. It's the best place I know to get the latest information on the upcoming Frisco screenings put together by exhibitors and programmers that almost certainly spent more on their print shipping costs than on publicity. Look at it right now; there's some interesting things happening this week in particular that I haven't mentioned here yet.
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I'm so glad Jeff Ross was forthcoming with the information. Sometimes it seems like festivals and screening venues are trying to hide behind the hope that nobody really cares whether their selections are shown on film or video. As far as I'm concerned, if a venue is showing movies as close as possible to the way the filmmakers intended (which more and more often means digitally) then I'm happy.
WiseKwai, thanks for stopping by. I broke my own rule and started reading your review of Alone, but once you dropped the names of two of my top three or four directors of all time as comparison pieces, I knew your review would confirm my desire to see the film, and restrained myself from spoiling myself with further info.Thank you for this list of which films will be in 35mm. I wouldn't mind the digital screenings so much if they had a better projector. But as it is, I've seen too many potentially good horror films ruined because the coloring of the blood is off, and is always kind of a pinkish purple, which I find very distracting. I'm still considering Exte, since it's not a gore film, but it's hard to rationalize paying $10 when the only advantage over waiting for the DVD (or if the DVD never comes, finding it to download) is a bigger screen and a lesser quality. Hardly seems worth it.

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3.82 / 5.00 7,060 ViewsIts time for the little Baby Toucan to try its first flight. You are the one that will guide him through 30 levels and finally teach him how to fly. Use your mouse to control the little bird flight. Click mouse button from time to time, watch not to fall into the water, avoid obstacles and collect bonuses, which will certainly be of great help
I'm not big on the mouse click dynamic but otherwise I think it's a good game. Maybe the next one could use wasd or arrows though, or at least offer it.
Hmmmm. The music, while appropriate, was a little boring. Perhaps some other music options would be nice, or at least the ability to mute the game.
It looks like you spent some time designing this, but maybe a little time on some story would be good too. The reason "Toss The Turtle" gets away with no story is the immense amount of power ups and animation. This isn't nearly as visually appealing, so you gotta make up for it somewhere. It needs some fine tuning, but otherwise, definitely front page fodder.
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Saints-Leeds Grand Finals used to be the norm. It is a fair bet that few people expected one this year. In a game which, following the classic at Warrington on Friday night, continued to restore the good name of the play-off system, St Helens qualified for Old Trafford with a display of ferocious determination.
Frequently under the cosh on a hot night at Widnes, Saints kept coming up with the key defensive plays and then took their chances when they came. It was far from an error-free performance from a side that has had to battle adversity all season, but they were always willing and able to cover for their mistakes.
Helped by Saints' errors, Wigan dominated the first quarter of an hour. Jonny Lomax's kick out on the full, followed by an offside penalty, gave them their first opportunity, converted into two points by the boot of Pat Richards.
There seemed to be a forward pass from Brett Finch to Thomas Leuluai in the build-up to the game's first try, but there was no excuse for Jamie Foster's flailing kick at the bouncing ball, which only deflected it into the arms of Josh Charnley.
With a couple of other good chances going begging, it was a miracle that Wigan were not more than six points ahead before Saints started to play. A powerful run by the soon-to-depart James Graham got them moving and Lee Gaskell should have found a man in support.
Then Eamon O'Carroll, just into the game, was penalised for holdingdown Michael Shenton to put his side under pressure. Lomax ran across the defence and Gaskell went over.
Foster's second goal briefly put Saints ahead, but then O'Carroll, a prop who spent 15 months out injured and who is being released to join Hull, made up for his earlier indiscretion.
Taking a short pass from Leuluai, he appeared to have been grounded, but somehow managed to bounce over the try-line.
With Sam Tomkins obviously struggling with a leg injury, a four-point lead was no sort of insurance for Wigan, who saw Richards brought back early in the second half for a forward pass from George Carmont.
A couple of minutes later, a cunningkick by James Roby saw Paul Wellens bustle through for the 200th try of his distinguished career and Foster's conversion put Saints ahead once more, a penalty from the same player soon doubling the lead.
They finally looked to be on their way to Old Trafford when, on the last tackle of a set, a lightning pass from Jon Wilkin gave Foster just enough space to touch down in the corner.
A kick straight into touch by Gaskell put Saints under pressure again, but Sia Soliola's tackle on Harrison Hansen kept their line intact. Foster's tackle on Charnley did the same.
Six minutes from time, after Andy Coley had been penalised for a high tackle, Roby ensured that the coacheswill be heading down the East Lancashire Road on Saturday when he darted over. The hobbling Tomkins' late effort was a token one.
"I'm really proud of the blokes because they've beaten a champion side," said the St Helens coach Royce Simmons. "We had a lot of defending to do in big blocks."
Wigan's Michael Maguire blamed a failure to take their chances for an anti-climactic end to his two years in charge, admitting: "We didn't execute well enough tonight."
St Helens Wellens; Makinson, Shenton, Meli, Foster; Gaskell, Lomax; Graham, Roby, Puletua, Wilkin, Soliola, Clough. Substitutes used: Moore, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Wheeler, Dixon.
Wigan S Tomkins; Charnley, J Tomkins, Carmont, Richards; Finch, Leuluai; Coley, McIlorum, Lima, Hansen, Hoffman, O'Loughlin. Substitutes used: Prescott, Farrell, O'Carroll, Tuson.
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A few weeks ago, VIDA officially released its annual count of publication rates for women in today's top titles. It's not a pretty picture. Men far outweigh women in every single rag except Granta. As a writer, this stuff really hits home. Could it be that all these men are just better writers than all of us women? I don't think so.
VIDA's findings remind me of an exchange I had with a customer when I worked at one of LA's local independent bookstores. A man came up to the counter with Jumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, which had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction a few years previously in 2000. He hesitated, not sure if he wanted to buy it. It was for a book group he was in, so someone else had chosen this title. He looked at the book disparagingly and asked, "It's not chick lit, is it?" I froze. I didn't know how to respond to this question. This book won the Pulitzer Prize, and this man still wasn't sure if the work was worth his time, or if this work was valid as literature because it was written by a woman. Belittling her work as "chick lit" is just your average, everyday misogyny that runs so deep many of us don't even realize, but we women internalize this from day one.
Lahiri herself articulates this very well in her 2011 piece in The New Yorker entitled "Notes from an Apprenticeship." She discusses her love for writing stories as a child, and how this disappeared once she became a teenager and a young woman:
VIDA's depressing pies clearly illustrate that more women need to say, "Listen to me!" This combined with many mastheads that are predominantly male mean lower publication rates for women. It's a vicious cycle. I hope acknowledging the problem is the first step to solving the problem in this case. Let's hope it encourages a collective willfulness to emerge!
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[…] I've written about this before. Journalism is a tough business. It's very competitive. But it's no surprise that men hold the reins at these more established publications that are so deeply entrenched in America's cultural establishment. Editors most often give stories to writers they have a relationship with, someone who feels familiar and understood. It's no wonder these are usually other men. […]


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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Applications of Biotechnology
The application of bio- technology can be categorized as Specific Applications and General Applications
Specific Applications
(a) Genetic Engineering: The experiments of Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer (1973) pertaining to the removal of specific gene from a bacterium and the insertion of the same gene into another bacterium, marks the beginning of the Recombinant DNA- technology which is also called as the Genetic Engineering. In their experiments, the "restriction enzymes" were used for cutting the segments of DNA. The Enzymes are specific proteins which can speed up biochemical processes without being altered in the chemical reactions.
The science of changing the pattern of development and behavior of an organism by making alterations in its genes is called as genetic engineering. The organisms produced by altering their genetic make up through DNA recombinant technology or through genetic engineering are called as Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs. In agriculture, GM-crops are also being produced through genetic engineering. The food produced from genetically modified crops is called as GM- food.
The genetically engineered organism in which a foreign gene has been introduced to obtain desired results is called as a Transgenic Organism. Such an organism may be a plant, an animal, bacteria or fungi. These organisms are developed by injecting a foreign gene into the embryo or the fertilized egg of an organism.
Importance of genetic engineering
. Through genetic engineering the alterations in the genetic make up of an organism can be done successfully,
. Genetic engineering can be employed in increasing food production from plants and animals,
. It is applied in the diagnosis of diseases and improvements in the medical treatment.
(b) Plant Tissue Culture: The technique of growing plant tissues on artificial nutrient medium under laboratory conditions, so as to produce new plants, is called as plant tissue culture. These may be the Meristem Culture, Embryo Culture and Anther Culture and so on.
(c) Monoclonal Antibody: The specialized types of protein molecules produced in the laboratory are called as monoclonal antibodies. These are produced naturally in our bodies when any bacteria or virus invades it. Monoclonal antibodies are produced in our blood and protect us from different types pf diseases. These bodies are used in identifying different types of cells. These are also employed in many diagnostic tests for bacteria and viruses. The experiments on using monoclonal antibodies for fighting against cancer are also going on across the world.
The genetic engineers have engineered the bacterial species E. coli to synthesize a specific protein called as Interferon. These proteins are produced naturally by body cells to oppose viral infections. The biologically synthesized interferon has been tested and found successful.
(d) Synthesis of Enzymes: The Proteinaceous chemical substances of biological origin that accelerate biochemical reactions without undergoing any change are called as enzymes. The term "enzyme" was coined by William Kuhne in 1867 on the basis of his studies on yeast.
Specific enzymes can be synthesized through the application of bio- technology. These enzymes are used in various processes like removal of stains, softening of fabrics, preparation of digestible foods, processing of meat and, even the treatment of cancer.
(e) Synthesis of Biodegradable Plastics: Bio- technology is currently employed in the synthesis of plastic which is biodegradable i.e. unlike other plastics; this plastic can be broken down into simpler substances by microorganisms.
The biodegradable plastic is made from lactic acid which is produced at the time of bacterial fermentation of plant materials like discarded stalks of corn. In the process, molecules of Lactic Acid are chemically grouped to form the biodegradable plastic. In fact, the biodegradable plastic is a material which has most of the properties of plastic except the property of being non- biodegradable.
(f) Blood Substitute: Today the number of people needing blood transfusion is increasing due to frequent accidents and diseases. In view of these facts, biotechnologists are trying to synthesize artificial blood through bio- technology. The biotechnologists like Mary L. Nucci and Abraham Abuchowski (1998) are likely to get success in their experiments in this regard.
(g) Bio- technology and Mining: Different types of bacteria are being currently employed in the extraction of different metals like copper, zinc, lead and other metals. These bacteria act on the metallic compounds available inside the earth and help in the isolation of respective metals.
(h) Bio- technology and Blood Clotting Protein: Bio- technology has many types of dramatic applications in the field of medicine. It has produced Factor- VIII (1986), which is a blood clotting protein and which is not produced in haemophilic persons. Under these conditions the haemophilic people are always at the risk of bleeding to death. In the process of synthesis of Factor VIII, the human genes having codes of production of blood clotting protein are transplanted into the haemophilic person. The factor VIII is being produced commercially since 1992.
Cloning: The bio- technology of production of cells or organisms that are originally derived from a single original cell or organism by asexual method under laboratory conditions is called as cloning. The copies of organisms produced during cloning have identical genetic make up and are known as clones. We can define a clone as an individual cell or organism which has been grown by a single body cell and which is genetically identical to its parent cell.
During 1950s, scientists cloned frogs and by 1980s they cloned mice. During 1996, Ian Wilmot and his team of researchers achieved success for the first time in cloning an adult sheep. They named the clone as Dolly. Scientists at Texas A & M University in College Station produced the first cloned cat on Dec. 22, 2001 through the Nuclear Transfer Technique. They named the clone – cc or the carbon copy. It is hoped that scientists may one day become successful in cloning extinct animals also.
General Applications of Bio- technology
(a)Applications in food and beverage industry: A number of food products are produced on industrial scale through the fermentation technology. Some of those products are wine, idlis, yoghurt, cheese, mycoproteins, quorn, bread etc. Besides this bio- technology helps in the production of different vitamins, amino acids and vinegar etc.
(b)Application of Bio- technology in Pharmaceuticals: Modification of microorganisms, animals and plants so as to get maximum yield of medicinally useful substances is called as pharmaceutical bio- technology. Some important examples are being given below-
(I) Production of human insulin from non- human sources.
(ii) Production of hormones like Interferon, Cytokinins, Steroids and human growth hormones.
(iii)Gene-therapy for prevention and control of diseases.
(iv) Development of vaccines and antibodies.
(c)Application of bio- technology in Agriculture: Tissue culture, cloning and hybridization are important bio- technologies that are being developed in agriculture today. Tissue culture is important for the propagation of high yielding varieties of plants for agriculture and floriculture. Hybridization is the technique of combining properties of two plants or animals to produce one better hybrid plant or animal. Though this process frequently occurs in nature, the adoption of this technology has supported the agriculture to produce more food to feed growing population in many countries. Similarly, hybridization technology has supported animal husbandry to produce more milk and meat.
The application of bio- technology in agriculture can make it more sustainable. The introduction of bio-fertilizers in soil can improve it's composition besides making it fertile in a natural way. Similarly, the introduction of bio-pesticides can control pests through natural ways without contaminating the natural environment. The development of disease resistant and pest resistant crop varieties through bio- technological methods has further supported the agriculture.
Scientists are continuously experimenting for the improvement of crop plants like potato, tomato, cabbage and other vegetables and fruits as well as other crop plants like sugarcane, wheat, maize etc. to obtain better yield. Some new crop varieties like Triticale (a man made cereal) have also been developed to add nutrients in our food and increase food production.
(d) Application of bio- technology in Pollution Control: The natural tendency of microorganisms can be exploited through bio- technology for solving the problem of wastes in the environment. The crop residues and animal waste are used in making manure by the activity of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. The bacterial species Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been developed to eat away the oil spilled on the sea surface. Solid wastes like crop residues can be put inside a biogas digester to produce biogas, a most suitable source of rural energy.
In nature, green plants control atmospheric carbon dioxide by utilizing it in photosynthesis. Hence, plantation of more and more fast growing trees may be an important bio- technological method of controlling carbon dioxide level of atmosphere. Plants fix carbon dioxide by the help of specific enzyme Ribulose- bi- phosphate Carboxilase. The function of this enzyme is controlled genetically. Hence, scientists are trying to manipulate this enzyme to increase the rate of photosynthesis for greater reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide level.
(e) Application of bio- technology in Waste Water Treatment: The treatment of waste water comprises three major steps- the Primary Treatment, the Secondary Treatment and the Tertiary Treatment. The primary treatment comprises many sub- steps like sedimentation, chemical coagulation and precipitation. These sub- steps remove most of the physical impurities or pollutants. The secondary treatment comprises biological process involving bio- technology of employing bacteria, fungi, algae etc. for the breaking down of complex pollutants. In this process, the effluent is passed through a microbial slime layer. The microbes present in this layer break down the organic and nitrogenous waste liberating carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. Different types of microorganisms present in the slime layer are categorized below-
Bacteria Pseudomonas sp., Flavobacterium sp. and Alcaligenes etc.
Fungi Yeast and Saprolegnia sp. etc.
Algae Stigeoclonium, Ulothrix, Phormidium and Chlorella.
(f) Application of bio- technology in the degradation of pesticides: Different species of bacteria and fungi tend to degrade pesticides. These microorganisms can be genetically manipulated to degrade more and more of them. Some species of bacteria like Pseudomonas sp., Flavobacterium, Azotobacter, E. coli and Acromobacter tend to degrade different pesticides. It has been reported that a mixture of Phenerocheate (a fungus) and enzyme peroxidase in suitable proportion can degrade DDT.
(g) Bioremediation: The application of biotic agents like microorganisms in the correction and recovery of environmental damage is called as bioremediation. The removal of oil spilled on sea water by the help of bacteria is one example of bioremediation.
(h) Industrial Applications of bio- technology: Bio- technology is currently being applied in many areas of industry like the production of stain remover, detergents, bread, biotech-polyester, vitamins; stone washed jeans, bleached paper etc. Here are some examples-
(i) Detergents containing protease enzyme can remove stains of proteinaceous nature both on fabrics and lenses,
(ii) Detergents containing lipase enzyme can remove stains of oil and grease, and those containing amylase can remove starch grains stuck with fabrics.
Now a day, polyesters are being synthesized from corn starch feed stock through the application of bio- technology. The enzyme cellulose is used for fading of jeans.
Key Words : biotechnology, genetic engineering, water treatment, enzyme, feed stock, cellulose, GM Food, monoclonal antibody, bioremediation


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Who else is missing hockey? Just curious. I'm really missing sitting in my recliner in the evening with a cold beer or three and watching hockey. This strike crap sucks!!! |
ME!!! Sort of essential being Canadian. Especially when you're stuck in a hospital room for two months. :-| |
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Sigh, winter days are not the same without our Hurricanes :-( |
im missing it!!!!!!! We're Canucks fans :) but we're settling for the Vancouver Giants while the strike is on. |
Toronto Maple Leafs, actually. I'm a weird one. If I were cheering for an Alberta team, it would be Flames all the way! |
I am missing my hockey! :-( I've started going to the Junior A team games, they are actually really good! Beer gardens, lots of people, fights, good games for them being 18-23 years old! I am from Vancouver Island, hate the canucks. Live in Alberta, don't like the Oilers or Flames... My favorite team is San Jose Sharks! :D How about that for weird? |
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Below is the most detailed current Google satellite map of Kuyenda Bushcamp. To zoom out, to see more, click the minus sign (-) at the bottom of the bar on the left.
For a Google map of all the lodges in the area, including Kuyenda Bushcamp, see our Google map of South Luangwa National Park.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College men's soccer team lost to Edmonds 4-1 on Saturday at Mike Hollis Field.
The Tritons scored twice in the first half and twice more in the second half before the Knights (2-4-1 overall, 1-2-0 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges East Region) scored a late on a Hector Vaca Munoz goal.
WVC 2, Everett 0 (Friday)
The Knights won their second game of the year, beating visiting Everett.
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Help!! Do I have ANY rights to stay in our flat after 21 years together?
(27 Posts)Hello! Ok will try to keep it short. Been with partner for 21 years, not married, engaged, separated last summer as he made me so very, very unhappy, no communication, secretive ... have been staying with friends on and off ever since. Have returned to our rented flat until I can get on my feet, save money and get somewhere else. I am a freelancer so being paid is sporadic alas. Partner gone CRAZY and does not care if I am homeless. He met someone new a month after we separated! Devasted! He was my World! I have told him to move in with his new girlfriend for a few months whilst I get myself sorted, all my stuff is still in flat and I have been dealing with all bills as he has NEVER dealt with them EVER! Not sure what my rights are ... if any ... very, very worried and no family to help me ... trying to keep it together but only just ...
I still don't see why it should be him to leave?
If there is some compelling legitimate reason why it should have been, then use that to get him to pay the deposit on a new rental for you?
Unfortunately there is no such thing as a common law wife as you have found out the hard way. I hope anyone else reading this who thought there was can learn and protect themselves.
Why would he leave if the tenancy is in his name and he wasn't wanting the relationship to end?
It's sad the relationship is over but this is one reason living together long term with only one name on the tenancy isn't a good idea
Thank you for all your comments and advice girls. I do not want to stay here and there is a reason I left as I knew it was over but he never admitted it was. He is the one that should have left! There are no DC, one of the reasons I left and now probably no chance. I should have left him years ago, I see that now. I am staying strong, focused and confident! Well, I am trying to ... again, thank you all for your wise words.
I'm sorry you're going through this, but I'm seeing it from your ex's side: it was you that ended it, you had threatened it a number of times before, and you may have appeared to have moved out - the staying with friends. It's also been him paying the rent, if I understand you correctly - you've done the admin, but his money?
If the flat is owned by YOUR friends, talk to them. If it's gone onto a periodic tenancy they only have to give 2 months notice I think - and as they're your friends, they may waive the deposit?
That could get messy if he refuses to go and they have to evict though. Probably better that you just move on.
You say you're devastated and he's your world: hold on to the fact you left him for a reason. He's not your world.
It's a kick in the teeth about the new gf, but it sounds like you two had been over a while. Again - you left him for a reason. Focus on that, and leave him to it.
I don't think it's realistic to expect him to move in with her, btw.
If you are sofa surfing and absolutely can't afford a deposit, speak to your local housing office about homelessness help.
Does he have any money? As he wants to stay in the flat, would he pay your deposit?
Even if you have some legal basis to have the tenancy transferred to your name, surely he has as much right as you to keep it? Get advice from CAB, or possibly Shelter?
Good luck - but focus on the practicalities, not him.
Might be worth trying the legal board? Sounds like there may be a glimmer of hope and seems unfair after so long together... Are there kids involved?
Also, shared debt. If its not you using it, ie a car, can you get your name off or sell it and pay off the debt?
Certainly look into all the debt and see what you can do. You might want to each take a bank loan seperately, pay off the shared debt equally, then you just have your loan to pay.
Do you have dc?
Find out how much you need to save for a flat. Move into a house share short term, put your stuff in cheap storage ( there are lots, look on the Internet)
Save like mad, join a temp agency, baby sit nights, bar work for tips.
Go to flat agency's and get on their books. Explain you are saving and they might have something they can offer or a sympathetic landlord. Or could a friend put you up for a few months if you pay a small rent?
posted too soon.
run away from this awful man. Get advice from the citizens advice bureau if you need to. You need to put your business head on to keep you sane these next few months.
get yourself signed up with a temping agency like Brook Street (national firm & online ny friend has been with them for 5 years very good). Once you are getting some regular income move into either a studio or houseshare temporarily. You are better off cutting all financial ties with this man asap. If he has screwed you over emotionally, he will do it financially too.Do you have any loans/ shared credit cards bills? Settle any monies owing and run
Basically, if your name isn't on the tenancy agreement, then yes you have nothing really, unless you have DC and agree (yourselves or via Court) between the two of you and landlord that you and they stay there.
He you started looking for a new place?
What is it that you want to do?
Do you want to stay in this flat long term?
Is there nobody who could lend you a flat deposit?
Do you have savings?
Can you get another job that you will be paid for more promptly?
Casual waitress/ bar staff for events/ cleaning?
Do you have the cash to take this to court? Wouldn't you be better using the money for a deposit on something else?
I just found this information on this w/site under Living together and marriage: legal differences / Ending A Relationship / Housing / Living Together
'However, as an unmarried partner, you can get short-term rights to stay if you apply to court. A court can also transfer a tenancy, whether it is a sole or joint tenancy.'
A glimmer of hope ...
It was my choice to not be named as a joint tenant as we had and still have debts together and so it was to protect his credit rating so that at least one of us could get a mortgage one day!
Off to bed, or rather the sofa now to cry yet again!
I keep x-posting. If there is a written rental agreement for a short hold tenancy that expires after a fixed period of time, but occupation continues after expiry, then the tenancy transforms into a periodic tenancy, the terms of which are governed by law. It doesn't give anyone any rights beyond tenancy though, and if you were never named as a tenant in the first place and did not become one by implied consent then you acquire no right of occupation. In your situation, the best you could hope for is that there may have been an implied variation of the tenancy agreement so that you obtained status as a tenant as well, but it would not give you any greater right of occupation than your ex, and may well involve a court hearing to resolve the issues if your ex and landlord would not agree to you being treated as a tenant.
And no, you have no legal rights as a partner or common law wife. Even if you had been married you would have no 'rights' over a rented property other than as set out in a tenancy agreement.
Partners name is/was on the original agreement and that was a contract for one year and that was more than five years ago now ...
Sorry- I may have understood your post. Is it your ex's name that is/was on the tenancy agreement or your friend's?
If it is the latter and neither you nor your ex have a written contract with the landlord or your friend, then it is really down to your friend how he enforces who lives in the flat. Whether he would step up and exclude your ex may well depend on whether he himself has permission to sub-let from his landlord v
That IS what I want but I cannot do that until I have enough money for deposit and all that and to find somewhere affordable too. I cannot believe that I have no rights as his partner/common law wife, do we even say that anymore ... he made me so very unhappy I had to leave, I asked him to leave a few times as I knew he did not want to be with me anymore but he never would as that would mean having to actually do something!
I'm afraid that you don't have any rights other than anything that your ex and your landlord are willing to agree to. It doesn't matter whether the original agreement has expired or whether there is any new one. The most protection you would have would be as a tenant, but if your name was never on the agreement you do not have even that. Your landlord would have to give your ex notice and then enter a new rental agreement with you.
Maybe a new start in your own place that does not carry any memories of your ex would be best in the long run?
Ok night Thistledew and thanks for replying. Hopefully I will get some top tips and advice from you lovely ladies out there tomorrow ... x
I found the flat as it through a friend of mine and his name is on the agreement but I am sure that expired ages ago ... he pays the rent though but I am on the Council Tax bill ... I am speechless that he really does not care one bit as he says his 'new' girlfriend will not be happy ... he stays there most of the time anyway ... I am numb!
I'm sorry for your situation btw. No wonder you are distraught.
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Text Prompt
Posted by Rob Camick on November 29, 2009
Generally text fields are paired with a label when added to a GUI. The label describes the contents of the text field. In some applications you may have noticed that a text prompt appears inside an empty text field. This might be done when space is at a premium or you need to provide addition formatting information for the text.
The TextPrompt class allows you to add this functionality to a text field. The implementation takes advantage of the Swing design that allows you to add child components to any Swing component. So a JLabel containing the prompt text is added to the text field. The main functionality of the TextPrompt class is to determine whether the prompt should be visible or not. The prompt will be removed as soon as text is entered into the Document.
When the Document is empty, the setShow method allows yout to control when the prompt is visible:
- ALWAYS – the prompt is displayed whether the text field has focus or not.
- FOCUS_GAINED – the prompt is displayed when the text field gains focus (and is hidden when focus is lost)
- FOCUS_LOST – the prompt is displayed when the text field loses focus (and is hidden when focus is gained)
There is only one other method that allows you control the behaviour of the prompt:
- setShowPromptOnce – will only display the prompt once. After the text field loses focus for the first time the prompt will no longer be visible.
The Font and foreground Color of the TextPrompt will default from the text field at the time the TextPrompt is created. However, there are a couple of convenience methods that will allow you to customize the appearance of the text in the prompt:
- changeAlpha – allows you to change the alpha value of the foreground Color to provide some transparency
- changeStyle – allows you to change the style of the Font. The values allowed are those supported by the Font class. Common values might be Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC or Font.BOLD + Font.ITALIC
The code to create the last prompt in the above image was:
JTextField tf7 = new JTextField(10);
TextPrompt tp7 = new TextPrompt("First Name", tf7);
tp7.setForeground( Color.RED );
tp7.changeStyle(Font.BOLD + Font.ITALIC);
tp7.setIcon( ... );
Notice the setIcon() method? As mentioned earlier, the TextPrompt simply extends JLabel to provide its functionality so you can change any property of the label to achieve your desired effect. Be creative, who knows what effect you can achieve!
Although this discussion has dealt with using the TextPrompt on a text field, it can also be used on a JTextArea or JTextPane as well. Using it on a JFormattedTextField that contains formatting characters may prove to be more difficult. I'll let you experiment with that on your own.
Another option would be to use the PromptSupport class found in the SwingX project. SwingX provides many enhancements to base Swing.
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24 Responses to "Text Prompt"
November 30, 2009 at 6:06 am
Elegance by simplicity :-)
Good job!
Jeanette -
November 30, 2009 at 9:01 am
Great concept and implementation! However, at least on OS X, defaults used for JNLP demo are such that the text of all prompts have their text's top aligned at the center of the field which clips the bottom part of this text. Not sure if field or child or both need explicit setAlignmentY or setHorizontalAlignment or setHorizontalTextPosition or something. Also, the second column of labels in the gui has its leading textual content clipped (e.g., first row label reads "ow Always (default)"). Must need some pack()ing or FontMetric tricks or something. Sorry to gripe, great article: I didn't know you could do have this functionality in so little code.
December 8, 2009 at 4:09 am
xswingx has this. I'm using it (with a patch that is in the tracker but not applied since it appears that the author doesn't look at the project anymore)
March 5, 2010 at 3:44 am
the xswingx version is part of SwingX – so would be great if you could file your patch in the swingx issue tracker, we'll happily apply it :-)
March 5, 2010 at 3:44 am
June 4, 2010 at 10:54 am
Elegant…This should definitely be added to the Sun official docs.
Pavan -
July 12, 2010 at 2:23 am
I received this Exception message when I tried to use the code in my work.
at ...TextPrompt.(TextPrompt.java:50)
at ...TextPrompt.(TextPrompt.java:43)
this(text, component, Show.ALWAYS); // -> TextPrompt.java:43
document = component.getDocument(); // -> Textprompt.java:50
This is what I wrote in my Main Frame code :
TextPrompt txtShortCode = new TextPrompt("Number only!", shortCodeField);
-by the way,thanks for this tip
September 25, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Hello Rob,
just implemented your code. It works great. Thank you very much.
In case somebody needs it for a JTextField which is displayed repeatedly and must according to condition show the textprompt or not, here are the few modifications necessary to achieve this:
– add NEVER to enum Show
– change private void checkForPrompt() to protected
– add "if (!showPromptOnce) focusLost= 0;" in method setShowPromptOnce(…)Implementation example:
TextPrompt tp= new TextPrompt(…);
if (condition) {
else {
tp.setShowPromptOnce(false); // clear focusLost counter
tp.checkForPrompt(); // make the new setShow(…) value visible. -
March 19, 2011 at 11:57 am
It would be great if you could include a BSD style license header in the source code so that I could use the code without worrying about copyright.
May 25, 2012 at 8:11 am
Thnx… Saved my a** and an hour :P
November 2, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Nice trick, you saved my day. :D But I have to note that it works by chance, not by design. On the other hand, I realize that no one will ever design a TextFieldUI that's not a full-size, empty rectangle. Good job.
May 6, 2014 at 12:54 am
Hi Rob,
I used your TextPrompt.java Nice work! Thanks!
For better usability(IMO) I modified it a bit.
1) set the foreground to Color.LIGHT_GRAY so as to avoid confusion between input text and the prompt text
2) Used the prompt text as a tool tip for the text component. This is useful when input text exists and you wish to know what this field represents.Thanks again! As always you are awesome!
July 19, 2014 at 6:01 am
Good job man.. Why didn't you use GitHub to share this code??
March 17, 2015 at 11:41 am
Can I use this in my own software without a license?
April 16, 2015 at 6:46 am
More than 5 years later : thank you guy, simple and efficient
April 19, 2015 at 7:12 pm
For some reason when I try to implement to my program it show the label but not the actual text field. Anyone know why?
April 20, 2015 at 1:25 am
A clairvoyant person might know.
Odinary persons need the code.
April 20, 2015 at 1:25 am
September 23, 2016 at 4:33 am
I want to know is there a library for this Text Prompt??? Please if you have give me a link


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New Jersey powerhouse enters the fall as the nation's top football team.
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MaxPreps recognizes the top players around the Garden State this season.
It's a key weekend of post-season action for several nationally ranked teams, including top-ranked Trinity (Euless, Texas) and defending national champion Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, N.J.).
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Want to start a new show... anyone seen this one? The quick summary looks promising and I want to know if it's worth starting!
I burned it all to DVD as it was airing, and tried watching it when it finished up. I got a few episodes in, and lost interest. I'm going to try again though, before I give up on it completely
I've been working a ton and would love to have a new shot to watch an episode an evening for awhile. Cool -- I'll give the pilots a shot tonight.
The first several episodes are world-building, where you get to gradually learn what this transformed Earth is now about and get to know the people (and aliens) who live on it. By the time of the first season finale, seeds that were planted here and there since the first episode come to fruition and it suddenly becomes an all-new ballgame. I'm not really a big fan of post-apocalyptic stuff, but since I was born and raised in St. Louis, I gave it a shot. I liked it enough to actually be looking forward to season two.
Heh, my main interest in it (other than the fact it's SciFi) is Fionnula Flanagan. It's worth trying it out to see Julie Benz, but, Fionnula is DA BOMB!!! (And who knows how many more roles we'll be able to see her in, she is almost 72 afterall, so she may not want to be a Main Cast character in a future show)
This is true, and she may be going just as strong at 95, I'm just saying, 72 is past regular retirement age, so she may want to some time
The grand children are all grown up, and the great grand children know who she is, but if she wants to make an impact on her as yet unborn great great grand children, well then she has to hold on for another 20 years or sign up to a new TV show that's going to be syndicated forever. I do get your point though.
I started the pilot and it feels like it's going to be slow. I'll tell you what I'm enjoying against my better judgement, is Revolution -- even with the one-dimensional characters I find I enjoy it. Honestly, I'm either working or getting to work 12 hours a day. I just want some science fiction candy nonsense for a short time an evening.
Have you tried Eureka and Warehouse 13? I pooh-poohed them, when they started as being too light and fluffy, but, I recently watched them (Eureka is done, WH13 has another 6 episode season coming to wrap it up) and found they are both extremely fun Series
I watched maybe 4 or so episodes when it was on air, but lost interest. I might go back see if it is worth watching. Now other things are more important.
I think so. All I remember was that I never stopped liking it. I honestly have a lot of trouble with memory, I can't really remember anything more than my basic feelings about a show after it's been off the air for more than a month or two.
I'm the same. It comes from watching way too much. Cramming endless reels of mindless bosh inside such an enclosed space. However... If I rewatch something, suddenly I know every line a second before the bastard on my TV opens their mouth.
I started watching it and forgot about it after ep 4 or 5. I finally just deleted it off my DVR and decided to start watching Copper. And...I agree with whoever nominated Orphan Black. It was fantastic.
Something else I recently discovered from yor... The Starlost. I'm also watching Deep Water Black for the first time on Youtube, but I waited too long. My constant sick thoughts are age inappropriate for a teenaged Nicole DeBoer. (0r she was 27, and it only seemed like she was still 14.) Defiance was guaranteed a second season because of the billion dollar game industry underpinning it... However, the game is underwhelming and financially under preforming, so the only way the tv show is getting a third seaosn is on it's own merits, becuase there may not be a Defince the game in a years time.
It might do that for you. I kept watching it because it was full of aliens, not one alien enemy but alien characters. Also I enjoyed the town setting visually. It is REALLY bad in places but sometimes there's a good scene or attractive moment.


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The messy plot of Survivor (the second book by the author of the cult novel Fight Club) is redeemed by surreally outrageous satire. As Survivor begins, our hero, Tender Branson, has hijacked a plane that he intends to crash into the Australian outback. By the end of the book, one can hardly blame him. In chapters and pages numbered backward, we follow Branson from his childhood in a death cult through a period of loneliness after the cult commits suicide and into cynical superstardom as a kind of guru/ evangelist. Palahniuk throws way too much into this brief novel, including a Kevorkianesque suicide hotline and a murderous twin brother. Nevertheless, there's real brilliance in the tension between his faux-innocent language and the wry nihilistic bleakness of his protagonist's gaudy odyssey. (MG)
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Driving the Heart and Other Stories is a serious collection that hints at depressing pasts and less inspiring presents, with family dysfunction thrown in for good measure. In Jason Brown's world, people try desperately but are unable to connect with those around them. Whether he's writing about a hospital worker driving a heart to a nearby town for a transplant or a preteen girl coming home to a family tragedy, Brown infuses his stories with a sense of quiet dread. But just as this style starts to bring the reader down, Brown's dazzlingly accurate descriptions make suffering along with these confused characters more than worth it. (CB)
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China Casting Off Mao Shackles Burnishes Yuan Appeal: Currencies
Kyoungwha Kim and Fion LiChina's planned economic reforms are burnishing the yuan's credentials as a currency of global trade, pushing its offshore rate to the highest versus its domestic value in 10 months while damping volatility.
The yuan traded at a 0.47 percent premium in Hong Kong to its onshore price on Nov. 19, the most in 10 months and up from 0.29 percent last week, before the People's Bank of China outlined plans to end daily currency intervention. A measure of implied volatility in the yuan fell, keeping it the lowest after Hong Kong's dollar among 31 major peers tracked by Bloomberg.
The reforms are part of a once-in-a-generation attempt by China's ruling Communist Party to modernize the economy, and follow measures encouraging use of the yuan outside the mainland. HSBC Holdings Plc predicts the currency, which climbed to a 20-year high last month, will be the main tender of international trade after the U.S. dollar and euro by 2015.
"Currency reforms need to exceed market expectations, or speculative forces behind the yuan will intensify one-way appreciation pressures," Paul Mackel, the head of Asian currency research at HSBC in Hong Kong, wrote yesterday in a client note. "It's hard to expect the yuan to continue growing in importance without it becoming more flexible."
'Orderly Way'
China will broaden the yuan's daily trading band in an "orderly way" and accelerate moves to make it convertible with international currencies, PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said. Deputy Governor Yi Gang said yesterday "it's no longer in China's favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves," adding to signs policy makers will rein in dollar purchases that limit the yuan's appreciation.
The yuan rose 2.3 percent against the dollar this year, the most among 24 emerging-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg. It was pegged to the dollar until 2005, and now trades in a managed range against a basket of currencies, with different rates inside and outside of China.
The yuan's onshore rate touched 6.0802 on Oct. 25, the highest since December 1993, before falling back to 6.0932 today, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The offshore price is at 6.0708. Non-deliverable 12-month forwards touched 6.1430 yesterday, matching the strongest level in Bloomberg data going back to 1998.
Stocks Rise
Other Chinese assets have also risen, with the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index closing at the highest level in a month on Nov. 20, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
China's central bank sets a daily reference rate for the yuan in Shanghai that the spot rate can diverge a maximum 1 percent from. The range was last widened in April 2012, after being expanded from 0.3 percent in May 2007.
"The eventual move to liberalize the currency market, interest rates and capital account are all works in progress," Nizam Idris, the head of fixed-income and currency strategy at Macquarie Group Ltd. in Singapore, said in a phone interview yesterday. "As long as there's a band in force, there'll be a need to intervene. The measures are gradual and controlled."
Idris said the range may be widened to 2 percent by June.
President Xi Jinping, who came to power in March, is accelerating the reform of economic policies that originated during or shortly after the reign of Chairman Mao Zedong, who died in his post in 1976. The changes, which the leadership say will be in effect by 2020, also include expanding farmers' rights, allowing private investors to set up banks and loosening China's one-child policy.
'Boldest Reforms'
The changes are "China's boldest reforms seen in decades," Emmanuel Ng, an economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. in Singapore, wrote in a report yesterday.
Three years after the government allowed its currency to start trading in Hong Kong's offshore market, international use of the yuan is increasing as China opens up.
About 17 percent of China's global trade was settled in yuan in the first nine months of this year, compared with less than 1 percent in 2009, according to Deutsche Bank AG. The PBOC has arranged currency-swap lines with more than 20 overseas financial centers, including London and Frankfurt, encouraging greater use of the yuan for trade and finance.
Appetite for yuan-denominated assets is increasing after China's economy expanded 7.8 percent in the three months through September, reversing a two-quarter slowdown. Manufacturing and exports rose more than economists projected last month, while inflation quickened to 3.2 percent from 3.1 percent in September, official reports showed.
Capital Inflows
Yuan positions at financial institutions accumulated from foreign-exchange sales, a measure of capital inflows, climbed 1.6 percent in October to 27.9 trillion yuan ($4.6 trillion), the highest in official data going back to 2000. Of 276 investors surveyed last week by Bank of America Corp., 39 percent said China was their favorite market.
"Increasingly investors are perceiving risks as relatively one-way toward a stronger yuan," Greg Gibbs, a Singapore-based strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, wrote in a report yesterday.
Three-month implied volatility for the yuan plunged to 1.66 percent as of 1:52 p.m. in New York, from 1.89 percent on Nov. 19 and 1.85 percent before China announced the latest reforms, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The decline reflects investor expectations that the authorities will retain a hand on the tiller of China's foreign-exchange market even as it continues to liberalize.
The nation will probably double the yuan's trading band in either April or May before moving to a "managed-float" system, said Simon Derrick, the London-based chief currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the largest custody bank.
"We're moving toward convertibility but there won't be a hard change," Derrick said in an interview in Singapore yesterday. "The People's Bank of China will still be there managing the currency, but managing it in a far wider way."


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Baker's Coconut Recipes [1922]
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Printer: Niagara Litho. Co. (Buffalo, N.Y. ; New York, N.Y.)
Brand Name: Baker's Chocolate
Publisher: Franklin Baker Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Citation: Baker's Coconut Recipes [1922]. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=4203


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It's almost as if every few months a "UFO China" story has to come out. A new sighting has been observed over an airport. The last few decades have been tumultuous for many governments, which a lot of people take for granted. Airport security in an age of a lot of terrorist activity is at a premium. As a result of the unidentified flying object in China, an airport was closed. Often, UFO reports are dismissed out of hand. There have been numerous UFO sightings in China in recent months.
China airport closed after UFO sighting
The most recent "UFO China" headline isn't a spoof. This one may have actually happened. An unusual object was sighted in the skies over Baotou, Inner Mongolia. There are mostly Mongolians living in Inner Mongolia. It is still the people's Republic of China though. Close to the airport, an object that wasn't identified was seen. Air traffic was delayed or rerouted for about an hour. Lights were seen in the sky, moving erratically. ABC reports that a plane coming to the runway saw the object first. After reporting the object to air traffic control, other flights were notified and planes were rerouted. The radar showed an extra object there too. Traffic controllers explain this.
Many reports of a China UFO
A lot of reports have come in from China in the last few months. These have all been about UFO sightings. In July, Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou was closed down temporarily because of a UFO sighting. There are other reports from four other provinces in China of a UFO being sighted. However, some reports have been quashed as they have been connected to military activities, though it is not known how.
It is important to remember it is just unidentified
Just because an object is unidentified does not mean it has extra-terrestrial origin. Military testing facilities, such as "Area 51" in Nevada, have shown UFO reports for many years.
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ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/International/fresh-report-ufo-chinas-skies/story?id=11814100&page=1
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A website from the Massachusetts Historical Society; founded 1791.
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Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
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Morning quite warm. This season is what they call here Indian Summer. At home reading Mr. ...
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Date: 1828-10-24
Friday. 24th.
Morning pleasant. Passed in reading Mr. Burke and wasting much of the time. After luncheon, walked out with Thomas and paid visits to the Secretary at War and Mr. King's Gallery of Paintings where we lounged until late. On my return, I was occupied in writing a rough draught of a letter to Mr. Brooks, but as I proceed in it, I feel less confident in my success. Extraordinary as it seems, I have a most singular feeling when I take up my pen to address him and can write nothing to please me. Evening at home, and very quiet.
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