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Perhaps the strangest moment of Freya Ridings' career so far came when she gazed down from the stage, worried that her fans might be drowning in confetti. Or maybe it was when Lewis Hamilton sent her a congratulatory Instagram message. Either way, life is getting weird for the 23-year-old BRIT School graduate who hit the Top 10 with the heart-breaking piano ballad Lost Without You in October last year.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va.
BEER cans on the roof: the Baltimore detectives ended their long days with a couple of cold ones in the parking lot and then threw the empties on top of the station until the pile grew so high that a boss ordered a police helicopter to fly past and blow them all back down.
That was two decades ago, but to viewers of "The Wire," the throwing of the cans is recent history, an on-screen ritual as familiar as sitting down to dinner was on "The Sopranos." And like many details from the five seasons of "The Wire" it was harvested from the life of Ed Burns, the cop turned schoolteacher turned screenwriter and co-creator of the show.
Mr. Burns, now 61, put his can-throwing days behind him years ago. Now he is more likely to throw bird seed here outside his new home, a structure so eco-friendly that the power bill in April was $32.65.
"It's a good place," Mr. Burns said of this rural retreat, where he sits and remembers his old lives for new TV shows. "It's peaceful. It's a good place to write."
It has been more than 20 years since Mr. Burns, then a detective, met David Simon, then a young police reporter for The Baltimore Sun, sharing a handshake that neither man could have imagined would lead to a book and three television shows and counting for HBO.
Their latest project, and their first set outside of Baltimore, is "Generation Kill," a seven-part mini-series that will have its premiere next Sunday. Based on the 2004 book of the same name by Evan Wright, a Rolling Stone reporter embedded with a Marine battalion, the series follows a group of marines as they race, crawl, shoot and wisecrack their way north through Iraq. The show's portrayal of the marines and the invasion, as seen from Mr. Wright's seat in a bullet-riddled Humvee, was spot-on to me, a reporter who had been embedded with a different Marine unit during the same weeks in March 2003.
Mr. Burns agreed, with a little polite reluctance, to a rare interview in anticipation of the show's premiere. Throughout the run of "The Wire" he let Mr. Simon do the talking to the press; his most recent in-depth interview was in 2006, on the NPR program "Fresh Air."
"I'm something of a loner," he said. "I have all these stories going around in my head, so I spend time with them."
He spoke for hours over the occasional barks of his two big dogs, Max and Kima (the latter named for a detective on "The Wire"), in a living room littered with books and a sparsely decorated home office. Mr. Burns and his wife, Anna (he has a son and a daughter from a previous marriage, and she has one daughter), bought the land where they now live five years ago, but they have been living in the house for only six months. It sits at the end of a winding, unpaved road.
"There's a rumor he's up there with a barbed-wire compound with hounds he can release," said Mr. Simon, who has yet to visit.
But though Mr. Burns may prefer a degree of solitude and anonymity, he is far from a recluse and is open and generous with his time and stories, which tend to veer from the short and the simple. A question about his wedding date is answered with a long aside about the Zapatistas, the Mexican rebels who stormed cities and communities in the Chiapas region in an overthrow attempt on Jan. 1, 1994. It is unclear whether he remembers the uprising because it occurred on his wedding day or vice versa. "Anyway, that was the date," he said.
And though he repeatedly insists that "The Wire" was not about him, calling the show a giant collaboration among himself, Mr. Simon and a stable of writers, there is no question that the show was able to open doors to two Baltimore bureaucracies the police and the schools only because Mr. Burns was carrying the keys.
Born in 1946 in the Govans neighborhood of Baltimore, Mr. Burns attended Catholic schools. "We were kind of wild," he said of himself and his brother, Michael. "We kept getting hit by cars. We were running, as kids would do, and we'd get whacked. People didn't drive fast, or maybe kids were tougher, but my parents became alarmed and moved us out to the suburbs."
He joined the military and spent a year in Vietnam working with the Kit Carson Scout program, which used former Viet Cong fighters as translators and guides. In a way the scout was Mr. Burns's first informant of many.
He came home and, armed with a degree in history and a minor in philosophy from Loyola College in Baltimore, improbably joined that city's police department in 1971. He was assigned to the tough Western District, then the wide-open battleground of drug dealers.
Why? "I really didn't see myself working in offices and things like that," he said. "I thought at that time police work was the way to go. You get to help people."
But the job had its frustrations. "I thought some of these guys should be good," he said of his fellow officers. And he was struck by the inability of the homicide unit to solve cases, which he blamed on old-fashioned, one-case-at-a-time investigation techniques. So he scooped up 12 open case files that all made some mention of the same Baltimore drug gang and brought them to his boss.
"I'll give you 12 murders," he told him. "It takes about a year, year and a half to bring down a good organization."
Mr. Burns worked on cases in ways that had not been tried in Baltimore, using wiretaps not just on private telephone lines but on public pay phones and placing hidden cameras inside drug distribution hubs. "He was one of the first to recognize you have to go for the head of the organization," said Lt. Terrence Patrick McLarney, 55, a fellow detective at the time. "He kind of invented what is today our meat and potatoes."
Mr. Burns talks with pride and fondness of those cases, recalling every detail of this arrest, that wiretap recording. Many characters on "The Wire" are drawn from people he knew on either side of the law, like the drug dealer Avon Barksdale (played by Wood Harris) and the reformed addict, Bubbles (Andre Royo). "I've seen hundreds of Avons," he said. "You knew how they would act. I've had tons of informants. I knew the real Bubbles."
But his disillusion with the way crime was addressed only grew. "It was painfully clear that they were not going to change the way they were doing things," he said. "The Police Department was into the numbers game. We were going in different directions."
The fateful meeting with Mr. Simon took place in the early 1980s, when Mr. Simon was researching a project for The Sun, where he was a police reporter. Mr. Burns ended up trusting him, and thus began a decades-long collaboration during which Mr. Burns's role shifted from guide to collaborator.
He retired in 1991 after 20 years on the force, just as Mr. Simon approached him with an idea that would probably repulse most retired detectives: spending a year on the streets of a drug-infested ghetto, chronicling the lives of the users and the dealers the very people he used to lock up for a book that became "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" in 1997.
The cover carried both men's names, and for Mr. Burns it was the first time he'd written anything except affidavits and a couple of technical articles for journals. "It wasn't that monumental," he said. "You had in the back of your mind that if you screwed up, David would be there."
But he didn't rush to get an agent, wasn't directly involved in the "Corner" mini-series and returned instead to public service, this time as a geography teacher in a middle school. He liked the energy he got from coaching his kids, he said, and his wife was working, so they could afford his small salary; "we weren't starving to death."
In his first class, 13 of the some 220 students had been shot two of them twice. "They don't graduate," he said. "It's tough." He taught for seven grueling and rewarding years that showed him the flip side of his life as a cop, "being with kids and seeing the problem from a different perspective," he said, "trying to understand the drug culture, the impact of the drug culture and our responsibility for creating this culture."
But then Mr. Simon swooped in again, this time with the idea for "The Wire," and Mr. Burns left teaching to sign on as a story editor. ("For somebody who never made money, it was like, 'Whoa, I can have a few dollars,' " he said about getting his first paycheck for the series.)
"How did he learn it?" Mr. Simon recalled. "I gave him a bunch of scripts. 'Homicide' scripts, 'Corner' scripts, showed him the dynamic. One thing about Ed is you don't have to show him anything twice. This is a guy who devours any idea he encounters."
For Mr. Burns, who believes most Americans think starting a wiretap is as simple as one guy in a cop show saying as much to another, "The Wire" was an opportunity to "get it right," he said. He conceived the morbid arc for the fourth season, in which killers working under the drug dealer Marlo Stanfield dump bodies in boarded-up row houses. "Police work has come to be about numbers," he said. "This was a twist on it. This was Marlo doing his part. 'If I don't have murders, then they won't come.' "
Mr. Burns also came up with a mystifying split second in a third-season episode: a shot of William A. Rawls (John Doman), a hard-line deputy commissioner, during a scene that takes place in a gay bar. The moment was never revisited or explained. "It would have been a nice twist to have Daniels, who is in line to be commissioner, have him discover Rawls's fatal flaw and choose to ignore it," he said. "And have Rawls cut him down. We laid the mine. We just never stepped on it."
And yet for all the praise "The Wire" garnered, Mr. Simon said, Mr. Burns finished every season "absolutely frustrated and convinced we had ruined the show." But then he would come around. "He would put the tape in, in the end, and I'd hear from him a month afterward. 'No, actually, that was really good in the end.' "
Mr. Burns said he was surprised by all the attention "The Wire" received from policymakers who were piqued by the show's gritty civics lessons the very sort of people, he said, who more or less ignored him when he worked in the public sector.
"The irony is that you have to be somebody before anybody listens to you," he said. "I wasn't an expert when I was an expert, and now that I'm not an expert, I'm an expert. It's kind of curious."
HBO took "Generation Kill" to Mr. Burns and Mr. Simon a few years ago. Mr. Burns's time in Vietnam attracted him to the material, which he said captured the universal traits of men at war. "What is similar is the way people act, men in close quarters," he said. "It's always us against them. The us becomes ever, ever smaller, and the them becomes the whole world."
There were similarities to "The Wire," as well, like the discord between the rank and file and the commanders. But Mr. Burns's role was different this time, no longer subject or creator but instead an adapter and a filmmaker. "In the case of 'The Wire' Ed was more of the diagnostician," Mr. Simon said. "He was the guy who had lived these events. In 'Generation Kill,' like me, he's become more of a clinician. He was a filmmaker trying to deliver someone else's vision."
"Generation Kill" follows a string of recent films about Iraq that have tanked at the box office, but he doesn't seem worried. "It's like 'The Wire,' " he said. "I think the trick is getting someone to watch it."
His next projects include a feature film about a true but unlikely romance between Donnie Andrews, a Baltimore holdup artist who robbed drug dealers (and inspired the character Omar Little on "The Wire"), and Fran Boyd, a crack addict who recovered with his help and married him last year (and was also a character in "The Corner").
After that Mr. Burns hopes to make, with Mr. Simon, a period mini-series about the Haymarket bombing in Chicago in 1886, when the police, trying to break up a labor demonstration, were struck by a bomb that killed seven officers and sent four wrongfully convicted defendants to the gallows. With its troubled police department, corrupt city officials and compromised press, the incident has echoes of "The Wire." But Mr. Burns sees it in broader strokes:
"We've forgotten what it's like to be a working man," he said. "There was a flush of money, and we've forgotten our roots. These stories have a power because it's when men stood up."
He considered the often bleak worldview of "The Wire," with its overarching theme that no matter what a person does, it will never be enough to stop the city from grinding over him. "I'm not a fatalist," he said. "I'm very optimistic. In America, before we notice things, things have to become bad."


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Charlemagne and the Carolingian revival
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(piano) Man: I love to find out where things come from. The question mark is Carolingian. It comes from about 800. Woman: It is odd to find out the origin of something we take for granted like the question mark. We use the term Carolingian to refer to the time of Charlemagne and his successors. Charlemagne, also Charles the Great, or Carolus Magnus, hence the name Carolingian. Man: He was a king. He was famously crowned emperor in 800 by the Pope in Rome and he ruled over a collection of kingdoms that he had conquered, that his father had conquered, that his grandfather had conquered. Woman: He was a frank. Man: The ancient Romans would have considered them barbarians. These are people who migrated into Western Europe from the East, and who settled into what is now Germany and Northern France. Eventually, over generations, this is before Charlemagne, they were able to consolidate their power and by the time we get to about 800, Charlemagne is ruling a vast expanse of Europe. So how do we put together this idea of this warlord conquering whole kingdoms and somebody who invents the question mark, who invents punctuation as we use it? Woman: Well strangely, those things go together. Charlemagne had to govern a vast kingdom where there were many different languages and dialects spoken. He really needed to organize and educate to create a Christian kingdom, a Christian empire. Man: This was a really brutal period. These were warlords. These were when castles were being built because people were marauding. Armies were attacking. Fields were being burned. This was a tough period. Woman: So the stability that was there because of the Roman Empire, the relative stability is gone. There are really only vestiges of the civilizing functions of the Roman Empire. Man: The Romans had law, they had roads, they had trade systems. They had educational systems. Woman: They had a vast bureaucracy and trained civil servants to help the government run. All of that was gone. Man: So they had to figure out how they could create systems again based in part on the old Roman systems, that were capable of holding this empire together. But Charlemagne was deeply religious. He took his Catholic faith very seriously, and that became the binding agent for all of these diverse peoples and lands. Woman: Charlemagne wanted to rule over a Christian kingdom and saw himself as a divinely ordained emperor. Man: The problem was that most of his religious bureaucracy, his priests, were illiterate. He needed to find a way that he could begin to educate these people so that he could expose the population to a correct version of Catholicism, that is, that they could get it right. Woman: And it was important to get it right, because what had happened over the centuries is that because of the lack of a central government and central structures, different tribes were doing things differently. Different tribes had their own set of laws. They had different ways of practicing Christianity. You had too many diverse practices. He was interested in education. Educating the abbots, the bishops, the priests, so that when they read the literagy, they were reading the correct thing. They were teaching the correct ideas. Man: Right, so we're not talking about the peasantry. Woman: The priests are teaching to those very people, but it's the priestly class that needed to be literate and educated. Man: Charlemagne is creating schools in order to accomplish this. He's bringing together scholars for his own palace school in fact. From all across Europe. He brings in people from Spain, from Italy, from England, from Ireland. He wants to learn how to write Latin himself. Woman: Well, to get a sense of how important learning was to Charlemagne, we have this quote from an early biographer. "He avidly pursued the liberal arts "and greatly honored those teachers whom "he deeply respected. "To learn grammar he finally followed "the teaching of Peter of Pisa. "For the other disciplines, "he took as his teacher Alcuin of Britain, "the most learned man in the entire world. "Charlemagne invested a great deal of time "and effort setting rhetoric, dialectic, "and particularly astronomy with him. "He learned the art of calculating "and with deep purpose and great curiosity, "investigated the movement of the stars. "He also attempted to learn how to write, "and for this reason, he used to place "wax tablets and notebooks under his pillow "on his bed so that if he had any free time, "he might accustom his hand to forming letters. "But this effort came too late in life "and he achieved little success." I love that image of Charlemagne, the emperor sleeping with a tablet under his pillow so he can squeeze in some time to practice writing. Man: So Charlegmane created the political stability and the wealth that allowed him to begin to institute a kind of rigorous educational system. Not for the vast majority, but for the bureaucracy, the clergy. Those people needed to be able to read the Bible. They needed to be able to read Latin. This is a particularly important moment in European history. Remember, Latin had been spoken by the ancient Romans, but that was hundreds of years before. Woman: And Latin was importantly the language of government, and it was the language of the church. The two central authorities in Charlemagne's kingdom. Man: But language is a living thing and changes over time. This is the moment in history Latin begins to evolve into what we will eventually recognize as Spanish, as French, as Italian. The divergence of what had been Latin, Charlemagne was interested in revising Latin, removing the change that had accumulated in Latin over the centuries, and reforming Latin, bringing it back to what he thought was its classical form, which means that we really have two different kinds of language. The high language Latin of the church, of government, and we have the common spoken languages of the people. So what does he do? He sets up schools throughout his kingdom, especially in monasteries. Woman: Charlemagne set up Scriptoria, places where the Monks could copy books. Man: Now what this allows is the ramping up of the production of religious texts and other ancient texts. So a number of manuscripts that come out of Scriptoriums increases dramatically. Woman: In the several hundred years before Charlemagne, we have 500 manuscripts that survive. But between 750 and 900, about the time that we consider the Carolingian period of Charlemagne and his successors, we have 7,000. So there is clearly a deliberate attempt to retrieve, to preserve and to copy text and also to correct texts. Man: Think about what went into creating a book. These were handmade objects on materials that were quite expensive. This is long before paper was used in the West. What they used was parchment, sheepskin. Woman: All of this is being done by hand. This is a really hard thing for us to imagine. There is a Monk in a Scriptorium. By some accounts, one skilled scribe could copy as many as 7 pages with 25 lines on each page in one day. So this is slow going. It's expensive and the scribes themselves had to be literate. Man: As a great quote by a scribe complaining about his work. Woman: "The art of scribes is the hardest of arts. "It is difficult toil. "It is hard to bend the neck and plow "through the pages for three hours. "Three fingers write, but the whole body toils. "Just as it is sweet for the sailor to reach harbor, "so sweet is it for the writer to put "the final letter on the page." Man: Of course there was this newfound emphasis on doing it exactly right. Woman: And because they were so concerned about doing it exactly right, the Carolingians helped to develop a new kind of script called Minuscule. So just like Charlemagne was interested in standardizing, correcting the Bible and other texts, he was interested in standardizing writing so that more and more people could read it and more and more Monks would be able to copy it. Man: Right. He was lowering the bar in terms of the difficulty of writing so that he could create more efficiency and create more production so that more books could go out from the monasteries to the local churches and more people could get it right. Woman: Before this, writing had become very unclear. Words were elided with one another. Scribes often showed off with little calligraphic flourishes that made it difficult to read. Charlemagne was all about legibility. Making everything clear and correct. Charlemagne is all about correcting, reforming, standardizing, and wielded enormous power to make those things happen. It's important to remember at the same time that he is doing all these fabulous educational and cultural reforms, he is also leading armies and conquering people. Man: So all this education was necessary because Charlemagne was trying to create this Christian kingdom. He had moved beyond the borders that his father, his grandfather, his great grandfather had accumulated. He moved South into Italy, conquering the Germanic tribe, the Lombards, and taking on the title King of the Lombards. He pushed successfully into Spain just a bit in the area that is now Catalonia and the Basque region. He pushed into Brittany and probably with the most difficulty he subdued the Saxons. This was a non-Christian tribe in the Northeast. Woman: He Christianized them. It took several decades. For all his educational reforms, we have to also remember that he could be a ruthless warrior. Man: There is one particular episode that really brings that home. Charlemagne apparently had thought he had subdued the Saxons. He had granted titles to their leaders as Aristocrats in his kingdom. But some of his men were attacked by a group of rebel Saxons and Charlemagne took his vengeance on Saxon captives, executing 4,500 in one day cutting off their heads. Woman: We still have an enormously important legacy from Charlemagne and his successors. Many historians call this Carolingian period a Renaissance or at the very least a Revival. A Revival of classical learning. Charlemagne intentionally looked back to ancient Rome, especially the period of ancient Rome that was Christian. For example, under Constantine. Above and beyond the question mark, 90% of classical texts survived due to Charlemagne's scribes. Man: We're talking about the great writings of ancient Rome. We have these because Charlemagne and Charlemagne's court thought that they were important. They copied them multiple times and some of those manuscripts have survived. Woman: In fact, some scholars believe that Charlemagne actually issued a call across his empire for rare and important books so that they would be copied and preserved. Man: So we have a lot to thank Charlemagne for. We have the question mark. We have our understanding of classical authors and early religious texts. And people have seen Charlemagne as responsible for, to a large extent, inventing what we will come to know as modern Europe. (piano music)


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The New York craft beer industry is really hopping. From 2012 to 2016, the number of breweries more than tripled, from 95 to 302, according to the New York State Brewers Association, and the industry contributes $3.5 billion to the state's economy annually.
Lawmakers seeking to tap into the industry's economic potential have passed new policies that provide incentives for New York hop growers to jump on the bandwagon and supply the growing demand for local ingredients. As these growers have learned, cultivating hops has its challenges, mainly from pests and two pervasive diseases, and Cornell researchers are lending a hand.
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A clip from Gangaji's New Video Compilation, Self-Inquiry: Falling Into Yourself.
"To consciously rest is to be at home. To be at home is to be naked to yourself. Self-inquiry is always an invitation home, an invitation to yourself."
The invitation to Self-Inquiry is the very core of Gangaji's teachings, the living truth that was shared by her teacher and her teacher's teacher. In this powerful selection of monologues and interactions we are reminded of the capacity we have as human beings to self reflect, to put aside assumptions and elaborations and taste reality directly. Self-Inquiry, Gangaji tells us, is about interrupting our natural instinct to follow the outward flow of thinking and shift that attention back toward the source. This requires the ruthless surrender to face what we have been avoiding, but the result is radical good news. The realizable good news of the Truth of who you are.
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Most of us know that the high cost of housing in this state has locked many aspiring homeowners out of that dream.
The same can be said about attaining a college education.
Because even for those who find a way to pay for that undergraduate degree, the debt burden that accompanies that diploma can seem overwhelming.
It's reached a crisis level in this country. At a staggering $1.5 trillion, it trails only $8.8 trillion in home mortgages as Americans' main debt obligation.
And it will only get worse. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that $1.27 trillion in new federal student loans will be added in the next 10 years.
Given the financial stakes involved, it's incumbent on student-loan borrowers to understand what they're signing up for.
Due to a combination of factors, that's not always the case.
According to a new report outlined by the State House News Service, five states so far this year have passed laws to protect student loan borrowers, due to the lack of oversight at the federal level.
A pair of bills filed by Massachusetts lawmakers would do the same.
An issue paper from the Hildreth Institute, a Boston nonprofit focused on college affordability, says states have been left with "no choice" but to pass such bills "in the absence of federal leadership on regulating the loan servicing industry."
The institute's paper cited a March report in a U. S. Department of Education's inspector general's federal student aid office audit that found nearly 92 percent of monthly reports on monitored calls between servicers and borrowers included at least one instance of the servicer "not sufficiently informing borrowers about available repayment options," and that 61 percent of oversight reports included examples of loan servicers not complying with federal requirements.
The institute supports "student loan bill of rights" legislation filed by Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, and Rep. Natalie Higgins, D-Leominster, which would create the position of student loan ombudsman within the attorney general's office and require state licensing of student loan servicers.
The ombudsman, according to the institute, would resolve disputes with loan servicers and help borrowers explore repayment options, avoid or get out of default, end wage garnishments and apply for income-driven repayment plans.
Higgins, a Leominster Democrat, said in previous legislative testimony that she's paid more on her home mortgage than toward the $130,000 in student debt she accumulated attending law school.
Lesser's bill is scheduled for a hearing before the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee; Higgins' bill had a hearing in May before the Financial Services Committee.
Obviously, students and parents should perform their own due diligence in identifying lenders that clearly state their rates and repayment policies.
However, if these two bills can bring some transparency to the student-loan process — like forcing lenders to specify a borrower's ability to refinance these debts at a lower rate — it would be a significant improvement over the unintelligible language that accompanies most student loans.
A version of Lesser's bill passed the Senate unanimously last April, but House leaders never brought it to the floor for a vote.
It's time for both bodies to pass legislation that reflects the spirit of these two bills.


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Castle Donington Community Hub
Castle Donington Community Hub is a community facility with function rooms, meeting rooms and offices including an open plan hot desk area. The facility is available for use by any organisation which benefits the community of Castle Donington. If you would like to talk about using The Hub please contact us on 01332 810432 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- The Hub Facilities
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Organisations that operate from The Hub
The Parish Council moved into The Hub in September 2018. The Parish Council are responsible for many aspects of Castle Donington. They also own and manage The Hub building. Click in the image to go to web site.
The Volunteer Centre moved into The Hub in January 2019. Click in the image to go to the web site.
The Community Library moved into The Hub in December 2019. Click in the image to go to the web site.
- The Development of The Hub
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Hotel Rock Lititz
Experience a hotel unlike any other amid the beautiful rolling hills of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. Set on the 96-acre Rock Lititz production company and campus, a hub for the live event industry, Hotel Rock Lititz incorporates elements from live rock music touring events into its unique design. The guestroom doors are made from road cases, a speaker wall decorates the reception area, and the design incorporates custom wallpaper made from backstage passes. Enjoy a 24-hour fitness center, indoor pool and hot tub, customized experiences, red carpet service, and proximity to shopping, dining, yoga, a bouldering wall, and brewery tastings.
- Make yourself at home — the 139 guestrooms and suites are 25% larger than typical hotel rooms
- The hotel's 92,000-square-foot property includes a rehearsal facility for artists and welcomes travelers as well as creative clients for production and technical rehearsals
- Swim in the indoor pool, relax in the hot tub, and work out in the 24-hour fitness center
- Savor farm-fresh food and creative cocktails at Per Diem, the on-site restaurant and bar
- Play pool in the lobby or grab a day pass to nearby recROC to climb the bouldering wall
- Hold your next meeting, wedding, or event here, with 3,000 square feet of flexible space
- The hotel's ideal location, surrounded by farmland, is just minutes from Lititz for both serenity and convenience
Hotel Rock Lititz is in the heart of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's Amish Country, with picturesque farmland, covered bridges, scenic hiking and biking trails, delicious dining options and microbreweries, and horse and buggies sharing the roads with cars. Lititz itself is the epitome of small-town America, with charming shops and cafés, historic architecture, tree-lined streets, and friendly locals. The more urban, historic city of Lancaster is just 13 miles away.
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Hotel Rock Lititz has an on-site restaurant and bar for meeting friends and enjoying delicious food. You can also enjoy Lancaster County's many dining options; after all, a top area draw is the food, from fine dining to casual diners. Savor homemade jams and jellies, pretzels, shoofly and whoopie pies, and countless baked goods from farmers' markets, bakeries, and restaurants — including Per Diem.
Per Diem – This on-site restaurant and bar serves farm-fresh food and delicious cocktails starring fresh ingredients directly from Lancaster County. This unique, casual space is a great place to dine, drink, and chat with friends and family, with a beautiful indoor-outdoor fireplace close by. Don't miss the breakfast buffet daily from 7–10:30 a.m.
At the hotel, work out at the 24-hour fitness center with Peloton bikes along with weights and cardio equipment. Chat with friends on the patio by the fireplace. Swim in the outdoor pool, relax in the hot tub, stop by the market, have a meal and a drink at Per Diem, and play a game of billiards. As a hub for for the live event industry and a new premier hotel for travelers from all over the world, Hotel Rock Lititz is a buzz of activity combining the best in music, technology, design, and guest services. It is part of the Rock Lititz Campus that has yoga, a bouldering wall as well as obstacle and cyclocross courses at recROC, brewery tastings, coworking desks, and more.
Outdoor activities vary with the seasons, but there is always something to do, from buggy rides, farm tours, and hot air balloon rides to snowtubing and shopping at outlets or antique stores. See fireflies in the summer and colorful foliage in the fall. Take a personally guided running tour of Lititz with a local trainer. Enjoy a bicycle rental package on a Specialized hybrid bike with riding routes mapped out for you. Head to Lititz for small town treasures and attractions like the Lititz Caboose Museum and the Lititz Historical Foundation & Museum (including the 1792 Johannes Mueller House). Learn how to twist a pretzel at the pretzel shop, visit fun bars and bookstores in Lancaster, see covered bridges, take in a show at the American Music Theater, and go on thrill rides at Dutch Wonderland or Hersheypark.
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Hotel Rock Lititz is located in Lititz, Pennsylvania, just 13 miles from Lancaster. Surrounded by panoramic farmland, yet close to downtown Lititz, the hotel is part of the 96-acre Rock Lititz Campus, a hub for the live event industry. There are many activities within walking distance, such as yoga, a bouldering wall, obstacle and cyclocross courses, brewery tastings, and coworking facilities.
The hotel is just 1.4 mi / 2.3 km from Lititz, and 13 mi / 21 km to Lancaster and countless Lancaster County activities and attractions, including museums, farm tours, historical sites, hiking, buggy rides, spas, and hot air balloon rides.
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Lancaster Airport is 4.8 mi / 7.7 km from the hotel.
Harrisburg International Airport is 33 mi / 53 km from the hotel.
Philadelphia International Airport is 83 mi / 133 km away.
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We are entering the most romantic time of the year and Valentine's Day falls on Sunday 14th February this year.So get prepared ladies and gents and make sure you get in early and order your flowers. Traditionally the flower of 'love' is the red rose and we will have plenty of those available to buy.And to help you plan that little bit earlier the dozen red rose bouquets wont be going up in price until 1st February when they will be priced at a competitive £49.99.So order your beautiful dozen red rose bouquet now and take advantage of the lower price.'Lots of Love'All at Nicci-G's
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Massages, suntan lotion,
Endless steamy hot days,
Loving under the sun with you,
Down in the Costa Del Haze!
Screaming the words to our favourite tunes,
Dancing the night away,
Larging it* in our favourite bar,
The magical True Love's Way!
Sauntering back at four am,
Stopping at Bobby's for chips;
Lots of romantic memories,
Wet kisses on the lips!
In a matter of just a few days,
We fell in love so quick,
That holiday feel-good factor,
Hitting our hearts like a brick!
Endless tequila slammers,
Sun, sea playing and laughter;
Loving you seemed so perfect,
Like Happily Ever After!
Our constant San Miguel goggles,
Made it seem like real love anyway,
It didn't last long enough though,
Broke my heart we couldn't stay!
And now we're back at home,
Our gorgeous tans are peeling;
Hung over, back to work blues,
Is all we're bloody feeling!
Smack bang back to reality,
Bills, wind, clouds and rain;
Our love's just a distant memory,
Your kisses all washed down the drain!
But when I hear our favourite song,
My heart still skips a beat;
Want to meet up for love next year,
In Paris, Rome or Crete?!
Could meet for love in London,
But it won't be very warm;
We won't look the same all pale,
And it's nothing like Benidorm!
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Get bored in just one minute;
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With our hearts still truly in it!
Otherwise we'll always wish,
We'd left it at that last dance;
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As a true love holiday romance!
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Readers will have heard the news that Carillion, the construction and facilities management firm, has gone into liquidation.
Carillion is a key supplier to the Government – its contracts include providing school dinners, cleaning and catering at NHS hospitals, construction work on road and rail projects and maintaining 50,000 army base homes for the Ministry of Defence. Carillion employs almost 20,000 people in the UK. Workers and small businesses in Slough, Windsor, Bracknell and surrounding areas will be among those affected.
Ministers need to explain why they approved multimillion pound contracts with a company on the verge of going bust. Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, also faces questions after he awarded work on the HS2 rail line to Carillion a week after the company issued a profits warning and its chief executive had departed.
Trades unions have reacted angrily to the news; the GMB saying it showed the perils of letting the private sector "run rampant in our schools, our hospitals and our prisons". They have called for a public enquiry. Workers will be anxious about their jobs, pensions and their futures. It will be no comfort to them that the chief executive who resigned from Carillion last year after its profits warning, will be paid his £660,000 salary and £28,000 benefits for 12 months after his departure.
Ministers and officials must now ensure the £1.7 billion of annual Government contracts the firm holds are unaffected. During an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, David Lidington Cabinet Office minister, said "The message to workers is: come into work today, there's important work to be done, we (the Government) will pay you."
Given the list of broken promises from this Government, workers and their trades unions may be wary of such a promise. Rebecca Long-Bailey, Shadow Business Secretary, stated the Government must stand ready to bring contracts back into public control, stabilise the situation and safeguard our public services.
Slough Trades Council concurs with her message
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IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL TIME! It's a perfect time to get your childrens' rooms in tip top shape. Use some of these tips for easy projects that make a big difference.
Hooks for all Heights: Mount two strips of hooks or pegs to the back of a child's door – one about 3 feet from the floor and the other about 5 or 6 feet from the floor. Two levels of hooks will allow the kids to grow and provide more spots for shorter items such as jackets, towels and bags.
See Through Toy Storage: Skip the fancy toy chest and go straight for clear bins. You can stack them in a closet, line them up against a wall, put them under windows or stick them in a drawer. Next, get a label-maker and go crazy – everything will have it's own bin!
Kid Friendly Closet: Replace the lower hanging bar section of a child's closet with shelves, drawers or cubbies. Fill them with clothes, toys or anything your child uses frequently. Recently, I organized a client whose daughter loved barbies – she used a clear over the door shoe organizer to stick her barbies in for easy access and visibility. I find that using clear, labeled bins and organizers helps children use what they have and makes it easier for them to put away.
Keep Books Handy: Fill decorative bins with books based on size and shape. Keep these next to the bed or near a chair for easy access.
Desk For Success: Keep your child's desk simple. The easier it is to grab a pencil and do homework, the better. Try to weed out any unnecessary clutter that could lead to easy distractions. Add simple drawer organizers with small amounts of each item your child needs- no need for 35 pens and pencils spilled all over the place.
Next, sit back, relax and enjoy the the extra time you have while your child learns to put his or her own toys away.


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Healthy Galway City Strategy 2019-2021
The Healthy Galway City Strategy 2019-2021 was launched by Minister of State Catherine Byrne on Tuesday, 4th June in Westside Library, as part of the Healthy Ireland initiative. The three-year strategy aims to ensure Galway is a city where everyone can enjoy physical and mental health and wellbeing to their full potential, where wellbeing is valued and supported at every level of society, and where responsibility for health and wellbeing is shared and supported.
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Tribune Earnings Dive
Tribune reported diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $.17 in the second quarter, down from $.53 in the second quarter of 2006. Operating revenues decreased 7% to $1.3 billion, while consolidated cash operating expenses were up 1% in the quarter. Operating cash flow was down 29% to $254 million, while operating profit declined 36% to $196 million.
Broadcasting and entertainment revenues were flat at $393 million. Both operating cash flow and operating profit for the group were down 2% from the second quarter of 2006.
"Our second quarter results reflect the difficult advertising environment, although strong cost controls partially offset revenue declines," said Tribune Chairman/President/CEO Dennis FitzSimons. "As we look to Tribune's second half, year-over-year comparisons will ease and new revenue initiatives are expected to contribute to publishing results. The launch of new CW and syndicated shows will positively impact our television group."


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Capacity Building Assistance
UCSF has a long and successful history of delivering Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) to Community-based Organizations (CBO), going back to the beginning of the epidemic. We provide information dissemination services, training, and technical assistance (TA), including the facilitation of peer-to-peer learning. Our CBA providers are also experienced at helping CBOs use social media in their prevention efforts. The purpose of our CBA project was to increase the capacity of the HIV prevention workforce at CBOs to optimize the planning, implementation, and maintenance of interventions and strategies for HIP. By doing so, UCSF helped further the HIV prevention goals and objectives outlined in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
If your organization needs CBA, please submit a request at https://prevention.ucsf.edu/contact or request assistance from the CDC at https://effectiveinterventions.cdc.gov/en/home/capacity-building-assistance.


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2. Rain. This summer in the Northeast has been absolutely sensational weather wise and I have truly appreciated it. I have logged in many fabulous days at the beach which is always one of my favorite things to do. But, and isn't there always a but, I have missed having rainy let's lay around and read days. Plus there are some really great rainy day pictures to be taken.
3. My daughter and her friends made a montage together and I am just waiting for them to finish and I will post it and the story behind the song soon. She really has quite the eye and she has spent many hours helping me and practicing on her own. We were in charge of the slide show for her graduation from elementary school this year and it wouldn't have been nearly as successful without her help.
4. We have listened to the whole Percy Jackson series on CD this summer and I have loved it. When I look back on this summer, these stories will definitely help define it. Also through listening I have rediscovered some of the things about the Greek myths including the expression fatal flaw. I have long felt when it comes to my kids that their greatest strengths are often also their greatest weaknesses which come to find out (or maybe just recall it could have been stuck in my subconscious) is a hero's fatal flaw in Greek mythology.
5. A book that I read this summer was Katrina Kenison's "The Gift of an Ordinary Day". Some of her ideas really hit home for me. Of course I can't seem to find the quote that most struck me but here is another one talking about teens and kids today: "...worth is measured by what they have and do, who they hang out with, how they dress, talk and perform in classrooms and athletic fields - external yardsticks that don't even begin to reflect the inner life of soul, imagination, curiosity, character and desire."
6. Enough random thoughts, I have included some pictures of the light on the boat as well as a couple of my favorite rainy pictures which were taken in the spring, we have very rarely needed sweatshirts or umbrellas this summer.


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Professor Bob Steele obtained his initial surgical and academic training in Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Aberdeen and was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Nottingham in 1990. He was then appointed Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Dundee in 1996 and as Professor of Surgery and Head of Academic Surgery in 2003. His main interests are the treatment of and screening for colorectal cancer. Having led the UK demonstration pilot that was used to inform the decision to introduce national screening programmes throughout the United Kingdom, he is at present the Clinical Director of the Scottish Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme, and has published extensively in this area. He has chaired several NHS QIS and HIS groups related to colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening and he chaired the SIGN group that developed the latest set of colorectal cancer guidelines. He is a past member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, past Chair of the Health Improvement, Protection and Services (HIPS) Research Committee of the Scottish Government's Chief Scientist's Office, and past President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. He is currently Editor of "The Surgeon", co-founder and co-director of the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Scottish Cancer Foundation. In 2016, he was appointed as Independent Chair of the UK National Screening Committee. In 2017 he was awarded an Honorary Membership of the Faculty of Public Health and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2018 he was elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
For 10 years, Professor Steele acted as Convenor for the Gastrointestinal Course of the Dundee University Undergraduate Curriculum. He continues to take an active interest in undergraduate teaching, delivering lectures, tutorials and ward teaching. He is also committed to post-graduate teaching in surgery, both on a day-to-day basis and as a Tutor on surgical skills courses. He has supervised over 25 post-graduate students, working for PhDs or MDs.
His initial research interests were in breast cancer and, working for Professor Sir Patrick Forrest, he developed the concept of axilliary node sampling. In Hong Kong, his interest shifted to upper gastrointestinal disease and he was instrumental in developing and introducing endoscopic haemostasis for bleeding peptic ulcer.
In Nottingham, working for Professor Jack Hardcastle, he became involved with the early trials of colorectal cancer screening and since then, colorectal cancer has remained his primary clinical and academic interest. He has carried out work in surgery and radiotherapy for colorectal cancer and in the area of genetic and chromosomal abnormalities that underlie the disease. His main research interest, however, is in colorectal cancer screening and he has published extensively in this area.
- RD Surgery
- General Surgery
- Colorectal Surgery
- Screening and Prevention
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Feasibility for the BeWEL Intervention in a Non-Research Environment
1/07/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Optimising Colorectal Cancer Screening in Scotland
1/03/17 → 28/02/22
Project: Research
Add-Aspirin Trial A phase III double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial assessing the effects of aspirin on disease recurrence and survival after primary therapy in common non-metastatic solid tumours - (Joint with University College London and Cardiff University)
Carey, F., King, S. & Steele, B.
1/09/15 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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Transition to quantitative faecal immunochemical testing from guaiac faecal occult blood testing in a fully rolled-out population-based national bowel screening programmClark, G. R. C., Strachan, J., Carey, F., Godfrey, T. G., Irvine, A., McPherson, A., Brand, J., Anderson, A. S., Fraser, C. & Steele, R. J. C., 31 Mar 2020, In : Gut. 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Appraisal of the faecal haemoglobin, age and sex test (FAST) score in assessment of patients with lower bowel symptoms: an observational studyDigby, J., Strachan, J. A., Mowat, C., Steele, R. J. C. & Fraser, C. G., 11 Dec 2019, In : BMC Gastroenterology. 19, 1, 7 p., 213.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Aspirin as an adjuvant treatment for cancer: feasibility results from the Add-Aspirin randomised trialAdd-Aspirin Trial Management Group, Joharatnam-Hogan, N., Cafferty, F., Hubner, R., Swinson, D., Sothi, S., Gupta, K., Falk, S., Patel, K., Warner, N., Kunene, V., Rowley, S., Khabra, K., Underwood, T., Jankowski, J., Bridgewater, J., Crossley, A., Henson, V., Berkman, L., Gilbert, D. & 25 others, , 30 Aug 2019, In : The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 4, 11, p. 854-862 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Association of ten gastrointestinal and other medical conditions with positivity to faecal occult blood testing in routine screening: a large prospective study of women in EnglandHe, E., Alison, R., Blanks, R., Pirie, K., Reeves, G., Ward, R. L., Steele, R., Patnick, J., Canfell, K., Beral, V. & Green, J., Apr 2019, In : International Journal of Epidemiology. 48, 2, p. 549-558 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Changes in prevalence of faecal occult blood positivity over timeGoulding, A., Clark, G. R. C., Anderson, A. S., Strachan, J. A., Fraser, C. G. & Steele, R. J. C., Dec 2019, In : Journal of Medical Screening. 26, 4, p. 191-196 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition SocietyRobert J. C. Steele (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Newcastle Pathology 2005: 3rd Joint Meeting of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology and the Pathological Society of Great Britain and IrelandRobert J. C. Steele (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
184th Meeting of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and IrelandRobert J. C. Steele (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
An analysis of the utility of quantitative faecal immunochemical tests in screening and symptomatic populationsAuthor: Mcdonald, P. J., 2016
Supervisor: Steele, R. (Supervisor) & Bartlett, W. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Diagnosis of Colorectal Polyps Using Optical Projection TomographyAuthor: Coats, M. V., 2016
Supervisor: Steele, R. (Supervisor), Carey, F. (Supervisor) & Wedden, S. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Evaluation of SELDI-TOF MS as a tool in colorectal cancer screeningAuthor: Henderson, N. A., 2014
Supervisor: Steele, R. (Supervisor) & McLellan, L. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Medicine
The impact of population based faecal occult blood screening on colorectal cancerAuthor: Libby, G., 2014
Supervisor: Steele, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between faecal haemoglobin concentration and risk of significant colorectal neoplasia in screening and symptomatic populations.Author: Digby, J., 2016
Supervisor: Steele, R. (Supervisor) & Fraser, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy


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The Katherine Vaughns Apprentice Program
Introducing young people to a full season working in a professional theater setting.
The Katherine Vaughns Apprentice Program gives recent graduates an opportunity to spend a season working in a professional theater setting. The program is named for long-time trustee Katherine Vaughns, a supporter and lover of the arts.
For more than 30 years, Center Stage has helped cultivate the next generation of theater makers through this highly competitive program, bridging the gap between university and professional theater by providing early-career artists and administrators with hands-on experience and guidance. Center Stage welcomes a new class of 10 administrative, artistic, and production apprentices each season.
We will be accepting applications for the 2020/21 Season beginning January 15, 2020.
- Pay: Thanks to funding from generous donors, Baltimore Center Stage is able to pay apprentices a small weekly stipend. Apprentices often have the chance to make additional income by working in the box office, house managing, and bartending.
- Housing: Every Apprentice is provided a furnished studio apartment two blocks from the theater. There is no charge for housing, and free internet access is provided.
- Great Location: Baltimore Center Stage is located in Baltimore's vibrant Mount Vernon Cultural District, with convenient access to restaurants, the Inner Harbor, and urban nightlife. Baltimore is also a short ride away from the dynamic scenes of New York and Washington, DC.
- Professional Development: Apprentices are offered the following opportunities to help further develop their professional careers:
- Apprentice Seminars: These regular meetings are an opportunity for apprentices to learn from and network with theater professionals.
- Portfolio Reviews: Apprentices are encouraged to keep their portfolios updated throughout the season for portfolio reviews.
- Evaluations: Apprentices are evaluated within 90 days of arrival and again at the end of the season. Evaluations provide a formal framework within which to discuss progress, identify goals, and articulate mutual expectations.
- Applicants must commit full time to one entire season at Baltimore Center Stage typically from mid-August to early June.
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- How have your experiences in theater and the performing arts brought you to where you are today?
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Mackenzie River
Mackenzie River is a major river system in north-western North America. It drains an area of about 697,000 square miles which is the largest of any river in Canada. This area represents about 20% of the Canadian total land area. At 2,635 miles, it is the world's eleventh longest river.
Major tributaries of this river are the Liard, Keele, Great Bear, Arctic Red and Peel Rivers.The average discharge of the river is 9,700m3/second. The peak discharge of Mackenzie River occurs in June otherwise the flow remains strong and uniform throughout the year.
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- Mackenzie River is navigable for approximately five months of the year. It freezes over in October and breaks up again in May.
- This river system is named after a famous explorer Alexander Mackenzie.
- It flows along a course from its headwaters in the Finlay River to its drainage into the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean.
- The basin of the river was used as an important trade route by European fur traders since late 18th century.
- It flows through a Boreal forest zone in the south, then into an extensive taiga vegetation zone in its middle.
- It is the main stem of the Mississippi-Missouri River System which is the second largest in North America.
- This river's basin is one of the most sparsely populated, and pristine, habitats of North America.
- The Mackenzie River Delta has many low-lying alluvial islands covered with black spruce, thinning northward.
- Alluvial islands are those which are composed of river sediment.
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These lavender marshmallows are fluffy and soft, flavoured with real, edible lavender buds. They're perfect to eat as they are and equally delicious in the customary festive hot chocolate or toasted and sandwiched between graham crackers.
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Marshmallows are one of the fluffiest, most decadent candy treats you can savour this time of the year! Especially because they go so well in hot chocolate. When you plop a few of these pillowy squares into your hot drink, they start to go molten and gooey, making your hot chocolate even more decadent! Now, you can most certainly use store bought marshmallows. But have you ever tried making them at home? They are absolutely a class apart and you would never ever go back to eating store-bought mallows ever again! Now we've all eaten the vanilla marshmallow and many moons ago, I'd also made these peppermint marshmallows without sugar! This time, however, to keep the festivities going but still add a quirky touch, I decided to make these fluffy, flavoursome lavender marshmallows.
I know that we tend to associate lavender as something that is used more in summer, but have you dropped these babies in a pool of hot chocolate? It just Melts away flavouring your hot cocoa with the herby, aromatic fragrance and taste. I've used real dried lavender buds in these lavender marshmallows. You need to make sure that these are culinary lavender buds, which simply means, they need to be edible.
You could skip the real buds and use lavender extract instead, but if you know me, you will also know that I prefer using as natural ingredients as I can. Infusing the lavender flavour from the buds is easier than you think. It's very similar to brewing herbal tea; just add some lavender buds in a bowl and pour boiling hot water over it. I like to cover the bowl with aluminium foil, shiny side inside, as it helps with insulation, keeping the heat inside the bowl and infusing more of the beautiful, therapeutic lavender aroma! Let it steep for 5 minutes, strain and you have a beautiful lilac liquid full of lavender goodness.
Making these marshmallows couldn't be simpler, you only need 4 ingredients! I know many recipes on the web call for glucose or corn syrup and the likes, but let me assure you, just plain old caster sugar does the trick just fine! You do need a candy thermometer to accurately gauge the temperature and make sure that the texture of these lavender marshmallows is just right.
I hope you make these fluffy pillows at home, they're super easy and taste so good just by themselves or even in hot chocolate! You are going to love the chocolate + lavender combo! Mmmm! 🤤
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
- 1 teaspoon edible dried lavender buds
- 180 grams water, boiling
- 24 grams unflavoured powdered gelatine
- 400 grams caster sugar
- Begin first by generously greasing a 9 inch x 9 inch tray with flavourless oil.
- Combine the icing sugar and cornflour together, give it a whisk and add to the tray. Shuffle it around collect the excess in a bowl for later use.
- In a bowl, add the lavender buds and pour the boiling hot water.
- Cover with aluminium foil and let it steep for 5 minutes.
- Drain the water and let it cool down to room temperature.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a whisk attachment, add 6 tablespoons of the steeped lavender water.
- Sprinkle the gelatine over it and let it bloom.
- Meanwhile, add the caster sugar and rest of the steeped lavender water in a saucepan and use a whisk to bring the mix to a boil on medium high heat.
- Once the sugar has dissolved completely, lower heat to medium and keep the whisk away.
- Fit the saucepan with a candy thermometer and let the mix cook away till it reaches a temperature of 240 degrees F, or the soft ball stage. This takes about 8 minutes.
- About 1 - 2 minutes before the sugar syrup reaches the desired temperature, start the stand mixer on slow speed to break the bloomed gelatine apart.
- Pour the hot sugar syrup in a steady stream along the side of the bowl.
- Once the syrup has been added, increase speed to medium (6 on stand mixer) and whisk for about 8 minutes.
- In the final minute, add purple food colour.
- Pour the prepared marshmallow mix into the tray and top with dried lavender buds while the mix is still wet.
- Dust with the rest of the cornflour and icing sugar mix.
- Cover with cling wrap touching the surface of the marshmallow
- Let it set overnight.
- The next day, dust a cutting board with cornflour and icing sugar mix.
- Plop the set mallow onto the board, grease your cutting knife generously and cut into 16 equal squares.
- Clean the knife and re-grease between each cut.


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Now in its 5th year, the 2019 Australian & New Zealand Search and Rescue Conference continues to be a pivotal event for the search and rescue community across all disciplines of air, land and sea. Meet and network with a diverse range of skilled practitioners and volunteers on Friday 14 June 2019 at RACV Royal Pines. This one day event aligns alongside the Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June, with special discounts offered to those that attend both events. With an emphasis on discussion, debate and ideas exchange, the Program will include presentations from specialist feature speakers and session speakers on a range of topics and issues impacting the sector.
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Well this Easter will forever be marked as memorable because I GOT to play the Easter Bunny at work. I have never been so claustrophobic, hot, sweaty, and itchy in my life....except for in tanning beds. I took this picture in the locker room as I was getting dressed.
I forwarded it to people and said, "They said I looked like an Easter Bunny but I felt like a jackass." I really did.
The kids all loved me though....except for the two youngans who were totally shaking and screaming at the top of their lungs. I wanted to whisper to one boy, "Easter Bunny eats little boys." in a real scary voice but I was told very specifically not to talk! I did take a real deep breath when I was close to a little girl and she looked at her mom and said, "I can hear it breathing." It was hilarious.


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Your child should now be able to recognise common 2D shapes and be able to describe some of the shapes' properties.
In this unit we will revise the common shape names and their properties. We will then work on creating patterns and pictures using the shapes to further enhance your child's understanding of the properties of shapes.


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